THE "PITTSBURG I3ISPATQH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER
22: 1892.
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PUBLIC SPIRIT WANTED.
For some reason or other Pittsburg mer
chants and manufacturers have hitherto
signally failed to respond to the call for
united action to remove railroad dis
crimination against this city. Elsewhere
Trill be found a letter from Mr. George T.
Oliver to the Chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce Committee on Rules and
Transportation, which contains a striking
comparison between the railroad treat
ment of Buffalo and that of Pittsburg.
The statement of figures is followed by
the natural reasoning that Buffalo's su
perior advantages are due to Buffalo's
more energetic public spirit If those in
this city whose personal interests are
directly at stake would show some slight
symptom of the energy displayed by the
writer of the letter referred to, and one or
two other persistent movers in the matter,
the gain would be great alike for the in
dividuals and for the municipality.
Short-sighted apathy on all matters not
pertaining to the regular routine of busi
ness must give place to perspicuous co
operative effort, if Pittsburg and Pitts
burgers are to maintain and improve their
position to the nation. On general prin
ciples Pittsburg needs more public spirit,
if indeed it can be said to have any at all
Et present. And in this particular Pitts
burg needs a freight bureau with a com
petent officer at its head to look after the
interests of the city and its surroundings
in regard to railroad conveniences. This
bureau cannot be started and carried on
by one or two men or firms; it needs con
certed action for its incipience and main
tenance. And when once the necessity
for the improvement has been realized its
establishment should form the stepping
stone to further developments of the mu
nicipality by the agency of public spirit
AN UNCONSTITCTIONAL, PROCEEDING.
Hon. Michael D: Harter, of Ohio, who
has won national reputation by first fiaht
5ng free silver coinage in The House and
then presenting in its place the much more
vicious State bank circulation proposal, is
reported to have made a "fresh stroke for
israe. About the time that the Demo
cratic politicians of fiis district were ready
to'fall out w.th each other over the ques
tion who should have the postoffices, Mr.
Harter has quelled all further dispute by
announcing that he had that matter all
settled, and publishing the list of the per
sons whom he had selected to fill the
various positions.
This may still the Democratic tumult in
the Mansfield district over ihe offices. But
it can hardly fail to evoke one question
which ought to be of decided pertinence
to the leaders of a party which makes de
cided professions of loyalty to the Consti
tution and bases its campaigns on reforij.
Wnat section or clause of the Constitu.
tion vests the power of appointment in
Mr. Harter so indisputably that he is au
thorized to announce his appointments a
year before the Congress to which he has
just been elected takes its seat? It would
astonish a foreigner, after hearing of Mr.
Barter's summary action, to learn that
there is no authority whatever for his
making the appointments.
Party usage carried to the degree of
abuse has given Congressmen a decided
authority in recommendations for offices;
but the extent to which party usage has
displaced constitutional government is
signalized to a remarkable degree when
Michael D. Harter feels empowered to an
nounce the appointments for his district
three months before the President, who is
charged by the Constitution with the re
sponsibility for all appointments, is in
augurated, it would certainly be discreet
for Congressmen of the alleged reform
and constitutional "party to profess the
virtue, if they have it not, of believing
that the President will make the appoint
ments Instead of arrogating to themselves
the executive power.
A CHANCE FOR A TRUST.
The announcement that Dr. C. W. Ma
cune, a former leader of the Farmers' Al
liance, after being turned down by the
late convention of that body, has decided
to organize a Trust of the cotton planters
of the South, displays more than the
usual ignorance of the conditions neces
sary to the successful organization of these
monopolistic combinations. It would be
impossible for any power on earth to
combine the cotton planters of the South
or the wheat or corn raisers of the West
Into an organization having the power to
restrict production, suppress campetition
or advance prices. In the first place, it
would require the union of a million indi
viduals in an agreement that was never
kept by a hundred; in the next place it
would necessitate some means of prevent
ing outsiders from planting new fields of
cotton; and after these two impossibilities
had been achieved, any advance in prices
secured by such means would simply hand
over the markets of trie world to the cot
ton growers of other countries.
It is much more likely that some im
aginative reporter has tacked this char
acter on Dr. Macune's project than that.a
man of his prominence should be so silly
as to suppose it possible to achieve any of
the monopolistic ends of the Trusts. The
details of his project indicate that it is
rather in the nature of a co-operative
agency of the cotton planters to sell di
rect to spinners, thus doing away with
middlemen and securing more liberal
rates of interest on advances. In view of
the heavy charges usual among cotton
factors it is quite possible that such an
agency would be successful in reducing
the cost of taking the cotton crop from
the planters to the spinners.
But its distinct character from the
Trusts is apparent in the fact that its
only hold on the planters would be in its
doing the work cheaper than the old
agencies. If it, does not do that the plant
ers wili continue to sell their cotton to the
former merchants. If it does it will be a.
success by successful competition and not
by any actual resemblance to the Trusts.
HOPING IT MAY PROVE TRUE.
The report that Mr. Cleveland has made
an effort to have Edward Murphy, the
Troy jobber in street railway franchises,
pulled off the track for United States Sen
ator in the interest of the Presidentelect's,
personal selection, presumably William C.
"Whitney, is gratifying. Of course the
story goes that Mr. Cleveland's request
was met with a very icy refusal.
That has been the result of Mr. Cleve
land's previous appeals to Tammany to
have his wishes respected. It is worth
while to remember that a case very similar
to this marked the inception of Mr. Cleve
land's career when it was attaining
national proportions. He went so far as
to ask the retirement by Tammany of a
State Senatorial candidate named Grady
on the ground of his personal comfort;
and the result showed that Mr. Cleve
land's personal comfort was the last thing
for which Tammany has any care. The
consequences since that have been that
Tammany and Cleveland have not pulled
together with any zest until they united
for the purposes of the late campaign.
If Mr. Cleveland has requested Mr.
Murphy's retirement it may be expected
that the step will so arouse the spoils
Democracy of New York as to ensure the
latter's election. But the matter would
nevertheless be a very satisfactory one. It
will mark the separation between the new
administration aud the Tammany element
The more radical and complete that
rupture with the element ot plunder and
spoils, the better for the nation. Indeed
such a rupture would be better for the
public interest than the substitution of
Mr. Whitney for Murphy. The principal
difference between the two is one of gild
ing. Both represent the power of money
and the connection of corporations in
politics. Mr. Whitney is the more polished
specimen of the two, and has already be
come more famous as the entertainer of
almost Lucullan feasts in Washington;
but of abi lity for disinterested and patriotic
legislation each has about the same nega
tive quantity, v
It is not well to pin too much faith on
the current stories about the President
elect, but we will hope that this one of an
early split with the Hill-Tammany ele
ment may prove to bo true.
THAT PAXAMA SCANDAL.
From the sensational proceedings in the
French Chamber of Deputies yesterday
as described elsewhere it Is evident that
the Panama Canal business will develop
Into a scandal of unsurpassed magnitude.
Among other charges it was asserted that
the Government was induced to permit
the issue of the infamous lottery bonds by
the distribution of three million francs
among a hundred and fifty Deputies and a
few Senators.
From the prominence of the projectors,
the multitude of small shareholders who
all over the country invested their savings,
and from the Government permission to
issue the lottery bonds, the matter had
already obtained national importance.
And now these last charges of crooked
dealing on the part of Deputies and Sena
tors puts the national honor directly at
stake. To-day a parliamentary committee
is to be appointed with full power to make
a thorough investigation, and if the drain
age of a whole sea of putrefying corrup
tion do not result, no abuse can be too
severe for the men who made yesterday's
charges.
BIRMINGHAM'S DE3IONSTRATION.
An interesting article by Joseph Cham
berlain on the municipality of Birming
ham appeared in the November Ibrum.
The engrossment of most minds in the'
election is the reason why this article did
not receive the attention it deserved. It
should be of the utmost interest to dwell
ers in American cities; for it makes clear
the difterence in system which make3 the
difference in results between one of the
best-governed municipalities In the world
and a number of what must be confessed
to be the worst governed In civilized and
progressive nations.
The splendid work which has been done
in rebuilding, improving and ornamenting
Birmingham has already secured world
wide fame. Within the past quarter
century it has been practically trans
formed into a metropolis, with its streets
well lighted, well paved and well
cleaned; with free libraries, parks, a
school of art, new Ass".z3 courts ind
courts of justice, with ownership of gas
works, water works and street railways.
The splendid work that has
been done in this line has been
widely celebrated in various magazine and
newspaper articles, but what is not so
generally understood is that these muni
cipal services are rendered to the people
of Birmingham at an annual cost of tax
ation about one-fourth the average of
American cities. It is calculated to arouse
stupefaction in the Pittsburg mind to find
it asserted that the municipal services of
Birmingham, excepting public schools,
lunatic asylums and poor fund, Is 81,685,
000, or about 40 per cent of Pittsburg's ex
penses, while Birmingham has nearly
double the population.
What is the cause of this remarkable
contrast? Some people are disposed to
attribute it to the large clement of voters
who are not pronerty holders. This may
have some effect, but not much in Bir
mingham, where all rate-payers of any
sort, both male and female, have the right
to vote at municipal elections. The regis
tration shows a total voting population in
Birmingham of 83,000, or about one to
every four and a half of population. So
that the suffrage as far as it affects
Birmingham's municipal affairs Is as
widely distributed there as here. Never
theless there is an important political
difference which Mr. Chamberlain makes
very clear. Although politics enter Into
the composition of the Municipal Council,
they are not allowed to have the slightest
force in the election of the permanent
officials or the employment of workmen
by the city. The strongest evidence of.
this is in the fact that, while the Council
has been for two generations a Liberal or
Radical body, the majority of the high
officials of the city have been Conserva
tives. Mr. Chamberlain saysi
When a new official has to he elected, no
questions are asked as to his political
opinions, and no Interference -would after
ward he tolerated with his exercise of
privileges. It is an unwritten law that no
paid official shall take an active part in
political contests. He Is expected to refrain
from the platform and the press In relation
to Bach controversial matters, but his
private opinions and his votes are matters
exclusively for his own discretion. Once
chosen, If he discharges his duties well and
faithfully, he remains In office for life, or till
his resignation; with the probability that if
he is disqualified by age or Infirmities, he
will receive a pension proportioned to his
salary and the length ot his service.
In other words, the employment of ad
ministrative officials solely with a view to
their efficiency, and keeping them apart
from politics, makes the difference be
tween a municipal expenditure of twelve
dollars per capita in Pittsburg and less
than four per capita in Birmingham.
When people grasp the full meaning ot
that fact they will be likely to improve on
the Birmingham example, and Insist that
national politics shall be entirely excluded
from any municipal election.
President-elect Cleveland owes
hts election to tho American people more
than to any individual supporter, or clique
ofoffloe-seeking politicians. In exercising
his powers of patronage, therefore, he muse
show bis gratitude to the people by appoint
ing to office those best fitted to discharge
official lunotions. By so doing Mr. Cleve
land has everything to gain and nothing to
lose. His reputation cannot but be affected
for better or worse according to the charac
ter of the appointees. And the better the
appointments bo makes, the better will it
be both for his reputation and tho welfare
of the country. In Ms second term, Grover
Cleveland has an unrivaled opportunity to
make a record in this aiiection that shall
be a bright example for his successors.
From the vigor with which they are con
tradicting one another, it appears that the
professional astronomers are about as trust
worthy as forecasters of a comot's per
formances as "practical" politicians are as
pre-election prophets.
Ex-Senator Edmunds is emphatic in
declaring Ills belief in the constitutionality
of the Sherman anti-trust act, and the in
tention or its framers to reach railroad pool
and traffic arrangements, ne is at least
riant in urging its rigid enforcement, and
the courts should be piovided with plenty
or opportunities to tost tho matter. If it
should bo found that the act really provides
u method for dealing with monopolistic
evils, a very general .public satisfaction
would result. On the other hand without
energetic prosecutions neither this law nor
any other will be found competent to cope
with evils that ought to be cured and r.ot
endured.
Mb. Whitelaw Reid's reasons for
attempting to explain the Republican defeat
by ascribing to it tho giowth or socialism
after denoting such explanatory attempts as
whining over spilt milk are not very evi
dent. Wdeit Hungarian laborers in Ohio
sought to roast their boss to death he was
rescued, went home, got a gun, leturned and
dispersed the crowd after shooting two of
them. That is a somewhat peculiar method
of teaching aliens the value of American in
stitutions, and the necessity for abiding by
the law of the land. But presumably the
boss was somewhat overheated by having a
fire built around the box in which he had
been rastened with a view to his incinera
tion. "When religious bodies devote more at
tention to the cultivation and exercise of
sweet charity within their borders thoy will
have less time lor critical carping at the
shortcomings of their neighbors.
ANNAPOLIS and West Point have in
dulged for some time in a distant and not
too friendly livalry. With a view to in
creasing their acquaintance and cementing
their friendship, the "middies" or tne former
are to meet the cadets of the latter on the
football field this season. This can only be
described as heroic treatment, and the tem
edy may prove worse than the disease.
Highbinders of San Francisco seem
determined to sottle-the Chinese exclusion
matter for themselves by sending the weak
est to Join their ancestors, after preparing
them for shipment in coffins.
Not what State a man hails irom, and not
the amount of political wile-pulling be has
been able or willing to accomplish, consti
tute his claim to office. Integrity, ability
and thegeneral characteristics or applicants
should be the only criterion in deciding
their comparitlve availability tb be mado
the holders of a public trust.
Apropos of the Mijares affair at Cura
coa, there will always be n good deal of diffi
culty in drawing the line between South
American levolutionists and South Ameri
can cattle thieves.
Of course America's public school sys
tem o'ught to be given ample opportunity
for a display at the World's Fair. The Co
lumbian Exposition is most valuable as an
educative institution anyhow, and the Di
rectorate must be made to recognize the
claims of primary education.
The blessings of telegraphy are never
more manifest than by the conspicnousness
of their absence in ablizzurd-swcpl country.
Since the utmost practical success which
Lieutenant, Peaiy can achieve by another
Arctic expedition is a safe leturn, bis
anxiety to tempt Providence by a second
venture is to be nscilbed only to an all-devouring
mania for notoriety at any price.
Alabama's motto, "Here we rest,'
apt to make a good many folk feel tired.
Dr. Chauxcey Depew is just a trifle
premature in outlining already the future
platform policy of bis party. But then tho
genial post-prandial orator is almost as well
knonnfor the irresponsibility of his utter
ances as for his iridescent witticisms.
PEOPLE OP PROJlLVliNCE.
Tiie Queen Resrent of Spain smokes at
least 12 cigarettes a day.
The new Lord Tennyson is said to have
very little interest in poetry except for the
face value It possesses at the publishers.
Ex-GOVERKOB Glick, of Kansas, will
mako an effort to seenre that seat in the
United States Senate boon to be vacated by
Mr. Pel kins.
E. F. Tilbot, stenographer at the White
House, has tauen down every speech the
President' made since his inauguration,
nearly lour years ago.
The iournalistic and literary world of
Germany has snlTeiod a great loss in tho
death of Otto BaUch, for many years editor
In chief of the famous weeklyjournal, Ueber
Land umi Meer.
Mr. James Patx, the noted novelist
and editor, is piobablythe worst writer in
the British kingdom. A letter fiom him is
nothing more than an interesting study in
hieroglyphics.
MRS. KATE MARSDENwho is much in
terested in tho establishment of leper col
onics in Liberia, is coming to this country to
lecture and raise funds to enable her to
carry out her benevolent schemes.
Miss Nora Hodsee has been chosen as
model ror- tho silver statue of her nativo
State Montana, and is beautiful and grace
ful enough to merit the honor which bas
fallen upon her. No more dignified or
queenly woman is to be found in the West
ern States.
The Empress Eugenie devotes two or
three hours or each day to writing her
memoirs, but so sensitive is she about her
work that she allows no ono to look at her
manuscript, and has made special arrange
ments that her book shall riot be published
until she has been dead 25 years.
The President has recognized Carlos F.
Pasalagua as Mexican Consul at Nogales,
Arizona; Alberto Leal, Mexican Consul at
Bio Grande City, Texas; Alexander Law
rence De Lalande, French Consul at San
Francisco, and Herman Welsch, Consul of
San Salvador at San Diego, Cal.
General Nettleton took official leave
of his associates in the Treasury Depart
ment yesterday aiternoon aud starts to-day
for Chicago, where he expeots to remain
several days before finally deciding on his
future plans. His resignation as Assistant
Secretary to the Treasury takes effect De
cember 1, and he has been- granted leave of
absence until that date.
A LOOK AROUND.
A well-known Pittsburg broker and
banker, who Is In New York, has written to'
nn associate in this city, saying: "It now
tnrns out that the big streot railway deal in
Brooklyn which was closed last week in
spite of tho Brooklyn, papers' protests, was
engineered -to success by H. Sellers McKeo.
and Thomas H. Bakewell. Thoy have
seenred one or tho finest street railway
properties in the United States. Through
their purchase of the Atlantic Avenue Bail
way from Deacon Richardson tbey have ob
tained between fifty and sixty miles of well
patronized railway and it is said that they
will bcrore long obtain considerable more.
They now control the Atlantic avenue,
Bergen street. Fifth, Seventh and Ninth
avenues, Fifteenth street, Sackett street,
and Concord street lines. It is said that
jtbeypaid something over $8,000,000 for the
plant and will spend $3,000,000 or $4,000,000
in equipment and new electrical facilities
for rapid transit. The newspapers in Brook
lyn and especially the Eagle, have been
loud in denouncing the sale to foreign capi
talists and have done all tbey could to pre
vent the consummation of the transaction,
but they Have not had any success. It is
understood that the pool which has mado
the purchase consists of Vermllyea & Co.,
and Sellgman & Co., of New Yoik, E. W.
Clark & Co., of Philadelphia, H. Sellers Mc
Kee and Thomas H. Bukewell. They have
made a fine thing or it and will no doubt
turn a very handsome profit out of the deal.
The sale was concluded on the 16th of this
month and the new owners nre to take hold
at once. This means that all tho street
railways of Brooklyn have been absorbed
but ono outside of the Brooklyn elevated
system."
This with the combination in Buffalo and
other cities, ns well as theBlrmingham line,
gives the McKee-Clark paity a very hand
some amount of street car property. It is
more than suspected that there have been
overtures to combine tho McKee outfit with
tho grcnter holding or the Widener-Elkins
party, but there Is scarcely any prospect of
their coining together.
That is an odd story .which comes by
telegraph from Boise City, Iowa, and which
appeniod In The Disr-ATCii of yesterday con
cerning Nellie Lrgan lost on the plains in a
snowstorm with her dog. She was searched
ror during two days and finally was found in
a sheep pen wheie she had been kept warm
and alive by the warmth ot the sheop. "How
did she git thnrt Angels?" Is this not
'Little Breeches" over again with a venge
ance? "Did you ever see a pair of eyes that
would lift your hat off!" said a very prosaic
Pittsburg man yesterday in the course of a
talk about works of nrt. "Well, I did last
summer. Yon fellows know I don't go much
on at t and pictures and that sort of thing. I
don't mind confessing that I have always
thought pictures were a little bit better
than wall paper, but not much unless they
weie very good. I knocked around in
Enropo soino last summer, but I didn't
bother about the plctnie galleries except
the war things in Versailles. One day in
Dresden I was leellng bored and I went to
the picture gallory to the Sistine Ma
donna I had heard so much about.
I didn't know wheie I was and
didn't ask, and presently I came
ncross the picture In a room all by itself. I
didn't know what it was, but I soon saw
about a dozen people were looking at it, and
all had their lints off and were talking in
whispers. Fust 1 noticed the two little
chaps leaning on the window sill and then
the old man. Then I caught sight
of the Madonna's eyes, and how it happened
I can't say, but ofl came my hat and I mum
bled I beg your pardon.' Why those eyes
look right into your soul and there's some
thing so pure and so religious
about them that that room beats any
church I ever was in for making you
feel mean and like turning over a new leaf.
I must have stood there about a quartor of
an hour without making a move and then
an old woman, I think she was the oldest
woman in the world from her looks, came
up on her way our. She looked at my face
and then at the picture and then she said
something in German. I couldn't under
stand, but a voiing man said in English:
"She says Moin Hcrr will carry those eyes in
his heart forever,' and I nodded and 'pon
my word I think she was lLrht."
If you want to get an idea of the number
ot people who are going East to the football
game, just try to get a berth for New York.
A certain young gentleman gave a pre
nnptlal supper to a dozen male filends the
other nigitt. At a given signal a dozen mes
senger boys appealed with a dozen huge
bouquets, and a boy asked each guest for the
addiess of the lady to whom he desired to
send the flowers. That sort of a dinner
should bo a sort of consolation affair to the
uninvited ladles. Walter,
MACUHE GIVEN THE LIS.
Chairman Washburn Says the Doctor Wan
ders Far From the Trnth.
New Orleab, Nov. 2L Geo-go F. W.
Washburn, Chairman of the Eistern Divi
sion National Coiumlttoe, Peoplo's party,
says:
"I pronounce Dr. Macune's manifesto,
published in last Sunday's newspapers, to
be absolutely incorrect in every particular
wherein it relates to Mr. Taubeneck or my
self. "First At Indianapolis we were emi
nently successful in every undertaking, were
not detented in a single instance, and never
linvo been since, much to the discomfiture
ot Dr. Macnne and his friends.
'.Second I positively denied the St. Louis
intei view, alleged to have been held by Mr.
Macnne, published in his own paper, tho
Lconomist, last Friday, and lie knows it is
nut true that Mr. Taubeneck and myself
made up a slate or controlled the election
of delegates in selecting offcors for tho
Farmers' Alliance. The newspapors of
Memphis, ns well as citizens in uenoral, dis
cussed daily the merits of the rival candi
dates. We merely exercised the same right
in working tor our friends.
"Dr. Macnne was defeated through our in
fluence, but because of his own record. He
had appealed to every National Convention
the Farmers' Alliance has held, asking tor a
vindication of something improper he was
charged with having done. It is rule or
ruin with him, and he now understands ho
cannot do either with the Alliance."
THE FIRST SHOT OF TEE WAS,
General Beauregard Savs That It Was Fired
by James Chestnut, Jr.
New Orleass, Nov. 21. Special. Gen
eral Boauiogard has made public a state
ment which seems to settle the identity of
the man who fired the shot that begun the
late war. Ho takes exception to the state
ment that Major W.M. Glbbs, or South Caro
lina, fired the first gun against Fort Sumter
on April 12, 1861.
General Boauregard says that his recol
lections are that the shot was fired bv James
Chestnut, Jr., aide de camp of the General.
The honor of firing the shot was offered to
General Pryor. but he refused to accept it
as his State had not yet seceded.
Senator Korina Improved.
WAsniuoTos, Nov. 2L Senator Kenna had
a good, refreshing sleep last night and is
much improved to-day. Dr. Chilton, or
West Virginia, has arrived here, having
been telegraphed tor at the request or Dr.
Sowers, wuo wished to consult with him.
Dr. Sowers docs not regard the Senator as
,being out ot danger yet, but ho says ho Is
monuing as wen as can ue expecteu.
Important Supreme Court Decision.
WiSniKGTOx, Nov.21. The Supreme court
to-day denied a writ of habens corpus to
Charles E. Cooke, a banker of Juneau, Wis.,
hold on a charge of receiving a deposit alter
he knew the bank was insolvent. Tho Com t
holds that It wili not Interfere where a man
is in the custody of the proper officer, even
though he was secured by violence.
Another Richmond In the Field.
Hareisburo, Nov. 2L Candidates for
places in the gilt of the next Legislature
nre becoming thick as hops. Ex-Mayor
John D.Patterson, of this city, Is a candi
date for resident Clerk of the House.
Mr. Blaine Getting Along Well.
WABHrxaTos, Nov. 2L Ex-Secretary Blaine
slept well last nlghtand has had a comforta
ble day. Mr. Blaine rests easily and his ap
petite is good. He expects to get out of bed
to-morrow.
SILVER MEN DIE HAED.
Congressman Warner Insists That Their
Day Is Sure to Come.
Wasbisqtos-, Nov. 21 Special. Ex-Congressman
A. J. Warner, of Ohio, President
of tho American Bl-metallic Leagno, to-day
issued the following letter to the public:
"Four yeais ago the Republican party
came into power, and for the first time in
the history of the country adopted the ex
treme protective policy of excluding trade
in competing products in order to preserve
tho home maiket exclusively forliorae pro
ducers. They assured the country this policy
would stop tho fall or prices and bring
a Bout general prosperity. It has not done
so; it has not prevented the continued rail
or prices nor relicvod the mass of the people
from the evils of Increasing debt and taxes
caused by the increase in the monev stand
ard. On tho contrary, it has engendered
juuuuuuiy unu leu. to comuinauons in gain
for a lew advantage over the many. On the
4th of March next Democrats, for the first
time in more than SO years, will have the
President and both Hons-s of Congress.
They are pleged to revise tho tariff on lines
leading to free trade and promise by this
policy to do what the Renubllcans have
lailedtodo. This policy will also fail, and
Is likely, by increasing imports, to draw
gold and precipitate instead or pi eventing
the further fall of prices. Then their turn
willcome. The force bill will he out of the
way, and there will no longer be a solid
South. The ties that bind men to parties,
whether or no, are everywhere being
loosened and principles more and more
govern voters.
"The continued fall of prices is due to one
cause the increase in the money standard;
that is, in the value of gold. In other words,
the change is in the measure and not in the
commodities. This evil cannot be cured by
tariff legislation. There is no remedy but
to stoptbe incieaso In the value of the
money unit, and until this is stopped the
stealthy appropriation or the earnings of
tho people by the insidious devico of an in
creasing money standard will go on.
"Such a money standard is no more defensi
ble or tolerablo than would Be an increns
ing unit of length or of v. eight, or volume.
Tho next Issue, therefore, will be the money
question, nor will this issue be long de
layed; its suppression by the two leading
psrties in the campaign Just closed did not
settle it. The people are being educated on
the monev auestion faste- than politicians
comprehend and they will not submit for
ever to tho robberv of an increasing gold
standard. Now is the time for bl-metalllsts
to organ lz . aud push to the front the issue
of free bi-motalllc coinage."
A DUEL WITH FISTS.
Scions of Wealthy Kentutklans
Settle
Difficulty Over a Girl.
Bowlixq GitEEir, Ky., Nov. 2L Friday Mr.
Guy Kelley, amember of one or the wealth
iest families in Nashville arrived in tills c3'.
He was accompanied by six young gentle
men friends. In a short while after their
arrival Mr. Carl Herdman, one of the best
known and most popular young men of
this city, received a challenge from Mr.
Kelley to fight a duel. Mr. Herdninu was
not long in accepting tho challenge, or nam
ing tho time, place and weapons. In his
note of acceptance he oolitelv refused to
fight with knives. He also declined the ue
of pistols. He. nowever, invited Mr. Kelley
and his fi lends to meet him on the reservoir
hill, where he would attompt to lurnlsh him
some amusement in the nature of a set-to
a la Snlllvan-Corbett.
Mr. Kelley and his friends were promptly
on hand and preparations werosoou mado
and the fight began. A Mr. Iluntin was sec
ond for Kelley, Mr. Nnhn lor nerdman, nnd
T. J. Jones was referee. One round was
fought, and Mr. Herdman, who is one of
the best all-around athletes in this
portion of the State, cot considerably
the better of thenfTair. The second round
was begun, and Just about the time it was
being finished together with Mr. Kelley, the
police arrived on the scene and placed tho
two young combatants, thnlr seconds and
leferee underauest. Tho affair wns the re
sult of a note written by young Kelley to
6ne of Mr. Ilerdman's girl friends.
PACIFIC RAILB0AD FU5DIKG.
Commissioner Taylor lias Several Sugges
tions in tho Form of Amendments.
Washisqtoit, Nov. 21. The special report
of Hon. H. A. Taylor, Commissioner of Iiall
roids, relative to Senate bill No. 731, pro
viding for the funding of the debts of the
Pacific Railroad, which he has made a part
of his annual report, has been received by
Secretary Noble. The Commissioner re
views the pondin messare at Irngtb.aud sug
gests amendments, the goneral purpose of
which is the extension of the debt to 100
years, with interest at 2 per cent, and a cer
tain portion of the principal to bo paid at the
expiration of each six months during that
time, so that at the end of the 100 years the
entire debt will have been extinguished.
The bill as amended, the Commissioner be
lieves, would, if enacted into law, fully pro
tect the interests of the Government and
secure the final payment to it of all tho
money principal and interest, due from the
bonded roads. He does not believe that any
measure fixlngashotter period of payment
or a higher rate of interest will be accepted
by the railroad companies.
pIMED FOB OPENING THE COFFIN.
An
Undertaker Xxposes the Corpse of a
Child When lie Shouldn't.
Alliasce, O., Nov. 21. Special. J. H.
Sharer, an undertaker who is Secretary of
tho International Funeral Directors' Asso
ciation, was arrested to-day at the instance
or the local Board of Health, charged with
violating a State law wnich prohibits ex
posing the remains of persons dying with
contagious diseases.
Last Saturday, at tho urgent solicitation
of the parents or little Ralph Yoder, who
had died with membranous croup, ho
opened the casket shortly before the funeral
services to allow them a last look. Sharer
was anaigned In Major's court, pleaded
guilty, and was fined $50 and costs.
PBAYEB DIBECILY AN3WEBED.
Ohio Penitentiary Blackbirds to Have a
Great Feast on Thursday.
Columbus,0.,Nov.2L fpecia?. The South
Carolina prisoner wno amused everybody in
the Ohio penitentiary piayer meeting last
week by asking that the Lord would "send
him a 'possum and sweet 'taters and gravy
for a Thanksgiving dinner," has had his
prayer answered and has Teceived five fat
'possums and several bushels ot sweet pota
toes. One of the little animals was sent from
Xenia, one from Snringfleld and threo Irom
this city. The warden will roast all of them,
and on Thanksgiving Day all the negroes In
the pen will have a feast.
OFF FOB A MEXICAN COLONY.
Another Party Backed by Chairman Breld
enthal Leaves for New Homes.
Topeka, Kak., Nov. 2L John W. Bretden
thal, Chairman or tho People's party State
Central Committee, has started another del
egation to the Topolobamno colony In Mex
ico. The party, consisting or "0 men, women
and children, are from Enterprise. They
will travel to Gnaymas, where a boat will bo
taken for the colony, the Journey by rail re
quiring about one week.
A number of carloads of freight preceded
the party about ten days. Pi o visions, ma
chinery, household goods, trees and a num
ber of stock pigs wero among the thousand
and one things in the freight shipment.
Is Always Under Consideration.
Minneapolis Tribune.
In a few short weeks the Christmas girt
question will cause you to forget all about
the tariff and enter upon a serious consider
ation of tho currency problem.
Do You Hear, Pennsylvania?
Baltimore" Amerlcan.1
Good reads nre a good investment for any
State, and bad ones are about the worst ad
vertisement any State can have.
DEATII3 HERE AND EIiSLWIIERE.
Mrs. Joidt Deat Cton. wife of the venerable
ei-Clilcf Justice Caton. or the Illinois Supremo
bench, died last night, aged 79.
William Day. Sn.. or Sleubcnvillp. O., died
Snnday. lie was one of the mot prominent cltl
zens of that part of the Stateand leaves four chil
dren. V-. John Simmons, of Cadiz. O., prominent In Ohio
Masonry and well known over the State in connec
tion with the concerns of the G. A. It., dropped
dead yesterday.
William Strachas-. formerly one or the cleri
cal force at the National. Tobe Works, bnt latterly
a me ulier of the bnMnets firm In this city, died
yesieroay morning at McKeesport.
IIexry Bacutell. 63 yeara old. who ror more
than half a century has been one of the moit prom
inent figures in the public and business affairs of
Massillon, O.. died suddenly yesterday at Ills fa
mous country bouse in Jacfcsonjtownshlp, knows as
the "Farmer's Light."
MISS LIDA SUTTON A BRIDE.
Sho Was Married List Evening to a Son of
H. Sellers McKee Tho Church and
Home Decorated With Pink Chrys
anthemums Other Society News.
The dim light that is characteristic of the
First Presbyterian Church 'during the day
was driven away last evonlng, not only by
tho many glowing lamps, but by tho natural
brightness of one of the most fashionable
weddings of the season. Exotics Wero every
where. Tall, stately, leathery palms droopod
above masses of American Beauty roses,
and tho fragrance from those magnificent
flowers filled the air and disputed the sway
of the rich perfumes that arose from tho
beautiful toilets of the representation of
Pittsburg's beauty and wealth In the church.
It was the occasion or the wedding of Miss
Lida Sutton, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. S.
Sntton, and A. Hart McKee, son orH. Sellers
McKfe.
Whore the yonng people stood to take the
marriage vows was a circlo or palms, tho
center or which was an artistic conruslon of
the bride's ravorite lower.American Beauty
roses. The church Was filled with friends
or the couple, and expectation was on tiptoe
till the marrlasra nartv reached the edifice
and marched up the aisle to tho exquisite
strains of the wedding march pealing forth
from the large organ.
A Very Pretty Picture.
She bride and her attendants formed as
pretty a group of maidens as was ever seen
in Pittsburg or anywhere else. The maid of
honor was Miss Amelia Oliver, and the
bridesmaids were Miss Chalfant, Miss Bake
well, Miss Mary Laughlln, Miss Patrick,
Miss Hays and Miss Holdshlp. Tbey were
all attired in pink gowns of soft material,
but in the prevailing mode, and carried
American Beauty roses, tied with many
loops and ends of foliage ribbon, except the
maid of honor, who carried pink orchids.
The bride, who was, of course, the cen
ter of attraction. Is rather petite, with
very graceful figure, while her pretty
lace Is lighted up by expressive, large, sole,
brown eyes. She looked clrllshlv beautiful
in her wedding toilet of rich, white, corded
silk so heavy that, to use tho old-fashioned
expression, "it would almost standalone,"
cut dt-collete and ending in a long train.
The trimming or the dress was old point
lace. A tulle veil, rastened to the coiffure
with orauge blossoms, completed the
costume. She carried white orchids tied
with wliito ribbon. Tho groom was attended
by Mr. Stitnsbury Sutton, a brother of the
bride, and tho ushers woro a number of
prominent society men or Pittsburg: Mr.
Thomas O'Connor Jones, Mr. John McClnrg
Hays, Mr. William Koblnson, Mr. J. Walker
Rhodes, Sir. J. Vomer Scnire and Dr. Will
iam Iilair. Kev. Matthew Riddle, D. D.. of
the Western University, conducted the
m.irrmse coiemony.
After the service at the church there was
a reception at the home or the bride's
parent". Ridge avenue, Allegheny, which
was attended bv the relatives and close
friends of tho two young people.
A Number or Relatives Present.
The McKees have a large number of rela
tives in the two cities and elsewhere, most
of whom were present. Among the Sutton
relatives was an old lady who had come
from her distant home to see her grand
daughter married, and who was the guest of
honor, receiving a great deal of attention
from everyboJy. Tne decorations ,at the
house were elaborate and equnl in beauty to
those or the charch, helping to carry out the
idea of the "pink" wedding by consisting of
pink cliryt-anthemums and carnations. The
mantel in the parlor a handsomely carved
structure was banked in ferns, with chrys
anthemums interspersed with the green,
producing a lovely effect. In tho dining
room, in the center of the table, was a basket
or pink chrysanthemums, tho same lovely
flower being usod generally for the decora
tions of the loom. The library was relieved
or much or its ordinary studious aspect by
the Introduction or floweis, a large vase or
ohiy.-anthemnmson tho mantel being the
roost noticeaole floral feature. A Judicious
disposition of palms made a handsomo back
ground for the glowinghcauty of theflowers,
and the mansion genoraily wns like a vast
conservatory as much as anything.
The bride and groom are among tho for
tunate few that can lay out their wedding
tour without taking into consideration the
cost. They have planned a trip across the
Atlantic, and will sail on Sntuiday for Eu
rope, where they intend to make the "grand
tour." When they return Irom Europe, in
about three months' time, they will reside
close to the bride's parents' home in Alle
gheny. Social Chatter.
It is really wqnderlul the manyvoung
people who have selected December 1 ror
their wedding day. The latest announced
is that or Miss Jeunle Clnir Manning, dangh
terorMrs. Mary J. Manning, and Mr. Will
iam A. Kober. which is to be solemnized in
the Second M. P. Ch urch Thursday evening,
December 1.
Mr3. William Walker 1 to give a tea
Sirty tr--lay to anumber of her friends at her
ome, Pennsylvania avenue, All g! eny. Tho
house is known as the Walker nomestcad.
It is beautifully situated, and the guests
will surely spend a. pleasant afternoon
there.
Mrs. Biddle Arthurs issued invitations
yesterday for the marriage of her daughter,
Miss Jennie Sarah, to Dr. Benjamin Hairs
Hnnnn Till r.m pmnnv Trill tntn nlnrn In
St. Andrew's Church, Ninth Htreer, Monday
afteruoon, November 23, at 5:30 o'clock.
The Ladles' Aid Society, of the Sonthslde
Hospital, will meet to-day In St. Mark's
Guild House, on Eighteenth street, for the
purpose of settling up the accounts or the
lato lair. All those who took part are re
quested to be present.
To-day and to-morrow there will be a spe
cial sale or Thanksgiving eatables at tho
Woman's Exchange, and Wednesday and
Thursday or next week will be devoted to
the sale of fancy articles for Christmas.
Mrs. Miltox Gorrand Iiet- daughters, of
Allegheny, and Miss JeannetCo McCready,
of Sewickley, aie expected home from
Europe, where they have spent the summer,
about the second weok in December.
It will be plea-ant nows to th"ir many
friends to hear tbat Mr. and Mrs. Ktlielbert
Nevin and their children, who have been in
Europe for the nasttuo years, will bo in
Pittsburg about tho Christuins holiduys.
Mrs. Amdbew Kirby, or Chicago, necom-
Sanlod by her son, Is visiting her mother,
Irs. R. S. Ewing, ot Allegheny.
Tc-day the long-looked-rorward-to Singer
Morgan wedding is to take placo in Trinity
Episcopal Church.
MRS. LEASE AFTER TOGA.
The better half of Mr. and Mrs. Lease ap
pears to be a better three-fourths. Porfa
Timet.
It is to be presumed that it is Mrs. Lease's
ambition tobea Senator's husband Chicago
Hewi Record.
About tho only part or the United States
Senate Mrs. Lease, or Kansas, will break
into will be in the gallery. Clexeland Plain
Dealer.
The woman and the hour have come.
Kansas is confronted with tho greatest op
portunity in allorhereventful history. Will
she Improve MK.mas City Star.
The election of Mrs. Lease as Senator from
Kansas would be consistent with the record
of that State. It would be logical from a
KansaS'polnt or view. St. Lnuit Republic.
Ir Mrs. Laase becomes the next Senator
from Kansas, wo know who will do the most
talking In that august and dignified body,
the United States Senate. Buffalo Expreu.
It seems possible that Mrs. Lease will be
sent to the United States Senate from Kan
sas. Subscribers to the Conaresrional Record
will hope that she may. That paper needs
fresh talent. Omaha World Herald.
It Is said Mrs. Mary E. j.eise expects to
be sont to the United States Senate from
Kansas. This may be done it a quorum of
tho Legislature does not move out and
break the Lease. Hew Orleans Picaywe.
The Constitution of the United States does
not speak of "he, she or it" when referring
to tho qualifications of Senators or tho
United States, and yet it Is assumed Mrs.
Lease may qualify as a Senator. BrooUyn
Standard Union.
Mrs. Lease has sottled down to .the work
or bringing tho members or tho Legislature
over tocher side, and a Leaso party has
sprung up which threatens to make a strong
fight. Well, well! What is the world com
ing tot Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mrs. Lease, who is now a full fledged can
didate for a seat in the United States Senate
says of her chances that "anything is possi
ble with God and the larmers of Kansas."
Evidently Mis Lease does not assent to
the proposition that tho ae of Miracles Is
past. Washington S:ar.
Hard on the Doctors.
Chicago News Record.
If the Interest in baseball is really dimin
ishing thero will be a considerable lessnurr.-
or of sore throats than, usual in this land
next'summer.
CURIOUS CONDENSATION
fS.
Tim Cwmtmm hIVa irna IS TOf lnnn
In 1880 there were 2,814 light houses in
the world. .
Bnngs were first worn in the court of
Louis XIV.
From 40 to 100 deer still lire at large
on Long Island.
Over SO miles of pneumatic tubes ard
now used In London.
In all the Austrian empire there ara
bnt 1!S periodicals of every clas.
Two farmers in Putnam county, Ind.,
have spent $100 in litigation over a $2 hog.
The smoky taste in Scotch whisky lg
duo to the use of peat in the manufacture.
There is a colored prisoner working ia
(he Alabama mines who -can speak 12 lan
guages. The first woman on the English stags
was Mrs. Coleman as Tunihe, in the Siege of
Rhodes, 16SC
The increase in the number of persons
who wear glasses has been very marked
within a few years.
In the South Pacific ocean is found a
wonderfnl species or tho seaweed called the
"vegetable boa constrictor."
The population of many South Sea
islands manufacture their entire sult3 from
the products of palm trees.
In a year the food eaten by a horse ia
nine times his weight; that of a cow nine
times; that or an ox six times.
Sheet iron kites, to enable a vessel
when in distress to communicate with the
shcre,bave been suggested.
Switzerland has 101 telephone ex
changes, 12,595 stations, 3.225 miles or line
and limits each subscriber to 800 conver
sations a year.
A Eeading-, England, family can prove
by local records that they and their ances
tors have raid rent for their house no less
than 400 years.
There is a beast in the court of Prester
John called Arians, having four heads; It is
in shape like a wildcat and of the bigness of
a g-eat mastiff dog.
The 2,700 tons of bullion now piled up
in the treasury would, it coined into silver
dollars and placed edge to edge, make a
chain 10,800 miles long.
Charles "Wood, of .Harleston, England,
has a brood of whiteblackbirds.aract which
is vouched for by several prominent ornith
ologists and naturalists.
Edgar Wakeman and other experts in
gipsy lore believe that they were the original
fire worshipers, and clto many facts to prove
the correctness of their conclusions.
The Victoria railroad bridge over the
St. Lawrence at Montreal is two miles Jong,
cost over $3 000.000 nnd contains 10,300 tons
of iron and 3,100,000 cubic feet or masonry.
Australia's compass plant is a double
lark-spur, on which two colors or flowers
grow, red on the north and blue on the
south. -As a compass it is perfectly reliable.
Catherine de Hedici alwaye wore a
wide black skirt, a black pointed bodies
with wing sleeves, a black collar, ruff
shaped, and a hood that came down in a
point over tho forehead.
In one sense stones grow; in another
thoy do not. The crystal may become
longer and larger, but the boulder on the
roadside will not increase a hair's breadth
in length or width in the next 10,000 years.
The salary of the Prince of Wales is
$200,OCO per year; Duke of Conrtaught, $125,000;
Duke of Edinburgh, $125000, and the Duke of
Cambridge, the Queen's cousin, $60,000. The
royal family costs the British taxpayers
$10,000 a week.
The balance of a watch gives 5 vibra
tions every second, 500 every minute, 13,000
every hour, 432,000 eery day and 147.6SO.000
during the year! At each vibration it ro
tates Hi times, or, say about 197,100,000 revo
lutions a year.
July has proven a fatal month to Presi
dents. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson,
James Monroe, Zacharv Taylor, M. Van Da
ren, Andrea Johnson, tX. S. Grant all died in
July. James a. Garfield received his death
wound in July.
Gypsies know nothing whatever of
heaven or a future state of rest for the right
eous dead, their vocabulary having no wont
that conforms with onr words "paradise,"
"neaven." "beautiful city." etc.- Thoy know
of a god which tbey call "devil" and of a
devil called "being."
There are nine 110-ton guns in the Brit
ish navy at tho present time. The projectile
flred from these gnns when attacking ships
or forts weighs exactly 1,800 pounds and
leaves the muzzlo with a velocity of 2,105
feet per second, nnd has a destructive en
ergy equal to 55,305 foot tons.
Careful experiments have shown that
tho rate per second at which bodies acquire
velocity in falling through the air 13 32 feet
per second at the end of the first second
from starting. At the end of the next sec-
ond it Is tolng at the rate orufeet per scc-
i uuu. niiu bu uu ujijuju ,ua nruuic uuju ut
falling.
The compass plant of Madagascar is a
flowering lichen, growing only on a species
of fir tree and always on the east side. Cart
ons scientists who have transplanted this
wonderful lichen in the great botanical
gardons of Europe sav that lc ohangns its
nositlon to the north side of trce3 as soon as
it becomes acclimated.
The French Minister of Pnblie Instruc
tion has decided to preservo the home of
Joan of Arc in Domrenii as a museum in
which to illustrate her history. It will con
tain models of the various statues raised
to her memory, copies of the paintings
showing various scenes in her life and the
pictures of her which aro in the Pantheon.
A new system of railway conduits has
been Invented which i3 dependent for its In
sulating" qualities In wet weather upon the
principle or the dlving-belL The wires are
supported In the top or an inverted trough,
made in short sections with closed ends, but
open at the bottom, so that, when water Alls
the condnit, the air contained in the In
verted troughs will prevent the water from
rising to the height of the wires.
The Democrats of Ladonia, Mo., cele
brated the Democratic victory with a great
bonfire, ending with casting their hats in
the flames. Not content with this, thoy
seized the headgear of all the spectators
and burned it up. Then they paraded the
streets in squads, robbed every pedestriin
or his hat, and. carrying it to the Are, con
signed it to the flames. Tho result is that
nearly the whole inalo population of the)
town is hatless.
ORIGNAL AND JOCOSE.
jit orcnos's changed.
Yon should have seen her in the mazy dance,
lib. 1 never beheld such grace;
You should have seen her wait on the avenue.
By her side you'd have wanted a place.
Ton should have seen her In a tenals game.
Or galloping off for a ride:
You should have seen her eat spaghetti, too.
For she was grace personified.
That's what I thouirht. but alas. I've changed,
I'm sorry I had to see
What was the poetry of motion, mount
An improved pneumatic safety,
to dusters.
I'll give yon a pointer, never hunt with
a mongrel dog.
HALF nOLIDAT.
They were mounted on safeties, and had
Just struck a stretch of smooth road which made
riding so easy tbat lie turned to herand remarked!
'Ah, how delightful, with vou by my side I
could go along like this forever."
"Could you?'' she asked.
Yes, darling." he replied.
'Never stop," she said.
"Never," he cried.
Then there is one thing which puzzles me,"
she remarked.
"What Is It?" he Impatiently asked.
"When would you work to earn enough to hire
a machine."
And Just then they struck a very rough aad
mountainous stretch.
it kills the sestiuxkt
"Can't you dine with me some evening
this week?"
'1 hard ly think so. You see I have two rehean-
elsand "
What I You haven't turned the sptan, hT
you?"
"No, I am to be usher at two weddings. "
$ T i
When the cold has burst your water-pipa,
You send for the plumber to come.
And the plumber comes to you.
' Cause to him will go the piosu