I?J THE PITTBBUEG DISPATCH, FKI1XAX NOVEMBER 25, 1892. tflje Bi$pf 4 ESTABLISHED FXBUDAKV 8. IStG. 1 Vol. 74. No. 135-Enterca at rittstrore rostofflce November, IStT, as second-class matter. business office. Cor. SmltliOeld and Diamond Streets. Jferrs Dooms and FnuUsbinj; House, 78 and SO Diamond htreet, New Dispatch Building. EASTERN ADVFKTISINO OFFICE. TtOOM TH. TRIBUNE BUILDING. NEW YORK, -where complete flies of THE DISPATCH can always be found. THE DISFATCH Is on sale at LEADINO HOTELS throughout the United States, andat Brentano's, (Union Square, New York, and 17 Avenue de 3" Opera, Paris, France. TEK3IS OF THE DISPATCH. roBTAGE rnuE rx thk cjjitbd states. JUILT Dispatch. One Year. 8 8 00 TJAItT DlSFATCn, Three Months S CO Bailt Dispatch. One Month TO Dailt DlSPATCn, Including Sunday, lyear.. 10 00 Daily D spatcii, including Sunday, 3 m'ths. 2 50 Dailt Dispatch, including Sunday, 1 month so ECXDATDlsrAicn. One Year !50 Weekly Dispatch. One Year. 1 25 The Daily Dispatch is delivered by carriers at 3!cmts per week, or. Including Sunday Edition, at iletuts per week, BEMITTANCES SHOULD ONJ.Y BE MADE BY CHECK. MONEY OltDEK, OK REGISTERED LETTMt. POSTAGE Sunday Issne and all triple number copies, 2c: single and double number copies, lc l-ITTsBUUG. JHIDAY. NOV. . JSK. TWELVE PAGES FOOTBALL THE FEATURE. The great feature of yesterday through the country was football. Perfect truth and candor compel the statement that this new athletic competition far more largely engaged public attention than the Thanksgiving services at the churches. Why this should be so, or what the sign portends, is a matter for consideration by the preachers who sometimes show them selves bard put for sensational tests, and some few of whom occasionally go far out of the way of the gospel for sensations to attract public notice. Here is a topic of immediate and legitimate interest. Of course there is room both for moral izing and for difference of opinion about this emphatic new turn of public atten tion. Dr. John Paxton, in 2few York, gave his opinion of public sentiment there among church-goers by declining to com ply with the proclamation of President Harrison and Governor Flower to hold religious services on Thanksgiving. Dr. Parkhur.it and some other leading divines attempted a compromise between their cult and the modern Olympian games by holding their services a couple of hours earlier than usual in order to get the foot ballers early in the morning. Without drawing conclusions or attempting to preach to-day the sermons which were more in place yesterday, it is impossible to ignore the fact that he excitement in athletics this year led to complications in which the more solemn of the churchmen will feel aggrieved. It may be expected that all the colleges will have to play a wrestling match with the pulpit for this business during the twelve months to come. Asfar as the resultsof the football games go In themselves the most potable was the victory of Tale over Princeton at New York. This.followingafterseveral years of successive victories overall the universities by Yale, simply goes to Indicate that the splendid pluck, discipline and devotion of the Yale students to their alma mater makes her invincible. Yale b3 these qualities has fully won the magnificent laurels which wreathe her record; and be ing to boot a thoroughly democratic col lege, where brain and brawn and personal merit count most highly, the public will be very well satisfied with Yale's contin ued supremacy. Just now there will, of course, be a critical class to ask, can any good come out of football ? We are in clined to think decidedly in the affirma tive. The public would not support it so heartily if there was no element of good in it BESULTS OF FUSION. Fusion Letween the Democratic and Third parties, so far as it was completed in time, was successful in Oregon to the extent of placing Pierce, the fusionist elector, above the highest of the three Re publican electors returned. The indica tion, therefore, is that if the Democratic party had been a little earlier in abandon ing its whole electoral ticket in favor of fusionist electors as it did in the case of Pierce the State would have been en tirely lost to the Republican party. In Minnesota 'the figures indicate that the failure of the Democratic party to get the names of the fusion electors under its party heading was to a considerable ex tent responsible for their defeat there. Thesj are conspicuous examples of the manner in which one party may be de feated by the formation of an alliance with its opponents by an organization which professes equal disgust for the principles of both. These are indications of the extent to which the possession of political power is sought by deals which can only be consummated by the sacrifice of political principle. INADVISABLE PKOPHECIES. Astronomical wonders have time out of mind been made the subject for ignorant fear and preposterous prophecies. Comets ere to-day little known, even to the scien tist, and men of small knowledge find a grand opportunity for obtaining notoriety by playing upon the fearsjof the multitude when an erratic starry wanderer comes within their range of vision. There are prophets and prophets. Some of them guess occasionally, and, guessing wrong, sink back into the obscurity that awaits mistaken guessers. Others guess so fre quently that now and again they manage to hit the mark and bask for awhile in the brilliancy of a something foretold and not contradicted. With all the vast advance made in scien tific astronomy, there still remains a vast expanse of unexplored and at present un obtainable knowledge. Excursions in this unknown area produce the scare mongers who demonstrate that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing for the peace of mind of those who thrive on sen lationalism and attempt to encourage alarm. That comet now attracting so much attention, about the identity and behavior of which professed authorities differ so much, may or may not come near enough to afford a brilliant display of celestial fireworks. It may even do some serious damage where doctors differ who shall decide ? Saturn and the comet may or may not have a tenuous atmosphere that may or may not vitiate the air wo breathe and fit it for the encouragement of disease. The picturesqueness of a theory is not infrequently in inverse ratio to its practicality. One thing at least is certain: the motion of astral bodies is beyond all human con trol, -and speculation thereon is interest ing, but not exactly utilitarian. NIf dis aster is to come from planet or comet, come It will. But panic is always folly, and in dealing with the inevitable pre cautionary fear is unavailing. Attempts to cross a bridge before it Is arrived at can be productive of nothing but ridic ulous aud unnecessary inconvenience. There are reasons enough for living up rightly without the fear of more or less immediate wholesale destruction. There are countless arguments on behalf of obeying laws of health and decency whether the terrestrial atmosphere be or be not affected by injections from the tenuous surroundings of other bodies in the universe. Come what may, and let come what will, there is room enough and to spare for all the energy of the human race in striving for the right In every direction, without any fatuous waste of emotional vigor exercised in dreading the more than problematic ar rival of an improbable catastrophe. LEAVE IT TO THE COURTS. Serious charges of lawlessness have been brought against certain persons for par ticipation in the riotous proceedings at Homestead on July 6. The first of a series of trials resulted in the acquittal of an individual charged specifically with the murder of one man. The defendant was tried and acquitted by a jury of his peers. The evidence established such doubt of his guilt as to convince (he jurymen that he was innocent of the crime charged against him. This is au individual case tried on its individual merits. Lawlessness can only be adequately suppressed by law, and due process in the courts. Attempts have been made to impugn tho integrity of the jury which tried this case by assertions that fact was overridden by senti&ent. It is such heedless careless ness as this that encourages contempt for law m attempting to ridicule its instru ments. Any effort to cast ridicule upon one jury cannot but bear fruit sooner or later, and to a greater or less extent, in bringing into contempt the whole jury system upon which tne maintenance of that law and order which insure indi vidual liberty so largely depends. The circumstances of these cases were such as imperatively to demand unbiased decisions by the courts, and any far Setched criticism to the .effect that the jury's action resulted from the displace ment of judgment by prejudice, itself in dicates a spirit of inconsistency that can serve no good purpose and may be far reaching and dangerous in its manifesta tions. THE DUTT OF BAILBOADS. A conversation between certain railroad magnates and Chicago hotel keepers and merchants, published elsewhere, is char acteristic enough to be accepted as sub stantially authentic The Chicagoans ask for a passenger rate of a single fare for the round trip available for from thirty to sixty days during the World's Fair. They argue that the immensity of the traffic will be such as to afford ample remuneration on that basis, even when the immense sums sunk in preparations are considered. "But," say the railroad people in effect, "you merchants and hotel proprietors have sunk little money in improvements or additional facilities, and yet you intend to maintain or even raise your prices." Whether or not the railroads could profit by the rate proposed actual experi ence alone can demonstrate. But the ex treme probability is that they could. The essential question, however, is neither one of profit nor one of the comparative gen erosity of Chicagoans and railroad corpora tions. It isa question between therailroads and thepublic. Concessions havebeen made to railroads which give the nation a claim on them that is altogether too frequently disregarded. The transitory advantages of the World's Fair to Chicagoans are in significant when compared with the per manent receipts of the railroads from the Government of the country. Some means must sooner or later be taken to teach railroad corporations that they have duties to perform, and that the con venience of the public must not always be made secondary to the increase of divi dends. AX IMAGINARY DISADVANTAGE. The shining New York Sun is at present engaged in an effort to create a sensation of the alleged power of the Canadian Pa cific Railway to take away our commerce. The groundwork of its argument is that the Canadian Pacific has received so much aid from the Canadian Government in subsidies and land grants that it is enabled to take away the traffic of American rail ways by rates which they cannot meet In a late issue it sums up the total of this Government aid for ail parts of the line, stretching from the Atlantic to tUe Pacific coast, at 5104,975,000. "We do not think the situation Is.byany means as disturbing as the Sun repre sents. The advantage which the Canadian Pacific is represented as having over our transcontinental road3 in its subsidy is balanced by the fact that the United States did something In the subsidy busi ness long before the Canadian Pacific was built The direct Government aid to the Canadian Pacific is stated at 60,000,000. The United States is now paying interest on 561,000,000 of bonds, the proceeds of which were turned over to the constructors of railroads west of the Missouri river. In addition, the Sun estimates a land grant of 25,000,000 acres to the Canadian Pacific as swelling the Government aid 37,000, 000. But the land grants of the United States Government to railroads were largely in excess of that total both as to acreage and value. If we add to the Pacific Railway grants the State, county and municipal aid given at various stages of railroad development to railways form ing the through lines, we may discover that the public aid in this country is largely in excess of that which tho Sun regards as giving the Canadian Pacific Its immense advantage. This does not justify the apprehension that the Canadian Pacific will wipe up the continent with the United States trans continental lines. If our railroads, with fully equivalent aid in the first place, cannot maintain competition against a line that Is twice as much subject to snow blockades and his not half their local traffic, there must be something fearfully defective in their makeup. CHICAGO'S CRUSHING RETORT. Really this is too severe. For New York to turn up the nose of scorn at Chicago's Philistinism and lack of artistic culture is something to which we havo all become accustomed. It may. warrant a certain de gree of retaliation; but the retort which Chicago has chosen to makp is altogether too crushing and is to be reprobated as coming within the classification of cruel and unusual punishments. For the last few years New York has worshiped the statue of Diana. Not Diana of the Epheslans, although ' there are intimations that the same class of re ligion largely controls the metropolis. But the statue of Diana, alleged to be designed by St Gaudens, which surmounted the Madison Square Garden was made the Idol of New York's artistic aspirations. Editorials were written of Its chaste pro portions' and classic . designs. Lights of the artistic world held that it constituted the climax of the art of sculpture; and the man in New York who did not bow down before the statue of Diana was an outside barbarian, dead to the inspiration of the creative arts. In a fit of generosity, or for a more inscrutable reason. New York determined to make a present of its chaste and cher ished Diana to the World's Fair. This was Chicago's opportunity, which she proceeds to improve with promptness that is decidedly fiendish. We are In formed from Chicago that Diana is really too inferioi in an artistic sense to be shown at the World's Fair. She canpot be tolerated by the Chicago standard. St Gaudens' model was all right; but this figure is not a reproduction of the model. In testimony of which Chicago will put Diana into the melting-pot and cast her over again. The recoil of this announcement on New York's artistic nretensions is some thing agonizing. No wonder that our metropolitan cotemporaries require time to recover their breath before proceeding to reply to this deadly shaft Pittsburg held up its end of the national enthusiasm over football yesterday. Ana the Canadian visitors demonstrated that these United Stated have no monopoly of the skill and muscle of the American con tinent. The fame of Pope Leo XIIL would in deed be undying if he could accomplish the disarmament of Eui opo. But his influence is insufficient to secure a consummation only to be obtained by the united action of individual powers which hitherto have ox piesaed a firm belief in the necessity lor the maintenance of war establishments for the preservation of peace. Such a condition of affairs is the greatest of nlU hindrances to European progies, and a sad commentary on the vaunted civilization and enlighten ment of the closing j ears of the nineteenth century. Youth demonstrated its inclination to disregard the past nnd distrust tne luture by the eagerness with which it made the most of the evanescent snow while the holi day lasted and the slipperiness remained. A rigid and scrupulous adherence to cleanliness and sound sanitation will pro vide a barrier against disease most likely to prove effectual, no matter what the astro nomical conditions. A condition of apa thetic co ma on the part of health authori ties is likely to be far more detrimental than the coma of any comet. And tho caie of each is the best protection for all against the dreaded comma Dacillus of cholera. It will be a bad day for this country when the celebration of Thanksgiving Day falls into desuetude. Up to date, however, the symptoms are that so bad a day will never come to America. The Fulton County Alliance, of Georgia, passed resolutions yesteiday that it will hereafter be strictly non-partisan, and that all political discussions be prohibited. Simi lar resolutions hateboen heard of before. They are easily made just alter a Piesi dental contest, but are mote than likely to be broken under the stress and strain of political exigencies during the next four years. Any remnant of soreness over the election results ought to have been dissi pated everywhere yesterday in the ubiquitous geniality, of Thanksgiving good fellow ship. What was wanting in business was more than made ud by the festivities ofyesterdav. An occasional breathing space is especially valuable in'thls superlatively rapid country in an age of speed. A chance to consider others, to say nothing of one's own real im provement, is found nowadays so seldom that its rare occuri ence is made the most of. Columbus discovered America, and was the first successful performer of the egg trick. But in matters of football he was in nowise before the woful ignorance of bis age. ' How thankful some of the office-seekers will bo next jear for tfie receipt or the share of official spoils which they desire. Andliow thankful the nation win be if the distribution of patronage is made somewhat according to the suitability or apDlicants for office, and not simply in propoitlonto their past or luture partisan services. And now the statistician can stuff his head With figures as to the number of tur keys and so forth consumed. But he can keep the information, for his own edification. Europe's monarchs are naturally dis mayed at and alarmed by the Pope's broad minded democratic teachings. But Leo XIII. is imbued with tho spirit of the times, and realizes that progiess is essential to tho well-being of any body, whether it bo secu lar or religious. Football is now an established vehicle for the expression of feelings of thankful ness, and it lends itself vory readily to the impulses of healthy exuborance. It, is to be hoped that American delegates to the1 International Monetnry Conference were not deb aired lrom a discussion of tur key yesteiday, as a necessary preliminary to the successful discussion of financial problems to-morrow. ABRANGEMENTS.should be made without further delay for the holding of an interna tional football congress at the World's Fair. People devoid of ingenuity enough to find ' abundant reasons for tbankiulness yesterday must have been in an even less considerable minority than the rew who failed to enthuse over some football con test or other. There was little about yesterday like Sunday except the general immunity from work. IN THE PUBLIC AREXA. Jerry Simpson won 5550 on the election, $100 on himself and $50 on Lewelllng. There are tastes and tastes; the particu lar pets of lime. Tanausohek are two pigs. JoSEPn PULITZER, ot the World. Is gos siped about lii New York as possible Min ister to France under the Cleveland regime. IiOUlS CONLON, the French sculptor, has a beard so long that he can tn 1st it around his neck and bring It back so as to cover his bosom, just as if it was a Scotch plaid. It almost touches the floor when be is standing up. Bjornsterne Bjoksson has been living in Norway for tho last five years, having returned thither from Paris, where ho had spent a similar period, in 1SS7. He now in tends to visit England in December for tho fiist time. The engagement is announced in Berlin of Count Ernest George Gorsedorff, an officer In the First Uhlan Guards, and Miss Nellie Peters, or Louisville, Ky. Miss Peters will spend tho winter in Berlin with her sister, Mrs'. J. A. Ai mstrong. General" Cassius M. Clay, now 80 years old, and one of tho last survivors of tho diplomats of his day, has presented his library, statuary and paintings to the county in which ho lives (in Kentucky) as the nucleus of a public library. The condition of Mrs. 'Colquitt, wife of Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, who was several days ago stricken with paralysis, is precarious and death is not unexpected. Senator Colquitt, who was stricken with paralysis two months ago, is improving. There was no particular change in ex Secretary Blaine's condition yesteiday, and he is about the same as he was the day be fore. Tho day has been cold and cheerless and Mr. Blaine kept to his bed all the time, Mr. Blaine's appetite is good and ho sleeps well at night., A LOOK AROUND. "AViiai proportion of the fuel burned in Pittsburg and around It is coult" I asked a leading operator. "As an oft hand gues I should say that about 60 per cent or the luel used in the mills at present was coal. It is not as much,tbls winter as last owing to tho greater supply of gas coming fromnew fields. aBesides the gas a number ot tho mills are successfully burning petroleum. So lan at 'household consumption is con cerned I don't believe that more than 10 per cent of the trade has gone buck to the coal operators. Even with high priced gas it is so much cleaner and convenient with gas that people are willing to pay their bills and take out the surplus cost in growling. Another thing which leads to the retention of gas in private houses is that it is almost' impossible to get good servants who are will ing to take places where' coal is burned and whero they liave to carry It np from the cellars and then take ,av ay tho ashes. It" Is dnll with "us now, as lake shipments closed this week, and we are getting ready for the winter inaction." I came across a hero the other day. He looked much the same as everyday man kind. Ho did not know he was a hero, nor did I, until he had left the paity in which I met him. Domestic heroism, that ot the privacy of home, with no Victoria cross or Congressional medal dangling beforo it as a possibility, is alter all perhaps the noblest of all heioisni. Here was a great, strong, healthy and wealthy man, fond of outdoor spoi ts, of travel, of the activity of a busy commercial career one who in his youth was a man's man rather than a woman's. Fifteen years ago he married, and in a few j ears there came three chidren into the household. It had been a happy family. He was n kindly husband as husbands go, and she a pleasant and dutiful wife. Out or the night enme paralysis to her a new life to him. Since that time his career has been en til ely altered. His business was qniekly ar ranged so ho could be frequently absent trom his office. He was father, mother, nurse, teacher, companion and playmate comptcssed in ono domestic providence. Never had woman moie devoted attendant nor moio laithrul and intelligent nurse. All the little questions of housekeeping and of the care and training of children, of their clothing, their pleasures and their pains lc-11 to him, and in his hands they have been managed with a wisdom and care absolutely wonderful. This has been, remember, some thing of ten years' standing, and it has gioun instead of lessening. Outside ofhls comparatively casual attention to business his horizon is confined to the walls of his home. To make the wife forzet her burden of affliction and be a happy woman thiongh it all has been his hanplness, and with such a spiilt he couldnot fall. They travel about considerably this family, and nil tho details aie taken caie of by him. No hired nurses nor governesses are permitted to usurp any of his duties, although theie is one of each theie at hand as Ills repiesentativo in times of enforced absence. So skillfully Is all this done, so modestly is it carried out that even the chief beneficiary docs not realize what is occurring and that Is his reward. 'Ihey do not build Westminster Abbeys nowa days," f aid a friend of mine once, and I thought of his remark when I heal d the story; of this man, for the supply of heroes at this time is far below the demand. I wonder who ate my Thanksgiving tnrkei? Somebody suggested it would bo a good scheme to buy live turkeys in tho country and keep tbem until they weie wanted. I began the experiment with a huge gobbler, whom I placed in the stable. I bought a bushel or corn with which to feed him and hired a carpenter to stop up all the exits ot the stable so the gobbler might roam in safety. There was a certain grain shoot leading down from the loft which was overlooked by all except the gobbler. Alter eating about a quart of corn the morning before his death warrant was to be read to him he went up that shoot and out of an upper window to the roor. I endeavored to alluie him with more corn. He stood pat. Is there any way of coaxing turkeys off roofs? If there is I wUl send stamp on receiptor same. Tiring or the roof after a Drier sojourn hlsgobblets sauntered up to the top of the highest tree In the neighbor hood. It was then suggested by a neigh bor's boy that 1 should Eet my gun and lay the wanderer low. Happy thought, and entire solu ion of tho difficulty except that my gun was somewhere on the bills of Fayette county with the man who borrowed it last week. Just as I realized this the turkey stietched two majestic wings and a long neck and went over the East Liberty valley in the direction or Sharpsburg. l hope the man who got him had the stuffing properly seasoned with sage and thyme and did not use onions. It would be too much to think of my lost one stuffed with onions or wasted with plain bread stuffing! Recently I had occasion to ask an East End policeman to direct me to a certain short street iu his baliwick. He had never heard of it. Why would it not be wise to have a geography class for our guardians of the peace? In London the policemen are taught the names of all streets in their dis trict, the locution of the principal buildings, how to reach various sections by 'bus or rail, and they are expected to use this infor mation for the benefit of the public A drill of this kind would certainly be an addition to tho stock or useful information on hand in tho police depaitment, and with the new street signs would be a bless ing to the ig norant pedestiian. Walter. AN ELECIBICAL STOBM Canses Dismay to the Crews of Two Pilot Boats. New York, Nov. 21. Special. New York pilot boats Noa. 5 and 16, which arrived yes terday, hod a lively time in an electrical storm off Fire Island last night. They were cruising in company for incoming ocean crart, and were within almost a biscuit's throw of each other when a black cloud rolled up irom the southern horizon, and hovering above them, lot off its aerial pyro technics, mingled with hail and rain. A shaft of fire came out of tho blackness like n great spear and struck the taifrail of No. 6. Pilot Thompson was knocked down by the shock, and Pilot Shields was temporarily blinded. He was unable to see at all for several minutes after the bolt struck. AU the men on deck wore rubber coats and hoots, and they think this circumstance may have saved their lives. The tnffrail of the boat was shattered and scotched. The crew of No. 16 were slightly shocked. Boat No. 19, which also got in to-day, went to Poillon's ship yard for repairs. She was boarded by a mighty wVe, combed up by a southwest gale, and had her main boom broken and her skylights smashed. Starvation In Northern Mexico. Havana, Tex., Nov. 21 The drouth con tluues all along this valley. No late crops have been raise'd, and many poor Mexican families are in nee'd of tho most Important articles or food. Unless assistance is soon given they will be in worse condition than last year. THE COMET. It is forging on through space. With Its tlerr. flaring face. Like the headlight or a train to rain dashing; Plunging near and yet more near. Till this trembling munaane sphere Sees ahead the ruddy danger signals flashlngl Is It Blela'g comet -say? Or some other qneer estray From the meteoric dance of flame-clad hoars? Some Perl-like evict? Or some blazing derelict. Driven onward by the howling fates and furies? Will It telescope the eartn With a sort of ghastly mirth? Or do telescoped itseir by earth's star-gazers? Doth it hide hot coals or haU In its long resplendent tall? A supply of polished stones or stellar glaciers? Is there room for it to pa s? Thrilling query 1 for alas I If there Isn't, Mother Earth may rue the tussle. While her victor, vaulting clear. May surprise some future sphere With a specimen of meteoric muscle! Moral. Ere It greets your eyes, naming 'twlxt tlicearth and skies (Suspended like the coffin or Mahomet), bet lo rights your houses all. And make ready, great and small. For theeomlug and the humming or the Cornell Elisabeth Donnelly in Philadelphia Timts. . HOW TO PIXD TI1E C0UET. At'C:30 In the Evening tho Celestial Phe nomenon Can Best Be Observed. Uocliester.Democrat and Chronicle. Those who have small telescopes can readily find the comet discovered by Holmes. Hut they sbould-searcu for it within a few days as It is becoming fainter every day. Those who are unaccustomed to tracing the figures of the constellations may well start In their quest for the comet with the planet Jupiter, now the most conspicuous object In the whole heavens. Half-past 6 o'clock in the evening is the best time Jor beginning the search, as the constellation of Andromeda is then in such position in the East as to permit observation without dislocating the neck. Taking Jupiter as the starting point, move the eye upward from tho planet and- tho line thus drawn will bisect diagonally tho great square of Pegasus marked by four sec ond magnitude star. This square is of vast dimensions, the sides being about 17 de grees in length. Aline drawn throngh the upper and lower corners of this square will come very near to Jupiter. Having found this square, and bisected it diagonally by a line drawn upward from Jupiter, tho searcher must next observe the star in the left or northern corner of the square. This Is Alpha Andromedae, in the head of Andromeda. To the left of Alpha and a little below is Delta. Farther to the left, but not quite on n line with Delta and Alpha, is Beta Andromedne. Above Beta in an ir regular line are many stars. Among these stars the comet will be found. It is about half way up the irregular line from lleta, while at tho upper end of the line Is the gi eat nebula. The comet is now nearMu Andromedae and Is moving toward PI. The distance up wind fiom Beta to the great nebula Is about the same as the distance from Beta to Delta, which lies between Beta nnd Alpha, one of the stars or the great f-quare ol Pegasus. Thieo of tho stars ot this squire nre in the constellation Pegasus, or the Flying Horse. When this square Is once located it will be a key to nlPthe t-urrounding constellations. Those who havejust begun the study of the constellations will find it very useful to lo cate this square at once. When it is once placed it can bo readily recognized over head or in the West. 1 he constellation of Andromeda can also be lecomlzed in any position. The feet of the figure stretch out toward Perseus, and abovo Perseus, In the early evening, is Cassiopeia, marked by a chair or the letter U". The comet Is a faint film ot light with stars shining through it. Quite a bright star us on tho comet's edge at 1 o'clock yesterday morning and the comet was over the star last evening. There may have been a time when the comet was visible to the naked eye, but a small telescope is now necessary to reveal it. It can be found by sweeping ovor the legion wo have indicated. FOUND AFfEB SEVK YEAE3. An Actor Discovers His Long Missing Nephew Selling Papers. New York, Nov. 21 For more than seven years Alexander Kearney, an actor, has searched in nearly every part of the United States for a little cousin, Bertie Kearney, who was kidnaped when 5 ears old fiom Montreal. The boy had never been seen or heard or by his Iriends or relatives until Mr. Kearney by the most curious chance lound him Saturday selling newspapers at the foot of the elevated railroad steps In West Twenty-third street. Bertie said he could not remember who took him away from home. He traveled around with u man with a bear. His skin was d) ed, probably to make him resemble an Italian boy. He was brought lo New York, where the man made him beg and sell papers. He ran away from him some" months ago nnd has been without a home all summer. Mr. Kearney sent Bertlo to Mon treal, niter giving him a bath and a new suit of clothes. IMPER0K WILLIAM'S SPEECH. Kaiser Wilhelji made a strong plea for his now nrray bill, before tho Reichstag from the imperial point of view. Heiv York World. Emperor William's speech at the opening of the Reichstag was moderate in tone and free from any threat or boasting. Philadel phia Press. Bksidi.s making a splendid nersonai show ing, the Emperor made a speech to bis faith lul Reichstag which does him great credit. Hew York Recorder. The Emperor's speech contained nothing unexpected or surprising. Its chief inter est centeis in his appeal for more money to Bupport a largo army. Cleielond Leader. The speech Is made up of the jingling of sabers, the rattle of musketry, the roar of canncn, the groans of the dying, the tears of widows and orphans. Wheeling Intelligen cer. What ho had to sny in effect was that Ger many wished for peaco and hoped for peace, and that the endeavor to promote the "ideal economic Interests" of the empire might be pursued without interruption. PhiladeU phi i Telegraph. ' It was a well-worded speech, calculated to appeal to the patriotic sentiment of the Geiman people, and to Impress them with the idea that the Kaiser had their interests, rather than his own ambitionat heart. Sew York Pre s. His speech was a senslblo and conciliatory address, which will Increase his popularity with his subjects. There was a conspicuous absence of the arrogance and egotism that have at times characterized his utterances. Baltimore American. lit addressing the lieichstag the Emperor wore his military unifoim, and did not re move his helmet. It was a military ruler talking to his nblect servants, the repre sentatives of the German people. Will they be always so abject? Xew Yorfc Herald. Senator Washburn's Daughter Weds. MiifSEAroLis. Nov. 21 At tho Church ot he Redeemer, last night. Miss Mary C. Washburn was united in marriage to E. F. Baldwin, an editorial writer on the New York Mail and Expmt. First Impressions the Best. Philadelphia Record. The first souvenir half dollar brought $10,000. This shows that fiist impressions aro best. DEATIIS HERE AND ELSEWHERE. Henry Lewis, Retired Actor. Henry Lewis, one of the oldest living members of the theatrical profession, died Wednes day in Phlladelpnla in his 90th year. Mr. Lewis was born in Plymouth, England, in 1803. Nine teen years later, on June 3, 1822, he made bis first appearance on the stage In the character of .Smart, in "The Rendezvous, "at the English Opera House, in London. In 1829 he became stage manager of the Pavilllon Theater. London. In this capacity he became famous. Mr. Lewis yas engaged by diaries Kcmble In 1831 as a pantomlmlst. Later he returned to the Pavllllnrt Theater, and tame to America. He acted in almost every city. In 1859. when llllam Henderson took the old Pittsburg Theater, Mr. Lewis Joined him In the enterprise as stage manager. After he became associated with Mr. Henderson In the Plttsbnrg Theater. Mr. Lewis revived Christmas pantomimes. In 1SC7 Mr. Lewis retired Irom the stage. Mnce then he had lived In Philadelphia In winter and at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ettle Henderson, at Long Branch, in summer. William J. Gordon, Millionaire. William J. Gordon, one of the wealthiest men in Cleveland, worth S12.0r),000. died Wednes day evening at his magnificent summer home In Glenvll'e. agea 74 years. He was the ownerorthe t jmous horses Cllngstono and Uur. His fouryoung grandchildren will probably be the chief heirs to is millions. William McKinley, Sr. William McKinley, Sr., the ajied father or Governor McKinley, died yesterday morning In Canton, O. His death has been expected for a few das, and all the family were In attmdance. Obituary Notes. Wilmam J. Gobdoit, one ortho wealthiest resi dents r Cleveland, died Wednesday at his home, at Gordon Ulen, .liter a long illness. Colonel William H. Evans died In Darling ton. S. C. yesterday morning of paralysis. He 'was a graduate of the South Carolina College and serveu iu me Legislature. J. W. TIRKLE, the Third party member of the Legislature from Forsyth county, Ga died Wednesday morning from a stroke of paralysti. Plrkle was one or the leaders of the new pal ty, but was elected by a small msjorlty. CaMaix Stephen White, prominent in river steamboat navigation and captain of la Southern PaclUc steamship, dropped dead of apoplexy In Acw York Wednesday. He had papers valued at 115,000 In his pocket ai the time. I'niLir W. Dates, of the prominent Chisago Board or Trade firm of P. W. Dater ft Co., died suddenly Wednesday night. His node. Philip Dater. of New York, after whom he ya named, was known in his llietline as the kin of the pro vision trade of America. THANKSGIVING WEDDINGS. Hymen's Torch Barns Brightly on a TyP1" cal Winter Day The Ehrens-Young Nuptials at Tv llklnsbnrg Married In a Cathedral Gossip of Society. Society was so busy yesterday with Thanksgiving festivities that 5t had no time for anything else but weddings. There were plenty of these interesting celeDra tions, and upward of a hundred young couples In this vicinity will date their mar ried happiness from Thanksgiving Day, ISM. One or the prettle't homo weddings was that at the residence of Hon. aud Mrs. Andrew It Young, or Wilklnsburg. Miss Lulu Young, their daughter, became the bride of Mr. Rlohard Ehrens, of Jamestown, Dak. The Rev. John Young, a cousin of the bride, performed the ceremony. Tho bride wore a handsome brown traveling costume and carried a bunch of pink chrysanthe mums. She was attended by two little child ren, John and Annie Stevenson.or Allegheny. The house was decorated with pink chrvs nntheinums In mostoi the rooms, the win dow curtains being festooned with smilax and other pretty creepers, tho whole giving a charming effect to the commodious resi dence. Anion; the cne'ts from a distance wero Mr. and Mrs. William Gibbon, of Cleve land; Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Young, of Canton; Mr. Hnd Mrs. N. McFaddeu and Mr. and Mrs. M. McFaddcn, of St. Paul, Minn. The bride has always lived in Pittsburg, but will live on a ranch in D.ikota with her husband, where they will be 45 miles irom tho nearest neighbor. AJJOTrtER pretty wedding In Wilkins burg yesterday united the lives of Miss Elizabeth Reed Sample nnd Mr. Joseph P. Chambers at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Emma Sample, Hill street. At 8 o'clock in the evening the young people entered the parlor to the strains of Mendelssohn's "Wedding March," played by Mrs. Ayers, a well-known pianist. They were preceded by two little flower girls, Miss Myrtle Mo Ateer and HUs Sarah Ferguson. There were also two little boys, Charlie nnd John Sim ple. The frocks or the little girls were blue and -vhite respectively, and t'.-ey carried white ohri santhemums. The bride was hand somely gowned in a pink brocaded silk and carried white chrynnthemums. and her bridenialds wore pale blue silk and curried pink chrysanthemums. Rev. S. H. Moor, ot Wilklnsburg Fiesbyterinn Church, offi ciated. Thero wns a largo reception after the service. At 2 o'clock in the morning the couple lei t for Everett, Stato of Washington, whero thevwlll reside peimancntly. The journey Is I, COO miles and they will havo to tiavel continuously for cix daystoieach their home. The bride has lived In Pitts burg all her Hie, so that Mie Is about to en Joy novelty In her place of residence thor oughly. Miss Emily A. Fox became the bride of Mr. Charles B. Powers, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Hnzlett, Ward street, Oakland, last ovenlng. Miss Blanche Hazlett was the maid of honor, and the groomsman wns Mr. Eugene Hughes. Only the intimate friends of the couple wero present. There was a reception after the ceremony, and then Mr. and Mrs. Powers lolt for Chicago for a wedding trip. The bridegroom Is a well-known and able newspaper writer of this city. St. Peter's Peo-Cathedkal, Alle gheny, was thronged with a Mshlonablo gathering last evening to witness the nup tials of Miss Emma Mitchell, daughter of Mrs. William Mitchell, nnd Mr. Ernest B. Iiow ling, agent or the Norfolk and Washing ton Steamboat Company. Miss Florence E. Williams, of Alle gheny, was married last evening to Mr. Charles St. Clair, or Indiana, Pa., w here ho is about to enter Into partnership with tho proprietor or a large grocery store in that town. The wedding took place at the home of fio bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williams, ol Harrison avenue, Allegheny. The young couple will make an extended Eastorn trip before settling down in their new home. A hint to young men has been given by a woman who professes to know, that is perhaps worthy of consideration. It is that the average woman would rath er be called "sweotheart" by the man she loves than any other of the few thousand endearing expressions that lovers have at the end of their tongues. There is something in tho term that goes .straight to the female heart when it is said by the right person and nothing can ever displace it. Moreover, the word is intrin sically musical, and ns such can well be used in conveying assurances of affection. If any young man there is who does not know what word to employ to best please his affianced, let hfui try "sweetheart. ' Dr. and 31ns. Hart, of 814 Penn ave nue, will celebrate the twenty-fifth anni versary of their Wedding January 2, 1303. A large audience enjoyed the conecrt by the Alpine Quartet nnd the Mylpomene Concert Compsny in tho Smlthfleld Street Methodist Episcopal Church las: evening. It was under tho direction of Prof. w. S. Wecuen, and among tho por'ormors were Miss Mamie Reuck, Mrs Meciillng, Miss fchmiedeke and Messrs. CL M. Couch, John Strous-. E. Edstrom and Dan E Nuttall. The coucert was a very enjoyable one. Miss Amelia M. Donohde, of the Southside, was married yesterday to Mr. George L. Ruzard, formerly of this city, but now of Seattle, Wash. The ceremony took place at St. John's Church, Southside, Rev. Falkuer officiating. Alter z few weeks among Eastern friends the couple will leave lor the West, where they will make their home. The North Avenue Chapter of the Ep worch League gave an "Evening of Song" Thanksgiving evening nt tho church, corner of North avenue and Arch stroet, Allegheny. An excellent programme wns rendered by the well-known Haydn Qnartet, who were assisted in tho evening's entertain ment by Prof. Theodore Salmon, organist, and Miss Anna Kendlg, reader. The pro ceeds of the concert will be used in carry ing on the work of the chapter. A NOTED CBAHK PAS3ES AWAY. Death of Colonel Plnchover, a Well-Known Washington Character. Washington, Nov.SL fpecial. The most remarkable crank ever known in Washing ton has Just died nt the Government Insane Asylum. He was known ns "Colonel" Plnchover, and his chief infatuation was the belief that "Tom" Scott, late of the Pennsylvania Railroad, owed him several million dollars, which tho Government should refund to him. A fevc years ago he was accustomed to buttonhole every mem ber or Congress about the matter. He was a native of Germany, but many years ago he came to this country and located in Balti more. Thereat, it is said, business rover, js came upon him, and after losing nearly everything he had he came here and con ducted a tailor shop in Georgetown. Then lorseveral years lie lived on the charity of lawyers and others, and always carried with him a circular tin box, in which lie had numerous papers, maps and charts to con vince poisons of tho millions that Scott or the Government owed him. Ho figured about the Court House to a con siderable extent, and imagined all the law yers wore looking after his interests. For a long time he afforded amusement to many persons who questioned him about his wealth and told them exciting tales con cerning his own career, lie wns tantalized so much that he finally made threats against Judge Wylio and Justice Walter, and when it was leared he might become violent he was sent to St. Elizabeth's. That was In November, 1S4, and during his eight years' stay at that institution there was no marked-change In his condition. For more than a -year he has shown signs of failing health and has just died of pneumonia. He was about 73 years old. ACCOMMODATIONS FOE FAMILIES That Will Allow Them to Seo World's Fair Sights at a Moderate Outlay. Chicago, Nov. IL A World's Fair project has Just beenporiected by tho incorpora tion of ihe World's Fair Dormitory Associa tion of Chicago. This association was or ganized for tho express purpose of afford ing accommations for families of limited means who desire to visit the Exposition next year. "AJease has been made for a tract of land between French avenue and Sevonty-fllth street. The Thing In a NntshelL Philadelphia Times. I The railroads have practically split the question ot transportation to Chicago by the simple formula: Full fare or no Fair. CURIOUS CONDENSATIONS. Barley is an Asiatic plant. Gloves with separate finders were un known before the 12th century. New York city claims to get away with 300,000 pounds of fish every day. The glassmakers of Thebes, 40 centuries ago, possessed the art or staining glass. There are 3,000,000 drummers in this country, only three of whom are women. The London museum contains the first envelope ever made. It was used in May, 1696. An assay office in Philadelphia has scales indicating the ten-millionth part of a pound. Nineteen thousand cooks are turned out annually by the model kitchen schools of London. By a liquor law in Cape. Colony no traveler can be supplied with a drink unless with a bona fide dinner or luncheon. The manuscript of Edgar Allen Poe's "Tale of the Ragged Mountains" was sola in New York at auction on Wednesday for $295. The new $500 note now being issued is ono or the handsomest ever turned out and bears a good portrait of General W. T. Sher man. In Germany aluminum cravats are now on sale. 'They are advertised as feather, light, silver-white work-goods that wUl wear forever. Monaco, with its territory of eight square miles nnd its standing army of 1:5 men. proposes to have a universal exposi tion next year. A magnificent specimen of the im perial danlla is in bloom at Santa Cruz, Cal. It la 15 feet high, and the foliage and inflorescence aro 36 feet in circumfer ence. Forty acres of the lands in Yakima county. Wash., are to be planted in Concord grapes. This will. It is claimed, be the larg est acreage devoted to this crop in that State. Steeple-pointed caps, sometimes 4 feet In height, came Into fashion in Italy and France In H33. They fitted the head ran to a sharp point above, aud at the end the veil was fastened. In a late plucking at the Coronado os trich farm nearly 303 feathers were obtained from one bird, which, when curled and dressed, will be worth $65. The female os trich lays 70 eggs a year. Kalkaska county, Mich., at three elec tions during the past six years has elected a Democratic Prosecuting Attorney by the following plnrallty vote: 1836, by 1 V0te;lS33, by 2 votes; 1EW, by I votes. A new mineral has been discovered in Colombia in lmmensu deposits, with prop erties not unlike those of asbestos. It is reported to be the color of amber, perfectly transparent and incombustible. Twelve young ladies met on the first day of the present year, and vowed never'to marry. Nine were married before seven months, ana two others have breach of promise suits on hand. The other one is dead. The Americans, who live at the highest nervous pressure, have, as a race, the poor ost teeth. Decay Is caused by acid-produo-ing fungi, and these thrive upon sngur. Hence the dental deadlines? of sweet meats. A funeral on bicycles lately took place in an English town. Tho deceased was captain of a bicycle club, and just be fore h'.s death requested that his body should be conveyed to the cemetery on bicycles. The more the brain works the worse the teeth that is the last word or physio logical chemistry. And the physical in juries due to loss or decay of the teeth are greater than are likely to be inflicted by the advent of an epidemic. A pair of shears for barbers is a late in vention. Tho pivot between the blades i3 extended to carry a comb, which is parallel with the scissors. By the aid of a nut the distance between the shears :lnd the comb can bo varied aud the hair cut at any do sired length. It was on Friday that Columbus set sail from Palos, Friday "he first saw tho new world, Friday ho reached Palos on his re turn, the 4W)tb anniversary of the discovery fall onJrldayand on Friday tnis country was christened after AmericusYespucius, the Florentine discoverer. In making railroad tunnels, cuts, etc, and in sinking wells and pits in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, salt strata are often struck at varying depths, sometimes as much as a hundred yards beneath the sur lace. Hundreds ol fish, perfectly preserved, are found In blocks of this pure rock salt. The long-distance telephone, as well as the electric light, is now familiar t6 the in habitants of Pretoria, the Boer capital. The Transvaal Times publishes a telephone message reiordlng General Joubert's elec tioneering speech at a village 67 miles dis tant, and say3 tho transmitter's voice was distinctly lecogmzcd. The annual report ot Director Leech states that tho total coiuago of the United States mints during the last fiscal vear was $31,792,976. The total money in circulation is "iven as $l,7b6, 139,735, an average of $21.34 per capita. The profit from seignorage o silvor cotnago during the past year was 4930.487. and for tho past 11 years amounts to $7A 73J,C65. The oldest East Indian manuscript in the world, and ono of tho oldest existing manuscripts of any kind, has recently been dug np Just ontsidoora subterranean city near Kuchar. It is written on birch bark, nnd contains two medical sections, two col lections or proverbial sayings and one in valuable charm against snnue-bltes given by tne Lord Buddha himself to Ananda. A woman sanitary engineer ha3 been chosen to represent tho English women at the congress of hygieno. She Is a woman of versatile genius, a possessor of certificates lor art, mnsic, hygiene, divinity, physiology and sanitary science. She visits profession ally slaughter honst, workshops aid dairies, and understands all about the lay ing of drains, water mains, connections aud so forth. A Scotch engineer is said to have solved the problem or making tho mill run with the water that has passed. It Is re ported by a Glasgow paper that a resident engineer has devised an arrangement by which nil the steam used by an engine Is re turned to the boiler. As a result it Is said that as mnch energy can be gotten out ol one ton or coal as is now secured by the con sumption of seven tons. FLIGHTS INTO EUNNYDOal. "Is your papa in politics?" Yes. sir, " replied the little girl. "On, jes, I remember now. He was once on the bench, wasn't he?" I don't know.sir. But he's on the fence now." Washington Star. "Is Chumpton deaf and dumb?" "Not a bit of It. But be made a promise to his dying grandfather to always think twice before he spoke once. He hasn't been able to thins even once yet. " Indianapolis Journa (. A lion's vanished from your path, Friend of the fevered brow Hot scotch is here the ice-cold bath Is not de rlgucur now 1 - Xew York Recorder. Mrs. Dasher Isn't it strange that womea no longer wtar golden bockles on their shoes. Mr. Dasher Tbey wear them now above thell shoes. Jewelers' Weekly. THE OTHIE SIDE Or THE PICTCBX. There's something very fetching And artistically catching. About a simple etching Tu bang upon the wall. , And when you come to frame It, And gef the bill why blame it! You find that all the same It Makes a "fifty" very s-nall. imfM. Gray A CO.U Mmthlg. "What a mercy it is that that that word remember Is a part of the language," said the poet. "Why?" . "Couldn't write any poetry about November IT It wasn't. "Buffalo Ixvress. "Annie Rooney's" dead and gone, So Is "Maggie Mnrph:" But when, oh when, will "MolUc. ana I And the Baby" go under the turf 7 Brooklyn Eagle. Jack Did you have good board in the country where you were daring the summer? Tom (donbtfally)-Weli. you'd hardly cart It board. Shingle more nearly expresses It. netrott tree eras. Mrs. Van Schuleyvant My son is a reg ular bohemlan. Mrs. Harlem Phlats Oh. pshaw, nowvdon't be puttln' on. You know he was born right here la New York. 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