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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
The Tobacco Habit.

Now, this lady is not nervous or sqeamish.
She travels the ocean in the toughest weather
without seasickness does her own marketing
and housekeeping. though she is wealthy, and
is really one of the bravest little women in the
world. 1 agree with her. When you get south
of the Pennsylvania line nearly everybody
ehews tobacco and smokes, to say nothing of
what is done north of that line in small er de-
gree. If 1 were to go about to reform the
health and habits of the Americans 1 would
begin with the smoking and chewing of to-
bacco, if no farther back, for the use of the
weed is infinitely more disgusting than the use
of liquor, generally speaking, and thousand
people are killed by the nicotine W here one is
sent to grass by excessive use OF stimulants.
Why do not Prohibtionists include tobacco
in their anathemas? And why do not
some of the saints who anathematize
both, indulge in an occasional lecture on the
habit of gorging at meals. which is put down in
the books as sanity custom, from time imme-
mortal? Excessive eating leads to nine-tenths
of the other excesses of the human kind.
the root of the evil? Of course 1t is all right to
endeavor to hack off the fingers and toes of a
dragon which devours his thousands of human
victims every day. but why don't they stick
him in the stomach? That's where he lives.
Given good, healthy beginning, it is our food
that makes or unmakes us; yet what advocate
of temperance begins at that point, and what
learned physician attempts to prescribe rea-
sonable and scientific diet to prevent sickness?
Verify we are topsy-turvy race that begins at
the wrong end of everything.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Mr.. L. P. MORTON will give the use of his
Washington house to the ladies of the Garfield
Memorial Hospital, for charity art exlibi-
ton, before he takes possession of it next
month.
THE only negro in the next National House
of Representatives will be 81. P. Cheatham,
from the Second North Carolina District. He
is so years old and is a prominent man in his
community.
THE dress that Mrs. Harrison Rill probably
wear at the Inauguration IS of pearl-white
brocade, made with long train, the front of
which is of almost solid gold embroidery. The
corsage opens little at the throat and shows
full ruche of real old point lace. The sleeves
reach the elbow.
THE State Senate Of Delaware is a body of
nine men whose principal occupation, accord
ing to correspondent, is to sit around, tell
stories and wait for the House to do some
thing. When a visitor appears they make a
pretense Of transacting business, but the
moment he leaves they resume their occupation
of killing time.
THE official jeweler of the Kappa Sigma
Society is at work on a costly badge that is to
be presented to Miss Winnie Davis, the daugh-
ter of Jefferson Davis, in pursuance of resolu-
tions adopted at the last conclave of the
fraternity, held In Atlanta. The badge will be
in the form of star and crescent, fully jeweled
with diamonds and rubies.
LORD RoTHsoHILD Is popular in London
among the poor. HE Is a good 'un, he Is"
said an omnibus driver, passing his palace. 'If
all the bloomin' swells was like him they should
have my vote and interest" 'How's thatf'
"Why, every Christmas he gives my mate and
me brace of pheasants, and SO he do all of US
wot passes his door. Good old Baron"
THE begging letters which Mrs. Harrison re-
ceives from people who wish her to intercede
with her husband to secure them an office
number about 25 day. AS soon as Mrs. Har-
rison gets far enough along in the reading of a
letter to ascertain that 1t is of offce-seeking
character she stops reading it at once and con-
signs it to the waste-basket The appeal is
never, under any circumstances, brought to the
attention of her husband.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
IRON WARRANTS NOT BOOMING.

1t is rather satisfactory than otherwise to
find that the conservative members of the
pig iron industry are disposed to look very
coolly upon the project of turning their
staple into football Of speculation. The
example of the crude petroleum interest fur
nishes them with a warning that most of
them are ready to lay to heart. Those who
produce iron that is fit for nothing else than
to gamble with, may hail the warrant
scheme as establishing market for their
production; but the great mass of manufac-
turers will do wisely to continue as hereto
fore selling. their metal on its merits and
permitting the markets to be ruled by the
free action of supply and demand. If any
warrant scheme is to be undertaken the iron
men might follow the example of the silver
men, and demand that the Government
shall issue the certificates for all the metal
they deposit and make the certificates le-
gal tender for all debts, public and private
That would make general boom in other
things besides iron warrants-until the bub-
BILE hurst
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
THE NECESSARY RESULT.

Prof Shaler's special contribution in an
other column, shows how the e1actions of
the copper syndicate in cornering the mar
ket for that metal, and establishing e1or-
bitant prices, has caused such an active
search for new mines and such an increase
of production, that it is on the point of
breaking down under the burden it has Gre
ated for itself.
This sustains the rule which The DIS
PATCH has always urged, that unless such
combination has the power to exclude new
production by some lever either of control
ling transportation, or owning patents, or
fastening its grip on limited field of pro-
duction, it is sure to defeat itself. One or
the other of these barriers to new competi-
ton has existed in the case of every combi-
nation; or else it has gone to pieces.
But the fact thatsuch conspiracIes against
the liberty of commerce must eventually
bring their own punishment, does not yield
much solace to the people who are burdened
by them while they last. The law should
be powerful enough to punish such attempts
In their inception, instead of letting them
flourish without caring for the ruin that
must succeed them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
HISTORIC NOTES.

ENVELOPES were first used in 1889.
ANEsTHEsIA was discovered in 1874.
THE first steel pen was made in 1903.
THE first air-pump was made in 1854.
THE first daily paper appeared in 1702
THE first Iucifer match was made in 1888
THE first iron steamship was built in 1880.
MoHAMMED was born at Mecca about $40.
THE first balloon ascent was made in 179S.
COACHES were first used in England in 1569
THE first horse railroad was built in 1851
THE Franciscans arrived in England in 1924.
THE first steamboat piled the Hudson in 1907.
THE entire Hebrew Bible was printed in 14SS
SHIPS were first ''copper-bottomed" in 1888.
GOLD was first discovered in California in
IS4S
THE first telescope was used in England in
1908
CHRISTIANITY was introduced in Japan in
l549
THE first watches were made at Nuremberg
in l477.
THE first sawmaker's anvil was brought to
America in 1919.
THE first almanac was printed by George Won
Furbach in 1460
The first newspaper advertisement ap-
peared in 1862
PERCUSSION arms were used in the United
States army in 1880.
THE first use OF a locomotive in this country
was in 1923.
oMNBUsEs were first introduced in New
York in $780,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

OUT in Ohio the doctrine that 'the greater
the truth the greater the ibel'' does not
seem to find much favor-with the lower
courts, at least. A wellknown citizen of
Akron recently had his hands and feet
frozen by the unusual, but not wholly mex
plicable, act of going to sleep on the curb
stone during cold night. One of his fam
lily, learning that a paper was about to pub
lish a statement to that effect, went to the
Office and destroyed the form containing
the article. The court fined him 500
and costs, with the outspoken declara-
ton that 'the press must be protected
in publishing the news of the day." and
that whatever blame there was for such
an article "should rest on the party that
brought it on himself" Gentlemen who
are in the habit of making lodging of the
sidewalk will regard this loosening of the
libel with general disapprobatiop.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
American Manners.

~ am going to Paris in the early spring, and
1 don't care whetherI ever see America again, /"
said an American lady to me the other day,
who has spent most of her time of late years in
the French capital. 1.-THE manners of the
Americans are SO disgusting they make me
sick. did not notice 1t so much before lived
abroad, but now can't endure it. The loafing
in front of the hotels and public houses and on
street corners, on the main business streets,
where ladies must 90 to do their shopping, the
offensive manner in which the loafers stare at
you, the insulting remarks they make loud
enough for you to hear them, and worse than
all, perhaps, their filthy habit of chewing to-
bacco and ejecting their saliva all over the
pavement, are things which are seen in no Eu-
ropean country. A man who would chew to-
bacco in any of those countries would be looked
upon as worse than pig. Why, here in Wash
1ngton, the capital city Of America, do not
1 were to hold it higher than the law allows it
would surely be ruined trailing through the
pools of sickening tobacco juice which mark the
whole length of the sidewalk. I have little
boy who was born in France. He had never
seen cuspidor until last fall we came home to
America on business 1t was in an
elegant parlor-just think of it!-and was
very pretty one of fine Japanese pottery. The
little fellow picked 1t up and ran to me, ex-
claiming: oh. mamma, look what pretty
vase. But why don't they have flowers in it
and set it in the window like we do in Parish
1 did not dare to tell him that it was used for
the members of the family and visitors to de-
posit guilds of tobacco and filthy spittle, for
fear the child's criticism would CRATE on the
ears of the elegant company present. 1 can't
imagine how women can endure the attentions
of any man who chews tobacco. If my husband
used 1t would consider it good ground for a
divorce. / certainly would not live with him.
We had intenued to make Washington our
home, but these horrible dark blotches every
where on the sidewalks, and their nauseating
fumes everywhere in the air, have so disguised
and sickened me that we have absolutely de-
termined to fly the country forever"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

direction TO the rich man to sell all thou
hast and give unto the poor" as is afforded
by the rich men who object to let the poor
sit beside them in the services that are sup
posed to worship the Teacher of that doc
trine, it is a remarkable instance of the gap
that can exist between profession and prac-
tice.
We think that the great value and
strength of the Christian church OF to-day
are sufficiently cognizant of the principles
thev profess to avoid such undisguised ex-
hibitions of selfshness as this example
Christianity is taught in most of the
churches; and to the degree in which it is
taught the influence of those organizations
for good is live and effective. But there is
hardly more decisive confederation of the
deadening influence upon a church Of
making money leading criterion than this
practical denial of the doctrine that, in the
worship of the Maker, all men are equal.
In this particular respect the Catholic
Church shows a greater appreciation of its
doctrines than any other denomination, by
everyone IL bAO PAoSC VI "OA-
ship. Prince and peasant, millionaire and
beggar worship side by side in the sanctua-
ries of that denomination, and to that fact
may be attributed great share of its vi
tality and its hold upon the common people.
But even in this church there has recently
been a remarkable exhibition of the differ
ence which it can make whether influence
or great power is confronted, instead of
weakness or obscurity. The denial of
Christian burial to John Mcclure, of New
York, because he held erroneous views on
taxation, while the same rite was granted
to Prince Rudolf, of whose death the most
creditable explanation was suicide, is an
addition to the long list of proofs that the
mundane representatives of religion are
often prone to forsake their principles in
order to fatter or conciliste the great, rich
and powerful.
Nevertheless the power of Christianity is
most fully shown in that, despite such ex-
hibitions of inability to appreciate its teach
ings, it still lives and furnishes the light of
the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY. FEB. IL, 1889
A SATISFACTORY BACK DOWN.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
distinguished itself once more by overturn-
ing its own decision and holding that the
limitation of damages to be secured in the
case of death by accident was repealed by
the Constitution.
This is decided improvement on the
former ruling of the court that the act could
not be repealed by the constitutional enact
ment. The reasoning of the court as sum-
married in the report elsewhere, is clear and
unreasonable, the act of 1868 limiting
damages was a contract without consider
ton; the right of repeal still lay in the
Legislature; and .fortiOri it lay in the Con-
stitution-making power. This puts an end
to the anomaly of paying less in damages
for the wanton destruction of a life, than
the corporations for whose benefit the law
was enacted, pay yearly in salary to third
class official.
But is it not a rather telling commentary
upon our administration of law that it is Is
years after constitutional provision has
been enacted, before the Supreme Court
will uphold it,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
THE REGULAR SPECIFIC.

Some of the principles or methodist they
can be diguifed by either term-of the So
called christian science, as exemplifed by
a work recently published, arouses the
sarcasm of the Buffalo Express. 1t quotes
the following directions for treating COM
mon ailment:
Suppose you have a cold in your head. You
may find yourself much better, or even cured,
by saying to yourself once, or several times in
succession or until you feel change, as follows:
81 deny the fact that 1 have anything the mat
ter with me- have no fear" Day great
stress On this; say it very cooly and calmly; say
it several times over, varying the words If you
like) ''Sitting in draught has no power to give
anybody a cold" (Here you can assign what
ever reason the people around you insist was
the cause of your cold.l my head is not
heavy, my eyes are not swelled; am not deaf
and stupefied-" (You can enumerate as many
or as few symptoms as you like; but mention
them only to deny them, and do not think that
the more effort you make to name all of them
the better you are treating yourself)
The Judgment of our esteemed cotempor-
ary that this sort of denial of existing facts
is "neither Christian nor science" can
hardly be disputed; but it must be admitted
that it is human nature. A very little
thought will show that it is the treatment
adopted by the greatest and most inhuen-
tial for the treatment of q good many worse
troubles than cold or any other mere bod
lily disorder.
Here is monopoly that has crushed out
all competitors. When its exactions raise
a public protest it adopts exactly the course
prescribed above. By means of high
priced attorneys it denies that it tries to
monopolize the market; protests that it
never receives special rates from the rail
roads; declares that 1t does not try to crush
rivals; and represents itself as a philan-
thropic institution, until by the weight and
respectability of its millions, it becomes so
in the opinion of the publicists. A politi-
cal organization got up for the purpose of
making money, effective in elections, takes
the method of persistently protesting that
it does nothing of the sort. A reform ad-
ministration puts an avowed spokesman in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
CHURCHES AND CHRISTIANITY,

The remarkable utterances of the sexton
or manager of a New York church. who
turned a strange lady out of pew in that
fashionable edifce because the pew did not
belong to her, has created good deal of dis
cussion. 1t is no more than fair to say that
the pastor and wardens of the church dis
avow the action of their representative, and
declare that strangers are welcome to their
church. Nevertheless the idea that peo-
pie who pay for expensive pews in high
toned churches, have the right to be exclu-
sive and are outraged if they must be
crowded by unknown persons, makes itself
heard. The following from the editorial
columns of the Philadelphia Press is an ex-
ample:
When a stranger in large city goes to hear
Booth or Barrett in tragedy or Christine Nils
son or Madame Patti in opera he pays from 81
TO IS for his seat and would think it an un-
speakable outrage if his stall we're encroached
upon. But he will present himself at the door
of one of the costlest churches in a city and
become speedily indignant if he is not shown
to pew, every seat in which has been rented
for more than he paid for his opera stall.
This is Just the idea of the New York
sexton, to the effect that he does mot care for
salvation; it is the dollars that are wanted. |"
II the church rests on the same basis as the
theaters the logic is indisputable. But
there is an avOwal by every church that it
processes and tries to practice the principles
taught by Christ. These principles cannot
possibly be mistaken for lack of definite
statement. When we find such contrast
10 the rule of conduct laid down in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT DUEL

The public will watch the outcome of the
fight between the two great electric light
companies with keener interest than they
follow the technical arguments Of counsel.
Here is an article coming into very general
use, passing in fact from the list of luxuries
into the expanding category of necessities.
Freely recognizing that the inventors and
promoters OF electric lighting should reap
handsome rewards from their skill and
energy, the public will still regret any un-
happy chance that may turn this new
article into monopoly like the telephone.
Of course the wishes or interests of con-
sumers will have no part in shaping events,
but recent experience will cause an ex-
preston of feeling none the less. The ex-
tortions of trusts and combinations in almost
all lines of business have led to a strong
sentiment which, sometimes with good reason,
takes certain phases of the manipulation of
patents within the range of its antipathy.
The big capitalization of both the Edison
and Westinghouse companies, and the pro-
fits made by each concern, even when in
competition, show that the demand for their
wares gives elegant compensation as things
now stand. If one concern get absolute
control of electric lighting there will doubt
less be many more millions in it." but
these millions will come from consumers
pockets; and for that reason the public will
pray, if anything; for other Richmonds to
enter the field, rather than that either of
the existing concerns should have new op-
portunities for the watering processes by
which immense values in these days are Gre
sted, often out of nothing more tangible
than mere opportunities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
FACTS AND FIGURES.

LAST year SIC, $4,000 were invested in new
enterprises in West Virginia.
THE United States manufactures S,750000
pounds of Limburger cheese annually.
1T is said that the present United States Sen
ate comprises 30 millionaires in its member
ship.
THE imports OF specie for the week amounted
to slS5, ,sO2, of which s17s,646 was in gold and
s7,156 in silver.
SINCE April IT. 1888, the Treasury has pur-
chased s5l. 1896 $50 of per cents and s56,6O2 $50
of ~ per cents total of sl10 900. 100, at total
cost of $3.50, ,46s,376.
IT is estimated that the production of window
glass in this country, with the imports will ag-
gregate 4,200.OOO boxes for the fiscal year end
ing July l, 1889, against ls9 III for last year.
TWENTY shares of the New York Chemical
Bank stock were sold last week at 81, 1876 share,
the highest price ever paid for the stock. The
mar value of this stock is 500, and there are
but 900 shares in all. The bank declares BIZ
monthly dividends of 25 per cent.
STATISTICS gathered from the United States
Geological Survey show a marvelously rapid
gain in the mining and quarrying industries Of
the country. Their total values in 1884 were
s4l3 OO0O 900; in 1886, s42S 900 900; in 1885, s465,
100000; in 1887, s542 100000. The figures for 1888
are not yet known, but it is estimated that they
will reach, if not exceed, $780, 100000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17

charge of the reform and goes on protesting
its fidelity to the reform principle. A great
railroad combine organizes to force rates
that will yield profits on watered stocks, and
protests that it does not intend to put any
burdens on the public. What are all these
but the systematic declaration that the
things that make the trouble do not exist,
as recommended by the exponent of Christ
ian Science?
If declaring that there are no monopolies,
no political corruption, no betrayal of re-
form pledges will cure the corruption,
monopolies and betrayals, why will not the
'lie we'll stuck to" suffice as specific for
colds or any physical indisposition?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-17
WOULD BAR THE SAVIOR.
The Sexton of St. Thomas Stands by the
Rich-The Pastor Indignant.

Inc sexton OF 81. ThOmaB Stands Dy the
Rich-The Pastor Indignant.
NEW YORK, February 16.-Only half the
story has been told of the first interview Sexton
B. w. Williams, of St. Thomas Church, had
with reporter when he advanced his ideas on
business and religion as partners. Shortly
after the sexton had, as alleged, insulted Mrs.
G. w. Moore, Of Detroit, and hustled her out
of pew because she was stranger, a reporter
called on the sexton and had a long interview
with him, most of which has been published 1t
is now, however, for the first time made known
that the reporter, at that interview, said that
the Savior sought rather the poor than the
rich, and in the sight of God both were judged
from the same standpoint of morality.
Mr.. Williams responded in this way: THAT
is beautiful theory, but 1t would not be prac-
ticable in our present state of civilization.
Most probably if Christ were to present him
self personally for admission to St Thomas
Church as He appeared on earth (meaning in
poyerty's garments) and had not paid for his
pew in advance"-here the sexton shrugged his
shoulders and concluded, you know" Even
the Savior could not enter St. Thomas Church;
that was the unquestionable impression the
sexton conveyed.
Rev. John Wesley Brown, rector of the
church, was seen by a reporter, and asked II
any formal complaint had been made against
Sexton Williams.
mot that am aware Of" he replied.
'Will the church stand by the statements
Sexton Williams has made to reportersT the
rector was asked
'Is the newspaper responsible for the state
ments of reporter on horse carp was the
rectors way of answering that question. why
the old gentleman" he added, ''who has been
with the church for 30 years, should have al
lowed his tongue to gallop off with his reason is
more than 1 can say. St. Thomas Church is
one of the most hospita5le churches in the
country. No one is tuyned away from its doors
because he or she is too poor to pay for pew.
1t is unfair to judge of the sentiment of our
congregation by the expression of paid en-
ploye: ! think, however, that too much has
already been said about the matter"