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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
BITS OF PERSONAL GOSSIP.

THE beard of the Prince of Wales is growing
very gray. A~nglomaniacs in this country should
at once abandon hair dye.
THE reports concerning the condition of the
King of Holland are greatly exaggerated. The
King, though i'll, transacts business daily.
A SON was born last week to General and Mrs.
A. W. Greedy; the third addition to their family
since General Greely's return from Lady Frank.
lin Bay.
M BLAvATsKY, the priestess of ~esoteric
Buddhism, is hard at work in London manag-
ing her magazine, LucVer, and striving to make
converts to Theosophy.
THE late Antoine de Choudens, of Paris,
laid the foundation of his great fortune as a
music publisher by purchasing the publishing
rights in Faust for 500, after the work had
been almost contemporary refused by several
firms.
THOMAS A.. EDIsoN's capacity for work does
not seem to decrease as he goes on in years.
He frequently remains at his desk until 2 or 8
o'clock In the morning, then catches a few
hours of sleep in his office and is at his tasks
again att B.
THE Empress of Russia was more fond of
her Danish home than any other CT her sisters
and brothers, and when she was about to leave
it for Russia she wrote on the window-pane of
one of her favorite rooms at Fredensborg, "My
beloved Fredensborg, farewell"
PREsIDENT-ELECT HARRISON believes in
patronizing Hoosier industries. He is having
a landau and a brougham manufactured in
that State for use in Washington. They will
be the first carriages ever employed at the
White House which were made west of the
~Alleghenies. They are to be in Washington by
the LIST of March. General Harrison will also
buy his horses in Indiana.
AT a recent fancy-dress ball for children at
Washington the three sons of Senator Hale
were seen as English barristers, in silk gowns,
white wigs and gold-rimmed glasses. The
daughter of Representative Henry Cabot Lodge
wore a silk brocade gown that was her grand
mothers. A great-great-grandson of Commo-
dore Truxton appeared IN the uniform worn by
that officer in his great victory in 1895.
IT has been discovered that the grave of Will
lam Penn is in a sadly neglected condition.
There is not even a mound above it, and only a
fimsy slab of stone stuck in the ground, at the
head or foot-no one can tell which. The
Friends do not approve of the erection of elab-
crate and costly monuments. but there surely
could be no objection to some more definite
and permanent marking of such an interesting
spot.
THE Emperor of Austria is a splendid horse
man. His slender and graceful figure is well
adapted to the saddle. When riding with his
staff, he can be recognized at a distance. being
quite a conspicuous figure in the cavalcade.
Curlously enough, when a boy, he was afraid of
horses, and it required considerable persuasion
to induce him to mount the quietest of ponies.
No sooner had he, at the age Of Is, begun his
military studies than he overcame his timidity,
and soon was able to perform expert feats of
~horsemanship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
REAL ESTATE In NEW YORK.
The Present Valuation of Property and That
Of Past Years Compared.

of Past Years Compared.
Howard in the Boston Globe.I
A glance at the narrow strip of land on which
New York is built will suggest at once the wit
and wisdom of men who a few generations
back put their thousands into real estate, so
that millions are the portion of their heirs to-
day.
For instance, in the year 1906, the earliest
period to which the tabulated statements of
property valuations in the Controllers office
refer, the total assessed value of real estate in
this city was So. 645, SIS. or Sl,377, Ia, GIL less than
for the present year. The realty values in
creased over 90 times their previously assessed
figures in So years.
In the year 1875 the real estate valuations
were SOL, l6O, O46, which was an increase over
the valuations returned in 1906 of about 500 per
cent.
The records of the tax commissioners office
during the ensuing years show that there was
a very even and steady advance in the values of
city realty.
In 1850 the assessed valuations footed up
syst, 161 SIG. This showed a slight falling of in
the upward movement, as the percentage for
the % years, 1925 to 1850, was only 1872.
In the decade ending with 1860 the advance
was not SO well marked. The assessed valua-
tons of that year were $SsS, 53s. 619. a rate of in
crease of 80 per cent.
Then came the War of the Rebellion, with its
many uncertainties and drawbacks, but in 1870
the real estate assessments aggregated S742,-
2U2,525, an increase over 1860 of about so per
cent.
The financial panic of 1873 had a prejudicial
erect on the real estate market, and, with other
adverse conditions assisting, the total assessed
valuations were increased in 1880 only about
S4o0,OOO,OOO. They then amounted to S942, ST.. 800,
an increase OF rs per cent in ten years. working
SIS. SIS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
THE GRANGER'S MISTAKE.

The statement that the officers Of the
State Grange are present in Harrisburg to
urge the passage of the bill prohibiting the
sale of mea s slaughtered outside of Penn
sylvania, calls for few words of advice to
that organization concerning both what
State legislation can do and what State
legislation ought to do.
The opposition of the State Grange to
dressed beef, and its purpose in urging
this law is, that it makes beef too cheap.
This is stated as the platform of the repre-
sentatives of the farmers, and they make no
bones about urging the bill as a means of
cutting of one source of supply of cheap
food. No interest or right of the consumer
is taken into consideration. The foundation
of the movement is stated to be that as GER
tain business interests are furnishing a food
staple to the urban population at cheaper
prices than they can afford to, they want
these people shut of, in order that they may
get better prices.
That position being taken it is to be asked
why the agricultural supporters of this
measure do not request the Legislature to
prohibit the sale of beef unless the cattle
are raised in the State? That would &C.
complish the purpose of securing high
prices for the farmers a good deal more
thoroughly than to let the cattle be brought
here from the far West and slaughtered at
the a~ltitudinous prices which accrue to the
benefit of the butchers. If the position of
shutting out cheap food from other States is
taken, it also seems that the farmers might
ask to nave -four. wheat, pork, lard and all
other agricultural supplies excluded, except
that which is grown upon the soil of Penn
~sylvania.
There are two very good reasons why such
requests will not be made. The first is
that the u~ndisguised proposition to make
food costly would be so repugnant to public
policy and the general conscience, that it
would have no chance of a hearing if pre-
scented in that form. The second is that any
law to exclude from one State the products
of another is contrary to the Constitution of
the United States. There is an evident i'm
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
THE FIGHT ON HOUSE RULES,

The fight over the rules of the House,
which has occupied the past few days and
was finally settled by sending the proposed
amendment back to the committee, has at
Uracted much attention; but its real bearing
has been widely misrepresented. How
much of this misrepresentation is due to the
fact that certain powerful and wealthy in
terests would be benefited by the proposed
change, and how much is due to pure mis-
apprehension, is doubtful; but the result is
just the same-that OF general misrepre-
sentatlon as to the real issue of the fight.
The change in the rules is widely stated
20 be one which was needed to expedite bus
iness. This does not tell the whole story.
1t was needed to expedite special business
taken up out of its turn. 1t simply was
framed to provide for measures which have
the power to force themselves ahead of other
business, doing so successfully without re-
gard to the rights of less powerful special
legislation, or the protests of the minority.
1t is well known that the purpose of the
amendment was to secure the passage of two
special measures in which a great deal of
wealth is involved. That fact alone should
place the public on the alert against a
change which such a legislator as Mr.. Ran
dali p%ronounces to be destructive of the
rights of the minority.
The House has a good way to amend the
rules so that all measures can be considered
fully and in their proper order. That is to
clear the calendar of private bills by send
ing them all to properly constituted COM
missions or courts. That is needed change;
but to escape from the present blockade of
business by changing the rules so as to facil-
itate the railroading of big jobs, would only
be making a bad matter worse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
JENNY O,BRIEN,

Oh, Jenny O'Brien, it's out here I'm sighin', while
yure in there spinnin' a gown an n song.
An the cOwld winds is screechin' and. be me
sowl. reachin' to grab at me heart. where the
cowld don't belongI
For you are a part of the heart in the breast of
swate waysI
An that's why 1 sigh for you; that's why I'd die
Be off out o. that, Mister Tim, if you PLACE!
swate Jenny O'Brien, you'll soon have me
~cryin'-cowld winds an cowld words is too
much at a time.
An thin you'll be sorry that you didn't borry
some tinderer words, upon which 1 could
climb
Right up to the place where yure May-mornin'
face would make a good Christian of any
wild Turk,
AM yure blue Irish eyes, dear-like gems in the
blue skies, dear
JENNY.
Away wild you, Tim, an lave me to me work!
Dear Jenny O'Brien, for you'll I'll be lynn as cowld
as the ghost of a ghost, pretty soon;
For, in spite of my pl'adin'. an the heart of me
bladin', you sit there a spinnin' yure gown
an yure chune!
Can't you tell be the tones of me, dear, how the
bones of me rattle and squ'rke wild the love
an the frost?
All! she knows 1 adore her--but the county's
before her
JENNY
Come in, Tim, an find what I'm sure 1 have lost.
oh, Jenny o'Brien, you've saved me from dyin'l
I'm as limp as a rag that's been hung out to
dryl
Swate Jenny O'Brien, wild you III be fyin' to the
priest in the morn, when the SUMS in the
sky!
yure arm round me neck-T'm that wake that
a peck from q iackdaw would sind, 'twixt a
lie an q wink,
Me poor sowl up above. But you lost somethin',
love?
EMMY.
Twas me heart, Jimmy dear, but I've found it
i think.
John Ernest NcCdnn in the Neto York Sun.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
aITTsBUBG, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1889
THE EXPOSITION SUBSCRIPTIONS,

There is considerable encouragement as
well as a verifcation of THE D~IsPATCH's
prediction in the statement that since pub
lie attention was called to the slowness Of
subscriptions to the Exposition, there has
been a marked increase in the contributions
to that project.
This is the result Of showing the public a
need for action. Pittsburg is conservative
ard almost old fogyish in some matters.
Our citizens have to be stirred up before
they fully appreciate the necessity for
action: but when they are once aroused the
money will be forthcoming. The necessity
exists here: and when cities with a quarter
of our capital and a 1.-THE of our natural
advantages have expanded their business
and increased their growth by successful
expositions, it is not possible that Pittsburg
will let the matter fail.
The Exposition must and will be built.
Private jealousies and individual close
ness may enhance the difficulty; but there
is enough money and public spirit in our
city to make that public project a success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE.
A Marvel of Progressive Prosperity-Advice
to the Reading Public.

A Marvel of Progressive Prosperity-Advice
TO the Reading Public.
From the Lancaster New Era.I
With all the pretensions OF the metropolitan
dailies, there is a modest newspaper published
in Pittsburg that can justly claim to be the
peer of any of them in all that constitutes a
real newspaper. Its liberal enterprise in gather
ing the freshest news reaches out in every d.
r~ection, and is comprehensive and complete.
1t is edited with marked ability and discrim-
mating judgment, and is fearless In the ex-
preston of its opinions on all public questions.
THE DISPATCH has been q marvel OF pro-
gressive prosperity. Many years ago, when an
old friend, j. Heron Foster, was one OF the
editors and publishers, on the occasion Oh our
first visit to the 'Iron City" we were much In
terested in what was going on in The DIS
PATCH pressroom. Mr.. Bullock was then ex-
perimenting with his first Webb Perfecting
press, and what he then proposed to accomplish,
and afterward did accomplish, struck the
average printer of that day as something In
credible. THE DISPATCH was then a success
in its way, but if its founders could to-day look
in on its complete duplicate plant, located IN
different buildings, and figure over the receipts
and expenditures, and the handsome annual re-
turns to its owners, they would be amazed at
the exhibit. Good as 1t has been in the past,
the publishers express the determination to
still improve upon themselves during the cur
rent year. Several specialties have been
regardless of cost, not the least of
which is a brilliant cable correspondence. Any
of our readers desiring a first-class journal
from Western Pennsylvania can make no mis-
take in subscribing for THE DISPATCH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09

preston that by concealing these objects
under the pretense of legitimate inspection
to prevent the sale of diseased meat, the OBJ
ject which cannot be gained by direction,
can be secured by indirection. This is not
true. 1t would be a great injustice for the
Legislature to forbid the sale of healthy
dressed beef because it was slaughtered in
Chicago or Nebraska; but it would be futile,
because the Legislature has not the power to
do such a thing.
With regard to the basis Of this move
ment-the alleged low prices of beef-it is
only Unnecessary to refer to any city marketer.
1t is notorious, that while all other staples
have declined, the price paid by the con-
sumner of beef and fresh meats is nearly as
high as it was Is years ago. Some things
there are which prevent the farmer from
getting full advantage of these high prices.
The State Grange would be justified in ask
ing legislation against the railway practice
which charges the Pennsylvania farmer as
much for taking his cattle to market as the
SnlCdSO supper; put W Try W Su' VII 'Ho
supply from the consumers in order to raise
the prices of the one staple that is to-day
higher in relation to general values than
any other general product, would exhibit a
remarkable lack, both of good sense and re-
spect for the rights of the public.
The Legislature should provide for such
inspection as will prevent the sale of dis
eased meats to consumers 1t should see that
the farmers of the State have equal chances
in getting their cattle to market; but to for
bid the sale of good meat because it iskilled
in another State would be not the less GRIM
inal because it is futile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
WONDERS OF THE SEA.

THE sea occupies three-ffths of the earth's
surface.
A MILE down the water has a pressure of a
ton to the spare inch.
IT has been proven that at the depth of $3.50
feet waves are not felt.
AT some places the force OF the sea dashing
upon the rocks on the shore is said to be II tons
to the square yard.
THE temperature is the same, varying only a
trifie from the ice of the pole to the burning
sun of the equator.
THE water is colder at the bottom than at
the surface. In the many bays on the coast of
Norway the water often freezes at the bottom
before it does above.
IF a box six feet deep were filed with sea
water, and the water allowed to evaporate in
the sun, there would be two inches of svlt left
at the bottom. Taking the average depth of
the ocean to be three miles, there would be q
layer of pure salt go feet thick on the
Atlantic.
WAVES are very deceptive; to look at them
in a storm one would think the whole water
travelled. The water stays in the same place,
but the motion goes on. Sometimes in storms
these waves are 40 feet high and travel so miles
an hour-more than twice as fast as the swift
est steamer. The distance from valley to val
ley is generally Is times the height; hence, a
wave five feet high will extend over rs feet of
water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
THE DENS.

The terrible stories that haye been rife,
for the past year or two, concerning the
treatment of women in the dens of the lum-
Der and ore regions of Wisconsin, have
been verified by the work of DIR. Kate Bush
nell. This lady who has been foremost in
the works of reform, undertook, at the in
stance of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, the investigation of that subject.
Tales of the horrors of those dives had al
ready been published and denied. The in
v~eStigation was made quietly, but Thoroughly,
and the results of it were given at a meeting
of the Union in Chicago the other day.
The previous allegations are not only fully
sustained, but they are enlarged upon by
the production OF facts which are calculated
to fill every American possessed of a spark
of manhood, with shame that such things
are possible in our land. DR.. Bushnell
found eight stockaded dens in the lumber
regions, in which women are kept prisoners.
They are forced to dress in costumes that
would mark them if they attempt to escape,
and those that do make that attempt are
dragged back. DR.. Bushnell produces evil
dence that the police at Green Bay forced
girls to go with the procuress for one ofthese
hells; and shows that the Speaker of the
Wisconsin House of Representatives, who
published a denial of the reports concerning
the liens in Marinette, was, at the time that
he made the denial, under pecuniary obi
cations to the principal owner of the dens
Of vice and murder.
The fact that such things are possible, and
that they ale SO e~ntrenched as to command
the support of public officials, is a terrible
indication of our decadence as a nation. If
the country cannot stop such horrible in
tamies, its boast of freedom and protection
for the weak is a terrible sham.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
A NEW NAY TO I
Senator Sherman Proposes Radical Changes
in the Election of congressman.

WASHINGTON. January S.-A bill was intro
duced by Mr.. Sherman to-day proposing m
Gus changes in the avs regulating the election
of Congressman, provides that, after May l,
1889, elections for representatives in Congress
Shall be conducted according to the provisions
of the bill, and the Legislatures of the States
may direct the election of Presidential electors
In the same manner, the expense of the election
in such cases to be paid out of the Federal
Treasury. The bill authorizes the President to
appoint, with the approval of the Senate, five
qualified voters in each State, to be known as
the Board of State Canvassers, and three
voters in each Congressional district to serve
as an electoral board, the appointees to hold
office during good behavior.
The Electoral Board of each Congressional
alstrlct shall appoint a registrar and three
Judges, not all of the same political party, for
each election district or precinct, to hold Of
nee for six years-subiect, however. to removal
for misconduct. The Electoral Board is given
power to increase the number OF the election
precincts whenever necessary to secure a free
and fair ballot. The judge or judges at any
precinct may appoint bystanders in place of
any Judge or judges who do not report for duty
within one hour after the opening of the polls,
and IN case none of the three judges report, the
election may be conducted by any three voters
OF the district who are willing to act.
The Electoral Board is also directed to ap-
point three commissioners of election for each
county or corresponding political division,
whose duty it shall be to meet three days after
the election and ascertain from the returns the
number of votes cast for each person at the
election. The same provision is made for filling
vacancies in the list of commissioners as is
made in the case of election judges. Provision
is made for a complete and correct registration
OF the voters, and the judges of election in
counting the votes are authorized to reject any
decided to have been fraUdulently voted. The
Board of Commissioner is given power to cor
rect irregularities in the returns of the judges
OF elections and heavy penalties are prescribed
Tor offenses against the election law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09

The declaration of the Supreme Court
that ''the classification of 1876, and more
especially that of 1887 is unnecessary and
therefore unwarranted, |" in addition to its
bearing on the municipal problem, conveys
an instructive lesson on the permanence of
Supreme Court rulings, in the fact that the
classification of 1876 was passed upon and
sustained by the Supreme Court eff Penn
sylvania after it had heard a very ex-
haustive argument from Judge Black
against il,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09
THE BATTLE OF THE FUTURE.
The Effects of the Elimination of Noise
From the Field.

Kali MAIL UdZeIIe.J
Lord Wolseley's picture of the Battle of the
Future in his review of Colonel Maurice's
article on war is remarkable chiefly because of
the confidence with which he relies upon the
elimination of noise: zone remarkable change
will be the absence of nearly all terrific noise
which the discharge of sou or 800 field guns
and the roar of musketry caused in all great
battles. We shall have practically no smoke
to mark the position of the enemy's batteries
and troops in action. The sound of cannon
will be slight, and will no longer indicate to
distant troops where their comrades are en-
gagged or the point upon which they should
consequently march," What with smokeless
powder and n~oiseless artillery all our old ideas
of battle will be revolutionized. But is it not
possible that now and then, at the proper
psychological moment, a commander who sud-
denly served out some of the genuine old roar
ing kind of powder might do more by the
sudden outbreak of the battle thunder to de-
moralize the enemy than by the unmasking of
a whole park of artillery?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-09

In view of the revival of that old-time
proposition about changing the Presidential
term to six years and making the President
ineligible for reelection, it is pertinent to
remark that four years is a long enough
term for a poor President and eight years is
none too long for one who is good enough to
get the people to ~re-elect him. Beyond that,
a six-year term would be worth fifty per
cent more as an object of bribery than a
f~our-years' term. We do not need to re-
form methods in our politics as much as
character.