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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
BETTER TIMES AHEAD.
Railroad Securities Advancing and the Coal
and Iron Trades Improving.

Railroad Securities Advancing and the Coal
and Iron Trades Improving.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
NEW YORK, May 26.-Henry Clews & Co. will
say tomorrow: The stock market developed a
very encouraging degree of buoyancy and ac-
tivity during the past week. As already ex-
planned in our previous advices, the real basis
of this movement is abundant money. favora-
BILE crop prospects and improvement in the
railroad situation. Whatever change occurred
in these conditions was in the direction of i'm
provement; the sentiment toward a higher
market thus receiving renewed stimulus. The
recent corner in Oregon and Transcontinental
had the effect OF frightening shorts in other
shares and causing general movement to
cover, which materially promoted the advance.
AS is usual also in genuine bull mar
news of more or less merit. Probably the most
important rumors were those affecting the
Grangers, particularly st. Paul and Northwest.
For some time past efforts have been in pro-
gress in Vanderbilt Morgan quarters to bring
these two systems into closer and more har-
monious relations, the Vanderbilt influence in
Northwest being already well understood. 1t
was further intimated that representative of
the Vanderbilt-Morga interests would soon
enter the St. Paul directory, and is expected to
shortly make favorable report upon the same.
Northwest advanced partly in sympathy with
st. Paul and partly on account of favorable
earnings would show good increase.
Next to the Grangers the coal shares fol-
lowed in the degree of strength. the rise in
these being stimulated by efforts to advance
the price of coal. One feature, however which
helped the coalers was an improvement in the
condition of the iron trade. During the last
two weeks the demand for pig iron has been
larger than at any time this year. Stimulated
by low prices, the inquiry for steel rails has
also actively increased, and within recent dates
Eastern mills have received orders for over
IS, 900 tons from Southern and Southwestern
roads, AS other branches of the iron trade are
also getting into more satisfactory shape, the
outlook for this important industry Is GER
taInly more encouraging, which doubtless war
rants the confidence displayed in the coal
stocks. Another encouraging feature was the
fact that 81 500 900 worth of staple cotton goods
were recently sold at auction at concession of
only N per cent from regular prices. Such
facts as these show the satisfactory condition
of trade in general and if profits small it is
sufficient compensation to know the volume of
trade is large and the number of failures and
embarrassments exceptionally few.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
A NEW PREROGATIYE.

Senators Cullen and Farwell, of Illinois,
are the latest to set up claim of Senatorial
prerogatiVe, for which no warrant can be
found in the Constitution of the United
States. After the development of decided
difference with the President upon the i'm
portant federal appointments in their State,
they have, in writing, announced their in
tentiOn to make a stand for that prerogative
of making the appointments in their State,
and of overriding the preferences Of the
President.
In this claim the Illinois Senators come
in conflict, not only with the President, but
with a certain instrument known as the
Constitution of the United States. The
only prerogatiye recognized by that instru-
ment is that of the President to nominate,
and of the Senate to confirm or reject, the
appointment of Federal officers. Therefore,
for the Senators to definitely claim prerog-
atiVe of nomination, is to assert that the
country is governed by a fundamental law
other than that set forth in the Constitution.
1t has been supposed that the Government
of this country was one in which pre-
rogatiye was rigjdly limited 10 the grants of
the written fundamental law But Senators
Cullom and Farwell not only claim the pre-
rogative of nomination, but also imply the
prerogative of revising and amending the
Constitution to suit their individual wants.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
PENNSYLVANIA PRODUCTS.

SAMUEL CROMWELL, of Fayetee Springs,
claims to be lineal descendant Of Oliver Crom-
well. He was born in County Armagh, Ireland.
EDWARD MORROW. of Bradford vicinity,
while blowing last fall lost a S26 wad of green
backs, which his son plowed up few days since
as good as ever.
A BETHLEHEM dealer displays in his window
a pair of Nile green Oxford shoes. decked with
gems. which a belle of the town is to wear at a
Knights Templar ball.
A RUSTIC chair bought by Messrs. Shelves, Of
York, was made of green sassafras wood, and a
few warm days have caused tito put forth many
sprouts, some an inch long.
TERESA SHUMBAURGH, a widow. has had
boarder named John Smith held to bail by
Squire Miller. of Shamokin. for having threat
ened to bewitch her and cause her to follow
him.
INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR WILSON
asked for birch beer. on the grand stand, at
late ball game in Erie. and the attendant gave
him lager beer instead. The act cost the pro-
prietor of the stand s47.
JOHN SHANNON. of Reading has a baseball
dog that money can't buy. As catcher he Is
great, taking any and all chances; can't be beat
as short stop or in the field. taking them right
off the bat, and never gets ratified.
AFTER the battle of Gettysburg member of
the Corn Exchange Regiment Of Philadelphia,
which was in pursuit of Lees column, captured
three miles south of Round Top goose owned
by an old lady, who gave it up reluctantly. A
few days ago the captor and others of the Apol-
linaris Club, Of Philadelphia, visited the old
lady and gave her live goose, painted red,
white and blue,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

Mr.. d. l. MOODY has returned to Northtleld,
Mass for the summer
SENATOR FRYE is fishing at Rangeley Lake.
He goes there every summer.
SIR CHARLES RUssELL's wife was formerly
Miss Mulholland, IF Belfast, sister of Miss
Rosa Mulholland, author of that charming
book "a Fair Emigrant"
PRIVATE DALZELL announces that his name
will be presented to the coming Ohio Repub-
lican State Convention as q candidate for the
office of Lieutenant Governor.
THE new Professor of Pathology at the
venerable University of Bologna is Signorina
Giuseppina Cattani, an uncommonlY pretty
young lady of profound scholarship.
IT is said that ex-Congressman HoydS. Bryce
is to succeed the late Allen Thorndike Rice as
editor of the North american RevieW. Ac-
cording to report this choice is in line with the
expressed wish of Mr.. Rice.
NINA KIRBY SMITH, the young daughter OF
the ex-Confederate General Kirby Smith, has
eloped with q Suwanee University Tenn,
student named Buck and was married to him at
Winchester. Tenn. The young lady was to
have been married Tuesday to an Atlanta mer-
chant named Boylston. General Smith is Pro-
fessor Of Mathematics at the Suwanee Uni
versity.
THE Countess de la Tore, who used to make
herself somewhat obnoxious with her tribe of
cats in Kensington, is now sojourning at a
small inn at Gerard's Cross with flock of
goats. The noble lady, clad positively after
the fashion Of a herdswoman. in a full cotton
skirt and blouse bodice, roams the country with
her four-footed friends-sometimes 1t is said,
even sleeping among them at night, in truly
pastoral fashion. She has not deserted her
penchant for cats. of which she still keeps a
large number.
GEORGE Balm, of st. Louis, whom Missouri
Republicans wish to have appointed to the
Glasgow Consulship, is a typical Missouri
Colonel. He is of portly stature and rolls
when he walks. He has big shaggy brown
mustache and a deep resonant voice. he
usually wears tweed suit with bobtail coat,
and silk hat tilted back on his head. Mr..
Balm is -four merchant. of moderate means.
Some years ago he was one Of the wealthy men
of St Louis. He always speaks of his days of
prosperity as "the time when was gentle
man."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
QUE MAIL POUCH.
The sargoasa Sea.

AHO GAH8OAoa 6ehs
To the Editor Of The Dispatch;
What is meant by the Sargossa Sea, and
where is itf x,
ALLEGHENY, May 25
1.-THE name Sargossa Sea is applied to re.
gion of the Atlantic covered by a peculiar
floating sea weed, sometimes in tangled masses
of wide extent and sometimes only in scattered
plants, These fields of sea weed were noticed by
Columbus on his first voyage, to the alarm and
amazement Of his companions. Since that
time observation has shown that the number
of these plants and their geographical position
are practically unchanged The principal hank
of these plants, as located by Captain Leps, of
the French navy, one of the most accurate of
observers, is between latitude 21e and 22p
north and longitude 2a0 and .45o west A
smaller bank lies between the Bahamas and
the bermqdas, The sargossa Sea corresponds
to the great center of the North Atlantic sys-
TEN OF currents of which the gulf stream
forms 50 important q part. Concerning the
plant which is found growing in this curious
manner, 1t may be noted that it is usually four
or hye inches In length, with a main stem
trace Of root in the plant Between the long,
pointed leaves there are small round air YES
sells; about as large as ourrants, supported on
short stems, These air vessels were at first
thought to be fruits, and the plant thus re-
ceived its name from Portuguese word mean
ing grapes, but investigation has shown that
these small bubbles are meant to serve the pur-
pose Of floats, as when they are cut off the
plant sinks Examination of several thousand
specimens under microscope shows the plant
to be as absolutely destitute of qualification
as of roots, and it ia now accepted as fact
that the plant propagates only by division.
There is a Sargossa Sea in the Pacific Ocean.
north OF the sandwich Islands, but very little
is known about it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
CRANKY WHEN A BOY.

A Minister Who Knew Schweinfurth In
Youth Gives His Opinion.
BROOKLYN, May 26.-Dr. Stevens Pardipg-
ton, of the Central Methodist Church, on South
Fifth street, is well acquainted with Rev. G. j.
Schweinfurth, the pretended messiah" of
Illinois. DR.. Pardington in 1878 was associated
with DR.. Ninde in deciding whether the
Messiah" should continue on TRIAL in the
Methodist mission work in the Saginaw dis
trict of Michigan.
''SchweInfurth knew very WELL" said DR..
Pardington when asked his opinion of the
man. u picked him up in jackson county.
Mich. He was only country boy, ana was
pastor in that section. At that time he
was attending school, and 1 took him
into my family and treated him
as member because I saw a good
deal of brightness in him and a prophecy of a
useful life. He was always of visionary ma
ture and regarded himself as above everyone
else. He considered himself too much of ma
ture's nobleman to do any work. After he had
get little more independent and wanted to
borrow some money Then broke with him.
He came in contact with three or four women,
whom / would call 'perfectionists,' and they
carried him away completely. He had
strange mental makeup and was ambitious to
know something.
Although a consistent young man he was
mentally unbalanced. There was a strange
feature of religious life about him. l must say,
and made many efforts to have him abandon
his notion but nothing could be done with him.
Though good student he was born to be above
the ordinary class of men,"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
WOMAN AND HOME.

WITHOUT hearts there is no home.-Byron.
HOW much the wife is dearer than the bridal.
-LyttLeton.
WE can have many wives, but only one
mother.-Abd-eLKader.
BE ever gentle with the children God has
given you.-EIthu Burritt.
IT destroys ones nerves to be amiable every
day to the same human nbeing.-BedconSfeEd.
A WISE man in his house should find wife
gentle and courteous, or no wife at all.-Eta-
4fptdeS.
WOMEN must have their wills while they
live, because they make none when they die.--
Douglas Jerrold
NOTHING fatters man so much as the hap
piness of his wife; he is always proud Of him
self as the source of it.-Johnson.
A CURTAIN lecture is worth all the sermons
in the world for teaching the virtue of patience
and long suffering. - Washington IrUtng.
DON'T be afraid Of wild boys and girls; they
often grow up to be the very best men and
women. Wildness is not viciousness.
Spencer.
IN family government let this always be re-
membered, that no reproof or denunciation is
so,potent as the silent influence Of q good ex-
ample.-Hose1 BattoS.
The early months of marriage often are
times OF critical tumult-whether that OF
shrimp pool or of deep waters-which after
ward subsidies into cheerful peace.-Georgs
Eliot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
A RULE FOR RICHES.

The argument by which Colonel Elliott
F. Shepard demonstrated to the Presby-
terian Assembly the value of charitable
gifts, has familiar reminiscence of the in
struction of our youth; yet we have not seen
the idea put quite so strikingly for a
long time. ''I know a man" says the emi-
nently good Colonel, "who always gives one
tenth of his income to religious purposes;
and he is so prosperous that sometimes
his gifts have amounted to $4,000 year. /"
1t is not quite plain whether the pious
journalist advances this as demonstration
of the one sure and true way to get rich,
or whether it simply stands to him, as the
most positive proof of the good results of
charity. But the idea shines out very
plainly that the wealth of the man who
gave tenth of his profits to religion is
the most convincing demonstration that
he did right. The corollary of the propo-
sition is that if man should make wealth
by passing off bogus values, or successful
gambling in staple articles or by getting up
q monopoly to squeeze the public, his fnan-
cial success would prove his course to be
right
But there seems to be failure on the Col
onel's part to make the full application Of
his theory for the attainment of fortune. If
a man attains the prosperity measured by
an income as high as $4,000 a year, BY
giving 10 per cent of it to religious objects,
ought he not to get twice as much prosperi-
ty by the devotion of 20 per cent to charity?
A still greater worldly success would on the
same principle be secured by giving 80 per
cent away. The most unbounded wealth
ought therefore to be attained by giving
away 100 per cent of the income; but Colonel
Shepard and his connections do not carry
the principle TO that length.
That is exactly where they differ from a
certain great teacher whom they profess to
follow, and who told rich young man:
''Sell all thy goods and give unto the poor.'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27

brings up the average so that out of S31
food samples analyzed, 219, or over one.
quarter, were found to contain adulteration.
In spices the amoupt of adulteration is par,
tieularly imposing, Ill out of 1914 samples
being adnlterated.
The character of some of this adultera-
tion is calculated to make the purchaser
open his eyes. In buying coffee the con-
sumer has 25 chances out of So that he will
be kindly given chickory, roasted corn,
roasted beans and burned sugar. In cream
of tartar he may have thrown in chlorate Of
potash, phosphate of lime, phosphate of
iron, and q number of other gratuitous sub
stances. In the purchase of mustard alone
he has 81 chances out of "a that he will get
-four, turneriee and a largs number Of
other equally remarkable articles. In
short while the official table does not sus-
tain the impression widely current, that it
is impossible, or nearly SO, for the consumer
to obtain strictly pure articles of food, 1t
certainly does show that the chances which
he has efobtaining large number of things
which he did not bargain for furnishes q
material addition to the uncertainties of Or
dinary life.
There have been assertions that the whole
sale and retail grocers' associations which
have been recently formed were going to
put down adulterations. There certainly
seems to be wide field for their operations;
but it also appears that if they are going to
discourage the practice 1t is time to hear of
some examples being made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, MONDAY. MAY q. lssa.
JURY BOX ECCENTRICITIEs,

The jury in the Carter murder case, dis.
tinguished itself yesterday, by coming in
and asking for instruction from the court,
the desired information being the penalties
following the different degrees which they
might render in their verdict. OF course
the Judge promptly informed them that
they had no business to bother their alleged
brains about the penalties, but were only to
determine the facts.
Beyond the rather singular need for in
formation as to what the penalties are for
the different degrees of murder the practical
avowal that the verdict depends not on the
evidence but on the result, is sharply in
conflict with the theories of the Law. Yet
it is not more so than Yerdicts of compar-
atiVely common occurrence. Coppro-
mise yerdicts nearly always imply
this violation of the theory of jury
functions, and yet there are numerous cases
in which men have been convicted of muir
der in the second degree on evidence which
left no doubt that they either were entirely
innocent or had committed deliberate muir
der. A less serious form of the same weak
ness is actually sanctioned by the Law which
permits the jury to compromise with itself
in certain cases, by putting costs upon a
defendant whom they declare to have done
nN wrong and thus impose slight penalty
on him fer his innocence.
But are not such practical declarations
that juries are unable to discharge their
sworn duty of determining cases solely by
the facts as shown in the evidence a toler-
ably strong proof that some reform in the
jury system is required?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
HARD ON CIVILIZATION.

1t is rather severe commentary on the
professed work of English civilization in
India, to find the HindOos decidedly alarmed
over the spread of the English vice of drink
ing among the natives. The Hindoos have
in past ages been distinguished by their
sobriety and abstemiousness; but memorial
has lately been presented to the British
V5ceroy which tells how their ancient
character has been undermined by associa-
tion with the English and the drinking of
their wines, and urgently asks for vigorous
legislation against them. The pride with
which English optimists have pointed to
their work in Outstanding India will re-
ceive terrible shock from this memorial.
1t looks as if association with the Anglo
Saxon has demoralized the Hindoos as much
as it has our own Indians-although the i'm
mense numbers of the Asiatics renders it
impossible to exterminate them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
LEGIsLATIYE InInGY-

A decision of the Supreme Court of In
diana calls attention to another remarkable
alteration of legislative power. The Legis
lature of Indiana enacted law prohibiting
the piping of natural gas from the wells in
the State to points outside of it, which dis
closes an idea entertained by the Legislators
that they can prohibit the commerce of tax
ing one of the products Of their State to
another State. This is sort Of natural
complement to the idea which has taken
wider scope that the Legislature of State
can prevent the bringing of the products of
other States into its own territory. The
Indiana court very properly set aside the
law as unconstitutional; and we may conf
IDENTIFY expect that all laws of this sort will
receive the same tate when they come be-
fore the inspection of the courts But the
existence of such statutes, which can, with
equal sense and justice, be applied to pre-
vent traffic in coal, iron, lumber, or any
other commodity between the States, is
discouraging commentary on the intelli-
gence of State legislation and on the COM
prehension which exists among those who
should be better instructed, of the funda-
mental laws, which make this single and
homogeneous nation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
Civil Service Pensioners.

Few people know that there is a pension roll
in the civil service. But there is one, estab-
.lished not by virtue OF law, but by custom.
Several employees of the public departments
here, who have grown old, gray and almost use
draw salaries regularly without being asked to
attend to any duties. 1t is surprising how old
men grow in the public service. Life in the de-
partments seems to be conducive to longevity
had the curiosity the other day to make an in
vestigation into the number of old men en-
ployed in the Treasury Department. alone
found that there are borne on the rolls at the
years of age. The oldest of these is Hiram
Pitts, of the Fifth Auditors office, who was
born in lSU2. Next to him comes George W.
Fales, Of the First Auditor, Auditors office,
who works in the same Office, Nwas
born in 1907 Isaac Lynch, of the
First Controllers office was born in 1911, and
age. Richard White, of the Sixth AUDITORS
Office, and Richard G. Dove and Thomas II.
Ellis, of the Secretary's Office, were born in 1874
Alfred Thomas of the Second Controller's
office, was born in 1916. d. c. Pinkerton, of the
First Controllers office. in 1917, and D. "
Bennett, of the Secretary's office, in 1919
There is a man so years of age now working in
vice of the Government since 1929 His name
is James Eveleth. He began working at a
salary of $500 a year. which was seven years
later increased to 81, 900. In 1850 he was given
81 $50 year, from 1851 to 1858 ST. 500 and in the
year following that he was promoted to a
salary of s., 900 year. In 1854 he was riyen
81 1900, and in 1885, as he had lost through ace
salary of $1,000 a year, which he is now
drawing,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-27
TIE LoTTERY OF Foon Rrvrrc

A very interesting investigation into the
sdulteration of food staples has recently
been made by the department Of inland
revenue in Canada. The results of the in
vestigation are set forth in a table, which,
while not disclosing anything more than
was generally suspected with regard to the
general nature of adulteration, is important
as furnishing official information as to the
extent and proportion of the evil.
Indeed, with regard to the extent of
adulteration in some articles, the showing of
official figures is happily disappointing.
The fact that out of SO samples of butter
analyzed, only Is were adulterated, indl-
Gates either that the general opinion with
regard to the adulteration of butter is
exaggerated, or that the Canadian officials
were extremely fortunate in the selec-
tion of their samples. With regard to
cheese the discovery Of adulteration in only
three samples out Of p, is an equally pleas
ant disappointment. But less satisfactory
results are reached on cream tartar, coffee,
drugs, spices and Liquors; and the result