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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-11-14

know-but for long time noticed that
in him. Then he was enlisted in New
York city, some four years ago, and all
his things were of English makc-what
he had"
sWhat manner Of looking fellow is
he." asked the doctor. II think would
have noted him had I seen him."
Eyes, you Englishmen are apt to look
to one another" said the colonel in re-
ply, sand Gwynne is particularly fine
specimen. He has your eyes and hair,
doctor, but hasn't had time to grow
grizzled and bulky yet. as you and l
have. One might say that you and the
sergeant were from the same shire"
s'That would help me very little, since
was only three years old when the gov
ernor emigrated," answered the doctor,
with quiet smile. 1--WE keep some
traces of the old sod, / suppose, but
I've been Yankee for forty years, and
have never once set eyes on Merrie Eng
land in all that time. Did the sergeant
say where he wanted to goT And the
questioner looked up sharply.
Nowhere in particular-down the
valley was all. remember. though,
that Mr.. Parke said he seemed much ex-
ercised over the name of that ranch down
the Monee-Pve forgotten what they call
it. Have you heard it, colonel"
Seems to me l have, but I've forgot
ten. You have, doctor, have you not.'
''Heard what. colonel"
"The name of that ranch down the
Monee-an English ranch, they tell me,
about seven miles away"
"Oh, yes!-that onel They call it Dun
raven Ranch.-Did the sergeant take any
of the hounds with him, captain? 1t oc-
ours to me he might have been running
4 L 4 \ - 4
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
REAL RELIGIOUS WORK.

The Salvation Army in England deserves
credit for showing that it does not consider
its religion to consist solely of "whooping it
up for the Lord" as it is generally credited
with doing. 1t is developing line of work
among the poor and vicious classes of Lon
don, in which it shows practical fullflment
of the gospel of feeding the poor and needy.
1t has established food and shelter depot
where the destitute have been fed and
lodged for more than year. 1t has also
given its attention to the reclamation of
fallen women, having five homes for that
purpose open in London, and seven in other
towns of Great Britain.
1t is in that department of charitable work
that the efforts of the Salvation Army will
afford strikingly interesting and important
test of Its value as charitable and religious
agent. There is hardly any question that
the ordinary social and religious machinery
for reclaiming women from vicious lives
and giving them useful and honest work, is
a failure. If the peculiar character of the
Salvation Army enables it to do better; if
it can redeem women of this class and find
them occupation in its work, as reformed
sinners, it will furnish the most convincing
reply to the many jeers at its grotesque
methods and utter violation of all convens
tionahties, which its career has heretofore
provoked. If it does that work, its value
andeven its eccentricities will be vindicated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
GOFFs DETERMINATION.

Having criticised General Gof, of West
Virginia, for his reported abandonment of
his claim on the Governorship of that State
in order to run after federal patronage, the
DISPATCH is glad to quote his declaration:
81 claim that have been elected Governor
of West Virginia and propose to continue
in my efforts to get possession of that Office. !"
That is the only course for General Goff tn
take, and it is we'll for him to stick to it.
He now represents, not any party, but the
right of the people to have their will re-
spected and the result of the elections de-
clared and carried into force. This coun-
try has never witnessed a more complete
denial of the basis of republican govern
ment, than the practical declaration that
party can be continued indefinitely in
power, by the refusal of the Legislature act
ing as returning board to count the vote
and the consequent retention of his Office by
the executive whose term has expired. West
Virginia partisanship is a rather more
demoralizing agent than even West Virginia
whisky.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
HANDsHAKING BY PROXY.

Undoubtedly this is the day of doing
things by proxy. We indulge in the heal
thy and exciting pastime of baseball by
proxy; we have given our aquatic exercises
to professional proxies; very large portion
of the nations prayers are said by proxy,
and.wherever you look you will find proxies
in the field. The delegation of our obliga-
tions to proxies is occasionally carried to
extremes. Mary Anderson is earning fame
as a magazine writer by proxy; several legis-
lators at Harrisburg have obtained unenvi-
able notoriety by voting on important ques-
tions by proxy, and year or two ago one
of the Standard Oil Company's shining
lights who had been convicted of conspiracy
ct Rochester, took his sentence by proxy,
his attorney paying the fine out of his own
pocket. In short the only thing that can
not apparently be accomplished is to live by
proxy.
At this very moment very proper oppor-
tunity for the extension of the proxy plan
exists at the White House. President Har-
rison has already been made to feel what a
painful duty his is to shake hands with
thousands of. citizens in day. The nation
is awake to the necessity of saving our
chief magistrate from death or disablement
by what may be termed applied palsy. It is
clear even to the most hostile Democrat that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
WHAT REAL ESTATE SIGNS SHOW.

A most convincing proof of the substan-
tial character of Pittsburg's growth is to be
found in the abounding activity of the real
estate market. Not until the present year
opened did the element of speculation enter
at all into this movement Manufacturers
bought sites because they wished to extend
their plants or to build new ones; merchants
bought stores because their business pressed
them out Of old quarters, just as growing
boys quickly outreach their clothes; people
bought or built dwellings because the mar
ket was bare of houses suitable to rent, or
for the reason that their means warranted
the securing of permanent homes. No sort
of growth could be more satisfactory than
this. 1t was direct, evident result of the
increase of population and business. Lately
there are signs of another demand ahead,
the speculative. The great enhancement of
values following the demand to meet exist
ing wants has turned attention to the
probabilities and possibilities of greater
growth. Capitalists are figuring out what
the Pittsburg of tomorrow is to be, where
its lines of development will run, and how
the real estate bought at prices of to-day is
likely to sell one, two or three years hence.
This is process which always follows, or is
coincident with, period of established pros
perity. When undertaken without reference
to facts and figures, as has been the case in
some Western towns, it is known as
"boom;" and such "booms" are sure to be
followed by reactions. In Pittsburg there
has been, in late years, no "boom," nor is
there likely to be any. There was one be-
fore '73 for suburban property, but the bot
tom fell out. of the prices then set up by en-
thusiastic buyers, and sharp lesson was
taught. The best proof that there has been
no ''boom" since, or mere speculative en-
hancement, is that there is probably not
piece of business property in Pittsburg
which would not find to-day purchasers
needing it for legitimate business, for more
than the price at which it last sold. Thus
though the tendency is to speculation, prices
are not yet affected by that spirit.
The truth is the real estate activity which
is attracting extraordinary attention has
thus far been, as stated, mainly but mere
necessary incident of Pittsburg's marvellous
growth. THE DISPATCH can only surmise
what the census reports next year will show,
but it judges that Pittsburg and Allegheny
will pass the 100000 mark, and not i'm
probably get nearer to the half million.
This would not be more surprising than the
fact, demonstrated from week to week, that
we now almost constantly lead Cincinnati
and Baltimore in the Clearing House re-
turns; and frequently come seventh on the
list of American cities, viz, Immediately
following st. Louis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
VERY DANGEROUS FRIENDS.

Everything with single exception seems
to point to a victory for home rule in Ire
land. We are informed that the singers in
the London music halls have attuned their
ditties and their jokes to the pro-home
rule sentiment. The topical allusions to
Gladstone and Parnell were but a few
months ago very abusive, now it is said they
are laudatory.
With the music hall brigade against
them Gladstone and Parnell have continued
steadily in their triumphant career; is it
not reasonable to suppose that the opposl-
tion Of the vulgar howlers and buffoons Of
London's variety stage was a real assist
ance to the cause of home rule? Under the
circumstances the Irish leaders will be well
advised to go out of their way to antagonize
the MacDermptts, the Jimmy Fawns, the
jolly Nashes and the rest of the music hall
prophets. The English people, however,
are evidently ready to change the tune OF
their Government.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
CAN THE souTH STAND TT

The panacea prescribed by Mr.. Flournoy,
of West Virginia, for the Southern politi-
cal system, which consists of disfranchislng
the Southern negroes, need not necessarily
make trouble with the North. To make the
right of suffrage dependent solely on a
matter of race or color would be a, step
backward to barbarism. 1t would only be
possible in communities which had worked
themselves into emotional insanity over
wholly imaginary race conflict But on
the understanding that the proposition is to
disqualify voters BY an educational qualif-
cation that would shut out the vast majori-
ty of the Southern negroes, the North need
find no objection to it.
OF course, the question would be open
to discussion whether it is better in the
presence of an uneducated class to try to
raise and educate it by liberal school appro-
priations, as the Northern States do, or to
punish its inferiority by disfranehising it, as
this specimen Of Southern chivalry pro-
poses to do. But as regards the respective
weight of the two sections in politics, the
proposition would be to the advantage
OF the North The disfrapchisement of the
100000 negroes in the South would, de-
crease the Southern representation in Con-
gress and the electoral colleges about thirty
votes; and if the South decides to lose that
representation in order to rid itself of an
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. EliznheIh Steel Mnree.

The numerous friends of Mrs. Elizabeth Steel
Magee will deeply regret to learn OF the death of
that venerable lady, which occurred yesterday at
the residence of her son, Mr.. G. l.. Magee, corner
Forbes and Halket streets, Fourteenth ward.
Widely known and appreciated for many quail
ties of distinguishing excellence Mrs. Magee had
been a resident of Pittsburg for almost 20 years.
Few, If any, persons living knew so much Of the
growth of Pittsburg from a mere village to its
present great population. In the course of this
long residence here Mrs. Magee was universally
esteemed. not only for the gentle traits of woman
hood, but for qualities of mind of an uncommon
order. Despite her advanced age all her faculties
were clear and strong to the last
Mrs. Magee was born at Barrov-ln-Furness
Lancashire England. March 8, 1914; left Liver
pool for the United States May 27 1919 and after
long voyage arrived at Philadelphia August 27;
the same year came to Pittsburg. Her elder
brother, John r. Steel, is the only direct member
of the Steel family now surviving. Deceased mar
ried Christopher L. Magee in 1916, and leaves sur
viving children F. M, G. L., Thomas S., w. A.
and Margaret Z. Magee. While all of these we're
yet young children her husband died, and the
responsibility of rearing them safely to mans
telligence and fidelity which found loving recon-
pense in the devotion of her family to her and
fOrded her constantly in her later days lays "'i al
Deceased was still an an astiye and energetic
seriously The last time she was out Of her room
was to take Thanksgiving dinner with her family.
Deceased was member of the Methodist Church
bands church, the Episcopalian. In the truest
sense of the word she was Christian woman, and
kndliness will cause her death to be deepy ara .rel
gretted by very many others besides the relatives
and immediate friends.
eral days anticipating the sad end, which came
about O'CLOCK yesterday afternoon: The funeral
will take place at the residence at 2 O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH,
PlTTsBURG, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 20, 1889.
AN UNFATHERED ACCUSATION.

The breeze raised in the House at Harris
burg yesterday over reported allegations of
financial irregularities in the management
of the Riverside Penitentiary appears, so far
as it can be followed out, to have whistled
through the desolate remains of q mares
nest
When definite allegations are made con-
cerning any public institution, investiga-
ton is in order. That principle called for
the Maharneke investigation; and the pub
icity and completeness of that inquiry was
undoubtedly salutary. But charges which
are made by no one and assume no definite
shape, are not worthy of notice. To catch
up some underground rumor for which no
responsible sponsor can be found and ele-
vate it into subject of dispute indicates a
morbid sensitiveness that fails to take coun-
sci of wisdom.
So far every one makes haste to disown
the paternity of the very inchoate charge
which Mr.. Dearden brought up yesterday.
When any one assumes the responsibility
for the charge it will be time to notice it.;
and no sooner.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
AN ORIGINAL SENATOR.

There is hope of an improvement in the
standard of Senatorial delicacy, in the re-
port that Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, has
asked to be excused from the position on
the Senate Committee on Railroads, to
which he was appointed by the Senatorial
caucus. As Senator Wolcott was cor
poration attorney before his election, and
was sent to the Senate by the aid of the
railroads, his action shows a much more
delicate sense of propriety than was enter
tanned by the caucus which assigned him to
that place. The caucus idea evidently was
that Senator should be put on the COM
mittee where he can be of the most use to
his private interests. But the discovery of
q corporation Senator who wishes to serve
only the whole country is an earnest of the
hope that we may some time reach that
millenial condition in which all Senators
shall think that way.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
LIKE A YOUNG INFANT.
Tho Peculiar Case Reported From a West
Virginin Community.

The Peculiar Cnse Reported From a West
Virginia Community.
WESTON, W. VA, March ia most pecul-
lar case is interesting the people Of the Holly
neighborhood in Webster County. Abraham
McMasters has long been a well known citizen
of that section. His family consisted of fiye
children-two girls and three boys-all in per-
feet health except the youngest. a boy, of
seventeen whose mind had been affected from
birth. He was what is in provincial sections
known as simple" With the greatest diff
Guilty he had been taught to read, and by years
of laborious application had learned what most
children of five years know. He was harmless,
good natured and industrious. Early last fall
the boy was sent to the MILL and not returning
at the expected hoDr, nor for some time later.
search was instituted, and the imbeeile was
found unconscious by the roadway. Blood
oozed from his nose and ears, and his head ap-
peared to have been struck by some blunt in
strument.
A cheap watch and some change the lad had
were gone, giving evidence that the boy had
been assaulted and robbed. He was taken
home and remained unconscious for two weeks.
At the end of that time the boy became as a
newborn child. His eyes rolled and he had no
control over his limbs, and was cared for just
as an infant. In time his teeth came out and
he is now cutting new set, Just as baby. He
first crawled, then began to walk. Speech
came gradually, as with all infants, though
much earlier if his age be measured from the
time of his injury. He is now able TO
tax about as 4-year-old does; his
far as can be learned he has no recollection of
his past life, and scenes he knew well then are
now unfamiliar to him. He treats his former
playmates as strangers, and plays with toys and
wooden horses as do the babies Of the neigh
borhood. Physicians say he will grow into an
intelligent, healthy man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
WHAT TREES TO PLANT.

Some seasonable Hints for the Guidnnce
of Amateur Landscape Gardeners-The
Effect of Evergreens In Benutifying
Spacious Grounds.
The almost entire neglect of evergreen trees
and shrubs in planting the grounds surround
ing the many beautiful homes that are being
built around Pittsburg, is becoming the sub
ject of remark by the most experienced gar
deners and other persons of refined tastes.
This neglect says W. L. Akers in q communi-
cation to THE DISPATCH, arises from the asso-
citation of evergreens with cemetery planting.
A friend speaking on this subject, remarked:
81 want the surroundings, of my home to be
bright and cheerful, and when look out at the
window do not wish to be reminded os the
home where the departed are laid to rest" In
answer to the objection, 1t is proper to remark
that evergreens do not belong exclusively TO
cemetery planting. They belong to the great
art of landscape gardening. and are used to
some extent in cemeteries and other pubic
grounds, as well as upon private estates. 1t
has been the misuse of these trees that mas
lent to our cemeteries a certain air OF melan-
choly. They have been planted in such a6und-
ance that when q few years have elapsed the
grounds have presented the appearance OF
forest Of evergreens. The present style OF I'M
proving cemeteries does not admit OF their
use In this indiscriminate way, but connnes all
planting to the drives and to other portions
held for ornamention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
WORSE THAN THE TRAMPs.

The persistent bent of some communities
toward barbarism is illustrated by report
which comes from an Indiana town OF the sue
cess of the citizensin capturing some tramps
and making them run the gauntlet. Run
ming the gauntlet is custom adopted from
the gentle North American savage, and in this
case it is reported that it did SO much credit
to its source that the blood trickled from
the victims.
An equal energy on the part of the citi-
zens could have captured the tramps and,
under the vagrancy laws, have put them to
work. Such work as making roads, build
ing sidewalks and cleaning streets would
have added to the general comfort and given
the vagrants something to do. But these
people could not rise to the height of re-
specting their own laws and reverted by
choice to the penalties of actual savagery
1t is only to be remarked that such pro-
ceeding put the tramps in the light of the
respectable and innocent victims of lawless-
ness
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
A PROPOSED NEW RULE
In the Senate Causes an Exceedingly Warm
Debate.

In the Senate Causes an Exceedingly Warm
Debate.
WASHINGTON, March l9-In the Senate to-
day Mr.. Sherman called up the proposed
amendment of the rule requiring resolutions
that call for information from executive de-
partments to be referred to the appropriate
committee. He said that the adoption of such
resolutions without in quiry sometimes involved
very large and unnecessary expense, and that
such change Of the rule was desirable. Mr..
voorhees, opposed the change of rule. He
understood that no assent to it had been given
on the Democratic side of the chamber. He
called attention to the fact that the Govern
ment was within few weeks of closing its first
hundred years of history, under the Constitu-
tion; and that during that century of national
life no such rule as that now proposed had ever
been found necessary.
He could see no object that ID was likely to
accomplish, except to stife investigation
and obstruct inquiry into the conduct of any
executive department. He submitted to the
Senator from Ohio and to all Senators on the
other side, whether they could afford, at the
threshold of new administration, to give no
tice to the world that investigation and in
quiry into proceedings of the departments
shall be less free and less untrammeled than
had been the case heretofore The admins
tration of the affairs of the Government was
now in new hands, and he wished to those
hands success and prosperity. He had no de-
sire to drag down or to destroy that admins
tration. But the majority of the Senate could
ill afford to let it 90 forth that it had put up
the bars to stop the pathways byIwhich wrong
doing conld be found out. The proposition,
when he first heard of it had startled him.
In the debate which followed Mr.. Sherman
sustained the measure, while Hoar Spooner
and others opposed it. 1t was finally referred
to the appropriate committee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-03-20
MISTAKES WILL OCCUR.
A Couple of Embarrassing Errors Made by
Congressional Clerks.

WAsHINGToN, March 19.-The clerks Of the
Committee on Appropriations of the two
Houses of Congress- having completed ii cir
statement of the appropriations made at the
last session, are now looking over the acts to
discover the errors of enrolment, some of
which are almost always found Several have
already been discovered in the acts of the Fiji
tieth Congress, two of them of quite an annoy
ing character to Representative Randall and
Senator Edmunds. The first is the omission of
an amendment reported by the House Commit
tee on Appropriations to Senate amendment
to the paragraph appropriating 1885,, 900 for fuel
lights and water for public buildings. The
House proposed to concur In the Senate
amendment, which was clearly clerical, with
the following amendment, viz:
(which sums shall be expended under con-
tracts to be made by the Secretary of the Treas
ury with the lowest and best bidder or bidders
therefor, after advertising once week for
four consecutive weeks for proposals"
That amendment was made by Chairman
Randall for the purpose of preventing the let
ting of these contracts by Chief Clerk You
mans of the Treasury Department, whose
methods were not thought to be economical by
Mr., Randall. The conference report was
agreed to on Saturday, so that all Of Sunday
was available by the enrolling clerks and COM
mittee to carefully enroll and compare the bill,
but that amendment escaped and Is not in the
law