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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
PRoMPTEEss IS NEEDED.

Progress was made toward getting the
House in shape to do business BY the an
nouncement of five committees yesterday.
The Chairmen of these committees are about
what was to be expected, Mckinley having
the Ways and Means, with Burrows and
Bayne next in order, and Cannon the Ap-
preparations Committee. Kelley, Powell
and Lind have the chairmanships of the
Committees on Manufactures, Election and
Mileage, of which onIv the second is of
political importance. This progress having
been made in the first week, it is to be hoped
that Congress may get in shape to do busi-
ness before long. There are a number of
pressing matters that should be disposed of
promptly this winter, and among them the
location of the Worlds Fair should be
settled before the holidays. This session is
a good one in which to eschew the legisla-
tive vice Of dawdling.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
THE FOUNDER OF A GREAT ORDER,
hon. Justus Fl. RathbOue, the Originator OF
the Knights Of PytEIas, Dead.

Hon. Justus Fl. RathbOne, the Originator OF
the Knights Of Pythias, Dead.
IsPEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
LIMA, December 9-Hon. Justus H. Rath-
bone, founder OF the order of the Knights Of
Pythias, died here at2l5 o'clock this afternoon
after three weeks Illness suffering from an
immense carbunele on his back. His two
daughters, Misses Lulie and Sara, were at his
bedside, and his sister, Mrs. ]. o. Pease, of
Germantown, Philadelphia. These were all
the relatives present. Several members
OF the local lodge, and Franklin
Ellis, Grand Chancellor of Ohio, were
in the room and witnessed the demise of the
noble founder of the order. He has been un-
conscious since yesterday and he passed away
peacefully without a struggle. His remains
we're Immediately taken charge of by the un-
dertakers, who embalmed the body and placed
il in an elegant casket.
This evening his remains were removed to
the lodge room of No. 81, where they will re-
main until tomorrow night, when they will be
taken to Utica, N. Y, for burial beside those
of his wife, who died some three years ago.
Hon. Howard Douglass of Cincinnati; John
G. Reeves, of Lancaster; Frank Sanborn, of
Toledo; John G. Burns, of Mansfield, all officers
and members of the Grand Lodge, have been
telegraphed and are expected to act as escort
with the addition of Grand Chancellor Ellis
who is already here.
An indianapolis dispatch states that General
Carnahan has ordered the draping of badges of
officers and members of the uniform rank for
90 days. He will take charge ofthe funeral ar
rangements.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
A DEAR PLACE TO DIE.
Paris, Municipality and EcclesiastIcally,
Exacts High Fees.


Paris, Municipality and EcclesiastIcally,
Exacfs High Fees.
From New York Stars Paris Letter.
Paris is generally considered an expensive
place olive in. 1t is certainly dear place to
die in. Yet 81, ,7S6 interments took place in the
year. Should a tourist have the misfortune to
die when in Paris his relatives will have to pay
heavily for it. The town draws over 5000, 900 a
year from funeral tax and obtains half mil
lion from cemetery charges.
The church also makes little pile out Of
funerals. Funerals in Paris are undertaken
by monopolistic company called the Pompes
Funebres The amount of mourning which
the dead receive is regulated by the amount Of
money which the relatives of the defunct are
prepared to spend.
There are nine classes Of funerals and the
church supplies nine classes of ceremonies. If
the deceased is buried under class No. the
church will be hung with Grape, there will be
an impressive funeral service. and a whole reg
iment of ready-made lachrymoSe mourners.
But irst-class funerals are luxuries. and only
q took place during the year. OF the 81. 786
funerals, as, l07 took place with Roman Cath
olic services; and although 1900 OF them were
in class nine, where the ceremony is short.
plain and cheap, the churches made S45O.0O0
out of them.
There were LOST Protestant funerals and $50
Jewish, and II, 1856 people, or q per cent, were
buried without any religious ceremony at all.
This represents the free-thought element.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
SPRECKELs STARTS,

Claus spreckels' big sugar refinery started
yesterday, and it is announced that the work
has already commenced for the duplication
of his plant. This will give a capacity
sufficient to supply forty per cent Of the con-
sumption of the United States; and promises
q blow more close to the vitals of the Sugar
Trust than any it has yet received from the
courts. 1t is beyond doubt that
Spreckels intends to fight the trust
at present: and even if he should come to
terms with the monopoly-whIeh he de-
clares that he will not do-that combination
will have to bear the burden of an immense
addition to its already idle capacity. The
new refinery carries with it the promise of
cheap sugar for the people, and tie proba-
bility of a demonstration that the trust de-
vice in the end, hurts the monopolists more
than anyone else.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
LEYBOURA WON'T WEAKEN.
He Yet Insists That He Was to Have
Bnnk Blessed By the Pope.

NEW YORK, December 9-In conjunction
with its denial by the Vatiean's Secretary of
State, Cardinal Rampella. there is published
here to-day reiteFation by Colonel Leybourn
of his chimerical universal banking scheme, to
have the benediction of the Pope. in addition
to SlO00O0,0OO capital Colonel Leybourn, in
this connection, says;
Inquiry on this point was not made at the
proper department of the Vatican. Cardinal
Rampolla is the Secretary of State. which is an
office that was great when the temporal power
Of the Pope was fully recognized. Now only a
Few countries recognize the Pope's temporal
power, ana the office is not great one Ram
pOlla Is DeSter known as the Minister of For
elgn Analrs, and as such he has nothing to do
With the granting of benedietions and knows
notnlng ABOUT what has been granted. Your
correspondent may be a very smart one, hut no
correspondent can find out what is going on in
the Vatican. Why, one department, and there
are seven or eight, does not know what is done
in any of the others.
What do l care what you print? Can that
alter facts? l tell you that Rampolla knows
nothing OF the granting of the benediction to
the Universal Association Bank. Cardinal
Lanrenzl is the man who obtained it from the
POPE, and his seal is upon it. Did forge that
sealY NO. Well, why don't you cable to
IaurenZl and ask him about it? He is the one.
Count Galatari, the editor of the Papal news
paper. knows all about 1t also. If you should
show me such dispatch from either of these
men might be startled, but from Rampolla--
never, because. of course. he knows nothing"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, TUESDAY. DEC. 10, lSSa
WILLIAM RIDDLES DEATH.

The death of William n. Riddle, as an
nounced by telegraph elsewhere, will pro-
duce universal feeling of sorrowful retro
spect among hundreds, if not thousands, OF
people who knew and admired the dead
man in his successful career, and who,
whether sufferers or .herely impartial
lookers-on, mourned the almost tragic dis
aster which overlook him ten years ago.
Hardly any recent life presents more re-
markable contrasts, or typifes more strongly
both the virtues and vices of American
character, than that which is thus closed.
Up to 1888 better example of the success
which can be won and the character which
can be self-made in this country could not
be presented than William Riddle. Start
ing as poor boy, at the foot of the ladder,
he fought his way by energy, taithfulness
and unconquerable courage to position of
high trust and ample fortune. His hber-
ality and good humor won him the widest
popularity, and even his eceentricities OF
habit and conversation endeared him to the
many friends to whom he In turn showed
his ready friendship.
But the equally prevalent error OF DRIFT
ing into speculation made him at once
victim and offender We believe his asser-
ton to have been truthful, that he went into
the speculations which wrecked the Penn
Bank, solely with the wild idea of recover
ing losses that had been made by loans on
oil security. But the fatal error of judg-
ment grew into the most reckless dissipation
of fother peoples money in order to recover
the lost ground. with the results of terrible
crash, broken fortune, and the ruin of pre-
viously unspotted career. The moral is so
obvious and so familiar that it need not be
repeated here. The mere repetition of the
facts is a sermon.
In this hour, we can afford to forget the
errors of the dead man and remember his
many and shining virtues, We can mourn
the man as we knew him at his best; and re-
member that even with all his faults and
failures in the balance, many a worse man
than William n. Riddle has died sur
rounded by the cloak of the highest respect
ability and success.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

AMELIA BLooMER rises to remark that she
didn't invent the "Bieomer" costume, and
hasn't worn it for 30 years.
Mr.. PARNELL is ill. He will not speak at
the meeting at Nottingham to-day. as was pre-
viously announced.
THE Czarewitch greatly enjoyed his visit to
Athens and the somewhat democratic life of
the royal family of Greece was a source of con-
slant astonishment and surprise to him, aecus-
toned as he is to the thraldom Of Russian
court etiquette. To see King George walk
about the streets of Athens unattended, or to
jump into a surface car when late for break
fast and in hurry to get home, was an extraor-
dinary novelty in his eyes.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is a man of small
size, smaller even than President Harrison. He
wears long. flowing hair, which is almost en-
tirely white white. He is, however, of a very
energetic temperament, and rarely sits per-
fectly still for a minute at time. Haturns
over the pages of a brief in hurry. whispers to
an associate, or sends page on an errand. He
is always active, even when his colleagues ap-
parently fall into doze under the spell of some
earnest but tedious barrister.
CONGRESSMAN GooDNIGHT, Of the Third
Kentucky district, enjoys the distinction of
looking very much like Postmaster General
Wanamaker. His face is smooth, has that Pc
culiar clear complexion. and his features are
not at all unlike those of the head Of the Post
office Department In another respect Mr..
Goodnight is very much like Mr.. Wanamaker.
The Kentucky member is very much interested
in Sabbath school work, and there is no gath
ering of this kind in his section of Kentucky
but he takes a prominent part in the pro-
ceedings.
SENATOR DAVID TURPIE, Of Indiana, is in
appearance typical Hoosier. Disdaining fine
apparel, the Senator wears an old-fashioned
roomy coat and a big broad-brlmmed stiff hat,
which sets well back upon his head. His vest
is partially unbuttoned, and he keeps up con-
slant chewing on comfortable quid of to-
bacco. Senator Turpie's face is strong one,
with big black eyes set very Deep looking out
from under overhanging brows. BE wears
short full beard, crisp and grizzly gray He is
credited By the other members of the party
with being great story-teller and very en-
tertaining conTersationalist
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10

economical in the nicotian tastes. Some
Of them consumed noxious Connecticut leaf,
while others even went to the extent of in
Producing the vulgar pipe. This last touch
was too strong for the fastidious company,
and it made haste to remove the smoking
compartments in time to save them from
that last stage of deflement typifed BY the
Pittsburg toby.
With no sympathy at all for the idea of
the persistent smokers that they cannot
divorce themselves from the weed long
enough to go from their work to their
homes, we must say that the standard set
by the Philadelphia cable president is
rather unique. 1t has much the same senti-
ment as the inquiry of Marie Antoinette
why the French population, which was
starving for lack Of bread, did not eat cake.
Doubtless the Philadelphia populace whose
pipes and cheap cigars are so obnoxious,
would gladly consent to smoke Havana
cigars if the cable line president insisted on
throwing them in with the five cent trans
portation. Or, it is safe to say that the vast
majority would gladly give bonds, if some
one will furnish them with the income of a
cable road proprietor, to smoke even better
cigars than his standard. But in smoking,
as we'll as sartorial matters, the law is
supreme which compels people to cut their
coat according to their cloth.
There is something millenial in the sug-
gestiOn by the corporation magnate of the
time when the whole people can smoke Per-
fecto cigars. But we fear that it is long
time distant. Until then there is certain
justice, as well as a lofty standard, in the
decision of the Philadelphia Cable Com
pany that smokers of pipes, tObies and
Havanas alike must enjoy their different
brands of nicotine elsewhere than on the
cable cars.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
PITFSBURG LEADS THEM ALL.
Her Gift to the Pan-American Delegates
the Finest in the Lot.

Her Gift to the Pan-Ameriean Delegates
the Finest In the Lot.
From the Washington Post.5
Every delegate to the Pan.American Congress
has trunk packed with the souvenirs of his
excursion about the United States. At least
every delegate could have a collection of that
size if he took as much pains to preserve his
collection as did Edmund W. p Smith, an at
tache of the Congress. who was one of the party
of tourists. The collection, when spread out
in museum style. constitutes an exhibit of no
mean order and testifying to the enterprise Of
American cities and American merchants when
a chance to advertise themselves presents it.
self
Two hundred dinner and lunch menus, fully
150 gifts from manufacturers and merchants,
and over two dozen presents from cities in the
form of books descriptive of the beauties of
the places, all elaborately illustrated. Pitts
burg leads the cities in the elabOrateness Of its
souvenir, Of the size of double cabinet pho
tograph album and bound in morocco, the 400
pages of the book are at least half taken up
with photographs of every point of inter-
est in Pittsburg. Another book of 500 pages
elaborates the business facilities Of that city,
each of the volumes being elegantly bound in
morocco.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
SOCIAL CHATTER.

THE concert for the benefit Of the Allegheny
General Hospital this evening will be very
enjoyable one. 1t win be held at the Fourth
U. P. Church, Allegheny.
In Curry Institute Hall, this evening, local
dramatic and musical talent will give a concert
for the Allegheny County Association of Union
ex-Prisoners of War.
J THE Waverly Euchre Club met at the resi-
dence of Mrs. H. s. Patterson, East End, last
evening and spent an enjoyable evening.
THE pupils Of Miss Anderson's school will
give parlor entertainment tonight at their
rooms, "a Urion avenue Allegheny.
THE Nun Of Kenmare," Miss Frances Clare
Cusaek, will lecture to crowded house In
Lafayette Hall this evening.
THE Lincoln Club held very pleasant Fecep-
tion at their club rooms ;n LaWrenceville last
evening".
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
A MARVELLOUS MEMORY,
Jefferson Davis Never Forgot Names OF
Faces of Men He Met.

Jefferson Davis Never Forgot Names or
Faces of Men He Met.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.l
Jefferson Davis had memory for faces and
names that has probably never been excelled
by that of any public man in the United States.
1t has been said of General Sherman that when
he meets man who was introduced to him 20
years previously, he will recall his name and
the circumstances of the introduction, and
will talk over the incidents Of their first meet
ing. Both Grant and Lee possessed to a great
degree the same faculty of remembrance, but
neither Sherman nor Grant nor Lee could do
what Mr.. Davis did At his Office in Richmond.
as President of the Southern Confederacy, and
in his visits to the front of the army, he
treasured up in his memory the names of
every officer and soldier with whom he came
into contact and he never forgot them.
While he was at his Beauvoir plantation last
winter there came 10 him worn-out and
broken-dOwn man who made O claim on his
charity as having been lieutenant in a certain
Mississippi regiment. Davis taxed his memory
for moment, and then told the applicant that
he was fraud, and that a man bearing an
entirely different name was the lieutenant of
the company which the mendicant had speci-
fed The beggar made quick exit from the
house, and was never seen around it again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
COMIC CULLINGs.

The Terror-No, paDa; 1 didn't know it; but
now that you've told me, feel better.-PhftadsL-
phfG Inquirer.
He's pretty tall man who stands six feet
in his socks even If the socks come up to his
shoulders. philadelphia Inquirer.
Balm to His Wounded Feelings.-Papa
(after the seance in the Eoodshed) )-Do you know
that it pains me more than 1t does you to have to
whip you?
"Look here" said the. farmer to the
tramp. "Let me jist give you pinter-'' ''But
don't want plnter,' replied the tourist. II
want quarter. ''Terrs HasEs Express.
Teaeher-What is a volcano?
Pup1-A cutaneous disease.
Teacher-HOw do you make that ont
Pupn-Isn't it an eruption g-Dstr0ft Free
Press.
Wanted No Such Risk.-Agent-Supp
you let me write policy on this building.
Owner-Why, it's AreprooE
Agent (retreating)-I didn't know that. Pardon
me. wouldn't take it.-Hslo York Sun.
Florence Cooking at some bonnets in the
milliner's WindOv)-o, Jen' aren't tbeY
lovely
Jennie docking across the street)-Yes, indeedI
Especially the one with the side whlskers.-LGls-
renee american.
A California Judge fined himself $50 for
getting drunk, and tErned over the money 70 &
baili with instructions that IL be recorded In the
usual way. This Is q rather heavy fine FOR =
drunk. but perhaps it was not the judges hrst
ofense. Chicago Herald.
Living on the Old Man.-MeFingle-
How are you, Smith? haven't seen you for .
long while. How's your son Jack2 Where's he
been keeping himself for the last year?
Smith (dolefully)-He HASN'T been keeping him
selfl I've been keeping him.-Rei0 Xork Sun.
Mrs. Youngbride-How does your break
fast suit you this morning, darling?
Mr.. Youngbride right. / tell you, Annie
it may be pIebeian but am awfully fond OF calf1s
liver
Mrs. Youngbride-So am l. Don't you think.
George, it would be real nice and economical "a
keep calf thsn We can have ealf's liver -
breakfast every morning, ,-Amsrica,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
BECAUSE INDUSTRIES THRIVE.
That il the Reason Leading FfnancIsra Ad
vance for Rosy Outlook.

That il the Reason Leading FfnancIsrn Ad-
vance for Rosy Outlook.
NEW YORK, December 9.-Henry W. Clews
4 Co.. in their weekly financial circular to-day,
furnish some very interesting pointers They
say: "From the general aspect and symptoms
of the market, we should judge that while there
is no disposition to start at present any active
movements yet there is steady laying
in of stocks in preparation for a future
campaign This, however, does not SO much
depend on the prospects of the new-year de-
mand for the reinvestment of earnings of CAPT.
tal-which has in late years been so much over
estimated as an influence that it has now
almost ceased to be considered-as 1t does upon
considerations of more solid and substantial
nature. As usual at the close of the year, the
course of business is likely to be that of dull
ness and neglect, perhaps favoring the "bears"
quite As much as the 'bulls," In spite of the en-
couraging general conditions.
'1Reports from all the leading branches of
industry show not only an unusually active
state of trade, but also healthy and satisfac-
tory state OF prices. The activity of current
business is shown by the tact that the clear
ings in all the clearing houses of the country,
for the month OF November show an increase
over a year ago Of close upon Is per cent"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
THE PRESIDENT AT CHICAGO.

Chicago yesterday gave an exhibition of
its impressive style Of doing things by al
most mobbing the President and his famil
in the endeavor to prove how welcome they
were to that city. Always bustling and
hustling, Chicago is at this time specially
efusive to every public man, in the hope of
extracting some Quotable opinion favoring
that town for the Worlds Fair; so that if, in
the Presidents progress yesterday from the
railroad station to the carriages for his party
there was such rushing" and 'ftackling"
as would have done no discredit to the late
Princeton-Yale football match, it is sup
posed to be all taken in kindness, and as a
mere spontaneous outburst of the patriotic
solicitude which Chicago now feels for every
distinguished public man who can help along
the Worlds Fair cause.
OF course the energy and earnestness of
the great mercantile city by the lakes are
undisputed. From now on, until Congress
awards the golden apple of discord, each of
the competing cities will be prone to make
the most imposing display of those charac-
ueristics which each for itself conceives to be
powerfully attractive. New York is ding
donging away upon its list of millionaires.
its cosmopOlitanism, and its general bigness
just as arduously as Chicago is displaying
its unbounded energy in its own wild, West
err way.
Meanwhile, Washington is very quiet.
Yet the conviction is slowly but clearly
enlarging that the placid and beautiful city
on the Potomac, which is the nations capi-
tai, is growing in interest for the public;
and that Congressman will not be the less
susceptible to its claims for holding their
Worlds Fair deliberations in the midst of
its attractions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
A HIGH STANDARD FOR SMOKERS.

The removal of the smoking cars from one
of the Philadelphia cable lines, recently,
appears to have taken place for novel and
fastidious reason. Inquiry of the president
of the line revealed the fact that it was be-
cause the smokers are not sufficiently high
toned. eff they would all smoke as good
cigars as this" said that official, referring
to the Perfecto which be was smoking at the
time, "there would be no objection to the
smoking compartments. But the travellers
By the line were, many Of them. obztinstes
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-10
Arrested by His sweetheart. Auur.

A small middle-aged woman created tremen-
dous excitement in the busiest part of Myrtle
avenue Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon by col
laring young man in his Sunday clothes and
screaming: Now Pge got you, you young
rascal Pm going to take you to the station.n
The young man tried to break away from her,
but the small woman held on to him and
marched him to Myrtle avenue, toward the
Adams street police station. A large crowd
quickly gathered and followed the young man
and his fair captor. Several men in the crowd
offered to help her. but she declined their as
sistance. Il can take care of him myself" she
said. as she tossed her head and gave her
prisoner another yank. As she delivered the
young man mp at the station house she ex-
planned that he was Thomas H. Barnard, ex-
Mayor Graee's clerk; that he had broken his
promise to marry her niece, Miss Beatrice
Emery, and thai for two weeks he had been
lodging warrant, sworn out on charge of
breach of promise. Barnard was searched and
a loaded revolver was found in his pocket. He
was locked up. To-day he was arraigned before
Justice Walsh, who fined him S5 for carrying
concealed weapons, and held him for examina-
tion next Friday on the other charge.