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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
COMMENTS on THE FAIR.

ATLANTA Constitution: Tom Platt should
be made director general of the Worlds Fair
at Chicago He did it with his little battle-ax.
A KENTUCKY paper leads an editorial: mo
Politics in It." referring to the choice of Chi
cago. This proves it again. When Kentuckian
asks for it and wants it he generally likes it
straight.
BosroN Herald: Chicago is just bowling
itself hoarse with delight about the fair. Per-
haps by and by it will be bowling the other way
about the cost. Chicago dances, and must pay
the piper.
Providence Journal: There Is growing
suspicion that. the Government will sanction
no Worlds Fair for 1892. and there is another
growing sentiment that if it does it will choose
Washington for its site.
Boston Herald: The tidlngs come from Chi
cago that her citizens are intoxicated with sue
cess. So long as they don't take anything else
with this beverage the country is safe. 1t is
mixed drinks that are an abomination.
WASHINGTON Post: Congressman Pendle-
ton voted for Chicago, but Chicago did not vote
for Congressman Pendleton. Citizen Pendleton
is now engaged in rejecting on the Windy
City's defects in the matter of reciprocity.
ST. LOUIS Globe Dispatch: A great many OF
the Missouri papers are trying to make 1t ap-
pear that Chairman Jones, of the st. Louis
Committee is the cause of the failure of St.
Louis to secure the fair. This is mistake.
Jones is at present the champion ass of the
United States, but st. Louis would not have
secured the fair, even If it had placed a man Of
brains at the head of its committee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
CHICAGo'S DUTY.

The effort of Chicago to secure an appro-
priation from Congress, in aid 1.-THE Worlds
Fair, outside of the necessary expenditure
on the Government exhibit Will, if per-
sisted in, amount to an act OF bad faith.
Such an immediate violation of the pledges
on which the Fair was located would 60 far
toward imperiling the entire enterprise.
The understanding was clear that if tine Ialr
was located at either of the commercial
cities, the money necessary to provide
against loss would be raised by the city
gaining the location. The fair was given to
Chicago on the. allegation that it had raised
an ample guarantee funG while New York
was squabbling over it. To turn around
now and ask the Government for aid is
either an admission of false representations
concerning that fund, or repudiation of
the pledges. The country should help the
success of the isir by fine exhibits; but the
Chicago people must understand that their
agreement to furnish the funds is one that
cannot be shirked or lodged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
FIFTY MILLIONS nF WATER.

The announcement that a number Of
Newark, n. j., manufacturers are organ
izing a S5O,OO0,O 600 exporting trust looks
like an effort of the Imagination, as ap-
piled to commercial matters. To any
one with knowledge of the subject, it is
evident that the trust tactics are wholly in
applicable to the business of exporting
manufactured products of the United States
to foreign markets. No means are within
the reach of any organization for taking ex-
elusive control of the business either of
finding markets or of shipping manufac-
lures. Any one with money enough to go
abroad or send agents can hunt the markets.
Any manufacturer, whether of glassware,
rails, plows or sheetings can ship them to
the markets that will take them.
Indeed it is announced with regard to
this alleged trust "that it is limited to no
monopolistic concern As the sole pur-
pose of the trust device in active business
is to maintain monopoly, it must be con-
cluded that its $50, 100000 capital, has
reference to the other end of the later trust
business which consists in feeding out paper
TO bite greedily at anything bearing the
name OF trust. That one concern can use
$50, 900, 900 more advantageously in carry
ing on exporting than hundred concerns
can use half million apiece is all nom
sense. That S5O,OOO,OO of bona fde cap
ital is likely to be put into this concern is
equally gauzy. But that stock, purporting
to represent such a capital. will be sold to
those who are so foolish as to want them is
shown by the inanciering exploits of the
age, to he more than likely.
Nevertheless even that aspect of the
scheme is considerably behind the times.
The game of floating water on the name of
trust was seen through a year ago; and if
Newark really thinks of floating its S5O,-
00C 900 scheme, it can save valuable paper
and the wear and tear of its printing presses,
by abandoning the gigantic delusion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
OUR MAIL POUCH.

10 the Editor OF The D1Spatch:
1t is very strange that there is so much mis-
apprehension about late decision of the Su-
preme Court upon what is known in law as "a
separate use trust estate" Surely this de-
cision could not have been a surprise to any
wel-read lawyer. Such estates have existed in
Pennsylvania since it has been Common
wealth. A separate use trust is created by
deed or will, and is designed for the protection
of the wife during coverature. 1t would be
very strange indeed if a father could not in his
will, protect his married daughter from a
spendthrift husband.
Chief Justice Parson in late case says: ''It
is true the married women's act of lSiS, as it is
legal control of her own estate. But every one
knows that it is not difficult thing for hus
band to swindle his wife out of her separate
estate by his Establishments, or force
it from her by his brutality. 1t is
done every day. And this is where the
value of separate use trust comes in to pro-
Uect a married woman from her ignorance, her
band"
Such a trust becomes executed upon the
death of the husband, and the widow thereafter
has an estate freely alienable.
If the real estate devised to wife is incum-
bered by separate usetrust, and she desires to
So under the act of 1858, and the proceeds of
sale can be invested for her and the interest or
income therefrom paid to her during her cov-
erature, and after her husbands death she can
receive the principal absolutely.
Without any reference the case so lately
said that separate use trust is the greatest
protection and blessing which the law gives to
a married woman. LEX.
FEBRUARY q, 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
THE SKIES IN MARCH.

A Few of the Wonders Revealed to the Eye
of the Amateur Astronomer-The Ap-
pronchiDg Equinox-Phases OF the
Pianrts-Curions Facts About Saturns
Rings.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH1
THE sun is now butt few degrees south of the
equator. On the Goth he will cross the
equator at which time the earth will be at that
point in its orbit known as the Vernal Equinox.
To-day the days length IS II hours 81 minutes;
the sun rises at 6:5l A. NJ. and sets at 6:I3 P. NJ.
On the 10Th the days length is II hours; the
sun rises about 6:2S A. NJ. and sets about 6:2S P.
M. 1t might have been supposed that he would
rise promptly at 6 A. M. on this date and set II
hours later; but such is not the case. In the
first place. the time we use here is 20 minutes
seconds faster than local time, so that when
our CLOCKS show the time to be 20 minutes
seconds after . A. NJ. for example, it is really
but o'clock. Moreover the sun does not keep
pace with our time, being sometimes more
than quarter of an hour ahead or behind it,
and being even with it only twice in the year.
Without explaining more fully, it may be
said that this disagreement is due to
the earth's moving in an elliptic
orbit about the sun. On the sun dial mounted
be seen table showing how many minutes and
seconds the sun is 'off =" for each day In the
year. Ii this table were not given, the time
determined by the dial might sometimes be as
much as quarter of an hour slow or fast. On
the ZOth OF the month the sun is minutes 20
M, crosses the meridian at 1928 and sets at 6:2S
p M.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
ALLEGHENY, March /.
THE DREAM NOT FULFILLED.
Mrs. Cyrus Gnstou stiiI Lives, In Spite of
Prophetic Visions.

WASHINGTON. Pa, March 2-Mrs. Cyrus
CASTOR, of Finleyville, is still alive and well.
although she and her neIghbors confidently ex-
pected her to die ten days ago. When she was
girl II years of age, 81 years ago. she dreamed
that she would die on the 10Th of February,
1890 The date was strongly impressed on her.
She dreamed that an angel, with a pencil
dipped in fire, wrote the date across a
black curtain, and then pulling aside
the pail, showed her coffin, and
within its satin-lined cushions she saw her.
self. Her maiden name was McVey but when
the coffin lid was raised she saw the name
"Gaston' on a silver plate, and this only made
her think it was only foolish fancy. But ten
wears afterward she married Cyrus CASTOR, and
on her wedding night she dreamed the dream
again: saw the coffin scene once more. and this
time the name "Gaston" seemed a prophecy
fulfilled.
The night after her baby daughter was born,
now grown to womanhood, she dreamed it all
over again, repeated it like photograph, with
out change of single feature or coloring.
This made an impression on her mind not to be
disregarded
Last week letters of farewell were written to
her friends and every preparation made for
the fateful 10Th. Squire Harper was
called and wrote her will. She prepared for
death and the funeral, but she had the courage
of faith and went on the even tenor of her
wav doing household work as usual and spend
ing her leisure in quiet meditation. The 18th
is long past, Mrs. CASTOR is as well as ever,
still alive and happy and nothing came Of the
dream.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
PAN-AMERICAN DELEGATES.
A Final Adjournment Will Probably Take
Place About April 1.

WASHINGTON, March 2-The delegates to
the International American Conference are be-
ginning to talk about final adjournment, which
will probably take place about the lst of April
Nearly all of the committees have made their
reports and several of them have already been
adopted. The report OF the Committee on Gus
toms Union, which considers reciprocity
treaties, is in the hands of the printer. The
three Committees on Postal and Gable
Communication on the Atlantic, Pacific and
the Caribbean Sea have their reports prepared,
and they are now being translated. The reports
of the Committee on Customs Regulations and
the Committee on Port Dues are both about
ready to submit to the conference. The Com
mittees on Extradition and Banking will finish
their labors within few days. The Commit
tee on Arbitration has agreed to recommend
the adoption of that hod for settling inter
national difficulties, but has not yet arrived at
an agreement as to the details of the plan for
its report The Committee on Monetary Con-
vention will make two reports, one of which
Will recommend the coinage of q common sill
yer dollar to be legal tender in commercial
transactions between the citizens of the several
nations. The other report, prepared and pre-
sented by Mr.. Ciikiidge, of the United States
delegation, will recommend the issue of GER
tticateS by the United States upon any bullion
that may be deposited in the United States
Treasury by the citizens or authorities of the
Central and South American States.
These reports are both in the hands OF the
printers, and will be submitted for action very
soon. The reports of the Committee on Rail
way Communication, Sanitary Regulations and
Weights and Measures have been already
adopted by the conference.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
DOUBTFUL JUSTICE.

The very hard case of the Navassa rioters
is very justly made matter of public agi-
tstion by the Boston Transcript. Under
what law a United States court assumed
authority to sentence to death and imprson-
ment men who are charged with committing
crimes on an island thousand miles away
from United States territory, it is rather
hard to see, unless it be by the unwrItten
law that the Maryland corporation employ
ing these men must have its interests fos-
tered by the nearest court. That view of
the case is strengthened by the very slight
consideration given to the hard treatment
and infringement of the rights of these men
by the masters, who seem to have assumed
absolute power over them on that distant
island. To send fourteen men to the peni-
tentiary and three to the gallows in such a
case is very questionable proceeding.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03

| charm of expression which marks Mr.. Black
more's work, and would make it pleasant
| privilege to read him, no matter what kind of
plot might go with it, is as evident and attrac-
tive in his new book as it was in Lorna
Doone.n so all who are well-disposed can
wish me nothing more complete than this
the story ends-"that may live with her long
enough to discover some defect in her. And
in return will Infiict no moral but that of all
true love-let every Kit BE- constant to his
better self-his Kitty" From which the
reader may infee that the trouble which which is is
shower, whose presence serves but to make the
sunshine more enjoyable
THE disasters of the story prove to be lit
tie more serious when the reader really
finds out what they are, than the first chapter
would lead one to imagine. There is wicked
step-mother, and disappointed lover or two,
who came in as very unpleasant and malicious
characters, and, it must be said, very foolish
hero who could have spared the heroine and
himself some of the severest passages in their
experience if only he had had little more
sense. He makes confession in that opening
paragraph which we quoted, which proves TO pc
as true as it is frank, when he owns up that ne
was not always so wise as he mlgnt
have been. Indeed, he is sometimes such
anunusually obtuse specimen of unwisdom-
not to use more emphatic monosyllable-that
the reader gets into an evaporation which even
the hint that we ourselves are not absolutely
wise does not quite allay. However. it all comes
out right in the end, and they lived happily ever
after, and deserved all the joy they ever got.
%x<
MIR. WILLIAM BLACK has written good
many books. but never better one than
Prince Fortunatus (Harper Bros: ]. r. .Weldin
& Coz 1t carries the reader back to "Madcap
Violet" and the others which came close after,
when you could be sure before you opened the
covers of a new novel by Mr.. Black that
you would find within wise man
who would talk in oracular eplgrams and
pretty young women who would behave her.
self in some kind of unconventional way, and
the salt breeze of the sea, and the clear air of
some great Scotch mountain, with good deal
of broad Scotch dialect thrown in, and two Or
three splendid sunsets. There is a wise man in
prince Fortunatus." and a trip up north for
groIse-shooting and fishing with gillies for
guides, and very pretty and charming young
woman. upon whom adjectives might be wasted
to any extent and who is certainly as uncon-
ventional as can be desired. The plot is skill
full the conversation very bright and sprightly;
the characters are not only made known to US,
but are such people as are pleasant to know.
-"
A THEATER is background for much of the
story. The hero. like the "Knight-Errant"
of Edna Lyall, is singer in opera. The book
is set out admirably with pictures, which are
all good to look at.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

ROBERT BROWNING left an estate valued at
SS5.G0O. but it was by no means accumulated
through poetry alone.
MRS. dixie believes confidentially that
England will adopt woman suffragein advance
of its adoption in this country.
ONE of the exhibits in the Paris Salon this
spring will be portrait of Minister Reid, by
the artist G. T. A Healy.
IT is reported that Dom Pedro has accepted
the offer of the Emperor Francis Joseph to
spend the summer at the Imperial castle OF
Hitzendorf.
COLONEL THURsToN WRIGHT is working
up quiet boom for the Granger nomination
for President in 1892. He is Thurston TO be
both Wright and President
GENERAL MAHoNE is living in comparative
retirement in Washington. He does not hob
mob with his former cronies at Chamberlain's,
and he spends great deal of time in long soli-
tary walks.
EX-GOVERNOR GEORGE S. BOUTWELL,, of
Massachusetts,, is past y years of age. One
day last week he made :. ten-hour speech be-
fore the Supreme Court at Washington, in
patent case.
MIR. CHARLES EMORY SMITH is the sixth
Pennsylvania in the late year to be honored
with the Russian mission, his predecessors
having been Messrs. Boxer, Curtin, Cameron,
Dallas and Wilkins.
THE rumor goes forth that Sir Julian Paunce-
tote, British Minister to the United States,
may soon be superseded because he is not in
sympathy with the English Government on
the Goldfish question.
THOMAS A. EDISON has engaged rooms in
Charlotte. N. c., for the use of himself and his
assistants, who will for the next year pursue
investigation in the mining districts of North
Carolina, which Mr.. Edison is convinced is the
richest mining region in the world.
Miss MARY MORRIS, daughter of William
Morris, the English poet and socialist, pos
sesses great talent OF embroidery and design
ing. She is turning it to account by starting
regular business, where she receives orders for
work and gives steady employment to a num-
Der of women.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
A DIsHONORABLE STEP.

The effort which is being made to remove
the Southern, or Uncompahgre, Utes from
their reservation in Colorado to the arid
lands, against which the Indian Rights As
sociation is protesting, will, if successful,
furnish a remarkable example of the wanton
injustice which has characterized our deal
ings with the Indians. The foundation is
the universal one of the possession by this
tribe of land which is wanted bv the white
settlers. In order that the fertile and wa
tered territory which has been given to
them by the most solemn of compacts
can be taken for settlement, it is proposed
to transfer them to unwatered territory,
where they must be subjected to the alter
native between slow starvation and perpetu-
al pauperism.
But there is even worse in this movement
than the selfish injustice which is the gen.
eral characteristic of our Indian policy.
When the outbreak of the Northern Utes
occurred dozen years ago, the Southern
Utes remained loyal to the Government.
They not only refused to be drawn into the
hostilities, but by their influence over the
Northern tribe, brought about peace with
out subjecting Colorado to the horrors of
prolonged Indian war. Capability for
gratitude ought to make the United States
quick to defend the rights of the Utes in
stead of taking away their property. Yet
ths prospect appears to be that the Govern
ment will probably add another item to its
century of dishonor in dealing with the In
dians, by robbing the faithful Utes of the
property which is coveted because it has be-
come valuable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
WITH THE POINTED END UP.

"My ouondam friend" said the orator.
s.Order, OrderI'' cried his hearers.
.sskip the profanity - whispered the Moders-
tor.-NeI0 York San.
"I'm no sardine," said the Maine herring;
but they put him in a box all the same, with
French name on him that he couldn't have pro-
nouneed to save his spine.-Puck.
Modern Diaiogue-'Arrange my hair,
Felicie, while L take lunch.'' 'Very well,
madame; what color will you wear?'' '.My black
hair; am going to funeral. lie Figaro.
Young Mr.. Scheinstein-Do you dink dot
marriage vas a vailure Oncle Moses?'' Uncle
Moses-of you make monish py marrying, it vas
as goot as a vailure, my poy.-LoIoeH Citizen.
A farm journal advises: "Save the incest
eggs for Incubation This is valuable ADVICE.
Any old back number egg is good enough for the
transforming "Hamlet'' combination.-Norris
to1on Herald.
Boss-You run the place for few weeks
and let me be bartender.
Bartender-Whatjer want to do that for?
Boss-Td like to have a crack at the profits
Ne0 York Sun.
Not Prompt in His Payment-Gilhooly
Pat yez 'ud betther be lookin' afther Brophy.
He do be teIIin' me he has turrible grudge fur
ninst yez.
Cuddihy-Musha, who cares? Brophy nIver paid
me anything he owed me yet!
Mrs. Figg-Is Mr.. Peck at the lodge this
evening?
Mrs. N. Peck-No: he's downtown getting
drunk. always let him have this day ior MS own
enjoyment. It's our wedding anniversary you
know 1'erre Hdute Express.
Dreadful-"Why did you leave your last
place?''
s'The missus called me names
''What did she call you?''
''She said 1 were n domestic, mum; ana me es
hard-workin' ana honest woman as ever lived-'
-Harper's Bazar.
Fatber-My son, you must not dlsPute
with your mother in that way.
Boy-But she's in the wrong.
Father-That makes no difference, and you
might as well learn. my child. once for all, that
when a lady says thing is So 1t is So even If it
isn't so.-Pick-M>-Up-
Too Awfully AwfuL-Boston Mother
Why. my child. you look very much excited.
What Is the matter!
Boston Daughter-Nothing. mother, nothing.
Boston Mother-But that explanation does not
satisfy me. 1 must have an answer.
Boston Daughter (hoarsely)-Well, then,
mother the beans are burned to a crisp-Rochss.
ter Post-Erpress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Morning and Evening stars.

M ERcURY will not be visible to the unassisted
eve this month. He is morning star. but
is too far south and too near the sun to be seen.
He reaches superior conjunction on the 9th
of next month. Venus is likewise invisible
She passed superior conjunction in February
and is now evening star. On the last day of the
month she sets so minutes after the sun. Her
apparent diameter is 10'. Mars is morning
star, rising just now about A. M. He passes
through the constellation Scorpio and enters
Ophiuchus. On the night of March 4 Mars
passes 6' north of Beta Scorpii. This star is of
the third magnitude and may easily be found,
being the northernmoSt of a row of three stars
about % apart, lying about 50 west of Antares.
the brightest star in the southeast heavens at
or 3 A. NJ Mars will appear brighter than the
three stars, and will resemble Antares in color,
as this is noted red star. Jupiter is morning
star. but near the sun and far south, SO that he
is in poor position for observation. He rises in
the southeast about A. NJ. this morning, and
will rise about four minutes earlier each sue
ceeding day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-03
Snfurn's Wonderful RINGS.

SATURN is evening star, rising now about
o'clock in the afternoon and remaining
visible nearly all night He is in Leo, two
degrees east of Regulus. There can be no diff
Guilty in identifying him. as he is the brightest
star in the neighborhood. The wonderful
rings of Saturn are still an object of great in
terest to the astronomer. These rings resem-
Bile fat disk, about 100 miles thick and about
5000 miles in diameter, with a circle cut out
of the inside 100, 900 miles across in which is
placed the planet. The ring is divided into
several parts or separate rings The innermost
of these rings is not so bright as the rest; it
has. in fact, a nebulous appearance, which led
TO it getting the name of the Grape ring"
The question as to whether these
rings could remain in equilibrium has
had the attention of mathematIcians
since the time of La Place. They cannot be
solid. and it is thought they must be composed
of vast number of satellites too small and
close together to be seen separately. 1t has
been thought that the inner ring is closing up
and will finally fall upon the planet. If 1t does
it will make giant hail storm, little too
grand for the Saturnian inhabitants to ap-
preCiate,