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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
THE GOSPEL OF KINDNESS.

President Eaton of the Humane Society
very rightly thinks the world can be made
kinder to children and dumb animals if
humanity and gentleness are taught in the
schools. The Society is trying to influence
school teachers in Western Pennsylvania to
this end. But parents can do more than the
school teachers. The idea that it is wrong
and disgraceiul to hurt any creature ought
to be one of the first 10 be planted in the in
fant mind. There is too much liberation of
Juvenile cruelty to animals, too great a
tendency to excuse wantou unkindness on
some such ground as that "boYs will be
boys" No matter how small he be, boy
who tortures cat or dog ought to be pun
ished and instructed as to the sileness of the
misdeed. No trait in the human character
bears more terrible fruit if allowed to de-
velop unchecked than that of cruelty. 1t is
latent in most natures too, and can best be
controlled in its infancy. II parents would
be careful to teach humanity at home, the
work of our great anti-cruelty societies
would be enormously reduced.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
Minnie Palmer's Troubles.

THE family jars Of Minnie Palmer and her
husband, "Yours merrily, John A. Rog
ers. "are public property now, and there is no i'm
priety in calling attention to some little points
about the affair which distinguish it from the
common run of domestic broils in the theatr1-
cal world. As rule, an actress husband does
not cut very striking figure in the popular
eye. If he is not an actor the public usually
hear very little of him, and he is apt to get the
not very honorable name of Julia So-and-So's
husband. There is no need to cite examples Of
the few men who have been content with this
condition OF things or of the majority who
have sooner or later found the position calling
to an unendurable degree. But Yours merri-
ly, John A. Rogers" was not this sort of an
actress husband. Nobody can deny that he
worked for Minnie Palmer more faithfully
than any paid manager could have done.
Doubtless he looked after his own interests in
booming his wife, but he doomed her with won
derful pertinacIty and in all sorts of ways. He
believed in newspaper advertising and no ad-
vance agent ever got so much stuff in the
papers as Rogers did about his star. In fact, so
accomplished fabricator of stories has he won
the name of being, that newspaper men of late
have doubted everything about Minnie Palmer
that appeared in print. There are some who
believe that the tragic hare-up with knives and
other melodramatic properties in New York
fiat is only desperate advertising dodge, but
this is not probable. The truth probably is
that Minnie Palmer herself is growing restive,
and that the dismal failure of her operatic
starring scheme has made her dubious of the
future under her husbands management
There are some personal peculiarities about
Rogers that would disturb any family circle.
Bus Minnie Palmer will not find it easy to re-
place the skillful advertising agent from whom
she has parted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
AN UNWIsE EXODUS.

Reports of cases In which people in the
advanced stages of consumption have caught
at the chances of life held out by perhaps
too roseate reports of DIR. Koch's discovery,
and have taken passage for Europe, makes
pertinent warning against rash action in
spired by hastv hopes. That people under
sentence of lingering death should catch at
every straw of hope is natural; but it is
nevertheless wiser and kinder for them to
understand that it is best to wait further ex-
periments.
In the first place 1t should be understood
that DIR. Koch has made no claim vet to be
able to cure advanced stages of consumption.
He has been very careful to state that his
discovery so far consists in fixing the nature
of the tuberculous bacilli and in devising
q remedy which seemingly cures its earlier
ravages. Whether the relief will be perma-
nent or not, DR.. Koch has clearly stated,
must be left for the future to demonstrate.
There has not as vet been anv demonstration
Of the power of the curative lymph in cases
where the disease has reached an advanced
stage.
A voyage to Germany at this season Of the
year would be perilous undertaking for a
consumptive person at the best; and if he
should reach Berlin alive, it is doubtful
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
sAFEGUARDs AGAINST EPIDEMIC,

The presence of an epidemic of diphtheria
on the Southside, which has made it neces-
sary to close some of the schools, indicates
the necessity of care in sanitation and
prompt action on the first appearance of the
disease. From the remarks of physicians it
appears that no case of sore throat should be
neglected lest it develop into the serious
form of the prevailing ailmeht; and the ne
cessity of guarding against infection is made
clear enough by the malignant type of the
trouble. While these points are important
for all individuals in that quarter of the
city, the public duty is no less evident of
investigating closely into the unsanitary
conditions which have been so general on
the Southside as to produce this distressing
ailment
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THE COMuCAL SIDE.

All history seems to be pastime.-EL
mira Gazette.
Rergie-Beattie Martin was always a
conundrum to me.
Friend-I suppose that's because you had to give
her up.-SDdre AOmeHtS.
"Why did your parents call you Glad
stone Smith?'' asked woman of little ragged
urchin.
..'Cos they thought good name was better N
great riches. .''-NeI1eaStLe Chronicle.
Ticks-You remember young Grabber,
who went West a couple of years ago, don't your
Wickles-Yes: how'd he do?
Ticks-Do? Why. simply great. He cleared s5-
OOO the first year.
WI want to know! And how did he do the
second year?
T.-WeI the second year he cleared the country.
Boston Courier.
Indignant Bicyclist-Madam, your dog
snaps at me every time pass. Here he comes
now. Starts off,
Old Lady-sport, Sport, you foolish dog, come
here. Them amt bones. Them's Iegs.-Eelo-
castle ChronfcLe.
A Western man, who owns an immense
estate in Dakota. spent three months in England
during the present year. FOR many weeks he
heard nothing from the man whom he had left in
charge of his farms and he became somewhat anx-
ious. He was an illiterate person, though an ex-
cellent farmer, and the wording OF telegram
puzzled him. At last he sent off this message:
is things all right at the farm?'' Impatiently
he awaited the reply. His trusty representative
was man of few words and rigid ideas OF econO-
my, and the envelope which his employer received
in due course contained simply this message;
''Things is.''-Htustrated Essos Of the World.
The Professor, at the dinner table-Oh.
by the way, Mrs. Chopsticks, have you seen your
little boy, Willie, lately?
Mrs. Chopsticks-No, Professor, have not seen
him since 10 O'Clock. and / can't imagine what
has become of him. In fact, am very much wor-
ried about him.
Professor-Wel, seeing Martha pour me out
that glass Of water just now reminded me Of some
thing thar had on my mind to tell you some time
ago. but which unfortunately escaped my mind
1t was lust about 10 O'Clock, L think, that saw
little Willie fall down the well.-BoStoH Courier
"Papa, 1 wish you would buy me little
pony, " said johnny.
81 haven't got any money to buy you pony,
my son. You should go to school regularly, my
son, study hard, and become smart man. and
some of :hesc days, when you grow up, you will
have money of your own TO buy ponies with"
Then 1 suppose, pa, you didn't study much
when you were a little boy like me, or else you
would have had money now to buy ponies with,
wouldn't you, pa?''-SpGrs Moments,
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BEAUTY AT A BAZAAR.
Successful Entertainment Given for the Be

Successful Entertainment Given for the Ben
eft of the Woman's Guild.
Cyclorama Hall has seldom been graced with
as pretty bazaar and as stylish an assemblage
as that which yesterday afternoon and even
ing made the place realm of beauty and en-
| joyment. 1t was the Trinity bazaar for the
| benefit of the Woman's Guild. One of the
most unique features of the bazaar was the old
| woman who lived in the shoe, and from her
multitudinous family of dolls of all sizes kind
| hearted people were not slow in making
| adoptions
The fancy table was beautifully arranged in
pale pink, and the variety and artistic finish
| of the display made upon it was beyond COM
petition.
At the children's table everything to delight
| childish heart. from bonbons. candies and
cookies to toys of every description, were to be
| found. Its drapings were of yellow.
Lemonade was dispensed from cookbook
| ing canopy of green. Punch and Judy, a
! formed the other attractions. with Ice cream
| served continually, and a supper by Luther be-
tween the hours of and 8.
| Those instrumental in the unparalleled sue
| cess of the bazaar and in charge of the various
| departments were:
Fancy Table and News standaMrs. Harry Dar-
,Children's Table,Mrs. William u. Singer.
Agnes Dickson, Miss Kosaind Smith, Miss Louise
! Wood, Miss villa Forsythe; Miss Mary Laugh
lin, MISS Anna SCdIie, Miss singer.
Lemonade BoOth-Mrs. Haworth and MR.
Doubleday, Chairmen. Aids Miss Alice Ha-
/ worth, Miss George Gormly. Miss Mary Brown,
Miss Alice Tindle, Miss Lois BaIly, Miss Alice
Painter Miss Roma Huselton.
| Tea Table-Mrs. W. K. Blair, Chairman. Aids
| Miss Watson Miss Bessie Howe, Miss Made For
syth. Miss Louise Speer.
| Grabbag-Mrs. W. q. Park, Chairman.
| Punch and Judy-Mrs. George Mcbride Chair
man. Aids-saster George Mcbride, Master
| Harry Siebeneck.
| Weighing Scales and Phonograph-Mrs. ]. T.
| Patterson, Chairman. Aids-kenneth Painter
Marshal Bell Benz. McCord, Bedell Suydam
| Supper Chalrmen. Mrs. l.. NJ. Harding, Mrs.
| Park Painter, Mrs. John 5. Hays. Miss Israel and
| Mrs. Tschudy. Aids-Miss Gormly, Miss Mar
| garet Magee. Miss Clara Morgan, Miss Julia Nor
gan. Miss Hoag, Miss Hattie Hoag, Miss Julia
| Hays.
Ice Cream-Mrs. Benjamin Bake well, Chairman.
| Aids-Miss Patty Laughiin, Miss Mary Reed. Miss
Mollie Siebeneck. Miss Annie Rhodes. Miss Carrie
Hays, Miss Lydia Nc Knight, Miss Ann Robinson.
| Miss Emma Price, Miss Annie Smith, Miss Nora
| Oliver. Miss Margaret Phillips. Miss Fanny Hay
Miss Bakewell, Miss Euphema Bakewell and Miss
Myrth Bakewell.
DOLL Table-Miss Rebecca Darlington, Miss
Madelaine Laughlin, Miss Elizabeth Chambers
| Miss May Dilworth, Miss Virginia Beggs, Miss
| Matilda Clarkson.
| Doorkeepers-Mr. Douglas Stewart, Mr.. John
] u RipkefgOn and Arthur
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
THE WORLDS FAIR.

PHILADELPHIA Press: They are raising
great deal of fuss in Chicago over the Worlds
Fair-raising everything, in fact, but the money
necessary to make the show 60.
NEW YORK Press: The Government ap-
preparations should not be squandered or mis-
appropriated, whether made for the W orlds
Fair, gunboat or a public building. More
over. the country wants to know who is run
ming the fair.
PHILADELPHIA In qtttrer: If anything good
is to come out of this Chicago enterprise It
must be by hard work on the part of all con-
cerned and an utter abandonment of this plan
of working at cross purposes. Come, now,
Chicago, do your best.
| CHICAGO Ne10s: Personal preference and
| individual interest must at once and finally be
| ignored in the settlement of the Worlds Fair
question. The row in the directory manifested
| the feeling which IS to be curbed if the Ex-
| position is to be made success.
TOLEDO Commercial: Wrangling between
the Chicago local directory and the National
Commission of the Worlds Fair may easily de-
stroy that enterprise. Matters are approach
ing a crisis between the two bodies. An agree
ment about the site was made some time ago,
but now it is charged that the local body is not
acting in good faith by that agreement.
CHICAGO Tribune: If the Worlds Fair
Board of Directors is wise it will do all it can
to keep on the best OF terms with its big
brother the National Commission. If it is
wise the members will allow nothing to inter-
fere with the friendly relations Of the two
bodies even though it may be necessary, in
order to maintain them, to abandon certain
projects and modify darling plans.
CHICAGO Inter Ocean: 1t seems to US that
the Commission can have no honest interest
that is antagonissic to the directory. That, on
the contrary, all their interests as promoters of
the Fair are in line with the action of the di-
rectory. The members of the directory have
certainly had hard enough time, between
schemIng speculators, corporations and others,
who have endeavored to thwart their purposes,
and they are entitled to all the aid the real
friends of the Fair can give. Certainly the
Commissioners should give theirs.
CHICAGO Herald: The reopening of the site
controversy is deplorable. 1t was firmly be-
lieved that the Directors and Commissioners
had reached settlement of all issues whose
disposal is preliminary to the beginning of
actual plans for the Fair buildings.
The Commissioners whose.views are far more
likely to be disinterested than those of local
directors, will not and ought not consent to
scheme that will waste money and impair the
entire undertaking. With them lies the final
word and the final word ought 70 be spoken
authoritatively at the earliest moment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
SUGGESTIVE PERSONALS.

MRS FLORENCE FINCH-KELLY, the Boston
newspaper writer and editor, Is a Kansas girl
by birth. She is slight and dark and an inde-
fatigable worker.
PROBABLY very few people know that Con-
gressman-elect Sherman Hoar was the model
for the statue of John Harvard, which stands
in the delta at Cambridge.
MRS. PHILIP D. ARMOUR, wife of the Chicago
capitalist. is famous in Chicago as house.
keeper. She is especially expert in all the in
tricactes of the culinary art.
Miss EFFIE SHANNON, has at last announced
her marriage to Henry Guy Carleton, another
quite successful American dramatist. This
marriage took place some months ago. and not
a few of Miss Shannon's friends had suspicion
of the fact at the time it occurred.
THE most formidable opponent to the pol
ished Senator Ingalls, in the Kansas Senatorial
contest is John +. Willis, whom the Farmers
Alliance nearly elected Governor, and who is
thus described: "He dresses in store clothes,
wears a slouch hat and woolen shirt, and his
boots are strangers to backing and brush. He
makes favorable impression on the stump,
and is never at a loss for something to say"
JOHN FIsKE, it is said, feels more at home in
New York than in Boston. After graduating
from the Harvard Law School he opened law
clients, and then concluded to devote himself
literature. Whatever Mr.. Fiske may think of
Boston there is no doubt that he loves Cam
bridge, where he lives with a charming wife
and six children.
Miss PHGBE CoUZINs, lawyer and lecturer,
and who has the honor of being the first of her
sex to hold an executive office in the United
States, says the most important event of the
day, as showing the trend of public sentiment,
was the recent action of the Worlds Fair Com.
missloners at Chicago in providing for the
creation of Board of Lady Managers in con-
nection with the Columbian Exposition, with
equal representation and powers as the male
members of the commission.
AN important link between the Church and
the stage has been severed by the sudden death
of the Rev. Henry White, chaplain of the
Savoy in London. Mr.. White was scarcely a
familiar figure on first nights; indeed, the Ly-
ceum and the Savoy were the only theaters
which knew him on these occasions. But emf
nent actors and actresses were familiar figures
in his chapel, especially on Sunday mornings.
and when they desired it he gave them IN mar
riage and christened their babies, one might
almost say. by the dozen. He was absolutely
devoid of priestly pride and occasionally he
gave offense in consequence of his determined
recognition Of the equality of all in the sight
of heaven.
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Fashions in House Painting.

THERE are regular fashions in house-painting
which change as regularly. though not as
often, as those of feminine dress Just now
the fashionable color is yellow, and if you go
into any suburban neighborhood you will find
more than half of the new houses painted to
match the canary's wing The most correct
style seems to be to paint the window frames,
cornices and gables deeper shade Of yellow or
orange. but olive green, dark brown or even
black are sometimes used. The effect is cheer
full, IL not always restful to the eye, and yellow
as prevailing tone in a landscape is infinitely
preferable to the dominance OF rusty browns
and neutral tints that SO many frame houses
used to endure. Nor was the aesthetic craze
for all sorts of combinations of sad sage greens,
which struck the country four or five years agc !,
altogether joyful thing. 1t has died away,
and while yellow to-day Is the fashionable color,
there are still plenty Of courageous citizens who
will paint their houses to please themselves,
and the landscape is diversified and cheered
by eruptions of fame and carmine on roof and
walls.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-20
WELCOME. LITTLE STRANGER,

Pittsburg has an elephant on her hands
at last. Strange to say it is a source of joy,
for it is a pachyderm in all reality, with a
tough gray hide, trunk, incipient tusks
and a fashion of blowing its own trumpet at
all seasons. The elephant is but a young
thing from India's coral strand, brought
here through the generous enterprise of a
leading mercantile house to play a star part
in the Schenley Park ZJo. In its new
quarters our young friend from India will
prove no doubt an abiding delight to small
Pittsburgers, both now and in the long
years TO come. One o the good features of
the elephant is that it has an office holders
grip of lite, and, unlike the dear gazelle,
does not die the moment its owner begins to
love it. Dealing in elephant futures is
tolerably safe, and we may look forward to
the day when the little elephant of to-day
will be literally the biggest thing in the
most beautiful park in the land No longer
can the unregenerate say that they have to
50 to New York to see the elephant.
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DEATHS OF A DAY.
w, Laird Black.

There are many in PIttsburg who will be deeply
grieved to hear of the death of William Laird
Black, who passed away yesterday at 1;3O
O'Clock. He spent his boyhood days in Lawrence
vile, and on reaching mans estate, Travelled ten
years through various parts of the West. While
there he founded several newspapers which are
still prosperous. One was at Walla Wala, an
other at Weston Ore, and another at
Bismarck. Oak. For the past FIVE years he has
been in charge of the typographical department
of Best & Co, the printers, and had the reputa-
tion of remarkably fine typographical taste. The
Pan-American souvenir, which attracted so much
attention, gotten out under his supervision,
and almost his last work was the souvenir of the
iron and steel masters. He was prominent In the
knights of Pythias, having passed all the chairs.
ae was ndsn Dc 1vos ma rriaI shonS ieyn @
ago to Miss Maud Il. Sheridan, daughter of Mrs.
5. f. Daum. of Stewart's Station. Pa. No chill
was especially happy and beautiful. Mr.. Black
was Sc years Of age. He suffered from tubercular
consumption, the seeds of which were sown dur
ing his exposed life in the West.
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has been known in a meager way and used
= a. =

has been known in q meager way and used
in this country for years.
What is needed to solve the road and
methods, but the application OF those
methods to secure good building and prompt
repairs for the maintenance of highways
Thus in this city we have an illustration
that it is not necessary to 60 abroad to md
durable and smooth pavements. We have,
as The DISPATCH pointed out the other
day, a specimen of asphalt pavement that
has outIasted all the pavements and demon
strated its economy as we'll as smoothness:
but the difficulty seems to be in keeping
new work up to that standard. As to coun-
try road making, we need not 60 out OF
Pennsylvania to find durable and solid ma
cadamized roads. What we have to ind is
the reform in the methods OF country road
work which will direct it to the securing OF
such results.
1t is demonstrated fact that the wasted
labor in paving and road making for the
past generation or two ought to have pro-
vided all our cities with smooth and dur
able pavements and great share OF the
country districts with solid highways. 1t
is also beyond question that the waste OF
motive power on bad highways, together
with loss OF time and wear and tear of We
hicIes, would, if reduced to money value.
put all our streets and roads in good repair
in ten years. But the failure to save this
waste is not due so much to the lack of
knowledge as to the methods of making good
highways, which are to be found in engi-
neering reports, as to the failure to main
tain an administrative system such as will
insist on good work in the first place, and
then maintain the improved highways by
yigllant care and prompt repairing.
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THE TOPICAL TALKER.
EVERYTHING by Express.

AM EN- do business in hurry nowadays" said
aPittsburg manufacturer yesterday. 'and
one of the most remarkable proofs OF this is
the growth of the express business. The ex-
press companies are carrying not only more
than ever, but merchandise that they never
handled few years ago is now consigned to
them. In my business. for instance, machinery
that some years ago fell entirely to the railroads
for transportation now very often goes by ex-
press. Last week, for instance. 1 shipped some
heavy machinery to New York by express, by
order Of the South American firm to whom 1t
was consigned. although the express charges
were between $500 and $500, as compared with
about 500 or $40 that the railroad freight bill
would have BEEN"
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NEW EXPLORERS FOR AFRICA.

The errand of the four young men of this
section who are going to penetrate to the
Upper Congo, if not to the Nyanzas, in Or
der to find out the truth of what Stanley
has been doing there, is doubtless inspired
BY laudaple motives; but its practical Wis
dom may be doubted. In the first place
after our earnest Investigators have strug-
gled with the coast fevers and difficult paths
that will confront them before they have
passed the first cataracts OF the Congo, and
before they have secured steamer to take
them along the stretches of the Upper
Congo or even contemplate penetrating the
forests that lie between the Congo and the
lakes, they may conclude that what they are
after is hardly worth the prIvation, danger
and disease that is necessary to reach it.
In the next place, supposiDg them to have
followed Stanley's path from coast to coast,
and to have unearthed large amount OF in
teresting in formation, who will corroborate the
investigators? 1t is worth while to remem-
Der that Stanley's statements with regard to
his four African expeditions have always
been corroborated in time, and that there is
now no real conflict between the statements
of Stanley, JephsoD, Bonny and Ward as
to the facts of the late expedition. We
would not discourage any exploring zeal.
but to simply follow Stanley's path will add
nothing to the results of exploration. AS
for finding out what he has been doing, that
can be obtained much more economically by
the investment OF small sum in the books
of Stanley, Jephson and their comrades.