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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
TERMS OF THE DIsPATCa,
PITTsBURe. MONDAY. JAN. q, 1890.
CHEAP CABLE FARES,

The reduction of the fare by the Penn
avenue cable line TO East Liberty to i've
cent rate is an example of the force Of COM
petition. The business which that line Sc
cured from East Liberty was comparatively
small. Obviously the reduction is inspired
by the hope that the traffic will thus be en-
hanced. The decision is a wise one and
there is little doubt that the cheap rate will
justify itself by an enlargement of traffic
that will yield greater profits than the old
ten-cen: fare.
The transportation of a passenger four
and-a-half miles for a little over cent a
mile is a marvel of cheap and popular tran
sit. Such marvels are the result of modern
enterprise providing transportation for
thousands of people daily, and 'oper-
ating under competition. For it is worth
noticing that all the reductions in fares on
the traction roads so far have been from the
competitive point. While we are told that
the East Liberty traffic is the least important
portion of the business on the cable roads, it
is from that point that one line has made the
reduction Oh commutation tickets and the
other has brought down regular fares to
nickel.
1t is possible to hope that the same proc
ess will go on till the cable roads will event.
ually discover that they can afford to carry
passengers for the shorter distances at
three-cent rate on commutation or ticket
books. But it is not likely that the discovery
will be made before competition reaches the
intermediate points, as it now operates at
East Liberty.
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HOW POVERTY rs ABOLISHED.

'fThere is many a poorhouse in New En-
gland, writes the Rev. Edward Everett Hale,
in Lend-G-Hdnd "where they take summer
boarders because they have no one else to
take. The cynical New York Sun suggests
that this is because the New England towns
farm out their paupers to the lowest
bidder; but we can credit Mr.. Hale with
basing his assertion on more accurate infor-
nation. Probably both authorities are
right, and there are towns In New England
where the poor are, as the Sun says, farmed
out to the lowest bidders, and others where,
as Mr.. Hale virtually declares, there are no
paupers at all.
But if Mr.. Hale's statement of fact is cor
rect, he ought to make more accurate de-
ductlon from it than he does. He has lately
become identified with a movement to
preach socialism of the Edward Bellamy
stripe, as a panacea for the abolition of
poverty Yet ii he will study the localities
where, according to his statement pauper-
ism is absent, he will find that this happy
condition of affairs is not produced BY
socialism, but by the strictest adherence to
LuG GUuNlAlOuS Va AuN4hlOudAlSlu anu tQudl-
ity, established by the original spirit of our
constitution and laws 1t is safe to assert
that in every New England town, where
this condition of things exists, there is the
greatest liberty for every individual to re-
tain the rewards of his own industry and
efforts. At the same time, none of the great
abuses by which favored classes are able to
accrue wealth at the cost of the majority,
have created especial advantages in those
favored parts.
The deduction from Mr. Hale's statement.
therefore, is that the surest way to abolish
poverty is to give each individual the ut
most reward of his own efforts, and to take
care that no one individual is able 10 obtain
wealth by devices which create that wealth
at the cost of others.
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PARTIES AND FARM MORTGAGES

The Republican leaders and Republican
organs are putting themselves in false po-
sition by opposing the measure for includ-
ing the statistics OF farm mortgages in the
census reports. The wide divergence of
opinion as to whether the farms of the coun-
try are swamped by mortgages is admitted.
Consequently the Importance of settling the
matter is practically beyond dispute. But
the Republican leaders with rather remark
able unanimity oppose the measure upon
the grounds of the additional burden thus
placed upon the census bureau. In re-
ality the increase of work would be very
slight. The census officials of this district
could obtain the statistics by few days
work at the different county seats in the
district; and the same data could be OBJ
tanned in every census district of the coun-
try. Since the statistics are called for and
are alleged to have vital bearing upon live
political issues, the party which opposes it
makes false step. 1t falls under the sus-
picion of opposing it because the showing
will be unfavorable to its side OF the pAd-
ing issues
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27

of transportation is paid, and the railroads
will gain just the amount of the revenue on
the corn which they transport.
1t is not difficult for impartial observers
to see that any reduction of rates below the
average cost of service to the railroads,
means no permanent gain to the shippers.
But impartial observers do not so generally
see that this claim of the farmers is based
directly upon the theories which the rail-
roads have been urging for years. 1t has
been argued by all the railway advocates,
notably Mr.. E. P. Alexander, that it is i'm
possible for railways to base their charges
on the cost of performing the service. The
value of the service to the shipper, or "what
the freight will BEAR" has been preached
time and time again. as the proper basis for
railway charges. The farmers of the West
are to be psrdoned if they are unable to see
why, if the railway policy charges all
the freight will bear, it cannot in case
like theirs, where their product will not
bear the average charges of transportation
to market, be restricted to the rule of charg-
ing no more than the freight will bear.
Again, the uniform contention of the
railways in discussing the long and short
haul question, has been, that when a rail
way can secure a considerable amount of
freight, which it cannot get except by re-
ducing charges to a little more than the
cost of hauling, it is justified in making such
a reduction. This is exactly what the
farmers represent as their own position.
They are burning corn for fuel. Unless
freight charges are reduced, that commodity
will be used up in that wasteful manner. It
is not strange that they cannot see why
when the principle can operate against
them, and in favor of trans-continental
freights, it shall not operate in their favor
upon their principal product.
The correct principle is that the railroads
should make charges which will yield them
a moderate remuneration. The farmers will
be most benefited by rates which induce
them to turn their corn into the higher forms
of agricultural product, such as pork and
beet, which will bear transportation. But
the surest criterion of the speciousness of
the railway theories to which we have re-
ferred, is the contemptuous manner with
which they are rejected when urged on be-
half of other interests than those allied with
the corporations.
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PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SENATOR HAwLEY practices on the violin
every day.
QUEEN VICTORIA receives $40 or more let
ters day.
SARAsATE, the fiddler, does not wear an
overcoat in cold weather. He merely puts on
an extra suit of clothes over the others.
ADAM FoREPAUGH, it is said, never smoked
nor chewed tobacco nor drank Intoxicating
liquors.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT will not
visit Washington this winter, but will remain
at home, in England.
MISS NITA SHAKESPEARE, daughter Q
Mayor Shakespeare, of New Orleans, will be
Queen of the Carnival this year. Thus does
well-known name again add to its laurels.
W. W. JOHNSON, the newly appointed post
master of Baltimore, Nd. first became conspic-
uous in politics as one of the 306 who stood by
General Grant SO faithfully in the Chicago
Convention of 1880 He is young man, not
much past 40, and proudly wears the badge
which shows his loyalty to Grant in the great
third term contest.
PROF. SoUsA, leader of the Marine Band of
Washington, has received a copy of the ma
tional hymn of the United States of Brazil
One Of the first acts of the new Government
was to call on the Brazilian poets and compos-
ers to prepare national air, with suitable
words. trunkful of songs and hymns were
sent in, one of which was adopted.
Mr.. LOUIS DYER, the chosen bridegroom of
Miss Macmillan, the daughter of the we'll
known publisher, used to be in some respects
1.-THE glass of fashion and the mold of form" at
Harvard University. Born at Chicago, he was
educated at Oxford, where he was protege of
Prof. Jewett. When Mr.. Dyer went to Harvard
he was regarded as the very embodiment of
culture. He is strong in Greek literature, and
is regarded as quite superior" kind of young
man
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
THE CENTRAL PACIFIC CHEEK.

Mr.. C. P. Huntington's modest PROPOSE
tion that the Central Pacific Railroad shall
have its debt extended for 125 years, with
interest at 21I per cent, was again exploited
before the House committee last week. To
extend debt on bad security for century
is sequivalentto making the debtor gift of it;
and when that debtor has deliberately adopted
the policy of damaging the security for his
own profit, such gift would be placing a
premium on bad faith in public dealings.
The nation can afford to lose the entire Pa
cifc railway debt, if necessary; but it cannot
afford to reward the defiance of honest obli-
cations which has built up the great Gen.
tral Pacific fortunes. The Union Pacific,
which is showing some honesty in its at
tempt to pay its debt, deserves at least fair
hearing and good treatment; but there
should be no compromise with the Central
Pacific crowd.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
WOES OF A LITERARY MAN.
His Difficulty In Regulating Price and Style
of Matter.

From the New York SUM-
II have one source of acute discomfort" !" said
a fellow newspaper man to the Suns reporter
''that troubles me almost every day. work
now for four papers and magazine. Every
morning 1 work for four hours on salary
which makes the copy 1 produce pay me say
one-third of a cent word. My other three pa
pers are weeklies, and pay. say from cent to a
cent and half a word. The magazine pays
best, say cents word. Well, the thing that
troubles me is this: go to work about o'clock
making paragraphs and doing odd bits for my
daily paper, and if it is fortunate morning
and get we'll warmed up it won't be an hour
before l begin stringing out cent and S-cent
words, and by IL o'clock, just as like as not
will be giving that newspaper magazine Ian
guage worth exactly six times what am going
to get for it. When once you are started there
is no help for it.
IA man whose pen is in and whose ideas are
flowing is bound to write the very best he can.
OF course though he may lay aside an idea
here and there, it is no saving to him to use
cheaper language. In goes the best he knows.
But tell you 1t is a sickening sensation to
realize when half your article is already in the
least weekly paper. stuff that Is running out of
is running in. You may laugh but it is dread
full feeling. Just consider how you would feel
if you had contracted to feed gang of railroad
laborers on pork and beans, and found you were
out of that sort of nourishment, and had moth
ing but ferrapin left in the house. Perhaps
YOU wouldn't feel wastetul; and if not, you
can't Sympathize with me-"
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WHERE HONOR STOPS.

That disclosure of Mr.. Thomas, of Spring
field o., the rival millionaire of Brice in
the Ohio Senatorial contest, contains a feat
ure which is calculated to impress the pub
lie with the unique rules of political moral
lty which govern Mr.. Thomas conduct
That gentleman asserts that he gave legis-
lator $500 to ''defray his expenses" but that
the legislator subsequently took higher Of
fer from Brice. "Thus, Mr.. Thomas sternly
remarks. che showed himself to be person
totally destitute of honor and manhood"
Mr.. Thomas is decidedly right in severely
reprobating dishonesty. What safety is
there for the ambitious millionaire if the
legislator whom he has acquired at net
cost of 5000 can turn around and vote
again for a higher and later bidder? If
such dishonorabIe courses are tolerated, in
dustrious Legislators, by voting for all
the millionaires, might cripple the en-
tire millionaire interest, and thus infict
fatal blow on the monetary system.
Such repreheRsible practice of oversell-
ing the Senatorial market should be stopped.
Mr.. Thomas should agitate in favor of a
system of registration of the titles in Iegis-
lators like that of real estate, by which the
first purchaser gets legal title and sub
sequent purchasers are warned of.
Unless such measures are adopted, it is
plain that the innocent and legitimate first
transaction in legislative votes, by advanc-
ing money for expenses, is sure to be ruined
through the lack of security that the goods
will be delivered.
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THROUGH EDITORS sPECTACLES.

NEW YORK World: The Samoan treaty is a
compact between three great nations to give a
small island something which it doesn't want.
1t will never be ratified.
NEW YORK Times: The great need Of the
times is a higher standard of political conduct
among the mass of voters Of the country. The
Government will be what they make it or what
they permit it to be made.
CINCINNATI Enquirer: Mr.. Springer wants
the House to select the site of the Worlds
Fair by secret ballot. Objection is herewith
filed. Let the vote be open. 1t is desirable to
know whether members do that which, for valid
reasons, they promised to do.
PHILADELPHIA Times: Ohio's own Butter
worth declares that destiny and geography
have declared that the United States and
Canada shall be one people. From this it
should seem that Mr.. Butterworth reads the
stars and totes surveying chain with equal
ability.
NEW YORK Herald: Now that la grippe is
declaring its final dividends and preparing to
90 out of business the restless American people
are beginning to look about them and ask,
"What nextT' We suggest little real winter
and an actual sleigh ride as the most novel
thing we can think of.
NEW YORK Tribune: 1t is not necessarily
immoral to argue that time alone can solve the
problem of fair play for colored citizens at the
South. But if those who defend that view of
the case would conceal their brutal indiffer-
ence to the wrongs inflicted on the negros their
arguments would be heard with greater atten-
ton and complacency.
NEW YORK Sun: The Hon. Russell Ben
jaminovitch Harrison, Marks of Montana. has
returned to the White House, and more Wig
orous policy may now be expected. Baby Nc
Kee is very powerful-in fact, Altogether the
most powerful young Republican in existence;
but it is feared and suspected that after that
leading young Republican is put into his little
bed at night his rival, Russell Benjaminouteh,
may poison the Old Mans mind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
IOCOsE JOTTINGs.

Jones lives in Cincinnati now. Makes
SIC, 600 year from his pen-''
'.Does he do his own packing9''-.yss1 York
Evening Sun.
Bagney-Why did you change your tai
lors? Couldn't Cuttem suit you9
Inndette (sadly)-He could, but he wouldn't
wait any longer.-ISme.
Optimist-Do you know, believe there's
money in the Keely motor9
Pessimist-Yes, tie stockholders money. It is
securely invested, too.-SeD York Euenfn0 Sun.
''Before we married she was yielding and
pensiYe. But now all is changed
'1n what way?''
''she is aggressive and expensive. ''-Hdrpsr's
Bdzdr.
''That is not more than half the compost
tion, - she said, she turned the piano STOOL
''Shall play the rest?''
'FYes - he replied, abstractedly, 'plsy the rest
by all means; play all the rests you can hnd."
Washington Post.
Book Agent-Here is that book, ma'am,
''How to Play the Piano"
any book. -,,
to bring it to you. ''-TITns.
hoolmistress-Tommy, what did you
disobey me for9
Tommy-'Cos thought you'd whip me.
Schoolmtstress-W nat dlo you "@H' HAo " "liP
you for? , ,,,,.
Tommy-'Cos pa said he would II you dldn' I and
he hurts.-Hdrper's Bdgdr.
"Mr. Jaysmith," remarked that gentle
mans mother-in-law she entered the ONCE and
drew up a chair, 'smy daughter was surprisedand
Rrieved at the condition you went home In last
night or rather early this morning."
Eyes ,,repIied Jaysmith cheerfully, ''she didn't
know was loaded. ."-Itms.
AN 1nvI, OF THE SOUTHLAND.
John Henry went cOurting his girl
In the South,
And the dog of her father, By chance,
Observing that Henry wore pants,
Just gave him one Whirl,
And now you may see at glance
That he's wearing the seat of Johns pants
-Rashtaaton star.
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B. Lppincott Co.; j. R. we1din & Co., 81 25). is
Mrs. Wister's last translation. Ossip Schubin
is the author. Erlach Court is wine
wreathed castle on the River Save. Here we
meet the people of the story, not particularly
agreeable people, at first sight reminding one
of the illustrations in Thackeray and Dickens,
Sella the pretty heroine, to light up
the rather dull and somber scene,
and her mother, tiresome woman,
HnTsadaSe wn9 SIstory % of womans a3 PART in the
Development of Civilization" Here. too, is
Baron Rohritz, the hero So the story begins.
has sufficiently hard time of it. Paris becomes
the scene, with Partisan society, good and bad,
in the foreground. There is grand ball given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Fame, immensely wealthy and
unsPeakably parvenu Americans, concerning
which it is said: "Most of the guests do not
recognize the host; and those who suspect his
presence in the serious little man in huge
white tie and with bald head, whom they took
at first for the master Of ceremonies avoid him.
His entire occupation consists in gliding about
with an unhappy face in the darkest cor
ners, now and then timidly requesting some
one OF the guests to look at his last
Meissonier. When the guest complies with the
request and accompanies him to view the Meis-
sonier, Mr.. Fame always replies to the praise
accorded to the picture in the same words:
paid SOC, 900 francs for it. Do you think Meis-
sonier will increase in value%' This reads a
little like ancient history. 1t would be hard to
find the "timid' Mr.. Fame to-day. However at
the Fame ball the good and evil destinies meet,
with the good properly triumphant and the
bad put to ignominious fight.
~
THAT is the advantage of being able to con-
struct your own plot. You can make every
thing come out just right. But when you have
any historical characters in your novel you
cannot manage things so well. This is the diff
hculty with Mrs. Catherwood's Story
If Ionty "a. c. McClurg & Co.; 81.
Watts & Co.. 81 25). Frontenac and
Father Hennepin and La Sale and
Tonty are all real people whose characters and
deeds are written in the histories. Indeed,
Mrs. Catherwood reminds us of this altogether
too often, by many interrupting foot notes.
There is not great and dramatic story to tell,
as there was in the Romance of Dollard," )" and
Mrs. Catherwood has not allowed herself to put
much plot in from her own Imagination. As
result the book, which makes a good begin
ming and has some fine situations in it. really
has no ending at all. 1t stops in the middle of
the ZZIth page and we are told no more: but we
are just beginning to be interested. Little
Barbe Caveller is a well-sustained and most de-
lghttul character. So, too, is Jeanne lie Ber.
The scenes between Jeanne and La Sale and
between Barbe and Tonty, especially at Fort
st. Louis, are most charmingly done, and show
the strength which was evident in Dollard but
the requirements of the history are rather Sc
we're and the Wanderings into which we are led
by Fact, whose hand is as hard as Tonty's, are
lite wearisome.
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THEIR OWN LOGIC.

Considerable attention, and some criti-
cism, is evoked by the movement of the
farmers of the extreme Western States, with
the Governor of Nebraska at their head, to
induce the railroads to make reduced rate
for the transportation of corn to the East.
This step is urged on behalf of the farmers,
with the argument that the corn cannot be
shipped at the present railway charges, and
that from the reduced rate the farmers will
gain the part Of the price left after the cost
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27

IT is interesting to observe that Stanley de-
scribes his personal appearance In letter, by
saying: my hair is like snow from Ruwenzori.
but it is a crown of a busy period and wear il
without regret as the gift of time" 1t is well
that Stanley took his illustration from Africa,
which is not generally supposed to know much
about snow. If be had said that his hair was
like the snow of the United States the conclu-
sion would have been that he had become as
bald as Ben Butler
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
Gladstone as a Conservative.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Was Gladstone ever elected to Parliament as
q Conservative L.
MANSFIELD, January %.
[Yes; in December, 1882, he was returned as a
Conservative from Newark. For four months
in 1884 and 1885 he was in Peel's Conservative
Ministry. In 1S41 he was in Peers second Min
istry. In 1915 he resigned from Parliament,
bnt was returned in August, 1847, as one Of the
members for Oxford University. In February,
1851, he formally separated from the Conserva-
tive party He was reelected from Oxford
University, but was rejected in 1855. Since
then he has represented South Lancashire,
Greenwich and Edinburgh city.l
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Mr.. Carleton Not to Retire.

To the Editor Of The Dispatch:
In your issue of this date paragraph appears
under the heading Before the Curtain" which
states that after this season, 1 intend to aban-
don my career as manager and artist in this
country and return to England to remain there.
beg to state that there is positively no founda-
tion for this statement; my chief interests, do
mestic, social and financial. are on this side of
the Atlantic, and having been received here by
both press and public in the most generous and
kindly spirit for 16 years, have no intention of
giving up position feel very proud of.
regret that your critics views as to the mer-
its of my company are not SO favorable as
would wish, but 1 assure you the box Office
receipts during the entire past week were Of
hattering and profitable proportions.
w. T. CARLETON.
PITTsBURG, January 26
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27

IT is surprising to learn that the Harvard
College students pronounce the word drama as
though the first syllable were that homely but
useful vehicle called dray. The New York
Sun in noticing this fact asserts that the cor.
rect New England pronunciation is ''draymy.''
It is more difficult to trace the origin of that
pronunciation than the rendering of the same
word which is current in New York. The aver
age New Yorker makes the word dram give the
key note for the pronunciation of drama. eYi-
IDENTIFY on account of the belief that the most
important feature of the drama is that which is
absorbed between the acts
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-27
LIFE,

A flower that blooms and withers in a night?
A sealed book writ in unknown lore?
gem which broken nothing can restore?
A fevered dream? An atom of delight?
A song that dies ere scarce tits given flight?
beaten wave that sobs along the shore,
And breaking on the rocks is heard no more?
At best a triumph hardly worth the fight?
These are not life! Nay; what with life comparesF
Or what may with its glory dare to shine?
Life is gift ineffable, which bears
The Seal immortal from the Hand Divine; .
The gift to serve and love through endless years.
life most beautiful, what joy is thinel
Emma c. Do1od in YoUthfs Companion.