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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
BRIGGS BACK TAXES.

That question of Senator Brice's citizen
ship, like BGnQuO'8 ghost, continues to
bob up and disturb the festivities at the
most inconvenient seasons. The last shape
in which it appears is in the discovery of
the tax-collector of Allen county, O., that
Mr.. Brice has for five years claimed ex-
emption from taxes on his very consider
able personal property on the ground that
be was not a resident Of Lima, but had re-
moved to New York. But, as Mr.. Brice's
election to the Senatorship was based on his
claim of residence in Lima, it is not un-
naturally claimed that he ought to paw
those back taxes, which, with the penalty,
are stated to reach S732, 600. If this sum
should be collected, it would, with the cost
of Brice's Senatorial campaign, make his
Seat in that body luxury which none but
the extremely wealthy can afford. But
there is little danger of its collection.
Millionaires do not rise to political power
for the purpose of giving up hundreds Of
thousands, the payment of which they sue
cessfuIly evaded in private life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
A PIECE or SENTIMENT.
The ArizOna People Do Not WanE Gsroul-
mo Back Among Them.

AnC ANtAOha = COplc DO MOI "0uE NBEOuAa
mo Back Among Them.
WASHINGTON. February 10.-IAeutenant
Colonel Lawton testified that if the Apaehes
became dissatisfied at Fort Sill they could cas-
lily reach their old haunts. The sanitary condi-
tions at Fort Sill, he said, are poor. 1t is
known as one OF the worst posts in the country.
Geronimo. the leader of the Apaches, has been
on the war path at least three times. VIII. h.
Llewellyn, OF New Mexico, and Brewster Cam
eron. of Arizona, protested against the re-
moval of the Apaches to Fort Sin. They pic
tured the terrible Outrages committed by these
Indians in the past and said they would be re-
peated should they be sent to Fort Sill. The
testimony of these two gentlemen was in line
with the protest signed by them and sent out
several days since. Mr.. Cameron said there
need be no trouble about getting reservation
east OF the Mississippi. The people Of Arizona
and New Mexico would themselves pay for
enough land in Vermont to settle the Indians.
Delegate Smith, Of Arizona, said this move
ment in behalf of q sick indian was due TO
sickly sentimentality in the East The wit.
ness said that if the Indian was to be treated
with such consideration it might be well to
give the white man show. These Indians, il
they once get back to the west side of the great
river, will find their way to the San Carts
agency and Geronimo would never rest until
he had stirred them up If the cloud OF their
presence Is to be cast over the people of Ari-
zona. Mr. Smith said. it would be Just as well
TO bring Indians back to the White Mountain
reservation at once and go through the expert
ence prior to 1887 again. If the Government
will take one-third of the money it has ex-
pended for agricultural implements to teach
Geronimo and his Indians the arts Of peace 1t
can buy reservation for them east of the Mis-
issiDpi river and build each of them = house.
The proposed removal of the Apaches, Mr..
Smith said, would paralyze every industry Of
Arizona, and the people Of the Territory enter
very vigorous protest against it, believing it
would be a great outrage,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
CITY EMPLOYEES AND POLITICS.

The order of the Department of Public
Safety, which was made public yesterday,
puts the relations of the city employees with
municipal politics on exactly the right foot
ing. The city employees have the same rights
in politics as other citizens and no more.
They have the right to vote as they deem
best; but they should neither be forced to
work for especial candidates nor permitted to
neglect their public duties, in order to carry
elections. They can contribute to campaign
funds if they wish, but they must not be
compelled to do SO. These are the princi-
pies stated in Mr.. Browns orders, and they
constitute the essence of civil service re-
form, with regard to the participation of
employees in politics. 1t is rather novel for
the managers of city politics to find them
selves confronted with such check on the
policy of running the city departments as
a political machine; but if the principles
avowed in the order are strictly adhered to,
it will have a very salutary public effect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11

French drama nearly always depending
upon risky situations for their main appeal
to the public, are abominations of which the
American stage is we'll rid.
Our own dramatists have come to under
stand that the great bulk of Americans, as
Max O'Rell says "will listen to a clever
dialogue with complete enjoyment" The
attributes this clever .fancur finds in his
own countrymen in France belong to very
many Americans, and he might say to them,
as he says of the French, that "a study of
character, a social problem, will interest
them quite as much as mere strong situa-
tions." The plays which have been written
by Americans during the last five or six
years conspicuously show this new line of
attack, and their success demonstrates the
popular appreciation of the new departure.
1t is not really new departure either, but
rather a return to the principles which
made ''The School for Scandal" classic for
all time. Pittsburg is fortunate this week in
having two excellent examples of the new
American drama in its theaters. There is
no doubt about the merits, disslmilar
though they be, of Bronson Howard's ''The
Henrietta" and Gillette's "Held by the
Enemy"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
Prominent. but No. Good Arr.

T KNOW that Bierstadt has for many years oc-
cupied prominent place in American art.
Nevertheless this is not good art. 1t is not
even good painting. Compare it with the little
marine by Chase. No. Is. In pluck and quail
ties of daylight the Chase is a mastery pro-
duction. The New York committee. appointed
to select pictures for the Paris international
exhibition last summer, in rejecting Bierstadt's
paintings, on the ground that they are not rep
resentative of American art did not make a
mistake. In strong contrast with the DeHass
and Bierstadt are many strong and excellent
works. There is one, marvellous exhibition
of skillful painting, the Whipper-in, No. 81.
In this school OF painting the Whipper-in is
scarcely excelled anywhere. There is a mas
terly painting in the Vanderbilt collec-
tiOn. by BaTgue, painted in the same man
ner, with which this work will compare favor
ably. Probably nothing is quite SO difficult
of explanation as the qualities of painting.
Your standard Of Judgment, In limited sense,
must be forever shifting. The purpose and
method of the painter must inevitably be taken
into account. The standard of judgment ap-
piled to Corot for instance cannot be arbitrari-
ly applied to Messonier, From time i'm
memorial paintings have been referred to as
possessing quality called soul. No word
could be more confusing to the human mind.
We instantly associate it with something in
detnable and beyond our comprehension,
Let us substitute the word quality The
meaning of this word we grasp more readily
Let us place alongside this the word charac-
character of a landscape just as there is the es-
sentiaI character of a man. You know that
mans face does not alway express the mans
predominant or essential character. This is
proven over and over again by the fact that out
of ten proofs from different negatives prob
ably only one is satisfactory as a portrait to
those who are familiar with the mans inner or
essential character. Mine times out of ten his
face did not quite express this character. The
camera y as not at fault. The portrait painter
who can read character does not make nine
mistakes. The landscape painter who reads
the essential character of scene renders it
more faithfully than u copying machine. In
any great work this quality must exist. 1t
must be dominant quality, dealing not with
the minute littleness Of the materials at hand,
but expressing the salient or important feature
which results from the combination of all.
The quality of apainting is largely depend
ent upon color-rather upon the union of colors
with such refinement OF taste as to appeal to
the finer sense. This is to greater or less ex-
tent a matter of selection. Not all combina-
tions in nature are harmonious and complete
You will see at once that tbe selection is mat
ter of refined Judgment.
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TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. TUESDAY. FEB IL. 1890.
Mr. cAREEGIE's FORMAL OFFER.

The formal presentation of Mr.. Carnegie's
offer to Pittsburg Councils yesterday, and
the initial steps for accepting the same,
raised no new point that had not already
been anticipated bv the newspaper accounts.
Mr.. Carnegie insists with emphasis upon
the city supporting the library and its sd-
juncts. This is only right There will be
no one so mean as to object 1t will cost
something to support Schenley Park, and it
will cost SAC, 900 per year to support the Car
negie Library, with its branch libraries, art
gallery and museum Of sciences, but Pitts
burg will be all the pleasanter and more
profitable place to live in for both of these
attractions.
The only two other points suggested
BY the proceedings yesterday were
that the form of government pro-
posed for the Pittsbu-g library, viz,
by a mixed commission, consisting of
citizens named BY Mr.. Carnegie and of city
officers and Councilmen, might proftsbly
be adopted as the best solution of the issue
scross the river; and, secondly, that the
mention of Mr.. Carnegie in his letter of
having zone of the branch libraries in East
Liberty, one on the Southside, one at Law
renceviIle and one in the Old City," seemed
to give color to the report that it is contem-
plated to put the new and main library
somewhere in the middl. distance embraced
by the Eleventh, Thirteenth or Fourteenth
wards, which is rapidly becoming the center
of population.
After the gift shall have been formally
the situation will be the next point
Of interest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
AT THE THEATERS.
The Henrietta Agnin--GIlIetre's War Play
Other Plays and Players.

OtuSr Eluy8 1u0 Flayerhs
Bronson Howard's great comedy, "The
Henrietta" !" was given its second production at
the Grand Opera House last night before a
very large audience. 1t was received as it
was last year with roars Of laughter and loud
applause. The play was welcomed warmly,
and SO were the players.
There is no need at all to expatiate in these
columns upon the unusual merits of 'srhe Hen
rietta;" its subtle and powerful construction,
the delicious humor of the dialogue, the wit
and wisdom in it. 1t has been said before in
this paper that THE Henrietta" is the best
play as yet written by an American-and it is
one of the few comedies that will outlive its
author The company which interpreted the
play:last night is virtually new one. although
Mr.. Stuart Robson is still BERTHE the Lamb and
George Woodward makes the ReU. Dr. Murray
Hilton picture of fashionable piety that is IN
tensely amusing. 1t is regrettable, of course,
that Mr.. Crane is no longer with Mr. Robson in
the character of Nicholas VdndLSta1le which
suited HIM SO well, 1t is unavoidable that the
work of Mr.. Frank Mordaunt, who takes his
place, should be compared with Mr.. Crane
But it is not fair to either to do so. Mr.
Mordaunt does not attempt in the smallest
way to initiate Mr. Crane and he gives us a
type of man inNiQt VdndLstyne very different
from Mr.. Cranes conception of the character.
Mr.. Mordaunt Is undoubtedly successful in
making out clean cut personality of living
steel will, nerves and backbone, There is in
him breath of the bounding West, and his
playfulness and good nature are the
hearty sort you'd look for in a sea captain.
Mr.. M6rdaunt is. we think, more powerful than
Mr., Crane in the few tragic episodes of the
play, and not SO successful as Mr.. Crane in the
rendering of the comedy, Mr.. Crane gave an
essentially gentle flavor to one side Of the rich
old operator, which Mr.. MGrdaunt cannot or
does not impart to the character. Mr.. Cranes
Nick VdndIStVne was more lovable than Mr..
Mordaunfs. But MIR. Mordaunt's acting Is ex-
ceediDgly good.
Mr.. Stuart Robson is inimitable, of course, in
his role of the innocent lamb. 1t may be re-
peated that Mr.. Woodward as the fashionable
pastor was prodigiously funny. Mr.. Ratcliffe
is reasonably able to play the difficult rOla of
the son of VdndLstyne, who tries to ruin his
father, but Mr., Wilson was not satisfactory as
the doctor. The other parts were well filed,
Miss Eugene Lindeman achieving quite a.little
triumph In the pathetic episode she figures
in in the second act Miss May
Waldron was very buoyant and bubbling as the
widow who enslaves her pastor and her stock
broker. If THE Henrietta" had not been
played here last year by an exceptionally strong
company, the one now here wonld be seen to
greater advantage. The play is beautifully
staged, and the performance as whole is Of a
high class
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
FANCIBUL AND FUNNY,

The weather bureau is very promising,
but it is sometimes overruled.-Troy Prsss.
The world seldom looks to see the kind Of
tracks you left behind, provided you only get
there AfLteaukee Journal.
Many coffin is covered with roses BY
bands that never before gave Its occupant any
thing but thofns.-Asmphts Appeal.
The road to happiness and the road 10
misery follow the same course. The difference IL
in the trayeerS not in the rald traveled.-BOstoH
Transcript.
When should women marry? is a ques-
tion that was recently discussed. A cynical ed
itor answers; ''When they ger ehance.'-
HhseLing Register.
In five minutes woman can clean up a
mans room IN such 4 way that it will take him
i've weeks to fnd out where she puts things
Atchfson, Kdn., Globe.
Had Pity on HINT hear your coach
man ran OF with 500 Of your money. Are you
going to try 10 recover it?''
'No, the poor fellow will need it; my daughter
went with him.-Heto York Sun.
Beacon Hill-Reject me, if you will, but
don't add insult to injuryl Your cousin Belle
would be glad TO take mel
Miss Boylaton-Perhaps she would. She's an
amateur photographer.-Bostos Times.
Little Invalid-Mamma, is heaven .
pleasant placer
Mother-Yes, my child.
Invalid-Then why do the doctors tEy so hard TO
keep US from going there?-Boston Herald.
WEATHER QUERY.
When the springtime comes, gentle Greely,
When the sprinztime comes this year,
Oh, say, can you tell, gentle Greedy.
How we shall know IL is hereg
-Wdshtn0toH S5a1.
Youthful Astronomer. = Little Boy
Papa, what are the stars?
Papa-You will find out when you grow older
Little Roy-I know now. They are the ends OF
the cigars that the angels are smoking. and the
clouds are the cigar smoke. Minneapolis Tribune.
Jinks-I took my first sleighride yester-
day.
Blinks-I didn't know you had rig.
al hired one at livery stable.''
''Were you upsetS''
Indeed vas-when 1 learned tue pries."-
Eeto Yeek Weekly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
THE NEW AMERICAN DRAMA.

Max o'Rell has said many smart things
about Americans, and some truths, but be is
both smart and truthful when he SAYS that
American theater-goers enjoy wit, humor
and sparkling dialogue when they get it.
which is not often. The select band of
American playwrights who have recently
come to the front owe their success largely
TO their comprehension of the real desires cf
the best American audience. Until recently,
as everybody knows, the American stage
was occupied by English melodrsmas and
emasculated French comedies. The English
melodrama has certainly seen its best days
in America. A glance at the list of plays
performed here this season will convince
anyone Of this. The plays taken from the
French are also disappearing, as the pro-
duction of native dramas grows. These are
happy omens for the future of the national
stage. The sanguinary and thunderous
melodrama, with or without tanks, and the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
INSPECTION AND RIVER FRE1aHTs.

1t was published yesterday that one of the
reasons why the railroad men are worried
over the large shipments of freight by river
is that the weighing and inspection
bureau of the railroads has no jurisdiction
over those shipments. This weighing bureau
is established to see that no shipments are
billed at less than their actual weight; and
the thought that freight may be going for
ward by river, free from such a check, is
quite troublesome to our railroad friends.
But the railroad interest can, If it chooses,
console itself with the reflection that if that
losers. The reason why underbilling was
public abuse, in railway shipments, was
that it could be done with the eognizance of
the initial railroad and thus enforce dis
elimination at the cost of the disfavored
shippers. Each railroad could have weighed
its own freight if it had chosen; but as some
Of them were evidently fond Of that way Of
covering up favoritism the joint bureau was
established. On the rivers, carriers cannot,
by that means or any other, put
the cost of favoritism on the ship
pers who do not get the secret
advantage. If an attempt were made to give
a favored shipper such vital advantages as
built up the Standard Oil Company the
other shippers could easily start their own
boats or find new competitors in the river
carrying trade.
ANY special advantage on river freight
rates therefore is simply at the cost of the
carrier. Our railroad friends need not fear
that the river men are in danger of being
wronged by the wicked shippers who under
bill their shipments. The river carriers can
weigh and inspect their freights Just as the
railroads could-when they wished to.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
Just Forget the Tonnage.

CPEND few hours among these treasures to-
day, and you viii forget the enormous ton
mage of Pittsburg; you will forget her miles
upon miles of mills and factories and realize
the supremacy of intellectual achievement.
The memory of an hour thus spent will cling
for years, and one will be a better man for it,
Should you feel in the presence of a superb
Corot rich in refined quality and poetic feel
ing, or beautiful Bouguereau, deliciously pure
in drawing and tone or grand Schreyer, sin
gle doubt as to the grand qualities contained In
these works, you might well make timely
prayer for the sight which reveals these things
/ have spoken of the almost uniform excellence
Of this collection. This is the first thought
which will strike the observer: The great num-
Der OF good works as compared with the very
limited number Of inferior ones. Nothing re-
veals the weakness of an ordinary picture so
quickly as the presence of strong ones. Few
indeed in this collection fail, although the Or
deal is severe. Two or three suffer terribly.
cannot ignore this fact and remain true to
the trust implied in the invitation from a
great jOnrnal to treat this subject with
an eye single to the benefieent influence which
should be exerted by these works upon our
community. Not SO much IN the spirit of crit
icism, therefore, as for the purpose of explana-
ton and comparison, do ask the visitor to first
carefully and thoughtfully study large paint
ing by A. MOreau No. 75 and one to the left by
COrot. Remember that Corot is an apostle of
refined color and exquisite tone. Moreau does
not suffer much in contact with the beautiful
qualities of Corot. Go quickly into the small
gallery and glance at large painting. No. 30
by De Hass, and you will instantly realize the
crudeness in color and hardness in handling
this landscape; comparison of this large
Moreau with small figure piece, No 73
painted by the same master ten years earlier
will prove interesting and instructive. Some
thing analogous to the transformation of For
tuny's style here occurs. The small painting is
hard, although done with great precision and
care. The large one is grand in its harmonious
qualities of color. Another large painting
would have you examine, because of its In
large Bierstadt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
A BAND OF CANINE WHITE CAPS.
Union County Dogs Turn Anarchists and
Wage War Upon Their Fellows.

Union County Dogs Turn Anarchists and
Wage War Upon Their Fellows.
'srroIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPA Arc4.i
WATsoNTowN, Pa, February I0.-In the
valley lying between New Columbia and White
Deer Mills, Union county. Pa, are some very
beautiful farms and thrifty farmers tilling
them, Most of the farmers own from one to
three dogs. Some of the CANNES are of enor-
nous size and very fierce. It appears that the
dogs have formed an organization or brother
hood. Upon the violation of the laws of the
organization the guilty offender is branded and
white Capped" Less than year ago dele
cation of the largest and fiercest of the band
visited Squire Farley's premises and killed
two of his finest dogs outright. Upon the fol-
lowing evening they visited Mr.. E. Oldt's
premises and slaughtered one OF his dogs.
They visited other farmers kennels, but were
always frightened of before much damage
was done by the farmer arming himself with
shotgun and keeping the brutes at bay by
blazing away at them.
Que Of the ringleaders got shot in the breast
il nothing had happened. Last Thursday night
they visited the premises of G. H. Ranck, near
New Columbia, and enticed his dog away with
them. When they had gone a short distance
from the house the whole party set upon
Ranck's dog and killed 1t. On the previous
night they killed two OF Mr.. Berkenstoek's
dogs and dragged their dead carcasses across
the creek, where they left them. They ap-
parently select the best dogs as their victims.
leaving worthless ones ,at liberty. They are
evidently anarchistic in their views, and do
not want "aristocratic CANNES" 10 live The
farmers have been aroused and say there must
be break up OF the gang of terrors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-11
1T MAINTAINS FIRST PLACE.
The Dispatch at the Head of the List of
Live Newspapers.

From the Butler County ReeOrd.1
THE PITTsBURa DISPATCH maintains un-
disputed the position which it has long held at
the head of Western Pennsylvania and East
erp Ohio newspapers-indeed the territory in
dicated might be largely extended without in
justice to other journals. Its vast and varied
machinery for gathering news from near and
far, which includes leased wires to all of the
principal cities, and special correspondents To-
Gated at these, points enables THE DAILY DIS
PATCH to lay before its readers every morning
an account of the previous days doings in
every quarter Of the civilized world. Its full
and reliable market reports, its progressive
policy and its independence upon all subjects,
commend it to business men and all classes of
intelligent readers.
The mammoth 2Opage Sunday edition has
attained phenomenal popularity, having
circulation of more than $1,000 copies. Each
number is in itself volume of the choicest
productions of its scores of able contributors,
of special cable letters, sporting and business
reviews. including full and accurate record
of current news.
The vast and rapidly growing circulation Of
both the daily and Sunday issues has necessi-
tated the addition of new facilities to its al
ready well-equipped press department An.
other Of Hoe & Co.'s double perfecting presses
is soon to be placed beside the rapid presses
now at work. giving advantages for issuing a
large edition eQualed only by few plants in
the largest cities.