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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
THE GENTLE SEX.

THE principal dentists in Australia have
women assistants.
THE heirs of a rich man in Austria have
given $4,000 to found school of housekeeping
for girls.
THE attempt to make the Constitution of
North Dakota exclude a woman from the office
of School Superintendent Of the State has
been abandoned.
THE most famous of English yachtswomen
are Mrs. Rudsop Reed and her sister, Miss Cox.
Each Of these women sails her own boat-the
former holding the helm of the Troublesome,
and the latter that of the M'liss.
Miss IRENE HoYT is said to have the finest
collection of corner lots of any person in the
country. For years she has made it business
to buy a corner lot in every town she visited,
and in some towns she has several.
ANOTHER medical school for women is to be
opened in October in connection with Queen
Margaret College, Glasgow. 1t is said that the
demand for highly competent women is con-
tinually increasing, as India and the East be-
come more enlightened and unprejudiced.
MRS. FRANK LESLIE, who has been reported
as saving that Socialists should be shot down
like dogs" is being roundly denounced by the
Socialists in Chicago, who credit Mrs. Leslie
with being the mouthpiece OF New York's Four
Hundred and representative of the plutocracy
OF the East
Two WOMEN artists of distinction have Just
died in England-Miss Marianne North and
Miss Alice Havers Mrs. Fred Morgan). The
gallery in Kew Gardens, London. contains
6a pictures by Miss North of the fauna and
flora of countries like Brazil, California, Bor-
neo, Japan and Java the result of her 12-years'
wanderings, unattended and alone. She is
pronounced the Livingstone of art"
HERBERT SPENCER has chronicled this fact:
wives In England were bought from the fifth
to the eleventh century, and as late as the
seventeenth century. Husbands of decent
station were not ashamed to beat their wives.
Gentlemen arranged parties of pleasure for
the purpose of seeing wretched women whipped
at Bridewell. 1t was not till 1877 that the pub
lie whipping of women was abolished In En-
gland"
THE death Of Mrs. B. F. Weir, wife of the
Professor of Chemical Surgery in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, is announced from
Milan. She was an American woman, widely
known, and during the civil war was a hospital
nurse at Frederick City, Md, where wounded
Federal soldiers and captive Confederates were
tenderly cared for by her. She was then Miss
Marie Washington Mcpherson, and many old
soldiers of both armies remember her with af-
fectionate regard.
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tration and that Mr.. Russell b. Harrison
is advertised as one of its proprietors makes
this charge all the more pertinent. Mr..
Russ ell Harrison before the enactment of the
law displayed a steady affection for the
profits of lottery advertising in his Helena
paper; but it was supposed that the example
of his distinguished papa in signing the
anti-lottery bill had induced him to reform.
1t certainly seems necessary to state that
if the law is to be worth anything, publi-
cation should not be permitted to violate 1t
because it has cultivated relations with the
Presidents son for its own benefit If the
New Orleans Times Democrat has not
evolved this charge out of the whole cloth,
the first duty Of the postal authorities should
be to treat the publishers of Frank Leslie,
including Mr.. Russell Harrison, to a very
sharp dose Of the legal penalties.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY. OCT. o, is
WORK IT BOTH WAYS.

The report is published that the Pension
Bureau has directed Mr.. Barclay, the pen
sion agent at this point, who is now stump
ing the State with Pattison, to return to his
Office and to remain at his post. This
would be very proper action if it were not
FOR one fact. That is that Mr.. Barclay sent
IN his resignation some time ago. When
an oflceholder has resigned, and the delay
in appointing his successor is due wholly TO
the administration, it is an open question
whether he has not some right to devote his
time to other matters in which he has de-
cided personal interest.
Nevertheless it Is satisfactory to see that
the administration is taking the position
hat oficeholders must not neglect their
official duties to take part in political cam
paigns. Such an attitude must of course
include the correction of some matters to
which The DISPATCH has already called
attention. Of course if the administration
makes Mr.. Barclay return to his post
it will do the same to several Re-
publican oficeholders who are doing
campaign work at present. The need
OF this action is just as manifest
in their case as in Barclays; and it is not
learned that they have sent in their resigna-
tions. 1t might be possible for Mr.. Barclay
10 see that the Pension Office here continues
its work as he is nevar more than a days
journey away from it. But it is manifestly
impossible for Mr.. John Jarrett to superin-
tend the consulate at Birmingham while he
is stumping in this country; and it is no less
difficult for Mr.. John c. Delaney to perform
his duties as Receiver of Public Moneys at
Oklahoma while he is doing work in this
State, understood to be more in the line OF
the disbursement of political funds.
OF course the administration will call off
Jarrett, Delaney, New and the many other
Republican oficeholders who are giving
their whole time to the campaign, before it
disturbs Barclay. 1t is not to be supposed
that, standing on double pledge of civil
service reform. it will make flesh of the
Republican oficeholders and fowl Of the
Democratic class.
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A REMARKABLE CHARGE.

When the bill excluding lottery matter
from the mails was passed by Congress The
DISPATCH said that its effectiveness would
depend upon its enforcement, and that If in
fuence proved powerful enough to prevent
prosecutions it would be relegated to the list
of waste paper legislation. The Postoffice
Department has shown disposition to make
prosecutions vigorously in certain quarters;
but charge is made from the South of par
tiality in the prosecutions which, if true,
will cause the public to lose all respect for
the administration of the law.
The New Orleans Times Democrat makes
the square assertion that while prosecutions
are directed against the publishers of South
ern newspapers for publishing lottery ad-
vertisements, Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Newspaper is permitted to pass through the
mails containing an advertisement of a
German lottery, which violates the law as
much as any of the publications on which
prosecutions have been based. It is
further asserted that every issue
Of Frank Leslie since the enactment
of the law has contained this illegal adver-
tisement. The fact that this Newspaper
claims to officially represent the admins
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
BRIGHT AND BREEZY.

An Interesting Meeting of the Woman's
Club-Spain Summed Up in Brilliant
Essay-The Secretary Resigns-Piano and
Song Recital-Other Society Events.
A breezy, brilliant and consequently very
delightful meeting of the Woman's Club was
held yesterday afternoon in the Teachers
Library. The only routine business of any
consequence brought before the club was the
selection of suitable and appropriate motto
for the members, but as the discussion resulted
in harmonious discord" only. the matter was
tabled for the present. The literary treat OF
the afternoon was paper by the president OF
the club, Mrs. c. /. Wade ('.Bessie Bramble").
on Spain in general In her own practical,
forceful, attractive style, Mrs. Wade summed
spain up as a back number, country that
from one OF the most powerful countries. If not
the most powerful country in Europe, had
rerrograded to the most insigniicapt-politic-
ally. morally. intellectually and commercially.
One would naturally suppose, said Mrs.
wade. that In a country where State and
church are so closely allied, model citizens
would abound. but the reverse is the case in
Spaln, as craft, cowardice, treachery and dis
honesty are prominent traits OF the Spaniard,
and 1t Will take centuries OF free governments
and enlightenment to effacc the lamentable
results. Mrs. Wade paid Queen Isabella some
very pretty compliments, she also said that If
queen Isabella had not been pos
sessed OF an income of her own from
CASTLE, that America might yet be the home of
the red man, for her worthy liege lord drew his
pursestrings very closely together, and said No
emphatically to the enterprise proposed by
Golamous. = With a significance SO strong tnat
IL might be transpol ted easily to the sIerner sex
at home, Mrs. Wade modernized the Incl
dent. With parting glance at cid" one Of
SPANS greatest heroes, and few words about
her most noted artists. Mrs. Wade concluded.
The discussion which followed the reading of
the paper was an animated one, and especially
interesting. Just before adjournment the Sec
retary, Mrs. Irvine Reynolds, surprised the
club greatly by rendering her resignation, ow-
ing TO an expected prolonged absence from the
city. The request that it be accepted imme-
diately was complied with, and vote of thanks
rendered Mrs. Reynolds for faithful and eff
cient service. Mrs. Dr. Ramsey, who has al
ready served a number of years as Secretary.
was unanimously elected to the vacancy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
Social Chatter.

AN early-morning wedding yesterday united
Miss Jennie Fetherston, daughter OF Mrs. G.
Fetherston, of Watson street, to Mr.. Charles
F. Mcbride, well-known young clerk in the
office of the Pennsylvania Company. The cere-
mony was performed in st. PauIs Cathedral, a
wedding breakfast followed and later the
young couple departed for three weeks
honeymoon trip.
THE wedding of Miss Nellie Walton, the
daughter of the wealthy Western avenue Wal
ton family, will be celebrated with becoming
ceremonies on the 18th of November. Mr..
James Wood will be the happy man
THE Leetsdale Library building was formally
opened last evening with any amount Of merri-
ment and good cheer. The supper was served
by Kennedy.
THE annual reception and donation Of the
First Allegheny Day Nursery will be held at
its parlors tomorrow from to 10 p. M.
s MRS. MAX BECKER and her daughter. Mrs.
Moore, of Washington, d. G., are visiting in
Cincinnati.
A LECTURE and a musical will be given in
the Second Congregational Church tonight
A SUPPER and social was given in the Point
Breeze Presbyterian Church last evening,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
THE MERRY-GO-ROUND,

The TROY Press seems to have a grudge
AGAINST Joan Of Arc. and insists that she 80
crank ,, The more widely held view is that the
electric Maid was the original Arc lighL-PhfLa-
detphiG Ledger.
'where do good humorists go when they
die?''
..Don,t know-Chestuut Hill Cemetery. per-
haps. .''-Eeo York Herald.
81 read in scientific article to-day that
the coming man will have neither teeth nor
hair.''
.sThen the coming man is here! That describes
my baby exactly. ''-NeD York Sun.
1t is reported that since the last fire there
Colon has come to full stop.-Eeto York Press.
Tommy Judkins-Papa, what do they
mean by selling race? Is anything actually sold?
Judkins-Yes, my son, and IL Is usually the pub
lic.-Week's sport
Boston child becoming impatient at its
notber,s delay in hearing Its evening prayers,
claimed: ''Come, mamma, Dod's a-waitin'."-
Lot0eu Mail.
Cumso-What an extensively vain man
Brown is.
Banks-Dear me. never thought him vain.
Cumso-But be is, though. just notice how ex-
cessiveIy and persistently modest he is.-Ctnefa-
natl Gazette.
In respect to putting baby to sleep, I
forgot to say that after you have very carefully
laid him down and crawled away from the cradle
ON YOUR hands aud knees SO as not to awaken him,
Won are paralvzed by loud and distinct ''Yal yai
yal,, and you have to do 1t all over again.. u.
Harbour, In Detroit Free Press.
Chestnuts brown are in the market but
none so brown those rendered by the politician.
Chicago Times.
"You are as bad as a playful kitten in
jumping at concluslons,'' remarked Keedick 70
his wife.
,sDo kittens Jump at conclusionss', asked Mrs.
Keedick,
'sCertainly, have you never seen kittens chase
their tailsg''-Chicago Inter Ocean.
81 am in dreadful pickle" remarked
theatrical manager.
"What is the trouble?''
'ewhy, you my star has just had her dia-
monds stolen.n
.'Same old''-
seThat's inst it. Ihaven't nerve enough to re-
port the matter to the police. = Hashtngtoa
Post
Rudyard Kipling hes been compelled to
cease work because Of illness. Only Howells is
LEFT now clingng the coat-tails Of the world to
restrain it from lApsing into barhArism. Chicago
Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
SOUTHERN PROSPERITY

In English Eyes Threatens to Surpass That
of the North and West.
From the London Spectator
The years which have elapsed since the close
of the great Secession struggle have been, as
all men know, years of miraculous growth and
prosperity in the region south of the imaginary
line which sewers the United States from the
Dominion of Canada. The tide of population
and prosperity is still ever mounting higher
and higher.
If the young States of Minnesota and Dakota
are beginning to rival, with their vast cities
and Industries, the prodigies of elder States,
the hitherto unworked mineral wealth of the
South threatens to cast into the shade the cliffs
and mountains of iron which line the shores of
Lake Superior. or the more precious veins of
metal in Nevada and California.
The buzz of a ceaseless enterprise spreads
through the Paciric States, and the outlay of
the dollars of San Francisco and Portland is
raising on the shores of Puget Sound cities and
towns already linked to Chicago and New York
by stupendous systems of railways.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22

His Grave Near Utica Bedecked With Flow
ers by Loving Hands.
From the New York world.l
Ex-senator Thomas c. Platt and several
prominent Republican politicians were seated
on a sofa in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel last evening. They had discussed local
politics and had branched off into reminis-
cences of feuds outside the city. Roscoe Conk-
ling's name was mentioned in the discussion
which followed, and every one of the party had
a story to tell in which the departed statesman
figured.
Roscoe Conkling is not forgotten" re-
marked a stranger who had overheard the
conversation. Il was in Utica a week ago."
he continued, land while there l drove out to
the cemetery. l saw a party of ladies and
gentlemen scattering flowers over a grave. and
as ! was some distance away / asked laborer
whose memory they were honoring, and he re-
man he was, too l afterwards learned that
the two gentlemen and the two ladies who
formed the party had journeyed from New
York city to bedeck Roscoe COnkling's grave"
Roscoe Conkling will always live in the
memory of his friends" remarked Dwight
Lawrence
"The people in Utica" continued the
stranger, have not discovered who the ladles
and gentlemen were who scattered garlands on
the grave of Roscoe Conkling. The elder gen.
tleman was fully 90 years of age. while the
younger gentleman appeared to be about 40.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
THE BRAVE ENGINEER

Similar to the One Pictured by Mr.. Depew
in Pittsburg.
From the New York Tribune.i
Engineer John Burns, whose presence Of
mind, ready decision and bravery doubtless
saved from death many passengers on Lake
Shore express train yesterday. is precisely the
sort of a man Mr.. Depew had in mind when. in
his Pittsburg address, he So vividly portrayed
the true engineers heroic conduct under the
most trying circumstances.
Burns saw wreck on the track ahead. He
was going so miles an hour. 1t was impossible
to stop in time. He might reverse his engine,
jump for his life and let his passengers take
their chances. But no! He would not desert
his post, Opening his throttle, he drove his
engine ahead at higher speed and actually
cut way through the wreck. Though some of
the passenger cars were torn open. not pas
senger was killed, and only one or two were
hurt. Burns himself escaped with slight IN
juries. With a man of less nerve and bravery
in the cab q dreadful catastrophe could hardly
have been avoided. -
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SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
DIGNITY is like dress coat. and should only
be worn as occasion requires.


be worn as occasion requires.
OCTOBER is fading away-withering, shiver.
ing. Frost-bitten and benumbed it is going,
leaving only a record of changeful moods on
the records of the historians who keep track of
the weather that has gone and annoy us with
their prophetic visions of the weather that is to
come. Stripped of green garb. futtering in
russell rags, the trees stretch their nearly naked
limbs winterward, shelterless. shadowless,
cheerless. Through the skeleton groves the
winds weirdly wake the echoes, playing on
natures shivering strings drge over sum-
mer's lost glory and autumn's slow decay. No
flowers nod to the breeze, no leaves rustic, no
grain waves over bare fields, dead
flowers. stripped forests October will
breathe its last sigh;'upon the blighred rem
nants of autumn 1t will shed it's last tear Per-
haps it will be frozen ere it falls-a cheerless,
cold farewell And now we can look winter
squarely in the eye. Soon, very soon, its icy
fingers will clutch the earth. The cold will
grow colder, the winds will screech louder, the
days will grow shorter but fires will leap higher
homes will seem brighter, hearts will seem
lighter. For winter, too. has its pleasures as
well as It's pains. The sharp frost, the crisp
snow, the clear ice, the dry air all combine to
refresh and invigorate-a new life after earth's
burial in the snow So don't look at winters
coming with sigh and shiver. The seasons
are much as you make them. Summer
sunshine does not warm all hearts; au-
tumn's bright colors do not dazzle all
eyeN winters white mantle does not fit all
forms. They must be taken in good faith, not
on trust The winds which cooled you in
summer chill you in winter, of course, but they
cannot freeze you. A warm heart, sunny
smile, laughing lip, bright eye, a willing
hand are frost-proof. There is sorrow and joy
in the snow, tear and laughter in the ice.
Both are there for you and for me-we alone
are the choosers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
EvENED UP QUITE NICELY.
Pleasing Entertainments at the Pittsburg
Club Theater Last Evening.

Pleasing Entertainment at the Pittsburg
Club Theater Last Evening.
They averaged well in avoirdupois-Mrs.
Walter G. Wyman and Mr.. Ethelbert Nevin-
but not in music, though Mrs. Wyman was the
soloist and Mr.. Nevin the instrumentalist at
the piano and song recital given by them in the
Pittsburg Club Theater last evening, for it
must be confessed the honors were awarded
Mr.. Nevin. whose exquisite touch and delight
ful Interpretation of the masters held the audi
ence spellbound during his numbers, and elic-
tied vigorous applause at their conclusion; but
in his own compositions was the genius of Mr..
Nevln especially marked. The 'ValZer Cen
tile. "Slumber Song" ""1ntermezzo" and Song
OF the Brook" fairly enraptured the listeners.
Mrs. Wyman was faultlessly attired, grace
ful for one of her proportions, posed beauti-
fully and was willing to be friendly with the au-
dlence, but as an artist her reception was not
an enthusiastic one. In fact, all suggestion Of
warmth was absent in the applause given the
lady for her first numbers, but in her later
efforts her listeners were awakened somewhat,
with the exception of a prominent musical
professor of the city. who. during her rendition
of the "Slumber Song" became oblivious to
his surroundings and opened his eyes with
sudden snap when the applause disturbed his
slumber. The hall was comfortably filled with
such people as usually attend Mr.. Ethelbert
Nevin's recitals, and as charming lady, Mrs.
Wyman was rendered quite pleasing reception
at the close OF the performance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
THE SITUATION IN OHIO.

That muss in the Ohio Legislature has
reached condition of muddle, in which no
one has any clear idea of what he wants
except Governor Campbell. The Demo-
cratic majority in the Legislature are evil
IDENTIFY unwilling to destroy the political
machine in Cincinnati, Notwithstanding its
corruption, which has caused the call for the
extra session. At the same time they are
afraid to antagonize the Governor in his
efforts to reform the evil. The consequence
is that they are giving themselves over to
backing and filling and after several days
have done nothing at all.
Their attempt to snup the Governor, day
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
AUTUMN WOODS.

Who can portray the glorious autumn days,
Or paint the gorgeous cooring of the woods,
When birch and maple light their signal flames,
And flash their messages from all the hills?
On upland slope the crimson sumach CLEANS;
In quiet dells the brakes have turned to gold;
By bank and stream the purple aster blooms,
And all the hedges teen with golden-rod.
What message flashes from the changing hills,
And signals back from all the wales below?
ssWeil donel We faithful; We may enter in.
IT'S choicest rip'ning brings the afterglow."
eve have but wrought the best for here and now
Nor thought of gain, nor what the world might
say:
Bending to breeze. and rain, and mastering gale;
But ever keeping to the upward way"
q soul of mine. take counsel OF the woods,
Ye may not see, but autumn days shall show,
WHAT'S best for thee. is highest good Tor all.
,.Fis choicest rip ming brings the aftergiow.
-6prtnafeld RepubsSeans
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-22
AN ELEPHANTINE ACTOR.

HE bashfulness Of the elephant which ap-
pears in Metropolis scene of "Around the
World in Eighty Days" has already been all
luded to in these columns, but the true inward
ness of this unusual, but amiable weakness on
the part of an actor has not been disclosed
The fact is the elephant, Victoria Mazouka is
her full name, but she answers best to the ab-
breviation Vic-has a decided and not un-
reasonable distrust of stage flooring, and is
nervous all the time she is behind the foot.
lights.
The audience which saw the elephant at the
Bijou last night might'have seen the big Great
ure 60 through a much more elaborate per-
formance IL it had waited till the stag had
been cleared after the final fall of the curtain.
Then Victoria was brought out from the corner
where she had been impatiently dancing sort
of hornpipe on three legs ever since she left
the alleged plains of Hindostan tn the second
act. Previous to the loosing of Victoria the
stage carpenters went to work and built up
substantial causeway of four-inch planks across
the footlights and the orchestra enclosure to
the left aisle of the parquet- Over the four
inch timbers a broader plank also four inches
thick was laid. and over this Victoria was
invited by her attendant to de-
scend. First of all she smelt,
if the word be allowable. the top of the incline.
Then very gingerly she tried the first section of
timber with one foot. The gangway did not
give apprecably, and Victoria was persuaded
Loanar with tho ,it,Ie booLed oo,d ,ssd hv
oIonhant tomore nrecaded har waIn,no ba,t
wsrd and gn,d,no Victori.,s fee. so that tbev
felI fairly On the narrow wav-not mo,e thar a
ward or ward and a half wide
Prohabiv two minutes wer. tator hv Tho
great be.st 70 brino her Soo nonnJs of solid
t,esb from the stare to tbs foor of the naronst
When She was midway on the bridoe r. craaked
ominorslv ond n,1nablv o,vo NOV on ;noh o.