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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-02-25
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DIRECTORS:

DIRECTORS:
JOIN SHARP, President.
MOSES THATCHER Vice President,
". W. RITTER,
J z. BARNES,
J. T LITTLE,
&c. CUTLER.
JAMES SHARP.
HENRY DNWOoDEH
D. II. PEERE.
2. ". JENNINGS,
GEORGE ROAgSEr,
HI. GRANT,
l. S. HILLS. Cashier
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Il. s. YOUNG. Asst Cashier.

fDSoIs ARMsrRoss. NE. CUMMINGS,
Frest. Cashier
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THEIR STEADY RETRoGREssIoS

the former losing 10 and the latter
. votes. The total vote was again
So, Of which Chicago received l 4s,
New York ll6, st. Louis IS and
WASHINGTON 10
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
THE FIGHT FOR THE FAIR
Does Not Seem to Have Reached an End
Yet. by Any Means.

Does Not Seem to Have Reached an End
Yet. by Any Means.
WASHINGTON, March 15.-For the first time
since the House decided the question of the
site, the full committee on the Worlds Fair
met to-day and received the report of the sub
committee in the shape of bill providing for
the fair. with amendments to suit the wishes
of the Chicago people. The proceedings were
not entirely harmonious and before the con-
clusion of the session it became evident that
the New York representatives were disposed
to differ from the subcommittee in respect to
the financial scheme and other important de-
tails.
Mr.. Belden offered resolution to the effect
that it is inexpedient to adopt bill on the sub
ject of the Worlds Fair until the city of CHI
cago had furnished site and $4,000. 900 Sc
curity. This resolution was debated at some
length. The friends of Chicago insisted that the
nature of the security required should be spe-
cifically defined in the resolution, so that they
could not be compelled at a later stage to fur
tion was modified SO as to read: THAT when
guarantee fund of $4,000, 900 shall be secured
by the citizens of Chicago, the sufficiency and
legality of which shall be satisfactory to this
committee, that we report the pending bill
with such amendments as the committee may
agree upon" The debate upon this proposition
was continued until the committee became
weary, and after o'clock adjourned until
Monday morning.
The Chairman and Messrs. Hit, Bowden and
Springer expressed themselves as of opinion
that Chicago had already given sufficient guar
antees in the papers presented by the Chair
man of the Finance Committee of the city of
pie insisted upon having the matter more accu-
rately defined.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
A CHURCH QUARREL.

The conviction of Rev. R. B. Mansell, of
Mcheesport, in the church trial which was
ended yesterday, is the termination of case
which can hardly be regarded as calculated
to reflect credit on the cause of the churches.
The province of the press hardly extends to
sitting the evidence in order to establish an
opinion as to the justice Of the verdict but
it is pertinent to point out that the allega-
tlons and circumstances are such as to show
that an exercise of the Christian charity and
forbearance which should prevail in the
churches would have forbidden any such
bitter quarrel. As it now is, the quarrel
will doubtless be continued and the counter
charges will go on, with each party asserting
conduct on the part of the other wholly in
consistent with their Christian professions.
While we must recognize that clergymen
and church members are human, it certainly
seems necessary to say that in this case the
federation and good will necessary to all
organized work seem to be conspicuous by
their absence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
THE PREVALENCE OF CRIME.

A criminal epidemic is raging at present,
to judge from the rapidity with which cases
are cropping out In the local reports. This
issue of THE DISPATCH has to report the
case of prominent citizen of the Southside,
who has anticipated the discovery of his
forgeries by leaving the town; the murder
of little girl by a cranky and presumably
insane stepfather, and a poisoning case in
which suspicion is directed to the husband
of the victim.
Each of these cases presents features
whose sensationalism is Of the disturbing
character; and suggests the inquiry whether
any explanation is possible of the prevalence
of crimes. Some time ago, when there had
been an alarming frequency of crimes dur
ing the summer months, a theory was de-
veloped that crimes were caused by the hot
weather. But as the present outbreak
occurs during the only winter weather we
have had this year, the same sort of logic
would indicate that they are produced by
low temperature. If crimes are produced
both by torrid and arctic weather, the out
look for humanity in the alterations of this
climate is very gloomy.
1t viii be more satisfactory to regard the
two specimens of indu ctive research as dis
proving each other. But that leaves the
problem still unsolved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
le struggle and blew out his brains in

the struggle and blew out his brains in
despair.
The case looks like hard one, but it
nevertheless illustrates the law that such
cases of usurious interest are only possible
where the ignorance, or the recklessness, of
the borrower makes the hazard great. No
doubt the money-lender who exacted such
a rate OF interest was a remorseless shark.
But the event proves that he was right in
his calculation that he must exact a high
rate in order to balance the risk of the loan;
and the resu 1t is that he has, by that rate,
got back his principal with 81 80 interest
for the thirteen months. The man who blew
out his brains because he could not pay such
a debt, is certainly so far out of the ordinary
class, that he cannot be regarded as a rella-
BILE debtor.
o We hope that things are not so bad out
West that reliable men cannot get necessary
loans at decent rates of interest. If any
such rates as are reported prevail on re-
spectacle security. there is lots of capital in
the East for that investment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
TIE SENATORIAL Fiat

The action of the Senate last week in
passing a resolution to expunge Senator
Calls Interpolation into the report of his
remarks in the Congressional Record, Of
savage assault on Mr.. Chandler, which he
did not actually make, has several peculiar
and amusing aspects
The controlling principle in all this mat
ter is the Senatorial idea that when that
lofty body says that a thing is or is not so,
that settles it, no matter what the fact may
be. That idea extends to more things than
the publication of the Record. 1t is nota-
bic in the enactment that the executive
sessions of the Senate shall be secret. Al
though the Senators themselves straight
way go and tell what is done, still thev
hold that when the Senate saws that it is
secret, their little indiscretions in the way
of telling the secrets makes no essential
difference with the secrecy. But the practi-
cal application of the same idea, elaborated
BY Gilbert in 1.-The Mikado," appears to a
delightfully."- complicated degree, in this
matter of the Congressional Record.
In the first place it starts with the publ
cation of speeches never delivered. 1t
makes no difference whether the speeches
are, or are not, actually delivered. When
the high authority of the Senate manifested
in its weighty Misunderstanding sever
al tons per dienl-declares it is so, that
settles it. This being established, it is not
singular that Senator Call imagined that by
making that official publication assert that
he jumped on Senator Chandler with both
feet it would place the matter beyond dis
pute. But the Senatorial method of correct
ing this undue application Of its own
principle caps the climax. 1t resolves that
the interpolated matter shall be expunged:
and therefore it is expunged. 1t is no mat
ter that the Congressional Record contain
ing the speech was published and circulated
some weeks ago, and that every one who has
so little regard for the value of time as to
read that publication, has absorbed the
Florida Senator's iactitious thunder. The
high authority of the Senate declares that
all this printed matter shall dissolve to
nothingness. Consequently the printed tons
of official ponderosity are annihilated.
This is SO beautiful theory that the sug-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
THE REGULAR COURSE

The Cherokee strip furnishes reproduc-
tion of the Oklahoma experience First
the land is occupied by the cattle barons,
whose tendency to squat on any territory
without legal right, is not at all abated by
the fact that after they have enjoyed several
years of pasturage, the Government very
tardily comes to the conclusion to order
them of. No sooner are they forced to
vacate than the boomer makes rurh for
the land, invariably before there is any
legal right to do so. The fact that the
national authority is always exerted to re.
move the boomers from the land they at
tempt to grab, does not at all deter
them from repeating the grabbing act
on the next opportunity. One might wish
for little variation of the monotony
of these proceedings, but they are at least in
structive of the lesson, that both cattle COM
panies and squatters are equally hungry for
any land they can get their claims on, re-
gardless of legal right or the authority of
the Government.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
AN ALLEGED LABOR CONFERENCE

The opening OF the Labor conference at
Berlin yesterday was attended by formali-
ties and speeches which were mainly char
acterized by glittering generalities. Never
theless the beginning of that assemblage is
sufficient to suggest doubts as to its pro-
ducing anything of value to the laboring
people of Europe.
If such meeting were held with the sin
cere and controlling motive of securing to
the laboring class greater share of produc-
tion and relieving them of their burdens it
would deserve the sympathy OF civilization.
The first decision of such body is so plain
that conference would hardly be needed to
arrive at it. 1t would be the decision of all
the Powers to disarm and relieve production
of the immense burdens of great armaments.
The second decision would be equally clear,
namely, the abolition of all special privi-
leges, either in commerce, taxation or Gov
ernment.
But neither of these steps would be at all
satisfactory to the ruling powers of Europe.
When we find the opening speech of the
representative of the German Emperor,
setting forth the problem, not how to elevate
the condition o. labor, but how to keep the
labor question from disturbing the European
Governments, the doubt as to the sincerity of
the professed interest in labor is justified.
That >~-,bG is strengthened by the very
slight indication, in the report that the
membership of the conference is composed
ofanYth,ng but the governing classes.
represented, and the purpose of which is to
prevent labor from making any trouble,
would justify a paraphrase of Nine. Roland's
declaration in the words, "Oh labor, what
shams are perpetrated in thy nameT'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
MEN WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

PRESIDENT HARRISON rarely smokes more
than three cigars day. it is stated-one after
each meal.
WILLIAM n. JACKSON, brother of Governor
Jackson, of Maryland, owns peach orchard
containing 25OOO trees.
MRS. JUDGE MAGEE, Of Pittsburg, accom-
panied by her son, is among the arrivals at the
Stratford, Philadelphia.
Mr. GLADsToNE's close friend, Lord Gran
vile, has in his gift the Captaincy of Deal
Castle, made vacant by the death of Lord Sgd
ney.
MRS. ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS WARD
will give readings from her own works, includ-
ing an unpublished story in Boston on Tues
day next and the Tuesday after that.
Mr.. WH1TELAw REID, American Minister
to France sailed from Havre for New York
yesterday on the steamer La Champagne. Mr.
Ried goes to New York tor the purpose of &C.
companying his wife back to France.
MRS. U. s. GRANT leads very quiet life in
New York. Her eyesight has become poor and
she seldom appears in public, except to drive in
the park. General Sherman is frequent and
welcome visitor.
COLONEL A. H ROGERS this week got out
writs of habeas corpus in behalf of several in
mates whom he alleges to be sane, though de-
tanned as insane subjects in the Wards Island
New York; Asylum. This makes "a such writs
he has taken out.
THE car in which Mrs. Harrison's party tray-
eled southwark had been comfortably fitted up
and the pantry we'll supplied with every imag-
Unable dainty. The refrigerator, where the
wines and meats were kept, is under the floor in
the forepart of the car.
M. RoUyIER, the French Minister of Finance
is about to contract q marriage with his niece,
Mile. Cadiot, of Dieppe. M. Rouvier lost his
first wife about year ago. She was we'll known
in the literary world as a novelist under the
name of Claude Vignon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
IN MEMORY OF KELLEY.
Democrats and Republicans Alike Eulosize
Him In the House.

WASHINGTON, March 15.-The House to-day
passed its last tribute of respect to the memory
of William d. Kelley, of Pennsylvania. Mr..
O'NeilI of Pennsylvania, was the first speaker.
He related conversation which he held with
Mr.. Kelley few days before the Christmas
holidays, In the course of which the latter said:
my dear, long time friend, want to tell you
that am dead man; yes. to tell you, but
please do not repeat it to others. Oh" said he,
'ff my life can only be spared until after the
holidays, how thankful to my God will be. 1
SO much desire that the shadow of death may
not be upon the households of my dear children
and grandchildren to mar their Christmas en-
ioyments and to darken in my family the
brightness of that festive time"
ITO me-" continued Mr.. ONeill "the shock
of this, as it were, confidential communication
was terrible. The composure with which he
spoke the words 1 am dead man unnerved
me, and can never forget them Soon ne took
to the bed from which he was not to rise again.
devoted wife, sorrowing sons and daughters
cared for and nursed him until the last mo-
ment he was permitted to live. He suffered
greatly at times during these dying days, but
there was no murmuring. He knew that his
end was coming, but he realized that there was
One to whom he could look for ease and COM
fort in the passing hours of his trials on earth;
and calling time and again upon the Lord
Jesus Christ. his divine Lord and Savior. and
repeating over and over. by day and by night,
the Lords Prayer, taught him by his Christian
mother. he breathed away his life IN calmness
and composure."
Mr.. H Holman, of Indiana. and Mr.. Banks of
Massachusetts, then touchingly eulogized the
deceased member. MIR. Mills. of Texas, bore
testimony to the worth of Mr.. Kelley, whom he
characterized as one OF the most distinguished
statesmen of the Union. Mr.. Mckinley, of
Ohio, paid his tribute of respect to the old
friend for whom, in life, he had had the most
affectionate regard, and in whose death all had
lost an honorable associate and wise counsellor
and some very close and dear friend. No
eulogy could do justice to the dead statesman;
his life work was his highest eulogy. and what
he wrought for his fellow man and the impress
he had made on the legislation of the country
would be his best and most enduring memorial
His public life had been uncorrupt and uncor-
ruptible. and he left to his family and friends
and associates and countrymen the highest of
all honorable titles-that of an honest man.
Eulogies we're also pronounced by Messrs.
Bingham, of Pennsylvania; Wilson, of West
Virginia: Cannon, of Illinois; McKenna, of
California; Reilly, of Pennsylvania; Atkinson,
of Pennsylvania; Breckinridge. of Kentucky;
Kerr, of Iowa, and Reyburn. of Pennsylvania,
and then a mark of respect to the memory
of the deceased the House adjourned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
ONE OF NATURES CURIOSITIEs.
A Mysterious, BottomIess Lake In Which No
Living Thing Can Survive.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE prspArcu

ESPECIAL TkLEGRAh TO THE DIsPATCHI
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, March 15.-"Deyirs
Lake." in Calhoun county. Ala, 20 miles east
of this city, is one of the most remarkable
natural curiosities to be found in America.
The lake is oval in shape and covers about four
acres of ground. No vegetation of any kind
grows on its banks and nothing lives in its
waters Even snakes and terrapins shun the
waters of Devils lake, and fish placed in it die
in few hours. The water is clear limestone,
with peculiar TASTE which makes it unpalata-
Bile to man or beast Horses and cows will not
drink it, no matter how thirsty they may be.
Deep down below the surface of the lake
may be seen what appears to be the charred
and blackened trunks of large trees. They
stand upright in the water, but have neither
root nor branch and never rise to the surface
or sink to the bottom. The lake has no outlet,
and the volume of water in it is the same all
the time.
A strange fatality attaches to this lake.
Once 1t was the favorite resort of the boys
of the neighborhood for bathing and
swimming, but now they never go near
it. Fifteen boys have been drowned in
its waters in twice as many years. A
few of the bodies were recovered, but those
who were drowned any distance from the banks
sank to the bottom and were never brought to
the surface.
The depth of the lake has never been ascer-
tanned. Soundings to depth of 700 feet found
no bottom, and the people in the vicinity say
the lake has none. The Indian legend OF the
OfISin VI tnc lake ls tnlb DeloIe inc "hlto
man came to this country two tribes became
involved in a war, and after number of
bloody battles the smaller tribe was almost ex-
terminated. Then the old men and chiefs of
the weak tribe sued for peace and arranged for
council While the pipe was being passed
around signal was given and the chiefs of
the strong tribe suddenly sprang up with drawn
tomahawks and murdered every one of the
chiefs of the smaller tribe.
Then the war was renewed and carried on
until the weak tribe was exterminated. A few
moons after the massacre of the chiefs fire
broke out in the pine forest where the massacre
occurred. The fire burned in this spot for
eight moons and the ground sank down out OF
sight; the fire disappeared, and in its stead ap-
peared the lake. The Indians gave the lake
name which means lake of DEATH"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16

A LONG with the linguistic conventionalities,
which stern necessity invents to bridge
over some chasm met with. in our peregrina-
tions through life. I may mention that known
as the side-splitting "bull;' and as a fair sam
pie of geographical obfuscation, willrelate the
following taken from our country's history:
Before the settlement of Alabama, and while
the State was yet in Territorial condition, an
expedition was fitted out to make hydrograph-
ic surveys and other explorations of interest to
the National Government. The Commission
was not to break the seal of their instructions
until they had entered Mobile Bay. When at
length their destination was reached and the
seal broken, 1t was found that the chief object
of the expedition was to locate Mobile Bay,
Mobile river and its tributaries, and, particu-
larly. to ascertain how far up the principal
tributary, the Tombigbee, ran. This was all
plain and intelligible except that which related
to the Tombigbee. They had, they thought. al
ready learned enough of the general trend of
the rivers to know that the latter part of these
instructions, at least, contained geographical al
error. The business of the expedition was,
therefore, suspended until the head of depart
ment at Washington, from whom the instruc-
hons emanated, could be conferred with.
A mounted courier was dispatched across the
continent 1000 miles to bear the important in
telligence to Washington that the Tomblgbee
did not run up at all, but on the contrary ran
down, and that the expedition awaited further
instructions.
That was too much for official dignity. The
further instructions came but they were that
the ''chief of the expedition should report i'm
mediately at Washington"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
| Scene From Life In q Suburban School,

A Scene From Life In n Suburban School,
room-Sandy Had His wuy-Pittsburg
and the Great Eastern Insurance Conn
panies-A Bald Headed Joke-The De-
mand for Gilbert and Sullivau's Works.
II had committed some high crime or mis-
demeanor against the dignity of his pre-
ceptor and the peace and propriety of her do
main, and the sentence was that he should
stand apart from his fellows for certain space
of time in cons picuous place. The criminal
of ten summers. more or less, took his stand,
therefore, in the spot designated, beside the
blackboard in corner of the room. The
board stood at an angle which made its face
visible to the scholars but hid it from the
teacher. This fact the young scapegrace soon
observed, and as an expression of his feelings
and lawless contempt for the government he
wrote up on the blackboard in good big letters
this expressive monosyllabe:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
They Are All Sensible to Flattery,

Tramp Ito servant girl who answers his ring
at the bell)-Madam. pardon me. am sorry
to take you away if even for a moment from
the supervision of the domestic duties of your
household and the direction of your servants,
but am really in need and if
Servant girl-(with gratified smile stealing
over her countenance)-Wait moment, my
poor man.
She disappears and speedily rea ppears with a
generous supply of food and pressing quarter
into his hands, says: Call again when you are
this way"
And as the tramp goes down the road he
chuckles and murmurs to himself: That's the
best racket yet. To mistake the lady for her
daughter is a played out game, but to mistake
the servant for the missus! All! That's what
fetches the vittlesr'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-16
DAM.


The class broke into smiles and filters at
once. The teacher at a loss for the cause of
this new disturbance looked at the prisoner in
the pillory. He was solemn as to visage, still
and composed. For q moment the teacher
turned to her book again. In this interval the
incorrigIble youth by the blackboard rapidly
calculated what course events were likely to
take. If he rubbed out the obnoxious word, he
reasoned, someone in the class would be sure
to reveal to the teacher what it had been. The
laughter of the children was growing more
boisterous every second; discovery of the in
scription was inevitable any moment. He de-
cided at once, and added two words to the
original legend, SO that when tho teacher ex-
amined the board moment later she read this
harmless sentence: