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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
A TARTAR REMEDY.

DR.. Bapahinski, medical man of great
repute in St. Petersburg, has discovered
that diphtheria can be cured BY inocul&ting
the patient with erysipelss. How he dis
covered this singular fact, of which our less
enterprising doctors do not yet know the ex-
istence, we are not told. He may have
tried it on himself, but that is not likely.
Probably he tested the theory on somebody
else; possibly on dog. There is no telling
what dog will stand.
Inoculating with erysipelas to cure diph-
iberia sounds oddly. 1t is the sort of treat
ment one would expect patient in Dix
mont seriously advocate. To our grand
fathers and elder torbears such a prescrip-
ton would, as Mark Twain showed us
recently by quotations from doctors book
ofpractice in the last century, seem rational
enough. The old idea was not so much to
save the life of the patient as to attack the
disease with all possible violence. If the
patient died, the doctor could often say with
truth that the disease had been beaten, too.
More men use to die by physic than by
disease. Perhaps DR., Bapahinski is work.
ing on that plan. The erysipelas is used as
q counter-irritant to the diphtheria. The
diphtheria may be cured and the patient
still die of erysipelas. This must tickle
BApahiniski-and very few of the patients
will live to complain. Russian medicine
and therapeutics show too much Of the Tartar
in their originator
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
ATIP FOR SENATORS.

The gentle remarks of Senators Chandler
and Call about some things which the latter
is said to have put into the Congressional
Record report of speech will naturally in
crease the public confidence in that valua-
BILE if sensational journal. Mr.. Chandler
alleges that Mr.. Call interpolated in the
official report of the Senate's proceedings a
paragraph that had not been spoken and
which was unpsrliamentary and personally
offensive to Mr.. Chandler. In less ambig-
uous language Mr.. Call preferred to re-
serve the expressions of his contempt for
his brother Senator until he could put it
into cold type. Very considerate behavior
on the part of FlorIda's fiery Senator. He
was not afraid of telling Mr.. Chandler to
his face what he thought of him, of course,
and he knew-and Mr.. Chandler ought to
appreciate this-that by putting his remarks
into the Record they would be seen by
very few persons. Indeed, Mr.. Call may
have wished to spare Mr.. Chandler's feel
ings.
Ifa offensive personalities were reserved
for publication in the Record, the business
OF DObu DTduCu6s Ol SOuSTcSS WOu1U De
greatly expedited. At present many days
are given up by the Senators and Congress
men to personal contention, the bandying of
epithets, and the exchange of parliamentary
billingsgate. The people are neither bene-
flied nor edited by these displays OF Con-
gressional bad temper and bad taste. But if
Senators and Congressman must call each
other names let them do it in their own
time and in department specially set aside
for such outpouring in the Record, where
they will never be seen by anyone but the
authors and their victims No parliamen-
tary rules need hamper the passions and
imaginations of Legislators in these literary
combats. If the honorable Senator from
Florida thinks the Senator from New Hamp-
shire has not the brains of a toad, the de-
cency of Hottentot, or the courage of a
cockroach, and he wishes his honorable
friend to know what he thinks, let him
print his thoughts, in the columns of the
Record. The Record will thus be made of
some use, and the debates OF both Houses
will be of far greater value than they are
noW
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
DR.. KRAUsKOFFS LECTURE.
A Talk to the Hebrew Association on Il
Possibilities of Youth.

A Talk to the Hebrew Association on the
Possibilities of Youth.
Rev. DR.. Joseph Krauskotf, the Hebrew
Rabbi, of Philadelphia, delivered a very enter
tanning and instructive address last evening at
the Eighth Street Temple. under the auspices
of the Young mems Hebrew Association. He
chose for his subject the Possibilities Of
Youth" and said:
"Originally it was legend that the period of
mans life was limited to 30 years. Man not
being satisfied with his short term of existence
prayed TO God to lengthen 1t, and He answered
mans prayer and took 20 years from the life of
the mule and gave it to man. Man still prayed
for more, and God added 20 years from the life
of the dog. Not being satisfied, man prayed
for more and his prayer was answered by 20
years from the life Of the ape being added to
his.
"This was, Of course, only legend, but it
illustrates wonderfully the four states of mans
existence First his youthful life of the first
80 years full OF vlgor. ambition and grand acts:
then 20 years of the slavish british life of the
mule then 20 pore of the faithful, obedient
life of the dog. and last the child-like, sim.
pie and merely animal existence Of the ape.
The first 30 years Of life are the greatest of ALL
They make up a period in which all great
things are achieved and all good seed is sown
If this period is allowed to GO by without hay
ing been proftably utilized, it is loss never
to be regained."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
THE poWE-RIvER FLOOD.

The vsgaries of food and wind are shown
by the fact that while Pittsburg has had of
late hardly more than usual amount of rain
which has kept our rivers at a moderately
high stage all the winter, the Ohio Valley to
the south of us has had so much rain that
the Scioto, Hooking, Muskingum, Ksnawha
and Big Sandy are flooding the lower river
very nearly to the danger line. Fivefeet more
of rise will food some of the railroad
tracks at Cincinnati, and only few feet
beyond that will submerge the bottom dis
tricts Of the city which have suffered from
previous well-remembered floods. It is to
be hoped that the knowledge of the danger
will prevent any serious loss, and that the
food will halt short of rendering any share
of the population. along the lower Ohio
homeless. Pittsburg can congratulate her.
self that wind and food during the past nine
months have subjected her to nothing worse
than the reign OF mud.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
THE ARMY,s WEAKNESS.

Nobody doubts the wisdom of building q
new navy; the efforts made in this direction
have been applsuded by statesmen of all
parties and the people are very willing to
see their money spent on ships of war,
worthy of the name. We would not counsel
for moment any abatement in the gener-
osity of our national policy in naval affairs,
but is it not also nearly time that something
should be done for the army? There is a
great deal to be DONE and some of the re-
forms are instantly needed. 1t is somewhat
surprising that General Wesley Merritt, in
his article on the United States Army in
the March Hdrper'S, does not allude to the
obsolete character of Its armament.
The United States soldier is very little
better off in point of weapons than his pre-
decessors at the end of the Civil War. He
has breechloading rife of antique pattern;
the artillery have guns out of date judged
by European standards, and most of the
heavy guns in our forts on the seacoast are
relics of the last war. While all the old
countries have been advancing to the pres
sent stage of magazine rifles, small bullets
and smokeless powder, the United States
has stood still. The old flint lock of Wash
ingtOn's day is hardly less fitted to be op-
posed to the modern magazine rife than the
arm which the American iDfantryman relies
on to-day.
There seems to be a delightfully."- cheerful
view taken of the army by the War De-
partment and the big generals. But the
rank and file who will have to stand the
brunt Of an invasion Of foreign foe with
modern arms cannot be expected to see the
joke in so happy light. 1t is not at all
humorous to be killed in battle, even if it is
made plain at the subsequent Congress
sionsl investigation that inadequate arms
were responsible for the mortality. One OF
the fsvorite arguments of the day in this
connection is that this country is so great
and resourceful that she could afford to
wage war for year or two and then come
out victorious. Perhaps-but a host Of
victims must be sacrificed while the country
is getting into modern armor. Who will
volunteer to engage foe who has twenty
shots for his one, a deadly range of three
miles, where he cannot kill at over a mile?
Twenty-Five years behind is too far in the
rear Of the procession for safety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PIrTsBURe. THURSDAY. FEB. q, 1890
TIE FIFTEEN MILL RATE.

The meeting Of the City Finance Com
mittee places before the public report In
favor of fixing the levy for next year at
fifteen mills, an increase of three mills over
last year. 1t is announced that the senti-
ment is quite strong against any further ad-
vance of the rate, which is certainly salts
factory as far as it goes.
1t hardly seems that the assurance of re-
ducing appropriations in order to bring ex-,
penses within the revenue from that rate, is
exactly what the occasion requires. That
some increase is necessary to meet last years
deficiency and the increased expenses for
parks, is conceded. But, as THE DISPATCH
has already said, q reasonable measure Of
economy in the regular appropriations,
should enable an increase of ~ or mills,
to meet the extra requirements.
The schedule of appropriations given
elsewhere shows that the increase of the
total, beside the two leading items of parks
nd the deficiency of last year, consists of
engagements in the ordinary appropriations
for the bureaus, all of which were literally
supplied last year. The increase for the
bureaus of fire, police health, engineering,
highways, water supply, lighting, contin-
gent fund and street repairing sums up
SIG, 900. When an addition to the levy is
necessitated, it appears that thele should
be economy instead Of increased expendi-
ture in those respects. With the increase of
revenue of about 500, 900 to arise from addi-
tions to the tax duplicate, the need for all
these enlarged expenditures ought to be
very pressing before the levy is permitted to
go beyond IA mills.
Be- The subject is now open for public dis
cussion. Pittsburg can afford to pay Is
mill tax levy if tits necessary. But when
the people are called upon to bear an in
creased tax rate, the levy should not be en-
larged by expenditures which a reasonable
economy can avoid.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
UNITY AVN UNIFoRMITY.

Some of our esteemed contemporaries, es-
peclally among the class journals devoted
to building, are arguing in, favor of unity in
the architecture of cities. The construction
which some Of them give to the term indi-
Gates the belief that unity means uniform
ity. This has been illustrated in New
York and Philadelphia by the construction
Of whole squares OF houses Of identical de-
ugn and more exact resemblance to each
other than . line Of soldiers on parade. Ex.
HmpleH Of this sort are 10 be found In our
own city. They have the recommendation
Of utility and the cheap ana better work
secured by building number Of houses on
The same plan, but can hardly BE- said 70
meet The aesthetic requirement which IL
nimed n By The pFsaehsTs Of the gospel Of
aFchlteciural unity.
Possibly Il vould bs possible b - cen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
EDITORIAL COMMENTS.

NEW YORK Star: While New York was
wrangling over the umpire, Chicago played
ball.n
LOUISVILLE Courier Journal: A black Re
publican will vote for white Republican, but
a white Republican will not vote for black
Republican.
PHILADELPHIA Record: Boss PIatt says
that he is sorry the Worlds Fair goes to Chi
caeo. What is expected Of him on this oc-
casion by the people Of New York is not sorrow,
but repentance.
CHICAGO Inter Ocean: Democrats who are
sneering at ''the way Carnegie got his money to
give back to the public have nothing to say Of
Standard Oil speculators, who are the head and
front of the Democratic party.
CINCINNATI Commercial Gdzette: It isbard
lines for Mrs. Terry. She does not create a
sensation any more. Yesterday in court she
made the remark that Deputy Marshal Frank.
pointing him out, killed her husband, and thsre
Is no doubt she told the truth.
CHICAGO Netcs: Now the Hon. Chaupcsy
NJ. Depew isn't quite rs much of Christopher
Columbus as he was Just after he had finished
patching up the Albany hill II the amiable
Mr.. Depew still desires to be Director General
of the Worlds Fair he should forward his an
plicatiOn to Chicago at once so as to avoid the
rush.
PHILADELPHIA Press; Jones, Of New York
-Joneshe-pays.tho-freight-lsn't half as big q
man a. Jones-Editor Jones, OF 81. Louis, since
the latter's speech before the dinner Of the
southern Society, Of New York, on Saturday
evening And Tor this one reasoni That
whcFeni Jonaa.ol-Iilnghamion has weighed
uFovcr cleveland In the hav scales and found
him waiting. Edllof Jones. Of ~ Louis. weighed
orotor CLEVELAND m hla imaginailon and found
noihlng waniina kdilor Jonaa h = nna en-.
plcIef bll there 1, : surpll.o h lloIo iof hlm
vhon Ne discovers himself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
ENDLESS LITIGATION MAY ARISE.
Every Measure Passed by the North Dakoin
Legislature Pronounced Illegal,

BISMARCK N. OAK, February 28-The best
parliamentarian in the Legislature says that
every measure passed by that body is illegal.
The ground for this startling proposition is in
the organization of the Legislative Assembly.
The Governor convened the Legislature on the
18th Of November. as provided in the schedule
of the State Constitution. That section says
the Governor-eleet Of the State, Immediately
upon hrs Qualifying and entering upon the
duties Of his office, shall issue his proclamation
conVening the Legislative Assembly, which,
after organizing. must proceed to elect two
United States Senators. The section says moth
ing about any other business than the election
Of senatorA The Governor, In his proclama-
tiOn, was very careful In defining the object Of
the meeting Of the Legislature. Alter the
election OF Senators, IN the interest Of economy,
the Legislature, acting under the advice OF the
Attorney General, took up its regular work,
and proceeded as IN regular session.
The mistake was In calling the special session
the regular session, aud further mistake was
made, when the Legislature met IN January,
that u did not TrurEnnlzo and enter uuOn a
regular solalon. Now u Il neither special nor
regular II special, u \ exceeding he power,
And, u REGULAR u u working under the organ,
llAilon ol dead session. Confusion and 1nd,
lee llllEAnon nay aIlla
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
A GRAND CANAL PROJECT.


The Union Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
and Monongahela Wnterways-How it
Could be Efected--Vast Possibilities of
Benefit to PitlsbnrR, Washington and
Baltimore In the scheme.
TRANSPORTATION on our Western rivers
will never reach high degree of pros
perity until the eastern terminus of the
water route is extended to the great foreign
and coast commerce centers on the Atlantic
sea board, which is the advantage now
possessed by all the great trunk railways.
From these coast cities came the greater part
of the commerce which furnished employment
for the river steamboats, during the palmy days
in the forties. but which was deviated from the
river by the extension Of the Ohio and Penn
sylvania and other railroads to the West. To
regain this lost commerce it will be conducive
to the river interests to extend their trunk
waterway to the coast, which can be accom-.
plished by the union of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal at Cumberland, Md, with the
Monongahela river at Morgantown, w. Va, by
means Of subterranean and open-cut water
way about 40 feet wide and go miles in length.
AS the width of this tunnel canal would not
permit boats to pass in opposite directions. it
would be necessary to pass trains of boats east
and west about every alternate Il hours. These
trains of barges could be towed by coke burn
ing. screw-propeller tugs. This canal could be
doubled if it should prove inadequate for the
traffic tonnage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Looking Backyard.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In view of the approaching semi-eentennial
OF the incorporation Of the city Of Allegheny,
the following facts, most Of which are OF
official record. may be Of interest:
At "a special meeting of the Borough Council
of Allegheny, held January II, 1899. it was re-
solved. THAT. in view of the great and grow
ing increase Of the population embraced within
our corporate limits. and the many advan-
tages to be derived from it, that this Council.
as an expression OF their opinion, do recOm-
mend TO the next Council the propriety OF
ter"
July l. 1889, copy of the charter bill, as
amended. having passed both Houses Of the
State Legislature, was read before Council.
The Borough Burgess, John Morrison, made
his appearance and read the written opinion OF
the borough solicitor on the subject. A reso-
election for Mayor, Select and Common Coun-
cllmen on the first Tuesday in July,
Burgess Morrison protesting against the
undue haste. Yet the resolution
After the vote the matter was discussed. A
noisy wrangle was followed by a call to order
and vote to reconsider resulting in deferring
the time Of election to the fourth Tuesday, by
a vote OF to g There was a great deal Of
feeling displayed and some harsh expressions
used. All this was useless. as the Dill mad
not yet been signed by the Governor. The
election was postponed indefinitely.
A year later, June Is. 1840. the Council ar
ranged for the first city election to be held on
the second Tuesday of July, pursuant to act OF
the 18th OF April, lS40 incorporating the city
and providing for the election, as follows:
First ward, election to be held at the house Of
II. DeHaven; H. Irwin and w. A. Charlton to
supervise the same. Second ward. at the house
of John Goering. under supervision of Robert
Stewart and Peter Beard. Third ward, at the
house of Charles Wick; L. o. Reynolds and
William A. Irwin. supervisors. Fourth ward,
at the house of Hugh Sweeney; William Rob.
inson and James A. Gray, supervisors General
William Robinson. Jr., claiming to be the first
white child born within the borough limits,
was elected Mayor. L d. McCANDLEss.
ALLEGHEEY, February 20.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
A BRIBE OF $4,000. .OOO.,
That il What Senator Rengan Calls the
Blair Educational Bill.

That II What Senator Reagan Calls the
Blair Educational Bill.
WASHINGTON, February 26-In the Senate
to-day at o'clock the Blair educational bill
was taken up as unfinished business. Mr.. In
gals inquired as to the time when the bill was
likely to be disposed of. remarklng that it
stood in the way of many important measures,
and giving nolice that he would insist that its
consideration should proceed with dispatch.
Mr.. Reagan addressed the Senate in opposition
to the bill He said that he had presented to
the Senate in the last Congress such views and
authorities as seemed to demonstrate that the
passage of the bill was not warranted by the
Constitution. It was not his purpose again to en-
ter on a full discussion of the character and
provisions of the bill. Even if he had not before
done so, the learned and able discussion of the
subject by the Senator from West Virginia
(Mr. Fanlkner), and by his colleague (Mr.
Coke) had made it unnecessary for him to do
SO. He should, therefore, limit his remarks to
presenting some of the authorities which he
had then used, to show that there was certain
ly no express grant of power in the Constitu-
tion for such legislation, and thas legislation
as to local and domestic questions in the States
was left exclusively to the States. Speaking
of Mr. Blair's assertions as to illiteracy and
barbarism in the Southern States, Mr.. Reagan
made statement to show that so far as Texas
was concerned. that State had done and was
doing its full duty in the matter of free com
mon schools. 1t was, therefore not fair, he
said, to arraign her for neglect of duty on
that subject
He described the bill as offering a bribe of
SIS, 600, 900 to the States if they would consent
to accept it as price for the destruction of
the right of local self-goYernment and as I'M
posing on them the humiliating condition
of approving, by an affirmative act of legisla-
ton, the policy of the bill. In the interest of
the cause of education, to prevent the Federal
Government from being converted into des-
potlsm and to avoid an additional fruitful
cause OF sectional strife and agitation he hoped
for the defeat of the bill by the Senate.
Mr.. Wilson, of Maryland, also argued against
the constitntionality of the bill. MI. Blair re-
piled to Mr.. Wilson and said he did SO because
no other Senator desired to speak upon the
hill to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-02-27
nInrrIou,s Law Explained.

To the Editor Of The Dispatcn:
While an NJ. D. in your issue of this date
states Marlott's law correctly, his explanation
proves that he fails to understand it. The law
applies to atmospheric pressure only, which
equals Is pounds per square inch. Perhaps the
most easily understood explanation Of the law
is as follows: A vessel Of cubic foot dimen.
sion at atmospheric pressure will contain
cubic foot; at Is pounds above atmospheric
pressure it will. contain cubic feet: at 80
pounds above, feet; at As, feet; at 60, feet,
and so on, a cubic foot of gas going into the
vesseffor every additional Is pounds Of pressure
applied.
It will thus be seen that cubic foot Of gas
at 60 pounds pressure will expand to cubic
feet at the pressure of the atmosphere. AS
there are 240 ounces in Is pounds, gas will ex-
pand or contract just onestwo hundred and
fOrtieth its volume for every ounce increase or
decrease in pressure. and as meters are ad-
justed at pressure not exceeding one-fourth
of an ounce the consumer gets the advantage
of all contraction in volume while being meas
ured at any pressure exceeding One-fourth of
an ounce. JOHN Young.
ALLEGHENY, February 26