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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT,

Mr.. W. s. GILBERT has bought place in
the country and will sell his London house.
GEORGE PACKAGE, of Tom Green county,
Tex, 104 years old, and is probably the original
Package.
Mr.. DEPEw will make the commencement
address at the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute
this evening.
PROF. HENRY M. ToRREY. of Harvard
University, is now out of danger from his
recent serious illness.
THE Rev. DR.. ]. B. Dales on Sunday cele-
brated the completion of his fiftieth year as
pastor of the Second United Presbyterian
Church at Philadelphia, Pa.
PRINCE GEoRG E has been sent cruising with
the hope of curing him of love for an EarPs
handsome daughter, whom it is considered
prudent he should not marry.
MRS. ADoLPH DAHLGREN, of Nashville
who is considered one of the prettiest women
in the South, is tall, slight and very graceful,
with gray eyes and golden hair.
Mr.. WATTS has just painted from life a
portrait Of Lord Tennyson which he will give to
Trinity College, Cambridge; and he will give q
replica of it to the National Gallery.
GARIBALDfs tomb in Caprera, is to be made
a national monument, and the island is to be
devoted to the purposes of a home for old
sailors. A lighthouse also will be erected there.
GENERAL PLEAsoNToN is picturesque
figure of war times and occasionally may be
seen strolling down Chestnut street. Philadel-
phia, wearing sombrero hat which he has
worn for nearly a score of years.
Mr.. AND MRS. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN sail
for America Saturday for an extended trip
through the U nited States and Canada. They
will be the guests of the Endlcotts Mrs. Cham
berlain's family at Boston, and of Lord Stanley,
of Preston, Governor General of Canada.
THE Prince of Wales has written a letter to
a committee of gentlemen who have favorably
considered the idea of holding an international
exhibition IN London, expressing with force
and directness his views on the subject. 1t
would be highly inexpedient, the Prince writes.
to hold an exhibition of an international char
acter in London at any time before 1900.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

He-Keep quiet minute, and III catSn
that obnoxious fly.
She-Oh, don't try to, please. saw you p1ay-
ing ball yesterday.-Net0 York Sun
PoetZYou say that my poem on SWIM
ming lacks something What does 1t need to
make it go?
Editor-Web feet.-NsW York Journal
what are your politics.
sHaven't any,
'EWhat are you-a Mugwump?'
s.Great Cesar. mol I'm an aIien."-Ns'o ROrs
Sun.
'Tis sweet to hear bright-eyed son
Sound forth a parents praise;
For instance, when he comments on
His mothers switching ways.
Washington Post.
'It is very wet weather we are having,
Your Majesty, y remarked Lord Salisbury.
..Not too wet me Ind, - replied the Queen. 'In
fact don't think hit possible to ave too much
reign in this country. ''-Hest Shore.
Johnson-Whe are you going to paint
that fence for me, Uncle Rastus?
Uncle Rastus-weIl sab, i reckon IN do It
Saturday, if de Lawd's wilIn': or ifnot, III do IL
Monday, any way, suah.-Wsst Shore.
Dobbs-There's man who shaves several
times a DAY.
Wiggins-You don't mean it2 should think
there'd be nothing left of his face.
Dooos-1t oOesn'b nurb his lace at all. no -
barber.-FigGro.
Peddler-BrOoms! broomsl
Housewife-I'n takS one. Not that one. Wans
one with good, strong handle.
Husband (going out)-On second thoughts'
Mary, think I'll be home very early ythis even
ing.-BOstOR Courier.
Blathers Ito Slathers, who prepared TO
bow and was ignored)-I say. Slathers, isn't MISE
Blood like that yacht out therel
Slathers-How so2
BIathers-oh, we'll IL you don't see It'll But !.
strikes me she's something OF . cutter'- -nsS''
Shore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
SILVER ON TOP.

The Senate has sent back the silver bill to
the House in such mangled and plastered
condition that none of its friends in the
latter body will be able to recognize it.
Yesterday was field day in the Senate for
the silver men, and they made record for
themselves with a vengeance. Party lines
were lost sight of in the onslaught of West
ern Democrats and Republicans, who were
united in the desire to get free coinage.
They swept everything before them, though
Senator Edmunds and other Republican
Senators from the East tried their best to
hold them back. The figures of the division
on the most important amendment-that an
thorizing Tree coinage-reveal a singular
alliance of usually hostile statesmen.
Twenty-eight Democrats and fifteen Re-
publicans voted for the amendment,
and twenty-one Republicans and three
Democrats voted against it. The bill was
finally passed, with the radical alterations
indicated, by the same combination of the
friends of silver. As matter of fact it was
q Democratic victory as we'll as a triumph
for the bonanza kings. Senator Wolcott's
in favor Of silver should be remembered.
1t is hardly necessary or advisable to dis
euss the surprises which the bill as it now
stands has sprung upon the country. Such
a radical measure was not looked for, we
venture to think, even by the most ardent
friends Of silver. How complete the trans
formation Of the bill has been since il left
the House is indicated by its amended title
A bill to provide for the free coinage
of gold and silver bullion, etc." It is not
Likely that the bill in its present shape will
become law. The indignation of the Re
publican parents of the original bill in the
House is already proclaimed, and
Speaker Reed is said to be breath
ing awful threats of what will be done
with the Senators handiwork. Perhaps the
silver men in the Senate foresaw this vio-
lent opposition in the House and prepar ed
FOR it by asking good deal more than they
expected to receive. There are indications
OF such provision, and the probabilities
are that when the conferees get together a
compromise bill will be turned out for the
Presidents signature. What the silver
men expect of the President several Repub-
Ecans did not hesitate to state very bluntly
during the debate. In fact the unac-
customed plainness of speech of several
Senators constituted one of the interesting
features of the fight over the bill.
The silver question is filling up a great
piece Of the political horizon these days.
The DISPATCH does not approve of such
an extreme measure as the Senate product,
for reasons frequently set forth in these
columns. But the law, if any should be
passed this session, will probably be far less
Objectionable than the Senate would make
it. The predominance of the silver senti-
ment in the Senate only shows the possi-
bility Of free coinage and a premium on
gold in the future.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
A NOTED sTENoeRAPHER DEAD.
John ]. McEIhoue, Long an OficiaI of Con-
gress, il no More.

gress, Il no More.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.S
ATLANTIC CITY, June 17.-There was a death
here to-day that Will attract the attention of all
the present members and many Of the old ones,
of the United States Senate and House of
Representatives John ]. McElhone, the Off
cial stenographer of Congress from the creation
of the position. quietly passed away at the pri-
vate cottage No. 100 South Delaware avenue
Washington and was brought here on Wednes-
dav a week ago.
Among those who first called upon the be-
reavedF family was Congressman Lawlor, OF
Chicago One of the dispatches of sympathy
came from Senator ingalls,, and closely follow
ing it was one from the private secretary of the
President, conveying similar expressions OF
sorrow; Another one came from Elberon, at
Long Branch, where McElhone had gone with
Garfield and remained to do stenographlc work
of An executive character during the late Pres
idents last sickness. McElhOne came into
Congress fresh from association with John
Russell Young, ex-Minister to China, George
Alfred Townsend and the late Colonel John W.
Forney. He first went into the Senate while
Forney was Secretary OF that body: Later on
he was also stenographer of the House while
the same official was Sergeant at Arms in that
branch. One of the speeches which he re-
ported at that early day-he had gone into har
ness in lS5S-was that of Jefferson Davis, in
which he bade adieu to the Union and became
the chieftain of the Southern Confederacy He
also reported the famous speeches of Charles
Sumner and Carl Schurz on the French arms
issue. These were reports that brought him
into prominence with every statesman since
the sixties.
His work In the Congressional Record was
at times of routine character. but aside from
all that he is credited with having written
many of the speeches subsequently delivered
on both floors of Congress. He was nearing
three-score years at his death. but he was cred
tied with retaining bright an intellect as he
possessed when he first became a recognized
official of Congress-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
AID FOR THE DISTRESSED.
A Charitable Reader of The Dispatch Con-
tributes the Needy.

A Charitable Reader of The Dispatch Con-
tributes the Needy.
A pitiful case of destituIion was discovered
by Dr. r. N. Sands early this week and fully
reported inlTHE DISPATCH. Many charitable
people read THE DISPATCH. and yesterday the
following earnest letter, Inclosing IS, was re-
ceived:
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Please find inclosed IS for the poor family of
Mulberry alley near Twenty-eighrh street,
mentioned in THE DISPATCH of Monday, 10Th
inst. May God put it into the hearts of others
to send them help and may He comfort them
in their sorrow. CHARITY.
PITTSBURG, June II.
THE DISPATCH hereby acknowledges the re-
ceipt of the first contribution TO the Martina
Fund" and will communicate with DR.. Sands,
requesting that he properly place this and
other contributions. Future offerings from the
cbaritably disposed will be acknowledged in
these columns.
The case referred to is that of Mrs. Mary
Martina a Polish widow When DIR. Sands
called he found the mother and six little chill
dren living in a small room in Mulberry alley.
One child lay dead and three others were con-
fined to bed all seriously i'll. One is suffering
from measles, another from pneumonia and
the third from Inflammation OF the stomach.
They lacked the necessaries of life. and the
timely arrival of the physician, who supplied
their immediate wants and prescribed for the
little sufferers. alone saved the stricken family.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
HYPNOTISM AND CRIME.

The possibilities of hypnotism in the con-
troll of unscrupulous persons, for the induce
ment of crime by their unwilling subjects,
forms very interesting subject of inquiry.
The scientific men who are discussing it in
France and England apprehend that it may
force itself on the public attention in the
very unpleasant form of the crimes commit
ted under that influence; while physicians
who have studied the subject in this eoun-
try recognize the presence of an unknown
force which, in the hands of unscrupulous
persons, may be frightfully misused.
Hypnotism is the modern and scientific
name for mesmerism, which has been the
subject Of speculation and wonder for over
q century. There is no doubt that there has
been an immense amount OF charlatanism
and humbug in connection with that force.
While Mesmer gave it name
in the reign of Louis XIV, it has
never received the recognition of re-
spectability until the present age. Thirty
years ago much attention was paid to it,
under the title of animal magnetism; but
its general phenomena at that time did not
bear examination. 1t has been reserved for
the present era to give the unknown force,
which had heretofore received its most sig
nal exploitation in the romances of Dumas
and Bulwer, the recognition of and adoption
by science.
1t may minimize the apprehension of
danger from the misuse of this force to
perceive that while it has been for GEN.
fury relegated to the field of charlatanism,
examples of its employment for criminal
purposes have been comparatively rare.
That this immunity can be relied upon is
not certain. The scientific authorities who
have been investigating the subject think
not, and call the attention of the world to
the necessity of taking some provisions
against its misuse.
While the expert authority as to the
power to impel the subjects of hypnotism to
the commission of crimes is of great weight,
we can hardly yield the same respect to
their propositions for legal restraint. 1t
would be hard to imagine greater absurd
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18

ity than the proposition that the practice of
hypnotism shall be confined to the medical
profession. This idea, as safeguard, sup
poses two things: First, that those who
would exercise the hypnotic power for evil
purposes would. if thay possessed that force,
obey the law forbidding them to exercise 1t;
second, that there are no unscrupulous
members of the medical profession. The
first supposition is ridiculous; the second,
however we may respect the healing art In
the abstract, affords no protection in the
event of black sheep in the profession.
The fact is that safeguard more adequate
than this is provided by the well-established
theories of law the moment that the ability
to induce criminal acts by hYpnotism is es-
tablished by legal tests. Crime is matter
of volition. The person who commits an
act involuntsrily is not criminal; the one
who furnishes the intention to a crime is
criminal Let the use of hypnotic power,
or the exercise OF one will over another, be
demonstrated by the indisputable tests of
legal evidence to have been used for cr1m-
inal purposes, and the person whose volition
caused the crime will by all principles of
law be the criminal.
When such evidence is furnished, it will
of course demonstrate beyond all question
the actual existence of the force. With that
demonstration, the fundamental principles
of law will furnish the severest restraint to
its misuse. by putting in force the rule that
the person whose will induces the crime is
the criminal, just exactly as much as if the
crime which he compels his victim to COM
NIT had been done by his own hands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
THE TOPICAL TALKER.

A One Sided Contract for Cherry P;clir,-
Mr.. LAWN the Tenor-The Time MIR.
Gilmore Riskcd a Good Deal by Playing
Patriotic Airs.
WHEN you hire pack of healthy bows to
pick cherries for you, it is we'll to hire one
man at least to watch the bows.
An old gentleman in the pleasant borough of
Sewickley the other day contracted with half
dozen small boys to pick big cherry tree. The
terms were that the boys should have half of
the cherries they picked. The owner of the
cherry tree vainly imagined that he had bribed
the boys to be honest. 1t merely shows that he
didn't know boy nature.
The boys came down and climbed the tree.
They also picked no end of cherries but not
cherry escaped to the receptacles at the foot of
the tree. The boys picked their half first and
for safe-keeping ate the cherries. The owners
half, or somewhat less than half, still tempts
the birds In the big tree.
w ]. LAWN, the young tenor. who is going
to sing here when Gilmore comes next
week. made the acquaintance of a number of
Pittsburgers couple of years ago on board the
Inman liner City of New York. At the con-
cert, which. as usual, was given during the
voyage, Mr.. LAWN sang couple of songs or
more very acceptably. although the sea air, as
it so often does. had relaxed his throat badly.
remember he sang The Maid of the Milr'
with q great deal of tender expression. 1t is
singular that this ballad has not had such a
vogue here as it had in England for over year.
1t has wonderfully pretty refrain, and if Mr..
LAWN is minded to tell us the simple story of
"The Maid of the Mill" am pretty certain the
audience will appreciate it.
TALKING of the Gilmore concerts. and the
endeavor that THE DISPATCH with other
newspapers has made to establish the custom
of playing out the audience at onr theaters
with "The Star Spanged Banner" it is to be
remembered that Mr.. Gilmore played the ma
tional air once in place and at time when
1t promised TO be an extremely unhealthy pro-
ceeding for him.
Gilmore took his band to the last Democratic
Convention held before the war broke out. He
has always been in great request at political
conventions and his band has played besides
at the inaugurations of Presidents Pierce,
Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Arthur, and 1
think, of Cleveland. Well, in 1860 Gilmore
took his band down to Charleston, S. c.. to at
tend the Democratic Convention. 1t was a
stormy convention, but Gilmore and his musi-
clans did their best to make things harmonious.
Finally when the convention broke up with
out reaching a nomination there were loud yells
for Southern airs, and group of secessionists
were particularly noisy in their cries for the
"Marseillalse." Gilmore did not hesitate a Sec
ond, but led his band into "The Star Spangled
Banner" and from that into Hail Columbia"
and wound up with yankee Doodle" 1t was
a plucky as well as patriotic thing to do, and
strangely enough it seemed to calm the people,
and they left the hall without disturbance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
The Medico.LeRnl Aspects.

M LIEGEoIs, professor of law at Nancy has
especially investigated the medico-legal
aspects of the matter. The chief points are
these: Certain subjects can be made to DO
whatever is suggested to them, not only at the
time, but at any fixed date afterward; they re-
member nothing of the suggestion, but when
the time comes they do the thing, believing
themselves to be free agents; they can be made
to commit unlawful acts against their own con-
science. The truth of these statements rests
upon numerous experiments attested by a
number of independent witnesses, whose IN
telIlgence and integrity are beyonu question.
Thus suggestions have been made to hypnotic
patients that they shall perform certain acts
week, month. and even several months after
ward, and they have done them exactly at the
given time, forgetting all about it in the mean
while and believing themselves to De Tree
agents. On October Il 1884 Prof. Bernhelm
suggested to patient that he should present
himself at DR.. Liebeaults house on October IL,
1885, and should there go through complicated
series of acts. Nothing more was said, but on
the appointed day the patient faithfully
carried out the programme, displaying
better memory than DR.. Bernhelm him
self. Again, two ladies were made by Prof.
Beaunis actually to steal silver spoons and COM
init other acts from which they would have
shrunk in horror. Other patients have been
made TO commit Imaginary murders, both
with poison and with knife, and have exhiD-
ited all the emotions proper to the occasion.
An interesting point IS that of resistance; there
is resistance TO immoral acts, the patient re-
tains a sense of right and wrong, but The re-
sistance may be overcome. No case of this
Kind has yet come into the law courts, and
these are only ''crimes of the laboratory" but
IL Is obvious that door may possibly be opened
for the commital of crime with almost absolute
lmpunity. AT any rate, the whole subject Is
one which merits earnest attention. Perhaps
the best safeguard is to give wide publicity to
the facts, so that people may know the danger
ana refrain from exposing themselves. But 1t
Is also the duty of the authorities TO consider
Whether practice which is certainly harmful
TO the individual. and may be dangerous to the
community, should be allowed to be carried on
in the form OF sensational public exhibitions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.

THE powder magazine at Mount Hope, Pa,
was burglarized, and a who would rob a
powder mi agazine would rob a contribution box
In blind asylum.
A YORK, PA. girl has got the best of snake.
While walking through orchard barefooted,
she was bitten the foot. She experienced no
Inconvenience but the snake couldn't Withstand
the shock and coiled up and died.
WHAT parrot and monkey time there will
be in the Rechstag If Bismarck should be elected.
member of that body, Emperor Billy viii be
compelled to hire kicking machine
THE DISPATCH is not given to agitation, but
candidly, now, what would become of the people
if the water melon and Jamaica ginger trusts
should prove to be reality. For the sake of peace
and their future prosperity, 1t is to be hoped that
neither of the great parties are mixed up in the
matter.
BRoTHER-IN-LAW HALE must be credited
with shooting some brains into Mr.. Cowles. 1t
was of course, difficult operation.
MISS WILLING denies that she is going to
marry John Jacob Astor. She ought to be willing
from the fact that John Jacob is rich enough to
keep q servant the year round.
BURGLARS cracked all the safes in Roscom-
mon. Mich, fe W nights ago and secured SO.
The result so shocked the knights that they re-
solved among themselves to turn over new leaf
and not crack any more Michigan safes.
FOREIGN noblemen have married S44 4175, 900
American dollars. Our heiresses must not forget
that there are still any number of Impoverished
nobem en- left and they can be had for the asking.
MARY ANDERSON is no longer "Our Mary"
but she Is still Mary and her son. But ten people
wit messed the marriage ceremony, and they were
all dead heads.
AN Oshkosh girl fell into the water and
drOw ned head downward. If that had been
Chicago girl she would have gone in feet foremost
and probably would not have been drowned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-06-18
DANGERS OF HYPNOTISM.

Serious Questions Touching the Relations
Between Mesmerism nnd Crime-Grave
Fncfs Pointed Out-Results Of Scientific
Studies In Frnnce-How Doctors Differ.
THE present outbreak of hypnotism, or mes
merism-for they are identical-has begun
to engage the attention of the authorities upon
the Continent. The practice of this art has
been recently forbidden in the French army
and navy. and is shortly to be restricted in Bel
gium to members of the medical professional
least so far as the young and the insane are
concerned This is not the first time that such
a step has become necessary. says the London
Saturday Reuiet0. Early in the century mes
mer1sm, which had languished during the
troublous times of the Napoleonic wars, sprang
up again with tremendous energy upon the
conclusion of peace, and speedily overran
Europe. This was particularly the case in Ger
many, where the Berlin Academy of Science
offered a prize for the best essay on the sub
ject; and in 1917 it was found necessary to make
the practice illegal except in the hands OF quail
flied physicians. So, too, in Denmark, about
the same time, and in Russia in 1926. The
reasons for this were. no doubt, the
same as those which induced the unl-
versity authorities of Oxford and Cambridge,
some Is years ago, to forbid the seances of a
certain well-known professional mesmerlst in
those towns. The undergraduates used to
flock to these performances, and many of them
suffered seriously in health from the nervous
arrangement consequent upon repeated hypno-
tization. 1t is, indeed, denied by no one ex-
cept Prof. Bernheim and the other hypnotizers
at Nancy that the process may be attended by
some danger to health. "Ehypnotisation est
un agent perturbateur un haut degre du sys-
teme nerveux" is the authoritative statement
of NJ. Paul Richer in the Dtctionndire Ency-
c(opedtQue des Sciences MedicdteS. II often
UeVelODs appraVareS
teria and cases have occurred In which, after
hypnotic catalepsy, for instance, the use of an
arm has been lost for some time, or the the per-
ception of colors impaired through the Induc-
tion of visual hallucnations. But it Is not only
this aspect of the matter which has engaged
attention abroad.