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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
HONORABLE But IRREGULAR.

a novelty in the wav of disposition of an
estate after death has recently been brought
TO public attention in connection with the
estate of Mr.. L. ". Shopleigh, of Brook
line, Massachusetts. He recently died
without making q will, but leaving among
his papers an unsigned memorandum in the
form Of promissory note, for the payment
10 various persons of sums of 1000 to
$4,000 each. amounting in the aggregate to
over $500, GOO. The direct heirs to the es-
tate of about $4,000 have announced that
thev will take this memorandum as an ex-
preston of the wishes OF the deceased and
will paw the sums named. The most signif-
cant feature Of the transaction is the decla-
ration of the heirs that they place the wishes
OF the late owner oft the estate as of more i'm
portance to them than wealth, and agree to
a reduction of their inheritance by nearly
one-half rather than disregard an unsigned
memorandum. With regard to the efficacy
of that method of making bequests, however,
the general rule Of the courts is that such q
document, even if it had been signed, would
have been invalid. AS heirs as a rule are
not so scrupulous as these, it will be well
for people who wish any portion of theil
estates to be distributed beyond the legal
heirs to make their bequests in the regular
testamentarv form.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
PITTsBURG. MONDAY, DEC. S, 1880.
TIE MEADvILLE FAILURE.

Further reports from the failure of Della
mater & Co., of NeadviIle. indicate sur
rrisiur and unsatis actorv relation of assets
10 liabilities. The probability of extended
losses 10 the creditors of the bank is ac-
companied with intimations of features that
would call for even more positive denunci T.
lions than are accorded to a failure that is
due simply to neglect of parties of solvent
banking.
With regard to the intimations of crook
odness in the failure. it Is pertinent to say
that public judgment should be held in re-
serve unless direct evidence of such
things are forthcoming. Charges
Of a discreditabIe nature are not to
he lightly added to the great mis-
fortunes OF such a bankruptcy; and until
talk Of that sort is backed by direct evil
dence. it should not be regarded as any
thirg more than the gossip which nearly
ALWAYS follows such an event. OF course, the
liquidation of the affairs of the firm will
show the causes OF the failure; and The
DISPATCH is free to express the hope that
thev may be shown to be consisten with the
DeTSOual integrity u tue neiubtIS VI luS
firm.
A similar hope can hardly be expressed
that investigation will show good business
management. 1t is hardly credible that a
bank 50 recently synonymous with wealth
and stability could come to such complete
wreck as is now reported, without remark.
able disregard of the principles of safe
banking. 1t also seems that the expenditure
OF large sums in politics by men whose bank
was insolvent was, to take the mildest view,
an extremely unwise and foolish proceeding.
II the reports of the failure are not wildly
exaggerated, the conclusion is inevitable
that the failure must be charged to foolish
and reckless management.
Further than this public opinion will be
held in reserve; but the personal reputation
Of the members of tn e firm requires that as
early as possible full statement be made of
its condition and the causes Of its suspen-
SiOn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
PERSONAL JOTTINGS.

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
PENSION ATTORNEYS PROFITS.

The action of the House of Representa-
tives in amending the pension appropria.
tion bill so as to reduce the fees of pension
attorneys to two dollars in certain cases and
one dollar in others is a hopeful sign for the
removal of one of the features of pension ad-
ministratiOn which makes a close ap-
proximation to a scandalous character. 1t
will doubtless arouse the pension attorneys
lobby to the most earnest efforts against its
retention IN the bill; but as it is in the in
terest of the pensioners themselves, the sup
porters of the measure can afford to make a
determined stand in its favor.
The function of the pension attorney is to
perform certain clerical work in the prepar-
alton of applications for which the reduced
fees are a liberal allowance, and then to
lobby in the Pension Bureau to secure the
consideration of their applications in ad-
vance of the mass of applications. The real
work OF investigating the claims and pre-
pairing evidence is done BY the Pension
Bureau itself. The recent disclosures
as to the workings of that office
show the influences exerted by
certain attorneys to get their cases
considered out of turn. The effect of the
present system is therefore that the pension
ers who do not employ these favored attor-
news will find their cases indefinitely post
poned; and the greater part of the fee of $40
becomes a species of taxation which the at
torneys are enabled to levy on the pension
ers for their influence in getting their claims
considered promptly.
As Secretary Noble says, the immense in
comes. some of them exceeding that of the
President of the United States, which the
pension attorneys draw from this state of
affairs, is not creditahle to the administra-
tion OF the pension system. With the very
moderate amount of clerical ability re-
quired to draw up an application, there is
hardly any need for pension attorneys at al,
and the business of that profession would
be slight if it were not for the favoritism
which they secure in the consideration and
allowance of pensions. Whether the Ieduc-
ton of the fees would prevent them from
extracting Illicit fees from pensioners for the
same services, is an open question; but there
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08

is little doubt that the action OF the House
of Representatives is a step in the right di-
rection.
1t is also probable that this desired dimin-
ution of the income OF pension attorneys
will produce proportionate decrease of the
strenuousness with which that interest con-
tinues TO lobby for any and all kinds of new
pensions that can be proposed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
OXFORD, OLD AND NEW.
REV. GEORGE HODGES WRITES OF THE
CENTER OF LEARNING.
A Church That is the Representative of All
That is Venerable and Conservative
Some Things Which Appear in Rather
a Sharp Contrast.

THE old and the new meet in the streets of
nifcant illustration.
One evening, after q twilight visit to the
great ruined tower of the old castle, there was
sound of church bells iii the neighborhood as
came back. and their inviting voices led me to
the venerable walls of the little sanctuary of
st. Thomas Martyr. The canons of Osney
Abbey had these black stones laid in their
places in the year eleven-hundred-and-som
thing, upon land given by Bernard de st.
Valery. He could afford to be generous, that
pious French-Englishman of Oxford. since his
father had stolen no emo of acres at the con-
quest. No doubt, too, he thought his gift
good investment. Here upon this piece of
ground, these holy men of Osney should make
their prayers for the welfare of his SOUL The
church at the beginning was dedicated pleas
antly to that good Christian saint whom we
call Santa Claus. but whose name they wrote out
respectfully in full-St Nicholas. But two years
after the murder of Thomas Beckett, they put
the old saint aside, and set themselves under
the protection of this newest saint, whose title
the little church still bears. Such a melancholy
little church, behind a high hedge, Set about
with heavy trees, and covered with dark ivyi
And SO still and dim inside. where candles
fiickered here and there, making the darkness
visible and casting black shadows along the
angles of the steep roof There was a small
congregation, and majority of the worshipers
were members of sisterhood connected with
the parish and wore dresses in the somoer and
depressing garments of their order. The choir
was pathetically weak, and the voice of the
reader rose and died away in lugubrious
cadences Nothing could have been more
quiet and subdued-except death itself. Out
side and in the church was the representative
of all that is venerable conservative, and of
the past.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
THE FARMERS ALLIANCE.

NEW YORK Euening Telegram (Dem.): AT
present their organization is formidable fac
tor in politics; what it will be in 1892 remains to
be seen.
ST LOUIS Globe Democrat (Rep.): The
Farmers Alliance appears to be greasing itself
for the purpose of being swallowed by the
Democratic party.
BosToN Herald (Dem): The Farmers Al
lance was wise in unanimously denOuncing the
Lodge force bill. Its well-known object is to
count Republicans in, regardless of the way the
votes are cast The farmers who have broken
away from the Republican party would be fouls
to support any such bill.
ATLANTA Constitution (Dem.): 1t is a matter
that may be dear to the hearts o. certain West
ern Alliance men. who have been converted
into Democrats, but who dislike the name of
Democrat, but the movement is impracticable
in all its parts. II cannot and will not be en-
dorsed by the Southern Alliance men.
CHICAGO Tribune (Rep.): Thus far the move
ment is Western. The East is not in it. The
South does not take kindly to third party,
and will not unless the Democrats can dominate
it. 1t does not need the gift of prophecy to
foretell that the third party movement will be
ephemeral. Political parties whose organiza-
tion is limited to single class. seeking class
legislation, have never succeeded.
ALBANY Argus (Dem.): 1t Is useless to
charge the Farmers Alliance with being in
fiuenced by Democratic Senators. The mem
bers of the Florida convention simply repre-
sent the overwhelming force of public opinion
In regard to the force bill. The madness of
Republican partisanship in Washington seems
to have deprived the leaders of the discredited
party of the last glimmering OF common sense.
PHILADELPHIA Record (Dem.): In regard
to the practlcability of organizing third party
on this strange conglomerate of political prin-
ciples great deal of doubt appears to exist IN
the minds of the Alliance leaders at Ocala
Experience has taught them that third party
has seldom enjoyed much vitality in this coun-
try unless it has arisen upon the ruins of one of
the existing parties, as the Republicans sue
ceeded the Wings.
NEW YORK Sun (Dem.): Whatever political
unions it NAV form, the Alliance is at present
a body of farmers who want to get from the
Government "what money they need upon the
security OF their real property" Now,
the Alliance farmers cannot expect to
euioy the privilege of borrowing money from
the United States at a nominal rate Of inter-
est, and giving their farms as security unless
thew give persons in other occupations some
equal privilege.
PHILADELPHIA Evening Bulletin (Rep.):
One can family imagine the confusion that
must have arisen in the mind Of Lord Dun
dreary had he read the call of the Farmers
Alliance people for a new party to decide 'who
in this country is the sovereign, the citizen or
the dollar" We fancy we hear him exclaim,
with his inimitable stutter and lisp: "How-
how widiculouth that it'll A dollar ith about
four shillingth; ith it not? Th-then how c-can
q dollar be thovereignT
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
A Statement From the Other Side.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
noticed in your paper of to-day an article
in which Messrs. Turner and Rae, labor agita-
tors, make some very untruthful statements.
Turner says the companies have lost 81 600 600;
that they operate seven collieries and the out
put was 1000 tons day; and that the number
of miners employed was 200. Also, that 100
men are now employed and 1900 tons of coal
mined per diem. And Rae says the coal is
costing the companies So ton.
1t would be very interesting. indeed to know
how they obtained this information Certainly
not from the companies, who only have
the data from which reliable conclusions can
be drawn. Rae and Watchorn do not agree in
their figures il seems because quite recently
Watchorn published as fact that the coal was
costing S27 a ton. Mr.. Rae would have a con-
tract on hand to prove from the books of the
company that the coal is costing even one-third
of S3 ton in the railroad cars ready for ship
ment. Thus they delude their followers.
That the companies have lost $1,000. 600 by the
strike is the veriest nonsense. However, let
the amount lost by them be assumed at any
figures then have not the miners been much
the greater losers. since the amount they re-
ceive in wages is more than eight times the
amount of profit the companies realize on the
product of the collierIes? But the miners are
not striking now. They have been at work for
months.
The writer is connected with only one conf
pany-the acknowledgement three
collieries. AS matter of fact, the number of
miners employed by this company prior to the
strike was fewer than 800 and the lumber of
tons of coal shipped each day about 500. The
Penn Gas Coal Company employed about the
tity of coal. Yesterday there were 6S8 miners
at work in the Westmoreland Company's
mines and S7S tons of lump coal were shipped
not to mention nut and slack. These are stub
born facts Mr. Turner's figures were given as
fancy dictated.
There are no miners In want here-no cases
of dest1tution. There are no miners idle. All
who were not re-employed by the companies
have gone elsewhere to work.
A. N. HUMPHREYS, Asst. Supt.
TpUrN PA Dec. 8.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
THE ENJOYS TO THE PRESS.
They Will Not Incur the Danger of Preiu
dicing Their Cause.

They Will Not Incur the Danger of Preiu-
dicing Their Cause.
NEW YORK, Dec. z-Messrs. O'Brien, Sui
liyan, Dillon. O'Connor and Gill. the Irish
envoys to America, have arrived in this city
from Chicago. Mr.. Harrington did not accom-
pany them. They signed the following state
ment for the press:
1--WE regret to be obliged to continue to
maintain absolute silence in the circumstances
of the present moment. We have cabled our
approval to the choice of Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
as Chairman of the Irish National party and
our earnest hope is that our colleagues and our
people may see the way TO acquesce in that
choice, and thus restore the priceless blessing of
unity in our party. Whatever additional com
munication we may find ourselves at liberty to
make to the public. will be made collectively,
and will not be made so long as we can see any
possibility of saving our country from a ruin
Gus conflict. We would prefer that our views
should suffer by our holding our tongues,
rather than that the possibilities of unity
should be prejudiced by single Injudicious
word at this painful moment"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
WIT IN SEASON.

A seaside engagement, Alicia, is like Q
politician after election. because it is always
''broke. .''-BoSton Traveller.
"what was your objection to nv prede-
cessor, King Totem?'' asked the missionary.
''He was person of very bad taste, ~ returned
the cannibal, making wry face.-Ee'o York
Herald.
"This is regular fall weather." remarked
the wit: 1.-THE leaves falling. the nuts fall
ing. and the rain is falling.''
'.Humph!'' growled paterfamilias, ''but coal
isn't. .''-Harper's Bdzdr.
Employer-On what grounds do you ask
Employe-On the ground that the Iaborer ID
worthy Of bis higher.-AtnnedpoLis Journal.
1t is peculiar fact that the black sheep
of the family almost invariably leaves home and
gets heeeed.-Nelo York Herald.
Swosher-Great Sectt, man, you look
as though you had been wrestling with a cyclone!
Where have you been?
Tingler-Worse than that! displayed $40 bill
Mt a church fair!-BOStOn TrdUeLLer.
The Judge-Oficer Grady, please arrest
Lawyer Case's attention.
Grady-Yes, sor, av you'll please make out tn
warrant.-Spdre Moments.
Hoffman Howes-The world owes every
one living, doesn't it?''
Temple Court-Of course 1t does.
holman Howes-WeIl. collect mine from 1t for
me, and III give you half ''-HaTper's Bazar.
A Young man home from college, wishing
to inspire his little sister with awe for his learn-
ing, pointed to a star. and said:
ISIS. 10 you see that bright little luminaryE Hs
bigger than this whole world.''
mo 'taint - said Sis.
''Yes, 1t is. - declared the young coliegian.
s'Then why don't it keep off the rain?'' was the
triumphant rejoinder.-Spare Moments.
TIME ENOUGH YET.
"where are you going, my pretty maid?"
''I'm going to Sunday school, sir, - she SAID
''Can 20 with you, my pretty maid!''
She laughed and roguishIy shook her head
you've week or two to spare. D." said she,
Sand then can be in on the Christmas Tee!"
-EsD TOrk Herald,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08

1HE increase of the public debt for No
vember Of Sc, ,0O0. 900 should be recognized as
only meaning an excess of expenses over re-
ceipts, the bonded debt not having been in
creased at all. Nor does the fact that one
month shows this adverse balance necessarily
signify that the Government revenue has fallen
permanently below its outgo. But it would be
pertinent to inquire what mystery of Treasury
bookkeeping always produces the largest re-
ductions of the public debt in the months just
before an election. and turns the balance the
other way after the election is over.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
FISHING FOR THE ALLIANCE.
The Democratic Party May Arrange to Abb
sorb the willy Farmers.

sorb the Willy Farmers.
OcALA, FLA, Dec. There has been large
amount of committee work going on to-day
which will facilitate the convention work to-
morrow, and it is predicted that more real
business will be done than during all the pre-
vious sessions put together.
Before adjournment last night Washington
was decided upon as the place, and the third
Tuesday In November as the time, for holding
the next annual meeting of the National Alli-
ance. Strong efforts, it is said, will be made
tomorrow to revoke this action and make In
dianapolts the place, with considerable hope OF
success. Prejudice against Washington has
been excited by Westerners here.
An opinion is gaining ground here that the
national leaders of the Democratic party have
many lobbyists here in their interest, and that
the policy of the Alliance in many respects will
be influenced by them, notably in the case of
the sub-Treasury bill. That measure is now
under consideration by the National Alliance.
The Alliance Ocala platform could, It is pre-
dicted, secure absolute adoption by the Ma
tional Democratic convention and this, with
the Endorsement of modified sub-treasury
bill. would place the Democratic party squarely
upon the Farmers Alliance platform. In this
way it would gain the support OF the entire
Alliance and Democratic votes throughout the
country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
PERSEVERANCE OF THE BoURBoNs

PERSEVERANCE OF THE BOURBONS
A decided stupidity with regard to politi-
cal philosophy and an equal foolishness as
concerns political policy in the present day,
is shown in the inaugural declaration of
Governor Tillman, of South Carolina, in
order to support his assertion that the
whites must have absolute control of the
State government, as follows: 1--WE deny
that all men are created equal 1t is not
true now and was not when Jefferson
wrote it."
When any school of political thought
finds it necessary to deny the political
tenets on which the freedom of this country
was first asserted, it is a proof that they
are opposed to the principles of freedom
and equality on which our Government is
founded. But there is an even greater in
congruity in this case, when professed
Democratic leader finds it necessary to deny
the fundamental principles laid down by
the father of American Democracy. In
this denial of Jefferson's principles,
Governor Tillman represents the Bour-
bon Southern Democracy. He was
hoped that his was a more liberal sort of
Democracy than that which made South
Carolina the leader in secession. His dec
claration is, however, an expression of the
most persistent theory of that antiauated
school, and by its frankness shows how far
removed the ultra-Southern Democracy is
from the Democracy of Jefferson.
There is even more stupidity in such
talk as regards the politics of the present
day. The people of the North have again
and again shown their readiness to lay aside
the old political and sectional issues on the
distinct understanding that the South ac-
cepts honestly and in good faith the results
of the war. This is the position which The
DISPATCH has taken. But what encourage
ment is given to that view if men OF the
,Tillman stamp are to be taken as repre-
sentative in not only rejecting the results of
the war, but actually denying the principles
of the original document by which this ma
tion constituted itself a free country?
The Tillman outburst is not to be taken
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-08
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Homer Chadwick,

Homer Chadwick, eldest son of Samuel Chad
wich Esq., died at his fathers home in the Twenty
first Ward Saturday morning, He had been
suffering for some time with throat trouble and
the immediate cause of his death was hemorrhage.
The deceased was well-known to the people of the
East End, and enjoyed the confidence and esteem
ofhis associates. he was one who can be ftly
characterized honorable, upright mana
man Of strict business integrity and much kind
ness of heart consistent Christian and a
lifelong member and officer of Emory Methodist
Episcopal Church, the hour of his departure,
though unexpected was not unprepared fo-, and
den demise, sorrow OF as those without hope. ="
His life though brief was useful, and he has left
behind an example worthy to be initiated. The
funeral will take place this afternoon at O'Clock.