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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-27
MR.. GLADSTONE REACHES LONDON.

London. Jan. 26.-Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone arrive
in London to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-27
PRICE THREE CENTS.

is only on account of this retardation that and
opposed to putting wires underground"
Where has your system suffered most In this
Storm"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
THE PROPER COURSE.

There is a rather singular and ill-judged
| tendency on the part of certain exchanges,
especially in New York, to berate the Dis
trict Attorney of New York City for de-
claring his intention of instituting pros
ecution as test case against one of the
newspapers which violated the law against
publishing reports Of the electric execu-
tions. The organs of public opinion
should be clear-sighted enough to see, not
only that this course is the only one which
that public official can take, but that it Is
really in the interest of the press.
1t is manifest proposition that it is the
duty of District Attorney to take the
necessary action for the enforcement of
the laws as he finds them on the statute
book. If he should adopt the line of refus-
ing to prosecute for violations of laws that
do not commend themselves to his private
Judgment, he would be simply trying to
exercise prerogative that does not belong
to any man in this country. In taking this
action therefore, the public prosecutor is
doing nothing more than his official duty.
Beyond that it is a very purblind view
which does not perceive that the discharge
of the duty is the best thing for the news
papers. Not only is the principle in
volved that the surest way to secure the
repeal of bad law is to enforce it, but in
this case the shortest way to get rid of the
law is by test case. The strength of the
newspaper position is that this law is an
unconstitutional restriction of the liberty
of the press. As long as the law is ig-
nored, the press stands in the attitude of
violating a statute. When the test case is
properly concluded, the press of New
York will be relieved from that equivocal
position by the declaration of the uncon-
stitutionality of the act.
For this reason the assaults on District
Attorney Nicoll, for his intention to bring
the test prosecution, are signally out of
place. The intention should receive the
approval of the press, as affQrding an
opportunity to show the nullity of the
enactment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
GOSSIP OF THE GREAT.

PRINCE BISMARCK and his wife are at
Kissingen. Princess Bismarck is seri-
ously i'll.
PREMIER MERCIER, of Quebec, on his
return home to Montreal from Europe Sat-
urday afternoon, was accorded an enthusi-
astic reception.
JAMES WHTTCoMB RILEY, while abroad,
is arranging to have an edition of his poems
issued by London publisher, with elabo-
rate illustrations.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX began her
political career at the age of syears, and at
16 she had local fame before she had ever
been ten miles away from her country home
HARRY c. DUvAL, Chauncey NJ. Depew's
private secretary, has the reputation of be-
ing able to turn off more work than any man
in the employ of the New York Central Rail-
road Company.
WILLIAM WHrTLOCK, the artist, of
Brooklyn is one of the most enthusiastic
yachtsmen of the City of Churches. Mr.
Whitlock is a practical seaman and when on
board works as hard as any of his crew.
GLADSTONE is comparatively poor man
and the occasional literary work he does for
magazines and periodicals is not the result
of any desire to add to his established fame
receives 81, 900.
SOMEBODY once asked Phillips Brooks
for history of his life, says Boston letter.
The clergyman replied: Certainly, but
suppose you mean by that the history of my
church; there is nothing much to tell about
me you will find the church very interest
ing"
JOSEPH SITwATER, q Warm Spring
Indian, who acted as scout in the Snake war
and in the Modoc trouble, is now peacefully
following the vocation of a farmer on the
reservation, and is as much interested in the
growth OF grain as any of his white neigh
bors.
DURING his long public career Hannibal
Hamlin never made q scrap or note of his
history. Again and again was he urged to
do SO, but he invariably replied; ''Too late.
When the war was going on 1 was too busy
for such work. After the war reconstruc-
tion was the topic. and 1 forgot to make
notes, so am practically without g record,
save that Of my public career as recorded in
Congress and in the memory of my friends
and associates"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Stopped the Train With His Heel.

Some time ago there was a story going
the rounds of daring rescue of a child by
locomotive engineer. The child was said
to be playing on the track and did not hear
passenger train laundering down upon it.
The engineer saw the child, but it was too
late to stop the train. Quickly reversing
his engine and "giving her air, the engineer
Slid through his cab window, along che run
ming board, and down to the pilot As the
engine approac he'd the child the engineer
leaped to the ground, ran swiftly ahead and
snatched the child from the track, by his
quickness and GOODNESS averting frightful
accident.
To men who do not know railway en-
gineers the story was a surprise, and they
all denounced it as a fake" One imagina-
tive gentleman wrote to the New York Sun
about It: He believed that 1t was true. He
had had while pulling fast mail train over
the Rocky Mountain division of the Union Pa.
cihe He was coming down through a canyon
raining heavily for long time. and the
ground was soft and sticky. The track was
wet and slippery, and the heavy train was
"doing her best to hold 'em back" but in
spite of his efforts he began to fear that the
train was going to get away from him. just
as ne was wondering what he could do to
shot round a curve and there on the track
not 100 yards ahead of him was a little girl
asleep: TO stop by ordinary methods was
absolutely impossible. To GO on was certain
death to the child. In the fraction of q
second he had formed his plan.
As he says it: II shouted to Jim, the fire.
man. to choke her. and give her the grit
and then l slid out on the running board and
down on her nose and jumped Off AS she
came by grabbed hold of spoke in the
driver and socked my heel in the mud, and,
if you'll believe 1t, stopped that train right
there. Broke my arm In two places, though,
and knocked every blamed car in the train
clean Off the track. But saved the child"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
THE INCOME TAX IDEA.

The adoption in the Ohio Democratic
| platform of plank in favor of q graded
income tax meets with the general disap-
proval of the Eastern press. 1t is un-
| doubtedly the fact that this plank, like the
one on free silver coinage, is tub to the
Farmers Alliance whale; but the criti-
cisms upon the income tax proposition ex-
hibit an inability TO look at it impartially
The opponents of the income tax de-
clare first that it is class tax to put one
rate OF taxation on moderate income and
larger one upon a greater income. 1t
would be just as forcible to say that to tax
those who own real estate or stocks is to
tax class as separate from those who own
neither. Again, it is declared that it is a
tax ON enterprise, which is not quite cor
rect A business tax such as we have here
in Pittsburg is tax on enterprise; while
the income tax is tax on prosperity.
Finally, the tax is denounced as inquisi-
torial, which, as we saw in this State last
winter, is a common complaint againstany
system which seeks to ascertain thoroughly
the amount of taxable property owned by
the private individual.
But it is here that the valid objection to
the income tax comes in, namely, in the
difficulty Of securing correct return of
taxable incomes. A mans income is some
thing which only himself or his confiden-
tial assistants know; and the larger the in
come the more private is the exact knowl-
edge of its amount On the other hand,
his real estate is something which can be
valued by others as well as himself while
his personal property generally has tan
gible existence, although in the matter of
loans and securities it is frequently hard
for the assessors to get at. The capabili-
ties of taX-dodging are well known in re-
gard to all classes of property; but the op-
portunities with regard to an income tax
would be SO great that the law would
probably defeat itself by increasing the
incentive to escape taxation on the great
est incomes and placing the burden of tax
alton on those who were so honest as to
state their incomes fairly, or so well
known that they could not be under
stated
But the income tax proposition in the
Ohio platform has nothing more than an
abstract interest The real fight is on the
tariff The clear recognition of that fact
on both sides puts all other issues in the
shade, and enlists the sympathy of this
section warmly on the side of the defend
ers of protection.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Soon Theren Be an ossifled Woman.

Mrs Mollie Hughes, q highly respected
widow lady, living near Camernville, Idaho,
is afflicted with unique and most distress
ing disease. Little by little the flesh of her
entire body is turning to solid bone, or, in
other words, she is becoming ossfled. ac-
cording to a st. Louis Republic writer. The
disease was first noticed in 1856, when Mrs.
Hughes was Miss Duychink, of Canon
Rapids. At that time only single finger
wns affected. Within a month after the
time when Miss Duychink first noticed the
numbness and stiffness of the finger it had
been accidently broken Off while she was
asleep. The incident gave the girl no pain,
there being neither blood, nerves or flesh
left in the diseased member, but it excited
the alarm of the family, who called in n
physician. The broken stump of the finger
was amputated back to where the living
flesh set on and everything was thought to
be all right.
Soon the flesh, muscles, arteries, veins and
nerves on her hands, fingers and arms be-
came as hard and feelingless as the finger
had been before it was broken off. Next
the awful malady extended to the elbow,
the forearms becoming as white and as clear
as alabaster. Within the year the toes and
the end of the nose and ear tips showed Il
like color and rigidness. The p1 ocess of
ossification has now been going on nearly
five years, and the attending physicians say
that il is only matter of time when the en-
tire body of the poor victim will be a solid
bone. 1t is a rare disease, and the pathology
of it is little understood.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Hidden Perils in Bananas.

A live tarantula in O fruit store is attract
ing much attention from passers-by. 1t
journeyed several thousand miles In a
bunch of bananas, and is now as lively and
vicious as when at home on the banks of the
Amazon river, says the Chicago Tribune 1t
was found by an Italian laborer in
a fruit house in q bunch of bananas
which formed part of fruit
cargo from Brazil. The italian had
narrow escape from being bitten, as the
huge spider made jump at his hand while
moving the bunch of bananas which had
been his home for not less than three weeks.
1t is now in a cracker box with glass front,
and displays its viciousness by making
jumps from one end of the box to the other
when teased by anyone.
A young boa-constrictor measuring 36
inches in length was found in banana
bunch at the same commission house two
weeks before the tarantula was discovered
The boa was lively and seemed pleased with
its transplanted lot, but week of captivity
killed It.
owe have to caution our men continu.
ally, said the proprietor of the fruit house,
"to keep them on the lookout for strange in.
sects in handling fruit. During the time
have been in the fruit business here my
workmen have found three boa-constrictors
and Il half dozen tarantulas, and innumera-
Bile specimens of land-crabs, such as are COM
mon In tropical countries. A boy working
for me was bitten by tarantula four years
ago anu ne ~ now caTTylnB u stump OF an
arm as a result of his carelessness 1t was
only after his arm was amputated and he
had been nursed three months in hospital
that he overcame the terrible poison of the
tarantulas bite. The first boa-constrictor
found in q fruit shipment at my warehouse
was 10 years ago. 1t measured nearly four
feet in length and kept it for more than a
year in a Slated box. A Snowman heard of
it and gave me $50 for it. That same snake,
am told, is one of the number now fondled
by Miss Uno, the snake-charmer with Fore
other than the man to whom 1 sold the
snake"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Police Captain William Stewart, of the
Southside, accompanied by August Boden.
hagen, will leave this week on pleasure
trip to Baltimore, Washington and several
other points. They will also visit several
battlefelds the captain has not seen since
the close of the war. They expect to be gone
two weeks.
B. A. Winternitz, New Castle lawyer,
went to Atlantic City last evening. He is
the man who threatened to have Andrew
Carnegie arrested unless he obeyed SUBJ
pGna.
w. H. Picking, travelling passenger agent
of the B. & .. road at Somerset, and John A.
Wilson, of Franklin, are registered at the
Monongahela House.
Ed w. Dunn, a well-known Columbus
carriage maker, and T. A. Neil, of Warren,
are among the guests at the Seventh Avenue
Hotel.
c. Underhill, of Barnum & Bailey's show,
is stopping at the st. Charles Hotel. The
force of 30 advertising men Is at Staley's
Hotel.
DIR. I. L. Haggard, of Allegheny, accom-
panied by his wife, viii leave to-day for q
short sojourn at Atlantic City.
Sam P. White, the Beaver Falls politi-
clan, was an Eastern passenger last evening.
Michael Murphy, Stannard Oil man
from Philadelphia, is at the Duquesne.
Calvin Wells and wife left for Philadel-
phia last evening. ~
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
CANADIAN INDEPENDENCE,

The report which comes from Montreal
that Adolphe Mercier, the prime minister
Of the province of Quebec, is about to
make an open declaration in favor of the
independence of Canada is an interesting
one. 1t may be somewhat premature as
regards the avowal of the French Cana
dian leaders attitude: but it is, perhaps,
more correct indication of the feeling of
the element which he represents than the
talk about annexation to the United States,
which has sprung from the same source.
Prime Minister Mercier is the represen-
tative of the French Canadian element,
and it is to the predominance of that pop
UlatiOn in Quebec that he owes his official
position. The dissatisfaction of that race
with the present rule in Canada is due to
its devotion to the traditions of its race.
1t has been asserted that the sentiment of
eighteenth century France existed more
strongly in the French Canadian prov
inces than in the France of to-day.
The definite points on which this
spirit manifeStS itself in Canada is first,
its devotion to the Catholic Church, and
the demand that the priesthood shall be
SuppoltVu bA tlit puDlIC lGluS, SSCOnu, It's
desire that the French language and Gus
toms shall be perpetuated in education
and in legal forms; and third, a senti-
mental loyalty in general TO French inter-
ests rather than the English
1t may be considered quite probable that
an intelligent study of the United States
would convince any French Canadian that
these objects are not to be gained by an
neXation to our Republic. Equally, a
clear view on our side would show the un-
desirability of adding to our nation pop
ulation whose most earnest desires are the
preservation of tongue that is alien to us,
of customs characteristic of the last GEN.
tury, and of the union of church and
state.
Of course there are other elements in
Canada which favor change. The rad
ical element might be as well or better
satisfied with independence as annexation.
The commercial influences which tend
toward the latter remain unchanged. But
it may be doubted whether the time has
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
THE NEW CORPORATIONS.

BY our financial special from New York;
| it will be seen that the past week in Wall
street has been notable for the launching,
of a large number of industrial and mer-
camille corporations. These companies.
organized under the New Jersey laws.
|. offer their shares to investors on the most;
alluring terms. The corporations are to
take the place Of former firms, and the,
movement is the newest indication of the.
drift from enterprises conducted by indi-
viduals to the corporate form.
In one form this change is commenda-
BILE. That is where itis made for the pur-
pose of allowing the employees of the old
firm to become partners in the enterprise.
There is no better means.of securing prac-
tical cooperation than the corporate Or
ganization, if its liability to abuse is
guarded against We have no doubt that
many of these organizations have been
made for the purpose of effecting this
class of cooperation. 1t is pleasure to.
note the reports that the result of increas-.
ing the direct interest of the employees in
the prosperity of the concern has resulted
in better work and largely increaseds
profits.
But this optimistic viewcannot be taken
of the majority of the schemes the floating
of which is reported in our correspond
ence The substitution of the possibilities
of stock manipulation for those of careful
personal supervision in building up busi-
ness are altogether too suggestive for such
a faith The enterprises which offer their
stock to general investors with glowing
promises for dividends are evidently not
seeking to establish cooperation with /
their employees. The fact is that the
attempt is to float these stocks on the in
definite idea that extraordinary profits are
to be secured by their kinship to the
trusts; while the real kinship is in the
policy exemplified by the American Sugar
Refineries and other trusts where the
richest profits have come to the promoters
who first fioated stock at inflated prices
and have since reaped golden harvests by
its manipulation.
AS to the promise of eight per cent divi-
dends commented upon in the special, it
is very pleasant one. But promising
eight per cent in the prospectus of COM
pany is one thing; and actually paying it |
without cessation for an indefinite term
of years is entirely another thing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
A STORY OF SENATOR VEST.
The Incident Which Determined Him to
Leave Kentucky for Missouri.

The Incident Which Determined Him to
Leave Kentucky for Missouri.
New York world.I
'Did you ever hear how Senator Vest left
Kentucky and went to Missouri" said dis
tinguished native of Kentucky to group of
friends in an uptown hotel yesterday,
All answered mo"
"well, there was very little ceremony
about his going.
"The Senator was born and brought up at
Owensboro, a Kentucky town on the bank Of
the Ohio. When he was young man he ran
O little newspaper there. He was full of mis-
chief and used to play tricks which would
have made interesting reading had he dared
to report them. But he was usually inter
ested in suppressing the facts In order to
keep out Of trouble.
"The incident which decided the tone and
manner of Mr.. Vests pilgrimage happened
in this way. Then, as now, the boys down
there, including the gentlemen who hold
high and responsible public offices, were
fond of playing quiet game of poker. One
evening a party comprising the Mayor Of
the town. the Judge, and several other lead
ing citizens, engaged a barge to have sail
on the river. They Travelled a short dis
tance from the town, and moor1ng their boat
to an island in the river, sat down to have a
little game. They intended to go home, say
not later than midnight and as the vessel
was mOOreQ W16nln easy reacn OF the town
they played well up to the midnight hour
without paying attention to anything but
the game.
"When they arose to steer their bark
homeward thew looked around and were
fairly astonished. Where were they? Where
was the island? Where was the mooring7 1t
was some time before they realized the sit
uation. They finally discovered that the
mooring had been cut and the boat had
drifted about 40 miles down the Ohio. 1t
was late the next morning when the distin-
guished party returned TO town.
at was impossible to keep back what had
happened. The whole town knew that the
Mayor and his companions had been playing
cards. and had experienced very bad luck.
The Mayor was n fighting man, and he i'm
mediately registered vow that when he
found the man who cut the boat adrift he
would shoot him on sight. Mr.. Vests little
newspaper was published no more, and the
next time the editor was heard from he was
in Missouri;
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
A HUSBANDS HER0IsM.
He Rescues His Wife, Imprisoned Beneath
Capsized Yacht


Capsized Yacht.
New York Recorder.l
The weaker members of a yachting party
Of five would in oil probability have gone to
the bottom of Great South Bay last Sunday
but for the bravery of one man. Before noon
on that day G. W. Elder, his wife, Gerald
Stuyvesant and his brother, F. s. Stuyvesant
embarked at Bay Shore aud sailed for Fire
Island on the sloop yacht Montauk. Shortly
after o'clock Mrs. Elder retired to the
cabin, tucked a pet dachshund under a cush-
ion, wapped herself in blanket and lay
down to sleep.
There are no berths in the cabin, which is
supported by stanchions and is all open at
the stern. A low, broad seat runs around
the cabin. On that Mrs. Elder slept. When
mile and q half off Bay Shore the Montauk
was put about, and at that instant a vicious
puff of wind filled the sail, the yacht turned
bottom upward and the passengers sank be-
meath the waves Mr.. Elder and the sailing
master were the first to reach the surface of
the water. They caught the boats bottom,
and when Geralds head appeared he was
helped to the boat. Mrs Elder remained in
the cabin. Her husband is q trained athlete
and vigorous swimmer He dived and
swan under the boat but came to the sur
face without finding her. Down he went
again, and came up with no better success.
After the third plunge he found Mrs. Elder
in the cabin, clasped her in his arms, and q
moment later had her seated on the keel of
the boat.
An air-f1lled space between the surface of
the confined water and the sheathed hull of
the boat had permitted Mrs. Elder to
breathe until rescued. These exciting Incl
dents occurred in less time than their tell
ing takes, and while Mr.. Elder was so gal
lantly endeavoring to save his wife +. S.
Stuyvesant was going through an expert
ence he Is not likely to forget.