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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
PERT AND POINTED.

The Window Glass Trust is dead, and
singularly enough, is said TO have died paneless
death.-Kansas City Times.
Critic-I didn't like that last line in your
article.
Editor-well. the public did.
Critic-Why so?
Editor-Because It was the last hne.-AtIdnso
Constitution.
Some of the very best comedy is butchered
tragedy.-DatLas, Ter. 6sl0s.
The strongest point in the Indian ques-
tion lust now is the bayonet. Buffalo Timer.
Senator Hoar is so mad about the defeat
of IN. force hill that the services OF Pasteur may
he reouired to guard against actual rabies.-Bos-
ton Globe.
However it haps the cold may snap
In the winter days or nights.
II stops lust there, for the fact remains
It,s always the frost that bites.
Philadelphia Timss.
"May I not aspire to your hand?" he
asked earnestly.
s'Permit me-" she said positively, Ito assure
Won that this is q lone hand. ~ HGs hfngton Post
That was a remarkable pony on which
sitting Bull was killed. Three museums now have
It on exhibition. PhiL1detphtG Ledger.
The supply Of hasty pudding would run
short IL were made from the sTndian meal'f
supplied by the Government. .-Helo York EueRtn1
World.
The difficulty experienced by q camel ia
going through the eve Of needle Is not to be
compared with that Of publisher in trying 70
collect his bill for printing the announcemsute4
. defeated csndidats.-oa CITY Stfssars.
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demic. Whoever committed crime, par
ticularly of the capital degree, was discov-
cred to be subject to temporary and violent
states of mind, in which, Of course, the suf-
ferer was not responsible for any little acts
OF murder which his emotional insanity
might dictate. Before and after this theory
of irresponsible crime became threadbare,
ravages of kleptomania were apparent, and
kept on until it was discovered that o
regime Of prison diet was the only sure cure
for that mental disease. But these expert
methods OF robbing crime of its vice had
their limitations. The emotional lunatic
could hardly be expected to systematically
accrue to himself the property of others;
while the broadest views of kleptomania
never rose to the height of expecting the
kleptomaniac to slaughter those who inter-
tered with his schemes of acquisition. Con-
sequently, these interesting phases of in
sanity fell to the level of common murder
and vulgar stealing.
1t was reserved for the best decade OF the
all grades of crime. Hypnotism explains
everything. The subject of hypnotic in
fuence NAV be forced without his volition
to pick pocket, rob a bank, forge note or
entice victim to murder. In short hypnot-
ism has usurped one of the functions OF
charity, by covering multitude OF sins.
In this instance, however. We have an un-
usually remarkable example of hypnotism
in the fact which appears from the statement
of the case, that several persons must hav e
been hypnotized. Besides the cashier, the
hypnotic influence must have extended to
the teller and the bookkeeper, to prevent
them from noticing the remarkable dlspro-
portion between checks and deposits nee
essary to cover an overdraft of $100, 900. The
President, who offers this plea, must have
got a Whit of the influence to prevent him
from looking over the balance sheets suf-
ficiently to discover the overdraft. The full
investigation of the case may lead to the
discovery that the whole bank, from di-
rectors down to messenger, was hypnotized; !;
and perhaps the speculative customer, who
presumably lost the money, was put under
that dread influence by the manipulators of
the especial speculative fancy in which he
went to smash.
The addition to the comprehensive range
of hypnotism, of this power of hypnotizing
by wholesale lots, contains the widest sug-
gestions. One of the most obvious applica-
tions is its use by lobby agents to put an en-
tire Legislature under its influence in order
to get their bills passed without friction.
OF course the hypnotised legislators could
never be held responsible by the people for
acts done under that superior influence.
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APRAcrIcAL DEMONSTRATION

A very satisfactory report on profit-shar-
ing is given from the Bourne Mills, at Fall
River, where that system has been in opera
ton during the past year. The treasurer's
report points out that, independent of the
question of dividends, the interest inspired
among the hands In good work has been so
active that the percentage of second quality
in the production is very much decreased
and there is less disposition toward waste.
The result is that from this reason alone
those who have shared in the profits have re-
ceIved 6per cent more wages in addition to
the per cent in the increase of dividends.
The purchasing power OF the wages in rela-
tion to the product is shown by the fact that
the average weekly wages of one weaver
during the last half of 1889 was 50 04, and
would have purchased 253Z yards of cloth
at the close of that year, while the same
mans wages during the last half OF 1890 was
$40 40, aud would have purchased 346Z
yards when the period closed. This differ
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COMPULSORY VOTING.

A paper recently read before the Academy
of Political Science at Philadelphia, by
Frederick William Hollis. started out on the
indisputable ground that the electio l fran
chise should be regarded as investing the
citizen with solemn trust and duty rather
than with privilege. From this stand
point, the author proceeded to discount Gov
ernor Campbell's idea that a man who does
not attend the political primaries shall be
disfranchised. by urging that the citizen who
does not vote at elections shall be brought
before the courts and punished. Governor
Hill in his message to the New York Legis-
lature makes a similar recommendation.
If these propositions were pu. into the
form of law they would place good many
independent persons, who are -fastidious
about the men they vote for, in rather un-
comfortable position. The supporters of the
measure refer prominently to the absence of
35, 600 voters from the polls in New York
City last fall. But there is reason to think
that large proportion of that 30, 600 took
this means of showing that they did not
wish to vote either for Tammany Democ-
racv or Plat Republicanism. In many
other cases voters of one party who wished
to show their disapproval Of Its present
course but did not wish to vote for the prin-
ciples of the opposite party. have resorted to
the same way of showing their disafection.
If the law should impose a penalty Tor not
voting, these classes-not to speak of our r.
P. brethren, who will not vote at all as
matter Of conscience-will be placed under
the uncomfortable necessity of voting one
ticket or another. or else getting up ticket
of their own, which, under the regime of
ballot reform and official ballots, might be q
difficult matter.
Still, if this were the only objection to the
| proposed measure, it would not be insupera-
BILE. There are good many people who
omit to vote simply from carelessness; and
those who make conscientious determine
ton to stay away from the polls could, if
brought there by the law, exhibit their dis
satisfaction with all parties in the more i'm
pressive way of voting blank ballots. This
would show that the voter had after coming
to the polls found all the nominations so un-
worthy his approval that he would not vote
for any of them. If there should ever be a
predominance of blank ballots, it would also
show the dissatisfied voters what they might
have done by organizing party of their
own. If there were no other objection it
might be good idea for Pennsylvania to
adopt tine policy, and as it now makes the
citizen pay tax before he can vote, impose
a penalty several times greater if he does not
vote, thus making it sure that if he does not
vote he shall at least be taxed.
But there is another very positive objec-
| tion, which is that a measure of this sort
would only be an addition to the category of
dead-letter legislation, and would never be
enforced except for especial purposes of per-
| secution or reyenpe.
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SERIOUS SITUATION IN LONDON.

A very serious condition of things exists
in London. Thousands of hungry people
are suffering from the cold, and there are
muttered threats of violence. The agitators
of lawlessness are busy with this miserable
multitude urging it to 60 forth and plunder
the rich. The whole force of civil police
and military is kept In readiness to meet an
outbreak. As yet no trouble has occurred.
Not SO much because the people have any
scruples about looting the fine mansions and
aristocratic clubs oftheWest End, butmerely
because the mob is numbed by cold and
cowardly from starvation. Though these
suffering mortals declare they must labor
and will not starve, they are no match
physically for the officers of the law. It
may be hoped prompt relief will be given
these poor people and an outbreak averted.
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PITTsBURG, SUNDAY, JAN. IL, 1891.
A RIFT IN THE CLOUD.

Out of the daze into which city officials,
contractors and property owners were thrown
by Justice Williams decision on street i'm
hours been a gradual return to something
which looks like lucid interval. From
bewailing the prospect of debt of several
hundred thousand dollars-perhaps a
million-suddenly set upon the shoulders of
the city, there has come cheerful reaction
accompanied BY dim but consoling percep-
tions that perhaps not a penny need be laid
upon the general treasury after all. The
basis for this newly awakened belief, which
falleth as refreshing dew on the lately waste
places of the official minds at CITY Hall, is
that in knocking out the Board of Viewers
and their paraphernaiia the Supreme Court
has not really decided that any other part
of the act of 1887 is unconstitutional. 1t is
true Justice Williams seemed to censure
severely the provision which permitted one
third of the property owners to call for an
improvement, but he did not say that this
was illegal. He rather brought it forward
as an added reason Why recourse should be
permitted to the ordinary law processes for
correction of fraud or injustice. in place of
leaving the matter to the cIty's own tribunal,
the Board of Viewers.
The contention of Chief Bigelow and the
Finance Committee will now seemingly be
that it is not the doing OF the work which
has been in any particular pronounced ille-
gal, but the manner of assessing for il;
IL - =
ment which has been knocked out, others
can be authorized by the Legislature until
some method is secured which the court can
sanction. If this be the case, when it is re-
membered that the principle of assessing by
benefits has always been in vogue and has
had judicial sanction, it would follow that
while other methods of applying the princl-
pie must be adopted, in the end the general
result will be the same, viz, the placing OF
the principal part or the whole of the cos:
upon the abutters whose property has been
chiefly benefited, in place of letting it fall
upon the general taxpayer. The unfinished
work and the work lately finished, but upon
which the Board of Viewers has not yet sat,
it seems reasonable to believe, will come
within this new purview. As for the i'm.
provements upon which the unconstitutional
body made its ineffective assessments, il
these can be reached by another and legal
assessment, the whole question will De re.
duced to one of few months delay, in
place of the shape in which it was lately ap.
pretended, of the cost coming entirely upon
the city.
1t seems so entirely reasonable that the
denial of one form of assessment as illegal
should not prevent the adoption of othe,
methods of assessment which would be legal,
that this aspect of the case might ordinarily
be taken to carry the solution of the prob.
lem. 1t is certainly the best that offers
though we suppose the lawyers with recent
experiences in their mind will 60 slow be
fore affirming or denying anything with
certainty until the Legislature shall have
acted and the court is again heard from.
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THE TOPICAL TALKER.
A Memoir of MuIligan.


my honeymoon" said a Pittsburg clergy
man to me yesterday, twas marked by an odd
incident and one that was reminded Of to-day
when heard band playing the March OF the
Mulligan Guard We were married In Des
Moines and travelled East for our wedding trip.
On the cars after we left Chicago / made the
acquaintance Of a very bright and aggressive
man. Those were troublous times, and no.
body could talk five minutes without
getting into a political discussion. My new
acquaintance and fell to debating Of course
was a strong Lincoln man, and he was equally
devoted to Douglass. We did not lose our
tempers. but 1 remember his last words were:
Oh! you're regular abolitionist" Before we
parted 1 found that my antagonist was James
A. MulligaA. then lawyer and clerk in one OF
the Washington departments. You remember
what a splendid record as soldier he made
afterwards. at the head of the Irish Brigade,
as they called the Twenty-third Illinois
Regiment. and followed his career with great
interest until its glorious ending on the field OF
Winchester. The news of his death reached
me when we were celebrating our wedding an
niyersary. and my first meeting with him was
vividly recalled. The story of how he had
begged his men to leave him to die upon the
field and save the colors which were in danger,
was, indeed, the first thing read in the paper
that day."
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k1pI1NGs VIEWS OF AMERICA,

From the first of Mr.. Rudyard Kipling's
articles on America, published elsewhere,
it is evident that the talented Anglo-Indian
writer will deal with our national peculiari-
ties in much the same vein as Dickens did
half century sooner. Whatever strikes his
fancy as unusual or characteristic, receives
the humorous and satirical treatment, which
he is probably better fitted to give it than
any man since Dickens. That way of look
ing at US aroused great and rather foolish
outcry in Dickens time; but we are less
sensitive and more sensible now. We know
that we have proved our title to national
greatness; and can accordingly take the
jokes on our foibles with as much enjoy
ment as those who are not so well able as
ourselves to estimate their justice.
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CONFEDERATEs IN CONGRESS.
Not So Many Southern Military Men in Public
Life Now.

Not So Many Southern Military Men in Public
Life Now.
Washington Post.J
Accepting the Directory as guide. we find
that there are exactly II 2Southern "Drigadiers" !"
so-called, holding seats in the Fifty-frst Con-
gress. OF this number the State of Alabama
contributes three, Morgan, Wheeler and Forney;
George one, Colquitt; Florida one, Bullock;
South Carolina two, Hampton and Butler;
North Carolina one, Ransom: virginia one,
Lee; Tennessee one, Bate; Louisiana one, Glib
son and Mississippi one, w Walthall-
The list of colonels is hardly so long. Herbert
and Oates of Alabama were officers of this
sissipp Gambler of Georgia. Mills and Culber-
son of Texas and O'Ferrall of Virginia. Houk
commanded a regiment OF East Tennessee
Unionists for a brief period.
Five members constitute the whole number
of lieutenant colonels who cast their fortunes
with the Confederacy-Davidson of Florida,
Stockdale of Mississippi, and Cowles of North
Carolina. Stockdale is Pennsylvania by
birth and emigrated to Mississippi in 1S56-just
five years prior to the beginning OF the war.
yet he seems to have made an admirable mill
tary record. It was often remarked during the
progress of the war that Northern men domi-
clled in the Southern States. and owning prop
erty there, not only espoused the cause or that
section but were counted among the bravest
soldiers who fought on the Confederate side. .
A single name represents the quota of
majors, McClammy, OF worm Narolna ouo ol
the two pronounced Alliance men in this Con-
gress who holds the fort as an advance guard of
those who are to follow.
Carleton and Stewart, of Georgia, were cap
tains, the first haYing reputation as an artil-
leryman. Hatch, OF Missouri, was entitled to
wear three bars and Cothran, of South Caro-
lima, Coke and Hare, of Texas, were also of
this rank, and Mr.. Martin, of the same State,
the inimitable major" of this day and genera
tion.
Congressional lieutenants are likewise few as
to number. Clarke and Cobb. of Alabama,
come first in the Directory, followed by Berry,
Judge Crisp won renown IN this subalrern rank.
and SO did Anderson of Mississippi; Dibble, of
South Carolina and Richardson. of Tennessee.
Abbott of Texas, com pletes this roster.
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ence is partly due to a decline in the price
of print cloths; but notwithstanding that
decline, the advantage to the company from
the increased interest Of its employees has
been so great that its dividends for the same
periods increased from to per cent
Here we have marked illustration OF the
advantages claimed for proft-sharing under
what we may presume to be a favorable test.
The laborer cannot depend entirely on the
profits of manufacturing concern Tor MS
wages. A fixed income is his necessity and
right. But it has been claimed in behalf OF
proft-sharing that giving him portion OF
his wages in proportion to the profits would
increase his interest in the prosperity oil the
concern and inspire better work. This work
need not necessarily be harder, but it should
be guided by more skill and attention, and
become, what Edward Atkinson declares to
be factor in manufacturing supremacy, at
once the best paid labor and the cheapest
labor because it is worth the most.
These results have been obtained in the
operation of the system at the Bourne Mills.
In the teeth of a declining market, the i'm
provement in the skill of labor has been so
marked as not alone to keep up the old
profits, but actually to increase dividends.
Indeed the gain to the company has been so
great as TO suggest that even larger share
of the profits might justly have been Of
fered to the operatives. In cash the wages
of the laborers have increased nine per cent,
while the dividends to shareholders have In
creased 60 per cent In the case already
cited, the increase IN the purchasing power
of one laborer's wages, in relation to the
product of the works is figured out at 81
per cent but the same way of figuring
shows gain in dividends of over "a per
cent. A larger amount of profits might
have been distributed among the employees
to make the gain both to capital and labor
equal in proportion and the incentive to
better work would have been SO much the
stronger.
Of course, it is not to be expected that
these results will be universal. Proht-shar-
ing will not overcome the evils of bad man
agement, of uneconomic methods, of machin-
cry that is behind the age or of location that
SompcAs pEOOuStiVu oloduNdAboSSss ous
as means of clearly putting the interests
of capital and labor on the same basis; of
inspiring interest in and care for the success
Of the concern, on the part of employees; and
of avoiding the immense waste of con-
stantly recurring labor disputes which con-
denim both capital and labor to idleness,
proit-sharing is demonstrating its value as
an effective solution of some Of the most
vexing labor problems.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GovERNoR-ELEcT Russell, OF Massachusetts,
was "a years old last Tuesday.
PROFESSOR KOCH is on his way to Edin-
burgh. where he will be rendered reception
by the College of Surgeons.
JOHN G. WHITTIER's birthday gifts in
cluded barrel OF pitch-pina kindlings from
the Whittier Colored School at Tuscaloosa,
Ala.
VICTOR ZAMBELLI, an Austrian was the
oldest soldier in Europe until recently. He
died a little while ago. after having been in
service for 80 years.
GENERAL B. F. BUTLER. at "A, has wonder
full memory. He rarely forgets any incident
that ever happened to him or came within his
observation. His brain is great encyclopedia
of ready reference.
Mrs. CHAUNcEY M. DEPEw is one of the
best dressed women in New York. Her tastes
are magnificent, but her attire is faultlessly
becoming. She has also one of the best ap-
pointed houses in the metropolis.
ALLAN ARTHUR, son of the late President,
has been in England for some time. where he is
very popular in society. He has grown portly,
and is as handsome man as his father was.
After another year abroad Mr.. Arthur will re-
turn TO New York and take MP tie practice of
law.
every day at the writing desk. Not day
passes in which she does not carefully edit and
correct with her own hand the Court Circular,
and the amount of correspondence she disposes
of is enormous. The greater part of her corre-
spondence and official business is attended to
in the morning after walk or drive.
B. p. HUTCHINSON. the big Chicago grain
speculator. is about 70 years old. In all his
mental characteristics he is Yankee of
Yankees, shrewd and unyielding in a bargain,
and most unconventional and democratic in
his ways. He is tall and spare, with sharp fea-
tures and as a result of his abstemious mode
of life he is the equal of men 30 years his
juniors.
t!DR. II. c. ERNST. at the head of the bacteria
logical department in Harvard University, who
is conducting the experiments IN the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital with parataloid, is
said to be practically the only laborer in Kochs
field in New England, and he is all the better
qualified to understand and appreciate this
great discovery by the fact that he has himself
been engaged in Investigations similar to those
of DIR. Koch, p
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Justice and the Lambs.
o Justice. when your babes chastise,
Aren't We All Actors?

As Mr. Rem s,ern WAS nursnino the ra.b of
righteousness and dodoino cable cars AZ the
corner of Idbertv and Markat s,ra.t, ths
shadow of Cant.in Dan silvp. fs,I ,,no,, biu,
mAnsn+ Iota- ,ha sroar 90 e.. ~, Io,;,a ots
Ger touched the manager,s sbonIder NJ sts-n
tnrned and a conferenca ho,wsan tha rarro-
sentatives of the tbsater and tbs PnbIic ssfsfv
Department took Mace Can,.in siIvns
manfred n Mr. Stsrn tnav .,v,hinr
about IAN actress, who had .nsn, the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-11
HILLS ROAD SCHEME.
The New York Governors Plan for Good
Country Highways.

The New York Governors Plan for Good
Country Highways.
Philadelphia Press.I
Governor Hills Recommendation for . sys-
tenn of State roads so laid out thar each county
will be crossed by two as near as may be at
right angles deserves more consideration than
it has received. No country districts in the
world have ever had thoroughly good country
roads except when aided by some central au-
thority. Every European State follows the
plan of building State roads in its rural dis
tricts.
France, which has the best country roads in
the world, has three systems-national. Depart
mental and communal; the first the great arter-
les the next the leading roads radiating from
them in departments, aud the third the lesser
roads in each township. Our country roads,
aside from bad management, are bad In gener-
al because the overtaxed farming districts are
too poor to pay for them, and under Governor
Hills plan the richer portions of the State
would pay for the roads in the poorer to the
general profit of all.
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AN ARCHWAY FOR LABOR.

The Central Trades Council has made a
good move in taking up the matter of arch
ways over the entrance to Schenley park.
1t is fitting above all things that in this
hive of industry, labor should be repre-
sente6 in such work. There is no doubt,
either, but the labor organizations of this
city may build as handsome an arch as any
one. The good work is thus moving more
favorably than the most sanguine expected,
when the suggestion was first made in The
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