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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
REED AGAINST RECIPROCITY.

Mr.. Thomas B. Reed, who did not make
much secrecy of his opposition to Mr..
Blaine's policy of reciprocity when it was
under discussion in Congress- and who is
no less inimical to Mr.. Blaine himself, is
reported to be still giving vent to his oppo-
sition. An interview represents him as
saying that reciprocity is "an attempt to
carry on commerce by diplomacy" and
asking: '"Then again, if we must have
tariff to protect our business in New York
city, how can we compete with the same
rivals after we have shipped our goods to
some distant republic in South America?
If we caunot compete on equal terms
here, it is preposterous to suppose that we
can there
This may be true as far as it goes, Mr..
Reed, but its principal appositeness is in
furnishing ammunition to the enemies of
the tariff. Apart from the spectacle OF a
Republican leader attacking the leading
party measure which he helped to pass,
because it contains a feature which he
did not originate, it is Characteristic in
stopping so far short of correct state
ment of the facts as to be an absolute per-
version of them.
Reciprocity is not an attempt to carry
on commerce by diplomacy. There has
never been a hint that the State Depart
mentS of different countries shall ship
products to each other, collect balances
and pay the proceeds over to the pro-
ducers, less commissions, which are the
operations involved in carrying on COM
merce. But the negotiations of treaties
to make commerce possible, or to secure
its extension, is an attempt to encourage it
by diplomacy The history Of Great Brit
ain for the last two centuries and of the
United States since Secretary Blaine's pol
icy began to be effective proves that such
policy is successful.
Mr.. Reed processes an inability to see
how we can compete on equal terms with
the products of foreign countries which
we cannot meet in our home market.
But has it never dawned on Mr.. Reeds
mind that after the United States has been
exporting flour, corn meal, bacon, sewing
machines, steam engines and similar prod
ucts under unfavorable conditions, that
something might be done to give them
new markets by making the conditions
favorable? Perhaps if the idea had been
originated by some one else than James
G. Blaine, it would have been possible for
Mr.. Reed to have recognized that one of
its great purposes is to open new markets
for the products which America has been
exporting for generation. But as it is,
ne is unable to grasp the fact evidently be-
cause he does not wish to.
The spectacle of Thomas B. Reed at
tacking the broadest and most far-sighted
feature of the Republican tariff policy, is
not only singular illustration of the
light hold that party obligation has on
some of the men who preach it the most
strongly; but it also indicates an inability
to rise above the level of personal poll
tics
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
PROTECTION FROM BURGLARS.

The burglariOus industry has again
reached such degree Of activity in the
East End wards that the people there are
becoming aroused and making urgent calls
for more thorough police protection. The
persistence of the artisans of the jimmy
and picklock is certainly the reverse of
satisfactory. Two years ago the pocket
book snatching business was carried on in
broad daylight there, and was finally sup
pressed Later ihe burglariZing of subur-
ban towns attracted attention, but was
supposed to he broken up by the tragic
struggle ia arresting the Fitzsimmons
gang. But it now appears that the city is
infested by another gang of criminals as
bold and persistent as any of their pred
ecessorS.
1t is hardly necessary to say that all
necessary steps should be taken to assure
protection to all parts of the city and to
secure, if possible, the arrest of the
thieves. 1t would be a severe commentary
on our social system if, after spending
millions of dollars erecting courthouses
and jails, and hundreds of thousands an
nually in maintaining the enginery Of the
law, it should prove insufficient to pro-
tect the homes of the public from robbers.
The danger Of such lame and impotent
conclusion should ncite our public guar
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
The Bijou Theater.

The roomy and rather vague term
comedy-drama covers n multitude of sins.
The now play by Elmer E. Vance, "The Linn
tied Mail" produced at the Bijou Theater
last night, nestles under this convenient I'll
tie. But if it is a comedy-drama it is also
melodrama, according to the original mean
ing Of that word, drama with music, and
in places it isvery like farce-comedy pure and
simple, as Hoyt made it in his ga Hole in
the Ground" Its merits as drama of any
branch, breed or description are not remark
ably numerous or striking. 1t is
stated that Mr.. Vance, the author,
had not any previous experience as
dramatist when he wrote "The Limited
Mail, and but slight acquaintance with
the theater. He was telegraph operator,
we believe, at Columbus, and q very good
one. He has put his knowledge of railroad
telegraphy to ingenious use in his play,
of which the electrical effects are the chief
novelties and the best points. 1t would not
be easy to briefly relate the story or explore
the plot, nor would it be profitable, for there
Is not much that is new to be found there
and very great deal that Is rfdic-
ulously untrue to nature and COM
mon probability The strength
of 1.-THE Limited Mail" as indicated by the
approval of the great audience last night, lies
in its sensational episodes. OF these the
display of the telegraphic message in letters
Ol IRE upon Gne WlreS-'hOlO the Llmlpeu
Mail'-which illustrates the wicked designs
of the villains OF the piece-and the flight of
the express train across the stage, are the
most noteworthy examples. They are not
reasonably realistic, but they are thrilling
incidents, carefully led up to with dramatic
violence and mechanical ingenuty-of the
latter the sound of the wind whistling
through the wires is a very clever instance.
The audience greeted all these stirring
things with terrific applause. There is n
sawmill sensation and some other bits of
quasi-realism which lend variety to the
hackneyed tenor of the play.
The company which fills these pictures of
life or what passes for life, is reasonably
capable of the task. Lew Blooms dellnea-
tion of a tramp-a serio-comic villain OF the
sort Hoey has given us in a lighter VEIN
was especially clever. Master Harry Blaney,
as an heroic boy, such as dime novels usu,
ally make their heroes, showed undoupted
talent. Joseph H. Coyne presents a famlllar
type of the stage Irishman well enough.
The audience appeared to enjoy the whole
play, and the sensational scenes in partlcu-
lar, and the gallery gods were so enthus1-
astic aud uproarious that large portion of
the dialogue was entirely inaudible to the
rest of the audience. The disorders in the
gallery at the Bijou especially on Monday
nights, ought to be toned down.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

DIR. GRAY, the Afghan Ameer's physi-
last winter.
The little King of Spain does not know
his letters yet, and all mental education has
been forbidden him. He is so fragile and
puny physically that the slightest exertion
of the mind fatigues him.
CAPTAIN GEORGE DEWEY, of the navy,
has lived for the last five years with only
half liver. The other half was cut off by
an Italian surgeon while Captain Dewey
was lying i'll from liver disease at Malta in
1866. From the day the operation was per-
formed his health began to improve, and he
has enjoyed life ever since.
THE Countess of Caithness, the new high
priestess of theosophy, is the exact anti
thesis of her predecessor, Blavatsky. Her
figure is slender, her manners elegant, and
her tastes refined. She dresses in great
taste. Her only resemblance to Blavatsky
lies in her fondness for diamonds, but that
is pardonable womanly weakness.
THE President and moving spirit of the
American Society for Psychical Research,
which has for its object the scientific inves-
tigation of ghosts, is Mr.. B. o. Flower, editor
of the arena. Although u practical and
hard-headed young editor he possesses a
great liking for the uncanny, and his 1nves-
LEGATIONS into the realm of the unknowable
are already bearing fruit.
IT is said that Joseph Pulitzer is danger
ously I'll in Europe with nervous prostra-
ton. He has been cruising along the coast
of the North of Europe this summer in his
private steam yacht, but was obliged to
desert it and send it home two weeks ago,
while he submitted himself to treatment for
his disorder by the best physicians of Lon
don, Berlin and Paris, who were called into
consultation on his case.
A LONDON letter says: The devotion of
Miss Shepard, who laid her jewelry on the
ALTAR of the Lord" at Saratoga, was sur
passed a short time ago by the Duchess
Eugene Litta Bologuine in Milan. To ex-
press her complete abandonment of the
pomp and vanities of the world, the Duchess
sold her wonderful gems for $500, 600 and
gave the money to her priest, with instruc-
tions to erect with it hospital for little
childran.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Social Chatter.

THE wedding of Miss Elizabeth Norcross
and Mr. Wilbur Mathews is set for an early
day in September.
WEST BELLEVUE COUNCIL No. $40, Jr. O.U. "A.
NJ, will hold it's annual lawn fete at Wind
sor Park, Bellevue, August27.
ALLEGHENY Commandery No. 35, K. T.,
drill corps will holdi its first annual basket
picnic Wednesday, the 26th, at Rock Point.
GEORGE C. JENKs' select evening excursion
Is announced for tonight rain or shine.
The boat will leave the foot of Wood street
at 7:30 P NJ.
Miss BERTHA JANE LINHARDT and Mr.. Ad-
olson Boren, of the East End, are to be mar
ried at the Park Avenue Presbyterian
Church on Thursday evening.
THE seventh annual convention of the
Sabbath. schools in the Pittsburg Presbytery
of the Reformed Presbyterian Church is to
take place next Tuesday at Rock Point.
THE Sewickley Athletic Association is ar
ranging county fair" to be given on its
grounds on Thursday afternoon and even
ing next. All sorts of sports are in the pro-
gramme.
THE Butler Street Methodist Episcopal
Sunday school will hold it's annual picnic at
Idlewild to-day. The scholars will form in
line at the church and march to Thirty
third street, where a train will be in waiting
to convey them to the grounds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Tar and Feathers.

Tar and Feathers.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:
When did tarling and feathering first com.
mence. 7. A. r.
SEwICKLEY, August II.
[Ancient fabian preserves an incident Of
a dame who, wishing to punish cure, pro-
vost and a forester for prosecuting her with
theirNdishonorable suits, made appointments
with them to visit her and then contrived
that they should be stripped and thrown
into a cask full of feathers, whence they
were hunted by her husband with all the
dogs and.inhabitants of the village at their
heels. In England this penalty was intro
duced for different offense in 1889, when
Richard l., before setting out for the Holy
Land, ordained, in order to preserve the dis
cipline of his fleet that whosoever should
be convicted of theft should first have his
head shaved, that boiling pitch should then
be poured upon it and a cushion OF feathers
shaken over it. He WAS afterward to be put
on shore at the first place the ship touched
at, though after n baptism of boiling pitch
the poor wretch would have little life left in
him. In modern times the practice has
found favor with the populace as means of
readily executing justice on an offender
whom the law, perhaps, shows no anxiety to
reach
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Worlds Museum-Theater,

Some of horse-shoes that Charles P.
Blatt, the muscular champion, tackled at
this house yesterday were of unwonted
toughness and he had difficulty in breaking
them. He tore enough of them assunder to
prove himself to be wonderfully strong
man and the people who saw him perform
the feats were convinced of their genuine
ness. He is undoubtedly one of the strongest
men in the world. Minerva, the female
Hercules proved her right to the title by
some extraordinary lifting experiments. In
great heartiness at Tom McIntoshs very
original and quaint sayings. This actor IS
about the best colored comedian who comes
to Pittsburg. La Petite Kittie also won lots
of applause with her songs and dances in the
manner of Maggie Cline. Miss Ada Burnett
sang prettily and comically also, and several
others contributed to a clever performance.
The museum and theater look very clean
and gay after the summer overhauling.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
THE PASSING SHOW.

The Overture of the Theatrical Season OF
1S91-2-The Limited Mail at the Bijou-
Tom Sawyer-Turner's English Girls
The Worlds Museum-Theater.
-Theatricals are waking up in town.
1t is not the season yet, but the fddlers are
tuning up and the people are beginning to
prick up their ears. The heat grew ugly
yesterday, and even after sundown it was
so warm that the crowds which surged into
the Bijou, Harry Williams Academy and
Harris Theater were not expected by the
managers. At the Bijou the big gallery was
filled with perspiring and vociferous
mob, very largely made up of boys,
and standing room was not easy to find in
the rest of the house. In one of the boxes
were some of the fair members of the Gar
row Opera Company, which tomorrow takes
long jump to Omaha. Harry Williams
Academy which is cool and inviting in
color, thanks to the really artistic new
decorations was more comfortable perhaps
than the other theaters, because no rules
OF etiquette prevented man from taking
off his coat and vest there. Harris Theater,
bright and clean with new seats and other
things, was also more inviting than it has
been for years. Indeed, wherever the public
may go among the theaters this season, the
good results of competition among the
managers will be found.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Obituary Notes.

FREDERICK HIPP one of the Oldest and best
known citizens of Canton. died yesterday.
CHRIsTIANyF. DRACH died suddenly yesterday
morning from pneumonia at his home, 17l2 Hart
man alley, Southside. He was 25 years old and
leaves a wife and four children.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE l.. d. HoTCHKIss, of
Bloomington, Ia, died there Sunday night He
was one of the most prominent politicians of Iowa.
He was chosen by the Democrats and Republicans
as a compromise Chairman of the last Legislature
when the deadlock was on.
, REy, SAMUEL KRAMER, one of the Oldest and
;est-known Methodist preachers of Washington,
died Sunday of heart failure. He was 50 years old
He was born in Baltimore. where he took an active
mart in the defense of the Sixth Massachusetts Reg
iment on its passage through that city in 1881 lie
served as a Captain in the navy and was Major in
the army during the late war.
2 SLENTZ-At the residence of his son, W. R.
Slentz, Colonel j. L. Slentz, of Gettysburg, Pa,
died yesterday. The deceased was an old-time
resident of Pittsburg, being an old typo" and
iatterly connected with the Excelsior Omnibus
Company and Pennsylvania Railroad. The de-
ceased was 70 years and 2months old. Funeral at
Gettysburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
FOSTER AT CAPE MAY.
A Financial Talk With Harrison Previous
to the Latter's Departure.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE Z

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1
CAPE MAY, n. j., Aug 1.-THE Presidents
last day at Cape May until the 30th inst. has
been a hustling one. The family have been
busy packing all day, and only few of the
small traps need to be gathered tomorrow
before the departure of the Presidential
train, which will leave at $40. The Presi-
dents visitors to-day included Minister
Richard Cults Shannon and Secretary Fos-
ter. The object of the Secretary's visit was
to consider with the President the matter of
the coming due of the AZ per cent bonds on
September and their redemption. Secre-
tary Foster returned to Washington this
afternoon. The Presidents only appoint
ments this morning consisted of one post
master in Kentucky, and William o. Thomas,
of Tennessee, to be Consul at Bahia, Brazil.
A pardon was denied Mary Ellen, of the
District of Columbia, who was sentenced in
June, 1891, to two years in the Albany Peni-
tentiary for conspiracy with Others to de-
fraud pension claimants
Among the callers at the Presidents cot
tage this afternoon were Congressman
Joseph d. Taylor and his brother, of Ohio
and United States District Attorney Mar
shall, of the Southern district of Texas. The
car on which the President will ride to Yer
mont tomorrow arrived tonight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
MAJOR DENNIsT0N HONORED.
Presented With an Elegant Testimonial by
His G. A. r. Comrades.

HIS u. A. II. comrades.
The residence of Major ]. F. Denniston
was well filled last night with representative
men of the G. A. R. Of Pennsylvania. The
occasion was the presentation to Major Den
niston of the testimonial voted to him at the
last Department Encampment at Altoona in
recognition Of his services as Department
Commander, his term having expired last
February. large number were present at
the presentation, including Department
Commander George C. Boyer, of Harrisburg;
Captain Sayes, Chaplain; Past Commander
T. J. Stewart, of Philadelphia, and Past Com
mander Austin Curtain, of Philadelphia.
The committee appointed to present the tes-
timonial was composed Of Adj1tant General
lumbus, O., w. G. Williams, of Philadelphia.
The testimonial was an oxide table with
handsome solid silver service set. The pre-
sentation speech was made by Chill W. Haz-
zard, and responded to with neat speech
by Major Denniston. At the conclusion of
the speech making, the G. A. R. Band, which
was located on tle lawn, rendered several
fine selections. The evening was then con-
cluded with dancing and bountiful supper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18

dians to the most urgent efforts to rid the
city of its present pests.
Pittsburg can afford whatever expendi-
ture is necessary to protect its citizens in
their lives and property. That is the first
function of government and it should be
fully discharged even if others have to be
restricted However, as will be seen in
our local columns, Chief Brown is con-
fident that the protection afforded is now
sufficient, and that the reports of robberies
have been greatly exaggerated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18

CAPTAIN WILLIAM GLAZIER is now on
his way to the sources of the Mississippi.
The Berne Geographical Congress recently
sat down on his pretensions to be the dis
coverer of the sources of that river by
citing the well-known fact that the sources
which he pretended to discover were dis
covered years before him by other persons ;
to which Captain Glazier proposes to reply
with the crushing argument of going and
discovering them over again. The discov-
ery that Glazier needs to make is that he is a
humbup
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Philip p, Dunn,

Philip P. Dunn, a very prominent mem
bers of the Society of Friends in New Jersey, died
Sunday at Spring Lake in his 67th year. His death
follows closely series of financial crashes that
involved his good name. He was President of the
First National Bank of Trenton. Nj. and recent
ly resigned because of the failure of the Star Rub
Der Company Trenton China Company Central
Rubber Selling Company and several other con-
Germs in which he was financially interested. He
hecamn insane,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Daniel Underhill,

Dariel Underhill, one of the oldest and
h best-known insurance men in this country, died
Saturday at his home in New York City, in the list
year of his age. He was of Quaker parentage, and
was born in Maryland. He entered the service of
the New York Fire and Marine Insurance Company
when boy, and was elected Secretary in 1874. He
served in that capacity until 1884, when he was
made President which position he occupied until
last year, when he resigned, having been in the
company's service for 81 years. He was an active
Mason. and was an old volunteer fireman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Harry williams Academy.

The syndicate of Turner's English
girls at this house do not monopolize all the
humor, general ability and beauty on the
variety stage, but they are able to give q
fair entertainment all the same. There are
some handsome women in the company,
whose faces and forms show to advantage
in couple Of light burlesques and grand
march. Fields, the Dutch comedian, the
Healeys in q humorous sketch full of fun
and good singing, the knockabout foolery of
Hanley and Jarvis, Miss Nellie Russeu's
various musical feats, and several other
artists of ability are also features of the
performance. The audience was very large
last night and loud in it's approval.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
The Naturalization Law.
To the Editor ofThe Dfspatch:

TO tne Editor OF The Dispatch;
An error crept into q recent answer rela-
tive to naturalization. In all cases q five
years. residence and minority are required.
If the alien on his arrival is under Is years
of age, he need not declare his intention,
but is required to prove, by witness, that it
has been his intention to become a citizen for
at least two years. When over Is he must de-
clare his intention at least two years before
his application for naturalization. The nat
uraliZation of the father makes all minor
children citizens. J.. T. W.
PTTTsBURG, August IA.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18

OF COURSE that Hopkins will would be
contested. No such sum of money could be
left without squabble. Between the re-
spective claims of Hopkins and Searle the
public will hardly regret the probability
that lawyers will get a great share of the
oyergrown and ill-gotten pile.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18

A MAN named Foster in Jersey City who
discovered that he had a cancer couple of
years ago. and trusted to faith cure to heal
it, has now discovered that faith cure does
not heal cancer. The Eastern press are
drawing out a moral from the incident but
somehow they fail to hit the obvious point,
that the regular medical practice deals with
cancer with just about the same results as
the faith cure did.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18

AFTER all there is possibility of truth
trouble with the German Emperor is the
dining and wining that he underwent in
England. Considering the amount of trouble
that is accounted for in that festive land by
the explanation that the rioters chad been
dining the Imperial William may be par
doned even if he went stark mad after
week OF Britannia feasting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-18
Harris Theater.

There is not much in Tom Sawyer
to recommend it as a play, whatever the
merits of Mark Twain's original story, and
the painful truth is that Will E. Burton and
his company, which performed it at this
theater yesterday, mako very little of the
rough material. When performance is so
thoroughly weak as this and the play so
poor the best thing and the kindest is to say
very little about it.
Harris Theater is far handsomer in its
new clothes than it ever was before, and the
public evidently appreciates the new seats
and pleasant Surroundings already, for the
audiences were large, considering the
1HeathAr.