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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
A Dangerous Method.
New York SUM-


In the character of the men who led the we'll
organized men to the slaughter of the Italians
in New Orleans on Saturday, and in the force
and extent of the public sentiment that sus-
tains the lawless proceeding the affair is with.
out parallel in the history of this country.
There is to-day Senator of the United
States who with his own hands has helped to
string up we know not how many dozens of
rascals convicted by no court of law. But il
the case of such organizations as the Vigilantes
of California and Montana. lynch law supplied
in a rough and sometimes laundering way the
entire absence of any constitutional or legal
process for the protection of society and the
punishment of crime. The mass meeting at
the Clay statue in New Orleans on the other
hand, undertook to supplement by unlawful
methods failure of justice. and it pronounced
the death sentence of IL men.
AS between the two things, the New Orleans
method is infinitely the more dangerous and
destructive,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
The Lesson of the Lynching.

Brooklyn EaSle.J
Events in New Orleans are startling No
logician can approve them. No advocate of
civil power can indorse them. No adherent to
judicial systems can fail to condemn them. No
friend of order can omit to deplore them. No
respector of law can refrain from denouncng
them. The events, however, are chargeable to
the forces which they defy and which unite in
reprchending them. They are due to the mis-
deeds of instituted government, whiefr~have
instigated a currence to extemporized govern
ment They rude declaration of an
emergency, a spasmodic action of a COM
muniIy, resolved into its primary elements, to
deal with evils which rule was meant to sup
press, but which themselves have become rule
Oathbound secret societies and municipal
legal and local legislative systems controlled
by criminals for their cupidity and protection,
and against the interests of life and property
and peace create just such revolutions as have
broken out in New Orleans and invite their
consequences. Contemporaneous comment
NAV widely differ from the historian, tho
aramatIst and the moralist in the estimate of
Saturdays doings in that city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
PEOPLE PARAGRAPHED.

PHILLIPS BROOKS is now acting Bishop
of Massachusetts,.
THE Empress Elizabeth of Austria is
| having built on the Island of Corfu palace
that will contain 12S rooms, and will cost nearly
Sl,000.000.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL says that
having experienoed'b and tiger hunting. he
has never found any pursuit so exciting as that
OF stalking the Grand Old Man.
Mrs. BILL" NYE and children have
gone to their new home at Asheville N. c..
and William will follow as soon as he has
/ launched few more soul-corroding wori
pictures upon an innocent and helpless world
The Emperor of japan is great lover of
art, and has just established a society for its
promotion. The members include the most
eminent sculptors, painters; lacquers and
weavers of Japan, all of whom receive re-.
muneration from the Emperor.
NINE. SEMBRICH was very successful in
st. Petersburg, and she netted the handsome
sum of Il, 900 roubles by her performance of the
"Barbiere di Seviglia." Orchestra stalls sold
readily for $40 each, and even at that price
every seat was eagerly purchased.
The Crown Prince of Greece has a chapel
and altar for use upon the field when he
happens to be engaged in warlike operations.
The forethought of his mother provided the
young soldier with these very necessary ad-
juncrs to the baggage wagons of brigade of
light infantry.
Mrs. SOPHIA 'KovALEwsKA, the pro-
fessor of mathematics in the University of
Stockholm, who died recently, was a direct
descendant, through her father, Count Corvin,
of Matthews Corvinus, King of Hungary. She
,~NI-1 II
Swedish, German and French.
LADY TENNYsoN, who is known to be an
excellent amateur musician, is about to make
her first appearance as a composer. She has at
various times during the past quarter of a GEN.
tury written melodies to fewer than Is of
the Poet Laureate's hitherto unpublished
poems. They will soon be heard at concert
in London.
THE Gar of Russia has as members of his
court II officials of the first grade, and Ito of
the second grade, IL masters of ceremonies, 8
"actipg" masters ia chamberlains and 25S
pages in waiting. There are % physicians, "a
ecclesiastics, DANES of state, mistress of the
court, maids of the chambers and 1913 maids
of honor
ARCHBISHOP THOMSON, of England, it
is said, once pointed out that he had received
advancement in the Church for every child
born to him. at is to be hoped. BROTHER"
said DR.. Wilberforce. your family will not
continue to enlarge, for there are only two
translations more possible to you-Canterbury
and heaven" The translation to Canterbury
was early barred; Archbishop Thomson had to
rest the second son OF the Church.
COLONEL N. s. Goss. State Ornithologist
of Kansas, whose death occurred this week,
had contract with the authorities by which he
was given living room and Office in the Capt.
to1 building, and when he died was to turn over
to the State his collection of birds, valued at
100000, and including III species and sub
Species which he had discovered himself. 1t
was stipulated that no bird found by any other
collector was to be included in this display
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
THE NATIVES OF FINLAND.
They Are Described as the Most Honest
People in the World.
Saturday Review. ]

People in the World.
Saturday Review.]
1t might be rash, perhaps to assert that
among the criteria of nations civilization
security of life and property deserve promi
nent place, but it is certainly quite safe to
affirm that in no European State, not even in
Sweden and Norway is life and property so
secure as in Finland. The confident, matter
of-fact way in which trunks, parcels and port
manteaus are left for hours in the public
streets of cities without any one to look after
them could not fail to edify an Englishman or
a Belgian, whose portable property often seems
to disappear by magic.
Finnish honesty Is proverbial. In trade the
Firms, as a rule, are not only scrupulously hon.
est, they are heroically, quixotically so. A
tradesman will tell you the whole truth abouE
his wares, even when he knows perfectly we'll
that by dong so he loses customer whom the
partial truth, slight suppressio verl, would
have secured him. This seems exactly the
kind of apparatus am looking for" said to
a merchant in Hesingfors some months ago. in
reference to article that cost about El5,
"and will buy it at once If, knowing what l.
want it for, you can honestly recommend me to
take it." mo, sir, do not recommend you to
take it. nor have l anything in stock just now
that would suit you." And left the shop and
purchased what wanted elsewhere. Here's
your fare" said to a peasant in the interior
who had driven me for three hours through the
woods on his drOsky, handing him shillings.
No, sir. that's double my fare" he replied, re-
turning me half the money. And when l told
him he might keep it for his honesty, he slight
ly nodded his thanks with the dignity of one of
and cringing obsequiousness were equally abb
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Ouuuesne Theater.

Minnie Palmer's latest production, "a Mile
Minute" will be highly instructive entertain
ment to those. who have never seen locomo-
tive engine. The one that appears on the stage
does not locomote, thus enabling one to feast
on the graceful outlines of the "1ron Horse" in
repose. After many years, during which the
good old melOdrama had fallen into 'innocuous
desuelude," it has been .resurrected at last,
and lovers of that foxm OF play will rejoice ar
the glad tidings that One has been brought to
the city in which no less than four assaults with
intent to kill are made upon one man alone.
Three times he is stabbed in the neck, and
eventually an attempt is made TO suffocate him
in baking oven.
Miss Minnie Palmer. as Nelly Sparkle. dis
played her old-time versatility that made one
regret her change from My Sweetheart to
the present play. The British private soldier
was happily characterized by Mr.. John Bunny
(Johnny Atkins). Mr.. Charles Coare is we'll
enough able to take care of the role of Nosey
Jacobs without the horseplay which he adds.
The part Of Agnes Dale was worthily repre-
sented by Miss Eva Montford. Miss Mortimer
(Sallie) enlivened the third act by dahcing.
Some vocal numbers by quartet and other
musical features met with favor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS,

Various Ideas Entertained About the New
Orleans Tragedy-Just Indignation-No
Mans Life Is Safe-Not Deplored, Pri-
vateIy-Mafia Power Broken-Who Is to
Blame?
New York world.l
The reputable citizens of New Orleans who
on Saturday put to death the persons accused
of the murder of Chief Hennessey have need to
do good deal of serious thinking. =
They no doubt believe in all sincerity that their
act of Saturday was necessary one for the
protection of their city against banded lawless-
ness.
But how has it come about that the courts of
New Orleans cannot be trusted to administer
justice with an impartial hand? Whose fault
is it that secret and cowardly assassins against
whom the evidence is convincing cannot be
convicted? How is it that courts and jurors
are SO corrupt that the best citizens of the
town find it necessary to call mass meetings
and take into their own hands the work of de-
terminng guilt and infiicting punishment?
New Orleans is governed by its own people,
II Its courts are corrupt and its administration
OF justice mockery are not these very citizens
who so bloodiy express their condemnation of
this state of things themselves responsible
for it?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Malta Power Broken.

Brooklyn Citizen.j
The fact Is that, apart from the natural in
dignation aroused by the assassination of the
law officer simply because he was doing his
duty, the interest of the people everywhere in
this case centered on the question whether the
members of a secret and murderous society
were to be made to feel that the law of the
land was more binding on good citizens and
more TO be dreaded by offenders than the law of
the Malta, Or vice versa.
Now, the vengeance of the mob, executed in
asregara VI 'Ig S fs% n may NE ht 70 iespe
taught the 1awless ruffians of the Malta that
their organization is powerless to stay the
hand of the avenger of any public outrage,
there need be no doubt. the power Of the
Malta Is broken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
THINKERS BILL OF FARE.
A Proper Diet for Sedentary People Is Now
Explained.

A Proper Diet for Sedentary People Is Now
Explained.
Harper's Bazar.1
The intellectual worker needs plenty OF
light, digestible food, such as fish, poultry
eggs, game, fruit and the succulent vegeta-
bles.
The proper diet for all sedentary people is an
early and entire supply of dIgestible food, in
cluding plenty of cereals and fruit.
A cup of some warm drink should be taken
lust before rising, or as soon as it can be pre-
pared, and positively no work should be done
until after breakfast.
AS the digestive organs are most active early
in the day, second hearty but digestibe meal
can be eaten at noon. ii an hours rest inter-
yenes before continued labor or exercise.
The afternoon WORK should be light, and part
of the time passed out of doors. A light, dgesti-
Bile dinner may follow about nightfall, and the
evening be devoted to recreation OF social re-
taxation.
When any night work is contemplated food
should be taken about midnight and again at
dawn, when the vital forces fall
That sad, still hour before the dawn,
When old men die and babes are born.
Special care should be taken to insure plenty
of pure air and light; strong meats and drinks
should be avoided, and abundance of milk
used. with eggs, fruit and fresh vegetables and
salads.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
No Mans Life Is Safe.


New YORK Tribune.l
The more the New Orleans murders are in.
vestigated, the worse the whole transaction ap-
pears. 1t comes to this, that in such a COM
munity no mans life is safe, if any personal
enemy can contrive to excite popular BELIEF
that he is guilty. True, in order to
make the murder of the Sicilans appear
necessary to the public safety, they had first to
assume that the jury had not rendered an
honest verdict, and the public conviction that
the verdict was not honest seems to be general
and strong. But it is not possible to forget how
Orleans once upheld and justified the massacre
OF political convention. The people who
then excused the most infamous of ali crimes,
In passionate partisanship, are not to be
their judgment when they declare that the Jury
was bribed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
The RummeI RecitaIs Postponed.

Franz Rummel, the pianist, did not appear
last evening. as advertised, on account of an
accident that disabled him temporarily. He
will give his first recital this evening at Old
CITY Hall, the tickets issued for last night be-
ing good for that occasion. He will play again
tomorrow evening, instead of in the after
noon. but the matinee tickets will be accepted
in the evening. There is great curiosity to
hear Mr.. Rummel, and much disappointment
was felt by those who intended to go last even-
ing, but who will have 10 curb their impatience
unrIl tonight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17

and contrary to well established experience.
1t is practical assertion that if the nation
should make the change of fixing the dollar
at what is now eighty cents, one class OF
goods, worth eighty cents now, would be
worth the new dollar which is only NOM
inal change of value. while another class
would not rise with the change in the
standard or would really suffer depreciation
in actual value.
All such assertions are dogmaticnonseu'e.
If silver coinage should put gold to pre-
MUM of 20 per cent. all the operations of
exchange will adjust themselves to the new
standard. The amount of labor necessary to
earn one dollar will earn 81 20, but there
will be no gain in it. because the purchasing
power of the 81 20 will be exactly what the
dollar was before. The gold, or Its equiva-
lent in foreign goods, which comes to our
ports, will be worth 20 per cent more ex-
pressed in our currency than it was before;
and the total amount OF coinage or American
products that we can exchange for that sum
of gold or foreign goods will likewise be
worth 20 per cent or more. We do not
change the relative values of staples in ex-
change for each other by either shortening
or lengthening the yardstick which measures
both.
A much clearer view of the subject can be
obtained IL all those who are trying to in
culcate sound views on the financial ques-
tion will bear in mind that to lower the
m easure of values will, after the readjust-
ment is made, make no difference either to
producer or consumer, or anyone eise-wlth
one exception. That exception is in the
settlement of debts made before the change.
To raise the measure of values makes the
debtor pay more than he has agreed to; to
lower it, makes him pay less. 1t is the in
ustice and public injury of either that
should show the false policy of depreciating
the standard by the free coinage of silver
There is besides, of course, the additional
consideration against free coinage that the
United States could lot offer a market at
its mints for all the deprecated silver of the
world-but that, while conclusive, does not
enter into the Ledger's argument.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Not Done for Revenge Alone.

New YOrk Recorder
On the part of those who enforced expiation
for the murder OF Hennessy it is to be said that
they were not actuated by spirit of revenge
alone. The failure of justice seemed so abso-
Lutte that there was ground for men, them
selves always law-abiding, TO think that at
length had come the hour of urgent need to
supplement. and for the moment to supplant,
the machinery of the law. No one not resident
in community SO menaced can fully realize
the force of the exigency that converted the
quietest and most responsible of citizens into
ing. The tate that befell the Chief of Police
threatened every man prominent In denuncia-
tinn of the despotlsm of the stilleto, and no
one, high or low, could tell what moment his
turn might come to be done to death by decree
of a mighty secret tribunal. procured, perhaps,
to serve some private grudge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
A Menace to Law and Order.

Philadelphia North-American.l
The act of the mob still menaces law and
order whatever proyocation may have been
given. and however it may be executed. But
inst now it is of more importance to consider
the origin of this tragic affair. secret society
of persons Of foreign birth for the purpose of
defending criminals exists in the city OF New
Orleans, and perhaps in other cities. That IS
the allegation, and it seems to root in fact.
The civil authorities can have but one duty TO
nerform as respects such an organization. 1t
must be outlawed. exactly as the cnurts sus-
Iained by the Governor. outlawed the Molly
Maauires in Pennsylvania some years ago. But
there M ust be no shutting. If such society
exists it must be routed and annihilated,
peaceably if possible; but it must be annihiated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Distinguished Humbugs.
The Critic. ]

Inc CrlLlc.J
There is good deal of humbug in the loudly
expressed aversion of many distinguished men
to the attention of the public They say they
want to be let alone. but do not believe that
is what they want at all. They want the bores
to let them alone. but they would be very sorry
If they received no attention at all frorp the
public. The trouble is that there IS way of
regulating this attention. Naturally enough.
il is disagreeabIe to know that a crowd of
tourists is peeping at yOu over your garden
wall, or taking snap shots" at you with a
kodak at the most inopporEune moments, but
cratified by the plaudits of the judicious.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Worlds Museum.

The show at the Worlds Museum is very good
this week. There are almost numberless at
fractions, and all are very good. There is Dot
Littlefnger, pretty dwarf; an Indian Giantess,
an EsduImau chieftain and wife, Frank
Atoms mechanical representation Of scenes on
the Mississippi, and great programme in the
theatorium, of which must be specially men,
toned Harry Thorn and Maggie Willett, a
couple that have delighted PittsburgeIs peri
odically for years in their neat sketches. Thorn
is a really good comedian. and Miss Willett is a
clever soubrette. There are number Of other
talented artists. and the whole entertainment
is more than usually merirorious.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17

The scandal with regard to the Hearst
funeral grows as the details are made public.
The general disposition is TO put all the blame
on the roisterous legislators, but an intelligent
view will 60 deeper. The people cannot escape
the responsibility until they take some pains to
elect legislators with intelligence enough to
perceive tho distinction between gong to a
funeral and going on prolonged and variegated
spree.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Violence Cannot Be Excused.

Philadelphia Press.l
It can be admitted that q MOB never had
stronger incentives for wreaking Its vengeance
on accused men than this New Orleans mob
had. e All security, all confidence in
the protection of the law was gone, and the
community instinctively fell back on the pro-
lection of brute force.
But mob violence can never be excused
Notwithstanding the provocations, which in
this case were almost beyond human endur-
ance, the people of New Orleans ought never
theless to have awaited the slow process OF the
law rather than to have permitted their resent
ment TO get the mastery of their judgment and
to be led into the cOmmittal of deeds which
will blacken the fair fame of their city for gen.
erations
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17

Hoyt's "Tin Soldier has paid mum Der of
visit to Pittsburg. SO that theater-goers are
quite familiar with the satire on plumbers At
this house, the present week, is to be seen a
very good version of the farce comedy. Arthur
Dunn as diminutive Rats, creates no end of
amusement, and Paul Dresser, the well-known
elephantine song writer. fills the bill as the
plumber, Vllas CANDY. AS a neat little SOU
brette, Miss Josie Sutherland can hold her own
with almost any of them, and the other girls are
qnite pretty and graceful. This company is
being seen at low prices in Pittsburg. 1t is
playing everywhere else at the high price
houses. so that It may be classed here under
the head Of bargains"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Harry Williams Academy,

Another attractive and varied programme
holds the boards at Harry Williams Academy
of Music this week. Sam Devere's Big Boom is
composed of number of artists. all of whom are
excellent in their line. John E. Drew's char
acter singing and dancing is very good, and
Harry Kennedy, most wonderful Ventrilo-
auist made as much fun from his puppets
as if they were real personages. Lille
Allyn's singing of Italian song was
well received. and pretty Georgia Lingard
could not dance too long for her admirers,
which counted every one of a big audience. The
Wood family are capital vocalists and dancers,
and Prof. Burke's dogs are worth travelling to
see. TEey are extraordinarily well trained. The
show is a capital all-round entertainment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
Not Deplored Privately.

NeW ! Ork IImes.J
Orderly and law-abiding persons will not pre-
tend that the butchery of the Italians was
either 'justitable or proper" There is no
room for argument about that, for before the
argument begins we must grant the postulate
that our civilization and our patiently-con-
structed system of criminal jurisprudence are
failures. Yet, while every good citizen will
readily assent.to the proposition that this affair
is to be deplored, it would be difficult to find
any one individual who would confess that pri-
vately he deplores it very much. That is be-
cause human nature, in some respects, has
been but slightly modified since the days of
savagery by civilization and criminal jurispru-
dence, and respect for the constable's staff"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-17
No Palliation for the Crime.

New York Morning Journal.l
The momentary madness which fell upon the
people of New Orleans on Saturday has proba-
bly, passed away forever. 1t was provoked by
the feeling that a murderous secret society,
which had terrorized New Orleans for gem
Grafton, was about to triumph once more, and
in the most insolent manner.
The deplorable results of the not and the in
reference with law are doubtless as much re-
gretted by respectable citizens of New Orleans
as by anyone else. Yet there is disposition to
palllate and pardon the lynchings. because of
the indirect good which may accrue from them.
This is wrong and dangerous, and should re-
celye no support, Let New Orleans, for her
own safety, 60 no further that wayl