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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
REDUCTION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

A declaration by Mr. Holman, of In
diana, that the next Congress must cut
down appropriations all along the lines,
with one or two exceptions, and that the
reduction must be 100000, 600, is ques-
toned by the Chicago Herald, which init
mates that if such reduction is made the
appropriation for pensions, which Mr.
Holman states as "a debt against the Gov
eminent, must undergo reduction.
There has been a visible tendency in
some sections of the Democracy to make
the road smooth for their large majority
in the next House by claiming that they
cannot make much reduction from the
bllion-dollar standard of appropriations.
Bit the necessity under which that body
will be to do so, unless it is prepared to
accept the result Of a complete fiasco, is
twO-fold. Both political and fiscal reasons
will compel reduction of very nearly the
amount stated. If, after their most effec-
tive attack on the Republican party has
been the extravaganza of the billion-dollar
Congress, the Democratic majority does
not show marked reduction from
the total of that extravaganza, it will
sCultify itself politically. The Democrats
have often made famous exhibitions of
stupidity, but it is not to be expected that
on The eve of a Presidential campaign they
will utterly destroy their most effective
ammunition by failing to show a marked
reduction from the stupendous eXpendi-
lures of the last Congress.
There is even a more cogent compul-
sion in the fact that, unless there is such a
reduction as Mr.. Holman indicates, the
revenues of the Government will be in
sufficient to meet appropriations. The
Mckinley bill met the general demand for
a reduction of revenue. Its So, 5,000, 900
cut brought the revenues down to about
the level of old expenditures. But the
appropriations of the same Congress that
passed that law increased expenditures
far beyond the limit. 1t will be necessary
TO make a corresponding reduction in
appropriations to save the Treasury from
confronting an actual deficiency.
The ability to make such reduction as
Mr. Holman calls for, Of $50, ,OOO, 600 an
nually. is shown by the fact that, aside
from pensions, the increase of appropria-
tiOnS for the general expenses of the Gov
eminent very nearly reached that sum.
The old standard was by no means an
economical one, as it showed an increase
in expenditures in ten years of nearly 40
per cent, while the increase in population
had not been half that ratio. 1t is impos-
sible to reduce pension expenditures more
than by strict watch against the grant of
fraudulent pensions; but by reducing adj
ministratiye expenses to the level of 1880,
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OUR MAIL POUCH.
Two Great Questions Discussed.
the Editor of The Dispatch:

Tothe Editor of The Dispatch:
THE DISPATCH of July 80, 1891, made men,
ton of Rev. J. W. Carter, a leading colored
minister of Georgia, who is an enthusiast on
the NICE question, and thanks God that he has
at last reached solution of that difficult
problem. Well, maybe he has solved the
problem, but L do not think 80. The fact
that we thank God and call upon Him to ap-
prove our conduct or sanction our action is
no evidence that we are right. The Pharisee
thanked God that he was not like man who
proved to be better than he. Our conclu-
sions are only right according as the point
from which reason Is right.
With all due respect to the reverend gen
tleman 1 am compelled to differ from him
on the State purchase plan for more than
one reason: First, 1t is class legislation,
and second, when we consider it philosoph-
ically, there is no freedom in it. That coun-
try is best which protects its citizens most.
This is our home and here we expect to stay
and eight it out along that line' If it takes
all of the year.
Rev. Mr.. Carter speaks of the negro want
ing to rule; that is natural and entirely con-
sistent with the idea of citizenship. The
right to vote carries with it the right to be
voted for; the question with the honest
voter is not color but fitness. The gentle
man thinks that connected with the stay OF
the negro and the white race together he
sees some danger ahead. Educate them NOR
ally, intellectually and religiously and the
danger is past. Then pen is mightier than
the sword.' 1 say to the reverend gentle
man and all who are bothered about the
race question, educate the negro in all that
pertains to education, and the religion OF
the Lord Jesus Christ, and he will (as he Is
doing every day) solve his own problem.
The question that we must prepare to
meet and the one that will come because it
is right is the ex-siave pension question
mentioned by the Hon. w. Il. Vaughn, of
Omaha. Like all other good questions 1t
has had to take the back seat until God
would fit martyr for the occasion. He is
not a crank, but will win no matter hat
may be the political complexion of the Con-
gress, because he Is right.
SAMUEL EUBANKs.
JoHNsTOWN, Pa, August 4.
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HoNoRED ABOVE OTHERS.

CHIEF JUSTICE LUCAS, of West Vir-
ginia, is said to be tho smallest man in the
State. He is only four feet high.
GEN. SHERMAN's married daughter, Mrs.
E. S. Thackara, who is known as writer, is
said to be engaged on very ambitious lit
era1y work.
will spend his vacation this year at his
country home just outside Germantown. He
will take about a months rest
MISS MARY PROCTOR, daughter of the late
Richard A. Proctor, has appeared in the
newspaper field as a contributor of scientific
articles, somewhat after the style OF the ex-
astronomer royal.
ROBERT T. BARKER, of New Bedford,
Mass, read the Bible through for the first
time in 1905. Since that date he has read it
90 times. 1t usually takes him two months
to read it from beginning to end.
INVENTOR KEELY is passing the sum-
mer very pleasantly with his wife and
daughter at one of the most fashionable
hotels in Atlantic City. His expenses are
betrayed by the wealthy Mrs. Bloomfield
Moore, who seems to retain confidence in
the inventors windy promises.
IT is said that Nine. Boulanger and her
daughter have abandoned their recently
cherished purpose of entering a convent "in
order to tighten the burden of exile borne
by the General" This is announced in con-
nection with description of the burial of
Mme de Bonnemain, Boulanger's friend.
PROF. BARILI, of Atlanta, a nephew of
Adeliha Patti, confides to his friends in the
South the fact that during his recent visit to
Craig-y-Nos he learned that the diva had
made n will, in which he was placed on the
same footing as the Nicolini children, which
he regards as assuring him large fortune
some day.
THE party which Captain William Glazier
takes with him, in the immediate future, to
explore the head waters of the Mississippi
afresh, includes General e. w. Whitaker.
Washington, d. c., Qate chief of staff to
Custer, Fitzpatrick and Sheridan); Pierce
Giles, Camden, N. j.: R. H. Ferguson, Troy,
n. Y; w. s. Shure, York, Pa; ID. s. Knowl-
ton, Boston; f. J. Frost, photographer,
Toledo, o.: John g. Crane, West Milbury,
Mass,
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TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
p1TTsBURG, WEDNESDAY AUGUST 5, 1871.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR PITrsBURG.

What can be done in the extension Of
trade by single Pittsburg interest by the
union of whaleback steamers, ship canals
river Improvement and reciprocity form
the subject of a very interesting article in
this issue of THE DISPATCH.
The leading point brought out is that
even with the present means of transpor.
tation, American coal has been able to dis
place British coal in the Havana market.
With the improvement of transportation
bv the new style of steamers, and by a
feasible system of river improvement,
Pittsburg coal could control nearly the en-
tire South American market. This in
turn implies the payment in a staple of
universal consumption Of the immense
balances of trade produced by our coffee
and sugar purchases in those countries,
and to exactly the extent in which this
reciprocal trade goes on increasing the
national stock of floating capital. The
field for extension in this direction is illim-
table
The same consideration applies with
equal force to trade in the opposite direc-
ton which would be developed by the
Ohio River and Lake Erie Ship Canal.
That project not only vastly increases the
possibilities of trade with the Northwest,
but by the route opened up by the Nc
Dougal steamer, or by the more direct
route of a ship canal from the lakes to
New York, would enable Pittsburg coal to
reach the North Atlantic, where there is
an almost infinite demand for it. 1t is not
hot bo f,,11 ~
of the possible water routes from Pitts
burg in both directions would mean an en-
hancement of the value of the coal fields
of Western Pennsylvania and West Vir-
ginia ten times the cost of the improve
mentS
Yet the gain to the coal interests is only
part Of the possible expansion suggested
by this combination of subjects. Those
who think that Pittsburg coal should
be consumed at home should also,
see that the best way to secure that
is to establish the cheap transportation
which will bring ore here and take
away iron and steel products at the lowest
possible cost. Compute the economy in
iron and steel manufacture to be gained
by the opening of the canal, and then i'm
agine the extension of Pittsburg industries
possible in the single business of furnish
ing iron and steel for the construction of
the new style of freight carriers which are
to revolutionize ocean and freight trans
portation. There is enough In that single
direction, if the opportunity is improved,
for a p per cent increase of our iron and
steel manufactures.
These subjects bring out the fact that
there are almost illimitable possibilities for
Pittsburg in the future, if they are quickly
recognized and urgently improved. Will
Pittsburg make the most of its oppor-
tunities, is the question for her citizens to
decide. If so, the first thing to be done is
TO push the canal project to an early real
izatiOn.
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Average Life Of To-Day.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What is the average life of the human race
of the present day and how does it compare
with past ages? How does the population
of the cities OF the United States compare
with that of the country outside, and New
York City's population with that of the rest
of the State? Pm. w.
BRADDoCK, August4 4.
1.-THE average longevity for the entire
world is not known, as many countries have
furnished no figures on this point. Undoubt-
edly it is greater, however, than it was in
the past, unless the Old Testament ages be
excepted, and it is not certain that an ex-
ception will have to be made in this case.
The population of 1890 of the cities of the
United States having 5000 inhabitants or
over was is, 235, ,67O compared with A, 396 $50
for the rest of the country. In 1890 there
were 1,5l5301 inhabitants in. New York City
and AS, ,572 in the remainder of the State
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

Miss Millie Johnston, stenographer of the
Department of Public Works, left on a two
weeks vacation to Atlantic City, yesterday.
She was accompanied by her sister, who is
| stenographer at the Hotel Duquesne.
H.C. Longwell and wife and ch lid, of
Chicago, are among the late arrivals
at the Duquesne. Mr.. Longwell is promi-
nent lawyer and a particular friend of the
Worlds Fair.
William II. Harper has been appointed
to succeed Archie Pillow in the office of the
Standard Cab Company at East Liberty.
Mr.. Pillow takes place at the Union
station.
A. G.. Stotterweck, of Wheeling; j. j.
Beck, of Youngstown; William W. Picking,
of Somerset, and j. A. Barbour, of Oil City,
are near-town arrivals at the Monongahela.
George A. Dean and wife and daughter,
Miss BERTHE, and Misses Laura and Lulie
Frazier of Mingo, O., are among the guests
at the Monongahela House.
Congressman Steadman, of Kentucky,
was q New York passenger yesterday, stop
ping long enough to talk entertaln1ngly on
Blue Grass politics.
A. B. Carpenter, auditor for the Armour
beef syndicate, of Chicago, arrived in town
last evening, and is quartered at the Du-
quesne.
Chief Bigelow and wife leave to-day for
the East on a summer vacation which will
probably continue for three or four weeks.
Mr.. w. A. List, of the prominent nail
men of that name, of Wheeling, with Charles
Lamb, Is a guest at the Monongahela.
A. G. Studer has accepted the charge of
the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium at Detroit and
will leave Pittsburg this week.
General Wagner was a passenger on the
Ft. Wayne yesterday, heading for the G. A.
r. Encampment at Detroit.
j. B. Griggs, of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association office, left yesterday for a
summer outing.
H. Mansfield 'and four ladies' came in
from Beaver last evening, and are registered
at the Anderson.
Charles c. Jeffries, of the First National
Bank, left yesterday for Chautauqua for
two weeks.
j. J. Sweeney, of Alderman McKenna's
office, has returned from d two weeks trip
to the East.
Joseph Illenberger is one of the first
Allegheny arrivals from the surf at Atlantic
City.
Mr. and Mrs. 7. H. Fahnestock have
gone to the seashore for months vacation.
Walter Lyon, q. S. District Attorney,
returned from Philadelphia yesterday.
j. ]. Spearman and wife, of Sharon, are
among the arrivals at the Anderson.
H. G. Baldwin,. of Salem, o., is in the
city, guest at the Anderson.
E. NJ. Richards, of New Castle, is an
arrival at the Monongahela.
John F. Lynch, prominent Cantonian,
Is at the Anderson.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
WHY BUCHANAN NEVER MARRIED,
He Had a Love Affair Once, but 1t Ended
Abruptly.

Minneapolis Tribune.l
A Minneapolis lady told me the other day
the true reason why James Buchanan, the
fifteenth President of the United States,
never married. She used to live in Lancaster,
Pa., and 1t was near this little city that Pres
dent Buchanan lived (when eat honey and
died quote her own words:
"When was girl and a young lady at
home 1 used to know Mr.. Buchanan quite
well. Father was one of his intimate friends
and used to spend good deal of his time,
nearly all of his Sunday afternoons, at his
country place, Wheatland, about mile
from Lancaster. They had a bond of SYM
pathy between them; both were Democrats.
Why, he was at my sisters wedding, and
remember the expression on his face and
the twinkle in his eye as he quoted the old
saying to my Oldest sister: when younger
sister is married first, the oldest has to sit
on the fence and await her turn. You must
dance in your stocking feet tonight
"He was tall, fne-looking man with sill
very white hair, generally dressed in black
broadcloth, black satin vest and wore the
old-fashioned high linen collars. One great
peculiarity ofhis was carrying his head on
named for him, James Buchanan Frey, and
in order to look like him he carried his head
on the side the same way.
"He told my father about the love affair.
I've heard il dozens of times. He was en-
gagged to Miss Coleman, of Lancaster, and
there, too, lived Miss Rose Hubley, also very
much in love with him and mortally jealous
of Miss Coleman.
1.-THE course of true love was running
smoothly for the lovers until this Miss Hub
ley came between them. Mr.. Buchanan had
been out of town on business, returned late
one afternoon to the city and on his way
home passed by where Miss Hubley lived.
She called him into the house and he was
there some few minutes, then went directly
home to get his supper. AS frequently hap
pens, some gossipy neighbors either saw it,
or Miss Hubley herself took pains to inform
Miss Coleman that Mr.. Buchanan had called
at the other lady's home first, al
though engaged to her. She resented it,
and when he went to call upon her that even
ing declined to see him. The next day he
went up to Philadelphia on IN early train
and with her father. She went up later in
the day to go with the two gentlemen to the
theater in the evening. She did not appear
as usual, not at all like herself and finally
declined to go to the theater OF even see Mr.
Buchanan. When they returned to the hotel
after the theater she was corpse, and was
brought home to Lancaster and buried there.
Heart disease was given as the cause.
"The other lady lived to be an old maid
and suffered an awful fate. She was stand
ing before an open CRATE warming her hands
behind her, when her clothing caught fire
and she was burned to death. Mr. Buchanan
never forgot Miss Coleman. When he died,
he said that he wanted to be buried in Wood
ward Hill Cemetery, because when she was
living they used to walk out that way to-
gether. He was very modest man. The
had silver plate put on his
didn't like it, for he didn't like SO much
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which is surely ample. the required re-
duction can be made.
1t will be seen that such policy would
not permit of large appropriations for in
ternal improvements, such as canals and
river waterways. But that does not by
any means imply that the Improvements
should not be made, and with the Govern
ment's aid. But works whose addition to
the wealth and prosperity of the country
will be chiefly felt by the coming genera
ton can be made under conditions which
will let the next generation pay for them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
The Key to the BastiIe.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
What has become of the kew of the Bastile,
which is said to have been brought to this
country in 17S9?
ALLEGHENY, August 4. INQUIRER,
[After the storming of the Bastile in 17S9
large key, said to be that of one of the pris-
on tiers was given by some of the partici-
pants in the fray to the Marquis de Ia Fay
cite, who sent it, as precious relic, to his
personal friend, George Washington. The
latter kept the key in his home at Mount
Vernon, using it as paper weight. After
his death it was hung in the hall of the
Mount Vernon residence, where it still re-
mains
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
RHYMES AND RHYMPLEs.

There was an old man of Calcutter,
Who wouldn't eat bread with his butter,
Till a stealthy marine
Put in margarine,
Then they bore him away on shutter.
--Brookl1n Eagle.
A cotemporary uses the following head
line over its report OF the eIectrocutlon:
..An the details carried out without hitch.''
Perhaps 1t not necessary to state that this
not intended as any reflection the old-fashioned
method. Washington Post.
He came from somewhere inland,
From Pittsburg, 1 surmise,
And down along the Jersey coast
He strayed, with bulging eyes;
He saw the dainty maidens
Among the wavelets slosh,
And when at last he oped his mouth
He simply said. ''Begoshi'
--Ee0 York Herald.
. Brine-Have you read Smartellick's new
novel?
JonesENo; what's it about?
Brine-Well, it's mostly about AS pages long, ~
far as can judge.-DetToit Free Press.
''The style of her dresses is quiet"
They say of Miss Dasher, the firt;
But I'm rather disposed to denyit,
For she wears an accordion skirt.
-M1o York Press.
Cant sell you a nice umbrella?'
''What do want with an umbrella such bright
dry weather as this?''
''werl, only you can buy them now good deal
cheaper. Umbrellas. you know, go up very much
in wet weather. .''-PhilddetphiG Times.
To leave his last address he goes,
And with tag is cumbered:
To have his days prolonged he knows
That he must be well numbered.
-Bushin0ton Star.
Mrs. Chugwater (reading the paper to her
husband) - Here's account of new engine
that runs by ammonia
Mr.. Chugwater-Skip that, Samantha Bet ~
it's puff of somebody's baking powder.-Chfca0o
Tribune.
The largest fish he ever hooked,
He said to me;
Full five and twenty pounds he looked
To him to be.
He wouldn'thave weighed less than ten.
That's how he spoke;
He had him almost landed when
His tackle broke!
--6s,o York Prsss.
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A SPECIMEN JOB,

The political abuses of Philadelphia are
getting shaking up that will have good
results to the extent, at least, of changing
methods and men before the stealing can
begin anew again. The last abuse to be
aired is the mercantile appraisers list
Its crookedness was ventilated by City
Treasurer Wright and it is a significant
commentary on Philadelphia politics that
it required the appointment of a City
Treasurer by Governor Pattison to bring
this swindle, going on for years, into pub
licity
The method of assessing appraisements,
as pointed out by Mr. Wright's letter,
gives 62H cents for each name to the ap-
praisers, 81 80 for advertising, and about
81 30 for costs in the attempt to collect
from delinquents. The result of. these
premiums upon swelling the lists is the re-
sort to most extraordinary methods of pad
ding The appraiser at single market
took down names from wheelbarrows,
carts, refrigerators, or anything that had a
name on it. One man whose sign appeared
on three fronts of his stall was put
down three times. When these resources
were exhausted invention was resorted to
with the result that there were several
times as many names as people from whom
the assessment could be collected. Of
course, whether names were fictitious or
not, the charges for assessing, advertising
OF suing for the collection went on just
the same, with the result pointed out by
City Treasurer Wright, that the cost to the
public from the mercantile appraisement
actually ate up the entire income and left
a deficit to be made up from the public
treasury
With this exposure following what pre-
ceded it, the conditions in Philadelphia
appear especially favorable for general
turning of political matters upside down.
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the power of money, the appeal
to the ignorant voters, black as well as
white, who are prone to the speculation of
buying lottery tickets, and also, it is pre-
sumable, to the class who are equally
prone to operations in which their own
votes are purchased.
Under most circumstances there would
be no room for doubt as to the result of
contest in which the forces are so divided.
Louisiana is, perhaps, with one or two ex-
ceptions, the State where the free use of
money may succeed in overriding the
moral sense and honest convictions OF the
intelligent classes. But even there we do
not think that any sum OF money can de-
feat such a combination of social forces as
are arrayed against the lottery. That
public disgrace may secure enough votes
to make a respectable showing; but the
fight has reached stage which makes its
complete defeat an almost assured result.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-05
CAMPBELL'S AMBITION.
He Has Always Had His Eye on the Presi-
dency.

uenCys
Washington Post.1
Among the rising statesmen of the day
none is more talked of than Governor James
E. Campbell, of Ohio. He is regarded as
Presidential possibility, and he should be
reelected this fall he will become a possi-
bility with an upper-case P. Of course, the
'if' is there in all its power and significance
But the Governor himself is destitute of
doubt on the subject A well-known lawyer
of this city, a firm friend of Campbell, said
yesterday:
"In one respect at least, Campbell resem-
bIes Clay. He is consumed with the desire
to be and possessed with the firm belief that
he will be President OF the United States
You cannot shake him in this belief. Shortly
before he was nominated for Governor two
years ago, Campbell was in this city on q
matter of business In conversation with
me he said, Il am going to be nominated for
Governor 1 inquired, But isn't that an
empty honor?' Empty? 1 should say not
was his emphatic reply. I will be nomi-
mated he continued, and elected as sure as
the sun rises and sets, and, mark you, will be
reelected in 1891
Naturally, though somewhat cynically,
asked: And what next7'
"I will go for bigger game the next year,
was his cool reply.