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is very poor indication of the system uu-
der which the monopolyis is established. 1t
would be as logical to say that because the
medieval governments raised revenue by
selling monopolies that proves the an
tagonism between that archaic kind of gov
ernment and monopolies. because the latter
had to pay for them. With a full recogni-
tion of the value of inciting invention by
giving privileges in inventions which did
not exist as property rights before the en-
actment of patent laws, the fact remains
that the cases where the privilege has been
used to suppress new inventions, or to i'm
pose such exor5itant charges ON them as to
greatly limit their popular use, are suf-
fciently frequent to demonstrate an imper-
fection in the system.
The Recorder courteously invites THE
DISPATCH to indicate how these imper-
fections can be cured while guaranteeing
to the inventor the reward for his industry.
The subject cannot be fully treated in q
newspaper article, but it can be said in
reply to so complimentary an inquiry that
it can be done by giving to everyone the
right to manufacture a patented article or
use patented process upon the payment
of stated and uniform royalty to the in
ventor. To use the patent without paying
the royalty would be infringement. 1t is
quite possible that the increased use of
patents under such a system would yield
the inventor far more than he gets under
the present one, which can either limit the
use by excessive prices or forbid it alto
gather
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
THE ATTACK on BLAINE.

The Democratic press produced on Satul-
day a charge against Secretary Blaine, in
connection with the sealing dispute, which
is OF so grave a character as to imply
either wanton slander ON the part of those
who put it into circulation or the existence
of unworthy influences in the management
of the State Department. Against an of
fetal of Secretary Blaine's standing charges
of person al misconduct are not worthy of
much credence until backed by proof. Un-
less evidence is brought to justify this
charge, it will react severely on its authors.
The charge is that the Secretary had con-
sented to the proposition of the British Gov
ernment to make the coming season close
one, during which no seals should be killed
either on the islands or in the seas; that GER
tain influential gentlemen interested in the
North American Commercial Company went
to work to prevent this arrangement
on account of the loss the suspension
of operations would inf1ict on that
corporation; and that from pecuniary in
fuences the Secretary induced the Presi-
dent to permit a change of 'front.' and re-
jected the proposition. which had been re-
ceived favorably.
1t will be seen that the assertion is such
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
PATENTS AND PRoPERry

Some comments of The DISPATCH, the
other day, on the possibilities of the present
system of patents in the way of defeating
its own purpose, evoke a reply from the
New York Recorder. To the statement of
THE DISPATCH that for the encouragement
OF invention the patent laws offer to the in
ventor a monopoly in his invention, limited
as to duration, the Recorder excepts with the
assertion that ownership by an individual of
the product of his own industry is not mon
opoiy," and further, that the invention sis
the property OF the inventor" and conse-
quentlv cannot be considered a monopoly.
This includes dispute as to the use OF
terms, and slight confusion as to the origin
of property rights.
A farmer who raises a thousand bushels
of corn-to use the Recorders illustration
has the exclusive control of his product
He has monopoly OF that thousand bushels
of corn, but because millions of other
farmers raise corn he is not able to monop-
olize the corn trade. To carry the illustra-
tion little further, take the case. of the first
man who discovered that by fashioning
wood and steel into hoe he could raise
more corn than if he used his hands or a
snarpened stick. The original laws of
property gave him the property right in the
increased yield and in the hoe that he might
make. But it is significant that this prop
erty right did not extend to the degree
where he could forbid his neighbor to make
hoe like his until tine passage of the first
patent law. 1t is not worth while to discuss
whether one proprietary right is more
natural than another, because they are both
founded in social law, and are, in that
sense. artificial. The right of a man to the
corn he raises or the tool he makes is rooted
in the fact that by such rights industry and
foresight are encouraged. His title to
inventions or processes is founded on the
public benefit in the encouragement of
invention.
That the exclusive use of a patent some
times defeats this purpose, although ques-
toned by our contemporary, is indisputable. |
The Recorder thinks that the fact of mo- |
nopOlies preventing progress by buying up |
patents proves not the identity of patents |
with monopolies, but the antagonism be- |
tween them, since a monopoly can only |
suppress patent by paying for it," 1t is
extremely doubtful if any monopoly was
ever attained without paying for it; but that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
MAKE HOTELS THEIR HOME.
How the Caravancaries of New York Have
Been RevoIutionized.

HOW the Caravancartes OF new 1ork nave
Been Revolutionized.
Speaking of the peculiar hotel life led by
many people in New York, an old hotel man
says ''There are 20 people living IN hotels here
now where one lived that way 10 or l5 years ago.
This is what has revoiutionized the hotel busi-
ness. Formerly hotel custom was almost alto
gether of the travelling class. AS soon as man
concluded to remain in any place week or two
he would get private rooms some place. 1t was
come to-day and go tomorrow mostly. Now
the substantial custom (of the New Y ork hotel,
at least) is from permanent guests. They pay
all the way from $40 20 sl00 a week-some even
more-for the quarters thus occupied. This is
Independently Of meals. which cost more money
In many cases. Five to ten thousand year is
not an extravagant price to pay for suite of
desirable rooms In good hotel. Many men pay
the former for bachelor fiat.
"The hotel service is very much improved by
this permanent business. Ine accommodations
all around are much better than can be had in
a private house, and with no responsibility
bother whatever-yes, and for less money. 1t
is only question Of hotel grade. and this is
settled by the pocketbook-though just now
everything is full and running over. When
the new hotels are finished there will be rush
for rooms. understand that many suites have
already been engaged from the plans, before
the cellars are dug. These are. Of course, by
permanent guests"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
POPULAR PERSONS.

THE appointment of Lieutenant Clarke.
OF the United States cavalry. to serve with the
Dusseldorf Hussars. has evoked approving
| comments from the German press.
MARSHALL HALsTEAD. of the Cincin-
| natl Commercial Gazette. IL is said, will soon
wed Miss Glenn, the charming daughter of
President Glenn, of the Commercial Gazette
| Company.
WALT WHITMAN got out in the mid
April sun and warmth propelled in his wheel
chair, the first time after four months impris-
onment in his sick room. The GOOD Gray
Poet" has not many more years for this world
IT is said that the Rev. j. W. Prootts-
man of the Methodist Church, South, was the
author of the first thanksgiving proclamation
ever issued in the State of Missouri 1t ap-
peared in the st. Louis dailies in November,
1859. during the administration of Governor
Stewart.
LORD TENNYsoN loves retirement more
than notoriety. and positively shrinks from the
public gaze In fact. apprehension of being
mobbed by the''profane vulgar amounts almost
to monomania with the poet laureate. Many
good stories are told in illustration of this
weakness of his.
HON. CHARLES EMORY SMITH, the re-
firing American Minister to Russia, and wife
were presented by Minister Phelps in Berlin
Saturday to the Coun. and Countess Schouval-
off. Herr Barth. member of the Reichstag,
General Won Versen, Count and Countess
PappeEheim and members of the American
Legation.
EX-SENATOR HENRY W. RLAIR, the re-
cently-appointed but recalled Minister to China,
is a sandy y-haired, cyn ic-eyed man of fussy man.
ner, with flowing beard sprink led with gray.
He is rising S. and served two terms in both
Houses of Congress. He early earned the
reputation of being the arch-bore of the SEN
ate, and lived up to it to the last day of his
term.
THE late General Albert Pike, of WASH
ington, was perhaps better versed in the mys-
teries Of ancient Froemasonry than any other
person in the world HIS translations from the
vedas filled IL volumes of l,000 pages each, all
carefully written in a beautiful hand. General
Pike used none but quill pens in this writing,
and carefully preserved each one, the number
probably reaching 10000.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS is middle
sized man of compact build and graceful man.
ner. He is 56 and belongs to that family which
gave two Presidents to the United States and
whose name is closely interviewer with the his
tory of Boston. After leaving Harvard he
entered the army, from which he emerged a
Breyet BrigadIer General of Volunteers. Then
be took up the practice of railroad law, and in
1884 was elected President of the Union Pacific.
which position he resigned last year. He be.
longs to the Massachusetts Historical Society
and varioas other learned bodies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
ARMIES OF eATERPILLARs
Stop Trains Passing Through the Swamps of
North Carolina,

CHARLOTTE. N. C., May 3.-The Carolina
Central trainmen have been having peculiar
experience with caterpillars for four of five
days past, and it is something unheard of in the
railroad history of this State. Just east of
Lumberton is what is known as the Big Swamp,
and the railroad goes through it on trestIe-
work, broken here and there in the solid por-
tions of the swamp by eInbankmenrs of earth.
Last Tuesday an army of caterpillars began
moving out of the swamp, and when they
reached the streams over which the trestles
carry the rails they massed on the railroad and
proceeded to cross on the trestfes. The rails
and the ties were covered inches deep with the
moving mass, and the first train that encoun-
cred them was brought to dead standstill,
the driving wheels of the engine slipping
around as If the rails had beer thoroughly
oiled. The engineer exhausted the contents of
his sandbox before he got through the swamp
and reached a clear stretch OF track. 1t was
thought that trip would be the end of the
caterpillar trouble, but the very next day a
train encountered another army of caterpillars
crossing the trestle and had the same difficulty.
The Charlotte bound passenger train yester-
day had similar experience.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
Found
him

Him
You Yet.
-Neao YORK Telegram.
The man who sells goods with a 35-inch
stones Of heaven, If he could get at them.-Ram's
Horn.
Leisurely traveller (emerging from wash
room)-well's it's your turn, sir.
''Next''-If I'm as long about 1t as you, it'll be
my 'ternity.-0ur Monthtv.
Robert Reed-Chewing is filthy habit
Why, the pigs wouldn't chew tobacco.
Badboy Weed-No; 1 know that you and the
pigs don't. but that's Just where I differ rom
you.-Ncbo York Continent.
Gilhoolv-This world is full of misery.
The nappiest man is the one who is never born-
Hostetter McGinnis-Yes, but there Isn't one In
a million that has such streak OF luck.-Iezas
SJfttRgs.
Millie-I don't mind marrying you, Clar-
ence, but hate the idea Of giving up my sl5-a-
week job at the store.
Ciarence-Then don't give it up, dearest IN
give up mine. I'm getting only slo.-Ch1cago
Tribune.
Mrs. Schoefenstedt-To- paper tells
about a minister who has married more than ], 100
couples.
Mr. schoeaenstedt-I wonder II he ever stops 10
think.-S0meruiLte Journal.
De Tag-We had amateur theatricals one
night on the steamer, coming over.
lie Jag-Were they successful?
DE Tag well. no; In the middle OF the play the
steamer gave Iurch. and all the actors to the
rail ana threw up their parts.-Smith. Gray q
Co. 8 Monthly. aH
Mrs. POI k-hop Ito art deiler) r)-How much
do yoa charge for that picture Of the lake front,
with the icehouse in the fronty ta+
Art DeaIer-That is a copperpiate etching.
Mrs. Porkchop-Oh. pshawl Haven't you an1
silverplate etchings?-Ts,o York SHa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Paul Risnet.

Paul Risnet, one of the most remarkable
characters ever known In St. Paul. has died in
Omaha of paralysis of the heart. He went to
Omaha two months ago. after considerable URGING z
from firm of contractors there, to do some stone
carving on new building. Risnet came to St.
Paul three years ago, after having been in the
United States about six months. He came from
Paris. He was known in that city as rising
young SCULPTOR. He had a studio in the QUARTER
Latin, and there he completed two marbles. PAS
sions Unbound'' and deserted, ~ both of which
works were placed on exhibition in 1875 and re-
ceived the commendation of the best art critics in
the country. In st. Paul. Risnet left no brilliant
examples of his genius The only use to which he
placed his talents there was in the execution of
some carving on the New York Life Insurance
building, for which he received mechanics wages
IS per day. 1t is not known why he left Paris
for the Western world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
Obituary Notes.

F. e. BROWN, one Of the best known citizens OF
Des Moines died Saturday. His estate is worth
81, 00c 600.
WALTER WALLACE, baseball writer and author
ity on the game died in san Francisco Friday of
consumption.
MRS. MARY K. WARREN, the wife of George
William Warren, the composer, died In New York
from heart disease.
FERDINAND GREGoRovIUs, the German poet
and historian, Is dead He was born on January
10, 1921, at Neidenbourg, Prussia.
NATHANIEL f. TENSEY, President Of tho VIM
throp National Bank, ana one of Boston's suc-
cessful fnanciers, died Friday, aged II.
MRS ELIZA RUSSELL died yesterday afternoon
at 3 O'Clock at the Home for Aged Women, aged
Y wears. Her funeral will take place from the
Home at O'Clock Tomorrow afternoon.
HORACE scHERMERHoRN. Alderman from the
Sixth district in Jersey City. and one of the most
promising Young Repupieans in Jersey City. died
Friday night. Death was caused by tyDhoid
FEVER Induced by the grip.
JOHN MCDEvITT. who has been q hod carrier
nearly all his life, died Friday at his home in
Passaic. He lived and dressed as an ordinary
laborer. and when his effects were searched II
was ascertalned that he possessed a fortune Of
s75. 600.
RANDALL YARBoo. one of the Indiana pioneers.
is dead at Jefferson, aged 02. He helped to build
the first house in New Albany. He assisted in
cennes at Clarksvif1e, and was well acquainted
with General George Rogers.
THE funeral of Mrs. Mary Wilson, a pioneer
resident OF Washington county, Ohio and mother
Of John Wilson, the well known banker Of Utica,
occurred yesterday. Mrs. Wilson was one of the
best known women in the county, and had
reached the advanced age of 90 years.
WILLIAM 8. RITTER, one of the oldest news
paper publishers in Eastern Pennsylvania. died
at Reading. Friday night, aged g. He was pro-
prietor for 80 years of the Reading Adler .whicl,
was established by member of his family in 1895,
and has been continually In the family ever since.
America.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
COAL AND PIG METAL SCARCE.

Mills at McKeesport Compelled to Close
Down.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.
MCKEEsPoRT, May 3-Coal, coke and pig
metal are very scare here and as a result
all of the pudding departments Of the Ma
tional Rolling Mill are closed down and large
number of men are again thrown out of work.
1t is thought however, that the mills can be
operated after Wednesday. as orders for coke
and plg metal have received promises of fulfil
ment
The Baltimore and Oh,o anticipating scare
ity of coal has been side-trackiug trains of that
article, and will hold them for use in case there
is a long miners strike.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
John Frederick MAY.

DR.. John Frederick May, an eminent
physician Of ofWashington, died Friday of pneu-
monia. in the 10th year of his age. He was one of
the reorganizers of the medical department of
the Columbia Univ ersity in which hesflled the
chair of professor OF anatomy and surgery for
many years. His skill and learning received
broad recognition. He the first American
surgeon that ever made a successful amputatIon
country resulting disastrously to the patient.
After the killing of President Lincoln ne fully
identified the remains of the assassin, John
Wilkes Booth, by scar that marked the seat of
an operation he had performed on him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
The Naming of 3 Cruiser.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Regarding the suggestion concerning the
naming of one of the cruisers after our city,
permit me to say that at meeting of the
Chamber of Commerce. held November IL,
1889. this resolution was presented and unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That the President of this body be re-
quested to write to the honorable Secretary OF the
Navy requesting him to name one of the new
vessels .'Pittsburg:''
On the 26th of May. 1890, we again called the
attention of the Secretary of the Navy to the
above, he kindly replying that the matter
would have the proper attention. You will
thus see that the Chamber was many months
ahead in this matre-.
SUPERINTENDENT.
PrTTopupn Nav0
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
TOMORROW.

Everything wrong will be set right
Tomorrow;
Your troubles sore will all take flight
Tomorrow.
Fortune will smile, the hckle Jade,
You'll win the love of some sweet maid,
And all your bad debts will be paid
Tomorrow.
Why. then, repine? You will be gay
Tomorrow.
You'll never think about to-day
Tomorrow.
Forget your miseries and strive
To think how every thing will thrive
With you-if only you're alive
Tomorrow. Il
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

THERE was. no doubt, a great deal of en-
joyment in consuming the American viaDds at
that New York Mckinley banquet But now
that it is established beyond question that
nothing but domestic cigars were smoked the
patriotic self-sacrifce of the banqueting states
men is demonstrated beyond caviL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

THERE is poetic justice in the disclosure
that after eonfding Americans have for many
years been milked by schemes for getting slices
of ''estates in England" the guileless Britons
are now being gulled by the vision of estates
in America" to which they are induced to i'm
agine themselves heirs. The capacity of people
for being gulled is not confined to any one side
OF the ocean.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

THAT story the Eastern papers are pub
fishing with so much zest. about Kansas farm
ers sowing their wheat without plowing the
ground. is evidently fabrication got up to
test the capacity of our esteemed cotemporar-
les to swallow any yarn that appears to them
to discredit Western farmers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

'IT was on the 18th of April that the new
Pacific Ocean steamship Empress of India left
Liverpool. and it was on the 2Sth of the same
month that she arrived at Vancouver, after
touching at Hong Kong and Yokohama" says
the New York Sun. As this predicates voy-
age of about $1,000 miles in IL days. over ll00
miles each day. without allowing any time for
stops, it is a rather strong record. Win not our
brilliant cotemporary somewhat revise its
strong draft upon willing but somewhat linn
tied faith?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
As a reply to the comments of the Dem,

As reply to the comments Of the Demo-
cratic press on the Blair affair the New York
Press refers to "Kiely sent first by Cleveland to
Austria, when even slight knowledge of Aus
trian customs would have taught that he was
inadmissi BILE, and next to Italy" AS Klely was
sent first to Italy and was rejected by the Aus
trian Government because he had been previ-
ously rejected by its Italian ally, there is an
evident need for the esteemed Press to study
accuracy in its political history.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

FOREST fires in Southern New Jersey are
burning up the woods by wholesale. The dry
ness of the spring coupled with carelessness
about the spread of fires causes the destruction
of more value in timber than would pay for an
adequate forest police for many years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
A THIRD SET OF TEETH.

Miss Evans, of Beaver Falls, Has Remark
able Experience.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
BEAVER FALLS. May 3-Maud Evans, a
beautiful young miss of this place, scarcely l6
years old. is the happy possessor of almost an
entire third set of teeth. They are not store
teeth, but natural ones and every one perfect
Her first set came at a very early age, and
quickly decayed and disappeared. The second
set appeared, but were soon after displaced by
the:third set.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

NEW JERSEYS record for furnishing
charters to monopolistic combinations and
swindling cooperative schemes. to vex the rest
of the country, is still giving that Common
wealth a just if not enviable prominence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

DISTRICT ATTORNEY N1CoLL, of New
York, has dismissed the last of the indictments
against the Broadway boodlers. There seems
to have been very correct idea in New York
politics of the circumstances under which it
was safe to elect Mr. Nicoll to his present
office.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04
THE meteorolocical genius of the New

The meteorological genius Of the New
York Tribune brings out this bit of weather
prophecy: ''It looks as. though an unusually
hot summer would succeed an unusually cold
winter" This leads to the inquiry, first, what
reason is there for thinking so; and, second. il
so, will the localities like Western Pennsyl-
vania, which did not have an unusually cold
winter, enjoy an unusually mild summer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

WITH Minister Grant entertained BY
Minister Reid in Paris. and Minister Smith by
Minister Phelps in Berlin, the old assertion
that our foreign ministers are overworked and
upderpaId acquires new and sinister signifi-
canoe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
In order to decide a bet please inform us
through the columns of your paper what was
the largest weeks work accomplished by the
Baldwin Locomotive Works and also what was
the shortest space of time in which any loco
motive was ever built.
CONSTANT READER.
BUTLER, PA, April o.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

IT is stated that the Hawaiians are clam
orig for a Republic If the people of that
island kingdom want Republic they ought to
be able to get it without clamoring.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-04

The courtesy and politeness of the jap
anese give US the comfortable assurance that
they will take Blair off our han ds without even
cross word.