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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
THE COMING WARFARE

Mr. Archibald Forbes has started an in
teresting discussion with regard to the
effect on warfare of the latest inventions
in murderous implements Mr.. Forbes
dissents from the general view that the
increased destructiveneSs of the new i'm
| plements of warfare will shorten cam
paignS. He thinks the increased ability
of nations to carry on defensive warfare
will be greatly strengthened, and that
therefore campaigns will be immensely
prolonged.
This is decided shock to the widely
promulgated but rather loose theory that
every addition to the destructive energy of
warlike implements shortens warfare.
Some theorists are rather slow to accept
the idea, and still regard it as doubtful.
Its most probable that Mr.. Forbes is right,
although we would assign different rea-
SOD for reaching the conclusion. The abil-
ity to conduct defensive warfare has been
strengthened, but so has the power of
offensive warfare. On the other hand the
history of the world teaches us that the
theory of increased destructiveness does
hold good in all cases. There. has been a
constant progress in the deStructiveness of
arms, but there have been varying periods
in some of which war was slow and in
decisive struggle for long periods of years,
while in others it was matter of prompt,
bloody and decisive battles.
A study of these periods will probably
reveal the fact that where wars were
waged by costly machinery requiring es-
pecial training in its use, and making the
successful conduct of armies a matter of
special engineering, they have been slow
and not especially bloody. Where they
are waged by weapons which can be placed
in the hands of the people and led by
men whose genius consists in throwing
their forces to the decisive points, they can
be quickly determined The latest ideas
in warfare, consisting of dynamite guns,
11O-ton cannon and immensely costly bat
tie ships, indicate that the coming era in
war will call for genius of the class of
Vauban, Maurice of Nassau, and De-
metrius the Town-taker; while the period
that is not yet fully ended, will yield its
greatest triumphs to the tactics of Ven
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
DANGER IN BANK BILLS.
A Man, Once an Involuntary Cannibal, Talks
to a Chicago Reporter.

a MAIL, OhCcd AhtOiuutdfy Cdnn1Dal, ldIHS
to a Chicago Reporter.
Chicago Herald.l
In the restaurant of the Richelieu yester-
day comparatively young man with light
hair and whiskers sat at table, which was
covered with dainty morsels of game, pictur-
esque salads and other delicacies. Just two
years ago he was differently situated.
Squatting on the sand he was trying to look
pleasant while eating tough portions of
dead negro. The guest was Carl Lumholtz,
the Swedish scientist and explorer, whose
tales of life among the cannibals of Australia
are well known. He lived with the man
eating tribes many months and was forced
to eat flesh of human being time and time
again. During the last year he has been ex-
ploring the unknown parts of the Sierra
Madre, and he is preparing book on this
subject now.
off were in American politics. ha re-
marked, "rd fight to have no bank bills of a
lower denomination than $25. This two-dol-
lar bill has often carried the germs of a fever
or other infectious disease in passing
through thousands of hands. An bank notes
of small denominations fall to the poorer
classes. They are kept in over-crowded
houses that have poor sanitary conditions
and can't help but absorb dangerous germs.
have examined several old bills and found
some that were in excellent condition for
conveying diseases. The bills of higher de-
nomination are usually safe, for the poorer
classes do not have them long in their pos
session. 1t is the notes under $40 that should
be disinfected. But there is no practical
way to do that. The best plan Is to use
silver and gold money and to make no bank
notes Of small denominations"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
PARrIsANsHIp ON THE FINANCES.

Two views concerning the condition of
the Treasury appeared in two1 New York
papers on the same day, which show the
difficulty partisanship causes of viewing
subject fairly One appears in signed
article by Mr.. Jesse Seligman, in9the New
York Recorder, extolling the financial
record of the Republican party. 1t makes
the following declaration:
Our Government is able to pay OF the
s5I, ,00O, 900 of four and one-half per cents
which became due on September /, and its
creditors, the National banks, rather than
have the money paid, ask the Government
to keep on owing it to them with interest at
the rate of two per cent year.
But, if Mr.. Seligman's statement is cor
rect, the Treasury policy contemplates a
direct betrayal of public interest. If the
Treasury has S51, 900, 900 available for the
payment of the Ia per cents, to keep on
paying per cent for it will be taking
s., ,OOO 900 annually out of the pockets of
the people and giving it to the National
banks. In his efforts to make glowing
statement for the Republican party Mr..
Seligman has so far transgressed facts as
to practically constitute a severe indict-
ment
Another partisan assertion from the
other side of the house is from the New
York World, as follows:
Mr., Foster may think that his deficiency
is only about $500, 900, but it is really nearer
S40,0 000,00O More than $40, 900 belonging to
the National banks, and held in trust by the
Treasury fdS the redemption of bank notes,
was embezzled by the last Congress and
much of it has been expended. 1t is still
DUE however, and the banks can call for it at
any time.
Here we see a determination to assert
the existence of big deficiency leading to
the widest statements. The $40, ,000, 900
referred to as "embezzled'-which was
over 10000, OOO-was the fund deposited
by National banks which have retired cir
culation. This fund was transferred by
act of Congress. This, as THE DISPATCH
has often said, was false step and should
not have been taken. But as to its creating
a deficiency, the World will probably find
that liability on account of the fund ap-
pears in the Treasury statement to balance
the money gained by it. Moreover, the
deficiency cannot take place until the
notes are presented to exhaust the Treasury
balance. The Worlds desire to represent
the Treasury on the verge of bankruptcy
leads it to assert that the money belongs to
the banks and that they can call for it at
any time. The fact is quite different. The
money belongs to the holders of bank
notes, and they can call for it; but their
slowness in doing so is illustrated by the
fact that over 100000 of the notes is in
general circulation.
All of which illustrates the importance,
in discussing financial topics, of steering
clear of the partisanship which makes it
difficult to abstain from representing the
facts as either better or worse than they
really are.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE y, lsgl.
BLAINE's AVAILABILITY.

A story is started of a combination
among Western Senators to beat Harrison
in the Presidential canvass, for the purpose
of nominating Blaine. No combination .
of this sort is needed. Mr.. Blaine would be
nominated tomorrow almost by acclama-
ton in the Republican party if that were
possible; and a year hence, if he be still
alive and willing to take the nomination,
there is little doubt he can have it with a
like spontaneity. The feeling for Blaine in
the Republican party at the present
moment is one of enthusiastic admiration
for his continuously clear insight into pub
lie affairs, especially those which are linked
with the business interests and foreign re-
lations of the country. 1t is not Repub-
lcanS alone who have this feeling There
are thousands of Democrats whose bust
ness interests might similarly well incline
them to regard the success of Blaine with
anything but regret.
Not even the influence of patronage can
prevent the nomination of the Secre-
tary if he consent TO run. There is moth
ing urged as a bar but his health, and this
is really no obstacle. Mr.. Blaine was
very sick man fifteen years age when his
name was presented to the Convention at
Cincinnati, which afterward nominated
Rutherford B. Hayes. Again he was re-
ported utterly broken up four years ago
when the honor went to Harrison. But
nevertheless the country has seen Blaine
good for better service in the interim than
any cotemporary statesman. There has
never been a moment in the last four years
during which he has not been fully equal
to the responsibilities of the most important
governmental post.
1t seems nonsense, therefore, to talk
now of ruling Blaine off the track as an
invalid, and equally superfluous to plan
combine" to secure for him the honor
which his party, more nearly as unit
than it has ever hitherto felt upon such
question, would be only too glad to bestow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24

A novel idea with regard to wages has
been suggested by Mr.. F. A. Halsey, a
Canadian engipeae, in a paper read before
@ gathering of engineers. 1t proposes to
offer labor share of the profits arising
from greater eXertion on its part by offer
ing the laborer paid by the day premium
for every hour gained in accomplishing a
certain amount of work, the premium to
be less than the wages for the time gained.
THUS, says the explanation, fif a man
usually consumes ten hours in performing
piece Of work, and by extra exertion re-
duces the time to nine hours, he is to re-
ceive the wages he would ordinarily have
earned for nine hours and a premium be-
sides for the hour gained
Two objections at once appear to this
suggestion. The first is that in nearly all
departments of labor in which it is prac-
ticable to measure.the fixed task labor is
already paid by the piece, and, second, that
it does not give the laborer all he gains by
his own extra exertion. If ten hours
is the rate fixed by agree
ment for days work, and rapid work
man does days work in nine hours, he is
justly entitled to a full days pay wherever
the fact is demonstrated If the PROPOSE
ton were to give him ten hours pay when
he does the average ten hours work in
nine hours it would accord him neither
more nor less than is done when he is paid
by the piece.
In commenting favorably on this propo-
sition the Philadelphia Press says: "Piece
work has the disadvantage of encouraging
careless work. The result of proft-shar-
ing is distant and uncertain" The fact
is, however, that this plan encourages
careless work just as piece work does; for
it is really payment by the piece, with the
variation of not giving the workman all
he is entitled TO. The distant and uncer-
tain returns OF profit-sharing would be an
objection if the workmen had to depend
on them alone. But when he is given a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
THE WORLDS UPPER TEN.

Sol SMITH RUSSELL has been keeping
Joseph Jefferson company at his Buzzard's
Bay home.
GENERAL GRANTS sister, Mrs. Mary
Grant Cramer, of Orange, n. j., is lecturing
to ex-soldiers in Central New York.
GODDARD CLARKE, the juryman who
created a sensation by questioning the
Prince of Wales, is Fellow of the Royal
Statistical Society.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE is fishing on
the banks of his favorite Kankakee, where
the ordinary mosquito bites harder than q
three-pound trout
GENERAL HANCoCK's daughter will be
married tomorrow to Mr.. Dow, of Boston.
AS the family is yet in mourning the we'd
ding will necessarily be very quiet.
THE Australians like Bernhardt. At Mel
bourne, after "La Dame aux Camellias," the
seats for which were sold at auction la
Boston, the audience sang the Marseillaise.
PRESIDENT DIAz, of Mexico, has strain
of Indian blood in his veins, as had his pred
ecessors Juarez and Hidalgo The Congress
of Mexico is largely composed of the an
cient Aztecs.
KING MILAN recently won S35, 900 at
baccarat at one sitting. He scooped i'll the
Partisan gamblers of the Cercle de Ia Royale
in kingly manner and would have had no
scruples about clearing out Tranby Croft
company.
THE Emperor of China doesn't permit
any lawyers to fool away the time around
his courts He simply orders the beheading
of 'all persons concerned in the recent riots
and massacres," without bothering too much
about the share they had in the trouble.
RoLFE s. MILAR, of Heidelberg, Ger
many, who was in the consular service dur
ing Mr.. Cleveland's administration and is
now a student at the University of Virginia,
is delivering series of lectures at the re-
quest of the faculty, the first of which was
on "The German Workingman."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
Moltke, Napoleon, Frederick, Caesar and
| AlovorInr
THE pH1LApELpH1A MYSTERY.

That expected confession of Bardsley's,
concerning which predictions of its taking
the lid off were made, turns out to be moth
ing in the line that was expected. In
stead of exposing the unknown sharers in
the plunder the defaulting treasurer
makes number of rather weak excuses
for himself, and ends by laying all the
blame on Marsh, who has conveniently
taken himself of, and Drew, the Bank Ex-
aminer, who it seems has been selected q
supplementary scapegoat.
AS to Drew, it is evident his worst Of
fense was that he was deceived, and even
that responsibility for the failure of the
governmental supervision is not so great as
the Controllers But as to the people en-
gagged in the plunder of the bank it may
be possible that the operations were wholly
conducted by Marsh and Lucas, as Mr..
Bardsley alleges. But it must be said that
both the antecedent circumstances and the
events since the bankruptcy became inev-
table makeit extremely difficult to believe
in the completeness of the alleged con-
fession.
1t is worth remembering that there is q
large amount of the disappeared money
wholly unaccounted for; and, to use the
mildest expression, some mysterious fate
has interposed at every turn to prevent
effective methods in discovering it. 1t was
known to the Government officials in
January that the bank had been plum
dered; but it was kept open until March.
With the knowledge that Marsh had been
participant in the illegal acts the Gov
eminent officials permitted him to disap-
pear just before the bank closed With
Marsh absent Bardsley pleads guilty, and
thus obviates trial; while the confession
which was expected to make an earth
quake leaves the secret intact.
With these things to ponder on the
public cannot be blamed if it retains the
belief that there are some powerful per-
sons in the background who have profted
by the plunder, and who have been sue
cessful in getting the scapegoats to bear
the odium in silence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

Among those who went to New York last
evening were James McDevitt, James A.
Chambers Captain J. j. Yandergrift and
Joshua Rhodes. Mr.. Chambers denied that
he is trying to form combination OF East
ern window glass men.
Colonel James E, Meyers, of Harper's
Ferry, is in the city to try a case before
Judge Reed He says the old town where
John Brown met his Waterloo Is booming.
1t is certainly one of the most picturesque
places in America.
Alcides, Pedro and Edelberto de Mares,
three Brazilian students, passed through
the city yesterday to spend their vacation
at the Western resorts. They are going to
school at the Chester Military Academy.
D.J. Waller, Jr., Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, and P. j. Welsh, of Blooms
burg were at the MOnongahela House Mon
day night. They left early yesterday morn
ing.
Henry B. Shields, Girard furnaceman,
and H. NJ. Priest President of the Junction
Iron Works, of Steubenville, registered at
the Monongahela House last evoning.
T, Harper, of Redditch, England, is at the
Anderson He is travelling for pleasure, and
states that number of Welsh tin plate men
are thinking of locating in America.
Rudolph Ziofel, Inspector of Light
houses for Uncle Sam, Is registered at the
Schlosser. He came here to look after some
of the lights along the Ohio river.
Mrs. Annie E. Williams, wife of Rev.
James Z. Williams, pastor of the Denny
Church, is visiting friends in Greene county
and West Virginia.
j. G, Edwards, of Buffalo, is at the An
derson. He is the agent of the syndicate
that tried to control all the window glass
factories.
S. l.. Mestrezat, well known Union
town lawyer and ex-Congressman Norman
Hall, of Sharon, were in the city yesterday.
David c. Bryan, Manager of the Indian
apolis Car Works. and J. Morgan Coleman,
of Youngstown, are at the Duquesne.
Judge John X. Ewing and J. A. Sea-
right, of Uniontown, took dinner at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel yesterday.
Harry Davis left for Cincinnati last even
ing. His summer picnic business will be
formally opened to-day.
Ex-Governor Beaver left for Washington
early yesterday morning to attend the COM
mencement exercises.
Controller Morrow returned yesterday
morning from Atlantic City, where he spent
several days.
A. Leo We'll, the trust lawyer, and Bar
ney Forst left for Chicago.
John F. Atchison came in from Chi
cago.
Alex Demps ter went to Buffalo last even-
ing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
TYPICAL CORPORATE CLAIM.

Perhaps the protest of the North Amer
lean Commercial Company against the
the closed season for sealing has founda-
ton in law, as is alleged. To speak more
strictly, il might have foundation in law if
the United States Government could be
sued. But when the circumstances are all
taken into consideration, it must be ac-
knowledged that it is an illustration of the
corporate cheek unsurpassed in its especial
line
Everyone knows this company holds
an enormously valuable privilege from the
Government. Its claim of S400,0O0 dam
ages for years suspension of sealing in
dicates a profit of that amount from a
privilege for which its pays 100000 a year
or less. The effort of the United States
has been to protect this privilege. 1t
would be easy for the United States to let
indiScTiminate sealing exterminate the
seals; and while that might make seal
skins high the people of the United
States could rub along with astrachan
and other furs. By preserving the seals
the United States renders its income $780,
600 permanent; but it also prevents the
100000 annual profit of the North Ameri-
can Commercial Company from being
brought to an early termination. The
closed season agreement is evidently the
first step toward a permanent treaty for
the preservation of the seals. It is there
fore more in the interest of the company
than of the people of the United States.
The North American Commercial Com
pany is therefore in the position of de-
manding damages from its best friend for
having guarded its interest. There may be
a legal foundation for such claim; but if
it were not for the proverbial absence of
soul from the corporate nature it could not
have been made.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Prof. George W. Mowbray.

Prof George w. Mowbray, the well.
known scientist and inventor died at his residence
on Union street, North Adams, Mass, Sunday, In
his 77th year. He was closely identified with the
construction of the Hoosac Tunnel and as the i'm
proven of nitro-glycerine, rendering Its manufac-
ture a commercial success, and as the inventor OF
smokeless powder he Is known throughout Europe
England and received his education as chemist
in England and France. He came to this country
in 1858 and spent five years in the gold districts OF
California. He was employed as chemist in the
oil regions ofPenDsylvania for ten years and went
to North Adams in 1858. He subsequently patented
an Improvement for the insulation Of electric wires
and for the past six years has been the chemist OF
the zylonite concern at Zylonite His last inven-
tion was smokeless powder, which he patented a
few months ago. He has since held the position OF
consulting chemist for the Maxim and Nordenfeld
Arms Company, of London.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
COMPRESSED SMILES.

Friend-How's real estate in the suburbs
to-day?''
Real estate agent (emptying the muddy water
from his boots)-Out Of sight, sir-simply out OF
sightl-Chica0o Tribune.
Judge-You are charged with being drunk
and disorderly. Are you
Prisoner at the bar-Not guilty. Yer Amer. OF
was too dhrunk to be disOrderly, anyway.-Be1o
York Telegram.
'Did you sell on credit?"
''No, sold for cash.
srHow did you happen TO fail then?''
''wen failed for cash, too. ''-Ne1o York Press.
He-What pretty girl! Haven't seen
that face somewhere?
Shell think not 1 don't think she put 1t on
more than an hour slnce.-IndiaRapolis Journal.
1t isn't because he is tired of his wife
That tonight he's in tenderness lacking.
And looking as If he were sick of his life;
In short. the wrong horse he's been backing.
-NeD FORK Press.
Boggs-I understand that Gobbins will
hardly speak to his friends since he elected Al
derrran He is talking already of being candidate
for the Presidency.
Knoggs-Yes, and his barber is already charging
him double price for shampooing him.-DetToit
Free Press.
Jasper-I think Brown is in the habit of
blowing his own horn great deal.
JumDuDpe-PernapS so, DuI II Stehls W mt tlat ne
IA more in the habit of drinking it.-helo Tork
Herald.
There was a crooked man
Who walked crooked mile
And found crooked sixpenee
Up against a crooked stile.
Then he wenbto Philadelphia
And played a crooked prank,
For the currency controller
Let him open up bank.
Detroit Free Press
Mrs. BuIlfnch-What in the world are
YOU giving that child TO drink?
Mrs Grayneck-Oh. this is sage tea; Il give 1t to
him four times day.
Mrs. Buhnch-What for?
Mrs. Grayneck-Why. he is going to visit his
aunt in Boston, and am getting him ready.-Bos-
ton Courier.
Mr. Townly-I got letter from our coun-
try cousins to-day.
Mrs. Townly-Inviting us out to spend the sum-
mer of course.
Mr.. Townly-No: stating that they do not in
tend to run a charity hospital this season.-leU
York Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
A NEW COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.
1t Confers Its First Degree During Last
Weeks commencement.

weeks commencement.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
CLEVELAND, June 23.-The Cleveland Col
lege tor Women of the Western Reserve
University, founded three years ago, held
its first commencement exercises last week.
The baccalaureate sermon was preached
Sunday evening by President Thwing in the
presence of an audience that completely
filed the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian
church. Commencement was held Friday
afternoon, at which time President Thwing
conferred the colleges first degree upon
Miss Mary L. French. A mastery address
was delivered by Prof. George Herbert Pal
mer, of Harvard University.
In the evening the college reception was
rendered by Mr.. and Mrs. James j. Tracy in
their home on Euclid avenue, and drew to-
gether brilliant company. At the annual
meeting of the Advisory Council, Dean Lord
presented Il tabulated report, satisfactorily
illustrating the status of Cleyelands cur
riculum as compared with Smith, Vassar
and Wellesley. The coming year will be
fraught with interest to the college, as it
will witness the erection of the two beauti-
full halls, Clark and Mather.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-24
A REv0LUTI0NIzED INDUSTRY.
Pipes Made Directly From Iron and Steel
Bars Instead of by Rolling.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE FIsPATCH.1
STEUBENvIELE, June e23-Experiments have
been going on at the Alikanna mill here for
some time on making pipe direct from bar
iron. This plant is owned and run by the
National Tube Works. of McKeesport, and
the machinery used in the new process was
bought in separate pieces SO that their in
tention might remain a secret.
Mr.. jackson, of the tube works, was down
here viewing the work, and on that occasion
alead bar was promptly turned into lead
pipe. Later on the man made test with
the pipe being easily turned out of the plain
steel bars. This new departure in making
pipe directly from steel bars will practically
revolutionize pipe making, and the old way
and welding it, will be entirely superseded.
The managers say machinery has been
ordered to be placed in the tube works at
McKeesport, where the new process will be
used.