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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
Social Chatter.

MRS. Fl. MCGOWAN gives an sat home" on
Wednesday i'll honor Of Miss Waring oil
London, and the Misses Holmes, of Dit
ridge street, who are her hostesses. Miss
Waring has had courteous attentions
showered upon her during her visit, among
other fashionable functions being a luncheon
on Saturday given by Mrs. James HI. Ham
mona, of Coltart Square.
IF Mrs. Painter had no other claim to
leadership, her faculty for surrounding her.
self with pretty, young and interesting girls
should place her the highest social
pinnacle. Mrs. Painters guests, 1t is hardly
necessary to add, will be the recipients OF
many attentions during their visit in Pitts
burg.
A MARRIAGE has been arranged between
Mr.. Christopher Magee, Judge Magee's eld
est son. and Miss Herbertson, of Philadel
phia. Mr.. Magees fiancee is well known in
Pittsburg through her relationship to Mrs.
Max Moorhead.
MRS. JOSEPH BROWN has issued invitations
for an evening party for her young daughter,
Miss Mary Estelle Brown. The younger ele-
ment will be largely represented.
Miss NEWPORT. enormously called Miss
Newton by several of the papers, who is
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. A. Z. W. Painter, is de-
scribed as a lovely girl.
MISS ALICE WooD TINDLE has issued invi-
tations for a party on Christmas evening.
The cards OF Miss Alice Haworth accompany
those OF Miss Tindle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
BALLOONS OF WA..

Professor Carl E. Myers, "Aeronautical
Engineer, Balloon Farms,'' Frankfort, N.
Y, indignantly denies the authorship of
reports concerning the rain-making ex-
periments He modestly remarks that his
only connection with them was that no one
in the United States save himself could be
found with the necessary aerenautical
equipment to send the explosives up into
the clouds.
Having thus separated himself from the
efforts of the imagination which traced the
progress of the rain-making experiments,
Prof. Myers returns to the charge with
his story that foreign governments have
dirioihle airships which can lay waste our
seacoast cities. GAS matter of cold,
hard-shell fact" he asseverates, that the
dirigible airship La France has been i'm
proved up to a speed of % miles. an hour,
and doubling her dimensions would give
her a speed of 40 miles. All of which is a
long distance from demonstration that
these airships can cross the Atlantic, or
that if brought across, they could carry
the stock of ammunition necessary to Law
great cities in ashes.
The United States need not lie awake
nights worrying over the airy navies of
Europe. The European powers will try
the destructive qualities of those novelties
in warfare, supposing they exist, on each
other long enough to give this country a
clear idea of just exactly how destructive
they are Until that is doue Prof Myers
will lie under suspicion of ballooning his
industry
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
FREE TRADE WITH HAWAII
The New Treaty Likely to Meet With vigor-
Gus Opposition Here.

The New Treaty Likely to Meet With vigor-
Gus Opposition Here.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1T is expected that
very soon after the Senate has really settled
down to work th Q President will send to it
the new treaty which has been negotiated
with the Hawaiian Islands. This treaty
is sure to provoke an interesting
discussion. 1t proposes absolute free
trade between the two countries.
Should the treaty be ratified the Hawaiian
planters will at once begin to raise fruits,
arrowroot, ETC., and pay no further attention
to the wholesale export of sugar. Since the
Mckinley bill became a law the profit on
sugar for them is only about per cent.
As soon q they commence to raise fruits
they will come in competition with the Cali
fornia planters for whose express benefit an
almost prohibitive tariff was plac ed on fruits
by the Mckinley bill. When the treaty is
taken up in the Senate there are likely to be
som vigorous protests from the slope. The
trade with Hawaii will be one of the reasons
advan ced why the treaty should be ratified;
but more weighty still is the fact that it is to
the interest of the United States to continue
the most friendly relations with the Hawailn
Government.
The islands command strategic position
in the Pacific Ocean, and Englandis ready to
establish protectorate over them at the
slightest provocation. 1t is this desire to
checkmate England that puts the admins
tratiOn, sworn to protection. IN the position
of ask ing the Senate to ratify treaty that
proposes absolute free trade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
NO SEATS, NO FARES.

The irrepressible conflict between the
Terkes system of Chicago stree. railways
and the public of that city has proceeded
tothe fruition of bringing forth an ordi-
nance in the Board of Aldermen provid-
ing thai when passengers cannot get seats
they shall not pay fares. This, with other
measures expected to bring the fiery and
untamed street corporation to terms, is
slightly changed as to details from enact
ments heretofore widely debated, but have
the familiar characteristics.
II is recognized that the continental rule
of forbidding street conveyances to admit
any more passengers after the seating Ca
pacity is occupied would not do in the
United States. The sovereign American
absorbed in the national purpose of get
ting there in the shortest possible time
would resent his exclusion from standing
room in the aisles of traction car as an
infraction of his prerogatives. Even in
Pittsburg. where the cars when jammed TO
The point of swarming are semi-occasion-
ally ordered to pass on and leave the excess
of passengers TO take succeeding ones,
the excluded passengers deeply feel that
their right to hang on the outside
of the car has been uniustifiably
infringed. Ii there was an attempt to
shut out passengers while there was stand
ing roon, it would be an assertion of the
national character for the people to rise in
their might and take possession of the
standing room by force.
The Chicago ordinance evidently takes
cognizance Of this peculiarity of the preb-
lem in this country. 1t does not try to ex-
clude the passengers who have to stand,
but proposes that they shall ride free.
But this raises, first, the question whether
The man who wishes TO ride standing ought
not pay for it; and second, the probability
that it would come to the exclusion prin-
ciple in practice. For street railways are
not going to lose time stopping their cars
10 take up non-payers, or permit their pass
ages TO be ianmed by the free-ridlng pub
lic, to the discomfort and displeasure of
the paying patrons. When it was found
therefore that the hurried American citi-
zen would have to wait till an empty car
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
BAD POLITICS.

The consensus of opinion among i'm
partial observers is that the movement
upon Collector Warmcastle because of his
attitude in local and State contests is ''bad
politics. This view continues to be sub
scribed to as freely by those who were in
opposition to the Collector in his alliance
with Senator Quay as by his friends.
If his superiors at Washington have evil
dence that his Office was not rightly
managed, or that in any particular he gave
cause for removal, no one doubts the
right and duty of the administration to
make change. But it is noticeable that
there is as conspicuous slowness in making
public the complaints against the Collector
as there was celerity in advertising that
he was to be punished for his activity On
behalf of the Senator and hostility to the
interests of Congressman Dalzell.
At the most the utmost of the indica-
tons so far thrown out is that some of the
Collectors subordinates were derelict in
routine duties. If there is no more fire
than this under the smoke the movement
against Warmaastle so ostentatiously
beguc o" other grounds will be 'bad
politics" indeed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
THE CONSTITUTION SUBMITS 1T.

The irrepressible disposition of the pop
ular mind to lug in exotic considerations
isillustrated by an opponent of the bond
issue to he voted on to-day, who writes to a
contemporary and asks: "Does it not look
as if the Pittsburg ring is intent on giving
the intelligent public big dose OF taffy
when it asks it to pass on the intricate
bond question:"
The history of the case does not bear
that appearance at all The municipal
politicians referred to wished to get au-
thority to issue bonds without a vote OF
the people. They even succeeded in get
ting q qualified Endorsement of the citl-
zens' meeting in March or April to an
amendment of the charter granting them
that power. THE DISPATCH stood alone
in pointing out that the charter amend
ment would not be worth the paper it was
printed on because the State Constitution
requires vote of the people on such prop
ositions 1t is not any ring" that sub
mits the question to be decided to-day; 1t
is the requirement of the Constitution
without which the issue of the bonds
would be invalid
As to the question being Intricate" it
is also pertinent to say that the real issue
to be decided by the people is not intri-
cate at all 1t is simply whether the peo-
pie wish to be taxed for what money the
city has to pay on the street improve
mcnts in one or two levies or whether they
wish to have the payments extended by
an issue q bonds. The safeguards against
the issue of bonds, if they should not be
needed, are absolute. All the people have
to do is to say whether they want to pay
whatever may have to be paid in single
lump and have done with it, or to have
the time extended by means of the bonds.
Any man who will put that question to
himself and vote whichever way he pre-
fers, will be voting right. 1t is merely a
question of popular preference.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
BELL TELEPHONE CASE CLOSED.
All the Testimony in, After Many Years.
Hard Work.

BosToN, Dec. !. - [SpecidLJ - After two
years spent in taking testimony the case for
the United States in the Bell Telephone case
is believed to be complete, and unless some
thing new transpires no more evidence will
be taken for the Government, alth ough the
Circuit Court has extended until December
"a the time for taking evidence. The last of
the Government witnesses has been exam
ined by Commissioner Hallett, the exam
iner for this district, and the testimony is
being written out by the stenographer.
Only six witnesses were brought before
Commissioner Hallett. There has been
nothing in any way sensational about any of
the witnesses, but on the contrary, very lit
tie of it has been even new. One of the
counsel in the case said to-day that no evil
dence had been taken by the Government
except what had been taken before in the
Drawbaugh suit and that while there had
been distinct charge of fraud raised when
the plaintiff brought it's suit, not scintilla
of evidence tending to prove fraud had been
produced, and the Government had an
nOunced that its case is practically closed.
1t Is evident from what had been done
that all the Government hopes to do is to
bring before the Supreme Court the Draw
bauXh case once more with the expectation
that the Court, which was almost evenly d.
vided on that case may give different de-
cision this time. Ii this be true it would
seem to place the case in different light
time. The great mass of the testimony has
been taken in Pennsylvania the taking in
this district having been begun in Septem-
ber last.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
IMPARTIAL ELECTION DECISIONS.

The action of two Democratic Judges
with reference to the New York election
contests goes far toward demonstrating
theory THE DISPATCH has maintained
for years. That is that disputed selec-
tions would stand better chance of be-
ing impartially settled on their merits if
submitted to the courts than if left to the
decision of mere active politicians.
The usual way of settling election con-
tests in legislative bodies, where the con-
troll of the body may turn on the decision,
has little respect for impartiality. There
is not much pretense of Obeying anything
except the dictates of party exigencies.
In New York the usual attempt was made
by the party leaders to grab everything in
sight; but fortunately the New Y ork law
permitted the matter to be taken into the
courts The result in the two most noto-
rious cases shows that Democra tic judges
can decide election cases fairly and hon.
estly, even against their own party.
In the Dutchess county dispute the
case came directly before Judge Barnard,
a Democratic Judge. Here the canvassers
who counted out the Republican role had
the most color for their proceedings, as
they excluded some presumably illegally
marked ballots. But Judge Barnard ruled
that the votes must be counted, and made
a peremptory order to correct the returns
accordingly. In Syracuse the action of
the Democratic Judge was less prominent
but no less significant At that point the
Judge who has ruled against the Demo-
cratic attempt to throw out Republican
representative on clerical errors by the
inspectors was Republican. Governor
Hill brought in Judge O'Brien, of the Su.
preme Court, to hold special term at
Syracuse in the evident hope that he
would overrule Kennedy. But Judge
OBrien went to Syracuse, looked into
ALTERS and returned to New York with a
silence and practical declination to do
anything at all, which speaks volumes.
To most party papers the leading aspect
of these judicial actions is the defeat they
administer to the Hill scheme of captur-
ing the Legislature But to us its most
important phase is the demonstration Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
JINGLES AND JOKELETs.

-Reviva1ist-Don't you ever feel yearn-
ing for som ething higher than the mere things OF
this earth?
Jagzs-Not much. 7 have lived on the top floor
of le.story fat and the elevator stops running st
10 o'clock.-Brookiyn Eo9te-
How fortunate the oyster isl
The dollars he can scoop;
But although the church fair gets him.
He's never '.in the SOUP
-Atlanta Constitution.
Wags-Smith, the baker, is a very schol
arly person.
Quigley-why 50?
Wagg-He has a sign over his pie counter, ''such
stuff as dreams are made of. ''-Hurper's Bazar.
He stood and looked at the steam roller
that was working on the asphalt.
Great thing, amt it?'' said bystander.
Great nothing,'' was the reply. You must be
powerful slow in these parts. Why, oat to Slam
Center they'd shoot an engineer that couldn't &c
no faster,n that. y Hdshfo0ton Star.
A blizzard swept down from the far North
From the far Northwest, as the sun went down,
And the men were filed with vague unrest
Who sat in their offices far downtown.
For well they knew that the night was drcar,
And they'd have to tramp through The shriekint
gust.
For ca BILE may run for solid year.
But when the weather is worst 1t is sure to bust.
-Chtcdoo TribUne.
Amy-Papa, dear, Mr.. Hunker says h
loves the ground / walk on.
Papa-No doubt. my daughter. Young Hunke
wants the earth. Smith, Gray & Co. IS Monthly.
''There goes poor Jones-bankrupt eve
since his trial.
Ibid he break the law?'
mo: the Law broke him. ."-Chrtstmds Puck.
Hear the comic 6pera jester as he stru.
upon the stage,
with his merry whskcred jokelets that were year
ago the rage;
w atch the autumn branches changing red to golde
hues. and then
Murmur sadly, softly, sweetly, 'Chestnut tin
has come again.
-Neto York Herald.
Mrs. O'Hara-It is in great trouble OF an
Me husband has been sint to Jail.
Mrs. O'Toole-Shur and it's nothing you havet
complain av. Moi husband gets out av Jail nj,
wake. Ochone! ochone. Harper Bazaar.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
REED ON THE FLOOR.

In renominating Reed for Speaker the Re-
publicans OF the House show the. courage of
their catastrophe.-Neao York World.
THE ex-Speaker will be heard from on the
floor of the House. He will be the leader of
the House although his supporters are in
hopeless sminority.-Rochester Democrat.
"CzAR" REED still has the confidence of
his party, and even if he cannot make the
Democrats squirnl this winter he can be de-
pended on to have oceans of fun.-Czeveland
Leader and Herald
Ex-SPKAKER REED had no contestant for
the empty honor of a nomination for the
Speakership in the Republican caucus at
Washington last evening. The times have
Philadelphia Record.
pEAKEn REEDS quorum-counting rule had
many precedents in European parliamen-
tary bodies. and the new House of Repre-
sentatives will undoubtedly see the neces-
sity Of adopting it.-T louie Globe Democrat.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
MARRIED A MONG0LIAN.


Talented Boston Girl weds the China
man of Her Choice.
Boston, Dec. 7.AfSpeciaLJ-A full-blooded
Chinaman and a talented Boston girl were
married to-day at Chelsea. The groom was
Toy Lee, finely educated missionary, and
the bride was Miss Martha A. Comstock a
teacher of drawing in the Charlestown
schools and an enthusiastic worker among
the Chinese. She is a very pleasant and en-
ergetic lady, and her husband is remark
ably bright and intelligent man, brimful of
American ideas. He is a ready speaker. and
at reception given by the Chinese scholars
to their teachers at the Chelsea Church. q
week ago, he made an address which sur
prised those who heard it by its fiuencv.
Mr.. Lee has been in Boston almost three
years.
When Miss Comstock first saw Mr. Lee she
was attending a meeting and heard him
make an address. 1t was love at first sight.
She has been engaged TOR some time in con-
ducting class of Chinese pupils in connsc-
tion with the Sunday school maintained by
the Charlestown Y. Nj. c. A., and it was in
this work that she and Toy Lee first formed
the acquaintance, three years ago, that has
led to their marriage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

THERE is point in the suggestion of the
esteemed Washington Post that American
newspapers addicted to the use of the French
word ''aee'' should conflne themselves to the
use of plain English. The suggestion is the
more pertinent, since the misuse Of the word
frequently displays ignorance that its sole
meaning is, born. Instances are legion in
which the press chronicle has referred to
ladies married second time as 'nee Mrs.
Blank, which conveys the astonishing In
formation that the lady was SO precocious
in infancy as to be born married. We hope
the suggestion of the Post will be adopted,
but we fear that the belief in its recherche
sound-to use another equally hard-worked
idiom from our Gallic neighbors, will be too
much for the form.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
RAPHAEL, the London astrologer, wi

RAPHAEL, the London astrologer, with
regard to the present month, notes that
young people should "avoid courtship'' on
the first Monday of the month Next SUM-
day is also unfavorable; but the Sunday
after that you may task favors before noon,"
while the last Sunday of the month is
decidedly unpropitious.'' This astrological
limitation OF the hours for Sunday court
ship to a week from next Sunday before
noon indicates to energetic lovers that they
will have to sit up with the object of their
affections all the preceding Saturday night
to get ready TO seize the propitious moment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

the existence of tribunals where election
contests can be decided honestly. As
there is little pretense of impartiality in
most of the methods now used to settle
contested seats in Congress, there should
be no delay in adopting the plan thus
pointed out for securing the seating of the
man whom the people elect
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

came along, there would be popular up
rising.
There is plenty about the street railway
business that is fair food for criticism; but
we are firmly of the opinion that when
the public wishes to be transported stand
ing like live stock, it is entitled to the
privilege of paying for it. o..
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

The modesty of human nature is illustra-
ted in the fact that out of the large company
of Democratic Congressman only five put
themselves forward for the Speakership.-
Ne,U York World. Some of them will claim
soon that it was not them but their friends
that pushed them into the arena.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
CAUGHT IN A BLIZZARD.
A snow-Bound Passenger Returns and Re-
Iates His Experiences.

ST. PAUL. Dec. 7.-B. n. Austin. Assistant
General Passenger Agent Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, returned this morning
from a trip into Manitoba. He was caught
in the recent blizzard in that section and re-
ported it the worst they have known in lime
years. The fall OF snow was very heavy and
it drifted in places from 1o to 1o feet deep.
The temperature was high and there was no
suffering, except in perhaps a few isolated
cases.
The worst feature about the snow is that
1t covers great deal of the wheat in the
shock. Only about half the wheat has been
shipped out of the country. Farmers who
have their grain stacked are improving
every clear day to continue the threshing,
and are paying. threshers "a Ii day. Mr..
Austin renorts the people we'll prepared for
winter. They all have plenty OF money and
the holiday travel eastward is very heavy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
THE Canadians who des

THE Canadians who desire annexation to
the United States have been holding meet
jngsIn various parts of Canada lately to
urge the measure. That is the proper way
to go to work. After the Annexationists
have convinced the Canadians that they
want to be annexed they should come over
to this side and convince our people that
we want to let them be annexed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

A MAN who some years ago sold his body
for $40 to a doctor to be delivered after
death, has now made fortune and wishes
to invalidate the contract by refunding the
money. But the lawyers think the agree
ment is binding, which bothers the mort
gagor of his. own body. The man should
take comfort in the philosophical reflection
that now he is rich, his body will not be
worth a cent more to him after he gets out
of it than it was when it was the only thing
he had on earth to sell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

JUSTICE BREWERS suggestion of a man s
making up quorum by answering to his
name over a telephone, presents n curious
example OF a Supreme Court Justice suggest
ing means to evade the necessity of having
a quorum present in Congress to do the bust-
ness of the nation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
Bland Bellies His Name.

Cincinnat COMMERCIAL Gazette.
Mr. Bland, of silver dollar fame is pushing
himself to the front as free silver man in
the next Congress, and proposes having
something to say about the Speakership. He
will not be reconciled by the Democratic
scheme to put the silver question aside for
the present. and promises to be o disturbing
element. In this respect Mr.. Bland contra
diets the placid name he bears.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08

THE uneven distribution of natures
fayors is noted by the New York San to the
effect that New York has not yet had Its
first srow fall this season. while Virginia
and North Carolina have 9th been favored.
AS Pittsburg, nearly on the same parallel
with New York, has also had a we'll defined
covering OF snow, it presents an equally
striking illustration that the snow does not
fall on the unjust as well as on the just
among cities, whatever the rain may do as
between individuals.