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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
NOT ENOUGH FOR AN ISSUE.

There is a disposition on the part of
some Democratic organs to elevate Porter
and his census to the dignity of political
issue. The New York World does so by
comparing the tenth census with the
eleventh to the inevitable disadvantage of
the latter
Ofcourse, the Administration must suffer
by the shortcomings of census which
carries its own proofs of inaccuracy and
weakness. But the Worlds attempt to
make political capital out of it loses force
by the fact that the tenth census was also
taken under a Republican administration.
1t seems to be fatality that every other
decennial census shall be so inaccurate as
to be practically worthless
As to Porter, it will be difficult to make
an issue of him. He is simply an lndi-
vidual who has had the misfortune to
undertake task several sizes too large for
him under the mistaken impression that he
is statistician. There is not enough of
Porter for an issue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
CHINESE FLAG WORSHIP.
A Military Ceremony Before Starting on q,
Warlike Expedition.
Overland BIonthly.1


Overland Monthly.l
The viceroy, or Generalissimo Of the
Chinese army, whenever he is about to start
on warlike expedition, must worship his
flag. Whenever he sends away with a de-
tachment of soldiers any high military Off
Ger as his deputy to fight the enemy, and
generally, whenever any high military
officer is about to proceed into battle, the
flag of his division or brigade must be
worshiped. The worship is often performed.
on the public parade ground. The Viceroy
sometimes chooses to sacrifice to the flag on
his own parade ground connected with his
yamun. The time selected is often about
daylight or little later Oftentimes the
high officials, both civil and military, con-
nected with the Government, are present.
1t is necessary that all of the officers who
are to accompany the expedition should
not only witness the ceremony, but take q
part in it. The same remark is true OF the
soldiers who are to be sent away or engage
in the fight.
In the center of the arena is placed table
having upon it two candles, one censer, and
several cups of wine. The candles are
lighted at the proper time. Some officer,
kneeling down, holds the large flag by means
of its staff near the table. The Viceroy, or
the officer who is to command the expedi-
tion, standing before the table and the flag,
receives three sticks of lighted incense from
q professor of ceremony, which he rever-
entity places in the censer arranged between
the candles. He now kneels on the ground,
and bows his head down three times Some
of the wine taken from the table is handed
to him while on his knees, which he pours
out on the ground. Then q cup of wine is
dashed upon the flag, the professor Of core
mony crying out, "U Unfurling the flag, victory
is obtained; the cavalry advancing, merit is
perfected" The Whole company of officers
and soldiers, who had previously knelt down
and bowed their heads in the prescribed
manner now simultaneously rise up with a
shout, and commence their march at once
for the scene of action or the appointed
rendezvous,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

capacity, on the part of any of his nomi-
nees: and whether the party executive
committees indorsed or opposed them
THE DISPATCH believes they would be
elected anyhow.
The call from the bar, therefore, like
Reimbursement by the committees, is only
an incident of candidacy which rests
upon a still broader basis. But it is
numerously signed, strong and effective
call none the less; and until the Straight
outs produce at least as important a call
for their own side, the criticism upon that
for Judges McClung, Porter and Kennedy
must fall very fiat and Improbable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
THE ExPos1TIoN,s CLOSE.

The Exposition closed yesterday after a
season which, while not equal in receipts
to some of its predecessors, is to be count
ed as success. The enterprise had pc
culiar difficulties to contend with. In pre-
vious years the drawback most feared was
cold and rainy weather; but this year, dur
ing considerable portion of the time the
Exposition was open, the extreme heat
kept people away and materially dimin-
ished receipts During the latter part of
the Exposition its patronage and the at
traction of people from out of town
equaled its most successful work of former
years. This enterprise has fully demon
strated its public usefulness and impor-
tance While receipts this year may
not furnish sufficient surplus to make
the extensions required, the money neces-
sary to enlarge its scope should be raised.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
NAMES FREQUENTLY MENTIONED.

JANE HADING, the actress, always wears
slippers and hose to match the color of hel
| eyes.
MR.. SPURGEoN has returned to London
in better health. He intends starting fol
Mentone on Tuesday next.
In spite of all rumors to the contrary,
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has con.
cluded to return to this country within few
weeks.
MIR. ROBERT T. LINCOLN, the United
States Minister, has returned to the Ameri-
can Embassy in London, leaving his wife at
Tours, in France.
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE STEPHEN j. FIELD,
who has been in poor health for some time,
has so far recovered that he expects to re-
turn to the Bench this month.
THE lunacy of George S. Knight, the once
popular and promising actor, is said to have
assumed a hopeless form of insanity. He
has been in Philadelphia asylum for the
last four years.
JUDGE OF APPEALS FRANCIS NJ. FINCH,
who has just been elected dean of Cornell
University Law School, is a Republican and
author of the pathetic and popular poem
entitled "The Blue and the Gray
WHEN Mr. w. X. Vanderbilt passed
through chicago the Otner Gay GAe natives
were much surprised to find that he wore q
loose suit of gray flannel. They probably
expected to see him in dress suit.
HERMAN CELMAN, the South American
millionaire, owns q 81, ,O0O OCo yacht, the South
ern Cross, is only IS years of age and has an
income OF $500, 600 a year. He is the only son
of ex-President Celman, of the Argentine
Republic.
Mr. CHARLES S. ISHAM, of New York,
who recently married the daughterof United
States Minister Lincoln, has returned to
London with his wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Isham
intend starting for America at the end of
the month.
ONE OF the prominent guests at Saratoga
this season has been d. o. Mills, the banker.
He is a small and wiry man of about 65, with
a bright face and clear blue eyes. He dresses
most modestly and does not look as mha had
an income of l,0O0,0Ob.
ACCORDING to gossip, Lord Dudley a
few weeks before his marriage discovered q
quantity of. reputed paste diamonds in a
neglected corner. Admiring the graceful
designs he took them to the jeweler to see
what might be made of them. The expert
Immediately pronounced them real stones
of the finest size and water. They had we
are told, been considered and treated as
paste from time immenorial, so it was an
agreeable surprise This fairy-like story is
founded on fact.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
THE LIQUOR APPETITE.
A Movement for Temperance People to
Look Into Carefully.


Look Into Carefully.
New York SUM-
OF recent years temperance movement
which proceeds on more philosophic prin ci-
pies has been started. 1t does not under
take to get rid of drunkenness by restrict
ing the liberty of the temperate majority
for the benefit of the Incorporate minority ty.
1t recognizes the fntility of all attempts to
prohibit the use of alcoholic liquors by leg
islation and it has discovered from expert
ence that even If they were successful, the
morbid craving for stimulation would seek
other means more dangerous than alcohol.
II the liquor saloons are shut up, the drunk
ards will be driven to the countless stimu-
lants of the apothecary shops, with far
worse consequences to themselves and soci-
ety. 1t therefore makes no effort to prevent
drunkenness by forbidding the sale of
liquor, but regards the uncomfortable appe-
tite for it as specific disease requiring spe-
cific medical treatment. 1t does not be-
lieve that the self-sacrifice Of abstinence on
the part of the well will produce the benefit
of the sick which the old-fashioned temper
ance refOrmerS expect
1t gives up the notion that drunkenness
can be cured by such altruism, but turns
over the Unsuitable thirst for stimulants to
the doctors for treatment as a disease, and
not as a vice preventable by law and by the
example of those who are not afflicted with
the malady. Inls IS tne temperance move
ment to which the Christian women would
do well to give their attention as the most
sensible and most promising of all the many
and long continued efforts to DESTROY the
evil of drunkenness. Is there cure for the
diseased appetite for stimulants or is such
a cure discoverable? Is the method of treat
ment pursued at Dwight in Illinois, for in
stance, as efficacious as it is believed to be
by the thousands who have submitted them
selves to it? The Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union might succeed in shutting up
every brewery and every distitlery, and yet
the disease would remain, and its cravings
would find qualification in other stimulants,
SO that new temperance movements against
these would become necessary. They must
cure the disease to bring about real and
thorough reform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
Ex-Goyernor S. W. Hale.

Ex-Governor Samuel Whitney Hale, of
New Hampshire. died of Brght's disease. at the
home of his brother John NJ. Hale in Brooklyn,
Friday morning. Ex-Governor Hale fine
type of the best product of New England character
and enterprise. He the of Samuel and
Salome Whitney Hale and grandson of Moses
Hale. He came of Puritan stock and was born in
Fitchburg, Mass, in 1923. He went to Dublin n H.,
when % years old and opened a general store.
While there he married Amelia NJ. Hay, daughter
of the late Joseph Hay, who with two children sur
vive him. He went to Keane. N. H., in 1853. and
embarked extensively in the manufacture Of chairs
and the purchase and sale of shoe pegs and also
interested in the woolen mills at Lebanon. Ex-
Governor Hale was director of the Citizens
Bank. of Keene, n. H., the Wachusett Bank. of
Fitehburg and astockholder in several Eastern rail-
roads He was free soil advocate until the Repub-
Ncau party was organized, when he became an earn
est advocate of that party. He held his first Office in
1866, when he was elected a member of the State
Legislature. He member of the Governors
Council in 1850 and 1870 and was elected Governor
of New Hampshire, which Office he filed in 1888
and 1884,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
THE CIVIL PENSION MOVEMENT.
NO Reason Why the Government Should
Insure Its Employees.

Louisville Courier-Journal.J
1t appears that the movement in favor of
pensions to postal clerks is not confined to
the clerks themselves. 1t is given out that
the superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service is about TO recommend pensions to
railway postal clerks, especially to those
VINO are disabled in the service. The sug-
gestlon as to clerks disabled in the service
is an excellent one to serve as an entering
Wedge. 70 the superficial thinker the
analogy between a soldier disabled in tho
service OF his country and postal clerk
disabled in the line of duty may appear
complete. The capital distinction, which
must not be overlooked, is that military SER
vice is compulsory, while service as postal
clerk is voluntary. 1t is true that the army
is largely made up of volunteers even in
time OF war, but everybody understands
that failing a sufficient number of volun-
/ teers, draft will be ordered, and this
knowledge forms great lnducement to
volunteering. The compensation offered
Dy the Government to employees IN the CIVIL
service Is not only amply sufhclent TO secure
all the volunteers needed, but 1t causes
great and embarrassing pressure for place.
Every gate is thronged With SultorS
Every door leading to the office OF one nav
ing appointments at his disposal, or even to
that OF any one supposed to nave influence
With the appointing power, is bes1eged with
eager applicants for place
There are 20 office seekers to every otf1ce.
II all the applicants could be supplied with
places we should soon be compelled to draft
men into private employments. Men en-
gagged in ordinary occupations feel under
oDll9ation to make some provision for the
dlsa blllty that must come with ola age, ana
which may come from accident or mlsfor-
tune. There is no reason why the employees
of the Government should be taught that
similar foresight and self denial are not IN
cumbent upon them. Their salaries aver
age higher than the amount they can earn
in private business and they have at least
as good an opportunity as others to save
portion of their earnings and to make pro-
vision for the future. There is no more
reason why the Government should be an
insurer to its employees than to all other
citizens. If the people are wise they will
nip this civil pension project in the bud.
We have seen in the past Is years how dema-
gogues have run up pensions to ex-sold1erS
to an outrageous figure, simply because the
soldier vote" was large enough to const1-
tute the balance of power between the par
ties. We do not desire to see q repetition Of
this in the matter of civil pensions. The
public service is already attractive enough
to our citizens. There is no reason why any
further steps should be taken to render
office-holders a privileged class, to be en-
WED by all the rest of the people. Let us
wait till we are obliged occasionally to draft
men into the civil service before we begin
paying them pensions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, OCT. Is, 1881.


The news of the shooting of several
marines from the United States vessel
Baltimore in a street riot at Valparaiso is
calculated to still further complicate mat,
ters. Although accounts indicate there
was no attack of the Chilean authorities
upon our sailors and that it was a murder
Gus row between our marines and the
Chilean mob, it is not calculated to i'm
prove the temper of the two countries
toward each other and may increase the
already threatening diplomatic difficulties.
Doubtless the only ground on which our
Government can take action i'll this mat
ter iS-if fuller accounts show that the
Chilean rabble were the aggressors and
that our marines acted in self-de-
fense-on a claim for indemnity and the
punishment of the aggressors. But in the
multitude of claims that are piling up
against the Chilean Government an i'll
demnty, even if admitted, may not be
worth very much in cash; while the admin
istration is liable to be embarrassed by its
own logic in another case if it presses for
the punishment of the offenders. The
United States has already gone on record
10 the effect that Government cannot
promise punishment in such matter.
While diplomatic logic does not much
trouble itself with the virtue of consist
ency, it is not likely, if this affair should
become the subjeeto of correspondence, that
the Chilean representatives will neglect
the opportunity TO put the State Depart
ment in a corner on the ground the latter
chose to take in the New Orleans case.
On the whole it may be well to reserve
judgment until the details are fully ascer.
tanned The complications between the
United States and Chile are already grave
enough without jumping to the conclusion
that fatal row between lot of marines
on one side and the Chilean mob on the
other necessitates a further international
Quarrel
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
The vice of the Wall street method of

The vice of the Wall street method of
estimating values is displayed in the esti-
mate of the Journal Of Finance that in addi-
tion to their crops the farmers of Minnesota
and the Da1otas are s2Oe0OO,OO0 richer this
year through the appreciation of their hold
ings. 1t is plain that'the farmers thus en-
riched ION paper) have exactly the same
real property as before. The value of that
property is determined by its average pro-
ductiveness. not for a single year, but for
one year after another. Yet because one
big crop has been gathered the Wall street
idea marks up values $500, ,OOO, 900 and bids the
farmers roll in this imaginary wealth. The
Dakotans may be little wild in some of
their financial notions, but they are not SO
silly rs to be carried away by the fiat riches
produced on the Wall street plan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
Obituary Notes,

JUDGE EDWIN CLINT died at his home in Mason
City, Ia, Thursday. He went there in 1879, con .
tnued the practice of law until 1886, since which
time he has been living quiet lte
BROTHER ANDREAS DINDER, the first and Oldest
member of the Bencdictine Order of the Roman
Catholic Church in the United States, died Friday
at st. Vincent's Monastery near Latrobe. He was
79 years old.
MRS. RUFUS STORY, of BayOnne, n. j. died Fri
day at her home in that city after pFotracted ILL
ness. She was 70 years old. She was the second
wife of the late Rufus Story who left an estate
worth upward Of S. 900, 90.
COLONEL WALTER STEELE, President of the Pee
Dee Manufacturing Company. of Rockingham. n.
c., died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Friday
morning aged 50 years. He was member of Con-
gress from North Carolina few years ago and was
one OF the most influential men in the State.
LYMAN STEVENS who Mayor OF Syracuse in
1855 died there Friday aged 70 years. Mr.. Stevens
was for 10 years leading manufacturer of salt in
syracuse. He was famous throughout the United
States as Swedenhorgian and probably excelled
any laynan In his eruditon upon the doctrines and
history of that religion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
Charles Gephart.

Charles w. Gephart, aged 81 years, died
at his home in Uniontown yesterday of old age.
The deceased was old soldier and did service In
the Mexican War, besides serving valiantIy IN the
late war. He has been Republican ever since the
organization of that party. and for 20 years prior
to the Cleveland administration was in the Custom
House at Baltimore under General Searight He
was brother-in-law of Hon. John L. Thomas
ex- Collector of the Port at Baltimore. and an
ocratic Congressman. The remains will be laid to
rest at Rose Hill Cemetery, Cumberland, Nd, to-
day. The funeral arrangements are in charge of
the old soldiers who will accompany the remains
of their late respected comrade and friend to Cum
herand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
WAsHINGTON'S BEGINNING.
Yesterday Was the Hundredth Anniversal
of the First Sale of Lots.


WASHINGTON, Oct. F.-[Specidl This was
a red-letter day for Washington, though no
formal notice was taken of it. One hundred
years ago to-day, the first sale of lots took
place in the city. Congress had fixed on the
place and name for the city, but the com
missioners appointed to treat with the land
holders found the prominent ones very
obstinate. At last Davy Burns, the most
obstinate of all, was brought to terms It
was agreed that the land taken for the city
should be sold in lots at public action and
that land taken for public buildings should
be paid for at the rate of f25 per acre
The first sale occurred October L l79I and
speculators came by stage coach and rode on
horseback from New York, PhiIadelphia,
sale. About 1000 lots were sold, at an aver
age of about $500 for a lot 80 feet front by 100
OF l40 deep. The first newspaper account of
the sale appeared two weeks after in Dun
laps American Daily Advertiser, published
at Philadelphia
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

CONCERNING the reported fall of the
level of water in the great lakes, the Brook
lyn Standard Union makes the brilliant sug-
gestion: cit might be the better way to
blow out the rocks with abundant dynamite,
and let the lakes run off, leaving vast area
of valuable land. The towns could be moved
to the river that would result, and started
anew with all the modern improvements" !"
This great idea will be received with en-
thusiasm by the lake cities which will thus
be left inland, and by the lake marine,
which on the same programme will be shut
off by the shallowness of the Detroit and St.
Clair rivers The Standard Union, as a candi-
date for the guardianship of the lake inter
ests, would not get many votes in the lake
basin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
A HOME FOR TYPOS.
Work Will Soon Begin on the New Building
for Washington Printers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. H.-[SpeciaL lin the
course of few months the Columbia Typo
graphical Union No 10l of this city, will
have a home of their own. The union pur-
chased building site some time ago and are
ready to begin the erection of building,
which, it is estimated, will cost $4,000. The
union has a large membership, standing
third in this respect among the unions of the
country There are now between 400 and
800 printers who will enjoy the advantages
of the new quarters. The location is on G
street. between Fourth and Fifth streets,
and opposite the Pension Office.
The building has been planned with special
reference to its use as headquarters of the
craft in this city and mt the same time pro-
vision has been made for office rooms, which
in that locality will be specially convenient
for pension attorneys. The new building
will have Il frontage OF a feet and will ex-
tend back depth of lO6 feet to a twelve-foot
alley. That portion of the building used by
the union will have the usual assembly, ante
and other rooms and large hall for BAN
ouets, with the kitchen and accessories COM
plete.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
RHYNKLETs AND RHYMELETs.

Stranger (pointing to Palmer House,
Chicago)-win you kindly tell me what building
that ls?''
Chicago man--Why, man, that is the largest
hotel and this is the greatest city in the worldl
Why, where did YOU come from that you DON'T
know these things?''
stranger-London. England.-Jpd9s.
If an and an and an o and o,
With an Y at the end, spell su;
And an f and and an spell l,
Pray, what is a speller to do?
Then If also an andI and Il G.
And an H Z d spell eide,
There's nothing much left for speer to do
But to go and commit sioUxeyesighed
-Psdrson's Weekly.
Her father-I don't want you to think,
Nellie that your mother and are al all an xlons 10
have YOU leave home, or anything IKE tnat; ous
Won know that YOU have Younger sister-and,
really it looks as though you ought to be looking
out for 4 husband.
Nenie-Certalnly. Papa. ITO herself). And
now the time has come at last When What say IN
this family goes.-P@ek
Now wintry clouds do sweep the sky,
And damp raw breezes blow,
The pawn-shop MAN. cold. steely eye
Doth now with business glow;
For 10! upon his groaning shelves
Lie many "a coat and cloak
Whose owners now must hump themselves
To get them out Of soak.
-Cbteago Times.
sTsn't it rather cool?'' he limited, the log
fire having gone out
..Yes she said. lit is. think some one of the
theaters would be much warmer.'' = Harper's
BdzdT.
He-Why do you move away from me?
She-I thought you going to kiss me.
He-I wasn't. Bless you, wouldn't kiss you for
the world.-Nsl0 York Press.
1 dare not propose, for don't You see
The old man belongs 10 my club,
And, therefore. is dead on to NE,
And there's the rub.
-Nelo York Herald.
Father-Come, johnny, do as bade you!
Take off your coat this instant.
YOuth-You amt gOin' to lick me. you?
FatiIer-Certaiuly l am. Didn'tI tell you this
morning would pay you off for your behavior?
Johnny-Ycs, but 1 didn't think you'd do it.
You told the grocer and the butcher you'd pay 'em
off last week and know you let up them.
Boston Coerter.