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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
RELAXATION AND SOCIALISM.

Mr.. Edward Bellamy in his latest effusion
moves for reform in sports. He does not
think the present habit OF wasting effort in
going to baseball games is the right way for
men to get relaxation. "If instead of spend
ing an afternoon batting a ball." he says,
linen would unite to lay out walks in a
park, they might get exercise for a worthy
end and cultivate friendly emotions. I"
Which theory awakens the jeers OF the
New York Herald.
Both Mr.. Bellamy and the journal which
SCOTS at him betray limited view of human
nature. What the man wants for relaxation
is q change. The man who works at sed-
ertary occupations needs physical exercise;
the muscular worker needs either amuse-
nent without exercise, or exercise that will
call a new set OF muscles into play. For
the man who earns his living by work SINH
lar to that proposed by Mr.. BelIamy, the
proposition would mean simply prolonga-
tion of the hours of labor. On the other
hand, for some others the idea is not so
ridiculous for a certain class. For men
who spend their days in sedentary work, the
1dDOI " AudhAnS "dlhsy pldulluR bccS, gar
denlng, or similar occupations as can be
pursued in leisure hours, ought to be the
best relaxation. That it is so can be testified
by thousands of city clerks who find the
keenest enjoyment in cultivating suburban
places where they have made their homes.
But Mr.. Bellamy shows an added ignor-
ance OF human nature IN supposing that
men find a pleasure in such things when
they are not doing it for themselves. That
8 lot of clerks should meet to do work in a
public park would be simply spending their
strength that others might enjoy the results.
II Mr.. BellamY's socialist system should
rely on the volunteer and playtime labor
of the people for the making of parks, that
millenuiaI dream will be likely to 20 with
pathless parks The enjoyment which
man will get ont OF such work as Mr.. Bel
lamy proposes must include as an essential
condition a little property of bis own; and a
system which permits the individual no
property at all will induce the majority of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
THE moNGoL1AN CONQUEST.

NJ. Shepard, the Imaginative Frenchman
who has produced his effort at a sensation
by predicting that the next epoch of the
worlds history will be the conquest of the
civilized world by the Chinese bases his
prediction on social law which is dis
quieting, to say the least. This is that a
period of universal peace is the necessary
forerunner of great revulsions. The Gothic,
Vandal, Danish and Tartar invasio1s were
preceded by peaceful eras. Consequently
the present period of peace is the prelude
to universal devastation, and as no other
can be found to undertake the work of con-
quest and destruction our French logician
assigns that labor to the Chinese.
The novel theory that peace contains the
greatest peril of destruction by war includes
its corollary that war has the best promise
of peace. The disturbing logic of the
French writer, fatal though it appears at
FIRST brings its own cure. For if the present
prevalence of peace indicates the imminence
of war from Chinese invaders. when we are
suffering from the invasion we must by the
same logic see in our plundered cities and
smoking homes the seeds OF peace. In the
meantime, the fact that Europe is an armed
camp, with the probability of breaking out
into the flames of war at moments notice,
would seem by the French logic to provide
the best antidote, or counter-irritant at
least, to the dangers of an invasion by the
hordes of the Flowery Kingdom.
The picture of the child-like and bland
Mongolian, chiefly known to us by his
docility in the publication of soiled linen
and his aptitude for the acquisition OF
wealth by saving of cents, breaking out into
a career of conquest, and sallying forth to
conquer the stubborn Anglo-Saxon, the
scientifically warlike German, and the
theatrically brave Frenchman, defies all
commentary. To spend sarcasm on it would
be like painting the lily. The mere state
ment of the idea presents it in its most
laughable light. Only one feature of mod
ern times can support such a theory That
is that the rabbits have over-run Australia,
but they did not do it by fighting for it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

Sir Guy Hecker left for Chicago yester-
day.
James B. Scott has returned from Phila-
delphia.
j. B. Bartlett, advance for Gilmore's
Band. is in the city.
J.J. Spearman, the Sharon furnace owner,
is at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
Ex-Postmaster Larkin is back from Har-
risburg. His man was appointed.
John Bradley, son of the Prothonotary,
has gone to Colorado for his health.
DR.. John Hall, of New York, was ex-
pected to arrive in the city last evening on a
late train.
W. W. Picking, Travelling Passenger
Agent of the Baltimore and Ohio road at Son.
ersst, is in the city.
c. D. Rhodes, an iron agent Of Sharon,
and w. W. Smith of Washington, are at the
Monongahela House.
Among those who went to New York last
evening were George Westinghouse, Jr., and
Colonel Levi Greene.
b. Fritsch, of st. Louis, and H. A. PEN
rose, of New York, a crack rifieman, are stop
ping at the Duquesne.
James C. Purdy, an old Pittsburg news
paper man. was in the city last evening. He
now lives in New Jersey.
E. M. Hukill, the oil man, and Mr.
Bishop of the National Tube Works, left for
New York last evening.
W. A. Lynch, q prominent lawyer of Can
ton, and James Braddock, Of Mt. Pleasant, are
registered at the Anderson.
G. Z. Davis, the actor, registered at the
Anderson yesterday. He is pleased with the
progress made on his new theater.
Henry NJ Wilson of franklin Pa OF
the firm OF Bayne. Wilson & Pratt. general
agents Of the Farrer & Tuft engine and boiler,
is quartered at the Monongahsla House.
C. V. Sales aud wife, OF Detroit, regis
tered at the Monongahela House last evening.
Mrs. Sales Is the daughter Of DIR. Halioway, Of
Louisville. and she was married Monday even
ing. The young couple are on their bridal
four.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
IMPROVING THE OHIO,

The location of dam No. 4 at Vanport, an
for some days. 1t is satisfactory to all par
ties. Its most satisfactory aspect is the in
dication of steady progress toward the goal
of making the Ohio navigabIe during the
summer and fall .sonths. which are gener-
ally periods of suspended navigation for
lack of water. With the dams at Vanport
and Davis Island the worst of the Interrupt
tions to navigation will be abated; and
when the intermediate dams are completed
the period of transportation on the upper
Ohio gill be greatly extended. The progress
of i'm ewing our internal waterways goes
on m.ie 81 .wly than it should, but it is
steadily working toward great results.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
ROUGH ON MR. IsAAcs.
The Ex-Lord Mayor Of London Charged
With swindling Certain Investors.


The Ex-Lord Mayor Of London Charged
With swindling Certain Investors.
rBY pUNLAP's CABLE coMPANrL
LONDON, May Gan extraordinary spectacle
was witnessed at the meeting of the share
holders Of the Hansard Publishing Union and
Banking Company to-day. Sir Henry Isaacs,
late Lord Mayor. was violently Missed when he
took his seat in the chair. One of the share.
holders arose and addressed the meeting in the
following remarkable languages:
Brother dupes, l invested all my hard
earned savings. the result of 80 years labor, and
induced lady. with whom am acquainted
TO invest ESQ In this company on the strength
OF the fact that the Lord Mayor OF London was
Its chairman" Here the speaker was inter-
rnpted by such storm OF Kisses shat it was i'm
possible for him TO proceed for several mo-
ments. When quiet was restored the speaker
continued: while have bit OF furniture in
my house or any clothes on my back upon
which can raise money will pawn them to
bring this rascal to justice who has SO deceived
u.s."
Nearly S. 600, 600 have been lost in this CON-
pany, much of 1t having fallen on those who
put all their small means into the enterprise,
and can therefore ill afford to sustain the
loss. These people feel that Mr.. Isaacs lent the
influence of his name and position to the COM
pany to induce them to come into it while it
was in an unsatisfactory and unpromising
financial condition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
AS YOU LIKE IT.

"Now, boys" said the Sunday school
superintendent, s'what shall tell you about this
morning?''
'.De sluggin' match tween David m GerlierI'
cried the infant class.-Jud0e.
Poet Ito his practical friend lis there
anything more beautiful than to see those magni-
fcent swans float upon the lakes silver surfaceF
How would love to be like them!
ssWhat! Go around with ones stomach on that
cold water all the dayl Not for me, thank you."
-Ftiegende RLdtter.
''I gather" said the Boston lady, "from
the conversation Of my nephew, that fremen are
in the habit OF using rubber hose at their laoors
eyes,
.sThat, I presume is so that they won't get
their feet wet:'' and the Boston lady returned To
her book with an air Of entire satisfaction over
having solved difficult problem. IN Bdshtn0ton
Post.
"she has given up spiritualism since she
married Farrar.''
s.Because he objected to Il, suppose?''
ssYes: for whenever she went to table-rappina
Farrar began to get messages from his first wife,"
Life.
There is no solitude so miserable as that
OF the man alone in noisv city. unless IL be that
OF a man alone with noisy baby.-BImfra
Gazette.
In the New England Conference Method
ist1 member took the floor in debate which he
wished to close and settled the hash OF the discuss
sion by saying: ''Not an angel in heaven. not an
elder, not bishop-yea sir. not even editor
has anything new 10 say on this subject-n--|
LouisuilIs Western Recorder.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
DEATHS OF A DAY.
DR.. Abraham Coles.

DR.. Abraham Coles, one of the Oldest and
most eminent physicians in New Jersey, and a
very wealthy land owner, died In Monterey. CAL,
Sunday, and information Of his death was re-
ceiyed on Monday by his brother-in-law. Warren
Ackerman, ofScotchPlains, Nj. He was an accom-
pllshed classical scholar. He wrote more in verse
than in prose. Among his works are meirical
version of the Psalms of David translated from
the Hebrew. In 1871 he published his original
version and translation of 'Dies Irae, and IL
years later he published 1t in book with Il YER
sions by others, under the title OF s'Dies Ii ae in
and delivered before .he New Jersey Medical So
shed the life of Christ in verse under the title of
''The Evangel, :" and in 1881 he put forth new
volume of his poems. His Latin hymns appeared
in 1865, his Light Of the w orld' in 1884 and his
verslfed edition OF the Psalms OF David in 1889.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
REVERSING THE RULE.

The report that an American citizen was
assailed by mob iH Florence on Monday,
If verified, will put the boot on the other
foot 1t may be well to await details before
accepting the sensation, but it may be worth
while to reflect on the fact that the inter-
national doctrines which have been ad-
vsnced in the New Orleans case may be
turned against us.
For instance, if we are seeking to main
tain the rights of American citizens to pro-
lection in Italy, we might not consider it q
satisfactory reply to be told that unless the
local courts saw fit to punish the rioters the
Government could have nothing to do with
it; or to have the previous record of the vic
tim of the mob attacked; or to be met with
theory that if the italian citizens are not
protected by the law foreigners cannot ex-
pect to be. These are the ideas which have
been urged on our own behalf; but perhaps
they might not be found to suit our views if
they are applied against US.
When we find that diplomatic theories
will not work both ways, we may arrive at
the conclusion that they are not exactly
what they should be.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
SAINTS AND SINNERS.
Mr.. stoddarts Triumph in a New But
Rather Tedious Play.

Mr.. stoddart's Triumph in a New But
Rather Tedious Play.
A criticism upon Saints and Sinners the
play performed by the Madison Square
Theater Company last night at the Duquesne
Theater resolves itself inevitably into a testi-
monial of unadulterated praise to the genius
of Mr. Stoddart. who plays the very lovable
hero Of the piece. Mr.. Stoddart improved last
night upon the admirable embodiment of a
benevolent old man which he gave US on Tues
day in "a Pair of Spectacles." The old Bap-
tist minister in Saints and SInnersn is the
only strongly and truly drawn character
In the play, and doubtless without
Mr.. Stoddarrs supreme art it would
not be balf as attractive as it is. The play it.
self is dreadfully slow and jraggy, and could
be with advantage shorn of three or four long
scenes. Mr. Palmer's company does not shine
in ir as whole. Mr.. Holland is lost in a small
part, and Mr.. Barrymore played with such evil
dent carelessness and lack of thought tnat he
marred the performance. Several of the smaller
characters were nicely played. The audience
gave Mr. Stoddart and Miss Maud Harrison
the latter's work was excellent-all the ap-
plause they could have asked.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
FIGHTING IT OUT IN NEW YORK.

Each Chilean Faction Depending Upon q
New York House for sinews.
NEW YORK. May 6.-Judging from certain
Developments and rumors, the actual seat of
the Chilean war is locased in this city 1t is
claimed that two prominent commercial houses,
both having very large interests in Chile, are
furnishing arms. ammunition, and money to
the two factions-the Government or Balma-
cedas forces, and to the revolutionists. The
houses mentioned are opposed to each other
Commercially, and each is doing its utmost to
have the faction it supports win.
News was received by one of the firms yester-
day, from its agents in Buenos Ayres, that its
competitor had sent aid to Balmacedas forces;
that the firm had shipped. $50 cases Of riff es
and 10000 pounds of ammunition on the
Brazil mail steamships Vigilance and Advance,
from this port to Santos. There the munition
was transferred to another steamer and taken
to Montevideo. The prize contended for is
valuable Government concessions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
IT is interesting to find the New Yor]

IT is interesting to find the New York
Press attacking the Michigan plan Of electing
Presidential electors by Congressional districts
as "a vicious violation of unwritten law" The
idea that a matter fully defined by the pro-
visions Of written law is further subject to the
unwritten is novel Constitutional theory.
The fact that this course is taken to secure a
division of electoral votes in single State
shows that it is simply q case of taking unfair
partisan advantage. But, on the principle that
those who appeal to equity must show clean
hands. the esteemed Press should, before ar.
raigning the Democrats, discover some other
motive than partisan advantage for the crea-
tion of peterborough States by the last Con.
gress
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
ABad Matter Made Worse.

New York World.J
The grand jury in New Orleans has reached
a most lame and impotent conclusion in failing
to find any indictments for the mob-murderers
of March IA. because the act seemed to in.
volve the entire people of the parish, SO pro-
fuse is their sympathy and extended their con-
nections with the affair" Grand jurors are
not called upon to consider sympathies, but
acts. The inciters and leaders of the mob are
known, and test cases should have been pre-
sented and tried The grand jury has made a
bad matter worse. 1t Is Rudini's turn to in
dulge in the smile and the shoulder-shrug sar-
castle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07

SCHUYLKILL county officers are bewail-
ing the advance of their county to the class ex-
ceeding 10000 population. This requires all
county Ulcers to be paid by salaries instead of
fees, and results in a general reduction Of
official emoluments. This is the reverse Of the
operation which took place in Allegheny
county when it went above the 100000 line.
and nearly doubled the salaries Of It's officials.
The promotion backward will not, however,
create dearth of candidates for public office
in Schuylkill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
Merely an Apology.

New 1ork Post. ]
This'is not legal document Itisan apology
Of political committee for an act of revolu-
tionary violence committed by the entire popu-
lation Of large city and expressed in the in
fated rhetoric in which such manifestoes are
usually oouched. tits confession by a COM
petent authority that the machinery of criminal
justice has completely broken down in the State
of Louisiana and that crimes OF any magnitude
have to be punished by a revolutionary tribunal
1t holds out promise of a better or more
regular administration of local Justice but 1t
throws some light on the working of the jury
system in New Orleans which the people Of
other cities and particularly those of New York,
will do well to read, mark, learn and lnwardly
digest. for, as we remarked when the news of
this tragedy first came, we are travelling fast
along the shameful path which has ended in
New Orleans in the erection of mob govern
ment as a desperate necessity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
New Orleans in Disgrace.

Ncn 1olA mall auu GApTcss.J
If the history of New Orleans since the war
and up to the 14th of last March had been en-
tirely unfamiliar to the people of this country,
the voluminous and rhetorical presentment by
the grand jury of that city. justifying the en-
forcement Of lynch law on that memorable
occasion, might be regarded with more favor
than can be accorded by the loyal and law
abiding citizens of this country Moreover it
has been due to lack OF municipal patriotism
and to the neglect or unwillingness of New
Orleans officials to enforce the laws for the
protection of lives and preservation of the
peace that such a formidable gang of assassins
as the Malta should have been permitted to
grow in power, to take effectual part in local
politics and to become a terror to thousands of
people. The SIcilIans found in New Orleans a
congenial and home-like field for their opera
tions. In city where white men Of any po-
sition have been allowed to commit murder
with impunity, whenever the killing. occurred
in duel or off-handed way, the emigrants from
Sicily felt encouraged TO resume the homicldal
careers for which they had TO leave their native
land.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07

men to do no work at all-if they can get
along without it.
This would not quite rank Bellamy if it
were not for finishing touch which he him
self supplies. The ideal relaxation for
women, in his opinion, is the sewing circle.
For q reformer who discards all rules either
of logic or experience in his social system
for men, his relegation of women's leisure
hours to the standard of half century ago
betrays Bellamy as a supererogatory donkey
in the skin of social lion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
Obituary Notes,

DIR. PETER .. CLINGER, who died at Conestoga
Center, Pa, Monday, was the Oldest practicing
physician in Chester county. He 81
CAPT IN JOHN GoFF. prominent citizen of
East Brady, Pa, died Unexpectedly Tuesday
night of grip, while visiting in New Castle, ac-
companied by his wife.
MAJOR GEORGE FINLEY, of Easton, Pa. died
Monday, in his 10th year. During the iate war he
was Captain OF an emergency company. For As
years he was PRESIDENT OF the Humane Fire Com
pany.
REV. ELIJAH GAYLORD. well-known preacher
of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, who had lived
in Syracuse since 1872 is dead in syracuse He was
born in Connections, and was 92 years old on
March l3.
HENRY W. WERTZ. wealthy and leading citi-
zen Of Canton. died yesterday morning, aged 50
years. He was for years the proprietor of the
Wertz Carriage Manufacturing Company, one of
the largest in the Western States.
CHARLES A. MORRIS died Monday in Brooklyn,
in his .4th year. Louis Morris and Robert Morris
his great-grandfather and great-granduncle. were
was one of the Oldest piano manufacturers In the
United States
FLORA MYERS PURCELL, once a leading actress
in the stock days and later a star in .'oliver
Twist and other melodramas, died recently In
Rochester, N. Y. She was the wife of Allan W.
Purcell, formerly manager. and now paymaster
of the Rochester Railway Company.
FREDERICK J. FRELINGHUYsEN died Tuesday
night NJ Raritan, N. j. Mr.. Frelinghuysen was
welI-known lawyer and a cousin of the late Fred
erick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State He
held the position of Surrogate of Somerset county,
n j., for two terms, and was also County Super
intendent of Schools.
CAPTAIN w. h. HARRINGTON, q well-known
lawyer of Boston, died Sunday. in his 44th year.
He entered the army when only boy, and at the
with the rank OF Captain. During q portion of
the time he was under General Banks In the Red
river campaign, and won his promotion by valor
and hard fighting.
CAPTAIN HAMILTON died at Apia Samoa, March
22last. On the occasion of the wreck OF the Amer
lean feet in 1889 he showed the greatest kindness
and hospitality to the American officers He re-
covered and buried in his garden the body of
Paymaster Armes. of the vandalia. and threw
omen his house to the survivors. He was born in
New London, Conn.,, and had lived at Apia up
ward of 20 years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
A NEW BRIDGE FOB ST. LOUIS.

Jay Gould and Syndicate Said to Be Back
of the Enterprise.
ST. LOUIS, May 6-An important deal has
Just been closed, which guarantees to ST. Louis
the building of third bridge across the Missis-
sppi river. The franchise for It's construction
is perpetual charter granted 20 years ago BY
Congress to the Carondolet and st. Louis
Bridge Association. providing for high truss
bridge across the Mississippi at Carondolet six
miles below Eads' bridge.
The charter and tire capital stock of the
above company has been transferred a syn
dictate, of which Jay Gould is said to be a mem
ber, and work on the structure will be pushed
as rapidly as possible The capital is II, 600 COO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07
THE VISIT POSTPONED.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris Unable to Go to
Washington just Yet

MRS. Nellie Grant Sartoris Unable to Go to
Washington just Yet
lFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT
WAsHINGToN, May 6.-Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris telegraphs from New York to friends
in this city that she is obliged to postpone her
visit for the present. Mrs. Grant has been i'll
during the past week and Is not sufficiently re-
covered to make the journey practicable at this
time. Their friends here are greatly disap-
pointed, as quite number of entertainments
had been devised in their honor. which in each
case would have been divested of all formality
and would have been, in fact, gatherings of
only their oldest acquaintance. Mrs Sartoris
keeps up a regular correspondence with her
friends in this city. and those of them who have
not had the pleasure of visiting her at her
English home were especially anxious to see
both herself and her children.
Mrs. Sartoris has beautiful estate near
southampton, given her by her father-ln-aw.
Her children are thoroughly English in appear
ance and accent. She particularly wishes dur
ing her present short stay in America to have
the children see Washington and all the places
in it associated with her own youth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-07

The Sugar Trust is doing its best to
demonstrate that 1t can defy the law undee its
new charter as arrogantly as under the old
organization. But its power to put up prices
is limited by the reduction Of duty to half
cent. II the trust continues its course of
superiority to law it may wake up some morn
ing and find even that duty taken away.