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INCREASE IN PAUPERIsM.
Startling Figures Quoted by a New York
Charitable society's Superintendent.
Y In L

Startling Figures Quoted by a New York
Charitable Society's Superintendent.
New York Telegram.l
"More than $5,OO0,0O0 was expended for
charitable purposes in New York last year."
said the superintendent of a charitable or
ganiZation yesterday. New fields are con-
stantly opening up, till it seems as though at
least two-thirds of the entire population of
the city is being supported by charity. In
the various institutions that dispense char
ity more than GOO 900 persons found relief of
various kinds. There are homes and refugees
protectories and asylums, lodging houses
and shelters by the score, and the dispen-
saries and hospitals scattered about the city
are maintained at great cost to charity In
order to provide medical and surgical aid to
the poor,
81 am sure there is no other city in the
world as charitable as New York, and still
all our institutions are running over and the
cry for more aims is increasing in volume
daily. In 1880 there were in poorhouses and
almshouses, as indoor paupers, in New York
State, to every $50 of the native population
and to every % of the foreign population.
The local Commissioners of Charities and
Correction are now hard at workaon preyen-
tive, curative and eliminating measures.
The great disparity in the ratio of foreign
born convicts, paupers and insane in the
foreign population of New York compared
from its flative-born population cannot OF
result Of a voluntary and healthy immigra-
tion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY, JUNE2l 1891.
THE FIKsT HAZE HOLIDAY.

The half holiday on Saturdays during
the hot months is sensible. Between June
and September the fag end of the business
week will become vastly more cheerful by
the few hours of earlieI rest which the
new law vouchsafes. employers will be
glad enough to cOnctiIe the half holiday
as soon as an approximation of unanimity
can be established among them There
are some branches of business which of
necessity must continue; but in many,
particularly in the larger commercial
establishments and the banking institu-
tions there has long been no stronger in
ducement than mere habit for keeping the
doors open until O'Clock.
The half holiday comes to Pittsburg
with q legal sanction at time when it can
he made really enjoyable by the new
facilities for getting quickly to the beau
tiful suburbs and to the many delightful
places in the picturesque country round
about There was time when for want
of Just such means of travel few hours
more or less of holiday would have been of
small benefit hereabouts. This was when
the polly horsecars and insufficient rail-
road trains were the only means OF egreSS
from the hot and crowded city. Now a
"trip on the breezy cable or electric lines is
in itself a treat; and our beautified sub
urbs and spacious parks are a source of de-
light attainable for few cents.
This new opportunity for enjoyment
Will breed additional means. When recrea-
ton is demanded by a large number of
people simultaneously released from the
cares of business, the chance to cater
profitably to the new requirement will
quickly be seized in various directions. In
place of being dreary and disagreeable as
in the old times, the Saturday half holi-
days of the summer will henceforth be-
come season of excursions by road and
river, Of games, festivals and many other
forms of popular entertainment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
CONVERTS To THE DOCTRINE

Next TO long experience of the bene-
fetal working of the protective system at
home, the recent attitude of foreign coun-
tries should 90 fartheSt to satisfy our peo-
pie of the benefits of that system. 1t did
not require deep penetration to see that
foreign denunciation of the Mckinley bill
last fall sprang wholly from the fears of
foreigners that their trade would be hurt,
and not at all from any delicate considera-
tion for the American pocketbook, which,
in spirit of bluff, they loudly proclaimed
would be the loser by high tariff on their
products. How little sincerity was at the
bottom of British laudations of free trade
and tariff for revenue only was indicated,
for instance, not long ago by the incident
hat the famous Golden CluD, the very
oracle Of free trade, had experienced such
q decline Of popular support thatthis year
il was unable to follow its custom of an ex-
lenSivC annual dinner.
was sad enough that, because of the
lireSpCGsiyeness of their fellow-country-
E4rH in the matter of fat subscriptions and
'aank-offerings, the Cobdenites should 60
hungry. But we fear that sackcloth and
ashes will now be their portion, quick upon
the heels of fasting since no less person
tlan Lord Salisbury himself has been hob
nObbing this week with a Protective
League of Englishmen and seems actually
at their solicitation about to go IN for a
very elaborate system of protection to in
clude the whole British Empire.
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sUB-TREAsURIEs AND EXCHANGES.

A Mississippian, who is opposed to the
sub-treasury scheme, points out that it
will give spectators additional chances to
buy up and control the staple products to
be stored in those warehouses. Under the
terms Of the sub-treasury proposition $780,
900 in money would carry S5oo,0OO worth
of grain or cotton at per cent interest for
the loaned money; and it would take but
$50, 900, 900 to control the entire crop of a
staple worth $500, 10000 900.
This is very true; and it is fact to
which the agricultural interests urging
that scheme should give due considera-
ton. But as illustrating the Nervousness
of the proposition as compared with
the system at present in vogue,
the farmers might retort with an
inquiry as to how much margin it re-
quires for spectators to carry grain, or
cotton, or stocks, or oil at present. If the
ordinary practices on the speculative ex-
changes do not belle the custom of the
banks they can get their deals carried on
considerably less margin than the 90 per
cent contemplated by the Farmers Alli-
ance proposition. The only gain specu-
lators would get by the sub-treaSury sys-
TEN would be a lower rate of interest: and
as the speculator is notoriously regardless
of a little matter like the interest rate it is
doubtful if he could put upa 20 per cent
margin to speculate on staples with the
sub-treasuries when they can speculate on
the exchanges at 10 per cent margin.
OF course the sub-treasury scheme is
wild idea, whose greatest vice is that it
proposes to have the Government under
take business that belongs properly to
private enterprise. But in order that their
may be conclusive, the 'oppo-
nents of the proposition should not en-
large with quite so much fervor on the in
iquity of features, which are surpassed
every day among the banks and exchanges
of the leading cities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
WITH CROWNS AND WITHOUT.

RUDYARD KIPLING Is guest of friends
in New York. The reports of his illness were
somewhat exaggerated.
IT Is said that the tragedian Irving will
spend his summer holidays in the United
States as the guest of Augustin Daily.
IT is reported that Queen Victoria has of
fered to make Lady Macdonald peeress, in
recognition of her husbands distinguished
services to the empire.
Two of the students to win commence
ment honors in American colleges this year
are natives of Japan-Nariaki Zozaki, at
Harvard, and Maysaoshi Takaki, at the
Syracuse University
GENERAL JOHN Pope, U. S. A, accom-
panied by his family, en- route from st.
Louis to the East, was compelled to stop
over at Toledo by illness. He hopes that a
days rest will enable him to proceed
NILE. JEANNE MAY, who has won a
triumph this season in the pantomime
"L'Enfant Prologue" at the Prince of Wales
Theater, is the choicest attraction just now
for private entertainments. Enterprising
hostesses are continually seeking her serv-
ices.
LORD SALISBURY, stout and indolent
as he may now seem, has been a hard
hOlhOI, anu III loJ>, NIlcH uc WuS hOuoTJ
Cecil, visited the Bendigo and Ballarat gold
fields, where he lived in tent, did his own
washing and cooking, and dug and gathered
nuggets.
FRAU Won BISMARCK is most charm
ing and attractive hostess in her quiet home
and looks after the. comfort of her guests
with almost motherly solicitude. Her hus-
bands devotion to her is most touching. and
she is the confidante Of all his cares, both pri-
vate and official
PRINCE BISMARCK, who in younger days
was accustomed to write autograph letters,
has now given up doing 50 altogether. When
he does correspond. with persons who have
paid him some attention either in the form
of letter or present, which he is constant
ly receiving from some admirer, he now
only signs his epistle himself, but in order to
make up for it not being geographically
written he incloses his photograph.
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AGREEMENT BETwEES EXTREMES

The Iowa ProhibitioniSts in their plat
form declared in favor of the abolition of
the internal revenue system, because, in
their opinion, it sanctions the liquor traffic
by national recognition. The New York
San, which has little else in common with
the PrOhibitionists, endorses the same abo-
lition because the liquor is one of the
''odious war taxes
Thus do extremes meet The great mass
of the people will have little sympathy
with the proposition for either reason. To
the Prohibitionists, the majority of the
public would say that so long as the liquor
traffic is not abolished the Government
might as well raise revenue from taxing
that indulgence, and that if its aboli-
ton ever comes the internal reve-
nue. system will offer no obstacle
to it. To those who consider the internal
revenue tax IAN odious war tax the pub
lie will find it easy to answer that the
origin of anything in the war constitutes
no impeachment of it. The national bank
system, the legal tender currency and the
taxation of luXurieS by an internal rev.
enue system all have been proved by ex-
perience to be gifts from the war era that
are decidedly useful. The fact that they
were born in the necessity of that period
does not in the least degree mitigate their
usefulness.
The mass of the public are fully able to
recognize that the internal revenue tax on
liquors is the least burdensome in proper
ton to its revenue of all forms of taxation.
The party that shapes its policy on the
abolition of that tax on what is luxury
or an extravaganza will make a bad
mistake.
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4 COMPROMISE SENTENCE.

The compromise verdict, as often illus
trated by doubtful juries, by which people
have been found guilty of degrees of crime
which in the nature of the case were i'm
possible, has been fully discussed in the
press. A new development, evidently
from the same foundation, appears in New
Jersey in the shape of a compromise SEN
tence
This is the final result in a rather cele-
brated case, in which young woman of
wealth and social position was convicted
OF shOpiifting. From the newspaper re-
ports of the evidence we should say there
was considerable doubt of her guilt, in
which case she ought not to have
been convicted But being convicted
her punishment by a fine of
800 is non-sequitur, of which
the explanation most creditable
TO the judge is that he was doubtful of
her guilt and did not wish to subject her
TO the misery of Imprisonment If the
judge did not make up his sentence from
the same motive as that which produces
compromise verdicts from iuries, he was
guilty Of modifying his sentence to favor
the social position of the accused A fine
Of 500 is no punishment for shoplifting
where the defendant is well-off, and it is
notorious that women of the poorer class
would have been sent to prison.
But even if this sentence was inspired
by the inconsistent mercy of a compro-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21

the dishonesty which created some of the
money kings of the day. If great for
tune is built up out Of secret favors in
transportation on the public highways of
the nation; or in the manipulation of stock
properties on the ex changes; or from for
bidding competition or producing artifi-
cial scarcity in the great staples, the same
wrong in kind though to a less degree is
committed as in the case of the slave
traders fortune. The acts are less 'vio-
lent, and their effect is more gradual.
Men are not taken away by force and car
ried in chain gangs to the markets for hu-
manity; but their labor or property is by
the force of monopoly or the jugglery Of
the stock market, or by other kindred
methods, transferred from those to whom
it belongs by natural or legal rights to the
successful prosecutors of the ultimatejaw
of getting wealth by fair means or foul.
This will continue to be the case until
society becomes enlightened enough to see
that there is no honor in wealth itself; but
that whatever is creditable in it depends
on its having been obtained by respecting
the law which must lie at the foundation
of all honest commerce, namely, that both
parties to any transaction shall be gamers
nv IT,
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SAVED HIS LIFE.
Why a Battered Brass Button Is Worn for q
Watch Charm.

Why Battered Brass Button Is Worn for q
Watch Charm.
Memphis Appeal-Avalanche.]
Colonel A. D. Gwynne, Of Memphis, car
ries charm that has q history closely inter-
woven with his own, for it is a relic Of the
battle of Shiloh, and brings to mind time
when the gallant Colonel might have yielded
up his life in the cause of his country but for
the same button.
1t was an old brass button of the Federal
pattern, for at the time the battle of Shiloh
was fought the confederates did not possess
n button peculiar to their own uniforms.
Colonel Gwynne keeps 1t brightly FURNISHED
and it's every indehtation is as plain as on
the day it was turned out of the factory. In
the pride of its youth it was puffed out, that
is, it was globular in form in the middle, but
as it appears now the conceit has been taken
out of 1t by the ball that struck it and fiat
tened it.
At the head of the Twenty-sixth Alabama
Regiment of cavalry Colonel Gwynne took a
foremost part in the battle of Shiloh, and 1t
was in the thickest of the fight that, when
leaning over in a charge a ball tore through
the front of his cap, grazed past his nose,
and struck the first button on his coat,
glancing thence to his right ar1n which was
shattered, so that for some time he was laid
up for repairs. But he never forgot the but
ton that saved his life, and ever since 1t has
hung from his watch chain, slightly dis
figured, but therefore the more honored.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
EURopEs PERILs MULTIPLIED.

Europe is sitting on a volcano DR..
Albert Shaw, the eminent publicist thinks,
and he demonstrates very clearly the
grounds for his opinion in another part of
this paper. The national enmities of the
old world have been no secret for the last
two decades, but the recovery of France
since her humiliating reverses in 1871 has
not been so generally realized. 1t is upon
this factor in the problem that DR.. Shaw
lays stress. France has settled into
her Republican clothes with a
more contented air of late, and
her people seem to have found a
common ground for union in the resolve
to regain Alsace and Lorraine. A COM
parison of the French and German forces
available in case Of war compels the con-
clusion that the next war between them
will not be the one-sided affair that it was
in 1901. Lord Salisbury's analysis of
the situation is not too pessimistic. The
trouble in Europe is deep-grounded, and
likely to involve all the great powers in
war at any time The recent revelation
of England's silent partnership in the
so-called Dreibund only complicates
the outlook, and adds to the
possible excuses for war that any nation
may SEIZE From afar America may OBJ
serve the perilous path of Europe with
something like philosophic calm, but at
the same time the far reaching evils which
must result from gigantic struggle such
as the next European war promises to be
are so plainly to be seen that the preser-
vation of peace should be as devoutly de-
sired here as across the Atlantic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
Obituary NOIes.

JESUS JIMENEz. the Mexican General, is dead.
THOMAS B. BYREKs. a well-known Democratic
politician, died yesterday morning at Evansville,
Ind.
JOHN +. TEMPLEToN died in Union county. Ind,
Friday, aged 81. He one of the best-known
farmers in the State.
RUEL P. CowLEs, President of c. Cowles & Co. 's
carriage hardware manufacturing company, of
New Haven, died Thursday, aged g. years.
REV. PATRICK DUFFY. a member of the Society
of Jesus Is dead of heart disease at the Frederick
Novitists In Maryland. He waseborn in Philadel-
phia In 1916.
MAJOR j. r. MCELHANEY, President of the First
National Bank of Springfield No., and one of the
bcst-known citizens of that State, died at Spring.
field Friday morning.
WILLIAM ToRREY, one of the projectors of the
Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad, died at Man.
chester, N. j., Monday. aged 9i years. His wife
died year ago at the age of %.
HENRY SHIRK, SR., prominent citizen of Balti-
more, died Thursday night Of congestion of the
brain, superinduced by old age. He was nearly 81
years old. He was born In the neighborhood of Lam
caster, Pa.
SISTER RICHARD. teacher in the convent of st,
BIichaers Church. Baltimore, died of consumption
Thursday. She was q years old, and daughter of
Michael Knarr, Of New York. She had been In the
convent only snort time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
THE MEANS OF WEALTH.

An account has recently been published
of Pedro Blanco, the great African slave
trader, who, as his biographer states,
'chose to embark in a disreputable bust
ness because he saw in it the prospect of
a great fortune He secured the fortune,
and when the governments of the world
made his enterprise hazardous and unre-
munerative he retired to Cuba, where he
enjoyed an old age full of opulence and
honor.
This is very justly recognized in this
country as remarkable instance of the
governing rule: ''Get money, honestly if
you can; but get money" as well as the
general fact that when the money is ac-
cumulated society in one part of the world
or another will easily forgive the method
in which it was obtained Disreputable is
not the only word in which to describe
the source of Blanco's wealth. Anglo
Saxon society finds no difficulty in per-
ceiving that it was amassed by system
of force and robbery. Yet if we confine
our moralizing too exclusively to the viola
tions of public and commercial morals
illustrated in the case of successful
slave-trader, we shall be fulfilling Buffers
sarcasm in ''compounding the sins we are
inclined to by damn1ng those we have no
mind to-"
The rule of gaining wealth by any means
that promise success, and the social readi-
ness to accept the wealth and forget its
source, are rife in more lines of effort than
the African slave trade We find no diff
Guilty in seeing that to deprive men by
force Of the right to themselves and their
own labor is dishonest; but when we come
to fortunes which consist in taking away
the results of mems labor by cunning or
chicanery, we find it convenient to ignore
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-21
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
DIR. Sara C. Seward.

DIR. Sara G. Seward, well-known woman
medical missionary, a niece of ex-secretary Sew
ard and sister of the Rev. s. s. Seward died sud-
denly June l8, at Allahabad India, where she had
been working among the women for the past II
years. Miss Seward was born at Florida, n. Y,
in 1893. In 1870 Sir William Muir, then Governor
of the Northwestern Provinces Of India. sug-
gested to the Zenana Missionary Society that app-
cation be made to the American Medical College
for women doctors, as the Zenans women preferred
death to having their ills cured by male physician
The society accepted the suggestion, and appca-
tion made to the Philadelphia College. The
appointment rendered to Miss Seward and she
accepted it. For several years she was subject to
the orders of the British Government but Of late
years she had been working under the Presbyterian
Board Of Foreign Missions of this country.
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A DECISIVE ANSWER.
The Man Could Not Talk, but Was Able to
Make Signs.

Detroit Free Press.1
at seems to be a clear case against the
prisoner. If the Court understands the evil
dence, this gentleman asked the defendant a
civil question and he, without replying, at
once knocked him down and proceeded to
trample ON him and kick him in the most
brutal manner Has counsel for the defense
anything to say to the contrary"
dPernit me to explain, Your Honor. I ad-
NIT that until the facts are fully understood
the presumption is certainly against my
client But wish to call Your Honor's at
tention to the fact that the prisoner, while
hearing distinctly and understanding all
that is said to him, cannot speak word"
admitting that, what has it to do with the
assau1t?"
"Everything, Your Honor. The accuser
came to the defendant and asked him What
do you think we ought 20 do to the Italian
Malta in this country My client, unable to
speak vet anxious to oblige the accuser
with his opinion on so serious question,
proceeded to demonstrate to him in q man.
ner at once convincing and effectual what he
thought ought to be done in the premises.
1t has been a great surprise to us, Your
Honor, that exceptions should have been
taken to an answer that was as convincing
as it was striking"
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DEDICATED TO SMILES.

ooh, I'm a great favorite with little
Maudie ~ said UNCLE George. ''She's very excu-
siye with her affections. Just listen. Maudie dear
who does 90 loye?''
everybody - said Maudie.-Hdrpers' Baznr
Biones-Our baby said his first word to-
saw him. exclaimed, What perfect image Of his
papar'
BjinksAwhat did the baby say?
es-Chestnut.-Harpers' Bnzdr.
Young Lady Tourist Ito Mountain Guide)
DO you make good living at your business9
Guide-Yes. miss. Why shouldn'tI?
Young Lady-I fancied you might find 1t uphill
work.-Hdrpers' Bdzdr.
Farmer Firkin Ito Small Boy)-If ys
o. the dogs collar
Small Boy-Huhi A dog can't climb a treeI
Farmer Firkin-No; but kin. an he kin squat
under it.-Puck.
Tourist Tin Kentucky)-I beg pardon, sin
but what is your name?
Citizen-JOhn Smith.
Tourist-Well, Colonel Smith, L
Citizen-Hold on I'm not a Colonel. just
moved in here from the North last week.-Psck.
If cleanliness, as Wesley said, is next
To godliness, tits safe to say
The space is very large that lies betwixt
Our streets and godliness to-day.
-E1o FORK Press
Annle lseelnS peVIBc slip Oh d Ddndna
peel and slide under fruit stand)-George doesn't
look so much like dude now, does he?
Bessie-NO. He has more Of a subdued appear
ance ut the present moment.-ToLedo Blade
"What do you expect to prove by all
these witnesses, =" sharply inquired the Judge
1--WE expect, your Honor. " replied the attorney,
ito impeach the testimony Of the prosecuting wit
ness"
whats the use, I" replied the Judge. ssDidn't
he tell you he was running big American tin plate
factory?'-C Chicago Tribune.
Wool-What makes Mrs. Hicks watch
her husband so closely?
Van Pclt-A few nights since she started to grieve
for her first husband and Hicks sympathized with
her-Neto FORK Herald.
ooh, he is model husband now. She
does not even let him drink occasional glass OF
wine.''
'sThat Is what call downright mean. He never
would have proposed to her had he not been undsr
the influence Of wine. -Indidnopotis Journal