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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
PITTsBUEG, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 16. 1891,
TWELVE PAGES
now TO SAFE SLAUGHTER.

In connection with the renewed posi-
lility of 2 European outbreak, it is inter-
esting to learn the Austrian and German
Governments are experimenting with
shields for soldiers and with screens for
large bodies of soldiers, to counteract the
deStructiveness of modern firearms. This
is a remarkable indication of the tendency
of the age of military invention in Europe
TO get back to the days of armored sold
ierv, which were abolished three or four
centuries ago bv the invention of gIn-
powder. Having in its primary stages
wiped out armor, it would be a strange
sequel if gunpowder restored it.
But the rapid succession of offensive
and defensive military invention permits
suggestion which is very desirable for
the benefit of humanity. 1t is clearly an
accepted principle that the next war be-
tween the military empires will be decided
by the practical perfection of the respec-
tire military machinery. If the victory
GOES EoU fall to the Power that has the
most deadly small arms, the most power
tul artillery and the most impregnable
armor both for ships and men, the hund-
reds Of millions that have been spent in
providing these things have all been
wasted.
This point being established the blood
less decision Of wars becomes easy. When
Two Powers can no longer agree, let them
submit their war material to a competitive
test. The number and excellence of their
munitions can be decided by actual in
spection. while the respective value of
each can be decided by letting each Power
fire at the armOr of the other. the results
20 he recorded by jury of impartial ex-
peTts Il is plain that the records Of such
2 test would furnish an indisputable meas
ure OF The victory OF one Power over
another If 100 represented the standard
q excellence, it is plain that the empire
whose war material in ihP various military
and naval departments only reached an
average of so must lose a province; if it
fell to 30 il must suffer the fate Of the
plHcked cOllegian and be relegated to
uytar ruin: while the Power that gained
the supererogatory perfection of 100 plus,
could take what ever it wanted from its
neighboTS.
II is to be hoped that this rational and
humane method of settling future con-
N;cts will commend itself to the European
militarists. When it is clearly demon
SEATED that one Power can whip the other
what is the use of killing $4,000 or 100000
of the common people to emphasize the
decision? The sovereigns and statesmen
of Europe may be able to stand the
slaughter of their subjects philosophically
enough. but the chance that some of them
may he hit should make this way of pre-
venting all danger very acceptable to
fham.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
LIFE IN THE METROPOLIS.

The recent gossip of New York on an
event in gambling circles furnishes whole
chapter Of philosophical reflections on the
condition of society at the close of the
nineteenth century. In the first place we
have set before us the business of the ''boss
gambler" of New York. This is bust
ness forbidden and denounced by the law;
but it nevertheless rises to such unques-
toned magnitude that the confidential
manager of the establishment, who holds
unsupervised control while the "boss
gambler" is pursuing other enterprises of
the profession at the seaside resorts, car
ries in the safe the very respectable cash
balance of 100000 To refer to such a
sum in the parlance of the ordinary men,
bers of the profession as ''the wad"
would be little short of sacrilege.
Of course the manager of business
which keeps 100000 of ready cash on
hand is eminently respectable. He lives
in rich mansion in upper New York, oc-
cupies pew in one of the fashionable
churches-he has recently requested cor
rection of the loose and inaccurate state
ment that he is member of the church.
duu Ids OCCupdblOH utSCliUOu III blIO
city directory as brushes"
These are the antecedent features of
the case. This highly respected confden-
tial manager concludes to reform, and as
a means OF placing his respectability after
reformation beyond all question, after dis
solving partnership walks off with the
wad-we beg pardon, the cash balance
of $10O, 1000. The excellence of the busi-
nest judgment Of this eminently respect
able gentleman, is more than vindicated
in the sequel. He remains in New York
with an intimation that his recent en-
ployer or partner can prosecute if he
wants to; and the ''boss gambler" accepts
his inability to permit the secrets of his
business to be opened up with the same
sang froid as if his late highly priced
cashier had called the turn for $4,000.
To attempt to enlarge upon the strik-
ing features of this case would be like
trying to gild refined gold. We can only
pathetically suggest an investigation of
social scientists as to whether such things
are due to the fact that the world has not
yet got beyond the stage when class of
men is found who order their affairs with
out regard to the law, or whether after an
era of law, we are getting past it and re-
turning to the age when eminen gamblers
and other capitalists are law unto them
selves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO.

Clifford Stanley Simms, of Mt. Holly, n.
Y, 2 resident of the Delaware Land Com
pany, and B. Haywood ShreVe, connected
with the same corporation, are late arrivals
at the Duquesne.
DIR. C. Jaegle, of the Beobaciter, has ac-
Catholic Press" at the Congress or the Ger
man Catholics to be held in Buffalo next
week.
Miss Minnie Buckley, a niece of Rev.
Father O'Connell, of Connelsville, arrived
from Queenstown yesterday and is guest
at the Central.
J, B, McElwain, President of the Nc
Elwain Hardware Company, at indianapolis,
is in this city, registered at the Duquesne.
W. II. Andrews, of Titusville, ex-Chair-
man of the Republican State Committee, was
guest at the Seventh Avenue yesterday.
Vice President Stubs, of the Central
Pacific Railroad, passed through the city for
New York yesterday in his private car.
Charles H. Ingham, of Manchester, Eng
land, and L. d. Bourgeois, of Paris, France,
are foreign arrivals at the Anderson.
W. E. TAYLOR, of Youngstown, came to
the city to see the flyers at Homewood yes
terday, and is at the Monongahela.
DR.. E r. Snoder, of Philadelphia, and
Dr. A. j. Evans of Altoona, were late arri-
walls at the Monongahela last night
John Ord, carpet manufacturer of Phil
adelphia, accompanied by Mrs. Ord, is
guest at the Duquesne.
r. E. McCartv, of the Panhandle dis
patcher's force, leaves with his family for an
outing in Ohio to-day.
Miss M. Aarons, of Mckinney, Texas,
who has been visiting Pittsburg relatives,
started home yesterday.
H F. Clark, Pittsburg agent for the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad, returned from an
Eastern trip yesterday.
Wharton Mcknight was among the west
bound PittsbuTg passengers on The limited
last night.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dick, of Meadyille.
were among the arrivals at the Duquesne
yesterday.
HI. M. Bennett, who has been enioying a
vacation at Long Island, returned home last
evening.
Harry Martin, special agent for a South
ern railroad, is guest at the Duquesne.
H j. Lindsay, Uniontown attorney, is
among the guests ut the Monongahela.
Hon. T. NJ. Patterson, of Bergettstown,
Washington county, is in the city.
Postmaster Duff of East Liberty, has re-
turned from his summer outing.
Horace G. Miller, of New Castle, was at
the Monongahela yesterday.
A. Leo We'll, the attorney, left last night
for Chicago.
Detective Robinson left yesterday for
Philadelphia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
Silver and Gold.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Was silver ever more valuable than gold?
What was the ratio between the metals
about the beginning of the Christian Era?
WIG.
WHEELING, September Is.
1.-THE exchangeable or commercial value of
gold, weight for weight, was always greater
in civilized nations than that of silver. In
olden times the market differences in value
between these metals varied within wider
limits than in the past 200 or 800 years.
Around the beginning of the Roman EN-
pire, or near the commencement of the
Christian Era, piece of gold could buy a
piece of silver of ten times its weight. Gold
was seldom below this price in proportion
to silver, but was generally much above it,
even as far back as 10 OF l6 centuries ago. At
the time of Constantine the Great, In the
fourth century A. D., the ratio was of gold
to 10 of silver. In England for 300 years past
the ratio lowered around that point and 1914
until about 1873, when silver began to go
down, and many times since then that metal
was so low that the ratio was L to p or
OVer.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
FITZsIMMoNs AS A PHILOSOPHER,

That Mr. FitZsimmons, clearly divining
the kind intention of the community
toward him was to put a rope around his
neck and compel him to dance pas seal
upon nothing should. opportunity offer
inc, take a walk, is, after all, not so sur
prising The bar-filing, rope-climbing and
acrobatic incidents are of course eminently
theatrical, and suggestive not merely of
the daring of Jack Sheppard, Dick Turpin
and Claude Duval, but are quite up to the
latest stage sensation dramas which hith-
rrto have been accepted as wholly imagin-
ative.
But probably the most interesting phase
of the Fitzsimmons affair is exhibited in
The light which his letteryesterday to The
DISPATCH and his previous epistle to mis-
counsel, Mr. Marshall, turns upon the
mental processes. That he had not merely
thought over his situation in very gen.
eral and philosophic way, but that he had
the nerve, after getting liberty, and while
the minions of the law were hot upon his
trail, to post his letter to this paper so that
IL reached its destination within couple
of hours after bis delivery, is an evidence
light and airy tone in which he contrasts
the limitations of the "RoteG de BdstilEe,
Pittsburg, with the more luxulIant and
sensuous attractions of the Anderson and
fhe Moncncahefa House is worthy of the
airieSt flights Of Duval, whether celebrated
in prose fiction or in the melodious opera
of the comic stage.
Mr. Fitzsimmons' capacity to project
his spirit away from his own immediate
Gisagreeable personal environment is also
exhibited handsomely in his letter to Mr.
Marshall Alike in that letter and in the
later one to The DISPATCH this interest
ing individual exhibits himself as person
q thought and broad reflection, who, in
the intervals between burglary, homicide
and jail breaking, was disposed to view
and TO moralize in an elevated and even
graceful and CHEEKY way upon the pano-
rama of human life as it passed before
him.
Interest in Mr.. FitZsimmons will un-
d0ubtedly be much intensified by his liter
airy efforts. In all seriousness the utter vari-
ance between their tone and the wretched
situation in which the man was placed
would go far to indicate such a sad want
of mental balance as almost to amount to
insanity, if every presumption of this sort
were not efficiently and conclusively re-
butted by the undeniable and eminently
successful conference of the mental pro-
cesSes by which he eliminated himself
IRON the hands of his keepers His case
is a strange one. 1t will be studied in de-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
WORK FOR THE CANADIAN PACIFIC.

The New York Herald in a recent edito-
rial article copies and endorses the sug-
gestion of its Paris nameSake, that the
Canadian Pacific Railroad should lay an
ocean cable from Vancouver to Yokohama
for the accommodation of the worlds
traffic The Paris Herald being, perhaps,
an expatriated offshoot of American jour
nalism, like those citizens of the United
States who reside permanently abroad,
its desire that Canadian corporation shall
control the avenues of watercourse around
the world, is not, perhaps to be wondered
at but the anxiety of the New York news
paper that the entire control shall be left
iu the hands of the Canadian Pacific is a
little singular.
Does the esteemed Herald recognize that
our transcontinental lines are ofully occu-
pied in charging the intermediate shippers
''all the traffic will bear" that they cannot
be expected to do anything to bring
the telegraphic connection with Japan to
our own country? Or is this practical
avOwal that the complaints of American
railways of the competition of the Cana
dian roads is really based on the superior
enterprise of the Canadian Pacific. But
even if both suppOsitions be true, there
are other organizations of United States
capital which might be called upon to take
charge of that enterprise. For instance
the Mackay- Bennett cable, which the
Herald exploits in its every issue, might
very fifty extend its connections and give
us active telegraphic competition through
this country by undertaking the project
thus commended to it.
But perhaps the Herald has information
that the laying of such cable would be
the reverse of remunerative. In that case
its willingness that the Canadian Pacific
corporation shall put up the money is
ennaliY natrintic and futile
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
Farmers Must Be Reasonable.


notice that the various papers announce
that this is prosperous year, and no doubt
It is; but it is not alone because there are
large crops. Large crops alone will not
make good yeSr. The prices must rule
high if the farmer is to have benefit. The
value of crop does not depend upon its
size so much as the price obtained. For In
stance, the crop OF 1884 was over five hun
dred million bushels, and it brought but
three hundred and thirty million dollars,
while the crop of 1881 was but three hundred
and eighty-three million bushels and it
brought nearly five hundred million dollars.
This is an exceptional year. The crop is
larger than ever, and prices bid fair to be
larger than for years past. In the face of
the demand from Europe, the main trouble
will be that the farmers are likely to have
their expectations raised too high; SO high
that the poor people of Europe connot afford
topurchase In chat case the big crop will
not be profitable. 1t is said that the short
age of Europe is four times as large as the
American surplus but farmers must not ex-
pect to obtain more than 81 80. The talk
that 81 90 is high for wheat is foolish, under
the present circumstances, but to expect
more than 81 80 is unreasonable, and above
all farmers should be reasonable.
LIVERPOOL, September To- ALTA.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
A QUESTION OF APPRAIsEMENT.
The Treasury Department Disagrees With
the District Attorney.

the District Attorney.
WASHINGTON Sept. 15-In a recent COM
munication to the General Appraiser at New
York the District Attorney at st. Louis con-
tended that under the law on the subject
applications for review of the decisions OF
the Board of General Appraisers must in all
cases be made to the Circuit of New York in
the district where the decision of the board
was rendered.
The matter was referred to the Treasury
Department, and in letter to the General
Appraiser at New York Acting Secretary
Spaulding says the position of the attorney
appears untenable, and was so determined
by the Circuit Court for the Eastern district
OF Missouri, which held that the
terms of the law within the dis
trict in which the matter arises refers
to the district in which the port is situated
where the merchandise was entered and the
controversy between the importer and col
lector originated. He sees no reason for
submitting the question to the Supreme
Court for determinations suggested BY the
District Attorney.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

THE industry with which one report from
Texas that Dyrenfurth's explosions have
produced abundant rains is chased by
another that they have done nothing of the
sort, is calculated to produce desperation in
the impartial mind. Can it be that Dyren-
furth and his rain making have become
political issue?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

ENGLAND against Russia, France against
Germany, all Europe against China, a short
crop and the cholera in Asiatic Turkey are
calculated to make people on this side of
the ocean thankful that they have to endure
nothing worse than monopolistic combina-
tions, the political machines and Russell
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Attorney W. Fl. Young,

W. II. Young, member of the Green's
burg bar, died yesterday morning at Krkbride
Asylum, Philadelphia, where he was taken about
six months ago, suffering with paresis which
caused his death. He was well known throughout
Westmoreland and adjoining counties. He was
of the most brilliant and eloquent of Westmore-
He read Jaw with ex-Judge Hunter. and was ad-
mttted to the bar in 1877. He was about 40 years
old and leaves wife, but no children.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
A Hard Winter in Europe.

Denmark has removed the prohfbitory
duty on American pork. All European
countries are seeking cheaper food, for
there is gloomy prospect of hard winter.
The effect of the prohibition of France and
Germany has been to lessen our exports and
put tremendous tax on the consumers of
our pork. Now other countries are likely to
follow France and Germany in removing the
ban. Their own people and ours will be
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
Necessity OF Restocking Ontario.

Pn1IautIpuId I Iess'J :.
The necessity Of restoring the fish supply
of Lake Ontario is shown by Forest and
Stream by a quotation from Rochester
newspaper, which calls attention to Lake
Ontario whitef1sh as to a curiosity. Yet in
1880 the catch of whitefish in the lake was
lO64 coo pounds. In 1885 the amount was 90 :
Ill pounds and in 1891 the fish is q curiosity
in Rochester. Lake trout have disappeared
in like proportion. But Congress has made
an appropriation for a hatchery from which
to stock the lake, provided laws for the pro-
tection of the fish shall first be passed bv
New York and the Dominion of Canada,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

slams, $1,000, also arrived on the field. In the
Wilderness campaign Grants army in the
beginning was about 130 goo strong, and Lees
about 10000 At Gettysburg there were
about rs 600 Union soldiers and 1000 rebels.
The Prussians were about $4,000 at Sadowa,
and the Austrians 100000. AtGrayelotte the
Germans numbered 2ll,OOO, and the French
100000, and at Sedan the Germans were 1885,
600 and the French e5 OOO.1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

THERE has been delay in the ratification
of that Cuban Treaty by the Spanish Cortes;
but as the impressive E. Burd Grubb is going
back to Spain, the prospect is that the
recalcitrant deputies will be promptly
charmed into seeing their duty. General
Grubb is irresistible except when he is
trying to persuade the stubborn Jerseymen
into electing him Governor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
The Powers BuIIdoze China.

New I Ork " OrIu.J
Lord Salisbury has notified the Govern
ment of China that if it cannot protect the
lives and property of foreign residents the
powers will take the matter in hand. II
China were strong enough to make and to
back up similar notice TO this country rela-
tive to the protection of Chinese resident
here, we might have to change our policy.
As it is the Powers bulldoZe the CeIestials
for not giving what other nations do not
accord them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

THE latest thing in industrial science is
the establishment of an academy at Chicago,
under license from the Internal Revenue
Bureau, at which the process of brewing
beer is to be studied in all its scientific
phases. When the manufacture of beer be-
comes a learned profession, the froth on the
top of it may be expected to be something
immense.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
PREPARING TO CELEBRATE.
Kentucky viii Soon Complete Her First
Century of Existence.

OeHtury OI HNIsIeHce.
New York Tribune.l
Kentucky is already preparing to cele-
brate the completion of her first century as
State Of the Union, although the time for
the celebration is nearly nine months dis
tant. Kentucky was the second State to be
mitted, following Vermont by more than
year; for the recent celebration at Benning-
ton coincded neither with the date of the
battle fought there nor with the date OF
Vermont's acquisition of Statehood, the
latter being March 4, 1871.
Kentucky came in as the fifteenth State on
June l, 1872, and the celebration of the oen-
tennial of that event in her history will
take place next summer. An elaborate cele-
bratfon is already planned. The next State
in the historic line is Tennessee, which is
Kentucky's Junior by four years to day.
No other States centennial occurs in the
present century, but Ohio will have her turn
earlV in the next
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

THAT Jail on Ross street forms part of
very imposing architectural whole; but if
defiant criminals can walk out of it at will,
the public may conclude that it would be
better to invest less in architecture and
more in an efficient guardianship of the
criminals.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

IT IS the statement of Ben Butterworth
that the returning Worlds Fair Commits
sioners are very tired. That their digestive
organs are fatigued is natural, under the
necessary workings of cause and effect; but
that their heroic spirit is worn out we must
decline to believe. We venture the asser-
tion that the fndomitable Handy and Butter
worth would tackle another public dinner
tomorrow, if the call of duty should spread
the festive board before them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

THE situation in New York politics adds
force to the apprehension that the town of
Elmira is likely to set up exclusive claims
to the business of being the nursery of Gov
ernors for that State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
William ii. Perrin, Historian.

William Henry Perrin, the author of sew
aeral historical works, died Monday morning In
Louisville Of malarial fever. In 1873 he went to IL
hnois where he prepared history of the Western
and Northwestern States and Territories. Return
ing. he published history Of Kentucky. He con-
magazines. He was 60 years old and leaves family
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

BARDsLEY refuses to say word about
McCamant and Livsey. The threat of i'm
prisonment for contempt is one which has
slight terrors for a man who has just begun
a term of fifteen years in the penitentiary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

For the United States Admiral to give
Balmaceda a refuge was undoubtedly cor
rect; but care should be taken that the ex-
ample of England is not followed in getting
away with round lot of the Chilean public
treasure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

PERHAPS, if the burglars and murderers
were to capture the honest men and put
them in jail, the way to make prisons secure
would be demonstrated in actual practice
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

THE cyclonic storms which were predicted
for September, by the weather prophets, have
materialized in such negative way as to
make us wish for prediction of perpetual
cyclones.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16
Isaac Morton.

Isaac Morton, who has been janitor of the
Freehold Bank for 20 years, died yesterday morn
ing at the age of So years. He was great church
worker and q member of the Il. A. r. He was one
of the prime movers to have Emancipation Day
made legal holiday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-16

PERHAPS Mr.. Russell Harrison indorses
the New York ticket on the distinct under
standing that it will put more complaisant
collector in charge of the revenue tugs.