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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

two little pairs, with an assurance of secur-
ing great riches, to discover that he had the
winning hand.
1t is in that characteristic of plain Bill
Brown that we discover the esecret of the Hon.
Colonel Browns recent great success. All
previous means to get the Hon. David Ben
nett Hill and the Hon. Grover Cleveland
together had failed, until the Senator who
now represents Tammany and journalism in
the New York Legislature took them in
hand. When he invited them to the ban
quet, he must have exercised the art which
he learned In the fierce conflicts of the great
American game. He convinced both of
them that he was bIufing. They called
him down by coming to the festive board,
and discovered when the hands were shown
that they were captured. No other man in
the country could have done this but the
man who had mastered the fnesse by long
and successful practice in the game at which
Colonel Brown has held undisputed mastery
and championship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
money on the open marke. was quoted

"MoNEY on the open market was quoted
at 1856 per cent in November; the same money
goes begging in January at 2 per cent" notes
the Commercial Advertiser. of New York, and
proceeds to infer that the principle that credit
does the business of the country and not money,
is wrong The principle as stated is certainly
wrong but the fact that business transactions
are carried on credit is illustrated by the con-
trast to which the Commercial AdUsrt iser re
fers. The volume of money was practically the
same in November as in January; but bank
credits were artifcially refused in one month.
and extended freely in another. The events of
last fall can hardly be held to have any real
bearing on the currency system. But they Illus
trate two great business evils, namely monetary
marts at the mercy of the great money kings
and corporate methods which elevate most
surely the most unscrupulous men to that posi-
ton of power and counted wealth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
MAY REFUSE THE BE0UEST.

The Conditions of the Thaw Bequest to the
Home for Aged Protestant Women Con-
ficts With the By-Laws-Lady Gradu-
ates Lunch-Society News.
There is possibility that the Board of Man
ayers OF the Home for Aged Protestant Women
at Williamsburg will not accept the bequest of
the late William Thaw, whereby he gave them
the sum of $1,000, conditionally. Miss Jane
Holmes the President, when seen regarding
the matter yesterday. said that an Executive
Committee had the matter under consideration,
and would probably appeal to Mrs. Thaw to see
If they could not accept the money
Internationally, to do with it as
might seem best. The conditions
accompanying the bequest conflict with
the rules and bylaws of the corporation. and its
acceptance as it now stands would render
complete new set of regulations necessity.
The annual meeting of the officers and man
ayers of the Home was held yesterday at
Christ M. e. Church. and the reports of the
various officers read, approved and ordered
published. The report of Mrs. George II.
Thurston. the secretary. was a lengthy and
affecting one, for in 1t she traced the history of
the Home from its inception, 20 years ago,
down to the present time, and paid tributes to
the many earnest workers who have passed to
the other shore. Financially, the Home is free
from debt, and is enabled to remain so. The
year has been prosperous and pleasing one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
PITTsBURG. THURSDAY, FEB. 5, 1891.
JUDGES AND EXCISE BOARDS.

The views of several leading Philadel-
phians on the transfer of the duty OF grant
ing licenses, from the judges to an excise
board, as pablished, show marked unan-
unity against the change. Archbishop
RYAN, Bishop Whitaker, Robert c. Ogden
and Lewis d. Vail all speak strongly
against giving the license-granting power to
any board that would be subject to political
control or liable to be Influenced by the
saloon element More remarkable still, so
leading a member of the liquor trade as Mr..
William Van Osten, President of the Liquor
Dealers Association, declares such a trans
fer of the power would be detrimental to
every respectable man in the liquor bust
ness"
This opposition is based on the feeling
that to create excise boards or commissions
would place the licensing authority In the
hands of a political machine, and would
either result in giving license to every ap-
plicant or making it matter of political
favor. Mr.. Van Osten's view comedies
With that expressed by some of the leading
liquor dealers of this city. that they want
their business kept out of politics and freed
from the temptations to corruption that
flourish if licenses are granted as a
matter of fear or favor. So far as the present
workings of the system are concerned the
results of the license courts are far more sat-
isfactorv than could be obtained from any
excise commission.
But this view does not take into consider
alton the question how long this satisfactory
condition would endure. If the element
that wishes unlimited license can control
the election of excise commissioners can
they not also in time control the election of
Judges Ii that was done would not the in
jury be far greater than the control merely
of the licensing board bv the saloon element?
While the respectable element of the liquor
dealers join the rest of society in keeping
the license business out of politics, there is
no reason why excise sboards should not be
kept free from injurious control, as we'll as
the judges.
1t is possible that the best way to at once
relieve overworked judges and to keep the
license-granting power above the suspicion
of undesirable influences, is to let the courts
appoint the majority, if not all, the mem
bers of the commission, and to leave in
the hands of the courts the power TO re-
woke licenses for misconduct. With the
opposition to permitting this duty to get
into politics, the Legislature can hardly
afford to establish elective commissions or to
compose them of officials who are subject to
political influences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
A TULIP LUNCHEON
Given by a Fair Graduate to Bevy of Her
Classmates.

Classmates.
A coterie of Bowman Institute young ladies
who graduated in 'S5 with Miss Minnie Becker
were her guests yesterday at tulip luncheon.
To meet the young ladies were two guests Of
honor, Miss Walker, of New York, visiting at
present at the Becker home, and Miss Meek. of
Bellefountaine. The dining room was a dis
tractingly pretty vision, with the center piece
of rich red tulips nesting amid luxuriant
green adorning the table, and the candelabra
shaded by cunning little tulips of the
same warm color, casting red glow over
the dainty damask covering and the delicate
table service. Little scarlet souvenirs were
laid beside each plate. consisting of tiny men,
ento books sweetly tied with satin ribbon and
bearing the gold inscription, ITO be well read"
The luncheon was served in courses, by Kenne-
dy. and exactly one dozen charming maidens
graced the table, Miss Nellie Becker declining
the invitation to defy fate and become the
thirteenth.
Both Miss Minnie. and her sister Nellie were
gowned in crimson equally becoming to either
the dark eyes ana hair of the former or the
blonde loveliuess of the latter. The guests of
honor were attired in stylish afternoon toilets
and the other young ladies in chic street
gowns. A full list of the gay company included
Miss Walker, Miss Meek. Miss McCreery, Miss
Garland Miss Foster. Miss Crawford. Misses
Rebecca and Mary Patterson, Miss Lewis, Miss
Thompson and Miss Cluly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

Blimmer-Why is it that poets always
make the barefooted farmers boy whistle.
Bubble-I suppose it's SO that he will keep his
courage up when he goes into stubble pasture
after the cows.-Chtcago Times.
''Oh, madam, Jip has just bit man on the
streetl''
''what kind of a looking man was ft?''
''He was nearly In rags
'sPoor Jip! wash the darling's mouth out with
a little eau de cologne. .''-J,d0e.
In view of the actions of certain Prussian
dpomates IL is hard to believe that the real reason
of the German refusal TO admit the American hog
is not based upon professional Jealousy
NeJo8.
Tommy gazing after dude)-When get
to be a man, papa, will dress like that?
Papa (severely)-No, Tommy; not II you get 70
be man.-Lys.
Mamma-Willie, you must not spin
that humming top of yours to-day. This is Sum-
day.
Willie (whirling 1t again)-That's. all right,
mamma It's humming a Sunday school tune
Chicago Tribune
Young Husband-Here's the old chestnut
about rose being Just as sweet by any other
name. It's lie; it wouldn't.
Young wife-Pray, what difference could the
name make!
Young Husband-Well. here's your own case
Two months ago, you were Miss Catchim, and
Mosesl how sweet you we're! and now you're Mrs.
Coffin, INSTRUMENTATION Courier.
At 10 she jumps the rope and performs on
a trapeze. That is the age Of action. At 20 she
Tolls 4 sofa or hammock and reads novels
That is the age Of passion. At 30 she wields the
slipper or stove poker, according to the size Of the
subject. That is the age OF reaction. And vet
they say that action and reaction are equal and
opposite in enects.-BuraLo Express.
The report giving the quantity of distilled
liquors used in works of art. etc. In Texas shows
that only 2, lOl gallons OF high wines were con-
sumed, whereas OF sour mash, old Bourbon. rye
and such like. VIC devoted to art during the year
30. $50 gallons and upward. The wide difference is
readily accounted for when remember that
only few drops OF wine are needed to make the
cheeks red and rosy, but that the young men use q
whole gallon OF low wines to paint the town red
after the party breaKs up and they come in from
the esuburbs.-Daltds, Tsr.. Heses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

known. This bill may be considered an ex-
treme measure, but it is really on the side
of good order. The Pinkerton guards exist
only as product of trouble and it is to
their pecuniary interest to cause disorder.
And a class of men who will hire out to
take chances on their lives with a probable
mob can hardly be regarded very highly.
Striking workmen, who are citizens of the
locality, are rather less likely to be disor-
derly if let alone, than these migratory
special officers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.

Mr.. ]. c. BANCROFT DAVIS has been Sc
lected to fill to vacancy in the Washington
National Monument Society caused by the
death of his uncle George Bancroft.
JUDGE JOHN LATHRoP, who has just been
elevated to the Supreme Court bench of Mas
sachusetts, can trace his ancestry back to the
minister of that name who came over in the
Mayflower.
JUDGE GRINNELL, of Chicago, who prose-
cuted the Anarchists before his elevation to
the bench, is about to retire to private life and
has accepted employment as counsel from the
Chicago City Railway Company.
MRS. JERRY SIMPSON was with her husband
at topeka during the Senatorial canvass. She
is modest agreeable and sensible little
woman, who is devoted to her liege lord, and is
proud of the honors which have been showered
upon him.
Mrs. CARRIE STEELE. colored, has founded
coored orphan, asylum in Georgia. She has
built cottage and stable. larger building is
going up. and four acres of land around 1t have
already been put under cultivation. Mrs. Steele
has collected the money entirely by her per-
sonal efforts.
MISSIONER was one of the many little men
who have played big parts in the worlds his
tory His head was large and his shoulders
were rather broad, but his body was short and
slender. His legs were small and insignificant,
but they answered Abraham Lincoln's test, in
being long enough to reach the ground.
JOHN D. RoCKEFELLER's gift of 81, ,600.0 600 to
the Chicago University is being paid in INSTALL
ments of sl00 600 each 80 days. He said recently
to one who had spoken of his gift as munif-
cent: 10, it is nothing compared with what 1
intend to do, as have only just begun to make
money" And he is rated at s10O, 900.
GOVERNOR JONES, of Alabama, while in the
national Capitol building the other day. was re-
quested by some Northern visitors, who did not
know him. to show them about the place. He
performed the task acceptably, and one of the
strangers handed him 80 cents. The Governor
then revealed himself, to the confusion of the
visitors.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD saw the Emperor of
Japan at the opening of Parliament, where he
presented very interesting figure. He is tall
in comparison with the majority of his subjects
and has strongly marked features. His eyes
are dark and watchful, and he has slight
beard and moustachs. His manners are at
once gracious and dimperturbably reserved. The
Mikado was dressed in the uniform of an army
General and wore the broad red ribbon Of the
Order of the Rising Sun.
SENoRA GONZALES. wife of the ex-President
Of Mexico. is now travelingsl5 the United States
unattended by maid or escort She has been
II months away from her Mexican home. and
In that time she has visited tn principal cities
of Europe. The sonora is fine looking little
woman, with large and pretty brown eyes, an
olive complexion and an abundance of black
hair. She does not appear to be more than 35
years old. She is interested in medicine and is
a graduate of two medical colleges.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Lena Borner.

notable woman passed away from life yester-
day at the residence of her son. Christian Borner
of the Twenty-ift ward. County Commissioner
Mercer states that, though in her sid year, her
life was shortened by her determination to main
tain her standing in life as one of usefulness.
Though surrounded by all needed to make her age
one of ease. she persisted in keeping her place
in the domestic establishment. and abreast of the
times in matters OF thought. taking keen an in
terest in public affairs woman of 35. With
her husband the late Melchor Borner, she came
from Germany TO Baltimore in 1885, From thence
they came TO this city, and lost much of their
worldly effects in the great fire of 1915. The fam
the family have since resided. Four children sur
yiye their mother William, Christian. Mrs Eliz-
abeth Tesh, of Braddock, and Mrs. Mary Smith,
who lives in Ohio.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
BALTIMORFs sWINDLING NOVELTIES.

Baltimore bids fair to take position well
up in the front rank for novel swindlers.
There is yet lingering memory of the man
who named a fictitious baby after great
many prominent public men-to their loss
and sorrow. And now the Monumental
City comes forward with a much married
couple which has been set up in housekeep-
ing innumerable times by charitably dis
posed people. The husband and father
drinks and the poor wife and mother asks
for assistance for herself and five suffering
children. The husband reforms-always in
consideration of material kindness shown
and the couple get married. The record 30
far as traced shows 10 marriages, all on the
same principle. And the five suffering
children have been 90 times subjected to
baptism in various forms and christening
with miscellaneous assortment of names.
There is no telling how long this ''racket"
would have been worked, had it not been
discovered by the minister who oficiated on
the last occasion, but it would probably Iave
gone on until the stock of Christian names
had been exhausted on the five, silently
suffering buds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
A Gymnasium for Orphans.

The boys of the Protestant Home in ALE.
gheny are living in hopes of gymnasium in
the not distant future The lady managers, at
their regular meeting yesterday, discussed the
feasibility of devoting the basement to that
laudable purpose. as no other space is availa-
bic on the premises. The officers reelected at
the annual meeting last month assume posi-
tions at the meeting yesterday, and many plans
for the sturdy little tellows' comfort and happi-
ness were discussed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

EXAMPLES are multiplying of lights of
the stage and society who on incomes of So, 900
to Sl3O, 900 per year find the expenses of living
SO great that they cannot possibly use any of
their income to pay their debts. Yet the
Eastern press reserves all of its denunciations
for the farmers of the West, who only want
coinage law passed that will knock a mere 20
per cent off their indebtedness.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Secretary FoIIansbee,s Riddles.

The cheerfulness and calm of the applicant
for a barrel of statistics make Secretary Fol-
lansbee, of the Chamber of Commerce. marvel
exceedingly. Everybody knows that Mr.. Fol-
lansbee does not complain no matter how busy
he may be, but he has elevated his eyebrows in
protest once or twice lately when some stranger
in brief note has asked for statistics by re-
turn mail that would take month to collect.
A man writes, for instance, saying: "Please
give me the glass tonnage of Pittsburg for the
month of December, 1890 the gross tonnage of
Pittsburg during the pasb ten years. and such
other statistics as you may consider useful in
estimating the traffic, ETC., etc. An imme-
diate reply will oblige yours, etc."
Such letters as these do NOT come slngly to
Secretary Follansbee. but by the dozen. The
Chamber of Commerce is buried under them
Mr. Follansbee keeps on digging his way out
as best he may. but never gets really clear.
He completed table of statistics for one man
few days ago that kept him hard at work for
a week to obtain. Such labor is doing a good
deal for Pittsburg
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

AN Indiana legislator has proposed to
punish wife-beaters by sixty lashes, and that
the public shall be admitted to the punish
ment. The proposition is uneconomic and
medieval. A much better use can be made OF
wife-beaters than whipping them. Let them
be forced to use their muscular energy in max.
ing good roads, with their wages paid to the
wives, while the latter take a vacation from
family discipline.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

APRoPos of the remark of Sir Richard
Cartwright, that Canada with 100000 people
buys as much from the United States as the
$4,000, QUO of population to the south of US. the
Philadelphia Record says, that being so, the
proposed international railway should run
northwardIy instead of southwardy." 1t
should If we had no direct communication with
Canada; but the fact that very close commun-
cation with our northern neighbors has built
up this large trade is an argument for improv-
ing our transportation connections with the
southern countries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

THE foolish idea that, because man wins
one prominent position, therefore he is Presi-
dental quantity, is getting in its work on Judge
PETER. He is already talked of as the Alliance
candidate for President. Let the pernicious
idea be suppressed at once. If PETER and Hill
are to push their Presidential booms in the Sem
ate at the same time the public will not get
any of its business done, and the only compen-
sation will be that both Of them will break
their political necks.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

. IT is to the credit of Senators Foar and
Dawes that they have Joined in recommending
the retention of General Corse as Postmaster of
Boston. If the President follows the recon.
mendation. ne will join the Massachusetts
Senators in doing better than was expected.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

RAPID transit in New York means an
underground viaduct with the swiftly moving
trains away from the surface. Rapid transit in
Philadelphia means the elevated system that
New York is just discovering to be inadequate.
Rapid transit in Pittsburg-well what rapid
transit means in Pittsburg no one has yet been
able to tell.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

THE name of Joseph Cannon is urged by
the Chicago Inter- Ocean for the Treasury
portfolio. Recent experience having impressed
on Mr.. Cannon the necessity of keeping his
mouth In subjection, there is reason to believe
that he might make very decent Secretary of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

The Farmers Alliance has improved its
money borrowing scheme by limiting the sum
to be loaned by the Government to any one
person to $1,000. This is not confined to
farmers either so that the owner of city lot
can build house by this loan, provided that
the obstinate builders when every one has got
his So. 900 do not put the cost of $1,000 house
up to $4,000
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
Rev, DIR. T. N. HaseIouist.

ROCK ISLAND, Feb. 4.-Rev. DIR. T. N, Hasel-
ouist. for 80 years President of Augustana Col
lege, and for 20 years the senior minister of the
Swedish Lutheran Augustana Synod, died in this
city this morning. He was born at Skodek,
sweden, in 1916; was ordained in 1859: arrived in
America in 1852. He was founder of the Angus
tana synod. As aStor. educator, editor ana au-
thor few men have exercised great and wide
an influence. strong anti-slavery worker. he
took a leading part in founding the Republican
narty The college exercises have been suspended
for the remainder of the week. The funeral will
take place Monday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
PROHIBITION OF PINkERToN GUARDS

That the new political element in control
of the Kansas Legislature is not all farmers
is evidenced by the passage, by the House,
Of the bill to prohibit the employment of
armed forces while a strike is pending.
Farmers never strike. II is not possible
from the nature of their business. But the
Alliance members OF the Kansas LegisIa-
ture stand for the Knights Of Labor, as well
as the farmers, and the hostility of this
order to the Pjnkerton guards is well
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
& PHILaNTHR0PIsTs FALL.
Mrs f. r. Brunot Meets With an Accident
While on Mission of Mercy.

While on a Mission of Mercy.
The many friends of Mrs. F. r. Brunot, who
is and has been for years pre.eminent in the
philanthropic work of the city, will regret to
learn of the serious accident by which she is
now confined to bed of suffering.
Last Tuesday, while engaged in the charity
work to which she has devoted her life and in
the act of ringing the door bell at the Tenn
porary Home for Women her hand slipped
and losing her balance as a CONSEQUENCE she
sustained 4 severe fall She was convened to
her home on Stockton avenue and medical as
sistance summoned. 1t is hoped her indisposi-
tion will be of a brief nature and that skilled
attention and careful nursing will soon restore
her to health,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

LET US hope that the reports of strike
and indefinite shutdown in the coke region will
prove to be unfounded. This is a bad time OF
the year and unfavorable juncture of trade
to enter upon unnecessary and enforced idle
ness for the settlement of wages disputes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05

THERE is big fight reported between the
American Biscuit Company and the New York
Biscuit Company. That will be all right if they
do not get to throwing their own crackers at
each other. An artillery duel with machine
made biscuits might be hazardous to the by
ISLANDERS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-02-05
j. G. Backofen.

j. G. Backofen. one of the best known resi-
dents of Pittsburg, died yesterday afternoon at
his residence in the East End, at the advanced
age of s4 years. His funeral will occur from his
late home, at the corner of Sheridan avenue and
Station street, tomorrow at 2P. NJ.