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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-12

ready for moistening. in the same manner as
the back OF stamps. These cost from IS cents
to 50. according to size. Any book store keeps
animal figures, flowers and dolls and soldiers in
bright and beautiful colors ready to cut out
and paste in the book. Then again. to such a
child paint box of the non-poisonous French
colors with book OF outline pictures is very
acceptable.
II you have little friend who has a French
nurse or goyerness, or who is learning to read
the language, there are the most charming
story books at the large book stores, not only
exquisitely gotten up, but thoroughly Frenchy
in every way. ALI our standard stories are there
told In French, and many more new to US, but
familiar to French children.
Nothing could be daintier or more acceptable
for gift where only remembrance is intended
for there are shades and degrees in gift giving
a. well as in other things-than . few cut flow
ers daintily wrapped in tinted tissue paper and
tied with ribbon, pot OF pinks or primroses or
lily ready to bloom, a box Of fine candies or
one OF the many paper-covered illuminated
poems or cards that are SO gracefully designed
to meet the holiday trade.
II q by be Of a literary turn your choice is
wide, or II OF mechanical or scientific inclina-
ton there are many fns books and tools that
are accessible.
EsPIclALLY FOB OLDER BOYS
there Az many valuable things besides books
There are magic lanterns that cost from so cents
70 e12; above the "a grade they are very serv-
icesble and satisfactory. Then, what boy with
wide open eyes and growing mind does not de-
sire microscope to search out some of the Sc
crets OF nature? There are marvellous things
In the way Of steam engines, steam hammers
saws and pulleys, that can be bought for a few
dollars. Skates, racquets, slsds and all the
other outof-door needs can 30 catered TO. II
away ct school there are beautiful travelling
oasss Of leather. containing the toilet articles
N compact form, from 9e cents TO several dol
lass N cost Photograph holders At lssthsr,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
TAx-DoDGERs EVERYWHERE.

That other countries have experiences
often noted in this land of public cheating
is not without its consolation. In that
light the fact that noted case in Ger
many brought out the practice of success
full tax-dodging is interesting to the Ameri-
can mind
The case in some of its details brings
out the marked difference between Ger
many and the United States. An editor
charged in his paper that the tax commits.
Sioners of the town of Bochum Systemat-
ically undervalued the income of the rich
people of their own party. The list was
headed by a privy councillor, who was
taxed on an income of 80, 400 marks, while
his actual income was declared by the edi-
tor to be over 100000 marks. Other cases
of the same sort being specified, the editor
was sued for libel. Although he produced
seventy witnesses who admitted they paid
taxes ON an average of 40 per cent of their
true incomes, he was convicted and SEN
fenced to five months in prison.
This case, unless misstated, indicates
that other countries have abuses as badly
as we. The cotemporary from which we
QuObS lClClS w OdA do
torial But in view of a recent protest in
this State against an attempt to tax per-
sonal property in full, we may conclude
that all taxation is inquiSitorial if it makes
a vigorous effort to reach taxables As
the tax-dOdging charged was in about the
same proportion as that done in this State
on personal property, and that admitted is
about equivalent to the general under
valuation of real estate, the case may be
taken to express the universal dislike to
being taxed and the especial success which
attends the efforts of the wealthy and in
fluential class to evade taxation.
Society has not yet learned how to en-
force the lesson that it is the duty of all
honest men to pay taxes. To cheat the
State of your just proportion is simply
cheating large number Of your fellow
men
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
THE POOR FARM BIDS.

The small number of men who are will
ing to dispose of farms in their entirety
shows conclusively that Pittsburg is BOOM
ing. Only eleven bids were received for a
Poor Farm, and according to the ideas of
Chief Elliot none of them will be suit
able. They are of 200 acres each-plenty
large enough-but the Chief still holds to
the idea of farming 400 or more acres of
valuable land with pauper labor 1t may
be very good for the health of the inmates,
but will be hard on the city's purse, and a
small farm with plenty of chance for ex-
ercise, not work, will do the inmates as
much good and leave the city better off
financially in the end. A personal inspec-
ton would be necessary to pass on the
availability of the farms offered, on ac-
count of the location and other advant-
ages, but as to their extent any one of
them would do for all practical purposes.
The reason advanced for so few bids
being received is that land within any
reasonable distance CT the city can be sold
in lots at better advantage than as
whole. 1t is pleasing to note that the city
is SO rapidly spreading out in all direc-
tions. New plots of city lots and new
towns are springing up all around us, and
almost every farm in the county bears that
interesting sign Lots for Sale" Yet
with all these signs of prosperity we must
have Poor Farm, and since no very large
farms are for sale it is to be hoped Coun-
ellis will be convinced that those offered
are plenty large enough.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
A UNIQUE CALENDAR.
Every Day a Greeting From Distant
Friend Was Seen.

Friend Was seen.
Harper's BazarJ
Some one the other day thought of this
about a calendar A daughter was TO go
away, to be gone long time, on the other
side OF the earth So the mother, thinking
to bring her good cheer, bought calendar.
Now the ordinary calendar differs little
from its fellow, except happily now anu
then in the way of quoted phrase, or b1the-
some child, or maybe decorative fruit and
flower. More than that, no ordinary calen-
dar seems an individuals very own. As
howcould it, with it's counterpart on any
body's desk, and it's mates all manufactured
by the dozen?
But the calendar this mother made could
be duplicated by no one, for this is what she
did. Below the date on each leaf there was
blank space. She therefore took the cal
endar apart, sending its 365 leaves to as
many friends and relatives, asking each to
write some sort of salutation on this blank,
space below the date. When these were re,
turned, they were bound together again, and
the calendar was given to the daughter, who
knew nothing of what had been done. She
was made to promise, however, to tear OF no
leaf until the day had dawned when the leaf
was due.
What a source of delight such a calendar
would be to an exile from home can easily
be imagined. Every day different greet
ing from different friend Every day
new surprise, and never to know till the
morrow what friend was to send Il word OF
good cheer.
The one addition this mother might make
on another calendar of its kind would be to
ask each friend to keep q record of the date
when the greeting, as it were, fell due; then
to remember both greeting and date, so that
when the exile read it in one of these far-
away countries, she and her friends at home
might, for moment at least, stand con-
sc1ously face to face.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
NOT A CASE FOR REVOLUTION,

The Louisiana idea of self-government
crops out in a new form in the declaration
of the opponents of the Louisiana lottery
that, if they cannot carry the popular vote
against the re-chartering of that institution,
they will resort to revolution to prevent it.
This avowal made by clergyman at the
New Orleans meeting has been indorsed
by several meetings in the interior of the
State.
This indicates radical and earnest op-
position to the public scandal and disgrace
Of the lottery, which in itself is not dis
agreeable to witness. In any other State
than Louisiana it would be taken as the
hyperbole of campaign rhetoric; but a
section which has manifested readiness
in the past to resort to the arbitraments of
mob law cannot take such utterances as
mere figures of speech. Of course,
the deliberate intention to resort to
revolution, if the majority of the
people do not vote against the lottery,
is wholly at variance with the principles
of self-government. The divine right of
revolution is a resort where the forms of
government do not give the people an op-
portunity to maintain their rights OF en-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19

force their wishes by any other means.
But where the people have the remedy in
their own hands, the fact that majority
vote wrong does not excuse the minority
for attacking the very foundation of self
government. To assert that policy in
Louisiana is just as insane as the assertion
of the same intention by the Anarchists of
Chicago, except that it is inspired by
more worthy sentiment.
Beyond that, the practicability of such
a project ought to give the worthy Oppo-
nents of the lottery little reflection. If
they can resort to revolution the lottery
can also bring its armed forces into the
field; and especially, if it is backed by
majority of the people, that moneyed
power might prove its ability to put the
most effective force of fighters into action.
The supporters of morality in Louisiana
will find it both wiser, as we'll as more
patriotic, to confine their efforts to be sup
porters of the law as we'll.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
ANTITRUST ACTION,

There is some satisfaction for those who
believe laws, whatever they are, should be
fearlessly and impartially enforced, and
that especially law with so good pur-
pose as that directed against combinations
to suppress competition should have full
trial to learn that the AdminiStration'has
made move in that direction. 1t is stated
that circular has been sent out by the
Department of Justice to United States
district attorneys instructing them to
bring active prosecution against all COM
binations violating the anti trust law
passed by the last Congress.
This is encouraging in some aspects, al
though peculiar in Others If it is neces-
sary for the Administration to instruct
district attorneys to enforce laws which
they have previously sworn to carry out,
it is satisfactory to know that the Govern
ment has issued its instructions in
favor of a statute so important to the
masses as this one. But, then, this question
naturally comes up, why, since it is neces-
sary to instruct the law officers of the Gov
eminent that they must enforce the law,
the instruction was not issued some time
ago? 1t is stated that the circular is based
on recent ruling by Judge Key. But if
the Administration cannot determine to
enforce the law until the courts uphold it,
and district attorneys cannot be relied
upon unless the Administration takes
action, the prospect of the average United
States statute for enforcement seems to be
very slender.
Nevertheless the importance of a move.
ment looking toward organized action to
repress conspiracies against competition is
so great as to overcome all minor criticisms
on the above points. If the campaign
against the trusts is made as sincerely and
vigorously as Mr.. Wanamaker's attack on
the lottery, for example, it will work
a decided change in the plutocracy
of those organizations. The law
under which action is proposed has
been criticised as not thorough enough.
But it is clear that a more stringent law
if not enforced would be equally valueless,
while, if this statute is steadily main
tanned, it will make nine-tenthS of the
great combinations impossible. The ques-
ton is whether the enforcement will be
vigorous and unyielding; whether the ad-
ministration is prepared to make an at
tack upon the Standard, the Sugar Trust,
the Whisky Trust and similar organiza-
tions, and wage the war to decisive
issue.
If so we may expect very lively times,
both in this district and others. But,
considering the monetary power of the
organizations, we may be permitted to re-
serve faith in the vigor of the proposed
enforcement until it demonstrates itself.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY, July 10, 1881.
THE PHILADELPHIA DISCLOSURES

Up to yesterday the succession of dis
closures and assertions with regard to the
Bardsley declaration has been principally
successful in evoking a shower of denials
and explanations. The report of the eX-
pert accountants kept various newspaper
publishers busy explaining why they paid
thousands of dollars to various officials as
commissions on public advertisements,
while the entries of sums of money paid
by Bardsley to divers State officers have
brought out indignant denials from those
functionaries As these payments furnish
a tolerable theory as to the reason why
Bardsley was permitted to retain a large
amount of State money in his hands, the
denials, rather than the original infer
ence, are likely to be taken with grain
of salt.
But if the report published yesterday is
true, a clew of more importance than any
yet laid hold of has been discovered. So
far the disclosures have been those of
comparatively small sized corruption; but
if, as stated, proof has been secured of the
payment of 81 ,250, 900 into Bardsley's
hands, apart from any sums previously
proportions. This is about the missing
amount, and the fact that it has been
traced to Bardsley is suggestive of theories.
Of course nothing is yet known of where
it went; but there is the theory that he has
salted it down himself or that confederates
in the plunder are holding it for him. The
inference is clearly that the plunderers,
seeing defalcation of hundreds of thou
sands a necessity, concluded to share the
profits of making it millions, and that
million and quarter is hid away some
where for future enjoyment
This last feature gives the Philadelphia
scandal a peculiarly interesting character
In its disclosure of the methods of public
plunder ranging from the petty to the
gigantic it has had few equals.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
WHICH Is WORST?

A good deal of not entirely impertinent
criticism has been evoked by the recent
discovery that a special bill was slipped
through the last session of Congress giving
a single firm in this country the right to
sail fOreign-built vessels under the Amer
ican flag. What especial claim this firm
has to privilege refused the rest of the
worId-unless it be that American cor
poratior IN the Pacific coast which seems
to be eJcsing the same exceptional liberty
has not get appeared; but it is more than
intimated that the virtue consists in hav-
ing friends in Congress who slip the special
privileges through sub rosa.
Yet. when we consider the whole SUBJ
ject, the sincere question arises whether
the course taken by these favored individ-
uals does not exhibit more true American
ism than the course our peculiar naviga-
ton laws leaves open to other ship
owners. They showed desire to sail
their ships under the flag of the United
States, and although the means by which
they secured that right might offer strik-
ing commentary on our legislative methods,
the similar comment afforded by the other
course is no less striking. 1t has been re-
Gently published that owners of foreign
built Yachts can escape the SOC per ton
light dues levied at every port by the SIM
pie device of registering their vessels un-
der the English flag. So, too, the course
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
NOVEL LEGAL THEORIES.

The theory of defense in the case of the
persons arrested for running gambling
room on Diamond street was unique one.
1t was in effect, as presented by the
learned counsel, that the men supposed
that they would be permitted to run their
room during the races. There was no dis
pute that the act was violation of law,
and the consequent legal theory that the
law was supposed to be suspended during
race week is novel. There is an old
theory that in time of war the laws are
silenced, but this is the first proposition to
the effect that the first meeting of the
grand trotting circuit has the same effect.
But the novelty of this theory is capped
by the judicial deliverance with reference
to it. The court correctly stigmatized
such defense as nonsense" but pro-
ceeded to say in effect, if the re-
ports can be believed, that it was
the duty of the defendants to ask
the spolice authorities if they would
be permitted to take the races as valid
act of Indemnity and immunity. The
suggestion from the bench, even of po-
lice court, that such a line of action might
work well, is one of the unique manifes-
tations of the phenomenal legal theories
that are sometimes developed in these
tribunals
1t is pertinent to say in this connection
that the talk of police protection for this
gambling establishment is not supported
by any evidence. The fact that the pro-
prietors were arrested and brought to JUS
tice is the most conclusive proof to the
contrary. The peculiar ideas with regard
to the enforcement of law, aired on the
trial, may make it a matter only of moder-
ate surprise that the proprietors imagined
their project of maintaining the lair of the
tiger to be practicable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
CHAKEY MAKES A MISTAKE.
A Big Newfoundland Dog Wakes Up
Cherry Hill Resident

A Big Newfoundland Dog Wakes Up q
Cherry Hill Resident
New York Recorder.l
Under the 1oof made by the Chatham
square station of the al" road is a hack
stand somewhat run to seed. Yesterday
morning at precisely IL o'clock it took an
other jump and sprouted in all directions.
At the hour mentioned q portly looking
German, accompanied by another gentleman
and a large Newfoundland dog, crossed the
street. The dog was evidently well trained.
for he carried in his mouth q basket filled
with the delicacies of the season. which an.
parently had just been purchased in Fulton
Market.
DOT is der nicedest dog vot der effer yos.
badc you," said the admiring proprietor of
the canine. 81 don'd haf some droubles nv
him ven der marged goes. Don'd dot vas
so. Chakey?"
He stopped down to pat Chakey. just at
that moment Chakey saw another dog nosing
around under one of the cabs He started
for it. The other dog was Cherry Hill
resident and wasn't in the humor for funny
business. When they got through with each
other Chakey had forgotten all about his
groceries, the cab drivers were trying to
crawl from the roofs of their coaches to the
al" road structure, and Chakey's managing
editor was endeavoring to put a disDlaY
head on the other dog, while his friend was
rescuing huckleberries, cabbage, a yard of
pork and quart of beans from the gamins
who were having fun with the fruit and
each other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
WELL-KN0WN NAMES.

GENERAL WADE HAMPTON has accepted
the invitation to preside at the unveiling of
the jackson monument on Tuesday next.
JULES vERNEs son Michel who has
written short stories in the style Of his
father, bids fair to step into the fame of the
older Verne.
THE condition of Rev. c. Fl. Spurgeon is
much improved. He partook of some solid
food Thursday night, the first that he has
taken for q month.
Hon. THOMAS BoCoCK, ex-Speaker of
the House of Representatives is critically ill
ut his home in Appomattox county. He has
been an invalid for several years.
BJoRNsoN, the Norwegian novelist, writes
so abominably that no one but his wife can
read his manuscript, which she has to copy
for him before it is sent to the publishers.
PRESIDENT WELLER and the entire fac
ulty of Lane University, at Lecompton, Kan,
resigned because they did not like the seem
cry and manners of the town. They con-
template an opposition institution at Enter
prise.
Bishop G. T. BEDELL has given his
beautiful estate at Gambler, o., valued at
$4,000, and known as "Kokoshing," to Kenyon
College. The handsome stone mansion, in
grove of trees, may be made the home of the
college President.
Mrs. CLEVELAND preserves a volumin-
GUS scrapbook filed to the covers with
notices of her husband clipped from the col.
umns of the daily newspapers. Insomuch as
the uncomplimentary as well as the compli-
mentary notices have been religiously kept,
it must furnish interesting reading to its
owner.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has written letter in
support of Mr. Brand, q candidate for Wis
beach. in which he says: "My physician will
restrain me for some months to come from
the public use of my voice. hope the elec-
tion will be an additional proof that the
country is determined to shake off the incu-
bus of the Irish question"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
TRUSTS AND THE NEW LAW.
How 1t viii Affect One of the Biggest Con-
Germs in Illinois.

Chicago Globe.l
The law against trusts enacted by the last
Legislature went into effect July l. 1t was
believed to be ironclad and not possible of
evasion, but those who so believed reckoned
without their host. One of the biggest COM
bines doing business in Illinois is the tobac-
co trust, the largest houses of which are in
st. Louis The members of these houses have
had their heads together and the result is
scheme which if it does not entirely evade
the law will come very near it.
The tobacco men propose to establish
agencies" where their goods will be sold
at prices set by manufacturers. The same
system in vogue before the law went into
effect will continue under the new scheme,
except that the dealers margins will be
commissions" This system is equally as
tyrannous over the dealers as was the old
pool. They cannot cut prices If they care to
handle the manufacturers goods.
1t is the price question at least which
brings the new scheme within the pale of
the law. The law says there shall be no
combination to keep up prices; 1t is very
plain should the tobacco manufacturers
carry their plan into effect that they may
have considerable business to transact with
our courts.
The dealers, however, are not looking with
favor on the scheme. They believe it was
concocted to defeat the law, and declare
they will not be parties to such questionable
practices. Should the tobacco trust succeed
in its efforts to evade the law the potash,
spice, match, starch, soap and lye com
bines will, no doubt, adopt similar methods.
1t needs genius to framea law affecting
trusts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19
RECENT VALUABLE DISCOVERIES.
Identification of Several More Ancient
Cities of the Pharaohs.


DR.. Nayille, the discoverer of Bubastis and
of the Treasure City of Pithom, has just
given to the world the results of his work in
identifying other cities and districts in
Egypt, more especially some connected with
the exodus of the 1sraelites. He finds that
Succoth was not a city as some supposed,
but q district; from q remarkably valuable
inscription discovered at Pithom, there was
no longer any doubt that it was that Greek
Heroopolis, from whence, as Strabo, Pliny,
Agathemeros and Artemidorus described,
merchant ships sailed to the Arabian Gulf.
This fact coincided with the results of
modern scientific surveys, which showed
that there had bean a gradual rising of the
land and that the Red Sea once extended up
to the walls of Pithom; this must have been
the case about 5000 years ago, and Sir Will
lam Dawson and the French engineer Linant
held that it went even further north The
next place noted by NJ. Naville, was Baal
Zephon, and in identifying this, he had been
aided through some recently discovered
papyri, which proved that it was not a
village or city, but an ancient shrine of Baal
and a noted place of pilgrimage. Other
places were Migdol and Pi Hahiroth, and
here again a papyrus had helped him, it
seemed probable that the Serapeum was the
Egyptian Maktal or Mig dol, and it was
greatly to be regretted that bilingual
tablet discovered there few years ago had
been destroyed before being deciphered.
The bearing of his identihcations Is OF no
small interest :to the students OF history,
both sacred and other.