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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
PEAcEFUL YET PREPARED.

The growth of the war spirit in this
country is bothering our esteemed and
pacific cotemporary the Chicago Neaes. II
has discovered, in the leisure afforded by
the dull season, that the United States,
which should naturally be the enemy of
militarism, strong in an impregnable posi-
ton and by constitution disposed toward
Justice and fraternity, is rapidly becoming
a ramping and roaring lion in search of a
victim.
"This nation,' says the Nesos, 'boasts
that it is now building more war vessels
and making more cannon than any other
country. 1t is planning great system of
coast defenses. Without gaining wisdom
from the spectacle exhibited by Europe
covering before its own armies, this
foolish Republic joins in the movement to
substitute threats for justice. If it would
throw its influence on the side of peace in
stead of upon the blood-red scale where
Europe now bangles it might pluck out the
war spirit from civilization and avert the
frightful struggle that threatens the
world"
This would be very painful and alarm
my IL Dub pLONloiOh VI a lO-
spectacle nucleus for system of defense,
in small but efficient navy and still
smaller army, be taken as evidence of
bellicose disposition? The coast defenses
our cotemporary talks about are very
largely on paper still-many that are
needed are not even there-and when last
spring there was talk of Italy's sending a
squadron of her big warships to lombard
New York, the inhabitants .of that city
were not at all sure that the threat could
not be carried out.
Of course, Chicago, in the interior and
in no particular danger of invasion by any
body more formidable than half-starved
Anarchist, can afford to say that she does
not see the necessity of spending money
on ships and forts and guns. That does
not eliminate the necessity, and it does
not make proper care for the country's
honor, and the safety of her coasts and
commerce, menace to the peace of the
world
The United States is for peace decided
ly; the weight Of her influence is always
on that side. But to enjoy peace herself
she must be in position to fight for it if
need be.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
Obituary Notes.

MARIE TAeLIoNI once famous as danseuse, is
dead in Vienna.
REV. JACOB DoERKsEN, q prominent United
Brethren divine of Baltimore, died Friday night
from the effects of sunstroke received June 2.
MRS. WILLIAM HENRY PECK, wife of Prof.
Peck, the Florida novelist, died of apoplexy in
Atlanta, Saturday morning. She was 50 years old.
AUNT EMILY WARD is dead at Detroit. For
two generations Emily Ward has been leading
figure among Michlgan's best known private bene-
factors,
DoMENIcUs WEcMAN, President of the Foreign
Fruit Exchange and of the Fruit Buyers Union,
New York, died at Pine Hill. Ulster county, NY,
Friday evening.
j. NJ. KELLEY, Superintendent of Blaine's Car
Works, and formerly Master Car Builder of the
Alabama Great Southern Railroad at Chattanooga,
died Friday night in Glen Cove Springs Fla.
CAPTAIN w. G. CRossLEY, builder of a New
Haven fleet Of coasting schooners and proprietor of
the Madison Shipyards. died at his home. in
Madison. Conn.,, Saturday of rheumatism of the
heart.
MAJOR j. B. CAMPBELL, of the Second Artillery,
U. S. A, died suddenly at the Windsor Hotel,
Montreal, Friday afternoon. Major Campbell had
only recently been promoted. and was about TO
Join his command at Fort Trumbuli, Conn. lie
took an active part in the Civil War.
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SOME PEOPLE WHO TRAVEL.

O. A. Williams, of The DISPATCH COM
posing room leaves this morning for Indian
epois to assume his duties as a member of
the Reorganization Committee of the Inter-
national Typographical Union. Mr.. Will
Jams was appointed on the committee as a
successor to r. B. klown, of Topeka. He
was q delegate to the last meeting OF the l.
T. u, and Is peculiarly fitted for the duties
of his new assignment.
The conductor of the Limited last night
said that Archbishop Ireland, of Minnesota,
had alighted here in company with two Sis
ters The Sisters were seen, but no trace of
the dignitary could be found. He was not
expected by Bishop Phelan or the local
clergy.
Lieutenant Kimmell, of Battery B; Cap
tains Coon and Awl, of the Eighteenth Regi
ment, and number OF officers and men
of the Second Brigade, left for the State
shoot at Mt. Gretna last night.
Coroner's Clerk Grant Miller returned
Yesterday from n two weeks vacation at
Atlantic City, looking much improved from
the rest.
DR.. Wiley, of Penn avenue, left last night
for New York and Albany. He will return
on Tuesday.
w. H. Brill, of Philadelphia, is regis
tered ut the Schlosser.
W. H. Fox, of New York, is Duquesne
guest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
OUR DEBT TO CHILE.

The State Department of the United
States cannot recognize the Congressional
party in Chile as the government de fdctO
as well as de .j1tre too quickly. The
blunder made in not giving the patriotic
party official countenanee long ago must
De rectified now as far as possible. Secre-
tary Blaine should act promptly and with
good grace. 1t is very awkward situa-
ton, for which the nation has to thank
President Harrison more than any man.
In addition to the conclusive character
of the campaign which has just ended in
the capture of Valparaiso and the deposi-
ton of Balmaceda, the moderation and
humanity, doubly remarkable in South
America, of the Congressional victors en-
title them to cordial congratulation. Very
seldom in the history of South America
has such magnanimity and pure patriotism
appeared in the conduct of a party in civil
war. Therefore the United States as a
nation can afford to shake hands with the
conquerors, and ask for a renewal of
friendship with the re-established repub-
lie of Chile.
1t is unnecessary to recall what has al
ready been said by THE DISPATCH on the
impropiety and injustice of the admins
tration's attitude toward the Congress
ionalists, but it is to be hoped that the
organs, which think it their duty to main-
tain that the President and his advisers
cannot err, will adjourn for silent refec-
tion and prayer.
The New York Tribune says: eft was
the duty of the United States and of mari
time Europe to respect Balmaceda's
superior position as the legally-elected
executive so long as he remained in undis-
puted possession of the capital and of the
chief port and was supported by the ma
jority of the provinces. The unfortu-
nate flaw in this defense is that Balmac-
eda was not legally President after he
had violated the Constitution grossly, and
practically inaugurated dictatorship.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
FARMING IN MEXICO.
Not Very Serious Rival Of This Country in
the Way of ofAgriculture.

Not Very Serious Rival Of This Country in
the Way of Agriculture.
American Agriculturist.l
While Mexico is generally reputed to be
one of the richest it is in reality one of the
poorest agricultural countries on the Amer
ican continent. 1t produces barely enough
corn and beans to keep an impoverished
population alive. With tropical belts on the
Gulf and Pacific coasts pre-eminently
adapted for the cultivation of sugar and
cotton it has no surplus of either crop for
export.
There are no finer coffee lands in the world
than the mountain slopes of Vera Cruz,
Michoacan, Jalisco, Guerrero and Oajaca;
but the product is inconsiderable in COM
parison with that Of Brazil. With the ex-
ception OF hides and raw fiber, Mexico has
only a small surplus OF agricultural produce
to send to the American market, which re-
ceives- the bulk of the exports of South
America and the West Indies. This inertia
of its working population combined with
deficient water supply and an unprogressive
agrarian system neutralizes the advantages
OF vast extent of territory, variety of natural
products and range OF climate.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
HOUSEKEEPING In LONDON.
1t Is Quite Different From That in This
Country.

Country.
Ladies Home journal.
An American taking house in London
Will learn at the outside that she will have
to keep more servants in the old country
rchan In the new. These servants are trained,
ana one who ID willing to engage to do many
things Is usually willing to take such q posi-
tfon because she Is incompetent in every
thing. small family there would keep a
cook, chambermaid and waitress. The
washing would be put out and charwoman
would be called In once a week to help with
general cleaning and clearing up. very
good cook can be had for $100a year, cham
permaid for $50. and a smart waitress for $50.
The charwoman will be paid two shillings,
or % cents, a day, and given her beer and
food. The washing for such family will
cost from three to four dollars a week.
women-one a cook, who would also wash
ana iron, and another as chambermaid and
waitress. The servants we have here DO
more, but they do 1t more roughly and are
totally deficient In that silent subservience
which makes the trained English domestic
perform the usual household duties with
automatic celebrity. Generally, you have to
nave greater number of servants there
Gnan here, but wages are less and the feed
Ing costs less. There the servants do not
expect to eat just what Is provided for the
family. Not at all. When the marketing is
done, special things are bought for the serv-
ants, anu they have table Of their own, the
meals being served at different hour, ana
the quality of food very much less in cost.
They eat very little meat, most of it salt; the
cheapest kind of fish, and then they have
potatoes and greens and puddings with
treacle. And they are provided with beer,
unless In engaging servants 1t is stipulated
that the engagement is "without beer"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31

decision. A trust wishes TO combine for
the suppression of competition, and the
greatest legal minds are at its service in
gaining that end, both before and after its
object has been judicially declared to be
Illegal
When we consider the extent to which
the practice of the law consists in advis-
ing and helping clients, not in what they
ought to do, but in what they can do, 1t is
plain that mere denuncistion, even by
the courts, will not cure the evil. OF
course, there are various degrees of con-
scientiousness in theprofession; and many
lawyers will refuse to do things that are
accounted most respectable of the class
referred to- But the trouble is neverthe-
less fundamental 1t consists of the fact
that the basis of the legal profession as
livelihood will not permit lawyers to adopt
the answering policy of telling their
clients they must do night. If wealthy
men wish to form corporation with an
'actual investment-of $500, 200, but want to
issue 81, 300, 900 of stock and bonds, the
lawyer who tells them that their course
would be unconstitutional and they can
not do it will lose business, while the law
yer who shows them the well-worn
methods by which they can evade the pro-
vision will get the fat fees. Solong as the
income of lawyers depends on the success
with which they serve the interests of
their clients, irrespective of law or JUS
tice, just so long will that sort of service
be the chief aim of the legal profess
sion
If the courts will. undertake to reform
this false tendency, they are entitled to the
best wishes of the community in the effort;
but they will have-to stir the legal profess
sion up by the roots if they do iS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
PREPARING FOR WASHINGTON.
The Presidential Housekeeping Will Be
Broken Up on September 10.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
CAPE MAY, Aug. 30.-The Presidential fam
lily contemplates breaking up seaside house
keeping on September 10. Secretary Hal
ford will attempt to get the immense
amount of correspondence answered and be
ready to go to Washington on Wednesday
or Thursday, where the executive office
will be reopened. The President will be
very busy the next two days in getting the
correspondence out of the way. There will
be little official business after Mr.. Halford
goes to Washington. The President and
General Sewell, who is expected Wednes-
day from Europe, contemplate enjoying q
few days of fishing in the sounds and gun
ming in the meadows between Town Bank
and Fishing Creek.
Mrs. Harrison and ladies go to New York
Tuesday to welcome Mrs. Russell Harrison
and Mrs. McKee, who will arrive from
Europe on the White Star steamer Majestic.
The President was thinking of going, but
because Of the heavy correspondence, has
decided to attend to that. To-day was a dis
NAL one and the family all remained indoors.
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyd dined with them tonight.
Mr.and Mrs. Howard Cole will leave their cot
tage tomorrow morning for their Indianapo
lis home. Russell Harrison, who arrived last
night, left for New York an a late train to-
night and will join the ladies at Jersey City
Tuesday,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
A Study in Natural History.


Detroit Free Press.I
He was poor and not no ticeably industri.
Gus, but he managed somehow to be quite q
butterfly of fashion and o favorite in so
ciety.
Then he married a girl in no way his su-
perior in energy or finances, and for the past
five years he has been barely able to feed his
following.
A friend met him the other day on Jeffer-
son avenue. walking along very thought
fully.
Hello" he said, "why SO solemn"
"Oh, 1 was just thinking" he replied
vaguely.
'iThat doesn't cost anything, at least,n
suggested the friend, "but what were you
thinking about2"
"Well, mostly about how things go by con-
traries. When / was in school I was taught
that the grub came first and then the but
terfy."
"YesP" prompted the friend questionfngly
as the other paused moment
"Now discover" he went on, 'that the
butterfly is after the grub, and it is pretty
rough on the butterfly, too"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
OUR NAIL POUCH.
Our Teachers 1nstitute Criticized.

OuT 1odcnerS ln8f1fuBe OTflCi25us
To the Editor Of The Dispatchs
The annual session of the Allegheny
County Teachers Institute for this year
closed Friday. Many of the lecturers lacked
volume OF voice to I'LL the long hall-Carne-
gle, In Allegheny-and the audience I'm the
rear only heard far of explosion at inter
vals. What was said was entertaining and
interesting to those who heard, but, for the
most part. was not practical, was not what
the teachers needed for use in their schools.
The County superintendent is an earnest
worker. but he failed in the output of this
institute, which cost over 81 900, cost q whole
weeks patient listening by 100 teachers, be-
sides their boarding and fare money, who
expected to be better equipped by it for
their schoolroom duties. Excepting in the
drills on music there were but few practical
suggestions thrown out. By q very wordy
route one speader succeeded in hiding his
ideas II he had any, but capped his climax
with the proclamation: "Train mp a child
in the way he should go, and when he is
He did not suggest any method of training:
he gave no example of any cast OF child
mind, nor how to train that mind, but sim
ply directed the teachers to do what he was
expected to show how TO do. Possibly he
was throwing out bait to urge teachers
into his normal school for the methods.
There was dearth of the practical through
institute failure. Why spend 30 much
valuable time and so much money for 30
little go0d-for that which cannot be used.
Does this boost the Superintendent and
his allies, does 1t rebound to the glory and
popularity of a few gentlemen who take
this way of advertising themselves?. /
know not, but do know that the expected,
the necessary goods, were not delivered /
would ask the Superintendent why not hold
these institutes in the public ward school
houses? If one building be not enough take
as many as may be needed. There you could
have every facility, blackboards crayons,
maps, obes, scientific implements, etc.
The trainers could pass from room to room,
and.when needed the teachers could do the
same thing. There the teachers would be
in more immediate contact with the in
structor, could ask questions and receive
answers at least in one sense satisfactory,
could be heard.
There the instructor would be compelled
to know more than his listeners or step
down and give room for some one qualified
to instruct. There methods could be ex-
planned fully, classes could be drilled and
the work of the city and country schoolroom
developed and exemplifled. These are to a
great extent impracticab BILE in Carnegie Hall,
Allegheny. By conducting the institute
thus the superintendent's conscience would
be clear-no remorse; the teacher would feel
that his time was we'll spent, and the schools
would receive that benefit which the law
c0ntemplates. TEACHER
PITTSBURG, August 20.
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Lawrence a Weak Rascal.

Ncn Ork Ouu.I
Cashier Lawrence of the Keystone Banks
story of falsifying books at the instance of
his superior officers with the object of con-
cealing their stealings. has all the earmarks
of truthfulness. Cashier Lawrence, one per-
ceives, feared to lose his situation and mis-
judged the results of retaining it. Had
he split at the outset he would not
have been believed; his only course
was to retire, for which he lacked
nerve. The subordinate Is wrecked who
fails to distinguish between the crooked
manager who keeps to the windy side of the
law, and the one who is fool enough to bring
himself within it. The odds are long that
the last sort is a doomed dog. He lacks ca
pacity, and the kind of his crookedness
is final proof of his defect. The odds
amount to a cinch that the subordinate him.
self will become a scapegoat. This sporting
combination Is the one thing that that class
of folks will probably never learn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
NEW PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS

To Take the Place of Those Destroyed by
Johnstown's Flood Dedicated.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.J
JoHNsrowN, Aug. 30.-The new parochial
schools of st. Johns Catholic Church, which
were erected to take the place of those de-
stroyed by the flood, were dedicated TO-
day with imposing ceremonies. All the
Catholic societies in the city turned out in
uniform with the seven bands. Rev. Father
Bush and Father Smith, of Altoona, were
met at the afternoon train and escorted to
the school building, where Father Bush per-
formed the ceremony of blessing to the
school, and Father Smith delivered the
dedicatory sermon to an audience of l0,0 900
people
The schools will open tomorrow with
eight teachers. ST. Johns is the largest and
strongest Catholic congregation in this part
of the State, and the pastor, Father Boyle,
who succeeded Father Tahrney, is building
it up rapidly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
scINT1LLAT1oNs OF FAME

|
MRS. WILL NJ CARLETON, the poets
| wife, went as q missionary to British Bur.
NAH when scarcely 20 years old, and re-
| manned there several years.
THERE is a movement on foot to erect
q public hall in Boston in memory of the
late Wendell Phillips. This, 1t is said, is due
ing a statue of her distinguished husband
| built.
MAX MULLER, the philologist, will visit
Anhalt-Dessau next month, to unveil Co
Iossal bust of his father which the Greek
Government has presented to the duohy, in
| recognition of Wilhelm Muller's sympathy
with Greece in the days Of her fight for In
dependence.
CHARLES GAYLoR, the old New York
playwright, has written over 50plays and is
| still in the harness. He is generally accom-
panied by his son Frank, who has been a
| theatrical manager for 80 years. Frank was
brought up in the business and for good
many years managed his fathers COM
panies.
SENATOR JOHN W. DANIEL, of Vir-
ginia, is said to be now the finest orator on
the Democratic side of the United States
Senate. Major Daniel is an orator of the
old school His language Is af1uent, his
gestures are carefully studied and he modu-
lates his voice according to the accepted
rules of elecution.
FOUR THOUSAND of the 1000 volumes
comprising the library of the late Charles
Bradlaugh were sold Saturday. There was
a spirited competition for the testament
which it is said Bradlaugh carried with him
throughout the memorable contest in Par
Lament as to his right to take his seat with
out subscribing to the OATH
PROF. W. s. CHAPLIN, Professor of Engi-
neering in Harvard since 1885, has been
elected Chancellor of Washington University
of st. Louis. Previous to his Harvard Pro-
fessorship, Prof. Chaplin held many import
ant positions, chief among which was the
Professorship of Civil Engineering in the
Imperial University of Japan at Toxic.
GEORGE j. GOULD, who is about 80 years
old, did not receive collegiate education,
but as soon as he came of age was taken into
his fathers Office and into partnership
with the firm of brokers OF which Jay Gould
was at that time q member. Very quickly
he was made a director in this company and
that, until soon he sat at the council board
of pretty nearly all the corporations in
which his father held O large interest.
WILLIAM j. CooMBs, the newly-elected
Democratic member of Congress from the
Third district, New York, since 1857 has
been successfully engaged in exporting
American manufactured goods to foreign
markets. He has been competing with for
eign manufacturers for 81 years. and has, by
q close attention to business, built up the
substantial firm of Coombs Crosby & Eddy.
He has never held public office.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-31
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Judge G. W. Scofield.

Judge G. W. Scofeld died at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning at his home in Warren, Pa. He
had been in impaired health for some time past,
and for the past month closely confined to the
house, since which time he has failed from day to
day. A partial paralytic stroke Thursday affected
his speech and right arm. His powerful mind was
clear and active to the last.
Judge Scofeld was born ut Dewittville. N. Y,
March IL, 1917. He learned printing when IA years
of age and worked at the trade about three years.
At the age of II he entered Hamilton College, New
York. He taught school for two years, and was
admitted to the bar in 1872. He practiced law In
Warren and was appointed District Attorney in
1s46 by Governor Skunk. In 1919 and 1850 he was
member of the Legislature, He was Democrat
till 1855. When the Republican party was formed
he Joined that party, and the same year was elected
to the State Senate. He was President Judge of
Mercer, Venango, Clarion and Jefferson Counties;
a member of the Thirty ty-eighth. Thirty-ninth,
third Congresses, serving on important
committees. and was Register of the
Treasury under President Hayes. He was
appointed Judge of Court Of Claims by President
Garfield, serving 10 years, when he resigned in
July last. Many messages Of coincidence are pour
ing in from the National capital and all parts ofthe