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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
ANOTHER PLAN FOR PURE WATER.

An alternative to haeproject of taking
water supply from the mountain streams
to our cities is that devised by Colonel
Thomas r. Roberts for establishing a fl
tering station on Six Mile Island and tax
ing the water thus purified to the present
water works of the two cities The plans
drawn by this engineer, on which our
local summary of the scheme is based, are
only designed to accommodate Allegheny
City; but the area of the island is stated
to be ample to accommodate filtering
chambers with capacity of 125,OOO, 600 to
15O,0OO,0OO gallons per diem.
The arguments in favor of this plan as
opposed to that of a mountain source of
water supply consist mainly of its econ
omy and immediate availability. The
proposed works could probably be es-
tablished there at fraction of
the cost of laying fifty-mile
conduit The water at that point is prac-
tically pure at present Whether 1T will
remain so for the next twenty-five years
is question for discussion by the ad-
vancers of the rival propositions.
Colonel Roberts, whose views are the
result OF thorough investigation, is of
opinion that with the plan of filtration
which he proposes, and the extension of
intercepting sewers few miles up the
river as the future may dictate, strictly
pure supply of water is to be depended on
at Six Mile Island for the future. The
fact that running streams purify them
selves-in few milesand the very slight
amount of drainage now discharged into
the Allegheny form the basis OF his
opinion.
The project as presented affords very
adequate plan for meeting Allegheny
City's present need. In the next decade
the whole community must intelligently
settle the question whether it will use an
enlargement of the same plan to meet the
growing demand, or whether we must go
to the mountains for our water.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

SIR j. WHITAKER ELLIS, ex-Lord
May or of London, is in Boston inspecting
the electric car system.
CAPTAIN WEIssERT, the new Com
mander in Chief of the 6. A. r., had grand
public welcome upon his return to his home
in Milwaukee.
LORD BREADALBANE, at his domains in
Perthshire and Argyllshire, Scotland, is
supposed to have more deer than any other
landowner in Great Britain.
WALTER SLOAN, of Burlington, N. j.,
who was supposed to have been lost in the
Johnstown flood, has just turned up at Mt.
Holly to receive his share of a legacy left
him by an aunt.
REV. DR. CRANFIELD, the Vice Presi-
dental candidate on the Prohibition ticket,
is on the stump through the week and SER
monies Sundays This shows hard work
can be done on water.
REV. A. N. KEIGwIN, a PRESBYTERIAN
minister of Wilmington, Del, prophesies
the end of the world in 1897. He has been
preaching sermons for some time past with
the special object OF preparing his flock for
the event.
WHEN Lieutenant Pearv reports of.
fcially to the Navy Department he will
probably be assigned to service at League
Island. which means Philadelphia He is a
civil engineer, and there is said to be q
great demand for officers with such quail.
1cations just now.
MISS ANNIE SHEPARD SPooNER, aged
Is. has published Around the Lamp. monthly
paper for young people, for three years at
her home in Hinsdale, N. H. She has always
had iYisn to edit paper and is much in
tereste6 in her work. She sets her own
tvpe soticjta her own advartieemants ts Z. N "A d
said to have 1000 SUBSCRIBERS.
IT is said that when the Shah of Persia
visited England some years ago he was en-
tertained at Stafford House, the town resi-
depce of the Duke of Sutherland So i'm
pressed was tho oriental visitor with the
magnifcence of his hosts surroundings that
he afterward privately advised the Prince
Of Wales to have the Duke quietly strangled
and connscste the Estates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
ILLOGICAL BUT PROPER.

The suspension, or, as it is called, the
revocation of the coercion acts by Mr..
Morley, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, is
one of the English methods which, when
closely analyzed, seem little queer. 1t
was expected that one of the first'steps of
the Liberal majority would be to repeal
that characteristicalIy Tory measure Mr..
Morley, however, did not choose to await
that process, and he relieved ireland from
coercion by boldly announcing the suspen-
sion of the law
Logically this was straining executive
power to the last notch. The theory Of
representative government is that the
statutory enactments form the supreme
law and that the executive arm must en-
force them, whether it approves or not
Strictly, therefore, it was Morley's duty to
go on coercing Ireland until he could
bring in and pass through both Houses a
bill for its repeal. But fortunately Eng
land is not so tied up to the letter of logi-
cal deductions that it cannot find a way
out OF such dilemma. Indeed, the illogi-
cal features of English politics are some
times grotesque. But they are not SO
grotesque as to make it necessary that
a Ministry chosen to repeal and abandon
a certain policy must continue to carry it
out until Parliament shall act. The Min
istry simply drops the coercion policy and
there is an end of the famous Balfour
method of maintaining peace.
In such cases as these the lack of logic
in English political methods is rather a
virtue than otherwise. The ends may be
reached by ridiculous routes, but the re-
suit is that the ends are attained.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

SENATOR SHERMAN's description Of the
issue before voters for Presidential electors
is the only true one. This is not a question
to be decided by a comparison between the
personal charact cteristics or even opinions OF
the rival candidates. They are called upon
to Judge between the expressed wishes of
the respective parties as set forth at their
national conventions A vote for Cleveland
means support for those who have declared
an intention to disregard American indus
tries and establish tariff for revenue only,
to upset the stable currency of the nation
and set up fluctuating and unreliable mon
etary system in it's place. vote for Harri-
son is an endorsements OF Protection and
reciprocity, sound money, and in general a
liberal consideration of American interests
and patriotic discrimination on behalf Of
American industries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
GETTING OFF THE PLATFORM,

The Democracy are at present very
busily engaged in getting away from the
effects of their platform. The last effort
in that line is presented by the Massachu.
setts Democratic Convention. That body
in its resolutions pretended to indorse the
national platform and then proceeded to
explain it away, by asserting the Demo
cratic policy to be something essentially
different from what the Chicago platform
declares it to be.
Thus the Massachusetts, document in
stead of heartily indorsing the tariff
plank of the national platform proceeds
| to set forth the doctrine of free raw ma
terials with protection on the highly fin.
ished products, and to assert on behalf OF
Democratic legislation "full recognition
of existing business conditions and con.
sistent regard for the welfare of the wage
earner' as ga sufficient answer to the at.
tempts of the Republicans to arouse need.
less fears" etc. 1t would be sufficient
answer If The Democratic National Conven.
ton had not overwhelmingly voted down
a tariff resolution which used exactly those
expressions, and substituted for it the
famous and recoiling declaration of Cal
hounism. To claim for the party line OF
action which its National Convention has
distinctly repudiated may not be very hon.
est; but it is the best the Democrats can
do under present circumstances.
There is another method of getting
away from the platform in the plank on
the bank note question. The Massa-
chusetts resolution favors "the issuance
of bank notes under such Federal super
vision as may be thought desirable. "
Hence" the resolution goes on, "we
advocate the removal of the national tax
on such circulating notes of State banks
as are SO secured that their prompt re-
demption in lawful money will always be
certain This is moderately good
plank: but it is not the Democratic plat
form. The national document advocated
the removal of the tax without any quail
fication whatever. 1t proposed to take
away the only method by which Federal
regulation can be imposed, and to throw
open the whole subject to the vagaries of
legislation furnished by forty-four differ
ent State Legislatures. Besides this radicai
departure from the national platform,
there is room for the Massachusetts, Dem
ocrats to explain in what respect the State
banks, when they issue bank notes under
Federal supervision, will differ from
national banks.
1t is significant fact that the entire
labor of Democracy at present consists in
escaping from the ruinous nature CT its
LOFT A ~ a1
mits itself to reactionary and dangerous
principles and then runs away from them
when 1t finds out that the people will not
swallow them does not commend itself to
the public confidence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

says, $50 much money for each vote
and one which says, "For such and such
total of votes, so many offices yielding a
known revenue" is there any vital differ
ence as regards the obtaining of votes by
pecuniary considerations? Indeed, If we
are driven to the unsatisfactory alterna-
tive of choosing between them, why is not
the corruption which buys votes with the
public revenue taken from the people by
taxation on an entirely different pretext?
Ex-President Cleveland's strength With
the people once consisted in his antagon-
ism to the political system which depends
on the purchase of votes with offices. If
he has made friends with his former ene-
mics, and made bargain for the delivery
of their votes, the strength derived from
his former independence becomes mega
tive quantity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
ANOTHER WAY OF DoINGIr.

The arrangement by which the vote OF
the Tammany Democracy of New York
is to be secured for Cleveland is revealed
in the recent expression Of Don NJ Dick
inson, of Michigan. The distinguished
though exceptionally hopeful sponsor of
Mr.. Cleveland in the campaign of four
years ago was asked for an opinion as to
the propriety of an independent Demo-
cratic ticket this year, and his answer was
firmly in the negative "Let Tammany
have the local -officesp' he said; and the
conclusion is that Tammany will get
them. The statement that Tammany will
also get the Federal offices for its baili-
wick is less authoritatively corroborated.
This arrangement is tacitly or openly
applauded by the Democratic leaders and
organs. At the same time the Democratic
organs are full of horror over an alleged
disposition Of the Republican managers to
buy votes. One journal, whose ettempt
to raise fund "to carry the Northwest"
is only relieved from criminality by the
insignifcance Of the fund, goes into
daily Mysteries over the alleged
corruption of Republican managers,
but regards with great approval
the bargain for Tammany's support The
various organs of different degrees and
compilations of reform pretension accept
the same deal with more or less COM
placency. All unite at the same time in
anathematizing the putative Republican
attempt to buy votes, the most cogent evi-
dences of which are furnished by the
vivid Democratic Imagination
But when you come to analyze the mat
ter, what is the moral or political distinc-
ton between buying votes with money
directly or buying votes with offices that
yield money? Between bargain which
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Ex-Congressman Jacob Benton.

Ex-Congressman Jacob Benton was
thrown from q carriage in Lancaster N. H.,
Thursday, and received injuries from which he
died two hours later. Mr.. Benton came from the
same ancestry as Thomas II. Benton. of Mis-
souri, He WAS born in Waterford, VT. August a.
1919. He served in the New Hampshire Legisla-
ture during 1854 1855 and 1855. He was delegate
TO the Chicago Convention of $780, and served in the
FOrtieth and Forty-frst Congresses as the Repre-
sentative from the old Third New Hampshire Dis
trict commonly known the ''Comet District. "
Mr.. Benton was stanch Republican, and during
his Congressional terms served on the committees
of Land Claims. Retrenchment, Pensions and Ag-
riculture,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
PIHOUETTEs FROM PUCK.

Tapely-You are an orphan?
Miss Somergurl-Yes.
Tapely (much dIsturbed)-wen. whose conssns
mu. ask In orGer to marry you?
Miss SomergurI-Well, you might ask mine.
The heart, relenting, still is prone to smother
The angry feelings which arise 'twixt men;
But when balloonists fall out with each other.
They seldom speak again.
"You had bad luck with that duffer,
didn't you?'' asked one bunko steerer of another.
.'Yes. He stole so from me.''
'sWho was he1''
He's Chicago Worlds Fair promoter
PUKLLA lRsTIvALIs
Through various kinds of summer weather.
Hot. humid, cold and dry
We walked and sailed and swan together,
My summer girl and i.
All me! 1t was pleasant season;
But did not regret
When autumn came-for this good reason
That summers with me yet.
For summer sunshine round her hovers
Through winters frost and snow.
And I-''cut out'' a score of lovers,
And won her. years ago!
Penelope-Jack stole kiss from ME last
night. 1t made me awfully angry.
Her Uncle-l should think IL would. The courts
have decided that such q thing is equivalent to .
blow. e
Penelope-I know it-so turned the other
cheek.
Sweet "Patience on q monument
Sounds very pretty. wen admit
But successful doctors
More oft their patients under 1t.
Mr. Younghnsband-What is this, dear7
Mrs. Younghusband-Ice water.
lice wateri Why, it's hoti'
Il know 1t, and 1t seems strange. too, for only
followed the directions of that French doctor who
said that the only preventive against the cho
era was to boil the ice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

IF Ex-Governor Hill really intends to
take the stump so vigorously as is reported,
he should say beforehand which of his
speeches is really meant to express his opin-
ions, in view of the wide discrepancy be-
tween his utterances ar Buffalo and Now
York. Novelty and variety are attractive
qualities in a speaker, but campaign orators
must regard the law of consistence to some
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
A QUESTION OF AUTHORITY.

In reply to claim of DR.. Hamilton that,
as representing the Treasury Department,
he has higher authority than DR.. jenkins,
the Health Officer of New York City, the
San says that the Treasury Department
has no authority whatever Sin the admin
istration of New York's health Office un-
der the quarantine laws Of the State of
New York"
Certainly not, as stated above; but is it
the SUMS intention to assert that the rep
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
THE Interest free trader of them all can

THE bitterest free trader of them all can
not deny that wages are to-day from fifty to
a hundred per cent higher in this country
than the corresponding rates OF pay in
Europe And it does not take a mind above
the average loical capacity to see that the
competition bound to result from tariff for
revenue only would most certainly tend to
an equalization of the rates on the two con-
tinents sooner or latef-and probably good
deal sooner than later.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. all the agony of ii

NOTWITHSTANDING all the agony of the
political campaign, that element of New
York's population which finds its main in
terest in the vague and nondescript collec-
tion of people called society still finds time
to note the dethronement of Ward McAllis-
ter and agitate itself as to who shall be his
successor as the leading funkey of the
Eastern metropolis.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Obituary Notes.
MT. President of the Marine

STEPHEN McCLEMENr. Presideat of the Marine
Bank of Buffalo. is dead.
GENERAL GAIL MULLER, thSlast surviving Ger
man officer who was presentSat aterloo, is dead
in Berlin. He was 80 years Jld.
THE shereef of wazan, great religious func-
tionary. held throughout Morocco in reverence
second only to that shown the Sultan, is dead
JOHN p. FERRINGt prominent wholesale
grocer, well known in business circles throughout
the West. dropped dead at his home in Dubuque
Yesterday at noon. Apopiexy was the cause.
E. L. OFRIEL. International President of the
Emerald Beneficial Association. died at his home
In Altoona Thursday midnight. He was one Of
the most widely known and influential citizens In
the central part Of the State He served for sew
erBl years In the City Councils,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
General G. T. Morris Chester.

One of the most prominent colored men in
the United States died at the home of his venerable
mother In Harrisburg yesterday. General q. !.
Morris Chester was one who devoted his whole life
to the welfare OF his race. He had fine educa-
ton, and during the war was newspaper corre-
spondent at the front He studied law in England.
and was admitted to the bar In that country He
held various Federal Offices in the South and was
prominent in various ways In New Orleans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
CouNCu.S shou1d II

COUNCILS should understand that there
is limit to the amount of discussion neces-
sary to decide the best location for FREQ
bridge. There has been so much talk on the
subject that 1t is about time to begin to do
something,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
IF only the corrupt politicians OF

IF only the corrupt politicians on both
sides of the fence could be persuaded to
pair off and vanish into the oblivion, which
is their fitting resting place, the nation
would be all the better for their absence
and voters could more freely concentrate
their attention on a pure ana unauthorized
consideration of the questions at ISSUE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Yet in the Same Glass.

Philadelphia Times,1
Close-cropped hair and the high hat never
look too we'll together. This is because the
plug and the shortcut IRE two differe mt
brands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
For Once Protectionists.

Chicago Tribune.l
The Democratic papers, so far as we have
observed, have not yet taken the Mckinley
tariff to task for excluding the cholera from
the country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
The End Not Yet.
Detroit Free Press. ]

Detroit Free Press.J
Victoria woodruff has not yet touched OF
her big campaign guns, but she promises an
awful oannonading whom they are out loose.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

The intelligence of the South will never
be properly vindicated until its solidity on
political questions. altogether apart from
heir merits, has been broken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

VOTING according to the Baker ballot
law is conspicuous example of those
things which are more easily done in the
wrong way than the right one.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

SENATOR HILL appears anxious to make
up for the time lost during his solitary
silence, so that he may have a stronger plea
than the mere statement. 81 am a Democrat
stili'' to the share of the good things that h lis
party are trying to get control of.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
No Need for Scheming.

Baltimore Americana
The country is feeling too well to try any
dangerous experiments with either free
trade OF wildcat currency.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

WHILE the education of the campaign
is in progress free traders should seize the
opportunity to learn something of the pro-
visions of the Constitution as to tariff.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

HAWAII may wish to be annexed to the
United States; but the latter would be ex-
tremely foolish to annex it even though it
begged hard for that privilege.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

NEW YORK Democrats seem inclined to
realize at last that least said will be soonest
mended in that Peck matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Conrad Berringer.

Conrad Berringer, Esq, died Thursday
at his home in Ben Avon. He was 81 years old.
His remains will be inferred to-day. Mr. Ber-
ringer was for number of years prominent
Pitsburg real estate agent He retired from active
business several years ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

THERE are altogeth er too many columns
in the new ballot sheet to make it an artistic
or satisfactory structure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

Protection is not simply local, Sec
tional or geographic benefit. tits essentially
the policy upon which depends the pros
perity of the whole United States of
America.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

CHICAGO is making preparations to put
up prices all around in a manner that will
discourage all but semi-milionaires from
visiting the city of high winds, high build
ings and high rates during the Worlds
Fair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

COUNCILS must make>no mistake about
the best method of disposing of the gar
bage. The city must collect it and burn it,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
The Effect of Eggs,

Washington Post.l
1t will not be at all surprising to learn
that General Weaver's beard is turning to a
rich omelet hue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01

The third party is wanting in staying
power, besides being based on impracticable
principles,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Afraid of Facing the Music.

AFRAID OF racing tne MUSIC.
st. Louis Glote-Democrat1
There IS lodging of the issues among all
the big Democrats. Hill did it and Cleve-
land does it. 3
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Gossip of the Social World.

In the Smithfield Street NJ. E. Church last
evening there was a very creditable musical
and literary entertainment, given by the
Epworth LEAGUE. The participants in cluded:
The Misses Emma Boddington, Anna Reese,
Carrie Powelson, Martha Christian and
Messrs. A. Farlane, 81. G. Brickell and W. H.
Weeden
MISS ANNIE T. RILEY. of Altoona, Pa, who
graduated with class '92 from st. Joseph's
Academy at Greensburg. is the guest OF her
collegian, Miss Mollie v. Wilson, daughter
OF Mr.. John Wilson. Miss Wilson also grad
uated with class '92.
Mr.. CHARLES NJ. CARoTHERs. young elocu-
Zionist of some note, who is we'll known in
Pittsburg society circles, will leave next
week for a tour of the West. MI. Carothers
expects to give entertainments during his
trip.
THE semi-annual meeting Of the Mononga-
hela Presby terian Society Of Our Young Peo-
pies Christian Union will be held Tuesday
evening, October 4, at 745, in the First Pres
by terian Church, Williamsburg.
NEXT Monday the ladies OF the Saturday
and Sunday Hospital Association will con-
vene to elect officers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Another Fall Opening.

Philadelph1a Times. =
The chestnuts are preparing for opening
their fall campaign.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Not for the CommqG Mortal

Baltimore American.
sized bank account to ap} }reciate the beauty
OF fall opening in dresSgoods.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
CELEBRITIES IN CLOVER.

POLITICAL rainbow-chasers may be de-
scrised as small prophets of big returns.