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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
THE WINDS RkvAGES.

The destructive windstorM OF cyclone
which made itself felt in four or. five
Western States Thursday and Friday
seems to have taken direct and well de-
fined path, from southwest to northeast
1t first appeared in Texas on Thursday
night, wrought its devastation in Kansas,
and what seems to have been a cyclone
attached to the same general storm pulled
down seven-story building in Chicago on
Friday. Beyond that point the storm
seems to have lost its cyclonic character
and to have only manifested itself in
strong gales.
The loss of life and destruction of build
ings in this fearful display of natural
forces is serious warning that future
architecture must take into consideration
not only normal but extraordinary strains.
1t is customary to regard these terrible
windstorms as something against which
there can be no adequate provision.
When we hear of the wreckiDg of
a seven-story building in Chicago, it at
first seems as if it condemns all the modern
municipal architecture. But when we
reflect that in the same storm buildings Of
twelve and fifteen stories must have been
exposed to the same strain, without any
disastrous results, we are permitted to-
infer that this calamity can be attributed
to insufficiency in the building as much as
to excessive force of wind.
How far the same may be true of the
other losses by the wind, 1T is difficult to
say with accuracy. But it is certain that
buildings can be erected which will resist
the strain even of an eighty-mile-an-ho
hurricane. The only question is whether
people would rather pay the extra cost of
such buildings or take the chances of ever
being visited by a storm which would
make the extraordinary strength requisite
for safety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
DOUGLASS IN THE RACE.

FREE DOUGLASS IS unwise to let his Presi.
dental aspirations be known at present. His
best chance lies in enacting the role Of a
dark horse.-Chtcago Times.
FRED DOUGLASS, as Republican candidate
for the Presidency, Is the latest in the line
of political novelties. But where, oh where,
is Belva Lockwood?-Uttcd Observer.
The latest candidate for President is Fred
Douglass, and 1t is only fair to say that his
chances are quite as good as those of Blair
or Cullom.-Sk. Louis Globe Democrat.
THERE is talk of a negro Presidential ticket,
with Frederick Douglass ut the head. The
project will not get beyond idle "talk, /" in all
probability this season.-Boston Globe.
FRED DOUGLASS may be q candidate for
President on the slave-pension ticket. Mr..
Douglass could remain in private life with
out doing it in so emphatic manner.-Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
If the people whose cardinal principle is
the pensioning of former slaves had con-
suited Frederick Douglass before announc-
ing him as their Presidential candidate they
would not have made the announcement.
Mr.. Douglass is a Republican and a man of
sense.-Bu6dlo Express.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
AN ANARCHIST PROBLEM.

There is one feature of the campaign of
the Partisan police against the Anarchists
that may yet develop into the proportions
of an International problem. In the
efforts to suppress anarchism, the authori-
ties come across q considerable number of
people, who, while nothing definite can be
proven against them, are sufficiently
affiliated with the destructives to make
the minions Of the law feel uncomfortable
about them. The French custom, more
practical than just, summarily disposes of
these suspects by sending them across the
frontier, and forty such Anarchists have
turned their faces toward England.
Now England is not in need Of any
more Anarchists. Although the Anglo
Saxon characteristic is to offer refuge on
its soil to all political exiles, the one class
which Anglo-Saxon freedom does not
banker after is that composed of the ex-
plosive gentry who are prone to the
blowing up of their own domiciles. It is
getting to be too much of hardship for
Anglo-Saxon traditions to be taxed for the
harboring of political incendiaries with
penchant for plotting even against the
laws which protect them; and since Eng
land already has all the dynamiters she
wants she may be very near reaching the
point where she will pass them on to the
United States.
But we do not want the Anarchists any
more than England or France does; and
we have not, like those governments, any
other country to which we can pass them.
Our only defense is to meet them with an
inhospitable welcome at the ports of
entry, and experience has already taught
the futility Of relying on the method of
exclusion to keep anything out, whether
Chinese, typhus fever, or illicit jewelry.
If this sort of thing continues an inter-
national agreement should be reached to
establish somewhere land-island pre-
ferred for sake of peace - on which
Anarchists could establish their ideal no.
governments and to which all govern
ments could send their surplus stock of
Anarchists for permanent retirement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
A WEsrERNER, as the result of his

A WEsTERNER, as the result of his ex-
perience in the capital, has paid great
compliment to Europe. He arrived on q
Sunday evening and sums up his opinions
thus: s"This is the finest city on earth,
and there amt a capital among the
effete monarchtes of Europe where a
man can get q pie, preachfn' and
poker all in one evenin'." Substitute some
equally desirable gambling for poker
and the man who makes such remark must
either have found Washington good deal
worse than it is usually considered or else
he knows little Of the Old World-probably
the latter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
A POLITICAL LIEN,

Since THE DISPATCH expressed its con-
gratulations to the House Committee on
Elections for making an honest and fair
report on the contested seat held by Mr..
Rockwell, the progress of events war
rants slight change of view. At that
time the subject of congratulation was the
prospect that the House would formally
declare its adhesion to the principle that
the members honestly and fairly elected
should have their seats no matter which
party they belong to. 1t is possible that
things may have changed since.
The fight on silver indicates that the
loss of one vote might be very serious
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
CARNEGIE ON AMERICAN ART.
In the Near Future the Student Need Not
HE Himself to Europe.

In the Near Future the Student Need Not
HE Himself to Europe.
NEW YORK, April 2.-[Spectal ]-At the din
ner Of the National Academy of Design last
night Andrew Carnegie was cordially ap-
plauced when he arose to speak When he
sale that dinner at the National Academy
brought together the most representative
assembly of which any society in the West
ern Hemisphere could boast, the applause
was vigorously renewed. He paid his COM
pliments to Watson Glider and Charles Dud-
ley Warner, and then said he saw at least
three milltonaires present who were there,
not as millionaires, but as men having it in
their souls to be something more than merely
rich men.
Then he turned his attention to painting,
and confessed that he preferred his old
masters Sin the flesh" in the persons OF
Eastman johnson, or Brown or Wood. His
young masters he preferred ''in the spirit"
Then he praised the school Of American
painting, which he said our artists had
established, and which would take its place
with the schools of Europe and make 1t un-
necessary for our artists to go abroad to
study. He urged upon the artists to paint
American pictures, and upon the buyers Of
pictures to show their patriotism in art
matters as in other matters pertaining to
the welfare Of our country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
YOUNG MEN MUST WORK.
Traits of Character That Are Found in All
Countries Alike.

Traits of Character That Are Found in All
Countries Alike.
The Brickmaker.]
"You hear a great deal about the Ameri-
| cans mad rush after wealth" said a wide
awake Chicagoan, land also about tho spirit
| OF speculation, but did you ever try to sift
the thing down to fine causesa That we do
race after wealth and that we are of gam
bling nature is true beyond q doubt. but this
is not characteristic of the American alone.
These traits will be found in all countries
where there is progress. Let us take this
country. The resources are so vast that a
man by lucky stroke may become vastly
wealthy. Lots of them do. Look at the rich
men in this country. These naturally be-
come the models for nearly every young
man. Those who have ambition dream
of the great wealth of Gould,
or Vanderbilt, or Rockefeller, per-
haps without thinking of the labor
any of them may have had. 1t is
Then, too, the luxury which the rich enjoy
creates envy, and this envy feeds the greed
for gold. Besides, ,luxuries are so temptfngly
displayed nowadays that one man, yielding,
leads a nation into that terrible abyss which
is swallowing SO many good, energetic young
that is the curse of our life to-day.
Luxury which he enjoys but which has
impetuous is given the Unsuitable thirst by
the salt of observation. And thus the two
race on, side by side, along the treacherous
road to fortune-One to enable himself to
pay for what he has already tasted and to
purchase more; the other to get the where
withal to secure the misunderstanding fruit.
In such an atmosphere what wonder that all
who come in contact with them become in
fectedf It Is terrible fever.
"The young man Of to-day wants to live in
luxury as soon as the down is on his upper
lip. He is then already figuring on what he
will do for wife. And all around him he
sees that which fires his envy. Is it any
wonder that he is willing to snatch any
chance to get s. for 81: Is it any wonder that
frauds and sharks with semiplausfble
schemes-and hundreds of them with
schemes as transparent as african coin
money? There is no end to the victims
They have enriched hundreds of big and
little lotteries. They have poured millions
into the Golfers of the gamblers, and ruined
their health, and dissipated their qualities
for success in legitimate lines. They have
squandered fortunes at race tracks. The
green goods man, the gold brick swindler,
the shell worker the 'three-card' fellow,
the poolrooms, the bucket shops, the Board
of Trade-all have feeced them. And still
they are willing to be heeced again, blinded
by the glittering coin which but few of them
ever grasp. .--.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

WHEN we learn that the authorship of
the song tiara has got into
court it evokes faint hope that the author
will get at least sixty days in the work
house. But the indirectness of justice Is
demonstrated by the fact that he narrowly
escaped getting a royalty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
Obituary Notes.

JOHN MURRAY. the well-known London pub
lished is dead.
ELLEN MCCLosKEY, sister of Thomas A. PEN
der, the ex-detective, died yesterday at her home
on Franklin street.
ALEXANDER ALLAN senior partner of the we'll
known steamship firm OF Allan Bros. & Co.. whose
vessels ply between England and various American
and Canadian ports. died In England yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
sAnxauprzD sY A WILL
Tho Legatee Driven to an Assignment in
Order to Obey Injunctions.

~~0SscS <.s1A0A~-">>s @As
Order to Obey Injunctions.
rBY CABLE TO THE DIsPArcH.1
LONDON, April "A good deal Of sympathy
is being expressed for Sir Robert Denny,
Baronet, descendant OF the famous Sir An
thony Denny, to whom King Henry VIII. on
his deathbed gave pair Of gloves worked
in pearls for having tine courage to tell His
Majesty that he was dying. Sir Roberts af-
fairs are at present the subject Of an fnves-
tigatfon in the Bankruptcy Court, although
he says he would be solvent if he could real
ize on his property, which is Of an estimated
value Of E195,000. Sir Edward, the present
Baronet's predecessor had been O recluse
some years before his death, occupied chiefly
with philosophical speculations upon the
mystery or life, the duration of the world
and that sort of thing.
Nobody was penny the worst for the old
Baronet's solitary deliberations during his
lifetime, but two years ago his heir found
himself saddled by will with an obligation
to publish two books, one entitled "Chart Of
the Prophetical Stream of Time and the
other Seventy Weeks" Nobody was able
to make head or tail of the books, but they
were duly published, and the incidental
worry and expense helped Sir Robert toward
the Bankruptcy Court, whence it Is gener-
ally hoped he will soon emerge credttably to
himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

ANDREW CARNEGIE is convinced that
the time approaches when American art
students will no longer have to seek Euro
pean instructors. When that era arrives, it
is just possible that American capitalists
will find it unnecessary to cross the Atlantic
for the greater part of their recreation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
David w. Bell.

David W. Bell, Esq.,, aged SO years, and
one of the Oldest members of the Allegheny county
bar, died Friday night at his residence, No. gal
Marchand avenue from au attack of the grip, Mr.
Bell was born on Fourth avenue. was educated at
Kelley's Academy the Western University and
place he formed friendship with James G. Blaine,
and it was at Mr.. Bells residence Second ave-
nue. that the Secretary was married. Mr.. Bell was
admitted to the bar March 9, 1S46. and had been
constantly practicing until seized with his last III
ness. The Allegheny County Bar Association took
appropriate action ON his death yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
THE sC0TCH-IRIsH CONGRESS-
1t Promises to Eclipse All the Former
Gatherings of the Kind.

1t Promises to Eclipse All the Former
Gatherings of the Kind
The fourth annual congress of the Scotch
Irish Society of America will convene in
Atlanta on April %, and remain in session
three days. The Atlanta scotch-Irish So
ciety is making great preparations for the
event, and the indications are that the meet
ing will be the post interesting and the best
attended in the history of the society.
The programme in cludes addresses by Col
onel A K. Mcclure, of the Philadelphia
If,nes: Hon. James E. Mckenzie, Of Hopkins
vile, Ky, one of the Vice Presidents Of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition; DR.. Frnncis
Dr. John Hall, of New York; Hon. James
McDill, who succeeded Judge Cooley on the
Interstate Commerce Commission; Mr..
Henry Wallace, of Des Moines, Ia; Hon.
Pat Calhoun, of Atlanta; DR.. j. II. Bryson,
of Huntsville, Ala, and other distinguished
speakers vet to be announced.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
LIGHT LITTLE TRIFLEs.

'Mistress-I never saw such fearful-look-
ing kitchen. How do you manage to accumulate
so many dirty dishes?
Cook-sure num- the youze leddies was just after
showing me as how they roast potato at their
cooking schools.-Hdrper's Bazar.
As along the street with her 1 90,
Or by her side in room linger
Itmakes me smile TO see her show
The engagement ring on her little finger.
-Ee,o York Press.
Mrs. Upton Flatte-Which way is the
wind to-day?
well-trained Servant-Sou' -sou'-west by SOU.
Mrs. Upton Flatte-Thank fortuneI The furnace
heat will drive into the parlor to-day.-Puck.
Longnecker-r have a plan for stopping
all this lynchng.
Shortstop-What?
Longnecker-A law forbiddingit it to be done with
out the victims consent.-Ne1 Iork Herald.
Spring is coming; spring is coming;
Presidential bees are humming,
Candidates are on the wing;
Sprouting booms blossoming-
Everything is blithe and glad
Save the boom that Alger had.
Chicago Times.
'sYou are all the world to me-" he whis-
pered.
..All right, =" she answered. ''Yo- can be the
sum- I'm going to marry your er.''-Pomona
Nelos.
Mr.. Shoddy-What do you think of her
appearance?
Mrs, shoddy-I have often heard of belladonna,
but this is the first time liver seen one.-1szas
Sytin0s.
A shy little man and a shy little maid
Were both of them willing. yet both were afraid,
And since life of our impulses always Is made,
Though both still regret it, both still are afraid.
Denver Sun
Bloobumber Pere-Amy, who is this Mr
wacker who calls you so frequently?
Amy-He's political physician. Pa.
''What on earth's tnat?''
II don't know. heard brother Jack say he was
award heeler. ''-Smith, Gray Co.'s Monthly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
EBB TIDE OF FEMALE SUFFRAGE
Women Take Less Interest in tho Savin,
Of Their Country by Voting.

Women Take Less Interest in tho Saving
Of Their Country by Voting.
Chicago Herald.l
Registration by women throughout Kan
sas has fallen away one-half. They evidently
enjoyed the excitement of last years highly
mixed political situation. This year there
is no unusual agitation. Picturesqueness
and novelty have alike worn away. They
have tried conducting city, town and village
government, and after trial their curiosity
is apparently satisfied. They are content to
abstain from political responsibility, leaving
its perple1ities, its vulgarities and its selfish
and low struggles to a human type not SO
sensitive and more persistent In Boston,
which four years ago promised to set the
entire country by the ears with its tremend-
GUS outpouring of women voters, of 10000
who voted that year only half voted the
year following; in 1890 the total had fallen to
1000. and in 1891 to 5000. This year they cut
no particular figure in the situation.
Attempt was made to Offset these figures
by saying that the number voting in 1890 was
larger than at any time between the gain Of
the privilege, 1879, and 1888. A more incon-
sequential reply could scarcely be made.
The truthfulness of the figures was not de-
MED. The fact stands that woman in poll
tics is a tidal element, rising in volume and
emotion under certain emotional influences;
subsiding into indifference and abstinence
when her emotions are not excited by tenn
porary or local sensation, usually of a relig-
woman's concern about saving the country
and regenerating the human race by means
of the ballot. Everywhere woman Is stead
ily going on in individual usefulness, avail
ing of the wider gates, the freer and more
numerous paths, the higher distinctions, the
larger emoluments offered her talents and
her seriousness. But no year, with this ever
increasing element of intellectual and prac-
tical women free to participate in political
affairs under laws giving specific suffrage, Is
there apparent distinct conviction on the
part OF any greater number Of women that
they desired participation in political care.
Even the partial privileges already on the
books in nearly. oil the States they are
pleased to leave in allegiance to q consider
able degree, and they are evidently not un.
willing to forfeit even these by nonchalant
non user.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

NINE States have just been swept by a
disastrous hurricane. 1t is consoling to re-
member that the political storm which will
prevail throughout the country this year is
not likely to cause any great loss of life or
property. But the reverberations OF Its re-
echoing thunder viii be terrible for the un-
initiated
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

ONE is reminded by the appearance of
an English Baronet in the bankruptcy court
as the result of the obligatory publication
of two abstruse books written by his father,
of the noble lord who told friend that he
had discovered that he could make q hand
some income by not publishing his poems.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE
Captain Pink Varb!e.

Captain Pink varble, the noted falls
pilot and one of the best known citizens of Louis
ville died yesterday morning after an illness Of
week of paralysis Captain Varble was known
wherever a Southern steamboat navigates. As a
falls pilot he has never had superior, and though
well advanced in years he was active and vigorous
until week before his death. Captain Varble was
63 years of age. He was born in North Carolina
At an early age he came to Louisville and entered
prominent pilots. Some years later Captain Funk
retired from the business and young Varble. who
had thoroughly acquainted himself with the duties
of fails pilot was elected the place. which position
he held until the time of his death. Captain VAR
BILE owned several boats.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

INSPECTOR BYRNEs, of the New York
police, threatens to resign because the
Grand Jury has criticised his force in dras-
tic manner warranted by evidence. 1t
would be a good deal more to his credit to
maintain his position and quietly but vigor-
ously put an end to the abuses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
LANE PROVES ITS ORTHODOXY.
Its Professors Must Pledge Themselves No
to Teach the Bibles Errancy.

Its Professors Must Pledge Themselves Not
to Teach the Bibles Errancy.
CINCINNATI, April 2.-The Executive Com.
mittee Of Lane Theological Seminary, COM
posed of laymen Of the Presbyterian Church,
in this city, has decided by vote of five to
two, to recommend to the board OF trustees
of the seminary the adoption of resolutions
declaring that the board regards the true
meaning and intent Of the pledge taken by
professors in Lane Seminary as precluding
the teaching or publishing by them Of the
doctrine of the errancy of the Holy Script
ures, and that the board shall require the
subscription to the professional pledge to
be made by the professors once in every
three monts, or oftener If required by the
board OF trustees.
The Executive Committee says 1t regards
this action as timely and necessary in order
to secure due confidence of the Church in
the instruction and administration Of the
institution. OF course, its purpose is to erad-
icate everything that smacks OF the teach
ingS Of DR.. Briggs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
WHEN SPRING BONDS UNBlND'
New England Magazine ]

England Magazine.J
Winter is weary time!
Not the ripple of rhyme
Stirs the icy shores along,
Quickening quietude with song.
Smiles are choked with snow,
Not metaphor will flow;
Envlous frost doth hold In fee
Every lip in Castaly.
But let spring the bonds unbind
With the soft touch of its wind.
What q rapture. What sweepi
What n swift, ccstatic leapl
Mortal words but half express
All the rapture. all the stress!
Sveeter are the strains that come
Ifthe Liz awhile be dumb.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03
SWORN ON A WATCH CHARM.
Peculiar Manner of Taking an Oath by =
Parsee Gentleman.

Parseo Gentleman.
rBY CABLE TO THE DIsPArcH.1
LONDON. April 2.-Probably the most &C
commodating witness that ever graced q
British court Of justice appeared on the
stand at the Southwark police court yester-
day. He was Parsee gentleman, but he
chez rfully offered to take oath on the New
Testament. Objection being taken he pro-
posed to swear by raising his hand to the
sun, but the offer was declined on the
ground that no sun was visible, which was q
fact, the murky day being typical London
one. VERY WELL" satd this obliging Parsee,
81 can be sworn by holding up my hand to
the sky, or as we are fire worshipers, I can
be sworn by standing by the fire, or I can
take some of the fire in my hand, or as
have the seal of my prophet on my watch
chain, 1 can swear by that
After solemn deliberation the court ex-
pressed preference for the seal as being
something tangible, and thereupon the usher
administered. the oath while the Parsee
held on to hfs watch chain and appurten-
anceS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

THE side walk ordinances were evil in
form, but the fact remains that any shrewd,
self-respecting property owner should need
no law to make him adopt a good paving in
front of his real estate. It is to his own ad-
vantage, besides being O duty to the COM
munity