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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
PUSHING THE WORK.

Pittsburg Ladies Anxious to Have the Free
Kindergarten idea Developed Here-A
Gala Day for Orphans-COtillon at the
Pittsburg CIub-Society Gossip.
Miss LUCY WHEELocK, who has made
the study OF the kindergarten system her
life-work. but who has yet found time to
write number of good children's stories,
and to act as editor of the ChiLdre1's Hour, Is
to lecture Wednesday afternoon at the Fifth
Avenue Ladies' Seminary on kindergarten
work. Miss Wheelock comes to PittsburS
at the invitation of the Allegheny and Pitts
burg Free Kindergarten Association, arr1v-
ing tomorrow morning. She will be the
guest os Miss Eta Stewart, of the seminary.
Pittsburg is near the head in everything
except in the free kindergarten work. TINS
city is the thirty-seventh Of the large cities
of the United States to take up the work,
and it is desired by the ladies interested
that Pittsburg shall push itself forward In
this direction so as to make good showing
within q year or two. The ladies think that
there would be more interest in kinder
gartens If the system were understood, and
it is to promote this understanding that
Miss Wheelock has been induced to come
here to deliver her lecture. 1t is considered
that society girls should show their interest
in the matter by becoming members OF the
Kindergarten Association, even If they can
not do anything else. Next Saturday morn
ing at l0:80 the ladies of the association will
hold a business meeting at tile Fifth Avenue
Seminary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
AMERICAN WOMEN CAUGHT
Some of the Panama Muck Has soiIed Their
Precious Garments.
Gath in Chicago Trlbune.1


The Panama Canal catches several Ameri-
can women who preferred French assidui-
ties 70 American consideration. Mrs. Loubet
is the daughter OF Mrs. Burch, of Chicago;
Mrs. Clemenceau is a Connecticut girl. Sadi
Carnot, also, is timid of this vastest of Credit
Mobilier scandals, though he is of the blood
OF Carnot the incorruptible.
No man is incorruptible. Men can be as
cruel as the first Brutus, yet not pure. His
tory reveals no 1awless character. Upon
the background of human infirmities is
nmned the portrait of the unexposed nero.
In low and bare conditions of society the
chief temptations are meanness, sordidness,
want OF proper sacrifice for the society and
the substitution of superstition and selfish
hypocrisy for honor and citizenship.
Farther up, where rich cities like Rome of
old and Paris now disdain all public opinion
but their own, extravagant life makes in
roads upon the public and generous heart.
The promoter nnfolds a Christian dream.
De Lesseps hears the Macedonian cry:
Come over to Egypt and help us!' As in
the days of French chivalry, a thousand
swords leap out and We hear the cry OF st.
Louis again: "On to Tunis, on to India!
MOuntjoy St. Denis"
But in the endeavor to do the great crusade
in physics both the recipient and the pro
moter lose their virtue The Khedive has
long been a refugee from the land which
achieved the SueZ Canal. Shall not that
promoter also meet his fate-the family
SCARED, the cockolded, the senile Lesseps?
Yes, the slow pendulum swings back from
the son of Mahomet Ali to the Legislative Q
chambers of France. As the Copts and cool
les were buried in that great ditch of COM
mercial physics, the French peasant, owner,
the bourgeoise cry from disappointment:
"Our money is buried also in that ditch at
Panama, that second Suez. Bring out the
purloiners!"
Often the most generous men become the
corrupt ones. We see Robert Morris, the
flnancier of our Revolution, became SO reck-
less by his almost lawless power of raising
money that he ruins every friend be has.
Pitt, intent only on putting down the France
his father scotched leaves to England his
debts OF nearly million and Parliament
must pay them, as he had undoubtedly
corrupted it like Lesseps.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
AN uLOGIC NAME,

A recent case of shoplifting by we'll
to-do female in ST. Louis calls attention to
the triviaIity of the custom of drawing a
line between thefts where there is no
compulsion by poverty, and those where
the stealing may be melted by want. Be-
cause the St Louis woman had plenty of
money the conclusion is announced that
she had no motive for stealing and there
fore must have been akleptomaniac. This
is fearfully bad logic, for it .overlooks the
fact that she had the motive of getting the
property without parting with her money.
1t is worse public policy, because it per-
mits those who indulge in wanton thefts
to go unpunished while consigning those
driven by crime 10 the workhoase.
The English courts have settled this
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Women Making Successful Drummers.

ANEW avenue of employment for women
that is being pursued with q great deal of
success is seeking orders for large firms on
the road. The woman drummer has become
a recognized institution, and the number of
female statesmen is increasing every year.
1t is said that the persuasiveness that is
supposed to be gift OF the softer sex is ex-
ercised with q great deal of profit both to
the drummer and her employer, and that,
while the men will not be driven out of the
business any more than they are out of the
many professions into which women have
made their way, they will have to make
room for their sisters. and acknowledge in
them competitors not to be despised. Most
OF the articles IN which women deal are of
the refined and fanciful kind, such as paints,
artists materials laces, etc. Truly, the
woman of the present day cannot say that
her field Of usefulness is circumscribed-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

very loose plea of kleptomania by demand
ing evidence in reply to this inquiry be-
fore the alleged uncomfortable impulse to
steal can be taken as established: ''Would
the culprit have stolen the article, know
ing the policeman saw the act?" The
answer to this must nearly always be in
the negative; and 1t establishes the fact
that the impulse to steal Is usually con-
trollable. The allegation of kleptomania
is periphrasis for the unpleasant fact
that those who are well enough to do to
pay for their thefts can go unpunished.
The fact is not pleasant one to contem-
plate, but it is not to be mitigated by the
continued use of scientific name for an
exceedingly vulgar misdemeanor
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
A COMMON BUGBEAR.

The unique ideas which prevail in some
quarters on the relative bearings of social
ism and taxation are illustrated by COM
munication to New York paper relative
to a proposed tax on inheritances which
had been under discussion. The writer
asks the question: SIS not the legislation
YOU advocate a step toward socialism in
asmuch as discrimination is made against
the rich?" To which he further adds:
''The principle of taxing the rich in a
greater per cent than the poor, if carried
further and further, would ultimately con-
fscate all wealth.
This talk presented as an argument
with reference to taxation is an example
of the power of bugaboo. If it is social
ism to discriminate against property in
taxation then all taxation is socialism; for
no taxation can be levied without being
levied exclusively against property. The
Government can make those who have no
property work out taxes, as was done in
the stage of social development repre-
sented by the Pharaohs; but short of that
barbarous method all taxation must bear
on the propertied class.
As to the theory that it sho uld bear
most heavily on those of the largest
wealth, if that is socialism it is
socialism that has been engrained
in our Republican system from
the first The trouble at present is that
we have so far departed from our old
standards that loopholes are left open by
which such wealth as that of the Goulds
and Vanderbilts is taxed a far less per.
centsge than the property of the common
man. Any change from that system could
hardly fail to be an improvement
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
A SUGGESTIVE DECLINE

A recent article in the New York IrS6-
ane points out that the course OF prices
in England and this country since 1860 has
been practically identical. Take 200
articles which in 1860 cost 500, and this
year they would cost in this country
S79 SO. In England, according to the
table of the London Economist, the de-
cline from the average standard of S100 in
1860 would be to $79 81 In other words,
while the table shows that the decline has
gone on IN both countries, differing only
by cents in the hundred dollars, it was
therefore apparently uninfuenced by the
variation in the tariff policies of the two
countries.
But what the two financial organs do
not do is to suggest an explanation of this
general and world wide decline 1t is
not scientific to accept such a phenomenon
without seeking its cause. 1t is we'll
known that the course of prices is not al
ways downward. For a decade or two
before 1860, and indeed for decade after,
there was a steady enhancement of
prices due to the enlargement of the
worlds stock of money by the California
and Australian gold product. Since the
contrary operation set in, evidently some
time later than the dates of comparison
in these tables, it is not illogical to ascribe
it to the contrary cause.-the diminution
of the worlds stock of money, begun about
1873.
The DISPATCH has often expressed the
opinion that large share of the apparent
depreciation of silver was real apprecia-
ton of gold. These strongly concurring
tables of the depreciation of commodities
would suggest a 20 per cent advance in
gold and about a 1215 per cent decline in
silver as the true statement of the
matter
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
A SIGN IN THE SKY.
How Superstitious Texans Size Up Re-
markable Red Glow.

How Superstitious Texans Size Up a Re-
markable Red Glow.
Galveston News.l
BRENNAN. Dec. 12-The sky was red as
blood this morning. People who were out
as early as o'clock observed the whole
heavens overspread with bright red tint,
not simply in the east, as is the case just
before sunrise, but in the west as
we'll as the east and north and
south and overhead. There were no clouds
observed at first, but later they began TO
form, and they we're bright yellow or
golden color. At sunrise these tlnts faded
away, the clouds grew thicker and rain
began falling, and has continued to fall all
day long.
One of two men, in speaking of the red
skies, said they observed the same phenom-
enon Just before the war, and few of the
superstitious argue that calamity of some
sort will soon befall the people. Several
negroes said they were scared when they
looked up this morning, Tor they thought
surely the comet had arrived. No one mas
yet given a satisfactory explanation OF
what caused the unusual glow.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Obituary Notes,

PATRICK MANAGAN, of 19s Second avenue. died
yesterday, aged AZ, of consumption. For several
years the deceased had operated marble cutting
works on Fiflh avenue. lie had a large circle 0f
friends.
CAPTAIN J. II. PUTNAM, who was Consul Gen.
eraI 10 Honolulu under President Cleveland, is
de4d at Chillicothe. o. He was an ex-State Sena-
tor, was private secretary TO Governor Allen and
was wel-known newspaper man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
The First Dinner Dance.

AMONG the few fashionable events of last
night was the cotillon of the Pittsburg Club.
1t was the first OF q series of dinner dances
to be given by society leaders, and was en-
joyable enough to warrant the assumption
that they will be one of the delightful social
institutions of this winter. The Eostesses
of the dinner parties were Mrs. A. r. W.
Painter, Mrs Mark W. Watson, Mrs. Sewell
and Mrs. Il. D. Denny. Mrs. Joseph Z. Dill
worth and Mrs. Henry Sproul received the
guests at the dance. There was large COM
pany, and the warmth and brightness within
made pleasant contrast to the bitter cold
outdoors. The dinners and dance were
thoroughly successful.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Christmas sleigh.ng Parties.

The arrival of snow and Christmas sim
ultaneously resulted in great getting out
OF sleighs yesterday, and the merry jingle Of
bells that had been silent for year rang out
on the clear frosty atmosphere, and sounded
pean of rejoicing in the ears OF the jolly
parties that were taking advantage of yes
terday's legal holiday. The sleighing was
pronounced good everywhere, and num-
Der of parties were made up, the goal being
country and suburban houses. where dane
ing and a Jolly supper awaited the travellers,
with a pleasant ride homeward in the early
morning, well wrapped up in fur robes and
warm garments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
FLIGHTS INTO FUNNYDoM.

eyes" assented Mrs Smith, ''she has .
pretty face but think that 1t has rather hard
expression. don't you?''
THAT'S because her complexion is enameled."-
Buffalo Express.
He (angrily)-My dear, think that you
have forgotten what you promised me at the altar.
She-No haven't forgotten it. didn't pay
any attention to IL. L was trying to remember
what you promised me.-He1o York Herald.
Husband Ito wife at the thester)-HaVs
you brought the opera glass?
Wife-Yes but can't use 1t.
why not?''
IT forgot my diamond bracelet. ''-Fe1as ST.
tn0s.
THE PRETTY MAID AND THE MIsTLEToE.
Beneath the mistletoe she stood,
As sweet as sweet could be;
He kissed her red, ripe ruby lips.
The while he squeezed her finger tips,
And rosy red olushed she.
His wife came in. and caught him there.
Results racy scene.
The wife now wears a sealskin new.
The maid was paid what was her due,
She has a new posish in view,
As sweet potwrestler queen.
-BrookIys EdG
Bunker-Nice hat of yours?
Hill-Yes. That cost me IS.
Bunker-I thought you won 1t on the election.
Hin-Did. bet with my wife.
The Clothter and FtvniShey.
IT wonder what would become of you il
1 were to de-
NOW that's so inconsiderate Of you. Why
couldn't you have entertained such ideas rs that
when was younger and better looking. II you
choose TO entertain them at all?'' protested hK
Wife Indianapolis Journal
SIangleigh-That girl IS out of sight
Precise-Crazy?
slangleigh- OF course not. Why did you think
so?
know. Detroit Free PTsss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
QUARANTINE outranks the tariff in

QUARANTINE outranks the tariff in i'm
portance just now, and it will do so until
measures have been framed to make the
protection of this country from foreign dis
ease as perfect as is possible. There is no
excuse for partisan consideration of the
matter. A Federal quarantine system, well
equipped with all that modern science de-
mands for its efficiency, is essential to the
nations safety and must be arranged.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

DYNAMITE explosions at Dublin Castle
will prove the most effective arguments
with English people against granting home
rule to Ireland. Irish friends of home rule
must surely be awake to the fact, and should
demonstrate their antipathy for such acts
of barbarism by publishing their disappro-
baton thereof and lending the authorities
every help in their efforts to discover and
punish the perpetrator.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

AN outgoing administration that regards
as "barnacles" on the ship of State, and
talks of discharging government employees
for their failure to deliver the goods" at
the last election, is setting its successor
truly magnificent example in the practice of
civil service reform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

It was pity for Senator Hill and pity
for the country that he ever changed his
sphere of scheming from Albany to WASH
ington. New York State is more accustomed
to politicians of his stamp than is America,
and a small man is apt to be more successful
in a small area than IN large one. A man
whose every effort is devoted to self-interest
is not an ornament to the United States Sen.
ate. and the number of such will decrease
as citizens of this republic awaken to q
proper sense of their duty at the polls and
make proper use of their power.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
THERE is eYery reason to hope that the

THERE is every reason to hope that the
story is true which ascribes the attempt to
unite the organizations of railroad employees
into one immense amalgamation to desire
to avoid strikes during the pressure OF
Worlds Fair traffic. The sense of RESPONSE
bility must increase with labor leaders as
their power grows, and the prescience which
sees that public opinion would inevitably
be antagonized by interference with the
success of the Exposition is in keeping with
the wise conservatism of the men said to be
arranging this consolidation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

set of investors by recapitalizing an old
concern on new basis. Any monopoly
in brewing being utterly impossible, the
degree to which combination is carried is
almost universally an exponent of the
attempt to impose fictitious values on the
public 1t would be idle to conjecture
where this process of quilting the public
will attain Its own defeat. The appetite
of investors for such shallow swindles ex-
hausted our stock Of wonder long ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

ALWAYS do the innocent suffer with the
guilty. These days the man of moderate
habits and bilious temperament has to share
the unfeeliEg contempt of his follows with
the glutton whose over-indulgence OF
greedy appetite has disturbed the usually
smooth working of a well-arranged interior
economy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

MEXICO is so accustomed to lawlessness
Of one kind or another as to be rather fond
OF border robbers and petty revolutionists.
The case is somewhat otherwise in these
United States, and neither effort nor ex-
pense should be spared to maintain law and
firmly establish safety OF life and property
north OF tile Rio Grande.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Coon roads are a necessitH to the eco

GOOD roads are necessity to the eco
nomic conduct OF the farmers business, yet
farmers fail to organize and agitate on be-
half of them. Good roads are q necessity to
the enjoyment of a Cyclists recreation, and
the Cyclists have formed the strongest sim
gle body working for good roads in the coun-
try. Surely business is more important than
pleasure, and the agriculturist is as far
sighted as the wheelman.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

- APART from all considerations of ex-
pense, it is manifestly ridiculous to advo.
cate the free delivery of mail matteri in rural
districts, the roads of which are impossible
for about six months out of the II. When
farmers appreciate the advantages of good
wagon roads sufficiently to secure them, free
delivery will be comparatively easy and in.
expensive.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Avoiding at linmore Station.

A WEDDING that will interest Pittsburg
ers to a considerable extent is to occur this
evening at Linmore station, Fit. Wayne Rail-
way. 1t will be that of Miss Gertrude Edith
Machesney and Mr.. It. Harry Dolan. 1t will
take place at the residence of the brides
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Machesney.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

BEFORE Americans devote half ns much
attention TO the preservation OF health as
they now concentrate on the pursuit of
money there will have to be a notable
change in the time taken for meals, in the
number of seconds left for chasing street
cars or suburban trains, in the arrangement
OF municipal garbage systems and in other
matters too numerous to mention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
A Tea Party and Music.

- A TEA party and literary and musical
entertainment, under the auspices of the
congregation OF st. Canice's Church, is to be
held in Turner Hall, Allentown, tonight
and tomorrow evening. A bazaar will be
part of the programme, under the care OF
the ladies of the church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Gala Halt. Uncle Jerry.

Chicago Dispatch.l
"Another cold snap is coming" cheerfully
reports the Weather Bureau. Great Scott!
What do you call this2 We're not all of US
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
o Rare HarritY!
Atlanta Journal.l

Atlanta Journal.]
The Pennsylvania Democrats are making
much OF the national chairman who has
come back to them with the laurels or vic
tory on his brow. They are inclined to say,
Oh, for the rarity
or men like Harrity.
Under the sun.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
An Informal Musicale.

THIS evening an informal musicale is to
be given by Mrs. J. B. Murdoch for her niece,
Miss Pratt, of Elmira, n. Y.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

IT is hardly dignifed, to say the least,
that Allegheny county should be dependent
on individual enterprise for public neces-
sity like the morgue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Wedding at St. PauPs Church.

TOMORROW evening is the time set for
the marriage of Miss Emma Gray to Mr..
Robert c. Gonderman, in st. Paurs NJ E.
Church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
A Regular Tammanx Han.

Indianapolis News.I
A Pennsylvanian is training chorus OF
frogs. 1t is pretty difficult to establish uni
son,as there are SO many kickers and croak-
ers among them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

PARCEL carrying as disease is rapidly
losing its epidemic form, and remaining
cases are to be regarded as merely sporadic
nanifestations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

AS the number of kindergartens in this
city and country increases. so will the ne
cessity for jails and poor farms diminish.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

WHAT with football in the snow and the
customary after effects of the Christmas
dinner, doctors are in great luck just now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

Tor. smithfield and Diamond Streets.
News Rooms and Publishing House, rs
and so Diamond Street. New Dispatch
Building.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27
Ube DiSpatfb.
BT1STNESs OFFICF,

Vol "a No. sz7-Entered at PittsburE Postofiee
November, 1857, as second-class matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

THIS is cold weather for swimming But
q cork jacket should be provided with every
pair OF skates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

Look Out for Implicated Franks
Los Angeles Times.l
Grover had better watch out OF Dody Hill
will put pin in that Presidential chair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

In spite of all the talk of other candi-
dates, it looks at this distance, as if General
d. H. Hastings would have things pretty
well his own way in the next Gubernatorial
contest. He has the solid support of the
Philadelphia leaders, the Pittsburg people
seem to prefer him to any outside candidate
and half a dozen country leaders have de-
clared for him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 70,
TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK. where
complete files of THE DISPATCH can always be
found.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

TIE DISPATCH is on sale at LEADING HOTELS
throughout the United States, and at Brentano's,
6Union Square, New York, and II Avenue de
POpera, Paris. France.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27

How busy the recording angels must be
these cold evenings on the corners up town
as the crowded cars go by and refuse to stop
for people waiting with arms full of bun
dies,