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ALLEGING TOO MUCH.

The explanation purporting to come
from the English Home Office, with re-
gard to its refusal of a pardon for Mrs.
MaybricE, IS of that rem ifkable character
that reflects more severely upon that office
than upon Mrs. Maybrick. 1t consists Of
an allegation that the Home Office was IN
possession of evidence more clearly estab-
fishing Mrs. Maybrick's guilt, but with
held it from the trial, as it did not wish to
see the capital penalty inflicted.
This assertion in view of the facts
leaves the principles of action that govern
the British executive in very remarkable
light Mrs. Maybrick was put on trial on
a charge of poisoning her husband. 1t is
one of the first principles of Anglo-Saxon
law that the executive in such cases is
only interested in having all the facts
brought out and full justice be done. Yet
we are told that the English Hcme De-
partment convicts itself of having with
held testimony in order to crafty its pri-
vate wishes. On the evidence that
was presented, however, Mrs. May
brick was convicted and sentenced to
death. Following this we have the as
IounuIuS ldcG 6iiaG INC hOut OuctI VIII
evidence before it more severe on the
prisoner than any that was given in open
court, interfered with the sentence and
commuted it to life imprisonment
The remarkable contraction of what
would usually be deemed the result of
criminal evidence suggests that if Mrs
Maybrick's friends could produce more
evidencn aUaiOSt her tho Hnmn 0ffnn
would at once grant her free pardon.
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A REMARKABLE RULING.

The United States courts at present
seem to be quite busy with the task of
reducing to a minimum the legislation
which has been extracted from Congress
to check corporate abuses. The decis-
ons by which the interstate commerce
act has been reduced TO a nullity have
been duly commented on. A later ruI ing is
that of the Western district judge who
has just held that the Sherman act against
combinations does not apply to railroad
combinations.
Considering that the railroad combina-
tions are among the most powerful of
their kind, with the greatest power for in
jury and the least justification for their
existence, and that they were declared to
be violations of the United States law by
a previous statute, this is a somewhat re-
markable excuse of the judicial discrimin-
alton. 1t is not surprising that the Attor-
ney General should order the case taken
to the Supreme Court That means of
determining whether so singular decision
shall stand as the law is about the least
that could be done by an Attorney Gen
eral, who did not wish to avow himself as
a supporter of corporate abuses.
What the Supreme Court says on this
point is one of the things on which Tom
Marshali's-the Kentuckian Marshall
famous saying as to the limitations of
Divine omniscience will apply. But it is
worth while to note the fact that while
the corporations have not been very active
in popular elections or very successful
with legislatures for some years past, they
have laid low with signs of fortIfying their
last citadel. The appointment of judges
since the time when the Granger decisions
struck the corporations in a heap has
been a field that the people have
not paid much attention to. But the cor
porations have; and they have not only
done that, but they have judiciously
created vacancies by drawing independent
Judges off the bench with big salaries as
regularly paid counsel. This may not only
furnish theory TO explain the recent de-
cisions, but. serve to qualify any very
sanguine expectations from the appeal to
the Supreme Court
1t may some time dawn on the public
that if these questions are to be settled in
accordance with the public interests there
will have to be the most watchful care on
the selection of Judges, legislators and
executive officers alike for the space of a
generation or two.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
PARKHURST AND. PARKHURSTISM.

DR.. PARKHUEsT is too smart o man to stay
down long.-Syrdcuse Courier.
SUCH men as Parkhurst are q disgrace not
only to the ministry but to humanity.-Sdc-
ramento Bee.
NEW YoRK's new word Parkhurstism
seems to be very nearly Synonymous with
eXtortion.-Boston Globe.
THERE seems to be general impression
that evenif DR.. Parkhurst's fingers De tarred
his character cannot be blacKened.-Ne,O
York Reco, der.
IT is fitting that the soft answer that
turneth away wrath should come from Su-
perintendent Byrnes in the controversy be-
tween him and Dr.. Parkhurst.-NeaO York
Commercial Advertiser.
LUCKILY for tho credit OF humanity, the
public authorities i'll every city except
Pittsbur. have denounced the inhumanity
OF these "crusades'' and refused to aid in
them.-Chicdgo Globe.
BETWEEN them DR.. Parkhurst and Super
intendent Byrnes seem to succeed in telling
n good many unpleasant truths about New
York City in general and each other in par
ticular.-C Cleveland Leader.
PERHAPS while DIR. Parkhurst and Inspec-
tor Byrnes are conducting their newspaper
controversy the divekeepers of New FORK
may have long enough rest from the dou-
to get money enough ahead to quit the town.
Chicago Mail
On, Parkhurst, Parkhurst talk about
something f1t for decent ears or dry up
We have had enough ofthe stencil you carry
about. You can't smoke the devil out that
way, neither can yor purity a pool by STIR
ring up the filth ut the bottom. Let it settle
out OF sight, since you can't remove it, and
at least the water above will be pure
Wheeling Register.
SUPERINTENDENT BYRNEs was unfortunate
in his accusations against DR.. Pnrkhurst for
assailing the police. The same day he de-
Tended the New York police against Park
hurst's charges, one of his men was found
guilty on a charge similar to that of the
preacher. At another time Superintendent
Byrnes' righteous Indignation would have
made a stronger appeal to the people
Chicago Tribune
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THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD.

The habit of borrowing trouble is COM
mon to mankind; but we are sorry to see
it pushed to so extreme form as that
manifested in recent issue of the San
Francisco Chronicle. That able journal
is agitating its soul over the sempiternal
question of what will be the fate of the
world thousand years hence. A great
many people have occupied their con-
iectural powers with this problem. But
we have not recently seen anyone so
thoroughly convinced that in the year 1892
this poor old globe will be in destitute,
forlorn and frozen condition as is our
esteemed cotemporary of the Golden Gate
The argument of the Chronicle is that as
we are rapidly using up the stock of coal
and chopping down the for ests of the
world the time must come when those
species of fuel will become exha usted
Burn up the worlds stock of fuel, and the
cooking of food and the making of iron
must stop, which sad result is emphasized
by the assertion that in the same time the
supply Of iron ore will be exhausted.
Moreover, the disappearance of the forests
is regarded by our respondent cotem-
porary as carrying with it general dimi-
mutton of the supply of water. So that, all
told, our descendants of thousand years
hence will have very hard time of it.
All Of which is borrowing trouble on a
group of assumptions which are far from
demon strated. The first is that the worlds
stock Of its present fuel is known and
limited. The opposite is the case The
limitations of the coal and iron beds of
the world are known over about quarter
of the earth's surface, while the possibili-
ties of new fuels from articles now left to
waste are daily limited at Beyond that it
leaves entirely out of the estimate the ad-
vance of knowledge as to new methods of
producing heat and power. The calcula.
tions OF Walthus have been entirely con-
founded by the increased power of the earth
to sustain population under the steam and
iron age. Who shall say that succeeding
generations will not make even greater
advances in discovering and developing
new forms of heat and power, hints of
which are already given in electricity, if
not in the mere questionable etheric vibra-
tions of Keeley? We do not need to in
dorse that alleged discovery to recognize
the possibility that future generations may
show advances in the methods of extract
ing the earth's sustenance far more
marked than that of the present century
over the dark ages.
Finally our Californian cotemporary
may illuminate lis darkened view with
this cOnsolatory thought: If the time ever
arrives when the earth's powers are ex-
hausted, and it cannot sustain as great a
population as at present, it will come
gradually, and will be accompanied by an
equally gradual diminution of population.
No single generation will ever be over.
whelmed by discovery of the disaster.
But we will hazard the prophecy that the
earth ten centuries from now will contain
quite as ample a supply of food, fuel and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
PITTsBURG. MONDAY. DEC. IL 1892.
TWELVE PAGES
NOT YET CREDIBLE.

The Homestead trouble continues to
produce sensations, the last and one Of the
most sensational being the publication of
an alleged plot to poison the non-union
men employed during the trouble in the
Carnegie mills. At present the allegations
do not rise above the rank of unverifed
rumors, and, until supported by definite
and more responsible assertions, are not
entitled to any degree of credence.
1t is difficult to believe that any number
of men could deliberately enter upon a
scheme of wholesale and cowardly murder
as this story relates. The other violent
acts in that tragedy are explicable by the
excitement under which the population of
Homestead labored. For the sake of
humanity it is to be hoped that the allie
cations with regard to this poisoning plot
are without foundation. .
If the assertions are backed up by any
prima facie evidence, of course the matter
should be fully probed and exact justice
done. Should anyone be cOnclusively
shown to have engaged in such diaboli-
cal plot the severest penalties of the law
will be no more than the crime merits.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
THE WIDTH OF TIRES.

A movement recently made by the Su-
perviSors of Queens county, New York,
with regard to the width of tires to be
used on the newly macadamized thorough
fares illustrates at once step necessary to
the preservation of good roads and the in
domitable conservatism which objects to
1t The rule prescribed was width of
four inches for tires bearing loads Of 4, 900
pounds or over, and of three inches for
loads Of 1000 to 1000 pounds As this
permits the tires to exert on the roads
crushing force of 800 TO 400 pounds per
square inch, it is plainly very moderate
requirement But the farmers could not
see it in that light They at once re-
quested reduction to three and two and
a half inches, on the plea that the greater
width would not permit their wheels to
run in the car tracks in New York CITY.
The excuse is very slight one, as the
horse power expended on roads outside
the city is many times more than the
saving between running wagon on car
tracks and on city pavement 1t is a
demonstrated fact that with narrow tires
under heavy loads the roads are soor cut
up IuIO IutS, Wuuo MIIn WlQe GlreS Ine
roads are made even better by the roller
like action of the wheels. The actual
saving to the farmer by the wider tires is
SO clearly shown by experience that they
are adopted in England and on the Cont
nent as a matter of course. The opposi-
tion to them in this country is really an
exhibition of provincial ignorance.
The same idea has practical applica-
ton to Pittsburg. Our pavements are
unnecessarily strained by the transporta-
ton of enormous loads on too narrow
tires. Cases are known of loads of 90, 900
pounds hauled over our pavements on
tires of three inches or less. Such loads
have been known to actually plow up the
paVements when the ground was soft
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and undoubtedly increase the wear and
tear when there is no actual disturbance.
But on tires of eight inches to foot the
action of sush load would be that of
roller and instead OF demoralizing pave
ment it would make it more solid.
1t is time for this country to give to
such questions as these intelligent and un-
prejudiced discussion, instead of judging
them by previous and really ignorant
customs. The road convention at Indian
apolis, by advocating reform in the width
Of tires, has taken step in the right
direction,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
GLOOM AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
No Social, Events Anticipated in Washing
ton Until After March 4.

ton Until After March 4.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IL. = Especial Until
after tho 4th of March society at the capital
will be in a condition OF gloom at the White
House. Though there is a deal of informal
visiting between Mrs. McKee, and Mrs Rus
sell Harrison and their friends, all of the
formal and brilliant social events usual at
this season of the year will be omitted. The
great New Years Day reception, when diplo-
mats, the army. the navy, and all the dig
nitaries of the Governments appear in state,
will be omitted for the first time in long
years. All of the state dinners and the Con-
gressfonal and other receptions will be
omitted. Following in the wake of their
chief. the Cabinet ministers will not re-
ceive formally on the New Year, and it is
probable the diplomats and the army and
navy will not have an opportunity to ex-
hibit their uniforms and plumes and
decorations at oil. The new administration
will make its grand entree during the Lenten
season, and while 1t fasts society will lave
opportunity to prepare for brilliant 'in-
auguration" of q new social regime which
will efface all marks of the death and gloom
that have surrounded the progress OF the
present administration almost from the be-
ginning, the first and worst catastrophe be-
ing the horrible death by fire of the wife
and daughter OF Secretary Tracy. Three
deaths have occurred in the family of Secre-
tary Blaine, and other Cabinet officers have
suffered the loss of some near relatives.
Within lew weeks of each other Mrs. Har-
rison ana her father have died in the Execu-
tive MansioII
1t is doubtful if any former administration
exhibits such record or human dissolution.
Whatever may be said of the political
change, it must be admitted that society"
heaves deep aspiration of hope and relief
Mt the prospect of the change, the conspicu-
GUS figure in which will be Mrs. Cleveland.
than whom no finer personality ever graced
the residence Of the PRESIDENT.
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ures and the mirrors and the tinkling
glasses into the vestibule of hell.
What the Modern Sunday Needs.


glasses into the vestibule of hell.
What the Modern Sunday Needs.
AND what is true of Sunday in Chicagois is
true also, in a lesser measure, OF Sunday
here in Pittsburg. 1 take 1t that Sunday,
like the old Sabbath, was made for man. 1t
was intended to minister to the best inter
ests of the race All that is good for the up
lifting OF character has place in it. The
modern Sunday needs enrichment and ex-
pansion. 1t is too narrow, conventional, in
sists too much that we shall all be made
good in the same way. What we need is to
emphasize all the best uses Oft. That will
some day eliminate its baser uses
am glad to see that the Archbishop OF
Canterbury has this idea in regard to the
Sunday paper. He recognizes the fact that
the thing to do is not to abuse the Sunday
paper, but to improve it. Nothing was ever
bettered by abuse. The Sunday paper is
one day to be one of the most helpful
features OF the Christian Sunday. Somc
good blind people win see that presently.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has already
made up his mind to it. And he has just
begun the publication of cries of sermons
In Sunday paper, an example which is to
be followed Immediately by a dozen bishops.
Good for the bishops! That, it seems to me,
is sensible Christianity.
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POINTS ABOUT PERSONS.

GENERAL DRYHENCEFORTH" is what
they are beginning to call him down in
Texas.
OLIVER WENDELL HoL MES will be in
vited to write the ode for the opening of the
Worlds Fair.
Mr. MURCHIsoN, the man responsible
for the political disgrace of Lord Sackville
West. has beard like that OF Senator PETER.
STUART ROBSON is not only a good actor,
but clever financier He knows good In
vestment when he sees it, and has the fac
ulty of keeping money once made.
MRS ENIDIoNs BLAINE, who is spending
part OF the winter at Lakewood, n. J., has
recently given to the city of Augusta. Me-,
Sl0 900 to found library in honor of her hus-
bands memory.
CoUDE HAMLIN, managing editor of the
St. Paul Pioneer Press, and Miss Lenorn Aus
tin, daughter of Ex-Governor Austin, of Min.
uesota, we're married in New York Saturday
at the Hotel st. Denis.
ERNEST RENAN has left little private
fortune to his family. So much so is
this the case that Madame Renan intends to
sell the library of her deceased husband at
the beginning of next year.
The Shah of Persia's Ministers disayow
all initiative and tremble at any executive
responsibility. Imperious, diligent and
fairly just, the Shah is in his own person the
arbiter OF Persia's fortunes. All policy
emanstes from him. He supervises every
department. with n curiosity that requires
to be constantly appeased, and his atten tion
both to foreign and domestic politics is con-
slant and unremitting.
THIS is the way Ada Rehan is described
by her sister, Hattie Russell my sister is
several years younger than am, but taller
and more robust She took to the stage five
years after did, and on her first appear
ance she entered with perfect grace but
after having spoken but half dozen words
she suddenly became too full for utterance,
and succumbed, falling fiat on her face. She
was Immediately pronounced by the usually
competent judges to be unfit for the stage"
CARDINAL LAvIGERIE, who died the
other day, complained latterly that years
and grief were crowding upon him, and
looked forward calmly to the rest which has
now come. 1t was time. be used to say, to
be thinking of the quiet corner in his
cathedral at Carthage, where his tomb has
long been made This is the inscription
upon it:
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life as that bounteous globe now furnishes
to the children of men. .

The fact>that the people of Camden, N.
J., are roundly condemning Jay Gould for
leaving to his sister, who lives in that place,
three lots of ground, two houses, $4,000 in
money and life income in addition of $1,000
annually Is made the subject of news by the
Philadelphia Times. MI. Gould never did
pay very much respect to popular opinion,
and under all the circumstances the indig-
nation OF the Camden people is not likely to
worry him much.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

NEW YORK CITY is wrought up over the
discovery that Boston's famous Tewkesbury
Almshouse has been shipping paupers to
the metropolis merely to get rid of them.
The plan of disposing of tie destitute by
passing them on to other places is regarded
in New York as highly reprehensible-when
they come to New York
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

A MASSACHUSETTS court has decided
that man must pay his fare on railroad
car even if he does not find seat. This
would be important were it not for the fact
that the railroad corporations decided that
point long ago, and have enforced the de-
cision with much more effectiveness than is
accorded to the decision of the courts which
the corporations do not like.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
FEARS NO RIVAL.

I'm an enterprising little
Ci-
gar
ette.
Iget there every time.
You just
= can
bet.
+. can set a boy most crazy,
can make him weak and lazy.
From my tireless grasp ne'er viii
Let
+. him
get
In my pretty little wrapper
I'm
pet.
OF the dandy dudes that get
Within
my
Soon draw out all their mind
ALLEVIATE them from mankind.
q. no rival in the business
= Have
/
-PAtladeEphta ca1.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

IT is reported that the gas companies of
Brooklyn have entered upon a rate-cutting
war. This promises profit to the pubkc for
a time only. When gas companies fall out
the old proverb works until a combination
is formed and no longer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

The Kansas blizzard has occupied q
prominent position in the papers of the East
for the past few days. But its commendable
quality of exhausting its force before it
reaches this end of the country has saved
us from closer acquaintance with it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
Cleveland at His Birthplace.

NEWARK, N. j., Dec. 1.-THE citizens OF
Csldwell. which is the birthplace of Grover
Cleveland, are making extensive prep
arations to entertain the Presi-
dent-elect when he visits Cald-
well as he has promised to do before his
Inauguration. The old house in which Mr..
Cleveland was born will be profusely deco
rated and brilliantly illuminated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

THE debate and so-called scientific e1per-
iments as to whether noise will produce ram
ought to be rendered unnecessary by the
fact, which seems to have escaped atten-
tion, that the period of the recent Presi-
dental campaign was an exceptionally dry
season,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S next friends
keep on assuring US that there will be no
extra session. Which does not at all
diminish the howl of the tiger Tor that sop
to his appetite.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

THE Congressional investigation Of the
Reading combination has amassed the usual
pile of testimony. It now remains to be
seen whether the record will be broken by
doing anything to break up the combina-
ton
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
The Implicated senators.

Philadelphia Bulletin.1
: The problem which is now agitating the
Democratic mind is how to bring Cleveland
and Hill together face to face. The New
York Senator. refuses to be ''placated;" he
has purposeiy avoided Cleveland's presence
both before and since the election, and each
of the great men declines to make any over
lures to the other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12

THERE seems to be promise of some
non-partisan legislation this session in the
fact that Mr.. Oates has already introduced
q rule relating to the passage of a uniform
bankruptcy bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-12
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
,James $. McCauIev, Turtle Creek.

James S. McCauley died at noon Saturday
at the home of his father Isaac McCauley, of Turtle
Greek. His death resulted from fall on Thanks
giving Day, in which his head was injured. He
was unmarried. Is years old, and was wei-known
in railroad circles having been an employe of the
Pennsylvania Company from bOyhood, up TO the
time of the riots In 1877. Subsequently he was
passenger conductor on the PIttsDurg and Lake
Erie Railroad and In the big wreck st Wampum,
In 1850, he was badly injured. A suit against the
company for s25. Oc0 resulted In compr mise, the
company paying him half that amount. For
three years past he has been in Ogden, Utah, and
only returned three months ago.