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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
PITTsGuRG, FRIDAY. MARCH IS.
TWELVE PAGES
TOO RADICAL FOR THE SENATE.


Elsewhere Will be found an account OF
the bill which is so far the crowning effort
of Senator Peffer's political life. Its
thirty-nine articles are little likely to pass
into law, and their particulars, or even the
remarkably comprehensive title of the
measure, are too long for repetition here.
The immense revenue which would be OBJ
tanned if Senator PETERS suggestions
became law, and the useful purposes
TO which he proposes to put it,
together with the minority of the persons
who would have to pay the amounts, make
it very probable that the measure would
be carried by acclamation if it were put
10 the direct vote of the nation. Fortu-
. nately for the owners of millions and for
those who do not believe that the accumu-
lati0n of wealth should be Disseminated
against b. taxation, laws cannot be en-
acted by any such crude method.
Slight as is Peffer's chance of success in
this matter, there are principles in the bill
which will at least provide food for
thought There is no doubt that the ac-
cumulation of vast wealth in the hands of
a comparative few is in many respects a
danger to our social life in several direc-
tionS. The rates of taxation suggested
are not such as to seriously hamper or re-
tard private enterprise, and are no more
than could well be afforded by those who
would have to pay them.
On the whole, there is much in the bill
which is in keeping with the growing ten
dencieS of the age, and there is proha
bility that notifications of many of its
features will be adopted at no very distant
time. The Senate is not body likely to
be specially gentle with measure aimed
at the pockets of the millionaire, but the
treatment OF the bill will be watched with
interest. PETER will no doubt be rid
culed for his audacity, and love for him
will not grow among the wealthy, but it is
likely that the time will come when he
will be looked back to and pointed out as
the pioneer in new region Of revenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES,

DIR. MOTT SMITH, the new Minister from
Hawaii, was presented to the President
yesterday.
ATLANTA is preparing to welcome Gen.
Dan Sickles with all the proverbial courtesy
of Southern hospitality"
SECRETARY ELKINs left Washington
yesterday afternoon Tor New York, where he
expects to remain till next Tuesday.
IT is very true, as a contemporary asserts,
that Dana Gibson, the artist, is great
favoIite of young women, but it is also true
that the young women haye not yet spoiled
him.
SENIOR QUEsADA, the Argentine Minister,
will soon leave the United States for his
native country, having been recalled by
reason of a change in the Cabinet of the
Republic.
THE Pope, who is SO, wears spectacles
only when reading; for ordinary uses his
eyesight remains good He could see better
at 20 than he could at 90, tor when young he
was very near-sighted.
DIR. ANDREW WILSON, the well-known
scientist and man of letters, lives Il very busy
life, lecturing, writing and editing medical
journal to boot. His home is in Edinburgh,
but he is constantly in London.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has recovered
sufficiently from his indispostion to allow of
his again leaving the palace. In Company
with tile Empress he went for a drive yester-
day afternoon in q closed carriage.
NICHOLAS MULLER, whom Governor
Flower appointed to succeed John
A. Nichols as Quarantine Commissioner,
is fat, rich and sood-natured. He made a
fortune in shipping immigrants to the West
on the Erie Railroad.
WHEN Alfred c. Chaplin was q student at
Williams College lie belonged to the Greek
letter society of which Francis Lynde Stet-
son was an older member, and it was lucky
that he did, for 1t was through Stetson's
efforts that Chaplin was first made Speaker
Of the Assembly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
WHAT P0WDERLY PREACHEs
He Wants the Government to Control tn,
Coal az Well as the Railroads

He Wants the Government to Control the
Coal as Well as the Railroads.
In a speech at Marlboro, Mass, few days
ago Master Workman Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, said, among other things:
"The Government should take possession
Of all the coal lands. and every railroad
should be obliged to carry it to every man
who needs it. The letter carriers. for ex-
ample, do not complain of working for the
Government, and the same rule would work
in the case OF the miners. They said L was
Socialist when l first advanced this idea;
but Henry Clews, banker and broker said a
short time since: Coal was placed in the
ground for. the people, and they should
have it.
"Thank heaven, the number Of Socialists
is growing. The capitalists see the hand
writing on tho wall 1t is written in Boston;
it is written in Omaha. The day will come
and it is not so very far away, when all the
railroads will be directed by the people
and telephone is greater than the power at
Washington. We are paving for both forms
of government and the Knights of Labor do
not believe in doing ii.
ave demand, among other things" said
Mr.. Powderly. "tnat the Improvement in
machinery shall bring a bout the eight-hour
day. This cannot come by edict alone; it
must be backed up by united action on the
part OF the people. 1 believe that the manu-
facturers are willing to grant the shorter
day If the men are united in the matter.
We do not want these two hours for idle
ness-to spend in the saloon, OF even to wit
ness ball games. You have heard in your
city what has been said elsewhere that the
two hours will be spent in the saloon. That
is not true to-day. Where three men will
waste their time in liquor stores 81 will be at
home"
The position of the K of L. in regard to
convict labor was touched on. The speaker
said that convict labor must not be brought
into contact with that of men outside the
jails. Child labor was also mentioned, and
the factthat the knights of Labor require
that child be educated until lie is To- Text
books for all classes or children should be
furnished Tree. The Government should
have control of all telegraph lines taking
them by the right of eminent domain, and
the same ia true of railroads
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
A SURPRISE FOR LUMBERMEN.
Experiments Show Turpent'ns Timber to
Be Stronger Than the UNLOCKED.


Be Stronger Than the UNLOCKED.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. March 1z-Some ex-
periments of considerable importance to the
lumber interests are under way by the for
estry division of the Agricultural Depart
ment, the object of which is to determine
the effect which the practice of gathering
resinous matter for the manufacture of tur-
pentlne and naval stores from the long-leaf
pine of the South may have upon the
strength of the timber of trees subjected to
this practice. A preliminary report on the
subject has been issued by Mi. B. E. Fernow,
chief of the division. The current public
belief has been that the timber of these
"bo1ed" trees. sometimes called "turpen-
tine TIMBER" is deteriorated by the process.
Not only is its durability, in which tLis
species excels believed to be lessened, but
also its strength, and hence its value in the
market has been considerably reduced.
Since annually from 100000 to $50, 900 acres Of
this pine are boxed, involving in this as
sumed deterioration, at the lowest estimate,
LOCO. 600 600 Feet B. NJ of lumber, q consider
able loss in values. counting by millions of
dollars, Is thereby incurred.
The circular Just issued bv Mr.. Fernow
says: GAS far as durability is concerned,
there seems little doubt that the withdrawal
of the resinous matter, which furnishes pro-
seems also to have antiseptic properties, re-
duces the capacity to Withstand rot at least
in some parts of the tree: the portion near
the scar where the resin accumulates. OF
course. becomes more durable. But it did
not seem reasonable that the strength in
general should suffer. The tests conducted
in the test laboratory at st. Louis. in charge
of Prof. J. B. johnson, give countenance to
the important conclusion that 'turpentine
timber seems to possess greater strength
than timber from unlocked trees. Although
the tests and examinations of this series are
not yet completed, and further study will
perhaps necessitate notifications of this
of the discovery seemed to call for i'm
mediate preliminary publication. especially
since the Investigation had to be IN uterrupted
tor lack OF funds and may, therefore. not be
continued for some time, Delaying verif1ca-
tion and fuller conclusions.s
Mr.. Fernow adds after discussing the mat
ter: eve feel. however justified to main.
tine timber in strength does not existn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
T1NKER1Na WITH SUNDAY LAWS
Measures That Are Finical Soon Become
FarcicaI, il Pressed.

Measures That Are Finical Soon Become
FarcicaI, il Pressed.
New York Advertiser.I
1t looks as though our police censors of
what euphemistically are called Sunday
concerts" were getting things down to a
pretty fine point when they forbid Sunday
singers and performers to wear wigs. Two
or more OF our most distinguished clergy
men wear wigs on Sunday-as well as on
other days of the weck-and go through the
entire service, thus disguised, with credit to
themselves and benefit to their congrega-
tions. There is ali o -ether too much tinkering
with the whole Sunday business. Measures
that are finical soon become farcical. In diff
ferent parts of the country spasmodic at
tempts are made to prevent the sale on SUM-
day of newspapers. cigars, peanuts and gin
gersnaps, when, in the same places, and in
spite of the most restrictive local laws, rum
can be bought and drunk on almost every
corner
1t is so in this city-detectives will ham,
per and forbid an innocent, possibly instruc-
tive, Sunday-evening entertainment, and
will wink at the g. 900 saloon side doors open
during the day and on the same Sunday
night. The compulsory observance of Sun
day, as distinguished from other days.ought
to be regulated and controlled by common
sense Every good citizen desires that the
day shall be decently and properly observed.
But ordinances that are too restrictive be-
come inoperative-they kill themselves.
Every man of common sense knows this.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
WE HAVE THE MATERIAL

Secretary Tracy's suggestion that Pitts
burg should have the building of a gun
boat is good one. We have here the
necessary material, and the building of
one boat would probably be the first step
in the establishment of large industry of
the kind. Whether we get the boat or not,
we have the armor to supply and we lead
in the quality turned out. With con-
tlnuance of the efforts made to push the
production of armor plates as rapidly as
possible, Pittsburgs importance to the
navy cannot but increase, and as its i'm
portance grows its usefulness will be more
and more recognized by the receipt of
fresh orders. Whether We make the
boats in toto CT only their defensive cover
ing, our supremacy in iron and steel max
ing insures us an important share in the
manufactures necessary for the growing
navy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
PITTsBURGERs AT WILKEsBARRE.
Ex-Postmaster General James Defends the
Welsh Race at the Eisteddfod.

Ex-Postmaster General James Defends the
Welsh Race at the Eisteddfod.
WILKEsBARRE, March 1.-THE great St. Pat
ricl1's Day Eisteddfod, which was held here
to-day under tire auspices of the Cambro-
American Society, and attracted so much at.
tention throughout the State, bringing
crowds from Pittsburs and other cities, as
well as distinguished men. among them be-
ing ex-Postmaster General James, ex-Mayor
Grace and ex-Justice Noah Davis, of New
York. was success. The $25 prize went to
the Gwents, of Edwardsville. The results
of the other contests have not yet been an
nounced.
Hon. Thomas L. James made an address in
defense OF the Celtic race and their customs
He re erred to the bitter attack OF the Lon
don Times on the Chester Eisteddfod of
three years ago. Then, appealing from
"Philip drunk to Philip SOBER" he quoted
the words OF Matthew Arnold on the same
subject, in which that master described the
affair as sublime, and III reply to the Times
utterances that "1t is shame the Welsh
language should be perpetuated," said there
was ~no comparison between the lower
classes OF Welsh and the middle classes OF
English. The former led in general culture
The Pittsburg and Newark choirs sang with
great effect, and also the extensive choirs
from various other points.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
NO CAUSE FOR FEAR.

Irrigation has an immense future in this
| country. 1t has already made vast prog
ress, but tie fields yet undeveloped are SO
immense as to almost eclipse the area
already under its influence. We have
600, 200, 600 acres in the United States
absolutely useless for purposes of cuitiva-
ton without recourse to irrigation. For
all kinds of grain, and for potatoes, the
yield is higher for land under irrigation
than for that dependent on rainfall, while
still greater advantages are obtained by
the artificial process where fruit is culti-
waited. The success obtained hitherto has
been so greatas TO warrant the assumption
that the system will increase in favor and
gradually embrace the whole area open to
its usefulness.
In recent article upon this subject the
Philadelphia Press concludes with the
following warning: at is generally
omitted, or altogether forgotten, however,
in urging irrigation that there is no land
on earth in which irrigation has been long
practiced which is not cursed with fever
and ague. This has not yet begun to
affect all Western irrigated lands 1t has
SOult. MdldIld dUu d. ue are sure III ulmG
to appear in all of them"
There appears to be little foundation
for these fears. There is no reason why
irrigation should be the cause of fever and
ague, though it may occasionally be ac-
companled thereby. As a rule, irrigation
may be expected to lessen the danger of
these diseases, since ill-drained land and
uncultivated tracts are certainly most
often ravaged by them, while the object of
irrigation is perpetual tillage and neces-
sity for its success is careful drainage.
The only danger of such diseases from
irrigation would arise from the initial
steps, since the first disturbance of virgin
soil is always attended with risk Cali
fornia, Idaho, Colorado Nevada, Arizona,
Utah and New Mexico, the most irrigated
portions of this country, are not usually
associated with thoughts of malarial sick
ness.
The fact that parts of California have
been under irrigation for quarter of
century with no concomitant Of fever or
ague argues against the baseless theory
quoted above. In this, as in other matters,
care should be taken to avoid the mistake
of assuming as cause and effect what is
merely coincidence. On the whole, there
is much cause for congratulation on the
progress which irrigation has made al
ready, hope for its spread in the future,
and no reason to fear that its effect will be
deleterious to the health of the com,
munity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
ROOM FOR MORE PH1LANTRRoPIsr:

However much people may differ as to
the question of teetotalism and temper
ance, no one can deny that Lady Henry
Somerset's life is actuated by noble de-
votion to the interests of her less fortu-
nately situated fellow beings She stands
forth as one who makes her life effort the
Improvement of the lot of the masses, and
one whose greatest happiness is obtained
by working for others in a spirit of self
forgetfulness.
We have need of more such women, and
of men of like kind. The mere giving of
aims, large or small, and for whatever
purpose, is an insignificant virtue as COM
pared with painstaking effort to thoroughly
understand the lives of the wretched in
order to make them brighter and happier.
Hundreds of women to-day, and men
too, blessed with health and wealth,
find their lives empty for want of ideals
to strive after. There is no higher ideal
for any life than the improvement of the
conditions which occupy every moment of
the existence of the immense numbers of
those who live from hand to mouth, or
starve
Poverty is matter of degree, and there
are in Pittshurg thousands who suffer
from a poverty which does not necessarily
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
sEcRErARY FOSTER denies having used

SECRETARY FOSTER denies having used q
slangy and vulgar epithet in speaking OF
the emigration from ireland. 1t is very
well that the Secretary has taken the trouble
to repudiate the interview which repre-
sented him as speaking coarsely of the Irish
people. The latter are not hurt by adjectives
which originate in the gutter. and which
only evidence the coarseness and low man.
ners of such as use them. But no public
man of the slightest pretensions to consid-
Grafton could afford to rest under the charge
of insulting n race by coarse epithets. Sec
retary Foster has done we'll in denying the
report publicly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
1NTERNAT1oNAI nARR1AaEa
They Have Been Productive OF Q Vast
Amount OF Suffering.

They Have Been Productive OF . Vast
| Amount OF Suffering.
Boston Herald
| The divorce which has bosn obtained by
| the American wifo Of M. Clomsnceau is ono
| OF the not unlikely conclusions to inter
national matrimonial arrungements. While
| marriage Is said to be n lottery, with quite
as many blanks as prizes, the union which
! connects u woman OF American birth and
associations with q EUROPEAN husband is q
lottery in which the blanks very largely ex-
| ceed the prizes. and this for a number Of
| sufficiently obvious reasons. The chances
are more favorable whom the husband is an
Englishman than in those cases where he is
born and has his home in France, Germany,
Italy or Spain. The similarity of customs
between the people Of the United States
and those OF England makes it relatively
easy for woman of American birth and
| training to conform to the new conditions
of life, though tho sense Of mental and
posed upon her, must be, for time at least,
woman who has been brought up with our
national ideas OF the Difference which should
be accorded to what is thought to be in
certain respects the superior sex.
But on the continent the points of differ
ence are apt to be more numerous than those
OF similarity. In France, for example, the
code Of ethics, which is practiced II not
preached, Is quite different from that which
obtains in this country; and for this reason
the American wife is compelled to submit
to humiliations-andi Is looked upon as want
ing in sense II she does not submft-which
she would instantly resent under American
conditions of life. We are largely the prod
ucts of our inherited convictions and imme-
diate surroundings, and, naturally, 1t Is not
possible tor us to live contentedly where
these conditions do not obtain. The pro-
portion of marriages by American young
women to foreigners that end in divorce
may be no greater than the proportionate
number OF divorces to marriages in some OF
the States of the Union that havea notorious
reputation in this respect, for it must be a
tremendous shock to the pride Of an Amer
lean woman, who has been felicitated by her
friends on the fine match that she has made,
later from foreign parts bearing with her
this positive evidence that her fair hopes
nave been blfghted.
Most of the young women of our race have
a sense of personal pride which would make
them bear great deal of domestic misery
before consenting to make this open confess
sion; hence it would not be sale to estimate
the number of unfortunate international
marriages by the number of divorces that
these alliances have occasioned; but that
they have been productive OF a vast deal of
personal suffering is we'll known, SO much
SO that when one hears of one of these inter-
national matrimonial alliances it may be
safe to assume that the chances are against
the peace of mind and happiners OF tho
young American wiic, no matter how super
ficially nuspicious and fattering the omens
may appear.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
PICKINGs FROM PUCK.

=. =, :, ,....
sfHave a cigawett, Cholly, Of fel'?'
'sNevah use them. deah boy: and I'm weally sur
pwised that you have that weakness!''
''Weakness? IN have you to know, then. that
1t takes p"e''y s'"ons 'hsp 70 stand cisS-
BralnsDy Diggs-New 1ork is very nice,
Miss Bleecker; but, after ALL there Is no place Ike
Boston;
1
A baby, when II starts to weep
At night, will worlds of trouble make;
For. ere It cries Itself to sleep.
h'ie' 'no o"ois"o'inoou ""aAe' .
Ricketts-Does Mrs. Small keep many
boarders now?
Hunker-Oh, yes: but some manage to escape
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
STRICKEN BLIND BY THE GRIP.
Two Cases Among Weli-Known People
Occur at vicksburg, Miss.

Two Cases Among Weli-Known People
Occur at vicksburg. Miss.
VIcKsBURG, March 1.-Two cases of sudden
blindness resulting from the grip have oc-
Cured here recently, the sufferers being
well-known persons. One a lady, has con-
suited the most eminent oculists in New
Orleans, who unite in declaring her case
hopeless and admitted that they were igno-
rant of the cause of the loss OF sight.
The other is that OF n boy, the son of n
well-known merchant, who lost his sight in q
few hours An operation recently per-
formed has partially relieved him. His
physicians have hopes OF his recovery. His
case began with a severe chill eliminating
in muscular rheumatism. The lady's Symp-
toms were similar, except that her limbs be-
came dreadfuily swollen and there was no
rheumatism. In neither case are the eyes
outwardly affected. Several similar cases
are reported among the negroes, but not all
well authenticated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18
Carless,v Made Ballots Are Valid.

INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.-THE Indiana su-
preme Court to-day handed down an opinion
on the new Australian ballot law. 1t is held
that this Legislature has the right to enact
such law; that the failure TO stamp ballot
did not invalidate it; that board should
NOT refuse to count a ballot because the
clerk had written his name in the right hand
corner instead OF the left, and that where
county and State boxes were used ballot
should be counted, no matter which box it
was deoosited in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18

Mr.. Kimberly, the United States Cousul at
Guatemala. contradicting the published
rumors Of revolutionary movements in that
country. and announcing that General
Reina Barrios was inaugurated to-day with
much ceremony, and that the country was
in perfect peace.
ACTING SECRETARY NETTLEToN, to-
day instructed collectors of customs to the
effect that under the Presidents proclama-
tton Of the 18th instant. suspending the free
list in the case of certain products Of Vene-
zuela, Colombia and Haiti, duties will at
tach to all such articles shipped from those
countries on and after the 18th instant, to
ports in the United States. This ruling Is In
pursuance of an opinion of the Attorney
General.
THE long pending Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad theatrical rate case came up for
argument this afternoon in the United States
Supreme Court. This case involves the
legality Of what are called party rate''
tickets. issued at reduced rates. to parties of
ten or more. by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. The tickets were issued for the special
benefit of theatrical and other shows
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-18

imply scarcity of food, clothing or roofing,
but which does necessitate devotion to
labor which leaves far too little time, and
often none at all, for any kind of culture
or recreation. We want more people to
study these things here, and we want such
an institution,as Toynbee Hall in London,
or Andover House in Boston, which offers
opportunities for the association of classes
which can meet in no other way and
which at the same time is itself a factor in
the solution of the problem.