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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
PITTsBunG. SATURDAY. JANUARY %.
TWELVE PAGES
THE SEN aToR's TWO vERrrCrs.

In the case of the Pittsburg Post, as in
tha5 at Beaver, Senator Quay has got a
verdict From a merely personal point Of
view, neither finding should be of profound
consequence. The Senator had already,
before the trials in court, made clear that
the Bardsiey certificate led the Demo-
cratic managers last fail into a mares
nest. He showed satisfactorily that he
did not know Bardsley, and that the cer-
tiicste Of deposit in no wise mixed him
with Bardsley's stealingS. Thus Senator
Quay-who by no means showed an equal
sensitivencsS about libels emauating from
papers outside the State and longer per-
sisted in-has merely succeeded in getting
formal Judgment upon a publication
which was already exploded and whose
effect was already dSSipated by sufficient
denial and explanation.
If the Senator has no special need for
eXultatiOn over the success OF prosecutions
which were practically supererogatory,
il IS equally true that the defendants
would seem to have no great reason to ap-
prehGHd severe visitation in sentence from
The Bench The fact that Attorney Gen
eral Hensel was the person who misled
them, coupled with the other fact that
Hensei was in a position 10 do so plausiblv
by his official connection with the Bards-
ley business and supposed knowledge of
facts ana circumstances, weighs strongly
against the imputation of negligence as
things usually 60 in political organs pub
hcations; while the whole matter being in
terwoven with public questions and public
people III campaign fever abates from the
usual everyday understanding Of malice.
But, from legal point of view, the case
may be of considerable interest before it
is finished. The Supreme Court has felt
the necessity in late years of iberalizing
its views on the definition of libel. To
those who have read the reports of the
trial, it is evident that there is still lots of
room for fine argument and wise hair
splitting, before the Supreme Court, upon
what constitutes such probable and reason
able cause for publication in good faith of
matters affecting public office-holders and
candidates for Office as will adequately
protect reputation without seriously OBJ
structing the usefulness of the press as a
critic of public interests.
1t is in this sense chiefly that the case is
of interest; and it is in this sense that the
end of it will not be known till the Su-
preme Court has said its privileged "last
saw
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
Social Chatter.

IT is being arranged to give concert for
the purpose of raising funds for the founda-
tion of scholarship in the Pennsylvania
College for Women. The scheme is to have
Nine Decka as the chief attraction, and her
remarkable ballad singing has been SO suc-
cessful else where that it is hoped the con-
cert will attract plenty of patronage. 1t
will be given on February II, as now AZ
ranged, at Carnegie Hail.
In spite of all doubts, Mr.. George Kennan,
the eminent Siberian explorer, will assured
" give the next lecture in the Sewlckley
Valley course, next Tuesday evening, at the
Presbyterian Church. The subject OF Mr..
Kennan's lecture will be Exile Life in ST.
beria." and during the evening Mr.. kennan
will appear in the peculiar prison garb OF
Siberian convict.
THE marion" waltz written and arranged
for the guitar by Mr.. Charles ". Fleming, is
praised by musicians as daintily conceived
thing very prettily carried out. Mr.: Flem-
ing composes rapidly and has vast deal OF
creative force to draw from His pieces are
played and admired all over the country.
THE invitations were issued yesterday for
Madame Geraldy Del Sarte's lectures in
this city. Two had been planned 1or ana
will be given on Thursday and Saturday
afternoons at Mis-. y. M. ocHOonuihAer
house at o'clock.
MRS WILLIAM P. DE ARMITr, OF Ridge ave-
nue., has issued invitation for FeDruary 4, IN
honor of a young married and very charming
friend, Mrs. Updegran, OF Hagars1o"n' mo'
Mrs. CHARLES A. O'BRIEN, of Mt. Washing
ton, ,chaperones a large theatef party on Mon
day evening at the Opera House
1T is rather less that three weeks to Lent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
WATTERsOA'S ASPIRATIONS.

AS strong man Colonel Watterson has
few peers. He has survived one of the New
York HeraLd,s circus booms.-ChicG1o Ne,cs.
PERHAPS Colonel Watterson Is training
down to his fighting weight in order to do
Justice to that declaration for Hill-Wds
ington Post
THE New York Herald is running Colonel
Watterson for President. As companion
niece to the late Dana Senatorial boom it is
a double-leaded success Washington Post.
THE New York Herald nominates Henry
Watterson for President. This is genuine
journalistic courtesy-and yet the sugges-
tion is worthy Indianapolis
Sentinel.
HENRY WArrERsoN has been suggested by a
western admirer for President He knows
all about White House life during some por-
tions of one Democratic administration, and
he could have 81 cage built on the grounds to
exhibit the Star Eyed Goddess of Reform.
The suggestion is excellent-Ne,c York Press.
THE New York Herald noininates Henry
Watterson as Democratic candidate for the
Presidency. Now if the Louisville Courier
Journal will nominate James Gordon Ben
nett honors will be easy. 1t will be difficult,
however, for Mr.. Watterson to decide on
what ticket Mr.. Bennett Is to be placed
Detroit Free Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

IMMEDIATELY upon the consumma-
ton OF the Chippewa Indian treaty, in 1912,
DR.. c. G. Hussey, OF Pittsburg, set on foot
plans for penetrating the little explored
Lake Superior region in search OF copper.
The previous year Thomas w. Howe, of
Pittsburg, had made difficult journey in to
the Wilderness and was convinced that the
earth contained untold millions in copper.
/ But there were so many obstacles in the
way, such as no navigable connection be-
tween Lake Superior and the other great
lakes (the canal at Ste. st. Marie not having
yet been conceived) and the unfriendli-
ness of the Chippewa tribes, that the matter
remained ferment until 1913, when DR..
Hussey sent John Hays from this city to
the shores of the lake. He purchased for
DR.. Hussey a sixth interest in the first
three permits ever issued by the govern
ment for mineral research up there. In
September 1sA, the doctor himself joined
Hays. On his return, other Pittsburg capi-
talists placed funds in the hands of DR..
Hussey, and together they began to de-
velop the famous Cliff mine, in the follow
ing year. They took out of the ground
masses of copper weighing all the way from
one to so tons eachS The one mine they
opened produced $s,0OO,OOO paid divi-
dends to the amount of s., 2sO, ,OcO, and cost
its owners only $4,000 1t required nerve
to go into such venture as this, but
Messrs Hussey, Howe, William Pettitt.
Charles Avery, and few other Pittsburg-
ers, possessed that nerve.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

enumerates in addition, the gold coin, and
the minor coins OF base metal which are
authorized. The act referred to did not, by
naming the old silver dollar, prohibits its
continued coinage. 1t was prohibited by
the seventeenth section in the following
general prohibitory words:
"No coins, either of gold, silver or minor
coinage, shall hereafter be issued from the
Mint, other than those of the deRomina-
tions, standards and weights herein set
forth"
The act of 1873 did not demonetize or af-
feet in any manner the legal tender func-
tions of the full-weighted silver coins mint
ed prior to the passage of the act, but the
seventeenth section deprived silver bullion
of its right of being coined into full legal
tender money on either Government or pri-
vate account. Tie demonetizing of silver
was not affirmatively completed until June.
1874, more than year after the passage of
the memorable act of 1873. 1t crept into the
Revised Statutes of 1874 as section $3.50 and
readsas follows: 1.-The silver coins of the
United States shall be a legal tender at their
nominal value for any amount not exceed
ing s. in any one payment"
1t will be seen that the ancient money of
the country was not Iegislated out OF exist
ence by Congress, but was revised out of
existence. The act of 1887 provided for free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver on
private account. The act OF February II,
1873 repealed the act, of 1887 in so far as it
provided for the coinage of the old silver
dollar OF 4121a grains The acts OF 1873 and
1890 provide for a limited coinage OF the old
silver dollar on Governments account
SILAS T.. PARKER.
MANSFIELD, O., January q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
The Hose Problem.
To the Editor of The Dispatch:

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Your editorial remark regarding the fire.
quent bursting of hose during the recent
fires in the central part of the city has
caused considerable comment on this SUBJ
ject, and, no doubt will have tendency to
remedy the evil. But your structures on the
quality of the hose are entirely wrong, as
they are as good an article as is manufact-
ured and in good condition when delivered;
but the treatment they receive is not calcu-
lated to prolong their usefulness. In the
first place, three-inch linen hose is not the
proper article for fire department such as
ours is. Three-lnch hose is entirely too
heavy to be handled with anything like ex-
pediency. To drag three-inch line full of
water requires unlimited men, and to take
one up a ladder is almost out of the ques-
tion.
Linen hose requires careful handling after
being.used, and should be thoroughly dried
before spooling, but frequently the hose is
spooled before being dried, which, of course,
causes them to become rotten. Again they
are put to a severe strain every time shut
off nozzle is used, as our engines are not
supplied with relief valves. Something has
to give with all the strain 170 pounds of
water pressure has. The hose, being weak
from not being treated properly, suffers.
Again. the screw couplings are not treated
properly. When spooling up after fire the
5'mare end" of the coupling drags over the
cobble stones thereby running the thread so
the next time a coupling is made it leaks,
and heavy pressure causes the coupling to
blow out. Ellis j. Roor.
PIrrsBURs, January d.
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OUR EARLY SPECULATIONS.
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPArcH.l
IA vast speculation had fail'd,
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd.' y

WRITTEN FOR THE DlsPATCH
IA vast speculation had fail'd.
And ever he mutter'd and madden'd.''
--1eanySon, Maud u, 8.
CAPTAIN HENRY M. SHREvE lived at
Brownsville, on the Monongahela, in the
early part of the present century, but he
was practicallya Pittsburger. for his keel
boats carried on transportation business
between here and New Orleans. In 1910 he
determined to open q new business with his
primitive boats. Prior to that period the
British had monopolized the traffic with the
Indians along the Upper Mississippi, and
exercised over them a controlling influence
which was subsequently felt in all the hor-
rors of an Indian warfare. Only a few set
Elements existed north of ST. Louis. Shreve
found out that the British traders. in addi-
tion to bartering off their rum and whisky
with the savages for fur, got lead from them.
He resolved to penetrate the wilderness
himself, and win for the Americans a share
of what he guessed to be mighty valuable
mineral. Building new barge of 35 tons
burthen at Pittsburg, he manned it with IL
men and proceeded down the river. On
May OF that year he left st. Louis for the
Fever or Galena river. He had an adven-
turesome voyage but managed his mission
so adroitly with the prejudiced Indians that
he bought from them 60 tons of lead. This was
too much for his barge, so he cajoled the
savages while longer until his men built
an additional craft, to which he added
Mackinaw boat bought from some rene
gades. His little f1otillas reached st. Louis
in ten days, and proceeding on to New
Orleans, Shreve shipped his lead to Phila-
delphia, and realized from the single ven
ture $1l 900 in cash. which he invested in
and around Pittsburg. 1t was the COM
OF the American lead trade on
the Upper Mississippi.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

ant of this important refutation of the old
theory of boiler explosions may not be
especially remarkable, but that practical
builders should neglect the precautions
suggested by the more recent and fully
demonstrated theory, and should satisfy
themselves when explosions occur with
the old excuse of slow water" is not to
be so lightly passed by. The facts do not
consort with the conclusion of our New
York cotemporary that the fatal explosion
sis not in any degree an impeachment of
the system of steam boiler inspection. -
While the more intelligent experts have
recognized the disproof of the old theory,
the system as whole cannot be regarded
as adequate until that recognition is put
into actual practice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

ample by which political corruption can
be ouerthrown. tits part of the politi-
cal experience of the past ten years, and
especially within the knowledge of the
Press, that the only progress in weaken
ing the grip of political rings in this State,
and in establishing honest administration,
has been accomplished by independent
voting. Yet it varies its moans over the
bad condition of affairs with prolonged
indictments of those who take the only
course to amend it.
When our cotemporary bewails the
dark political horizon and at the same
time opposes the only method to tighten
it. is it not convicting itself of preferring
the darkness to the light?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
REFORMS OVER IN OHIO.

Recent proceedings in the Ohio Legis-
lature are well worthy of note. The in
PRODUCTION of bill, providing for an ex-
aminer of telegraphers, and making sub
ject to fine and Imprisonment the president
or chief manager of railways employing
operators who have not received the ex-
aminer's certificate of capability, is a step
in the right direction, as it tends to define
the responsibility of the railroad COM
panieS. But the measure is incomplete
and fails to get at the root of the matter,
for investigations show that where acci-
dents have directly resulted from mis-
takes on the part of telegraphers, those
errors have been nearly always due, not to
the intrinsic incompetency of the operator,
but rather to the number of instruments
placed in his charge or the length of time
he was expected to work without rest
The bill introduced into the Senate, pro-
hibiting the majority stockholders in COM
panies from disposing Of their stock with
out giving two weeks notice to the mi
nority, is a progressive and much needed
measure for the protection Of the small
capitalist from the Vaccinations of un-
scrupulous financiers.
While the Legislature is to be compli-
mented on the high standard of these,
and other measures, under its consider
alton it must be warned that, if any per-
manent good is to result, the systems en-
ployed must be thorough, and the matters
under discussion must be probed to the
core; for a mere gliding over the surface
of things and the remedies likely to result
from such a careless method of procedure
can only hinder the progress of real re-
form
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
Rev. Ivan Panin's Rejoinder.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
In your issue of January Is there Is an
article entitled Conflict in Belief which
contains the substance of an interview with
me, and also few brief comments concern
ing poor me by Sister Moorhead and ia well
known manufacturer
Will you kindly allow me few words con.
corning these comments? I had hoped not
to have my name dragged into the Bethany
affair; the interview was therefore not
sought by me. But when the reporter did
seek me out on the train saw no reason
whatever for not answering questions. The
word of God saith: "Give unto him that
asketh of thee" and in my Bible I find no
note "unless the asker be a reporter" Speak,
therefore, had to. And when it came to
speaking. thought that the truth and the
full truth is best, especially as it was plain
that the truth will be known anyhow sooner
or later. 1t was not rt'vindictiveness" that
dictated nv replies. Your reporter and the
train attendant. who heard the interview
are the best witnesses of the temper in
which nv in formation was impaired. The
word of God commands us to love even our
enemies: and on the judgment day alone it
will be known. as now 1t is known to Him
alone who seeth in secret. just what my feel
ings are to those who new charge me with
s'vindictiveneSs."
AS to being strong wiled,"I plead guilty
A chief engineer at fire must, in the midst
of confusion, be very firm, even at the risk
of being charged with strong viii ledness.
And when it comes to the cleaning out of a
cesspool-pardon me for the strong fllustra-
tion-a certain decisiveneess and dispatch
are needful which on temporiZers and
patchers-up is apt to jar. love peace, like
all true children of God. But with the devil
there is peace only after his head has been
cut off and not until them.
Affairs at Bethany have needed. and still
need, an uncompromising warfare with the
adversary. This means an unSparing
change. For this the stuffed -pock etbook
managers are at present not ready. The
Lord bless them. they sometime will know
better. But meanwhile neither the Lords
cause nor that of Bethany, is served by ac-
cusing poor me of-vindictiveness.
venture to write this note to you not to
Justify myself. To be misunderstood and
misrepresented, yea even to be spoken
falsely against is just what our Lord told us
His disciples must expect. SO that not for
any defense is this writ. But no one will
surely profit by believing what is not true,
while some may be saved from error by these
few words of mine. IVAN PANIN.
P.S.-The appellation, stuffed d-pocketbook
managers, is used not as q reproach, but
simply as best describing the true cause of
difference. A full pocketbook and an empty
heart very seldom go together, and it was
here that the radical change was deemed by
me needful. Our Lord has all manner of
blessings for the poor, but next to none for
the rich l. P.
GRAFTON, MASS, January 81.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
PRESIDENTIAL BOOKLETS.

THE Cullom Presidential boom is simply on
paper. 1t is impracticable.-Toled Blade
The Gray Presidential boom should hasten
to subscribe for some standard chest pro-
tector.-W Washington Post.
The recent cold snap seems to have frozen
the Boies boom stiff, or perhaps it's over
around Peoria. celebrating.-Somerset Times
PRESIDENT HARRISON is reported to be
'playing his cards very fine'' 1t is under
stood, however, that Mr.. Harrison is no
longer playing on velvet.-Ne,o York Adver-
hser.
COLONEL MORRISON has finally decided to
place his Presidential boom in the hands of
his friends. He should also keep a sharp
watch on the razors in the hands of his
enemies.-NeaU York Press.
GROVER CLEVELAND has gone to Joe Jetfer-
sons plantation at Grande Terre, La, to
hunt, but knowing politicians will recognize
in this maneuver willy effort to solidify the
he'Cajian votes.-Chicago Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
''Dr. A. Billhardt: F.:
THE OWL EXPLODED.
The Cruel Trick Which an Ohio Farmer
Played on a Bird,

DEFIANCE, o., Jan. pa few, days ago
George Fogle, living about four miles east
of this city, caught an owl of enormous
dimensions in a steel trap. He found his big
eyed captive lively specimen, and thinking
of having some fun with him, decided on the
queer notionof blowing him up with dyna-
mite. So tying small piece Of the power
ful explosive to the birds leg, he lit the fuse
and sent the owl flying through the air. He
flew with some difficulty over the field, and
the birds apparent distress attracted the at
tention OF some neishbor boys who had just
alighted from an empty wagon in an adjoin-
ing field
The owl flew low and directly toward
them, the boys becoming excited at its near
approach. But they knew nothing of the
dangerous load 4 was carrying or of its pre-
vious capture Just as the owl got directly
over their heads the dynamite exploded,
blowing the bird to smithereers. The boys
became so terribly affrighted that they
sprang into the wagon, put the whip to the
already frightened horses, went helter-skel-
ter over the fields, never stopping until they
had arrived safely within the confines of
their fathers house. They were entirely at
a loss to account for the wonderfully mysterl-
Gus aerial demon.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

OUR correspondents remarks on the war
question as given elsewhere should attract
the attention of all thoughtful readers. His
description of the political phase of the situ-
alton is especially noteworthy. Politicians
who do not aspire to craftsmanship, but are
content to govern their actions merely by
the ebb and flow of party tides, are, as he
points out, in an awkward predicament. For
the honor and dignity of our country. all
honest people should make strenuous efforts
to publish the fact that they will not allow
party capital to be made from action in a
question SO seriously affecting the integrity
OF the entire nation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
PREFERRING THED.RKNEss

Concerning the result of recent prima-
ties in Philadelphia the Press of that city
declares: -''The political horizon could
hardly be darker in this machine-ridden
city than at present" Yet within day
Of that significant assertion the same
journal INDUCED in lengthy demonstra-
ton that the class Of voters termed Mug
wumps have been utter failures in their
determination to disregard party ties in
voting against machine dictation.
There is certainly reason for predi-
eating dark political horizon when a
newspaper with intelligence enough to
recognize it in one breath uses the next
one to berate these who set the only ex-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

CONSIDERABLE significance attaches to
the promptness with which d. B. Hill has
called Il meeting of the Democratic State
Committee of New York to arrange for the
meeting of the State Convention. which will
elect delegates for the Democratic National
Conven ton. He is evidently anxious to re-
ply as soon as possible to the challenge Of
fered by the strong preference for Cleveland
shown a the Pennsylvania Democratic Con-
yeutiOn,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23
QUEER VEGETABLE GROWTH.
1t Springs From the Bodies of Mexican
Harvest Flies.

SAN Francisco, Jan. 22-Four peculiar
specimens were received at the State Min
ing Bureaus Museum yesterday from Aca-
pulco. The specimens are four good-sized
flies, called the cbicharras. which are found
only in the suburbs of Acapulco. They are
harvest flies. and during the summer they
least upon the grain. In the rainy season
they are forced underground, and while i'm
prisoned u healthy, well-developed sprig
grows from them and appears above the
ground.
The sprig has every appearance Of being
plant lite, bur its origin is queer. The sprig
generally grows out from the first articula-
tion OF the neck, and those on the specimens
at the Mining Bureau are about IL inches
long and certainly look like plants. The
roots of this curious growth fill the entire
body of the fly, the outer shell of the insects
forming case for them.