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NOT VITAL TO THE CELEBRATION.

Judge Tourgee's indictment of Christie
pher Columbus as liar, freebooter, slave
hunter and gold-seeker, is reinforced by
who gives his adhesion to the doctrine
that Columbus was a man wholly un-
worthy the honors paid to his memory.
The threat of the formation of an anti
Columbian party in this year of celebra-
tion is interesting, but while the personnel
of the opposition so far is estimable, it is
hardly threatening.
1t is not necessary to enter into de-
tailed discussion of the historical evidences
in order to settle the question whether
Columbus was scoundrel, as Judge
Tourgee and Mr. Mitchell class him, or an
elevated and sanity character, as Wash
ington Irving, and the general opinion
consider him. The probability is that he
was man of his time, which means that
he would aoa sailor and adventurer do
great many things considered entirely
legitimate and which would now
be considered akin to piracy. Even
later than Columbus time, the English
explorers captured slaves and won great
fortunes by plundering the Spanish Main.
But it is not necessary to disSect COlum-
bus moral character or to decide how far
we must blame him for the darkness of
his age. That is outside the present cele-
bration from the fact that his memory is
recalled in this jubilee not for what his
moral character was, but for what he did.
The reason of the celebration is that he
was the first mariner to locate and give
to the Old World the intelligence of new
lands heretofore unknown. The Morse
myths or legends may be given credit for
what is due theh without detracting from
Columbus fame. 1t was the discovery
that could be utilized which is celebrated;
and the man who accomplished that
achievement conferred an infinite bene-
faction upon humanity without regard to
his personal morals. If he had been
very Nero, it would not diminish the
magnitude of his actual performance. 1t
may reasonably be doubted whether he
was anything like as dark as his opponents
would paint him; but the vital point is
that this is not what the world is celebrat-
ing his name for in this year of grace.
The only way to detract from the i'm
portance of the commemoration and the
magnitude of Columbus fame is to show
that the new hemisphere is really not so
important matter as people think it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

So far as mere politics go, it is no great
loss that facilities for nightly parading
are being lessened in Pittsburg. The
torchlight, the drum and the transparency
are fantastic relics of the politics of ten,
twenty or thirty years ago, but have no
special usefulness or significance in the
days we are fallen upon, when "educa-
tionalp campaigns to convince the mind
by speech and writing are all the fashion.
But all work and no play makes Jack
dull boy; and there are some things quite
outside of politics that all the speechify-
ing, writing and printing in the world can
never illustrate as well, or as entertain
ingly, as procession. Of that sort, for
instance, is the Columbus celebration
which comes off tomorrow; the occasion
when the military have to turn out; the
days when people of special nationalities
90 upon view; the parades of societies,
which can thus alone display adequately
the strength and personal character of
their organizations, and so on.
Under our cable and electric car system
the pressure upon which will constantly
be growing-any sort of parade will soon
be highly-risky undertaking in Pitts
burg. The only way out of the difficulty
will be to establish one or two streets
specially for such functions. If Diamond
street were opened and widened the whole
way from Old avenue to Penn; and if the
promised O'Hara street were cut through,
parallel with Penn, from the Point to
Lawrenceville-and the street cars kept
forever off both-there would be three
miles of route thus opened-which might
be extended to five miles by extending to
Bluff street and out to Oakland.
For the purpose of professional display
and for ordinary vehicular traffic some ar
raugement of this sort will yet have to be
effected. The danger from parading in
front of street cars which cross the pres
ent streets in every direction is too mani
fest now to think that the practice can in
future years be kept up.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

boom of September, 1891. When the
World ponders this fact-also without any
reference to the share which foreign de-
mand has in raising prices-nothing less
than death sentence for Major Mckinley
seems adequate. Yet is it more than q
month since that journal drew from the
statistics fiery Indictment of the McKin-
ley act because it had done just the oppo-
site of what 1t is now accused of doing,
and raised the prices of farm products?
We think it is just about that time since
THE DISPATCH had occasion to call atten-
ton to the Worlds unique display of itself
on that score.
When an allegedly great journal con-
demns measure because it has raised the
prices of farm products and then turns
around and proposes to wipe the same act
off the face of the earth because it has
lowered them, its economic versatilities
remove it beyond the pale of serious argu-
mept
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
PEOPLE Of PROMINENCE.

COUNT BOHEMIA, whose wife is Nine.
Modjesks, is working on a book about Polish
celebrities.
HAMILTON FISH is now the sole sur-
vivor of those distinguished men who held
the Governorship of New ork prior to 1879.
CHAUNCEY DEPEw says that the most
absorDingly interesting incident of all his
European travels was his visit to the passion
play at Ober-Ammergau.
EDWIN BOOTH, the actor, who has been
in poor health for some time, is now able to
be out and around his home at Lakewood,
N. J. He is still very feeble.
THE Gar has put his hand into his
pocket for good purpose. He has given
$500, 600 for the establishments of q medical
school for women in St. Petersburg.
THE Archbishop of Canterbury will read
no letters on Sunday. For so years, it is said,
His Grace has refused to allow any Sunday
delivery to be made at his country resi-
dence.
THE vacancy in the Order of the Garter,
resulting from the death OF the Duke of
Sutherland, has been filed by the confer
ring of the insignia of the order upon the
Earl of Rosebery, the Imperial Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
MR. GLADSTONE still adheres to his life
long habit of rising about $50 daily-an hour
that most other great men of the period
would consider unconscionably early for
getting up. He and Mrs. Gladstone attend
church every morning.
DIR. FRANKEL, well-known author of
Weimar, Germany, had the temerity to criti-
else German army officer publicly last
summer, because he had forced his men to
take long marches in the great heat, thus
causing the death of one soldier. The doc
tor has been arraigned and fined $685.
HARTLEIGH, the sculptor, has nearly
completed his heroic statue of Ericsson, and
those who have visited his studio in New
York City declare that it is one of the finest
works Of art of the sort ever made in this
country. The statue will probably be COM
pleted in bronze in the spring, when there
will be appropriate dedication ceremonies.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
A VERY VERSATILE ORGAN.

The fertility of the New York World in
the production CT free trade arguments is
beyond comparison. 1t is unique and
original, and nothing like it was ever be-
fore seen in The world of politics. It's lat
est and most shining effort is the discovery
that there hase been great loss to the
farmers from the Mckinley act.
The exports of grain in September, 1891,
were very much larger than in September,
1892. Consequently the farmer has been
deprived of gain, reciprocity is sham,
and the Mckinley act is an invention of
the King of Darkness. 1t does not occur
to the World that by its own logic the ex-
ports of grain in September, 1891, being
five months after the taking effect of the
act, must have been magnificent result
of that legislation. When the impetuOus
free trade logic rushes triumphantly over
an obstacle of that sort, it is certain that
it would pay no heed to the fact that ex-
ports of grain are matter of surplus
crops and the needs of Europe.
But that is not all. Prices are lower.
Corn has gone down eleven cents, oats
three cents and wheat quarter from the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
THE MEANING OF FUSION.

In pursuance of its boom for the fusion
of the Democrats and Peoples party in
the Northwest, the New York World says:
'It Is simply designed to make the cleo
ton of Mr.. Cleveland doubly sure. y
When he shall be again seated in the
White House it will not matter much
through which process his election was
secured"
Exactly. The movement. being one
whose only result, if it has any, is to
serve the Democratic cause, there should
be no mistake about it. 1t masquerades
under another name, but its only possible
outcome except defeat is to aid Demo-
cratic victory This is the real nature Of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
A TRIAL FOR HERESY.
Great Interest in the Case of Prof. Henry
Preserved Smith.

Great Interest in the Case of Prof. Henry
Preserved Smith.
November IA is the day appointed by the
Cincinnati Presbytery for the trial of Prof.
Henry Preserved Smith for heresy. His
case Is only second in interest to that of Dr.
Briggs. On some mooted points he holds
more advanced views that his illustrious
New York compeer. Prof. Smith is the
grandson of a Unitarian minister Of New
England, and there are those who think
that the heresy of ancestors is now cropping
out In q: child Of the third generation. When
the head of this branch of the Smith family
was on his way to America great storm
arose at sea, and the preservation of his life
perpetuated the name Preserved" in the
family. Prof Smiths father, Henry Pre-
served smith, Of Day ton, o. was one of the
q generous supporter Of Lane Seminary.
1t Ia generally believed that the son was
called to a professorshfp in the institution
father.
The young professor went on in a common
place way until the Briggs heresy began to
bloom. Then it was Smith began to trouble
the pool at Lane. About 18 months ago Prof.
Smith read paper to the Cincinnati Minis
terial Association on "InspiratiOn." The
views expressed in this paper surprised and
alarmed the majority of the ministers.
Prof. Evans also read on the same subject
pamphlet form and circulated Through the
whole church. The students in the semi
nary took up the discussion and the vacant
churches began to steer clear OF such men
for supplies. Many OF the students have left
Lane, some coming to Allegheny Sem
mary, so that the present attendance
at Lane with its five professors ana
$500,000 of property is barely one dozen
students. Presbytery refused to license one
student on account OF doctrinal unsound-
ness. Another was considered shaky. DR..
mith's views we're naturally regarded as
the cause of all this. and the Presbytery
appointed Committee on Errors" which
reported last April that they were ready to
report. The report was, however, post
poned until June on account of sickness in
Prof Smiths family. In the meantiffie the
professor went to Europe, so the case could
not come up until September. The majority
of the Presbytery believes Smiths views are
ntagonistic to the doctrines of the church,
and that be violates his ordination vows in
propagating his views. They think Mr..
Smith should go to q more congenial church
and they propose to assist him out OF the
Presbyterian Church.
At the meeting of the Cincinnati Presby-
terry last Monday, Prof. Smith was formally
indicted for heresy. The first charge is that
he holds that doctrinal qualification is re-
required only at ordination. 1t is also
charged that he teaches erroneous doc
trines on inspiration. He holds that the
writer OF Chronicles suppresses certain his
torical truths, and that Isaiah did not write
the q last chapters OF his book.
Tue proposed trial eXcites great interest
in Cincinnati,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
ANXIOUS SEMINARY DIRECTORS
The Disposition Of a Million Dollars Is
troublesome Question.

The Disposition of a Million Dollars Is a
Troublesome Question.
NEW YORK, Oct. a-Anxiety is felt by the
10 directors of Union Theological Seminary,
who voted to sever the seninary's connec-
tion with the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church, as to the disposition of
over ST. 900 900 which was donated to that In
stitution during its loyalty to the Presby-
terian faith.
Those donors who oppose the Seminary's
action are Russell Suge, who gave $1,000;
Marcellus Hartley, who gave $1,000; William
G. Ritch trustee OF Fayerweather estate,
$50 GOO, and the heir of Ex-Governor F. d.
Morgan, $400 000, and tis possible that action
may be instituted against the Seminary
taking the funds from them and placing it
in the hands of Rev. Dr.. Booth. 1nasmuch
as DR.. Booths resignation from the direc-
torate Is likely to occur in the near future,
the remaining directors are feeling uneasy.
DR.. Booths position is we'll known. He held
from the first that the contract made by the
Seminary with the General Assembly in 1880
could not be abrogated in good faith.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
THE LOSS OF STRIKES.

A compilation of group of strikes in
this end of the State shows the loss of
wages to the employees to have been S.
9S4, 235, and the loss to employers ST.
112,075, but does not include some of the
later strikes which would swell the total
by per centage. The Philadelphia Record,
in citing the figures, very justly presents
them as putting the question, "Does it
pay?"
The DISPATCH has always contended
that the loss Of strikes makes that resort,
like war, game from which both parties
can be losers. Especially from the side of
labor, viewed as means for preventing
injustice by employers in the matter of
wages, the resort to strikes nearly always
costs more than it comes to. Suppose
that the nearly three millions shown by
this table to have been lost to labor had
been saved up and invested in enter
prises controlled by labor-and fixing the
rate of wages by the homogeneous action
of labor, both as employer and employed
it would now have greater influence in
fixing just wages than all these futile
strikes, and in addition would be a pro-
ductive property for its owners instead of
a dead loss
On the other hand, the loss to employ
ers by the same showing argues that they
would have found it profitable to have
taken a course by which strikes would be
invited. In the fifteen cases which make
up this total the employers might have
distributed S1,OOO,OOO by profit-sharing or
increased wages among their workmen
and still have been over million better
off than they now are
When both employers and employed
perceive the utter faulty and loss to both
sides of attempts to settle wages by brute
force of endurance, and the superiority of
methods by which workingmen shall
share the position of employers, the labor
problem will be close to solution.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
Obituary Notes.
,rc n,rroN I. ,narcbart at Iatrobp died

JAMES DALTON, a merchant at Latrobe, died
suddenly Tuesday. Heart disease was the cause.
MYRA GOODWIN. the soubrette: who died OF
heart failure last Saturday at her boarding house
in New York City, buried Tuesday.
JUDGE OLIVER MILLER, who has been generally
regarded as the ablest member of the Maryland
Court of Appeals, died Tuesday at his home In
Ellicoit City. He WIS 6S years old.
MAJOR DAVID r. CALDWELL, aged 81. late edi-
tor and proprietor of the Lexington (ky. Morning
Transcript. died there Tuesday. Two months ago
he sold the Transcript, his physician telling him
that he would never be well again.
SUPERINTENDENT E. G. ST. JOHN. late of the
British Twenty-ninth Infantry, is dead Of cancer
of the stomach. at omaha. Captain st. John was
born in Sussex, England, In 1890, and served with
distinction many years In the army. The family Is
q we'll known English one, the present head being
Lord st. john Blokoe, Of sussex.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

the so-called "fusion, and it is for that
reason that the Democrats are urged by
their organs to support it, even at the cost
of sailing under false colors for the cam
paign.
If all the ex-Republican members of the
Peoples party will take notice Of the
avowed purpose of the fusion movement,
its actual effect will be to restore the old
party lines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
TAMMANY's supreme control of its min

ions was clearly indicated by the ''hcarse
laughter" which greeted the query If there
were any other names to be offered as CON-
petitors to Thomas F. Gilroy's nomination.
There is no doubt that Tammany Hall is far
and away the best running and most
smoothly fabricated political machine in
the world. But the immortality of its mo-
tive power and the facility with which it
produces corruption are not exactly the
greatest incentives to an honest nation to
elect a President who will be dependent
upon Tammany's advice for the exercise of
his powers of patronage and general execu-
tive functions
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

WHEN they get back from Chicago,
some OF the Kentucky orators might find
employment nearer home. As the result of
family feuds, fifty armed mon are abroad in
some ont of the way region known as Scott's
Ridge, and they are expected to indulge in q
bloody fight before long. No filter subjects
could be found for rhetorical persuasiveness,
and great would be the fame of an evangel.
ist who should charm these semi -barbarians
into amity by the sweetness of his eloquent
disconrea
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

SINCE all the Democratic leaders differ
more or less from one another and their
party platform, and seeing that none of
them have thought it worth while to pro-
pose any definite substitute for existent
Protective legislation, the assumption that
a search for official spoils is the beginning
and END of their efforts appears well war.
rpnted,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

THERE is most regrettable amount of
Juvenile criminality making its appearance
in and around Pittsburg just now. But all
the cases are go clearly the result OF imma-
ture, hotheaded carelessness that 1t is ridic-
ulous to attribute the condolences to the
leniency of the jury which acquitted q boy
murderer the other day, notwtthstah ding che
incontrovertible evidence of his technical
guilt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

WHAT with omissions in the invitations
sent out, rivalry between various officials
and organizatons and the usual impossi-
bility of pleasing everyone, it transpires
that Columbus celebrations may be made
source of discord and dissension by con-
tentions and jealous parties just as easily as
any common everyday matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
LIES LITTLE LAUGHS.

She-Must you go so soon, darling? IL
is only 10 O'Clock. and father won't object if you
stav until II.
He-True, my own. But that only gives me two
hours in which to say good night.
The Rev Mr.. Drowsie-By the way, l
observed on Sunday last that you got up suddenly
and left the church before my sermon was over. l
was dpeply pained, and hope you can offer some
explanation.
Theological student-oh, yes. sir; ever since I
was a boy have been somnambulst.
1.-THE good are not always happy"
There can be doubt of this,
Because you know, they must sorry grow,
When they think of the fun they mics.
'No, 1 didn't catch anything all day."
said the fisherman; ''didn't even get bite,
~
from out of the heavens, and he was oorne away
to dwell forever with George " ashington.
Mr. X.-I'll have to get new silk hat;
this one has served its time.
Mr. VI know where you get one chesp'
old Simnes wants to bet a hat on the election.
Mr.. X.-which way does he want to bet?
Mr.. Y.-He wants to bet on Cleveland.
Mfr. X.-I know where 1 can get hat cheaper
than that.
Amateur Actress (who intends to adopt
the stage . profession)-No. Mr.. Kersmith, l
cannot marry you. nor any man; 1t would inter-
fere with my chosen career.
Mr.K.-But think how a divorce would boom
you'll
"'Tis strange, 'tis very stranger" so X com
plains.
THAT so seldom meet man of brains"
Poor Y! tits melancholy, yet tits true,
That men of brains avoid a chat with you.
Budweisser-Have you seen the new pis
catorisl sub-aqueous camera?
Bartholomay-What's 1t for?
Budweisser- To photograph the big nsh that gel
away.
She-And are you sure you will like mar
ried life as you do your club?
He-Oh, yes.
she-And are you so awfully fond Of your eiuss
He-Not very.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

THAT ordinance to mitigate the smoke
city, which is to be introduced to Councils
on Monday, should meet with hearty
support and no opposition. 1t should be
passed and enforced as soon as it can be
made law. Pittsburg's wealth. health and
convenience will all be enhanced by such a
measure, and there is no reasonable argu-
ment agninst 1t.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
John x. Anderson, Fayette County.

John K. Anderson, father of Register
and Recorder Anderson. of Fayette county. died
at his home in Nicholson township yesterday. In
his 6lst year. His death was caused by dropsy.
Soon after his marriage he removed TO Illinois.
where he remained for several years. finally re-
turning TO his old home. Hc has always been n
Republican. though his was elected Register
ago,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

difficult to forecast tho decision of election
dxy. Chairman Harrity, of the National
Democratic Committee, spoke in the most
conhdens way of the Democratic outlook in
New York. Murphy, Sheehan, Croker and
the leaders are, he said. working strenuous
ly and faithfully for the success of the ma
ttonal ticket and were entirely confident
that the State would cast its electoral vote
for Cleveland and Stevenson. At the he
publican headquarters the managers appear
equally confident of the success of Harri.
son. Republicans believe that the Cleve-
land tide has reached its height and has
now begun to ebb, and that from now on
Harrison will continue to grow in popular
strength.
PERHAPS more people have read the
Constitution in this canvass than in any re-
cent similar length of time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
Edward Sliney.
Mr.. Edward Sliney died Yesterday

Mr.. Edward Sliney died yesterday morn
ing at Lakewood, n. J. Deceased proprietor
of the New Kent House. on Lake Chautauqua and
his demise will be regretted by many Pfttsburgers
who have been guests at the resort over which de
presided. Mr.. Sliney very popular with Chau-
tauqua tourists and will be missed in future sea-
SONS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

AGAIN the transatlantic record has
been cut by the fast going City OF Paris.
This calls for the risking of more lives in
the efforts of the record holders competi-
tors.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

IT IS q pity that there is not larger
seating capacity in the London courts. 1t
seems that murder trials and social exposes
are to Londoners what the circus and its
gladiatorial combats were to the ancient
Romans. p
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20
Miles N. Carpenter.

Miles N. Carpenter yesterday died at his
residence in Orleans. He was brother Of
Mrs. p. f. Collins, of Plttsburg. Mr.. Caroenter
was a we-known river man. having been con-
nected with river interests for the past 40 years
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-20

THERE is no very apparent political sig
nincance in the partial eclipse of the sun to-
day. But perhaps Professor Totten has
some hidden meaning Of 1t to ed1fy the
public withal. ....