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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
LOVED HIS CHURCH BETTER.
Priests Remorse Takes Him From the
Side of His Young Wife.

A Priests Remorse Takes Him From the
Side of His Young Wife.
Los ANGELES, Feb. 27.-LSpecial. 1.-The story
of the strange marriage of a Catholic priest
and his desertion of his young wife through
remorse has just come to light here Last
June a middle-aged man and pretty
young woman engaged furnished house
here. The man gave the name OF
w. B, O'Daniel, and opened an architects
office. His wife formed friendship for Mrs.
Merrill, her next door neighbor. Six weeks
ago ODaniel left home, as he said on bust
ness, to be gone one week. After three
weeks his wife received letter which
caused her to faint. 1t was written in Kan
sas City, and said:
"You will never see me again. While 1
lived with you suffered the tortures of the
damned. l love You as much as ever, but
my love for the church was stronger. will
hereafter devote myself to the church.
Other letters came from Cincinnati, Wash
ington, Providence and New York. All
warned her of the folly of following him, and
one said it was impossible for him to obtain
absolution, and must go to Europe.
When 15, the vile was sent to
the st. Clair Convent, in Wisconsin,
and there Father o DonDolly, of the Domi-
cans, first met her. One year after, when
teaching in convent ut Denver lie asked
her to marry him and on May 16 last they
were married in Ell Paso under the name
O'Daniel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

The extremely hazy ideas of some of our
esteemed cotemporaries on the subject of
the tariff is eminently illustrated by our
usually bright cotemporary the Boston
Globe That journal takes up the cudgels
in championship of the American hen. 1t
has discovered that the hen is taxed to
death, and upon the assurance of an
authority in poultry that the average hen
should lay 80 dozen eggs during her career
of eight years, it proceeds to print the fol-
lowing dreadful picture of affairs:
The tax on eggs being cents a dozen, it
follows that every old hen in the country is
obliged to pay Mckinley tribute of So so
before retiring from business. In good
times, when eggs are worth 80 cents dozen,
every hen is obliged to lay two eggs for Nc
Kinley before she can proceed with her
dozen. Allowing one egg day and six
working days in the week, whole day of
each working week is mortgaged to McKin-
ley. 1t will thus be seen that if a faithful
hen, after working hard for eight years,
were put up at auction to satisfy a default
in the payment of the Mckinley taxes, she
would not cover the debt. In fact her life,
feathers and all, would have been literally
taxed out of her.
On the assumption that these statements
are correct, we would conclude that it
would be an escape from a hard working
and burdensome career, if the American
hen were converted into spring chicken
broilers at an early stage of her existence.
But the biddy of our barnyards may
largely escape that tragic taking-off by the
fact that the foundation of this calcula-
ton as to the taxes she must endure is en-
tirely creation of our esteemed cotem-
porary. The eggs laid by American hens
are not taxed five cents per dozen nor one
cent per dozen. On the contrary, the
dame of the poultry house can cackle in
the proud consciousness not only that she
has laid an untaxed egg, but that she is
protected from the competition of pauper
hens in other countries by the duty of five
cents per dozen laid on the eggs of for
eign hens. If we are called upon to COM
miserate the hardship of the alien fowl,
we can only advise them to immigrate to
this country and enjoy the privileges of
freedom and protection.
When our esteemed free trade cotempo-
rary next tackles the tariff question let us
beseech it, in its own interest to get its
mind clear on the distinction between a
tariff duty on imports and tax on Ameri-
can products.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
A LONG LOST CONSCIENCE
1t Returns to a German After Seventeen
Years of increasing Prosperity.

It Returns to a German After Seventeen
Years of increasing Prosp perity.
CHICAGO. Feb. ga young German with
his wife came to Chicago II years ago. They
were exceedingly poor. They were only able
to hire a room to sleep in. They had no cash
to pay for a bed. The young husband by
hard Eustling had tough work securing suf-
ficient money to keep his wife and himself
alive. One day he was walking along Hal
stead street, near Madison, with his head
bowed. Suddenly he saw and picked up a
pocketbook which contained several thou
sand dollars in cash. He took this home. He
and his wife lived high for few days. Then
he bought out nice business and has made
money. He is now wealthy. In fact, he is
almost a millionaire.
The other day his wife and he decided that
they ought to find a loser for the pocket
book which made their wealth possible.
They went yesterday to City Editor Ed.
Selbmann, of the Freie PreSSe, and told him
the whole story of their lucky find, their
after fortune, and their willingness to pay
to the loser the pocketbook and its contents;
and here the story ends for the present. The
couple have placed the pocketbook in the
hands of the citv editor of the Freie PTesse,
and as soon as the book is identified they are
willing to pay the several thousands of dol
lars which were contained in the book when
it was lost II years years ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
TIN IN THE BLACK HILLS.
The Mines at Harney Peak Are Undergoing
Great Development


CHICAGO, Feb. 27-"Within go days the new
mill at Hill City will begin the reduction of
tin ore from the Harney Peak Mines" said
George T. Carr, of Rapid City, S. D., yester;
'We have nearly all the minerals in the
Black Hills district, and they can be mined
profitably, tin included, thanks to the Nc
KinIey bill. The tin mines at Harney Peak
are undergoing great development. One
company has over 1000 claims, and is doing
a great amount of work on four of the prin-
cipal ones. Investigations have shown that
shafts can be sunk 1000 feet or more with
very few of the difficulties usually met with
in deep mining.
Titus E. Corkhill, Mining Inspector of
South Dakota, has just rendered valuable
report on the mines OF the State. Mr.. Cork
hill is under heavy bonds, so that the cor
rectness of his reports are beyond question.
His last report shows that in the four lead
ing tin mines at Harney Peak shafts have
been sunk as follows: On the Addie, 42S feet;
on the Gertie, 400 feet; on the Cowboy, 375
feet; on the Coates, 367 feet. Drifts have
been made in the Addie for a distance of
5000 feet: in the Gertie, 700 feet; in the Cow
boy, 1000 feet, and in the Coates, 1000 feet.
Mr.. Corkhill reports that the veins are true
fissure ores. Many new silver mines are
being opened up, and with the, new chlorina-
tion works at Rapid City the refractory gold
ores can be worked at profit. These works
will handle 200 tons of ore day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

since he has done so it is pertinent to
point out that Mr.. Howells has furnished
us double refutation of his own theory.
He agrees that the sentiment, the love for
literature which guides the critic is the
vital controlling element. What is true
of so dispaSsionate a function as criticism
must be true of all human life, and there
you have the basis of what Mr.. Howells
places under the ban of romantictsm.
Next, Mr.. Howells' own career furnishes
the disproof of his theories. His best
work is coloring pictures of everyday life
with an elevated sentiment-and if Mr.
Howells used high lights to a degree that
was stronger than the realty, in "Their
Wedding Journey" ga Chance Acquaint-
ance," or ga Foregone Conclusion" he
does not therefore need to class himself
among ''the followers of fraud and hum
bug" whom he now considers it is his
mission to expose and punish.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
MIR. HoUELLs, MISTAKE.

In the Editors Study" of the last
Harper's Magazine Mr.. W. d. Howells
makes a pleasing sort of valedictory
apropos of the publication of volume of
Mr. Curtis essays, and his own retirement
and Mr.. Warmers succession to the place
The differences of opinion on the burning
question of realism are touched upon with
light humor--though the confession of
undue pugnacity in his own literary criti-
cism smacks of insincere protestation.
But after plcturing his successor, SYM
bolized as the Future, pulling down the
gods of realism, set up by himself as "the
paulo-post-future" to replace the images
of romantlcism-if he can find any about
the premises which were not smashed into
small fragments by his iconoclastic prede-
! cessor-the apostle of realism gives utter
ance to this valuable bit of truth in oS
about literature.
For this reason, ii for no other, the paulo-
post-future (Mr Howells) feels that in spite
of schools, or, rather, of the names ofschools
the true interests of literature will be safe
with the Future. (Mr. Warner). He loves
them with devotion which every line of
his beautiful work attests, and in his keep
them, as it has been the study OF the paulo
post-future.
Here Mr.. Howells evinces a commend
able perception of the fact that if the
writer or critic is animated by the spirit to
serve and ennoble literature, and has the
ability to realize that purpose, the talk of
schools of literature and the classifcations
of realism or romanticism are of slight i'm
portance. This is solid truth, and if we
may offer criticism of the critic, the ex-
ception that is to be taken to Mr.. Howells'
gifted albeit dogmatic apostate of realism
in the Editors Study of Hdrper's has made
too much of schools and classification and
too little of spirit and sentiment Mr.
Howells made the mistake of taking him
self and realism too seriously which
error has been repeated by some of his
less talented opponents After the recog-
milton of the great truth quoted above, it
ought to be easy to see that man who
surrounds his story with little too much
of the romance of life may be something
better than traitor to literature, while
he who drags us through the slums and
sewers in the great name of realism does
not give the best evidence of being actu-
ated by the desire to ennoble either litera-
tUre or the human race. Yet, Mr. Howells
has gone far toward making these asser-
tions in that chapter of his literary career
which is closed by the article referred to.
No one could have taken exception to
Mr.. Howells' development of his theories
of realism in literature, if he had not as
serted them as an awful truth which
every man must accept or undergo the
pains of literary condemnation, without
so tar as we understand it, the beneficial
interposition OF even purgatory. Bot
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
A QUESTION OF CRUELTY.

A very nice question came up before a
Beaver county justice yesterday. Farmers
are getting into the practice of saving off
the horns of their cattle TO prevent their
hooking each other and other. farm
animals. The Humane Society agents
thought this cruel and made an arrest to
test it. Experts said it was cruel and other
experts said it was not. The justice con-
Guided it was not, and the opportunity to
have this matter discussed before higher
TRIBUNAL vanished.
The Humane Society should try again.
The fact that dehorning is now coming
into vogue all over this country makes it
important At first blush it seems an out
rage that dumb animals should be sub
jected to such treatment Until it is
established that it is not cruel, and that
by a recognized authority, the public will
revolt against it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

CONGRESSMAN BLAND was born in Ken
lucky, but has since been an inhabitant of
several other States.
MISS FANNY CROSBY, the famous hymn
writer, is blind, but in spite of her afflction
is cheerful and happy.
COLONEL BOOZE is prominent Third
party Prohibitionist out in Kansas. The
Colonel has strayed long way from home.
Mr. MAHANY, the Buffalonian who has
accepted the mission to Eucador, is said to
be the youngest. diplomatist of his rank in
the world.
the regular order of promotion become the
general commanding the United States
Army two years hence,
EDWARD Won Hoist, who will be the
professor or political history in the new Uni
versity of Chicago, is just 81 years of age,
which is rather young for a German pro-
fessor.
GENERAL BURD GRUBB, sin his City
Troop uniform, and his bride, late "The Rose
of Lisburn," in her fresh Irish beauty and
new French dresses, is said to be shaking
the social foundations of the aristocracy of
Madrid.
SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIs, the great
painter, is never so happy as when sketch
ing from nature IN Scotland. Seated beside
some whipping burn with an old pipe in his
mouth, he will work all day without troubling
about food.
MIR. CLEVELAND is 55, Senator German
53 Senator Allison So, Senator Cullom 50 and
Senator Carlisle 56, while Boies, Gray and
Sherman are past middle life. Grant, who
was inaugurated at Al, is said to have been
the youngest President.
EX-SENATOR JONES, of Iowa, who was
recently admitted to practice law before the
Supreme Court of his State, is veteran of
more than 80 years. who has lived in compar-
ative obscurity during the present genera
tion, but who 40 years ago was q prominent
figure in political lie.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
WAITING FOR MY OWN.

Boston Globe.2
Serene 1 fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;
rave no more sgainst time or fate,
For 10! my own shall come to me.
stay my haste. make delays;
For what avails this eager pace?
stand amid the eternal ways,
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray,
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter If stand alone?
wait with joy the coming years;
My heart shall reap where it has sown,
And garner up its fruits of tears.
The waters know their own, and draw
The brook that springs in yonder heights;
So flows the good with equal law
Unto the SOL of pure delights.
Yon foweret nodding in the wind
Is ready plighted to the bee;
And, maiden. why that look unkindp
For 10! thy lover seeketh thee.
The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high,
Can keep my own away from me.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
BRIEF HUMoREsQUEs.

Bank Teller-This check, madame, isn't
filed in.
Madame-Isn't what?
Bank TeIer-It has your husbands name signed
to it. but it does not state how much money you
want.
is RdrptT'S Bdzdr.
Two souls with but single thought,
Two hearts supremely blest
A minister, a nuptial knot
And-who can tell the rest2
-EeD York Press.
sYou weren't mad, then, when your
daughter eoped?''
Not much"
why did you pursue them so hotiy for 20
miIes?''
II was afraid they might repent and come back.''
Judge.
Cholly-I'm afwaid 1 shall have to give
up me cyril
Chappy-What's the mattah?
Cholly-Aw. her complexion cawn't be made to
match me wed ties.s-Neso York Herald.
When ice is in the gutter,
And the snownake's on the wing;
When we ride out in a cutter
To the seigh-bells' silvery jing-
Then Is the time to rhyme 1t,
And in joyous praises sing
The Tin this consistent climate)
Merry advent Of the spring.
Carruthers-Whatm made you act so queerly
when Mr. Pruyn presented his daughter to you!
Waite-I always feel suspicious of those men VINO
are so blamed anxious to give away their daught-
ers.-Second thoughts.
Jessie-George is perfect slave to Etnel.
Bessfe-what makes you think so?
Jessie-I jumped out from behind poruere Iass
flight She screamed: ''SfurderT' The NoIo was
bardIv ont of her mouth before she said: well,
I'll be hanged,''-Snith Gray & Co. 8 -a0"eAfV'
Faint heart may ne'er win lady fair,
The reason. suppnse.
just because on leap year all
The homely ones propose
-Nelo FORK Herald.
Mrs McGinty-I want to buy some soap.
GentIcmanly Clerk-Do you want II Tor toilet
purposes? n,
want it to wash me face and hands wid.-BoSt0a
Coevisr.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
CAPITALISTS IN FLORIDA.
Philadelphians Invest in Sugar and Form
Big stock Company,

dig STOCK company
JAcKsoyvILLE, Feb. 27.-A party Of New
York and Philadelphia capitalists has been
IN this State since Monday. They came in a
private car as the guests of Archibald C.
Haynes, of New York. They have visited
Jacksonville, st. Augustine, Tampa, Kissimi-
nee and st. Cloud, and returned to this city
this morning. The object of their visit to
st. Cloud was to inspect the sugar fields and
mill of the Florida Sugar Manufacturing
Company, ana the rice fields and rice mill of
Kelly Bros. lately of Louisiana. Since their
return here arrangements have been made
for the purchase of the plant of the Messrs.
Kelly, and the Hamilton Disston Sugar and
Rice Company has been organized with
capital of Sl000000 most of which has al
ready been taken up by Messrl. Disston and
Haynes and their friends.
The new company will cultivate over 5000
acres in sugar and rice, and within the next
four OF five months will begin the erection
OF sugar mill with n caDacity of at least 800
barrels Of refined sugar per day. In Mr..
Haynes party are the following New York
and Philadelphia gentlemen Hamilton
Disston, C. II. T. Coils, A. s. Harender,
Charles Casper, Warren NJ. Healey, George
Prehin, Daniel Elmer, R. L. Hart Colonel j.
NJ. Andrews, Dr.. w. NJ. Rockwell, John A.
Balestier, W. E. Taylor, A. L. Strassburgefs
). J. Finlay, c. W. Beiser, j. F. Andrews, J.
j. Delong, Alfred 7. Carroll, John Roberts
and Colonel j. j. Duval.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
DECORATED BY THE MIKAD0.
The Grand Ribbon Of the Chrysanthemum
for Mexico's President

for Mexico's President.
CITY OF MEXICO, Feb. 27.-The Emperor of
Japan, as a testimonial of appreciation of
sMexico's recognizing Japan as q first-class
power, has bestowed decorations as follows:
President Diaz, Grand Ribbon of the Chrys-
anthemum: Secretary OF State Mariscal, first
class ribbon of the Imperial Order of the
Rising Sun; Mauricio Waltheim, Secretary
of the Mexican Legation in Japan, third
class ribbon of the Imperial Order of the
Sacred Treasury. No Mexican official can
accept q decoration from foreign Govern
ment without the sanction of Congress. but
Congress will probably authorize the accept
ance OF these profered courtesies.
Philomeno Malta, editor of Ey Didrio del
Hogdr, has been imprisoned by the Govern
ment for severely criticising the speech re-
Gently made by Secretary Mariscal at
banquet. Malta has served many terms of
imprisonment for criticism of officials. In
his last issue he pronounces untrue the state
ment published in the United States that
Diaz will have no opposition in the pending
Presidential election. Malta declares that at
a convenient moment an opposition will be
manifes sted which will strike terror to the
heart of DiaZ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

GIDEON MARSH has turned up again,
this time in Brazil If this is really and
truly he, some of the officers should get a
move on them and take him before he gets
any further away. The story of what he
knows about official malfeasance in this
State and the tale of his wanderings would
make interesting reading.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
THE FAVORED ALIENs
A Radical Change May Be Made in the
Labor System of Public Works.

a Radical Change May Be Made In tho
Labor System of Public Works.
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. ga radical change
will be made in the employment of labor in
public WORKS in this city. Heretofore many
aliens have been employed, and there are
now pending in the United States courts
many suits for damages. III which aliens
figure as plaintiffs. The law provides that
when aliens employed by corporations and
cities receive injuries in the performance of
any duty assigned them, they can sue for
damages in the United States courts and re-
cover.
To bring such actions they are only re-
quired to state the sovereignty Of which
they are subjects. As q result, they are
given benefits which cannot be had by citi-
Zens in the State courts. In most cases the
aliens have been residents of the city for
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

THE eagerness with which humanity pur-
sues phantom fortune has been f1ttingly
illustrated by the recent rush for Creede,
Col. 1t almost equals in magnitude and tur-
bulency the stampede to California in the
DAYS OF 49, and the scenes of the olden times
are being reproduced with a vigor that
promises startling reading at no distant
date. The pity of it is that there is so little
foundation for the congregation of gold
hunters there and that so many will leave
the place poorer than when they went there.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

THE present session of Congress would
be a very tame affair if it were not for the
little differences of opinion that spring up
between members. While the partisan ma
jority is struggling in the throes of internal
strife over free silver, public buildings and
appropriations, the people are anxiously
waiting for some signs of good solid work.
But March is likely to disappear beyond the
horizon of time and leave the wrangles still
on, if the great unwashed are not soon
whipped into line.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

The agitation of society circles in New
York by two young men who thrashed each
other in the street and are now asserting of
each other that they are despicable crea-
lures, conveys an intimation that the New
York youth are beginning to get a correct
idea of themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS promotion to
the barony of Candahar and Waterford is an
indication that England is beginning to con
slider the Importance of recognizing the
services of her real generals. "BoDs BAHIA
der'' is said to largely owe this promotion to
the fame given him by Rudyard Kipling-
another case in which the sword owes a good
deal to the pen.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
THREE-FoURIHs TO ART AND CHARITY.
Million Dollars Given by VIII to Phila-
delphia Institutions.

Million Dollars Given by VIII to Phila-
delphia Institutions.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. T.-By the death of
Mrs. Anna Wilstach at Philadelphia yester-
day, a fortune estimated at over $1,000, 900
will be divided among various charity insti-
tutions. According to the will of her hus-
band, who died 81 years ago at Saratoga,
one-fourth goes to the Apprentices Library
of this city: one-fourth to the State of Penn
sylvania or the city of Philadelphia to estab-
lish public picture gallery similar to that
at Dresden.
Ii neither the city nor the Strife accepts
the beQuest within three years it reverts to
the Academy of Fine Arts. Ii that does not
accept the terms of the will the money will
revert to the Apprentices Library. Another
fourth is divided among a number of char
table organizations, and the remaining
fourth goes to relatives.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Abe S. sherrick, Coke Operator.

Abe S. Sherrick, the veteran coke oper-
ator, died at his home, two miles south of Scott
dale, Friday, of the grip. Besides being a large
coke operator Mr.. Sherrick genuine sports
man. and was the owner of several fast horses,
his finest being Dandy. with record of 2:lS4.
Mr. Sherrlck but recently added another trotter To
his stables and had his horses already in training
1or the coming campaign. A special train will
convey his remains from his late residence at
Penusyie to Alyerton Tomorrow.