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, 1889-03-30
Some suporstitIous Statesmen.


Nothing can induce Senator Voor-
hees to ride in n street car drawn by q
white horse.
Senator Joe Blackburn not only
takes the white horse, but also ono
having a white spot on it, or one white
foot.
Senator Edmunds regards it as I'M
lucky If the first person he meets on
emerging from his house is q woman,
and will return for q fresh start.
Senator Sherman will not extend his
left hand in greeting or receive one ex-
tended to nina familiar habit with
politicians.
Senator Call will bury or burn apair
of socks one or both of which he has
put on wrong side out.
Representative Kennedy, of Ohio,
wears a voudoo charm which he OBJ
tanned from an old negress in the
swamps of Louisiana.
When Senator Harris, of Tennessee,
is in doubt as to n course of action, he
decides it by splitting at a mark.
If Senator Vest, of Missouri, meets
a beggar in the streets before he has
spent any money he invariably gives
TO the m~endicant.
If the first person Representative
Breckenridge meets in the morning is
a colored nan or woman he crosses to
the other side of the street. He claims
If he continues on the same side he
will be hoodooed for the entire day.
Senator Evarts isa great admirer of
the flaming beauties of the circus
posters and theatre announcements on
the ~billboards, which taste he has in
common with Hale, Of Maine; Butlyr,
Of South Carolina, and Pascoe, of Flor
ida.-Washington Letter in Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
, 1889-03-30

Yon can drop nickel in the slot
and get almost anything. You can
get your weight, your height, try your
grip, try, your lungs, get your bon
bons and chocolate, etc. The latest
thing is an automatic insurance pol
icy. II is for railroad employees only.
There is one of the boxes up in the
Lake Shore depot Underneath the
glass in front is a copy of the ticket
The employe drops q nickel in the
slot and gets an accident insurance.
Ticket good for twenty-four hours.
The same company has q box in the
Palmer house for travelling men only.
The benefit is SO much for death
through an accident and SO much per
week while suffering from injuries
sustained. Chicago Herald.
, 1889-03-30
Statues Destroyed by Snow.

1t has beer observed hat snow Is de-
structive of marble statuary; and this
may be due, in part at least, to the re-
Gently discovered fact hat now absorbsi
sulphurous acid, according to Herr
Sentner, becomes ozonized into sulphuric
acid In the neighborhood of gas works
the results ara likely to be more marked.
New York Telegram.
, 1889-03-30

Wien q person tells you they never had
such a cold in their life take their word for
it and advise them to use Chamberlain
Cough Remedy and cure it. For coughs,
colds and hoarseness it has no equal.
Sold by b. B. David, druggist.
, 1889-03-30

How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say: "Ohl it is only a little cold." and
keep giving them cheap and dangerous
medicines, until they are down with lung
fever or consumption, when they can be
so easily relieved by Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup 1t has no superior, and
few equals. For sale by w. N. Hunt,
druggist.
, 1889-03-30
Rucklen.r Arnicn SnlYe.

The best salve in the world Tor cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
sorns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles OF no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed Il give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1889-03-30

Mr.. Henry Valerius of Harper, Keokuk
county, Ia, has found what he regards as
a sure cure for rheumatism. He says:
In regard to Chamberlain's Pain Balm,
| am pleased to say that L can recommend
it with confidence, and that it has done
more for me than any other medicine for
rheumatism, of which | have been a great
sufferer" Sold by B. B. David, drug
gist.
, 1889-03-30

I lie largest stock Of fine brandies, old
whiskies, choice hqueurs and superfine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
trcets.
, 1889-03-30
Notice for Publication.
Cheyenne, Wyo., march, 1889.
Notice is hereby given that
Smith M. shattuc,

Notice Is hereby gwen that
Smith M. shattuc,
of Denver, Arapahoe county, Colorado,
has filed notice of inten ion to make proof
on his desert land claim No. 299S for the
whole of section s, tip IS n, range CO west,
before register and receiver at Cheyenne,
Wyo,, on Friday, the 9Th day of April,
1889.
He names the following witnesses to
prove the complete irrigation and reclaim.
alton of said land: Alonzo Martin, OF
Cheyenne, Wyo.; Mark Martin, George
III. Gilland, John G. Gilland, of Egbert,
Wyo. Edgar S. Wilson, Register.
, 1889-03-30

Job Printing neatly executed at the
Leader Job Printing Rooms.
, 1889-03-30

Wedding and visiting cards in great
variety at the Leader Office.
, 1889-03-30

Fresh smelts always on hand at the
Saddle Rock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
AN ELECTRICAL DILEMMA.

The de iverance ofthe Executive Commit
tee, tie National Electric Light Associa-
ton, that overhead wires can be insulated SO
as to be made safe for high tension currents,
and that it is not only practicable but easy
to do so, contains feature which is worthy
the attention of the public as well as of the
association.
The National Electric Light Association,
as its name shows, is an organization of COM
panies engaged in electric lighting through
out the United States. The declaration of
the Executive Committee, therefore, amounts
to an authoritative admission that the wires
of these companies might easily have been
made safe. But the deaths of numerous per-
sons in various parts of the country, show
that this is just what has not been done; and
it indicates, therefore, that some of the
members of the association, by the neglect of
practicable and easy precautions, have COM
mitted manslaughter.
The dilemma is thus presented to the
Electric Light Association of practically as
serting that some of Its members ought to be
sent to the penitentiary, or admitting that
its Executive Committee, from interested
motives, has asserted what is not true. The
latter is the more charitable; but the country
can leave the choice to the association pro-
Yided it is followed to its legitimate conclu-
sion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30

missible for the offended person to get even
by committing a greater wrong, has
been practically advanced many times.
Thirteen years ago it was claimed
on behalf of an allegedly reform
Presidential candidate who first brought the
systematic use of money into the national
elections, that because his opponents were
suspected of trying to secure the vote of
certain States to which they were not en-
titled, therefore it was all right for him to
buy the votes of electors out and out The
regular thing in corporate disputes, when
one corporation commits trespass on prop
erty claimed BY another, is for the other to
raise riot; and only the other day one of
them revenged an alleged breach of contract,
by highway robbery in the shape of steal
ing an engine. 1t has been asserted by the
great trusts that outside competitors go
into the business only to sell out; which
was deemed on such occasions to justify
conspiracies to crush them out. All this
is on the same basis as the asser-
ton of tie individual right to shoot
the blank seoundrels upon the individual
verdict that they belong to that class.
All of which is OF course a substitution
of anarchy for government by law. The
law should undertake the punishment of
scoundrelism, and when individuals or cor
porations take the law in their own hands.
it leaves room for question whether the
scoundrels are the shot or the shooters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
KEEPING THE LEGAL TENDERS.

1t is satisfactory to learn that the Execu-
tive Committee of the Bankers Association,
to which was referred the st. John PROPOSE
tion of doubling the silver coinage and re-
firing the greenback circulation, has re-
ported against it. The committee by vote of
II to 3 pronounces the retirement of the
greenbacks practical impossibility, and
declares its opposition to the use of taxation
to retire the misunderstanding debt, while
the interest-bearing debt remains.
This ought to place check on the rather
strenuous claims of certain people to repre-
sent the financial interests of the East, in
the claim that the greenback circulation
must be gotrid of at all hazards. So strong was
this sentiment supposed to be that the ST.
John proposition was based upon the COM
promise of accepting the hated silver in or
der to get rid of the hated greenbacks. The
senselessness, or worse, of this proposition is
shown by the fact that the question of silver
or gold is entirely separate from that of
legal tenders. 1t is an issue for the future
whether gold and silver can be made to cir
culate side by side. with free coinage to each;
or whether one shall entirely supplant the
other. But when that is settled the oues-
ton whether a Government currency re-
deemable in coin and based on adequate re-
serve is permissible or not is one that has
been amply decided by experience.
Whether gold or silver, or both, shall be
the standard, the legal tender redeemable
on presentation is just as good as certif-
cate for the gold or silver. While an ire
deemable paper currency means initiation
and then explosion, the experience of ten
years shows that our legal tender circulation,
being practically a gold certificate. is the
most reliable and convenient currency
known. We are glad to recognize an author
itative disavowal on the part of the bankers,
of the monomania that has appeared in some
financial quarters for getting rid of it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
TIE OBSTRUCTIVE BRIDGES.

The protests of the coal shippers over the
obstruction of the Ohio river by the work on
the bridges at Beaver and Wheeling have
been fully corroborated by the results.
Twelve million bushels, or nearly 6OO, 600
tons, Of coal were ready to 90 out on the
present rise of the river; but only about a
third of l. will be shipped, because more
than that cannot be got past the bridges.
Two coal barges have been wrecked at the
Beaver bridge, and the destructive abilities
of the Wheeling bridge have not been tested
at this writing. In other words the move
ment of hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of freight is obstructed and rendered
hazardous because the recognized principle
of doing this bridge work when navigation
is suspended has not been faithfully en-
forced. One lesson of that kind should be
enough to secure its enforcement for the
future
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 30, 1889
A NEED OF NOVELTY.

Governor Foraker has recovered from his
illness and the forgery set back sufficiently
to declare In an interview that the Republic.
ans are sure to win in the Ohio election.
The leading Ohio Democrats have already
gone on record to the effect that the certainty
of their success approximates that of death
and taxation
In New York also each side has demon
strated to its own satisfaction that the ire
trievable way in which the other side is
plastered over with that ceiling scandal fore
dooms it to crushing defeat. In Virginia,
of course, the Democrats have announced
their victory as a sure thing; while Malone
proudly points to the verdict of the infalli-
BILE bettors. as assuring him that he has got
the State and the Offices thereof, in his
pocket.
In short, the usual ante-election certainty
of each party that it is going to win is
manifesting itself everywhere except in
Pennsylvania, where there is no dispute
perhaps because no one cares enough
about it to dispute-as to the coming
result. The display of the paradoxically
sure thing for both sides is the regular
phenomenon of politics the week before
election day.
Why should not the politicians introduce
something fresh in their canvass, b. an
nouncing that their party is going to be de-
teated and then surprising the public with a
sweeping vict ry?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
MISS cALnWELL,s REPRIEvE.

Miss May Gwendoline Caldwell, the
Washington heiress, has been reprieved.
Her marriage to Prince Murst has been
postponed, because of some hitch with re-
gard to the pecuniary settlements, it is said,
The announcement Of the reprieve will not
surprise those who have read what Miss
Caldwell said the other day on the question
of pocket-money for his royal highness.
These were her words: 81 always intend to
be my own fnancier. am willing to allow
any husband I may have sufficient income
to dress well and pay his club dues, but he
will never have the management of a cent
of my principal"
This was enough to alarm any timid, love-
sick prince. What does sprig OF royalty
ally itself with a republican blossom for if
there is to be limit to the princely allow
ance? No, if Miss Caldwell wants hus-
band who is not more eager to embrace her
bank account than herself, she must not ex-
pect to find him in the courts of the Old
World. No wonder Prince Murat displays
most intense irritation about the matter.
He is another royal beauty. and his tender
spot is his pocketbook. Treat that we'll and
he cares not what happens. If the reprieve
can be made permanent national congratu-
lations to Miss Caldwell will be in order.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
NOT YET ADVANCED.

1t is satisfactory to learn that the report
of an advance In the ore rate from the lake
ports, which called forth the editorial re-
marks in yesterdays DISPATCH, was with
out foundation. The interviews with rail-
road and iron men given elsewhere, show
that no advance whatever has yet been
made. The usual cent advance on fin
ished iron freights for the winter is looked
for before long, and there is a feeling
among railroad men that with the improve
ment in the iron trade, Pittsburg can afford
to pay somewhat better freight rates all
around; but that is very different thing
from the disposition to squeeze the last cent
out the business disposition plainly in
volved in putting up the charge on the fund
amental ore traffic to the old rate of 81 So
which was practically abandoned years ago.
The feeling in railroad circles that Pitts
burg is able to pay better rates than she was
at the beginning of the year, is natural and
not altogether unfounded. But the rail-
road interest should remember two things.
If Pittsburg is prosperous the railroads
share that prosperity by gaining an i'm
mense volume of traffic at rates which
are now and always have been more profita-
BILE than those paid by any other traffic of
similar volume in the country. The next is
that it is more for their adv antage to cher
ish that prosperity that to cut it short by
squeezing everything that can be got out of
it. To leave the cost of producing and ship
ping iron and steel on a conservative basis
is the surest method of making the prosper
ity lasting. To squeeze up the cost of
freight and materials is the surest way of
sending prices to point which will check
demand and produce reaction that must
pinch all the interests involved.
Let our railroad friends be wise and con-
tent themselves with the magnificent traffic
that they now enjoy. If they cherish that
by permitting the city which produces 1t
the full profit of its present prosperity, they
will serve both their own and the public in
terest.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
AN HONORABLE LIFE.

The death of DR.. William NJ. Heron
yesterday removes one of the leading citi-
zens OF the community, whose long and ac-
tive life here has been full Of unobtrusive
benefit to the public. DR.. Heron has not
only been prominent in the medical practice
of the two cities for many years, but be also
occupied a leading position in scientific re-
search, and has contributed largely, both by
his work and by the aid which he gave
others, to the scientific progress of the COM
munity. The disinterested character Of his
scientific labors is shown by the fact that
while they resulted in valuable discoveries
and devices, he never took out any patents,
but left his ideas free for the use of the
world. Few men can leave behind them at
the end Of their lives record of more steady
and unobtrusive work for the general bene-
fit than that which crowns the honorable
and useful career of DR.. Heron.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
sCOUNDREL-sHOoTING.

The defense of Chambers, the Missourian,
who recently shot and killed an enemy who
had come to levy on his property, is unique
in its presentation, although it has good
deal in common with other excuses of
humanity. The declaration of the prisoner
on his examination that be killed Bowman
"because he was blank scoundrel" ap-
peared adequate to the man who offered it
apparently; because he returned to it fire.
quently as full explanation Of the crime.
The impartial public will doubtless have
little difficulty in perceiving thattheexistence
of scoundrels of the blankest variety does
not justify even the sufferers from their
scoundrelism in taking arms against the sea
OF scoundrels and by shooting to end them.
The plea as a justification of homicide is
novel, and all viii agree that it is mad
missible. Yet the idea that, because some
one has done wrong, therefore it Is per
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
THE FUTURE OF FUEL GAS.
Interesting Statements by Gentleman Fa-
miliar With the Subject.

Interesting Statements by n Gentleman Fa-
miliar With the Subject.
From paper on Fuel Gas" read by Mr..
John Young before the American Gas Light
Association, and published in Light Heat ana
Po,oer, the following extracts are taken:
If fuel gas is to be the fuel of the future atten-
ton must be turned to deyising means first to Sc
cure perfect combustion of the fuel, and then to
utilize the developed heat to the utmost extent for
heating the inside OF our houses, where it is
wanted, instead of sending from so to 90 per cent
OF the heat up the chimney to heat the atmosphere
outside where 1t is not wanted. In this direction
think lies the solution Of the fuel gas problem
The price at which fuel gas of practical value
can be manufactured and sold is pretty well de-
termined, and under no circumstances, so far as L
can see can It be sold cheap enough to dispace coal
If used In our present appliances That 1t is posi-
Bile 10 greatly Improve on our present methods
and attain much nearer the theoretical value of
the fuel, admits of very little doubt, but as yet
comparatively little has been done in that di-
rection. We still adhere TO our various forms of
stoves and open freplaces. hot air furnaces that
do not heat the air, unless the products of com.
bustion are going into the chimney red hot and
The rapid progress that has been made DURING
the last few years In reducing the cost of prodnc
tion and distribution Of electric lighting. its
rapidly growing popularity for street lighting and
for stores, hotels, theaters railway stations and
even private residences point to a not far distant
to some other means of Utilizing their manufact-
uring and distributing plant than in the supply
of illuminating gas. Would it not be well for gas
companies to spend some time and money in in
vestigating into the possibilities Of manufact-
ured fuel gas when applied to domestic heating
and cooking on thoroughly economic and scien-
tifc principles?
The Importance of pure air in relation to health
was never realized to the extent 1t is to-day
There is a general outcry against the filthy un-
healthy, costly and unscientihc system of throw
ing into the atmosphere Of our cities thousands of
tons Of unconsumed carbon in the form of smoke
which depresses our spirits, lrritates our lungs,
incessant and Irritating warfare against dirt and
lowers the whole tone of our moral and physical
nature. The remedy is gaseous fuel 1t may be
difficult and somewhat costly. but If it falls within
the range Of possibility, there is little doubt of its
accomplishment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-30
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SECRETARY RUsK smokes pipe during
business hours. All the other members of the
Cabinet indulge in cigars.
RI. SHADBoLT, New York lawyer, looks
so much like Jay Gould that those who know
both men can hardly tell which is which.
PRIVATE SECRETARY AND MRS. HALFoRD
arrived at Washington yesterday morning from
Fortress Monroe. Mr.. Halford is very much
improved and will resume his duties at the
White House at once.
CONGRESSMAN HANsBRoUGH, of North
Dakota, is a newspaper man and runs the
DEVILS Lake Inter Ocean. He has been q
journalist for % years. The district he repre-
sents is nearly as large as Montana
Mr.. SAM HOUSTON, of Texas, son of the
famous General Houston of that State, is in
Washington. Yesterday he called upon Secre-
tary Blaine to thank him for the manner in
which he had treated his father in his book,
Twenty Years of Congress" The interview
was a very pleasant one to both the Secretary
and his visitor.
OTTO, the mad King of Bavaria is thus de-
scribed by one who has seen him at Fursten-
ried: Tall and almost as gigantic in stature
as his brother, the late King Ludwig, his ap-
pearance is sufficient to startle anyone who
sees him for the first time. His hair is long and
unkempt, and his bushy brown beard reaches
down below his waist. There is q kind of wild,
weird look in his eyes, the gaze of which re-
mains steadfastly fixed straight ahead into
empty space. The only person who can sue
ceed in bringing CLEAN of intelligence to his
face is the 60-year-old Madam Marie, who was
his nurse when child. She is the only person
who is permitted to speak to him"
ARCHBISHOP SAToLLI. who will represent
Pope Leo Kill at the Catholic Congress and
dedication of the Catholic University, will be
in this country in a few days. He is native of
Marciana, near Perugia, where the present
Pope was Archbishop for 81 years. Satoll1 was
one of the present Pope's seminarians. and the
ability he displayed SO impressed his superior
that he brought him to Rome, where he was
appointed to preside over the Academy of
Noble Ecclesiastics, an institute in which the
papal diplomats are trained. On July q last,
Mgr. Satolli rounded his half century of life.
There is no prelate better known to American
priests, for he held for a number of years
professorship in the Propaganda, the great
training school of the Catholic clergy. and his
lectures were attended by the students of the
American College.