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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
THE EXAMPLE OF CHICAGO.

The enterprising city of Chicago has re-
Gently set an example which should be of
value to the communities lying along the
three rivers in this vicinity. In order to
obtain the full benefit of the suburban nnp-
ulation in the rating of the cities at the
next census, she has taken in the outlying
districts so that stretch Of territory twenty
four miles long and eight miles broad is
included, within the city limits. This is ex-
pected to give Chicago /, ,10O 900 population
in the next census, and if any city can ap-
proach her in area she is ready to annex a
State or two.
Perhaps it is not discreet to urge upon the
conservative people of this region the full
copying OF Chicago's example. If we did
so, we would begin at Leetsdale and annex
all the way up to the city, including ALLIE
gheny. The southwestern limit would take
in Mansfield. the southeastern McKeesport,
while the northeastern would bring in
Verona and Sharpsburg. Without urging
our people to so daring flight, it is proper
to point out that the closely settled sections
adjacent to our city are sufficient to add
10000 to our population next year, and to
give us 900 instead of the 100000 or
thereabouts which we are likely to show in
our subdivided state.
Chicago has made herself what she is by
the policy of presenting her merits and her
full growth to the world. Not the policy of
annexing the suburbs alone. but that, of
which the first is part, of doing everything
possible to increase the reputation of the
city as a community, is the cause OF the
growth which will record over a million
souls in Chicago next year.. 1t may also be
pertinent to remark that the lack of united
effort in that direction is one of the reasoSs
why Pittsburg is rated among the cities of
200, 900 population or less. and has some
thing less than 10000 in the communities
of which she is the center.
Is it not about time for our city to profit
by the example of Chicago? Would not a
good way to pursue that policy be to per-
feet a plan for uniting the Immediately ad-
jacent population into city of $4,000 to
400, 900 in time for the next census?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
A DELAYED CURSE.

The agricultural experiment stations and
bureaus are sending out circulars telling
about the green bug in the wheat This is
regarded as fresh news by the Agricultural
agencies, but the farmers who have found
out about the green bug and have learned
how to circumvent them for some time, will
not be much excited over the news. So far
as can be ascertained the green bug, or
midge, is a very important factor on the
bull side of the grain exchanges, but other
wise he is but little larger collectively than
he is individually. The fact is that the
green midge has been beaten in most of the
wheatraising districts where he has ap-
peared by the very simple device on the
part of the farmers of harvesting good
crop of wheat before the midge has had a
chance to get In his work. 1t will be time
enough to get up panic about the midge
when the crop returns show that a short
crop has been harvested.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
LIVING TOO EAGERLY.
Patience Comes From the Great PROTECTOR,
but Hurry is From Hades.

but Hurry is From Hades.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l
Americans know how to work, but they do
not know how to rest. Hopes are early
kindled in their hearts, and life becomes for
ever after only an unceasing struggle. Men
work for works sake. We speak of the bless
ings OF labor, and even in our system of politi-
cal economy act on the false idea that the more
work the greater blessing; so we create obstruc-
tions only to multiply labor.
Man was condemned to work. That 1t seems
blessing-that to escape thought, or remem-
brance, or to exhaust the frame we turn to 1t
as to friend-only proves how far we have
fallen from our lost estate, and how changed Is
the condition of man.
To compass an end by exaeting labor is
worthy any mans endeavor. only in SO doing
let us not become the slave of work; let us not
surrender our Independence; let us not work
for any Of these things, whether IL is wealth or
power or love itself, more than it is worth.
But many do give too much. Next year, or
ten years hence, they say, our task will be fn-
fshed. but they find too often that they have
only sold their birthright for a mess of pottage.
There is a legend In some Spanish book
About a noisy reveler. who. AT night
s,,, Returning home with others saw a light
anne na @ IRON ah WIndow no and up 10 look
HIS own self-strangled self grim. rigid, white,
And who, struck sober by that livid sight,
Has any man fancy to peep in
His nobier self self-choked with coils Of sin
Or sloth or follyG Round the throat whipped
The nooses give the throat stiffened grin,
'T1s but thyself Look we'll Why be aghast?
Habit is stronger than sin. or sloth, or folly,
and the habit Of uninterrupted labor, or the
loss OF self in same work meant to be for
time; forges chains that only life itself can
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
DOWN WITH THE sPARRows.

A volume containing over four hundred
pages entitled "The English Sparrow,
(Pdsser Donlesticus) in North America, Es-
pecially in Its Relations to Agriculture"
has been received by THE DISPATCH from
Secretary of Agriculture Jeremiah NJ
Rusk. 1t is beautiful work. The covers
are pale aesthetic green, but the state
ments about the infamous sparrow within
them are printed in large type with the
blackest OF ink. There is no doubt about
Secretary Rusk's meaning in authorizing
the division of the economic ornith-
ology and mammalogy to issue Bulle-
tin /, as this work on the English
sparrow is designated. 1t is an unmistak-
able indication of the bold and determined
policy to which Secretary Rusk has COM
mitted the administration. He does not
issue leafet and suggest tamely the advis-
ability of taking the sparrow seriously.
He plants his foot firmly and emits
volume of four hundred pages to the effect
that the English sparrow must go at once.
The statistics in this book are very vol
luminous; all of them are interesting, great
many very humorous. They all prove,
however, what a terrible fellow this Passer
Domesticus, this English intruder, is. For
instance, on page 80 we find a list of native
American birds molested by the sparrow.
In this we find it recorded that 377 blue
birds, 1872 robins, IL yellow warblers, "a
swallows. ~ chippies, 8 bobolinks, hum
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
YOUNG CUPID'S PRANK,
He Sticks a Dart Through the Hearts of
One Hundred and Forty.Two Years.

He Sticks a Dart Through the Hearts of
One Hundred and F0rty-Two Years.
From the Erie Gazette.l
A tall, fine-looking man of distinguished ap-
pearance. and clerical air, stepped into the
Office of Clerk of Courts Hewitt yesterday and
asked with great dignity if Mr.. Hewitt were
the one who made folks happy. Mr.. Hewitt
Joined him in a little blush and shyly admitted
that he sometimes distributed great chunks of
happiness to young men for consideration.
II want marriage license, then" the
stranger remarked
what is the name?' asked Mr.. Hewitt.
''Spratt-Rev. G. M. Spratt of Philadel-
pfiia."
After the usual questions required by law to
be asked of those who come there for tickets in
the lottery. MIR. Hewitt observed: 'Of course
can see that you are of age, but" in an
apologetic tone, 81 am required to ask your
exact age"
Certainly, certainly SIR" responded the
clerical visitor. 4 know how it is. have
oficiated at q large number of weddings since
the law went into effect. am 70" -
The bride Mr.. Spratt was to lead to the altar
was Mrs Amelia Down Wheeler, OF Corry
whose age Is 81, so that the combined ages Of
the bride and groom reach the almost un-
precedented age of 142 years, just an even Gen.
tury more than the age of the average bride
and groom
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
MIR. CLARKsoNs BOOMERANG.

Assistant Postmaster General Clarkson, as
is shown in our New York notes, has placed
himself on record to the effect that the cleo
tion was for the purpose Of putting Repub-
lieans in Office, and that nothing gives him
greater pleasure than to make room for Re-
publican Office holders. Applied strictly,
and in good faith, this deliverance might
prove a boomerang for Mr. Clarkson.
1t would be hard to find any more correct
definition OF a Republican than one who up
holds the Republican principles as stated by
We have looked over that document with
some care, and have failed to find any dec
laratiop of the principle that the purpose of
the election was to put Republicans in the
minor Offices. On the contrary, we find
there a double pledge in favor Of civil serv-
ice reform ito the end that the dangers to
free institutions which lurk in the power of
official patronage may be wisely and effect
lively avoided"
This statement of Republican doctrine, in
contrast with the principle of political ac-
tion laid down by the First Assistant Post
master General, proves conclusively that
Mr.. Clarkson is no longer a Republican.
he has cast aside the civil service reform
principles authoritatively avowed and
adopted by the Republican national organ
ization in order to rank himself among the
professed spoilsmen. Having thus dis
ayowed Republican principles, his own rule
of action debars him from holding Office.
His first duty, according to his own state
ment, is to kick himself out.
We shall await with interest the action of
Mr.. Clarkson in removing himself to make
room for Republican who maintains the
platform of the Republican party sincerely
and in good faith.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
FASHIONS KIND RELIEF.

Writers upon current topics have ex-
hausted themselves during the past two
years in endeavoring to convince the softer
sex of the discourtesy and lack of that es-
sential principle of lady-like action which
is based in the care for the rights and enjoy
ment of others, embodied In the wearing of
lofty and exclusive headgear at theaters.
They have enlarged upon the discomfort
and damage to those whose enjoyment of
public performances was entirely destroyed
by these towering head-dresses. They have
appealed to the example of foreign courts,
where ladies in attendance at theaters in
variably remove their bonnets before enter
tering the playhouse; and they have shown
how easy and beneficial the adoption of
such q custom would be in this country.
ALI these arguments, pleas and protests
were of no avail. American fashion de-
creed the wearing of the tall hat, and our
better halves went on with the custom,
calmly regardless alike of reason, courtesy
or logic.
Now a change has come. We are in
formed that the mysterious power embodied
in somewhat inchoate body of foreign mil
liners has decreed that the high hat shall
no longer be worn. Low head gear is to
take its place. The ladies will concede to
fashion what they denied to reason and good
breeding, and in that way will permit the
play-goers to have fair idea of what goes
on upon the stage.
But is it not cogent to suggest to the
fairer and generally better sex. that in thus
placing fashion above the dictates of true
courtesy and consideration for others, they
fail to attain that ideal Of true feminine
character which we are all SO glad to at
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02

ming bird, peewees. and q solitary yellow
bellied woodpecker have been at sundry
times and places assaulted, abused, and
otherwise maltreated by the English spar
row. This is awful. The thought of
an inoffensive yellow-bellied wood
pecker being subjected to the in
suits of brown-coated little whipper-
snapper of an Englishman makes our blood
boil. Secretary Rusk rightly sounds call
to arms.
After recitals of outrages such as these,
it is hardly necessary for Secretary Rusk
to tell us that the sparrow is fraud.
He, the sparrow, won't eat worms, cater
pillars, bugs or other things nobody wants.
and he will devour grain. fruits and all
sorts of valuable agricultural products
We have thought for some time that the
Passer Domesticus was an monumental
nuisance, but the four hundred odd pages
Secretary Rusk devotes to the subject have
convinced us that the sparrow as a feature
of our Caucasian civilization is played out
The sparrow must be removed. Secretary
Rusk will attend to the actual removal of
the nuisance no doubt before he issues
Bulletin 2.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
MUSICIANS GATHERED TOGETHER.
The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Teach.
ers' Association Begins To-day.

special Telegram 10 Inc Dlspatcn.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-The Music Teach
ers' National Association will hold its thir-
teenth annual convention in this city, begin
ming tomorrow afternoon and continuing until
Friday evening. Great preparations have
been made and no effort has been spared to
make the convention the most interesting ever
held by the association, which has a member
ship Of LOCO. Some of the members arrived in
the city from various parts of the country to-
day. but the great majority are expected to-
morrow. The Continental Hotel has been
selected as the headquarters of the convention.
All sessions will be held in the Academy of
Music. At 4 o'clock Tomorrow afternoon the
Board Of Vice Presidents will meet in one of
the rooms of the Academy to transact such
business as may come before them. At s
o'clock there will be a reception and ban
quet. At $50 o'clock on Wednesday morning
the first business meeting will be held.
1t will open with an address of welcome. fol-
lowed by the annual address of President w.
+: Heath, Of Fort Wayne, Ind. The reports
OF the various officers and delegates will then
be received, after which Edward Chadfield, of
Derby, England, Honorable General Secretary
Of the National Society of Professional Musi-
clans of England. will deliver an address en-
titled National Associations and Their Du-
ties" At 7:30 P. M. there will be a chamber
concert. The entire time of the convsntion
usually given to miscellaneous essays wtl be
devoted to the discussion of Teaching and
Teaching Reform" Ats P. M. there will be an
organ concert, and on Thursday and Friday
evenings there will be orchestral concerts of
American compositions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Theodore Dwight Woalsex.

NEW HAVEN, CONN, July Theodore Dwight
woolsey ex-President of Yale University, died
to-day, aged sS years. Deceased was born in New
York, October 81, 1901. Rev. Benjamin Woosey,
Of Southold, l.. l., son of the original immigrant
graduated at Yale in 100. His grandson, William
Walter Woolsey, married q sister of the rst
President Dwight Of Yale. His sixth son was
Theodore Dwight Woolsey, who graduated from
Yale in 1870. Theodore read law in Philadelphia
then spent two years studying theology at Prince
ton, was a tutor at Yale from 1923 to 1926 and was
licensed TO preach in 1925. He studied for two
years in France and Germany and spent a year in
England and Italy. From 1881 to 1876 he was Pro-
fessor of Greek at Yale. On october q, 1886 he
succeeded President Day, of Yale. He was given
the degree of L. l.. u. by Wesley In 1S47. In 1850
he delivered an historical address the one hum
dred and fftieth anniversary of the founding Of
Yale, As President he taught history. political
economy and international law. In 1850 he pub
lished text book on the latter subject, of which
six editions were printed and used all over tie
Unised States and in the English universities.
Two English editions have been issued: In 1871
when 20 years old he resigned the Presidency or
Yale. He was one of the revisers of the New
Testament. He was for many years a regent of
the Smithsc-ian Institute. He was twice mar
ried, first in 1883 and second In 1882.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
A Large Number Of Omce-seekers Receiv'
Their Expected Reward.

Their Expected Reward.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The President to-day
made the following appointments:
Louden Snowden, Of Pennsylvania, to be
Minister Resident and Consul General of the
United States to Roumania, Servia and
Greece.
William Hayden Edwards, Of Ohio. to be
Consul General of the United States at Berlin.
Augustus o. Bourne. of Rhode, Island, to be
Consul General of the United States at Rome.
Eugene SCHUYLER, Of New York, to be agent
and Consul General of the United States at
Cairo.
To be Consuls Of the United States: Wallace
Bruce. of New York, at Leith; William Harri-
son Bradley, Of Illinois, at Nice; Edmund B.
Manatt, of Nebraska, at Athens; William
g. Studer, of Iowa, at Barmen; EnochJ j.
Alexander c. Moore. of West Virginia, at St,
Thomas; Charles f. Johnson of Ohio, at Ham
burg; Silas G. Halsey, at Sonneberg.
Also the following: Arthur M. Tinker, of
Massachusetts,, to be an Indian Inspector; A.
81. jackson, of Wisconsin, to be Register Of
the Land Office at Monarah. Wis; Jesse Tay-
lor, of Kansas, to be Receiver of Public
Moneys at Garden City, Kan; E. P. Freeman,
of Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys
at Marshall (tormerly Tracy, MINI.
10 be Indian Agents: Archer o. Simons, of
Montana at the Fort Belknap Agency in Mon
tana; Chas. d. Bartholomew, of Colorado, at
the Southern Ute and Jicarilla Agency in Col
OradO.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
JUDGMENT ON JUNE.

The Weather Referee Shows Hov the
Month Was n Record Breaker-The
18th a peluse Day The Coolest Month
of Roses Since 1873.
In many respects the past June was most
remarkable month, especially in regard to the
continuity of dampness, only ave days OF the
month being devoid of rainfall, and only two
consecutive days-the 23d and 24th-being fair.
There have also been singular extremes OF
heat and cold, and the weatherwise have had a
great time guessing from one day to the next
what the probabilities would be. The Signal
Service has been unusually successful in hit-
ting the weather probabilities for the past
month. The daily record of rainfall for the
past June and that of the same month for the
past seven years is appended in the following
table OF comparisons, which will be perused
with interest:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
BREAKS IN THE BUSINESS WORLD.
Mercantile Failures I'm the United States for
the Half Year just Closed.

Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
NEW YORK, July 1.-The total number of
mercantile failures throughout the United
States reported to Bradstreers during the past
six months shows gain of 664 as compared
with the total for the first half Of lSsS, or l2.7
per cent. The record for six months for nine
years is: 1889, 59lS; 1888 5254: 1887, 5072; 1886,
5,46l; 1885, 6l06; 1884. 5.444; 1883, $3.50: 1882
3.643; 1881, 3,256
The six months failures for the States by
divisions Is as follows:
New England States-Failures in 1850 ss4; assets,
s 967 $685. liabilities s2o SIS 57I; failures in 1883
69l: assets e. s64, 1876; liabilities, O. $685. 4s6.
United Sfates--Failures in iSS9 L 3s4: assets,
s 750 6So liabilities, S7, 575, 299; failures ia 1883
90; assets. e 49, So: liabilities, So ss 800.
southern States, including District or Columbia
Failures In leSs e65; assets, 81 531 go: liabilities
$ s5S 1885, failures In 1855 LOIS; assets. a. sO5, 45z;
liabilities, o. 566. F3
Western states--Failures in 1880. 2 o4e; assets.
6s5; assets. s1l 33 195: liabilities. s2O OI6 0Ss.
Pacific States--Failures in 1882 AS: assets g. H.
7S: liabilities, l1 se2; failures in 1855, 43s; as
sets a. 207. go: liabilities, q. 27, 5sS.
Observation-Disclosures in 1853, l73: assets. s62C
1888; liabilities, 6 7os: failures in 1883 lag;
sets. s76 s91; liabilities. $40, TN.
Canada and the Provinces-Failures in 1883, 81;
1855 sl4 assets a. 006 $50; liabilities sS 7ss 1885,
Totals-Failures in lsS9 sls; assets So 500 90;
liabilities E All, III; per cent assets for liabili-
tiea H.o. Failures in 1888 ., 24: assets s34 S34-
746; liabilities, - so e22; per cent assets for la
bilities, $50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
IN A FLOURISHING CONDITION.
The Status of the Young Mems Christian
Association In Western Pennsylvania.

The Status of the Young Mems Christian
Association In Western Pennsylvania.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
FRANKLIN. July IA midsummer confer
ence of the Young Mems Christian Association
Of Erie district closed a three days session IN
this city to-day. Delegates were present from
all parts of Northwestern Pennsylvania and
the sessions of the conference were very inter.
esting. The reports from the different asso.
Citations of the district show the Young
Mems Christian Association of Western PENN
syivania to be in the most fourishing condi-
tion.
During the past year the membership has
been doubled and the association is now in a
better financial condition than ever before.
Yesterday the different pulpits of the city
we're filled with delegates attending the con-
ference, and in the evening there was grand
mass meeting Of all the delegates and their
friends in the M. E. Church. The next con-
ference will be held in Erie at a time yet TO be
hxed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-02
TRI-STATE TRIFLES.

FARMER NICHOLAS GRIswoLD of Random
township, Pennsylvania, owns a monerel dog
that has learned to climb ladder. No one ever
taught him how, but there was a cozy hiding
place in a NOV of hay, where the bows wouldn't
be apt to look for him, and the only way to get
to it was up slanting ladder. How he learned it
outlining for a dog to do, but he did learn il.
and when he got tired Of playing with the boys
or when ANYBODY whipped him or treated him
in a shabby way, he skunk off to the barn.
climbed up the ladder and hid himself in the
+ A LARGE dog at one Of the Scranton. Pa.
the ooarders. he got In the haDit OF toiiowing
this man on MS leisure walks uptown, ana the
Doarder nked TO nave MIN aiong But on
rainy oay tse aog oldn' see tne man start OUT
ana tne iatter nao got around tae corner oeIore
the DOG caught sight Oh MIN. Inc Dig oog was
so tickled when he saw thaS ms oid companion
was not far away I'd al ne oasned up ana RUBBED
ms great wet sloe asainss t1e senueman gooo
mii1arity not to De put up WIN, anu the man
spoke mars MY TO tne uos anu uIove n,n oacx'
Tne dogs sensitiVe nature resenteo TINS un-
KIND treatment, tor from ina. oay 70 TINS the
man mas never Deen aDie 70 ges .ne ooe 10 walk
out with MIN. aitnougn ne mas uone esery.nins
ne could think OF 70 win DacA the Jog Irieno-
snip. he 1ohowed inc man 1nee: Dus ne olo II
much against ms wiz, anu on,y sissl ms o"ne,
had been broken, but 1t hadn't, and he has re-
fused to accompany the man. except when his
aYEAR.oLD child of Charles Trayes. who
lives near Cincinnati O., died very suddenly
the other day. She had been licking some
green wall paper in the morning and it is sup
oosed that the arsenic in 1t poisoned her.
PRESTON county, West Virginia, has ghost
that smokes cigarettes.
IT happened as an odd coincidence that three
intended bridegrooms who failed to make con.
in order to reach their destinations in Warsaw.
Pa. vicinity two or three days ago. During the