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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
uKFArTHFuL TO THE SOLID SOUTH.

The attack recently made upon the fdel-
ity of Roger A. Pryor to the Southern Con-
federscy presents a peculiar phase of
Southern political opinion. There is little
doubt that General Pryor was faithful to
the Confederacy up to the closing hour OF
the Rebellion. The best evidence of it is
found in the fact that no whisper of the
charges now made against him was ever
heard until he took the recent step which
the Southern politicians regard as unfaith-
ful to present Democratic supremacy in the
South.
General Pryor recently declared his opin-
ion that an intelligent study of the pro-
tective policy would break up the solid
South. This constitutes his real treason to
the Confederacy, and is what has caused the
attacks upon him. By stigmatizing General
Pryor as traitor, after his residence in the
North has led him to concede the policy of
breaking up the political tyranny which now
rules the South. the Southerners have dis
closed their true estimate of the signif-
canoe of the solid Democracy in the South.
The "Solid South" is the real survival and
perpetuation Of the Southern Confederacy.
1t may be treason to the Lost Cause to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
The TRUE CONVERsATIONAIIST.
That Reminds me of an Anecdote Man GEN.
orally One to be Avoided.


James Payn in the Forum.l
The raconteur is often described asa conver-
sationalist, which, however, he either may be
or may not be. The man who is always saying.
'gThat reminds me of an anecdote," and pro-
ceeds to tell it, is generally one to be avoidedC
But story that is short and well told and
apropos is always welcome; and though not the
salt of conversation, seasons it very agreeably.
have known excellent takers of this kind, and
when they have been good listeners. they were,
to use an old-fashioned term, the best Of com
pany;" but it is drawback to many Of these
story tellers that they are inclined to mono
logue Excited by applause, they endeavor to
cap their own anecdote "a most unnatural pro-
ceeding) by another, perhaps q very inferior
one. Indeed, it is quite amazing how often
even a well-practiced raconteur is destitute of
the sense of proportion, and does not under
stand the ditferce between what is moderately
and what is very good.
The true conversationalist possesses this
sense in perfection. He is delicate and saga
cious in the manner he handles those with
whom he is brought into contact, as in his own
behavior. He pursuades the difident, IL they
are worth hearing, to speak Of their own sub
jeets; he dexterously stops the bore; he imper-
ceptibly steers the bark of conversation from
the shallow and the rapid, from the froth of
small talk and from the breakers of argument.
Yet no one knows that he is the pilot The
gift no doubt, IS born with him, and, like most
other natural gifts, can be improved by prac-
tice far more than is generally imagined. On
the other hand, it can be almost utterly lost
through disuse. An Ariel can never of course,
become Caliban; but have known more
than one bright spirit, through dull surround
ings, to lower to the common level, till at last
it has seemed to ''sympathize with clay" So
far as am concerned, alas, they might all be
clay-or dust.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
PENNSYLVANIA ODDITIES.

A CARBON county man has had 1s4 boils dur
ing the past winter and it is said that he is still
good natured.
MIKE CUBERT, of Potter county, is 56 years
old and has never yet been out of the township
where he was born.
A MINISTER who lives at Mercer, says he will
wed the woman unanimously indorsed by his
congregation. The chances are that he will die
bachelor.
"IF you want TO see the best pig in the
county, call on me-" This is the way Cameron
county man advertises the fact that he has
some likely young swine to dispose of.
HENRY RIGG, of Delaware county, caught q
trout that weighed five pounds. He was greatly
delighted until he discovered that the boys had
filed the fish up with shot before it was
weighed
A FARMER in Huntingdon county caught an
owl and put 1t in his barn to fight his rooster
The owl fought, and the rooster did the best he
could, but when the battle was over the rooster
was dead.
B. F. HALL. Of Croyle, claims to be the cham
pion tie-maker, having hewed 276 ties in two
days and half, or about 3,S5S feet surface. He
says IL anyone can do better he would like to
hear from him.
A NEW BRIGHTON young man will be q
years of age next August and desires greatly
to have q hourishing moustache by that time.
His fellow-worlSmen told him that linseed oil
and Japan were good to raise . beard, and
every morning his upper lip Is thiekly coated
with the mixture.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER is said to have an
income of SO, ,0OO. 900 year,
vERMoNT's Gettysburg Monument is to be
surmounted by heroic bronze statue of Gen.
eral Stannard, the work of Kari Gerhardt. 1t
is ready to be put up.
ELLEN TERRY takes lively interest in pri-
vate theatricals. She is one of the few people
in the world who can afford to.
A AwELL-KNowN publisher in New York has
offered Ward McAllister handsome sum to
write volume of social "reminiscences.
THE Right Rev. J. Murray, Bishop of Matt
land, New South Wales, is in this country. He
will leave for visit to Ireland and Rome next
week.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY TICHENoR has been
designated to act as Secretary of the Treasury
during the absence of Secretary Window in
New York.
SECRETARY and Mrs. Noble left Washington
at n:4O yesterday morning for New York. The
Secretary is not expected to return until the
conclusion of the Centennial ceremonies.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR very seldom
uses pen to sign his name. He has had a
stamp made and when mail hour arrives mes
senger stands before him and stamps letters,
orders and even requisitlons for money with a
fac simile of "Redfeld Proctor" When the
Secretary writes to the President, however, he
signs his own name.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND wrote this on a
slip of paper and sent it to an inQuiring New
York reporter: II am constantly bothered with
questions in regard to country places already
secured or to be secured by myself or Mrs.
Cleveland. We have no country place except
Oak View; we want none and are not on the
lookout for one and we would not take one as
gift"
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER and Judge Harlan
are almost always together, and are daily seen
walking to and from the Capitol, in Washing
ton. Judge Field and Judge Bradley are very
close friends and are at each others houses
frequently. Judge Blatchford and Judge
Lamar walk or drive in company every pleasant
afternoon. Judge Miller, in his walks or
drives, "goes it Alone" but he Is the friend
of every Justice, and his society is gladly
welcomed by any of them at all times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
FRENCH PARTIsANsHIP.

NJ Deroulede's article on the League OF
Patriots, which appears in this issue, is in
teresting as a statement of that remark
able movement by one of its parti-
sans; but it is more interesting for its re-
markable exhibition of peculiarly Gaelic
traits.
First, NJ. Deroulede describes the rise OF
the League, modestly setting forth that the
idea originated in his own brain, that he
presided over the birth of that organization.
He then exhibits a decided French method
BY narrating how he bound the League to
the Boulangistl cause year ago, by order
ing the majority of the board who belonged
to Ferry's party to go out, and declaring
that the minority "shall still constitute the
League of Patriots
The article is replete with the French
fondness for getting around stubborn facts
with fine phrase. The League was not for
war; but it desired to regain Alsace by ''an
independent attitude" 1t is a foul SLAM
der that the Boulangist party wants to over
throw the republic. But it is going to have
ga republic without Parliamentism." How
Alsace is going to be recovered without
war, and in what respect republic with
out representative government will differ
from dictatorship, NJ. Deroulede does not
try to explain.
But whatever fine phrases may be able to
effect in French politics, it is not likely
that they can save party whose leader at
the first note of personal danger seeks the
safety of foreign lands.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
OUR FUTURE LUMBER SUPPLY.
Governor Alger Says It Is Coming from
Washington Territory.


Washington Territory.
CHICAGO, April Ex-Governor Russell Alger,
who was at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-day on
his way West said the Nicaraguan canal pro-
ject would be- in a measure at least, the solu-
ton of the problem of the future lumber sup
ply of the United States.
livery few people appreciate the extent and
superiority of the Washington Territory hr,"
he said. land the only reason it is not now
brought East is the necessarily high freight
rates by rail. Some of 1t now finds its way to
New York by vessel, but the voyage is long
one. For several years, appreciating the fact
that Michigan and Wisconsin pine lands were
being rapidly exhausted, have had my eye
open for new fields, and three years ago visited
the Washington region. making a personal ex-
animation of the field. think am a fair
nouncing the product of these regions in every
way superior to our Northern pine, and other
countries recognize the fact While was in
Tacoma saw niue vessels bound for England
Germany and China loading at the wharves
If the canal is built, an enormous lumber traffic
by water will spring up, and it will possibly
come Just at the time we need it most"
He was asked when he thought the present
fields East would be exhausted.
I'm one way" he said. that is hard to say.
In Michigan many owners have not good facili-
ties for cutting the timber, while others are
rapidly clearing fields and moving to new ones,
but, judged by the output last year, it cannot
last more than eight years. In Wisconsin
presume it is the same. We already feel the
effects of the slope timber" continued General
ago we supplied almost wholly the ship build
ing firms of New England and the East with
spars and masts. Our trade in this direction
has grown less and less, until at present we
have altogether lost it. They all come from
Washington Territory, which supplies better
ones than we ever did,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
DEAF AND DUMB WRITERS.

Specimen Compositions by Pupils of the
Williamsburg School for Mutes-Dim.
Guilty of InstrucIIuE Those Who Cannot
Hear-Oklahoma's History, by Deaf and
Dumb Authors.
To the Editor Of The Dispatch;
I send you two short productions on Okla
homa, written by our deaf pupils. They are
entirely uncorrected, and are fair specimens Of
the language of the eighth year class.
It is utterly impossible for those not ac-
quainted with the deaf to understand the diff
culties that beset them in their attempts to
master the English language, or to appreciate
their efforts at composing. 1t must beNcon-
stantly borne in mind that everything these
young people know has been learned during
theif few years in school. They began at 8
years Of age with no language whatever. and
the first three or four years were devoted to
laying foundation. Hearing children have
this foundation laid, and the superstructure
more than half completed before they enter
school. They have heard the words which
make up everyday language in all of its pecu-
liar constructions repeated thousand times
and they acquire the use of it imperceptibly.
They have the daily and hourly example of
speech, and it is no wonder that they profit
by it.
The deaf have no such example, and at the
beginning of the school period are only infants
picking up their first words. Can these words
framed into simple sentences, be repeated a
sufficient number of times without losing their
freshness to have them fastened in the learners
mind as nails in sure placer Yes, certainly,
if the teacher is miracle of patience and in
genuity. Repetition, conjoined with variety,
is the avowed secret OF learning anything well
The hearing child has the advantage of this
combination in all of its pleasing diversity, but
this cannot be said of the deaf. The latter is
confined to the slow and tedious mediums of
writing and the manual alphabet. The tempta-
tion to hurry over the ground too fast is almost
too great for the teacher to resist. although he
Is FULLY aware that such course will endanger
the future prospects of his pupil
Let everyone who is disposed to criticise the
language of the deaf, or to wonder at their in
ability TO use idiomatic English with more
smootltness, imagine himself gong through life
with his fingers in his ears. He would learn
every word by sight instead of by hearing, and
should the sudden inclination to drop his
fingers for a moment take hold upon him. he
would get no more meaning from the spoken
word cat than he would from the greatest jaw
breaker in the language of Russia.
In schools for the deaf language is made a
daily and hourly speciality, but even with such
constant attention there are so many crooks
and twists In the English tongue that some
very important points are passed over without
the thorough drill necessary, If the learner is
expected to master the language and make 1t
his vernacular.
Is it not wonder that the deaf. handicapped
as they are, make as much progress as they do?
LINNAEUs ROBERTS,
Teacher Western Pennsylvania Institution for
the Deaf and Dumb.
WILKINsBURG, April q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY, APR q, 1859.
TMP.RR.'s TRUE POLICY.

When President Roberts was last in
Pittsburg, he preached the gospel of rigid
economy, but was pleased to say that no re-
duction Of wages wss intended.
The earnings of his company scarcely
show necessity for this rigid economy in
wages for labor. The net earnings for the
first three months of 1889 are S2O6, 900 more
than for the same period last year. The
surplus last year, after paying dividends,
was over four millions. This years rate
of increase promises the very liberal
surplus Of S., ,00O. 900. This showing makes
1t certain that the Pennsylvania Railroad
can afford just rates to Western Pennsylva-
MIA and liberal wages to its employees.
This surplus after the dividend is all exacted
nom our own State by holding up rates upon
passenger and freight traffic while reducing
to points beyond the State. The property
of the company, outside of Pennsylvania,
pays nothing, but on the contrary fails to
meet its fixed charges.
We cannot but believe that the directors
of this great corporation will take up the
subject of its relations to the community,
and change its policy. The engineering and
train service of railway may be admirably
managed, and yet these much more impor-
tant departments fail to receive proper at
tention. The reduction from so cents to
Is cents per ton upon muck bar and pig
iron between Pittsburg and the Valleys, an.
nounced in our columns on Thursday, is a
step in the right direction and will be CRATE
fully appreciated. The company has only
to go forward and revise other tariffs in a
similar spirit to change the general feeling
against it into one of firm support and
friendship. Now that the heated discussion
has cooled for time, we urge the company
to embrace this opportunity of removing all
causes for complaint.
The coke rates, the ore rates and the di-
vision of through rates upon Pittsburg'S
products can now be considered and placed
on basis which will render future dissatis-
faction impossible. We read the signs OF
the times awry if Western Pennsylvania is
not very soon to be gratifed by further an
nouncements tending to bind together the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company and this
community.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
A FREE WAR LIBRARY.
The G. A. z. VIII Aid the Loyal Legion to
Raise the Necessary Funds.

Auo Os As Ne VIII Alu tue AOyAt AcBlOu 10
Raise the Necessary Funds.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
PHILADELPHIA, April N.-The project Of
establishing in this city a free war library and
museum originated with the Loyal Legion, an
association of the commissioned officers who
served during the war. The proposition was
that if the State contributed $4,000 the Loyal
Legion would secure subscriptions of 100000
toward the institution. and q bill was
presented in the Legislature embodying
this idea, and contingently appropriat-
ing the $4,000. As soon as the bill
was brought up an assault was made on it on
the ground that the Loyal Legion was an aris-
tocratic body, not representative OF the men
who carried muskets and did the big fighting
and that the projected museum should be un-
der the control of organizations with a more
general membership. An amendment was
offered including the Grand Army of the Re-
public in the establishment of the library and
museum, and the Loyal Legion was consulted
as to whether they would accept this amend
ment. The Legion promptly accepted, and
ernors action.
When the enterprise was first mooted the
Loyal Legion was ready to go out and get the
Sl00 900 necessary to make the $50,0O0 available,
but the work will now be divided pro rata, and
the Grand Army will be given its share of the
money to raise. Most of the members of the
Loyal Legion are members of the Grand Army.
chances of the museum getting into existence
have been helped by the amendment to the
bill, and that the requisite amount of money
would have been raised more rapidly by the
smaller than the larger body. There Is much
delicacy in speaking of the matter, however.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28

which really threatens to vex organized re-
ligion more than any of the problems
mooted in "Robert Elsmere." Trinity
Episcopal Church, of that city. is reported
to be very successful, and not altogether
questionable, organization alleged to
exist for religious purposes. 1t contains
rather more than the usual share of the
wealth which contributes literally to its
expenses. Notwithstanding these pleasant
features of the church situation, it is now
brought to the verge of rupture, by the
question whether it shall be run in accord
ance with the principles Of religion which
it processes, or for the pleasure and delecta-
tion of the wealthy people who furnish the
money to keep it up.
Probably it is all the rector's fault, as a
large share of the wealth of the church is
understood to claim. An active, earnest
and able clergyman is naturally desired in
such church. The Rev. Mr.. Osborne
seemed to combine these desirable qualities;
but he also proved, on experience, to possess
the undesirable one of believing that the
declarations of Scripture with regard to
bringing the solace of religion and charity to
the poor, the hungry and even the unwashed,
were to be literally applied. He not only
worked among the poor himself but he
sought to bring them into his church. He
seemed to think that in the building con-
secrated to the service of God the working
man was the equal of the millionaire. He
committed the indiscretion of telling the
workingmen so, and brought the outraged
spirit of Dives to open insurrection by pro-
posing that he should permit Lazarus to
sit side by side with him in worshiping the
Maker of both. This seemed to make it
necessary to assert the power of money in
the church, and while the majority OF the
church members sustained the pastor the
holders of the purse shut off the supplies.
The earnest and injudicious rector has re-
signed.
This is another assertion of the principle
which has been stated once or twice before
that church must belong to those who pay
for it. Possibly the principle is true; but
in view of the inspired declaration that ''no
man can serve two masters, " it might be we'll
for people who imagine that their money
owns the church to reflect on the inability
of the edifce to belong both to God and
themselves at one and the same time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
THE COMING FESTIVAL.

The preparations for the May Music Fes-
tival are making good the promises that
have been made of grand programmes ade-
quately performed to Pittsburg audiences
which, for the first time, will enjoy the
musical treat in building of adequate and
permanent character. Besides the Wagner
snd Beethoven programmes-the latter in
cluding the Ninth Symphony-the perform
ance of St. Saen's ''Deluge" will give a
wide range of classical works. 1t is worthy
of public notice that the purchase of season
tickets will effect saving of forty per cent
on the cost of the same seats purchased sin
giy, and those intending to enjoy the pleas
ures of the Festival will do wisely to i'm
prove the sale which opens this week. We
are also glad to note that the festival will
depart from the usual custom of high-priced
seats, by offering for sale each night over
1000 seats at dollar each, and nearly 500
at half a dollar. This will enable those to
whom the higher prices would be an obsta-
Gle to enjoy the musical treat at slight ex-
pense
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
BLUE-BLooDEp WRATH.

1t is amusing to learn that, just on the eve
of the New York centennial, a fresh fight
has broken out which engages the Centen-
nial Committee of New York In hostilities
with New Jersey. 1t is said that Mr.. Stuy-
vesant Fish, perhaps because be found that
the supremacy of his committee was over
thrown in New York, has extended its
aggressions to foreign countries, and tried
to assert its authority in New York, by
ordering Governor Green that the President
must leave Elizabethport at exactly 9
o'clock in the morning, and promising, if
the behest is not obeyed, that the President
shall not 60 to Governor Green's house at
all.
1t is instructive to be informed that ''Gov-
ernor Green is a man whose blood is of the
blues" and consequently his blood boiled
at this threat If his blood had been of the
ordinary red kind it might only have sim
mered, or perhaps not boiled at all. But
the azure-blooded Green at once boiled over
with reply to the committee, in which he
bid defiance to the centennial lightning
and rivaled Falstaff in declaring that he
would do nothing under compulsion.
The awe-stricken country will hold its
breath while contemplating the quarrels of
the arisUocrstie Fishes and the blue
biooded Greens. That is, it will hold its
breath as long as it can to prevent laughter
at the show the aristoeracy is making of
itself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-28
BRUIN AT A SPELLING BEE.
Bear Climbs Into Country School House
and Causes Panic.

A Bear Climbs Into Country School House
and Causes Panic.
Special Telegram to The Dispatch.
BARBoURsvILLE, April N.-Miss Sarah Jar.
Wis teaches the Mt. Welcome school in the
northeastern part of the county, II miles from
here. Last Friday evening there was the usual
spelling match at Miss Jarvis school. The
building in which she teaches is OF boards, with
several windows coming down within two feet
OF the ground. The match had been of more
than usual interest," the strength Of the two
sides being pretty nearly equal.
One of the pupils had just spelled such q long
and difficult word that the others had applaud
ed. As the noise ceased there was q scratching
sound at one of the windows in the rear Of the
house. Miss Jarvis herself ran toward the
window to see what was the matter. Before
she reached it large, black, hairy head was
thrust into the aperture, and she plainly recog-
nized a black bear The pupils, too saw the
animal. There was rush and stampede at
once. All rushed for the door, and in q mo-
ment went out of the room and trOoping along
the road which runs in front OF the school,
house.
Miss Jarvis is brave woman, and she re-
tanned her GOODNESS. She took care Of the
younger children and kept the crowd together.
When she saw that they were not followed by
the bear her alarm subsidized. A farmer was
summoned, and killed the bear in the midst Of
feast Of spelling books.