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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
WILL THE TORIES FLoPi

1t is thoroughly in accordance with the
precedents of modern Toryism that, when a
reform has become inevitable, the Tory
statesmen shall steal the credit of those
who have labored in showing its necessity,
and in educating the public up to it by
bringing in the measures themselves which
their opponents have long fought for. This
was the course of Mr.. Disraeli with regard
to parliamentary reform, and upon the VIC
tories thus won he obtained his pre-emi-
nence as leader of English politics.
1t is not remarkable, therefore, that re-
ports that Lord Salisbury intends to bring
in bills which will command the support of
the Parnell party, and thus hopes to divide
that wing from the Liberals under the
leadership of Mr.. Gladstone, commands at
tention. His partial success in doing this
on the Irish University bill, at the session
just closed, calls out from leading newspa-
pers the prediction that he will grant
the Home Rule party their object
in two or at most three steps, CIV
ing them next a land bill and then q
respectable measure of local government.
That Lord Salisbury will do this only as
last resort hardly needs specification; and
even if he should recant there are one or
two points which it will be hardly possible
to overlook. The first is that Lord Sails
bury is not Lord Beaconsfeld. He has
neither his audacity nor his art at bringing
the Bourbon element of Toryism to the sup
port of measure which they cannot under
stand, and which they must always hate.
In the next place, Lord Salisbury is person.
ally pledged against Irish reform too strongly
to make the somersault with any great de-
gree of grace.
But even if the Tory Government should
concede the Irish reforms, the whole world
would know that the building up of that
cause was due to the united efforts of Par
nell and Gladstone. The framing of the
measure may be stolen from the Liberals,
but the credit of originating it and carry
ing it to victory will always rest with Par
nell and Gladstone,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
A FACILE FRAUD.

The new development of the art of fraud
ulent beggary, which is reported in our
local columns, gives another illustration of
the persistent inventions of the class which
will take more trouble to get money dishon-
estly than to earn it honestly. 1t must also
be said that it illustrates the readiness of "a
large element of the industrious and honest
classes to offer themselves up as food for
these swindlers.
1t appears that clique of men have for
some time been systematically deriving a
regular income by representing themselves
as a committee to sell tickets to balls, pic
mics and other entertainments given in aid
of an alleged strike at some of the mills.
There was no reason why the representation
of a strike should be confined to one mill;
but in this case, at least for short time
past, it has been located at the Shoenberger
works. The ball or picnic is an imagina-
ton; the tickets are stamped with what pur-
ports to be the Amalgamated Association
seal, but is not; and the only strike is that
which the swindlers make upon their vic
TINS pocketbooks.
Of course the responsible and upright
managers of the Amalgamated Association
are desirous of stopping this bleeding of the
public in their name; and their warning ap-
pears in connection with the matter. 1t is
necessary to say, however, that those who
yield up their dollars on such a representa-
tion are easy victims. Of course when they
buy tickets they do not intend to go to the
picnic or ball and have no means of discov-
ering that the proposed entertainment is
fiction. They cannot take time to inquire
of the Amalgamated officer whether the
strike is reality. But without the desire
ofpouring water on our own wheel, it is per-
tinent to point out that every strike in the
mills of this city is duly chronicled in the
press; and if business men will take time to
read the papers they can be protected
against this swindle as well as bunko.
Bv a study of the local press, the public
cannot only know what strikes are actually
going on; but they will also be able to form
a judgment as to what are worthy of the
public support and encouragement.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01

tation of their product shall be possible.
On the other hand, while the detection Of
diseased cattle on the hoot is perhaps easier
than in the case of diseased meat. it is
plain that the results of shipping infected
live cattle all over the country are likely to
be far graver. Not only is it possible for the
infection of the Texas fever to be spread all
over the country by shipments of live stock,
from the infected regions, but we have
recently had evidence that the old practice
OF shipping cattle diseased from '1ump jaw"
has extended, even to the cattle yards of
this city. 1t is not permissible, therefore,
to take the position that either one form or
the other is entirely superior to the abuse Of
shipment in diseased forms.
The fact is, however, self-evident that the
true interests of both methods will be best
subserved, in common with the public in
terests, by placing them under regulation
which shall render impossible the spread of
disease by cattle on the hoof or the shipment
of unhealthy meat. When that is done so
as to place both interests on an equal foot
ing, each can have the opportunity of
demonstrating its capsbility for the supply
of cheap and wholesome food to the masses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THERE is said to be little doubt in England
that Sir Edwin Arnold will be the next laureate.
THERE is mention of Prof. W. b. Brewer as
the successor of the late Elias Loomis at Yale.
THE finest diamonds visible at the Shah's
visit to the Paris Exhibition are said to have
been worn by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
TENNYsoN, Darwin, Gladstone Lincoln,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe and
Lord Houghton were born in the year 1909
THE death is announced of the Lancashire
poetess. Fanny Forester, She belonged to the
working classes, at an early age developing a
taste for poetry She was frequent contrib
utor to journalistic literature.
HARRY W. SLoCUM, who has won the tennis
championship of America for the second time,
is a son of General Slocum, of Brooklyn.
Young Slocum is graduate of Yale and law
yer. If he wins the championship next season
he will retire from the tennis court and devote
himself to courts of law.
GENERAL CROOK, the famous Indian fighter,
wonders how SO great fraud as Sitting Bull
could be made such hero of. He says that
the old Indian is an arrant coward, but so full
of conceit that he impresses people with his
Importance. "And no wonder he is conceited," !"
adds General Crook, ''for he has had offers Of
marriage from white women, and endless re-
quests for his photograph"
THE house in which Oliver Wendell Holmes
was born is still standing on the common at
Cambridge, Mass. and is now one of the college
buildings. 1t is an old gambrel-roofed house.
and during the siege of Boston it was the head
quarters of the American officers. The Rev.
Abiel Holmes. the hosts father, was pastor OF
the First Church of Cambridge where General
Washington was frequent worshiper.
GENERAL n, p. BANKs has had a varied
career. He was "bobbin boy" in factory,
an actor so years ago, having played Claude
Melnotte in the Lady OF Lyons" at the old Ma
tional Theater Boston. Later on he was a law
yer, and still later general in the army, Gov.
ernor of the State of Massachusetts, and
Speaker of the House in the same State, He
was also member of Congress and Speaker of
the House of Representatives. General Banks
is now 70 years of age, and is the oldest living
Ex-Governor of Massachusetts,.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
PUBLIC GRIT NEEDED.

The arrest of that highwayman in the up
per Michigan district furnishes the material
for another discouraging estimate of the
capacity of this generation of American cit
izens for selfgovernnent and self-protec-
tion. Here we have the case of single
handed highwayman who, for the past five
or six months, has been robbing stage
coaches and railway trains, relieving whole
assemblages of their money and teams at a
single stroke, and practically holding large
sections of two States under terrorism.
While it is not very pleasant to confront
the business end of loaded pistol, it might
be expected that twelve men at time would
be able to overpower single-handed robber;
and his final arrest by two men strengthens
that opinion. A little backbone on the
part of the public is the principal require
ment to put down the highwayman's pro-
fesSion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
EDITORIAL EXPRESSIONS.

CHICAGO Times: AS the ex-Treasurer of
Vinton, Ia, is only short $4,000 in his accounts
he will probably be punished severely.
CHICAGO NetDs: It will require another
Columbus to discover suitable site for
worlds fair within easy reach of New York.
PHILADELPHIA Times: The London strik-
ers initiate their American brethren in defining
liberty to mean the power to deprive other
workingmen of the liberty to work.
BALTIMORE american: great result in
this world is achieved by great labor. The man
who dreams and dreams, expecting to wake up
and find himself famous, generally dreams on
until he rests in his grave.
NEW YORK Herald: Perhaps Mr.. Bull will
kindly allow few Americans chance to do
business in this country. We should like just
cor ner of the earth to stand on, If we do not
trespass too much on his rights.
PHILADELPHIA Telegraph: The decision
of Judge Mcconnell, of Chicago, that the MUIR
dercrs of Cronin must be tried together is all
right. but what the people want to be assured
of is that they will be hanged together.
ST. LOUIS Globe Democrat: Now that the
labor strikes in Londsn are about over, 1t is to
be hoped that the Democratic papers will ex-
plain how it is that sucA things can happen in a
free trade country. They have been assuring
us that strikes are to be expected only under
"the blighting influence of protective tariff"
WASHINGTON Post: II don't want no re-
ception." pleaded Sullivan. Weave me no
gaudy chaplet," murmured Depew by cable.
But Boston could not refrain from honoring
her idol, and the Spellbinders of New York
are planning q banquet all the same. The
plain unostentatious life may seem monot-
onous. butits spared the penalties Of such cos
mopolitan renoWn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY. SEP. /. 1889.
ROYAL SILENCES.

The Queens speech on the prorogation OF
Parliament is more remarkable for its
omissions than its commissions. Some OF
the silence is more eloquent than words;
while in other respects the omission to say
ANYTHING is far from satisfactory to those OF
the Queens faithful subjects who are inter
ested in the omitted topics.
OF the latter class is the failure to refer to
the protection of Canadian sealers; and a
very strong intimation is thus silently con-
veyed that Great Britain is not going to get
into a quarrel with the United States on
Canada's account But that significant
taciturnity is nothing beside the eloquence
of the entire silence concerning the grants
to the Queens family. The loyal members
of the House of Commons struggled
and debated for days to set the recently
married princess in comfort, if not in good
style. But it was exactly this struggle and
debate that has aroused the royal wrath.
The Commons should carry the grants for
the encouragement of matrimony in the
royal family, without word of debate the
Queen thinks; and so the offending Com
mons are dismissed with superiority that
passes over their offense as one would ignore
the insolence of street urchin.
But it NAV be less discreet than dignifed
for Her Majesty to thus indicate to the
offending Commons that they are beneath
her notice Some of these days she will
want other grandchildren married; and
perhaps the crushed Commons may not be
so energetic in securing settlements for
fhem
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01

A CONTEMPORARY remarks: "The progress
of Christian missions is significantly illus
trated by the fact that the King of Siam
has given one of the royal palaces to the
use Of the missionaries" Possibly it might
be equally correct to say that the lack of
progress of Christian missions is illustrated
by the same fact. 1t has been plainly as
serted that one reason why the success of
missions in the East was limited was the
fact that the missionaries did not mingle
with the common people or meet them on
their own level of poverty and privation.
The Founder of the Christian religion,
when He undertook to convert the heathen
world, did not do it from residence in a
nalace
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
A CONGRESS- OF sNEEzERS.
The Best Record Made by Philadelphian
With Hay Fever.

Iue oest hocord made Dy rmtaoeipnian
With Hay Fever.
From the Philadelphia Record.J
The sneezers of the United States, who are
known as the Hay Fever Association, have just
completed their sixteenth annual session at
Bethlehem, N. 81. This organization, which
Henry Ward Beecher putSuch life into, still
meets regularly once year, cracks jokes and
tells stories to keep up the spirits of the hay
fever-victim members, talks of ways and means
to dry up tear ducts and provide noise subdpers
for sneezers, and, in a word, fights an annual
battle against the disease that makes such q
market for ocket-handkerchiefs.
Colonel M. Richards Muckle, of the Public
Ledger, and DIR. Edward Townsend. were
among Philadelph1a's delegates to the conven-
ton. and sneezed enough to give Philadelphia
the reputation of being the biggest city in the
country. Colonel Muckle made big impress
Sion by his speech before the association. There
were tears in every eye and pocket handker
chiefs at every nose as he told of the 5000 he
had spent In AZ years to get the better of his
nose. He said tnat cauterization of the nasal
nerves was the only remedy. He had tried it
himself Time was when IN going from Provi-
dence to Bethlehem he had sneezed l. 200 times
according to tally kept by the conductor. and
used up so many handkerchiefs that he had to
make wash line out Of the bell rope in the car.
didn't have to have special car, thanks to his
cauterization scheme.
The sneezing and crying was redoubled when
DR.. Edward Townsend, Of this city told the
convention that hay fever was moral disease;
that it never attacked New York Aldermen or
brainy people like himself. President Lock-
wood in an address estimated that there were
at least zoo 600 sneezers in the United States,
all more or less addicted to tears.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
THE COAL COMBINE.

And now the report is renewed that q
mysterious syndicate is going to buy up the
coal mines of the MonoRgahela river. The
previous statement is amended to the effect
that the mysterious millions which are to
consolidate the coal interests Of the river
into one concern now number So, 600, 900.
The majority Of the coal men having denied
the existence of any such scheme, it might
be supposed that the projectors propose to
get the coal properties without letting the
owners know it. But as the owners have all
expressed a willingness to unload their
property on whoever wishes to pay the price
for it, we may conclude that the mysterious
gentlemen with S25,OOO,OOO can have the
mines since they insist upon it.
1t has already been shown that such a
. scheme can be of little avail in raising the
price of coal. 1t is the competition of
other districts that makes coal cheap on the
river, and it does not yet appear that the
SIS, ,0OO, 600 is going to buy all the coal lands
between this and the Gulf of Mexico. The
scheme NAV be profitable one for the ne
gotiation of trust certifcates-if the lengths
to which that business has been pushed
does not prove serious obstacle. Beyond
that it may turn out to comprise centrali-
xation that will put miners wages down to
the level of the Clearfeld and anthracite
districts. 1t will be an interesting study, if
this combination materializes, to watch and
see how that policy, which has been recon-
mended by some of the labor leaders, affects
the living of the miners, who are not too
literally paid at the present time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
GHOSTS AND EVIL SPIRITS.
Some Of the strnnEe Beliefs Enterfained
bv People of the East.

some OF tnc StrnnRe beisefs entertained
bv People of the East.
From the New York Mail and Express.l
The dread of ghosts is common to all the
aboriginal races Of India and China, and the only
means employed to oppose their rancor and
mischievous dispositions is to build shrlnes for
them and to make them offerings. Any severe
illness, any epidemic disease, as smallpox,
of certain of these spirits, who must be
propitiated accordingly In India the man
tiger is, perhaps, the most dreaded of all these
demon ghosts for when tiger has killed a
the spirit of the man rides upon his
head and guides him clear Of danger.
Accordingly 1t Is believed that the
only sure mode Of destroying q tiger
ing offerings to the spirits of his victims, there
by depriying him of their valuable services. In
China the ghosts most propitiated are Of those
who have met violent or untimely death,
who die in child-bed, or wretches who are
hanged for their crimes, are believed to have
the same power of causing evil to the living as
those who have been killed by any other violent
causes, inciuaing poison, disease, lightning,
etc.
All these defined spirits are often distin-
guished by some term denoting the manner of
his death: Thus the tiger ghost is the ghost Of
ghost of person who was killed by a snake. In
Africa the waddy and lightning ghosts are the
most common, but the most dreaded
spirit is the Sirocco ghost, which is
bic spirit Most of the deceased persons
whose spirits are now worshiped were the an
cestors of some of the abergines. The cere-
monies observed in propItiating the ghosts con-
sist mainly of the offerings of fowls pigs, goats
as well as of flowers and fruits, of the recita-
tion and singing of certain prayers and charms
before the, different shrines.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01

AN esteemed cotemporary editorially
notes the fact that Uncle Jeremiah Rusk,
in his address to the soldiers at Milwaukee
last week, quoted verse of the poem which
our cotemporary cites as 1--WE have drank
from the same canteen." We do not know
whether the poem or Uncle Jerry Rusk can
be held to strict accountability for the gram
mar of the quotation; but it would have
been no more than professional courtesy in
our cotemporary to have made the citation
in accordance with the rules of Lindlay
Murray.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
ABOQT AN OFFSET.

That report with regard to the outbreak
of Texas fever among the lerge herds of
cattle in Kansas and the Indian Territory
has an interesting relation to the long stand
ing fight between the transportation of live
stock and the transportation of meat in the
form of dressed beef OF course it is hardly
necessary to say that cattle affected with
such disease should not be transported in
either form; but the possibility of its being
done and the results from such an abuse are
about equally grave in both cases.
Naturally the opponents of dressed beef
are ready with accusations that cattle
affected with the Texas fever are liable to be
slaughtered and shipped East as dressed
beef, in which case the diseased character of
the meat cannot be readily detected. This
may be true to a limited extent; but it is
obvious that the best interests of the dressed
beef industry are on the side Of making it
certain that no such damage to the repu-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-01
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
Johnstown's New Lense of Life-A Mama
Eerini EpIsode-saucy sue-A Society

Johnstown's New Lense of Life-A Mama
gcrini EpIsode-Snucy sue-A Society
Dialogue.
If you want to see an evidence Of the pluck
of Johnstown business men, of the revival of
that citys spirit of industry and enterprise,
take up copy of the Johnstown Tribune and
count the columns of advertise ments. On
Thursday last the Tribune contained 26 col
umns of advertisements, almost all of which
were local. This is q wonderful showing for a
city almost wiped out of existence just three
months ago, and it also testifes markedly to
the prosperity of the Tribune. The town and
the paper can be congratulated sincerely.
k.<
NIGHT before last Manager E. D. Wilt stood
on the top step of the entrance to the Grand
Opera House lobby contemplating the rush of
several persons toward the box office. He ap-
peared to be In his usual serene frame Of mind,
and when they began to talk of Marie Prescott
and Richard Mclean a sweet smile tinctured
the austerity of his, mouth.
Away back last season." said Mr.. Wilt,
"Klaw and Erlangler booked MariePrescott the
week of September at the Opera House.
They were my agents. and heard nothing of
the booking at the time. When heard of it
1 supposed it was all right. because I thought
Marie Prescott played comedy or farce comedy
OF some sort. But some time last
February / found out she was play
ing tragedy. and more than that
was not playing in frst-class theaters. By that
time had Warde in tragedy for the week of
September and Marie Wainwright in Shakes
pearean drama for September 23 with Booth
and Modjeska following close. So 1wrote to
the Prescott people telling them wanted to
cancel their date. explained why thought
they would profit by the cancellation of the
contract. They refused, and have kept on re-
fusing ever since. They say they will play in
my house the week of September 8. say they
WON'T Bric-a-Brac,' farce comedy, has that
week. Mr.. Klaw booked 'Bric-a-Brac' for me.
He's my New York agent"
''Well what does Mr.. Klaw say about the
natter"
He says I'm crayz. Says Wits crazy" re.
piled the manager.
So the conversation ended. The controversy
is not at an end. Mr.. Beauregard, Marie Pres
colts agent, says he is instructed to proceed as
If the contract had never been in dispute. That
means he will offer his stars advertising to
Manager Wilt, and, in the event of other means
failing, call in the aid of the courts. Mr.. Wilt
says he is really hungry for lawsuit, and. as
has been said, is supremely cheerful about the
affair.