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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
RUSSELL B. COMES HOME AGAIN.

The nation is on the tip-toe of expect
ancy; or it ought to be. The cry che
comes!' beginning at New York City is
spreading, and swelling as it spreads, over
the whole continent. Wherefore? Russell
B. Harrison is on his way home; nay, un-
less some envious iceberg or other obstacle
oppose the westward career of the City of
Paris, he is almost at these shores. Ire
mendous preparations are being made in
New York City for the reception of the
hob-nobber with monarchs, That palatial
steamboat-see New York advertisements
the Laura NJ. Starin has been hired to take
out party of distinguished persons eager
to shake the hand of the man who shook
the hand of Queen Victoria. A beautiful
free lunch will be served on the boat, and
presumably the Marks of Montana, as Mr..
Russell Harrison has been called since his
translation into the upper circles, will be
served as dessert. We presume that Mr..
Harrison-his friends who are spontane-
ously preparing the welcome that is-will
see that the proper arrangements are made,
as Mr.. Bill Nye puts it, for the cut flowers
and rum.
We hope those terrible New York inter-
viewerswill deal gently with the Presidents
son. They really mustn't cast gloom over
this national, or is it international? festi-
val 1t is to be expected that the chum of
the Prince of Wales, with the recollections
of Windsor Castles clean beds and Sand
ringham's smoking room thronging his
mind, will be quite English you know. He
may have the Bond street stare and the sim
gular eye-glass, his tongue may labor with
the languid "haw-haw," and his clothes
may hang about him in the English way,
but it should be remembered that he is doing
a good deal to come home at ali. With
those mysterious sun-spots shrinking and
the weather prophets and the Second Ad-
ventists contending in dismal prophecies of
disasters near at hand, the United States
wants all its great men at home. 1t is very
noble for Mr.. Russell B. Harrison to tear
himself away from the crowned heads of the
Old World, and we hope the bouquets and
the rum, the cheers and the handkerchief
waving of the crowd on the Laura M.
Starin, will compensate him somewhat for
his self-sacrlfee.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. TUESDAY, AUG. q. 1889.
THE TRUST DEBATE,

From the report of the debate on trusts
which took place at Chautauqua yesterday,
it appears to have been conducted with
more zeal than discretion. That, at least,
is the impression given by the report which
appears in another column.
OF course the representative OF the trust
theories, deputed by the Standard Oil mag
mates to instil their precepts into the Chau-
tauquans, repeated the sophistries of Mr..
Dodd, that the trust is device for bringing
the largest capital to bear on industrial en-
terprises, and told the old story about the
reduction in the price of petroleum since
the Standard controlled that interest.
Every one who has any intimate knowl-
edge of the question can see the sophistry
of these arguments. The concentration of
capital necessary to perform industrial
work has nothing to do with trusts. The
corporation laws of the various States afford
full opportunity for that. But the COM
binsslsr OF the corporations into trusts and
pools has only the purpose Of preventing
competition. AS to the claim that the
Standard Oil Company has reduced the
price of petroleum, its utter deception is
proved by the fact that the price stated IN
the comparison is that on petroleum ex-
ported to be sold in competition with the
Russian oil fields. The domestic price of
petroleum at the periods when the monopoly
of the Standard has been supreme, could
tell very different story.
The report does not show whether DR..
GLADDEN. replied to these sophistries or not.
1t is to be hoped that he did; but they are
so shallow, that if he did not, the further
discussion of the subject will make their
exposure plain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

GEORGE BANCROFT is one of the few living
Americans who knew both Goethe and Lord
Byron.
GENERAL ROBERT c. ScHENCK, who made
a reputation as a soldier, diplomatist and poker
artist will be 30 years old should he live to
October
Poor little King Alexander, of Servia was
merely anointed, not crowned, because the
royal exchequer could not stand the expense OF
procuring crown and other regalia.
AMONG the wellknown figures at Saratoga
is Judge Henry L. Clinton, of New York City,
once an active lawyer, but now retired. He
claims to have defended and saved 100 persons
from the gallows
PRINCESS LoU1sE's favorite diversion just
now is glass painting, and she is at present en-
gagged upon window which Mr.. Campbell, of
Loeb Awe, intends to place in his hall as a me-
mortal of the late Duke of Albany.
M. ]. TIssoT the French artist, is engaged
upon a series of water colors representing the
Life of Christ. They will number 300, of which
one-third are already finished The painter
who has made two journeys to Palestine for
local color reckons that they will all be off his
hands in two years time. The series will be
published in a sumptuous volume. Each draw
ing Is about lSxl2 inchhs.
A CORRESPONDENT remarks: Corporal
SdmOs Aahhoi iaiely Sots 70 Deu DelOre ~
O'Clock in the morning. 1t is unusual for him
to get nights Sleep. He is accustomed to sit
up till thoroughly tired out. he is obliged to lie
down. But oftentimes he can only ache and
toss, and now and then he is obliged to get up
again and sit in his library for an hour or two
and smoke himself Still more tired The trouble
is due to the incessant pain in his two ampu-
tated legs. 1t is to deaden this that the Com
missioner of Pensions is never without cigar
in his mouth"
JUDGE DAVID s. TERRY. who was killed in
California by United States Deputy Marshal
Nagle, was born on the waters of the west fork
Of Red River, in Todd county, KY, only three
miles from the place where Jefferson Davis.
President of the Confederaoy, first saw the
light 1t is worthy of mention that there, in a
space of five miles square. were born Jeffer-
son Davis, Roger @ Mills. now of Texas;
James Pendleton, a famous leader in the Bap-
tist Church: Ex-Governor Bradley, of one of
the Territories; Judge David s. Terry, and Ad-
Olson Cammack, the great bear operator of
New York City.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
WHOLESALE CLEANSING CALLED FOR

We are glad to see that the New York
OF outspokenness with regard to the scandals
in politics, insists upon the necessity of
selecting clean men for the Legislature at
Albany This it justly declares to be vital,
not only for the sake of securing decent
action in the election of the United States
Senator from New York, but also for the
cake of stemming the corraption and job
berry, with which the capital OF that State
has been surfeited in previous years.
This is splendid advice; but the necessity
of publication is not confined to ALBANY
alone, The World has also made recent ex-
posures which show a most urgent need for
selection of clean men in the administration
Of justice in New York City. When bogus
divorces are granted by collusion between
court officers, and eminent Judges on the
bench are by their own confession found to
have been engaged in stock speculations,
there is an evident necessity not only of put
ting clean men in such places, but of clean
ing out the places themselves before the new
class of officials is installed in Office.
In fact, the political want of New York
appears to be the cleaning out of the entire
breed of politicians now influential in both
State and city politics. Possibly other
States may have the same need; but New
York's is so urgent that no less heroic
measure is likely to be efectual than the
entire deportation of the political class and
the development of new breed of politi-
clans.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
BUYING CLOTHES IN BUTLER.
Real Genius Who Once Operated in n
NeighborinR Town.

Real Genius Who Once Operated in n
NeighborinR Town.
From the New York World;
A man went into a Broadway clothing store
the other day and asked to see a psir of
trousers. He went into a closet to try them on
Calling out to the clerk that they didn't quite
suit he was handed in another pair. Five pairs
we're banded in to him in this way, the last pair
being just what he wanted. He kept them on,
handingethe clerk the price as he passed out
1t was learned soon after that he had kept on
all the trousers that had been handed in to him.
The fellow was arrested. and he deserved to be-
as his performance was a miserable plagiarism
of the work OF a real genius who once operated
in Butler Pa.
1t was before Butler was as large town as it
is now. A man named Epstein started cloth
ing store there in a small way The people had
made at home, and Mr.. Epstein's store was
something of an experiment. His stock ac-
cordingly was not extensive.
One day stranger walked in and said he
wanted to buy suit. He was one of Epstein's
first customers, and he was anxious to make
the sale. The stranger retired to small room
curtained off in one corner to try on the
clothes. He was hard to fit. Epstein kept
handing him in drawers, undershirts, pants
coats, vests and collars and cuffs until the en-
tire stock was in the little room. The man
was ungainly in huid and he kept up a rum
ming fire of pleasantly about his iil-shape and
what dreadful nuisance he was to store
keepers. Still. he always paid cash. he said,
and bought great many clothes. so the store
keepers kindly humored him. When he had
all of Merchant Epstein's stock on his misera-
BILE back. he said
This fve-dollar suit that / have on is the
best fit OF all except the coat. like the looks
of the coat you have on, and if you give me
that instead of the one that belongs to the suit
we'll call it bargain and I'll just keep on the
duds."
Epstein handed in his own coat, the stranger
put it on over the rest of the stock and walked
out, leaving the merchant in his shirt-seeves
with nothing in the wide world to show for his
late clothing emporium but counterfeit five
dollar bill that the man placed in his hand as
he went out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
LIBERALN PROMISE.

The bicycle locomotive which is expected
to revolutionize railway travel is to be tried
In the vicinity of Brighton Beach soon. If
about so per cent of its claims can be made
good, it will introduce new era in rail-
roading. A railroad that can safely attain
a speed OF one hundred and fifty miles an
hour at one.third the present cost of rail-
roads, is certainly to cause a smash-up
among the old methods of railroading,
whatever it does with the passengers. But an
incredulous public will wait to see these
results made good in practice before pinning
its faith to the invention. When the new
kind of railroad attains speed of a hund-
dred miles an hour with safety, the public
will greet it with acclaim. Until then it
is needless to suggest the difference between
promise and performance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
LARGE-sIZEn--nN PAPER.

And now we learn of a corporation with
an alleged S13, 900, 900 capital whose raiSon
d'etre is to buy up all the MonongaheIa
river mines and run them under single
management. Owners of mining property
are either to sell out entirely or take stock
in the new concern as they choose.
This has the surface intimations of trust;
but it lacks some of the most essential feat
ures. In the first place, there is q direct
corporate investment and responsibility. In
the next place anything like monopoly of
the coal trade is impossible. Even if the
company can buy up all the coal lands
from here to the headwaters of the Monon-
gahela-which is unlikely-in order to
obtain a permanent control of the market it
would have to extend its purchases to a
degree that would make that acquisition
seem like drop in the bucket. 1t must
absorb the coal of West Virginia, that of
Kentucky, portion of Southeastern Ohio
fields and also of the Tennessee and Ala
bama districts before it could be secure in
trying to sustain prices in the lower river
markets.
The only advantages that such a corpora
tion could secure would be either economy
in production and handling, or,the profits
of floating the stock of highly capitalized
corporation. On the f rst point, the figures
which are published are not such as to in
spire confidence An estimate that the saw
ing of S25O,O0O in expenses of handling
amounts to dividend of per cent on
S13, 100000 capital-which is the statement
attributed to a supporter of the scheme, does
not show very careful figuring. The float
ing of the stock for investment does not
promise much on market already glutted
with such offerings; and this leaves, as the
most evident particular of profit, the united
strength which such corporation could
command in securing the depression of
wages.
That would probably be the principal re-
sult if the scheme should ever material;ze.
But the internal evidences and the denials
of majority of the river coal men, set the
report down as containing more Imagination
than fnanciering.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
it to be stopped, is NOT this the time of the
year when it can be done with the least
danger Of interference with navigation?

In previous years the world has been in
formed by meteorological lights in science
that the peculiar freaks of weather were
caused by the prevalence of spots on the
sun. This year it seems upon the testimony
of an Italian astronomer that the sun spots
have continually diminished, and that our
remarkable weather is due without doubt to
the fact that we are sin the veritable period
of the new sun spot minimum. If the
eccentricities Of the weather are to be
charged first to the existence of SUN spots
and then to the absence of them, it appears
that the learned conclusion of the New
York Herald, in an article on the subject, is
fully justified, to the following effect: "The
effect of sun spot variations on the earth's
weather are not fully determined"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
WATTERS0N is REAL MAD.
Very Vigorous Southern Phrases Applied to
the Commi issioner of Pensions.


LOUISVILLE, August 26. The Courier
Journal will say editorially tomorrow.
Touching certain scurrilous references to the
delivered at Cbautauqua last Saturday, by the
Commissioner of Pensions have to say that it is
disgraceful to the administration. and blot upon
the public service of the country that man capa-
BILE of making an attack SO wanton and indecent
upon one, and most of all upon whom
he does not personally know, and who has given
him no cause for private grief or ofense, should
hold an office of Importance under the Govern
ment. No circumstance could better illustrate
the spirit of the agrarian raid upon the Treasury
proposed in the name of patriotism, or the char
acter Of the individual who leads it. than
the loose gabble of this irresponsible black
guard. Mr.. Watterson cannot be expected to
engage in mud battle with Mr.. Tanner.
As a matter of fact, the Washington bureau of
the COurier-JournGl has been for months under
instructions to treat everyone connected with the
administration with personal courtesy and par
ticularly the Commissioner Of Pensions, since it
was the purpose of the paper to resist and oppose
with all proper emphasis, his official policy.
Not a wcrd has appeared in these columns to
give just occasion for anger that the eagerness
with which he seeks to stigmatize an entire class
of his countrymen, through an unprovoked
sault upon one Of their representatives, dscloses
not only his own want of sense, dignity
and principle but at the same time the sim
lister methods by which he expects to rekinde the
dying embers OF war, while he, and his followers,
steal a march upon the taxpayers. 1t has been a
rule of this Office, eDjoiDed upon each and every
one of our irrepressible young men, never to hirt
with a fool nor to fight with cripple; and since
1t is we'll for doctors to follow their own pre-
prescriptions it shall in this instance be readily
applied by MIR. Watterson to MIR. Tanner. Mean
while the fight against his advance movement
upon the peoples money shall not be abated.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
AN EXTRAORDINARY WILL,
How an Eccentric Man Distributed His
Property Among Various Heirs.
From e Detroit Free Pressl

How an Eccentric Man Distributed His
Property Among Various Heirs.
From the Detroit Free Press.l
Mr. Donald Cameron. who is well known in
Detroit's enterprising suburb, the town of
Windsor and who was one time Mayor of that
city, writes to the Oban Times giving the par
tIculars of very peculiar will that was made
some years ago by DR.. Dunlop, who lived in
Canada, and was at one time member of the
Canadian Parliament. The doctor and his
brother lived together, and had an old
ing. The old housekeeper was rich and the
two brothers were not as wealthy as they would
have liked to be, so they tossed up one day to
see who would marry the housekeeper. 1t is
said that the doctor rather got ahead of his
brother by giving him penny that had two
heads on it. Naturally the doctor won the
toss and the brother had to do the marrying.
The Dunlop will goes on to say that the
testator resides in the Township of Colburne.
and district of Huron, Western Canada, being
in sound health of body and my mind just as
usual, (which my friends fatter me was no
great shakes at the best" He leaves his landed
property to his two sisters, the one because
she is married to a minister whom (God help
him) she henpecks, the other because she is an
old maid whom nobody will have. His silver
tankard. he says, he leaves to the son of old
John. He would have left it to old John him
self. only old John would have melted it down
to make temperance medals Of it, which he
thinks would have been sacrilege. and so he
leaves to old John his horn snuff-box, which
cau't be melted down.
He leaves his silver snuff-box to his brother
Allen. WHO, he is informed. is ''rather decent
Christian" To his brother-in-law, e parson,
he leaves another silver snuff-box. wnich was
given to him by the Sarnia Militia, and he
gives it to the parson as small token Of his
gratitude for the service he did the family in
taking sister that no man of taste would have
taken. A silver teapot he gives to John Cad
die, exhorting him to drink tea therefrom and
comfort him for the possession Of q slatternly
WIFI
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
Harris Theater.

New carpets, new paper and bright new
paint have greatly frightened up this popular
house for its opening week. Manager Starr is
to be congratulated upon tho work he has been
able to accomplish with no loss of time. the
theater not having missed performance.
Yesterday the season of 1S89-90 was inaugu-
rated, the house being crowded afternoon and
evening to see Agnes Villa and a strong COM
pany in the play made familiar last season by
Kate Claxton, and entitled, 1.-THE World Against
Her." The pathetic story of a true woman
under the false ban of suspicion is very well
told, and the weeks business is bound to be
an immense one. Robert Neil and Harry
Prayer support Miss Villa excellently and the
comedy element is well looked after by Mr..
Bella Theodore. The management of this
house have been obliged to double the size of
their programme, and at the same time have
made another agreeable change of augment
ing the orchestra,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27

saponaceous article which Dorsey is said to
have used with such success in Indiana
elections some years ago, and which under
other names is still prescribed by profess
sional politicians as a bait for ''fioaters"
and doubtful voters on election day. Per-
haps the familiarity with the latter kind of
"soap' breeds an affection for the former in
the Washington departments. What an ex-
cellent thing it would be if the habit of
keeping his hands clean were to induce the
clerk to see the beauty of keeping his con-
science unsoiled also. Anyhow cleanli-
ness, moral or physical, should be encour-
aged. There will be little reason for COM
plant if extravaganza in the departments
at Washington is only visible in the bills
for soap.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
AEExAMPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE.

The strike of dock laborers in London, is
developing into a general struggle with
something like the rapidity that character
lied the spread of the railroad strikes in this
country in 1877. 1t has extended into other
branches and at present threatens to para
lyze the entire movement of industry in the
English capital Our free trade friends
who ace so much in love with the English
system and have been so loud in holding up
Pittsburg strikes as an evidence of the fail
ure of the protective tariff, have had little
to say of this labor trouble. But all sincere
men will recognize it as evidence that in free
trade countries, as in protectionist ones, the
conflict between labor and capital as to their
respective shares of production, in money
form, is irrepressible.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-27
SOAP AT WASHINGTON.

After brief sojourn in Washington the
oficeholder, correspondent of The DIS
PATCH states, becomes amazingly nice in
his tastes. The atmosphere of the Capital
would seem to have refining effect upon the
clerks in the departments, no matter where
they hail from. As evidence of this trans
formation, it is pointed out that a clerk,
who when he came to Washington did not
care what soap he used in his ablutions,
even if he were particular about washing at
all, is not satisfied now unless he can get
the most expensive brand of soap made.
Hitherto it has been understood generally
that the Office holder cared not SO much for
soap for washing purposes as be did for that