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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
FISH AND FISHERMEN.

PHILADELPHIA Record: Catfish are now
spawning and many are shot by West Chester
anglers ~ while lying among the reeds in
shallow water.
DETROIT Free Press: The cost of every
pound of fish taken at summer resort where
the fishing is advertised to be excellent is S6 80
and it may be mighty poor fish at that
FREEPoRT (Pa.) Journal: On Monday. after
one of our crack sportsmen had spent several
hours fishing at dam in the creek at the saw
mill ana had nothing to show for his work,
Will Moss came along, dropped line, and in
five minutes had landed fye-pound pike.
SAVANNAH Ne1Vs: T. NJ. Smith, of VAL
dosta, caught trout weighing three pounds in
Mr.. McRee's mill pond last week, and when it
was scaled and cleaned for the pan A rife
ball was found imbedded in its hesh the scar
having healed entirely over. The ball was
fattened at the point and had three scales
driven into 1t, and it required the use of knife
to cut them out of the lead.
WITH a ten dollar note and six dollar reel,
A two dollarIine and four dollar c-eel,
A book full of one, two and three dollar flies,
And away with his twelve dollar ticket he hies,
Thus the dollars it cost his ambition for trout,
We're fifty in number before he set out
At the end Of week he returned from his
sport,
And fish worth dime covered all he had
caught. -Sagin0U Courier.
AMERIcUs (Ga.) Recorder: j. s. McCorkle
stated Saturday that he went seining last week
at the Hollis MILL in Marion county. While
waxing about in the water he discovered the
tail of large catfish sticking out Of the water.
He stooped down and picked up, not a fish, but
a large stHmptail black moccasin that had
swallowed the fish as far as the fms. He says
that he saw 1t was snake about three or four
feet long and very large one No one told
him to drop Il, but he did 80 and left the pond.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
SHERMAN TALKS ABROAD.
He Intimates That Blaine Has no OppOr-
tunitY for ,Jinroism.

He Intimates That Blaine Has no OppOr-
tunity for JingOism.
NEW YORK, May ia cable to the Herald
contains an interesting interview with Senator
Sherman. After telling the correspondent that
he was going to Italy Immediately, he was
asked how Harrison's administration was
prosperIng, and replied:
$50 far, very well. 1t is moving along quiet
ly The President is pursuing conservative
course, and acting only after careful consider
alton. l think he has done nothing yet to bring
storm about his ears. except, to limited ex-
tent, in the matter of his appointments.
Naturally, some people have not been entirely
pleased with them, but that is always the case
and must be expected"
"Are you willing to specify any particular
ones to which strong objection has been nader
II could not undertake to do that. l sup
pose that some people-a greater or less num-
ber-have thought that several Of them might
have been improved upon. On the whole, how
ever, there is no great fault to be found"
"How does MIR. Lineoln's appointment i'm
press your"
st is good one, in my opinion. and very
generally approved by the people of the United
States. The appointment is better one for
the country than it is for Mr.. Lincoln. / i'm
agine that while he is by no means poor man,
he is not wealthy, and perhaps will not be able
to entertain as much here as a more wealthy
man might"
What of the State Department."
ut is attending to its routine business quietly
and properly, so far as l am able to Judge"
"Mr. Blaine has not yet done anything sensa-
tional or brilliant, anything in the lingo line,
as many expected he wouldT
"No, he has had no chsnce to do it. There
has been no opportunity. He can't
opportunity was given him he did not complete
his sentence,
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WHERE THEY SHOULD SEEK IT,

One of the least satisfactory of the indica-
tions of the present day is afforded by the
statement that thousands of the Oklahoma
boomers who were disappointed in their
hopeof securing land there, are making their
way to Dakota with the intention of waiting
until the Sioux reservation is thrown
open to settlement. This not only indi-
Gates the pressing nature of the demand for
new lands, but it shows the general under
standing and practical acceptance of the
idea, that it must be satisfied out of the
Indian reservations.
1t is natural that pioneers and settlers
should be on the qui vive for every oppor-
tunity of acquiring free hOmesteads. We
are heartily in favor of the policy of dis
tributing the available lands among actual
settlers. But it is not q satisfactory
indication of popular feeling that
takes for granted that the lands
which will be thrown open will be
those that can be taken away from the weak
est holders, or bought from the most ignor-
ant ones at the least proportion of their true
value It is a cogent fact that more good
land is tied up in railway land grants than
in Indian reservations; and whatever the
proportion on which no consideration was
fairly given by the grantee, there is an sd
difional pertinence in the fact that no land
grant evaporation has a title half so good, or
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
WOMAN AGAINST SERPENT.
Mrs. Strait Vanquishes Bon Constructor in
Dark Cellar.


Dark Cellar.
From the Kansas City Traveler.l
One of the most perilous battles between a
woman and large boa constructor occurred at
Grand View last evening.
About o'clock, as Mrs. H. N. Strait, the
handsome and accomplished young wife Of H.
N. Strait, of the Wyandotte Plumbing Com
pany, descended into the cellar of their resi-
dence on Sixteenth street, Grand View, she
was startled by loud hiss and two fiery red
eyes looking directly at her. Returning with
lamp, the lady discovered large
snake colled around piece of
wood. Taking a coal shovel in her
hand, Mrs. Strait prepared to do battle with
the monster. The fist blow seemed to infuFi-
ate the reptile. and, with loud hiss, it sprang
at the now thoroughly alarmed but brave wo-
thrust aside, and with the rapidity of lightning
the snake again prepared to strike. Five con-
ecutive times did the huge monster retreat
and then plunge through the dimly lighted
defending herself. At last a weIl-df-
rected stroke knocked the reptile to the floor,
and seemed to stun it for moment. The
glistening eyes had now become two fascinat
with awful velocity. Following up the blow.
Mrs. Strait succeeding in killing the boa, and
with fast failing strength she reached the floor
above, where help soon reached her.
Mr.. Strait is in Washington Territory, where
he is largely interested in newly discovered
mica mine, and his wife was alone with the
servants. A party of neighbors were sum-
moned. and the snake carried into the wood
shed. 1t proved to be boa constructor, and
measured IL feet and inches from the head
to the tip of the tall 1t Is supposed to have
escaped from some menagerie, presumably the
London circus, which is now at Armourdale.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
IT'S MOST WONDERFUL RESULT.

1t is remarkable what difference is made
by very slight change of circumstances.
No more striking illustration of this is re-
quired than the remarkable illumination OF
new light recently undergone by Philadel-
phis on the subject of natural gas.
Readers of the Philadelphia newspapers
during the introduction of natural gas in
Pittsburg will remember the conservative
and dense disapproval with which our CO.
temporaries regarded such a novelty.
Every explosion of escaped gas called for
the editorial conviction that the dangers of
the gas outweighed its usefulness. Every
gas well that lost its pressure evoked
declarations that the supply was failing.
and that the capital put into gas ventures
was dead loss. In short, natural gas in
Pittsburg was. according to Philadelphia
opinion, an entirely unprecedented and un-
reliable novelty.
But in sinking we'll at Spreckels' new
sugar refinery puny six-foot jet of marsh
gas was developed. In the Pittsburg gas
fields wells ten-fold that volume are thrown
away as useless. But this was big enough
to set our Philadelphia friends to telling
what wonderful things can be accomplished
by natural gas. The expansion of great
manufacturing industries has already been
mapped out, and that formerly reprobated
agent has been adopted to the extent of a
declaration in the Philadelphia Press that
natural gas is the one thing needed omake
Philadelphia the great manufacturing GEN.
ter. and she is going to have it if it is in the
earth"
This is useful as showing that the little
gas jet at Philadelphia has already accom-
plished its utmost wonderful feat. 1t has
made our esteemed Philadelphia cotem-
poraries wake up.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13

TOUCHING the arrival of Colonel Fred
Grant at Vienna, the esteemed Chicago
Times remarks that "Mr. Oleveland's Min
lister to Austria was rejected and that this
country has had no Minister at that post for
nearly tour years." and, therefore, that
"Colonel Grant will no doubt look under
the bed as soon as he gets located and find
out what devilment the Emperor has been
engaged in all these years" 1t is true that
one Kelley was unable TO convert himself
into persona gratq at the Austrian court;
but the diplomatic lists bear the name of A.
R. Lawton as Minister TO Austria, appointed
by President Cleveland in 1887. Are we to
understand the esteemed Times to accuse
Mr.. Lawton, while drawing the very COM
Portable salary Of that Office, to have failed
to discharge its sole duty of looking under
the bed?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13

confirmed by such solemn agreements, as
these which conferred the Indian reserva-
tions on their owners.
1t may be a question whether the land
grants should be recalled or forfeited. But
it is plain that legislation should give its
attention to securing that all the land
grants shall be opened to settlement on
equitable terms, before the Indian reserva-
tiOns are disturbed. II the people of the
West would make this demand With the
same urgency as that with which they are
pressing for the opening of the Indian
reservations it would be more creditable to
them,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
A SONG OF LIFE.

Is anyone cad in the world, Iwonderg
Does anyone weep on day like this9
With the sun above and the green earth under,
Why, what is life but dream Of bliss?
With the and the skies and the birds above me.
Birds that sing as they wheel and fly
With the winds that follow and say they love me-
Who could be lonely! Ohio, notL
Somebody said in the street this morning,
AsI opened my window to let in the light,
That the darkest day of the world was dawning,
But looked and the East was q gorgeous sight.
One who claims that he knows abouti 1t
Tells me the Earth is vale of sin:
But and the bees and the birds wedoubttt,
And think it a world worth living In.
Some one says that hearts are tickle,
That love is sorrow and life is care,
And the reaper, Death, with his shining SICKLE
Gathers whateFer is bright and fair.
l told the thrush and we laughed together.
Laughed till the woods were all airing;
And he said to me, as he plumed each feather,
swell, people must croak If they cannot sing. /"
Up he few, but his song, remaining,
Rang like bell in my heart ali day,
And silenc,d thevolces of weak complaining,
That pipe like insects along the way.
Oh world Of light oh world of beautyl
Where are the pleasures so sweet as thineg
Yes; life is love, and love Is duty;
And what heart SORROWS? D ho, not minel
--Ett0- Wheeler Wttcos.
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GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN.
A Golden Opportunity in Colombia for Im-
migrants and CaDifalistR,

A Golden Opportunity in Colombia for I'm
migrants and Capitalists.
WASHINGTON, May l2.-Mr. Edmund W. P.
Smith, for eight years United States Consul at
Carthagenia, Republic of Colombia, but for the
past two years in business there, is in the CITY
He says that there is great field for Ameri-
can enterprise in the Republic of Colombia
Electric lights, water works, railroads and ice
machines are particularly wanted. The Gov
ernment is disposed to be liberal. Concessions
will be given to bona fide capitalists for 25
years, and in the case of the water works the
Government will guarantee 2 per cent on the
capital invested for 25 years. Emigration is
particularly desired, and in order to infuse
new blood into the Republic the Government
will pay the passage of an emigrant, give him
S6 month. $50 acres of land, COW, two pigs, a
plow, and help him build his house and trans
port him free from the seaport to the point
where he desires to locate.
DR.. Nunez the new President of Colombia
who took Office in 1885, Mr.. Smith says, is a
well educated man of broad and liberal views
and in favor of the promation of friendlier
commercial and social relations between the
also overcome much of the distTust of the
United States which the French English and
Germans eugendered by endeavoring to con-
vince the COlombians that the Monroe doctrine
meant the subordlnation of the South Amer
lean countries to the United States. Most of
the trade of the country is controlled by the
Germans and English, whose representatives
are met everywhere while traveller for an
American firm is rarely met with.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
CLIPPED BITS OF WIT.

1t Did Not Annoy Him.-McCorkle-
sSmythe says he owes you a grudge.''
McCrackle-'tNever mind sSmythe never pays
anything. ''-Hdrper's BazGr.
A Great ent.-Cora-"What in.
duced you to tell Mr.. Merritt went TO the party
last night with George2''
Little Johnnie-'tA quarter. ''-Harpsr's BdzGr.
Husband-I'm going into business In
Wall street and don't know whether to be
ssbull' or ''bear."
Wife-Don't worry. dear; you always viii be .
beast of some kind.-Epoch.
A Human Ieeberg.-Ted-So she cost you
all that money? Why, the girl must be made Of
ice cream by this time
Ned-I guess you're right she is a Boston girl
and a regular freezer herself-Epoch.
Some of the Sanitary Science" people
have been agitating the question Of making bath
ing compulsory. 1t won't work. 1t was tried in
Noah's time. and the only people who escaped
with their lives were those who kept out Of the
watsr.-Tsrrs Hauts Express.
Father-Bobby, are you too lame and
tired to walk mile and half to the circus?
Bobby-No, indeed, father.
Father--Well, then, you win go out in the yard
and run the lawn mower until bedtime. I've no
circus money this year.-OwahG World.
Chicago Woman-I want a marriage Il
cense. My finance is too busy to come himself
Clerk or Court-(g (glancing at ealendar)-Let me
see this is the 10th, isn't it?
Chicago WOman--Why, how perfectly absurd OF
youl This Is only my sixth. -AfRneaPoAs
Tribune.
He Had Made the Grand Tour.-She-'1
hear that you went as far as Constantinople, Mr..
Smythe. Then you must have seen the Dardan-
elles.''
He-tH'mi Don't remember the name. Butt
saw the Willards at Trieste, and young Spoopen-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
A RAILWAY TELEPHONE.
How IL Has Been Introduced Successfully
in France,

HOW lt Has Been introduced successfully
in France,
From the North British Mail.I
Our Paris correspondent says that the tele-
phone has been applied to anew purpose on the
railway between Saint Valerie-sur-Somne and
Cayeux-namely, to enable the guard of a train
broken down or delayed by any accident be-
tween two stations to call to the nearest station
for assistance. The stations on the line were
already connected telephonically by means of
a telephone wire overhead. In the guards van,
as an experiment, was fitted up telephone.
with battery of ten Leclanche cells and call
bell. One pole of the battery is put to earth by
being c1nneeted with the framework of the
guards van, and the other is Joined in the
usual way to the telephone, the other terminal
of the latter being connected with wire by
which connection with the existing telephone
line can be made at any point.
To facilitate this connecting operation the
wire is inclosed in light steel tube long
enough to reach the overhead wire from the
roof Of the van, and provided at the end with q
hook for attachment. Upon ringing mp the
stations in front and rear of the train receive
the signal. and conversation can be carried on
with both simultaneously. The apparatus
carried in the guards van was selfcontained,
inclosed in box, and weighed only about %
pounds,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

SARA BERNHARDT, who has always smoked
cigarettes, has now taken to mild cigars. She
remains, as usual, fond of newspaper puffs.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT recent
ly remarked that if she had known the penal
ties of fame she would never have written a
line.
WHETHER Ben Butler ever stole spoons or
not it is a tradition of Colby University, where
be graduated. that he stole the clapper of the
college bell during his sophomore year.
Mr.. JOHN G.. WHITTIER has a pet dog
named Robin Adair, and whenever any one
sings that charming ballad IN his presence he
walks up to the piano and stands by the sing
eI's side, wagging his tail until the song is
sung
WORD comes Of the death of Rev. Marina
duke Miller, long the foremost minister of the
United Methodist Free Church in England. He
made himself conspicuous during the Ameri-
can Rebellion by championing vigorously the
Union cause.
Miss Rosa EvANGELINE ANGEL is the
sweet name of newly fiedged Cincinnati poet
ess of whom a local admirer says: 'She has
caught the subtle charm of melody, and has
learned how to weave her thought into the
sweetest Of music"
COLONEL oLCoTT, the apostle Of Esoteric
Buddhism. is at present visiting Japan, and
has had a somewhat mixed reception from
Buddhist priests there. AT Kioto the old cap
ital, he was regarded as a hereto, and was
shown but scant courtesy by the priests, but in
TOXIC he was warmly received. Two priests
were sent to Y okohama to meet him, and he
was carried OF to Buddhist monastery
AMONG John Bright's sincerest mourners in
this country was Edward Finch, mule spin
ner at Providence R. /. While corporal in a
British regiment Finch fell under the displeas-
ure of a superior officer, Y1ndictive young
sprig of nobility, who finally had him tried by
court martial and sentenced TO be logged.
Finch's brave young wife hurried to London
and told her story to Mr.. Bright, who used his
influence with the War Department so success
fully that the soldier was released. Later MF.
Bright furnished him the means for obtaining
his discharge and Finch andhis family came to
this country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
the practical confession involved in their
defense,

THE Governmentof Corea has executed a
rich man named Boka for paying all the
taxes levied on the poor people of his town.
The millionaires of this country will be
prompt to accept the warning. They will
hereafter abstain from doing anything to
lessen the burdens of poverty for fear Of
Interior consequences.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
DELUSIONs OF AN EMPRESS.
She Thinks the Waters From a Kings
shroud VIII Drown Her.

RHOL1 buC LOuuOA DboAsI
The Empress of Austria, who is at Wies-
baden, occupies outside the town a villa which
is guarded by police agents, and no stranger is
allowed to approach it. The Empress delusion
was that King Louis came to her in the night
dripping wet in his shrOud from which there
ran perfect stream of water. which Allied the
room and threatened to drown her. She would
wake IN a fright, and call for help. saying she
was drowning. These Mysteries generally ended
in fainting tit, and, singular to add, for some
days afterWard the Empress appeared to be
free from hallucination.
On her return to Vienna last year the EN-
press absolutely refused to see her son, the
Archduke Rudolf, declaring that he had not
paid her proper respect. Shortly afterward
the Archduke committed suicide. and it be-
came an imperative necessity that the Empress
should be confined to her own apartments, for
she was continually reproaching herself with
causing the death of her son. And now the
acute crisis in the Empress illness has passed,
for softening Of the brain has set in.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13

"A DULUTH manufacturer has introduced
a new element into the labor question by
increasing the wages of all hands who are
married and informing the others that their
services will not be required after the end
of the month unless they are married by
that time. He evidently intends to make q
practical test OF the question whether mar
riage is failure or not
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
NO STEEL TRUST YET,

One of the loose statements which are very
widely made concerning the existence of
combinations to repress competition is
furnished by the assertion of the Baltimore
Herald with regard to the consolidation Of
steel manufacturing concerns in Chicago,
that 1.-THE Steel Trust, of which so much
has been said, is now an acknowledged
reality" The vital feature Of trust or
combination is to represE competition
by the union of all the concerns
engaged in that industry, and beyond that,
some primary efforts at least in the way of
excluding the rise of new competition.
There have been attempts of that sort in the
Bessemer steel industry in the past; but at
present the situation is entirely free from a
single one of those features. The consolida-
ton of manufacturing concerns in Chicago
is still confronted with the competition of
the Pittsburg, Johnstown, Harrisburg and
other Eastern concerns. Of these the Ed
gar Thomson and Cambria are fully the
equals of the consolidated Chicago concerns
in capital and ability to produce Bessemer
steel at the lowest figures. More than that,
the ability to bring in new concerns at
mere tithe of the capitalization of the old
ones is demonstrated by the rise of the ALE
gheny Bessemer Company, which, with an
investment OF one-twentietlf the capital of
the older concerns, is able to sell rails as
cheaply as any of them.
The difference between consolidation in
single corporation and combinations in
trust or pool is distinctly shown in the steel
industry. Whatever may have been done
in the past in the steel trade, or whatever
may be in reserve for the future, the present
situation is entirely free from any combina-
tion to restrict competition or to raise prices.
The evidence of that fact is found in the
market reports which now quote steel rails
at the lowest prices ever known.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13

"THE report that Wanamaker and Quay
are to be pitted against each other in the
Pennsylvania prohibition fight will send a
shock through the country" remarks the
st. Louis ROst-D Dispatch. As we have a
deep affection for our st. Louis cotemporarv,
we hope that it will survive the shock OF
learning that both Quay and Wanamaker
have announced that they will vote for the
prohibition amendment, though with slight
hopes of being on the winning side.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-13
GOOD PROVIDERS EN- ROUTE.

Hotel PFepFietoFs on Their Way TO Attend
the National Association Meeting.
NEW YORK, May ia little while before 8
o'clock tonight special train of five magnif-
cent palace cars left the Grand Central depot
en- route for Chicago with the New York men,
bers Of the National Hotel Mems Association
tomorrow night. Among the hotel pr0prietors
in the company were: James G. Matthews, of
the Stnrtevant; James H. Breslin, of the Gil.
sey; E. L. Merrifeld, of the Continental; A. L.
the Ashland; R. H. Sourhgate, of the Bruins
wick; w. L. Jacques, of the Murray Hill; A. r.
Blakey of the Windsor, and W. D. Garrison,
of the Grand Union.