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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
THE MISSING ICE-CROP.

This is life of compensations and draw
backs. The mild winter has saved the peo-
pie of other cities large sum in their coal
bills, although the natural gas bills in Pitts
burg run along without regard to weather.
1t has also confounded the peach crop liar
up to date, although there is reason to fear
that he will turn up undiscouraged in the
early spring. But against the economy in
coal and the blessing in abundant peaches
we are confronted with the danger that the
harvest of ice will be a total failure. The
rivers and lakes, where the translucent
blocks are generally quarried out at this
season. are still open water, and the ice
houses, where the frigidity of winter is
stored up for the alleviation of the dog days,
are empty and desolate.
1t is difficult to estimate the difference be-
tween these gains and losses. Heat is nee
essary to sustain life in the storms of winter;
but coolness is required to make it worth
living in the dog days. Will it be COM
pensation to have more than we can eat of
the luscious peach if our cream turns sour,i if
ice-water is unknown, ice-cream an attain
able luxury and cobblers only tantalizing
dream?
The prospect of an uniced summer is
truly alarming. The talk of ice-palaces has
so far been barren ideality for lack of the
raw material; but If ice should appear it
would be wasteful extravaganza to build
them until the stock of ice was safely stored
away for next summer. The best ice-palace
in winter like this is the humble and un-
esthetic but useful icehouse that is full of
ice
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
MR.. BRENKENs DENUNC1AT1oN.

Mr.. William Bremen, Chairman of the
Democratic county organization, unpacked
his heart at the meeting of that body yes
terday, to the extent of speech. abounding
with assertions that there were ''never such
shameless, damnable and diabolical means
resorted to- as in the late election; that
Senator Quay was chosen to conduct the
campaign Cor the Republicans as "a man
who can out-general, out-trick and out-steal
all opposition" =" and finally, that the Demo
cratic party ''cannot be charged with perpe-
trating or tolerating such shameless out
rage" The DISPATCH has expressed its
wish that every man who has had anything
to do with the corruption of politics should
be exposed and punished; but the policy of
a general cry of 'stop thiei' at the other
party is not likely to amount to much.
Such assertions as Mr. Brennen's are likely
to provoke the retort that Senator Ba-num's
''mule transactions" are as damnatory as
Dudley's "blocks of fve;" while no politi-
cal corruption has ever been more clearly
demonstrated than the cipher dispatch
agreement to pay big sum of money for
an electoral vote 'if doue only once," there
is great need for the publication of politics;
but il is not to be accomplished by claiming
that the rascals are all in one party.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
NOT PRODUCED BY THE LAW.

1t is remarked by the Philadelphia Times
that 'the formation of the Interstate Rail
way Association bears out the opinion re-
Gently expressed by Charles Francis Adams,
that the effect of the Interstate Commerce
act was to promote the combination of trunk
lines at the expense of the short local lines. :"
1t would be interesting for the Times and
Mr.. Adams to explain how this deduction
is possible in the face of the confession of
MIR. Adams and the practical admission of
the New York meeting that the Interstate
Commerce law has not been obeyed. Ex-
actly how an unenforeed act can force the
combination of trunk lines, is rather OBJ
scure, though not more so than good many
other feats of railway logic-such, for in
stance, as that which induced the esteemed
Times to declare year ago. that the law
prevented the railways from issuing COM
mutation tickets, or giving lower rates in
proportion to distance, on long hauls than
short ones.
The fact is that the railway agreement
only shows the determination OF the railway
interests to escape competition. As lar as
its practical results are concerned, it need
not be feared by the people. But its spirit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
PITTsBURG, SUNDAY, JAN. ls, 1859.
FEMININE LOGIC.

Bessie Bramble writes from South Caro-
lima to declare that if the South suppressed
the negro vote the North is just as bad, be-
cause it suppresses the vote of women. She
then proceeds to show that in the Southern
State where she is sojourning women are not
given the legal rights that they have in the
Northern States; which also makes rather
wonderful display of that mysterious move
ment known as feminine logic.
The argument that because the law which
restricts the right of suffrage to one sex is
obeyed in one part of the land, and that
which gives it to certain race is overridden
in another, therefore, the two sections are
equally wrong, is sufficiently unique. 1t is
surpassed, however, by the surprising logic
which attscks the North alone for repressing
women, and then goes on to declare that the
South represses the women more than the
North does, and somewhat more than it
does with the negroes.
This almost leads us to the conclusion that,
in our correspondents view, the South
atones for its injustice to women, in their
legal rights, by putting them in the same
category with the colored people.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
ARTISTIC PuGILIsM.

The artist on the warpath is rather novel
and interesting subject; and especially when
the creator of symphonies in hitherto un-
known colors, recounts his pugnacious acts IN
humorous style the matter becomes doubly
sensational. 1t is not surprising, therefore,
that London is excited over the sudden and
unexpected appearance of Mr.. Whistler,
whose eccentricities have heretofore mani
tested themselves chiefly in his personal re-
marks and his productions, in the character
of shoulder-hitter and historian of his
own battles.
The occurrence arose out of the fact
that a brother artist expressed to Mr..
Whistler the opinion that the latter manip-
ulator of pigments was a coward and a liar
Upon this Mr.. Whistler sailed in. Having
accomplished what Prof. Sullivan calls ''get-
ting his opponents head in chancery," hav-
ing in Mr.. Whistler's own lingo, decorated
his eyes with an arrangement in black
and blue" he kicked his too frank
critic out of doors. 1t is further reported
that in what is called humorous strain, the
irate artist wrote letter, stating the facts
and asserting that the measures he took
would prevent in the future such results. I"
IF Mr.. Whistler's estimate of his fighting
powers are correct, it would certainly ap-
pear that his course seems calculated to dis
courage insults.
The "humor'' of the letter seems to be
good deal like that of Punch, and is there
fore calculated to penetrate the British
brain. But we question if the thumped and
kicked artist will perceive the humor. Be
yond that, Mr.. Whistler's method of dis
couraging insults is almost as uncertain as
his compositions in color. Suppose that the
other fellow had proved to be the more Wig
orous thumper and kicker, would not the
encouragement have rested with Mr.. Whist
Ter? We can hardly approve of the pugilis-
tic method of settling artistic differences of
opinion. If Mr.. Whistler wished to avenge
himself on his antagonist he could have ad-
ministered peculiar and unique punish
ment by sending one of his own paintings
to the reviler.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
her LUCKY HORSESHOE.
One Ohio Woman Who Has Implicit Faith
in the Iron Mascot.


One Ohio Woman Who Has Implicit Faith
in the Iron Mascot.
From the Albany Times.l
A certain popular Congressman is now for
the second term. representing a Republican
district in Ohio, though he is a Democrat. He
was first elected through personal popularity
and divisions among the Republicans. The
idea of a reelection was considered preposter-
Gus, and his wife tried to dissuade him from
running again, and he used every endeavor to
avoid denomination.
His wife was at a summer resort when she
received telegram announcing his renomina-
tion and acceptance. While she and some
friends were walking in the hotel grounds they
discovered a horseshoe. A Washington gen.
tleman picked it up and handed it to the lady,
saying: You are feeling badly about your
husbands being obliged to spend time and
money in a hopeless contest. Now, this horse
shoe may change your luck. Here's the shoe
that is for his election; and here are three
nails-these are for three majority" There
was laugh over the absurdity of the idea;
the shoe was hung up and the incident forgot
ten by the lady until 1t was recalled by tele-
gram from her husband the next day after the
election, announcing his election by three.
The official count gave the Congressman only
two majority, which was doubtless owing to
the fact that while the wonderful horseshoe
was being handed around for inspection one of
the nails fell out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
A CURIOUS CHALLENGE
Addressed to the Colored Men North Of the
Beautiful Ohio River.

WASHINGTON. D. c., January 1.-THE Hon.
Theophile T. Allain, for % years member of
the Louisiana Legislature, where his eloQuence
won him the sobriquet "the colored Demos
Themes" one Of the most prominent and infiu-
ential colored Republicans in the South, has
recently published in the New Orleans Times
Democrat the following curious challenge, ad-
dressed Ito any colored man north of the Ohio
river"
II would say that in the parish of Iberville,
La, within the last five years l have competed
against about so white levee contractors before
the State Board of Engineers, under Governors
McEnery and Nichols (being under bond with
the State of Louisiana for the amount and will
have constructed when my present levees in
Iberville will have been completely for about
S35 600 worth of levee work with white superin-
tendents and colored superintendents, white
laborers and colored laborers working side by
side for the same wages, Now, to the point:
II any colored man north of the Ohio river will
send me to Soulouque La, certified certifi-
cate from the Secretary of State of any of the
States north of the Ohio, showing that said
colored man did in person compete before
board of State public work; and that he is him.
self in charge of State work for over 1000,
and Is under bond-and that he has under him
white superintendents and colored superintend.
ents. white laborers and colored laborers, all
working for the same amount OF wages accord
ing to their positions on his work-I will ship to
his address, freight paid, a Jersey heifer, which
is registered In the American jersey Cattle
Club book, of New York, worth $3.50. This
and colored newspapers in the United States
Will please copy. speak not as Democrat,
but as Grant, Blaine and Harrison Republi-
can of the South"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
BUSINESS.
PAY as you go.

PAY as you go.
NEVER fool in business matters.
Do not kick every one in your path.
LEARN TO think and act for yourself.
KEEP ahead rather than behind the times.
USE your own brains rather than those Of
others.
A MAN of honor respects his word as he does
his bond.
Do not meddle with business you know moth
ing about.
HAVE order, system, regularity, and also
promptness.
HELP others when you can, but never give
what you cannot afford because it Is fashion
able.
LEARN to say no. No necessity of swapping
it out dog fashion, but say it firmly and re-
spectfully.
If you have place of business, be found
there when wanted. No man can get rich by
sitting around stoves and saloons.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
TIT FOR TAT.
How Judge Sharswood Gave Judge Agnew
Some of His Own Medicine.

How Judge sharswood Gave Judge Agnew
Some of His Own Medicine.
From.the Philadelphia Press.i
The dinner to Judge Mitchell on Thursday
night. which was made as private as possible,
brought out a great many "reminiscences and
stories of the Supreme Court in other days.
One was told by an attorney who has had many
years practice before the court. When Judge
Agnew was Chief Justice the rule limiting
time for argument was very strictly enforced.
The sturdy old Judge had little patience with
the long-winded lawyers. He watched the
clock vigilantly. and cut them off on the Sec
ond. He was sometimes a little severe with
younger members of the bar, and it Is told that
on one occasion when young attorney was
sailing along in the midst of a lot of eloquence
the Chief Justice said: "Yonng man, the Court
will be able to wrestle with the question with
out further discussion"
After Judge Agnew had retired from the
bench, which he did Just ten years ago, he came
before the court in a case in which he had been
retained. Sharswood was then Chief Justice.
Judge Agnew took the floor to make his argu.
ment, and had just got fairly started with what
he had to say when the hammer of the Chief
Justice came down on the desk with sharp
rap;
Sharswood, and the next case on the calendar
was called without more ado 1t took Judge
Agnew's breath away. but he was compelled to
yield just as he had often compelled others
N do
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
REMARKABLE WEATHER.
Violets and Crocuses In New Englund-La-
menration From Maine.

BOSTON, January 12-Judge William L. Fos-
ter, of Concord, N. H., says: 1.-THE remarkable
feature of the weather for the year 1888 con-
sists in the great excess of the rainfall and the
total precipitation train and melted snow) over
that of previous years. The rainfall was AZ 48,
which is 1877 inches more than the average of
the preceding 80 years, and has only been ex-
ceeded once within that period, namely, in
1853, when the rainfall was 1921 inches. An
other remarkable feature is that there has
been no sleighing this winter, and the
year closes with the ground entirely bare.
There were only two days on which thunder
and lightning were observed here-onee in
August and once in September" In different
parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut violets
are in blossom, columbines, crocuses and other
plants are starting up. and the buds on cherry,
pear and other trees are in remarkably for
ward and dangerous condition Grass in many
places is as green as in August.
1.-THE Kennebec river is open for navigation
from Augusta to the sea. The ice all went out
last night. The condition of the river is unpre-
cedented. The ice operators are the greatest
sufferers; not pound of ice having been har-
vested up to this time; ordinarily their houses
are half filed. Reports from the lumber
regions that the lumbermen are in a sorry
condition. The snow is all gone, the swamps
are full of water and the streams are even
opening so that operations are seriously inter-
fered with"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
NEW DINNER ETIQUETTE.

One of the bloods of New York recently
vindicated his claim to that title by thrash
ing a hotel waiter. The offense of the
Ganymede consisted of bringing in the card
of caller while the high-toned real estate
broker-for that we believe is the profession
of the aristocratic person-was enjoying his
dinner. Such an infraction of the rites of
dining could not 60 unpunished, and the
offending waiter accordingly got his head
punched.
The mysteries of dinner etiquette in New
York have recently grown SO complex as to
puzzle all but the members of McAllister's
Four Hundred and their most devoted
neophytes, among whom the pugnacious
real estate broker is probably classed. The
large collection of forks from which the
diner must select the appropriate tool to use
on each course, the exact brand of wine
which he must drink at each critical
juncture, together with the occult rites of
the cards before and after such ceremonies,
have constituted the arcana of New York
culture. To these mysteries a new rule
seems to be added. Whether it is that if
card is sent up during dinner, that meal
must be varied by thrashing the waiter, or
that no cards must be sent up at all, is still
an open question; but as soon as the walters
fully comprehend this new frill on etiquette,
it will be likely to amount to the same
thing.
1t is necessary to suggest that there is a
certain inequity in the working of the rules.
If anybody is to be thrashed let him be the
person who sends up the card. That would
preserve the usefulness of the waiter and
give the diner more enlivenment for the rest
of the repast. The maintenance of the rule
by walloping the humble manipulation of
the napkin ought to simplify dinner eti-
euette good deal by subjecting the walloper
to the more easily understood but equally
unyielding rules of the workhouse dinners.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
THEIR SMOKES AND DRINKS.
statesmen's Preferences in the Matter of
Cigars and Beverages.

From the Washington Post.i
Said an Indiana Republican yesterday: "You
may be sure that there will be no temperance
foolishness in the White House under Mr..
and Mrs. Harrison, and no revolutions at
tempted. They are both practical temperance
people, and by their example and teaching
have done much good in that way, but they
will not attempt to regulate the social customs
ofthe people through pure force Oh their ofllcial
and social positions
General Harrison is probably much such q
temperance man as Senator Sherman is. The
latter can drink glass Of beer and enjoy IT.;
well, in fact, he is fond of cool glass oil lager
Yet he rarely drinks it, or anything else Oh
an Intoxicating nature. He always has upon
his table at dinner, both in Mansfield and mere:
a bottle of native American wine, generaliy OF
light Kelly Island claret which he and MS
family drink mixed in equal parts with apoi,
linaris water, which makes avery palataDle anu
Mr.. Sherman is as conservative in his smoking
as in his drinking. He smokes GOOD many
cigars, but they are small, free smoking, and
the mildest that can be obtained
General Malone tells with great glee Of the
struggle Mr.. Sherman had with one of his big,
strong Perfectos when the Ohio statesman was
guest at the house of the Virginian in Peters
burg. Sherman surrendered after half dozen
Malone went on smoking one after another Of
the big cigars, ending by chewing the stumps
of each. Sherman would never be ranked as
nervous man, while Malone is a little bundle
of nerves.
Sherman had still worse experience, as he
tearfully relates, at the palace OF the Captain
General of Cuba in Havana. After the banquet
a cigar was served which was six inches long,
black as your hat, and strong enough to para
1yze mule. Of course, Mr.. Sherman had in
courtesy to smoke one, and it made him fiighty
all the rest of the day.
While President Cleveland has peen liberal
in the matter of wines, it is well known that
wines are not to his taste. He Is no connois-
seur of wines, and would hardly be able to tell
Rudesheimer from Corden Rouge. He likes
beer as a regular beverage, and in the old days
drank little else. When it came to anything
else he practiced In the Edmunds, Thurman,
Blackburn, Beck, Voorhees,, and so on school,
to whom the sweet, effervescent French CON
coctions are as naught to the calm and de-
termined Kentucky liquid, that proceeds to
business without the gaseous eruditions of the
frivolous beverages OF the effete Frank
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
POLITICAL CORRUPTION.
An English Editor Comments Upon Ameri.
can Election Methods.

From the London Spectator.l
Men will often abuse their own side when
very eager to convict their opponents of wrong
doing. Again, too our readers must not even
If the charges Of corruption are not disproved,
jump at once to the conclusion that therefore
American politics are hopelessly corrupt, or
draw flattering comparisons between England
and the United States. In the first place,
Americans are always proving that they are
true-born Englishmen by their eagerness to
wash their political dirty linen in public. Just
as in England so in America; if there is q pub
lie scandal 1t is sure to be written up and talked
up entirely out of its true proportions. Neither
branch of the English race tries to hide its
blunders from the view of the world as do
Frenchmen and Germans; but both insist not
only upon the fullest publicity and the fullest
criticism, but on certain element of sensa-
tionalism being introduced into the discussion,
which must always be allowed for by outside
observers
1t would seem that beyond the question of
actual corruption, the recent voting has caused
great dissatisfaction in regard to the working
of the ballot Considerable attention is now
being paid to the matter in several of the States
especially in New York and Indiana-the two
States in which the recent contest conferred
and in Connecticut, where it is said that i'm
mediate steps are to be taken in the direction
Of reform. In many of the Western States,
also the public mind is being turned to the
consideration of this subject The English
system of voting appears on the whole to find
most favor with those who desire pure cleo
tions. We trust, however, that the use of En-
glish experience will not stop at the ballot, but
that the American State Legislatures will con-
slider whether those provisions of the corrupt
and illegal practices act which limit the money
to be expended at each election, might not
be usefully adopted. In England, though
corruption may still exist to a certain limited
extent, the Act has worked remarkably well,
and might be easily made use of in America.
BY limiting the amount to be spent in the case
of each voter in the Electoral College, even
Presidential election could be brought within
its scope. The details of such matter, how
ever, can only be decided wisely by local expe-
renee. On one point only do we feel certain.
If the American people once realize that their
system of election has become corrupt, that
system will be changed. The Americans bear
a great deal in the way of abuses, and allow
plenty of talk about corruption eating out the
heart of the nation. Let them, however. once
realize that things have gone too far, and we
need not have the slightest fear that they will
rescue popular representative institutions from
the slough into which they have momentarily
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-13
MAY HAVE ICE YET.
aho's Weather Prophet Says the Severest
Wiuter waotbar q. IN Como

Idaho's Weather Prophet Says the Severest
Winter Weather is TO Come.
OGDEN, January l2-Old Man Wigs, a we'll
known weather prophet of Northern Idaho, an
nounces that the winter yet to come will be
the severest ever known. He bases his predic-
tion on the assertion that the moon is away out
of its place in the heavens, being several de-
grees further north than usual, which, in his
opinion, is an unfailing sign of cold weather.
II never knew it to fail,' he said the other
day, in discussing the matter. "If the moon
say word, but here it is at least 5000 miles
further north than it has any business to be.
Three times now since have lived here this
thing has happened, and there has always been
killing weather. One time it was so cold that
the earth cracked and men were frozen stiff
standing up. never saw the moon SO far
north before though, and tell you to look out
for what's a-coming."
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is shown by the agreement that new lines,
no matter how legitimate or solvent, are to
be placed under the boycott of capital as
represented by Messrs. Brown Bros, Kid
der, Peabody 6 Co. and J. S. Morgan & Co.
The idea that all the other enterprises and
industries ofthe country must be held subor-
dinate to the grand purpose of forcing divi-
dends on inflated railway capitalization was
not produced by the interstate commerce
law. 1t existed before that measure, and
was one of the causes leading to its enact
ment. 1t remains to be seen whether the
law or the railway combination Will prove
most powerful.