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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
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Captain (auxiously ~ Confound II; I wish
could get . second mate.
Fair WidoW-How would doP-0 0eeaa-
He-wsll, you know, judge others By
myself
she--Yea butiSnit thata rather low standard
OF Judgment BOst0B Transcript
A man, desiring TO have pet dog IL
censed, acetiously asked The clerk Il the dog had
TO make personal application.
mo. - was the reply. "You, - next Of hin.
can take out the pApeFs.n-Eslo H0rk Ledger.
Braggs-This is little late for you TO be
out isn't it, Peck2 Aren't you sfraid your wife
win miss your
Mr. n. Psck-I hope she viii. she can ding
things pretty straight though. -Tsrrs HauN &
prsss.
Yabsley-Thess noYelists make me tired.
The idea Of = s'wifherins Rlaneel'' ASH anyone
could Be wlthered By mere look
Wickwife-You are young Jet Yabsley. You
never stepped on your wifs'B train At ball.
Tsrrs AaHts RzDrsss.
The days will come,
The days win 20,
TN the end or LIES endaaY0r,
Yet woman's tongue
VIII know no whoa,
II Is bound to run forever.
-Ksarney Enterprises
BsnkS-Ars you going to see MOlcini, the
famous actor, tonight
Dobson-No. sir.
Benks-Why mott
DOOson-It costs TOO mueh. Ipaid % fOr seeing
an actor last week.
Benks-HoW was thatp
Dobson-He held four aceI.-Kearnev Enter
prfss.
Rural Minister-Fone Of The brothers
whose duty It Is to pass the plate are here to-day
Would you ooject to taking M tho coIlectionl
Modest Worshiper-I never passed the plate IN
church in my life. and I'm afraid ia b rather
awkward.
..Oh, never mind about that Il won't Be-
noticed. Most Of my congregation become ab-
sorbed IN their hymn book about the time he
plate goes round. .''-EsD YORK Weekly
Blinks-what2 Can't keep your engage
menf with me9
Jinks tsadlyl-No. I can't I vas drawn ona
jury this week. and conldn't get ont Oft.
''lid you tryf''
Indeed Ibid. IdEd ny best to make my,slg
out % be . hopelssIignoramus, but th6y vonIunIt
let ne 60
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hs.kv.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
TOO MEAN FOR ANYTHING.
UnIucky Use of Slang Gets Pan-American
Into Trouble.

From the New York Tribune.I
Senor XII mention no name because the
home of the young gentleman is not 100 miles
from Valparaiso-Senor K, say, had been en-
gagged in earnest conversation all evening with
the daughter of Judge C., in the conserva-
tory attached to the hosts residence. She was
a remarkably handsome young woman. ex-
tremely bright and clever in conversation, and
with a charm of manner which seemed to
hold the young diplomat a willing captive.
the subject of slang. This seemed Senor KS
forte. He had picked up half dozen slang
phrases on the steamer coming to this country
and had added, since his arrival, perhaps as
many more to his little collection. Small as it
was it outnumbered the sum total of his yoca-
bulary OF the rest of the language. Word led
to word, one phrase to the other. There never
seemed happier pair. Then suddenly, as If
seized by an idea, the young foreigner ex-
claimed:
'.Ah, Mees, you ha-ave great deal of gall p
If she had been struck in the face, II the
ceiling had opened before her gaze, Miss c.
could not have looked more surprised. A
sickly smile played about her lips as she turned
her head. In vain did the young man, with a
horrid grin on his countenance. try to explain
that he meant to say she had great deal of
CO." She would listen to no explanation, but
left him standing there and then, in search OF
her chaperone. The young man doesn't know
to the present day what allied the young woman.
There is, however, at least one family in
Ms to-day who think that all South
Americans are illmannered Doors and mo
gentlemen - and one young woman, perhaps,
who is of the opinion that they are all TOO
mean for anything"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
How 1t wns Stolen.

There was in the employ of the Treasury De-
partment printer who saw in the possession
Of these documents possible profit for him
self-dishonest but desirable. He entered into
negotiations, therefore, through several inter-
mediaries, for the sale of the message and the
report to welLknown newspaper correspond
ent, now doorkeeper Of the press gallery of the
United States Senate. The message was to be
given out in day or two. There was little
time to be lost. Communication was opened
with the principal newspapers In the largest
cities in the United States.
The agreement called for the transmission of
the entire report by telegraph on the night
prior to the day on which it was to be read to
Congress. The report contained about 1000
words. Arrangements were made in advance
with the manager of the Western Union Com
pany for the handling of this enormous ''spe-
ciaT' and a number of day operators were
quietly told that they would be wanted for
extra work that night. The copy of the Presi-
dents message was delivered into the hands Of
the correspondent at the appointed time. He
went with it to the office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. Before midnight the
whole of the message had been transmitted,
the sheets had been stitched together again
and the book was ready to be returned to the
Treasury vault, from which it had been taken.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

THE proposition for confederation be-
tween the knights of Labor and the Farmers
is a good one, but the plan can only be made
feasible on platform of opposition to monop.
oily and special privileges. We can hardly i'm
agine, for instance, the farmers organization
going into movement to permanently estab-
lish an eight-hour day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
Went to the President.

In the meantime the manager Of the Wash
ington Bureau of the Associated Press, Walter
Phillips, now general manager of the United
Press, had heard, through some mysterious
channel, that the message was in the hands of
the special correspondents and was being sent
out. He went Immediately to the Executive
Mansion. President Hayes was called out of
bed and informed of what was going on. 1t
was impossible, he said, for the message to
have leaked out. Mr.. Phillips assured him that
it had and that it would be published all over
the country the next morning. He asked the
Presidents permission 10 release the message
IL hours earlier than the time agreed upon
The, President would not consent to this. He
said he did not think it would be right to re-
lease the message until it had been read to
Congress. Mr.. Phillips returned to his office and
sent out a message to all editors telling them
that the message was being sent to certain
newspapers, but that the President refused to
release it and therefore the hands of the Asso-
ciated Press were tied. Then he went to bed
The next morning the message was published
in various parts Of the country seven or eight
hours before it was sent to Congress. The
schemes of the Washington correspondent who
planned the whole affair, failed in only one
particular
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
Farmers Sons Who Become Famous.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
How many of the Presidents were born on
the farm? Please name other prominent men
who were farmers sons. L,
VERONA, November l6
Washington, Adams, Monroe, Andrew Jack
son, Van BureD, Tyler, Polk, Taylor. Buchanan,
Lincoln and Garfield we're all born on farms.
Jay Gould was country boy who came to town
with patent mousetrap. Henry Ward
Beecher was country boy who loved farm life
all his days; William M. Evarts came from a
farm in Vermont; Chauncey NJ. Depew used to
run barefoot around Peekskill till Vanderbilt
took fancy to him. Russell Sage will never
be anything but countryman, if he lives in
cities all his life; Whitelaw Reid is from Ohio,
and was 80 years ridding his hair of hayseed;
De Witt Talmage first expanded his lungs
calling TO an oxen team-he still looks country
all over; Sunset Cox hoed potatoes as a lad on
his fathers farm near GAINESVILLE, o. Abram
S. Hewitt was rosy country lad whose gar
ments were made by the village seamstress
when he first went to New York. Thomas c.
Platt was born on farm; so was L. NJ. Bates
who got his first commercial training in tending
a crossroads store. Addison Cammack was
raised on plantation: so was Tom Ochiltree
The list might be continued indetinitely.]
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
WHEN SISTER JEAN WAS MARRIED.

When sister Jean was married
The church was gay and green
With flowers and ferns we carried
10 brighter make the scene.
A wedding bell was hanging
Above the altar rail,
And none might hear its Changing
Save she who wore the veil.
1.-THE loveliest of flowers
Is just yourself, - it said,
And petals fell in showers
When sister Jean was wed,
When sister Jean was married
The organ slowly played,
As If the music tarried
10 keep her still a maid.
The women wept. and children
Fair summer roses flung,
And praises of her beauty
Came fast from every tongue.
''Ao maid was ever sWeeter,
God bless your pretty head,"
The neighbors said to greet her,
When sister Jean was wed.
When sister Jean was married
The gallery was dark,
And in its darkest corner
Sat one she did not mark,
Who, while his heart was breaking,
Moved his wan lips in prayer
That her heart know no aching
No taste Of his despair;
And no prayer was so earnest
As that he softly said
Up in the gallery corner
When sister Jean was wed.
0htl. .. Bdrker in Inter Ocean
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
A PlttsbuPger's Railroad Scheme.

To the Editor Of The DisDatch:
Having just read in your paper of November
IL an interview of Colonel James Andrews in
regard to Railroad VS. Canal Scheme" allow
me to say that my father, G. w. Scott, who is
an old Pittsburger, but now of Chicago, has
been loud in his advocacy for ten years, of a
distinctively freight railroad, from Chicago to
New York, with cars carrying 100 tons or more
each, thus obviating the necessity of elevators
here holding grain Tor the opening Of lake
transportation. Ny father never tired in set.
Wheeling and Chicago. II there be any credit
in advancing such improvements to the general
public, want him to get his share. Will you
kindly give this notice, as he is well known in
your city. DAVID SCOTT.
CUMMINGS, ILL, November h
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

AGAIN the public is informed that the
Baltimore on her second trial trip surpassed
requirements and showed herself to be racer.
This is gratifying intelligence, but as such
glowing statements have been somewhat COM
mon in the past, the public will prefer to wait
for the official returns
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

NEW YORK has three million dollars SUBJ
scribed to her guarantee fund, and with an
other million declared to be Tin sight" hopes
to make a decent showing before Congress
meets But the mulu-millionaires still stand
back and give the common people a chance to
demonstrate their public spirit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

The statement is made that the Trenton
potteries have succeeded in making an applica-
tion of the Siemen's gas process to the firing of
their kilns, which makes their fuel as econom-
ical as the natural gas used by the potteries of
this section. This is another indication of the
necessity for our manufacturers either to keep
the natural gas supply abundant and cheap,
or to make up the lack by the manufacture of
cheap fuel gas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
DEATHS OF A DAY.
nr. Wilaan. nf OtfnMn.

OTTAWA, ONT. November 1.-THE intelligence
OF the sudden death in New York OF DR.. Wilson,
Law Clerk of the Dominion House OF Commons.
has created general regret here, DIR. Wilson
was universally respected. He left Ottawa on
Friday afternoon for New York. accompanied By
his daughter, whom he proposed to place In
training school for nurses. Dr. Wilson su1ered
from heart trouble for several years past. He be-
came suddenly Ill on the street In New York last
night and was taken to station house, where he
died Although physician. the deceased never
practiced medicine. Heart disease caused his
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

If Pennsylvania and other States which
voted wet" this year had foreseen what effect
it would have had on the weather of 1889. 1t
might have made decided difference. Ger
tainly the waning year can claim the champion
ship for moisture,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
Two Kinds of Ballots.

To the Editor Of The Dispatch;
What is the tissue ballot and how is It ma.
nipulated as fraud at elections? Also, what
is the Australian system of voting7 w,
FRANKLIN, November ID
[Some years ago it was claimed that frauds
were perpetrated in some of the Southern
States by having ballots printed on thin paper
and several of them thrust into the box at a
time, the voter folding them in with the regu-
lar ballot In the Australian system the names
Of all the candidates are printed on one ballot.
and the voter marks cross opposite the names
Of those he wishes to vote for. Booths are pro-
vided, 50 that the voter can do his marking in
secret,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
OXEN EDUCATED IN GERMAN.
A Pair OF Animals That are PIuIus for =
TeHfonIc Driver.

From the New York Sun.I
A team of German oxen are pining for .
Teutonic driver up at Greenfield Hill, Green
wich, Conn, on the farm of Miss Agnes Murray,
popularity known as HLady Agnes" The owner
of the oxen called at the labor bureau atCastle
Garden yesterday, and asked Agent Godds for
. German farm hand. Mr.. Godde said they
were pretty scarce, but that she could have .
labnror Of some other nationality.
"But must have German the woman
said "as my oxen do not understand English.
They have always had German driver, and
Pm sure they wouldn't know which way 70 move
if requested to gee or 'haw' in the usual Amer
lean way" Agent Godde said be feared that
the oxen would have TO be taught the United
States dialect, including its persuasive idioms,
by which our oxen are guided.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

THE report that the White Caps at Gales
burg. Ill, have resumed their old tricks of
burning barns and whipping lonely people,
shows the necessity of an administration of the
law energetic enough to tnd such ruffiaEs the
legitimate work Of breaking stones on the road.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

A DECREASED production of molasses
Ium, as shown by the internal revenue report
indicates that the consumers of that fiery
drink must be turning their attention to
smoother beverages. or that the gentle moon
sinner is enjoying boom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

THE type founders are considering the
project of forming trust They had better
60 cautiously or the printing interests may
start type foundries of their own and knock
the whole type arrangement into pi
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

ment is scared enough to steel the Liberal pol
icy, but is desirous of discovering some way in
which it can effect the theft without beng
caught at it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

THE grist of department reports that in
variably precedes the meeting of Congress con-
veys the assurance to the people that the ma
chinery Of government is still grinding on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

IT is intimated that the defense in the
Cronin case have concluded that their best
chance is to fall back on Mr.. Tony Weller's
masterstroke and make 'tan alleybl."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
HOW III WAS sT0LEN.
The Way the Presidents Message Was Once
Made an Article of Commerce-IE
Doesn't Go Ont Now Until Read in Con.
lcoRREsPoNDENoE OF THE DIsPArcH.1 ]

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.1
WASHINGTON, November T7.-Notwithsta
ing the statements to the contrary which have
been telegraphed over the country no arrange
ments have been made by the President or
Private Secretary Halford for the distribution
of the Presidents annual message on the day
when it is sent to Congress. The stories that
the President has determined that it shall not
be given out minute in advance of the time
when it is read to Congress are fabrications, or
SO Mr.. Halford assures me. The President has
a natural and commendable anxiety about the
simultaneous publication of his message
throughout the United States. Its widest cir
culation is obtained through simultaneous pub
lication. Even SO important a document as
this would be in danger of neglect by pub
fishers if discrimination, accidental or inten-
tional, should be shown in its distribution.
Every year, as newspapers have grown more en-
terprising and more eager In competition with
each other, greater safeguards have been
thrown about tie Presidents message and the
reports of the heads of departments
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
One Of sherman,s Traits.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.l
Senator Sherman declines to discuss the re-
suit of the Ohio election. One Of the things
for which this eminent statesman is most ad-
mired is his habit of never talking when there
il nothing to say.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
Yes, TMice.

To the Editor Of The DisDatch;
Has the present Governor Of Ohio been de-
feated for that Office twice7 N.
MONROE. Pa. November Is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
NFrn. AlIce }. Rruner.

Mrs. Alice j.. Bruner. Of Millerstown, Butler
county, died suddenly in Phlladelphia, saturday
miss Alice j. Jackson, was q successful teacher
for many years in the Forbes School, Pittsnurg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

LORD sAL1sBURY's talk Of Imperial
federation" as solution Of the Home-RuIs
question is an indication that the Tory Govern
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
TRI-STATE TRIPLES.

]. F. LEWIS killed large bear near Addison
hammock. southwest of Landisburg, Pa, Mon
day Of last week. He was out deer stalking at
the time, and suddenly he found three bears
cycling him in a peculiar manner. One be killed
the first shot and the other two disappeared
quickly in the tail scrub.
AFARMER near Nevada, o., heard rap at
bis door, and opening It saw the apparitlon Of
Martin Weidemire, who committed suicide By
banging November & He asked what was
wanted. but the ghost would not answer. and
beckoned him to come out He went In the
house, and closing the door seated himself
thinking Of what had just occurred, and Of the
meaning of such n strange visit. loud rap
again called him to the door. Forgetting for 3
moment his late visitor he obeyed the sum-
mons. when q sight met his eye that froze him
to the spot. The atmosphere was lighted with
3 strange light for distance up and down the
road, and funeral procession exactly like the
one attending the funeral Of his late neighbor
was passing his house, only it was going away
from the graveyard instead Of toward 1t. For
q few moments his eyes were riveted en- the
strange scene. and in another moment AL had
vanished. There had been much wrangling
over the location Of the suicides grave. and
friends had been talking Of having the body
disinterred and buried in another place.
SOME Wheeling boys put up ajob on user
Of the weed, ooncealing piece Of soap In the
plug. The tobacco chewer masticated some Of
the compound and was sick for two days.
By mistake Norristown liveryman sent =
hearse and carriage to house Of mourning
day ahead Of the funeral
THE Lancaster police. unable to fx any crime
on 3 suspicious character arrested there,
bought a railroad ticket with the money found
on him and shipped him out Of town.
WITH view Of testing new tooth pulling
machine which be was about TO purchase
Wnllamsport dentist allowed himself to b
operated upon, and the lower part Of his fAco
was nearly torn away.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
APrOblem in Poker.
To the EdIter Of The Dispatch:

To the Editer Of The Dispatch:
Please ancer the Policing A and. B ar plaing
a game of poker A bets. and B calls. A says 2
pars B. says Kings. A says that's good and
then he. A says no have full hand. Witch
Wins A. or B
Ancer and Oblige reader
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18
ANGER and Uphge q reader
sDO

UFIoNTowN, November Is
IA should have stated exactly what he had.
His failure to do SO, causing to expose his
hand, makes the latter tho winner.l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-18

which would dismiss the devil by explaining
Bible texts as personifcations of evil, or as ac.
commodations to popular ignorance he vigor-
ously combaIs. He deYotes a chapter to the
petition in the Lords prayer which the revisors
read, deliver us from the evil one." He
denies that the Jews brought the idea of the
devil back with them from the Babylonian
captivity. The Persian religion, in which the
devil has so large place, was not brought into
Babylonia until the captivity was nearly at an
end. and then only as court religion; indeed
the chief result of the captivity was to convert
the Hebrews to their own creed Henceforth
they we're vigorous monotheists. DR.. Jewett's
book is strong presentation of the traditional
idea of the devil.
The devil is the leading character Of Mrs.
Julia Ditts Young's novel, AdriJT; a Story of
Niagara; Isl 25; ]. B. Lippinoott Co.; II.
Watts & Coz His name is Marcy Forrlster.
He is a yeritable incarnation of the adversary
Some minor measures of the evil spirit get into
the hearts of several of the other characters.
There are two quite unconnected stories run
ming side by side throughout the plot One is
the story of Jerome and Diana, which is capi-
tally done; the other is the story of Stephen
and Bella, which is probably a fairly accurate
diagnosis Of a very unpleasant disease. The
book is really not SO trashy as its very suspi-
cious title would lead one to suppose. But one
is inclined to wonder little what Mr.. William
Dean Howells, to whom it is inscribed, will
think about it.
The trouble between Bella and her husband
was ',incompatibility of temper;' they were
like the man and wife whose versions of their
marital unhappiness Daudet puts in parallel
pages He loved poetry; she loved accounts.
Only in "Adrift' the cases were reversed.
Marriage is pretty much failure, according
to Daudet at least when one Of the two is un.
fortunate enough to be genius "Geniuses.U
said Mrs. Carlyle ''are all very well; but thew
are terrible to live Eithr This is the moral Of
Wees Of Men Of Genius (75 cents. Worthingtou
Company; J. r. Weldin d on.l The men of
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1889-08-02
Oregon Scenery.

A large tinted engraving Of the beau
tiful Grand Ronde valley and the city
of La Grande accompanies the July
number of the Vest Shore Magazine as
an art supplement. Grande Ronde val
ley is situated in the Blue mountains,
in Eastern Oregon. and possesses a de-
lightful climate and fertile soil, and is
one Of the most inviting portions of the
Pacific coast for those seeking homes in
that region. The magazine contains a
carefully prepared descriptive article of
the valley; also an article on the Hunt
Railway system. the city of Dayton,
Washington, and of Ashland and the
famous Rogue River valley. Taken as
a whole, il is one of the finest aud most
instructive numbers of that excellent
magazine ever issued, and contains. in
addition to the above, macs of infor-
nation about all portions of the north
west, as well as excellent stories, poetry
etc. Published at $3.50 a year, by L.
Samuel, Portland, Oregon. Single cop
les, 25 cents.