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total EMERY 8 Ise ~f an elsI trie
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
THE RESTORATION OF JoHNsTowN,

With the further distribution of 81 900,
600 ordered for the relief of Johnstown,
the efforts of the people of the afflicted town
to get upon their feet again must be ma
terially forwarded, The revival of the town
is no longer a matter of question. For a
long time yet its citizens will have an up
hill struggle: but great emergencies bring
out forces equal to them. Much assistance,
as well as sympathy, will continue to flow
to Johnstown beyond the disbursements of
the Relief Commission. The claims of in
dividuals for consideration in their mercan-
tile dealings with the outside world are sure
to meet with considerate and generous re-
sponses, of which no mention will be found
in the daily papers, but whose influence
will none the less be encouraging and bene-
fcent The shadow of the recollection Of
the terrible calamity of May 81, 1889, will
never in the present generation be wholly
lifted from the mountain town which has
become SO tragically historic; but the town
itself within twelvemonths from now will
doubtless be as far renovated and rebuilt as
to present few, it any, material evidences of
the awful disaster.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15

Tanners case that is gratifying by contrast
with. its other features. No one charges
that pensions were fraudulently, dis
honestly or illegally allowed during his
encumbrance. The President and Secretary
Noble may have been put to an extraordi.
nary mental strain by the radical views oi
their outspoken subordinate, who evidently
meant to live up to his own pledges with
eclat, come what might; but there is nothing
to allege against the e1-Commissioner' s
good faith. 1t was the width of the swath
which he cut-the swing of his lively right
arm-his uncommon earnestness and fire.
quency in telling what he thought. and his
uncommon vigor in trying to do what he
promised-that produced the alarm.
Where an appropriation runs short and
an Administration is discovering that two
and two do not make five, these qualities in
an official may not be the most useful. Still
they are not, perhaps, intrinsically repre-
hensible; so that while the Corporal has
lost his situation, it is by no means likely
that he has also lost so much of his in
fuence as some of his critics have been
rather hasty to assume He is Of too ener-
getic temperament not to be heard from
again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
LIKE A PIRATE-SHIP.
Queer Looking Craft, Half of Mexico's
Navy, in New York.

A Queer Looking Craft, Half of Mexico's
Navy, in New York.
NEW YORK, September IA strange look
ing craft was to be seen lying over on the Red
Hook anchorage all day yesterday. She was of
a type seldom seen in these days. but one that
was common to the men who blockaded the
Southern ports during the last war. The vessel
in question has all the appearance of block
ade runner. She is comparatively low in the
water, is of iron, has side wheels, and is
schooner rigged. She is ostensibly peaceful
merchantmen. but in reality Mexican man
of-war. and, if properly battered, would be
really formidable craft against wooden vessels
possessing little speed.
The Merida is the name of the vessel. and she
is bound for Progreso as soon as the weather,
will permit her to proceed in safety. The
Merida until recently has been engaged in the
West India trade, running among the various
islands. Until thus engaged she flew the En-
glish flag and it is plain TO see that she is En-
glish In build. She has an English sailing mas
Merida came North visiting New York for the
first time. She was taken up into Gowanus
creek, put in the hands of constructors, and
rapidly altered. A couple of days ago several
Mexicans took possession of her, got a crew
aboard, put an English sailing master over
them, and hauled the craft out into the bay.
Ever since the Merida has been up in the
Gowanus creek she has excited the interest of
tugboat men and others running about the
harbor. Yesterday her real character was dis
covered when it was found that Admiral Pinto,
of the Mexican Navy, was on board. 1t was
limited yesterday that the Merida was bent on
some smuggling mission, and that she had too
much the air of racer to be destined for any
warlike purposes.
The Mexican naval establishment consists of
two small barks, neither one of them being over
$50 tons in displacement. They rarely stir out
of Vera Cruz harbor, though one did attend
the New Orleans Exposition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
RETURN OF THE PILGRIMS.

Americans are coming home in veritable
legions from England, France, Germany,
Mesopotamia, from the country beyond
Tyre and Sidon, from all over the world, in
fact. Most of them are already landed,
though the westward procession will con-
tinue till Christmas. They are bringing, or
have brought, with them much merchan-
disc, trunks full of mementoes of travel,
and valuable assortment of new ideas
The last outweigh in real worth all the
gewgaws from Paris, the pottery from
Rome, the trousers from London, the silks
from LYONS, and the remnants of mummies
from the banks of the Nile. Ideas are hard
to get in the routine of toll or play within
the limits of life at home. 1t is good to
search for them abroad, using that word to
mean any place beyond our customary walk
from day to day.
America can teach the rest of the world
more, perhaps, than the older countries can
teach her. Still there is an abundance of
knowledge, ofpractical doings in art and
industry, for Americans to acquire and OBJ
serve in the Old World. 1t is good for
America to know her neighbors, to visit
them, to learn the sources of their strength
or weakness, just as it is good for the lands
of longer past to make the acquaintance
of the Young Giant of the West, and behold
the achievements of the greatest Republic
the world has ever seen.
In 1892 foreigners will find within our
borders many fruits Of the great pilgrimage
made by Americans to Europe in this year
of grace
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
AN AGREEMENT REQUIRED.

There is certain lack of harmony among
the statements as to the circumstances under
which Commissioner Tanners resignation
was presented, which is perhaps natural
result of the dissonance in ideas which pre-
ceded that event. Private Secretary Hal
ford asserts that "no issue was ever made
by Secretary Noble as to whether he or Mr..
Tanner should 60" and again, SHE Ques-
tion was not at all in the Presidents mind
whether one of two persons should CO." On
the other hand the Corporal, on whose COM
municativeness there is now no official re-
straint, states that the President said "that
if I remained in Office Secretary Noble
would resign" and because "the dismem-
berment of Cabinet is a very serious
thing" the Corporal handed in his resigna-
tion. The hiatus between these two state
ments, from what might be supposed to be
authoritative sources, furnishes justifca-
tion of the policy of putting padlocks on the
mouthpieces of the Administration, at least
until it is certain that they will tell the
same story
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
THE CHANCES FOR PARKS.

The interview with Mr.. BIgelow, the
head of the Department of Public Works,
with regard to the naturalization of park
projects, makes very pleasant reading. Mr..
BigelOw says, practically, that the Hiland
avenue, Duquesne way and Bedford avenue
parks are assured facts, and that there are
very favorable prospects of the largest and
most attractive of all, that on the Schenley
property, soon becoming a certainty. This
holds out gratifying promise that Pitts
burg will soon be well supplied in what has
heretofore been her greatest deficiency. The
attitude of a great manufacturing city,
whose open spaces were comprised within
the limits of the squalid Second avenue
opening. was not creditable. But when the
parks referred to are completed, Pittsburg
need not shirk the comparison of its parks
with any in the country for natural beauty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
STORMS AND OVERHEAD WIRES.


One of the incidents of the storm on the
Atlantic coast gives an additional argument
in favor of general practice Of putting
the electric wires under ground. As is
nearly always the case in storms of more
than ordinary force, the wires were broken
and telegraphic communication was sus-
pended. In New York this very usual
result, in the streets where the overhead
wires have been left, was contrasted with the
entire absence of trouble with those in the
subways. There was an actual and ma
terial saving of expense and interruption
wherever the wires had been buried; and for
it the telegraph companies have to thank
the officials who forced them to put their
wires in the subway against their wills.
This example is not only conclusive as to
the plan of underground wires in cities, but
it raises the question whether the burial of
telegraph cables throughout the rural Sec
tions would not, in the end, be more econ
omical than the overland system. 1t would
cost more in the first instance unquestion-
ably; but the avoidance of constant inter-
ruptions and loss oflbusiness by wind-storms
and rains in the summer. and by billiards
in the winter, would overbalance the en-
hanced cost very soon.
1t is certainly to be hoped that, after a
few more illustrations of the practicability
and superiority of underground wires, Pitts
burg will take some steps in earnest toward
relieving her streets of the masts and over
head wires that are now their most conspicu-
Gus disfgurements.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
THE VIRTUE OF DISCRETION,

The case of Corporal Tanner was the lead
ing piece on the political bills all last week;
and right lively has been the commotion
over it. To suppose that the Corporal's
resignation composed entirely the troubled
waters, is surely to err, as the protests of In
gals, Alger, the fiery Private Dalzell and
other spokesmen for the veterans were
hardly needed to show. The Administration
will secure, of course, as a successor for the
Commissioner, some one gifted after the
fashion of the President himself, with wide
open ears and very little and infrequently
opened mouth. Yet, after all is said and
much admitted of Tanners loquacity, or of
laxity even in his business ideas, his case
will be apt to be long remembered chiefly as
one in which too vociferous and enthusiastic
effort to carry out the promises and pledges
OF his party met with decidedly chilling re-
suits. 1t is just liable to happen that the
most discreet of Commissioners will find
difficulty in living up to liberal interpre-
tation of the pension laws without knocking
"a hole in the SURPLUS" unless when Con-
gress makes Legislation, it also makes appro-
priations to correspond. For the present the
Executive branch of the Government has to
bear the embarrassment of trying to stretch
the cloth to fit the pattern; but that is
hardly fair to President Harrison and his
Ca5inet-who may we'll demand that Con-
gress either revise the pattern or supply
more cloth.
There is one feature of Commissioner
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
A PESSIMIST'S LIFE.
He Does Not Commit Suicide Because of
Life's Worthlessness.


Life's Worthlessness.
From the New York SunI
Undoubtedly life is not worth the living, so
far as society is concerned, unless it is made
useful; if it is selfish, and employed for self
indulgence only. 1t is also sluandered if it is
spent in self-pity. The pessimists are usually
the people who think too much about them
selves, who have an exaggerated conception of
their own importance, and who imagine that
they are separated from the rest of the world
by greater fneness of fiber, and superiority
of organization which units them for the
struggles in which ordinary mortals are en-
gagged.
Of course there is pessimism which is as
much a, mental and moral disease as melan-
cholia, to which it bears close likness; and
like melancholia it affects its victims with
out regard to their reasonable grounds
for happiness and hopefulness. Then,
again, there are vain and silly young
men who pretend to .pessimism simply to at
tract attention. But the real, and genuine,
and sane pessimist is usually man of senti-
mental temperament, with a more or less NOR
bid physical organization, who has leisure for
introspection, and who has tried in vain to get
satisfaction from the material abundance of
which he is possessed. The cure for it, the
sovereign cure, is to set the invalid to work, so
that he shall forget himself, and to induce him
to spend his sympathies on others rather than
himself.
OF course, this pessimism in all except its in
sane manifestations Is mere fancy a manu-
factured state of mind. 1t is whim, or it may
be nothing more than symptom of transitory
bodily ailment depressing to the spirits. Sane
pessimlsts do not commit suicide because of
their sense of the worthlessness of life. They
marry and propagate life, hateful and burden
anxious as other people to live long, and death
has the same terrors for them The truth is
that they do not really believe what they think
they believe, So far from being convinced of
the worthlessness of life, every day shows that
they hold it of supreme value If there was an
elixir of life obtainable, they would be the first
to rush for it,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
DIGNITY AND SIMPLICITY.

The pleasant expressions of Edwin Ar
pold-we cannot regard the "Sr Edwin
as anything but an unornamental prefix to
the name of the author of the f'Light OF
Asia''-concernIng the way affairs at our
national capital strike him are quite sooth-
ing to American susceptibilities. But they
have the ring of genuineness; and their
strongest characteristic is their truth. The
assertion that our Government and society
lose nothing in dignity by simplicity and
absence of ceremony rests on a sound
basis. Simplicity is never undignifed and
ceremony can only be useful to conceal some
inherent lack of the qualities which make
up true dignity. This view, from one of the
most cultured men of the age. should have
its instruction for those who desire to re-
place our dignifed simplicity with a cheap
Imitation of the forms by which the Old
World covers up the.very petty qualities of
its courts,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-15
PERSONAL FACTS AND FANCIES.

PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD's illness is
said to be due to over-indulgence in cigars.
SIR JOHN E. M1LLAIs has spent his vacation
this year chiefly in salmon fishing, In which he
is an expert.
E. D. BLAcKMoRE, the English novelist who
gained immortality by writing Lorna Doone,"
is growing old and now devotes most of his
time to tending his garden.
THE White Cross University of Science has
decorated George w. Childs, James Gordon
Bennett. Thomas A. Edison, John w. MacKay,
Cyrus w. Field and William W. Hubben.
ERNEST BENzoN, ''the Jubilee Plunger,"
whose book on how he squandered over sl,00O,-
600 in two years is having run in England,
says that the worst form of gambling consists
in betting on cards.
THE following sentence. from letter written
by Livingstone short time before his death,
and which refers to slavery, is inscribed on his
tomb in Westminster Abbey: "All1 can add
in my loneliness is, may heavens rich blessings
come down on everyone, American, English or
Turk, who will help to heal the open sore Of
the world"