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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-29

Governor Humphrey, Tuesday, appoint
ed j. c. Brewer. of Peabody, member of
this board of silk commissioners. The silk
commission is one of the supernumerary in
situations of Kansas. Its creation was the
result of the unceasing labors of poor,
cranky Horner, who died of modification
at being removed from the superintend-
ency. The silk industry in Kansas will
never be of any practical Importance to the
state.-Emporia Republican.
That the silk commission has proven,
so far, very largely a supernumary is
not from lack of merit In the silk indus
try, but because, unfortunately, the
management of the state station has
fallen into hands that We're incompetent
whether from incapacity or lack of in
terest in its success it doesn' tmatter now
to bring the success out of it that is
easily obtainable The fate of poor Hor-
ner is more a scandal upon the manage
nent of the station at that time than an
indication that the silk industry is in any
sense failure. 1t can be, and we be-
lieve it will be, made one of the leading,
because most profitable, industries in the
state, despite such unfriendliness as is
shown by the above quoted paragraph.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-29
one Way to Become a Millionaire

From the Boston Herald
How to become millionaire is told by
the career of the late Isaiah Williamson,
the Philadelphia philanthropist. He al
ways BACKED his own shoes, let his
clothes grow shiny and threadbare, and
dickered with the woman at the lunch
counter TO get six 10 cent sandwiches for
30 cents
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-29

Mr.. Depew, of New York, was named
In connection with the English mission,
the place given to Robert Lincoln, but
he>failed to get it, presumably for the
same reason that he failed to receive the
Republican nomination for president
last year: the president nor the party
did not care to take any Chaunceys IN
filling so important stations.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-29
SUFFRAGE RESULTS THUS FAR.

The WaInuts. February. 1883.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-29
Interesting offerings for Monday and
this week.

Our second importation Of White Goods has Just been rece
variety of STYLES and effects nowhere else be Choc
and Fancy Tuckng great variety Prices at usually 10
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
THE TRUE CRITERION.

The public discussion arising from the
opposition of labor leaders on the one side
and the strong exertion of Mr.. Russell
Harrison's influence on the other, concern
ing the appointment of former Pittsburg
detective to the head of the Secret Service
Bureau of the United States Treasury, calls
for the comment that the matter should be
decided neither by the wishes Of Mr.. Rus
sell Harrison nor of the knights of Labor,
but by the character of the applicant him
SELF
Young Mr.. Harrison has exactly the same
right to recommend appointments that any
other American citizen has, and no more.
The labor leaders have an identical right to
object to such an appointment. But the
crucial test, and the one which will react
with much force in determining the position
of the supporters and opponents of the ap-
plicant, is the character which the applicant
himself has earned by his previous career.
1t might be possible for a detective who is
entirely conscientious and honest in his
methods to earn the dislike of labor
organizations by his work during q
strike; but if this applicant for the
secret service position in the Treasury
Department is character Of that sort
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

COMMISSIONERS TANNER says he will attend
the g. A r. union at Milwaukee.
SECRETARY PROCTOR will make an address
at the Fletcher family reunion in fremont
Temple on August %
PROF. SUMNER, who is not yet so years old
has held the Chair of Political Economy in
Yale for the past IL years, and is the author of
half dozen books on that subject.
A GRAND reunion of students. teachers and
friends of Antioch College. Yellow Springs, O.,
is called for June Is. 1880, at which an grafton
will be maze by the Rev. DR.. Edward Everett
Hale.
WHEN Mr.. Andrew Clark entered London
Hospital as an assistant, he was in poor health.
"Poor Scotch beggar." said one Of the faculty.
sIet him have place; he cannot possibly live
more than six months" He is now, after these
many years of eminent service, Sir Andrew
Clark, perhaps the most famous physician in
England
IFreports be true Emma Abbott has had made
the costlest dress known to the modern dress
maker. 1t cost 81 00O. This is more than three
times as much as Sarah Bernhardt's best gown,
which cost 81, 200, and nearly seven times as
much as Mime. Doche paid, 5000. for all the cos
tunes she used in creating the Dame aux
Camelias."
ELABORATE preparations are being made in
Hartford, Conn.,, for repetition of the his
torical pageant of national victories which was
lately displayed in Boston. 1t is to be presented
in honor of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. some
time late in September. 1t is also announced
that similar demonstration will be made at
Newport on August lS in honor of Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
PITTsBURG. SATURDAY. AUG. 8. 1889.
ANOTHER QUAY STORY.

Another of the reports floating around the
local atmosphere credits the usually genial
Junior Senator with serving notice on his
opponents that if they should secure from
the President the nomination of their man
for Postmaster, he will prevent his con-
frmation in the Senate.
This represents the urbane Matthew Stan
ley in quite another light than the report
which put him in the attitude of coaxing
the Presidential lightning to send bolt In
his direction. A man who is trying to pla-
cate and attract supporters for future
political boom is not likely to indulge in
flourishing any such gratuItous red rag be-
fore the bulls eyes. The report is much
more consistent with Senator Quay's char
acteristic affection for the solid realities of
official patronage; but even that estimate of
his political methods must credit him with
intelligence enough to see that the plan of
controlling the administration by antago-
nizing it in the Senate, has its limits.
Most of the reports about the Senator
should be taken with considerable dilution.
We do not think that he has INDUCED in
such unnecessary threats. He may have
quietly suggested to the recalcitrant Home
Rulers that Senatorial courtesy is nice
thing to have; and so it is, for those who
regard the spoils as the one cogent fact in
politics,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
THE PENDING COKE STRIKE.

So far as current statements on both sides
afford basis for judging of the coke strike,
they fail to give much reason for believing
that the strike is likely to prove either ad-
vantageous to the interests of lsbor,or just as
regards the equities between labor and cap
ital.
In the first place the developments of the
strike have broughtout with tolerable clear
ness the fact that it is not unanimously sup
ported by the laborers. OF the two labor
organizations in the coke regions, one
orders the strike, and the other
disapproves of it. A strike in which labor
is divided against itself is not calculated
either to strengthen labor organization or to
benefit labor. The only circumstances
which can justify that last resort in labor in
conflicts must be such as unite all the labor
interests in support of the struggle.
Beyond that it is also evident in the re-
ports of the strike that its practical effect is
to direct it against single firm; and with
the incongruity that has previously appeared
in coke strikes, it is directed against the
firm that in 1887 conceded an advance
that was denied by the other firms, and has
for considerable portion of the past two
years paid 121f per cent higher wages than
its rivals. Whatever other reasons
there may be for criticising the policy of
the Frick-Carnegie interests, it is clear that
labor organization should not seek to infiict
penalty upon them for paying better
wages than their competitors. Probably the
labor leaders may not have intended to
strike at one firm alone; but if the actual
effect of the division among labor organiza-
tions is to confne the strike to the works
of one firm, and to demand higher wages
of it than its rivals will pay, the perception
of that practical injustice ought to have its
weight. If, as reported, the strike is in vio-
lation of an agreement that the present scale
shall last to the end of the year, the wrong
is only the more glaring.
A strike is, in industrial matters. what
warfare is in International matters. 1t
is the last resort-only iustifable for the
most urgent reasons. Unless the-e are
causes of which the public is yet uninformed,
the pending strike in the coke regions can
not be considered to have such a justi-
fcation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
PREPARATION FOR POLITICS.

Genial Chauncey NJ. Depew is reported
as still in London, where he has been lunch
ing with the Speaker of the House of Com
mons, and otherwise enlivening the entertain
ments of the aristocracy of Great Britain.
This recalls the fact that when Mr.. Depew
left this country he declared that he was
unable to accept invitations to visit va
rious cities in the West on account of the
excitement and wear upon the nervous sys-
TEN. which such designations would entail.
We do not intimate any inconsistency on
the part of the genial railway President.
Evidently he has discovered by experience
that association with the nobility and gen.
try of England does not cause any mental
stimulation, but is an unqualified season of
somnolence and abstention from all exer-
tion of the mind. Thus Mr.. Depew will
obtain the rest and recuperation required to
fit him for jumping into politics, as the re-
port published elsewhere says that he in
tends to do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES.

The Canadian press is indulging in nina
tory and perhaps naturally ill-tempered re-
marks over the seizure of Canadian sealers
in Behring Sea. The burden of the Cana
dian warning reminds this nation that
while our internal strength is sufficient to
swallow up any army of invasion that COM
bined Europe can send against us, we are,
upon the high seas, at the mercy of any
naval power.
This is true enough; but yet we can still
rely upon immunity from the fact that war
would be as ruinous for England as for this
nation. The weak point of the administra-
tion is not so much our naval weakness as
the doubt whether the claim of sovereignty
over a whole ocean is well founded. We do
not allow Canada to make any such claim
over the Gulf of Newfoundland, or even the
Bay of Fundy; and the American people is
not likely to place much faith in such
claim over Behring Sea, especially when it
is asserted for the benefit of rich corpora
ton.
Beyond that the United States ought to
possess intelligence enough to see that the
way to create sentiment in Canada favor
able to annexation is not to distribute un-
necessary kicks to the Canadian people.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
FACTITIoUs AMITY.

The young Emperor of Germany is visit
ing his relatives in England. The German
squadron, bearing its imperial ruler, has
been saluted at Portsmouth harbor, by the
thunders of the English ironclads and forts;
while the Emperor's uncle, the Prince of
Wales, has gone down to welcome to En-
gland his absolute nephew, whom only
few months ago he was refusing to meet
upon the neutral soil of Austria. This
looks as if the old family quarrels are to be
healed over, and private as well as inter-
national peace is to stretch its white wings
over the relations of the imperial and royal
families of Great Britain and Germany.
But ouarrels are not SO easily healed up as
that. England may seek to impress the
German ruler with the magnitude of her
naval power, and the occasion will, of
course. overflow with the usual assurances
OF amity and esteem. But after the junket-
ing is over, the respective royalties and
statesmen will return to their regular busi-
ness of pursuing the policy which will ac-
complish most for their own ends. If the
selfish interests of Germany and England
do not unite them, the illusions of the pres
ent occasion will accomplish little in that
direction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
TESTING THE NEW ELIXIR.

No invention ever won so rapid a celebrity
as that of DR.. Brown-Sequard for making
the old young. No one need feel astonished
that in this enterprising country where men
of science are as keen as men of business,
numbers of physicians began experimenting
even before it was fully known whether the
Brown-Sequard story was bona-fde, or but
the imagination of an old man arrived at
the age which to less vigorous minds some
times brings dotage. Curious to- cay, the
reported experiments so far give strong
color, if not real support, to the efficacy of
the new elixir. The comic possibilities, as
well as the grotesqueness of the whole sub
ject, predispose to humorous and skeptical
consideration rather than serious; but the
report from DR.. Hammond, of New York,
and from two Pittsburg physicians of good
standing. back up the Brown-Sequard pre-
scription right strongly.
With curiosity not at all lessened by in
tense doubt the people who are growing old
will watch for the results of these continued
experiments. That there is some medical
basis for belief in at least the partial efficacy
of the elixir is proved by the trials
which American physicians consider worth
making. DR.. Brown-Sequard, at his great
age, might be pardoned for doting, if he
really was not at himself in giving his i'm
mense recommendation to the "elixir;" but
the numerous other physicians who have
since given complete or qualified indorse-
ment of his experiments bring in testimony
that fairly establishes the subject as within
the realms of serious and general profess
sional investigation.
The account in our local columns of what
seems to have been an entirely honest trial
of the prescription in this city yesterday is
interesting reading.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

he is most woefully slandered man. If
Mr.. Russell Harrison's protege is, as as
serted by rumor and the representations
of his critics, one of that class of detectives
that show less anxiety to secure even-handed
justice than to obtain the convictions that
are well paid for, the objections of the labor
people are well founded. Such reputation
lends color to the statements that his serv-
ices to the son of the President, which have
secured that influence in favor of his nom-
ination, were not of the most reputable char
acter.
The appointment of a man OF that sort to
a high detective position cannot be but dis
tinctly discreditable to the administration.
IF the appointment is secured by family in
fuence, it will only bring the discredit
closer to the President and his personal
surroundings.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
MATTERS METROPOLITAN.



NEW YORK, August 2-War to the knife has
long existed between the Noonan and Grimes
families. who occupy the same tenement house
in Long Island City. In return for many petty
annoyances, James Noonan knocked James
Grimes senseless with his fist in the corridor
last Tuesday. While he was jumping on his
unconscious enemy, Mrs. Grimes attacked him
with an AK handle. After bloody scrimmage
Noonan retired with a bruised forehead and
sprained wrist Last night, at midnight,
Noonan, his brother and four others broke into
Grimes bedroom. They tore the bedclothes
from the bed in which Grimes and his wife
slept, and beat them both with clubs for sew
eral minutes. Grimes was beaten senseless.
Mrs. Grimes threw herself on his body to pro.
tect him from the blows of Noonan and his
friends. James Grimes, who tried to help his
sister-In-law. was thrown downstairs. Miss
Burns. a boarder, was thrown after him be-
cause she protested against the brutality OF
the Noonan party. After an hours work of
this kind, Noonan and his friends left. This
morning the police found Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Grimes unconscious on a bed saturated with
their blood. They, as well as James Grimes
and Miss Burns, were taken to hospital. Mr..
Grimes will probably die. The others will re-
cover.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

from fortune. To him also the Louisiana
Lottery had been good.
Both Seybold and Flann would have been
useful advertisements for the lottery if it
did not fall out that they got their funds
from the bank counters, and that the i'm
puted benefcence of M. A. Dauphin's wheel
of fortune was purely imaginary. True,
conservative business people would prefer
banking in'institutions whose officials do not
patronize lotteries; but had the success been
real the case would moi, to good many people,
have looked half SO bad. 1t is betting on the
horse which doesn't win that shows up to
the full the iniquity of betting. The cash
iers and the tellers and the other response
BILE business people who get caught on the
wrong side OF the market are those whose
cases have to point the moral. William n.
Riddle, of the Penn Bank, said after the
famous collapse of the institution that if he
could have held out little longer, until oil
took rise, he would be one of the wealth
lest men in the city, and that certain large
philanthropic designs he had in view would
make his name known for generations as a
pubic UtHtldCIOT. OO IL BOSS. IL 10 uut o
thin partition of circumstance which some
times divides success from failure in the
eyes of the spectators.
However, speculation in stocks and COM
modities, of which the buyers know little
or nothing, have enough ruin to answer for
without charging fictitious cases to their
account. So as to the wicked lottery.
Numerous though the instances are where
men have been ruined by these devices, it
does not appear that the case of Seybold at
Wheeling was one Of them. That seems to
have been rather, for the most part, series
of very common thefts, over the proceeds Of
which the mantle of the lottery was thrown
as a most convenient CLOAK.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

A prize fighter buys his victory by the
pound.-Boston Gazette.
The potato is said to be deteriorating, but
Hdute Express.
What becomes of the old pianos? Well,
some unfortunate fellows next door neighbor
buys one for torture, while others sent te the
heathen.-Neao York Journal.
Be- Grammar teaches us that relatives usually
refer to anIecedents.
so does the cannibal.
He eats his relatives and so did his antecedents.
philadelphia Press.
Though ever busy ben ye bee,
Exceeding brisk and sprye,
He ne'er exceIls in industry
Ye early mornynge fye.
Washington Capital
Yeast-Don't you think Crimsonbeak has
q taking way about bim9
Bacon-Most decidedly do. Inever knew any
one to ask him when he didn't take something
Yonkers Statesman.
''If they abolish the nobility in England"
remarked Mrs. Phunnyman, ''the London bridge
will have to co."
Mr.. Phunnyman-How do you make that out2
Mrs. P.-Because it is sustained by piers.-PhiL-
adeLphiG Press.
Sure preventive OF mosquito bites: Take
the OF your cistern, crawl into the cistern,
replace the cover, and duck under the water. As
long as you remain there entirely submerged in
water we win stake reputation for veracity
that you'll not be bitten by mosquito. Dams
ufLie Breeze.
Brooks-I hear that you and the boys
were out hooking watermelons. Did you get .
good load?
Crooks-Vou just bet we did. Brooks; and every
bit of 1t was buckshot, too.- Charleston Sunday
Nelos.
THE OLD, OLD STORY.
He anchored fast his fishing boat,
He made a cushion of his coat
And sat and watched his bobber noat
From early morn till night.
As hour on hour thus idly spent
In slow succession came and went
He passed the time In sweet content
While waiting for bite.
When shadows bade him fish no moro,
He piled the lazy dripping oar
And sought lad upon the shore,
His string of bass to buy.
Next morning in the busy mart
He told tale all knew by heart
Yet told 1t with such wondrous art
sex None knew the old, old lie-
-WasAfnaton Post
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
A NOTED LINGUIST DEAD.

Noadiah nj. Hill, Who Understands SO
Different Languages.
The Albany Journal contains the following
item dated North Chatham, July 30:
Noadiah NJ. Hill died here yesterday at the
age of 70 years. He was merchant here about
so years ago, and had lived a retired life FOR a
number of years. He could read and unders
stand so different languages and dialects. Mr..
Hill read and understood the Hebrew, Arabic,
Syriac Chaldee, Samaritan, Maltese Arabic
Mogrebin Arabic, Persian, Armenian, Turkish,
Hindoostan, Orenburg, Tartar, Estrangelo Syr-
lac, Trans-Caucasian Tartar, Greek, Latin
German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch.
Flemish, ,AnglO-Saxon, and many other tongues.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
TRI-STATE TRIPLES.

Mr. JAMES LAFFERTY. of Altoona, while on
his way to Scotch Valley, had an exciting en-
counter with two rattlesnakes. His attention
was first called to their presence by the sbying
of his horse, which came near throwing him
off The snakes ran into pile of cordwood,
when he called to his assistance Mr.. Roy
Moore, who was plowing in field near by.
With the aid of poles they succeeded in routing
the reptiles from the wood, and dIspatching
them. They were four feet in length and fully
two inches in diameter. One had eight rattles
and button and the other six ratrles and a
button. One was yellow and the other black.
A PUe dog that eats huckleberries and black
berries from the stalks is the latest thing New
Bloomfield has in the dog line.
A FuLL.FLEDGED ghost is doing effective
work in keeping street gamins at home after
nightfall in the vicinity of the City Park ON the
West Side, in Erie. The apparition is arrayed
in robes of spotless white and floats noisolessly
through the air over chimney tops.
TR YoUELLs, Bethlehem barber, lately
bought from an old citizen there q number of
ancient razors to have them ground down, the
steel being better than that of to-day. In ex-
amining the case of one he found in it a bank
note of the Easton Bank, dated May, 1888.
MRS. JOSEPH TEBo. living near Newelton,
Pa, was helping her husband to load hay when
a huge rattlesnake Topped around from her
fork-load and thumped her on the back. She
was not bitten, but the thump frightened her
into bed of sickness.
SOME supposed eagles captured at Lewis
town while gorging on the carcass of bear,
have been examined by an ornithologist, who
calls them buzzards.
FOUR posroffices within eight miles of West
Chester are filed by members OF the Moore
family.
THE old apple tree planted by the Morayian
missionaries, at Gnaddenhutten, O., ll5 years
ago. blew down in recent storm. II bore
apples TO the last and had considerable unripe
fruit on It at the time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03
IN A NEW PLACE.

So it seems that the Louisiana Lottery is
feature in Wheeling s financial circles also.
Seybold, the teller, who took s24, 900 pack
age from the bank in May last. and who is
now under arrest. told his friends, who we're
amazed by his sudden wealth, that it came
from the lottery. This was just like Flann,
of the Marine National of Pittsburg, who
accounted for his afluence by similar smiles
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-03

REFERENCES in these columns to an al
legged Presidential candidacy on the part of
Ex-Secretary Whitney make it no more
than fair to notice the fact that Mr.. Whit
ney has just written letter to the New
York Herald, in which he declares 81 am
not and shall not be a candidate for the
nomination" and further goes on to state,
"The item is absurd on its face, and object
to being thought capable of such nonsense" I"
1t is also necessary to credit Mr.. Whitney
with the ability, when he declines nomina-
ton, to decline it so that he who runs may
read.