Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-15

J LIE balhClo nave uuOsiuSu
| Since the tickets have decided
Who won the heated battle in which voters
| took hand
Some are after position,
| A few have gone fshin',
And some are cogitating how to save the scat
tered band.
Some are quietly arranging
And persistently exchanging
Views about the proper persons for the
| Gov'nors Cabineg
When they take quiet tumble
We will know the dreary rumble
| OF the battle has subsided, and we may be
happy yet.
A POOR farm operated by poor farmers
would not be a paying investment.
THE Law and Order folk should tackle one
{ country at a time, using the material that
country can supply. Outsiders have TO busi-
ness to interfere in the making of the laws of
any nation. Such international ARRANGEMENTS
w1ll:not be tolerated. The land belongs to the
people and the people alone have a right to
govern it.
ROSES figure in the marriage ceremony. The
thorns come in due time.
THE people are silent partners in all political
undertakings. They can dissolve the partner
ship and continue business at the old stand,
too.
BANKERS do safe business, even If they
are unsafe.
THE Starch Trust is stiffening prices Com
petition would take the starch out OF the COM
bine.
THERE'S luck in odd numbers and the much
talked about 13 is not a hoodoo. The Old
Roman was born on the 18th day of the month.
THE new tariff should not be declared a mis-
fit before we try it on.
FRAUDS masquerade in the mantle of char
ity as we'll as the cloak of religion. They are
sooner or later forced to unmask, however.
WHEN a small boy saves up his cents until he
accumulates a hundred he is privileged to cele-
brate centennial.
PEOPLE who hire workers only own their
time. Labor is bought. not the laborer.
THE man who holds q mortgage against your
property has more interest in it than you have
he ulBucSb dAh ID ~ hlu0 dL@
WORRY kills about as many as consumption
or fever. You are your own doctor, too.
CARLYLE said of one of the French Reyolu-
tionary characters, He did not have enough
truth in him to make good liar" Such peo.
ple are still in the land of the living.
DIR. KOCH has taken some of his own medi.
cine. He is quite ill
THE word ''Gumption" is Western Penn
sylvania provincialism. 1t is decidedly ex-
pressive.
On the eve of the French Revolution the
rioters poured the blood red wine into the gut
ters and daubed it on the walls. The prohib.-
ton fanatics in Kansas are doing the same
thing. Will history repeat itself in this in
stance.
JAMESON, of the rear guard, seems to have
got head of the other fellows. The CHASTITY
proof is now in evidence.
THE sounder the sleepers the safer the rail.
ways.
CLEVELAND has thrown an anchor to wind.
ward.
THE public men who went to the Thurman
banquet didn't go there to eat. merely to speak.
A CARRIER pigeon has more sense than
good many people. 1t knows when to 20 home.
WEAK men can use strong language,
ACCORDING to Inspector Byrnes, some of
Porter's enumerators have figured in the
criminal census Of New York.
DARKEST Africa's first introduction to the
ways of civilization is liable to make trouble for
the missionaries who are heading for Stanley
land.
IF the tariff bill could speak, it would CRY:
Save me from my friends"
THE Smell and Cronin murder mysteries NAV
be cleared up now that both families are turn.
ing on the light.
WILL Captain Wishart arrest Mother Earth
if she breathes through an oil well on Sunday?
THE West is wilder than the Indians now
THE tin plate men are not alarmed few
million Is to be placed in an Illinois plant The
enemies of protection are only blowing their
horns now. They will soon have them in.
READERS of THE DISPATCH are not MISSING
any of the rear guards narrative, are theyr
Africa decidedly darker than before it saw the
light of day.
THE 'wait" bills figuring IN the local tbaa+or