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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-21
PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT.

A MONUMENT to Arnold Of Brescia IS to be
erected In Rome on the very spot where he was
burned at the stake:
THE Vice President has entered . number Of
his thoroughbred cattle and sheep for the New
York and New England Fair.
WAC YIN WAN. Chinese millionaire, has
bought Is, ,0O0 600 acres of land in Tehuantepee,
where he will establish city.
The Gar has issued an ed1ct forbid1ing ap-
plaase in Russian theaters The explosion of
bombs In the vicinity Of the Gar has made him
very sensitive to noises of all kinds.
Mr.. WILLIAM O'BRIEN's marriage calls to
mind the fact that of the eighty-odd Irish
members of the House of Commons, consider.
ably less than one-half are Benedicks.
THE nomination of Allured B. Nettleton to
be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury con-
firms the suspicion that the President would
get Allured into something Of this sort.
AS Ward MeAllister is to have charge of the
Newport ball IN honor or Prince George Of
wales, it will stand Prince George in hand to
brush up on his social etiquette. Mr.. MoAllister
is particular about those things.
THE clerk in the Brooklyn Health Depart
ment. who has been furnishing dealers in baby
carriages. baby foods and nursing bottles with
a list OF births reported to the department, is
doubtless one of those kind-hearted persons
who are in favor Of protecting and helping
along our infant industries.
AGE rather adds to the eceentricity of
JOAQUIN Miller. He has permanently retired
TO his mountain home, three miles back Of
Oakland, GAL, and refuses to have any inter-
course with the world. He has built three
quaint cottages, in one Of which the erratic
poet dwells, the second shelters his mother,
and id the third his wife and children live
NERO was by no means the only royal per-
sonage who was AN alleged musician. Queen
Victoria plays the piano and organ, and away
back in the dim and distant past had cult.
ysted voice. The Prince OF Wales daliies with
the banjo. The Gar plays the French horn
when here are no Nihilists or other bad tenn.
pered people around, and is likewise clever
performer on the piano,
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~ The BUSINESS OFFICE of THE DIS
PATCH has been removed to Corner Of
Smithfeid and Diamond Streets.
DANGERS ON TRANSIT LINES.

In our local columns will be found num-
Der of interesting and important opinions as
to the causes Of accidents on the cable lines.
The tact is brought out there that large
proportion of such accidents are due to the
carelessness of the victims; but some details
are pointed out, by which greater watchful-
ness could be secured on the part of those
controlling the cars.
While these are conclusions based on
observation, the discussion suggests the
thought that the greatest responsibility to
the cable companies must proceed from the
location of their lines in such way as to
increase these dangers. On broad and
clear street people who get in the way of
cable car may be fairly charged with the
responsibility fol it. But If cable line
occupies a narrow street with sharp turns,
merely for pecunIary motives, it may
be Justly charged with the increased danger.
So, also, with regard to the crossings of
crowded streets by cable companies.
Where these crossings are necessary caution
on the part of the public is to be expected.
But if the policy of the mpanies locates a
dozen such crossings, where half the num-
Der would suffice, is not that corporate
policy to be charged with the unnecessary
hazard and Inconvenience?
This is another argument in favor of an
idea which has been before suggested in
these columns. 1t would be entirely prac-
ticable to establish downtown loop around
which all cable and electric cars should go,
and on which all companies should have
equal privileges. This would not only
diminish the number of crossings and render
it unnecessary to occupy all the city streets;
but the dangers would also be decreased by
the fact that the cars would all go in one
direction, and but single track would be
required on any street.
An intelligent and far-sighted policy
would have provided for such loop at the
inception of the era of improved rapid
transit. But the fact that this was neglected
at the start, should not be regarded as any
reason why such a method of diminishing
the dangers may not still be urged.
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MIR. sYPHER,s PREDICTION.

Mr.. J. h. Sypher, of carpet-bag fame,
indulges in some pessimistlc predictions
that the Federal election bill will be a
farce if passed, because Northern public
opinion will not uphold its enforcement
The mixture of this prediction with Mr..
Sypher's unique condemnation of Grant
for failing to keep the carpet-bag govern
ment in power at the point of the bayonet
and of Northern newspaper men for writing
things that did not suit him after he had
dined and wined them, may be passed over
in view of his forcible presentation of the
one important point in this connection.
That is the fact that a decade and a half
ago, public opinion of the North forced
such an administration as Grants to recog-
nize that no permanent settlement of the
Southern question could be attained
by the perpetual Interference of
the Federal government with South
ern elections. Although that conclu-
sion was exceedingly distasteful to men of
the Sypher class, it was the correct one.
The only way to do, consistently with self
government, is to let the South work out its
own salvation, and as the best minds in the
Republican party declared as long ago as
in 1876, the only function of Federal inter
ference is for the maintenance of peace.
The Federal election bill is simply turn
ing back of politics to issues settled fifteen
years ago, with the hope of partisan advan-
tage to be gained thereby. 1t is an i'll
judged attempt to reverse the progress of
events and to do what men like Grant and
Garfield found to be impracticable.
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STATE ODDITIES.

CHESTER suffers from a cockroach pest.
SIX females formed fishing party at Cop
lay
A COVENTRY stallion always makes battle
with goats.
OF the 80 practicing attorneys at the Bucks
county bar but seven are unmarried.
AS HE slept on the grass snake crawled into
the pocket of Charles Bearton, OF Ames' Cor.
ner.
A SPARROW at Colestown built nest in the
running gear of a farmers wagon. and makes q
trip to market every week.
DURING gust Of wind horse blanket was
lifted from the animals back at Plymouth and
earned to the top Of neighboring tree.
THE parts Of a harvesting machine on the
farm Of Samuel Cell, at New Britain, became
heated and burst out into flames, destroying
the machine.
DURiNG the heated spell few days ago
workmer removed a street rail at Reading; and
it EXPANDED 50 much that it could not be put
back into place.
A BABY near Doylestowti was found to have
lost a finger in q very mysterious way few
days ago. The member was cut completely
off. but no one knows how.
JOSHUA W. PAxsoN, OF Upper Dublin.
Montgomery county, has i've men in his en-
ploy, four Of whom are NAMED Ge6rEe. He
also has gifi nsfnsd Gsorgiana and tho
horses called George.
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aside The feryor Of its belief which in.
duces it to assail the honesty of all who do
not think exactly as 1t does may be passed
over, in view of its statement of the alleged
safeguards of its especial brand of ballot
reform against the offense which the consti-
tutional provision restrains, as follows:
Corruption and intimidation have taken the
place of ballot box stufiing in Pennsylvania
politics. and the Australian system corrects not
only these but the stuffing also. Every ballot
printed and issued to election officers must be
accounted for. Each voter receives within the
voting place a ballot, with the ballot clerks
initials indorsed upon it, and no ballot can be
voted without these initials. Where, then,
under this plan, are the ballots, 10 be stuffed,
to come from? There are none outside. None
can be voted without the Initials then and there
placed upon them, and all-those voted and
unvoted-must be accounted for to the public
authority which issued them.
This being the presentation of the safe
guard by its most ardent advocates, it is
pertinent to examine into its efficiency.
Ballot-box stufihg necessarily implies
corrupt collusion of all the election officers
in charge OF the ballot-box to defeat fair
election. With such collision, what is 10
prevent the election officers from supplying
themselves with bogus ballots, similar to
the official ones, and substituting them,
properly indorsed, for the actual ballots
voted? With the deliberate purpose of turn
ing out party majorities to order, we can
imagine nothing easier than for the par
tisans in charge of the distribution of bal
lots to locate abundant supplies Of them
where they can be used to the best advan-
tage.
The only thing that Will render detection
of such practices possible is a provision for
the Identification of ballots. This can be
done only by some SUCH means as the con-
stitutional provision; and the Gazette wholly
fails to show why the necessary secrecy
would not be maintained by requiring the
numbered lists to be sealed up before the
votes are counted. There is no doubling the
sincerity of our cotemporary's advocacy of
ballot reform; but the feryor of its deliver
ances on the subject are somewhat mis-
placed. Questions of this sort are to be
settled by reason, and not by denunciations.
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SEVEN STEERS IN A STORE.
Big Texan InfFIders MIKE n Tour Of n
hiIadeIphin Drug shop.

PHILADELPHIA, July ee-Seven big Texan
steers walked into Llewellyn's drugstore on
Chestnut street above Broad yesterday after
noon, and after making tour OF the premises
withdrew in an orderly manner without doing
any damage whatever. They had been un-
loaded from the cars about A o'clock. They
were led, not driven. over to Chestnut street,
then across the bridge and down along the car
tracks. They were peaceable and orderly
bovine eitizehs. Their march was steady and
regular. although the leaders betrayed an oe-
casonal inclination to bend the pregnant
hinges of the knee. That came from the ozone,
or from the after effeet, and then one thought
was for chemists shop where their
rocky" condition could be relieved. They
found it. The leader Of the seven walked bold
ly In. followed by the others in Indian file.
Down toward the prescription desk they
stalked, with heads inauiring erect and tails
quiescent The prescription clerk was there,
but he did not recognize them as regular or
profitable CUSTOMERS, and so he waved them
out with athree-legged STOOL They went, fol-
lowing their leader. and each one stopped at
the soda water counter to get q wliff of the
blood OF their relative contained In sundry bot
ties OF beef extract and iron. That was the
only revivifying influence they obtained, but 1t
seemed to be sufficient as they braeed up In
great shape as soon as they had reached the
street.
They were branded An"
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DEPRECIATION OF OHIO FARMS.

The disclosure from the assessments in the
agricultural counties of Ohio, of q marked
decrease in the valuation of farming lands,
is corroboration of the other evidences,
which have recently forced themselves to
the surface, OF the retrogression oil Eastern
and Middle States farming. A slight
variation in assessed values might be at
tributed to differences in the opinions taken
rs to values; but SO marked decrease, in
connection with the concentration of popu-
lation in the cities shown by the census,
permits of little doubt that adverse influ-
ences are at work on this industry. The
fact that their effects are most manifest in
the agricultural districts adjacent to the
manufacturing and mining industries, in
creases the peculiarity OF the phenomenon.
Whatever the causes which are forcing our
farms into decay, it is certain that the
farmers can hardly be blamed for urging
the subject somewhat imperatively on the
public attention!
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FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

Glerk-How did that moth mixture 60
hat sold you the other day, sir?
Customer-Like hot cakes. The moths WON'T
eat anything else. -BrooktyD Life.
Sunday School Teaeher-Now, Johnnie,
tell me what took all the snap out OF Samson.
Johunie-A home made hair cut ma'am.-
Yonker's Statesman.
Judge-Have you ever seen the prisoner
at the bar?
Witness-Neyer, Your Honor but I've seen
him when strongly suspected he'd been at IT,
Btn0hGmton Leader.
Something Lacking.-'Well, did you get
the Consulship?''
..Wby, no. The President was very courteous,
s.,d he knew my face very well. but somehow he
SooIdn,t place me- .''-Neto YORK. Sun.
Sadie Ia ter the visitor had gone)-Say,
mamma, keep them on a little while.
keep what on, my dear?''
ssYour company manners. .''-BJe.
A Confusion ofTerms.LMr. Pigg-H'm-
femme see. how did your uncle John happen to
lose his sight?
Mrs. Fiss-It wss from fail or a cataract,
don't remember which just how.=1srre Auuts
Express.
A Deadloek-"Hay fever" said the mod
orator, at the influenza convention, may be
Iikcned to q tie vote.''
i'Hear, hear" cried the audience.
'sThe eyes and nose both appear to have it w.
Brooklyn L0s
At an Ebb.-Mr. Van Etten (trying to
conceal yawn)-Where did you say you were
going this summer?
Miss Marigold twho has seen his troubleJ-Mr.
Van Etten, I am having lust as hard time as you
are, and should feel indebted II you would ysUn
for me also. ''-Lge.
A Bad Break.-Summer Girl-Do you
remember how We sat on the sand, after our sail,
and the waves broke at our feet?
Last Victim labsently)-So was I.
Summer Girl-What?
Last Victim-Bfoke, at your feet--Fsv Yors
World.
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POLITICAL NOTES.

TO the Senate: Pass the Tariff bill, pass the
Federal elections bill, and then pass on home
ward. Time is passing. Philadelphia Press
tRep.).
NEW YORK World. II Is believed in Penn
syivania that the man who struck Pattison will
not be found in the person. of Mr.. Deiamatsr.
but quite the reverse.
THE vote of the Democratic Senators In op-
position to the silver bill insures the Repub.
lican party in 1893 the solid support Of every
State between the Missouri river and the Pa
eifc Ocean.-=St LOFTS Gtobe=D Democrat tRsp.) }
The Republican party is losing its grip on the
North and the great Northwest, and hopes to
make up for the detection by sending Fedetal
troops down South. That is the plain English
Of the whole matter-Ne,O York Herald
(Dem.).
The siver issue Is scotched, not killed. But
in getting it out of the way even temporarily
Mr.. Sherman has done great service to his
party. incidentally he has done q servicewhich
he probably had no anxiety TO render. He has
let President Harrison wfiggle out.-Esw York
Sun tDemJ.
The Federal election bili has not been
called for by the general opinion of the Repub-
licah party, and there are many Republicans
who believe its passage would not only not ac-
complish the object 1t has in view, but would In
jure the party in the autumn elections. s.-Phf,a-
deiphfa Bulletin (Rep.).
THE silver men are on top: They have got
Uncle Sans nose to the grindstone and both
parties are helping them at the crank. But
when the reckoning for all this fun comes
what mountain will they get to fall on them
and hide them from peoples righteous
wfathf-Chfcdoo News tihdj.
WE are quite confident that the good sense
of the country will defeat IL, and that the inter-
ests involved in other legislation particularly
in the tariff bill, viii engage much more atten-
tion and decide more votes than this carefully
prepared and ndrsed md very artificial South
ern question. "-Neto York Times lind. Rep.)
To the Republican party Is due the credit Of
these measures. The Republicans pledged
themselves to secure their adoption, and the
people. without regard for section, who love
the old nag and who wish to see it in every
foreign port where our country trades will re-
joice It The prospect Of the fuinlfient 6f this
pledge-soston Advertiser (Repl.
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CHURCH NOTES.

THE Swedish Presbyterian Church at Ashta-
bula Earb6r, n: " has voted to join the Con-
gregational body. ~
THE English Presbyterian Church has now
in China 20 ordained European missionaries, 10
medical and l6 lady missionaries, the number
6f commitments in connection with the church
being 3,572
ALONG ths valley Of the Nile, from Alex
andria to the first cataract, there ara 70 mis-
sion stations and 80 Sunday schools, Numbering
i0ii scholars. while the boarding and day
schools have 5000 pupils.
TIE week of .'simultaneous meetings" in be-
half of foreign MISSIONS observed in Massachu-
setts last autumn, is to be repeated next fall,
And the week beginning September 2s and end
ing October has been designated as the time:
fHE Shorter Catechism puts the creed ques-
tion i, a few words: ''The Scriptures princi-
paily teach that man is TO believe concerning
G6d. and what duty God requires Of man :
and that is all that is essential TO true religion
to know-Ite Interior.
FAITH will frequently find force, numbers,
discipline, knowledge and strategic skill against
IT. Yet. being nothing less than direct de-
pendence on the Almighty 1t will be stronger
than any or ali of its antagonists. "And this is
the victory that overcometh the world, even
our aith."-Sunday School Times.
AFRICA has now at work within her borders
10 American. 12 British and IL Continental mis-
siotary societies. There are more than 700 or
dained missionaries and more than 1900 native
preachers. 1t is estimated that they are, both
white ana native, about 5000 Communicates
and 500 600 adhefehts.-NdshvttIe Chrfsfd1 Id
Vocdte.
THE chief religions Of the world may be clas-
aif ed accoriif,y tx fbe rftfnber of adherents as
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AN EXPENSIVE SNAKE HUNT.
Il Cost $1,000 in Barn and Hny, and the
snnke ii still MT Large.


RUTLAND, July 1s.-In Held on Henry Me.
blackberry tree has stood for years. It
has long been hollow and decayed, but the tree
had been an old landmark, and the stump was
SO large it was looked upon as an interesting
relic, and was not disturbed. A few rods from
the stump Farmer McNaughton had barn
which was used for storing hay in. A couple
of big stacks OF recently cut hay stood between
the stump and the barn. The other day the
farmer was passing near the old haekberry
stump. when he saw blacksnake run in hole
in the stump, McNaughton had been thinking
for week or SO of CRU ubbing at the stump, and
he hates snakes, SO when he saw the black
snake run in the stump he quickly resolved to
rid himself of the stump and the earth of the
snake at one anu the same time. He got some
dry brush and piled it around the stump and
set it on fire. The flames were soon roaring
around the stump, and as the heat increased
put popped the .blacksnake and MeNahghton
killed it with club. .
But he found thar the stump wasn't the
abiding place of that snake alone, for from
every hole and fssnre in the old ruin, and from
among the d. cayed roots, snakes came wrig-
CLING and writhing out until the ground was
literally alive with them as they scattered in all
directions to escape. This was more than
Farmer McNaughton was able to stand, and he
started on run Tor his house TO get some one
TO help him get away with the snakes. When
he got back with his son and q hired man his
from the stump had followed trains Of loose
hay that lay on the ground; and reached the
stacks and the barn: With the means at hand
the farmer and his aids were well enough
equipped TO fight snakes, but not to fight fire.
and the haystaeks and barn and barn full of
hay we're soon nothing but piles of ashes. The
loss is about 81, GOO, and not another snake was
Killed, as far as the returns are IN.
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THE STANDARDS GAME.

It is little too recent to be forgotten that
q couple OF years ago the Standard organs
in PENNSYLVANIA were ready to denounee
the assertion that Lima oil could be refined
as treason to Pennsylvania interests, and to
meet the suggestion that the Standard might
extend its possessions in that district with
sweeping denisls that such a thing was
possible.
The sequel to that contention is very
striking one, as presented by the Standards
grasp on half the producing territory Of
Ohio, its recent purchase of Ohio refneries
and its construction of additional rehneries,
all for the purpose of doing what its agents
and organs two years ago were indig-
nantly repudiating. The details of
its extension into the Ohio field
as given elsewhere are peculiarly
illustrative Of the Standard methods. Out
side reiners who undertook to refine Ohio
oil were squeezed, and those who could not
be frozen out were bought up. The price of
the oil was put down to Is cents barrel, and
immense sections Of producing territory
bought on that depressed basis. The conse-
quence is that, Will. the Standard is no
more popular in Ohio and Pennsylvania, it
has scored the same success there as here in
getting its grip on the property.
In the contemplation of the growth of the
Standard refneries in the Ohio district, the
Pennsylvania producers may find it a
profitable reflection that they could have
done better during the past two or three
years than to play the Standards game
for it
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A Fnmous Picture.

ON the side wall hangs Alma Tademas
"Sculptor's Model" the famous picture of
a single figure that made so great sensation
some years ago. 1t came into its present own
er's hands in this way. When John Collier was
still a novice in art his father. Lord Monkswell,
then Sir Robert Collier, wished him 10 take
lessons from the great master. Tadema OBJ
jected on the ground that he did not give les
sons But he added he would let John Collier
see him paint nude figure and try If that
would teach him TO do flesh tints properly.
This was agreed to and for thousand pounds
paid by his father the young artist watched
Tadema paint the pictdre of the lovely figure
that shocked the British matron all through
the giddy months of the following season.
when 1t was done and the exhibition was over
he carried it home and Keeps it in his studio to
remind him of the days when he took the best
lesson of his life in flesh painting.
MACLEOD,
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Another Portrait of Huxley.

WHILE Huxley was going for LUX Mundi"
he lightenei his labors by sitting for his
portrait to his son-in-law, Hon. John Collier,
who painted the famous one Of him holGing a
skull, which was exhibited in the Royal Aead.
emy some years ago. This new pi cture is quite
a success and represents him in his study with
his books and papers about him in no doubt
scientific confusion. He had not far to 60 to
sit, for the Honorable John is favorite SON.
in-law. and while the building of new house
mile off is going on, he and his wife-who was
the youngest Miss Huxley-are staying with
the Professor, who actually allowed tempor-
ary studio. made of zinc and bricks, to be put
up in his back garden-just large enough for a
tennis court.
One of the most interesting portraits just
finished by Mr.. Collier is tull-height, life
size one of the beautiful Miss Mabel Pollock,
daughter of Major-General Sir Richard Pol
lock. The young lady. who is fair, with lovely
eoloring, is painted all IN blaek-large black
hat, black dress, with black gloves, is carrying
black patasol-no color anywhere save in the
face, throat and hair. The background Is gray,
and the whole effect most striking.