davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
As HUMOROUS As POSSIBLE.

The Initials Unfortunate.-"Do you read
Sala's novels and letters ~
''No. They are very light"
'sWhat can you expect from g. A. S.V'-Hsw
York Commercial Aduerttssr-
Didn't Appreciate Greatness.-Bobby ION
board the Ocean Greyhound)-Oh- mammal VINO
is that great proud man IN UNIFORM
Mamma-Why, that's the captain Of the ship.
Bobbv with awe)-My ! He looks just like the
ianitor of our fat at hOme.-Te1ds SVtings.
Without Strong Competition.-Miss Bea-
conbtI-I wonder what the philosophical reason
is that the men who mind their own business gen.
,eral1y succeed
,,s competition In that line.-Adrvdrd Lampoon.
She Had Read the Advertisements.-Mrs
punkIu (at the circus)-I dunno, Silas, about
cIimbln' way up on them seats; they look pretty
fimsy to me.
silas PunkinAI guess they're all right Don't
We know what they said in the advertisements
secure seats ?-Pues.
The Evidence all In.-Citizen-How do
Won know that Colonel seekum will be . candi-
date at the coming election2
Politician-How do know? He emphatically
declares that he cannot under any circumstances
be induced to run. Then he invites Us all IN to
take drink.-ChiedgO Times.
He Was Latin Scholar.-"So that feL
low Brown married the popular Miss Jones and
she had Q dozen better men at her feet?''
''Yes and he calls her 'E puribus unum.'~
''E pluribus unum! What does he mean By
that g,f
: 'swon from many. Brown is \ great Lsttn
scholar. don't you know. ~ Warrington Star.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
AN ORDERLY DEMONSTRATION.

The success of the London labor demon
stration yesterday in carrying out gigantic
meeting in favor of the eight-hour system
without the least confusion or infraction oi
good order, shows that the London working
men are learning the important lesson OF
combining labor agitation with strict re-
spect for law and coed order.
This progress is the more noteworthy be-
cause previous mass demonstrations in Lon
don have been marked by more or less dis
order. The tendency of the London masses
is to be mildly riotous, either from exuber-
ance of spirits or as an exhibition of discon-
tent. But in this case the meeting of 15O.-
600 men and their declaration in favor of
the eight-hour day was marked with perfect
arrangements and as complete respect for
order and peace as the assemblage of the
more orthodox people in the churches.
The gratifying aspect of this demonstra-
tion may re partially accounted for by the
non-inteTference of the London police. But
it also has a deeper significance in showing
that the masses of the greatest city in the
world are learning discipline and selfgov-
ernment. However crude and visionary
some of their social theories may be, the fact
that they have cured themselves of the dis
position To be riotous and can unitedly rely
on the force of peaceful and lawful agita-
ton, demonstrates that when they obtain
power they will be guided by reason, and
will be susceptible to argument instead of
being carried away by passion.
The ability to make a peaceful demon
stration for any object of labor reform proves
the progress of the English laboring masses
toward the goal of selfgoVernment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
wuLIrBE ENFORCEDe

The passage of the antitrust bill bv both
branches of Congress is jeered at by some
Democratic papers on the one hand and by
the trust organs on the other. as legislation
which will be futile. The papers opposed
to the Congressional majority are also
prompt to say that it was intended by its
trainers to be useless.
There is a certain degree of foundation
for this scoff, in the probability that the law
will go unenforced. If its provisions are
fairly and vigorously carried out it will
wind up every monopolistic combination in
the country that has more than a local ex-
tent. 1t makes all such combinations con-
spiracies, subjects every partaker in them
to fine and imprisonment, and exposes their
property to forfeiture while transported
from one State to another, or to a foreign
state. With that law honestly and fearless
ly enforced no combination greater than a
gas trust in single city or district would
dare to exist.
But no one expects the trusts to give up
their advantages over the rest OF the COM
munity merely because of the mere enact
meut Va law Aney nave dll hHonH NcAJ
we'll that their previous existence was in
violation OF the common law; but they kept
on violating it because they believed that
they could do so with impunity. Their
success in escaping any legal consequences
shows their belief to be well-founded; and
it is strengthened by the experience with
the inter- State commerce act. Violations of
that law are known to have taken place;
yet the first case of any railroad manager
subjected to its penalties is yet to be heard
Of Unless remarkable change comes over
the administration of the law, it will not be
strange if this legislation against trusts were
also speedily nullifed.
This sets the widest and greatest problem
before the American people. Are they able
to make the great and wealthy capitalists
respect and obey the law equally with the
humblest and least influential citizens?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
THE DANCE IN POLITICS.

The ball given by the President is exciting
the SCOTS of the censorions rather more de-
cidedly, we suspect, among the ungodly
who rejoice at this falling off from the strict
Presbyterian standards than among the
brethren who rejoice in numbering among
the membership of their church the Presi-
dent of the United States.
1t is true that the rapid and giddy valse
the breathless galop, and even the slower
and more stately guadrille, are placed in
the list of forbidden things by the straitest
Presbyterian doctrine. But good Presby-
terians have, ere now, taken a night off and
enjoyed the pleasures Of dancing for season
without irreparable injury to their religion
or their usefulness as church members. In
permitting the young folk to galop through
the halls of the White House, and
in listening approvingly to the strains
of Strauss waltzes, we do not think
the President has inflicted any demoraliza-
ton upon Washington society. While the
music may have been rapid the amusement
itself was innocent. Though strict Presby-
terians may mourn, it is no more than just
to recognize that if the President lends
tolerance to nothing worse in Washington
than dancing, the country can rejoice in a
very pure administration.
1t may be expected that the tolerance
which the administration is showing toward
the amusements of the dance and the drama
NAV lead to a rather more liberal view of
the position of those politicians who enjoy
the dissipation of swelling on a bobtail
flush. Still, no one can accuse the admin
istration of inconsistency if it continues to
sternly draw he,line at draw poker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
THE CLUBS COURSE.

The action of the Americus Club, or rather
its pointed lack of formal action, on the
Gubernatorial nomination, looks rather
singular at first blush; but on consideration
there will appear reasons calculated to JUS
tifY it in abstaining from taking sides. The
natural expectation would be that local
political organization would support the
local candidate; but as the other candidates
are also members, or closely affiliated with
it, there is certain degree of good taste in
the decision not to take sides. But if the
club is not going to take sides, ought not
the club as body to stay away from Harris
burg? Its members, as individuals, have a
perfect right to do what they please; but an
organization that intends to keep out of the
fight, will find it good rule to stay away
from the battlefield.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05

alliance entering into such an agreement to
indictment and punishment"
In other words, like the old fellow who
was sin favor of prohibition but agin its
enforcement" the esteemed Courier-Journal
is down on trusts; but strenuously objects to
disturbing the Kentucky method of pro-
ducing artificial scarcity. Trusts are awful
bad things; but the trust which brings water to
the Courier-Journdl'S IS wheel is sacred. Thisis
practically identical with its tariff attitude
1t is the most ferocious assailant of the high
tariff in the country; when a proposition is
made to cut down the so per cent tariff on
sugar, which is prohibitory on all grades of
sugar that are fit for consumption. the dis
covery is quickly made that these are rev.
enue duties, principally because they are
beneficial to Democratic interest. These
things are awful abuses, except where the
abuses yield usufruct to the assailant, in
which case they are all right.
This, as we have said, would be funny, if
it were not too serious. For the great OBJ
stacle to any reform is the unanimous way
in which the reformers themselves insist
that their particular and pet abuses shall
be left untouched.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
THIRTEEN MOUNTAIN LIONS.
Notable Adventure of Two Hunters In
Southern California.

Notable Adventure OF Two Hunters In
Southern California.
SANTA PAULA, CAL, May 4-Mountain
lions, or cougars, have been unusually numer-
GUS and audacious in this part of the State this
spring. They have killed Is colts for John F.
Cuddy, on Frazer Mountain, and have
been seen prowling about on the out
skirts of the smaller towns, raiding
sheep pens and chicken roosts and
picking up any stray ours. The chalk hills
back of Santa Paula always have afforded safe
retreats for these beasts, being very rough and
broken, and full of small caves. Irving Foulks
was up there two weeks ago. and came back
without any cougar pelts. But he brought back
some stories about the number of mountain
lions prowling through the chalk hills that
made old hunters wag their heads and insinn-
ate that he was getting early into the habit of
spinning yarns. habit that was to be toler-
ated only in men of years and experience.
Foulks said he saw SO many lions that he was
afraid to fire at them, whereupon old Jake
Cries snorted contemptuously and asked to be
piloted to place where varmints were thick
Foulks and the old man went up there yes
terdav, and for once In his lite Jake saw ''var-
mints" enough to satisfy him. They got into
the ruggedest part of the hills and sat down to
watch for game. Presently lioness appeared
less than hundred yards away, and Jake shot
her through the body. OF course she yelled as
soon as she was hit and before the echoes of
tne Tlne shob nau tiIhe W get Ddck across the
canon old Jake Cries was sorry he had fired.
Lions started into view SO suddenly and
plentifully that it seemed as though there must
have been a lion lying behind every rock on the
hillside. Jake threw another cartridge into the
barrel of his rifle, and raised the piece to take
aim, but put it down again slowly and re-
marked that he would be everlastingly con-
demned. Then he suggested to Foulks that it
was no use for man to be a chump and shat
perhaps they had better go home ii the lions
would let 'em. They retreated cautiously, and
managed to get out of the hills without being
attacked. Jake declares that he counted thir-
teen mountain lions in that crowd of war
mints," and nobody doubts his word.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
THE INsOLUBLR CoNUNDRUm.

The surprise with which the sudden stand
Of the New York House of Representatives
against capital punishment has subsided
enough TO allow the esteemed New York
Sun to make vigorous effort to catch up
with the procession by an article opposing
capital punishment. 1t takes the ground
that it cannot be fairly enforced and that 1t
does not prevent murders. The arguments
of the Sun is very cogent on the general
issue; but it has little relation with the
main question whether legislation of that
class is to be enacted without public dis
cussion and by snap judgment, presumably
at the dictate of paid lobby. As the New
York Tribune says the interesting point is
as to the exact personality of the "intangi-
BILE, invisible and inscrutable African in the
wood pile" Since it has been denied on
the part of the Westinghouse interests that
they have taken any part in the matter, the
conundrum is apparently insoluble.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
PEOPLE WHO ARE TALKED ABOUT.

BEN BUTLER is reputed to be worth S50OO.
! 0O0 He has law offices in several cities, and
practice worth 100000 year.
MADAME FURsoH-MADI has taken up her
abode, temporarily, at least in Paris, where
she mourns the loss of her husband, NJ. Henri
Verle.
MRS. MARY j. HOLMES is one of the most
indefatigable travellers among women authors,
She has recently completed years tour OF the
world and is now going to Alaska.
HENRI BUIssoN, a Partisan, is entitled to
celebrity and has received a gold medal be-
cause he is the senior ''undertaker's man. in
Europe. For 81 years he has exercised his
profession.
|. MARGARET OF SAVOY, the sllver-halred
Duchess Dowager of Genoa, mother OF the
Queen of Italy, despite her age and rank,
walks to church like the poorest working
woman of the town.
PAUL FREDERICK DE QUINoEY, the only
surviving son of Thomas De Quincy. is Ser
geant-at-Arms of the New Zealand Parliament.
His father wrote essays and he.'too, can write
s. A. A after his name.
GENERAL JOHN BIDwELL, nominated for
Governor of California by the Prohibitlonists,
used TO be grape grower. He gave up the
business at the time of his conversion to the
ranks of the cold water men.
SIR WILLIAM JENNER, the Queens physi-
clan, is about to retire from London and live
on his Hampshire estate. where he will make
collection of his writings and perhaps do other
important literary work.
Miss LOUISE MEYER, the new Southern
writer, is only is years of age. Her father is
General Adolph Meyer, and Miss Louise has
had every advantage of wealth and position.
She is also said to be very beautiful
THEODORE THOMAS and Miss Fay. of Chi
cago; Walter Damrosch and Miss Margaret
Blaine, and Charles H. Russell and Miss Jane
Potter, daughter of Bishop Potter are among
the couples to marry in this merry month of
May"
RUDYARD KIPLING is by all accounts the
coming man in English fiction. Mr.. Yates has
given him the indorsementsof a long article in
the World, which describes him at home in his
London chambers as short, broad-shouldered,
resolute-iaw and dark-faced man of "a. He
was born in India. His work is now in large
demand by the leading editors of London.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
SENATOR BECKs CAREER.
Sketch of His Useful Life and His Service
to the Country.

James Burnie Beck was one of the few men
born a foreigner who has achieved distinction
in American statesmanship. Born at Dumfries-
shire, Scotland, February l3, 1922 he received
his early classical education in his native place,
with no thought of leaving his Scottish home.
His parents emigrated to this country, how
ever, when the future statesman was but 16
years of age. settling at Lexington, KY. Here
young Beck entered the Transylvania Univer-
sity, from which he graduated in 1916, when "a
years of age. He was ambitious of distinction
even at this early age. and, as he was not a
large land owner the only avenue open to him
was through the profession of the law, to which
he devoted himself with great assiduity for 20
years.
In 1867 he was elected to the Fortieth Con
gress and reelected three times serving his
full eight years in the Lower House. He served
on several committees, his most important
work being upon the Committees on Recon
struction and Appropriations His service
upon the latter committee led him to make
special study of the questions of finance and
taxation. upon which he afterward became
the acknowledged leader of his party in the
United States Senate. He declined fifth
term as a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and in May, 1876 was appointed
Iand and Virginia boundaries. During the
same year he was elected to the United States
Senate as a Democrat to succeed John w.
Stevenson, Democrat and took his seat March
.. 1877. He was reelected in 1882 and again in
1855 Had he lived, his third term in the Senate
would have expired in 1895.
Possessed Of vigorous and well-trained in
tellect, with natural bent for the study and
consideration Of financial questions. his eight
years of service in theLower House and nearly
IA years of service in the Senate eminently
fitted him for leadership upon all questions of
this kind. Being foreign born, he was ineligi-
BILE to the Presidency, even If it had been pos
stble during the term of his public career for a
Southern man to be elected to tnat position.
The Senate was the highest office to which he
could attain, and he gave his best endeavors to
make himself a useful and honorable legis-
lator.
In personal appearance Senator Beck was a
striking figure. Six feet three inches in height,
he was broad-shouldered and deep chested, a
very giant in physical proportions. His large
angular head was covered with a mass of dark
hair which had become quite gray before his
death. Earnestness to intensity was the chief
quality of his speech and manner, a character
istic that gave him more influence with his col
leagues than the graceful oratorical diction of
some of his famous brother Senators. In the
de ath of Mr.. Beck the Senate of the United
States has lost one of its foremost leaders
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
TRIBUTES TO MIR. BECK.

HE was a good lawyer and his views on Iega,
points in Congress were regarded with respect
by his colleagues of both parties. Although a
strong Democrat, he was much liked by his Re
publican associates in both houses, and his
loss will be generally deplored, d,-Cleueldnd
Plain Dealer.
THE loss to the country Of United States
Senator James B. Beck is sudden and irrep-
arabic. He was honored among all classes
and conditions of men as an honest, incOr-
ruptible statesman, true patriot, and an
earnest, sincere friend of liberty and
progress.-PhiladeLpht Record
HIS death will be great loss to the working
force of the United States Senate. for, though
Kentu cky does not lack for Democratic states
men of high order of merit, it will not easily
find man who will combine with Mr.. Beck's
ability and acquired knowledge of financial
subjects his industry and unquenchable ZEAL
Philadelphia Press.
HE was an honest man and in his long public
career he had acquired knowledge of affairs
that made him valuable legislator. He was
aggressive and at the same time conservative
When he took position he could maintain 1t
with great ability and in tariff legislation he
was looked upon as the Demoratic authority in
the Senate.-PhiLadelpi Inquirer.
UNCHANGEABLE in his politics, he had
warm friends in every party, and de-
served all their friendship. There was no
affectation no shirking, and no double dealing
about him. His death is sad loss to Ken
lucky, and greater loss to the United States.
A statesman true. fearless democratic and SIN
cere; thank God for the life and the memory Of
such man!-NeW York Sun.
RARELY have we had in our public life a
man who 30 combined geniality and strength.
- h0f
economic questions he has been for years the
authority Of the Senate, never permitting
partisanship, sturdy Democrat as he was.
to lead him away from what he believed to be
the clean truth. He sought no arts Of oratory-
he clung to the facts; and the Senate and the
country listened whenever he spoke.-Cin-
ci,lndh Enquirer.
THE career of none of Sir Walters heroes is
more full of successful and romantic adyen-
ture-than that Of this big-brained Scot, who
among people the most conservative ana pro-
yincaI in the world. has risen from the obscur-
est depths of poverty, unaided except by his
own strong will and extraordinary talents, to
the very highest eminence, and who holds that
eminence as easily and as firmly as If born to it,
and owning il by right of inheritance.-Louis
fville Courfer-Jourral.
SENATOR BECK was fine type of the broad
minded Kentuckian. Though not to the blue
grass born, he was az excellent representative
of the great Old Commonwealth as ever re-
piled with pride to the question, From wnenee
do you GOMEZ" with the famous Kentucky re-
sponse, From Kentucky, by Joye, sir?' sena-
tor Beck, in addition to being one Of the aolest
lawyers who ever practiced at the bar OF Ken
lucky, was q keen lover Of outdoor sport
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-05
CURRENT TIMELY TOPICS.

THE Boston Herald is trying to keep indig-
nant taxpayers from leaving the city on the plea
that at was much to be a citizen Of Rome when
the Apostle Paul wrote.n There is no good
authority, however, for believing that ST. Paul
ever paid tax bill in his life.
The reason that General Boulanger did not
return to Paris Yesterday. according to pro-
gramme has not been correctly given. A private
telegra am from the seat of war states that care
less waiter split soup on the Liberator's cooked
hat. and the General has consequently been laid
up for repairs.
No ONE has been apprehended for murder by
the authorities at Washington for the space of
three months and yet the ghost of the Kings
English hovers daily about the corridors of the
stately Capitol
CHAMPION SULLIvAN's newspaper articles
are written in Addisonian English. The emphatic
certainty that John does his own fighting dis
courages suggestion of any uncertainty about
his doing his own writing.
THERE is a cruel kind of candor in Lotta's
admission that she began acting so long ago that
she cannot remember it. The paragraphers for
three generations have been sitting up nights Just
to keep her memory green on this particular sub
ject.
BOSTON is finding grams of comfort in the
law against perpendicular drinking. 1t Is ex-
pected to relieve that embarrassment that is in
evtable at certain stages when standing at the
rail has become uncertain, precarious and nearly
impossible
THERE was nothing of Poo-Bah in the Lord
High Executioner at Pekin. This artist was not
only prepared to execute a man at "a minutes
notice >, but he actually cut off the heads of q
men in two minutes time, and without the aid of
electricity.
A LARGE eloquent smile may be allowed 70
wreathe itself into curvatures of ecstatic and
hysterical beauty on the face of the body polific
over one aspect of the labor trouble. The stIikes
in China will make short stock Of frecrackers on
the glorious Fourth.
THIS suspense is slowly killing us. Won't
somebody kindly mediate between Harvard and
Princeton that they can play ball and block the
wheels of the nations progress no longer
BOSTON is never feverish, but it has Board
of Aldermen ''clothed on'' with Il majestic cool
ness that if justly distributed would spare its
tire population from fear Of undue heat here or
hereafter. 1t has been unanimously declared by
this body that license shall issue to any theater
in the city until every alderman has received
season ticket.