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The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-01
MR.. BRYCE ON A r
Americas Friendly Critic ss n Mountain
Climber


From the Chautauquan.
The entire expedition was DELIGHTFULLY."-
picturesque, with a picturesqueness not
to be had i'm the Alps. l wish had space
to describe in Mr.. Bryce's words the sup
per cooked by the Cossacks in a big pot
over a fire kindled on the hillside, with
Kurds crouching round il like brigands in
an opera scene; the long, still hours OF the
early night, with moi a sound to he heard
but the whistling of the west wind over the
pass; the start a little after midnight, the
kurds setting out at a pace that would as
tonish Swiss guides, but resting every
half mile or less; the coming of the early
morning on theh heights of Arrarat; the
Cossacks, and even of his English friend,
until Mr.. Bryce was left alone to find the
way over crags and SHOWS.
MIR. Whymper never gave up the Mat
terhorn until he had stood upon its top
most rocks: Mr.. Bryce, though the noun
tam sickness come upon him, though
every two steps he had TO pause to gasp
for breath, though the mists shut him in,
and il was so cold q big icicle enveloped
the lower half Of his face, and did not
melt until four hours afterward. struggled
Oh, trailing his AK i'm the soft snow To
make n track, until ''suddenly, To my as
constituent, the ground began to fall away
70 tic noTths L stopptus ~ pun vi Win
drove oil the mists on M side, the oppo-
site side To that by which | had come, and
showed the Araxes plain at an abysmal
depth below.
No one who has not been up a noun
All can fully understand the difficulties
INT risks OF climbing by ones self
an unknown peak. One or two English
men of late years have advocated oun
tain climbing without guides. But i'm the
Alps where tracks have been made up al
most every peak, where the way is known
as the public highway, and where those
who are without guides themselves have
a way OF following the guides of others, il
Is not quite the same thing as scaling the
rocks of n mountain that h a been
climbed but at rare intervals, when one
false step may send you down n bottom.
less precipice, n M one is near TO haul
you out by the friendly rope, which in
Switzerland would assuredly be around
FOUR waist.
Those who care TO rear the whole story
of that climb ! would refer 10 Mr.. Bryce's
very interesting book. ] will here only
add that, whether or no because OF the
Cossack guard, no robbers were encoun'
tered on the descent, n that, a few days
afterward, when at an Armenian monas.
terry he was introduced TO the archiman'
drite who ruled il as the English gentle.
man who had been to the top of Ararat,
the old priest smiled sweetly and said
mo, hat cannot be. No one has eve
been there. IL Is impossiblc!"
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-01
Giving Fair Warning.

From the Detroit Free Press.
On the arrival Of a train from the West
over the Michigan Contra the other day
a passenger who was hatless walked up
To Officer Button and asked:
zone Of the 'fishuls ?"
ayes"
"Lost my hat"
81 see.r
"Out Of the window"
"Yes."
Cost 20 cents"
"yery likely"
"Settle with you for %"
''I'd rather you'd sue"
Every we'll sue you in Is minutes good
day"
And of he went without another word,
and has not been seen since.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-01
NEWS OF THE COAST.

Two slight shocks of earthquake were
felt at Petaluma, CAL, Monday.
A mountain Of stone is reported to be
found about nine miles from Grants Pass,
Ore, that will make grindstones.
Judge w. Barnes, a prominent citizen of
Ventura, CAL. attempted suicide Monday
by shooting. He fired twice, both balls
entering his head, glancing around the
skull and only iniictine severe scalp
wounds. Old age and i'll health were the
cause.
William Deshettey, who opened the
Casino theater at Portland with an opera
company recently, has left the city, and il
Is said that he leaves unpaid bills amount
ing to severul hundred dollars, including
salaries.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-01
Unlimited Resources.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Before you run the bids for that trot-
ting horse any higher" said the man with
the heavy watch chain i'm IA low voice TO
his leading competitor, II may as well
tell YOU own a half interest in an ice
warehouse"
That doesn't brighten me "A cents
WORTH answered the man with the
diamond breastpin. II am a stakeholder
hundred and fifty he added. loudly.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-02
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-02
Railroad Conductors,
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TAKE NOTICE.

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Ask yourselves the question. We will
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-02

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-02
so ACRES 500.

Tha Portland s,ity Real Estate Association is
selling cos lots IN d spc0i AZ 1870 ger OF $40
down and $40 per month: no interess- or the So
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feet lots two miles from river front. with
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lots Every one has an equal ch Ance OF getting
so sores IS division will be by lot. If ycu have
mind 10 get home or make FoaAs IN ogey
now is the time 10 buy. Prices advance pesi-
lively January l. Cali AZ the ONCE and secure
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and then get in row with yourself for negls-
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Temple.
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21

for the longer distance may be 81 30 or
81 %, or any other rate down to one dollar;
but if it goes below dollar then the rate
for the shorter distance must be reduced with
ii.
OF course journal of such ability
and fairness as the Sun, will rec
ognize that this is q radically diff
ferent provision from the one that it has
been misled into asserting, by neglect of
its usual methods for securing accuracy in
its editorial assertions. Its logical clear
ness will also lead it to perceive that an ar.
gument for the exclusion of the Canadian
railroads from American traffic, which is
based upon such radical error in the facts,
entirely falls to the ground. The fact is
that the entire attack on the Canadian rail-
ways is based upon just such misconceptions
and misstatements as this one. Its true
character cannot be better exposed than
when it relies on the old and utterly baseless
assertion hatthe interstate commerce act re-
quires the railroads ''to charge for every
mile travelled at the rate they would charge
for one mile
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
A SCIENTIFIC SPIDER.

A SPIDER with great head is doing rush.
ing business over the iron gateway leading
to the platform In the Fort Wayne station at
Federal street. There is big incandescent
electric lamp above the wicket at which the
gateman examines tickets. and underneath this
light and little behind it the spider has spun
big web from one bar to another of the iron
fence. On Tuesday night the web was literally
crowded with flies, gnats, moths and all sorts of
nocturnal bugs. There was barely standing
room for the spider himself.
So it will be seen that even spiders are begin
ming to utilize electricity. The lights attract
thousands of winged insects. and spider has
simply to set a diaphanous trap near lamp
and wait for nigntfall to fill it. Probably in a
generation or so entomologists will observe
that spiders sleep by day and haunt the neigh
borhood of electric lights by night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
MODERN MEN AND WOMEN.

SENATOR KENNA has taken to bodybuilding
as a means of recreation and mental rest
SENATOR HoAR says all the income-produc-
ing property he has IN the world, or ever had,
yields little less than 81 800 year.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, who has made study
of lace, is writing book on the subject, and
will also furnish illustrations for 1t.
THE Crown Princess of Denmark, is the tall
est princess in the world. Her height is an
nounced to be six feet three inches.
THE French Government has purchased a
picture by j. l.. Brown, an American artist who
exhibited at the Salon Of the Champs de Mars
MISS MINNIE 7. CLAY. who is now in COM
mand of the steamer Minnie, on Sebago Lake.
Maine is a graduate of Andover. The vessel
belongs to her father.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, who, with a party of
friends, is on a coaching tour in the north of
Scotland, has been presented with the freedom
of the royal borough Of Wick.
MISS NIKITA. the American diva. Is singing
in Germany with distinguished success. Rub
instein heard her lately at Badenweile. and
sent her a bouquet and a shower of compli-
ments.
The distinction of being the first soldier who
enlisted for the three years in the late civil
war is claimed by Stephen Decatur Phelps, of
Cambridge, Mass. He is a nephew of Rear
Admiral Phelps.
THE rumor that Freddie Gebhard and Lily
Langtry were out is very much confirmed by
the news from Paris that Lord Lurgan has set
tied $50, 1000 on the Lily and is her most obedent
in many respects
PROF. CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, Presi-
dent of Cornell University, who has been
united in wedlock to Mrs. Mary Matthews
Barnes, will visit Mr.. Andrew Carnegie in
Scotland sailing for New York on August q.
BARON HIRscH, of Vienna. has sent to the
Hebrew Benevolent Society. of Montreal, a
check for $40 900 to aid in their charitable work
because they could not participate in the bene.
fits of the American fund established by him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
A WORTHLESS MEASURE.

The Inconsistency Of Senator Hoar as re-
vealed in his speech for the Federal election
bill yesterday is remarkable. After protest
ing that the bill was not sectional measure,
intended no more for the South than the
North, and combination OF the spirit of
existing legislation in England and this
country, Mr.. Hoar devoted by far the larger
portion of his speech to an exposition of the
alleged abuses of the ballot in the South
which had rendered tie Federal election bill
necessary in his opinion. The bill is exactly
as The DISPATCH has said from the first, a
partisan measure. conceived in sectional
spirit, and bound to breed discord. Senator
Hoar did not say anything yesterday which
should move Mr.. Quay or any of his follow
ers from their position. There is no reason
why more time should be wasted upon such
an ill-advised and unnecessary controversy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
THE PREVALENT BAMBOOZLE.

The outcome of the recent floating of the
shares of the Allsopp Brewing Company
in England, is not very pleasant for the
people who were deluded into buying the
shares, but it is full of instruction as to the
most obvious result of the present fashion of
converting industrial establishments into
stock companies and floating the stock at
two or three times its real value. The ALL
sopp example shows that all the talk about
the advantages of corporate organization for
such concerns means simply that by that
method the proprietors can make more
money by selling their stock to the public
than by selling the products of the factories.
The Allsopp concern was foated as a
stock company on the strength OF the fact
that for the three years previous its profits
had been at the rate of about 81, LOG, 900 a
year. 1t was capitalized not on the value of
its plant, but on the earning power as illus
trated by these profits; and in the inflated
capitalization the factor was carefully eI-
cluded that for the preceding six months the
profits had fallen off at the rate of about
$3.50, 900 year. The public tumbled over each
other in their haste to get the watered stock
at these figures, After a very short lapse of
time, the decrease of profits continued to
such an extent that to declare even three
and one-half per cent dividend the directors
drew on the reserve fund, and an investiga-
ton resulted which brought out out the fact
that the Allsopps had disposed Of their
stock.
1t is safe to say that, with some variation
of the details, this is the practical mean
ing of nine-tenths of the conversions of pri-
vate concerns into stock companies and
trusts. In some cases the hook is baited by
real or pretended hope of a monopoly; but
in all of them where the stock is foated on
the market the purpose is to unload the
property on the public at a price inflated
either by the reputation of the concern or
by the expectation of monopoly. 1t is also
safe to say that in the majority of such cases
the public eventually will be left to whistle
for its profits.
OF course such things carry their own
remedy. After the public has been bitten a
few more times 1t will not touch any more Of
the industrial corporation" stocks with q
ten-foot pole. After the whole range Of cor
porate investments has been injured in this
way it NAV occur to those who conduct such
organizations that the only way to secure
them in public favor is to found them on the
basis Of common business integrity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
Is THE CENsUs aDEoUArEs

The New York Tribune has at last begun
to open its mind to the reasons for believing
that the census of this year falls far short of
doing justice to the full growth of the coun-
try. Other criticisms of the census have
been based upon the feeling of single COM
munities that their growth was not fully
shown; but the Tribune bases its criticism
on the total of population for the whole
country, and gives cogent reasons for think
ing that the census is inadequate.
Starting with the statement sent out by
the Census Bureau that the total population
of the country is sixty-four millions, the
Tribune points out that this is an increase
for the decade of less than 80 per cent-the
fact being that it is about % per
cent. The increase in the previous decade
was about 80 per cent, and in the decade
from 1850 to 1860 was nearly 40
per cent, the growth during the sixties
having been checked by the Civil, War. Be
yond the general reasons for believing that
the last decade was equal in growth to that
of any preceding one, there are certain sta
tistical reasons for disputing the opposite
showing of the census.
Increase of population comes from two
causes, first, immigration; second, the excess
of births over deaths. The statistics of immi-
grafton show that the last ten years have had
the remarkable record of an immigration ex-
ceeding that for the whole twenty years be-
fore that The immigration from 1860 to
1880 was 5,191, 977; from 1880 to 1890 it was
5,242, ,529. Even this does not include tbe
Canadian immigration, which has been so
large during the last decade as to attract the
attention of both countries. This remark
able increase of immigration inevitably leads
to the conclusion either that there must have
been an exceptional and abnormal decrease
in the ratio of births to deaths, or else that
the census total is inadequate. But wherever
vital Statistics have been kept covering the
period OF two or three decades, they show
that improved sanitary conditions have in
creased instead of decreased the ratio of
births to deaths. The conclusion is some
what irresistible that the census is deficient.
1t is rather difficult to escape from this
logic. The argument is corroboration of
what has been said In these columns about
the faulty methods of burdening the census
with lot of matters, some of which were in
opposite and others could have better been
prosecuted by separate inquiries. 1t also
lends strength to the reasons which have
been referred to heretofore for considering
the total of 24O, 600 as the population of
Pittsburg, and of 545,ooO as that of Pitts
burg and Allegheny, to be below the real
totals.
Under these circumstances, is it not
rather remarkable indication of the prefer
ences of the Census Bureau that it is giving
all its attention to a recount where the
population is thought to have been over
stated, and none to securing revised returns
where the census is believed to be in
adequate?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21

will be made futile, unless, as one report
has it, the transfer is ratified by acceptance
thirty days before the election. What the
evidence of such ratification is to be. or by
what logical process the Judges held that the
payment of a mans taxes by some else is
invalid, does rot appear in the short
statements of the decision so far published.
Without following out the process of ratio
cination by which this decision is reached,
it is pertinent to say that its effect on politics
would be salutary. 1t would take away one
OF the standing excuses for big campaign
funds, which may be used in even less
legitimate ways; and it would lessen the
ability of ward manipulators to marshal
blocks of ignorant voters to the polls to vote
as they are bid by the people who pay their
taxes for them.
Still 1t will not be wise to accept this
ruling on the poll-tax business as the ulti-
mate law. The decision has still to go
through the ordeal of the Supreme Court,
and the ways of the Supreme Court are past
finding out.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
PITTsBURe. THURSDAY. AUG. q. 1890
PROHIBITION POINTER.

As matter of fact the Prohibition party
is not counting for very much in this cam
paign. The seven hundred delegates of the
party who met in Harrisburg yesterday will
not admit this, but it is nevertheless true.
The letter of the Hon. Charles S. Wolfe,
which we publish to-day, accurate
IL describes the position of the
Prohibition party in Pennsylvania,
and the party will do we'll to follow the ad-
vice which Mr.. Wolfe offers it. Mr.. Wolfe
does not believe in throwing his vote away,
and, like good citizen, he proposes to cast
it for the best man in the field. In doing
this he does not abandon his belief in pro-
hibition; he merely postpones further effort
in that cause until a more favor
able occasion. The cause of morality
and good government would be served in
no slight degree of Prohibitionists were to
let their fad, for it is nothing more at this
moment, drop and cast their votes in a way
that would court positively instead of mega
lively. We need not further supplement
Mr.. Wolie's deiiverance on this subject
The course is clear for Prohibitionists vino
care to exercise their franchise to some pur-
pose
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
IF MY WIFE TAUGHT SCHOOL.

IF I had ife at taught school would 60
To far away countries. I'D fish from the Po
In gay gondolier and the plash o. my oar
Would be heard by the natives around Singapore.
If my wife taught school,
Iwould, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuh.
Emmy way what would you do?
If had a wife 'at taught school would get
Something fine in the shape of furniture set;
If could pay my board and she could pay hern,
There's good many nice little things could earn.
If my wife taught school
Iwould. wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuh9
Anyway what would you do?
II my wife taught school you can bet would fly
Like condor, I'D roost pretty middlin' high;
I'd wear a silk tile and own hosses. vow,
And do lots o. things that amt doin' now.
II my wife taught school
would, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuh?
Anyway what would you do2
If my wife taught school like some women do,
And couldn' earn quite enough for us two,
I'd go in the barnyard, without any fuss,
Iwould blow out my brains with a big blunderbuss.
If my wife taught school
1would, wouldn't you?
Er wouldn't yuh?
Anyway what would you do!
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-21
PEACEMAKER UNCLE SAM.

The ive-cent war which has been render
ing daily revolutions unnecessary in Guate-
mala and San Salvador has been stopped by
Uncle Sam. We have hardly realized it,
but we have been playing peacemaker, per
Secretary Blaine, to some purpose in this
South American squabble. The In
fluence of the United States could
not be better employed. Through
the mediation of this country
the victorious march of San Salvador's army
has been checked and apparently peace will
be restored. Mr.. Blaine is to be congratu-
lated on the success of his pacific efforts,
and'we may lie sure that they will bear good
fruit in the renewed friendship of both con-
festanrs