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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
LARGEST FARM IN THE WORLD.
Some Interesting Particulars Concerning
This Immense Tract.

Some Interesting Particulars Concerning
This Immense Tract.
In the extreme southwest corner of Louisi-
ana, says Spare Moments, lies the largest pro-
ducing farm in the world. Measuring 100 miles
north and south, and Is miles east and west. it
is owned and operated by syndicate of North
ern capitalists. The 500, OOO acres of the tract
were purchased in 1883 from the State of
Louisiana and from the United States govern
ment.
At that time it was vast grazing land for
the cattle of the few dealers of the neighbor-
hood, over 10000 head of half-wild horses
and cattle being thereon. Now this i'm
mense tract is divided into conven-
lent pasture stations, or ranches, exist
ing every six miles. The fencing alone
cost in the neIghbOrhood OF $4,000. The land
is best adapted for rice, sugar, corn and cot
ton. All cultivating, ditching, etc. Is done by
steam power. A tract, say. half mile wide, is
taken and an engine is placed on each side.
cable attached to four plows, and under this
arrangement 30 acres day are gone over with
only the labor of three men. Narrowing,
planting and other cultivation is done in a like
manner. There is not single draught horse
on the entire place.
OF course, horses are used for the herders of
cattle, Of which there are $4,000 head. The
southern Pacific Railway runs for 36 miles
through the farm. The company have three
Steamboats, operating on the waters of their es-
tates. of which there are 300 miles navigable.
They have also an icehouse, bank, ship
yard and q rice mill,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY, NOV. %, lS9t
BLAINE AND HARRISON.

1t would be interesting TO learn whether
the authors of the apparently inspired dis
patch concerning the policy which the Pres
ident will recommend in his message, and
the attitude of Secretary Blaine toward it,
were conscious of the numor which appears
between its lines. 1t is probable that the
information is given out in simple good
faith, as an outline of the Presidential pol
icy; but the picture which 1t draws has
more humor under the surface than appears
in most OF the political cartoons.
The statement is that the President will
recommend what is called "a vigorous pols
icy' in the way of sticking to the Federal
elections and appo !s%onm.nt bills. The
only criticism to offer on the description of
this as vigorous" is that the adjective is
hardly strong enough. 1t should be termed
heroic in the medical sense. The
effort to cure the Republican party
of its desperate condition by stick
ing TO the principle of sinilid
siDiilibuS and trying to revive it by heroic
doses Of what ails ii, in the shape of election
and partisan apportionment bills, is de-
cidedly In the ''kill or cure" line, with the
usual chances in favor OF the first alterna-
tive.
This picture OF the Pres dent as belong
ing to the class which forgets nothing and
learns nothing, is completed by the sketch
of Secretary Blaine in the background as
calmly consenting to the Presidents course
and mOdestly awaiting the personal usu-
frucL Mr.. Blaine differs with his chief
on this line OF policy" but will not inter-
fere. He does not especially care for the
Presidential nomination and will stand
aside so long as the President desires to
keep up the effort for a denomination on
this policy; but if there should be a call for
his leadership as a party necessity then he
viii come forward. This we can easily be-
Iieve. The statesman who has been de-
scribed by a family organ of the President
as Jealous Jim," is not likely to
be jealous OF a Presidential boom
founded on the idea of rehabilitating the
party by election and apportionment bills.
Mr.. Blaine can well afford to stand in the
background with a mild dissent while the
President commits political hari-kari, under
the impression that he is cherishing a sec
ond-term ambition by urging the class of
measures which have already subjected his
party to one OF the most complete defeats it
ever experienced.
The programme is a good one. There is
no surer way OF bringing about the party
necessity for Mr.. Blaine's nomination, which
is already positive quantity, than an in
paign in favor of the policy that has already
defeated the party. The only drawback to
ii is the danger that it may 60 so far as to
make q nomination worthless to Mr.. Blaine
or any other Republican.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
MEN ARD WOMEN.

HENRY WARD BEEcHER's old house in
Brooklyn has been turned into a boarding
house, and his large library has been cut up by
partitions into bedrooms.
THE Rev. Dr. John Hall will dedicate the
new Presbyterian Church in Chicago, of which
his son, the Rev. Thomas c. Hall, is pastor. on
Sunday. November 30 The Rev. DR.. Theodore
L. Cuyler will occupy his pulpit on that day.
OUT of 300 foreign missionaries at present in
India, it is said, the oldest is an American, the
Rev. John Newton, Of the Presbyterian Church,
the veteran missionary of Lahore, who. at
the age Of 78 Is still D worker in his chosen
field.
MRS. EL1zABE4H e. CUSTER is in appear
ance a slender little woman, delicate to fragil-
ity, who looks as if She could not have endured
for day the life of privation and hardship
which she chose to share with her gallant hus-
band for years.
DR.. HAROLD c. ERNST, who has gone to
Berlin from Harvard to study DR.. Koch's new
treatment of consumption, was the famous
pitcher on the Harvard nine for years. who.
with Jim Tying, kept the baseball championship
at Cambridge through many successive seasons.
EUGENE FIELD declares that Nine. Belle
Cole, the American contralto, drives the finest
equipage in London, and adds: you put a
spirited thoroughbred English horse in front Of
alightrunning American vehicle containing a
handsome, well-dressed and cool-headed woman
and the effect upon the British public is simply
electrical"
The late Miss Marianne North was one. of
the most notable of English women. About 20
years ago, being rich and independent, she
went alone to India, China, Japan. Australia,
California, the South Sea Islands, and the West
Indies to study the native fora. She pene-
trated where few men had set foot, and in II
years of exploration made a priceless collection
of plants and drawings, which she deposited at
Kew Gardens in a museum built at her own
expense, and presented as a free gift to the
nation.
Mrs. FRANCES FISHER WooD, well known
for her successful attempt to prepare sterilized
milk on her New Hampshire farm for the use
OF New York babies has been sitting statistics
to ascertain whether college-bred women are
Indifferent mothers. She finds that nine-tenths
of their children survive infancy, q record
never before equalled in any class. age or coun-
try. Mrs. Wood Is herself graduate OF Vas
sar. trustee of Barnard, 2 strong writer, a
ready and brilliant speaker on social and re-
formatory topics, power in society, the
scientific secretary OF her husbands we'll
known physician-and model mother.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
THE DECLINE IN SILVER.

The decline of bar silver to below the
quotation of one per ounce, making the
gold value of the silver dollar about
seventy-seven cents, is o decided negative
of the market for precious metals, to the en-
thusiastic claims of the supporters of the
silver act of the last Congress that it would
raise silver to par with gold. We do not
know whether any of that class will assert
that bar silver was deprecated by the recent
monetary stringency; but as under the law
a large portion of the silver could be con-
verted into legal tenders, that view would
not seem very sound. 1t must be taken as
fair inference that the temporary advance
In silver on the passage of the bill has
called out supplies of bullion from every
quarter; and the Legislative. attempt to ad-
vance the value of that metal has only been
profitable to the clique of speculators vino
realized on the advance.
Even If the advance had been permanently
established, the real object of the agitation
in favor of silver would not have been at
tanned. The argument of the silver men is
that monometallism has so increased the
use of gold for coinage as to raise
its price, and that the actual effect
has been to lengthen the measure of
values, so that it requires about twenty
per cent more of the products of the world
to obtain gold dollar than it formerly did.
the object of the reinstatement of silver,
therefore, must be to return to the silver
standard, and reduce the measure of values
to its former dimensions. If the silver leg
islation of Congress raised silver to a par
with gold it would not accomplish that pur-
pose, but would simply elevate the silver
dollar to the gold value.
But the silver contention is not entirely
uufounded. Probably one-half of the So
called depreciation of silver is really due 10
the appreciation of gold. But it is neces-
sary to recognize in the course of the bull
lion market the lesson that if this country
does anything in the line of reinstating
silver without an international agreement.
it, must be done by putting our currency
on the silver basis, depreciating the dollar
to about 80 per cent of its present value,
and letting gold 60 to a premium of 10 to 25
per cent. We may, by pursuing our pres
ent policy, make the transition fslow and
defer its consummation for years; but if we
are to DO it at all, we should do it with our
eyes open.
1t is by no means settled matter that
such change would be for the worse. But
it is necessary to an Intelligent policy that
we should perceive in the decline OF silver
bullion to its old level the fact that the full
reinstatement of silver coinage means a
cheaper dollar than we have got now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
MONEY CANDIDATES.

Under the smoke of rumored rivalry for
Don Cameron's place in the Senate there is
possibly some fire of opposition. The latest
name mentioned is that of Peter A. B. Wild
ener, the passenger railway millionaire of
Philadelphia. Mr.. Filter, Philadelphia s
millionaire Mayor, is also named. How
many other millionaires through the State
would be willing to represent it in what has
been called the Millionaires' Club at WASH
ington may only be conjectured. 1t should
not be difficult to secure Senator of more
frequency of intellectual display than Cam
eron. But if the possession of barrel of
money is set up as standard of qualifca-
tion, the public will take no great interest in
that sort of material. Mr.. Cameron is not a
particularly popular parsonage. He has
never made much effort to acquaint himself
with the temper of his constituents But the
least that can be said for him is that neither
Fitler nor Widener would be such a mani
fest improvement as to electrify the State or
the outside barbarians. Perhaps Mr.. Cam
eron's friends understand this sufficiently to
help along the Filter and Widener booms as
the chief opposition. From that quarter
Don should have nothing to fear.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23

the taxation of them. Every charter con-
tains more or less of regulations and the
whole vast total of railway charters has
been created for the purpose which is promi-
nent among other functions Of carrying on
interstate commerce. If the judicial rea-
son which voiis every legislative act of a
State that can effect interstate commerce in
any way is unconstitutional, why should
not all the State charters under which inter-
State commerce is carried on be declared
null and void?
1t is not likely that any court will 60 to
that length. But it is worth while to con-
slider whether the logic which would lead to
that conclusion would not be just as accur-
ate as that on which a good many of the
other decisions are founded.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23

pension was necessary by the fact that the
corporation, with Sc, O00, 900 of assets, had to
take long time paper of the railroads in pay
ment for its cars, is enough to arouse sus-
| picion. With the almost unlimited demand
of the railroads for rolling stock it seems as
if very ordinary management ought to
make rolling stock manufacturing COM
pany prosperous. But when we find
from the statement of the company that it
has spread out by the building of factories
all over the country, largely by floating
some S3, OOO, 900 of various kinds of debent-
ures and consolidated mortgages, we can
begin to understand why a corporation of
such seeming magnitude should topple over
at the trst wind of adversely. This sus-
pension is an object lesson on the policy Of
making fixed investments out of borrowed
money, and also contains decided COM
mentary on the popular theory that the
bigger manufacturing corporation the
more solid it is. We have no doubt that
there are half a dozen small car manufactur-
ing concerns that will keep right along
without even noticing these adverse circum-
stances that have reduced the s., 900, 900 cor
poration to quidation.
The question whether these failures will
spread is of course, the one of absorbing in
terest. There is not the slightest reason
why they should except In cases where
the conditions are reproduced. If there
are any more banking firms that have been
putting their depositors' money into wildcat
schemes, or any more manufacturing con-
Germs that have been extending their plants
on the grand scale by means of borrowed
money, it would not be strange if the late
squeeze should develop those weak points.
But it is well known that such cases are ex-
ceptional. Business has generally kept
itself clear of speculation. Prices are on
conservative basis, so that the main cause OF
commercial panics by marked fall in the
prices of staples, is wholly impossible. The
elimination Of the agencies which have been
diligently cultivating the source of financial
weakness will strengthen rather than weaken
the situation. There is no reason why legit-
innate business should not 90 right on, ad-
herring to the conservative basis which has
SO successfully kept clear from the specula-
tive bubbles during the past few years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
CAUSES OF FAILURE.

The two failures which have agitated busi-
ness circles during the past few days with
the fear that the stock furry was going to
spread into manufacturing and commercial
circles, prove on examination to furnish their
own explanation. They disclose the methods
which make insolvency inevitable; and when
such a condition exists in the case of any
firm, the sooner it is exposed and wiped out
by liquidation the better it will be for bust
ness at large.
The Barkers, of Philadelphia, like the
Barings, of London, had a reputation for
conservatism and stability, that had prob
ably been well-deserved in the past. But
whsn the real state of affairs is exposed by
an assignment, the Philadelphia firm, like
its London prototype, is shown to have
wholly disregarded the conservative princi-
Piles on which their business was supposed to
have been founded. That precious Chinese
concession on which the Barkers and Count
Mitkiewics expected to realize wealth greater
than that of the Rothschilds, Astors and
Vanderbilts rolled into one, is a compara-
lively mild and innoeuous example of the
bubbles which this conservative" banking
firm has been chasing. The backing of
railroads without either termini or any main
line worth mentioning, is specimen of the
policy of putting large sums of money into
ventures which it were base fattery to call
investments, and which, when there comes
any pinch. must necessarily and justly end
in insolvency.
The more recent failure, that of the United
States Relling Stock Company. is hardly
old enough to have its details fully known
But the statement in its behalf that a sus-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
A COLLECTORS REQUEST.
New York's Mayor is Ceremoniously Asked
for a Coat of Arms.

New York's Mayor is Ceremoniously Asked
for a Coat of Arms.
From the New York SUM-
The following is copy of letter received
by Mayor Grant from Budapesth, Hungary, to-
day:
RIGHT HoNoURABLE SIR-The very respect
able undersigned is collecting the arms of the
States and citls of Amerika for being able to
publish them in q universal book of heraldry.
As many jurisdictions had already the ex-
treme benevolenee to send to me, to that sub
lime purpose, in a very obliging manner the
arms of territories and towns l take therefore
the liberty to address myself to you TO send
me the arms of the town New York in very
simple draughts (sketches) and TO have the
goodness to point me out the colour of the
arms.
In the agreeable expectation and waiting for
it with the most ardent desire and hopefulness,
1 beg your Highness would feel herself en-
gagged in the very same interest of science. to
fulfil my huble request, and in this pleasing
supporsition, I am already anticipating my best
and most sincere thanks and confess myself
yours truly, GUsTAvE ALTENBURGER
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
WITTY AND WISE.

The cup to the lip doesn't cause 30 MANY
slips as the glass does.-Puek.
"This is a stupid worldl 1 wish there vss
some moral kind Of suicide -
There is. Go into bankruptcy. ''-Earper,s
Bazdr.
Will Postmaster General wanamaker
permit the publication Of wedding noticssp his
said that marriage is = Iettery.-Birminohoz.
A0e-Herdtd.
Farewell" said the poet to his mann.
script as be sealed it for the mails.
''No,'' returned the manuscript FEELING r.,
own weakness, mot farewell au revo1r. f,-Hgto
The exact birthplace of Cinderella. famous
IN connection with the little glass simmer q. NO.
known, but the greatest story-teller in the world
never alleged she was q Chicago girL-PhfLadsL-
phfa Times.
"Why do you imagine that Miss Dustou
will accept you?''
'she promised to be sister to nv brother. you
Know and there's no other way to be SO sxesnt
by marrying me- -''-Earper's Bozar,
''This parrot is worth $500"
'What gives it such tremendous v.lus,,
"lt can't talk. '-Spdrks.
Merritt-Are you going to Sc. of pow.
der mine2''
Little Johnnie-Not much 1 amt. The things
never goes of till feller crawIs back to see
WHATS the matter with it.-Spdre Moments.
Gazzam (entering the elub)-I UNDER
stand that Jaysmith has been saying things de-
regatory to my character. 1 am going to make
him swallow his words.
Maddox-Don't do it now, Gazzam. YOU'LL XIII
'ne poor Fellow. He's been talking for four hours,
-Neto Tork Sun.
Nooritch-Yes. as Shakespeare says, my
library is dukedom.
Blunt-And your brain a barony.-PEck
First Tramp-They saw there's millions
m millions Of snimiles In the water we drink
Jimmy.
Second FramD-Faix ot rought dhers must -
some kind av grub In It, Jack, or We niysr could
kaoe W on Is the wAx We as.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
A GOLDEN RIDDLE.

The husbandman one golden morn
A white seed dropped among the corn.
Beneath the summers mystic spell
1t burst erelong the prisoning shell,
And 'twixt the brown loans rifted crust
Its emerald leaflets upward thrust.
Through lengthening days of rain and shine
Fast grew and thrived the generous vine,
And meath the changing skies held up
For sun and dew its golden cup,
TIL IN its veins these forces ans
Had wrought q mystery divine,
And given to the world boon
Fair as the golden-hearted moon.
The ruddy globe against the mold
Outvied the fabled crock Of gold.
Each day ripper hue it gained,
And while the season waxed and waned,
Tall knights with cleaning lance and sword
Guarded with ceaseless watch and ward
Through midnight hush and noonday heat
The golden treasure at their feet.
And when the crops were garnered in,
And granary and barn and bin
with wealth OF goodlier gold were stored
Than that which greedy misers hoard.
When glad lips sang the haryest-home
Meath Iowly roof and lordly dome.
Ard kith and kin, from great to least
Had gathered for the harvest feast,
All, richer than the rarest wine
THIS yellow fruitage of the vine,
Transmitted by the housewives skill
70 golden disks with flaky friil.
No fairer fruit the fields afford,
No choicer Wand decks the board,
And grateful hearts their praises lift
To Him who gives the golden gift.
Mary b, Slsioht IN Aarpsr's BasaS.
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DOGS LASTING DEVOTION.
For Over Ten Years He Made His Home by
the Grave of His Master.

the Grave of His Master.
From Our Dumb Animals.l
At the Greyfriars churchyard in Edinburgh,
Scotland, there stands a beautiful monument
erected in memory Of dog. The statue OF
the dog on top of it cost over s. 900; and this is
the story: A poor man died and was buried
there. He was followed to his grave by his
dog. When the other mourners went home
the dog remained and laid down on his
masters grave.
The sexton drove him away because dogs
were not allowed there. Next morning the
sexton found him the grave again. and
again drove him of. The second morning he
found him on the grave again, and again drove
him off. The third morning was a very cold
one, and the sexton found the dog again lying
on his masters grave, shivering with the cold.
His heart relented; be fed the dog.
Presently the Lord Mayor of the city heard
about it and sent the dog a collar, and a man
that kept restaurant near by fed him every
day. don't know what provision they made
for kennel, but during 10 or II years. until he
died, he made his home in that graveyard, and
much of the time lay on his masters grave; and
now they have built that beautiful monument
to tell future ages of the fidelity Of that poor
mans dog.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-23
FAULTY WAYS OF TEACHING.
Artificial Methods Which Discourage and
Mislead the Pupil.

Mislead the Pupil.
When the young teacher faces real children,
says RorpeT's Bdzar, instead of studying their
actual minds, she proceeds on a method previ-
ously arranged.
Perhaps it is stuffed bird which she holds
up before them. She says, as she has been
taught to say, Children, what Is this?' One
boy shouts, 'Its jay" Another says, almost
simultaneously. '.Its blue jay" Then the
teacher explains to them that this is not the
proper answer at all. They must answer frst
IA birds" and then they must go
on, with due surprise, TO the informa-
tion that it has two legs. and has
wings; and. by and by. after plenty of system
attic preparation, they may go on to the fact
that the bird is a jay, and even a bluejay-all
this being. something which they knew per-
fectly well already but must not be permitted
to recognize in any unmethodical or disorderly
form.
The consequence is that bright and observing
children who ought to be the leaders of the
class, are,deadened and discouraged. and all of
the laurels go to the unobservant and the stu
pid, who never noticed q bird in their lives and
would not do anything SO unseemly as to pro-
nounce any stuffed object bluejay until the
teacher had led them up to it by logical and
irresisitblelprocess.
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A Vision of Peace.

A BOUT supper time last night fell in with q
great baseball prophet, not one of tine lit
tie fled prophets. but a great illuminated
interpreter of the mysteries of the diamond.
AS we walked up Fifth avenue together, the
prophet at my elbow unfolded the sanguinary
prospect Of duel to the death between Mr..
Nimick and Mr.. O'Neil over the Presidency Of
the National League Club. At the end Of the
prophets story l inquired: as it certain shat
blood will be shed?''
"Bucketsr' was the terse reply. and it was
hardly out Of his mouth before he CALCULATED:
"Great Jehos aphatr'
Guided by wave of the prophets hand my
eyes fell upon tall. slender man walking arm
in-man with q stouter individual. whose care
fully-arranged whiskers proclaimed his iden-
tity beyond doubt. They we're smiling upon
each other, and cooling. if two elderly gentle
men may be said to COO, like a pair of turtle
doves. They were Messrs. NimIck and O'Neil!
"Guess the duePs Off" remarked to the
fabbergasted prophet
"Harps and harmony for twop' he mur-
INJURED.