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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
KANSAS AND HER FUTURE.

A very gloomy picture of the condition of
Kansas is drawn by a letter from an occa-
sional correspondent of THE DISPATCH, in
this issue. The statements as to the depres-
sion, the forfeiture OF mortgages and the loss
of population given there, are sweeping.
That there is great deal of such depression
in the West has been frequently alleged;
but if it is one-half as universal as our cor
respondent gives US to understand, the al
the Farmers Alliance have great deal of
foundation.
1t is probable that while couceding the
existence OF a great deal of depression, most
of the phenomena reported by our cores
pondeDt can be explained without accept
ing the idea of a new State going into utter
ruin before its lands are all settled. That
houses should be vacant, and town lots un-
improved, where, two years ago,
there was the widest initiation in
real estate, and agricultural land
was sold off as corner property, is only a
natural reaction. That mortgages should be
foreclosed by the wholesale is not strange
when we remem Der the exorbitant rates of
interest and reckless loans on land at its
full value that have been heard of in
K ansas for some time past. Ifa farmer
has been able to mortgage for $500 his farm
that cost him only 5000, it is not strange
that he should vacate it before the time
comes around for him to pay II or Is per
cent interest. When with all these things
the failure of an important crop takes place,
it furnishes an adequate explanation for the
general aspect Of depression that is reported
by our correspondent.
There are, no doubt, conditions which con-
tribute to the agricultural depression.
They have been frequently discussed by
The DISPATCH. The remarkable theory
that the farmers have eaten themselves up
with mortgages because they cannot get
whisky to drink, is not among these condi-
tions, although it appears to be among the
ideas discussed in that State. The cor
porate deyices by which the farmers are
made to bear the brunt OF competition
in both directions, the high rates
of interests charged on loans, and other
causes which have been at work for years,
should be amended so as to give the agri-
cultural interest better chance. But even
with these influences at work 1t is not neces-
sary to accept the idea that Kansas is be-
coming desert once more, A State that
can turn out the magnificent totals of food
for the world, which that State does in
nearly every year of its existence, is not
going to ruin as long as the rest of the world
has mouths to feed and products to exchange
for food.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
VERY MEAN sWINDLING,

Upon the evidence adduced and under
the charge of Judge White the jury could
hardly have returned any verdict but
guilty against the agents of the National
Capital Savings and Loan Association. The
public is not at all inclined to question the
Courts description of this sort of business
as a stupendous fraud. 1t is also mean
and contemplate form of fraud, for needy
widows and poor laboring men appear to
have been its victims chiefly. The legiti-
mate companies and associations which aim
to assist poor men to save money and to own
their own homes are as laudable as the
fraudulent counterfeits are detestabl The
conviction OF these men will have a salutary
effect, but the severe punishment which will
doubtless be dealt out to them will do still
more to deter the INSCRIPTIONS from swim
ding on this specious plan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
NEW TAIL FOR HIS cow.
How an Altoona Man Sought to Repair
Damage Done by Dogs.


Altoona letter.
Several weeks ago cow owned by a we'll.
known gentleman employed in the lower shops
of Altoona. met with a mishap. The animal
was turned out of the stable for exercise, but
in short time she was attacked by several
dogs. They succeeded in getting hold of her
tail and almost tore it out of the socket,
only short stub remaining The animal was
seriously disfgured, and the owner conceived
a novel idea of fixing her up. He visited a
slaughter house near by and secured new
tail and started for his home, happy over his
scheme to save his pet animal from unfavor-
able comment
He secured the necessary tools and set to
work. The stub and new piece were carefully
worked out into good job of dove-tailing.
charm. The joint was wrapped and tied with
a heavy string.
All worked we'll for few days, but the
other morning he took the animal oue Tor
stroll, met a crowd of friends and stopped to
explain his patent. His achievement was SIM
ply wonderful to his hearers. But moment
later his labor and idea were thing of the
past. A large horsefy made its appearance
and perched upon the animals hack. The
stub commenced to work and the new end was
thrown in the direction of the pest Then it
became detached and landed around the
neck of the inventor. He pleaded with
his friends to keep the matter quiet, but it
leaked out, and now he is the subject of con-
siderable fun at the hands of his fellow work
men,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
TERRIBLE FIGHT WITH A BULL.
Gored and Trampled Upon, Then Carrie.
Upon the Animals Back.

HARRISBURG. September 20-Herbert Glat-
felter, aged 49, was attacked by a vicious bull
on a farm near Camp Hill yesterday. and mar
rowly escaped with his life. He was about
placing a chain about the bulls neck in the
stall of the barn when the animal turned upon
him, and catching him upon the horns, threw
the young man into trough in the rear of the
STALL This proved fortunate for Glatfelter. as
the bull could not gore him in this position.
The enraged animal then attacked him with
both feet and trampled him until his clothing
was torn into shreds. Glatfelter tried to get a
knife out of his pocket, but was unable to do
SO. AS last resort, by almost superhuman
effort he succeeded in getting out of the
trough and jumped upon the bulls back. and
the animal dashed at full speed for the open
door.
At the door Glatfelter jumped from the ami
NAL and seized manure fork. The bull again
turned upon him, but seeing the fork, ran,
and the young man with all his remaining
strength threw the fork after him, which
lodged in his hind quarter and he carried it in
this way for fully 100 feet. Meanwhile the
young farmer. almost exhausted and ready to
fall, staggered out of the barnyard and reached
the house. He is seriously hurt but may re-
cover
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
BACHELORS BUTTONS.

A PARTY of Pittsburgers were in New York
not long ago on the occasion of an inter-
collegiate contest of some sort between Har-
ward and Yale. They put up at great hotel,
and their several friends met them on the
morning of the game. The fair Pittsburgers
in the party wore punches of crimson carna-
tions in honor of Harvard. Among the gentle
men was Yale sympathiser, and he, desiring
to show his allegiance by some outward and
visible sign, dispatched one of the hotel porters
to buy a bunch of Bachelors Buttons, whose
blue flowers he had noticed in a florist near
the hotel The porter merely said: rs it
bach'lers buttons yer want" and departed.
The florist was but a stones throw from the
hotel, but an hour had passed before the por-
ter returned. He handed a small package to
the gentleman who had given him the commits
sion, and explained in a hoarse whisper: II
had the divil av time indin' 'em at all. wint
to tin stores an at all O. thin they tould me
they was out o. thin entirely-so they was
but"
By that time the Yale man had discovered
that the porter had brought him a box of
patent metal buttons. which are avowedly
made for the convenience of bachelors who
are handler with an awI and tack hammer
than needle and thread. He did not wear
those buttons, you may be sure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
WORTHY HE SUPREME couRI.

UIF 1t is convenient, Your Honor, we will
proceed with the case" said the counsel
for the railroad. and the Justice of the Peace
as became the most important functionary in a
small Buckeye town, waved his hand in a
digniied way and said: go aheadI''
So the two attorneys, one for the railroad
and the other for Farmer Boscom and about
half dozen witnesses plunged into the trial of
the case. Several months before a horse
belonging to Farmer Boscom had
strayed from the public highway on to
the railroad track. freight train
presently came along and took all the real
value out of that horse, including its life.
Hence the suit for damages, which Mr.. Boscom
moderately set at not more than three times
the price he mad paid for the horse.
The killing of the horse was proved in the ap-
proved fashion with regard to utterly irrele-
want details Mr.. Boscom's lawyer made
several speeches about bloated monopolies,
bigh-handed corporations and tyrants in gen.
eraI-in fact used up good part of his stock
of campaign oratory-and the Justice evidently
was preparing to give judgment for his friend
and neighbor when one of the witnesses under
crosse Examination stated that near the place
where the horse was killed there was a sign
post with Look out for the locomotive" upon
it. The railroads attorney, more for the fun of
the thing than anything else. gravely stopped
the witness and turning to the Justice, said: II
submit, Your Honor, that the sign post. warn
ing everyone to look out for the locomotive, re-
lieyes my clients from responsibility in case
that monition be disregarded." The Court was
non-plussed. The more this phase of the case
was argued the more puzzled became the Court
and at last he gave judgment in favor of the
railroad company, because. as he said the
warning was there and if the horse couldn't
read it that was not the railroads fault.
HEPBURN JOHNS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
SMOOTHING TANGLED skE1Ns

The last of the Northside political tangles
was formally Strengthened out yesterday by
the Republican County Committees in
dorsement of John Neeb for the Senatorial
nominee. Brother Rutan has not vet taken
off his war paint; but as he is fighting at
long range, Candidate Neeb probably feels
pretty safe and comfortable about the result.
Meanwhile the rumored vote of censure
upon Mr.. Magee for apathetic and inoffen-
sive partlsanship seems to have been unani-
mously withheld for revision by the ele-
ment on the committee which was reported
as contemplating that brilliant plan for
whipping the old-time wheel-horse into line.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
A MUNICIPAL IDEAL.

A statement of the dimensions of Chicago
with its present corporate limits is of in
terest as showing what can be done in the
line OF creating a city Of magnificent dis
tance. The Tribune states that the extreme
length OF the city from North SeventY-frst
street, on the north, to One Hundred and
Thirty-ninth street, on the south, is twenty
four miles. The greatest width of the CITY
running along Eigth-seventh street is 1OH
miles.
These distances necessarily take in wide
sweep of territory. and yet that they may
include what is practically a single commu-
nifty, is shown by studying the application
OF such dimensions to this community. A
city extending "a miles along the Ohio,
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, would
take in Braddock and McKeesport at one
corner, Verona at another, Sewickley at the
western end, and Mansfield to the SOUTH
west; it would hardly require a greater
width than ten mJhs to include all the
manufacturing and residence suburbs that
the head Of the Ohio. Within that stretch
of territory would be the cities of Pittsburg
and Allegheny, the manufacturing towns of
Braddock, McKeesport, Wilmerding, Home
stead, Verona and Sharpsburg, and the long
list of residence suburbs which follow the
lines OF river and railway in every direction
from the common center. Even by the con-
tracted figures of the census, such COM
prehensiye union of the community that
really makes up Pittsburg's enterprises and
wealth would exceed 100000 population,
while an adequate enumeration would in a
very few years establish the claim of the city
10 the halfmilllon rank.
OF course the annexation of such a vast
stretch of territory, including a large share
ofland that is used mainly for agriculture,
would at once arouse fierce protests. The
suburban dread of city taxation, the distrust
of city administration, make it well-nigh
useless to consider what could be done in
such a direction other than as an ideal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

The first impression was that he was dead, but
the regular heaving of his chest showed that
for the time being he was blissfully uncon-
scious of the troubles of this life. T6enI saw
another man, his hat lying in puddle at his
feet. The rain fell upon his grimy neck un-
needed. He could not be wetter, SO what mat
lay stretched upon the same bench,
dirty, ragged, unkempt as the rest,
his his bare Knees showing through
arm made but a trifie softer pillow than the
stone seat. He, too was happily in the land of
dreams. OF what did he dream? or the
grand people streaming out of the gorgeous
theaters across the way? OF the shouting for
carriages. of the gentlemen in evening dress
rolling away with their bediamonded ladies?
or the comfortable homes the brilliantly
happy throng were Fastening? The murmur
of their thousands of voices were in his ears.
The slamning of carriage doors. the babel of
footmen and coachmen, the laughter of ladies
as they pulled their dainty skirts to escape the
mud of roaring old Broadway, smuggling the
while closer to their manly eScortS-did all
these @ enter into the sleeper's visions? All, mel
But what is this? A woman-another. and
Tna WITH small s,l. children at her knees!
raiment plainly sleeping off the
effects of numerous gins. The second-well, she
Is woman and mother. With the instincts
of motherhood she has drawn a coarse shawl
about the head and shoulders of two little ones.
Ihey are sitting on the wet stone pavement
with their little, weary heads in her lap under
the old shawl. Her face is bowed upon her
hands and her elbows are upon her knees, ehus
giving the children the additional shelter of her
broad shoulders. The sight sickens me. 1
glance and run away like a coward. A police
man is on the next corner, and inquire indig-
nantly why such thing is allowed.
"Oh, that's all right says he, they're not
a-hurting anybodyr'
So it is favor, is it7 A favor for human be-
lngs to be permitted to sleep in the cold rain at
the FOOT of tho monument commemorating the
friend of the brute? Well, WE'LL This is modern
civilization and this is modern New York.
Robert Ray Hamilton's Estate.
THE New York lawyers are looking forward
to the Robert Ray Hamilton-Eva Steele
case as likely to be the greatest of the sort on
the legal record. The $4,000 year is sufficient
stimulus for big fight. The question of prior
legal marriage under the laws of New Y ork and
that the parentage of the child will furnish the
groundwork for trial that will discount any
work of fiction. The aristocratic Hamiltons ON
one side against lot of loose but clever women
on the other. will guarantee ample interest on
the part of the public.
CHARLES T. MURRAY.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
WHAT THE IRISH ARRESTS MEAN,

Every arrest of Irish Nationalists brings
Ireland a step nearer 20 Home Rule. The
latest cable news from Great Britain con-
firms cur view that these arrests are the be-
ginning OF campaign of violence planned
by Secretary Balfour with view to driving
the Irish Nationalists 10 retaliation. The
approach of famine in Tipperary makes
the Tory policy all the more contemplate.
Happily, however, the motives of the Tory
leaders are understood everywhere.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
THEW STOLE THE BOILER.

TIM ALLEN was pretty hard up. He was
called an independent oil producer, but for
some time past oil producing had not carried
him toward Independence. There were several
writs out for him, as Tim well knew His last
hope was a well in the Hundred Foot, which
gave indications OF being gusher. He told a
few of his confidential friends of his hopes in
this direction. and expressed a fear that his
creditors would corner him before the well
came in.
One morning he started out in buggy to
take look at the well which had been reported
the night before to be in the first sand. In
the afternoon friend of Tins met him driy-
ing back.
"How's Tim No. %" the former asked
Don't ask me. dod gast my luck" replied
Tim with unusual ferocity. "the whole things
busted. The men az the derrick board about
half mile from the well. and they've been
going home to dinner since they've been out
there. To-day while they were away at dinner
some confoun6ed creditor must have come
along and levied on the boiler Everything but
the derrick and the tools are gone! Carted
clean away every condemned thingp'
They didn't take the boiler?r
III be hanged if they didn't, and it's my i'm
preston they'd have taken the gaspipe if
they'd had little more time. Boiler must
have been near red hot"
And from that day to this, although better
times soon came for Tim Allen, he has never
laid eyes on that boiler
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
BITTEN BY a CAT.
Fearing Blood Poison the Victim Goes TO
Pasteur's Institute.

Fearing Blood Poison the Victim Goes "a
Pasteur's Institute.
PLAINFIELD, N. J., September 19.-John P
Stockton Jr., son of the Attorney General OF
New Jersey, was bitten by pet cat yesterday
and the wound is such a severe one
that Mr.. Stockton, fearing blood poison
ing or hydrophobia. has become a
patient of Dr. Gibier, of the Pasteur
Institute. The cat had for several days been
indulging in queer antics, frightening super,
stitious servant into the belief that it was pos
sessed by witches, and yesterday its strange
actions terrified one of Mr.. Stockton's children,
who had sought to play with it, SO that Mr..
Stockton picked it up to carry it from the
room. Without an instant's warning the cat
made savage snap at Mr.. Stockton's hand,
and imbedded its teeth again and again in the
flesh.
The hand was terribly lacerated, and as soon
as local physician had dressed the wound,
Mr.. Stockton went to New York, taking the
cat with him in a basket and put himself under
the Pasteur treatment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
THE POOR FARM DECISION.

The sale of the Poor Farm stands but the
purchase of the Stewart farm in Westmore-
land county is declared illegal. Judge
Ewing so decided yesterday and his reasons
for so doing are stated in his opinion which
is published in another column. We are
glad that the court finds that the sale of the
Poor Farm was not dishonesty conducted
The decision that Councils exceeded its
powers in going beyond the county for a
poor farm site accords we'll with a common
sense view of the case. There should be
little difficulty in finding convenient To-
cation for the Poor Farm in this county.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs,
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH. ]

lWRITTEN FOh Id6 J
Probably.-"My partner is one
police, too.''
"Ah? Then he is sleeping partner"
A truism-There is not always vine
soap, For instance, the more s'soap'' polEIa
use the dirtler become their hands.-PoLk I&zl
A New View of It.-"Why did Ada
Eve leave the Garden of Eden?''
''They ate green apples and had to 90 lodfO
DOCTOR
A S. bill-This road will take W
San Francisco without change.
Without change? What do you fee the Hllr
porter with?''
A 'Stick. ."-"I don't think that coied
is funny. He is inclined to be decidedly hck
'Then YOU are of the opinion that he
glucose rather than jocose person?''
ROYALTY.
In purple and:ine linen
My country farm house shines
The.purple on the lilacs,
The linen on the lines.
r. L. Bpotcl
A Collection OF Curios.-"These are
Poe relics. That is the quill with which hey
'Ihe Raven That is the first draft of AM
Lee.' This cane is made from the wood of {.
under which he wrote the 'Pendulum.''
What Is that white liquid in the botlle?"
''rhat is water-somethingP Poe rarely touch
Henry Herbert Harknsss.
1T DOESN'T FOLLOW.
am made of clay and water,
But wish 1t understood
That you fellows hadn't oughter
Say my name Is therefore mud.
-ChotmoRdeiy Hdrco
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

THE New York Press approvingly
quotes the Toronto Empires statement as
proof that the increased duties on hogs and
hog products in the Mckinley bill cannot hurt
Canada, as follows: Last year we actually
sent 9S7 pigs over the bridge, valued at s427O;
we sent SS9 worth of bacon, sl3 worth of lard
and not a penny less than 81 worth of ham.
Last year hogs to the value of S37, 900 came into
this country, $1,000 900 worth of pork, s642 900 of
lard and $685., 900 of bacon and hams" But if
these figures are accurate, as the Press seems
to consider them, do not they show thS pre-
tense that the increased duties will give the
farmers additional protection to be a hollow
sham?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

1t is rather interesting to observe the
perennial appearance in the Republican organs
of editorial assertions that each prominent Re-
publican, from Governor Cameron, of Vir-
ginia, to Wharton Barker and Francis B.
Reeves, of Philadelphia, who announces that
he will not support the Republic an ticket, is
"a negative quality in politics" and controls
nothing but his own vote" The latter recon-
mendation of the superiority of the Independ-
ent Republicans to the subordinate and dis
ciplined class is SO pertinent that we recon-
mend our esteemed contemporaries to have it
stereotyped for daily use.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
LITERARY TELLER WHO NEVER
WROTE,

WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.l
He never wrote novel. but
He's always threatened to,
When he'd escaped the business rut
And with his trade got through;
But there has been so much to do,
With buyer and with seller,
The Muse has never seemed to WOO
This literary feller.
His hair has the Byronic cut;
His eyes are softly blue;
He has an A. c. Swinburne strut,
An Oscar Wildey "Pooh!''
But Oscars Muse he don't pursue,
Though certainly he'd quelI her,
If to his trade he'd say adieu-
This literary feller.
He dwells in an aesthetic hut,I
With little retinue.
There's not a scientific nut
That he cannot subdue,
His mindis said to be askew,
Else he would not repel her.
The Muse. the Philosophic shrew-
This literary feiler.
ENVOY.
Egadl methinks his scheme is truel
Why touch the parchment yeller
When people, none the less dub you
''This literary fe!ler?''
-CARLYLE SMITH.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21

The resolutions of the Massachusetts,
Connecticut and New Hampshire Republicans
on the subject of the Federal elections bill are
said by the New York Sun to mean that 1t is
General Harrison's duty to call an extra session
to dispose of that measure" But will not the
rash Republicans of New England, as well as
the Sum- wait until we surely rid of the pres
ent session before boldly challenging the haz-
ards of new onef
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-21
DEATHS OF A DAY.

BOWLING GREEN, KY, September co.-Samuel
Murrell, the Oldest Mason in Kentucky, died at
the residence of his grandson, Samuel Young
yesterday afternoon, aged eS years. Mr.. Murrell
was born in Lincoln county, KY, in 1892, but at
an early age the family removed to Barren county
and located near Glasgow. While living at Glas-
gov young Murrell became member OF Allen
Lodge No. 2S of that city. He received the
Master Mason's degree in 1916 and at the time of
his death the oldest Mason in Kentucky and
one of the oldest in the world He was q soldier
OF the War of 1872, and only few weeks ago was
granted pension in recognition OF his services.
being one of the very few survivors of tnaS war
and about the last one to make application.