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FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

Small Boy-Ma, do cIergymen ever
strike?
Mother-They do, my son. When they are Of
fered another place with a larger salary they i'm
mediately strike out for that place.-Tezds Sit
tngS.
Perhaps old Rain-in- the-Face has bought
himself a new gum coat with q hood.-LoutsuitS
Courier-J0urndL.
That death loves a shining mark IS
proven when it reaches out for q bald-neaded
man.-NeI0 Orleans PicayUns.
Assets of religiously-inclined banks
usually average s'smaIl and few in a hill. ''-Chi-
cdgO Globe.
The Arabs have no "hello" in their
language. The nearest they come to it is TO
throw a stone and hit man in the back, and then
ask him as he turns around: ''Does 1t please
Heaven TO give you good health this morning!'-
Detroit Free Press
Johuny-What did mamma say wnen
you asked her If old Santa Clans was going to give
you a pair of skates for Christmas?
Willie-She said mebby.
"What does mebby mean, anyhow?'
'.It means little yes and great big no. Tnats
what 1t means. ''-Chtca1O Tribune.
A German professor says that the heat
ing of damp hay is due to fungus. Very likely
Now and then political fungus makes Vnole
nation hot as blazes. Chicago Times,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
FOR A BoARD OF REVISION.

Another move is to be made to make the
triennial assessment more successful in get
ting at facts than it has been in the past A
bill will be presented to the Legislature at
the coming session providing for board of
revision and equalization which will be at
work all the time. At present the County
Commissioners act as board of revision.
They do as well as they can. But as they
only have few weeks to go through the
lists they are compelled to make speed at
the rate of district and quarter day.
As the assessment of the Twentieth ward
alone requires a month it may be seen how
ineffective the work of revision is. 1t is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
A ONE SIDED MIsREPREsENTATIO

There is good deal, either of Ignorance
or instrumentation, in the comments of
some of our contemporaries on two reports
which have recently appeared in connection
with the farmers. One report is that the
Kansas Farmers Alliance has formed a
stock company of $780, 900 capital, which
will advance money to farmers at low rate
of interest to enable them to warehouse their
grain and hold it for higher prices. This is
declared by one OF our contemporaries to be
''the most iniquitous kind of trust, for it is
designed to raise the price of food supplies.
a similar comment is made by another
journal on the report that the farmers have
plenty of potatoes, but are holding them
back for higher prices To which this
journal replies that "there must be some
mistake" because trusts and corners in the
food necessities have been so roundly de-
nounced in most farmers platforms that
consumers are not prepared to believe the
farmers themselves can be working plan
for advancing the price of the food of the
poor"
such comments demonstrate a necessity,
at least for these contemporaries for more
exact study as to what constitutes the
power of trusts and other monopolistic COM
binations to raise prices, and what is the
root of the injustice in such cases. The
right and propriety of every man to hold
whatever property he has, from real estate
down to sugar, petroleum or farm products,
until he can get fair price first, has been
recognized as necessary and proper from
time immemorial. There is no injustice or
wrong in any individual action of this sort,
because if a given man holds his goods for a
price fixed above the common agreement as
to its value by competition, be does so at his
own risk. He cannot exercise any coercive
power on the consumers as long as they are
able to buy of others. 1t is when a corpora
ton of any sort, by suppressing competition,
establishes the practical enactment that
consumers cannot buy of any one outside of
the combination, that the power to enhance
prices is invested with an injurious charac-
ter which the Supreme Court of this State
in its earlier days declared to make it a
criminal conspiracy.
With that fact in view it is absurd to dis
cover anything approximating a trust in
the reports that farmers are holding their
potatoes back for higher prices-which is
probably apocryphal-and that the Kansas
Farmers Alliance is going to organize a
corporation TO make loans to the farmers on
their crops-which we hope is true. If the
farmers are holding their potatoes, they do
so at their individual risk, while the price
of potatoes is fixed by the free competition
of thousands of potato growers. As to the
idea that the formation of $3.50, 900 corpor-
alton to lend money to the farmers means a
trust in food products, the righteousness OF
it appears in the fact that if the entire cap
ital of the corporation were loaned on
wheat it would control less than one bushel
in a thousand of the wheat production Of
this country. Even if the capital were
$3.50, 900, 900, and it could thus carry the en-
tire wheat crop of the nation. it could not
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Grand Opera House.

There isn't any Little Lord FdLntleroy in
''Prince and Pauper," the dramatization of
Mark Twain's story by Mrs. Richardson, which
introduced little Elsie Leslie to US again at the
Grand Opera House last night. All the same
we were expecting to see Mrs. Burnetts
charming child hero pop out every minute.
It is not in the story, its plot or its
characters-bu the suggestion of Fauntleroy is
in the atmosphere. If FduntIeroy had not en-
chanted the public there would have been no
Prince EdWard and poor Tom Cdnty, as Elsie
Leslie gives them-and we ought to be grateful
to FauntLeroy for this consequence of his emf
neuce. The play of "Prince and Pauper" is not
very remarkable play, as plays 60,
but it is wholesome, the story is prettily
told, and children and their mothers
will pardon the gross improbabillty of it all,
and give their love and sympathy to the brave
little prince and the bewildered little pauper.
Elsie Leslie is far and away the cleverest
actress of her years the stage has seen of late,
and especially as the Prince her histrionc
powers were most entertainingly displayed.
She makes lovely boy; little feminine per-
haps but that is not unsuited to the mild char
acter of EdtDard VI, whose boldest and bravest
deed, if we remember Alright, was to give his
royal sanction to book OF common prayer.
The comedy of the part was thoroughly de-
yeloped by Miss Leslie, and a most. amusing
picture her royal dignity in rags was. Mr..
Arthur Elliot, as Miles Rendon, a rough SOL
dier, played with admirable force and feeling.
The rest of the company is very fair The play
is well mounted some OF the bits of English SUBJ
urban landscapes in the olden time being very
picturesuue The costumes are historically ac-
curate, and not lacking color. The play was
well received, and Miss Leslie and Mr.. Elliot
divided the applause.
The story of the play is involved and 1t may
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Maggie Mitchell Goes Shopping.

The man who tried to find Miss Maggie
Mitchell yesterday had no easy task, for she
left the hotel early in the morning to go shop
ping. The company got into town on Sunday
night after a week of one night STANDS in Ohio.
In spite of the fatiguing nature of last weeks
work-for six one-night stands in Ohio are
computed to surpass SIX months at hard LABOR
left the Anderson Hotel soon after breakfast
bound for tour of the stores. AT Christ
mas time Miss Mitchell has always made
practice of remembering all the
members of her company. and the Pittsburg
stores no doubt supplied her yesterday with a
good many presents that she will need next
@ Mis uitchelI has snent in in Pittsbnrp. and
she said yesterday that she felt thoroughly at
home here, and knew her way about town as
well as any Pittsburger. OF course she would
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
CHINESE LAW,
Men Strangled, Exiled and One Beheaded
After Death.

Men Strangled, Exiled and One Beheaded
After Death.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 22-Chlnese advices
report the execution of the sentences on the
villagers near Shanghai for the cruel murder
of IA salt inspectors and the burning of the
bodies of the wounded and dead
Last March these salt inspectors made raid
on village. They wore no uniforms, and the
villagers mistook them for pirates. The in
spectors seized pile of contraband SALT which
they found by the side of house. and while re-
moving it to their boats they were attacked by
villagers and overpowered. Nearly all were
only stunned by blows, but visit to their boat
showed the villagers that they had attacked
Government officers, and fearful of the severe
punishment they decided to burn the boat and
with it the bodies of the wounded inspectors to
remove all traces of crime. So they carried the
injured men to the boat. and despite their en-
treaties set fire to it and burned the whole.
The chief criminal was sentenced to decapita-
ton, but committed suicide before the day ar
rived, and, according to law, his body was ex-
humed and the head struck OFF and exhibited
as a warning to the public. Four others were
strangled and four exiled after heavy fines
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

AFTER quoting from city cotemporary, an
article representing the Bellevernon gas field
as spotted" and unreliable, the Monongahela
City Republican. which is a close neighbor to
this field, remarks: THE above Is written for a
purpose. Mention Of the good wells, the won
derful producers, the stalwart staying quail
ties of the producers, and the wonderful flow
of gas sent into Pittsburg by the big pipes
from Maple Creek to Pittsburg. is carefully
ignored" This declaration of the reliable
qualities of the Bellevernon field will be
grateful information to Pittsburg. We cherish
the hope thas whatever obstacles to a full
supply now exist, the Bellevernon field will
make it possible to furnish pressure of some
thing more than four ounces in the mains by
which domestic consumers are reached.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
There Must be No Backing Down.

OhIcaRO IrIbune, Rep.J
There must be no backing down at this stage
of the controversy, however. The American
claim is just and the American people are not
In the humor to yield to British bluster and
dlctation. If we are not ready for war then we
must get ready for it at once, and the sooner
we show that we have the disposition to defend
ourselves and that we are making preparations
to do SO the less likelihood will there be that
England will press matters to the fighting
point. Now more than eve- is it necessary that
there should be greater rapidity in preparing
the means for our national defense. IL this
congress refuses to deal with the subject an
extra session should be called Immediately
arter March that the huge Democratic ma
jority may have chance to show its mettle.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
The Case Leans Against Blaine.

Springfield Republ1can.l
The advantages in the Behring Sea negotia-
tons seem at present to be with Lord Salisbury
and Sir Julian Pauncefote. Mr.. Blaine has
apparently met with no success in persuading
the merits of his claim that we have territorial
rights over Behring Sea, or that it is necessary
Tor his lordship to proclaim the sea closed to
English and Canadian fishermen, pending arbi-
tration of that point. Nor is his lordship as
well persuaded as he was a few months ago Of
the necessity Of joining Mr.. Blaine in prohibit
ing seal taking in that sea during an agreed
portion of the year. The trouble is that Mr..
Blaines contra bonos mores" argument has
received serious setback.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
The debate on the elections bill is refer

The debate on the elections bill is referred
to by the New York Tribune as an illustration
of the inattention paid to debate in the Senate.
"One Democratic Senator after another de-
nounces the bill" says the Tribune, but, it also
alleges: Nobody on the floor listens on either
side" This may be true, but there are some
indications to the contrary. The fact that
Senator Gray's speech forced some of the sup
porters of the bill to admit that it must be
amended, and that other Republican Senators
have recently declared that they will not vote
for the measure at all, gives pretty good proof
that they have been listening to the debate
with some profit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
ABOLISH THE OVERHEAD WIRES.

Sentiment against the deadly overhead
wires is steadily and surely growing. The
Coroner's jury, in the case of the late Super
intendent Vim, recommends immediate
steps to abolish the overhead wires alto
gether. This is the second jury within a
month to make such recommendation.
Surely something should be done. These
wires are constant menace, not merely from
the electric currents they bear, but on &C
count of their interference with the fremen
on all crowded streets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
PERpETUAT1NG SENATORIAL NAME:

Theirs is something ludicrous In the
fraud committed by the Baltimore man on
the: digniied Senators at Washington. II
presents the Senatorial mind in new light.
Of course, as most of them spend several
times the amount of their salary, living in
Washington, they must serve their country
for the fame and honor there is in it. Some
people may say for the perquisities. But
this base view cannot be admitted in the
light of this last revelation. For is it not
on record that 35 Senators have paid tri-
butte for the perpetuation of their names by
pulling infant they have never seen?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
A Commercial Necessity.
Minneapolis Tribune, Ind.1

Minneapolis Tribune, Ind
The President has at length taken positive
position as to the Behring Sea matter, embody-
ing American rights in those waters. The de-
termination to hold to our rights derived from
Russia is reasonable, and is based upon the
recognized doctrine that sea jurisdiction is
coterminous with necessity. Our jurisdiction
in those waters is a commercial necessity. Rus
sia asserted her jurisdiction in $780, Alexander
1. reiterated the claim in 1921. Russia cedes
Alaska to us, with the same rights, which were
never disputed until a year or two ago. We
shall maintain them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

THE statement of the report of debate in
Congress last week on the deficiency bill that
several Democrats arraigned the majority for
practicIng economy before election, and max
ing up deficiencies afterwards" Is rather stun
ming. AS the appropriations of the last session
were, by several tens of millions, the largest
ever made by single session except for war,
this puts the Democratic idea of economy in a
wild and lurid light.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
CHARGES AGAINST THE woRKHoUsE.

The DISPATCH is enabled to present,
this morning a petition read to the grand
jury yesterday charging misconduct of the
County Workhouse. There are several
counts in the bill of allegations, and we un-
derstand the grand jury will make investi-
cation of the charges without delay. Judg-
ment must be withheld until the investiga-
ton is made Mr.. Warner has something
to say for himself The charges are sensa-
tional enough and their presentation will be
enough to talk about.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
A Plea Against Jingoisn.

New York Herald.l
We are glad to see that Mr.. Harrison has de-
cided to bring this matter before Congress and
the country, for the controversy has reached a
stage that may well claim the sober attention
OF both. If handled with wisdom, patriotism
and broad craftsmanship the issue presents no
serious obstacles in the way of an amicable
settlement satisfactory to the people If
manipulated for political capital or partisan
ends there is no telling what gravity it may
assume. Let us hope that in its consideration
patriotism, not jingoism. will prevail.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
May Make All Themselves,

Boston Traveller (Rep).1
If the Republicans are not careful they will
make it impossible for the D emocrats to make
financial blunders in the next Congress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Harris, Thearer.

NJ. 8. Scanlon and his capable company
pleased two very large audiences at this house
yesterday with "Neil Agrah." a regulation Irish
drama, in which Mr.. Scanlon, who is young
man, and not at all bad actor, assumes the
title role. The characters are tolerably well
takeE and Christmas week will surely see the
standing room sign out at this popular house
quite frequently.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
THE assignment of the Iady manager

The assignment of the lady managers of
the Worlds Fair, to go around to the various
State Legislatures and get big appropriations
for State exhibits TO the fair, is regarded as a
decided stroke in the way of utilizing that
stock of feminine energy. But it may be
doubted whether the appropriations will be as
big as if they were urged by the ward workers
who control the election of legislators
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Regretting Blaine,s Unreasonablenes.

Boston Herald
1t is to be regretted that. i, consequence of
the assumption of an entirely unjYstifable DO.
sition, our Secretary of State is unable to carry
on a reasonable negotiation with Great Britain
for the adjustment of the Behring Sea diff
culties. The ground taken by Secretary Blaine
In this connection, that as Behring Sea was a
closed sea prior to our purchase Of Alaska, we
acquired with that Territory the maritime rights
of Russia over that waterway is, in our opin-
ion, wanting not only in historical accuracy,
but also in logic and force of common usage,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

A HINDoo who prophesied that Bombay
would be swept by tidal wave on October l.
was put in Jail until he explained that he meant
October /. 1897 We have not yet reached the
point of dealing with our weather prophets
that way. When We do, it will probably be
found more economical and just as effective to
shut up the people who pay any attention to
them in lunatic asylumS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
The Schoolhouse Is Safe.

Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.l
The character of the Pennsylvania farmers
is shown in the action of the Stage Grange. in
urging an increase of the State appropriation
for common schools and a compulsory educa-
tion law. The little country schoolhouse is
secure in the Keystone State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
NieIs wilhelm Cia,Ie.

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 22.-The death of Niels Will
helm Gade. the composer, has just been an
nounced. He was born in this city February p.
1917, and became first violinist in the Chapel
Royal; in 1871 he won the prize offered BY the Co
penhagen Musical Association by his first great
composition, "Nachklange Won Ossian.,i
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Thoughtful Suggestion.

Louisville Courier-Journal.]
If the pigmies of Africa are as intellectual as
50 per cent of the inhabitants of large Ameri-
can cities, as Mr.. Stanley asserts, perhaps they
can be induced to emigrate and make their
homes here We have very few pigmies now,
outside of Congress-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

THE disclosure by the official count that
Webster Flanagan. of Texas, got 70 OOO votes as
Republican candidate for Governor of that
State, while his Democratic opponent got 81, 900
votes. lends new interest to the old inquiry
what Flanagan was there for.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

SENAToR-ELECT IRBY, of South Caro-
lima, is credited with desire to click a whole
penful of newspaper reporters and editors"
The Senator's plan of suppressing the un-
bridled and licentious press. if put into prac.
tice, would be likely to test the question
whether that pen would not be mightier than
the slugger.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

AS to Emin Pasha, the experience of the
German officials is likely to make them wish
that they had not separated him from Stanley.
But it may be taken as a certainty that Stanley
will not rescue either them or Emin from their
present dilemma.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
More Anxious About the Booming.

Baltimore Herald.1
Here is the State of Georgia taxing itself 13
cents on the 500 for school purposes, and set
ting apart a cool s., 100000 for the education of
its children. Evidently Southern education is
taking care of itself; let attention now be turned
to booming its industries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

therefore proposed to have separate board,
the members of which may keep posted on
values and property, SO the work of equal
izstion can be done rapidly. Philadelphia
has q similar system.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
When Jay Gets Through.

Omaha WorJd-Herald.l
If Jay Gould gets through using the money of
the country by January Is the rest or the g.
900 600 people may be able to make some invest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Congratulations to Allegheny.

Philadelphia Record.1
Allegheny is now city of the second class,
with frst-class aspirations. The Record re-
spectfully tenders the congratulations of the
season.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Negotiating and Negotiating.

Alta California, Dem. J
Mr.. Blaine is still negotiating over the seal
fisheries while Behring Sea is full of American
poachers under the British flag. and busy leav-
ing him no seals to negotiate about.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

have rather spent her Christmas at her beauti-
full home in Elberon, but she expects to enjoy
the dinner and the day here all the same.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Must Have Strong Proof.

WHEN a theatrical troupe goes to smash why
don't it mortgage its properties?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

THE tramp is not doubter bold
Because from church he keeps aloof,
And while at bar where rum is sold
Also demands the strongest proof,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

Vols, No. SIs.-Entered at PittsOurg Postofice,
November "A, 1855, as second-class matter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

Before you ask the merry maid
To stick to you thro' thick and thin,
See that you have your plans well laid
To get a house to put her in.
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Better to Look Ahead

A BIG man can look over the crowd, but the
spry little fellow can get through it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23
Star of Hope.

BEFORE you can claim a character from your
employer remember that you have to earn it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-23

Business Of1ce-Corner Smithfeld
and Diamond Streets.