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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
AN OUTLET FOR THE PRODUCERS.

The suggestion OF a petroleum producer,
as published in THE DISPATCH the other
dav, that the Ohio river furnishes them an
outlet, that, if properly utilized, will loosen
the grip of the Standard on that interest,
has good deal of sense in it. 1t recalls the
fact that in the early stages of the conflict
that route was utilized to hold in check the
progress of the Standard to complete
monopoly.
1t was in 1874 and 1876 that the independ-
ent refners of Pittsburg, finding their direct
routes shut off by the Determinations of the
trunk lines, resorted to the plan of shipping
BY the Ohio river to Huntington, West
Virginia, and thence by the Chesapeake and
Ohio to tine seaboard. So long as they had
the competing pipe transportation furnished
by the Columbia Conduit Company they
were able to compete with the Standard and
even do a profitable business. 1t was when
the Standard bought and tore up the Colum-
bia pipes that they were forced to make a
complete surrender.
There is little doubt that the river route,
if properly utilized, can be again made a
support to an Independent refining interest
which the Standard cannot overcome. 1t
furnishes the cheapest mode of transporta-
ton to the entire Southwest and Northwest;
it gives a cheap route for export oil to
Europe, on which light draft boats and
barges can be used for at least eight months
in the year. With this route competing for
the shipments Of the Independent interest,
it would be only question of time until
the railroads would begin to solicit the
same traffic, and when that is done the
domination of the Standard will be drawing
to an end.
What is necessary to accomplish this re-
suit, is for the producers TO organize the in
dependent pipelines. which shall concen-
trate the traffic at available points on the
river, where not only water transportation,
but the competing railroads, can be reached.
| When that is done, and the railroads are
brought to realize that their best interests lie
in Justice to the independent interests COM
peting refneries will spring up faster than
the Standard can buy them up. If it under
takes to absorb them it will make the busi,
ness of building refueries to sell to it the most
profitable one in the country.
The reason why the Standard rules the pc
troleum market is that it controls all the
outlets Let the producers open up the out
let Of the rivers by means of Independent
pipelines and refneries to connect tn,
water route with the wells, and they viii
find by little persistence that the problem
is solved.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
HOTH ALIKE NOW.

The movement of the Attorney General of
the United States during the past week
AGAINST the Central Pacific management by
fling a petition to dissolve the leases of that
property which have been made contrary to
law and with the obvious purpose of defeat
ing the claim Of the Government, would be
highly praiseworthy if there were any rea-
son to place trust in its genuineness. As it
Is of that class of innocuous legal missiles
which have long been laughed at by the bad
bows of the subsidized transcontinental cor
porations, we can only regard it as tub to
the popular whale.
This opinion is strengthened by the fact
that the course which the Government can
take 10 protect its interest in those corpora
tions is a very obvious one, and has been
distinctly pointed out by recent events in
the corporate world. In the previous dis
cussion of the settlement of the Union
Pacific Railroad it has been pleaded with a
good deal of force that while the past man.
agementof the corporate body took dlshon-
est course toward the Government, it would
not be fair to punish the Adams manage
T..
put the corporation in a condition of solv.
epcv and paw of Its debts. The reply that
while the corporate form of management is
immortal there is no assurance that the in.
dividual qualities of integrity and respons
jbity was never so favorable as after it ha6
been demonstrated by the facts. But up tc
this time the other view has been strongly
urged, and it has even extended its protect.
ino aqis to the Central Pacific on the ples
that one corporation could not be treated
differently from another. The exception Il
this view was, of course, that remarkabl,
one urged in behalf of the Central Pacific
that since it had shown a more persisten
disposition to cheat the Government there
fore it should be given more favorable ex
tension of its debt, in order to induce it no
10 cheat the Government out of its claim al
together!
The late corporate Developments, how
ever. have changed matters. The sam
rnanarement of the Union Pacific, whicl
twelve wears ago piundered the corporation
bv loading it up with worthless propertle
for the profit of the management and dehe
the Government by declaring unearne
dividends. has resumed control. Both col
porations now unqualifedly represent bot
the corporate and personal policies of dis
honesty toward the Government claims an
defiance toward the regulative legislatlo
passed concerning them. This leaves tn
way clearly open for the Government to d.
fend its interests by giving both roads th
same treatment in the shape of the sovereig
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
A MAGNIFICENT Library.

THE library is that fine collection of books
which is known as the Bodleian. Every
publisher in England sends to the Bodleian
Library a copy of every book he publishes. So
that of modern books. good. bad and lnditer-
ent there is great store. And there are many
old books also There would be more, but for
the zeal of the Reformers. The Reformers
were hunting heresy. A book which taught
heresy was to them like garment tainted with
the yellow fever. Away with it, burn 1t! There
were two particularly contagious kinds of
heresy which they were after. One was Ro-
manism, the other was magic. But who couId
read all the books in the Bodleian Library?
Not even the zeal of Reformer could compass
that. So they went along the shelves, looking
into the great volumes at the rate of book
minute. as the curate and the barber exam
ined the library of Don Quixote. and when they
found a book with red letters in it. they said,
Here is Romanism," and when they found a
book with geometrical diagrams in it, they said,
Here is magicr' And out went the books to
the bonfire. And So much that was valuable
perished. The most interesting thing which l
saw in the Bodleian was bit OF burnt paper, a
roll of charred parchment, brought from
HerculaIeum, written over once with Latin
letters. but now inscribed "Vesuvius, his
mark, blackened by that fatal rain OF red-hot
lava.
The University church of Oxford is st.
Mary's. Here, from time immemorial, the
university sermons have been preached Here
the hampton lectures are delivered Ihese
lectures, prOVldeQ LOT Dy DeQueSI VI lHo AsO's
| John hampton have been given every year
| for more than a century, upon some topic OF
theology. A full set of them has recently been
| purchased for the Brewer Alcove of the Mer-
camille Library. Nobody will ever read them,
| but what significant history might be read
| even in their titlesl What record of the con
and advancement of theology. For 20 years
! the vicar of st. Mary's was John Henry New
| man. was at Oxford the Sunday before be
was buried, and was at service in this church.
| hit al otnd
| ST. Mary's is a queer church, divided like 9
cathedral into two parts choir ana nave.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
ABit of Ancient History.

"A OF Ancient GlsSoiy'
THERE are two buildings in Oxford which
belong not only to the university, but to the
town. These are the cathedral and the castle.
Here at Oxford, more than thousand years
aro. asaxon maiden, named Frideswyce found
ed nunnery for holy women. The wooden
buildings thrust up their plain roofs amid the
trees, and beside the pleasant rivers, and all
about was marsh and forest. Gradually
little town grew up around the religious houses,
and was made strong and fortined by ana Dy
the Danes came following the Thames banks,
looking for plunder. and there were nights at
Oxford. One time the defeated Danes rushed
for safety into st. Frideswyde's Church, and
the English shut to the door and made It fasr,
and set fire TO the wooden church and burned
it, and the Danes together. You can look back
through the long curtains. and see tne
red banners of that fierce t1re. Inc straggnns
streets about the church are flled with shout-
ing, turbulent crowds of angry men, dressed IN
vivid reds and blues. with gold chains about
their sunburned necks, with battle-a1es slung
across their backs. and short swords ready IN
their hands; and within are the imprisoned
Danes, suffering the vengeance OF .fire. There
is an old shrine of ST. Frideswyde in the
cathedral, the smallest cathedral in England,
which stands perhaps upon that very spot.
Then came the Conqueror, and the castle was
built. There is still great, strong, solitary
tower standing.
Into this ancient Oxford, where the castle
stood at one end of the town and the catnedral
at the other, scholars began to come IN the
thirteenth century. That was one of the most
notable centuries in modern history. Inc
crusaders had stirred up everybody in Europe.
All people were eager for new things. Back
came the crusaders, bringing strange stories OF
strange countries; and some of them brought
books And men began to read these books. And
new ideas began to break the intellectual mo-
notony of the Middle Ages. And schools began
to multiply. In France sprang up the Unlver-
sity of Paris: in England. the University of Ok
ford. The roads were thronged with pilgrims,
men and boys in mean attire, seeking these
abodes of learning.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER QUESTION.

The question of Mississippi riverimprove-
ment is attracting great dealof attention in
the press otthe region along the lower Missis-
sippi. The opinion there seems to be strongly
in favor Of the levee system, some of it being
of the peremptory character displayed by the
New Orleans Times Democrat, which con-
demns the articles in The DISPATCH sug-
cesting another plan, before the plan has
been fully developed by :he articles. An
other class of opinion is presented by Charles
G. johnson, Commissioner for Louisiana,
who advocates straightened river by means
of levees, and whose ideas take the daring
seope of turning the waters of Lake Michi-
gan and the Red River of the North into the
Mississippi The subject is one of vast i'm
portance to the country at large, and its dis
cussion Will be profitable if our New Orleans
friends can restrain their conviction that nc
one has right to an opinion who has moi
absorbed the wisdom that permeates the at
nosphere about Lake Pontchartrain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
LoNDON's OLD ROMAN WALL.
Accommodations of Centuries Removed, Lay
ing Bare Wall and Ditch.

Accommodations of Centuries Removed, Lay
ing Bare Wall and Ditch.
The recent excavations for the new postoffice
in ST. s-le-Grand, says the London
Times, have led to the discovery not only of by
far the most perfect piece of the Roman wall
laid bare in recent times, but also of complete
outline of the old town ditch, which defended
London during the middle ages.
1t is difficult to draw for ourselves now pic
ture of London as a walled town washed by a
broad moat. Wall and fosse are now in the
very heart of the county of London. Not only
so, but the town has covered them in and grown
over them. From the present street level to
the footipgs of the old Roman wall, the level OF
the old moat, is about eight feet and a half.
The accumulations of centuries have buried
the defenses of the city out of sight, and 1t
needs an owner more anxious than usual to
make the most of his property, to bring to light
the hidden history of the place.
1t is curious that the enormous value of city
land for commercial purposes, and the burrow-
ing into the bowels of the earth thereby occa-
stoned, should lead to the disinterment of relics
of London of the Roman period and of the
middle ages.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
THE ZONE TARIFF SYSTEM.

Its Remarkable Advantages Illustrated
in European Cities.
From the New York Tribune.l
AT Vienna some weeks ago zone tariff sys-
TEN was put in operation on the railroads con-
Meeting that city with its suburbs. This made
a decided reduction in fares, both for oc-
casional travellers and for commuters. The ef-
feet thereof is already apparent.
Thousands of persons have moved from the
city to the suburbs, where they enjoy cheaper
rents and more healthful surroundings. and the
congested quarters OF the city are relieved in a
salutary manner. These people, of course, con-
tinue all their business relations with the city.
both as workers and as purchasers, SO that
there is no loss to Vienna tradesmen.
And more than that. many families are being
attracted to the city and its suburbs from
other parts of the Empire, so that an era of re-
markable growth and prosperity has set in. A
similar plan is apparently to be adopted at Ber-
lin, where the Government will erect some
thousands of suburban homes for workingmen,
and where the Emperor is agitating for a re-
duction of railroad fares. The result there
will doubtless be much The same as at Vienna.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
MCCLURE FOR CLEVELAND.
He Says the Ex-President Will Be Nomi-
mated Regardless of New York.
,spFcIAI. TELEGRAM To THE DIsPATcH.i


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.I
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 30-Colonel Mcclure,
In his leading editorial in the Times, will say
tomorrow that if the Democratic National
Convention had to meet at this time or at any
time in the near future to select a candidate
for President, it would nominate Grover
Cleveland by practically unanimous vote out
side of New York, and it would nominate him
quite as enthusiastically and overwhelmingly
if New York were against him as if New York
favored him. The swift mutations Of Amerl-
can politics might make Mr.. Cleveland less
available, or some other man more available, u
months hence, but it is not probable. 1t was
Grover Cleveland who defined, so sharply that
none could misunderstood it, the issue of op-
pressivc taxation of the people in the interest
of monopoly greed, and it was Grover Cleve-
land who commanded the trust of his people
by his implacable hostility to jobbing profit
gacy.
The people want tax and .tarItf reform: they
want ballot reform; they want civil service re-
form: they want honest government. and New
York leaders who now Indignantly revile MIR.
Cleveland are daily teaching the necessity of
his nomination. Unless inconceivable changes
in the political situation shall occur within the
next year, Grover Cleveland will be nominated
and elected President in 1872, and he will be
nominated and elected without even the
trouble of an inquiry as to whether New York
shall be for him or against him.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
FROLICsOME FANCIEs.

A great deal of attention is just now being
attracted to Succf the faster. But after all. what
is there really in Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Papa," remarked Johnny. 81 should
like to be pirate when L grow up" "AlI right,
nv boy - returned the old gentleman, I'VE will
nut YOU in charge of the humorous column on q
religious newspaper. ."-Nsl0 York Sun.
Great joke about the height Of the Nc
Kinley bill, isn'tit?''
'What?''
s'That all wages are hire in consequencs."-
Philadelphia Times.
Tenderfoot-I hope you never 60 so far a.
TO lynch people in these parts?
Arizona Citizen-No, we draw the line at that
NeI0 York Press.
That woman who found thief under the
bed deserves the unanimous condemnation Of
every husband in the land. After centuries Of
frultIess search the ladies' who us were easing
of little, and now the whole thing Is to be done
oyer-Nel0 York World.
Tanning being now done by electricity,
misehievous small boys should take notice that .
cheap and efficient dynamo is being prepared to
which u slipper other implement can be at
tached for spanking purposes.-Nelo York IeIs-
gram.
81 hear the Socialists held pretty lively
meeting last night. The paper says 1000 OF 'en
rent the air with cries for REFORM
''JuSL ike lnOSe COCldllsIS. AlLcE dOOh7A.o
incomes on land they 60 to work and rent the
air. ',-Nel0 York Press.
Bingo-Dear me, I'm tired. My WIG
got me up at s O'Clock this morning.
Klngley-What did she get you up so early lott
Bingo-She wanted to catch the noon trsln'-
NeIo York Sun.
Its most remarkable thing, salo
smithers, ''but never set foot in that place WIN
out there being very disagreeable person eli.a.
side." And Smithers wondered why ms nIenNS
laughed so Internally much.-NsH0 YORK FrssS'
In. Illinois man has been fined sl,oOO
for kissing q woman against her WILL anu an
Ohio court has punished a man TO the 'une u
e. OoO for a similar Ofense. Now, this Is ous-
rageous When these men were infants think OF
the women who kissed them against thelr WIN
And when a man grows up shall he be nneo II ne
attempts to retaliateg No, thousano ZINES nv.
the Righteousness Of lex talionis as eppneu "
| kissing Boston zrGascrtpt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
BELIEVES HE Is CHRIST.
Remarkable Hallucination of Young Man,
Who is Otherwise Sane.

Who is Otherwise Sane.
SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.i
LEAyENwoRTH, Nov. 30.-Deputy Sheriff
Nicholson and Charles Nelson, of Bedford, Ia,
are in the city, having in charge young man
named Lincoln Wintermute. of Conway, Ia.
Wintermute has been adjudged insane, and is
man apparently IS years of age. He talks in
teligently on all subjects but that of religion
He claims that he knows things about the man.
agement of the world, according to the Christ
theory, that he has been trying to tell the peo-
pie and they laugh at him, deride him and make
all kinds of fun of him.
He stated to a reporter that he had good will
to all mankind, and that it cut him to the quick
to have the people disregard his ideas when he
meant everything for their own good. He said
| his confinement in the asylum was painful to
him as a remembrance, and that he had never
| harmed anyone. When asked if he had a wife.
| he said he was single. but would have been
married if everything had gone along all right.
| Wintermute was advised to keep "stlh
| upper lip" He replied: II don't have to shave
| my mustache if don't want to-"
| Officer Nicholson says that the idea in young
| Wintermutes mind is that Christ has been on
| earth three times and that he is the fourth
representative. The party will make tour Of
the South, and will probably go to Europe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
BEST HALF OF EXISTENCE.
Whether 1t is in Front of a Man at 40, i:
Naively Discussed.

Whether 1t is in Front of a Man at 40, is
Naively Discussed.
A medical paper tells us, writes James Payn
in the Illustrated Ne1CS Of the World, what is
very comforting to those who have passed the
heyday Tor hay day. of life. that "the best half
of existence is, at 40, in front of a man." wish
this scientific authority could have postponed
its cheerful assurance to even later date, but,
even as it stands it will surprise most people.
Name and fame have in most cases, it is true.
to be acquired, but the general view has
hitherto been that
The myrtle and ivy of sweet ttwo-and-twenty
Are worth all your laurels, however SO plenty.
A doctor, however. it seems, finds at 40, lin
the study of one of the organs of the human
body, a pleasure and enlightenment it never
yielded before" Everyone, il is said, is 'either
fool or physician at Al" but we are mostly.
well, not physicians. 1t is more generally
satisfactory to learn that "the trained intellect
no longer sees men as trees walking, and that
the trained temper does not rush at work like
a blind bull at haystack." One has known
however, many young people who do not rush
at work, but even quite the contrary; and, upon
the whole with all Difference to science, most
persons at 40 would prefer to be two-and-
twenty,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
THE PARTITION OF AFRICA.
Northern Lions Pounce Down Upon the
Abodes of the Black Man.

Northern Lions Pounce Down Upon the
Abodes of the Black Man.
Never, probably, in the history of the world,
writes the Marquis of Lorne in the North
American ReuietO for December, was there
such a rapid portioning out of other mems
goods las in the recent partition of Africa),
for, of course, the natives have not been repre-
sented at any of the conferences that have
been held in the distant capitals Of the in
yadlng white menl Yet these natives are
in number as the sands of the sea, and 1t is
over no scattered series of bands, such as
existed in America in the case of the Indians,
that dominion is to be exercised, but over
organized peoples and confederacies, some of
whom could place 200 900 men in dusky array of
pattle.
Truly 1t is q wonderful phenomenon-this
pouncing of Northern eagles and lions upon the
abodes and realms of the black man. And why
is it? Oh, for their good, of course We shall
stop their mauling and enslaving each other,
and they ought to be grateful, and would be SO
If they only knew what unselish intentions we
one and all of us havei
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
PTTTsBURG DOES THE WORK.

1t is an interesting fact for Pittsburg that
is made public in the report of the Secre-
tary of the Navy, that the Bethlehem works
proving unable to furnish the steel plates
for the new battle-ships contract has been
made with Carnegie, Phipps & Co. to
furnish 5000 tons of nickel and steel plates
during the coming year. This is a natural
result of the political efforts to locate the
steel manufacture for the Government
somewhere else than in Pittsburg. The
Bethlehem plant was fitted up for the Gov
ernment work under the especial favor of
the Government; but after some effort the
work falls to Pittsburg by the force of in
dustrial gravitation. The increase of the
output of the Carnegie works by 500 tons a
month will not be very vital thing; but it
is a contribution to Pittsburg's magnificent
total of business, and qualification to the
local pride in our manufacturing supremacy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-01
FOSTERS FORECAST.
A Fierce Storm Scheduled for This Vicinity
in About a Week.

in About Week.
.sprc1At TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPAToH..
ST. JOSEPH. Mo-, Nov. 3O-My predictions of
pleasant weather after the November North
western snowstorms and blizzard were fully
verified, and with the exception of the two
sharp storms, with the accompanying cold
waves and two or three lighter storms, l ex-
pect very pleasant weather during December,
following which will be a winter of much less
severity than is usual. have been calculating
next years crop weather and find that the
rains will reach more elevated regions, and
therefore countries near sea level. like Texas,
will have much less rain, while more elevated
regions like Colorado and Dakota, will have a
greater rainfall This will be favorable to
Western Kansas and Nebraska and countries
of like elevations, and more even distribution
of raini all along the Atlantic Coast. 1t should
be remembered that the high and low barome-
tiers of the storm move eastward near each
other the former gathering up the moisture
from great bodies of water, and it is the depth
of the tide in the atmosphere that causes the
moisture to condense into rain near the sea
level or enables 1t to float to higher elevations.
AS Jupiter nears the sun and the earth the
atmosphere deepens and the rains move to
higher elevations. AS these tides reach their
extremes of high and low, Western Kansas
and Nebraska and similar lands midway be-
tween the high and low lands have their dry
years.