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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
PRESIDENTIAL PREDICTIONS.

In our correspondence from New York an
interesting conversation is given between
two Democrats and a Republican on the
Presidential chances for 1892. The idea is
developed there that W. G. Whitney is a
quantity; but the incipient boom of the ex-
Secretary of the Navy is shrouded by an i'll
defined question - whether it is an inde-
pendent factor or is simply device of the
Hill faction to break up the solidarity of the
Cleveland wing. On the other hand, the
Republican outlook is said to be in favor of
corporation support to Major Mckinley.
The general view of these politicians, that
the candidates of both parties must come
from New York, and that both must be cor
poration men. suggests that safe treatment
of their predictions would be to use them as
we do Virgins weather prophecies, and
expect contrary results If it is found that
to take New York candidate will provoke
the enmity of one wing or the other of the
New York Democracy it is possible that
the Democrats may conceive their best hope
in New York to lie in taking some candi-
date from another State who would unite
the Democracy; and there are still two
years for the Democracy to develop a can
didate of that sort. On the other hand the
Republicans of the Northwest may adhere
to their belief that the party can find leaders
who are not burdened with corporation
records, and go outside of New York to find
such a man.
Mckinley would be a more effective
leader and representative of tariff Repuo-
licanism than the humorous and elusive
Depew. But to intimate that the choice is
confined to either of them is to forget the
trenchant determination of the triumphant
Reed, and the irrepressible and imposing
juvenescence of Mr.. Blaine. 1t also ex-
hibits singular ignorance of the fact that
President Harrison has permitted formal
annunciation of his willingness to accept
denomination,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
MIR. wANAmAKER,s WORK.

From Washington special telegram it
will be seen that Postmaster General Wana-
maker is pushing his project for postal
telegraphv with an energy that promises the
realization of the scheme before his term is
ended. The proposition to make existing
telegraph companies auxiliary to the postal
service does not promise all that is wanted
from the postal telegraph; but it is such a
long step toward the desired end that the
fuller results could be expected to follow.
The Postmaster Generals argument on the
practicability OF his plan is a convincing
one. If to the exclusion of lotteries from
the mails, Mr.. Wanamaker should add the
establishment of a postal telegraph system,
he would give his administration of the
postoffice record that would be the best
answer to the jeers at his mercantile career.
A bargain counter that gives the people
such results would be deservedly popular.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THE President has appointed Chaplain Ed
ward K. Rawson, a nephew of Senator Dawes
Professor of Mathematics at the United States
Naval Academy.
LORD WoLsELEY believes that the Chinese
are the coming race, and that they will overrun
the world the moment great general or law
giver arises among them.
THOMAS WINANs, the millionaire, who had
lived luxuriously, said on his death-bed he
would give million dollars to be able to eat a
piece of bread and butter.
HALE JENKINS, of North Wales, Pa, has in
his possession a deed signed by William Penn,
conveying $50 acres of land in Montgomery
township to Thomas Fairman.
A PORTRAIT of Benjamin b. Bristow FORM
erly Attorney General, has been painted by
Robert Gordon Hardie at Brattleborough. VT.
This is for the Bristow family in New York.
THE house in which Aaron Burr courted
Estelle Provost, his wife, is still standing at
Paramus, N. ]. 1t is of rough stone, with
gothic ornamentation, and surrounded by a fine
strip of woodland.
THE Hon. Bonum Nye. who is 95 years old. is
still the active treasurer of savings bank in
North Brookfield, Mass, and recently gave a
reception at his residence that lasted from 4
o'clock in the afternoon till 10 in the evening,
Mrs. AUGUSTA EvANs-WILsoN, the South
ern novelist, is short and stout With a good
natured, Intelligent face, having an expression
of happy contentment, showing that she is on
good terms with her husband and the rest of
the world.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND says he has
neither purchased nor thought of purchasing
a yacht for himself, and supposes that the an
nouncement that he had bought the Galena
grew out Of the fact that he offered to advance
the money for one to the skipper with whom
he sailed and fished last summer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
PITTsBURG, MONDAY. OCT. 6. 1890.
THE CONFLICT THICkENs.

The open letter of Mr.. Henry c. Lea, Of
Philadelphia, to Senator Delamater, which
appears in another column, proves that the
outspoken and recaicitrant Republican oi
Philadelphia, is determined to supplement
the work of Senator Emery in making him.
self thorn in the flesh of the Republican
candidate on the issues of personal integ-
rity that have been raised. The danger OF
Mr.. Lea's terse and cutting statement Of the
considerations which are already clear to
the public mind, is that ii may impress Re-
publican voters as such unnecessary cruelty
as TO almost produce reyulsion IN favor OF
the under dog in the fight.
Impartial minds can hardly go with Mr..
Lea in asserting that it is duty of Della
mater to bring libel suit against Senator
Emery. 1t is the privilege of any man to
ignore such charges if he chooses to take the
consequences. But the great mass of the
people have clearly recognized that, with
the prima .focia evidence already produced
by Emery, the surest method to dIsprove
his charges if they are not true, is to compel
him either to produce his evidence in court
or to acknowledge its unsubstantial charac-
ter. So far, the Republican reply to Emery
has been in the nature of general denial and
uusubstantia ed abuse, which, as a matter
Of course, will now be diverted in full force
upon Mr.. H. Z. Lea.
Whatever the outcome OF the campaign
the letter of Mr.. Lea, the meetings of Satur-
day night, and the organization OF indie
pendent Republican voters in various parts
Of the State, promise that from this time out
we shall have one of the liveliest fights in
the record Of State politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
A CONFEDERATION AvERTED.
How a Fire Was Fxringuished Without the
Use of Water.


"Firer'
The wild cry rang out on the night air. Heads
were thrust hastily out of upper windows, ex-
cited voices uttered quick inquiries, and in the
distance was heard the clatter of the engines
coming nearer and nearer. From large build
ing around the corner huge volumes of dense
smoke poured forth. The whole floor was on
fire. The flames had not as yet communicated
to any of the floors above.
Nearer and nearer came the engines They
reached the scene. The fremen sprang to
their task with alacrity.
But an unforeseen contingency presented
itself. There was no water. In vain the faith
full men made the requisite connection of hose
and water plug In vain the engines throbbed
with superhuman energy
Something had happened at the water works.
Must stand by and see my house burned to
the ground?" shouted the owner of the build
ing with tears in his voice. "Can nothing be
done?'
The Chief Of the Fire Department hook his
head. He looked helplessly at the crowd that
had gathered.
Suddenly great light shown in his eyes,
With the quickness of a man trained to act in
emergencies he darted into the crowd.
There was sound of rapid scuf1ing, angry
protest. and loud threats. and the Chief
his arms
Calling imperiously to his men he ordered
the front doors of the building to be broken
open.
It seemed like the freak of a crazy man. but
the order was obeyed. With yell of triumph
the Chief sprang into the burning building fol-
lowed by his men. Grimy. choked and blinded
Dy smoke, but victorious, they came out few
moments afterward, and the Chief gave the
order to return. He had smothered the flames
with the trousers of an English tourist.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
UP MONT BLANC ON A sLEDGE.
Lame and Elderly Man Makes the Jour-
ney With Some Comfort.

A Lame and Elderly Man Makes the Jour.
ney With Some Comfort.
From the New York SUM-
A lame man. about so years of age, has lust
made the ascent of Mont Blanc In his day
Mr.. Jansen has been a great mountain
climber. He is the President of the French
Alpine Club, and an astronomer. He had a two
fold purpose IN view in the ascent he has lust
made under such disadvantag cons circum-
stances. He wished in the first place to ascer-
tain whether it was possible for scientific men
to reach the regions of eternal snow without
becoming so fatigued as to impair the value of
their observations. His second purpose was
scientific. He desired to find whether the
outer atmosphere of the sun contains oxygen
in the state in which the gas is formed in the
atmosphere of the earth.
The scientific results OF Mr.. Janssen's Jour-
ney have not been announced. He ascertaiDed
however. that though old and lame he was able
to reach the top of that terribly fatguing
mountain in comparative comfort. In fact the
was drawn and pushed BY % guides. and while
they had rather hard time of it IN some parts
of the ascent, the old gentleman sat in COM
fort on his sle6ge and let them tug away and
founder in the snow.
1t took him two days to make the ascent, but
only one day to return TO the hotel near the
foot of the mountain; and during the many
hours the guides were putting away up the diff
hcult slopes two ladies, the vile and daughter
OF the Alpine sledge traveller, were on the
veranda of The hotel watching every movement
of their relative through a telescope. He
therefore not only ascended the mountain with
a considerable degree of comfort. but afforded,
spectacle to those who were watching the party
below.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
LIGHT ON THE SUGAR QUESTION.

The opinions which are quoted from Mr..
John E. Searles, the treasurer and author
Ized mouthpiece of the Sugar Trust, con-
cerning the new sugar duties are interesting,
Now that the bill has finally become law
Mr.. Searles discovers the fact that the Trust
is we'll satisfied with it. He says that free
raw sugars, by cheapening the price of the
product two cents per pound, will largely
increase the consumption of sugar and the
business of his combination; that the ad-
mission of yellow sugars will not diminish
the purchase of refined; and that the duty
on refined sugar half cent per pound sis
adequate as a manufacturing protection"
This avowal, now that the bill is enacted,
can be applied in a variety of ways. In the
first place it proves, what THE DISPATCH
has always held, that the original rate of
three-tenths of a cents per pound, proposed
by the House committee was all the pro-
lection needed on refined sugars. If FIVE
tenths of cent is adequate protection" in
the view of the Sugar Trust, we may be sure
that three-tenths is all that the public re-
quirements called for. Next it proves that
the efforts OF the lobby, led by Mr.. Searles
himself, and of certain Senators, who joined
the service of the Trust, to establish a rate of
six and even eight-tenths of cent, were
efforts to swell the profits of that combina-
tion from three to nine millions annually
above what adequate protection would re-
quire, and thus to burden the people exactly
to that extent. The same, to a greater
deoree is true of the old nrotective maruin
of from 1902 cents above the duties on
raw sugar, and that in the Mills bill of /
@11z cents.
But more decided commentary is fur
nished by Mr.. Searles' avowal, on the course
of the Sugar Trust in trying to hold up
prices. We are told that half cent margin
is adequate; but for several years the whole
policy Of the Trust was turned In the direc-
tion of suspending competition so as to
realize the entire protection of 1902 cents.
for the refners. In other words the effect
was to realize, by choking off domestic COM
petition, cent per pound more than what
Mr.. Searles now declares to be adequate, to
ensure the Trust a fair profit. On the
annual consumption of three thousand mill
ion pounds, this represents plunder from
the public of $50, OO0. 900.
Tne reduction of the cost of sugar to the
people from 2 to 3 cents per pound, will be
q great benefit to the people. Rut the
reduction is telling commentary on the
methods by which it extracted from con-
sumers the full amount of the old duty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
A PRACTICAL PRESIDENT.

There is disposition, especially in poli-
tics. to assert that college presidents are not
practical One representative OF that class
has succeeded in demonstrating the con-
trary by the very neat way in which he has
accomplished his purpose. The authorities
of Williamstown, Mass, recently author
lied the granting of two saloon licenses. AS
this was d decided innovation for a college
town, considerable interest was aroused as
TO the opening of the saloons. But although
the licenses were taken out and paid for, the
saloons were not opened; and it finally came
out that they had been bought up by Presi-
dent Carter, OF Williams College, and were
quietly reposing in his desk. The spectacle
of a college president as the holder of a sa-
loon license is a unique one; but its incon-
gruity is covered ever bv the fact that his
position enables him TO enforce practical
prohibition until the licenses expire. The
college president bids fair to Vindicate his
reputation for practical ability.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
WITH PURPOSE AND POINT. s,-

"Do you play cards?" asked the minister
of the three-card monte man.
s'No, - said the gambler. gravely; 81 work with
them. ''-SomeTuiLLs Journal.
She-Do you believe in the doctrine, "a
kiss for blow?''
He-SO far as my experience goes, no.
She-What experience have you had?
He-Oh, I've kissed lots of girls and had them
blow.-LoIoeu Citizen.
Artist fiatter myself, my boy, that that
new picture of mine is going to make the sensa-
Critical Friend-Ye you do. SOmervitLa
Journal.
Piano Teacher-You must accustom YOUR
self young lady not to use the pedal SO much.
Young Lady-Oh, can't help it!
Teacher-And why not?
Young Lady--Because I've been working the
whole year a sewing machine. ne.--FLiegsnds
Btasttsr.
"There, John, that is an OK. The shoes
on your feet are made from the hide Of an animal
like that
II don't see how that can be. My shoes are
black. He's russet leather ox."--Harper's
BGzdr.
Mike-Pat, they soy that one O. thin fel-
lers with a big telescope be sfther discoverin' .
new asteroid.
Pat-sure, MoIke, an he can kape the baste. I'd
rather roide anarse.-JsaOetsrs' Weekly.
Tramp Ibid he give you anything?
Tramp I.-Yep.
Tramp I.-shen out, then. You promised to
divvy.
Tramp H.-You can have 1t all. He gave ms
the address oil the town soup kitchen.-Harper's
Bdzdr.
Ethel York-Ma, what makes the Phila-
delphia girls wear mugs?
Mrs. York-Do they, Ethel?
Ethel-Big brother says that the Philadelphia
girls have the awfullest mugs on their shoulders
he ever saw.-Jsloeters' Weekly.
Customer-I want 2-cent stamp.
Druggist-Cert'nly, ma'am. Anything else?
Customer-No- Please be sure and send the
stamp home in time for the mail.
Drugglst-Yes ma'am. Shall send the boy to
lick the stamp?
CustOmer-NO. Thai will not be necessary. How
much?
Druggist with sizh)-Two cents
Customer paying him)-It does seem as though
we ought to have cheaper postage. Good morna
ing.-Harper's Bazar,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
WHAT SAM ALLEN HEARD.
A Talk Between His Little Boys That Caused
Him to Reform.

10 heIOrms
The gang of hands engaged in working the
road" were resting on the roadside after din
ner. The overseer, an elderly, klndly-faced
countryman. had listened to several stories, and
when pause came in the conversation he be-
gan: "Hits ther leetles' thing whut starts er
feller up er down hill Yer nuver kin tell
whutll move er man fur better er wuss. Thar
wus good-hearted feller named Sam Allen
whut uster live jist over ther ridge frum me.
He wuz er bully feller, but ther powfullest
ham fur ter git drunk an fight Ever time
he'd git drunk an he done hit ever time he
could, he'd ra'r er roun' an fight everybody
what wouldn't take his sass. Onst went over
ter his house Nv Sunday fur ter see him. His
cabin wuz er tumbln down an his wife an
children ragged an nuver had ernough ter eat.
His wife wuz poor an Ter eyes looked SO bad
lack they wuz dry, she'd cried so much. 81,
'Howdy, Miss Allen, whar's SamT S'she.
Down ter ther spring. 81, Pll go fin him.
Invent ter ther spring an thar wuz Sam er dip
pin Nv his head in ther water. Hit 'peared
lack hit wuz hot an he wuz er tryiD to cool hit.
ST. 'Howdy, Sam S'se, 'Howdy.' an he turn
roun. His face wuz all bunged up. 81.
What's ther matterr S'se, i was drunk yes
tiddy an fit with Dick Mason. got ther
wust Nv hit
"Jist then we heard Sans two little boys or
talking together side rher spring house. They
never knowed we wuZ thar. One of 'em sez
s'se: Tll be pappy an come laung DRINK an
you say Aowdy.' an I'll lick yer fur hit
Their yother says. s'se, AT won't be far fur
every time pappy gets drunk he licks me any.
how an 'tain't tar fur both Nv yer ter lick me-
Then ther yother says Nanny says pappy
kin be good-natured an friendly an not wanter
lick all er us but hain't nuver seed i'm thater
way Sam turned pale and sick like when he
heard 'em. Then he rocked hisse'f with his
face in his hans. All at onst he jumped up an
says, s'se. I'll show at boy at his mammys er
tellin' Nv ther truth. Sam amt never drinked
er dram since. He's got er good house an, his
fambly's well tuck keer Nv an they owes it all
ter what at boy said that Sunday an me an
Sam heard hit"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
THROUGHOUT THE STATE

Mt. GARNET. colliery began operations dur.
ing the war and still continues, with over II
miles of gangway.
SINCE the marriage license law went into ef-
feet 2732 papers have been taken out in Cam
bria county. OF this number sol are credited
to 1859 and $50 to this year.
FIRST public sales of real estate in Johns
town since the flood took place last week. One
property brought sI3, 100 and sold for 900 in
May, 1883. or S55S per foot frontage.
ELIZABETH BAER, maiden lady, be-
uueathes $4,000 to Josiah Diehl and wife, a
poor couple living in the upper part of Lehigh
county, because of trouble with relatives.
ANEW industry promises to take hold among
Tioga county farmers. Simeon Davis, Bloss-
burg gardener, raised several large punches of
peanuts the past season and intends to 60 into
the business extensively next year.
FRANK KEMERER, a Remove youth, trolled
the Susquehanna river with black cricket at
the end of his hook. and black bass 20 inches
long took hold. He had to drag 1t up the
bank, and old experienced RenoYo fishermen
say it beats the record
FOUR female school teachers walked from
Renoya to Lock Haven, distance of % miles,
between sunrise ard sunset on Saturday. They
carried their dinner with them and rested an
hour while eating it. They walked upon the
railway ties most OF the way.
WEATHER signs conflict this year with the
usual regularity. A coVey of partridges took
shelter in q Norristown outshed and the
prophets predict q cold winter on the strength
of the visitation. A swarm of bees have
celled up a home near the top of Sunbury
oak tree and the prophets predict mild win
ter,
ANDREW HUNTER. farmer living fve
miles out from Reynoldsville, jefferson coun-
ty, has Just turned the century milepOss in life
and hundreds assisted in celebrating the event.
This patriarch took up his home in the Beech
woods settlement 50 years ago and he does
days labor with the young men Of the farm
Just as he always did,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
THE TARIFF ON FISH.
Gloucester Fishermen Fear the Mckinley
Bill Will Knock Them Ont.

GLOUCESTER. MASS, October 5-The more
the fishermen here study the tariff bill the
more they realize that, so far as the duty on
fresh and frozen fish is concerned, it will be of
great injury to them. Although about Is 0OO, 600
frozen herring were brought to this port last
winter, principally by vessels that belonged
here, the demand for those fish for food was so
great that the fishermen had to pay a high
price for their bait, and they were thus greatly
handicapped. If an export duty is put on all
frozen or fresh fish exported from Newfound-
land in foreign bottoms, as has been intimated
by the Government of that province, there is
nothing to hinder Newfoundland. should she
feel so disposed, from having monopoly of
this trade
This is the opinion of some shippers who for
years have been going to Newfoundland for
frozen herring. They say that at ST. Johns
there is a large feet of steamers which are
hauled up in winter until the sealing season
opens which does not commence until the mid
die of March that can very easily go to For
tune and Placentia bays, load with large car
goes of herring, carry them to Boston, New
York and Philadelphia, and supply the Ameri-
can market while American fishermen will
have to sit idly by and see the business they
have controlled for years taken away from
them by means of unwise legislation. With
three-fourths of cent duty to be paid at this
end. only a small export duty would make it
Improbable for American vessels to bring
frozen herring from Newfoundland to this
country.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
HOW DO YOU VOTE2
Some More Popular Topics for Exposition
Visitors to Ballot On,

Some More Popular Topics for Exposition
Visitors to Ballot On.
This is the sixth week of the Exposition
The topical voting pastime inaugurated by
THE DISPATCH will be continued till the close
at Its headquarters, in the commodious space
occupied by the Brunswick Balk- Collender Bill
lard Company. This week some vital topics
have been selected, and all are requested to
vote yes or no in THE DISPATCH Poll Book,
which opens and closes with the Exposition
every day and night.
MONDAYS VOTING TOPIC.
Should Pittsburg Erect Memorial to Stephen
c. Foster? Open to lady and gentlemen
voters.
TUESDAYS VOTING TOPIC.
Should the Courts be Relieved by Law Plac-
ing Petty Gases into the Hands Of Police
Justices7 Open to gentlemen voters only.
WEDNESDAYS VOTING TOPIC.
Should Brick Pavements be Prohibited in All
Sections of the City? Open to lady and
gentlemen voters
Souvenirs for Lady Voters.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-06
THE CHIEF BREAD BAKER TO THE
KING.

When 1 was very small indeed,
And even younger than my size,
Invent out walking by myself
To gather facts to make me wise.
came unto a bakers shop,
Where l beheld the strangest thing:
A great gold sign whereon read
ssThe Chief Bread Baker to the KinR.n
/ 1went within and asked the man,
In all respect .'Can this be true?
Does ever any King eat bread,
The same as all the poor folk do?''
The baker was a fowery man,
AS most men are who talk and bake,
And said, 1T is Fallacy
To judge that Kings consume but cake.
s'Not only does the King eat bread,
But history states, and does not cheat,
There have existed certain Kings
Full glad to have some bread to eatl''
And while stood a-wondering
Whatever fallacy might mean,
Behold saw another sign
Whereon was "Hatter to the Queen.''
/ sought the halter mid his plumes
(Not knowing herwa5 mad thereat),
And asked, "Can it be really true
That any Queen puts on hat2''
The halter said, indignantly,
lit is an error fit for clowns,
To think that Queens array their heads
Exclusively in golden crowns.
'Indeed, there have existed Queens,
AS in the chronicles tits said,
Not only glad to have hat,
But still more glad TO have head!"
A sadder aud a wiser child,
j hied me home to think of things:
1t seems SO strange that Queens wear hats,
And bread is good enough for Kingsl
-Vatenttne Adams in st, Nicholas,