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careless or inexperienced youth will get
thorough training in gambling and drink
ing than in trigonometry. moral philosophy
or rhetoric. 1t is true that the youth will
be exposed to those temptations elsewhere.
for which there may be greater or less re-
sponsibility. But the responsibility for
such temptations in active life is of very
different degree than that of an institution
which holds itself out as place for the
training of young men, and permits in
fuences to exist which makes them places
of training in vice. This is characteristic
ofmost fashionable colleges, both in England
and this country. 1t is true that the faculty
of such colleges do not approve of drinking
or other vicious amusements, but their
practise OF treating those things as venal
outbreaks of the youthful spirits, to be
salved over bv sucn wholly inadequate
punishments as suspension or justification.
is little better. To obtain the patronage OF
the wealthy, too many colleges treat the dis
sipations of the gilded youth with lenience
that practically results in making their in
stitutlons place where vice is taught with
more practical success than morality.
No college faculty with any exalted ideal
of its mission will permit its purpose to be
so thoroughly defeated. If a college cannot
train its students to sobriety and usefulness,
it will do far better to close its doors than to
continue to permit the work of education.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
THE GRAND STAND DISASTER.

NEW YORK Press: The Brooklyn disaster
should result in the punishment of all those
who were guilty of putting up the faulty stand
or of allowing it TO be put up. But it is an un-
solved conundrum whether or not any such re-
suit will be attained.
NEW YORK Times: We trust that some of
the persons injured will see if there is not in
the law some means of Furnishing what was
certainly a most reckless and outrageous piece
of business. That is the only way in which
security can be got for like occasions.
PHILADELPHIA Press: The expressed pur-
pose to investigate the giving way of one of the
stands at the football game in Eastern Park in
BROOKLYN, Thanksgiving Day, when about so
the letter, and the blame placed where it be-
longs.
NEW YORK Herald: Meanwhile what con-
Germs the public IS how far the officials of tie
BROOKLYN Department of Buildings are respon-
sibIe for the accident. 1t is to the vigilance
and competency of such officials that amuse-
ment seekers must trust for personal safety in
cases of this kind.
NEW YORK Star: An awakened public sem
timenS will demand that decisive steps be
taken to secure the immunity of the public
from the possibility of another such accident
that might easily be more disastrous than this
one was There must be conditions precedent
of permits for such structures that will insure
then absolute security.
PHILADELPHIA Inquirer: They ought to
be invariably subjected, as they are in some of
the large cities, to rigid and regular inspec-
tion, not only by the owners but by some disin-
terested person acting by legal authority. Es-
pecially should every stand be thoroughly over
hauled and made safe before the opening Of the
season of outdoor amusements.
NEW YORK journal: The inquiry since the
accident has brought out the singular fact that
inspectors are never sent TO the park to test
stands unless the contractors send notice that
such stands have been put up. This ought to
be remedied at once. 1t leaves the lives of
hundreds at the mercy Of any careless or incon-
siderate person who may wish to rent stands at
games
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
THE GREAT REDWOOD TREE.
Curious Particulars as to This Remarkab1
Worlds Fair Exhibit.

From the Illustrated News of the worldI
Van Doorman's great redwood tree for ex-
hibition at the Worlds Fair has arrived at San
Francisco from Portervile. Three cars were
required to haul the exhibit to the city, as it
weighs 10000 pounds. 1t will be exhibited at
the Mechanics Fair prior to being shipped to
Chicago.
The section of the tree was taken from Man,
moth Forest, in Tulare county. California. 1t
was cut from a forest giant 3l2 feet in height
growing at an enormous altitude, and was
severed from the trunk % feet above the stump,
at which point the tree measured so feet in cir
conference. The tree was larger at the stump,
but a section from the base could not be cut
for the purpose of transportation, for the SIM
pie reason that solid cut was taken of 20 feet
diametrically, and 8 feet IN height, and that
was the maximum of the railway freight limit
on fat cars.
The entire piece of wood consists OF l6 Sec
tions. as follows: The lower section is foot in
height by 20 feet in diameter, all IN one solid
cut. weighing 1928 pounds. This will be ar
ranged as q floor, placed on nine elegantly
carved and enormous pedeStalS made OF the
wood of the same tree. The next cut is feet
in height by 20 feet in diameter. which is hol-
lowed out and will be placed on the floor cut.
The last and final cut is one foot high, and
similar in every respect to the floor cut. The
whole of this remarkable curiosity will form a
sort of hall, and will accommodate 100 people,
and will be entered by a swinging door made
out of one of the portions of the second section.
Two hundred and fifty incandescent lights will
illuminate the section inside and out, and
number of wood carvers have been engaged to
manufacture souvenirs for distribution among
the visitors.
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THE JAIL-BREAKING EPIDEMIC.

Jail-breaking is becoming epidemic. A
batch of prisoners escaped from the Somer-
set county Jail last night, the Nicely mur-
derers among them. If this sort of thing
keeps up the murderers at large will out
number the murderers who prefer
to serve out their short sentences. The
Somerset Jail delivery seems to have
been neatly managed, and if a stronger
rope had been used the peaceful slumbers of
the vlgilant jailer would not have been dis
turbed. In the course OF time no doubt
murderers and other victims of our harsh
laws will be saved the trouble of escaping
from Jail, for it will occur to the intelligent
juryman that it is mere waste of his valu-
able time to bring in verdict of guilty.
Till the happy day of perfect immunity
from the consequences of crime shall arrive
we trust that prisoners will put up with ex-
listing facilities for escaping from Jail.
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comfort to him in standing up in street
car than there is in standing up on a street
corner; while the fact that he gets to his
home or his Office sooner by doing the for
mer, represents so much clear gain. Under
these circumstances it would be a very
doubtful legal compulsion to forbid him to
crafty his penchant for prompt transit,
even when it assumes strong resemblance to
the method in which cattle travel.
1t seems quite certain that the Philadel-
phia method of securing rapid transit by
making people wait on the streets until the
cars are not crowded would not earn the
popular approval in actual practice. Much
more tangible results are to be attained by
increasing the facilities ard establishing the
competitive influences which will make the
companies keen to attract business by offer
ing the best accommodations to the passen-
gers
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
WoODCHUCKING.
1ss in Yankee Blade.l

S. w. Foss in Yankee Blade.J
Ihave chased fugacious woodchucks over many
leagues of land,
But at last they've always vanished in a round
hole in the sand;
And though I've been woodworking many times
upon my soul
have never bagged my woodchuck for he always
found his hole.
But tits fun to 60 woodchucking when fellow is
boy,
When all Muscular exertion is exhilarating Joy.
Though you can't get near the woodchuck SOS to
touch him with a pole,
And the evanescent rascal always slides into his
hole.
How 1 chased the painting fugitive and raised the
battie-cry,
With a vision right before re of chunk of
woodchuck pie:
With vision right before me Of this culinary
goal,
Did reach to grab my woodchuck-and he van
ished in his hole.
And often 20 woodchucking-I have chased him
here and there
That lank, fugacious woodchuck, like q long
streak through the air;
For the projects have followed, as 1 neared the
eager goal,
Have made themselves invisible, and vanished in
their hole.
I have chased my hot ambitions through the
meadow, white with flowers
Chased them through the clover blossoms, chased
them through the orchard bowers.
Chased them through the old scrub pastures, till
with weariness of soul,
at last have seen them vanish, like woodchuck
in his hole.
But there's fun in chasing woodchucks, and III
chase the vision still,
If 1t leads me through the dark pine woods, and
up the stony hill;
There's glorious expectation, that still fingers
in my soul,
That some day I'll catch that woodchuck, ere he
slides into his hole.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
The Cipher Counted.

A T the organ recital in Carnegie Hall yester-
day just as Leonard Wales was striking
the final chord in the overture to Suppe's Poet
and Peasant the last pedal note stuck. The
result was that though Mr.. Wales ceased play
ing the fat pipe, the connection with which
had stuck, went on believing with the
enthusiasm of a young bull of Ba-
shan, to the organist's embarrassment
and the amazement of the audience. The
very excellence of the organs hydraulic
blower contributed to the disturbance, which
could have been stopped at once had the usual
small boy been at the bellows. The organ con-
tlnued to cipher. as the musicians call this au-
tomato sounding, and Mr.. Wales began TO
figure also how to stop the racket. He could
play nothing of course till the fat pipe should
be squelched.
The advantage of knowing something of the
mechanical part of the organ then became ap-
parent. Mr.. Wales took a lighted candle and
long screw driver and plunged into the organs
interior. He poked around the fats larynx
for minute or two and still the deep resonant
note sounded. Then he made another dive and
succeeded IN loosening the square block of the
pipe which had caused all the trouble, and the
roar died away ill remorseful wheeze.
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ATTIC SALT.

He lat II :j5 P. MI declare, the lamp is
going out!
she-Yes. The lamp seems to have some idea Of
time --AdTper's BdzdT.
CT came here" said the youth to the Bos-
ton girl ..for a little rest and peace of mind.''
"Ah!'' said she. ''You appear to have the piece
of mind: when do you expect to get the rest?''-
Neto York Sun.
"Aiut they rather strange names for
dogs?''
..Not at all. I've named them from their
literary suggestiveness. call one Edwin brood,
because his tail is cut of short, and the other
Howells. ''-Phttadetphfa Times.
Sanso-I see by the papers that great
many poor Italians max their fortunes in Amer
tca Iwonder how they manage it?
Rodd-It is quite simple. They come here and
work as laborers until they 800 $500, then
they 90 back to Italy and buy a title, and return
TO America and marry heiress.-Hdrper's
Bdzar.
Beggar Ito gentleman) - "Can't you
give poor man penny?''
GentlemAn-''HaveI't any change now. VIII
he hack this way soon.''
Beggar-"Ah, sir. it's giving credit to menlike
you that keeps me poor. .''-SDGre Aonsnts.
Boy of the Neighborhood - Wot's yer
name?
New Boy-Jim Hodge. wot's yourn9
'sTom Kadger. Got any big brothers3''
E'No.''
s.Father and mother b'Iong to church7,'
eyes; but don't. 1 know wOt yer a-drivin'
at Ifye want to fight l kin do ye up in two
minutes
adapting himself to changed condition OF
things)-'Let's you an me go an lick Bob Burn
ham. Chicago Tribune.
Impossible to Buy It.-Mrs Porkupine
(of the west)-Now, there is a charming imported
vase. Imust buy it ut any price.
IleaIer-It,s a fine niece. but Il Is Of domes-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
COLLEGES AND DISSIPATION.

Prof Goodwin Smith, in studying the case
of Birchall, recently executed for murder in
Canada, draws the following conclusion:
''That no boy should be sent to college who
does not show decided inclination to study,
is lesson which BIrchall breaches to US
from a ielon's grave"
The New York Sun declares this to be ''an
absolute non-sequitur, from his own premises
and apart from these premises is absurd"
1t supports this position by pointing out
the practical certainty that if Birchall had
been made machinist, an invoice clerk, an
artist or an articled clerk to an attorney-at-
law, he would have been just as likely to
have learned drinking and gambling as at
college. In taking this view the Sun
misses the point presented by Prof. Smith.
A college education is but method Of in
tellectual training. If all the time spent at
college is used in the education of drinking,
gambling and horse-racing it is worse than
wasted. On the other hand, the machinist,
shipping clerk or farmer is of some dis
tinct use to the world. He is a unit in the
great mass of productive workers, and
will do some good, even though his leisure
moments are given to dissipation.
There is every reason to believe that if
Birchall had been made a machinist or ship
ping clerk he would have been dissipated
and d1screditable productive unit; but in his
interval of sobriety he would, perforce of his
occupation, have done some useful and honest
work. On the other hand, his college career
not only defeated the legitimate purpose of
collegiate training, but left him wholly un-
fitted for honest work of any kind, and
turned him adrift only qualified to be use
less member of society with the resort to dis
honesty as the only means OF getting living
suited to his acquired tastes. In this view
their is considerable force and logic, in Prof.
Goldwin Smiths conclusion, that unless a
boy has an inclination to study, which will
make his collegiate course of some use to
him, it will be worse than wasted time to
send him to college.
But both Prof. Smith and the Sun seem
to miss one pregnant point iu this connec-
ton. That is the responsibility of those
colleges which permit the influences Of dis
sipation and vice to flourish about them, SO
that there is a greater certainty that the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

pany. Yet they have been travelling, and sight
seeing theater going. etc.. day and night
They don't even look out of the cabin windows
at the panorama of shipping in New York Bay.
They simply sit around and gravely watch the
rest and occasionally converse in a bored way.
The bride yawns and hubby gets up and goes
forward with cigar and looks away down the
Narrows and thinks. As soon as he has gone
she gets up and sits down again and sighs. He
is probably thinking of his business and she of
her home.
Then there is the jolly middle-aged couple
who knows thing or two. Widow and
widower, you could almost swear. And she is
so tickled at being married again she could
dance hornpipe right here before the whole
crowd. The happily married are not by any
means the least interesting of the bridal tide
that ebbs and flows between the Battery and
Bartholdi Statue of Liberty. You can see all
of this any day-almost any trip. The most
common and constant pilgrims at Liberty's
shrine are those who have just surrendered
their own liberty. CHARLES T. MURRAY.
NEW YORK, November 29
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
WITH INDIAN HARvEsTERs.
A Picturesque Account of Primitive Hus-
bandry in California.

bandry in California
Harvesting, with rude implements was
scene. writes General Bidwell in the December
Centuyu Imagine 300 or 400 wild Indians IN
grain field armed, some with sickles, some with
butcher knives some with pieces of hoop iron
roughly fashioned into shape like sickles, but
MANY having only their hands with which TO
gather by small handfuls the dry and brittle
grain: and as their hands would soon become
sore. they resorted to dry willow sticks. which
were split to afford sharper edge with which
to sever the straw.
But the widest part was the threshing The
harvest of weeks sometimes OF month, was
piled nm in the straw in the form of huge
mound in the middle of a high, strong. round
corral: then 800 or 400 wild horses were turned
in to thresh it, the Indians whooping to make
them run faster. Suddenly they would dash in
before the band at full speed. when the motion
became reversed, with the effect of plowing up
the trampled straw to the very bottom. In an
hour the grain would be thoroughly threshed
and the dry straw broken almost into chan. In
this manner have seen Z,VOo Dusneis OF wneat
threshed in a single hour.
Next came the winnowing which would often
take another month. 1t could only be done
when the wind was blowing. by throwing high
into the air shovelfuls of gram, straw and chah,
the lighter materials being waited to one side,
while the grain, comparatively clean, would
descend and form heap BY itself. In this
manner all the grain In California was cleaned.
At that day NO such thing as tanning mill had
ever been brought to this coast
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

BALTIMORE now comes forward with
police count which shows five per cent more
population than the census enumeration. The
American of that city strikes for record in
the field of logic by asserting that this proves
the correctness of the Federal census, but at
the same time asserting its belief that the real
population of Baltimore is 25.00O in excess of
either count. PIttsburg is likely to attain an
exceptional reputation as the one city of the
land which is contented TO sit down and accept
population ten per cent less than it is en-
titled to.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
DEATHS OF A DAY.
John Wesley Thompson.

MIR, John Wesley Thompson, former resident
of this city, died on Thanksgiving Day in Glou-
cester CITY N. j. Mr.. Thompson was for num-
ber of wears before the war in the hat business
with the Paulson Brothers, OF Wood street, and
afterward in the same business in Johnstown. He
served in the Union Army and was honorably dis
charged. OF late years he has been in business in
New Jersey. The deceased was IS years OF age
and leaves two children, DIR. Charles w. and Miss
Lizzie Thompson. of Meadville, Pa. He married
Miss Letita Taylor, of Greensburg, who died some
years ago, Mr.. Thompson was q brother OF the
late Moses Thompson, well-known local news
paper man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
Too Much Experience.

THE breakfasts had been bad for a week. the
dinners worse and in fact nothing Mt to
eat had come to table since the new girls arri-
val in the kitchen. The lady of the house was
deputed as a committee of one to inquire into
the administration of the culinary department,
and after the steak had shown up at breakfast
as dry as chunk OF wood with sprinkling of
cinders over it. she started on her perllous un-
dertaking.
Julia" she said timidly to the regal being
towering above the range; Julia, you've been
here week and we can't eat anything you
cook. You say you've had plenty of expert
ence as a cook, would you mind telling me
where?"
Sure an will, ma'am. 1 used to cook for
an Eyetalian boarding houser'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

CINCINNATI Councils have earned
record by laying resolution embodying the
Ten Commandments on the table. Ingalls, tried
to rule the same resolutions entirely out of
politics, but the people of Kansas seem to have
laid him on the table instead.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

THE talk of smoke consumers in connec-
tion with the return to coal in the mills is per.
tinent, if we are to regard the use of coal as
permanent. But now that the economy and
superiority of fuel gas has been thoroughly
learned by experience, why should not mills
and hOuseU be alike supplied by the cheap
manufactured variety.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30
THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE.
Evidence That English is to be the Tongu
of Earth's Millions.


The widest spoken tongue, says Spare
Moments is unquestionably English. More
than a third of the whole human race is under
the direct influence of the Euglish-speaking
people, whose language is native and dominant
throughout an area of more than 10,000,000
square mies-more than a fifth of the whole
habitable globe. In the United Kingdom, in
the United States, in British America, in
Jamaica, and numerous other West India
islands, in South Africa nearly up to the Zam-
besi, in Australia, in Tasmania, in New Zea-
land, in the isles of the Pacific, English has be-
come the mother tongue of the millions. 1t is
moreover, the official tongue of India, where
the knowledge of it is daily spreading among
the 2600O00OO. 1t is the language of the inter-
national commerce of China and japan. and
the language, also, of the high seas, being
spoken in every maritime port on earth. 1t has
the greatest literature, and more than half of
the entire worlds newspaper press is printed in
it. Yet in Sbakespeare's time English was
confined to three Kingdoms. and spoken only
by s. 0OO 600 folk.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

CONGRESSMAN J. D. TAYLoR's idea of
providing that a Congressional district shall
not have more than three or four thousand
majority either way will not be complete unless
it includes some means of Furnishing the OBJ iti-
nate voters who insist on running the majority
up above ,0O0.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

Mr.. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS st; te-
ment that be retires from the Union Pacific on
account of "a mutual lack OF confidence
tween himself and the majority stockholders,
is an epigrammatic statement of pregnant fact.
Perhaps it would have been just as we'll If the
mutual lack of confidence had begun before
Mr.. Adams first covered the Gould crowd with
the cloak of his respectabilIty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-30

THE proposition to pay City Councilmen
81, 900 annual salary has reappeared in Phila.
delphia. In the case of some kinds of Philadel-
phia Councilmen it would be better invest
ment to pay them S, 600 year to stay out of
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