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MANY SUCH CAUSES.

General Booth, of the Salvation Army,
is on record as opposed to the game of foot.
ball, on the ground that it 'leads to the ex-
citement of the passions, to profanity and
to the abrasion of the limbs" The newspa-
per reports of that fashionable and pugnaci-
GUS sport support the Indictment; but is the
conclusion justified? Must we abandon
everything that has these results, irrespec-
tive of the consideration whether the benefit
to be secured by repressing these evil ten
denotes, is not full compensation?
There are a large number of phases OF
poor humanity which produce these results.
Hurrying to catch an accommodation train
or the last cable car, only 20 see it disappear
just before you reach it, is a sure provoca-
tion of excitement and profanity, and it
only falls short of abrasion on account of
the limited ability of man to kick himself
The feminine ingenuity which leaves a
rocking-chair in the center of dark room
for you to fall over when you 60 in to light
the gas is likely to discount football, In
all three respects. The stovepipe, as a pro-
vocative of profanity and abrasions, is the
favorite theme of professional humorists.
But for that reason shall we eschew cable
cars. rocking-chairs and stovepipes? The
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

MRS. ]. ELLEN FOSTER will presently sail
for England for the summer.
SENATOR HoAR has purchased the summit
of Asnebumskit Mountain, in Paxton, Mass
Hon. THOMAS F. BAYARD will address the
Huguenot Society of South Carolina at Charles
ton April IA.
EN-. SCOTT. of Liverpool. Eng, the wealth.
lest shipbuilder in the world, is travelling in
this country.
MIR. WATTERsoN will make the annual ad-
dress before the South Carolina Press Associa-
tion at Charleston on April 80.
CHRISTINE NILSSON, so the London papers
say, is to come out of her retirement to sing at
the farewell concert of Sim Reeves in June.
GENERAL JUBAL EARLY has given 81. 900 for
the expenses of the exercises at the unveilng
of the Lee monument at Richmond Va, on
May g.
ONE of the rich men of Denver is Lewis
Price, colored man, who is engaged in the
real estate business and who is worth about
s20O,000.
NINE. PATTI so pleased the Bostonians that
as an AthenIan critic says, "the dropping of a
clothespin could have been heard all over the
hall when she was singing"
MINISTER FRED GRANT. in a private letter,
speaks of the delightful experiences he and
his wife are having in Vienna. Mr.. Grant con-
templates another visit there this summer.
The Prince of Naples, heir-apparent to the
throne of Italy. will spend the coming summer
In tour of the European courts looking for a
wife. The Prince is a dark, slender youth, not
bad looking, but with ; very delicate constitu-
tion.
HELEN ALLINGHAM, widow of William ALL
ingham. the poet and song writer, has been the
recipient of great compliment. She is the
first of her sex to be elected a member of the
English Royal Society of Painters in Water
Colors. The society consists of forty men,
bers.
LORD SALISBURY has got so far along in his
study of the history of free institutions as to
admit that George Washington was man of
integrity and patriotism whose character was
pledge of the stability and wisdom of the
nation he helped to create.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
WITH THE SHARP ENDS UP.

| Scan you tell me, little girl, why we
/ pray for our daily bread?'' asked Texas Sunday
/ school teacher of her pupils.
'.Because the bread would get stale II we didn't
get 1t every day. - replied the little cherub,
"Where is you hired now, Matildy?"
'l,se working now for de most ,spectable.
| high-toned folks in Austin. Dey am well fixed
shore.
HAS dey got silberware and sIch?''
II should say so. Dey has silber tin pans, and
de copper biler in de kitchen am pure gold."
Cross Examining Counsel-Isn't your
husband burglar
Witness-Y-e-s.
Cross Examining Counsel-And didn't Won
know he was a burglar when you married himP
Witness-Yes; but was getting little old and
/ had to choose between burglar and LAWYER
so what else could do?
Lady of the House-I don't want any of
your burglar alarms.
Agent-That's just what the lady next door said.
Lady of the House ION the alert)-Said what2
Agent-That 1t was no use of me calling here as
you wouldn't need any, because you had nothing
to steal, but L thought L
Lady of the House (gritting her teeth)-Gfye me
three.
"They tell me that you have been travel
ing through Arizona said one young actor to
another.
yes
''Nice country?''
''Good enOugh.''
''what seems be the prin cipaI product
there?''
s'Eggs. Washington Post.
You needn't put on no airs, you yalIer-
faced piece. We keeps a COW, and has got a new
in de Blue Light Tabernacle, besides, " were the
words of Miss Matilda SNOWFALL who is as black
as night, to a sadde-colored friend.
81 don't keer eff we hadn't got no cow ".
keeps a goat, and my mudder is gwlne to bab 4.
carbuncle on de back OBJ her neck was the
crushing reply.
Seattle-We've got the biggest Wash in
the Union.
Jackson-And we the prettiest Miss
PhiladelDhia-And we the wealthiest Pa
Hot Springs-But are the most ancient. ,x.
have got the Ark.
Bangor-And what's the matter with Me2
New York-Hush, children, about vour foibles.
you will make little Chicago Ill with enyy,-Yeps
York Herald.
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RIVALS AT GERRYMANDERING.

The photographic representation, else
where, of the achievement by the Ohio Dem
ocrats in the Congressional redistricting
of that State. proves that the Democracy are
fully up to the political methods of the day.
One of the leading occupations of both par
ties for the past few years has been rivalry
as to which can most vigorously denounce
the gerrymanders of the other party and at
the same time perpetrate the most grotesque
and ingenious parodies on an honest and
fair apportionment in their own interest.
The Ohio achievement discounts all previous
records and the Ohio Democracy can plume
themselves on having most utterly discarded
the obligation to honest popular govern
ment in the attempt to secure party advan-
tage- But the Republicans are consoling
themselves with the hope that opportunity
will yet permit them to show the same
qualities to a greater degree.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
Misdirected Kindness.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
see by recent number of THE DISPATCH
that two clergymen are endeavoring to secure
pardon for mail clerk who has been SEN
fenced to years Imprisonment for purloining
the contents of certain letters intrusted to his
care. Knowing nothing of the personality of
the thief in this case. 1 say. freely, that kind
ness could scarcely be further mlsdirected than
in such efforts.
A moments reflection will convince anyone
that no species of theft can be more heinous
and that the sentence was ridiculously light.
You have a valued friend in a strange city, ill
and temporarily destitute. He writes you and
asks small remittance which you eagerly send
him. The letter falls into the hands of the
thief and is rutnlessy destroyed. Your friend
awaits in an agony of expectancy the relief
which never comes, and the feeling that his
dearest friends have forsaken him is added to
his other sufferings. 1t is fatality of this kind
of stealing that even when the contents of the
letter cannot be appropriated by the thief he is
compelled in most cases to destroy the letters
he opens and thus cause untold sufferings to
persons in distress endeavoring to communi-
cate with their friends. Instead of greater
leniency. far heavier penalties are called for in
these cases. II.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
REEDS MANY FRIENDS,

Congressman No Longer Denounce the
spenker-His Revolution Complete and
Snii sfn Glory Popular Sentiment To-
ward Hnrrison-A Mystery in Western
Pennsylvania Politics.
tFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON. March Gas one looks to-
~ day at big Tom Reed" in the chair of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, one
can hardly realize that it is only few weeks
since a mob howled about his ears such as was
never before seen in peaceful times in legis-
latiye body. The epithets "tyrant" ''czar,"
dictator" ''revolutionist," were boldly
hurled" at him, and other even less acceptable
epithets were banded about in lower tones
Every Democrat denounced him as matter of
party policy, though many of them secretly ad-
mitted the good sense of his position, and even
many Republicans looked on with concern.
They feared the public would not understand
and that Reeds course would "hurt the party"
1 take some satisfaction in saying that de-
Tended him and predicted that as soon as tie
storm was passed Democrats and Republicans
alike would be satisfied with the great reform
in methods of legislation.
Is there one now who denounces Reed? Not
one. He has the respect of the whole House
and OF the whole country among those who did
not stop contemplation of the man just at the
Wuou ne WAS luOSL IulSuHucIsbOOu liz
maintains better order than any recent Speaker.
Legislation moves along Irippingly. The GRIM
inal nonsense of the professional obstructor is
buried and almost forgotten. Not Democrat
in the House would have the rules changed
back to the old form if he could. The revolu-
tion is complete and satisfactory. AgaInsttheir
own will the Democrats have been delivered
from the filibustering bores of their own party,
and that is something that should induce them
to immortalize Reed
The only persons who now curse the Speaker
are the ex-members of Congress who make use
of the freedom of the floor of the House to
ply their lobbying schemes, and who have been
privately informed by the Speaker that they
must absent themselves or he will publicly
was the most courageous, the biggest bit of
common sense. the most beneficent in its re-
suits, of any that is due to the judgment of
one man within recent American history.
Amid the paltering and pettiness and narrow
ness of the politicians of the day Reed looms
up as a giant; aud unkind as it is to others,
one cannot help thinking how proud one would
unavoidably be if he were at this moment in
the Presidential chair. He is well enough in
the Speakers chair now, however. For the
other he can afford to wait two or three years.
The Republicans have become accustomed to
clamor for Man from Name" Let them
continue to cry. and in support of the very
biggest man from Maine, physically and intel
lectually. ever grown among the tall pine trees
of that resiniferous State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
DOES HE MEAN IT!

The sensation caused bv the retirement Of
Bismarck during the past week is fully
rivaled by the surprising character of the
report concerning the reception of NJ. Jules
Simon by the German Emperor. The state
ment is that the reception to the French
statesman was very cordial, and that the
latter having referred to the subject of the
naturalization of Alsace and Lorraine,
William replied that sit was never too late
10 discuss a question that concerned the
friendly relations of the two countries. !"
This intimation of willingness to permit
even a discussion of the concession by Ger
many of any part of her conquests under the
last reign is not less an indication that
matters may be turned upside down than
the relegation OF the great Chancellor to
private life.
Indeed the two matters may have more
than an ordinary close connection of cause
and effect. Whether the German Emperor
meanG what he SAYS, or is simply holding
out far promises to the French in order
to secure their adhesion to the
present move, it is such a course
while he had any influence. To relax the
German grasp on the conquered provinces
would be giving up the crowning achieve
ment Of his career; to delude an opponent
by holding out indefinite promises which
were never meant TO be performed would be
wholly repugnant to the grim diplomatist
who, whatever his faults, always rejoiced in
his success at hoodwinking his opponents
by saying what he meant and letting the
diplomatic liars suppose that he meant
something else. 1t is not strange, if Bis
marck would prefer to throw away all his
power and favor, rather than talk of loosen
ing the German grasp on Alsace and Lor-
raine while he was in office.
But is the young Emperor willing to give
away something on the Rhine to France in
order to carry out his role of pacifcator
and imperial philanthropist. or does he say
this to delude the French while strengthen
Ing himself in other quarters? If he is
r eady to take such measures to secure the
pacifcation of Europe he will prove that
the world has estimated him wrongly and
that his ambition is of finer class than any
one gave him credit for. But 1t takes
large amount of faith to suppose that he
really means it.
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The Southsiie's Claims.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
see that Mr.. Bigelow is quoted as favoring
the William Carr homestead, at Point Breeze,
for the Central Carnegie library. Talking with
representative people on the Southside learn
that they are very much dissatisfied with the
drift of newspaper interviews which point to
the East End as the center of population. In
none of these interviews have the growth IN
population of the Southside been considered
or the inaccessability of the laborers there to
an East End site. The labOring men persist
that it will only be run for the society class IL
In the East End. The West End, too, comes
under this head.
To one unacquainted with recent develop
ments on the Southside, the increase in popula-
ton is astonishing. especially in the hill dis
trlct. 1t is justly argued that the site should
be chosen with a view to the future. In this
regard it is pertinent to consider that it is only
question of time when Knoxville, Beltz-
hoover, Mt. Oliver and a greater share of st.
Clair township will be annexed to the city. In
the West End the growth is the same.
Chief BigeIOw said that one fare of 5 cents
would carry anyone to the library, if at Point
Breeze. How about the Southside, Mt. Wash
ington. Duquesne Heights and the West End :
1t is said that these locations represent nearly
one-third of the population of the city.
LOYAL SOUTHsIDER.
PITTsBURG, March ..
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DIED WITH THEIR BOOTS ON.
Six Sheriffs of Crawford County, o., Meet
sudden md Tragic Deaths.

Six Sheriffs of Crawford County, o., Meet
sudden md Tragic Deaths.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
FINDLAY, March 23-The fact that ex-
Sheriff Joseph C. Worden. of Crawford county,
who few days ago was killed by being run
over by an engine on the Erie railroad, was the
sixth sheriff of that county to meet a sudden
and violent death, makes interesting the de-
tails of the unparalleled fatality, which has at
tended every man who has held this office, in
Crawford county, for the past three decades.
The first sheriff to meet tragic fate was w.
c. Beal. who was elected to the office in 1853
and after serving out his time was killed by
being run over by locomotive, near Bucyrus,
in 1868. His successor was John Franz who
was chosen to fill the place at the general cleo
ton in 1857 and IL years thereafter. in 1862
suddenly dropped dead on the streets of Bucy-
rus. The next man to fill the office was John
kissinger. who was elected in 1861 and was also
killed by being run over bv train near Boyan,
in Williams county, in 1871.
D. L. Keplinger took charge of the office by
virtue of the suffrages of the people in 1865,
and after having served his time out, was
violently precipitated from his suky to the
ground by q runaway horse, and sustained in
juries which resulted in his death at his home
In Bucyrus in the year 1862 Keplinger's sue
cessor James Worden, who was elected in 1867
and held the office for two years, sustained in
juries from falling wall, from which he never
fully recovered and died result of the ac-
cident at Gallon in 1915 The sixth sheriff to
meet death in sudden and violent manner,
was Joseph c. WOrden, whose tragic end, by
being run over on the Erie road, by a train
about month ago. as already mentioned. COM
pletes chapter of fatalities attending men
as remarkable as was ever recorded in the book
of fate.
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1T LEADS, OTHERS FOLLOW.
The Dispatch the Newsiest and Most ReIia.
Bile of All the Great DaiIies.

Bile of All the Great Dailies.
From the East Emporium independently
THE PITTSBURG DAILY DISPATCH is en-
phatically one of our newsiest and most relia-
BILE exchanges, and has well earned its great
and still increasing popularity among all classes
of readers. 1t is an SPACE paper five days
of the week, a 12-page paper one day
Saturday and 2Opage paper on Sunday.
The Sunday edition is of wonderful growth and
popularity. Its bona fide circulation is now
over $4,000 and is increasing rapidly. and no
wonder, for the matter selected for its literary
columns is from the best authors both at home
and abroad. Then there are interesting cable
letters. sporting and business notes fresh from
all parts of the world andlwritten up in style
to make them interesting to everybody who has
taste for reading.
The daily issue of THE DISPATCH, which has
ever maintained the lead, will continue to offer
the best things going in the news line. Its re-
liable market reports, vast news getting ma
chinery (includIng leased wires to all principal
points, with bureaus in the chief cities),
and its earnest, progressive and inde-
pendent policy, have earned for
it a national reputation and made it
a household word in Western Pennsylvania
and Eastern Ohio. This is not fancy sketch.
In a word THE DISPATCH is all and more than
we have said OF it. Try it and test our truth
fulness and judgment
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
A GOod Word for Harrison.

7 CANNOT say that 1 have been able at any
time to find anything enormously admir-
able in President Harrison, but neither can l
find those contemplate qualities which seem
to be taking popular root as the embodiment
of the man. As have always had horror of
the wanton destruction of animal life,
not being able to think of its de-
struction even for so-called necessity
without a shudder, it is natural that
1 should be averse to any enthusiasm over
duck-shooting craftsmanship. There must be
something wrong in the composition of that
man who can riddle with bullets shy and harm
less birds, marvellous in their plumage prettier
in every way than any human he that ever
walked the earth.
Withal, the President is not as black as he is
painted. cannot quite jump with Senator In
gals, as illustrated In the story that when In
gals was informed that the President had de-
cided to appoint one of his own friends to po-
sition in Kansas which was wanted by the Sem
ator for a staunch political servitor of his, In
gals shouted at his informant: "One of the
Presidents friends One of the Presidents
friends! That is lie, sir. for the President has
not friend in KansasW Neither do agree
with the spirit of the story told of an Indian
ian who called to see his old friend Harrison
only few days ago. Presenting himself to the
lackey at the door. he stated that he was from
Indianapolis and wanted to see the President.
HE cannot be seen," said the otficious lackey.
What is that you say?n exclaimed the HoOsier
incredulously. He cannot be seen." SAID the
lackey with added emphasis. 'Cannot be seen?"
cried the now thoroughly alarmed colleague of
the President. Cannot be seen? Well, I've
heard that Ben was growing smaller and
smaller every day. but didn't suppose he had
grown so small that he could not be seem"
l must insist that the President is not with
out at least one friend in Kansas, that he is not
SO small that he cannot be seen, and that he
really has mind above duck killing. but 1
must nevertheless express fervent hope that
a day will come when Presidents will be nomi-
mated for some other reason than the accident
of their residence in doubtful State.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24

A SAN FRANCISCO crank has prophesied
that New York. Chicago and San Francisco are
to be destroyed by an earthquake on april Il, and
has created sensation among the people of San
Francisco, some of whom are selling their real
estate at sacrifice. Exactly how they will
find their money more useful than their lots, in
case they are swallowed up by a cataclysm,
these deluded individuals have omitted to ask
themselves. Some portions of the public are
unable to learn anything from the repeated
failures of the Virgins variety of prophets.
That last-named perennial nuisance has just
repeated his record by prophesy1ng a universal
and overwhelming storm for last week, which
perversely failed to put in an appearance.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
RELIGION of the Presidents.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
In your answer in Saturdays issue to the in
quiry to 8. J. in relation to the religion of our
Presidents, you say nearly all of them were
members of some Protestant denomination.
In this, if have read history correctly. you are
in error. Our first President was a communi-
cant of the Church of England but from Wash
ingtou to Garfield not President was a mem
ber of any branch OF the church or any Christian
sect. Mr.. Garfield was Cambellite; Mr..
Arthur was a COMMUNICATE of the Episcopal
Church, and we all know that Mr.. Harrison is
an elder in the old school Presbyterian Church.
For Christian country this is not very COM
plimentary record, nevertheless it is true.
NEW BRIGHTON, March %. E.
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TEMPERANCE MEN PREFERRED.
Reading Railroad Employees Must be Care.
full About Drinking.

President Corbin, of the Reading Railroad,
has issued the following order: "All superin-
tendents will be held strictly responsible for
the enforcement of the Iule relating to the use
of intoxicating liquors by employees. Men who
violate it must be promptly discharged, and
proof that man goes inside drinking place
while on duty will be ample evidence to war
rant his immediate dismissal. Men known to
drink to excess or frequent drinking places
while off duty must be discharged. When en-
ploying new men strict inquiry should be made
as to their habits, and preference always given
to those who do not use Intoxicating liquors at
all. Heads of departments must keep in
formed as to the habits of the men under
them, and make sure that these rules are
strictly observed"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24

sufferers from the rockIng-chair vice, who
have no particular use for that article of
furniture themselves, might vote in favor
of its abolition. But mankind will agree
that we cannot dispense with everything that
produces profanity, passion and abrasions.
The collegiate logic, such as it is. will
probably come to the same conclusion con-
cernipC football.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-24
The Reunion of PENNSYLVANIA Regiments.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.1

The Reunion of PENNSYLVANIA Regiments.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.l
The reunion at Harrisburg on Tuesday next
of the division, composed entirely of Penpsyl-
vania regiments, which under the command of
General John F. Hartranft recaptured Fort
Steadman just % years ago, will be an occasion
of more than ordinary interest to the soldier
element of the State. 1t will be the first re-
union of the division, whose officers and pri-
Yates are now scattered over many portions of
the country. This division has the distin-
guished honor of being one of the only three
divisions in all the Union armies that were
composed entirely of troops of one State, and
Pennsylvania has the honor of having fur
nished all three of these divisions. Each of
them rendered distinguished services and the
successes of the Pennsylvania Reserves at
Fredericksburg and of General Hartranfts di-
vision before Petersburg were among the most
brilliant feats of the war.