Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-25
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
SHADOW chasers imagine that life is game
OF blind-man's-butf.

mgr IeS-nO Wen you can II you Watcn
| yourself. Think, now. Don't you reeollect
| that a week, a month. year ago, perhaps,
! you were thinking the same thing, had the
same idea, surrounded by the same fancies, as
| at present? Don't these little waits of the
mind, these hop o. my thumbs of the brain,
dance before Memory's eye when least ex-
pected, and didn't you pause TO think when.
where, how they came then and why they
come now? Certainly you have. for IL they
come to one of us they must come to all-these
1mps of the dim past, impressions of feeting
time. photographs of thought developed on
the sensitive plate of the Ever Present! And
how they do cross and recross the thought
line. making us chase backward, reversing,
cheating Time, as it were. If we are old
perhaps it's a boyish fancy; if young
babyish joy; if middle-aged a sun
spot in the dividing line between the
teens and the cyphers-coming directly
into the mind now as they came Then.
It's the When and the Then that puz-
zles us. They seem to be identical with the
Now. The physical self alone warps us the
mind is playing a trick; that the body cannot
be transported to the thought which flies back
to Yesterday. It has to do with Tomorrow
the tomorrow that never comes-the to-day
that is the connecting link with its reverend
ing successor. But the reality is with us-the
knowledge that the identical thing, thought,
fancy, dream is of the long ago. It is like find
ing lost toy-a plaything which would never
have been missed had we not though: Of it
again. And how we fondle it, little mite on the
shores of Memory cast up by the thought
waves that ebb and flow over the sands of
Time-some with the soothing swish-swash of
a summer sea, some with the angry roar of the
storm, on the crest of which rides the ghosts of
the past-the bogies that haunt, not the fairies
that cheer.
KENNEDYS speech has been expunged. He
will be wiped out at the polls some day.
DEATH seems to be tagging a good many
trains.
THE driver of the Chicago street car who
steered his load into the river watered the
stock of his company with vengeance.
THE baseball elephant has degenerated into
very small mouse. The way to undo a good
thing is to overdo it.
MEN boil over In hot debate.
THE railroaders who believe the proper way
to run a railway is to run the trains off the
track might be used to test the killing qualities
of electric wires. The students of electro
these human brutes should take the place
of dumb brutes in the volt tests.
BETWEEN barn-burners and transformers
the rural folk are having hard time.
THE American Court has been transferred
from the mountain top to the Potomac Flats.
The atmosphere is rather chilly in both spots,
too.
CANADA is boycotting Yankee fishermen.
The crop Of American liars win be short this
winter.
IT takes more time to put up Government
building than to frame Constitution.
THE speaker of every American house is the
woman who pushes the carpet sweeper, you
bet.
So UNCLE JERRY RUsK is going to run the
weather. He also has his eye on the Presi-
dency, they say. If Jerry and the weather
fail to hit it during plow time, all the seed in
his department will not purchase the granger
vote
THE farmer has a perfect right to water his
stock, but he should not cultivate mortgages.
THE swells on the sea, like those on the land,
are light-headed.
Is TERRY PowDERLY coquetting with the
political bosses? Indications point that way.
Remember Terre Haute Terry, and don't get
into another mess. The Knights are not in the
dark politically, and are perfectly able to act
independently on the vote question.
THE quickest way for an obscure Congress
man to become famous nowadays is to kick
down door or blackguard an opponent. Both
go under the rules.
BEAUTY seems to be running to waist. 1t
stays there, of corset does.
SOME of the publishers are putting the
American novels of passion in French clothing,
illustrating them by French artists, and aping
the French style all over They deserve credit
for clothing a wolf in its own skin.
Tw1NE has tied up the tariff bill in the Con-
ference Committee.
PENNSYLVANIA is preparing to send two
Stones to Congress. Some mud may be flung
before they get there. however.
DOCTORS are angry because the brethren who
advertise are doing big business 1t is very
easy to weed the true from the false. Printers
ink is not mixed with prescriptions by those
who use it and hold high class diplomas. Have
patience, gentlemen. If you advertise you will
get patients, too.
SPEAKER REED can break a deadlock, and
Kilgore can break paddock. One works with
q rule and the other gets there with his feet.
THE sports who speeded their horses in city
cemetery the other day committed grave
offense.
BOATS, like drunkards. often stick on bar.
PEOPLE living along the Bay of @ unite, Can
ada, are chasing the sea serpent. 1t is proper
to state that this is the barley malt section of
the Dominion and distilleries dot the beautiful
bay. The serpent is probably in the still.
THE mails have been closed to the lottery,
but the males are still purchasing tickets.
THE stylishly dressed fellow with no money
in his inside pocket is like a ship under full
canvas. He gets there wind.
MRS. GENERAL FREMONT, the widow of the
Pathfinder, is destitute. The country should
not wait for New York to start subscription.
She might starve meantime.
IL you want to vote pay your poll tax.
BALFoUR imprisons or shoots his political
obstructIonIsts. Military tactics instead of
parliamentary tactics rule in Erin.