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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
THE TOPICAL TALKER.



OVER the leafiess trees on the hillside hung
the mist Nature seemed to be in brown
study. What was Lot dingy brown was cheer
less, uniform gray. Stay! the mud in the road
which wound river-ward from the scattered
villas upon the hill was of a rich auburn tint.
The two pedestrians who plodded slowly
through the mud noticed every time theyraised
their feet that the mud was full of color The
mud was also tenacious: it clung to
the wayfarers' Shoes in way that would have
been cheering had real estate so acquired not
been valued at ridiculously low figures. They
did not talk much; walking monopollzed their
attention. By and by-as the day went on
they arrived at the railroad station, an am
bilious structure Of four boards and o railing.
As they shook and scraped the mud from
their feet-they were scrupulously honest, you
will observe-the younger and more athletic
traveller SAID: Il think the man who induced
you and me to build out here forgot to mention
one of the prominent advantages Of a rural
residence?'
Surely notI' said the other.
"Yes; for he might have said that after
winters acquaintance with an Allegheny
county road in its pristine glory the pavements
Of Pittsburg would seem perfectionp'
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10 so BY general reduction. The fact that

do so by general reduction. The fact that
it adopted the plan of paying a secret COM
mission to favored firm, seems, if the plea
is offered in good faith, to prove the inveter-
ate tendency of railroad management toward
illegal methods rather than to conduct their
business on open and impartial methods
If other railroad officials than those in
dIcteG in Chicago have been discriminating
they should also be indicted without delay.
When we have laws on the statute book,
forbidding such perversions OF chartered
powers they must be enforced without fear or
favor. The first step in the way of enforcing
the Interstate Commerce law is good one.
Although it has started late. 1t is to be
hoped that it will be followed up until the
railroads learn that the enactments of the
law are not passed merely for the fun OF the
thing.
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FOR sTANLEYs COMFORT.
Hotel Boarders victimize Themselves for
the Great Explorers Benefit.

Hotel Boarders victimize Themselves for
the Great Explorers Benefit.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArcH.l
BUFFALO. N. Y. Dec. 6.-During Henry M.
Stanley's stay here he stopped at the Niagara
Hotel, and some of the prominent boarders
there became the victims of their own too
hospitable feelings. They felt that SO great
hero as Henry NJ. Stanley and his wife should
have some apartments fitted to their fame
and station. Then, too, Henry was a bride
groom, VINO was spending his honeymoon in
the United States and getting 81. 900 night for
it, and it was thought that he would appreciate
some finely-turnished apartments.
Acting on this idea, many of the kind-hearted
women of the house united in contributing
various rare pieces of bric-a-brac. such as
screens, fancy rugs, pictures and other things
wherewith to beautify the bridal apartments.
Clocks were taken from the owners mantles,
easy chairs were polished up and sent to STAN
ley's rooms, walls were barred Of their pictures,
and as ii was for only one night, why the things
would never be missed. The joke lies in the
fact that Mrs. Stanley and her mother remained
for several days. and during that time the orna-
ments were greatly admired by them. Mean
while the other guests rooms contained scarce
ly anything-they looked rather bare.
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to be resisted by the ambitious. There is
prevailing idea that something like luck is in
volved in this business-that by some mysteri-
Gus way the laws of capital, brains and labor
may be circumvented and supply and demand
be ignored. The result is inevitably disastrous.
Yet the unfortunate experience of others will
teach few of these vain enthusiasts the lesson
of failure they will only learn for themselves
by actual experiment. These experiments are
launched at the rate of probably at least two
or three week the year round. Some OF
these are founded upon the bOldest fraud. and
live, while they live at all, by robbery of adver-
tisers and by blackmail of the timid and un-
wary, The number that partially succeed in
maintaining precarious footing is sufficient 10
tempt other literary spectators to follow IN
imitation. SO the birth of daily and weekly
Journals goes on. More money has been swal-
York than has ever been made legitimately Dy
the great newspapers of the day.
CHARLES T. MURRAY.
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A Cruel Blow.

A DEMOCRATIC Congressman travelled in the
same car with ex-President Cleveland from
Columbus to New York after the Thurman
birthday banquet last month. They were not
fellow-travelers in the ordinary sense of the
word, but after a while the Congressman went
forward and sat down beside MIR. Cleveland
The Congressman had a hazy idea of making
himself agreeable, but he had an uncomfort.
able feeling that his anti-Cleveland sympathies
were known to the big man beside whom he
sat. Still the influence of the Columbus love
feast was upon him, and he said unhesitatingiy:
"Mr. Cleveland, 1 congratulate you on your
work in the past-you were good President
and your administration one of the best the
country's ever had"
A large smile stole over Mr.. Clevelaud's face
and stayed there while the Congressman went
on: "But. Mr.. Cleveland, hadn't you better let
it 60 at that?'
And the smile on the ex-President's face
faded out.
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MAKING LIGHT OF IT.

"why did the soprano leave?"
..she said the preaching interrupted her conver-
sations with the tenor.''-Neto York Sun.
Sanso-There are as good fish in the sea
as ever were caught
Rodd-Better, if you believe the fishermen. Itn
always the big ones that get away.-Neso York Her.
aid.
He-I love you passionately, my darling.
she-Ahl That remark has the genuine engages
ment ring.-Tolon Crier.
''They say DIR. Koch's lymph is dutiable
under the Mckinley bill. Now, why should II
be?''
at fnterferes with home consumption n-Nsp
YORK Sun.
He-what would you do if man should
kiss you?
she-I,d give him as good as he sent.
Held kiss you for a cent.
she-How dare you? And without assont.-Nsu
York Herald.
One of the curiosities sent to the Patent
ONCE last week is the model of typewriter that
can be held on the knee.o There's nothing spe-
ciallv new about that IL we may believe the funny
papers.-Ee0 York Press.
Jeames Ito Mr. Montmoragonv, who has
called upon Mrs. Benthousand)-Mrs Benthou-
sand has sent me down TO say that she Is not al
home sir.
Mr.. Montmoragony (having swallowed his griel
i
Christmas Puck.
Brown-That was a curious blunder you
made in your note to Miss Smith. You dated II
1850 instead OF 1890.
Fogg-That wasn't a blunder at all, old fellow
1t was fine touch of gallantry on my part. ons
told me the other day she was only 35. and when
wrote to her thought L couldn't do less tnan
make the year correspond with her statement.-
Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Wredink (the old bookkeeperCIo-
day marks my fortieth year Of service Win you
sir.
Mr.. Hides-I was aware OF It, Mr.. Wredink. ana
Ihave arranged . little surprise for you. 14Ne
this alarm clock, with my best wishes Ior S0uA
continued promptness.-C Christmas PUCK.
MAIDEN OF CONCORD.
A philosophic maiden she,
Made up of ums and isms:
She sees the world through glasses olues
Her lips drop prunes aud prisms'
1 met her at the Concord school
When begged to share my lot,
She raised her soulful eyes and asked.
'rhe whiehness Of the what?'i
-Esp York Herald,
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LIES PAUSES.

from Blackwood's Magazine.1
A curious stranger environed in doubt,
An interrogation point toddling about,
A bundle of questlons-nothing more
Cooling and creeping upon the floor.
A,comma of sunshine, playtime to see,
The flower the bird. the brook. and the tree;
VISION of childhood - count one for the
pause
Aripple of laughter, golden clause.
st,Ie in the pathway, a summer day.
A blissful moment too sweet to stay;
Swift semicolon of youth divine
Count two in tracing the rGptured line.
An exclamation. "YoE! Oh, youH'
The same old story forever new;
An arrows flight to a soul new found,
A volume of love in a vowel sound.
A song. a prayer, marriage vow,
A compound word in the chapter now.
Only hyphen, but angels wait
And hush their anthem in heavens gate.
A CLEAN of light in the gliding years,
A colon of Joy in the mt appears;
A point OF hope In the heeting text
Our line continued in the next.
The sentence finished, gentle mound
By waving grass encircled round;
A period here. but not complete,
Merely q rest for weary feet.
A rest for the night till the morning wakes,
TIL the purpling east In glory breaks;
Faith writes dash for the great To Be-
Beyond Times braeket-Etefnity.
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Let Him Come In.

New York World.1
Why should not the brother in black have
place at the Worlds Fair? For the best part
of a century he was the axis on which this
country revolved. His presence made the
South and his absence made the West; his
labor has enriched the North, and his wrongs
have been the standing solace of that East
which is never happy unless calling attention
to some one else's sins. Talk of Grant and
Lincoln, of Jackson and Lee-who made them
but our friend in sable with the corrugated
hair? Behold in him the father of the tariff
and the cornerstone of the pension list. Great
in philosophy as in stateoraft. he sat snugly at
home strumming his banjo while the white
trash perforated each other, and when the per-
foration was over stepped to the front like a
little man and, giving each side shell, took the
oyster himself.
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Simply Brutal.

uVoU have taken severe cold" said the old
family doctor. 'and it seems to have
settled in your throat"
"Yes. doctor, you see can hardly speak,"
said the patient. a vivacious. bright-eyed young
woman.
Can you stand heroic treatment. do you
think?' asked the doctor.
TRY men'
"Are you sureT
"Yes, anything you like: medicine. mustard
plasters, electricity, anything" said she in a
breath.
"And you want to get back your voice"'
"Yesr'
sits heroic treatment. mind you"
"An right-what is itF'
you mustn't talk at all for two daysp'
HEPBURN JOHNS.
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WOODS OF NORTH AMERICA.

A Remarkable and Very Nearly Complete
Collection in New York.
From. the New York SLar.
There is the man who makes trees" is the
way Superintendent Wallace of the Metro
politan Museum of Natural History describes
s. A. Dill, who has for the past nine years been
with the Museum collecting and preparing for
exhibition the various species of wood of North
America
He is as much of an enthusiast over trees as
the donor of the collection. Morris X. Jessup.
His day dreams are of trees and he wastes the
midnight oil In the study of trees Through
his researches specimens of trees supposed to
have been entirely extinct have been found
and mounted.
1t is claimed now that the collection at the
Museum contains specimens of the wood of
every tree grown between the Rio Grande and
Hudson Bay, with four or five exceptions.
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THE REGULAR EXPERIENCE.

The experience of Columbus with natural
gas, as reported in special published else
where, shows that city has reduplicated the
experience of Pittsburg. The gas business
was commenced on the presumption that the
supply is inexhaustible. Contracts were
made in such form as to encourage the waste
of gas, and the methods of the business were
such that probably half the total outflow
was thrown away. This class of methods
has resulted in the discovery that the supply
is failing, and first the mills. then steam
boilers, and finally the largest furnaces, have
been cut of, while the price to domestic
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consumers has gone up steadily. The main
difference between Columbus and Pittsburg
has been that white it took four or five years
to go through $aat course here Columbus
has gone through it in half the time, and
has reached about the same stage that Pitts
burg has at present. Perhaps, by the time
that the gas companies and the public get
aroused to the value of economy in the use
of the fuel enough gas may be found to keep
up with fairly economical consumption.
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OF THE NEW INDIAN POLICY.

Education of the Indian Children VIII Pay
Best and Cost Least.
From the Boston Kerald.1
There are at the outside Sc. 900 Indian children
within the limits of the United States.
If but the will existed to take these resolutely
in hand, the instrumentalities are on hand for
changing them into orderly, Industrious. useful
American citizens. and the cost Of one military
campaign would pay for 1t ten times over.
1t is matter of rejoicing that so many ben
evolent, resolute and clear-sighted men and
women are to-day awakening to this conviction,
and that the new Indian policy is making such
heaiway
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
A Flag Presentation.

The flag presentation at Margaret A. Du
Shane Council, d. of L.. Thursday evening, was
an affair of considerable interest. The National
Councillor, ]. w. McCleary, was present and in
an appropriate address presented handsome
flag, the gift of the lady members. to the coun-
Gil. Mrs. l.. M. Huff responded pleasantly on
behalf of the council. Both speakers were
listened to with much interest. programme
of well-chosen musical and literary selections
was also presented.
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NO OFFICES WANTED.
The Only Thing That Mr. Magee Requested
of the Governor-Elect.

Inc Only ln1nS 1nab nurs IuaSee AeQuesteu
of the Governor-Elect.
From the New YORK Press.1
While talking with c. L. Magee, of Pittsburg,
about the recent Pennsylvania campaign. he
said to me: "Pattison didn't make mistake in
the whole course of his canvass. He knew
where his Republican support was coming
from, and he never said word that his Re-
publican supporters could take offense at.
When the Democratic national leaders wanted
to fill the state with Democratic speakers be-
cause Blaine and other Republicans were an
nounced to speak on the Republican side. he
refused to allow single speaker to come into
the State. This is local and not national
6ght' he told them. think know how to
win it. In any event, if do not win it am the
one that will suffer, and L propose to have my
own way abou. it. If you send Southerners in
here the bloody shirt will wave against me, If
you send Northern Democrats in here the
tariff will swamp me. l am running State
fight and don't want any outside interference
Have seen him since election? Oh, yes and
preferred my one request for his considera-
tion. 1 asked him to promise me that he
would not appoint single Republican to office.
I don't want. the country to think that the
Republicans who supported Pattison supported
him to get Offices
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

The Bank of England's reduction of its
discount rate to five per cent ought in time to
make things easier here. The monetary
squeeze in London made itself felt in this
country, although it took couple of weeks for
the full effect to be felt. The same lapse Of
time ought to bring US the full effect Of the re-
verse action. After the opening OF the new
year, unless some new contingencies arise, it is
to be expected that the money market will re-
turn to its normal condition.
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Yale Graduates In Lanan.

There are so Yale graduates in Toxic Japan,
says the New York Tribune, fact which
clearly indicates that Toxic is lively and pro-
gressive city in spite of its Oriental traditions
They are now about to form an alumni associa-
ton, the result of which will probably be that
Yale will loom up before the Japanese as the
one and only great American institution. The
next thing in order will be Yale alumni din
ner in Toxic, with Chauncey M. Depew as the
nrincipal orator.
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IT is interesting to learn from the financial
news in New York, with regard to the anthra-
cite coal companies that ''a meeting has been
called at which it is expected that all will agree
to restrict production for December" The
light which this throws upon the degree of re-
spect which the big corporations find it advisa.
BILE to pay to the Congressional enactment, is
instructive if not edifying.
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SCOTTISH NURSERY SONGS.
Their Wealth of Wit and Wisdom Awakel
Echoes in Many Hearts.

Their Wealth of Wit and Wisdom Awaken
Echoes in Many Hearts.
The great, all-pervading theme of the Scottish
nursery songs is love for the BARN, says the
Scottisli-An1ertcd,. As a general rule, the
words are put in the mouth of the mother, and
naturally her little is the sweetest prettiest,
best natured, best behaved, and in every re-
spect the most wonderful wean the world ever
saw. If the toddler has faults the mothers
love looks upon them as virtues, and even
naughty little pranks and thoughtless mischiefs
are passed over with kindly word.
'Mother's bairnie, mothers dawtie,
Wee, wee steering, stumping tottie,
BONNIE dreamer, guileless glee-n
Here is wee chap who we suppose in reality
was tumbling. fighting, mud-building.
greetin' noisy ettercap, ana yet in his mothers
eyes ne Is perfect paragon OF all the virtues:
Dor Tammy's Just as sweet BARN,
AS ane could wish to see.
While blythely binks his ee.
He never whimpers, greets nor girns,
Even for broken tae,
But rims and gets IL buckled up,
SYne out again to play.
1t is said that the late DR.. Eadie's mother de-
scribed him as just the opposite of the hero of
the ABOVE lnes-"a causeway saint and a hoose
dell" but nobody else would have dared to say
SO to her.
In these sweet songs the laddies do not come
IN Tor all the praise. as the girls seem to be
Just as precious to the mothers as the boys:
Her cen outshine the violet.
Wat wiz the morning dew
In her bright face the graces meet
Nae rosebud ere was half sac sweet.
Wee Peggie's kiss o. fondness
Delights bath auld and young:
And charming are the cooling notes
That warble from her tongue.
But such lassie as this is almost too good.
Here is another that somehow comes nearer to
our hearts:
Wee jouky daidles,
Toddlin' out and in;
Oh. but she's cutie,
Maxim sic dinI
Ave sac fou o. mischief,
An minds nae what say;
My verra heart gangs loup, 1oup,
Fifty times q day.
Wee jouky daidles,
For a ye gle me pain,
Ye're aye my darlin' tottie yet
NV ain wee weani
An'gin I'm spared to ither days
oh, may they come to passl
I'll see my bonnie bairEie
A Draw, Draw lass.
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The Second Course.

HE conversation had turned upon course
dinners. and some one had said that as
they had had soup, fish ought to be the next
course. Then by one of those sudden turns
conversation SO often takes the topic of the
Delamater failure came up. The little daughter
of the house broke in here with: Papa. Della.
matters in the SOUP isn't fie?" ,-
Papa admitted that the expression was in or
der
well. papa" continued Little Miss Bright
eyes, 'he was in the soup before, not long ago,
wasn't her"
"Yes, my dear, guess he was"
"Then." said she triumphantly, "he ought to
be in the fish this timer
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sTANLEY'S VISIT.
Preparations to Give the Explorer Rousing
Reception in This City.


Reception in This City.
Stanleys lecture on Monday, December Is,
promises to be the most interesting event
among the winter entertainments. Now that
it is drawing near, the curiosity to see the
great explorer is showing itself in inquiries
about the programme laid out for his visit
He will come in his special car, in which he is
making this lecturing tour, and will be accom-
panied by his wife, the charming woman who
won fame as a painter before she
linked her fortunes with his. 1t is not
intended that his privacy shall be
broken by any formal reception or other cere-
mony of welcome, but the audience in Old City
Hall will of course make Mr.. Stanley feel that
he has hundreds of warm friends and admirers
here The subject of his lecture will be The
Rescue of Emin Pasha, the Forests, Pigmies
and March Across Africa"
The sale of seats will commence on Monday,
December g. at Kleber & Bros music store.
The reserved seats will be 81 and $3; a limited
number on the platform with Mr.. Stanley to be
sold at IS. Admission will be 81.
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BY the way, the announcement that the
Pennsylvania Railroad will construct another
road along the line of the South Penn road
which. in language of the announcement, "the
Pennsylvania Railroad now CONTROLS" may
suggest to the incoming administration a suit
requiring the Pennsylvania Railroad to show
by what warrant it ignores the constitution and
violates the injunction of the courts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

THE report that Buffalo Bill intended to
capture Sitting Bull as a new feature of the
Wild West show and was prevented from doing
so by the Government, may perhaps explain
the exceedingly gloomy view which he takes Of
the Indian outlook after getting back from the
camp of the hostiles. The tendency of hu-
manIty to regard things as on the road to ruin
when its individual plans are interfered with,
applies to show managers as well as railroad
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07
Rare Musical Treat.

The congregation at the Belefield Presby-
terian Church will be treated to some choice
music to-day. W. G. Carroll. of Louisville,
and brother of R. w. Carroll manager of the
American Tube and Iron Company of this city,
ment he is a thorough master. He will be as
sisted by J. E. Kurkamp, well-known violin.
ist, also of Louisville, and Mr.. Ernest Beatty
the local organist.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

The news that the eastern rivers are
frozen solid indicates that the ice companies
will not have it all their own way next year.
But the blizzards have not yet come to Pitts
burg, to lower the pride and prices of our local
lords of the ice wagons
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

THE city officials are beginning to criti-
else each other on the subiecr of the appropria-
tion ordinance with much the same savage
spirit as the African explorers controversy
concerning the Emin Pasha expedition, or that
of the English and Irish leaders on the subject
of party harmony.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-07

THE Farmers Alliance Convention took
strong ground for the absolute prohibition of
lotteries Let us hope that no party organs
will discover In this action an evidence that the
Alliance is only cloak for the opposition
party
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