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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
OF A PERSONAL NATURE.

THEODORE TILToN says he will never return
to America.
BENJAMIN P. sHILLABER (Mrs. Partington)
has passed his 10th birthday.
THE President left Washington for Cape May
Point, where he will remain week.
THE Misses Emily and Georgiana Hill have
started school of journalism in London.
MRS. THOMAS A HENDRICKS and her sister
and niece have gone to the White Mountains.
CONGRESSMAN REYBURN, of Philadelphia,
has bought an island of the coast of South
Carolina.
LORD BRAssEY owns 10000 acres in Aus
tralia. A man with such name ought to own
the earth.
COLONEL INGERsoLL believes that when he
lives through February, he is safe for the rest
of the year.
STANLEY is reported convalescent. and DR..
Parker who has been attending him, has re-
turned to London.
EX-GOVERNOR WARMoTH ,and family have
journeyed all the way from New Orleans to
enjoy the invigorating atmosphere of Sea Girt.
ONE of Horace Greeleys nephews is a bar
ber In a little town in Warren county, Pa. In
personal appearance he is not unlike his distin-
guished uncle.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN will attempt to
beat the record of a trip around the world. He
will leave Tacoma August Z, on the steamship
China. and calculates that he can make the
trip of the globe in 81 days.
ONE of the hardest-worked men at Long
Branch is George NJ. Pullman. Of palace-car
fame. He makes full time every day, even IL
he does ride in a coach and smoke 81 cigars
that have been packed in rose leaves.
MRs John A. LOGAN is still in Washington,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
A QUESTION OF SUPREMACY,

The assertion is made by a member of the
Pennsylvania corporation that the corpora
ton towns or controls the right, title and
franchises of the South Penn" and there
fore that sit would be reasonable to sup
pose that it would complete the South Penn
or have it constructed under its control and
in its interest,"" This is evidently conclu-
sive from the corporation point of view; and
the Pennsylvania Railroad interests natu-
rally intimate that there is nothing more to
be said.
But when it is asserted from Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad sources that it owns or controls
the South Penn, is it not a matter of some
Importance to the public that it is forbidden
in general terms by the. Constitution to
purchase, lease or in any ,oay control"
such a parallel or competing line; and that
it has also been specifically forbidden by an
injunction of the courts to purchase or ac-
qui7e control of this very line. In other
words, we have the assertion of Pennsylva-
mia Railroad authorities, as reason for their
action. that they have already done exactly
what they were forbidden to do by both the
Constitution and the courts. In other words,
the issue presented to the people by these
avowals is that of directly overriding by
sheer corporate notification, the constitu-
tional law and the mandates OF the courts in
this specific case.
1t is little difficult to see how the ques-
tiou could be more unmistakably laid before
the people of this State, whether the Consti-
tuition or the corporations shall be supreme
in Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
THE SPECTRAL SPECIAL.

The s'Fast Mafl'' lay on the side track, for the
s'Night EXPRESS was late,
1t had passed the .lower crossing" and was
darting through sthe gate,'
When the flashing of its headlight showed the
fatal misplaced switch
To brakeman of the Mail Train," who stood
waiting by the ditch,
Quick as lightning past the engine, scorching
with Its fiery breath,
Leaped the man and grasped the lever, saving
scores from instant death.
But alasl the trescherous engine struck him as 1t
thundered past,
And that act OF noble daring was the faithful
brakeman's last.
The "Fast Mail'' had reached its station, but the
mangled brakeman lay
Dying while his sad companions watched his life
blood ebb away.
unjust die here boys, D tell me? Is there time
to take me back
To my Maryg to Detroit, once more over the old
trackyr
But his comrades stood In silence; none had
heart to say him nay,
For his Mary and Detroit were full two hundred
miles away.
Minutes passed. the changing shadows fitted o. 'er
his lowly bed.
When the friend that leaned above him sadly
whispered 'Charley's deadr'
"Ah, he was a noble fellow, kind and generous,
always true"
Then the deathly lips were parted and they cried
out 'KalamazooI'
Then his comrades knelt around him, wiped the
death damp from his brow,
Looked in wonder at each other, neither breath or
heart beat now!
Yet he raised his hand and shouted. jackson, {"
his set eyeballs cleaned like stars,
passengers for all stations, Saginaw road,
change cars!'
For q moment dead. dead silence, then "Ann
Arbor'' pierced the night
With strange unearthly accent half of anguish.
half Of fright.
Many trip the faithful Charley had made over
the old track,
Hut tonight a spectral special takes the dying
brakeman back.
ssYpsilanti, the voice weakened, '.Change-
Observation-Disclosures
Z. IRIS his last run, f" said comrade. while the
tears like rivers flowed.
..9rand Trunk junction." then silence, every
watcher held his breath,
,.N.rvn ..Mary,n DE, he ALTERED mot
Detroit-it was death!
-Eusa Lamb Martyr, In the Boston Globe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31

THE usual attitude Of the Standard Or
gans toward THE DISPATCH moves the Oil
City Derrick to evolve assertions that The
DISPATCH began its bear movement on PENN
sylvania oil by singing pans to Lima oil" and
demanded q certificated standing for Lima oil
when there was practically no competition"
As THE DISPATCH never had bear move
ment, never sang p@ns to Lima oil,
and never demanded certiicated stand
ing for it, the Derrick gets about as near the
truth as is customary for Standard organ. 1t
is, however, interesting olearn from that sheet
that the Standards position is ''paternal." Its
acts are decidedly in the line Of paternal gov
eminent, and the Derrick is Of the class Of Or
gans which, as pointed out yesterday, exist un-
der the fostering care of paternal government.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31

AFTER sitting o day and half Mason
| county, KY, grand jury could find nothing upon
| which to hang indictment, and they were dis
missed. There hadn't been sheep stolen in the
county or anything Of a criminal nature-only
two or three men shot.
A FIRM in Somerset, Pa, has added the prop
| agation Of tarantulas to the enterprises Of that
city. The eggs came free of duty in bunch Of
bananas.
MRS HETTY GREEN has possessed herself of
another towering block of Chicago property, tor
| which she wrote her check in o neat feminine
| hand for s4O0 900. The fair and irrepressible
| Hetty is evidently in the natatorium.
SOMEBODY entered the stockade at st. Joe
and stole one elephant, two camels and five horses
from the receiver Of a collapsed circus firm. The
elephant was permitted to take his trunk along.
but the camels are expected to pack on the road.
| A SUCKER weighing $50 pounds was caught
| on a tape-line in Lawrence, Mass. A postofhce
clerk was asked to hold one end of the line while
the man at the other end took some measure
ments on the outside of the building, and his &C.
complice went in and appropriated S125.
WHEN W. Jennings Demorest, the New
York pattern maker and Prohibition candidate
| for Mayor, finds the voters have been biased by
| former party affiliations and they gore him under
|
side pockets, he will no doubt be somewhat rufled
instead of Dasquing in the sunsine of political
! preferment.
Down in Alabama they see their guests to
their rooms by bottles filled with lightning bugs.
| The guest, in order to keep up proper iumina-
| ton, must shake the bottle to agitate the bugs
with one hand and disrobe with the other.
| A MINISTER in the town of Mendon. VT. has
| been fined s33 81 for unlawfully catching trout
| under six inches in length" Served him right.
| No one who cares anything for his reputation
| would catch fish under six inches in length,
either lawfully or otherwise.
| STANLEY is regarded as a great discoverer,
| but wait till his wife asks him to find something
in the pocket of her dress hanging in the closet.
| The junglc OF the Dark Continent are nowhere in
| comparison.
THE Washington Star says: Times have
changed and we have changed with them. In 1872
| our cry was, Free Trade and Sailors Rights "
| Now England cries. ''Free Trade and Sealers'
| Rights,,'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31

Judge Henry B. Tompkins, OF Atlanta, who
supported General Harrison for President on
the tariff issue. although previously lifelong
Democrat, are entitled to fair consideration IN
stating their objectionsto the proposed FEEDER
al election law" 1t is little difficult to per-
ceive any other significance to this statement
of Judge Tompkins' claims to consideration
than the avowal of the converse proposition
that men of the South who did not vote Tor
Harrison are not entitled to fair consideration
in stating their objections to the Federal cleo
tion Law. Practical manifestations of that idea
have been visible in Congress; but it is refresh
ing to find an organ coming SO close to plain
statement Of it
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
Driveway co schenley Park.

To the Editor OF The Dispatch:
Now that schenley Park is an assured sue
cess. the public should have. by all means, q
good drive leading from the lower part Of the
city out to 1t. This is q question that requires
no argument. and 1t also requires no argument
to sustain the assertion that at present we have
none. Liberty avenue and Center avenue, that
have been namsd as such by Chief Bigelow and
others have their objections that are apparent
to all. The writer begs permission TO suggest
the following through the columns of your es-
teemed paper:
Erect bridge, say at Ross street, end Of
Second avenue park, for entrance, and let it
span the railroad tracks at Try street and as
far up Second avenue rs necessary. This much
for the accommodation Of Southsiders and Sec
ond avenue generally, thereby avoiding the
well-known obstruction to travel at this point.
Connecting with this bridge and directly over
the railroad tracks branch could be
built that would circle around the old
glass works property. and lead to Bluff
street on Boyd's Hill. Thence along
Bluff street to Soho. At this point there might
be some little trouble to get on the opposite
side of the hollow, but 1t could be done; thence
to Maurice street; thence to Hamlet street, to
Emily, to Bates, etc, to the park and the East
End generally.
1t strikes me the plan is feasible one. The
drive along Bluff street would be delightful,
as no better view can be had anywhere in the
city I have no personal AK to grind In the
matter, as am not q property-holder on any of
the streets named. but simply submit this for
what it Is worth. OBSERVER.
PITrsBURG, July %
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
AN APPEAL FOR FUNDS.
An Address to tho Home Rule sympnthlzers
In America.

An Address to tho Home Rule sympnthlzers
In America.
LINCOLN. NEB., July 9o.-The following ad.
dress was to-day issued by the officers of the
Irish National League of America:
LINCOLN, NEB., July 30. 1890.
To the Officers and Members OF the National
League of America:
Since the publication Of Mr.. Parnells letter
relative to the convention, advices have been re-
ceived from the Irish leaders depicting the urgent
necessity for the immediate transmission of all
available funds in America to the home
organization. In view OF this severe criti-
cism and in order that true friend
of Ireland can be excusable for neglect in render
ing such assistance as means will afford, all
branches of the League. afiiatlng organizations
and individuals in sympathy herewith. are
hereby authorized to forward their funds direct
to the office OF the League in Dublin; The address
of the Treasurer of the League in ireland is DIR.
Joseph +. Kenney, III. p, 4s Upper o'Connell
street. Dublin,
The address is signed by President John
Fitzgerald, Treasurer Charles O'Reilly, Sec-
retary John II. Sutton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
JohustoHn Flood Victims.

To the Editor of The Dispatcn;
Let me know through your paper what the
actual or estimated loss of life was by the
Johnstown flood. ]. II.
New HAVEN. PA, July 30.
[Accordtng to Secretary Kremer, Of the Flood
Commission, the number Of males lost was 923,
of whom 49S were found and identified, z52
found and not identified; the female lost num-
Der 1,2l9 of whom 617 were found and identified
and $40 found but not identified. The sex Of "A
persons who were found could not be ascer-
tained, Johnstown's quota of dead was /, ia:
Cambria City, $50; Woodvalle, 270; Conemaugh
borough, l67; Millyille, ll5; South Fork, 8; Min
eral Point. 10; Franklin borough. II; East Con-
emsugh, l3; hotel guests and railroad passen-
gers. So. Forty-nine of the dead were under
year old; l36 from l to s. and IL from to 10; 343
from 10 to 20 8l3 from 20 to 30 209 from 80 TO 40
73 from 40 to 50: 135 from so to co. 102 from so
70; 36 from 70 to 80; 6 from 80 to 90 The ages of
AS could not be ascertained.l
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
SUMMER PLEASURES.

THE Select knights of the A. O. U. W. and
other semi-military organizations VIII be ten
dered summer night concert and reception at
Windsor Park inis evening, under the auspices
of the Bellevue Legion No. 81, Select Knights
The Gerpert's and the Select Knights Cornet
Band will furnish the music.
FROM early morning until late last evening
the employees Of the Keystone Brewing Com
many made Hommers Garden on Mt Oliver
ring with merriment. The affair was compli-
mentary to the employees and their ftends
rendered by the propnetors of the vast busi-
ness.
INVITATIONS are out for the third annual
excursion to Idlewild of the Merchants Asso-
citation, for August d lS9O
THE West Newton NJ. E. Church and Sunday
school enjoyed q picnic at Aliquippa Yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
Internal Revenue Law.

T o the Editor Of The Dispatch
reader of your paper was talking to a
brewer and the conversation drifted to the
brewing business. Among other things the
brewer claimed that if they sold beer to party
and the party did not use this beer, and had it
returned to the brewer three or four days after
the sale was made, the brewer could use the
same stamp again to sell to another party.
Your reader claimed that q brewer was COM
PEELED by United States internal revenue law
not to use the same stamp again. Will you be
kind enough to answer this through your paper
and greatly oblige? A READER.
PITTSBURG. July so.
I'VE do not know of any provision Of the law
covering the case cited. A common sense view
of the matter would be that the brewer is right.
A keg of beer, if unopened, would be an
original package and would not require new
stamp until disposed OIL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
FUNNY MEMS FANCIEs.

Ingratitude is chronic with some people.
The more you increase q ballet dancers pay the
more she kicks.
She was smart and she was pretty, and the
elders thoug ght her witty, and she trIpped the
light fantastic like fay.
She could read both French and Latin, and was
sweet in print or satin, and 'twould make
your bosom heaye to hear her play.
married, and she'll doubtless be a maiden
till she dies.
For she bade a proud defiance to the culinary
science, and she never knew the mystery OF
D., pies. Burlington Free Press.
Citizen (agitatedly)-What, a writ for
me? Why, God bless us!
Constable (stolldly)-NOp. Wrong again. Man.
damus. American Grocer.
"What stout, heavy race the Germans
areg'' Eyes, they are all Twotons, you Know
Chatter.
Cumso-Jaysmith is penurious, isn't he7
EsngIa-I should say he wasl He won't even
lau0h at a Joke unless it is at someone else's ex-
pense.-Ep0cH.
General F. Z. Spinner has got so he can
MT road his own writing. His writing many
Years ago got so that nobody else could read it.
But IL went.-Looeu Courier.
"Why is it that young Simpson is always
moved to tears when anyone speaks Of his dis
solute old fatherS''
~ can't say; unless it is because he finds IL
cheaper to move than parentl''-Amsrican
Grocer.
If an ordinary man was muscled like q
flea he could throw book agent two mlles-RaB's
Horn.
To the Weather Bureau-Where did you
get that hot?- Washington Star.
A.-You have beard, Isuppose. that I am
married again? B.-Yes, and they say you mar
ried your deceased wife's sister. Ayes, 1 did.
B.-Why did ycu do so9 A.-Simply to avoid hsv-
ing two motners-ln-law.
"Come. come; don't be fool, my dear, +"
said the husband. during domestic breeze.
''DIdn't marriage make you and me ouer'' she
asked. ''Of course It did," ''How can help
being o fool thenl''
Teacher Cat Sunday school)-Betty, what
have we to do before we can expect forgiveness Of
our sinsg Betty-Ws have TO sin nrst, Of course.
Patient-I say, doctor, what sort OF
lump is this on the back OF my necks Doctor-It
Is nothing serious, but would advise you never.
theless to keep your eye on IL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
FRENCH VIEWS ON THE SEAT ISSUE

FRENCH VIEWS ON THE SEAT ISSUE.
The question of politeness to women on
board of street cars has broken out in France
where an effort has been made to main
tain the alleged gallantry of the Gallo race
by legislative enactment The municipal
couRcil of Bavre was the scene of this at
tempt One of the members, after a speech
bewsiIinS the fact that in these days men
seated in car never thought of giving up
their places to women, moved that conduct
ors be empowered to make the ungallant
seat holders yield their seats to the softer
sex. It has been the subject of mourning
by the Paris journals that the majority of
Havre Council were unable to take this
lofty stand and voted the motion down.
The novel feature of this proposition is
the length to which it carries the theory of
regulating everything by government. If
any one thing might be supposed to belong
exclusively to the determination of the inji-
vidual, it would be the question of
giving up seats to ladies on street
cars. Without committing ourselves to
any such socialist theory-from the
corporate standpoint-as that the man who
paws his fare is entitled to seat, it may
certainly be asserted that the man who pays
his fare and gets seat, owns that seat. II
he gives it up. according to all theories of
individual rights he must do so of his own
free will. But the French idea proposed to
make men gallant by municipal ordinance
to the extent of having to give up their seats
against their wills.
Another point is suggested by this state
ment. 1t is one of the stock illustrations oi
the good effects of government interference
in everything, that in France public con-
veyances are never allowed to take more
passengers than their seating capacity. But
here we have q case in which the violation
of that rule is not only established by pub
lie recognition. but it is even sanctioned by
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-31
OUR NAIL POUCH.
A Chnufauqun Lecturers Mistakes.
the Editor of the Dfspatcn:

Chnufauqun Lecturers Mistakes.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
listened with the greatest interest to Mrs.
Abba Woolson on the Germany Of to-day"
admired the eloquence of the lady, but am
exceedingly sorry for her. Among the many
errors she committed in regard to historical
facts, are the remarks about the foundations
Of the German universities She said, Tor IN
stance, that there is only one German univer-
siry, Halle, older than our American Harvard
(l636). Here are some dates about the Oldest
ones: Prague was founded by the German
Emperor Charles ". in 1913. Vienna 1855.
Heidelberg 1886. Cologne 1888, Erfurt 1882
Leipzig 1893, Tubingen 1477. Wittenberg l5o2
transferred to Halle 1924, Lena 1888, etc.
Did Mrs. woolson never hear anything about
Luther, of Wittenberg. the great reformer?
And Hamlet, Shakespeare's Hamlet; was he
not educated at Wittenberg? Shall we correct
small things for instance that Habsburg, the
Stamburg of the Imperial House of Austria, Is
not in Tyrol, but in Switzerland. between Basic
and Zurich.
Mrs. Woolson called her lecture THE Ger
many of Today" and spoke in reality about
nothing but the military reign in Prussia since
Frederic !. Not enough to depict the so-called
military despotism in the darkest colors, IL
suited her morbid imagination to make absurd
predictions about the future Germany. Accord
ing to her this well-consolidated power intends
W ~ dOWn TO the anu kahO
Trieste and Marseilies and Switzerland and Hol.
land! Why not the whole of Europe and
America? 0 sancta simplicitas!
And now the logic! Such mediBval militar-
Ism throws and threw away "all inspiring In
nuence'-we quote the lady historian--'to art,
letters and literature, civilization and the rise
OF the human race"
Does Mrs. WOolson know nothing about the
herman education in general, about the Ger
man philosophers Leibniz and Kant, the
astronomers Copernicus Kepler; the chemists,
the poets. the musicians the explorer Hum
poldt the many inventions made in Germany?
Ot course we cannot expect anything Of this
KIND from lecturer who was only fve days In
Germany, and has not the slightest idea about
the German language.
Mrs. Woolson wishes TO be original. wishes TO
say something that no person before her has
ments, does it in the very convenient way Of
fabricating and falsifying history according to
her fancy and prejudices. Who has said
little learning is dangerous?
Someone has stamped our age the century Of
women. It may be true, but they are still on
trial, and II ever woman proved unified for
treating scientific matters Mrs. Woolson sue
needed perfectly.
Personally we most heartily regret having
been forced to oppose lady. and especially
such charming lady as Mrs. Woolson unques-
tionably is. But the innate love for truth aud
justice predominates. And still with courtesy
we are compelled to protest against abuse of
freedom of tongue, even il it comes from .
lady, even If it comes from Mrs Woolson.
Excuse. Mrf. Woolson, your table neighbor.
ALBERT KERN.
MUNCIE COTTAGE. Chautauqua, July 20.