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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
PITTsBURG, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1881.
WHY SPOIL THE sPoRTe

The reception of that plan to settle the
fight over the Presidency of the State
League by retiring both Dalzell and Rob-
inson, and pulling in third man, has not
been flattering for hopes of its success.
Both of the warning candidates have re-
jected the proposition with scorn. Nlr.
Robinson has declared that his calling and
election is sure; and it is a well-known
quality of that statesman not to give up
any position on which he has his grip,
until he has to- Mr. Dalzell no less en-
phatically intimates that he proposes to
have the election decided by the vote of
the convention and not by the consulta-
tions of the party managers. The fact is
that the candidates are too good fighters
TO retire from the field because the heads
Of the party machine are afraid of fight.
On the whole, the fate of those who are
trying to compromise the fight is likely to
be that of most persons who rush in be-
tween the combatants of square and old
fashioned melee They will get all the
knocks and no thanks while they are in
the way Of the fighters. They really
should know better than to try to stop the
fun. A good square fight to finish will
get the Republican fighting forces in good
training for next year, besides augmenting
their ranks. To stop it before each side
knows which is whipped will be satisfac-
tory to neither and will be most gratuit-
ohs and ill-judged spelling of the sport
Besides which, the source from which
the proposition comes, produces a sus-
picion of its integrity. Although Mr.. Rob-
inson protests that he has got a sure thing
of election, the fact that the proposition
comes from the leaders whom he repre-
sents indicates that they are far from
being as certain of victory as he processes
to be-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
INTERESTING, But UNRELIABLE.

The newest report from Kansas with re-
gard to Farmers Alliance dOings, which
has been given wide prominence in the
Eastern press during the past few days, is
with regard to the judicial course of the
Alliance Judge who received fame last
fall from having been elected to judicial
position without any legal training. 1t is
stated that he has undertaken TO overrule
the Supreme Court, and refuses to grant
any judgments in cases of mortgage fore
closures, on the ground that acts of op-
preston are null and void.
The spectacle of County Judge who is
so free from the trammels of law and pre-
cedents as to set the Supreme Court right,
when it does notagree with his opinions, is
50 novel and refreshing that there would
be some pleasure in contemplating it as a
feature of the Kansas phenomena. But
before delighting ourselves with the idea,
1t would he well to be sure that it
is true. The statement that it is so, in
the correspondence of the Eastern press,
is under the circumstances hardly conclu-
sive enough to invite our full confidence
and pleasure in the spectacle. The fact is
that most of the news concerning the
doings Of the Kansas people on the subject
Of mortgage foreclosures, money loans,
and the cultivation of farm products,
has been marked by the qualities of an
industrious, if not brilliant, imagination.
The Alliance doings in Kansas have not
been more remarkable than the unerring
way in which the reports, that are evolved
from the inner consciousness of partisan
editorial offices, represent them as some
thing radically different from what they
really are. The Kansas fake factory is as
unique a specimen in its line as the Kan
saS Farmers Alliance
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
ODD AND ENTERTAINING.
Skirt Dancers in Bathing Suits, and How
They Pass the Happy Summer Hours
Away-Engineers Who Rescue Little
Children on Railroad Trocts

Skirt Dancers in Bathing Suits, and How
They Pass the Happy Summer Hours
Away-Engineers Who Rescue Little
Children on Railroad Tracks.
Life Mt Old Point ut this season has many
pleasures, and not the least of these is to
watch two young Washington society girls
out In the surf giving a watery skirt dance
and an imitation of Carmencita at the same
time. 1 saw the pair to-day, says a Fort
Monroe correspondent of the Washington
Star.
What do we do all the timer" said she,
repeating the question. "Why, we don't
get up until nearly noon. Now, for instance,
1 was the last one in the dining room this
morning; in fact just did get in, and had
the last chicken there was on the Point, or
so my waiter said, and it was just the dear
est, cunningest little bird you ever saw. 1
ate it, bones and all. for 1t would have been
too bad to draw the line. 1t was lucky,
though, there weren't two of us to share
that bird, for one of us would have gone
hungry. Old Point always does give me the
most ravfngest appetite. Why, certainly 1
come every year. Every one does who
knows what's what. You silly, of course
am not in love with the same army officer
that was last summer.
'1n the afternoon We Just loaf around
uhth uinHoT, anu IL you uOnC get up TOO
early dinner comes pretty soon. Afterward
there are walks and drives and more ways
to spend the time pleasantly than there are
afternoons in the summer. Sometimes we
go up to the fort for guard mount or to see
the artillery fire their guns at little targets
out on the water, and often they hit them,
too. There isn't much in the way of drills to
see up there just now for the best of that
doesn't come until September But then we
have the officers all the time and after
girl has been here for a summer and then
tries some other place she certainly does
miss the brass buttons.
But you just ought to have been here
when White squadron was here. / don't
know about that either, for you're not girl:
but when the squadron was here it was di-
vine. Why, there were q dozen men TO
every girl, and more than that If she were a
pretty one and we could take our pick be-
tween the two branches of the service just
think of it; 1t was heavenly.
"And then after we have had little nap
IN the afternoon we take ourselves out to
the water and cast ourselves into the ready
arms Of Neptune. Isn't that poetic? What
You say my story Is rather disconnected
Well, like that, when I'm trying to tell you
Just what girl thinks of Old Point Comfort
In the evenings there's the ballroom and
the board walk and the pier and the moon
light on the waves and the writing room,
where we all go after tea and sit and talk or
write, and the good old rule of never making
love through an ink bottle is broken at every
desk
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

imous beauties Of the Old World. This evil
dence of ability to vary the cares of states
manship and the toll of looking after Indiana
politics ut long range, by indulging q taste for
the beauty of the softer sex, ,attests the ver-
satility of Mr.. News genius. The Wholesale
character of the Consul Generals devotions
at the shrine of beauty silences the voice of
scandal and classes the occupation as only
less praiseworthy than the rival one of at
'testing Mrs. Schenleys signature to deeds
.of land in Pittsburg tor public purposes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
HARRIsoN's QUIET DAY.
He Ventures Out for a Short Walk, but Does
Not Go Near a Church.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.I
CAPE MAY, N. j., July 19.-President Harri-
son passed one of the quietest days to-day
since his arrival. He ventured out to take
walk this evening and to watch the stormy
waves dash on the beach, and did not even
go to church. Mrs. Harrison and Lieutenant
and Mrs Parker attended st. Johns Episco-
pal Church.
Colonel W. H. Crooks. disbursing clerk Of
the White House. arrived to-day. Cardinal
Gibbons officiated in st. Mary's Cathedral at
O'Clock mass to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
A Fair Oregon Huntress.

A few days since Mr.. Kahn, the fur dealer,
while driving out of Empire City, Coos Bay,
met a young lady riding into town with
rifle in her hand and the carcass OF bear
strapped across the horse behind her saddle,
says the Portland Oreooustdn. The young
lady was Miss Charlotte Nichols, OF Empire
her father owns in the country and took her
rifle along, and meeting the bear shot 1t.
She fs quite an expert with the rifle, having
killed q number Of deer. Mr.. Kahn pur-
chased the skin as a souvenir, for, as he says,
she was "deuced nice girl"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Beauty Needn't Apply.

At the French exhibition in Moscow
there is waffle stand. 1t was noticed that
the women baking the waffles and selling
them are not of the type of French beauty
which the Russians admire; they look like
common Finnish peasant women, only their
arms are OF beautiful shape" according to q
Russian newspaper.
The managers of the exhibition were
asked whether they could not get any come
lier waffle makers for the occasion, and their
answer was: 1--WE purposely selected the
homeliest women for this stand. which
promised to become one of the most popular
in the exhibition. As the Franco Russian
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
LIZARDS LOVE MUSIC.
How Gentleman Charmed the Little
Creatures in Switzerland Garden.


Creatures in a Switzerland Garden.
When in Switzerland two years ago, says
writer in the Spectator, made the acQuaint-
ance of some lizards, living in the crevices
of one of the sunny walls of our garden. As
1 had somewhere heard that lizards have a
good ear for music, l resolved to prove the
fact: so one afternoon, armed with small
musical box wended my steps to their
tomato-covered home. Before / had fin
ished the first tune a considerable audience
had collected-an audience it was a pleasure
to play to, for the lizards were far more at
tentive than most human beings Out
peered head after head, little on one side,
in listening attitude.
gave my little friends musical enter
tainment (varied by whistling) nearly every
day, and before long they got much
boider, and would venture right out of their
holes, and lie motionless on the broad ledge
of the wall, their bright black eyes half
closed, as rule, but opening now and then
to give me lazy wink of enjoyment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
WHIHISICALITIES,
THE THREE GRACES.
Faith is q budding maiden.


"Poh! You could tell that was the school
teachers house, ~ said Willie scornfully.
''How?''
ut has slate roof ''-Ee1o York Herald.
"Here, sonny, you kodaking fends can
steal on to us with those pesky things all times
but you amt going to take me mapping. - and then
the old lady broke her umbrella over his head. Il
occurred in the railroad park at Petoskey, and the
old lady had Just been aroused from a nap one
of the seats. She would not believe that the
fortunate victim of her wrath and stalwart
brella was a bootblack armed with the utensils Of
his trade.-Dstroit Selos.
Fanny Every much excited)-Mamma,
Just think, the new janitor and his wife
Mamma-What about them?
They have only been here three days, and-'
''Well, what?''
..They have got four children already. "--Ts1as
Sij1ings.
THAT" said the studious Young man, ''is
a very rare book
yes replied Mrs. De Porqtc. as she took 10
from him and looked at the rather uncertain bind
ing lit doesn't seem very well done. - Washiag-
ton Star.
81 do hate to hear man grumble all the
time as that fellow doing over there said q
dsgusted passenger to the conductor of the train.
MY dear sir, - exclaimed the conductor in
prise, ''you evidently do not understand the case.
That man is travelling ON pass.'-iSonervite Jour-
nal.
She (poetically) the golden bright
sky, the signing Of the balmy zephyrs and the far
vista across the foamy waves, one can't but dream
they are in sweetest Italy.
/ He-GoOd idea. Suppose we have macaroni for
dinner.-LfpepooL F0rrupfns.
Speaking of Bishop Coke" observed
the exchange editor, loOsenng his collar, why
doesn't he say something about that notorious
female rider in Gernany?''
The financial editor braced himself firmly, seized
q paper-weight ana inquired:
what female rider?''
''Em Barge on the American hog, :" answered
the exchange editor.
The financial editor laid down his weapon. put
on his hat, and went sadly out. 1t was the worst
one he had ever heard. Chicago Tfi1ass.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

IN eulogy of Mr.. Robinson, the Phila-
delphia Inquirer says he took "a noble stanu
against the formation of mushroom
clubs destined merely for a short exist
ence." Yes, and he passed his resolution
with the aid of one of the best authenticated
examples of mushroom clubs in the State.
Mr.. Robinson's stand against mushroom
clubs is not so unequivocal as his stand
against the constitutions both of the League
and of the State of Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
A MAGNIFICENT FIGHT.
Senator Quay No Mean Antagonist for the
Friends of Reform.

Philadelphia Times.1
Senator Quay,is nothing if not heroic, and
when battle is unavoidable he will accept it.
His candidacy for the State Treasurershfp in
1885 wrote the most heroic chapter of modern
politics in Pennsylvania. He had to choose
between certain retirement from leadership
or possible annihilation by popular defeat
with absolute mastery if he won. He staked
all and instead of coming out defeated and
execrated leader, he won the Senatorship
without a struggle.
He is the ablest political strategist in the
State; he has courage that never pales and
industry that never flags when occasion de-
mands, and it is safe to assume that
one of the most interesting and desper-
ate battles of Pennsylvanias history is
about to be fought within tha lines of
the great party that has ruled the State for
more than 80 years. The marrow of the
issue is the demand for better politics, and
that is the single stone in the sling that
the Republican giant has to fear.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
THE latest report from Russia is that the

THE latest report from Russia is that the
peasants of Mini Novgorod are fogged for
falling to pay their taxes and that owing to
the monetary stringency among the peas
ants ,the fiogging business is more active
than the flow of money into the tax col
lectuc's hands. This has made necessity the
mother of invention once more and f1ogging
mac hines have been invented to polish off
the nuscovite peasantry with neatness and
dispatch. The stories from Russia are
. nearly as much characterized by brilliance
of imagination as those about Farmers
Alliance doings in Kansas.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

WE are glad to see that the explanation
of those loans by Bardsley to some of the
Philadelphia judges are stated by the Phila-
delphia papers, without regard toparty, to be
wholly satisfactory. Still in view of the i'm
portance of keeping the bench above sus-
ipicion of partIality, it would be well to state
it as general rule that judges in need Of
loans should not take them from the custo-
,dians of public funds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
IRRATIONAL MODEsTY.
The Objection to Lady Bicyclists Founded
on Oriental Ideas.

Chicago Herald.l
Bishop Coxe's TRADE against the immod-
esty of women on bicycles is no doubt well
meant, but it savors more of Asia and
ancient Greece than Of America and the
nineteenth century. Time was when it was
thought immodest for women to appear on
the streets unless closely veiled. During
the period of intellectual supremacy in
Athens it was considered a disgrace for
women to go outside the house except on
rare occasions and then only when well at
tended 1t was regarded as immodest for
her to receive her husbands guests in COM
pany with him. She must retire to her own
apartment when his friends entered the
house.
All such ideas have passed away, and
neither ancient usage nor merely conven-
tional form determines ut the present time
what is becoming and decorous in the con-
duct of women. The wisdom of the nine
teenth century declares that to be proper for
a woman which will tend to health, strength
and intelligence. and that is improper which
renders her weak, helpless and inefficient.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

The fact that Miss Ewing, the culinary
at Chautauqua, has lately taken
her stand in favor of hash, has caused con-
siderable comment. But the hash question
takes q wide range from the fact the. ii ere
is hash and hash. The wide range be-
tween the well-browned and unqu uestion-
able hash which Miss Ewing uphcIds and
the mysterious compound of some boarding
houses suggests that the next effort of pater-
nal Government should be to establish an
inspection and official certifcation as to the
equality of hash.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Running on Shape.
Chicago Tribune.1

Chicago Tribune.1
Chief Justice Fuller's mustache. which
some hypercritical persons affect to think
incompatible with the dignity of his judicial
position, would not hurt his chances If he
aspired to the Democratic nomination for
President. 1t is ever so much more shapely
and statesmanlike than Grover Cleveland's.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
BELAMATER IN THE PULPIT.
The Late Candidate for Governor Sojourn-
ing in Oregon.

ing III OTeSOns
Portland Oregonian.l
There arrived in Portland yesterday man
whose name was as prominent in the polit-
ical world last fall as the names of Mckinley,
Joseph G. Cannon, and other Republican
leaders who suffered defeat. He is G. w.
Delamater, the late Republican nominee for
Governor of Pennsylvania, who was defeated
by Robert f. Pattison. He will be in Port
land several days, the guest of George W.
Staver, of Stayer & Walker. Tomorrow
and evening he will occupy the
pulpit in Taylor street church.
Mr. Delamater's home is in Meadville, and
he is q banker. His trip to the West is for
rest and recreation. Since his arrival here
he has made many inquiries about Portland,
its schools and public institutions, and seems
to be satisfied Of its prosperity. To a reporter
he said yesterday that Portland looks strong
and substantial, and appears not to have
been doomed to a disastrous extent. Mr..
Delamater did not care to talk politics very
much.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Where Is the Nations Brains?

new 1Ork quill
Senator ingalls, of Kansas, says that the in
telectual capital of the United States ia
Washington. How absurd The Hon. Henry
Watterson, of Kentucky, holds that the in
tellectual capital of the United States is
Boston. Pshaw! The intellectual ca pital of
the United States is to be seen from the SAN
Office.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

sympathfes are so strong, we were afraid
that If we brought pretty waffle makers
here they would be abducted and we would
be put to the trouble Of getting new hands
to replace them. With the hOmely women
we need not anticipate such trouble"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
Telling q Seaside Girls Age.

Washington Star.l
Said an old pointer to me yesterday: "You
can always tell girls age by the shoulder
straps she is walking with. If he has just
come down here from West Point then the
chances are that she is 80 at least, but II he
is q major or a colonel then its dollars to
doughnuts she Is still in her teens"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

If Quay resigns from the National Com
mittee it does not by any means follow that
he will resign from Pennsylvania politics.
All expectations that the smooth Matthew
Stanley will cease his amiaDle superintend-
ance of State matters should be abiured.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

IF the Rev. J. Wesley Hill can be be-
lieved the Rev. Sam Small has been trying to
be a Napoleon of Finance in the religious
line. But Mr. Small should be warned that
this class of operations will never do If at
tempted on the retail SCALE
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

come when all these influences combined
can overcome the sentiment in Canada in
favor of the almost nominal British su-:
premacy
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
AT THE CORE o. JULY.

Now it's near the summers core,
'Tiz hot day o. July,
Wharsoe'er my eyes explore
Danciu' imps o. heat spy.
Out across the yaller fel's,
How the air IL seen ter trimble!
kir see million heels
Hoppin' up an down so nimble!-
Dancin' imps o. heat jes' try
Their themselves in this July.
Ever time go ter crawl
From my bunk o. grass an flowers,
Imps o. heat upon me fall,-
Take away my feeble powers,
An they throw me on my back,
'Bove my face they laugh au' play
Strike their heels an make em crack,
Then, on beams, they dart away.
How they make me fairly fry
LOungin' here in hot July.
Sprawlin' meath an apple tree.
Ona Quilt o. shade an grass.
(Mix'd with fiow'rs), my thoughts run free,
Nuthin' halts 'em;-they kin pass
Through the green above, an flow
To the castellated cloud.
Or. In tracks o. zephyrs go
To the forest cool an broad
Off whar lovesick nymphs do sigh
Ger sweet brooks I'm hot July!
Birds have quiet voices now,
Or they do not sing at all,
Quails, in thickets down below,
Make n seldom whistle call.
M the brcezes, overcome,
Faint an fall upon the ground;-
From their gaspin lips do run
odors rich that spread around
Drenchin' me with sweets, as l
Founder here In hot July
Oh, what lazy blisses crawl
To me while I'm stretchin' here.
Drops o. music round me fall,
Coming from-I don't know where.
Now comes swishin' through the grass
Mellow sounds; look an see
Loves own image-that sweet lass,
Who. till now, wuz cold ter me!
Cool she is no more, spy,
For she loves, and-'tis July.
James Noel Jois1,son in Ne,o York Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

THE,success of the Russian bacon COM
spany in monopolizing the European markets
indicates that the Muscovite pork dealers
sare moro successful in playing the hog game
THAN the American kind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

Mr. McCLURE's final acceptance of a
eplace on the mint commission should not be
taken as showing partiality in the Colonel's
tastes for juleps.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

Mr.. GEORGE FRANCIS TRAINS claim
that he1nvented the word "crank' indicates
that he must have faithfully adopted the
ancient philosophical injunction about
studyinp himself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

MINNESOTA now comes to the front with
IA horrible story Of fcannibalism. The North
west is not going to permit Brazil to get
ahead of it in the sensational line, so long as
the imagination of the correspondents holds
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20

THE hotheaded Frenchmen in the Chamber
concluded wisely that it was much safer to
bait the Ministry about Alsace-Lorraine
than to take the responsibility of a war with
@Germany
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-20
NOTUS.

The partnership heretofore existing
between me and Nose Skinner has
been resolved. All people what owes
the firm will please settle with me: all
people what the firm owes will please
settle with Nose Skinner.