Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-28
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON.
SOME of the happiest folk In the world are
ose who are always doing something for


SOME of the happiest folk In the world are
those who are always doing something for
others.
TICKLE. coquettish. skittish, the great Pub
lie, to be sure. To-day you go up like a rocket,
tomorrow you come down like stick. The
dull thud'' is truly heart-breaking. Then you
are turned down" become a "back number"
are labeled "fossil" and-forgotten. The
Public whom you started out to serve. however,
is not a hard taskmaster either. But it keeps
its eye on you. A false step made after fair
warning will not be pardoned, a deceitful move
will not be tolerated, wilful wrong
will not be encouraged. What the Public
demands is square stand-up fght for
principle. an open. earnest battle for
the right according as you consci-
enriously see the right-no snaky maneuvers,
knavish trickery, fawning sycophancy. But
the servants will persist in trifling with the
masters, and the elevation and lowering of
matter and mind, person and character, goes
merriy on. heads appearing and disappearing
with each revolution of opinion. Each turn of
favor's tide bears of the swimmers and casts
up the sinkers-one on the crest of the wave.
the other doomed for the quicksands on the
shores of the swashing sea of Life. Do you
ever glance over the list of hulks, with fail
ure' painted on their battered sides, that line
the beach where Public Opinion plies as a
wrecker? 1t is longer than Loyd's tale of old
oceans cruel power And you will be surprised
at their newness, too. Launched yesterday
stranded to-morrow-on the crest of the wave
in the morning, in the breakers at noon.
on the rocks at nightfaIl. Well, they carried
too much canvas. disregarded the chart, ran i'll
without pilot and shivered their timbers ere
the paint was dry. You see them here, there.
everywhere Perhaps you saw them 60 up and
knew they were coming down, but after the
rockets head scattered its shower of colored
stars. the flight of the stick had no interest and
you didn't care where it landed. That's a way
the Public has, to be sure. So men go up and
men 60 down; as ships sail and ships sink; SO
the Public plays shuttlecock with the People;
SO Character is pawned for Place, staked
against Opinion and loses. Still the game goes
on and the players crowd and jostle each other
around the table, flushing with success to-day,
blushing with shame tomorrow.
SOME elderly folk never reach the age Of dis
cretion.
WASHINGTON has solved great mathemat-
ical problem by squaring the circle.
IF you meet with success you will be sneered
at. but those who do the sneering are the ones
who feel bad
THE critical period of the actors life comes
when he picks up the newspaper the morning
after his first appearance.
A TIGER hunt on the Northside Is among the
possibilities.
PARTY instead of principle seems to be the
cry on the Potomac now.
DOCTORS profit by our ills and the usurers by
our misfortunes.
IF the old rebuke of Kissing was resurrected
some of the dramatic offerings would soon be-
come more palatable.
MARY ANN DoUGHERTY is again before the
Senate. Anything to block public business
goes now.
MARGINAL notes-Bucket shop collateral.
WHEN all else fails, woman can console her.
self with the thought that marriage is still
worthy occupation, though trifie risky.
1T will take few more elections to place the
business interests of the country where they
belong, and substitute lawmaking for political
knavery.
DON CAMERON has committed political hari.
kari.
THE streets are SO laid out that II you don't
want to meet an obnoxious acquaintance you
don't have to.
THE idler is always confronted by the crust of
the last loaf.
FOR ingalls, read Pfeffer and you have the
name of the new Senator from Kansas.
PIPES are symbols of peace with Indians, but
in Pennsylvania they have made discord. es-
pecially In the oil regions.
Mr. CHARLES MITCHELL will endeavor to
make hit on the stage according to Queens
berry rules.
ALWAYS holds its ground-The coffee pot.
to the imagination.
AS FAST as one political measure is side
tracked in Congress another gets right of way
The politicians are in the saddle and the country
in the woods
WHEN the public idolizes man he is apt to
become worshiper of himself
WOMAN has q perfect right to do what she
can SO long as she does what she Is expect
ed to do.
The Ice trust is the coolest kind Of a robber.
THIS Republic was not built on the ruins of
cities, nor was its stone laid in the ashes
| of antiquity, hence it can stand anything from
| cranks to cyclones.
YOUNG ladies usually stamp their feet when
| they cancel an engagement
WHY is Philadelphia like the boy who ate
| the watermelon? Because it has the Cramps.
IF you cultivate industry you can raise a
salary.
| PUG Fitzsimmons is shining object lesson
| of the beauties of the Australian system.
WHOM the gods would destroy they first
bribe.
| THE topper takes an eye-opener when he ryeses.
NEWLY married couple Will eat oleo and