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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
j. X. Emmett, Comedian

J. X. Emmett, the popular comedian,
better known as Fritz Emmett. died yesterday
morning at the Storm King House. Cornwall, N.
Y. Mr.. Emmett was in poor health when he ar
rived at Cornwall about ten days ago, and the
symptoms of pneumonia developed about a week
ago. The career Of Mr.. Emmett was one of peculiar
interest. He first attracted attention while he was
q barkeeper in a saloon 1t was his custom, when
his intimate friends called, to participate in a
''treat'' all around and then he would entertain
his visitors by singing for them. One day a we'll
known New Yorker was present while Emmett was
singing and he at once recognized the talent of the
barkeeper. Finally the New Yorker induced
Emmett to retire from the saloon business and
enter upon a course of musical instruction, the
former paying all the expenses. In the course of
time Emmett became proficient as ''yoder'' and
Dutch comedian, and his appearance on the stage
was a success from the start. As a money maker
Emmett soon forged to the front, and was always
greeted with large and enthusiastic audiences. Of
late years he also achieved notorety money
spender, and although his profits were very large,
his conyivial habits necessitated heavy eXpendI-
lures.
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A BOY BAROMETER.
His Straight Hair Kinks Three Days Before
q Big Storm.

St. Louis hepublic.l
There is a man in Centerville township, st.
Clair county, ILL.,, who boasts ofa remarkable
boy. The mans name is johnson, and he re-
Gently removed. there from Kansas, but
stopped Il few weeks in East st. Louis before
he finally decided to locate permanently in
Centerville. The boy is plump, GOOD
natured and intelligent lad of about II years,
with glossy black hair as straight us an
arrow, and goes by the name OF Walter. He
is an only son and the pride of his fathers
heart. His father boasts that the boy is a
regular barometer, and that he can always
tell three days ahead of an approaching
storm by the peculiar action of the boy. Ac-
cording to the statement made by the father
to prominent divine, just three days before
storm of any magnitude the boys hair Will
begin to kink, and in an incredibly short
space of time will curl almost in ringlets on
the back of his head with short curls in
front, which remain in that condition until
after the storm, when it resumes it natural
condition and remains straight until the ap-
proach of another storm.
MIR. johnson warned the farmers of his
neighborhood of the approaching storm
which occurred on Tuesday morning at
O'Clock, for the boys hair stiR kept curled,
which satisfied his father that there was
thicker and longer Wednesday, and sure
enough the vicinity was visited by violent
storm on Wednesday evening. An hour
afterward his black hair Strengthened out
again and the fears of the people in the
vicinity were very much relieved, as they
were SariSfied that the terrible storms were
over for the present.
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PEOPLE COMING AND GOING.

r. A. Dion, of Moncton, and n. Y. Soper,
| of Ottawa, registered at the Duquesne last
| evening. They are building street rail
In the at'er e T6eg are On
| make further investigations. Mr.. Soper said
| wherever they went they heard of Pittsburg
as being away ahead of any other city in the
| country in the matter of rapid transit. Even
| New Workers admit they are behind this city
| in traction roads.
Ex-Congressman Niedringhouse, of st.
| Louis, was passenger on the eastern ex-
press last evening going to New York. He
has given up politics for the manufacture of
tin plate He thinks his new plant will be
| ready for operation by July l. He feels also
| that the future of the business in America Is
assured.
Colonel B. B. Richards, Chief Engineer
| of the Texas Pacific road, spent Sunday in
Pittsburg. He says he won't come back
until the Blue Laws are wiped out and the
Law and Order Society is buried. He pro-
poses to warn his brethren in the South to
steer clear of Pittsburg on the Sabbath.
D. W. Flagler, Chief of Ordnance, and
Captain Chas. Shaler arrived yesterday to
attend the wedding of Major Mckee. Pitts
burg is the former home of Captain Shaler,
and he was glad to visit the city once more.
They are registered at the Schlosser.
I Sheriff W. o. Mehl and wife, of Erie, and
deputies c. NJ. Cole and A. b. Heard were
at the seventh Avenue Hotel yesterday.
They brought several prisoners to the peni-
tentiary.
DR.. Burgher left for Atlantic City last
evening to attend the homeopathic conven-
tion. He denies that old line insurance COM
panies will be boycotted by this school of
doctors.
Among those who went East last evening
were Mr.. Bakewell, the patent lawyer; Simon
Beyner and Mr.. Moses, the manager for c.
/. Davis theater.
Thomas B. Moreland, w. J. Moreland
and DR.. John Porter, of McKeesport, started
last evening for trip through Europe.
Theodore Phillips, an English iron man
from MiddlesborOugh, and j. Nelson, Of
Youngstown, are at the Anderson.
George T. Perkins and wife, of Akron, ,and
General w. III. Koontz, of Somerset, are stop
ping at the MonougahelB House.
George G. Williams, of Sandusky, and E.
N. Day, of Waynesburg, registered at the
Seventh Avenue last evening.
Ex-senator Greer, of Butler, went to
Uniontown last evening to inspect the Sol
diers' Orphan School there
DR.. A. Blumberg will sail for Europe on
Saturday. He viii 60 on the French line
direct to Havre.
W. Ne Green, q local business man, left
yesterday for q tour OF the lakes.
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''Your boy Is simply depraved boy, Mrs
Bronson, ~ said the physician. ''You need q doc
tor Of the SOUL not one of my profession.
II don't know, doctor,r said the tired little
woman, "but what you might help me little with
advice"
mo, madam, the only thing can prescribe for
him is mixture Of strychnine and prussic acid.''
-Chiedgo Globe.
A Delaware paper heads an editorial,
''Peaches Go Up" Evidently nature has reversed
herself in the Diamond State. In Pennsylvania
peaches go down.-PhiLadelphiG Press.
Bronson-That was a queer inscription
Enpec'put on his wife's tombstone.
Longnecker-What was II?
Bronson-'''Tis better TO have loved and lost
than never to have lost at all. ''-NsU York Herald
'sYou young scoundrel," said the father,
seizing his dIsobedent son by the neck. 'T'u show
how you ought to treat your mother!''
And he gave him several bangs on the ears and
then shook him till his hair began to fall out-Phi
Idelphia Times.
That minister is bold indeed,
In fact, is ON perdition's brink.
Who steps outside his fenced-in creed
And dares to think.
,-Mso York Press.
Griggs Ito waiter)-Why are you not
wearing your dress suit George?
George WashingtOn-I'se been mistoOk for o
guest so often, sah could stand 1t no longer, so
changed nah cloes.-Eelo York Continent.
Boggs-I know man that has made q
snug little fortune in willow splints for baskets
Knoggs-That's nothing. There's Spaniard in
Madrid who's made several hundred thousand dol
lars out of bulrushes.-DetroH Free Press.
Guest-You will remember that you told
me you would have to give Inc a room high up!
Hotel Clerk-Yessir.
Guest-well, I've just got back and st. Peter
wants a clean towel.-He,o York Herald
''What do you think of your new hands?"
''Oh they knock things; they're lightning
''What! so quick?''
mo; always striking. ."-PhiIadelphia Times,
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TO BE JUDGED BY EXPERIENCE

1t is singular how sectional or business
prejudice renders it impossible for some
people to do justice to those have been
placed in opposition to them. The an.
nOuncement that the Kansas Farmers
Alliance has completed arrangements to
establish a warehouse at which farmers
can deposit their grain and other non-per-
ishable products, and get loan on it, is
received by the journals of the East in a
way TO illustrate the power of prejudice.
1t is sneered at as "a private pawnshop
for farmers" and its utter failure gener-
ally predicted.
The enterprisein this shape is a legiti-
mate business project, and its success or
failure will depend on its management.
There is prObablynot bank in the West
that does not dofOr the.grain dealers what
this bank does for farmers-namely, ad-
vance bank credit On grain, which has been
deposited in a warehouse. The fault with
the sub-treasury proposition was that ii
proposed to have the government do what
lay clearly within the province of private
enterprise; but when the farmers propose
to supply for themselves what they want
by legitimate organization, there is no rea-
son why their project should be received
with the sneers of the East. Such an atti-
tudeSuggeSts the prevalence.of the feeling
that any organization which establishes
competition with banking capital and
threatens tOcut'down its profits is an ag-
greSSion upon a.sacred vested right.
Of course the.criterion of the farmers
enterprise will be whether it can advance
capital on grain in greater proportion or
at less rate of interest than the regular
banks. We are under the impression that
the banks of the West frequently advance
as high as 80 per cent on invoices of grain,
but of course they charge more interest
than the . per cent which the farmers
think is about right. Thus the farmers
proposition is more conservative in one re-
spect and more radical in another than
the banking practice. But the rate of in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16
SOCIAL CHATTER.

The McKee, Chalfant wedding to-day.
The George jerks river excursion this
evening.
THE Rose-Whiting wedding in Sewickley
this evening.
THE Woman's Club will have lawn fete
to-day at Edgewood.
THE '91 class of Curry will hold its class
exercises this evening.
THE Young Mems Club, of Braddock, will
give fete champetre at Idlewild to-day.
THE Washington Infantry will give q re-
ception this afternoon and evening at Silver
Lake Grove.
A COMPLIMENTARY concert will be rendered
Miss Lillian A. Reddick this evening in the
Moorhead building.
THE Kings Daughters of the Avalon Pres
byterian Church will give strawberry fes-
tfval tonight in tho school hall of West
Bellevue
PRoF. KING and his pupils are working hard
these warm hours that their three plays in
the Opera House the last three evenings of
the week may capture the Pittsburg palm
for amateur dramatics.
THE Margaret A. Dushane Council 4s, d. of
L.. will give its first annual excursion to-
day. The boat will go down the river as far
as Rochester, stopping at Economy, and will
return to the city at 7 P. M. =.
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Obituary Notes.

JOHN s. wELTy, one of the most widely known
citizens of Greensburg, died suddenly at his home
yesterday morning, aged so years.
DIR. J. T. DICKINSON, Of Parkersburg, Pa, died
on Saturday in his 46th year. He was noted spe-
cialist in diseases of the ear and throat
JOHN j. LONG, who died at Norristown last
week. was the first man in the United States to
make rock candy. He was born in Germany 70
years ago, but came to this country when a boy.
MRS. ELLA GRAY, wife of Ezra s. Gray, editor
of the Dubois Courier, died Sunday at the home OF
DR.. Mary Dixon, in Philadelphia. She was q
wears of age; leaves children. Her father
Charles Rohbacker, lives in Renfeld.
COLONEL Z. G. WHARTON, novelist, playwright
and u retired journalist. formerly connected with
NewOrleans papers, died Saturday at 0ceanSprngs,
Miss, watering place near New Orleans. Dur
ing the war he served in the Confederate army.
CHANCELLOR SUMMERFIELD A. KEY died Satur-
day evening of chronic diarrhoea at Chattanooga
at the age of 81 years. He was brother of United
States Judge Key, Postmaster General under Pres
ident Hayes. He served In the Confederacy dur
ing the was an adjutant of the Forty-thrd Tennes-
see Regiment and was elected Chancellor about
five years ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16

IN relation to the fact that the exports Of
breadstuffs from the United States for the
last eleven months were $50, ,OO0, 900 less than
in the same period of the preceding year,
the Philadelphia Record saws: Construction
cannot be put upon the country's import
trade without at the same time obstructing
its export trade. People who will not buy
cannot expect to SELL" Could not even a
free trade organ like the Record bring sufh-
cient recognition of facts to the discussion
of the tariff question to find out that one
reason why the United States exported less
breadstuffs IN the last eleven months was a
short crop, and, consequently, less bread
stuffs to export.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16
TIMELY TOPICS.
Fritz Emmett Had Many Friends Here
His Status as an Actor--A "Reminiscences
of His First Appearance-The Talk of

Fritz Emmett Had Many Friends Here
of His First Appearance-The Talk of a
Hot Day in Town.
In this city Fritz Emmett had hosts of
friends. He began winning the affection of
theater-goers here years ago, and he kept
most of his friends till the last. When he
played at the BUou Theatre last fall, al
though he was not in condition to be on the
stage, and when he was on he had been bet
ter off, the greater part of the week. the au-
diences were very large and the business
profitable. In spite of his tailings, and the
decay of his graces he was still the old Fritz
to most of his admirers, and especially
kindly, as they often are to one of the op-
posite sex, were the women in their judg-
ment of him. Now that he Is dead his sin
cerest mourners will be women and children
to whom his appeal was strongest. There
never was a child yet who did not fall in
love with the laughing, dancing, sweet
voiced Fritz at first sight One of the pleas
ATTEST memories of the writer carries him
back to the early seventies, to the old Sur
rey Theater, on the south side of abe Thames,
and to a night when he first heard Fritz En-
met sing his lullaby-as pretty cradle song
as ever was sung. 1t was one of Emmetts
strongest weapons in the conquest OF hearts
in America and all over the world, and, it
seems to me- contained the salient secrets of
the charm which he exercised over old and
young, rich and poor, high and lowly alike.
For Emmett's popularity was not confined
to any class, nationality or condition. He
was favorite with the multitude and the
elect. Not with everybody, of course, for
could not see why people talked Emmett he
bored them dreadfully. Almost mysterious
was the magnetic quality Of his performance.
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RoTHsCHILD AGA1Nsr.RoMaNoFF

There are interesting indications that
the financial struggle between the Gar OF
Russia and the Hebrew rulers of finance
in Europe is drawing to termination with
victory perching on the banners of the
RothSchilds The early progress of this
war of the exchanges has heretofore been
referred to in these columns; but further
reports from what is represented as the
inside history of European politics give
even greater significance to its inception
and conclusion.
1t is now asserted that, except for the
question of the sinews of war, this spring
was clearly recognized in France and
Russia as the ripe season for striking a
blow at the Triple Alliance. The alliance
between the Republic and the Empire had
been made closer than ever. The long
and untired work of the French, that has
gone on ever since 1871, of reorganizing
their army gave them greater force both
of diciplined soldiers and improved war
material than their old antagonists, the
Germans. Russia had an immense force
massed on her western boundaries, greater
and In better condition than the armies
she sentacross the Danube in the Turkish
war. On the other hand, since the fall of
Bismarck and Crispi the Triple Alliance
was weaker in cohesiveness than for years.
Everything seemed ripe for the move,
which, if successful, would have given to
France the Rhine for her northern frontier
and to Russia the Bosphorus for her south
eastern limit.
But ready money was needed to set
the armies in motion; and that was the one
thing which Russia did not need Appli-
cation to the Rothschilds for a loan was
met with request that the Car would
reform the persecution of the Hebrews in
Russia; and the autocrat responded with a
naughty refusal. Since then Russia has
been trying to get along without the
Rothschilds. She succeeded in refunding
some old loans, but the result is, according
to this view of the European situation,
that the Russian armies have been tied
down for lack of ready money in the
army chests.
A strong corroboration of this theory is
given by the announcement from St.
Petersburg that an order has been issued
by the Gar to the Russian officials, COM
'mandhg them to moderate their zeal in
prosecuting the Hebrews. This is ex-
planned by an assertion that the first in
telligence as to the proceedings of these
officials and the prosecutions that have
been going on has only just reached the
Gar through the Grand Duke Sergius
Even supposing the autocrat was the only
person in the civilized world who did not
know of these prosecutions, the excuse
can hardly be allowed, as representations
on the same point were made by the
Rothsehilds in their first communications
to his Government on the subject of the
loan. 1t is more Teasonableto regard this
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-16
NORTH CAROLINA GOLD.
Plenty of 1t, but 1t Is Extremely Hard to
Mine.

New York Telegram.l
"One of the papers published page story
about the great find of gold in Western
North Carolina" said John II. Sweeney, OF
Waynesville, n. c., at the New York Hotel,
"and while it is perfectly true that there is
plenty of gold in the Blue Ridge Mountains,
1t is also true that it is next to impossible to
get at 1t where there is enough water-and
let me say that this Is in very few places-to
wash the placer. There is so much clay
among the gold that it forms what miners
call robbers and, gathering size as it comes
down the sluice, 1t takes up all the gold. In
this kind Of mining you have only to con-
tinue to use mercury, and in time you can
spend Vanderbilt's fortune without receiv-
ing any returns. In the quartz mining the
gold is surrounded with tale, and even after
roasting it is impossible to get the gold to
amalgamate.
"Taken altogether, don't think you can
get up any gold fever among our people.
You know it is one thing to wash gold with
slave labor at u cost of about s. a month and
quite another to do the same work at 81 50 o
day. While many of those gold mines have
been sources of considerable incomes to
their owners before the war, no one will
ever be millionaire by their products"
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FINISHED HIM UP.

He Was Limp as Rag, but AnotherDrtpk
Settled 1t.
NJ. Quad in New York World.l
Two men, who had a third Between them,
started to enter a Park row saloon yester-
day, when the proprietor called out:
"Now, then, what do you want here?"
"Want a drink for him." replied one.
"But he's drunk now!'
"WeH, we>want something to either finish
him, so that we can draw him along, or that
will stiffen his legs and make him follow to
fight us. He's no better than a diShrag now,
and is crying for his ma.
A small drink of gin finished him, and they
carried him Off with his legs dragging ON the
walk.
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DON'T
RUN down YOUR own town.

RUN down your own town.
- TRY to overhear q conversation.
LOOK back when you pass lady.
OFFER to bet to settle an argument.
MAKE the business of others your own.
TELL every one you converse with that it's
hot.
BE polite to your neighbors and boorish at
home.
TRY to stop a street car in the middle of
the block.
Pass to the left when the rule of the town
Is to pass to the right.
IMAGINE that she wants you to speak be-
cause she happens to catch your eye.
FOLLOW the patrol wagon to the station or
help swell the crowd that annoys the police
man.who makes an arrest.
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CIT is pretty hard on De Lesseps, in his
old age, after all he has done for the honor
and glory of France and engineering science,
to be prosecuted for misleading investors in
the Panama canal scheme" remarks an
esteemed contemporary. But, is it any harder
on him, if he has misled investors, than it is
on the people of France, who have been
induced by his reputation to lose their saw
ingsP 1t is mawkishness to give all the SYM
pathy to the men who are responsible for
fleeing the public, and 1t is something worse
to give them power and social station, if
they do it successfully, as in this country.
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AMERICAN CONNOIsSEURs
OF Art Easy to Dupe, Says Victor Bernard,
French Critic.

rrencn SrltlC.
Chicago Herald.]
Victor Bernard, a French art critic, who
was at the Palmer last evening, declared
that it was very easy to fool Americans on
anything pertaining to art.
Il have just spent week in New York, :"
he said, "and during that time was shown
three or four pictures of Napoleon on horse
back, which are supposed to be fac-similes
Of the masterpiece of the late Meissonier.
These pictures cost considerable money and
are worthless. They are nothing like Meis-
sonier's work. When 1 first saw these pict-
ures there was something which displeased
my eye. studied the picture critically for
a minute and saw very bad mistake. The
horse stands with his left side exposed to
view and his name hangs over the side.
This clumsy blunder makes the picture quite
unnatural. You will see 1000 horses and not
one in the number will have the mane on
the left side. When Meissonier died the
American papers were filed with anecdotes
describing him as the cleverest animal
painter of his day. Yet with all this, New
Workers will pay q fabulous price for coun-
terfeit facsimile of NIeissonier. ! believe
they would have bought. the picture and
credited 1t to Meissonier if the horse had
wings painted on him"
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excuse as method of letting the absolute
monarch come down easily to the point Of
conceding the demand of the financial
potentate for the sake of getting tie
money.
This view of the situation, if correct,
gives the Hebrew monarch of finance the
palm of the victory. But does that victory
imply that Russia will be furnished the
money wherewith to let loose the dogs of
war next year?
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The meeting of Republican politicians in
Indiana, alleged to be for the purpose of or
ganizing Blaine movement, evokes the
Characterization of "blamed fools" from
Colonel Dudley for starting out eighteen
months before the convention" Aside from
the remarkable chronology thus credited to
the wary Colonel of locating the convention
in December, 1892, this view provokes the re-
mark that while it may be early to work up
the boom of any one candidate, it may be a
very good time for a crowd of working poll
ticians to organize and let it be known that
thew must be dealt with,