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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
A TWELVE-YEARs' ERRAND.
Sent After Cigars in Ohio and Delivered
Them in Nebraska.

Omaha Bee.l
Among the guests at the Millard Hotel
yesterday was George O'Neal, who registered
with his wife from Belpre, o. His soiourn
here was marked by the revival of an old
mountaineering. About II years ago Mr..
O'Neal was a guest at a country dance in
Washington county, Ohio. One of his friends
was George Henderson. During the course
of the evening George Henderson ana George
O'Neal were elected by viva voce vote to
ride into town and purchase two boxes of
Wheeling ''stogies" for the boys, the smok-
ing part of the preparatory programme hav-
ing been overlooked. George O'Neal was to
pay for the smokers in consideration of be-
ing let out on the trip. Henderson started
return, but waited in vain, for when he
reached Belpre he met one of his brothers,
who lived in the West, at the depot waiting
for the night train to go back home. George
was prevailed upon to accompany him.
Yesterday Mr.. Henderson, who is now en-
gagged in spreading the gospel about some
body's soda, drifted down stairs from his
room at the Millard and, looking over the
register, struck the name of George O'Neal
and wife, Belpre, o. 1t was not many hours
thereafter when Mr.. Henderson, after tour
OF the tobacco shops of the town, returned
to the hotel and, walking into his old
friends room, observed quietly that there
were those stogies and he'd had hard time
getting iem. The old time defalcation was
condoned down stairs and thru the house of
journed amid the mad gayeties of Council
mfr
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
CONVERSATION FoR CATTLE.

The International Agricultural Congress
has pronounced in favor of Government
recompense to owners of cattle killed by
public authority as suffering from con-
tagious diseases. The New York World
indorses the idea with the assertion of the
principle that private property taken or
damaged for public use, should always be
paid for. D."
The theory is accurate enough, but its
practical operation presents some striking
difficulties, that bid fair to be insuperable
For instance, the first question that would
corne up under the administration of the
law of compensation would be: What is
the value of a steer which has got lump
jaw, pleurO-pneumonia, glanders, or other
infectious and virulent disease. The idea
that a very wide diversity of valuation
might appear as between the cattle owners
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
THE TARIFF AND CIGARS.
Business Has Increased and the Smokers
Are Better Pleased.

Are Better Pleased.
Chicago Inter ocean,
The proof of the pudding lies in the eating
thereof, and of a cigar in the true flavor of
the natural leaf. The Mckinley bill is giving
us better cigars than we used to have. This
is what ME- Hamburger, agent of Korbs,
Wertheim & Schiller, tells Mr.. Mckinley, and
Mr.. Hamburger knows. He says that the
quality of the American-made cigar is i'm
proving and that gentlemen who used to
smoke imported, or nominally imported,
cigars now find that Americans can make
lust as good cigars as foreigners can.
In proof of which Mr.. Harburger says
that the manufacturing firm which he repre-
sents has increased its business by 81, 000. 900
during the last six months as compared with
the corresponding six months of 1890 He
SAYS also that the demand for cigar-ma kers
is largely augmented since the passage of the
Mckinley bill, and that the price of the finer
grades OF United States tobacco is higher by
from 80 to 40 per cent?
To resume. Mr.. Harburger, who knows,
says:
l. The purchaser is getting better cigar
than formerly.
2. The United States manufacturer is in
creasing his output very largely.
8 The United states wage-earning cigar
maker finds an increased demand for his
labor
4. The United States grower is getting q
better price for the higher grades of his to-
h.te
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Major Edmond L. Smith.

Major Edmond L. Smith, who died at his
home in Reading. Friday, aged 81, had some re-
markably thrilling escapes from Confederate
prisons during his military service in the war for
the Union. He graduated at the age of 10 from the
University OF Georgetown, d. c., and at the out
break of the war enlisted with the Rnggold Az
tillerv, He afterward transferred to the regu-
lar army receiving first a Captains commission
and then MAJORS. Subsequently he commanded
battalions in the engagements under Mcclellan and
Burnside at South Mountain, the Peninsula An
tietam and Fredericksburg. He was afterward
captured and confined in Libby Prison for a year.
While there he asssted for SO DAYS in digging tuI-
Three weeks later he was again captured and con-
signed to a dungeon on bread and water In being
transferred to AndersOnvie he eluded his guards
leaped from moving train, and hid in a Georgia
swamp six weeks subssting OF rice and berries.
Eventually he was tracked by bloodhounds and
taken to Charleston, where he was again consigned
to a dungeon. Thence he paroled and ex-
changed In October, 1884, through the influence of
an old Georgetown colegemate, who was general
in the Confederate army.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
THE C0ssACKs' DRILL.
An Imposing Spectacle of Astonishing
Military Maneuvers.

An Imposing Spectacle of Astonishing
Military Maneuvers.
/ New York SUM-
General Kostanda, Governor of Moscow,
last week permitted the representatives of
some Paris journals to visit the barracks of
Chadynskoi, which are occupied by a res;i-
ment of Cossaclls of the Don, and here is the
description which one of the writer's gives of
the wonderful performances of the cavalry
Of the Gear.
sThe drill of the Cossacks is something
marvellous. We came to witness it just at
the moment when Colonel novaish rode up
at gallop in front of the squadron in ltne
In this country the commander of a regi-
ment never appears before his troops with
out saluting them and pronouncing the fol-
lowing words: 1dorovo molodtay!' ('Good
morning. my fine fellows') To this saluta-
tion'the entire regiment responds, we wish
your lordship good health!'
"The troops then scattered, and the maneu-
vering began. 1t was simply astounding,
and the Frenchmen who witnessed it, ten in
number, on the invitation of Colonel Iloyai-
ski will never forget 1t as long as they live.
Imagine the most extravagant equestrian
programme of a circus, the complete reper-
toire of Buffalo Bills Indians, enriched by
the most extraordinary variations-eyery-
bulnS IudI Is u0llCdCc COullCdl,
and wild in the equestrian art. All this was
displayed before US for two long hours by
thousand men in tempest of dust and
movement sufficient to make the coolest
head dizzy. We saw horses bounding like
panthers and men jumping like monkeys.
We saw cavalrymen booted, with their car
bines across their backs and their sabres in
their hands, charging while standing upright
upon their saddles. Others would pass at
full speed beside Cossacks stretched upon
the ground pick them up like pocket hand
kerchiefs and carry them Off across the
groups of their saddles. Others again would
pivot upon their saddles and play all the an
tics of circus clowns. One horse, tripping
upon some obstacle, apparently rolled COM
killed upon the spot; but he jumped mp,
laughing heartily while he rearranged his
damaged trousers.
"When the maneuver was finished the de-
file began. Thrice the squadron def1led be-
fore their Colonel, first at walk, then at a
something terrific. The Cossacks are armed
and equipped in such manner that at
distance it is impossible either to see or to
hear them. The uniforms are somber; the
scabbards are of leather and their weapons
are darkened. There is no flashing or clash
ing of steel, and little or no sound. And
the whole troop of men and horses pass
noiselessly by at full speed like living
squall. The Colonel scrutinized the ap-
pearancs of each squadron, and, satisfied
with the performance, shouted, 'Karachor
(Very good y to which the double row of
Cossacks replied, 'Rady staratza vasche
yesokoblagorodier ('We will do still better
yet, your lordship!O And the squall passes
off.
SIT would be impossible to give full de-
scription of such an exciting and splendid
spectacle"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
Obituary Notes.

j. NJ. BAILEY, Jr., ex-Territorial Treasurer of
Dakota, died at Freeport ILL.,, Saturday morning.
He was President of the Minnehaha National
Bank and prominent in financial circles.
DR. ROBERT TRAIL SPENCE LOWELL died at his
home in schenectady yesterday morning aged "a
wears He was brother of the late James Russell
Lowell, and was an author and writer of note.
E. S. HINRIcHsEN died at his home in Alex
andria, ILL.,, yesterday; He, was one of the first
stockholders Of the Wabash Railroad, and was
well known in railroad -crcles. He was the father
of W. H. Hinrichsen, late of the Quincy Herald.
THOMAS SoMERs, a vaudeville performer, and
formerly of the Eccentric Four-Seaman Somers
and the Girard brothers-died late Friday night at
ST. Paul. His last engagement was played with his
wife Ada Boshel AS Somers and Boshel they
were touring the country with the Oriental Bur-
lesque Company.
GILBERT E. THORNTON, Pay Director U. s. N,
died in Boston Friday night of Bright's disease.
MIR. Thornton arrived in Boston about ten days
ago on his way from New York to his home in New
Bedford. He was taken Ill day or two after his
arrival and steadily grew worse. The body was
taken to New Bedford for burials
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
CANADA's Glow GROWTH.
She Has Not Followed the Example of the
United States.

United states.
Omaha World-Herald.l
During the last decade the population of
the United States increased in round num-
bers 25 per cent and during these same ten
years the population of Canada increased
less than 70 per cent. The maritime prov
inces, which are those Immediately north of
New England, recorded the smallest growth,
their increase being less than 2 per cent, al
though they possess fruitful soil, rich
mines and good fishery industries. Our own
New England which adioins them on the
SOUTH increased nearly IA per cent during
the same period, and even in the provinces,
including Ontario and Quebec, which en-
brace the pulk of Canadian population, the
increase has been less than 10 per cent
while such States as New York and Penn
sylvania to the south of these provinces,
and occupying corresponding positions in
the United States, have increased over 20
per cent.
population has been in the west, where
tremendous efforts have been made to- de-
yelop and populate the country; but even
here, with bounties on immigration and
land given away, Manitoba has grown less
than lao per cent, while North Dakota, on
the south side of the line in the United
States, has grown almost 400 per cent. In
short Canada is not prosperous as she
should be and not growing as she might.
Her debts are increasing and her eXpendi-
turess piling up. Her Tory administration
is q failure, and the sooner a closer approach
is made to the example set by the United
States the sooner will her prosperity bear
some relation to ours.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO,

Walter G. TAYLOR and his newly-wedded
wife, formerly Miss Hill, of Chicago, left for
that city last night. The couple were re-
tn. ming from honeymoon, spent in the
East and stopped over here to see friends.
ME- Taylor is travelling auditor OF the Lead
Pine Trust with residence in Chicago. He
is q son of Mr.. John W. Taylor, of this city.
General Manager Joseph Wood, of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, left for
New York last night with his sons.
BENJAMIN Davis, Worlds Fair Cammis-
sioner, was in the city Yesterday. He left on
the Limited for Chicago.
G. N Converse, of the United States
Navy, arrived at the Monongahela yester-
day.
General N. B. Switzer, of Washington,
registered at the 2cnongahela yesterday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
RHYMELETS AND RHYNKLEs.
dr. Benedick-Will you be my wife?

Mr.. Benedick-Will you be my wife?
Miss Beatrice-Yes-
Mr. Benedict-Oh, Miss Beatrice, this is so sud-
denl Give me time to reconsider. ''-Hurper's Ba-
zar.
A pessimist was tired of life.
'If some one came to strike me dead,
Iwouldn': move to help myself;
This earth is such bore, - he said.
Just then fly lit on his nose
''Confound the fiesI They do beat aII.''
And the life-tired man didn't rest until
He'd smashed that buzzer 'ganst the wall.
-Phib1delphiG Times.
Miss Pearl White-I wish you to paint
nv portrait,
Dobbins-I'm sorry ma am, but can't do it.
Miss Pearl White-N hy not!
Dobbins-I never copy other paintings.-Ct'ctH-
natl CoRn1srciGL- -Gd5ette.
There's pretty maiden over the way
Who smiles when she sees me here at my WORK,
And she keeps me hard at it from morning TIL
night,
For with such monitor how can shlrK'
She has golden hair and pearly teeth;
Her ewes are the shade of the heavens own blue.
Don't think I'm in danger, for confess
1 am most fifty; she isn't two.
Mother-Where is Johnnie?
Father-I don't know. guess he's around some
where.
Mother-That hoy is into every mischief There
is nothing he isn't into
s.tbereIt,s only his inquiring way. his investi-
eating mind That boy is bound to get at the bot
tom of everything.
Nurse crushing in)-Johnnie's fallen down the
well.
youl-Nao York Press.
Have YOU read ''The Light That Failed?"
she asked the stock holder in the gas company.
..No'' he answered. and then he avoided her
for the rest of the evening. Washington Star.
Ragg-Queer missionary they sent out to
the Cannibal Islands last month. should think
they would send peaceable man.
Bagg-What the matter with him?
Ragg-Got into broil with the natives very arst
thipg,-petToit Free Press,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
State Elections This Year.

To the Editor of The DisDatch:
How many and what State elections will
occur this year? POLITICS.
PIrrsBURG, September 13.
[Iowa, November 8, elects State officers
and Legislature. Maryland, November 8,
elects State officers and Legislature, and
votes on six constitutional amendments
Massachusetts,, November 8, elects State
officers and Legislature. Mississippi, NO
vember g. elects three Railroad Commission
ers and Legislature. Nebraska, November
8, elects Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court and two regents of the State Unfyer-
sity. New Jersey, November g. elects part
of its Legislature. New York, NoVemper ..
elects State officers, Legislature, 10 Supreme
Court Justices and Representative IN the
Tenth Congressional district. Ohio, NoVem-
Der 8, elects State officers, Legislature and
votes on amendment to Constitution pro
v1ding for uniform taxation. PennsyE
vania, November 3. elects Treasurer and
Attorney General, votes on Constitutional
convention and elects delegates to same.
Virginia, November 8, elects half its Legis-
lature.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
A Bee in His Bonnet.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can you tell me where the expression ga
bee in his bonnet" came from?
EAST END, september ls. ELLA T. A.
[This expression evidently is of Scotch
origin. "Thsre is a maggot in his head' is
an equivalent expression in England.
writer claims that the poet Herrick origi-
mated the expression in one of his lyrics.
After q careful examination of the latter
nothing can be found to suDstantiate the
claim, unless it may be the very slight al
lusion in one OF the verses of his "mad
Maids Song:''
"Ah, woe is me. Ah, woe is me!
Alack, and well-a-day!
For pity, sir, find out that bee
Which bore my love away.
I'll seek him in your bonnet brave,
I'll seek him in your eyes
Nay, now think. they've made his grave
In the bed OF Strawberries"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
THE LARGEST AMERICAN RANCH.
1t Is Stocked With Horses and Contains
Eight Thousand Acres.

1t Is Stocked Win horses ana COntalnS
Eight Thousand Acres.
Kansas City Star.]
AF. Wolf, of Greely, Col, is the manager
of the largest horse ranch in America. He
is at the head of the Percheron-Norman
Horse Company, which has ranches 80 miles
north of Denver, and ten miles east of Greely.
The range is divided into five ranches
with an area of $500 acres, and covered
with the finest alfalfa grass. The COM
pany is made up of the following persons:
Studebaker Bros, of South Bend, Ind; Ed
ward Halsey, Senator Fred s. Fish and James
Murphy, the varnish manufacturers, all of
Newark n. j.. and Mr.. Lamb, of Clinton, Ia,
a rich lumber dealer The capital stock Is
$500 OOO all paid up, and at the close of the
present fiscal year tits to be increased to
81, 900 900.
The ranch is stocked with A. 800 horses, all
of the Percheron-Norman or Clydesdale
blood. The breeding is done with "a Perch
eron-N Norman stations, imported by the COM
panv. There are only two other places in
America where this magnificent specimen
of the draught horse is sTaised-BlOOmingto ton,
ILL.,, and Central New York. But this is the
largest, and, in fact, the only extensive horse
ranch in this country. Negotiations are now
pending for the handling of heavy jack
mules, and Mr. Wolf expects to leave in a
few months for Madrid, Spain, to import 25
lacks, The market for mules is confined
almost entirely to the West and South, while
the East and North demand horses. A fine
pair of Spanish-bred jacks will cost from $500
to $500 and pair of blooded Percheron-
Norrnans cost $3.50 to $500.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
LABRADoR's NATURAL WONDERS.


The discovery of a cataract on the
Grand river of Labrador, which is re-
ported to have been made during the past
summer by an exploring party from Bow
doin College, is an interesting one. The
existence of the falls had been reported
by Indian traditions; but this party estab-
lished the first reliable proof of their ex-
istence. The two members of the party
who reached it report it to be magnif-
cent fall 200 feet high, succeeded by rap
ids which increase the total fall to, 800
feet.
1t will thus be seen that the altitude
both of the falls and rapids exceeds those
of the famous Niagara, although the mag
nitude of the flow of water over the Lab
fador cataract can hardly equal the dis
charge through Niagara of the great lakes.
Viewed simply as water fall, it is inter
esting to know that the new discovery
eclipses our wonder of the world but it is
unlikely to ever rival it as spectacle for
humanity, simply on account of its mac
feasibility. The story of the Bowdoin
College explorers shows that the falls were
reached only by a boat voyage of
three hundred miles up the Grand river,
and march over sterile region of over
fifty miles. The obstacles to reaching
these falls are likely to prove so insuper-
able that Niagara will remain as the great
wonder in its line that is within reach of
any save few explorers.
The unknown character of the wilds of
Labrador is illustrated by the fact that,
after it has thus been established that it
has higher fall than Niagara, it still re-
mains an unsettled question whether it
does or does not contain greater lake
than Lake Superior.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14

The idea is brought out by the New York
Evening Stal in comparing assaults by hood
lums upon citizens with the affrays among
foreigners, that "for the doings of foreigners
we are responsible tn q remoter sense than
for the home grown murderers and outlaws" !"
Except in the degree of offenses, we, as q
self-governing people, are responsible
equally for the maintenance of law and
order no matter what the nativity may be of
the people who are disposed to violate them.
But it is true that when we make Americans
respect the law it will lie easier to make
foreigners obey it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
Boston's Water Supply.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Can YOU inform me of the source OF Bos-
toms water supply and the amount used?
L. N. B,
ALLEGHENY, September 13.
1.-THE City Engineer of Boston, Mass, re-
ports to the Water Board that the amount
of water stored in the Sudbury river reser-
voirs is 5s.OOo.O0O gallons less than on Sep
tember /, 1890; in Lake Cochituate 21,OOO, 900
gallons more, and in Mystic lake 100000
gallons less. The daily average eonsump-
tion from the Sudbury and Cochituate works
during August was %, ,46o, 400 gallons, an in
crease of 81 per cent from August, 1890. OF
this amount I, ,557, 300 gallons per day were
numped at Chestnut Hill for high service,
an increase of 90 per cent. The daily aver
age consumption from the Mystic works was
9,122 300 gallons, an increase of 81 per cent
over August, 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
COSTLY ECONOMY.
The Consolidation of the Railroads Is Not
Greatly Desired.

Greatly Desired.
Cincinnati Times-Star.]
The most powerful argument that can be
made against Mr.. Huntington's pea for a
consolidation of all the railroads in this
country is one made by the Financial C'troni-
cle 1t is not that stupendous monopoly
would be created and SO all chance for the
advantages of competitor destroyed. 1t is
not probable that rates would materially
advance. Under the radical reduction in
expenses possible to such a consolidation,
rates might even be reduced below those
which now obtain. This has been the case
with the consolidated oil interests. The
dangersloes not lie in higher rates.
The great and unanswerable argument
against the proposition lies in the tremen-
dous power such corporation would WELD.
1t would have an income several times
greater than that of the Government and an
army of employees larger than the largest
standing army of Europe. Its influence
would be more powerful than that of the
Government itself. Under such a regime
what chance would there be for any individ-
ual or corporation getting justice If the con-
solidation should determine to be oppres-
sive? In case the head of such corpora
tion were ambitious of political as well as
railroad power, what possible head could
the rest of the country make against him?
This country wants no general railroad con-
solidation. The largest of the railroad sys-
TENS is already large enough,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Can Make rheir Constitution.

To the Editor OF The Dispatcb:
A claims that local lodge, branch or
council of any organization cannot make or
modify constitution to govern its actions;
and that the constitution is made by the
State or national body for the government
of the local body before the local body Is Or
ganized, and the only privilege allowed the
local body is to adopt bylaws which do no.
conflict with the constitution. and elect
delegates to the State or National Conyen-
tion, which body alone, he claims, can make
or modify the constitution. In fact, he
claims there is no such thing as local con-
stitution, inasmuch as it cannot be made by
the local body and cannot, therefore, be
local.
B claims that there may be constitution
adopted by the national, also by the State iii
any exists) and the local body, and that
each can make or modify its constitution
as they see fit, so long as one does not con-
1ict with the other. In fact, he claims the
reverse of A, viz: that there is such thing
as local constitution, as it can be made by
the local body. Please decide which IS
right NJ L. a.
PITTsBURe, September l3
TB is cOrrect1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-14

pose to let the excuse of an exhausted ap-
preparation suffice for stopping the Keystone
bank Investigation. The Committee of Fifty
has offered to bear the expenses of the in
vestigation until newappropriation can be
secured from Congress, This leaves the Sec
retary of the Treasury without valid ex-
cuse for shutting off the discoveries which
were likely to be made. But the desire to
stop the probing is so urgent that we had
better wait and see if a new excuse will not
be found