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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
AN ECONOMIC UNTRUTH,

Mr.. Erastus Wiman, in an article in
tended to demonstrate to the farmers that
their present attitude of complaint is
wholly wrong, asserts that "the chief evil
of the generation of producers now pass
ing awayis that of over production, result
ing in the destruction of profit"
This is worse than nonsense. 1t is
pernicious Justification of the most funda-
mental economic principles. Production
in any industry is the total of staples or
commodity produced by labor for the con-
sumption of society. Profit consists of the
supplies which the producers of any class
of commodity can obtain in exchange for
their commodities, and it is plain that the
more any producer receives in exchange
for his production, the greater is his
actual profit Mr.. Wiman would
have the farmers believe that
if there is greater production
of wheat, flour, clothing, boots and
shoes, iron and steel implements, and so
on, therefore the man swho produces one
of these staples can get less of all the
Others which he needs for supplies, which,
as we have already remarked, is perni-
cious and misleading untruth.
The utter falsity Of such statements u
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
CROPS AND THE GOLD MOVEMENT.

While the continued outflow of gold, as
indicated by the shipments of last week,
contains premonitory symptom of light
money markets in the fall, there is very
comfortable prospect of its correction in
the favorable crop outlook. A large crop
might temporarily enhance the stringency
next fall by the increased demand for
money in its movements; but the ultimate
result would be likely to reverse the pres
ent outward movement of gold
There is considerable variation in the
estimates of the amount of wheat Europe
will need to purchase during the next crop
wear, but the lowest is 2SS, ,0OO, 900 bushels.
If the United States should furnish but
Ealf of this-and the present crop pros
poets point to an even greater surplus-it
would give an addition to the trade bal
ance in our favor that must at least check
expectations of gold. At present it is
difficult for any calculations in the line of
exchange to figure out how Europe could
pay for an addition of nearly $4,000, 900
bushels to the average wheat export with
ut sending back the greater share of the
.old which has been taken away from US
lis year.
Unless some very radical change comes
over the crop reports, by this time next
yeaT our surplus grain exports should
nave turned the tide of gold in the direc-
tion of this country instead of, as at pres
ent, against it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
Social Chatter.

TALLYHo parties are all the rage in the
East End.
THE Mayaower excursion last evening was
certainly "daisy."
Mrs. WILLIAM WHITNEY has returned from
five months visit to California.
THE California State Normal School alumni
banqueted last evening in the chapel of the
school.
THE McCreery-M Maxwell nuptials presum-
ably were solemntzed last evening In New
Jersey.
ALEXANDER MURDOCH and wife, of John R.
& A. Murdock. leave the 7th for an extended
Rocky Mountain trip.
MRS. MEuRER of New York, is In the city
visiting friends and relatives. She will be
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Slomer
for the next ten days
PROF. BYRON W. KING returned last even
ing from California State Normal School,
ciety, and departed later for Council Bluffs,
where he will give readings to the Chautau-
qua Assembly In session there.
The Bedford School of the Southside pic
nicked at Aliquippa yesterday. Over 1000
train of 20 coaches conveyed the large crowd
over the Lake Erie Railroad, The Bedford
Band of the Twenty-ninth ward furnished
the music.
The basket picnic Of the Saturday after
noon class of Thuma's Dancing Academy
will be held at Wildwood, on the Pittsburg
and Western Railroad, Wednesday, July 8.
The train will leave the Pittsburg and West
ern depot foot of Anderson street and
Niuth street bridge, Allegheny, at 10 A. NJ,
sharp, returning at o'clock in the evening.
EXTENSIVE preparations are under way for
q lawn fete and grand vocal and instru-
mental concert to be held on the spacious
and beautiful lawn surrounding the elegant
residence of Mr.. c. K. Bryce on Fifth ave
nue., Homestead, on Friday evening, July3 8.
The proceeds will be devoted to the erection
of new building for the Independent Fire
Company, No. /, of which Mr.. Bryce is a
member.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
PITTsBURG, WEDNESDAY,. JULY j, lss
THE INDEPENDENT SPIRIT.

The period of theological unrest which
has attracted wide attention is fully
matched by the disposition to political
unrest which manifests itself to pro-
nounced degree in the address just issued
by large number of the Republicans of
Philadelphia. That political document is
evidently intended to give our State poll
tics decided airing, and has already, as
indicated by Mr.. Cooper's reply to it,
caused considerable fiutter in the politi-
cal fold
Apart from the personal bearing which
appears in the text of the manifesto, and
may be suspected to exist between the
lines, its most important feature is its
bearing on independent action. 1t may
perhaps be too much to say that the docu-
ment comes from sources which uphold the
doctrine that men must be bound by party
lines. But it is undoubtedly supported
by elements, which last fall maintained the
rule that party ties should prevent indie
pendent action on State issues. In that
view the address is most conclusive in
dicatiOn of the men who threw off party
ties in the last campaign, and contains
convincing arguments that, if there is not
a decided reformation in political methods
and influences, self-respecting and intelli-
gent voters must wholly abjure the bonds
of party in action on State politics.
This is indeed the most important point
as affecting the means for. curing the
evils Of which the Philadelphia Repub--
icans complain. If the signers to the
manifesto do not specifically indorse the
position which THE DISPATCH has main
tanned for years, every line of their docu-
ment points to the same conclusion. 1t
is that the support of Pennsylvania to
certain lines of national policy must not
be used TO maintain political abuses in
State legislation and administration. The
way to prevent it is to have it understood
that in State elections the people will vote
for the best men and the most honest
policy regardless Of party ties. We take
the Philadelphia address to- mean that a /
large element in that city is prepared to
take that course, unless there is a decided
reform in prevailing methods.
If the charges made in the address do
not point to Independent action and the
discarding of party bondage on State
issues they do not point'to anything at all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
THE COINAGE ISSUE.

The New York Commercial AdDertiser
replies to The DIsPATCH's criticism of
its assertion that the Treasury can make
seventeen millions year by coming
S53, 600, 900 of silver bullion into an alleged
$4,000, 900 of silver coin with the acknowl-
edgment that the profit is fiat profit.
So, it asserts, is the profit on subsidiary
silver coinage, and as ''silver would be
subsidiary coinage until international
agreement established bi-metallism, lit sees
no danger in Secretary Fosters plan of
adding seventy millions year to our cur
Tency.
Our cOtemporary goes on to further de-
fine its position with regard to silver by
laying down certain points with which
THE DISPATCH can entirely agree, 1t is
opposed to shortened yardsticks, but as
serts that ''the only way to defeat free
coinage is to recognize that those
who demand it are neither knaves
nor fools 1t perceives that the
country needs more silver money, but
defines as two necessary requirements
that: % No mine owner shall receive a
dollar for eighty cents worth of silver;
% no debtor shall pay a dollar with
eighty cents worth of silver.
To all these things The DISPATCH can
freely assent. 1t has frequently pointed
out that there is more foundation to the
silver mems complaints than the gold
men generally concede. 1t believes that
the only ultimate way out is the re-estab-
Iishment of bi-metallism by international
agreement But it holds that free coinage
would not only not re-establish bi-metal-
lism, but that it would entail great wrong
by practically scaling down debts in exactly
the percentage that the silver dollar is
less in bullion value than the gold dollar.
It will thus be seen that on general
principles as concerns silver we are in
practical agreement with our New York
cotemporary. But it is one of the fatali-
ties Of this question that it is,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

B. P Boswell, a New Orleans sugar
planter, is at the Monongahela House. He
said to-day the applications for bounties had
been filed and would reach $S,OOo,GO0: The
bounty prospect is turning the attention of
many people to the sugar cane business.
Lieutenant James Harkins of Company
E, Tenth Regiment, of Mt. Pleasant was in
the city yesterday. The handsome lfeuten-
ant reports everything quiet at the scene of
the late coke war In which he was such
prominent figure on dress parade.
Colonel w. P. Rend, the Chicago coal
OPERATOR is in the city. The:Colonel says he
has been very busy with his business lately,
anG Fai ne s dnins the WindV Ctr @ any ~ood oS
not.
J.H. P. Hughart, President of the Grand
Rapids and Indiana road, and W. V. Hughart,
Jr., were at the Duquesne yesterday. They
came here TO- confer with officials of the
Pennsylvania Company.
Second Vice President Thomas NJ. King,
of the B. & O., was in the city yesterday.
Mr. King had no news to offer. The COM
pany is getting the T. 4 w. in shape to make
it part of the main line.
H. c. Dimmock, of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul road, went to Altoona
last evening to meet his sister, who is en-
route to the Pacific coast.
George H. Robbins, Assistant Secretary
of the 7. NJ. c. A., left for Athens yesterday
where he will be General Secretary of the
organization.
Secretary S. B. Ligget and Mr.. Brooks,
general counsel of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, went to Philadelphia last evening in q
special car.
F. L. Andrews and wife, of New Bcthle-
hem, left for Duluth on the limited last even
ing. They will take the lake from Chicago.
L. j. Bulkley, Purchasing Agent of the
Baltimore and Ohio road, and f. z. Cross of
Columbus, are stopping at the Duquesne.
Ed Sterbrick, of fBraddock, who graduated
in the law department of the Michigan
University, has returned home.
saw firm, and Elijah Robinson, of perker,
are ct the Monongahela House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

THE President of Mexico has Indian
blood in his veins and is proud of it.
BERRY WALL is credited with making
an income of $25, 900 a year as a life insurance
agent.
SENIOR DEL CASTILLO, the Spanish Prime
Minister, is one of the wealthy men of the
kingdom.
PETER, of Kansas, has evoluted into
person who cares about his personal appear
ance and likes good things to eat and his
hair and beard have been trimmed, too.
Hon. HARVEY RICE, father of the Ohio
common school system, is now 81 years of
age, and is living quietly in Cleveland,
where he still spends an hour daily with his
pen.
THE coachman of Austria's Prime Minis
ter Count Taaffe, wears his masters old
clothes at times, and intimates that states
mans habit of tipping his hat back in public.
The two men resemble each other, also, in
figure.
ARCHBISHOP TACHE, who for decades
has been the head of the Roman Catholic
Church in the Canadian Northwest and the
foremost Canadian prelate, is lying at the
point of death. His recovery is believed to
be impossible.
WHILE Robert Louis Stevenson was a
member of band of art students at Barbi-
zon years ago, the question arose as to which
one of their number could best be spared by
the world. The vote was unanimous in favor
of Stevenson.
COUNT ALEXANDER KEYSERLING, who
died few weeks ago, was one of the best
known authorities on geology and paleon-
tology in the Baltic provinces. When a
young man Alexander Won Humboldt
honored him with his admiration and friend
ship. He was a classmate Of Prince Bis
marck in the University of Goettingen.
GLADSTONE is comparatively poor man,
and the occasional literary work he does for
magazines and periodicals is not the result
of any desire to add to his established fame
as writer. He takes a very matter of fact
view of such productions, reckoning them
simply as valuable help to the liquidation of
his heavy household expenses For every
article he writes he receives $1,000.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
LET THE CAT RIGHT OUT.
A Little Inmate of an Orphan Asylum
Bound to Tell the Truth.


Bound to Tell the Truth.
A good story is told at the expense of an
orphan asylum in one of these cities, q story
that will be recognized by more than one
person present on the occasion of the Incl
dent. A minister of the gospel was present
and he gave a talk to the children varied by
something catechetical, in order to test their
understanding of his discourse. After dwell
ing for time on the office of those set apart
as ministrants in the temple at Jerusalem,
and the manner of their conservation to this
service, and on other cognate topics, he
came to speak of the amounting of the Kings,
and paused to ask the children If they knew
what was used. Generally speaking, the
children stuck their fingers in their mouths,
and their downcast eyes testified that the
question was poser. But one enfant terri
BILE put up his hand as evidence that he
knew the kind of unguent used. "Wen my
little man" asked the preacher, "what was
itP"
Sulphur and lard" triumphantly cried
out the little shaver, unabashed by the con-
fusion that followed. The ministers and all
the other visitors instantaneously OWNED
from the answer and the confusion that
mantled the faces of the asylum managers
and attendants that the boy had let the cat
out of the wallet. Though scabies Is almost
certain to make its appearance occasionally
in institutions of this kind, yet the managers
thereof take as much pains to conceal it as
do the proudest families.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
Obituary Notes.

pinpham was the only daughter Of 8. K. Lake, of
Pfttsburg.
WILLIAM MARSHALL, SR., British Vice Consul
at Richmond, Va, for many years, died Monday
at that place.
MRS, KATE A. CHIDsEY, wife of ex-Mayor C.
f. Chidsey, died at Easton, Sunday night aged 46.
She was prominent in charitable works.
MRS NErrIE L., wife of Rev. T. A. Cunning
ham. psstor of the First Baptist Church, Somer-
Vile Mass, died In that city June "a. Mrs. Oun-
PATRICK LoGUE, most exemplary young man
of Sbousetown died at his home yesterday at the
age of 20 wears. He was q nephew Of Hugh O'Don-
nell, of Homestead.
CHRISTOPHER GAYNoR and wife, aged respec-
lively 30 and g. of Evansville while visiting their
son At Pilot Knob, Ind, died Monday within ten
hours of each other.
MRS MARY HoLLAR, wife of Postmaster Frank
E. HoIlar, of Shippensburg, died Monday aged g.
She was daughter of Joseph G. Kennedy, General
Stock Agent of the Chesapeake Valley Railroad
Company.
REV. WILLIAM M. OGDEN, rector of the Church
of the Holy Cross ut Warrensburg, N. Y, fell
dead in his pulpit while preaching Monday morn
ing He was S. years Of age and had been pastor
of the church for 20 years.
MRS. ALMIRA AMBLER, noted woman during
the war. died in Pleasant Valley, N. :, Saturday
and was buried in Danbury on Monday. She was
the first woman to volunteer as an army nurse,
and with her husband, Chaplain E Q. Ambler,s
seryed throughout the war; She was one OF the
(ounders Of the Womans Relief C0rps. snd one Of
the Arsf women to receives pension ~ nurse.
Her age wasSA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01

evident from the application Mr.. Wiman
makes of it. He refers to wheat producers.
Now it is notorious fact that for the past
few years the crops of wheat have been
below the average, and in that fact the
lack of prosperity among. Western farmers
has one of its causes. The popular
and universal prediction that good crop
this year will enhance the general pros
perity is true, and the opposite idea incul-
Gated by Mr.. Wiman is wholly untrue.
The artificial restriction of production
may swell the profits of combinations of
middlemen; but the prosperity gained by
such means is the opposite of prosperity
for the masses.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
IT is not edifvinp TO find this effort at de.

IT is not edifying to find this effort at de-
fense of the Prince of Wales in the New
York Recorder: "The Prince of Wales and
number of ladies and gentlemen, thrown
into the ennui of a country house, may GER
tainly venture upon a game of cards for
money without being denounced from the
pulpits of the English-speaking world as
low gamblers" Are we to take 1t as
principle of the New York republicanism of
which the esteemed Recorder is the latest
organ that designations which are immoral
for common people are all right If the par
ticipants are princely and aristocratic7 In
other words, is 'low gambling" to use the
Recorders distinction, any lower in q moral
point of view than high gambling9
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
SMILE AND KEEP COOL.

New costumes styled for beach and surf
From thoughts inspired of Oceans spray
And foam's bewItching daughter gay;
New gowns to grace the tennis turf,
New men TO nirt with every day.
Outing.
Wife-You're scolding all the time at me,
how would you like to be that African king with
8. 200 wives?
Husband-I'd like it to a dot. He can cut all
their heads off at moments notice, If they don't
suit him. Washington St1r.
Mrs. De Kash-Why do you grumble so
every time ask for pin money?
DE Kash-I don't kick on any reasonable de-
mands, but If you want to endow a bowling alley
you ought TO say so.-Neo York Herald.
Mr.. Skinnphlint had been walking the
floor with his hand his Jaw for about four hours.
why don't you have 1t puIed?'' inquired his
wife.
..Have it puIedr' he roared. martha Ann,
that tooth cost me y bill less than year ago for
filing. Reckon I'm going to throw that money
away and half a dollar more on top of it9 Not
muchl Ache away, gosh ding vel Ache awayi''
And Mr.. Skinnphlint resumed his walk.-Chica0o
Tribune.
Don't yon thing" she said archly to the
visitor behind the scenes, that most Of these
Jokes about ballet girls are rather thin"
perhaps So ~ he replied. much embarrassed.
..But then you know it's pretty thin subject to
tackle. ."-Wdshfnoton Post.
1 have invented another machine. It is
labor saving contrivance for mothers, being self
rocking cradle, baby spanker and clothes wringer
In one. The baby spanker works like paddle
wheel. the loose paddles doing the spanking. As
many as five babies can be spanked at one time.
All you have to do is to drop q baby In the slot and
the machine does the rest.-Ne1o York Telegram.
In younger days she sought worldly man,
But now. when she's not less than thirty-three,
She's glad to take whatever one she can
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01

THE New York World is not doing Gov
ernor Pattison any service in asserting that
The vetoed the compulsory education bill
on the ground that, "the free provision of
educational opportunities, open to all alike,
is as far as any government can afford to go
in that line" The Governor vetoed the bill
because it was loosely drawn and did not
meet the primary requirements. As to the
assertion that compulsory education is un-
democratic, If it is democratic to tax the
people for the prevention Of popular ignor-
ance it must be democratic to make the
purpose of that taxation effective. The talk
about Invading the home" and taking the
control of children away from the parent"
which the esteemed World indulges in is
more applicable to laws forbidding children's
labor, which that journal supports, than to
properly drawn compulsory education laws.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
MoRGANTowN's LEGAL STATUS.
1t Is Thrown in Doubt in a Land Com
pany's Street Opening Case.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
MoReANTowN, June 30.-The Morgantown
Building and Investment Company has re-
Gently bought about 100 acres OF land ad-
joining this place, and also several lots in
the town of Morgantown, the Mayor of
which is the President of the corporation.
The company has instituted proceedings to
condemn all the lots between Front street
and Bumbo lane to the northern boundary
of the town to construct a street to the
lands of the company.
Many citizens believe that the Common
Council is not a legal body, but the Circuit
Judge by his decision sustained the motion
to reject the plea in abatement denying the
existence of the town as corporation, be-
cause of the amendment of its charter by
the Court a few months ago. The defend
ants in these proceedings claim that they
could show, if given an opportunity, that
the present alleged city authorities have not
valid title to their office. The matter will
go to the Supreme Court
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01

REPORTS indicate that the cattlemen who
have been occupying the Cherokee strip
with their herds, in defiance of law, are
now preparing to leave on account OF the
conclusive arguments of the Fifth U. s.
Cavalry, sent to drive them out. The readi-
ness of the cattle barons to obey those who
are able to make them do what is told is in
structive. Like good many other elements
in our civilization, they illustrate the fable
of the boy and the old man in the primer by
mocking at words and grass, but when hard
missiles are threatened, coming down in a
hurry.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Albert L. Coolidge.

Albert L. Coolidge, President of the
Para Rubber Company, died Monday at his Brook
lyn residence. aged SO. The threatening aspect of
the rubber markets of South America led him to
attempt the task of bringing all the great rubber
concerns into a gigantic trust that would control
the rnbber markets of the world. His project was a
brilliant one butit progressed slowly and met with
mind was more than his constitution could stand
and three months ago his health failed him. As
member of the commission to the Philadelphia az N
Paris Expositions he performed valuable service
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01
A REMARKABLE APPLE TREE.
Its Beneficent Career Ended, but Its Re.
suits Still Live.

AeS DehehcenG Oareer Inueu, Du5 1tS ne.
suits Still Live.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.l
WHEELING, June 80.-In 1888 Jonathan
Thatcher purchased the farm on which his
descendant. Jonathan Thatcher, now re-
sides, few miles west of Martinsburg. At
that time there was growing on 1t a small
apple tree about two inches in circumfer-
ence, the seed of which must have been
waited and planted by some of the laws of
the Almighty. Protection was placed about
1t and the tree grew and bore red apple of
delicious flavor.
1t was never grated, but CRAFTS from it are
now doing duty in Iowa, Ohio and Missouri.
In 1885 Jacob Hoke and Philip Deffenderfer
For 90 years it met the winter storms and
summer sunshine and gusts, but last Sunday
the tree bowed its aged head to the storm
that passed there, being bodily torn up from
the roots. This was the end of the famous
Thatcher tree.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-01

IT is one of the interesting facts of poll
tics that, in speech two or three years go,
Colonel Fred Grant struck what has since
turned out to be something in the way of a
keynote. "a surplus is easier to handle than
a deficit" declared the son of his father. The
last Congress demonstrated the easy part of
that assertion, and now the administration
is in d fair way to wrestle with the difficult
end of it.