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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
AN ERRoNEoUs srATEMENT.


The letters of Mrs. Fannie B. Ward from
Chile, which are being published in THE
DISPATCH, are full of interest as descript-
i've of life in the South American country.
But as guide to correct view of the po-
litical condition of that convulsed country
it is necessary to say that the letter pub
lished in Sundays DISPATCH shows that
they cannot be relied for impartial po-
litical information.
The fact that in their political aspect
these letters have fallen to the level of the
newspaper organs of the Balmaceda Gov
eminent is made evident by one assertion
in the letter referred to. AT this distance,
of course, we cannot undertake to decide
on the differences of statement between
this correspondent and others with regard
to the shootings and arbitrary arrests by
the Presidential partisans. But the pivotal
assertion with regard to the civil
war made by our correspondent, is shown
to be incorrect by an indisputable au-
thority. The assertion is that the war
twas instigated by political faction in
Congress who finally entered into armed
rebellion against the Constitutional Gov
eminent" The incorrectness of this
statement may be pardoned to a lady who
is surrounded by the Balmacedan infiu-
ences, and whose theories of constitutional
government may be rather dim. But in
order to have clear understanding of the
dispute it is necessary to repeat that the
assertion is shown to be incorrect by an
indisputable authority, and that the au-
thority is no other than that Of President
Balmaceda himself.
In his proclamation giving what he re-
garded as the justification of his attitude,
Balmaceda asserted that the reason why
COngress-not faction, but the ma
jOrity of the Congress-refused to
grant the appropriations and levy the
revenues he desired. Everyone with
a merely normal knowledge of constitu-
tional government knows that this is a
constitutional right of the representative
branch of the Government, lodged there
for the express purpose of establishing a
check on an arbitrary executive Thus
Balmaceda's own statement shows what he
regarded as ground for assuming all the
powers of government" In other words,
because the majority in Congress exer-
cised its constitutional power against him,
he undertook to usurp the legislative
power. To assert that President who
usurps illegal and unconstitutional power
is the constitutional government is a singu-
lar trayesty of the facts.
1t is not the business of the United
States to interfere in the Chilean dispute;
but nation which is founded on the cor
ner-stone of representative principles
ought not to have its sympathies enlisted
by erroneous statements against the side
which has taken its stand on the funda-
mental right of representative govern
ment.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
MONDAYS MIRTH.
BASEBALL POINTS.

BASEbALL fOlNNo-
The Parenthesis said to the Comma:
Your luck as a short stop ne'er swerves;
I'm afraid I'm not In it much longer.
For the Dash has got on to my curves"
Baltimore american.
Miss Prentice-What do all those signs
see In the cars mean? How do you 'Get Home
on the Installment PlanT
Tom Dewitt-Flrst you get a house. then Won get
a wife. and then the installments complete the
home.-P,sck.~
Say anything to woman in scorn of the
higb-shouldered gown craze and she Is up in arms
against you in a minute Philadelphia Times.
sDon't you think bye-bye is rather a silly
sort of exnression for sedate folks like us to
when we nartP, she asked as she stood in the door
of his office preparatory to her shopping tour.
EFT depends, my DEAR" her husband replied,
ION how you spell it. 1 mean b-u-y, buy"
Washington Post
Teacher-Tommy, man has been called
the Laughing animal Can you mention some
other attribute that raises him above the mere
brute?
Tommy Figg-Yes'm. He-he knows how to
spit.-IndfdnapoIis Journal.
A.-So you have sworn off from using to-
bacco.
B.-Yes, suffered good deal during the first
week, but after that felt all right.
ssWhat:did you take to allay the craving for to-
baccO2''
II took to smoking again. That allsyed the
craving right of. ''-Tsrus SVtin0s.
st. Peter-Who are you?
Applicant-A New Yorker, who has always
st. Peter-Here is your golden harp; anything
else do for your Il
AppIicant-No; er-unless you direct me 10
pswnbroker.-Nso York Herald. =
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
FOR IDLE MOMENTS.
Choice Short Stories Culled From Our Ex-
changes-The Dream of Astronomer
Gotham Romancer's Maiden Effort

Choice Short Stories Culled From Our Ex-
changes-The Dream of Astronomer
A Gotham Romancer's Maiden Effort
An Odd Park Scene In Detroit.
A Paris cablegram says French nun has
bequeathed 100000 francs to the Academy of
Science, to be given as a prize to anyone
who shall discover any means of communi-
eating with another world, planet or star.
The planet Mars was suggested in the will
as the most convenient heavenly body on
which to make the experiment.
"This proposition may seem ridiculous,
but 1t is not any more SO than the idea of
James Lick, the founder of the Lick OBJ
servatory," said a man well versed in starry
lore to reporter of the Chicago Tribune.
"The Lick bequest to build the great tele-
scope was intended to establish the fact
whether or not the moon Is inhabited. Now
let us consider the difficulties in the way of
this project. The distance of the earth from
the moon may be stated in round numbers
as 100000 miles, 1t is a fact recognized in
military science that a man can be fairly
distinguished by the eyeat a miles distance.
In making calculations regarding vision it
is the general rule to estimate that to be
seen mile away an object must be half
yard wide. The best telescope has mag
nifying power of 1900 diameters. Half the
distance to the moon is 12O,OOO miles. Divide
this by 1000, the magnifying power of the
glass, and you get go yards as the minimum
size of an object in the moon discernible by
the aid of the telescope from the earth. So
an object must be 1s0 feet wide or thick to
be more than an appreciable dot. | have
made the most liberal allowances in this
computation. The atmospheric conditions
must be perfect and 1900 is an unusually
high power to be used by working astron-
Omer.
"If an object must be $50 feet thick to be
seen from the earth on the moon, it would
be best to make it 200 feet. To give the in
habitants of the moon an idea that there are
intelligent beings on earth it would be neces-
sary to place, say, three objects in view of
the moons people-let them remain for
time arranged at the angles of a triangle
Then they might be changed so as to be in
straight line. The man in the moon seeing
these phenomena might conclude that there
were intelligent beings on earth and arrange
for some corresponding signal to the inhabi
tants of earth. But, while this seems posi-
BILE, it shows how preposterous would be the
attempt to determine with the most power
full telescope now in use whether the moon
is inhabited"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
HOW TO DIVIDE THE FUNCTIONS

The decision that though Miss Irene
Colt, of Norwich, Conn, passed a first
class examination for admission to Yale
College, she cannot be admitted to that in
stitution of learning, evokes variety of
explanations from the Eastern press
One cotemporary says that the reason of
it is that the young lady cannot wear the
articles Of clothing supposed to be re-
served for the male sex and, metaphoric-
ally for the better-half of married couple.
But as there is no reason why she cannot
don the unmentionables except the con-
ventionalitieS of fashion, this explanation
does not satisfy another cotemporary. 1t
presents the explanation that Young
women cannot play baseball and row boat
races. "Fill up Yale's classes with Young
women" it says, "and what would be-
come of the University's prestige for ath-
letic sports? 1t would be simply nowhere,
and the institution would have to depend
Tor reputation on the old played-out issue
Of intellectual superiority"
This is no argument at all for the ex-
clusiOn of women; but rather the opposite
Since the masculine collegiate element is
to be occupied with the great functions of
football and boating, there is all the more
room for the young women in the depart
ments of the college devoted to intellectual
culture. The entire separation of the
present collegiate ambitions from scholas-
tic training would keep the two sexes
apart and thus avoid all the imagined
evils which the mollusks of the Eastern
universities foretel from co-education.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
OUT OF THE COMMON HERD.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN, once well known
variety actor, is now insane.
JOHN JAY is spending the summer read
ing novels at Saratoga.
COLONEL Tom OCHILTREE will return
from Europe in time to attend the races in
his home city.
THE poet Whittier has engaged rooms at
the Elmwood Inn Wakefield Corner, N. H.,
where he will go about the middle Of July.
Ex-SECRETARY OF STATE BAYARD is
probably the most distinguished person in
Saratoga at present. He and Mrs. Bayard
are at the United States Hotel and they are
keeping very quiet.
EX-SENATOR JOHN c. SPooNER, of
Wisconsin, looks and acts more like minis
ter than a shrewd, calculating politician.
He wears a black frock coat, white cravat
shiny silk hat and sanctimonious look
both in winter and summer.
THE King of Belgium has not succeeded
in making his Congo investments pay very
well, SO badly indeed that they have well
nigh swallowed up his own fortune, II not
also the vast property that he holds in trust
for his sister, the ex-Empress Charlotte of
Mexico.
COLONEL JOHN HAY, one of the joint
authors of the famous Lincoln biography,
has trim figure, closely cropped gray
whiskers and moustache and an elegant
way of handling his glasses which bespeaks
the man of leisure. Colonel Hay married q
large fortune.
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER is push
ing his Nicaragua work with great vigor in
the hope of getting away to Europe before
the summer is over to see his wife and
daughter who have been abroad for a year.
They are now in Paris, after having spent
some months in Italy and Germany. Miss
Miller, who was seriously i'll in Rome, has
fully recovered her health.
LEANDER RICHARDSON, the editor of the
Dramatic Ne,os, is one of the most conspicu-
ous figures on upper Broadway in the even
ing He is feet 8 inches in height and
weighs $50 pounds. Richardson is one of the
few men who never forget or desert a friend
in trouble His hatred of enemies-and he
has as many as the ordinary strong minded
man-is as bitter as his regard for his friends
is strong.
w E. CURTIS, Chief of the Bureau of
American Republics at Washington and
head of the Latin-American section Of the
Worlds Fair, is a short, stocky brunette of
amazing push and energy, and with conf
dence in his own resources which has car
ried him to the front row of financial sue
cesses. He is a prime promoter and has a
genius for organization, which Secretary
Blaine has put to good use,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

The New York Sun has budding novelist
on its editorial force. The following is,
doubtless, a chapter from his forthcoming
Great American Romance: The man sat on
the park bench, with one of his legs crossed
over the other. He was dressed in a sum-
mer suit of stylish cut. He wore a wide
brimmed straw hat with blue band. His
russet-leather shoes were small and we'll
shaped. He was young. Some women would
have called him handsome. Men would have
said that he was pretty.
He had been sitting there for over an hour
Between his fingers he held partially-con-
sumed cigarette, from which arose q thin
stream of smoke that wayered sluggishly in
the breezeless air. The stream momentarily
grew thinner.
The man sat looking straight before him.
There was deep, far-away look in his eyes.
His chin quiyered at times and he gnawed
the ends Of his small mustache nervously.
AS the man sat there on the bench the sun
shine fell around him, flooding the asphalt
path with gold and making queer reflections
upon the polished surface of the miniature
pond few feet away. A great English set
ter trotted into view around the corner of
the path. As the dog saw the man it
stopped, and then walked toward him, wag-
The man took no notice of 1t. Finally the
dog trotted away. fat gray squirrel
hopped across the lawn to the rear of the
Dench, chatter1ng gayly. The man did not
stir. An impudent cottontail ran under the
bench and stopped a short distance away,
where it sat upon its launches looking in
quisitively at him. A little child, dressed
in one of the absurd, pretty costumes of the
day, approached him and spoke to him.
Still the man did not move. He was await
ing his doom, waiting for fate to make known
her stern degree.
Suddenly, above the chatter of the squirrel
and the songs of the birds, sounding as If It
came from afar of, came a cry, shrfll
piercing cry, like the agonized scream Of
the hunted roebuck or the despairing wall
of the bereaved widow and orphan. AS
the cry reached the ears of the man he
stirred uneaslly and cast an appealing
glance skyward. Then he thrust his hands
into his pockets and sat there In dogged
silence wa1ting-waiting for his doom.
Nearer and nearer came the shrill cry
rending the air and stilling the multifold
songs of nature that had few moments be-
fore resounded through the little park The
cry was one monotonous word, repeated
over and over again with tireless malignity
1t had a foreign sound, and it was more like
.A-ax-tree!'' than anything else.
AS the sound came nearer the man be-
came more and more excited. His breath
came in short, quick gasps, his eyes diated,
his pulses throbbed. Then the hurrying
figure of boy appeared around the turn in
the path. He bore heavy burden under
one arm, which he seemed to be offering
for sale.
The man sprang to his feet with wild
cry, whats the scorer"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

The idea Suggests that the greatest utility
can be secured for such an institution by a
division of labor between the sexes on the
following plan:
Let the young women go to Yale and
maintain its intellectual character, while
the male collegians continue their ex-
elusive emulation in the fields of effort
known as baseball, rowing, and football
nlayinu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
CHICAGO's GRAND MISTAKE,
It Missed Its Opportunity i'm Not Securing
George Francis Train.

1t Missed Its Opportunity in Not Securing
George Francis Train.
Chicago Heraldl
George Francis Train, who hoped of the
cars here for a few minutes Thursday even
ing and then hoped on again, stopped long
enough to express his disapproval OF the
people who had been selected as Worlds
Fair emissaries to Europe. He thinks a
great mistake was made in not sending out
George Francis Train as Promoter Extraor-
dinary and General Foreign Whirligig. Per
haps Mr.. Train is right. By sheer force OF
natural garrultty he speaks any language,
whether he has ever heard it before or not;
he is almost omnipresent, and he is inde-
fatigable.
Besides, many foreigners have an idea
that Mr.. Train is the typical American. If
given the commission he would rage through
Europe like maddened bull and would
talk Worlds Fair till the whole continent
would become obscured in fog of volubil-
ity He would make of himself q ubiquitous,
unacceptable, irrepressfble advertisements.
Mr. Train has remarkable faculties; why not
make some use of them?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
A Thoroughly Military Family.

A prominent officer in the National Guard,
and one who is G. A. r. member, Is married
and lives in Brooklyn, and has very inter
esting family OF four children. In conver-
sation with him one day, he invited me over
to his house, saying that he would order an
inspection, says writer in the Connecticut
G,tdrdsmdn We arrived on time, and had q
nice chat with the Colonel and his wife. The
Colonel announced inspection by call. in
whistling at the foot of the stairs. The
Colonel then got his staff together, consist
ing Of his wife tColonel Tex and the two
Tie first room-we were met BY two
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

IT is an interesting indication of inabil-
ity to recognize facts that is afforded by an
article in the Forum urging that all the
banks of the country be organized into fifty
central banking institutions with branch
banks scattered all over the country. The
wholly gratuitious assumption "that by this
consolidated management guarantees would
be given of honest methods" is completely
answered by the cogent fact that the most
thoroughly wrecked group of banks among
the Philadelphia failures were built exactly
on that plan.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
SONGS OF THE SEA.

We hear of the angry waves of the sea,
But there's cause for their vexed emotion;
For look at the summer tourist crowds
Who are continually crossing the ocean.
Down by the coast flock the harbor buoys,
In that gay Iife's merry whirl:
But they cannot fill the aching void
OF the numerous seaside girl
No summer fruits grow in the bleak sea
sands,
The naturalist declares:
Yet seed grows there that produces crops
In plenty of bridal pairs.
Baltimore American
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

In answer to the quotation of its indorse-
ment of Senator-Congressman John B.
Robinson year ago, the Philadelphia Press
declines to believe that any man who takes
an oath to support the Constitution and then
breaks it is sound in his Republicanism."
The principle is a good one; but unfortu-
nately it does not explain the Press indorse-
ment of Mr.. Robinson last year. Years be-
fore that time, Mr.. Robinson attracted at
tention on the floor of the Legislature by
declaring his superiority to the Constitution
with reference to the regulation of corpora
tfons. The esteemed Press has given a very
good reason why it should not have sup
ported him in 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Mrs. Belle Patterson.

The only surviving granddaughter of the
late ex-president Andrew johnson died Saturday
in Colorado, where she has been staying for some
months hoping to recover her health. During the
johnson administration she was Little Belle
Patterson and scarcely less beloved by the Presi-
dent than her mother, his eldest daughter.
THE White House full OF little folks during
President Johnson's administration, but this
graceful little girl his idol. After he returned
TO Greenville Mrs Patterson lived with her parents,
Itself until his death. Several years ago con-
sumption seized Miss Patterson, and after her
marriage three years ago, it made rapid progress.
She leaves a daughter not yet years old. Presi-
dent Johnson's children are all dead save Mrs,
Paterson and she and her husband, ex-senator
Patterson, live alone at the old family homestead
in GreenyiIe. The remains of her daughter will
he taken TO East Tennessee and be buried in the
ca,neter there next Sunday.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
WHEN MARY CLIMBED THE TREE.

WHEN MARY CLIMBED THE TREE.
a PAsToRAL.)
On every bough ripe cherries hung.
Atevery breeze they swayed and swung
And
Ma
Climbed
The
Tree.
The feeding robins flew away
As Mary climbed that summer day
And
Jack
He
Stopped
To
See.
Watching the feat with open eyes.
Watching her feet in wild surprise
While
Ma
Ry
Climbed
The
Tree.
And then he drew beneath the shade
Of the cherry tree and chaffed the maid,
Who
Cried
Mis-
Err
Y.
"Go way she said, and held her gown;
But he said. ''I'll stay till you come down;
III
New
Er
Leave,
You
Bet.''
Sing hey, for the yokel who laughed in glee
At the weeping maid in the cherry tree
She's
Sit
Ting
Up
There
Yet.
-Ssp FORK Sxa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

IT is more than interesting to learn from
Democratic authority that the Hon. Scott
Ray, of Indiana, travelled to New York to
learn whether the Hon. David Bennett Hill is
a candidate for the Presidency. When this
is supplemented by the information that
Ray found out that Mr. Hill is O candidate
the country breathes more easily.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

"THE McClure-Nicolay controversy has
brought to the surface quite a number of
persons who don't know anything about the
affair."" says the Washington Post. True,
but that is not SO striking feature of the
affair as the certainty of tho principal
figures in the dispute that they know it all.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

IT is interesting to observe that the cap
ital of the syndicate which is reported to
have obtained control of all the Utah mines,
is placed at only slOOO0,OOo. This unwonted
moderation probably illustrates the convic-
tion of the syndicate formers that the one
thing into which it is impossible to inject
any more water is mining stock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13

IT is noted as commendable departure
that Amesbury, Mass, has stated an indus
trial school to teach boys to be carriage
makers. The question whether the carriage
shops de- not furni~' 80" most efTicacious
and economical IN e ins;iq Ion in
that trade is lost b., tra ~ = why
Amesbury should Teen. l...c, -... @ tIrn
out population OF carriagelnakers: Why
not Nteelbarrow making or shovel manu-
factuS : or even farming? Is carriage-mak-
ing one Of those universal arts without
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
One woman's Sphere.

Versailles Ky CIar10n.J
In our recent trip to the mountains we
found one of the most refined and accom-
plished women in the State, the sister of q
Congressman. She is a United States mail
contractor, has 800 mail routes under her ex-
elusive control, and made $4,000 on her
Texas routes alone last year; yet this woman
is a model wife and mother and one of the
most valuable women in her community.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
Honest John Bardsley.

Washington Post.]
John Bardsley says he intends to be an
honest man in the future. When it is con-
sidered that John has q term of Is years to
serve it will be seen that during that period
he will have every facility for living an hon.
OrabIe life.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
IT seems that Melbourne, the Canton ra

IT seems that Melbourne, the Canton rain
maker, and Devoe, the Hackensack prophet,
are neutralizing each other. The former
was to have produced a big rain on Saturday
or Sunday, while DeVoe had scheduled clear
and hot weather. The resultant of the con-
tending influences was moderately warm
weather, with the thermometer ranging in
the eighties. We now wait with interest to
see if the weather sharps can get together SO
as to produce DeVoe's great cloudburst to-
morrow
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
Daniel Bushnell.

Daniel Bushnell died yesterday at his
home on Craig street at the advanced age ofs3. He
was the father-in-law of George W. Biggs,
o of the Third Presbyterian Church
and among the first members Of the First Church
nnring his long life Mr. Bushnell always took an
active interest in religious affairs. For many
wears he was connected with the Standard Oh
Eo,an,ny He left considerable property and was
reckaned as a well-fxed, If not wealthy man.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-13
Michigan in Seasonable Costume


Northern Michigan has on its blazer, its
blue pants, its straw hat, its sash and its
monicle. The girls are arrayed in outing
1annels, yellow shoes, gorgeous silk stock
ings and smile. The boarding house keeper
has opened up, the summer boarder has put
in an appearance, the three card monte man
is on deck. The Macktnaw fish boats have
been scrubbed out and everything is ready
for the tourist. even the black flies and mos
quitoes upon the inland lakes are retiring.