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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
PERSONAL.

WALT WHITMAN has of late refused to
see the visitors who come in numbers to
call on him. He has been compelled to take
this precaution in self-defense against the
idle curiosity which brings them to his
doors.
The Beau Brummel of New York's mid
dle-aged millionaires is Mr. d. o. Mills who
follows the fashions in male attire very
closely, wears his clothes we'll and is alto
gether model for a metropolitan Cr9sus to
pattern after.
CLARENCE r. CLAGHoRN, of Philadel-
phia, will sail for Hamburg to-day for the
purpose of inspecting the appliances con-
nected with the coal and coke operations of
Germany and Austria.
Miss BRADDON, the novelist has one
great hobby-the collection OF old china She
has series of magnificent cabinets of this
at her house in Richmond, near London, and
one room is known as the plate-room, be-
cause it is hung around with china plate.
SIR EDWIN ARNoLD's resemblance to
Charles Dickens attracts general attention
among New Workers. If Sir Edwin is SO
much better speaker, according to Amer
lean ideas, than most of the other lecturers
Great Britain has sent or lent u.s. it may be
because he is SO much better journalist
THERE IS Dut one American whom the
esteemed King of Siam has ever deemed
worthy to wear the decoration of the Sacred
White Elephant and that was General j. A.
Halderman, of Kansas, who shares this
precious privilege with Edwin Arnold and
Queen Victoria.
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM NJ. SPRINGER,
the Illinois candidate for Speaker, is a tall,
wiry man, with thin hair and an iron-pray
beard and mustache. He always wears a
Prince Albert frock-coat, carefully brushed,
tightly buttoDed and ornamented with a
buttonhole bouquet.
JOHN RUsKIN will soon complete his 72d
year, and for 65 OF those years he has been a
poet, though for the III ost part using prose
as the vehicle of expression for highly poetic
thought. At the age of he wrote in blank
verse singular essay on Time" The next
year he wrote an invocation to the sun to
shine on his garden, which is an amusing,
almost pathetic, mixture of poetry and
pathos. At the age OF 20 he gained the New
digate prize for English poety, and soon
otter abandoned the muse because, as he
said, he could not express his ideas in verse.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
FOB SHERMAN.
The Preronderance of Ohio Republican
Newspapers Favor the Senator.

The Preronderance of Ohio Republican
Newspapers Favor the Senator.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.l
When the morning after the Ohio election
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, the Mans
field Ne,rs, the Toledo Blade and half a
dozen other papers not so well known, be-
gan shout for Ex-Governor Foraker, and
claim that John Sherman would be retired
from the United States Senate, there was
grave suspicion that the friends of Foraker
had undertaken to forestall public opinion
by the shout of a press syndicate. If such
was the intention, the plan has miscarried
The Ohio press has kept quiet on the Sena-
torial question during the campaign. That
was proper discretion, since it is always
difficult and dangerous to fight 4 great bat
tie with the enemy and have Il contest di-
viding the army at the same time.
But since the election and the loud claims
of the Gin cinnati Commercial Gazette which
is no longer the leader of the Republican
press in Ohio, the papers have begun to
speak their preferences. and IS of the best
known Republican papers in the State
have declared for Sherman's reelection.
of the ablesJ Republican defenders of the
State, the Cleveland Leader. the Ohio State
Journal, of Columbus, the Cincinnati Times
Star, and the Dayton Journal. These papers
have always been Republican papers, above
the taint of suspicion. They have never
been conducted in the interest of the per-
sonal glory of any one man, but to represent
the Republican sentiment of the cities and
sections of the State where edited.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
A STHIKING SIMILARITY.

An exceedingly frank and striking
theory Of political action is developed by
the Richmond Dispatch, in discussing the
question whether the Democrats in the
next House shall elevate their Speaker to
the position of absolutism assumed by Mr..
Reed and allow him to count quorums.
The Dispatch gravely concludes that, as
the Democrats have such tremendous
majority, they will be able to keep a
quorum, and as the President and Senate
are Republican, so that nothing could be
gained by forcing legislation through the
House, it is unnecessary, unwise and un-
profitable to follow the Republican ex-
ample.
The principle that it is foolish to do
wrong when you can make just as much by
doing right is pretty well established, and
the assertion of it is rather rsupererogatory.
But the converse of the Democratic Or
gan'S proposition is SO plainly indicated
by its argument as to be rather striking.
By urging so strongly that nothing is to be
gained by adopting the Reed programme,
it virtually admits that if there were any,
thing to be gained the Democratic party
would follow it. If there were hope of
carrying Democratic measures through BY
such means, the Richmond organ tacitly
argues that the Democratic Speaker
should count quorums, pack committees
and refuse TO recognize the members of
the opposition or entertain their motions.
But that is all that Mr. Reed did. No
one supposes that even that brutally
frank partisan would have done the acts
by which he enraged the Democrats if he
had not hoped to gain something by it.
In other words, he had the same justiica-
ton as that indicated by the Democratic
organ as sufficient for the Democrats.
When the organ intimates that on the
same inducements the Democrats should
do the same thing, it simply amounts to
confession that, from the politicians point
of view. the Democratic condemnation of
Reed was only partisan clamor
We do not believe that all Democrats
have as little regard for principle as this
indicates. But the inference that under
like circumstances the Democrats would
adopt Reeds course is an evidence that
organs and politicians are tarred with the
same stick on both sides of the political
fence
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
As TO PAID ASSESSMENTS.

An afternoon contemporary criticises
the statement of The DISPATCH that if
the curative legislation is not sustained
those who have paid their assessments un-
der the old law will have no means of get
ting their money back, and, having paid
their own assessments, will have to bear
their share of the general levy to pay the
assessments of others. This statement Is
excepted to on the ground that "there is
no law authorizing the city to commit
robbery by compelling persons to pay
twice for the same thing" and the asser-
ton that property owners who fail to re-
the money originally paid" This may be
the lay idea of justice, but it will not be
wise to rely too confidently on the belief
that it is one taken by the courts. 1t must
be remembered that the city does not COM
pei the property owner strictly to pay
twice for the same thing. 1t induces him
to pay once for an assessment on the prop
erty for an especial improvement, and that
assessment having been declared illegal, it
keeps the money, while assessing him, to
help the debt that comes on the city at
large by the assessments that have been
resisted. That this perpetrates the double
incongruity of putting hardship on those
who pay assessments promptly, and of
keeping money obtained by methods
which the courts declare to be unconstitu-
tional is true, but we have the concurrent
testimony of lawyers and city officials that
it is the practice warranted by the rulings
of the courts.
If the view of our cotemporary pre-
walls, it will establish a much closer ad-
herence to the line of even-handed justice;
but it will also, in case the curative legis-
lation is not sustained, land the city in
vastly increased practical difficulties. In
that case the city will have not only to
provide for the payment of the 1000, 900
or more unpaid contracts, but in addition
it will have to hustle to find money for re-
funding the S4,0O0,000 OF S5,000,0O0 of
assessments collected and paid out under
the old street acts before the late decision.
And when that is done the same inequity
will operate against the people who have
paid their share of the general levy to
clear off this Sc, O00, 900 or 81, 600, 600. They
will have to pay special assessments under
the new law for improvements to be made
in the future.
In short, the only way on either theory
to avoid greater or less injustice is to
have the curative act sustained. And, of
course, that involves the logical contradic-
ton of asserting that an act which it was
beyond the power of the Legislature to
authorize in the first place can be made
constitutional by subsequent and cura-
tive act of the same body.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
second,<y Value of the Koch Lymph,

The famous Koch remedy which has failed
III the primary purpose of curing consump-
ton, has turned out to be by no means
useless invention. The fluid can be relied
on as n certain means of diagnosing the
presence of tuberculosis in horned cattle,
and the question is being seriously consid-
cred of making incubation of all milch
cows obligatory, and the slaughtering of
those showing symptoms of disease compul-
sorry. 1t appears, from experiments in
this direction i'll Germany that cattle of
various breeds, inoculated with lymph, have
shown considerable rise in temperature,
accompanied with marked Interference with
the action OF respiratory organs, when the
animal was affected with tuberculosis.
Healthy subjects, free from tuberular taint,
are in no wise aforementioned by the opera
the evil effects of very serious contagion, is
but little short in importance of the pur-
pose for which the lymph was originally
designed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
COUNTRY MAIL DELIVERY.
1t Would Be Saving of the Time OF tne
People Generally.

Chicago Herald.l
One reason why free mail delivery shouio
be extended beyond the limits of cities anu
large towns is because it would be IN the
broadest and best sense economical. IL
would effect a great saving of time TO the
people in the country. 1t would take very
much less time in the aggregate for one man
to deliver the mail to a score OF more OF
farmers than for each of these farmers to go
to the postoffice and get his mail. me
farmer could better afford to pay cents
postage on each letter, if it were necessary,
than to go after his mail every day or even
every three or four days. Whatever time
the farmer would save by free delivery ne
could employ so as to save from hve TO
twenty times the cost of delivery, and what
he saved would go to improve his condition
in some way. 1t might give him daily
paper with the market quotations. or it
might give him any of hundred things
which he does not now enjoy.
But it is not necessary to increase the post
age on mail matter delivered by the country
carrier service. AS has heretofore been
stated in these columns, it has been pretty
thoroughly demonstrated by experiment in
no less than 81 States that free delivery
would pay by inducing a greatly Increased
use of the mails. 1t has been found that the
average cost is about 5000 per township. In
some townships the increased use OF the
mails has not been enough to make up this
$780, but In others it has been more than
enough, SO that on the average free delivery
more than pays so far as it has been tried.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
PLATFORMS AND POLITICIANS.

The Washington Post very forcibly as
Serts that in the formation of political
platforms, neither party has addressed it.
self squarely to the sympathy, the intelli-
gence and the patriotism of the people,
but that "both have lodged and quibbled
and skipped. Both have suppressed for
policy's sake the things they reverenced
and advocated for the same sordid reason
the things they loathed." After which
the Post detracts from its comprehension
Of the trouble by asserting that "the
shadow Of the Mugwump is over it all"
This is giving the Mugwump degree
of influence in the platform committee of
political conventions, that is wholly be-
yond his actual Importance. If we are
not much mistaken the people who frame
platforms are the exact opposite of the
Mugwumps. The habit of protesting in
platforms the things which they do not be-
lieve; of suppressing frank avowais of
what they really want for fear that it may
cost few votes; and Of making pledges
which there is no intention of carrying out
is distinctly the characteristic of the party
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PlTTsBURG, TUESDAY. NOV. "a, 1891.
TWELVE PAGES
FAREWELL TO FONSECA

The apparently authentic announce
mert of the forced resignation of Dictator
Fonseca furnishes another strong proof
that would-be imitators of Caesar and
Napoleon cannot flourish anywhere on the
American Continent Neither the loca-
ton nor the era is congenial. This latest
adventurer, who has endeavored to trans
form Brazil from a free Republic to a
despotic empire, subject only to his de-
crecs. may consider himself indeed for
tunate that so far he has been able to pre-
serve his life from the vengeance of an in
dignant people.
1t is 20 be hoped, however, now that sue
cess has crowned the efforts of those who
refused to submit to dictatorship, that
there will be none of those excuses and
cruelties sometimes attributed to the fiery
South American temper. The Republic
will he all the stronger for dealing with as
much moderation as possible with those
who attempted to destroy it. Fonseca
dead might come to be considered mar
tyr, while FOnseca alive and properly re-
strained will serve as an example.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
P0LITTCiL POINTS.

THE Cincinnati Commercial Gazette does not
know when the Senatorial contest is over.
1t ought to stop to figure, and then it would
learn that over two-thirds of the Republt-
can members Of the Legislature are for
Sherman.-O Ohio State Journal
THAT faction of the Farmers Alliance
organization which believes in the SUBJ
treasury, has called a convention, proposing
n separate organization. 1t is a question,
however, in many minds, whether the
alliance is large enough at the present time
to spFit.-Boston Irdvetter.
GOVERNOR HILL is making himself liable to
the charge of being greedy by holding on to
two offices. 1t is likely, however, that he
doesn't care so much for the money as for
the secret joy of holding two Offices, and
keeping Jones out of one. Jones is not al
together happy.-Bultimore american
AN estimate of Senator Sherman's
strengh, published in the columns. of the
paper which started the boom for Foraker,
gives the Manfiseld statesman so of the 90
votes of the Republican caucus. This is
rather low, but majority of % will be a
pretty comfortable margin.-Cgeueldld
Leader.
1T is charged now that the delay under the
Cleveland Administration in deciding the
pending applications in the telephone suits
was due to Attorney General Garland and
his interest in the Pan Electric Company
The new House of Representatives will have
chance to investigate this matter. No
matter how the delay was caused, the laws
should be changed to prevent the recurrence
OF such scandal-Ph Philadelphia Press.
This country furnishes nearly so per cent
of the raw cotton supply, and it is estimated
that the worlds consumption this year will
reach l2G24,O COO bales. In the crop year Of
1859 the worlds consumption of raw cotton
was 7,4S5, ,230 bales of 400 pounds, whereas the
consumption had increased last year to
l2 s96, 32S bales, gain in twelve years of
54ll ,O9S bales, or over p per cent. Manifestly
the policy of encouraging home manufact-
ures has had more to do with the prosperity
of the South than the free-traders are
willing to admit.-iSdn Francisco CdH
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
WORKING 1T BOTH WAYS.

Owen E. Murphy can claim to be the
proud leader in new development of the
possibilities of travel between the United
States and Canada, in the pursuit of the
boodling profession. Others have per-
good thing by passing from one country to
another with pile Of money belonging to
other people; but Murphy has struck out
in the original line of working both coun-
tries. Having been the Treasurer of the
Excise Board in New York, he took
$4,000 of the public money and skipped
out for Canada. In Canada he became a
Government contractor, made fortune
and finally was run out of the Dominion
as boodler.
But this does not discourage a man of
Murphy'S genius. The possibilities of the
business are just opening up. He goes
hack TO New York and out of his Canadian
StealingS made himself straight by paying
hack his original defalcation. This puts
him in the direct line of Tammany pro-
motion, and there is no reason why he
should not secure some important
fiduciary position in New York, get well
ahead of New York City, and in the full
ness of time fly between days to Canada
and make his peace with the Canadian
authorities out of the New York funds
1t will be seen that this opens up an al
most infinite alienation of profitable trips
to and fro across our Northern border In
deed, it promises a regular variation of the
business among professional and peculat-
ing politicians-except in Pennsylvania.
At present there does not seem to be any
reason why Pennsylvania politicians who
have INDUCED In irregularities should go
to Canada or anywhere else.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24

politician who believes that principles
are unimportant beside the grand and
controlling object of letting the party get
hold of the offices.
The function of the Mugwump has been
to revolt against this rule of political in
sincerity by protesting when the pro-
fessions of principles were too wantonly
violated in actual practice. If there were
more like him, who placed principle and
honesty before party allegiance, the
politicians would very soon learn the i'm
portance of giving some validity and
force to their platform professions.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
UNCONVENTIONAL CoNvENTIOyALITIEs.

THE city of Pittsburg asks for the next
Republican Convention because the party
was born there. If she secures it the fact
will suggest some comparisons and con-
trasts.-Sk Louis Post Dispatch.
If the friends of Cincinnati for the Re-
publican National Convention can "aet out
a full vote" in the committee it is altogether
likely that the Queen City will receive the
PRICE, Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
NEW YORK may succeed in getting the Re-
publican National Convention, but in the
present uncertain condition of her water
supply it would be unreasonable to ask the
Prohibitionists to assemble there-PhiladeL
phfd Public Ledger.
UNDOUBTEDLY the holding of the conven-
tion in St. Louis would give a boom to the
Republican party in this locality which
would add tens Of thousands to its vote in
Missouri and the adjoining States in the
Presidential canvass.-S Louis Globe Demo-
crdt.
The attitude of Chicago regarding the
national convention is, according to the
Times OF that city, zone of modest merit"
Then Chicago may as we'll be counted out
Such an attitude as that is the very reverse
of the one which has won all her victories.
When Chicago relies upon ''modest merit"
she will get nothing.-,& Louis Republic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
Mosby, the Noted Guerilla Chief,
Baltimore Americana

The noted Confederate cavalryman, Col.
John S. Mosby, is in Washington. People
who have pictured the daring raider as a
stalwart chieftain, ferocious and grim-vis-
aged, would be disappointed in his ppear-
ance. He is not over medium build and
weight, though heavier now than when he
figured as a combatant. He is in the best of
health and vigorous as youth. His eyes
are piercing blue and his hair saow-white
He wears no beard. The Colonel dresses in
neat, business-like costume, but the SLOUGH
hat tells of his Southern antece0ents He
has been q citizen of San Francisco ever
since giving up his consular Office at Hong
Kong, and is one Of the attorneys of the
Southern Pacific Railroad
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24

first time last Saturday afternoon, and what
astonished her more than DeWolf Hoppers
Glowing, the visions of Siamese scenery, or
even the elephants that was not IA really
elephant" and yet so like one, was the
exodus of men between the acts.
"Where are they all going?" she asked her
mother.
"To see man, my dear" her mother re-
piled.
This puzzled the little maid for a moment
and then she said: "Will they all bring him
back?"
Eyes, dear-I think they WILL" and luckily
something else attracted the young observer
and her mother was not compelled to ex-
plain the une1plainable.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
Immigrants Fleeing From Europe.

Denver RepubIIcan.J
1t is a significant fact that great many of
the immigrants from Europe who are now
arriving say that they have been induced to
emigrate through the fear that there will be
q war in Europe next year. Whether these
immigrants really know anything abont the
prospect of war may be questioned, but it
would seem clear that where there is a gen
eral fear among the people that war is inn.
minent, there must be some foundation for
it. The leading nations of continental
Europe are under such a heavy strain to
preserve their military establishments that
II would not be surprising if they were to
seek relief in war. If so, they would be
prompted by tine hope that a war would SO
far settle international European questions
that there would no longer be any necessity
for the maintenance of large Standing
armies for the preservation of peace,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
LANGUAGES IN THE SCHOOLS.
If One Is Taught, Others May Be Asked for
by tho People.
Church Work.


Teaching German in the public schools
may be comparatively trifiing, looking at it
from only financial point of view, but
when we consider it in connection with the
political results which may follow such q
precedent-that all foreign nationalities
may demand, and have a right to demand,
like treatment at the hands of the State, it
behooves us to move with greatest caution.
The Germans are, and always have been,
foremost in patriotism and love for this
country. Their devotion to the Nation and
the State in which they live, cannot be ques-
toned; but when they view this subject in
the proper way, and realize the fact that
what may be a safe measure in their hands
might become a dangerous experiment.
should other nationalities attempt it and
succeed, they will say, Hands off, we want
no French, no Bohemians, no Germans, no
Italians, as such, in this country; but we
want Nation, containing all these, but all
American citizens, speaking one language,
having one political faith of Justice and
Freedom, alike for all"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-24
November.

Now an opalescent yelling
Crowns the hills; the dead leaves sailing
On the streams do tell the failing
Autumn tide.
Frosts have wrought their old destruction;
Gnats are powerless for suction;
And the pumpkin vines production
Now is pied.
Later truck the wains are freighting;
Spoons at fireside tete-a-tete-ing:
Harvest parties congregating
In the barns.
Barring now are bush and briar:
Egg quotations getting higher:
While at barroom stoves the liar
Spins his yarns.
Golden tears the Willows weeping:
Russet leaves thro' laneways sweeping;
''TabbT'' near the hearthstone sleeping
On the rug.
Shows their furry feats are trying;
And the farmer, rest espying,
Seeks his every-satisfying
Cider jug.
Boston Courier