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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
TEE OHIO G. A. r. ON PAPER,
Private Dalze1l Says the Membership is Ex.
aggerated by 16O Per Cent.

aggerated by 16O Per Cent.
Private Dalzell has written q long COM
munication to the New York Sun in which
he declares that the payment of 20 cents per
capita into the national fund for officers
salaries and expenses is eating the life out
of the G. A. R. Speaking of Ohios member
ship he says:
"On paper basis of $4,000 members-and
we have no such real membership in Ohio
as we all right well know-we pay 1O,OOO an
nually to headquarters. 1t is an enormous
tax. We are nearly all very poor men. Not
one in three whose names are enrolled ever
pay their dues of 81 year into the posts.
The rules and regulations of the G. A. X. re-
quire that those who do not pay their dues
for six months shall be suspended, and ex-
cuse us thereafter from paying per capita
tax on them. Still our posts run along, pay
their dues, leave them on the rolls and they
are counted erroneously in the pleasant
fiction of 80, 600!
"Our post got tired of this nuisance and
went to dropping these delinquents. We
were paying $50 per capita tax on a fictitious
memDership OF 100, when in truth we had
hardly 90 in good standing-that is, who
paIa In their 81 year. SO We dropped them
ana are still dropping delinquents, and our
present real strength is about 40. These 40
we can count upon-they are g. A. r. men
VINO ask no money, who are always present
OF, on meeting nights, and, in a word, the only
kind of members that ought to be and here
after will be counted by us
we want no others. Our report shall
speak the truth. We will not impose upon
comrades in other States with paper figures.
"Other posts are doing the same And
while this process of wedding out is going
on, every day it becomes more and more ap-
parent-indeed, was matter of common re-
mark at Boston at the parade last year,
where Ohio's position ut the right of the line
only made this more absurdely striking
that, though Ohio may once have had on her
rolls 5O,O 900 men in the Grand Army, and,
State, as shown by the census, I67 600 SOL
diers, still the G. A. r. of Ohio to-day does
not number 10000 members, and know it,"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
RHYMES AND RHYNKLES.

Husband (reading his morning paper)-
Here's a woman who was grfeVed when her hus-
band died that she killed herself. That's the kind
of wife for man 10 have!
Wife-That's the kind of husband for a woman to
haye!-Ghicag0 Tribune.
Bessie-I hear you have broken with
Charley Loveleigh?
Florence-I? oh. no! am quite heart-Whole,-
Neto York Telegram.
81 think you'd orter raise my wages"
yentured Mr.. Haieede's hired mau.
Don't see how / kin do it, Jim; don't see no
way at all to do it, Tell you what will do though.
When any of the summer boarders is around, III
allude to you as my private secretary. But as to
glvin' you any more money on the month, 1 just
can't do -hadtanopolis Journal.
'gThere are no flies. on me-" said the
boarding house steak.
mo, - replied the boarding house butter, .'hles
would starve TO death while they trying TO get
their teeth through you.''
''But look at the flies on YOUR retorted the
steak. why don't you run away from them!
I'm sure you strong enough. ''-B1OokIyH
Eagle.
From the past experience
II would scarce be
That there's any opening
For rain machine.
-Hdshia1toB Post.
Dust arriyed) SIS this the world Of
spirits!'
1t is, my sister. WHAT
with flashing eyes) II have a complaint to lay
before Christopher Columbus. Please show me
where he is. l Phoebe COuzins. ''-Chteago
Tribune.
Frank-Why do they always speak of the
ciashing?
May-Beeause of what frequently occurs under
it, presume.-Eelo York Herald.
'"There is pleasure in poetic pains,
Which poets only know
Wrote Cowper long ere poets learned
To editors to 60 -DetToit Free Press.
Fogg-You refused me when asked YOU
last June to marry me, Miss F1yrte. May / ask
you If you have changed your mind since then2
Miss Flyrte-NO but have changed my name
SonlerUilIe Journal
care you going to wear the same bathing
suit that you wore last season?''
Il am."
'But fashion says that bathing suits will be fuller
this year."
''Wen, mine will be fuller. 1 am a good deal
stouter than was last season. ''-Ne0 York Press.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
He Gave the Farmers Pointers.

Two young men in Pike county have a
farm of 800 acres, very stony, and with no
pasture land on any foot of it, says the New
York Stnl Their three COWS were turned
out daily to pick upa living in the vast
thinly populated country. The biggest COW
wore brass bell with discordant note
about its neck, and the other two, either
from love of this note or for the sake of the
society of the big COW, kept close to her.
Every evening one of the men had to grid
up his loins and start out in search of the
cows. Sometimes they were found and
sometimes they were not seen for several
days. No matter whether they We're found
or not the farmers always came home after
these searches for them wet and exhausted,
and complaining loudly at the necessity of
this labor after hard days work. After
this had been going on during all the sea-
sons for several years city boarder gave
the subject some thought. "WOuldn't the
cows come home every night of their own
accord if you made practice of giving
them at sunset u little mess of feed?" he
said.
by gum! that's so. 1 never thought of
that" was the reply.
The scheme was tried, and thereafter, just
as evening came on, the big COW, with her
two companions following after. came wind
ing slowly into the barnyard with eXpectant
expressions on their faces
Near the home of these same farmers stood
the weather-stained remains of u ruined mill
that had outlived its usefulness many years
ago. The ruins were an eyeSOre, ana the
farmers held many lengthy discussions as to
how they should be removed. The beams
were large and heavy, and to their minds q
yoke of oxen and l. number of men We're
necessary to get rid of the old wreck This
would involve an outlay of money which the
farmers could, under no circumstances, bring
their minds to consider.
After they had talked over the matter for
many years they explained it to the city
boarder, and promised him that as soon as
they could afford it the old mill would be re-
moved.
Don't wait for the money" said the city
boarder. "The first time the wind is blow
ing south put a match to it,
"By gum! that's so, ~ exclaimed the farmers
in chorus. slapping their legs.
few nights later the mill went up in
flames and down in ashes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
A TENNESSEE VIEW.
Representative Washington Expects Big

Representative Washington Expects Big
Crops and a Western President.
NEW YORK, July 2O.-Representative Wash
ington, of Tennessee, was around town yes
terday with his distinguished colleague,
Representative McMillin, from the same
State. OF course Mr.. Washington and all
the other members from Tennessee are In
favor of electing Mr.. McMillin Speaker. Be-
sides that Mr.. Washington had this to say:
Between Tennessee and New York / had
two full days of daylight travelling, and
never saw crops looking so well all along the
way The denomination of Cleveland is by
no means certainty. If he wanted Demo
cratic nomination he had no business writing
that antisilver letter. One thing Is certain;
there will be contest in the next National
Democratic Conv entiOn, and would not be
surprised If q Western man should get the
nomination"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Mrs. Louisa f. Paisley.

Mrs. louisa F. Paisley, wife of Samuel
Paisley of the Bureau Of Highways. died yesterday
morning 1030 clock. For several years past she
has been in poor health, and during the last year
has been unable to leave her room. Mr.. Paisley
recently brought celebrated physician from New
York TO treat his invalid wife, but he was unable
to save her The deceased was 40 years of age and
leaves besides her husband daughter, Miss Carrie
Paisley, a teacher in the Liberty school, and
Theodore telegraph operator. The funeral is ar
ranged for tomorrow afternoon at o clock from
her husbands residence, No. 12s Den9iston avenue,
East End.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

AN interview with Mr. HoweIls concern
ing his own works makes him speak of "a
Modern Instance" as my best work and
most artistic" This is an evidence of the
inability ofan author to judge of his own
works correctly. The book he refers to is
among his dreariest, having neither the deli
cate sentiment OF his earliest books or the
strong grasp of modern life shown in ga
Hazard of New Fortunes" Even on Mr..
Howells' threadbare and barren theory that
art consists of Photographic accuracy of de-
tails, the story makes the blunder of send
ing a party of travellers from Pittsburg to
Columbus down the beautiful Ohio Valley
Immediately after leaving Pittsburg. To
the ordinary author this slip would be par
donable, but for one who constantly
breaches the gospe of accuracy it is fatal
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

IT is satisfactory to learn that overtures
have been made to allay the bitterness of
the warfare between President Beers, of the
New York Life Insurance Company, and the
Times of that city. At least the insurance
man has requested the Times to withdraw
its unparliamentary language concerning
the company, in which case we have no
doubt that he would be willing to retire his
full-grown million-dollar libel suit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

In reioinder to the remark of Western
journal that "the brilliant and fearless
Watterson causes the whirr of his snicker-
snee to be heard in the land" the New York
San asks: "What is snickersnee, anyway"
Is it possible that the able iS,n is so poorly
posted in its Gilbert and Sullivan as that
question implies?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

allowed for is several times that proposed in
the Mills bill, our Democratic friends are
evidently hard up for political thunder.
They should try the experiment of compar-
ing the sll, 600 of sugar bounty under the
Mckinley act with the s45 OOOC COO to $50 900, 900
of sugar protection under the Mills bill, and
then tell which will cost the people most
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

The Democratic organs have set up an
other cackle about the sugar bounty and the
expense it will entail upon the country. As
the Democratic outcry when the sugar
schedule was fixed was against the injustice
of taking away protection fron the sugar
producers, and the bounty was put on in
response to the pleas, and as the net reduc-
tion of taxation on sugar with the bounty
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
ASSISTING THE NEEDY,
Two Weeks Distributions by the Society for
tho Ju,proyap,ent ,f tt,. Door

Two Weeks Distributions by the Society for
the Improvement of the Poor.
The Secretary of the Pittsburg Association
for the Improvement of the Poor yesterday
made the following report of work done
during the past two weeks: Groceries dis
tributed, 500 loaves bread, 234 pounds rice,
239 pounds oatmeal, 2s2 bars SOAP Number
OF new applicants, 4; families visited, 4sO
families aided, 2l1; persons included, s73;
visits made to the poor. 695; visits made for
the poor, 113; situations obtained, d days
work obtained, ~; children placed in Sab
bath school, 1; adults sent to County Home,
u: children sent to County Home, S.
Diet dispensary, So pints beef tea, pints
mutton broth, 424 pints milk, 63A pounds tea,
233 pounds sugar, 26S grocery orders, 325
bushels coal, 1l3 garments. II pairs partly
worn shoes, partly worn hats.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
THE WIDOW PENsIONED.
How Mr. Carnegie Enforced His Speech
on the ratefuIness of Republics.

How Mr. Carnegie Enforced His Speech
on the Gratefulness of Republics.
Inverness Courier.]
In speech delivered by Mr.. Andrew Car
negie i'll Dundee last year he made reference
to the d1ffereut manner in which old soldiers
are treated by America and Great Britain,
his illusion being evoked by an announce
ment made some days previously that sur
Vivor of the famous Light Brigade had
just been admitted to an English workhouse.
The reference led to Mr.. Carnegie having his
attention directed to the case of O Mrs
Macewan, Edinburgh, widow of a Scotch
man who fought in the American war, and
who had not been pensioned. Having made
some investigation, Mr. Carnegie entered
into correspondence with the War Office of
the United States, with the result shown in
the subjoined letter:
CLUNY CASTLE, KINGUssIE, N. b.
July l, 1891.
My Dear Mrs. Macewan:
1 have much pleasure in informing you that your
claim for pension has been allowed by the United
States Government. Papers for you to sign will
reach you in the course of few days, You had
better 60 with them to Mr.. Wallace Bruce United
States Consul at Edinburgh, and he will see that
about s12 per month-say 81 los. Your first pay
ment Will be about s22, as the pension begins from
the date OF your claim, September g. 1890.
Had your husband fought as a private soldier for
his own country and broken down in health in
consequence, he would probably have been allowed
would have been left uncared for. The United
States keeps in comfort all their days the private
soldier and his widow. This is one of the many
The monarchy bestows great rewards upon the few,
the republic upon all who serve it: one is the gov
ment of the poOr-the people. With best Wishes
L am, yours truly, ANDREW CARNEGIE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

This is the last week of the long season at
Harris Theater. 1t has lasted 40 weeks and
has been q remarkably successful one. This
popular house will reopen August II with
new carpets and scenery. As farewell
bill the Standard Dramatic Company is
giving 1.-THE Long Strike" in a most enter
tanning manner. Yesterdays audiences
were quite large and very enthusiastic.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

IT is saddening to hear that the Burling-
ton Airship Company cannot get up to actual
flying till its coo of capital is actually
raised. This is commendable stand against
ballooning stocks which have nothing but
wind in them; but it contains q better prom
ise that the money shall fly than that the air
oh will
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

The latest discovery in the Philadelphia
muddle is that Bardsley had led a fast life
for years, resulting in paresis, under the in
fiuence of which he scattered the funds.
The correctness of this theory is still in
doubt; but there is no question that the
funds in Bardsley's hands had paresis of an
aggravated type.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

Mr.. BUTTERwORTH's remark to Lon
don reporter that the Worlds Fair is not
dollar-making business does not seem to
have been in the most discreet vein. He
should impress upon the Englishmen that
the dollarmaking is to be done by the ex-
hibitors if he wishes to appeal to the COM
mercial British mind.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
THE remark of Lord Chief Justice Cole

THE remark of Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge to the Chairman of the London Stock
Exchange: "You do not seem to have i'm
parted the principles of common honesty
intothe dealings of the Stock Exchange" is
calculated to reconcile the mind to the fire.
quently too outspoken expressions of judi
cial opinions. Perhaps some American
jurist will give us an equally breezy charac-
terization of Wall street methods.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

THE coming event in Newport is Ward
McAllister's rural subscription picnic. The
FOur Hundred will do honor to the social
leaders culinary art, and make the usual
demonstration, that the fashionable army,
like military force, is guided by the stand
ards of the stomach,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

The report from Kansas that the grass
hoppers are advancing at the rate ofonly two
miles day can be taken as an indication
that Uncle jerry has got them partially un-
der subjection and that he will presently
bring them to a dead halt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

COMPLAINTS are heard in Georgia that
the scool-book combination is charging o
dollar for a book that costs about nine cents
to print. The Georgians should not rebel
against profit so much below the average
of the combination margin.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
LEGISLATORS DIVIDE FUNDS.
Twenty-Four of Them Had Hundred
thousand Dollars.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, July 20-The case of
George Taylor against State Senators W. ..
Banks, Thomas Mayer and John Il. Brode-
rick, of San Francisco, and 20 other State
Senators came up for trial in the Supreme
Court to-day.
Taylor alleges that "a defendants formed a
combination at the last session of the Legis-
lature for the furtherance of certain mea-
sures and that for the services performed as
a lobbyist in April last acknowledged in
debtedness to him in the sum of sc, 200, but
have failed to pay said amount. Counsel
for Taylor stated in court to-day that he
proposed to show the combine had divided
800, 600 among its members.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
NV Dear Mrs. MacewaD.
SAVED BY HARRISON.
The President Commutes a NIurderer's Sen
tence to Imprisonment for Life,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
CAPE MAY, N. j., July 2O.-The President
to-day commuted the sentence of Edward
Belden, of Kansas, who was sentenced to be
hanged on the 24th inst, for committing
murder about year ago in Guthrie, Okla
homa Territory, to imprisonment for life.
The President granted the commutat tion on
the ground that Belden did not realize and
had not the mental capacity to understand
the enormity of his crime. The man is not
considered insane, but the President con-
cluded that he had good grounds to grant
the petition for communication.
The President was not so busy today, and
Secretary Halford took quite a rest at his
office in Cape May, where he spends his
time before tea in the morning and after
in the afternoon. Some of the day was
taken up in going over matters relative to
the Indian troubles in the southern tier of
the Territories.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

The statement that the Russian rye crop
will be only 90 per cent of an average, and
that the Russian peasants are threatened
with starvation thereby, is unpleasant. But
the Russian aristocracy can copy Marie
Antonette's famous phrase, and ask the
starving peasants why they don't eat wheat
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

"CoRNSTALKs AND VICTORY" as the
campaign cry of the Republicans in Iowa,
indicates disposition to give the Demo
Gratis the husks. But suppose the latter
should undertake to do the husking and
capture the red ears2
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

Mr. RAUMs enthusiastic promise to
dump $50, 900 original cases ON the country
is an adaptation of Secretary Fosters idea
that this is billion dollar country, which is
likely to take away the Secretary's breath
as well as his hope of a surplus.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
Awful Grimes Against Liberty.

Chicago Tribune.l
At Liberty, Mo-, chicken thieves are so
numerous and bold that they are punished
by f1ogging. 0, Liberty, what crimes have
been committed in thy henrOOStSl
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

EVIDENCES multiply that Andrews must
go as the scapegoat. Scapegoats seem to be
q necessary.articie now, and when the Phila-
delphia Bulletin designates Andrews for the
function his doom is sealed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
Mr.. Blacks weighty Arguments.

washington POst.J
Hon. 'Chauncey F. Black has been safely
delivered of an opinion on Pennsylvania's
new election law. 1t is a corker and weighs
several hundred pounds.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
Call Them CaIams for short.

Colonel Gre -ory, of Kansas, who Is in
town, was discussing politics and prohibit
tfon in its various Western phases in a place
where prohibition didn't obtain at all the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21
Obituary Notes.

Ex-CoUNTY COMMISSIONER WILLIAM K. WADE
was stricken with paralysis on Wednesday and
died yesterday morning aged 81 years at Erie.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

bOc1al Cnabter.
Miss NELLIE REILLYE is visiting at Cort-
land, n. Y.
Mr. AND Mrs. E. A. GRoFF, and children,
are at Bemus Point, Chautauqua.
DIR. T. L. HAZARD and party of friends
have gone to the coast of New Jersey.
A PIoNIo was held yesterday at lakewood
by the First German Methodist Episcopal
Church, of Allegheny.
THE Centenary NJ. E. Church and the Lib
erty Street NJ. E. Church will be neighborly
with each other and go to lakewood together
Thursday for picnic.
THE Detroit Club, General Alexander Hays
Post No. 8, will enjoy an evening on the
Mayfiower tomorrow. Music and dancing
will be part of the programme.
Miss AGNES DICKSON returned yesterday
from her trip to London. Mrs. Win
Sewell, who was also with the Watson party,
returned at the same time. This morning
Mrs. John s. Dickson, accompanied by Miss
Agnes, will leave for Mackinac, where DR..
Dickson is spending the summer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-21

This quiet is Growing Monotonous.
Chicago Giobe.l
Isn't it about time Russell and the other
Princes were doing something2
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
Indian Legend of the Moon.

Here is peculiar legend of the In
dians as told by Rev. Mr.. Cook, the full
blooded Sioux who is the ministerial
representative of the Episcopalian de-
nomination at Pine Bidge Agency. The
legend which was related to the Indian
children at the agency was OF their
forefathers' belief as to the cause OF the
disappearance of the moon. He said the
belief was that every time new moon
appeared it was signal for all the mice
in the country to gather themselves
together in one spot. When they as
sembled they separated in four great
armies. One army went to the north,
another to the south, third to the
east, and a fourth to the west. These
armies of mice travelled until they
reached the point where, from the place
OF starting, the heavens seemed to
touch the earth. Then they climbed
up the sky until they came to the
moon, which by this time was what we
call full. All of the four armies then
commenced nibbling at Luna, and
when they had eaten her all up the
mice would scamper back down the
heavens to the earth and wait for her
to show herself again, when the jour
ney and nibbling would be repeated by
the mice. And this is what the Indians
of early days believed was the cause of
the moon growing old and finally dis
appearing.-Omaha Bee.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
The Feeling In the West.

There is doubtless something in the
theory that the impatience shown by
many of the younger republican sem
ators from the west at what they stig-
matize as the ''dictation" of the 'old
fogies" from the east had its share of
influence in fastening Mr.. Edmunds'
withdrawal from public life. There is
no doubt of the existence of a strong
and growing sectional feeling of this
sort throughout the west, without re.
gard to party lines. 1t finds expression,
in the growing frequency of the re-
mark that there is really not half so
much in common between the west and
the east as there is between the west
and the south, and that an alliance be-
tween the two latter sections would be
of far greater advantage to the west
than further submission to what is de-
nounced as the tyranny of the east. >
The younger republican senators from
the west are so full of this idea that
they hardly conceal their intention to
make trouble for the eastern ''fessils, "
Is they call them. IN. Y. Post