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Not Born to Be Shot.

A man who has attended his own execu-
ton and still survives to relate the details is
surely worthy of a short paragraph, says
the London Spare Moments. The man in
question, although at present serving in the
humble capacity of waiter in one of the
Paris cafes, was, 81 years ago, one of the his
toric characters of the world. His name is
Colonel Marteras, and in 1869 he was on the
point of being proclaimed President of Uru-
quay, when he was arrested, charged with
treason, and sentenced to be shot.
On Monday, June 30, of that year, he was
taken by platoon of soldiers out Of the cap
ital to a cleared spot in the heart of forest,
and bound to chair. At the work "Firer'
a nervous shock caused Marteras to fall to
the ground. He did not hear the volley, but
a laborer working nearby did. The work
man went TO ascertain the cause, saw the
soldiers marching away, and Marteras badly
wounded, but not dead by any means, lying
on the ground The laborer took the would
be President home and cured his wounds,
and he and Marteras both now often tell of
the supposed execution of the Trench pre-
TENDER
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
THE CANAL AND LAKE MARINE.

Mr.. John NJ Goodwin, Of the Ship Canal
Commission, pursues his controversy with
the Marine ReUieSo, of Cleveland, with ref
erence to the practicability of the Lake
Erie and Ohio river canal The letter,
like most of Mr.. Goodwins contributions
on this important subject, is exhaustive
and conclusive, and is well worth the
study of the public.
The attitude of the Cleveland journal
referred to well illustrates the shifts to
which the opposition to this project must
inevitably resort. Whether its enmity to
the canal is born of stupid fear that the
canal would injure the port of Cleveland,
or is inspired by friendly relations with the
railroads, it is plainly conducted on the
system of not recognizing the facts MIR.
Goodwin's exposure of its blunders or mis-
representations, or both combined, is COM
plete, and is well worth considering for
its thorough information of this branch of
the subject.
Indeed, it is more for the evidence it
gives of the availability of the canal to the
present lake steamers than to confute an
interested or unfair opponent of the prof.
ect that Mr.. Goodwin's letter is of interest
to the public. The fact that of the total re-
ceipts of ore at the lake ports in 1889 about
65 per cent came in vessels suited to use in
the canal and that of new vessels built in
1888 and 1899 sixty were directly suited to
canal use, shows what an immense ca
pacity will be ready to bring ore to West
ern Pennsylvania and to take away coal
and iron as soon as the canal is opened
With this immense addition to our trans
portation interests, to be secured by the
expenditure of S25 100000, Western Penn
ss1vania will be guilty of criminal negli-
gence if every effort is not made for its
earliest utilization.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

and the father passed his hand over his son,
but found nothing amiss, so he turned over
and went to sleep again, thinking the boy
was dreaming.
Shortly afterward the child again called
out saving that a crocodile was taking him.
This time the father, thoroughly aroused,
felt again, and found that snake had closed
his jaws on the boys head. He then Pr1ed
open the reptiles mouth and released the
head of his son, but the beast drew the whole
of his body into the house and encircled the
body of the father. He was rescued by the
neighbors. who were attracted by the cries
for help of the terrified couple. The snake
when Killed was found to be about ID feet
long. The head and forehead of the boy are
encircled with punctured wounds produced
by the python's teeth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
The Clereymen Hit 1t.

Not long ago, while was getting into q
railway carriage at N. s., says writer in the
London Spare Moments, recognized in the
compartment well-known detective.
Presently a minister got in, and, with the
three of US locked in by the guard, she train
started. The detective was in pursuit of q
criminal who had gone by previous train.
He began to study the photograph of the
fugitive, and, of course, was soon absorbed
in it.
ter, who presently observed: you have,
perchance, lost dear friend?'
Dear? Yes, very dear, indeed" answered
the detective.
"Take comfort brother, he has but gone
BEFORE" continued the minister, who was
not a little shocked when he got for a reply:
Eyes, hang him, and got three hours start
of me. But I'll follow him, If it's to Jerusa-
lem"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
BROKE A LAMP SHADE.
Boston Culture Proved Entirely Too Much
for the Sensitive Article.

Boston Culture Proved Entirely Too Much
for the Sensitive Article.
Detroit Free Press.1
Mrs. Edmund Russell, the apostle of es-
thetics, has a voice which would break a
lamp shade.
This remark is not meant to be impolite,
and it ought to be true, for the lady herself
is authority for the statement.
at was in Boston," she said. 81 was talk
ing with q famous voice teacher about tones
and vibrations, and we both sounded GER
tain note in unison. We must have hit the
exact unit of vibration of an eight-inch
shade, for near where we were standing
the crystal globe about gas jet quivered
and snapped. We looked at it and q crack
ran quite around it. The sound had broken
it."
This is rather an unusual incident, GER
tainly, but the principle is familiar enough.
A dog trotting across a foot bridge. can
break it down If he happens to hit the unite
of vibration, which, of course, differs with
the length of the bridge. It's good mill
tary rule to break step when a company
walks across a bridge unless it's unusually
strong. But awoman's voice
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

In criticism of the poetic outburst in the
Courier Journal picturing two lovers walking
upon the dewy grass, the New York Sun asks:
"Did you walk out in galoches, you loversf
Or what kept your blissful feet from getting
drenched in the dew?" Perhaps the lovers
were of that youthful age when they did
not care for getting their feet damp by the
dew. The tender passion is not confined to
the age represented by those ardent cotem-
poraries of Mr.. C. A. Dana, namely General
Schofield and Mr.. William Henry Hurlburt,
whose love is unchilled by advancing years,
but who still have to take care against
rheumatism.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
THE ORGANS TROUBLED.

Our friends the organs are not at present
satisfied with the editorial expressions Of
THE DISPATCH. This is to be regretted;
for, while our readers may have noticed
that THE DISPATCH is not published ex-
clusively with view to gaining the ap-
proval of the partisan organs, it is painful
to know that its utterances are agitating
the organic mind, and threaten to make its
head ache.
1t is also interesting to observe that the
disapproval of THE DIsPATCHs editorial
utterances come equally from Republican
and Democratic organs of the class whose
only idea of journalism is to swallow
everything that its party leaders say, and
to revile everything outside of its own
party lines The Democratic Illustration
of that sort is from local journalism. 1t
attacks THE DISPATCH because it favors
McKinley's tariff campaign, but, accord
ing to this critic, ''has not been chary of
denouncing the operations of the bill with
regard to tin plate and wool and woolens. I"
This is teXtually truthful assertion for
the purpose of carrying an untruthful
meaning The DISPATCH ''has not been
chary in denouncng" simply because it
has not denounced these things at all. 1t
has criticised the rapid character of the
tin-plate controversy on both sides, just as
it has the Stiffness of giving a political as
pect to the shutdown of the Valley fur
naces; but so far as our Democratic CO.
temporary's criticism is concerned it is
founded on an effort of the Imagination.
An equally unhappy organ is the Repub-
lican Rochester Democrat. 1t accuses
THE DISPATCH of inconsistency Its basis
for that assertion is that few weeks
ago TIE DISPATCH pointed out that an
assertion of the New York World with re-
gard to stopping payment of the debt and
asking an extension on its bonds
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
AGAINST A WOMAN.

The Peculiar Resolution Passed by the Ohio
Republican Association.
Washington Star.l
At meeting of the Ohio Republican Asso-
citation last night, at G. A. R. Hall, rather
peculiar resolution was passed in regard to
a woman clerk in the Census Office. The
resolution recited that the clerk mentioned,
on reading of the death of General Sherman,
remarked to group of clerks: "Mell, the
DEVILS got his due at last. L am glad of it,"
The resolution further stated that the
clerk had been retained in the Census Office
demanded that she as well as those who
aided in retaining her be summarily dis
charged A committee was appointed to lay
the matter before the Superintendent of the
Census and the Secretary of the Interior for
actiOn
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
POSER FOR THE LAWYERS.
Legal Decision Wanted for John Doe and
His Friends.

Buffalo COur1er.J
John Doe owns farm on the bank of the
Niagara river. He has fine pasture along
the river, and he makes an honest penny
now and then pasturing cows for his neigh
bors. Richard Roe has also a license from
him to hitch his rowboat on the bank, with
incidental right of ingress and egress
through the pasture. About a week ago
Richard lost his chain and improvised rope
of hay with which to moor his boat. Now,
Ebenezer Dicks COW, pastured in the lot
aforesaid, is fond of hay, and smelling the
fragrance of the extempore rope she waded
into the river, climbed into the boat, chewed
up the rope and fioated down the stream
over the falls, where she met an untimely
death. The boat was also pulveriZed en-
route to Queenstown.
Has EbeneZer Dick any right of action for
the loss of his cow? If he has, of whom can
he recover? Has Richard Roe any remedy
for the loss of his boat, and, if so, against
whom?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
A RUINED RELIC.
The Turkey Which Walked on the sand
stone Had Two Left Feet.

stone Had Two Left Feet.
San Francisco CALI
Prof. Norton, the Ohio State Geologist, who
is at the Palace, told last night of a remark
able niece of sandstone that was found near
Cincinnati recently.
"a farmer from down in that section came
to me one day." said the Professor, "and
with him, carefully wrapped in silk hand
kerchief, he had piece of red sandstone
which he was very anxious for me to exam
inc. 1t was very pretty piece of rock, and
Embedded in 1t were a number Of turkey
tracks, which were very distinct. The
owner had with him also a humber OF am
davits from men in his section, testify1ng as
to the location of the rock when found, from
which it was evident that the rock must
have been thousands of years old. v
"I examined it very closely, as If deeply
interested, and said at last: That is very
nice story indeed, but the stone is of no use
to me-
"'What do you mean?' he demanded. DO
YOU doubt the truth of these affidavitsr
Not in the least replied, as suavely as
possible, but it is q little singular that that
turkey had two left feet and no right
"My friend caught on at once, and, with a
muttered imprecation, passed out into the
street and disappeared"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
KISSING IN PUBLIC.
A Canadian Lady Who Is Really Of the
Right Sort.
Toronto MALL

Toronto MALL
At friendly gathering a literary man
read from newspaper that recently in
Boston a married man was arrested by a
policeman for kissing his wife on the street.
The Bostonians by a local ordinance made
in 1640, enacted that any man kissing a
woman on the street, even in the way of
honest salutation, was liable to fine and
whipping" The question was asked:
There was q general explosion of righteous
wrath, strongest from the unmarried of the
aggrieved sex. A strong g-minded woman
Fighter scornfully observed, '1f that's the
wisdom of our ancestors, such people should
return to the food of their ancestors"
"What was that?"
"Thistles." All laughed, and she became
the honesS of the evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
WELL KNOWN ABROAD.

Enterprise That Guarantees Progress Rec
ognized in the Great Metropolis.
New York Tribune.1
"THE PIrrsBURG DISPATCH, whose history
has been one of continuous and extraordi-
nary progress since it's establishment, 46
years ago, has moved into handsome, COM
modious and durable quarters. Its new
home Is f1reproof, the outer walls of the
main building being of Beaver county sand
stone and New England granite. Every
thing in the building is as new as the struc-
ture itself. The machinery, type and fur
niture are of the latest design, and the situa-
tion of the building is central and most con-
venient for the newspaper and its patrons.
The sworn statement of the circulation of
THE DISPATCH for the last six months gives
it an average of nearly $1,000 for the daily
and over $1,000 for the Sunday issue. 1t is
now using two double Hoe perfecting presses
and will soon put in another.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
'THERE is no longer any doubt that t

'THERE is no longer any doubt that the
Ohio campaign will be interesting. Mr..
Halstead is to return to Cincinnati editorial
work." remarks an esteemed contemporary.
The Ohio campaign will unquestionably be
lively. But as to Mr.. Halstead's contribu-
tions to its warmth, there is a possibility
that past experience may moderate his
ardor The recollection that the warmth OF
his last campaign against Campbell caused
his rustication in Brooklyn for nearly two
years may induce discretion on his part this
yea-.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

the ideal state is not that of calm, but of
clam. 1t may be well to do what is rea-
sonable to avoid the heat; but rather than
do nothing at all, which is about what the
hot weather advice comes to, the average
American will prefer to sweat little.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

If the assertion that "a game of cards in
England played without stakes is unknown
is correct, as made in the Westminster ReUie,0,
then the conclusion is clear that people can
not play cards there, as they largely do in
this country, simply for the love of the
game 1t would also justify the rule of the
non-conformist religious bodies in England,
that cards must be eschewed as gambling
instruments.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
HAVE ex-senator Farwells rain-making
dynamite explosions been adveptitiously let
off anywhere in this vicinity?

THE Emperor of China has ordered the
punishment by decapitation of the Chinese
who took part in the attacks on foreigners
1t will be seen that this moon-eyed heather
has a savage and undiplomatic idea that
treaties guaranteeing protection to foreign
ers must be enforced.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

SARDoU is to write an American play ex-
pressly to fit an ambitious actor. Besides
the modern theory of constructing play to
suit the actor, just as.the tailor would make
a suit of clothes to order, the idea of an.
American play such as Sardou will produce
is calculated to create strained relations be-
tween this country and France.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Hon. Thomas Penny.

Hon. Thomas Penny, aged 7S years, died
In McKeesport Thursday evening. He had been i'll
for five months. He was pioneer in that section
and for many years one of the most prominent cit-
zens of McKeesport. Prior to four wears ago he
was in active business, serving Cashier of the
First National Bank. Mr.. Penny was one of the
time He was the first Burgess of the borough of
McKeesport. and was delighted when he heard 1t
had become city. For years prior to 1874 he was
at the head of the old Commercial Banking Com
pany of McKeesport, helped to merge 1t into
the First National Bank during that year, and in
the latter Institution he served Cashier for l3
years, when he retired from active business life.
He was an elder of the First Baptist Church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
Good Old American Style.

Rocky Mountain News.1
man with ''fidgety fingers was shot in
Arkansas the other day. Had Sir William
Gordon-Cumming endeavored to play off the
st. Vitus dance racket in the same country
he would never have seen Tranby Croft nor
the Prince of Wales baccarat outfit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
JOHANN MOST was sentenced to one We

JOHANN MOST was sentenced to one years
imprisonment three yea rs and a half ago for
melting to riot, and his sentence has just
been confirmed by the New York Court OF
Appeals. During the interval Most has been
enjoying his usual freedom. The vigor and
promptness of the law has not, strange as it
may seem, begun to inspire the Anarchist
mind with fear, or even respect.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
AN ANTIQUATED LAW.
Necessary to Have a License for a Fourth of
July Exhibition.

July Exhibition.
Harrisburg Telegraph
1t is not generally known that there is a
general law in this State prohibiting the use
of fireworks, but it is a fact nevertheless and
it was enacted in 1751. Thirty years before
special law was passed for Philadelphia and
in I751 it was made general statute. Under
its provisions special license must be given
by the Governor for an exhibition of fire
works, otherwise there are penalties and
forfeitures- the fine going to the
informer and the balance to the poor of the
district One of the penalties is two days in
jail for every offense.
While the law is almost obsolete, the Gov
ernor is occasionally asked for a special
license. Only yesterday came a request
from q committee in a Bedford county town
asking dispensation for July 4. In 1888 Gov
ernor Beaver issued q license under this
ancient statute for pyrotechnic display in
FaiTmount Park. 1t is usually issued at the
request of the authorities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
Almost SWALLOWED by a Python.

At Judah, a village six miles from Muka,
says the Sarawak, Borneo, Ne,os, man and
his son, aged from 10 to II years, were sleep
ing in their house, inside mosquito curtain.
They we're on the floor near the wall. In the
middle of the night the father was awakened
by his son calling out. The lamp was out,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
"C1osE the schools at ninety" is t

"CLosE the schools at ninety" is the
advice of the New York Recorder with re-
gard to the heated term. The school chill
dren should certainly not be overworked il
this hot weather. or kept in schoolrooms s
where the heat is concentrated; but if the
rule were made universal we fear that some
of the smart juveniles would apply artificial
heat to the thermometer in order to go
swimming
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
A REPORTED reduction of

A REPORTED reduction of 10 per cent in
the wages of the operatives in Fall
River mills is expected to bring on a strike
involving 22COO workers. As wages there
are none too high, the comfortable alterna-
tive is presented to those people of choosing
between slow and rapid starvation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
A VIII Not to Be Broken.

Boston HIODeJ
A noble gift of 81, 100000 has just been made
to Colgate University at Hamilton, n Y, by
its great benefactor, James B. Colg te, of
New York. May he live to have the happi-
ness of seeing the university grow and
prosper even beyond his present hopes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
BY FIELD AND TOWN.
Showed Under With Daisies Gathering
Wild Flowers for Market-An Elusive
Keyhole-ohio's Exemplary son-Talk
of TORN md Cnunfr.rsida

Showed Under With Daisies Gathering
Wild Flowers for Market-An Elusive
Keyhole-Ohio's Exemplary son-Talk
of Town and Countryside.
IF the blazing sky and torrid air did not
forbid the idea you would think snow had
fallen upon the meadows that slope down to
the tiny silver thread of the Little Sewickley
creek, so brightly white they shine beneath
summer sun. The ox-eye daisies cover the
turf completely for acres, and make a beau
tiful picture to all eyes, but the cows, who
can't eat them, and the farmers, who has
tried to eradicate the 'pesky things" year
after year in vain. The white rays and yel-
low center of the flower are all the compen-
sation the weed offers for its intrusion, for
1t has no odor to speak of, and even a
city-bred COW will have none of the
chrysdnthemuna leucdnthemunt in hers But it
is rightly priced for decorative purposes,
and there are few wild flowers that make q
prettier show than the long-limbed daisy
with the bright eye and snowy halo, thrust
carelessly in deep blue vase to deck table
or adorn a room. Its uses in this regard
were bravely shown in the little church of
St. Stephens, Sewickley, the other night,
when thousands of ox-eye daisies welcomed
bride.
1t may give the cue to other country
maldens to relate how young girl of Leets-
dale has levied tribute upon the meadows
about her home. Since the daisies began to
dot the .sward she has gathered them
early every morning, Sending them
tied in great punches to the Allie
ghe1y market, where her mother
has d stand. There the daisies have found
a ready sale at remunerative prices, for
homely flowers are more than ever popular
now; and ox-eye daisies have always held
their own against costlier hot-house bios
SONS. Earlier in the spring this same fair
florist gathered the dog-woo and the crab
apple blossoms, than which none in orchard
or garden are more fragrant or lovely. And
pleasant and wholesome as this business OF
taking the country to the city is, it has also
proved profitable, and 1 am told that the
money she has made out of the daisies alone
would wipe out very pretty dressmaker's
bill in this year of grace.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

IT is calculated to cast unfre sal gloom
over the felicitaticas on the sealing arrange
ment to hes: ia d. astio,s that in the final re-
suit the North American Commercial Com
pany has @ nc left in the cold.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
PoMPEY's RESIDENCE.

A Fond Parent Ably Instructs His Inquisi-
tive Little Daughter.
Nashville Americana
'"who lives in that big house?n asked a
little girl of her knowing papa at Last Days
of Pompeii' the other night as she pointed
to Arbaces' temple on the right of the lake.
81 believe that is Pompey's residence, re-
piled the gentleman addressed, with the as
sumed dignity of a swamp OWL
docs Mr.. Pompey live there now?"
"No child; he's dead long ago."
"What was the matter with him. papa?''
at has been so long since have read his
history that have almost forgotten, but I
think he died OF some kind of an eruption. %
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20
But How About the Professor9

Boston Herald.1
A midnight raid on professors house,
with a view of putting him in a bag and
shaving off his whiskers, may be what they
call preparing young men for college up at
Phillips Exeter Academy, but it deserves to
be deemed pretty good fit for a peniten-
tiarv likewise
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-20

THE Farmers Alliance States report big
crops, and the journals of the East all unite
in predicting that this abundance will allay
the agricultural discomfort. But in that case
what becomes of the precious theory that a
restricted production insures the highest
nrosperitY?