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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
A HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY.

Concerning the efficacy of the national
bank examinations, in connection with
Philadelphia's case, a statement from Mr..
Drew, bank examiner for that district,
places decided oaus on his superiors. He
says:
When Marsh made that confession to me
on the 5th of January last, communicated
the fact to the Controller of the Currency 1t
was then reported by that department. to the
Department of Justice. Ny responsibility
then ended.
The responsibility of the examiner may
have ended there; but the responsibility
of the Controller of the Currency did not
nor did the responsibility of the Depart
ment of Justice or the administration. 1t
is clearly stated that the high officials
whose duty it was to act in the premises
were informed as long ago as last January
of the rottenness of the Keystone.
With that information it was
the duty of the Controller of
the Currency to have closed the bank at
once. 1t was the duty of The Attorney
General to order the law enforced, against
everyone who had been violating it in the
management of the bank; and it was the
duty of the whole administration from the
President down to see that the law regu-
lating the national banks was enforced
without fear or favor. That nothing was
done justifes the inference of the Phila-
delphiai papers that political influence was
at work to shield the rascality and keep
the bank open, with the result of taking in
some additional thousands from deluded
depositors.
There is more than local interest in
this. If there is any influence in this ad-
ministration that can prevent the honest
enforcement of the national banking act,
it amounts to betrayal of public trust
and must shatter the faith of the people
in the solidity which depends on the strict
observance of the law.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
APREs1DENTAL UsURPaTIoS.

If there were any doubts about the state
mentS referred to in THE DISPATCH, the
other day, that the outbreak in Chile was
one in which the executive had usurped
the power of the Legislature, they
would be banished by the recent ad-
dress of that official That document,
which would have served for manifesto
of Louis Napoleon in suppressing a repre-
sentative Government, puts the action in
this shape:
Being charged under the Constitution with
the duty of administering the State and of
extending my authority over everything
necessary for the internal security of the
nation, IlC1s 1ter Obliged 10 assume all the yatt
hc polUerS in order to repress armed rebellion
and meet the position taken by Congress
which was tending to the overthrow of our
institutions and of established order
The statement of the President of Chile,
that he regards it as among his preroga-
tives ''to assume all the public powers"
because Congress would not exercise its
power as he wished, may be regarded as
justification by South American dictator.
But is it such position as the Govern
ment Of the United States desires TO in
d0rSe by classifying the Congressional
party which is defending representative
principles as ''insurgents?" >N
1t is not the duty of the United States to
take sides in the Chilean struggle in any
way. But it is coming close to that when
the action of our Government is shaped
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
OUR NAIL POUCH.
Not Honorins Any Potentate.


TO the Editor OF The Dispatch,
In your paper of Tuesday, the 2sth instant
you have short paragraph, "yictoria Not
In 1t, in which you say that the British
American Association of Pittsburg have not
in any way celebrated the Queens birthday,
Her Majesty having completed her I'D year.
Allow me to say that the British American
Association was not formed to honor any
potentate or sovereign. Our organization IS
Tor the purpose of inducing and in assisting
oil of British birth and descent to become
nhturalized citizens of the United States
and to exercise the duties of citizenship for
the best interests of the Commonwealth,
and their adherence first, last and always to
the Constitution and institutions, more par
ticularly the public school system as 1t now
exists.
We are non-partisan, we ignore all alien
agitation and agitators. Having sworn TO
MAINTAIN and perpetuate the Constitution
We could not being of the household OF
Uncle Sam, honor the Queen in her official
capacity as head of the kingdom, but we
revere and honor her as the model wife ana
mother of untarnished reputation and ex-
emplary virtue. We have become American
citizens with pure motive. We want our
institutions based on universal intelligence
and universal liberty. Then American unity
and American patriotism are complete. 1t
Is our wish TO see public and private virtues,
not dissonant and jarring, and mutually
growing out of one another in O noble and
orderly gradntion, reciprocally supporting
and supported. W. II. PEAK.
PITTsBURG, May q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
WITH WITTY wIGHTs.

"I am very old, " said the veteran, ''and
have seen many ight.''
'.Did you bear arms in 1s12?'' asked the boy.
.No. my boy returned the old man;' 1T was just
the other way. Arms bore me. fudge.
@Alasl 1t is an age of doubtP' sighed the
philosopher.
sswhat?', asked his companion.
.sThe age Of woman" be answered. Harvard
Ldmpoon-
Dame Natures consistent,
All men viii allow,
When they notice the Jerseys
cream-colored cow.-Puck.
A man would do pretty poor fishing If he
used a,bookwUrm a fos bait.-Biaekamt0,s Rep1b-
licaa.
-ssCorporations have no souls"
"what disappointment that must be to the
de7fl. .n-LUs.
Mrs Blotter (of literary turn)-And,
John, send up gallon Of midnight oil. Al our
eestwr1ters. I'm told, burn it.-Boston zfnnscipt.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
SONG LEE PAINTS HIS HOUSE.
1t Suits Him, and the Rest of the World
Must Make the Best of 1t.

1t Suits Him, and the Rest of the World
Must Make the Best of 1t.
San Francisco Chronicle.1
81 Song Lee keeps washhouse on Larkin
street, between Ellis and Eddy. 1t is quite
a pretentious two-story frame structure, with
a peaked shingle roof Its owner conceived
the idea recently of adding to its attractive
ness by sundry exterior coats of high-hued
paints.
So now the thing is a perpetual nightmare
to all the neighbors and passers-by who see
it for the first time They are startled al
most into breathlessness and seized with
queer optical illusions and visions of awful
phantasies that haunt the brain till the dust
of Larkin street is shaken from their feet.
The painter tried to make the roof white,
but the dirty shingles have defed his skill.
With a persistency born of dust and SCOT
they still show through the white paint in
occasional dark patches.
Only man with the nightmare could have
painted the front. The background is q
frames are yellow, trimmed with red. The
blinds are blue, the cornice pink, the win
dow stills black and the doorsteps cream
colored. Other pigments abound in~pro-
fusion, but even the artist who compounded
them is unable to call the wondrous colors
by name.
pared to the front of Song Lees washhouse.
But that is not all. There is side view
yet to be described. Every imaginable
shade and tint that brain suffering from
the effects of plum pudding or mince pie
supper might produce has here been laid on
the weather boards in stripes. The effect is
simply maddening.
Seen for the first time a shock like a thou
sand volts of electricity comes over one, and
color blindness ensues at once. Some of the
neighbors complain that the colors are 80
loud as to disturb their slumbers at night.
Song Lee is not unconscious of the atten-
ton his washhouse has excited in the neigh
borhood. He comes out, takes a glance at
the awful thing, and then goes back smiling.
"Me likee alice samee."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
MEMORIAL.
\ II net a little thin,

ON! deem It net little thing
Unworthy Of the purest aud the best
This that we DO, the blossoms that we bring
TO mark the haowed spot where heroes rest.
Let children do their part, the word of God
Hath called them, like TO angels round His
throne,
with pure and loving tears bedew the sod,
And feel the blessing is their very own.
And youth as well; Its strength is better spent
In deeds like this, where pity fills the breast
Than idle pastime; Drawer thoughts are sent,
More lessons learned above where soldiers rest.
Let manhood vie with age In homage due
To men who gave us peace and home and land;
Above them place the white. the red, the blue,
The .'Stars and Stripes kept sacred by their
hand.
Be watehful ever lest ye pass one by,
Some unmarked grave o'crgrown by plant or
weed,
For underneath trrer heart may lie
That hath for tender perfume deeper need,
sacred duty first ordained Of God,
Memorial to the triumph Of the right,
Though often meath oppression's tyrant rod,
Az last He conquered evff " His might.
II. NitcheA IN Patladelphia Engtarw.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG, SATURDAY, MAY so, 1891.
THE MEMORY OF THE VETERANS.

The round of the season brings around
the day for honoring the memory of the
defenders of the Union, the twenty-fourth
since the form of commemoration was
established by order of General Logan as
Commander of the G. A. R. The observ-
ance Of this appropriate national homage
has grown steadily since it was inaugurated
in 1868, until the day is national holiday,
observed by those who opposed the Union
soldiers on the field equally with those who
supported them
One of the most impressive thoughts of
the day is the way the flight of time is
marked by the rapid depletion of the
ranks of those who have taken charge of
the observance-the comrades Of the
dead men. The fact that the
veterans have been growing old and
that many are passing away has been no.
ticed before: but it is now forcing itself
more strongly on the people. A report of
the commandant of the Department of
this State shows that the deaths among
members of the G. A. R. last year were
larger than in any previous year since the
war Seven hundred veterans passed
from the ranks of those who conduct the
ceremonies to-day to the lists Of those
whose memories are honored. This i'm
pressive reminder of the flight of time
warns US that the men who in the flower
of manhood defended the Union are now
succumbing to age, and that the day is
coming when there will be but few griz-
zled veterans to Join in the ceremony
which the nation performs on this ami
versary.
This will lead US, on the day in which
patriotic devotion is commemorated, to
honor the living veterans as well as those
who have gone before. 1t should also
show that the time is coming when the OBJ
servance of the day must pass from the
of the soldiers who served
the Union to that of the nation at large.
The defenders must pass away; but the
annual work of keeping their memory
sacred, as an inheritance and incentive to
patriotism, cannot be permitted to die out
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
A ACLEReYMANs REBUKE.
He Silences q Woman Who Was Insolent
Instead of Frank,

He Silences a Woman Who Was Insoleni
Instead of Frank,
Boston Courier.l
There is a Unitarian clergyman who Is not
without q power of keen retort, and who is
none the less gifted with the grace to com
mand his tongue rather than allow his
tongue to command him. He has in his con-
gregation one of those women who make a
pretense of frankness and excuse for rude
ness and who are given to boasting that they
are plain-spoken, when the truth is that they
simply ill-bred and insolent. This especial
lady is wealthy, and there are not many in
the list of her acquaintunces who dare re-
buke her, albeit they do together console
each other for the wounds they suffer from
her tongue by abusing her roundly.
1t chanced that one evening the lady and
the clergyman were partners at whist at the
house of q common friend, and SO successful
were they that they won almost every game
for the evening. Like people who are fond
of having things their own way the lady was
in high humor over this success, and when
the play was over she pushed back her chair
from the table with the Characteristic and
graceful remark to her partner:
"You do play good game of whist, Mr.
Blank. If you only preached as well as you
play whist, it would be treat to go to
church to hear you.".
Tho clergyman was quite equal to the occa-
sion. He Kept his temper and his face under
perfect control as he replied:
'Thank you, Miss Sharp: but you know
anybody can learn to play whist, while
genius and good breeding come by grace of
God"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
FOOLISH ASSERTIONS.

There is plenty of ground for criticism
of the extravaganza of the last Congress.
But such wild statements as the following
from the New York World only weaken
criticism by utter inaccuracy: 'For the
first time since the close of the war, the
Government is about to stop paying its
debt and ask an extension on its bonds.
The Billion-Dollar Congress caused the
change"
Now, so far as the precise assertions
quoted are concerned, it happens that for
several years after the close of the war the
Government did not even make all the
purchases of bonds required for the sink
ing fund, which has been fully provided
for this year. Moreover, the Government
has asked an extension of its debt by refund
ing or otherwise several times. A large
share of the 6 per cent debt was simply
conversion of other forms of debt and all
the AIS and As took the place of the IS
at lower rate of interest. 1t happens
to be the case that the great feature of Mr..
WINDOWS first administration of the
Treasury that he effected an extension of
the maturing IS, at a reduced rate of in
terest on exactly the same plan as is now
talked of for the AVS. 1t is thus clear that
the Treasury has several times been in
much worse shape than at present.
This does not excuse or mitigate the ex-
travagant appropriations of the last Con-
gress. But it is very foolish for the critics
of such extravaganza to stultify them
selves by such wild attempts to weaken the
credit of the Treasury as that quoted above.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
SOME PEOPLE ON THE go.

General T. o. Osborn, ex-Minister to the
Argentine Republic, passed through the city
America. He says the Governments south
of the equator are badly governed. In the
Argentine Republic the wealthier people
take no interest in the finances of the corn-
try Many of the banks there are broken.
He expected the Chilean war, and he Gays
peace will only reign when some outside
power steps in and rules the people impair
tinlly.
Among those who went to Atlantic City
last evening to take advantage of the holi-
day were Controller Morrow, Jack Lee Of
the Farmers Bank; Frank lee, of the Iron
City, and Mr.. Montgomery, Of the Central
Bank, quite a financial crowd to go to the
seashore at the same time.
W. 81. McGary returned from Harrisburg
yesterday with the bill signed by the Gov
ernor authorizing the payment Of %, 900 to
j. NJ Morrison for back pay. Mr.. Morrison
was unscated in the Senate by Hugh Nc
Neil some years ago.
P. c. Boyle, the genial spirit pro-
City Derrick, was in the city yesterday. He
has warm friends in and out Of newspaper
dom here and is always welcome visitor.
w. T. Sproull, freight agent for the Cam
bria Iron Company at Philadelphia, was in
the city yesterday. He reports little inn
provement in the iron business, though the
Indications for the future are encouraging.
T. c. Campbell, the lawyer who defended
Berger and whose acquittal resulted in the
Cincinnati riots about five years ago, is nc
the Anderson, He came here to spend Dec
Grafton Day in peace.
J. w. Beazell, of Steubenville, counter
felt inspector for the Government, is at the
schlosser. Mr.. Beazell is the man who was
robbed in the local postoffice few years
ago.
George Matheson, of New York, one of
the owners Of the American Iron Works at
YOUNGSTOWN, registered at the Mononga-
hela House yesterday.
Colonel Meier Is the new Secretary of the
Boiler Makers Association. and came here
to assist ex-secreJary Douthitt in preparing
the annual report.
H. NJ. Curry and J. G. A. Leishman, of
Carnegie 4 Co., will leave New York this
morning on the Umbrin for six weeks tour
in Europe.
james S. Anderson, of Glasgow, and Solo
mon Schwab, OF Switzerland, foreign COM
mercial men, are stopping ut the Anderson.
Colonel Chill Hazard went to Philadel-
phia to deliver the Grafton for Phil Kearney
Post to-day in Spring Garden.
John W. Donnan, of Washington, and
William Searight. Of Uniontown, are at the
Monongahela House.
E. d. Meier, of st. Louis, and W. L.
McPhail and daughter are among the guests
at the Duquesne.
Henry Kaufman leaves tonight on an ex-
tended business trip to England, IrelaGdand
the Continent.
Ed Jackman and A. II. Heating were two
of the passengers bound for New York last
evening.
j. @. Bergstresser viii sail for Europe to-
day on his annual tour.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
GOOD CANDY CHEAP.
You Needn't Pay Anything Like Forty Cents
aPound for It.

You Needn't Pay Anything Like Forty Cents
aPound for It.
New York Herald.1
Andrew j. Hope, who knows thing or
two about the candy business is of the
opinion that another candy manufacturer
who recently made the statement in the
Herald that pure candy couldn't be bought
for less than 40 cents a pound, didn't know
what he was talking about.
"The statement is pure nonsense" said
Mr.. Hope, "and I'll prove it. The basis of
all candy is, of course, refined sugar. There
is no adulteration about that, and it sells by
the barrel for ~ cents pound. All plain
candies, such as horehound, iceland moss,
molasses, peppermint, will cost the big man.
ufacterer under. cent pound to manu-
facsure. a good workman will easily make
300 pounds day, which, when retailed at 10
cents pound, allows the manufacturer
nearly 100 per cent profit. The pure material
is so cheap that, if there were nothing else
to be taken into consideration, it wouldn't
pay to adulterate such candy. Pure sugar
can be bought cheap and 80 can pure candy"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
Panhandle Accommodations.
the Editor of the Dis spatcht


Allow me to call the attention of the proper
authorities to a much-needed Improvement
in the morning train service of the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis
Railroad locally. During the past two years
the various towns between the city and
Mansfield have increased in population very
much. The majority are people who work
in the city, and who have specified time to
start in the mornings, and business folks
like to be prompt. The prevailing hour now
for places of business to open is 7:30 A. NJ,
but as trains now run on this line, people
who wish to start on time must either come
with train half an hour too early, OF take
their chances on the next, which makes
them Is or 20 minutes late every day, which
is most annoying. Something should be
done without delay to improve this state of
things, and as No. Is, from McDonald's, has
to pick up abouttwo carloads of milk and
unload half of it again in Birmingham, the
management should, in Justice to its patrons,
put train, from Mansfield that will reach
Pittsburg by 7:2O every morning, and that at
once, too. PANHANDLE.
IDLEwooD, Pa, May q.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
Ir is interestinp to learn that .Judre wa

1t is interesting to learn that Judge Van
Brunt, of New York, told the District At
torney that if he was not ready to try the case
of the New York and New Haven Railroad
directors on the day named he would dis
miss it. This sounds as if the Court were
determined to put stop to the laws delays
But it also raises the question whether, if
the defendants had been some poor fellows
who had been lying in prison for a year
awaiting trial, the judge would have been
quite so peremptory. There is also flavor
of suspicion that this is a very strong
pointer for the District Attorney not to be
ready.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
Social Chatter.


THE Ladies' Aid Society of Chriots Church
(Universalist) will have charge of the straw
berry and ice cream festival, which will be
held in Curry University Chapel corner
Sixth street and Penn avenue, Friday even
ing June 5. The ladies will strive to make
this occasion exceptionally pleasant to all
participating. Admission free.
PROF. R. F. THUMA, Miss M. Thuma and
Frank Thuma, of Thuma's Dancing Acad-
emy will leave next week for Providence,
r. l., to meet in convention the National
Association of Teachers of Dancing, where
they will give an exhibition of fancy dane
ing.
Miss BELLE McELHENY will depart this
evening for Washington, d: c., where she
will accept personal invitation of Mrs. Nc
Kee to VISIT the White House.
MRS. A. c. GRAVE and daughter Agnes, of
Sharon, are guests in the city. Mrs. Graf
will take possession Of her Lakewood cot
tage next week.
UNCLE SAM and his States had jolly time
of it at the Sandusky Avenue Baptist Church
last evening
DIR. GENTRY leaves this evening for flying
visit to his Philadelphia home.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30
A sINK1Ne HrLL.
A Curious Phenomenon ON the Tuttle Farm
in Bloomfield, Conn,

HARTFORD May 29.-Jereniah Tuttle, O
wealthy farmer of Bloomfield, has a hill on
his big farm in that town that is sinking
into the bowels of the earth. Mr. Tuttle
has beautiful farm, most of which is in q
normal condition. There are great fertile
meadows, great reaches of noble forest and
here and there spacious pastures In which
his blooded COWS grazefon herbaee that is
almost knee deep. The queer sinking hill is
in one of the big pastures, in what Mr.. Tut
tie called the ''rock pasture" The grass is
finer in that one than in any other pasture
in the whole region. Exactly in the center
of the big lot is a hill, capacious of girth,
but not more than II feet high. The oldest
inhabitant in Bloomfield, who is upward of
s5 years old, affirms that the hill is as famil-
lar to him as any room in his own home, for
many Of the Bloomfield people have heen in
the habit of taking "short CUT home
across Jerly's rock pasture, and that he
never noted anything odd about the hill un-
sinking, Bloomfield people avoid the rock
pasture for they believe it is enchanted
A few weeks ago Mr.. Tuttle sent his hired
man, Michael Flannigan, who has worked on
the Tuttle farm for years, to the rock pasture
with the COWS, and in half an hour Michael
came home hurriedly with startled look in
his face. When he entered the pasture, he
said later, he stopped in amazement, for he
into the earth several inches since his visit
to the lot day or two before. To be sure
that his opinion of the hill was a correct one
he went close to it and took an estimate of
its height, sighting across its top" at old
time and trustworthy landmarks, and was
satisfied 1t had gone down not less than or
10 inches. After he had told his story, every
one, Mr.. Tuttle, too, guyed him mercilessly.
But Michael dosn't drink, SO he took the
gibing good-naturedly, and persisted in
affirming that his statement was correct.
His earnestness finally impressed others,
and Mr.. Tuttle. and some of the neighbors
visited the rock pasture with Flanagan,
whose declaration was at once seen to be
true. The hill had sunk several inches since
Michaers previous visit. Moreover, the hill
is still sinking daily Slowly and persistently
it is being swallowed up. 1t is now only
slight undulation in the lot, and its top but
a foot or two above the rest of the land
there. What is the cause of the phenomenon
no one attempts to explain, but the Bloom
field people are certain that within q week
or two the hill will have entirely disap-
peared.