Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-10

doubts of his guilt Smith was found
guilty on circumstantial evidence, pure and
simple, and such evidence as would hardly
be satisfactory to any other jury in the
world except an American. The prosecu-
tion relied almost entirely on the evidence
of man, Fowler. who repeatedly perjured
himself in matters of minor Importance. AS
q result many influential persons interested
themselves in the prisoners behalf and
feeling swayed repeatedly to and fro, now
with Smith, then against him, until the
present Governor Of the State determined on
q life-sentence as the best way cut of the
difficulty. Smith himself very consistently
argues that he is either guilty or not, and if
there is reasonable doubt he should be
permitted to 60 free, but this was more than
the Governor was willing to allow and
Smith will, therefore, have to serve his
time, whether guilty or not .
The Rule for Longevity.
DR.. Felix L. Oswald gives some recipes
for longevity in . recent letter. but very
sensibly refuses to indorse any of them.
The learned doctor is always interesting, no
matter what his subject, because he is SO
thoroughly conversant with. everything
worth talking about In this last case he is
every bit as entertaining as usual, but does
not cover the ground completely as his
wont, not from lack of knowledge SO much
as lack of space. In treating of the sub
ject of longevity it is idle to fix upon any
given rule for its attainment No scientific
or other rule ever promulgated has demon
strated power to lengthen for q single year q
human life. Yesterday we might have met
So-and-so on the street and compared his
magnificent physique with our puny shell,
inwsrdly envying the fortune Nature had
bestowed on the other. To-day We read of
his death. The poor. weak, cold -blooded
mite of humanity goes shivering past and
we mentally fix the date of his funeral,
thereafter granting him respites for gen.
erations perhaps.
"oh, man, man" raves the prohibitionist,
drink will destroy you," and vet there is
NOT one among us who cannot point ont
dozens of persons who have been drunkards
all their lives: are still robust and
hearty, and likely to bury the majority
OF those who are busily trying to save them.
There is a man who has had consumption
Tor the last 20 years and looks better to-day
than he did at the beginning. There's an.
other and another and still another, who
have had ipcurable diseases as long as we
have known them and they are still living.
Baxter. the celebrated non. Conformist, was |
such frail delicate man before 20 years
that he could scarcely move about without |
assistance. So fragile was he then and until |
the time OF his death that scarcely a day |
passed but the life-blood oozed from the |
pores of his fingers ends through weakness. |
and yet he lived to be rs years of age. |
preached many wonderful sermons, wrote a |
series of works which fill completely % |
large volumes, served IS months imprison-
ment and did prodigious amount of labor |
generally. What law or rule held good in |
that mans case? Was it abstinence2 Per- |
haps. And yet German statisticisns have |
recently demonstrated that heavy drinkers
live longer than total abstainers, and mild |
drinkers longer than either. Doctor Oswald |
may agree with you that genuine specific |
for longevity has not been discovered yet
Importation of Egyptian Cotton.
The steamer Fitzroy recently arrived in /
New York from Alexandria, with q con-
signment of Egyptian cotton destined for
in this country, amounting to
2, 150 bales and valued at $50, 900. 1t seems
ather strange that the importation of this
is necessary, when according to the
most recent statistics the production of cot
ton in the United States exceeds the demand !
by 1916 900 bales, or in plain figures the
production last year was 2, 434, 900
bales OF 400 pounds each, against a consump-
ton ol 2, ,11S, 900. VIII someone please ex-
plain the necessity for importing the foreign
articles. Must we admit the Egyptian cot
ton to be superior to ours, after the time
honored assertion that the American pro-
duction was the finest in the world?
AProlinc French Writer.
Most people think that when person
reaches the age Of go or thereabouts 1t is high
ime tn pren nnre for dis