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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
The Coming Bond Election.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Touching the s., 900, 900 bond issue. q ques-
tion or two arises and the answers will prove
interesting to many who have already paid
their assessments for streets and sewers
under the acts of 1887 and 1882 and also to
others who have contracted directly with
Booth & Finn for the paving Of public
streets. Such citizens are practically SINH
ilarly interested in knowing how they will
be affected. or just what will be their status
in case there is an issue of the bonds, and
the curative legislation is not favorably
passed upon by the courts. Personally, I
am not innocent enough to believe that any
part of these payments will ever be refunded
to those who promptly paid, but they will
also have to help by their payment of addit-
ional taxes to pay for the other local i'm
provements.
What is the need of the bond issue Just
now? Six hundred thousand dollars falls
due the next year. What time next year?
One million four hundred thousand dollars
the following year. What time? Are the
citizens anxious to place $1,000 600 in the
hands Of the city government by an issue OF
bonds nearly two years before the money is
needed? What is to prevent Booth, Finn
ct al from waiting the three months that may
pass before the courts act on the curative
act? They will be all the more interested
then in securing the proper legal construc-
tion upon the act that will enable the col
lection OF assessments from the local proper
ties benefited have read the address of
my valued friends Gourley and Morrow care
fully.
After thinking over the matter fail 90 see
the ground for either alarm or haste. The
worst that can come is that the contractors
may have to wait OF that they will grow i'm
patient and sue the city. Well, what If they
do? 1t will not cost any more to hold a public
vote then than now to pass upon this Ques-
ton. We had better not cross our bridges
until we arrive at them. Many things, If let
alone, will right themselves. W. 81. DAILY.
PITTsBURa, November 2.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
A Life of Unproken anticipation.

'1f 1 ever get back to London again."
said premiere danseuse, "Ill never go
abroad, as an understudy anyhow. You
don't know what it means. Take a girl who
has been used to doing something, who has
been at the footlights with little intermis-
sions every night for months and years, who
is considered pretty well up in her profess
sion, who is still ambitious, put her where
she may be called upon any night to face
foreign public and never gets a chance to
appear and you have my situation. The
salary? OF course, the salary goes on: but
no amount of money can satisfy me in such
a life of unbroken anticipation. The strain
of always being prepared for the unexpected
is worse than that which comes from nightly
work. would not accept a minor part in
the piece and here am 18th nothing to do,
on half pay, waiting for my chance If that
woman would sprain her ankle, or-but it
is too wicked to even think of prof1ting by
somebody's misfortune let alone sigh for
the opportunity. An understudy! Oh,
how I wish, as walk Broadway, that was
back in Londonr'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

The sun shone in through unshaded win
dows. Stoves, even in the fierce New Eng
land winter, were as forbidden as organs are
in Covenanter churches.
The Days of Long Sermons.
People were seated in the Puritan meet
ing houses according to their Importance in
the community. Sometimes the chairman
of the seating committee, after arranging
the precedence OF the congregation, found
it prudent to move away into another
parish. The men sat at the ends OF the seats
ready to rush out in attack on beseiging
Indians. The BOYS were gathered into
place by themselves, often on the pulpit
stairs; where the tithing-man kept his stern
watch overthem. 1t was great misfortune
to be boy in the DAYS of the Puritan Sab
bath. Every meeting time one OF more OF
these wretched beings suffered expulsion
from the meeting house and got a sound
thrashing on the nearest hOrse-olock; the
sermon droning on to the swish, swish ac-
compartment OF the tithing mans roo.
Even during the incoming, in some OF the
stricter parishes, the boys were kept rigid
ly still. and were required to read over
aloud the notes which they had taken OF the
The congregation felt that they were not
getting their rightful deserts if the "long
prayer failed to be one hour in length, and
the sermon two hours more. They COM
ehlHSo UOo
length of the sersom. They did not, how
ever, feel compelled to stay awake during
the sermon. That, indeed, was too much
for human endurance But the parson must
do his duty, and the titningman. with his
long rod, with knob on one end TOR the
men, and squirrel tail at the other Tor the
more tender women, must keep the sleepers
as wide awake as possible.
Then the same long exercising OF piety IN
the afternoon. And after that, in the house
of tile minister, the good man repeated the
afternoon sermon to his family. All day
long. the same unbending, grim severity.
ellis Majesties Tithing Man entered com.
plant against Dora and Susan Smith, that
on the Lords Day during Divine Service,
they did-smile!' This little green spray
grew in triumph over the level site OF a
Puritan meeting house. That, perhaps, Is
the best thing about it. 1t means that ma
ture is bound to outliye everything that Is
unnatural. The Puritan Sabbath, like the
Serbs and Pharisees' Sabbath belongs to the
failures of the past, with great many other
devices for making people good by ms ma
chinery. The past is welcome to it! The
present can get on very well without it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
A Governors Kissing Campaign.

New OIlednS new DelCdJ
Governor Jones, of Alabama, who is on
campaigning tour, finds his lines cast in
much more pleasant places. True, he is
being called upon to do the kissing, but the
babies are all girl babies, or at least they
were, and they run all the way from IS to
40 years of age. At Blue Creek in that State,
he held a meeting the other day, spoke to
the miners in the afternoon, danced at a
ball that night, and upon some OF the ladies
intimating that they would like to kiss him,
he announced himself always at the service
of the people of Alabama, and did his duty
in a manner which earned for him the
united support Of the Blue Creek suffragans
and curtain lecture from his wife. Gov
ernor Jones seems to be running q smacking
race, and even if he should be defeated he
will have nothing to complain of. He is
conducting a canvass into which any man
would throw his whole soul, and has inaugu-
rated new political departure which will
serve to greatly mitigate the horrors of
protracted campaign. Canvassing will be-
come verv popular, especially among the
young men, but we venture the opinion that
very few married men will offer for public
offce-that is, if their wives have anything
to say about it, and they generally do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
POLITICAL POINTS.

Mr.. HARRISON may have shot one duck, but
Mr.. Fassett missed one tiger.-N Y World.
FROM present appearances Foraker, he Of
the unshaken hand, will get the worst snub
at the hands of the Ohio Legislature that he
ever had-Cleueld1d Plain Dealer.
SEvENTY-F1vE Republican papers in Ohio,
favor Sherman's election. Thirty-one sup
port Judge Foraker. Additions to the
former list are reported daily.-Sprinafeld
Republic Times.
GOVERNOR CAMPBELL, Of Ohio, thinks that
Major McKinley's chances for securing the
next Republican nomination for President
are better than those of Harrison or Blaine
Governor C. has just grappled with the
Major, and he appreciates his wrestling
qualities.-Ne,0 York Morning Advertiser.
The contest for the speakership is squarely
between Judge Crisp and Mr.. Mills. The
other candidates do not command much at
tention. They will not be heard of after the
first ballot. Indeed, it Is probable that
several of them will announce their with
drawal before the meeting of the CAUCUS
Sauonnah (Go.) Ne,os.
MILLS views on silver are affected by his
temporary geographical position. In the
South and West he points with pride to his
vote in Congress for free coinage. In the
North and East he hedges on the question.
Let him define what his attitude would be
as Speaker, elected by majority divided on
this particular question.-Philddelphi Press.
WE don't see the name Of Boston in the
list Of cities tn at aspire to have the Repub.
lican National Convention, and yet Boston
is the Hub of the Universe. Extreme mod
esty seems to be one Of our failings, how
ever.-Boston Herald You are away off, in
your intimation that modesty has anything
to do with Boston's not aspiring to have the
convention. You are away or" geograph-
ically and hence aspiration would be use
less.
The Springfield Republican brings forward
the statement that, as Governor Russell was
born in January, 1857, he will be 30 years old
before the meeting of the electors of the
President and Vice President, and will
therefore be constitutionally eligible. But
still "the young Massachusetts, statesman
will have to wait" responds the Syracuse
Standard Yes, he will have to wait, but will
have abundance of company, among all that
throng OF other good men, whose chief claim
to eligibility is the constitutional one, of
age. !
SURELY Governor Tillman does not intend
to give Thanksgiving Day the cold shoulder,
and yet he has not issued his proclamation
or paid the slightest attention to the forth
coming event, He ought to be thankful for
the favors that have been bestowed upon
him and his administration during the past
year. The day will doubtless be celebrated
with or without his endorsement. but it
would be good for him to tell the people of
the State why, in his official judgment, they
should be thankful-C Charleston rs C1 Neus
and Courier Perhaps the Governor of
Georgia thinks Thanksgiving . "local issue"
this year and himself not Gin 1t" because
he's out at the Alliance Convention-and
otherwise "out."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
One Of Eugene Fields Stories.
Chicago Daily News.J

Cnlcag0 DAILY Newe.J
James Whitcomb Riley went to Europe
last summer. On the return voyage an in
cident happened which is well worth telling
of. To beguile the tediousness Of the voy-
nge it was proposed to give concert in the
saloon Of the ship-an entertainment to
which all capable of amusing their fellow
voyagers should contribute. Mr. Riley was
asked to recite some Of his original poems,
and of course he cheerfully agreed to do so.
Among the number present at this mid
ocean entertainment, over which Rev.
Myron Reed presided, were two Scotchmen,
very worthy gentlemen, ell route from the
land o. cakes to the land OF biscuits upon q
tour of investigation. These twain shared
the enthusiasm with which the auditors
applauded Mr.. Riley's charming recitatlons.
They marveled that SO versatile genius
could have arisen from a land reputed for
uncouthness and savagery.
"Is itno wonderful, Donar," remarked one
Of these Draw Scots, that tradesman suld
be sic a bonnie poet?'
"And is he indeed a tradesman?' asked
the other.
"Deed he is" answered the other. "Did
We no hear the dominic intryjuce him as the
hoosier poet? just think of it, mon-just
think O. sic GUIDE poet dividing his time
in making hoosiery!'
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
POINTS PURELY PERSONAL.

WILFRED LAURIER, who was dined in
Boston the other night, is called the Blaine
of Canada.
1T was through the influence of Bishop
Phillips Brooks that the Salvation Army
was allowed to parade the streets of Boston
with music.
BISMARCK is what in Germany they call
q "chain-smoker;" that is, he smokes from
morning till night without break, lighting
one cigar with the end Of the other.
WILLIAM BAYNE, who was the first
South Carolinian to propose the name of
Wade Hampton for Governor, is now desti-
tute and partly insane at Greenville, S. C.
SOME e1acting and precise persons are
criticising poor Phoebe Couzins for writing
her book, Twenty Years in Public Life, -
without intimating to what 20 years she al
ludes.
GENERAL BOOTH is having good time
in New Zealand. The Premier says that the
emigration proposal deserves full and fair
trial, and New Zealand should afford the op-
portunity for 1T.
JUSTICE FIELD is the linguist of the
United States Supreme Bench. Besides be-
ing classical scholar, he speaks French
and italian fluently and reads Turkish and
modern Greek.
IT has been positively asserted that an
appreciable number of Mr. Gladstone's col
lars disappear annually in the wash, alb
stracted, it is believed, from the basket of
the laundress by devotees determined to
possess themselves, at any cost, of memo
rial of their idol.
MISS ALICE LoNGFELLow, daughter of
the poet, is said to be the best amateur pho
tographer in America. Her fayorite field of
operations is along the Massachusetts coast,
and her snap shots there, taken in the storm.
lest weather, are attracting the attention of
publishers, aud her illustrsted songs will be
a feature of new book Of sea so--~-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
The Telephone Monopoly.

Baltimore SUM-
People who were expecting to be delivered
from the gripof the Bell telephone monopoly
in January, 1894, will be scandalized to learn
that through an abuse of our patent laws
the monopoly is likely to last some Is years
longer Beliner invented transmitter, and
in 1877 applied for patent for it.
Drawbaugh's application for patent
on his device covered to some ex-
tent the same ground. The two spplica-
tions were declared by the Patent Office
authorities to interfere" with each other,
and action on them not being pushed by the
Bell Company, which had bought out Ber-
liner and Drawbaugh, the "interference''
has not been ended till now. Now the
patent is issued, and on Berliner's invention
which is necessary to a good telephone
the telephone monopoly expects to live IA
OF Is years longer patent Is a legal
monopoly: The law creates 1t. When legal
monopolies go beyond limits there ought to
be new laws to correct them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
The gubernatorial campaign in Alabama

The gubernatorial campaign in Alabama
is getting very active if reports can be cred
tied. One candidate is reported as having
addressed q meeting at Blue Creek mines,
and after leading in dance afterward,
"kissed the boss miners wife once" But his
rival was not going to let him get ahead in
that way, and the latter also addressed a
meeting, led dance and made the grand
stroke of "kissing the boss miners wife
twice" So far as reports of this rivalry in
dicate. the boss miners wife is bearing up
bravely, but the correspondent discloses the
fact that "the boss miner himself is weary
This last fact suggests a doubt whether the
vigorous style of personal campaigning may
not be found in the end to have its draw
hacks
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

''CHIcAGo's big barley syndicate has
bought 250, 900 acres of North Dakota land on
which to raise barley for malt purposes.
This is direct result of the Mckinley bilp s
increase of the duty on barley remarks the
New York Press, which is sometimes more
enthusiastic than discreet in its protection
role. We don't believe that the protective
policy has any part in the creation of great
250, 600 acre estate under the control of that
modern successor to the feudal barons-the
syndicate. The creation of such grave de-
partures from the American system Is due
to corporation favoritism in transportation,
and should not be saddled on the tariff.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
RHYNKLEs AND RHYMELErs.

'willie," said the visitor, "wny are your
eyes so bight?''
It teeps winkin' my eyeids all e time. That
teeps 'em wuhbed up an shiny said WiIlle.~
HdTper's Bdzdr.
She reclined in the shade,
And my heart filed with pride
As saw that my poems
Were close by her side.
Then glanced once again,
And almost could weep,
My poems lay near her
Bur-she was asleep.
Kate Fields Washington.
Finkle-I wonder where His Sa anic Mai.
esty gets the fuel to keep up perpetual fire?
Dinkle-He certainly doesn't have far to go for
his styx at any rate.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The sunlight falls on stuffed footballs
And 'sanguined 'levens fierce and CORY:
The long light shakes o'er frauds and fakes
And undergraduates howl for glory.
Kick, cullies kick,
Send the big sphere flying;
Answer cripples,
Dying. dying. dying.
-Seso York Herald.
Mrs McSmith-I always have present-
ment whenever there is going to be any sickness in
the family.
Mrs. Bumpus-so do I. Every time Mr.. Bumpus
brings home fry in box, he is sure to have sick
headache in the morning .-Brooklyn Citizen
"You admire Miss Sweete very much, 1
hear"
'Tdo.n
II suppose you will try to get to be better ac-
quainted with her now"
.'No. 1 probably shouldn't admire her II were
better acquainted with her, ''-Ne'o LORE fress.
He often was told in his wife
That treasure to him had been given;
Yet 'twould be the joy of his life
Could lie s.lay up his treasures in heaven
Sparks.
Sappy-I say Chappy; I've wather got
the fdeah that nevah could be an actah, dontcher
know?
Chappy-What's the weason, deah boy?
Sappy-why, old fellah dontcher see, theresa
wule I've wead somewesh that wesds, Think twice
befoah YOU ahct'' That would wuin me; IT'S
NOAH than felah can do now to think wunth. and
I should just e1piah If had To think twice. oa
jovel-Boston Courier.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
Annoyauces In Theater Galleries.
10 the Editor of The Dispatch:

To the Editor of The DisDatch:
There is hardly anyone who is not more
or less, in some way or another, annoyed by
some nuisance. But I think when the peo-
pie pay for an evenings enjoyment they
should not be annoyed. I am frequenter
OF our theaters and when go unaccompa-
MED generally go to the 25 cent gallery, a
place that should be kept just as clean and
free from all nuisance as the other part of
the house. But it is not. The most abom-
Unable Of these nuisances, and the one of
That several f1rstclass theaters hire
out to q man portion of the
gallery. He is allowed to sell peanuts,
chestnuts, soda water, root beer and candy.
That part may be all right, but the man has
two OF three boys who stand around from
the time the doors are open until the
curtain rises; also between the acts,
and shout, often at the top Of their voices,
peanuts, chestnuts, candy" etc. But that
is not all, they will commence at one end of
the gallery and push their way through be-
tween people and the row of seats ahead,
carrying large baskets. This Is most annoy
ing. These boys are generally very dirty
pay the price asked by the managers of
these theaters, but they do not pay to be
annoyed and have their freshly shined
shoes trod upon. Now this is nuisance
that should be stopped, because the class
that goes into tine 25 cent gallery is COM
posed of respectable, hard working men
who enjoy the play quite as much as the
people who can afford to occupy the boxes.
/ have often, not only in this town, but in
Others noticed that if there was q joke or a
good impression made upon the stage that
it is caught first of all in the gallery. This
nuisance is not permitted in any other part
of the house. Why should it be allowed in
the gallery? A. L. B.
PITrsBURG November 90
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
A Common Sense Philanthropy.

There is philanthropic scheme suggest
ed by some people who are interested in
the regeneration OF mankind that ought to
engage general public attention. What is
proposed is to establish an institution where
immediate relief can be had in supplies for
SO much immediate work. This on q proper
basis would enable the police to rid the city
of all classes of vagrants. The present
leniency toward this class Is due to the
knowledge that it comprises large number
of unfortunates who are able and willing to
do something for an honest living If they
could find something to do. Such an insti-
tuition would become q sort Of clearing
house for the hospitals, reformatories, sec
tartan charitable Institutions and employ
ment agencies and might in time be made
almost self-supporting.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
When the Sheriff Sold Out Gould.

Philadelphia Times.j
In the parlor Of an old-fash1oned inn near
Moscow, Lackawanna county, is to be found
a relic OF Jay Gould's early experiences in
this part of the country. 1t is nothing less
than the famous financier's first bookcase
and library.
81 purchased that library at the time Jay
Gould was sold out by the Sheriff at Goulds-
boro," said R. Gersbacher, its owner. ''That
was many years ago and jay is rich man
now, but he wasn't worth q cent then.
wasn't much on books for their value, but
when the Sheriff cried out ts45, third and
last time I just yelled 's46,' anu the library
was knocked down to me. paid the money
and took the books and case home.
Nobody cared for Jay then, but later on
when he began to rise in the world these
books became quite valuable, and sold u
number of them, receiving $500 for the same.
But the rest are not for sale. l will keep
them as long as l live as memento of my
bidding on jay Gould's goods"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
A DESCRIPTION of the condition of affair

A DESCRIPTION of the condition of affairs
in Brazil, by the Chicago Inter Ocean, gives
the following unique view: ga revolt has
taken place in the extreme southern prov.
ince, though the second anniversary of the
republic has been celebrated with the usual
fetes and enthusiasm at the capital" The
idea that the celebration of a republic is all
that is necessary to satisfy republican de-
sfres, although representative government
has been abolished, and a military dictator
ship founded in Its stead, is remarkable, in
this country Of enlightenment. Such stun
ming view of republicanism beggars COM
mentary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23
A Sermon in Cloaks.
Dry Goods Economist

Dry GOOCS EcUHUHIist.J
Looking backward over the many efforts
of manufacturers to acquire reputation for
their aptness in hitting the bulls ey Q in their
STYLES an6 materials for cloaks, and noticing
how well they did for time, only at last to
fail, it is wonderful that mills have the cour-
age to make them. Among the handsomest
fabrics ever made were the gold and silver
beaded cloakings introduced more than 20
years ago. They sold at Sc to 81, and went off
like hot cakes. The manufacturers increased
their output, and in little while as many
cases of them were jobbed at 50 25 and 50 80
per yard as there had been pieces sold at the
hioher figure.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

THE mine owners at Denver passed a
resolution against treating silver as "a COM
modify" This indicates their conviction
that silver, on its commercial value, will not
realize all they hope to get out of the Gov
eminent. But the mine owners are not
clear-sighted enough to see that if they got
free coinage all that the silver coins would
be worth would be the commercial value of
the bullion in them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

MINISTER RYAN is stated to be in Wash
ington "for the purpose of facilitating the
negotiation of the reciprocity eaty with
Mexico" One would suppose that the place
for him to do that work is in Mexico. Must
the United States Minister labor with his
home government In order to get reciproc-
ity adopted?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-23

DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS, of Chicago,
denies that he has attempted to influence
the choice of a Secretary of the Awards
Committee for the Worlds Fair. As MIR.
Davis goes on to say that if he were to make
the choice he would select Rob ert P. Porter,
the rest of the country will join in an earn
est recommendation that Mr.. Davis continue
his policy of non-interference.