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New-York tribune., 1891-12-27
TWO TOWNS.

TWO IONSS.
Rrother! you with growl and frovn:
Wbv DON'T you move from Grumbletowu,
Where everything is tumbled down
And life Is always drearyf
Move over into Gadvtlle, where
Your face will don a happy air
And Iay aside the look OF care
For smiles all bright and cherry.
In Grumbletown there's net Joy
But has shadow Of alloy
That Will its happiness destroy
And mako you to regret IL.
In Gladville they have not care
But what Il looks inviting there,
And has about 1t something. fair =.
That makes them pleased to get II.
rTYs strange how different these towns
OF ours arei Good cheer abounds
In one, and gruesome .growls and frowns
Are always in the other.
II Won your skies of hen gray
Would change for sunny smiles Of May.
From GrumbletOwn, oh, haste away;
Move into Gladvllle, brother:
nv~th Al
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

The encouraging news comes from Maine that
the value of the forests is at last making itself
known to their owners that the latter are learn
ing that they cannot afford to burn wood for
fuel or to permit their trees to be felled by the
wholesale and sawed up into lumber. One means
Of education on this point has been the discovery
that wood can be used in paper-making far more
proftably than in any other way. More rational
methods in tree-cutting are also being introduced
with good result. The ruthless slaughter Of
forests is becoming thing Of the past. Only
trees Of certain size are now felled, SO that
there is fair chance for the timber to reproduce
itself as rapidly as it is cut away When forest
owners generally perceive that it does not pay to
use the axe without restraint, most important
step toward the preservation of our forests will
have been taken.
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

Why should not all our railroads be compelled
by law to the block system? 1t Is the only
guarantee against such appalling collisions that
of Thursday evening. No question of expense
should be allowed to stand In the way of safety
New-York tribune., 1891-12-27

In his admirable and cogent letter, printed
yesterday, exJudge Davis referred incidentally to
the danger that the usefulness of our courts
may be destroyed "by their own internecine
strifes." The same thought Must have been sug-
gested in the minds of other intelligent and pa.
triotic citizens. There has been, in fact, for
several weeks past sort of game of battledore
and shuttlecock between various branches of the
Supreme Court The tendency of this has un-
mistakaby been to diminish the respect in which
courts and Judges usually held. 1t is not
pleasant to see the mandate of one Judge promptly
set at nought by another Judge of coordinate
rank 1t is greatly to be regretted that there has
been so much Of this sort Of thing of late Judge
Davis does not use too strong an expression when
he speaks of "int,rnecine strfes."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
THE KAISER'S HEALTH.

If Emperor William is not now mad he
will be when he glances his eagle eye over
the press reports of his condition.-EdnSas
City Times.
CAPTAIN ANsoN and the Emperor of Ger
many are both to some extent in hard luck.
An exchange OF mascots might help them
both Chicago Tribune.
Mosr of the sensational reports concern
ing the health of the German Emperor come
from Paris, which appears to be the Bar
Harbor of Europe.-Kansas CITY Star.
FROM the conflicting accounts of the Ger
man Emperor's health one would almost
think him q candidate for the Republican
nomination in 1892.-Detroit Free Press.
ONE of the peculiar advantages of taking
weird stories about Emperor Wilhelm is the
fact that Wilhelm is some distance away
and cannot get back at the fakir.-ChicdgO
Ne,Cs.
IN Europe the gossips are arranging the
details for the succession to the throne of
the German empire, in confident assurance
that Kaiser William is soon to end his career
on earth.-Andcondd Standard.
THE account of Emperor W iIliam's crazed
condition on board his vessel, at the time
he broke his knee cap, indicates that he
must have been given something very
strong to drink WhHe IN England.-C0tnHous
Dispatch.
FIRST the public was informed that En-
peror William injured his knee by slipping
on a wet deck; then he was drunk: now we
are assured that he was crazy, took posses
sion of the ship, struck an officer and raised
Cain generally. 1t is only necessary now
for the Kaiser to get divorce to be abund-
antly eligible to come to America and star
in o tank drama.-Chicago GLOBE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
THE METRIC SYSTEM DOOMED.

The recent session of the International
Geographical Congress in Switzerland
made one recommendation that should
receive attention. 1t was that the metric
system for weights measures and meas
uremeEt be universally adopted. At pres
ent the use of varied systems by countries
closely connected commercially frequently
proves awkward, to say nothing of the
waste of time in reducing from one sys-
TEN to another The most striking in
stance of this is in the quotations of grain,
published daily by the newspapers. Prices
in London are always given by the quarter
of ton; those in New York are by the
bushel, and in San Francisco by the cen
tai. Here are three systems, and to make
a comparison the merchant or farmer is
forced to reduce all to common figure.
With the metric system universally
adopted glance at the figures would only
be required
Not only is there variance in the
weight systems, but measurements of
land, of liquids and other things differ
widely. The difficulty in establishing a
universal system lies in the breaking of
habits which have descended from one
generation to another; but it could be
accomplished if determined effort were
made. Were merchants to adopt the
metric system and adhere to it in all their
dealings, others would soon become ac-
custOmed to the innovation. At the same
time all other systems should be dropped
from the school course, and the transfor-
nation could be considered accomplished
in an exceedingly short time.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
NATURAL FUEL A LUXURY.

The Philadelphia Gas Company has
given notice that after September the rate
for natural gas will be twenty-five cents
per thousand cubic feet, less a discount of
five cents for cash. This is just one hun
dred per cent more than was charged for
gas a year ago, cash prices being increased
from ten cents per thousand to fifteen
cents in April last and now from fifteen to
twenty cents. Natural fuel is now re-
garded as a luxury and the company
which virtually enjoys the monopoly of
the article for domestic purposes is taking
advantage of the shortage scares and
squeezing consumers to the limit. The
gas that is used for manufacturing pur-
poses is mainly in the hands of the manu-
facturers themselves, SO that the monopo-
listic screw cannot be turned upon them
The increase in price of fuel gas will
have tendency to cause the consumption
of larger amount of coal and to fill the
city with smoke, from which it has been
until recently comparatively free. This is
to be regretted, for it will render neces-
sary the additional expense of smoke con-
sumers If the city is to be kept in an
attractive condition; if it is to be made
habitable, then the smoke consumer will
be necessity, and when changes in the
economic systems of households are made
and the gas pipes are removed, the con-
sumer that is best suited for Kidding the
city of what will become its greatest nui-
sance should be adopted
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
PICKINGs FROM PUCK.

Sinnick-So you are determined to marry
Mrs, Weeds Do you believe she cares for you
or your money!
Vandergould-Cares for me? Sic swears she
loves me with all her might!
Sinnick-H'm-the Widows mite!
Mistah Johnsing-Say, you wufless
white trash, dix you frow dat brick at my head?
Snodgrass-No, sir; merely propelled IL in the
direction of your Uranium,
Mistah Johnsing (Inollifed)-O. dat's all right
sab.
Her winters are spent in Florida,
Her summers at Newport gay;
And thus la belle Americaine
Is summer-girl alway.
Editor-Humph! Poetry Is drug in tho
market!
Aspiring wit-Glad to hear so. hope you pay
drugstore prices for 1t.
Poet-What do you think of these verses?
Ijust wrote them OF on the Inspiration of the mo-
ment.
Cynic-If you can get some editor to accept them
on the inspiration of the moment you viii be doing
very well, indeed.
Kitty-I wonder why Clara hurries to her
room VIII never she gets letter?
from aman-
Judge Coonby-Well, prisonah, what hab
yo' to say?
Hen Coop-Sah, yoah Honah, Use 'cused OBJ
stealin'. Use titled to jury OBJ nah peers. Now.
sab, do yo mean to tell me dat all dem l2 feIlers
ober dar am t'ievesS
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
wATTERsoN's VOICE HEARD.
The Kentucky Editor Enlightens Chautau-
quans on Money and Morals.


ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.1
CHAUTAUoUA, Aug 20-Henry Watterson,
the kentucky editor and orator, was the lion
of Chautauqua to-day, and big excursions
came from all sections to hear him. He is
en- route to New York City, where he ex-
poets to spend the next two or three weeks
He talked about money and morals to a very
large audience in the Amphitheater this
afternoon and was frequently applauded
The speaker went on to describe the United
States with a Niagara for its "crown of
of paradise under the Southern cross in the
solitude of eternal summer" "1s there any
thing to mar the prospect, or darken the
scene?' he asked, and promptly answered
the question by saying that Canada is an
money than they are legally entitled to, and
that Mexico is the tiowery home of men who
have no morals. 'fThese two countries"
said the speaker, "are destined one of these
days to ask admission into our sisterhood OF
Statcs Money is only relative nowadays.
The man who has merely d measly million
is regarded as pauper Money is the pivot
about which other facts revOlve and the
piston-rod that drives them.
81 was never happier in my life," said the
Colonel, ethan when, to avoid the humilfa-
tion of borrowing money from an uncle
of whose politics did not approve, l went
with my watch to an uncle who had no
politics at all and got $50 for it. George D.
Prentiss once told me that If Henry Clay
had been elected President he would have
proved the biggest liar living, for he had
nlastered the public service three times
over with promises that he could never full
FILL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
A woMAN,s PARADISE,

Recent writers claim that Eastern
nations, Japan for instance, are paradise
for women who are greatly outnumbered
by the other sex 1t is well known that in
every community in Japan there is re.
markable scarcity of young girls, and they
are seldom seen while single. This is due
to the habit of educating them in seclusion.
As soon as they reach marriageable age
they are snapped up and become wives.
The consequence is that the places usually
occupied by young girls are filled by
married women, who receive all the at
tention that otherwise would fall to the
share of their unmarried sisters.
The question arises as to whether this
custom may not be dangerous to the peace
of families. In every community there
are some married women who usurp the
privileges of their single sisters and de-
mand from men more consideration than
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
WILL sUPPLANT DYNAMITE.
Experiments With Ammonite Show That 1t
Can Be Handled Safely.

New York Railroad Gazette.l
Additional experiments and observations
upon ammonite seem to confirm the first
opinions regarding its safety and its power
Direct application of heat or conclusion fail
to explode it. Atmospheric changes exert
no influence upon 1t whatever. 1t has been
tried in large number OF the most danger
Gus coal mines in England without igniting
the gases which we're known to be present
at the time. A mixture of coal gas and coal
dust was not exploded by it, even when no
more than two inches of tamping was used.
The safety tests have been so thorough and
satisfactory that the railroads of the United
Kingdom accept ammonite as freight with
out the usual restrictions placed upon ex-
plosives, and 1t even meets the requirements
of Sir George Elliot for perfect security,
which is saying q great deal. Ammonite
consists of an intimate mixture of Sl1 per
cent of ammonium nitrate and S115 per cent
of Observation-Disclosures The Inanufact-
ure is extremely simple and practically un-
attended with danger Being free from
chlorates it is not liable to decomposition
OF spontaneous combustion. Having no
picric acid or chlorinated derivatives of
hydrocarbons in its constitution 1t yields
no injurious or corrosive fumes among its
products OF combustion.
Tests made in England on July 8, showed
that it has great strength, a projectile of %
pounds weight being thrown from mortar
elevated As degrees, to a distance OF 800 feet
from the muzzle by five-gramme charge,
as against 2S9 feet by similar charge of No.
l dynamite, and 1856 feet by an equal weight
of gunpowder, Notwithstanding this, am
monte has been proved of value in compar-
atively soft material. Experiments are in
high efficiency with this explosive irhard
rock work. While the security claimed for
ammonite is highly encouraging, it should
be remembered that it is commonly "the
Tod thof 2 naTr1
that ammonite possessed a special virtue in
the absolute safety of its separate inyre-
dients, and in the great ease Of its manuIac-
ture which would enable it to be made upon
the spot where it was needed by anyone
having even meager knowledge of chem
istry, and with very inexpensive plant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
CALIFORNIA ISM LINE.

The effects of the Mckinley bill have
been favorably felt on the Pacific coast.
The San Francisco Chronicle in a recent
issue printed interviews with leading
merchants. and the universal opinion was
that there had been an actual lowering of
prices and an increased demand for goods
o. home manufacture. The employees of
the factories had been benefited by an
increase Of wages, and the demand for
food products had been stimulated.
The most desperate efforts had been
made by the free trade and Mugwump
press of the coast to show that prices had
generally appreciated, and that the con-
sUmer was being robbed for the benefit of
the manufacturer. When it came to
proving the statements there was total
failure to produce figures or statistics.
The statements of the merchants them
selves were so clear that the coast anti
McKinleyiteS have been left without a
foundation to base single plausible
fruur0pOt
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
JUG-HANpLED POLICY.

Every breath which has come from the
Democratic party of late has been laden
with denunciations of the class of duty
imposed for protection by the Mckinley
law. They have declared for nothing less
than the total abolition of duties on the
products of the farmers. To that policy
they are pledged, and they can easily
carry it out if they get into power. And
if they succeed, what is the result2 They
will go to the farmer, for whom they pro-
fess SO much solicitude, and will say: "We
do not like these duties on your products,
therefore, according to our policy, and ac-
cording to our convictions, We Immediately
take away the duty on wheat; and we say
to you who raise wheat in the West, to
you who raise wheat on the Pacific Slope,
that the Canadian, or the Russian, or the
Australian can bring his surplus wheat
into this country free of duty" That is
their policy They desire the good will of
the farmers themselves. This is their
commendation.
Then they will go to the coal producer
and say to him. "Toil on and move on,
and when you have raised your coal to the
surface, we will put English and Austria
lian coal alongside of it free of duty"
They will 60 to the manufacturer and say
to him: "Work on; expend your time and
your energies in manufacturing those
things for which there is home demand,
and when you have done we will place
German or English goods, manufactured
by cheap labor at nominal cost, along
side yours"
This policy is not even a jug-handled
policy. 1t is policy that is all handle
and no jug. How, in the name of common
sense, can enlightened Democrats think
for an instant that it will be acceptable to
the people? In contradiStinction to their
indefinite policy the Republican side offers
to the country one which is based upon
the development of our resources, upon
the creation of home industries and of
home markets, and upon the gradual
widening and broadening of foreign trade.
That is what is offered against the shift
ing, indefinite thing on The other side.
Here is something which the people have
tried, and which they have before them in
entity and substance policy which has
grown up the form and embodiment of
great and almost unparalleled progress
among themselves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2l, 1871
THE REAR CAR THEIR FIT PLACE.


The curious reason now alleged why the
overwhelming opinion of Pennsylvania
Republicans that Blaine should lead the
hosts in the Presidential canvass was not
made the sentiment of the Harrisburg
Convention. is that the feeling for Blaine
was too general and spontaneous. This is
volunteered by the Philadelphia Press,
Minister Smiths organ. The particular
application of this extraordinary PROPOSE
sion by the Press consists in its statement
that everybody knows all PENNSYLVANIA
Republicans are for Blaine. but good
many, the Press included, objected to
letting Matthew Stanley Quay voice the
prevailing opinion. As our Philadelphia
contemporary puts it, the opponents of
Quays leadership thought that the Sena-
tor would figure to better advantage in
me rear car of the Blaine train, in place of
irving to run the locomotive. No doubt
the personal antagOniSm among the Penn
svlvania politicians had much to do with
sitting an expression by the convention Of
what it knew perfectly well to be the
earnest opinion of nine among every ten
Republicans, but the desire of the federal
UlIGt-uUlu6lS " S6CulO W NOIh
up second term feeling if possible for
President Harrison was also a factor
This includes, of course, a second term for
themselves, and that touches the sensitive
nerve the bread and butter nerve, of their
politics all the time.
There was still a third consideration, no
doubt, in that, if the convention, following
the popular impulse, had declared at once
and boldly for Blaine, there would be no
chance for any Of the politicians to claim
the credit of delivering the State or their
"deestrickS' TO him next year and to
demand quid pro quo. In this sense the
idea Of the feeling for Blaine being too
spontaneous TO suit for immediate express
SION at Harrisburgis is perhaps well founded.
Remembering that Pennsylvania Repub-
leans have always been enthusiastic for
Blaine for President, and that somehow
the full and frank expression of the public
opinion has always been stified, perverted,
OF in some manner or other pettifogged,
the suggestion of a ride in the rear car in
the Blaine train need not be confined to
Quay, but may well take in numerous
contingent beside of the other Pennsylya-
Ma politicians.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
OUR MAIL POUCH.
The Test Failed.

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
The result of the test made in the case of
Mrs. Matteson, the Buffalo trance medium,
mention of which was made in The DISPATCH
of the 18th inst, gave me no surprise what
ever, as am able to record similar test,
with like results, made something over four
years ago, only under slightly different cir
cumstances, which 1 now simply refer to to
more fully substantiate the accuracy Of the
recent report made through the agency of
THE DISPATCH. After having suffered q
severe and aggravated illness for long
time, from which was making slow progress
toward recovery, began receiving numer-
GUS messages from relatives and friends liv
ing in Buffalo, jamestown, Warren, Pa, and
adjacent towns, where, it was claimed, Mrs.
Matteson had effected some miraculous
cures, urging me to consult the noted me
sktllfully treated by the eminent physicians
of Pittsburg, who had my case in charge,
l declined the advice of one
moved in the matter, deeply interested
male relative made it point to visit Buffalo
without my knowledge and consult Mrs.
Matteson, in my behalf on his own account
point in presenting my case was con-
fined to the following: "Residence,
Pittsburg, No l46 Second ayenne, ,
to pass through the transitory stage prepar-
atory to locating the patient, after which
she began debating the result OF her flnd-
ings, which was taken down and at once for
warded to me. together with the exact time
of consultation. L was described as lying
on my back in bed, sound asleep, with head
at a stated point of compass, which in every
instance was wholly incorrect, as Mt that
precise hour and for some time previous and
also later on, was sitting in wheeling
chair out on Second avenue near the side
o,,t NJ r-ah in a
pleasant chat with members of the COM
pany. Her diagnosis of my case also indi-
Gated that she had even more widely
missed the mark As in the case mentioned
by The DISPATCH, not single symp-
tom named in the whole category of
Mrs. Matteson's statement was at any time
developed during my illness. Neither was
there single affection properly located, as
time has since most fully attested. l have
withheld giving all the minor details, as
they would only tend to confirm the utter
failure of Mrs. Mattesons diagnosis in my
case. A. A. ATKINS.
LEEcHBURe, August 20.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-21
NAMES FREQUENTLY SEEN.

JEROME X. JEROME was only 10 when he
wrote "On the Stage and or"
THE Rev. DR.. Moore pro poses to find the
volcano in the Everglades of Florida and
write it up.
GOVERNOR BUCKNER, of Kentucky, will
make an extensive tour abroad when his
term expires this fall.
DR. PAUL THoRNDYKE, who is engaged
to marry Miss Rachel Sherman, graduated
from Harvard ten years ago.
THE same day that Mrs ex-President
Polk died letter was received at the White
House, of which she was mistress so many
years ago, directed to her, 'care of the
White House."
In the year 1919 there were born in this
country James Russell Lowell, Charles A.
Dana, Walt Whitman, DR.. Holland and Julia
Ward Howe. That is the birthyear of
Queen Victoria also.
THE grave of Nathaniel Hawthorne, at
Concord has been SO mutilated by relic
hunters that it has been found to be abso-
lutely necessary to encircle it with u high
and imperviouS fence.
OBVIOUSLY the Houk family is popular
one down in Tennessee, where young Houk
has just been elected to Congress by ma
jority of 1900 votes, to succeed his father,
the late Leonidas Cesar Houk.
Miss HELEN CLOAK, full-blooded In
dian of the Blackfoot tribe, has been ap-
pointed by Secretary Noble special allotting
agent, and has begun her work in allotting
lands to the Tonkawas, on the Nez Perces
reservation.
MIR. RUDYARD KIPLING, whose plans of
travel seem to be constantly changing, is
now likely to sail for New Zealand immedi-
ately, and it is among the latent possibilities
of his trip that he will pay a flying visit to
Mr.. Stevenson a Samoa.