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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
POINTERS ON PANAMA.

WORK on the Panama Canal is to be begun
again. They'll get that canal dug some day,
if they aren't careful.-Bosto1p Globe
AGAIN work is to be begun on the Panama
Canal! Would it not be advisable to take
the canal over to Paris build fence around
it, appoint NJ. de Lesseps gatekeeper, charge
admission and dig 1t there? Then the share
holders could encamp on their own ruin
NeW York Herald.
WITH due respect for the project OF our
own Warner Miller, most Americans would
be glad to see the Panama Canal con-
structed NJ. de Lesseps' route takes the
bull by the horns and attempts to pierce the
isthmus along the shortest line which scien-
tific and capable engineers pronounced
procticable.-B,1ao Enquirer.
THE prize of Panama stock on the Paris
Bourse rose last week about ST 30 q share,
which was rather notable advance for
shares that had been quoted at about 50,
with no market even at that price. The in
dications are that the resumption of work"
will take place on the Paris Bourse and not
on the isthmus.-Nelo York Times.
Now that science has discovered that there
are no canals on the planet Mars, attention
is directed to the Panama Canal, and o new
French syndicate Is going to take the work
IN MANU- w ucn III Is cOnpicLeQ tue SynQl-
cate will go to Mars and make canals on the
distant planet. The prospects for both en-
terprises are equally bright.-Phiiadetpht
Bulletin.
IT is reported that the Panama Canal pro-
ject is to be revived, but that no appeal will
be made to the public until the work is we'll
under way. 1t is not probable that the
scheme can be successfully revived unless
government patronage is secured. Millions
have already been expended and millions
more will be required to complete the enter
Free Press.
THERE is a rumor that the Panama Canal
project is to De revived, but that no appeal
is to be made to the public for funds until
the work is well advanced. It is doubtful,
however, If that enterprise can be galva-
nized into new life without government aid.
Millions of dollars have been sunk In 1t, and
it will take millions moro to make q single
dollar OF the outlay Philadet-
phiI Ledger.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

more excusable than one simply to enjoy
the delights of lynching As enemies Of
order the lynchers certainly placed them
selves on a Jewel with Lindsay.
Another point is salient in the same con-
nectlon. The presence is disclosed in the
center of the insurrectionary region of
large body of miners and citizens who we're
opposed to the lawless proceedings of last
week. Nothing was heard of their oppo-
sition till the military suppressed the out
break; after which they became ravening
wolves for the blood of the leader of the
mob. If they had Exhibited half the
energy in opposing the mob, and in fight
ing against it at the proper time that they
do in pursuit of lynching affair the out
break would never have reached the stage
of civil war, the locality would have
been able to enfore the law itself, and the
spectacle of martial law to sustain dem
ocratic Government would have been un-
necessary.
The great need of the American people
is to learn the lesson of more promptness
in fighting to uphold the law and less
promptness in breaking it down by mobs
and plots
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
ALLEGHENYS WIFEBEATERS.

al egheny City has too many wife
beaters. For some inexplicable reason
there is always great deal of this pc
culiarly repellent crime in vogue across
the river. There appear to be more cow
ardly, bullying husbands in Allegheny
than in any other American city of its
size. Something ought to be done TO put
an end to this disgraceful condition of
affairs.
We are unfortunately too civilized now
adays to make return to fiogging of even
such offenders as these permissible. They
can &ly be treated under the general
head vi disorderly conduct, but even so
their sentences are seldom made as severe
as they might be. No community can
afford to have promiscuous conjugaI in
felicity of this kind continually going on
in its midst There should be a deter
mined effort to suppress the practice, even
if new laws have to be passed to deal with
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
THE HABIT OF MOB LAW,

There is peculiar note from East Ten
nessee in that story about the lynching of
Bob Lindsay,i the leader of the miners
jnsurrection. We are told that Lindsay's
acts were so obnoxious to the conservative
miners and citizens that while away from
the protection of the military he was
seized and would have been hanged, ex-
cept for his breaking down and promising
to turn States evidence against his asso-
oiates.
Here we have characteristic feature of
the popular evil. Lindsay's offense, in
common with most of the population, was
in levying mob, and defying the law.
We are not told that the people of Coal
Creek are believers in homeopathy; but
they evidently have the principle of
sinsilia simiIi6us firmly implanted in their
minds. They could see no way of punish
ing Lindsay but by getting up mob and
breaking the law exactly as he had
done. If all mobs were not equally
an attack on civil government it would be
permissible to think that the mob which
revolts against convict miners camps is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
HOW TO ABOLISH SMOKE.

The fact that the ordinance forbidding
the production of smoke in a considerable
section of the city will go into effect
within few days makes it pertinent to
refer to the experience of Chicago in the
same matter. The crusade against smoke
there has demonstrated two important
points. First, that smoke from steam
furnaces and ordinary fires can be reduced
to minimum. The second is that this
will not be done until an active and
vigorous prosecution is waged against all
offenders.
Pittsburg has local demonstrations of
the possibilities of abolishing smoke. But
if the nuisance is to be lessened it must
be borne in mind that all offenders, how
ever influential, must be impartially sub
jected to the penalties. While preparing
for such enforcement of the ordinance it
will be well worth while to inquire why
Pittsburg should confine its prohibition to
the section of the city where there is the
least production of smoke and where the
smoke does the least damage, and where
the slightest results are to be expected
from such an ordinance
The principle of the ordinance that
there are certain sections of the city where
the prohibition cannot be enforced is en-
tirely correct To forbid the rolling mills
to produce smoke before an economic
method of making iron without it has
been perfected would be unjust and sui
cidal. But the point which will be OBJ
yious to anyone who considers the
subject is that there is section where
the damage done by the production
of unnecessary smoke creates a necessity
infinitely beyond that in the East End dis
trict, where the ordinance is to have effect
The slight number of smoke producing
plants in the latter section makes the dam
age from smoke there unimportant, ex-
cept as it drifts from the manufacturing
On the other hand, there are scores of
boiler plants in the downtown section
which are constantly vomiting out un-
necessary smoke. This is blackening fine
damaging large stocks of
goods, soiling the clothing of the
people, and injuring the health
and eyesight. 1t attacks the center of the
city where the injury is to the largest
number of people. 1t can be prevented
as easily as among the scattered plants of
the suburban section. The possibility of
its prevention has been shown by public
spirited owners who have put in smoke
apparatus, with the poor re-
turn of having their buildings and goods
damaged by the continuous smoke from
plants of others.
The city should prepare for vigorous
of the anti-smoke ordinance.
At the same time it should without further
delay extend the provisions of the Or
dinance to the downtown section, where
the enforcement is most needed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
THE MARCH OF CHOLERA.

In addition to the reports of extensive
ravages of cholera in Russia and Persia
the press dispatches yesterday report its
appearance in epidemic form near Char
leroi, Belgium. It has existed with more
or less severity in the suburbs of Paris for
some weeks. Its spread indicates that it
is not likely to be confined to Russia, but
that all of Western Europe may expect to
suffer from it unless sanitary conditions
are such as to render it harmless.
The same fact affords valuable warn
ing to the United States. It is not likely
that the disease can reach this country In
time to make much headway before the
fall frosts; but if its seeds take root here
its spread may be serious next summer.
The most rigid quarantine should be en-
forced against all possible methods of
bringing that unwelcOme visitor the
cholera bacillus to the United States.
The place to effectually exclude the cpl
demic is at our seaports. 1t remains to be
seen whether our health authorities can
establish quarantine that will be i'm
pregnable. The next ten months, how
ever, is the time to demonstrate that
ability if ever.
Pending that effort, every city in the
country should remember that a condition
of perfect cleanliness renders the cholera
innocuous There are spots in Pittsburg
which, should the germ of disease reach
them, would prove prolific hot-beds for its
generation. They are breeding places of
disease already, but their work would be
manifoldly more fatal if an epidemic should
come. Every such place should be cleaned
up and kept scrupulously clean for the
next twelve months.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
MISSISSIPPI AND THE CONSTITUTION

The New York Post exhibits its passion
ate fidelity to the Democratic cause in
whatever shape it may be presented-for
the present-by asserting that the Missis-
sippl disqualification does not come under
the provisions of the fourteenth amend
ment to the United States Constitution.
This is its argument:
But this provision has no applicability to
such regulations rs those in Massachusetts,
and Mississippi, requiring citizen to pass
an educational test and pay poll tax be-
fore voting, any moro than to the regula-
ttons in this State, which prevent a man
from casting ballot unless his name is on
the registry list a certain length OF time
before the election. The State does not
deny man the right to vote when 1t tells
him that he must learn to read, or that he
must pay tax, or that he must go through
the process of registration, in order to ex-
ercise 1t, SO long as any such regulation ap-
plies to all men, as is the case in these re.
spects in Massachusetts, New York and
Mississippi.
This is very ingenious; but the trouble
with it is that it does not take into account
the language of the Constitution. The
provision is that when the right to vote is
denied, ''or in any way abridged, 4" except
for crime, the basis of representation shall
be reduced. All the jugglery with Ian
guage that is possible will not conceal the
fact that when man is forbidden to vote
because he cannot read, or has not certain
amount of property, the right of suffrage
is abridged to exactly that extent
Its idle to say that prescribing these
qualifications stands in the same position
as requiring registration. Registration, or
the proof of qualification, is regulation
to which every man can conform if he de-
sires. But to say that the voter is not dis
qualified because he can learn to read or
can accumulate property enough is
simply idle mockery. The disqualification
Is clear one and is undisputably within
the terms of the Constitution.
1t is legitimate, and even praiseworthy
for Mississippi or any other State to adopt
an educational qualification sincerely ad-
ministered. But such . State cannot
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
CHAUTAUQUA's LAST WEEK
Opens With a Programme Somewhat
Shorter Than Usual at This Season.


Shorter Than Usual at This Season.
CHAUrAUoUA, N. Y, Aug. 22-[Special J.
Chautauqua opens its last week with q pro.
gramme somewhat shorter than is usual for
this season. The interest is still good and
the audiences are quite as large as could be
expected. At the Glee Club concert this
afternoon there was quite large audience,
and the programme was as good as any
offered during the season. The readings Of
Mrs. Helen Babcock made an excellent i'm
preston on her auditors. The Lotos Glee
Club has been here for some time, and its
members are great favorites with allChau.
tauquans. 1t Is one of the best glee clubs
ever heard at Chautauqua. At II o'clock to-
day Mr.. Flagler gave musical lecture with
Richard Wagner as his subject, giving num-
erous selections from the masters works on
the organ. At4 o'clock Miss Anna Hayden
presented descriptive delfneations OF seven
types of beautiful women. The seventh
was presented as the embodiment of that
harmonious life advocated by ancient ana
modern philosophers as a type of the truest
types of beauty Miss webster % pointed out
the numerous necessary conditions in
thought. habits of life, diet, dress voice and
manner which must precede harmonious
Womanhood- The theories of Plato Pytha-
goras and Sappho, as the truest exponent Of
harmopious life among the Greeks, were
considered and compared with modern views
of life.
An ideal home entertainments, consisting
or Greek and English songs with guitar ac-
compartment, followed the lecture After
the lecture Miss Webster invited her audi
ence to ask questions, and that started the
fun. She looked upon the ideal as the high
est being. Miss Webster is Christian
scientist, and some one asked her what she
did when she got sick. 81 have never been
so foolish as to get SICK" she replied. and a
lat man in the rear of the audience groaned.
Miss Webster's poslngs and the majestic
wave OF her hand when she thought she had
made point would startle Delsarte. This
evening Wallace Bruce entertained large
audience at the AmphitheaterI with talk
about the haunts of Robert Burns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
A NEW DEFINITION FOB SOME.
1t May Mean Two If It Is More, or More
If 1t Is Less.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-[Specidl. IA letter
from the Superin tendent of the Lighthouse
Board to the Commissioner OF Customs, re-
ceived here to-day, asks for an opinion of q
somewhat unusual kind. A clause of the
sundry civil bill. which was passed just be-
fore the adjournment of Congress- provides
an appropriation of $4,000 "for the estab
lishment of some 81 lights on the Sault Ste
Marie" and the lighthouse people want to
know what Interpretation they must put on
the word some" The legal authorities OF
the Bureau of Customs have been laying
their beads together to solve this problem
in thUEnglish language "as she is spoke"
and they have about come to the onclusion
that in this instance the word "some"
means one or two more or less than 81, but
doubtless not more than two more or less.
This IS not official, however, and 1t is
possible that more profound research into
yet unexplored regions of legal philology
may develope more certainly the intent of
the distinguished Lawmakers who wrote
and discussed and enacted this passage of
the sundry civil bill.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
POETICAL AND PIQUANT.I

AN OBJECT OF SYMPATHY.
he has a weary, wandering gaze,
He pictures sad unrest.
He murmurs (which Of many ways
To spend my time is best"
Behold him pause awhile to fetch
A sigh that means dismay.
This hapless, hopeless, helpless wretch
Who has a holiday.
Soon, soon will come the autumn sera
Soon will depart the flies
Soon, soon the season will be here
-M,o York Prsss.
TIE TIE THAT BINDS.
He held her little hand in his
And looked into her eye,
And then he asked her II she liked
His brand new Ascot tie.
IT like it very well. =" she said.
'.And yet, my dearest VIII,
There is another tie. think,
Would suit me better still. "
Detroit H-s Prssa
The seashore girl Is sweet, no doubt;
But when you go to meet her.
IT'S just as well to take . box
Ofsweets to make her sweeter.
-Cloak Rev<sss.
THE rREAcHERous HAMMOCK.
They sat in hammock
Did he and she,
And she was happy,
And so was be.
But when he attempted
To steal wee kiss,
The hammock upset. and
SsIu1 szH pspusI fsqL
-Brvoksn 1sVh
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
FOUR TRIALS OF NAVAL VESSELS
To Be Made in Connection With q Course of
Lectures.

To Be Made in Connection With a Course of
Lectures.
WASHINGTON, Aug. s2-In connection with
Naval Constructor Taylors lectures on speed
trials at the Naval War College, there will be
four trials Of vessels over the measured mile
course. The vessels tried will be the Pnila-
delphia, the Vesuvius and the Cushing. YES
sells of entirely different types are taken, so
as to secure the greatest variety of data.
The trials will De conducted with the great
est care. as the speed curves obtained will
be utilized in the designing of future ships
Each vessel will go over the course num-
ber of times at different rates of speed, so as
to get the equivalent speeds for different
horse power.
In connection with the trials revolution
recorder invented bv ex-Assistant Engineer
Weaver, will be used for getting an accurate
record of the revolutions per mile per hour
at the different speeds, and 1t is believed
curve can be laid down for each vessel, from
the results obtained that will enable her
speed TO be accurately estimated thereafter
by simply ascertaining the number of revo-
lutions her engines are making.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

honestly take greater representation
than it is entitled to under the provision
of the Constitution which bases repre-
sentation on voting population. When
the disqualified voters of Mississippi have
been educated, as the Post suggests, then
Mississippi can honestly claim a full
Congressional and electoral vote.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
Fi.he. and An,.. gu, No Rain.

CITY OF MEXICO, Aug. 22-The writer of
letter from Sasabe, State of Sonora, to the
newspaper FL Partfdo Liberal, says that In
the recent hurricane there fell In that
region a shower of fishes three inches long
and q number of small pelicians, but no
rain, while at Mazatlan the ground was
covered with dead winged ants.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
william b. Rushforth, Inventor.
William Henry Rushforth, a well-known

a W6II-KH0Wu
inventor Of railroad appliances died at his home In
Rutherford, N. j., Saturday. after a long illness.
Mr.. Rushforth was born in Leeds England July II,
1874. He came to the United States in 1873, aud
soon afte rward became engineer of silk factory
in Camden, N. j. He patented a smoke and spark
consumer for locomotives in 1880. and afterward
improved the invention. which was first used on
the New York. Lake Erie and Western Railroad.
In rapid succession patents secured for fire.
escape ladder. jewelers. show window, q COM
bination parlor and ice skate, an extension skate
blade, a combination cane and music stand and
ticket box for booking Offices at railway stations.
His most important invention followed-a series Of
automatic safety car signals which are attached to
trains In such way that applying the brakes dis
plays the signals. At the time OF his death Mr.,
Rushforth was still engaged in arranging for the
development of his latest Inventions feed water
heater designed to utilize the heat wasted In the
smOke-boXes of locomotives.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

PHILADELPHIA is receiving many con-
gratulations, most of them strongly tinct-
ured with surprise, on its decision to have
an elevated railroad. Yet, taken as a whole,
Pittsburg has far ana away the best rapid
transit system in the world.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
A REMINDER OF 1877.
How tho Late Colonel Scott Rewarded a
Faithful Servant.

ratntut SERVANT
New York Press.I
1t was during the strikes of 1887 that Au-
gustus Dowdell was handling the wire in the
Union depot, Pittsburg. Colonel Scott,
President Of the Pennsylvania, was camp
ing out at the station in Phila-
delphia at Thirty-second and
Market streets. He ate and slept there for q
fortnight. Dowdell, at the Pittsburg end,
was keeping the wire hot with the news of
the riot and the destruction which he wit
messed from his window. His last message
was cut short with the laconic explana-
tion: "The station is on fire,
and this instrument is SO hot that
can't work it anv longer" But he did not
leave his post until he had detached the in
strument and carried it away with him, not
knowing how soon he might find it neces-
sary to use It somewhere else. President
Scott kept that young man in mind. A few
months later he sent for him and took him
to Europe for years trip as his Private
Secretary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

THERE is always something or other stir
ring in progressive Japan. When the sup
ply of earthquakes, fires and hurricanes
runs short the necessity for excitement is
satisfied by distributing dynamite packages
to abno1ious cabinet ministers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

IT speaks well for the interest taken in
railroad affairs that seyenty-five foreigners
should attend the International Railroad
Conference in st. Petersburg, when cholera
is prevalent in that city.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

WHAT number of complaints Allegheny
citizens have to make about the manage
ment of their city. One thing after another
comes up as a cause for grumbling. And
now some one over there is actually raising
a dust because the streets are not properly
sprinklod
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

BUD LINDSAY, the Tennessee desperate,
who promised to turn States evidence to
save his life, has as little regard for the oath
he took with his fellow conspirators as for
the law which he led them to defy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

KANSAS farmers were not satisfied with
blocking the railroads with the superfiuity
of their harvest. Four Of them held up an
express train on Saturday and were cap
tured themselves on Sunday morning. They
had better stick to farming.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
on. Boom Ont of the WAY.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The name OF the Republican nominee of
1885 WON'T be Gresham. This much is SET
tied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

HAvERs appears about as hard to catch
as the Cooleys, and there is only one of him,
and he is not supposed to be among the
mountains.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
Must Work In Harmony.

Washington Post.1 IL
Labor and capital appear to have lost
sight OF the fact that 1t would be impossible
for them to get along without each other.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

LABoUCHERE has hitherto edited Truth
and made speeches to make others look rid
tculous. He seems to be doing the same
thing very successfully for himself just
now.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

A PENNSYLVANIA woman has died after
eleven years of illness, although possessed
of the power to speak. And yet sheis spoken
of as having been mentally unbalanced
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

THE campaign against street distractions
promises to open vigorously. 1t is to be
hoped that no stumbling blocks will be
placed in the way of the official crusaders.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23

CANADA will find out some day that the
United States occasionally means what it
says.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-23
Breaks All Previous Records.

Detroit Free Press.
This will go down into history as a record
smashing year. Even in the matter of
strikes 1t is bound to take the medal.