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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
HARD TO PLEASE,

There is no doubt that some journals,
like some people, are hard to please.
Here is the New York World, which has
for some years been denouncing the in
iquity of the Mckinley bill for raising
prices, but now comes and quotes the ex-
ceIlent authority of the Iron Ago to prove
the indisputable fact that the pig iron
market is depressed; that IL per cent of
the furnaces have gone out of blast since
March 1, and that there is yet no tangible
evidence of improvement On this show
ing the World concludes:
This is the manner in which the Mckinley
act has realized the fond expectations OF its
originators and promoters, and the sooner IL
Is repealed and something bettcr put In its
place the better for American industries
and American labor. as well IS for Ameri.
can consumers.
Since the Mckinley bill did not change
the tariff on pig iron in any respect the
policy outlined by the World is rather
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
THE WHEAT PROsPECr.

The question of the crops for 1892 is
full of importance to the whole country.
1t is the heaviest factor in the exchanges
Of foreign commerce, while its magnitude
also bears on the question of bread for
the working people of our section, of
freight for the railroads and of the pur-
chasing power on the part Of the farmers
for manufactured goods and supplies.
The New York Sun has made an ex-
haustive inquiry into the present pros
poets of the crop, from which it draws
the conclusion that the seasons yield will
not be above the average. The winter
and early spring were unfavorable for
winter wheat and delayed spring wheat
sowing in the Northwest The later spring
and summer were more favorable, and
gave good hopes of large yield But the
reports from threshing are less sanguine,
while the spring wheat yield is still SUBJ
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
MIXED AND MERRY.

"why, inquired Slug LA, sis the letter
81 like an unpaid WASH bill?''
'Is this one Of those new progressive fakes9''
suspiciously asked Slug III.
NAV. An unpaid wash bill Is like the letter 'S'
because 1t might make sDrinter of printer.-En-
didnapolfs Journal.
"Her lovely lips" he spoke about,
While in the twilight they were walking
But in . temper she called out:
II nate one who wastes time in talking.
Chicago Ee,os Record.
"we've got the biggest mosquitoes in the
country ~ said the summer board proprietor conf
dentially.
..Isn't that a disadvantage inquired the guest
timidly.
mot BY a good deal. When one comes at you
YOU hit it with a club and that's all there Is to it"
Washtngton Star.
OF COURSE NOT.
When our Professor entered school
Ere class-time did begiR
And unsuspectingly did St
Upon q lurking pin,
He leapt into the air so high
There surely were no grounds
For anyone to say of him
His anger knew no bounds"
Boston Courier.
Cadmann-I see no reason why I should
Join the Washington Club.
snarIeieh-Nor do I except that IL you were .
member, It would be in your power to make all the
other four hundred members feel extremely happy.
Cadmann-How would 1t?
snarieigh-You could resign.-The Club
To take her bets can't refuse,
Though 1t is me she's playing;
For when her horses chance to lose,
-M,o York Evening Sun.
Rich patient-What is the sllment?
Doctor (after medical examinstion)-It IL bad
case of gout.
Rich patient (with . groan-Thank heaven. you
can't resort TO intubation. snyhovI- oAscaee
TrtbvnS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

ject to the hazards of the early fall frosts
1t is thus concluded that there will be a
very decided falling off from the heavy
crops Of 1891. The Sun figures the de-
crease at 1so, 100000 to 14o, ,Ooo, 900 bushels,
or total yield Of 4so, 1000, 900 bushels. 1t
does not seem necessary from the data
given to regard it as yet certain that the
total yield will be under 800, 100000
bushels.
This, of course, works o material de-
crease in the exportable surplus as COM
pared with the abundance of last year.
But that the United States will be able to
make large shipments of wheat is shown
by the reference to the stocks unsold held
over from 1891. With this indefinite
quantity to be added to the exports, and
with decrease noted in the yields OF
most foreign countries, except Russia,
which is an unknown quantity, the pros
pect that the United States will be able to
realize a large balance from wheat exports
is more than encouraging.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
A COMMON ERROR.

In discussing the probabilities of the
silver question the Philadelphia Press
says: 1.-The dishonesty of the free silver
movement consists in the attempt to make
the Government mark silver for one-half
more than it is worth, and make free
gift of the difference to the bullion
owners" This assertion is often made by
opponents of free silver coinage; and
there is no doubt that such hope in
spired the desperate set of the silver
States to secure the passage of the bill. It
is singular fact that both sides to the
discussion should be carried away by the
acceptance of an idea like this, which has
not the slightest foundation in fact
If every man could get silver bullion
coined by simply depositing it in the mints
what would be the purchasing power of
the coin? Simply the market value of the
bullion. The necessary universally of
this rule is shown by imagining that the
holders of silver coin might for short
time be able to sustain a purchasing
power above the bullion value In that
case every other man could simply pur-
chase bullion and have it coined. That
fact would prevent silver coin from rang
ing one per cent above its market bullion
value
Under certain circumstances free coin
age might, by creating an increased use for
silver, enhance the market value of the
bullion. But in this country free coinageS
would succeed upon the yearly purchase
by the Government of $4,000, 900 ounces
and would find the Treasury with some-
thing like s400, 0O0. 900 worth of silver that
it would be forced to use the day the
silver basis was reached. 1t is therefore
clear that the bullion owners would not
get a cent more for their silver than they
now do. They. delude themselves with
that hope, but it is vain one.
The dishonesty of the free silver propo-
sition is that it would take away from all
creditors and give to all debtors exactly
the proportion Of the claims indicated by
the depreciation of the standard. If the
Government could, as our cotemporary
says, mark silver for one-half more than
it is worth, or keep it up to the gold
standard, there would be no debasement
of the currency and no reason for COM
plant. The avowed purpose of the act of
1890 was to sustain the price of silver; and
it is singular that only when that act
threatens the reduction of the currency to
the silver basis our Eastern friends begin
to discover the enormity of legislation In
favor of the silver owners
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
cARLIsLE,s ANrI-rARIFF VIEWS.

Senator Carlisle's speech on the tariff
practically closed the Congressional de-
bates on the subject 1t was the most dig
nifed and careful of all the Democratic
efforts, basing his arguments on at least a
respectable show of authority instead Of
dogmatic assertion. 1t can be accepted as
the best statement of the Democratic po-
sition and fairly answered as such.
Mr.. Carlisle's position, based on the re-
suit of the Senate investigation into prices
and wages, is that there has been for fif-
teen years or more steadily declining
tendency in the prices of commodities and
wages; that the Mckinley bill arrested
that declining tendency for some time,
and that the reduction in the cost of liv-
ing is the result, not of the Mckinley act,
but of the greater cause back of it. Final
ly, he devotes great share of his speech
to particularizing especial commodities in
which he claims that the act has raised
prices
These positions effect great change in
the Democratic position. In the first
place, while Senator Carlisle distinctly
protests to the contrary, he really aban-
dons the Democratic cry of 1890 about the
universal increase of the cost of life owing
to the Mckinley act The tables he quotes
show that at the beginning and end of the
period food was practically where it started,
although it had materially advanced in
the interim owing to short crops; clothes
and clothing, fuel and lighting were
slightly lower; metals and imple-
ments, lumber and building materials,
drugs and chemicals have undergone q
sharp reduction; while housefurnishing
goods and the miscellaneous class were
slightly advanced. In other words, the
protected classes of commodities are those
in which there has been the most decisive
reduction in prices.
Another fact which the Senator forgets,
or at least ignores, is that the decline in
prices that he speaks of as general, so far
as it applies to tariff legislation, confirms
the protectionist claim that it goes on
under protection by the force of domestic
competition. As a worldwide phenom-
enon all men of intelligence recognize
that it is due to some ultimate cause back
of any national fiscal policy. But it is the
testimony of Senator Carlisle's figures
that the protectionist policy, as the protec-
tionists claim, keeps up the legitimate
operation of exactly the same influence by
domestic competition.
Finally, the fact remains that wages do
not decline in proportion to the decline in
protected products. This fact was fully
brought out the other day in these col
umns. 1t is monumental and impregna-
BILE, whether it is ascribed to general
tendency" or whatever theory is adopted
to explain it away. 49,.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
ALL QUIET ON THE POTOMAC.
Few Government Omcia to He Found at
the Capital During Dogdaya

Few Government Ofncias to BE Found at
the Capital During DogdayA
WASHINGTON, Aug. Officially, this city is
practically deserted, Secretary Of State
Foster being the sole representative of the
cabinet here. At the White House things
wear a decidedly abandoned appearance,
owing to the absence of the President and
his family and the usual summer overha ul-
ing of the building, which is now being
done. The carpets have been taken
up and aired, the furniture completely
hidden with white linen. and over the
huge chandeliers folds of netting hang, to
protect them during the hot weather. At
the War Departments Assistant Secretary
Grant presdes as the head Of the depart-
ment, Secretary Elkins having gone to Deer
Lake to visit his family. The affairs of the
navy are likewise looked after by Assistant
Secretary Soley in the absence OF Secretary
Tracy, who is north, while Attorney Gem
eral Miller. Postmaster General Wanamaker
Secretary Noble and Secretary Rusk are ali
away.
Mr. Wharton, Assistant Secretary OF State,
returned this morning from Tuxedo, and
was 1T his desk later in the day. The warm
weather has had the effect Of causing the
different departments to be closed an hour
earlier than usual, and altogether the with
drawal Of Congress, the President and his
Cabinet. has caused the city to assume an
air Of dullness, 80 far as concerns official
business,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

IF there be any truth in the assertion that
Stanley was SO displeased by the criticism
which American newspapers devoted to him
while q candidate for Parliament as 10 have
made MP his mind never to visit this country
again, the time is evidently ripe for a most
humble apology; since such a visitation Of
displeasure is too awful to contemplate with
anything approaching equanimity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
SOCIETY MEN IN A PRIZE FIGHT.
They Batt,ed With Hard Gloves to Be.
Which Was the Hardest Hitter.

They Battied With hard Gloves to See
Which Was the Hardest Hitter.
SARATOGA, Aug. 8-[Spectol IA sensa-
tional prize light in which the principals
move in highest social circles took place to.
day in a barn in Ballston. The parties
were Sid ey Smith, son Of a millionaire
family Of Ballston, and Daniel W. Shea, Of
Boston, Harvard College student, q men,
Der Of the Harvard College crew and foot
ball team. Both men are scienced boxers
and the meeting was the outcome OF jeai-
ousy as to their respective merits.
Edwards was re;eree, Jimmy Larkin, Of
New York. was second for Shea and Wally
Edwards second for Smith. The light was
with hard gloves. There were to be two
rounds OF two minutes each. Both men
were spelling for fight and could hardly
be restrained from going at each other. At
the end or the second round the referee de-
cided that the match had not been fought to
3 finish. Shea was badly punished. Shea Is
prominent in Boston society, and Smith
equally 50 in the highest circles Of Saratoga
and New York. About IS friends of the
principals witnessed the fight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

Ii Congressman were troubled with such
things as consciences they would have little
chance of getting rested during a recess
from Washington. But the gentlemen in
question have so entirely obliterated all
symptoms OF regret or remorse that they
may be expected to thoroughly recuperate
their overtasked vigor for business.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

FOUR cases in which men suffered by
drinking carbolic acid by mistake having
been reported yesterday, it is about time to
mention that even iced water is less harm
full as q summer beverage.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

THE last Queens speech appears to be
more remarkable for its brevity, its con-
sideration for a hard-worked Parliament
and its evasion OF debatable questions than
for any great brilliancy in its composition.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

ADLA1 STEVENSON is paying the penalty
of comparative obscurity by the concentra-
tion of campaign record inquiries on his
case.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

CoRBErT and Sullivan share the public
attention with Harrison and Cleveland just
now. but they will be out of the way before
November
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

IT should be made . criminal offense for
doctors to order a change of air tor hand-to-
mouth patients unless they explain how the
wind Is to be raised.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
AND Washington is at peace.

SOME Congressman have to spend their
time saving wood whenever they are free
from the labor OF log-rolling, even ii the
weather be hot.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

The opposition of Mars attracts great
deal of attention, but it will not affect the
result of November's election.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

WHY does not New York State manage
things SO that people Of either party can
vote as they want to, instead of as they are
told, by insisting that Platt and Hill shall
pair on on an everlasting leave of absence.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
A Thing Worth Copyine.

Boston Herald.1
Tho sentence Of nine Anarchists in Brus.
lsels 10 penal servitude for, terms ranging
from to2S years ought to strike home in
this country just at present
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

A MEMBER of the Ottawa Cricket Club
fs said to have committed suicide because
he was blamed for losing a match with
Philadelphia. But a baseball player of like
sensitiveness has yet to be heard from.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

BETWEEN getting drunk and going to
church, the Cooley gang seem to be doing
their fair share to let somebody earn the re-
ward for arresting them.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
MARS is beginning to be passe.

HILL evidently fears that the result
would be disastrous If he gave Cleveland an
opportunity to fall on his neck in meeting
OF reconciliation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

PIrTsBURG's ball team manages very
successfully to keep low down in the
League, but 1t has great record for lower
ing the leader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

1,615 New Yorkers Die in One Week.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6-The record Of deaths
in this city during the heated week Of July
"a to so is made up, and the total was l,6l1
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

CONTRARY to expectation, the train bear
ing so. 900 600 from the San Francisco mint
to Washington passed through Chicago yes.
terday without molestation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

So gorgeous are the headquarters of the
Democratic party in New York that one is
immediately reminded that great number
Of the Organization are Democrats for rev.
. enue only. Ny.,.-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

CLEVELAND and Hill have not met on
the beautiful shore up to date.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

ONE of the last of Australia's bushran-
gers has just died, but the railroad robber
continues to flourish in America.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

THERE is no failure in the crop of rail-
road casualties and fatalities.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

SENATOR SAWYER lived up to his name
by making q fortune in lumber.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09

WEATHER market reports indicate that
mercury has gone up again.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
The Calm Before the storm.

Toledo Blade.l
The silence of Mr.. Brice leads one to think
that he 10 still chasing rainbowa
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-09
A New Position for Grover.

Boston Herald;
They say Mr.. Cleveland does all his letter
writing between 10 o'clock P. NJ and O'Clock
A. N. He seems to have been cut out for
night editor.
The sun., 1892-03-13

forms until her cyycs arc trained After three
Mantilini would call "demnit!on hard grind"
she Ia promoted and begins drawing from tho
plaster cnst. thus gradually working her way
into the iife classes. The time of attendance %
varies from two to five years. according to the
ability and means OF tho student, for there is
no hxed time or standard for graduation in nrt.
There are some pupils In the league who
have been there six years and VINO exhibit
In the Academy OF Design and the Socioty OF
American Artists, and old League m embsrs
frequently 20 back for study In the classes.
Tho nrtist's EDUCATION is continuous and
progressive and is finished only at death. The
girl artist as type is brave. plucky and self.
reliant. aud endowed with sense in proportion
to her genius. she goes about the great city
nnmolosted and .unafraid. II she wants TO
Join an evening class In which she Is the only
woman; she Joins and COOS home unattended.
However. the greatest admirers Of her deter.
minatinn advise her not to como to New York
for study before ehe is IL. and not to expect
to make herself comfortable here on less than
$500 for board. clothes. and tuition during
the yearly session OF the schools.
And nlter the woman student has beer Mt
the league fye ycars'' was asked ono OF tho
- Let her stay another year and another"
was the answer hut the young art enthus.st
is by tblstime fired With ambition for foreign
study: Thinga are too new and clean In
has got to hnvo dust on it" And so in search
Of atmosphere" and art with dust on il"
she. goes to Paris and studies with Julien,
Carl ltosa Dc 10 Cluse. or Luzar. Men and
The sun., 1892-03-13

There Il no settlement for many miles
around. It is a region OF sandy valleys and
bald granite mountains. On all sides OF the
monastery rise naked hills OF gray stone.
There is not particle Of vegetation except In
the garden adjoining the monastery. whore
the tops Of n few cypress trees rise above the
walls. The time was whom Strangers were
raised into the monastery by means OF pull
ley Now. however. the gate Is kept open.
ns %s"s: zs xsn Il pssd s Es
Within the lofty walls are several buildings
are piorced for muskets and CANNON. and o few
cannon cannon are e,I mNuntsd on them. ,hy They are ob.
an snemy Tss Two mose bud
ines arc tho church and the Chapel Of the
hurp1ng Blsh where aee%9rdins e the local
WAS once very rich IN trsasarss, 70 but It's % rarest
mT,anuscrIpts have besn carried away. There
now s Sndsr tho q Rshe
Code1 Slnaiticus.
M. Grad learned that while the monks were
talamsnt, The Convent Is % now very err @ poor. and
~ Them are Of oahs
GGrecian lsles; and well advanced In years.
tum Hhsr white boards Of unusual length ngG give
S,sissd tie msasssesy r isss W. yoSp4 @ nsn
ss1e nas Fsa sSfa sn
tns tins. In civilized lands are as old A. A. some Of
sery sas wa n hG:s e. , % hs
the church. built during that epoch is stand nd
Ing. Its corner stone. The. ipscription. says.
Mss hs Hia viz tss ssss 627 D. By
mas Far fem g the world; thIs h.natu! e ersy:
s 81 % TSsy
%SonastlS nSnss duties. When {. visitor enters tho
Three silver i.%ps AZ burning always. In
y M marble the he'd
crime 81 Rasss is sxhibltsd Also. Mis q silver silver
faSe and hands being Of enamel.
Behind the church. sheltered from tho sun.
mSd Snte ae ss sSss
to xstsr r,h thsIT III a aSSE; SsE I'll: ISaasSin
stairwAy of about 1000 steps, made Of Pieces @
81 tdI rock placed one above another lend 70 tie
s PSss 'lESussu; .ss .tssps tEssss
s: :; sss s TSsS
that e Tho ssTs days 81 the Monastery 'as the
The a %aoaanntain;. where the Virgin mat them. or;
% tsou tf as Ssr fd
found when they rSantsred the monsstery. IL
is proper to add that the .feas have returned.
Two more little ch9pels are along the steep
Elijah and Elisha Ia the chapel Of Eijah ths
monks shnw creyoe % the rock, whore the
Of the priests Of Baal. On the top Of tho noun
tain are Greek aud Mohammrdan ohapcis.
SGr.taps tie iaiisssts sst q Of isiam ae
hammsd visited ths mountain. and from Its
summit, It has been said, he was traRslated
OF the Bible and this. Koran. ahd this barron
Tock has an Important plao. in tho history of
The sun., 1892-03-13
TIE Legend OF Standing Rock.


While on the trip through North Dakota, on
which he got tho piece Of the cabin, Inspector
Standing Rock Agency tho legend Of the stone
from which the place gets its name.
Years ago. according to the Indian tradition.
q buck and his sQuaw wore on journey down
the Missouri River to visit some relatives at q
distant point Where Fort Yates now Is the
buck BUCK saw YOUNG squaw of surprising beauty.
OF the tears and entreaties Of his lawful wife,
there sSs. xith !.! 6is nSSw:io!and passion: fhe
and her tears and finally arose to
leave the place alone. As she did 30 she fell
back In the spot where, she had been sitting
and turned to stone. There she has remained
lord and master and to III IFS kind. BY faint
stretch OF the Imagination the standing rock
from which the agency gets its name can be
made to take on the outlines OF woman.
The Indians believe the story and pay hon.
age to tho monument OF mans pertldy and
hckleness. and woman's constancy. While tho
inspector was at Fort Yates he saw an Indian
approach the. rock. bow, ,Irevcrently. and lay
gone. the inspector and tho agent went, out to
tobacco. no heavy sacrifice. II might be said:
but perhaps 1t WAS the last tho Indian had.