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Send /. Posta, to Columbia. Means,

II with rage you boiler when you see silver
dollar.
II the Chinese civil service finds favor in your
II you're absolutely dotine on kangaroo
voting.
II for total tariff smashing your spirit pines
and signs.
II you want candidate who is wonderful in
weight.
Send n postal to Jimmie MeanS
Jimmie Means Of the Burg OF Beans.
I'll tell you on the level that we're going to tho
devil.
And the wickedness Of politics must give US
all pain:
And it is the good mans mission to obstruct
the politician.
And to make ono front OF war against such
men as Hill and Blaine:
II you are with the good. we'd thank you II
You would
Send q postal to Jimmie Means.
Mister Means OF the Burg Of Beans.
II you look upon the caucus as wickedness
OF Orcus.
II primary you never by any chance at
tend
II you regard a worker as blacker than a
Burker.
And think voter II be corrupt unless in booth
he's pcnned:
II you aim to represent the better element.
Send II postal to Jimmie Means.
Means, James. OF tho Burg OF Beans.
II you ever had been tost on the waves OF
thought in Boston.
You would know that there Is harbor for all
tho tramp cranks:
II your brain sails are in tatters. why there It
little matters.
You can lit up and refurnish. for they sell
brain-yarn in hanks;
II you want the Ship OF State to brace up and
navigate.
Send postal to Mister Means.
James Means OF the Burg Of Beans.
Mister Means Is not a smnrty. but the founder
OF party.
The great Columbian party that will rake the
Mugwunrs in:
He has stock in every notion that they kneel
TO with devotion.
Hehas offered strong attractions to thu cir cheek
and to their chin;
Mug. with Stufllng on the brain. moan no
more. but ease thy pain:
Send postal to Mister Means.
Jscobus Means Of the Burg OF Beans.
The Columbians are rising in . manner most
surprising.
'Gainst the cohorts OF tho Workers they will
fight and never finch:
Tho Mugwumps swift are nearing the point OF
disappearing.
For tho bold Columbian leaders have got on
'em cinch.
And all who would he true to the Claim.
ants '92
viii send postal card to Mister Means.
James Means Of tho Bur. of Beans.
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The Legislature Of this State will doubt

The Legislature Of this State will doubt
less do what is proper for the relief OF New
York and Kings counties from the inequitable
taxation which they bear for the support OF
the insane inmates Of public institutions The
question was explained in Governor Flowers
message to the Legislature. and more fully
explained in Mayor GRANTS message to the
Common Council. and it was yet again dealt
with In an Albany letter printed in The Sun
OF the 18th inst. The two counties named are
paying the whole Of the heavy expense OF their
own insane. while at the same time they are
contributing large proportion Of the fund re-
CURED for the maintenance OF the insane Of
the other counties OF the State. Mayor GRANT
suggests that they be relieved from the State
tax. and it is certain that, IN equity. they
should be relieved from it by the Legislature.
1t Is to be presumed that the members from
this county and Kings will see to it that fair
play is secured In tho case.
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Tho New Christlanitv.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sn.: Your kind
notice OF my idea OF the New Christianity /"
was exactly what meant never saw the
expression The New Christianity" before
You must have coined it, and I think it covers
one of the leading ideas in the change and
progress OF modern thought THE Sun Il GER
tainiy doing a great deal in its editorial de-
partme to he p on the cause oftruth and free
religious inquiry.
Thanking YOU for your courtesy and fairness,
yours sincerely. PETER MACQUEEN.
BROSIvILLE, Jan, 20.
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A Qs.s:,o. Abov. Party Politics.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUN-Sir: Your
leader In to-dsys paper has the right ring. the
ring that touches the American heart. In tho
event OF q war with Chill. there will be no
North. no South. no East. no West. no Repub-
licans. no Democrats. and no substitutes. All
Americans. whether native or naturalized. will
be for America and the old Flag. All Mug.
wumps will remain English. and continue to
pray for peace at any price and free trade.
l. A. C.
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Career or the Red Necktle.

from NE Pioneer Prs..
Perhaps no article OF apparel has ever had such .
popular run IN this country the red to- Tho cr.xs
hsss~spt over the entire country from the Atlantic IN
the raelho coast. and in every hamlet and prairie vii
lass city and town, the rod neckiis bazes No younv
mans wardrobe complete unless he wa, the h.nn
possessor OF At least several OF these ties Tie
has already begun to subsidc would no, he correct
to claim that "reis" ara dead but they are slowly
passing away wy
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Shky"ay H'gSins-Mawnin, MIST Patch.n: Rdtn,
yo' new mule. hay VIVA yo' gwan.
s!Aclline PatcheI Pens a bean on d. cvo,a,,, =,
dhhyuh mule. Mist Higgins II dishyuh mule don,
tsck to tiokin' is gwan to Coonvile bu. II dsbyuh
mule tscks 10 kicxin. Is dead culed xsm'n SIM :.
Mat Risyinsi ssA'
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This 10 an unusually full meeting of tn. Writers
Club. isntit"
yes The Secretary said In his notice that every
pesmS-"
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Cot. Bels's 0aiiaatry.
From M eairssos Dolly NSss
cbAncea eNs S'"s ~'AA~a Nv
eeI.s Mad for w.., or Oh. K.y.

From ne fslian,po'is Journal
They really tear she will 20 insane You see Sc
her. ~ ~ -'S' ~SN 1-''''~
IN see. And the awful reveatlans-
revelations n"fhin2, II Was IN CIPHER ana sns
couldn't read word Of IL. " S''''' w
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To rag Ep,IoK THr srysir Give US Hi for Pre-
dent! I L. MooRs
smAwuAS. Ky. Jan. IS.
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Fiona the fhitn9o DaHy TriJD.
TOO n.M TO give away, John
M billNs the agent OF the Prom n, Am.o,.,ion
MS. Bllns-yes '' ""'"'
hI bilus-Ihen let the coat 60 l, will BE- old enough
when II gets 10 the fellow that needs H.
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The Grent Bunco Gam. Not In raxo-

From h' B-'n Ih,iiy Adr,.;is,
The members Of Congress as u rule do not see VIII
they should vote pres mt OF s. 900 900 10 rLir,y
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vSfsbo Ishaans uR cold uss Dr. J.ynss l.psets.sA
sssA ssusvtnS threat and lunSS-IdN
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06

rs time to make your choice of New Suit
for Fall
WHY?
The new Goods are in stock. It's
chance to get first choice It's time we can
give you best service After while we may not
be able to serve you SO prompt Well have
great business-the goods and prices will keep
us very busy.
WANAMAKER & BROWN,
ANDERSON BLOCKS SIXTH STREET.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06
PITTSBURG is GROWING.

All Records Broken in the Building In
1nspectors' Office-Many New and Hand
some Houses Going Up-The East End
the Favorite Home District.
The record of building permits issued
during the month of August breaks all re-
cords There were 304 permits issued for
the erection of 421 buildings, some permits
calling for as high as IA houses The total
value, estimated, of them all was 81, 800, 488,
and the receipts to the city amounted to
50, ,049 30.
August of last year was Q very large
month, when 399 buildings, valued at 81, :
037, ,982, were erected, and the Office receipts
amounted to 81, 1856 30.
The character of the buildings have been
of "a very good quality, better than the
general run, and the building inspectors,
the city regulations as to their construc-
tion. The ordinance requiring 9-inch back
walls to be carried through the roof of
dwellings to prevent the possibility of fire
has been strictly enforced, and the contrac-
toas now are generally observing the rule.
Many regulations for the betterment of the
work have been inaugurated by the inspec-
tors, and the houses being built and to be
built hereafter will be of a substantial and
lasting character.
The East End still continues to be the
chosen spot for improvement, as the wards
in that end of the city show the greatest
number of new houses. In what is called
the Second district, comprising all the
wards from the Sixth to the Twenty-third,
there were 1928 buildings put up. The
Nineteenth next with AZ, the Twenty-frst
following with As. The Thirteenth ward
got AZ, the Thirty-second, Thirty-ffth and
the others follow with less numbers, but no
ward is without at least one new house. The
Fourth ward only secured six new build
ings, but their value is S431 200. The
buildings in the Twentieth ward are valued
at $3.50, 900, and many other wards show
total of nearly 800, 600 worth of new dwell
ings. Of the 421 new buildings III are
brick, 244 frame, 8 1ronclad and stone.
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rather undecided blue eyes and big features
wanting In character; his expression was
like that of child who expects scolding.
But he was undeniably handsome.
The pupils of the negress dilated as she
looked at him, but she controlled an in
stinct which prompted her to rush at him
and take him by his throat and shake him.
Civilization, of sort, had tanned the tigress
in her.
"who is it you are wanting?" she in
quired
"You know what I want well enough, I"
he answered, impatient at her attempt at
sarcasm. "Where is Sal?"
''Oh, it is your wife you are inquiring
after. She has moved" Her effort to make
her tone a light one was not very successful
"Where is she?" he advanced farther into
the room, as if the knowledge that Sal was
not near had given him little assurance,
and as the woman did not answer, he re-
pested in louder voice: 'Tell me where
she is, wish to see her.
Dinah folded herssiarm across her breast.
''You can't" she said in q suppressed tone.
Then she suddenly rose and stood facing
him, and her pent up passion burst forth as
her eyes met his.
"You can't see her." she repeated, "if
you'd ha' wanted to, you ought to ha'
come sooner; you ought never to ha' lett
her, you ought never to ha' taken her. We
was happy enough without you, she and L
We didn't go forsakin' each other because
our skins was black. We wasn't ashamed
of each other. Ashamed! I loved
her, and I'd have worked my
fingers TO the bone sooner than she should
have suffered; and hated them as made her
suffer. And as for you" she paused,
catching her breath, and her whole figure
seemed to gain q strange savage beauty,
her face glowing and her eyes afre with
mingled love and hate. She raised her half
bare sinewy arms and pointed to the door
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06

Recommendations have been made. can
not say whether anything will be done at
this time, but the question will be discus
sed and something will likely be done as
there is need for change.
The Duty Of Constables.
THE duties of constables will also be dis
cussed as will subject of inquests and post
mortems All these duties are included in
our preamble and receive the attention
their importance demands"
The present convention will be called to
order in the Orphans Court room No. 9, on
Wednesday, September IA, at 10 o'clock by
Commissioner R. e. Mercer. Correspon-
deuce is now going on with speakers to ad-
dress the convention on live topics but no
definite arrangements have yet been made.
The officers of the association for the past
year were:' President, A. B. Worth; Vice
Presidents, Horace l. Halstead and George
c. Mills; Secretaries, p. W. Siebert, NJ.
b. Geer. j, b Crawford and j. M Rodgers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-06
LATE NEWS In BRIEF.

The Cherokee strip is now absolutely
clear of occupants.
Lightning killed eight soldiers at sey-
p usch Sunday night.
California officers are working on an.
other clew to the Whereabouts of SontaR, the
train robber.
Tho Honduras revolution has been
wound up by the capture of General Nuilla,
its leader, and eight men, August %.
The Free Thought Federation of America
WAS formally organized in Chicago Sunday.
1t will work, among other things, for Sunday
opening OF the Worlds Fair.
"A Texas cloudburst nearly swept away
the town of Alphine. 1t created terrible
havoc among live stock, buildings, etc., in
the mountains above that place.
One hundred and thirty five miners were
released at Wallace, Idaho, Sunday. In
dictments were found against every one,
which are merely meant as an incentive to
good behavior.
A general miners strike has been or
dered in all the Coal Creek and Yellow
Springs districts in Tennessee. Convicts
are rebuilding the stockades. Troops ex-
pect more violence.
The old Palazzo. in the Via Taverna,
Naples, collapsed yesterday, burying many
persons in the ruins. One body was ter
ribly crushed and mutflated, and three per.
sons were rescued alive but frightfully in
jured.
Jules Dufour and Medard, two young
Catholic men Of color, have gone to Balti-
more from New Orleans, where they will
enter the College of Epiphany, seminary
devoted to the education OF young men for
the priesthood.
William Henry Allen, a penniless in
mate OF the Minnesota Soldiers Home, by
the death of q brother in California has fall
len heir to an estate worth between SIC, 000,-
900 and $4,000 900. Allen was formerly an
artist in Minneapolis.
A j. McLenrock, of Yeddo, Ind, is a very,
very bad man. He is in jail and may be
lynched. He has long been a terror to his
neighbors, having shot their horses and
cattle openly. Two years ago he married
wealthy widow, and at once began to abuse
her. He destroyed the good clothes of his
wife's grown daughter, and refused to allow
them to keep company with any young men
until they finally rose in revolt and McLen-
burned the house over their heads and
killed the stock, while the women fled for
their lives.
Thomas E. Berge, alias e. B. Thompson,
clever forger and swindler, is "doing" the
V. O'Connell, Travelling Freight Agent of the
Mississippi Valley route, and several banks.
Some weeks ago while Mr.. O'Connell was at
the Monongahela House, Pittsburg, his va
lise was broken into and several annual
passes extracted therefrom. Suspicion foil
upon Berge, and some days later he left the
hotel after cashing q forged check In OCon-
nell's name. He has since been travelling
about the country on stolen passes and
forging checks. Chicago Is the latest scene
of his operations.
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souls in whom more than in gentler ma
lures, the craving for little children is a
passion; perhaps because it was necessity
for her to spend herself for others, and in
motherhood only can a woman do so COM
pletely. This baby was utterly dependent
on her, 1t occupied her time and her
thoughts; 1t filled her empty life, and satis-
fed her hungering heart The whirr of the
machine went ON as usual for she had
need to labor, but yet she found oppor-
tunity to attend to the young child
in the cradle. sometimes even it lay across
her lap while she worked. And her great
est happiness was when in an idle minute
she played with it and saw the smile come
slowly into the little face, or when its tiny
hand closed firmly over her finger. This
contact thrilled her, and she never had the
courage OF her own accord to free the toll
hardened unbeautiful forefnger from its
prison. The child resembled its father; it
was fair now whatever it might become in
the future, and Its presence even sufficed to
soften Dinah's heart toward that father, ex-
cept when the possibility occurred to her
that he would come some day and claim 1t.
She felt convinced that he would be drawn
back sooner or later, and in this she was
right.
But before he came, in the season of east
winds, the baby died, and with 1t all
humanising influences seemed to go from
Dinsh. She grew hard, bitter, almost
cruel She shut herself away from sympa-
thy, Even the little children she had been
so fond OF, and at whom she had shown her
white teeth when she met them in the street
on her way to and from the workshop, she
greeted no longer; it seemed to her when
SAILS little boy was buried all her love for
her kind for her kind:was buried with it
And now Boncey had come back. It was
the spring, almost the summer A feeling,
born of absence perhaps, had come to him
that he would like to see his wife again.
Even sort of remorse had seized him. Yet
he was half afraid to return, uot knowing
in what way he would be received. He had
gone to Dinahs knowing that it was most
likely that he would find Sal there. And
he had learnt he was widower.
He did not ask where Sal was buried, aud
he did not visit her grave. He met sformer
mate and went to lodge with him. It was
in the same street where he had lived be-
fore, In the same street as Dinah still was
He found work. and daily ss he went to 1t
he passed the door Of the house where the
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latter dwelt, but he never again climbed

latter dwelt, but he never again climbed
the rickety stairs. He was net particularly
anxious to renew his intimacy with his un-
compromising sister-in-law. But he was
q man who conld not live without affection.
In his class OF life sentiment for the dead
seldom is of long duration, and he had prac-
tically been q widower ever since he left
the neighb orhood.
Before he had been back many months, he
married the sister of his friend, q young,
pretty olinging thing, aSdifferent from Sal in
disposition as she was in appearance. And
as his mate emigrated to America, he con-
tinued to live where he was; the place was
conveniently near work, and their few
sticks of furniture were there. Dinah had
so dropped out of his thoughts that she
did not now enter into his calculations; if
he exhibited q want of delicacy in remain
ing 80 near her. it was not because he volun-
tarily would have hurt her by the knowl-
edge of the sight of his newly-found hap
piness. Perhaps he could not make con-
cessions to nature which he was incapable
of understanding.
On him nothing was able to make last
ing impression. He was easy going, soeisble,
selfish. Dinah was of those who are mastered
by an idea
All day long the negress worked. She
never rested, although she had only herself
to provide for, and her life was Of little
value to her. She seemed to cling to labor
as if in it lay her salvation. And. ever az
she worked she brooded; and her thoughts
ran always in one direction. The whirring
of her machine seemed to be the accompani-
ment to this monotonous brooding. The
machine itself, the lifeless thing, was yet
as companion, the only one which shared
her solitude; its voice was the only voice
which did not jar upon her; its services
were the only favors she accepted. She
spoke to no one except her employers
and those to whom it was necessary to do
SO, and then only of the subjects which
concerned them. And she grew morbidly
apart from her kind. ALI the brightness
and goodness which had distinguished her
seemed perverted, if not gone. Her con-
sciousness was not very highly developed,
and she was not naturally interpretive, but
even those whose feelings are little more
than instinct, are ready to resent oppression
and injustice; 1t seemed to Dipah that she
had not been fairly dealt with. She thought
of her black skin and of her de I'd sister.
and Of the little baby who war and of
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Salp'
But the poor cannot indulge their grief;
for the needs Of the body are paramount,
and habit becomes nature in the matter of
suppfessing emotion. Dinah had to work
IA hours day. The rent had to be paid,
the collector called every week for what
was owing on the machine itself, and her
food had to be bought
Formerly she had not been the sole occu-
pant of the room. She had shared 1t with
a younger sister who like her did tailoring
work, and the machine had been q joint
speculation before Sal had entertained the
thought of marriage But two years ago
Tom Boncey had fallen In love with, or had
been infatuated by her; the negress was
pretty, far better looking than her sister,
and with peculiarssnaKe-likei fascination
which black women frequently possess
After very short courtshIp they were
married.
But the man had no sooner committed
this act than he regretted it. He was not
bad, but he was weak and incapable OF such
intense feeling as should make him indie
pendent of the sentiments of others He
could not stand the chaf and laughter OF
his companions about his black wife; it
seemed to turn him against her. Perhaps
even in himself, though he had never recog-
nized 1t hitherto, there was some antipathy.
At any rate, the sudden attraction be-
came as sudden repulsion. Before the
birth of his child he deserted her on
the pretext of going to seek work else
where owing to the strikes She
went back of course to her sister, Like
Dinah, she was being with absorbing pas
sions. To her the commonplace man she
had married was her life; she could not live
without him. Not even her child could
save her. She died Of grief; the chance
word of neighbor had revealed to her the
cause of his desertion which his growing
coldness confirmed. She could not be other
than she was even to please him. But she
never reproached him. 1t was Dinah who
did that She had not loved him when he
took her sister from her; now she hated
him.
But the hatred did not extend to his
child. The little creature could not COM
pensate the mother for the loss of her hus-
band, but IL seemed. temporarily at any
rate, to comfort the sister in her beresve-
ment Dinsh had loved once, but her love
had been unrequited. She would never
marry. But she was one of those strong
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"You may go, for can't bear to see you
there, and might do you harm. Go"
She was so desperately in earnest, and in
her way SO dignifed that the man could do
nothing but obey her. He skunk backward.
But he put his question again, dull red
burning in his cheeks 'I'll 60 when you've
told me where Sal is"
Dinah burst into harsh laugh. $50
you want her, do you? You're going to
explain perhaps why you went away and
LETT her Just when she needed you most.
You ought to ha' come earlier if you was so
desperately anxious Maybe your agoin' to
make love to her. Oh, Sal, Sal" she
broke off with groan. "Tn tell you
where she is, and you may 60 and look for
her. She's been waiting for you, and
maybe she'll be glad to see you. Shall
give you her new address?"
She went quite close up to him. So close
that he felt her hot breath on his cheek;
and she spoke in the low voice which was
not without beauty or music, though the
music was weird enough.
"Sal is in the churchyard. You will find
her beneath the ground. The grass hasn't
had time to grow there yet-scarcely-an
there's another grave alongside, little
one, and that's where the baby is lying
her baby and you'rn-her baby and
you'rn."
''sal ia dead?"
"Deadp'
The man staggered back against the wall
and his face was blanched, while great
tears stood in his wide childish eyes
perhaps q black wife's worth grievin'
over, even if she aint worth lovin'. 1t
don't make much difference now anywayA
And she had as decent funeral as If she'd
bin white woman, and the same words
said over her, and 1 paid for it She didn't
have no pauper burial I reckon the Lord
won't make the same distinction as his
critturs; seems to me If either of you has an
advantage it'll be Sal She was too good
for the likes Of you. There, now you know
where to find her, gof'
The man slunk away into the street.
Dinah went back to her work. For few
minutes the whirr Of her machine was the
only sound that broke the silence; then that
stopped and its place was taken by the
sound of sobs, hard, fearless sobs, and
Dinah's woody head had gone down upon
her arms. Maybe twas hard upon him."
she said, 'but not bit too hard Comm
in on one without any apology. Oh, Sal,