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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06

which added new qualities to the extrava-
gance of Washington life; and he is cred
tied with political and legal influence over
most Of the petroleum magnates. This,
as it stands, is not quality to attract a
large popular vote to Democratic candi-
date.
The Standard Oil Trust has Just been
declared by one of the most authoritative
tribunals of the country to be an illegal
and void combination. Now let Mr..
Whitney use his good offices with the mag
mates Of that trust to induce them to obey
the law in spirit as well as letser. Let
him instruct them that wealth protected
by the laws of the country should be
especially careful to carry out the in
tent of the law instead of seeking
means to nullify and evade it If he sue
ceeds in impressing on the petroleum
principality the fact, that an honest &C
ceptance Of the law requires the dissolu-
ton of the trust, the placing of every
plant in the petroleum business on an in
dependent basis, and the restoration of
free competition in the refining, trans
portation and sale of petroleum, his po-
litical fortune is made. The man who
can add to his political conquests the
complete and honest surrender Of the first
great trust will be an ideal candidate for
the Democracy.
1t remains to be seen whether Mr..
Whitney will take course which sets p0-
litical popularity coupled with honest OBJ
servance Of law above the millions to be
garnered out OF monopolistic profits.
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PIcKINGS FROM PUCK,

Mr. Rhoades-When I was travelling
down South among the crackers
Miss Athena Hubbs (of Boston)-You mean
among the biscuits, do you not, Mr.. Rhoadess
I'm full of high ambition,
And seek-I may be rash
Not the plaudits of posterity,
But contemporary cash.
Young MI. Bunn-May call upon you,
Miss Mum?
Miss Munn-oh. yes, Mr.. Bum. I suppose We
really ought to mortify ourselves somewhst during
Lent.
The Youth love you fondly.
The Boston Girl-Let me feel your pulse. You
do not object to my making q scientific analysis do
you?
We say, when ones blind,
He's as blind bat;''
But one other thing
Is far binder than that.
It's the fellow in church
Who discovers, too late,
That he hasn't . cent.
When they're passing the plate.
"What penance are you doing in this
Lenten season. Mrs. Mcsimper?'' asked the Rev.
DIR. Thirdly.
''Oh. come to hear you preach every Sundayr'
was the cheerful reply.
Brother Festus-I's mighty impressed
wild dat tex dis mcrnin', 'Do unto oders as you
would have oders do unto you."
Deacon Koon-Yas; dat fine tex. good sermon.
Brother Festus-Well. Use gwine to bring back
dat ham bone wat fetched outen yer kitchen las
night; and want you to gimme dat turkey wa'ss
you hooked often de nail over my do.
There lived two men: The one was weak,
And strong the other. Pale and wan
The weakling sckened in the autumn bleak,
And dled-the other still lives onl
. Inquirer-Why do so few people come to
the operag
Manzger-Because our prices are 30 high.
Inquirer-Why do you keep the prices so high1
Aanager-Because 50 few people come.
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his immediate constituents are not con-
cerned. But when there is local grab
on hand, which is likely to increase his
prestige among the beloved Hoosiers. none
are reader than he to take advantage Of
it, and none more forgetful of national in
terestS.
On the whole it is sadly to be feared
that Mr.. Holman is not all that he would
have the nation believe him, and it is sat-
isfactory to know that there are times at
which his party has courage enough to
repudiate him. But cause must not be
condemned because unfortunate enough
to have false prophet for its chief ex-
ponent, and true economy should not be
allowed to suffer for the masquerading of
q cheese-parer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
MAYORS SENTENCE.

The sentence of ex-Mayor Wyman, yes
terday, to three months imprisonment
was not so severe as it might have been;
but it is severe enough to make an example
that will inspire caution in municipal
business for some time to come. If there
was, as reported, an arrangement by
which the Mayor was to be let off easily
in consideration of his resignation, he can
hardly be blamed for thinking that the
other parties have failed to deliver the
goods. But it is not a public misfortune
when agreements of that sort are disre-
garded in the administration Of justice.
It is true, as the Court said in passing
sentence, that the imposition Of fine
would be no punishment To make
mere pecuniary loss the only penalty for
Irregularities in public position would
simply leave officials of weak principles
to the calculation whether the chances of
loss are greater than the chances Of gain.
An Imprisonment was necessary to i'm
pose punishment that will be a warning.
While the three months sentence is one
fourth of what might have been imposed,
it will serve the purpose: It gives notice
to all public officials to be exceedingly
circumspect in the discharge of their
duties.
Beyond that, the descent of the man,
who at the beginning of the year was sup
posed to be all powerful in Northside
politics, to the county Jail is a warning to
all men that no intrenchment is strong
enough to insure dishonest administration
from the possibility of being overtaken by
the law,
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THE PROPHECIES OF SCIENCE
How to Warn the Public In Advance Of
the Approach of q Violent Storm.

How to Warn the Public In Advance Of
the Approach of Violent Storm.
New York Herald.l
The great practical question for meteor
ology is how the public may be forewarned
many hours in advance when q storm Of
moderate force quietly crossing the country
or tamely skirting the Atlantic coast-line
will attain the destructive violence of hur-
ricane. Meteorologists have now to rely
mainly upon the indications of the barome-
ter to previse the sudden and dangerous in
tensifcation of such disturbances. But the
barometer is a very sluggish sentinel of i'm
pending danger and the interval between its
warnings and the outburst of the tempest is
too short to admit of adequate preparation
The same may be said of the premonitory
indications OF all other instruments now en-
ployed for prognosticating weather changes.
What, then, are we to do? Is the science of
weather and storm prediction to drag on
without any advance, in dependence upon
observations on or near sea-level, which
have long since demonstrated their mad
equacy for timely premonitions Of storms.
1t should not SO be.
Important as weather observations taken
on the surface Of the earth undoubtedly
are they will always be incomplete and in
decisive for predictive purposes until sup
storm breeding and storm intensifying cur
rents of the upper atmosphere. Some SIM
pie and satisfactory device must be found
for testing day by day the varying veloci-
ties, direction and extension of the upper
air currents. Captive balloons might per
haps serve the purpose where no high
mountain offers a favorable station for such
observations. It must be confessed that
mountain observations, as those OF Ben
Nevis and Mount Warrington, have not
proved of very material value for storm
warning purposes. But such points are too
distant from the zone out of which the
great aerial Gulf streams emerge to afford
timely intimations OF the eccentric move
ments or exceptional velocities of the main
equatorial currents of the atmosphere
upon which all destructive cyclones de-
pend for their genesis. development and
progressive motions. 1t therefore seems
imperative, if the science of storm pre-
diction is to advance, that high level sta
tions in and on the borders OF the tropics
should be occupied for meteorological
observations and for signalling to the
higher latitudes when and where q great
storm will be generated, and when q storm
of moderate force will become intensely en-
ergiZed.
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THE REACTION.

Mr.. Holman as representing the Com
mittee on Appropriations, came to grief
yesterday as new and striking example
Of that "vaulting ambition which o'er-
leaps itself and falls on t'other side." He
opposed the deficiency appropriation de-
manded by the Agricultural Committee,
not on the grounds of economy, but be-
cause he believed that its passage was
likely to lessen the powers claimed by
himself and his committee. MI. Holman
is a curious study, he is anxious for power
for powers sake, while endeavoring to
conceal his motives behind screen of Wig
orous buncombe talk of wishing to cut down
national expenditures. He does seek to
bring those expenses to minimum by
Teductio Qd a6surdum process, whenever
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
INGENUITY IN SLAUGHTER,

When Gulliver disclosed to the King of
Brobdignag how powder composed of
charcoal, nitre and sulphur could be used
to kill men at distance, the gigantic
monarch marveled that in so small body
there could be compacted so large an
amount of malice and devilish ingenuity
If that were telling satire on the arts of
killing at an age when the most effective
instrument of slaughter was the f1int-lock
Queen Anne musket, which even the saw
ages of New Mexico would now disdain to
use, what pertinence must it have when
the advance of science has demonstrated
immensely more dreadful means of whole
sale destruction of human life
1t is one of the peculiarities of the prog
ress of inventions in the line of slaughter
that for nearly century after Swift's
satire invention did comparatively little
in the line of improving the deadly
methods of slaughter. The leading inven-
tions to improve firearms during that CEN
tury were the King of Prussia's introduc-
ton of iron ramrods and the fixing of the
bayonet to the muzzle of the musket. From
those changes to the introduction of percus-
sion caps was long period, while the intro
duction of rifles for the use of regular
soldiery is within the recollection of
most adults Indeed there grewu feel
ing during that time that the restraints of
civilized warfare forbade the use of Greek
fire, and kindred inventions adapted to
modern use.
Since that period new inventions in the
arts of peace have greatly surpassed the
progress in the arts of war. The railroad,
the telegraph, the steam engine and the
host of other inventions that followed in
their wake mad added far more to human
life than the magazine rifle, Krupp guns
and high explosives have done in taking it
away. But with the demonstration thus
given of what invention can do in increas-
ing the sum of human prosperity, it be-
comes more striking anomaly that side
by side with this beneficial progress has
marched the science of taking away the
lives thus to be benefited. When Just at
present the attention of science seems to
be devoted to perfecting the arts of
wholesale slaughter, there is room for the
inquiry whether civilization is really much
less savage than savagery An impair
tiai observer like the King of Brobdignag
who should be informed as we are of the
invention of rifle by which stream Of
vitriol is to be projected on the advancing
enemy, or of the other recent triumph Of
invention which is expected to shock a
whole warship out of existence, might be
pardoned for wonder at the malice of
world which receives such devices as tri-
umphs of science.
Of course the usual rejoinder to such
reflections can be made, that the more
terrible the methods of war, the greater
the inducement to the preservation of
peace But is not war terrible enough
already to induce really civilized world
to turn little of its ingenuity into the
invention off methods for settling interna-
tional difficulties by other means than kill
ing off some tens of thousands of the COM
mon people?
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PERTINENT PERSONALITIES.

THE Grand Duke of Hesse has had a
stroke Of paralysis. and his condition is con.
sidered serious.
Mr. WINANs, the State Superintendent
OF Public Instruction in Kansas, was
formerly bricklayer in Atchison.
OUT in Illinois Shelby M. Cullom is said
to think that the NJ. in his>name stands for
the Moses who will lead the Republicans
into the promised land.
REV. 6. H. KINsoLv1NG and wife, of
Philadelphia, have sailed for Brazil via
England. where they will engage in mission
ary work in Rio Grande do Sui.
BISMARCK sprinkles his conversation,
which is ut all times interesting and some
times epigrammatic, with choice and peril
nent extracts from Shakespeare, Of whose
works he is especially fond.
EDWARD Box quotes an English poet as
having said that he never reads book of
verse for pleasure. "when I read for nv
pleasure" said the poet, 'I turn either to
history or to standard work on engineer
ing.'
GOVERNOR FRANCIS, of Missouri, Is q
stickler for "the swallow-tail" coat at his re.
ceptions. Colonel Richard Dalton, who
wants to succeed Francis, says that If he is
oioSoe" No'oiHo1 Vno PooPAo uluy GILL On
him in their shirt sleeves.
PROF. WILLIAM. TUCKER, of Andover,
who has been elected President of Dart
mouth College, is a native Of Griswold,
Conn.,. and So years Of age. He was i've years
pastor of the Madison Square Presbyterian
Church. Of New York, prior to going to
Andover.
IT is somewhat rare to find millionaire's
son devoted to his books rather than his
pleasures. There is one such in the house of
Vanderbilt, and the son Of c. P. Huntington,
described as superb specim en- Of physical
manhood, with towering height of s feet l."
devotes eight hours a day to study.
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THE TROLLEY PRO AND cox.

The issue between the dangers and con-
veniences of the overhead trolley wire is
the subject of good deal of controversy
never been raised in Pittsburg, where the
value of electric roads has sanctioned the
general introduction of overhead wires
without even protest. In, Philadelphia,
however, where the use of electric power
is now mooted, the majority of the con-
servative Quaker City minds are as much
shocked as if by the electric current itself,
at the proposition to subject the public to
the dangers of the deadly trolley wire.''
As in most heated controversies both
parties overstate the case The opponents
of electric railways picture the trolley
wire as nothing less than wholesale mur-
der, and regard its introduction as a pro-
poSal to decimate the population. That it
does nothing of the sort in cities where its
use has been so long as to be conclusive
detracts nothing from the horror with
which it is regarded by those whose knowl-
edge of it is purely theoretical. On the
other hand the supporters of the system
portray it in a light as harmless as
mothers milk, or one of those household
batteries wherewith physicians of irregu-
lar standing used to cure all the diseases
that flesh is heir to.
Both these opinions obscure a correct
understanding of the subject The out
slider naturally concludes that one side or
the other must be right, whereas neither
is. The trolley wire is not so dangerous as
portrayed, but it has very decided draw
backs. Its shock, except under extraor-
dinary circumstances, is not destructive
of life, and the danger from crossed and
grounded wires is not to be compared to
those of the electric light wires. So long
as it is the most practicable means of
bringing rapid transit to city workers, who
must otherwise be without it, these draw
backs are to be endured.
But it is not wise therefore to entirely
ignore the drawbacks The shock from a
trolley wire crossed or grounded by an
other wire is not such pleasant thing that
people need court it-although we have
known hazardous youths to take it for the
fun of the thing. To persons in weak
state of health, or when the current is at
It's highest power, the consequences of
contact might be serious. Add to this the
Disagreement of the streets and the ham,
pering of the fire department wherever
the trolley wire exists, and the disadvant-
ages of it are such as to make substitute
desirable whenever one can be found
This is a point which the public may
wisely bear in mind. The electric railway
is too great convenience to permit the
trolley wire to be abolished, so long as it
is the only practicable means of propul-
sion. But when underground wires or
storage batteries can be made to work sue
cessfully and economically the trolley wire
should go. together with the other over
head nuisances.
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LIFE IN COUNTRY AID c1rY.
Moro Men and Women Needed Out OF Town
to Act as Sort Of Ballast

Moro Mon and Women Needed Out OF Town
to Act as . Sort Of Ballast
Omaha world-Herald.J
There Is nothing more ovor-estimated
than the advantages of living in q city. Here
In America, and especially in the East, there
ts dangerous tendency to congregate in
cities. More mon and women are needed in
the country, for ballast. They must be
primarily the producers. That country
which has no good farmers, and many Of
them, Is unfortunate indeed, and may well
devote itself to devising schemes for Kidding
Its urban communities Of the superfuous
persons. In the beginning Of America this
was not the case. A man was very proud at
that time to be q country gentleman. Al
most all of the men who did the most work
in the troublous time Of the formation Of
this Commonwealth had farms and lived
upon them part if not all of the year.
But now there has come about q foolish
dislike to such life among men Of ability;
and among farmers there has come another
equally foolish prejudice-fhe dislike Of
being looked upon as gentlemen. These
two things operate together to take from
farming much of the fascination that would
otnerw1se attach to it. The countrymen do
They look upon a man as a dude If he blacks
ms boots or wears linen collar. They
scorn every attempt at elegance, and appear
w shAth ulC0Cy Ol speech COnt6uDClOl0.
Whatever beauties the body or the address
they appear to think affectation. Ali this is
wrong. If farming life were made more
agreeable, ambitious and fastidious young
men raised in the country would not shrink
from 1t as they do and make for the cities as
soon as they are released from parental
rule. The poetry has been put out Of life in
the country by SO many mistaken ideas,
both on the parf of those who live in the
cities and those who till the fields. little
more pride of condition would not be amiss
among the men and women on the farms.
Robert Ingersoll said something character
1stlc on this subject the other day. 1t is ab-
solutely true. 1t has in it not only the
voice Of the poet but the voice Of the Ameri-
can.
"It is no advantage to live in q city where
poverty dogrades and failure brings despair.
The fields are lovelier than paved streets,
and the great forests of oaks and elms are
more poetic than steeples and chimneys. In
the country is the idea of home. There you
see the rising and setting sun; you become
acquainted with the stars and clouds. The
consultations are your friends. You hear
the rain on the roof and listen to the rhyth-
mic signing of the winds. You are thrilled
by the resurrection called spring, touched
and saddened by autumn-the grace and
poetry OF death. Every field is q picture. .
landscape; every landscape a poem; every
Hover a tender thought. and every forest a
fairy land. In the country you preserve
your 1dentity-your personality. There you
are all aggregation Of atoms; but in the city
you are only an atom of an aggregation"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
A NOVEL NEWS BUREAU.

Artist and Writer to Labor Together for
Papers and tho World mt Large.
few days ago W. G. Kaufmann and Hep
burn Johns associated themselves together
for the modest purpose of supplying news
papers with all sorts of information, Incl
cidentally adorned with illustrations. The
basis of the Johns-Kaufmann News Bureau is
a collection OF portraits, an unique news
paper reference library, and large barrel
of experience in newspaper work. They
propose to assist in the beneficent work Of
keeping the world posted on Pittsburg, and
world.
Mr.. Johns will do most of the writing and
MI. Kaufman will do all the pictures. A
camera will do the rest. 1t is u new thing
here and in some respects in the country ut
large. Mr.. Johns has been u member of The
DISPATCH staff for seven years, and will
remain its dramatic editor.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
Ir is interesting to find out now that the

1T IS interesting to find out now that the
Whisky Trust is getting into the courts that
the alcoholic combination is not q trust at
all, but something more in the line of q
benevolent institution. This is the view
promulgated by Mr. Charles A. Prince, who
occupies the impartial position of counsel
for the combination. As the benevolent
character of these Institutions is never sus.
pected until they become subjects Of public
inquiry, they should be grateful to the peo.
pie who urge prosecutions and thus enable
them to demonstrate their charitable char
acter.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
THE passage of those railroad and bridg

The passage of those railroad and bridge
jobs through the lower branch Of the New
York Legislature is taken out of politics by
the Buffalo Courier. That journal points out
that while the Democrats voted almost SOL
idly for the steals, the Republicans tumbled
in with nearly equal unanimity, and init
mates that Republican boss may yet be
discovered in the woodpile. This is more
than possible. 1t is one of the great features
of modern jobbery thar when q big grab is
to be made those who can get share do not
let party lines restrain them. That limita.
tion is only used to hamper the people who
are in favor of public honesty.
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tackled the job Of extending its sanction to
Porter's count.

SENATOR HILLS remark that he has not
yet been able to discover that the Demo
Gratis in Congress have policy about any.
thing' may provoke tho retort from the
Democrats that this is due to the very small
fraction of his time that Mr.. Hill spends in
his Senatorial seat. But Senator Hills asser.
ton may be best explained by the fact that
all his time has been taken up in the effort
to discover what is his own policy about
silver. According to the Senator'S own
utterances this is Job calculated to keep
him busy for the rest of his lifetime.
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The little girl who died from showing
her ability to skip longer than her play.
mates was unconsciously exhibiting tho
spirit Of large number of our countrymen
in this age, who are determined to excel
their fellows no matter at what cost to ply
sical, mental or moral health.
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ROYALTY ON THE RIVIERA.
Many OF England's Most Favored Ones
Away for Their Health.


fBY CABLE TO THE prsPArcH1
LONDON. March 5.-There will be quite an
emigration Of English royalties to the South
of France within the next fortnight. The
Prince and Princess Of Wales and their
family leave on Saturday for Cape St. Mar
tins, lovely and retired little spot which
the Empress Eugenie has selected this year
as her spring headquarters. With the
Queen and Princess Beatrice at Hyeres, and
the Duke and Duchess of Teck and Princess
May at Lady Wolverton's villa near Men
tone, there be quite largo number of En-
g lish royalties on the Riviera. 1t is not
likely that London will see much of the
Prince and Princess of Wales for several
months 1t is rumored that they intend to
remain abroad for some time, and will not
return to Sandringham until October.
The royal ladies, by the way, show good
example in the simplicity of tn cir mourn
ing. Tne young Princesses are wearing
taflor-made gowns and jackets of black
serge, with mono OF the expensive and
Grape trimming unusually con-
sidered indispensable by less distinguished
mourners.