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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
The PENNSYLVANIA Appointments.

Whatever may be said about machine
politics" and ABUSE of the ppointing power I
want to say right here, as one OF the 'kickers'
OF lSSl-2, that the appointments made through
the influence of the Pennsylvania Senators and
tnelr friends, in the departments at the Capt.
Ioi, couid not nave been better If the very
guardian angel of civil service reform and
political independence had lowered about the
ears OF the bosses; OF the appointments made
rest OF PENNSYLVANIA. the reader can Judge as
well as i. So far as ] am personally acquainted
Win them they are excellent. 1 am better pre-
of the
KNOWS and likes Hazen, the Third Assistant
postmaster General, formerly of Easson but
ior years In his present position until he was
turned out by Cleveland The correspond
ents, whose JUDGMENT is infallible in such mat
Iers. would vote unanimously for Hazen for
almost anything.
Commissioner Holiday, the head Of the Gus
toms bureau, leading citizen of Erie county.
is one of the finest looking men Won will see on
the streets of Washington, and is already one
ot t tne most popular of the high officials. With
a sne !; nemDeTsot the civil service in his bureau
ne is voted by all odds the most genial and un-
assuming chieftaln within the memory of the
Oldest OF them. Colonel Frank GiIkeson. of
6rlstoi, has in the few weeks of his service as
tbe ee'no nor Hontroner made high reputation for
Inc correctness and readiness of his decisions.
ne; TOO Is one OF the most genial of men, and
makes warm personal friends wherever he
goes. The same may be said of Bell, Super1n-
tendent OF the Railway Mail Service, who is
rapidly bringing order out of the confusion in
wnich that branch of the postal service was
left by the former administration.
VI course everyone knows the Postmaster
ueneral, ana all that he Is doing and saying,
and good deal more, for somehow the news.
papers take delight in telling fanciful stories
ABOUT him more than any other member of the
aomlnistratlon. None of the Cabinet officials
is more approachable, with the exception of
Uncle Jerry" Rusk, possibly, and like the
other hieh officials appointed from Pennsylva-
ma ne gives no sign Of swollen head, an af-
nlction that Is not uncommon among the bet
Rankin, of Bellefonte, Chief of the Division
OF Indian Accounts, is another good fellow,
quiet, wholly unassuming. credit to his State.
as all the others are, and to the influence that
secured MS appointment. do not think any
state OF the Union can show an unbroken list
OF good men in the department service such as
is presented by Pennsylvania
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
VACATION ROMANCE.

Across the fields as we idly strolled,
In the cloudless summer day,
The winds were waiting the rare perfume
From the meadows of new mOwn hay,
And our hearts were still, as our lips kept time
To ou1 steps on that pleasant way.
AND down where the brook like wayward child
Rushes on DER the pebbly floor,
And sprinkles the rocks with its diamond spray,
And ripples along the shore.
We stopped at the crossing; gave him my hand,
And trustingly followed him o'er.
And when, in the twilight, we came again:
Our lips for the once were still,
And he held my hand as we crossed the stream,
And hardly against my will;
For gave my heart where gave my hand,
At the foot Of the noisy rill.
And when In the shade OF the vine-clad porch
We parted, 1t seemed to me.
The stars were twinkling in rare delight
Though I'm sure no eye could see
II the spot on my cheek had crimson blush,
And my heart an ecstacy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
BettinR in Favor Of searIe.

According to a cable dispatch received this
morning, the betting in London on the Searle-
O'Connor boat race, which will be rowed on
Monday. is f6 to "a in favor of Searle. O'Con-
nor's friends, however, are confident and both
men are in good condition. The cable also said
a match has been arranged between Frank SIa-
vim, the Australian pugilist, and Jem Smith.
The fight will be with bare knuckles and for
f200 side. Smith wanted larger stake, but
Slayin was unwilling to fight for any greater
sum. The Pelican Club. of London, has offered
a purse of 81, 200 for an eight-round glove con-
test between Peter Jackson, the colored cham
pion. and Jem Smith. the winner to receive
fL0O0 and the loser f200. Jackson has ac-
cepted. Smiths response has not yet been re-
ceiyed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
LOGIC nF THE LATINS.

The article on italian immigration, in the
last number of the Political Science Quar-
terly, by Eugene Schuyler, argues in that
gentleman's mastery and interesting style,
in favor of the immigration of the descend
ants of the Romans who are now digging
our sewers and railroads. lis not intended
to discuss the question raised by Mr.. Schuy-
Ter in O serious aspect at present, but the
following extract from the article is provo
cative of comment: "They bring to us the
logical qualities of the Latin race, and they
show in the long run the effect of an expert
ence which no other people in Europe has
had, of over 1000 years OF civilization.
The most characteristic feature which our
Latin leyies have displayed, since joining
in the industrial efforts of this country is
their tendency to capture defaulting or
slowly paying contractors, and TO hold them
as hostages until wages are paid. This
may support Mr.. Schuyler's view to the
extent that it exhibits the logical qualities
of the Latin race, in concluding that the
laborer is worthy of his hire, especially
when the Latins are the laborers. But as
to its being the result of 1000 years of
civilization, We may be permitted to ex-
press our doubts. If we mistake not the
practice of seizing hostages for whatever
was to be secured thereby, is dated from the
age of barbarism even before the seizure of
the Sabines.
Perhaps Mr.. Schuyler's way of putting
the thing may be valuable as developing
theory that 1000 years of civilization, under
the conditions that have prevailed for 20
centuries, is likely to bring the common
mass of humanity very nearly back to its
starting point
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
NO TIPS ALLOWED.
why Landlord Palmer Enforces This Rule
ut His House.


Mt His House.
From the Chicago Tribune.l
Potter Palmer is one of the few landlords Of
the country who refuses to allow any one in his
service to receive tip. A violationresults in
the dismissal of the recipient.
How came he to make this rule?n asked of
Mr.. Mezerye, a trotting man who is posted.
zone day." he said, Potter Palmer was
speeding his horse on the Lake Shore drive
when he became aware that someone was try-
ing to pass him. Mr.. Palmer touched up his
horse with the whip and the same did the man
who was behind In moment more the latter
passed Mr.. Palmer, and as he did so Mr.. Pal.
mer recognized him as his head porter. The
next day Mr.. Palmer met the man and said to
him:
John. that is pretty good horse you had on
the drive yesterday. You passed me, and my
horse is good one Where did you get your
horse?'
''The porter, with glow of pride, answefeu
that the horse was his own.
mi Paimer made no reply, but began an in
vestigation. He found that this man was ac-
cumplating wealth on the tips he received from
guests OF the Palmer House. He found that all
his employes were doing likewise, and he at
once issued tne order that any man in his serv-
ice who received tip was to be discharged
You may Zee waiter in the dining room il you
want to. but 1t has TO be done under cover If
the head waiter sees it the underling goes This
rule applies to the fellows at the bootblack
stand, whlcn stand, like everything else in that
taken in at that stand is turned into the man
ager every night, and is credited to the boot
black account 1t is the only place know of
where tipping is forbidden"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
A National Art Gallery.

Though the Government is just now expend-
ing good deal of money for public buildings it
is probable that at the next session Of Congress
bill will be introduced for the establishment
of national art gallery for it is only the nation
that is able to bear the expense of purchasing
the objects of art necessary in a representative
collection of the art of the world. The Corco-
ran gallery does as well as its means will per-
init, but it cannot do enough.
By the way, the landscape by Rousseau. pur-
chased for the gallery at the Secretan sale in
Paris, has not yet arrived. 1t alone will involve
an expense of over SIG 600 when it is hung The
building for the art school in connection with
the gallery for which Mr.. Corcoran left $780, 900,
is now rapidly being completed. 1t stands di-
rectly to the rear of the gallery. 1t will have
spacious rooms for the life class and a good
north light. 1 am glad to say that the Taylor
collection which has occupied valuable space
for long years on the wells of the gallery, will
be relegated to an upstairs room of the new
building.
The very excellent private gallery of Mr. John
F.Waggaman, the " ealthy real estate dealer will
soon be enriched by several valuable pictures
purchased for Mr.. Waggaman by Richard
Brooke, the artist of the popular Pastoral
Visit" of the, Corcoran gallery. Altogether the
prospects for an impetus to art in Washington
are very good. WI.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
A Bust of Chief: Justice White.

Dropping into the studio of Dunbar. the
sculptor, .as other day. 1 found the artist en-.
gagged on clay bust of the late Chief Justice
Waite. From the death mask, made by Dun
bar the morning after the death of the Chief
Justice. and from very good photographs, q
commanding and lifelike bust has been almost
finished by the artist. 1t is the hope of the
artist that his work may be so successful as to
induce an order for a marble bust to take its
place in one of the inches devoted to deceased
Justices of the Supreme Court in the old Sem
ate cha mber where the sittings of the court are
held. Dunbar also has death mask which he
took from the face OF the late Justice Mat
thews, which shows much more emaciation
than that Of Waite, as Matthews was very ill
for long time before his death.
A more a pathetic object than either of these
masks is the cast of a hand which Dunbar is
reproducing in marble. 1t is of the hand of
lady who was short time ago thrown from her
carriage and killed almost under the windows
of the bureau of The DISPATCH. Unfortun-.
ately there was in existence no photograph of
her from which the artist could get correct
impression of her features. No death mask
could be taken because the face was crushed
by the fearful accident; therefore the husband
decided to have a cast made of the beautiful
hand that had lain in his at the time the two
were made husband and wife, and that sad me-
mento will accompany him through the short
days of his remaining life, for the couple were
quite old and the marble hand is no bit of SEN
timent of boy husband.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
MOVED BY HIS SATANIC MAJESTY.
Queer Specimen of Berks County Litern-
ture Filed in Court.
Ernm the Philadelnhia Innnirar 1

Queer Specimen of Berks County Ntern.
ture Filed in Court.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Last Sunday German tramp peddler was
found hanging in a barn in Pike township
Berks county, and on Monday the following
specimen of literature was filed in the Quarter
Sessions office:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. county of Berks,
IS:
An inquisition indented and taken at Pike in
the county of Berks, on the 4th day of August in
the year of our Lord 1889, before me, Jacob H.
Talley, Justice of the Peace for the county of
Berks aforesaid upon a view of the body of Mar
tin Weitzler, German tramp, then and there
hanged himself in the barn of Mary Crouser; the
said Martin Weitller, by not having the fear of
God before his ewes, but being seduced and moved
by the instigation of the devil at Pike aforesaid
i'll a certain barn at Pike aforesaid lying and be-
ing, the said Martin Weitzler, being then and
there alone with certain twine of the value of
j, which he then and there put about his neck
and the other end thereof tied about a ladder
himself then and there. with the cord aforesaid
voluntarily and feloniously and with malice
aforethought hanged and sufocated and so the
jurors upon their oaths and affirmations afore-
said, say that the said Martin eitZler, then and
there in manner and form aforesaid as felon of
himself felonlously voluntarily and of his malice
aforethought, himself, strangled and murdered
against the peace and dignity of the Common
wealth ofPennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
MERRY MOMENTS.

The dude is like an engine in that he car
ries q head nght.-1roy Press.
There is nothing so holy (and inexpen-
sive) as sisters love.--HdLifdr Chronicle.
The little swell always likes to reach the
great wave Of popularity. .-Kearney Enterprise.
1t takes a swell lot of men to make
success Of dried apple trust.--ROchester Post
Express.
Considering how little the bell knows, it
is wonderful how much it has tolled.-MercAant
Traveller.
A man who has a cent left after all his
debts are paid is like theatrical advance agent
one sent ahead. Chicago Globe.
Hic jacet Thomas Jones,
A promising umpire,
Who said in fearless tones,
'Three strikes" and went up higher
S-ChtcGgo Nescs.
Briggs-I suppose you took your roll in
the surf every day when you were at the sea-
shore? Braggs--Certainly not L left it at the
hotel. Tsrre Hdute Express.
"Miss Grace is a beauty, isn't she?"
''Yes, and she knows II, too',
''What makes you think that?,,
'tBecause Iteld her so myself ''--IotoeU Cittzes.
beg pardon; your face seems familiar.
Haven't met you somewhere before?''
''Quite possible. I'm a Conscientious scruple.
I'm attending the Cronin trial.
shake; same here. I'm q Fixed Opinion. ~
Chicago Nelcs.
Good Ones Are Scarce. - Hopwood -
Knox, did ever tell you the story about the Judge
and his coon dog?
Knox--I don't remember. Was it good one?
Hopwood-Yes, mighty good story.
Knox-Then you never told it to me.-Neso YORK
Truth.
He stepped up and wrote on Chicago
register. u. Binks, WORLDS Fair City, Hotel
Clerk--Where is that city located pIease2 Guest
New York, Of course. Hotel Clerk--Um, yes.
Front, show the gentleman up to 24l2 fifteenth
floor. Elevator out Of order, sir.-Kedrney BH-
teFprfse.
Papa Ito little Ethel)-Do you know,
dear, that the one bright star you see above meb
bigger than all the earth?
Ethel--Oh, no, papa, that can't be!
Papa--But 1t Is my dear.
Ethel Then why doesn't it keep of the rain.--
Pick Ne Up.
) Chicago merchant (seowling at book
agent)--I have no time to look at your Bibles;
have " at home. Book agent--But you have none
like this. This has whole page In the family
record for divorces, and Chicago merchant
o, that's different. Why didn't you speak up in
the first place. You may leave me couple. -HsD
York Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
THE HEROES OF GETTYSBURG.
Nearly 4, 900 of Them VIII Visit the Battle.
field This Week.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.I
HARRISBURG. September THUS far nearly
l.OOO orders have been issued to soldier appli-
cants for transportation from their homes to
Gettysburg and return to enable them to wit
ness the dedication of Pennsylvania monu-
ments on Wednesday and Thursday next. The
veterans will be without expense except for
the purchase Of food. Tents will be furnished.
The average cost of transportation per individ-
ua is about 81; so that nearly S44 600 of the S5O-
100 appropriated by the State have been ex-
pended.
Adjutant General Hastings is anxious that all
honorably discharged soldiers who participated
in the three days light at Gettysburg shall be
present when the Pennsylvania monuments are
dedicated, even if the amount provided by the
State should be exceeded. If the demand for
transportation should exhaust the supply of
cash some provision will be made to meet the
deficiency
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
Wants n Job as Hansman.'

Warden Osborne, of the Tombs received to-
day this letter from Belvidere Kent. England:
To the Governor OF New York Prisons:
HONORABLE SIR Having seen in the paper here
that it is a difficult matter to obtain an execu-
toner, may it please Your Honor to allow me to
make application for the same. My character
will bear the strictest investigation. have been
a total abstainer from all intoxicating drink for
the past seven years, and feel confident that
would give ample satisfaction as executioner in
New York. Awaiting your reply am, Honor
able Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM WEBB.
p. S.-Having heard that an executioner, Mr.
Berry, offered TO do It for $500 beg leave to state
that think the office Is quite sufficient for one
man. 1 will do IL for $500.
Warden Osborne replied to the effect that
there was no demand for hangmen in New York
on account of tho Introduction of execution by
electricity.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
AREPORTER AS A DETECTIVE.
He Quickly Succeeds Where All the Police
Officers Had Fniled.

DETBoIT, September 7.-Miss Anna Klink,
domestic, disappeared last Monday and the
police we're notified. They made diligent
search for two days without result and the case
was then given into the hands of the detective
bureau. The Vidocqs accidently learned that
mysterious cries had been heard along the river
Monday night and they ascertained that a
murder had been committed and that Anna
KllnB was the victim. They dragged the river
and secured the city, but without avail
Then Frank T. Gessner, newspaper re-
porter, was detailed to work up the case, and
within two hours he found the girl at the home
ofa friend. She had been taken suddenly sick
and in delirum had found place of shelter,
where she was being cared for.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
CHAT OF THE CAPITAL.
The Pennsylvania Appointments Are n
Source of Congrafulntion-A National
Art GaIIery-Ofher Notes.

Art GaIery--Ofher Notes.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsPArcH.i
WASHINGTON, September 6.-With all the
elaborate machinery for the collection of sta
tistics, including the taking of the census of
1890 there is one branch of statistics that has
scarcely been touched, because it could not be
without special enactment that would prob
ably be looked upon as too drastic, even in this
period when what has always been supposed to
be purely private matters are dragged before
the public because they are found to have a
bearing on the general welfare. In the Bureau
OF Statistics, connected with the Treasury De-
partment, in the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
the universal sweeping up of what is left, by
the coming census, there is no proposition to
secure reliable information of the profits that
are made by corporations and individuals en-
gagged in trade and commerce. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics has made some attempt in this
direction, but for want of proper authority the
attempts have of course been abortive.
Yet This is absolutely necessary before our
industrial and commercial system can be prop
erly understood, and before what is termed
political economy can be reduced to one of
the exact sciences. With reliable figures of
profits, added to the array of statistics already
produced and to be produced, the social econ
omlst could formulate arguments that could
not De disputed. There is a movement on foot
70 secure some enactment of this kind by the
coming Congress, but it is not probable that it
VIII pc accomplished in season for its appica-
tion TO the next census and it is not certain
tDat 1t would be advisable to do so. The proper
machine Tor that work is the Bureau of Labor
statistics, whose legitimate field Is the collec-
tion.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

NEW YoRK's World Fair project is un-
dergoing the chills of dissolution by the
discovery of the usual theory of the mill
ionaire members of its Finance Committee
that the presence of their names on the
committee relieves them from the duty Of
all services in the way of putting their
names down for big subscriptions. This is
a chronic trouble with New York projects.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
THE failure of the stupid and II

THE failure of the stupid and unconstitu-
tional attempt to prohibit the interstate
trade in dressed beef by State legislation,
has made the dressed beef magnates of Chi
cago more presumptuous and defiant On
the other hand, their refusal to pay any re-
spect to an investigation under authority of
the United States Senate. will only provoke
more radical legislation against them. In
other words, when both sides take the most
foolish course, matters are bound to get into
a pretty muss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

docks, and it is felt that the
prosperous and vaunted British trade will
not be impeded by paying twelve cents an
hour in place of eight to the men who load
ana unload the cargoes. That will not
bring luxury at once into the workingmen's
lives. but it will help some. Best of all, it
will be an evidence that the "world do
move" and is moving, even to the least con-
sidered class of toilers, when their appeal is
heard.
But if reasonableness of the demand is at
the bottom of its probable success, the gener-
alship of the strike has also much to do
with its prospects. John Burns, the leader,
had previously been heard of rather as a
visionary Socialist of the extreme type and
a martyr of the police courts than as an ex-
ecutive leader of labor. His elaborate prep
arations for the dock hands strike shows,
however. immense patience and control of
the men. Repression of riot and violenceare
also evidence of his shrewdness. But the
wiseSt thing Burns did was to put down his
foot on the project OF a sympathetic strike
in which all the workingmen of London
were to be called out. That would at once
have alienated entirely public sympathy
and have led to the widest confusion, end
ing beyond doubt in general riot.
A hot-headed and dangerous man, in
Burns place, would have been unable to
resist the temptation to show his authority.
OF such are the sort who injure the cause of
labor by using power for the mere sake of
using it, without regard to whether friendly
or antagonistic interests suffer. Burns is
clearly not of that type-so that in place
of being treated as visionary, as hereto
fore, the outcome of his campaign will
doubtless be to establish him as person of
prime importance in the labor ranks of
England.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08

Now that the complications over the
Library Hall sale have reach ed stage
which necessitated postponement anyhow,
the public will join in the hope that it may
be possible to make arrangements which
shall preserve the property for the public
and benefcent purpose to which it was
dedicated by the law under which it was
created
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-08
ATTACKED BY A BLACK SNAKE,
A Farmer is Rescued From His Peril by
His Faithful Dog.

FRANKLIN, IND, September flames Til
son, young man living east of this city, has
dog that no money could buy, for had it not
been for the dog he would now have been in his
grave. Yesterday, while young Tilson was
plowing on his fathers farm, large black
snake, nearly six feet long, jumped on him
from the tall grass lining the field, and wound
itself around his neck,
A terrible battle ensued between Tilson and
the snake, and the outcome would probably
have been death to the young man had not his
large shepherd dog, which had been following
him. come to his assistance, and between them
the snake was killed.