Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-24

first time that Cabinet Office had been
offered to man from Colorado, and the peo-
pie of my State would have considered It an
honor to have man in the Presidents Cab
met. The pressure became SO great that
could not refuse it and went to the White
House and told the President that would
accept the position. found the Office
very pleasant one and my relations with
President Arthur were of the most pleasant
nature. found that what he said as to the
legal requirements OF the Office was true and
I don't believe there is more important
position in the appointing power OF the
President from a legal standpoint than that
of the Secretary of the Interior.
AN INTERESTING FARMER.
The question of the wool tariff has
brought one of the most remarkable farmers
in the United States to Washington. This
is David Harpster, OF Northern Ohio. He
is one of the millionaire sheep raisers OF
the country. He has large estates scattered
over other parts of the Union, and to look
at him you would not suppose him to be
worth a dollar. He is about five feet four
inches high, is as broad as he is long. and
has round cannonball head, pasted down
upon pair of broad fat shoulders. His
roly-poly form is clad in rough goods which
might have been put together by his wife
and big derby hat comes well down
toward his ears and shades his fat horid
face.
Harpster is a great friend of Senator
Sherman's. He was sitting the other DAY
in Senator Sherman's committee room when
John B. Alley, the ex-Congressman from
Massachusetts,, who was so prominent In the
days of the Credit Mobilier scandal, came
in. Alley is millionaire. He is proud of
his riches and he is, I am told, little in
a., ha
Sherman's room, Mr.. Sherman introduced
him to Dave Harpster, saying, "Mr. Alley,
1 want to make you acquainted with one OF
our representative farmers, Mr.. Harpster.
A MILLIONAIRE HUMBLED.
"Ah, indeed" replied Alley as he shook
hands "You are farmer, are you. am
always glad to meet farmers. for I am some
thing of farmer myself I have farm in
Texas consisting of 40 900 acres"
'You have" muttered out Harpster,
"and where is it"
SIT is in such q county," said Alley,
naming the county, Gin the central part Of
Texas"
"Indeedr replied Mr.. Harpster, "it must
be good land, for own the whole county
next to it."
This surprised Alley and took the wind
out of his sails. He said little more about
his farms, but his actions showed that his
respect for Mr.. David Harpster, the Ohio
farmer, had perceptibly risen.
There is no man in Washington who en-
| joys a good dinner more than Senator Ev-
arts. He is one OF the highest livers in
| Washington, and notwithstanding that he
| is six feet tall and does not weigh more
than 125 pounds, he can eat all around Phi
letus Sawyer, who weighs 800 and has a
stomach SO large you could roll Evarts up
| like watch spring and coil him within il
and have room to spare. He shows in fact
no sign of his epicurean tastes, and once
while speaking in New York Yankee
who bad arrived after the meeting had be-
| gun, asked the name of the man on the
| platform. He was told it was Evarts.
"Whatp said he. you don't mean to say
that that lean little thing is E-vartsl Why,
| he looks as if he boarded"
| FRANK G. CARPENTER.