Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-13
After long. severe argument, however,

cost of sI5O,OO0
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After long, severe argument, however,
wiser counsels prevailed. and the price was
stricken out. The rans-Missouri country
will enthusiastically go in for good show
ing, anu will also attend the fair prepared
to tiguratively knock out the eve and gather
In the Etruscan pelts of the great nations oil
the EARTH
California, among other salient features,
is the proud possessor of what is called an
average rainfall. Every child even knows
what it is now, what it was in 70 and as far
back as history extends. Fourteen to 16
inches will do the business in agricultural
districts very well, but this year it has been
from 40 to Ito inches, according to the local.
ity. The Santa Clara valley has wetness
enough to last for four years. and yet only
in low parts of the country will crops be de-
layed or injured by the great rainfall.
RAILROADS AND TELEGRAPHs.
I asked q well-known railroad man the
other day what he thought would be the
general effect on business if the Govern
ment should take charge of the railroads
and telegraphs. He said he thought it
would be anything but soothing. "In such
an event." said he, "business would be sub
verted to politics, think. On election day
trains would be delayed and voted in the
doubtful States. Washouts would give large
party gains to the ruling powers. Tele-
grams would be affected more or less in the
rapidity of their flight by their political
tenor, and the administration organ would
be able to get Sunday trains for its man.
moth editions, while the opposition paper
would run off the track or be held for orders.
We can get all the corruption we need,
II IL
possibilities, I would hate to see a Hester
street heeler rewarded by being made a
government train dispatcher on my road.
You can educate postmaster pretty we'll
in four years, but you take a green poll
tician and try to make a train dispatcher
or division superintendent out of him and
you are liable to be bitterly disappointed in
him."
We had last week on the train style Of
passenger common to this free country,
He was foreigner by birth and had made
some money in this country by happy
accident in the price of rags or the sud-
den advance in old clothes. Doubtless
in his old home across the ocean he had
slept at night on a heap of straw and eaten
the brunette bread of the plain people.
SLIGHTLY OUT OF PLACE.
Here he had made money under the fos-
tering care OF our free institutions and rode
in sleeping car. Vulgarity had early
marked him for for its own, and so, even
with silk hat and an overcoat with fur
collar on it, one could see that he would be
more at home sleeping in the loft of livery
stable with his whiskers full of barley straw.
He lound fault with everything, and in half
an hour had won his way to the hearty and
cordial hatred of everyone in the car. He
asked me what paid for my berth to San
Francisco. told him, butI told him 50 less
than the price because he was we'll calcu-
lated to call forth that kind Of an answer.
He was wild. He wanted to jump off the
train and go back to the Office to get his So
back. 1 then posted the other passengers, and
they came and pitied him till he frothed at
the mouth. People told him that the COM
pa1y must have prejudice against him for
Everyone pitied him and felt
sorry for him. Finally We got to working
the same thing on him in other directions.
FINALLY TEARS CAME.
We would ask him what he paid for his
dinner and his other meals. Then we would
find out that had been robbed again. We
would buy fruit from the train boy, accord
ing to previous arrangement with him, at
a. price at least 30 per cent below what he
could get the same goods for. Then we
would 60 over and feel sorry for him, and
ask him if he had ever been suspected OF be-
ing Nihilist or of belonging to some other
that was unpopular that peo-
pie picked on him so until finally he got so
mad that large scalding tears of vexation
ran down over his red beard and iell on the
rich tapestry OF the car. His only solace at
this time was to turn frequently upon his