Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-09
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
4 Book Agent Takes t~dvautagn Of the Pan
Anne. leans 20 the Tune Of
$1,000.

Special 10 the Gazette.
WAsuINGToN. March S.-What's in a
name? Considerable for some people.
This was Illustrated the other day when
a book agent by name of Thomas B.
Reed, representing ~Lippincotts, the pub
fishers, recently sold to the delegates of
the Pan-AmeIican congress $1,000 worth
of Lppincott' 5 new Dictionary of Ameri-
can Biography. At the first opportunity
the work with the agents card attached,
was laid before the delegates. While
not personally interested in the book,
they concluded that il was policy TO in
vest, and upward of $1,000 worth was
purchased. But Reed vas not yet salts
fed, and made another raid, this time
on the delegates whom he had not met
during his first visit. Upon this second
adventure the ~cRuYasseT encountered d
Mexican, upon whose mind he endeav-
ored TO impress the great Importance of
the work for quick reference, etc.
''Ob yes, - the delegate said az dare
say il is Il very important york, but the
Gales you made when you were here be-
fore were made under a m"Isapprehen-
zion.
- DONE understand you, sir - said
Nj. Reed.
"Well, the facts are b the dele
gates who bought your books felt that it
was incumbent upon them TO do so. They
supposed that You were Speaker Thomas
B.. Reed of the house of representatives
and, so believing. construed their pur-
chases 10 be not only a courtesy to that
DffpFul IrtF n Osrrlip,a ,,f 70 thu TTuifa,
States. -
DOLLAR A YEAR MEN.
In an incidental conversation with
chief postofice inspector, Col. E. G.
Ra:hboue. 1 learned that the three
smallest saIarIed men in the postofice de-
partlnent receive but 81 a year from the
United States treasury. They are n
thOuy ComStOck of New York, Nc
AGe of st. Louis, and q Cali
fornis man named Bennett. These
three are postoffice inspec ors
whose powers come from Inspector
Rathbone's Office, but they are paid by
The Society for the prevention Of vice.
The 81 nominal salary is don to for
mally recognize them as actual agents
with authority of the government. They
attend 20 the iufTactious OF postal laws
regarding the sending of obscene books,
pictures, or forbidden medical appliances
through the mail. That they do
good and are very Jealous, even if at
times severe in their prosecution, il is
admitted by the chief inspector, n il
may BE- added that Gen. Wanamaker is
personally interested in their work and
gives them every encouragement. All
three men are devOutly religious, and
naturally kind hearted as all Christians
should be but they are not az all touched
IN heart when they SEND some luckless
devil on q long vacation to the peniten-
tiary.
FoRAKER's STANDING.
The appointment of Judge William II.
Taft of Cincinnati. as solicitor-general,
has set Republicans in Washington, es-
pecially those from Ohio, to some earnest
thinking. There is more significance in
the appointment tina was at first sus-
pected. Harrison knows thai he is weak
In Ohio. The Foraker element, which
Sill controls conventions, is not
Tor hin as he has ignored 1t in
bis appointments, because he feared
Inc emuity of the senate led by
Sherman, toward other appointments.
They say that a coterie Of millionaire
senator's, backed up by certain anti
Foraker members of the house, have
banded together 10 insist that one of
harrison 8 appointments, which favor
FORAKER and his friends, shall go through
uhiought. Rather han sacrifice some
p%rrsoual friends, Harrison has allowed
Tue autOCrRtIc senate TO Overaw and al
most dictate his appointments. Knowing
all this, Governor Foraker has all along
wisely refraiued from asking for any
lavors from the White House. The re-
port sent out by a lot of Mugwump cor
respondents that the ex-governor was
shu0bed by Harrison was q ''fake,' -
gotten up by an imaginative correspond
cut, who never went out of his own
once TO learn the truth. On the con-
uary Foraker was greeted warmly by
I'll members Of the cabinet from Blaine
to Rusk.