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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
A Half-Grown Strike.

A score or more cash boys employed in
New York drygoods store organized strike
about ten days ago, says the New York
Times. They wanted an increase of 80 cents
q week in their pay and the abatement of
two or three obnoxious rules relative to
fines. The determination to strike was
unanimous, and each boy was taken, as fast
as circumstances permitted, into the re-
motest corner of the cellar under the store,
and made to "swear upon honor that he
would not back out of the movement until
the objects sought were attained. A day or
two before the day fixed for the strike
mousing porter caught three OF them
together in the cellar, and his threats
to report them for attempting to steal
frightened them into telling him their secret.
Utterly disregarding their pleas to "keep
still about it, the porter went directly to the
Superintendent and exposed the plot. That
moned before the Superintendent after the
store had been closed. eff there is to be any
striking in this store" said the Superin-
tendent, al propose to strike first. Now
want every boy who Is pledged to this move
ment to step forward" Only one boy
stepped forward, and he proved to be the
most industrious and trustworthy boy in the
store. Each of the other boys, being
questioned in turn, denied any completely in
the proposed strike. The superintendent
was O shrewd man. He soon ascertained all
of the facts and found that the one plucky
boy proposed to stand by his "strike oath"
until "the objects sought were attained"
''Oh, very WE'LL" said the superintendent
dryly, Gas you are the only one on strike,
will concede to you all you ask"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
A SUBJECT OF SURGERY.

The advance of surgical science is Illus
trated by some recent experiments in
which the skulls of living subjects have
been enlarged, remodeled or taken in
with the same successful results as those
which attend operations by skilled dress
maker on an unsatisfactory costume. The
latest and most striking case is reported
from New York. Here a seryant-girl,
whose leading characteristic had been that
of unconquerable stupidity, was operated
on by closing an aperture between the
cranial bones The result of the opera
ton gave her the power of quick learning
and retentive memory. This demonstra-
ton of the ability of surgery to cure
chronic stupidity should be of great value
to the people of Pennsylvania. By put
ting our Legislature under the treatment
of this New York surgeon it might yet
become able to learn that undisguised
shams will not pass for reform, and its
powers of memory might be improved
sufficiently to remember the last State
platform.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
PHILADELPHIA's ROTTEN BANKS.
Plain Talk of the State Press on the ReceI
Financial Scandals.

Plain Talk of the State Press on the Recent
Financial Scandals.
PHILADELPHIA Call: A director who fails to
direct and an examiner who fails to examine
are about on par.
PHILADELPHIA Times. Instead of tearing
leaves out in their books last January, the
guilty Keystone folks should have turned
over some new ones.
HARRISBURG Telegraph: The whole truth is
now out. The keystone bank wreckers were
thieves - common, ordinary, everyday
thieves, who robbed right and left and per-
petrated that meanest Of thefts, robbed their
friends. 1t is to be hoped that the law in
this instance will be dealt out impartially to
these robbers.
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin: More than week
has passed since the Spring Garden Bank
closed its doors, but no statement of its con-
dition has yet reached the public. In the
meantime there is prevailing suspicion
that one or more active and dextrous Afri-
cans are concealed somewhere in the debris
of this woodpile
LANCASTER bateuigencer: The Developments
in the Keystone Bank matter show that there
is no protection to the creditors of bank
any more than Of an individual, outside of
personal character. The United States un-
dertakes to protect national bank depositors
by periodically examining their condition,
but Mr.. Drew, who had been semtannually
examining the Keystone Bank ever since it
was started, or for some ten years, did not
find out that anything was wrong with it un-
til the President q little while ago asked a
director to kindly tell the examiner that he
would find the bank rotten If he would again
look into it.
PHILADELPHIA Press: The Keystone Bank
examination has gone far enough to show
that for at least three years. and in some
cases for five, a large number of its officers
and directors have had q guilty knowledge
of its bankrupt condition. The repeated
examinations made in this period failed to
reveal its condition because of the con-
spiracy of concealment in which all about
the bank were engaged. This does not
relieve the Bank Examiner from a very
serious responsibility. 1t imposes the duty
of a rigid, legal inquiry whether the con-
spiracy to conceal the real state of affairs
did not include some person or persons out
side of the bank.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
AMERICAN LABOR TOO HIGH
For the Best Quality of Brushes to be Manu-
factured Here.

factured Here.
Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.]
In New York City passed brush shop on
broadway. 1t occurred to me that would
go in and buy an assortment of whisp
brooms, hair brushes, bath brushes, nail
brushes, and supply some new rooms had
added to my library den that bachelor
friends might come along and require no
baggage at all. bought some Is worth of
things sold to me at at ne 5ne nd shme gure as to
as one twelfth, two of q kind figuring in as
one sixth of dozen, etc. 1 noticed great
difference in the prices OF these brushes, es-
this brush sI2 a dozen and that one less
than AZ a dozen?" "The more expensive
ones are imported" said he. "Why are they
imported" Because ~ LABOR infrdSn is too high in
cry into the manufactory, and you can never
get in brush-making the perfection by ma.
chimes which handwork Will give you. The
bristles Of many Of these french s .b brushes
brushes in the world, are all picked
out by hand, and they keep stiffness as
long as the brush lasts. The woodwork is
mainly done by hand and the brush holds
together longer than q glued brush would
do, the back of which may be in two or three
pieces. The fact is that while we make
brushes in great quantities in the United
States, and we ourselves are interested in
brush mills here, yet the best brushes still
are imported. We even import bristles to
make our own brushes with"
"You give no other solution to this than
the greater price of labor?''
"That is the whole question. Every one
of those foreign laborers who comes over
here understands that by combination he
can cripple che manufacturer and to some
extent control him. He wants at least so per
cent more wages than he got in France OF
Germany or England Indeed, he is the per-
son who in general forms the labor organiza-
tion, having q notion in his mind from the
time he left the other country that America
shall owe him at least 80 per cent advance.
and he starts to secure it by combination.
The manufacturer, therefore, unable to ham
die the labor question, looks to machinery
for his relief. He will get q machine which
will saw out the wooden parts of the brush,
arrange the bristles and substitute for one
half Of the hand labor a full half of inven-
ton. We furnish cheap articles, therefore,
bnt they do not last like those which would
be made by hand, were we not at the mercy
of the foreign and the amalgamated skilled
labor"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
AYenerable Mule,s History.

A venerable mule. with an eventful his
tory, was pointed out on the streets of Dem
nison last week, according to special dis
patch to the st. Louis Globe Democrat. 1t is
the property of Ben Walker, and is known to
be 40 years old. During the war 1t was in the
Red River Department of the Confederate
service, At the battle of Honey Grove, in
the Creek Nation, the mule was attached to
the artillery service 1t was with General
Price at the battle of Elkhorn Tavern, Mo.
1t was also in the Pea Ridge campaign, and
was at one time ridden by General Holmes,
of Confederate fame, when Generals Marina
duke and Hindman retreated to Little Rock,
Ark. After the affair with the Federal Cen
eral Blount the mule was used in the ambu-
lance department. 1t has been in number
of battles, but never stampeded or lost its
presence of mind. Recently while standing
on Main street the venerable animal did not
look day oyer 10 years old. Jimmie Dare
is sleek and fat, with bright eye and elas-
tic step. and Ben Walker informed the
Globe Democrat man that last spring he trav-
eled over 300 miles through the Chickasaw
and Choctaw Nations, averaging 25 miles 9.
day, and that Jimmie showed no evidence Of
fatigue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
PEOPLE WHO COME AND 60.

VIII. QUAY, of Meadville, and Luke
Schoolcraft, the minstrel, are stopping at
the Central Hotel. Luke signs for the good
old DAYS when white-faced business had not
spoiled the beautiful art of negro m1nstrelsy.
C.H. Kaufman and George d. Evans,
Wheeling officials of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation, were at the Central Hotel yesterday
making arrangements for the annual meet
ing, which will be held soon.
Emil Fischer, the bass singer, left for
Chicago last evening. He was greatly pleased
with his reception In Pittsburg, and hopes TO
return some day in the future
Lieutenant Booker, of the Third district,
leaves this morning for Lancaster, to attend
the annual session of the Grand Lodge Of
Odd Fellows.
VII. Pratt, of the Mt. Vernon Bridge
Works, and W. P. Tyler, of the Washington
Tube Company, are at the Duquesne.
All. Simon, owner of "The Patrol"
company, and s. W. Foulk, of New Castle,
are at the Seventh Avenue Hotel.
= Vice President James McCrea, of the
PENNSYLVANIA Company, went to Philadel-
phia last night in his private car.
General Reynolds, counsel for the Pull
man Company, was passenger on the lin
tied going to Chicago last night.
J.F. Hill, of Brockton, and w. C. Bry-
son, of Washington, are registered at the
MOnOnganeia House.
H. T. McGreevy and wife, of Van-
couva, were among the guests at the
Schlosser yesterday.
Mrs. C. W. Bassett left for New York last
evening to attend the funeral of her broth
er's child.
L. G. Smith, of Washington, and H. O.
Beck, of Akron, are stopping at the Ander-
son.
Edmund Jenkins, the Baltimore and
Ohio paymaster, was in the city yesterday.
DIR. Templeton has returned from trip
through Illinois.
Ex-senator James s. Rutan went East
last evening.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
A DISH OF LITERARY HASH.
Origin of the Word Mugwump-How Fat
Man sits-sman Boys on strike-Two
Animals That Served in the Late I'm

Origin of the Word Mugwump-How Fat
Man Sifs-Sman Boys ON Strike-Two
Animals That Served in the Late Un-
pleasantness.
The history of the modern literary use of
the word "mugwump'' is enlarged by a re-
cent contribution to the Vermont Standard
from Mr.. Henry S. Dana, of Woodstock, vt.
Mr.. Dana is deeply versed in neighborhood
matters, and has written an elaborate history
of Woodstock. He says that the American
Wing newspaper, published for several
years in that town, contained the following,
under date of August "a, 1892:
DYING CALL, OR THE CAT LET OUT OF THE BAG.
So Through the politeness of anti-Masonic
friend in distant town we have been furnished
with copy of the secret bulletin Of the Clay Ma
sonic party. 1t has extensively circulated among
Mugwumps Of the CabetOw nearly a month ago.
and with so much secrecy and caution'' that we
have been unable to get sight of a copy until the
present moment.
Mr.. Dana says: "The credit of starting the
word tMugwumps' in the public print must
be given to our fellow-townsman Henry S.
Hutchinson, until some person appears who
can establish a prior claim" 1t may be
doubted whether, at this distance of time, d
claim prior to 1882 can well be established by
production Of a printed record: but ever
since the days of the Pilgrim Fathers the
word has been familiar in New England
communities. Because it was thus familiar,
the Vermont editor, 90 years ago, used 1t in
addressing the plain people of his constitu,
ency. He knew that they would understand
it. 1t is to be noticed that the term invaria-
bly, denotes some excellency or superiority
In the persons to whom 1t is applied.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

FRANCIS n. ZABRIsKIE, d. D., of Princeton,
the well-known divine and author, is dead.
JOHN CALVERT, the 12-year-old son Of Rev. A.
H. Calvert, of Sharpsburg, died yesterday from
cerebro-spnal meningitis:
JOSEPH A. BEEBE, for more than half q century
prominent citizen of Akron, died Saturday, aged
50 years. He was for many years editor of the
Beacon.
LIEUTENANT ALLEN G. PAUL, U. s. N, died
on board the cruiser Philadelphia on her recent
return trip from Hayti to New York. he acted as
Naval Secretary under Secretary OF the Navy
Tracy.
JOSEPH A. EDMoNDsoN, aged rs years, died Sat-
urday at his home, ''Blythewood," Baltimore.
Mr.. Edmondson was probably the oldest merchant
in the grocery trade In Baltimore. Edmondson
Son was the title of his firm.
MRS. ELIZA A. LONG. who was buried in Akron,
o., Saturday was the first lady type-setter In that
city, and worked in the composing room OF the
Bedcon 20 years ago. Her husband was one of the
founders of that paper, and was foreman Of the
composing room at that time.
PIERRE ADoLPHE CHERUEL, the well-known
French historian, is dead in Paris. The Colbert
prize was awarded to him by the Academic Fran
caise at four annual concourses excessively for
his .Histoire de Ia France Pendant Ia Minorite de
Louis XIV, y and "Histoire de France sous lie
Mintstere de MaZarin.n He was one Of the ablest
lecturers In the colleges Of France.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
A LAST ATTENIP f.

A press dispatch from New York an
nounces that a fresh attempt is to be made
to enforce the law against the importation
of alien contract labor. Some immigrants
have been held, in whose case there has
been a clear infraction of the law. The
effort is to be tried over again to impose
the penalty on those who have violated
the law; although, as the dispatch naively
says, after detailing the steps to be taken,
the enforcement Of the law is expected to
be ga work of considerable difficulty"
OF course, as long as the law Is on the
statute books, every effort should be made
to enforce it. 1t is true justice, too, that
the effort should be made to reach the re-
sponsible parties, the employers who
authorize and pay for the violation of the
law. But the language Of this announce
ment that a last attempt is to be made to
enforce that enactment with slight hope of
its success, ought to make the conclusion
clear to which experience has pointed for
the last few years, namely, that the law is
practical failure.
The fact is that the law forbidding the
importation of contract alien labor, though
inspired by laudable purpose, was hastily
framed upon an entirely futile theory. 1t
set up false standard, for it is not
prior contract that is objectionable, but
the character of the immigration. Its
failure in enforcement is sufficiently clear
from the fact that the only immigrants it
has kept out were not Objectionable; while
the most ignorant and undesirable class
of immigration has flOcked in unchecked
by the tens of thousands.
1t is time to recognize the fact that the
only way to regulate the immigration evil
is to require tests and certificates showing
the character of the immigrant.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
The Daily Grind in q Bank.

"When we get to the bank in the morn
ing" said a bank messenger to writer in
the Cincinnati Tfmes-Stor, "the first duty is
to open all letters and take charge of drafts
on city parties. Then we start out and pre-
sent the drafts and receive in return checks
or cash. These we bring to the bank and de-
mail. This often requires considerable time
and as soon as it is completed we tie it up
and help pack it off to the postoffice. We
are often intrusted tedu,,Ud with large sums Of
Our duties are by no means light, as YOU can
see. once carried 100000 from the bank to
the Treasury Departmental in the Government
building On this occasion was guarded by
five trusty men, picked by the bank officers.
did not know who they were, but they all
knew me. Every bank messenger carries
loaded revolver when on the street,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
Tired of Tardy Prisoners,

The following story, which has been started
omewhere in reference to the Center
county, Pa, jail, has been resurrected by
the Oil City Bltzzard Unless something is
done to render the jail a sure place of con-
finement it will become as much of farce
as the old jail was during the term of @
certain Dutch Sheriff from the lower end of
Penn's Valley. 1t is said that he used to go
out on the front porch and ring the bell at
meal times for the prisoners, and used to sit
20 to bed. He got tired of staying up so late
and one morning he called them all together
in the office, and said: "Loog here, yous-o-
vaten on you prisoners to come in Is played
out. After dis any prisoner vat doesn't git
in dis jail at o'clock gifts locked out"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
A Dog Honorably Discharged.

A curious relic of the war is in possession
of Charles F. Gillet, of Cleveland, who values
it highly. says the linton Veteran, of that city.
1t is the honorable discharge of a faithful
dog owned by Mr.. Gillet's father, the animal
having served for three years in Battery H.,
Independent Regiment, Pennsylvania Light
Artillery. The discharge recites that "Jack
Puppy (brindle)' is Hwatchman" in Cap
tain F. II: Nevin's company ,that he was en-,
was discharged June 10th, 1866, at Camp
Barry, d: c., by reason of expiration of term.
He was born, according to this record, at
Alexandria, Va, and was four years old at
the time Of discharge; with q yellow COM
plexion and brown eyes, and was by occupa-
tion when enrolled "a fighter" The dis
charge is duly signed by e. H. Nevins, Jr.,
Terrence, mastering officer, Lieutenant Sec
ond United States Artillery,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
THE MERRY-GO ROUND.
THE BAKERS TRICK.
The baker gives us loaves that puff

The baker gives us loaves tnat pun
Out in a wondrous way,
And has the cheek to claim the stuff
Is holesomer that Washington Post.
Few things give the average hard-headed
business man more pleasure than the ability 10 say
of a successful actress on the stage:
''Oh, yes, meet her frequently In private me-"
-SomeruilIe Journal
First Tramp-I never failed yet TO make
money out Of anything tackled.
Second Tramp-You ought to be ricn.
First Tramp-But I amt. You see i never
tackled anything. ng.-Tsr1s SVtfngs.
'sBlitturs began life as a school teacher"
s.ReaIly? What a precocious baby he must have
been.--lsslo York Sun.
.Gillygall-Now, Miss Gwaee, if you de-
shaved to cut diamond. what would you use?
Miss Keene-The heart of any man that can regu-
lariy visit girl two years without Offering her o
ring.-Jeoeler's Weekly.
81 began keeping a diary this year-an
honest diary-and wrote it in French, but I've
dropped it,"
.swhy?"
my wife has begun taking French lessons."-
Ne1o FORK Recorder.
Carruthers-Dreadfully cultured people,
those Bostonans. Friend of mine there's got Q
hen roost: what do you suppose he calls it?
waite-Can't say.
Carruthers-The laity.-Eelo York Herald.
Hungry Higgins-Say, boss, 1 haven't
had bite to eat for four days.
Nudge (hurryiug by)-And have had to decline
seven Invitations to dinner in the same period Of
time. Funny how things average up, isn't H.
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
! NO USE FOR BOGUS sP00Ks.
A Spiritualis's Opinion of a Proposed Law
in Illinois.
Chicago Tribune.l

Chicago Tribune.]
Colonel John C. Bundy, who edits paper
in the interest of spiritualism, is pleased at
the passage by the Illinois Senate of a bill
prohibiting anyone from personating the
spirits of the dead, commonly known as
spirit medium seances, ON penalty of fine
and imprisonment. The editor sent the bill
to Springfield and drew it up himself.
"The purpose of the bill," said Colonel
Bundy yesterday, is to suppress this fraudu-
lent naturalization business which is being
carried on in this city and all over the coun-
try, 1t is aimed to prevent such exhibitions
as those given by Mrs Sawyer, which the
Tribune exposed, and those Of the. Bangs
sisters. Philadelphia was full of these
frauds. during the Centennial and they
preyed on the visitors Such peo-
pie are already making arrangements
to come here next year and stay until the
Worlds Fair is over. / wrote the bill in the
interest of psychical science, of the people,
and of honest observation-disclosures mediums.
Scientists are handicapped by these -charla.
tans going about the country giving fradu-
lent exhibitions. There will be no trouble
distinguishing between trick exhibition
and a genuine spirit naturalization, as the
latter is scientific phenomenon requiring
no artificial Device"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
SENATOR JONES, of Nevada, is out in an

CtNAIOh JOINIlsj VI LNO'uOHfs, 10 VuV III oII
interview in which he makes it evident that
he is not an appendage to the Harrison
boom. After expressing slight opinion of
the Presidents career as Senator, the Ne
vada man says: "Now that he is President
he has the power to set aside and nullify the
deliberate work of three or four hundred
men after it has passed committees of both
Houses and been thorougly and carefully
considered. This is wrong" While this is
clear enough as an expression of Jones' dis
satisfaction, it does not make one point quite
plain enough. 1t fails to say whether Jones
lays the blame for the wrong he speaks of on
the party which elected Harrison President
or on the Constitution of theUnited States,
which gives the President the power of
which he complains.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
AN AMATEURS STRUGGLE.

love my love SO well
MY love cannot tell.
Though oft I've tried, in prose,
And so l venture rhyme,
(That doesn't rhyme0
love her merry eyes,
The color of the skies,
Her ripping laugh SO sweet,
Her golden hair, her dimpfing cheeks,
And dancing feet,
(Too many feet.)
She's in my thoughts alway.
In night dreams and In day,
would the hours feet fleeter
Toward the moment shall meet her,
(That's wrong metre.)
It's hard for me to write
NV muse has taken flight;
My rhyme is getting worse,
think I'll try blank verse.
(No!- all verse.)
-Rasotuckst Times
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-18
WILL HELP RAPID TRANSIT.
Work VIII Be Begun in September ON fh<
Great North River Bridge.


NEW YORK, May 1.-THE big New York and
New Jersey bridge, which is to span the
Hudson river at West Seventy-hrst street
and connect all suburban towns with New
York, is no longer an enterprise of the nut
ure- The necessary capital, 800, ,0oooo mas
been subscribed by syndicate of cap1tallsts
of this city and New Jersey, and the New
Jersey Commission will meet next week 20
effect permanent organization. When TINS
has been done the company will be lncoI-
pOrated under the laws of both New lork
and New Jersey. The work of construction
will then Immediately be begun
Charles Swan, Secretary Of the New ork
Commission, said yesterday, speaking on the
transit route, that the system, when finished,
would be the most complete in the world
Besides the increased facilities for travel ne
omen avenues of local commerce which
would completely abolish the oyercr0wdeo
condition OF both the North and East rivers.