Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-27


coward?' shouted the General; "come back
and take care of the wounded man." The
runner halted long enough to shout back,
"Don't worry, General, bout me! I'm the
wounded man."
'T AM pleased to see THE DISPATCH
take up the idea of q training school for
young workingmen and women" said a
workingman to me yesterday. 81 know
many an apprentice, mill worker and other
wage Garner who is anxious to learn the
scientific rudiments necessary for him to
have to advance in his line of work. 1t can
not be done by books alone nor can many OF
the men who are skilled themselves trans
init the knowledge they have to others.
They have learned many things by years of
hard experience and there are numbers of
them who merely know that If they do GER
tain things in certain way the result is 80
and So butwhy it is so they do not know
nor do they know how to change their
methods. 1t would be a Godsend to have O
school modelled on the Cooper Institute
here"
FROM the point of view of those behind
the counters of the stores it has been highly
satisfactory Christmas Business of all sorts
has been very good and in some lines it has
been better than for years. A wholesale
he had sold almost twice as much in money
value as he did last year, and he was not an
exception, he thought, to the trade rule.
jewelers. have harvested o crop such as they
have rarely had before. Everybody says
that it was not the big buying of anybody
which made things lively, but it was the
large increase in tine number of buyers who
spend literally. There does not seem to be
any business scare ahead, and good times
back of us has produced disposition to be
generous.
How busy the recording angels must be
these cold evenings on the corners up town
as the crowded cars so by and refuse to stop
for people waiting with arms full of bun
dies.
THE field of Christmas gifts has widened
so wonderfully of late years that it is next
to impossible to think of something worth
buying which is not on the list Those
have heard OF this year range from hand
some East End house and lot, given by q
father to son who expects to marry soon,
to quail, cooked by a leading caterer, which
young lady gave her terrier. 1t appears
to be a time when the average father is
eliminated except as provider of funds or
q porter of packages. DO the men buy
many things of You?" asked drygoods and
furnishing goods dealer of jeweler. GAS a
| rule they do not" said the jeweler. "a
good many of them come into my place, but
| they usually have some lady with them
whose decision settles the purchase"
| "That's the way 1t is with u.s." chimed in q
| toy dealer; ''the mothers, wives and sisters
do about 70 per cent of the buying and the
men do the paying and the carrying
| home"
In spite of all the talk of other candi-
dates, it looks, at this distance, as if General
| d. H. Hastings would have things pretty
| well his own way in the next Gubernatorial
contest. He has the solid support of the
Philadelphia leaders, the Pittsburg people
seem to prefer him to any outside candidate
and half a dozen country leaders have de-
clared for him.
1 AM told by an old man who has had
, much TO do with the financial affairs of the
Economics that their accumulations do not
at this time amount to more than three or
| four millions at the utmost For some years
| they have been unfortunate in many Of
their investments and several of their in
dustrial establishments have caused losses
instead OF bringing in profits for four or five
years.
| of course and part of the zone day in tie
year when all is cheerfulness." There were
good many people in the East End who
felt the force of this. They depended upon
natural gas. That alluring and flamboyant
| article, after behaving in a shabby way for
| several hours, took q day off. 1t is pleasant
| in house with the Thermometer at zero and
| no coal burning stoves or CRATES. 1t is
| especially cheerful to have the servant girl
| appear in an ulster and a horse blanket and
| ask if you want to look at the turkey which
| has been frozen so hard it seems made OF
| wood. 1t is nice and inspiring to look at the
gas-saving arrangements in the CRATES and
stoves which will be ruined if you burn
| coal on them-that is, they would be if you
| had the coal. You put on your overcoat, the
| children go to bed, your wife's seaIskin or
Inverness coat appears, and when you try
| to pick something up you find your fingers
| stiff. Then you rush to the telephone. 1t is
| dead. The line is crossed or the snow has
buried the wires or something else has hap
pened. Then you go to the cellar to $40
| something to the furnace" Gentle reader,
| did you ever do something to the furnace
when all else had failedf Was it a gas fur
nace2 II you have had this experience you
know how well the kitchen chairs hum
when properly cut up and how the various
| userul boxes and barrels disappear in the
blaze. or course there is no coal. Even
your neighbors have none to lend. Fifteen
| minutes of this sort of thing is enough
| Somebody suggests, Lets 90 to town for
| dinner" 1t is met with distinct favor. You
dress in hurry. It is calculated to encour-
| age and to NAL ke You realize the spirit of
| Christmas to try to button your shirt with
miutens on. At last the family gets together
| somehow. There is q rush for the cars. On
! the way to town the day is made more
cheerful by the kindly inquiries of friends
| in regard to sleighrides and what did you
get?' Then your wife nudges you and whis-
| pers: 1--WE forgot all the new plants-do you
| think they'll freezer" Then you arrive, you
eat a hotel dinner in company with waits
| and strays who have no home. 1t is we'll
| established rule that everybody who has a
home STAYS in it on Christmas. Then you
| return to reconnoiter. The girl greets you
| with smile. Seas on?'' ooh, yes; plenty
| OF it, Came on about ten minutes after you
| left Man came and fixed the pipe. Shall
| cook the turkey2" By this time what with
| the hotel dinner and the cold you are so
| numb you can't even swear.
HEAR one store which is directly
affected by holiday trade took in $500 in
| one day, Saturday, the 18th, and almost as
much one day the following week.
THERE is considerable gossip afoat that
| in short time there is to be a notable
| breach of promise suit here, with damages
| somewhere from $50. 600 to 100000.
In the way of steady, well-developed
| and unencunbered nerve, something
| t. <,f Il