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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
WOVEN ABOUT WEAVER.

WEAVER heads the Peoples party's ticket.
1t will be Weavers and weft this time. Also
Weaver and wept and Weaver and left
Wheeling Register.
IL there is any crankyism before the
country that James B. Weaver hasn't in
dorsed Mr.. Weaver hasn't heard Of it.-ln-
didndpolis Sentinel
How can a good Greenbacker like Mr.
James Weaver accept such preposterous
compromise between q gold dollar and q
sheet of paper as 60 cents worth of silver7-
Ne,D York Commercial advertiser.
As Presidential candidate of the Green
back party James B. Weaver received 307,O0
votes in 1880. This is about as large total
as he can count on this year as standard
bearer of the Peoples party.-& Louis Globe
Democrat.
WEAVER is as high a type OF statesman as
could be induced to stand as its representa-
tive. Its true exponent is the swarthy sage
of Madison Square. 1t should have nomi-
mated not Weaver. but George Francis
Train.-Neto York Times
THE Omaha convention resolved in favor
Of '1imiting the office of President to one
term" then nominated General Weaver for
President a second time. Which of the two
terms offered him is the one he shouldn't
have?-Cincfnnutt Tynses-iStar.
THE best thing to be said about General
Weaver is that he was formerly q newspaper
man. If he had stuck to his business, in
stead of going into politics, the chances are
that he would have q greater future before
him than he seems to have now.-Boston
Herald.
THE nomination OF Weaver for the Presi-
dency by the Peoples party should put an
end to the talk OF possibility OF an election
ofthe next President by the House of Repre-
sentatives. There is not the slightest likeli-
hood that Weaver will carry a single State,
and he will be lucky II he polls more than
half million votes in November I'm the South
and West. Philadelphia EUeni,s0 Bulletin.
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REID Is FOR UNIONS NOW.
He Hops Put Organized Labor in Control
in New York's Postoffice.

He Helps Put Organized Labor in Control
in New York's Postoffice.
NEW YORK, July S.-[Speciai. 1-Organized
labor will hereafter be in control of the
Government printing in the New York Post
Office. Postmaster Vancott to-day put the
clerks who have been detailed to do the
printing back at their regular employment
and organized the printing office by the ap-
pointment ofiP. P. Hurley as foreman at a
salary Of 81, 400 year; James Quest and Jo-
seph Brannigan, compositors, ut salaries Of
81 04o: E. T. Johnston and Charles r. Rttchey,
pressmen, at 81, IA, and George Feiker and
James Baylen, feeders, at $3.50. All of these
Brannigan are members Of Typographical
Union No. g. Johnston OF Pressmen's Union
No. g. and Ritchey and Feiker Of the Frank
lin PieSsmen's Association
Clerks have hitherto been detailed to do
the work. Their employment has been q
source of dissatisfaction to the typographi-
cal unions. For eight years or more efforts
have been made to get union prin-
ters into the postoff1ce, but they
were unsuccessful until President Kenny
and other officers of the Big Six
selected John E. Milholland, who was in
strumental in settling the war between the
Tribune and the printers, together to go to
Washington to confer with the administra-
tion about ten days ago. Whitelaw Reid
lent his assistance and the Washington au-
thorities acted promptly AS is indicated by
the action of Postmaster Vancott which was
taken under the direction OF Postmaster
General Wanamaker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
A PRACTICAL RESULT.

While the politicians are rejoicing over
the practical revival of'the spoils idea in
the political campaign, the people at large
may find some instruction in studying the
actual results of civil service where they
have been demonstrated by moderately
faithful experiment
A recent letter of Commodore Folger,
of the Ordnance Bureau at Washington,
gives an Illustration of what is effected by
making appointments on the basis of fit
ness, instead of as a reward for political
work. Since the Introduction of the re-
form the cost of labor in making eight and
ten inch guns has decreased fifty per cent,
and in making cartridges sixty per cent.
The time required for making the guns
has been reduced from one-half to two.
thirds
This is not due to any decrease in wages.
1t simply represents the increased eff
cheney secured by selecting men for their
capability irrespective of political favor
1t seems that when men are paid by the
Government solely for their services, and
know that their appointment and promo
ton depend on efficiency and industry,
they do from two to three times as much
work as when party heelers are given
places as a reward for wire pulling in con.
yentions and campaigns.
The political workers may not like a
system which diminishes the supply of
salaried places available for their sus-
tenance. But will the people at large OBJ
ject to plan which cuts down the cost of
Government work fifty per cent without
diminishing wages by penny?
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
MASC0TS EN- MASSE.

MISS ADELINE M. TILsoN has retired
from the Cambridge corps of teachers after
a service extending through so years.
Mr.. F. MARION CRAWFORD the novelist,
wants it to be distinctly understood that in
spite Of the fact that he lives abroad he is
an American in every fiber.
REALISM and Idealism seem to have met
in Boston last week. William Dean Howells
is reported TO have called on Edward Bel
lamy on Friday, at the office OF the latter
gentleman. -
CARDINAL GIBBONS starts next week
for a months outing in Nova Scotia.
Unlike most clergymen who go to that re-
gion in summer time he will take no rod
with him, not even pastoral staff
MARIE CoRELLI, whose novels have z.sas .sas
with the approval of Quae.. Victoria, uses
pen name. The rss.ii name of the writer is
Marion Mackay She is the daughter of the
late 2" CHARLES Mackay and sister of Eric
kackay.
MRS. HARRISON has improved wonder
fully in spirits since her arrival yesterday
at Loon Lake. The President held recep-
tion yesterday afternoon to which all the
guests OF the Loon Lake House and tho adj
jacent cottages were invited.
IHE marriage OF Helene Boulanger, sec
ond daughter of ''le brave General" to n.
Paul Auguez de Sachy, was celebrated in
the most quiet manner at the Cathedral of
Versailles, in contrast to the wedding of her
younger sister, who married NJ. Driant in
1888
The Assistant Secretary of War, General
Lewis A Grant, is a stout broad-shouldered,
bald man of medium height, with long IRON
gray side-whiskers. Previous to the crea-
tion, two years ago. of the office he now
adorns, he was Minneapolis lawyer. Dur
ing the war he was General Of Volunteers.
PIETRo MAsCAGNI is putting the finish
ing touches on a longer opera than "Caval-
leria Rusticana" or "L'Amico Fritz" 1t is
based on the "Rantzan" of Erckmann-Chat-
rian. He is also writing two other short
ones, giving musical setting to Heine's
one-act tragedy, "William Ratclifr' and
Francois Coppee's idyl, lie Passant."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
THE CANADIAN CANALS.

1t is stated by the Buffalo Egpress that
Canada has practically abandoned the
project of increasing the depth of her ca
mails beyond the twelve feet already estab-
lished. The fact that an-going vessels
have to be ightened to twelve-feet draft
in order to navigate the St. Lawrence is
referred to as conclusive evidence that the
work of deepening that river as well as
the canals is beyond the financial re-
sources of the Dominion.
A proposition has been made to invite
the United States to do the work. While
there is perhaps just as much reason for
the United States to build canals through
Canada as through Nicaragua, it is safe to
say that our Government will not build
any canals in Canada unless it is given
territorial rights over the canals. As Can
ada is not yet ready to do that, it is taken
as conclusive that for the present the Ca
madam canals will remain at their depth of
twelve feet
This makes the work of the United
States in digging its waterways consider
ably simple. The twenty feet waterway
which recently cut such figure in Con-
gress appears to be superfuity If it Is to
terminate at Buffalo. If the water
way is to be extended to the ocean the
vast expenditure necessary TO secure
twenty feet is in the light of this fact an-
necessary. Fifteen feet Of water connect
ing Lake Erie with the Ohio; fifteen feet
connecting Lake Michigan with the upper
Mississippi, and fifteen feet connecting the
lakes with the sea board, win give Us
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
PITTsBURG. SUNDAY. JULY 10. 1892.
FRIGHTENING POSSIBILITIES,

There are signs that the situation at
Homestead is clearing somewhat The
position of the men, as announced in their
statement published this morning, of will
ingness to yield if the Chairman of the
Carnegie Company can sustain the state
ments made in his published interview is
a challenge to reason the matter out, and
therefore cOmmendable. The fact that,
coupled with this offer, they express conf
dence of their ability to show that the
company'S representative erred in his
view, does not detract from the merit
which attaches to a proposition to COM
submit to the finding.
The attitude Of the Carnegie Company
has so far, since the month opened, been
against conference. Yet is it not possible
that conference now, in the right spirit,
might result in removing most of what the
company complained of, and in preserving
to it its old employees on mutually salts
factory basis? So long as there is a.
chance of such an ending of an otherwise
sad business, it is worth trying for.
Also, there is another hopeful sign. The
special committee of Congress- makes a
call through THE DISPATCH this morning
for testimony from all sides as as to the facts
OF the whole Situation, at a session to
beg ! morning in the United
States Court room in this city.
That is well, too. There will be peace
at least while the committee is here. There
viii be an investigation that must show
approximately the cause of the trouble.
There will probably be opened the way to
better understanding between the COM
pany and its late employees
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
s1.cH1oarns AND Rum.
The Untaxed Whisky Used in the Gold
Cure to Be Investigated

The Untaxed whisky Used in the Gold
Cure to Be Investigated.
PHrLApELPH1A, July s-Collector of Inter.
nal Revenue William H. Brooks will to-day
take steps looking to the Investigation OF
the Keeley bi-chloride OF gold treatment es-
tablishment at Media, for the cure of drunk.
enfiess, with view of compelling DR.. KeeS
ley or his representatives to pay Che inter-
nal revenue tax of $25 per annum for selling
liquor at retail.
The Internal Revenue Department at
Washington have made ruling on the sub
ject Of the gold cure, and, in view of the
fact that DR.. Keefoy and the physicians in
charge of his institutes in different parts of
the country supply their patients with
liquor by the dram and bottle, they have
been rated by the United States Govern.
ment as regular retail liquor establish
ments and liable to the Government tax as
such.
The Collector of Internal Revenue at Kan
sas City notified the Kelley Institute of the
decision OF the department. few days ago.
GUS protest to the department at washing.
ton AGAINST being classed with saloon keep
ers. Uncle Sans rules, however, are infex-
ible. and the protest brought . letter from
commissioner Mason, in which he explains
the matter very plainly. Commissioner
Mason says that every druggist who sells
whisky Or other spirits, not combined with
physician's prescription and for medicinal
use only, is required to pay q special tax as
q retail liquor dealer.
Under this decision. the Keeley institutes
pense liquors, and Collector Brooks whose
attention was called to the matter yesterday
for tho first time, stated that he would at
once proceed to ascertain whether or not
liquor was actually dispensed at the Media
institute, and IL he finds 1t to be the case he
Will promptly levy the Government tax.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
CLOSE CORPORATION TRUSTS.

A New York correspondent in yester-
days issue directed attention to the status
of four great corporate or trust estates in
that city whose aggregate value Is nearly
$3.50, ,O00,00o, In the case of two of them
there is more than suspicion, and of one
more very tangible belief that the reve-
nues are used to pay maximum of
salaries to persons performing minimum
of service; while the secrecy with which
these trusts are managed excludes the
actual knowledge of such abuses from all
except the sharers of the favors
These cases as alleged illustrate the
facility with which great trusts can be
perverted from their original beneficial
purpose, while maintaining profession of
fidelity to them. They have parallels on
variously reduced scales In many places
and they represent an undoubted abuse.
The obvious remedy is absolute and COM
pulsory publicity in the management of
all trusts for charitable or beneficial pur-
poses, with a suggestion from the magni-
tude of the values involved, that there
should be some limit to the size to which
such trust investments may be expanded.
Nevertheless, the reform of this class of
abuses arising out of overgrown wealth is
not the most urgent one. The only suf-
ferers from these abuses are benefciaries
or cestasSs qui trustent. Other varieties of
evil, such as monopolistic combinations,
railway manipulations and favoritism in
rates, impose their burdens on the whole
public and add to their magnitude by un-
fairly taxing the masses.
The problem of excessively concentrated
wealth is great one, yet far from solu-
ton; and the cases referred to show that
there are branches of it which have yet
hardly come within the public recogni-
ton. .-"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
DECLINE OF BASEBALL.

Another awful doubt is cast upon the
permanence of one of our institutions by
the assertion of the Chicago Neos that up
to date the baseball season is failure.
While the excessive and pernicious general
humidity is charged with portion of this
ill success, the fact that the crowds
surrounding the baseball bulletin boards
have undergone perceptible shrinkage,
and that the baseball crank is several
degrees less delirious than formerly, Is
taken to be conclusive that the public
interest in hired and high-price baseball
is diminishing.
ton from Chicago may be slightly tinged
by the fact that the Chicago team is
tagging along near the rear Of the League
procession. But inasmuch as Pittsburg
maintained persistently hopeful
enthusiasm during many successive
seasons of that location, it does not seem
as if a single season OF viewing the contest
from the bottom of the list ought to
destroy Chicago's vociferous interest.
If it is true that the public is losing its
enthusiasm over professional baseball, it
furnishes a new illustration Of the
transitory nature OF human greatness.
Phenomenal pitchers will command
no longer the envy and admiration
of the public, or the bank accounts of
baseball spectators. The '"beauties"
and ''mascots" of baseball teams will re-
tire promptly to their original obscurity.
The umpires can, after passing through
the dangers Of the field, hang up their
shields and masks to enjoy an unsalaried
but secure rest How great fall is por-
trayed by the probability that the pro-
fessional player, after stalking across the
land in his greatness these many summers,
will now be forced to earn his living, per-
chance even with hammer, pick and
shovel!
One phase of baseball, however, is not
losing its popularity. we are informed.
That is amateur and non- -professiona!
playing In that case it is possible to re-
gard the change not as loss of interest,
but gain. People are becoming enthusi-
astic enough over baseball to play it them
selves instead of hiring others to play it for
them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
THE WOMAN WAS VICTOR

Husband Whose smoking Was Stopped
by His Determined Wife.
Detroit Free Press.]
We were going through Canada, and as
soon as we entered the Queens dominions
a st. Louis man who was in the smoking car
with us began to talk.
"No petticoat government for me-" he
was saying, 81 want to get out Of this coun-
try as quick as / can. l tell you, gentle
men, never did believe in petticoat gov
ernment; women are all right in their
proper spheres, but when it comes to gov
ernment-"
At this moment the car door opened. and
aged, spectacled woman presented herself.
"Is that you, Hiram. I guess you've
smoked about enough. Come back into the
sleeper. 1t makes me sick and dizzy to
stay here Come, hurry up" and she held
the door open while she waited.
And Hiram meekly followed her, without
a single protest against the home article of
petticoat government.
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tain. Each year many square miles Of
territory are ruthlessly denuded without
any attempt to preserve the young trees
for future revenue. The land is left bar
rem with most injurious results to climate
and the flow of water.
This is an example of wastefulness of
the bounties of nature which should be
improved upon. We know that Pennsyl-
vania has thousands of square miles of
mountain land practically useless, which,
under systematic foreign cultivation,
might make valuable addition to our
natural wealth; and the possibilities are
even greater in other sections The ex-
ample referred 10 at Friedrichsruhe is one
that the United States should not neglect,
if we are to take any thought for the pros
perity of the future. 80.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
CLEVELAND DOESN'T LIKE IT
He Objects to the Use OF His Wife's Nam,
for Political C1uhs

He Objects to the Use OF His Wife's Name
for Political Clubs.
NEW YORK, July 9-Grover Cleveland has
sent the following reply to the letter to Mrs.
Cleveland from Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby
President of the Frances Cleveland Club No.
/, informing her Of the formation of the
club and saying it has taken the liberty Of
using her name: .
GREY GABLE, BUzzARD's BAY, MASS, July g.
Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby:
MY DEAR MADAM-Mis. Cleveland has referred
to me your letter Informing her Of the organization
of the Frances Cleveland Influence Club" It is
by no means pleasant to dissent from methods
which sincere friends adopt when their efforts not
only demonstrate tnelr frendliness. but when they
seek to subserve the public good. and are there
fore engaged In patriotic service. 1t is however,
impossible to approve of the OF Mrs Cleveland's
name In the designation Of clubs designed to do po-
litical work. We trust you will not undervalue
our objection. because 1t rests upon sentiment that
the name now sacred in the home circle wife
and mother may well be spared in the organization
and operation Of clubs created exert political In
fuence. Yours very truly,
GROVER CLEvEEAND.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

"Clara, I'd give thousand cellars for }

"Clara, I'd give thousand cellars for your
complexion
.'Would YOU. dear2 What did the color you'vs
got on cost you9''- Chicago Ssoos Record,
Briggs-Spriggins had a hard time the
other day. He put a porous plaster his chest
and thought he would try get It of by getting
down on the carpet and rubbing himself back and
forth.
Grlggs-Did he succeed
Briggs-No. The carpet came up.-Meso Yorb
Herald.
cannot sing the old songs
This noisy crowd amid;
Icannot sing the old songs
They'd mob me If did.
Detroit Free Press.
Mudge-Judge Billigus is remarkably
easy man to get acquainted with. don't you thinkf
Yabsiey-I never noticedit
Mudge-He Is, though. 1 ha'In't known him for
over an hour before borrowed dollar Of him. and
inside Of the next hour we got so well acquainted
that he refused to lend me acknowledgements
Journal.
With types and paper, and hand-press,
And faith serenely glowing,
He settled in the wilderness,
And set his mill going.
They wondered what he was about
When in the woods they found him,
But when he got his paper out
They built town around himi
Atlanta Constellation.
II had narrow escape yesterday" said
higgins.
rs that so?,' rejoined Ruggins, with interest.
.'Yes, was nearly choked to desth.''
"HIghwayman?''
'No. Flannel shirt. 1wore It out in the rsin."
- Wdshfn0ton Star.
There seems little left to wish for,
She has pleasure, wealth and fame;
But still she is not happy,
For she sighs to change her name.
Chicago fater-Oceun.
Corydon (at the picnic)-Let me get you
glass of lemonade, dearest.
Phyllis (blushing)-Lemons do not agree with me.
Ccrydoh (brightlyl-Oh but there isn't enough Of
lemon in this to do you any harm Meas Tor& Pess.
DR.. Emdee-Have you any vices?
Dudley-I smoke cigarettes.
DR.. Emdee-You have softening Of the brain.
Dudley-would cigarettes give me that7
DR.. Emdee-You wouldn't smoke cigarettes -
less you had it.-'Snstth. Gruy cos Aonthty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
WITHOUT FOOD FOR 900 DAYa
An Allentown Woman Completes Her
Remarkable Starving Feat


Remarkable Starving Feat
ALLENTOWN. July 9. 1t is 900 days to-day
since Mrs. Adam Wuchler, of Whitehall, be-
gan her memorable fast. The family this
spring moved into a house some distance
from their old homestead. Mrs. Wuchler
bore the strain without serious results. She
has been taken from the second floor of the
house to the first floor.
She was propped up in bed. Her eyes are
bandaged with o white cloth, which makes
her black hair appear still darker by con-
trast. She says she cannot see at all, neither.
she AYERS, has she taken q morSel of food
since she began her last. She is exceedingly
attenuated, but her strength of mind is re-
markable. Her voice is firm, but she sobbed
when she spoke of her pastors wfTe The
subject of her conversation was entirely of
q religious nature.
"God knows how have suffered and He
alone is my judge" she said. II pray for re-
lief, but fear it will only come by death; how
soon cannot say"
Mr.. Wucher and his sons are no longer
constantly at the house, as they were for
two years, and now pursue their daily
labors. Mrs. Wuchler is nursed by her
daughter, Sarah.
The neiehbors have long ago ceased to
place any confidence in the story OF the fast,
and laugh it to scorn.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10
HUGE FRAUDS IN COTTON.

Crooked Work which Led to the Big Fail
ure in Liverpool, England.
LIVERPOOL, July 9-Percy Lamb, cotton
broker, and John Wilson, salesman, have
been charged here with embezzling $50 900
from their employers. The prisoners de-
clared that they represented syndicate
formed to buy and hold cotton to the value
of 81, COO, OO0 Their statements were believed
in many quarters, and the prisoners entered
into enormous speculations in cotton and
stocks.
The failure yesterday of Isaac Cooke &
Son is believed to have been connected with
these frauds. Lamb and Wilson admitted
the charges and were renianded pending an
investigation of the firms books. Further
revelations are expected. The cotton mar
ket is greatly excited.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

permanent control of the lake commerce.
While this statement of the Canadian
position is favorable to the ambitions Of
the United States with regard to lake
commerce, it is best to remember that
twelve feet Of water in the Canadian
canals is just twice what the United
States has at this time and twice what it is
likely to have during the present century.
unless systematic and energetic project
of canal construction is promptly adopted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

AT last the percentages obtained BY the
candidates in the Pittsburg High School ex-
animation are given to the public. And the
results will now be of some real practical
use beyond that of testing the students 1T
ness for entrance to the High School.