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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
DETERMINED TO FIGHT.

The strike which has just assumed the
important proportions of stopping con-
struction on granite buildings and the lay
ing of granite block pavements in the
Eastern cities is remarkable illustration
of the comparatively small differences
which can be used to bring work to a
standstill. The point originally at issue
is so dispropoytionate to the results grow
ing from it as almost to suggest that the
contending parties in the granite business
must be hard up for an issue to fight
over.
The dispute was one between the gran
ite cutters of New England and their en-
ployers, and it has spread to the great
cities by the boycott of granite got out by
non-union labor. The issue is not one
either of wages or the rights of labor and
capital. 1t is simply the question whether
the year for which the wage settlement is
made shall begin on May !, as desired by
the workmen, OF on January 1, as desired
by the employers. With all due respect
for the arguments in favor of the two
dates from the opposing points of view, it
is necessary to remark that the issue pre-
sents no such vital aspects as to warrant
the stoppage of industry and the throwing
of $4,000 men out of employment through
out the East
When. dispute of that character is
pushed to such proportions the public can
hardly help thinking that both sides are
anxious to have fight AS the overt acts
in the struggle were commenced by
lockout on the part of the employers, the
inference is that they desired to try con-
clusions with the labor organizations;
which desire the labor organizations are
disposed to fully satisfy. So long as such
a conflict confined its effects to the i'm
mediate parties public commentary must
be restricted to remarks on the unwisdcm of
such mutual appetite for fighting. But,
when it extends to general halt of the
building industries, it is allowable in the
public interest to protest against such in
jurlous belligerency.
1t is not hazardous to predict that the
losses to both sides from this dispute will
exceed all that either can hope to gain.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
sALIsBURY,s NEW DEPARTURE.

Lord Salisbury yesterday made speech
in which he advocated protective tariff on
all imports but food and raw materials. -
Indisputable as is the wisdom of Protec-
ton, the fact that it should be suggested
as good for England by a party leader of
Salsbury's prominence in free trade Eng
land indicates both the serious condition
of trade in that country and the straits to
which the Tory leader has been brought
for campaign material in bidding for
labor's vote.
For some time an insignificant section
of the Conservative party has made Fair
Trade" or Reciprocity, one of its plat
form planks, but it has hitherto met with
little but ridicule, rather from the weak
ness of its propounders than on its own
merits. Salisbury's speech indicates clear
ly that Protection is to be made an issue
In the rapidly approaching general cleo
ton, and marks startling new departure
in England's party politics. The struggle
will gain enormously in interest for this
country, and will be watched with un-
usually close attention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Such strike is like unnecessary warfare
"a blunder which is almost criminal in its
Ohio ractpr
WAGES AND LIVING,
character

An interesting statement of the relative
income and expenses of the industrial
classes in the United States and foreign
countries has been published by Carroll D.
Wright, United States Commissioner of
Labor. There are many differences in the
methods of working which make compar-
ison difficult. These are most fully over
come by comparing the income of fami-
lies engaged in the various industries.
This comparison, which is not unduly
favorable to the United States, yields the
following results as to income, the statis-
tics being collected from 1924 families
representing 27,577 persons.
Cot Pig Bar
ton. woolen. Glass. Iron Iron.
United States s657 76 scss 1a ts5e 81 sl 81 s7s4 II
Great Britain. 556 II SIS GA sol SO 456 SO 5l9 90
France .......... 365 "a 424 81 ...... 464 "a
Germany ........ 3o2 II z75 90 ...... 2se 70
Belgium 81 % S4 % SoS ~
Here the marked superiority of the
wages paid to the workmen in the United
States appears. That has scarcely been
disputed point; but the question as to
what the workmen gets in return for his
wages is subject to dispute. On this mat
ter Mr. Wright's report gives definite in
formation. The expenditure for rent is
much larger in this country than any
where else. But apart from the fact that
our workmen live in better houses than
those abroad, the total difference makes
very little weight against the difference in
wages. Rents in the United States range
from S72 5S for cotton workers up to
S109 81 for glassworkers. In France they
are about S34; in Germany, $25 to S27, and
in Great Britain, $50 to $50. The amount
spent for vacations and amusements in
the United States is far greater in the case
of the glass industry, and singularly much
less in the cotton industry. In the ex-
penditure for intoxicating liquors the
United States shows less average than
Great Britain and only little more than
France in the cotton industry, but is much
greater than either in the glass industry.
Expenditures for food are far greater in
the United States, which, as this is coun-
try of cheap food, bears testimony to
good living on the part of labor. In ex-
penditures for books and newspapers the
workmen of the United States put from
two to three times as much as those in
Europe. The total average expenses per
family shown by the report yield the fol-
lowing results:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
HANDY TO HAVE A BROTHER
How President Harrison Secured the Dole
gates From Tennessee.

How President Harrison Secured the Dele
gates From Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, May 18-[Specia. ]-There will
be "a Republican delegates from this State
to the Minneapolis convention. Some of the
leading Republicans of the State, who are
not of1ceholders but are members of the Re-
publican State Committee, are discussing
the methods by which the delegates were
elected. 1t is believed that the majority of
the delegation favors the denomination of
the President. The Republican delegation
from this Democratic State was elected
mainly through the efforts of Carter Harri-
son. the Presidents brother, Marshal Of the
United States Court. 1t is claimed that the
whole force of the Harrison administration
has been ut work in the negro counties and
districts for many moons; that in every
county for days before the local conven-
tions, the internal revenue officers attached
to tire Harrison administration were active
ly at work. This was especially so where
the entire force of the internal revenue was
most handily distributed.
At the State Convention It is openly de-
clared that every postmaster, from Chatta-
nooga to Memphis, from one end Of the
State to the other, was in attendance. The
District Attorney ana his assistant, the
United Suites Marshal and his entire force
in West Tennessee, the District At
torney and his assistant in Middle
Tennessee, and their associates in the
Federal courts. all the internal revenue
collectors and their deputies, without a
single exception in the State, were also on
hand, and were directed by the Presidents
brother. Those who have believed in the
Harrison declarations of civil service re-
form want to know what became of the
Government work on these occa sions
Among the delegates to the National Con-
vention are included the collector of in
ternal revenue the collector of the customs
at Nashville, the postmaster at Lawrence
burg, three deputy internal revenue col
lectors, and the United States District At
torney for West Tennessee. The friends OF
the President are delighted at Carter Harri-
sons work
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
A sHoRT-LIvED WEATHER PROPHET.

Z 4
There is large proportion of satisfac.
ton that Weather Prophet Vaughn, who
was advertised about the opening of the
month as never having made an error in
weather prediction, has got himself on
record to the opposite effect The proph-
ecy to which he committed himself in that
connection was altogether too precise in
describing terrible storm which was to
swoop across the country with frightful
results and carry away everything NOV
able.
Had he been more discreet, like any
other prophet who confined himself to
intimating 'cyclonic possibilities" he
might have escaped with damaged but
not altogether wrecked fame as weather
prophet. But while the first half of May
has been quite stormy, the kind of storm
which Vaughn predicted with such alarm
ing detail is exactly what did not occur.
1t is too much to expect that the weather
prophets will ever learn the wisdom of
silence by experience; but after while
the public and the press agents may recog-
nize that their crankiness is not worth
any attention.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

THE reported retirement of John Wana-
maker from the Postmaster Generalship
would be more credible If it stated that he
wished to devote all his energies to the Sum
day school industry instead of the further
ancs OF his business interests. 1t can hardly
be possible that he would deprive the nation
of his welI-nigh indispensable services for
any matter of less importance than religious
instruction.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
IDYLLIC HUMoREsOUES.

"George. dear, don't you think it's rather
extrayagant of you to eat butter with that delicious
jam2''
..No, love; economical Same piece of bread
does for both. .''-Earper's Bnzur.
"An eminent tragedian
Would star in leading parts"
So read his advertisement
In the dramatic marts.
He soon found an engagement
And in brilliant hues arrayed
He led a painted zebra
In the circus grand parade.
Chicago Times.
Teacher-What is knight-errant, George
eeorne-eoin, for the doctor after dark ma'sm
Detroit Free Press.
I'ye noticed queer thing about bald
old bachelors"
whats that?'
You often find long hairs on their coat sleeves''
-Eelo York Herald.
When the dreary drizzle drizzle
Lasts for weary, weary weeks.
Making life wretched izzle,
Making oceans out of creeks,
What a bore to press the pillow
OF u cottage chamber bed,
And 10 listen to the ever
Lasting raindrops overhead!
Chicago 7ri0,ns.
Hard-up painter TO Old Friend)-Yes,
Cbaffee am welded 10 my art.
Old Friend-Confound you. d'Auber; I always
told YOU that you would some day marry a Door
girlI-Puck.
"When 1 grow up I'll be man, won't
I?'' asked little Harlem boy Of his mother.
yes my son. If you want to be man you must
be Industrious at school, and learn how to behave
yourself
.swhy, ma; do lazy boys turn out to be women
when they grow up?''-7sras Stftfnos.
When coasting on the shore, beware
Of REFERS and Of capes,
When they worn by summer girls
Ofmost enhancing shapes.
Cloak Reuteao.
Hojack-So poor Staggers is dead.
Tomdik-Yes; and did you hear Of the wise FORE
thought of Mrs. Staggers?
Hoiack-What did she do9
Tomdik Had him laid out in IN asbestos shroud.
Judge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
YANKEES coLoNIzING COSTA RIGA.

The Little Republic to Be Filled With
Immigrants Rejected at New York.
PoRr LIMoN, COSTA RroA, May 1s.-The
steamer Hondo has arrived with the first 30
families of the new American colony. The
manager will locate them in Talamanca, and
will then return to New York for another
installment.
The Government is considering PROPOSE
ton from an energetic young American to
supply labor at low cost by importing imni.
grants rejected at the port OF New York
solely on account of their poverty, which, it
is argued, will prove less serious obstacle
in a country where the climate Is propitious
and food easily obtained.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

NEW YORK is proving the adage that
practice makes perfect The electrocution
of Tice lacked all the Objectionable features
of former cases, and it is evident that exc
cution by electricity will soon attain posi-
tion of equality with the lethal chamber as
q method of euthanasy.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
BUT NOT FOR HILL,

When the general ROLLS called she'll be there,
Old Georgia, with the hayseed in her hair:
Folks that set for her trap,
She will give 'em all rap.
With II feather In her cap
She'll be there!
When the general roll Is called she'll be there,
Old Georgia. like she gets there every year;
oh, she kicks the dust up fine,
For she wears q numbeTnine,
And you'n see her rise and shine;
she'll be there!
-AtLuufd C0nsfit,1ton.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Still In the Ring, Brother.

Cleveland Plain Dealer
The war on Sunday newspapers has again
broken out in Pittsburg, and the proprietors
of several leading papers have been arrested
for pursuing worldly employment on Sum
day. Public sentiment is on the side Of the
newspapers, and the harder the cranks try
to suppress the Sunday issues the more
their circulation grows.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

IT is worthy of note that the proposed
twenty-five per cent reduction in the River
and Harbor appropriation is due to cam
paign tactics rather than to a careful con-
sideration of the merits of the case. But.
since the manufacture Of campaign cries is
to rule the actions OF both parties, the less
extravagant brand is the better Of the two.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
CANNOT BE ANALYZED.
DR.. Keeley Says Chemists Can't Tell the
Ingredients of His Gold Cure.

Ingredients of His Gold Cure.
NEW HAVEN, May 1s.-Dr. Kelley made a
hurried visit to his institute at West Haven
last night and delivered lecture to the in
mates. He took occasion to criticise chem
lists in general He said:
"Tell these people what you want and they
may find it for you, but prepare any simple
liquid and ask them to explain what the in
gradients are and you will find them want
ing They are constantly floating among
the clouds seeking for information. If they
would conflne themselves to the earth they
might learn something. They can expert
ment with a sea of the gold cure, yet they
would discover nothing Like many other
liquids, it cannot be Analysed"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
DEATHS HERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Bertha M. Sutherland.

Miss Bertha NJ Sutherland, of the faculty
home in Beaver. Pa, yesterday at O'Clock A. NJ.
she was young lady of unusual attainments and
will be mourned by wide circle of friends. She
was especially beloved by the students with whom
she was great favorite. They with the faculty
will attend the funeral in body Saturday after
noon at o 'clock.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Obituary Notes.

JAMES s. JONES. of the law division of the
Pension Bureau during the Cleveland administra-
ton died Tuesday Of pneumonia, at Champaign,
Ill.,. aged 81 years.
II. Fl. BARR, who was under bail at Chester. Pa.
on the charge of embezzling nearly $40 900 as agent
of the Reading Railroad at that place, died Tues
day morning OF heart failure.
DR.. L. Y. HAYES, President of Buena Vista
College, a. Storm Lake, died Tuesday after short
Illness. He was formerly President of the Presby-
terian College at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
WILLIAM TowNLEY. the oldest stage driver in
New Jersey, died Tuesday in Elizabeth, aged SO.
He established q stage route between Elizapeth and
Newark in 1887, and ran 1t until the close of the
Civil War.
DIR. PLINY EARLE, Superintendent of the
Northampton State Lunatic Asylum from 1855 TO
1885, died at Northampton, Mass, Tuesday even-
ing i'll his SD year. He noted In this country
and abroad as an expert In the treatment for in
sanity.
JOHN J. SwrENEY, q: comedian and vaudeville
performer OF some note was puried in the Ja-
maica. L. l., Cemetery Sunday. He had been on
the stage since his 18th year. when he was
juvenile .'Pinafore'' singer. With Z. Ryland as
partner he had made three trips to England. and
had been quite successful in the London music
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

IN view Of the progress made by street
railways, the ordinance for the burial of
wires should be framed to include a subway
for the use of pedestrians driven off the
earth's surface.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
s, s, BRYAN, TitusyiIle,

S. S. Bryan, one of Titusville's most
prominent citizens, died at his home Tuesday
night in the 73d year of his age of paress, after
an illness of nine days. Mr.. Bryan was for many
years q resident of Allegheny until 1884. when he
removed with his family to Titusvile. The re-
mains have been brought to Pitrsburg for inter-
meut.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

HARRISON has an immense hat, and he
wishes for an enormous Presidential boom.
But if he continue to catch trout weighing
eight pounds apiece his reputation Tor
truthfulness will suffer to an irremediable
extent.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

THE sooner Pittsburg awakens from its
malodorous nightmare to proper realiza-
tion of the fact that the present absence Of
system in the removal of garbage is an
obnoxious but remediable nuisance the bet
ter it will be for the city's health and COM
fort.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

FREE silver was buried long ago, but
even the worm will turn. Yesterdays
crushing vote in the House places a monu-
ment over the grave which will demand
considerable resurrective force to remove it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

A VESSEL and six seamen have been
swallowed up by treacherous Nova Sco-
tian quicksand. But the absorbing power
of Congress surpasses this achievement in a
greater degree than the bulk of the sun
exceeds that OF the earth.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
The Mill Is A bout to Start.

Chicago Tribune.l
The naturalization mill is about to start
up. There is a whole bar'l of grease to oil it
with, and it will run on full time till the
close Of the campaign.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

the Office to find its way. This is really kind
of Grover, for it would indeed be lamentable
and disastrous to the nomination were 1t to
be unfortunate enough to lose its way for
want of sign posts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Voice From tbe south.

Louisville Courier-Journal.I
There is a getting upstairs along the Mis-
sissippi and q getting down into cyclone
cellars in the West 1t is a bad year, my
ms
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

HILLS decision to go to Chicago to boom
himself is perfectly natural for that gentle
man, and especially SO when it is remem-
bered that he is vastly moro interested in
the matter than anyone else is.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

MARKET STREET is likely to be more
crowded than ever by pedestrians who wish
to use their privileges before Councils abol-
ish them
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

FISH stories are seasonable enough, but
they do not go well with Presbyterian sec.
ond term Presidential boom.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

IT is hardly worth mentioning, but our
team was beaten again yesterday. A victory
is desirable, if only to vary the monotony of
things little.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

Mr. CLEVELAND may be sincere enough
in his wish that the Office should seek him,
but from the letter sent around to the news
papers by his friend and literary manager 1t
is evident that he is not averse to helping
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

LEvEEs having burst, money will be
levied from the charitab1y disposed to re-
lieve the distress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

Now that an exhibit of Pennsylvania s
oil is to be permitted, things should run
smoothly at the Worlds Fair.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

1IIOCV CIIOF IIOV VIIttV efIO
workmen of the United States are better
paid and live better, but that in most
cases they have larger margin between
wages and cost of the improved living
than the workmen in Europe. These
facts will clear up a large amount of dis
pute and uncertainty concerning the rela-
tive position of labor in the Old and New
Worlds
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

THE log jam on the st. Croix river, Wis
consin, is too we'll preserved for public
safety, and it does not spread as jams
should do.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

THE cigarette fiend is once again entering
on his annual pleasure in having COM
panfon in misery. Warnings are being
freely offered to the ice cream gluttons.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Cornell,s New President.

ITHACA, N. Y, May 1s.-Prof. J. G. Schur
man was to-day elected President Of Cornell
University.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

CLEvELAND's so-called black-eye in Cal
ifornia was more than Offset by Hills broken
neck in Georgia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Miss Bertha Sutherland, Educator.

Miss Bertha, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph A. Sutherland. of Beaver, a graduate
of the Beaver High School. and one of the faculty
of Curry Institute. died yesterday morning at the
family residence. of rheumatism of the heart. She
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
She ahOut q years of age.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19

NOTWITHSTANDING the completely or
ganized opposition OF Hills instruments
Cleveland has marched through Georgia
with flying colors
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
Captain John s. Adams.

Captain John S. Adams, an old riverman,
died TUESDAY night at his home on Carson street,
He was 81 years of age and had the river for
half a century.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
The Axis Begins to squeak,

The supply of petroleum in Pennsyivania
is gradually giving out, and the axis of the
earth is beginning to squeak.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
A TABBY CAT, TOO.


Now dere's our little tabby tat seepin outen der
sun,
Ever sence wemember dat's all dat de tabby tat's
done,
See don't det tailed inter de house as soon as 1t
starts to vain,
An she don't det her face vast, over'n over
adam.
An you sood see her wun in de gwass, an it all
wet wild devil
An it mates me mad can't do dis-an' wouldn't
1t mate you?
Now I'm doin' on four years old, and tabby tat's
only too - ,r.
AS leese dat wat my papa says an wot he says is
twue.
cause he's gwowed up an knows er7oySino an
heaps an heaps beside,
An mamma amt hal so old, an see tood,lt be
eff see twied;
But see tails me in an see mates me eat, dough
amt hungwy tall, ..Lr
An tabby tat wints her eye at me wen we hear
mama tall;
An dcre see dest sleeps an s'eeps an muffin is
ever said
If see don't tum wunnin' in wen it's time to do
to bed.
An don't tare wat ennyone says. wen I'm old
like de twees,
I'm doin' TO be tabby tat too-den I'll do dest as
peese. P. L. W.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-19
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