ir t 16 BIDING IN THE CAB. Bill Kje Describes a Pleasant Ex perience on a Locomotive. THE FIEEMAS'S THRILLING TALE. Xronbles of a Yerj Tall Scotchman Dis covered at St rani. &X HIPBOYEMEKT ON CHAUKCEI DEPEW ITKITTEN rOB TOI DISPATCH. ! JS THE OZONE COtlNTEY, TS THE Euros of a Pokier Who J Beushes Himself at My Expense. 1NCE my last -n-e hare reached the head of naviga tion in the upper Mississippi coun try, which even in winter is most beautiful. I hope next summer to take a boat at Buffalo and fro the length of the lakes to Duluth, thence down the railroad I leave the name blank till I can et a reply to the letter I just wrote to the superintendent to St. Paul and thence down to St Louis. Prom St Louis to Omaha and the mountains. The upper Mississippi has never been adequately de scribed. Though I lived there 20 years, I was always so busy trying to solve great national questions that I did not get a chance. I was endeavoring part of the time to prove that tree trade would keep people poor and break np happy homes, and a part of the time I was proving that a high tariff would do the same. One was as easy as the other and the salary the same. Goinc np the road the other day, with the broad and decollete bosom oi Lake Pepin glistening in the crisp air and pulsating be neath the bright, declining sun, and swiftly darting by the historic Maiden Bock from I Took Off My Plus Bat. which the beautiful but plainly educated Indian girl leapt to her death, falling to the cruel rocks below with the low, dull plash of a disheveled etrg on the broad brow of a lecturer, J thought of those dear old days when Minnehaha had not been em balmed in son? and interurban lots between Bt Paul and Minneapolis could be bought for a string of glass beads, even as "William Penn purchased the State of Pennsylvania. A CELEBRATED COXDUCTOB. It was in Pennsylvania only a short time ago that we met, running ont of Altoona, the justly celebrated condnctor who can ex tend his ears, like a jack-in-the-box, at will. X do not recall his name, but I do remember that alter I had asked him something abont whether we were late or not several times, he held his head down to my lips and shot his ears ont at me like the warm, dank nose of a baby elephant He has a national reputa tion that way, it seems, but I did not know it Others who knew both of us enjoyed the meetinc very much. Since that I have been less inquisitive about trains. One can hardly realize how strange the sensation is when he is greeted in that way by one to whom he has no letter of introduction. I also took a ride out of Philadelphia in the cab of a locomotive engine later on. It was the Henry F. Shaw, of the Baltimore and Ohio, and I had to get np at G o'clock A. M. to do it, but as 1 went to bed at 5:48, having been to the Union League Club to eee some friends the evening before, who had detained me, it did not matter. Secur ing a pound of cotton waste I do not mean this in the society sense, for that kind of cotton waist has little to do with this letter I went down to the Baltimore and Ohio depot, and, looking once more at my little volume of mechanical terms, so that I could talk intelligibly with the engineer, I clambered np the front stoop of the cab. didn't kemembeu much. "We rode out to Chester and back. That is all I know abont it I heard a roar, a hiss, a'snort, a vhistle, a ring, the quick rumble of the rilot, the gasp of the mud "valve, the low vibration of the crown sheet, the surging of the cut off, the sigh of the monkey wrench, and we were off. 'Is not the life of the engineer one of ex treme peril?" I asked Harry S. Burall, our handsome engineer. He "did not hear me, for it was a suburban train, and as we were quite busy stopping and starting he wotted not what I said. "And, as we say in England, do you not enter with hearty zest, alter awhile, upon this jolly life as you cayly tool your trap down the wold and ont across the mere, like perdition beating tan bark?" At that moment the ruddy fireman, Mr. J. H. Metzgar, swung wide the fire door, open ing K. 17. E., ran a poker into the hot maw of the engine, letting out a flame which reached for my lithe and gazelle-like limbs, gently scorching the embroidery at the base of my Dr. Jigger underwear, roared at the top of its lungs and drowned my voice. "And do you not at times have to throw ler over and run for thewoodboxorjerkthe poor child of some nnknown Pennsylvania duke from the track, handing her back to her parents unscathed and receiving $2 80 therefor, at the same time getting laid off for SO days for not keeping out of the way of the regular through express, beside having to pay for a Pullman car, which is worth far more than a child, especially where it was a poor child with several brothers and sisters? And do you not think, seriously, that a child or two, more or less, especially among working peeple, should have little to do with running time of trains?" HE TKIES THE BOMAXTIC. At this point I was quite exhausted, and so was the engine. So the engineer did not hear me. I took off my plug hat, put out a little fire that had started on the top and said: "I suppose von hare loved ones who rec ognize your whistle and at night put a lamp in the window two times if well, three times fcr croup, four times for worms and five times to indicate 'buckwheat cakes for breakfast'" He pulled the handle of the under feed throttle and threw a large lump of bitumin ous coal at a dog who was not of gentle birth as we scooted into a tunnel, and all conversation was drowned in the turmoil of an echoing yell and screech and roar and spit and doable shuffle u the eccentric chased the drawhead over the swift flying cylinder escapement with a doubly echoed statement like that of "Wall street on a busy day. So he lost that remark. "But oh, sir," I exclaimed to the fireman, who loves a beautiful girl named Annie, "can you not tell me something brave and beautiful that you have done, something that I can make a dear little story of and print, something that will bring tears to. eyes unused to weep, something that I can put in the holiday number of a nice paper with pictures in it? Did you never save anyone?" THE FIBEMAN'S TBAGIG TAEE. "Yes," he said, as he mopped his brow with a fireman's handkerchief. "I used to know a gentle old cuss here on our run who did oad jobs and worked faithfully. He had a sweet little flaxen-haired child Can you nse that?" Tes." "Well, he used to come down town even ings and we would meet at 'The Busy Bee' to visit and play a game of 'Old Sledge.' We never played for the drinks, but we would often, when it was time to go home, offer to shake each other for the drinks. I do not drink now, even beer." "And what was this shaking for the drinks?" "Why, nothing at all, only we shook poker dice for the beer, and the one who lost paid for it See?" "And how old was the flossy-haired child you speak ot?" "She was then 12 years old. At the time of the accident, however, she was about 18. It was a loggy night "We were late. You will notice that I use good grammar. Put the printer on that, will you, please? Story firemen. and engineers always use poor grammar and spell a little queer. They also swear a little and lie. The actual fire man or engineer does not do that unless he is filling up a young person. "We generally ialk very little to visitors in the cab, for we have to look out for our trains. "WHAT "WE AEE HEBE FOB. "We are not here to sit for our photo graphs or tell pleasing prevarications to people who get large prices per column for them afterward; but we have a little open stretch of road here, and so I will talk be tween work, as you seem to be a plain man, barring the high hat, which has no business on a locomotive." "Well?" "Well, it was a foggy night, and we had to hustle not only to make our regular time, but to keep out of the way of late trains. It was right along here that I looked ahead between scoops of coal and saw a girl going down the track with her back this way, and I concluded she was crying a good deal, for she had her muff up to her eyes all the time. and. of course, that kept her from hearing the train. We whistled, but she didn't hear. I told Harry, and he reversed and all that, but I saw I'd got to get out on the pilot and help, no doubt; so I crept out there in just time to 'catch this fair youug girl by her blonde and beautiful Psyche knot and swing her free of the track." "And did you save her?" "Yes, I saved ber. It wasn't romantic, and you'll have to change it a good deal if you print it; but that was the way it hap pened." "Who was it?" . "It was this little blonde girl of Mileses." "And what did he say about it?" "WHAT THE FATHEB SAID. "Well, first he didn't know what to say, and then he says, for he is not a man of many words, and also he is a poor man, but he-did catch me by the hand and bis chin trembled, for she was his only child and her mother is dead, but he took a scrap of cot ton waste out of my pocket and wiped his eyes with it and said: 'Old man, I cannot recall what fathers do when their dear and only daughters are jerked from the jaws of death, but if yon will excuse the bluntness of a plain old man I will shake you for the drinks. " At St. Paul I met a very tall Scotchman. I am 6 feet high, but he loots down on my broad and desolated skull as do the gallery people when I hobnob with the orchestra on an openiDg night containing a divertisse ment "You must be very fortunate to be so large and tall," I said: "you certainly command the respect of everyone." "Yes, I get all the respect I want, but I get no comtoru J. travel a good deal and l suffer a good deal. My wife is quite short You know tall men always marry short wives. Well, she cannot touch her feet to the floor, and I am knocking my brains out all the time. In a street car her feet swing like a pendulum and my legs reach across the aisle when I sit down and my silk hat looks like an acrimonious porcupine all the time. The straps on a street car make a tall man buy a new hat every six weeks and a short woman can't reach them without tear ing out her sleeves. HE LIES DIAGONALLY. "I don't know how we are going to remedy this thing, but I suffer especially, for I can't sleep in an ordinary berth at all. I have a bed made to order at home, but I can't put it in a shawl strap and travel with it. I lie diagonally, like an unprincipled politician, all night, and then in the morning, while I tie my shoes, all the people in the train walk over me on their way to the dining car, and a stout man in the upper berth falls out of it astride my neck. He says, "Excuse me," and then falls over my feet, sits in my lap, and goes away, and the man opposite steps on me through the curtain, brains me with his valise, swears, thinks that makes it all right, and keeps on dressing till people come in and tell him that we are in the round house. I hear people say all the time how lovely to be so large and tall; but the world is not made for large people or small people. It was made for middle size people, men tally and physically. They get on the best SUPERIOR TO MB. DEPEW. "This is no place for extremes. If you are a fool, go to the institution for fools. If you are a genius you will be tolerated as an eccentric but diseased mind. It is better to keep in the middle of the road. "By the way," said he, in conclusion, "I - in one way the superior of Uhauncey M. Depew." "Thank you, how?" "Well, he says that the fatal mistake of his lifetime was in making a humorous speech. There's where you have the ad vantage of Chauncey, I think." I thanked him again and then strode down the walk, fiercely kicking the frozen debris from my path. Bile Nye. Catarrh Cared. A clergyman, after years of suffering from that loathsome disease Catarrh, and vainly trying every known remedy, at last found a prescription which completely cured and saved him from death. Any sufferer from this dreadful disease sendinga Belf-addressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warren street, New York, will receive the recipe free of charge. oa I Will Shake You for the JJrinks. THE ABOUT CHURCHG0IN6 With Many Good People It is Merely a Conventional Matter. FAMILIARITY ACCOUNTS FOR IT. The Object of Prayer, of Song and Words of the Preacher. the WORSHIP AT HOME IS A FAILURE IWEITTXH FOB THE DISPATCH. The word of God came to a Hebrew prophet once, as he was hiding in a cave among the cliffs of Sinai. God had a ques tion for that prophet. "What doest thou here?" He said. "What doest tnou here, Elijah?" Very like to this was the question which the good monk wrote in great letters on his wall: "What are you here for, Bernard?" The question is of universal application. In the store, or the street, or the mill, or the office, or the kitchen, or the parlor, and in the midst of any occupation whatsoever. "What doest thou here?" It is like a com pass. We consult it to see in what direction we are going. It tells us toward hat sort of ideal we have our faces turned. The question is most usefnl, perhaps, in the commonest and most conventional acts of our lives. Because it is just here that we are apt to do the least thinking and see ing, and so are apt to miss the most The greatest discoveries in science have been made, in recent times at least, by simply studying the commonplace. There was a secret whispered by the steam as it lifted the lid of theStkettle on the stove of the humblest kitchen which was only waiting for some diligent listener to learn it; and when it was learned a new era began in the history of the race. There was the se cret, told openly everv day, but nobody heeded it The wise men were trying to turn iron into gold, or do some other extraor dinary thing. The commonplace was over looked. The chances are that the Pan American delegates saw more in the com mon streets of Pittsburg than most of us see, because Pittsburg was strange to them, and they really looked at it while we go along about our business, and see nothing. All is familiar to us. We heed nothing. And so a question which will make us think about the commonplace, which will make us look about with interested eyes among familiar scenes and along well-worn paths, which will compel us to consider the conventional, is a uselul question. "What doest thou here?" is just that sort oi useful question. CONVENTIONAL CHUECH GOING. The question has so many revelations to award to honest askers, and opens up so much that is attractive and helpful in so many different paths of our daily life, that I am tempted to dwell still longer upon it. But this, I am afraid, would be only to prove a fact which scarcely needs any prov ing, namely that it is possible from the same text to preach a hundred different ser mons. And so I pass on to the particular department of the commonplace, the famil iar, the conventional, abont which I wish to speak. I want to speak about the meaning of church-going. I think that it will be readily admitted that if ny act can be called conventional that is, performed by a great many people as a custom to which they have long been used, done out of habit and without very much particular in tention if there is such a thing as the conventional performance of dnty, church going is an illustration of it A good many people I am sure, go to church on Sunday because the bells ring and the clock strikes 10, and it is the right thing according to the customs of most respectable people to spend an hour upon this day in the week under a consecrated roof and within hearing of the word of God. They go to church as some children go to school, not with any great desire to learn anything, but because going to church, like going to school, is somehow set down and assigned to Sunday in the list of things to do. This is the natural result of familiarity. And some time, when you have been sick a good while and get back to church after many Sundays' absence, you know how strangely everything impresses you; the words of the familiar service, the sound of singing, the voice of prayer, the message of the preacher, even the sight of the aisles and arches somehow these things touch your heart as they did not before. And then after a little you get back into the old place again. For a sea son, however, all things have become new, and the glimpse is a sight of an ideal. That is how all things ought to be for us all the time. IN LETTERS OP GOLD. Sometimes an experience of sorrow, or of temptation, or of sin, or of unusual joy flashes out a strong light upon some sen tence in confession or absolution, in psalm or prayer, until it seems written, as in St. Francisco's vision, in letters of bright gold. We somehow missed seeing that before. And so we learn that we are all the time missing the sight of something in the service which we would do well to see. That is why I speak oi the conventionality of church-going. And I commend the asking of this qnestion as a remedy against the dull-sightedness of familiarity: "What doest thou here?" Suppose we all asked that as we waited for the service to begin Why have I come to church ? What is the church under whose roof I sit ? What am I here for? I purpose, then, to speak this morning of the meaning of church-going. And I want to say in the first place that church attend ance is one of the lesser duties of the Chris tian life. The mere act ot going to church has no merit in it People thought once that it had. Whoever went to chnrch, journeying thither with his feet no matter where Lis thoughts went, no matter how far away his heart might be got his sins for given. And, because errors die very hard and sometimes discover themselves where it was thought they had been polled up by the roots and weeded out for tnis reason it is well to have it understood that church going in itself profits nothing. It is no where commanded, I believe, in the New Testament, unless we read something about it when St Paul wrote: "Neglect not the assembling of yourselves together;" and that may have nothing to do with church going whatever. It is for the most part taken for granted then, I suppose. But it is certain that no particular emphasis is laid upon it Indeed the men who followed Christ most loyally, the largest part of the company of His disciples, were in all prob ability non-church goers. The people who never missed a service, and who sat in the chief seats of the synagogues, were the peo ple who rejected Christ, and persecuted Him and had Him crucified. FORMALITIES DO NOT COUNT. No, the emphasis in the Christian life is rightiy put upon no externality whatever, but upon genuinely loving God and our neighbors. To speak the truth, to live an honest upright life, to be fair and pure in speech, to belong to the noble array of help ers, is better than to go to church seven times every week and three times every Sunday. That is why conventional church-going counts for nothing in the sight of God. That is why we need so imperatively to know what we are about, and to think what we are about when we go to church. But what, then, are we about? What do we go to church for? The first reason, and the chief reason, for going to church is for the purpose of wor ship. Indeed, this is the essential reason for church attendance. And worship what is it? It is the prostration of the whole beinsj body, mind and soul, in the presence of God. It is the devont act of one who with his whole heart fears and loves God, who comes to the chnrch as to a place con secrated and set apart for the service of God, thinking neither of himself nor of his neighbor, but of God solely. It finds ex pression in prayer and praise. The trouble is, we think about ourselves and our neighbors. We do not realize that we are in God's presence, addressing our. PITTSBUHG DISPATCH. prayers and praises to Him. We look about in the midst of our prayers, we think of this and of that We are not praying. Prayer is conventionalized. We ao not think what it is to speak to God, to kneel here upon the surface of this little earth and to look out into the boundless abysses of space, and to address Him who inhabits them, who made us, who preserves us day by day. Who at least will judge us, and with whom, in joy or grief, we will dwell to all eternity. It is an act which ought to fill the boldest heart with awe, and yet we perform it so lightly, so carelessly, that we scarce think what we are saying, and when we are done we scarce rememoer wnat we nave saia. "What doest thou here ?" Here upon our knees, with hands folded, what is it, what really is it which we are doing? MUSIC OF THE CHOIB. And then, the praises: We sing them or listen to them after the same careless fash ion. Every note of music which sounds in a Christian church having any other inten tion" than to glorify God in heaven is a pro found impertinence. It is entirely plain, when we stop to think what the church is, what the service is for, and what the words mean. And yet we find ourselves, sometimes, in spite of ourselves, valuing the music of the church in proportion to its attractiveness to the congregation. Every singer in every choir has an almost irresistible temptation to sing the praises of God, forgetting God altogether, and thinking of the mnsic com mittee of the vestry, w nat ooest tnou nere, in choir or congregation? What does it mean which you say or sing? In your own heart, what do you honestly mean by it? When we come to ask such plain and un comfortable questions as these, we begin, al most all of us I am afraid, to make unpleas ant discoveries about ourselves. We must put away the dull glasses of conventional ism and familiarity, and look at things as thev are. Prayer really means prayer, and praise really means praise, and He to whom both are addressed is the Lord God Al mighty. And the most beautiful prayer that was ever uttered, and the most lovely anthem that was ever sung, if they were meant for other ears than His, were Bimply elaborate and artistic breakings of the third commandment Every syllable of prayer or psalter we should utter as if we knelt or stood in the presence of God visible. Ever considera tion of awe or of love we should urge upon our hearts. Not a look, not a whisper, should divert us nor any one beside ns from the one sublime purpose for which we have come into the house of God. We are here to worship God. AT CHUBCH TO LEARN. We are here also, and this is the other meaning of church attendance, of which I will speak we are here to learn the will of God. The will of God is declared in church, in the scriptures and the sermons. Our whole purpose as we listen, and the preacher's whole purpose as he speaks, should center about the honest and earnest desire to learn, and to teach the will of God. Whatever in the utterance of the teacher has any other real intention than to draw people nearer to God, to lead them to follow more closely the blessed steps of the life of Christ, and in a word to make them better Christians, is impudently out of place. That is the meas ure by which to value sermons. St Paul preached a great sermon one time, in Athens, on the top of Mar's Hill. He had all the philosophers of that cultured city in his congregation. He began with a grace and tact which has ever since been cited as a model of persuasive eloquence. He ventured into philosophy, he quoted from the heathen poets. It was probably the most elaborate, finished and oratorical sermon which that eminent apostle and preacher ever delivered. But the sermon made no converts. There arose no church in Athens for St. Paul to write epistles to. The sermon may have attracted admiration, but it attracted no allegiance. Then the apostle took a long walk all by himself. He sent his companions around by ships, and himself went on foot alone. Across the fields he went and over the hills of Greece, and as he walked he thought that sermon over, and the more he thought about it the more he was sorry that he had preached it And so he came to Corinth. And here he preached a different sort of sermon. Here was no longer any elaborate and ingenious philoso phy, no more learned quotations from the verses of the heathen poets. HE SAW HIS MISTAKE. "I came, brethre," he reminded the Cor inthians afterward. "I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified." That is what we go to church to hear about To learn the will of God, to be taught about Jesus Christ and Him crucified is what men need and what they want There is always talk about the trouble of non-attendance. Non-attendance in some cases means wickedness, in some cases means indifference, in some cases means laziness, in some cases means honest doubt as to the preacher's purpose to preach the real word of God. I believe that the most imperative of all those "modern claims upon the pul pit," of which Archdeacon Farrar has re cently been writing, is the claim that the preacher shall nreach Christ. The people crowded abont Him to hear the word of God in the old days when he lived in Palestine. People will always crowd about anybody who, with all his heart, preaches the true word of God anywhere. To give glory to the Lord our God and to get help for our own souls; this is what church-going means or ought to mean. And so, although I said that church attendance is to be accounted as among the lesser Christian duties, it is still a duty which can not advantageously be left undone. To praise God and to learn His will; these are very serious duties, indeed. And not only does church attendance imply the performance of these duties; but the performance of these duties implies church attendance. Whoever very greatly desires to worship God and to get religious help goes to church, ii he can. NEGLECTED AT HOME. It is true that both these duties may be done at home. It is also true, however, that in 18 cases out of 20 they are not done at home. The men and women, the older boys and girls, who are at home this Sun day morning in this city, what are they abont? What are they actually doing? They may be upon their knees everyone of tbem, with the word of God open beside them;- but I am afraid not I am afraid that if a great canvas could be stretched across the chancel of some church and upon it, by some lantern which might well deserve the name of "magic" lantern, a series of pic tures could be cast for us to look at, which should tell us, in housj after house and room after room, down Penn avenue and up Fitth avenne and along the intersecting streets, just what the people who are at home are doing at this moment I am afraid that very few of the pictures would be quite in place in church. They would be pictures of people reading improper literature, or getting dinner. Not 1 picture out of 50 would show a woman praying; not 1 out of 200 would show a man studying the Bible. No; the truth is that we need all the Sun days in the calendar, and all the churches in the land. We need appointed times for praying and for preaching, and appointed places. We cannot get along without them. With all the best intentions in the world, and all the most religious resolutions, let anybody leave off chuich attendance, -ind the worship of God and .the learning oi the will oi God will pretty soon be leit off also. This is the almost univeisjl lesson of expe rience. Whoever would come into the closer pres ence of God, and grow in grace and in the knowledge and love of God, and get com fort in trouble, and strength against strong temptation, and a recognition of the eternal truth of God in the midst of "ques tionings and doubts, must come into the house of God. For the immense majority of human beings, this is surely the only way. Geoege Hodges. Florence Vaw Ordstbaxd, yesterday, entered suit against Henry H., Louis F. and H. B. Demmler and John lroetztnger for JL00O damages for an alleged illegal levy and tale of her household goote. SUNDAY, JA2nTCTABT DOOMED FOR TEARS. Baltimore Harry Oetm 31 and Jim 17 Yean In the Penitentiary Sentenced on Nine Indictments A Number oi New Divorce Snlte General Coort News. Judge Slagle sentenced the burglars and sneak thieves, William Smith, alias Joe Brocker, alias Joe Brill, alias Baltimore Harry, and James Burns, alias Ed Brown, alias Balti more Jim, to 21 years and 6 months for the former, and 17 years and B months tor the latter, both to the Western Penitentiary. The prisoners were on trial during the weeK for breaking into the store ot L. K. St Clair at Wilkinsburtr. and for shootinp him very se riously when discovered In tne act ot roDDery. There were nine counts in the indictments against them, and the trial had proceeded but a little way when they both pleaded guilty, last Friday. They were brought out of the jail into the courtroom yesterday morn ing for sentence. Judge Slagle asked them H they had anything to say. Smith said nothing, but Burns answered that he was not guilty in all the cases. When they were read to him be indicated some of tbem In which he was guilty. , The Judge then told them that It was an acci dent that Mr. St Clair had not died of his wound, and that they were not to be sentenced on a charge of murder. When he pronounced sentence he said he did it because there was no hope of reform for them, and he saw no reason to be lenient Smith then spoke up and said that Jack Williams, a witness, had not told the truth about them, and accused him of being In some of the "jobs" with them. Judge Slagle said that even if he did not it would not help the prisoners, and that his case would be tittonrfaH m whpn hrmitrllt t trial. Thnnrisoners took the affair quite cooll; & and smiled during the entire proceeding. .Tfi tiahftvfnr ftmith ran have his time re duced 5 j ears and 8 months, and Burns can be released in 13 years and 3 months. It is generally conceeded in police circles that these two men are as dangerous as any two criminals in the country. UNHAPPY PEOPLE. rittabnrcr Is Keeping Up Its Chlcaso Rep utation on Divorcer. Nine new suits for divorces were entered yesterday. J. W. Boyer sued for a divorce from Clara M. Boyer alleging that she was un faithful. Cyreno Day asked for a divorce from Joseph ine Day alleging infidelity. Mrs. Bridget A. Ostander brought suit for a divorce from John R. Ostander. She stated that he made her life unbearable by abuse and neglect, and had served eighteen months in the workhouse for a felony. Desertion was the charge in the cases of Mrs. Caroline Kummer against Henry W. Kummer. Lesette Turner against Julius M. Turner, Mary J. Siopey tigainst James Sippey, Alice S. McGregor against Charles H. Mc Gregor, and Rachael Mertz against George Mertz. In the divorce case of Catharine M. Neal against Jordan 8. Neal, Mrs. Neal yesterday obtained a rule on her husband for support and counsel fees pending the suit Mrs. Nellie tu Stone, in her divorce suit against John w. Stone, asked for permission to amend her peti tion. K. T. Mead, Esq., yesterday was appointed commissioner In tne divorce case ot Thomas Atkinson against Rachael Atkinson. H. 8. Floyd was appointed in the case of Agnes Hnmberger against Aloysius Humbergei". and H. B. Herron in the case of Annie L. Roberts against R. A, Roberts. To-RIorrow's Trial Lists. Common Pleas No. 1 Tragresser vs Oliver et al; O'Brien, executor, vs Finn et al; O'Brien, executor, vs Dollar Savings Bank; Kralling vs McCandless et al: Kaufmann Bros, vs Moore et ux; Wall vs Wall; Imperial Coal Company vs Pittsburg. unaniers ana i ougmogneny raui- road; Barber A Gardner vs Bardsley et al; kZlinordlinger vs Brucker; Holland et ux vs ViCken et al. Common Pleas iSo. z-j,umn vs Darran et al; Little vs Frazier; Rhey vs Oliver Bros. & Phillips; TJohnson vs Cairns: Evans vs Black, administrator; Southside Gas Company vs Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad; Brown Bros, vs Pittsburg Forge and Iron Com pany; Fleming vs Davison. Gissinger vs Black more: Langfltt vs Cosgrove et al; Killian vs City Deposit Bank. Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Frank Markia (2) Andrew Reige. Benjamin Hlerst, Elizabetb Duffy et al. David De Armit, Arthur Smith. Tim Haley, W. H. Walters et al. Nora Quilter, Phillip Sangen, William Reed, Adda h. Hulton, John Knour (2), Frank Russ, Fin ley W. Squibbs, William Dean, Sadie Kane. Blondaj'a Audit List. Eatatoof Accountant. Emma C. Striekler Mary E. Hays. Mary E. Hughes Mary E. Hays. J. S. Striekler Mary E. Hays. Mary Mathews Mary E. Hays. Nancy Hinton Thomas C. azear. Ella M. Head D. T. Watson. H. McCullongh J. D. O'Bryan. J. Charles Ross John A. Hoffner. Victims of the Xaw. The following sentences were imposed in Criminal Court yesterday: William Stewart, illegal liquor selling, 81,050 fine and 11 months to the workhouse. Pat Lofty, same offense, 500 fine and 6 months to the workhouse. John Bayne, same offense, $550 fine and i months to the workhouse. George McCaffrey same offense. S500 fine and 6 months to jail. E. Levy, assault and battery. $10 and costs. James Hunter, same offense, 6 cents and costs. Roddy Perkins, same offense, !5 and costs. Around tbe Court Honse. A cnAETEB was also granted the First Ger. man M. E. Chnrch, of McKeesport The Masonic Bank, yesterday, issued an exe cution against F. R. Layng for 13,583. A chabteb was granted yesterday to the Pittsburg Baseball Club, the Players' Brother hood Club. A decbek of divorce was granted yesterday in the case of Mrs. Margaret O. Fulton against Andrew Fulton. Judge Magee heard arguments yesterday in the motion for a new trial in the case of A. D. Miller & Sons, tbe oil refinery nnisance suit. Scboyer and Shiras appeared for the Millers and J. S. Ferguson for the Commonwealth. Judge Magee took the papers and reserved his decision. The name of S. 8. Marvin has been called regularly every morning in Common Pleas No, 1 during the past week, but he failed to answer to the roll call of jurors. Judge Stowe said vnaterdav that unless be answered to-morrow a process would be issued to bring him into Court for duty. MBS. MABT A. "WlLMOT yesterday entered suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany, operating the Pittsbure, Virginia and Charleston Railroad, for 10,000 damages tor tbe death of Thomas Wilmor, her husband. On August 15, 18S9. he was struck by a train on tbe Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad, on Manor street, near South Seventh street, and killed. W ORLD'S MUSEUM Allegheny City. Week beEdnnincr January 27. The novelty of the century I Who will sit in the chairT ED LOFTUS Tarred and Feathered. MADAM MYERS, Barnam's Original Bearded Lady. WHALE OIL GUS. 18 years a whaler: and many other new and novel wonders of the world. An Excellent Stage Entertainment. February 3 THE LIVING SUICIDE. February 10 GRAND PRIZE CRAZT QUILT CONTEST. 20 Prizes Given. Ja26-90 NELLA F. BROWN, The Greatest of America's Lady Readers. Two Nights, TUESDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS, January 28 and SO. Different programme each night. UNIVERSITY HALL, SIXTH ST. Tickets for sale at School of Elocution and Dramatic Culture. Reserved seats, GO cents. Byron W. King, Manager. ja26-83 JrCcirS obtained the only gold medal awarded solely for toilet SOAP in competi tion with all the world. Highest pssibk distinction?. 26, 1890. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. GRAND OPERA HOUSE. SPECIAL. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3. Return of the Famous COMIC OPERA CO. FBOM TH2 CASINO, NEW YORK Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Even ing and Wednesday Matinee, Presenting the Sparkling Operetta, -NADJY- Thursday, Friday, Saturday Evening and Saturday Matinee, For the first time in this city, Offenbach's Military Operetta, THE DRUM MAJOR. The Great Cast, Including, Paulino Hall, Georgia Dennin, Eva Davenport, Kate TJart, Grace Golden, Florence Bell, James Powers, Edwin Stevens, Charles Campbell, John Brand, Ellis Ryse, A.W. Maflin. Both operas produced under the direction of MR. JESSIE WILLIAMa The productions are one series of charming stage pictures, the equal of which has never .before been seen in this country, and surpasses the famous presenta tion of "The Brigands." Chorus of 75. Orchestra of 25, The Famous Nadjy Ballet. The Gorgeous Military March. The productions in every way exactly the same as they are given at the Casino. SCALE OF PRICES: Parquet and first three rows in Circle, $1 50. Balance of Parquet Circle, 8L Dress Circle, first three rows, 75c Balance of Circle, 50o. Gallery, 25c. ja25-U GRAND OPERA HOUSE ME, E. D. WILT, Lessee ana Manaeer. ONE WEEK, COMMENCING JAN. 27. MATIKEES WBDNSSDAT AND SATURDAY. Return of the Young. Talented and Hand some American Star, J Under the management of Col. Wm. B. Sinn, of the Park Theater, Brooklyn, presenting FASCINATION "With the original Superb Com pany, Magnificent Scenery, Orig inal Artistic Stage Settings, Handsome and Gorgeous Cos tumes. A Most Pronounced Suc cess Here Last Season. 3- BT! A.T. -ffid The Pittsburg Dispatch, Feb. 12, 1889. "Miss Cora Tanner played the heroine Lady Madge Slasbton, and as aman Charles Marlowe. In giving full sweetness to her womanly side of the character and a fresh boyish Impetuosity to the masquerade in man's garments Miss Tanner was successful. The scenes in the play are set with a magnificence that is seldom seen outside of New York. Taken as a whole 'Fas cination' is worth seeing twice or even thrice." Prices, 25o, 50c, 75o and $L Next week-ARONSON CASINO OPERA COMPANY. jaZ6-4 OLD CITY HAT.T,. Thursday Evening, January 30. The Distinguished Editor and Orator, HENRY WATTERS0N. Subject: "MONEY AND lioRALS." Under auspices of the Press Club. Usual Press Club Prices, 75c and 60c Reserved Seat Plan is now ready. ja2W3 ptUENTHER'S ORCHESTRA Furnishes Music for Concerts, Weddings, Receptions, etc, etc Lessons on FInte and Piano Riven by PROF. GUENTHER, 0WoodIst, selMU-su "Paris Exposition, 1889. A. BiOi MOB Si nu NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THEATRE Underlie H.GDMI0fK&CO. ONE WEEK, BEGINNING MONDAY, JANUARY 27, MATINEES, WEDNESDAY and SATURDAY. BABTLEY CAMPBELL'S GEEATEST SUCCESS Under the management of Mr. H. C Kennedy. MISS MARY NEWMAN AS "LISA." The Original 2Tew York Company, Entire New Scenery. Startling Mechanical Effects. Hie Wonderful Main Storm of Meal Water, BIJOU PRICES: February 3. The Funniest Flay Yet, "THE FAKZB." MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27. Matinees, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Miss May Howard. The Oreat Sef ton. Harry Morns. Miss Agnes Erans. Mr. Harry Bryant. THE HOWARD BIG BURLESQUE COMPANY. Miss Kitty Wells. Lowry & Erans. Miss Lizzie Raymond. Pettineill and his dog. Simmons k McCloud. 20 Handsome Ladles. The Palace of Lace. The $5,000 Sensation. The new Burlesque entitled THE O-HOME-IN-STEAD. Feb. 8 The Vaidls Sisters' Specialty Co. ja28-2 IMPERIAL HALL, Cor. Seventh aye. and Heir Grant street. THE IMFEUIALBALL KTERT THURSDAY WIGHT Matinee eyery Saturday afternoon. ja26-13 YOU CAN'T BIT FATCXIONIZTNG KEECH'S -IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF- Furniture, Carpets, Curtains, House Furnishing Goods, Bric-a-Brac, Dry Goods, Cloaks or Clothim In every branch of their large business Keech's excel competition. This is a fact that thousands of pleased patrons will willingly attest. TAKE FURNITURE, In this particular branch we positively eclipse and outdistance every rival in the field. We show the most gorgeous Parlor Suites, the hand so mest Chamber Suites, the neatest Dining Room Suites, the most com fortable Sitting Room Suites. And each piece of Furniture that leaves our house is guaranteed to give satisfaction in every particular. IN CARPETS We carry none but the thoroughly tried, dependable and well-known gr ades, and offer them at prices that you will find from 15 to 20 per cent lower than any named elsewhere for the same qualities. SEE OUR TAPESTRY AND BODY BRUSSELS! LOOK AT OUR MOQUETTES AND VELVETS! INSPECT OUR WILTONS, INGRAINS, Etc. A few minutes spent in our Carpet Room is time well employed. OUR GREATLY REDUCED PRICES OF LADIES' CLOAKS and MEN'S OVERCOATS It is hardly necessary to tell you about the big reductions we have made on these garments. They are the talk of the town the sensation of the hour. If the saving of not one but five or ten dollars has any charm for you whatever, then don't miss this unequaled chance to buy a Cloak or an Overcoat. IB! IE IE Cash and Credit House, and 925 - 3STeao? 3ST-i -n . -Open Saturday Nlffhte till 10 direction of BESEBVED SEA.TS, 75, 50 and 25o. jiIS-3 HARRIS' MATER. Week Commencing Monday, Jan. 27. Etebt Attxbxoox and Ersxrsa. Grand Spectacular Production -oy-DeSHETLEY & COOTE'S ALONE IN LONDON. Superb Company! Magnificent Scenery! Wonderful Mechanical Effects! Week Feb. 3. K. S. WOOD la his New Play, "Out In the Btreots.'' ja26-14 0 LD CITY HALL. FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. 8L 1880L AT 8 O'CLOCK, First appearance In Pittsburg of the cele brated ensemble players, MESSRS. ANDRES AND DOERNEB. Pianists, Tickets, with reserved seats JI 00 Admission 0 For sale at bookstore of H. Watts, 431 Wood St. Henry F. Miller artists' grand pianos nsed, famished by W. C. Whitehlll. ja25-2S GO WRONG i. FOR INSTANCE: IT'S THE SAME STORY. C IB Penn avenue, - till. Staeeti- o'oloot jsSWv s - 22P
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