ITTSBURG DISPATCH. vrs- PITTSB1JRG, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1890. ANOTHER HEAT HOME. How to Build, Decorate and Fnrmsli a Cozy Nest. BEAUTr AND ECOKOHY COMBINED. Plans Which Will Tarnish TaluaWe Dints for Builders and Home Makers. THE CHEAP BUT SENSIBLE STAIEWAI iwnmm roa the msra.Tcn.1 ceedingly homelike in its general features.is the homestead Belectcd for this issue. The interior arrangements are simple, yet con veniently arranged with such modern im- ' provement, as are desirable for the use of an ordinary family The heights are, cellar 7 feet under the whole house, and well-lighted and ventilated. First story, 10J feet in the clear. Second story, 9 feet. The rooms are large and arranged to be comfortable, pleasant and convenient. The front entrance has a large double door, the hall contains the principal stairs, which are of the platform constrnetion, being prefer able to the winder or the long straight run; they are also much easier, less danger ous and preferable in every way. v The hall connects with each room, obviating the too frequent necessity of passing through one room to reach another. The parlor is in good shape and roomy. The dining or living room is intended as the most agreeable room in the house as well as the pleasantest, it has a generous fire-place with wood raantlc (see small illustration) and an open fire-place, which affords an op portunity for a cheerful fire, and insures the most perfect ventilation, the ashes from which rciy fall into a hearth pit below, thns obviating dust and necessity of daily removal. The large bay window end, af fords plentiful light, with views in three directions, this assuring a cheerful and homelike apartment. The kitchen thcugh humble in it sphere, is worthy of notice; it is well situated, has two windows lor light and ventilation, and is planned with special regard for con venience, as its proximity with the principal ball and dining room will testify. It has a large pantry in its annex, and a com municating closet next to the china closet. The fireplace is two feet ten inches in width, allowing ample room for a range or stove and is connected by pipes with the boiler. The second story is divided in the simplest manner with two large chiimbers well pro vided with closets, two smaller bed rooms for children, and a bathroom, all sufficiently lighted and with direct communication with the hall. The bath room has a French bath '?rjtFiv lllflNiL what ?25Nqniet In j'o'j jj"iBY "7 1 1 t" f s&Eiii -A- XiJM H;WU J zmr - lZ I B 8 ci.jtt. nr f ' ' ' p - - l wi-H J " -i tub with hot and cold water direct from the kitchen boiler. The attic has three rooms, two smaller ones to be finished aud plas tered, and the larger one, unfinished for an open garret. The excavations are five feet deep; the loose earth is graded around the building as completed, leaving two feet of the founda tion exposed to sight. The foundation (above ground; walla are of brick, the sub gilli of the windows are ot hemlock or spruce. The chimney being in the center of the house is not connected with the founda tion walls, it is built in box form, with a re ceptacle at the bottom for ashes and an iron door for removing the ashes. The principal frame work is of sound pine or snruce tim ber, pine timber is desirable for sills and posts, as the least likely to decay, and spruce for the girts and teams on account of its qunliw for stiffness. In bnflding a home a good plan is desir able, the artistic treatment both exterior and . "interior, can always be accommodated to a well digested plan. One need feel no con cern M to the ultimate effect of a house that j is built up upon a thoroughly good plan, as every feature becomes a natural consequence of some es sential arrangement. The nrst question to be dealt with in planning our home is the d . . .' :;E ! k- dL - USD D . B "" p, D ground &Mr, and neither the exterior or tlie second floor should he allowed to weigh for an instant against the perfect disposition that can be devised for the desired rooms. The second floor will be found an easv prob lem if the first floor is thoroughly thought ont, and this exterior will become almcrt a matter or course from the interior disposition. All discussion of housebuilding is main ly a question of interior arrangement, from which the exterior forms and proportions results. We live within our houses, and although we realize the necessity of cutting a good figure before the outside world, we believe that nothing conduces so much to agreeable proportions and expression as a well-regulated constitution. So wc first discuss the planning of the home, next the result of the exterior, and then ive re-enter the building, so to speak, to con sider as far as possible the decorative features. Emerson bays: "It never was in the power ot man, or any community, to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actnal wants, never to please his fancy," nl thongh this sounds extreme there is much truth in the statement. Man's actual wants are of course governed by his lights, more than mere physical necessities. ' Nothing is gained by increasing the height of our rooms, beyond a proportion to width that shall prevent a stunted appearance, and on the other hand, the more horizontal lines we employ in any room the lower it will ap pear, and the more vertical ones the greater the apparent height, the fact rs to whether the room is too low or too high, must deter mine onr decorative treatment. The stairway is or ought to be something more than a means of getting from one floor to another, a mean stairway ghes a house a make shift, inhospitable look, and is olten a serious source of annoyance und incon venience. Carved lines are expensive to construct, and unless on a magnificent scale give the impression of trying to get around some difficulty. The squarer a stairway, the less expensive to build, and generally the most serviceable; winders are man traps and alwas suggestive of sprained ankles and broken bones. The space they may econ- VJS;rr omize can well be spared from somewhere else. The cheapest and most sensible stairway is the platform or angle newel stairs, wide square landings, and 'these where windows occur may be made very attractive features in the hall, and the comparative cheapness of turned wood allows of added decorative effects. It possible the stairway should not be car ried continnons from bottom to top of the house, much heat is lost by so doing, and is replaced by a cold stream "of air that comes down like a cascade. That difficulty has been obviated in our plan illustrated here. The first flight from the basementis enclosed, and on the second floor this operation has been repeated with the stairs to the attic. In fact all points brought up have been em bodied in the simple and homelike cottage published here. Ease your cough by using Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, a sure and helplul medicine for all throat and lung ailments, and a cur ative for asthma. GIPSY LIFE IN SPAIN. Fortune-Telling Abandoned, Romany People Take up New Trades. HANI GO DPON TBE STAGE, While Others Earn Honest Collars Various Useful Occupations. at PfiOGEESS IN MORALS AND WEALTII rWBITTEK FOE THE DISPATCH. 1 Barcelona, Spaik, February 20. It is now over 50 years since the English mis sionary Gebrge Borrow, in his fruitless effort to circulate the Protestant Bible among the Gitani or Gipsies of Spain, got into all sorts ot difficulties with the Spanish authorities for his, to them, inexplicable and apparently evil-disposed consorting with these irrepressible vagrants, and his half mysterions and always stubborn and defiant attitude toward existing customs, laws and beliels. His confession was a frank one that no soul among this outlaw race was in any degree converted or evangelized by his efforts among them. Indeed, one may go further, and state the concise fact that in all his wanderings, both in Spain and England, he never effected the conversion of a Gipsy, or came upon a Gipsy Christianized by any other nerson's efforts. To one possessing any real knowledge f this race the Ro many it need scarcely be urged that his failure came not so much from what ought to be failure in any like effort to elevate the lowly that is, the presentation of a stony and unwelcome theologic fact to an empty and yearning stomach as from the uni versal and undeniable tact that all Gipsies are an unchangeable race of agnostics. They cannot depart from that rank of spiritual vacuity and soddenness without at once ceasing to be Gipsies. Except in a few general race characteris tics, the Gipsies of Spain to-day are no more the Gipsies of Srain of upwards a half century iigo than is theGipsvnionev nrince. Smith, of Honiton, England", like his father who plaited osier baskets and sold pewter spoons among the peasants of Devonshire, or that splendid specimen of man and Gipsy, the honestly rich Levi Stanley, of Ohiorlike his ignorant progenitors among the donkevs and rags of Kirk-Yetholm, the Scottish Gipsy Mecca ot the Cheviot hills; or indeed than vou are like the long-haired, jaundiced, flint-hearted bigots, yonr forefathers, may hap, who hanged the innocent wretches, your other forefathers, upon Gallows 111 in Salem. A PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE. The fact made clearest and plainest to me during more than a quarter century's per sonal study of the Romany race is, that no one interested in this strange people should fail to recognize that even the most earnest writer ot from half a century to two centu lics ago, wrote from within lesser hoiizons of observation than are granted to any earn est observer of to-day; and that thr Gipsies of those days, like the peasants of those days, were so wretched a lot that any de scription of them then must necessarily be untrue of them now. Change, progress, ev olution, are true of all peoples, of all trades, professions, arts, almost of all relig ions. That a wonderful evolution has been in progress among my friends, the Gipsies, I shall most sturdily claim, for I know it; and nowhere on earth has it been more marked and far-reaching than it has been in this semi-barbaric land, where almost all else would seem to have retrograded or stood still. In 1877 my acquaintance had progressed so far and favorably with Gipsies, and their trust in me as an unvaryingly kindly dis posed friend, had in many ways grown so secure, that at an encampment on the banks ct the Dcsplaines river, in Illinois, I was unexpectedly, and with some enrious rites, admitted to Gipsy brotherhood; that is, I was made a "Gorgio dial," or a non-Gipsy brother. At that momentous ceremony I was placed in possession of three Bomany words, which, in nearly every one of the United States, along the hedges of Eneland, in the lowlands oi Scotland, among the glens of Ireland, in the canons cf Cuba, throngh the Bhine valleys and Bavarian villages, in the streets of Paris or the leaf filled lanes of Brittany, and, wherever I have uttered them in Spain, have unre servedlyopened to me the lents.huts.houses, hearts and innermost thoughts, feelings, and often the secret aspirations, of the Bomany people. There has been no ex ception, nor a single timidity or hesitancy. MOST GENEROUS FRIENDS. I have known the. bitterest indifference from pretentious Christian men in sorest want when infinitely greater matters than my on n success or personality were at stake; but this outcast and despised race never turned coward-friend face upon me, and never once upbraided me, save for not per mitting them to become all-sufficient sne- corers. And so when 1 nad been among the Madrid Gipsies an hour.I was in possession; without the asking, of insinuation where I should iiud one nho, when found, could truly tell me more in another hour of Gip sies in Spain than can be found within the lids of all books ever written upom the Bomany race. This man was Francisco or .Pancho Tomas; and after a hasty trip through Saragossa, at whose capital city the fnir maid, Agustina, won immortality of fame for her bravery by her dead lover's side in defense of her people against the French, passed alons the noble Ebro into Catalonia, to the Sierra de la Llenanvherc, in a sunny mountain valley near the quaint old hilltown of Granadella, I found -the most important and interesting Gipsy en campment I had ever anywhere beheld. Strictly speaking, it could not be called an encampment, for while a number of patched tents and rude wooden cabins could be seen, the Gipsy village, with all its un couth scenes, occupied the site of an aban doned pueblo, in which perhaps 200 ruinous structures were still standing. These were very ancient. Many were utterly uninhabi table, roofs or portions of the walls havlncr fallen in; but against the remaining walls of buch most comfortable temporary huts had been built. Some of these were curious Indeed. Itoosestones had been formed into end walls rnnning at a sharp angle from the the ground up against the old side walls still standing. The roof was composed of skins, or coarse cloth, running from the ground to the peaks of the temporary walls; and the entrances to such were invariably from within the ruined olden habitation. Others were formed by thestones and mortar of a ruin falling down on all sides, thus snugly protecting some single apartment. a chief's habitation. Host curious and Buggestive of all, hint ing to one's fancy a common instinct be tween these wanderers from Hindoostan and the earliest house builders among the Celts of "Western Europe, were seven huts, exact duplicates of the beehive cells of B .tany, Cornwall and Ireland, of such extraordinary interest to archaeologists. These had been built oi the lighter and thinner stones, in horizontal layers, each one slightly inward ly overlapping the lower one, and forming a dome-shaped structure, with a hole in the top and a small door, which invariably faced the east. The latter is a custom with all Gipsies, for which they will, or can, give no reason, though it undoubtedly is a lingering proof of their earlier worship of the sun. Some of the more important members of the band, the "prominent citizens" as it were, occupied structures which were stilt habit able, to Gipsies, after slight pothering and mending; but the chief of the tribe, Pancho Tomas, and three or four of his sons' and daughters' families were residing in much composure and comfort in the (till firmly 1 sunning range oi ciouten irom wmen tas once capacious chifrch of the mountain town had as completely fallen away and dis; appeared as though it had never existed. "" The secret of the desertion of the pueblo by its native inhabitants lay in the fact that sometime within the past century or two the ulace had been so thoroughly shaken by one of the earthquakes which now and then thunder along the Biviera that the simple souls who lived within il had incontinently fled.never to return, its present occupation by from 300 to 400 of the Gitani, was sim ply an example of clever thrift under the new order ot things among the Gipsies of Spain where thieves have become honest traders rather than, as among our kind of folk, honest traders becoming commercial thieves. SPAIN'S GIFSY PftPULATION. I will not dwell upon my own deligbtfnl experiences among these tawny folk their surprise, pleasure and anectionon finding in El Americano one who could speak in their own secret tongue and tell them such won drous and trne tales of their rich brethren in tho far Eldorado across the sea; my loiter ings among the poorer detached families whose pride in my atteutions knew no bounds; the hours with the esquiladors, or, in Gipsy, the monrabaros, who with their caches, or scissors, so deftly clip and trim the hair of animals; the lmgerings among herreros or blacksmiths, who with their charcoal urns for forges will turn out marvels of horse shoes, nails and all needed implements; or those still more enchanting evenings when the entire village was trans formed into a scene of innocent revel and dancing, where hundreds of weird figures in the half-lights aud shadows glided airily in the sensuous balero or leaped and pounded the ancient street in the roystering zapotea; but briefly give such facts concerning the real condition of Spanish Gipsies of to-day as were learned from Pancho Tomas and the giaver members of his band. Under their better fortunes, and, what is of more account, their better moralsj for the Inst quarter of a century the Spanish Gip sies have lost greatly in picturesqueness and gained as greatly in character and numbers. The question of numbers is, fortunately, easily arrived at. Two years ago the sub ject of general emigration was seriously dis cussed. Pancho Thomas and a few other important heads of clans took steps to se cure something like a Gipsy census. Drom rajahs (road lords), or roving Gip. sies 80,500 Kair rajahs (town lords), or city Gipsies. 40,000 Total Gipsies In Spain 126.500 The roving Gipsies include all wander ing bands, whether or not they have tem porary city or town habitation, with all Gipsys of whatever occupation, outside of those permanently living in cities. Those having, in occupatiou, apparently blended with the rural population comnrise a sur prising number. Diligence drivers and guards; stablemen, male scullions, often niters, at country inns; and many of the guardia civile; are now Gipsies. A no mean number are farmers in the northern prov inces, and arc getting on famously in breed ing cattle, donkeys and ponies. At least one half of the muleteers of all Spanish ter ritory north of Madrid are Gipsies, and the Maragatos, of Celtiberian descent, whom travelers describe so picturesquely as con trolling all that class of labor, have had to give way to this singular encroachment. A large number of guides are now Gipsies; while even the Galiegan peasantry Mho formerly exclusively reaped in the harvest fields of Castile ?nd Portugal, have now im portant rivals in this hardier, defter and more agile race. THEIR VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS. The kair rajahs, or town Gipsies, who are always held in tho greatest contempt by members of roving bauds, are now in Spain, as in America, developing aptitude for labor in many of the lowly callings of the town. The street harpists, the public gnitar play ers, sne witu tne tamoorine or castinets, are Gipsies The ballets have them. Those who travel from door ,.to door selling gew-gaws and relics are Gipsies. The jockeys at the horse market; every tinker in Spain; many of the cocheros and footmen; the ratcatcher, the bird trainer and many of the sellers of sweets, the duicerot, are Gipsies. The "show Gipsies" of Granada and Seville, thousands in number, are genuine membersof the race, but are held in greater loathing by the bet ler classes of their own race than by the Spaniards themselves. Another vocation, always most popular in this country, has at tracted the attention of Spanish Gipsies. There .ire thousands, all told, engaged in various capacities about the hundreds of bull rings in Spain. They are the expertest known chulos, banderilleros, picadors and even matadors and espadas, of the present day. I inquired searchingly concerning the old Gipsy tricks the buena ventura.or fortune telling; chiving the drao or animal-poisoning; the hukni, or great trick of swindling superstitious folk of large sums of money by changing packages containing the same while incantations were being said, or "spells" were being worked; tho querelar nasula, or casting the "evil eye;" ustilar pastesas or "stealing with the hands" by jnggling with money received in change at shops; and that most detestable of female Gipsy deTiltry, the dealing in love philters and similar vile charms. The answers were honest, humiliating and hopeful. They demonstrated improvement. Yes, all these things were still practiced, but to surpris ingly less extent. Respectable Gipsies had foiesworn tlice things absolutely. The great mass of Spanish Gipsies were begin ning to emulate those who, like Pancho (whose credit with merchants and bankers here at Barcelona I find exceeds $100,000), had become traders, and, in a way, business men. Edgab L. "WAKEMAir. GOSPEL IK A BOAT. Cnpmln Tinrr, oi tho bcnmen'i Friend So clru, Xovr in the Cltr. Captain "W. H. Law, Missionary Super intendent of the Western Seamen's Friend Society for the Les Cheneaux region, on the north shore of Lake Huron, is in the city for the purpose of raising funds to aid in his work. Chancellor M. B. Goff, of the West ern University, whose guest Captain Law is, speaks in the highest terms of Mr. Law's work, a3 do also a number of other Pitts burg people who have visited his mission field during their summer vacations. His work is undenominational in character and he does the work of an evangelist in a wild region of country over 60 miles in length and from 12 to 20 in breadth. Being the only missionary in all that region, his work is preparatory. Cap'tain Law was in the city last spring and raised $300 toward the purchase of a launch to crnisc about the islands on the shore of Lake Huron. The boat has beei called "Pittsburg," and is the means of spreading the gospel throughout the region1. Captain Law will remain in this city three or four weeks. His object is to 'establish a Bethel Home in the village of HesseL HELD OYER 10 COURT. A Tonne Allesfaenlan Arrested nnd Jailed on n Scrlona Charge. Harry Graham, a young Alleghenian j was committed to jail yesterday in default of 51,UU0 Dan on a serious charge, preferred by Agnes Tankert before Alderman Mcilak ters. The prosecutrix la the young girl who was arrested a couple of weeks ago by (De tective Glenn, of Allegheny, on a charge of infanticide. J After a hearing she was committed to jail. She is yet in the hospital department of the jail, where Alderman McMasters went to receive the information. Tbo Formal Change To-Day, The changes in the positions of the cials of the Pennsylvania Compan occur to-aay. The official circuit! nouncing tne changes were issued aay. mr. wans, wno will succeei Taylor, of the Ft. Wayne, has bee: several days coaching himself on duties. Joffi- f will ii an- Vester 3 Mr. ol here AUntw TALES OF OLD TIMES When the Southside Was a Small Village Amid the Woodlands. MEU0IES OF EARLY RESIDENTS. The Neglected Grave of the Founder of Birmingham Borough. THE FIEST CnOECU, SCHOOL AND MILL Amid the bustle and progress of the pres ent date, what is more interesting than to hear the tales of "ye olden tymes" from the lips of the aged men of the place; the old residents, who have seen a city spring up around them, oftentimes placing their once quiet homes in the midst of a noisy, busy industrial center? Or perhaps they were once on abusy street, but now all is changed. The streets have different names, and where the early settlers were wont to gather nuts or enjoy other sports, are now solid blocks of houses or manufacturing plants. They are strangers at home. The city has outgrown their knowledge and they, like their houses, are Itndmarks of another time in history. The Southside has many who can claim a long residence in this section; but of the oldest men those who1 can remember when the Southside was but a little village; when Carson street was not; when hickorv nuts grew in the upper part, afterward East Birming ham; in fact, before recent progress had transformed wood and dale into a busy, throbbing city, there are en. Among thes: 'Squire James Salisbury, now in his 81stycar, is referred to when one asks of olden times. Mr. Salisbury came to tbo Southside in 1810, and was a resi dent of Pittsburg lrom 182G until the former date. He is not the oldest resident, but from his long term of service in the borough of Birmingham, and later as alderman, be has become very familiar with old things in the history of this side of the river. He was a justice in the borough from 1862 until it joined the city in 1872, and- afterward served as alder man in the Twenty-eighth ward until two years ago. A NEGLECTED GRAVE. Th; borough of Birmingham was organ ized in 1827 and was very prosperous. The second year the levy of taxes did not quite aggregate 5300, which would give some idea of the value of real estate and the number of inhabitants at that time. Birm ingham extended from Union allev (run ning north and south) to Sixth street. The whole tract, for some distance up the Monon gahela, onee belonged to Oliver Ormsby. Ur. ISedlord, who obtained the land and laid out Birmingham borough, was an English man. Tbc Market House square was donated by him to the city. He stood very high in Masonry, and beiore he died built a tomb and monument for himself at the head of Twelfth street The monument is covered with Masonic emblems, but the inscription has been obliterated. He was buried in tho tomb in 1822, having died at the age of 02. Dr. Bed lord presented the ground at the head of Twelfth street to the Methodist Church for a building site, with the provis ion that his tomb should not be disturbed. The church was built in 1819, but, contrary to the provision, the monument was allowed to be cast down, and remained buried until the property was sold to John Kusser, as a result of dissension in the church over this action. Mr. Nusser dug upthemonumeut, and it can be seen to-day intact except as to the inscription. Some time ago Mr. Bedford's English rela tives searched for the bones, but could not find them. Mr. and Mrs. Nusser knew where they were, but would not tell, saying that they should not be disturbed, and to day the remains of the founder of the borough of Birmingham lie in an unmarked grave, the exact location being known only to a very few. nitsT chukch and school. 'Squire Salisbury is still true to the old borough. He says that he does not believe in large cities, and thinks it would have been better for the borough had it never joined the city. One of the advantages he claims small places have over large cities is that in small municipalities statements are printed annually of the moneys paid out and the work of councils, and there is not so much business that the people arc unable to keep track of events, while under the larger powers of a city it is hard to tell what has become of their money. The first school house in the borough was built on the site of the present market house. The oldest church is the little build ing near the Bingham Street M. E. Church. It was built by the Methodists. Not long after it was erected they moved to the U. P. Church property, on the site ot the Fifteenth street school house, which site they bought from the latter congregation. Later they again came back to their original location aud built the present church. The United Presbyter'an congregation built a church on Fourteenth street on the site of the Monroe property, and later the present church.' In the 'Squire's time Neville street (now Muriel) was the main thoroughfare, aud Carson street was the "Pike." It onlv ran to Sixteenth street, and terminated in a race track, from Seventeenth to Twentieth street, and back at the edge of the hill. Teams used to cross the Monongahela to Grant street at low water, and Mrs. Salisbury re members well when an ox-roast was held by the Democrats in 1838 on the bir in the middle of the river, from Tenth street to the Pojnt. The demonstration was in celebra tion of Governor Porter's election. some othek recollections. The Sligo mills, as most readers already know, were the first on this side of the river, having been started in 1820. The first glass house was the O'Hara. The first burgess of the borough of Birmingham was Edward Ensel, Sr. John Gallagher is another of the old resi dents whose memory reaches back into the past. He came to Birmingham in 1816, neing a oaoe at tne time. He is now in his 75th year. He remembers gathering nuts on the old hickory bottoms, afterward chartered as East Birmingham in 1815-6. Sidneyville comprised ten acres running from Union alley to Seventeenth street, and was bought by a company who operated the old Bir mingham Glass Works. East Birmingham extended from Sidneyville on up. Sarah, Mary, Jane and Sidney streets were named after the daughters of Oliver Ormsby, and Wharton street alter a son-in-law. Mr. Gallagher's father was the first shoe dealer on this side of the river. As to the oldest houses there is some disagreement. The old English double house on Muriel street, opposite 'Squire Hartman's present residence, is an ancient dwelling. Possibly it is the oldest landmark. Dennis Doran, Willam Beck and Joseph Mcintosh are three others among the oldest residents. Dennis Doran dates his residence back to 1845. Mr. Beck came to the South side about 1837. Joseph Mcintosh has re sided on this side since 1825. Another of the old citizens is Michael Ward. He has been here since 1836. He called to mind an old story that has doubtless been told many limes, but will still be of interest to the younger generation. a local ghost stoet. It is in regard to a bit of history which clusters abont a little one-story house just opposite the schoolhouse on Fourteenth street. It is known as the Reynolds orop erty, and if not haunted at one time, its oc cupants are said to have seen spirits. Mrs. Reynolds was a widow, whose husband had died suddenly, and was buried in the tjuiueu. une evening sne auenueu me I ?? Jm :5r i ?geli.i5 ne wo?d I on the hillside, and whJLjo lUt'PS 0I lg I She at first until the in visible hand again pulled her garment. one was sleepy nnd was soon again nod ding when her dress was pulled again. She immediately arose, went home and taking a bucket started across the common to get some water out of Mrs. Brown's well. The bucket would not sink, and in her ex citement she called for assistance and it was found that Mis. Brown was in the well drowned. Mrs. Brown had a peculiar habit, when talking to friends of twitching their dresses and it was believed by the neighbors that it was her spirit that had tugged at Mrs. Beynolds' gown. Mrs. Bsynolds had equally as sad an end. She went out into the yardone night for something, and tipped over a hive of bees, and was stung to death on her husband's grave. TOO YOUNG TO MAEET. An Attempt to Sccnrp n License for n Girl Only 13 Ycnrn Old She Didn't Want to Gel BInrrlcd l'l onpccia That She Won't A Queer Cnso All Around. Love may laugh at locksmiths, but when the State of Pennsylvania opposes a mar riage the difficulty is enhanced. A delega tion ofTwellth warders,composed of Michael Eeatty, Mr. and Mrs. Daly and Miss Maria Daly, the latter between 13 and 14 years of age, and small for her age, called on Captain Hieber in the County Begister's office and Michael asked for a marriage license for himself and Maria. As the girl was small, delicate and in short clothing, the proposition astounded Captain Hieber and he called Register Con ner toconsult, the result being that the ap plication was refused, the little girl declar ing, with tears in her eyes, that she didn't want to get married. About this time Beatty and Daly began to exhibit symptoms of a desire to waltz on thebodies of Register Couner and Captain Heiber, and an officer was summoned. Word was also sent to Superintendent Dean, of the Anti-Crnelty Society, and an officer came fro-a there aud took Maria don n to Penn avenue. Her parents and Beatty followed, and after some pow-tvow Maria's parents were allowed to take her home, Mrs. Daly promising that Maria's wishes should hereafter be consulted as to the proposed nuptials. Mrs. Daly said she had yielded to the arrangement because Beatty was a puddler, making good wages, and already was well on the road toward a competence. She thought it best for her child to marry and secure a comfortable living, and be put out of the way of the pitfalls that line the paths of young girls. It is alleged that the date of the child's birth had been changed irom 1876 to 1875, the "5" being marked with lead pencil over the "6." She was born in Center county, aud Mrs. Daly had the Bible containing the birth record with her. Beatty boarded with the Daly family on Twenty-third street. Agent Dean stated that he would apply to court to-dav for the appointment of a guardian for Maria. HE ATE ALL 15 SIGHT. A Man With an Appetite Strike a Sixth Street Rcitnnrant. "See that man who just went out?" asked the clerk of a Sixth street restaurant yester day of a Dispatch reporter, who had just called for a cigar. "Well, what of him?" "You wouldn't think he was much of an eater, would you ? Well, I'll tell you what he ate. First, he got away with a whole salmon; then he tackled a large tenderloin steak; then downed a half dozen fried ovsters, ana finished with four fried eggs ?2 15." "Did he leave anything?" "He pretty nearly knocked out the waiter with his order. The boy thought he wanted one of the lour dishes, and asked him which one it was-'-for any one is an average man's meal. Bnt the gentleman from Bakerstown I forget his name said, '1 guess I know what I want bring me all ot 'em, as I told you to.' And he got them." THE SISTINE 3IAD05XA. Raphael's Greatest Work Selected for tho Text of n. Lecture. Eev. J. C. White, of St. Andrew's Church, lectured last evening before the King's Sons and Daughters' Society at St. Peter's Church, Grant street. The subject chosen was Raphael's celebrated painting, "The Sistme Madonna," and the speaker sought to show how and by what means it meant more than the casual glance would discover. Raphael, the painter, was also the greatest reformer. Revelation was the work of God. Inspiration that of man. Both pointed to the same idea. The difference lay in who drew the curtain aside. The lecture was weil attended, showing plainly that the work of the organization under whose auspices the lectures are given is bearing fruit. INTEECST1XG TO AETISIS. An Excellent Spocimen br Uljlho Bclonglnc to Charles Smith, of Hn tier Street. It is not generally known that a painting by Blythe, the erratic genius whose works are so highly valued by Pittsburgers of the present day, is in the possession of Charles Smith, the hotel proprietor on Butler, near Forty-first street. The subject is one of the "Old Bums," that the artist in question took so much de light in depicting, and the canvas is in a splendid state of preservation considering the length of time that it has been knocking about. Mr. Smith has been offered consider able money for the picture, but will not part with it. ETIDEKCES OP EARLY SPEING. A Wild-Flower Bouquet That Wai Flacked a Second Time. It is not often that wild flowers are gath ered on February 27, bnt yesterday the desk of Assessor James Larkin was adorned with a bouquet picked the day before in the vicinity of his residence, 1937 Second ave nue, by his little daughter Laura. He was highly elated over this tribute of an early spring, and filial affection, until some visitor to the Assessor's office, who was without a knowledge of the -laws of meum and tnuni, gathered the flowers for a second time and carried them off. New Odd Fellows' I.odcc Eclipse Lodge, No. 892, 1. O. O. F., was instituted at Duquesne last Wednesday by James L. Early, D. D. G. M., assisted by the following members of the order: John Schutz, of 1394, D. G. M.; Orin S. Swisher, of 991, G. W.; A.J0. Jarrett. of 906, G. S.; James Brown, of 48, G. T.; David Deacon, of 48, G. M.; George Giles, of 991, G. C; Henry Cowder, oi 694, G. H.; B. Hall, of 694, G. G.; Rev. J. J. Mclllyar, G. Chaplain. The lodge was instituted in the alternoon antral the evening session 50 were initiated and the three degrees conferred on them. Twenty others will receive the degrees at the next meeting.'' The following were elected officers: John T. Black, M. D., N. G.; John W. Crawford, V. G., George G. Pitts, Secretary; W. C. Furlong, Assist ant Secretary; Charles B. Payne, Treasurer. Mil It nnd Water Proceeding;. George McCutcheon, Meat aud Milk In spector, has entered suit against D. S. Os good, Isaac Sanson, R. Caplan and John Kane for selling adulterated milk. The cases will be heard before Alderman Rich ards on March 5. Fob disordered liver try Beecnam'. PHls. Psasc flow the surest ana best rrw aude SSS'JS in JmrHPS r ' amaak.jm . vii i M7vxni vi fi "iiH ihiwJj- iv n iriirisx m m'iM 'vm.ik imimr,wm&ivi wmmmsffimnrm WM'imimmiw 111 HtfMTtir Vt'ltMUL-tZjarSVllllW 111 IV. i-"Vs. . . WS&YV' - HUGH COLEMAN Illustrated The shadows were lengthening on the mountain side, and although the sun was still shining upon tho curragh a keen breeze announced the approach of evening. The day's picnic and the day's work were at an end. The peat had been cut and stacked, each stack having its owner; the food brought for this annual outing had been consumed; quaintly clad women were going to and fro, collecting the mugs and platters which were scattered about the turf; and men, half fishermen and half farmers iii appearance, were untethering the horses and harnessing them in the carts. In a short time the whole party would be on their way homeward. One person took no share in the general bustle. This was a girl who had made for herself a cozy seat among the heather and seemed determined to abandon herself to lazy enjoyment. Sho was more smartly dressed thau the homely people around, and she had decked her hat with wild flowers; she had rosy cheeks, large dark eyes, a tempting little mouth and jet black hair; she had many coquettish little ways; she was altogether a pretty girl a girl to break men's hearts, but to break her own lor none. "Come, Hattie gel, get up," mother, a plain-featured woman said her in a big sun-bonnet. "I wonder you're not ashamed of yourself, seein' folt goin' about after yonr rnbhidge, while you do nothing but lie in the sun." But Hattie only laughed. She looked so pretty that it was impossible to be angry with her, and her mother moved on again. A few moments later, however, she returned to the charge. This time Hattie rose, and, with a smile at the young man who had been standing by her side, went slowly away. "Don't forget John," she called back to him: "you'll ride back in the cart with us. You promised, remember." The curragh was bounded at this part by a wall of loose stones. John Teare, when left alone, strolled off by himself, and, pass ing throngh the gateway, reached a little glen, with a streamlet which could be heard but not seen, for it was buried beneath a tangle of brambles. He was not altogether satisfied with himself. Delight ful as it was to be with Hattie Caveen, he knew that she had been keeping company with Dan Kinrade, nnd he was not without some scruples of conscience. But before he could look the situation inirly in the face he heard a heavy footstep behind, and saw Dan Kinrade himself striding toward him. Kinrade was a tall, gaunt, loose-limbed man, with red hair and nign cnees bones. He swnug his arms about as he walked; his fists were clenched; his face was dark with rage. He made straight tor Teare, and did not stop until he had reached him. Then he said in a hoarse voice: "This business must be settled betwixt us, John betwixt man and man here and now." "What business?" asked Teare, shrinking a little. "You know well enough what business," answered Kinrade. "If you are a man, come on." "But, Dan " "Come on, I say," cried Kinrade with grim determination. "Listen to me, Dan," persisted Teare, re treating before those threatening fists, for the knowledge that he was in the wrong made him a coward. "Listen." Kinrade dashed a huge fist into his face, and knocked him on his back among the brambles. For one moment Teare lay as if dead; then he scrambled to his feet and rushed, at his assailant. The blood was streaming from his nose, but he did not mind that did not know of it, indeed; though the shorter of the two, he was active and wiry; he slipped under Kinrade's guard, caught him round the body, and strove to throw him. And so the two men stood, swaying to and fro on a grassy mound, a green islet in the tide of brown and yellow bracken which rolled down the steep sides of the glen, their muscles knotted like wire .ropes, so that it seemed as if a limb must snap before either gave way. But the ground was damp and slippery, and presently Kinrade missed his footing and was borne backward by Teare 's -head and shoulders, the two falling together. Upon the grass, as they rolled over one another, the combat was renewed, both fighting like wild beasts.wtlh foot and fist, and even tooth. Once they struggled to their knees, each hit ting out in a blind frenzy, till a crushing blow hurled Teare on to his side. A cry of pain escaped his lips, and was hrard by Hattie, who was wondering what had be come of her lovers, Froaa the higher ground she caught eight V?&$3rs sT "-n 0: mwsft i w5(?cxii. yfMLV "" - " V- .... DAVIDSON, IN BELGRAVIA. Br The Dispatch. of them struggling among the bracken down in the glen, and, calling aloud in her alarm, she ran down toward them. Kinrade, still on his knees, turned at the sound of her voice. Teare seized the opportunity and struck him a savage blow on the head. "Oh, JohnI tor shame!" panted Hattie. "Coward! coward! Are you hurt, Dan? What is it? What have you been doing?" The two men rose and, with bruised faces hung down, sheepishly awaited her coming. "Oh, to think of such a thing! exclaimed Hattie. "Two bigmea like "you fightingl There must be an end of this, or I'll never speak to either again. Shake hands, now," said Hattie. trying to smile, yet afraid lest, for the first time in her life, her smiles had lost theirpower. "Come, John, sbnke hands." "Not I," answered Teare, doggedly, "not even for vou, Hattie." And Kinrade said, between his teeth, "I'd break every bone in his bodv first. I'll do it vet, too." Some echo of the strife had reached the curragh, and a3 Hattie stood trembling be fore the sullen combatants, a party gath ered at the gate aud looked down upon tho scene. The men only gaped when they saw the two disfigured faces, the torn clothes, the fists stiil grimly clenched, but from the women burst a chorus of screams. "j.nat gel s always after causing mis chief," said one. "There'll be a burying through her vet," said another. "That gel!" cried Mrs. Caveen, up ia arms for her daughter. "And what's my gel got to do with it? Just von min your own gels. They're no better till they should be." It was an unpleasant endirif fnrnlMnt day. There were but te?r songs on the road home, and those few were not sung with the usual accompiniment of merry laughter. Teare and K'nrade both went m the cart with Hattie, bnt neither uttered a word the whole way. Though she made no attempt to speak to them, 3he watched them fur tively, terrified at the contemplation of the passions whichshe had aroused. From her mother, as noon as they were safe inside their own cottage, she received the severest scolding that had ever fallen to her lot. "There'll be murder done," said Mrs. Caveen. "Mark my words, gel, there'll be murder done, and you'll be the cause of it." This awful prediction increased Hattie'a terror. How was she to prevent its fulfil ment? To reconcile the two men was, she feit, beyond her powers. Tho only thing she could think of as practicable was to en gage herself to one, and to destroy for the uiuer an cnance ot successful rivalry. Later in the evening, bent upon carrying ont this idea, she crept outside the door and, as it happened, met John Teare. And him she promised to marry. "Sow you'll be a good lad, John, won't yon?" taid Hattie coaxingly. "You won't quarrel again with Dan, will you?" Teare, elated with his success, said that if Dan would leave him alone, he would leave Dan alone. And the compact was sealed with a kiss. The meeting was witnessed by a tall, thin, gray-haired man, with a vacant look in his pale blue eyes. He was a mild kind of lunatic, harmless enough when the vil lage boys did not tease him beyond endur ance. He lived by begging, and always carried a covered basket, into which he put num was given Dim. una mil was- the onljr name he was known by, his mother having been a Batty; if he had ever had a surname, it had long been forgotten. Though it was a moonlight night Bet Bill could not bs easily seen, for he stood in the shadow of a barn. But he was near enough to the couple to observe their kisses, and even to catch a few of their words. When they parted he was gone. John T,eare possessed a lew pounds of money, a few acres of mountain land, and a little cottage on the outskirts of the village. By mothers with unmarried daughters he was therefore considered a very eligible young man. With him lived his Uncle Peter, a miserable old creature, bent in, body, thongh still powerful in limb, withaa ill-shapen head, low receding forehead, and matted hair over it, a coarse, stubbly bend, and cunning little eyes which had in thent the restless look of some wild animal. He did most of the cooking in the house, helped on the farm, and, in return for board and lodging, acted generally as John's assistant. Upon the morning after the peat cntting Peter Teare was early on foot, shambling toward the village. The first person he met was Bet's Bill, basket on arm as usual, and? for a wonder he stopped aud spoke. "Have you seen John anywhere?' ho asked. "John your John?" exelaiaed Betl i I I "v.
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