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Ninth Pace, Second Part.
THE KAILBOAD'S LAW.
The House Committee on Commerce has,
it will be seen by the bill reported yester
day, got far enough under railroad control
to "report the old bill to suppress ticket
scalpers that has been passed by railroad
influence in various States.
That ticket speculators who sell tickets
by authority of the railroads should be their
agents and subject to the law is so plain
that it hardly requires any further legisla
tion to make it so. But to enact that rail
roads shall not pay any compensation for
the sale of tickets would be a remarkable tri
umph of railroad policy, only to be surpassed
by the enactment that the purchaser of a
railroad ticket, cannot sell it to anyone else.
Under this triumph of corporate legislation
the man who accompanies a lady to a rail
road depot, buys a ticket for her and re
ceives her money for it when they are at
leisure, would subject himself to a fine of
$3,000 for his gallantry.
Still, neither the public nor the ticket
scalpers need trouble themselves very much
over the probable passage of this law. Even
if passed, if it is not enforced any more than
the other provisions of the act, it will not
interfere with anyone.
A HISAPPBEHENSIOH COBBECTED.
The candidates for the privilege of sup
plyingtbe public of Pittsburg with alcoholic
and malt beverages yesterday commenced
to undergo the annual crossfire of questions
as to the qualifications which they can pre
sent for distributing liquid stimulation in a
manner to conduce to the quiet and order
of the community. The characteristic of
yesterday's proceedings was the universal
testimony on the part of the applicants to
the sobriety and good order which prevails
in the drinking places of the Point, Fourth
avenue, below Market street, and the corner
of "Wood and "Water streets. This represen
tation may correct the misapprehension
which has existed in the minds of the pub
lic; if the Judges do not neutralize it by
their action on the subject of licenses.
Possibly the testimony of the would-be
siloon keepers will restore the lost prestige
of those localities as eligible residence prop
erty. THE COUKTBY'S SEED.
The movement for the Improvement of
country roads meets with an opponent in the
Hew York Press, which journal takes the
ground that country roads are of no use
save for neighborhood travel and that they
serve that purpose well enough as they are.
But that is exactly where the esteemed
Press is in error. No one with any sense
has proposed that a system of highway: for
through travel should be established, but
the fact has forced itself upon the attention
of thinking people that during a great por
tion of the year the roads of the country are
so bad that farmers cannot bring their prod
ucts to the railway stations for shipment,
or hardly come themselves to obtain supplies.
The economic loss resulting from this state
of affairs is a double one. It prevents the
farmer from taking the time of the year when
he is at leisure, to ship his products, and
forces the shipments into the few weeks of
pleasant weather when he can leave his
farm work. The same loss presents itself in
the report which is often fonnd in com
mercial columns, of dullness in trade, "on
account of the country roads." Roads
which would enable farmers to haul their
products at all seasons, and would decrease
the expenditure of power necessary, even
where the rough ones can be used, would
save their cost every year that they were
kept in operation.
The assertion of the Press that "highway
geniuses have still an ample field for exer
cise on the problem of clean and well-cared-for
city streets," reveals the necessity for in
structing our esteemed co temporary that a
very large and very important element of
this country lives outside of the cities.
THE MASSACHUSETTS MOVEMENT.
The petition of the Massachusetts manu
facturers for free raw material, presented to
the House Committee ye&terday, was a
rather remarkable development of the tariff
controversy. The petitioners were almost en
tirely of the protectionist school; yet
they appear before Congress urging a
measure which would reduce into practice,
the theories, at least, of the tariff reform
movement which the protectionists have
been fighting for three years. The objection
to their proposition on the part of the pro
tection system is the very plain one that if
we abandon protection on one department of
industry, we make a break in the system
which must lead to the ultimate abandon
ment of all. So far as Pittsburg and
"Western Pennsylvania are concerned the
reductions urged are not vital. Pittsburg
consumes lar more of the raw materials on
which the reduction is asked than she
produces; and if those materials should be
cheapened by the abolition of the tariff, our
industries would get their share of the ad
vantages from it.
INDIANS "WHO DESEBVE PBOTECTION.
There are about four hundred Seminole
Indians in Florida who'are the only inhabi
tants of the United States who have no legal
existence. At the close of the Seminole
war in 1842 it was generally supposed that
the whole tribe had been removed to Indian
Territory, and the Federal Government to
day takes no official cognizance of the ex
istence of wh.it Mr. Kirk Munroe in an in
teresting paper on the subject in Berliner's
Magazine cills "A Forgotten Retunaut"
Mr. Munroe has evidently an intimate ac
quaintance with the life of the Florida
Seminoles, and he has very little but good
to say of them. Left to their own devices
in the heart of the great Southern swamps
they have thrived amazingly, doubled in
numbers, and are now somewhat advanced
in the peaceful paths of civilization. They
raise fine crops on lands that no white man
could cultivate; they keep by themselves,
and in morality compare very favorably
with tha pale-faces, who are now threaten
ing to crowd them out of the region
which the Seminole has made fruitful. The
Florida Seminole in short is thoroughly de
serving of the inalienable rights guaranteed
by our Constitution the possession of lite
and property and the pursuit of happiness
and if tbey were given him he would be a
better citizen than most of the negroes and
poor whites of that section.
President Cleveland was informed of the
industrious, peaceful character of the Flor
ida Seminoles, and declared that "as he
could discover no substantial reason for
their removal from the country they now
occupy, they should not be molested during
his term of office." This promise Mr.
Cleveland kept. Mr. Harrison cannot do
better than to adopt his predecessor's policy
in this instance. The Government ought to
protect this little band of aborigines, and
secure to them the lands which they now
inhabit. Mr. Munroe says that attempts
are being made already by rascally land
grabbers to deprive the Seminoles of their
homes. "We ought to vary the usual prac
tice and give the Bed Man a taste of justice
and honorable treatment. Will ose of the
very few friends of the Indian in Congress
take this matter up? The Seminole lands
in Florida should be made a reservation at
THE DIAMOND STBEET AWABD.
The award of the Board of Viewers placing
the damages for the opening of Diamond
street at $473,000, and assessing the benefits
for the improvement at the same amount,
gives a tolerably good indication of the cost
of the widening. As by far the greater por
tion of the cost will be in the condemnation
of property, the aggregate expense by this
estimate can be figured in the neighborhood
of half a million dollars.
The award inevitably gives rise to many
complaints, and some of them will undoubt
edly result in bringing the matter to the
courts. "While it seems remarkable at first
sight that some properties should be as
sessed to pay considerable sums above their
damages, for as the owners put it, "the
privilege of tearing down our buildings and
moving away," it will probably be found on
examination that the Board has acted on
well-defined and equitable principles in
reaching this result. The character of the
property destroyed by the widening, the
usefulness of what is left, and the depth of
lots as they will be after the improvement
is made, are all factors which will probably
be shown to have produced the awards pub
lished yesterday.
The time set by the Board for the vaca
tion of the property is two years hence. In
the interim it may be taken for granted
that the legal questions arising out of the
whole matter will be fully fought out and
decided.
GETTING ABOVE PARTISANSHIP.
Two measures just introduced in the
House ot Bepresentatives foreshadow the
assertion of control by Congress of the elec
tion of its members in the various States.
One is the bill of Mr. Lodge to establish the
Australian ballot system in Congressional
elections; the other is the measure intro
duced yesterday by Mr. Kelley, of Kansas,
providing for the apportionment of Congres
sional districts by Congress after the next
census.
These bills deserve more attention because
they rise, to a certain degree, above the mass
of election measures, which are simply in
tended to gouge the opposing party. Per
haps this should be qualified in the case of
Mr. Kelley's measure, for, if it is the inten
tion that the redistricting shall be done by
the present Congress, his bill would be as
much of a partisan measure as any of its
predecessors. But Mr. Lodge's bill cer
tainly rises above the level of partisanship
to the plane of proposing the Federal con
trol of elections, in order to secure free,
honest and uniform methods in the expres
sion of the will of the people.
When the question is thus removed above
the strife for partisan advantage it is worthy
of serious consideration. "Would it not be
wise, as Mr. Lodge proposes, to have
Congress enact the rules to secure an honest
and unswayed ballot throughout the entire
nation ? "Would it not be worth while to
secure the meat of the other proposition,
namely, that national legislation shall pre
scribe the rules for Congressional appor
tionment so as to put an end to the indefi
nite alteration ot gerrymanders? That this
would be secured if Congress should do the
redistricting is not likely; but that it might
be done by legislation for redistricting by a
non-partisan body is quite possible.
If our legislators can stop the attempts
at party gouging long enough to give at
tention to legislation like this, on a broad
national basis, it will be better for the
country and better for them.
PESTH'S GEEAT EDIT0B.
One would hardly look for enterprise in a
Hungarian newspaper, but it is the editor
of a Pesth cotemporary who announces tha;
notices of betrothals, marriages and births
will be inserted free if the parties interested
will agree to buy the garments, etc., re
quired in each case of tradesmen advertising
in his columns. This is a liberal offer, and
it ougbt to increase the circulation and ad
vertising patronage of our esteemed Hun
garian cotemporary. "We cannot help think
ing that the editor who is now molding pub
lic opinion and aiding the storekeepers to
reach his readers in Pesth, graduated from
some American newspaper office. If his train
ing and talent are local he ought to transfer
himself to this country at once, where he
will be highly appreciated.
The business office of the Pesthian paper
must present a romantic spectacle at times.
"When the blushing maiden and her bashful
lover, for instance, sidle up to the counter
and register their betrothal and their in
tention to buy the engagement ring at
some unpronounceable jeweler's, and the
new bonnet for Sunday at another store,
and a pair of bright spring trousers at
"What's-his-name's splendid clothing em
porium, at such a juncture, we should
say, the advertising clerk's position would
be truly enviable. Then as the story went
on, and the wedding notice, with the con
sequent purchase of gowns and veils, and
silk hats and gloves, and the golden ring,
came under consideration, and at a suit
ably later date the proud father ac
knowledged the arrival of a little visitor,
and the need for things too numerous to
mention, how delightful the familiar footing
of reader and newspaper publisher! The
editor doubtless included the sympathy thus
set up between the paper and the public in
his calculations.
It is uoticeable that the editor does not ex
tend the privilege of free notice to readers
who have the ill grace to die, not even if they1
promise to deal with the undertakers who
advertise. This is a shrewd distinction.
He is determined that only pleasant events
shall bring him and his readers into close
acquaintance. "When readers go to a land
where the newspapers even of Pesth do not
THE PITTSBURGH
circulate, they can pay the regular rates for
transient advertisements.
The report that "Ward McAllister is
struggling with a temptation to write a book
about society, warrants the remark that the
contemplated addition to literature is quite
unnecessary. McAllister has made a sufficient
exposure of himself already.
The persistence of the peach crop organs
Jn asserting that the peach crop is wholly ruined
Is not an example of the perseverance of the
saints. Still it is perseverance.
It is interesting to observe that Prof.
Wiggins very nearly struck a safe prediction
by prophesying a storm for St. Patrick's Day.
But he could not be satisfied with any ordinary
storm. Nothing less than a cataclysm which
would rip creation up the back would do for
"Wiggins; and the consequence is that the Can
adian crank has made the usual exposure of
his lunacy.
Of cotjkse none of the applicants for
license ever had anything to do with speak
easies. Still it may bo well to give them an op
portunity for vindication by a lew pointed
questions on that branch of the subject
"With regard to the new postage stamps,
the verdict seems to be unanimous that the
last state of the stamps is worse than the
sickly greenness of the first.
St. Patrick's Day furnished the regu
lation quality of forbidding weather for the
17th of March, but as usual the Hibernian
spirit could not be quenched or frozen out by
snows and sleet. Our Irish citizens appeared
In force and made a good showing of their
affection for their native land and their fealty
to its patron saint.
President Adams' idea that if the
Central Pacific gets its debt extended at 2f
per cent, his company should nave the same
rate, is well founded. This practice of unjust
discrimination must be stopped.
Ives and Staynor join the triumphant
ranks of those financiers whose operations
were on too vast a scale to undergo the punish
ment for stealing.
Smokeless furnaces are now being heard
of as something to be introduced in Pittsburg.
Let us have them by all means, if we are to re
turn to coal; but the invention which is most
aesirable to introduce is one of the many, of
which we heard so much a year or two ago, to
manufacture fuel gas at si t0 ei8Qt CBnts VT
thousand feet.
The great utility of holding the Inter
national rrison Congress in St, Petersburg ap
pears to be that in that way the Russian Gov
ernment can prevent anything being said about
prison reform in Russia.
The bursting fly wheel is trying to set
up as a rival to the exploding boiler; but it can
never hope to make as much noise in the world
as the latter.
A New Yobk report states that Chauncey
M. Depew has been lorbidden to talk. It is not
quite clear whether this prohibition has been
imposed by his doctors or the managers of his
political boom. Whichever it refers to, it indi
cates that either bis physical condition or his
political outlook is in a hazardous state.
The disclosures of the New York Sheriff's
office show that the present is a good time for
some of the New York Democratic papers to
raise their old political slogan about turning
the rascals out.
The cold wave has come and gone, and
we are now returning to our normal condition
of slush under foot and all sorts ot atmosphere
over bead.
The statement that the Cherokee strip
boomers are coming back from the new terri
tory simply on account of the President's proc
lamation, indicates that they are law-abiding
citizens who will make a useful community
when permitted to occupy the land.
PERSONS WHO AKE TALKED ABOUT.
Mes. D. L. Moody and her invalid son were
at Lakewood last week.
Princess Christian, cousin of Queen Vic
toria, has lost the sight of one eye.
Sims Reeves, the famous tenor, is about to
make a farewell tour of the English provinces.
Young Baron Edward de Rothschild last
week reached New Orleans in his American
travels.
The late Prof. "William Parsons Atkinson
was at Harvard a classmate of James Russell
Lowell, Charles Devens, W. "W. Story and
William I. Bowditch.
Mb. Henry L. "Warner, of Boston, has
given J10.0O0 to his native town of Harvard,
SI ass., to establish a free, non-partisan and un
sectanan lecture course.
"WnENEVEE William E. Gladstone catches
cold he at once goes to' bed. It is not generally
known that he wrote his election address an
nouncing the dissolution of Parliament in 1871
in bed.
The Rev. Dr. "William N. Nichols, rector of
St James Protestant Episcopal Church of
Philadelphia, has finally accepted the call re
cently extended to him as Assistant Bishop ot
California.
Mr. Simon Yandes, the benefactor of
"Wabash College, has just given 850,000 more to
that institution, of which $20,000 goes to the
general endowment fund and $30,000 for a new
library building, to hold 115,000 volumes.
A daughter of the late oldest member of
the House of Commons, Christopher Talbot,
has. out of one of the largest fortunes in En
gland, donated 112,600 for the relief of wives
widowed by the Morsa colliery disaster in
"Wales.
Senator Brown, of Georgia, says that he
would on no account accept election to another
term of service in Congress: his ambition is
f.iiu. ituflpri Hals nearly 70 Tears old. and
lias been State Senator, Presidental Elector,
Governor tor tour terms, uniei jnaiitoui iue
Supreme Court of the State, and United States
Senator.
The Peopln the Jury.
From the Philadelphia Press.
If the charges against the management of
the Pennsylvania Institution are unfounded,
the establishment had nothing to fear from a
thorough Investigation of them in the open
court ot public opinion. In a word, the secret
investigation is a mistake. Its verdict, what
ever it may be, will have to be reviewed by the
tribune ot the people.
DEATHS OF A DAY.
W. S. Patterson, sq.
The Common Pleas Courts adjourned yesterday
afternoon in respect to W. 8. Patterson, Esq.,
who died at his home in McKeesport at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. Mr. Patterson had only been
confined to his home since last Friday, and his
death was sudden, pneumonia being the cause.
The funeral will take place 'from McKeesport to
morrow morning. The Interment will take place
In the Versailles Cemetery. Mr. Patterson was 40
years of age. He has been practicing law for 11
years, and was associated with J. i Patterson.
A meeting or the members or the Bar will be
held to take action on bis death.
Mrs. V. F. Adams.
Mr. V. P. Adams, the wire of one of the clerks
of the Controller's office, died suddenly yesterday
morning from heart disease, it Is one of the most
deplorable deaths which has occurred for years
among the City Hall officials, as there are a num
ber of young children left In the family. Vlrgle
Adams has been so long and well known among
the City Hall employes that yesterday the Con
troller's office was thronged with people asking
the particulars of Mrs. Adams' death.
Tliomni Grny. B. C
LONDON, March 17. Mr. Thomas Gray, B. O.,
Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board
ofTrade, one of the British delegates to the recent
International Maritime Conference at Washing,
ton, died to-day.
J. Younsi Kcnmmon.
CniCAGO, March 17. J. Young Scammon,
banker, philanthropist and a well-known citizen,
who had been ideutlfled with Chicago history, died
this morning, aged !8.
Princess Zorka.
Cettdjoe, March 17. Princess Zorka, eldest
child of the Prince of Montenegro, Is dead. She
was married August 11, 1833, to Prince Peter
Karageorglevltcb. '
DISPATCH, TUESDAY,
WEST VIRGINIA WAYS.
Oddities Noted by the Traveler Alone tlio
Monongahela Bob Burdette at a Soldier
Where Oxen Still Work.
FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
TVTORGANTOWN, W. Va., March 17. A pleas
ant incident Delell Bob Burdette when be
lectured here the other night His subject was.
as usual, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache."
After he was through among those who sur
rounded him to shake hands was one Joseph
Reed, a well-known horse trader in this section
of the country. "I drove 15 miles over a bad
road this even mp to hear you," said Mr. Reed.
"With these whiskers perhaps you do not re
call me. "Well, I enlisted in the service at the
time of the Rebellion in the Forty-seventh Illi
nois. "We saw four years of hard work, and our
ranks were terribly thinned. From that day to
this I have never met one of the members of
our regiment till this evening. And you are the
first man I have seen since Appomattox." Then
Reed told his name, gave the number of bis
company, and something about their captain.
Burdette instantly recognized bim as an old
messmate, although, as the horse trader had in
timated, j ears bad made a difference in bis ap
pearance. For more than an hour Mr. Burdette
talked to the man. And greatly did they enjoy
the repeating of reminiscences.
Mr. Reed tells that Burdette made a good sol
dier. The boys never suspected him of being a
humorist And through all the service he was a
quiet, unostentatious boy. His reserve
amounted to timidity on some occasions, al
though when in active service he was as brave
as the bravest At that time Bob was too young
to be of a literary turn of mind, although now
it is strange that he does not refer more to war
matters in his lectures.
Com e curious thinga mark the line that di
vides "West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
When you reach Waynesboro, in Greene county,
you are close to the borders. And in Greene
county you find the people strongly tinged with
West Virginia characteristics. For instance,
oxen are still in use in Greene county. Per
haps in no other part of Pennsylvania do you
find the steers still in active service. But oxen
are plenty in West Virginia and some of them
are quite popular in Qreeno county. They are
mainly used In hauling logs down to the stream.
But here in West Virginia I find them used to
haul pipes down to the new Morgantown oil
fields. It is about eight miles from Morgan
town to Mount Norrest the field of oil opera
tions, and along the road yon may see any day
as many as 20 or 30 yoke of oxen.
It is certainly an odd thought for Pittsburgers
that much of the freight which comes down on
the Monongahela river packets from the wilds
of West Virginia are hauled to the wharfs by
these oxen. What wOnld the average newsboy
about the postoffice corner of Pittsburg think
if he could see an ox hauling wood through the
streets of Pittsburg. And yet he need not go
very far away from Pittsburg to Bee that very
spectacle. Oxen were last used in Pittsburg, I
believe, at the time of the horse epidemic some
17 years ago, when they were hitched to the
street cars.
V
pROF. I. C. White's suggestion for storage
reservoirs along Cheat river is not strictly
a new one. It was made several years ago by
Colonel T. P. Roberts, of Pittsburg. But I
found onefclassof people who are violently
opposed to any such Innovations. They are
the lumber men. For two or three years past
wonderful developments have been going on In
the lumber regions of the Cheat. Willis D.
Hullngs & Son, of Oil City, have built largo
mills at the mouth of the Cheat and have all
the lumber rafted down there during the open
season. Immense booms were built there to
take the place of thoso swept away by the
floods of two years ago. The forests of this
section of West Virginia are practically un
touched yet, and there is lumber enough there
for years to come. The great channel for
floating the logs is the Cheat To close up
that stream with high dams for reservoirs
world effectually stop the shipping of logs.
There is really no other route for shipping logs
to the Monongahela hut this one. But this
river is admirably adapted for storage pur
poses. Not more than ten mllo3 above the Monon
gahela you will find a natural pool. It is
known as Beaver Hole. Passing throngh one
of the gaps of the Laurel Hill Mountain, the
gorge widens out to a large body of water
perfectly hollowed ont as though intended for
the purpose now proposed. A mile and a half
further north a gap again narrows the channel
to a mere gorge. So well protected is the water
in this pool, and so still and quiet has nature
left it that they tell me it never freezes over
in winter and in summer is always very cold.
The storage reservoir idea contemplates two
immense dams, one in each of these mountain
gaps. Nature herself has hollowed out the
balance of these reservoirs.
The first island up the Monongahela river Is
exactly 100 miles from Pittsburg. Go up the
Allegheny river, or float down the Ohio, and
you will encounter Islands every few miles, but
here is the Monongahela without a break in it
for a stretch of 100 miles. Granville is the
name of the solitary isle. And what an Insig
nificant island it isl Pilot Donaldson, of the
steamer Blaine, tells me that he remembers a
field of corn growing on it 15 or 20 years ago.
But now all that is left of the island is a plot of
ground about as large as a town lot
Every freshet in the last ten years has taken
some of the Island down toward Pittsburg, and
when the slackwater navigation was completed
as far up as Morgantown the fate of the little
Island was settled. Ever since that most of it
has been submerged, and yesterday a haystack
disappeared irom view forever, leaving noth
ing but a barren sandbank to look at. Pres
ently the pilots will point out to steamboat
passengers the site ot the Monongahela's only
island.
.
(peaking of the Monongahela river packets,
reminds me of an incident that occurred the
other night as we came down to Pittsburg.
Just about dusk a drove of some SO hogs was
brought on from one of the big distilleries up
about Gray's Landing. At the next landing a
woman with three children came aboard. About
bedtime there was commotion both above and
below. The hogs evidently had not been given
their supper, and wero sotting upafurions
saueallng to indicate tho pangs of hunger. Off
in the ladles' cabin the children wero giving
vent to similar noises. Tbey wanted to see the
pigs, and tbeir mother would not take them
down stairs. So between pigs and children it
looked very dubious whether passengers would
get any sleep or not Half an hour pissed and
nobody got to sleep. But relief came at last
The boat stopped at Gibson's great distillery,
and off went the pigs. Three porters bore si
lent messages from as many state rooms to the
woman. She growled a little, but soon re
sponded to the prayers of her petitioners
and took the children to the second deck,
where they saw the pigs in great triumph.
Quiet reigned the balance of the night
L. E. STOP1EL.
Wiggins: Bnyn So.
From the Philadelphia Kecord.
Wiggins, the weather prophet, predicts that a
great storm will sweep across the North Amer
ican continent on Friday and Saturday next
Anybody who has Important business to trans
act should select those two days for It. They
will bo certain to have delightful weather.
ENJIIN' LIFE.
Thar's some folks have an idee this life can't be
enjyed
Unless ye have a million and a famous name be
side. They say thar's no accountln', for tastes are often
queer.
But I, somehow or utber, en lye Jest beln' here.
When cherry trees are bloomln' I take my hat and
cane
And cross the Beacon's meadow and saunter down
the lane;
The birds are all a slngln', and when the breezes
blow
The blossoms fall around me, Jest like the winter's
snow.
The mornln' wind is bracln' and seems to dome
good
Bo fragrant like and spicy, when blowln' from the
wood.
Oft in the summer even's I sit down by the mill
And listen to the pllnkln of banjos on the hill:
And If I get to noddln' I'm wakened from my
trance
By faint notes ot a fiddle or echoes of a dance.
Then In the winter even's we gather 'round the
fire
Thar's me and Jones and Oakley, the Deacon and
the 'Squire.
And each one tells his story, of how he's lived his
day
While sleighs with bells a ringln' sonnd near and
far away.
jow, these are my enjyments, and perhaps ye
think I'm queer.
But I somehow or utber enjye Jest bein' here.
HARTLEY KNOWLE8
PITTSBURG, March 17,
MAROH 18, 1890.
TEIING TO EEF0EM MEN.
Jenncss Miller Recommend tho
Knickerbocker and Long Hose.
Blr.
Mrs. Jenness Miller, the dress reformer,
stopped over at the Seventh Avenue Hotel last
evening. She lectured yesterday at McKees-
Sort. and will speak to-day in Salem. Mrs.
Illler Is a handsome woman, with dark eyes
and hair, and she is possibly the best specimen
extant of her own teaching. Speaking of her
work, Mrs. Miller said: 9
"I feel that I am doing much good In teaching
women bow to dress. So many ladies who have
been careless of their appearance and the
shapes of their bodies, now take pride in look
ing as well as they can, and they try to cultivate
that perfect symmetry which is the
highest type of beauty. At the
request of a number of friends I have been
giving some attention to the dress of men,
but I nave no desire to dictate to them. When
I see a man shrugging his shoulders and pull
ing at a tangled suspender, I know that they
are not feelingcomfortable. There isaremedv
for such evils, and it depends on the style of
the dress. Bands are unnecessary, but then
men never did contract the bodies as much as
women.
"I should like to see men return to the old
fashioned knee breeches and stockings. I no
tice when the athlete is training be throws
aside the wide trouser and tight shirt It is
about time, too, that the evening dress should
be changed. Men need not dress like waiters.
Knickerbockers of navy blue or maroon, the
old continental coat and a pretty low vest,
would mako a handsome evening costume for
any man."
GOING TO EDK0PE.
Superintendent Lacker to Cbaperone a
Fartr of Teacher on a Tour.
Superintendent George J. Luckey was seen
at bis office yesterday afternoon and between
the stories and anecdotes which he related to
several appreciative listeners, it was learned
that his report will be presented to the public
about the middle of next month. Mr. Luckey
said it would consist chiefly of sta
tistics, but a list of very Interesting
subjects, with some unfinished manuscript
testified to the fact that Mr. Luckey was en
gaged upon some literary work, and when
questioned upon the matter ho admitted that
he was preparing some articles for the report,
but continued that not one of them would be
upon corporal punishment for although he
bad been tempted to give the almost defunct
athletic exercise a parting stab he had re
frained. It was also learned that in all probability one
of the iolllest parties that leave Pittsburg for
the Old World this summer will be chaperoned,
if that word is admissible, by Mr. Luckey. It
will consist of a number of real lovely "school
marms," who will enjoy sea sickness and the
other pleasures attendant upon an ocean
voyage and a six weeks' trip on the other side.
That they will havo a royal good time all those
who know Mr. Luckey concede.
PLEASURE FOR LITTLE OSES.
Ieo Cream, Cnke, Candy nnd Frutt for an
Industrial School.
Ice cream, cake, candy and fruit will delight
some 172 little folk3who are members of the
Industrial School of the East End next Satur
day afternoon.
The school is a child of tho Y. W. C. A. of the
East End and will close its six months' session
on that day by a literary programme rendered
by the little ones themselves and the nsual
treat ot "goodies." The closing exercises will
beheld In the Sixth U. P. Church, on Collins
avenue, and will commence at 2 o'clock. ChorU3
singing and individual recitations will comprise
the less interesting part of the entertainment,
to the little ones at least who will anxiously
await the serving of the take and cream.
The enrollment of the school this winter has
been 172, all of whom will doubtless be present
next Saturday. The average attendance has
been 150. Samples of the work accomplished
will be on exhibition, with the name and age ot
the owner. It is said some of the needle work
done by the little tots of 6 years of age is really
wonderful.
WILL WED THIS EVEHING.
Miss Evan to Becomo the Bride of W. D.
Thomas, Esq.
A wedding of considerable interest to Pitts
burgers will be Bolemnixed this evening in
Parker, Armstrong county. Pa. The contract
ing parties will be Miss Lillian Amelia Evans,
of Negley avenue. East End, and Mr. W. S.
Thomas, Esq., a member of the Pittsburg bar.
Miss Evans is a daughter of the lata D. F.
Evans, and a sister of W. D. Evans, Esq.. of
the Pittsburg bar; also of Mrs. Miller, the wife
of Rev. J. Walker Miller, of Parker, at whose
residence the wedding will be solemnized.
Mr. Thomas is extensively acquainted and
favorably known in Pittsburg and at the bar.
He graduated at the Jefferson College in the
class of 1886, and reading law with Major
Slagle till be was elected Judge, completing his
law studies with Jennings & Negley, with whom
he is still associated in his practice since his
admission to the bar in 1ESS.
Reached the War of Rose.
It is presumed from the number of High
School pupils that purchased red andwbito
roses yesterday that the famous War of Roses
has been reached in English history and that
the usurpation of the throne by Henry IV. and
the trials of the deposed Richard IL will be
the theme of studv which will occupy their at
tention for some time. And evidently It will
be made doubly interesting from the fact that
the young ladies will identify themselves with
the side which enlists their sympathy by tho
wearing of either a red or white rose as the
Countesses did when the present history was
being enacted.
Social Chatter.
Dr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Hates have is
sued Invitations for tb.o marriage of their
daughter, Cora Emma, to Mr. John F. Amend,
Wednesday evening, in tho Fourth Avenue
Baptist Church, at 7:30 o'clock.
Pretty littlo cards of invitation are out for
a comedy in three acts, entitled "Our Boys," to
be given by the East End Dramatic Club at
Sterrett School Hall, Homewood, Friday even
ing, March 21.
The wedding of Miss Katie, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel Boreland, to Mr. Charles W.
Bier will take place Tuesday, March 25, at the
home of the bride's parents.
The Iron City Fishing Club, unable to wait
until tho sultry days of summer compels a re
union, have decided to rent a hall and meet to
gether in full force.
The regular meeting of the Woman's Club
will be held in the Teachers' Library this after
noon. A MODEL NEWSPAPER.
Wby Corporations, monopolies. Trusts and
Combines Do Not Like Tho Dispatch.
From the Hreensburg Argus.
Politics aside. The Pittsburg Dispatch is
acknowledged by the Democrats of Westmore
land county to be the best medium for general
information in the State, and our opportunities
for learning the sentiment of our people In this
regard are not by any means limited: we there
fore speak by the card in making this announce
ment Much of Its popularity is doubtless due
to the independence it assumes when treating
upon matters political, and for a non-partisan
newspaper, with strong Republican tendencies,
its editorial productions are marvels of impar
tiality and fairness and show a fearless disre
gard for the opinions of the bosses of
either of the political parties that Is tr-.Iy
refreshing. Corporations, monopolies, trusts
and combines find in it no chammon, and with
these distinctive features so prominently
marked in the conduct of The Dispatch, its
views always find a ready response in the hearts
of the masses. In enterprise it has always
maintained the lead, and proposes to continue
to offer nothing but the freshest and best in the
news line. Its many departments, covering a
boundless scope of territory and touching upon
almost every subject of general interest or im
portance, and gotten up In peculiarly entertain
ing style, have earned for it a national reputa
tion and made for it a household word and
almost a household necessity in this part of tho
footstool. A niarvelously rapid double per
fecting press will be added to its already fine
equipment to meet tho demands of Its rapidly
growing circulation, and this, with other con
templated Improvements, will give The Dis
patch facilities unsurpassed by any journal
outside the larger Eastern or Western cities.
The Sunday edition of The Dispatch has
attained an actnal circulation of 53,000, and the
only fault to be found with it is, that in Its 21
columns of the choicest literary matter there is
so much of interest that it encroaches too much
on one's time to consume all that is so tempt
ingly spread before bim, and it is all of such a
character that the reader dislikes to allow a
single line to escape his notice, or to give
preference to any one department over another.
With two such papers as the Daily and Sun
day Dispatch every variety of information
can bo obtained, from the most reliable market
reports to the brilliant and fascinating produc
tion of a score of contributors of the highest
merit and renown. Tbey cover the entire
ground, embracing as tbey do news from every
quarter of the civilized globe. What more
could one wish to keep thoroughly and reliably
Informed nnon the leading tonics in thebusf.
.Alness, the scientific or the literary world!
OPERA' AND DRAMA.
Emma Abbott' Company In Erncnl gar
den's Exile at the Opera Honse Tbe
Bine nnd the Grny Lily Clay' Bur
leaqners at the Academy.
The dramatic power or "Ernani" transcends
its musical merits. So gloomy a tragedy
does not afford the company the opportunities
lor variety, and Verdi's music in "Erpani" Is
monotonously mournful or terrific It is a wed
ding of martial clangor to maiden's lamenta
tions, and the result could hardly appeal
strongly to the ears of most men. There is
much in the score that Is impressive, and tho
ensembles are remarkable for their strength
and rousing melody. On the whole, we doubt
if even admirers of Verdi would lavish much
praise upon "Ernani."
Miss Emma Abbott presented the opera last
night at the Bijou Theater. Her company has
not undergone any change so far as last night's
performance indicated, nor has the prima
donna herself in any way altered. Her strong
points and her weak points are the same as
ever, but we cannot say that the part of Elxira
suits her very well. The reasons for this are.
chiefly physical. But Miss Abbott sang with
that wonderful energy for which she is
famous, and the brilliancy of her work in the
last act comDensated largely for ber inability
to be the unhappy, much-beloved and of ten-dis-appointed
maiden of tbe earlier scenes. Her
voice seemed in good condition, and as usual
ber displays of its powers and training were
greatly enjoyed by the audience. Her
dresses were remarkably rich and beautiful.
Mr. Pruette is one of those rare beings who,
with a good voice, well schooled, has remark
able ability as an actor. A more graceful,
manly figure than his Don Carlos last night
could not be well imagined. He brought out
to tbe fnll the soldierly nobility ot the king,
and bis presence as a central figure lent pic
turesqueness and grandeur to many tableaux.
He sang even better than he acted,
and every number alloted to him re
ceived careful yet spirited treatment
There are very few baritones on tbe
American stage to be compared with Mr.
Pruette's for ringing sonority and sweetness
the litter being a quality hardly ever found in
a baritone. His singing of the cavatina, "Ob,
Bright and Gleaming Shadows," in tbe second
act, revealed him at his best, but tho principal
beauty of the sextet and chorus with which the
same act closes was Mr. Pruette's share in it
Mr. Broderick as De. Silva was very satisfac
tory, but as much cannot be said for Mr,
Michelena in the tenor role of Ernani. Mlche
lena's tenor is too light for such a part, and bis
voice seemed handicapped by huskmes3 also.
The chorus, as usual, has a good deal to rec
ommend it, but it is not harmoniously bal
anced. The bass voices are too strong for all
the others, and the soprani were notably
weak in fact three or four in their ranks ap
peared to be there for show alone. Several of
tbe choruses, however, were very well sung.
The opera was given adequate stage setting, and
was applauded warmly in all parts. To-night
the opera will be "Crown Diamonds."
Grand Opera flame.
rVO people who are fond of mysterious plots,
diabolical wickedness, and thrilling scapes
by flood and Held, the revival of Sardou's "The
Exiles" at the Grand Opera House this week,
should have great interest The play is well
done in every respect Tbe company is unus
ually capable, tbe scenery and effects are unde
niably striking, and tbe story of the play is very
exciting. The scene of "Tbe Exiles" is laid in
Russia, and the plot deals, of course, with
heroic but reckless patriots, and with cruel and
despotic police.
The hero and his friend are, early in theplay,
lured by an anonymous letter to a meeting of
masked men in a dark apartment, and they have
hardly arrived before tbe police break in upon
them and arrest every one, while tbe Chief of
the Bureau (who is also the villian of the
Play), pronounces the sentence, "Siberia!"
Hence the title of the drama, and hence the
remarkable adventures by flood and fire that
make up the sensational features of tbe play.
The conflagration, which ends the fourth act,
is thrilling and realistic in a high degree, and
the introduction of many other realistic effects
really adds to the strength of the play. Per
haps the audience would be just as hanpyand
a deal less nervons if tbe candelabra in tbe
palace of Prince Pierre did not come so very
near making a too realistic conflagration. The
way those candles wobbled and flared last
night was enough to turn a man's hair gray.
Tbe other scenery, however, as a whole, de
serves very high commendation.
In the company, which is a very large one,
Messrs. Ralph Delmore, W. S. Harkins, H. B.
Bradley, Miss Adele Belgarde, Miss Keith
Wakeman and several others did excellent
work. Mr. Delmore is a remarkably fine actor
at all times, bnt be is very well suited with tbe
character of Senelm, Chief of Police. An op
portunity may occur for more detailed criti
cism of this notable production.
HarrU' Theater.
Tyr ilttary dramas always draw large audi
ences to this popular bouse. Yesterday
was a holiday, and the streets were crowded.
In consequence of both these facts the stand
ing room at Hams', at both performances, was
at a premium, for Shook & Collier's new play,
"Tho Blue and the Gray," is given there this
week. The cast of tho drama is in good hands,
and with its own scenery and properties the
play is sure to do a big week's business. The
plot of the play is not much different from
similar dramas. Northern men fall in love with
Southern beauties, and vice versa; there is the
regulation pathos, freedom of slaves, rejoicing
of the colored people at the promise of liberty
at the hands of "Marsa Lincoln's sojers,"
etcetera. The local soldiery ought to hold up
its bead brace up and be a man, so to speak.
The comedy element Is satisfactory to the
audience, as the roars of laughter yesterday
attested. No particular bright star appears m
the cast, if the dogs are excluded from this
hearing. They are magnificent animals.
Harry Williams' Academy.
Tt needed no holiday or extra attraction to All
this house yesterday, but the mere fact
that Sam Jack's "Lily Clay's Burlesque Com
pany" was to play a return engagement was
sufficient to crowd to tbe doors from pit to
dome Manager Williams' home of vaudeville.
"Beauties of Dreamland" opens tbe pro
gramme as upon tno last penormance oi ine
company here; in fact, there is little change in
tbe programme. The tableaux are very Ipret
tlly done and the vaudeville is good as before.
Madame de Granville, the strong-jawed
woman, is still with tho sbowand her act brings
forth as much applause as ever. Alice Town
send heads the list of beauties in the bur
lesque, and is assisted by a bevy of femalo
beauty in face and figure.
a Operatic Revival.
"The J. C. Duff Consolidated Opera Com
panies, having just closed their phenome
nal engagement at tho Chicago Auditorium,
will take in Pittsburg en route to New York.
Mr. Duff has joined bis two companies to
gether, and has now the largest companies and
certainly one of the best, judging from the
artists, on tbe road. Digby Bell is the come
dian. Mark Smith tno baritone; tenors. Charles
Q. Bassett and Chauncey Olcott; W. H. Clark,
late of tbe Boston Ideals, and William Mc
Laughlin, basos; also Frank Pearson, Joseph
C. Fay and F. W. Oakland. Lily Post is the
Erima donua. Louise Beandet, Laura Joyce
ell, Gertrude Sears and others will be seen
during the week. Outside of these favorites
tbe scenic and mechanical effects and largo
double chorus aro the attractive features of
this large concern. Precisely the same per
formances of "Pinafore," "Mikado" and "Pir
ates ot Penzance" will be given here as created
the furore of Chicago.
World' Maaeuni.
This Allegheny amusement house offers some
strong attractions of their kind this week. A
man who can dislocate every joint in his body,
a lady who boasts a large wardrobe guaranteed
to be from Worth's. Natalie Dorondo, whose
weakness Is crocodiles and alligators, and many
other pleasing and edifying sights, aro among
the museum's offerings.
PRESIDENTAL APPOINTMENTS.
Tho Keystone Stnte Again Meet With Snb
tantlal Recognition.
Washington, March 17. The President to
day sent to the Senate the following nomina
tions: United States Consuls William B. Preston, of
Dew York, at Cognac; Jaires S.Kellogg.of Louisi
ana, at Stettin; Alfred W. Street of Iew York,at
Coatlcook; Samuel B. Zelgler, of Iowa, at Alx la
Chapelle; James E. Danforth, of Pennsylvania,
atVerviers and Uege. Withdrawn James K.
Danforth, or Pennsylvania, for United Matej
Consul at Kent.
frank Burnett of Missouri, supervising inspec
tor of steam vessels for tbe Fourth district (bt.
Louis). Daniel Lake, United States Marshal for
the Eastern district of Kewiork: William Van
Bnren. United states Marshal for the Eastern dis
trict of Michigan.
Confirmations Franklin Sweet, llegtsterof the
Land Office. Urand Island, 3eb. Supervisors of
Census, Pedro Bancbez, lew Mexico; Tneophllus
F. Smith, Third district ofMlnnesota.
The Literary Digest.
Volumo L No. 1, of the "Literary Digest"
has been received. This periodical is to give
weekly in abridged form the leading articles of
all reviews and magazines of all languages and
of all countries; also tbe classified views of tbe
leading news papers of both continents. Tbe
aim will be to enable tbe reader to keep abreast
ot the current thought of the world. Tbe first
number consists of 21 well-filled pages of
choice selections. It fa printed by Funk A
WagnalU, 18-20 As tot Place, Nsw Xork.
CURIOUS C0HDEHSATI0KS.
O. S. Chapman, of "Waterbury, Conn.,
has a clock which has ticked off the time with
out stopping since 1783.
There will be 300 foundations for houses
started in Pittsburg, Kan., during the next 13
days if rock can be obtained to lay them.
Uncle Jerome Smith, of Lovington, Mo.,
is 91 years old. He has been married three
times, and is now looking for a fourth wife.
A shipment of 80,000 pounds of salmon
from Westminster, British Columbia, to Ham.
burg, will be made about April L The fish are
to be packed in ice and sent forward by tho
carload,
Since the oldest woman of Vienna died
a short time ago, a most animated competition,
has been in progress for recognition as her suc
cessor. This competition shows that the Aus
trian capital has several women over 100.
An electrical sheep shearing machine
has been brought out in Australia. It is said
that by the new method a sheep may be sheared
In from 3 to 5 minutes. From 1 to 100 shears
can be operated at once, according to the power
used.
A jeweler of Kockford, "Wash., recently
presented tbe public school with a clock. This
was followed by a more expensive one by a
rival jeweler, and by the time the enthusiasm
bad subsided every room in the school had a
clock.
Last October Mrs. H. T. Holdridge,
who lives near Bangor, Mich., broke one of her
ankles and has never been able to walk without
a crutch since. Tbe other night she slipped
and fell, breaking the other member in the
same place.
At low tide the clam-diggers are busy
on the flats in front of Ilwaco. Wash., where
the clams are numerous and fat A few years
ago no such thing as a clam was to be found In
Baker's bay. while now the supply seem3 to be
inexhaustible.
Charles Lueht, step-son of "William
Lupke, a Mequon, Wis., farmer, has forced the
latter by lafr to keep a promise made to him in
boyhood, that if he wonld remain at work on
the farm he would at some future period deed
to him 40 acres of land.
One farmer of Big Bend, "Wasb., lost all
his stock, except one cow. He keeps her alive
by feeding her with flour. A mail carrier from
that country reached Walla Walla recently
and said he did not believe there was 1C0 head
left In tbe whole country.
Mrs. Hanna Davis, colored, died at the
residence of her son, near Lincoln University,
one day last week at the age of 93 years. She
was the mother of 12 children, and lived to sea
71 grandchildren. 66 great grandchildren and S
great great grandchildren.
' During t,be trial of Nicholson, the Bad
Axe, Mich., saloon keeper for the murder of
Woodrow, a sensation was produced by the fn
troduction of the murdered man's skull.
Two bad fractures were shown, either of which
was sufficient to produco death.
The crown of the late Sultan of Perak
was sold recently at Sinapore, by order ot his
estate, after having done service for a long line
of Malay Sultans. It is ot gold, studded with a
thousand jewels, and was valued at 37,000, but
the price it fetched was not announced.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Hutchinson, Kan., propose to salt the earth
this spring for the purpose of increasing tba
yield ot crops. They will buy crude salt by tha
carload, and scatter it over tbeir fields. Tbey
expect to get some remarkable results.
A humpbacked man at Chicago gets a
living by selling the time of day. He has a
chronometer and it Is warranted time. He has
a certain territory which he goes over, and fur
nishes the honsewives in tbat territory with
tbe time of day once a week. He gets 10 cents
from each patron.
"William "Wallace, of St Paul, has
drawn a wife. He advertised for one, and tho
candidates were to respond by numbers. Tha
numbers were claced in a bat, and be drew one.
It bore the number of "7," and tbe name of tha
ambitious young woman proved to bo Miss
Annie Williams.
A Jackson county woman bringsdivorcs
proceedings against her husband, who lives in
Clinton, on the ground that 23 jearsagoha
drove her from ber borne. She's seen him onca
since then, and alleges tbat one of the reasons
she did not speak as tbey passed by was that
she didn't know him.
David Crawford, living three miles west
of Marysville, Mich., was compelled to watch
his wife for three hours as she was being;
burned to deatb. He fs paralyzed, and his
wife's clothing caught lire while she was at
tending to household duties, and she died be
fore assistance arrived.
A number of Salt Lake women are
making money by dealing in real estate, both
as agents and as buyers. Tbey are called tba
"Rubber-boot Brigade." One of the most
daring operators told a reporter tbat she wa3
hampered by a husband whose cantion pre
vented her from clearing up 150,000 on ona
deal.
Tho advent of a lot of ballet girls of
Barnum & Baily's circus in Bridgeport, Conn.,
has caused two corset factory girls to lose their
situations. Desirous of emulating the high
kickers tbey practiced during lunch hours and
were surprised by the shocked foreman. Ho
dismissed the offenders with the remark that
"no kickers were wanted there."
Tbe ex-soldier, John McKeougb, who
was accustomed to stand guard over the Burn
side Monument in Providence, B. L. with a
drawn saber, saying every now and then: I
followed you at Mewberne and I will not desert
you now," was killed by a railroad train last
Thursday night. Ho was perfectly sane with
the exception of this eccentricity.
Justice Lamar, who never accepts a
pass or present of any kind, tells of himself
this one: "Down in tbe locality I call my homo
lives old John Dillard. Some years ago John
presented me with a very fine Alderney cow. I
said: 'John, I never receive presents 'Well.
ne replied, Liraar, just give me yonr note, and,
as you will never pay it anvway, you wtll ba
nothing out and a cow ahead.' "
The champion fine band writer of tha
world is believed to be Mr. Riia Kittendge,
who resides in Belfast He is 78 years old. but
ha3 written the Lord's Prayer six times re
peated on the space covered by a silver 5-cent
piece, which fs at the rate of 3,OX words on a
postal card. He has written the Lora's Prayer
once on a space of 3-18 of an inch, and says ba
will come undar a contract to put 39.000 words
on a postal card. Mr. Kitteridge does not use a
microscopo in writing, but one is needed to
read what he writes.
A man died in Baltimore who had had
the unusual experience of having been buried
alive for three days. His nama was Josiah W.
Johns, and at the time he was engaged with
other laborers In working an iron ore bank in
Baltimore county. The bank caved in, burying
the men. two of whom were dug out within a
few hours. After three days John was missed,
and a search was made for bim. He was Anally
dug out, and strange to say, life waa not ex
tinct As a result of his burial he contracted a
cold, which in the course of time developed
into consumption, which finally caused bis
death.
An old convict, just released from tha
Auburn penitentiary, boasts of the fact that ha
was conducted to that institution by Grover
Cleveland. He was convicted of murder, and
sentenced to imprisonment for life at Buffalo
in 1S71. "Grover Cleveland was Sheriff at the
time of my sentence," he says, "and instead of
sending a deputy to Auburn with me he went
himself, saying that he had never been in tba
State prison and wanted to improve the oppor
tunity. I believe I am the only man in tha
world who has been escorted to prison by a
President of tbe United States. The very lass
paper Mr. Cleveland signed his name to at
Albany as Governor was my pardon, to taka
effect March 6, 1890, and here I am."
CUEEEST TIMELY TOPICS.
TAtTLBEE'is the first man ever killed in tha
Capitol building at Washington, but he Is not the
first man killed by the newsoapers. Take tha
case of Senator Blair, for Instance,
John B. Webee, of Buffalo, who has been
appointed emigration commlsslonerat Iew York,
once made a living by making shoes. Ex-Vlca
President Wilson and other great men made a liv
ing In a similar manner, and were rewarded. la
every Instance their promotion was awl right.
License court opened in this city yesterday.
The weather was decidedly cold, but In all
probability some or the applicants will think It Is
not a marker to what It will be when the result Is
made known to the public.
Fbancis MDBPHT, according to an ex
change, is very busy trying to save drunkards la
prohibition Iowa. Our own Mr. Murphy has tha
largest field in which to do executive work he has
ever tackled.
THE following conversation took place in a
down-town restaurant yesterday:
Enthusiastic Farader (to German friend) Wra
you in line to-day?
O. F. -Certainly I was In line.
E. P. -What line?
O, JT.-Mosrllla.
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