THE PITTSBURG- DISPATCH, SC7NDAY, MARCH 23; 1890.
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HIS RULING PASSION.
The Game of Craps as Played by the
Uesro in the South.
HE E7EN STAKES HIS CLOTHES.
Picturesque Gronps Around the Gambling
Box at Eailroad Camps.
A IEAGEDT DOESN'T STOP PLATING
ICOBHESrOXDENCE OP THE DISPATCH. J
Biemingham, Ala., March 21.
HE game of craps, now
Aimiai taking the place of
Is IB v' draw Tipil-pr with nil
classes of gamblers, has
long been the favorite
game of the negroes in
the South. . A negro
trill "shoot craps' until
his last cent is lost, then
if he has any jewelry
til at 'ollows, and at last
his overcoat is staked on
a final throw of the dice
in a rain hope that his
luck will change and he
may not have to go cold
or hungry for days.
His losses he accepts
with true philosophy,
and nothing can induce
him to work when he is
4 J winnerat the fascinating
game.
Xegro men and women play, and even
the little pickaninny who shines your boots
In
HAVE JUST BEEN PAID OFF.
for 5 cents will recognize a "mule" at a
glance. A "mule" means a loaded dice.
With the exception of a few general rules
the game is played with variations in prob
ably every town and at every railroad camp.
Certain rules are agreed upon by each set of
players, and they are rigidly eniorced,
although some of them may be at variance
with the legitimate rules of the game. The
negroes have a name or almost every com
bination that can be made with the dice. A
throw of five is called "Susie;" a pair of
deuces, "Little Joe;" a pair of trays, "Big
Joe;" aces, "Billy;" two sixes, "Hannah
Jane," and so on.
"When a crowd of negroes engage in a
game of craps probably three or four will
handle the dice while a circle is formed
about them by the spectators, who make
side bets on every throw.
"I'll bet you Susie," possibly would not
be understood by anyone not familiar with
the game as nlayed by the negroes. It
means "I will bet you throw five."
"Bet you don't catch little Joe" would
mean that the player's point was four and
that he would not throw the deuces at the
next throw.
Around a railroad camp just after pay
day is the place to see crap shooting. Offi
cers ol the law are not on watch there,
everything is iree and easy, there is plenty
of Hquor in camp and halt the negroes per
haps are professional gamblers. A negro
receives his month's pav, and his first
tbourht is craps. Haifa dozen, games are
made up in a lew moments, men and women
join in, all have an equal show and
the play goes on until all the
money in camp is in the hands of
the few professional gamblers who have
worked loaded dice or had a long run of
legitimate lnck. Little work is done until
the regular laborers are broke. Half the
SCENE AT A PICNIC
games end in a fight, and pistols, knives and
rasors.are the arbitrators of all disputed
points of the game. The games olten end in
murder, the murderer escapes withont hin
drance, the body ofthe murdered man is re
moved and the game goes on as if nothing
had happened.
With a friend who is "an artist I visited a
railroad camp on pay day. When we
reached the camp 300 negroes were inline
before the contractor's office. They took
their turn at the pay window, and belore
half of them had been paid off three games
of craps and one of chuck-a-lnck were in
progress. A number of negro women were
at the camp, and they joined in the
game with as much interest as the men.
My friend with his camera obtained excel
lent pictures of the games. The players
were seated on the ground in a circle and a
small place in the center had been cleared
where the dice were thrown and the chipsor
money stacked. Around the circle stood a
numher of negroes in picturesque attitudes,
all of them mating nets o i the game and
watching it as closely as the players them
selres. The players seated in the inner
circle handled the dice rapidly all the time
in a low, crooning tone calling: "Come hear
sehcnl Ohl My Susiel You'se my gall
Watch dat Hannah Jane! Catch Little
Jor! Oh Big Joe! You'se my meat!
G'way Billy' Boll dem dice roll 'em er
long, my seben's er comin. Match dat
lehen! Four's my pint! Come hear ter me
Little Joel"
Then from the interested onlookers would
jo up a shout, "See dat nigger crapsl Oh,
you Susie!"
, h ill i Ii' I i WW i,' 1 1 -j Mm,m0 jm-l li 'n rw
'iCraps" means a losing throw when the
plaver loses on his first throw and he must
pass the dice to the next player in line.
Then i-cain the low crooning calls begin.
"Watch d.U Hannah Jane! Oh my gall
Come er long heah! Koll dem dice you
niggers, keep em er rolling'! My sebens
dar! Oh, you Billy!"
All day long the games went 0Uj some
times as many as 50 negroes watching or
taking an active part in one game. .Night
rame on, and the games were interrupted
long enough to build fires on the ground in
front of the shake, and then they were re
newed with increasing interest. A number
of the necroes who had gone into the games
with little money, or who had bet reck
lessly, were already broke, but they stood
around and watched the others play with
just as much interest as though they had
wagers on every throw.
It was a wierd scene. The light from the
fires made the darkness in the background
seem more intense and the black forms
swaying to and fro over the games looked
ghost-like. Only the low crooning of the
players could be beard, save now and then
a shout of laughter and approval ai some
brilliant play was made. Along toward
morning many players had lost all their
money, but no one thought of sleep. Even
the contractors and the white overseers and
clerks from the office and commissary stood
around the groups of black players and
watched the games.
It was near daylight when the scene was
rudely disturbed by three pistol shots in
rapid succession. The crowd around one of
the cames was seen to scatter hurriedly, and
then a dark form, smoking pistol in hand,
was seen running toward the woods nearby.
The games were all suspended for a time,
and everybody gathered about the spot
where the shooting occurred. One of the
players was fatally wounded. He was a la
borer in the camp, and alter losing all his
money, he accused one oi the gamblers who
had been winning right along of playing "a
niule," loaded dice. The answer was a pis
tol shot, and three bullets were fired into the
body of the unlucky player.
Day had dawned, and a rude bed of
blankets was made for the wounded man.
There was not a surgeon within five miles of
the camp, but it did not matter, the man
was dying. He was stripped to the waist,
and some of the women with their handker
chiefs tried to check the flow of blood. No
one thought of tryine to catch the murderer,
and before the wounded man was dead two
of the games had been resumed.
As soon as the sun rose over the hill back
of the camp the wounded man died. One
ofthe contractors came down irom the office
and joined the group of negroes gathered to
watch the man die. He gave some orders
about having the body buried and le t as
soon astheman wasdead. The dead man was
buried that afternoon, the murderer was not
pursued and all day crap shooting went on
in the camp as though nothing unusual had
occurred. W. L. Hawiet.
WILLIAM L. SCOTT'S STOMACH.
The Ex-Concrrsumnn Would Exchnnce His
Million, for o Good Digestion.
Xew York 1'reas.i
There was a funny incident at the table in
the Fifth Avenue Hotel where Colonel
Hooker was taking breakfast a few morn
ings since. Opposite him sat ex-Congressman
William L. Scott, the Erie millionaire.
Mr. Scott is a slender, dyspeptic man, and
his breakfast was composed of oatmeal,
toast, an egg and coffee, over which he dal
lied in a finicky sort of a way, with no seem
ing relish or desire to eat anything. Colonel
Hooker began with clam broth, and then
had a steak, some lamb chops, fried eggs,
baked potatoes, rolls, batter cakes and vari
ous other things. As one a'ter another of
the dishes before him was cleared he related
IN THE 'WOODS.
to Mr. Scott some things he knew about the
bracing air of the Green Mountains. Just
before they rose from the table the Penn
svlvanian, leaning over the table, said ear
nestly: "Colonel, I am reputed to be a rich man,
a very rich man, but I will trade everything
I possess for one possession of vours."
"What is that?" asked the Colonel.
"Yonr stomach," responded the ex-Congressman.
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RUSSIAN BARBARISM.
Bessie Bramble Calls it the Disgrace
of the Century.
THE CZAR BLIND TO HIS FUTDRE.
Loir Ebb of Civilization as Shown bj the
Estimation of Women.
THE INFLUENCE OF CHR1STIANITI
fWBITTEN TOB THB DIBrATCn. i
The boasted civilization of Christian coun
tries has received a severe blow in the re
cently published accounts of the barbarous
and revolting crimes committed in Bussia
in the name of the law.
"The orthodox Catholic faith," as it is
called in Bussia, is the faith of about 73,
000,000 of people. The Czar is the head of
the Church and appoints to every office in
the Church. So Bussia is a Christian coun
try, and yet the flood of light now being
thrown upon her institutions reveals a
system of atrocious persecution and relent
less cruelty that would be considered a dis
grace in any pagan country in the world.
And what of the ruler of all tbe Bussias
who gives sanction to this awful system?
He must indeed De deficient in common
sense to suppose he can put out the fires of
freedom by the blood of its advocates or ar
rest the cause of liberty; by the horrors of
martyrdom. He must indeed be unmindful
of the lesions of experience as shown In the
progress of civilization and the history of
the Church itself.
CENTUKIES BEHIND ENGLAND.
The cruelties practiced in Siberia on
political prisoners, as related by George
Kennan and others, are appalling to those
who have never realized what it is to live in
a country where one man's will holds abso
lute sway, and where neither li e, liberty,
nor property is held secure, save at the
pleasure of those in power. The English
barons wrested their Magna Charta from
King John at Bun nymede, which insured
the protection of English citizens from arbi
trary spoliation, unlawful robbery, and se
cured for them a trial by jury of their
peers rights for w-hich the Eussians are
still struggling and suffering and furnish
ing subjects for martyrdom.
With the history of his country before
him, with the fate of his father in full re
membrance, with revolution apparently
pending, it seems strange that the Emperor
of Bussia does not see that the rule of abso
lute monarchy must pass away as surely as
that"this world is full of chanee" nothing
but change. Common sense and intelli
gence would dictate to him that wisdom lay
in the granting to his subjects the rights for
which they are contending, but he is evi
dently neither intelligent nor wise. He
lives, it is said, a miserable life, being in
deadly fear of assassination, and constant
dread of rebellion and revolution. But
withal, he clings to absolute power.
NO SWEET SLUMBER TOE HIM.
He does not sleep at night for fear of dire
ful plots and deadly bombs. But even
were safety assured, the downiest beds of
ease could hardly protect him from the
thoughts of his cruelties the agonies of
suffering of those sent to endurethe horrors
of Siberian prisons, and the tortures of a life
for which suicide would appear as the only
remedy. Absolute power breeds cruelty
and barbarism. It seems strange that Alex
ander, an educated man a man who mnst
by his position be aware of the struggles of
other countries in their fight for freedom, a
man who must Jove his people and his
country it he has a heart in him, a man who,
if he is a Christian, must know he is violat
ing the doctrines of his Church, should not
take measures to right the wrongs under
which his subjects suffer should not inquire
into and abate the atrocious cruelties in
flicted by his servants upon men and
women condemned only for their opinions,
and their exercise of the freedom ol speech.
It seems strange too that the Empress
Dagmar, educated liberally as the daughter
of the King of Denmark, should be content
to be a mere cipher, using no influence for
the protection ol her sex, or tor tne ad
vancement of the people, or the promotion
of constitutional liberty. She must be like
her sister, the Princess of Wales, who is
content simply to hold drawing-rooms, and
set the fashions. But under these circum
stances, it is not strange to hear that the
Empress of Bussia lives in such constant
dread that her nervous system is completely
shattered, and that she realizes as com
pletely as does the Emperor, the truth of
the old adage that "Uneasy lies the head of
him who wears a crown."
HOW THE WOMEN SUFFER.
The condition of a country in the scale of
civilization is shown by the status of women.
When despotism is the rule of the State, it
may be assumed that the treatment of wo
men is barbnrou". The latest story from the
prisons of Siberia shows cruelty so atrocious,
so barbarous as to make every woman's
blood boil. The whole civilized world
should protest against inhumanity
in a Christian country and
make Alexander and his Ministers under
stand that such acts expose them to the con
demnation of the whole civilized world.
Madame Sigida, a cultured and delicate
woman, who was sent to Siberia for her free
dom of opinion was cruelly flogged to death
by some brutal BuEsiau official. What her
special offense was is not exactly known;
but it appears that by a secret edict of the
authorities political prisoners are directed
to be treated in precisely the same manner
as the worst species of criminals for any in
fraction of prison discipline. Yet it will
hardly be supposed that anything could
justi y the cruel punishment ol being flogged
to death. George Keunan says it mav be
explained that the brute who did tbe flag
ging may have been partially intoxicated in
order to nerve his hand lor such torture.
The news ol this horrible affair, when
heard by some of her fellow prisoners in the
women's department, caused them to com
mit suicide. Two of the three were school
teachers, and were educated and refined
women, as related by George Kennan, whose
only crime was their utterance of disloyal
sentiments and their endeavor to spread the
principles of freedom. Many ot the women
confined in these dreary prisons of Siberia,
afar from home and friends, and subjected
to every indignity and cruelty, become in
sane, and others commit suicide.
O TE31PORA ! O MOKES !
And this is the afternoon ot the nineteenth
century. While the women of America and
England are working and praying and col
lecting money for the conversion of the bar
barians oi Pagandom, these atrocities are
being committed in a Christian country,
and under sanction of a Christian govern
ment and without interference from the
head of the Church, whose will is the su
preme law ot the land.
That civilization is at its lowest in this
Christian country is shown by the story told
by aBussian who studied in Harvard Col
lege; "A well-to-do Bussian peasant had
some trouble with bis wi e, so he proceeded
to make her understand by cruel abuse that
she was his chattel to do with as he pleased.
She appealed to the court for proiection and
brought competent witnesses to prove that
he had bound her naked to a stake during
the coldest" weather, and asked the passers
by on the street to strike her, and when
they refused, he gave her a blow himsel .
He also, she further proved, fastened her to
the ground, put heavy stones upon her, and
broke her arm. "Notwithstanding that all
the facts of this shocking story were abund
antly proven, the magistrate pronounced
the man 'not guilty,' since it would never
do to encourage a woman to disobey the
commands of her husband. Encouraged by
this decision, this brutal husband had her
arrested for insubordination, and the same
judge sentenced her to another whipping
for disobedience."
A WOMAN HABNESSED TO A CAST.
He who related the story said that this
was not an extreme or ivolatcd case, but was
rather common in Bussia, where the law
gave such despotic and unlimited power to
husbands in marriage Another case was
that of a Bussian peasant who, as a punish
ment for his wife's misdoings, harnessed her
in a cart with a horse, and then in company
with a friend, drove this team 11 miles, by
no means sparing the whip. When he re
turned, he shaved his wife's head, tarred
and feathered her, and turned her out of
doors. She appealed to the parish priest for
protection and consolation, but he sent her
back to her lord and master, prescribing at
the same time another whipping for not con
forming to her marriage vows in silence,
faithfulness and submission.
The women of Busia have much to fear
from the injustice of the laws, and the sys
tem of slavery to which marriage has been
reduced under the rule of despotism, and the
sanction of the Church. When Alexander
freed the serfs, no change was made in the
condition of women, so It is little wonder
they think that God has forgotten them.
Despotism in the State supports despotism in
the family, and certainly, as Bussia is por
trayed to-day, there is urgent need of mis
sionary work and agitation in that country,
which, while it has the Bible and the
Church, is yet in a most barbarous social
condition.
ONE OF THE EXPLANATIONS.
An eminent churchman claims that the
degradation of women was due to paganism
that under the rule of the heathen the
devil held full sway, and that words could
not depict tbe horrors to which women were
subjected under his terrific rule.
Among the heathen, as this learned doctor
relates, tbe ide was held that man was the
absolute superior of women "that she was
to be used as a servant, and was considered
a necessary evil in order to continue the hu
man race. She was despised and rejected by
men; her thoughts, her ideas, hev lame, her
very life were held in contempt. Man was
her absolute lord and brutal despot. With
but few exceptions women were considered
serfs, and were kept under a ban the vic
tims of wrong and injustice."
"But," says the learned writer, "through
patience, meekness under oppression, long
suffering of misery, self-sacrifice for tyrants,
she was at last rewarded by the elevation ot
her sex through the Christian faith. In
Christian lands only is she free; elsewhere
she is still degraded and enslaved precisely
as she was in the old days of pagan bondage.
In Christian lands woman has all of honor
and exaltation and glory that she can legiti
mately have, and more than she knows what
to do with."
THE EXAMPLE IN THE EAST.
We should like to have the "beloved
brother's" opinion of the condition of
women in Russia a Christian country a
country where Church and State go bandjin
hand in absolute despotism. The Greek
Church holds-substautially the same articles
of belief as the Church of England, and
differs from that of Borne only in denying
the supremacy ot the Pope, in prohibiting
the celibacy ot the clergy aud in authoriz
ing the study of the scriptures and the ser
vice in the Bussian language.
This learned doctor, in ascribing the
higher condition of women to Christianity,
rather than to the forces of civilization, for
gets the history of tbe ancient Egyptian
aud Boman civilizations belore the begin
ning of Christianity. According to Wilkin
son, the women ol ancient Egypt were be
yond those of to-day as to ireedom. Col
leges in that country existed for the instruc
tion ot women as physician1: 1,200 years be
fore Christ. Women performed tbe most
holy offices ot religion and directed the civ
ilization of tbe country in the most brilliant
period oi its history. The old manuscripts
ot Gains, discovered early in this century,
show that under the old Boman law "the
situation of the Boman woman, whether
married or single, became one of great per
sonal and property independence, but Chris
tianity tended somewhat from the very first
to narrow this remarkable liberty."
Much more might be quoted upon this
point which would serve to show that the
learned doctors should be very chary of
dogmatic assertions unless very sure of their
props and premises.
THE CENTURY'S DISGRACE.
In view of the condition of affairs in Bus
sia, both as to men and women, it is very
clear that the Church has not been a suffi
ciently civilizing power to prevent that
country from being a disgrace to the nine
teenth century. The atrocious cruelties and
blood-curdling horrors that are part of its
history to-day as a punishment lor freedom
of opinion aud speech should rouse to action
tne civilized world, not long ago, as an
example of what Bussia was doing in the
education of women, the medical academy
lor their instruction in the science ot heal
ing was cited. But as an illustration of
imperial despotism, it may be related that
this academy was summarily closed by com
mand ofthe Emperor, with the further order
that if the students went to Zurich, or other
schools open to women, they should not be
allowed to return to their native country.
The Christian Union asks the question:
"Is the Cliurch a Failure?" Without pre
suming to answer the question, we call at
tention to Bussia, where the Church, sup
ported by the power ol the State, has evi
dently failed to inculcate the principles ot
the Gospel either among the nobility or the
peasantry to such degree as to redeem that
country which is said to constitute one
seventh of the world Irom barbarism.
But while we are pointing to this blotch
on the bright escutcheon of the country's
civilization can we find no tarnished spots
nearer home? Is the Church in Bussia the
only one to be condemned? In the recent
trial of Dr. Mansell, the quarrels of the
leaders, their disposition to "sling mud"
and indulge in small gossip, and their
capacity for prejudice, show how little real
weight sometimes attaches to the command,
"Love your enemfes."
And this is in the nineteenth century and
in free America. Bessie Bramble.
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SENATORIAL GOSSIP.
How Sanders, of Montana, Got in the
Senate Chamber Years Ago.
POSED AS A SOUTHERN DIGNITARY.
Manderson Once Walked Washington Streets
in His Stocking feet.
TELLER'S MISTAKE COST A FORTUNE
twBiTTEir ron the dispatch.!
Senator Wilbur fiske Sanders has just
taken bis seat as one of the new United
States Senators from Montana. He had a
seat in the same body just 29 years ago this
month and he told the other night the story
of how he got it. It was on the 3d of March,
1861. Young Wilbur Sanders and young
Charlie Manderson, now Senator Mander
son. were both Ohio boys just out of their
teens and they had come on here to attend
President Lincoln s inauguration. During
their wanderings about Washington they
came to the Capitol aud took a seat together
in the Senate gallery.
Washington was filled with strangers and
the galleries were packed with Illinois men
who had come on to celebrate tbe occasion.
Andrew Johnson was on the floor and John
C. Breckenridge was in the chair Johnson
was making his famous Union speech and
he was constantly interrupted by boisterous
applause from the gallery. Breckenridge
requested the galleries to be quiet, but be
lore the noise got at its height he left the
chair and Senator Polfc, of Missouri, took
bis place. Polk did not like Johnson's
speech and he liked the cries of the gallery
gods still less.
CLEARED THE GALLEBIES.
He finally ordered the galleries to be
cleared, whereupon Stephen A. Donglas,
who was expected to make the next speech,
and who did not want to talk without lis
teners, objected. Charles Sumner, though
the speech was in favor of the Union, sup
ported the order for clearing the galleries,
and Manderson and Sanders watched and
trembled. At last Andrew Johnson said
that he knew that his friends in the galleries
would be more quiet, that he would engage
that there should be no further outburst,
and he asked as a personal lavor of the Sen
ate that the people be allowed to remain.
He then went on and finished his speech.
As he closed it there was great applause,
and one Illinois man yelled out "Three
cheers for Johnson." These were given with
a will and the man then yelled; "Three
cheers for Abe Lincoln." These made the
roof of the Senate ring, and then came three
cheers for the Union and a tiger, while the
Senators sat powerless and could do noth
ing. As soon as the cheers were over the
galleries were cleared and Manderson and
Sanders were ousted. They hung around
the doors for a few moments and at last
Sanders said: "Well, Mandei son, I'm going
in on that floor and sit down with the Sena
tors." "But you can't get in," said Manderson.
"Thev won't let you."
"Yes they will," said Sanders. ".Now
see."
HE BLUFFED THE GUABD.
With that he tried one door, and was
pushed violently back. He then went
around to tbe ladies' reception room, and
started to go in. The guard culled him
back, and he said: "I would like to know
if a Senator of a Confederate State cannot
enter this chamber when he has business."
Tbe guard did not know what to make of
it. The Government was unsettled, and he
did not know but what Sanders might be a
Peace Commissioner, and be let him go in.
Sanders entered and took his first seat in tbe
Senate. Presently Ben Wade saw him, and
slipped around and asked:1 "Sanders, my
boy, how did you get in heie?'"
"Oh, I got in," said Sanders, and Sena
tor Wade said: "Well, keep quiet and no
one will notice you." W
He sat there throughout the evening. In
the meantime the galleries had been re
opened and Manderson worked his way into
them. He had been tramping around in
the wet and his stockings were saturated.
His bouts were tight and his feet felt very
sore, and as the night session wore on he
took them off and sat in his stocking feet.
The uir ot the Senate was very warm and
the tight boots shrunk. At the adjourn
ment he ouuil to his horror that he could
not get his boots on and hehad to walk down
to his hotel on Pennsylvania avenue in his
stocking feet carrying his boots. He
thanked fortune, I doubt not, that the acci
dent happened at night, and as I look at his
immaculate costume in the Senate to-day I
wonder if it would not hurt his self-respect
to be caught in a similar hi.
LOST NEARLY A MILLION.
Senator Teller told me last night how he
lost 500,000. The story made my eyes bulge
out, but the Senator related it inthe same
cool, metallic tones in which he talks about
the weather. Said be: "It was some years
ago in Leadville that I met one day upon
the street a friend of mine, who asked me to
go in with him and his partner and buy the
Bobert E. Lee mine. The mine had been in
tbe courts, but the question of its title had
been settled, and it was only necessary to
have $U0,000 to pay off its indebtedness. I
asked how much it would take for me to
come in. He replied that it would take
$45,000, and this would give me a one-third
interest. 'But,' said, I raising my hands in
holy horror, "I haven't got the money, and
would hate to risk it if I hud.'
" 'Oh,' ssid he, 'you run no risk. We have
90 days in which to pay this $90,000, and we
will work it out of the mine in that time.
You need not put up a cent, and we will pay
your $45,000 out o. the mine, and in case
the mine doesn't pan out at once Ben, my
partner, and I will put up the money for
you."
"I said I would consider the matter, but I
did not think I wanted it. For tbe next
two days that man hung around me and
begged me to take the third interest in the
mine. He told me be could sell it for $45,
00U cash to another man, but he would rather
take me in for nothing.
HOW HE FELT AFTEBWAED.
"I held out and at the end of two days he
sold the interest to the other party. Shortly
after this I heard that the mine was paying
and about two years later I met Ben, my
friend's partner, in the Windsor Hotel at
Denver and we got to talking about mining
property.
" 'You made a great mistake, Mr. Teller.'
said he, 'in not going into the Bobert E. Lee
with us,'
"Yes, I know it,' said I, 'and I wonder
just bow much of a mistake I did make?
auupose you tell me.
" 'Weil, said he aeain, we eot vour 3545.-
000 out ol the mine in less than three months,
and you would not have had to pay a cent
on it. The man who took your place stuck
to us. and he cleared within two vears iust
$900,000.
"1 must have looked a little surprised, for
the man said: 'Well, Mr. Teller, you wish
you had gone in.'
" ! don't Know, replied I. 'Providence
runs these things His own way. I havo two
boys, aud they bad better make their own
wav through the world than be pampered
with the inheritance ot a millionaire. Per
haps on the whole it is as well as it is.' "
Frank G. Cabpentek.
Beech All's Fills cure bilious and nervous ills
Fzabs' Soap secures a beautiful complexion
Black Goods A complete assortment of
all the ne if est weaves for spring and summer
wear; also a choice line of light labric, es
pecially for mourning, opened this week.
ttssu Huous Ss Hacks.
Oub display of parlor goods cannot be
equaled in the city; call and examine before
purchasing elsewhere; cur terms are cash
and vou are the gainers.
MICHIGAN FUBNITUBE COMPABT,
137 Smithfield st.
EYEEY-DAY SCIENCE.
Tfao Rrlnlion of Ceaplrnllon to Slenial Ac.
tlvlty A Platform Street Railroad Sys.
em Bloodhonnda Made TJiefoi nt Fires
Care far Henri I'nlpilnllon Rubber
Pavemonts.
IWMTTlIjr TOE THI DI8PATCII.1
The experiments of Prof. Leumann indi
cating the adaptation ofthe rate of reading,
and possibly ot some other mental work, to
inch physiological rhythms as the respira
tion, have called forth some interesting com
ments on his thesis. Attention has been
directed to the analogy between this and the
methods adopted by the Yogi to reach the
condition of abstract contemplation and rapt
ecstacy, and Prof. Max Muller contributes
some extracts from the Sanscrit Toga-sutras
describing the method adopted in India
by expulsion and retention of the
breath for the purpose of steadying
the mind. This forms a preliminary
training for the fakirs who gradually ac
quire the ability to suspend all the animal
functions for an indefinite period. There is
no doubt that all the functions ofthe organs
being preceded by that of the breath, there
being always a correlation between breath
and mind in their respective functions
the breath, when overcome by stopping all
the functions of the organs, effects the con
centration of the thinking principle to one
object. Another writer, M. Ley, notices
the use of deep and rapid respiration as an
anaesthetic. Some dentists ask their pa
tients to breathe quickly and fully some
four or six minutes, at the'end of which the
patient becomes giddy, and to some extent
loses consciousness, and a short operation
m3y be performed with comparative pain
lessness. While in this condition, the pa
tient has no power to move his arms, but
will open his mouth at the bidding of the
dentist.
A Stepped Platform Railway.
A novel idea has been evolved by Messrs.
Bettig, two German engineers. Observing
that even a fat man can manage to mount a
street car in motion, Messrs. Bettig propose
to use as their rolling stock three continuous
platforms, moving along the streets side by
side. The lowest of these platforms is four
inches high, and moves at a uniform speed
of five leet per second. Any ordinary
pedestrian can, they state, mount this plat
form from the ground without difficulty,
and from this he can with equal ease step
on to a second platform four inches higher
than the first, and moving twice as fast.
The passenger thus acquires a speed of ten
feet per second, and stepping on to the third
platform in the same way, he is carried at
a speed of 15 feet per second, or ten miles
an hour, to his destination, where he steps
off in the inverse order. But it seems the
first cost and working expenses of snch
platforms would be prohibitive, to say noth
ing of the difficulty of finding a site for
them; yet, mechanically sneaking, there is
nothing impracticable in the idea.
A Trinmph of Education.
Probably no process of training exacts
more of its communicators; none, perhaps,
more distinctly requites their laborious
efforts, and none certainly endows the learn
er more abundantly than the teaching ofthe
deaf and dumb to speak. The success of the
oral training system was lately exhibited at
a theatrical performance ot "Bichard III"
by the children of the old Kent Boad
Asylum, England. It is very remarkable
that young peoola who could not remember
having heard the human voice were able,
with very fair acceptance and with evident
intelligence, to render in speech one of the
masterpieces of the drama. Such a feat
would have been absolutelv impossible
under any other but tbe oral method. It is
customary with many in this country to
speak ofthe lip-reading system as an educa
tional novelty; yet it is far from being such.
For centuries it has divided the field with
one or other of the sign methods, nnd it was
known and taught in Spain during the six
teenth century,
SInclilnes to Itlalto Bnsebnll.
Automatic machines for making baseballs
have been successfully contrived. A little
para-rubber ball, weighine three-quarters of
an ounce, around which one turn has been
made with the end of a skeiu of an old
fashioned gray itocking yarn, is slipped
into the machine, then another; after which
the boy in charge touches a lever, the ma
chine starts and the winding begins. The
rubber ball is thus hidden in a ew seconds,
ami in its place appears a little gray yarn
ball that rapidly grows larger and larger.
When it appears to be about half the size of
the regulat'on baseball there is a click, the
machine stops, the yarn is cut, the ball
is passed along to another boy, who runs a
similar machine, where a half-ounce layer
of worsted yarn is put on. The next ma
chine adds a layer of stiong white cotton
thread. A coating of rubber cement is next
applied, and a balf-ouuce layer of the very
best fine worsted completes the ball, with
the exception of the cover.
Bits of Scientific T.ore.
Color blindness is a congenial defect and is
curable. A true color blind person is never
sure to select either green or red correctly.
A NEW French invention is a smoke bomb.
PH. BYERS' GOOD WORK.
A Young Brick Maker Testifies to the Benefits
Derived From a Careful Diagnosis and
Systematic Treatment.
Mr. Barrbad been troubled with his bead and
stonnch for over four years. His nostrils
would clog up; first one side then tbe other;
constant pain over the eyes, with headache,
bnzzins; in tbe ears and dizziness. He became
hoare, throat got sore and a cougb set in. raising
a thick, brown-colored phlegm. Liter bU
stomach trouble became very severe; lost appe
tite, flish and strength rapidlr, and wa "so
short of iireatn he could hardly walk. Sleep
became troubled with horrid dreams, mcht
sweats supervened, his heart became affected
and lie aro5o in the morning more tired than
when he enttobed. He improved from the
first treatment, and is now entliely well and
never felt better in his life. He says: "lone
all this to the careful and conscientious treat
ment of Dr. Byers, and will always remember
him pleasantly and with gratitude."
ME, CHARLES BABR. 37 Allegheny avenue
S Allegheny.
Bear this fact in mind! Catarrh can only be
thoroughly eradicated by a system itic course
of continuous local antiseptic spray treatment,
allied by proper medication, as practiced by
Dr. Byers, and those trmg any other method
are only wastinjr time and money, and jeopar
dizing their health and even live-". Ihisstate
mentcan easily be verified by calling at Dr.
Byers' offlce and investigating Lis method of
treatment.
TREATMENT S5 A MOST1T.
Dr. Byers has reduced his terms of treatment
to the uniform fee of V per month, medicine
Included, for all cases, and refers to bis numer
ous friends and patients for indorsement of bis
careful and conscientious work, many of the
latter remembering him pleasantly and with
gratitude long after passing out of his hands.
He has devised an Instrument by which patients
living at a distance can use his "antiseptic
spray treatment" at home, though he advises
weekly visits to his office for per-onal treatment
when at all possible. Write for symptom blank
for home treatment or call at office. DR.
BYEBS, successor to Drs. Logan & Byers, No.
421 Penn ave. mh8-ssu
intended to be fired into tbe ranks of the ene
my who uses smokeless powder and thu3 ob
scure his sight.
AN improved nozzle and hose holder for fire
men has been invented, by which one man can
easily hold and direct two nozzles under tbe
heaviest pressure.
Traveling stones, common in Australia,
are also found in Nevada. Placed on a table,
they Immediately begin traveling toward a
common center. Magnetic ore m the stones
explains it.
A Bavarian engineer has invented an in
strument by which he can locate water beneath
the earth's surface. Latelv be surprised engi
neers by locating the new Sing Sing acqoeduct
and the old New York acqoeduct. He could
not have had any previous knonledge of the
locations.
DihTKKSSrxo or excessive palpitation of the
heart can always be arrested by bending double,
the head down and tbe hands banging, so as to
produce a temporary comestion of the upper
portion of the body. If tbe movements of
respiration are arrested during this action, tbe
effect is still more rapid.
The best-wearinz rubber pavement, which
has been invented by Bnsse-Hannouer, consists
of 85 per cent of gronnd stone and 15 per cent
of a rulber mass, which after a special treat
ment is mixed with the stone powder. This
pavement material is entirely even, aud, when
applied to the street on tho top of a layer of
concrete, looks like asphalt, althouch not as
smooth; it prodnces no dnst and is noiseless.
There have been so many lives lost by fall
ing walls in this country during the past few
months that firemen have been exercising thefr
ingenuity in devising a method of discovering
the whereabouts of a victim without loss of
time. It is stated that in Fans b'oodhounds
are used for this purpose. The animal's feet
are protected from injury by a mixture of soor,
vinegar and borax, tbe latter being the princi
pal ingredient.
Tiie better the day, the better the deed.
Go to Home's to-day and ask for the Lily
dress shields. You'll like them.
Folatoei. Potatoes. Potatoes.
Three cars very fine stock to arrive Mon
day, which will be sold at market price.
Pittsburg Produce Commission Co.
Myeks & Tate, Proprietors,
813 Liberty st., Pittsburg.
Dnrlns; This Week
Bargains in ends of stock from every de
partment. J. C. Geogax,
Jeweler and Silversmith, 443 Market st,,
cor. Pifth ave. tusu
Gennine Bargains in Corspts.
Keal C. P. corsets 51 25. SI 65. $2r- the
equiline health $1, sateen corded 50c, 75c.
French woven 75c, 1, B. and G. 75c. ai d
all leadine ;tvles at Boenbanra & Co.'s.
Of Pure Cod Liver Oil with
Hypophosphites
Of Lime and Soda.
There are emulsions and emulsion,
and there is still much shimmed milk
tfie; will many manufacturers cannot j
so dismiise their cod llreroil ax to mnJrt,
tahicn TiuiMnLpraiijvt nn mt TV,.
it palatable to sensitive stomachs. Scott's
Emulsion of PURE NOR1TEGIAX COD
LIFER OIL, comliined with Hypophos
phites is almost as palatable as milk,
i'or this reason as well as for the fact
of the stimulating qualities of the Hypo
phosphites, Physicians tremtentlu pre
scribe it in eases f
CONSUMPTION,
SCROFULA, BRONCHITIS and
CHRONIC COUQH or SEVERE COLD.
All
Druggists sell It, but be sure you get
genuine, as there are poor imitations.
the
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I FifcfOLSIOsM
A POUND OF FACTS
WOETH A JON" OF TALK.
PICKERING
In his brief talks to the public always gives facts, and leaves the Furniture dealers who
would own the earth and drive all competitors out of existence, if it were possible, to do
the blustering. The dear(?) public who are so pathetically appealed to by these humbugs,
whose impudence is only equaled by their effrontery, know full well that if thousands of
dollars are spent in big, Airing advertisements, if thousands of dollars are expended un
necessarily in making a big show, somebody has got to pay for it, aud that somebody is
certainly not the advertiser. Our advertisement last week, modest as it was, stirred the
animals up, and they showed the stings we had inflicted by crying out in despair. We
said then, and we say it again, and it is
A FACT WOT TO BE DISPUTED,
A fact worth a ton of talk, that, althongh we had as large a stock of Pine and Elegant
Furniture, Carpets, Bugs, Baby Carriages, Lace Curtains, and everything to furnish a
house complete from cellar to garret, as any other Cash or Credit House could show, our
prices were ully 25 cents on every dollar less than any other house in our line could
charge for same quality goods, for the simple reason that our expenses were barely mora
than ONE-HALF of the dealers who pay enormous rents and have other attendant ex
penses. This is
" A FACT DEMOHSTRATED EVER! DAY,
A act daily indorsed bv keen nnd prudent buyers who come to us in preference to going
elsewhere. The bargains we offer are BEAL, not IMAGIN ABY; the treatment we giv6
to all ourpitrans rich and poor and we're happv to say all classes and conditions of
people favor us with their patronage is such as pleases everyone.
Anything and Everything in Our Store
Can be Bought for Cash or On Time!
If for cash depend on getting it at a much lower pnce.than you'd pay elsewhere; if on
time depend on getting what you buy at as low a price as you d pay cash for in any cash
hous'e in this city.
The Finest Chamber Suites!
The Most Elegant Parlor Suites!
The Most Beautiful Dining Boom Suites!
The Handsomest of Fine Carpets!
The Most Exquisite of Curtains!
HOUSEFURNISHINQ GOODS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
Whether you're going tomove or going to housekeeping, whether you intend to buy
furniture or carpets, don't fail to come and see us. You have a great advantage in buy
ing now because onr stock is complete and you have choice of the best. You have but
to pay a small deposit and we'll deliver when you're ready to any address at an hour's
notice.
Special Inducements to
Newly-Married Couples.
Our Store open every evening specially for Easter buyers, until 9 o'clock; Sat
urdays until 10 P. it. h-
PICKERING'S
OID ESTABLISHED STORE,
COR. TENTH STREET-and PENN AVENUE.
My
NEW
Shoe
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And clean your Shoes
WITH A SPONGE
in place of a Brush,
EVERY Housewife
EVERY Counting Roorri
EVERY Carriage Owner
EVERY Th.riftU Mech,anic
EVERY Body able to hold a brtisrP
U1UULD USB V
TltX 7.
WILL STAIF1 OLD Ik NEW FURNITURr y.U
WILLSTAIeLSNOOMIAWB f!!i
will Stain tour Old basxcts
will Stain Babyb Coach and
samo
lime.
WOLF? it RANDOLPH, Philadelphia. -AA
-Drug, rami and Bauu Rmuhinj stora. '
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More Substantial Evidence.
Mr. E. G. Shade. 3 well-known young man
who lives at No. 00 Gresory street, feoathside,
ha3 been - "-pit sufferer Irom catarrh. He
was troubled with a
mattery secretion
dropping from his
head into his throat,
and his throat was
often dry and
parched, rie had
much nasal d i s
cbarge, and was ter
ribly annoyed with
sneczinfr. He had
dizziness and often
felt sick at his stom-
. ami. uc u ma uieu
SS,fecling. and as his
SjSS' liver became torpid
he had a very sallow
complexion. His
E. ). Shade. sleep was much dis
turbed. He tooK cold very easily and often
felt a pain in bis lungs. In fact he continually
CTew worse until hi lungs became v?ry weik
It was while in this condition that be began
tre itment with tbe catarrh specialists at 23
Penn avenue, of the result he says: "This is to
certify that I have been cured of the above con
dition's. "E. G. SHADE."
Hundred.1? of similar cases have been
cured within the past year by the phy
sicians of the Catarrh and Dyspepsia Institute.
Many testimonials have been published In tbe
papers and hundreds of others are on file at their
office, and which, with the crowds of people
who daily assemble ac tbe parlors of this medi
cal mstitntion, is tbe best evidence ot success.
Remember these physicians have but one of
fice in this city and which is permanently
located at 323 Fenn avenue.
Consultation free toalL Patients treated suc
cessfully at home by correSDondence. Re
member the name and place The Catarrh and
Dyspepsia Institute. S23 Fenn avenue, Pittj
bnr,r. Send two 3-cent stamps fur question
blank. Offlce hour.. 10 A M. to 4 P. JT, and 6 to
8 P. n. Sundays. 12 to i P. 31. mhT-MWFSa
DESKS A SPECIALTY.
Great reduction in price.
Immense Stock
ALL KINDS.
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onlySSS.
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