'ml n THIRD PART. MARKETCHARACTERS Queer Studies From Life to be Found Every Day in the Diamond Square. WHAT PITTSBURGERS EAT. Where the Fish, Meat, Vegetables and Other Edibles Come From. CROWDS THERE ON THE BUSY DAIS Including the Egs Testing Crank and the Lake Water Doctor. HUMAN XATURE SEES WITHOUT PAINT rn-KiTTE rem tub eispitch.1 HAT does Pittsburg eat? Almost everything and plenty of it. Pittsburg has long been denomi nated as a big workshop. Well, everybody knows workingnien have good ffiF's?s. appetites. So it is with ' v Xy the collective appetite of v ff lie uras nj. uuuu irutjh. uHgj' is not done on a pinched k''ytN ir empty stomach, and Hil'JtJr' tn where in the world is ai better work done than in !igP&V&' Pittsbnrg. ?.".:tsljur''s markets supply lessons for the philosopher, the student of human nature and the industrial economist, as well as that most practical and indnstrious of all econ omists, the good housewife. The nation ality of persons or of their ancestors might more truly be determined by the food they like than by the accent in their speech. For the latter is easily lost in the second :i AT A POrULAB COBWEB. generation, while the former is not lost in three or four. National characteristics in marketing probably occupy an intermediate place between the national taste and national tongue in the matter of being lost. THE INDICATOR OP PROSPERITY. The Diamond Market is as good an index to the state o! prosperity in the community as the Clearing House, the real estate or the receipts and shipments by rail. It is a better index to the physical condition of the rommnnitv at large, "if then, as the au thorities tell ns, good health is preferable to a fat bank account the Diamond Market is more important thnn the whole system of banks. It may bejust as well to remember, however, that the two in combination are rather better than either one alone. Many people have, no doubt, wondered where all of the food comes from that is con sumed here. That The DlSPATCn might throw some light on this subject a visit was paid to the market houses and a multitude of questions asked. In a general way it may be said that North, South, East' and West aie called on to help us live, and we in turn furnish every section with the prod ucts ol our workshop in exchange. svnnuE the pish come from. Fresh water and salt water join hands, fizuratirely sneaking, in the market house fish stalls. There are the haddock, cod, scallops and smelts from bean-eating Boston. They are three days on the road from the fisherman to the fish eater. An equal time 3s required for the shrimps to get here from One of the Standi Upitairs. Barratara, on the Mississippi. This is a pretty wide jump, but that is where they come from, and from such a scope ot terri torr does this city draw its supplies. From Baltimore come the pomponos, but terfish and eels, and thev are less than 12 hours on the way. Catfish, perch and mul lets come from Huron in a little longer time. None of them are long enough on the road to get stale. The very palatable blue fish, the sea bass, red salmon, sea trout and other varieties come from New York, while the whitefish, lake salmon and lake trout come from Port Clinton on Lake Erie. Chautauqua's laiuous bullheads are but lit tle known here. Eed salmon, bluefisb, Spanish mackerel and pomponos are special favorites in Pitts burg, so the fish dealers say, and they ought to know. And it may be remarked in pass ing, that Pittsbnrgtrs show mighty cood taste in their choice of salt water fish. All o! the lake fish ere popular, but the salt water varieties named lead in public favor. There itrc no national pre.erences shown in the purchase of fish, at any rate they are not marked. ItKAT AND BUTTER. As everybody knows, our meat comes largely from Chicago and Cincinnati. Chi cago furnishes ns with loth beef and pork, Cincinnati with park chiefly and Kansas City with some beef. To this ii added the local supply and the lire stock shipped here from Ohio, "West Virginia and else where. A great deal of the meat handled about the Diamond Market li killed and dressed in the abattoirs about the city. Bolls of butter, tubs of butter, cakes of butter and masses of butter greet the eye oi the visitor to the West Diamond Market House. The variety in quality is even greater than the variety in package. This butter comes from the dairies of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and West Virginia and from the farmhouses of the counties of Allegheny, Washington, West moreland, Beaver, Lawrence and Butler. Country bntter it a great favorite at this season and all through the winter, but creamery has the call during the summer months. Bntter i ne and oleo, of course, are prohibited, though there be those who say they "go" all the time. SHE WANTED IT GOOD. Butter is an article in universal demand, and one in which there is probably more cheating than any half dozen other things. But there are some queer people who buy it. Thus, while the writer was talking to one of the bright salesmen behind a grocery counter in the market house, there entered a large, raw-boned woman who inquired: "Got any real good butter to-day?" The clerk politely replied they had, and proceeded to show her a couple of rolls taken from a large pile. "Oh, no, you don't, young man. You can't sell me any of that stuff. I just looked at about a ton of it down stairs. I don't want butterine, I want butter good butter from cow's milk." "Yes, ma'am," said the clerk, laying one roll on tbe top of the pile from which it had been taken and dexterously juggling the other from one hand to the other, as he stooped behind the counter. He came np again, almost instantly, with a pleasant smile and a roll of butter. He fondled the yellow roll carefully and said, "Please look at this kind, madam." EASY CHANGE IN QUALITY. Madam did look. She looked pleased. Madam tasted and looked wise. Madam priced it and looked savage. Madam bought and looked contented. Madam gathered up her butter and looked triumphant, and a's she turned to walk away she told the inof fensive pencil-pusher there was nothing like watching these trades people, if 'one didn't want inieriuc, adulterated stuff forced on him all the time. Madam strode away and lookedjuperior. "Now, there's a case," said the clerk. "That woman is never satisfied unless she thinks she is getting something that is with held from the common herd. She doesn't want butter that is displayed for sale on top of the counter, cheese that has ever been cut before, or tea from a box that other people buy Irom. But she gets them justthe same. It was the easiest thing in the world to carry that bntter down behind the counter and bring it up again with the cloth halfun wrapjjed and offer it as something altogether superior to what it had been a few moments before. And you notice when she tasted it she thought it" was very good butter, though, really now, I can't see how my ducking it behind the counter improved its quality any." NATIONAL TASTES AND PECULIARITIES. English breakfast is tbe popular ten, prob ably ten pounds of that being sold to one pound of any other. In cheese the great American preference in Pittsburg is for New York Goshen, though tho Germans buy principally the Sweitzer, limbnrger and hand cheese. Chickens are always in de mand and so arc eggs. There is one old man haunting the markets who has a novel method of testing the eggs he buys. He puts first one end of the egg inhis month, then the other. His explanation is that the large end of a fresh egg is warmer than the little end. t The Germans are good buyers. They buy close, are not extravagant, but provide in cenerous quantity for their wants. The Huns and J taliins are the terror of the mar ket men. They want to handle everything and know the price of every article in the stand. When they do buy it is "fi cente worth," and an old market man said "they wnnt15 cents worth for the "fi cente." The English are careful buyers and the Irish, like the American, slightly inclined to be generously reckless. The market men like them, however, as they ljny considerable quantities of any article they happen to lancy. , "WORKTNGMEN PBEEST BUTTERS. "Our best customers," said an observant vegetable and fruit dealer, "are the well paid workingmen. They buy the best in the market, and plenty of it. They don't want it for nothing, either. They expect to pay a tair price lor it, and usually order what they want weighed or measured out before they inquire the price. They are of every nationality, but are very much alike. They recognize us as human beings, like themselves. A good many wealthy people come to the markets. They come them selves; they don't send. And' they are hard dealers. They are sniptious' and fault finding, bny in very small quantities, and are very close." Here is where some of the principal fruits and vegetables are coming from this season. Grapes, of course, come Irom the region about the great lakes principally. Apples are coming Irom Missouri, the' West and Southwest Quinces and Siberian crabap ples from the West via Chicago; cunteloupes and muskmelons from Allegheny and neighboring counties; sweet potatoes from New Jersey and the South. The Jersey is a popular favorite ten to one. White pota toes are home grown. Cranberries come from the Northeast and Nova Scotia. The chief celery supply this year is from Kala mazoo. Cabbage and beets are home sup ply. Peaches are from the lake region and California. There is more California fruit in the markets this year than usual because of the shortage in other quarters. CHINESE AND THE CEOVD. The Chinese must be mentioned. They are good buyers. They are expert judges of fish and vegetables and buy the best. They pay the price, too. Their frugality is in the use of the food after they get it home. The market men all speak highly of tbe Celestial as a marketer. He asks few questions, probably on account of bis unfamiliarity with the language, but makes good use of his almond eyes in making his selection. Market days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Fri day and Saturday are she times to see the market houses "in their glory. Then the THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH. farmers are in to sell their products direct to the consumer. Thev are given free space on the second floor of "the West Diamond. Market house for the sale of poultry, butter, etc., and on the first floor of the East Diamond market house for apples, potatoes and cabbage. What a jam there is on these daysl Farmers, tanner's wives and daugh ters, mechanics and their wives and daugh ters and Pittsburg generally, crowds, pushes, jostles, sweats and not infrequently swears. It is almost impossible to force a war through the crowd. Farmers find a very ready market for all they have to dispose of. This year they have not so much of anything to sell as nsual, and they are sold out and gone at an early hour. Among this throng on market 'day may be found THE LAKE 'WATEB DOCTOR. He pushes his way around with a pail and a cup and gives everybodv a drink, particularly tbe farmers. His remedy is the evaporated salts of some lake or other which he has packed in little tin boxes, to be diluted with water. The medicine is good for nearly everything, the doctor thinks, and many of his farmer friends agree with him. He is quite a character about the place. All the outside gardeners' stands are owned by the gardeners, but the market au thorities have the right to rent them after the owners are off, and realize from them about CO cents a day each. Free space can only be used by producers for the sale of their products. All dealers mutt pay for their space whether fixed or temporary. Collections last year were: For butchers, restaurants, etc, West Diamond Market, 11,462 SO; East Diamond Market, $12,336. Gardeners, East Diamond Market, $1,768 SO; West Diamond Market, $1,914. Second floor of West Diamond market. $6,852 OL Stands and wagons, $9,394 70. Collections at the Adams Market amounted to $538 65, and at the Fitth Avenue Market to $1,458. The total lor the Southside markets was $10,045 65. INCREASED RECEIPTS. Receipts have increased under the man agement of Superintendent William Mc Adams, and during the same period of time the sales at the markets have increased materially, more than keeping pace with the increased rents. All in all, the Diamond markets are a good place to study life and character. Few persons wear their society manners while buying for the table, and the revelation or character is sometimes startling. There are not many louneers who have leisure to ob serve these things, but now and acain one may be seen. Queer people there be, and no where in Pittsburg can so many of them be seen as in the vicinitv o! the markets. These outwardly queer people are net always") ouu in ineir aeaiings, mougn, wnue some outwardly very respectable looking people are exceedingly queer in their transactions and questions. A. B. Crum. THE HABEAS SLAYS THADE. Facts Eegafdlne the Traffic That Elbow n Great Field for Reform. The Madras trade in women seems to find a good mart in Burmab, says the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore, and a recent case in Bangoon Is interesting as showing that the woman who was for sale was thrown uDon the market by her own husband, whose passion for profit was stronger than honor or sentiment, Her case is typical. She was taken to Bangoon on the ialsc promise of meeting her relations, and on arrival there she was put under restraint and valued at 90 rupees. It Is a hearty satisfaction to note that her lord and the professional broker are likely to be made an example of. In the mean time, it is worth noting that the low Bur mab quotations for women argue a de pressed market which is to say, a supply beyond the demand, as in the China trade for Bombay yarn. Perhaps it is a relief to find that Burmah engages in more slave-trading than relates to women. Coolies are sold in Burmah as well; and the traffic is so brisk that, as a Burmah paper says, "it is come to be known as the Madras slave-trade. Some coolies were sold as it tbey were bullocks; the money was paid down, and they were taken away. No agreement was made as to what kind of work they were to do. They were taken to the bazaar, and bargained for in commercial style." IBICES OF THE MEND. How Old Ace Gels the Better of Memory and IHnkes Embarrassment. Detroit free Prcss.I John B. Gough used to be taken with un expected spells of forgetfulness when ad dressing an audience. As is well known, he rehearsed his early lectures in a cabbage field. On one occasion he stood up before a fashionable audience and could not recall one word of his lecture. He repeated the preliminary address, but there he ituck. At last he exclaimed despairingly: "Oh, for my beloved cabbage heads!" In a few moments the inspiration came, and as he recalled with vivid effect his lost illustration, he said thankfully: "I am glad you are not cabbage heads nowl" The failing memory of age is termed in medical diction amentia. Emerson suffered from it when he couliTbot remember the name of an umbrella, but asked his daughter lor "that thing you hold up when it rains." He attended the luneral of Longfellow and at the grave he paused and said: "He was a beautiful spirit whom we have just buried here, but I cannot remember his nai'ie." When grandfather goes around looking everywhere foi his glasses, which are repos ing safely on his benevolent old forehead, then memory is playing him a trick, and lie laughs at it with that philosophy which is the alchemy of age. THE RATT,q CHEEP. A Peculiar Phenomenon on tbe Grant Ends Bridge St. Lonls, A St. Louis civil engineer, says the Globe Democrat, says the rails on the St. Louis bridge were never stationary, but constantly crept to the east; that is in the direction of of the heaviest travel. The rate of progress, he said, was about 260 feet in the year, or would be if the rails were permitted to creep as they pi eased, which, of course, they are not permitted to do. ' It reminded him of a hill in Southwest Missouri, over which a turnpike road was constructed, and, do what they would, the people could uot keep the roa'.l up and down the sides of that hill in good condition. The stones would creep to tho bottom, and in six months the road would be as bad as ever. They finally had to take up the gravel and macadam mid replace them with; good sized blocks of rough stobes. - life' ftif firi I A. Jolly Buteher't Outfit. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY, LATTER DAY SAINTS. Spirited Defense of the Church From Delegate John T. Caine. BRIGHAM YOUNG HATED POLYGAMY But He Attached Himself to Several Wires for Duty's Sake. THE PBOSPEEITX OP THE M0EH0NS ICOBKESPOJTOIHCI 0 TBX Dtl"ATCH.I Washington, Ootober 1L I met the Hon. John T. Came, the Territorial dele gate from TJtab, last night, and had a talk with him as to the condition of the Mormon Church. He says that Mormonlsm was never stronger than it is to-day, and that the church grows right along. He referred to President Woodruff's pronunciameuto against plural marriages, and tells me that polygamy is dead in the Territory. He says there have been no plural marriages to speak of for'years, and that tbe Gentiles have always had an idea that there were more polygamists than there really were. Said he: "There are now 160,000 Mormons in Utah, and there have never been more than 2,500 or 3,000 men who have had more than one wife. This is less than 2 per cent ot the male population of Utah. The majority of the polygamists had only one extra wife, and it was only in exceptional cases that they married more than three. Tho young men among tbe Mormons have not gone into polygamy. They are the lead ing power in the Territory to-day, and they are, to a large extent, running the church. REFORMED BY THE YOUNG. "The Mormon Church, at their State con vention in 1887, when they adopted a con stitution and asked for admission into the union, passed a resolution prohibiting polyg amy, and the doctrine has not been taught in the church since then. It was tbe young men who brought abont this change. The leaders of the church and the older men ac cepted the situation, nnd from now on every Mormon will have but one wife." "Does the church still believe in polyg amy?" I asked. "The people may believe in it, but tbey believe in obeying the laws of their country, and as these laws are against it tbey will not practice it. Many of the Mormons went into polygamy against their own withes. Brigham Xoung once told tnethat the great est trial of his Iire was the adoption of this principle, and that it was only because he thought it was his dutv that he took more than one wife. He said this to me at the .theater one night, and I have no doubt of his sincerity. He considered it a cross, but he believed that polygamy came from God, and he accepted it. He was not a sensual man. His life was full of activity, and it was so made up of outside matters that he had no time to give to sensuality." YOUNG LIKENED TO MOSES. "Whit kind of a man was Brigham Young?" I asked. "He was a great man," replied Delegate Caine. "The work of Moses leading the children ot Israel through the wilderness was nothing to his taking that band of Mor mons over the untrodden wilderness of the creat American desert, and ol settling tbem 4n the heart of JiisMosea-travclcd but a few hundred miles. Brigham s band traversed thousands. It took Brigham Young less than a year to find his land of Canaan, while Moses wandered around for fully 40. Brigham Young will have a great place in history, and the dav will come when all Americans will be proud of him." "Give men description of his character," said I. "Brigham Young," replied' Delegate Caine, "was an all-around great man. He had an evenly balanced mind and a wonder ful executive ability. He was able to decide upon anything that came up the moment it was presented to him, and he always grasped things in their details as well as a whole. He had a wonderful amount of practical knowledge, and he built the. tem ple in S ilt Lake City that cost a million dollars and more. BRIQHAll'S GREAT "WEALTH. "He was a very industrious man, and he went to bed early, rose at daybreak, ate plainly and dressed simply. His soul was wrapped up in the Mormon Chnrch, and he cared more for its interests than he did, for his own. Still, he died rich, and each of his children got $30,000, although be had 50 children. His wives were all provided for out of his fortune, and the estate was so left that it was in the hands of trustees, so that all were fairly treated. "He made the most of his fortune out of the Union Pacific Railroad. He built 100 miles of this road, and one of his sons was one of the masters of construction for the Union Pacific. I don't think that Brigham cared anything lor money as money. He valued it only as it enabled him to carry out his plans. He was a very valuable ad viser to the church, and it was largely due to him'that our people are in so prosperous a condition as they are to-day." "Does-the Mormon Church own much property?" I asked. PROPERTY OP THE CHURCH. "No," replied Delegate Caine, "it does not. The United States Congress passed an act taking our property from us, or rather stealing it It was nothing more than a steal, and there are other churches in Utah to-day who own more property than the Mormons. When Speaker Beed (Was in dab, a year or so, -ago, he said to me in that drawling tone, of his: 'The Gentiles complain that you Mormons won't sell any of your property. I showed him that a large proportion of Salt Lake City was owned by the Gentiles, the Hebrews and others, nud asked him how this could be if the Mormons would not sell." "Do your people hold their titles in fee simple, or does the greater part of the prop erty in the Territory belong directly or in directly to the chdrch?" "In fee simple, of course," replied Mr. Caine. "The church has nothing to say as to what I shall do "with my house, or'my farm any more that the Presbyterian or Methodist Church has to say as to the prop erty of its members. I suppose there is no part of the United States where so many people own their own homes as in Utah. GREAT INDIVIDUAL PROSPERITY. "Nine-tenths of the Mormons own their own homesteads and the census of mort gages will show a smaller number among them than among any other class of people in the United States. When Brigham Young began to build up the Territory he urged the newcomers not to rent houses, and advised them to buy or enter a piece of laud and put up a house on it. " 'II you can't put up a house,' said he, put np a shanty. If you can't put up a shanty, build a dugout, and in the mean time live in a tent. The people fallowed his advice, and the result is they are well-to-do. As to selling their property, the Mormons are good buoiness men, at least as good as the average member of other churches. They know the value of their property. They do not need to sell, and they only do so when they get their price." " "Docs not the chnrch eat una great purl of the substance of the people?" 1 asked. "Not more m than other churches," wai the reply, "We believe in giving one tenth ol our income to the i-hun-li, and we believe in supporting nnr church ourselves. You never get a collection plate shoved under your nose when you go to listen to a Mormon sermon. The matter of giving is a matter of one's own conscience. No oue in vestigates a to whether'a man gives a ful! OCTOBER 12, 1890. tentb of his income or not. 'If he can afford to cheat the Lord we think that tbe church can stand it, and that the Lord will settle with him by and by." PUNISHMENT AFTER DEATH. "What is the Mormon idea of hell?" said I. "Well, we don't believe In terrifying our people into joining the church by preach ing brimstone damnation. We don't take a man by the nap of his neck and the seat of his breecbes and hold him over the burn ing fires of hell and shake him back and forth and turn him over and over until he squirms or sizzles into repentance. We be lieve in a future state, but not in that kind of a future state. We believe that the deeds of this life will be rewarded and punished in the next, according as they are good or bad. "We believe In the Atonement, but we. hardly think that the Lord will take the time-hardened sinner who has committed all the crimes in the decalogue to heaven by tel egraph, just because he repents with his dy ing breath. We believe in a future state of progression towards perfection, and we think that religion should be a matter of work as well as faith. Many of yon Gentiles have a wrong impression of Mormonism. We are nearer the Bible to-day than nine-tenths of the churches, and I believe there is as much Simon-pure Christianity taught in Utah as there is in any other place of its population in the United States. THE CHURCH SCRIPTURES. "The Book of Mormon Is only a supple ment to the Bible. It does not take the placeof it. We believe in the ten command ments, and we know the Scriptures as well as the Gentiles, and we try to praotice what we preach." "What. will be the effect of the abolition of polygamy on the growth of the church?" "I think it will help it rather than other wise," replied Delegate Cain. "Polygamy has been more of a clog to us than an aid. The church got along during its first year without it and prospered. It will prosper now." "You have never been a polygamistT"' said L, "No; not in practice. I have had but one wife, and one family was all that I could support. I have had ten children, and the Mormons believe in having children. They are as rigid as Catholics on this subject. We have, in short, what I consider the best religion on the lace of tbe globe, and if the rest of the United States really understood it I don't think that the present opposition would exist." Frank G. Cabeenter. C0D7 AMONG SAVAGES. The Black of Africa Havo Changed Front on the Bits ol Shining QletaL New York Bun.: Only three or four years ago the natives at Daf es Salaam, south of Zanzibar, re fused to take coin in payment for work tbey were doing on a road that the whites were building. They said these shining bits of metal were useless to them, and tbey wanted beads, clotb, and other articles which had some value. Last week a steamer leaving Hamburg had on board a large quantity of copper and sliver coin destined for these very natives and their brethren along the coast. They have seen much of the whites, nnd have come to learn that these little coins have wonderful potency in the purchase of the good things of life. It is the intention of tbe German East Xfrican Company, who have bad these coins made to spread the use of small change not only along the coast, but far into the interior. It will be a happy day indeed for the traveler in inner Africa when, he can buy bis goats, bananas and other articles of food with silver from his pocket instead of hiring hundreds of porters to carry the balky arti cles that have heretofore been the money of that reeion. We see this sign ot progress not only in Germau JSast Africa, bnt iurther north in the territory of the British Imperial East Africa Company. They are introducing a good deal ot coin Into their land, and the natives are taking very kindly to the inno vation. On the Congo, also, the natives are getting accustomed to tbe silver and copper mouev. BAEEESS OF SPAIH. They Shear Donkeys as Well as Men and Are Not Very Particular. Tbe barber's business in Spain, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is peculiar, in that he is called upon to ply his shears on donkeys as well as men. For it is an im portant item in the care of Spanish donkeys that they should be sheared as to the back in order to make a smoother resting place for roan or pannier. So while the master held his animal one of the barbers plied some enormous clacking shears and littered the ground with mouse-colored hair, leav ing the beast's belly lur-covered below a fixed line, and for a small additional price executing a raised pattern of star points around the neck. The tonsorial profession is an indispensable one in a country where shaving the whole face is so generally practiced among all the humbler orders, not to mention toreros and ecclesi- T SgSjr The Tyrant at 'Work. astics. But the discomfort to which the barber's customers submit is astonishing. Iusteid of being pampered, soothed, labored at with confidential respecttuluess, and lulled iuto luxurious harmony with himself, as happens in America, a man who courts the razor in Spain has to sit upright in a stiff chair nnd meekly hold under his chin a brass basin full of snds, and fitting his throat by means of a curved nick at one side. One individual we saw seated by the dusty road at the gate with a towel around his shoulders and another in his hands to catch his own falling locks. He looked sub missive and miserable, ns if assisting at his own degradation, while the barber was mag nified into a tyrant exercising sovereign pleasure. A PEANUT FAMINE. ' The Glass for a Nickel Will be Quite Small Unt I Christmas Time. St. Loali Globe-Democrat. There have .been several jokes latelyabout the danger ola peanut famine, but joking, aside, there is likely to be a marked scar city this fall aud winter, and a nickel's worth will be a very small handful. The supply in the country is smaller than in jiny preceding September, and not one-twentieth of nhut is heeded. The annual consump tion it enormous, hut, as a rule, more nuts are ouered than are u anted. The reverse is the case this year, and St. Louis is the only market with anything like a supply on hand. Prices will run very hrsh until this vear's cron is readv lor roasting, which will uot be' until after Christmas., ' --' BEAUTY IS JEALOUS. The Worjd Doesn't Know of Half tho Bows Behind the Curtains. EVERT LADY OOGHT TO BE A STAB. Lotta, Minnie Palmer, Paulina Hall and Urquhart All Guilty. ENC0EE3 BEING TEAES 10 EITAL8 rcoBsxsromzKCx or tbx dispatch.! Nbw York, October 11. "Some of tbe greatest evils we have to contend with," said a well-known theatrical manager the other day, "is the personal jealousy of lead ing women." He has been connected with stage and general dramatio management for a number of years, and ought to know whereof he speaks. "It may seem like a small thing to you, gentlemen, but ask any stage manager, dealing only with the details of the nightly prodaetionof a play. Inquire ft any gen eral manager who gets the necessary people together, aud must keep them together in order to produce the play effectively and then of the men who have their money up, the playwright, the owners, the backers of the enterprise, aud whose present financial prosperity and future reputation depend upon the success of the piece and the season. Of all the creatures God ever created the sweetest and best is woman, aud in the dra matic profession she is the most difficult to deal with. Everybody, or nearly every body, knows how it taxes human patience and ingenuity to manage one woman satis factorily. Nobody but a dramatio man ager, and perhaps a Mormon, can estimate approximately the full extent aod scope of a contract embracing a dozen or more of women. LIKE A TIRE BETWEEN DECKS. "Jealousy, jealousy personal jealousy! The greatest artists who ever trod the boards are not free from its cankerous and ran tankerous influences. Among the smaller fry it rages like a fire between decks in a cotton-laden ship. It may uot burn the ves sel up, but it must be fought inch by inch and hour by hour, tooth aud nail, to prevent such a catastrophe. The decks may be so hot we can scarcely stand on tbem, but the rest of the world k'nows nothing about it. "The poor simple fool who writes a play Is like the architect who builds a hotel and fails to make all of his rooms front rooms and the best in the bouse. When he thinks he is doing a clever thing by getting several characters on nearly the anie plane of im portance, he lights a torch that is inextin guishable. Tbe popularity of oue is usually gall and wormwood to the rest. An encore, a recall, and beyond all else, an interpola tion that tends to this thing styled a. hit, is enough to flood the wings with bitter tears. I have actually witnessed an actress cry with vexation because she could not be placed on tbe stage as advantageously as a rival, and another for the reason that the entrance prescribed didn't suit her. A PBEQUBNT EXPERIENCE. "Wheu you are occasionally waked.un in the night to get telegrams from your com pany like this, you'll understand what net tles beset the path of the general manager: "Oshkosh, Wis., 0 P. St. Miss McBeth re fused to co on to-nlcht unless Miss Ineenae emit tbe eompani-iBoxce -patched up tomporarilyJ Kitr hntiu. . R1WTTTT I "Now, with' thousands ot dollars hanging on a capricious woman's temper, things like this are constantly- occurring. That Is why you'll see nobody but gray-haired men in this business; it turns gray the first season. And this is the real explanation of many a dramatio failure. The company doesn't pull together. Men and women may be ex cellent actors and actresses in their respect ive role3, but tbey can't produce a piece successfully night after night hating and sneering at each other." This will remind those who are familiar with the inside workings of the profession oi the general jealousies of noted actresses. There is Lotta and Minnie Palmer, for in stance, to mention more recent and particu lar circumstances. Minnie Palmer has been exceptionally well handled ot late years. Lotta has not h id such good fortune. Tbey are rivals because they attract the same clas's of theater-goers. LOTS OP JEALOUSIES. And there is Pauline Hall and Isabella Urquhart. They hate each other sincerely. The natural jealousy of two handsome women, whose chief claim to public ap proval lies in a lovely figure and exquisitely modeled features, .easily found an open rupture at tbe Casino during the ran of "Eruiinie" in a dressmaker episode in which a well-known newspaperman figured. Tbe dressmaker is probably the only person who coined the quarrel into dollars. Marie Hal ton's first fuss was with a pretty chorus girl; then she grew jealous of a lead ing lady singer who got the applause, and who, in all fairness, is the better singer, the two almost coming to actual blows and hair pulling one evening in the middle or the performance. Marie Burroughs and Anuie Bussell involved the whole management ot the Madison Square iu a row. It was all because Mr. Prcsbery, husband of Bussell, wouldn't place the fair Burroughs on tbe center of the stage in one of the plays re cently produced there. Every stage ought to have nt least two or three centers irom which these footlight beauties could strike the audience in the most favorable way. THE CRITICS DID THIS. Ada Behan Is not only n handsome woman, but a good actress, but she is consumed with envy at a rival's success. Behan at various times has been jealous of Edith Kingdon, because tne Paris critics praised the latter more than the artistie Ada; of Henrietta Crosman last season because some critics said Crosman played a certain part better than Behan. It was probably the critics' fault. Why will they draw these odious comparisons! Coming down from leading women of the legitimate to common, every-day farce comedy it may safely be alleged, generally, that every soubrette is jealous of every other sonbrette who takes the shine out of her in any particular. Plora Walsh, wife of Charles Hoyt, will never tolerate any other brilliant or even clever woman in the same company. Flora Moore, who was the leading sou brette of Lew Bosen's new piece, became so insanely jealom ol Moliie Thompson, a pret tier and younger member of the company, that Flora or the company had to come back to New York. The managers compromised on Flora's departure, but not until there was a square knock-down in the dressing room. But this is so common among women of the profession that names might be multi plied indefinitely. The only real sati factory way would seem to be for each woman to have her owu company and be her own star. Charles T. Murray. ELECTBICITY OK CABBIAGE3. A Ph?slc(nn Fixed TJp So lie Can Rend Wb.le Trnvrlins; ol Nlglit. Physicians who have to travel much at night will appreciate the scheme of an East ern doctor who has imported a French Idea and had his carriage fitted with both exter nal and Internal l)ghtr. The former enable his coachman to drive rapidly along the wort of Toads with comparative safely, rflnle the latter enable him to read or even write while being driven round. The accumulaiT is about 15 inches long and hallos broad, 'and is placed under the seat and out of sight. The cost is. not enor mous, and before Jpngxeleclrically lighted carriages will eeruiuly ,be seen in all the IpUiea.. b-, wA-m ffr 'BE i ,CRAIt SM.." &- . jKTafc3KP..3 I T " " M' JT w r-- -"r A NOVEL DEALING WITH COTB1MPORABY LH7B. WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH.' BY WILLIAM BLACK, Author of "A Princess of Tliule," "Sunrise," and Many Stories of the Highest Beputatlon on Two Continents. CSAPTEE XV. CUPID'S QUICK RETURN. Old George Bethnne.his daughter Maisrle, and the agitated Vincent took up the walk homeward and for a few seconds not a word was spoken. But when they got into the Marine Parade, the moon came into vietv, away over there In the east; it was at the full, but rather dusky, for the north wind had blown the smoke of the town down on the sea front. "Did you notice how clear the moon was last night?" she said, to break this embar rassing silence. "Yes, I did," he said. "I was walking about a good deal last night. The moon light was beautiful on the water." "Ob, were you dawn in Brighton last night?" she asked, rather breathlessly. "Yes." That was all. She did not dare to ask what had brought him down; and be did not choose to invent ajf excuse. Again they walked on for a little while in silence, until they reached the corner of German Place. "Well, good nlghtl" said George Bethune, holding out his hand. ';Quite a surprise to meet you quite a surprise. Hope we fhall see you again before von go back." And now it was Maisrie's turn. "Good nicht, Vincent!" she said, with her eyes seeking his in mute appeal. "Good night," said he; and be did not re spond to that look; so these two parted. And soon, as he walked aimlessly onward, he was away from the town altogether. To bim it was a hateful place with its con trarieties,its disappointments.its distracting problems in human nature. When he turned to look at it, it was like some vast and dusky pit, with a dull, red glow shin- THE MESSENGER BROUGHT ing over it from its innumerable fires. But here, as he went on again, all was peace. The silver moonlight shimmered on the water. There was not a whisper or murmur along those lofty and solitary cliffs. A cold wind blew from tbe north, coming over the bare uplands; but it brouzht no sound of any bird or beast. His shadow was his sole companion vague and indefinite on the grassbut sharper and blacker on the gray and frosted road. He was alone, and he wished to be alone; and if certain phrases from the Claire Fonntaine wonld come fol lowing and haunting him J'af perdu ma maitresse$an3 V avoir meritepour un bouquet de rotes que je lul' refusal he strove to repel them; be would have none of tbem; nor any remembrance of what was past and gone. The world was sweet to him here, because he was alone with the sea and the shore, and the mystic splendor of these shining heavens; nd because he seemed to have shaken himself free from the enmities and the treacheries and ingratitudes that lay festering in yonder town. Next morning broke bright and clear, for the north wind had blown freshly all the night, and swept the smoke of the town right out to sea, where it lay along the horizon as a soft saffron-reddish cloud. Ac cordingly the sky overhead was of a summer-like blue, and the sea was of a shining green, sive where it grew opaque and brown as it neared the shore; while tbe wel come sunlight was everywhere abroad, giv ing promise of a cheer.'ul day, even now in December. And Vin Harris was standing at a window of the hotel, looking absently out on the wide and empty thoroughfares. A waiter brought him a note. He glanced at tbe handwriting with startled eyes, then tore the envelope open. This was what he read: Dear Vincent I wish to speak with you for a moment, if you are not engaged. 1 am going down to the breakwater and will wait there lor a little while. II A1SP.1K. He called to the waiter. ."When did this come?" , "I found it lying on the ban table, sir just this minnte, sir." He did not waste time, on further ques tions. In a couple of seconds he was out side and had crossed the road; and there, sure enough far below bim out on the breakwater was a solitary figure that be instantly recognized. He went quickly down tbe steps, he did not stay tonsk what this might mean, or to prepare himself in any way; as be approached her, all his anx iety was to know if her eyes were kind or hostile. Well, they were neither; but there was a certain pride in her tone as she spoke. "Vincent, you were angry with me last night. Why?" "Maisrie," said he, "why don't you put up that furred collar round your neck? It's so cold this morning. See, let me put it up for von." She retreated an inch, declining: she waited for him to answer her question. "Angry with you?" he said, with obvious constraint. "No, but I was vexed. I was vexed with a lot ol,things that I can hard ly explain. Not with you personally 3t least well, at any rate, I did not mean to offend you. If I have offended you I ask your iirdon " Here he paused: these stammering sen tences were so insufficient And then all at once he said v "Jtlaurle, who m that jobsjz man?" PAGES 17 TO 20. STAND FASTrt - RPYSTON. ?r Other She looked surprised. "Do you mean Mr. Glover?" "Glover? oh, that is his name. But who is he? what is he? how did you come to know him so intimately?" Perhaps she began to see a little. "I don't know him at all, Vincent. Ha Is a friend of my grandfather's or rather he is the sou of a friend of my grandfather's a wine merchant in .London, We met him on tbe day we came here " "And he lost no time in showing off his acquaintance with you," said Vincent bit terly, "driving up and down the Sing's road, before all Brightonl" At this she lowered her head a little. "I did not wish to go, Vincent. Grand father pressed me. I did not like to refuse." "Ob," said he, "I have no right to object. It it not lor me to object. If new friends are to be treated as old friends what does it matter?" She regarded him reproachfully. "You know very well, Vincent, that if I had thought it would vex you, I would not have gone no nothing in the world would have induced me nothing! And how cruel it is of you to speak-of new friends and to say that old friends are so quickly forgotten I Is that all you believe of what I have told you many a time? But but if I have pained you, I am sorry," she continued, still with downcast lashe's. "Tell me what you wish me to do. I will not speak to hiru again, if you would rather I should not. If he comes to the house, I will stay in my own room until he is gone anything, any thing rather than that you should be vexed. For you have been so kind to me!" "No, no," said he, hastily. "No, I hava been altogether wrong. Do just as you please yourself, Maisrie; that will be the right thing. I have beeu an ass and a fool to doubt you. But but it made me mad A PAPER POE MB. BETnUNE, to think of any man coming between you and me " l "Vincent!" She, raised her head; and for one ineffable moment her maiden eyes were unveiled and fixed upon him with such a tenderness and pride and trust as altogether bewildered him and entranced him beyond the powers of speech. For here was confession at last! her soul had declared itself; no matter what might happen now, he knew she was his own! And yet, when she spoke, it was as if she had divined bis thoughts, and wonld dis'ipate that too wonderful dream. "No," she said, rather wistfully, and her eyes were averted again, "that is the last thing you need think about, Vincent; no man will ever come between you and me. No man will ever take your place in my re gardand and esteem" "Is that all, Maisrie?" he said, gentlyj but in truth that sudden revelation had left him all trembling and breathless and over joyed. He was almost afraid to speak to her, lest she should withdraw that unspoken avowal. "And and affection; why shonld I not say it? I may not have another chance," she went on. "You need not fear, Vincent No man will ever come between you and me; bnt a woman will and welcome! You will marry you will be happy and no ona will be better pleased to hear of it all than I shall. And why," she continued with a kind of cheerfulness, "why, even in that case, should we speak of anyone coming be tween us? We shall have the same affec tion, the same kind thoughts, eveu then, I hope " "Maisrie, why do you talk: like thatl" he pretested. "You know very well that you will lie my wife or no one. She shook her head. s "I you donotsae tor yourself that It if im possible if you do not understand, Vin cent then some day 1 must tell you " "Ah, but you have told me something far more important, and only a minute or two a:," .aid he. "You have told me all I want to know, this very morning ! You ara not aware of the confession you have made, since you came out this breakwater! I hava seen iu your eyes what I never saw before; and evervthmg else is to me ss nothing. Difficulties?! don't believe in tbem. I tee our way as clear as daylight; and there's neither man nor woman coming between us. Oh, yes, I have discovered something thil morning that makes our way clear enough. Maisrie. do you know what wonderful eyes you have? tbey can.say so many things perhaps even more than you intend. So much the better so much the better fori know thev speak true." She did not seem to share his joyous con fidence. "I must be going now, Vincent," she said. "Grandfather will wonder why I am so long in getting his newspapers. And I am glad to know you are no longer vexed with me. I could not bear that. And I will uko care you shall have no further cause iadeed I will, Vincent." She was for bidding bim goodby, bnt ha detained her; a wild wish had come into his head. "Maisrie," said be, with a little1 kesita. tion, "couldn't you couldn't yoa give ma some little thing to keep as a souvenir of this happy jaoraiag'' Ab,yOttdoa't,know all yon have told me, perhaps! Only sesa little thing: could yon givst at a ssfldalt , wood bead, .Maisne sealo. ja nt hh f aSS L"! la-Oi- t - M L ' , I r -? jStf '&' JBJi-.
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