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TEE PnTSBTm& DISPATCH. SUNDAY, ATJQTJHT 2, 1891.
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AN ORPHAN ONAFAKM.
Instances of How Many From the
Cities Are Living Just Now.
IT WAS FUN TO HELP UNCLE2EB.
Improved Machinery Has Driven Sentiment
Oct of the Country.
ST0EIE3 OF TIIB OLD-TfflB PBOHOS
rwsrram foethx ossrisoa.1
mgt
was busy. Even lit
tie Mauri ca had
caught the spirit of
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activity. He had
been brought away
up here to the farm
from the over
crowded orphan asy
lum of the citv for
v., '.? T.afH
;
recreation and health,
but he had somewhere learned that passage
of Scripture, "He that sleepeth in harvest
li a son that causeth shame," and he pleaded
to be allowed to help.
Indeed, there was no better way to bring
out the bloom on the little fellow's cheeks
than to throw him among the men in the
fields, and make him feel that he was indis
pensable. Scores of orphan boys from the
a'jlnms of Pittsburg nnd Allegheny are
getting fat this summer on this harmless de
lusion. You will find them here and there
on farms all through Allegheny, Butler and
"Westmorland counties. "While Maurice
was at Zeb's he wrote some letters to com
panions lef . behind in the big City Home.
These he la:d before Aunt Hulda for revi
sion and assistance, and she referred the lad
to me. I think these letters of Maurice's
are fair specimens of how well the philan
thropic idea of summering the inmates of
city charities, separately, among farm
houses works, and 1 trust that I am violat
ing none of my little mend's confidences
when i reproduce here a lew of his quaint
messages:
HAUKICE 'WRITES HIS IMPRESSIONS.
The first letter he wrote was as follows:
Feixkosktowx, Pa., July .
Bob Smith. Orphan Asylum, Allegheny, Pa.
Dear Bob Wish you'd been hero last
nlp-it. Aunt lluldn gave mo a bedrooom all
to m selC The bed was so hi;U I couldn't
pet liito it trom the floor. I have seen pic-
iBrK Oi Ul US I1KO IIKIL, UUV IIUVY X IIUVO SlUjfl '
in one tnvself. While I wa gettinpr a chair i
to Climb into the bed by Uncle Zeb peeped
In at the door. Ho laughed very loud, lie
eaid he would like to sleep with me. Ho is
awf-illv jolly, and not a bit like the solemn
AonSinEr men o: tho "Board or Managers.'
who come sronnd to tho asylnm every w eek.
He -popped right in here, pushed the chair
awav and kneoled down by the bed on his
Tor- ustiudkntes. and, whether yon believe
It or not, made iue clnab into bed by stand
ing on h-.o back. Then ho tickled me niul
ran to get up stairs before Aunt found him
our.
This is a very solid old stone house. It
tlis up the hill a little from the road. Tou
eoiue in at the gate, whero there are a lot of
in -Jr crocks i.lways hsniring to tho palings,
idvouclsmbap stfra to the big porch.
A- t.y back of our bouse is a tremendous
till' covered with woods. The creek flows
Jn; ue other sido of the road. But what I
lika he,: Is tLat my window opens toward
thi barnyard. 1 like to go out there. It's
ji"3tlnip liks the triok yards attbo stables of
r"h housoi on the avenue in town. It is big
u o le el and always full of animals of some
eo -c. 1 help Tom wntei the horses before
t. v go to bed, I cha3 the pigs (Hulda says
I c . .."-ono of the Jlttlo ones back to Alie
g i.-.v -i' I avtoh it), but best of all I feed the
ch'uSeas every day out there, and that is
part oi the real work I'm coin' to pay my
board. I v, ant to leurn to be a farmer. Auut
said I should do all the real work I conld to
Vay inv board that i, I asked to be allowed
to. I know if papa and mamma were living
thevwouUn't want anyone to keep me fur
Dothlni. Vein truly, Maurice.
QOIXE A UECESSITT OK TEE FARM.
Ths was saiheent introduction of charac
ters for the whole asylum, Maurice thought.
Bo ti.e next letter to auotiicr filiate started
abruptly, like this:
Di.i.. Jack I ra a real farmer-boy now.
I know i am because to-day a boy about
twice my rfjt came up from Pnmrnsctown
and ai.Ka Uncle Zeo to h.ro him to carry
. .iter s nd do other work in tho fields. Uneio
Eel poiuteJ to me .iiid ta:d he had all eady
liird a him.!. I o: o-i!j carry water to the
cea, bat "- tuoni.iitr Vnrle Zeb sent me to
Sita to ear-. I ne oil cm after the mo win:;
machine. Inn i; ics the machine, and
When he hie. to sec c:r I am told to climb up
in tac sea; and ao.il tho horses. Tom told
IBB that IJui-le Zeb could not get through
"thi- i:n .-P3t witi.ojt m. What do oa
think of ttiai? T-11 the matron.
Idnn'ttnuw whit mikes iue eat so much
out iicrel 1 i.evtr saw any boy in our uas
"ivBo can vat lito I do now. There are no
jfoegt. Jjcro to void on aw2y from the table
ioa can eat as long as you have a mind to.
i iun., IIaukiou.
Aid thj ncit read:
1s.ak Wiii Wo have milk to drink at
Ferv meal, ani then again nhen Aunt
Iluldu miii;n the cow s at nujhl. I like that
bast, bscaa-o by thai time it is most always
puiu.g loo. out oi doors (colder at nights
hero man m our dormitory), and the milk
Is ti:ce Hid warm.
The ogs t p horo tasto different somehow
than l.ioe wuic'i the matron buys) down at
too matiot j,unie in Allegheny. The butter!
Sly! It is soiiiee tuat I spread ltueailya
quarter of an inch thick on my bread, and
5iotA,dy siy uu thing ahoutit being bad
reamers. "Toe otntr day I gathered black
licrA.es Tilth Au.it Hulualor an hour, and
wc had some for supper. They w ere just
best
To-day I am ""-ug to pull roasting ears for
raari.e:.ig. I um to do this all myself, be
cause .Vunt Hulda showed me how yester
fiay. and s:-- said to Zeb t!iis morning that 1
needed no help. I wish Matron couid spare
yon tor aTitekorrso. I would teach you
iiov to tana. Oh, I .orgct to tell yon I am
Bix poinds heavier than I was vi hen I was
$n tu- ori"ooni of tic asylum the day I got
Vcishtu belord loavmg tonn.
lours, lovi:ity, JIacbioh
JCSD IT "WAS XOT AiL WORK.
All work and no play would have made
Mauricp a di'll boy, though, and he had his
leisure down by the creek, or over in the
woods, or in the hayloft, or sitting by the
&r-Tii'!l3!lii0
Coulttn't Co'cA a Pig.
OGor of the spring-house. And at nights.in
the hour before retiring, Uncle Zeb would
tell Maurice about the old-time frolics there
used to hi on the farm. His descriptions
end aurratives interested me as much as the
little boy, and from them I could not help
but form the conclusion that whether farm
ing pays any better to-day than it did CO
veart ago or not, the farmers of half a cen
tury ago were richer in mirthful resources.
Wliere now can you find a "barn-raising" in
Allegheny or Westmoreland counties?
Railroads have brought cheap lumber to
every '.own; every village has its "con
tractor;" the building of a new barn is a
tiuitter of only a day or two, and the price
tf it is less than the price oi mere labor ex
pended on tho barn of 25 vears since.
Aunt Hulda had wanted Zeb to clean out
the underbruh from a certain ravine be
cause it afforded a refuge for snakes. "Too
late," said Zeb, "that oughter have been
done before the 24th of June." He ex
plained an old-time saying that bushes.
trees, etc., grubbed' out before that-dote,!
&&&Cfi-'7 -A-BYEST was In full
W?fAw swing at TJnole Zeb's
i Everybody
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B'jrs' y
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mw
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would neyer grow again, bnt after the 24th
of June there was no certainty about it
OLD-TIME GEUBBIXO FEOLICS.
In the days when Zeb was young
that old saw led to the formation of
"grubbing frolics." Neighbors for miles
around would assemble at one of the houses
to grub out a lot of Etumps or underbrush,
and their wives ana sweethearts would pre
pare the dinner and the taffy for the even
ing fun. Nowadays enough underbrush or
Haviice Gathering Boastfnp Seen.
thicket conld not be found in all "Western
Pennsylvania to furnish employment for
even what would hn c been a small-sized
"frolic" of the olden time. And even if
there was, the economic conditions of the
agriculturist's life have so chaDged that he
could not spare enough time away trom his
land to help his neighbor.
Corn huskingsl They exist now only in
the tales oi our grandparents, or in farm
ballads. Here, toe, the intensely practical
farming of to-day interferes with social
freedom. Improved methods, a reduced
acreage of corn hereabouts, perhaps, and
the increasing demands upon the time of
the women of the farmhouse have obliterated
forever the pretty custom of holding "hust
ings." About the nearest approach to the
old-rime "frolic," "barnraisings" or "husk
ines" that we have on the farms of Alle
gheny county to-day is the system of
threshing with the same threshing machine
in a neighborhood.
A EEIjIC OF THE OLD SYSTEM.
Take a block of eight or ten adjoining
farms, and the owners of each give a day's
labor to threshing his neighbor's grain in
consideration of an immediate return of the
favor. You cannot sar, however, that it is
in any way like a frolic The whole aim is
to get through with the work on hand. Din
ner is gulped lnn i ' ' urrv because the
On the Mower at Uncle ZcVs.
steam engine which runs the threshing ma
chine is eating up coal at a lively rate. Nor
is there any incentive to prolong the din
ner.nor yet to spend the evening alltogether
there in the farm house.
The farmer's wife of to-day has carpets
on the floors of every room she does not
particularly eirjoy the prospect of a score
of men soiling them with dirty boots or
dropping grain from their waist-coat folds.
There is to-day a better market for her but
ter than there used to be. In other words,
it pays her to sell tho butter she churns in
Pnmrosetown tkan feed it to a lot of men
in her own house. And the last, and one of
the most startling phases of this great
change that has come over the farm in the
lost 40 years is that in order to cook that
single dinner for the dozen or more thresh
ers the housewife had to hire, at so much
per day, servant girls to assist her.
owrs a a dat nr haevesx.
The daughters of the house are at board
ing school, or perchance have devoted their
earnings at clerking in the city stores to an
excursion to the seaside. The wives ot the
farmers assisting in the threshing could not
come to the rescae, for, as in her own case,
circumstances have changed. "To owe one
a day in harvest" is a phrase that has long
since lost its meaning. It once meant to
owe a good deed when it shall be most
needed in return for a favor received. But,
bless vou, there arc no favors in this dav of
machine far-mint; to repav. Sir "Walter
Scott, ia "Bob Hoy," said": "Heark thee,
man, I owe thee a day in harst," and then,
realizing what that really meant, he added:
"I'll pay up your thousan pund Scots." Is
the time of a" tiller of the soil held in such
estimate at present?
It onoe was the custom for the country
folk to bring home from the harvest field a
figure made with corn, around which the
men aud the women would promiscuously
dance and sing, preceded by a piper or
drummer.
CELEBRATED IX KBTJaE.
Herrick records a song that no doubt
originated with this habit:
Crowned with eares of come, now come
And, to the pipe, sing harvest-home.
The decorated oxen, the image of Ceres,
the flower-clad maidens, the smacking kiss
of the rustic twain behind theshock of corn,
the blazing bonfires in the villaee street, or
the "harvest-lord" beside his queen they
have all gone.
Farmers of to-day, like capitalists and
artisans, are livingat high pressure. The
rush of machinery is carrying them along
pell-mell, and the click-clickety-click of the
mower the bur-r-r-r of the patent binder
and reaper the buz-buz-buz of the steam
thresher, is music to a much livelier measure
than the ancient ditty:
We have plougned, we have sewed.
We have reaped, we have mowed.
We have brought home every load,
Hip, hip, hip, harvest-home.
L. E. Stotiis.
A Bank Examiner's Report on Buildinff
and Xjoan.
To the Publio:
I have examined the books of the Genesee
National Savings and Loan Association and
find its system of account is complete and
comprehensive. Its officers are men of
standing and ability; they are also thor
oughly conversant with the detail and gen
eral management of the building and loan
business. I cheerfully recommend the as
sociation as one worthy of the confidence of
the public. Hexuv C. Covell,
K. Y. State Bank Examiner.
A limited amount of paid-up stock will
be issued in the August series bearing 6 and
8 per cent annual interest, subject to with
drawal on demand. Interest paid semi
annually. Kunning stock with dues pay
able ot 60c per month, subject to with
drawal as abov e with interest at G per cent.
Stock can be had by calling on F. M. Mc
Kel vey, 411 Grant street. Loans made at a
6 per cent interest and 7 per cent premium.
Borrowing members can pay off part or all
of their mortgage at any time, i?o bidding
for loans. Absolute security to investors
guaranteed.
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"Will leave Pittsburg via the B. & O. E E.
on Thursday, August 13, via "Washing
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good for ten days and good to stop at
Washington City returning to visit the
national capital.
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THE MUSIC WORLD,
Pittstrarg Has Expressed s Desire for
Summer Entertainment,
FEES CONCEETS IN THE PAEKS.
ThEiperimeat of Light Opera-Is Eroinj
a Decided Success.
HEMS FOE L0TEB8 OP THE AET DIVINE
According to present indications Pitts
burg is becoming to see the falsity of the
idea, so long and so generally accepted, that
people do not care for public amusements
on summer evenings. As a matter of fast
the summer season, when ordinary business
activities are slack and the young man's
fancies lightly turn from love to loafing, is
the very time when most people have the
most leisure and the most inclination for
amusement.
The wealthier class nowadays takes its
Journeying in the spring and fall as much
as in the summer, and the rest of the com
munity only get away for a week or two at
the most. In spite of the talk that "every
body is out of town." the stubborn fact is
that on any given day you will find the
great majority of all classes in town. Es
pecially in such cool summers as we have
lately had.
Amusement caterers are coming to realize
that this great city wants public entertain
ment all the year around. Open air con
certs, al fresco drama and spectacle and
even indoor opera have come this year to
contest the customary baseball and circus
monopoly. And they are reaping their re
ward. From the 600 or more patrons of the
fashionable "As You Like It" at ?2 CO
apiece to the thronging thousands at the
free baud concerts, the record is one of
hearty support from all classes of people.
THE FREBiBAKD CONCERT.
The free band "concerts in the various
parks are, from a popular point of view, the
most deserving of these dog-day doings.
The traction roads for the
sake of traffic, other business
concerns for the sake of advertising and
some few from philanthropic motives have
this season joined in giving the public
more free music than it has ever had before.
Such enterprises deserve all encourage
ment; the only trouble is, as has been found
by past experience, that they are irregular
and ephemeral. Unorganized private ef
forts of this kind could soarcely be any
thing else. "With the proof before their
eyes of the immense public demand of such
concerts, wny uo not our municipal author
ities take them in hand?
What is a park, anyhow ? A mere open
space does not suffice; there must be roads
and walks to enable the people to enjoy it.
Then come the other improvements the
crass, trees, flowers, waters and erottos to
please the public eye greenhouse! and a
70ological garden to instruct them. These
are already included in the meaning of the
work "park" in $he understanding of this
community.
There ib no reason why free popular con
certs should not be included m the park
idea for us, as they long have been in other
large cities, where thousands of dollars are
regularly appropriated for that purpose.
The overwhelming mass of the people can
and will enjoy such concerts; they are a
legitimate publio use for public funds,
unless it can be maintained that the rights
of the people's ear are inferior to those of
the eye.
Pittsburg and Allegheny cannot afford
any longer to lag behind the times in this
particular.
6TJMJaER OPERA AT THE DT7QUE3KB.
From an artistic standpoint the most
creditable of the summer entertainments is
the season of light opera by the Garrow
troupe at the Duquesne Theater. These
evenings have been perfectly comfortable
inside the cozy auditorium, and neither
"Girofle-Girofia" of last week nor the "Bo
hemian Girl" of this can be said to be too
heavy for midsummer digestion.
The company is exceptionally capable jmd
well-balanced. Among the principals Mr.
John H Brand readily ranks first both as
singer and actor; his light, but pure, bary
tone is handled with much fineness and
feeling. Mr. Henry Hallam's smooth tenor,
also, is skillullv managed; so good a voice
is not common in this class of work. Miss
Laura Clement makes quite a satisfactory
heroine vocally and histrionically, thougn
she does ifbt possess the inborn opera bouse
spirit. That veteran comedian,Mr. Charles
H. Drew, is a mine of fun, of course,
and he sings better than many of
his rivals in that line which is
not saying much. Miss Koche, Mr. Jenkins,
Miss Swam and Miss Bernard all deserve a
good word for their part in the excellent en
semble. The chorus is larger, prettier and
more musical than is generally the case, and
Conductor "William Bobinspn is to be
felicitated upon its singing as also upon the
smooth accompaniments of the orchestra.
It is not surprising to learn that the first
week of such performances, even in mid
summer, has proven a great success.
AIT EAST COlTUirDETraA.
Last week's issue of the Chicago Indicator
contains this editorial comment npon the
postponement of the new opera founded on
Sir Edwin Arnold's "Light of Asia:"
Musical London is greatly excited over the
action of JIaurel in throwing up the tenor
part in Lara's new opera at tho last moment,
theiebv breaking up the company and in
definitely postponing the production of the
opeia. "Thero is something mysterious
about the whole affair, which later explana
tions than those given in the published
cablegram will probably solve.
There's not much of a mystery in that.
Maurel wouldn't take that tenor part be
cause he is a barytone. Give us something
easy, Brother Fox !
Crochets and Quavers.
Motutz MoszkowsKa's opera, "Boabdfl,"
has been accepted by the Royal Opera In
Berlin.
Miss Emma Sczlke, of Philadelphia, has
been singing in London concerts with
marked success.
Ma. Williasi Castle, the veteran operatlo
tenor, will soon leave Philadelphia to take
charge of the vocal department of the Chi
cago College of Music
MiS3 Auxin D. FxowER organist of the
Sixth Presbyterian Church, will handle the
new instrument of the Fourth Avenue Bap
tist Church to-day, in the absence of Mr.
John Q. EverBon.
Goon for President Perkins, of the Illinois
State Music Teachers' Association. He said
at the recent meeting of that body: "It is
not American music, but it is mttstc in
America that we should work for."
Cosstaktin Steiuibebq and Gustav Hln
ricks are said to bo pooling issues in a
scheme to establish a musical college and a
permanent symphony orchestra in Philadel
phia. That team ought to succeed iu such
an enterprise, If any could.
This item is on its rounds jnst now. The
Liege Conservatoire is a school in which all
musical instructionisgivenree Tho violin
is the favorite instrument, and 3.CO0 fiddlers
have been known to have competed for en
trance. No wonder that Viouxtemps wrote:
"Violinists grow In our country like mush
rooms." A PoETLAiro, Me., clergyman declined to
sign a petition against Sunday concerts, say
ing : "I cannot agree with these brethren in
their view of the Sunday. I regard it as a
day of worship and rational recreation. I
have advocated the use of music in public
parks Sunday under wise control." The
world do move I
Makaokii Mabous Mater one day last week
shook an envelope under the nose of a Lon
don press correspondent, saying it contained
a signedcontract with Adelina Pattiforan
American tour next season. If this bo in
deed true, it cannot be confirmed too soon to
give us all time to save up the price of a seat
or two.
Ip the Boston Symphony Orchestra does J
arrange to tafco in tnis city on its next
autumn tons, as now .seems not unlikely-,
lovers of music hereabouts will have good
cacta to rejoice. Musical Pittsburg needs
nothing so much as first-class orchestral con
certs distributed through the season. Mr.
Nikisch's superb band already has obtained
theflrmest liold upon the suffrages of this
commnnity in its successive spring tours,
and there is no reason why it should not
make mot successful excursions this far in
land on the fall and mid-winter tours as well.
SrKAAtwo of Manager Charles B. Locke's
variegated career, an exchange Bays that
his "companies are stranded with monoton
ous regularity, tho arid plans of Arizona and
the giant forests of Washington being strewn
"with the bones of starved fiddlers and
chorns singers, bnt Miss Juch and Mr.
Locke inciease in adipose and go merrllv on
to tho annual break-no." Why should Con
gress be urged to pass a bankrupt law while
this unpatented process of successful failure
Is being publioly used by Mr. Creditor Escap
ing Locket
Mrs. Belle Cole, who has been singing In
London for a number of years, long -enough
to hnve become a prime favorite with royalty
and rabble, is back in her native land once
more. She will first be heard in two concerts
at Chautauqua Wednesday and Friday of
this week. Mrs. Cole will bo remembered
by many Plttsburgers as the exceedingly
plump and pleasing person who sang at one
of our May festivals (1883, was it not?) the
well-known number from Weber's "Abu
Hassan" that some waggish paragrapher on
that occasion christened "Oh, Fat-am-It"
Modern opera, or, as It was originally more
amply designated, "Opera in musica, In stilo
rappresontatlvo," Is generally admitted to
have had its birth in the City of Florence,
the first work of the kind, the Dalne, set to
music by Peri, having been produced hero
in tno year iov. jiccoraingiy, says cue .Lon
don Musical Times, "Opera in musica,",will
have its tercentenary three years hence.
The authorities of the Royal Academy of
Music, of Florence, have Just decided to
celebrate the event in a suitable manner,
and a committee has been appointed for the
purpose of arranging the preliminaries.
Mas. Laura Schiumek-Uaflesoh Is booked
for an American tour next season. If suo
cess can be won by sensational notoriety it
certainly will perch npon the banners of this
young woman. She was reported to have
been poiconed some time ago along with
other Inmates of the Turkish Sultan's Harem,
though it is now said there was nothing
harum-scarum about her; she was only
honored l)y the Sultan with presents, a
pension an a an appointment as court singer,
etc. Then last year she was the recipient of
much attention when she got married to
Henry Mapleson, the yonnger of the operatic
managers, who had long been received as
the husband of Marie Roze. They say Mrs.
Maple3on can sing, too.
At the meeting of leading local spirits of
the Pennsylvania State Musio Teachers'
Association, called by President Carter last
Thursday, various plans were blocked out
looking to the sucoess of the third annual
meeting to be held here next December. It
is now time to bo getting up steam, and
every music-lover in the vicinity can help
right away by furnishing fuel In lumps of
L This payment, which should be made to
Treasurer Ad M. Foerster, will secure to
professionals an active membership, to non
professionals an associate membership and
to both the common right of hearing all the
concerts, essays, discussions, etc., of the
coming session ana tno gratmcation oi aid
ing a most useful and promising enterprise
xor tne musical good oi ttie wnoie state.
A choir of Kaffirs gave a concert in Lon
don a few days ago. The members were
clad in their native African garb. The lead
ers were dressed In war paint, brandishing
shields and spears, while the unimportant
ones were arrayed In a simple blanket,
which covered their entire body. The pro
gramme was divided into two parts, cover
ing English soiigs and Kaffir songs. The
English songs were sung with correct pro
nunciation, showing the great amount of
training the South Africans must havo gono
through. The Kaffir music was remarkable
for the constant recurrence of what Is
known as "consecntlve fifths." It seems to
have been agreed on by all musicians de
scended from Shem and Japhet that "con
secutive fifths" are discordant. The swarthy
sons of Ham, however, seem to think they
are harmonious. Exchange.
Bemext. during his three years' sojourn
in South Africa, found many valuable and
interesting violins. He thus explains how
such precious Instruments came to be there:
"After the revocation of the edict of Nantes,
when the Huguenots left la belle France In
thousands, a good portion of them went to
settle in Holland; from there they were
shipped to South Africa by the Dutch Gov
ernment, and as they wore mostly of good
families they possessed man valuables,
such as pictures, musical instruments, etc,
which they took with them. In those days
people did not travel with a Gladstone bag.
Besides, these exiles remained in communi
cation with Europe, and exported many
costly things. In time their descovdants
became thoionghly 'Dutcl ied,' and did not
play any more the violin. Thu I have
acquired 40 snperb instruments, all abso
lutely genuine and nndoctored old violins."
"It is Impossible, even if you would, to es
cape from the thralldci of the one idea of
Bayrouth," writes a correspondent. "The
Bhop windows are full of busts and photo
graphs of the 'Melster.' At the booksellers I
doubt If It would be possible to buy any lit
erature that did not bear directly or Indi
rectly on the all.absorbing subject; the very
street boys whistle or hum snatches from
some familiai.J stirring chorus; postcards and
letter paper beai- In the corner tho impress
of notes 'mystic, wonderful.' Even" the
damasked linen (the one Industry of Bay
routh) is embroidered with the bars of some
motif. The coachman whom you hail from
the market place scarcely thinks it worth
while to ask where he shall take you. He
assumes as a matter of oourse that you are
going to tho Villa Mahnfried, to visit Wag
ner's grave (on the first evening when thero
Is no opera), and to see the outside of the
house where the poet-musician at last found
rest and peace after a life of struggle and
disappointment and years of exile from the
land that he loved so passionately, and for
whose glory he did so much."
THE LONG LEAP INTO "WATEB.
How the Itecord Was Broken at Kansas
City by Joseph Lenvenmarlc
The plunging or high-diving record was
smashed all to pieces at "Washington Park,
Kansas City, recently, says the Star, by
Joseph Leuvenmark, the Swedish natator.
late of the Koyal Swimming School of Stock
holm, Sweden. Leuvenmark was a little
pale and nervous before he ascended the
tower, and by the time he had reached the
top platform was somewhat tired from the
climb up the rather primitive ladder. After
a rest he cautiously crawled along on all
fours and peered into the water below.
After measuring the distance and indicating
to his manager in the boat below the place
where he would strike the water, he re
treated back to the rear of the 16-foot plat
form. After another brief rest he straight
ened up on the platform and steadied him
self by the handrails.
Two or three leaps and he was at the edge
of the platform, and then he sailed through
the air with a graceful sweep. Everything
was quiet as a graveyard, every spectator
watching his downward flight with bated
breath. On nearing the water he straight
ened himself out, and as he disappeared be
neath the surface his hands were elose to
f ether, arms extended over the head, the
ody perpendicular, the limbs slightly bent
at the knee. The water separated with a
swish as he went down like McGinty, and a
second later his head appeared above the
water a few feet distant, and the crowd then
broke loose with a loud huzza, as it was evi
dent that the feat had been accomplished
without the least injury.
The distance from the platform to the sur
face of the water was 80 teet and Z inches,
measured by a surface line, and the plunge
consequently beats the record now held by
G. A. Blake by 4 feet and 85 inches. G. A.
Blake's performance, which stands as the
world's record, was made at the Lambeth
bath, London, England, October 8, 1888, and
was a plunge of 75 feet 7 inches.
BIG GUNS FOB COAST DEFENSE.
General Schofield Favors Awarding Con
tracts for Them to Private Parties.
New Yoke, Aug. L Major General
Schofield, who arrived here last evening,
was present to-day at a meeting of the
Ordnance and Fortification Board in the
Army -building. Plans for improvements
in thd fortifications of the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts were submitted, as was also
the plans for a new type of big gun.
The bids for the construction of 100 new
guns were taken into consideration. It is
General Schofield's desire to give the con
tracts for these new guns to private manu
facturers, so that the Government may the
more speedily be equipped with the anna
ment it needs) badly.
WOMM OF KENTUCKY
Find the Proposed Constitution Based
on Ideas of the Dark Ages.
W BIGHTS BT ITS PEOYI8I0NS.
The Boasted CMvaliy of the South Is
National Disgrace.
SHEER BKUTALITT TOWARD THE SEX
IWaUTTJCN roit TUB DTSrATCnV
Lord Brougham, the famous lawyer and
distinguished statesman of Great Britain,
in his remarks upon law reforms, said that
the old common law of that country in rela
tion to women "was the opprobrium of the
age and Christianity." Theforce of that re
mark is still emphasized in Pennsylvania,
though mnch has been done in the removal
of some of the most offensive features of the
unjust laws which relate to the property
and personal rights of half of the citizens of
this State.
It remains, however, for the legislators
and men of Kentucky, who boast themselves
npon their chivalry and courage, to parade
themselves as the advocates of the civiliza
tion of the dark ages. A new Constitution,
it appears, is now nnder consideration in
that State, famous for whisky and horses
and blue grass belles. A vote upon this new
Constitution is to be taken at the fall elec
tion, and as elections all go one way in Ken
tucky, it is likely to be adopted. Of this
Mrs. Josephine Henry says in a recent
paper: "The new Constitution is the tomb
of justice for Kentucky women. There is
not a word or a syllable in it that gives the
slightest recognition of woman as a compo
nent part of our civilization, or protects the
persons, lives, liberty, property or maternal
rights of the women of Kentucky."
A MOTHER'S EIGHT TO HEB CHTA-DEmr.
Under the new Constitution, as projected
by Kentucky reformers, a married woman
has no right whatever to her children. Her
husband can will them away from her, even
before they are born, even if he is not him-,
self of age. Contemplate such a law in
these boasted days of civilization! Ken
tuckians should be ashamed of it, but, far
from that, they actually propose its contin
uance in the new Constitution now before
the people. To thus trample upon and
outrage the strongest affection of a mother's
heart is so barbarous and tyrannical that it
can hardly be conceived that Americans
would be guilty of such a thing In these
nineteenth century days.
Knowing this to be true, as everybody
does, yet this proposed constitution gives
courts' the power to deprive the mother of
her ohildren, to take from them their best
friend at the option of the father, who may
or may not be a rascal Nobody but a re
vengeful brute or a cowardly ruffian would
do such a thing, save in very exceptional
cases; is law to be made for such as these?
In some of the States this oruel pro
vision has been repealed. The claim
of a mother has been recognized as
equal with that of the father, sud
where a dispute arises, the case is decided
by the courts in favor of the parent shown
to be most capable and trustworthy, as re
gards the best interests of the child. But
while Kentuckians boast of their devotion
to women, they have no scruples, it would
appear, in trampling npon her most sacred
rights.
A wife's peopeictt iughts.
Another beautiful feature of this new
Constitution is that unless by settlements
a woman's property is secured to her at the
lime ui iiiurriu;e iue lxvf uuiiuscaies it,
and hands it overtoher husband. He holds
her farm, aud houses, aud stocks as his own.
Her personal property becomes all his, and
if she has money in bank, his creditors can
attack it the mmute the words are said that
make them husband and wife. Women
being ignorant of law, and usually full of
love aud romantic sentiment at such time,
do not awaken to the fact that they have
been robbed and despoiled by the law, until
the rub comes. When the proud Kentucky
bride took pleasure in showing her trust in
her husband bv refusing to demand that her
j"fl.operty should be secured to her husband
by refusing to demand that her property
should be secured to her own use, she little
dreamed of the day to come, when she had
no claim on a single cent, and was sworn at
when she dared ask for a dollar I What a
fool she was, she realized too late for her
own happiness and comfort.
Under this new constitutt'-i is another
provision for the rights of husbands, which
is, that if a married woman earns money by
her own labor, and buys with it furniture,
food or clothing, these belong to her hus
band, and he can sell them, or pawn them,
or do as he pleases, and the law protects
him in such right or rather wrong.
AX INSTANCE OF KENTT7CET CHIVAIET.
The story is told, as illustrating this
beautiful law, that a wife worked for three
months at sewing to earn the money to buy
a cow to furnish food for her children. The
husband then traded the cow for a gun and
some whisky, and the cow was taken away.
With all her pleadings, the only concession
she was allowed was to milk the cow for the
children's supper before it was driven off.
Southern chivalry is a fine thing to be sure.
But some one will be found to say that
this man was a "poor white," and not a
gentleman. But, take notice all, that it is
"Southern chivalry" that has made such
laws, and which proposes to perpetuate
them.
Another chivalric provision in this new
Kentucky Constitution is that the age of
consent for a girl to her own ruin is fixed at
12 years. She is under guardianship as to
marriage until she is IS. A sale of her
property is not valid until she is of full
oge, but in order to protect rascals the legal
age at which a child can ruin her life and
sell her soul is 12 years. Such a law in the
interests of cruelty and vice is enough to
make the stones cry out against it
divoece is fob mes only.
As to marriage and divorce, the laws are
laid down by men alone. The women, as
to these institutions have no more voice or
representation than if they had no concern
therein. The husbands are protected, while
the wives suffer.
The sense of justice of these Kentucky
gentlemen is further shown by the provis
ion that if a wife has property in her own
right and has had a living child, that on her
death the husband takes the whole of it in
whatever shape or form. No relative of
hers is entitled to a cent. If on the other
hand, the husband dies, the wife is to re
ceive only one-tnird me interest, even
though she may largely have helped to ac
cumulate it. These are some of the mani
festations of Southern chivalry and Ken
tucky devotion to the interest of wives
and mothers.
Now, if these were shown up as tho
even abuses of the old common law, which
Blackstone denounced as its. worst features,
with the object of repealing them, it would
be bad enough te think that such injustice
had existed until now, but when such pro
visions are features of the proposed new
Constitution, it shows how far Kentucky is
behind the age, and how chivalrous its law-
fivers are. If Kentucky women nre too
lind, or too ignorant to raise a rumpus
over such a Constitution, it is very pkin
that'they are iu worse need of missionary
effort than the heathen or the Indians: If
such is Southern chivalry protecting the in
terests of women, then those alleged gal
lant gentlemen are millions of miles behind
and below some of the 'mudsills" of the
North and West, who hold the rights of
their mothers, wives and sisters as equal to
their own.
COWBOr EESFECT FOB WOMEK,
Deeds speak louder than words. The
wild Westerners of Wyoming have given a
shining examble of chivalry worth talking
about. The lawmakers of Kansas, Iowa
and a few other States have shown the
touch of the spirit of the age and the
nromntincrs of an intelligent sense of lustioa
when they rspudiatedsacb. 'mrm thimj.
Kentncky proposes to reafiun. Even our
great State of Pennsylvania, with all her
own heavy sins of legislation, can cry
shame against Kentuckv.
Mrs. Blake, who has lately investigated
the subject, says that "only in three States
of the Union Kansas, Iowa and New Jer
sey to which Wyoming may now be added
has a mother any legal claim to her own
children. In all the other States," she
adds, "the husband has the absolute right to
bind the children out, to give them away,
or by will appoint a guardian for them after
his death; although the mother has riskad
death to give tbem life, she has no legal
right over them whatever."
WOULD COMMIT MCBDEB FIEST.
Mrs. Sursshelm relates in her life, that
her husband would have taken her child
from her if he had dared.b'ut that she would
have defended her rights to her baby to the
taking of life. Mr3. Blake further" relates
that in no State or Territory in the Union
is a wife entitled legally to a dollar for her
services in the family. Her husband gives
her what he sees fit, and he is judge and
jury. Even where a couple marry young,
and laboring equally hard, side by side on a
farm, in a store or shop, with care of chil
dren and household work in addition for
the woman, the husband by law owns all
the money they both earn. This shows that
it would pay a wife just as well to be lazy
and do nothing.
Where a husband is kind, loving, liberal
and considerate these hardships of the law
have no pressure, but nevertheless legisla
tion should be so equitable that it could not
be made the means of oppression by the
miserable cowards who alone claim the ad
vantages it gives them.
Bv an act of Parliament passed in 18SS
England has made a, long step in reform,
which, if they knew anything about it,
might perhaps be well for Kentuckians and
all men to consider. The law on this matter
now in England is that a mother at the
death of her husband is legally her chil
dren's guardian. Her husband by will may
appoint another guardian, but he cannot cut
her out. Moreover, if the husband be a bad
man, she can, on her death, appoint a
guardian to act with him and take charge
of the interests of her children. The sig
nificant clause of this new act is that the
courts shall consider the wishes of the
mother as well as the father.
STTFFBAGE FOB ENGLISH WOMSaT.
This is not all that English women are
working for, but it is one of the advances
that has been made by persistent effort, and
that more will follow goes without saying.
In fact, Lord Salisbury, the present Prime
Minister, has announced that the extension
of Parliamentary suffrage to women should
become a Government measure. For the
leader of the Conservative party to take up
such a radical proposition shows that the
Premier is long-headed and knows that such
act will strengthen his party and prolong
their political power.
Missionaries have gone to work in Ken
tucky. Some of the women have been
aroused and are organizing a movement
against the new Constitution. Mrs. Henry
writes that while they "have the worst laws
in the Union, they have some splendid men
in the State," who are on easy prey to con
version when the case is squarely presented.
The greatest fight will be made on the
"property rights question." When it is re
membered that that battle was fought and
won in Pennsylvania over 40 years ago, it
will be seen how far Kentucky is behind,
and what "Southern chivalry" has amounted
toin all these years.
"A Constitutional Convention is pending
in this State, to be voted npon in Novem
ber. It is necessary, therefore, for the
women of Pennsylvania to see to it that
they receive representation at that conven
tion if held, and to work for such amend
ments to the Constitution as will blot out
all the iniquitous laws against women,
which now deface the statute books, and
give to the stalwart and noble men of Penn
sylvania the fair fame they deserve.
Women must move in this matter.
"Know ye not, who would be free, them
selies must strike the blow?"
Bessie Bramble.
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Grand Combination Sale of Lots AT AUCTION in NORTH IRWIN and WEST
IRWIN on THURSDAY and FRIDAY, August 6 and 7.
FBBE TZRaA-XZEsT BOTH ID-"5TS-
The sale will embrace all the very choice property in first hands, adjoining and on two sides
surrounding the PENNSYLVANIA PLATE GLASS WORKS. These works, next to
the largest in the world, made their first glass on July 23, and as soon as all furnaces can be
heated will be running full, employing from 600 to 800 workmen. In the same semi-circle
with these are the works of the KEYSTONE BAG CO.,the IRWIN BRICK CO., and the
location of the IRWIN WINDOW GLASS WORKS, whose erection is assured, with a
BEVELING and MIRROR WORKS and a STEEL WIRE WORKS in prospect These
industries, as now in operation, connected with the industries of Irwin proper, EMPLOY
OVER 4,000 MEN, with a payroll of morethan $125,000 per month. This is, therefore,
no mere scheme on paper. It is the legitimate expansion of a vigorous and growing town,
whose energies are bursting forth into new fields of enterprise. NATURAL GAS and
MOUNTAIN WATER are already on the property. The Irwin Electric Light Plant is
building. The STREETS ARE GRADED. Thousands of feet of sidewalks are already
laid. Handsome buildings are completed and in course of erection on lots already sold,
many of which have changed hands at increased prices. Churches, Schools and social ad
vantages of every kind are within easy reach, and an Electric Railway is projected to con
nect Irwin property with Larimer, running through the main avenues of the property we
offer. There is nothing better in Western Pennsylvania.
The lots will be sold without reserve 10 per cent cash and 24 per cent per month.
You can buy one with little money, and while you are paying for it it will double in
value.
If you want a good investment if you want to grow up with a growing town if
you want a good home, where taxes are low and surroundings attractive if you want steady
work, with good pay, attend these sales and buy.
Come to us for plans of the property.
Trains will leave Union Station at 1 o'clock on AUGUST 6 and 7.
GET A EEEE TICKET AT THIS OffiCE AID GO TO IBM.
BLACK
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TWO SET SPEECHES.
Ccmttnved from JOnOi Pnzw.
queen through the rose-tinted clouds of the
upper ether."
In regard to the probable cost of the job,
he said:
"It is true that assisted by the wonderful
powers of science the astronomer can sit in
his ' closet, and tell precisely at what
moment, and in what particular part of the
sidereal heavens a comet will reappear that
has been absent a thousand years on his
pathless pilgrimage through the wilderness
of space; and true to the -very letter of the
pnxphecy his fiery train flashes upon our
vision. He tells us that there hangs upon
the confines of our system a nameless planet
so far away in the dim regions of the outer
universe that mortal eye hath never seen it.
We turn the telescope npon the point he in
dicates and there is a stranger world that
has
SWEPT ON IN SILENT GKANDEUB
unseen by man since creation's morning
dawn. He predicts a total eclipse of the
sun a hundred years, in the future, and
names the exact time and place upon the
earth at which the sublime phenomenon will
first be seen, and whether it be upon the
costly icebergs of Alaska, or the blood
stained soil of suffering Cuba, puctual to
the second fhegieantic shadow falls on the
precise spot he indicates.
'But, sir, to foretell what any public im
provement about this city will cost, or when
it will be finished, not only defies the high
est power of mathematics, but is beyond the
utmost range of human conjecture itself.
Yes, sir; when
The stars shall fade sway,
The sun himself crow dtanrtUfrafra,
And nature sink In years,
then, and not till then, may yon expect tu-j
see one oi tnose government joDscompietea
and the last'deficiency bill passed to pay for
it." ClestonXloyd.
OopyriffJittd, 1S31, bj the avQvxp.
Colic and Cholera Morbus.
Colic, cholera morbus, cramp and many
other affections of the stomach and bowels
prevalent at this time of year are dne to
two causes. First, the depressing effect of
the hot weather upon the nervous system,
and second,, the use of green fruit, cucum
bers, melons, etc. No one is safe from
painful and even dangerous attacks of these
affections unless unusual precautions are
taken at this time of year. A. tablespoon
ful of Pe-ru-na taken before each meal is a
complete protection against these maladies.
Pe-ru-na is not only a preventive of colic,
cholera morbus, "cramps, stomaoh ache,
summer diarrhoea andcholera, but is alio a
prompt cure for thesediseasea. Where the
attack is very severe and painful a wine
glassful of Pe-ru-na should be taken at once,
followed by two tablespoonful doses until
complete relief is obtained. This never
fails in a single case. In cases of less se
verity a tablespoonful every hour is suf
ficient. No one should neglect the precau
tion of taking a dose of Pe-ru-na before
each meal until the hot season is over.
Complete treatise on diseases of hot
weather sent free to any address by The
Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Fourth Special Excursion to AOaxitSa OU7
Will leave Pittsburg via the B. & O. E.
B. on Thursday, August 13, via Washing
ton, D. C, Baltimore and Philadelphia, at
the low rate of 510 the round trip; tickets
good for ten days, and good to stop at
Washington City returning to visit the.
national capital.
Badges for lodges and societies Mc
Hohon Bros. 8s Adams', 52 Fourth avenue.
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Any Barkeeper Can Ten m
That Iron City beer is more popular than
ever. It is kept up to standard grade.
Telephone 1186.
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