, " bi '. 14 BEHIND m SCENES, Amusing and Interesting Sights Among the Performers at a Typical Comic Opera. HTSTERIES OF THE PEOPERTIES. Hew the Scene Shifters learn Their Parts. and Hake the Sea Swell and the Waves Dash. PART A 1ITE COLORED BAM PLATS. BnycistltioES of the Pretty Citrrtn Cirli and Their Fen Among the Flies. rcocitrsroxiiixcE or tjiz dispatch. Keut Yobk, Aug. 29. I" coarse you never saw an opera from the wing never were part and par cel of the miscel laneous throng of picturesque human ity behind the drop curiam aurmg a performance. You were never hustled about by scene shifters, elbowed by scores of pretty young women in costume, chatted -with by prima donnas waiting for their cues, taken up and down among dress ing rooms and gas machines and surplus soenery while a comio opera was in full blast. You never got a peep at a fashiona ble metropolitan audience through the peep hole in the drop. Ko? Then I'll take vou back in the old "Wallack on Broadway, now Palmer's, where that bright little comic opera, "The Tar and Tartar," is in its sixteenth week. Consider yourself favored. I did when I was intro duced to the ftajre manager and the latter was directed to give mc the run of the place for the night A TEIVATE BKOWS STOXE HOTTSE. The stage entrance is on Thirtieth street beneath a brown stone stoop a landmark well known to the "Johnnies." The place was made for the ordinary servants' en trance in the private brown Btone house, but it now serves as the hole-in-the-wall that leads to the stage of Palmer's whilethe rest of the mansion has been turned into dressing rooms. In the narrow-passage way, at a small table sits that awful personage, the envied guardian of the sacred precincts, the stage doorkeeper. In this instance he smiles in a heaw way, the only time I ever saw a stage doorkeeper smile while on duty. I make mental note of the phenomenon. They usually smile a good deal when they are offi Along the passage up three of four crooked steps through a thick wall like that of a prison and we are on the "metropolitan boards." It is 7:15 and half a dozen men are setting the first scene. The big blank curtain shuts in the auditorium, from whence the spas modic sound of snapping seats indicates the early arrivals. The stage is not a large one and'thc scenery, seemingly haphazard in the grooves anil against the walls, takes np all but ti o or three feet of outside space. The scenes are very simple in this opera and the scene shifters have an easy task to night. DUTIES Or TI1E SCEKE SHIFTERS. Thev are drilled the same as the players. Each has a particular part. He does jnst the same thing every night and in this case for an hundred nights. He handles a par ticular piece and thus every section of the sea-coast picture comes to, ether without ef fort, as by inagic, A fisherman's cottage, a mimic sea, nets spread on the grass, a bas ket of fish, oars, dip nets and umbrageous shades in the foreground; back, a painted canvas representing a rock-bound coast, &--- The Doorkeeper. more sea and a shattered hulk. The nets alone are real, if I except the inverted nail kegs painted a lively red and blue, whereon the leading fishermen and fisher maidens invariably sit, as no fisherman or maid ever sits in actual service. The grass is a dirty green carpet, the oars are baby oars in two colors, the fish are painted cloth shapes stuffed with excelsior, the sea is a painted fraud on a frame two feet high, scolloped along the upper edge into frothy green blue billows. But everything goes. "When that big curtain rolls'up and the gas man touches the elec tric button the imagination does the rest. XKEIVAI. OP THE STAGE MANAGES. This is the stage manager's peculiar do main. This young gentleman, Mr. Lothian, comes sauntering in like a natty Broadway raan-about-znan. He is a short, stout young man, with brown eyes and a black mustache and a cane with a silver crook. He is seized at once. The wardrobe woman, with an armful of new costumes, holds a consulta tion, and he looks the material over. They arc fine woolen goods and arc being got ready for the road. It takes 46 pairs for the young female Tartars, who, by the war, are about as shapely a lot of singers as could well be got together. The wardrobe woman is apparently brist ling 'with needles variously threaded, ready for emergencies. She gave way for the property man, Mho ii making two blades of papier mache grass grow where only one grew be lore as he talks. It is then the fireman in a blue unifonff and shield. Then some of--ficial from the front then well, pretty soon away goes the cane with a silver crook, away goes the jaunty hat, on comes the coat and the stage manager begins to warm up to his evening's work. Prom that time till the gas is turned off the house at 11 o'clock he is nere and there and every where, and knows no rest. And yet he lias told me that his duties in this piece are light "It runs itself," said he. FIEST OP THE ACTORS. Ieft to my own devices I eit down on one of the painted nail kegs and look at the fish which have a sort ot horrible fascination for me. I hear the orchestra tuning up and I -wonder how I should strike an audience if the curtain should suddenly go up and be tray my presence there alone on a red and blue keg. Then I am conscious of. com pany. A man with yellow legs and a tunic and turban saunters in and sits down on another keg. He has a sash full of terrible knives made of wood, and dangerous look ing unloaded pistols, and his skin is a walnut stain, observable at Asbury Park at this season. This is a Tartar fisherman. His costume would scare all the fish out of x unon .tiarnet. Another and a much prettier Tartar comes , jfmi IVWIII ff I I vy&fr-t on the scene a Vack-eyed jronns- lady, dressed a the fisher girls on the Morocco coast usually dress and regards me curi ously from her long and heavily penciled lashes. Then more Tartars, male and female, come trooping in, and the band is whoopwjj things up lively in front of the big curtain. One of the prettiest Tartars, with blue eyes and golden hair a girl I couliffliavc loved if I hadn't seen her with my own eyes a member of the. Saltan's harem in th"e next act went up and slyly peeped through a big grease spot in the curtain. IOOKTSO THBOUXJK THE PEEP HOLE. I tried the same and found a hole about the size of a nickel, surrounded by four inches of dirt. This is the peep hole and the border is from the penciled eyebrows that have rubbed against it for centuries in the search for " my Johnny " on the front row. "When I put mjr eye to the hole and saw a house ablaze 'with electric lights and packed with fashionable people, box and balcony, I was scared. I thought the cur tain had gone up. The blue-yed Tartar had taken my nail keg, sol went oE A bell jingled, up rolled the great curtain, and the play went on. I found Digby Bell in his make-up over on the "prompt side;" sitting on the gas-man's box in earnest conversation with the stage manager, who appeared to be wor ried. Something had gone wrong. Bell was in ragged equipment as the "Tar," the poor, unhappy, shipwrecked mariner, who had the opera, written around him, so to speak. He looked gloomy, as comedians invariably do off the stage. The trouble, as near as I could make out, was about the game of ball played that day and something about a short horse at .Morris Park. As I don't know a base hit from a center field, and have never mastered the length of a winning horse, I was not in it. Digby wasn't, either, he said, and went sadly over to be shipwrecked some more. DIGBY BELL GETTIiTO WRECKED. I stood at the back and saw three men yanking a rope to which was attached a dry goods box on wheels, covered with painted brine. Digby Bell was on the ratt in an attitude ol cespair and joy neither too sweet nor too sour; very little bitters, please holding on like a house afire. The raft came rolling along in front of the moving sea between the sea and the pasteboard bank and just as it got to the right snot, the raft went to smash, and Digby rolled over on the beach among the Tartars, male and female. At the same time the property JJU Costume Would Scare Dead JUL man threw a handful of salt into the air, dashing it over the raft, not for seasoning, but as an evidence of ood faith, and water. Meantime a man in his shirt sleeves and a ronhtinrr can in the ormosite winps calmlv .sat on a stool working the moving sea with one nana ana held a sporting edition 01 an evening paper in the other, Jfo shipwreck, no Tartars, no wild applause from the audi ence, could take his eyes from the score. "A primrose on the river's brim, a yellow primrose was to him and nothing more." "When Digby Bell got through being shipwreckod and was waiting for his cue he said to me that the dramatio critics should see a play through and 6ee it over again be fore more than a conventional notice was written; that criticisms should come later in the first week to give that opportunity to do justice to the author, the manager and the public: 1X3XD02T CRITICS MORE JUST. "A man carefully studies out a play, working months and months, a manager in vests 10,000 to 525,000 to bring the play out, the players are nervous in their new parts before a more or less critical audience. The newspapers send a man the first night who hears parts of two or three new plays and goes back to the office and hurriedly damns the whole lot. The London critics are more deliberate and careful and there fore more just." "While I was pondering this sentiment the gas man, Mr. JDriscoll, took me down a dungeon-like staircase into the pit under the stage where they keep the gas machines, electrical converters, chorus girls, surplus scenery and a nigger baby. This is not the full.Echedule, but it will illustrate the wido range of the variety. I don't know whether he is a Tar or a Tartar, but he is as black as tar and looks as if he might prove a tartar when he grows up and razors are ripe enough to pick. Just at this particular moment he was lying across his fond mother's lap sound asleep waiting for his cue. He goes on in the harem act in company with a plain blonde infant with flaxen curls and white china legs that creak in the joints from the from the property room. Both are unkindly saddled upon Digby Bell by the ladies of the Sultan's harem and the comedian has every reason in consequence to feel the COLD CAST IROSX OF PATE. Ho wonder he kicks. Digby tried a dog f a stolen dog at that named "Sloppy "Weather," but the thing resulted in disas trous failure. Sloppy went on all right but resented encores and being very short in the legs and long in the reach defied even the engineering skill of the gas man. The comedian also came near being arrested for having stolen the dog. So Sloppy went out with Moses and the lights and retired from the stage to the butcher shop where he is -being quietly fattened for the winter season. The nigger baby is a better card and from what I saw of him later in the evening he seems to draw pretty well. Besides the. infant Sencgambian there are (40,000 of scenery down here in a hole as dark as the bottomless pit and as rank as a potato cellar. There are also a number of dressing rooms, the doors of which stood wide open disclosing 25 or 30 young, hand some and carelessly happy phorus girls in Tarious stages of armor, rouge, curl papers and other things I do not understand. They were said to be getting ready to go on in the next Act, but they seemed to be going on at a lively rate where they were. "We came across six stalwart black men, whose dressing room had no sides to it and conse quently didn't have any door to be left open, but they were getting into their cos tumes around the corner by the gas ma chines. They carry the throne chair for the prima donna, Miss Josephine Knapp. SOME OF THE MACBIKEBT. The gas man showed me the machines the electrical apparatus, and the 29 convert- If Jj B He Lodlxd Gloomy. 'THE ers. He said these converters distributed the current so evenly and quietly that I could go to sleep on the wires without dan ger. T'm nnl lenin(r in electric wires SO -nit.?. nstn. Bd T AiA lifr.fA T CAOT L mfLTl At JM- up a Broadway pole last year. He s sleep ing yet. The electrio light apparatus worked by the gas man is a wonderful com bination that would take a layman six months to comprehend. It is a growth and the modern theater cannot, get along with out it. When we started back we met a nice-looking Tartar conspirator in full armor coming down the narrow, crooked, stone stairs. She u.ui. ttvn CM A ...M Ufc.v.v .. v.... - .- told us to go back, very peremptorilyat first, then pleadingly. It would be bad luck to pass there. As wo were not armed and she was we went back and waited for her to get down. "They are dreadful superstitions," said the gas man. -So were the old duffers who used to ride around in the olden time wear ing a ton of cast iron and talking six-foot English. MEETING THE STAB PERFORMERS. "We made another break for liberty and would have broken -another armor-clad girl's luck if she hadn't rushed up the spout of the stairs and admired his haughty stride and the curved snickersnee that swings across his diaphragm. He had just come off after an alternating reign of every other hour as Sultan, dividing time with. Digy Bell In the right upper entrance is the porta ble throne and in it reclines Miss Nnapp, a beauty, at her feet a little 4-year-old nig, in bare legs, sitting on the spangled footstool and hiding from my fascinated gaze behind a big white fan. Tho stalwart blacks, who are chair bearers, are near. They wear black tights from just above the knees, tights that they were born in. The tights are excelleet fits. I asked Miss Knapp if she wasn't afraid. "At first," she laugh ingly replied: "not now." All the same, I nnft that. vnn fliA Tipftrpr. plfivntpd npf upon their shoulders she took a pretty long' Dream and field on use grim aeatn to a dead sheep. Afewsecondslater she was delivering her notes at the footlights in that sweet, clear voice that makes her so great a favorite. AIT ACCIDENT TO A BEATTTT. Four chorus girls in Moorish costumes pre-empted the throne that had been carried back and discussed their wardrobes and teased the little black page. All at once they saw me writing, and conjecturing that I was making a sketch, unconsciously as sumed a pose that would have made a lovely picture. One ox-eyed; beauty was sit ting flat on the floor between the handles ot the palaquin. She got up and there was a plaguey nail there somewhere I heard a ripping sound. There were two rips, the last one beginning with a "drat itl" I' think it was. The other girls laughed and investigated, while I modestly contem plated the scenery and pondered upon the possible trials of a chorus girl in a future state. "While thev were setting the harem scene of the second act I conversed with a' demure young woman dressed as a page. She bore a lyre a property lyre, with, six strings and a papier mache bulb to it. She thrummed at the strings as she talked. And as she thrummed she tried to bore holes in my India rubber heart. I tried to work the Horrid business on her, and asked her if eha thought she could play as easily upon me. She was neither as stupid as Polonius nor as polite as RoteneranU, for she retorted laugh ingly that, she could only play one lyre at a time. I have met chorus girls who can do better. Somebody must have told her I was a newspaper man. PRETTIER BEHIND THE SCENES. These young ladies are as pert as they are pretty. To my disappointment they looked prettier here than from the front. And they are right pretty. If that orchestra J leader who committed suicide at the Casino had been musical director at Palmer's he would have been alive now. He left behind him 'the most unique reason for seeking death. He had become "tired of looking at those painted chorus women every day." The musical director here, comes back while they are setting the scenes. He is a well built, handsome fellow in a dress suit and wears a property smile of engaging sweet ness. "We take to the other side of the stage now-, because the Sultan's six feet, two-story palace occupies all the available space on the upper. I soon find myself on a bench between jolly and plump little Annie Myers and the charming Laura Joyce Bell. It is Mrs. Bell's fate as contralto to greatly belie her amiable character. Ytt to possess such a wonderfully rich, reed-liko voice almost any singer would gladly serve as an objec tionable virago in a play. As for Annie Myers, she is a general favorite with her own sex, too. A man who didn't love her at once must have a calloused heart. The chorus , girls can't pass her in tho wings without tickling her. She is piquant and saucy and has a bright smile and merry re tort for everybody. If Bhe is well pleased with herself she has every reason to be so. PREPARING THE PROPERTIES. I strayed into the property room dnrlng the evening and saw a handsome young man in a blonde mustache laying out. prop- erties. That is, preparing all the thincs that are to be used in the next act. It is a little three-cornered cubby hole, shelved high upon each side and fitted with drawers and these shelves and the drawers are chuck full of nondescript articles used in various plays. It looks more like a cheap junk shop than a junk shop itself. The armor, arms, oars, nets and larger things are kept elsewhere. The property man lays out everything in advance that is required in any particular act. Not only that, he sees the articles are all right, delivers them in person to the players from the lower en trance as they are needed and finally at tends to the things after they have been used and puts them carefully away. He was filling Digby Bell's Turkish pipe with a very fine'article of tobaccowhen I saw him, and laying out choice cigarettes for Miss Knapp and Miss Myers. These tart young Tartars smoke" the cigarettes as young men about town in the rose garden scene. The management sets 'em up every night, though these giddy young dudes never say Turkey once. The property man also looks' after the baby not only the live tar baby, but the flaxen-haired, china-legged article with a nose like a punch and Judy. As he hands it to the statuesque, Miss Hamilton, that lady remarks that she is very fond of it "it is such a good little thing and never kicks." CLOSE OF THE PERFORMANCE. "When the play comes to a near close and the audience has called the full company to the front" to sing the last roaring song a sort of musical pousse cafe of national airs six or seven times, I am reminded of social callers who get up to go and who don't go, but start a new story at the parlor door, run off into illustration in the hall and finally, when you think it is all over, come back again and start over from the be ginning, and. so on, until you get weak in tne knees and are ready to lie down on the floor on the broad of your back and yell for the police. But thegrand finale finally becomes final and then such a rush! You'd think every body had a sick baby at home, or had to catch a train. "Within 20 minutes the dressing rooms are empty, the theater is cleared and the chorus girls have gone over the way for beer and sandwiches and the prima Sonne are lunching at Delmonico's or are in bed. "Shop, my boy, shop-- " says the stage manager. "I never think of them except when they are in my way. Good night," Charles Theodore Murray How'to Core a Fain In the Stomach. "We made use of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and DiarrhtEa Bemedy on two occasions for pain in the stomach. .Result satisfactory in a very short time after taking the medicine. I hesitate not in giving my upiuivn iu. mvur ui luc wcuiciue. a. least it has done all claimed for it as far as we have tried it. E. D. Book, Blain, Perry county, Pa. wsu Dabbs, the well-known photographer, will make a finer exhibit than ever at the Exposition, and show some new and beauti ful pictures. Great hit The Dunlap hat at Smiley V PITTSBURG DISPATCH, A TASTE FOR IfflSIC. The Glassies Can Only Be Appreci-. ated After Hard Study. MTIVE TALENT IS -NOT ENOUGH There Is an Intellectual Door as'TVell as aa Emotional One. TALK ON. XS INTERESTING BUBJECT WTtrrrzw fob Tins dispatch, j The recent discussion concerning the quality of music by which mere musio lov ers may become educated to such" a standard that classical musio can be thoroughly ap preciated and a taste acquired for the art di vine, has suggested the question, ""What is mnsic?" Musio, in a broad sense, is a means of ex pression, and has been so recognized since the world began. "When the Divine Creator' had finished His marvelous work in framing the earth with the rock-ribbed granite, and systematically 'and symmetrically arranged the" different elements which compose this wonderful terestial sphere, He then cre ated life unto life until He tested His matchless skill by bringing forth man and placing him as the apex of the monumental architecture of His own handi work. The angels stood in wonderment and while gazing upon the scene burst forth in songful expression ' of praise, honor and glory to Him who had so divinely wrought. Man, in order to express his feelings, nas adopted a system of representative char acters. This form is termed "language" and as Milton has said: "Language is but the instrument convevine to us things use ful to be known." Music, which is more oH less recognized as the language ot tne eooj, enters largely into one's social life, and is' the oil of Joy which lubricates the ma chinery which produoes ell the pure action and emotions ot humanity's daily round, simple poems or musio. ... , ,, iiui wiiot is juuaiui jo i mo uupoTusj-i ody which floats on the gentle breeze as it is being wafted from almost angelio voices from vonder meadows, wnere cniiaren are i making merry the glad hours of life's sunny days? Is it the sweetly whispered lullaby which falls from a mother s voice, as ner tender offspring's eyelids close in gentle and innocent repose? Is it the lover's voice Eenetratlng the midnight air, as he sings eneath the chamber window where his be loved lies dreaming, while the cooing dove reBponsively echoes the throbs of the lover's heart from its moonlighted abiding nook? Yes, this is musio, full of tenderness, full of sweetness to the one whose heart is touched, yes, and inflamed with the true sentiment or love. And again, wearied with the oppres sion of the noonday sun and exhausted with labor, the husbandman sits beneath the shade of his native oak and sings the songs he heard in infancy; amid the rugged heights of the Alps, the nle&sant girl chant the spirit stirring song of her ancestors; the man of business and the man of intellectual pursuits, wearied with the exertion of mind and burden of care, seeks relief around, the family hearth, and forgets a while ambition and fears, under the influence of mnsio. But isthis the highest aim and purpose of jthe musical art, which of all the sister arts is most divine? No, for musio in its more elevated sphere, requires the operation of the intellectual faculties to a high degree and is not entirely "the language of tha emotions," as is commonly asserted, AFPRECIATIXQ THE CLASSICAL. "Why do not people In. general appreciate so called classical music? is a question often asked; and even among musio students or rather pupils a great antipathy to the study as well as practice of classical composition is often exhibited. The answer 1b readily given by stating' that a lack of knowledge concerning the underlying principals ofr well-written compositions, renders a proper estimate of music's true value impossi ble. If one desires to beoome familiar with the best classical literature he must of necessity acquire the requisite knowledge of gram matical principles and rules of rhetoric. For instance, a poem ltke Homer's Iliad can only be understood by a real student of literature. Such a student can see the unity of design that is, one leading and complete action carried through the work with a dis tinctness and prominence with which tha less important stories or episodes, as they are called,' are not allowed to interfere. 60 with the student of musio, he must be able to grasp the design and motives of the composition, without which, the perform ance becomes more or less a confusion of sounds.rather than a well planned construc tion of tonal beauty. But the one whose desire it is to become acquainted with the best which musical science and art affords need not suppose as he enters the threshold of the mysterious dwelling of the music of the classics, that he will he met by grave and reverend seignors who will inform him that he who enters here must leave all mirth and Joy behind; for, in the gallery of the art divine, tone-pictures can be per ceived representing the. playful as well as the tender and soulful; the contented jovial as well the earnest, together with tne ro mantic, the chivalrous, the gentle and sen timental, the humorous and passionate, the fanciful and pleasing, the sensational and astonishing. . In a word, all of the PASSIONS, FACULTIES AKD EMOTIONS of the human mind and soul are truthfully portrayed and awakened by the power of so called "Classical. Musio." To fathom the depths and ascertain the scientific bearing of the well-written compositlon.one requires more than a mere knowledge of notation or even the ability to read readily at sight, for, be it remembered musio is not only an art but also a science, and he who would revel in all the delights of the art divine must enter through the intellectual door which leads to the inner courts, as well as passing through the outer gate of emotional fanoy. "What a wonderful scope to the pleasure which is derived from musicl All of the passions of the human soul awaken at its behest The courage and patriotism in the breast of the soldier is aroused on' the battle field; the sorrowful are administered unto, while unbounded mirth is provoked by the humorous. It stimulates the feeling of devotion and lifts the soul into the atmosphere where angels breathe the breath ot celestial wor ship. "We listen with equal delight, but different sensibilities, to tne rich majestio and overpowering strain of the king of in struments, the grand organ, and the soft, luxuriant and mellow tpne of the flute, while the violin with, its ethical voice pours forth its dreamy song as a soft and tender benediction of peace and delicious repose. In all its variety of tensity, time and style, it pleases; for it is harmony and melody still, and leads the mind a willing captive to its bewitching power. THE TASTE FOB MUSIC; There is, however, a very common im pression among many persons, even those of general culture, that there ore music lovers who, although having had no previous edu cation in music, yet possess excellent taste in the selection and appreciation of musical, compositions of a high order. It is admitted that there are those who have acquired by frequent hearings of meritorious works a. sort of quasi taste for the classics in musical J art, dui such persons atter an aepena large ly on their natural instincts, which proves not a knowledge of law principles, but a re fined and. poetical nature which is in itself simply the bud containing the undeveloped cultured flower. But what is taste? Webster says: "Some consider taste as a mere sensibility and others as a simple ex ercise of judgment; but a union of both is requisite to the existence of anything which deserves the name. An original sense of the beautiful is just as necessary to Esthetic judgments as a sense of right and wrong to the formation of any just conclus ions on moral Bubjeots." But the sense of the beautiful is not aa arbitrary principle. It la under the $uid- SUNDAY, ATTGTJiST SO, ancc of reason; it grows in delicacy and cor rectness with the progress of the individual and of society at large; it has its laws which are seated in the nature of man, and it is in the development of these laws that we find the true standards of taste, or as Akenside has.so beautifully expressed it: "What, then. Is taste but those Internal powers. Aotvre and strong, and feeling alive To each fine impulse? A discerning sens Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deformed, or disarranged ox gross la epeciest This, nor gems, nor stores of gold. Nor purple state, nor culture, can bestow But God alone, when first His sacred hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul. The French philosopher Cousin says: "Three faculties enter into that complex faculty that is called taste imagination, sentiment, reason.' sentiment according to this author receives the impression, reason passes judgment on-It, while imagina tion produces tne sensation oi pleasure ex perienced by the mind. BTJJDT 13 NECESSARY. Thus it con be readily seen that diligmtlrj Stuay ana ciose appuciuou 10 iuo pxiuci ples contained in matter and style are abso lutely necessary, of course in conjunction with God-given talent, to a complete appre ciation of classical musio as well as any other art And one who is not musically acquainted with the productions of genius .sees no more in them than commonplace compositions and listens to them only through curiosity or a mere fashionable fad. But, on the contrary, one who listens intellectually to a musical composition,, hears not only a leading melodic thought but a beautiful picture is presented to his imagination, wherein, in addi tion to the one chief figure or idea, various interesting minor ideas will pass before his mind in panoramio view. And again, other musical compositions will ap pear as beautiful pieces of tapestry, where in interweaving and interlacing strains and thematic threads of different colors shoot through the h&rmonio warp, thus exhibiting the formation and texture of the wonderful art work producedby the great musio weav er's shuttle. Therefore, let each real student of musio seek to gain admission to the grand, intel lectual conservatorium wherein his intel lect, as well as his emotions, will be so VaaMtiAittw 11 a -t asl b t fw-tftrif't1 int. ft o-rm-' , ""!""J-y ""'"?" ,w,rE. ?. Z"'7 meincauy uppreviuuvo iuio wi u uuu- ful in musical art. debieon .Bissxiii,. jrKKKSPOET, pa.. 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Monday morning we start the season with a big, rousing boys' suit sale at ?2 00 a suit for a choice from the best line Aver brought before the public Suits for the boys, all sizes, neat patterns, nobby styles, at only S3 00 each, single urdoublebreasted. Tor particulars call with your boy at the P. C. O. a, Pittsburg Combination. Cloth ing Company, corner Giant and Diamond streets. All the fall style hats at Smlley'i. r . FALL HOSIERY. Take a look at the Merino Half Hose, full regular made, which we offer at 21c FALL OVERSHIRTS. An elegant line of Dark Col ored Overshirts in Tricots and Fancy Flannels. FALL DERBYS. I The "new styles of all the makers of repute are here. It's a mere question of price from $1 98 to $3 24. The style is as good in the one as in the other. CHILDREN'S HATS. Here's a school opens. 100 dozen boys in plain checks, the special just as ,W9 xs Vil' Blr va3?rrcv UI4 dtPAWWr fesfSS, iwsv-isu -rs m tM Cloth Hats fori special drive in Boys' Short-Pant Suits at$i 98. You 11 find colors and fancy these both stylish and serviceable, and a large variety of pat vprv rhincr fori terns from which to select , , 0 srhonl wear at aqc. I We secured these cheap and j we'll give you the benefit Look at them. H EXPOSITION VISITORS. , Visitors to the Exposition will find a cordial welcome at our store, whether they desire to make a purchase or not. Come in and make us headquarters while in town, and get your baggage checked free. GTJ SKY'S 1895. j Thompson's; New York GROCERY, 301 Market St. My Mama. Says That Bhe Always Goes to Thompson's for Bargains jjj tha Grocery Line. All sugars sold at wholesale prices. 4 lbs broken Java coffee .......SI 00 'Extra sucar cured hams, per & UK lu rns white clover honey.. ......... 1 uu 9 Ss dessicated cocoannt 1 00 26 cans sardines in oil (none better).. 1 00 .13 large cans mustard sardines 1 00 ft large oval cons mackerel in tomato sauce... 1 00 25 lbs large lump starch ... 1 00 lib pure gronndblack pepper.. ...... 10 ID) " " white pepper 20 lib " " cinnamon IS lib " " cloves 23 1B " " allspice 13 lib " " ginger .. ...... ... 10 1 lb mustard seed.-. 10 1 R whole mixed pickling spices (very best) 18 8 dozen parlor matches (200 in a box) 25 1 kit new mackerel (10 lbs)......,... 75 6 lbs 20-cent E. B. tea 1 00 BSs25-cent tea 1 00 4BsS0-cent tea 1 00 3Ibs40-cent tea 1 00 2 lbs English breakfast tea in fancy basket ,,. 50 Goods delivered free to all parts of both cities. To those living out of the city we will prepay freight on all orders of HO and upward to any station or landing within 100 miles of Pittsburg. Send for price list M. P Thompsoit, " S01 Market street, opposite Gusky's. Beware of Substitution. Don't allow your grocer to tell you that other crackers and cakes and bread are as good as Marvin's. They're not "When yon go for Marvin's goods insiston getting them. You'll never regret it Marring Lara the best Tisu Well, "Where to XowT Why to Kennedy's for ice cream and cake. Couldn't go home without stopping there after leaving the Exposition. NoTHzsro like tha Dunlap hats. See Pthem at Smiley 's. KENSINGTON. See 3d page. auSO-63 EL-AJIlSnE!, l Free Transportation. m UHABLE3 80MEBS & CO, au25-S3-D 129 Fourth Avenue, fS. I Y EARLY FALL 4 '' 'y Summer s sun-is setting, and the season for summer goods fast draw mg to a close. The atmosphere joins the almanac in telhnsr us of the near r- TL. "u fcii m..- uii. - -m i i 3 xi 4tpjjiuauLi ui ion. fiuu wuiuu. way yuu wiu in our awjio, aiiu uuo rjctuio truth is told. The piles of summer merchandise are littleing, fall goods ar rive daily. Thanks to your appreciation of the immense reductions we made at the beginning of the present month on what then remained of our summer stock, we have been kept fairly busy in what is known as the dullest month of the year in business. Now our thoughts and yours, too, turn to fall and fall goods. ' ZFLAXjILj OYEBOOATS. Seems a little early; perhaps, to advertise 'tfiem, but the people ask for them daily and we're here to supply whatever is asked for. The people are right; too, for one-of these useful garments in the present changeable weather will save many a man from taking an unpleasant cold. IN OUR SUIT DEPARTMENT It is between hay and harvest Some of the fall goods have already arrived and there's quite a crnrk nf the medium-weipht and dark colored Sum MS m i mer Suits still left. Many special bargains among the latter, for we have not changed the prices on scores of Suits which were marked down during recent sales. No better assortment of Men's Suits in the city to-day than we are showing at from $5 to $15. H BOYS' SCHOOL SUITS ... ' ........ We are ready with an unrivaled assortment botn witn snort and lone pants. We celebrate ., . . As a companion to this we pants at $4, which it will pay you to look at if you have boys to clothe. "You'll not equal thevalues in these two specials in any store in the city. PTiT.TST) BY HIS BE0THEB. Georje Walker Strike WUJiaza on the ' Head With Shovel. Geoboetowjt, Dee., Aug. 29. William Walker, aged 22 years, died early thlsmorn ing at his father's house, near Georgetown, from the effects of a blow struck by his brother jSeorge, aged 15 years. On Wednesday the young men became in volved in a quarrel' over some horse feed. George picked up a shovel and struck, Will iam on the head, fracturing his skuli Will iam remained unconscious until his death to day. Coroner E. W. Donovan, of Sussex county, arrested young Walker. WOMEN HEID THE CONSTABLE, 1 Daring Zap for liberty, a, Chase and a Bescne by Amazons. Some, Ga., Aug. 29. John Wood, who lives in Dugdown, was called on yesterday by Constable Davenport, who had a war rant for his arrest Davenport succeeded in getting his prisoner upon the southbound train. Ho sooner had the train started than Wood leaped off the train platform with the constable In close pursuit Wood ran into a house close by, where five women at one took hold of the constable, holding him more than an hour. This eave'Wood aound- .ant time in which to escape. iN A SOLID BASIS HOUSE OF HOPPER BROS. & CO. rests upon a foundation unshakable, never varying from the principle of honest trading. This vast establishment sells either for Cash or on Easy Time Payments, more to your advantage than all the rest of the cash, time and credit houses U to be gathered up in a day's journey. This popular firm has more resources, more goods, better, richer goods, and much cheaper than you can obtain else where. Trade with the business firm whose name is a guarantee of good faith. A single investigation will convince the most skeptical'that for FURNITURE, CURTAINS and CARPETS no house in this State can successfully competewith this firm, which does every thing in its power to retain its customers and get new ones. In fact, for popularity, they are "out of sight" COME AND SEE US AT THE EXPOSITION. DDT II BROS. 307 WOOD OFFERINGS. the opening ol school witn a , ... 1 oner a line 01 ouits wiuj tong OUR MONTHLY PAPER For September will be ready this week. It is humorous and entertaining, and contains a deal of solid, common sense in reference to mattcn of dress. Send your name and address 300 TO 400 MARKET STREET. NEW ADVErsnSESEENTS. C0STIVENESS It not' relieved try judicious and timely treatment, is liable to result in chronio constipation. As an aperient that may be used -with perfect safety and satis faction, Aycr'a Pills are unsurpassed. TJnlike most cathartics, these pills, while they relax and cleanse, exert a tonic influence on the stomach, liver, and bowels, causing these organs to per form their functions with healthy regu larity and comfort Being purely vege table and mineral any kind, Is not free from drng of their U39 attended with injurious effects. Good for old and young of every climate, Ayes Pills are everywhere the favorite. G. W. 2.owman, 26 East Main street, Carlisle, Pa., says: "Having been snbject, for years, to constipation, -without beinjr able to find much relief, I at last tried Ayer's Pills, and I deem it both a duty and a pleasure to testify that I have derived great benefit from their use. x I would not willingly ba without them." Ayers Cathartic Pills Every Dose Effective. THE FAR-FAMED STREET - 307. au39 FALL STYLES In Neckwear are now ready, No need to pay a big price to get the very latest Our charge is for quality only and we've a fine assortment at from 49c to $1. ladies; shoes. The Spring Heel Shoe is very pop ular with the ladies. Here are fivo specials in them: Pebble Goat, Glazed Dongola, ... Glazed Dongola, patent leather tip, IX 73, $1TS $175 13 50? 88: Uiazea jjongom in kxiri quaiiiy, . Cloth top, patent leather tipped SO, - Another bargain. We are offering a ladies' extra qnal.i. ity glazed Dongola, patent leather tipped, opera and common sense toe, at $a 50, equal to any shoe at $35o to be found in the city. Ladies' finet' quality Tampico Straight Goat, but; ton, $x 50, worth $2. and a copy will be mailed you. Cured by fill, 1; -&? !- , ir t . t -. J "-t .. -. ,--" !. ,. mmHm zmem ? -.r.T1-i'j Aik.tfnjt .tesji j; .k-a. tj, -jt. t uMtu it. i r f . -. . ;ui v .j .. - ... j. w A ' v-j jX, i ' - V . fc. 1" ii 1 1 1 1 - t-