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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 ,
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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..
IHbt-tbs Center of the American Iron In-'
, dostrj-.
But it Is headquajrters for-three distinct
specialties of the iron trade, viz., wrought
iron pipes, planished sheet iron and tinned
plate. McKeesport his trebled its popula
tion during the last decade and it will
treble again In this one. Beal estate is in
creasing all the time, and now is the time to
secure some of the Highland Land Com
pany's building lota while they are cheap
Inquire at the office of "W. G Soles & Bros.
Agents, room No. 1, Bank of McKeesport
building, McKeesport, Pa. mwsu
Hew goodsl New goodsl At cut figures
MICHZOAX iJ'UBMTTURB U).,
437 Smithfield street
Be Sore Ton Have It.
There are many brands of beer on the"
market, but none to compare with that
brewed by the Iron City Brewing Company.
Try it Telephone 1186.
This is for Boys.
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
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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.
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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
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