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THE L1ARSJIF INDIA.
An Observant Traveler Says
Tom. Ochiltree Would
Not Be in It There.
IT'S A HABIT OF LIFE.
Hotels Have 3 Custom That Gives
Guests a Chance to Even Up.
EXPERIENCE IN FREAK HUNTING.
In Eailroad Travel the First Class Privi
leges Go bj Favor.
ODD FACTS ABOUT A STEANGE FEOPLK
rfonirsrojDEXCB op this dispatch.
New Tokk, Xor. 21. "What first strikes
an American in India?" repeated Manager
Tom Davis in reply to the question. "What
first strikes an American after he arrives in
India is this: Ho meets a lot of broken
down Englishmen -who try to touch him for
a small loan. That's what strikes him."
When the applause had sufficiently sub
sided the veteran showman continued: "In
this respect perhaps India doesn't differ
widely from other European countries. The
first thing that turns up for you in London,
or Paris, or Australia, is the same seedy
looking individual who is expecting a re
mittance every day. In India he merely
strikes your sooner and harder and more
persistently. He is usually the second or
third, fourtli or fifth son of a baronet; gen
erally well bred and imperious, and always
a liar. India is a place of family banish
ment for England superfluous sons who
have been born with champagne appetites
and beer incomes. They send their crim
inals to Australia and their worthless gen
tlemen to India. Thousands of the latter
go out there in the civil service.
Doomed to Impecunious Exile.
"When they are dUcharged they never
nave enough money to get bacc ana their
relatives in England are careful not to send
them enough for such a purpose. They
can't enter into any business in competi
tion with the natives and are in hard luck
generally. They are always hanging around
the Botcls looking for suckers. They are
principally remarkable for their genteel
education and capacity for hard liqnor.
"India is rather a queer country in some
other respects. I went up to Bangalore, a
large town in Southern India, where they
hold their annual military reviews They
were having seme fine horve races about
that time and the crowd was motley, very
great and very mnch excited. Everybody,
nearly, made books on the races. Xobody
puts money up there. They make bosks.
That's Enclish. If you lose you pay if
you win the other fellow can't be found,"
perhaps; but you've got him on your list,
you know, and if he happens to be the scion
of a noble house that ought to be something;.
A mercantile friend of mine who would be a
drummer in Chicago, but was a bagman in
India, came up from Madras with me. Of
course, my companion made a book. I never
caw a drummer who wouldn't bet on a
horse race,
A Winner and Tet a Loser.
"When we figured ud for the dav he had
lost 150 rupees and had won about 1,000. I
Those who had won from him came around I
immediatelv and collected. Of his win- I
nings he got but 40 rupees. So he was out
110 rupees on the day. But then he had
the experience. Some of these bets were
with British army officers. Imagine an
American officer but that's different. It is
as hard to imagine as it is to imagine a Chi
cago drummer taking bets at a horse race
with no money up.
"I met with many experiences in India.
I was then looking for performers and
curios for a show. The day I arrived in
Bancalore one of those fakirs with a lot of
snakes came in front of the bungalo and an
nounced that he was going to give a per
formance. And he did give a very credit
able snake entertainment. So good, in fact,
that I made him an offer on the spot to go
to America. 'Xo, no, sahib,' he replied, I
cannot go. I am soon to become a father." "
"All the railroad trains down there have
but one first-class coach and this is divided
into two compartments, usually onelormales
and the other for females. Few people ride
firEt-class there swells and Americans. The
natives are not allowed to ride first-class,
except by consent of white people who are
first-class passengers. Second-class is con
sidered good enough for the most worthy
native. The Princes usually have special
cars.
X-uck or an Apostate Brahmin.
"All are under the immediate supervision
of the British Government. English uni
forms are evervwhere. Coming from Banga
lore to Mysor I happened to be the only oc
cupant of the first-class compartment, when
a very well dressed native, accompanied by
several servants with bundles, came to the
door of the car and raised his hat and asked
if I had any objections to his riding in the
car with me. Oi course I gave my consent.
1 found the man could talk very good En
glish and was a very interesting conversa
tionalist. His name was Meenacshaya. He
w as a barrister going to Mysor to defend a
case in a native court He had formerly
been one of the Bramins of India, but had
forsaken them some yean before and gone
to England, where he had remained several
years. He created a great sensation while
in England, for he was very wealthy and
lived abroad as he did at home, in great
style. He was married, but after he re
turned from England the Brahmins made
his wife and daughter live apart from him.
He was allowed to see them only from a dis
tance 75 feet, I believe. He was devoting
his whole influence, he assured me, to the
breaking down and eradication of the Brah
mins. Kidlns; Behind a Pair of Bollocks.
"When we arri ed in Mysore no carriages
were at the station and we had to take a
bullock cart a clumsy two-wheeled affair
drawn bv oxen for the hotel. The latter
was an adobe bnilding in the middle of a
rard and was run by a paree. Ko European
lhed within the town, limits. The usual
Enclish military contingent camped out
side. I was the second American who had
ever been there, and was therefore regarded
with much curiosity. It is against the
Brahmin's faith to eat meat. I saw this old
parsee sending a variety of uncooked meats
to his room then these Brahmins would
steal in for chops and steaks they dared not
buy in the shops and sneak away one after
another.
"I was entertained here by the Mahar
ajah, the prince of that country. I told him
what I was there for, and he volunteered to
assist me by any information in his power.
One day when I was telling stories to a
member of his suite a native came running
in and announced that he had seen a white
tieer out in the jungle. Amid great excite
ment a hunting party was organized. They
beat the bush lor eight days for that tiger
for I had ofiered 10,000 rupees for him alive
but nothing came of it. Then they beat
the native for Iving. I was somewhat dis
appointed myself, but I felt sorrv lor the
Soor wretch who was whipped half to death,
'obody else will see any white tigers
around that neighborhood again, anyhow.
Getting Even "With the Hotels.
-A curious custom in India is for a trav
eler to register at a hotel when he leaves
and u hen he arrives. He is thus favored
with the expectation that he will record his
good opinion of the hostelry over his signa
ture. This fashion was originally intro
duced by the English Government at the
camp houses or travelers' bungaloos in order
to keep a check upon the Government serv
ants. A traveler was supposedo write his
opinion or complaint and sign it. It must
be admitted that the svstem has its advan
tage. I recalled all the horrors and indig
nities I had ever suffered at the hands of
hotel keepers since I was a boy and boiled
my revenge down into the notice I left on
that hotel register in India. To Bay I
roasted 'em is putting it like taffy.
"The biggest liars in the world aretobe
found in India. They are the champions of
the earth. If Tom Ochiltree had lived in
India he would never have been heard of,
much less mentioned in the papers. These
fellows lie so much they would be knocked
deadbv a casual truth. It would affect
them like a stroke of lightning. I was told
in Mysor that about 100 miles from there
lived a man whose hair was so long it swept
the ground as he walked.
Experience in Freak Hunting.
"It was way back in the -wildest part of
the country, where he was supposed to be
located. Several of these Brahmins had
seen him. So I went to work and hired a
relay of bullock carts to cet him out. This
took about four days, and the country was
awfully rugged. I found the man. But
his hair only came down about as far as
far as Jerry Busk's -whiskers. It would
have been long for a Broadway soubrette,
but wasn't much for a side show. He must
have been 75 years old, so there was no
hope of its growing longer. So all that
time and trouble -went for nothing.
"Another time up in Secunderbad a rail
road manager told me of a native who was
nine feet high a regular giant, he said.
2Tow, I knew this man had lived in India
20 or 25 years years and I felt that he was
probably as bijj a liar as the natives. So 1
took no'stock in his story. I told him so
very frankly. It made him rather warm
under the collar. He finally said to show
me he Was tellin? the truth he would send
for him at his own expense. The alleged
giant lived about a thousand miles away.
The railroad man telegraphed to a brother
official up in that region to send the giant
down that there was a rich American who
had sent the agent clear to India for him
and there was big money in it.
How the Lies Dwindle Down.
"I told him t hat I'd pay so much to se
cure the giant if he answered the descrip
tion given. Well, he arrived about four
days later. He was nearly seven feet high
instead of nine. But he looked realljr ten.
He was as thin as a hairpin and weighed
exactly 125 pounds. He was so weak we
had to'lean him up against a house while I
measured him. I was afraid to breathe on
him for fear of breaking him in two. "We
would have had to pack him in cotton to
bring him over. Did this railroad liar take
water? Not a bit of it. He swore up and
dowe and crosswise that the man was a
giant when he saw him last, and that it was
a case of India sickness that had thus re
duced him in heighth and thickness. It
was the most remarkable ease of shrinkage
I ever saw. These liars, however, had to
send the man back.
"This reminds me that in India as well as
in other parts of the world the further you
are off from anything of this kind the big
ger it seems. As you get nearer to yonr
object it gets whittled down smaller and
smaller in importance until It isn't worth
consideration. A man in search of such
things is a sort of a rai show chaser. Every
liar inoreasei the size and significance.
"When you finally get right up to it the
thing bears about as much resemblance to
the first story you heard as a picture in
front of a side show does to the real curios
ity within the tent."
Chaeles Theodore Murray.
THE ART OF DRESS.
its Principles Expounded by the
World'3 Best Dressed Woman.
NATURE'S LINES -STAND FIRST.
Individualitr Js Belter Governing
Principle Than Fashion.
SECRETS 0l? BERNHARDrS SUCCESS
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Her House Hrets.
A MINISTER'S EXPERIENCE.
AN
ELOQUENT TKIBTJTE TO
SCIENCE OF MEDICINE.
THE
Colds, Conshs, and Other Dangers of a
Changeable Climate Averted by Fore.
sight and intelligent Action.
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Sulphur Sprixgs, Tex., )
Feb. 16, 1891. J
The Peruna Medicine Co. Sirs: I have
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in two cases of la grippe in mv family. I
have found great benefit myself in kidney
trouble, and think a bottle or two will set
me all right. Bev. J. C. Easuall.
Each of the cases described in this candid
testimonial are doubtless the result of ca
tarrh in some phase or variety. In the
case of the wife who had a chronic lung
trouble it was chronic catarrh of the
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WK11IEN FOB TniHSFATCH.
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt's stage dressing is
a charming product of art and adds much to
the enjoyment of
her audience; but
her dressing i n
private life is
more interesting
still. It is full of
lessons in beauty
that every woman
can understand
and should turn to
account "We are
in great fortune to
have a living ex
emplar of the laws
of art in dress
Such an illustra
tion is so Tare, in
deed, that one may
live a lifetime
through without
liver being re
minded that dress
ought to be the
creation of art
Ordinarily we either submit it to the ma
terial rule of fashion, which imposes on us
all sorts of fantasticalities, or else, if we are
strong minded, we rebel and carry the mat
ter over into the world of reason, the moral
world. And the difference between these
two is the difference . between capricious
nonsense and ugliness. Neither aide has the
right of the matter.
Dress in the .Esthetic Domain.
Dress properly belongs in the Ksthetio
domain. It is true that it is a material
necessity and that it must be subject to
moral laws; but these two must be reconciled
by art Dress must be the product and
creation of aesthetic laws, and there is no
possibility of its being beautified by any
other means.
It is a strange thing that women should
spend fo much of their lives in the effort to
make dress add to their beauty without it
ever occurring to them to study and apply
the laws of art To the average woman the
proposition to do this would be so new as to
be hardly understood. She has a vague idea
that testhetic dress means a Kate Greena
way gown or a Roman toga. Even actresses,
whose business it is to be well dressed, ex
hibit wardrobes so hopeless from the art
standpoint, as to be on a par in quality with
those oad pictures which are rejected from
the exhibitions. In fine, the public in gen
eral is so far from a true understanding of
the matter that even those of us who deem
ourselves qualified to be oracular about it
content ourselves mostly with extolling the
lirees ana aiscussmg tne wisdom ot a re
turn to the popular, all of which is mere
affectation.
Bernhardt's Artistic" Effects.
But Mme. Bernhardt knows that beauty
cannot be produced in dress any more than
it can on a canvas,
except by the eternal
laws of art, and this
is why her results
are worth study. Try
to imagine dressing,
which is on a par in
esthetic value with
say, a painting by
Grenze, and you will
have some idea of the
quality "of her prod
uct in this direction.
There is that in her
most Indifferent cos
tume which rivets the
eye and delights the
sense. It is bewilder
ingly effective and
apparently -with the
slightest of means.
That there can be
good dressing in
which fashion has no
voice or influence is
hard for the fashion
ridden world to un-
stand. But let ui
analyze Bernhardt's Her Black Velvet
dress and see by what means its beauty is
produced.
This is the way it is done: In the first
place she has assumed that the Creator can
make a more beautiful form than the dress
maker can. This is her ground principle or
starting point No garment is permitted to
alter or disguise the shape of her figure.
The corset she docs not wear either on the
stage or ofl; the conventional corseted waist
is as far from suggesting Mme. Sarah's form
as a wheelbarrow is. And just here an in
teresting observation is to be made. The
dress reformers also have discarded the cor
set, but the difference between theirs and
Mme. Sarah's results is very great and it
lies in this: "While she has substituted art
for fashion and evolved a dress in harmony
with the natural form they have retained
the conventional forms of fashion modified
and uglified.
The Use of the Plain Basque,
An example will make this clearer. The
plain basque," with its darts and back side
forms, is the friece de resistance I speak
advisedly ot lashionable dress. This
waist, which was designed to wear over the
corset and which fits the corset and not the
figure, is persisted in by the reformers.
But Bernhardt's ideal of form is that of the
artist's and the artist's is that of perfect
nature, and this waist, therefore, has no
place in her wardrobe.
Again, the construction of her garments
obeys absolutely the law of fold centers,
which I have formulated as follows: Folds
may legitimately be fastened only where,
by the form of the body, they would be gath
ered naturally together". "Wherever the body
offers support to the weight of the garment
there is a natural fold center.
The points furnished by nature for sus-
E ending the garments are the shoulders and
ins: therefore to attain the maximum of
beauty in its hanging the garment must have
all its parts depend, or appear to depend,
from these two sources, but principally
from the shoulders, as they, from their posi
tion and form, offer the principal resistance
to gravity. Bernhardt's dress hangs en
tirely from the shoulders. Her gowns are
composed of a yoke, to which a skirt is
gathered, precisely like a child's gown, and
confined at the waist with girdles.
Some of Bernhardt' s Costumes.
Following is a description in detail of
some of the costumes in her private ward
robe at this moment:
A house dress is of brown and white hair
line stripe shot silk, gathered into a rounded
yoke of brown velvet Brown velvet sleeves,
full to below the elbow, over close sleeves
of the silk. The skirt is simply hemmed.
This slip isjeonfined at ithe waist with two
silver girdles, one of them loose and droop
ing in front
, A charming gown Is entirely of black
velvet The skirt "is attached to a heart
shaped yoke. These yokes simply round np
to the top of the shoulder, instead of ending
in the armhole. The yoke and mutton leg
sleeves are embroidered with small stars of
gold bullion and thread. It is aguste in the
back that is to say, it fits close to the
bottom of the waist, and it is fastened by a
lacing .behind. It is confined by gold belts.
Another has the skirt of brown velvet
Madame makes great use of velvet The
yoke and sleeves are oi silk; of a lighter
fawn color, and are richly embroidered with
gold and silks. It is fastened under the
arm. For this gown then is a long tan
colored cloak of soft camel's hair, sprinkled
over with tufted flakes of a deeper brown.
Also a Russian sable boa and a large hat of
tan colored felt, faced on the under side
with felt and trimmed with black ostrich
feathers. The large hat is set somewhat
back on the head. Madame wears mostly
large hats. She understands that a small
hat, unless it fits like a cap, merely changes
the shape of the head, but that large hat
frames the face.
Bilk and "Velvet.
Still another is a soft Ottoman silk of a
reddish violet color. The yoke and sleeves
are of velvet, of the same color, richly
jeweled in an all over pattern. It has a
nigh, rolling collar. A band of velvet
borders the skirt xo complete tnis coo
tume is a velvet cloak ot the same color,
richly bordered with bands of otter; also a
hat of black, loaded with violets and pink
Castilian roses.
The sleeves of these gowns are of the
mutton leg order, very full at the top and
wrinkled along the arm, and very long,
covering well the wrist Also the skirts are
long, training somewhat behind, and often
so long in front that one wonders how she
can walk in them.
Her cloaks also refer their support to the
shoulders, and no fitted back seams of hide-
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ous convex curves are mapped out npon
them. A characteristic one is of black
plush, which hangs easily from a yoke of
solid black passementerie, and is furnished
with sleeves that are very full about the
shoulders.
It may be of interest in this day of bell
skirts to know how Madame manages about
pockets. She has none in her gown, bnt if
you watch for a little you may see her
calmly and deliberately raise her onterskirt
and draw out her handkerchief from a
pocket in her satin petticoat
Art In Handling a Handkerchief.
Madame's use of this same tiny handker
chief is worth while noting, by the way. In
her fingers it seems to attain nervous force
and become a delicate fibrile texture as she
touches it lightly to her hair and face, and
then rolls it up out of sight in her palm.
It might seem to one who has not seen
Bernhardt in them that these garments
would appear neglige. They do not in the
least Nothing could be more elegant
Much of this success, however, depends on
the underdressing, which is compact and
fine. In place of a corset she wears either a
stitched waist, without bones or cords, or
else two simply stitched bands, one below
the other.
"When will woman understand that com
plexion does not constitute the whole of
beauty? Hear what Madame Sarah herself
says on this point
"Facial beauty," she says, "is unessen
tial. The face needs absolutely but two
things a lovely expression and good teeth.
Good teeth are necessary to clear enuncia
tion, and the mouth should be sightly when
opened. The eyes must be expressive, the
look out of her face must be attractive, the
smile have imagination; in a word, the face
must denote character."
In a desultory conversation Bernhardt re
cently expressed herself on dress as follows:
"Whatever you do, dress becomingly. That
is my rule. See that what you wear suits
you your person, your individuality.
Make your costume to suit you, not your
self to suit your costume. Ah, madame,
what a blow at fashion! It Is wise economy
to have one's clothes made by the very best
modistes who are themselves artiBts in their
own special lines. But it is not wise to
rely upon the uniform judgment of one per
son. It does not take a good costumer loner to
see and learn jnst what you need, but if
you cling to him monotonously you will al
ways bear the same stamp, like yourgoddess
And yet, in spite of this advice, Madame
designs her own costumes, down to the
smallest detail.
Artist First, Actress Afterward.
It is quite another aspect of Bernhardt's
skill in dress that presents itself at the
theater. Wherever the historical exigencies
of the piece permit there her costume is
recognized as an expression of cotempora
neous French art, just as surely as are the
canvases of De Neuville, Gerome and
Bonnat The subtlest art knowledge per
vades it She is an artist always before she
is an actress, and herein lies much of her
power. "Where others grasp merely the
technique of the profession, she has taken
every branch of esthetics to be her prov
ince. Who can recall the dress she wears as
Jeanne d'Are at Dernremy without knowing
this? Note the care taken with the irregu
lar lacing of the bodice that the lines shall
iall into harmony with other lines of the
composition, and how the blue strings are
broken by the white ones of the cfiemise
falling across them, Just as the painter
would take care to break them.
All the quality required for value in a
picture is there, though it is to last for but
a moment
Her Girdles Characteristic.
Mme. Bernhardt's girdles are a charac
teristic feature of her dress. She wears
two one passing
horizontally around
the waist, and the
other loose and
drooping in front
It is not caprice
that is shown in
these belts, but a
knowledge of beau
ty. The first belt
moulds itself to the
cross section of the
body and shows all
the subtleties of
curvature it passes
over, and the droop
ing one emphasizes
the hips and con
fines the garment to
the body below the
waist line in front
The first carries the
eye round, the sec
ond refers to the
hips as points of
support
Beautiful asBern
hardt's dress is, it
would be as treat a
Her Black PlwsK mistake for us all
to copy it as it is for one painter to imitate
another. We should not copy the masters,
hut study them and learn how to express
f ourselves.
Could we predict the day when every
woman would bi known by the creation of
her dress, as the painter is known by his
canvas; when she would eschew fashion
and with esthetic knowledge learn to ex
press herself, we might look to a future
filled with a beauty we have never vet seen.
a future in which an infinite amount of
energy now wasted will be diverted and
utilized. To realize this future we 'need
only to be convinced ot its possibility, and
this Mme. Bernhardt has proved to us.
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Dr. Kline, 31 Arcn.lt., PMI Pa,
DICKEN CALLEDDOWN.
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bail way Company;
McClusky vs Cullers.
He and Judge Ewing Have an Inter
esting Little Tift in Court.
aSothee chaitcjj job his Lira.
LUMBERMANHOLT IS EXONEEATED.
The Startott-Wyman Ballot Boies Ordered
to fie Opened.
OTHER CASES ACTED 05 BT THE COURT
The county laundry did an unusually
light business yesterday. The overture was
about the liveliest ever witnessed in the
Quarter Sessions. J. C. Dicken, in making
a motion for a new trial in a case, quoted,
as he alleged, from remarks made by Judge
Ewing to the jury. Judge Ewing didn't
exactly call Mr. Dicken a liar, but his lan
guage amounted to that Dicken, however
was inperturbable and persisted until he
finally secured about what he wanted. A
plentiful supply of oil overcame His Honor's
acidity. The reasons filed by Mr.
Dicken in support of his motion were
unique and their reading set the audience
in a roar. One was that Judge Ewing had
remarked to him with regard to one of his
witnesses, "Ton had better withdraw him;
he's hurting your case," etc Another was
that he, Dicken, had been limited to a three
minute speech in addressing the jury, while
the prosecuting attorney, Mr. Harry Goehr
lng, had been allowed to go on without in
terruption, and had spoken six minutes.
Mrs. Allshouse After Her Husband.
Ellen Allshouse asked the court to make
an effort to compel her husband, W. E. Alls
house, to support her and her babies- She is
at present living with her father in Alle
gheny City, and her husband has been soend
ing much of his time lately in Lowell O.
Mrs. Allshouse said she hadn't gotten any
thing from her husband since May.
Mr. Allshouse, in extenuation, said that
he hadn't been able to get employment that
would secure meat and potatoes tor himself
and family, and of late bis wife had kept
him in jail, where he only got his board.
His beard was stubby, and: he presented
the generally -wilted appearance of a cru9hd
tragedian and seemed to care very little
what was done with him.
Must Put Vp S3 a Week.
He was informed that he had the option to
pay Mrs. Allshouse $2 a week or stay in jail.
It is not difficult to And that there is a screw
loose somewhere in our economy, as week
after week men assert in the Quarter Ses
sions Court that they cannot eupport their
families, and yet farmers have been crying
for help from Maine to Missouri all summer,
and offering $20 to $25 a month therefor, with
board and washing.
J. 6. Ferguson called np the Stayton
"Wyman fight for the Allegheny Mayoralty.
The gist of his statement was that the Slay
ton side had not yet produced anything sub
stantial to which the defense could answer,
and ended by suggesting that the shortest
way to get at the matter would be to have
the ballot boxes opened so as to show whioh
party got tho advantage from the "horn
swogle," if there were any. Mr. Ferguson's
plea was that the apparent sinuosities were
as a rule mere blunders and made in favor
of both sides. Judge Ewing granted a rule
to have the boxes opened.
Monday's Trial List.
Criminal Court Commonwealth vs Frank
Gerade, Felix J. Shutton, Joseph Boltz, John
Brestelschmidt, August and William M
Depp, Margaret Hyde, William Molden,
Charles Kyler, William M. Craig, Will!amG.
Stahl, John A. Jordan, John Kemiskle.
Common Pleas No. 1 Smith vs Keystone
Land Company; Davidson vs Gillespie;
O'Brien vs Burgess et al; Daley et al vs
Murphy et al; Bowman vs Central Trac
tion Company; McClarcn vs McAfee et al:
Clay vs Carroll-Porter Boiler Company;
Sandomore vs Pittsburg Traction Com-
Sany; Shannonhin vs Park Bros. & Co., Lim.;
eal ts Riddle, Dean & Co.
Common Pleas So. 2 Argument list.
Common Pleas Ho. S Hagerman vs Man-
fan; Jortman va Morgan;Stubbe vs Kelson;
rankert vs Smith; Hnokel vs Pittsburg and
Lake Erie Railway Company; Malone vs
Frank Gerade Granted a New Trial by the
Supreme Court.
Frank Gerade will be placed on trial to
morrow for the second time for the murder
of hta stepdaughter. Gerade killed the
child by dashing her brains out against a
cradle. His counsel set up a plea of insanity,
but a jury Impaneled to inquire into his
sanity pronounced him sane.
At the trial of the case the same plea was
made, but the jury found him guilty of mur
der In the first degree, and he was sentenced
to death. The case was taken to the Supreme
Court, and a new trial was granted
him. Gerade's second ohance for his
life was given him by reason
of one word used by Judge Magee in his
charge to the Jury. Judge Magee instructed
the Jury that they "must be clearlv satisfied
of his insanity." Tho Supremo Court held
that the expression nsed was too strong, and
placed too much of a Burden on the defense.
Had the Court left out tho word "clearlv" it
would have been all right, but the use or
that word placed the burden of proof be
yond a reasonable donbt an the defense in
stead of on the prosecution where it should
rest. Therefore, on account of the use of
that one little adjective, Gerade was granted
a new trial.
An Allegheny Policeman's Trouble.
Henry Brown entered a suit against
George Bergltresser, an Allegheny police
man, yesterday asking $2,000 damages. He
alleges that on the night of October 17, he
was assaulted on East street by tho officer,
who locked him up. The next morning he
was fined $5 and costs by the Mayor upon
tho unsupported testimony of the police
man, the plaintiff not having had oppor
tunity to call a single witness in his behalf.
Ho further alleges that the arrest was "with
out the semblance of law, right or justice."
Did Not Fire His Lumber Tard.
The case of D. W. Holt, charged with sot
ting fire to his lumber yards in Center county
to obtain the insurance, which occupied the
attention of the United States Circuit Court
all week, was concluded yesterday by the
defendant being acquitted. There was a
large crowd present when the verdict was
rendered. The case was filled with sensa
tional charges and counter-charges from
beginning to end, and it excited consider
able general interest.
Court Notes.
ArxnTioirwasflled yesterday asking for
a decree for the dissolution of the Birming
ham Coal Company, Limited.
James Hiqeee was appointed supervisor of
roads in Bethel township yesterday to suc
ceed John Bothbarr, who died November 6.
Tna Allegheny County Bar Association
will meet Tuesday afternoon to take action
on the death of Justice Clark, of the Su
preme Court
AVTRDiOTfor$l,S00 was returned yester
day for the plaintiff in the case of J. H.
Bradwell against the West End Street Rail
way Company.
Im the same court a motion was made for a
new trial in tho case of the New Tork Mutual
Life Insurance Company against Wood and
others of Williamsport
A hbariito was to have been held before
Commissioner Gamble in the case of Samuel
F. Barr against the Pittsburg Plate Glass
Company, bat the patties interested did not
appear.
AVERDioTforSJi cents was. rendered In
the case of E. C. Anderson against the Alle
gheny County Light Company. The suit
was lor damages for an injury from fallen
wires.
In the case of Jane Graham against Moses
Dean, the saloon keeper, who was charged
with selling the plaintiff's husband drink,
thereby causing his death, a verdict for $200
was rendered for Mrs. Graham.
Ths objection raised to the discharge of
A F. Baum Irom bankruptcy was overruled
in the United States District Court yester
day, and the case will now go back to the
register for action and Mr. Bautn's dis
charge will probably soon follow.
Judge Ewiho yesterday fixed the fee of
John S. Robb, Jr., as commissioner in the
contested election case of P. M. Carr against
Counoilman Henry Pfeiffer, of tho Twenty
seventh ward, at $400. The costs of 'the case
are to be paid by the city.
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The various factories already built at Ellwood will employ 1,500 peo
plt, and more to follow.
THE DERWENT FOUNDRY COMPANY
Have just completed contracts to immediately start a stove and light castings
foundry at Ellwood. All this is because
ELLWOOD'S SITUATION FOR BUSINESS IS UNSURPASSED.
On two Trunk Lines (if&a) an(i another coming in, affording com
petitive freight rates, through shipments, no switching charges, no transfer .
charges. ,
Ellwood has coal, fire clay, glass-sand, building stone, limestone, nat
ural gas, electric lights, water power.
The 160 houses built within
the year (average value $1,800)
are all taken, and over JIioo
applications in advance for houses
to rent so buy and build at
Ellwood; you can make 20 per
cent a year at present prices.
Wanted More houses for the
employes that will be at Ellwood 1
within six weeks.
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Ellwood is not being rushed ofl for commissions, but is being: DEVELOPED FOB
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Bedroom Suites, complete, in
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stead, every suite well finished.
These suites have been sold by
us at $24, but we need the
room they now occupy very
badly, hence this wonderfully
low price.
$14 ONLY.
HOTE THE PRICE.
A week ago we told you of the
surprise we had in store for the
public and ever since that an
nouncement would-be competi
tors have been anxiously wait-J
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ple can be made happy; rich
people can be made richer;
everybody can effect a great
saving. Usually when we make
a sale of this kind we refuse to
sell more than one suite to any
one person, but, needing the
room so very badly, a pur
chaser can take as many-as de
sired. $14 ONLY.
THE GREATEST BARGAIN KNOWN.
Don't let the days, so rich with
opportunity, go by without
profit to yourself. This bar
gain is the greatest of its kind
ever offered. This suite is an
elegant one for a spare bedroom.
ARE YOU A LOVER -
Of beautiful productions in the art of furniture manufacturing? If so, call and see our New Fall Stock. It was
never so complete, never so handsome, never so elegant, never so large, never so cheap as now. Our floors fairly
groan with the weight of magnificence that is presented for the inspection of the public in general. It comprises
everything in the line of Parlor Suites, Chamber Suites, Library Settings, Chiffoniers, Etageres, Parlor Cabinets,
Hall Furnishings, Dining Rooni Fixtures, Sideboards, China Closets, Ladies' Desks, Wardrobes, Hall Racks, Car
pets of every description. f
WE HAVE THE GOODS THE PEOPLE WANT, and we sell them at lower prices than others can or
will sell for. You can rely on everything we promise or advertise. You can receive the benefit of business edu
cation, experience and business facilities. Being overstocked, you can buv Carpets which we originally sell for $t
per yard for 75c per yard, and all CARPETS MADE AND LAID FREE OF CHARGE. Now, don't stay away
from this sale, BUT GET RIGHT IN LINE AND COME EARLY.
HOPPER BROS & CO.
PIONEERS OF LOW PRICES,
307 WOOD STREET, - PITTSBURG.
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