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She Talks to Sorosis About
What "Women Should
Do to Help
MAKE THE WOELD BETTER.
She Says the World Is Waking Up
to Their Position,
WHICH IS BOUND TO IMPROVE.
What Mothers Should Do in Order to Aid
Their Girls.
CITY BRED WOMEN THE STRONGEST
FMTCIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCH.l
jSew Yoke, Dec 7. Sorosis sat down to
hermonthljpsychologieal banquet in the new
unite and gold room at Sherry's, 'with Lady
Henry Somerset as her honored guest All
the Sorosians were present, from Jenny
Tune and her contemporary veterans down
to pretty, little Miss Demorest and her
coterie of intellectual buds. Beside the
regular members present many guests of
note, including the wife of Max O'Kell, the
wife of Bishop Simpson, the wife of Colonel
Uoebling, of Brooklyn bridge fame; Mrs.
Davis and Mrs. Dickinson, of the King's
Daughters, and others.
"When these guests had been duly pre
sented and the preliminary entertainment
duly applauded the Chairman of the day,
Mrs. Jardley, presented for the discussion
in which Sorosis delights the very prac
tical question, "What Kind of Education
will best fit women for the duties of life?"
Very briefly the chairman pointed out and
classified the duties of a woman's life as re
ligious, as personal and social, ad
ding: "Our personal duty, that we
may make the best of ourselves, is
- to be chaste, temperate, truthful, brave and
free in the condition God intends for men
and women. Our social duty is simply the
broadening out of our personal dutv to our
families, our neighbors' society, the State
and the country. Social duty is the ful
filling of the law to do unto others what we
would have our neighbors do unto us with
love in our hearts."
Medical Study for the Dear Ones.
Mrs. Jennie Lozier, the President of
Sorosis, advocated the importance of medi
cal or physiological btudy as a preparation
for women's duties, because "the peculiar
dutv of woman one she cannot relegate to
an j one else is the care of her children and
the indispensable preparation for this duty
is health for herself and health to trans
mit to her offspring, and such
knowledge as shall adapt her to retain it for
both Heredity, although a potent factor in
the product "of health, is not fatality. Its
mmplaint is environment. Health is not a
positive quantity. It is like beauty, a har
mony symmetry is the law of its develop
ment, and education must be directed to the
whole, or wc shall have monstrosities cither
intellectual or physical.
"Vou can't play a harmonv with one
finger. Tiic harmony which thrills from
the harp of Iif comes from the fine strings
nutrition, respiration, activity, sustena
tion and cerebration, and the essential
woman's knowledge is that which governs
the best development of these elements in
her child. It is surely no insignificant
sign of the times that sickness is
nolonger fashionable, and we do not now
on joy poor health. In the smaller towns
frirls have fainting fits and matrons break
down with nervous prostration. The city
women are plump, rosy and
fctrong in comparison. It seems
that the country women are killing
themselves with strongly and mental
vacuitv. The occupation and excitement
of city life are tonic to our brains and
nerves hut we must remember that every
tonic has its corresponding depression and
may be abused. Activity and rest should
alternate in due proportion and mark the
rythnis, harmony of health."
T-aey Somerset's Address.
Then Lady Somerset spoke in her rich,
melodious English voice, and, after thank
Sorosis very graciously for the pleasure and
profit derived by the "strancer guest at the
meeting, Lady Somerset said:
"The world is waking up to the great
difference between woman's position now
from the position she formerly held. Ko
one would dare Titter the now in public the
nrayer of the old Scotch minister, 'We
thank thee, Loru, that thou has given us
women to make us comfortable.' The old
order chances, and woman education era
braces a wider outlook than e er before. In
consicering the question of woman's
sphere and the kind of education
w hich shall best prepare her for its duties
we must look upon her as a life giver and a
law giver, of which the first is paramount
Many of the ills flesh is heir to might be
overcome and obliterated if this idea could
be kept before wome.
"The most sacred duties of life are pre
sented to people when they are poorly pre
pared to find the solution "ot its problems.
The mother's education is a sort of moral
tobogganing. The children are sent out in
to the world to land where thev will.
But we have passed bevond the old
idea that ignorance is innocence
and knowledge necessarily vice.
It is the duty of every mother to gather her
girls around her and tell them all they
should know all God meant for them. It
is her duty to do this in fidelity to her hus
band and faithfulness to her children.
Women Keculate the Morals.
And of womsn asalaw giver, not entire
ly in a political sense, for woman makes the
laws, sets the tone, creates the morals of
society, and any education that fits her for
this is" the best she can have. The moral
tone of the world hangs upon the moral
tone of its women. Politically English
women seem to be in advance of American
women. Pardon me if I express my opin
on. "When all women realize their power
!hey will not tolerate the evils of the pres
entwill not allow the public work ol the
statesmen to give the lie to their private
'ives. Thev will demand that it
ver shall be good and pure, even as
vomen aie brave and true. Until women
ake an intelligent interest in politics
he best men will stand aloof from political
rork. Let every mother influence her
-ons for the best and noblest, and through
hem she shall influence cities audcountries.
"he best education is, indeed, the true
(Ideation for women, ior it is love that
ends us out into this great, weary world to
ry to make it better and brighter for our
laving been here."
An Echo From Last Spring's Election.
A hearing was held yesterday before the
laster, John Ivobb, Jr., in the Sixteenth
ard aldermanic contest between Chalfant
nd McPikc The latter was elected by a
cturned majority of 13. He is represented
n the contest by Attorney Brcncen and
nauant by ewnnge bkb. Aue
i tcr claims that there were between 0 and r
illegal votes cast. The hearing was ad
urned until next'Monday, when the master
ill decide whether or not to recommend
sat the ballot boxes be opened.
He Skipped TVIth tho Booty.
Fred JIcMurtric and Detective Tom
tossner were at the Union depot last even
g looking for a fellow with several aliases,
hey didn't set him. McJInrtrie lives at
12 Penn avenue. Yesterday he says the
an wanted broke into his room and robbed
him of a suit of clothes, a silk hat and other
articles, amounting to $73. Detective
Mossner seemed to know the fellow, and
says his last name was Cooper. McMurtrie
was not acquainted with him, but said he
would recognize him if he saw him.
JOHN a XNO'S NAEBOW ESCAPE.
He Is Prospering in Canada, bat Is Ostra
cised by Society.
Quebec, Dec. 7. The recent story that
John C Kno is preparing to return to New
York has created a sensation here. To-day
there are few men in Quebec, or near it, who
are more prominent in finance or who are
more largely trusted. When Eno left 2fev
York six years ago he landed in Montreal.
There his notoriety was too much of a
handicap, and after a few months he came
to this city, where he has since resided. JFor
the past few years he has given much of his
effort for the completion of the Lower
Laurentian Railroad. Mr. Eno is one of
the active directors of the road. He is also
a .third owner in the Thetford Asbestos
mining property. "When prosperity seemed
assured ne purchased a home. To-day this
is one of the best in the city. .
The great scandal is not vet forgotten,
even here, and there are many who still
have a curiosity to,see the man. Socially
he is ostracised. He receives few invitations
aud accepts few of these. It is not generally
known, but Eno had a narrow escape from
capture soon atter his arrival in this city.
He fell in with three or four Americans.and
as they came from New York and seemed to
have no recollection of his past he enjoyed
himself with them. They said they were
prospecting and asked him to show them
around Quebec. He consented. A few
evenings later there was a wine supper.
The visitors drank their wine and appar
ently became exhilarated. Mr. Eno drank
his, but it was drugged. The Americans in
stead of taking their friend to his home,
dumped him into a cab and hastened to the
boat for Montreal. But some one had seen
the proceeding, and very soon Police Jus
tice Shaurct wjs notified. The Justice
jumped into a cab and reached the pier just
as the steamer had left it and swung off
into the river. The Justice shouted to the
captain to return to the pier. After con
siderable parleying the captain finally re
turned. A search was made, aud Mr. Eno
was found in a berth so soundly asleep
that great effort was necessary to awaken
aim.
POLICE DOCKET POINTERS
John ncjrr, of McClure avenue. Allegheny,
was arrested yesterday for heating his wife.
Joht McArdle, of the West, End, was sent
ten days to jail yesterday for beating his
wife.
James Marvis; who lives with his sister at
Xo. 2S13 Jane street, was sent SOT days to the
workhouse yesterday for breakinsr un the
furniture.
XiLSox Sommers, colored, who cut Henry
Harris' throat at the Central Hotel, was
committed to jail yesterday toawait further
hearing by Alderman Gripp.
Patrick Lyjcch, arrested for attempting to
rob Wattles jewelry store with Harry
Kennedy, was sent to jail yesterday for
court. He and Kennedy will he tried at the
samo time.
1L Abler, who lives at No. 21 Congress
street, made an information before Alder
man Richards yesterday charging Blair
Punch, a boy, with agcravatod assault and
battery. Punch hit him with a brick.
Chief op Police Jassos, of Milwaukee,
came to the citv yesterday and had a short
talk with Larry Murray now in jail for at
tempting to lrarglanze the Bevmer resi
dence at BellcQcd. Murray is not w anted in
Milwaukee.
D win Libertv was arrested at tho market
house last eening by Officer Fowler on
complaint of a woman who had lorfher
fiocketboot, and alleged Liberty had taken
c. The latter, who claims to be from Bos
ton, was locked up.
Mns. GoTTuorp.a residentof Lowrie street,
Allegheny, leportei to Officer Snydar last
night that some one had entered her store
during the afternoon and purloined a
pockethook containing two gold rings and a
small sum of money.
Ira Webb, 10 years old, was arrested yes
terday on complaint of the matron of the
Protestant Orphans Home, on Anderson
street. Tho hoy was an inmate of the home
and got beyond the matrons control. He
was sent to Morganza.
Pereb Maloxet was arrested last nizht on
a charge of disorderly character. Ho en
tered a saloou on VTylle avenuo, and he
cause the proprietor would not Fell him a
drink he went outside and threw a stone
through the plats glass window.
At 11 o'clock last nicht the police were
called to a house in "Chicken" alley, off
Diamond street, where four women and a
man w ere drinking beer and raising a dis
turbance. The landlady, Mary Sullivan,
and the other four people were all locked
up.
Jons axd Michael Staresewich were com
mitted to jail last night by Alderman Mc
ICierney, of Penn avenue, on charges of
felonious assault and battery preferred by
Peter Trawisch, of Etna. Tne men are held
for trial at court, and are altered to have
nearly killed the wite of the prosecutor by
the use or knives at a wedding at Etna some
two weeks ago.
LAST NIGHT'S WIRE WAIFS.
Judge Kisig, at Den er, is yet too ill to
trj Dr. Graves., the alleged poisoner..
The English court mil go Into mourning
for the late Dom Pedro for one month.
ALit of the officials implicated in the Chey
enne Agency frauds aie reported suspended.
The steamer Fountain City, reported as
probably lot with all on board, reached
Chicago safely yesterday.
Judge Cox, of Indianapolis urges the
Grand Jury to hunt down the would-be
lynchers ot Charles Britcow.
Dn. P. I. CBArrELLE, the nenly conse
crated Coadjutor Bishop of Santa Fe, ar
rived in company with several other priests
at Denver yesterd.iy, wheie thepirty was
accorded a public reception and parade.
Delegates from Illinois and Northwestern
States to the first Lnseinburger Convention
in the United States, selected two candidates
at Chicago yesterday to bo presented to the
Luxemburg Government for consul to the
United Mates.
The Foreigners' Belief Committee of Toko
Immi has issued an appeal to the people of
the United States on behalf of the sufferers
by the earthquake. The appeal is signed by
Admiral Belknap, commanding the United
States Asiatic squadron.
Christinas Presents.
Good advice is worth its weight in gold.
So nearly a half million purchasers will tell
touttlraivere advised and bought Decker
llros., Knabe and Fischer pianos and Estey
organs, and you will join the harmonious
train, too, when you have purchased one of
these matchless instruments. Therefore be
advised in time, do not allow yourself to be
over-persuaded into buying some new, un
tried or cheap affair, just to help a friend or
acquaintance along; better give him out
right what he would make in commission on
some of these poor, harsh, hard-rasping
things sold by so mauy irresponsible agents,
and salesmen", or better give him your trade
tor something less far reaching "iu its dis
astrous effects, but get only a Decker Bros,
or a Knabe or a Fischer or Estcy, then you
are absolutely sure of what you are getting.
Terms of payment are cry reasonable at
Hamilton's, and prices are reallv very low
for such goods as are always found at Ham
ilton's stand pianos rang'ins from ?200 to
SGOO, organs from 515 to 5200. Old instru
ments are taken in exchange on new ones;
alio everything musical will be found at
Hamilton's, Swiss music boxes, violins,
guitars, oanjos, manaoiins, cornets, llutes,
folios, everything, and always good quality
and ft,r pfices. Eeniember the uface to
v ; Tr:i . r...: tt- oi -j n.
buy is Hamilton's Music House. 91 and 93
Fifth avenue, Pittsburg.
Ladies' and gentlemen's seal gloves.
Smiley & Co., 28 Fifth" avenue.
Ho'iday Silver Goods.
Xew and handsome designs" in combs,
brushes, mirrors, bon bon trays, manicure
sets, shaving and drinking cups, hat and
clothes brushes, jewel caes, cologne bottles,
pungents, etc? See the low prices on tliem.
A. G. Casir-BEU & Boss," 27 Tifth ave.
THE DANCING GIRL.
Sothern's New Play Rather Long, but
Interesting and Well Acted.
MISS PAGET IN DALY'S LAST WORD.
Bright Novelty of Eight Bells Shenandoah
A Good Farce.
ALL THE PLATS IX TOWN CRITICISED
A new play of some pretensions was put
on at the Alvin Theater last night. It was
"The Dancing Girl," by Henry Arthur
Jones, which has- impressed London and
2Tew York favorably. Last night nothing
was so impressive about the play as its
length. It was not over till 11:30, and the
waits between acts were abnormally
long. Yet with all its 4 faults
the play interested the audience enough to
keep them in their seats, with very few ex
ceptions, till the end. An explanation of
the ungodly duration of the play is offered,
to the effect that the stage hands had great
difficulty in setting the scenery, some of
which is very heavy. It is also promised
that these delays will not occur again, and
that the audience, therefore, need not bring
cots or robes de nuit with them. Still, as it
is upon last night's performance that the
following remarks are made, it is well to
premise that the play may be a good
deal better than we now think, for its
progress last night was comparable only to
that of an accommodation train in a rural
district.
"The Dancing Girl" has one good quality
tor certain; it has a clear, well-connected
story. The plot is not new to any alarming
extent, except in so far as character and
local color arc concerned. Perhapsthe best
way will be to look at the story first.
Drusilla Ives is the dancing girl, and also the
quiet daughter of some Cornish Quakers.
she is first seen in her character of
demure Quakeress in the little island
of St. Endellion. There also we
are introduced to his grace, the
Duke of Guiscbury, who is the patron of
Drusilla, in her character of premiere dan-
seusc in .London.
The Story of the Play.
Drusilla is loved in a supremely respecta
ble way by a monstrously goody-goody fisher
man named John Chrislison, who only knows
his charmer as. a hardworking honest girL
The first act of the play is all talk, and
merely explains who is who, and allows
DrusiHa to ask the Duke to marry her
which he refuses to do and to shock
holy John Chrislison by dancing a lew very in
nocuous steps in the moonlight. The curtain
falls on this episode, John exclaiming melo
dramatically: "Woman! What art "thou?"
In act II the empty frivolity of the Dale's
life with DmxiUaU exhibited, and with such
amplitude and exactness that the audience
grows in sympathy first with the Duke, aud
secondly with Drusilla. An episode which
is meant to be pathetic and is only ridicu
lous, is the struggle holy John Chstison has
with his love for Drusilla. He wants to
leave that charming creature, but
finds it hard to do it. Finally,
with a great shout, he tears himself
away. By the way isn't the Duke delight
fully free from jealousy, and how consider
ate it is of him to allow pious John, who is a
hearty lad known to be in love with Dru
silla, to have the run of his mistress' villa
at Eichmond! Well, the yawning and
cursing of fate culminate in a declaration
from the Duke that he will take one final
fling, give a last kick at the world and blow
his brains out for DrusSla declines tomarry
him, seeing that he is a ruined man, and be
has no other object in life. ' The
expiring kick takes the form
of a big reception, at which Drusilla dances,
at the Duke's house. Thither goes DrusiUa's
father, a Quaker of clerical mien, and attire
worthy of a bishop. Papa Ives is a slow
coach, but he has at last tumbled to -Vim
DrusSla's naughtiness. He sees her coming
from her triumphs with the light fantastic
and he proceeds to curse her in good old
fashioned style. The pleading of the
old man with his daughter before he
delivers this terrific anathema is pathetic
but there is too much of if.
The rinal Climax.
When Drusilla and her father have gone
their several ways and all the guests are
scattered, the Duke of Guisebury raises n vial
of poison to his lips and the crippled girl
whose life he had saed comes downstairs
on her crutches and stays his hand. Here
is the climax of the play. It is against
probability; and to make it worse the last
a"t is all tame and polite conventionality.
Drusilla dies, out of the audience's sight; the
Duke reforms and marries the crippled
maiden, who has reached the cane stage,
after a painful passage through three acts on
crutches, and John Uirislison also marries a
second choice. The fishermen who had gone
to the Xorth Pole, for no very clear reason
come back without it the pole as usual in
the last act also; and everybody is disimally
and deeply joyous.
The fishermen of the Scilly Islands are
unlike any mariners we have ever known;
and Jlr. Joucs, the author, is mainly re
sponsible for this, for he puts long sermons
in beautiful dictionary English into John
Cliristison's mouth, and makes all the folk
who live in the fishers' cottages at St. En
dellion talk life Sunday school boys com
peting for a tin medal. All the characters
are overdrawn, and it constantly strikes one
that in life the other thing would have hap
pened. Sir. E. H. Sothern is the Duke
oj Gvisebury, a serious undertaking
ior this talented young actor who
has kept close to comedy heretofore,
considering how difficult the dramatist has
made it forthe Duke to seem human at times.
Mr. Sothern's creation of this character
must be considered very clever. The Duke
is always a gentleman; a wornout Uase man
of the world whose love for Drusilla is the
only warm sign of life in him. Mr. Soth
ern contrives to invest the Duke with that
repose of high caste that is found in some
members of the House of Lords.
It is not a very sympathetic charac
ter; but its cynicism is enjoyable.
Mr. Sothern deserved the applause he
received. Miss Virginia Harned as Drussllla
was equally satisfactory, and vith less lim
itation at tne author's Lands.
A Very Sweet Quakeress.
She made the physical charm ot the light
woman very apparent, and in the minor op
portunities'in the early half of the play was
very graceful and true to the phase of
p nature sue lypiueu. ivucu xrzuurcua re
ceives lier father's curse she faints, and
Miss Harned acted this scene with such re
markable power that she exhausted her
strength, fell on the staircase and gave the
situation a realistic pathos the audience
was quick to recognize, though no one fully
understood Miss Harncd's condition till the
curtain was lifted in response to the ap
plause and she almost fell again.
David Ives, the father of Drusilla, is a reg
ulation stage father built tor solemn curs
ing and heavy-weight pathos. Mr. Jones im
agines doubtless that by making him an im
possible Quaker fisherman be has created a
new variety of heavy father in David, but he
hasn't. In spite ,of tho untruth of
the character, Harry Eytinge makes
it appeal to ns sharply at times, and the
theatrical episode of the cursing gains much
of its strength from his declamation. Good
actor as he is Wright Huntington cannot
make John Chrislison anything but a prig of
the first degree, who makes virtue seem
cheap. The company is a well-balsnced one
all through, and Miss Jennie Dunbar as the
crippled good genius of thexDufce it is a
gross error of Mr. Jones to make such a char
acter a cripple, even if you do cure her for
the finale and several others do good work
in small roles.
The play was staged magnificently list
night; the' second act, an interior in the
Duke's villa, about as handsome a setting
n.s has ever been seen iu Pittsburg. The
TUidience recalled the company at tho end of
Act III, and applauded the piece generously.
7
E LAST W0ED.
Miss Paget Appears as a star in One' of the
Dalzan Comedies.
"Tho Last Word," in which Miss Ffol
liott Paget appeared at the Grand Opera
House last night, gets its title much as
"The City Directory" gets its name. That
is, there is some talk about "the last word"
in the closing dialogue. The, title does as
well as any other, unless the example of
the older drama were adopted in making'
the title descriptive, in which case the
name-would be,' "Spooning Triumphant, or
the Stern Parent and the Tersevenng
Lovers."
This comment may convey an impression
that the drama is more in the line of con
ventional gush tlian it really is. It invests
a moderately interesting story, with a fair
degree of life. It suffers, as" most of the
Daly adaptations do, from the passion for
transplanting a storv with German coloring,
German motives and, in the main, German
characters, to a nutativelv American and
entirely alien soil. The incidents and pro
ceedings are not so utterly irreconcilable
with American life, as in "The Passing
Begiment," for example; but on the other
hand, the drama has none of the positive
characteristics which take the audience by
storm, and in a measure justify the trans
plantation of thefarcicaldrama. Of absorbing
plot it has little. Every one knows in the
first act that the iron father is going to re
lent and that the sextet of lovers arc to be
united. The comedy is pleasant but mild
as milk and water; and the progress of the
play is so strictly in accordance with the
conventionalities that we are left in doubt
whether it is not really again that tho
curtain drops on the 'first act, at a point
which leaves the audience to discover at the
beginning of the next one that after the
curtain had interposed itself 'on the scene,
the relentless father then and there excom
municated his sentimental daughter from
his house, for the duration of th'e two next
succeeding acts.
There is some very pretty sentiment in
the third act and some gently amusing
comedy in the second and third, which Miss
Paget made the most of. Her best work in
the part was in her consistent enduing of
her English tongue with a foreign accent,
presumably Bussian. The preservation of
this accent must have cost a large amount
of study; and so far as real dramatic re
turns from the part are concerned it is
hardly worth the work. Miss Paget does
the best that can be done witli the character,
but it has not the opportunities either for
the comedy of which" tnat lady is capable,or
for the more serious work which her impos
ing personality would suggest. The sup
port, like the play, was fair but not strik
ing in its ensemble. Miss Bealby, Mr.
Welles and Mr. Gibson, the last an "incon
siderable part, showed "decided skill in
characterization, while the rest of the cast
was neither weak in any vital respect, nor
so positively good as to elicit especial men
tion. IT STETJCE EIGHT BELLS.
And the Audience at the Dnquesno Ljtughed
for Two Ilours.
Usually we have been content to be funny
on shore, but "Eight Bells" at the Du
quesne Theater last night introduced us to
some nautical sport. Be pleased to note
that "Eight Bells,?' though ornamented with
the names of Primrose and "West, is not a
minstrel show it is, and with all reverence
be it spoken, a pure nautical, pantomimic
comedy, and a joyous, laughter-producing
entertainment It can't be called great,
nor could we, without showing disrespect to
our conscience. term itartistic,but we can call
it funny. The recollection even is mirthful.
The first act is merely an introduction to
the scene on the steamship and the third
act only a graceful retreat after this scene.
It is the second act that appeals to the
people; one is afraid it appeals too strongly
to their sympathies and rewards
them accordingly with mal de mer.
Incidentally, says the programme modestly,
there is some clever specialty work. With
diffidence, we would ' intimate that we
think the plot is the incidental part, in fact,
we are not very certain if the Byrne
brothers' are' notj the plot' andvthat
little bit of "true love' not running
smooth" something introduced to give
our sides a rest from splitting.
The storm, as intimated previously, is ex
ceedingly realistic; the ship rises and falls
on a swell that would have made the At
lantic Ocean green with envy had it been
sitting in the audience. Higher and higher
it goes, and then the ship turns a neat
somersault (such a somersault as Delsarte
loved), the people run around, walk
on the wall, on the ceiling, the
floor, the ceiling, and so on ad infinitum
and the curtain. " Mr. John F. Byrne in
vented this scene and perhaps it is the fun
niest incident in the whole evening. The
Byrne family is a wonderful one all
around. The Byrne brothers ask every
body to laugh with them in "Eight Bells,"
and they leave no loophole for escape to
those who accept the invitation.
PEGGY PKYDE IS KESE.
She Is the Star or Kellly & Woods' Unusu
ally Good Company.
"Keilly & Woods' Big Specialty Show"
occupies the boards at the Academy this
week, and the bright and particular star of
the company is Peggy Pryde. The fact
that she is the daughter of "The Vital
Spark," Jenny Hill, gives her more than
ordinary prominence, but she cannot fairly
be called a star of the first magnitude, as
far as the female stars of London music
halls go. Last evening an audience which
crowded the house fro'n floor to cciliug
greeted her, and her four songs enthused
the entire house to a ery great
extent. Peggy Pryde is deficient as a
vocalist; but the original "business" that
she works into her songs and ier very good,
dancing somewhat make up for that de
ficiency. Of course, sho sang "On the
Contomong." It went well, and so did
"Jack and I," which allowed her to display
her dancing abilities. "Yes, You .Know,"
was a little below par, but "The Newsboy of
London" was really good, and probably her
best effort Altogether she is an extremely
good attraction, but not an astonishing one.
Andy Hughes and McBride and Walton
rendered an Irish sketch entitled "The
Arrival of McGunmers." It might be as
well if Jfcffunmeredidnot arrive at all be
cause Mr. Hughes manages to make him
rather wearisome. Frank Goldie and Sallie
St Clair are good and so are the Washburn
sisters, as comedy vocalists. The spectacu
lar farce comedy, "Hades and the 400,"
which concludes the programme, is one of
the best pieces of its kind that has been
seen at the Academy. In it Florence
Miller and Pat IJeilly perform with rare
skill and display lots of humor, aud there
are pretty girls, and dresses galore.
Dijon Theater.
The.company which gave "Shenandoah"
at the Bijou Theater last night is to a great
extent the same as gave the play acceptably
last year. It is unnecessary to say that
"Shenandoah" is a very clever play and of
deep interest. Last night it was well
staged as well as acted, and the audi
ence, as usual, was worked up to
a high state of enthusiasm. Messrs.
Carlyle, Eagle, Lohman, Barrows and
others in the cast were severally efficient
and Josephine Halo as Jennice Muckthorne,
a new-comer in this role, was extremely
clever. . Margaret Eobinson, Lilla Vane,
Mabel Dunlap, and, indeed, the whole cast,
are equal to the work. The scenic and real
istic battle effects were well managed, and a
large audience enjoyed the performance.
The Harris Theater.
A farce comedy in Pittsburg is not much
of a novelty, but there is a farce comedy at
the above theater, this week, that presents
several new things. For one, there is a
"mirror dance," prettily executed by the
Misses Leigh, and there is a semblance of a
plot in the affair that is refreshing. Added
to this the fact that the company has a
couple of Teal comedians and two young
ladies who are prettier than the average,
and it is certain to be a big week for Har
ris'. Miss Lottie Winnctt and Miss Marie
Clayton are the two beauties. There is con
siderable rivalry between them, too, which
will donbtless be increased in the near
future, for their manager proposes soon to
allow the audience to vote on the merits of
the two ladies and decide which, in their
opinion, is the possessor of more beauty.
Davis' Museum-Theater.
Linus, the $100,000 horse, is indeed a
beauty. He drew large audiences td Harry
Davis' Museum-Theater all day yesterday,
and the audiences were largely made up of
ladies. In fact, Linus is a regular ladies'
horse. He likes the fair sex, and will ac
cept favors from it when he will not have
much o say to the men. He has a tail and
mane eyen'longer than has been advertised,
and is in every respect a model of beauty.
The process of getting him in and out of
the museum morning and night was wit
nessed by' several hundred-people. Tho
skeleton midgets and Samson, the strong
man, are strong features of the show. In
the thcatorium Wallace, the "Man Bird;"
a very clever necromancer named Agra Ah
Medabad, Sam and Minnie Holdsworth,
Frazier and Bunnell, De Boch and Girard,
etc., are goodperfoimers. The doors of the
museum open at 11 A. M. all this week. .
Stage Whispers.
A wonsnipjsR of Bacchus managed to mar
with his hiccoughs one of Miss Pgcfs Det
scones in "The Lost Word" at tho Grand
Opera Ilouso last night.
Majtager Charles LDavis, who has been
very ill ior some days, was pronounced out
or danger by his physician last night. He is
still confined to bis bed at the Hotel Ander
son. The sale of seats for Gilmore's Band will
commence at Hamilton's music storo to
morrow morning at 9 o'clock. There will he
two conceits, afternoon and night, next
Tuesday, the 15th, at tho Auditorium.
MIN0B H0NDAY MENTION.
B. A. Groat had his horso stolen Sunday
ightat Bellevue.
The Pittsburg Board of Underwriters had
a dinner at tho Anderson Hotel yesterday.
The Committee on Public Safety, called to
meet yesterday, failed to get a quorum, and
will meet on Thmsday afternoon.
Jonir Newtow, colored stable boss for
Booth & Flinn, died of heart failure yester
day morning at their stables on Brood
street. East End.
The Pennsylvania road Is extending the
compressed air system of switches to Stew
art station. They have been in operation to
Wllkinsburg for several years.
The mortuary report for the week ending
November 23 shons that there wero 81
deaths. Ofthese8were from diphtheria, 9
from typhoid fever and 13 from diseases of
the digestive organs.
Coxtroixer Morrow yesterday got a letter
from Controller May, of Chicago, asking in
formation on methods of raising rovenue to
conduct the municipal government. It is
evident irom ins remarks tnat 1'ittsDunr is
not the only city in financial trouble. The
Controller gave him all the information at
hand.
Jons Newtott, an old colored man, em
ployed about Booth & Flinn's stable in the
East End, died suddenly yesterday while
feedine the stock. He had complained to
some of the men at the stable of leellngill,
and It is thought he died of heart failure.
The Coroner will hold an inquest to-day.
He was 63 years of age and lived in the East
End.
EHCAJir-MEjtT No. 1, U. V. L., list night,
elected the following officers: Charles F.
McKenna, Colonel; Charles F. Franke, Lieu
tenant Cojonel; S. M. Duvall, Major; C. P.
Seip, Surjeon; S. W. Brown, Chaplain
George S. Gallupe, Office of the Day; E. T.
Saint. Quartermaster; John Si Short, Trus
tee. Tho installation will be the first Mon
day evening at Veteran Legion Hall.
AKT NOVELTIES.
What Many People Are Baying Kowadnys.
The great and fashionable craze this holi
day season is on art novelties, such dainty
things as wall pockets, catchalls, letter
holders, whisk broom holders, stamp boxes,
toilet sets, glove and handkerchief boxes,
laundry lists and innumerable other little
odds and ends both useful and ornamental.
Celluloid, plush, silk and other materials
enter largely into the make of these many
attractive nbvelties,most of which are decor
ated in many original ways. Those beauti
ful hand-painted articles are among the most
attractive and are painted by artists skilled
in this class of work. They are perfect gems
in their way. The largest and most attrac
tive collection of these beautiful goods, and
at astonishingly moderate prices, may be
seen at the store of Jos. Home & Co., on
Penn avenue. They undoubtedly exhibit
the largest and most desirable line of holi
day goods ever seen in Pittsburg, far sur
passing all their exhibits of former seasons.
The holiday shopper will be well repaid by
an early visit to these busy stores.
To the Saloon and Private Trade.
As the season is now at hand for ale and
porter, the Straub Brewing Company take
pleasure "in announcing to the saloon and,
private trade that they are prepared to fill
all orders promptly. We also claim that
our celebrated brands of "Pilsener" and
"Munich" lager beer cannot be excelled by
any brewers of the States. We guarantee
our beer to be four and one-half months old
and all our goods are made of the very best
quality of hops and malt Ask the saloon
trade for it or telephone No. 6038.
The Stkaub Brewing Co.
Corner Main street and Liberty avenue.
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Seal caps and gloves.
Smiley & Co.. 28 Fifth avenue.
. I!. & 15.
To-day 1,500 yards extra fine soft and
extra quality white Japanese silks, 27
inches wide, 65 cents. Boggs & Buhl.
Ladies' seal cape.
Smiley & Co., 28 Fifth avenue,
MUSICAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS
t
At H. Kleber & Bro's.
Washburn's mandolins and guitars.
Conservatory, Keystone and Arion gui
tars. Klebers specialty banjos and mando
lins. Mennod Freres elegant music boxes.
Higham's, Besson and Courtois cornets.
Slater-Distin's and Empire cornets.
Fine old violins from 550 to 5C0O.
New violins from 51 to 5100.
Vocal and instrumental folios.
Kleber Bros, are the exclusive agents
for the above well-known ahd reliable
makes, and these can be had only at their
store, No. 500 Wood street They are war
rented perfect in scale, tone and work
manship. Call early and make a selection.
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Holiday Sales Bargains in Cotton Dress
Goods.
Printed double-width fabrics at 10c; Ban
nockburnsand 40-inch camel's hair suitings
at 12c a yard; fine ginghams at 15e, 20c
and 25c a yard. , Dress patterns in wash
fabrics at greatly reduced prices.
JOS. -HORXE & CO.'S
Penn Avenue Stores.
TnosE who seek i elief from pain and weak
ness should use Parker's Ginger Tonic.
Parker's Hair Balsam never fails to please.
The eighth wonder, "Chemical
monds." Who has them?
Dia-
Ladis' and gentlemen!s seal gloves.
, Smiley & Co., 28 Fifth avenue
Diamond Karrlngs,
All prices, from S10 to 51,500. Yonr in
spection solicited by
Hakdy & Hayes,
Jewelers,
ttp 529 Smithfield street
The latest invention, "Chemical Dia
monds." What are they?
Novelties in fur capes.
Smiley & Co., 28 Fifth avenue.
4S. KEMMLER DIED.
Continued From First Page.
he seemed to shrink to half his size. His
head bent forward on his breast' A shiver
went through his body. The guard, lifted
him .up and pulled him back straight in the
chair. They loosened their hold and down
he tfent within himself again. Again they
pulled him up, and this time .held him until
the stout straps were drawn across his
chest, and then about bis arms, wrists and
legs. The doctors directed tho work.
As it was being done, Loppy muttered.
Beside the chair there was a pail of water
in which a large quantity of salt had beeii
dissolved. One of the doctors took the
sponges from the electrodes and soaked them
in water.
Taming on the First Current.
The big electrode was fastened quickly,
and then the doctor took the metal cap and
placed it over the man's head and buckled
the strap under the chin. Warden Brown
caught the wire that dangled from the long
arm that reached the top of the box
where the executioner was stationed.
He passed it through tho electrode on the
head and fastened its bare end with a thumb-,
screw. Loppy's eyes rolled- upward. He'
did not watch the fastening of the other
wire. He did not hear the words that
Chaplain Law spoke to him.
The warden, Dr. McDonald and Prof.
Londy slipped to the switchboard. The
warden signalled for the turning of the cur
rent in the board. The whistle blew ju.-it
then, and all the machinery in the prison
buildings stopped, while "the whizzing of
the dynamo could be heard faintly as the
power was turned into it Tiic 16 lamps
over the switchboard lishted up. The volt
meter, when the warden signalled for ful)
power, registered 1,750 volts.
.Dr. McDonald nodded. The switch was
turned by the executioner and the current
leaped into Loppy's body. The body
seemed about to burst from its bonds. The
straps that held it strained at their fasten
ings, and the chair itself cracked.
Muscular Action After the Shock.
The hands clinched so tightly that the
nails cut deep into the palms. The muscles
of the right leg contracted and drew up as
far as the straps would permit The chest
was thrown forward, the head back, and
every vein in the lace seemed about to
burst The whole body twisted and seemed
about to be torn apart
The sight made the lay witnesses sick,
and they turned away. The 1,750 volts shot
through the body for 15 seconds, and then
Dr. McDonald nodded and the switch was
turned off. Loppy was not dead, the laymen
say. The current had been off five seconds
when there came convulsive gasps and
labored breathing. The doctors said the
windpipe, which had been closed by the
shock, was opening. The lips moved as if
in an effort to speak. The body, made
rigid by the current, was now relaxed and
limp.
The coolest man in the room was Dr. Mc
Donald. He paid no attention to the signs
of life. Leaniug down, he filled a rubber
syringe with the salt water and squirted it,
first on the sponge in the head electrode
and then on the sponge in the other.
One minute bad passed since the current
was turned off. The volt meter stilt regis
tered 1,750 volts. Dr. McDonald glanced
at his watch and nodded again at the war
den. Currents Twice Turned On Again.
In a moment the electricity was coursing
through the condemned man's body again.
There were the same convulsions as before
and the apparent effort to break the bonds
that held the body. The eyes were open
and staring and ycemed starting from his
head. At the end of 12 seconds the eyeball
of the left eye seemed about to burst. Some
of the witnesses said it did break.
At the same time the hair and flesh at the
points where the electrodes were applied
were apparently burned. A little smoke
arose from each electrode, and some of the
witnesses say that the odor of burned flesh
permeated the room.
At the end of 14 seconds Dr. McDonald
again nodded to the warden and the current
was turned ofE But Loppy was not yet
dead, the laymen say. One of the doctors
felt a flutter of the pulse in one wrist, while
another detected a flutter of the heart But
Loppy was deadj they said. There were
threeadistinct respirations. These the doc
tors said were due to reflex muscular action.
Dr. McDonald again wetr the electrode
sponges- Sixty-six seconds elapsed between
the second time the current was turned off
and Dr. McDonald signaled to begin work
again.
Loopy Undoubtedly Dead at Last
This time the sponges dried qnickly and
the flesh and hair and the sponges them
selves blistered and burned. The doctor
held his watch, it seemed to the witnesses,
an interminable period, although it was only
20J seconds, before he signaled for the
last time to turn off the switch.
Then Loppy was dead.
The body was taken from the chair at
once and carried to a table in the room back
of the death chamber. It was seen then
that the hair about the temples was burned,
and that the flesh under the electrodes was
scorched and blistered.
Dr. McDonald, Dr. Jenkins and Dr.. Van
Gilson made an autopsy. Thev found ex
actly the conditions, it is said, that were
found in the cases of the other men who had
died in the chair. The doctors themselves,
at the warden's demand, declined to make
public the result of the inquest.
Loppy's body was buried in quicklime in
the prison graveyard at 4 o'clock in the af
ternoon. t
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FROM TDGflTOTDES
What the Roman Senators
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what they wore is scarcely
worth talking about at this
late day. They may have
i gone to the coliseum arrayed
in purple and fine linens,
but they would have looked
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Jacksons Home-made Suits,
and they would have saved
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$12 and $15 Suits are fit for
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