'PSP v-sm c.f;'-vn5 - X10 PJTTSBIXRQ- DISPATCH, SUNDAY , JANUARY 8, : 1893... "r 5"S "" '- y '' " ' ' " """' '''"-'THE PJTTSBTIRG DISPTCa- SUNDAY ' JANUARY, a ': 1893. . ,.' .' , " ' "'" -" . :- ' ' .. , Ion? the plain and 'uprooting even the blades of crass. Shockl Shock! Shockl It is the Fury flingin his fiery bolts into the bosom oi the earth. "The Demon and theFurv." 3L Quad. Awav up the gorge, all "diurnal fancies trooped into the wide liberties of endless luasiuous vistas of azure Bunlit mountains be neath the shining azure heavens. The sky, looking down in deep blue placidities, only here and there smote the water to azure emulations of its tint "In the Stranger's Conntry." Charles Egbert Craddock. There was every indication of a dust storm, though the sun still shown bril liantly. The hot wind had become wild end rampant. It was whipping up the sandy coating of the plain " in every direc tion. Hitrh in the air were seen whirling spires and cones of sand a curious effect against the deep blue sky. Below, puffs of sand were breaking out of the plain in every direction, as though the plain were nlive with invisible horsemen. These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by tile wind; it was the larger clouds that wcie lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more tnd more the rule. Al'red's eves, quickly scanning the hori eon, descried the roof of the boundary rider's hut still gleaming in the sunlight. He remembered the hut well. It could not be iarther than four miles, if as much as that, from this point of the track. He also knew these dust-storms of old; Bindarra was notorious for them. Without thinking twice, Alfred put spurs to his "horse and headed for the hut. Before he had ridden half the distance the detached clouds of cand banded together in one dense whirl wind, and it was only owing to his horse's inrtiniit that he did not ride wideof the hut altogether, for during the last half mile he never Eaw the hut, until its outline looped suddenly over his horse's ears, and bythen the sun was invisible "A Bride from the Bush." ! It rained 40 davs and 40 nights. Genesis. " CHAPTER I. Jt is a matchless morning in rural Eng land. On a lair hill w e see a majestic pile, the ivied walls and towers of Cholmondeley Cas(le, huge relic and witness of the baron itV grandeurs of the Middle Ages. This is tjfce of the seats of the Earl of Bossmore, K. E., G. C.U, K. C. L G., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., who possesses 22,000 acres of En glish lands, owns a parish in London with ,000 houses on its lease-roll, and struggles comfortablv along on an income of 200,000 a year. The father and founder of this proud old line was William the Conqueror, his verv self; the mother of it was not in ventoried in history by name, she bein merely a random episode and inconsequen tial, like the tanner s daughter ot ialaise. In a breakfast room of the castle on this breezv, fine morning there are two persons and the cooling remains of a deerted meal. One of tnese persons is the old lord, tall, erect, t-quare-shouldered.white-liaired.stern-browed.a man who shows character in every feature, attitude and movement, and carries his 70 years as easily as most men carry CO. The other person is his only son and heir, a dreamy-eyed young fellow, who looks about 20, but is nearer GO. Candor, kindliness, honesty, sincerity, simplicity, modesty It is easy to see that these are cardinal traits of his character; and so Trhen yon have clothed him in the formid able components of his name, you somehow seem to be contemplating a lamb in armor; his name and style being the Honorable Itirtcudbright Llanover Majoribanks Sell ers Yiscouiit Berkeley of Cholmondeley Castle. Warwickshire. (Pronounced K'koo brv Thlauovcr Marhbauks Sellers Vvcount Bs-kly of Chumly Castle, Warrikshr.) H e is standing by a great window, in an atti tude sucgslive of rcspectlul attention to what his lather is saying and, equally re spectful dissent from the positions and trsumenf: niiered. The lather walks the fluoras he talks, and his talk shows that his temper is away up toward summer heat. "ioft-sririted as you are, Berkeley, I am quite aw aic that when you have once made tip your mind to do a thing which yourideas of honor and justice require you to do, argu ment and reason are for the time being wasted upon j on yes, and ridicule, persua sion, supplication and command as well. 2Y my miiid " "Father, if you willlook at it without prejudice, without passion, you must con cede that I am not doing a rash thing, a thoarlitlc-s, willful thing, with nothing substantial behind it tojustify it. Idid not create the American claimant to the earl dom of Jiossmoic; I did not hunt for him, did not find him: did not obtrude him upon vour notice. He found himself, injected himself into our lives " "And lias made mine a purgatory for ten years with his tiresome letters, his wordy reasonings, his acres of tedious evi dence " "Which you would never read, would stver col sent to read. Yet in common fair ness he was entitled to a hearing. That hearing would cither prove he was the rightful Earl in which case our course would be plain or it would prove that he wasr't in which ca-e our course would be equal'y plain. I have read his evidences, Jur lord. I hate conned them well,studied them patiently and thoroughly. The chain seems to be complete; no important link wantirg. I beliete he is the rightful Earl." "And I a nsurper a nameless pauper, a tramp! Consider what vou are saying, n-:" "Father, if he is the rightful Earl, would yea, could you that iact being estab- H'. Was Omstrvding a Mechanical Toy. lithed consent to keep his titles and his properties from him a dav, an hour, a min ate?" "Yon are talking nonsense nonsense (crid idiocy! Xow, listen to me. I will aarkeacoiiiession if too wish to call it by 3t name. I did not read those evidences ecause I had no occasion to; I was made tculiar ivith theai in the time of this .jtinmut's fcher, and of my own father, 40 fears r.n This lcllow 's predecessors have tejit n-ine more or less familiar with them 'or elne upon l.0 vcars. The truth is, the flpHiul heir did gn to America with the Pcirias he;r, or about the same time, but ajilieared somewhere in the tylds of Yir finjp., cot married and began to breed sav tges Jor the claimant market; wrote no etters home; was supposed to be dead; his feunper Brother soitly took possession. Presently the American did die, and .traightway his eldest product put in his aim, hv letter letter still in existence lad died beiore the uncle in possession 'uun time, or maybe inclination, to answer. Hie ierant ton of "the eldest product grew P iwg interval, you sec and be took to Twttng letters and furnishing evidences. Well, successor after successor has done the eate down to the present idiot. It was a ueeession of paupers; not one of them was ver able to pay i.is passage to England or nstitute suit. The Fairtaies kept their urdship alive, aud so they have never lost tito tiiis day, although they live in Mary- land; .their friend lost his by his own neg lect. You perceive now that the facts in this case bring us to precisely this result: Morallv the American tramp is rightful Earl of Bossmore; legally he has no more right than his dog. There now, are joa satisfied?" There was a pause, then the son glanced at the crest carved in the great oaken man tel and said, with a regretful note in his voice: "Since the introduction of heraldic sym bols, the motto of this house has been 'Suum cuique' to every man his own. By vour own intrepidly frank confession, my lord, it is become a sarcasm. If Simon lea thers " "Keep that exasperating name to your self! For ten years it has pestered my eye and tortured my ear; till at last my very footfalls time themselves to the braiu rack ing rhythm of Simon Lathers! Simon La thers! Simon Lathers! And now, to make its presence in my soul eternal, immortal, imperishable, you have resolved to to what is it you have resolved to do?" "To go to Simon Lathers, in America, and change places with him." "What? Deliver the reversion of the earldom into his hands?" "That is my purpose." "Make this tremendous surrender with out even trying the fantastic case in the Lords?" "Ye-s," with hesitation and some embar rassment. "By all that is amazing, I believe you are jit ft 1 &';& WJHAiW ' i ' ft iHi . K JXtiOgKf ? f4 JfK J-' 7 -fTVJ r-XAl 8S LVff? jPst&ttKi siAn l- E.O . rt .- r- - v-. Vl OK u r-xvx'V V U 'j ' I 'IV i v . -. " t XI A AD I A T7SURPEK A SAHET.ESS rATJPEn A TRAMP. insane, my son. See here, have you been training with that ass again that radical, if you prefer the term, though tho words are svnonvmous Lord Tanzy, of Toll mache?" The son did not reply, and the old lord continued: "Yes, vou confess. That puppy, that fchame to his birth and caste, who holds all hereditary lordships and privilege to be usurpation, all nobility a tinsel sham, all aristocratic institutions a fraud, all in equalities in rank a legalized crime and an infamy, and no bread honest bread that a man doesn't earn by his own work w ork, pah!" and the old patrician brushed imaginary labor-dirt from his white hands. "You have come to hold just those opinions yourself, I suppose," he added with a sneer. A faint flush in the vounger man's cheek told that the shot had hit and hurt, but he answered with dignity: "I have, I say it without shame I feel none. And now my reason for resolving to renounce my heirship without resistance is explained. I wish to retire from what to me is a false existence, a ialse position, and begin my life over again begin it right begin it on the level of mere manhood, un assisted by factitious aid, and succeed or fail by pure merit or the want of it, I will go to America, where all men are equal and have au equal chance; I will live or die, bink or swim, win or lose as just a man, that alone and not a single helping gaud or fiction back of it" "Hear, hearl" The two men looked at each other steadily in the eye a moment or two, then the elder one added, musingly, "Ab-so-lutely crazy ab-so-lutelyl" After another silence, he said, as one who, long troubled by clouds, detects a ray of sun shine. "Well, there will be one satisfac tion Simon Lathers will come here to enter into his own, and I will drown him in the horse pond. That poor devil always so humble in his letters, so pitiful, so deferen tial; so steeped in reference for our great line and loity station; so anxious to placate us; so prayerful for recognition as a rela tive, a bearer in his veins of sacred blood, and withal so poor, so needy, so threadbare and paupershod as to raiment, so despised, so laughed at for his silly claimantship by iue jctu American scum around mm ach, the vulgar, crawling, insufferable tramp; to read one of his cringing, najiseating let terswell?" This to a splendid flunkey, all in inflamed plush and buttons and knee-breeches as to his trunk, and a glinting white frost-work of ground class paste as to his head, who stood with his heels together and the upper" half of him bent forward, a salver in his hands. "The letters, my lord." My lord took them and the servant disap peared. "Among the rest an American letter. From the tramp, of. course, Jove, hut here's a change. Ko brown paper envelope this time, filched from a shop and carrying the shop's advertisement in the corner. Oh, no, a proper enough envelope, with a most ostentatiously broad mourning border for his cat, perhaps, since he was a bachelor and fastened with red wax a batch of it as big as a half crown and and our crest for a seal motto and alh And the igno rant, sprawling hand is gone; he sports a secretary evidently a secretary with a most confident swing aud flourish to his pen. Oh, indeed, our fortunes are improv ing over there oar meek tramp has under gone a metamorphosis." "Bead it, my lord, please." "Yes, this time I will. For the sake of the cat 1" HW2 Suteeitth Street, ) Wasuisqto, May 2. ( Mr Lord It is my painful duly to an nounce to you that the head of onr illustri ous house is no more the Bizht Honorable, the Most Xoble. the Most Puissant Simon Lathers Lord Kossmore, having depaitnd this !i!e ("Gone at last this is unspeakably precious news, my son") at lila seat in the environs of the hamlet of Duffy's Corners, in the urand old State of Arkansas and his twin" brother w:tli him, both being crushed by alosat u smoke-house raising, owing to carelessness on the part of all present, reter nble to over-confidence arid-pyety induced by overplus of sour mash ('-Extolled be sour mah, whatever that may be, eh, Bcikeley?") five days ago, with no scion of our ancient race present to close his eyes and inter him with the honors due his his toric uamennd lotty rank iu fact, he is on the ice yet, him and his brother friends' took up a collection for it. But I shall take immediate occasion to havo their noble Iremains shipped to you ("Great heavonsl") for interment, with lue 'ceremonies and solemnities, in the family vault or mauso leum of our house. Meantime I shall put up a pair of hatchments on my house front, and yon will of course do the same at your several seats. I have also to remind you that by this sad disaster I, as sole heir, inherit and become seized of all the titles, honors, lands and goods of our lamented relative, and must of necessity, pai.ilul as thoduty Is, shortly re -qniro at the bar of the Lords restitution of tbee dignities and properties, now illegally enjoyed by your titular lordship. With assurance ot my distinguished con sideration and warm cousinly regard, I re main, your titular lordship's most obedient servant. MuT.BEr.3T Sellers, Earl Bossmore. "Im-mense! Come, this one's interest ing "Whv, Berkeley, his breezy impudence is is why, it's colossal, it's sublime." "No, this one doesn't seem to cringe much." "Cringe! Why, he doesn't know the meaning of the word. Hatchments! To commemorate that sniveling tramp and his lratcrnal duplicate. And he is going to Eend me the remains. The late claimant was a fool, but plainly this new one's a. maniac. What a name! Mulberry Sellers there's music lor you. Simon Lathers Mulberry Sellers Mulberry Sellers, Simon Lathers. Sounds like machinery working and churning. Simom Lathers, Mulberry Sel . Arc yon going?" "If I have your leave, father." The old gentleman stood musing some time after his son was .gone. JfeiVA' . ft t XUXL&LtfLvcitMjir rTJT,rrr T- V lJnTz&r tf ML ' w v C V- K - ftto.tjgl This was his thought: "He is a good boy, and lovable. Let him take, his own course as it would profit nothing to oppose him make things worse, in iact. My arguments aud his aunt's pew suasions have failed; let us see what Amer ica can do for uj. Let us se e what equality and hard times can effect for the mental health of a brain-sick young British lord. Going o renounce his lordship and be a man! Yas!" CHAPTER IL Colonel Mulberry Sellers this was some days before he wrote his letter to Lord Bossmore was seated in his "library," which was his "drawingroom" and was also his "picture gallery" and likewise his "workshop." Sometimes he called it by one of these names, sometimes by another, according to occasion and circumstance. He was constructing what seemed to be some kind of a frail mechanical toy, and was apparently very much interested in his work. He was a white-headed man now, but otherwise he was as young, alert, buovant, visionary and enterprising as ever. His loving old wife sat near by, contentedly knitting and thinking, with a cat asleep in her lap. The room was large, light, and had a comfortable look; in fact a home-like look, though the furniture was of a humble sort and not overabundant, and the knick-knacks and things that go to adorn a living room not plenty and not costly. But there were natural flowers, and there was an, abstract and unclassifiable something about the place which betrayed the presence in the house of somebody with happy taste and an effective touch. Itven the deadlv chromos on the walls were somehow without offense; in fact, they seemed to belong there and to add an attraction to the room a fascination, any way: for whoevergot his eye on one ot them was like to gaze and suffer till he died you have seen that kind of pictures. Some of these terrors were landscapes, some libelled the sea, some were ostensible portraits, all were ciimes. All the portraits were recog nizable as dead Americans of distinction, and yet, through labelling added by a dar ing hand, they were all doing duty "here as "E.",rls of Bossmore." The newest one had left the works as Andrew Jackson, but was doing its best now as "Simon Lathers, Lord Bossmore, present Earl." On one wall was fl nllpn nlil railrnirl man rtt "ttrofiii.Votitwa j.uis iijui ukkiii uuuiy laueueu j.ne .uoss more Estates." On the opposite wall was another map, and this was the most iinpos ins decoration of the establishment and the first to catch a stranger's attention becau3e of its ercat size. It had once borne simply the title "Siberia," but now the word "Future" had been written in front of that word. Therein ere other additions, in red ink many cities, with great populations set down scattered over the vast country at points where neither cities nor popula tions exist to-day. One of these cities, with population placed at 1,500,000, bore the name "Libertyorloffskoiz-ilinski," and there was a still more populous one,' centrally located and marked "Capitol," which bore the name "Freedomslovnaivauovich." The mansion the Colonel's usual name for the house was a rickety, old two-story frame ot oonsidei able size, which had been painted some time or other, but had nearly forgotten it. It was away out in the ragged edge of Washington, and' had once been somebody's country place. It had a neg lected yard around it, with a paling fence that needed straightening up iu places and a gate that would not stay shut. By the door-post were several modest tin sigus. "Colonel Mulberry Sellers, Attorney at Law and Claim Agent," was the principal ,one. One learned from the others that the Colonel was a materialize a hvpnotizer, a mind-cure dabbler and so on. For he was a man who could always find things to do. A white-headed negro man, with specta cles aud damaged hite cotton gloves, ap peared iu the presence, made a stately obeisance and announced: "Marse Washington Hawkins, suK" t"Greal Scott! Show him in, Dan'l, show him in." The -Colonel and his wife were on-their feet in a moment, and the next moment were joyfully wringing the hands of a stoutish, discouraged looking man whose general aspect suggested that he wa 60 years old, but whose hair swore to a hun dred. "Well, well, well, Washington, my boy, it is good to look at you again. Sit down, sit down and make yourself at home. There, now why, you look perfectly natural; aging a little, just a little, but you'd have known him anywhere, wouldn't you, Polly? "Oh, yes. Berry, he's just like his pa wonld have looked if he lived. Dear, dear, where have you dropped from? Let me see, how long is it since " "I should say it's all of 15 years, Mrs. Sellers." "Well, well, how time does get away with us. Yes, and oh, the changes that " There was a sudden catch of her voice and8 a tremblins of the lin. the men waiting rev erently for her to get command of herself and go on, but after a little struggle she turned away, with her apron to her" eyes, ana soitly disappeared. "Seeing you made her think of the chil dren, poor thing; dear, dear, they're all dead but the youngest. But banish care, it's no time for it now; on with the dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to un-. confine; you'll be the healthier for it every time, every time, Washington; it's my ex perience, and I've seen a good deal of this world. Come, where have you disappeared to all these years, and are tou from there now, or where are you from?" "I don't quite think you would ever guess, Colonel. Cherokee Strip." "My land?" "Sure as you live." "You can't mean It Actually living out there?" "Well, yes; if a body may call it that; though it's a pretty strong term for dobies and jackass rabbits, boiled beans and slap jacks, depression, withered hopes, poverty in all its varieties " "Louise out there?" "Yes, and the children." "Oat there now?" "Yes, I couldn't afford to bring them with me." "Oh, I see you had to come claim I against the G overnment Make yourself i periectiy easy ill taKe care o: that. "But it isn't a claim against the Govern ment" "Ko? Want to Jie postmaster? That's all right Leave it to me. I'll fix it." "But it isn't poitmaster you're all astray yet." "WeJI, good gracious, Washington, why don't you come out and tell me what it is? What do you want to be so reserved and distrustful with an old friend like me, for? Don't you Reckon I can keep a se " "There's uo secret about it you merely don't give me a chance to " ".Now look here, old friend, I know the human race; aud I know that when a man comes to Washington, I don't care it it's from heaven, let alone Cherokee Strip, it's because he jrants something. And I know that as a rule he's not going to get it; that ne u siay ana try lor another thing, and won't get that; the. same luck with the next and the next and the next; and keeps on till he strikes bottom and is too poor and ashamed to go back even to Cherokee Strip; and at last his heart breaks, and they take up a collection and bury him. There don't interrupt me. I know what I'm talking about Happy and prosperous in the far West, wasn't I? You know that Principal citizen of Hawkeye, looked up to by every body, kind of an autocrat, actually a kind of an autocrat, Washington. Well, nothing would do but I must go as Minister to St James', the Governor and everybody insist ing, you know, and so at last I" consented no getting out of it, had to do it, so here I came. A day too late, Washington. Think of that what little things "change the world's history yes, sir, the place had been filled. Well, there I was, you see. I offered to compromise and go to Paris. The President ,was very sorry and all that, but that place, you see, didn't belong to the West, so there I was again. There was no help for it, so t had to stoop a little wo all reach the day some time or other when we've got to do that, Washington, and it's not a bad thing for us either, take it by and large all around I had to stoop a little and offer to take Constantinople, Washington; consider this for it's perfect ly true within a month I asked for China; within another month I begged for Japan; one year later I was away down, down, down, supplicating with tears and languish for the bottom office in the gift of the Gov ernment of the United States flint-picker in the cellars ot the War Department And, bv George, I did't get it" '"Flint-picker?" "Yes. Office established In the time of the Kevolution, last century. The musket flints for the military posts were supplied irom the Capitol. They do it yet; lor al though the flint-arm has gone out and the forts have tumbled down, the decree hasn't been repealed been overlooked and forgot ten, you see and s"o the vacancies where old Ticonderoga and others used to stand still get their six quarts of gun flint a year just the same." Washington saidy musingly after a pause: "How strange it seems to start for Minis ter to England at $20,000 a year and fail for flint-picker at " .. "Three dollars a week. It's human life, Washington just an epitome of human ambition, and" struggle, and the outcome; you aim lor tie palace and get drowned in the sewer." There was another meditative silence. Then Washington said, with earnest com passion in his voice: "And so, after coming here, against vour inclination, to satisfy your sense of patriotic duty and appease a selfish public clamor, you get absolutely nothing lor it." "Nothing." The Colonel had to get up and stand. to get room for his amazement to expand. ."Nothing, Washington? I ask you this: To be a perpetual member, and the only perpetual member, of a diplomatic bodv accredited to the greatest country on earth do you call that nothing?" It was Washington's turn to be amazed. He was stricken dumb; but the wide-eyed wonder, the reverent admiration expressed in his face were more eloquent than any words, could have been. The Colonel's wounded spirit was healed, and he resumed his f.eat pleased aud content. He leaned forward and said impressively: "Vhat was due to a man who had be comi forever conspicuous by an experience witl out predence in the history of the world? a man made permanently and diplomatically sacred, so to speak, by hav ing htcn connected temporarily, through solicitation, with every single diplomatic post iim's rosier oi mis urovernment, irom EuvoyrExtraordiiiary and Minister Pleni potentiary to the court of St James all the way dawn to consul to a guano rock in the Straits of Sunda salary payable in guano n hich disappeared by volcanic convulsion the day before we got down to my name in the list of applicants. Certainly something august enough to be answerable to the size ol thil unique and memorable experience was my due, and I got it By the common voicejof this community, by acclamation of the people, that mighty "utterance which brushes aside laws and legislation, andlrom whoe decrees there is no appeal, I was named perpetual member of the diplomatic body, representing the multifarious sovereignties anB civilizations ol the globe near the Re publican court of the United States of America. And thev brought me home with a torchlight procession." "It is wonderful, Colonel, simplv wonder ful." "It's the loftiest official position in the whole earth." "I should think so and the most com manding." '"You have named the word. Think qf it $ frown, aud there is war; I smile, and con tending nations lay down their arms." ' "It is awful. The responsibility, I mean," J "It is nothing. Responsibility is no bur den to me; I am used to it; have always ?een used to it." , '"And the work the work! Do you have to attend all the sittings?" . "Who, I? Does the Emperor of Russia pttead the conclaves ot the Governors of the provinces? He sits at home, and indicates his pleasure." ' Washington was silent a moment, then a deep sigh escaped him. "How proud I was an hour ago; how pal try seems my little promotion now! Colonel, the reason I came to Washington is I am Congressional delegate from Cherokee trip!" The Colonel sprang-to hisfeet and broke out with prodigious enthusiasm: l "Give me your hand, my boy this Is im mense news. I congratulate you with all my heart My prophecies stand confirmed. I always said it was in yon. I always Baid yon were born for high distinction and would achieve it Yori ask Polly if I didn't" Washington was dazed by this most un expected demonstration. "Why, Colonel, there's nothing to it That little, narrow, desolate, unpeopled, oblong streak of grass and gravel, lost in the remote wastes of the vast continent why, it's like representing a billiard table a discarded one." "Tut-tut, it's a great;- it's a staving pre ferment, and inst onhlent with influence here." "Shucks, Colonel, I haven't even a vote." "That's nothing; you can make speeches." "No, I can't "The population's only "That's all right, that's all right" "And they hadu't any right to elect me; we're not even a Territory, there's no or ganic act, the Government hasn't any offi cial knowledge of lis whatever." "Never mind about that; I'll fix that I'll rush the thing through, I'll get you or ganized in no time." "Will you, Colonel? It's too good of yon; but it's just your old sterling self, the same old, ever-faithful friend," and the grateful tears welled up in Washington's eyes. "It's just as good as done, my boy, Just as good as done. Shake hands. We'll hitch teams together, 'you and I, and we'll make things hum!" To Be Continued Next Sunday. Copyright, 1891, by the author. CURE BY HYPNOTISM. DR. CHABI.ES IXOTD TUOMJIt SATS HE CAN UEAL INEBRIATES. The Bespits Are Permanent An Analysis of Cannrd Fruits Shows That All Con tain Poison Mysterious Bapld-rirlns Gun Oat Odds and Ends of Science. , tWBIITEIT FOR THE DISPATCH.' The chloride of gold enre for inebriates has recalled various suggestions which have been made from time to time with the same end in view. Dr. Charles Jjloyd Tuckey maintains that hypnotism is one of the best-known means of effecting a radical cure of alcoholism. By way of show ing the immense power wield ed by hypnotism he quotes the case of the manager of an important com pany, who was about to be discharged from his post in consequence of his dissolute habits, when he took medical advice. Dr. Tuckey hypnotized him and found him an excellent subject. The patient was told while in the hypnotic state that alcohol was poison to him, and that 'the taste of it would in future make him violently ill. To test the efficacy of this suggestion a . small glass of beer was given to him during the hypnotio sleep, and another about half an hour after his awakening; on both occas ions the dose instantly brought on an at tack of sickness, though the patient had no consciousness of the suggestions he had re ceived. He returned to his home and business after about two months, and has had no relapse. Not long ago he turned quite sick at a cricket match, and, as he complained of-violent pain and faintness, a well-meaning friend made him take the usual rough-and-ready remedy a glass of whisky. He had hardly swallowed the spirit when he again rejected it, thm afford ing a proof of the continued action of sug gestion after the lapse of three months. Alcoholism is by no means the only dis ease in which hypnotism can be advantage ously resorted to; morphinism, lor example, and the "tobacco habit" have also their vic tims, and the suggestive treatment has proved efficacious against this class of evils. Quick Work In Locomotive Erection. A notable feat has been performed at the Stratford works or the Great Eastern Rail way, England. A complete locomotive, of the six-coupled type with tender, was com pleted in less than ten hours. When loaded with three tons of coal the engine weighed over 30 tons, the totl weight of the engine and tender in running order being a little over 67 tons. The per formance is one which reflects great credit on the staff of the railway. From a strictly economical point of view such feasts may by some be re garded as a mistake, but such prompt and efficient work means, at all events, good working to gauge and standard dimensions, excellent organization, and, last but by no means least, a thoroughly good feeling be tween the employes and their managers and foremen. Imitation of American Leather. It will interest American manufacturers of leather to know how their finest product, which is so highly esteemed (oak tanned leather), is imitated in Germany. The hides, after being well prepared, re put for two day into strong tan liquor, and then for another two days into a solution of iron black (pyrolignite of iron with pulver ized gall nuts). The hides thus become impregnated thoroughly and black through and through. .The skins are then treated with a mixture of one part decras and two parts fish oil. Leather thus worked can carrv much more grease than with the usual treatment, and acquires, together with great pliability and tenacity, force of resistance and a minimum of brittleness. Uses of the Sand Blast. The use of the sand bjast is now found to be a very convenient and effective method of cleaning" buildings. A pump which forces a blast of air at a pressure of four ounces to the square inch through a system of flexible pipes removes the unclean sur face of stone readily. One square foot of stone can thns be cleaned in ten minutes, and the rapidity of the process can be in creased by the use of a higher pressures Another, though an older application of the sand blast, is for the whitening of the out side of incandescent lamp bulbs, and decora tive effects are often introduced by fasten ing letters or ornaments upon the outside. Dancer In Canned Fruits. In consequence of the illness of two peo "ple who had eaten canned pumpkin, Dr. H. W. Weber recently undertook to analyze a large variety of canned fruits, b.ought at random. It was found that all the samples tasted contained poison. The milk, was jpure, which is a consolation, but all the solids, ana tney included pumpkin, toma toes, "Hubbard squash," peas, mushrooms, blackberries, salmon, pears, peaches, cherries, sweet potatoes, beans and pine al pies, contained poison, the tin taken as chloride, varying Irom to 5 grains per pound. New Machine Gun. It is stated that a new machine gun of wonderful capabilities has just been put through a successful test. Its principal feature is rapidity of fire, which is claimed to be equal to 900 shots in oue minute'fired through one barrel. This would be an ad vance on the Maxim gun, which has 'a record of 750 shots a minnte. The new gun .has a water-jacket around the firing barrel and the cartridges are fed from a continuous belt, but no specific details concerning its construction have yet beeii made public. 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It is always in place to refresh the read er's memory as to such masterpieces as this wu luuuvviug uoie, cumpueu Dy an -eastern programme-maker, fits nicely at the head of this brief review: Handel composed hii masterwork, "The Messiah," in 24 davs. It was commenced on August 22, 1741, and conclnrted on September 14. He was at that time 56 years or a;ro. It had its first performance on April 13, 1712, in Dublin, for thi benefit of a charitable so ciety. The ladiex were requested, on this occasion, to come without hoops and the Rentlemen without their swoids. By this means the ushers were able to seat 700 persons instead of EO0. On the occasion of its first performance in Lon don, some years later, it is related that the andienco was so much affected by the music that when the Hallelujah chorus w:is suns the King and the rest of the andienco with one impulse started to their feet and re mained standing to tho end of the chorus. This custom has been followed ever since. Strange to say, the poet who sele'cted the words for nandel. was not satisfied with his music. He said that "He has made a line en tertainment of it, though not near so good as he might and ought to l'ave done." In this opinion the poet, however. stands alone, for the universal opinion now is that the "Messiah" is the Rieatest work of its kind ever written. "Other oratorios may be com pared with one another," says Mr. Upton: -mo -juessian- stanus aione. a majestic monument to the memory of the composer, an imperishable record of the noblest senti ments of human nature and the highest am pliations of men." The Ilnvoc of La Grippe. Two unavoidable causes worked together to cast a shade over Monday evening's per formance. The first was the fact that the "grip" seemed bent on depriving the audi ence of hearing any bass solos. The pre valent ailment kept Mr. Ivan Morawski at home in "Boston and then aIo at the last moment attacked William L. Whitney, his substitute, and compelled him to give up before finishing his first aria. This pro duced a general effect of uneasiness and discomfort as well on the stage as in the audience, enormously increasing the ten sion upon Conductor McColIum and pro ducing a proportionate lack of spirit and vigor through the earlier part or the even ing. The other unexpected difficulty lays n the orchestra, .from which a number of wonted faces were absent while those present were tired out by the holiday rush of social engagements. ' TJnder the condi tions, Mr. Whitney and the orchestral players are entitled to credit for doing all they could, and are not to be blamed for being the unwilling obstructions to an other wise assured success. The chorus saD their best at their first opportunitv, "And the Glory of the Lord." which was delivered with superb vigor and. impresslveness. Unto TJs a Child is Born" was not announced with the old time thrilling poVer, and there was a lack of finish and spirit about sev eral of the other choruses, noticeably in "Surely He Hath Borne Our GrieK" But the singers retrieved themselves in "Glory to God," and they made of the sublime "Hallelujah" a noble paean of praise. It was good work throughout, though not quite up to whatthe club has accomplished in the same work under bester conditions. Among the soloists, Mr. F. W. Jamison deseives the palm as an oratorio singer; especially in the recitatives and in the air, "Behold, and See," did he show an ap propriate feeling, a simplicity and directness ol declamation and a proper use of his pleasant tenor voice that deserve high praise. Miss Adelaide Forseman, the contralto) sang "He Shall Feed His Flock" with tender sentiment aud made a decided impression with it which "He Was Despised" hardly confirmed. Miss Hortense Pierse, the so prano, displayed a pure, sweet voice and many good musical traits, but evidently was not in her own proper sphere in singing oratorio. She had been heard here before in concert to greater advantage. Much credit was earned by Mr. John A. Strouss by his daring the grip and coming down from the chorus to hold the post, from which two men had already been driven. He maintained his excellent local reputation most amply. The Coming of Damrosch. The important event of the week will be the advent of Mr. Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony Orchestra, for the concerts of the Allegheny Musical Association, at Cyclorama Hall, on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Headers of this column have been fully informed of the past and present standing of this orchestra and its gifted young leader. Their first hearing here is a most pleasing occasion, which cannot but redound largely to the credit of Conductor W. A. Lafferty and his co-workers, Some alterations have been made in the programmes since they were first an nounced. The chances are simply substitu tions of equivalents; they do not, unfor tunately, meet the desire of most music- lovers tor selections less trite and thread bare. However, there are no trashy works sheduledjall are worth hearing again, no matter how often they have been heard. On Tuesday evening the orchestra will play Wagner's "Tanrihaeuser" overture; the Allegretto from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; a Theme and Variations by Tschaikowski; Svendsen's "Norwegian Artists' Carnival,"and Berlioz's "Itakoczy" march, besides two morccaux for strings by Grieg and Burgmein. Among these pieces will he inserted the Prize Song" Irom "Mcistersinger," sung by Mr. William J. Lavin and Elizabeth's aria in the hall of song ("Tannhaeuser"), sung by Mrs. Ida Klein. On Wednesday evening the first half of the programme will be oecupif d by Bene dict's cantata, "St.- Cecilia." sung by the Allegheny chorus, with Mrs. Ida Klein, Miss Mary t Bankerd, Mr. William J. Lavin and Mr. Homer Moore, the Symphony Orchestra accompanying. The rest of the evening will be filled bv the orchestra in Weber's "Freischuetz" overture and Liszt s ' Les Preludes," with Haydn's "Kaiser" quartet, played by string orchestra. Regarding the cantata, Mr. G. K. Broadberry, acting as press agent for the association, has compiled.the following note: "St. Cecilia" was composed by Sir Julius Benedict for th Ifoiwich (England) Festi val of 18(56. The book of words was pre pared by Chorley, the English critic aud writer on musical topics, who deviates some what from the accepted history of the patron saint of music. The legend of St. Cecilia has occupied more or less the attention of poets and com posers for the last three centuries, aud in almost ever? European country cele brations of the day set apart in St. Cecilia's honor are of annnal occurrence. The story is the time-worn one ot the persecutions of a new faith by the old. Cecilia hears a di vine C3ll summoning her away from her husband, whom she has just married, until he shall have been converted. She appeals to heaven in his behalf. A 'vision of anaals appears to him, and the angels' songs win his soul. The infuriated Prefhd, who has just performed -the rites of their marriage, orders their death, the husband to he beheaded and the wile to die by the slow martyrdom of lire. The tragedy of the former is left to the imagination while Cecilia dies sur xoundtd by augela. The musical setting which Benedict has given to this story is very attractive, and in itself would be enough on which to base his reputation as a composer. The most striking numbers are the bright introductory wedding chorus, an ecstatic love for for Valerlanus (the husband of Cecilia), a very passionate and dramatic aria lor the Prefect (what mean these zealots vile), a quartet with choral accom paniment, "God is Our Hope and Strength," and the music of the trial scene. , Johann Strauss' Grand Opera, Last night's London cables bring to The Dispatch the following note of the first hearing of the frand opera that marks Johann Strauss' first departure from the dance music and operettas upon which rests his world-wide lame. Strauss' new grand opera. "Hitter Pas man," was produced at the Imperial Opera House in Vienna last night with only moderate success. There was not a single encore and, although the composer was sev eral times called before the curtain Vs eiven laurel wreaths, the com pliment was evidently a personal one. The critics say, "Strauss has not given his genius "scope," which means that in his aspiration to be grand he distrusted his especial muse, The only really successful numbers, judged, by the opinion of last night's audience, were the waltz arias and ballet music in the third act. The greatest snecess of the evening was achieved by Fraulein Marie Eenard in the second act. with an ariette in waltz rhythm in E flat major, entitled The Golden Emit on the Tree of Life.' Strauss himself considered this the gem of the opera, and at the dres3 rehearsal Wednesday its beautiful rendering by Erau lein Eenard moved him to copious tears. The libretto, if one may trust the f-tand- ara critic, is as disappointing as the score. "It is too refined,too anecdotic and contains too little action to produce an effect when rendered on the stage." Crotchets and Quavers. Tnz New England Conservatory of Music, iu Boston, has already secured pledges of $70,000 or the endowment onsi50,C00 sought to be raised by Director Taelteu and his able aius. Max Beuch has been nominated by the Royal Academy of Arts, at Berlin, as Presi dent of tho proposed "master school" for musical composition, and has been 'made a member of the senate of the Academy. Peot. Jons KrrowLES Paixk and E. A. MacDowell are mentioned as home com posers commissioned to irrite original Vorksforthe Chicago World's Fair. If so, the selection could scarely be improved upon. Mr. William J. Latin, the tenor to be heard in the Allegheny concerts this week, was mnrried about a month ago to' Miss Mary Howe, the brilliant younc soprano, said to be one of the most beautiful women ot our country. Vebdi is dabbling in agriculture these days, and has lately written "Fewer musi cians, fewer lawyers, fewer doctors and more farmers that is what I wish for my country." Intercourse with FaUtaff seems to have made the old man humorous. Padebewsxi is probably the only artist be fore the public who Is able to draw a $2,000 house to hear him and yet is willing to give a free recital to the pupils of a conserva tory. Ho did both these things in Boston. With most artists, the more they get, the less they give. Mascaoui and Sonzogno are called on to defend Suits for infringement 'of copyright brought by Verga, from whose novel "Cavalleria" was drawn, and also by Erck mann and Chartrain's heirs, the joint authors of the romance on which "IAmico Fritz" is built. Success has its drawbacks. Now they say it is not Eugen d' Albert, the pidnist, whom Teresa Carrena is to marry, but an Italian tenor of the same name. The Impetuous Venezuelan Is quite a marrying woman, havinc two divorced husbands still above ground Erail Sawret, the violinist, andTagliapiotra.the barytone. Vs London's parks last summer 446 irre concerts were given by the military banfe at a cost of $7,500. For next summer $20,000 has been set aside for this mos t popular and TARTLING ur BOOKS AX We have had the LARGEST, BEST AND CHEAPEST stock of BOOKS in Pittsburg all the season, and we still have a good assortment, but in order to clear them all out quickly we make prices that will amaze you. Read the list carefully, First choice is always acceptable, and, especially so when quantity is limited. snii 1 SETS. In Half Cair, Half Levant, Morocco and Cloth, fit for the finest library. Thackeray, 6 vols.. Half Calf. $ 5 43 Dickens. 15 vols.. Half Calf. 12 75 BulwerLyttnn, 13 vols.. Half Levant... 10 40 C'oopei's Sea Tales 5 vols.. Half Levant 4 25 Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales, 5 vols.. Half Levant 4 25 Cooper comnlete, 16 vols.. Half Calf.... 14 40 Emerson's E-ays, 2 vols., Half Levant. 1 65 Longfellow's Prose. 2 vols., Half Levant 1 65 Cirble's French Revolution. 2 vols.. 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Lucille, Annette, Longfellow's Early Poems, Ander son's Fairy Tales, A House Partv, Ethan Brand, Allan Qnatermain, Jess, etc., etc BOOK CATALOGUES rmDulMKUUKTSI. commendable object. This might be a ns ful hint to Pittsburg's city.' fathers while they are engaged in making appropriations lor the coming year. Last night's cable tells us: 31. lassalle sailed for New York to-day by tho Bour goyne to Join Mr. Abbey's troup at tho Met ropolitan Opera House. This will bo tho famous baritone's first visit to America, and he would not have been tempted to cross the ocean now but for tho presence of his bosom friends, the De Ueszkes, in New York. Mb. F. tT. V. Mubpht, of this city, pur poses to go to Europe this month to com plete his vocal training. He intends to stndv dramatic sinjringin Milan, Florence and Paris, and to wind up with a course of oratorio study in London. This will consti tute an extraordinarily complete singer' .education, if Mr. Murphy lives to get through it nil. Mr. Gicseppe Gilli, the well-known Tocal teacher, announces a concert to be given at the Auditorium, January 13, by Mr. 4 Liberati. the tamons cometist, with the aid of Mr. Gilli and his pupils, Miss Jennie E. Wooster, MJss M. Schriver. Miss S. Gavin and Mr. D. Moore, beside 3Ir. Charles Cor coran, 3fr. C. W. Flcminjr and Mr. M. S. Rocereto, with his Post 3, G. A. E-, brass band. A liberal list, surely. Moaiz Rosenthal, says the Musical Courier, his been earning; fresh laurels of late in Vienna as well as in some of tho larger Ger man cities, and has been setting the critics at their wits' ends to find expressions that mavbe sufficiently landatory and enthusi astic. Even the hypercritical Hansllck de votes the greater part of a recent fenilleton to the slant strides he has during the past year trade in his career. Ho specially refero to the "recently acquired sineinrr quality of his touch." -ox . The new year brought Adelina Patti to our shores ready for another farewell concert tour, this time in company with Mrs. Fabbri, Guile, Del Pnente. Novara and ArditJ, -Being asked what she was soing to sin;, La Diva replied: "Vhr, nothing new." Tho interviewer would have known that without asking had he been familiar with the career of the inimitable cantatrice who increases only her prics. never her repertoire. This is but one or her many qualities that no one else can rival. Van DrcK, tho Wagnerian tenor, is only 30 years old, says an exchange. When he went to Paris in 1S83, it was to stndv Jour nalism, although he was fond ot music, and h soon became attached to the staff of La Palrie. It happened one evening thit Vidal's cantata was to be performed pnb- . licly at the French capital, and the tenor. Ward, was ill. With fear and frevnbline Tan Dyckasreed to sing the role, and his suc cess therein determined his future career. But durinc most of the time since then ho has devoted himself mainly to Wagner's music. TnE death of Alfred Cellier in London last Monday is a real los3 to the lovers of clean, sparkllnz Enslish opera. His best opera, "Dorothy," which was a tremendous success in London, has met a like reception in this conntry wherever it has been eiven by the Bostonians. Tho esteemed Musical Omrier should not pronounce "Dorothy" a failure for this whole land simply because it did not happen to be pronerly eiven in New York. Mr. Cellier bad " barely completed a now operetta, "The Mountebanks," on a book br W. S. Gilbert, which was to be pro duced in London last week. Miss Mat BrESLET, of Pittsburg, was the solo soprano in the "Messiah" as given by the Minneapolis Choral Association on the 21st ult.; Emil Fisher was thr bass and Wil liam J. Lavin the tenor. Of the Pittsburs singer the evidently capable and discrrmin atins; critic of the Journal wrote: "Mint Beesley sang excellently. She, has much merit. Her voice is a true soprano and her singing was pleasingly artistic. She is not the greatest soprano fn the world, but she Is a lino and talented one." Miss Beesley came in for a yet greater portion of the rather in discriminate praise lavished on the perform ance by the Times, of Minneapolis. The cabled report that Rubinstein was coming over for another American tour which report was strongly questioned by The Dispatch last Sunday and of which the musical papers now say thev doubted it all along, though they did not eav so is contradicted bytbo following cable from Rome, under date of December 28: "Anton Rubinstein, the Russian pianist and com poser, has declined tho offer recently made him for a concert tour t America, and gives out that he has ceased playing in public He recently accepted an invitation to a din ner narty given in Milan by the composer Verdi, and after the dinner played for two hours to the assembled guests, among whom were the composer Boito and the violoncel list Platti." REDUCTION Wb Must s. Hnrry down and get one of our large gfl edge BIBLE GALLERY with 100 full page illustrations by Gustave Dore, for 75 QENTS. They will go quickly at t!ni Worth $3. price. Shakespeare, 8 neatly bound volumes, joo print, Clarke Wright edition, FOR $1.45. 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