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Urlth an obtuse faculty for believing every
thing he heard, and a pood deal more than
fwhat he taw. He lived in an advanced,
"ttneasy stage of "Wesleyanism, and had as
Senator represented a proper people. He
'was, as rumor ran, among the statesmen
rho had discovered that Grant's habits un
tted him for high commands. One "White
House story comes to me of his leavinjj
Xincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors be
hind him," because of some Presidcntal
obtusencss in regard to Grant. X think
also that he was the hero of the famous
whisky story of Lincoln, now an nndying
jart of the literature of American wit
'Tell me. Senator, the brand of Grant's
'whisky, ai I want to send a barrel to some
cf the other Generals."
One day his eyes opened to the-enormities
f Whitman's lineB, and the poetnras-sent
cbout his business.
Whitman Turned-Out of n! Place.
2o such unholy hands should pollute the
veered records of that department "Whit
man went, and might have been a gentle
man of the pavement, indeed, in the saddest
iorni had not the poet Stedman, if I am
sure in my remembrance, and John Hay
found him access into another department
Here he toiled at small wages, living in
humble lodgings, pacing Pennsylvania ave
nue of the afternoons on his daily errand to
the hospital and camp.
I do not think that lever heard "Whitman
refer to this halo of martyrdom incident,
nor do I see any trace of it "in his writings.
He was not a man to nourish enmities nor
recall dark remembrances. It was his nature
rather to respect as a solemn dispensation
the bereveament of intellect which could
see sin in his poems, to regard it with the
evmpathv we give to the blind, the halt and
the dumb.
"Whitman was never in the idle throng.
Occasionally glimpses of him at theaters.
Of the noisy, frothy world he never seemed
to be a part, was more at home with the
chestnut trees and the bbady laces. I do
not think that we knew then, as it has come
to us since, that he was living a life of
renunciation. He was very poor. His
talary was smalL Unfitted for the camp
he had devoted himself to the hospital
He lived in reserved, honorable penury;
practiced personal abstinence that every
penny might go to the hospitals.
The Foet In the Hospital.
It was not for our poet to go to the wars,
and his life was given to the camps, and es
pecially to the hospital. It was humble
work, but it is, believe me, no want of re
spect and honor lor the clamorous doings of
the battle the onset, the rally, the retreat
that makes me feel there was a singular
kind of heroism in what this laboring clerk
in the departments did lor the suffering.
"Whitman himself, frank as lie is about
everything, has little to say of it in his
yoems. I recall the dead cavalryman, shot
'through the neck, and who could not live :
Come, sweet death! he persuaded, O
beautiful death 1
In mercy come quickly.
There are likewise some further lines
enc of the few references to these scenes.
As a rule, however, silence upon what even
lis admirers will regard as the noblest
episode in his life:
I thread my way through the hospitals,
The hurt and the wounded I pacify with
soothing hand:
I eit by the restless all the dark night some
are so younc
Ecme suffer so much. I recall the experience
tweet and sad,
Many a soldier's loving arms about this neck
have crossed and rested.
Many a soldier's kiss dwells on thesobearded
lips.
I never was submerged by the Whitman
'enthusiasm, even in earlier days. I saw, ai
Emerson wrote, that in his book were In
comparable things incomparably said. I
Tecognized the wit of what I once heard
irom Wendell Phillips, that there were
many kinds of leaves anions the "Leaves of
Grass," but no fig leaves. It was an indo
lent book, so much that might have been
weeded out, if the author had f oreseen that
his work was to be something more than a
during experiment
HThat Pruning 'Would Have Done
Ben Jonson's regret that Shakespeare, In
stead of never blotting a line, had not blot
ted a thousand, applied with more force to
Whitman than to any great writer of tho
century except Southey and Byron. And
even the improprieties which barred it from
the bazars, the leaves, which were not fig
leaves, were the mere saving of things soob
vious that it seemed such a waste ot time to
say them. Why rob me of night and silence
and meditation and the self-respect of my
thoughts? Ior could one accept, without pro
test, the caprice which denuded his poetry of
harmony. Whitman himself is my authority
for the fact that he carefully culled out all
touches of rhythm and metre and held to
his rugged uneven lines. This is a loss to
literature. Ho one can read "My Captain"
or "Pioneers" without seeing that there was
capacity for music in this man, as definite
end sweeping as in Swinburne or Poe. I
know few lines with more harmony than
these on Lincoln:
Hushed be the camps to-day,
.And, soldiers, let us drape our "war-worn
ea pons,
JLnd each with musing sonl retire to cele
brate Our dear Commander's death.
J'o more Tor him life's stormy conflicts, '
Jfor victory, nor deleat no more time's
dark events
Changing like ceaseless clouds across the
sky.
Whitman's work wa never apart from
the tharm of his personality. He was al
ways Socrates loafing about the streets of
Athens, and I never saw him in the war
days without the idea that he was a revela
tion of the old Greek. And as I was out of
range of the worship, with perhaps a taint
of heresy, the exclusion of his books from
circulation, attorney generals of Boston
Issuing warrants, Cabinet ministers chasing
him out of departments as noisome things
are chased with a broom this was such an
ignominious business.
A Sugsestioa for Elimination.
Itea'ons of revenue and personal comfort
were to be considered, as Whitman was
poor; what he could save from his hire as
clerk going to the soldie-s in the way of
Eymps, tobacco and stationery. This justi
fied snch an editing of his works as would
pass the muster of the police. It had been
done abroad. Itosetti's edition, as decor
ous as Watts' hymns, with the Eosscti
pruning, I had found in 'England. Other
tG'tions were among the current literature
of the railway stall and the shop. I was
among those of Whitman's friends who
hoped in i.ome such manner for his larger,
truer aa-iiaore remunerative recognition.
In tli ,ad of thinking I one day ran
against Vhitman sailing donn Seventh
aireet in h Is maiestical. three-decker wav.
opposite the little brick house in which Jef
ferson had written "the Declaration, then a
eacred landmark of Philadelphia, but now
crushed under the grinding heel of trade.
He was steering lor Forney's office, at
Seventh and Chestnut streets. I was glad
to hear that he meant to print his book, be
lieving that the, world was ripe enough to
receive it and that it meant mended for
tunes. But why not admit the "Children
of Adam" not above 700 or 800 lines in
that, and perhaps 200 or 300 in addition,
and then have such a hook as was classic in
England, what might readily be accepted in
enlightened Sunday schools and in the ap
parent regions of fashionable society? And
bo on, with emphasis as precise and court
eousas I could bestow upon one I so much
admired and in whose material fortunes I
had so deep an interest
"What Was Written Wag Written.
Whitman, who was always gentle and
It'nd, a free, spontaneous nature, who never
argued, but rather list&ed in benevolent,
complacent wonder to argument, heard my
speech" as if it were by no means a new
story. I soon discovered that I might as
readily hope to have the Sphynx throw the
Egyptian sands from her person and go
into the maze of a country dance, as lor
Whitman to change, eliminate or reserve
one line. Ho had had it out with Emerson,
it said, years before, and his mind was
settled. . What he had writUn he had
vrltten. It was his message to the world.
If men and omen would not have it as it
came from hit ilps, it was not worth the
having. As for the English editions which
Hosetti and other friends had clipped and
patched together, that was their affair. He
.hid made a statue or nothing. There should
be no torso in its place by Ms grace or
leave.
There was a modest, resolute pride in all
this, a sincerity I could not but respect;
nor was the subject alluded to again. The
fact that the book' never had other than a
languid circulation may have come from the
agilitv of the police, or it may have been
that it was ahead of its time, tbattbe Whit
man taste had to be formed. I thought of
the weary years through which Wordsworth
waited for recognition, and how poor Car
lyle hawked "Sartor Itesartns" around
London only to find the reluctant, eleemo
synary hospitality of some second-class
magazine. Yet Wordsworth is now with
the sovereigns in their spheres, and "Sartor
Besartus" is sold by the thousands every
year.
How Henry Georse Had to Walt
I had known also of a similar experience.
That estimable gentleman, my dear and
honored friend, Henry George, had written
in those years a boM; which he ieit, as
Whitman and Cirljle before him, to be a
solemn message to minkind. Composed
under depressing circumstances in Califor
nia, he had managed by heroic sacrifices to
put it into type. Xow if 'only some one
would read his bookl Henry George was
then unknown beyond the threshold of his
Pacific home. I was going to England, and
took a dozen conies to peddle for him. I
tried an old-fashioned bookseller at the
Haymarket" who had exalted people for
customers a royal highness, Lord Beacons
field and the like. In o few days
I called only to see the books
on the shelves, and the bookseller
debating with his conscience as to whether
he should not go to the Old Bailey and
plead guilty to the condonement of a con
spiracy for overturning society. All that
was left was to take the volumes and ask
the ever willing Smalley, of the Tribune,
to name some advanced thinkers of the
"crank" species at whom I might throw
them and have the rubbish well out of the
way. This book was "Poverty and Pro
gress." In a short time its sale in London
had reached to 60,000 a year. It gave its
author world-wide fame as one of the
foremost men of the time.
Whitman was no farther from the spirit
of the age than Henry George, and the
party which came around him was as devont
in its allegiance, although much smaller
than that which now follows that eminent
and intrepid man. I know of no writer,
except it may be Carlyle, in prose who has
affected literary style more deeply than
Whitman. The directness of expression,
the cogency of thought, the precise, unmis
takable sense of meaning which we see
manifest and growing in current literature,
is largely due to Whitman. His influence is
rather with those who write than read.
From the thinking world has come his ap
preciation, even as those on the mountains
see the sun long before its glory floods the
valley.
"Whitman's literary Strength.
Ho poet since Byron ever went more
directly to his theme. No arrow ever left
his bow without going home. Poe had this
power when he had honesty and courage
enough to use it As in "Helen, Thy
Beauty Is to ITe," how surely the arrow
goes home. I should say, however, that
even above Byron above all English
writers since Goldsmith and Dryden, the
faculty of clear, definite thought rests with
hitman, xou are never lost in his pages.
Tou never pause over a word, nor listen tor
the echo of a double meaning. The refine
ment refined of Tennyson the mysticism
of Browning the lush and over-ripened
euphony of Swinburne- there is nothing of
mis in me American. -Liie sea is me sea
the sun is the sun and you go with him to
stream and meadow and waterfall, and dis
entangle the constellations, and sit by the
fireside over the singing kettle, and read of
old Kissabone, the sailor, who lived until
he was 90, and died watching the brig cir
cumvent the winds.
In this simplicity, this sinewy strength
will be found some of the reasons for the
steady growth of Whitman's power and
fame. Others will be fonnd in the fact that
more than any other poet he identified him
self with the Civil War. I recall no writ
ings which contain so much ot the war as
the thousand lines he has given to it in
verse; not to speak of much that is valuable
in prose. "Calamus" and the bodv electric,
the "Sea-Drift" and "Birds of Passage,"
much of this we should be loath to spare.
Still it could be spared, while the loss to
American literature of the war passages
would be irreparable.
High Water MarJi In America.
The "Song of the Banner at Daybreak" and
"President Lincoln's Funeral Hymn" reach
the high water mark ot American poetic
genius; are as precious, at least to the writer
of these lines, as Wordsworth's ode to "Im
mortality," which, in his humble opinion, is
the highest reach of poetic genius that has
been attained since Shakespeare. You have
the soul of war its majestv, its Titanic
grandeur. "War! belt weeks, months or
years, an armed race is advancing to wel
come it" No anger, no truculence, no
vindictiveness toward the South, no be
littling the mighty lesson that the ages will
find in that gigantic struggle by obtruding
the wrathmnd vanity of the strife. Bather
tenderness to the vanquished foe, as in these
lines:
Sly enemy Is dead a man divine as myself Is
dead.
I look where he lies, white-faced and still In
the coflln, and draw near,
Bend down and touch lightly with my lips
tho white lace in the coffin.
Whitman never troubles himself about
the mere policies of the war, not even with
Emancipation. There is no allusion, not
even in the'Lincoln poems, to the breaking
of the shackles, or setting the negroes free,
no swelling the current note of Lincoln
adulation. Kor does the freedman appear
in any part of the poet's noble vision ot the
restored Union. It was a Union war, the
war of men, the war of the private soldier.
There are few tributes to heaven directed
genius some lines on Grant as "man of the
mighty days and equal to the days" the ex
ception. The soldier is the theme.
Brave, brave were the soldiera (high-named
to-day) who lived through the light;
Bnt the bravest pressed to tho front, and
fell unnamed, unknown.
John- Eusseli. Young.
To Se Concluded Kai Sunday. ,
His Fame is Widespread.
Kennedy's restaurant nt Ho. 2 Sixth
street is popular among shoppers and ladies
generally who wish to get a nice lunch while
downtown. Kennedy's fame as a caterer is
widespread, and there are no weddings of
note or social gatherings that he is not
called upon to serve. His name adds so
much to affairs of this kind that it is tho
proper thing to secure his services.
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THE
YANKEE LAW MAKERS.
Great Statesmen From the Section
That Owns the Mortgages.
FBTES B YERY DAY COMMON SENSE
Hoar Is tie Historian of the Senate and
Hale Is a Croesus.
FIEET LITTLE SENAT0E OHAKDLES
rCOMlERTOXDEXCE OP TUB DTSrATCIt.
Washington, Jan. 16. New England
is in proportion to its population the richest
part- of the United States. From Maine to
Connecticut the country is dotted with
savings banks and the bulk of the vast in
surance wealth of the Union is owned there.
Tom Beed tells a story of a Nebraska farmer
who traveling through Maine happened to
stop at a little house hanging from the side
of a rocky hill which constituted the farm.
During his ,stay he mado many cutting
criticisms upon the character of the soil, and
asked the farmer why he did not go west,
where the land was so rich that you could
thrust your arm into it up to your shoulders
and pull from the bottom dirt as rich as
guano.
"I want to know," said the farmer, "and
where might such lands be?"
'Where I live in the West," was the
reply. "Which is in Blank township,
Blank county, Neb."
"I reckon I have a mortgage on some of
that land," replied the Maine man. And
he thereupon brought out an old tin box
and showed mortgages on half the farms of
the township. "I bought these mortgages,"
he went on, "with what I made off my farm
here, and as long as you fellows pay the
interest I guess I will stay."
Mew England Owns the West
And so it is all over New England. Yan
kee thrift has made the farmers the masters
of many of the richest lands of the far West
The biggest office buildings of nearly every
Western city belong to life insurance com
panies and are owned by New England.
Chicago was practically rebuilt with Bos
ton capital and the rest of the States of the
Union largely rely upon New England for
the money and machinery which turns their
raw materials into gold and manufactures.
With the worst climate intheUnited States,
with half sterile lands torn by nature into the
roughest of mountains and the narrowest of
valleys, New England has had to fight for
every inch she has gotten from the world in
the way of progress. She has had to save
her pennies in order to get her dollars and
this tussle with the world has made her
strong and rich. It has hardened the intel
lectual muscles of her statesmen and has
molded them into a type of their own.
The Congressmen from New England are
anions: the strongest men in Washincton.
They number, all told, in the Lower House
only 2G, or eight less than the representa
tives of the one State of New York and two
less than Pennsylvania. All New England
has only five more representatives than
Ohio, and you can add the 12 New England
Senators to the 2G New England repre
sentatives and the New England men here
then will onlv exceed by two the represen
tation from New York in both Houses.
Where tho Leaders Camo From.
Still, it has been for years one of the
strongest sections in Congress. James G.
Islainc, ol .Maine, was long the leader of
the Bepublican party, and he held the
speakership ot the House in the stormiest
times of our history. NowThomasB. Beed
is the leader of the opposition in the Lower
House, and the Senators from New Eng
land are among the strongest of the nation.
Take a look at the men from Maine.
Senator Fryc is a typical Yankee, but with
it all there is no broader gauge man in the
Union. He is thoroughly equipped on all
public questions, and he tests everything
with the loadstone of common sense. Ho
was 12 years in the House of Bepresenta
tives before he came to the Senate, and had
made a reputation there as a bold and fear
less leader. When Blaine was made Gar
field's Secretary of State he was elected to
take hisjjlaee in the Senate, and his first
speech wis in defense of New England and
against the South. Senator Call, of Florida,
had described the workingmen and women
of New England "as hungry, starving
serfs." and Frve replied that the workintr
people of one of the Strees of New England
alone had enough money deposited in their
savings banks to buy all the real and per
sonal propertv of five 6uch States as Florida
and have 550,000,000 left
He Eonsed tho Whole Stmtb.
"The serfs of Massachusetts." said he.
"have 5200,000,000 deposited in the savings
banks, and the whole valuation of the State
of Florida is only 530,000,000." He then
went on to attack Louisiana and North
Carolina and succeeded in angering the
whole Democratic side of the Chamber. It
is a peculiarity of his that he handles all
things without gloves. He is packed full
of practical common sense and he has a
manly hatred of all shams and it does not
make much difference whether the sham is
a Democratic one or a Bepublican one.
There is nothing snobbish about" Frve,
and he would just as leave be called "Bill"
as Senator Frye. He tells a story of him
self when he was Attorney General. Said
he: "As I walked down "the steps of the
State House I met a man who accosted me
with 'Good morning. General.' 'Good morn
ing, sir,' said I. When I got on the train
another acquaintance spoke to me and said,
'Good morning, Major.' 'Good morn
ing, sir,' I answered. At the
next station I met another friend
who addressed me as 'Good morning,
Colonel.' Audi replied, 'Good morning,
sir. The next man greeted me with 'Good
morning, Mr. Frye,' and I replied,- 'Good
morning, sir.' I hardly knew which title
was the right one until as I was going up
the street to my home a man met me who
yelled out the same greeting that he had
given me in my college days and shouted,
'How are yer, Bill,' and I suppose that was
the best one."
Doesn't Believe In Hoarding.
There is, however, nothing undignified
about Senator Frye. He said a few years
ago that he was not worth 523,000 and his
salary probably constitutes his chief means
of support He does not believe in saving
money and he says he got a lesson to this
effect from his grandfather when he was a
boy. Said he:
"I was brought np in a Quaker family
and when daring my boyhood I got a
chance to take a trip to Boston my grand
father gave me 55 to spend. I did not know
any boys in Boston and I could think of no
way to have 55 worth of fun without boys,
so I kept the money in my pocket When
I got home my grandfather asked me how I
had spent the $5, and I, with the air of one
who had done a virtuous act, said: 'I did
not spend it at all, grandfather. I have
saved it and I have it in my pocket'
"Hereupon my grandfather replied,
JThee may give me back the money, Will-,
iam. I gave thee that money to spend at
Boston.' This," concluded Senator Fryer
"taught me a lesson, and ever since that I
have known better than to save money."
Senator Frye is, however, by no moans
an extravagant man. He has a large family
and abont eight grandchildren. He is C2
years ot age, but does not look 50, and he
thinks the secret of his wonderful health is
the fishing to which he devotes three
months every year, spending this time on
the Maine lakes, in the northern part of his
State.
One of the Rich Senators.
Senator Eugene Hale is an entirely dif
ferent man Irom Senator Frye He "is in
the first place one of the richest men in
Washington, havine become so thrnnrh h;
marriage with the daughter of Zach Chand-
Jer. benator... Uhandier left afortnnnof
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and the rest to his only daughter when he
died. Senator Chandler was very generous
during his lifetime and he gave-Senator
Hale's children each 550,000 at the time
they were born and invested the money, it
is said, in Government bonds as a nest egg
for the children to begin life with. Sena
tor Hale has the finest house in Washing
ton and he lives in as good stvle as any of
his brother millionaires in the United States
Senate.
He was, however, not born with a golden
spoon in his mouth, and his father was a
farmer in one of the country districts of
Maine. Young Hale was admitted to the
bar when he ni 21. nnd he acted for nine
years as prosecuting attorney of Hancock
county and followed this with 13 years in
the Maine Legislature. Now it happened
that a man named Pike had been represent
ing the Congressional district in which Sen
atorHale lived in the House.
A Tavorito or James G. Elaine.
There was considerable opposition to him
from some of the counties of the district.
and seeing he could not get the nomination
he concluded, so the story goes, to make a
Congressman and he picked upon Hale, and
he was nominated and elected. Senator
Hale came to Congress while Blaine was in
the zenith of his power, and Blaine took a
gieat likintr to him ar.d did much to help
im on. He lived lor a time at Blaino's
honsc, and Blaine, as Speaker, pushed him
forward to such an extent that tho late Sam
Cox, much to Senator Hale's indignation,
once leferredto him as Speaker Blaine's "Lit
tle Bnb."
Ilnlc, however, showed himself a man ot
ability, nnd witn powerful fiiends and a
shi ewd diplomatic manner ho got on. Grant
was so pleased with nini that he wanted to
make him his Tostmaster General, nnd
Hajes offered him a Cabinet appointment
He. declined both, and just 11 years ago he
cot what was the goal or his ambition, a seat
in me unitea states senate, aome oi ins
fullow-Senators accuse him of having a very
good opinion of himself.
Tho Historian ot the Senate.
Tho two Senators from Massachusetts are
men of weight. Both havo for years been
prominent before tho country, and since tho
passing of Edmunds, Hoar Is to a largo ox
tent tho watchdog of the Republican party.
Ho is a man of unquestioned integrity, broad
reading and much more than ordinary abil
itv. Among tho other prominent things
with which he has been connected was the
management of the Belknap impoachment
trial, and he was :i member of tho Electoral
Commission of 1S7S. Senator Iloar is said to
be one of the best posted men on American
historv in Conercss. Ho is tho President of
tho American Antiquarian Society, and ho
lias receivod tlie.deree of Doctor of Laws
from tho colleges of Amherst, Tale, Harvai d
nnd William and Jlarv. He devotes tho
most of his time to study, nnd hi3Greeley
like faco is never happier than when ho is
getting oft some historical fact.
There is considerable humor in his mako
up, and he Is by no means averse to a joko on
his brother Senators. Ho lives very simply
hero at Washington, and not Ion? ago he
said that his total income ontside of hfs sal
ary was less than $1,800 a ear, and that his
whole estnte, with the exception of his
house, did not amount to more than $5,000.
no is more of a lover of books than of
money, and Jiis library is said to be one of
tho finest private libraries in the United
States.
The Indian Is Dawes' Hobby.
Senator Dawes is now 70 years old. He
was born during the administration of
James Madison, and is a giadnato of Tale
College. He begnn life as a school teacher,
and served as a country editor and a lawyer
before he trot to Congress at the ageottl.
Since then he has been almost continuously
in public life in one House or the other, and
he was IS years in the Honse of Representa
tives before he was elected to the Senate to
take the seat of Charles Snmner. During the
past year he has made Indian affairs his
hobby, and he knows mora about tho In
dians than any man in the body. Ho is an
enthusiast on the subject of Indian educa
tion, and when this subject comes np In the
Senate he tears tho air and shouts nnd roars
nt the galleries like tho Bull of Bashan. He
is a tall, bent man. with gray whiskers and
white h.Ur. He has the student's stoop, but
is young for his years.
The two Senators from Vermont are Jus
tin S. Morrill and Bedileld Proctor. The
State has lost n great deal in the retirement
of Edmnnds, and if Vermont is to have
much influence on the legislation of the Sen
ate hereafter, it will have to come flora
Proctor. Senator Morrill has finished the
best part of hi3 life's work. He Is the oldest
United States Senator, and "ho has had a
longer continuous service in Congress thnn
anyone else at present in public life. Ho
has in his house a bnst of himself whioh is
often taken for a bust of Snmner, and I am
told that ho prides himself on the resem
blance. The Man Who Seated Hayes.
Of all the New England Senators there are
none who are so well known as Senator
William E. Chandler, or New Hampshire,
nnd General Joe Hawley, of Conneoticut.
They are both Tankee products, and each
has his peculiarities, nawloy is perhaps
tho ablest speaker, but Chandler is the
greater politician, and ho Is Hawloy's equal
as a man of affairs. I doubt whether there
Is a shrewder political manager in the coun
try than Chandler. It was his instrnctions
to the New Tork Times to claim South Caro
lina, Florida and Louisiana in 1876 that en
abled the Republicans to seat Hayes with
out trouble.
Senator Chandler is noted for saying bit
ter things, and it was a remark against the
South that stirred np his fuss with benator
Joo Blackburn, in which Chandler is said to
have called Blackburn an "ex-nigger
uuvor, anu jmcKoura is saia to nave con
temptuously pulled Chandler's ear. How
this may be I do not know, but the actions
of both sides would have been perfectly
natural to both Senators. It would not re
quire a very bravo man to insult Senator
Chandler. He is a little pigmy or a fellow,
and his thigh is bardlvns bis as Blaokbnrn'
biceps, and yon could put Iris little bushy 1
irun-yi-uy ueuu, uiacK niDoor glasses ana all,
inside of Joe Hawley'sbig cranium, and it
would rattle around like a pea in a bladder.
Hawloy's Brilliant Record.
General Hawley is another self mado man.
His father was a Baptist preacher and
young Hawley was brought np on a farm.
He borrowed money to get his schooling and
paid this with the first surplus from his
practice after he had been admitted to tho
bar. He early plunged into politics and had
acquired some prominence as a speaker
when tho war broke out. He was tho first
man in Connecticut to volunteer and ho
went into the army as a captain and came
out of it a major general. After thojrar was
overlie went again into politics making
Journalism his profession nnd editing tho
Hartford Courant which ho owned in connec
tion with Chailes Dudley Warner. He was
President of tho Republican Convention nt
Chicago in IS6S when Grant was nominated
nnd he has been the Presidental candidalo
of Connecticut at National Conventions. As
a Senator ho is a good extempore speaker
and Is n hard worker. He is well-to-do,
hae a pretty EugliMi woman for his
second wife and i? noted as being a irank
honest, and able man. '
The other Senators from New England
rank well. Piatt, of Connecticut is 6 feet
tall and 18 inches across the shoulders, and
his head, which would fill a peck measure. Is
picked with figures on the tariffand finance.
The Rhode Island Senators, Aldrioh nnd
Dixon, are fine looking men of average abil
ity, -ind both are good workers and fair
spcikn. as io ine memuers or theHouse
fion :,Vtr Emiland, they will stza up Just
iibout Iiko tho nvorage Representatives from
the other prts of the Union. Only threo or
iliuriuo of any national prominence, and
Tom Reed, Henry Cabot Lodge, Charles A.
Eoutc He and General Cogswoll are the only
ones who have ncquiredioputations which
extend beyond their own sections.
iTu.SK G. CAitmrrrB.
AN EYE-OPENER.
An Astonishing Drop in the Price of Men's
Pine Suits. .
Monday we will sell COO men's sack, cut
away or double-breasted suits at the very
low price of 57 each. Ihese suits are mado
of good quality cassimere and cheviot and
we only name this low price to boom things.
"We never stand dull time-. You make
your own selection for only $7. A surpris
ingly fine line to choose from. "
P. C. C CL, Pittsburg Combination Cloth
ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond
streets, -opp. the Court House.
Praise'T'rom Sir Hubert.
Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 1892. At the
recent meeting of the Pennsylvania State
Music Teachers' Association, held at Pitts
burg, the Henry F. Miller piano wasreat
ly admired forits wonderful artistic quality
of tone. It is unquestionably an instru
ment that appeals fully to the requirements
of all artist musicians. Philadelphia Music
and Drama.
These world-renowned pianos are for sale
t wi n "Wl;t.v,iii'. -T.rn.iz, "pni iko
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SUNDAY, ANTJART IT,
A MATTER OF TITLES.
Bo!Burdette After Various Experi
ences Finds Plain Mister-
IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ANT MAN.
AdTentuTes In a Great Coit That Fright
ened the Storms Away.
WORSHIPING UNDER DIFFICULTIES
rWBITTEN POB TOT DISPATCH. 1
Tson, in thisgTeat
and free Eepuhlic,
where daily we
tread on the necks
of kings and hrush
irom our everyday
clothes the dust of
the crumbling
thronesof the effete
monarchies of Eu
rope, in this demo
cratic land, where
all men are horn
free to despise the
sham and gilded
trappings of hered
itary wealth and
despise with all th e
scorn of a soul loftily horn the hollow title
of pomp and vanity which so please the de
caying nations beyond the sea, in this
blessed paradise of equality and liberty, I
observe one very marked difference between
the free-born American who has but one
title and the other free-born American who
has none.
The f. b. A. who has none has three or
four times as many as the fellow who Is en
titled to one. That is one of the glorious
and paradoxical privileges of being a son of
the Eagle. In this untitled land to him
who hath shall be given that which he hath
so long as ho can hold it, and to him who
hath not shall be given half a dozen.
Bnrdetto's Search for n Title.
I made this very important, if untrue,dis
covery as an astronomer discovers a comet;
while I was looking for something ele. I
used to feel very lonely without a title.
For a long time I believed myself to be the
only man without one. As I had really
been in the army I was not entitled to any
military title, unless I could prove that I
had served in the band, when I would have
been called Gener.iL 'So man, even a
Georgian-born, looking at me once and a
half, could introduce me to his friends as
"Judge" without laughing in my face.
I couldn't swear with that icy politeness
and red-hot incisiveness that would entitle
me to a colonelcy,-and the mysterious dis
appearance of a man who once- called me
"Cap" discouraged his imitators. In the
course of time I became an unworthy occu
pant of the diaconal choir, but the title of
"Deacon" as a familiar and respectful
handle, docs not "go" outside of New Eng-
iana, where is is hereditary, and 1 W3s a
Pennsylvanian. Hence, in my case, that
title was like an American coat of arms, a
pure invention of the owner, to be changed
at will, with no meaning or standing in the
heraldic office.
Reconciled to Plain Mister.
In time I became resigned, and at last
blunted to my wretched condition, and
heard myself introduced to audiences and
strangers as "Mister," without a blush. Oh,
once in a while a tramp would call me
"Boss,' and he struck me for something
every time he did so. .The tramp who called
me "Mister" got ordered off tne place at
once, and he who called mc"parduer got
worse. I made him stay while I gave him
a lecture. He never came again.
Bnt after a while it happened, just as it
always does, just as it will in your case, in
the case of anv man in this Kepnblic.people
pot tired of my untitled lot long before I
did. Just as I had grown quite used to it,
in fact. People in this country walk around
on broken thrones and stand on royal necks
to make Fourth of July orations, bnt un
titled citizenship is something they will not
stand. So, when it gradually dawned on
them that I was not even entitled to be
called ".Reverend," only tolerably rever
end, my fiiends and casual acquaintances
fitted me with titles to suit the taste of the
fitter. The custom is a good one in some
respects; it keeps a fellow front becoming
lonely. A man calls me "Senator" andS
then I walk or sit in the company of states
men until another man calls me "Judge,"
when my mind at once takes on a judicial
tinge, and I am thoughful, and fair and im
partial in my attitude toward men. Then
this charm is broken by some one calling me
"Major," and straightway I am middle
aged in my face, youthful 'fn feeling, defer
ential to field officers, a trifle condescend
ing toward the line, and charmingly brusque
with civilians.
From Battlefield to Books.
Then while I am getting along splendidly
in military circles a man calls me "Pro
fessor," and I glide into a life of study far
removed from the madding crowd, and in
the quiet companionship of books and
bookish men I am frequently surprised to
Me Hadn't Played m the Band.
find how fearfully much I know, and I begin
to wonder what I will do with it all, when
it is all taken away from me without a
struggle by a man who comes up to me with
"5v T)nr " nnd no ithm in nin n ill.
tated man who called me "Cap."
"Doctor" I rather like, and one of these
days I am going to pull a tooth, and see if I
can't acquire the title for keeps, but I kick
on "Doc," Do you suppose if a fellow
should cut off the head of a man who called
him "Doc," it would entitle him to the
other syllable of the degree? If you think
it would I'll try it on a man I know.
But even should fate smite me in the
midst of my affluence "of titles, and strip me
of all these empty dignities save only the
sackcloth man tie. of plain "Mister," I will
be patient Man himself is a Mister He,
even to himself, and frequently to some of
his neighbors. Ofttimes I sit by myself
and ponder over the ponderous. I ask" my
self, whither am I drifting ? And if so,
how many ? If life is what it seams, then
what is man better than a sewing machine ?
If it isn't what it seems, then how is a fel
low to find out what it is? How is the
philosopher to diagnose grip from plain
cholera morbus symptoms? Such things
sometimes are, and overcome us like a sum
mer, dream.
A Remarkable Law of Nature,
v Surely the mind of man is a chaos, with
out any too much form, and tolerably void.
;.At least the minds oi some men, men whom
3fev )
1892;
I dislike, are in thh condition. No -man
whom I heartily dislike ever knows very
much. I cannot understand this strange
law of nature, a law so faultless and inex
orable that I cannot now recall .a solitary
exception to it,, which has decreed that
every man who is not to my liking should
be an ass.
I used to think it was a piece of special
legislation, enacted solely, not exclusively,
in my case alone, but in conversation with
men of different nationalities, residing in
widely remote, and in some instances quite
different portions of the surface of the
eartn, I learned that the same law, or one
so similar that they might almost be con
sidered similartaneous in their action, ap
plied also in their experience. So I am led
to conclude although not to finish by a
long chalk that the law is general, and is
intended as a salve to wounded vanity all
over the world.
Effect of Buying a Great Coat.
Last winter, the day after Christmas, just
as I was leaving home, a blizzard strnck
Eastern Pennsylvania. I had nn idea that
it struck me, and was liable to do it again,
so I bought a storm coat which represented
auout inree-ntths ol the wool clip ot tea
United States for 1890. The sun came out
the next day and spring set in the following
week, and hoping against hope, I dragged
that coat about the country witbme, paying
extra baggage on it when I carried it on my
arm, and suffering the agonies of the
smothered when I put it on my back. It
was just in the line of mylnck,"too, to have
my route turned south as the weather grew
warmer.
A coat of that S'ze and weight hadn't been
seen in the Sunny South since rebellion
muffled her face in her woolly mantle and
lay down to die at the foot of Pompey's
statue. "When I entereda sleeping car with
it on my arm the inflexible and indestructi
ble feet awning3 which it pleases Mr. Pull
man to disguise under the amusing nom de
guerre of "blankets" rose up on end and did
that coat homage as the Terror of the Storm.
I thought it would kill me, I don't know
why it didn't. It conld have done so; it had
me down many a time, and when it got the
Gave Sim a Trad on Tobacco.
under hold on me I let right go every time.
But somehow or other it spared me, and
when I came home, after vainly trying to
leave it on two trains and a Kanawha Eiver
steamboat, it followed me.
Hibernating In Tar and Camphor.
"We stowed it away in a box lined with
tar paper and let it hibernate for a few
weeks, when a friend happened to hear us
speak about it told us that it would draw the
house so full of moths they would eat everv
thinsr on the place except the windo"w
weights and buggy wheels. He said if he
wanted to catch a moth he would bait with
tar paper. The only thing to knock out
moths was gum camphor. So we trans
ferred the Terror of the Storm to another
box, and embalmed it in camphor. I think
it took about a ton; not more than that It
came to the house in a cart
"Well, the thing slept along until some
time in the fall, when I snokc aboul it to a
visitor, who said he was an importer of
woolens for 15 years, and that he discharged
a porter or salesman who used camphor for
headache the minute he came into the' store.
He said he wished he could find a moth just
to show me how greedily it would devour
camphor. The only way they ever used it
was to lay it nut on the sidewalk in front of
the' store to draw the moths out of the place.
Tobacco, he said, was the only moth slayer.
That knocked them cold, but nothing else
would. So we roused up the Terror once
more, and enticed him into a barrel, in
which we introduced a cargo of tobacco,
broken and powdered, and went around
weeping and sneezing the rest of the week.
Taking the Coat to Church.
Tou know how cold we all thought it was
going to be a few Sundays ago; and how
much it looked like snow, "and hail and rain?
I hated to have so much dead capital lying
about the houie, and fearing it would be the
only opportunity this winter to wear the
Terror, hauled it forth, got under it and
crawled into it. I wore it to church. I
went early in order to find an empty pew
into which I could get that coat I hadn't
been in the sanctuary very long before I
heard the sexton telling a deacon that it
was no use trying to do anything with that
old heater; the more you tinkered at it the
more it made gas.
"Nobody will be able to sit in this church
this morning," he said, "unless we turn off
all the heat. Just go in there and smell
tor yourself."
And the deacon came in and smelled and
told the sexton to go down and pour water
on the fire, and to break the heater np
Monday morning. I couldn't notice any
thing myself, but as I was in a strange
church I hated to say anything. A little
later a severe-looking man placed a tract in
my hands and went away and watched me
read it, sitting where he conld observe the
effect It was a story of a man who smoked
tobacco until his system and being were
just saturated with it, and then used drugs
to conceal the odor. He was entirely cured
of the habit by a little child, a dear little
girl who put a cartridge in his pipe and blew
the whole top of his head off.
The Crying Need of the Age.
I was deeply affected and must have dis
played my emotion, for the man looked
radiantly happy, and gave me another tract,
much worse than the first, telling about a
man who was very vain, and thought of
nothing but dress, and at last stole money to
buy a dizzy overcoat and was sent to Slate's
prison, wliere he contracted a terrible dis
ease that racked him tor weeks and months
in terrible agony betore he died. I began to
wish 1 had staypd at home. Another man,
who sat just behind me, told me that he
didn't think I ought to be out at all; that
when the grip, reached that stage it was
pestilential, and a man owed it to his
neighbors as well as himself to stay in the
house.
All these things made me feel so uncom
fortable that I left the house just Defore
they passed the plate around. I regretted
this, because ilooked as though I went to
a strange church just to air that storm coat
That really wasn't the Tcason, at least not
the principal, or at any rate not the only
one. J had other and, I trust, better reasons
than that. "What the present civilization
demands is not so much the discovery of
new groups of asteroids so far away that it
requires the united efforts of five men, work
ing ten hours a day for three years, to see
the place where they thought they were
when they began looking, but an inodor
ous, or at least pleasantly fragrant prepara
tion that will kill or keep the moths ont of
a 9 overcoat w ithout destroying the peace
and good feeling of an entire neighborhood.
P.OBEKX J. BUBDETTE.
Fits All fits stopped free by Dr. Kline's Grea
Nerve Eestorer. ho fits after first day's use. Mar
vleons cures. Treatise and 82 CO trial bottle free to
it coses. Jjr. Kline. 'Ml Arch it., l'hlla., I'o. su
ir Sheet Music.
AtH. Klcber Si Bro.'s, ISo. E06 "Wood
street, you will always find a good selection
of the latest songs and piano pieces, besides
an immense stock of classical and popular
music which they are selling at half price.
Also a large assortment of SO-gent and $1
folios and instruction books for all instru
ments in stock. Orders filled for all Euro
pean and American publications. x
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.V
THE MUSIC WORLD.
Latest Form of Art Enterprise as
Developed in the East End.
MERIT OF DAMEOSCfl'S ORCHESTRA.
Eoom ibr Improvement in the Public
fsttoalion of Criticism.
A BUDGET OF GENERAL KEWS ITEMS
The East End is already in large measure
independent of the business center oftbe
city in providing its own household sup
plies, its own churches and its own social
activities. Judging by the experience of
other cities, the next step will be the grad
ual establishment of public amusements in,
the same residence section. It is this gen
eral trend of development that lends deeper
interest to the modest beginning in the de
partment of choral music to be made this
week.
As was annonnced last Sunday, Mr.
Joseph C. Breil has called a meeting of
singers for next Thursday evening at 8
o'clock, in a photographic studio at No. 35
Erankstown avenue, for the purpose of
organizing a choral society, which Mr.
Breil offers to conduct gratis. While op
portunity has been lacking for the general
public, including the present writer, to form
personal estimatcofMr.Breil'squalifications
the fact of his going to Germany for an ex
tended course ot musical study and the
hearsay evidence upon his various achieve
ments as tenor singer and as composer-are
sufficient to make out a prima faci case in
his favor. Such being the case he should
have the whole-hearted and practical sup
port of all East End music-lovers and es
pecially of all experienced chorus singers
residing in that locality. The future holds
our promises enonsh to make it well worth
while for all to join with voice or patron
age, as the case may he.
Bnt much depends upon the way in
which such an enterprise is begun. In the
first place, as local experience has amply"
shown, permanent success cannot be at
tained by a "one-man-power" chorus. The
organization itself, not the conductor, must
be the object of loyalty. The conductor
should not be expected to attend to the gen
eral business of the society; he should be
elected by the society periodically under
by-laws which define his sphere of duty and
provide-officers and committees to assist
him and to carry on the general manage
ment of affairs.
A point of even greater delicacy and of
at least equal importance, is the selecting
of singers for the chorus. An inefficient
singer is very mnch worse than useless in a
chorus; every one such is a positive draw
back to the efficiency of the rest Perhaps
a wise way at starting would be to fix the
limit at a number well within the number
of voices oflered and empower the conductor
(aided, it might be, by a committee to divide
the responsibility) to select the best of the
material. A small chorus of, say, 20 to 30
picked voices is vastly more efficient than if
increased.hy adding less desirable material.
This is true not on.'y for the sake of final re
sults before the public, but also, and even
more, for the sake of the singers themselves.
The need of drilling the poorer singers over
and over on simple passages, is what dis
gusts the better singers and drives them
away finally.
There is delightful music lying ready for
just Buch a small chorus to take np. The
glees and madrigals of the earlier English
writers and the part-songs of their present
day successors are quite generally intended
to be sung without accompaniment and are
suited to smaller choruses. These would
lead nicely to the rich mines of pure choral
music of the Palaestrina school, from which
the rubbish ot centuries ought to be brushed
away. This unaccompanied music is
always effective to the public, in
addition to its especial interest
to the musician. It forms an almost virgin
field for the new chorus so far as this com
munity is concerned and is emphatically
the field best suited for a society that can
not, for the present at least, command the
aid of an orchestra.
"Wide opportunities open out before the
proposed society, if rightly formed and
guided; and it lies in the power of the ex
perienced singers of the East End and
nearby sections to start the enterprise in
such manner as to realize those opportuni
ties to the utmost
A. Discussion of Itelative Merit
Those who have questioned The Dis
patch's remark that "Walter Damrosch's
orchestra is not the equal of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra may be surprised to
see what the New York papers said
of the Boston band upon its first
concert there this season: Sun, "The
palm of supremacy over all kindred
organizations on this side of the water;"
Serald, -'The finest body of strings ever
heard in this country;" Recorder, "Nothing
like it in New York, neither in quality nor
in emembli;" World, "Among the three or
four foremost orchestras of the world." "To
which in the same week was added by the
Brooklyn Eagle, '"The rival of any force of
the kind in the world," and by the Phila
delphia Recordt "The most proficient band
of musicians ever organized in this coun
try. It is much more pleasant to quote these
praises than to quote the words of censure
that frequently appear, in the best critics'
reviews of Mr. Damrosch's concerts. Suf
fice it to say that THE Dispatch accorded
the New York" orchestra and its conductor
more generous treatment than they com
monly receive at home and elsewhere. On
the many points as to which the defects of
Cyclorama Hall rendered a positive judg
ment unsafe, the benefit of the doubt was
invariably given to the performers.
Yet, however clearly the performances
fell below the highest standards in this or
that respect, the visit of Mr. Damrosch and
.his men to this orchestrally benighted com
munity was an important and most enjoya
ble occasion, as has always been said in
these columns. The Allegheny Musical
Association should have every encourage
ment to repeat the experiment"
Some Ideas on Criticism,
Apropos of this vexed question of musi
cal criticism and its difficulties, there is a
very interestins and feelinz treatment of
the subject in last month's Boston Musical
Herald over the signature of Mr. Philip
Hale, himself one of the country's best
critics. Part of Mr. Hale's article follon s:
But the most dangerous foe to criticism Is
the great nnd enthusiastic concert-public
Some go to concerts becanse it is the fasbion
borne are curious to see and bear celebrated
people. Let it bo grauted, however, that
eight out of ten are honestly fond of music.
Some or this latter class have taken a few
pianoforto lessons, and are even uble to
"pick out tunes by ear." Or they sin?, and
In tho matter of method liie Mr. Small
weed in the matter of gravy
they are adamant. Others are with
out such accomplishments, but they ex
perience n "pleasant sensation when their
ears are tickled by sweet sounds or their
nerves are rasped by athletic music. It is
difficult to tf 11 which concert-oer is the
more dangerous, tne man who ilays or
sings a little or the man whoi frankly tells
you "I don't know mnch about music, hut I
know what I like." lhe lormer is apt to
measure all perlormers by the narrow tape
measure of his superficial knowledge; the
latter is very often pleased .with that which
is absolutely had. Go to a con
cert in New York or Boston, Purls
or Berlin. Tou will hear singers
that habitually sing falso applauded to the
echo, provided they indulge m cheap senti
mental ism or Are off roulade-rncketd which
explode at a dizzy height. The planornrte
pounder conquers the gaping crowd. It is
true that singers and players of merit are
often as noisily applauded. The average
'concert-goer is greedy for enjoyment, and
his appetite lscasny satisnea in tne matter
of quality. Nowthe critic of a daily news
paper is obliged by the prevailing custom to
write his notice Immediately after the per-
Iformance. He isobllged to write hurriedly,
he Is at the merer of thenlght editor and the
proof reader. He mast write a readabla
notice, and too often, as Georsre llooro puts
It, "hysterical abandonment of critical rea
son Is fomented in the red pepper hours of
spontaneous composition in a printing of
fice." He has bnt little tlmo to weigh Ms
sentences. Ho Is tempted to accentuate un
dnly his phrases of praiso or blame. And,
the manof midnight lsadifferentbelns front
tho man or noon, the next day. The cooCi
citizen who fonnd such pleasure In the con
cert of tho night berore, tatesno hi3 news
paper at the breakfast table and discovers
that his applause was vain ana foolish. The
singer that charmed him gang badly: tho
player was unworthy tho reception given
him. The critic gives his reasons. He states
faats nnd appeals to established canons of
taste. The reader does not discriminate; ha
says to himself, "Well, I liked it. and this
man was not satisfied. It is merely a ques
tion of Individual opinion after all
and I have a rfeht to mine.
;;
He Is vexed, however, becansa the
critic did not agree with him. He then
writes the editor a noto In which he mis
quotes and abuses the critic; for the average
reader wishes the newspaperof his choice to
reflect or confirm his own opinions upon all
things knowable and certain other things.
The fact that tho critic 13 thoroughly ac
quainted with hi3 trade is of little Import
ance. The citizen, a lawyer, ora merchant,
or a doctor, wonld ill brook the opinions of
the critic concerninehis particular business;
he reserves for himself tho ri:;ht to criticise
recklessly the critic in the exercise ofhij
profession.
So it is that there is a tendency In this
country to settle questions of art by a show
ing of hands and the applanse of the un
thinking. "IJcadm articles" of a light and
gossipy nature are la many Instances pre
ferred to honest criticisms written by men
of learning and convictions. Theyoffendno
one. They give interesting details concern
ing the parcntaao and the wardrobe of the
singer. And they are olteu. pleasingly illus
trated. Crotchet and Qaavsr.
Mjie Etelka GEnsTzit and the pianist,
Sally Liehirnir. are touring in the South Ger
man cities with success.
Moritz MosKowem's new opera, "Boabdll,
the Lust KinK of the Moors," Is to be
brought out at the Berlin Opera Honse In
February.
JIes. Amalie JoAcnnr, the separated wife
of the great violinist, will bo welcomed to
this country in February as one of the great
est IAeder singers of the world.
A Loiroox cable received last night says:
"The Iwsoche" was played for the last tlmo.
at the Royal English Opera to-nizht and the
honse will he closed for some time.
At St. Paul's Cathedral this evening will
be sung a Tantum Ergo by Mr. Joseph c.
Ureil. which is of ambitions deIen, bavins
1 tho finale set for soprano obligato, male
quartet, full chorns and organ.
Mr. Giuseppe Giixi was tho recipient of a
handsome testimonial medal from his pupils
and friends on the occasion of his ebneert
last Thursday, wherein Messrs. A. I.ibcratv
Kocereto, Charle3 Corcoran and C 'W. Flem
ing assisted.
Mn. II. L. Risgwalt and his chorus choir
gave a successful concert last Thursday
evening at the Shady Avenne Baptist
Church. Miss Bertha M. Kaderly, Mr. H. B.
BrocLett, Jr., and Miss Adele Ecahard took:
part in the interesting programme.
Patti and PaderewskI both want to ho
heard in Pittsbnrg soon. The chief diffi
culty each management seems to have Is to
decide which of onr "concert halls" is the
least objectionable. Whenever they may
appear either of these artists may be sure of
a full honse here.
The National Society for the Promotion of
Musical Art (the old 31. T. X. A.), will have
Its next meeting at Cleveland Instead of
Minneapolis. The lntter's representatives
have thrown np the sponge L e. resigned la
favor or Cleveland men, who promise to
emulate Detroit's successful efforts on be
half of the preceding meeting. The Bay
City will be more convenient for Pitts
burgers, at all events.
Air eminent educator once remarked, "I
I had two children, a boy andasirl, ana
conld afford a musical education for but one
of them, it would be the boy, for it would be
a channel for him to work: off his superflu
ous spirits in a way that would be of use to
him. When grown tobe a man he conld find
profitable employment for bis musical siill
as church organist, choir director or singer,
to say nothing of the social, moral and re
fining value of music upon him, as well as
the fact that tho practice of music Is an ef
fective keep-at-home, as well as a pleasant
employment of his time."
PENETRATES
STOPS PAIN
WOOD'S
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PLASTER
FAR IN ADVANCE OF
ORDINARY POROUS
AND OTHER PLASTERS
SoldbyDmggbts Everywhere
Nor Tork Depot 1 93 WZBaa Street
The Reasons Are Plain
and easily understood why Drs. Lowe,
Grnbbs and associates of the Catarrh and
Dyspepsia Institute, 223 Penn avenue, enjoy
such a world-wide reputation for enring
their patients. They are thoroughly edu
cated physicians, and have had a combined
practice of 50 vears. Their knowledge of
disease and medicine, with their quick per
ception enablo them to correctly diagnose
the ills of their patients, nnd anply the
proper remedies for each Individual case.
Besides their costly medicines, prepared
from their own laboratory, they have many
other scientific methods of treatment not
possessed by any other physician or firm of
physicians in Western Pennsylvania. Their
constant, watchful caro of their patients
makes such changes in their treatment
irom time to time as the change of their
condition may require.
S5 a Month.
Although the medicines themselves cost
several times that of cheap meaicines, ir
respective of cost, Dra. Lowe, Grubbs and
associates will treat all catarrh and dyspep
sia patients who apply before February 15,
at $3 a month, including medicine. Both old
and new patients will be treated at $3 a
month until cured, that the suffering publio
everywhere may prove to themselves be
yond a question of a doubt tho superior skill
of these physicians in curing the disease of
their specialty.
La Grippe, Pneumonia nnd Consumption
Often the Keso.lt of Iteglected Catarrh.
While so many died last winter from la
Grippe verr few patients who had received
treatmentfrom the
physicians of the
Catarrh and Dys
pepsia Institute
were afflicted by
that disease. La
grippe Is always
worse and more li
able to be attended
with fatal results
when there is ca
tarrh in the sys
tem. The case of
Mr. A. Weiblinger,
691 Ohio street, Al
legheny, is of in
terest as ie in
volves not only tbe
chest and lengs,
nnfenln his tcm-
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Pfe'&aifc
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Dr. A. & Lowe. ach. Ho had a
feeling of weight nud tightness in his chest,
short breath, nnd Tor six months he had a
hacking cough, with an expectoration of -mucus.
Ho had pain in his back and tired
feeling in the morning, nehad dizziness,
poor appetite, distress after eatinr, with
sour eructations or gas. After takins u
course of treatment he says: "I am glad to
add mj- testimony with hundreds of others
to a complete enre received from the physi
cians or tho Catarrh and Dyspepsia Insti
tute. (Signed) A. WEIBLIXGEK-"
Office hours. 10 A. if. to 4 r. it., and 6 to 8
p.m. Sundays, 1 to I r. jr. Home treatment
by correspondence. Send, two2-cent stamps
for question blank. Remember tbe name
and place, and address all letters to the '
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