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TBE FlTTSBtTEW DISPATCH, BUTTDAT, AFML' Z 18WI
certainly bo rejected bv the House of Com
mons. In the opinion even of a
good many women it fully de
serves that fate because the ma
jority of married women would be
excluded from its operation, and because it
does not recognize rights logically arising
out of the conferment of the franchise. The
Women's Franchise League, for instance, a
boay which insists that women shall be en
titled to sit in Parliament and on the judi
cial bench as well as to vote, refuses to ac
cept halt a loaf as better than no bread, and
has petitioned against the bilL
The debate is likely to be a lively one.
Mr. Gladstone will not be present, as he
will not return to town until next Thursday
or Friday, but Sir William Harcourt has
undertaken to oppose the bill from the
Liberal iront bench, and at least one mem
ber of the Government will also speak
against it.
A private conference will be held in Lon
don on the 2d and 3d of May, at which Lib
eral electoral agents from every constitu
ency in Great Britain will be present and
receive their final instructions for the gen
eral election. A similar Tory caucus will
be held later in the month. For the mo
ment, politics, properly so-called, are phe
nomenally dulL
POLICE WON'T INTERFERE
Witliths Socialistic 21 ay Day Farads and
Alerting in London Poor Prospect for
a Peaceful Time A 'Warn in- to Poli
ticiansDemands to Be Made.
rCT CABLE TO THE DISFATCH.1
Loxdok, April 2a The May Day de
monstrations in Europe thisyear promise to
be of larger dimensions than any other of
their predecessors, and the indications are
rather against a peaceful day. From Bel
gium and irom Austria the reports are
aminous, and a conflict is not at all un
likely. The Spanish Anarchists, too, are
teething, but though there is much talk of
trouble in Paris, the officials there express
themselves confident of being able to re
press quickly any attempt at disorder.
In Lordon the nrocessionists to Hvde
Park will content themselves with demand
ing an eight-hour day. A feature of the
English demonstration will be the appoint
ment of a workingmen's deputation to po
litical leaders, setting forth their demands.
The demonstration promises to be a very
bigaBair. It will be mainly agenuinenon
soeialistic labor display, for although the
Socialists will take part in it they will
march as a distinct body, and will be ad
dressed Irom a couple otplatfornis specially
set apart tor them.
The police will not interfere with the de
monstration, except to regulate traffic, and
the znauilestants will preserve order by
means of their own marshals. The Govern
ment, however, has engaged stenographers
to take lull notes of the speeches made by
the Anarchists and Socialists, which, in
view of the prosecution of the publisher and
editor of the Commonweal, are expected to
be of an exceptionally ferocious character.
The prosecution ot the Commonvxal is
generally approved, as beyond doubt it has
of late directly incited to murder and
outrage. J t w as'established eight years ago,
by the poet and Socialist, William Morris,
wd for a long time its contributions in
proe and poetry gave it a literary flavor,
which commended it to a good many people
who did not care a button for its economic
cd political policy. But owing to one of
the splits which are of constant occurrence
in the ranks of the Socialist party in this
country, Morris severed his connection
with the paper some time ago, and it has
been since steadily deteriorating in quality
and character.
A STEAIN ON CANADA'S PUESH
-fhat the Arbitration and Peace Association
is Anxious to Avoid.
rCT CABLE TO TUE DISPATCH
London-, April 23. David Dudley Field
has sent to the Concord MonVdy, the organ
of the International Arbitration and Peace
Association, a letter of greeting and35 lines
of blank verse entitled, "Lines Written on
My Eighty-seventh Birthday." The asso
ciation has just sent to Lord Salisbury a
resolution passed at the last meet
ing of the Txecutive Committee, setting
forth "the grave importance of maintaining
in its integritr the treaty of 181", under
which Great Britain and the United States
entered into an agreement that neither
power should place ships of war 'on the
American lakes." The association has also
sent to the Foreign Office a letter on the same
subject, pointing out that if the treaty
oe not maintained, "rivalry in armaments
would probably arise which would imply
the possibility of hostilities at some future
time and tend to diminish the sense of pub
lic tecurity and that spirit of close friend
ship which should exist between Canada,
Great Britain and the United States."
But the chief concern of the association,
as it is of all Englishmen who have given
any thought to the question, is the terrible
etrain upon Canadian finances which would
result from an attempt to keen pace with
the wealthy United States in the matter ot
lake armaments. Such a strain might soon
become unbearable, because public opinion
in this country would not sanction the giv
ing of assistance to Canada from the im
perial exchequer unless, indeed, the
Dominion markets should be thrown open
tree to British goods.
ALWAYS EEHAVED AS A IADT.
An Ecerntrlc English Woman Who Never
Quite rorot Hrr Breeding.
London, April 23. Miss Mary Pope, an
Englishwoman of good familv, news of
whose death in Vienna from starvation and
disease, nap recently cabled to The Dis
TATcn, lelt a considerable sum of money,
which is now in charge of the British
Consul. It is now believed that,
laving become tired ot life,
and as a devout Catholic, believing suicide
to be a mortal sin, she compounded with her
conscience by voluntarily neglecting herself
to death. Twenty years ago she was con
verted to Catholicism, and subsequently
Fen ed for several years as a missionary in
Egypt and the Soudan. She earned a good
income iu Vienna by teaching English, de
spite her many eccentricities, some of which
verged upon insauity.
She had pockets all round the hem of her
dress, in which it as her custom to carry
such things as a salt cellar, peDper box,
knife, lork, spoon, plate, napkin, towel,
medicine bottles and materials for lunch
and dinner. It is claimed lor this strange
woman, however, that she "always behaved
as a lady."
Valuable Pictures on the Market,
CUV CABLE TO THE DLSPATCH.1
London, April 23. The first portion of
the pictures of Messrs. Murrieta, who were
overwhelmed by the South American
financial troubles, will 'be sold by Messrs.
Christie at the end of next w eek. There
are some interesting and valuable
works, among others, by David Cox,
" Bitket, Foster, Copley, Fielding, Alma
Tadcma and Cooper. "The sale will last
three days, and a second sale will take place
later in the season.
Peel end Mrs. l.angtry Horns Again.
tBT CABLE TO TUE DISPATCH.!
London, April 23. Young Peel, the son
of Sir Robert Peel, lias just returned from
Monte Carlo with Mrs. Langtry and 5,000,
the balance of bis winnings at the gaming
table.
Crippled for Want or rands.
tBY CABLE TO TUE DISPATCH.
London, April 23. The National So
ciety lor the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil
dren, which brought Mrs. Montagu to jus
tice, is crippled for lack of money.
London's Stock Exchange raying Well.
IBV CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 23. The business yesr
which ended with the 25th of March last,
was admittedly one of the worst ever ex
perienced on the London Stock Exchange.
But although the memben made little orno
profit, they had, of course, to pay subscrip
tions and other charges, -and the corporation
which owns the exchange was able to pav a
dividend of 50 per cent upon its paid-up
capital of 240.000. There are now 3,332
members and 1,923 members' clerks having
privilege of entrance. Only 9GG members
are shareholders in the corporation.
ENGLAND'S ARMY WEAK.
Another Awful Shock to the British Tax
payer An Exaert Declares a Crack
Corps Is Composed Principally of Un
developed Men and Coys.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.
London, April 23. The people of Great
Britain who are scared periodically by re
ports on the inefficiency of their navy have
to-day bten shocked by revelations con
cerning the inefficiency of their army. The
first army corps of Great Britain, in round
numbers 30,000 men, is fondly supposed by
the British elector to be ready to take the
field at two days' notice. It is this division
that would first be launched upon a con
tinental battlefield should England become
involved in a conflict with her European
neighbors.
Dr. Hambleden, In a report to General
Sir Evelyn "Wood, upon this force, savs
that only a small proportion of the men
are sound and reliable, while the remainder
are undeveloped men and boys who are
physicallv totally incapable of enduring
the hardships of war. lie gives their age,
heights, weights and chest and other meas
urements to prove this, and then strongly
urges that boy recruits should be
put through a course of physical
exercises to aid them in their development,
be provided with a sufficiency of wholesome
food, and trained under the highest sani
tary conditions. He holds that the pre
ventable waste of the British army from
consumption and other diseases reaches a
total equaling a financial loss of 500,000
per annum.
Coming so soon after the revelations
made before the recent commission, the
people of England are beginning to ask
what they get lor the 17,000,000 annually
spent upon what is officially described as
an army. Dr. Hambleden declares that
this condition of affairs is a grave source
of danger to the State. Most people will
agree with him.
ANAECHISIS AT A FUNEKAL.
Remember Chicago, Are the Words
In-
scribed on One of the Banners.
London, April 23. The funeral of Mrs.
Mowbray, the deceased wife of the
publisher of the Commonweal, the An
archist paper which was seized by the
police a lew days ago, when both the editor
Nichols and Mowbray were ar
rested, took place to-day from "White-
chapel, where the Mowbrays lived.
The Magistrate before whom Nichols and
Mowbray were arraigned refused to admit
them to bail, but he changed his mind to
day at least so far as Mowbray was con
cerned, and allowed him his freedom upon
furnishing 500 bail. The only reason for
releasing him was to enable him to attend
his wife's funeral.
The occasion was taken advantage of by
many Anarchists and advanced Socialists to
show their sympathy for Mowbray. The
funeral was attended by an enormous crowd
of members of the International Working
men's Club. A procession with a number
of red flags and banners was formed and ac
companied the hearse for a long distance.
Two of the more conspicuous of these ban
ners bore the words, ".Remember Chicago;"
"There Will Be a Time When Our Silence
Will Be More Powerful Than the Voices
You Strangle To-Day. " A large force of
police were present to preserve order, but
their services were not required.
WAS ON WEEVILS TO BE WAGEtt
English Apple Growers Creed to Imitate
Their Brethren in France.
tBT CABLE TO THE DISPATCH
London, April 23. The British Board
of Agriculture is endeavoring to arouse the
apple growers of England to imitate their
French competitors and take combined ac
tion against the apple blossom weevil,
which has done incredible damage to apple
crops in recent years. The ravages of this
minute insect are oftener seriously
attributed to the East wind or
late frosts, and even when the
true nature of the evil is recognized, it is
useless for one cultivator to incur trouble
and expense to remove it, if his neighbors
allow it to increase and multiply in security
all around. One weevil.it is" stated, will
lay 20 eggs, placing only one in each bud of
an apple blossom, there to be hatched and
nourished upon the fruitful portion of the
flower, to the destruction of all hope of
apples.
In France the apple growers, in a village
form an association, and, seizing the appro
propriate moment, make a combined raid on
the invaders of all trees in the parish. In
one orchard of about eight acres scores of
thousands of weevils were shaken from the
trees and destroyed, and a satisfactory crop
of apples afterward was obtained.
PZEE OPPOSED TO PZZB
A Bake Hakes an iarl Come Down Heavy
With the Dust.
rET CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
LONDON, April 2a The rare and re
freshing spectacle of one peer opposing
another has been witnessed in London this
week. Young Earl Dudley's town house in
Park Lane is built on land belonging to the
Duke of Westminster, who receives an
enormous sum yearly for the ground rent
The Earl and his bride having
made up their minds to keep
house on a grand scale during the London
season, set about enlarging their town man
sion. While the builders were still at work,
the Earl suddenly remembered that his
lease would expire at the end of next year,
and that if it were not renewed the Ducal
freeholder would be able to take possession
of the house and improvements, neither of
which ever cost him a farthing.
But the Duke refused to renew the lease
except upon payment of "a fine." Negotia
tions ensued, and as a result the Earl has
paid the Duke a snm said to amount to
10,000 in return for the privilege of paying
a heavy ground rent for another term of
years.
AMERICAN SCHOOLS OP CEIHE.
A Terrible Arraignment or Prison System
Which Permits Free Intercourse.
Loxdos, April 2a In a letter written
by Lester William Tallack, of the Howard
Association, he says that after a careful
study of the prisoners in Italy sad America,
where a system has been adopted of giving
prisoners of a hardened type free inter
course with the other prisoners and provid
ing them with conifortsand luxuries, he has
found tbe results are deplorable.
The prisons of Massachusetts, he declares,
are schools of crime, and have terrible ef
lects upon the community. Crime in Eng
land, where the prisoners are separate, has,
according to Mr. Tallack, greatly de
creased, while in America it is rapidly in-
DOWH-HEAHTED LTJMBERHEH.
Not Enough Water in New Brunswick
Streams to Float T-ogs to Market.
St. John, N. B, April 2a There is not
sufficient water in the streams to float the
logs, and the lumbermen are becoming very
anxious. The rivers all over the province
have not been so low for 15 years. Several
million feet of logs are hung up.and the loss
entailed daily by this enforced idleness is
large.
The operators are obliged to keep their
men in readiness, waiting a favorable op
portunity, and this outlay cannot be made
up unless there should be an advance in the
prices of lumber. The English market
shows no signs of such a favorable state of
affairs, and lumbermen are discouraged,
CH0LBEA NBAS FABIS,
Tour Pronounced Cases Only a Few Miles
Distant From the Capital.
Pasts, April 23. Anxiety hat been
caused here by the reports of an outbreak ot
cholera near Paris. A man living at
Puteaux, seven milei west, has been ad
mitted to the Beaujon Hospital, where the
doctors pronounce his disease cholera.
Three other men from Neuilly and Conr
bevie, both of which places are only a few
miles from Paris, were subsequently ad
mitted to the hospital suffering from the
same disease, and one of the men has since
died.
Fitful Flashes From Aran
Fivexch police are still keeping np the An
al chlst hunt.
Shaeesfeabe's birthday -was celebrated at
Stritford-on-Avon.
The Czar's prohibition of the export of
grain will remain in force nntll September.
ExoLisn sentiment appears to be against
the proposed International silver confer
ence. Cbolera In Its -worst form Is epldemlo In
Benares, India, Already 135 deaths are re
ported. Charles N. Boseitrlo, an American
S lunger, is the latest suicide at Monte Carlo,
e shot himself through the brain.
Alarmed at the spread of Btnndlst tenets
In South Russian prisons. Governor Igna
tietr has ordered that Stundlst prisoners be
Isolated.
A BAXQuxr was given at the American Le
gation in Madrid by Hon. KBurd Grubb,
tho American Minister, to Senor Dupny, the
newly appointed Spanish Minister to the
United States.
Tns Canard line steamer Pavonla, whloh
sailed from Liverpool Friday for Boston, car
ries the larsest number of emigrants so far
this year. Four hundred embarked at Liver
pool and 803 more at Queens town.
Dcriso a heavy log yesterday In the Bris
tol channel, the British steamship Earl of
Chester collided with the Spanish steamship
Soto. The Earl of Chester sank within
seven minutes. The Soto commander suc
ceeded in running his vessel agiound.
William Morris, London poet and Social
ist, went bail for Mowbray, tailor and An
archist, in the sum of 500. This will en
able Mowbray to attend the funeral or his
wire, who had died an hour before his arrest.
Mowbrav nas publisher of the Anarchist
Journal Commonweal.
William Astor Chaitleii says he will start
early in June for East Africa, In company
with Lieutenant Hohnel, of the Austrian
navy, and Count Telaki, with the object of
careful scientific research along the Tana
river. They will also visit tho comparatively
unknown region of East Rudolph Lake,
which has been considered a very dangerous
ground for Europeans. It was there that
Baron Veckeu was murdered, and that
Bevlol, Respoli and Ferrandi tailed in their
efforts to accomplish their aims. The coun
try abounds In warlike tribes.
BATTLING THEIR CHAINS.
Married Couples Who Want Release From
Their Bonds Attachments to Issue for
Baltimore Terminal Witnesses Petition
lor a Free Boad Jfews of the Courts.
Three suits for divorces were entered yes
terday. Attorney G. P. Murray filed the
suit of Charles W. Washington against
Clara Washington. They were married
September 21, 1866, and it is alleged he de
serted her May 18, 1883.
Attorney Rowand filed the suit of
Mary S. Heath, by her next friend,
A. C. Wallace, against Robert
W. Heath. They were married March
26, 1879, and it is alleged he deserted her
February 6, 1886.
Attorney Mcllvain entered tbe suit of
Mary E. Deiserotb, by hernext friend Char
lotte Steinhauser, against Albert G. Deise
roth. They were married January 19, 1882,
and separated May 1, 1891. Cruelty and
desertion is charged.
Divorces were granted on the grounds of
cruelty in the cases of Mary 8. Carroll
against William Carroll, and Mary M.
Spielman against Edward G. Spielman.
THE C0TOT TAKES A HARD.
Witnesses Must Appear and Testify In the
Baltimore Terminal Suits.
Judge White yesterday handed down an
opinion in the matter of the petition of W.
F. Bobb and J. H. Beal, Commissioners
by the Circuit Court of Baltimore to take
testimony in a case against the Baltimore
Terminal Company, asking for. an attach
ment to compel the attendance of wit
nesses. The court authorized the Commissioners
to issue subpoenas for the witnesses, and if
they failed to attend to issue attachments
for them to the Sheriff to compel their at
tendance. If they refuse to testify or other
difficulty arises they are to report the matter
to court' for further action.
Habeas Corpus for a Witness.
In the case of Ellen Dwyer against the
Citizens' Traction Company, which is to be
tried Monday, the plaintiff yesterday
asked for a writ of habeas corpus to bring
David Doughty, a material witness, who is
now a prisoner in tbe workhouse, into court
to testify. The petition was granted and
Doughty will be brought in.
For the Value of an Bye.
Frank .Krechek yesterday entered suit
against John Mangold for 51,000 damages.
The plaintiff states that on November 30,
1891, be was standing on his own premises
when the defendant's minor son fired a gun,
the bullet striking Krechek in the right eye,
permanently injuring it.
Petition for a Free Boad.
J. W. Kirker, Esq., yesterday filed in the
Quarter Sessions Court a petition signed by
32 citizens of Bellevue asking that the New
Brighton turnpike be declared a free road.
It is claimed it is not kept in good condi
tion and should be free.
After the Price of Bis Groceries.
Leonard and John L. Greenewald yester
day entered suit against A A. Weiner for
51,000 damages for the alleged illegal levy
and sale of groceries owned by them.
Monday's Trial Usts.
Common Pleas Court No. 1 Fisher, Jr.,
et al vs Schmidt et al; Brnening vs Bovaird
et al: Hippie & Co. vs Moorhead; White vs
Pittsburg and Allegheny Bridge Company:
Lang & Co. vs Williams et al; Boggs & Buhl
vs Liggett et ux; Shields vs Hubley & Co.;
Harbison vs Havmaker; Lynn vs Jackson et
ax: Gamble vs McDermott.
Common Pleas Court No. 2 Pier, receiver,
vs Manning: Haley et nl vs Shatter et al;
National Cash Register Company vs Brag
don: Achaminer vs Citizens' Insurance Com
pany of Pittsburg.
Common Pleas Court No. 3 Dwver vs
Citizens' Traction Company; Van Voorhls
vs Kea Bros. & Co.: Keisling vs San.'ord:
Hanlgnn vs Duquene Traction Company;
Merriman vs Netting; Wbltehoiise vs
Whltehouse: McMasters vs Fcltzbonrer;
Wilson bnjder Manutncturing Company vs
Stirling & Co.; Miller vs Eccles; Common
wealth for use vs Shii lev; Noble, trustee, vs
Bradaock and Turtle Creek Stieet Railway
Cotupmy.
Criminal Conrt Commonwealth vs Charles
Hunter. John PatofcWfe (2), John Helmi (2),
Jolin 11. Smith. Jol-n Costello (2), John
Baker (3). Duncan Holleran, John Hall,
It Oslo I'aiker, Jane Ree-e, Blanche Reese,
Ilradv Dortt-, James Winslow, lxmis Endei
leiu, Ben Kaibey, William Smith, Jo tin Kus
ter, Edward Dramble, Otto Zimmerman,
Otto Kngcl, George Marlowe (3). John Fuhi,
John Coulon, Georgo Deyster. Frank
McCarthy (10), Daniel McKenna (2). Hugh
Parker, Charles Rodcrous, Andy Beth (2).
Tiiomas O'llanlon, James lobin, Thoiuxs
Turner. Thonns Anderson (2), Minnie Ball,
Mary Callahan, William Moran, Charles
Miller, Frank Hines, Georgo Arnold, Mar
garet Jones John Jones, William Ludgate,
Thro. Snrotcr, Duncan Sloane, Thomas J.
Bicksler, Mike Mannion, Peter England,
Frank Sape.
Beau our local nnder beading, "Big Valcres
in Cavpet" and "Our Carpet Sale." To-day's
Dispatch. J. H. Kuitkkl & Bao.,
Cor. Penn avenne and Fourteenth street.
THE MUSIC WORLD.
i
An Able Discussion of tbe Probabili
ties of an American School.
THE HOZARTS HArTB AMWBULER.
Programmes of the Festival Concert!
Arranged by That Club.
EECEPTIOKB OP THE ART BOCIETT
In these days we hear much talk about
how we are to develop a distinctive Ameri
can school of composition. Beams of good,
white paper have been spoiled in showing
why we have no musical style peculiarly
our own, and in trying to show how we
may coax our musical production into some
nationally characteristic channel.
It has already been urged in this depart
ment that America should be very cautious
about catting loose from the Old World
sources of musical learning and inspiration;
that we should refrain from formulating a
musical declaration of independence until
we can be quite certain we have nothing
more to learn irom onr older sisters. It has
been queried whether, at any rate, the cre
ation of a distinctive school was an object
worth striving tor.
This same line of thought Is taken up In
a thoughtful and convincing article by Mr.
W. W. Gilchrist, the eminent Philadelphia
musician, in the American ArtJburnil, under
the title: "Is There to Be a Distinctive
American School of Music?"
a Mr. Gilchrist shows that national char
acter in musical art, as it exists to-day, has
been the result of these factors: First, iso
lation; second," tradition, romance, super
stition. He readily proves that these fac
tors are not ana will not be present in the
development of the American people, and
comes to the inevitable conclusion that
there will never be a distinctive American
school of music. This negation is anything
but a hopeless one, however, as the follow
ing extracts irom Mr. UUchrist's ringing
final paragraphs amply demonstrate:
I have used tho expression, "Art, as it exists-
to-day." Now, is art ns it exists to-day
perfect? And especially is one national art
per cct to the exclusion of all others? Has
not each school something which misht well
be engrafted into all others nnd something
which it were well to discard? Furthermore,
aie the ci eating causes of a national school,
as before enumerated, of such a wortliv, ex
alted natnro as to warrant us in bolioving
that they of all others are the onlv factors
capable of producing tho tiuest, hig"hestand
most per,ect art? No, a thousand
times no! The arc of the futnre must be
built upon tlio everlasting foundations of
nniversnl sympathy. Love and truth, with
out reierence to nationality, must receive
its inspiration from what is universally
sympatnetlc, lovely and true; not from that
which Is merely romantic, superstitious and
largely untrne, and whose only glory is de
rived irom the dim receding lamp of tradi
tion. No. and art, in those phases which eo
to makn it peculiar to any ono nation, is im
perfect by just that much, and now is the
dawn of a new age in which our inspirations
shall be common to the -whole brotherhood
of man.
Who will deny that the act of composition
Is a struggle to express the interior emo
tions through the medium of a very fallible
exterior? And who can deny that one of tho
greatest factors in tho creation of this an
noying fallibility is tho influence or physical
surroundings? What composer but yearns
and prays to be delivered from jus'tthis?
Beethoven, Rossini. Auber, are not trrcat be
cause German, Italian or French. Thovare
great in spite of it greatest in what is com
mon to an ana weakened in the expression
of real ti nth by just so much as they are
hampered bv the inherited traditions ot
their nationality.
Let us then, as Americans, strive not to
follow this school or that, not for any tiled,
deliberate, premeditated character in onr
woik. Rather lot us strive for that continual
development of high moral religious
character, and that deep Internal appreci
ation of what is mniverSally good and true,
and so lay the fonndatlon for sn adequate
expression of it. Providence, who doeth alt
things well, will select herown Instruments,
In her own good time, and In her own good
way. Letnot future generations say: This
is good because American, German, Italian,
Fiench. Let them saj: This is good be
cause true; beautiful because it is true.
It Is Now President 1'itcalrn.
Mr. H. C. Frick, who for several years
has so ably and generously officiated as
President of the Mozart Club, resigned that
office last week under pressure of his large
business interests. Mr. Robert Pitcairn was
forthwith elected to 'the vacant chair and
has, with characteristic energy, already
taken hold of the active work now being
done in preparation for the big festival con
certs in May. The club has been very for
tunate in having had such a President as
Mr. Frick; it is equally so in obtaining such
a successor, as Mr. Pitcairn. That men of
their standing in the community should
thus identify themselves with and actively
assist the work of our leading musical or
ganization augurs well for the future ot the
art in our midst.
The programmes of the three festival con
certs to be given by the Morart Club, aided
by the Boston Symnbony Orchestra and
eminent soloists, at Old' City Hall, May 12,
13 and 14, are now given out as follows:
THURSDAY EVENING.
BrrtLioz: Overture, "Benvenuto Cellini."
Cnoris: Concerto for pianoforte, in E
minor, op. 11
(a) Allegro Maestoso.
(6) Romance: Larghetto.
(c) Rondo: Vivace.
. Mr. Eusen D' Albert.
Goldmark: Svmphonv, "Busiic Wedding."
(a) Wedding March With Varta-
tlons: Moderate molto
(6) Bridal Song: Allegretto.
(c) In the Garden: Andante.
(d) Dince: Finale, Allegro molto.
Soli for Violoncello.
(a) Bach, Sarabande.
(6) Schtbert, .Moment MusleaL
(c) Klesqel, Capriccioo.
Mr. A I win Schroeder.
Waoxzb: (a) Prelude "Lohengrin."
(6) "Huldigungs' March."
FRIDAY EVENING.
PART I.
Wzbir: Overture, "Frolschnetz."
Waoker: Romanze,"Bliclc lch umher'
"Tannhaeuser."
Mr. Georg Herschel.
SAnrrSASirs: Symphonic poem
"Le ltouet d'Omphale."
Bolt for Ptanofortr.
la) CnoPis: Nnctnrne, op. 0. No. 8.
(6) CHortit: Polonal-e, op. 83.
(e) Rubinstein: Etude, np, 23, No. &
Mr, Eugen D' Albert.
Sonot with Pianoforte.
la) Loewe: "The Erl King."
(6) Scbumanit: "The Grenadiers."
Mr. Georg HencheL
TtchaVKrwiky: Theme and Variations from
Suite, op. S3.
PART II.
Gadx: Cantata "Zlon."
.Mr. Edward H. Dermitt, baritone.
The Mozatt Club and Boston Symphony
Orchestra.
SATURDAY Evurrao.
Mendelssohn: Oratoiio, "Elijah."
Mrs. George Henchel, Miss Adelaide Fores
mnn, Mr. Paul Zimmerman, Mr. Gardner
Latnson. Mozart Club and Boston Sym
phony Orchestra.
As they stand, these programmes unques
tionably present a musical feast ot high qual
ity. For a, city where orchestral concerts
aCoupd they would anstver very well. But
they do not fill the needs ot a community
visited by orciiestras but little less seldom
than by angels. And that chiefly because
almost all the orchestral works chosen have
appeared upon one or the other of the lew
orchestral programmes we have had within
the past two or three years.
Pittsburg has' so few chances of hearing
orchestral music at all, that it is absolutely
necessary to select programmes with distinct
reference to what we have bad before. To
repeat the same things so much is to shut
out the yast range ot classical and modern
music that wc have never heard at all.
The repertoire of the peerless Boston
orchestra embraces any number of equiva
lents for any of the above-named works,
which woald be just as interesting to the
unthinking mass of the people and would
at the same time meet the wishes of the
earnest music-lover. Conductor Nikisch
should be strongly urged to change the pro
grammes .while yet there is time.
Progress of tu Art Society.
The Art Society is signalizing tbe close of
its first year nnder the new charter by an
especially, brilliant series, of receptions and
by a hearty welcome to a large number ot
new -members. The exclnsire policy of
nearly a score of years has been replaced by
a frankly admitted desire to extend the
privileges and 'pleasures of membership
through the cultured classes and by the
chartered purpose to foster the fine arts in
all possible ways for the benefit of the en
tire community.
With the co-operation of the right people
at present and the splendid opportunities of
the Carnegie Library, Art Gallery, Musio
Hall museum endowment for the future.
there is no limit to the good that can be ac
complished under the Art Society's organi
zation for art in Pittsburg.
The first of the three lecture recitals on
Wagner's "Die Meisterslnger," by Mrs.
Constance Howard, announced last Sunday,
was given at the society's rooms on Friday
afternoon. While the semi-private nature
of these receptions precludes a critical
review, they are sufficiently in
the publio gaze to make it proper
to state that Mrs, Howard made
a profound impression upon her cultured
audience. Her method is wholly unique;
so clear, that anyone may follow intelligent
ly; so artistic, that all can realize much of
tbe pleasure ot a regular performance ot the
glowing, humorous comedy-opera. Mrs.
Howard will take up the second act on
Monday afternoon, and the last act, musi
cally the most brilliant, on Thursday even
ing. Following these three receptions, whloh
are numbers 175, 176 and 177, will come the
society's 178th reception, Monday, Mar 16,
at which Mr. and Mrs. Georg Henschel
will be the guests of tbe evening. This is
the true inwardness of the hints already
thrown ont that Pittsburg might soonhear
one of Mr. and Mrs. Henschel' s peculiarly
delightful song recitals. From an artistio
standpoint, and a social one as well, this
will be one of the most notable receptions
in the society's history.
A final reception will be held toward
the end of May, when the brief programme
will be followed by the annual business
meeting, giving the society a chance to
take stock, as it will, of its present rapid
growth and to prepare the way for a yet
more brilliant future.
- Lillian Bussell as an Artist.
Lillian Bussell is, perhaps, the only light
opera star who, after her beauty and natural
talent had brought the world to her feet,
still had the artistic sincerity and ambition
to pursue zealously an arduous course of
vocal study, working hard to improve the
purely musical quality ot her performance.
What a contrast to Adelina Patti, who no
sooner found her world at her feet, than she
devoted all her energies to the process of
preserving herself in precisely the same
condition ana wim precisely me same limi
tations. It is a fact that Miss Bussell never sang
as well as she does to-day. Her voice has,
if anything.-gained in volume and range,
and it has certainly become more
pure and pliable. And she sings with a
very considerable amount of technical skill
and musical feeling, all of which mean a
resolute stemming of the tide, as it usually
runs in the Casino, and entitles the fair
Lillian to commendation of a most lespect-
lul kind.
While Miss Bussell was practically the
whole show, the general features of the
"La Cigale" production at the Bijou last
week were praiseworthy. The chorus
should be singled out for an especial word
of acknowledgement. The opera, as given,
is such a pot-pourri of Edmund Audran,
Ivan Caryll, Gustav Eerker et al, that it is
impossible to treat of it as an entire art
work. A
Two Important Musical Events.
Mr. William H. Sherwood's pianoforte
recital, to occur at Curry University Hall,
on Tuesday evening, is one of the more im
portant events of the waning season.
The programme begins where Beethoven
left off with the great last Sonata, Op. Ill
and comes down among the best of the
moderns in most liberal fashion. It is a
great virtuoso's programme, but not desti
tute of the music that reaches the heart.
Mr. Sherwood's great abilities and his
foremost rank among our native pianists
have long been known in Pittsburg. That
he bas not deteriorated, to say the least of.
it, maybe gathered from this note of his re
cent appearance at one of the Boston Sym
phony concerts by the critic of the Beacon:
"The soloist was Mr. W. H. Sherwood,
whose playing had even more of the ardent
force of mind and hand, the perfect intel
lectual grasp, the absolutely responsive
technique and 'the emotional enthusiasm
which have always characterized him."
The other leading local event this week
will be the first appearance of the East End
Musical Club, lately organized by Mr.
Joseph C BreiL Romberg's cantata,
"The Lay of the Bell," forms
the piece de resMance, preceded by
a brief miscellany that has been already
outlined in these columns. The concert will
be held in Masonic Hall, Collins avenue, on
Friday evening.
A DeUghtfa' Musical Event
The Invitations are out for the mnsiealo
ten acred Dy Mr. James A. Nichols, 143
Fedeial stieet, Allegheny, to tho musio
loving people of the two cities. The date
selected is Thursday, April 23, nt 8:15 r. jr.
The invitations, which aie most attractive
and tasteful in appearance, state that the
feature of the evening will bo a piano l ecltal
by Miss Gregg. This highly taleutPd young
artist is a piotege of Jnlie Kive-King, and
has won the rjralsesof all who have heard
her playing. Misi Gregg will be assisted by
n cnaimmg mezzo-sopiauo sinner. Miss
Kadeiley, who has consented to lend her
voice to add to the enjoyment of tho even
ing. Those who have had the opportunity
tojudge her vocal abilities are unhesitating
in expressions of approval. Her ptesente
and voice are very pleasingto an audience.
At this writing it is impossible to give the
titles of her number on the programme
The piano recital comprises the toiloning,
which are admirably adapted to the display
ot technical skill, volatility aud expression:
Somite od. 54 Beethoven
la Fileause K.11T
Waltz, "On Blooming Meadows,"
Rivc-KIng
Barcarolle, A minor Kubinstein
Etude C sharp minor Chopin
Scherzo. C minor Chonin
lthapsodie Uongroiso So. 6 Liszt
WHAT 810 tVILI, BUT.
It
Starts Monday Oar Great 910 Sale of
Men's Salts I'. C. C. C, Clothiers, Cor.
Grant and Diamond Streets.
Where others show a fow styles we produce
hundreds Wo aro in the field with the
greatest $10 line ever shown.
Our great and pushing special for Monday
antl Tuesday (two days) is a $10 line of men's
fashionable suits for business and dress
wear. The styles, materials and make stand
out clear as brillmnts and overshadow any
other $10 line offeied in this city. Many
suits, lormer rticis $18, number that sold
for$'20a-.id $22, and thousands of $17 and $16
garments ale now in this great sale marked
$19. Thisisno newspaper jabber, tho goods
can be seen and bought at our stoie on Mon
day and Tuesday 1. C. C. C, Clothiers. The
public get Just what we advertise. Other
nouses maue a big cry nnd then only show
you a few measly styles at $10. we show
you hundreds. Did you ever go to a
butcher's for jewelry, or to a hardware 'tore
for hats, or did you ever ask tor coal at a
bonkstoits? Then don't go to stores that sell
mixed merchandise (dishpans. ladders and
ladieV wear) for men's suits. Go to a solid
clothing house. Come to us, the exclusive
clothiers of 1'ittsburg. Our grand specialty
is clothing, and we sell you good clothing
cheaper than any other house 1. C. C. C,
cor. Giant and Diamond streets. Onr $iu
men's suit sale for Monday and Tuesday is
only another of the many pioofc. Here is u
few of the many styles. Sluglc-bicasted,
round-cut sackx.straight-cnt sacks, all styles
ot cutaways. Prince Albert coats and vests
and double-breasted sacks. 1'laln nnd-laucy
cassimeies, littleneatpin checks, small inlx
tutes, tans, ivood browns, changeable plaids,
line whipcords in chocolaie, browns and
grays. Elegant plain black cheviots, t.mcy
mixed cheviots, fancy diagonals, fancy
worsteds, haiillucs, plain black corkscrews
and a hundred other styles nt $ 0 each.
Don't delay. Monday and Tuesday's great
$10 men's suit sale at our stole. Don't miss it.
l'lTTSBURQ COMBINATI03 CLOT1I1NO COMPAJtT,
Clothiers, coiner Grant and Diamond
streets.
Bead onr local nnder beading, "Big Values
in Carpet" and "Our Carpet Sale." To-day's
Dispatch. J.' H. Kuhkxx. Si Bao.,
Cor. Fens avenne and Fourteenth street.
BLAYATSKY'S PEOPLE.
Programme of the Convention of Theo
Eophists Beginning To-Day.
THE ASHES OP THE PEIESTESS
Will Be Up for Discussion With a Great
Variety of Other Topics.
IS INTERNATIONAL D0MB IN INDIA
The gathering of American Theosophists
to-day and to-morrow at the Palmer House,
Chicago, makes the sixth annual conven
tion of this unique bidy. The recent resig
nation of Colonel H. S. Olcott from its presi
dency, following so closely upon the
demise of Madame Blavatsky, will proba
bly make this particular assembly of unsual
importance. The vacancy thus created will
of necessity be filled and the futnre polity
of the Theosophical Society in new and sig
nificant directions be laid down with no un
certain lines.
Among other things of Interest the final
and appropriate disposal of Madame Bla
vatsky's ashes is to be decisively settled.
Of these ashes, be It said, London head
quarters retains a third; Adyar headquar
ters, India, possesses another third, and the
United States section lays claim to the re
mainder, the subdivision Itself being for
purely memorial purposes. A monument
to the most extraordinary woman of the
nineteenth century, with her ashes therein
CWoneZ Henry B. OlcatL
enshrined, would certainly do honor to the
sincerity of her numerous followers. Should
such intent be indeed carried out.New York
City will probably be the place selected,
since it was there that Madame Blavatsky
laid the foundations of the then futnre Theo
sophical Society.
What Colonel Olcott Is Doing.
The retirement of Colonel Olcott is due at
once to the increasing bodily Infirmities of
old a;r, and to a long expressed desire to
devote the balance of his life to literary
work in the interests of the society. For
several years past, in fact, the Colonel has
been gathering together a rare collection of
ancient Sanskrit works some of which are
palm-leaf manuscripts the value of which
are recognized by all Orientalists. It is his
purpose to have them translated, and to make
of them the nucleus of a library devoted to
theosophical growth and research. The
nucleus thus brought together is housed for
the present at Adyar, where the Colonel
will probably pass the remainder of his
days. A history of the T. S. movement is
also a part of his literary programme al
ready begun, and which will undoubtedly
be of great interest, personal and other
wise. Colonel Olcott, for reasons best known to
himself, was Madame Blavatsky's chosen
associate in the work of founding the Theo
sophical Society, and many and interesting
must be the episodes that passed between
these two. Utterly dissimilar and at vari
ance on many a minor point, each was loyal
to the other and as one in all that concerned
the work in hand. Of the Colonel himself
there is little that is new to be said. Sol
dier, journalist, man of the world, and for
the last 1 years staunch theosopnist, his
career is familiar to most.
Clinlce of the Next President,
As to the man who is to succeed him as
head, the choice presumably lies between
Vice President W. Q. Judge and Bertram
Keightly, Corresponding Secretary of the
Indian section; but of this, there is no cer
tain saving, and the result may be a sur
prise all around.
The record of the society for the past year
is not without significance. When Madam
Blavatsky passed away the conviction
among outsiders was general that theosophy
was doomed. So far, however, from this
being the case, that event was the signal for
a general uprising among theosophists
everywhere, and of a wave of activity as
yet unparalleled in the history of the move
ment. Theosophy, understood or not,
praised or anathemized, is fast becoming a
household word. In England is this espe
cially true; the frequent lectures given by
Mrs. Besant and others, as well as the more
generous attitude of the press, having
largely contributed to this effect.
Centers for information and work have
also been established in all the different
countries of Europe; "branches" started
wherever members do congregate, and in
this latter phase of the movement the
United States takes the lead. An active
propaganda of theosophical literature has
gone into effect and charitable'work among
the very poor inaugurated wherever practi
cal. The Indian section, moreover, has
just closed a very successful convention of
3ts own delegates from Europe and America
attending.
The Material Home of Theosophy.
Soar the American section, while having
central headquarters in New York Citv, has
yet had no building suited to that particular
purpose, but the recent purchase by the
Aryan Branch In that city of a $45,000
structure fills the need, and all theosophists
in general, and American theosophists in
particular, are expected to help pay for it
thus making of it a national and interna
tional affair after the pattern of the head
quarters at London.
Starting in 1875, theTheosnphleal Society
now numbers some 153 branches, and has an
individual membership of thousands. It
publishes several periodicals, the chief of
which are the ThcosovhUt of India, edited bv
Colonel Olcott; Lucifer, of London, founded
by Madam Blavatsky. present editor, Mr.
Besant; The Path, of New York, under the
able management of W. Q. Judge. As a
body it bas three objects: (1) The forming
of a nucleus of a universal brotherhood
without distinction of race, caste, sex, creed
or coior; (2) To promote the study of
Arvannd Eastern literatures, religions
and sciences: (3) to investigate unex
plained laws of nature and the psychical
powers latent in man. Under object No. 1 it
plants itself squarely upon the side" of re
form, social, moral and political; objects
2 and 3 are more esnecially lor those inter
ested in such studies; incidentally they
include active opposition based on grounds
Iieculiar to theosophy and which were not
ong since elaborated in the columns of The
DisrATCir, to what is known as modern
spiritualism: and also a quite as earnest
stand against the promiscuous use of hypno
tism, which It terms when practiced as an
art, as incipient black magic. As to re
ligions, it holds that all are true more or
less. To separate tbe error from the truth
is to find theosophia.
Work Among the Baddhlsta.
To those who confound theosophy with
K
Buddhism and other oriental systems of
doctrine, it will be a matter of surprise to
know that so far from being generally wel
comed, as a religious and 'intellectual factor
in the Buddhist and Hindoo worlds, theoso
phy has been looked on there from the start
with more or less suspicion and dislike. A
doctrine anti-caste, anti-race prejudice,
eta, could scarcely fail to awaken
such feelings in a caste-ridden
nation. This state of mind is
however gradually changing. Colonel
Olcott's recent and successful endesvor to
unite the Northern and Southern Buddhist
Church on a common platform of ethical be
lief, has done much to enlighten Buddhists
in particular concerning the attitude of the
society regarding that body. Colonel Ol
cott's work in this direction might, indeed,
be fairly criticised as committing theosophi
cal belief Buddha-ward, but even so, would
the society unite the Christian aud Parsee
world if it could.
The Religion Underlying All.
True, to the East it tunrs for the wisdom
there enshrined; bat whether the month
piece be Jesus Christ, Gautama, Loraster,
Mann or Krishna, it recognizes the identity
of the truth proclaimed as ever and essen
tially the same. It would strip the various
systems of rclicious thought now prevalent
of all the ritualistic and superstitious excres
cences of the ages, and lay bare the root
religion underlying alb
As a matter of fact, members Joining the
society are asked to pledge themselves only
to object No. 1; the others are optional, and
the first allows the utmost freedom of
thought and action compatible with the
principle of universal brotherhood. Jews,
Pagans, Brahmins, Parsees and Christians
may all be found among the ranks theosoph
ical. The call is to anyone and everyone
who will lend a hand toward helping to
prove that, despite the one might say, me
tallic character of nineteenth century civil
ization, the heart of humanity is yet alive
to the nobler instincts born of a common
belief in the solidarity of life, svmpathyand
need. " M. F. G.
GOING TO HIGH SCHOOL.
Xeir,LIcht on tho Vexing Question or Ex
amlnatlon.i flow Promotions Are Made
In Sister Cities Ho Immediate Chance
Educational Gossip.
Examination or no examination is now
the great question at issue for the Pittsburg
schools. The Central Board of Education,
with the pupils' health as the pivotal point,
thought that there should be a change from
the present taxing system of having pupils
stand an examination for admittance to
High School and accordingly a commit
tee was appointed to consider the
necessity for a change in the method of de
termining the fitness of pupils for admission
to High School as well as promotion from
grade to grade. This committee organized
with Dr. W. D. Kearns as Chairman, and
Charles Beisfar, Secretary. A circular em
bodying the following was at once sent to
the superintendents of the principal cities
to find out the methods in vogue in them:
1. Are your schools governed by a general
board, by a local or by both?
2. Are promotions to the High School
made on a special examination, on a previous
class record, on the judgment of the teacher,
or a combination of these plans?
3. "What is the plan of promotion from
grade to grade in tbe High School?
It also embodied questions relating to
this important subject.
How It Is Done in Other Cities.
A great many answers have been received
and Friday the committee met to hear how
examinations are conducted in other cities.
In Philadelphia promotions to the High
School are made on a special ex
amination of the grammar school pupils
and from grade to grade in the Hizh
School, promotions are made by exami
nation. The superintendent of this city
thinks that the proper basis for promotion
in any and all grades is by examination,
although bright pupils are sometimes ad
vanced a grade on class record. Philadel
phia has a general board appointed by the
Circuit Conrt and a local board appointed
by the people.
Chicago has a general board of 21 mem
bers appointed by the Mayor and confirmed
by Councils. Pupils are admitted to High
School on the recommendation of the gram
mar school principals, and the pupils not
recommended have the opportunity of try
ing an examination held tor this purpose.
In Boston the pupils pass to High School
on their grammar school diplomas. Class
record and examination are about equally
patronized in the Hub schools. This city has
a general board, its members chosen by the
people. Both the daily standing and ex
amination are the tests of promotion in To
ledo, which has a general school board, one
member irom each ward at large.
An Authority Against examinations.
Colonel Parker, of the County Cook Nor
mal School, replies that pupils should pass
from grade to grade witnont examination.
The Worcester, Mass., schools have the
combination method of examination, class
record and the judgment of the teacher.
This city has a general board. At Lan
caster, Pa., admission to High School is by
examination. Springfield, Mass., has pro
motions based on the recommenda
tion of the principals. New Orleans
has 12 members of its general board ap
pointed bv Councils and eight by the State
Board of Education. Promotions to the
high school are by special examination. St.
Louis has promotions to high school twice
a year and thev are made on the recom
mendation of the principals of the district
schools who judge by the daily record and
results of a final examination. Baltimore
has a general board elected by Councils.
The principals recommend the pupils
for promotion. In Erie three mem
bers from each ward constitute
the general board, going ont each year.
They use the combination method in the
Erie schools.
In Washington, D. C, the school super
visors recommend for promotion. The gen
eral board Is appointed by the District
Commissioners. Omaha schools have exam
ination for admission to high school anda
general school board, and Cleveland pro
motes on a combination of the results of ex
amination and the recommendation of its
teachers. '
How We Dlflor From Otlior Flaesi.
It will be seen that Allegheny City,
Philadelphia and Pittsburg are the
only cities having local boards, anil,
therefore, owning their school buildings.
The Baltimore superintendent adds that
the most important point is not the method
of examination, bnt to secure good teachers,
for where there are good teachers there are
sure to be good schools.
The Teachers' Institute also forwarded to
the committee, Friday, the resolution passed
at its recent meeting against examination
as a basis tor promotiou ami the present
plan of publishing the names, standing, and
schools of the candidates who go up for the
December and June examination for ad
mission to high school should be abolished
and simply the number of the candidate be
substituted.
Whatever decision the committee will
'come to on the examination question one
thing is assured that the present plan will
be in vogue for the present term.
Bits or School Gossip.
The school month will close Thursday.
Pnvday will not occur till the following
Monday.
raoT.H. W. Fisnrn paid a flying visit to
Cleveland last weok, and is very enthusias
tic! over the language of the 1'orest City's
schools.
Mns. JACKUA3-, wifo of Prof. Jackman, of
the County Cook Normal, of Chicago, is vis
iting in tho city. In 1'or maiden davs sbo
wai the well-known Miss Eice, oi the Fourth
ward school. "
Miss Maooie Vax Ilomr. of the Sylvan ave
nne ochool, Fourteenth ward, was married
last Tuesday evonlng to Mr. Georgo Allen
It is the lady's intention to continue teach
ing lor the remainder of the school term.
With the placing of the desks last week
the finishing touches have been put to the
Central Board meeting room, and Messrs.
Hollar, Torrenco nnd Secretary Keisfar,
tne committee in charge, are pieaseu witn
the result.
NEW ERA Ilf COOKING.
How Electricity fa Applied to th
Problems of the Kitchen.
PfilKCIPLE THAT IS UTILIZED,
The Details of the Car-Heater and
Culinary Utensili
tha
COSTLINESS IS THE 0NLT TE0UBL1
Becently there was an exhibition of elec
trical cooking at the Crystal Palace, Lon
uon, and a repre
sentative of the Pa3
JJall E'ldijet write!
of it thus: The firs!
thing that struck
me Is the simplic
ity of the appartaus
employed. Even
with a gas cooking
t, .. . . ,. stove, which is an
Ready to Coo. Jmmens9 in.
ment on the best of coal ranges-, there Is al
ways a heavy Iron structure to begin with,
and this mnst be supplemented by tho usual
equipment of saucepans and kettles. Bat
with electrical cooking each saucepan or
kettle or frying pan contains within itself
the means of imparting heat. And so
simple and insignificant in size is the heat
ing contrivance that an electrical kettle Is
barely heavier than a gas stove kettle. Bat
the gas stove kettle necessitates at the very
least a gas ring; the electrical kettle will
boil away on a polished floor or on an after
noon tea table.
What, then, is the contrivance? Tobegia
at the beginning, it is the utilization of the
fact that the electric current in passing
through a thin wire causes that wire to
grow hot provided always that the current
is sufficiently powerful, and that the wire
offers sufficient resistance.
Utilizing: an Old Principle.
This fact has long been familiar to the
general public as well as to electricians. It
is the basis of the ordinary electric glow
lamp, where a thin wire of carbon is heated
to incandescence. To get heat without
light is, however, the object ofthe'elec-
Quick Tea for a CdUcr.
tricalcook; for the extra energy that Is re
quired to produce the lighting rays is, from
his point of view, waste. The first attempts
to secure heat in a convenient form, with
out light, were made with platinum wires.
And in many ways platinum Is an ideal
metal for the purpose; it offers great resist
ance to electricity, and it does not oxidize.
You mav heat it "up to a red glow as often
as yon like and it will never rust or burn
away.
But platinum is expensive so expensive
that only American millionaires could afford
to use it in their household utensils. Other
cheaper metals there are in plenty, that
from an electrical point of view do almost
as well as platinum, or perhaps even better;
but they corrode when heated in the open
air. This difficulty has been got over by
coating one of these other metals with a
special varnish or cement that protects it
from the air, but jet allows the metal to
expand freely when heated by the passage
of the electric current. How this device is
applied can best be realized from the rail
way foot-warmer. The plate is about 18
inches long by four broad, and perhaps one
tenth of an inch thick; it has a metal back
ing for strength, bnt the important part is
the cement face, with tho wire just visible
underneath.
Principle of the Car Heater.
The current is conducted to the plate by
ordinary insulated copper wires, and there
connected by ordinary" connecting screws
with very fine wires of "platinoid," or some
other convenient alloy; over these fine
wires is the thin semi-transparent cement.
When the current is turned on, the' resist
ance in the fine wires causes them to grow
hot. np to a temperature more than sufficient
to boil water. But the cement expands
equally with the wires, and therefore does
not crack, while it completely protects tha
wires from corrosion.
These adaptations are almost limitless.
Instead, for example, of adapting your elec
trical heater to the bottom ot your kettle,
you can carry heat by means of an electrical
plunger into your water jug, or bath can,
and heat your supply of cold water ud to
the temperature you want. The electrical
Teakettl' and Iron.
device can also be applied to an oven. The
sides and the back, the top and the bottom,
of the electrical oven could all be heated in
dependently, so that when the pie showed
signs ot burning on the crust the cook would
turn off the top heat, withont checking the
progress toward perfection of the fruit
beneath.
Nor need we limit our ambition to
electrical cooking. Were electricity only
cheap enough we might warm our rooms
with exactly the same device. On ceiling,
on floors, on walls would be laid ornamental
plaques warmed to a gentle heat bv the
electric current Chimneys would then be
banished, and with them the chimney
sweep; while the housemaid in the morning
would no longer disturb our sweetest rest
by her fierce raking at the cold grate, nor
cover books, pictures aud draperies with
coal dust. Instead, she would toueh a
switch, and instantly walls and ceiling
would glow with a genial warmth.
Are Too Going to Paper?
Try onr price! See onr variety! Look
whether onr paper at 3 cents is not as good
ns the nsual 6-cent paper; the 6 cent and
S-cent paper the same as the usual 10 cent and
12 cent paper; and ourll-cent paper not Just
the same as some sold nt 23 cents. Also,
read our locals to-day headed "Big Value
In Carpets," and "Our Carpet Sale."
J. II. KrciKEr. A Baa,
1347-1349 Penn avenne, corner Fourteenth and
Penn.
Brocrs Is a safe, snre and absolnte de
trover of roaches, bedbnrs and all lnsacta.
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