ifi3MEifcjSEgJ?'ffi"i ss vj iifiwfwf fV 12 THE FITTKBUKG DISPATCH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26. 1892. A DAT FOR DIRECTORS. Over 100 Attend the Allegheny County Teachers' Institute. BIS HONOR MAKES AN ADDEESS. Bcsult of Election for Permanent Certifi cate Committee. CLOSING SESSION TIIIS MORNING All things considered the 100 and more school directors ot Allegheny county put in a most eventful and profitable day yester day. They attended the regular morning session of the Teachers' Institute and listened attentively to what was Raid, Then alter luncheon these managers of the educa tional system of the countv met in one of the classrooms of the Pittsburg High School, and, after a half hour's talk, can vassed the vote cast for the members of the permanent Certificate Committee. An hour later, the directors met in the large hall. They found themselves sur rounded by a veritable wall of fair and in tellectual femininity, and, being men of dis cretion, they sat down in the chairs reserved for them, and calmly awaited develop ments. At exactly 1:15 o'clock Superin tendent Hamilton stepped to the front of the platform, and, after calling the meeting to order, read the result of the election. Tim Xv IVtminont Orilficite Committer. It was as follows: E. B. Roberts, 428; a B.Cook, 423; J. W. Thomas 412; a D. Coffey, 415; Pro!. Brooks, 449. These gentlemen will form the permanent committee for the ensuing tear. It was announced that the examination for permanent cer tificates would not be held until next sprine. Alter the report had been read Prof. Rus sell amii'cd the audience with his-musical fads, and Dr. Waller, State Superintendent ol Instruction, delivered an eloquent talk on "Schoil Iius and Customs." He said, among other things, that "the employments of people are divided into occupation, trade, offce, calling, profession. Occupations are prinnrily for the earning of a living, trade lor the making ot money, an office, 'or house and cxllinc for dutv. A profession requires tr-uning. Its members must make a profes sion by devotion to that employment. The public must recocnize these professions. T aching must not be allowed to be merely a method of earning a living." Mayor Gourley followed with a brief ad dress on the alue of school work, and in the course of his remarks took occasion to boom the proposed observation of Columbus Day. The Mayor urged the teachers to do all in their power to aid those engaged in the task of working up popular enthusiasm and assist in preparing for the celebration. Prot. Draper, ot Cleveland, and Dr. Win ship, of Boston, made speeches. Pointers for tlm Trncuer. Division work was then taken up. Miss Coffin addressed Class A on reading, and Prof. Bussell on music. Prof. Deane dis cussed arithmetic before Class B, and Dr. Winship and Dr. Maltby occupied the attention of Class C on the same subjects of psychology and plants. The institute will close with the mornini session to-day. There will be a falling off in attendance of perhaps 200 teachers, as many of them went home last night not to return. Miss Coffin, of Detroit, will not be present to-dav. Superintendent Hamilton is well pleased with the work of the institute. He said vesterday afternoon that it has been the largest and most successful institute the county has ever had. There are several reasons which led to this. First, the corps of instructors is of a higher standard than n as ever secured before. 'Miss Coffin, Dr. Winship and Mr. Draper stand very high as platform instructors, and Drs. Koss and Maltby and Proft6sors Deane and Bussell are exceptionally com petent and careful classroom in structors. Another factor that added to the success of the institute tnte was the manner in which the pro gramme was prepared and carried out to the letter. Everybody knew what was coming and when each part of the work ras to be done. The accommodations of the building were also favorable. Honrst Advice. IndlRostionandliver Inactivity, throatand lun.r trmiWe. tired and sleepy feelings are oltfn cured by the simplest remedv. Klein's iilrr Are or Duquesne rye whisky will do l 'J luy tone up the sj stem, help digestion nml iMiicinliy impait life and vigor. They P 11 loi $1.50 and $L!5 per quart respectively. Koi pale liy dtrilers and druggists uenerully. llenilqunrters Jlax Klein. 83 Federal street, Alle lieny, I'a. Send for a complete cata loguemailed gratis. mwt Yoo can save from $25 to $50 on each pur chase if j ou lmy at Amhelm's sale, (Thurs day, August 25, at 10 o'clock a. jl THE INEVITABLE END BY JULES Swish! It is the wiiid, let loose. Swash! It is the rain, falling in torrents. This shrieking squall bends down the trees of the Volsinian coast, and hurries on, flinging itself against the sides of the mountains of Criraraa. Along the whole length of the littoral are high rocks, gnawed by the billows of the vast Sea of Megalo crida. Swish! Swas,h! Down by the harbor nestles the little town ofLuktrop; perhaps 100 houses, with" green palings, which defend them indif lereiitly from the wild wind; lour or five hilly streets ravines rather than streets paved with pebbles and strewn with ashes thrown from the active cones in the back ground. Tbe -volcano is not far distant; it is called the Vauglor. During the day it sends forth sulphurous vapors; at night, lrom time to time, great outpourings of flame. Like a lighthouse carrying ISO hertzes, the Vauglor indicates the port of Luktrop to the coasters, lelzans, verliches and balanzes, whose keels furrow the waters of Slegalocrida. On "the other side of the town are ruins dating from the Crimmarian era. Then a suburb, Arab in appearance, muck like a casbah. with white walls, domed roofs, and 6un-scorched terraces, which are all noth ing but accumulations of square stones thrown together at random, veritable die are these, whose numbers will never be effaced by the rust of Time. Among others we notice the Six-four, a name given to a curious erection, having six openings on one side and four on the other. A belfry overlooks the town, the square bellry of "Saint Philfilena, with bells hung in the thickness of the walls, which some times a hurricane will set in motion. That is a bad sign; the people tremble when tbey hear it Such is Luktrop. Then come the scat tered habitations in the country, set amid heath and broom, as in Brittany. But this is not Brittany. Is it in France? I do not know. Is it in Europe? I cannot tell. At all events, do not look for Luktrop on any map. IL Bat-tat! A discreet knock is struck npon the narrow door of Six-four at the left cor ner of the Bue Messagliere. This ii one of the most comfortable houses in LnktrorA ii such a word is known there one of the & LITTLE FLORIDA. BACK WAR. Negro Blobs Make Two Attempts to Brs cno a Colored Prisoner. .TACRSOiJViLi.r, Fla., Aug. 25. An up rising has occurred in New Smyrna, on the East Coast Railway Line, news ot which has just reached here. Last Saturday Charles Thomas (colored) was arrested there on a warrent for assault with intent to kill. Thomas had some dispute with an other negro, which ended by Thomas shoot ing him. He was lodged in jail.and that after noon his friends from the camp came into New Smyrna, all of them armed with re volvers and Winchester rifles. At about 9 p. ji. the jail was surrounded by them and an attempt to break down the door was made, but a few determined' while men, well armed, succeeded in dispersing them. Sunday it was heard that the mob bad all preparations made to break the jail open Sunday night, and the citizens of the town procured all the double barreled shotguns and rifles that were available, and after dark stationed themselves near the jail The negroes came in from the camp about 10 r. M. and could be seen in small groups about town, but they found that the Jail was stronglv cuarded and decided to leave be fore 12" o'clock. Since then the town has been n constant terror of the mob's return, and armed men have patrolled the streets night and day. LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. The Government crisis in the Argentine continues The entire Orinoco conntry in Venezuela is now in the hands of the Legalists. Seven Welsh miners at Swansea were crushed to death yesterday by the pit cav ing In. ThoEau Clair lumber strikers may go to the harvest fields of the Northwest en masse. It is believed by many that Eugene Bnncb, the train rohbor, was killed by ills own gancr. ; The English, steamer Angelina capsized I in the Hooghley river. Fifteen or her crew are missing. Some Canadians advocate the Idea of boycotting the Woild's Fair, apropos of tho canal dispute. The Afghans and the Russians both deny being azressors in the reoent fight in the Pamir country. The London Timet says Labouchere played to be excluded from the ministry to enable him to pose as a martyr. wlniam Gregory, a notorious White Cap of Grantaburg, Ind., has been shot dead by Harry Smeltcer. Tho latter lias been ar rested. The British steamer had the strange ex perience of galling over a submarine vol canic eruption. The sea around her boiled violontly. Tho smuggling schooner Halcyon is try ing to land a $S0,00j cargo ot opium some where on the 1'aciflo coast. Revenue officers have orders to capture her. Parisian editors, in reoent interviews on the American Presldental election, ex pressed a decided preference for Cleveland, owlnirto his free trade sentiment. Governer Seay. of Oklahoma, will not allow any Cherokee strip cattle to be driven through the Territory. About 2,500 cattle have been seized. Troublo is feared. Some persons tried to wreck a Union Pa cific passenger train near Rawlins, Wyo., by placing a tie across the track. A freight train came flist and pushed tne obstruction fiom the track. Prof. William Daniel, 80 years of age, was accidentally burned to death Wednes day while taking a sweat bath at his home in Milwaukee. The blanket covering him caught Hie from a lamp. Heavy thunder storms prevailing In the South of England have ravaged the fruit ciops. A number of persons have been struck by lightning and killed, Many horses and cattle have met their death in the same manner. , Cardinal Ledochowski has sent off his letter on schools to the American Bishops, apropos of the Faribault and Stillwater in cident. The Holy See wishes uniformity Of Episcopal action and above all to end all dissensions. In tbe course of an address before a Fed eration meeting in Dublin John Dillon said he believed that an autumn session or Par liament would only serve to prejudice the Interests of evicted tenants and delay their reinstatement. The Saltan of Morocco isverymuohtn earnest iff his determination to punish the Anghera tribesmen He hasgivon oiders to the commander or the troops to be dispatched against them to raze every Anghora village and exterminate the rebels. . In tbe Peace Congress at Berne, Mr. Wallace, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Blymer, another American delegate, submitted pro posals, which, were discussed and referred a committee. During the day's proceedings It was resolved to invite the peace societies of Europe and America to establish an in ternational federation among themselves. Prospectors In the Battleford, Man , dis trict mnde a curious discovery. It was a burning coal mine emitting no smoke, bnt the heat of the earth being so great in the vicinity that tho explorers were unable to walk on its surface. An immense cave-in in the side of the hill shows where a largeeam of coal has taken fire and gradually pene trated the earth. When going to Canton. O., stop at the Barnett House; strictly first-class; refitted and refurnished throughout. Elegant sample rooms. Rates, $2 to and $2 BO. VERNE. richest, if gaining some millions of fretzers, by hook or by crook, constitutes riches. The rat-tat is answered by a savage bark, in which is much of lupine howl, as if a wolf should bark. Then a window is opened above tbe door of Siz-four, and ill tempered voice says, "Deuce take people who come bothering here!" A young girl, shivering in the rain wrapped in a thin cloak, asks if -Dr. Triful gas is at home. "He Is, or he is not, according to circum stances." "I want him to come to my father, who is dying." "Where is he dyine?" "At Val Karnion, four kertzes from here." "And his name?" "Vort Kartif'i "Vort Kartiff, the herring-salter?" "Yes; aud if Dr. Trifulgas" "Dr. Trifulgas is not at home." And the window is closed with a slam, while the swishes of tbe wind and the swashes of the rain mingle in a deafening uproar. IIL A hard man, this Dr. Trifulgas, with little compassion, and attending no one unless paid cash in advance. His old Hurzof, a mongrel of bulldog and spaniel, would have had more feeling than he. The house called Six-four admitted no poor, and opened only to the rich. Further, it had a regular tariff; so much for .a typhoid fever, so much for a fit, so much for a pericarditis, and for other complaints which doctors invent bv the dozen. Now. Vort Kartif, the herring-salter, was a poor man, and of low degree. "Why should Dr. Trifulgas have taken any trouble, and on such a night? "Is it nothing that I should have had to get up?" he murmured as he went back to bed; "that alone is worth 10 fretzers." Hardly 20 minutes had passed, when the iron hammer was again struck on the door of Six-four. ' . Much against his inclination the doctor left his bed, and leaned out of the window. "Who is there?" he cried. "I am the wife of Vort Kartif." "The herring-salter of Val Karnion?" . "Yes; and il you refuse to come, he will die.1' ' "All right; yon will be a widow." "Here are 20 fretzers." "Twenty fretzers for going to Val Kar nion, four kertzes from here! Thank yon! Tl nff Iti rn!" LONDONCOSTER FOLK. Pen Picture of the Most Cbaracter " istic Lowly Class There. LIFE, HAUNTS AND' DIVERSIONS. Where Visitors to the Great metropolis Can tee Them in Their (ilorjr, t OUTLANDISH Dl&BI DAI GAYALCADE8 tconnKSpONDitifCE or the dispatpb.i London, Aug. 15. There are between 50,000 and 60,000 costermongers in the city of London. Their vocation is the same as that of the street hawkers of American cities; but those who have made the most careful study of the latter, can form no proper idea of the characteristics of the former without personal acquaintance. There is good reason for this. Our street venders of fish, fruits and vegetables com prise an ever changing host of widely vary ing and uncongenial nationalities. A' hawker in our .conntry, from whatever race he has sprung, never remains a hawker longer than necessity compels. If he is not successful in his ventures between markets and customers, he shortly drops out of the braying throng And engages vigorously in another calling. If his voice, his swaybock steed -and his ramshackle wagon bring him profit, he will make the best bargain possi ble to another aspirant for his belongings, route and "good will," is shortly found in possession of a market stall or grocery, and ever after scorns the vocation and associa tions which gave him prosperity. The entire life and conditions of the Lon don costermonger are different, and, this faot, as well as his strange pers onality and whimsical trade and social ethics, make him a most unusual and interesting charac ter. Besides, he is a curious and integral part of this great and ever wonderful Babel ot London, A Distinct City Baca. The great distinguishing difference be tween American hawkers and London costermongers, out of which the Interesting peculiarities of the latter have grown, is the extreme antiquity of costermongers as a distinct class or race. Indeed they may with propriety be considered as a race; and I am not so sure but that in a more thor ough acquaintance with them than I have gained, it would be found that they possess the ancient Romany or Gipsy strain of blood. Lhave certainly noticed in them many race characteristics ol the Gipsies; and "their origin, historically considered, almost exactly corresponds with the period in which Gipsies were first noticed in Eng land. Some of the marked characteristics and customs I have found common to both Gipsies and costermongers are noteworthy. Both races are bitterly opposed to book knowledge, and not 5 per cent of either, in England, can read or write. Both are4he most honorable and honest people who live in all dealings among themselves, but hold it the height oi wisdom and morality to "do" all others not of their ilk. So far as can be traced in history and lit erature these folks were precisely the same In mode of lite, vocation and characteristics hundreds of years ago as at the present time. Like the fishermen of New Haven and Galway, and still line the Gipsies, they have scarcely everbeen known to intermarry with other clashes. The result is that the costermongers of the London of to-day form almost a little realm of their own, ever changing in confines, yet changeless in char acter and antiquity; with a purer' strain of blood, of its kind, than that of halt of the English nobility; and with ancient'eustoms and traditions remaining inexorable laws of guidance to themselves; all to a more marked degree than is true of any equal number of people in any corner ol Europe. A Distinguishing Costnme. At his daily labors the coster will have on his head a small cloth cap well to one side, with the visor either pointed to the sky or sawing one side of his neck. He is never without his black or flashily col ored silk "kingsnian". or heavy, loosely or's knot and the ends tucked in the folds ot his gray woolen shirt; the whole expos ing a fine, well corded and often hairy neck and chest. His waistcoat is long, like ajockey's, with capacious pockets and huge tabs, and always of oorduroy or vel veteen. His trousers are hall Mexican in cut, of corduroy or coarse ducking, and their wide bottoms flap over the best shoes worn by any lowly men in London. Added to this are pearl or polished metal buttons innumerable. In the matter of buttons their "best togs" lor Sunday and holidays are truly startling. "Whether 6f metal or pearl, they are lrom a halt inch to an inch in diameter, and arc set as thickly as they can be placed around the can band and visor edge, down the edge of the waistcoat from throat to point, above ' And the window was closed again. Twen ty fretzers! A grand fee! Bisk a cold or lumbago for 20 fretzers, especially when to morrow one has to go to Kiltreno to visit the rich Edzingov, laid up with gout, which is valued at 50 fretzers the visit! With this agreeable prospect before him, Dr. Triful gas slept more Boundlv than before. Swish! Swash!, and then rat-tat! rat-tat! rat-tat! To the noises of the squall were now added three blows of the knooker, struck by a more decided hand. The doc tor slept. He woke, but in a fearful humor. When he opened the window the storm came in like a charge ot shot "I am come about the herring-salter." "That wretched 'herring-salter againl" "I am his mother." "May his mother, his wile, and his daugh ter perish with him!" "He lias had an attack" "Let him delend himself." "Some money haB been paid us," con tinued the old womau, "ad installment on the household to the camondeur Doutrup, of the Bue Messagliere. If you do not come my granddaughter will no longer have a father, my .daughter-in-law a husband, mvself a son." It was piteous and terrible to hear the old woman's voice to know that the wind was freezing the blood in her veins, that the rain was soaking her very bones beneath her thin flesh. "A fit! why, that would be 200 fretzers!" replied the heartless Trifuleas. . l'We have only 120." "Good night," and the window was again closed. Bat, alter due reflection, it ap peared that 120 fretzers for an hour and a half on the road, plus half an hour of visit, made a fretzer a minute. -A smpU profit, but still, not to be despised. Instead of going to bed again, Ithe doctor slipped into his coat of valveter, (went down in his wading boots, stowed himself away in his great coat of lurtaine, with his souronet on his head and his mufflers on nis hands. He left his lamp lighted clojo to his pharmacopoeia, open at page 1(17. Then, pulling the door of Six-four, he paused on the threshold. The old woman was there, leaning on her stick, bowed down by her 80 years of misery. i "The 120 fretzers." "Here ii the money, and may God multi ply it for yon a hundredfold!" "God! Who ever saw tbe color of Sis money?" The doctor whistled for Hurzof, gave hinV toward the sea. The old woman followed. . IV. What swishy-swashy weather! The bells of St Philfilena are alhwinging by reason of the gale. A bad sign! But Dr. Triful gas is not superstitious. He believes In nothing not even in his own science, ex cept for what it brings him in. What weather, and also what a road! Pebbles and ashes; trie pebble slippery with lea- every pooket, and along the edge of all lapels, upon the sleeves nearly from wrist to elbow, and along the wide plush side tripes of the trousers, from Just below the knees to the verv edge of the trouserg leg, so that the last button clicks and patters against the pavement and the shoe. The coster women are none the less strik ing in their garb and appearance. Like the men they are all well shod, and wear short coarse serge pettieoats showing their ankles and shapely feet. These petticoats are bb ample as a Claddagh fish-wife's. Their waists are always low at, or are" left open in, the neck, and usually 'the latter, as with tbe rnen, is adorned with a flashy silk 'necker chief, while a small woolen plaid or silk shawl covers the shoulders, its ends crossed upon the breast where it is always fastened with a broach of huge dimensions. Tho Women Fond of Feathers. Bnt the hair and headgear are most dis tinctive. From these alone a coster girl is anywhere recognizable. The hat is ot straw or felt, and always as large as a cotter's cartwheel. It protrudes alarmingly in front, and above this canopy waves a lorest of ostrich plumes. Coster girls belong to clubs for the pnrohase of these prized feath ers, and there is no ordinary sacrifice tbey will not make to possess the" largest plumes that can be bought. Tbe hairis bestowed behind in a large braid. A "part" extends from this over each ear, and a heavy, straight tab lies against each cheek. Above the forehead the hair falls straight almost to the brow s, but is then frizzed and ourled until it stands upward and outward like monstrous matted cheaaux de frise. As a coster proudly remarked to me: "Oar donahs (girls, sweethearts, women) 'as a style as is all their own." 'The costermonger's outfit comprises either a handbarrow, a spring cart on two wheels, on which he will load from 800 to 1,000 pounds of fruit or vegetables and with the help of a boy or his "donah push the same a dozen miles in a day; or a donkey and cart, possessed by the more well-to-do. I have seen the latter loaded with from 1,200 to 1,S00 pounds weight at Covent Gar nen Market. The women when hawking alone are sometimes provided with donkey carts or barrows, but oftener with "shal lows," or shallow baskets, which with their heavy contents are carried on their heads. A curious sort of business has always been in vogue owing to the improvidence of the costermongers as a class. This is the hiring out to them of baskets, barrows and carts. Out of the 60,000 or 60,000 coster monger population of London fully 16,000 are actually engaged in daily hawking, the remainder being old folks or children un able to work save at odd times. Fully one- half of the daily workers own their own shallows, barrows and carts. The other half hire them at ruinously usurious rates. The donkey and cart are seldom hired, nearly all of these outfits being owned by the costers. But the hand Carts or barrows are usually hired at 3 pence per day or 1 shilling for the week for a barrow origin ally costing less than 2. More than 20,- 000, or $100,000. is annually paid in barrow or "shallow" hire by the London costers. Where to See Them at the Best. Anyone desiring a superficial observation of this class can find ample studies of cost ers at the chief London markets. Daily 5,000 come to Covent Garden market; about 4,000 secure fish at Billingsgate; fully 2,000 are at Spitalfields; perhaps 500 each will be found at Borough and Leadenhall: and fully 3,000 are distributed among the lesser city and suburban markets. Cogent Garden market is the most interesting place to visit, not only for its historic associations but for its greatest throngs of costers. From the opening at 2 o'clock in the morning until 8 or 9 o'clock, from 3,000 to 4,000 coster carts will have come and gone. The remainder in attendance wait until afternoon to dicker with the "hagglers" or speculators, who have' bought unsold loads lrom farmers "in the lump." In these morning hours in terest will not only center in the costers but in their donkeys and carts. Hundreds upon hundreds are packed in a corner of the open market waiting to load, for which privilege they are taxed 1 penny each. I would write of the coster's home life. but he has none. The Gipsy, even the poor London Gipsy of the loathsome van, is vastlv his superior in this respect. In the past three years I have visited more than 1,000 costers' haunts and habitations. In them all I have not found a dozen genuine homes. , The nearest approach to the home is where the coster is lairly well-to-do, and owns tbe donkey and dart or a couple or three. In these extremely rare instances you will often find the coster, his wife or mate, their children and the donkeys in one basement room together. But the character of the man's and the woman's work keep them npon the street They eat at .cheap chop-houses and coffee stalls. Their even ings are passed at the tap-room, the "penny gafi" shows, the ratplt, and the cheap musio balls. Boys and girls leave their parents and mate at irom 14 to 16 years. They take furnished rooms ill the coster districts of Leather lane, Drury lane, Shoreditch. Old Street road, Marlebonc lane, Dockhead, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, Camberwell and the like, and are at once full-fledged costers. Children are bom to them, and are "minded" for the first year or two. Then they take their chances for life and weed, the ashes crackling with iron refuse. .No other light than that from Hurzof s lantern, vague and uncertain. At times ijets of flame from Vauglor uprear them 'selves, and in the midst ' ot them appear great comical silhouettes. In trnth no one knows what is in the depths of tjjosd un fathomable craters. Perhaps spirits ot the other world, which volatilize themselves as they come forth. The doctor and the old woman follow the curves of the little bays otthe littoral. The sea is white with a vivid whiteness a mourning white. It sparkles as it throws off the crests of the surf, which seems like outpourings of glow-worms. These two persons go on thus a far as the turn in the road between sandhills, where the brooms and the reeds clash to gether with a shock like that of bayonets. The dog had drawn near to his master and seemed to say to him: "Come, come! a hundred and twenty fretzers for the strong box! That is the way to make a fortune. Another rood to the vineyard; another dish added to our supper; another meat pie for the faithful Hurzof. Let us look after the rich invalids and look after tliem accord ing to thefr purses!" .. ' At that spot the old woman pauses. With her trembling fingers she points out among the shadows a reddish light. There is the house of Von Kartif, the herring, salter. "There?" said the doctor. "Yes," said the old woman. "Hurrah!" cries the dog Hurzof. A sudden explosion from the Vauglor. shaken to its very base. A sheaf of lurid flame springs up to the zenith, forcing its way through the clouds. Dr. Trifulgas Is hurled to the ground. He swears roundly, picks himself up and looks about him. The old woman is no longer there. Has she disappeared through some Assure of the earth, or )as she flown away on the wngs of the mist? As for the dog, he is there still, standing on his hind legs, his jaws apart, his lantern extinguished. "Nevertheless, we will go on," mutters Dr. Trifulgas. The honest man has' been paid his 120 fretzers, and he mint earn them. Only a lnminous speck at the distance of halfakertz. It is the lamp of the dying perhaps of the dead. Of course, it is the herring Salter's house; the old woman pointed to it with her finger; no mistake is lossible. Through the whistling switches antl the dashinir swashes, throueh the utv- of tbe tempest, Dr. Trifulgas tramps on withMmrrled steps. As he advances, the house bVomes more distinct, being Isolated in tne mwst ot tne landscape. It is vefy remarkable how much it resem bles thatof Dr. Trifulgas, the Six-four of Luktrop.1 The same arrangements of win dows, thb same little arched door. Dr. Trifnlgas hastens on as fast as the gale allows hitn. The door Is alar: he lias bnt to push.it i Ho pushes it, be enters, and the I education in the slums. At 6 or 7 they ac company their 'parents, or are hired out to other costers. In a few years more, some fancied slight or too severe a beating oo curs, or the coster youth or' lass hare met their affinity, and they are away for them selves without partings or regrets. Have Their Own Amusement. However luck may go with the coster folk they are sticklers for their amusements and holidays. Every evening will find them at the musio hall, the rat pit or their tap-room haunts. There are more than 300 of the latter exclusively patronized by coster men and women. In nearly all of these are rude grille where they may cook their own food; all are provided with 'Cards and other games for their amusement; and with each is a backyard or shed well pro tected from tbe eyes ot the police, where rat and dog-fighting, of which they are ex tremely fond, may be indulged in, and where boxing and prize fighting are eagerly cultivated. On Sunday they will be found in great numbers at Battenea Fields, Hamp stead Heath and Epplng Forest; but the great yearly London outing for costers is at the Derby. More than a thousand carts, each contain ing from four to six coster women and men, set out from the Seven Dials and "White chapel. Tbe donkeys are all bedecked with paper flowers, their faces grotesquely paint ed and hung with tow whiskers, and their legs incased either in the trousers of the men or the bifurcated garments of the women. Then with, great stores ot food and liquor, and hundreds of horns and concer tinas, after a grand procession through the arlstocratlo "West End, "to show the nob how swell costers can be" on occasion, as a coster proudly confessed to me, this out landish calvacade, with wild coster music, shouts and laughter, sets out in a merry scramble for breezy Epsom Downs. Edgar L. Wakeman. Dx Witt's Little Early Risers. Best pill for biliousness, sick headache, malaria. AT $2.1 AT $2 FOR LADIES AND GENTS. THE FINEST BARGAINS EVER OFFERED. StBiI Mil I " " WtfmTwiTmSrirTTcYll PslslslsBiisH Kk'?rPB r-ra-Ti i ii , ..M-irjsismjiiwiii wjjiisji ,1 - T!t PiiiP mjyK Worth $4, $4.50, $$ and $6. NOW ONLY $2.90. Men's Finest Calf, Finest Patent Leather, Genuine Kangaroo, Fine Congress . Bals and Bluchers. Bargain Prices." Every pair fully warranted. W. M. LAIRD, 433 AND 435 1 WHOLESALE 1 406-408-410 WOOD ST. AND RETAIL MARKET ST. WELL BRED, SOON WED." GIRLS WHO USE SAPOLIO ARE QUICKLY MARRIED. TRY IT IN YOUR NEXT HOUSE-CLEANING. ap5-jrw wind roughly closes it behind him. The dog Hurzof, ieft outside, howls, with Inter vals of silence. Strange! One would have said that Dr. Trifulgas had come back to his own house. And yet he has not wandered; he has not even " taken a turuing. He is at Val Kar nion, not at Luktrop. And ye, hefe is the same low, vaulted passage, the same wooden staircase, with high banisters, worn away by the constant rubbing of hands. He ascends. He reaches the landing. Beneath the door a faint llerht filters through, as in Six-four. Is it a delusion? In the dimness he recognizes his room the yellow sofa, on the right the old chest of pearwood, on the left the brass-bound strong box, In which he intended to deposit his 120 fret zers. There is his armchair, 'with the leathern cushions; there is his table, with its twisted legs, and on it, close to the ex piring lamp, his pharmacopoeia, open at page 197. "What is the matter with me?" he mur murs. ' What is the matter with him? Fear! His pupils are dilated; his body is con tracted, shriveled; an icy perspiration freezes his skin every hair stands on end. But hasten! For want of oil the lamp expires; and also the dyinc man! Yes, there is the bed his own bed with posts and canopy; as wide as it is long, shut in by heavy curtains. Is it possible that this is the pallet of a wretched herring salter? With a quaking hand Dr. Trifulgas seizes tbe curtains; he opens them; he looks in. The dying man, his head uncovered, is mo tionless as if ift his last breath. The doctor leans over him Ah! what a crv, to which, outside, re sponds an unearthly howl from the dog. The dyiug man is not the herring tatter, Vort Kartif it is Dr. Trifulgas; it is he whom congestion has attacked he himself! Cerebral apoplexy, with sudden accumula tion of serosity in the cavities ot the brain, with paralysis of the body on the side op-' poiite that of the seat of the lesion. Yes, it is he, who was sent for, and for Thorn 120 fretzers have been paid. He who. from hardness of heart, refnsed to at tend the herring salter he who is dyiug. Dr. Trifulgas is like a madman, he knows himself lost At each moment the symp toms increase. Not only all the lunctlons ot the .organs slacken, but the lungs and the heart cease to act And yet he has not 3uite lost consciousness. What can be one? Bleed! If he hesitates Dr. Triful gas is dead. In those days they still bled: and then, as now, medical men cured all those apoplectic patients who were not go ing to die. Dr. Trifulgas seizes his case, takes but his lancet, opens a vein in the arm of his double. The blood doe not flow. He rubs his chest violently his own breathing grows slower. He warms his feet with hot bricks his own grow cold. Then his double lifts himself, falls baok and draws one last breath. Dr.. Trifnlgas, notwithstanding all that his soience has THE SNAKE KILLED THE BOO. Terrible Battle In the Mountains, Einlt Ing Fatally for the Canine. Beadixo, Aug. 23. A fierce battle be tween a dog and a snake occurred on the Blue Mountains, near Bethel, on Saturday. Several women were out picking huckle berries accompanied by a dog. Daring the day the latter Bet up a terrible barking, and when the women ran to investigate, they say the dog engaged in a struggle with a huge black Snake over six feet in length, which bad partly coiled itsetf.around the dog's body. They were so frightened that they hastened home as fast as possible. Upon telling the story a number of men went to the mountain, and npon coming to the place found the dog dead, while the snake had disappeared. Nearly every bone in the dog's body was crushed. Sticking to the dog's teeth were found pieces of the snake's skin, showing that he had fought hard for his life. STILL THEY ABE HOPEFUL The Attorney for the New Jersey Ballot Box Stutter Will Try Again. CL G. Persball, the attorney for the Now Jersey ballot box stuffers,says he will carry his case to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Acbeson, of the United States Circuit Court, on Wednesday re fused to release the alleged election law breakers from pilson pending aiv argument for a new trial. "Judge Acheson's decision did not sur prise me," said Mr. PershalL 'The Court however, did not explain his position by an opinion and we will go on until we finally succeed. The statutes of New Jersey and several decisions of tbe United States Courts sustain our position. Next week I will go before one of the Supreme Judges, probably Justice Brown, and will ask him to release us." J! ATM! WORTH $4, $svAND$6. NOW ONLY $2.go. Ladies' Finest Cloth Top, The Fine Dongola Kid, Newest Style Tips, Latest Style Lasts, Common Sense and Opera, New York or Piccadilly, Every size, every width. a nil taught him to do, dies beneath his own hands. In the morning a corpse was found in the the house Six-four that of Dr. Trifulgas. They put him in a coffin, and carried him with much pomp to the cemotery of Luk trop, whither he had sent so many others in a professional manner. As to old Hurzof, it Is raid that, to this day, he haunts the country with his lantern alight, and howling like a lost dog. I do not know if that be true; but strange things happen in Volslnia, especially in the neigh borhood of Luktrop. And, again, I warn you not to hunt for that town on the map." The best geograph ers have not yet agreed to its latitude nor even itt longitude. X0 NOT II EL Y Advertising your vacant room', as thos who did so last wrek In th cnt-a-word advrrtlslng columns of THE DISPATCH were satlsflrd with the reanlr. Something Abont Facts. Facts are the foundation of all true knowl edge. Facts are convincing. Tbey admit of no argument The facts about Camellia flour are that it is the finest flour in the world, because it is made from the finest wheat by the latest and finest methods of milling. It is tested every day at the mill, bo it is always regular, rich, pure and makes the lightest 'bread. It is a fact, also, that more housewives are now using Camellia flour than any other brand. If you do not use it give Camellia a trial LAKE CHAUTAUQUA AMD ItETUrtN COO. Kfagant Fa'Is and Bttnrn 87 OO. Toronto, Canad , nnd Return 58 OO. VIA ALLtoTBEKT VAtLET RAILWAY, TUESDAY, ACOCST 30. Tickets good 15 days returning. Trains leave Union station at 8.20 a. x and 8-50 p. v., consisting of Eastlake coaches and Pullman bullet parlor and sleeping cars. SPECIAL hOXlOE To Organ Bayer. We must relieve our lower floor ror dis play" of new Roods, and offer a lot of brand ne- orgnns at very low prices. $75 nnd $30 will buv mairnlflcent organs formerly priced at $130 and $140. and on easy payments, too. Beinember, brand new in strument'. Come aud see them before yon buy. Mellob & Hokhe, Established 1831. 77 Fifth avenue. To- Day To-Day Everybody should attend tho great clothing sale at the F. C. O. C, corner Grant and Dia mond streets. Thousands have already ben efited by It. Men's fine suit at $0 85, worth $16 Men's dressy pante, Wo and $1 17, and thousands of other bargain. i P. C. a G, Clothiers, Corner Grant and Diamond streets. WltRX III with pains and exhsosUtn Parker' Glnirer Tonic Is your snirst reUef. BuroxscoBsa, toe best tore fur corns, lie. irarr aptkbtiskxicnts. ' " ----"- - - T " m - . I L? if I YfflAr.MN CMIT ML Would fill a good-sized vol' ume ifivritten out. What he can do at Jacksons' in the way of bargains in fine Home-Made Clothing would fill an entire library. We have placed on sale this week, to make things hum, about 40, new styles of good All-wool Cheviot Pants, called "The Favorite" at $2.23. Now, two dollars and a quarter Is but a small sum, and some feople may think it isn't enough for them to spend for Pants, but we say to you if $2.25 will do the work with us that it will take $4 to do elsewhere, why not take ad vantage of our Pants sale. Ask for our $2.25 "Favor ites." In our suits: Well, every other man in town wears our Home-made Suits, and for good reasons. First, we guarantee them in repair free of charge for one year; sec ondly, you tan save from $3 to $5 on every suit. Why not try us? It's to your interest. See the ad vance styles in our Hat De partment. 954 and 956 LIBERTY ST. au24-l GOLD INVESTMENTS IN AMOUMS OF 8100 and upward to suit Investor. Interest at G, O, 8 and 10 per cent, per annum. GILT-EDGE SECURITIES. For bank reformers and fall particulars ad dress or call CALIFORNIA ISYESTxIIEKT AGENCY, 00 Broadway and 6 tTall St., K. T. City. ED.MIN6T.Erc Si CO., Managers New Tork department. TU Holllday Dnred the Wrong Man. J. H. Holliday, of Harrisburg. had a quarrel with another intoxicated person at Fifth avenue and Wood street yesterday afternoon and was knocked down. Officer Chase ordered them to move on, but Holli day waited to make fun of the policeman. Holliday dared the officer to arrest him and that settled it The patrol wagon soon afterward carried the Harrisburger to Cen tral station. GOOD PIE is much prized, but man people can't eat pie because of dyspepsia or dyspeptic tendency. Everybody CAN EAT PIE if it is made with Cottolene, the new pure substitute for lard. Cottolene is simply " pure 'cottonseed oil' and pure beef suety two of the healthiest foods known. Properly combined they are better than lard for'all kinds of shortening, and . everyone can eat, digest; and enjoy ifood cooked with it FoorX that was indiges tible when cooked with lard is easily digested when cooked with Cottolene, and many of the leading house keepers of the land say they can make nicer bread, rolls,biscuit, cakes, cookies; ginger bread, pies, patties, jtarts, griddle cakes, cro quettes with Cottolene than with either lard or butter. Getitofyour grocer and try fit Beware of imitations, j Manumctnred only by N.K. FAIRBANKS CO., ' CHICAGO. PITTSBURGH AGENTS; F. SELLERS & CO. 1 t feii&s aSf- (- HHafi iSr?
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