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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
AT AUTUMN'S BIER,

AT AUTUmN . blEh.
Gaunt limbs thin shadows cast on redleaved
ground,
Brown reeds and weeds with seedless heads are
crowned;
In well-reaped fields lie rotting stubblc rows,
Scared willows weep where sluggish current
flows.
The sun sinks early. cutting short the day,
And night fast gathers DER the brown decay;
The ivy, deathlike clings to crumbling wall
While one by one its sapless tendrils fall.
The meek-eyed kline browse round the barn.
yard stack,
In chimney-placs the green logs smoke and
crack;
The thin blue smoke now slowly creeps on
high
Blue-black against the steel-blue Autumn sky.
At early dusk lights fash from window pane,
But ere nights old their bright reflections
wane;
Then silence steals DER all the blighted things
No green leaves rustic. and no sweet bird sings.
In dark, chill morn, mid all this ruin sere,
The Winters bo77,-on Autumn's ledJy bier!
The police are to have new uniforms The
transgressors would like to have them armed
with stuffed clubs also.
INTERNAL revenue officers are always on
still hunt
IT seems that some iend is poaching on Jack
the Ripper's preserves. Even the murderer
must be on his guard nowadays.
THE prize package newspapers are now offer
ing rewards to guessers and voters. Thus they
whip the lottery imp around the stump.
A MAN prefers an eye lashing to a tongue
lashing. especially if the lady is pretty.
A PINCH Of charity from the lowly Is worth
q handful from the rich.
MUSIC makes us brave in love and war.
THE biggest horn in the band is not the
hardest to play.
WE could see more of life if we didn't have
to sleep.
A WORTHLESS man leaves the same impres
sion behind as the log does when it is drawn
from the water.
COUPLES who take their honeymoon trim in a
balloon are very fy.
Ho. THERE! you candidate,
The hours growing late,
soon
ended.
You should not hesitate
To close the hot debate
Which the citizens have barely
com
What have you now in store
To add to the uproar?
What is the plot you're nursing
for
the
crashf
Don't explode it with bang
It may prove boomerang;
In the closing days you mustn't
Let who may now at you scon.
Just you quietly sneak of;
The voter has his ticket
Slide In and shut the door.
Look out for the smoothbore.
And figure on the sly
pocket
-
Ir's no trouble to find ont what the wild
waves are now saying at the summer resorts. |
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

The divine Patti gave Mr.. Gladstone a
caugh lozenge the other day, and it is to be
hoped that the Grand Old Mans voice will be
benefited thereby. But even the dfpd, great az
her experience is cannot teach the greatest
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
Who Can Give the Informationa

To the Editor of The Dispatch:
Will you please inform me through your
paper If one must have license to be mar
ried in Cumberland, Nd. II so, what other
place can you be married without a license?
CONSTANT READER.
PITTsBURG, October 27, 1890.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
You Are Entitled to Vote.

To the Editor ofThe Dispatch:
Your answer to contributor seems to cover
my case. am, and have been. citizen of this
State and Allegheny county for upward of 15
years. / hold tax receipts up to and including
the month of September of this present year.
Through sickness or negligence 1 did not reg
lister. With these papers in my hand am or
am not entitled to a vote? An answer to this
will very much oblige a constant subscriber
HAZELWOOD, October a. $780, d. l.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

tertainment and socialist evening. There was
good attendance despite the bad weather, and
the evening was spent in an enjoyable manner.
Supper was served in the basement of the
church.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

THE Philadelphia Record asks: "Where
will Pittsburg 20 when her gas goes outf'
ahead Of Philadelphia, as usual.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

A MONUMENT of gun metal could be appro-
priately placed over the grave of the late Ia
mented Rube Burrows.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
Social and Supper,

The Young Peoples Society of the Christian
Endeavor and Mission Band. of the Southside
Presbyterian Church, held an interesting en-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

WHEN the hull of the steamer Swift collapsed
in the Monongahela yesterday she swiftly set
tied on the mud.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

The prediction Of warmer weather is evil
IDENTIFY not meant to include next Tuesday as
far as good many politicians are concerned.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

The political straw is pretty we'll threshed
out But the dust is likely TO choke US more
or less for six more days.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

ONE week from to-day the agony will be
over, and one of the warmest campaigns Penn
sylvania has ever seen will be thing of the
oef
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
Captain James S. Wise.

CINCINNATI, October s.-Captain James S.
Wise, well known in the river trade died to-day
&C his residence. in Home City, OF dropsy, at the
age Of 50.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

THE failure in the New York cloak trade
reported yesterday. has not any extraordinary
sipnifcauce
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

ARTISTS canvas their views as well as poll
ticians.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

WE all inherit our fathers name. but not
always his brains.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

ALLs fair in love and politics.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

A NEW YORK girl has stolen $50 cloaks.
The mantle of charity will hardly ft her.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

Ir's a cool day when Pittsburg's gas pressure
lowers.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

IT'S about time for the Government to take
Sitting Bull by the horns.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
NEWPORT BEAUTIES.

PEOPLE with gimlet eyes probably bore you.
WILLIE WINKLE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

GAS men are meter-ologists, we presume.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

Just ask the owners of the bath houses and
boardwalk booths.
THE Independent voter is not mulish. but
he's hard kicker.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

IT'S no trouble to find out what the wild
waves are now saying at the summer resorts,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29
SNAP SHOTS IN SEASON,

THE fellow who votes on age can celebrate
his majority as well as the candidate who got
there.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

ANOTHER New York murderer is booked for
the electric killing chair. Keep the experts
out of the death chamber this time, gentlemen,
and stop all the rubbish about volts and re-
voting scenes.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

A PINCH Of charity from the lowly Is worth
q handful from the rich.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-29

THE prize package newspapers are now offer
ing rewards to guessers and voters. Thus they
whip the lottery imp around the stump.
, 1890-10-02
A Mark OF Re flnemsnt.

The New York Tribune calls at
tention to one thing that might al
most be termed an accomplishment
1T certainly marks the habit of
customary contact with the world
and that is the rapid change Of
toilet. 1t Is distinctly the outcome
of refinement and well-ordered
home living, and Is, 1 am sorry to
say, very much less exercised in this
country than in England To an
American girl changing her gowns
means, us II rule, shutting herself
up in room for an indefinite time,
while the English maiden dons
walking frock or habit tea gown or
dinner dress with the celebrity born
of constant custom and frequent
changes.
1t is not only the prosperous En-
glish household, surrounded by all
the comforts of good living, that
renders this respect To the habits of
refined home life; in families where
money Is n scarce commodity, and
whatever the domestic troubles and
worries, we find the same conform
10y to the usages of good society.
And here we may say that although
attention to proper change ofraiment
may seem small matter 1t really
amounts to II moral support. a man
in financial trouble feels more able
to cope with the world when he has
tubbed and donned fresh linen.
The tired mother pulls herself to-
gether morally when she puts on n
fresher gown, and youths and
maidens are instinctively more
courteous and we'll hammered If they
cultivate true self.respect and care
for their bodies. Perhaps in taking
this wider view of the moral support
of clothes, which opens large field
we are wandering from our subject,
which Is really rapid dressing, the
appropriate change of raiment for
each occupation, and the stamp of
good form it gives to girl or youth
to whom such habits seem GUS
tomary.
, 1890-10-02
the Type of Beauty.
TTheophile Gautier

I have found the type of beauty
that dreamed of so long. / have
discovered the body of my phan-
tom; | have seen it, it has spoken to
me, ] have touched its hand, it ex-
lists; 1t Is not n chimera. l we'll
knew that / could not be mistaken,
and that my presentiments never
lied. Yes, Silvio, l am by the side
of my life's dream; its room is there
and mine Is here. / can see the
trembling of the curtain at its win
dow and tbs light of its lamp. Its
shadow has just passed across tn e
curtain. In an hour we shall sup
together.
The beautiful Turkish eyelashes,
the deep and limpid gaze, the warm
color Of pale amber, the long and
lustrous black hair, the nose finely
cut and proud, the joints and
slender delicate extremities after the
manne of Parmeginiano, the dainty
curves, the purity OF oval, which
gives so much elegance and aristoc-
ncy to face, all that l wished for,
and that | should have been happy
to find disseminated In five or six
persons, have found United In one!
What most adore of all things
In the world is u pretty hand. If
you saw this one! What perfection! !!
What vivacious whitencss! What
softness of skin! What penetrating
moisture! How admirably tapering
the extremity of the fingers! How
clear the oval markings on the nails.
What polish and what splendor!
you would compare them to the in
ner leaves of u rose--the hands of
Anne of Austria, so vaunted and
celebrated, are in comparison but
those of u turkey-herd or Of n soul
lcrymRid. And then W hat grace IL
there and what art In the slightest
movement of the hand? How grace
fully does this little finger curve and
keep itself little apart from
its tall brothers.! The thought
Of this hand maddens me, and
causes my lips to culver aud burn.
/ close my eyes that l may see IL
no longer; but with the tips of Its
delicate fingers IL takes my eyelashes
and opens the lids and causes
, 1890-10-02
Mizpah, Thee and Me.

fanny Seville Wolf, in Kansas City
Star.
Apart? Yet memory throws its sunls
mellowing rays
Across the line of hills dividing thee
and me,
And far.oii past, with dreamy flush Of
purple haze.
Illuminates lite's cross and crown for
thee and me.
Apartp Yet voices tuned TO sympathetic
key
Waited through upliftod gates an old
song to the heart,
While We are waiting for day for thee
and me,
'Stll doth the Lord keep watch Ger
thee and mo apartv'
Apart? Yet guarded by the brooding
skies above.
Where kindled glows Faiths beacon
light for thee ana me.
Apart? Yet pillows on far.stretching
sea of Love
Blow white-wingcd ships with mes
saRes from thee to me.
Life's tide from my soul shore flows
back to thy dear heart,
With light of evcntide" flung clear
across the sea,
And "still the Lord to watch DER thee
and hle apart!h
, 1890-10-02
Tricks of Revolving Fans

New York Sun.l
The revolving fans now almost
universally in city restaurants nave
been supplied with extra speed IN
some establishments this season. "A
diner witnessed queer incident
yesterday. He had vainly attempted
to sift some powdered sugar on his
fruit, the failure being due to n
fierce current Of air from fan carry
ing oil the sweet dust before IL
reached the berries. A minute or
two later a quartet seated at table
near by began to sneele violently,
and rose as one man to demonstrate
with somebody, they did not quite
know whom, for deluglng them
with u shower of pepper. The
culprit proved TO be an innocent
youth who had been engaged
several minutes in fruitless effort
to pepper the contents of his dinner
plate. The pepper had been swept
away by the current from one OF
the fans to the table occupied by the
party whose stcrnutntor exercises
had caused the disturbance. He
had about concluded that the casters
needed refilling.
, 1890-10-02
Woman as She Is at Thirty.

New YORK Ledger.
Balzac has said that at 80 n woman
Is ut her most fascinating and
dangerous age-dangerous to the
hearts of NEIL
Perhaps no writer understood so
we'll his own countrywomen as Bal
FAC, and no one has contributed
quite SO many cynical illusions to
the sex In general. But Balzac's
criticisms would apply to certain
type of women, more seen in France,
let us hope, than in cur own
America. To the blase man of the
world the blushing debutante Is
peculiarly attractive. But ii Is the
woman of 80 who whirls him In n
vortex of emotions. She has lived
and experienced, and she Is alert to
every sensibility She revels in the
part of heroine, and in the disturb
ances and agitations of which she is
the cause. she looks upon the
rosebuds--so simple.
She goes on indefatigably playing
her part. In perfect knowledge OF
ici cuuHls, UHlihe tue young
thing" by her side, she uses each
to advantage. She knows, through
her well-tralned intuition, the par
ticular weakness-the grand pas
sion, SO to speak, of each victim.
And with great iinesse, she be-
comes for the time an enthusiast
upon the same subject, pursues,
with well-feigned sincerity, the
same "fad,n whether politics or
athletics, theosophy or music from
Beethoven to Strauss-she will al
ways be found devotee to each.
Flattery in its sweetest subtlety,
satire in its keenest flashes are well
at her command. For alas! for her
the time is rapidly approaching
when she must range with the
lookers-on; the chill of autumn will
usher in the Indian summer. Fort
innate is she If itl brings with 1t
the ripe graces and the poetic sug-
gestions which give to that season
Of decay It's mellow charm. True
hearted Is she If she earns at least
the best success this world can give:
the possession of brave aud help
full spirit, rich In self-knowledge
self-coutrol and self-help, a touch
stone to all who approach.
, 1890-10-02
UnAnish cd stili.

(CasselPs Magazine.l
A baby's boot, and skein of wool,
Faded, and soiled, and soft
odd things you say, and no doubt you'n
right
Round a scaman's neck this stormy
night
Up in the yards aloft.
Most like It's folly, but mate, look here,
When first went TO sea,
A woman stood on the far.off strand,
With u wedding ring on the small sof.
hand
Which clung 30 close to me.
My wife, God bless herl The day before
She sat beside my foot;
And the sunlight kissed her yellow hair,
And the dainty fingers, deft and tair,
Knitted baby's boot.
The voyage was DER, / came ashore;
What think you, found there2
A grave the daisies had sprinkled white,
A cottage empty and dark as night,
Aud this beside tho chair.
The little boot, twas unfinished still;
The tangled skoin lay near;
But the knitter had gone away TO rest,
With the babe asleep on herquiet breast,
Down in the churchyard drear.
, 1890-10-02
GEMS IN VERSE.
No Pocket In His shroud,

joaquin Millcr.l
The gold that with the sunlight lies
In bursting heaps at dawn,
Tho silver splitting from the skies
At night to walk upon.
The diamond cleaning with the dew
He never saw, he never knew.
He got some gold, dug from the mud
Some silver crushed from stones
Tho gold was red with dead mon,
blood,
Tho silver black with groans.
And when he died ho moaned aloud
''Thero'll be no pocket In my shroudp,
Saw Her by the Light Within.
Ernest McGattey.l
| saw her by the light within;
Hor tresses downward waving kissed
The ribbon round her mandolin.
Doep-dimpled was her dainty chin.
She swept tho strings with sunnlo
wrist, rf"
saw her by the light within.
Her face n stoic's soul would win,
Half Trained in cherry-silken mist
The ribbon round her mandolin.
Sweet, family sweet, came echoes thin
As from Wolian organist.
saw her by the light within.
And so wished-.and 'twero no sin
That for time | might exist,
Tho ribbon round her mandolin.
, 1890-10-02
Hints for Amateur Actressoq.
Ladies' Home Journal. !

To the ladies, only n word or so.
Avoid powder on your arms, es-
pecially In love scenes. 1t is bound
to come off on the lovers coat-.it is
u pity TO spoil the coat and it is u
worse pity TO detract the audiences
attention from the scene to his mis-
fortunes.
II you wear q train, be sure to
make wide turns. A woman may
manage her train charmingly In the
ballroom and yet find herself awk.
ward about 1t on the stage.
Don't carry flowers, or fans, or
handkerchiefs, or hats, or dogs un-
less the piece requires 1t, and unless
you know just what you are to do
with such articles when you get on
the stage--.just when you are To get
rid of them-or you will find your
self with both hands full Just ut the
very moment when the Villain has
to sieze you by both wrists, etc., or,
, 1890-10-02
Sacred Home Life.


The air Is full of cheap talk about
"a sacred home Iife," and pheasant
home memories" but in spite of
these and other conventional
phrases that are in daily use, and
serve to cast poetic glamor about
the spot where one Is born and
reared, the facts are that the woman
who cares to keep herself properly
acquainted with the details of home
duties is, in the estimation of n
large majority of her scx, "a house
hold drudge" And the sentiments
of that large majority OH the sub
ject of domestic labor are voiced,
with added emphasis in the re-
proachful epithet, "household
drudgery."
But Is 1t not as dignified, as ele-
waiting, as ennobllng-as we'll In
every way-to make beds, sweep
rooms, prepare food and perform
other household work IA 1t is to
plow and SOW fields, buy and sell
merchandise, construct railroads,
build houses, make newspa-
pers, preach sermons, construe
laws or administer pills and
powders? And II not, why not?
And when woman's duty lies In
the way of the former occupations,
why should 1t be distasteiul to her
to acquaint herself thoroughly with
all the details of housekeeping? Or,
why sheuld she consider It drudg-
cry TO devote some of her time to
learning the best methods OF pre-.
, 1890-10-02

when you ought to throw your
arms around your fathers neck, you
will find one hand engaged with an
open parasol or something Oh inc
sort.
TO all of you, Don't try too hard
to "act.n You will net ali the Det-
ter IL you keep cool, and so don't get
mixed about your lines ana situa'
tions. ,,.
One big rule for always; Play
whatever part you are cast lor,
earnestly and conscientiously. III
isn't the part; 1t IL the actor that
makes a performance good one or
not.
, 1890-10-02
A Systematic Almoner.

Mrs. Marshall Field, wife of the
Chicago dry goods prince, arranges
her charities in very practical man
ner. She employs young lady
who personally investigates every
case which is brought to her notice.
She has no snecure, as Mrs. Fields
mail Of begging letters is very
large one. If the case, upon investi-
CATION, Is found to be fraudulent,
the name of the !ndiviual is enrolled
in n book Of frauds kept for her ref
erence. Although provided with
ready money, tho almoner seldom
bestows 1t; the needs of the family
being known, they are relieved by
donations of fuel, groceries, and
clothing. Sometimes the services
of physician are procured, old peo-
pie are fitted with glasscs suitable
to their eyes, and braces, crutches,
and surgical shoes or limbs are pro-
vided for crippled children.
, 1890-10-02
Wrists and Ankles.
tIOndon Truth

noticed one or two women in the
park last week who looked better
dressed than the rest, and after puz-
zling over the matter some little
time / settled in my mind that it
was because the prettily shaped
wrists were not wrapped up in furs
or hidden In nufis. said as much
to Charlie, and he went further
than 1 did. "Yes," he said, "and
ankles, too. Just think what a horse
would look like If his legs were rolled
up and swathed and hidden up!
What a thoroughly clumsy animal
he would seem 10 be-" ! dropped
the subject, dear, but continued II in
my own thoughts. For instance,
how much nicer Il man looks In rid
ing breeches that are tight in the legs
than he does in the ordinary
trousers
, 1890-10-02
Ideal Hearts.
New Orleans Picnyune.

New Orlclns l'lcnyuHe'
Did you tell me that life was failure,
That love was bubble, n boastp
That the spray on tho wine iridescent
Was only vapor at mostp
Why, darling. the best of Gods biessin gs
Is rayed in some opaiine CLEAN;
Let is catch from the 'lusory colors
The flash OF our beautiful drea m;
Let us filch from the lights and shadows
The ray of sentient beam.
Did you tell me, my love, that in spring.
time
Tho blossoms are necked with the
light?
That In summer luscious, hot splendor
Grows out from their passionate sight; |;
That in autumn their petals aro hag-
gard
Their veins nre concealed by the frost
And the sivery fecked blossom ot
springtime
Lies pallid and soulless and lost,
And the wine and the light of q lifetime
Is into eternity tossedp
My darling. the blossoms. the flowers
Are rapturous brcaths from tho bowl,
And the nectarous perfume entrancing
Wings ecstasy deep to the soul;
Your heart in its seasons of blessing,
Its dreaming. its growing. its rest,
Makes life not phantom, a fiction,
Makes love not bubble at best,
And you the one fash that I'd scale for
The walls of the homo of the blest.