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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16

SITTING BULL was not good Indian
while living and in his case the old saw will
apply. He gave Uncle Sam a great deal of
trouble at different times. perhaps as much as
he could with the means at his command. It
is probable that his death will cause the ghost
dances to assume less warlike aspect. Sitting
Bulls ability was the one redeeming feature
about him and as that was used principally to
stir up trouble it may not appear to have been
any advantage. His death was 2 lawless incl
dent in keeping with his life. he became IA
nous and execIated through an attempt to set
government authority at paught and he died in
an effort to escape from the officers Of the Gov
ernment. his sons having been killed in the
effort TO assist the fathers escape the Bull
family may be considered as disposed of and
ont of the way. Some of the chief mischief
makers are dead and there is no reason to doubt
full rations for the rest of the winter will settle
the threatened Indian outbreak.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
THE RAILROAD COMBINATION.

Mr.. Gould's railroad presidents have got
down to business and formulated their plan
of action, which is announced as the regula-
tion of competitive traffic by board COM
posed of presidents and other officers Of each
road. This may not be pooling in the strict
Interpretation of the law, but is calculated
to effect pretty much the same results. 1t is
an evasion of the law and is in the line laid
down beforehand BY Mr.. Gould as the
spokesman for the Standard Oil-Gould
combination.
The intent of this arrangement is only too
plain. But it is worth while to note one
feature of the agreement, namely, the pro-
vision that after a certain time any road
may withdraw after 80 davs' notice. This
is evidently intended for Mr.. Gould's con-
venience. If it should occur to him that
he needs another railroad in his business at
some time in the near future he can pull out
of the agreement and cut rates until the
property is cheap enough to buy. Stability
of railroad rates is desirable to Mr.. Gould
just SO long as that stability serves his
purposes. Stability is also desirable to the
public, as the combiners say, but only when
the rates are equitable and moderate.
The contempt shown for the spirit of the
law on the part of the railroad presidents is
the chief element of strength in the demands
for more and stronger laws to control the
railroads. The presidents may be able to
run things to suit themselves for time, but
the more arbitrary they are, the sooner will
they be shOrn of their power. And this is
about the only consolation the average citi-
zen may have in the contemplation of such
movements as those of the Gould party.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
Grand Opera House.

A story that leads up smoothly, quietly. but
surely, to denouement in which the most in
tense passions of human nature are involved, is
that of ''The Charity Ball."
The authors, Belasco and De Mile, are gray
boards in their business. If not in years. and the
way they daily with their audience in the first
and second acts, only to strain its nerves to an
extreme tension in the third, is almost mar
vel Of the playwright's art. In word, 1.-THE
Charity Ball" is really Lyceum success. We,
who have enjoyed the simple, but earnest
pathos, intermingled with innocent fun, of
THE Wife," know what this expression i'm
plies.
Dick Tdn Buren, a Wall street broker, has
betrayed young girl, Phyllis Lee whom he
still loves. His brother John. minister. Is
also in love with Phyllis. Dick, in his ambition
to overcome dangerous business rival, Frank
Tin Cruger. determines to marry his daughter,
Anne Cruger. John learns of the wrong Dick
has done Phyllis and persuades his brother to
give up his ambition and marry her. Dick dies
in the last act as the result OF business excite
ment. and John marries Anne, who
has loved him all along, but whom he
has cared for only as sister until she has
been away from him for a year or so and
returned to him to prove to him that she is
the one woman to fir the sacred place of wife.
There are some amusing comedy love scenes
between an elderly judge and a dashtng widow.
while two young people, Bess Van B uren and
/ Aler Robinson supply the girl and boy love
eleHlenL InaL Is always q pleasing SlQe-1gnC on
the deeper colors of an emotional picture.
The cast of '.The Charity Ball' is as we'll Sc
lected as in every Lyceum production. Henry
Herman, as Dick, gives us a Clean cameo-like
representation of the man of Wall street. His
cold gentlemanly exterior, under which we can
always imagine the passions boiling at white
heat, is more effective than any amount of rant
could possibly be. His artistic rendering of
part n which there is the strongest temptation
to shout and foam cannot be too highly COM
mended. 1t might be said that the character
fits him exactly, were 1t not that the same re-
mark seems to apply to everything he plays.
Boyd Putnam, as the minister, is noble
figure In the third act, where he finds that
the girl he loves has been married by his BROTH
er, he rose to grandeur
Miss Frances Garnot gives us the usual
emotional heroine as Phyllis Lee, The part
does not afford her an opportunity to do any
thing more. Miss Ruth Carpenter is bewild-
eringly beautiful woman and good actress AS
Ann Ciuger, the dash1ng warm hearted New
York girl, she gives US one Of the most pleas
ing figures in the play.
Bessie Tyree is pretty little ingenue and
Walter Thomas, as AleT, shows considerable
dramatic ability that should bring him to the
front in his profession in due time. Ethel
Greybrooke, Thomas Burns, Eliza Logan and
A. w. Gregory are all deserving of mention for
conscientious work.
The setting of the first and last acts, the
sitting room at the Rectory is an excellent
specimen of nineteenth century home luxury
in America.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16

who have given The subject any thought;
but it is especially valuable to have SO
strong and pertinent statement Of them
from representative body of the farmers
themselves. With this interposition of
sound sense on behalf of the class which is
represented as demanding these measures,
we have no doubt that the turn Of the tide
Of economic lunacy will soon become ap-
parent.
Indeed, the wish might be expressed that
the Michigan farmers could be given the
power to inject the same vigorous and con-
servative sense into the rules of financial
policy at New York and Washington. As
they have SO energetically declared that
Government credit should not be used to
nurse and bolster up their own class, we
have no doubt that they would be equally
clear-sighted in declaring that it must not
be used to aid and protect Wall street from
the results of its own recklessness or worse
vices. This plain deliverance indicates that
the Michigan farmers would be able to pre-
sent a cogent statement why the financial
center OF the nation should not continue
its condition of improvidence and depend
ence on its Government credit, and why the
Government should not actually increase its
debt to help the financial magnates of the
country out of their seIf-woven traps.
Messrs. Window, Sherman and the New
York bankers seem to be wofully in need of
such instruction as the'Michigan farmers
are able to give them.
1t is sound doctrine that so far as
Government credit is concerned each indus
try and interest must learn to stand alone.
If the farmers take the wise resolution that
they will do so, they have the righ! to de-
mand that Wall street and the corporate
fnanciers shall do the same.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.

Buffalo Express: Ireland is at war. Even
the cats in Kilkenny are fighting again.
-PhiIudeIphfG Press: Jay Gonld has lately
purchased a tract of 1000 acres of land. Per-
haps he is going to join the Farmers Alliance.
-Harrisburg Patriot: The difference be-
tween the force bill and a stocking is that there
seems disposition to hang one up before
Christmas eve.
Atlanta Constitutions: 1t would be good
idea for the Government to permit the pension
sharks to walk OF with only half of the pension
appropriations
Dubois Courier: While the Dubois water
system ought to be embiematic Of the cold
water party, it comes nearer a simile of the red
nosed gentry. 1t goes dry so much OF the time.
Omaha World Herald: Mr.. Strauss, of
New York, predicts poor mans panic. The
poor man is always in panic. If Mr.. Strauss
desires to predict something novel let him pre-
dict poor mans boom.
ST. Louis Republic: The fate Of the force
bill is to be decided this week. That is, the
Republican party leaders are about to decide
whether or not they will 90 to the end OF their
rope and strangle the party with it.
Altoona Tribune: Idle rumor, followed by
senseless panic, is at the bottom Of many
widespread financial disaster. If people would
only keep their heads and discourage sensation
mongers there would be fewer crashes.
ST. Louts Globe Democrat: It will be much
easier for Congress to revive the grade of
Lieutenant General of the army than to fnda
man for the place who will come up to the
standard of those who have held it in the past.
--New York Star: King Kalakaua denies that
he has come to the United States on business,
and says that he has simply come over for
.lI;e fhaf ha
better have remained at home, for there is
more chance for rest IN the Sandwich Islands
than in this country. Probably he intended to
say that he came over for little change, and
change of the sort that can be best got by tap
ping Uncle Sans Treasury.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16

IT is rather surprising to find, in a dis
cussion of the loss of population by various
Pennsylvania towns, including Uniontown, by
the Philadelphia Inquirer. that journal saying:
"Lewisburg. Uniontown, West Chester and
some other Pennsylvania towns would no doubt
be much bigger than they are to-day for the
presence of mills, foundries and factories"
This displays lack of Information to the effect
that while Uniontown was a pleasant though
somnolent country town in 1880, it is now sur
rounded by coke works. with rolling mill
right on the border of the town. Possibly these
establishments are all outside the borough
limits. but still to anyone who visited that
place in 1880, and has been there of late years,
the statement that it has lost over a thousand
population will be one of the surprising
features OF this remarkable census.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
The Biiou Theater,

Shenandoah" the great war play of Mr..
Howard's writing, was given before large
audience at the Bijou last night. The play has
been already criticised at length in this column.
and it need only be said that very few Amer
lean plays have greater claim upon the public
than this stirring, wholesome and patriotic
drama.
A bride is always interesting. That is why
Miss Nanetta Comstock was the object of so
many eyes and the subject Of so many more
thoughts last evening as she acted the part of
JennEe Buckthor1,. q. 8. A., in Bronson How
ards most powerful war play, Shenandoah -
In that she distanced only Mr.. Frank Burbeck,
the General HauerfH of the cast for be 1t
known that he is her husbands recent acquisi-
tion; and this state of happy affairs all came to
pass as a sequence of an incident last summer
that gave the General" the opportunity of his
life in saving that OF Miss Comstock.
The interest generally attached to the COM
pany was owing to the fact that it is the
Original company" the one which performed
300 nights in New York, and was burned out
last season at Chicago while playing an engage
ment at McVicker's Theater. The names on
last nights programme at the Bijou
contained but that of Francis Carlysle
the Colonel PeretuaI West, as being
on the play bill last season. when the piece was
produced here by the other company. G. Mac
kay makes splendid Lieutenant Bedtoe, and
Miss Meta Guion certainly has one Of the most
expressive faces in portrayiBg deep emotion,
as well as the peculiar phases of feeling of
girl whose heart "will," but whose head
won't" Joseph Adelinan. as Captain
Thornton, was splendid scoundrel;
he was almost picturesque in his
villainy, while Francis Carlysle's
exhibition of how an officer and soldier of
honor, unjustly under arrest and in the rear
while his regiment was in the fight would, or
did, suffer the keenest modification was mag
nifcent. His Colonel West is one of the most
manly characters on the stage. 1t is a noble
portrayal.
done bv the entira company and it ia not "IA is-
elimination to say that Benson grows popu-
lar in proportion to C.sL. Elliott's efforts to
make him as dear to the audience as he is to
the bluff old Generals daughter.
The Shenandoah" company goes from here
to Chicago. thence to New York for II weeks.
thence to San Francisco for short stay, after
which it will return to Chicago for the summer
This company shows only in the large and best
play-going cities-such as Pitrsburg.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
SOUND SENSE FROM MICHIGAN.

The action of the Michigan State Grange
in opposing the Endorsement by the n ational
Grange and Farmers Alliance, of the plans
for loaning large issues of Treasury notes
directly to the people, shows that however
the farmers of other States may be deluded
by such chimerical schemes, the Michigan
organization is controlled by the principles
of good sense and sound policy.
The resolution adopted by that body is as
compact summary of the evils of the pro-
posed policy as could be made. 1t points
out that the greatest Generalization would
be inflicted on the class the policy is in-
tended to benefit. 1t would lead to a wild
clamor for credit" would necessarily pro-
duce partislity and favoritism in the distri-
button OF the loans, first to personal friends
OF the loaning agent, and next to his
political associates" would create "a hope
less dependence on the Governmental
aid" finally "lead to thriftless Ina
providence" among the recipients
of such loans. These results
are plain enough to all impartial observers
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16

there is no better way of keeping the Demo-
Gratis on their guard against suicidal vagaries
than the trumpeting of such prophecies over
the country, year before the Democratic
House can get to work.
But there is more cogent reason for
keeping such prophecies in reserve. 1t is
that the habit of predicting hair-raising and
destructive business results from Democratic
supremacy has been INDUCED in SO often by
the Republicans that it has become thread
bare. Every campaign has heard these
predictions, but, SO far, the verifcation has
been far below the most unsatisfactory per-
centage yielded by the Signal Services
Vaccinations. Cleveland's election was to
have produced business panic, if we mis-
take not, on the authority of Mr.. Depew;
but singularly enough the troubles not only
escaped the Cleveland administration, but
actually came to pass at the time when the
Republican party controlled all branches of
the Government. The habit OF crying
"wolfr' on this very point has been carried
SO far by Republican leaders and organs
that no one pays any attention to it now.
anu VIII Hot uc 1ikSly W. cN0n "A shSAS
should come time when the alarm is we'll
founded.
Beyond that it seems that it would be dis
Greet for Mr.. Depew to have suppressed this
prediction concerning his political adver-
saries, because if the business men and
investors have any hair to raise, it must
already have rivaled the fretful porcupine
from the vagaries that have taken the form
of legislation actually introduced in the
Republican Congress. If the Democrats
can devise any more hair-erecting measures
than those precious bills introduced by such
Republicans as Senators Ingalls,, Stanford
and Hiscock. "by request" they will GER
tainly deserve credit for a remarkable and
hitherto unsuspected ingenuity. In view Of
the vagaries which have found advocates
among the great lights of his own party Mr..
Depew would be wise to pull the beam out
of the Republican eye before giving his
exclusive attention to putative and as yet
uniformed notes in the Democratic optic.
The resort to this prediction by Repub-
Iicans is the worst sort of politics, simply
because it has been worn so threadbare that
its force was exhausted long ago.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16

MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS has received A. 900
subscriptions for the life of her husband.
PROF. SUMNER, of Yale, is an Episcopalian
clergyman, though few people are aware of it.
MRS. BELvA LOCKWOOD hasltdecided that
she does not want to be candidate for Presi-
dent
ROBERT DALE OWEN is to be honored with
a $40 600 statue on the Smithsonian grounds in
Washington.
SENATOR SAWYER, of Wisconsin. will retire
from public life at the expiration of his
present term in 1893 He will then be n years
old.
MR.. JOHN g. WHITTIER will spend his SD
birthday at Oak Knoll, Danvers. Mass, but he
says his strength is hardly equal to the fatigue
and excitement of a general reception.
HISTORIAN BANCROFT is now seldom seen
outside his residence at Washington, d. @.
Mr.. Bancroft is In his 9lst year and has aban-
doned all literary work. He reads. however
and finds pleasure in it though he cannot re-.
member what he reads more than "a hours.
Mr.. RYAN, the American Minister to Mexico
who has come to Washington in response to
summons from Secretary Blame, receives q
salary of $l2, 600, but he spends so much in his
hospitable endeavors to maintain the dignity Of
the United States at the Mexican capital that
NO uCilVOo VI aCsACaAiy uO pcCuuloIy ubako
from the office.
AT the recent golden anniversary celebration
of Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus w. Field. the weddin G
bell, under which Mr.. and Mrs. Field stood to
receive their friends. was made of gold-colored
chrysanthemums. Mrs. Field wore her we'd
ding gown Of so years ago. and there were pres
ent Mr.. Fields three brothers, Mr.. Justice
Field, Rev. Henry NJ. Field and Hon. David
Dudley Field, all of whom were witnesses half
a century ago.
Rev. FATHER FRANK BARNU M, who Is on
the mission of the Catholic Church in Alaska.
is native of Baltimore and a son of the late
Genus Barnum, proprietor of the once famous
Barnum's Hotel of that city. A brother, when
dying, wishing to perpetuate the family name.
left him $4,000 upon condition that he get mar
ried. This legacy Father Barnum forfeited
when he Joined the Jesuits. He is known to
his order as very learned man and famous
nngulst.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
THREE GOOD PLAYS.


Rosina vokes in Her Own Realm-The
Charity Ball = Shenandoah The Old
Oaken Bucket-variety and Curiosities.
Rosina vokes, the greatest coincidence on
the English.speaking stage to-day appeared
last night before large audience at the Du-
quesne Theater. Two years have not
changed her in the least, and she
is still q most charming, versatile and
original delineator of the bright side of human
nature. The programme last night began with
"a Game of Cards, in which Mr.. Felix Morris
repeated that astouishiugly exact portrayal of
senile temper and dignity which we wondered
at and applauded year ago. II Mr.. Morris
could do nothing beside the Cheudtier he would
be entitled to first rank among contemporary
character actors But he showed the wide
range OF his powers by giving just as faithful
portrait of an old Scotch butler in "a Double
Lesson" later on.
The second course on the bill was 'SThe Cir
Gus Rider" a comedietta full of delightful op-
portunities for Miss Vokes, of which she took
advantage to the utmost limit. In this the
Messrs Thorpe and Bell we're very happily
cast. The novelty here was "a Double Lesson"
comedietta by B. Y, Stephenson. bright little
piece, well adapted for Miss Vokes' use, but
not especially valuable in ITSELF It has the ap-
pearance of being much larger comedy COM
ability to sing. dance and acs in
every style under the sun, "a Double
Lesson" would not be very amusing. As it is,
however, the short story of the fashionable
woman, married to an aged nobleman and
anxious to taste the forbidden joys of filtration
and amateur theatricals. is Numerous,
broadly farclcal and even pathetic by
turns. Miss Vokes plays in familiar role
that Of a burlesque actress off the stage-and it
enables her to initiate a variety song and dance
artist. and to dance Highland fling
in 3 way that conquered the ''unco guid'' Scotch
butler and enchanted the audience. The brief
pathetic climax with which the play closes was
Mr.. Thorpe was very clever also; and Miss
Eleanor Lane made as pretty q picture as has
beerseen here for long while. The audience
appreciated the performance immensely; the
applause was incessant almost and among the
most interested of the spectators during the
first two plays was Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, who
occupied q box. a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
HOTEL GUESTS,
A Clerk Who Estimates Them by Theil
Writing and Hates fasteners.

A Clerk Who Estimates Them by Their
Writing and Hates fasteners.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Said q popular hotel clerk the other day. 'ft
is a noticeable fact that the guests from Bos-
ton and New York are very egotistic. They
seem to think that they come from Gods
chosen country ana that they are much i'm
posed upon to have to spend q few days in
Cleveland. 1t Is this local pride which the Bos-
ton and New York people possess that makes
Cleveland people tired. They are forever talk
ing about the merits Of their own cities and d Q
preciating western localities.
'In sizing up guest we do so by the char
acter of his handwriting. Take man, for in
stance, with bold heavy style of penmanship
you will invariably find that he is arbitrary and
hard to get along with. Such men want great
deal of waiting on and cause US lots Of trouble.
You take man with a neat handwriting and he
is invariably courteous and affable. His de-
mands are modest and he is easy to get along
with. 1t is the duty of us hotel clerks to study
human nature and to tell just how to treat
everyone that stops at our houses"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-16
A SMOKERS REVENGE.
The Way French Gentlemen Even Up With
Spunky Women.

The Way French Gentlemen Even Up With
Spunky Women.
illustrated Americana
A Partisan recently chronicled this true tale
Of ''rhe Smokers Revenge
Scene: A railway compartment. MADAM,
do you object to smoking?" No reply. The
question is repeated with similar result.
Thinking the lady deaf. the male passenger
made pretense of lighting his cigar.
lido 1t If you dare r. exclaimed Madam
Potin, with an unearthly gleam in her eye.
"Just to see what'll happen, here goesp he
said, stung by the lady's tone. And he applied
the match.
The lady bounced from the seat, and, snatch
ing the cigar from his lips, threw it out OF the
window.
"There is compartment for smokers r' she
hissed.
The gentleman, quite taken back, thought it
best to be quiet. while secretly bemoaning his
lost Havana -
Five minutes silence. Madam Potin flushed
with her triumph. Suddenly the lady.s muh
appeared to become instinct with life, ana
presently little poodle put out its head to take
a breath of air. The gentleman rose, smiling
affably seized the little dog by the tail, and
tenderly dropped it out of the carriage window.
saying, in dulcet tones: Madam, there Is
compartment for dogsr'