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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

there a proud-featured old man, white
haired, keen-eyed, OF distinguished bearing
"a striking fgure-and not more pictur-
esque than welcomed For would not
Maisrie, later on in the evening, be still
waiting up for him? And if, at the end of
the proceedings, one were to walk home
with the old man, and have a chance of say
ing five words to Maisrie herself, by way of
good night? No; he would not reproach
her. He would only take her hand, and
say: To-morrow-to-morrow, Maisrie, am
coming to scold your -.
Thin Scot, burly Scot, red-headed Scot,
black-a-vised Scot, Lowpander and High
lander-all came trooping in, eager, talk
ative, delighted to meet friends and ac-
quantances; but there was no George
in their places, and when dinner had begun,
Hugh Anstruther, who was ''croupier" on
this occasion, turned to his guest and said:
"You must not be disappointed. / hardly
expected him; could net hear of any one
who had invited him. But it is quite likely
he may turn up later on-very likely, in
deed, if he is anywhere within travelling
distance of New York. George Bethune Is
not the one to forget the 25th of January;
and of course he must know that many of
his friends are assembled here"
linen presently the cro2pler turned TO his
guest and said in an undGrtone:
"There's a toast that's not down in the
list; and I'm going to ask We to drink it;
we'll drink it between ourselves. Fill your
glass, man-bless me, what's the use OF
wateri-see, here's some hock-Sutherland' 8
famous for his hock-and now this is the
toast: Here's to Scotch lassies, wherever
they may bel'"
"Yes-'wherever they may be, >" Vincent
replied, absently.
"Oh, don't be downh0artedp' his lion
headed friend said, with cheerful good
humor. "If that self-wilhed old devil has
taken away the iassie, thinking to make
some grand heiress of her, he'll find it's
easier to talk about royal blood than to keep
a comfortable house over her head; and some
day he may be glad enough to bring her
back and see her safely provided with hus-
band well-to-do and able 10 take care of her.
Royal blood?-I'm not sure that 1 haven't
heard him maintain that the Bethunes were
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
CHAMPAGNE GOES UP.
Action Of the New York Hotel Men and
the Causes for It

Action Of the New York Hotel Men and
the Causes for It
The Hotel Mems Association, Of New
York, held meeting recently, to consider
the price of champagne, and from now on
quart bottles will cost 81 and pints can be
had for S. Many of the hotels yesterday
quoted this price on their wine lists. Just
why there should be this increase of price
on the sparkling wine is not apparent to
any one but the importers, and they will
not tell.
Talking with a prominent hotel-keeper
last night about champagne, he said: 'I
do not want you to print my name, but
think can give you the whole inside of
this business. Some years ago these same
prices were on all the wine cards and then
champagne was only $14. You can see
what a profit there was then. The importers
have kept piling the price on US until now
we have to pay $32 a case; and before this
action of the Hotel Association we were sell
ing wine at So 30 and 81.
"There is not so much profit in champagne
as one would think. Breakage, leakage and
bad corks all 60 to swell the expenses. Some
importers will allow US for broken bottle
if we return the neck of the bottle properly
corked, but there are others, and they are in
the majority. who will not replace bottles
under any circumstances.
SIT seems liRe piece Of extortion on the
part of the exporters increasing the price
about So case for champagne, as they have
done, and the only excuse they can give is
that they have to pay the growers more"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
MADE MONEY WITH HIS TELEPHONE.
Women Flock to q Hotel Instrument tc
Listen to BirchaIPs Trial.

Women Flock to q Hotel Instrument to
Listen to BirchalPs Trial.
A travelling man who was in Woodstock,
Ont. during the progress of the Birchall
murder trial tells a story of how an enter
prising hotel proprietor made money with
his telephone, says Cleveland Leader re-
porter. A real murder trial was novelty
to the natives. and they wanted to hear as
much az possible. The court room was very
small, and would scarcely accommodate the
attendance, attorneys, reporters and wit
nesses, much less the eager crowds which
the sensational character of the trial drew to
the town.
The hotel proprietor saw the chance of
doing a good stroke of business, and he very
effectually carried out his ideas. On the
wall over the Judges head he managed to
have fixed large telephone receiver, which
he connected with 20 instruments at his
place of business. There the tubes were
rented for certain time at 25 cents head,
and four of the tubes were placed in pri-
vate room for ladies' 1t is said that all day
long, each day of the trial, the hotel tele-
phone was in requisition, and every word
that was said was thus carried to the dis
tant listeners.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

Adams wrote that song; say it was none
other than Jean Adams. Mickle-and his
wretched Portuguese stuff
"God bless me, Tom, do you forget Cum
nor Hall?' his brother exclaimed.
''Cumnor Hall?' do not forget Cum
nor Hall?'" Tom MacVittie rejoined, with
certain disdain. "'Cumnor HallP-a
wretched piece of stilted affectation, that no
one would have thought of twice, only that
Walter Scott's ear was taken with the first
verse. Proud minions-simple nymphs-
Philomel on yonder thorn: do We mean that
a man who wrote stuff like that could write
like this
Rise up aud max clean nreside,
Put on the mickle pot;
Gle little Kate her cotton gown,
And Jock his Sunday coat;
And max their shoon as black as slaes,
Their stockins' white as snaw;
It's a. to pleasure our gudeman-
He likes to see them braw.'
That's human nature, man; there you've the
goodwife, and the goodman, and the BARNS;
none O. your Philomels, and nymphs, and
swains' That bletherin' idiot, DR.. Beattie,
wrote additional verses-wel1, he might al
most be forgiven for the last couplet,
The present moment is our ain,
The neist we never saw
"That was favorite quotation of old
with a smile, to Vincent.
The young man was startled out of q
reverie. 1t was so strange for him to sit aud
hear conversation like this, and to imagine
that George Bethune had joined in it, and
no doubt led it, in former days, and that per-
haps Maisrie had been permitted to listen.
eyes," he made answer, modestly; "and
no man ever carried the spirit OF it more
Completely into his daily life. He was
always for making the most of the present
moment; and he had no fear of the future" I"
"What makes We think he is in New York,
or in the United States, at least?" was the
next question.
81 can hardly say" said Vincent, "except
that knew he had many friends here"
"If George Bethune is in New York, |"
Tom MacVittie interposed, in his decisive
way, "I'll wager he'd show up at Suther-
lands tomorrow night-I'll wager my coat
and hat!'
And then the editor put in word.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
FUTURE OF CHINA.
A Talk With the President of the Imperial
College of China

A Talk With the President of the Imperial
College of China
Rev. DR.. Martin, the President of the
Imperial College at Pekin, has just come
from China and he is spending few months
in America, in getting out a book on the
Philosophy and Education of the Chinese.
There is perhaps no man in the world out
side of China, who is better posted on the
Chinese and the Chinese Government, than
DR.. Martin. For the past 80 years he has
been one of the leading Chinese officials,
and though he is an American, he draws q
big salary from the Emperor OF China, and
he is EMPLOYED to take charge of the college
which educates the young Chinaman and
tartars of high degree in our sciences.
Many of the best Chinese diplomats who
now represent China at foreign courts are
graduates of DR.. Martins school, and he
tells me, writes Frank G. Carpenter to The
DISPATCH, that the college is limited to
120 pupils and that these pupils receive
regular salaries from the Emperor, while
they are in college, and they are sure of
Government positions II they pass the
examinations. He tells me that the Chinese
youth is fully as bright as tine American
youth, and he predicts a great chsnge in
China when our knowledge shall become
widespread.
asked DIR. Martin whether he thought
the Chinese people had deteriorated and
whether the nation had passed its prime.
He replied: 81 think the Chinese mind is
as bright to-day as it has ever been, and it
seems to me that the Chinese are to be one of
the four great peoples of the future. These
four will be the German, the Anglo-Saxons,
including the English and the Americans,
and the Chinese, and 1 think that China
will hold its position with the rest You do
not get the best products of China in your
Chinese population. Those who have come
to this country have been mainly from the
South Of China, where the people are the
poorest, and only the poorest and most
Ignorant have come to this country
The people of the North are taller and
better built. They are strong limbed and
they have fine faces. They do not desire to
emigrate. and though the Chinese Govern
ment does not feel at all pleased at the treat
ment it has received from America, it in
not at all anxious to have its people come to
this country. l think the action OF Congress
in expelling the Chinese has materially in
Jured the American interests in the far East.
and do not apprehend that Americans
will ever get the concessions as to railroads
and banking which they expected to obtain
few years ago. You asked me as to the
young Emperor. He is doing verv well
and shows himself to be a man of brains
and of progressive instincts. He has the
interests OF his people at heart and his ad-
mlnlstration is popular"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
BABY EATEN BY TURTLEa

II Springs From Its Nurses Arms Into the
Jaws of Treasury Guardians.
North China News.1
It is reported that child was eaten by
turtles in Hangchow, China, short time
ago. There is large pool of water in front
of the yamen of the provincial treasurer. In
this pool number of large turtles are kept,
in order, as it is said, to keep robbers from
burrowing into the vaults Of the treasury.
Some OF the large ones have shells that
would measure two feet by three feet or
more in width and length.
People are constantly standing about the
pool watching them as they come up to feed
or to take breath. One day a nurse with q
child in her arms was standing there, when
the child suddenly sprang into the water.
The turtles soon gathered around it, tore it
to pieces and devoured 1t. The nurse fed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

description Of the small verandahed villa
in which they lived, out among the
sandy roads and trees and gardens Of the
suburb. Why. it was the Toronto Globe or
the Toronto Mail that old George Bethune
was reading, when first he had dared to ad-
dress them in Hyde Park. Then Montreal;
he recollected so we'll her talking of the
Gray Nunnery, of Notre Dame, of Bonse-
cours Market, of the ice palaces and tobog-
gan slides and similar amusements of the
hard Northern winter. But a trivial little
incident that befell him on his arrival in
Toronto persuaded him more than any of
these "reminiscences that in coming to Cam
ada he was getting nearer to Maisrie-that
at any moment he might be within imme-
diate touch of her.
1t was rather late in the evening when he
reached his hotel; he was tired; and he
thought he would go soon to bed. His room
looked out into q side street that was pretty
sure to be deserted at this hour; so that, lust
as he was turning off the light, he was
trifie surprised to hear a slight sound as of
singing without; and from idle curiosity he
went to the window. There was a full
moon; the opposite pavement and the fronts
of the houses were white in the cold and
clear radiance; silence reigned save for this
chance sound he had heard At the same
moment he deserted the source of it. There
were two young girls coming along the
pavement opposite-hurrying home, appar-
emily, arm-in-arm-while they amused
themselves by singing little in an UNDER
hand way, one of them even attempting a
second from time to time. And how could
he mistake the air?-it was the "Claire
FountaineH His heart throbbed: surely
this told him, if anything could, that here
was Malsrie's home? The girls were sing
ing in no sad fashion; but idly and care
lessly to amuse themselves on their home
ward way; and indeed SO quietly that even
in this prevailing silence he could only
guess at the words
] al perdu ma maitresse
Sans pavoir merite,
Pour un bouquet de roses
Que je lui refusal.
Je voudrais que Ia rose
Fut encore au roster,
Et moi ct ma maitresse
Dams les mems amities.
And then the two slight, dark figures went
BY in the white moonlight: and eventually
the sound ceased in the distance. But he
had been greatly cheered and comforted.
This was friendly and familiar air. He
had reached Maisrie's home at last; la
Claire Fontaine" proclaimed it. And il,
when he neared the realms of sleep, his
heart was full of the old refrain
Lui va longtemps que je t'aime.
Jamais je ne t'oubllerai,
there was something of hopefulness there as
well: he had left the despair OF Omaha be-
hind him.
(To be continued nezt Sunday.)
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
TO BUILD A CHURCH BY PRAYER
Father FarrelPs Original and Practic,
Methods of Raising Funds.

Father FarrelPs Original and Practical
Methods of Raising Funds.
About IL years ago little community of
German Catholics living in fremont organ
lied themselves into church society, says
the New York Press. At the time Father
Farrell became pastor of St. Joseph's, not
many years ago. he found a debt of S22, 900
resting upon the property of the church. He
has now not only cleared off this debt, but
he has added to the property of the church
several acres of land on Washington, Bath
gate and Third avenues, which are now val
ued at nearly, il not quite, S100, 900.
And now he proposes to build a grand
church which will cost 500, 900. Father
Farrell has adopted a very novel and most
original scheme to raise the money to erect
his new church. He does not propose to
build it BY selling any of the property ac-
quired by the parish, but BY voluntary con-
tributions from those whom he proposes to
make the special benefciaries of his pray
ers. In other words, he proposes to build
his new home of divine worship by PRAYER.
In the beginning he proposes to secure 500
subscribers who will give two cents a day.
For these he will celebrate mass once a
week as long as their contribution is kept up.
For those who will pay 81 cash down he
will celebrate mass once week for one year;
$25, five years; $50. 10 years; S10O for a life
time, and 5000, for eternity. Should he die
or be removed to another parish the saying
of the weekly masses would devolve upon
his successor, and will be kept up as long
as time lasts, being made a special order of
exercises for each and every priest who may
succeed to the pastorate OF St Joseph's s
Church. This scheme of Father Farrell's is
undoubtedly the newest thing in the way OF
securing money to erect a church. Already
it is finding favor with his parishioners and
many subscriptions are promised, while
some are coming in. Father Farrell has re-
ceived the sanction of Archbishop Corrigan
to build his new church, and its beginning
will not be long delayed.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
SNAKE FROM THE CLOUDS.

A Hunter Enjoying His Honeymoon Brings
Down Some Queer Game.
New York Herald.1
A snake story which has the novelty of
being true comes from Lackawaxen, Pa.
Courtney Kenneally, the son-in-law of the
wicked and defeated Gibbs, is spending his
honeymoon at the Delaware House, and
devotes considerable time to the gun and
rod, being proficient in the use of BOTH.
A few days ago Kenneally saw a huge
hen hawk flying over the house, and taking
auick aim sent q charge of duck shot into
the bird. It fell almost at his feet, and his
astonishment was great at finding in its
talons q rattlesnake, measuring three feet
eight inches. The snake was alive, but
Kenneally quickly dispatched it, and kept
the wings of the bird and the skin OF the
"rattler" % ''trophies Of the chase"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
THE GOOD THAT MEN DO
Is Most Always Brought to the Front By
Death Nowadays.

Is Most Always Brought to the Front By
Death Nowadays.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.:
The most wonderful thing about death is
that it brings goodness to the front and lets
be known a vast deal of greatness that would
else be unknown or neglected. When else do
we sink all i'll thoughts and unkindly Cos
sip? Shall we ever come to have as prov
erb, Speak no i'll of the living? 1t would be
far more helpful and honorable. How it
would create the beautiful if we only saw the
beautiful and spoke the generous. But as
things are we live in the creating room,
where each one is to be told his faults, osten-
sibly or really for his improvement.
The dead can not be improved, at least by
us. They have passed on beyond us; and no
matter how much we fling up their faults
the score is added up, and the columns full.
We pass them over to another judgment; It
is to be hoped much milder one than they
have met in life. No one need fear judg-
ment day with the divine, alter having lived
along the line OF human judgment for 40 or
so years.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
PROOF AGAINST CONTRACTION.
Rubber Armor by Means Of Which Doctors
and Nurses Can be Safe.

Rubber Armor by Means OF Which Doctors
and Nurses Can be Safe.
New York SUM-
An "aseptic suit" for the protection Of
physicians and others against contagion
while attending persons with contagious dis
eases, has been invented by DR.. ]. L. Roll
lins, of Auburn, Cal. 1t is to be worn over
the ordinary clothing so as to entirely cover
the wearer, and is almost entirely imper.
vious, such parts as may admit air consist
ing of germ proof material. It has mechan-
ism for supplying filtered air for respiration,
facilities for using the stethoscope and the
laryngoscope, and removable gloves. The
suit, which is preferably of rubber, is in
two parts, brought together at the waist by
clamped fanges. In the crown of the head
piece are two perforated metallic plates for
holding wad of germ-proof material, and
the front has similar plates. Near the ear
a circular opening is protected by disk of
rubber.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
HOW TO DRINK WINE.
Ice spoiIs All That is Glorious In Cham
payne and Claret.

Hotel Mall
Champagne, says the epicure, must be
drunk at temperature just above the freez-
ing point. Claret, on the other hand, must
be at about the temperature of the room.
Ice, in either case, cannot be thought Of. 1t
kills the effervescence of the champagne and
destroys the delicate bouquet of the claret.
But, say you, suppose 1 like my campagne
"killed'' to that extent? Suppose that my
coarser palate fails to detect those SUPPLE
favors ofthe claret and gets satisfactory re-
suits from that wine diluted and iced?
Questions like these imply gastronomic
heresy so blasphenous that your epicure's
soul shrinks within at the sacrilege and he
is mute Or answers frnm so altitudinous a
plane as to be unintelligibie to the groveler
below-as Dante might have answered
conundrums shouted at him from the lowest
pit
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

For admitting light the upper front part
OF the head piece has glass-covered OPEN
ing. The trousers and boots are in one
piece. In the feet are bellows protected by
germ-proof material that are worked by a
treading motion, maintaining an upward
current of air and driving out vitiated air
through the head-piece. For a woman
skirt instead of trousers may be provided.
The suit may be carried in convenient
casing to within safe limits of a case of
contagious disease. then adjusted and the
patient visited, the exterior being disin-
fected after removal.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16
The Fad Is Changed.

The Fad Is Changed.
Exit the beauty spotted veil. Now the
reign Of the cross bar in black, cream and
scarlet net
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-16

By Logan's streams that rim so deep,
Flu aft wi glee I've herded sheep;
Herded sheep, or gathered slaes,
WI my dear lad on Logan braes.
But wae'S my heart, thae days are game,
And l VII grief may heard alaue;
While my dear lad maun face his faes,
Far, far frae me and Logan braes.
do not remember Burns using that device.
though it was familiar in Scotch song-you
recollect Annie Laurie'-'her waist We weel
might spau.' And Landor used it in Rose
Aylmer'-
Rose Aylmer. all were thine
Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyes
81 would like now," continued Tom Mac
Vittie, with certain impstience over the
introduction Of glaiket Englisher, "to
hand over to Robbie There's nae luck about
the house The authorship s disputed
anyhow; though I tell you that if William
Julius Mickle ever wrote those verses I'll
just eat my hat-and coat, tool It was Jean
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-18

HENRY w. GRADY on BAupooMs.-Grady
closed his celebrated speech against bar
rooms with the following eloquent perora-
iion: 81 assume to keep no mans con-
science; assume to judge for no man;
do not assume that / am better than any
man, but that am weaker. But l say this
to you, j have boy as dear to me ss the
ruddy drops that gather about this heart.
find my hopes already centering in. this
little body and look to him tonight to
take to hims0f the work that, strive as
may, must fall unfinishcd at last from my
hands. Now, know they say ii IS proper
to educate o boy at home; tIiaC il he is
taught at home he will not go wrong. That
Is lie to begin with, but that don't matter
lhave seen sons Of some as good people as
over lived turn out badly. accept my re-
sponsibility asa father. The boy may fall
from the right path as things now exist If
he does, shall bear that sorrow with such
resignation rs may; but tell you if
were to vote to recall barroems to this city,
when know it has prcspered in their ab-
sence, and that boy should fall through
their agency, tell you-and this conviction
has come to me in the still watches of the
night~-i could not, wearing the crowning
sorrow Of his disgrace and looking into the
oyes of her whose heart he had brokeu,
could not, If l hal voted to recall these
barrooms, find answer for conscience or sup
sn2rt for my remorse Applause I L don t
low how any other father feels, but TINT is
the way 1 feel il God permits me to utter
tho truth.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-18

A SAFE INyEsTMEsT.-Is one which is
guaranteed to briUg you satisfaotory -ros,,lts
or in case Of failure return of purchase
price. On this safe plan yau can buy from
our advertised Druggist bottle of DR.. King s
New Discovery for Consumption. 1t is
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or chest, such rs Consumption, Inflammation
of Lungs, Bronchitis, Asthama, Whooping
Cough, Group. ETC., etc. 1t is pleasant and
agreeable to taste, perfectly safe, and can
always be depended upon. Trial bottles free
at b. +. Posey Drug Store.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-04-18

MERITS WISs.--We desire to say to our
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DR.. Kings New Discovery for Consumption,
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their use. These remedies have won their
great popularity purely on their merits.
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