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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
A Widows Mite.

On Troy Hill car. by the way the little
green hearses with the melancholy mules are
the last of the boDtails. yesterday a very
fashionably dressed woman took the usual
paroxysm as she approached Penn avenue and
made wild effort to stop the car. AS has so
often happened in bobtail cars she got hold of
the wrong cord and began to ring up fares on
the dial. The first tug luckily took must of
her strength and the succeeding ones were
not powerful enough to register. Then
somebody stopped the car. As the finely
dressed woman made her way to the door a lit
tie woman in painfully thin shawl and a
shabby dress. said: Excuse me, ma'am, the
driver will have to pay the cents you ring up"
A smile. just enough to show the teeth, and a
shrug of the two high sealskin-covered
shoulders were all the reply the high born dame
vouchsafed. She got off the car without delay.
Then the little woman took thin purse out of
her pocket and found 6-cent piece easily
enough-for there was very little money there.
She dropped it quietly into the box, and the
driver was puzzled, doubtless. to account for
the nickel when he found it there later on.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
A MAY MUSIC FESTIVAL,

We are to have May music festival
this year. This will be grateful news to the
many who enjoyed the feast of harmony and
melody two years ago. Especially as this
festival is promised to be greater and
grander than the former one. Pittsburg has
risen to the dignity of being one OF the mus
ical and art centers of this great country,
and it has fully earned its reputation as
such. The great exhibit of art in the Car
negie Hall and the subsequent grand mi usical
treat not only demonstrate the cultivation
of the community, but they will add impetus
to further progress.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
FUNNY MEMS FANCIES,

To faint dead away after a Russian bath
is to be clean gone, at least. t.-HsU Orleans PicGv-
une,
Have you got that resolution with your
Or did.you break it by taking too good care oft.
Buffalo Times.
"Charley Naivyo is a sort of go-as-you-
please boy isn't he?'' said one Washington girl
to another.
..It has been my observation that he never
pleases to 20. ~ was the ssdly-spoken reply
Washington Post.
Mother-Mable, when VIII you learn
something about cookery; thought toio you an
hour 20 to stun the turkey with chestnuts?
mabls-I don,t care, ma, the turkey wouidn't
eat ,er. reaIly believe the poor thing Is dead
Nelo York Herald.
"T will bet that woman's terror holding
her own. ;, was remarked at the reception.
s.What makes you think so9"
81 never saw one show more eoeekoone.-fhttd-
Mrs. Bullion-I bought to-day genuine
Partisan work Of art
MRS. Bullion-No.:A bust OF some young woman
named Hebe. The dealer assured me tt II real
plaster Of Paris.-JeOeter's Circular.
With dancing master it is not only the
srst step which costs. You have to pay for
them all.-Esv York Evenfn0 World.
Dashaway-I understand that you were
around to Miss Palisades last night. Did you see
the old year out together
No; wanted to, but Miss Palisade saw me out
hrst.-Spdrks.
Mrs. Dinwiddie Ito her daughter)-Lucy,
dear. you shouldn't say shoot IT," That's =
slang expressionand unladyiike.
Lucy-Oh, no, mamma You remember that the
poet Pope sayh 'shoot folly ssit aiss. ss.''-chssass
Inter oesGa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
THE intimation by Judge Stowe, in

THE intimation by Judge Stowe, in his
decision on the oil well case last week, that the
Blue Laws of 1874 must be construed in the
light Of common sense, and with some refer
ence to public judgment, is disappointment,
no doubt, to a few ultra-Sabbatarians. Yet
there is not the slightest reason to expect tnat
the broader Interpretation which the bench
puts upon works of necessity" will result in
needless violation of the Sabbath Any mar
rover view would logically call for stoppage Of
railroads. street cars, telegraph electric lighting
companies, newspapers and other incidentals
of modern progress, which were not "necessi-
ties' IN 1794 4because they were not then known,
and which can only be conceived to be exempt
ed by the judicial Interpretation that what is
necessary must be judged in some degree by
the evidence of public requirements and special
circumstances. The suit against the oil wells
was very much like drawing a microscopic
sgnt for fraction OF the strictest letter of the
law. 1t was an answer to no public demand.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
THE EASTERN DANCE.
1t Is Product of Physical Endurance Be-
gun in Early Youth.


1t Is Product of Physical Endurance Be-
gun in Early Youth.
Julian Hawthorne, in Dress.l
One of the most attractive features of the
recent Exposition in Paris was the Eastern
dancing girls. In half dozen or more booths
or tents, scattered about the grounds, these
strangers of another world and civil
ization held their unique receptions. The
spectacle, to Western eyes, is SO entirely new
and Unprecedented that the first effect of it is
mere astonishment After further experience,
its strangeness begins to resolve itself into
beauty; We can discriminate between the COM
parative merits of dancers, and dispense ap-
plause judciously.
A narrow stage occupies one end Of the room
which may be 30 feet square. On the stage. in
a semi-circle, sit the dancers and the musicians.
The latter produce a concert chief y with a
sort of drums, and pipes that emit a noise not
unlike the scream of a bagpipe. 1t is a bewil-
dering. exciting noise. which, after while,
begins to heat the brain and hurry the pulse.
In the midst of it, young woman rises. .swathed
about in silks and muslins, and with bangles and
necklaces jingling and sparkling at every move
ment. Her body sways easily between her
launches, and her air is partly Indolent and
partly suggestive of latent vigor. AS She faces
the audience, undulations pass through her
body; and these fluctuations are not only
lateral, but vertical Anyone who has observe
counterpart of this movement.
While the undulations are going on, the girl
is in other respects performing slow, graceful
and languid dance. Her arms rise and fall and
wave about her head; she turns her face from
side to side, and occasionally smiles as if in
voluptuous dream; her feet shifting rhythmic
ally and without haste; and ever and anon she
turns completely round. but always slowly and
deliberately. The marvel and singularity of
the performance lies in the undulations of the
front of the body. 1t Is impossible for a Eu-
ropean TO produce even the germ of such a
movement These girls have been trained
from early childhood, in the use of groups Of
muscles of the very existence of which we are
ignorant. Their control of them is absolute
The extent and power of the contractions is as
tonishing.
In a European it would be almost revolving
but in these Oriental damsels the effect IS DIFF
ferent. We recognize that the "dance'' is nat
ural to them: that it belongs to their race and
genius, and that it has come down to them from
an epoch as ancient as the sides of the pyra-
mids and the infancy of Buddha. 1t is not to
be criticised by our crude cotemporary stand
ards of convention, fashion or morality; it is to
be accepted, wondered at, for what it Is, and
has been since the East was the East,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
OUR MAIL POUCH.
Hello! superintendent Metzgar

To the Editor of The Dispatchi
In your Mail Pouch on Thursday of this week
appeared complaint from Hazelwood SUBJ
scriber about the poor suburban service
afforded by the Telephone Company here.
That complaint is no doubt correct in the main,
it being verified by my own experience. but a
poor memory must have misled your corre-
spondent into saying that last week he held any
communication whatever with the city, as all
the Second avenue telephones (save those be-
longing to the city of Pittsburg, which were
promptly put in order), have been useless since
the great snow Storm now more than two
weeks ago. The company's officers, when ap-
pealed to, have made frequent promises to put
these lines in order-so far with no results ap-
parent. How much longer subscribers are to
be without the means of communication for
which they have paid in advance, remains to
be seen~ Possibly the publicity you are kindly
giving this matter may hasten the repairs more
than personal appeals have done-if not those
living and doing business beyond Tenth street
are in a bad way. HELLO CENTRAL.
PITTSBURG, Jan. 3
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
REFORMING THE BALLOT BOX.
The New League Organized in Chicago
Adopts Its Constitution.

The New League Organized in Chicago
Adopts Its Constitution.
CHICAGO, Jan. IA preliminary meeting to
effect the permanent organization of the
Chicago Ballot Reform League was held last
night, number of prominent citizens being
present. A constitution was adopted by the
meeting, which declares that the objects of the
league "Shall be to employ all honorable
and lawful means to secure for the city Of
Chicago and the State of Illinois what is known
as the Australian ballot"
The draft of the bill to be introduced in the
Illinois Legislature at its next meeting was
considered The bill is modelled after the Mime
sofa one, with some changes providing for the
three tickets-red. white and blue in color
corresponding to the colors of the ballot boxes
to be prepared by the State, county and city
officers. The reformers agreed that the pres
ent city election law was a bad one, and the
primary system was denounced as ''infamous,
guttersnipe politics" in which lay the founda-
Iion of the evils in the body polite. Some
methods were suggested to take the place of
primaries, but nothing definite was agreed
,upon Judge Tuley was elected President, and
Charles Barry Corresponding Secretary.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

practical sisterhood of this modern era, the
lady Is not only grateful. but Is advertising FAR
and wide her gratitude together with descrip-
ton of this young man, in the commendable
desire to reward him for his heroisn. She
says, after this personal description Of her hero:
Il am lady Of means and an only daughter.
and If can find out the whereabouts OF this
young man will reward him, and he will not
know from whom it comes"
Now, If this youth should come across that
advertisement and does not respond with an
ardent desire to meet this heroine Of his adven-
ture, and having met her does not at once pro-
pose matrimony. he will not answer the require
ments of the knight of olden times. To be
sure, the description Of young man in a cape
overcoat, brown derby, big cane and horse
shoe-and-whip pin is not accurate enough to
distinguish young New Yorker of a certain
class from good many young men of his set,
and we may look for an active competition on
the part Of all the dude young men SO dressed,
for the hand of the heroine and her means"
CHARLES T. MURRAY.
NEW YORK. Jan. 8.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
A Jeweled Question.

One of the oldest little bits of jewelry have
seen lately is stick pin or more properly lace
pin made in the form of an Interrogation point
thus p. The body of the pin is gold tilagree
and it is crusted with diamonds. A deep blue
sapphire formed the tip of the upper curve.
They are the fashion, it is said. in New York,
but the objec ection raised to them by one fair
critic is that only questionable people could
wear them. The danger of sending one as
present to a lady seems to be that the query in
the bauble might be interpreted to be a pro-
proposal. HEPBURN JOHNS.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
A GOOD PARK SUGGESTION.

That is q good suggestion made to Chief
Bigelow that the arches over the five en-
frances to Schenley Park be built by sub
scriptions for that purpose. The idea of
naming them for celebrated persons or
events is not entirely new. 1t has been
adopted elsewhere. But it is none the less
good on that account. The suggestion hav-
ing been made, the next thing is to act on
it. There ought to be many citizens with
pride enough in making our park one of the
most delightful in this country to start the
subscriptions for this purpose and fill them
out properly.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
JANUARY WEATHER PROPHECY.

The varieties and species ofweather sched-
uled by the different weather prophets for
The month of January exhibit family re-
semblance, while differing as to details.
According to the goosebone's vaticinations,
as interpreted by Joel Stillman, of Wood
stock, Connecticut, January is to open with
warm weather, with gradual decrease in
temperature, until. during the last two
weeks, several days Of freezing weather will
ensue. The coldest day of the winter is to
be January q, but the whole season is be
milder than last winter. Rev. E. S. Hicks
starts out the month with fair, cold weather
and reaetionary wave about the &c, raising
the temperature and causing "rain, snow,
and stormIness;" next come an alienation
OF cold waves and storms, with very cold
wave predicted for the 18th, aud
after that warmer skies and softer
winds on the 26th and 9th. The
photographic Office predicts plenty of
stormy weather along the coast north of
Cape Hatteras, with strong westerly and
northwesterly gales to be expected every
FIVE OF six days, accompanied by heavy
snow squalls and followed by clear and cold
weather.
1t will be seen that the prophecies of
Hicks and the photographic Office agree in
predicting a succession of cold waves and
storms for January. Come to think of it, it
does not require wonderful quantity of
prescieuce to predict cold waves and storms
for January. The prophet who undertakes
that January shall contain neither, would
certainly get reputation for daring origi-
nality, whether his prophecies were vindi-
Gated by time or not. The goosebone sooth-
saver comes the nearest to making that
attempt, but unfortunately his forecast is
bOpelessly discredited by the cOntrariness of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

WRITTEN FOE THE DIsPArcH.l
She was sitting at thecounter
Ofa store:
Customers were plenty,
Quite score
or people, stood about
Wishing, without doubt,
There were more
To do their bidding,
O'er and DER.
Patiently waited also.
And / let
Unimproved no chance to view her
Our eyes met.
o, thought her face the sweetest,
And her makeup" the completest.
Ihad yet
Beheld :mong the mortals. out or
In our set.
30 my eyes gladly feasted
As sat,
When my charmer thoughtlessly
Arranged her hat;
And alas! My admiration
Proved to be Of short duration,
After that;
For instead OF tapering fingers
White and fat,
Or hand we'll gloved
And tended
Be the glove well worn
Or mended
should not have q care
The hand saw was red and bare,
My intended
Alteration FED, before Il 6as
Extended.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
A POLITICAL truth of great value j

A POLITICAL truth of great value is
brought out by the remark of the st. Paul
Pioneer-Press that "the issues of 1892 are not
in the hands of Grover Cleveland or any other
Democrat, but in those of the Republican ma
jority and the Republican administration"
This is worth remembering, but the trouble IS
that the Republican leaders seem to be very
busy in furnishing the Democrats with plenty
of good issues by their excessive appropria-
tions, their neglect of needed public measures
and their passionate devotion to the policy of
trying to preserve party supremacy by act of
Conpress
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

UNLESS the muddy condition of some
cities in this country is greatly exaggerated,
they may furnish partial explanation of the
manner in which ancient Silesia and Troy were
buried SO quickly. Those cities probably had
poodle politicians for Street Commissioners.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
THE FAIR AND SPANISH AMERICA.
The Commissioners to Be Sent to Thos,
Countries Making Preparations.

The Commissioners to Be Sent to Those
Countries Making Preparations.
CHICAGO, Jan a-The officers of the army
and navy detailed to lay before the Govern
ments of Central and South America, the desir-
ability of their being suitably represented at
the Columbian Exposition, reported to Direc-
tor General Davis this morning for instruc-
tions. An extended conference was held.
They will remain in the city for some time,
loading up with the effects for use in their
work. and will take with them illustrated
pamphlets covering the points in relation to
Chicago and the Fair, which, 1t is supposed,
will aid them IN their work. They will be abroad
at least q year and half Each officer is
which he is assigned, and most of the naval
officers have done duty in the places which
they will again visit.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
PREPARING FOR THE FRAY.

Rev. II. MacQuarey, to Be Tried for Heresy,
breaches His Farewell Sermon.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPArcH.i
CANTON Jan. 3-Rev. H. McQuearey, the
Episcopal minister whose trial for heresy takes
place in Cleveland next Wednesday. announced
to-day that he would preach in st. Pauls
Church Sunday. probably for the last time.
He has fully prepared his defense, and will
make strong fight. He will leave early next
week for Cleveland to arrange the prelimi-
naries.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

THE report that the thermometer went
down to sixty degrees below zero in Aroostook,
Maine, may be a hyper5olical way Of express
ing the fact that since the veto of that Bar
Harbor postofice appropriation it is exceed
ipcly cold weather for Maine men.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
THE TOPICAL TALKER.
APagoda Built in Vain.

The fve-year-old autocrat whose VIII is law
In certain East End household has shown
singular liking of late for the celestial king
dom-the very earthly one we know mostly by
the fans, tea-cups and laundrymen we get from
there. His parents, in whom the enthusiasm
of youth still booms thought to gratify the
child and encourage him to become Chinese
specialist, as it were, by giving Chinese tone
to the Christmas tree. They rugged up sort
of one-story pagoda-though in China, by the
way, pagodas must be at least three and not more
than thirteen stories high udle the archi-
tect's head-with curtains and gilt paper and
bells galore. If it didn't look exactly Chinese
1t looked crazy, which is nearly the same
thing, by the time midnight on Christmas Eve
came. While the male architect was putting
the finishing touches to the pagoda he fell on
the stepladder, and brought the whole struct-
ure to the ground. This was discouraging. but
in the bright lexicon of the father of one child,
and that boy. there is no such word as fail,
and SO he went to work again to rebuild the pa
CODA. With his wife's assistance he had
the temple complete once more by
half past four in the morning. Under it where
the bones of Buddha or some other respectable
person would have lain had Pekin been the
location instead of Pitts5urg, the Christmas
tree gaily decorated spread its glittering
branches.
The beneficiary of all this expenditure of the
midnight oil did not postpone the hour of his
tcOee. He was awake at 7:30. and saw to it that
his parents did not waste any time in slumber
after he was out of bed. To cut the story short,
the trio, the parents and the slightly blase babe
of five. presently came to where the pagoda with
its tree shrine stood. The small boy let 60 OF
his smother's hand and cody inspected the whole
outfit. Then he turned his little back upon it,
and with deliberate scorn exclaimed: "Ohl
you made great mistake with that tree
you've got no moss under itr'
A painful silence ensued, under cover of
which the small critic retired to the kitchen to
show the cook Jwo-cent Christmas card the
milkman had given him. In the subsequent
proceedings he took more interest-as the
spankee in lively encounter he could not
help doing so.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

BALLOT reform will loom up at Harris
burg about as soon as the Speakership contest
is settled, and the politicians may as well un-
derstand it is going to stay up until it is an &C.
complished fact even if the politicians have to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

UNFORTUNATELY the Bering Sea dis
pute is as far from settlement as ever. 1t is
again reported that second proposition for
arbitration has been rejected at Washington.
Had the first proposition been accepted the
matter might now be amicably aud satisfactorily
adjusted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
CERTAINLY GREAT.

Over 1000 Firesides.
From the Greensburg Sparks.1
The PITTsBURG SUNDAY DISPATCH Is cer-
tainly one of the great newspapers of the
country. It has been almost a constant visitor
to our home ever since the first number. and it
would be sore trial indeed to be obliged to
do without THE DISPATCH. Its popularity
and circulation are both constantly increasing.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

GovERNoR-ELECT PATTIsoN, it is an
nounced, will resign the presidency of the
Chestnut Street National Bank when he goes
TO Harrisburg. He is wise in thus cutting
loose from private interests. The Governor,
elected as a peoples candidate, is expected to
do his whole duty by great public trust.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

Voluntary contributors should Keep copies OF
articles II compensation is desired the price
ezpected must be named. The courtesy of re-,
turning rejected manuscripts tctU be extended
tohen stamps for that purpose are enclosed but
the Editor Of THE DISPATCH tDiU under no
circumstances be responsible for the care Of ur-
solicited manuscripts.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
A Vocal Raise.

The tariff according to Mckinley has been
the subject of many good-natured debates
between Mr., B. and Mr.. s. both Of promi-
nence politically and otherwise in Pittsburg.
The other night Mr.. B. who is a Democrat
called up his Republican friend Mr.. s. on
the telephone. Mr.. B. purposely disguised
his voice and then upbraided Mr.. s. for not
recognizing it,.
"Well-say! hellor' replied Mr.. s. through
the telephone, when he found out at length to
whom he was talking, "your voice is ever so
much higher than it wasp
"Of course It's higher" B. answered,
Everything is since you fellows passed the
Mckinley BILL"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

SILVER men, weary Of waiting for free
coinage law from Congress. are going to try to
establish right to free coinage in the courts.
should they succeed IN establishing consti-
tutional authority the wonder will grow why
Congress and financiers have wasted SO much
time squabbling over the matter of silver legis-
lation.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04
Mrs. Emma Siedle.

Mrs. Emma Siedle, wife Of A. e. Siedle, the
well-known East End jeweler died yesterday
morning at her home on Frankstown avenue.
She was universally loved and respected ana had
an exceedingly large circle of friends. The funer-
al will take place Tomorrow morning. Requiem
mass will be celebrated at IS. Peters and Paul,s
Church. Larlmer avenue at "A. NJ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

ANY scarcity in the ice supply next sum-
mer can safely be attributed to the ice men
and not the weather. But it is notable that the
ice men are usually able to bull the market as
much in summer as Jack Frost can bear it in
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-04

EASTERN money, fearful of uncertain
investments on account of the late furry, is
coming here to be put in Pittsburg real estate.
This investment is quite as popular as Govern
ment bonds, and has been far more profitable
for several years past