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scores Of pretty young women in costume,
chstted with by prima donnas waiting for
theif cues, taken up and down among dress
ing rooms and gas machines and surplus
scenery while comic opera was in full
blast. You never got a peep at fashiona-
bic metropolitan audience through the peep
hole in the drop.
No? Then I'll take you back in the old
Wallack on Broadway, now Palmer's. where
that bright little comic opera, ''The Tar and
Tartar" is in its sixteenth week. Consider
yourself favored. l did when 1 was intro
duced to the stage manager and the latter
was directed to give me the run of the place
for the night.
A PRIVATE BROWN STONE HOUSE.
The stage entrance is on Thirtieth street
beneath brown stone stoop-a landmark
well known to the "Johnnies." The place
was made for the ordinary servants en-
trance in the private brown stone house,
but it now serves as the hole-in-the-wall
that leads to the stage of Palmer's while the
rest of the mansion has been turned into
dressing rooms. In the narrow passage way,
at a small table sits that awful parsonage,
the envied guardian of the sacred precincts,
the stage doorkeeper. In this instance he
smiles in a heavy way, the only time ever
saw stage doorkeeper smile while on duty.
1 make mental note of the phenomenon.
They usually smile good deal when they
are off. Along the passage up three of four
crooked steps through thick wall like that
of prison and we are or the metropolitan
boards
1t is 7:45 and half dozen men are setting
the first scene. The big blank curtain shuts
in the auditorium, from whence the spas
modie sound of swapping seats indicates the
early arrivals. The stage is not a large one
and the scenery, seemingly haphazard. in
the grooves and against the walls, takes up
all but two or three feet of outside space.
The scenes are very simple in this opera
and the scene shifters have an easy task to-
night
DUTIES OF THE SCENE sHIFTERs
They are drilled the same as the players.
Each has particular part. He does just
the same thing every night and in this case
for an hundred nights. He handles a par
ticular piece and thus every section of the
sea-coast picture comes to- ether without ef-
fort, as by magic A isherman's cottage, a
mimic sea, nets spread on the grass, bas-
ket of fish, oars, dip nets and outrageous
shades in the foreground; back, a painted
canvas representing a rock-bound coast,
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How to Cure a Pain in the stomach.

We made use of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy on two
occasions for pain in the stomach. Result
satisfactory in very short time after taking
the medicine. I hesitate not in giving my
opinion in favor of the medicine At least
1t has done all claimed for it as far as we
have tried it. E. d. Book, Blain, Perry
county, Pa wsu
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MKEEsPORT, PA,

Il Not tho Center of the American Iron In
dustry,
But IL IL headquarters for three distinct
specialties of the iron trade, viz, wrought
iron pipes, planished sheet iron and timed
plate. Mckeesport has trebled its popula-
tion during the last decade and it will
treble again in this one. Real estate is in
creasing all the time, and now is the time to
secure some of the Highland Land Com
pany's building lots while they are cheap.
INQUIRE at the Office of w. G. Soles & Bros,
Agents, room No. 1, Bank Of McKeesport
building, McKeesport, Pa MWsu
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WOMEN HELD THE CONSTABLE.
Daring Leap Tor Liberty, . Chase and .
Rescue by Amazons.

Rescue by Amazons.
ROME, GA, Aug. 29.-John Wood, who
lives in Dugdown, was called on yesterday
by Constable Davenport, who had war
rant for his arrest. Davenport succeeded in
getting his prisoner upon the southbound
train. :
No sooner had the train started than
Wood leaped off the train platform with the
constable in close pursuit. Wood ran into
a house close by, where five women at once
took hold of the constable, holding him
moro than an hour. This gaveEWood abund-
ant time in which to escape.
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This is for Boys.

Monday morning we start the season
with big, rousing boys suit sale at 81 90 a
suit for choice from the best line ever
brought before the public. Suits for the
boys, all sizes, neat patterns. nobby styles,
at only 81 90 each, single ordouble breasted.
For particulars call with your boy at the
P. C. G. c., Pittsburg Combination Cloth.
ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond
streets.
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DABBs, the well-known photographer,
will make finer exhibit than ever at the
Exposition, and show some new and beauti-
full pictures.
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T course you never
saw an opera from
the wing - never
were part and par
eel of the miscel-
laneous throng of
picturesque human
ity behind the drop
curtain during a
performance. You
were never hustled
about by scene
shifters, elbowed by
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30
He Suro You Have 1t.

There are many brands of beer on the
market, but none to compare with that
brewed by the Iron City Brewing Company.
Try 1t. Telephone 1856.
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NEW goodsl New goodsl At cut fgures.y
MICHIGAN FURNITURE Co.,
437 Smithfeld street.
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UdohSb w
Goods delivered free to all parts of both
cities To those living out OF the city We
will prepay freight on all orders Of SO
and upward to any station or landing within
100 miles of Pittsburg. Send for price list
M. r. THOMPSON,
3o1 Market street, opposite Gusky'n
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r--<" Beware of Substitution.

r-~<e' Beware Of Substitution.
Don't allow your grocer to tell you tina,
other crackers and cakes and bread are al
good as Marvin's They're not. When
you go for Marvin's goods insiston getting
them. You'll never regret it Marvin
sare the best. TTsu
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Well, Where to Now7
Why to Kennedy's for ice cream and cake.
Couldn't 60 home without stopping there
after leaving the Exposition
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NOTHING like the Dunlap hata See
! them at Smiley's.
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ALL the fall style hats at smiley'A
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-30

GREAT hit The Dunlap hat at smiley's
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My Mama. Says That She Always Goes to
Thompson's for Bargains in tho Grocery
Line.
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Amusing and Interesting Sights
Among the Performers at a
Typical Comic Opera.
MYSTERIES OF THE PROPERTIES.
HOw the Scene Shifters Learn Their Parts
and Make the Sea Swell and
the Waves Dash.
PART A LIVE CoLORED BABY PLAYS.
SuperstitiOns Of the Pretty Chorus Girls and Their
Fun Among the Flies

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE prspArcH.I
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Summers setting and the for goods fast draw
approach Of fall Turn which will and the
daily
the month what then
stock have been kept fairly busy what known the duest
fall and fall goods
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EXPOSITION VISITORS.

the Exposition will find cordial welcome at store
make purchase Come in and make us
headquarters while and get your baggage checked free
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There is, however, very common i'm
preston among many persons, even those Of
general culture, that there are music lovers
who, although having had no previous edu-
cation in music, yet possess excellent taste
in the selection and appreciation of musical
compositions of a high order. 1t is admitted
that there are those who have acquired by
frequent hearings of meritorious works a.
sort of quasi taste for the classics in musical
art, but such persons after all depend large
ly on their natural instincts, which proves
not a knowledge of law principles, but re-
fined and. poetical nature which is in itself
simply the bud containing the undeveloped
cultured flower. But what is taste?
Webster says: ''Some consider taste as
mere sensibility and others as simple ex-
ercise of judgment; but union of both is
requisite to the existence of anything
which deserves the name An original
sense of the beautiful is just as necessary to
aesthetic judgments as a sense of right and
wrong to the formation of any just eonclus-
ions on moral subjects
But the sense of the beautiful is not an
arbitrary principle Its under the guild
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-12
NOTHING WAS LEFT.
Thieves Take Hollidaysburg and Haul
Goods Away in a Wagon.
MONEY AND MERCHANDISE TAKEN.
The Robbers Boldly Enter the Town and
Clean Out Two Stores.
ITEMS OF NEWS FROM THREE STATES
,srrcrAr- TEL FGRAM TO TIE nIsP ArcH.

rsrEcTAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l
HoLLIDAysBURG, Oct. 1.-THE Diamond
clothing store, of which Henry Rice is the
proprietor was the scene of the most daring
and successful robbery that has occurred in
this vicinity for years. Some time early
this morning a gang of thieves drove across
the mountain from some place along the
main line of the Pennsylvania road directly
to this store. The thieves were in an open
wagon and were seen by several people.
About o'clock they effected an entrance
through window, and the establishment
was completely cleaned of its choicest
goods, Mr.. Rice estimating his loss at about
8. 100 Oyercoats and furnishing goods
were quietly packed in trunks and every
thing slowed in the wagon. There was no
wGtclman on duty, and a passer-by named
William Stitfler, attracted by the noise,
asked what was going on, and was told it
was none OF his business. The thieves then
said thev would kill him if he did not leave,
and this frightened the man away.
After loOting the Diamond store, the
thieves boldly broke into the general
merchandise store of 'er Lindsay
Finding the safe locked, the thieves placed
heavy charge of powder in a drill hole
and blew the door off The report aroused
several people in the vicinity, but the
boldness Of the affair proved its success,
and the robbers took $40 in money ana
goods from The Lindsay place. all of which
was packed into the wagon. Then gaily
climbing inIO their overloaded vehicle,
they waved an adieu 10 the town, and
escaped over tie mountains with their load
Of va'uables toward Johnstown.
4 reward was at ONCE offered of $500 for
their capture, and officers this morning
started after them in buggies. Judging by
their boldneSs, and the clever manner with
which they went TO work, the suppositlon
Is that Hollidavsburg has been visited by a
hardy gang Of city thieves. At any rate
the town has been simply paralyzed all day
hv their actions in fourishing revolvers and
frightening several good citizens into bed
until their work was finished
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A New spirituaIist Speaker.

Hon. Sidney Dean, of Warren, R. l.,
lectured last night before the First Church
of Spiritualists, at their rooms. No. Sixth
street. The lecture room was crowded to
its utmost capacity, and the speaker was
listened TO with close attention. During
his remarks he said: ga mans spirit was
not disturbed in death, but can you tell me
that the mean, grasping man, or the mur-
derer and cut-throat, or the man or woman
whose last act on earth is to make their last
will and testament, and in doing so leave
someone out in the cold? Can you tell me,
l repeat, having shown such scOrpion-like
nature, can the soul retain it under these
conditions, or will the next change turn it
10 songs and thanksgiving?'
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ACKLIN-On Sunday, October II, 1891, at
| II A. M, MARY r. AcKLIN, aged p years.
Funeral services at Brownsville, Pa.
TUESDAY, at P. NJ. Interment in Browns
vile Cemetery.
ANDERSON-On Saturday, October 10. 1891,
ETHEL DEARY, daughter of DR.. f. r. and
Annie E. Anderson, aged years months.
Funeral services at the parents residence,
Braddock, Pa, on MONDAY, October u, at
Pm.
CALDWELI-On Sunday. October IL, 1891,
at 8 A. NJ, MARTHA VIETTA, daughter of Alex
ander and Mary Caldwell, aged 2 years and
months.
Funeral from parents residence, 81 Miller
street, Allegheny, THIS (Monday) AFTERNOON
at o'clock. Friends of the family are re-
spectfully invited to attend.
CRANE-On Sunday morning, october II,
1891, MARY CRANE, in her 73d year.
Funeral from the residence of her daugh-
ter Mrs. Mary Whalen, Glenwood, on TUES
DAY MORNING, at 9 o'clock. Services at st.
Stephens Church, Hazelw ood, at $50 A. N.
Friends Of the family are respectfully
invited to attend.
[St. Paul, Minn., Wheeling, w. Va, and
Cumberland, Nd, papers please copy.l
DISKIN-On Sunday, October IL, 1891, at 2:3O
P. M, WILLIE, son of William and Hannah
Diskin, aged months.
Funeral from the parents residence No.
1850. Second avenue, Marion station, on
TUESDAY, the 18th inst, at 2 o'clock P. NJ.
Friends of the family are respectfully in
vited to attend.
FENEIS-At his residence, Flowers avenue,
Hazelwood, on Saturday at 9:45 P. NJ, JOSEPH
FENEIs, aged IL years.
Dear husband and father thou hast left us,
And thy loss we deeply feei;
But tits God that has bereft us
He will all our SORROWS heal.
Funeral from his late residence Flowers
avenue. High mass at ST. Stephens Church,
on TUESDAY, October b. 1884, at 900 A. NJ.
FITZSIMMONS-On Friday October 9,
1891, at $50 P. NJ, PATRICK j. FrrzsIMMoNs,
formerly Of Allegheny, in his SD year.
FRITC-In this city, Saturday, October 10,
1891, at residence of his father, George
Fritc, HARRISON FRITC, aged years 10
months and % days.
Funeral MONDAY, October u, at P. NJ.
GILEs-October 10, at IL p NJ, and 8 A. NJ.
October II, 1891 VIDA MAY and LAURENCE
DORSET GILES children of Mr.. and Mrs. d. E.
Giles, Butler street. MilIvale borough, aged 2
years and months, OF diphtheria.
Funeral private, MONDAY, October 70, at 8
A. NJ. Burial at Allegheny Cemetery.
MCKEE-Of diphtheria, on Sunday, October
II, 1884, at lO:l5 p: NJ, at the residence of his
parents, Perrysville avenue, Allegheny City,
SAMUEL r., son of John A. and Maggie Nc
Kee, in his 1lth year.
Interment private.
PERRY-At st. Paul, AIinn., on Thursday,
October s, 1891 at p. NJ, JANE PERRY, sis
ter of the late John F. and III. Perry.
Interment in Allegheny Cemetery, Mon
DAY, October u, on ARRIVAL of l:S0 train at 2.
& L. f. depot.
PORTER-On Sunday, October IL 1891 at
1925 A. NJ, LUCILLE, infant daughter of William
and BERTHE Porter aged 3years and 5 months
Services atresidence, AIS Liberty avenue,
MONDAY, October u, at o'clock. Interment
at Braddock.
WILSON-On Saturday, October 10, 1891, at
12:45 P. NJ, JAMES WILSON, aged rs, at his resi-
dence, 80 Mulberry street, Allegheny.
Funeral on MONDAY at 2P. NJ.
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THE TIE THAT BINDS.
A MOST SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION OF
THE Y. NJ. c. A. CLOSED.

Interesting Short Speeches at the Opera
House in Franklin Last Evening-An
Indian Among the Speakers-A New
Building in Prospect.
FRANKLIN, Pa, Oct. Specidll-The ser
vices of the State convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association have covered
the entire day. The afternoon meetings for
men, women and boys respectively, were
great occasions but not until 9 O'Clock this
evening did the crowning event take place,
the farewell meeting at the Opera house.
The building was packed from the orchestra
to the gallery and hundreds could not get in.
J. Bavard Henry. of Philadelphia, spoke
first, followed by Fl. c. \ lordy, of Sunbury.
~ Y. Finday, of Franklin, was followed by
Mr.. Cough, OF Scranton. George B. Shell
dom of Erie, read a greeting from George
Williams, of London, the founder OF the
Young Mems Christian Association, as fol-
lows:
Prom personal experience 1 can testify
TO the unspeakable joy which is given to
those who are engaged in Young Mems
Christian work. Ny most princely
by my feeble efforts for young men,
and l believe this to be COM
mon experience. Accept the assurances
of my prayerful and sympathetio interest.
The Lord be with you snd every officer.
May the Holy Spirit be your conscious pos
session and your abiding power, wherein IS
the secret of happiness and usefulness
Clarence Thunder, an Indian, who Is Fres'-
dent of the Indian Association at Carlisle,
made deep impression with his few well
chosen words. S. II. Taggart said that he
had a dream that Franklin had q Young
Mems Christian Association building marked
1898 written on its face. 1t is whispered that
the dream will come true
3 Half minute impressions of the conven-
tion were then received, after which c. E.
Hurlburt, State Secretary gave the years
text, I'd Chronicles, Goth chapter and the 18th
verse.
Hon. Charles Miller says he expects to see
the dream of Mr.. TaPgart come true. Dr..
Holmes closed the remarks with an appeal
that Franklin arise and erect the building.
The delegates then arose and all joining
hands sang, ''Best Be the Tie That Binds"
A mass meeting in the interest," of the work
will be held in Oil City Monday evening and
in Franklin Tuesday evening.
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SNAKE STORIES FROM READING.
A Pottstown Woman Finds a Blowing
Viper in Her Cupboard.


Viper in Her Cupboard.
READING, Oct. 1L-Astonishing reports
of the fall snake crop are coming in daily
from divers paris along the Schuylkill Val
lev. William Reese, of this city,
while riding horseback to Lebanon
the other day encountered a big
blacksnake in the middle of the road.
The reptile jumped at the horse, and
quick as a thought wound itself around the
animals left foreleg, causing him to rear
and pitch frantically. Reeser dismounted
with difficulty, and when the snake extend
ed its neck from the horses leg to strike
him, he gave it a sharp rap on the head,
whereupol it loosened its coil and
was promptly dispatched, Cyrus
Ruth, of Sinking Spring, removed a
stone fence on Beldler's farm on Monday
afternoon, and during the progress of the
job killed in all 81 copperhead snakes by
actual count, several over four feet long,
which were hiding in the apertures. Isaac
Hawk, of St. Peters, in blasting stump
out of the sandstone quarry at French
Creek, uncovered a populous nest of cop
perheads They showed fight, but Hawk
laid about him right and left with his
shovel and killed 20 of them, while as many
more escaped
The wife of Policeman VIII Shingle, of
POttstown, was terrified last week to find
thick, grav-colored snake coiled up in a
cupboard in her kitchen. She was too much
afraid to go near it, but wher her husband
came home he made short work of it. 1t
was blowing-viper, four feet long. Another
viper of equal size was killed bv BENJAMIN
Grubb while walking on the hillside near
BirdsboTo. A live toad was in its throat,
and when liberated it hoped gladly away.
Rattlers and blacksnakes are still plenti-
ful on the Blue Mountain, between Berks
and SchuylkiN counties, north of here.
Howard Hine, of StrausstOwn, while gath
ering herbs the e on Thursday, disturbed
rattler under bush with his hand, but
managed to kill it before it could strike
him with his fang. 1t was a veteran male,
and wore Is rattlcs. George w. Kremer,
of Summit Station, yesterday shot black
snake feet long. William Gable killed
another measuring 8 feet, 8 inches, and
Henry Stubblebine another Just two inches
shorter
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W. C. 7. U. CONVENTION.
Arrangements for the Meeting of the Ladies
at bradford This Week

arrangements Tor the Meeting OF the Ladies
at bradford This Week.
BRADFORD. oct. n.-ISpecidl. THE annual
convention Of the Women's Christian Tenn.
Tcrnuce Unioz Of Pennsylvania will meet at
Bradford Friday, October l6, to be in session
five days Following are some of the prom
inent members expected from Allegheny
county and vicinity: Mrs J. NJ. Porter,
County President, Mrs. W b. Rhoades, State
superintendent of young women's work;
Mrs 7. D. c. Ndir. State superintendent of
work among railroad employees: Mrs. Samuel
sloan and Mrs. Judge Fetterman. of Sterrett
Union; MIS-. NJ G. Worth. of the East End:
Ars. J. r. Johnston, Of Verona: Mrs. b. A.
2larIis, Of Pittsburg Union No. .; Mrs. B. II.
Eiiot Of Williamsburg; Miss Mary Tassey. of
Donald Union; Mrs. NJ. i. Cornelius. of Nun
chester Mr.. A. F. Bryce. Corresponding
Secretary: MISS kittie Hastings, East End:
Miss Efhe Van Lynn Verona \; Miss Lizzie
Logan. Marefleld Valley.
For the first time in its history the conven-
ton viii include sabbath services, the an
Hual sermon to be delivered by Mrs NJ. A.
Woodbridge, Secretary Of the Worlds and
National ". c. T. L. The committee IN
charge reports that members of the conven-
t1"n viii occupy the pulpits in all the
churches on Sunday. the 18th, this being the
first time she annual meeting included the
Sunday exercises. for which the lady minis
Je~s have already been apportioned among
the churches
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STEEL FOR AMERICAN TIN.
A Wheeling Mill Is Turning Out a Large
Quantity for the Purpose.

A Wheeling Mill Is Turning Out a Large
Quantity for the Purpose.
WHEELING, Oct. lin the past week
the Riverside Steel Works, of this city,
contracted to furnish a large quantity Of
Bessemer steel to be used in making Amer
lean tin plate.
This is not the first sale of Wheeling steel
for the same purpose, the growing demand
already being an important item in the
prosperity of this important local industry,
and the Whitaker Iron Company, the
largest producer of sheet iron and sheet
steel in the United States, is now examining
plans for an extensive tin plate mill, to be
built adjoining its present works. The com.
pany already has an abundance of skilled
workmen, who formerly worked in tin mills
in Wales
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4 DefauIting Treasurer Rearrested.

YOUNGSTOWN. Oct. n.-[Spccipl IA sensa-
tiOn was caused late last night by the ar
rest OF Daniel Douglas. the dcfaulting ex-
Treasurer Of Youngstown township. When
three indictments were returned against
him he gave bail for 81 600 and has since
been working as puddler to support his
family. His arrest last night was at the in
stance Of several taxpayers, who demanded
rllHt he be placed in jail pending Il motion
90 have his bail increased to 81, 600 or 5000
Douglas says it is Democratic persecution.