Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28

the imagination and quicken the moral and
strengthen the physical powers OF self.
restraint
He Works on the imagination.
IF the Dwight doctors injected warm
water into the veins of the patient the re-
suit would probably be the same under the
same circumstances-provide the patient
thought it something more potent Take
physical and mental wreck and land him
into such place and sober him up until he
presents a contrast of manly decency to
later arrivals-make him believe in himself
and in his own future-surround him with
others who compare their broken careers
with his career, and who are now Of one
sentiment of sympathy and OF the same
grand resolve-and it is a matter of no par
ticular moment what is injected in his left
arm beyond that mysterious charm which it
exercises upon his mind.
Send him away confident that he will
never want to drink again and that he will
be able to Withstand the artificial appetite
for the bottle and you have done much to
permanently reclaim him. He is like the
patient who is cured with bread pills-but
the cure is just as good.
Great is the imaginationi
Two Opinions on Auti-Option.
The anti-option bill is another Of those
things which bear two decidedly antago-
nistic points of view. A Chicago gentle
man satisfied me one evening that the pro-
posed law was not only an outrage upon the
right of the American citizen to buy and
sell ANYTHING that any other American citi-
zen might sell or buy, but that the poor
farmer producer would be the chief sufferer
by Congressional tinkering. He had made
a lucky turn in May wheat that day, and
was full of the subject-also of 1850 rye. I
was converted. I didn't know anything
about it, but was converted.
The next eveningI met the same man, and
he assured me with unnecessary vehemence
that Congress ought to pass the bill at once.
The big spectators had used the anti-option
bill itself that day to such advantage that
they depressed the. wheat market Q cents q
bushel and had caught my informant for
poor farmers" he said. So was converted
back again, or became an involuntary back
slider, don't know which.
The old-time gambling houses of Chicago
are closed, just as they are in Pittsburg.
Yet Chicago is a greater gambling city than
can be found anywhere else in America.
The grain market supplies more general
source of recreation and spoils and despoil-
ment than all of the faro banks and roulette
wheels in the world.
A Shirt q Rarity in Chicago.
The Chicago swell young man wears q
muller habitually-not to protect his throat
but his shirt collar. This desire to present
himself at any moment and anv yhere with
a clean collar is his chief claim to swelldom
and separates him from the common herd.
In the eyes of the c. b. he is q "dude." This
muller is usually of subdued color and
doesn't show dirt. When worn there is no
ocular evidence of any shirt beyond the
modest rim of shrinking cuffs.
Done up in this style 3 bevy of Chicago
males remind you Of . gang of stokers about
to descend to the coal hole. The rarest
sight in Chicago is q shirt-and when you
see one the chances are that you'll wish you
hadn't seen it. Now and then one of these
articles blooms sweetly in the early even
ing-an exotic that reminds you of the clear,
calm, beautiful world outside the city.
CHARLES THEODORE MURRAY.