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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
KING'SSCHOOl of ORAT0RY,
ELOCUTION AND DRAMATIC CULTURE

Nine courses of study. Largest school in the
Q. S. Glass and private lessons. French and
German. Physical Culture, Fencing and Gymnas-
Byron W. King A. NJ. Manager; J. N. Wisman.
A H.. Associate Manager: Frank 5 Fox, d. s.. Assc..
ciate Teacher. Send for catalogue. Opens Sept. 8.
Diamond and Ross SIS, PIttsburg, Pa,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
Pfttsburr ana AXE Erie R.R.

Pittsbur$ and Lake Eric r, r.
September 8. Niagara Falls and return. 81 90
September 8, Toronto and return ..... 90
September 2, 8 and g. Chautauqua and re-
The above tickets ali good is days for re.
from eeptomhee - ".
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04

DOCKLAND COLLEGE,
IL NYACK-ON-THE-HUDSO
For Young Ladies and Gentlemen.
Twenty-Five miles from New York. Beau
tiful location. Modern appointments.
Preparatory, collegiate and business courses.
Music, Arr, Industrial work, Typewriting
and Physical Culture. An endowment aid
ladies Catalogue by request Opens Sep
tember H. W. H. BANNISTER, A. NJ.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
DUOUESNE

CHAs, DAVIS CARTER, Music Director.
Term opens Sept S.
Pittsburg's leading school of music. Faculty
Chas, Davis Carter. Ad. NJ. Forester. Carl Rctter.
valdemar Papenbrock. Morris Stephens, Miss Julia
Beach. Gro. Leipzig. WIN. Guenther and DIR. W.
T. English. Fine new pipe organ for recitsls,
teaching aud practice; also new grand and upright
pianos. special classes in sight-reading of music,
harmony. ensemble singing. lectures and recilals
free 10 all students Terms reasonable. Special
animal circular containing detailed information
can be secured at all music stores and at the
servstory. Duquesne College building, cor. Dia-
mOnd and Ross sts, Opp Court House.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
Tho Woes Of the Critic.

All music critics making any attempt at
maintaining high, true standards are con-
stantIy being charged with captiousness
and fault-fnding, If not worse. Sometimes.
of course, this is deserved; but in the vast
majority Of cases current criticism really
leans the other way, is too good-natured
and easy-going at the sacrifice of justice and
highest usefulness.
The severity that Is complained of exists
usually in the Imagination of the reader,
who-whether he bs the performer, a lis
tener or one who had not been present at
all-invariably fastens upon and eIaggerates
few passing words OF blame as outweigh
ing whole paragraphs of praise. The In
Justice to both critic and performer that re-
suits from this curious habit of the reader
lis set forth with much spirit in these lines
from the critic of the London World, who
signs himself &c. B. 8,
seldom now write q criticism OF q player
without wondering what Impression am
producing upon my readers. The terms I
with their conte1t, perfectly inteliigibie.
must suggest the most unexpected and un-
intended ideas. il may Judge by the way
my correspondents take them; f3r
silas' performance of his own concerto
at the Crystal Palace, I made, in estimating
the work from the performance, certain
allowance for what I called the lack of
technical quality in Mr.. silas' playing By
which meant that Mr.. Silas' touch was not
that of the trained athlete of the plan oforte,
able to bring out upon every step or rapid
scale the utmost aud finest tone the instru-
ment is capable of yielding. This power is
the foundation of such techniQues as those
Of Paderew wskt and Rubinstein.
Yet because expressed this inevitable
shOrtcoming on Mr.. Silas' part in technical
terms only, without explaining elaborately
what meant, ran the risk OF leading the
British mother, upon whose fiat the liveli-
hood Of the pianoforte teacher depends, to
set him down as q blunderer who plays
natural where he should play sharp, and
does not know how a scale should be I'm
gered. Let me say then, once for all,
that players who are not good enough to
be above all suspicion of such musical
illfteracy, never get themselves brought to
my notice by means of Crystal Palace con-
certs; and that ir they challenge my verdict
by giving concerts OF their own should
about which there could be no possible
mistake. may also state, for the informa-
tion of those who complain that my standard
of criticism is too high, that the population
of the world is over fourteen thousand
millions; and that to speak of any pia mist or
violinist in superlative terms in London is
to declare him or her one OF the half
dozen best in the number. Obviously, to be
one of the best thousand requires very
high degree Of skill, though 1t does not en-
compliment in this column. Always bear the
fourteen thousand millions In mind; and
you will understand the truth OF the remark
Of Dumas JTs, that it takes a great deal OF
merit to make very small success
-
Tho Other Extreme in Criticism.
o. he ether hand, whsa the critic vaxss
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
EAT THE OYSTER NOW.
The Dainty Morsel From Neptune's
Realm in Season Once More.
1T IS BEST TO TAKE IT RAW.
Cultivating the Popular Bivalve Has Be-
come Regular Business
FATTEN1NG FOR TIE LONDON MARKET

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04
ST. MARYS ACADEMY

For young ladies. Chatham street, under
care of Sisters OF Mercy, reopens September ..
Music, painting, china decorating, type writ
ing, stenography, etc., etc. For terms ad-
dress Directress Convent OF Mercy, Webster
avenue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-04

o. The sthss hand, when the critic vsxss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
EUROPE ALARMED.

The British and French Governments Op-
posed to the Pan-American Policy.
From the New England Magazine
Both the British and French governments
are doing everything they can to resist and
counterfeit the efforts that are being made in
the United States to secure our proper share
OF the trade Of Central and South America.
The commercial papers Of Europe for the las.
year have been filed with serious articles re-
porting the inroads that have been made on
their commercial stronghold, and the British
board of trade has taken formal action by
sending q memorial to the government asking
the appointment Of . commission to report the
best means Of counteracting what they call the
commercial crusade Of the United States. {"
At the annual meeting Of the Asso-
ciated Chambers OF Commerce in Great
Britain, held in London on the 7th of March.
1892, the president, Col. Hill. reported that the
exports from Great Britain to the Latin Ameri-
can countries had decreased $23, $50. 600 during
the previous year, and that An examination of
the details showed . falling of in almost syery
item Of merchandise furnished by the united
kingdom to the American republics and colo
MES. This, he said, was due not to any SPAS
modic or temporary conditions, but to the fact
that the merchants in those countries were be-
ginning to 20 to the United States to buy their
goods. This was the result, Col Hill asserted
Of what was known az ''the pau-American
policy" in the United States; and, in view of the
alarming prospect, il behooved England to look
more closely after her commercial relations
with the American republics and colonies
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
FOUR WEEKS AFTER THE OPENING

sonething which they are getting for nothing
These pilgrims do not drop on one knee TO give
thanks deeoropsly, as did Columbus according
70 the twenty dollar bills. but fall on both
Knees and hammer stakes into tho ground and
pull them up again and drive them down some
where else 81 place they hope will eventually
become . corner lot facing the post Office, and
drag up the next mans stake and threaten him
with Winchester because he Is on their land,
which they have owned for the last three min
utea And there are no Indians in this scene.
They have been paid el.25 an acre for the land.
whfch 10 worth IS acre IL -, before a
spade has been driven into 10 or Q Bit OF tim
Der cut, and they are safely out Of the way.
THE rxRRrroRY or rHRKI YEARS AGO.
Oklahoma territory. which lies In the most
fertile part Of the Indian territory, equally dis
sant from Kansas and Texas was thrown open
% white settlers at noon on the 22d Of April,
1889. To appreciate the Oklahoma City of this
Gay u Is necessary to go back TO the Oklahoma
of three years ago. The city at that time con-
sisted OF railroad depot . section house and
water tank. the home OF the railroad agent and
four other small buildings. The rest was prairie
land with low curving hills covered with high
grass and punches Of thick timber-this as far
- the eye could see aud nothing else. This
land. which Is rich and black and soft and looks
hike chocolate where the plow has turned the
sod. was thrown open BY the proclamation of
She President TO white settlers. who could. on
soen DAY at such an hour ENTER and occupy
is for homestead holdings. A home
stead holding is l60 acres OF land The
proclamation said nothing about town Sites or
OF the division Of towa sites into siots" for
stores, or of streets and cross-streets. But
several bodies Of men in different parts Of
Kansas prepared plans long before the open
ing, for q town TO be laid out later around the
depot, the water tank and the other buildings
where Oklahoma City now stands, aud had
their surveyors aud their blue prints hid
den away in readiness for the 22d Of April.
And all Of those who intended entering
shis epen-so-all-comers race for land knew
that the prairie around the depot would
laid out into lots, and hence that depot
other depo.s which in time would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
THE BRITISH JoURNEyMAN.
A Life of Poverty With Finale in the Poor
House.


From the New England Magazine
The English journeynan has an unat-
tractive life. Starting out to his work, perhaps
miles away, at o'clock in the summer morn
ing, with heavy basket oftools and food over
his shoulder, he often works until absolutely
breakfastless; then half an hour is allowed him
for his cherries meal Of cold ten and bread and
fat bacon; at noon he has an hour or less for
what dinner he has brought with him, and at 5
O'Clock ends his days task, he sometimes TAX
ing light lunch in the middle OF the afternoon
As with the farm iaborer, rheumatism early
seeks him for . victim, and at sixty he is
quite apt to be a useless old man with "a crick
in his back, u burden to himself and his rela-
tives. Earning at his best and in the height of
= busy season not to exceed one dollar and
twenty-five cents per day, with long stretches
OF either sickness or no work, invariably "A
large family on his hands. possibly drink habit
which makes every spare penny burn in his
pocket. and the cost Of provisions not on the
whole below that prevalent In America for the
same quality OF supplies, he neither accumu-
iates savings nor apparently wishes TO- Let
him endeasor TO rise above his fellows
or furnish more comfortably his little cot
tage-which the landlords agent keeps 80
neatly without, but whose interior is apt to
be cherries enough-he would in many COM
munities be scoffed at and stunned at the ale
house as Q man too proud for that state OF life
into which il hath pleased God 90 call him
Then, again, the ''union" will receive him when
at last his working days arc over. and he looks
forward With complacency, or shall we say with
sullen indifference, to ending his DAYS as
pauper. The picture is gloomy enough, but
merry England is filed with such, IL you care
to look for them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
Feathers rs symbols.

krom ST. NlchOlaS.
Feathers figure very prominently in the re-
ligious customs Of most aborigines, and re-
markedly SO in the southwest Among Nava-
jos and Pueblss alike these plume symbols are
o! the utmost efficacy for good or bad. They
are part of almost every ceremonial of the in
definite superstitions Of these tribes. Any
white or bright-hued plume is of good omen
good medicine" as the Indians would put it.
The gay feathers Of the parrot are particu-
]arly valuable and some dances cannot be held
withou: them. though the Indians have to
travel hNndreds of miles into Mexico to get
them. A peacock is harder to keep in the vi
entity OF Indians tbas the finest horsc-ttose
brilliant plumes are too tempting.
Eagle feathers are of sovereign value. and in
most of the puebios great dark, captive eagles
are kept to furnish the coveted articles for
most important occasions. II the bird of free
dom were suddenly exterminated now the
whole Indian economy would come to a stand
still. No witches could be exercised nor sick
ness cured, nor much Of anything else accom-
plished.
Dark feathers, and these in particular of
the owl, buzZard, woodpecker and raven, are
unspeakably accursed. No one will touch them
except those who have the evil rsad"-that is,
are witches-and any Indian found with them
in his or her possession would be officially tried
and officially put to death. Such feathers are
used only in secret by those who wish to kill
or harm an enemy. in whose path they are
laid with wicked wishes that ll-tortune may
follow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30

to his cottage or to the "Turf," where
he can lose some money at faro. or
he can sit in one Of the hotels, which are the
clubs of the city. and talk cattle to strangers
and real estate to citizens. or he Can join a
lodge and talk real estate there. Once or
twice week ''show" makes a one-night
stand at the opera house. The schools
are not Good for his children as yet. and the
society that he is willing his wife should enjoy
is limited. On Sunday he goes to church. and
eats large dinner iii the middle Of the day.
and walks up to the top OF the hill to look over
the prairie where he and many others would
like to build. but which must remain empty
until the twelve different disputants for each
holding have stopped appealing to higher
courts. This is actually the case, and the
reason the city has not spread as others around
it have done.
And the men who are at the head of affairs
who rose out Of the 5000 in week. and who
have kept at the head ever since, if they ex-
erted the same energy and showed the same
executive ability and the same cleverness in a
real city would be real mayors. real merchants
and real prominent citizens" There are men
who are just big enough to be leading citizens
foT nothing else. and who it is just as we'll
should be satisfied with the unsettled existence
around them; but it is better for these others
to b small men in a big city than big men on
a prairie, where the organ in the front room is
their art gallery, book store, theater, church
and school. and where the rusting grass OF the
prairie greets them in the morning and goes to
bed with them at night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
Tropical Fruits I'm This Country.

Prom the Rural CoIIab0rator.
Some OF the revelations Of the census win
stArtIe good many people. For instance,
there are now more than half million almond
trees actually bearing in the United States;
there are hundreds of thousands OF bearing
cocoanut trees; there arc more than quarter
of a million olive trees producing fruit equal
TO the best Mediterranean varieties. There are
more than hall a IN .ilion bearing banana plnnts,
600 bearing lemon trees, s.O0O, 900 orange
trees and n .0JO, 600 pineEpples. And the value
OF tropical aud semi-tropicai fruit grown ~
der the American Tag Is nearly go, DOC, o00.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30

for its extent in 20 short . period, but for the
come-to-stay air about many Of it, buildinga
There are stone banks aud stores, aud an opera
house, and rows Of brick buildings with DWELL
ing rooms above, and, in the part Of the city
whsre the people go to sleep, hundreds Of
wooden houses fashioned after the archi-
lecture OF the seashore cottages Of the Jersey
coast, for the climate is mild the best part Of
the year. There are also churches Of stone and
brick and stained glass, and . -four mill, and
three or four newspapers, and courts Of Law,
and boards of trade. But with all Of
these things, which show . steadily i'm
proving growth after the mush-
room nature Of its birth, Oklahoma
City cannot or has not yet shaken Of the attri-
butes with which it was born and which in Q
community founded by law ard purchase would
not exist For speculation in land, whether in
lots on the main street or in homestead hold
lngs on the prairie, and the excitement Of real
estate transfers, and the battle for rights in
the courts, seem to be the prevailing and rul-
Ing passion Of the place. Gambling in real
estate il as much in the air as Ia the spirit of
the Louisiana State Lottery in New Orleans.
Every one in Oklahoma City seems to live, in
part at least by transferring real estate to some
one else. and the lawyers and real estate agents
live by helping them to do it. It reminded
me of that happy island in the Pacific seas
where every one took in every one else's wash
ing. This may sound unfair, but ii is not in
the least exaggerated The town swarms with
The men you meet and the men you pass in
the street are not discussing the weather or
the crops or the news of the outside world. but
you hear them say: "Tll appeal it, by c."
'.Til spend every cent I've got, sir" THEY'RE
lot Of 'sooners' and can prove it! or, Tied
Hillman's lot on Prairie avenue, that he sold
for $500, rose to $500 in one week, and Abner
Brown says he won't take 5000 for it now"
The west is always fnll Of hope to the old
man az well as to the young one, and the temp
tatioH to own your own home and to gain
l60 acres Of land for the asking is very great.
But the eastern man should consider the ques-
ton very carefully. There is facing the pas
senger who arrives on the New York train at
Sedalia large black and white sign on which
some philanthropist has had painted go East,
Young Man, Go East" One might write pages
and not tell more than that sign does, when
one considers where it is placed and for what
purpose it is placed there. A man in Okla
homa City when the days work is done has be-
fore him prospect of broad red clayey streets,
muddy after ram, bristling with dust after
drought, with the sun setting at one end OF
them into the prairie. He can go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30

Capt. Stiles told her that he thought it would
not. and showed her a lot of ground still
unclaimed that she could have, but she re-
fused 70 move. The lot he showed her is now
on the main street, in the center of the
town. and the lot she was finally forced to take
is three miles out Of tho city in the prairie.
Another woman drove her stake between the
railroad ties and said il would take tocomo-
tive and train of cars to move her. One man
put his stake in the very center of the lot sites
laid out by the surveyors aud claimed the 100
acres around for his homestead holding They
explained to him thai he could only have as
mach land a. would make q lot in the town
site and that IL he wanted i69 acres he must
locate il outside Of tho city limits. He replied
that the proclamation said nothing about town
sites.
but. Of course" he went on, "if you people
want to build city around my farm have no
objections. l don't care for city life myself,
and am going to turn this into a vegetable
garden Maybe. though, If you want it very
bad might sell it"
Its much more pleasant to write Of these
early days OF Oklahoma City than of the Okla
homa City Of the present, although one of its
citizens would not find il SO, for he regards his
adopted home with fierce local pride and ieal-
ousy almost equal to a Chicagoan's love for
Chicago, which 10 saying . very great deal.
But to the transient visitor Oklahoma City of
today, after he has recovered from the shock
its extent and solidity give him. 10 dipiriting
and improbable to degree. This may partly
be accounted for by the Circumstance that his
only means OF entering il from the south by
tram IL, or was 81 the time / visited il, at
O'Clock in the morning. No one. after having
been dragged out OF his berth and dropped
into cold misty we'll Of darkness, punctured
only by the light from tho braksmans lantern
aud smoking omnibus lamp, u in . mood to
grew enthusiastic over the city about him.
And the fact that the hotel 10 crowded and that
he must sleep with the barkeoper does not
tend TO raise his spirits. can heartily re-
commend this method OF Encouraging imni-
grafton TO the authorities Of any already over
crowded country or city.
But a. the sun comes up one sees tbs rsmaFk-
able growth Of this city-rsmaekabls not only
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30

one completed, - il we're. while you wait"
After it has decided which Of the half dozen
claimants to its town sites is the only one, and
the others have stopped appealing to higher
and higher courts. and left the law alone and
reduced their attention strictly to business,
and the city has been burnt down once or
twice, and had its treasurer default and its
mayor impeached, and has been admitted to
the National Base Ball League, it may hope to
Be regarded a. full-grovn rival city; but at
present a. far - il concerns the far east il IL
interesting chiefly ss Q city that grew mp over
night, and did in three years or less what other
cities have accomplished only after half CEN
Sury.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
SPECTRAL KLEPTOMANIACS.
A Spiritual Ssance Which Cost an Unbelieve
5000.
Sev York Commercial Adyertiser.

UVO0s
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
That curiosity, fully INDUCED, is liable to
prove moro expensive than a villa at New
port 10 lesson that has Just been thoroughly
LEANED by certain learned medical gen.
tisman who combats the physical ills OF the
dives of this town. In the matter of spr-
itual manifestations he has always been a
stiff necked and unregenesats doubter. As
child he scoffsd at ghost stories, and
when he grew up the specter world
became a mark for his merry quips and sar-
castle jests. Despite this he numbers among
his friends many OF those who believe in the
existence Of shades, and they never neglect
an opportunity to hurl arguments at his
head which may tend to bring him over to the
ranks Of the eject. Finally about two weeks
ago the doctor responded to the extent of
promising to do a little investigating on his
own account He had never gone to material
ixing seancs and was anxious to see what one
was like. so he put a quiet little personal in
daily paper, stating that an unbeiiever would
like to engage a reputable medium for test
manifestations. At So'clock last Sunday night
little party OF eight personal friends sat with
clasped hands in the doctors parlor and
stared anxiously in the direction Of the black
cloth cabinet which was family outlined in
the gloom. pale young man, accompanied
by an obese female, had answered the doubt
ers and guaranteed to produce very fine line
of three-piy spooks for hundred dollar bill.
For over three-quarters OF an hour visitors
from the Just beyond kept dropping into the
doctors parlor, sailing around his rather nerv-
Gus guests and departing. Then there was q
long and dreary wait. which was ended
by the upturning Of the gas. The pale
young man and the obese female had vanished
as completely as the specters they had
been supplying. Their cabinet remained
and with it a small satchsl filed with white
crepe. In the next ten minutes two wallets, a
watch and four scarf pins were missing The
evening cost the doctor some thing in the
neighborhood of $500. and his disbelief in
spirits is now something rabid. The police
were not notified.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-30
He Was Cons -ntious.

From Judge.
MIR. Standardoil-"Is it my daughter you
want, or is it her money!
Tobias Howens (amateur champion, hundred
yards)-.'Mr Standardoil, you surprise me-
You know very well that am an amateur a,h-
lete."
Mr.. Standardoil-.what's that got to do with
it," :
Tobias Howens--'A great deal, sir. II de-
bars me from taking part IN any event for
money"