THE PHTSBTTEG DISPATOH, STOTDAT, MABOH 31, 1889. THE CUBANS AT HOME BeYerly Crump Gives a Description , of the People of Havana JLS THEY APPEAR TO AN ADDIEKCE Hie Eccentricities and Superstitions of the Satires. CUBA AS A PARADISE FOE PEDDLERS rcOEEESroxsrscE op -rax dxsim.tch.1 Havana, Cuba, March S. Although it Is but ninety miles from American toil to the walls of the city ef Havana, the homes and the people, their cubtoms and habits, their tastes and temperament are as different lrom our own as those of the inhab. Starts of Japan or Damaens. The Cuban who comes to New York is a surious study, whose oddities are almost innumerable. He is a born dandy. He wears jcwciry like a woman, pinches his Feet into a woman's shoes, wears his shirts :ut very decollete, dresses his hair with perfume and keeps his waist in shape with sorscts. His bony, claw-like finders are arnamented with rius bearing large knd high colored gems, and he wears his finger nails long and trimmed to a sharp point like those of a Chinese nobleman. He strikes you it the first glance as a man all hair, eyes, Una shirt collar. His countenance is always Intelligent, and more than often handsome; his manners are graceful, his treatment of you most courteous; he is never outdone in politeness and generosity, and he will vol unteer a thousand promises which he never has the slightest idea of fulfilling. Oily and smooth in making a bargain; oily and imooth in avoiding his obligations, he never Soes as he agrees, and invariably expresses surprise when you intimate that vou ex pected him to. His talisman is "magana" to-morrow. He never does to-day "what an be postponed till then. He is faithful to the last degree to the ties of kindred, and patriotism is his strongest trait. His worst quality is that he does not believe in the virtue or honor of woman, and suspects the faith u in ess not only of his own wiie, but of bis sister and mother. A3IUSIXG CUBAV TYPES. The most amusing type of Cuban character isthe old man, alnays mincin?, fussy, ex sitable, and with an upward turn of the nose, and an expression 01 the month which juggests a disagreeable odor somewhere near him. Wuen he talks he uses a gesture" lor every word, and you imagine he is on the verge of insanity when he is simply telling what he had for breakfast. You see him press his folded hands upon his heart; then stretch them in a pathetic way toward the person he is addressing; then he extends his arms as if lie was appealing to the sun, moon, und all the stan:the next moment his fingers are living around like the arms of a undmill, his legs are bent, his knees are quivering and his whole body is agitated like a poplar tree in a gale. All this time he is simply describins how he went to breakfast from hit. office m a volante, had an omelette with onion1:, and after that a, ;hicken stew and some bacalao (codfish) with his ceffce. "When his breakfast was finished his wife asked him to dd certain errands down town, and he is now on his (ray to perform them. This simple story is related with as much pantomime as the iverage American would use to describe a terrestrial catyclasm. SATUKAL EGOTISTS. The Cnban feels more national pride in proportion to what he has to be proud of man any man on earth. He has the sublime sgotism to suppose that a want of money, or l want of knowledge of its resources, alone prevents everybody on earth from emigrat ing to Cuba. He sincerely believes that in ;limate, soil, wealth, intelligence, architect are, enterprise and everything else Havana leads the world, and is" utterly dUgusted rhen you talk of going back toNewr York. He cannot understand how anyone can leave Cuba, having seen it once. 'He hates jhaujjes and reiuses to make experiments. What was good enough for his father as rood enough lor him; hence Cuba, like all Spanish American countries, is a hundred fears behind the age. It gave him pain to acquire new ideas, md when compelled to listen to them he itands with a look of forced resignation, and .hey have no more effect upon him than rater on the back of a duck. He reiuses to lave hardware stores, but buys all his pots ind kettles and kitchen utensils from a Deddler who comes to his home. He de dines to use the wheelbarrow, but carries iway dirt in a box. He insists that ice UNDEROLIFF JPL-scLO-iii. The finest location for building site in the county. X.OOSI .A.T THE PRICE. Sioo ANDUPWAEDS, on terms that cannot fail to suit. One per cent per week. That $1 per week on the balance. NO TAXES, NO INTEREST. TJUs is an opportunity you cannot afford to neglect. Everything arranged for conveniences. Katural Gas. Good Water. Natural Drainage. Railroad station on the premises. Ten minutes walk to street car line. ONLY 15 MINUTES PROM CENTER OP CITY. WLEY Pittsburg, Allegheny and Sharpsburg water will give "spasms" to those who use it, because somebody once had a colic from drinking too much. He saws wood with the saw on the underside of the log, and al ways whittles with the blade of the knife toward him; he sells chocolate at drygoods stores; brooms and shoes in the same shoD, and combines ready-made clothing with jewelry. He thinks cool fresh air is poison ous, and sits in the dew until he could wring water out of his coat. But with all these peculiarities, he is never bored and never grumbles. The fatality which hangs over his life permeates every daily incident. He accepts things as they are always. Therefore, there are no Cuban inventions. He lias no reed of a patent office, and re gards all Yankee improvements as objec tionable inventions. Once in a while, how ever, a discovery is made that there is wrae thing better than he is using, his prejudices suddenly collapse, and he has a panic to get the new idea before his neighbors. He ap preciates the telephone, but refuses to plow with anything but a crooked stick. But the funniest of all is that he carries with him in all the changes he makes the conviction that he is the discoverer and originator of them. He believes that a Cuban discovered the power of steam, invented the locomotive and the printing press, and expresses a pro found surprise that these novelties are in use elsewhere. LABOK A DISGRACE. One never sees a Cuban gentleman carry ing a bundle or package of any sort. To be seen going to the depot "vith his own carpet bag would disgrace him lorcver. You can not check your baggage in Cuba. The sta tion agent gives you a receipt for your trunk and pastes a duplicate upon one end of it as in Europe. Your railroad ticket is in duplicate also, one being taken up when you get into the train and the other when you get out at your distination. Before the train starts a Chinaman goes up and down the platform rinsing a large hand-bell, which means "all aboard." - The Cuban policeman is a superanuated fellow, who carries a lance and a lantern, and goes to sleep in the doorway. He is called a "sereno." Then there is the. "guardia civil," a sort of gen d'arrae, who is found in the cafes, at the theater, and everywhere. The "sereno" is supposed to be on the lookout for thieves and fires, while the duty of the "guardia civil" is to keep the peace and arrest disorderly persons. The press and the theater are under con trol ot a censor; the former in order that nothing may be printed to inform the peo ple that Cuba is not the happiest, most peaceful and best governed land in the world, and the. latter no one knows why. At every theater, or opera, or bullfight there is a "president" who represents the censor, and acts as manager of the perform ance. He selects the plays and watches the performance from a conspicuous box, in which he has a hand bell. He decides when an encore can be responded to, and woe be to the actress who appears until he rings his bell. There are always two prompters on the stage, a woman for the female" charac ters and a man for the male. They call out so loudly that the stranger is puzzled to know if the mysterious echo is not a part of the performance. The censor does not care how nasty a piece is, so long as it does not contain treasonable sentiments. POETIC SIGNBOARDS. Shops are never advertised under the owner's name, but have a poetic signboard. Thevare known as "The Paradise," "The Pearl of Cuba," "The Resort of Nvmphs," "The "White Elephant," "The Bounding Deer," "The Golden Garter," "La Norma," "The Sea Foam" and by similar names. The peddler finds Cnba a paradise. He goes around with a big tray on his head, or a string of mules with the halter of one tied to the crupper of another, and makes the most hideous noises ever heard out of Bed lam. The greatest pest in Havana, and in fact everwhere in Cuba, is the peddler of lottery tickets. The streets swarm with men, women and children with tickets for the next drawing. They are the first people vou see on the docks as you arrive, and their unearthly cries are the last you hear before falling asleep to dream that the buzzing mosquitos are old women to sell you a chance to win your fortune. The Cuban home surrounds a courtyard or patio, and has one entrance through which everything comes and goes the horses and carriages, the drayman who brings the furniture or baggage, the char coal peddler, the garbage collector, the young mau who is engaged to Mercedes, the neighbor who comes to pay a visit, and the children who go to the church schools. It has great doors like those of a prison, and a key as big as a gridiron. The parlor is a great, high, airy, damp room, with no car pets, table covers, curtains or "upholstery whatever. The floors are bare tiles, and the furniture consists of a strip ol carpet or narrow rug stretched across the room, with a row ot cane-seated chairs on either side. The men sit in one row, and the women in the other. For a man to cross that rug and seat himsell beside a lady would be as gross an act of discourtesy as to lead your horse into tbe dining room of a New York man sion. The windows are large, and reach from the ceiling to the sidewalk. During the day they are open, and the senoras lean against the iron gratings that protect them and smoke cigarettes as they gossip with neighbors passing by. At night these win dows are closed with shutters as heavy and solid as the doors of a dungeon. Bevebly Cbtjsip. & CARROLL CHOOSE AS FEIENDS Those Persons Whose Society WiL Be a Mutual Improvement. THE INFLUENCE OP ASSOCIATES On the Character as Described by the Key. George Hodges. BEST FRIENDS FOR S0IS AND GIRLS rWKITTXH TOR TOE DISrtTCH.1 E make friends, but our friends make us. It will always be de bated, whether the prevailing influence over character comes from heredity or from environment, from our forefathers or from" our friends. It is certain that our friends have a good deal to do with it. The Spaniards have an ingenious proverb to the effect that "he who lives with wolves will learn to howl." This is Tery much the same truth which Si. Paul put in a more sober fashion when he affirms that "evil communications corrupt good man ners." The two maxims are alike in putting the emphasis upon evil influences. Be cause it is one of the mysterious conditions of life upon this planet that evil influences are very often stronger than good. Most unfortunately, it is not health which is contagious, but disease. Flowers and corn do not grow of themselves in peo ple's gardens; it is weeds which do that. It requires no effort to go down you have only to let yourself go. But to go up whether we speak of a mountain, or of a river, or of a reputation, a fortune, a position, a char acter to go up takes work. ETIL IS EAST. Perhaps we touch just, here, in this word "work" the secret of the strength of evil in fluences. Evil is easy. It tempt3 us, be cause it is so easy. For that sentence is true which President Garfield remembered out of an essay or Emerson's: "Everyman is as lazy as he dares to be." Temptation, if vou think about it, does not often come in this form: "Do this difficult thing." It almost always arrives from just tbe opposite, quarter of the moral compass: "Here, do this; it is so easy.' This is a test of friendship. Put no con fidence in friends who do not work, and who do not inspire and encourage in you a de sire to achieve the difficult. Try all easy friendships, which give nothing and de mand nothing, and see if you do not dis cover some clement of evil in them. Be suspicious of what is easy. Do your friends make you workful? Do they make you better? Do they make you look up? Do yon, go away out of their presence wiser and stronger? Does your conversation with them call out what is worthiest in you? D. they make you follow closer after your best ideal? UNPROFITABLE FRIENDS. It they do not, if they demand nothing that is good of you except your time, then by all means be rid of them. Ho earnest person, in these busy days, has any space in his life tor unprofitable friends. They are of the kind which corrupt good manners. I do not speak now of bad companions. If you cannot preach your own sermon on that subject, it will do no good for me to preach it for you. I do not speak of those whose influence is confessedly evil, who have irreverent and unclean lips, and minds empty of all things excellent, whose evil lives are lived in everybody's sight. You know what will befall you if you consort with such as these. Tbe pitch will certainly defile you. You have to be very strong indeed to be able to grasp the hand of one who is running down a hill, and not be pulled along with him. You cannot live with wolves without learn ing to howl. Everybody knows that. "Whoever falls into this trap is snared with his eyes open. There is only one condition upon which you have a right to make a companion of one who is distinctly your in ferior. And that is the definite and per sistent purpose to uplift him. And we need to be careful about this dangerous matter, not to undertake tasks which are beyond our strength. TWO GOOD RULES. If we may set down "Improve yourself," as one rule of good ' friendship; and "Im prove your friend, "as another rule; we may find a third here: "Choose improving friends." Strive to get into the company of your betters. Among the blind the man who ba one eye is king. But he would be a foolish and conceited person who should choose to rule among the blind, and pnt himself for the sake of that from the wise company of the clear-sighted. He would be like him who thought it "bet ter to reign in hell than serve in heaven." "We do not know much about most of the is f a. !!i -if.:1 Llf- Li' Z3 , t3S3fe4 ' ffe? -, a . ? J 7o - si ! a & ,, Hit ' i - ji'i iZZZ: iZI zz :zzz- S N jjj fcr: jj- -$ 7, m k WHY ML . JS J 13 cS i ' ' US U j ' W7Z ' --. i gg "--k mA . f4 slrM ;k ,ft1ir5nHigrglOOs x VV fl, I I Jt 77 ZSlt TlJjAfj "I -. - J -l3WJ'j04yj'&-- - j J - Layil - ' . "J . , ,' , , , ' ' ' 'J i j 5 i 5 (A A fi.fJr jli Wrj I I J ltoJK IgASft.l .1-1 .zs32S& - as2s. i . . IMc4, tr . 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They preferred that, with all its hard conditions of dislike and danger, to any easier and lesser company. 4 A BOY'S BEST FRIEND. The best friends which young boys and girls can have are their father and mother. Some young boys and girls in these days do not seem to believe that, but it is true, nevertheless. That is the ideal family where the sons and daughters account their mother and father as their friends. There they resort for sympathy, there they go for counsel, there they hurry with their confi dence. I am afraid that where this is not true of any family it is the father's and the mother's fault. Choose inspiring friends. Seek the so ciety of those who inspire and uplift you. Choose those whose good example it will do you good to follow. For when you choose your friends, you choose your future. George Hodges. Beautiful Engraving Free. "Will They Consent?" is a magnifi cent engraving, 19x24 inches. It is an exact copy of un original painting by Kwall, which was sold for $5,000. 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Concerning the nature of miracle she be trays neither knowledge nor curiosity. She does not for a moment consider it, orsuspect that there is anything to be considered. She proceeds on the assumption that miracles are a violation of the laws of nature. This may be or may have been the popular as sumption, but the agnostic is supposed to tower above popular assumption into the realms of personal thought. As a thinker she ought at least to be familiar with the work of thinkers, and such familiarity would show her that in no science has more rapid and real advance been made than in theological science. Yet many a man, who prides himself on being superior to popular superstition and above the domain of authority, will' discuss theolocy exactly as if the theological world had been at a standstill for a hundred years. There are men in this country to-day whose reputation for original researbh, for liberal views, for eloquent theological revolution ism rests chiefly on their skill in ridiculing discarded theories. Of the advanced posi tions of theology, they exhibit a profound ignorance. God changes not, but our knowledge of Him changes. An unchang ing -theology would be but the dead idola try of a moribund faith. Science does not drive theology from its positions. It clears the path and opens the gate by which the ology rushes on radiant to new possessions and new triumphs. MIRACLES NOT IMPOSSIBLE. With the wider snd higher views that theology shares with and learns from nil other sciences, theologians see that miracle is not the violation ot law, but the action of law. Miracle is not even a deviation from known law. All apparent deviation is con sidered to be caused by the action of un known law upon known law. Luther ap prehended and illustrated this truth with equal clearness and beauty. "I have recently witnessed two miracles," he wrote to his friend. "This is the first: As I was at my window, I saw the stars and the sky and that vast and magnificent firma ment in which the Lord has placed them. I could nowhere discover the columns on which the Master has supported this im mense vault, and yet the heavens did not fall. And here is the second: I beheld thick clouds hanging above us like a vast sea. I could neither perceive ground on which they reposed, nor cords by which thev were suspended; and yet they did not fall" upon us, but saluted us rapidly and fled away." The wont of science is not to deny the ap pearance of the deviation, but to account tor it. When Neptune wabbled the astrono mers did not indolently content themselves with laying it to the bad telescopes or the shimmering atmosphere or the deluded ob servers. They put up their lenses and dis covered Uranus. GOD'S OWN REVELATIONS. Rejecting the Bible as competent testi mony, Mrs. Ward appeals to something else. "In the unbroken sequences of nature in the long history of man there lies the reve lation of God." Very true. The founders of Andover Theological Seminary estab lished their school ot the prophets on that basis. What now does this revelation tes tify? "I find," admits the demented docu mentarian, "in the age which saw the birth of Christianity, as in so many other ages, a universal preconception in favor of miracle governing the work of all men of all schools. The air teems with miracles. The East is full of Messiahs!" If there is any meaning to words it would seem then that the Revelation of God in the lone history of man, outside the Bible, is a perfect confirmation and counterpart of the Bevelation of God in the New Testament. But no; says Mrs. Ward. Quite the con trary. Here is the syllogism: God reveals His way in the long history of man. The long history of man testifies to a universal pre conception in favor of miracle and the t r ZA . T La Ztf'- Bible testifies to the occurrence of miracles. Therefore there are no miracles! That is, to put it a little differently: God reveals himself in human history. If 30 years of research into human record discloses a universal belief in and expecta tion of miracle, and if 1,800 vears of experi ence reveals a belief in miracfeaccomplished, it is a proof that miracle is impossible. Such is the logic of the new religion. Then the Bevelation ot God in the long history of man is a stupendous lie. Whatever may be the truth of the Bible, the Bevelation of God in the long history nf man has been a delusion and a snare. It shows that poor humanity may have a universal pre-concep-tion, with no truth to correspond; that these UNIVERSAL HUMAN INSTINCTS may be guided by culture and wrought into philosophy by all men of all schools, and yet signify nothing and come to nothing. The revelation of God in the long history ot man is but a mockery, if there is no such thingas miracle. Tosaythatmiraclescannot happen, which is the practical equivalent of Mrs. Ward's conclusion, that miracles do not happen, is to say that all the laws ofna ture and of God are known to man. To say that miracles could not have a'ttended the advent ot Christ is to say that all the laws of all the universes were known to the Jews in Judea eighteen hundred years ago. If God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, the long history of man becomes logical. Everything is not ex plained, but everything is set in the line of explicability and marches in stately proces sion toward a rational andloftysolution. If God was in Christ .the impossible becomes not only possible, but natural and orderly. If God was in Christ, and if by Him, He made the worlds, Christ must have Known all the possibilities and potencies of matter; He must have ktiown the worlds He made. All that science has ever discovered, or will ever discover, He, the Maker, knew. What ever force of service, of healing, was in plant or mineral, in simple or compound, Christ knew. Hidden from the world then, hidden from the world now, Christ, if He made the world, knew it all. The constitution of light and heat and sound was familiar to him. Every source of disease, every mode of cure in the materia medica was familiar to Him because they all harmonized with the principles on which He had constructed the world. SCIENCE VERSUS SKEPTICISM. Science has hurried but slowly, creeping, fighting as she crept for right of way, yet looking back we see that she has made great strides, and they are all in the direc tion of the world of spirit She has ad vanced always in the direction of lightening the clog ot matter. From the clumsiest of wood and coal and iron she has released the refinements of oil and gas; for human labor the machinery of unwearying iron fingers, conquering thus time and toil and space. The mocking and mysterious electricity, a sphinx subtle and dangerous, is not perhaps subdued, but mocks no longer; is very far from being even wholly understood, but is already trained to service, is compelled to submit to investigation; while the compell ing mind has darted even beyond electricity and conjectured the elusive ether. If God was in Christ and by Christ made the worlds, Christ must have known the worlds he made, in their ultimate constitu tion, in their remotest possibilities. If he sometimes used that knowledge in ways un known to Judea, it was no miracle to Him. It was no contravention of the laws of na ture, but only an application of laws which the world had not yet discovered. If Jesus had chosen to flash his words from Southern Judea to Northern Galilee on the light ning's wing, it would have been a miracle. We flash our words around the earth and it is no miraole. Knowledge has withered the miracle. It is now but a natural pro cess, a utilization of the earth's forces. But the same forces were in the earth then, lacking only the mastermind to wield them. If God was'in Christ, the master mind was not lacking. A FEW MODERN -WONDERS. In confirmation of this view it may be observed that the miracles of Christ are gen erally, if slightly, attached to nature. Sometimes it is only, the will of man that is concerned. Often the miracle is built up, as it were, on the material world, is we may say, but a step beyond our reach. If we take, for example, the first miracle which Jesus wrought in Cana of Galilee, we can see how, instead of being inconceivable, it is conceivably credible and scientific. Xet me not be misunderstood. I give it simply by way of illustration and suggestion, not by way of proof. Nor is the illustration or tbe science mine only the application. To Zebedee the electric car would have been as impossible as to us molecular dis turbance. Two weeks before the ocean cable was firmly laid science printed elab orate and incontrovertible arguments show ing that the constitution of water must for bid the transmission of electricity for any long distance. Christ never pretended any miracle more absurd to all but the credu lous than to hear a man talking 100 miles away. if God was in Christ, if Christ was God manifest in the flesh, miracles were not only conceivable but natural, ' or derly, to be expected. It all depends upon the fact and truth of the incarnation; it is whether Jesus Christ was at the head of the list of Socrates, Cato, Lorenzo. Howard, Franklin and Mr. Bergh; or whether he was the Son of the Living God. , Gail Hamilton. home. With NEW ADVERTISEMENTS ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE ? DON'T YOU MT f 0 SAVE ' MONEY? ,djUL-d . j J I Q-t-f , jsrk0bt YOU CAN BUY THIS ELE GANT EXTENSION TA BLE IN EITHER SOLID WALNUT OB ANTIQUE OAK FOB $13 OO. Cheaper ones f or tt, 86, $7 60 and 89 50. TERMS: CASH OB CREDIT. SELECT THE GOODS AT STOVES THIS STOVE $9 00. First-class in every respect; finely finished, ground edges, large fire box, basket grate, cast-iron ash pan, nickel plated trimmings. O-Every Stove Warranted. Terms: CASH AT EDMUNVSOX & TERBZNES.- An Endless Variety of Been ana Man Rociers. Old Enzlish Rockers. Neat Flash Seat and Back Rockers, lightly made and handy to car ry to any part of tbe house. The prices will sell tnem at first sight. Ask: to see our S3 Solid Com fort Lazy Man's Rocfcer. Terms CASH OR TLME. UNTIL YOU WANTTHEM. AT Dry Goods, Curtains, Mattresses, Spring Beds, Chinaware, Silverware, Pictures ANYTHING AND EVER YTHINQ TO FURNISH YOUR HOME AND CLOTHE THE FAMILY FOR CASH. OR EASY PAYMENTS. NO BODY URGED TO BUY. BUT YOU ARE URGED TO COME AND LOOK AT OUR GOODS BEFORE BUY ING. WE CAN AND WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. INVESTI GATE THIS ASSERTION. EDMUNDSON Entrance -:- 635 CHOICE LOTS $100 AJST1D TJP"WAS3DS. ROCK BOTTOM PRICES, 9- Only One Way to Go, Upward! The money you now spend foolishly will buy you a site for m BUY 10TS!TK!dSAVE MONEY SURE TO INCREASE IN VALUE. Compare the following points as to distances: UNDERCUPF STATION, SIX MHJES, Wilkinsburg, 7 miles. Emsworth, 7 miles. City Farm, 7 miles Crafton, 7 miles. Verona, 10 miles. Homestead, 7 miles. Only one half the distance to Orders by mail will receive prompt attention. Call or send for plans to CAWLEY& CARROLL, LIMITBD, Wittmer Brick Co., 12 Federal Sharpsburg Agent: B. W. Hezlip, 908 LOOK '! THEN AT 0URST0CK AND DECIDE for YOURSELF. CARPETSI ' WE OFFER THIS WEEK: Cheaplngrains 20 to 25c per yard Medium Ingrains so to 40c per yard Finelngrains 0 to 63c peryard Hemp Carpets 17 to 28c per yard Good Brussels 63 to 90c peryard Cheap Brussels 50 to COc peryard Body Brussels l 00 to $1 30per yd " Lace Curtains 60c. 75 and $1 per pair - . Laco Curtains $1 50, J2, 82 fiOperpair , Lace Curtains S3 to $30 per pair Wilton and Velvet Carpets at the lowait market prices. - -f Saves dnst and labor. 2A11 new spring designs. CABPETS MADE AND LAID. m,,,CT.c - J j.it.uo jjaa. uxt lavcaJil, EDMUITDSOir & FEBBI2fX?8i BANGJES WE WILL KEEP THEM FOR YOU or PAYMENTS. EDMUND SOIT & FEBBJDTIPS A CHAMBER SUIT GO MATCH THIS BEDSTEAD) SOLID WALNUT. TENNESSEE MARBLE TOP. Large Beveled Mirror. Elegant Solid BraU Handles, Fine Hand Car-vines. Rubbed Polish Finish. 3 Pieces Bedstead, Dresser and Washstand. FOR $50.00. The biggest Fifty Dollars' worth you eTK . We would call special attention to our line of 820. 827. 833, 810 and S45 CHAMBER SUITS, which we think are the newest and nob biest Goods In the Market; A .NEW stock: OF tbe celebrated Phoenix Furniture Company NATURAL CHERRY, SOLID MAHOO ANY AND ANTIQUE OAK SUITS, JUST RECEIVED Price lrom. 8110 to 300. We bought these la big lots for spot cash and will sell them at a very small advance in order to ad vertise our store. WILL YOU GET ONE OF THESX BARGAINST PERRINE, Smithfield St. 635 . - street, Allegheny. - -J Main street. flilllllll W ?4ST , , ! ' Offices.
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