,.-, - i , - Eroth for BY Ernest 2T- twxrrrxK tob in sisrxTCH.1 S JL M AN X years ago -SxdpMl there lived an old I miller who was a rery faiooui man all over the country on account of the ocautiful flour that came .rom his mill. The people , came from far and near to I bring him their corn and have it ground in his mill. Thus it happened that the old man became very well-to-do. and his money hairs became more and more every year. At last he had saved so much money that be could not keep it in the bags any longer, and he had a strong box made for It. Here he put it all in, everything he had, and he felt that he ought to be satisfied. But in the morn ing when the miller got up and he went to look at his big money box, it was gone. The robbers had broken into the mill during the night, and they had carried everything off; indeed they had not even left enough that the old miller might buy himself a piece of bread for his breakfast The $ oor old man was nearly heartbroken with grief, and it was a wonder he did not go mad. Then he wanted to commit sui cide, but he had no rope strong enough, and the thieves had not lelt him a nickel to buy a piece of string with. In his excitement of grief he took a big ax and he smashed his large mill wheel into a thousand pieces. This, of course, was very foolish, because now' the miller could not start his mill atresh and earn his living again as before. Bnt the poor miller was crazy with despair, and at last he jumped into the mill stream to drown himelf. He was tired of life. He had worked all his life to make his fortune, and now that his money was stolen and he was old, he felt that he could not start afresh. Therefore he thought he would kill himself. . He jumped off the bank down into the stream below, and disappeared un der the surlaca of the water, somebody seeming to have taken hold of his coat and pulled him down with great force. After he had been in the water a lew sec onds he lost his consciousness, he felt he was dving. But how astonished was he when "he awoke again and found himself in the most beautilul orchard he had ever been in during all his life. The miller ior a moment believed his own eyes were de ceiving him. He-' looked up and around and he rubbed his eyes several times, but there it was, the surroundings were jnst the same. The grass looked just as green, the trees were just as full of beautilul blossoms and everything was just as pleasant as he had ever seen it. , . , , "Where am I?" at last he exclaimed, but there was no answer to be heard from any where. So the miller walked around to ex amine the place he had come to, and at every step he was more and more pleased with all he saw. From the orchard he came into a wonderfully magnificent flower garden. Roses and lilies covered the ground as Jar as the eye could reach, apd their delicious perfume pervaded the entire atmosjhere. In the center ol this garden was a large pond, surrounded by a milky white marble walL A stream of water shot here from a fountain about 100 leet into the air, and as the drops fell back into the pond In a large shower the rays of the sun changed them into fluid pearls of all the hues ot the rainbow. In the bottom of the pond thousands of glittering fishes frolicked about, and on the water's surface exquisitely white and yel low aquatic plants floated about in great numbers, and they looked upon the water like silver and golden stars. For a moment the old miller stood en raptured, and the glorious scenery made him forget the loss of his money. "While he was still lost in admiration of all his surroundings he was suddenly awakened from his dream ol thought by the rustling of the grass behind him. He turned around, and beholdl if the miller had been enrap tured by the beautiful flowers and the foun tain and fishes, the sight revealing itself before him now was perfectly enchanting. For a second or two the old man stood as if dazed at the most wonderful apparition the world had ever seen. It was the figure of a woman whose form and face were so beautiful that the lily would look beside her like a wild weed, and the blush ing blossom of a rose would be rough and Pcra and the Miller. coarse beside her. There she stood before the old miller. Tall and slender, her figure enshrouded in a garment of white, fleecy gauze, which was held together at vari ous points with pins of diamonds and brooches of rubies and sapphires. Her throat, the skin of which looked as soft and wbjte as swandown, wasencircled by a neck lace of the purest pearls, and in the raven black hair, which hung in glossy curls from her head down to her knees, a diadem was fastened, which was composed of the most matchless gems in the world. When she noticed the visibly amazed ex pression on the miller's face, a smile flitted across the beautiful features of her most perfect countenance and then she said: "Do not be surprised, my dear friend, at seeing me; let me tell you who I am. II y name is Para, the Queen of Pearls and the fairy or the land of everlasting fortune. I know that you have lost all you had in the world and I noticed your despair not long aso. Now, I mnst tell you,tbat it was very foolish on your part to lose your head so en tirely so a:" to attempt taking your own life. You can stay here as long as you like and enjoy yourself with the people of my land, but whenever you want to return to your mill tell me and I will help you to get the money you have lost. Then Para vanished, and the miller found himbelf alone. He walked out of the gar den, and now stood in front of a large and magnificent castle. The outer walls were all bnil. of marble, and the windows were made of all kinds of colored glass. Grand, broad stairs, also of marble, led up to the entrance, and the miller, attracted by all this richness and beauty, walked up the steps and into the hall. Here more grandeur revealed itself before his wondering gaze. He walked from room to .room throughout the whole wide mansion, and in every one he saw something more exquisite, more enchanting, than he had ever seen in his Hie. At last he came into a large dining room, and here he found rows ol tables covered with all the delicious food a man could wish for. A grand assembly of people a sit ting around the tables, and fron. the su preme contentment which was pictured upon .-riJasSa? S7J-2a r f -- j-'. &is!a J the Fool. lEEe - i n T?oIhi.s. ' every face it was not very hard to guess that all these persons were perfectly happy. While the miller was still wondering at the sight before him two beautiful ladies got up from their seats, and came toward him. They invited him to enter, and as he fol lowed them into the room he was led to one of the tables, where he was asked to sit down. Before he had made himself quite comfortable in his seat lour beautiful boys with long golden hair and dressed in dark blue silken garments approached his table, and every one put a golden plate before him. Each plate had a golden cover, and the miller was studying for a long time which plate to take first. But at last he put forth his hand and lifting the golden lid off, there was an apple on it. "The Food of Freedom," was the mark put on the apple, and the miller soon ate it. With each bite he took it seemed to him that he had never eaten anything so sweet and ap petizing. Then he took hold of the second plate, aud uncovering it also, he discovered an egg in it, and this dish was marked, "The Yolk of Youth." When the miller ate of this it seemed to him as if with every small piece of the egg he swallowed the strength and vigor ol bis young days came back to him, and when he had finished the entire egg he felt as young and as lithesome as a kitten. Then be took the third plate and when he took the lid ofl" it he also read the sign, "The Sauce of Sagacity." "Well, I should think it is wisdom I want more than anything else I" and with these words he disponed of the third plate. Then there was a fourth plate. The miller opened this too, and belore bis astonished eyes he noticed a goblet filled with the deepest red wine and around the goblet stood three small glasses, each one having a different inscription. On the first he read: "Nectar for the Noblest," on the second "Milk for the Mighty," and on the third "Froth tor the Fool' "Well, well," said the miller, "that is not so bad, bnt which is the glass that suits me best?" Then after he looked at them again all aronnd he picked up the third, ex claiming: -uonsiaering mat j. was tool enough to lose all my money, fool enough to smash my mill wheel and lool enough to jump in the water to drown myself I think 'Froth for the Fool' is just what suits me." With these words he emptied the glass of r mfflfflMJSk, Froth for the Fool. froth to the very dreg3, but no sooner had he done so, than a hurrah of approval went up from every person in the hall and all the people came aronnd the miller's table, shouting and singing in great excitement "Hurrah for our King, Hurrah for our King, Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!" The poor old miller was utterly bewildered at this exhibition ot excitement on the part of the strangers around him, and he felt that he must have done something awfullv wicked. But he was soon undeceived, for beholdl Para, the Qneen of Pearls, now came forward and holding her hand out to the miller Bhe said to him with the sweetest smile on her beautiful face: "Be welcome my lord and my king, be welcome. For thousands of years this land has been standing, but never was there one person here so modest as vourself. Never was there a man who had the candor to call himself a fool to his own mind, no matter how much he deserved the title. Now it has been a law with us, that the first man who would drink from the 'Froth for the Fool' should be our king, and if you are willing to accept the offer you will be the monarch ot all our vast lands, and I will be your humble and -obedient wile and queen." The miller stood for a moment aghast and he felt now more of a lool than ever he thought he was. But he soon recovered himself, and, taking Queen Para bv the hand, he said: "II you are all satisfied to take a lool lor a king, take me and I'will do my best to make you forget that a fool is reigning over the land of everlasting fortune. Fine Whiskies. X. X. X. 1855, Pure Eye Whisky, fnll quarts '.$2 00 I860, McKim'a Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts 3 00 Monogram, Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts 1 75 Extra Old Cabinet, Pure Eye Whisky, lull quarts 1 50 Gibson's, 1879, Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts .. 2 00 Gibson's Pure .Eye Whisky, full quarts 1 50 Guckenheimer Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts 1 00 Guckenheimer Export,Pure Eye Whis ky, full quarts 1 50 Moss Export, Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts 1 25 1879 Export, Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts 1 25 1880 Export, Pure Eye Whisky, full quarts ,. 1 00 For sale by G. W. Schmidt, Nos. 95 and 97 Fifth ave. One Thousand Mllea or Transportation and One Week's Board for 812 OO. The Pittsburgand Cincinnati packet line. Steamer Katie Stockdale, Thomas S. Cal- uuuu, jM03ier,ie;ives everv .Monday at 4 p.m. fitpampr TTnriann -T U frill.... ir..(.. leaves every Wednesday at 4 p. M.' oieamer ccoua, u. w. iiowiey, .Blaster, leaves ever Friday at 4 P. ar. First-fOflAJl fnrp in Hiniltinnf! n.4 .... $12 00, meals and stateroom included; or, down by river and return by rail, ?12 50. Tickets good until used. fni farther tnfA.m.ti.H -.-.Y .- r ,""."" arVl lu .James A. Henderson, Superintendent, 94 Water " sn ORAIiQESIEK'S PICNIC At Hnlton, Allegheny Toiler R. It., Friday, July 12. Trains leave Union ela tion at 8:45, 10:10, 11 A. SI., 125, 1, 2, 3, 4. 5 and 6:20 r. M. Tickets now on sale at Filth ave. ticket office and Union station. I Think So. Don't Yon You will be a long time dead, but a short time alive, so be up and make the best of it See that your wearing apparel always looks neat and tidy. Dickson, the tailor, of 65 Fifth ave., cor. Wood st, second floor, makes a specialty of fine cleaning and re pairing. Telephone 1558. Send your furniture to Haugh, & Keeuan, 33 and 34 Water street, to be re-; paired and upholstered. , Phone 1626. ' Elsqawt cabinet photos, any style, $1 50 per doz. Panel picture with each doz. cabi nets. XlZS' PQPUX.AB GiT.T.BUY, 10 and 12 Sixth at auxwT I u THE CLAKA BELIES CHAT. The Experience of Women in Travel ing at Borne and Abroad. INCIDENTS OF A UTILE WEECK. Tie Sleeping Cars Bat Eeantly Intro duced Into England. LONDON'S AWf DL UNDEEGROUND EOAD rcoBBESForosxcz or nix Disri.Tcit.3 New York. July 6. There are women who are bristlingly against all men when traveling unattended. They seem to feel that salety lies alone in resolving them selves into porcupines, and shooting barbs at everybody masculine who faces them. I saw a woman return to a hotel after having missed a train. "Why," said the clerk, Vdidn'tyou make the train?" "Sir," replied the irate woman, "I'm not a manufacturer." "I mean' corrected the clerk, "didn't you get there la time?" "No; I arrived in a coupe." "My intention is to ask if if you suc ceeded in boarding the'train." "Any train that wants board can come to this hotel for all me." The clerk gathered himself for a list effort "I simply mean, did you catch the train," he yelled. ' "No," yelled back the guest "I didn't know it was contagious. Just as though a woman on a tour hadn't more important things than hotel clerks to overcome. Were you ever in a break down? One forgets all about accidents when on the cars a great deal. Besides, these jolly little slot machines around stations make one feel sale. As a matter of fact, having an insurance certificate in your pocket does not really improve a neck breaking, but there is certainly a soothing sound about the combination of words in lite insurance, or, better still, as they put it in Canada, life assurance. PLEASANT FEATURES. Not to speak of the real "break downs I have been in, I remember one or two baby ones, just enough to scare the men to death. It is really a great thing if one is perfectly self-possessed, and able to watch how other people bolt lor the doors, instead of oneself bolting. When a car, for instance, locks wheels with another on a sidetrack, and lifts gently and steadily into the air, with every evidence of an intention to continue the tilt on one side until the vehicle tumbles entirely over. That, is the time the men drop everything and plunge to the ends of the cars. Then, as the locking stops, and the car comes to a slantindicular stand-still, back they plunge, telling the women tbey had left not to be frightened, but to cling to them. A real smash-up is another matter. The car runs comfortably along. Suddenly there is an utter stop, and then a terrifying reac tive, forward movement It is the rebound that knocks your teeth loose. Everyone lunges over the back of the seat in Iront, and except for the cracking of timbers, there is utter silence for an instant All did their great shouting at the first shock. Presently voices are lifted. People shriek for the most idiotic things. Women with both feet s'tuck fast in the catch-all over head, yell that they have dropped their smelling salts. Dudes, with their heads smashed half-way down their collars, and their boots knocked up above their knees, wail that they can't find their eyeglasses. Children, with ears half-pealed on, occupy themselves scraping up oranges and candy lost by the pedlar when be plunges into the coal 'box. Those who can find their feet lose th-ir heads and tear up and down the aisle, climbing over dislocated seats and into disemboweled lunch baskets. And the popular cry is, "What is it, conductor?" Curiosity is after all a dominant passion. Somebody tells you an old friend is dead. A. PEETINEJfT QUESTION. "What did he die ol?" say you in an awe struck voice. It is wonderful, too, how good natured people are in a smash-up. EveryDody helps everybody, everybody makes the best ot everything. When a long journey runs smoothly people are apt to get to hating each other as the miles go by, but just let a smash-up come, and vou cling to the man next to you as it he were an old friend or a doctor. Yon simply have to be sociable when it comes to sitting on a rail fence 50 miles from nowhere, and waiting for some stray car to come along and pick you up. Then, perhaps, there is a ride in the end car of a Ireight train. You know freight cars are not strung together with spring arrange ment between them, as are passenger cars, so, when such a train comes to a halt, each particular car bumps against every other car, aud the last car gets every separate bump and its own included. If the train is long, you feel, by the time the cars come to a dead stop, that your interior has completely laced around, aud that your backbone is afloat in sections, heaven knows where. I did an awlul freight tram ride once after a smash up. Among all the merry, sociable crowd ot wrecked travelers one man sat apart, wild-eyed and wordless. At last some one whispered that he was a hoo doo. He had started weeks before trom San Francisco tor New York. He had missed everv connection up to date, and this was his third smash up. He had lost something like a week so far, and had begun to give up getting anywnere, much less reaching New York. A few miles lurther on the train stopped while a cow was induced to get off the track. The hoodoo went out on the Elatforni. and. as we started up. he quietly, opelessly and -passively fell off. He didn't even run alter us, or wave his hat, or shout He just sat on the track, and I could 'see tears trickling down his sunken cheeks. I have often wondered if he has reached New York yet. SOMETHING OP A SITtTATIOIT. I often wonder when I see people get off trains lor supper or a sandwich, how they ever get on again. It may be dusk. There is a big crowd, all the bells are clanging, and yoa no more than leave your car than it "sides" to somewhere. I "myself have skirmished distractedly about a station, car rying a cup of tea for my wise companion in travel, who knew too much to leave her seat, and unable to even tell anybody where my tram was going to, or where it came from. I think traveling with awoman is strictly an acquired ability. Women haven't a good sense of locality, and we do "get mixed up and confused, and rattled. I do to this day, though I have almost lived on the cars for spells. One year I traveled a good deal with a big party, and got accustomed to having my ticket and baggage attended to, and also to being warned when the getting off place came. The entire next year I used to meander into a station, sit down, and let my car leave because I was waiting to be told to get on, or else rush madly for it the last moment, without a ticket, and then once in it would sit abstractedly razing at the scenery, while I went right past my stopping place. It isn t always, by the way, an easy thing to get off at your station. Try going from New York to Mount Vernon, or from Boston to Fitchburg. If you don't know when the stop is due, it is providence and luck tbat you get off, because nobody can understand the conductor's yell. I have always wondered why names of towns are -not posted up some yards ahead of the sta tions. In big depots, too. like Washing ington, or Pittsburg, or Chicago, once in, a foreigner couldn't tell what city he had had reached unless he asked, and it does seem so queer to go to a station master and aay, "Please, where am I?" 4HETBIP TOEUBOPE. Xet me write several paragraph! for. women who are going to Europe this sum mer. If the ocean trip hasn't saturated yoti ITTtmoL DJWEuS'BmDA.T; , iULY 7. r 1 4" with' homesickness you will get yourUact in the cars from .Liverpool to.uonoon. w nat do you suppose was -the -matter with the man's brain who arranged .cars about a quarter as long as ours, with doors at (he sides instead of at the ends and with a double row of seats back to back running along the length of the coach-down the cen ter? This arrangement makes you ride side ways to tne engine. You travel on one ear, as it were, and you look ahead of you outof the windows, which are, of course, a passage way's 'width away from you. That is one style ol ordinary car. In another the coaches are much broader than they are long "with doors at the sides and seats arranged from door to door. Here you ride facing the engine, or back to it, as your luck goes, but only four persons can have a chance at a window. The rest sit and glare at each other, jnd, if they are Americans, wonder what they ever came to Europe for. Some roads have regular Pullman coaches. I wept all over the dear, shabby red velvet pivotal chairs. Except ior a table at the end ol the car covered with guide books, I might have fancied mvsell going from Cleve land to Boston if I didn't look out of the windows. I don't know whether they always run cars at break-neck speed, but that was my experiece. We tore nlopg, leaving the wind in ragged ribbons behind us. Nice, steadv old England, you knowl Thought I to myself: Give me dear New York rapid transit for safety and delibera tion principally deliberation of course. THE DirPEEENCE. There is a lot of red tape about second anu third and first-class cars. They say, as everyone has heard, that on'; Americans and tools ride first-class; tbat real English people take the third; but then my friend said she'd rather be an American or a tool any day than a real English person. Third class is often simply horrible. They crowd the wretched little pens so that people sUnd, and only four windows are not enough to let in any air when there is so much to let out. In winter well, just think it np for yourself. Besides, big numbers are printed all over the doors first, second, third and somehow an American may be sensibly eco nomical without wanting to be labeled so. Sweethearts ride first-class. That is be cause it isn't crowded. The cars are just the same, only upholstered better, and in winter hot bricks are supplied to youl Many first-class cars are divided off into separate seats by arms set at equal distances, and ex tended up toward the ceiling into a sort of partition. They are a real convenience lor sweethearts. When they get into those coaches they mnst feel as they do when tbey get into a hansom and find it has a lamp set in the back inside, just between their hat brims. I spoke of hot bricks for first-class coaches. What do those in the other coaches do in winter? Freeze, I believe. Oh, for solid comfort give me Englandl Sleepers have only lately been introduced there. I was never in one but once. I found it long like ours. The end was cut off into a separate compartment with a special entrance. This constituted the ladies' part It was a little room, with berths set as ours are lower and upper. Part of the room was walled off for toilet conveniences Eeally a good arrange ment, only the porter locked me in. AN UNPLEASANT PEATUBE. There is a horrible feeling about being locked into a car. If it should catch fire, you know, the conductor or porter would be so dead sure to come and let you out it be ing his duty. Still, you feel never likely to be dead sure in such a case. It is, small satisfaction to lock the door on your side, too. Of course we wouldn't be real patriotic Americans if we didn't fight about the 1m roads, and swear them the worst frauds in the world; but you just ought to try Lon don's substitute, the "underground. Even the sound of it is choky. The reality is worse. The station is on the surface, of course. You buy your ticket and start down stairs, and you go down and down and down and down. Then if you have any sense, you turn around and come up again, and take a hansom where you want to go. If not, you go down some more. Smoke and soot thicken. A roar and a rumble, a combina tion of steam whistle and yells, hashed into a horrible confusion by countless reverbera tions deafen you. You are stopped by a little gatemau, you yield up your ticket, you step on a long platform. The air is solid. The ends of the platform are shrouded in mud-colored gloom. In front of you is a black chasm there lies the track. On the other side is the platform for trains going tne other way. But you don't see it yet. The black chasm a little way from you on either hand plunges into a surrounding of utter dark ness. The platform on which you stand is lighted dimly by shoots cut slantingly to the upper air and down which daylight trickles sluggishly to be sogged into gloom by the smoke and soot around you. NOT EXACTLY PLEASANT. Presently there is a shrill howl from an engine, a sudden glare of light appears in the darkness along the track away beyond you, and then, with snorting and screeching and choking, the train rushes up. If it is the other side you get a minute's view of the other platform. II it is on your side you scramble wildly because everyone else does, for a seat, and get in anywhere with out reference to whether your ticket says first or third. Then the guard flies in mad career down the platform, slamming the open doors. You yell for help and insist on getting out. There is a rush of blackness by the window, and you feel you are plunging right into some of Eider Haggard's worst passages. There is a light in the root of the car set in an inverted glass bowl, so the smoke goes up through the roof without spreading in the car. It is the only effort towards making the situation visible an vwhere. The train plunges through utter black, sooty, swampy darkness, and you wish you had chosen some other form of death. I got out at the first station without any reference to where I wanted to go. O, ior convenient, safe, comfortable getting around, give me London! I came up out of terror on to terrafirma, wondering if I wonld have to chew soot the rest of the day, and took a solemn resolve to go to the bad place in the usual way, but not via the underground railroad in London. Clara Belle. La Perln del Fnmnr. These celebrated clear Havana Key West Cigars are for sale at: Hotel Duquesne, Hotel Anderson. St Charles Hotel, Albemarle Hotel. Union Depot Eestaurant John Lauier, 3799 Fifth ave. Peter A. Ganster, 55 aud 37 Frankstown ave. John F. Ganster, 27 Frankstown ave. Peter Weber, 76 Wylie ave. John C. StrouD, 25 Union st E. W. Hagan," 609 Smithfield st Neville Bayley, 405 Smithfield st J. K. Derr, 400 Market st P. C. Dully. 540 Grant st E. F. Eusch, 3716 Forbes st. Linhart, Bald & Co., 411 Smithfield st Charles Eble, 6009 Penn ave. G. W. Schmidt. 95 and 97 Fifth t. MASS CONVENTION Of Friends of Temperance. The Committee on Platform and Organ ization, appointed by the Union Eink meet ing of June 20, will make their report to a mass convention to be held at Lalayette Hall, Pittsburg, on Thursday July 11, at 10 o'clock A. M. All voters in sympathy with the temperance cause are invited to at tend. Wellington E. Loucks, of Phila delphia, Secretary of Union Prohibitory League of Pennsylvania, will address the meeting. A. O. Eaitkin, J. R Shatt, 'J. K. Johnston, L N. Hats, H. Sampson, D. F. Maoill, Jas. M. Nstin, B. O. Chbirtt, Committee. Convince Yourself. A choice line of pocketbooks, belts, collars and cuffi, ruchings, handkerchiefs, fans, umbrellas, children's neckwear, Winslow ties, ''and our four special departments, cor sets, gloves, hosiery and underwear, offer Inducements for you to buy whether yon need the goods or not , V. BCHOENTHAL, 612 PeSB art. ; SUNDAY THOUGHTS . -ON-. AIORALSZHEMANNERS BY A CLEEGYMAN. iwmrrm roa tm dispatch.! One of the most interesting and sugges tive moves on the chess-board of affairs is this Congo Eailroad. Think of itl A path way of iron opening up Central Africa. A railroad laid not in Utopia, but from the sea coast into the very heart of the dark con tinent. Nor is this a mere project Under the auspices of Belgium, the money needed has been practlcallv raised. SiOO.OOO more, only, being called for. Competent engineers have indorsed the physical feasibility of it Competent economists have indorsed the commercial value of it Competent philanthropists have indorsed the civilizing power of it The Upper Congo and its tributaries form an im mense net work of navigable channels with 14,375 miles In length of shore. The country is rich In minerals of all kinds, including gold. The ivory and India rubber exports are even now considerable. This vast area, these enormous raw materials will be developed and brought Into market by the Congo Railroad. Bat have the negroes any commercial apti tude? "Yes," responds M. Le Ghalt, tho Beldam Minister to Washington, in an inter view published in the New York Herald, "and very great aptitude, too. Stanley has said that the aboriginal of Africa Is a born trader. De Challlu, the French explorer, makes almost the same statement and adds that if once the rivers are opened freely to civilized specu lators, the passion of the aboriginals for com merce will quickly develop the abundant re sources of tbe country. Tne ardor of the negroes for trading constitutes, perhaps, the greatest chance of success for this great Afri can work. When the European met the proud races ot America he was not able to establish a reciprocal contact with them at once; tbey receded before him, and, in reality, the Eu ropean did not subjugate tbe red man, but sup pressed bim. Here there is nothing of that sort to fear. The mercantile sense, so strong ly developed In tbe uegro, leads him naturally to auproacb tbe white man, to euter into rela tions with him, and to become his auxiliary. By the contact of the two races we shall suc ceed, not in suDpresslng the negro race, but, on the contrary. In fortifying It and civilizing It, and, later. In emancipating It." . Tbe opportunity offered by this railroad to Christianity Is the happiest of all Its services. Christians everywhere will watch it and avail themselves ot it with eagerness. Woes of Astatic Women. The condition of women in Asia Is singularly wretched. The Chinese proverb decrees them to be "shadows and echos in the house." India secludes and thus excludes them. The Hindoo women are perhaps the most unhappy within tbe bounds at nominal civilization. The theory is that they are made only for marriage. Mar riage is a commercial affair, settled not by the interested parties, but by their parents actual barter and sale. Usually it Is contracted In childhood and consummated when tbe boy-husband and girl-wife are In their early teens. After marriage the woman disappears. Is oblit erated. Is absorbed In the man. The law of tbe Bhattert says: "When she is In his presence she must keep her eyes on ber master and be ready to receive bis commands. When he speaks she must be silent (what do our Ameri can women say to that!) When he calls she must leave everything else and attend upon him alone. A woman has no other god upon earth than her husband." In case tbe bdsband dies, the condition of the widow is, if possible, yet more forlorn than tbe status of the wife. Bhe may never marry again though perhaps betrothed In infancy and married at 10 or 12. 8he is regarded with con tempt as though the death of her husband had disgraced her. She Is expected to practice se vere and life-Ions austerities. She is converted Into the drudge of the household and loaded down with mental tasks. In spite of English law, infanticide prevails still in India to snch a frightful extent tbat it i it Is authoritatively stated that the proportion of infanticides equals one-third of tbe births of female children. Males are more highly re garded. But a girl Is the most worthless thing m nature next to a woman! Ought we not to sympathize with and allevi ate such woe? Should not tbe Christian women of America, dlsbonoredUn their own sex, pour out prayers, money, efforts to right this hoary wrong, and aim to clothe their unhappy sisters yonder across the sea in tbe beautiful garments with which Christianity has robed them? Does IlIlBht Make Right? Lord Lylton, In a recent address at Glasgow, contended that the principles of morality have no control In tbe intercourse of nations, either de facto or de jure by rizhi or in fact As to tbe fact it may be conceded that too often they have not. As to the right our late Minister to the Court of St James, the Hon. Edward J. Phelps In his Fhi Beta Kappa ora tion at Harvard University on the 27th of June, utters some trenchant sentences which are in tbe nature of moral dynamite, blowing Lord Lylton and his theory sky high. After stating the Englishman's position, be said: "These propositions appear to me to be not only erroneous in theory but destructive to the peace of the world if they should be generally adopted. Tbey result in tbe very state of things it is the object of all law to prevent the supremacy of physical strength and the doctrine that "might makes right. It seems Impossible that they should ever be established lu tbe only way interna tional rules can be by theeeneral absent of, civilized nations. That history discloses in the conduct ot nations much disregard of justice is true enungb, bat that does not diniinisn Its obligations. As well might It be argued against the enforcement of tbe criminal law that crime has always been common. In short, the difference between tbe moral rights and duties of nations, and those of individual is only in degree and not in kind. It may be declared as the fundamental principle In all law that finds assent and support among the race to which we belong that It is baed upon and exists for the principal purpose of applying to the course)! personal and national conduct the acknowledged principles of moral justice, so far as through general rules and established methods of procedure they can be made prac tically effectual." At the same time tbe ex minister does not be lieve in reliance on moral force alone. He con tends tbat naval strength has become at this day tbe right arm of diplomacy, and the most important element in critical foreign relations. "Moral power is an excellent thlug. It is best to be right and in the long run It is necessary to be right however powerful you mav be. But there are times when It Is of small avail to be I right, li we are. imewise, impotent. A right arm without brain3 or conscience is never a de sirable force, but brains and conscience with out a right arm are not always effectual ones. I would propuse, therefore, as one of the first steps towoius such an International attitude as It seems to lue our country should assume and havlug assumed, maintain that a naval force should be created tbat should leave us nothing to fear from collisions with any other naval power In tbe world." Mr. Phelps dismisses those "humanitarians of excellent motives," who believe that uni versal arbitration can be substituted for war, by saying that it appears to him "altogether chimerical that arbitration can ever be made the ultimate resort of nations in those more important quarrels that involve questions of principle or of honor, or tbat bare stirred tbe blojd and moved tbe passions of men. Wars do not take place like murders, by malice aforethought; they are nut arranged before hand like matches at chess. Tbey cume when combustible materials have been allowed to accumulate and Irritated feelings to grow; when a match carelessly dropped, perhaps by an insignificant hand at an unexpected mo ment, starts a flame that tho high winds of pub lic sentiment drive into a conflagration." From tbe days wbeu Edward irerett leaped Into fame by bis apostrophe to Lalayette in 1S24. down to tbe equally celebrated phillit.Ic of Wendell Phillips in 1883. the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa oration has been the event of the year. Mr. Pbelps has Increased the prestige of the occasion and uttered an oration certain to awaken ecnoes on two continents. Gems by Ancient and Modern Philosophers. No righteous man deserts this life before another equally righteous one Is born. Talmud. It is or the natnre of animals rather than of men to give themselves up to the present per aonlflod. Schopenhauer. Behold thy trophies within thee, without thee. Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Cssar unto thyself. Hir Ihomat Brown. Science discloses tbe method of the world but sot its cause; religion olscloses the cause of the world but not its method. There Is no conflict between them except when either for ests its Ignorance of what the other alone Can Enow. Martlneau. Bt the manner of his entrance Into this world, Christ bath dignified the estate of infancy, and hallowed tbe bojd which binds tbe mother to tbe new-born babe. The, grave we say, has been hallowed baa not tbe cradle also by Chrlu's having lain In M Banna. The only cure for Indolence 4s work; tbe only, cure for selfishness Is sacrifice; the only cure for unbelief is to shake off tbe aeue of donbt by doing Christ's bidding; the only cure for timidity Is to plunge into some dreaded doty before the chill comes on. JButherord. CebtaTSXT it M the duty of the strong -to 183fl; !'bearthe infirmities of the weak, and not tp please themselves;" but it Is also the duty of the weak to become strong, dot to need to be pleased by being allowed the selfish luxury of putting restraints on the liberties of others. Thomat Elnney. Mark how the hand comes to the defence of the eye in Its weakness; and how tbe eye with Its sight and from its elevated position, keeps watch for the welfare of tbe lowly, blind, but laoorlous and moful foot. The mutual help fulness of these members Is absolutely perfect. Snch should be tbe charity between brother and brother of God's family on earth. IK. -Ar-not Ben Stha, when a child, begged his pre ceptor to Instruct him In the law nf God; but he declined, saying; tbat his scholar was too young to be taught these sacred mysteries. "But, master," said the boy, "I have been in tbe burial ground and measured the graves, and find some of them shorter than myself;. now, uxsnoum aie uoiore l nave tearneu me word of Clod, what will become of me then, master?" The son of a very eminent lawyer, while awaiting sentence In tbe Melon's dock, was asked by thejudgei "So you remember your father?" "Perfectly." said the youth: "when ever I entered bis presence he said run away, my lad, and don't trouble me.'" Tbe great lawyer was thus enabled to complete the famous work on "The Law of TriK-tj;" and his son in due time furnished a practical commen tary on the way in which bis father had dis charged tbat most sacred of trusts, committed him In the person ot his child. This universe is administered by Infinite love and wisdom and power, on a plan com pounded outof those threo ingredients. Hence "all things work Together for good." Your perplexities, losses. Wounded pride, thwarted ambition, fears within and flghtinss without, your weary brain yesterday aud sore heart this morning are Goa'a workmen busy in the con struction of character. These things are as surely embraced in tbe divine purpose as was the sleepless night of Ahasaerus or Paul's shipwrecK or Banyan's Imprisonment iu Bed ford jail. Comfort yourself with this truth. Be less desirous to eel out from under tho rod than to profit withaL We have just passed through the season of commencements. Thousands of young people of both sexes having been book-taughtare now to become life-taught The lessons learned at school or at college are to be put in practice in tbe various walks of dally thought and work and experience. 'Tis an interesting season for the graduates and for the country tbe transi tion hour, birth out of preparation and into life. Who will not pray that these graduates may prove a mighty re-enforcement to the struggling hosts of virtuous endeavor, turning the victory to the side of tbe good and true by their coming, as Blucher's advent at Waterloo decided the battle and closed an epoch. . NATIONAL ODAKD NOTES." Colonel Norman M. Bmith is back In the city once more after an absence ot nearly five weeks at Johnstown. Captain P. W. Hess, of the Third U. S. Artillery, was In the city during the week, and spent a lew days with friends here. Captain Hess la stationed at Washington Barrackz, D. C. The United States Government will shprtly send 1.500 of the new 43-callbre rifles for distri bution in this State. Ihey will be divided among the three brigades in proportion to their numbers. CosrPANT D, of Huntingdon, was mustered into the Fifth ttegiment last week. It has a full quota of men, bat baa not yet received its arms and equipments. This gives the Fifth Begiment six companies. Pittsbueo has been made a pay station for the United States Army. Major John S. Wltcher, formerly stationed at Newport, Ky., will open an office here about the last of next week and take charge at once. The Fifth Regiment has selected Bedford Springs for their camping grounds, and will probably have the most pleasant tour of duty in tbe State. Tbe Fifteenth Begiment goes to Grove City, in Mercer county. The Duquesne Greys have arranged to go into camp this summer at Grove House Park, about four miles .from Erie. Leon J. Long is attending to tbe details, and the boys expect to spend about two weeks under canvas. Major Alex. McCandless and Lieutenant W. S. Brown, of the Fourteenth Regiment, left for Atlantic City yesterday moralng to spend a few days on the briny deep and recu perate some of their strength lost at Johns town. Mb. A. A. Panisr, a well-known member ot the local militia, has returned to the city after a two years' absence in Denver, Col. Mr. Panler reports quite a number of former Pittsburg boys living In Denver, many of whom are members of the First Regiment of that city. The Washington Infantry made a very cred itable showing Thursday morning as they marched up to Union depot, accompanied by the Sheridan Sabres, of Wilklnsburg, and tbe weiiauurg intent uuarus,ox weusourg. W. Va. The three organizations united in a very pleas ant celebration of tbe Fourth, being enter tained by tbe citizens of Wilklnsburg. The Board of Control of the Eighteenth Regiment met last night at the headquarters. on ruin avenue, ana iormauy acted upon the matter of a place for the coming encampment. Tbe site selected is at Uniontown, and is said to be well adapted for the purpose, there being a plentiful supply of water, naturalgas and Ice to be had near the grounds. The Tenth Regi ment will also be in camp at the same time, the two regiments being within a stone's throw of each other. Tbe Eighteenth will leave on Fri day morning, the 18th, Inst, and remain ten days. Compant H, of the Fifth Regiment, Johns town, suffered about as severely from the ca lamity as any organization in that vicinity. Fully 25 per cent of its members were lost in the flood, and every member of the company had relatives among the missing or dead. The arms and equipments of tbe company were al most cumplettly ruined, as was also the rifle range. 1116 surviving members, bowever, ex pect to go to camp just tbe same at Bedlord, and the Adjutant General baa promised to be just as lenient as possible with tnem until tbey are fully recovered irom their backset Seven commissions were Issued throughout the State daring the month of Jane, among them tbat of Lieutenant Colonel J. L. Spangler as Assistant Commissary General Colonel Spangler is a partner of General Hastings In business, but never had much of a fancy for the blue coats until tbe Johnstown affair occurred. When be saw tne manner in which tne boys worked and tbe system in which the details were carried out bis enthusiasm was aroused and, as be had proven himself quite a hustler in his own way. General Hastings appointed him to the only vacancy then existing on the staff. adjutant General Hastings has been 111 at Johnstown for several days past. On Tuesday next all the officers of the division and brigade staff will be relieved from farther doty at the scenes of the flood and can return to their homes. The three companies of the Fourteenth Regiment, bowever. will still re main on duty, and will probably be kept In Johnstown for several weets yet, from the present outlook. All the boys are anxious to return, as the work, while not as severe as at first, is becoming most monotonous, and tbey will hail the order to leavo with joy. As re gards going Into regimental camp this summer, the matter baa been lelt entirely at tbe option of Colonel Percnment by General Hastings, as it is about decided to postpone the tour Ior this year. The annual meeting of the Inspectors of Rifle Practice from tbe different organizations throughout the State was held at the Adjutant General Office at Harrisburg last Friday night. Colonel Watres presided at the meeting, ana a nnmberof important ohanges were talked of, many of which will be embraced in an order shortlt to be issued. The dates for the Brigade j and Regimental matches at Jit. Gretna were fixed, September 2 to 7 being chosen. The teams will be limited to seven men each Instead of six as heretofore, the old qualifications as regards length of service, etc., being retained. Bluut's manual of target practice was adopted as the guide Ior future shooting, thus allowing markdiueu to qualify at 00 yards In any posi tion desired, firing with tbe feet toward the target hiving been barred heretofore. The use of the gun sling at 200 yards for bracing pur poses is discontinued. A number of other changes were also made, and tbe Inspectors re ported as a rule tbat their regiments were working hard on tbe ranges, the extreme wet weather having held them back somewhat It was also decided by Colonel Watres that a team be picked out of the best marksmen at Alt. Gretna this fall, and sent to Creedniuor for tbe contests which take place September 9 to 11 Beaalon of tbe One Hundred and Second. V A meeting of the Executive Committee of the One Hundred and becond Pennsylvania Voluntesr Association was held Friday even ing to arrange fur tbe reunion of tbe regiment at Batter oo August 15. The special train will probably leave at 9 A.H.. and will leave Butler at 10.30 P. fC An adjourned meeting ol- the committee will be' held at tbe armory of the Washington Infantry (which has been ten dered to tbe One Hundred and Second as its permanent headquarters)oa Thursday next at 7:30 p.,x. to complete the arrangements. r. Pilsner Beer Is on draft at all first-class: bars. TTSSU FBAUENHEIM & VXL3ACK. . . THE ANGBLtisJLV, '! N ' F. W. Millet's Famous Picture for Which 553,000 Francs Was Paid Last Week. Ab Jve is a reproduction from an engraving of th famous painting by F. W. Millet whose sale in Paris last week attracted world-wide at tention, and for which tbe enormous sum of 553,000 francs or $110.600 was paid by the French Government Tbe sharp competition by American bidders ran up the figure. Tbe canvas is not a large one, being only 22x17 inches; but the renown of the work is great. As is sufficiently Indicated in the reproduction, the scene presents a couple of peasants pausing In BKDSH A.ND PALETTE. The Verslstchagin collection' of paintings and curios will be exhibited at the St Louis Exposition next fait The smallsttll life, by A C. Wooster, which has been on exhibition at Morrison's daring the past week, is a very cleverly executed little work. The subject consists of a paper of strawberries, showing the fruit rolling out upon the table, and a small pitchor of common earthenware bearing evidence of ill usage in several pieces broken from its upper portion. The handling and coloring in this work are both very good, with tbe exception, perhaps, of the brown paper, which is rather.too dark in tone. The painting of the little broken pitcher is a clever piece of work, and shows considerable skill in the use of the brush. For a picture of such a simple and unpretentious character this little study is quite pleasing and effective. It Is difficult to account for the existence of such bad taste as leads to the production of some of the common lithographs which are ex pected to become popular because tbey are alleged to Illustrate scenes to which a special merest attaches. One of the latest of these productloi s is ajithograph which Utelalmed to be an illustration of the flood at Johnstown. In bbaracter it is just like the others of tbe same class of works, in wblch there are no beat for tbe simple reason that tbey are all worst, being as bad as tbey can well be Prob ably no one of the graphic processes has ever been sn much abased in this manner as tbe art of lithography, and It is one of strange con tradictions, which sometimes obtain In art as in other matters, that a method of delineation possessing so many delightful possibilities should also be tbe means by which some of the worst eyesores are produced. Some little fault might be found with the study of a team of oxen by Mr. Bryan Wall shown at Gillespie's. The animals are de picted lying down and yoked together, and, ot course, a certain amount of constrained ap pearance is inseparable from their position un der the circumstances, but aside from this Is noticeable a hardness and stiffness which migbt readily have been avoided by a little care on tbe part ot the artist. Perhaps tbe greatest fault lies In the drawing of the fore legs of the animals, which, on account of tbe position in which they are seen, are very .much foreshortened and require more care In their delineation than has been bestowed noon them. On the other hand the picture has some of the strong points which are characteristic of most of this artist's recent work, among which may be mentioned tbe firm and substantial appear ance of tbe two beasts, and the pleasant tone which pervades the work as a whole. Mr. Wall has already commenced the summer campaign against such difficulties as unfavorable weather, etc in which all artists who paint from nature must engage, though it is proba ble that from now until the frost comes nature will smile more often than frown and the lot of the artist be enviable in spite of its trials. "A Shady Road, Washington County." is the subject of the latest picture by Mr. E. A. Poole, now on exhibition at Boyd's. The sub ject is something quite different from any which this artist has yet shown here, bat tbe peculiarities of his style are plainly noticeable throughout the work. The picture represents a country road winding through a woods, along which a flock of sheep may be seen coming toward tbe spectator. Tbe grouping of the trees is varied and beautiful, and tbey bend gracefally over tbe roadway in a very pleasing and picturesque manner. A certain stiffness in tbe banaling of the trees is a fault wn ch has been remarked In other work by tbe same ar tist, but tbis fault is, in some measure at least, counterbalanced by tbe considerable degree nt relief which he has succeeded in giving to the MM M : CUME : SMI - OF - REFRIGERATORS -AND- BABY CARRIAGES -AT- PICKERING'S For One Week, Commencing To-Monw Morning. We've had a most extraordinary business this season, and not wanting the earth, as some of our would-be competitors evidently do, we are willing, in order to effect a speedy clearance of what we have left of Refrigerators and Baby Car riages, to sell the balance of our stock at prices which are the most complete and destructive annihilation of gilt-edged figures ever known, and cold-blooded assas sination of all so-called competition. Every Minute of This Sale a Golden One to Buyers, Either for Cash or Credit ' Every purchase dollars in your pockets jvery transaction recorded will be one to your own personal advantage. There is no hocus-pocus, sbilly-shelly, now you-have-it and now-you-don't business about this sale. Tis solid meat and 'tis .your opportunity for laughing the high prices of other furniture dealers to scorn. BE ON HAND EARLY, BARGAIN SEEKERS ! Xet us tell you this. Lots of the Refrigerators and Baby Carriages offered by many dealers in this city are of such poor quality that they are dear at anv price. "We guarantee what we offer to be the BEST in the city, and we have set our minds on disposing of what we've got left, and you can bet your sweet life that nothing shall stand in the way ot'us accomplishing our ends. Economical Buyers, We There's a lot of satisfaction to a reliable house in selling to people who can ap preciate good things at lowest prices. We will sell you for crtdit quite as will ingly as for cash, for it mates no difference to us how we receive the mouey. We are not like some other dealers In this city hard up lor a few dollars. What we want is your custom, add once obtained, depend on it. our good treatment will re tain your trade for all time to come. EET This sale commences at 8 o'clock, sharp, Monday morning. OLD REIIABLE HOUSE, , v Corner Tenth Street - 15 their labor In tbe fields to silently pray, at tho sound of the Angelas bell, which is rung at an appointed hour of the evening during certain seasons. Tbe spire faintly showing in the background indicates the village church' whence the call to prayer proceeds. Though Millet's paintings now command such Immense prices, as the sate last week Indicates, it is stated tbat his widow is living in poverty at Barbizon. in France. The greatest recognition of the genius of artists comes in this, as In so many other case3, after their death. different masses of foliage. Mr. Poole has not yet learned to paint trees with any approach to completeness of detail and still preserve the freedom of a sketch, but for that matter very few others can tin it either; one of tbe faults of the celebrated Ronsseau was that tbe samo stiffness was sometimes noticeable in bis treat ment of foliage. A strong point in work by M-. Poole Is bis clever arrangement of lleht and shade, and tbe work at present under con sideration it fully np to bis standard la this respect Tbe coloring Is good and natural: it Is honest and pleasing, and devoid of any attempt at trirklness or straining aftereffects. Alto gether tbe picture will help to maintain for the artist the favorable reputation wblch he Is building up for himself in this locality. If yon have not smoked the La Perla del Fumar Key West Cigar you have lost a treat Sold 3 for 25c G. W. Schmidt, Nos. 95 and 97 Filth ave. A3IPSE3ISXTS. TO DAY, TO DAY A BIG DAY ON THE WTLKLNbtoUKU CAMPAiEETING GROUNDS. 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