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OUT WITH HUllMtJM.
Eev. Dr. Talmage Sajs It Is Eating
the Vitals of the Church.
TOO MUCH OF IT IN PEOPLE'S IITES.
More
Spice and EBlirenment Needed
Eeligions Teaching.
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IBE BOMB IS MADE LKTIEELI TOO SAD
rtPEClAL TELrORAM TO TBI DISPATCH.I
Beookltk, May 3. The capacity of the
new Tabernacle was fully tested this morn
ing by the vast audience which assembled
to hear Dr. Talmage in his handsome and
spacious church. He is now preaching
tfere morning and evening, and the services
7in New York have been discontinued. This
has caused much regret to many people in
that city. A memorial was prepared and
signed by influential citizens asking Dr.
Talmage to continue the services. He could
not see his way to comply at the time, but,
ns he was evidently impressed by the
warmth of the welcome given him in the
metropolis, and deeply moved by the good
that was done, it is not improbable that in
the near future, he will again be found
duDlicating his usefulness by ministering to
two congregations, as he has been doing
the past seven months. His subject this
morning was "Humdrum Abolished," and
his text, XL Chronicles, iz; 9: "Of spices
great abundance; neither was there any
such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King
Solomon."
Solomon was not like some of the Icings of
the present any crowned imbecility. All the
splendor of his palaco and retinae were
eclipsed bv his intellectual power. Why, he
eecnied to know everything. He was the nrst
creat naturalist the world ever saw. Peacocks
from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes
chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the
parks and there were aquariums with foreign
fish, ana aviaries with foreign birds; and tradi-
tion says these birds were so well tamed, that
Solomon micht walk crear across the city
under the shadow of their wings as they hov
ered and flitted about blm.
bolomoa a Type of Christ.
My friends, yon know that all theologians
agree in makinc Solomon a type of Christ, and
making the Queen of Sheba a type of every
truth seeker; and I thall take the responsibility
of saying that all the spikenard, and cassia and
frankincense which the Queen of Sheba
brought to King Solomon are mightily sug
gests e of the su eot spices of our holy religion.
Christianity is not a collection of sharp tech
nicalities and angular facts, and chronological
tables, and dry statistics. Our religion is com
pared to frankincense and to cassia, bnt never
to nightshade. It is a bundle of myrrh. It is
a aaso or holy light. It is a sparkle of cool
fountains. It is an opening of opaline gates.
It is a collection of spices. Would God that
we were as wise in taking mires to
our Divine Kinc as Queen 13-ilkis was
wl8 in taking the spices to the earthly
Solomon! What many of us most need is to
have the humdrum driven out of our life and
the humdrum out of our religion. The Ameri
can and English and Scottish church will die
of humdrum unless there be a change. An
eaitor from San Francisco a few weeks aso
wrote. ine, sayine he was getting up for bis
paper a symposium from many clergymen, dis
cussing, among other things, "Why do not
people go to church?" and he wanted my
opinion, and I gave it in one sentence: People
do not go to church because they cannot stand
the humdrum. The fact is that most people
nave so much humdrum in their worldly call
ing that they do not want to hare added the
humdrum of religion. We need in all our ser
mons and exhortations and songs and prayers
more of -n hat Qneen lialkis brought to Solo
monnamely, more spice.
The fact is that the duties and cares of this
life, coming to us from time to time, are stupid
often, and inane, and intolerable. Here are
men who bare been bartering, and negotiating,
climblKC, pounding, hammering for SO years, 49
years, 50 years. One great, long drudgery has
their life been. Their faces anxious, their feel
ings benumbed, their das s monotonous. What
is necessary to brighten up that man's life, and
to sweeten that acid disposition, and to put
sparkle into the man's spirits? The spicery of
cur holy religion. Why, if between the losses
of life there dashed a gleam of an eternal gain;
if between the betrayals of life there came the
cleam of the undying friendship of Christ; if in
dnll times in business we found mintstering
spirits fljing to and fro in our office, and store.
ana snop, every day me, instead oi ueinc a
stupid monotone. Mould bo a glorious inspira
tion, nenduluming between calm satisfaction
and nigh rapture.
The Savior In Uie Family.
How any woman keeps house without the
religion of Christ to help her is a mystery to
me. To have to spend the greater part of
one's life, as man women do, in planning for
the meals, in stitching garments that will soon
be rent again, and deploring breakages, and
supervising tardy subordinates, and driTing off
dnst that soon again will settle, and doing the
tame thing day in and day oat, and year in and
year out, until their hair silvers and the back
stoops, and the spectacles crawl tothecjes,
and the grave breaks open under the thin sole
of the shoe oh, it is a long monotony! But
wnen (jurist comes to me drawing room, and
comes to the kitchen, and comes to
the nursery, and comes to the dwell
ing, then how cheery become all
womanly duties. She is never alone now.
Martha gets through, fretting and joins Mary
at the feet of Jesus. All day long Deborah is
happy because she can help Lapidoth; Hannah,
because she can make a coat for young Samuel:
Miriam, because she can watch her infant
brother: Rachel, becanso she can help her
father water the stock; the widow of Sarepta,
because the cruse of oil is being replenished.
O woman, having in your pantry a nest of
boxes containing all kinds of condiments, wny
bare you not tried in your heart and lite the
spicery of our bely religion? "Martha! Mar
tha! thou art careful and troubled about many
things, but one thing is needful, and Mary hath
chosen that good part which shall not be taken
away from her."
1 must confessthat a great deal of the relig
ion of this day is utterly insipid. There is
nothing piquant or elevating about it Men and
women co around bumminir psalms in a minor
key, and; culturing melancholy, and their wor
ship has in it more sighs than'rapture. We do
not doubt their piety. Oh, no. lint they aro
sitting at a feast where the cook has forgotten
to season the food. Everything is flat in their
experience and in their conversation. Emanci
pated from sin,aud death,and bell, and on their
way to a magnificent heaven. they act as though
they were trndsinc on toward an everlasting
Botany Bay. Religion does not seem to agree
with them. It seems to catch in the wind-pipe
and become a tight strangulation instead ot an
exhilaration. All th lntldel books that have
been written, from Voltaire down to Herbert
Spencer, have not done so much damage to
our Christianity as lugubrious Christians. Who
warns a religion woven out of the shadows of
the night? Why go growling on jour way to
celestial enthronement? Come out of that cave,
and sit down in the warm light of the Sun of
Righteousness. Away with j our odes to mel
ancholy and Hervey's "Meditation Among the
Tombs."
plco iu Religious Teaching.
I have to say, also, that we need to put more
spice and enllvenment in our religious teach-'
lugs: whether it be iu the prayer-meeting, or in
the Sabbath school, or in the church. We min
isters need more fresh air and sunshine in our
lungs and onr heart and our head. Do you
wonder that the world is so far from being con
verted when jou find so little vivacity in the
pulnlt and in the pew? We want, like the Lord,
to plant in our sermons and exhortations more
lilies ot the field. We want fewer rhetori
cal eiaoorauons, ana lewer sesquipedalian
words; and when we talk about shad
ows, we do not want to say adum
bration; and when we mean queer
ness, we do not want to talk about idlosyncra
sies: or if a stitch in the back, we do not want
to talk of lumbago; hut, iu the plain vernacular
preach that Gospel which proposes to make all
men happy, honest, victorious, and free. In
other words, we want more cinnamon and loss
gristle. Let this be so in all the different de
partments of work to which the Lord calls us.
Let us be plain. Let us be earnest. Let us be
common-sensical. When we talk to the people
lu a vernacular they can understand, they will
be very glad to come and receive the truth we
present. Woaldto God that Qneen Balkis
would drive her spice-laden dromedaries into
all our zermons and prayer meetings exhorta
tions. Mare than that, we want more life and spice
In onr Christian work. The peor do not want
so n uch to be groaned over as sung to. With
the biead, and medicines, and the garments
you give them, le: there be an accompaniment
of smiles and brisk encouragement. Do not
Stand and talk to them about the wretchedness
of their abode, and the hunger of their looks,
and the hardness ot their lot. Ah! they know
It better thin yon can tell them. Show them
the bright side of the thing, if there be any
bright sidd. Tell them good times will come.
Tell them that for the children of God then- Is
liu mortal rescue. Wake them up oat ot their
stolidity by an inspiring laugh, and while
you send in help, like tho Queen
of Sheba also send In the fcploei.
There are two ways of meeting the poor. One
js to come Into their house with a nose elevated
in disgust, as much as to say: "I don't see how
you lire here in this neighborhood. It actually
makes me sick. There is that bundle take it,
ou poor, miserable wretch, and make the most
of it." Another way Is to go into the abode of
the poor in a manner which seems to say:
"The blessed Lord sent me. He was poor him
self. It Is not more for the good I am going to
try to do you than it is tor the good you can
ao me." Coming in that spirit, the gift will be
as aromatic as the spikenard on the feet of
Christ, and all the hovels in that alley will be
fragrant with the spice.
More Inspiring Music Needed.
We need more spice and enllvenment in our
church music. Churches sit discussing whether
tber shall have choirs, or precentors, or organs,
or bass viols, or cornets; I say. tako that which
will brine out the most inspiring music It wa
had half as mnch zeal and spirit in onr churches
as we have in the songs of onr Sabbath schools,
it would not be long before the whole earth
would quake with the coming God. Why, in
most churches, nine-tenths of the people do not
sing; or they sing go feebly that the people at
tneir oinows do not know tney are singing.
People mouth and mumble the praises of God;
but there is notmoro than one cut of a hun
dred who makes "a Joyful noise" unto the Rock
of our Salvation. Sometimes when the congre
gation forgets itself, and is all absorbed in the
goodness of God, or the glories of heaven. 1
get an intimation of what church mnsic will be
100 years from now, whenhe coming genera
tion shall wake up to its duty.
i promise a nign spiritual messing to any one
who will sing in church, and who will sing so
heartily that the peonle all around cannot help
but sing. Wake up! all the churches from
Bangor to San Francisco, and across Christen
dom It is not a matter of preference; it is a
matter of religious duty. Ob, for GO times
more volume of sound. German chorals in
German cathedrals surpass us, and yet Ger
many has received nothing at the hands of God
compared with America: andoughttbeacclaim
in Berlin be londer than that in Brooklyn?
Sott," long-drawn-out music, is appropriate for
the drawing-room and appropriate for the con
cert; but St. John gives an idea of the sonorous
and resonant congregational singing appropri
ate for churches when, in listening to the tem
ple service of Heaven, he says: "I beard a great
voice as the voice of a great multitude, and as
the voice of many waters, and as the voice of
might thundermgs. Hallelujah, for the Lord
God omnipotent reigneth."
Join with me in a crusade, giving me not only
your hearts, bnt the mighty uplifting of yonr
voices, and i neiieve we can, tnrougn unrisi's
grace, sing 50,000 souls into the kingdom of
Christ. An argument, they can laugh at; a
sermon, they may talk down: bnt a vast audi
ence joining in one anthem Is irresistible.
Would that Queen Balkis would drive all her
spice-laden dromedaries into our church
music "Neither was there any such spice as
the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon."
Religion Counteracts All Trouble.
Now 1 want to impress this audience with the
fact that religion Is sweetness and perfume,
and spikenard, and saffron, and cinnamon, and
cassia, and frankincense, and all sweet spices
together. "Oh." you say, "1 have not looked at
it as such. I thought it was a nuisance; It had
for me a repulsion; I held by breath as though
it were a malodor; I have been appalled at its
advance: I have said, if I have any religion at
all I want to have just as little ot it as Is pos
sible to get through with." Ob, what a mistake
you have made, mv brother. The religion of
Christ is a present and everlasting redolence.
it counteracts an trouble, just put iioutne
stand beside the pillow of sickness. It catches
in the curtains, and pert nmes tha stifling air. It
sweetens tho cup of bitter medicine, and
throws a glow on the gloom of the turned
lattice. It is a balm for the aching side, and a
soft bandage for the temple stung with pain.
It lifted Samuel Rutherford into a revelry of
spiritual delight, while he was In physical
agonies. It helped Richard Baxter until, in
the midst of such a complication of diseases
as perhaps no other man ever suffered, be
wrote, "The Saint's Everlasting Rest." And
it poured light upon John Bnnyan's dnngeon
the light of the shining gate of the shining
city. And it is good for rheumatism, and for
neuralgia, and for low spirits, and for con
sumption: it is the catbolicon for all disorders.
1'cs. it will heal all your sorrows.
Why did yon look so sad to-day when you
came in? Alas! for tho loneliness and the
heartbreak, and the load that is never lifted
from your sou'. Some of you go about feeling
like Macaulay when be wrote: "If I had an
other month of such days as I hare Ijeen spend
ing, I would be impatient to get down into my
little narrow crib in the ground like a weary
factory child." And there have been times in
your life when you wished you could get out of
tnisuie. ion nave saia: "un, how sweet to
THE MARKET FOR OIL
Does Hot Justify the Activity Iu the
Southwest Division.
STILL NO PROSPECTS OF A CHANGE.
Pittsburg Eapidly incoming the Producers
.Headquarters.
THE WILBCATTEES IN WEST VIRGINIA
my lips would be the dust ot the valley." and
wished yon could pull over your last slumber
the coverlet of green grass and daisies. You
have said: "Oh, how beautifully quiet it must
be in the tomb. I wish I was there." I see all
around about me widowhood, and orphanage,
and childlessness; sadness, disappointment,
perplexity. If I could ask all those to rise in
this audience who have felt no sorrow, and
been buffeted by no disappointment if I conld
ask all such to rise, how many would rise? Not
one.
Appeasement for Sorrow.
Dear Lord, is there no appeasement for all-
this sorrow that I see about me? Yes, the
thought of resurrection and reunion far beyond
this scene of struggle and tears. "They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them, nor any
heat: for the Lamb which is in the midst of the
throne shall lead them to living fountains of
water, and God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes." Across the conches of your sick,
and across the graves of your dead, I fling this
shower of sweet spices. Queen Balkis, driving
up to the pillared portico of the house of
cedar, carried no such pungency of perfnme as
exhales to-day from the Lord's garden. It is
peace. It is sweetness It is comfort. It is
infinite satisfaction, this gospel I commtfnd
to yon. Oh. you sin-parched ana you trouble
pounded, here is comfort, here is satisfaction.
Will you coma and get it? I cannot tell yon
what the Lord offers you hereafter so well as I
can tell you now. "It doth not yet appear what
we shall be."
Through obduracy on our part, and through
the rejection of that Christ who makes heaven
possible, 1 wonder if any of ns will miss lhA
spectacle? 1 fear! I fear! The queen of the
South will rise up in j udgment against this gen
eration and condemn it, because she came from
the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the
wisdom ot Solomon, and behold! a greater than
Solomon is here! May God grant that through
your own practical experience you may find
that religion's wajs are ways of pleasantness,
and that all her paths are paths of peace that
it is perfnme now and perfume forever. And
there was an abundance of spice; "neither was
there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba
gave to Kins Solomon."
FOR SICK HEADACHE
Use Uoikford's Acid Phosphate.
Dr. M. W. Gray, Care Spring, Ga.. says: "1
have used it with perfect success In habitual
sick headache."
Tho Feople's Store Fifth Ave.
Don't forget that our new shoe department
opens next AVedaesday.
Campbell & Dick.
An Awful Noise!
Competitors are making about the $3 shoes.
Buy a pair of my 52 calf shoes for men's
wea, and save your SI. G. D. Simeu,
iiwr 78 Ohio street, Allegheny, Pa.
The Newly Licensed Saloonkeepers
Will build up their trade ranidly if they
stock up with the lion City Brewing Coa
popular brand of beer. 'Phone 1186.
Little, the optician, fill Penn avenue.
D
The Feople's Store Fifth Ave.
Don't fail to visit our new shoe depart
ment. Open next Wednesday.
Campbell & Dick.
Ladles' Houso Slippers
Cheaper than ever; better than ever. Prices,
50c, 65c, 75c85c and ?l,at G. D. Bimen's, 78
Ohio street, Allegheny, Pa. arwir
Saloonkeepers will increase trade by
handling the pure beer produced by the
Iron City Brewery. Orders promptly filled.
'Phone 1186. f
Familiar in Millions of Mouths
as any Household Word."
The Times, London.
Apollinaris
"THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS."
"Much favored 6y her Majesty?
world, London.
"The lest leverage?
truth, London.
"Cosmopolitan?
British Medical Joirnal,
"Cheap as well as good',
"The demand for it is great and
increasing:' -The Times, London.
At sq period within the past decade has.
tbe situation of the petroleum industry
been invested with so mnch interest as at
present. Tbe market value of crnde sorely
does not justify tbe activity of tbe drill
which is manifest in nearly every section of
the expansive southwest division. In view
of the fact that production is in excess of
consumption it is not likely that matters
will change for the better so long as this
state of affairs, prevails. If the drill was
curtailed, and the outpnt reduced to a basis
of supply and demand, higher prices would
follow, and the producers' 'financial condi
tion placed upon a sure footing.
It is an admitted fact that oil cannot be
produced at any point in tbe southwest pools
at the present market, unless the lucky
operator should strike a big well, which now
looks like a thing of the past. Should he
persist in following np the policy of push
ing tbe drill, it seems that he conld not pur
sue a better course for' the accomplishment
of his ruin. The spasmodic advance in the
market Saturday may lure some into the
belief that after long and tedious suffering
the millennium has dawned, but unless
there is a greater demand for the staple or a
reduction in the yield they will learn with
bitter disappointment that it is only a de
lusion. TFlldwood Past Its Meridian.
It is reasonably fair to presume that Wild
wood has passed the meridian of Us life.
Yet the fact must not be ignored that this
famous pool will .for some time remain an
important factor in keeping np prodnction.
While the drill during the past week has
pretty clearly demoustrated that the days
ot gushers on the southwest line have passed
into history, it has also.from the same stand
point ot reasoning, pretty clearly developed
the fact that there remains quite a large
scope of territory in this locality thai will
bring forth paying wells.
Prom the fact that ho large wells of late
have been added to the completed list, and
the gushers declining, one is led to believe
that the prodnction is rapidly falling off.
This is not the case, and for the benefit of
The Dispatch readers the reporter called
upon the pipe line people Saturday and
obtained tbe daily runs for the past nine
days, which are as follows:
Barrels.
April 23 8.839
April 21 7,201
April25 9.363
April26 7.238
April 27 9.488
ApnlSS 9,230
April29 5,858
AprilSO 8.111
Mayl , 8.48J
Total ,..73,811
Average for nine days, 8,201 parrels.
Some Good Territory.
In speaking of tbe southwest, it looks
with tbe Good well lying south..the Heidle-
berge on the west and tbe Kuhlbers and tbe
Kretzer on tbe northeast as if J.il. Guffy
has quite a large acreage of territory good
for from 100 to 150 barrel wells. It is now
generally conceded that Dibert & Co.'s
jenny farm well is a duster. Mr. Dibert is
credited as saying that his venture was 30
feet in the sand with no oil, and that to him
it looked like a dead cock in the pit. Tbe
Kanawha braves drilled their Fogel farm
well deeper Saturday, which showed only a
very slight improvement; it will perhaps
make a 20 barrel pumper, judging from
present indications.
Tbe Hancock well has not been improved
on deeper drilling, but iu its present status
will be made a pumper. Out of Barnsdall
& Co.'s batch of gushers there is only one
that is now flowing, and vesterday morning
theBotU Oil Company's Harbush No. 8 also
stopped flowing. Guffy & Co.'s Kuhlbers
No. 1, 20 acres, has a record of 80 barrels a
day, and tbe Good well is doing about 150
barrels. Superintendent Loccwood has
come to the conclusion he can make a 10
barrel pumper out of the Heidleberge, and
will tube tbe reported duster Monday.
Black & Waterhouse have purchased tne
Hardy lease, 40 acres and 1 dry hole, from
ihe Sunline Oil Company. In the sale of
this property is inclnded the rig and ma
chinery of 2fo. L Consideration, $1,000.
Center of the Oil Trade.
That Pittsburg is fast becoming head
quarters of the oil industry is evidenced by
the daily acquisition to the ranks of the
oleaginous iratermty. Nearly all of the
leading lights and old-timers of tbe northern
and middle Gelds have cast anchor here and
are now full-fledged Pittsburgers. Oil City,
Titusrille, Warren, Jamestown and Olean,
N. Y., and Bradford have been large con
tributors to the aggregation. The migra
tion of this class from tbe North has also
been followed by a number of large manu
facturing industries pertaining to the oil
business. The machinery and oil well sup
ply representatives are gradually drifting to
the center of attraction, and it will only be
a short time until, the gang will all take
their sojourn in the city.
Ireland & Hughes have for a number of
years been established in the city and are
among the largest drilling tool manufac
turers in the country. The Oil WelHSupply
Company, the largest institution of its kind
in the world, manufactures on a large scale
everything used in the operation of oil
wells and is a credit to the city. The Oil
City Boiler Worts and James M. Lambing,
general agent for the Corry Ajax engine,
are both located here.
Recruits From the Ohio Field.
The Ohio field, too, of late has sentsome
of its most prominent and active oil men to
the Allegheny field, who will try their luck
here. The Dispatch scour, in his peram
bulations Saturday, discovered several new
firms established in tbe business. They say
that they have come to stay, and are firm in
their faith that Allegheny county has nianv
profitable pools yet to be developed, and tba't
Pittsburg will long remain headquarters.
W. a Walker & Co., of Bradford, manu
facturers of drilling and fishing tools, have
opened up an office and salesroom at No. 6
Seventh street. Gorley & Findlay, of Lima,
O., manufacturers of boilers and drilling
tools, are'quartered at Ninth and Dnquesne
way. The firm of Bayne, Wilson & Pratt,
general agents for Parrar & Treft's boilers
and engines, will soon open a large sales
room, and will carry one of the heaviest
stocks of oil well supplies found in the
city.
There are also a number of changes that
will soon take, place among tbe aeents who
bump tbe business from one farm to another.
Prominent among this class is tbe well and
favorably known is Benton T. Kahle, who is
regarded as the best salesman of drilling
tools in the oil regibns. After nine years
of faithful servicehe resigns bis position to
acoept one more in keeping with his high
reputation and .business qualifications.
From Bolivar, N. Y., to tbe West Virginia
and Kentucky field no man in the oil coun
try has a larger circle of acquaintances. Mr.
Kahle was one of the first to open an oil well
supply house in Pittsburg, having located
here in tbe spring of 1886.
all the wildcats drilling below Eureka.
Up tho river, at SistersriUe, Duncan &
Brown, hare a well drilling on the
Stewart farm, on the Ohio side, which has
reached a depth of 1,250 feet In this venture
they found a flrediarrel producer in the Cow
Run sand at 600 feet. The Columbia Oil Com
pany and McGrew Brothers are-drllllng a well
on tbe Smitt farm, two miles below Sardus, on
Narrow Bun, which is down 200 feet Lndwig
4 Reeder are getting ready to tube tbe Folcat
Run well, located one mile and a half above
Slstersrille. The Ward farm well at Archie's
Forks was shot Friday, and Is not showing for
more than a ten-barrel well. The New Castle
well, in Monroe connty, 0 has been drilled In
and filled up with salt water, which accounts
for the peculiar character of the oil in this
venture. This is the first instance where the
briny fluid has been found in the Berea grit
norther Foment". The Augusta Oil Company
found a duster in the Big Injun sand two miles
south of Burning Springs. The well is about
Jt),uuu feet deep.
Tbev will drill on down to the
Berea sand, which lies 380 feet below.
New Well at Coraopolls.
The Forest Oil Company completed a75-barrel
well Saturday, on the S. B. Neely farm at Cora
opolls: This is the first venture on this
property and makes three or four more loca
tions look like wheat in tbe milL They shot
their Brown farm dry hole but there was no
response, and also treated their sunDosed
dnster .No. 2 McCUnton with a 10-quart shot
which will most likely convert it into a 10-bar-nh
pumper.
Wlldcatting In Venango.
Oil City parties are drilling an experimental
well on the Irwin White farm, one mile north
from Utlca. Unknown parties are drilling an
other wildcat two miles west from Coopers
town, near Baker Hill, on the Robert Rodgers
farm. The prospectors are hunting for the
Raymltter belt
McCobdy W. L. Mellon shot his Palmer
No. 1 Saturday with 60 quarts, which improved
its production to 12 barrels an honr.
H. McC.
Saturday's Oil Markets.
The oil market again failed to-surprise the
trade Saturday by a sale. Cash oil opened at
C9K bid and finished at 7L For June 72 was
bid here and 73 at Oil City, which place fur
nished all the steam tbe market bad.
Cleveland, May 2. Petroleum quiet; snow
white. 110, 6c; 71 gasoline, 8c; 86 gasoline,
12c; 63 naphtha, 6Kc
New Yobk. liar 2. Petroleum had a
slight spasm of activity to-day, opening strong'
ana advancing ic on western ouyrng. xnen
the market reacted sharply, and closed steady.
Pennsylvania oil, spot:. Opening, 70c; highest
72c; lowest 70o; closing, 71c June option:
Openlnc 70c; highest 72c; lowest 70c;
closing, 71ft Lima oil: Opening, 18r: highest
19cr lowest USc; closing, 18)c Total sales,
67,000 barrels.
Oil City. May 2. National Transit cer
tificates opened at 71c; highest 73c: lowest
70Kc; closed, 71ic; sales, M8.O00 barrels; clear
ances, 226,000 barrels; charters, 36,309 barrels;
shipments, 48,829 barrels; runs, 67,897 barrels.
Bradford. May 2. National Transit cer
tificates opened at c: closed at 71c: high
est 73Kc; lowest 69c; clearances, 276,000 barrels.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SPRING CARPETS
AKD
WALL v PAPER!
THE AFTER EFFECTS.
Where the Fearful Danger of Grip Lies and
How to Counteract It
Hero is something which one of tho most
prominent doctors in America recently said
about the grip:
"Have you noticed that only those Persons
who were aged and feeble or debilitated died of
theGripr The Grip itself Is not so serious or
dangerous, but It is the terribly weakened con
dition that it leaves one In and tbe fearful after
effects which it brings. The people who die do
not have vitality enough to recover; they
do pot possess vigor enough to throw off the
after effects. Such people, in fact all people,
should have help in some sensible way to
throw off the depressing, the debilitating; the
almost suicidal "feelings ihifh the Grip always
causes. Nothing will do this, nothing will help
nature except some pure stimulant and there la
nothing in the way of stimulants equal to pure
whiskey."
No medicinal stimulant ever has produced
the results, ever has received tbe endorsements
or ever has been so popular as Duffy's Fare
Malt Whisker. The reason is e'zceedinelr sim
ple. It is because it has gently, healthily and
completely assisted Nature, toned it Up,enabled
It to resist the outside Influences which tended
to disease and to assist toward the attractive
path which leads to health. The after effects of
the Grip are the worst feature of it. They must
be counteracted it strength and health are to
be regained. They can be overcome in but one
certain way and that Is by the use of the sen
sible, efficient and highly endorsed stimulant
above mentioned. There is nothing before tbe
public which can for a moment compare with
it and the genuine should be insisted upon. M
GAIN
ONE POUND
A Dav.
A GAIN OF A POUND A DAY IN THE
CASE OF A MAN WHO HAS BECOME "ALL
RUN DOWN," AND HAS BEGUN TO TAKE
THAT REMARKABLE FLESH PRODUCER,
SCOTT'S
Emulsion
OF PURE COD LIVER OIL WITH
Hypophosphites of Lime &Soda
IS NOTHING UNUSUAL. THIS FEAT
HAS BEEN PERFORMED OVER AND OVER
AGAIN. PALATABLE AS MILK. En.
DORSED BY PHYSICIANS. SOLD BY ALL
.DRUGGISTS. AVOID SUBSTITUTIONS AND
IMITATIONS.
HtozU-ittjl
mu2-mm
S'
COTTS JSMULSION
mbI9-S2
SOLD BY
JOS. FLEMING & SON.
112 Market street
Pittsburg
AMUSEMENTS,
West Virginia Wildcats.
Seven miles south and west of Eureka, Ever
hart A Frye have a well drilling on the Vol.
canic lands at 1,000 feet Bowman Bros, at last
have succeeded lu shutting off the care-In at
thelrSrell on the Ingraham farm. The venture
is down 1,200 feet, and the ownerf have been
nearly a year getting it down this depth. It is
located nine miles southwest from Eureka.
Wilson 4 Co. have started an experimental
well at tbe head ot the island, two miles up the
river above Marietta, on the Virginia 'side.
James C. Tennent the noted scout Is down
1000 feet with his well, on Rawcou farm, a mile
ana a nair up Boll Greek., and three miles I
southwest from Eureka, This list embraces J
MAY .
MUSIC
; FESTIVAL
Mechanical Hall, Exposition .Buildings. May
12, 13, li 16, 18, Matinees Thursday and Satur
day. Prices Reserved seats, single concert Par
quet 2 aud $2 CO: balcony, $1. Jl GO and 2. Sin
gle seats In private box, S3; season, seven per
formances, sia
TICKETS ON SALE at Hamilton's lluslc
Store, 91 and 93 Fifth are.
The Steinway & Sou piano used exclusively
at all the Festival concerts. my4-22
Pittsburg's Leadlnc Theater.
MR. A. M. PALMLR'8
MADISON SQUARE 1 HEATER
STOCK COMPANY.
TO-Night "CAPTAIN' SWIFT."
To-Morrow Night "A Pair ot BFECTACi.ra."
Seats for entire week at theater and Hays'.
Next week Mrs. John Drew in "The School
for Scandal." mjl 2U
H
ARRY WILLIAMS' ACADEMY.
Monday Matinee, May 4.
Night prices of admission.
Every night and Matinees Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday,
BAMT. JACK'S
CREOLE BURLESQUE COMPANY.
60 Artists 50 my3-22
MOZART ORCHESTRA,
LM. ALLEN, Leader. T.J. BRAD Y.Prompter,
All the latest popular music and figures.
Offices NO. 16 SIXTH SP., Pittsbnre. and
NO. 139 OHIO ST., Allegheny. my3-149
B
ilJOU THEATER-
TO-NIGHT
A PAIR OF JACKS.
Matinees Wednesday and Saturday.
May 11-Chas.T. Ellis in "Casper tbe Yodler."
myl-15
In Carpet we show a very fine
line of Royal Wiltons, Axminster,
Velvet, Body Brussels, Tapestry
and all kinds of Ingrain in style,
quality and price. Just what you
want
Wall Paper for rooms, ceilingj
and halls, in choice styles and artis- -tio
colorings, and all the new ideas
in the market Yon are invited to
inspect our stock.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Life, Liberty pAurfi Happiness
Are Guarantees of tbe Constitution,
Correct Fashions, Moderate Prices, Best Tailor
ing In the- world, is the foundation
rock of our popularity.
A Citizen of the Union secures you tha former,
a Customer here GIVES YOU
TjPE LATTER.
SPECIAL EXHIBIT
OP
Serges, Flannels
and .Mohairs
Geo. W. Snaman,
B6 FEDERAL STREET,
fel8-mnr
ALLEGHENY.
NEW ASVEKXSSafBNTS.
TI Mul SEASON
Is almost here, and
Iu all tbe Popnlar Weaves
and Shades
JUST THE THING
FOB
Warm Weather Wear.
Suits to Order
from $20.
Trousers to Or
der from 85.
ASPHALTUI
WALL PAPEE
FOB DAMP WALLS.
KEEPS OUT ALL MOISTURE.
WILLIAM H. ALIEN,
517 Wood Street,
I SZ Jfi
Si it
400 Smlthfleld St, Pittsburff.
Samples, Self-Measurement Rales and Fashion
Sheet of latest New York fashions
mailed on application.
inv3-132-3ITh
KAHiS,
ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
IS SIXTH STREET.
Cabinet;, S2 to H per dozen; petites, tlper
dozen. Telephone, 175L
ap8-7J-MWl'3a
Near Fifth are.
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HIR
KHHTltnc1
TkCxfHuiraDRD(lC
Package nukes 6 gallons.
Delicious, sparkling, and
appetizing. Sold by all
dealers. JSabeantirnl
Picture Book and cards
sent to anj one addressing
a.E.HIBE3 4 CO.,
Philadelphia,
my3-135-jTV7T-
V
Always abreast of the
times, will commence
this morning a grand
SPECIAL SALE of
TRUNKS
AND
SATCHELS
That should be attended
by everybody intending
to take a trip this sum
mer. Even if you're not
yet ready to go away,
it'll pay you to buy your
traveling requisites at
this sale, for you can
never againbuy them at
the same-low prices.
Of course, we cannot go into details about our large stock, but the
following bargains will suffice to show the importance and significance
of this sale: . " .
Patent barrel top, fancy crystal or canvass covered,
full Saratoga trunks, iron bottom, reverse slats on top
ana in front with malleable iron bumpers, patent mal
ieauie Dinamg, wnite metal iock, tilting tray, sizes 32
34 and 36, actual price go, will be sold at ,..
Extra quality flat top Dress Trunks, 30 inch, leather
bound all around the edges, Jeather center bands, steel
clamps and corners, extra tray; lined through with su
penor cloth; best Yale locksj real value 512
will be sold at ,
a?Full line of solid sole leather trunks constantly on hand.
I,
m
REMARKABLE SILK SALE.
Wo mean to make this month memorable by ottering the following wonderful values;
19-inch Surab. Silk, all colors, 37c, -worth 50a
22-inoh India Silk, handsome printings, 60c, value 75c.
22-Inob. Shanghai Silk, new designs, 63c, well worth 8L
Double Warp Blaok and White Stripe Surab Silk, 75c.
These goods are actually worth SL
21-inoh Black Armure Silk, -631, former price 81 50.
21-inoh Black Alma Silk, 87o and 8L
These goods are a new weave and wear guaranteed.
24-inch Faille Francais, $1, were 81 50.
32-inch Printed Drapery Silk, all colors, 6O0 a yard.
A. beautiful assortment of new designs and were never sold at less than $L
151, 153 and 155 FEDERAL ST., ALLEGHENY.
Satchels!
Thousands of
Satchels!
500 imitation Alligator Club Bags, sizes from 10 to 16,
sold nowhere below $i 25, reduced to
IS,
450 good quality grain leather Club Bags,size
bottom price heretofore $2, reduced to
300 imitation Alligator Gladstone Bags,
14, sold in trunk stores for $2 50, seduced to .
size
Sl-98
951.75
Bags, leather lined and real alligator
Bags, English frame and best lock,
ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES.
We invite you to look at our splen
did stock of Men's and Boys'
Clothing. If the lowest prices and
the finest qualities are any object we
are confident of your patronage. All
the Clothing is of our own Wana- '
maker & Brown manufacture.
New, stylish, seasonable.' A com
plete storeful of. dependable goods.
Men's Spring "Suits, brand new
effects, $12, 15, $18, S20..
Boys' and Children's Suits from
$4 up to $10. .
Every garment in our store of
interest to those who want to save
money.
Suits to order, 25.
Over 2,000 styles for your se
lection. Everybody who buys pleased, or
they can get their money back.
Genuine Alligator Club
covered frame, from $2 50 up.
Genuine Alligator Gladstone
size 14, at $12. '
Leather-bound Telescope sample cases from 75c up.
Leather Toilet Sets from 65c to $10.
Leather Shawl Straps from 22c up. Leather Tourist Straps from
15c up.
We also carry a complete line of finest English Club and Cabin
Bags, fitted up with full Toilet Sets. If you want to present some de
parting friend with a useful keepsake, give him one of these fine satchels.
I . m Li l'CTiy A leather tab, bearing your name, at-
J-- -1N I 'II -i:
costing $2 or more.
tached free of charge to every satchel
KAUFMANNS'
Fifth Aye. and Smithfield St.
OIL WELL SUPrLTES.
Artesian Wells.
For household aud mechanical purposes. Prices
on application.
DAEBAOH f URB WATER CO,
ja31-43-D 107 First ay.. Pittsbnr&
AJAX ENGINES
-AITD-
WANAMAKER&BROWN,
Corry Boilers.
The best Oil Well Machinery in the
world. All sizes of Engines and Boilers.
Also all sizes Stationary Engines and Boil.
ere. Write for prices.
Offices In Pittsburg, Washineton and Butler.
Always write or telegraph to Corry Office.
JAMES M. LAMBING,
BOLE AGENT. CORRY, PA.
Plttibure offlce.telphoneo No. 96
OIL "WELL STJPFiaBv
M. V.' TAYLOR,
, DEALER IN
Oil Well Supplies
OF EVERY bESCRIPTIOX.
Allison Tubing and Casing,-
ROOMS 35 AND 36 Fidelity building. Tele
phone No. 797. Pittsburg P.
No. 15 W. JIAIDE2J ST., Washinjrton. Pa.
Telephone No. 12, apI9-135D
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IRELAND & HUGHES,
FORGE AND MACHINE SHOP
AND MANUFACTURERS OF
V
Oil and Artesian Well Drilling
and Fishing Tools.
Cornsr Twsirfy-firsl Sfreel, and A. V. R. H."
Telephone No. 1222,
PITTSBURG, PA.
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t i s i in 9
UnblLJ lUUiJ UU. SnMMEB CLOTHING.
COR. SIXTH ST. AND PENN AYE.
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To-nleb',, Matinees Wednesday and Satur
day. Win. A. Brady's Production of
TDnn CIlTiTrP WjVH
Next week-JANAUSCHKK, ssri.fi I
"The'best is dye he cheapesK'
bid imitations.
ohemdsubsHHates forSLt
L .... a m. tl
APOUOItisa.solid?
cbkz or scouring so&pTry'ft
'in your nex hpuse-cle&nmg.
REAL ECONOMY.
fit is wore than nonsense to buy a cheap 'article with
which to damage more valuable property. Scouring soap
is at pest only a trifling expense, but with a poor and
. cheap article it is likely to do considerable damage to fine
marDie or otnerjproperqf?' r , , .
MANUFACTURERS OF
TUBING, CASING,
LINE PIPE,
STEAM PIPE
-ASD-
BOILEKTUBES
W. S. WATSON,
AGENT,
OFFICE! 108 FOURTH AVE.
PITTSBURG, PA,
Works at OH City, Pa.
Correspondence Solicited.
Prices-on .licatiofu
;-
Seersucker Coats and Vests,
Mohair Coats and Vests.
Flannel Coats and Vests.
Serge Coats and Vests.
Drap'dete Coats and Vests.
Alpaca Coats and Vests.
Blazers ' ;
In all colon and qualities. .
White and Fancy Vests.
Mohair and Linen Dusters, eld .
Our line Is complete. v !
Lowest prices guaranteed. t .
Closing-out sale of our entire spring aal ''3k
summer stocK of Men's, Touths, Boys andvSf
Children's Clothing.
Mall orders . receire prompt and caxef al " "' '
attention.
m.oppenheTmer&co.,
811 PENN AVE.
WHOLESALE EXCLTJSTVEL7.
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