r &? '. S 'I 20 A STR1GEQUTGAST, Bis Weazen Face Was That of an Old Han While His Body Was That of a Boy of 16. MASTER OP ENGLISH AXD FRENCH, And Apparently Devoted to His Kescncr From the Fate of a Stowaway on a Craft in Indian Seas. IET EE WAS THE BLACKEST TRAITOR. Imrtlcref Lieutenant Mason W. Smfeldt's Experiences In His World Wanderings. IWEITTEK FOE THE DISr.A.TCa.3 J?or 3,000 trackless miles the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean sweeps from the narrow Sunda Straits to where, green-hilled, the lonely island of Mauri tins rises from unfath cmed depths. If o ocean in the world presents to the mariner such an equal fctretch of haven less water. In the crowded channels of the stormy Atlantic the companionship of an other and often many sail in s:ght is of daily occurrence to the trav eler across the ocean; in the tjreat Pacific, too, the surface of the peace ful sea is dotted with countless isles and archipelagoes and crossed ly the great ih:ghwr.vs of commerce 331 ' - -to the Orient and to rnaldo. Australia. A glance at a man of tho Intern world will show the Indian Sea can claim no s'ich advantages as are possessed by its two liig brothers. If a straight course be draxn from the Sosthcra extremity of Java to Jlauntius in tho East Indian Ocean between the parallels of about b to 2QO south latitude, a distance of 3,000 miles, it will be seen that this line inter sects no land of any character (save tho rocky, uninhabited psak llodriquc) till the Sugar Island of England stands solitary fcentinel off the coast of Great Madagascar. leunlless at Singapore. It is a dreary lonely voyage to those to whom the novelty of ocean travel has long since lost its freshness. But withal a peaceful voyage, tith steady, warm winds of tropic trades, with blue and cloudless Ekics and bluer, almost unruffled water. It vas my fortune once, some lisf dozen years ago, to find myself stranded and almost penniless, in that hot and dusty outpost of ihe British East Indian Empire. Singapore. I was endeavoring in some way to reach the coat of distant Madagascar, without uioncv and friendle-s. Absolute necessity and the dailv inroads that the expenses of he mean est of tailor bearding house-, made upon my scanty purse at la-t drove me to wandering, hour after hour, about the shipping wharves and to tit m gloomy dejection in tha tar emelling rooms of ship chandler shops. At lost a little luck came to me in the shape of a small, hairv, Scottish skipper who commanded a little Australian brig, then lying in the outer harbor and loading for Mauritius. We soon struck a bargain; he wanted a mate to his 300-ton ship and to his crew of seven men, oaelascarand one Chinaman snoli and I wanted a cheap pas sage somehow across the Indian Ocean to funds and to friends. How Mauritius Appears. Bo one brilliant tropical day we got up our rusty anchors and steered down and along the high verdure-clad shore of Sumatra through the Banca and the Sunda Straits, and hauled up to the eastward and across the Indian Sea. Fifty-eight davs after this, one dark and stormy night, lor the southwest monsoon was freshly blowing, the little vessel rushed by the rocky peak of A krene on Mauritius. the Itodnque and steered away for Mauritius. In three days more there rose from out the ocean, bclore our weary eyes, the green and lovely hills of that fairest gem on the besom of any sea Mauritius. It is a queer place, this Port Loius, the capital Kcstlcd in the lap of lofty mount ains, towering, cloud-capped on every side, it sleeps in hot and lazy peace. Yellow, green blind houses glare in the tropical sun ut one another across narrow and crooked Etrects. Dusty "tatues of long since dead 5"rcnch Lcnitancs stand mutely protecting here and there bronze lountains, long since dry, with dusty mermaids gazmg down at dusty basins m the parks, long rojvs of tumble down chicles of every shape and make in the public squares; now and then a lofty, pretentious building with many peo ple coming in and out sugar warehouses; occasionally a little bustle on the wharves, where some new arrival "hauls in," and with much shouting and profanity in all manner of languages, is finally lashed to her sisters ut the docks. But above all a relent less sun by day and a sultry starlit sky by night. IJTo on the Mountain Sides. But in the country up the mountain sides and on the groat estates of the sugar plant ers all the surrounding cf the musty. tleepy town are changed. Here are great one-storv rambling houses built at the end of broja lanes lined on both sides' by the giant trunks of the Mauritius palm. Hero are great piazzas whose pillars are entwined by thick aud sweet-smelling vines. Here are glorious lawns blushing in the thousand glows of tropical flowers. Here in tho day, in cool and woody rambles the traveler feels no sense of the heat of the sun overhead, nor at night when the mountain winds come perfumed rustling through thick foliage. A life of case, of comfort, of rest and in dolence! Sis weeks of it almost taught me to forget and to repent of t'ie object I had in view, and that had drawn me to the beau tiful islar.d. Day by day the difficulties incre. scd a- to rciclung Madagascar. The French had long since bombarded Tamatan and taken possession of that seaport. Their naval lorcc on the Western coast had been largely augmented, and their cruisers strict ly blockaded all the small Malagasy trad ing ports for 700 miles. Trade with the creat island and Mauritius was practically dead: all communication had ceased, except "very occasionally when some daring dealer k r 3a mlJ&M I $ fill gasaT :' in cotton goods risked a schooner load to some more southern port. Couldn't Find a Companion. I Iu all the difficulties that 'encountered me I from the first moment of my landing at JL'ort .Louts there was none tent concemcq me more than securing the help of some able-bodied companion; one to whom I could talk and who could converse with me and the Malagasy as well some one who knew something of Madagascar; of the Country, the people, and how best to avoid all those danger with which -my cars had been filled since first I made known mv de sign. I had freely ndertisedin the little French weekly paper published in Port Louis. My host in the couMry, too, had let it be widely known about the island. The natural consequence followed. I had for the first few days a host of applicants. And such applicants! Adventurers, broken down speculators, castaways from ships and the riff-raff of a floating, half-creole, half English population. one suited me. I did not ecc a single face that I felt I could trust in so long and dangerous an adventure. Pinally I gave it up and decided to proceed alone. Mean while I had arranged by half-charter, with a Trench gentleman on the island to go over to Madagascar and help land a cargo of cotton goods with which a little vessel he owned nad long been loaded. The day came at last for her sailing and having all my goods aboard, I bid farewell to my kind friends in Mauritius and set sail for the coast of The Great African Island. I was practically alone. I knew no one in the motley crowd that peopled the deck of the schooner. The captain was a French crcole of villainous countenance. He spoke a little brokcif Enslish, but surly, overbear ing and cruel. The crew consisted of four men, all Creoles, who spoke only bad French. The ' dozen passengers were all French people of the lowest caste, taking their chance again in a country from which they had been driven by the Malagasy. In the week's passage to the coast I would sit for hours on the roof of the little low house on deck, buried in my own reflections; talking for days to no one, aud finding no solace in the certainty now of the desperate adventure I had undertaken. One morning I hand a shout from forward and saw some of the crew leaning over the schooner's rail and pointed eagerly down at the sea. I walked forward and looked over. A largo school of dolphins were sporting in the foam that the bluff bows of the vessel made. Two or three of tho men got lines and com menced to fish with hooks baited with pieces of rag. Presently one of them crawled out on the short bowsprit to get a better cliance. The jib had been hauled down, as the schooner was sailing "wing in wing" before the wind. The sail lay in a tumbled heap upon the spar. The sailor reached it and sat down. Ho commenced to unwind his line when Suddenly lie Gave a Shriek dropped his tackle in the sea and sprang up the stay. He pointed frantically at the jib and screamed for the captain. My friend with the villainous face first let loose a vol ley of horrible profanity at the frightened sailor, then he got over the bows himself and climbed out on the bowsprit. The sailor joined him, and they both began to loose the e&rss Heady for an Attack. jib. Presently there was a shout and a curse, and from out the folds of the sails the two men dragged and held between them the oddest specimen of living humanity I had ever seen. They pulled liim over the bows and let him drop heavily on the deck. All the crew ana passengers crowded around, myself with the foremost. The stowaway (for such he evidently was), rose slowly and stiffly to his feet and looked about'him. His face was the face of a full grown man ol 40; his body and limbs those of a boy of 15. His hair was thick, black and curly; his complexion very dark and, swarthy and his eyes black as coal. His face" was devoid ot any hair, hut with many wrinkles around the mouth and forehead. He wore a dirty shirt of blue flannel that hung in wrinkles about his diminutive fig ure. He was not more than five feet in height. He glanced at us all and smiled blankly. Narrowly Escaped a Threshing. "Who are you? Where do you come from, you dog?" sputt-ered 'out the captain shaking him roughly. He turned his eyes toward him and with the same bland smile, answered, in the purest French, "From Mauritius, captain; I am going to Mada- fascar; my parents are there at Mahanoro. will not disturb you if if, but alas I am hungry if you will please give me to eat." A torrent of questions followed, and the fierce captain had snatched up a piece of rope to strike with, shouting at him, "You viper! You stowawayl I'll teach you a better trick than that." To all of which this odd being only answered with his black eyes and bland smile, and repeating gently, "Alas, if but you would give me to eat." I put out my hand and touched him on the shoulder". ""Come aft, lad I'll see what Icau do for you." So I was introduced to my fnture friend, guide and interpreter. I took him down into the little cabin and got out some potted meat and crackers with a lump of cheese, I told him kindly to pitch in. He did with out a word and ate with the voracity of a hungry animal. I waited patiently till he had finished. He stood more steadily on his feet then and gazed long at me wonder ingly with his black eyes. I waited for him to speak. He did presently in a voice as deep as that of a grown person, but to my utier astonishment in most excellent English. lie Made a "Willing Servant. "Thank you, sir; you are very, very good and kind. I will serve you." And he quickly put away the tins of meat and bread from whence he had seen me take them. After that, our acquaintance ripened rapidly. In the few days that remained be fore our schooner dropped anchor off the little Malagasy village of Mahonoro, in Southeastern Madagascar, I had learned much of the story of his life, at least as much as he may have deemed advisable to' ten me. He was born, so he said, in Port Louis, of a xrcncn ureole lather and an English mother. The former w as the overseer of a large sugar plantation in Mauritius and the latter the governess of the several children of an English officer stationed on the island. He had been the only child when his En glish mother died of the fever ten years ago. He had been sent first to a French school at Port Louis for awhile, and afterward to a Jesuit college at Bourbon, the adjacent French island. His father had remarried and gone with his Creole wife to Madagascar to start a sugar plantation. He soon learned that he hod been purposely deserted by his father, so he had worked his way in a little coasting vessel from Bourbon to Mauritius, pnd had lived, God knows how (for he only came out at night, he said), for eight months in the streets of Mauritius. Companion in a Dreary March. Hearing of our schooner, he had stowed himself away the night before we Bailed, and had eaten nothing till he had been found. That was all his story. So he went with me through the vast, dim forests of Eastern Madagascar toward the capital of the Queen. In the middle of tha Tear 1884 JC .reached, -with my-party, Antanarivo, the wmmmM THE Capital City of interior Madagascar, and for six following weeks I remained the guest of the Hova Queen. Kanavolona III. In nil those many dreary days, made often the sad der still by the deaths or desertion of my party, by forest fever, by long exposure and the innumerable disheartening incidenta of travel in an unknown and .barbarous coun try, from the far coast to the upland interior, "Kinaldo" (as I called him), the cast away, was my ever faithful companion. He followed mv every action, every look, every gesture. He paid me the most implicit obedience always, and forestalled my every unexpressed wish. His oldish wrinkled face lit up always with the same bright smile when I addressed him. His cheery voice, in good old English, came to my ears amid the jibbering of half a thousand naked men like cool water to the thirsty palate. His devotion to me was the blind devotion of animal to human. He would sleep nowhere but in front of my tent at night, or trot by 'mv side the long weary way through the forest belt Inspired Awe in the Natives. He exercised a peculiar sway with natives who accompanied us, though he spoke not their language. He excited a certain awo among them as much bv his peculiar physi cal appearance as anything else. We were traveling in the country of the Beteimas araka, a degraded and vindictive race and steeped in all the lowest beliefs of sav agery and fetishness. I often at sly mo ments studied this peculiar creature's face. When in repose it expressed little, and I have tried to picture to myself how such a head would look upon another body, or such a body with a younger head. Then the combination in Kinaldo would suddenly force itself upon me again, and I could have shouted with laughter at the odditv of things but for the earnest, honest look of love and" reverence for me I could see "creep into his black eyes when he caught my glance at him. At the end of our ttay at the capital, in the fall of 1884, 1 started at the head of a native expedition of nearly 400,souls to reach the west coast of Madagascar. Kinaldo accompanied me. His devotion for me became more and more marked each dav, both while we were in Antanarivo and the terrible toward the sea. journey Something "Was Wrong. In somewhat over a month our party found ourselves in the heart of the Western or Sakalara district, the country of a totally barbarous, cruel and savage race. By con stant desertions and deaths our once small army had dwindled to a handful of men and women, and food was scarce. We wero many, many miles from the coast. Our sit uation grew daily more hopeless, and I was full of a dull foreboding and anxiety. Little by little I noticed too that the natives about mf showed in many ways discontent and insubordinatiou. Slowly I began to understand that, for some unknown reason, they hod lost both fear and respect for me. The crisis came rapidly. One morning I rose much earlier than was my custom. I came out from my tent in the very early morning light. To my aston ishment I did not find Binaldo at my door, as had been his invariable custom, and I saw that the campflres, that generally died out during the night, were all burning brightly and surrounded by groups of natives. I knew both the value of caution as well as of action with the rude people who surround ed me. I went back into the tent and armed myself; then, on coming out, stepped cautiously around and behind the cauras into the woods behind the native camp. Noiselessly I trod the forest path till I got within a lew rods of the nearest blazing fire. Twenty naked men were standing about it, gesticulating and talking wildly one to another. Kinaldo TTas a Sakalara. I could not of course understand them, but I was sure that several stanger faces were amongst them. I looked closer my heart almost stopped beating they were in deed strangers they were Sakalara and not my party. There were zO lires burning in the clearing. How many Sakalara? Oh, where was Kinaldo? If he was only here! Y hat should 1 do. J. turned again to the fire. Suddenly there was a Etir about it and a figure joined the group of natives. My eyes fairly started from their sockets my blood seemed to cease flowing in my veins '$. doubted the vision God had given me for there in the light of the early dawn, stood Kinaldo; not the "ttowaway" Kinaldo that I had rescued and befriended, but 'the dark and naked Kinaldo the Sakalara. He was talking vehemently to the excited natives about him in the native tongue, the one he had sworn to me he did not know a syllable of. In a whirl of surprise,of horror, of fear, I knew not what, I got back to my tent and fell heavily on the blankets. When I aroused myself, the sun was up, the bustle of early preparation for the march was in the camp, and Kinaldo was wrapped in his blanket at my tent door. I had made up my mind what to do. I stepped over him and out into the open air. Kapidly I mustered a dozen of the most trusty of those who had come all the way from the east coast with me. One or two of these understood a little English and had always been faithful and true. I harangued them excitedly of the Sakalara and of the cer tainties that I had of an attack this day. Soon I had them As Excited as Myself and by a hundred native ways they'tried to convince me of their valor and integrity. I had to trust them, and I gathered them in a knot near my tent. The rest of my party collected in groups about wondering and chattering as only the Malagasy can. Of Kinaldo fkad said nothing. I intended to see lulu, x threw bacK the nap oi my tent and touched him lightly aB I entered. I sat down on the grassy floor as he came in. "Sit down, Kinaldo," I tried to gay calmly. He did it wonderingly. "Kinaldo," I said, "we have been long friends. I found you a waif an outcast a stowaway. I fed you clothed you cared for you. You know the story. This early morning I saw not Kinaldo, the outcast, but who? the Sakalara!" He said nothing, but rose slowly to his feet. "Open that tentt sir!" He did so. I raised my hand slowly. "Go!" I said. The same wrinkled, oldish face. The same soft, pleading look in the coal black eyes, the same bland and childish smile upon his lips; he turned but an instant to me, then dropped the flap, walked slowly across the forest open, and was lost forever in the gloom of the mighty wood. I never saw him again. But one of the greatest puzzles of my varied life still re mains unanswered in my brain. Who was this oddest of odd creatuies, and what the late of this last of "outcasts?" Masox W. Shufeldt, Lieutenant IT. S. K. Previous to July 4 There will lie an explosion of prices on good clothing at our store. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we will offer some of the biggest bargains to thepnblic that ever were heard of. We will sell 1,300 men's fine Bedford cassimere suits, sizes 34 to 42, made up in sacu or cutaway style, lormer price 512 and? 14, now reduced to. .57 75 1,200 men's fine cheviot and tweed suits, light checks and neat plaids, just the thing for summer wear, made in cutaway or sack style, former price 518 and S20, reduced now to. . 9 00 P. C. C C., Pittsburg Combination Cloth ing Company, comer Grant and Diamond streets. Pittsburg and Lake Erie Ballroad. Through sleeping cars to the Thousand Islands leave Pittsburg daily at 9:45 p. m., arriving at Buffalo 6:20 A. M., Rochester 11:30 a. si., Syracuse 125 P. m. and Clayton 5:30 p. 2L Excursion to Atlantlo City Next Thursday, July 2, via the B. & O. K. Kate flO the round trip. K. The Strike Will not prevent you from looking at our complete stock of wall papers. Jons S. Kobebts, 414 Wood street. HAX07XK awsinn at MamauxJfcSon's. .sWPesaamaoe. Telephone 1872. PJTTSBTIRG, DISPATCH; Tho event of this woek,ln local Grand Army circles will be tho visit to Rankin Post No. 127 at Boston, Pa.,on Tuesday even ing. The post will bo Inspected by Assist ant Inspector at Large O. M. Head, of Post 253, and a detail from the Pittsburg and All o ghony posts will exemplify tho muster-In service. Following is the make up of tho detail: Commander, A. C. Frank, Post 151: Senior Vice Commander, I. K. Becker, Post 239; Junior Vice Commander, A. K. Oates, Post 41; Officer of the Day, Frank Calhoun, Post 157; Officer of tho Guard, John Brown, Post 157; Chaplain, C. K. Shepler, Post 153; Sur geon, W. H. Hart, Post 8; National staff, W., O. Kussell, Post 151; National staff. L. S. Houghton, Post 117: Department staff, O. S. Mclfwalne, Post 157: Department staff, Fred Buecnler, Post 128; Department staff.Thomas G. Sample, Post 128; Department staff.Georgo Smith, Post.206; Department staff, X. S. Eoes, Post 137. It is expected that quite a numher of local comrades will accompanv tho detail. All comrades are Invited. Posts 53, McKee port; 181. BraddOck; 207, Homestead; 323, West Elizabeth, and 564, Dravosburg, will nil be well represented. Tho train from tho city will leave tho Pittsburg and Lake Erlo Ballroad at 6.-23 p. M. Post 127, though small, is one of the most active and prosperous In the department. It owns its building at Boston. The visiting comrades will not bo sent away hungry on Tuesday night as an adequate collation will be prepared. TVriy They Were Not at the Meeting. The Blimness of the Grand Army Day Com mittee meeting yesterday a week ago has been in part explained. A number of com rades got as far as the door of Municipal Dall and then turned hack. It will be re membered that the Saturday in question was the first one on which the City Ball em ployes were allowed the Saturday half holi day, and that the big front doors were locked. The members of the committee who reached the meeting entered the build ing through the room of the Department of Publio Safety, to tho right of tho corridor. Among those misled by the oloslng of the doors was Comrade A. P. Burchfleld, Chair man Thomas G. Sample and Comrade H. II. Bengough. A comrade should have been posted in the corridor to direct those who did not know the way. This oddly prevented attendance of comrades will not likely occur again. At the next meeting of the commit tee Saturday afternoon, July 11, tho unin itiated comrades should not forget tho "lit tle side door." Silver Anniversary In Post 1G3. A man's home is his castle, It is said. "When in its inclosure protection is afforded its in mates. But such was not tho caso with the abode of a war-scarred veteran last Monday night After a well-planned movo the stronghold was attacked, and aftor a severe storm and a scaling of the heights, it was surrendered to the Invaders without loss on either side. Tho object of tho attack was to surprise a prominent member of Post 162 ana ills estimable wito, comrade and Airs. "W. T. Bradberry. who had reached their twenty-flfth wedding anniversary. The event w as celebrated in a most happy manner on Monday night. The surprise party took along an orchestra and provisions and tho fun was not long in commencing. Among the 40 or 50 present were Comrade A. P. Burchfleld and wife, Comrade H. C Baer and wife, Comrade Thomas Bradberry and wife, Comrade George, Lacock and wife. Comrade Anschutz, wife and sister, and Comrade Graham and wlfo. Army of the Potomac The twenty-second reunion of the Society of the Army of the Potomao will commence at Buffalo, N. Y., next Friday, when there will be, in the morning, corps meetings; in the afternoon an excursion on Lake Erie and Niagara river, and in the evening pub lic exercises at Music Hall. The oration will ho delivered by Major General Henry "W. Slocum, of Brooklyn. There will bo a grand Illumination of the principal streets and the Soldjers' Monument and memorial arches with incandescent lights on Friday ovening. On Saturday, tho Fourth of July, there will be a grahd parade of the National Guard, Grand Army, lire department, eto. This will be followed by a brigade drill at the Park Parade. Excursions will be run to Niagara Falls, 20 miles distant. At 8 o'clock Saturday evening the banquet will be held in Musio Hall. A. number of vory prominent com rades are expected to attend the reunion. Addresses Wanted. Through Department Headquarters the following addresses are asked for: Edwin Blake, late private Company E, One Hun dred and Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania Vol unteers, by Abraham Wanger, "West Chester, Pa. Any person who knew William Hcin, of Conjpany I, Soventy-fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers, who was wounded at Freed man's Ford, Va., August 22, 1852, by Mrs. Ann M. Heln, Ruth street, Thirty-socond ward, Pittsburg, Pa. Any person who know Aug ust Meyer, Company D, Soventy-fourth Pennsylvania volunteers, by A. V. Forenger, Mt. Holly, N. J. The address of John Pow ell, Battery B, First Independent Light Ar tillery, wno eniistea at rort deposit, Aid., m Cantaln Snow's comuanv, Any one who rho served in a knew George Leslie .Dixon, who served in a Pennsylvania regiment. Address of Samuel Van Uusklrk, Company rliKf.... .i.t.i Adjutant Post No. 150, Stroudsburg, Pa. Chicago and the Encampment of '03. George H. Thomas Post, No. 5, usually In the lead in everything, has now several com mendable and important schemes on hand. It is generally understood that the national encampment of 1S93 will be held in Chicago, and that tho Cook county posts will oe called upon to entertain visitors and com rades from nearly all parts of the United States, and a committee of ways and means has ieen appointed to provido a programme for such geneious hospitality as the post may decide to oxtend. Chicago 'lmes. Grand Army Knapsack. Comrade Fred Tyhubst was welcomed back into Post 230 last Friday night. Comrades Hugh Morrison aud Hanmnm Gray, of Post 88, are regaining their health. CAPTAnr James Thomtsoh, of Post 88. waa reported sick at the meeting lost Tuesday night. "WrtLiAM Pars was mustered into Post 153 last Friday evening, and two application were considered. Post 157 had a short session last Thursday. After adjournment the comrades boomed the Detroit uiuo. Post 151 had a good meeting last Tuesday evening despite the hot weather. One ap plication waa read. Tns Idea of Comrades Pension Ageut Bengough, Thomas G. Sample and A P. Burchfleld missing that side doorl Comrade E. CoiaaiAjr, Company E, Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania Kegiment, was mustered into Post 88 last Tuesday evening.- Comrade Sheets, of Post 236, who has been sick for some time, was at his post meeting Friday night and received a warm -welcome. Comrade Charixs V. Lewis has been In vited to go to Youngstown on the Fourth of July to help defeat the enemy in tho sham, battle. Comrade Pehsioit Aoekt Bejtqouou an nounces that the Pension Office clerical force has been fixed for the next fiscal year, commencing Jnly 1. The comrades of Captain John W. Morri son, of Post 83, are greatly pleased over hia prospects of securing the Republican nomi nation for State Treasurer. The large Exposition building In Detroit in which many thousands of comrades will be quartered during the Encampment has been named Camp Sherman In honor or tha wuh una i nvt tha j General. lHJecoi3nlcfEort W-wfll SUNDAY,- JTTKE v 28, cupy Pullman cars as quarters while at the encampment as was anticipated. Comrade W. J. ltterson wrote last week in order to secure quarters for tho club. Post 155's production of the "Hunohback" at Maennerehor Hall, Mt. Washington, on Thursday, July 9, and at the Bijou Theater on Friday.July 10, promises to he an artistic success. The cast of characters will be pub ' lishedln this column next Sunday. Airr person wh"o is acquainted with the service of William Smith, who served in "Deem's Company. Department Corps.Ponn sylvania Infantry," can confer a favor on a fioor widow by addressing Comrade J. M. "Private") Dalzell, Caldwell, O. Post 162 had a visitor from San Francisco at the meeting last night a week in tho per son of Comrade Amborson. He was a bugler in the artillery. Ho entertained the com rades by giving the different bugle calls, singing and playing tho organ, which he did vory nicely. The comrades of Youngstown will havo a glorious time on tho Fourth-of July.- Uhdor the auspices of Todd Post No. 29 a great cel ebration will take place at tho fair grounds. Among the various Interesting features will he a fierce sham battle. Some of the com rades here will likely attend. Post S36 has completed its arrangements for tho trip to Detroit. Tho party will go to Cleveland over the Pennsylvania lines in two private eoaohes, and from there will take the lake steamer line to Detroit. Anjr friends of the post who desire to take the trip with tne comrades snouia appiy to com rade Thomas G. Jones or Comrade John Thomas. Department Comkakder Boyeb says in general orders: "Complaints charging per sons with wearing the Grand Army hntton who are not entitled to that privilege are be coming quite frequent. Persons so offending against the laws of tha State Should be re ported to the commander of the post, and action taken toward havfnir the guilty parties arrested and punished." Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of Cen sus, desires to get detailed information of the military services of such survivors of the war as were overlooked or have reason to believe they were overlooked by the enumerators in Juno. Such comrades should send the required information as all are in terested in making the statistics of the liv ing soldiers as perfect as possible. Tbe principal topic of the comrades of Post 88 last Tuesday night was the Detroit trip. Three Pullman sleeping cars one la section and two 11-section have been se cured by the post3. The cars will be side tracked on Twelfth streot, Detroit, during the encampment, and will bo used as quart ers by the post's party. The route will be over the Pittsburg and "Western and Wheel ing and Lake Erie Ballroads. Tee first anniversary of the Soldiers' "Wid ows Home, established at Hawkins station hy tho Ladles of the G. A B., was celebrated on Friday afternoon and ovening. A large number of Grand Army comrades, ladles of the G. A. R. and others attended. Addresses were delivered by different comrades. There was much music, vocal and instrumental. Dinner and supper wero served by the la dies. The home has ten Inmates at present. Areanoemehts have been made with tha Pennsylvania, the Allegheny Valley and the Buffalo, Boohester and Pittsburg Bailroad Companies by which areducod rate of one fare for the round trip will bo charged com rades attending the semi-annual encamp ment at "Williamsport in July. It will he necessary to obtain card orders from depart ment headquarters upon which to purchase tickets. Time limit of tickets will be good going July 10 to 15 and returning until July The Woman's Belief Corps, auxiliary to the G. A. B., will bo assembled in annual convention in this city at the same time as the national encampment. This organiza tion consists of 100,000 loyal women, who aro" doing a great and noble work. They are women of superior ability, highlyintolli gent and cultivated. The local W. B. O. Committee on Accommodations has been diligent in providing suitable and conven ient places for tho entertainment of theso ladies, and Is meeting witli success in tho undertaking. Detroit Free Press. Post S's Detroit Arrangement Committee issued a circular last week earnestly re questing comrades "to attend to-morrow night's meeting, at which final arrange ments for the trip to Detroit, August 8 to 8, will be made. All comrades who propose to attend must hand in. their slips on or before the above date, accompanied by a deposit to show that they Intend to go, otherwise hotel -ATT TASTE, COMFORT ID ECONOMY I The Midsummer Sale at Keech's embraces the finest assorted lines of Parlor, Bedroom, Hall, Library and Kitchen Furniture ever shown in this city. Suitable for every grade of House Furnishing, from Cottage to Palace. Goods sold with advantage to the customer, delivered promptly, and for either Cash' or Credit A visit to the Big Penn Avenue Stores is sure to profit you, for you save money in every department We've Gil A SQUARE. DEAL IN A SQUARE hUKNUUKfc. Uur im mense stock must go, and that quickly. In addition to the attract ive bargains in Parlor and Chamber Suites, Keech is offering at telling prices Sofas, Couches, Easy Chairs, Rockers of handsome and artistic designs and best workmanship, rich ly upholstered in Silk, Mohair, Plush, Brocatelle and Leather. Models of taste, style and refined ejegance. LOW PRICES. CASH OR CREDIT. Theention att of the Ladies is called to the fact that on the fourth floor we have fitted up a handsome "Dark Room" for displaying Draperies, Carpets and Curtains by artificial light This is the only establishment in the city that gives you an opportunity of judging properly how your Carpets will light up, and how the colors will stand the artificial light of gas or electricity. Make a note of this: Perhaps you have been disappointed at some time in your selection. There's no fear of that at Keech's. Glad to see you even if you are not yet prepared to buy. It's well to select now, if you can, for it's a slaughter sale of Housefurnishings. A Fine New Stock of Reliable Household Goods, ? .AFFORDING IMMENSE VARIETY. WILL B& CLOSED 1891 accommodations wlUnot be reserved for them. Comrades accompanied bv their ladles and children will he assigned to rooms on the lower floor of the hotel. Every thingwill be done by the committee to make the trip pleasant and agreeable. The train will be under the entire charge of tbe com mittee, and no one will be permitted to ride pn it oxceptthose holding tickets from them, and they will see that the cars are not overcrowded. Comrades having friends not members of tho G. A. B, who desire to ac company tho post to Detroit will notify the committee at once, so arrangements can be made for them." Union Veteran Legion. Comrade J. F.Caldwell, of No. 6, has been visiting his family at New Wilmington. Law rence county. Comrade Hooh Morrison, of No. 6, though far from being well, being confined to his home, is on the convalescent list. Comrade Perrt, of No. 6, residing near Castlo Shannon, was in the city last week on pension matters. He is badly crippled. Quartermaster McCLELLAiro.of No. 6,is an old granger, and he is going out to his farm In Butler county this weokto see the con dition of tho fences. Ex-Colosel Commaitdkr C. M. Greet, of No. 6, lias got to be quite an oil man. He talks about bolts, lines, degrees, derricks, sand pumps, etc., like au old timer. At the last meotlng of No. 6 a search war rant was Issued for a few comrades who havo been non est for several months. Tho party serving tno warrants wiU be known as a collector. Some of the comrades of No. 6 aro consider ing tbe propriety of a basket ptcnio about tho middle of August. Tho main questions are whero to go, when to go and what to take. All this will be settled on soon. AVhether the officers of the Soldiers' Home at Erie do right in withholding 80 per cent of all pensions of inmates wa? ventilated at tho last meeting or No. 6, and will get some more airing at the next meeting. The pre vailing sentiment is that these pensioners should not he supported by the State and United States also. Awoifothe comrades who received pen sions last week, reported by J. If. Stevenson & Co., aro W. W. Alsbock, Company K, Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania; James S. Phil lips, Company B, Fourth Pennsylvania Cav alry; Robert Sirrls, Battalion G, Pennsyl vania Light Artillery: LerU Fritz, Company I, Sixty-seventh Pennsvlvanla: Ed. Kromer, Company E. One Hundred and Forty seventh Pennsylvania; Samuel Coulter, Com pany G.Ono Hundred and First Pennsyl vania: Peter Hoak, Company D, Sixth Penn sylvania Heavy Artillery Volunteers; James S. "Wilson, Company H, Seventy-eighth Penn sylvania; William Trimble, Company A, One Hundred nnd Thirty-fourth Pennsylvania; Lidce Bradlov. ComDany E. Eiirhth United States Colored Troops. Draw Yottr Own Conclusions HR-NO Tea is our notion of Tea. We have been in the busi ness long enough (since 1811 grandfather and grandsons) to know what tea there is in the world ; and we ought to know something of local tastes. We think it pays to sell what people will like. One pound is of no account We think of the pounds that come after. For sale by all grocers Send for our illustrated book about Tot, Free by mall. MARTIN GILLKT ft CO, EstaMhftrt isw.) J Exchange Place, Baltimore, Md. Nothing Stale or Ancient; Everything Bright, New, Modern, Stylish and at LOWEST PRICES. Prices Below Cost CARPETS and CURTAINS to choose from. Carpets of new and beautiful designs and colorings. Exclusive pattern Moquettes, Body and Tapestry Brussels, Ingrains, etc. Specially low prices at this week's sale. Great sacrifice of Remnants. Still a larger quantity to select from. China and Japan Mattings for warm weather. Curtains at almost your own price. THE LARGEST and BEST LINE EVER OFFERED. 923, 925, 927 PENN CASH OR JULY 4 SATURDAY. ALL NEW ADVERTISiaiENTS. f DID YOU EVER HEAR The story about two rival venders who were selling oint ment in a country town? One of them 'claimed that if a ' dog's tail was cut off his ointment would grow a new tail, but the other crushed him by declaring that his ointment applied to the cut off tail would grow a new dog. We cut off this tale right here to tell you that $25 placed in our hands will get you the best Suit made in America! One that will fit as though it growed on you 1 And our offer is not one whit less remarkable than the last man's tale or ointment, for we.give MERCHANT TAILOR-WADE SUITS ! For $12 00, that were originally made for from $25 to $30. For $15 00, that were originally made for from $30 to $40. For $20 00, that were originally made for from $40 to $45. For $22 50, that were originally made for from $45 to $55. For $25 00, that were originally made for from $55 to $65. Pantaloons at $2 50 that were made to order for $ 5 00. Pantaloons at $3 50 that were made-to order for $ 7 00. Pantaloons at $5 00 that were made to order for $10 00. Pantaloons' at $6 00 that were made to order for $12 00. Pantaloons at $8 00 that were made to order for $16 00. Garments received daily from the leading tailors of the United States. A perfect fit guaranteed in every instance. All alterations to improve a fit done free of charge. We Will Be Closed All Day Sat- urday, July 4. Next to Mellon's Bank. iraniNG! at Tlis tat fflsur Sale! DEAL IN A grand Refrigerators and Baby Coaches the most complete line of assortment AVENUE CREDIT. DAY. Opposite City Hall. JelSnasn r A SQUARE DEAL IN Keech shows Refriger ators in the two cities. Of course,buy inginsuch large quantities as we do, you get the benefit. Ice Boxes very cheap. All sizes. Our line of Baby Coaches is big enough to please the most exacting taste. Don't waste money on cheaply gotten up goods. When you buy of Keech you ARE SURE OF BEING SATISFIED. . Near Ninth Street -t .i -- . -- : 4i$kl
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