WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCn
BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN,
Author of "The Leavenworth Case," "Behind Closed Doors,
iorsaken Inn," Etc., Etc.
SYNOPSIS or PRECEDING NTJJIBERS. 9
A wandering rider finds a dc-erted stone house In New York State. The building is in
pood repair and completed all except the railing on tho staircase. An innkeeper 80 vears
old pives liim tlie written history of the houo and of the events of 50 vears before. Three
Jounsrnien, rjillo Adams. Orrm Day and Lemuel Phillips were in love with a young lady
named Juliet, w ho accepted the hand of Colonel Schuyler, the wealthiest man of the com
munity, on the condition tint he should build liera house to he her own. OrrinDay, when
lie finds that .lulier has accepted Colonel Schuyler, becomes excited and jealous and Juliet
fK&sPhllo Adam to keep company with Orrin o that ho and her fiancee shall not meet.
The stone houe is commenced lv Colonel Schuyler and Orrin watches its progress from
tlay to day. On a moonlight evening Oinn and Plnlo visit tho graveyard, and whilo
trcro witness a scene between Colonel Schuvlcr and Juliet. Colonel Schuyler
lins to 50 away on business and entreats Juliet to swenr that she will marry no
one e!o but linn. .She finally swear to be no one's wife but his, and to wed
1'lm when the houso is completed Colonel Schuvler depirts and Orrin disappears.
Philo. in the Colonel's absence, discovers lint Juliet loves Orrin. Colonel Sohnyler re
turn's and -forms bec-iu-e his liouse has not progressed rapidly during his absence. IIo
emplojs. more men and bids them hasten the work. Philo finds Orrin arter a search in a
liouc wlucli he i- building and which has been nearlv completed, and suspect- that ho is
Imildine it foi Jnliet, and that it t ill bo a race between the two men for her hand. Colonel
t-churler disoo ers that Juliet is premred to fly with someone else, and accuses Philo of
being the 0110 v ho is at the bottom of the trouble. Philo savs ho is not tho man, and
Colonel Schuvlcr ask. the name of his rival. Philo refuses to tell it, suggesting that the
Colonel ask Juliet. Colonel Schuyler says he has asked her, and that she refuses to
ccsn er. IIo then commands Philo to give liim tho name.
Co7itimtcd from last Saturday.
The Colonel is a man of power, accus
tomed to control men. I could not with
Hand his look or be unmoved by liis tones.
3f lie meant well to Orrin and to her, what
was I that I shonM withhold Orrin's name.
Talterincly I was about to speak it when a
Hidden sound struck my cars, and rising
impetuously I drew him to the window,
Wowing out the candles as I passed them.
"Hark!" I cried, as the rush ot pound
ing hoofs Mas heard on the road, and
"Look 1" I added, as a sudden fijnre swept
1y on the anting white hors-e so well
laiown by all in that town.
"Is it he?" whispered the dark figure at
jay side as we both strained our eyes after
Orrin's fast vanishing form.
Ton have seen him," I returned; and
flrawicg him back from the window, I
closed the shutters with care, lest Orrin
thoulcl be seized with a freak to return and
t'etect me in conference with his heart's
deadliest enemv.
Silence and darkness were now about us,
ncdtlie Colonel, as if anxious to avail him
self of the surrounding gloom, caught my
urm n I moved to relight the candles.
"Wait." said he; and I understood and
btopped sti'l.
And o we stood for a moment, he quiet
ns acarveu statue and I restless but obedi
ent to his wishes. "When he stirred I care
fully lit the candles, but I did not look at
i!a till he had donned his cloak and pulled
Us liat well over his eyes. Then I turned,
and eycinghim earnestly, said:
"III have made a mistake "
Hut lie qnicklr interrupted me, averring:
"You 3iae made no mistake. Yon are a
pood lad. I'liihi. and if it had been you "
lie did not say wh.it he would have done,
lint lelt the sentence incomplete and went
tin: "I know nothing of this Orrin Day,
hut "what a woman wills she must have.
"Will you bring this fellow he is your
lriend,"is he not" to Juliet's house in the
morning? Her father is set on her being
the mistress of the new stono house and we
iliree will have to reason with him, do you
tee?"
Astonished, I bowed with something
like awe. Was he so great-hearted
a3 this? Did he intend to give
up his betrothed to the man
wnom she loved, and even to plead her
ffluse with the father she feared. 'My ad
miration would hare its vent, and I uttered
EBBie foolish wordb of M-uipathr, which he
took with the statel, rather condescending
grace which tlay perhaps merited; after
which, he added again: "You will come,
will you not?" and bowed kindly and re
treated toward the door, while I, abashed
and worshipful, followed with protestations
that nothing should hinder ine from doing
his will till he had passed through the door
way and vanished from my sight.
And yet I do not want to do his will or
lake Orrin to tint house. I might hare
borne with sad equanimity to see her mar
ried to the Colonel, tor he is far abore me,
but to Orrin ah. that is a bitter outlook,
and I must hare been a fool to have prom
ised aught that will help to bring it about.
Ptill, I am not her sworn friend, and if sha
thinks she can be happy with him, ought
I not to do mv share toward making her so?
I wonder if'the Colonel knows that Orrin,
too, has been building himself a house?
I did not sleep last night, and I have not
eaten this morning. Thought robbed me of
tleep, and a visit irom Orrin effectually took
sway troni me whatever appetite I might
have had He came in almost at daybreak,
lie looked disheveled and wild, and spoke
liken mantw ho had stopped more than once
at the tavern.
"Philo," said he, "you hare annoyed me
by your curiosity for more than a year; now
vou can do me" a fin or. Will vou call at
Juliet's liouse and see if she is free to go
and come as she was a week ago?"
"Why?" I asked, thinking I perceived n
reason lor his bloodshot eye, and yet being
for the moment too wary, perhaps too un
generous, to relieve him irom the tension of
Ins uncertainty.
"Why?" he repeated. "Must you know
all that goes on in raj- mind, and cannot I
keep one secret to myself?"
"You ask me to do you a faror," I quietly
returned. "In order to do it intelligently,
I must know why it is asked."
"I do not see that," objected Orrin,
"and if you were not such a
boy I'd leave you on the spot and
do the erraud myself. I?ut vou mean
no harm, and so I will tell you that Juliet
and I had planned to run away together last
night, but though I was at the place of
meeting, she did not come, nor has she made
any sign to show me why she failed me."
"Orrin," I began, but'he stopped me with
an oath.
".No sermons," he protested. "I know
what you would have done if instead of
smiling on me she had chanced to give ull
Ler poor little heart to you."
"1 should not have tempted her to betray
the Colonel," I exclaimed hotly, perhaps
because the sudden picture he presented to
my imagination awoke within me such a
torrent oi unsuspected emotions. "Xor
should I have urged her to fly with me by
night and in stealth."
"You do not know what you would do,"
was his rude and impatient rejoinder. "Had
she looked at you, with tears in her arch yet
pathetic blue cj es, and listened while you
poured out your soul, as if heaven were
opening before her and she had no other
Ihought in life but you, then "
"Hush:" I cn.-d,""do roil want me to go
to her house for ou, or do you want me to
stay uw ay?"
"You know I want vou to go."
"Then be still, and "listen to what I have
to say. I will go, but you must go too. If
you "want to take Juliet away from the
Colonel you must do it openly. I will not
abet you, nor will I encourage any under
handed proceedings."
'You are a courageous lad," he said, "in
other men's affairs. Will yon raise me a
tomb if the Colonel runs me through with
liissword?"
"I at least should not ieel the contempt
for you which I should if you eloped with
licr bi-liiiicl Ins back."
"Now you arr courageous on Tour own
behali," laughed he, "and that is better
and more to the point." Yet he looked as
'The
if he could easily spit me on Ins own sword,
which I noticed was dangling at his heels.
"Will you come?" I urged; determined
not to conciliate or enlighten him even if
my forbearance cost me my life.
He hesitated, and then broke into a horse
laugh. "I hae drunk just enough to be
reckless," said he; "yes, I will go; and the
devil must answer for the result."
1 had never seen him look so little the
gentleman, and perhaps it was on this very
account I became suddenly quite eager to
take him at his word "before time and
thought should give him an opportunity to
become more like himself; for I could not
but think that if she saw him in this con
dition she must make comparisons between
him and the Colonel, which could not but be
favorable to the latter. But it was still
quite early, and I dared not run the risk of
displeasing the Colonel by anticipating his
presence, so I urged Orrin into that little
back parlor of mine, where I had once hoped
to 6ee a rerv different person installed, and,
putting wine and biscuits before him, bade
hira refresh himself, while I prepared my
self for appearing before the ladies.
When the hour came for us to go I went
to him. He was pacing the floor and trying
to school himselt into patience, but he made
but a sorry figure, nnd'I telt a twinge of
conscience as he thrust on his hat without
any attempt to smooth his dishevelled locks,
or rearrange his disordered ruffles. Should
I permit him to go thus disordered,
or should I detain him long
enough to fit him for the eye of the dainty
Juliet? He answered the question himself.
"Come," said he, "I have chewed my sleeve
long enough in suspense. Let us go and
have an end of it. If she is to be my wife
she must leare the liouse with me to-day, if
not, I have an hour's work before me down
yonder," and he pointed in the direction of
his new house. "When you see the sky red
at noonday, you will know what that is."
. "Orrin'" I cried, and for the first time I
sei7ed his arm with something like a iellow
ieeling. But he shook me off.
"Don't interfere with me," and strode
on, sullen and fierce, toward theplace
where such a different greeting awaited him
from any that he feared.
Ought I to tell him this? Ought I to say:
"Your sullenness is uncalled for and your
fierceness misplaced; Jnliet is constant, and
the Colonel means you nothing but good?"
Perhaps; and perhaps, too, I should
be a saint and know nothing of earthly
passions and jealousies. But I am
not. I hate this Orrin, hate him
more and more as erery step brings us
nearer to'julict's house and the fate await
ing him from her weakness and the
Colonel's generosity. So I hold my peace
and we come to her gate, and the reckless
ness that has brought him thus far abandons
him on the instant and he falls hack and
lets me go in several steps before him, so
that I seem to be alone when I enter the
house, and Juliet, who is standing in the
parlor between the Colonel and her father,
starts when she sees me, and breaking into
sobs, cries:
"Oh, Philo, Philo, tell mr father there is
nothing between us but what is friendly
and honorable; thatl I "
"Hushl" commanded the father, while I
stared at the Colonel, whose quiet, imper
turbable face was for the first time such a
riddle to me that I hardly heeded what the
elder man said. "You have talked enough,
Juliet, and denied enough. I will now
speak to Jlr. Adams and see what he has to
say. Last night my daughter, who, as all
the town knows, is betrothed to this gentle
man" and he waved his hand
deferentially toward the Colonel "was
detected by me stealing out of the garden
gate with a little packet on her arm. As
my daughter never goes out alone, I was
naturally startled, and presuming upon my
rights as her father, naturally asked her
where she was going. This question, simple
as it was, seemed to both terrify and un
nerve her. Stumbling back, she "looked me
wildly in the eye and answered, witli an
effrontery she had never shown me before,
that she was living to escape a hated mar
riage. That Colonel Schuylerhadreturned,
and as she could not be his wife, she was
going to her aunt's house, where she oould
live in peace without being forced upon a
man she could not love. Amazed, for I had
always supposed her duly sensible of the
honor which had been shown her by this
gentleman's attentions, I drew her into my
study and tljere, pulling off the cloak whicn
she held tightly drawn about her, I dis
covered that she was tricked out like a bride,
and had a whole bunch of garden roses
fastened in her breast. 'A prettv figure,'
cried I, for traveling. "You are
going away with some man, and
it is a runaway match I have inter
rupted.' She could not deny it, and just
then the Colonel came in and but we will
not talk about that. It remained for us to
find out the man who had led her to forget
her duty, and I could think of no man but
you. So I ask you now before my trembling
(laughter and this outraged gentleman if
you are this villain."
But here Colonel Schuyler spoke up
quietly and without visible anger: "I was
about to say when this gentleman's entrance
interrupted my words that I had been con
vinced overnight that our first suspicions
were false, and that Mr. Adams was, as
your daughter persists in declaring, simply
a somewhat zealous friend."
"But," hastily vociferated the old man,
"there has been no one else about my
daughter for months. If Mr. Adams is not
to blame for this attempted escapade, who
is? I should like to see the mau, and see
him s-aoding just there."
"Then look, and tell me what you think
of him," came with an insoleut'fierceness
from the doorway, and Orrin, booted and
spurred, with mud on his holiday hose, and
his hat still on his head, strode into our
niiiLt and confronted us all with an air of
such haughty defiance that it half robbed
him of his ruffianly appearance.
Juliet shrieked and stepped back, fasci
nated and terrified. The Colonel frowned
darkly, and the old man, who had seemed
by his words to summon him before us.
quailed at the effect of his words and look- ;
ing from the well-known but unexpected 1
limine urns iiiuuwuceu uuiung lis, iu me
Colonel who persistently avoided his gaze,
till the situation became unbearable, and I
turned about as if to go.
Instantly the Colonel took advantage of
i
the break and spoke to Orrin: "And so it
is to be you, sir, that I have to address the
few words J have to say?"
"Yrs, to him and me!" cried little Juliet,
and gliding from between the two natural
protectors of her girlhood she crossed the
floor and stood by Orrin's side.
This action, so unexpected and yet so
natural, took awav whatever -restraint we
had hitherto placed upon ourselves, and the
Colonel looked for a moment as if his self
control would abandon him entirely and
leave him a prey to man's fiercest and most
terrible passions. But he hasa strong soul,
and before I could take a step to
interpose myself between him and Juliet,
his face had recovered its steady aspect and
his hands ceased from their ominous trem
bling. Her father, on the contrary, seemed
to grow more ireful with every instant that
he saw her thus defiant of liis authority,
while Orrin, pleased with her courage and
touched, I have no doubt, by the loving
confidence of her pleading eyes, threw his
arm about her with a gesture of pride which
made one forget still more his disordered
and disheveled condition.
I said nothing, but I did not leave the
room.
"Juliet!" the words came huskily from
the angry father's lips, "come from that
man's embrace, and do not make) me shud
der that I ever welcomed the Colonel to my
dishonored house."
BUt the Colonel, putting out his hand,
said calmly:
"Let her stay; since she has chosen this
rerr honorable gentleman to be her hus
band, where better could she stand than by
his side?"
Then forcing himself still more to seem
impassire, he bowed to Orrin, and with
great suavity remarked: "If she had
chosen me to that honor, as I had
every reason to believe she had, it
would not hare been many more
weeks before I should have welcomed her
into a home befitting her beauty and her
ambition. May I ask if you can do as much
for her? Have vou a home for vour bride
in which I may look forward to paying her
If AYE YOU A HOME
the respects which my humble duty to her
demands?"
Ah then, Orrin towered proudly, and the
pretty Juliet smiled with something of her
old archness.
"Saddle your horse," cried the young
lover, "and ride to the east. If you do
not find a wee, fresh nest there, I am no
prophet What! steal ti wife and not have
a home to put her in!"
And he laughed until the huge brown
rafters above his head seemed to tremble,
so blithe did he feel, and so full of pride at
thus daring the one great mau in the town.
But the Colonel did not laugh, nor did he
immediatelv answer. He had evidently not
heard of tlie little cottage beyond both
thicket and stream, and was consequently
greatly disconcerted. But just when we
were all wondering what held him so re
strained, and what the words were which
should break the now oppressive silence,
he spoke and said:
"A wee nest is no place for the lady who
was to have been my wife. If you will
have patience and wait a month she shall
have the home that has been reared for her.
The great stone house would not know any
other mistress, and therefore it shall be
hers."
"No, no," Orrin began, aghast at such
generosity. But the thoughtless Juliet,
delighted at a prospect which promised her
both splendor and love, uttered such a cry
of joy that he stooped abashed and half
angry, and turning upon her, said: "Are
you not satisfied with what I can give you,
and must you take presents from the man
you have affected to despise?"
"But, but, he is so good," babbled out
the inconsiderate little thipg, "and and I
do like the great Etone house, and we could
be so happy in it, just like a king and
queen, if if "
She had the grace to stop, perhaps because
she saw nothing but rebuke in the faces
around her. But the Colonel, through
whoso voice ran in spite ot himself an icy
vein of sarcasm, observed, with another of
his low bows:
"You shall indeed be like king and
queen there. If you do not believe me,
come there with me a month hence, and I
will show you what a disappointed man can
do for the woman he has loved." And
taking by the arm the old man who with
futilo rage had tried more than once to
break into this ominous conversation, he
drew him persuasively to his side, and so
by degrees from the room.
"Oli," cried Juliet, as the door closed
behind them, "can he mean it? Can he
mean it?"
And Orrin. a little awed, did not reply,
but I saw by his face and bearing that
whether the Colonel meant it or not was
little to him; that the cottage beyond the
woods was the destined home of his bride,
and that we must be prepared to lose her
from our midst, perhaps before the month
was over which the Colonel had bidden
them to wait.
I do not know through whom Dame
Gossip became acquainted with yesterday's
events, but everywhere in town people are
laying their heads together in wonder over
the jilting of Colonel Schuyler and the
unprecedented magnanimity which he
has shown in giving . his new
house to the rebellious lovers. If Z have
been asked one question to-day, I have been
asked fifty, and Orrin, who flies into a great
rage at the least intimation that he will ac
cept the gift which has been made him,
spends most of his time in asserting his in
dependence, aud the firm resolution which
he has made to owe nothing to the gener
osity of the man he 1ms treated with such
unquestionable baseness. Juliet keeps
very quiet, but from the glimpse I caught
of her this afternoon at her casemeet, I
judge that the turn of affairs has had a very
enlivening effect upon her beauty. Her
eyes fairly sparkled as she saw me; and
with something like her old joyous aban
donment of manner, she tore off a branch of
the flowering almond at her window and
tossed it with delicious laughter atmyfeet.
Yet though I picked it up and carried it for
a few steps beyond her gate, I soon dropped
it over the wail, for her sparkle and her
laughter hurt me, and I would rather have 1
seen her Ies3 joyous ana a litue more sensi
ble 0 the ruin she had wrought.
For she has wrought ruin, as any one can
see who looks at the Colonel long enough to
note his eye. For though he holds himself
erect and walks proudly through the town,
there is that in his look which makes me
tremble and hold my own w eak complain
ings in check. He has been up to his house
to-day, aud when he came back there was
not a blind from one end ot the street to
the other but quivered when he went by,
so curious are the women to see him whom
they diiuot but itel lias merited all the
sympathy if not homage of their sex.
lialph Urphistone tells ine to-night that
the workmen at the new house have been
offered extra-wages if they put the house
into habitable condition by the end of the
month.
For all his secret satisfaction Orrin is
very restless. He has tried to induce' Juliet
to marry him at once, and go with him
to the little cottage he has raised for her
comfort, But she puts him off with ex
cuses, which, however, are so mingled with
sweet coquetries and caresses, that he can
not reproach her without seeming insensi
ble to her affection, and it is not until
he is away from the fascination of
her presence,- and among those who
do not hesitate to say that
he will yet see the advantage of putting his
brilliant bird in a cage suitable to her plum
age, that he remembers his manhood and
chafes at his inability to assert it. I am
sorry for him in a way, but not so deeply as
I might be if he were more hnmble and
more truly sensible of the mischief he has
wrought.
Orrin will yet make himself debtor to the
Colonel. Something has happened which
proves that fate orman is working against
him to this end, and that he must irom the
very force of circumstances finally succumb.
I say man, but do I not mean woman? Ah,
no, no, -no! my pen ran away with me, my
thoughts played me false, 'it could have
been no woman, for if it was, then is Juliet
a Let me keep to facts. I have not self
control enough for speculation.
To-day the sun set red. As we had been
having grav skies and more or less rain for a
fortnight,the brightness and vivid crimson in
the west drew many people to their doors.. I
was among them, and as I stood looking in
tently at the sky that was now one blaze of
glory from horizon to zenith, Orrin stepped
up behind me and said:
"Do you want to take a ride to-night?"
Seeing him look more restless and moody
than ever, I answered "Yes," and accord
ingly about 8 that night he rode up to my
door and we started forth.
I thought he would turn in the direction
of the stone house, for one night when I
had allowed myself to go there in my
curiosity at its progress, I Lad detected him
1 1 Ni ! I 1 limpiM mill A'l II l.l .
FOB TOTTB BBIDE?
crouching in one of the thickest shadows
cast bv the surrounding trees. But if any
such idea had been in his mind, it soon
vanished, for almost the instant I was in
the saddle, he wheeled himself about and
led the way eastward, whipping and spur
ring his horse as if it were a devil's ride he
contemplated, and not that easy, restful
canter under the rising moon demanded by
our excited spirits and the calm, exquisite
beauty of the summer night.
"Are you not coming?" was shouted back
to me, as the distance increased between us.
My answer was to spur my own horse, and
as we rode once more side by side, I could
not but note what a wild sort of beauty
there was in him as he thus gave himself up
to the force of his feelings and the restless
energy of this harum-scarum ride. "Very
different," thought I, "would the Colonel
look on a horse at this hour of night," and
wondered if Juliet would see him thus she
should any longer wound him by her hesi
tations, alter having driven him bv her co
quetries to expect full and absolute sur
render on her part.
Did "he guess my thoughts, or was his
mind busy with the same, that he sud
denly cried in harBh but thrilling tones:
"If I had her where she ought to be, here
behind me on this horse, I would ride to de
struction before I would take her back again
to the town and the temptations which beset
her while she can hear the sound of hammer
upon stone."
"And you would be right," I was about
to say in some bitterness, I own, when the
full realization of the road we were upon
stopped me, and I observed instead:
"You would take her yonder where you
hope to see her happy, though no other
woman lives within a half-mile of the
place."
To Be Continued Next Saturday.
RELIGIOUS Tho Itov. George Bodges
treats of business principles in religion in
bis sermon for TUB D IS PATCH readers
to-morrow.
A WB1TTEN CONFESSION OF MTJBDEH.
It Is Found on the Person of a Prisoner Ac
cused of & Double Crime.
Harlem, Ia., Sept. 25. Two years ago
James Bobinson and his son Jasper mys
teriously disappeared. They had recently
sold their farm and were living with J. K.
Cumberland. When the latter sold out and
went to Missouri, people began talking,
and when it was discovered that the father
and son had some Sl,200 on deposit in a
local bank, Sheriff Bainbow began to inves
tigate. Cumberland and his wife were charged
with murdering the men, and were brought
from Missouri to answer for the crime. Tho
wife and husband were separated in the
hope of a confession. The household goods,
clothing and property of the Bobinsons
were found iu the possession of the Cumber,
lands. A constant search has since been
kept up for the bodies of the liobinsons,
but without result. Yesterday Cumberland
was called before the grand jury and
searched. Upon his person was found a
written confession of the crime. It details
that he shot both of the Bobinsons in the
morning, when they came Into the stable.
He hid the bodies in thetable that, dav,
and at night stripped tnem of all the'ir
clothing and buried them on a bank of the
river about a quarter of a mile from his
house.
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William BIcCreery'B Will Filea.
The will of the late "William McCrcery
was filed yesterday for probate. He be
queaths his entire estate to his wife with
the exception of 100 shares of stock in the
Keystono Land Company to each of hisi
three children. As the estate will permit
1 I.. ...... it tn 41m fllDnmllnii ..I l..n :i-
uk icuvci iw "- vhqh.(wu ui uis wiie to
make any charitable gifts she may desire.
If at any time the West Penn Hospital
needs it, it is in Ifer discretion to endow
one or more beds for life or in perpetuity.
The will is dated October 9, 1890. No ex
ecutors are named.
Gests' clothing cleaned or dyed in four
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No historical drama of the age has caused
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Moderate Increase of General Trade
Noted in Some Cities,
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rig Iron Mannfactnrers Looking Forward
to Better Prices.
THE MERCANTILE AGENCIES EEYIEW
rsrECIAI. TELEGRAM TO TnE CI3PATCn.l
New York, Sept, 25. While there have
been still further increases within the week
in the volume of general trade at some of
the leading business centers, special tele
grams to Bradstreet'tt do not, on the whole,
point to a week of widespread or general in
crease in the distributive movement in
staple lines.
Cotton spinners and manufacturers are
busy. Leather and lumber are firm and in
fair demand at most markets. The demand
for boots and shoes, clothing, hardware and
groceries, except for coffee, remains of good
proportions. There are only moderate offer
ings of lard, and prices are stiff, but quota
tions for live hogs are weaker.
The tone of the anthracite coal market has
been strengthened, but prices are no higher.
Some makers of pig iron are refusing con
tracts to extend over 30 days at current
quotations, owing to better demand and an
expected increase. There is a small ndvance
on manufactured iron at the West.
BUSINESS FAIMJKES AND STOCKS.
Business failures in the United States
number 250, against 23G last week and 179
this week last year. The total from Janu
ary 1 to date is 8,812, against 7,446 last year.
The course of the bull stock market has
been interrupted by intimations that the
dividend on Missouri Pacific would be
passed, which faot, coupled with apparent
bearish manipulation of both stocks and
money on the part of the Godld interest, re
sulted in a sharp reaction in prices. At the
same time the tone of the share market is
bullish on the crop outlook, the export
movement and the large volume of gold im-
gorts from Europe. The close of the week
as witnessed a marked tendency to rally
prices, coupled with rumors that the opposi
tion of the Gould interest to the advance
had been removed by certain arr&ngements
in connection with the Union Pacific
property.
The New York money market is sensitive
and inclines higher. Foreign exchange is at'
the gold importing point, the shipments for
the week aggregating $700,000.
WHEAT MARKET AND EXPORTS.
Wheat has continued generally weak, not
withstanding continued heavy exports,
owing to an extraordinary free movement
from first hands, low cables and the tendency
to regard bear estimates of the size of the
home crop. Exports from United States
ports, both coasts, including flour, foraweek
to September 24, equal 4,711,001 bushels,
against over 0,900,000 bushels in the preced
ing week, and 4,726,000 bushels the week
before. Including Montreal's exports,
Wheat and flour, the total this week amounts
to 5,106,904 bushels, as compared with
7,532,369 bushels in the preceding week.
One year ago the week's total, United States
and Canada, was 1,155,000 bushels. Two
years ago it was 1,650,000 bushels; in 1888 it
was 2,614,000 bushels, and in 1887 it was
2,825,000 bushels.
Corn is oS 3 cents per bushel on larger
receipts than expected and the removal of
support recently given it, owing to failure
of a prominent New York firm. Exports of
rye from Montreal, New York and Balti
more to the European continent are increas
ing rapidly, amounting to 768,000 bushels
this week against 635,000 bushels last week,
and as compared with only 342,000 bushela
in the year 1890-'91 and 2,257,000 bushels in
1889-90.
DRTGOODS lESS ACTIVE.
Drygoods are not as actiye as earlier in
the month, though the demand from job
bers particularly is still good. Staple cot
tons sell less freely, but are firm in price
with some grades y cent higher. Print
cloths are firm, as are all low grade cottons
of similar character. Prints are well sold
up by agents and advances of i cent are
reported. Ginghams sell well, while dress
goods are quieter. Woolen goods are in
only fair sale, and warm weather affects the
demand for clothing. Wool is quiet and
firm.
Bank clearings at 68 cities for the week
amount to 1,338,729,760, an increase over
the week last year of 2.5 per cent. At 57
cities for the week they amount to 51,338,
729,760, an increase over the week last year
of 2,5 per cent. At 57 cities, New York's
total excluded, an increase of 4.7 percent is
shown. New York's total inoreased 148,
117,717 over last week.
E; G. Dun & Co.'s weekly review 6ays:
None of the disturbances threaten to affect
the general prosperity which enormous
crops now promise, and the failure of a
house of extraordinary repute and strength
to sustain the price of com is at once proof
of the general prosperity and a warning
that whoever gets on the wrong side when
this country is growing is liable to be hurt.
The reports from other cities indicate a con
tinuance of the general improvement in
trade already noticed.
FAVORABLE MONETARY REPORTS.
Eeports as to money markets are gener
ally favorable. Money is easier at Boston
and Philadelphia, in fair supply at Cleve
land and Cincinnati, and sufficient fdr the
needs of Chicago and Milwaukee, easier at
Kansas City, Louisville and Chicago, but
very active at New Orleans. Collections
ars fairly good almost everywhere. Gold re
ceipts have as yet hardly balanced tho large
shipments to the interior for products.
The great industries are doing welL
There is a distinctly better demand for iron
without an advance in price. More inquiry
is seen for rails, 20,000 tons being sold here;
a stronger demand for bar, moderate activ
ity in plate, and structural mills fairly em
ployed. Copper is stronger on large consumption.
The distribution of tin is larger and lead is
stronger.
THE NEGRO Clinton Lloyd writes of the
first colored man lt Congress for THE DIS
PATCH to-morrow.
Stopt Stopl
And see our stock of new clothing, manu
factured expressly for this fall. Superior
goods at prices that surprise. An enormous
stock from which you can select at the low
est prices on earth. You all want the best
and we are here to give it to you. To-day
we offer special bargains in men's fine busi
ness and dress suits at 56, 8 and S10. The
best value in the world. Men's fine sack
and cutaway suits, made from checked cassi
mere and mixed cheviot, at 6 and 8. .Ele
gant suits for men at 10 made up in sack,
cutaway or double-breasted styles.
p. C. C. C, Pittsburg Combination Cloth
ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond
streets.
All the novelties in fine neckwear.
James H. Aiken & Co., 100 Fifth ave.
MARCELLA SEMBRICH,
the celebrated vocalist, highly recommends
the Soden Mineral Pastilles: "I cannot help
informing you of the splendid effect of ihe
Soden Mineral Pastilles in the case of vocal
indisposition. Their influence on the enrire
organism is so excellent, that I continually
use them, and I must warmly recommend
them to all my colleagues."
The "genuine' Soden Pastilles must have
the signature of "Eisner &Mendelson Co.,"
Sole Agents, around each box."
DUCATlONAt.
HOMER MOORE
"Will receive a limited number of pupils in
vocal culture and singing. Until October
voices tried free. Call at 507 Penn ay.
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-fTfEST -WALtfUT STREET SEMINARY
YY foryoung ladies; 25tli year. Is piOvided
for giving a superior education in collegiate,
eclectic, and preparatory departmentsjalso
in music nnd art. MRS. IIENRIETTAKUTZ,
2015 Walnut street, Pliilada. au2-03-Mws
PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY ACADEMY,
Chester, Pa., 30th vear, opens Sept. 16.
A MILITARY COLLEGE.
Civil Engineering, Chemistry, Architect
ure, Arts. A preparatory courso of one year.
Circulars of Mr. F. G. Paulson, 441 Wood gfc,
city. COL. CIIAS. E. HYATT, President.
jyS 25-ws
LUTHERV1LLE SEMINARY (NEAR BAL
TIMORE) for young ladieo. $225 per
vear. 39tn year. Modern conveniences,
large campus, fall faculty, thorough train
ing, nomo comforts, acnu lor catalogue.
REV. J. II. TURNER, A. M., Principal,
Luthorvillc, Md.
Jy21-77TT3
NEW RAPID PHONOGRAPHY AND
typewriting and complete business
course taught at Park Institute, 201 North
ave., Allegheny. Now term opens Septem
ber!. Evening sessions September 23. Cat
alogues and journal to any nddros free.
au20rr3 LEVI LUDDEN, A M., Principal.
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UNIVERSITY,
SIXTH ST.
A new' management. Increased attend
ance. The best discip'ino. The best in
struction. English TrainingSchool for boys
nnd girls. Ten higher courses of study.
Thirty experienced teachers. Students ad
mitted daily. Tuitions reasonable. Day
nnd Evening sessions. Send for catalogue.
H. M. ROWE, Prest. se24-D
Duquesno Conservatory of Music.
Carl Hotter and Clias. Davis Carter, Musical
Directors. A new school of music to re conducted
on the plan of the ltoyal Conservatory of Munich,
Germany. Full corps of Instructors. Eight com
plete departments. Free advantages in class In
struction superior to any in the country. A thor
ough and complete course of instruction for grad
uation In each department, bend for prospectus.
CIIAS. DAVIS CAKTER. Manager, Dunucsno
College bnlldlng. Diamond at., opp. Court Homo.
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STvrrniN c. siioetlidqe's media, pa..
ACADEMY, near Philadelphia; choice school
for hoys, number limited: mild winter climate!
health record has few parallels; fine buildings;
steam heat; electric light and gas; gymnasium with
swimming hath regulated by steam; ample
grounds; teachers men and college graduates; spe
cial attention and private tutoring for backward
bovs; single or double rooms; fits for college or
business; fuperlor English department; library;
complete laboratory with dynamo. motor, etc.. etc.;
boys1 workshop for manual training in wood and
metal; Media has seven churches and a temper
ancecharter. &WITHIN C. SIIOP.TL1DGE.A.M.,
(Harvard graduate), Media, Pa. huZ-66
MARTIN'S SHORTHAND SCHOOL.
Eighth year. Devoted exclusively to instruc
tion in shorthand and typewriting. Now open.
Four expert instructors. The conductor has had
an experience of over a quarter of a century as
official verbatim stenographer for courts and
btate Legislatures. Fifty typewriters. Day
and evening sessions. Three floors devoted en
tirely to the use of school. Instruction thorough
and practical. For further particulars and cata
logue call on or address A. M. MARTIN,
sel-SSTTS 4lt Wood street.
URSULINE ACADEMY,
OAKLAND.
Boarding and day schools. Reopens Tuesday,
September 8. Terms For boarders, session
of five months,$150. Children under 12years of
age, $123. Day schools for girls. Pupils taken
from the age of 6 to 18. Terms varying from
$15 to $35. Tuition includes all branches of
an English education, with French or Ger
man, elocution, vocal music, calesthenics,
outline drawing and fancy work. Private
lessons in rouslo, French, German, drawing
and painting, at moderate terms. For fur
ther particulars apply to Mother Superior.
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PITTSBURG ART SCHOOL.
Eighth year opens Sept. 28.
Instructors:
GEOEGE HETZEL.
JOHN W. BEATTY,
MAKT H. BAKNETT.
Pupils desiring to enter should
apply promptly. Address
JOHN W. BEATTY. Principal.
413 Wood street. seS-JoVrns
AND TYPEWRITING
Taught Day and Evening at
DUFF'S COLLEGE.
For terms, call at the College office,
49 FIFTH AVE.
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wo carnaDErxt
teavei a IlelleaSe and Liutlnr Odor After Urine
If unable to procure Shandox Bells Soap send
25c In stumps and receive a cake by return mail.
JAS. S.KIRK & CO., Chicago.
8PECIAT.. Bhandon Bells Waltz (the pop.
ular Society Waltz) sent FREE to anyone send
ing us three wrappers of 6oandon Bells Soap.
Send 10a in stamps for sample bottle SlumSoa
Bella Perfume.
HORSt
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ARE THE STRONGEST
NONEGENUINEWITHOUTthcSA LABEL.
There are 100 6A styles, each at its cost,
the Best you can buy.
6A Raker is Best of All.
tVA Extra Teat ranks next to gA Baker.
6A Horse Blankets eold by all dealers.
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Cactus Blood CureT"
BETTER THAN SARSAPARILLA.
Purifies the blood by expelling the
impurities through the proper chan
nels and never causes eruptions upon
the skin.
Regulates the bowels. Cures dys
pepsia, liver and kidney troubles,
tones up the system and gives, you an
appetite.
Never fails to cure any condition
produced by impure or impoverished
blood, or a disordered, state of
stomach, liver or kidneys.
Sold by JOSEPH FLEMING & SON, Drug
gists, 412 Market St., Pittsburg. 8el9-TTB
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FILIXG
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KNOXVILLE!
SECOND
OF
BUILDING LOT
Monday, September 28, 1891,
BEGINNING AT 10 A. E
There are towns and towns, and lots innumerable where
fortunes are promised to every man who buys a lot within
their charmed (?) limits. But here in the lovely borough of
Knoxville, with its miles of paved streets, bordered with
handsome shade trees, within ten minutes' walk of the mills
of the Southside, and soon within TWENTY MINUTES
OF THE POSTOFFICE by electric road, with numerous
Churches, splendid Schools, and with all the conveniences
of the city and delights of the country. The most beauti
ful Building Lots eye ever looked upon are offered for sale,
and you can have a home in the prettiest town in the land.
We don't promise a fortune to every man who buys a lot,
but every mad who does so in Knoxville will have an in
vestment that is safe and sure, and will yield him a hand
some profit
Take Southside cars to Eleventh street; and Knoxville
Incline from Bradford street For further particulars apply
to office of the company, 85 KNOX AVENUE, Knoxville.
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BTEAJUEES AND EXCURSIONS;
TO ITALY, ETC-FAXL 'AND WINTER
touts by the new passenger steamer
service of the Norddeutscher lJoyd; direct
fast express routo to the Mediterranean. For
particulars apply to MAX SCHAMBEKG&
CO., 527 Smithfleld St., Pittsburg, Pa.
a se3-8J-TTS
CUNARD LINE-NEW YORE AND LIYEP.
POOL VIA QIIEENSTOWX-Frum Pier 40.
North river: Fast express mall serrict. Bervla,
fceptember28, noon; Etrurla. October 3, 5:30 A. jr.;
Aurania, October 10. 10 A. M.; Umbria. October 17,
5:30 A. M.;Servla, Octobers!. 10:30 A. M.; Etrurla,
October 3L, 5 a.m.; Auraaia. November 7, A. M.
Cabin passage 160 and upward; according to
location: second cabin. ?3". Steerage tlctceU
to and from all parts of Europe at very low rates.
For freight and passage apply to the company's
office. 4 Bowling Green. New York. Vernon H.
Brown 4 Co., J. J. McCOBMlCK. 639 and 401
Smithfleld street, Pittsburg. se2S-p
AMERICAN LINE,
Sailing every Wednesday from Philadel
phia and Liverpool. Passenger accommoda
tions for all classes unsurpassed. Tickets
sold to and from Great Britain and Ireland,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, etc.
PETEP. WRIGHT & SONS,
General agents, 303 Walnut St., Philadelphia.
Full information can bo had of J. J. llo
COKMICK, Fourth avenue and Smithfleld St.
LOUIS 3IOESEK, 616 Smithfleld street.
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TTrniTE STAR LINE
y For Queenstown and Liverpool.
Koyal and United State Stall steamers.
Britannic, Sept. 30. SamlBritannle. Oct. 23. 10am
Majestic, Oct. 7,8:30am "Majestic. Not. 4.7 am
Germanic. Oct. 14. 11 a ml Germanic, Nov.ll. 10 am
TeiitonlcOct.a,8:J0amTeutonie,Nov.ls,7:O0ara
From White Star dock, foot of West Tenth
street.
Second cabin on these steamers. Saloon
rates, $50 and upwards. Second cabin $33 and
$40. Excursion ticket on favorable terms.
Steerage, irom or to old country, $20.
White Star drafts payable on demand in
all the principal banks thronzhout Great
Britain. Apply to JOHN J.McCORMICK,6S9
and 401 Smithfleld St., Pittsburg, or n. MA1T
LAND KERSEY, General Agent, 29 Broad
way, New York. se4-p
ALLAN LLNE
KOYALaiAIL STEA3ISHIF3.
Glasgow to Philadelphia,
VIA DERBY and GALWAY. The most direct
routefrom Scotland and 2ortli and Middle or Ire-'
"'ACCOMMODATIONS UNSUP.PASSEiJ.
Intermediate, J0. Steerage. 119.
ot- n T r ) SERVICE OF
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LINE ) !TiAM3HlPb.
if EW YORK AND GLASGOW,
via Londonderry, every Fortnight.
Oct. 1. State of Nebraska. 8:30 A. M.
Oct. li. State of California, 1 r. it.
Oct. 29, itate of Nevada, 1 P. M.
CABIN, $35and upward. Return, $03 and upward,
bteerage, 19. ......,. .
Apply to J. J. McCOKMlCK. 6JD Smithfleld etreet.
Plttonrg. ei-
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TOR THE
KIDNEYS,
Is a relief and sure cure for
t-hn Tirinnrv Organs. Gravel
and Chronic Catarrh of the
Bladder. . lu
The Swiss Stomach Bitter
are a sure cure for Dyspepsia,
trade mark Liver Complaint and every
species of Indigestion.
WildCherryTonic, the most popular prep
aration for cure of Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis
and lung troubles.
Either of the above, $1 per bottle, or 6 for
t5. If your druggist does not handle thes
good write to U V. ZOELLEH, sole M'f'r.
VitUbnrg, Pa. deSO-ufl-TOJ
NKENNE
Or the Liquor Ilablt Positively Cored by
Administering Dr. Hajnek'
Golden specific.
It is manufactured as a powder, which can ba
flven in a glass of beer, a cup of coffee or tea, or In
ood. -n ltliout the knowledge of the patient. It Is
absolutely harmless, and will effect a permanent
and speedy cure, whether the patient 13 a moderata
drinker or an alcoholic wreck. It has been given
in thousands of cases, and in every instance a per
fect cure has followed. II never fulls. -The system
once Impregnated with the Specific. It becomes an
litter impossibility for the liquor appetite to exist.
tj-pgr "jonS of particulars free. To be had of A.
J. RAMil.V. S-lxth and Prnn. av.. l'lttsburr.
Trade supplied hyCJEO. A. KELLY A CO. Alle-
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A MERCHANT'S TESTIMONY.
jut. J. A. Byers, of the firm of James Byers
& Son, prominent merchants at West Mid
dlesex, Fa., writes for publication:
"I am very glad to state what has been
done for mo by the phvsiclansof tbeCatarrh
and Dyspepsia Institute, 323 Penn avenne,
Pittsburg, Pa.
"My trouble began about four years ago.
I had dull painovor my eyes ringing in.
my o-irs, dropping of mucus into my throat,
hawking and spitting-. My throat often felt
dry and sore. In the morning my head and
noso were filled with mucus. It was tritU
great effort that I could expel it, and it
J. A. Byers, West Middlesex, Fa,
wuuld ba followed by discharges of blood.
My eyes wore inflamed and at times very
weaK. My kidneys troubled me. I had pain
and weakness in my back, and the urine had
a brick dust sediment. I could get no re
freshing sleep. I felt very tired in the morn
ing, with no ambition for business. I took:
cold easily and my condition grew worse,
until a cough set in.
"As I felt soreness in my lungs I became
alaimed and feared unless I soon obtained
help I would go into consumption. Nothing
I had tried did me any good. I read in the
papers so many testimonials from patients
who had been enred by the physicians of tho
Catarrh and Dyspepsia Institute I wroto
them for their question blank. They wrote
me I could yet be cured. I found their
term reasonable and decided they under
stood my case. After two months' home
treatment I bocame cured.
"I gladly recommend these specialists as
thorough, competentphyslciansin the treat
ment and cure of diseases of their specialty.
Very truly yours. J. A. Btzbs."
Dr. Grubbs and associate physicians ars
qualified practitioners according to the laws
of the State of Pennsylvania. Terms for
treatment and medloine live dollars a month
and upward.
EXAMINATION, $1 00. CONSULTATION
FREE. Office hours, 10 a. 3t. to i f. m., and 6
to 8 T. M.; Sundays, 1 to 4 r. 5f. Patients
treated successfully at home or by corre
spondence. Send two 2-cent stamps for
question blank, and address all letters to
the
GATAHRH AND DYSPEPSIA INSTITUTE,
323 Penn Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa.
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