THM PITTSBURG- "DISPATCH, SUNDAY, QURHOPEIN CANADA Erastns Wiman Analvzes tha Situation in Eegard to Reciprocity. THE TOBY PAE1TS LIMIT Is a Treaty Tbat Will Admit Natural Products to the States THE LIBERALS WILL GOFAKTHEE, If We Demand Unrestricted Eeciprocity the. Liberals Will Win. ENGLISH GOODS MUST BE TAXED. IW1SITTZ2T FOB THE DI8PATCH.1 The postponement to an indefinite date of the negotiations between Canada and the United States is not a matter of surprise. The subject is out of such magnitude and the complications are so great that a good deal of hesitance is pardonable. Tho Gov ernment at Washington was in a measure last spring forced to name a date for the commencement of there negotiations, which subsequent events show to hare been inop portune. The fall elections have a bearing upon this question, and until they are -decided it would be injudicious to meddle with the re lations now existing. Besides, the absence from "Washington, throughout the whole summer, of 3Ir. Blaine and his continued indisposition to take up serious work is, of course, in itself a sufficient cause for delay. Sooner or later, however, and almost cer tainly within a very early period, a serious attempt will no doubt be made to establish better relations between the two nations. Great Britain, with whom the negotiation is held, will be deeply concerned, because the subject is one which affects her "trade in no less than 40 per ctnt of her empire, which Canada in its area comprise. The Traffic of the Like. It is interesting to note the shape which tuch an extension of trade would assume. If.lorinstacce.the same measure of develope- meni is possible on the northern shore of Lake Superior, within Canada, as has taken place on its southern shore within the United States, it is no unreasonable thing to expect that the commerce of the lakes, now approaching the tonnage of Great Bri tain, would be doubled. If a proportionate output of minerals and absorption of mer chandise would result, and these be handled by American capital and American indus try, the profits of those engaged would be Increased in like proportion. If from the wheat areas of Minnesota and Dakota there are constantly received orders forboots and shoes, collars and cufT, gro ceries and dry goods, which it profits the American manufacturer and merchant to supply, in what sense would the profit be t less satisfactory if orders of a like nature were received from the future occupants of the 1,000 miles square of wheat areas in Manitoba and the Northwest territories? The trade and development of Michigan have contributed largely to the prosperity of the Union, because of the variety and value o' her products, the thrift and enter prise of her people and the peculiar advan teges of the geographical position the occu pies. The Trade of Ontario. Yet. by a reciprocity treaty with Canada, the United States may b? just as certain of the trade of Ontario, which resembles Mich igan, only is infinitely richer in resources, while in area Ontario equals New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. "Who will esti mate the value of the mineral and agricult ural output of Pennsylvania and New York? Yet Governor Andrews, of Massa chusetts, estimated the wealth-producing Sotentialities in minerals and agriculture of Tova Scotia and New Brunswick as greater than those of the Empire and Keystone States, with the addition of a coast line of fisheries of enormous value. The time is essentially ripe in the United States for a movement what would enlarge the area of opportunity. The immigration hitherto large, is likely to be greatly aug mented by the high prices in Europe of food products, and the number of foreigners reaching these shores is certain to be greatly increased within the next decade. Yet.in the face of these enormous arrivals, and in spite of the need of a new crop of customers, the available lands for their oc cupancy are becoming greatly restricted. The scenes in Oklahoma within the past month, in Ashland and other places in the Bast winter, imnlv a "land hnnwr" thut it "ieems impossible to appease by the extent of Government land offered. Time to Extend Oar 'Markets. The Census returns gave a singular con firmation of the tendency toward a relative decline in agricultural occupancy of lands. The figures show that while the whole coun try has grown 26 per cent in ten years, the cities have increased over 45 per cent; meantime the farmer population had in creased only 14 per cent While the wheat areas ot the world, in the ten years from 1870 to 18S0, increased 22,000,000 of acres, of which the United States contributed some 18,000.000. in the succeeding ten years from 1&S0 to 1890, the wheat areas of tne wona increased only 8,000,000 of acres, to which the T nited States contributed little or nothing. So it will be seen that the new fields for agricultural effort are among the necessities -of the immediate future. Indeed, with the increase of population in this country at its present rate, exports will, it is asserted, cease in less than ten years, while in the next half century, should the existing proportions hold good of city Increase and agricultural expansion, there will be barely enough produced under ex isting modes of culture to feed the whole population on this continent, unless larger areas are included next door to the United States. If, as some estimate, 200,000,000 of population will need food 50 years hence on this continent, the Bource of supply within the country is difficult to discover. The Granary or the World. Under circumstances so peculiar it is sub mitted that the time seems most opportune for the opening up of the remainder ol the continent not yet fully developed, but wh'ch contains the future granary of the world. In addition to this consideration, the imme diate need of new markets tor the stimu lated manufactures is imperative. For 11 years, ending in 1863, a treaty of reciprocity existed between the United States and Can ada. Trade between the two countries quadrupled in the short existence of that treaty, and had it continued to this hour it is no exaggerated estimate to believe that a similar growth would have gone forward, Canada profited greatly, owing to our high war prices. The question to be decided upon will be, to what extent the barrier should be re moved. It is possible to have unrestricted reciprocity. It is equally possible to limit the operations of the treaty to a list of ar ticles, as was done in the South American treaty. But if this partial measure is adopted it will practically defeat the largest and most comprehensive movement, the United States in its foreign trade pol icy ever attempted. The Exchange Would Be Fair. The first great essential of the impend ing negotiations will be the free admission into Canada of American manufactures, in addition to natural products. At first glance this seems entirely reasonable, and as Canada gets a market for her natural products as well as her manufactures, the exchange wouia De entirely iair. Indeed, as Canada would get a market among 60, 000,000 while she afforded one of only 6,000,000, But in the case of Canada, she encounters a great difficulty in even offer ing a free market with 5,000,000 for Amer ican manufactures, because she is part of the British Empire, from which she how derives fully one-half of her imports, and with whom she has a market for her ex ports just as free as she expects from the United States under reciprocity. If she admits American manufactures free, in common fairness she ought to admit British manufactures also. To admit both would be to utterly annihilate her revenue and bankrupt her finances, already in the the lowest state. In ten years her publio debt has increased 2 per cent. Might Ignore John Bull. There are, however, a. vast multitude in Canada, and especially those among the Liberal party, who see the enormous ad vantage that will result from a free market in the United States and especially the saving that will be effected by the consum ers in Canada, who could then use largely of American manufactures, that do not ob ject to a discrimination against Great Britain by the free admission ot American goods. This, it is urged, is the necessary price that Canadians will have to pay for the best market under the sun, Thev hold that as lon as the United States pursues the pro tective policy, Canada must levy a tax on products of Great Britain, just the same as sne aoes on me wines ot . ranee, ine lancy goods of Germany and the fancy goods of Spain. Meanwhile, however, this advocacy of discrimination against Great Britain is held up oy tne xory party as tne ransesi uis loyalty to British connection and its open advocates are dubbed "perjured traitors." The Tory Government now in power in Canada was sustained at the elections last spring mainly on this loyal cry, .and this, with their dependence for the sinews of war upon the local manufacturers who naturally oppose reciprocity, will make it exceed ingly embarrassing for the Tory negotiators representing Canada. Not a Friendly Commission. It is with these gentlemen that Mr. Har rison and Mr. Blaine will have to deal, sup plemented also by representatives from Great Britain, who, ot course, will view with alarm the tendency of Canada toward fiscal independence, or indeed independ ence of any kind, bhould the Juiglish rep resentative be the Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain, his instincts for the preserva tion of the interests of Birmingham will be keenly alive. His individual fortune came from 'the manufacture of screws, made in the suburbs ot that city. If the screws from Connecticut and Bhode Island are admitted free into Canada, while those of Birming ham continue to be charged with a duty equal to that of the United States tariff, Mr. Chamberlain is likely to strenuously object, not because of his personal interests alone, but because this discrimination would apply to all manufactures. But these complications would largely disappear with a change in administration in Canada, which is most unlikely. The Tories are anxious for a perpetuation of power, and will doubtless yield many things which would have been deemed im possible a year or two ago. A Ohanee for the Liberal. The shaking up they got in the recent elections, in the reduction by one-half of their majority; the fact that this majority is derived lrom the outlying provinces who are least influential and who do not pay the bulk of the taxes; this, with recent dis closures of corruption, the death of the master mind of the combination, Sir John Macdonald, and above all, the operations of the McKinley bill, in its exactions of the agricultural section, have changed the atti tude of the Tory party toward the United States. A recent resolution introduced into Parliament by the Premier, Mr. Ab bott, requesting the Imperial Government to relieve Canada from th operations of the "most favored nation" clause in foreign treaties, is significant of the determination to let the bars partially down between the turn Mnntriite RELICS OF A PEOPLE Who Lired in the Sierra Madre Moun tains in PrShistoric Times. OUR CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE, An Interesting Building That May Be Taken to the World'B Fair. ENTERPRISE OP BRITISH GUIANA Dr. Carl Lumhott. On tne Jiavispe river, rWRITTKIC FOB THE DISPATCH. J Dr. Carl Lumholtz, who is now explor ing the Sierra Madre Mountains in North- era Mexico in the, interest of the American Museum of Natural History and the American Geographical So ciety, has accom plished excellent work, as is evinced by his report to the latter society, which has just been published, near Granados, he has found three large pueblos, all of which are in ruins and on the Eastern side of the mountains, G,850 feet above the sea level, many caves containing remarkable houses built of porphyry pulp. In some cases these houses are three stories high, with windows and stone staircases. The fields in the vicinity indicated that corn, beans and even cotton had been cultivated. One of the most curious finds, however, was that of a huge jar, standing at the en trance of one of the caverns. It was fully 12 feet high and as much in diameter. It was in as perfect condition as if it had just come from the hands of the maker. Dr. Lumholtz thinks it was used to store Indian corn. Near Nacory several deposits of fos sils were found, and one of the exploring party discovered the tusk of a mammoth which was not petrified and measured 6 feet 8 inches long and 26 inches around at its greatest circumference. The natives thought this and the fossils surrounding it the bones of giants. In one part of the mountains the expedition encountered a re markable range of temperature. The night before Christmas the thermometer stood 22 Fahrenheit and within 24 hours it had risen to a temperature of nearly 130. force under Colonel Daniel in 1702; this" brave soldier burning tne abandoned town when he found he could make no impres sion on the castle. This expedition cost the South Carolina colony a heap of money and is noteworthy" as having caused the first issue of paper currency in America. Again the town was raided in 1727 and the fort itself besieged in 1728 by Governor Ogle thorpe of South Carolina. The famous Governor made another unsuccessful effort 16 years later, although his party captured and scalped 40 of the Spaniards right under the castle walls. By the treaty of 1763, Florida was ceded to the British under whose control it remained for 20 years. During this time, according to an excellent authority, it was considered the prettiest Tort in the British dominions. Its castel lated battlements; its formidable bastions, with their frowning guns; its lofty and A TALK FROM WILDER, The Merry Little Story Teller Writes for Dispatch Readers. WOES OP THE MARRIED STATE. A Nickel Invested on an L Road Brings the Best Returns Known. SOME ODD STALES BY WAY OP TARIETY Old Xrrt Marion. Uncle Sam and Science. Bight here it is worthy of remark that the United States Government is the closest-fisted on this earth so far as patronage of science and scientific institutions are concerned. As will be observed above all the good work of the Lumholtz expedition is paid for by two scientific societies which get nothing from thepublio purse. I sup pose our mighty legislators go on the the ory that sooner or later the Government will fall heir to the splendid collections gathered by individuals, who are generally credited with "riding a hobby" until they become philanthropists through making presents of their accumulations; the Gov ernment in the meanwhile waiting like a poor beggar for "dead men's shoes." This is not idle criticism. A country that haggles over a sum intended for ethnolo gical work, amounting to 50,000, until it is reduced to 30,000, a mere fraction ot what is annually spent in Congressional lunket ings, cannot expect to have any great scien tific institutions. One first class man ought tn hftvA nil nf flint u st rpfninpr. T am r- jjus n may oe reueo. upon inai mewnoie minded of a little fact that should shame us. policy of the Tory party in these negotia tions will be to yield just as little as possi ble, in order to obtain the free admission into the United States of natural products. By this free admission of natural products a chanco will be afforded the Tory party in Canada to secure the support of the farmer, the lumberman, the miner, the fisherman and the shipper, which once obtained would settle the tenure of power in that country for the Tories for the next 20 years. TVhat the Tories Will Not Do. If the United States demands an unre stricted market in one-half ot the Continent in exchange for an unrestricted market in the other half, the Tory party can hardly yield such a concession, and, failing to se cure even a partial arrangement, their ten ure of power will be doomed. Should they thus fail, the Liberal party will, with the aid of bye-elections, now likely to be nu merous, and by pressure of public opinion, soon come into power, and a different party having a much more liberal policy toward the United States will prevail. Diplomacy, originated and controlled in Great Britain, will hardly lead to fiscal in dependence in Canada, because it is against the apparent interests of Great Britain that Canada should be fiscally free. Hence from diplomacy much cannot be expected in these negotiations. A larger and better basis for intimate relations between the two countries would flow from legislation, and those who look with the keenest interest at the impending negotiations doubt their im mediate success, and rather hope that the subject will be in time remitted to the bodies in which originated the tariffs which now divide the two countries. It is true that a legislative action of Canada admitting American goods free would have to be consented to by England; but if the mo vement in this direction sprang from the people of Canada through their Parliament it could hardly be resisted by the imperial power, unless at the risk, which she would hardly assume, of offend ing 40 per cent of her empire, imperiling its control or forever dooming it to slow growth and stinted development. Ebastus WrMAH. CALIFORNIA, The Country of Delightful "Winters. California is the most attractive and de lightful section of the United States, if not of the world, and its many beautiful resorts will be crowded with the best families of the East during the entire winter. It offers to the investor the best open opportunity for safe and large returns from its fruit lands. It offers the kindest climate in the world to the feeble and debilitated; and it is reached in the most comfortable manner over the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad. Pullman vestibule sleeping cars leave Chicago by this line every day in the year and go without change or "transfer through to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sau Diego. This is a feature not offered by any other line. "Write to Charles T. Apple by, Traveling Passenger Agent, Room 303, Bank of Commerce Building, Pittsburg, Pa., it you desire any further information as to the country and the accommodations for reaching it Procure It Before "Leaving; Home. M. B.Kilborn left the "West and ettlol in Orange Valley, New Jersey. He now finds that his favorite remedy for croup is not sold there and is anxious to get a sup ply. Here it is in his own' words: "Can you let me know if Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is to be got in New York City or is 6old by any one in New Jersey? I want to get some; it being the best remedy I can find for croup. Since leaving the "West I have not required any, but cold weather is coming on aadl may need it and am only sorry I did not bring some with me." For sale by druggists. -su Estimates furnished by samples at resi dence on furniture reupholstery. Hahgii & Keesaw, bu 33 and 34 Water street Emerson Piano Can be found only at Lechner & Schoen bergers, 69 Fifth avenue. "Warranted for seven years. Easy terms. NMF KWTWitXsTYStPO 41ia eoln at rinvDA. ZLX b.1.i it is construed by many mor6 than fair, J at tie Manchester stables on Monday. 1 1 discovered it in looking over the Govern ment's salary list a couple years ago. At that tinre. Frank H. Cushing, one of the greatest ethnologists this country has pro duced; a man who has given up his entire life to this work and whose researches among the Zunis have made him famous throughout the world, was doing the work under the auspices of the Smithsonian In stitution and of course, in the pay of the Government According to the list, hit salary aggregated $1,200 a yearl One of Bonlanger's Flames. The Duchess D'Ores, of France, was one of the many women infatuated by the late General Boulanger. Al though socially far be neath her, she assisted him time and again, not only with her influence, but with cash as well Indeed it is said, the doughty beau personally spent 300,. 000 francs belonging to the Duchess during the last two years, while she con tributed 3,000,000 francs to aid his cause. True, it was not Boulanger alone that DuchaaD'Uza. she wished to aid. She looked forward to placing the Comte de Paris on the French throne, and in consequence making her own title of more value, through the efforts of the other in his own behalf Anything threat ening the stability of the Republic was cer tain to strengthen the chances of the leading monarchial aspirant However, it is pleasing to note tljat the Duchess is possessor of attainments other than political. Distinguished in art and musical circles, she has now entered the field of literature through the medium of a novel just published entitled "Julien Masliy." The authoress uses the pseudo nym of Manuela. The story is not long, but is said to be extremely interesting. "What most of the French people wonder at is that a woman so devoted to society and its attendant duties and enterprises can find time for the arts. . ' Another Bace of Dwarfs. Pittsburg contained a great many dwarfs the past week and thought they were great curiosities, but, in Africa the same class of people are considered a drug on the market, that is, if that country contains any market to be influenced. Du Chaillu found an im mense number of dwarfs the Obangos in "West Africa 30 years ago; Schweinfurth another lot called the Akka's; then Stanley contributed his quota under the name of the Tik i-tiki's, and now the Frenchman Gail lard has found another country on the upper Sangha river infested with these little people, who are called the Babingas. They live in the forests and are great elephant hunters. They supply quite a number of the other tribes with meati in exchange for vegetables and manufactures. They are not fighters as is the case with the other midget tribes of Africa, and withdraw to other parts in preference to quarreling with their neighbors. A Very Ancient Fort. I see it proposed by Florida to reproduce old Fort Marion at the Chicago "World's Fair, to be used as a State building. This would make a very attractive exhibit, if practicable, but, as its most interesting his tory dates away beyond the time during which the fortress has been known by that name, the public would require consider able information in reference to it before they would fully appreciate its importance. This would go back to a period when it was known as St Mark's Castle. It stands at the entrance of the harbor of St Augus tine, and is built of coquina, a conglom erate of fine shells and sand. Its construc tion occupied oyer 100 years, ending in "r756, which is attested by an inscription over the gateway, carved with the arms of Spain in the stone Throughout its history, it has been the scene of numberless battles and skirmishes. It witnessed the pillage of St Augustine by English buccaneers in 1665; again it was unsuccessfully besieged by a South Carolina imposing sally-port, surrounded by Spanish arms; its portcullis, moat, draw-Driage) its circular and ornate sentry boxes at each principal parapet angle; its commanding outlook tower, and its stained and moss grown massive walls, impress the external observer as a relic of the distant past; while a ramble through its heavy casemates, its crumbling Roman ohapel with elaborate portico and inner altar and holy water niches, its dark passages, gloomy vaults and more recently discovered dungeons, brings one to ready credence of its many traditions of inquisitorial tortures, of de caying skeletons found in the latest opened chambers chained to the rusty ringbolts,and of alleged subterranean passages to the neighboring convent Thus it appeared only a few years ago and will practically ap pear if reproduced at Chicago. I must add that after the 20 years' posses sion by the British it was ceded back to Spain in exchange for the Bahama Islands, and in 1821 was turned over to the United States and its name changed to Fort Marion, since which its history does not amount to much. An Interesting tittle Country. "While on the subject of "World's Fair exhibits, I think that the endeavor of little British Guiana to have itself represented is worthy of note. There is really nothing extraordinary to como from that country, with the exception of a few unfamiliar native woods of value, but it is the enter prise of this tiny colony that entitles it to distinction. Although having the disad vantage of a poor quality of citizens the criminal class at the last census nnmbering fully 30 per cent of the population it has steadily developed its resources. In 1747 two schooners carried to Europe the entire produce of the country. In 1889 the exports amounted to over "511,000,000, made up chiefly of gold, sugar, rum and molasses. This is an excellent showing for a country with an area of only 109,000 square miles and a population of 282,066. It amounts to nearly HI ahead; that of the United States aggregating only 513. By all means let us have little Guiana at the Fair, r J . v w To Marry an Obscure Prince. Miss Cornwallis "West is an English beauty who is to be married shortly to Pricce Hans Heinrioh, of Pless. Now, do not try to find out anything about the young man, his country or people. If ydn do you,will have an awful chase. Suffi cient Is the knowledge that Pless is a little bit of a principality in Southeastern Silesia. It is so trivial a place, in 'fact, that the ordinary 2Gu Cornwallis TTisf .gazetter does not deem it of sufficient import'to mention it But that fact is not of much consequence to the young lady concerned. Even if Hans Heinrich's domain is not above 8x10 feet in area, she will get a Prince, who is hand some, young and is, moreover, the heir to all the paternal titles and estates. The Jirospective bride is a daughter of the amous "professional beauty" of the same name. She is not above 18 years of age, having made her debut at the first drawing room of the present season, and shortly afterward met her Prince at a London bait She is described as haying inherited all the charms of her mother, although ot a differ ent type of loveliness and slightly taller. Chance for an American Gfrl. I do not know whether the opportunity extends to our American girls or not, but it is a fact that the London Graphic recent ly contained the following advertisement: "A woman of title, moving in the first so ciety, will receive a young lady into her house as a friend; terms, 2,000 a year." Now, there's a chance to buy one's way right into the ranks of the English nobility, and that without the encumbrance of a pen niless "lord or "count husband. The opportunity to make the acquaintance of the bright scions of royalty is certainly worth something, even if that something amounts to f 10,000 a year, and then there is really no telling what may be gained by such acquaintanceship. Sometimes our girls spend more than that for a less return; but, ah thank goodness, it is not often. WlLKTJB. Ton Needn't Be a Shaker To have the shakes that are produced by chills and fever or bilious remittent fevor. Prevent them and every other form of ma larial disease with Hos tetter's Stomach Bit ters, the grand fortifier and defensive medi cine of the one Lryspepsla, kiduevandllver complaint, constipation, rheumatism and de bility are also remedied by this beneficent medioino. A Special One Day Sale of Hen's Custom Spade OvercoataatS12 Each. Monday morning we offer for sale a superb line of men's overcoats, including imported kerseys, miltons, chinchillas and Irish frieze, at 512 each. This sale will be in force tor one day only, as these garments are the last' shipment we will receive from our great purchase made over a week ago. The overcoats we offer are all of the latest styles, the newest shades and are lined with imported cloth cassimere linings or fine serge linings; have silk velvet collar, or cloth collar or inlaid velvet collar, satin sleeve linings, and are made up single or double breasted. You have a choice on Monday from this grand collection of over coats worth fully 520 to $28 at only 512. Don't put off calling until later, because this sale is for Monday only. The most magnificent assortment of men's overcoats at $12 ever exhibited to, the public. P. a C. C, Pittsburg Combination Cloth, ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond streets. They Dread Cold "Weather. Persons subject to muscular rheumatism have good reason for dreading the cold weather of the winter months. They will find much relief, however, if not a perma nent cure by applying Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It promptly relieves the pain, and in many cases has effected permanent cures. For sale by druggists. wan. IffUTRJUl TOE THI DISPATCH. I was taking a hard think in the darkest corner of a hotel reading room the other day when I was found by a conundrum fiend one of the worst of his species one of'the kind that would joke about his dead wife if he could do it in the form of a conundrum. This fellow dragged me into the pitiless light of the front window and shouted: "Sayl "Who lives longest: a bachelor or a married man?" "A bachelor," said I, "for he's ashamed to die without making a record." "You're wrong, little fellow," said he; "they live about the same length of time but the married man thinks his life is a good deal longer." "I wonder what makes men think there's any fun in abusing married men and women saying ugly things just because some people happen to be married? I haven't any per sonal reasons for finding fault with such jokers, for having been .a bachelor as far back as I can remember, and no blushing damsel having ever tried to take 'me at a disadvantage in leap year; still, I don't think such jokes are entirely fair. No square man will bet on a sure thing, and no decent fellow ought to twit a man or woman about what they can't help unless they get themselves into divorce courts and their names into the newspapers. ILLUSTRATED BY ANOTHEB STOBT. I always think that particular class of jokers have drawn blanks in the matri monial lottery, and want to think every man they meet is as bad off as themselves. As for the men they make fun of, they can afford to put on the style of the private soldier in the late civil war who was or dered by his company commander to come from behind a tree which was keeping a great many bullets from exploring his true inwardness. It was in ihe midst of a lively engagement, and the private felt very un comfortable at receiving such orders, but at last he shouted: "No you don't, Captainl I know what's the matter with you; you wish you were in my fix and had this tree yourself Sometimes the fellow who makes lots of ugly digs at married folks is a bachelor who's so mean at heart that he hasn't ever had enough man in him to proppse to a good girl and take her for better and for worse. He's been so tremendously particu lar, and so anxions to get a great deal in ex change for the very little he has to give that he overreaches himself and catches a regu lar Tartar, who makes things so lively for him that the last state of that man is agreat deal more uncomfortable than the first I'm sorry enough for such chaps when I meet them to souander a pityinc word or two upon them, but I must own up to feeling a good deal like an ex-Confederate officer of whom I once heard. THROWS IX ANOTHER STORY. He chanced to be traveling somewhere np North, where he ran into a town and saw the railway platform full of G. A. R.'s and other war veterans who were going somewhere on a little demijohn picnic. While "the boys" were waiting for their train to come and were swapping war stories and chews of tobacco to while the time away, there was wheeled up a poor chap who had lost both, legs and one arm during the unpleasantness and hadn't yet received the comforting unction of a pen sion, so he was passing the hat with the hope of keeping out of the poor house a little longer. "When the Confed erate, dropped a ten-dollar bill into the hat the old fellow was scared almost out of what little life was left in him, but when he examined the bill and found it was genuine he got back enough breath to say: "Much 'bliged, comrade. Reckon you was thero yourself, eh?" "Yes," was the reply, "but not on your side." "That so? Gosh! Then I reckon your conscience is touched after all these years, an' you think that 'twas mean of the South to make so much trouble for us Northern troops?" "Not a bit of it!" roared the ex-grayback, with some highly expressive scriptural lan guage. "Gosh! Then what did yon gimme all this money for?" "What for? Gratitude that's what for. I've seen a good many Yankees in my time, but you're tne first one that's been trimmed to suit me." A TALK ON ELEVATED BOAD3. That's the way I feel toward the fellow who's always saying things about other men's wives and then ties himself to a fe male terror until death or divorce do them part Dropping from the sentimental to the practical, as the young fellow said when he fell from a tree in front of his ladylove's window and right into the mouth of the family bulldog, to whom he had never been properly introduced, I wonder how we ever smiled in New York before we had the ele vated railroads? There's nothing funny about the roads themselves, of course; they're as serious and matter-of-fact as a tramp who hasn't the price of a drink, but there's more to laugh at on the trains, if you have your eyes in your head, than there ever was in a cirom Whenever I want to freshen up a little and have some good laughs all to myself I in vest a nickel at the nearest elevated rail road station and1 very soon I find myself getting DacK my money s worth about once in every two seconds. People who always do the sensible thing in business, and could give points on manners to some of the Four Hundred, can make themselves as awkward and ridiculous on an elevated car as if they were clodhoppers who had never traveled nearer first-class than on the towpath of a canal. I've heard a hrakeman shout the name of a stasion three times clearly within six feet of the ear of a Wall street magnate, who afterward got np and asked, in good faith, tho name of the station I've seen well-dressed women meet each other on the cars, both being on the way to some of the shopping places that women delight in; I've heard them get so interested in telling eacn omer wnat tney wanted to buy that they forgot there were, other people pres ent, and when the car stopped and they started to go out they've stopped right in iue aisie, just as a loveiy woman sometimes does when promenading with another lovely woman and suddenly hears something that astonishes her. Meanwhile the brafceniau has stood with his band on the bell rope in the attitude of somebody's statue of "Ex pectancy," but also with a suggestion of John L. Sullivan about him, and all the other people in the car have been frowning or grinning, according to their dispositious and the amount of time they have to spare. Then, all of a flash, those two women would take in the situation and take themselves out with a dash which would mase the tor- tTInA ftf a MITrifniTii.riatinn nvtlai nnd n-i f a couple of blushes tljat would make the for tune of a society debutante. XEACHXKO AH OLD FOLICE1IAW. The passengers don't make all the fun, though. A company employing several thousand men can't help once in a while being afflicted with some fellow who hasn't any more sense than a "green goods" buyer oi? the man who puts his savings into lot tery tickets. A little while ago the com pany took a fellow who had been a police man three whole years, so it stands to reason that for exactly three yean he had not been required to use his brain, so that organ was as torpid as a mud turtle at Christmas. He was pnt on a train as brake- man, and a.vcteran conductor tried to teach him his duties. It didn't take long to show him how to hustle out drunken men at their respective stations, for, as I've already re marked(ths fellow had been on the police force. When it came to the various calls, however, the new man's previous experi ence wasn't any good to him, for all the calling he had done while a guardian of the peace was on his favorite servant girls on his beat and at the side doors of saloons. At length the conductor got tired and re marked: "See here, cully; when we stop at a sta tion you listen to me an' then holler out the same for your end of the car. See?" The new man thought he did, and the train went on. The first station was Chatham Square and the conductor roared: "Chatham Square! Change cars for Sec ond avenuel" "Same at this end!" shouted the new man, and everybody laughed everybody but the conductor. The elevated railroad is the biggest and cheapest funny show in town. ' Merrily yours, Mah.sttat.t. p. Wildee. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. By5X GOSSIP OF THE GUARD. CiPTArs A. P. SHAniroir, of the Washington Infantry, Is confined to his home with a badly sprained ankle. Adjutant Gkserai. HcCleixand and Gen eral Snowden spent the greater part of last week in Chicago on business connected with the military display at the World's Fair. Ihspectok Gtctxral McKuncr qualified on the ranqe of the Eighteenth Segiment last week with a score of 40. It was Colonel Mc Kibbin's first attempt at shooting, and the score was a good one' The National Lancers of Boston, a crack Eastern military organization, Is making a tour of the South In a body. The organiza tion is 90 strong, and last week it was re ceived by President Harrison in Wash Ington. Tax regular monthly meeting of the Wash ington Infantry will be held in the armory on next Tuesday evenlnsr, November 3, at 8 o'clock. A fall turnout Is requested, as bus iness of importance to every member will be transacted. Lieutbsajit Jons Post, of the Eighteenth Begiment, Is proving himself quite a terror to the toughs who infest the vicinity of the regimental armory. Last week he arrested two of.them, and they are now rusticating in the connty jail as a consequence. Coxpa3t I, of McKeesport, has sucoeeded in getting a new rifle range on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio road. It 13 said to be a good one, and will have all tho distances up to 630 yards The company held its annual shoot on the Saltworks range yesterday. Captaut W. H. Wasszli. received his or ders from tlie War Department in Washing ton last week, and will leave for Fort Keoxh, Montana, about the 10th of November. Mr. Wassell has been assigned to the Indian company attached to the Twenty-second In fantry. Tee annual report of the Adjutant General of New York shows tne State forces October 1 to be: Fourteen regiments, one battalion of infantry and 43 separate companies of in fantry, S battalions of artillery, 1 troop of cavalry, and S signal corps. There are 751 officers and 12,992 enlisted men in tho Now York service, and it has been decided to re place the Remington rifle which they now have by the modern Springfieldrlfle,as used in Pennsylvania. The shoot for the marksmen's buttons offered by Captain Henry Schmidt, of Com pany A, Fourteenth Regiment, took plate last Thursday afternoon on the Saltworks range of the Fourteenth Regiment. There were two entries from eaoh of the regiments, and one from Battery B. Corporal Stewart of the battery, and Sergeant Templeton, of the Fourteenth, tied for first place, hut in the shoot off Templeton won. Tho scores were: Templeton, 71; Stewart, 74; Turner, 67; Knox, E3, and Brody, 49. The possible score was 100. The much talked of match between Serge ant Templeton, of Company A, Fourteenth Regiment, and Lieutenant Hull, of Company B, took place last Monday at Saltworks. The Bhoot was for a purse of $50, and was won by Templeton with a score of SS. Lieutenant Hull's score was 8L Hull was the winner of the Robb medal a few weeks ago, and the match last Monday was the result of tho first contest. Sergeant Templeton's score was a remarkably good one, and places him In the front ranks or shooters in Western Pennsyl vania. Another match between the same men is spoken of. AcooBBtiro to a circular Issued by Colonel Herman Osthans, the General Inspector of nine rraccice, tno season or rifle practice has been extended to November 14. The season was to have closed yesterday, but in view of the good weather and the general desire in the First and 8econd Brigades for an extension, two weeks additional has been added in which to qualify men. According to the new order, regimental inspectors mnst have their consolidated reports in the hands of the brigade ordnance officers by NoTfimhflr fi n-r thv will nnt hn InMnrtArl In the regimental ratings and will be too late for publication. Orders have been Issued by General Snowden for the court-martial of Colonel W. B. Smith and Lieutenant Bell, both of the Third Regiment. The court will sit at division headquarters in Philadelphia No vember 17, and will be composed of General Gobin, Colonel Hawkins, of tne Tenth Regi ment; uoionei ecnaii, oi tnemxtu .Regiment; Colonel Smith, of the Eighteenth Regiment; Colonel Frank Magee, of the Eighth Regi ment, and Lieutenant Colonel Cuyler as Judge advocate. The officers selected by General Snowden are the oldest command ants in tne tnree Drigaaes and most of them veterans of the late war. No nonsense will be allowed with the court and the charges against Colonel Smith will bo sifted to the bottom. Of course the possibility of the dlsbandment of the Third Regiment is the principal topio of discussion In the First Jtngaue, ana. as a consequence, considerable figuring Is being Indulged in as to the own ership of the armory building In case of such an event It was built by popular sub scription, hut maintained by the State. The final ownership wonld evidently have to ba settled by a law suit Aonre 1 '.w.4j ,V1C31Ma'SaUARrFETtt GROUND FLOOR The various factories already built at Ellwood will employ 1,500 peo ple, and more to follow. THE DERWENT FOUNDRY COMPANY Have just completed contracts to immediately start a stbve and light castings foundry at Ellwood. All this is because ELLWOOD'S SITUATION FOR BUSINESS IS UNSURPASSED. On two Trunk Lines and another!) coming in, affording competitiva freight rates, through shipments, no switching charges, no transfer charges. Ellwood has coal, fire clay, glass sand, building stone, limestone, nat ural gas, electric lights. The 160 houses built within the year (average value 1,800) are all taken, and over Jtioo applications in advance for houses to rent so buy and build at Ellwood; you can make 20 per cent a year at present prices. Wanted More houses for the employes that will be at Ellwood within six weeks. "jiiZXZv&SXiynA '-..'kafciwi PR5TEVNS0NS JIDEflCE.. Beautiful "p --' vw it-a1 -wsj All of it is charming, 3- mJffC' but the 100 acres Come and see what nature Is also an ideal place for a home. I of parks on the Conoquenessing is a fairyland has done anfj enterprise is doing, Ellwood is not being rushed off for commissions, but is being DE. VELOPED FOR FUTURE VALUES. The sort of place to invest in. CALL ON OR WRITE THE PITTSBURG COMPANY, MERRETT GREENE, General Manager, 108 FOURTH AVE., Pittsburg, Or HOTEL OLIVER, Ellwood, Pa. nol-124 . "Economy" and 'Elegance" are words ihat stand out promt nenty in the vocabulary of this great department. A FEW WORDS IN RELATION TO OUR FAMOUS ART EMBROIDERY DEPARTMENT. IF IF you are one of those persons who delight in paying est travagant prices for everything they buy, you will no$ , likely be interested in what we have to say to-day. however, you desire to make your purchases at an estab 5 lishment where the most complete line of art embroidery goods in this part of the country is shown, we know YOU WILL BE INTERESTED. 1 i L TFIU Sell Cheap. Forty head horses suitable for express, draught, light delivery, e.tc Call at Eoyal Horse Association, Limited. Moore Floyd, Agt, 412 Suquesne way. EIFCK 1 -FOE Dwellings, Stores, Churches, -AND- Public Buildings of All Kinds. The very best effects in CEILING FKEIZE CHANDELIEE, ELECTRO-COMBINATION CHANDELIERS and BRACKETS accom plished by ns. Everything that is new, that will cive satisfactory results, can be found only in onr stock. Ton will find it to your interest to figure with us, as we can teliyou a great deal y.-u ought to know about elec tric lighting. Our whole time and attention, backed by many yeara of experience, is given solely to this business. The very best worjemen to He round in this country, espe cially skilled In this work, only employed. Special designs furnished at any time. Gas Chandeliers altered into Straight Electric or Combination-Electric Fixtures at small cost with very best results. GEO. C. VAN KIRK & CO., ' 631-033 WOOD ST. EOOMS 308, 309, 310, 312. 0C2W3 "p low prices were the only recommendation we could ofTef 1 for this department, you might in justice consider it a very poor one. rut combine the low prices with thq quality of every article in our Art Department which is always of the highest standard and you have the strongest combinad tion known in the business world. We keep everything pertaining to this line from the elab orately executed made up articles to the smallest "trifles" J those numberless little things so necessary to the "finishing touches," as the ladies say. Don't look for an enumeration ot our complete stock of these goods in the appended list Let your imagination supply the varieties of each article we ars sure we can please and satisfy you. Eipisite DBGoratlons 1 i Mb. STAMPED LINEN GOODS. The bewildering variety of these popular goods (p a revelation to the average cus tomer. Everything that is pretty and novel in the way of Doylie, Bureau Scarfs, Dresser Scarfs, Table Scarfs and Squares, Tray and Carving Cloths, Splashers and Tidies is here shown in every variety of hemstitched Linen, Damask and Slomie Cloths, both in the new Dresden and plain designs. Newest patterns of flowered plushes for lambrequin borders. .flush fillows ana xaoie uovers. FRINGES, LAMP SHADES, ETC, Our assortment of Tassel and Loop Fringes includes all qualities from 8e ta ?1 60 a yard tasty combinations. Pull lines of hand-woven Crashes, Screens, Linen and Hollywood Canvases. Fancy Baskets in profusion. Chenille Table Covers, 4x4, 6x4, 8x4 and 12x4 plain and fringed, dark and light shades. We make and drape to order Lambrequins, Tidies, Lamp Shades, etc. Sash Curtain materials In bordered ".1-;- . ...- .... . oasu vjurcain materials in Doruereo One hundred patterns of flowered Silks, woven and hand-dotted Swiss, Pongee and NeyerKnowntoFail. Tarrant's Extract of Cnbebs and Copaiba, tho best remedy lorall diseases of the urinary organs. Its portable, form, freedom fi-om taste and speedyaction (frequently curing In three or four days and alwaysin less time than any other preparation), make "Tarrant's Ex tract" the most desir able remedy ever man ufactured. AH genuine has red, strip across face of label, with- signature of Tarrant A Co.. New York.TiTon it. Price. SL" Sold by J.all druggists. ocSff-M&ro- J 32 inches wide, at 75c and SI newest de signs. We also show every shade in plain silks, 20 and 32 inches wide, to match. The famous Art Embroidery Silks (Hem. in way's); also, Bargarren's Art Threads in every variety to match all materials in stock. Full line of Tarns. SCREENS. We show a fine new lot of Bamboo and Oak Screens in siasle, two and three fold. Also, white enameled Screens, Cabinets, Towel Backs, etc. Bamboo Picture Easels, newest patterns, at prices much below what other houses ask. See this line of Screens, Easels, etc., and I eonvmce yoursen mat we oner many ad vantages to customers. Cretonnes. We have at all times a fresh, new line oi made-up Scarfs, Toilet Sets, Pin Cushion Sofa Pillows and Head Bests, suitable fot weddint; presents and gifts. New Nottingham and Irish Point Car tains, ecru and white over 100 diflereai patterns. J Plain and fancy Portieres with cords s match. Curtain Poles and Trimmlnga. Brass Bods cut to order. Stamping done while you wait. There are in this stupendous stockratleaM 1,000 more articles, large and small, bu we'll not describe them to-day. Enougsj has been said to give you a fairly good ids I .. w - ,-.;- -S . .. ' I oi the extent ot our coueciioa ot an east I broidjery goods. leaun$ 510-518 MARKET STREET. nel-i jsBsskjgi;&&., . j&t.t -saJfeiflJssiSiJilsKlf Adyfo, tpiJZi.J:ij'ifr:2cSl -jfeirisiiili Vi'TiSi ffffctfj' li slI r AJwi'M&M ,-SSi'i si-JaSSh; a -1 fejSfeTJiRyipC-yy KlJ5Sj
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