fi9PS WF7"-&f!7n m 18 THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, SUNDAY, NOYEMBER ' 1, "J89I. self back against the cushions of the car riage, disheartened, disgusted. From this ambuscade of shadow he could watch his mother, on whom the lamplicht fell with somewhat cruelly telling ardor. She had not markedly altered during the long interval which had preceded their last meeting. Her figure was still of that fine if somewhat too masculine molding which had won her, years ago, many a compliment at the court of her imperial cousin. Her face was just as firmly chiseled as of old, with its aquiline arc of "nostril and its over fuU eyeballs too closely set together, im plying both narrowness of judgment and a voluble art of defend.ng it. Her hands, now cased in somber traveling gloves, just as her form was robed in a dark traveling gown of perfect fit, retained their happy grace of gesture, not too reposeful, not too emphatic. "I kiss the most beautiful hand inEurope," a famous conqueror had once raid to her, and the courtesy had echoed from court to court. But on her chill ips dwelt the old insolent curve, though a few subtle little wrinkles had crept in dainty mockery about their corners. Her hair, once abundant and dark-shining, was visibly thinned and silvered at the temples. Other wise she continued to be the Princess of Brindisi. distinguished in evcrv movement of her frame, an incarnate quintessence of the aristocratic idea, redolent of pride, in tolerance and the most vicious aims which caste had created in spite of Christianity, and preserved in spite of all human progress. S Her reception at the palace displeased her more than the previous welcome had done. She had really been delayed in her journey to the frontier by an accident on one of the trains, but this fact seemed to her no possible reason why royalty should not have immediate and sumptuous means at its command for treating her with the same homage by night as by day. "A King," she said to her son, when at last they were alone together in a suite of chambers which even she, prepared to cavil and to damn with faint praise, could not bnt frankly admire for their simple yet noble splendor. "A King, my dear Clarimond, should never be causht without his magnificence." "If I were in any sense a great King ' began Clarimond, with a laugh. But the Princess stopped him frowningly. "You're a very notable and rich one," she said; " almost as rich as the Emperor him self." 'Well, granted." "Almost as rich," she went on, with a bitter laugh, "as an American. " "Oh, they're not all so rich, by any means. And you hate them as much as . ever?" "They are barbarians," announced the Princess, leaning back in her chair and be ginning to fan herself. "How we differ, you and II" "Oh, naturally since you've made one of them your bosom friend, my son, and let him tear to piecesthe loveliest and most time honored -pot in Saltravia." Clarimond gave a weary smile. "Wait nntil you see the changes Eric Thaxter has wrought before you so coldly condemn them." "I don't need to see them." "Oh, my mother, my mother!" "Were not those homes of our great nobles filled with the moit reverend asso ciations, legends and traditions?" "Ihey were frightfully ugly, and cursed by a most villainous drainage. If you could s-ee the improvement in our health reports since their demolition! As for their age, the hideous is ever young, since taste almost icrnores its very existence, while the beautiful, bcing an immortal element, has existed for all time. I think you have already seen something of the palace. Surely you would not say that you prefer to it that majestic shanty "in which my poor predecessor died. Eric's work has de lighted more than one of the most famouj architects in Paris. He is a genius, and I was luckv enough to discover him. He is an American, and for that reason you detest him." "Deluce me with words, if you will," said the Princess, and she smiled her iciest smile "The palacs is handsome, but it smells of lresh paint, so to speak, and I am sure that when I see its white marble grandeurs I shall only repeat the verdict already conveyed to me in Italy by the most competent judges that it does not betray a sign of genius, but is just what hundreds of clever Americans could have accomplished if g: en the same tremendous carte blanche which you gave er to that person." "But I thought yon enntidcred all Ameri cans barbarians?" the King replied, lifting his brows a little and beginning to pace the spacious waxed floor of the grand apart ment, with head somewhat drooped and hands clasped behind him. "How you take one up! You should remember that I am you.- mother, not your courtier." "I have no courtiers. I've dispensed with all that flummery." "Oh, indeed! And you wi" soon be giv ing your portfolio o state, no doubt, to this American nobody." "The American nobody, as you call him, would not accept it. He is an artist, and politics, like all ugly things, are repellent to artist"." The Princess heaved a resonant and irri tated sigh. "Worse and worse," she mut tered. "God has called you to be King oier thib land where vour ancestors have ruled lor nearly a thousand years," she went on, in strained, passionate lalsctto. "Yet you seem to me on the verge of fling ing vour responsibilities to the winds of casting vour holy and annointed crown in the mud'of the common highways!" At this point Clarimond ceased from his Impatient valk and paused directly in front of his mother. Flashes lelt his eyes thaj bespoke irony and yet earnestness as well. He had become quite pale and his demeanor, always lull of dignity, was never statelier than now. "We might as well understand one an other," he began, "if such a result can ever be attained between two spirits as wholly opposite as yours and mine. "Were it possi ble for me to abdicate to-morrow and make Saltravia a republic like Switzerland, in stead of the petty, subservient monarchy that it is, I would "give p my throne with the most cheerful renunciation." 'Clarimond"' "But I know too well," he resumed, with loudening voice and a curl of the lip far more sad than spleenful, "that any such act as this would only rouse the wrath of the Emperor and plunge my poor country in untold distress. Hence I must remain the miserable parody of a King that I am 1, pierced with disgust for the paltry preten tions of all sovereigns, loving the broad, popular impulse ot self-government with a love drawn trom intuition, reflection and the wisdom of the world's highest thinkers. My late is both a piteous and a terrible one!" He grew still pale-, "now, and for a moment covered his face with both hands, while a tremor stirred his frame like a sud den breeze that grasps a sturdy tree. "On every side of me I discern." he pursued, "the richest chances of rai' ing, not merely this race over whien I rule, but of setting to all mankind an example of liberty, fra ternity, fellowship! And yet my limbs are bound with bonds, golden, if you please, but bonds that I cannot break. If I were only less of a King J might be more of a man. If I were only more of a King I might be less of a slave!" "A 6lave! Clarimond! Ton do notmerely shock, you horrity me!" "Mother!" he cried, advancing toward her as she rose, "there are times when I horrify mvself ! If I were the Emperor this hour I would make Eirope ring with my self-abnegations, my revolts against abhor rent creeds, my mercy and pity for those vast throngs of the crushed and despised people whom centuries of injustice have cursed! I am one of them, heart and soul. They tell me that history repeats itself. 2To; it contradicts itself; and such a King as I the-incarnate satire on all despotisms, outrages, feudalisms of the past is one of history's harshest contradictions!" His" excitement had flared up like live flame, but in an instant more it died, and lie was again his calm sel The Princess, however, returned to her chair with ashen face and a stageering .step. AYords like these were literal" blows of insult to her; they wrought in her the same sensation as the hooting of a mob at "her window would have done, or a volley of stones flung into her carriage. i "The fault has been mine-minel" she ex 1 claimed brokenly, as soon as any voice at all come to her. "I-I left you among yonr father's people, and they have always flown in the face of order, with their horrid heresies and paganisms. For you to feel as you tell me, Clarimond, is in my sight a fearful b'aspheniy," and here the" Princess ' wrune her beautiful white hands. "But still, my sn', if you think like this, you ne.d m not, for such reason, act like this. And at once yes, at once, Clarimond I wish to speak to you of vour possible mar riage. You have already seen Bianca d' Este. That she is lovely in face and form it will be foolish even to remind you; no one can look on her without conceding thus much. But her nature is no less winsome than her person. I have dreamed of mak ing her your wife; I-I will not say that I have come here with this positive purpose, but it has held over me an undoubted sway. Such a marriage as that would work in you the most helpful and steadying changes. Oh, don't fancy that I mean for you to take Bianca as if she were a dose of medicine I She has had men of the highest rank at her feet, and refused them; she is capti rating, as you will soon see, apart from her name, her birth, yes, even trom her beauty. I mean that she is aceomplished in a hun dred pretty, appalling ways, which adorn her native" strength of character like the en ameling of silver. Still, in spirit, this dear girl is already dedicated to the church, and and perhapi if you were to lay your cr wn before her she would sweetly yet firmly reluse it. But ah, my Clairimond, if she should bend that golden head of hers for you to set it there, how invaluable would prove her n ifehood! Her queenhood, too, I should say, and yon would revere in her both qualities. By degrees her influence would tranquilize'in your fevered mind all these wild and fruitless longings which are the fatal pride of intellect alone. You would slowly realize that kings are the sa cred vicars of God's will, and that the only safe watchword of the great, common, wit less mass is "obedience." You would slowly realize, again, my uear son But here Clarimond ventured an inter ruption. He had borne much from his mother in the past; he was prepared to bear much from her in the future, since it al ready it had grown clear to him that she had "arrived with the intention of a per manent sojourn. But just now. notwith standing that late effort at self control which had resulted so successfully, the King once more felt his nerves in danger of tumult. Ho had never behavsd to his mother with the faintest lack of respectful gallantry; he was indeed incapable of any act toward her except one of gentleness and tolen"-on, no matter how exacting or imperious might have been her own atti tude. Nevertheless, he had in readiness at his mental command a certain quiet yet cogent force of repulsion, which his great position made it no: seldom requisite for him to employ, and which he did not hesi tate to employ now. "ily dear mother," he said, bending over her hand and touching it lightly with his lips, "you sur61y musi be fatigued with your journey; and' if you will nermij I will send to you your women. Perhaps I have been too reckless in m; recent confidences, and if so, pray remembe ' that 'have uttered them in no ro'le of persona' resentment. As for the young lady whom you have brought to Saltravia with the expectation of making her my wife, it would be idle in me to nlace the attractions of either my throne or my personality against those of her mother church. Surely she will there find pro- founder consolation man any ;nat my more limited resources could bestow." This, even from son to mother was a sort of royal dismissal. But the Princess, who might be go; rid of for a night, could not be waived aside more durably. As one of her detested Americans might have said, she had come to stay- The King now lelt him self in Etraits with regard to the due recep tion and entertainment of Alonzo. On the following aay he and Eric presented them selves at the palace, and an hour or two of the most pleasant intercourse ensued. Alonzo, after visiting with the King those great galleries on whose walls blank spaces were left for the pictures that he would probably bring to them,f elt immensely drawn toward his newmaster. In a few more days he started on the first of his missions, one that took him among certain old monas teries ia the North of Italy. Meanwhile the King bored himself with etiquette and precedent under the keen scrutiny of his mother. The Princess would not lift an eyelid unless court custom sanctioned it. Sue managed, during that summer and the next autumn, to gather about herself a little coterie of supporters, and for a lime a new political party was talked of. But her son's entire indifference may have gone far to prevent such imprudent measures. ''My mother has tortured us for eight weeks," Clarimond at last said to Eric. "I wonder how much longer she will insist upon making it a crime lor a man to be seen smoking a cigarette within 20 yards of her, even enplane air." "What is the punishment for such a crime?" asked Eric, who had thus far been simply repelled by the Princess, never pre suming to cross th'e threshold of any cham ber in which she chose to enshrine her august presence. "Decapitation, I believe," said the King, tragi-comically. "My dear Eric" he went on, "is not everything quite spoiled?" '"We had thought of a sham revolution, Lonz and I," began Eric. And ihcn he de scribed, in terte and swift pi rase, an im aginary fete, where the court would play parts of masquerading martyrs and suppli ants and the palace would be stormed by supposititious insurgents." "Delightful," said Clarimond. "What 'a lark to speak your American slang ! We would give sancuinary orders to the maitro d' hotel. Plemy of blood and heads on spikes thrust in at the windows. Every body would be mook-terrified until supper time, and then it would all end in amical beakers. Did your beloved Alonzo suggest that? No. I need not ask, Eric. It is too distinctly you." "It is he, not I, replied Erie, fibbing shamelessly. "When you kflow him better you will accredit him with the originality of the idea." "1 know him well enough," said the King, "to accredit him with much inventiveness. But my mother " "Ah, yes, vour majesty, J. "Tut, tut, Eric. If you 'Majesty ma I will exile you from Saltravia." "Pardon, monsieur, it was a slip." "Don't let the slip occur again. But the Princess would never consent to tuch a fete. It would satirize too fiercely her well-known prejudices. 'Lonz," as you, call him, will soon be back with some treasures." Alonzo returned within the week, and greatly pleased his new employer by one or two shrewd selections in the way cf pur chase. But when October had waned and the Princess had given every sign that she did not choose to reseek her dear Italy, Clarimond declared himself piteously hand icapped. Bianca d' Este was forever thrust at him, and the young lady's 'accom plishments' were made as drearily ordinary to him as the details of his toast'and coffee at breakfast time. He could discover in Bianca nothing that interested him. The winter began and the court had become, under the Princess' haughty surveilance, one sombre monotony. Winter in Saltravia was never severe; snow fell and blasts blew, bnt seldom with harsh result. Alonzo, thoroughly fitted to his new position, ac quitted himself with skill and tact. He made several new journeys, and each bore its fine artistic fruit. The King beeame al most as devotedly his friend as he was the friend of Eric. When a fresh spring had lavished its green beauty on the Saltravian hills. Eric declared to his fellow lodger: "I am positively jealous of you, my dear Lonz. Jealousy, you know, is I the touch stone of friendship. You leave me no re source with the King exceptthat of slander. I must whisper insidious things about you in the ear of Clarimond." "As if you could, Eric!" said Alonzo. "Oh, I'm quite capable of it, I assure you," said Eric. "I'll get the Princess to' poison you. Still, no, on second thought, I can't. She's entirely too strong a hater of our trans-Atlantic Republic. If I talked with her about that Borgian Burgundy for you she would be certain to snub ma for wishing to give yon so Old World and aris tocratic an extinction." The Princess, though much more prosaio than a Borgia, had already contrived to make her son's little court a nest of discon tentments. Her severities, her arraigning edicts, had bathed in gloom all the merry abandon of Clarimond's environment, and by the time that May touched the valley with its tender promises she had filled it also with feuds and bickerings. It was her wish that the hotels adjacent to the springs should be closed permanently, but on this point the King showed firm disfavor. "The waters are wonderfully healing," he said. "Let those who choose come and drink of them." "Bah," said his mother, "My dear Clari mond, you cheapen your charming little kingdom. And then those unspeakable Americans." "Unspeakable indaed, said the Krnf, "inoccasional instances." What do you mean?" asked the Princess, with a start "I mean the enchanting American lady of whom I caught a glimpse last evening," he replied. "I've not yet found out her name, but Eric has promised to get it for me. Perhaps Lispenard might know her, but as you are probably aware, he is now in Munich." The Princess gnawed her nether lip and said nothing. Her son's civilities to Bianca d' Este had not been half as accentuated, of late, as she desired them to be. TThe name of this "enchanting young American lad?," in whom the King found himself unccmmonly interested, was Kath leen Kennaird. On" the morrow Eric Thax ter made that discovery, and at once im parted it to Clarimond. For some reason Eric refrained from mentioning the former relations between Kathleen and his absent friend. All the time,however,he was telling himself that it was a very small world and wondering if Alonzo wonld not agree with him to this effeot when he returned from Munich. "I should like greatly to know that girl," the King said to Erio a day or .two later. "Her face some how haunts me. Do what you can about it, won't yon?" If Mrs. Kennaird had heard those words from royal lips it is certain that her heart would have given a very lofty leap indeed. ITo Be Continued foot Saturday.! BZSTATfBAIIIS 07 BBBLTJT. A Man "Who likes Good Livlnc Need Not Spend Over a Dollar a Day. The fine hotel and first-class restaurants of Berlin, of course, charge good prices, al though not so high as in Boston and Pitts burg, writes Edmund Hudson, in the Boston Herald. But I have no difficulty in getting a very good dinner (five courses) for 87J cents, with an excellent bottle of wine for as much more. This dinner is served to me in an elegant restaurant, whose street front is one great sheet of plate glass, and who-ie interior decorations are elegant. The waiter is as good as any at Parker's or Ne well's. If I choose to go to the old part of Berlin, I can have an excellent mid-day meal for half a mark (12 cents), and a glass of beer costs there only 24 cents. At some of the larger restaurants and coffee houses, beer costs 7J cents, but the glass is a large one. The price of beer to the aver age berliner is 2 cents, or 2 cents at the cheaper places. The ordinary first breakfast of the BeT liner costs at a coffee-house on Unter den Linden, ner the Friedriohstrasse, 12 cents. It consists of two eggs, a glass of coffee and bread or sweet cakes. At this place no fee is paid to the waiter, all pay ments being made by the patrons to the cashier at the desk. A stranger can fare well in Berlin for 50 cents a day if ha chootcs to do so, and I do not see why one could not live here comfortably the year round for (I a day. THE IADS 07 EOYALTT. TFluit They Do In the Way of CoTlecthqrand, Preserving Oddities. Pan Hall Gazette. The Prince of Wales,as everybody knows, is a diligent collector of pipes, but he is not by any means the only one among European royalties who indulges In the "collecting VL" The Czar of all the Bussias, for in stance, collects stamps and the eggs of birds of prey; "William, of Germany, has a fine collection of autographs, the passion for which he shares with his "brothers,"-tho Kings of Bonmania and Sweden. The Queen of Italy.again, gathers is what shoes and gloves she can that have been worn by sovereigns of the past and present. She is the proud possessor of the shoes of Marie Antoinette, of Mary Stuart, the Empress Josephine, Queen Anne and the Empress Catherine of Bussia, The latter were the present of her son, the Prinoe of Naples, who brought them last year from St. Petersburg. TKS GOVERNMENTS BTJPP0BT IX The Cape Spartel Lighthouse, 'Which is the Ward of Many Nations. KewTorkSun.l This lighthouse stands on the extreme northwest coast of Africa, and its name is the Cape Spartel Lighthouse. It is a fine and solid piece of stone work. The Government of Morocco thought It was very hardly treated when it was com pelled to build this lighthouse. The other Governments requested Morocco to build the lighthouse as an aid to navigators, but Morocco bluntly refused. Then diplomatio pressure was brought to bear, and, with the united voice of th'e commercial nations de manding that he -adorn Cape Spartel with a lighthouse, the Sulton consented after con siderable grumbling. The contract was given to a French firm and a French en gineer superintended the building enter prise. 5lu: The Cape Spartel Lighthouse. The lighthouse is noteworthy also for the remarkable manner in which it is sup ported. Ten Governments contribute a fixed sum annually to keep its light burn ing. The agreement with Morocco was that if the Sultan would build the lighthouse, the other nations would attend to its main tenance. Ten of them, therefore, contribute annually $300 apiece, aud this money paysfor the services of the lighthouse keeper and his assistants and the oil a:d other material needed. The foreign diplomatic agents at Tangier form the Board,of Lighthouse Su pervisors, and the Moroccan Government has nothing to do with the management. Cape Trafalgar is plainly in sight to the north. It was here that the great naval battle was fo ught on October 22, 1805, when Kelson defeated the French-Spanish fleet. A Case of Seif-PraUe. mnadehihia Times. J "ThatDudeley has the oddest way of blowing about and puffing himself." "What did he say?.' "He was boasting this morning that he was sick last year with inflammation of the brain. I This Is Told for Troth. Harper's Young People.i A tame rattlesnake belonging to an Ari zona farmer sleeps every night on the front gate of his owner's garden, coiling himself around the gate and gatepost, so that a lock and chain to keep out intruders are not needed. Jn- PATHS THROUGH ROCK. Some Daring Engineering Feats In the Streets of Pittsburg, OPEmTO.THE BLUFF DISTRICTS. Bock Work Unequaled on the Penniy at Locust and Boyd Street!. TELEGRAPH POLES IN TO SHADOWS rwzmxx vos nn istiaca. xtiiST8 are constructed i n Pittsburg with rare engineering daring. Chicago used to boast a great deal about the difficult task she accomplished In raising the level of her streets from 8 to 10 feet, elevating immense hotels, stores and c h u r ches b y means of steam jack-screws, and filling in the ground under them. But when this is said, all is said, for Chicago is built upon a plain with only a fall of 14 feet from the old western line of the City of tie Lake, and It was about as easy to lay out her regular, level streets as it would be to pencil off a checker-board on a paper tablet. Boston engineers never had the heart or backbone to attempt to straighten the crooked streets of that city, or widen its narrow ones. They said to the architects : "Here, we can't do anything with these hpaqtlv nllpva? vrni make the hpst of them." So to-day late descriptions of Boston read : I "The city contains 350 miles of streets. In j the older portions many are crooked and narrow, but after the fire of 1872 advantage was taken of this feature to make architect ural effects in the new buildings, which are very pleasing, and would have been impos sible had the streets been more regularly laid out." IN BALTIMORE AND PHILADELPHIA. Baltimore shirked engineering problems in the Bame manner, only it' turned its streets over to the landscape gardener in stead of the architect, and such spots as Eutaw Place, Mount Vernon Square, and Druid Hill were the result pretty enough, it is true, but not- a comparison to what Baltimore would look like if some of her unsightly "humps" were graded off. Philadelphia never had respect enough for herself to even improve what easily made thoroughfares she has, and her cobble-stone pavements still attest that statement. Phila delphia was built more than a century ago. and thus she stands to-day. Her level streets Locust Street, Looking East. Intersected one another at right angles, and furnished employment for neither the en gineer, architect nor gardener. At last the mathematician got hold of them, and upon the paralellograms resulting from the regu lar monotonous occurrence of corners, based a comprehensive system of numbering houses. It was a schoolboy sort ot idea. The mora profound qnestions of street util ity and improvement will await the removal of Pittsburgers to that ancient Delphian vale. But Pittsburg municipal engineering has never yet been staggered. It conceived the eutting away of the Fifth avenue "hump," and it proposed the widening of Diamond street. PITTSBURO DOESN'T LIKE PLATS. Some feats not so well known as these are what I have in my mind just now. To hew streets through solid rock might strike some cities as too expensive and impracticable wild schemes, perhaps. With us such enter- E rises are public economy. Pittsburg has een growing for many years past in a way that older cities s-em to be totally unable to realize. Her thrifty people think that it is safer to put money into land than in the pock ets of landlords who own "sky-scrapers." This explains two peculiar tilings about Pittsburg; first, why "flats" have never been built here for residence purposes; second, why so many thousands of homes cling to dizzy hill sides. Not until every foot of ground around the city has been bought and built upon, will the 10, 15 and 20-story "flats" flourish here, and it doesn't matter a fig whether th'e ground is on the level of Smithfield street or 400 feet above Penn avenne. It's land all the same, and the 60-foot lot that far above Carson street is hidden by the morning fogs of the Monongahela river, one-third of the whole year, is just as val uable to its artisan owner as the old post office corner is to Its prospective bidders. The hillside lot has made one more resident of Pittsburg a free-holder, perhaps, and the more free-holders the city has the more solid must her foundations become. BTEROWIS-O IN THE BOCK. Shingess street was one of the steep thor oughfares with which the city had to follow these small property holders up the hill southeast of the Court House. Then the' people began to spread east and west upon that mountain. They had ascended by Magee street also, and extended their line of homes toward Shingess street. But mid way between these two streets there arose a rock-ribbed promontory. It was an effectual barrier to communication between the two points. If a resident of Shingess street wished to call npon friends in Magee street he haa to descend to Forbes street, at least, and make a detour in the - shape of semi circle. The businesthat grew up with that neighborhood was interfered with, and so the city authorities undertook to burrow out .a communicating street through that hill of rock. This was named Locust street That part of it from Magee to Shingiss street is only 2,000 feet long. In that distance Evan Jones, the contractor, removed 75,000 yards of rock, 60,000 of which was solid blue rock that could only be torn out by thousands of pounds of powder. It is a misapplication of terms to say that Locust street was dug through the hill. Powder and dynamite was substituted for the pick and spade, and it was literally blasted through. THE BUILDING OF BOXD STBEET. The value of 'property in that locality continued to increase, more homes were erected and additional population was planted in this out of the way quarter. Not long ago there came a demand for still better means of accessibility another street was wanted. An ordinance went through City Councils locating Boyd street, from Forbes to Locust street. It is but a short distance, but again it was through the heart of a stonequarry. However. Locust street itself bad been hewn out of rock, aud now it needed another outlet, and why should a rock deposit interfere? It didn't. Boyd street is now approaching comple tion. Some tons of explosives were used upon it also, and thousands of yards of rock parted awav. The junction' which Bovd Ltreet forms with Locust is perhaps the moat Imposing "corner" in Pennsylvania for nat ural embellishment. There is not to be fonnd on the mountain division of the Penn sylvania Bailroad a more striking specimen of heavy rock work than right here. Look ing up Boyd street you will see a huge over hanging rock, the top of which is like a massive table. From back of this sweeps a canyon it is Locust street against the back wall of which Boyd street comes to an end. That opposite side of Locust street is a crag of rock, or solid wall, on top of which are erected several houses. A SUGAR-LOAF 07 BOCK. Passing around Locust street in the other direction, I faced the great mass of rock left standing at the corner of Boyd and Locust with the camera. Theaccompany:ngphoto graph conveys a truthful idea of the ap pearance of this sugar-loaf of blue rock. It is SO feet high and overtops the neighbor ing telegrapn poles. Looking straight up Xocust street the depth of the cut through the rock is readily comprehended. It varied from 60 down to 30 feet In all the hill districts of Pittsburg more or less of this heavy work is encountered in opening and improving streets. On Web ster avenue, from Kirkpatrick to Sumner streets, probably 800 feet of shale rock was excavated. There was considerable of it along Center avenue when it was extended toward the East End. Booth & Flinn had to construct their heaviest machinery for that thoroughfare and some others opened within the past 1& and 15 years. "Soho street and Liberty avenue, as well as some parts of Sylvan avenue, produced great quantities of rock. The continuation of Barton street toward Forbes is another and a later bit of heavy work in street con struction. WHAT THE WORlt COSTS. It costs from two to three times as much to hew a street through rock as it does to dig it out from yielding earth. On account of so much rock excavation here, a general classification of prices has come to be recog nized, which, perhaps would not be found in a city of Cnicago's level character. In Sock at Boyd and Locust Streets. round numbers this maybe stated to be from 25 to 35 cents per yard for street ex cavation in common earth; from 35 to 45 cents per yard through shale rock; from 60 to 80 cents for work in solid rock. One of the most potent factors in making up a contractor's estimate on street con struction, however, is the peculiar geo graphical features of Pittsburg. "Dumps" cannot be established frequently in the lower part of the city for this reason, and when a contractor has to haul his wasron loads of rock and dirt from one to two miles before he find a place for it, it adds to the cost. One contractor tells me that for this reason the cost of the street work is one third higher in the old city than elsewhere. But long haul or short haul, rocks, shale, or dirt, it pays Pittsburg to have plenty of streets. Natural obstacles are surmounted with skill and fearlessness, and were the Supreme Court so readily mastered, our streets would rank with the best in the country. L. E. Stofiel. FEELING IN AN ABSENT ABX. The Remarkable Tale for Which a Veteran Cheerfully Vouches. The doctors say that a man can feel nothing in the arm that has been cut off, but that is nonsense, says a one-armed veteran in the St. Louis Olobe-Dcmocrat. Any man who has lost an arm or a leg will tell you that the fingers and toes on the missing members sometimes get as cold as any other part of his anatomy. I knew a man who was shot in the arm at Shiloh, and after the battle was over he was taken to a farmhouse near by, where the doctors performed the amputation. The man of the house put the arm in a candle box, nailed it up and buried it in the orchard. The next day the wounded soldier complained that his arm troubled him. It was all doubled up, he said, and the fingers felt cramped. He grumbled for two or three days without" anybody paying much attention to him, for the house was full of wounded men, and the doctoes were too busy to spare the time to look after an amputated arm, but finally the man became so troublesome that they concluded to try a little ex periment. So, without telling him what they were going to do, they went to the orchard, dug up the arm, took it out ot the candle box, laid it straight, placed the fingers in a natural position, wrapped it in cotton batting, put it in a longer box and buried it again. The man declared he felt his arm relieved at the very moment when they were straightening the missing member, and never complained again. They told him nothing of what they had done until he was about to be discharged from the hospital, and then gave him the story in full. G0BGE0US 8AU3AGS SHOPS. In Oermany They are More Splendid Than America's Drng Store Palaces. Boston Herald. J Nothing strikes the Yankee mind as mora curious than the substitution of the sausage for the apothecary shop which he notices everywhere in Germany. The "apotheke" is an infrequent and a modest establishment in Berlin, but the sausage shop blossoms out in all the glories of illuminated tiling, elabo rate cornices and handsome frescoes on all the best streets of the city. Go in to the gay Friederichstrasse and pick out the finest jeweler's shop and the best florist's window, and right between them will be the sausage vender's parlor, fitted out in all the splen dor of Thompson's lunch place by the Sogers building on Washington street Behind the counters are well dressed women, who are evidently employed for their good looks and their neatness. It ap pears that places in these sausage shops are quite as desirable as any mercantile busi ness in which women engage. No wonder Minister Phelps feels proud as he walks about in front of these brilliant windows and reflects that through his persistent ef forts American pork is "in" again. As for the Chicago pork packer, I should sup pose he would have to put leaden weight in his pockets to keep himself down to the ground when he comes to Berlin' and sees how exalted above all other flesh is that of the despised swine which he packethby the carload at bis abattoir on the prairies. TftE C00KEEY OF GEEMANY.' Especially That of the Middle Classes, Not , to Be Compared With the Wine. , Writing of German dishes and drinks, Mrs. M. E. Sherwood says: The curious bill of fare of a middle class German iable is something like this: They begin with a pudding. They serve sweet perserved fruit with the meat, generally stewed cherries. They go on with dreadful dishes of cabbage, preparations of milk,' curdled, soured and cheesed. Dr. Lieber, the learned philologist? was eloquent on the subject of the coarseness of the German appetite. He had hardly cor rected his by a visit to Italy, and he re marked, with his usual profundity, that it was "the more incomprehensible as nature had given Germany the finest wines with which to wash down the worst cookery." A favorite dish is potato pancakes. The raw potatoes are scraped fine,, mixed with milk, and then treated, like flour cakes, served with apple or plum sauce. jA DOCTOR FROM TROT, Thonga He Is Named bnt Three Times in the New Testament, WAS A GBEAT POWER FOE GOOD. Tne Man Was 8fc Lake, Whom St Paul Bent Out With Titus. LESSORS PEOM- HIS LIFITS WOEK pnUTTEJT TtJB THE DISPATCH-l We have sent with him the brother, whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches." St Paul was writing to the church at Corinth. Ho had just informed the Cor inthians in his letter that he was about to send a visitor to their parish in the person of Titus. The mission of Titus was to get money. St. Paul was urging the Cor inthians to show their Christianity by their generosity. The c lurch in Jerusalem was very poor. Nowhere was the old religion bo hostile to the new, nowhere was the old orthodoxy so bitter against the new heresy, as in the'eity of the scribes and pharisecs. Christians lost their places in society and in business. Nobody would associate with a Christian, buy anything from a Christian, or employ a Christian. The Christians needed help. It seemed to St. Paul that ,it would be a help in more ways than one if he could persuade to the assistance of these Hebrew Christians the hearts and purses of the Gentile Christians over in Europe. Generosity on the one side and gratitude on the other would leave no room for parti san misunderstanding. ST. LUKE WEST WITH TITUS. So he wrote to the church at Corinth: and with his letter he sent Titus, who had been at Jerusalem and who knew just how bad things were there. And with Titus he sent "the brother whose praise is in the gospel throughout all the churches." Nobody knows for certain who this brother was, but the probabilities indicate St. Luke. The traditional address of the Corinth letter, set down in the Bible at the end of it, names the messengers to whom it was intrusted "Titu3'and Lucas." The name of Luke is so familiar to us, it stands at the head of so many pages in the New Testament that we learn with some surprise that'it is really written in the New Testament itself only three times. Of course, the authorship of such important books as the Third Gospel and the Acts of the Apos tles was not likely to be a mystery among the people of the eeneration in which they were first read. All men knew who wrote them. And the ono name associated with them from the beginning; as the name of Cicero is associated with his orations and the name of "Virgil with his poems, was the name of Luke. LUKE NEVER THOUOHT OF SELF. , Luke, however, never mentioned his own name at alL The writer of these books had no thought of fame, had no longing after a literary nor even an ecclesiastical reputa tion. He was in possession of certain won derful, valuable and helpful facts, and his whole concern was to get those facts, plain, straight, unadorned, unchanged, into the hearts and minds of the people of his time. St Luke, accordingly, set down nothing about himself. Some have imagined that he "was one of the 70 whom our Lord sent out to preach; others have fancied that they recog nizedtim in one of the two men who were walking out one memorable day to Emmaus. The probability, however, is that St. Luke never looked i to the face ot Christ It is likely that he first heard about the Ufaafa IVnm Sf Tanl Ha Vai a davylila living possibly in Troas where we first find trace of him; a physician. Some think from the acquaintance that he shows with the rigging of a ship, as evidenced in the ac count he gives of a notable wre knff the Island of Melita, that he was a ship doctor; that he had his residence at old Troy there by the water, and plied back and forth in ths -tEgean Sea between the coasts of Mace donia and Asia Minor. PAUL AN INCESSANT 7BEACHEB. Somehow, this physician had come into acquaintance with St. Paul; very likely in the practice of his profession. It 'is probable that St. Paul was never perfectly well. It is certain that mors times than one' he had sore need of a doctor. He may have called in Luke, and while Luke ministered to Paul's body, Paul may have ministered to Luke's soul. That was like St Paul. The one supreme purpose to which that apostle had devoted his whole lite was the preach ing of the gospel; he wanted to make men everywhere know what he had to teach them about Christ Christ the divine example of human manhood; Christ the Savior of sinners; and- he never lost an opportunity. He never did anything ,else but preach. He was never too busy weaving tent-cloth for his daily bread, never too tired on his long journeys, never too sick, to preach. The Christian gospel never won its way in the world by the means of two sermons on a Sunday. It was carried out into that first I century in the hearts of men who were so in earnest anout h xnai mey inougnc or nothing" else; they preached the gospel everywhere, and all the time, and to every body they talked with. So Paul found Luke, and mado a Christian out of the doctor. THE 'WBITEB AS A WITNESS. The time when St. Luke actually joined himself to the company of St. Paul, and became a physicisn of the soul as well as a physician of the body, is indicated in the Acta of the Apostles by a simple change of pronoun. "And they, passing by Mysia came down to Troas. And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; there stood a man of Macedonia, and-prayed him, saying, come over unto Macedonia and help us. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavored to gointo Macedonia." Then the story continues in the first person. The writer is a witness of what he tells. St Luke, then, was present and assisting at the first Christian service that was ever held in Europe, in the city of Philippi. Paul and the others went on, the pronoun changing again, to Thessalonica, and Borea, and Athens; Luke stayed at Phillippi. It seems to have been some seven years before St Paul came back again. Meanwhile, Luke was the minister of the converts at Phillippi. He was the first pastor of a Christian' congregation in Europe. He preached' in the first parish that was ever organized in all this western division of the world. LUKE FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH. From Philippi Luke went over to Corinth with St. Paul's letter. He accompanied his friend and master on his last journey to Jerusalem. He was with him when he was carried as a prisoner to Borne. He shared his first imprisonment; probably his second also. 'He stood by Paul when all other men forsook him. Paul wrote to Timothy that all had lelt him, save only Luke. No doubt he was with him at his death. This was the brother whose praise is in the gospel. That sounds as if St Paul meant that there were a great many good things written about St Luke in one of the gospels. But that is a mistake. What St Paul intended was that this good brother Luke was to be praised for his allegiance to the gospel. The best things that could be said about Luke' were about his faithfulness as a preacher, and his diligence as a prac tise of the Christian gospel. The highest g raise of Luke "was that he was an excellent hristian. A man may write a "Life of Christ" and a Church history, as Luke did, and not be a Christian at all. Beligious writing aud religious talking do not make a Christian. Knowledge of religious truth does not constitute a Christian. One might know the whole Bible by heart without being a Christian. ST. LUKE'S CHBIBTIAN SFIBri. The one essential of Christianity is a Christian spirit One of the good Christian I characteristics of St Luke was his humility. The word hnmility comes from a Latin word which means the "ground." One might perhaps infer that the humble man was he who kept his eyes always toward the ground and never presumed to look up. That, how ever, would be both an artificial and an unreal humility. It would be a sort of humility which is.synonomous with self conceit "Whoever looks down, looks at himself. And true humility does not spend much time thinking of self. No; the better way to think about it is that the humble man is he who has his feet set firmly on the ground, knows where he is, stands on the solid foundation of reality. A humble man does not desire to think of himself or of anybody else in any untrue way. If he is wiser or better in any respect than his brother, he has no wish to tell him self lies about it Probably in some other respeci nis Drother is wiser and better than he is. Almost every honest man discoveres that: The Christian grace of humility does not consist in disparaging ourselves, nor in thinking of ourselves more meanly than we ought to think. All that the genuinely humble man desires is to stand on the good ground of actual truth. LUKE HAD CONFIDENCE. If St Luke had been hindered by a false hnmility he would never have under taken tne writing of a gospel. The gospel had already been written: who was this ob scure Troy doctor that he should write a new one? Luke would have kept in the background, persuading himself that he was not competent to that good work. Yes; and worse than that, he would probably have stayed on silently at Troy and never have joined himself to the company of Paul, arguing that that great apostle could prob ably get on very well without him, that there could hardly be any need for such an inexperienced and inefficient person as ha was. The church is all the time losing the ser vices of good people who distrnst themselves. They hold back from the work of the church, because they do not believe in putting' themselves forward. They do not even come into the chnreh at all, but stay on the outside, reminding themselves of their manifold imperfections, and thinking that God surely cannot want any such poor Christia s as they are. They need to be taught that old German proverb, "The best is olten the enemy of the good. J.hat means that we will not attempt to do the good because we cannot start off with the achievement of the ideal best AN END TO ALL ENDEAVOB. Why, that would spdil nine-tenths of all the excellent work in the world. If we are not to preach unless we preach like St Peter, if we are not to teach in the Sunday school unless we can teach like St Paul, if we are not to enter into Christian disciple ship, not to join the church, unless we are as good Christians as St. John why, there is an end to all endeavor. That is not Christian humility. The great ground truth which is the foundation of real humility is the truth that the work is of more importance than the worker. Whoever realizes that must have some share in the work, cannot be contented without doing something in the service of God, which is also the service of man. Bat how much or how little credit he may get for it, how high or how low in the list of workers his name may stand, he does not care at ali. St Luke was so interested in the great work that Christ did, and that Peter and Paul did, that, though he was constrained to do his share in it, he forgot himself entirely. THE GRACE OF HELPFULNESS. St'Luke, accordingly, was possessed of a very strong desire to help his fellow men. He'forgot himself because he was thinking so much about them. That is the best way to cultivate the grace of humility to em phasize the grace of helpfulness. Whoever is really thinking a good deal about others is not "likely to be thinking very much about himself. This is another Christian characteristic of St Luke, which it will be profitable for us to think about his help fulness. One of the most helpful individuals in any community is the doctor. Nobody Knows the amount ot good that is done every day by a good doctor. No doubt but Luke, beforo he ever saw Paul, was going about doing good, probably at Philippi, during his seven years' pastorate in that town, he was the parish priest and the par ish doctor both together. One of the best kind of missionaries we have to-day is the medical missionary. And a doctor does not need to go to China to be a medical mission ary. He can do that service right here in Pittsburg. We are learning more and more that the body influences not the mind only but the soul. The physician of the soul must be helped by the physician of ths body. There is a real connection between HEALTH AND HOLINESS, between sanctity and sanitation. Luke, the doctor first, setting things straight phys ically, getting wholesome conditions of liv ing, clearing out the slums, tearing down the tenements, letting in the light, feeding starving people with decent food; and then, Luke the evangelist The gospel is vitally concerned with the bettering of the bodily condition of the people. It the devil does not actually cause disease he has a hand in it and profits by it The doctor and the parson must work together to cos the devil out. Then Luke met Paul and was converted. That means that he wanted to do better work than he had ever done before. It means al30 that he saw the difference in value between the soul and the body, set the soul first, desired above all else to save men's souls. And he learned that the Savior of the soul is Jesus Christ, and that if he wanted to save anybody's sonl he must first make Jesus Christ real to that souk And so he listened to everything that anyone could tell bim about Jesus Christ, and he wrote it down and made a gospel of it WEOTE FOB THE GENTILES. Probably St Paul taught him more than any other. The Third Gospel is the Gospel according to St Paul. The great charac teristic of St Paul's teaching was that Christ came for the Gentiles. Compare it with St Matthew's aud you will see the difference. St. Matthew wrote in Judea for Hebrew Christians, and his gospel is full of old prophecies, and Jewish customs, and 'quotations from the Hebrew Scriptures. St Luke wrote in Greece for Gentile Chris tians. He remembered better than any of the others how Christ held out his hand of commendation and invitation to those who were not counted in the ancient fold. He alone tells us of the Samaritan who helped the man by the wayside, and of the other b matanan who alone ot the teu lepers came back and gave Christ thanks. He alone records the parable which set the pub lican above the pharisee, and the feast in the house of Zaccheus the publican. To desire to know all that we can about the works and the words of Jesus, to try to pattern our lives according to his life, to think as he thought, to be just as broad and just as narrow as he was, to go about doing good as he did, to make the will of Jesus the rule of our life, and to teach whatever we know ourselves to all others whom we have a chance to teach, is to be the sort of helpfal Christian that St Luke was. Whoever takes his will as the working ''principle of his daily conduct, and tries the best he can to live in Pittsburg as Christ lived in Capernaum, has touched the real heart of the Christian religion. Geobge Hodges. Probably They Did. Harper's Vonng People A smart little boy was told the other day about a man who kept two little alligators. "And," said the teller, "what do you think he, called them?" "Couldn't say!" "He called them Eight and Left be cause they were a pair of 'gators!". "Humph!" said the smart little boy, ''then they went on feet, of course!" JJOlpiSGElfS Cut Glass , -FOR THE TABLE Is Perfection. t'ttti)' J Look fortius 1 1 titdc marie ' i label. 2 e2M3-n j .CATARRH THE CAUSE 07 A HOST OF DISEASXS. Head, Throat, Ltrasj, Stomach All Suhjeet to Catarrh What the Medical Prote. Ion Says. If any medical authority were asked t name the disease which most rarely de strovs life he probably would name ca tarrh. But, were he farther asked to nam the disease which sets up in the system oltenest diseases which no destroy life ha would be obliged to again name catarrh. Catarrh, while it remains simply catarrh, very rarely destroys a life, although it makes life miserable; btit catarrh surely leadU to a host of diseases many of which, are fatal to life. The following list of dis eases, too well known in this country, ar each and all simply catarrh affecting dif ferent organs of the bodv: Sore eyes, deaC ness, running ears, discharge from the nose, sore mouth and throat, bronchitis, hoarse ness, consumption, enlarged tonsils, quinzy, dyspepsia, chronic diarrhcea and dysentery are each thought bv most people to be es sentially different diseases; but the truth is they are catarrh of the mucous lining of ths various organs. A medicine that is appli. cable to any one of the above list of disease is applicable to them all, and each one has for its cause the same condition. Catarrh it catarrh wherever located, and the remedy that will cure it in one organ of the body will also enre it ia any other organ. In the majority of coses (especially thosa of less than two years' duration) catarrh can be cured in a few weeks by the proper usa ofPe-ru-na. Some cases are cured by six bottles, others by four, and we have not a few testimonials who have professed a curs from even one bottle of this lemedy. Whera a case of catarrh has existed for five or tea years a permanent cure cannot be reasonably hoped for in less than three or four months, and in seme rare cases the continued use ot Pe-ru-na for one year has been necessary to effect a permanent cure. But, unless ths case is very old or complicated, a prompt and lasting curs is sure. The following cases,given in the languaga of the patient, is a fair illustration of tha effect of Pe-ru-na in chronio catarrh. Kyle, Tex., March 21, 189L For ten years I have been a sufferer of that dreadful disease, chronio catarrh. Ths doctors all pronounced my case to ba catarrh in its worst form. I took many kinds of treatment to no avaiL Ihave tried every catarrh cure, but nothing seemed to benefit me in the least I lost all confidence in medicine. At last I heard of Pe-ru-na. I commenced to use it, and am now entirely rid of all catarrhal symptoms. I would give $10 a bottle for Pe-ru-na rather than be without it It has restored me to per fect health. Mbs. M. J. Tamblin. It would be difficult to describe a worse case to cure than the above. The length of time it had run, the fact that it had contin ually grown worse, and the further fact that it had already developed the symptoms of the dry, or atrophic stage of catarrh, com bine to make this a very remarkable cure, quite impossib'e to be made with the ord inary treatment The cure was effected by Pe-ru-na alone, and no spray, glials or in halant was used. Pe-ru-na, with directions for use, can be had at most drug stores. Anv one desiring further particulars are at liberty to write to Mrs. Tamblin, who will cheerfully answer any questions. Those desiring to become well informed as to the nature and cure of catarrhal dis eases should send tor the Family Physician No. 2. Sent free by ths Feruna Mediclna Company, Columbus, O. This vounsr lady esamincs the young scholar. "Johnnie, where is Carlsbad? "Part of it in every drug store ia the United States." "How do you make that out?" "The Carlsbad Sprudel Salts are imported from there, and are the solid evaporations of the Sprudel Springs." "What have they done for you that you know so much about them?" "Why, they hav cured papa of his dyspepsia, and in the place of a cross father, they have given me a kind and loving parent." Dyspepsia will spoil the most an gelic temperament. Too much bila inactivity of the liver will start it. Try the Carlsbad Sprudel Salts. A standard, a never-failing remedy. The genuine have the signature of "Eisner & Mendelson Co., Sola Agents, New York," on every bottle. IVe Carit do it but are willing to pay for learning horrt make as good an article as Wolff's Acara. Blacexno of cheap material so that a.. retailer can profitably sell it at 10a. Oar price is 20c. "TAB retailer says the public will not pay ft. We say the public will, because they will always pay a fair price for a good article. To show both the trade and tha public that wo want to five them the best for the least money, we will pay $10,009.00 Reward For above iirformation ; this offer is opea until January 1st, 1893. WOIiPP it EAUDOLPH, Philadelphia. Pik-Ron Is tha name of a paint whlco does work that no other paint can do. Ntxa icood painted with it looks like the natural wood when it is stained and varnished. PAINTERS AND BUILDERS Will find it profitable to investigate. An paint stores sell It FPROVEJIE-TT. TIIE PROMISE 0 CURE No array of words can sire a dyspeptic one-half the hope that comes rrora tfierelief whioh always follows the use of Bnrdook Blood Bitters, and ths promise of enre is never brofeen. "Having suffered from dyspepsia for two or three year?, I decided to try B. B.. and after tnkins one bottle I found myself so much Better I got another bottle, and after taking that I had no more need of medicine. "MRS. G. C. WniTE, Tabenr. X. T." Don't pay for daily bread and then eroaa with dyspepsia when a bottlo of B. B. B. will (jive yon relief. Repeated tests with uniform success prove that dyspepsia cannot with stand B. B. B. "I have tatcen the second bottls of Bur dock Blood Bitters, and it has cured me of dyspepsia with which I nffered for siX octrrasw "W. W. HAMILTOJT. Lock Haven, Fa." V .- .iiibi .&? jSBllHHMBHHHHHBBMHWlttMPM
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