. V J WPPT-WSSgaPT? x- . - --. - .-,.. -.t , vgwjKftg'!'-?'- .'.'- -7"-- - '- "' -?'.-" .-v ir 10 . U-.THE PITTSBIIRG- i -DISPATCH SATURDAY, JANUARY 2; 1892. s A TBAMP m PORTUGAL. Lisbon's Charms Those of Diversity Bather Than Magnificence. THE SPIRITED HARBOR SCENES. Streets, Parks and Architecture of the In teresting Old City. EDGAR L WAKEMAK'S SEW DEPARTURE rCOREESrONDEXCE OF THE DISPATCn.l Lisbon, Dec. 23. It requires nearly four days of steamship travel from Southampton, England, to reach Lisbon, the seven-hilled city upon the broad Tagus. The first land tou will see is the grand promontory of Boca, the last upon which Columbus looked when, nearly 400 years ago, he sailed away from Lisbon with" his three miserable little ships and his 120 men. Like a w hite dove's wings spread upon an emerald scarf, fair Cintra gleams against old Jloca's sides. Shortly your steamer's course is changed to the ealt." Cascade is pascd. You have entered a noble bay which is alone rivaled by that of Naples and the horn of whoe southern crescent terminates in lofty and somber Cape Ispichcll. Mountains rise picturesquelv to the north and east behind this crescent, purple and fair, and susestive of illimitable lands beyond, where the great river makes its way through the heights from its sources round about the Spanish capital; emerald or puce where the sun, from its liquid bed in the west, lights the far forests and flames the serried height1!. Quaint old outlying forts appear; fortresses of defense and salute. Then the outer bay narrows to the Ria de Lisbon, Lisbon's mouth, and a narrow mouth and throat they arc;bristling with forts, capable of perfect defense in these days without a iortat all; and after a passage of perhaps kK miles through this deep and narrow channel you have entered an inner harbor, 20 miles "long, and from 3 to 7 in width, where 20,000 ships could ride at anchor in water scarcely stirred by wave or ripple the whole year long. A City Set tn the Hills. Lisbon is set upon the hills along the northern shore. The entire estuary is edged with villages and villas. Here a church, grav and old, half shows from ome verdure-clad defile. There a fishing tone is oheckcied with white cottages and splatches of drving nets. Yonder a half-ruined mon astery; with its little hamlet of houses creeping up to its walls like patient beggars for protection and alm, tells its story of suppression and conversion to workaday umi. Ucre and there are quaint and an cient docks, reminders f where the olden galleons were built which bore the most in trepid of all men to conquest and discovery of utmost lands. Who' wondrous change upon the whole worlds surface, whit mighty revolutions in civilization, what volumes of history had their humble origin here! Not to Kome, nor England, should Americans come, reverentially and -nir.il H:de books in hand, as to the cradle spot of our race. We were born on the shores of the lordly Tagus. "We are Portuguese in inception and conception. Our b.-.bv-hood was rocked in the three old tubs which bore Columbus ironi Eia de Lisboa to far San Salvador. The harbor scenes of Lisbon are fiill of color and charm. Towers and castles, churches and monasteries, sho-v from all the surrounding heights. The city itself, al most as white and luminous as Algiers ris ing (rom the sea, is fair to look upon. Craft of all nations are here. Up through the Eia de Lisboa the west wind is speeding a fleet of fishing smacks and feluccas. The la teen sails are of every color and tint in the yellow sunlight. Heaps of silvery sar dines flash and glitter beneath the sails. Myriads of hovering gulls bear the vast fleet company, for their wise instinct tells them the fishermen never begrudge tlieni a j-hare of their daily harvest from the deep. Scenes in the Keantiful Harbor. Every manner of the smaller craft known to the" Mediterranean waters are plying back and lorth. Boats full of customs officials dart from vessel to vessel, now and then converging toward a narrow archway at the 'water's edge where the fruits of the chase are tithed and stored. Gentry and peasantry from the surrounding villas and larms are coming and going in the out landish craft pointed like gondolas at both ends, propelled by pwarthy boatmen with breasts open and hairv to the -nai-t. The blue and white flag of Portugal flutters from conntless harbor masts, there are music and la'jghtcr on boat and on shore. The ky above is the sky of Italy. The waters beneath have that tint of azure which hints of bloom. And wheu one has landed at Lisbon and is at rest npon some pretty balcony, air and sky, sea and mountains, street and garden, courts and fountains, men and beasts, women and voices, all sight and sound and seeming, prompt to delicious siesta and enchant to tender repose. Lisbon is neither so fair as Florence, so dazzling as Palermo, so brilliant as Paris, nor by any means so impressive as Home. But its situation, its surroundings and its striking contrasts lend the city and envi rons a deep and lasting charm. Palace, church, monastery, convent, public build ing, home and shop are jumbled together in picturesque confusion. Its parks are many and pleasant, somnolent and restful, rather than brilliant and grand. Down by the water's edge is the fine broad qusdrange, Praca de Commercio, or Black Horse Square, as the English have called it. This is bordered by the huge Stock Ex change, the India House, the "Alfandega" or Custom House, the splendid naval ar senal, and the broad quay at the shore of the Tagus. In the center is the hugest me morial in Lisbon, the heroic statue of King Jose I., whose historic reign was cotem norary with our revolution. Forty tons of bronze are in the statue alone, supported by a marble horse and elephant carved of equal size for symmetry. Pleasing 5tndie of a City's Lire. Leading out of this square to the north is a magnificent triumphal arch; and within the quadrangle, from river to arch, are pleasing studies of the great city's com mercial life in its relation to the trade and affairs of foreign nations; while picturesque groupings of Lisbon boatmen mingled with Portuguese officials, officers from foreign war ships, debarking and embarking steamer passengers, with all manner ot strange sailors and men-of-wars' men in their various strange costumes, continually change and enliven the scene. To the east a littte distance along the broad fine quay is the Praca dos Eomulares, which leads into the Attero, a magnificent seaside traffic thoroughfare of perhaps two miles in length. In the former are denser crowds of boatmen and waterside folk, and here is located the Caes do Sodro where strangers are usually landed. At all hours of day and night it is an interesting local ity. The Lisbon boatmen have no other homes but their boats In them they cook their meals and sleep. Until long after midnight you can come upon little fleets of from a dozen to a score of these, grouped neighborly together, their swarthy owners eating, drinking and singing in an utter abandon of contentment and good nature. They are a wild and hairy lot, but the Lis bon police tell me they are wholly peace able, and are governed in all their dealings and relations among themselves by ancient and unbroken customs and laws." In this respect they are most strikingly like the fishermen of Claddagh, at Galu ay, Ireland. Thev also bear strong physical and facial re semblance to the latter," vhicli is not to be wondered at, since the latter, as well as many of the other Galway Irish folk of, the present day, are descended from Spanish and Portuguese parent stock. 3Xnre Interesting Than Picturetqne. Architecturally Lisbon in detail is vastly more interesting -than beautiful.- AS you approach it from the sea, with its domes and towers, all- flanked by castellated heightsand purple mountain behind, it is imposing and grand. When you come to wander within it you-are never astonished or even greatly impressed by its edifices. Its churches are less interesting than those of any other city of equal size in Europe. The Church of "the Heart of Jesus, on the summit of Estrella Hill, in imitation of St. Peter's at Home, without the colonnade, is the most pretentious in Lisbon. The church of Sao Domingo, the see of the Cardinal Patriarch, near the Eocio, is vast in propor tions. The mortuary church of Sao "Vicente is interesting chiefly from its contain ing, in curious gilt boxes, the remains of the illustrious dead of the royal House of Braganca. The tiny church of 'San Eoque, with its famous Chapel of St. John, attracts all visitors on account of its marvelous mosaics. These, forming the back and sides of the structure, are copies in veritable size of Eaphael Urbino's De scent of the Holy Ghost, Guido's Annun ciation and Michael Angelo's Baptism of Christ. The wonderful perfection of this work is shown in the fact that from any or dinary point of observation, no difference between them and the originals can be de tected. More curious still the entire chapel and its interior decorations were first set up in Eome, blessed by Pope Benedict XIV., taken down, and transferred to its present site. Its cost has been millions and there is probably not in the whole world such treasure in art work, silver, gold and preci ous stones, in sacred edifice of equal dimen sions. The T.islion or Colnmbns Time. It is the charm of extreme contrast and endless change which holds and makes one love old Lisbon. There are no two streets. pracas. churches, public buildings, shops or homes alike. Away from the half dozen modern business streets, it is almost the same Lisbon that Colnmbns knew. Here is a shadowy shop of one story where grimy men crope about among gritty piles of charcoal. The next building may be a three or five story structure housing the richest of wares, "whose upper stories are fancifully decorated in gorgeous paints and gilts. Xext to this on one side of a dark pass age jolly cobblers beat ceaseless staccatos, a cutler grinds and hammers on the other, and away in there a stream of light shows ex quisite stairs leading to some enclosed court where a home of opulence is em bedded in vinesand roses. Everywhere are ponderous base and arch, huge column and tremendous entablature, often supporting buildings whose insignificance is ludicrously startling. In many of the older public edifices the architecture is Moorish, or semi-Moorish, and the facades :.re often flanked by square towers and diminutive Saracenic domes. The general plan of shop and abode in the ancient portions of the city is, the shop below and the home above, or the lower story is used as a sort of entrada to "walled in home structures in the rear, or the habitation above. In the latter case these cntradas are temporary shops for itinerant cobblers, cutlers, saddlers and the like, or lounging places for beggars, don keys and goats. But however unsavory may seem the ground floor of, or the street entrance to, any structure, tiie upper stories of the same, or the pretty home nests behind, afford abundant compensation in picturesque groupings and scenes. As Many Balconies as Havana. Balconies are as universal as in Havana, Valiadolod, Madrid or Seville Some pro ject from supports of carved stone. Others rest with airy insecuritv upon fancifully wrought timbers, and still others may be seen in the daintiest patterns into which brass and iron may be wrought. Many are latticed; and in this lattice-work are odd little slides and gates. Behind these the fair Portueuese women eat their daintv salads, of whic'i they are inordinately fond, and sip their wines and ices. And from a partially-ooe-ied lattice as you pass you will catch glances from lovely eves, and as often smiles and coquettish looks from roguish faces. The Lisbon maidens must be chary of their looks upon friends or strangers in the street; but social custom gives them the somewhat compensative and altogether blessed right to flirt desperately. with you from the lofty and safe outposts of their balconied alcobas. As one passes toward the outskirts of Lisbon, all of that suggestive of the home is pleasanter still. There is a hint ot snug ness in the high surrounding, vine-covered walls of varus and courts. Here the open court of flie Spaniard and the Moor becomes more common and more beautiful. It shelters the hqme-gatherings and belong ings of the average family. All its mem bers are more or less within it, or within reach of voice from it. Many lovely flowers and clambering vines light up the place in winter a? well as in summer days. The murmurous fall of water is always heard, for no patio is without its fountain. And poor indeed is the home in old Lisbon that has not its walled garden with a wealth of flowers, plants, umbrageous trees and quaint, tiled, ground-sunken troughs through which the water is ceaselessly whimpering and whispering for all the gardens are thus irrigated while every court and garden is melodious with the songs of scores of those matchless brown canaries which are weekly brought, hun dreds upon hundreds, from the sunlit isles of the Azores. Edgar L. Wakemax. J1AIJK TWAIN'S third letter from Eu rope appears in THK DISPATCH to-morrow. He tells the trouble he got into by assuming the duties of courier for bis party. A JIILLIOBAIEE IN HABD LUCK- His Divorced Wife Insists Upon His Sup porting His Children. Cikcixkati, Jan. 1. Special There was shown at the Court House to-day a document which is the last legal work of the famous attorney, the lamented Isaac M. Jordan. It is a plea for ?10,000 for support of children on behalf of Mrs. Eva Blessing, formerly the wife of "Wash ington D. Keys, the millionaire of New Albany, Ind. It is known that this mother, who, with her children, is in dire want, de serted Keys for another. After procuring a divorce, Mr. Keys married Miss DePauvr, of Green Castle, and is now one of the sol idly wealthy men of the country, while the man for whom his wife deserted him is an obscure mechanic Mrs. Blessing, however, is determined that Mr. Keys shall assist to support the children of their marriage. She cannot help them because her financial resources are too slender to even permit her to sup ply her own pressing wants. In this view of the case the plea on behalf of the chil dren which was drawn by Mr. Jordan just before he dashed headlong to his death down the elevator shaft is to be received. It will be filed in a few days by another at torney. Ill luck has followed Mrs. Keys ever since her flight, w hich she says was caused by Keys' cruelty. Her life here has been blameless, and her children are lovely little ones, while one of those with Keys has for years been in the reform school. From Ocean to Ocean in Sleepers. New York, Jan. L The New York Cen ral and Hudson Eiver Bailroad Company proposes to inaugurate through sleeping car service to California once a week, from January 5 until April 1, inclusive. The cars will be of the most luxurious type. Haverhill Shoe Shipments Declining. Haverhill, Mass., Jan. L The total thoe shipments for the year have been 292,065, against 327,760 cases for 1890, show ing a falling off of 35.700 in the shipments, and diminishing the amount paid for labor, ?357,000. Finest In the World. The Select, or "Blue Eibbon" bottled beer of the Pnbst Brewing Company, is the original aud genuine. Other beers called "Blue Eibbon" are imitations. Ask for the Jabst G. J. Kasilack, Agent, - -Pittsburg. EARLY CLUB HISTORY. Classic Gatherings of the Sociably Inclined Ancients. POETS PEAISED THEIR VIRTUES. Even Ladles Had Organizations for Friendly Intercourse. GAT TIMES AT THE JIERMAID TAYEKN In his great dictionary,Dr. Johnson defines the word club as "an assembly ot good fel lows meeting under certain conditions," says Chambers' Journal, and proceeds to il lustrate his meaning by a sentence from Dryden: "What right has any man to meet in factious clubs to vilify the Government?" Though such a definition was no doubt suf ficient in the day in which it was written, it is to-day utterly inadequate to include the vast scries of organizations known as clubs. Of the people in whose daily life a club plays an important part,it may be safely asserted that not one in a hundred has any idea of the origin and early history of the institutions with which he is so familiar. "Clubs seem so essentially modern, so much a part of our everyday lives, that we are ant to forget that they have any history at all. We are proverbially ignorant of common things, and though industrious people have written volunr-s on such mat ters, they do not seem to have been very successful in putting an end to the prevail ing gloom. The history of clubs is a subject of considerable interest, taking us back to the classic days of Greece and Eome, and thence to the days of Queen Elizabeth, reminding us that, after all, there is nothing new under the sun. It is to Greece that we must look for the first page of the story. Of course, the old Athenian clubs were not in all respects similar to those of modern London; but there was nevertheless between them a strong affinity, for Aristotle tells us that men of the same trade and members of a particular tribe were wont to club together for business purposes. Some Combined for Social Intercourse. He goes on to sav tha. others combined for the sake of social intercourse, and adds that "these meet together for the sake of one another's company and to offer sacri fices; when they meet.they both pay certain honors to the gods, and at the same time take pleasures and relaxation among them selves." In Eome, the earliest clubs were the trade guilds founded by Nunia, similar to the guilds of craftsmen which play so important a part in the art" history of the middle ages. At one time, there were 80 of these guilds in Eome alone, and they were not confined to the metropolis, for the boatmen of the Seine at Paris, and the boatmen of the lower Ehone formed clubs of their own. Very closely allied to the Masonic lodges of our day were the secret societies formed throughout the Roman Empire for the practice of religious rites unknown to the State. An idea of the extent of club life in Eome may be obtained from the fact that even the slaves attached to the great houses of the city formed clubs of their own. In the house of Augustus there would seem to have been several clubs of this kind, for ' his chef de cuisine left a snm of money for the benefit of the club of cooks, of which he was a member. The history of the purely social clubs of the Eoman Empire is incomplete. They were formed chiefly by Eomans employed in the more distant parts of the empire, in order to lessen the feeling of isolation which their exile in volved. Notwithstanding that military clubs were prohibited by the State, they were tolerated among the officers of regi ments employed in foreign service, as a compensation for the social disadvantages entailed in a long residence abroad. ; Club Rules in Ancient Times. The rules of a club of officers of a regi ment on service in Africa have been dis covered on the site of a Eoman encamp ment. They are engraved on two stone pillars, which stood in a conspicuous posi tion near the residence of the commander. The contribution to such a club was about 23 pounds, two-thirds of which were returned to his representatives on the death of the member, or to himself on his retirement from the service. The expenses of the funeral of a deceased mem ber were paid by his club, or he might claim a portion of his contribution to enable him to travel in foreign countries. If he made use of this privilege, the liability of the club to bury him was at an end. Another form of the social club was the ladies' club. Although we are accustomed to look upon ladies' clubs as institutions especially characteristic of our own times, they are in fact far older than English civil ization itself. The ladies' clubs of Eome were very numerous, and met for religious as well as for social purposes. The most distinguished of them was known popularly as the "Senate of Matrons." Its title was derived from an imperial edict. Attached to it was a debating society in which momentous questions of etiquette and dress were discussed with becoming gravitv. Sometimes the fair women so far condescended as to interfere in municipal questions, and when a man who was so fortunate as to gain their goodwill died, the ladies erected a statue of their hero. Political CInbs Among the Eomans. Political clubs were common to both Greece and Eome. Mr. Grote has shown that the Athenian aristocrats on the one hand, and democrats on the other, ad vanced their principles by means of politi cal clubs in much the same way as is done throughout Great Britain to-day. A select company of the young men ot Greece, inspired by the teach ings of the voluptuous epicurean Aristippus, formed themselves into a club, to which thev gave the gloomy and significant title of "Those About to Die Together." A weird description of the banqueting ball of these eccentric indi viduals remains: "Over some flasks of the red Chian wine, within the walls of a noble hall, in a dim city we sat. at night, a com pany of seven. And to our chamber there was no entrance save by a lofty door ot brass; and the door was fashioned by the artisan Corinnos, and, being of rare work manship, was fastened from within. "Black draperies likewise, in the gloomy room, shut out from our view the moon, the Inrid stars, and the people- jess streets; out me Doaing ana the .memory of evil, they would not be so excluded." Although! there were 'clubs in these classic lands, generally speaking, there were no club houses. Buildings of this kind were, indeed, not so necessary in Greece and Italy, where men could meet in the shade of a tcmp!e or at the baths, as in England, where the climate is unfavorable to open-air lounging. To pass from Greece and Italy before Christ to England in the reign of Henry IV. is a long step. Clubs seem to have become extinct in the interval which divides these distant periods, for the secret societies of the middle ages were hardly clnbs, even using the word in its broadest sense. They were rather associations formed to hand down from age to age some secret, and the social idea was altogether absent from them. An Early Dav English Club. The first definite information we have of using an English club is given to us by Thomas Ocleve, the poet, who was born nbout 1370. This early club was called "La Court de bone Compagnie," and it is probable that it.includedamongits members Chaucer and Ocleve himself. Ocleve sent to one Henry Somer a metrical notice of a kind of club dinner at which he was to occupy the chair: For the dyner arraye Ageyn Thirsday next and nat is delaye. There is besides in existence a remonstrance from Somer at the social excesses of which some, of the members would seem to have been guilty. Although clubs were revived thus early, the word club did not then ex ist. It is from an Anglo-Saxon verb clofan, meaning to divide expenses; but the first time the word is used by an English writer is in 1659, when Aubrey the antiquary, writes: "We now use tlie word Clubbe for a sodality held in a tavern." The Bame author mentions a ballot box: "Here we had (very formally) a ballot ing box, and balloted how things should be carried." During the reigns of Eliza beth and James I. a large number of clubs arose, some of which have become famous owing to the great men who were members of them. First among these was the bril liant society which met at the Mermaid Tavern, of which Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were members. Its doings are described in a letter from Beaumont to Ben Jonson: What things we have seen Done at the "Mermaid !" Heard words-that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame. As if everyone from whom tliev came Hiul meant to put his whole wit In a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Gay Times at the Mermaid Tavern. The meetings at the Mermaid have al ways been an attractive subject for poets. Browning has written of them; and there are the lines of Keats: Siuls of poets dead and gone, What clvsinm have ye known Happy field or mossy cavern Choicer than the Merniaid Tavern? An earlier club than the Mermaid was the "Apollo Club," almost the first of the kind. It met at the tavern with the sign of the "Devil," in Fleet street, and was presided over by Ben Jonson himself, who, in his "Marmioh," makes Careless say he has "come from Apollo:" From the heaven Of my delight, whore the boon Delphic god Drinks sack, and keeps his bacchanalin And lias his altars and his Inccnss smoking, And speaks in sparkling prophecies. During the Commonwealth arose the famous "Eota Club," which was formed for the propagation of republican opinions. It numbered among its members the most illus trious literary men of the time. There were Milton, Harrington, the author of "Oceana," Andrew Marvell, Cyriac Skinner and Ncvill. Cecil Hay, in his work on "Modern Club-life," mentions the Eotaas represented now by "those compromises between public houses and debating societies known by the name of Discussion Halls or Forums, of which a certain establishment yclept "Cogers" Hall," in Shoe Lane, Fleet street, may be mentioned as a specimen." Alas, the Cogers' Hall is no more! The "Sealed Knot" was the opposi tion club to the Eota. All its members were Royalists, and organized in favor of the ex iled Charles a general insurrection which never took place. From this time the decav of the old tavern clubs set in. Gradually clubs began to con ceive the idea of having buildings of their own, and the old inns were deserted. A clubhouse was founded in Pall-Mall in the reign of George III., and became the fore runner of that great series of club palaces which lends to not a few of the streets of London whatever magnificence they can boast. Some of the clubs still existing link the new era of club-life with the old. The Cocoa-tree Club of which Defoe wrote, "A Whig will no more go to the Cocoa-tree than a Tory will be seen-at the coffee house of St. James' " has its house in James' street; and White's Club, founded nearly two centeries ago, is still popular. One can well imagine how great would be the astonishment of the original members of one of these old institutions if they could see the changes which have been wrought in the places in which they must have passed many happy hours, and for which they could hardly fail to feel some affection. HONESTY and success in business by the Kev. G-orge Hodges In THE DISPATCH to-morrow. A MILD DON JUAH. Mansfield riays in a Very Odd Bole at the Alvin Ther.ter. There is something incomprehensible as well as whimsical about "Don Juan," written and acted by Richard Mansfield at the Alvin Theater on Thursday night and yesterday. It has no plot to speak of, and after being pretty much of a farce through three acts, winds up in semi-tragic style, with all the seriousness of a drama. Mr. Mansfield's purpose is clear, however. It is an entertainment for the display of Mr. Mansfield's personality. The young hero is not Byron's, but a milder and more moral youth, who does nothing worse than fall in love with every girl he meets at first sight. He gets into many a pretty pickle by so doing, and the course of his many loves make an amusing narrative. The cos tumes apparently put Don Jnan back into the seventeenth "century. Mr. Mansfield's impersonation of a raw impressionable boy was artistic of course, and it was humorous, especially the transition from one love fever to another. The delirious maundering of the last act was so purposeless and out of harmony with the fun of the previous acts that it was simply tiresome, and if Mr. Mansfield has any desire to perpetuate "Don Juan" he'll have to write a new con clusion. It is conspicuously a one-part piece, but Miss Beatrice Cameron managed to look very lovely as LxuAa, particularly in page's attire, and Miss Sheridan, of course, was satisfactory. Mr. Ferguson was so funny with his few chances that one wished thev were- more. On Thursday night and at the matinee yesterday "Don Juan" was witnessed by large audiences that enjoyed it. MUSIC BY THE HUNDREDS. 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The foreign tour is to be carried out in the same careful and elaborate man ner that characterizes tbeir best efforts here, and the Continental journey, which is to extend as far east as Constantinople, is to be made by a special train de luxe, which in cludes sleeping cars constructed in America, a dining car and other first-class appoint- 4UCUIO, I THE WEEK OF PRAYER. Pastors and People Are Now on the Alert to Win Converts. A TIME FOR RELIGIOUS REVIVALS. Some of the Topics to Be Discussed in Our City Fulpits. GLEANINGS FHOJI CHURCH FIELDS A generation has passed since, bv the re quest of American missionaries in India, the first week of the year was accepted as a time for special religious services. The plan for extra efforts at the beg'nning of-the year has become popular in the churches, and the week to come will be one of active effort in the religious world. The church note column shows that the churches are alive to the importance of making the most of the opportunity afforded by the adventof the new year. This is the time for new re solves and turning new leaves. Religious revivals of late years usually start at this season of the year. Pastors and churches are evidently on the alert to make the most of the opportunity by special efioits the week to come. Presbyterian Query Day. Next Monday will be Query Day at the Presbyterian Ministers' meeting, which holds its regular session at 10:15, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church. Eev. F. E. Farrand is Query Master. The following questions will be answered: First How can we briug our practice Into greater nccord with onr theory in regard to baptized children being members of the church? Answer by Rev. S. J. Fisher. Second Is the hostility of the Eoman Catholic church of such a character as to i ender improper the passive attitude of the Protcstau t pulpit? Answer by E. S. Holmes, D. D. Third Is the present growth and influ enco of tho Roman Catholic Church in the United States relatively as great as that of Protestantism? Answer by Eev. D. S. Ken nedy. Fourth Should a minister tithe his sal arv? Answer bv Rev. S. B. McCormick. Fifth What is the most effective means of attracting young people tn the church ser vices? Answer by Kev. J. L. Weaver. Sunday Services in Pittsburg Churches. Shadtside Feesbyteria:?, Rev. R. S. Holmes, D. D., p-itor Morning service 11, evening service 7:45. Highland Presbyterian, McCully and St. Clair streets Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:15 v. m. by Eev. A. M. West. IIazelwood Christian, J. E. McWane, pas tor W. R. Jinnett, of Bethany College, will preach morning and evening. Eighth Presbyterian Church, Rev. E. R. Donehoo, pastor 10:45 A. m., "Starting Eight;" 7:43 p. it.. "New Year Resolutions." Fiiee Will Baptist, Firth avenue, Rev. X. E. Johnson, pastor Revival meetings will commence to-morrow and continue for two weeks. Usiversalist Church, Curry University Hall, Rev. J. L. Andrew, pastor Morning, "The Supremacy of Love." Evening, "One Phase of Immortality." Cektenary M. E. Wylie avenue and Kirk patrick street, GeoigeS. Holmes, pastor Morning, "The Profl t or Prayer." Evening, "Shadow of Influences." Dessy m. E., Ligon'ier and Thirty-fourth streets, Jas.E. Williams, pastor 10-30 a. m., "Eighteen Hundred and Ninety .Two;" 7:30 p. M., Tayins: Out Vengeance." Fipth U. P., Webster avenue, Eev. J. W. Harsha, pastor Morning, "Our Motto for the New Year:" evening, "How Old Art Thou?" a sermon to young men. Mr. Frabe E. WniTsioRE, of tno Theologi cal Seminary, Philadelphia, will preach at Christ Lutheran Church, Sheridan avenue, East End, at 10:4 a. jr. and 7:20 p. zz. Sevekth Presbyteriait, Hcrron avenue, Rev. C. S. JlcClelland, pastor 10.30 A. it., "Tho Valley of Dry Bones:" 7:30 r.. jr., "A Good Resolution for the New Year." Central Presbyterian, Forbes and Seneca streets, Eev. A. A. .Mealy, pastor Services at 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 p. jr. Jfornine sublect, "Conseciation;" evening, "The Tear or Jubi lee." Buy. Nevin Woodsipe, pastor, in First Re foiined Presbvterian Church, Grant street Morning, "Divine Counsels for the New Tear:" afternoon, "The Model Congiega tion."' First U. P., Seventh avenue Services at 10:30 a. jr. by the pastor, William J. Reid, D. D., "A Promise for the New Tear," and at 7:30 p. jr., by the associate pastor, Rev. John M. Ross. Grace EEroRMEo, corner of Grant street and Webter avenue. Rev. John H. Prugh, pastor. Morning, "Retrospect and Pros pect." Evening, "The Temptation to Partiality." Third Presbyterian, Sixth avenue. Rev. E. P. Cowan. D. D., pastor Services at 10:45 A. jr. and 7:45 p. jr. Evening subject, 'Uoseph Out of Jail and Biding in Pharoah's Second Best Chariot." Oakland, M. E., T. N. Eaton, pastor Holy Communion at the morning service. Rev. G. L. Barker assisted by Mr. Mindeit will be gin a series of Gospel meetings at the even ing service. First Church op Spiritualists, No. 6 Sixth street Mrs. Carrie E. S. Twing.of Westfleld, N. Y., speaks at 10:45 a. jr. and 7:45 p. jr. Mes sages from spirit friends are given at close of each lecture. Shady Avenue Baptist. W. A. Stanton, D. D., pastor Morning, "A Pastor's Talk," fol lowed by the reception of new members and the Lord's Supper. Evening, "A Greeting for the New Tear." Eighth Street Reformed Presbyterian, Rov. D. McAllister, pastor At 10.30, "The Doomed City and the Safe City," a contrast; at3. "The Method and Condition of Divine Guidance," a New Tear's sermon. Central Christian, Pride and Colwell streets. Robert A. Cutler, pastor 10 30 a. Jr. and 7:45 p. M. Evening subject, "God Fli sr." The congregation will observe tho week of prayer beginning Monday evening. Thirty-seventh Street Baptist, Thirty seventh and Charlotte streets, Rev. II. C Hall, pastor Mornine service, 10:30, "Pres ent Standing by Past Mercies:" eveningserv ice, 7.30, "Surmounting Obstacles." John WesLEY Church, Arthur street, Rev. CMirffA W PHlltnn nqctnr 101': . -r preachinz by Eev. D. S. Bentley, Presiding Elder, 7:45 r. M., preaching by Eev. George W. Bryant M. D. Good singing all day. JIt. Washington Presbyterian, Rev. E. S. Farrand, pastor 10:30 a. jr., special New Year's sermon to churcn members, I. Pam.. vii., 12; 730 p. jr., "The Judgment Day." Services every evening during the week. Mt. Washington M. P., Virginia ave nue and Bigham street, S. F. Crowther, pastor Morning, "New Tear's Christian Greetinir;" evening, "Man' s Moral Mission on Earth." Evening service week of prayer. Oakland Battist, Bates and Atwood stieetfc, William Ward West, pastor Morn in2.10.45, "The Church Assembled in Prayer," followed bv the Loid's Supper. Evening, 7:3'J, "Perfect Peace and How to Obtain It." Homewood AVEXCi Methopist EnscoPAL, Rev. O. A. Emerson, pa-tor 10:15, sermon by Eev. W. AN'. Roup, followed by Com munion and reception of class of probation ers 7:3J, Merman by pastor, "The Best Re solve." Shadyside United Presbyterian, Baum street The pastor, Eev. J. K. McCIurkin.D. D., will preach at 10 30, Subject, "The Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly," and at 7:15 a. jr., "Thy Kingdom Come," third sermon in a series on the Lord'3 prayer. Curist Chubch, M. 12., Eev. G. W. Izer, D. D., pastor. The congi egation will worship at the morning hour, in the Liberty street 31. E. church; the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper will be administered. Preaching by tlie pastor in the evening, in the Duquesne theater. Smithfield Street, M. E., Eev Charles Ed ward Locke, pastor Services ;it 10:33 and 7:30. In the morning tho Sacrament of Infant Batpism and Holy Communion. Sub ject for evening "What Meancth This?" followed by Evangelistic services which will follow each evening of the week except Satnnlny. Second Presbyterian, Penu avenue and Seventh street, Kev. J. R. Sutherland, D. D., pastor Services'at 10:30 a. ir. and 7:45 p. m. Preaching in the morning by Eev. Dr. El liott, of Chicago. In the evening by the pastor; subject, "The Throne and the Rain bow." Services every evening next week exceptSaturday. ' Emory M. E., East Liberty, Eev. C. V. Wil son, pastor Services at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. a. Evening, "Is Life Worth Living?" Mt. Washington U. P. Services by tho pastor. Rev. R. H. Hood. At 10-.30 a. m., "Tarrying at Jerusalem;" at 7:30 p. m., "Num bering Our Days." Lawrenceville Presbytery, Thirty-ninth street, Rev. A. E. Linn, pastor. Subject: Morning. "Loathing Sin:" 7:30 p. m., "The Shepherd and the Sheep." Services in the Seventh U. P.,Forty-fourth street, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:15 p. jr., conducted bv the pastor. Rev. J. D. Sands Morning : "Motto for 1802." Evening : "How to be Saved." Forty-third Street Presbyterian, Eev. H. H. Stiles, pastor Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 r. m.; evening subject, "Wells Ee opened." Services every evening during the week of prayer. Cumberland Presbyterian, Shady avenue, J.W. McKay, p istor 11 A. jr. "Bun to Wine;" 2:30 p.m., "lioThts !" Reception of members in themorninrr. Tho Lord's Supper in the evening. Prof. Morphey will solo as usual. Second p. M., Cobden street, Southside, Rev. II. J. Bickingham, pastor Services at 10.30 a. m. and 7 p.m. Snblect, "The Old Tear and tho New, and Onr Relation to Each." Pastor's residence, 2736 Cobdenstreet, South side. Thirty-third Street U. P., J. McD. Hervcy, pastor Prenchins at 10:30 and 7:30; snbjects morning, "The World De-d to the Believer:" evening. "Tho Commendation at God's Love." Services during week at 7:45 p. M. Reorganized Church or Latter Day Saints Hall, 67 Fourth avenue. Preaching at 10:30 A. M. by E.der M. H. Bond: snbject, "Beauti ful Things." Also at 7:30 p.m. at Goed dell Hall, corner Collins and Penn avenue. East End. St. Peter's Episcopal, corner Grant and Diamond streets, Eev. W. K. Mackay, rector, Eev. T. J. Garland, assistant Sundav morn insr 10:30 o'clock. Evening service and lecture. 7:30 o'clock. SuDject, "Joseph in Egypt." St. Andrew's Episcopal, Ninth street Mominc service 10.30: popular evening serv ice at 7:30. Et. Rev. L. B. Brewer, Bishop of Montana, will preach in the morning. Sub ject for evening, "A Happy New Year." Seats free. Tee Fir t Unitarian, corner of Boss and Diamond streets (old University Bnildiug), Rev. Chas. E. St. John, pastor 10:15 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Subject, morning : "The Ac ceptable Tear ot the Lord." Evening: "Christian Liberty." Walton Methodist Episcopal, Sarah and Twenty-fourth streets, Southside, Rev. S. W. Davis, pastor Preaching, 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 r. M. Meeting for Christian Workers, 3 p. M. Revival services.with preaching dally at 7:30 p. M.. will continue throughout the week. Southside Presbyterian, corner Twen tieth and sarah streets. Eev. F R. Farrand, pastor Services at 10 30 a. jr. and 7:30 p. jr. There will be special services e ery evenimr during tho cclc with the administration of the Lord's Supper the following Sabbath. Liberty street M. E. Church. The con gregation of Christ M. E. Chnrch will hold services in this Church in the mornin'-'at 10:30. PiefiChingbyEev. J. W. 31iles, Pre sidins Elder, after which communion. Preachini in the evening at 7:31, by the pastor, Eev. W. W. Eoup. Subject, "The Logic of Christian Experience." Allegheny Churches. Central E. P., 10:30 a. m., "Our Work for the Tear;" 3 p. jr., "The Business Kingdom-" Arch Street MirnoDrsT Episcopal, C. A. Holmes, pastor Morning, "The Holy Com munion;" evening, "Light on the Mount ains." Trinity Lutheran, Stockton avenue and .Arch street Rev. Lewis Hay, ot Indiana, will preach Sunday morning and evening. Sermon to young men in the evening. Sixth U. P., Franklin and Chartiers street9 The pastor, D. F. McGill, will preaoh his seventti anniversarv sermon c 10:30 a. m.: 7:30 p. jr.. subject, "What Shall We Attempt lor 1892?" First Congregational, Franklin and Man hattan streets, Rev. S.W. McCorkle, pastor At 10:30 a. jr.: "The Martyr's Victory." At 7:30 p. m.: "Urgency." Communion in the morning. Revival service at night. Buena Vista Street JL E., Kev. J. H. Miller, pastor At 10.30 a. jr. "Consecration;" at7:30r.M. "APlan forlS93, Which Followed Will Insure Success." Services every evening next week except Satnrday. Grace English Lutheran, Mission Sunday school of Trinity Lutheran Church will hold its first service on Sunday. January 3. at 4 p. M., in Reineman'sllall. onTroj-Hill. Preach ing in the evening at 7:30 o'clock. North Avenue M. E., corner Arch street Rev. J. T. Satchell, pastor 10:30 a m., "Sac rament of the Lord's Supper;" 7:30p.m., "The Accepted Call." Revival services evory evening during the week, except Saturday. Nixon Strlet Baptist, between Chartiers and Manhattan, J. s. Hutson, pastor Morn ing, 10-33, "Fellow Helpers to the Truth;" evening, 7:30, "Life's Retrospect." Preach, ing at Woods' Run Chapel at 7:30 p. M. by Mr. Thomas Corde. Central Presbyterian, Anderson and La cock streets. Rev. S. B. McCormick, pastor Snbject, 10:4' a. m.: "The Indispensable Blessing." 7:30 r. a.: "A Call to Salvation." Services every night during the week ex cept Saturday. Sandusky Street Baptist, B. F.Woodbnrn, pastor 10:30 a. ji., "The Past and the Future;" 7:30 p. M.. "The Old and the New;" 2 P. M., anniversary of the Sunday school. Addresses by Revs. George T. Street, W. W. West and J. S. Hutson. The new Providence Presbyterian, Madi son avenue and Liberty street, Rev. W. A. Kinter, pastor, will be dedicated to-morrow, January 3. Rev. J. D. Moffatt, D. D., Presi dent of Washington and Jefferson College, will preach the dedicatorv sermon at 10:30 a. m. Special .services tor the Sabbath schools at 2:30 p.m. Eev. H. T. JlcClelland, D. D., pastor of Belletleld Presbyterian Church, will preach at 7:45 p. M. The new Providence Presbyterian Church, Jladison nvenue and Liberty street. Rev. W. A. Kinter, pastor, will be dedicated to morrow. Eev. Jas. D. Moffatt, D. D., president of Washington aud Jefferson College, will pi each the dedicatory sermon at 10:30 a. M. Special services tor the" Sabbath schools at 2:30 p. M. Rev. H. T. McClelland, D. D.. pastor of Bellfleld Presbyterian Church -will preach at 7;45 r. m. Miscellaneous. Cektbal Torao Women's Christian As sociation, 328 Penn avenue Gospel meeting for women and "iris only at 4 p. m. All women invited to bo present. First Cbbistian, Mansfield Valley, Rev. O. H. Philips, pastor Morning, "How Can This Man Give Us His Flesh to Eat:" Evening-, a special sermon, "The Preparation in His tory for Christ." The Primary Teachers' Union will meet as usual at the Second Presbyterian Church, corner Penn avenue and Eighth street, Saturdav afternoon, January 2, at 1 o'clock. Miss JIary J. Webb will teach the lesson for the coming Sabtath. All interested in pri mary work are invited. raise Economy Is practiced by many people, who bur in ferior articles of footl because cheaper than standard goods. Surely infants are entitled to the best food obtainable. It is a fact that the Gail Borden "Eagle" Brand Condensed Milk is the best infant food. Your jrrocer keeps it. SFECI.VI, cable servlca for THE DIS l'ATC 11 to-morrow. All tho news or all the world. IK'S COTTON ROOT COMPOUND. A recent discovery hr an old physician. Successfully used inu'ntllrl)vtIioasanlsorladles. Istheonlr perfectly safe and reliable meiiieine discovered. Beware tf unprincipled drug gists who offer Inferior medi cines in place of this. Ask for Cook's v.,..,-s nor Compound, take no substi tute, or Inclose SI and Geenta In pontage In letter, and we-will send, sealed, by return mall. Full sealed partlculsrs In plain envelope, tn ladies only, Sstamps. Address POND 1,1 LY COMPANY. No. 1 Flslicr Block, Deroit. MM. Sold In Pittsburg by Jos. Flejiino & bov. JI2 Market street. de!7-31 We mate more porous plasters than all other makers in this country combined, because the public appreciate the mer it that exists in our goods. BENSON'S is the only me dicinal plaster for house hold use. all others being weak imitations. Get the Genuine. COUNT VON WALDERSEE, The German Gen' eral. Diplomat and. friend of Emperor William, acknowl edges the beneficial effects of the Soden Mineral Pastilles in. a letter addressed to the Soden Mineral Springs Co. These. Pastilles (troches) are unsurpassed for catarrhal affections of the throat, for colds and coughs, and no one should be witbont them. The genuine imported article must have the signature of "Eisner & Mendelson Co.," Sole Agents, New Tork, around every box. XtCnresColdi.ConsIu.SereTIiTo&ttCnm?.Infliies cWhooplng Congh-iBronchitia ad Aathma. Acer tain cure for Consumption in fint lUsei, sad a tun relief tn advanced stages. ve at once Ton "will see tha excellent effect after taking the first dose. 914. tydalraTerjwncr. Lar;a beulec, 50 cenu and fUM tleil-o'2-TWTUS pure alcohol to make Wolff's Acme Blackikg. Alcohol is good for leather; it is good for the skin. Alcohol is the chief ingredient of Cologne, Florida Water, and Bay Rum the well known face washes. We think there is nothing too costly to use in a good leather preservative. Acme Blacking: re tails at 20c. and at that price sells readily. Many people are so accustomed to buying a dress ing or blacking at 5c and 10c. a bottle that they cannot understand that a black ing can be cheap at "Oc. 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