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TRAMP IN CORNWALL
Wakeman's Loiterings in the Ancient
Seaport Town of St. Ives.
GLIMPSES OP GLORIOUS SCENERY.
A riace Famous in the Nursery Ehymes
and Prettj to,ee.
THE FOLK ALL CLEANLI AND THRIFTY
t CORRESPONDENCE Or THE DISPATCH.
St. Ives, Cornwall June 18. In the
tender realm of nursery rhyme lore there is
no pleasauter mysticism than that which
clings to the pretty riddle:
As I iras colng to St Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
tach wife had seven sacks;
Each sack bad seven cats;
Each cat had seven kits;
Kits, cats. sacVs and wives
How many were there going to St. Ives?
So deep and lasting are the impressions of
childhood that as I tramped around the
southern reach of St. Ives' bay from the
pretty hamlet of St. Earth, I found myself
unconsciously scanning the highway far
lhead for this same wicked old fellow who
bas puzzled the head of millions of little
-folk. But he was not to be seen any more
than the "kits, cats, sacks and wives" are
to be taken in to account in the olden
riddle.
In truth, no man, woman or child was
visible upon the white and circling high
way. St Earth nestled there silent and
apparently deserted against the copse and
the hillside. The tide was out in the bay.
A fer fishermens boats rocked idly beside
mossy old piers. Long reaches of sand
showed here and there shining and brown,
like the backs of huge marine monsters.
Gulls wheeled lazily above. land and sea
(owl chattered in the circling marsh edges,
or dng in the sand and ooze. Only to the
north, through the rift between the head
lands, was there single sign of life. On the
sapphire blue of the Irish sea there were
two tar, white sails.
One or England's Oddest Towns.
But I knew the ancient city lay behind
the huge headland, and quickening my
pace I soon stood at its sea-face and its
highest acclivity. Here the highway tum
bles into one of "the oddest old towns in all
Europe. No wonder that Londoners are
comine this, to them, tremendous journey
of 280 miles lor summer loitering, and the
grand promontories behind the town are
filling up with brilliant terraces; or that
artists swarm to the remote place for its bits
of antique in architecture, its quaint group
ings of fisher folk, and its outreachmgs ot
wild and glorious Cornish coast
There are pictures and pictures of the
Bay ot Naples. But were I an artist, I
nould stake my hope of renown on the
picture I saw as I stood above the bay and
ancient town of St. Ives. The bay itself
faces the north. At your feet are purple
heather and waving terns parted from the
crystaline water by glistening sands. To
the right and east, the green hillocks of the
Eastern Shore. Then the broad yellow
beach of Forth-cocking, or the Foresand.
Dominating this is the great headland of
Pednolva. Beyond, gleaming like a field of
gold, are the magnificent sands of Porth
minsten and further btill, the headland and
rocky islet of Godrevy, with the latter's
white lighthouse settingcameo-like between
the purple of the sea walls and the tremul
ous blue of the oceau.
Beautiful GllinDr5 of the Oc-an.
Before you, the silent shimmering bay,
with a lew -nhite-winged cratt scarcely
moving, it seems, the distance is so great
CLEARANCE
BEFORE
STOCK-TAKING! ssT STOCK-TAKING!
THIS SUE WILL LAST FROM TUESDAY. JULY 5, TILL SATURDAY JULY 9, AT 10 P. M.
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AT REDUCED PRICES!
Jelly Moulds, nice pattern, me- Qc
dium size 0
Water Coolers,fancy japan
ned, with nickel faucet, fr Q
good size rO
Gas Stoves, with two cook-tf Qf"
ing places vliOO
iC
Kitchen Spoons, good size Cf
Rolling Pins, with enameled Qc
handles Q
Patent Ironing Boards, withQQc
stand JJO
Handles for Mrs. Potts' Irons.. 0
Wire Sponge Racks If
Insect Guns if
Moth Marbles, per box, 40 in i.Q
box 4
Solid Nickel Tea Spoons, PQCc
half dozen J J)
O-L.A.SSW'.A.IRE.
Plain White Meat Dishes, Qc
slightly damaged, large size.. Jj
98'
Plain White Slop Jars.
WINDOW SCREENS, SCREEN DOORS ! AT REDUCED PRICES1 REFRIGERATORS, ICE CHESTS!
FLEISHMAN & CO., 504, 506 & 508
from the height where you stand, the ocean
beyond, shining and bine and still; rythmic
reaches of incoming tide-waves, miles in
length, advancing ana retreating and break
iag softly upon the shelving sands in tiny
ridges ot sparkling spume; and here, to the
west, a great mass of jumbled gray old St
Ives crouching in a little pocket of the
rocks, like a mass of mossy stone in some
shadowy glen, sleeping away the centuries,
unconscious of the thunderous sea.
TJp here among the terraced villas you,
can "form little idea of the quaint old town.
The great road jumps into it at a lean, and
is broken -by the fall into the oddest closes
and wynds of any coastwise nook in Eng
land. One could almst bnrl a stone across
its crowded tiled roofs; and yet it houses
fully 9,000 people. The streets are sonar
row, the pavements so meager, such queer
turns are made, such shadowy arcades are
penetrated, that the surest-footed stranger
pedestrian will meet many a bump and
bang in most carefnl descent
Homes Thickly Nratrd Together.
Then when yon have reached something
like a level, you have simply increased
your difficulties. All the lower thorough
fares are scarcely more than shadowy foot
paths, leading bewilderingly from some
where to nowhere. This one, opening
promisingly, brings you sqnarely against a
solid wall ot rock. That one, in half a
dozen paces, lands yon npon a fiat roof,
from which you may easily step into the
harbor a hundred feet beneath. Another
winls about a single structure windowless
as a tenth century 'fortress. Descending
another, you find "a nest of homes whose
roofs are the passageway of a street above.
Dozens lead squarely into open doors of
fishermen's homes. Many are like galleries
before others. Some wind through houses
where living rooms of the same house will
be found at either side of a pubiio passage.
And then in what odd nooks the little
shops will be found. There is not a single
street 100 yards in length where a half
dozen shops"are continuously located. Even
in these you must needs often ascend or
descend a story or more. The most are
literally hidden or perched in outlandish
and out-of-the-way spots, where, if not
stumbled npon, one mnst repeatedly come
with a guide or find rediscovery hopeless.
Here will be one perched in a half-timbered
Elizabethan projection, away up there three
or four stories from the street, and you can
not find an entrance. And there one will
be seen as many stories beneath a tiny
esplanaded way, but apparently vou cannot
reach it without rope and tackfe. Others
are where kitchens should be. And still
others unexpectedly confront you from
dormer windows.
Everything Tarnsd Around.
Everything of this sort seems bewilder
ingly reversed from its proper order. But
nothing ever seems to be bought or sold in
old St Ives; the artists gloat over the curi
ous jumble; and it is all most winsome and
charming to the stranger.
If you come at last through this laby
rinth 'to the waterside, you will gaze back
aloiiL' the dormers penthouses and roofs
of the strange old city, and np and on to
its terraced heights with increased enthusi
asm for its rare quaintness and curious
aspects. Tiuy towers show here and
there as if ontjutting from natnral rock.
Bits of luxuriant loliage and masses of
vines seem to spring lrom the roofs like
rich clumps of emerald moss. Spires
and wondrously high peaked roofs stand
out against the gray and green back
ground like spearheads of unpolished steel.
Above all, the handsome terraces and the
grand old heights, where once the beacon
fires were lighted.
Gray and old as is this Cornish fisher
town, but two bits of extreme antiquity re
main. Just in the rear of the White Hart
inn by the wharfside is a huge pile of
greenish slate rock. Built upon this rock,
which forms its basement, is a tiny ancient
stone structure known as Cam Glaze House.
It was the stronghold of a smuggling, free
booting family in Queen Anne's time, and
the myriad weird fisher and sea-faring
legends of St Ives have nearly all had their
origin in, or bear some reference to, this
grewsome old structure.
The parish church, built straight above
SCREENS, S
Bread Boxes, nicely japanned, f Pc
good size jQ
Refrigerator Dripping Pans, IQc
galvanized, extra strong J
Fly Fans, nickle plated,! QQ
warranted $ wO
Wash Benches, tripod shape.... Q
Wooden Lemon Squeezers, with fQc
china bowl .. Q
Turkey Feather Dusters, largeOPc
size Jjj
Mrs. Potts' Sadirons, 3 irons, Pc
stand and handle complete... Q
9C
Hammock Hooks, galvanized, Oc
extra strong Q
Chloride of Lime, best disin- Qc
fector Q
Knives and Forks, triple '
plated on best -steel, 6fl Q
knives and 6 forks 3l"r0
10
Crystal Glass Pickle Trays
Rose Bowls, Bohemian Satin
24
Glass
;
THE, PITTSBURG
the harbor-edge, its east window sprayed
with foam of the wild northern tempests
which often lash the harbor furiously, was
built In the 16 years between 1410 and 1423,
on the site of an olden structure, founded
by St Ivo, a Persian bishop, who came
over from Ireland In the ninth century to
preach the gospel to the Cornish Britons.
. Some stone carvings and a most beauti
ful and curious font of the old St Ivo
chapel are still preserved. Perhaps the
quaintest carvings in England are to be
found in the present church. They were the
work of the then village blacksmith, "a
handveand devoute man," who carved the
oak of the benches and choir stalls, not
omitting to carve the forge, the bellows,
hammer and nails, and pincers of his own
sturdy craft. He threw in a fair supply of
Tudor roses, monks and angels, but, as
Saints Andrew and Peter are appropriate
patrons of the church where countless
thousands of fisher folk have worshiped, the
good smith also put them into every con
ceivable beneficent attitude, and, as if to
intensify their protection of the town of St
Ives and its people, also wove fishes, saints
and arabesques into most generous and pro
fuse relationship.
If these wood carvings are curious studies
some of those in stone are equally outland
ish. There are stone grotesques whose
equals in strange and meaningless hideous
ness can hardly be found elsewhere in
Europe. Seven represent mocking, leering
faces of men and beasts, 'lwo are distend
ing their months with their fingers and pro
truding their tongues. One is a most horri
ble figure of an ape, and another wears a
fool's cap of the period.
A Hlgh'y Elrvatrd Churchyard.
The stranger will be impressed with. the
extraordinary elevation of the soil of the
tiny churchyard. "When the place was first
quite filled with the dead, the burial place
was covered over with several feet of sand
and Interment went on anew. Three times was
this done; when it was finally found that to
have repeated the process would have been
to bury the church itself, then a cemetery
was secured upon the heights.
The St. Ives fisher folk are noted for
their simplicity and piety. They are nearly
all fervent Methodists, honest, supersti
tious, humble and good. Thev live in as
great comfort as the fisher folk of New
haven, in Scotland, and the man is more
the master of his home and belongings.
They are the most scrupulously clean and
thritty folk of this sort I have ever met
The women, though strong and brawny,
have few of the Billingsgate characteristics
of the fishwives of the English east coast,
of Scotland and of Galway and the Irish
west coast They mend the nets and "bulk"
or pack the pilchards. They are very
domestic, and their prayer meetings and
strict Sabbath keeping, though they are
wofully ignorant, have done these St Ives
fisher folk no hurt or harm.
Edgar L. Wakemait.
As opportune friend will be fonnd in Dr.
D. Jayne's Expectorant, when racked by a
severe cold, and the many lung or throat
affections which sometimes follow. This
old remedy has met the approval of two
generations, and is to-day as popular, safe
and effective as ever.
Volksbraa
Genuine unadulterated lager beer Is manu
factured from pure hops and malt by the
Eberhardt & Ober Brewing Company. This
beer being strictly pure U specially prepared
to reach all demands for a summer drink.
Bottled and on tap at all first-class restaur
ants and saloons. ttsu
Wanted.
Wanted A wife who can handle a broom,
Brush down cobwebs and sweep the room;
That is never cros to a poor old sinner,
But serves Marvin's bread and smiles at din
ner. TT3
8iAixin size, great In results: De Witt's
Little EarlvKlsers. Best nill for consttDatlon
.best for sick headache and sour stomach.
Tire greatest thing on earth to kill
roaches, bedbugs, etc., Is Iiuglne. 25 cents.
Remove the causes that ro&ke yonr hair lifeless
and icrav with Pahker'6 Haik Balsam.
Hixdercobhs, the best cure for corns. IS cts.
SALE
Water Dippers, cocoa shape, Qc
with enameled wood handles O
Nickle Cuspidors, fluted pat- IPc
tern J
VJ9C
Gas Stoves, good size rO
fiEc
Hose Reels, extra strong (jy
IQC
Frames for Window Screens J
Preserving Kettles, porcelain enam
eled: Qts.2 346 8 10 12 14 16
19c22c28c36c44c52c58c66c74c
Frying Pans, made out of one Qc
piece of steel j
Soap Dishes and Tooth Brush Qc
Holder combined jj
5C
Qc
Brooks' Crvstal Soap, genuine.. )
Shopping Bags, made of im- TJc
ported rush
Mason's Jars, best flint glass, per doz.
Pts., 68c. Qts., 88c. 2 Qts., 98c.
2?
Jelly Tumblers, with tin tops...
DOOMS, HOUSE
JVCAIIi CfcRJDElRS
I
DESPATCH, TUESDAY,
WHERE OIL IS CHEAP.
Another War in Colorado Between
the Standard and Its Rivals.
PETROLEUM ALMOST GIVEN AWAY.
Charges That Trod action lias Been Regularly
Restricted.
LEADING FEATURES OP THE CONFLICT
Denver. July 4. The Standard Oil Com
pany and the Bocky Mountain Oil Com
pany have put in about four pleasant
months trying to pulverize one another,
and the price of oil holds so low that the
poorest man bas-every opportunity(to blow
himself into the empyrean ether. Big ad
vertisements announce that "pure water
white" may be had from such and such a
grocery at 5 cents a gallon, while other
cards declare with equal positlveness that
another grocery has the purest of oil at 4
cents a gallon. As a matter of fact, retailers
who buy any quantity pay practically noth
ing for their oil.
The Standard Company does not operate
in Colorado under its own name, but the
Continental Oil Company of Denver is
practically a branch. The concern, which
handles only the distribution, in turn has
a cast-iron agreement with the United Oil
Company, which controls the production.
The Standard Oil Company has kindly con
sented to place the Colorado production at
600,000 barrels, and the United prorates the
little fellows under its thumb and its own
wells eo the total is that amount
Holding Down the Resources.
For many years independent producers
have tried to obtain a foothold, but in every
instance until the Bocky Mountain Com
pany took the eld they were compelled
either to accept the trust price, sell out at
a loss, or close down in sullen anger and
stay closed. On the "Western slope of the
great range are extensive fields, most of
which are under control of the Standard
Company, from none ot which a barrel bas
ever been shipped. The systematic holding
down of resources believed to be great
causes the great trust to be heartily exe
crated by the people in the neighborhood of
the undeveloped fields, but this trifle has
never interfered with the digestion of the
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
THIS INK IS MANUFACTURED
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Hunter Sifters, genuine y
Garden Sprinkling Cans, nicely i Qc
japanned Jj
9C
Garden Hose, extra strong, per "Ic
foot
7C
Imported Match Safes f
Cherry Seeders, best make Qfj
Garden Sets, consisting of iPc
shovel, rake and hoe J
8C
3C
Machine Oil,extra good quality, c
per bottle 4
Medicine Cabinets, oak finish, QQc
corner and square shape UU
CHIITAI
Crystal Glass Watef Bottles,
25"
with tumblers
Ice Cream .Nappies, latest pat
tern 2'
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JULY 5, 1892.
Denver men lncky enough to be in the com-,
bine.
' The Bocky Mountain Company has heavy
backing and has gone into the business as
though it meant either to stay or to compel
the United to buy it out at a figure large
enough to cause the magnates to feel un
happy. The first operation after getting
'Control of wells in the- Florence oil field
was to commence building a refinery at
Pueblo and a pipe line SO miles long to
connect it with the wells. The company
claims that its processes are such that
it makes enough from, products
other than oil obtained from the crude petro
leum to enable it to give its oil away and
make a small profit The equipment of the
United Company is old style and saves
nothing from the petroleum but the various
kinds of lubricating and illuminatiug oils.
Thus the new concern has it on the hiD un
less it changes its refinery, which it gives
no indication of doing. The officers decline
to say anything about their intentions or
whether the Standard company proper is
contributing to the expense of the sport,
A Lack of Inspection.
There is no State supervision over il
and no municipal inspection in Denver. Un
consequence, oil which would not be per
mitted to be sold elsewhere is sold without
hindrance. The danger lies mostly in the
subnrbs, because nearly every one in the
city uses either gas or electricity. Some time
ago a lamp exploded and burned a woman to
death at Valverde, just south of town. A
local paper procured oil from the grocery at
which she oought her supplies, had it
tested, and found it flashed at 88,
and sailed into tRe Standard.
The Vice President of the Continental
came to the office and threatened a libel
suit nnless retraction was made. The paper
refused to retract and had tests made of oil
bought in all the suburbs. They ran from
80 upward: The Continental has kept
quiet since.
All of this, of course, was a big card for
the Bocky Mountain Company, which
claimed that all the low-grade oil was sold
by its enemy, and that it was truly virtu
ous. Cjfre home industry cry is worked for
all it is worth, and tank wagons bearing pa
triotic mottoes scour the outskirts to work
up trade. Neither side gives any sign of
weakening; and there is a pleasing prospect
of cheap oil continuing for a considerable
period.
Wake up.
Yes, wake up to the danger which threat
ens you if your kidneys and bladder are in
active or weak. Son t you know that If yon
fall to impel them to action. Blight's disease
or diabetes awaits yon? Use Uostotter's
Stomach Bitters without delay. It has a
most beneficial effect upon the kidneys
when sluggish, and upon the bowels, liver,
stomach and nervous system. ttsu
Baking
Powder
7-d
CLEARANCE
BEFORE
5C
Fly Traps, both glass and I IV
wire Q
(Qc
Self-Wringing Mops, complete. J
Potato Masher, good size
Qc
Dish Mops, large u
Oval Clothes Baskets, large HPc
size 0
Ac
Can Openers, steel blade H
iC
Sink Cleaners I
Bird Gravel, large box Q
8C
Celebrated Christy Bread QQc
Knives, per set OO
. 9
Majolika Cuspidors..
Carlsbad China Tea Set, 5 6
$5.00
pieces, worth io.
A.TTEITIDEX)
NEW ADTERTZSKtOCim.
B.8 B.
tefiay Moil, 511 July,
We shall offer the most extraordinary
value in fine, desirable
J
With Black Polka Spots and Figures,
fancy weaves or meshes goods that
were originally imported to retail at
$2.50 and S3 a yard 48 INCHES
WIDE,
$1 a Tarl
Six yards of these wide Grenadines
make the fashionable Gown.
Lace Departmem
Has an offer that neither women, who
buy at retail, nor merchants, who
buy at wholesale, have ever seen the
equal of sold, we believe, at any time
or place in America. This remark
able offer consists of 43 pieces
Black Polka Spot Silk Lace
FLOUNCINGS,
ith Chantffly Edge, 9 INCE
IDE,
12 1-2C.
13 INCHES WIDE,
15c a Yard,
The DRESS GOODS SHELVES
$re being emptied this means much
at these stores, and just what it says
do you want any fine goods from
the half-price lots, and some less?
THEN COME NOW.
BOGGS & BUHL
ALLEGHENY.
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GUIS
RIGEHATORS,
AT REDUCED
Oc
Wire Dish Drainers, large size.. O
Lawn Mowers, warranted Q QQ
steel knives, 12 in 30iw0
Mop Stick Holders O
Whisk brooms, good make O
Rc
Stove Brushes, good bristles U
Cloth Hampers, extra largeQCc
size. vU
Telescope Traveling Cups I Q
Qc
Napkin Rings U
6C
Ac
Ironing Wax
Qc
Butter Plates, triple plated ,
BH;IO-JL-BTA.O.
Decorated Bone Dishes, with
gold band
6
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Tumblers, crystal glass.
TO.
NEW AOVEBTUKKJEMTS.
Laird's Shoes are the best and the
most popular in Pittsburg.
P
HOW THEY LIKE
'S
THEN AGAIN:
IF THErRE COMFORTABLE! t
IF THErRE FASHIONABLE!
IF THErRE RELIABLE
AND ABOUT THE PIE.
SPECIAL THIS WEEK.
2,000 pairs Ladies' fine Dongola
Kid Oxford Ties at 75c, 98c, $1 x8
and $1 24.
2,400 pairs Ladies' fine Dongola
Kid Button Boots at $1 25, $1 50,
$1 75 and $2.
1,500 pairs Ladies' finest Dongola
Button Boots at $2 50, $2 90, $3.
SPECIAL FOR MEN:
1,200 pairs Gents' fine Calf Seam
less Bals and Congress at $1 98,
$2 1 8, $2 50 and $2 90.
1,050 pairs Gents' finest Calf,
Kangaroo and fine Patent Leather Bals
and Congress at $2 90 and 3 90.
Wl LAIRD,
WHOLESALE AND OIL,
433 and 435 406, 408,-
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WOOD STREET. MARKET STREET.
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SALE
RODS
LAIRD
SHOES
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ICE CHESTS!
PRICESI
Foot Bath Tubs, nicely japan- Cc
ned, with gold bands ,Q
Lawn Mowers, warranted fl QQ
steel knife, 14 inches. ..34iw0
Pillow Sham Holders, fit anyQc
size bed ...ftf Q
9C
Wall Splash Mats, large size...
Skirt Forms, extra strong i)U
5C
Le Page's Glue, best china Qc
mender. 0
6C
Solid Nickel Table Spoons, perHQc
yz dozen Uw
Wash Tubs, extra large, threeQc
hoops..- '. QH
Carlsbad China Cake Plates,
elegantly decorated
10
5
Crystal Glass Berry Dishes.
MARKET
STREET.
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