IN COVENT GARDEN, Koyel Sights at the Break of Day "Where London Gets Its Pood Supply. PLOWEBS IN PBOFUSION. Eardj Women Who Carry Prodig ious Burdens on Their Heads. BEATITT AND HEALTH COMBINED. A Pathetic Pictiro of the Carter of Xn. James Brown Potter. LITTLE MARSHALL TTILDBE'S BUOCES8 IcomsroicDXirca or thi dibpatcii.i Lottdox, July 1. Covent Garden Mar ket in the early morning ii one of the eights of London a sight, however, that visitors more often promise themselves to lee than see. "Working London isn't up and about as early as is Pittsburg whether owing to the dull sky or the overnight beer I can't 'iy; rnd the market at 6 o'clock in the I .orning is reached without meeting half a dozen people in a 20 minutes' walk, those one meets being usually the drabs and wrecks, soggy with gin or beer, who are staggering from their doorway lodgings, rubbing their eyes and stretching their limbs to crovel through another day. Convent Garden Market is tne great wholesale sUDply depot from which London Is fed, where all the small dealers buy their fruit, vegetables and flowers, and in the three divisions there are acres of crates, boxes, barrels and hampers, particularly hampers, for the English rather run to hampers, filled with tons of vegetables and fruit, and thousands of pots of flowers. This is one place where there are life and movement at dawn, and plenty of them. There is quick buying and selling that is, it's quick considering that it's English, for an Englishman must live a very long life indeed to accomplish much in the leisurely manner things are done here. lThcra Aristocrat and l'lebtan Meet. There are buyers from all parts of Lon don big, prosperous looking Englishmen laying in the good things for the lordly stomachs of JIayfair, and dirty chaps from the East End getting the supply for the less fastidious folk down "Whitechapel way. Women are Ecarce in the vegetable and fruit divisions, except women who sell, and It's just as well that they are so, for, with the boxes and crates and hampers being hurried through the aisles, five minutes is a long interval during which not to get a -rhack on the head from a projecting corner or not to be Involuntarily enthroned on a crate of potatoes or barrel of cabbages. while the light and airy persiflage of the hucksters and green grocers is quite enough in itself to induce women to stay at home. The flower market is the place for them, however, nd they are there in armies, from the tourist to the porteress. The flower trade is an immense one. There are few English tables, except of the humblest, that are not decorated with Dotted plants or cut flowers, and a lew houses of any preten sion that are without flowers in the windows, along the balconies, or in the back yard which is diinifred into a "garden" here, and not decorated with an ash heap, empty cans or broken china and tinware that has outlived its usefulness. Ihe E-c Ish Revel In Flowers. Flowers are cheap, keep well in the cool climate, and arc one ot the regular items in every good housekeeper's expense account. The flower market is quite as big as either of the others, and there are pyramids and tiers and shelves ot potted plants and cut flowers in it. Ask the price of them, and you are told the rate perdozen, for the trade is so big that the dealers never suspect a buyer as wanting such a trifle as one or two pots. It is a beautitul display and one that would delight a woman's heart if she could view it calmly, but there's such a confusion of nasty buying and selling that one only fathers a jumbled impression of a color ash and a notion that the Garden ot Eden must have smellcd like this. Ever thing, from the rarest of orchid, at t, guinea a pot, to our common field daisy, at 6 shillings lor a dozen pots, is on sale. There are tea roses and moss roses lying on beds of cotton; soft, pale primroses that are poor little things after all to have in spired a poet tied up in bunches like bun ches of cress and piled in masses on the tand; there's the "nee modest, crimson- tipped flon er" that Bobby Burns said ten der things about, at sixpence a pot; there are palms as tall as I am, waiting to stand guard round some dainty woman's tea table; there are rose, with stems half a yard long, in which a duchess' nose may be buried, hob-nobbing in a friendly way with gay, sancy little nasturtium", that may tind their way to an attio window and a humble heart. Blossoms for ranera'l and Weddings. There are tiny white blossoms that may be gently laid in waxen fingers on calm, dead hearts, cuddling close to warm-tinted carnations, rose buds, and the like, that are destined to be worn in the buttonhole of some careless youth of hopeful age. There's mienonette, with its pretentious shyness; heliotrope, with its over-rated sweetness; pansies, "for thoughts," dear, kindly-faced companions; ox-eye daisies, jolly lellows; graceful sweet peas; tulip, flaunting vul garians; lilies of the valley, with their tremulous bells, whom vouth makes so fair and passion so pale;" feathery kiss-me-quick, jaunty bachelors' buttons, tiresomely decorative hydrangeas, great, coarse flowery rhododendrons, flowing geraniums, and it does seem all things green arid bright that were made to beautify the earth. One buys and wonders what to do with them. A pudgy woman wearing an apron tied round an ample waist, and a wadded black roll like a good bis sausage curled round on her head, volunteers to "Tike 'urn 'ome fur you liedy," and "tike 'urn" she will for a shillingor so, according to the distance. All the porter work in the flower market is done by women. Thev are licensed to do it, an'd it is truly mar velous to see them carrying the great bas kets on their heads. Just think ot carrying a bis: basket filled with 10 or 20 flower pots, each filled with earth and flowers, on one's head for half an hour, crossing busy streets and dodging carts and cabs the while! They do it, and carry them as steadily as though they were-nailcd to them. rfmn Who Farm Oat ThcIrTVork. Some of the old women, wise in their day, farm cut the work. They possess the licenses, contract to do the work, and in deed go so lar as to carry the baskets out of the market house when a shambling fellow or stockr, cow-faced young woman appears on the scene, takes the basket from the old woman andtrudges along with it while the boss ot the job trots along behind, gives her orders and pays two or three pence for the labor. Sometimes the portresses strike lor higher pay when they set their burdens down at a buyer's door, and if they don't get it and apnliceman isn't in sight they ex press their disappointment in language that stamps a longehoreman's remarks under high pressure as choice and elegant diction when compared with it. Picturesque fignies they are trudging along the streets in the early morning with a veritable garden of gar flowers nodding their pretty heaps ever" the sides of the basket, but at times they carry with them a suggestion of such grim poverty that the flowers seem cruelly gay. I've met them coming from the market, one a little, bent old creature wearing a black satin skirt trimmed with Jet which she must have fished out of an ash barrel, a blue silk bodice so tattered it must have been through a threshing machine, and her face 80 deeply wrinkled that the creases were too deep to ever hope of washing the dirt out of their depths. One gaunt creature I saw walking erect and never wavering tinder a double load two baskets, one set crosswise on the other, holding nearly three dozen cots of plants. Another I saw with a babe on her bosom and a load of flowers on her head. The babv was sleeping, the early sunshine falling full on its peaceful, dirty, upturned face, and she was carrying it in a sling made by an old shawl tied round her neck, thus having both arms free to manage her burden. Speculations or the Flower Girls. If one goes to the market early enough one can see the street flower Tenders laying in their stock in trade for the day. Girls of 15 or 16 as blase and depraved, begging a copper here and there from some well-to-do visitor in the market, and then bargaining sharply to get its worth from a gardener. There are ol women, doddering, blear-eyed old things, who have been standing at the same corner year in and year out for so long they've forgotten when they began; there are crippled men and flippant boys, and the choice of the flowers they make is a pretty sure guide to the locality they sell in. They all bargain well, and get a Dlt of green thrown in if they can, watch like hawks to see a blossom drop from someone's basket, ani snap it up eagerly as so much clear profit. Slovenly wretches they are for the most part, with flower trays under their arms and occasionally a toddler at their heels or in their arms a little, dirty bundle from which a faint, queruluous, hopeless cry comes now and then to let one know there is a human being in it One of these little bundles was in the girl-mother's way when buying, so she plumped it down flat npon the damp brick floor, and some careless toot knocked the contents of a wateringpot over it Bid she mind it? Not a bit, but she let it lie there, drenched, till she gpt through with the business in hand, then caught it up and carried it away swung under her arm. All around the market these flower vender squat on the curbstone and arrange the looe flowers into little bouquets with a skill that is wonderfnl when one looks at their filthy, unkempt selves. Poor Little Mn. Potter. Kyrle Bellew and Mrs. Brown Potter maundered through "Hero and Leander" for two weeks at the Shaftesbury tneatre here, and from the time the curtain fell on the first night's performance the play was doomed and the "notices" given to the com pany. Mrs. Potter I always feel like say ing "poor little Mrs. Potter'" for there is something so infinitely pathetic in her at tempts at acting and the remembrance of what she cast aside and what she reaped Is thinner both as to person and power than ever. There's a querulous, tired look about her mouth and in her eyes now that wasn't there when I saw her last in "Wash ington as Cleopatra, and, to quote one of her unprofessional critics, "there's not enough flesh on her to keep her bones from rattling." Since "Hero and Leander" was taken off the story goes that Bellow has found a younger, fairer and plumper leading lady to take her place, and that she will prob ably return to America and Mr. James Brown Potter, who has kept her room just as she left it, and who has always faith fully believed she would come back to him as she very probably will. If she does go, and he in the tenderness of his heart opens tne door to her and closes it again in the face of pnblic opinion, wouldn't it be a graceful, gentle return, and a most un worldly one, to forget that there ever was a misguided, vain, sentimental little women who recited ""Ostler Joe?" Marshall Wilder Makes m Hit Americans have assumed nearly all re sponsibilitv to entertain the British social public, and they re doing it fairly well, although now and then it is quite impossi ble to smother the wish that the sea had swallowed the ambition at least, if not the body, of some aspirants for glory as drawing-room reciters. Marshall Wilder spent several -days with Patti at the castle in Wales, and came back with a scarf pin of rubies and diamonds so brilliant that be wears a shade over it to avoid damaging his friends' eyes. At one of Charles Wynd ham's matinees at the Criterion he was 'the pet of the day and was called out three times told fresh stories each time, too. Mrs. Alice Shaw whistles at the Lyrio Club just before sailing for home, and Jen nie O'Xeill Potter does her monologue "Flirts and Matrons" at the Criterion on the 29th instant One of the most successful of fashionable entertainments of the season was given by the Lyric Club, at which Mrs. Margaret Moulton Merrill, who is well known in Washington and New York as a graceful writer and reciter, was the chief attraction. It was given under the patronage of the Countess Snmers, Baroness Bolsover, Lady Henry Somerset, Sir Augustus and Lady Odderley, Mrs. Home Pavne, Mrs. Mackay, Mrs. Ronalds, Minister Lincoln and others, and the little theater was well filled with a fashionable audience. Lillian Russell, William Sanford and Colonel Ochiltree made "a very noticeable" group in a box at the- Shaftesbury a few nights before it was closed. To enter the royal inclosure at Ascot is quite tb.3 seventh heaven ot bliss, socially. Some of the Americans who sported royal inclosure badges and sat on the lawn in the shadow of the Prince of "Wales' box were: Mr. and Mrs. Kobert Garrett, Mr. and Mrs. John G. Hecksher, Lieut and Mrs. Emory, Mrs. Vivian (formerly Mrs. Marshall O. Eoberts), Mrs. Xaylor Leyland (formerly Jennie Chamberlain), Mr. and Mrs. William Hayne Belvin. Gen. and Mrs. George B. Williams, and Col. Ochiltree. ' Elizabeth A. Tompkins. CAEXKU 70S THE DEAD. A Novel Trust for the STalntenanes of st Cemetery lot, St. Ixrals Foit-Dlspatch. The Union Trust Company was yesterday made the trustee of a large sum of money deposited with it by the family of the late Colonel John J. O'Pallon npon a trust which is to continue for a great number of years, the object of which is to secure the maintenance of the O'Fallqn lot in Belief iontaine iiemeiery. j.ne amies ot tne trustees are to see to it that this sum and the income from it are from time to time applied as occasion requires iff keeping up in first-class style the monument and sur rounding grounds in the family lot This trust is something unusual, bnt sug gests a most effective and satisfactory method whereby persons may absolutely insure the perpetual care of the last resting place of members of their family. Doubt less the example of the O'Pallons will be followed by many others uow that such a satisfactory method has been pointed out A KAN WITH A HEMOET. u Gladstone's Power of Krmemberlng; Is Something AstonUlllnc Detroit Free Press. Mr. Gladstone is known among his col leagues in publio life as "the man with the terrible memory," and yet it has been said of him that he has lorgotteu more than most British statesmen ever knew. His memory has always been good, but he has improved it greatly by forcing it to retain facts that other men make memoranda of and forget When he was Prime Minister it was his practice to keep the run of all the details of business with the execution of which three secretaries were intrusted. Mr. Gladstone possesses the invaluable ac complishment ot putting to use all the odd moments of his tir-. It is then that the bulk of his correspondence, which exceeds in voluma that of any of his contemporaries, is disposed of. His autograph is more fa miliar to Englishmen than that of any other publio man. THE BARGAINS Iff SEASON. How Madame of an Economical Torn Can Be Absolutely Correct. ONE SUIT THAT SUMMER DEMANDS. Happy Combinations of Parisian Fancies and American Ideas. AS ABTISrS CHOICE OP ORNAMENTS rcoaRZsroxDKXcx of thb dispatch, i New Yokk, July 8. OMEN", fashionably dressed and beautiful. still make brilliant the streets of Gotham; though the big Sarato gas of the elite left the city, weeks ago. For the most part these are the econom ically inclined who have been studying the most prominent styles and are now providing themselves from the bargains with a s u m m e r outfit, whloh, however expensive, shall yet be ab solutely correct It is certain that one salt must be a dark blue serge, cnt bell skirt and blazer. There Is a great variety of detail even for this par ticular design, but, after all, that is the most natty whiohhas the bell skirt fastened to a perfect fitting girdle of the goods, known as the "corselet skirt," and closing fast in the bfck with hooks and eyes or lacings. This requires a silk blouse in dark blue, dotted or strined to suit the wearer's fancy. Blue dotted With yellow or reJ, are two very popular combinations. If you choose the latter complete the suit with a blue straw sailor, trimmed with a band of blue ribbon dotted with red, a va riety that is a great specialty with one store onlv, and a red parasol. The cutaway jacket may have front facings of red silk. Among the foremost ot the bargains at this season are complete blazer suits as well as blouses and jackets separate. There are sailor hats and sailor hats; some of them are hideous. So many "make the mistake of getting one with too high a crown and too wide a brim. This is not nearly as apt to be becoming as one with low crown and narrow brim. The wing or loops used for trimming should be on the left side. A very jaunty sailor shown in a large window, containing nothing else, has a big loose bunch of narrow red satin rib bon loops on the side, with a wider band surrounding the crown. Blue and red is one of the picturesque combinations of the season. A girl who summers at Lake Mabopao, who is always torn Suits of the Beaton. very exclusive in all her belongings, but especially so this year, just after her en gagement to one of tbe city swells, has for her rough and ready suit a dark bine serge cut bell skirt and short bodice, the latter fashioned with a round yoke of rich red, trimmed with narrow bands of blue, edged with jet and following the yoke outline. Full sleeves of the blue fall over deep enffs of red banded in the same way. Her hat is a stiff blue straw, after those known as the 830 design, with high loops of ribbon and Prince of Wales tips standing up against the stove pipe crown. It is plain that Mademoiselle objects to. the blazer suit as almost too common for her refined tastes; hence this is the substitute. There are women who are not happy un less they have a gown patterned after the very latest Parisian fancy. I was chatting with the head dressmaker of a large New York boue, who had received orders from a Newport customer to make her at once a corduroy crepon, striped in black and pink, the stripes to go round the figure, which is one of the modes of the moment in gay Paris. These striped stuffs are made gener ally a la princess, with onlv a black lace pelerine round the shoulders, but in .this case the gown was to be a copy of one im-' ported model, with the stripes of the double skirt portion running round the figure, with those of the waist running up and down. The best that can ber aid of such a fashion is that it affords variety to the woman who spends her whole summer in a constant change of costly gowns, but is not appro priate for a limited wardrobe. It Is also the fancy over there to trim gowns with lace lined with ribbon, showing how great is the tendency of the Parisian to overdo matters of dress, the result bring a bewildering combination of materials and colors often less satisfactory than more sim ple designs. A pale grav crepon, trimmed with bands of white lace lined with pale blue ribbon, is not so bad, but not satisfied with gray, white, and ,blue, tbe famous modiste adds to tbe draped bodice a plaited frill of yellow material silk, which, accord ing to the ideas of some.is no improvement The Parisian fanatic, however, will declare that oil of yellow gives character to the dress and stamps it as the wsrk of a great artist Be this as it may, every time an American woman wishes her country wo men were more patriotic, with more of the spirit of the Princess of Wales, who de liberately chooses unpopular English goods for the dresses of herself and daught ers, in order to increase their sale. The wife of a wealthy New York artist, whose costumes are often suggested by her husband, deems it necessary to pay as great attention to the ornaments and finish ing touches of a gown as to the materials and style of cutting. As a result of this care her suits attract marked attention, whether she wears them at Bar Harbor, Lenox or Newport One of these, which is exceed ingly becoming to her well ronnded figure, is a black silk, cut Russian blouse and trimmed with black Spanish" lace and sliver cord.- The lace is cascaded very lull up the side of fastening. Three rows 'of cord form a small yoke at the neck, the sleeves are three-quarter, edged with a frill headed with, three rows of cord. The blouse is made scant over the bust so that she can wear a very elegant black lace Figaro, the fronts of which are held bv silver fleur de lys pins set with diamonds. The belt, which is really the most elegant feature of the toilette, is composed of sterling silver blocks, held together by fleur de lys. It is just such a gown as one might expect the wife of an artist . to wear, whose dining room is one of the prettiest In the city, with a large swell window In the back, shnt off by fretwork from the rest of the room aad ' m 1 I W n PITTSBURG i DISPATOH, hung with ferns and vines and filled with such a profusion of palms and orchids as to look like a scene in fairyland. The flenr de lys ornaments and the belt are the making of the dress. But we cannot all afford 'solid silver belts. It doesn't matter much, forL there are many others that are really very pretty. The stores are all making a gieat display of belts and girdles. It is a satisfaction, how ever, to have fewer ornaments and have those few good. It was rather a bright idea, that of a girl, who went into a store cele brated for its silver novelties and chose a perfectly plain solid silver buckle, having her initials engraved on one side, which, she means to wear with different home-made belts. The very oddest belt I have seen this year is an old heirloom. . It is silver and opens out to suit different -waists, com- After a ParOian Fancy. passing, if necessary, a good-sized figure and si:;";--; together again to fit the petit form of tho iitvio body, who inherited it with other treasures from a wealthy mother. but who now works hard for her daily bread with little else to remind her of former luxuries, through a father's villainy. Imported veils are seen two yards long in dark and light crape, with chenille dotted and satin striped borders, eosting (1 60 each. They are to be worn crossed Injthe back and brought forward under the chin. They are becoming, especially if age is be ginning to leave its marks round the ears and neck. Great fluffy bows are worn at the neck of polka dotted scarfs 11 inches wide and a yard and a half long. When held with a scarf ring these are known as the "Laral liere cravats." The feminine "dickey" is a delicate crepe de chine affair In pale pink or blue, arranged in a butterfly bow on a stiff foundation. Enamel butterfly pins share favor with the bow knot . Large Jabots of lace or chiffon are becom ing to tall women, but should be avoided by the stout Sham fronts of polka dotted silk Imitating; blonses to be worn with cutaways, cost $3 and H, bnt can be made at home for half that sum. . A white bluer Is sure to be one ot the necessities of the summer wardrobe, to be worn with a white veil and white parasol. Chatelaines continue to hare trinkets of every variety possible, to whioh must be added the shut np or pocket fan, prettily ornamented with silver. ' Scented fans, grotesquely painted, are In demand. Dor DrsancK. WOLCOTT KMOWS A GOOD THING. His Eeply to a l'ostscrlpt to a letter Requesting a Railroad Pass. Edward O. Wolcott, the man who nom inated Blaine at Minneapolis, has almost as magnetic and striking personality as the Plumed Knight himself. He first attracted national attention as an orator by his New England dinner speeches. His gifts of or atory, his fluent diction, his brilliant wit, his energy and virility, gave him promi nence, and caused him to be sought after as a publio speaker. He has a quick, nervous, impulsive way of saying and doing things, and he seems to be always in a hurry. He would attract at tention anywhere. He would be equally conspicuous in a 'body of dignified states men, or at a riot His physique is a com promise between Hercules and Apollo. His large head lias a blonde covering, a blonde moustache becomingly graces his upper lip. His mouth is large, and is expressive of one of his distinguishing characteristics determination. His voice'is resonant and clear as a belL He is prodigal in his friendships, and bitter and uncompromising in bis enmities. He is a genuine conoclast, and is constantly over throwing precedents and violating the proprieties. He is the only United States Senator who ever attended a session of that body attired in a negilge shirt of the race course pattern, a silt sash, a variegated tie, and russet shoes. He is one of the most fascinating men and. always appreciates a good thing. In this connection an accident that occurred when the Senator was quite a young man is in teresting. He was then,"as now, attorney for several large railway corporations. He was regarded by the gentler sex as a con firmed bachelor, proof against all the ad vances and charms of matrimony. A lady residing in the southern part of the State desired a pass to Denver. She wrote to a lady friend, who was well acquainted with Mr. Wolcott, asking her to request a pass from him. And then, like all women, she wrote a postscript, which in this instance was as follows: P. S. I wish you would also send me one oi tnose r. u. corsets; tne una yon wore when I was last in Denver. I think they are just too lovely for any tiling-. The lady received the letter, being in very much ot a hurry, and momentarily iqrgetting all about the postscript, indorsed a request on the back and forwarded the letter to Mr. Wolcott A reply came promptly as follows: Dear Madam I enclose a pass, as re quested, for your friend. Miss , I would send ner tlie P. D. Corset, but have forgotten her number. Very respectfully, E. O. T70LOOTT. Old Memories, f Mary Hansen In Chicago Inter-Ocean. Old memories with hallowed glees, Ton echo In your melodies, Your songs are of the other years, Ot other Joys and other cheers. In other ohurds and harmonies. Of children on the grassled leas, Of dais v blooms and hamming bees, Of shadowed mounds bedewed with, tears. Old memories. 'And through the gathered mysteries, That bans like veiling mists or seas. Ton bring ns where the bonnd'ry nears The world In wbioh our dead appears, But only touoh the minor keys Old memoriae. ' x. 3J2tu&lMBN3 mmmi, SUNDAY. JULY 10, FORGOT ABOUT WOMEN. Bessie Bramble Criticises tbe Fourth of July Celebration. WAS THE BURDEN OP THE TALK, Bnt Not a Word Abont the Work of the Foremothers of the Land. ' TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. IWJU1TJLN VOX TBS DISrATOR.1 "As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers, than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters," is a remark made by Gibbon, that came to mind when the magnates and educators of the city lauded and glorified the heroes of war as the greatest among men at the celebra tion on the Fourth of July. The history of the world is war, war, war. Blood, and sud den death, poverty, misery, murder, desolation, devastation and ruin are its ac companiments. Millions of men, lnaniwer to the demand for the glory of war, have died upon the battle field. Millions have died amid the privations and cruelties of prison life. Millions have suffered untold tortures from wounds, from sickness, far from friends and home, and subjeeted to every brutality that the enemy could inflict To all this misery is to be added the suffering of women and children mothers bereft of their sons, wives left widows to struggle with the world, children left fatherless and subject to charity and pauperism, broken hearts, blasted homes, the privations of poverty. -Besides there is the burning of cities, the devastation of farms, the destruction of wealth, the ruin that everywhere follows an army. Where the Benefits Always Go. Does war ever pay? Are people who claim to be committed to the gospel of peace justified in promoting war? Are not the followers of the Prince of Peace wrong when they teach their children to glory In war, to find their heroes and ideals among the wiclders of the sword and the shedders of hlood, and to take greater pride in a warrior than in an inventor, a philosopher or the hero whose works have bestowed good rather than ruin upon mankind? Who benefits by the horrors of war? Not the millions who suffer and pay the taxes for it, but rather the commissaries, the con tractors, the makers of shoddy, the manu facturers of munitions of murder. These wax fat and grow rich, live in palaces and fare sumptuously and are arrayed in purple and fine linen every day, paid tor by blood and tears. At the old-fashioned celebration of "the Fourth" Mayor Gourley, whose efforts were so largely appreciated, gave indication of a desire to have all classes represented. In his own speech he remembered "the dead patriots and heroes and martyrs who bled and died for their country. He had words for "the men of Italy, the men of Austria, the men of England, tbe men of France, the men of Scotland, the men of unhappy Ire land, the men of Asia, the men of the isles of the sea," to whom are to be held up the sublime achievements of American soldiers, but mark you, good sisters, he made no mention of the 'women of America with either a big' W or a little one. The Mayor Forgot the Women. This was not a sin of commission, but rather of omission. He forgot all about them, unless he included them under the term of "the martyrs." However, they can hardly lay even that little bit of flattering unction to their souls, since he afterward affirmed that the men who unsheathed their swords were "the undying examples of pa triotism." Mayor Gourley is a fine speaker and waxes mighty eloquent sometimes. Hear this: When Washington unsheathed his sword there appeared "with her feet upon tlio cloud, with her forehead among the stars, with her flaming sword in her han d, and with her great wiusrs stretched lntotlie open azure. Liberty, archangel of nations." This is a very pretty sentiment as to sound. But what does it mean? If as Brother Gourley seemed to imply it meant that Washington on the earth in cahoot with Libertv and her "flaming sword" in the cloud? bestowed freedom upon the citi zens of the American Bepublic, he will ad mit, upon reflection, that Washington and Liberty, with her head among the stais, only carved out the full and fair thing for one-half of the people ofuhis great country. Alter a whole century, in onlv one State Wyoming would Brother Gourley's re mark applv, for only there has real liberty been established. Brother Gourley knows this and would be swift to admit it, but he forgot it A Little Bllstake About Sovereigns. Looking over the speeches, It will be seen that the church was represented by two clergymen. The law was represented by W. D. Moore and Tom Marshall who lorgot all about both the foremothers and the pres ent mothers as well, as did also Judge White. Then came to the front Brother Over who said "we are all sovereigns, everyone of us." Are we? The beloved sisters will know where they stand, when he added: "We exercise our sovereignty through the ballot Our right of suffrage is the greatest privilege we enjoy." Let, itbe here noted that this "greatest" priiilege" is denied to the most moral citizens ot this Republic, and freely granted to the rabble and ignorance of foreign lands. Oh. my I Dear Judge Uver, how you did give yourself and the brethren "dead away" in that little speech. Brother McKenna represented both the bar and "green old Ireland." He told the naked, shabby truth when he said "all men in this country, whether white or black, are born free and equal." This means, It would appear, that all women are born the other way. Superintendent Luckey, who represented the cause of education and the public .schools, is well known as a man of peace. War is one of the worst of evils, and Brother Luckey would be one of the last to inculcate the doctrine of the sword, yet he exalted Spartan mothers whose spirit he thinks should be inspired in every girl in school. Women Do Not Train Murderers Now. Now these warlike mothers were all very well in their day when all education and training were to the making of a race of stern, cruel and rapacious warriors. But nowadays with the advancement of benevo lence and the spirit that tends toward peace, mothers do not feel called upon to train men to murder and to fight the battles of rapine and revenge. A French statesman deploring the 'decay of population- in France was considerably "set back" by a noted French women when she told him that his countrywomen were becoming alive to the folly of wasting their lives in train ing targets for German guns. The heroism ot American women cannot be questioned although it is not ot the brutal Spartan pattern. Moral courage is more to be encouraged and cultivated in school and out of it than that of the bull dog variety that finds its highest satisfac tion in the thought that, this country can "lick" kill creation and wipe up the earth with every little Chile, and chump of a country under the sun. The men of Allegheny were represented by Mr. McMullen, who spoke glowing words as to the public schools. "Nine tenths of the merchants, farmers and skilled mechanics were pupils of the public schools," said Brother McMullen. "The education," he added, "you received there fitted yon to fight the battles of life with any man." Will somebody speak out, and say who does the training in these Bchools? So Heatlon of the Foremothers. so Sar. & A. Borden, tin Mitred 189a minister, was entrusted the duty of repre" senting the negro citizens who have been endowed witn tne "greatest privilege tntja can be enjoyed by American men. "C ""r country, said he, "has been transmitted'.o us by a long line of patriotio forefathers" the foremothers, as appears, weren't in it "Every American enjoys perfect freedom." Well, 'well, Brother Boyden, who would have thought that you, a minister of the gospel, would tell such an "awful whopper" right out: in a public celebration. Every American indeed! Mayor Gourley laid out a very neat pro gramme for the great occasion, but it eeems plain that he totally forgot one great class of the citizens and taxpayers of Pittsburg. So far as can be learned, not a woman was invited to speak in their behalf, and not a whisper, as we read was said as to the founders of the Bepublic, who wore petti coats. Not a Daughter of the Bevolution was called upon to extol the heroism of the woman who inspired 'Joseph Warren, who toned tbe courage of John Adams up to the' sticking point, and who kept fires of patrioism burning in the Sonth, until the home ot Mrs. Brevard was called The Hornet a Nest of America" by British offi cers. Taxation Without Representation. One hundred years ago the Bevolutlonary fathers waged a war against the Mother Conntrv for attemntinc to collect a "tnrv. penny" tax upon tea without granting the ' rignt ot representation in tbe government to the taxpayers. Now mark the slow ad vance in the growth of justice in over a century, in the fact that the sons of these same sires collect taxes from every woman who owns property, and deny to her the representation for which their fathers fought iu the Bevolution. In the Treas ury of Pittsburg are piled np thousands and thousands of dollars every year taken from, women in taxes, who are one and all denied a voice in tbe way they Bhall be expended. Men without a dollar's worth of property at stake have all "the say so," as a plaid speaking woman calls it This sort of thing was called "robbery" by the revolutionary fathers, but it goes on just the same. as of old. George the Thirds sit in City Councils in Pittsburg and in the high seats of the Nation's Government to-day as did the stubborn old tyrant upon his throne a century ago. Minds as small as his fill high positions in church and state in this much glorified Eepublic The statesmen of England a century ago were dubbed "pick pockets." Would it be a "lalse and scandalous libel" to say the same of some in thpse days? Let us have a glorious celebration next year, but let us also have some improve ments in accordance with the spirit of the age. Let ns hope that some of the bar barous features may be abated. Powder and dynamite are useful in promoting the arts ot peace and in bringing in hidden mines of wealth, but as expressions of pa triotism they are abominable. Bessie Bbambijl A LOITEEING LIZABIX Be Is Now Securely Locked Up la a Quaker City Home. Philadelphia Inquirer. Clerk Daly, of Dooners Hotel, yesterday afternoon rescued from the spiteful attacks of two sparrows a beautiful specimen of horned lizard that is believed to have been carried in the wind's vortex from far dis tant. The little reptile was discovered when the wind was highest, just before the rain. It was seeking escape across Tenth street from the tormenting birds which hindered its progress until almost run over by a car. It looked so desperate with its horny scales that great care was exercised in effecting tbe capture. It now sports a cigar box home and a bed of water-cress. The creature in appearance is broad and squatty. Its back is covered with thorny armor and a halo of horns encircle its head, which it carries elevated, as if listening. It is of the agamidte family, known to natural science with an alphabet-exhausting name in Latin, but commonly called a horned toad, frog or lizard, really belonging to the latter class. Strangest of all 'is where the reptile could hare come from. The cloud theory Is urged because its kind is unknown in these parts, it being a native of the stony and sandy districts of Mexico, Texas, Oregon and California. The wind wa blowing a gale just before it was seen, and was sufficient in velocity to have carried a creature of its size a great distance. Its ultimate destination will probably be the Academy of Natural Sciences. Meanwhile, Mr. Daly is tenderly nursing his odd pet 0PIHTEEEST 10 CYCUBIB. Some Recent Inventions "Which Are Novel as Well as Useful. A combined crank and pedal pin made from one1 piece' of metal, thereby saving nut, etc, necessary to connect the two in the ordinary way, is coming into vogue. This combination is intended chiefly lor use on racing machines, where the saving of weight that it renders possible is a matter ot great importance. An interesting novelty is a steam bicycle, to be run by a boiler 18 inches by 6 inches, suspended from the upper frame rod of an Aruiand model B, witn gasoline for fuel. The boiler has a regular steam gauge and is supposed to stand a pressure ot SO pounds to the square inch. The cylinders are 2 inches and the piston rod is to act on gear ing in the crank shaft The gearing is ar ranged 5 to 1 tor crank axle and for rear wheel, which gives about a 60-inch gearing. In a recent list of patent theatrical ap pliances is a device to aid in producing the illusory effect of a bicycle race on the stage. It consists in a bicycle mounted to have its wheels free from contact with the surface on which it appears to run, its front and rear wheels geared together, and its pedals free to be operated by the rider. The supports of tbe machine are secured to and projected up from a carriage adapted to be moved over the stage. The carriage carries suit ably arranged duct-making devices, oper ated by the motion of the bicycle wheels, whereby the illusory eltect ot the race is rendered more effective. TEE HAILS OF OLD. Bow the Postal Service was Managed Many Tears Ago, Boston's first newspaper, the Ncai-Letter, contains the iollowingadvertisement, which is an exact copy of the original spelling, cap italization, ete: "By order of the Post Master General ot North America: These are to give Notice, That on Monday night, the Sixth of this Instant, December, the Western Post, Between Boston and New York, sets out at once a Fortnight tbe Three Winter Months of December, Jan nary and February, and to go Alternately from Boston to Saybrook and Hartford to Exchange the Mayles of letters with the New York Byder on Saturday night the 11th Currant "And the second turn He sets out at Bos ton on Mouday Night the 20th Currant to meet the New York Byder at Hartford on Saturday night the 25th Currant to Ex change M.iyles. And all persons that send Letters from Boston to Connecticut from and after the 13th Instant are Hereby Noti fied to first pay the Post-rates on the same." Emperor Wllllnm a Good Shot The German Braperoris fond of 'hunting, particularly of following the boar, the sport in which his forefathers excelled. The Kais er rides a white horse when he goes hunt ng and silver spurs jingle on the heels of his top-boots: He is a good marksman and has a record of putting three balls from a re volver into the bull's-eye of a small target fifteen paces distant Absolute Free Trade Exists Nowhere. Free trade, in the strict sense of the term, is not found in any country, tays the St Louis Globs-Democrat England comes nearest to this condition, but she imposes duties which bring her in about 1 100,000,000 a year.. These duties, though, are levied for revenue and not for the proteotioa of ay domeetlo lndoatxj. (WOMEN'S SMALL TALK. Tbe 5oyel Employments Fair and Busy Hands Have Discovered. A SMALL CORN UNDER A TOE-NAIL. Loir Shoes Are Comfortable, hat Liable to Weaken the Ankles. TUB SLACK SEAL FOB MOURNING rwarrrax roa thi dispatch.: A patriotio young woman in the suburbs who asked a party of friends out to 'her cottage for the Fourth introduced some novel effects at. dinner. Silken flags hung over the lace draperies at the windows, and a perforated ball stuck full of tiny, mounted flags hung in the double doorway through which the guests passed to the dining room. The floral center piece of the table was a flat flag of red, white and blue flowers set in a rich frame of green; the white candles in the branching silver candelabra had gay shades fashioned of flags, the ices were large fire crackers eatable even to the fuse ot spun sugar, and the favors were boxes covered with silken flag material and filled with small fire crackers and tiny skyrocket whose bursting yielded chocolates and bonbons instead of gun powder. It seems possible nowadays to bay almost any service or knowledge in almost any department of life. It is an age of "specialties" and "trained" functions. The woman who found a dozen years ago tbat her skill In making a certain pudding conld be utilized to buy bread for her family when misfortune came was the pioneer of a long line of specific workers, chiefly women, many of whom have found fame and fortune. There are professional movers and house cleaners; ' professional bric-a-brac dusters and gray hair pullers, vocabulary of small talk can be secured for dollars and the art of conversation is on sale; whist teachers are a late entry into the field of "particulars," and a profes sional glove-mender does not exactly cry her trade through the streets like the um brella mender, but she may be had for the asking and paying. As says Carlyle: "Blessed is he (and she) who bath found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life purpose; he has found it and will follow it" , "In the multitude of counsellors there is certainly safety," said a woman the other day. "A month or two ago I became aware of a serious pain in my right foot In the large toe; there was nothing to be seen, but there was mucn to be lelt, and my discom- fort In walking finally became so great that my husband insisted I should see a doctor. As ire are strangers here, it was a strange physician whom I sought, and he, after careful examination, told me there was an injury to one of the small bones of the toe, that an operation was necessary and an incision would have to be made, the bone reached and taken out; afterward I might have to sit with my foot up for some weeks. "I was surprised and frightened, as you may guess, and said at once I should go home to he with my mother and have the operation performed by onr family doctor. So I made my arrangements, took a tearful leave of my husband, who was to come on at the critical time, and went home. It took me two or three days togetnp courage to go and see Dr. W , but finally, with mother to keeD mv couraze up. I sought the dread ed interview. He looked the toe over very carefully, heard the dictum of the other phvsician, smiled a little quizzically, then said: 'Before we begin to take out bones, go down to a chiropodist's and get tbat lit tle corn nnder the nail removed.' And that was all the trouble relieved in five min utes." Black-edged paper is not nsed as much as formerlv, white paper with a black seal be ing indicative of even the deepest mourn ing. To screen an open fireplace during the summer is often a problem to the house keeper. Two suggestions are offered In the accompanying illustrations. The bank of verdure is arranged with large pieces of fungus, behind which. pots ot ferns are placed with one or two flowering plants, and if liked, a creeper to fill in the green. The common flag is a good plant for fire places, its ribbon leaves being effective, and its flower a pretty bit of color. The second arrangement is merely to utilize a vase with a potted Dalm on an Indian seat Screen the actual nrepiace witn a Damooo curtain and set the movables in front ot it, as shown in the sketch. Another suggestion is to mount a mirror on an easel lrame; paint bowers or grasses on the glass and paint the frame in white en amel or ebonize. If the skill to paint is lacking, a growing plant before the mirror is as pretty. The revival of the use of old lace has de veloped a new wedding gift, for which the gods are to be praised, in the shape of a lit tle box containing a set of gold or jeweled lace pins. Bare old lace ought never to be sewn on a dress, but attached with fine gold pins to be removed with each wearing. Sets of bonnet and dress pins are also pop ular wedding gilts. Many of the flufly gauze and sheer silk muslin toilets of the summer are closed only with tbe dainty enamel flower pins or more expensive jew eled ones, while to pin down soft sashes or recreant ribbons they are most useful. Low shoes for the growing lads and lasses of the household are cool and comfortable but are not to be recommended for general wear. A pair for the tennis court or for oc casional use does no harm perhaps, but hitrh shoes are to be prelerred. Developing ankles need a support which these decap-. itated shoes do not afford. The best possi ble shoe for children's wear is a laced one that permits of being drawn together as it stretches in wear, insuring a firm compress about the ankle joint Little girls are wear ing such in tan and russet leather with stockings to match; the combination af fords a very stylish and excellent foot gear. The grass cloth curtains sold at most Japanese stores can be cut up into admira- 'ble covers for the ubiquitous pillow. They come in fringed stripes seven feet long and 40 inches wide and cost $1 CO per curtain. A single curtain makes one large fringe trimmed cushion and a second plain one a size or two smaller. They are cool from their lightness and slippery feel and are exceedingly effective. . w PatfaLSsaav W 'wzwttJ mrsMxs&ttVijQirTir v mmmw&mFJKm 3BafsPSaHPi . rsMr r -an tt r i3WJ,fflMwmmntv22;Y m; v e'2W8m!fs&WL' V Tt Bank of Verduri. a partltularly dllea 18 pickld and is not at all difficult to da pickle Bemove the tough end of the white part and soak the stalks In cold water for two hours. Have ready some boiling, strongly salted water into which throw the loose asparagus, a few stalks at a time to scald till just tender. Take them out with a skimmerand spread on a clean cloth till cold. Prepare pickling mixture with white wine vinegar, allowing to each gallon two nutmegs and one-fourth ouirce of mace and whole peppers, white is the best It bay salt can be got an ounce of this Is an improvement Heat this and pour hot over the asparagus, previously put into small stone crocks. Cover the crocks with folded cloths and leave for a week. Then strain off the liquor, heat and pour back; repeat this process at the end of the second week. after which seal the jar bv pasting a cloth over the mouths. This will keep for a year or more. A hall bench seen the other day was evolved, as its owner explained, f'om very humble elements. "To begin with," she said, "I bought a common wooden wash bench at a housefurnishing store. Then around its edges I tacked with gimp tacka this design of Lincrusta Walton moulding. Treating a Fireplace. which comei, you know, bv the yard or. rather by the foot Then I painted the whole, bench and all, with carriage glass paint; I used Luca, which gave it this rich! finish and color. For tbe top I made this flat seat-cover out of an old quilt, folded the right size which I, covered with this piece of apple green silver brocade that was an old curtain from an auction shop. That, my dear, is another idea.- At auctions sometimes a pair of beautiful silk tapestry or brocaded curtains will go for a song be cause one is faded or soiled. Buy them, though, if you get a chance, and work the good pieces up into chair seats, cushion covers, and hall bench tops.", Notwithstanding the fact that illnrtT. tions nnd directions for flower-pot holders of silk and embroidery continue to appear, they are not to be recommended in any way. It is a tawdry, inartistic taste which will conntenauce such expedients. To set the earthen porous pots in the rich-hned porcelain jars that are to be had every where adds to the effect, but to have the plant sprouting from a bag of silk or' springing from a case of embroidery is un suitable in the highest degree. Excellent plant pot coverings are the palm and wieker baskets which come fort the purpose: A large bow of ribbon the same shade as the flower, or in the case of a foliage plant of le plant leaf, is attached to the handle, or preads itself against the side of the basket pot At a Jnne fete in the country a narrow tin of moss was fitted along the lower edgs) of the balustrade which covered the hand rail and filled close with sweet peas; on the newel post at the foot the same blooms ere massed in a large osier basket JlAEGAEEX H. WELCSt XOHTTHEBT 10 OE5ESAL XAQSTTOZS, Ha Was taie ast or the Confederata Oaay rals tk Oppose a Northern Army. The Magrdiirr camp of veterans of Oak veston is raising a fundto bedevoted ta the erection of a -t fr 'n7,nfiT'"rrtasi" Magruder, commander of the Department ot Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, aad the last of the Confederate Generals to oppose a Northern army in the field. Magruder never surrendered, making his way to Mexico in May, 1883, where he en tered the service of Maximilian. On his return to the United States, In broken health and fortunes, he endeavored to sap. port himself by lecturing in the principal Southern cities, but made a failure of It, When he died in Houston, Tex., February 19, 1871, be was in almost destitute olroum stancs. In physique and bearing Magru der was one of tne most dashing of the Con federate commanders. Dr. Gordon's Fit rorlte fastlxaa. The Bev. Dr. A. J. Gordon, of Bostoa, !) a clever caricaturist, and often sketches humorous trifles on bits of paper while awaiting a flow of ideas. One ot his favorite designs represents yarning parishlontrsi but it is believed that he could have found his models only in some other church, i his own. ifraeli NATURAL FRUIT FLWORSe Lemon -I Of great etrenfi-thl Urange -Economy In thalrt ruiauiiu i RoseetarJ pla-vor M deiiotay and deliclouslyas the fresh frtxJM For sale bv Geo. K. Stevenson A Co, andaa flrat-clasa grocers. i A BEAUTIFUL EFFECT For papering . chambers h produced by floral designs, the flowers in natural colors on a coo! neutral ground. This gives the appearance of the flowers as seen out doors, and is restful to ths eyes. It costs from $10 up ward to paper an ordinary sized room with these choics designs. WM. TRINKLE & CO., Fine Wall Papers and Mouldings, 541 Wood St. (Cor. 6th AvaO y DELICIOUS 'FlaYoriM ;- HUttl' . '?
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