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DEATH OF G. W. CURTIS.
After Two Months' Illness the Mug
wump Leader Passes Away.
A -NUTATE FUNERAL ON FRIDAY.
One Temaikable Financial Incident
1 is I arly Career.
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ACTiTE IX POMT CS .:D LITERATURE
Sew York, Aug. 31. While the fact of
the serious illness of George William Curtis
was generally known, the announcement of
hi death to-day came as n surprise. The
end came this morning a few minutes after
2 o'clock at his home in Livingston, S. I.
He was conscious to the last and sufferedno
pain. Dr. Frank G. Curtis, his son, was in
attendance, and Mrs. and Miss Curtis were
present.
Mr. Curtis became ill about two months
aj:o, when he besran to complain of pains in
the abdomen. Dr. Janeway was called and
lie, in consultation with Dr. McBunTie, of
this city. Dr. Walser, of Staten Island, and
Dr. Curtis made a careful examination.
There had been some talk of cancer of the
stomach. These physicians announced that
it was impossible to learn the exact nature
of the trouble until it made further progress
or the swelling below the abdomen which
had developed subsided. They were of
opinion, however, that there was a tendency
to dropsy, with other complications not
then determinable. At that time 3Ir. Cur
tis suffered a good deal of pain and spent
much time in walking up and down his
room. He was told that opium would Rive
him relief, but he declined to take the
drug.
A Change of Trontment 3Irdr.
At the request of Mrs. Curtis it was de
cided early last week to adopt homeopathic
treatment," and Dr. Keislg was called. From
thnt time Mr. Curtis suffered little or no
pain, and during the last days he seemed
comlortable. The swelling did not dimin
ish, but his family were hopeful, being
much encouraged by the cessation of pain.
His condition was not thought to be by any
means critical. But three days ago Mr.
Curtis began to sink rapidly. The pain did
not recur, however, and until the end he
seemed able to recognize those at his bed
Fide. The funeral services will be held on
Fridav morning at the Curtis residence, and
will be private.
Mr. Curtis was not a native of this city,
although li spent most of his life here. He
nas bom in Providence in 1824, his father,
a merchant, being from Worcester, Mass.,
while his motherwas the daughter of James
Burril, a national Senator from Rhode
Island, of strong anti-slavery principles.
George William received his rudimentary
education at a private school at Jamaica
Plain, a suburb of Boston, and came at 15
n ith his father to New York, where he en
tered the counting house of a large import
it g firm. It was his father's intent to
give him a commercial training, but
he showed no aptitude or liking
for it, and lett the. firm in
11 or 15 months. His health being delicate,
without any special ailment, he remained
at home some time, and at 18 was sent to
Brook Farm, at West Eoxbury, Mass., hav
ing the intent to improve his condition by
working in the fields, alternating his out
door labors with indoor studies. Brook
Farm had become noted from the promi
nent persons interested in it Among them
were l'alph Waldo Emerson, A. Bronson
Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marearet
Fuller. Georce Itiplev. Wm. Henry Chan-
ninjr, Charles A. Dana and other intellec-
HP
THE HIE 01 SCREAMER IITM
BY ELIZABETH
It was winter in the mountains the
mountains of Korth Georeia and though
only a little after 4 in the afternoon, dark
ness was creeping on. The sky above
looked sombre, and although the slope of
the mountain was edged br a line of light
v here the sun hung far below in the valley
lfl:c a suspended ball of fire, still to the
solitary horseman moving slowly up the
mountain trail the niht had closed in. The
tall pines and dense laurel, with their dork
green foliage, excluded the last glimmer of
the day.
Not a house or sign of habitation was in
r'glir. Xot a sound could be heard save the
roar of the Tallulah river, which, though
narrow and far from deep, was rushing along
i-s rocky bed and dashing over bowlders
uml gorges with a loud, continuous murmur,
that in this rarefied air swelled into a roar.
Altogether it was a scene as wild and de
serted as a lone traveler could wish to be
stranded in.
The horseman struck a match and con
sulted his watch.
"Half after 4," he murmured, "and
night! Shall I never reach Coffee's! Is it
possible that I am lost in this godforsaken
w ilderness?" He lit a cigar, and, after a
few puffs and some silent meditation, his
disgust and sense ot injury again found'
eut in words
"What did those three wretches mean by
giving me the directions they did?" he de
manded, apparently addressing his horse's
ears, but that intelligent animal merely
Happed the aforesaid members and main
tained a discreet silence. "I know they
were all lies, for everyone was different,
and none ot tbem the least like what I was
told in the valley. Ah! there is a light
now! I'll make lor it. It may be Coffee's
and it may not. Anything is preferable to
ireezing to death in these woods and being
devoured by the wildcats."
In the distance and far above him the
faint glimmer ot a light danced, now lost
and shut out by the dense growth of moun
tain laurel that rose in many places above
his head, and anon shining out brighter for
its temporary eclipse, as flickering and elu
sive as a Jack o' the lantern.
He followed its gleam steadily, and as
he drew nearer it resolved itselfinto myriad
smaller ones, which he soon perceived to be
firelight streaming through the "chinks" of
K log cabin.
He drew his horse np to the rail fence
there was no gate and halloped. This
brought from the rear about half a dozen
dogs, all barking and yelping, and to the
tual men and women of an idealistic nature,
who were trying to solve some of the many
problems of lite.
Iu Hl Youthful Days.
Their ideas were not clearly defined, but
their aim was to form a completely demo
cratic community, in which the mind and
body should be d'eveloped together. Culti
vation of the soil was the primal occupation
and in their opinion the noblest in which
man could be engaged. All thinkers and
scholars should be agriculturists, as by agri
culture they would be brought nearer to
nature, the common mother and revealer, if
thoroughly investigated, of the secrets of
the universe.
Mauy of the theories-ot the Brook Far
mers were held to be fantastic, but their
practices were wholesome enough, mentally
aid physically. The members of the asso
ciation were" all young, otherwise they
would not have attempted to found a com
munity on so primitive and pastoral a plan.
Thev were entirely in earnest, and would
douStless have persisted in their efforts for
years had not a fire destroyed their build
ings alter the term of insurance had ex
pired, and obliged them to disband for want
of material means to go on. Most of them
were then resigned to poverty and hard
work for the sake of illustrating the broth
erhood oflhe race. Dana and Ripley were,
in Jhose days, diligent husbandmen, in the
cheapest and coarsest of clothes, having but
a single hat, of common felt, between them.
Curtis stayed at the farm some 20 months,
and was theh drawn to Concord, through its
intellectual circle, including Emerson and
Hawthorne, whose acquaintance he had
made at West Roxbury, which they had re
peatedly visited without identifying them
selves with the movement. He stayed at
Concord and in the vicinity for two years,
living in a farm house anddoing more or less
farm w ork, while improving his mind w ith
books and by oral communication with the
transcendentalists of the neighborhood.
Later he went abroad and became encaged in
literary work through writing of his travels.
A Financial Incident of His Career.
In the early fifties Curtis became a silent
partner in a publishing house, having put
only 510,000 into it, without any part or
voice in its general management It
became insolvent in two years, and Curtis
was declared to be legally responsible for a
portion of its debts on account of some in
formality in drawing up the articles of
partnership.
Whether responsible or not, was a ques
tion which might have been decided in the
courts bad he been willing to test it Many
of his friends held that he was in no wise
bound bevond the $10,000, while the as
sumption of being a general partner made
him a debtor for ten times the amount. He
would not listen to them, however, or to
any sort of compromise, haviug determined
to meet Lis liabilities to the fullest With
this purpose he surrendered all his property
except household furniture and books, and
set about examining the balance, some ffiO,
000. No small task, this, especially lor a
literary man whose gains must necessarily
be slow and toilsome. He formed a connec
tion with the Harpers, continued ever since,
with an understanding that he should have
the privilege of lecturing, whicn he had be
gun some lour years before. -
No better proof could be adduced of his
manhood than his courageous resolution to
sustain an exalted principle, really a nice
point of honor, under very adverse circum
stances. For 1G years he wrote and lec
tured, taxing his strength to the utmost,
before he could pay the last dollar of a debt
which, morally at least, he did not owe.
Activity in Political A flairs.
In 1856 Curtis became a zealous Repub
lican, having been opposed from his youth
to the extension of slavery and the ag
gressions of the South. In the canvass of
18G8 he was chosen an elector, and he ad
vocated a second term for Grant, who sub
sequently appointed him a member of the
Commission to make rules regulating the
civil service. Toward the close of Grant's
second administration he became dissatisfied
with the President's policy, and opposed
the candidature of President Grant for a
third term, both in 1870 and in 18S0, and
was a prominent leader of that wing of the
Republican party which secured the nomi
nation of Mr. Hayes and Mr. Garfield.
Mr. Hayes offered him the mission to Eng
land and Germany, which he declined.
During the recent agitation for a reform
in the civil service, Mr. Curtis vigorously
supported the movement, and has been
President of the National Reform League
since its organization. In 1884 he opposed
the nomination of Mr. Blaine as the Repub
lican candidate for the Presidency, and
was a supporter of the Democratic nominee,
Mr. Cleveland. In 1890 he was elected
Chancellor of the University of New York.
Besides the Howadji volumes of travel,
he has published the following works, all
made up of previous contributions to vari
ous periodicals: "Lotus Eating," a series
of newspaper letters from various watering
places, 1852; "The Potiphar Papers," 1853;
"Prue and I," 1856, and "Trumps, " 1862;
besides a number of addresses and orations.
The Deaf Will Be Interested.
Mr. H. A. Wales, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
will hare on exhibition at theMonongabela
House, to-day, his invention for the relief
of deafness, which has been the cause of such
a lartre decrease of deafness in this country
and Europe.
M. LEYDEN.
door.of the cabin a tall, raw-boned woman
with a gun in her hand and four children
of different sizes clinging to her scant
skirts.
"Hello!" the woman answered, with a
nasal drawl. "Who be you uns?"
"Lucian Hartredge, madam," he replied,
nnoovering his head. "Is this Mr. Cof
fee's?" "How many's out thar?" she demanded,
ignoring his question, and still holding the
gun protectingly ia front of her.
"Only myself."
"You uns hain't revenuers, then?"
"Good heavens, no!" he exclaimed, an
explanation whv his fellow-travelers had
tried to mislead him occurring suddenly to
him. Coffee was a moonshiner, and these
mountaineers took him, Lucian Hartredge,
to be a revenue officer.
"Waal," she answered, lowering her
weapon, "'light an' come in. Hyar, you
Jake!" to a boy behind, her "go out thar
an' ten' ter the stranger's beast,"
Mr. Hartredge climbed the fence and fol
lowed the woman into the dimly lighted
interior. She threw on a pine knot, and a)
this blazed np the room was flooded with a
bright ruddy glow, and he could discern his
hostess and surroundings very minutely.
The room was after the pattern of dozens
of other mountain homes, logs, "chinked"
with clay mortar, which falling out in
places let in coid and let out the light, and
under foot was a puncheon floor. There
was one window, with a wooden shutter,
and three doors, one leading to an adjoin
ing bedroom, and the other two being front
and back doors. A ladder in one corner led
to a sleeping apartment above. The rafters
and sides of the-rooms were festooned with
strings of red and green peppers, button
onions, ears 01 rea ana yenow seed corn,
bazs of herbs, hanks of yarn and cooking
utensils. There were two beds, covered
with gaudy calico quilts; a spinning wheel
was pushed asainst the logs, on which hung
hanks of yarn, while three of the children
dumped themselves on the floor around the
fire and busied themselves at the task Hart
ridge's arrival had interrupted, carding
yarn.
"Is this Mr. Coffee's?" the young man
asked, holding his benumbed fingers to the
blaze.
"Yaas; Coffee's my ole man. But he hain't
hyar."
"Isn't here? Where is he? Iani very
anxious to see him."
"Wha fur?" she demanded, suspiciously.
"I am interested in the -manufacture of
sulphure in Savannah, and I'm looking for
an iron pyrites mine which is in this neigh
borhood. I was told that Mr. Coffee could
locate it for me, as it was on his land."
ALLISON'S HOT SHOT.
He .Pours It Into the Democratic
Banks in a Great Speech.
IOWA'S CAMPAIGN K0W OPENED.'
Reason Why tho Republican Party Will
Win in November.
QUESTIONS OF TOE HOUR MS SOLE TOPIC
Waverlt, Ia., Aug. 31. Senator Alli
son opened the Iowa Republican campaign
here this afternoon with a stirring speech.
It was generally known that the speech was
to be the principal effort of the Senator,
during the campaign, and there was a large
assemblage, in consequence, of Republicans
from the adjoining country and party lead
ers from various parts of the State.
After a brief reference to the candidates
of the respective parties, Senator Allison
said that he believed the Republican party
would win in the coming contest, because
its policies are such as secure the confidence
and support of the majority of the people of
the United States, constitutionally ex
pressed, if only that majority can vote and
be fairly counted. The record of .the pres
ent administration ha; been such as to in
spire public confidence. Our complications
with Chile were disposed of in a manner to
reflect credit upon our country.
Tthy the republicans VMU Win.
Industries have been prosperous and
many new ones have been established; our
internal commerce has grown beyond reas
sonable computation; our foreign commerce
has received a new impetus under the recent
legislation of Congress, supplemented by a
friendly administration; our trade, foreign
and domestic, is in a healthy condition; our
finances are in a healthy condition; our
currency, ample in volume and uniform in
value, is being steadily increased under the
legislation of 1890.
He referred in detail to the record of the
Fifty-first Congress, to the revision of the
revenue laws, and contrasted the work of
that Congress with the work of the Demo
cratic House of Representatives in the last
session. The appropriations of the Repub
lican House were compared with those of
the Democratic House, and the latter al
leged to be much more extravagant The
Democratic party this year stands for free
trade. There is no evasion or double deal
ing in its platform. It promises to repeal
the McKinley law as one of the beneficent
results of Democratic victory. Not only
this, but that every shred and remnant of
protection, incidental or otherwise, shall be
torn up, root and branch. The Repuolicaus
accept the issue thus presented.
Opposed to Unlimited Coinage.
The speaker denied that protection re
sulted in great private fortunes. Great
fortunes are sometimes made, but they are
the exception. It depended more on the
individual than upon protection. Referring
to the money question, he said this country
would lose its power at once if it opened
its mints to the free and unlimited coinage
of silver. The free coinage of silver would
place us with Mexico on the silver standard,
and gold would be at a premium. Our
people lavor the free use of both gold and
silver. "All parties have so declared in
their platforms, and they only represent
public opinion, but public opinion also
asks that a parity be preserved, that neither
as money shall bo at a discount or a
premium."
Upon this question the Democratic plat
form is in accord, substantially, with the
Republican, except that the Democrats
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YOUGHIOGHENY
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C9-P rompt service to manufacturers and consumers generally.
Hills suppled
"Waal, I 'low he could, if he tvuz hyar,
but he hain't. The revenuers come an'
took him off this evenin' jes' 'bout a hour
'to' you uns rid up. I 'low he's fur on his
way to Atlanty bv now. They "lowed he
made moonshine wniskv, hut he don't. He
don't know no mo' 'bout no still than you
unsduz."
"That is a dreadful disappointment," Mr.
Hartredge rejoined. "I have come a long
way in search of that mine, and I was told
in the valley that Mr. Coflee was the only
one who could give me nny definit1 infor
mation, How long will he be gone?"
"Gawd knows. He mought be gone a
week an' he moueht be. gone a yur. He'll
hatter stau' a trial Ieas'ways, ef he don't
git 'way Turn the revenuers. You uns
mought bid hyar fur a spell till we uns kin
hyur f'um him."
"Yon are very kind," he replied politely.
"I will have to take advantage ot your hos
pitality for to-night at any rate." He could
not bring himself to accept his rude sur
roundings for any definite period.
"Won't ye hev a bite 'o sump'in?" his
hostess asked hospitably. "We uns hain't
got much, but you uns air free ter what's
hyar."
"Thank you, I am hungry. I've had
nothing since a 7 o'clock breakfast, and 30
miles in the saddle are inclined to whet
one's appetite."
"Milly Ann," she said, addressing the
smallest child at the fire, "go tell yo' aunt
Cl'rissy ter kem an' fix up a bite "fur the
stranger. I 'low she be 'bout done a'milkin'
by now. Milly Ann," she explained to her
guest, "air my biggest boy's young un, an'
her mammy's daid. The rest o' the chillun
air mine. None o the men folks are hyar.
I've two growued boys, but they wnz tuck
long o' the ole man. AirCl'ri'sva-comin'V'
she demanded of the tow headed child, who
just then re-entered the room.
"Yaas-sum, granny, she's a comin' ter
rec'ly." Ina short time the back door again opened,
and this time Lucian Hartredge experi
enced a genuine shock of surprise.
It was only a mountain girl who entered
and began preparations for cooking his
supper fn the open fireplace a girl bare
footed.like her mother.dressed in a checked
homespun dress, with a red cotton handker
chief tied about her neck. Her face was fair
and oval.witli a delicate flush in her cheeks
and scarlet lips; her hair was a rich hue of
light brown that seemed red in the firelight;
her eyes were the color of sherry, a deep
reddish brown; her movements were slow
and graceful.
"Cl'rissy," said her mother, "this be a
Mr. Hartrudge, fum down in the low ken
try. He kem ter see yer pappy 'bout a
mine som'ers up hyar on Screamer. I tells
him he'd better bide here a spell till we
uns kin hyur sump'n 'nuther 'bout yo' pap
an' the boys."
The girl smiled and disclosed teeth white
and regular.
"tTir Tia lnr?arf Anal v inlri f Ta t,fn.fna
up an' down these hyar mountings on a wile
propose an unconditional repeal of the law
of 1E90, which furnishes us a constant addi
tion to our legal tender paper money of
from fifty to sixty millions annually. They
would substitute in its place state bank
issues by repealing the 10 per cent tax on
bank circulation, thus providing 44 different
kinds of money under as many State laws.
This means the restoration of red dog, wild
cat and all other pet names given to a de
preciated State currency so familiar to ex
periences of oyer 30 years ago.
THE CONDUCTOR SMILED.
Mrs. Isabella Banks Fell While Getting
Off if Car anil Sow Sues, for Damages
A Suit Over a Lost Town News of the
Courts.
Fielding G. Banks and his wife Isabella,
of the Eleventh ward, yesterday (entered
suits against the P. A. & M. Traction Com
pany for damages for injuries to Mrs.
Banks. -It is stated that on June 30 Mrs.
Banks was a passenger on a car on the de
fendant's line She wanted to get off at the
corner of Ohio and Marion streets. As she
was on the step the conductor rang the bell
to go ahead and before she was clear off the
car it started, throwing her down on a pile
of broken stone, "where," the statement
continues, "she was abandoned to her fate
by the smiling, reckless conductor, uncon
cernedly Speeding on and away from the
scene, a rapidly dissolving view to his in
different gaze."
Mrs. Banks, it is alleged, was badly hurt
and she wants 3,000 damages, and her hus
band for the injury to his helpmeet and
consequent detriment to him wants $1,000.
LOST THE TOWH.
A Complicated Suit In the United States
Circuit Court
In the United States Circuit Court yes
terday an argument was heard befere Judge
Acheson in the case of G. W. Herbert and
others against W. J. Rainey, the coke oper
ator. The suit was brought to restiain the
defendant from erecting coke ovens on
Front street, village of Sedgwick, Fay
ette county. The town was laid out in 1872
by an oil company, but most; of the land
was afterward bought by the defendant
The plaintiffs own four of the lots. The
plan of the lots was never recorded and has
been lost The coke ovens are located on
the principal street of the town. The plain
tiffs don't want them there, while the de
fense contends that no town exists and
there is therefore no such street as Front
street. The Court reserved its decision.
STEPPED INTO A HOLE.
Mrs.
Hastings Asks Damages From tho
Landlord of tho Premise?.
Armor' J. Hastings and his wife Rosa, of
the Twelfth ward, yesterday entered suit
against John Hcrron, of the Eighteenth
ward, for damages lor injury to Mrs. Hast
ings. Herron, it is stated, owns the
premises at No. 2836 Penn avenue, which
are occupied by the Pearistein laruily.
On May 3 Mrs. Hatingb visited Mrs.
Pearistein, who was sick. When about to
return home Mrs. Hastings stepped out of
the door, but instead of her loot comint?
down on the brick sidewalk as anticipated,
it went down into a hole about two feet
deep. Her ankle was broken and she was
.otherwise injured, for which $5,000 damages
are demanded from Mr. Herron for not
keeping the sidewalk in good and sale con
dition. Sickness Among Children,
Especially infants, is prevalent at all times,
but it is iargely avoided by giving proper
nourishment and wholesome food. Th
most successful aad reliable is the Gail
Borden "Eagle" Brand Condensed Milk.
Your grocer and druggist keep it
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goose chase," she remarked in a dialect as
rank as her mother's.
But even that could not dispel the illu
sion. Lucian Hartredge felt vaguely that
the mountain weather aud log cabin home
would not be as unendurable ps he
imagined. The light of those wine brown
eyes had raised the temperature consider
ably. His sleep that night was broken. He
was cold and felt ill at ease. He got up
and piled his clothes on his bed, and had
just fallen into a troubled slumber, where
his gentle, refined mother and Clarissa
Coffee were badly confused, when he was
startled into consciousness by a blood curd
ling screech and yell.
He sat up in the bed. Just then he heard
the child called "Jake" cry out:
"Mammy ! Mammy ! The wildcat's got
the calf creetur!"
All was bustle for a while, then he heard
a shot, and soon quiet was restored.
But before he could connect the broken
edges ot his dream he was again roused by
a whistle long, loud and shrill. Iu an in
stant he heard a l'ght footfall on the floor,
the outside door was opened softly, aud be
heard heavy walking across the board";, a
subdued murmur ot voices and muffled
laughter. But soon all this became indis
tinct, and he remembered nothing more.till
next morning, when Jake entered the room
with a pan of water and the intelligence
that "bre'kfus' wuz mos' ready, an' pap an'
the boys done kem."
Somewhat to Hartredge's surprise when
he went in to 'breakfast, Josh Coffee, the
pater familias, took hold of his Jiand and
gave him a welcome that made him wince,
with the remark:
"I hearn all 'bout uns down the mount
ing. Air Cl'rissy an' the ole 'oman biu a
treatin' ye good?"
His son's greeting was rather more re
served, but Bartredge felt that his' character
had been cleared in the minds ot these
moonshiners. They treated him as a friend
and soon began laughing boisterously over
their escape from the "revenuers."
"They cotch us at the still; followed us
home, an' nabbed us 'fo' we uns could get
ter the guns," the old man explained.
"Then ez they wuz kyarin' we uns down
the mountain in a wagin, Pet an' Bud Hale
an' the ole man kem up, an' they started
affrin' at the revenuers an' skeered 'em
mos ter death. They wuz so skeered they
fot lost in the gulch an' couldn't git out.
hey laved down flat in the wasin an' wuz
a-drivin' like Ole Nick wuz arter 'era,
w'en we uns jumped out an' left. They
mought be a-drivin' down thar now for all
I knows on; but I lay ez soon's Ab Hale
an' the boys helt up affrin', maybe they
kem ter thar senses. They wuz "the wust
skeered creeturs I ever seen; but I'll say
this much fur 'em, I'd a durnvsight ruther
her Ab Hale an' his boys fur me than agin
me."
Hartredge joined in the general laugh
which followed this addendum. '
"I m sure now that I met a moonshiner
BANE ROBBERS ESCAPE.
When Thpy A i rive at the Bank They Find
Offloers Awaiting Tlnm.
Cayucos, Cai, Aug. 31. A daring at
tempt to rob the Bank of Cayucos was
frustrated early this morning. One of the
robbers and A. C McLeod, ex-Sheriff of
San Luis, Obispo county, were shot The
robber will probably die, but McLeod is
not seriously hurt
Five men from San Luis, Obispo, arrived
in the night and went to Bank Manager
Simmler's residence to compel him to open
the safe; but, anticipating robbery, Simmler
was absent... His bed was occupied by a
young man" named Willie Waterman, who
admitted them to the bank. County Sheriff
O'Neil, Deputy McLeod, -Constable Banks
and Deputy Marshal Kues, of San Luis
City, were waiting, and in the attempt to
arresh the robbers the shooting took place.
Four of the robbers escaped but are known
to the officers. .
TIEED Jf OBEYING THE EI NO.
Tamranny Aldermen Bolt Because They
Ol'J-ct to Uoini Dictated To.
New Yokk, Aug. 31. Seven Tammany
Aldermen and two Republican members of
the board withdrew from the Council
Chamber yesterday and refused to vote for
a measure which it is said Tammany Hall
leaders wanted passed.
Several bolters were asked why they
were so bitterly opposed to the resolution,
and the answer was that the resolution was
made the occasion for showing Tammany
Hall that some members of the board were
tired of being dictated to iu nearly evry
important matter that comes belore them.
Public Corporations In Trouble.
Habrisbtjhg, Aug. 3L A list of the
telephone, telegraph and street railway cor
porations which failed to file their annual
reports with the Secretary of Internal Af
fairs within the limit prescribed by law
will be furnished the Attorney General for
action.
PROMPT
RELIEF
'For biliousness,
diarrhoea,
nausea, and
dizziness, take
the best
family medicine, .
purely vegetable,
Every Dose Effective
THE LEADERS IN OFFICE
E.
McElveen Furniture Co., Lim.,
434 and 480 Smlthfleld St., Pittsburg, Fa.
bend for catalogue or call and seo n.
sel-102 tts
PHOTO
Market
GALLERY,
Street.
CABINETS $1.00 PER DOZEN.
No stairs to climb,
mvrrs Use the elevator.
yesterdav," he remarked, "in fact, two or
three of 'them, though I never thought of it
at th- time. This one, though, that I
started to speak of was a rather young man,
aud he was in a covered wagon. I thought
possibly ho had apples, and I wanted to buy
some. I asked him first if he would direct
me to your house, and he told me entirely
wrong. Then I asked him -what he had for
sale in his wazon and he replied:
"Gourds, durn ye!'"
Josh Coffee and the boys gave a deep
"Yaw! yawl yaw!"
"I'll be boun' he did!" was the old moon
shiner's exclamation. "Hit's a plum won
der he didn't up an' shoot ye! We uns in
the mountings air plum 'spicious uv our
own shadders a-bein' revenuers."
"But," Hartredge remarked slyly to his
host, "your wife told rae that you were not
a moonshiner in iact, knew nothing more
about a still than I did. I'm in total ig
norance." "Orh, pshaw! You uns mus'n't mine the
ole 'oman's foolishness. The ole 'oman hez
reg'lar jim-jams, aseein' of revenuers 'slid
o' snakes."
"Waal, I be," Mrs. Coffee admitted, with
an embarrassed laugh. Then she rallied
aud turned on her husband.
"You uns had better open yo' eyes to 'em
a teetle ot'ner yo'se't," she remarked dryly.
"Ef ye'd 'a'hed sense like a lead mule ye'd
never bin cotch up long a' the boys yis
tiddy." II.
Luclen Hartredge was what the mothers
of Savannah called "a safe young man."
That is, he had a capital income, was in a
paying business besideE and was amply
able to support a wife in luxury, whenever
he chose to take unto himself that expen
sive commodity; he came from a good
family the best, iu fact, the most aristo
cratic in the whole of Chatham county; and
last, but not least, he had fewer vices than
any young man in their list of acquaintances.
He had a strong self-control, which never
allowed him to debase himself, and his
respect lor womanhood amounted to rever
ence. Therefore, when the realization stole
coldly over him that he had begun to love
an unrefined, uneducated mountain "crack
er" loved her merely for her great beauty
ot face and form, for her simplicity ot heart
and soul, but loved her desperately never
theless he stood appalled.
During his first visit he had remained at
the cabin about a week, nnd in that week
he had had hut few chances of conversation
with Clarissa, but his eyes followed her
every movement, her every expression. He
was completely jasclnated. That she was
conscious of this close surveillance he could
ppt doubt, lor, looking up suddenly, she
0 ten caugltt his gaze fixed upon her, and a
b lrning blush would dye her face and mtlk
v bite throat, and then die away, leaving
1 sr very pale. '
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FURN1TUH
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xne ore he carried nome wiin mm was
The difference in women. 0
Some women are tireless in
their home work Some are
tireless in their work for the
church. They laugh, they sing,
. and are happy.
You remain at home broken
hearted, for you are utterly un
able to make any effort what
ever. The horror of " Female Com
plaints " is upon you ; you have
that distressing " bearing-down "
feeling, your back aches, you
are nervous and despondent,
don't care to move, want to be
left alone, your digestion is bad)
and you are wholly prostrated.
Ah ! dear sister, don't you
know that Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound will reach
the cause of all this trouble,
and you will
surely be well.
v Don't hesitate.
Get the remedy
at once. m It will
cure you sure.
All druggists Mil It. or sent 2p
by mail, m form or nils or
Lozenges, on receipt of SI .
fvered. Address in confl- 1fais jf frig
denct.M.ri)iA E. Pirns- S ,Tb
1U34. Lint Wis, 25c
II DECIDED BARGAIN
Can be had in any of our many de
partments. Bargains in Bedroom Suites.
Bargains in Parlor Suites.
Bargains in Bedding, etc.
Bargains in Stoves and Ranges, the
largest selection in the city.
Bargains in Refrigeratuis.
Bargains in Baby Carriages.
CASH OB GHEDIT IN EVEHY DEP1KTHEHT.
M
307 WOOD ST.
a7-rrp
JAS. KTNEIL & BR0.,
EOILEU3, l'LATE AND bUEETIKON
WORK.
PATENT 6HEKT-IUON AANEALIXO
BOXES.
With nn Increased eapacftv and hydraullo
machinery, tvo aro prepared to furnish all
work in our line cheaper and better than 1)T
the old methods. Kepatrinjj and general
machine wort. Twenty-ninth street and
Allegheny Vallay Railroad. felB-tO-TW
AnsEWM
A BARGAIN,
m
WE ARE STILL IN IT I
Ae usual, with the largest stock of
SHOTG-UITS A1TD ZRaHFULIES
In the two cities. Our prices tou will find as heretofore, lower than the lowest, and each
eun sold is warranted to give perfect satisfaction. Also full line of Shells, Tools and
materials of all kinds.
SMIT'S, COR. LIBERTY AND SMTHF1ELD, PITTSBURG, PA.
N. B. Send stamp for Illustrated Catalogue free of charge.
pronounced worthless, and all thought ot
the Screamer mountain mine was aban
doned. He told himself that he was glad of
this that he would not again be exposed to
the danger of tha't beautifnl face and the
magnetism of those brown eyes.
Yet, at the end of two months he again
found himself on Screamer mountain. If
the iron pyrites was a failure, he had dis
covered another mine more tempting and
even less likely to bring in any returns.
It was April, and spring was all over
nature. The pines, though preserving their
steady dark greenness all tbeyearround,now
seemed different. The sap was risincr, and
they gave out a strong resinous odor that
filled the air, while the branches were
tipped with little tender shoots of lighter
color. The laurel, also perennially green,
showed a foliage lighter in tone atid was in
full bloom, the large, delicate pink flowers
cup shaped, the edges deepening in hue al
most to rose color.
Lucien Hartredge pursuod his way np
the mountain rather slowly, for his love
vrai still contending with his self-contempt
and the latter was dvinghard. Then sud
denly the object of his meditations stood
in his path. His horse shied and Clarissa
started violently.
He dismounted and stood at her side.
"I'm afraid my horse frightened you,"
he said gently, his hungry eyes drinking in
every detail of her marvelous beauty.
Prob'ably at 40, when her bloom was gone,
she would be "yellow and wrinkled and
homely as her mother, but now she was ex
quisite. "I can't say ez the creetur skeered me,"
she replied truthfully. "I wuz tuck back
at seem' you uns. Hit's been so long sence
yo leit, 'cose we uns never 'lowed ter sot
eyes on ye agin."
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. .
Apaches are on a raid in Arizona.
The Mexican Treasurer has resigned.
Western Scotland is devastated by
floods.
Tribesmen bavo defeated the Afghan
troops.
Venezuela rebels have captured La
Guayra.
TheVamous Mexican bandit Mondragnn
has been killed after a fleice combat at
Fizapa City.
The Piesident has recosnized Joaquin
Diaz Duran as Consul General or Guatemala
at Sau Francisco.
Tho suppose 1 French dynamiters under
arrest at Muntieal all nssert their innocence
and tell straight stories.
A Masslllon man, John BIttocker, who
has been passing forged notes In Chicago,
was arrested there yesterday.
The Anstrian Imperial mannfactory or
arms ha discharged o 000 workmen, roost or
whom will emigrate to France, Belgium and
the United State. v
A decree has been issued prohibiting ab
solutely the hunting or all classes or seals
wltlil.i tliejurlsdlctlonot Chile, Magallanos
and Juun Fernanuez.
President Diaz, of Mexico will send his
WHEN YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY
Such as our August Clear
ance Sale affords you, don't
lose it Chances like these
only happen once in a life-,
time.
Our immense stock for the
comjng fall season is crowd
ing us; we must make room,
and no sacrifice is too large.
We are selling Suits and
Pants regardless of cost
Convince yourself; it's your
duty, before you spend a
dollar. Fine Home-made
suits, worth $18.00 and
$20.00, reduced to $15.00.
Regular $15 Suits down to
$12.00, and splendid $12.00
and $10.00 Suits go at $8.00.
ii Of Pits Dpmnt
More sweeping reductions
have been make. It's hardly
believable, but it's true. Our
all-wool, "The Favorite,"
Home-made Pants at $2.25
barely pays for the material
See these goods whether you
wish to buy or not
8013' USD CHILDREN'S SCHOOL SUITS. '
If you want good, honest,
serviceable clothing for your
boys our stock of Boys'
Clothing ought to be of in
terest to you.
Prices cut to pieces.
954 and 956 Liberty St,
Star Corner.
aU-45-TT3
Sel-TT33
finest military bind to takelpart in the cele
bration of the 3j0th anniversary or San
Diego Bay SejiteiiiUer2i
Durin" a clrcn in London Tuesday even.
in;r, the elephant chirked the spectators
who fled preoipltntely. Two ladles plunged
In t;uio ivernnd one was drowned.
Detective? have visited tho house of
Chris Evans, one or tho Col I is train robbers
in California, nnd dmrup two bag of silver
containing ubont $1,500. Evans and Sonta
are still at large.
.Judse Costlllo, of tho City of Mexlco.who
hud been on a visit to Vera Croz, has re
turned and been stricken with yellnw revor.
The doctois declare there is no danger of
tho disease spreading.
At the Twenty-sixlh National Encamp
ment of the G. A-JL, In U'ast.lnston. Sep
tember 19. a reunion of those who served tn
tho Tenth, Eighteenth, Twonty-rourth and
Twenty-fifth Army Corps will ho held.
Ex-Alderman E. A. MnoDonald, of To
ronto, is arranging for a eeriei or annexation
lectures in New York, Boston, Buffalo and
other American cities. One object or the
lectures is to niiso money to start an annex
ation paper in Toronto.
A Sheriff's posse in Wayne county, Ky.,
Tuesday started out to arrest member's of
the Foster imng, near Stenbenville. In a"
fl?ht that followed, Charles Denny was shoe
in'the side nnd one or tho Foster boys was
instantly killed. Two of the gang were ar
rested. The general managers of tho exhibit of
tho State of Now York as the World's Col
umbian Exposition have arranged to dedi
cate at noon on October 22, with appropri
ate exercises, the New York bnildinsr at
Chicago, which will bo completed the middle
of October.
John and Lou Iloward, or San Francisco,
who started from Seattle. Wash., In March
on a tramp to Chicago for a $5,000 purse,
have arrived at their destination with It
days to spare. They received their money
lit once. Peter Burns, a Seattle millionaire,
is the donor of the prize.
Mr. W. B. Brooks, of Smith's observa
tory, Geneva, N. Y., announces to the Har
vard College Observatory the discovery of
a new comet, fonnd by him on Augnst 281
and the discovery verified on the morning
or August 30. Although this comet Is quite
close to Dennins's, tho two are not identi
cal. Twenty Jumping Toothaches Boiled Into
One
Fall far short of Inflammatory rheumatism,
into which its incipient form, nneheceed, Is
prono to develop. Besides, rheumatism if
unrelieved is always IiaDle, in one of Its er
ratic leaps, to Hht on the heart and termi
nate life. Checkmate It at the start wlth-Hos-tetter's
Stomach Bltters.which is also an In
fallible remedy for malarial and liver oom,
plaints, inactivity of the kidneys, dyspepsia
cqnstipatlon, nervousness.
Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow.
Large fortunes can often trace their origin,
to small deposits in the People's Savings
Bank, 81 Fourth avenne. You can open a
bank account with this bank by depositing
JL Interest allowed on deposits.
Pextsct action and perfect health remit
from theuse orDe Witt's Little Early Hisr
A poriect little pill. Very small; very sura
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