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A LEMON TREE,
WRITTEN FOE THE
Continual from yesterday.
Some suggested this nostrum and the
others that; some urced religions pilgrim
ages, and some herbs, and some charms,
and some spoke of a wise woman, who, if
you crossed ber hand with silver, could re
lieve you of any evil if she would. But
amidst the multitude of counsellors, Lizina
only grew thinner and thinner, paler and
paler, all her youth seming slowly to wane
and die out ot her.
Her little sick heart was set obstinately
on xi hat her father had told her was impos
sible. None of Cecco's own people thought of
going to tne place where he died. He was
dead aud there was an end ot it; even his
mother, although she wept for him, did not
dream of throwing away good money in a
silly and useless jonrney to the place where
he had been put in the ground. The child
wasted and sickened visibly day by day.
Ber father looked to see the lemon tree
- waste and sicken also; but it flourished still,
a green, fresh, happy thing, though grow
ing in a place so poor. A superstitious,
silly notion took possession of him. begot
ten by his nervous terrors for his child and
by the mental weakness which came of
physical want He fancied the lemon tree
hurt the child, and dretv nourishment and
strength away from her. Perhaps in the
night, in some mysterious way, who knew
hou?
He grew stupid and feverish, working so
hard all day on hardly more than a crust,
and not sleeping at nicht through his fears
ior Lizina. Everything seemed to him
cruel, wicked, unintelligible. Why had
the State taken away the boy who was so
contented and useful where he was bom?
Viiy had the ktrange, confined, wearisome
life "among the marsh lands killed him?
"VVhy was he himself without even means
to cet decent food? Why, after orkinc
hard all his years, could he have no peace?
Must he even lose the one little creature he
hud? The harshness and injustice of it nil
disturbed his brain and weighed upon his
soul. He sank into a sullen silence; he
t.v in the mood when good men turn bad
and burn, pillage, slav not because they
are wicked or unkind by nature, but be
cause ther are mad from misery.
Tiie neighbors were good-natured, and
brought now an egg, now a fruit, now a
loat for Lizina, but thev could not bring
her appetite, and were oflended and chilled
by her lassitude, her apparent ignorance of
their good intentions, aud her indifference
to their gifts.
Only the little girl who had laughed at
him and flouted him as they sat on tne wall
by the river did think of it constantly,
tenaciously, silently. It seemed to her hor
' rible to have him all alone in some unfa
miliar, desolate place where no step was
ever heard ot anyone whom he had ever
known, she said of it; for she saw that even
her lather did not understand. But she
brooded over the thought of it constantly,
turning to and fro in her mind the little
that she had ever known or heard of the
manner or means by which people trans
ported themselves from place to place.
There were many, of course, in the village
who could have told her how others trav
eled, but she was too shy to speak of the
matter, even to the old man of the ferry,
in whose boat; when it was moored to a
poula driven in the sand, she had spent
many an hour of playtime. She had always
been a babbling, communicative, merry
child, chattering like a starling or a swilt
Until now. Now she spoke rarely, and
faever of the thing of which her heart was
lull.
One day her lather looked from her
pinched, wan face to the bright green
'leaves of the flourishing leniou tree, and
inuttered an oath.
"Uav and night for as many years as you
: ire old, I have taken care of "tnat tree, and
sheltered it and fed it; and now it alone is
: air to see and strong, while you verily,
oh, rerily, Lizina, I could find it in my
heart to take a billhook and hew it down
for its cruelty in being fclad and full of
vigor, while you pinch aud fade, day by
dav, before my sight"
Lizina shook her head, and looked at the
tree which had been the companion ot her
fifteen years of life.
'it's a good tree, Babbo," she said,
gently. "Think how much it has given us;
lion many things you bought me with the
lemon mouey. Oh, it is very good; do not
eer say a word against it; but but it you
are in anger with it, there is a thing wh'ich
you might da You have always kept the
nirney which it brought tor me."
"Surely, dear. I have always thought it
yours," he answered, where her thoughts
were tending.
"Then, then, said Lizina, timidly, "if it
be as mine really, and you see it no more
with pleasure in its place there, will you
st-11 it, and with the price of it take me
where Cecco lies?"
Her eyes were intensely wistful, her
cheeks momentarily red in her eagerness;
she put both har.ds to her chest and tried to
Hop the cough wnich began to choke her
words. Her father stared, incredulous that
he could hear ariht
"Sell the tree?" he asked, stnpidlv. Not
in his uttermost needs had the idea of Bell
ing it come to him. He held it in a supers
titious awe.
"Since you say it is mine," said the child.
"Jt would sell well. It is strong and beauti
ful and bears good fruit You could take me
down where the sun sets and the sea is
where Cecco lies in the crass."
"Good Lord!" 6aid Fringuello, with a
moan. It seemed to him that sorrow for
her lost sweetheart had turned the child's
brain.
"Do, father, dol" she urged, her thin
brown limbs trembling with anxiety and
with the sense of her oun powerlessness to
move unless he would consent
Sell it to-'lay quick! quick!" she said
feverishly. She knew that she was cruel
and ungrateful, but she persisted in her
cruelty and ingratitude.
Her father, in despair, yielded.
It seemed to him as it he were cutting
the throat of a friend when he approached
the tree to carry it away. He had called in
one'ot his fellow-carters to help move it,
for it was too heavy lor one man. With
difficulty it was forced through the narrow,
low door and down the steep stair, its
leaves brushing the walls with a sighine
sound, aud its earthen jar grinding on the
stone of the steps. Lizina watched it go
-without a sign, without a tear. Her eves
were dry find shining; her little bod v was
quivering; her laco was red and pale in
quick uneven changes.
.-"It goes where it will be better than with
us," said Fringuello, in a vague apology to
it, as he lifted it out ot the entrance ot the
house.
He had sold it to a gardener ina villa
near at hand.
"Oh, yes, it will be better off," he said,
feverishly, in the doubtful yet aggressive
tone ot one who argues that which he
knows is not true. "With rich people in
stead of poor; out in a fine garden half the
year, and in a beautiful airy wooden house
all winter. Oh, yes, it will" be much better
off Now it has grown so big it was choked
where it stood in ray little place; no light,
no air, no sun, noth'ing which it wanted. It
will be much better off here it goes; it
will have rich new earth and every sort of
care."
"It has done well enough with you," said
his comrade, carelessly, as he helped to
shove the vase on tiie hand cart
"Yes, yes," said Fringuello, impatiently;
"but it will do,better where it goes. It has
grown too big for a room. It would starve
with me."
"Well, it is your own business," said the
other man.
"Yes, it is his own business," said the
neighbors, who were standing to see it
borne away as if it were some rare specta
cle. "But the tree was always there; and
the money you will get will go,"they added
rn their collective wisdom.
He toot: up the handles of the little cart
-and placed the yoke of cord over his shoul-
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ders and began to drag it away. He bent
his head down very low, so that the people
should pot see the tears which were running
down bis cheeks.
AVben he came back to his home he car
ried his price in his hands 30 francs, in
three papr notes. He held them out' to
Lizina. "All is well with it; it is to stand
in a beautiful place, close to tailing -water,
halt in shade, halt in sun, as it likes best
Oh, all is well with it, dear; do not be
afraid," then his voice tailed him and he
sobbed aloud.
The child took the money. She had a
little bundle in her band, and she had put
on the only pair of shoes she possessed.
"Clean yoursell, father, and come, corao
quicKly," she said in a little, hard, dry,
panting voice.
"Oh, wait, wait, my angel," he cried
pitecusly, through his sobs.
"I cannot wait," said the child, "not a
minute, not a minute ! Glean yourself aud
come."
In an hour's time they were in the train.
The child did everything; louud the rail
way station, asked the way, paid their
fares, took their seats, pushing her father
hither and thither as if he were a blind
man. He was dumb with terror and re
gret; he resisted nothing. Having sold the
tree, tnere seemed to Him nothing lett for
him to do. Lizina obeyed him no more
she commanded.
People turned to look after this little sick
girl with death written on her lace, who
spoke and moved with such ieverish de
cision, and dragged after her this thin, dunib
man, her small, lean hand shut with
nervous force upon his own. All the way
she ate nothing; she only drank thirstily ot
water whenever the train stopped.
The novelty and strangeness of the transit;
the crowd, and haste, and noise; the un
familiar scenes; the pressure of unknown
people, and the Btare ot unknown eyes, all
ot which was so bewildering and terrible to
her father, had no effect upon her. , All she
thought of was to get to the place of which
the name was written on the scrap of paper
which she had shown at the ticket office,
and which she continued to show mutely to
anyone who spoke toher. It said every
thing to her; she thought it must say every
thing to everyone else.
Nothing could alarm her or even arrest
her attention. Her whole mind was set on
her goal. ..
"Your little maiden is very illl" said
more than one in the crowded railway
wagon, where they were jammed one onto
another thick as herrings in a barrel.
"Aye, aye, she is very ill," he an
swered, stupidly; and they did not know
whether he was unfeeling or daft He was
dizzy and sick with the unwonted motion of
the train, the choking dust, the giddy laud
scape which seemed to run past him, earth
and sky together; but on Lizina they made
no impression, except that she coughed al
most incessantly. She seemed to all noth
ing and to perceive nothing. He was seized
with panics of dread lest they should be
taken in some wrong direction even out of
the world altogether; dreaded fire, accident,
death, treachery, felt himselt caught up by
strong, invisible hands, and whirled away,
the powers of heaven or hell alone knew
where. His awful fear grew on him every
moment greater and greater; and he would
have Riven his soul to be sate back on the
sand of the river at home.
But Lizina neither showed nor felt any
fear whatever. The journey took the whole
day and part of the ensuing night; for the
slow cheap train by which they traveled
gave war to others, passed hours motion
less, thrust aside and forgotten, and paused
at every little station on the read. They
suffered lrom hunger and thirst, and heat
and drought, and fatigue and confusion, as
the poor cattle suffered in the trucks beside
them. But the child did not seem to ieel
either exhaustion, or pain, or to want any
thing except to be there. To be there the
towns, the mountains, the sea, the coast,
all so strange and wonderful to untraveled
eyes, had no wonder tor her. She only
wanted to get beyond them, to where it was
that Cecco lay. Every now and then she
opened her bundle and looked at the little
twig ot the lemon tree.
Alarmed at her aspect and ber racking
cough, their companions shrank away from
them as far as the crowding of the wagon
allowed of, and they were left unquestioned
aud undisturbed whilst the day wore on and
the sun went down into the sea and the
evening deepened into night
It was dawn when they were at last told
to descend; ther had reached their desti
nation a dull, sunbaked, feverstricken
little port, with the salt water on one side
of it and the machia and marsh on the
other.
Lizina got down from the train holding
her little bundle in one hand and in the
other her father's wrist. Their limbs were
bruised, aching, trembling, their spines felt
broken, their heads seemed like empty
bladders in which their brains went round
and round; but she did not faint or fall; she
went straight onward as though the place
was familiar to her.
There was a fort of decaying yellow-stone,
high walls with loopholes, mounds of sand
with sea-thistle and bryony growing in
them; before these was the blue water and
a long stone wall running far out into the
waters to the iron rings in it A few fisher
boats were moored by their cables. The sun
was rising over the inland vilderness wnere
wild boar and buffalo dwelt) uuder impene
trable thickets. Lizina led her father by
the hand past the fortifications to a little
desolate church with crumbling belfry,
where she knew the burial ground must be,
There were four walls limeirashed, with a
black iron door, through the bars of which
the graves within and the rank grass around
them could be seen. The gate was locked;
the child sat down on a stone before it and
close to the desolate Band-strewn, grass
grown field of death. She motioned to her
lather to do the same. He was like a poor
steer landed after a long voyage in which
he had neither eaten nor drunk, but had
been bruised, buffeted, thrown to and fro,
stunned, tormented. Tbey waited, as she
wished, in the cool dusk of the breaking
day. The bell abore in the church steeple
was tolling lor the first mass.
In a little while a sacristan came out of
the presbytery near the church and began
to turn a great rusty key in the church
door. He taw the two aitttntr there br the
graveyard, and, looking at them over his
shoulder, said to them: "You are strangers
what would you?"
Lizina rose and answered him: "Will
you open to me? I come to see my Cecco
who lies here. I have something to give
him."
The sacristan looked at her father.
"Cecco?" he repeated in a doubtful tone.
"A lad of Royezzano, a soldier who"1 died
here," said Fringuello, hoarsely and faint
ly, lor his throat was parched "and swollen,
and his head swam. "He and mv child
were playmates. Canst tell us, good man,
where his grare is made?"
The sacristan paused, standing before the
leathern curtain ot the church porch trving
to remember. Save for the soldiers and" the
fisher-folks, there was no one who either
lived or died there. His mind went back
over the winter and autumn months to the
last summer, in which the march fever and
the pestilential draught had made many
sicken and some die in the fort and in the
town.
"Cecco? Cecco?" he said, doubtfully.
"A Tuican lad? A conscript? Aye, I do
recall him now. He got the tertiau fever
and died in barracks. "His reverence wrote
about him to his family. Yes, I remember.
There were three soldier lads died last year,
all in the summer. There are three crosses
where ther lie. I put them there; his is
the one nearest the wall. Yes, you can go
id; I have the key."
He stepped across the road and unlocked
the gate. He looked wonderiuglr on Lizina
as he did so. "Poor little one!" he mut
tered, in compassion, "how small, how ill,
to come so lar."
Neither she nor her father seemed to hear
him. The child passed through the aper
ture as soon as the door was drawn ajar,
and Fringuello followed her. The burial
ground was small and crowded, covered
with rank grass, and here and there "sea
THE PITTSBURG
lavender was growing. The sacristan led
them to a spot by the western wall where
there were three rude crosses made of un
barked sticks nailed across one another. The
rank grass was growing among the clods of
sun-baked yellow clay; the high white wall
rose behind the crossed sticks; the sun beat
down on the place; there was nothing else.
The sacristan motioned to the cross near
est to the wall, and then went back to the
ohurch, beiue in haste, as it was late for
matins. Lizina stood by the two poor
rude sticks, once branches of the hazel,,
which were all that mamed tne grave ot,
Her father, uncovering his head, fell on
Ills knees
The child'n face was illuminated with a
strange and holr rapture. She kissed the
lemon bough which she held in her haud,
and then laid it gently down upon the grais
and clay under the wall
"I have remembered, dear,' she said
softlv, and knelt on the ground and joine 1
her Hands in prayer. Then the weaknesrdf
her body overcame the strength of h
spirit; she leaned' forward lower and lowe-
find lnwpr until her lace was bowea ovei
tha ffiillfMr mK-
"T mine to lie with vou." she said undei
i, kr.ot)i nnri then her litis Darted mo
widely with a choking sigh. The bloo
trucliPil from her mouth, and in a fe
;nnf-cehi un dead. Thev laid her then
in the clay and the sand and the tussocks of
grass, and ber father went bacfc alono to hii
native place and to his empty room." I
One day on the river bank a man said tj
him: "It is odd, but that lemon tree whicH
you sold to my master never did well; lj
died within the week a fine, strong, fresH
young tree. Were there worms at its roots)
think you, or did the change to the open
air kill it?"
Fringuello. who had always had a sacreu,
wild, dazed look ou his face since he re
turned from the sea coast, looked at the!
speaker stupidly, not with any wonder, but
like one who hears what he has long known
but only imperfectly understands.
"It knew Lizina was dead." he said sim
ply, and then thrust his spade into the sand
and dug.
He would never smile nor sing any more,
nor any more know any joys of life; but he
still worked on from" that habit which is
the tyrant and the savior of the poor.
the end.
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.
The boll worm Is still devastating South
ern cotton Holds.
The Cabrlllo celebration opened In San
Diego, Oil., yestciday.
Heavy washouts havo occurred on the
Mexican Central Railway.
Hie National Division Sons or Temper
ance is in session In Sew York City.
Turkey is negotiatins with an English.
German and Dutch syndicate for a loan of
.6,000,000.
Prince do Jninville's chateau at Chan
tilly, France, was raided by burglar? Tues
day nisnt.
The Minneapolis World's Fair Auxilinrv
lias voted iu favor of keeping the Fair open,
ou Sunday.
One of tlio men who robbed the Snipes &
Co. bank at Roslyn, Wash., was captured
Tuesday night.
Twelve nersons have diedat Ancrouleme.
France, alter eating what they supposed to
be mushiooms. i
A lodge of Creek Indians from the British
possessions aie terrorizing settlers around
silver Bow, Mont.
Robert G. Ingersoll nnd Henry Georse
will address the National Real Estate Con
vention in October.
Commander in Chief Welssert, of the G.
A. R.f whs tendered an ovation on his return
to his home city, Milwaukee.
A Portuguese launch at Mozambique was
wrecked recently, and all but one of its
eight occupants wero drowned.
Two Idaho projectors, William Carlott
and Henry Gerforu, while hunting in a
canon, were killed by mountain lions.
Terra cotta of a rich Tiliade has neon
chosen as a background for the decorations
In Chicago during the dedicatory""oxenST5fcs
There Is every probabilitv that the differ
ences between the Missouri Pacific and the
telegraphers employed will be amicably
settled.
Northern Grand Army men visiting
Richmond adopted a lesolution of thanks
for the hospitality accorded them by the ex
Confederates. Con way's mountaineering party, now In
wio xiiuuuu iiuui, jibvh cumoea a peak 23
000 feet libcli. This Is 1,000 feet hfjlior than
any lecorded climb.
One hundred and sixty persons have
ueen airrsteu at jraicrmo una useuXUiM
suspected of being members of a conspiracy
Simovice, a prominent Progressist mem
ber ot tho Servfan Chamber or Deputies, has
been murdered. Tho Mayor of Kiuljove has
been arrested on suspicion.
Sir Gilbert Campbell and five other uris
tociatic Englishmen have been convicted
in London of conspiracy and fraud by means
of bogus literary and art societies.
The British sealeis O'car and Hattie,
Mohican, Attn Gland aud Henrietta, seized
by the Torktown in Beting Sea, have been
sent to Sitka for evading the revenue.
The body of Goorge Brace Mitchell, a
hardware merchant or St. Louis, was found
Tuesday nteht in a ditcli by the railway
track near Perth, Ont. Ho had been mur
dered. The dwelling of Samuel Adkinson, near
Tcloup, Kan., was struck by lightning Tues
day night. Mr. and Mrs. Adkinson and
their two children w ere killed. The house
burned down.
In celebration of the birth of his daugh
ter. Emperor William has issued an order to
pal don all women in German jails under
sentence for first offences, or for crime at
tributed to distress or auger.
The new Mexican customs tariff will be
published In a fortnight. It Is understood
that it will i educe the duties on crude
materials, increase tho duties on machinery,
and ubllsb entirely inter-State taxes.
Tho rolling stock, etc., df the United
States Rolling Stock Company, at Anniston,
Ala., has been sold to Geoige V. Ristine,
General Manager or tho now United States
Car Company, who bought tor his company.
The Lake Anieline Iron mine manage
ment, employing 600 men, will begin eight
hour shifts October 1 voluntarily. The
movement will revolutionize relations be
tween capital and labor in the Lake Superior
mining district.
Despite the denial from London that a
British man-of-war had been sent to Siberia
to secme tho release of the Canadian sealers
now supposed to be held prisoners there by
the Russians', Hon. C. H. Tupper, Canadian
MinUterot Marine, says the man-of-war is
now on her way.
The action of Governor Schnltz, Mani
toba, lrf l-etnsing to sign an ordet In council
passed by the Greenway Government, legal
izing a new survev of Winnipeg land, is
ci eating serious tionble. The Governor's
action is alleged to be duo to the fact that he
is financially inteiested in the pioperty to
be reburveyed.
Young, stylish-looking narry Camp was
arresteil in Chicago yesterday at tne point
of a revolver by two policemen while at.
tempting a supposed diamond swindle.
Camp, the police claim. Is tho man who a
few mouths ago succeeded in suindling a
number of dealers In Deti oit out or $3 000 by
means of bogus gems.
A large number ofletters. Inclosing pos
tal money older?, mailed by officers and
men attached to the British Mediterranean
squadron to relatives at home, were recent
ly stolen at Constantinople, where the
money orders were cashed by a local bank
ing firm. Lord Rosebery, tne British For
eign Secretary, is pressing the Turkish Gor
ernment to assist in lerretiiig out the cul
prits. The Bartlett Warm Air Furnaces
And wrought steel ranges, tho "Jewett"
gas ranges and boilers aro on exhibition at
the Exposition. Don't fail to see them
there, or at Nos. 20Jand 200 Wood street.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
DISPATCH,' THURSDAY;
A NEW TORPEDO BOAT.
The First of Its Kind Ever Con
structed in Interior Waters.
SHE MUST FLY THROUGH WATER."
A lesson Taught to the Heart of This
Great Country.
TEEMS UNDER WHICU SHE WAS BUILT
Washington, Sept. 28. Another nov
elty in the construction of our steel navy
will very soon be furnished by the launch
of a mate to the Cushing at the Iowa Iron
Works. This is the first of the .new vessels
built in interior waters, and its successful
completion ought to open the eyes of Con
gressmen in the Mississippi Valley to the
fact that their constituents and neighbors
may have a local as well as a national inter
est in naval construction and seaboard de
fense. Of this little craft Secretary Tracy
has said that it "represents a new and im
portant step in the development of the re
sources of this country for purposes of naval
shipbuilding. Hitherto this work has been
done almost wholly on the Atlantic and
Pacific seaboards. Many rolling mills and
shops in the interior, especially in Penn
sylvania, Ohio and Illinois, have performed
a share of the work, but the shipbuilding
has been done ou the coast. The construc
tion of a torpedo boat on the upper Miss is
sippi, however, opens up great possibilities
for development in this direction in the
heart of the country." The launch of Tor
pedo Boat Xo. 2 before the next session
of Congress will enlorce this lesson.
The Conditions Improved.
The act of June 30, 1890, authorized the
construction of a steel torpedo boat, to cost,
for hull and machiney, not more than $125,
000, aud to have a guaranteed speed ot 24
knot". The advance made in this latter
respect is shown by the fact that the speed
required of the Cushing was only 22 knots.
On her trial trip she actually'developed
about 224 knots. Had she exceeded 23
knots, she would have had a bonus of $1,500
per quarter knot ior such excess, but she
earned no premium. Torpedo Boat No. 2 is
liable to rejection should she make less
than 23 knots, so that the gain is apparent.
It should be said, however, that a higher
price is paid for No. 2 than for the Cush
ing, and that the latter has made fast runs
since'her trial trip.
The new boat is a little larger than the
Cushing, but does not draw as much water.
The Cushing has a length on load water
line of 138 feet, a breadth of 14 feet 10
inches and a mean draught of 5'X leet, giv
ing her a displacement of 116 tons. The
new boat has a length of 160 leet, a breadth
of 15J4 and a normal draught amidships of
i, with a displacement of 120 tons. She
has 1,800 maximum horse power, against the
Cushing's 1,720. Each has twin screw,
vertical quadruple expansion engines. Each
carries three torpedo tnbes, those of the
Dubuque boat being 18-incu Whiteheads,
and the latter also has four one-pounder
rapid-fire guns, while the Cushing has
three. The contract cost of the hull and
machinery of the new boat is 5113,500, while
that of the Cashing was $82,7B0.
Special Attention to Officers' Quarters.
In Torpedo Boat No. 2 special attention
has been given to the quarters ior the offi
cers and men, on the theory, as Chief Con
structor Wilson puts it, that "the radius of
action of these vessels is limited rather by
the endurance of the crew than by
the amount of coal carried in the bunkers.''
Hence two staterooms are provided for the
officers, and a large room extending the en
tire breadth of the boat and containing four
s lor the petty othcers, while the
crews quarters are is bunks ana swinging
space 'or lour nammocKB.
Thanew boat, to quote the language of
Chiefyonstructor Wilson, is built on the
transvjrae system. Special attention has
been giyeh to thelocgUudfial strength and
stiflhes of the vessej by the use o( an inter-rmtn1-erti
i inl and broad, heavy
stringer plates. The intercostal keel is
used to connect thoroughly and rigidly the
outer ksel plates to the inner flat keelson,
so, guarding against the tripping ot the
nouiid reatre.irg ue-siux&fsssjKuseu Dy
the engines, that is often a source of iailgtre
to the crews of these little vessels. The
heavy stringers, together with the coal
bunker bulkheads and side plating, form
large box girders on each side, and, these
being unbroken throughout the machinery
space, give extraordinary stiffness. Care is
taken that these girders do not terminate
abruptly.
The Policy of tho Department.
The policy of the Department is to en
courage work in the shipyards of the inte
rior, as will b seen by the following words
of Secretary Tracy's last report;
it should be our policy in the building of
on navy to create, us tar as possible, an
equal distribution ot benefits, and to pro
mote manufacturing industries and the em
ployment of worklngmen in all part of the
country. The Interior has also a distinct
advantago over the coast, iu that it is far
removed from possible attack to which our
scacoast establishments, pilvnte and pub
lic, would be peculiaily vulnerable.
When, therefore, the Dubuque torpedo
boat takes her course down the Mississippi
to Pensacola, where she is to be delivered,
she should have not only a triumphal, but
in some sense a missionary tour. The West
will be proud of her as a specimen of its
handiwork, and on-lookers will find a now
interest in the building up of the navy.
JAMES GETTY & CO.,
180 FIRST AVENUE,
PITTSBURG, PA., '
Announce that they have some of the cele
brated O. F. C. Whisky which has become
so popular in the New York clubs and is be
ing used so extensively by those who insist
upon having the purest and best. The flavor
of this celebrated Whisky is something un
usual, and it is admittedly the obolcost
article upon tho market. Speaking concern
ing It a prominent man recently said:
"It requires a refined taste to appreciate a
fine Whisky. O. T. C. has become popular
because it Is so line, and its popularity shows
that the public taste is becoming more ie
fined. I do not see why people will use an
inferior article when they can secure the
best at practically the same figure. I use
only O. F. C."
If yon have never tasted this colebrated
Whisky you should certainly try it
Latest U. S. Gov't Report
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SEPTEMBER 29,v 1892.
SEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THAT you can get a better
Suit at your tailor's than
you can buy of us.
You can get a dearer one
not a better one.
Being measured by your
tailor does not add virtue to
cloth or beauty to pattern.
A Suit or Overcoat of ours,
fitting you perfectly, is full as
good evidence of e. fit as your
tailor's assurance that he can
fit you.
The marks of perfect tailor
ing are so predominant in our
clothing that the difference is
never discovered that the gar
ment was not made directly for
you.
The difference is known to
the wearer and greatly appre
ciated, too in the fact that the
cost was one-third to one-half
less than the order transaction
would have cost
Come to us for demonstra
tion. OPPOSITE CITY HALL.
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NEW FIRM.
The unloading sale of all the stock
of the late firm of John P. Knable &
Co. will continue until all the old
stock is sold. Price has made a busy
store. Each day brings new bargains,
as the stock is so large we cannot ar
range the bargains all at once.
1 case fine Plaid and Striped Mus
lins, sold past at 1 8c and 20c, closing
sale price,
8 1-3G a
CHILDREN'S
MULL CAPS,
Slightly soiled, regrhar price 1.25
to $2, unloading sale price,
25c Each.
Extra Bargains in Dress Trimmings.
Extra Bargains in Hosiery.
Extra Bargains in Underwear.
Extra Bargains in Gloves.
Extra Bargains in Every Dep3rtm't.
Successor to John P. Knable
& Co.,
35 FIFTH AVENUE.
s 62940
Cleveland?
Harrison?
Who will be our next President?
What will be his Popular Vote ?
In 1888 Cleveland received 5.539,764.
and Harrison 5,445,003 popular votes.
43 To the fifty persons making the best
guesses, we will give
50 GOLD WATGHES
The guess nearest correct
will receive a Solid Gold
Watch, or If preferred,
Ave $30.00 Gold Pieces.
The next nearest 49 guess
es will each receive a one
Rolled Gold Watch
with Waltham or Elgin
movement, seven Jew
els, stem winder and
setter.
The Way to Do It.
To entitle you to a
guess you must get two
families (who do not use
He-No Tea) to faithfully
promise you that they will try
HE-NO TEA.
Write their ritma and addresset plainly on
a postal card, then the name of Cleveland
or Harrison, and the number of votes yoa
think he will get. Sign your name and ad
drets at the bottom. It will be advisable to
rfend in your guess early. In theevent of ties,
the first guess received will get the prize.
No guess received alter Nov. 1st, 1803. It
will only cost you one postal card to make
a guessTand there will bo fifty winners.
You may be one of them.
Persons not familiar with the remarkable good
Quality of He-No Tea will please send us their
names and addresses on a postal card, and we will
moll them an Interesting little boot! also a pack
age of He-No Tea free.
Address MAHTIN GILLET& CO.,
(EauhllshedUlU Exchange nce.Blt1mnrBjtl,
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NEW ADVEBTISEMENTS.
THURSDAY,
FRIDAY
AND
SATURDAY.
U T
Genuine InwrteJ Bine and lite Steel Ware
STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS.
By special arrangement with the importer we are enabled to place on
sale this week a large purchase of these far-famed Cooking Utensils, divided
in two great lots. Many articles 25c to 75c less than usual price.
AT 49 CENTS EACH
cover, Fry Pans, Pudding Pans, Milk
and Coffee Pots.
B
k
AT 70 CENTS EACH
Boilers, Dish Pans, Sauce Pots, with covers; Stew Pans, with covers; extra
large Sauce Pans, with covers; Preserving Kettles, with covers.
The celebrated Bread, Cake and Paring Knife, per set. 98c
The single Bread Knife alone , 59c
SILVERWARE.
Genuine Rogers' best plated Knives and Forks, strictly first, ( Q Jf"
per set 6 knives and 6 forks 3 UalU
Genuine Rogers' Ai plated Table Spoons, strictly first, per set, ff A Q
6'in set 4) J0
Genuine Rogers' Ai plate Tea Spoons, strictly first, per set, 6 Q Q
in set UU
Genuine Rogers' German Silver Tea Spoons TU
Genuine Rogers' German Silver Table Spoons wO
Triple-plated Tea Set, comprising Sugar Bowl, Creamer and (Q QQ
Spoonholder, satin finish, nicely engraved and gilded 4)tJm 9U
Triple-plated Teapot to match 4)fi..w0
Triple-plated Butter Dish to match $ LwO
Quadruple-plated Castor, with 5 engraved bottles, latest pat- ( f Q Q
tern 4Z. JO
LAMP DEPARTMENT.
Hall Lamps, solid brass with Colored globes, large burners...... 3 ! 10
Parlor Lamps, hand-painted bowl and shade to match, with large Qft
burner wO
Brass or Nickle Banquet Lamps, with center draft burner and C f Q Q
linen shade, 10 inches Q) Iu0
Another carload of our beautiful Toilet Sets, 12 pieces, at. 4).UO
Ml & GO
Mall Orders Promptly Attended To.
TARIFF REFORM BOOMING.
"A Public Office is a Public Trust,"
You can eat these cakes until you bust
The people seem to be
trying to
antry,
They are eating bo many of the
new
TARIFF REFORM CAKES
t
That we can scarcely supply the demand. That's not to be wondered. at,
however, for they are fine cakes, the finest in the land, and whether you are a
Tariff Reformer or not, you can't do better than to get a pound from your
grocer. ,.
HERD BAKERY,
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THURSDAY
FRIDAY
AND
SATURDAY.,
- V
Large Saucepans with cover,
large Preserving Kettle with
Pans, Stew Pots, Wash Basins, Tea
Coffee and Tea Pots, 3, 4 and
5 quarts; Tea Kettles, Oatmeal
504, 506 and 508
MARKET STREET.
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prove tne truth of the above little pleaa-
ALLEGHENY.
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