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if THE PITTSBURG PRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 4, I gs rfs ft fk ft HIS BLIND BRIDE. rv the menage, which Will probably not be sent In until Wednesday! The. cauee Happy the Boy is We are putting especial' stress on the feature of selection in our NEW SPRING SHOES. Who is Confirmed in A SurpriseStoreSuit Especial preparation has ben made for this auspicious event in the lives of The Surprise Store's young friends. These first Communion and Confirmation Suits will be a source of joy and pride long after the nappy event Is past There is not one of the new Shoes which does not bear the fashion marks of the" finest specialties of Shoedom It's a selection that counts heavjly In our line of Ladies is; a correct selection from first lines of Women's Shoes the most APRIL The' temporary 'quietude in the (Cuban Epairtsh situation, the reported efnoru of apope to mediate, and price to 8 from London based on those' rvporw, proaucea anotntr uurry i theefiorts in Wall street ttils moaning.

Prices opened from 3 to 8 points aibove Saturday's olose. The highest gain In Fijvur Th advance Immediately brotiaht a flood of selling orders, followed byline usual slump, so that at noon the gentyal was not much above Saturdays, London tun.ed a seller when vt asningttn CONFIRMATION SUITS BEGIN ai S3 for all-worsted Clay Diagonal Knee Pants Suits, and. the. same price and $3 shpes sold hereabouts. $2.00 and $3.00 Shoes.

to last that makes these two attractive and the very best $2 Are the It Our Hoi' IVomon's Lino of S2.00 Shoos mnied that any proposals from Che pop iihu oeen receiveu oy tnis (fovti imicn there will be Just such marki-l netteld there will be just such market most extensive line shown. Over for all-wool Thibet Cheviot Long Pants Suits. Handsome qualities with rich linings, and displaying the highest known quality ef workmanship are on sale at $4. $5. $6 and V.

All the Fixings for Confirmation Are here at typical Surprise prices extra grade all-fur Percy and Alpine Hats. In Black and the new brown shades, at 98c; Yacht Golf and Stanley Caps, of all-wool cloth, at 25c and 48c; laundered Linen Shirts, 48c and 65c; Lisle Cloves, 15cr Lawn 5c and 10c, Silk Ties. 15c and 25c. Chicago wheat at 1 p. m.was dull an ii rm at i.wo, T.

Total sales at stocks on the New Tori eimanee last wppk were fnares, against 1.417.773 the preceding weeek. and for the corresponding week in i 1807. There was a marked Increase in the volume of business transacted In railway and miscellaneous bonds. In the fifty styles in tan and black, silk vesting and leather tops, finished in the very latest styles in the newest patternsnew toe shapes All sizes, 2lt to all A to We liberally guarantee SURPRISE SPECIAL SALE No. 51 early part of the week some sharp advances were made, but later part of the improvement was lost.

The net changes, as compared with a week ago, however, 'Show substantial gains. Total transactions aggregated $12,101,700 against M.602.6U0 the preceding week, end M.5H1.- The new styles for Spring and Summer in Men's elegant Derby and Alpine Hats at 98c continue on sale until store-closing time Friday evenfng. They're all-fur Hats created under special arrangement by a famous meulder of Hat fashions, i Double Guarantee Binds All Sales At the world's largest and most liberal male outfitting establishment. 50U for the same period a year ago. A good business was transacted In government bonds.

Prices were strong throughout. although on Friday and Saturday, a marked reaction took place In the 4a coupon -of JW25. As a tabulation however, noteworthy advances were re-j cornea. isaies amounted to against the preceding week, and for the corresponding period In 17. British consols declined 7-ns, French rentes 7 centimes.

Spanish 4s, after a sharp Intermediate recovery. closed the week with a net decline of 1 points. The Hew York Evening Post says: "Un- ilV the present circumstances, there is eone interesting matter for reflection in thevernment' revenue statement for MarcX publishd to-day and compiled In anoth column. On the fact of Its returns, nils staisment shows a surplus for the mooln ot. but as a footnote ar i ii in fi ii i vif Our Now Lino of Women's S3.00 Shoos Are absolutely better, wear -longer, give better satisfaction than any other shoe sold at a like price.

All the pretty effects and designs of the highest Sixty styles, in black and all the; fashionable shades of tan illlc. the tV "tiry's bulletin explains, the revenue asreported Includes received last month from the government's rale of its Kansas Pacific railway lien; so that ths actual results of revenue and ex-- penditure are a deficit of Two vesting and leather tops. Soles sewed by Goodyear, welt, hand- vrrJ "ft facts 'must be recalled in this Connection. First, wtth the exception of the period of trade prostration in 1894, this Is by far thft' worst March showing at least 20 years: that month, In fact, being normally a period of heavy surplus. Second, the month of April has figured with equal uniformity as a month of normal delicit, because of ths Ave to six millions Inter- est tdue that month on the 4 per cents of 3rt07.

When to this reckoning are adrie .1 I tne navy and army contracts, already I 'Very large, it may be seen In what an turn and McKay process. All sizes; all widths. ir JUL G'S 1.1. absurd position the infatuation of the ways and means committee or lKtij has left the treasury. The Pacific railway Kale has been a lucky windfall; thanks to I ho government's receipts under that operation, the treasury's actual gas)) holdings nave Deen increased some HS.tHiO during the nine months of the lineal vear.

But for this happy incident, 1 fie account the three quarters would fUKow an ac-. Ill deficit of. $52,502,000. i'h how- yer, a curious irony of forjune that al-l Vost exactly the total auA received In thun railway settlement should already have, been prospectively Swallowed ub In the extraordinary defeifce- appropriation; 'saving me actual nencit wnere It would ave been without thatoutside help.Wlth 'iclt returns ln.hanti; the nine-point de-e In United States governments per 8 oscr" no iurtner comment. in Local Stock.

da and otters at the second call Were: IBId.iAsk. lanla Savings bank. Jst 1180. in carpets, rugs, mattings, linoleums' lace curtains and draperies are gathered in this store at prices that are 30 per cent under others' regular figures- JO GOODS DAMAGED by fire, flood, hurricane or age everything new and fresh all selections of the, most approved designs and patterns-better drop in atid save money; by spending it here. THE PITTSBURG CARPET for the strenrth of Americans in London was report that the pope was to nvllate between the United Platen anJ Spain.

Tills has been denied by the auue department at (Washington, The Spanish fletllli has irtopped kt the Cape Verde islands, which relieves the Mention an remove the necessity frr hsste. The preei dent and congress sre being subjected to more pressure In favor of peace, hut congress. It Is stated, is still belligerent in temper. Exchange is wesk. and more sold Is expectea to come.

An engagement of gold ts announced to-day. Kock Island for March hs a arose gain of 1225.009. The fnlted Slates court has decided en favor of foreclosure of the Toledo, St. Louis a Kansas City road. Eastnouna snip menu from Chicago last week were 158,090 tor Cold weather seems to have done no harm to the crops at the west.

The Day ia Wall Street. New York, April 4. The stiff advances the start Invited heavy realizations before the first hour ended, and general recessions en sued as a consequence. The most noteworthy was in Hugar. which declined 3t per cent.

I)e dines reached a point or more. Government bonds gained per cent, in the early dealings. 1 :30 p. m. prtcee were Atchison, pref XW'Nor.

Psc, pref S21, Hay Utate Gas 3' Northwest liurllngtou Kvki Omaha 74 Che, a Ohio Pacific Mall C. G. R. US' Conaol. i.

17K Gas 1' Colon, Oil, tl iReaillng 17 L. A Island Del. Hudson ..101 ihubber. pref Erie, pref BH.aouthern. Ry Gen.

Electric Hocking Valley Illinois Central Jersey Central K. pref Iead 32 do nref 6 HplritH 1 W4 Bugiir imj WS irtt. lJalll SfitiTenn. C. a 1 20V4 ITooacco KYl'nlon Pacific lV'i Manhattan Met.

Bt. Hy Wabash 7' Mich. Central 15H' do pref IS ia Pacific Western Union lashvllle A I- I .111 iHaw. Sugar 46SiB. R.

Transit Y. Central pref northern Pacific Union Pacific, pref. HT4 The Western Market. John D. Armstrong A Chicago corres pondents wire as follows: (Wheat opened firm at Hc for July, an ad vaince of over Saturday, and before noon hatd advanced further to 854c.

principally on ktovenng uy a big Una of shorts. The local craws rernlshea the bulk of ths offerings, renperea bearish by the fine weather and con tmttied excellent crlo rennrts. World's wheat shipments for the week were 8,400.000 bushels, against 8.216.0O0 bushels last week, and 4,545,000 bushels a year ago. Liver pool warehouse stocks of wheat are now 1,650, 000 bushels, an Increase for the week of 837, bushels. ThI Orange -Judd Farmer's crop report for Apm makes winter wheat condition 8 per against 83.8 per rent, last year, which Is the highest April condition since 1891, and une inreiy exceeded at this time.

Northwestern receipts were 157 cars to-day. against 240 cars for corresponding date last year. The bulls received a slap in tM face when the vUibie supply showed an Increase Instead a.f that! 1 k. 1 7 i umiruv tuuKcn. iui, ii, was pnss an around.

Liverpool eable Wheat steady, but a turn lower, Hecond cable Wheat closed unchanged to Id higher than Haturday. Provisions opened strong and (20c higher man the close on good general demand. Realising by longs has since eased off prices a little, but the market holds firm and steady. The visible supply of wheat Increased 162,000 ouxneia, corn decreased 735,008 bushels, oats increased 410,000 bushels. The four ports clear 846,000 bushels wheat nd flour, 470,000 bushels corn and bnsneia oats.

Tne Oil Market. The Standard's price was unchanged this morning at 7a cents. The option was not quoted. Ouffey Queen have drilled their wildcat oil well on the Jacob Bhoup farm, west of the Fonner pool, in Greene county, Into the Rants sand, and It Is reported that the well has filled up 2,000 feet with fluid from that for. matlon.

Operations in Oreene county have dwindled to a half dozen drilling wells. It la expected that the South Penn OH company will do some drilling In the Itrlstoria pool. The Joshua Woods No. 1 Is still holding up at better than Hi 10 tianeia a day. No.

2 John-Woods. which came In little better than a duster 10 days ago, will be shot. In the Elk Fork pool. In Tyler county, the creates! white sand territory devel oped last year, there is practically a full stop so far as new production goes, of the 40 wells producing 100 or more barrels a day six months ago, all but one or two have fallen below the 100-barrels-a-day mark. There Is no longer any nope for extending the pool in any direction.

The total production of the Klk Fork pool ror aiarcn was narreis. i ne daily aver age for February was 5,715 barrels, and In March 8,088 a decline of 627 barrels. The production of the old wells is holding tip In a most remaritable manner. Taking the southwest as a whole there were less wells completed In March than in any one month during the past year, the record being about lis wens completed, giving a new produc tlnn of a little over 7.000 barrels. During March there were completed In the Pennnyl-vanla fields between 275 and 280 wells, making a new production of only 7, MO barrels, while the dry holes reach almost 100.

At the close of March the new work In the Pennsylvania fields was 215 rigs and 228 wells drilling, which aggregate about 42 more than was shown at the close of in the Honnter state the month records an increased activity, but the figures show that in Ohio the reverse is the rase, Indiana shows quite an increase In hew production, while In Ohio a marked decline Is recorded. The new production in northwestern all told, was only a little over 2.000 barrels a day, fhe pro duct of 78 wells. Ths figures for the month I work In Indiana Indicate 28 or 80 completed wells, giving a new production of over 1,100 barrels, which Is an Increase of half a doien wells and over 600 barrels as compared with February. Executions Issued. Oustav Wehrstedt, for use of Joseph H.

May, vs. Thomas DaUell, 1900 8usan E. Oeegan vs. Augustus M. McNIsh and John 8.

McNlsh, tradlna as A. M. McNIsh A Son. 1679.17: Rrad- dock I'nton Mill Planing company vs. James Cox, C71S.

80; Conrad Staab vs. Engeioert Schmltt, 11.200. TO ECLIPSE THEM ALU The Easter Flower Show at Sfhealey Park Will be Grand. Ths Easter flower show to be arranged this week1 at the Phipps conservatory, Schenley park, for Easter Sunday, ts to be the finest fhat this city has ever attempted. From all over the country here Is being shipped rare flowers, plants and exotics for this display.

The greatest display will be that In the azalea house. Here over 1,000 plants are In full bloom. and the varied hues of this picturesque plant are skillfully arranged. New varieties of roses and cannas, of the former the hybrids and crimson ramblers pro cured this season, are things of beauty. Thousands of Easter lilies have been claced In an Immense pyramid: surround.

ed by crotons and hydrangeas and deli cate ronage ano creeping plants tne enect is marvelous. Thousands of other flowers are also artistically arranged, or will be this week. Many prominent floriculturists from other cities will be on hand to timings the flowers, and will stay over Easter to see the effect of their work. Among the best known and highest authorities on this subject who have signified their intention of coming are Curator William R. Smith, of the I'nlted States botanical gardens, at Washington, 1).

Prof, Fred B. Colvllle. chief botanist of the Cnlted States department of agriculture, Washington, and Superintendent James Gurney, of the Missouri botanical gardens at St. Louis. In addition to these there will be many park and conservatory superintendents and owners and proprietors of large commercial floral establish ments all over the country.

John Ia, Cowan Liberated. On Saturday afternoon the pardon of John L. Cowan reached Claremont and Immediately on receipt of it he let the institution, where 'he had been confined since August 3, 1SH1. He went to Kit-tanning, where his wife has been residing. Mr.

Cowan went to Guatemala, Central America, early in 1HW. and was arrested there and brought back for trial. He- says he expects to return to that country In the near future, as there Is a good opening there in the mahogany and rosewood lumber business. He has been in correspondence with-some American capitalists and says a company may be formed. CASTORIA For Infant! and Children.

At full alls stfutar sf Ves, Caa Save Save you money positively, whethe you're buying Ingrains or Axminsterpl For instance, guaranteed all-wool 65c, in? grains in thls snle, 43fjC, -or the highest grade of the celehrated $2.25 Lowell Ax-minsters, for 11.75. Immense stock, superb assortment, certain saving! CAMPBELL SMITH, Fifth bet. Smithfield and Wood sts. From tht New rot Ledger, Bentley Grange was a pretty place at times of the yer, tut loveliest of all when the reapers wars st erork la the harvest gelds. A long, low structure of wannly tinted red brick, wits mulllontd windows, sweeps of lawn and box borders.

old Brands Bentley, walking up and down In the mellow sunshine, between the of black-green box, with his eyes bent op the ground and his hands clasped behind his back, corresponded well with the grange. Suddenly cheerful footstep rang on the atone terrace above the sound of a clear whis tle rose above the click of the distant mowtn, machine, and Harry Wade, the old man's ne- phew, stood like the Incarnation of youth and sunshine before him. "L'ncle," he cried, merrily, "you've got the prettiest place the world here." Mr. Bentley took out his big, old-fashioned silver watcn. "Two o'clock." said he.

"and the bank don close until 4. Humph! It appears to me, young man, that you don't stick very close to business hours:" "Just for to-day. Will Caryl has come to act as a substitute, for I really wanted to see you, uncle." "Some scrape you've got Into said Mr, Bentley. "Nothing of the sort, "Want to borrow money, perhaps!" "lloon my word, no!" "You have fallen In love with some girl, then 'You are right this time, uncle," said Harry, laughing and coloring, "and. of course.

1 havi come directly to you to tell you of my good fortune, it Is little liessle Mlrd!" "A milliner's apprentice," snarled the old bachelor, "If she chooses to help her mother along by trimming hats In her aunt millinery rooms, see nothing derogatory In that." said Harry, valiantly. A mere child of 17!" "Hut I don't want an old lady of "I'll have nothing to say to such nonsense," lid Mr. Hentley. lli I uMn4, all want "Nothing. I say absolutely nothing thun derert the old man.

''It's folly trash senti mental tomfoolery I If you want opinion, there it isi Time enough for you to thina or mam mony when you are 30. There ought to be a law to prevent young people making fools of themselves." So Harry bad no very Inspiriting flews for Bessie Bird when he met her, as usual, to walk home with her through the pleasant autumn twilight. "Was he very cross?" said Bessie, who was a whlte-kitteny sort of a girl, with flufTy yellow hair, dimples in her cheeks and eyes the exact color of the "flowing blue" china on our mi MiuuiLniicr nrivci. "Told me I was a fool!" "But If he won't consent "Then we must menace to get along without his consent," said Harry, "Because you know. Bessie, 1 do love you so very dearly, and you like me a little don you? The first November snowstorm was drifting Its white flashes through the air when a visitor was shown Into Brande Bentley's snug parlor.

Kh," said he, "a stranger. Jones 7 1 never aee stransers." But you Will see me said a soft voice and a slender, golden-haired girl stood before him, ni-ally yet plainly dressed, her blnck cloak powdered over with snow, and a spectacled old lady by her side. "I am Bessie Bird and this Is my sunt. Miss Belton, the milli ner." Miss" Belton courtesled. Mr.

Bentley stared "I suppose you have come here lo speak to me snout my nephew," said ne. "Yes. sir." said JJessie. "It will be of no use." said he. curtly.

"My opinions on the subject of his marriage remain unchanged." "But mine do not," said Bessie. "Please to hear me through, Mr. Bentley. I have written him a letter to give him up this morning. And I came to tell of It now.

so that you will feel kindly toward him once more. I have told him we never could be married. You're a sensible girl." said. Mr. Bentley, smiting his hand on the table.

"And I have sent him back the little garnet engagement ring that he gave me, added Bes slf, with a sob In her throat. 'Better and better, said Uncle Brande, ex- ultuntlv. Not. added Hessln, "because I do hot love him as dearly and truly as I ever did. -But be cause I now how wrong It would be for me to fetter his Whole life, hot She slopped an Instant and a shudder ran through her frame.

"I mar as well tell you all, Mr. Bent ley. I am going blind." hllnd? echoed the old man. Blind." repeated Bessie, aently. but firmly.

"I have had such strange blurs and dark nesses come across my vision of late, and went to a doctor. And the doctor told me, as kindly as he could, that these sre but the precursors of total blindness. So, of course, all Is at an end between Harry and me. Will you please tell him this?" "I will," said the old man huskily. Harry Wade came to his uncle that moraine In arrest Derturbatlon.

"What does this mean, sir?" said he. "Have you been endeavoring to persuade her-to throw me over?" "No. boy no," said the old man. and he told him all. 'I sm bound to sav that the girl has behaved very well," said he.

"Shall you give er up?" "No! Never!" shouted Harry. "Never! If she wss dear to me before, she shall be doubly treasured ana sacred now." The old man's eyes glittered as he rose and grasped both his nephew's hands as In a vise, You're a trump, "Harry Wade!" said he. '1 respect you more at this minute than ever 1 did before. Olve her up. Indeed! Marry her to-morrow if you will and bring her right here to Bentley grange.

It shall be her home and yours henceforward. They were married and came to the grange. and the prtttlest of all sights Is the blind bride walking tip and down tne long, stone paved terrace upon her husband' arm, with Uncle Brande forever beside her. I never had a daughter, said Uncle Brande "but If I had I think I would have felt toward hr as I feel toward my bllnq darling tsegsie, FEDERATION OP CHURCHES. Sunday Labor Question to be Dia- cussed This Evening.

Ths Federation of Churches will hold a meeting at 8 o'clock this evening In the Fourth Avenue baptist church, which promises to be of unusual Interest. A number of live, questions will be discussed, among which Is that of Sunday labor In the lis. un tnis suniect kov, j. t. McCrory, D.

will present the report of the committee: 'Kev. s. A. itunter. u.

chairman of the committee, will speak on "Sunday labor from a religious stand point;" the "Legal aspect ot undRy labor" will be presented by Albert J. Edwards, assistant district attorney of Al legheny county; Theodore J. Shafer. trus tee of the Amalgamates association, win speak on- "The humanitorlan reasons for Sunday rest;" a rracticai view ot Bun ny labor" win be presented by l. a.

Khydderch, a practical steel worker. Ideal and Real Marriage. From Hammerton's "The Quest of Hap piness. The lover is an idealist, He Is not In lovs with a living reality, though he thinks he Is. His happiness as an Idealist consists In believing a poem to be not only poetical, but a fact.

True love Is a religion that Is, a believed poem- but It Is Inferior to the celestial religions In ex nectlng its ideal fruition on the earth. The lover seeks the fruition In marriage. If his marriage Is unhappy, it Is a and there is no more to be eald; but even the happiest marriage ts liferent rrom tne lover ideal, it is in ferior as to. perfection because It Is full of great or trivial annoyances which are Incompatible with perfection and which the lover had not rorseen. nut it is in comparably superior to any ldesl In rich ness, and in interest.

The woman must have a poor nature who does not after marriage reveal Qualities that her lover had not Included in his conception of her gifts. it is like going to live in some beauti ful place that hitherto we have only read about. We had Imagined for It a tertaln pure and simple charm. Living there, wo una unexpected inconveniences, nut the neighborhood has become far mors Inter esting to us since it has been our home, as we have mude a hundred discoveries that our Imagination wits unuble to fore see. Finally, we perceive that the Interest of the place, which the tourist thinks he -has exhausted in one visit, is in reality Inexhaustible.

Nevertheless, in spite of the superior variety of Interest In the reality, on comparing it witn an imaginative conception we know- that It has one Inferiority. The ideal is still the Ideal, na trom time to time me nrst impres sion (which was not true) may recur to us In memory wtth a maglo that no reullty can equal. "Prof. J. R.

Bevls." says the Boston Transcript, "the widely' known matliema- Irian and astronomer, is seriously III in alrmoutit. Ind. He is In destitute ctr- umstunces, and an appeal for assistance made to his friends ana the friends science in general to assist him in his ant I'rof. Bevls Is the author ot Bev- ,1 books on which are Id as text books In the Among sre 'Concrete 'Theory Kxponents' and "College I I la Onli- iimm Hrssd ot AVhlt Lily Bacoa. "Just as good" brands are deceptive.

on getting nite iny. xou win use ver For sale by leading ers. Wholesale, 615 Liberty street; Twenty-third street and A. v. r.

HLM-r-V ot BKU. sb Martha Culver, who lives near St. ts said to hv killed more wolves any woman in ths northwest. ty Natihnal f'ln National bank iufe Manflacturers Nat. bank Bank bf West.

Pa. Title Trust 'rniiw i rust i'tirg Trust Co Trust Co EivftrprlHe National bank Chartlers Valley Peoples Nat. Gas -erlpsylvania Gas PHiladelphla Co vyj" VWaoJIng Gas rhenv Vallev Dref 1U7 75 154- 1HI) lm 1H0 180 85 0, 11 -I 17 10 30H 25 11 I 13, l.H-'4 18 111 40 as 3114 82 68 25 LIMITED, 227 FIFTH AVENUE. Consolidated Tract Consolidated "'Birmingham Tract United Monongahela water Union Switch Slenal Co. these $2.00 Shoes to give the highest satisfaction for wearperfect-f itting.

78 Ohio JVJf Corner Sandusky. Allegheny, 44gJ FINANCIAL. FIDELITY TITLE TRUST CO. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $1,300,000. Allows interest on deposits.

Rents Safe Deposit Boxes. OFFICES: 341-343 FOURTH HIE. 112621 HENRY SPROUL GO. 236 FOURTH PITTSBURG. Hotel Henry, With private wire and ticker service, givlDS prompt quotations and all th latest market Information.

83s OAVID HANNA STOCKS AND GRAIN. 314 Fourth Are. Jhoae interested In speculation In these com. Hues are lavlted to communicate with ua. Any quantities en limited martins.

Every possible facility for prompt tiecutloa of or-eera. Telephone tHt- Ulm DIED. McEKT'LTT At rest, on Saturday, April 2, 18B8, at 8:20 p. Joseph E. JIc-Enulty.

i Funeral services at the residence of his oroiner, w. b. jicttnulty. 203 Forty on i ucsaay, April at 2 Friends of the family and Sons of LI council. No.

4r2, Jr. O. U. A. specuuny invited to attend.

RT'CK MAX On Sunday, April 3, at 1:45 a. Mary, wife of Moses man, aged years. Funeral from residence of her IflW Ufan-v lift lTnrtv-- etreet. on Tuesday Auril 5. at 830 khe Requiem high mass at St.

Mary's chlper orty-slxtn strpet. at 0 a. m. Friemlne the family respectfully Invited to atl' (Parkersburp, W. Va and Beaver, tj KINE-On Sunday.

April 3. 18981; 11:15 p. George Jordan, Infant act v. i I 10 days. I Funeral services Tuesday at 2 t.

the parents residence, 1715 Wha street, South Side, Friendl the family are respectfully invited tend. i BRADWKLL On Sunday. April 3. at 11:45 p. Frances Silk, relict bf Ji Bradwell.

in her S2d year. Funeral services from her late resld Greentree borough. on WeBne April ltflts, at p. m. Friends family are respectfully invited tolat Carriages leave Yunker tinyie ing rooms.Thirty-sixth ward, Titts KJ 1 p.

and Steel's- undertaking rfJTrt Carnegie, at p. m. SATTLER On Sunday. April 3, VT 4:2 p. Mnry Sattler, wife of joars.

m-, j-unerai rrom tne residence. Allegheny, on Tutwlay. April p. m. nenas ot tne tamtiy arel fi.tW.

Invito BttanH li Pa. 1 1 STCHE MIHPHV OX THE WAR. Temperance Rally Last Mailt at the Arenac Theater. A crowded meeting faced Francis Murphy last night when he stepped upon the stage of the Avenue theater. The meeting was opened with singing by the largs choir, led by Mrs.

Goettman, with Miss Emma Baker presiding at the pinho. The music was a feature Of the occasion. Hev, C. H. Lincoln and family rendered several pieces to the delight of the audience." Mr.

Murphy read as a scripture lesson the Ninety-first psalm. i "We are a patient people," shouted Francis Murphy during his adress, "but God have mercy on Spain if we ever get at her. I don't think she hair taken leave of what little sense she ever did have, and she never had much." And the thou sands who packed Sho building responded with tremendous applause, When lie couid be heard the -temperance orator continued: "Grant was a man of peace and said he would fight for it. President McKlnley has demonstrated that he is a man of peace, and although some neome are in dined to find fault with him because he seems to be a little slow, I want to suy that it Is better to be a little; slow than a little fast. Applause tnut shook the building followed this endorsement of the president.

Then Mr. Murphy launched out Into one of the most eloquent eulogies of the lute President Lincoln ever heard in this city, showing his ascent from nov erty to the presidency. At its conclusion he shouted: "Poor boy, hear me; the door Is open for your advancement If you will take the right course. Come up hero now ana sign tnis pledge and get on the right road." In response to the Invitation tha, aisles were pacnea witn men, young ana oiu, who crowded to the tables, and after hav ing signed the pledge received the blue ribbon at the hands of Mrs. Murphy and Mrs.

Lincoln. Thus elosed a meeting characterked by enthusiasm all through, and which was in all respects one of the most successful ot tne series. The members of the Francis Murphy Worklngmen's Temperance union No. 1 held a meeting in the Butler Street methodlst episcopal church parlors yes terday. President Anthony Rowland presided, and was assisted by Rev.

A. H. Lucas. Several new members were enrolled ana otners signed the pledge. The Federation of Temperance Workers neia a very large meeting in the club iuoiii ai me i-uiHourg sanitarium, iZ-o Meaae street, yesterday afternoon.

Speeches were made by Francis Murphy, Manager Truxel, of the Sllgo Iron works, MaJ. S. E. Moore, J. W.

Moreland, W. F. Gray and others. Tbe federation wilj meet again at the sanitarium net Sun day aiiernoon. IXITED LABOR LEAIE.

Director Blgelow Condemned for Sot Enforcing Eight-Hoar Law. Director Blgelow, of the public works department, was denounced In the United Labor league last night, as one of the worst enemies of labor that the rotten city ring keeps In the municipal govern ment's employ. Blgelow was charged with violating the state eight-hour law, after making solemn promises to the representatives of the league that he would abide by the terms of the measure strictly, and would bring every man in his department under its provisions. This promise, the delegates to the league say. was mads some time reo.

but he has not even made a show of keeping u. -i ne league, at its mew, mst night, expressed regret at the from the labor ranks of M. M. Garland, presi dent of the Amalgamated association, who was last week appointed surveyor of the port at Pittsburg by President McKlnley. The following resolutions were adopted unalnmously: "Whereas, M.

Garland, president of the Amalgamated association of Iron and steel workers, a delegate to this league and an active and earnest trade unionist, has been appointed surveyor of the port of Pittsburg; and. "Whereas, To-day Is tlie twentieth anniversary of his affiliation with his trade union, and during his many years of active service in the ranks of wngeworkers he has always been faithful to his trust; and ready and willing on all occasions to assist wage-earners In ameliorating their conditions; be it "Resolved, That we, the delegates to the United Labor league, tender him our earnest cotwratulatlons, and are jealous that the public service should take from our ranks one of our wisest counselors and most fearless leaders. We feel confident that he will discharge the duties of his office with credit to himself and those he represents." Extensive Trip for Science, Prof. Charles BlVckhaltet, director of the Chtibot free observatory, Oakland, Cal pasfed through the city yesterday on his way homo from India, where he went to observe a total eclipse of the sun. The time for observation wus only Xi minutes, but for Btirckhalter traveled over irtiles and has been absent six months.

The observations were probably the most successful ever taken. While here the professor called on Prof. Bra-shear and Prof. Keeler, of the. Allegheny observatory.

MANY PEOPLE CANNOT DRINK coffee at night. It epotla their sleep. Tou caa drink Graln-O when you pleane and sleep like a top. For Graln-O doe -not stimulate; It nourlshee, cheers and feeds. Tet It looks and tastes like the best foftee.

For nervous per-sone. young people and children Graln-O is the perfect drink. Made from pure rralns. Get a pscksg from your grorer to-day. Try it In place of coffee.

nd Xtc. PRESS ALMANAC, ONLY 1 5 CTS. HORSED HUMAN BEIWGS. Authenticated Cases Collected by Celebrated Hnaslan Scientist. Moscow Correspondence Washington Post.

Bonzo Prelobsky, the medico-scientist whose Investigations Into the realm of the strange and unnatural are known through out Europe, has Just startled the medical world with the announcement that, after years of painstaking research he has gath ered for publication all the authenticated cases of "devil-cursed or horned The cases of men and women who have been provided with horns by Dame Nature, which Prelobsky quotes, have been carefully verified, and the book published by him la the most remarkable contribu tion to freak literature that this countrv has seen. The most Interesting case referred to is that of Valentin Heilmln, an Austrian boy who. at an early ate. began to show ale-na of having been provided with a horn in tne center ot tils forehead. His horrllied mother, who regarded the growing horn us a sign that the evil one had set his seal on her boy, consulted physicians, who told her that the bony growth, would have to take its course.

She watched him with anguish that grew more Intense with Hie growing of the horn, but the physl clans whom she consulted would not hear of the growth being stontied bv the sur. geon's knife. It was altogether too in teresting a phenomenon for that. So It Warn nlhiurarl In irno, mlth I at the age of 7 the boy had a full-grown horn, and visitors came from miles around to visit his mother's Whether or not the phenomenal growth had Anything to do with the boy's tenacity of life is a moot nolnt but Vulentin and his horn went to the grave at the ear ly agp ot A longer-lived horned belnur was a on). ored man whom Prelobsky refers to, taking the Boston Medical Journal of 1858 as his authority.

It is here stated thut a medical man of Charlestown, named Por-cher, had as one of the curiosities of his museum of science a horn that very much like that of a ram. The horn was aDout two inches in diameter and seven inches long, and at the end was separated Into several prongs like the antler of an elk. Documents of unques-tionable authority in the nossesnlnn ni th Charlestown doctor showed that the queer horn had been cut from the head of a negro, where it had grown In such remarkable manner that only the amputation of the horny substance saved the man's eyesight, for the horn had begun to grow Inward when the surgeon's saw cut short Its further progress, and had It not been removed It would nave grown Into the horned man's eyes and first blinded and then killed him. Another curious Instance of homed growth on a human being wtrti that of a woman named Mrs. Allen, a native of Lei cestershire.

She was a irood looklna- s-lrl. wuii nuining uDnormai aDout her except her horns, and these arew from the aidn of her head in ramlike formation. They were unsigntly and gave a grewsome appearance to the otherwise attmctlve fa- of the woman, but she was as proud of nieni as mougn iney were a ntgmy ornamental provision of nature, and In her case mere was some reason for her pride, for she appeared, with considerable profit to herself and amusement to the nuhiirv as one of the star attractions at various freak shows. One peculiarity of Mrs. Allen's horns was that it was possible for her to move them at will.

Apparently iiirv wciu uum-ii io tne scaip. There Is preserved In the Roval Snrlotv of Medicine a horn that grew beside the nostrils of a native of Borneo. These horns are different from all the others ciieci, in mat iney are unlike those of anv known animal. The most Interesting caso that Proinh. say mentions is tnat of an old Irish woman.

Mrs. Molly O'Hara, who lived in the suborbs of Cork. This vnmnn hu1 antlers growing from her head that would have done credit to a monarch of the forest. They were genuine horns, with spreading prongs, like those of a deer. The owner considered them a mark of high distinction, and hugely enjoved the notoriety they brought her.

She died leaving a will In which she bequeathed her horns to a medical college In her native town, where thev are still on exhi. bltlon. ELOQIEXCE AT BAY. Showing the Foolishness of Trying; to Preach a Sermon Offhand. From Harper's Basar.

It was a preacher who had that "fatal fluency" for whom an acquaintance laid a trap. He had a way of promising to preach and on beginning would say something like have been too busy to pre pare a sermon, but If some one will kindly give me a text I'll preach from It." One determined to cure him. He therefore asked him to preach. The invitation was accepted. The time came, and the visitor han his usual introduction: "Brethren, I have been so pushed for time to-day as to have been quite unable to prepare a 1 nut it some ot you win give me wf I'll preach from it.

PerhaDS mv hrnthr here," turning to the plotter near him, lttt? 11 1 at 1 1 rr tTLia a a ft ies, brother," came the ready re- ponse; "your text Is the last Dart of the ninth verse of the lirst chapter of Ksra, and Jts words are "nine-and-twentv There was a pause, an ominous Dause. as the preacher found his text. He read It out: "Nine-and-twenty knives," and be gan at once. "Notice the number of these knives- Just exactly nlne-and-twenty; not thirty, not eight-and-twenty. There were no more and no less than nlne-and-twenty knives." A pause a long pause.

Then, slowly nd emphatically, "Nine-and-twenty r. a A 1 r. Than ml(a. lively, knives.1. Again he rested.

"Nlne-and-twenty knives." A dead stop. "Nlne-anii-twenty knives and it tnere were nine hundred and twenty knives I could not say another word." TJnion Switch Signal pref. i'OJ. uiass to.i PASS. RY.

TRACTION BONDS. Federal St. Pleas Ft. Pitt 5s Millvale, Etna Sharpsburg, 6sil06 BALES. First Call.

25 shares Consol. com 190 shares Consol. Tract 1" Second Call. 1314 13V 13 Shares Consol. Notes of the Markets.

Paul's earnings for ths fourth week of Increased (108,000. The increase for month was 1580,000. Oil stock was quoted in New Tork at 3b4KP3oo. i Island's gross earnings for March in- 2226,035. Halle Stlegllts think stocks are a purchast on weak spots.

Mclntyre A W'ardwell think stocks are a sale on all rallies. The gold reserve is now Freisht earnings of the Louisville A Nash ville last Week were largest in the company's history. At Baltimore there Is a scarcity of fl, 12 and 5 notes. The stockholders of the Odd Fellows 8avlnss hank have decided to change its name to Traders Mechanics bank. The Farmers Deposit National bank has de--.

1 Ssred a dividend of 5 per cent, out of ths earnings of the past three April disbursements on railroad stocks and bonds aggregate 141.706,77?, and adding interest on government bonds and the usual dlsburse- meets from all sources brings tne total up to I toO.OOO.OOO to come Into circulation this month. It is stated on high authority that the Chi-. 'ago Peoples Gas oomiiany is steadily IncreM- ng Its output or totn illuminating and furl tae. consumption of the latter being expected double during the coming summer. On January this year the average price of leading New York stocks was The hlgh-? of the year to date was US, on February 6, US the lowest 72Vfc, on March 25.

The lowest erase price of the same stocks In recent tears was 55V4. on August 1816, and the hlKh- nt SO. on May 19, 1890. The average at the opening Saturday was 77, against 65 on April 1, mi. This week will witness receipts hy ths New fork banks of eight to nine millions new Im ported gold, and or several minions mors in under tne government quarterly ois- tments.

On the other hand, a rather de cease In the Interior demaml for Saturday. fnmmlsaiun houses reported that the great majority of the ordera on their books are to buy stocks on declines, and this buying was sufficient -to absorb all stocks offered. At the" same1 time the most important moneyed in- Bt the opening, and their action caused many io think that they had some private information in regard to a prospective settlement of the Cuban question. New York Exchange. There is an abundance of money at low raies, "and a lante Part of that now idle will coma Into seeurtiv markets on a very heavy wale as noon as It la-clear to everybody that diplomacy will accomplish what resort to arms might secure as a result of existing differences between the I'utted States and Mpaln.

Meanwhile hold- ers of securities of merit should not sacrifice them to professional operators on the short lde. This Is not a time to sell. Philadelphia Utockbolder Market Opinion. B. C.

Randolph, New York, wired Henry Fpfoul tt "London prices came from one "to three points higher this morning. Stimulated by this and the mors pacific outlook our jnsrket ophed hlxher than their level. The rush of buying seemed to come principally from the professional shorts. At the advanced prices, the demand- ss quickly supplied, and since hr msrt has been dull with a sagging tendency. 8ulr hs been a feature, reacting three points flim the highest.

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44gjlr Letters of Credit issued BRNK, 5 14 SMITHFIELD STREET, Foreign Exchange bought and sold A general banking busi ness transacted. KiUs PRESS ADVERTISEMENTS A PAYING INVESTMENT. DIED. BR1TT On Saturday. April 2.

1W8. at p. William I. Britt, In his 41st year. Funeral from his late residence.

025 Braddock avenue. BratWock, on Tuesday. April 5. at a. m.

Services at St. Thomas' church at a. rit. Friends of family are respectfully invited to atfc-nd. JOHXSOX-On April 2.

at 0 o'clork William Johnon. aeed 107 years, at his residence, Tl Reed street, city. Funeral iet vices at tn vtyue avenue M. E. church on April 5, isns.

at 2 o'clock. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. IV- i Vrnbo. JA.