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THE PITTSBURG DISPATOH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1890. HIGH C0UI1T EEFOKI. The Supreme Court of llio United States, Our Lofliest Tribunal, IS KOY WORKED ALMOST TO DEATH. Great Justices InterTiewed on the Possibility of tarlj Kelicf. SAD SITUATIOX FOK A CENTENNIAL.

Chief Jnstice Folltr and Justices Miller, Bradley and Brewer Talk. Intermediate appellate courts, to relieve the unparalleled pressure on the Supreme Court of the United States, are shown br justices of that highest tribunal to be almost an absolute necessity. Frank G. Carpenter's interviews with the members of the court are very important and full of interesting features. rrCIAt TELEGRAM TO THE DISrATCIT.I Washington, February 3.

The Supreme Court of the United States will celebrate its hundredth anniversary at New York to-morrow. The judges are leaving V.ihinKton to-day, and they will meet the leading lawyers of the couutry at their centennial celebration. One of the subjects discussed will undoubtedly be as to the future of the Supreme Court business. Already the court is between three and four years behindhand in the settlement of its cases. There are about 1,600 cases on the docket, and it takes three full years from the time a case is entered before it can be called up before the court.

With a view to giving jpur readers the ablest opinions upon the subject, your correspondent to-day interviewed the justices in regard to it. Tbe senior man upon the bench is JUSTICE SAMUEL F. M1XLEB. He has been a Supreme Court Judge for the past 28 ears. He is without doubt one of tbe ablest jurists in the United States, and he is, as will be seen from his interview, tue pioneer among the Justices in tbe attempted reform of the business of tbe Supreme Court.

I found him in his study at bis residence on Massachusetts avenue. He was sitting at a desk covered with the printed records of cases. He looked up from the consideration of a mass of testimony as I asked him tbe question. He said: "The business of tbe Supreme Court began to overwhelm its members as far back as 185S and CO. Then tbe war began, and dunng this period, as no cases came from the South, and as there was not a ereat deal of litication throughout tbe country during the war, the business of the court fell off so that the Judges were able to dispose of it.

At the close of tbe war, however, came an enormous increase of business. A large number of cases which had accumulated during the struggle were thrust upon us. NETT BUSINESS CAME TX from the Southern States, and the business of the Federal Courts increased to such an extent all over tbe country tbat in one year tbe court bad docketed more cases than it could dispose of. I came to tbe Supreme Court bench in lbGZ In 1865 and IbGS the business of the court bad grown to such an extent that it was impossible for tbe Judges to keep up with it, and I then made to tbe Judiciary Committee of tbe House, of wbich Mr. Wilson, tbe present Senator of Iowa, wasChairman, and to the Judiciary Committee of the Senats.

at the head of which was Senator Harris, of New York, a statement of tbe condition of tbe business of tbe court and of tbe necessity for some immediate relief. After I bad sent in a memorial to these committees a clerk of the Senate brought a bill to me which had been introduced by Stephen A. Douglas in ISM. This bill contained many of the same provisions as that which has been several times before Congress and wmen has passed at tnree separate times oneortbeotber of the two bouses. The sub-Stance of the bill was the creation of A COURT OF APPEALS For each of the nine circuits into which the judicial system of the United States is divided.

Very shortly after this Mr. Harris, of the United States Senate, from New York, introduced a bill which, after two sessions be succeeded in passing through that body. His bill provided for tbe creation of this Appellate Court. Tbis House, however, did not act upon it during that Congress, and of course it failed. Several ears after this, at tbe request of the Supreme Court jndges, nearly all of whom agreed to it, I handed to General B.

Butler, who was tben Chairman ot the Committee of Revision of tbe Laws, a similar bill, wbich he introduced in tbe House and bad referred to his committee. During that session of Con-cress this bill was reported and passed the House of Representatives after one day of vigorous debate. Tbe Senate, however, failed to act upon it during tbat Congress, and tbe bill was lost. A cumber of years after this Senator David Davis, who had been for many years on the Supreme Court bench, introduced a bill of the same general features into the Senate, and after an effort of two or three years he succeeded in securing its passage by a decided majority, but as in former Congresses the House of Representatives failed to act upon the bill. IF THEY CAK ONLY COXCUE.

In every one of these instances in which a vote has been obtained upon such a bill it has been passed by such a decided majority ot one ot tbe Houses as to show that all that la needed to secure its becoming a law is action during some Congress by both houses. This bill has been considered several times by committees of tbe Bar Association of the United States and in every instance it has met with the approval of those associations. A year ago the Bar Association appointed a committee to enforce upon Congress tbe necessity ot passing this bilL It has also tbe approval of tbe members of the Supreme Court, and while there are some members of tbat Court, perhaps, who would nrefer some other measure, it can be safely said that the whole body would rather have this bill passed than to allow things to remain as they are. THE HAEDEST V70BKED COUET. "Our court itself," Justice Miller went on, 'has done everything that lay within its power to remedy this evil.

It has, by a rule, required almost every motion and incidental matter to which the court is called upon to act to be submitted to it in printed form. The arguments and statements of facts are printed to avoid the consumption of time used in presenting them orally. It has, by a rule, reduced the period of time allowed for an argument in a case from eight hours to four hours, and it has in various other ways facilitated the progress of tbe business of the court and required the condensation of arguments and the economy of time in the submission of cases to court. It sits four hours every day to hear arguments, except Saturday, and that day it sits all day in Srivate conference to decide tbe cases which ave been submitted to it. It meets promptly at tbe hour of opening the court and it never adjourns until within five or ten minutes ot the time of adjournment.

THEY WORK AT HOME ALSO. The Judges of the court being furnished with printed records of the cases and with printed arguments of the counsel Save tnese lying on their tables in their offices at home, and devote the evenings and the mornings to the consideration ot these cases. It is probable tbat in the business of the court, taking tbe hearing of tbe oral arguments four hours a day, the examination of case3 at their rooms, the time at conference Saturday, and tbat taken tip In writing the decisions, the members of the Supreme Court spend more hours of the day at their work than any otber body ot men engaged in tbe public service of the United States. This will be further understood when it is seen that the court sessions is about eight months long with a few recesses as at Christmas or other holidays. "Another remarkable fact in regard to this court," said Justice Miller, "is that it decides all the cases submitted to it as fast as they can be argued and presented by counsel, and at tbe end of each term it leaves fewer cases unde-ciaed of those that have been submitted to it than any other appellate court in the United States.

ONLY ONE POEM OF BELIEF. "These facts show tbat the relief which the people are entitled to on account of the delay of justice must come from Congress, and can-sot come from the court. The proposition to Increase the number of Judges ot the court is of no avail, for every Judge considers every case and makes up his own mind about it and gives his vote upon its decision. There is no EuDdlvlsion of labor by referring cases to a single Judce or to any smaller number of Judges than the whole as a committee, by which tbe court can be relieved. It follows that Instead of an increase in the number of Judges to a-dilute the work of the court, it only tends to delay it, as the Court, like a team of horses, musi go the gait of tbe slowest.

The most acceptable and tbe soundest solution of the question would appear to bo the creation of an intermediate appellate court in each Judicial circuit, with a limited right of appeal from that court to the Supreme Court, similar to -what is now known as the Davis bill, or possibly the creation of one such intermediate appeal court for the whole of the United States, sitting at Washington." CHIEF JUSTICE FULLEE'S OPINIONS. I next called upon Chief Justice Fuller. I found him at his residence on Massachusetts avenue, aud chatted with him for half an hour as to tbe condition of the court and its business He objected to being quoted in au interview, but allows me to use the substance of his conversation, which is as follows: He stated that it had been apparent for years that the Supreme Court was overcrowded, and that without going Into detail he thought the recommendation bv the President in his message should be acted upon by Congress and an intermediate court created. He lias held this view, he said, for the past 10 or 12 years. He spoke of the impossibility of the Supreme Court taking care of its cases, stating that there were 1,500 cases on the docket, and tbat it takes three and a half years before a case can be reached.

"The best," said he. "that can be expected of the Justices at present is to dispose of as many cases as are added, which, of course, leaves the samo number always pending." MAKING BETTEE PEOGBESS. The Chief Justice thinks that the court is now disposing of a few more cases than for some time past, but says it has been hampered by not having the full number of Judges on the bench. He referred to the proposition of dividing the Court into sections either increas ing the number of Judges or leaving me number as it is, and allowing the sections to pass upon certain classes of cases, the court as a whole having to disposo of constitutional questions or the opinions in all cases to be examined by the whole court, and said tbat such a division might result in reducing tbe docket somewhat, but be thought it would detract from the dignitv and weight of tbe tribunal, and ould probably add to the labors of the Judges, instead of lightening them. As to the proposition for the creation ot an intermediate appellate patent court at Washington, which would find the facts and to that extent simplify the work upon appeal, the Chief Justice thought that this would probably reduce the work one-sixtb.

He spoke in high terms of the late Senator Davis' bill for the formation of an inter-termediate appellate court, and he said tbat such a court bad proven successful in Illinois. JUSTICE JOSEPH P. BBADLEY has been on the Supreme Bench for 20 years, and 'is regarded as one of the most learned jurists in the country. Although 77 years of age he is extremely active, and does more work in a day than tbe average man of SO. Judge Bradley is essentially a self-made man, and tbe attainment of his present position is the result of his own indefatigable eflorts, prosecuted often under the most adverse circumstances.

His knowledge of patent law and mechanical devices is prodigious, and be figured with especial prominence during the recent patent litigations before the court. I called upon him at his residence on 1 street last night, and he stopped from bis legal tasks in tbe midst of a pile of law volumes to give me his views. Said he: "Although either of the measures before Congress would relieve the surplus business before the court, I would draw up a measure different from either of them if the matter were in my charge. The members of the court feel oppressed with the enormous quantity of cases before the tribunal TEULY A SLAVE'S LIFE. "I am up at 6 o'clock in the morning and do an hour's work before breakfast, after which I go directly back to work again and continue at it until I go to the court.

After it has adjourned for the day the opinions are to be written, and I am here in this library continuously after dinner umil midnight. It is a slave's life. The public has very little idea of the slavery of a judge's life. Sitting in open court, as you see, is not halt the job. "If the court were divided into three branches," continued Judge Bradley, "three justices would bave to do the entire work of its section, including the writer of opinions, which ts the hardest part of the work It would, of course, facilitate the work, but the judges' labors would be increased even much beyond what they are now.

scheme has ben presented, to my knowledge so far, which is entirely free from objection, but all the justices are of tbe unanimous opinion that some expedient should be adopted to afford relief. A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION. "There is a difference of opinion as to the constitutionality of any measure to divide up the court for facilitating its business and tbe Constitution says there shall be one Supreme Court only. Tbe highest courts in England and France, however, are divided up into a number of courts. Tbe English High Court of Justice, for instance, is divided into a dozen branches whers equity, criminal, ecclesiastical, admiraltv and other cases are tried separately, aud the English have a court of appeals above and as a pur: of their High Court of Justice, which is their highest tribunal next to the House of Lords.

The Cessation Court of France is divided up into several departments. Justice Brewster, though tbe youngest of the judges, comes fresh from the law and he is Derhaps tbe best representative of the feeling of tbe people as to the backwardness of the business before tbe court. Said he: "The condition of the Supreme Court business is an outrage upon tbe people. Cases are not reached tor from three to four years after they are placed upon tbe docket, and the greatest of injustice often results from such delays. I WILL CITE ONLY ONE instance, and that is in life insurance cases.

A man Insures his life with the idea that if he is cut oil his insurance money will pay for the support of his wife and the education of his children. He insures, we say, for 56,000 in two or three companies. He then goes on with his ork, satisfied that his children are provided for. He dies, and for some reason or otber the insurance companies refuse to pay the money. Suit is brought and decided in favor of the deceased.

Tbe case is appealed by the rich corporation. It comes before our court, and it takes four years for us to reach it. Bytbe time it Is settled tbe children who were to be educated by this money nave grown up and the wife, it may be, has lived in tbe most destitute of circumstances. The lawyers throughout tbe country are interested in tbe question, and it is a question which ought to be settled by tbe present Congress. This is the long session of Congress, and it is the first session lifter tbe 1'resideutal election, when there usually is much business and little politics.

I have thought over the matter for years, aud the opinion I have is not tbe result of the short time I have spent in Washington on the bench. My opinion is one which I hold in common with the other Justices. PAITn IN INTEBMEDIATE COUETS. I believe there should be intermediate ap pellate courts," continued Judge Brewer, "in each of the districts, to decide all cases of a limited amount, their decision being subject to appeal when the sums involved exceed that amount, or when great questions or great points of law are involved. For instance, it such courts had the settlement or all cases of 10,000 and under, the burden taken from the court would be immense, and in addition to this, if it were possible.

I would like to see. and I think many oi tne oincriusuu ie iu iavur ui it, an intermediate Court of Appeals for the United States to sit upon patent cases here at Washington. As It is, one-fourth to one-firth of our business is made up of patent cases." "What should be the nature of these intermediate courts?" I asked. 'Such courts," replied Justice Brewer, "could easily be constituted. We have now two classes of District Courts tbe District Court proper, which tries only criminal cases, and tbe Circuit Court, which tries civil cases.

CIKCUIT COUBTS FOE APPEALS. "It might be arranged to have the District Courts made trial courts for both classes of cases, and the Circuit Courts made courts of appeal. Two Judges would need to be added to each Circuit Court, making tho number three. This would not materially increase tbe expenses of our judicial system, and it would, I think, so reduce the volume of the business that we could manace it." Justice Lamar was recovering from an attack of the grip when called upon, and his voice was so hoarse tbat he coula hardly speak. He told me that there was no doubt of tbe immediate necessity of the court being relieved, and be thought that a division ot the court into sections, which should pass upon certain cases, would be of no avail, as these cases would bave again to be passed upon by the whole Scourt, and allowing them to be decided without being so passed upon, he said, he considered unconstitutional, and he seemed to favor tbe Davis bill, and believed that there should be some kind of an Intermediate appellate court or courts.

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Crnthers West Newton Etta E. Smith Pittsburg Henry Jenkins Allegheny Annie Hilton Allegheny Kranx Sohteskl Franclska Kopps Pittsburg Patrick Dougherty Katie A. Sheehan Pittsburg Samuel Davidson Ellen Dunbar Pittsburg James A. Boyle LanraE. Welsh Pittsburg Daniel Burton Mifflin township Maggie Burknart Pittsburg TTiva isiiiis Allegheny Dessle B.

Davis Pittsburg Edward Powell Emma A. Jackson McKeesport Monroe Graves Sarah E. Johnson Pituburg Edwin D. Jordan May A. Johnson Allegheny (E( IE "Why take disgusting drngs when a few doses of Dr.

Bull's Cough Syrup will cure yon? DIED. ANDERSON On Sunday, February SL at 6 A. at his residence, Anderson. W. Va, Thomas Andeeson.

in his 80th year. Funeral from his late residence, Febbuakt 2 BRUGGEMAN On Monday. February 1890. at 1 o'clock r. at her residence.

No. 23 Avery street. Allegheny, Maria Makgbetha, wife of H. H. Bruggeman.

in the 74th year of ber age. Funeral from tho German Lutheran Church, on the corner of Middle street and North avenne. Allep-henv Citv. on THURSDAY. Feb ruary 6, at 130 P.

m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. 3 v. Sabbath. Feb ruary 2, at his residence.

No. 81 Esplanade street. Allegheny, WILLIAM CniSHOLM, in the 59th year of his age. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services at 2 P. Wednesday, Februarys.

COOK On Mondav. February 3. 1890, at 7:15 P. 8AKAn E. COOK, in tbe tb year of ber age.

at the residence of her aunt, A. M. Ware, 249 Sandusky street, Allegheny. Funeral on Wednesday, at 2 p. m.

Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. CBAIG-On Sunday, February 2. at 11.20 P. at his residence, Harrett street. Beltzhoorer borough, William Cbaio.

in his 42d year. Funeral from bis late residence, Beltxhoover borough, February 4, at 2 p. M. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. DAVIS On Sabbath morning, February 2, 1S90.

at his residence, Gleuwood, Thomas YV. Davis, aged 55 years. Funeral services at the chapel of H. Sampson, 75 Sixth avenue, on Tuesdaymoenino at 10 o'clock. Interment at Unlondale Cemetery.

2 DEPP On Monday, Februarys, at 3.15 A. Martin Depp, in the 58th year of his age. Funeral on Wednesday mobnino, February 5, at a30, from his late residence. No. 72 Adams street, Allegheny.

Requiem to be held at St. Joseph's Church, corner of Fulton and Franklin street at 9 o'clock. Friends of the family respectfully invited to attend. DUGAN-On Sunday. February 2, 1S90, at 6 p.

Peteb, husband of the late Eliza Dugan, aged 65 years. Funeral from his late residence. Solar street, between Forbes and Fifth avenues, on Wednesday morning, February 5, at 830. Requiem High Mass at St. Agnes' R.

C. Church, Soho. at 9 A. m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.

2 Indiana (Pa.) Dapers please copy. HULTON At Hulton. at 6 o'clock Monday evening, Ida Stewaet, wife of John Hulton. Funeral notice hereafter. HOLT On Sunday, February 2, 1890, at 6.30 a.

jl, Elizabeth, relict of the late Amos Holt, in tbe 49th year of her age. Funeral services at her late home. No. 6202 "Walnut avenue, Twontieth ward, on Tuesday, the 4th at 2 p. St, Interment private.

2 HOWARD On Sunday. February 2. 1890, at 9 p. Herman A. Howard, aged 42 years.

Funeral from his late residence, 3604 Butler street, on Tuesday at 3 p. m. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. Members of the O. U.

A. W. are requested to attend the funeral. Philadelphia papers please copy. HEBRON On 2, 1S90, at 8 p.

Mrs. Margaret Hereon, in the 99th year of her age. Funeral from the residence of her son-in-law, Hugh Roney, 43 Anderson street, Allegheny, on Wednesday morning, to proceed to St. Peter's Pro-Cathedral, where requiem bigb mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock. Friends of the family are respectfully Invited to attend.

2 IRWIN On Monday evening at 650. Maey J. Irwin, in the 72d year of her age, at the residence of Thomas S. Stewart, Stewart station. Funeral notice hereafter.

IRWIN On Monday, February 3, 1890. at 9.30 A. Mary Ethel, daughter of Joseph N. and Margaret Irwin, aged 2 years and 9 months. Funeral services at the residence of ber parents, Vespucius street, Gleuwood, on Wednesday, the 6th at 9 o'clock.

Interment private. Blairsvillc, papers please copy. JONES At Milwaukee. on Sunday, February 2, at 8 o'clock p. it, Melzina L.

Jones, younger sister ot Mrs. James M. Christy. MCCARTHY On Monday, February 3, 1890, at 5 a. Dennis McCabthy.

aged 24 years. Funeral will take place from the residence of his sister, Mrs. Quinn, on Thirty-third street, on Wednesday horning at 830. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. 2 McDONOUGH On Monday, Februarv 3, at Mercy Hospital, Michael McDonough, in the 22nd year of bis age.

Funeral will take place from bis aunt's residence, Mrs. Connors, No. 23 Second street, on Wednesday. Februarys, at 8 o'clock a. m.

Friends of deceased and also members of No. 2 Division, A. O. IL, are respectfully invited to attend. 2 McELHERREN On Sunday, February 2.

1890, at 3.30 p. Mrs. Jane Hodgson McElhebben, in tbe 59th year of her age. Funeral from the residence of ber daughter, Mrs. Strasser, on River road, near Chartlers.

Services Tuesday at 12. Funeral private at a later hour. McGINTY At the parents' residence, Tweut) -sixth street, Southside, on Monday, February 3, 1890, at 11:30 p. Thomas, son of 13. A.

and Catherine McUinty, in tbe 20th year of his age. Notice of funeral hereafter. NEUFFER On Sunday evening, February 2, 1890, Mrs. AMALIA NEUFFER, widow of the late G. A.

Neuffer, aged 6S years. Funeral services will be held at the residence of ber daughter, Mrs. Selma Moldenhaur, 4558 Peun avenue, on Wednesday at 10 A. M. Interment private.

PARSONS OnSunday, February 2, Axfbed J. Parsons. Funeral services at his late residence, Ingram, on Tuesday, 4th on arrival of train leaving Union station at 1:05 p. Eastern standard time (no stop at Fourth avenue station). Friends are invited to attend.

Tbe request is made tnat no flowers be sent. Interment private. 8CHMITT On Sunday, February 2, 1890, at 11:30 p.m., at his residence, 2715 Jane street, Soutbside, Stephen Schmitt, in his 60th year. Funeral Wednesday morning at 9 o'clock from St. Peter's R.

C. Church. The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend. 2 WALTHER On Monday morning at 9 o'clock, Louis Waltheb, In the 30th year of his age, son of Herronimus and Johanna wanner. Funeral will take place on Wednesday mobnino at 8 o'clock from the residence, No.

US Freeland street. Thirty-first ward. Tben will proceed to St. George Church for requiem mass. Friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend.

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DANZIGER'S THE MONEY SAVING STORES FOR. THE PEOPLE. -00- SPECIAL and IMPORTANT to every man in the two cities. A startling; bargain sale of the FAMOUS Quaker City Shirts (of Philadelphia). 3,500 of these grand custom made Shirts now on sale, Big men will find just what "they want right here, as the sizes run up to iSj4 inches.

Come quickly if you want them, as the quantities are limited. The maker's price on these popular Shirts is from $18 to $27 per dozen. We offer you your choice of the entire lot at 75c EACH. 75c EACH. Our grand Bargain Sale of Ladies' Fine Aprons is creating wide spread attention.

We offer 500 dozen fine Cambric and Swiss Aprons; over T5 neat and pretty designs to select from and usually sold at 35c and 50c each; your choice 24c each. Also 500 dozen elegant embroidered Aprons; 20 new and pretty designs to select from, and goods usually sold at 75c and $1 each; your choice 49c each. CONTINUED. Our special sale of Ladies' Muslin Underwear, Embroideries and Torchon Laces. Exceptional values at our world famed popular low prices.

DANZIGER'S POPULAR STORES, Sixth Street and Penn Ave. fe2 AS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED We now again call your attention to the fact tbat oar SPRING ASSORTMENT OP NEW EMBROIDERIES, WHITE GOODS, LACES, DRESS DRAPERY NETS, VEILINGS, Etc, Are now open. In the line of EMBROIDERIES we have all the new ideas in very fine Baby Edgings with Inserting to match; Hemstitched and Pointed Patterns in entirely new effects in Edgings and Wide Skirt Elouncings in many new ideas never before shown in the war of plaitings; plain and hidden hemstitching. In the line of LACES we have an elegant assortment of Torchons, in fine edgings with inserting! to match, also Torchon and Me-'dicis to skirt flouncing widths. In WHITE GOODS, a choice line of apron widths, fancy Checks, Stripes and Plaids, also a full line of all staple goods, Nainsooks.

Soft Finish Cambrics, Loos-dale Cambric, Berkley Cambric, French Nainsook or Paris Muslin in tbe light and medium weights, India Linens, Victoria Lawns, Persian Lawns, Linen Lawns, Striped and Plaid Indian Dimities, French Batiste, a very nice soft finish material; Sea Island Nainsooks. All the newest ideas in Plain and Hemstitched and Tucked Reverie Muslins, also a special line of Nainsook In-sertings for tbe fronts ot children's dresses and waists. All the newest ideas in Face Veilings in Plain and Spotted Nets. A beautiful line of Black Striped and Figured Dress Drapery Nets ranging from $1 to $4 per yard. We will be pleased to send a line of samples of anv to ont-oi-town customers if they will so indicate to us.

SPECIAL. We have opened another large lot of those popular selling styles of Ladies' Corset Covers with and'ronnd shaped necks, ranging from 25o to $1 SO. Also a large lot of new fine Hand-Embroidered' Convent-made Undergarments. Our sale in this department during, the month of January has been so successlal aud the lines of goods so highly appreciated by our lady customers that we will continue this sale during the month of February, or at least part of it. All tne 25c to $1 goods yon will find on ihe Center Ribbon CountTS, and the finer goods in tbe back part of tbe store.

HORNE WARD, 41 FIFTH AVE. lei DON'T READ You might proflt by ltl 1 1 DR. 0. 8. 8COTT, 621 Penn can cure without pain the worst cases of ulceration In two or three treatments; other dentists require two or three months.

Uest vulcanite sets of teeth. IS. Best work in the city. No pain in extracting. Only office where mineral base is made.

Oldest established office In the two cities. The only place where Scott's absolutely safe Anaesthetic is administered. feJ-70-TTSSn THE AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Philadelphia. Total Assets, January 18ST e.301,858 69 EDWARDS Ag'ts, QO FOURTH Pittsburs F. 3fc Telephone 76a ja23-41-TT8 JAS.

MNEIL BOILERS. PLATE AND BHEET-IRON WORK. PATENT BHKET IRON ANNEALING BOXES. With an Increased capacity and hydntoUa machinery we are prepared to famish all work In oar line cheaper and better than by the old methods. Repairing al general machine work.

Twenty-ninth rtieS Allegheny Vai. ley Railroad, KEW ADYXRTTSEMESTS; OUR STOCKTAKING DONE ANiJ NOW Grand Wind-Up of the Season. We have commenced the clearing out of our winter stock in order to make room for the arrival of New Spring Goods which will begin to pour in rapidly in a very short time. And we shall want every inch of room we can get. From now on all our energies will be concentrated on one object that of clearing out every winter-weight article and garment in our whole store.

With this object in view we have still further reduced prices to such a phenomenal degree that we expect our goods to FLIT OUT OF OUR HOUSE LIKE A FLOCK OF FRIGHTENED BIRDS Nothing wrong with the goods in question; they are in the best of condition; they are the best the market offered when laying in our winter stock. You can wear and use them at once, or lay them away for another winter with confidence and satisfaction and with the knowledge that you have secured choice, desirable, dependable goods at bargain prices. We expect a tidal wave of close buyers and people who know a good thing when they see it to fill our big store from now on and tackle the princely bargains we shall offer with a vieor which will plainly say, "We have come for some of the good things you offer, and we're going to have 'em" And that's what you'll do, sure. TURN THIS OVER IN YOUR MIND! YOU WANT Gcl reliable Clothing, Hats, Furnishing Goods and Footwear at what you know are bargain prices; where will you be most likely Jo find them? If you want fresh water the place to seek it is where it is running constantly, not where it dribbles sluggishly away. If you want good goods, then, you should seek them where the current of business runs fast, so that goods don't have time to grow stale.

If you want to buy at lowest figures the best place to buy is where the most business is done (this is at Gusky's), for as a bank can always loan a large sum of money at a lower rate of interest that a small sum, so a merchant, who makes large sales, can sell at a smaller percentage of profit than the firm whose sales are few and small. BE SURE YOU VISIT THIS SALE OF OURS. IMPORTANT NflTIPF Our Annual Distribution of Coal to the de- imrun.Hni nunut. serving poorof Pittsbarg and Ailegheny is now on. Twelve thousand bushels will be distributed in loads of 25 bushels each as under: 280 Loads by the Association for the Improvement of the Poor, Pittsburg.

100 Loads by the Ladles' Relief Society of Allegheny. 50 Loads by the Dorcas Society of Pittsburg. 50 Loads by the United Hebrew Belief Association. Tickets entitling the holders to participate in the distribution will be given out by the officers of the societies named, to whom application must be made. The February number of our "Illustrated Monthly" an 8-page paper full of humorous and laughable sayings now ready and sent free to any address.

Be sure you write for it. GRJS ELY'S LAST AND DEEPEST GUT IB fiMMmMMMS Stock Taking being over, we have ransacked every department and found a surplus stock in many of them, which we intend to disposo of quickly by SLTTG-HITEiRIIDTG- PEIOES. CLOAKS Fine Seal Plush Sacques marked down to 812, 815, 816 60, formerly 820, 825, 830. Jackets, 81 50, 82, 82 50, 83, 84, 85, 86 two-thirds lopped off. Newmarkets, 85, 86, 87 50, 89 75 just half price.

Newmarkets, 812 to 820, reduced from 825 to 8SO. JERSEYS 81, 81 50, 81 75, reduced from 82 50 to 84. Blouses for Misses, 75o, reduced from 81 50. Ladies' Jersey Blouses reduced one-half. RIBBONS 640 pieces pure Silk fancy Ribbons, Nos.

22 to 40, your choice 25o a yard; formerly 62c and 75c. CORSETS Nice, clean goods, 35c, 42o, 50o, 75o and 98o. All marked down. LACE CURTAINS New Lace Curtains, our own importation, 680, 75c, 81, 81 60 to 85. Odd pairs of Lape Curtains at half price.

NEW GOODS Beautiful, well-made Muslin Chemises at 25c, 37c, 60o, 52c, 75o, 8L Night Dresses, 6O0, 75c, 81 to 83. New Skirts, 50o, 75c, 81 to 85. Corset Covers, 16o, I80, 20c, 22c, 25o to 75o. White Goods and Apron Goods, newest designs. New Embroideries, Laces, Lace Flounoings, Draperies and Veilings.

Full lines of Spring Hosiery and Underwear at popular prices. gerjbavm 510, 512 and 514 No, Speculation. Our goods are too solid in quality to admit of sky-rocket talk. Though we don't make a great hurrah over them, the prices are extremely low. It will be a difference of a number of dollars to you if you buy clothing now that you will need within the next two months or early next fall.

Trousers to order, $5, $6 50, $7 and $8. Prices that are without their profit, but we seek your dollars by giving almost twofold value. Wanamaker 8c Brown Sixth street and Fenii aveaie. 1 FOB THE 300 to 400 Market street. lei hWfeg MARKET STREET.

fe4-rrssn THREE OF A KIND HARD TO BEAT. THREE QUALITIES OF UN- LAUNDRIED SHIRTS At 50c or 3 for $1 38. At 75c or 3 for $2 00. At $1 or 3 for $2 88. Nothing to equal them in the two cities.

FLEISHMAN PTTTSBUBa, PA. Mail orders, rewire prompt attention. tft-B j2ftr 4 5.