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have made an i'm
preston upon his
mind, and that i'm
provements in dyna-
mite throwers, tor
| pedoes, projectiles,
and such things
might be made in a
year, or in three
years, that would
n u llify modern
naval science like
wise may or may
mot have occurred
to him. The central
1dea was q grand
navy and around
this seemed to re-
volve such consider
ations as these. To
this end, soon after
his accession to of
fee, he got together
a board Of naval
officers at the de-
partment, with a
Commodore as it's
head, which b e
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12
ongress to rehabilitate

to be adopted by Congress to rehabilitate
the navy. to build great new navy. He
thought that Congress ought to lay out tine
work in this line fifteen or twenty years
ahead, so as to know just what it was going
TO 90.
That one Congress might not want to be
bound by its predecessor may or may not
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OWING to alterations which we arc making
in our warerooms, we are compelled to re-
duce our immense stock of furniture; so if
you are in need of chamber or parlor suit,
or in fact anything in the furniture line, it
will pay you to give US a call
MICHIGAN FURNITURE Co.,
437 Smithfeld street
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Worth Your While

To call at the P. C. G. C. on Monday and
buy q fine suit of clothes for So. Hundreds
of styles light and dark patterns at 50.
Don't miss the chance. Come Monday.
P. C. c. c., Pittsburg Combination Cloth
ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond
streets.
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HAMMOCKS.

Ideas in regard to Hammocks
differ widely, but not more so than
our stock. Here you can find any
kind of a Hammock that's made,
that's any good. It's a large and
growing trade with US, and the
largeness of the stock is even in
advance of the trade.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12
TRACY'S NAVY PLANS
Unccremoniously Knocked in The
Head by Harrison on Order of
Western Republicans.
THE STORY OF A POLICY BOARD
That Wsnted to Expend Three Hundred
Millions in the Construction Of q
New Set Of Ships.
STARTLING FIGURES ON RECRUITS
The Apprentice System Costs Uncle Sam s56o for Every
Man he Gets to Serve.
THE STORY OF A POLICY Bo1RD'
STARTLING FIGURES ON RECRUITS.
The Apprentice System Costs Uncle Sam SGe0 for Every
Man he Gets to Servo
WRITTEN ron TIE p1sPArcH.l

He cost is $500 TO en-
list q seaman in the
United States Navy.
For full three years
service he receives
S576 or SSA less for
three years work
than 1t costs to get
him in. The law al
1900 men to the
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one more on the great lakes, which serves
partly as q cruiser and partly as a receiving
ship fo- recruits; but no account is taken of
rhis vessel The cost of maintaining these
ships for the fiscal year 1890 was as follows.
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Thin SUMMER CLOTHING.

Intense heat is promised in the
near future. This will create in
tense interest in thin clothing.
We are tempering the intensity
for sharp economizers by naming
prices on all kinds of thin goods
which will please you and make
you comfortable for trife.
Full line Of Thin Goats and
Vests for the Office, business or
street wear; also choice selection
of White and Fancy Vests.
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IN SHOES.

Four things may truthfully be
said of our shoe department. Our
stock is the largest, our styles the
latest, our every article is reliable
and our prices never beaten. An
immense assortment Of shoes for
the seaside and mountain for La
dies, Misses, Men and Boys.
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The Policy Boards Proposition.

It proposed the construction of 192 YES
sells of all types, in addition to the new ones
now built, building or authorized, at direct
cost of something like $500, 100000 and an
indirect cost of as many more millions as
Congress might find itself obliged to grant
for ship-building plants and for machinery
| to make great guns and armament.
| The report is reputed to have made the
| Secretary look wise and to scratch his cheek
/ meditatively. He would, of course, like to
| live in history as the father of the new
| navyi but this was going it q little strong.
| He was giving the subject some very serious
thought, when there came unexpectedly from
Congress q rather curt resolution directing
| him to transmit to the Senate 'fhe report
of the so-called Policy Board" Senators
| Chandler, Plumb, Hale and two or three
other Republicans, being seized and pos
| sessed of shrewd political instinct, had be-
come nervous about the much-talked-of
new naval policy, and they wanted to see
what it was. Meanwhile the President had
begun to find out what was going on. The
statesmen from the prairies had remon-
strated with great agitation of manner, and
when General Harrison saw the agitation
and realized the cause he became convinced
that $500, 100000 naval policy, with pos
sibilities that might run it up to $500, ,000,-
900, was not the best possible politics with
the hard-headed yote-throwing toilers of the
interior.
Everybody Ordered to Sing Low.
The outcome was that the ambitious
scheme was incontinently squelched, tip
was given to the Navy Department to sing
small about naval policy In future, and as
many of the printed copies ofthe Executive
document containing the report of the
Policy Board as could be gathered in were
quietly destroyed.
The Secretary had come to see the subject
in so different light from the golden dawn
of eight or nine months before that he wrote
TO the Senate, when transmitting tL, report,
that over and above small number of YES
sells to meet the immediate naval crisis, the
question of a greater navy might wisely
wait" until some future tima. 1t is there
fore manifest that the paternity of the
grand new American navy will not be sworn
upon Mr. Tracy, however praiseworthy may
have been his intentions.
But the strange thing of the whole busi-
ness was that neither the expert Policy
Board nor the Secretary himself, when
figuring on the cost of the ideal navy
thought to put in estimates for the expense
of 80 or 40 more recruiting ships to get in
men for the grand feet. If it now takes II
of the biggest ships of the navy at a cost of
81, $50, 900 a year to drum up enough lands |
men to work 80 small ships, the conum- |
drum might naturally have arisen, how
many recruiting ships would be required, |
and what would be the cost, to supply sea- |
men for the AZ great battle ships and Scruis- |
ers, ranging from {, 900 to 10000 tons, and
for the GA smaller, yet large and powerful, |
cruisers and harbor defense vessels that are
either now authorized or are proposed in
the policy scheme.
Things They Did Not Think OF
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called policy The Novelty Wears OF.
board" This turned out to be very res
markable body. 1t was dead set from the
start for big policy, and after six months,
of deiberation it made report containing
more of it to the square inch than Politi-'
cal platform
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

IRON CITY BEER builds up trade wher-
ever placed on. ales-Telephone, 11S6.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

AS A summer drink Iron City Beer
stands first. Telephone, 1166.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

tention of Him who had come to save a
| world, Christ found time and interest to
| care for the bodily needs of His followers.
He felt that holiness of holidays was a
part of his religion.
There was nothing especially knew in
that. God Himself setting down ten rules
for the well-being of the race, set down
among them one rule about holiday. He
occupied tenth part Of His revelation and
provision for mans rest. And rest
awhile, that is one of his commandments.
You know that that fourth commandment
has ir, 1T ro.-i-o about church-going, moth
ing about whctvt commonly call religion.
,Aoep a noly-.ay, it says, but the adjective
means separate, reserved-set apart day;
that is the meaning of it. Every week set
apart one day for rest. You know how in
the version of the commandment given in
Deuteronomy that idea of rest is repeated
and emphasized. The Hebrews are re-
minded of those old weary days Of
slavery. You were slaves, the command
ment said You know what it isto be tired.
Now you areyour own masters and I want
YOU to rest, Ono day every week stop
work, And give holiday also to all the
men, and all the women, and all the cattle
that labor for you. Out Of every seven
days, one day for rest.
Working on Sunday.
Now, that sets the minimum Of the
righteous mans rest. That counts off the,
number of days in a Christian workings
week. And I want to say, as a Christian'
minister, that every employer of labor whod
WORKS his men more than six days in sweeks
breaks the commandment of Almighty Cod
am well aware that there are certain in
dustries that must go on, Sunday OF. no Sum
day. I do not believe that such q thing 10
possible, or even desirable, as a total stop
ping of Sunday work. The gripman and
the milkman and the minister cannot well
get rest on Sunday. Well then; on some
other day. That is the best day; but six
from seven will leave one all the same,
though the one be Saturday or Tuesday.
God who gave the commandments claims for
His tired children one day out of the seven
what the Master said. Out of every week
some Sabbath day God made for man. The
Sabbath was made for the men in your mill.
The Sabbath was made for the men in your
store. The Sabbath was name for the women
in your kitchen. Remember that there are
six days only In o Christian working week.
If you require seven, one is stolen. Surely
there can be such an arrangement of work
in every righteous mans business that every
man in his employ can get off one day every
week. Fifty-twoe rest days every year be-
long, by simple right, to every child of God
And every man who carries his Christianity
out of church with him into his business
will make it matter of conscience that the
number be complete. Remember that thou
keep holy the Sabbath day; six days shalt
thou labor and do all thou hast to do, but the
seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy
God.
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IN NECKWEAR.

The bargain of the hour is a
very fine line of Flowing End
Scarfs at "a cents, which would
be considered a bargain in other
stores at 50 cents.
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TRAVELLING COMFORT

Is provided by US at small cost.
Travelling Sets from 69c to
81 SO.
Blacking Sets, in leather cases,
74c and 99c.
If you contemplate a trip, see
our line of Imitation Alligator
Satchels from 74c to 81 4o.
Trunks of every size and style
at money-saving prices to the
buyer.
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Sharing the Summer Vacation.

For it happens sometimes-yes, great
deal of the time-that those who need the
country most are the least able to get a
glimpse at it. 1t is not out of the courts
and alleys, nor out of the fourth-stories Of
the tenement houses, that the summer
tourists come But that is where the people
live who need the sight of the hills and the
smell of the sea. And a vicarious vacation
will mean a part of your vacation shared
with them Don't go off and forget the
weary mothers and sick babies who can't go.
Don't be content to take vacation without
helping also to give a vacation.
There might easily be more Of this vica-
rious vacation, of this fraternal, this Chris
tian holiday, than there is. The Society
for the improvement of the Poor sends so
poor women and little children every two
weeks, for a fortnight's rest and change, to
their summer home at Oakmont. If no
other way of sharing your vacation seems
better to you, this is good way: Send five
dollars to this excellent society to help in
this Christian work.
Come ye, yourselves apart, into some
country place and rest awhile, Christ said.
Let us do more than listen; let us repeat
that gracious and fraternal invitation.
GEORGE HODGES
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The Obligation of Employers.

This much, howeyer,is an obligation. The
pChristian employer of labor, 1t seems to me,
will do this, and more than this. Because
the principle on which the Christian lives is
that he shall love his neighbor as himself
And anybody who loves his neighbor as
himself wants his neighbor not only to have
some time to rest, but to have some time
for the pleasures Of life. People must have
rest, or else they can't do your work for
you. 1t is in your own interest to have
them stop work one day in seven; they will
do more work the other six. But the
Christian employer is not occupied entirely
in getting all the work he can out of his
men. For these men are not machines, nor
"hands" only; they are men and brothers.
And the genuine Christian loves his
brother. He wants to better his brother.
He wants to make his brothers life happier.
There is no Christian man named Gain.
go on, accordingly, to certain applica--
tions of the Christian principle Of the holi-
ness of holidays which would bring
still more leisure into human life than
is provided for by one whole Sunday every
week.
lam not prepared to say much about the
number of hours in the working-day. I
suppose that the time will come when it
will be possible to mako eight hours the
standard. And it seems to me that every
body ought to want that time to come. Be-
cause that will mean that the workingman
has chance to do something besides work.
After al, we were not made to spend
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OUTING SHIRTS.

For someth ing really tony, look
at line of All-Silk Negligee Shirts,
reduced from s. 50 to 81 63.
Our 81 IS line of elegant silk
striped Negligee are down now to
81 "a. It's no mean repast of
cheap goods to which we ask your
attention, but regular goods at
most irregular prices.
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Stores Seem to Keep Open

on this side of the ocean. But we can
remedy that if we will. 1t is certain that
there can be no selling if there is no buying.
The only reason for keeping tired clerks
away from the green parks is that they may
wait on customers. The shops will close
quick enough if the shopkeepers are making
no money. And so the people have the
matter in their own hands. IF We believe,
as Christ did, in caring for the bodies of
men, if we want everybody who needs q
rest to get at least that much of a rest, you
know that we can make beginning by
keeping Saturday half-holiday ourselves.
Don't buy anything on Saturday afternoon.
A good many reforms need nothing but q
little thoughtfulnessj that is, a little more
applied Christianity. The grocery stores, I
understand, are kept open very late on Sat-
urday for the accommodation of thoughtless
people. So that the grocers' clerks get not
SO much as Saturday evening holiday.
And then they miss church on Sunday.
Finally, I want to say something about
the Christian duty of taking vicarious
vacation. This is now the season
when a good many fortunate people
are beginning, in at least one re-
spect, to initiate the Twelve Apostles;
they are going into the country to "rest
awhile" This is the time to think about
vacation. Now,, why not take a vicarious
vacatian9 By that don't mean, why not
let somebody else take your vacation for
you? But why not get somebody else to
share your vacation with you? Because
you are going, make it possible for some-
body else to go.
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Our Lives in q Treadmill.

The spirit of the Christian religion puts
it into the heart of every Christian en-
ployer to give his men just as much time
for their own use as can be given. Money
is great thing, but good Christian doesn't
care half SO much for money as he does for
men. must say that II hours for a work.
ing day is only another description Of mere
slavery. You might as well propose to buy
man, body and soul I do not understand
how any Christian can be willing, for any
amount of gain, to accept such an utter
sacrifice of his brothers life.
am glad to see an extension of interest
in the Saturday half-holiday. 1t has got
into the Government offices and into the
wholesale houses and into the banks, and I
hope there will be no stopping till it
touches every shop in the whole country.
They have won this reform in England.
Men work "a hours in the week in that en-
terprising country. And no poverty ap-
pears to threaten industry over there. The
whole nation is better for that extra leisure.
Somehow the
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A French Postman,s Adventure.

Very strange is the adventure through
which postman named Boudon has just
passed at Mines, in France, chronicled in a
tered letter to one Faure, a shoemaker, and
was about to leave the house when the man
closed the door, pulled a revolver out of his
pocket and, rushing on Boudon, threw him
down and bound him securely. He then in
formed the terrified postman of his inten-
tion to retain him as a hostage until he had
received divers letters written to him by
the President of the Republic and the Min
lister of Justice in reply to his application
for the restoration of 80 600 francs lost in a
law suit. Faure sent a note to the head of
the Postal Department, explaining how mat
tiers stood, and, while awaiting an answer,
barricaded his apartment. When the police
arrived he called out that he had provision
for a week, two revolvers and plenty of am
munition, and that If they attempted to force
the door he would kill his prisoner. The
situation was extremely awkward. The
affair had become known in the neighbor-
hood, and the adjacent streets were soon
people.
a last attempt to parley with the infuri-
ated shoemaker having proved abOrtive, the
police and gendarmes broke into the place,
fired a few shots to frighten Faure, and sue
ceeded in securely taking him into custody
ere he had time to carry out his threat.
They had great difficulty in conducting him
80 prison, as the crowd wanted to lynch"
him. Faure is described as O monomaniac,
and it appears that when NJ Carnot visited
Mines some time ago he made some curious
preparations in order to attract his atten-
tion, which, however, were but lost la Dor, as
the President passed down another street.
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1t Is q Banner With a History.

When the National Editorial Association
meets in st. Paul there will be flag above
the Presidents chair, q flag with an interest
ing history, says the Chicago Tribune. 1t was
presented to the association by Colonel D.
X. Elliott, General Land Commissioner OF
the Plant system, whose headquarters are at
Sanford, Fla. 1t was handsome flag made
Of the best bunting, and was first unfolded
during the course of the Piedmont Exposi.
ton in Atlanta, Ga, in the fall of 1887. Presi-
dent Cleveland was among the visitors to
the fair, and he made an address under the
flag, and he and Mrs. Cleveland shook hands
with several thousand enthusiastic Southern
admirers with this piece of bunting between
them and the great glass roof. Henry W.
Grady was ruling spirit in the exposition,
and represented the flag to Colonel Elliott
as mark of appreciation for the fine dis
play made by the Plant system.
When Colonel Elliott went to Paris in the
spring of 1889 he took the flag along, and
July 4, with the special permission of NJ.
Eiffel, he carried the flag to the topmost
landing of the great Eiffel tower and un-
furled it to the breeze. No other flag except
the flag of France was allowed on the tower
that day, and it was q special compliment on
the part of the great engineer allowing the
After Colonel Elliott's return to the United
States he had the flag mounted on a new
stick surmounted by the Eiffel tower in
miniature and presented 1t to the National
Editorial Association. He has been ap-
pointed special custodian of the flag and
keeps it in his possession between the meet
lngS OF the association.
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THE FIRST OF THE CIRCUIT.

The trOtting season of 1891 opened yes
terday at HomewOod Park with an inter-
esting display Of speedy horses and excit-
ing contests. As will be seen by the re-
ports in our columns the initial day of the
races furnished abundance of amusement
and excitement, and promises more sue
cessful meeting than has been known at
Homewood for several years.
This meeting will be followed by the
contests at Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester,
Springfield, Hartford and Philadelphia, at
which latter place the circuit season will
close on September 1. Large purses and
good horses viii make these meetings in
teTesting; but the probability is that the
events Of the season will be more in the
line Of developing promising trotters in
the junior classes rather than in record
breaking by the champions of the mile
circle. Maud S has probably made her
last great record; Axtell, the phenomenon
OF two years ago, will not appear this year;
and the only visible hope for lowering the
mile record lies in Sunol, the great Cali
f0Tnia filly But whether she will even
make the attempt this year is for the
seasons events to determine
Nevertheless, the season may be fruitful
Of developments in the line of new horses
who can bring their records into the
charmed circle below the 2:2O or even 2:14.
With the possibility of the rise of new
rivals to the putative record-breakers
already named, the season will have abun-
dant attraction for lovers of the trotting
science
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TERMS OF THE DISPATCH.
PITTsBURG. WEDNESDAY, July Is, lsyl
THE ELECTRIC DECISION.

The decision of the United States Circuit
Court at New York granting an injunc,
ton in favor of the Edison interests, with
regard to the patents for mcandescent
electric lamps, is an event of more than
ordinary Importance. The effect of the
decision so far as can be gathered from the
brief telegraphic abstracts is TO place the
control of the incandescent electric light
ing business in the hands of the Edison in
tereStS.
This, if it went at once into effect, would
work decided change in the business of
electric lighting, and might not be without
a rather severe effect on the local electric
interests. But it is hardly probable that
the decision can be taken as effecting a
prompt suppression of the competitors to
Edison. 1t may be presumed that the
case will go TO the United States Supreme
Court, and that is likely to give further
period of fighting before the case is finally
adjudicated. Before the ultimate decis-
ion is reached, it is more than probable
that the contending interests will conclude
that the most profitable course for both
sides is to adopt the fashionable tactics
and combine their interests.
1t is to be recognized, however, that if
such a consolidation is attained, the pres
tige which the Edison interests will secure
from Judge Wallace's ruling and a similar
decision in Canada will give it big ad-
vantage in the negotiations for union.