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direction. She descended the wide steps where the carven stone balustrades with their urns of flowers arose on either side of her, and stood on the lower platform and looked about her. Before her played the fountain, crowned by the substan- tial young person with wings who does duty as an angel. Beyond that lay the lake, it's boats at rest, it's boatmen gone home No one sat in the seats under the gay awning With every moment the shadows grew grayer, the masses of foli- age more indistinct, but Maisie kept on her way down the second flight of steps, across the broad, smooth space between them and the fountain down to the edge I of the lake On one of the benches fac ing it she sat down.
 Fl am vewy tired" she said to herself.
 "I wonder why am so tired. l must west. do not want to be worn out and ugly when Woy comes home to mawwy me. Dear Woy. do not blame him. Oh, no. When woman like that chooses she can always beguile a man, like the mewmaids. Woy is on the sea, but there are no mewmaids that sing upon any weeks as bad as Eugenie. Woyi Woyl Oh, my dawling Woy! You are mine, mine only at lastl"
 Then she sat down on the margin of the lake and fell asleep there, and slept for hours. The confusion of her brain was greater when she awoke than 1t had been.
 A kind face arose before her-Mrs. Bunny's. She could not remember whose C1, 1,a she said. "Whoi is she? can't welnem- Der her name. It is warm where she is, and am cold, very cold. Who is she? It cant be my mother; never had one. Oh, am so cold!" She arose to her feet with vague desire to go home, but she could not remember anything, not even where she was. She began to cry and moan, feeling about ill the darkness and running against the bushes. Tho thorns pierced her flesh Her claws shall grow lang" Maisie muttered. groping forward. Something pressed against her feet; she saw dark object that uttered d low miaoul. The black cat, set free in the great park, had made it's way to the lake, hungry once more, and discerning the presence of a human being-the sort of creature ITOIu WHO'LL lC WAS dCCtlStOLueO to expect food-strove to attract notice, then receiving no attention lifted it's voice In that agonizing and incisive cry with which it's kind are wont to express the constant starvation from which they seem to suffer.
 Poor, bewildered Maisie, wrapped in her delirious fancies. believed that she heard threat of vengeance. and fled wildly through the darkness-the rul- ing passion strong in madness as in death
 "It is Eugeniel She will tear me to piecesl Help! help! help!' she screamed. Her feet stumbled among the little rocks and punches of grass and sunk into soft sand; then the ground seemed to give way beneath her feet, Without knowing it she had walked into the water.
 "Helpr' she cried. Help! helpl helpT
 They heard her afar off Lanterns glealned, shouts were uttered. men flew to the spot, but long ere they reached it the waters had closed over poor Maisie's head for the last time. and they saw only black cat, which sat beside the lake shrieking like q banshee
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MISS ASHTON.
By MARY KYLE DALLAS.
CHAPTER V.

Copyright, 1891. by American Press Associa-
 tion.l
 a CHAPTER V.
 Eugenie sat in Mrs. Morgan's pew il, St. Joan's listening to the organ and thinking of home and Herr Schelling when lady tiptoed up the aisle, and 2 rustic of silk, a flutter of ribbon, toss of plumes and tinkle of bracelets ceased at her elbow, and she looked up to see Maisie and moved back to allow her to enter.
 Maisie's eyes were gleaming and she had red spot on either cheek. She had come thither to try the witch's spell on Eugenie-the green powder which she had mixed in certain candy balls now in her pocket.
 Again and again the old woman had reiterated the statement that it would rob her rival of all her power, that her face would no longer be fair nor her voice the voice of a siren, and that this being done Maisie would find her lover at her side again.
 Whether the old negroes believed this, WHO CsH say, Uut O NAoaAoAo u "tAS " AOF0- lation. She had no doubt whatever, no doubt and no remorse. "Woy was mine, mine, mine," she said to herself. s'I had wight to him, She came like a wobber to steal him fwom me- It is as if 1 took the pistol fwom burglar when take her beauty and her song." Meanwhile she chat tered in whisper, lest Eugenie should suspect something from her silence.
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CHAPTER VI
"Pussy," Matste catled s0ftly.

EhSSy MN1Sle cGteu SOTUy.
 The next morning at breakfast time the Bunnys found Maisie also missing
 "Gone to inquire about Miss Eugenie, 1 suppose" said Mrs. Bunny. II hope she'll bring good news"
 . But Maisie had betaken herself to Mime. Pinchon's, and finding that oracle's apartments empty and all her goods and chattels vanished, and receiving of her neighbors only such information as was conveyed in the remark, "Good riddance of bad rubbish, we all say," had begun to wander about the city. Where she went or why, except that she had some wild idea of meeting Roy Clifford and finding him all her own again, Mow that Eugenie's Vaccinations were at an end, she could not have said, when at three o'clock in the afternoon she heard the bell of St. .4Joans and found herself approaching it's entrance. There was 8 crowd about the step, an excited, surg ing crowd, and as she joined it the sex ton, bareheaded and with his white hair floating behind him on the wind, came down the street followed by two police men. Pushing past the people they en- tered the church. closing the doors be- hind them.
 "Who is itY' asked lady standing near Maisie
 ''That beautiful niece of Mrs. Nor gan; that musical Miss Ashton" re- piled the other. They have been look ing for her all night MT. Smith found her lying dead in her pew. Such a sweet girl"
 "What nonsense! She can't be deadr said Maisie shri1ly.
 ''I can't believe it." said the lady. bursting into tears.
 And now the doors opened, the crowd drew back at the command of the po- feemen who preceded those who bore a bier covered by black cloth. Treading slowly, together they passed down the street and out of sight. ...-.
 Some of the ladies entered the church, others walked away; others still. mostly boys and the riffraf gathered in city streets by every excitement, were driven of by the sexton and third DO liceman, who afterward took his place on the church step. ....
 "Will you go in. madamey' this latter
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A GooD-LooKING FACE we like to see. Yet Erysipelas disfigures the features and the disease is as dangerous as it is repulsive. It is sometimes called "St. Anthony's Fire" and often ends in sudden death. s. B. Carpenter, Grandville, N. Y., had it in both legs, and was cured by Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, N. Y. This medicine excels all others for the blood.
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A HUSBANDS MIsTAKE.-Husbands too often permit wives, and parents their chill dren, to suffer from headache, dizziness, neuralgia, sleeplessness, fits, nervousness, when by the use of Dr. Miles Restora- tive Nervine such serious results could easily be prevented. Druggists every where say it gives universal satisfaction, and has an immense sale. Woodwork X Co.,, of Fort Wayne, Ind; Snow & Co.,, of Syracuse, N. Y.; J. c. Wolf, Hills dale, Mich. and hundreds of others say it is the greatest seller they ever knew" It contains no opiates. Trial bottle and fine book on Nervous Diseases, free at w. D. Heald's.
 1 have not used all of one bottle yet. suffered from catarrh for twelve years, experiencing the nauseating dropping in the throat peculiar to that disease, and nose bleed almost daily. 1 tried various remedies without benefit until last April, when l saw Ely's Cream Balm advertised in the Boston Budget, 1 procured bot tie, and since the first days use have had no more bleeding-the soreness is entire ly gone.-D. G. Davidson, with. .the Bos- ton Budget formerly with Boston Journal.
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BE YOUR OwN DoCTOR.-It won't cost you one-half as much. Do not delay. Send three two-cent stamps for postage, and we will send you Dr. Kaufmann's great work, fine colored plates from life, on disease, it's causes and home cure. Address, A. P. Ordway & Co.,, Boston, Mass.
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Life: He (to Boston girD-You are "up' on geology. Can you tell me what kind of rocks these are we are sitting on Boston girl-To the unengaged they are trap; to the engaged they are gneiss.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05

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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
TEMPERANCE REVIVAL SUCCEEDS.
Big Audiences and Good Receptions Greet
the Speakers.


Big Audiences and Good Receptions Greet
the Speakers
The temperance meeting at the Standard
Theater last evening was a success in every
sense of the word. Nearly every seat was
occupied. Captain Barbour presided and
opened the proceedings, being followed by
Mr.. Boggs, of Williamsburg. Mr.. Dunn
then addressed the audience in stirring
terms. When the pledge lists were opened
over $50 signers were secured. The greater
number of these were young men under 20
years of age. During the evening $40 were
subscribed toward the temperance campaign.
In tine afternoon Messrs. Dunn, Gilbert, Nc
Masters, Boggs and Captain Barbour went
to Braddock, where they held a successful
revival in the rink.
A temperance campaign has been started
in Allegheny under the direction of John
w. Moreland. Mr. Moreland held an over
whelming meeting last evening in the "Lit-
tie Jim" Church, Rebecca street. Beside
Mr.. Moreland. Messrs. William Caskey, W.
j. Herr and w. Blackstone addressed the
audience. Over % signers to the temper
ance pledge were obtained.
The Sons of Temperance held an old-time
revival at 68 Ohio street, Allegheny, last
night. Lawrence Mooney presided and ad-
dresses were made by W. Kirke, w. f.
Wicker. j. Cooper and Edward Carlisle.
The hall was crowded.
Fully 300 people assembled in Moor
head Hall, Grant street, last night,
where the N. G. 7. ". held a
temperance meeting. W. j. Pourell, j. X.
Marsh, r. H. Jones and others addressed
the meeting, and fully 60 men stepped up to
the platform and signed the pledge.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
PLEASED WITH THE PROSPECTS.
Director Bumstead Says the Local Electric
Company Is All Right

Director Bumstead Says the Local Electric
Company Is All Right.
n. Willis Bumstead, of Boston, registered
at the Anderson last evening. He is a
directo. of the Westinghouse Electric
Company, and a special meeting will
be held to-day Mr.. Bumstead declined to
say what would be done, but he said the
their affairs are in a good condition. He
claims there is no possibility of failure un-
less something has occurred within the last
"a hours with which he is not acquainted.
He says the outlook is bright, and all inter-
ested are much encouraged.
Mr.. Bumstead is a director of the Monon
road. He thinks the combination for the
Western roads outlined at the recent presi-
dents meeting is the most comprehensive
ever made, and he sees no reason why it
should not prove successful. if adopted.
The aim is to reduce expenses and es-
tablish uniform rates. 1t will necessi-
tate the reduction of the force of agents,
as fewer men will be needed. So much
business is going on all the time, and m ust
go, and the principal work of the agents is
to take traffic from one road to the other
II the lines could agree and divide the ship
ments it would save all this expense
The weaker lines would have to be cared
for by giving them an arbitrary allowance
Shippers still retain their right to say on
what road they want their freight shipped,
but Mr.. Bumstead says there is always a
certain amount of traffic to be shipped
where the shippers are indifferent to the
line it goes by.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
MINERS APPEAL FOR HELP.
Aid for Those Who Work In Alabama with
| Convict Competition.

Aid for Those Who Work In AIabama with
Convict Competition.
COLUMBUS, Jan. 4-The United Mine
Workers, whose headquarters are in this
city, have issued an appeal to the organized
labor OF the country, approved by the
officers of the American Federation Of
Labor, in behalf OF the coal miners Of
Alabams. The miners of that State in
June last made demand for an advance of
five cents per ton. The appeal saws the
operators refused to meet the miners in con.
vention and they were compelled 10 con.
tinue work till December 1, when the de.
mand was renewed and the operators again
refused to grant the advance. The appeal
concludes.
"The miners of Alabama are worse treated
than those of any other section of the couu.
try. Not only have we to compete with the
curse OF convict labor in our mines, but we
are worse treated than the convicts we are
compelled to work beside, rs they have min
ing laws to see that they are protected in
health and limb, and means of escape by
having two openings to all mines where
they are employed, while the free miners
are practically at the tender mcrcies of the
representatives of corporations and monopo-
lies, the shareholders of which reside in
Great Britain and have only interest in the
mines to the amount OF the dividends they
receive, caring little for the lives or well
faro :. s"vJe employed thereiu."
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
RESCUED FROM THE RIVER.

Boy Svims for Half an Hour in the Alle-
gheny-His Arms Frozen stin-Heroic
Work Of Fireman and a Contractor.
An excited crowd OF men, women and
children gathered at the old Exposition
Park yesterday afternoon. The 15-year-old
son of George cNimery had fallen through
the ice and was in the water for full half
hour. =
With pumber Of other boys young Nc
Nimery had been playing in the park,
which is now flooded by the high river
While running on the ice 1t broke, and the
boy went into the water over head and
hands. The children screamed for help and
soon crowd collected. Meanwhile the boy
was making frantic efforts 10 save himself,
but was only drifting further out. Every
time he tried to raise himself on the ice it
broke. He tried to crawl on some of the
floating cakes. but each one sank under him
and parted. He was told to try resting his
elbows on the ice, but it was too weak to
bear his weight. An attempt was made to
throw u board TO him, but he was too far
out.
By this time Benjamin Thomas, fire.
man, and Lawrence Sloan, a contractor, ar
rived. They threw a rope, but it fell short.
Then the two men jumped into the icy water
and. alter swimming 100 yards, reached the
boy just as he tainted. He was brought
ashore. when it was found his arms and
hands were frozen stiff. Lawrence Sloan
tainted as soon as he reached the bank, and
was unconscious for half an hour.
Dr. John Dickson, who happened to be
there, attended Sloan and the boy and had
them removed to 173 South avenue. 1t was
an hour and a half before the boy recovered
consciousness. He will recover unless
pneumonia results from the exposure Mr..
Sloan was apparently as we'll as usual last
night.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
PEOPLE WHO COME AND GO,

-Ex-U United States Senator Dwight NJ.
Sabin, and Mccormick, the Chicago reap er
manufacturer, were passengers on the Limited
last evening for the West. Senator Sahin SAID
he was out of politics and he had nothing to
say.
DIR. Ray R. Mitchell, a prominent
young physician of Rochester, was in the CITY
yesterday. Dr.'Mitchelrs visits are periodical.
as lie is treating several patients in Allegheny.
The Crystal Slipper Company arrived
from Chicago last evening in special train.
Margaret Mather came in from the East on the
fast line and is stopping At the Schlosser.
Miss Lizzie Nunge. of Wheeling, w.
Va, is the guest of Mrs. John Newman, OF Al
legheny. Miss Nunge is one of Wheelinc's so.
cety bellies.
-Gustave Lindenthal, the engineer. went
ever to New York last evening to look after his
big bridge project across the Hudson river.
Henry Hartman, of Beaver Falls, was
an Eastern passenger last evening. He saws
the outlook for trade Is not any too bright.
Manager David Henderson, of the
Duquesne Theater. came in from New York
last night and stopped at the Schlosser.
Sol. Schoyer, Jr., lett for New York
last evening with his daughter, who was return
ing to school in Brooklyn q
j. d. Caldwell, of Sharon, and John B.
Smithman. of Oil City.ar among the guests at
the Duquesne.
William Shaw and wife, Of Suffers,
and James Dalzell. of Findlay, are az the Ander-
son.
John N. Taylor, pottery maker from
East Liverpool. is at the Monongahela House.
IF. b. Baker, of Cleveland, is at the
Seventh Avenue Hotel
MIR. Ritter, OF Ritter & Conley. went 10
New York last evening.
n. II. Westinghouse left for New York
on the Eastern express.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
PITTsBURG's FAIREsT SIDE
To Be Shown Delegates to the Coming
Press Club Convention.


To Be Shown Delegates to the Coming
Press Club Convention.
Arrangements for the meeting of the In.
ternational Convention of Press Clubs, to
be held in this city, beginning on the 9th
inst, are well under way. The following
gentlemen have been added to the Commit
tee on Arrangements: N. P. Reed, William
Schoyer, W. A. Magee, E. Y. Breck, H. j.
Ford, w. C. Connolly, Jr., C. C. Mooar,
John L. Steele, John N. HazIett, Joseph D.
Weeks. P. F. Smith, c. r. Sutphen. The
convention will be in many respects the
most noteworthy in the city's history, and
the committee will leave no stone unlurned
to show to the visiting journalists Pitts
burg's best side
President Keenan, said last evening,
speaking of the coming convention: "Over
100 delegates are expected to gather at Mu-
nicipal Hall on the morning of the 9th.
They will represent over 30 organizations,
with combined membership of more than
5000 newspaper writer's. These, on an esti-
mate, reach with their pens 80, 000, 600 Of
readers. Many of them know Pittsbury
only by reputation, and not always her best
reputation at that. They forget, if they
ever read. the statistics OF her wonderful re-
sources and gigantic industries, know Moth
ing of her picturesque situation and ever
ready hospitality, and retain lively recol-
lection of her locally forgotten natural gas
explosions, her railroad riots and her fam
Gus smoke. The modern Pittsburg will
be to most of them revelation Of municipal
wealth and progress, and they will reintro-
duce to the reading world the grimv Gin
derella of the past dragged from the faith
fully tended fireplace of her domestic
hearth and resplendent in the gorgeous
Sunday-go-to-meeting duds which a CEN
tury of unremitting toll, Joined to the ad-
vantages OF good business stand and an
occasional good bargain thrown in, has
earned her the right to wear
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LEECHING THE CHINESE.
How the Foreign Merchants Beat the Mon
golians i'm Trade

How the Foreign Merchants Beat the Mon
gOlians i'm Trade.
Frank A. Smith, of Washington, is at the
Monongahela House. He has travelled ex-
tensively, and is well posted on domestic
and foreign trade. In a chat yesterday
about the American commerce relations
with the Chinese, he said: Think of a
nation of $50, 100000 of people, many of
them intelligent, and then figure out what
tkey require. The possibilities of trade with
these people are enormous, but they don t care
TO be robbed. They prefer to do business
with the nations that are not after their ter
ritory. The English, French and Germans
have never failed TO grab slice of the land
when the opportunity presented itself. Not
long since check Tor 100000 was sent to
the Legation at Washington, and an Ea-
glish bank at Hong Kong charged the Gov
ernment 20 per cent, SO that when the
mouey was drawn here the Legation got
only S160, 900. They call this the expense
of exchange, but it is nothing more than
robbery. 1t is awful how these people are
leeched by foreigners.
The Americans are Indifferent to Chinese
trade, and they permit their business men
over there to be in prisons and be subjected
TO other indignities TO drive them away The
French, English and German merchants
watch their business with jealous eye, and
they don't care to see Americans break in
on their soft snap.
The resources of China are good, but it
wouldn't pay the farmer IN the interior to
haul his rice in wagons to the sea shore. 1t
would be eaten up in the cost of transporta-
tion. What China needs is railroads, banks,
etc., and industries will soon spring up.
What an opportunity bright, shrewd men
would have establishing these things for the
Government. The high officials over there
want a small slice of the profits, but that is
considered the proper thing with them"
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LAWS FOR THE FARMERS.
Henry Hall Thinks the Grangers Can Have
What They Want


What They Want
Henry Hall, of Mercer, who was slated
for the Speakership if he had not been de-
feated, was at the Seventh Avenue for a
short time yesterday afternoon. He went to
Harrisburg last evening to attend the open
ing OF the Legislature. He thinks the farm
ers will have considerable influence in the
coming House. The feeling is general that
the disciples of Agricola have not
been receiving their just deserts, and
he thinks there will be disposition to let
them have what they want, provided it is
not unreasonable The Granger and
County Commissioner bills were defeated
by the last House, but MIR. Hall thinks
they will be passed this time. particularly
the latter one.
He says some relief will be afforded in
the way of equalizing taxes. The revenue
bill that was lost provided for the taxation
Of variety of personal property that es-
capped assessment before.
Henry Hartman, of Beaver Falls, who
happened to be present, declared it was
shame to defeat as bright a young man as
Hall when he had such good prospects.
With him the speakership would have gone
to Western Pennsylvania.
William Marshall, of Allegheny, was the
only one of the county delegation who left
for Harrisburg last evening. The others
started on the morning trains, and the CON-
ing and going to the State Capitol for the
next three months has commenced.