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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-05-01

I,ool, at IL. That stone was one of the
rocks rent M the crnoiexion. That heard
ths cry. aft is finished - Was ever any
church on earth honored with such a mo
mortal,
THE MEMORIAL OF SINAI.
Beneath it are two tables Of stone, which
had brought from Mount Sinai where
the law was given. Three camels were
three weeks crossing the desert to fetch
them. When at Cairo. Egypt, I proposed
to the Christian Arab that he bring one
stone from Mount Sinai, be said, 1--WE can
easier bring two rocks than one, for one
/ must balance them on the back of the
camel" and did not think until the day
of their arrival how much more suggestive
would be the two, because the law was
written on two tables of stone. Those
/ stones marked with the words "Mount
Sinai" felt the earthquake that shook he
mountains V hen the law was given. The
lower stone of the wall is from Mars Hill,
the place where Paul stood when he
preached that famous sermon on the broth
crh1od Of the human race, declaring, "God
hath made Of one blood all nations"
since Lord Elrin tool, the famous statu-
NV, frn,, tI, 4 crDnolie tbe bf1l ,di,iniup
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Union Veteran Legion.


CoMRADE J. F. CALDWELL. of No. a has been
visiting his family at New Wilmington, Law.
renee county.
CoMRADE HoGH MORRISON, of No. 6. though
far from being well, being confined to his
home, is on the convalescent list
CoMRADE PERRY, of No. 6. residing near
Castle Shannon, was in the CITY last week on
pension matters He is badly crippled.
QUARrERMAsTER MCCLELLAND,o of No 6,is IN
old granger, and he is going out to his farm
In Butler county this week to see the con-
dition of the fences.
Ex-CoLoNEL COMMANDER G. NJ. GREEN of
No. 6, has got to be quite an oil man. He
talks about belts, lines degrees derricks
sand pumps, ETC., like an old timer.
AT the last meeting of No. a search war
rant was issued for a few comrades who
have been non est for several months The
party serving the warrants will be known as
collector.
SOME of the comrades of No. are consider
ing the propriety of a basket picnic about
the middle Of August. The main questions
take. All this will be settled on soon.
WHETHER the officers of the Soldiers Home
at Erie do right in Withholding so per cent
of all pensions of inmates was ventilated at
the last meeting of No g. and will get some
more airing at the next meeting. The pre-
vailing sentiment is that these pensioners
should not be supported by the State and
United States also.
AMONG the comrades who received pen-
sions last week, reported by j. Il. Stevenson
& Co., are W. W. Alsbock, Company K,
Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania; James s. Phil
lips, Company B, Fourth Pennsylvania Cav
airy: Robert Sirris, Battalion G, Pennsyl-
yania Light Artillery; Leris Fritz, Company
!, Sixty-seventh Pennsylvania; Ed. Kroner,
Company E, One Hundred and Forty
seventh Pennsylvania; Samuel Coulter, Com
pany G, One Hundred and First Pennsyl-
sylvania Heavy Artill ry Volunteers; James
S. Wilson, Company 81, Seventy-eighth Penn
sylvania; William Trimble, Company A, One
Hundred and Thirty fourth Pennsylvania;
Lidge Bradley, Company Z, Eighth United
States Colored Troops.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

The event Of this week. in local Grand
Army circles will be the visit to Rankin
Post No. 127 at Boston, Pa. on Tuesday even
ing. The post will be inspected by Assist
ant Inspector at Large O. M. Head, of Post
259 and detail from the Pittsburg and Alle-
gheny posts will exemplify the muster-in
service. Following is the make up of the
detail:
Commander, A. G. Frank, Post 151: Senior
Vice Commander, I. X. Becker, Post 259;
Junior Vice Commander, A K Oates, Post
Al; Officer of the Day, Frank Calhoun, Post
157; Officer of the Guard, John Brown, Post
Isl; Chaplain, c. r. Shepler, Post 155; Sur
geon, W. H. Hart, Post 8; National staff, W.
o. Russell, Post Isl; National staff. L. s.
Houghton, Post III; Department staff, o. s..
McIlwaine, Post l57: Department staff, Fred
Buechler, Post 12S; Department staff, Thomas
G.. Sample, Post 128; Department staff George
Smith, Post2 2O6; Department staff, Y. s. Rees,
Post T57.
1t is expected that quite number of local
comrades will accompany the detail. All
comrades are invited. Posts 49, McKees-
port; ISL Braddock; 207, Homestead; 1923,
West Elizabeth, and 564, Dravosburg, will
all be well represented. The train from the
city will leave the Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Railroad at 6:25 P. M Post 127, though small
is one of the most active and prosperous in
the department. 1t owns its building at
Boston. The visiting comrades will not be
sent away hungry on Tuesday night as an
adequate collation. will be prepared.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

the RoCTIgUe and Stecred away for MaUrltius.
In three days more there rose from out the
ocean, before our weary eyes, the green and
lovely hills Of that tairest gem On the bosom
of any sea-Mauritius.
1t is queer place, this Port Lotus, the
capital. Nestled in the lap of lofty mount
airs, towering, Handicapped on every side,
1t sleeps in hot and lazy peace. Yellow,
green blind houses glare in the tropical sun
ut one another across narrow and crooked
streets. Dusty statues Of long since dead
French dignitaries stand mutely protecting
here and there bronze fountains, long since
dry, with dusty mermaids gazing down at
dusty basins il the parks long rows of
tumble down vehicles of every shape and
make in the public squares; now and then a
lofty, pretentious building with many peo-
pie coming in aad out-sugar warehouses;
occasionally little hustle on the wharves,
where some new arrival "hauls in, and
with much shouting and profanity in all
manner of languages, is finally lashed to her
sisters at the docks. But above all a relent-
less sun by day and sultry starlit sky by
night
Life on the Mountain Sides.
But in the country up the mountain sides
and on the great estates of the sugar plant
ers all the Surroundings Of the musty,
sleepy town are changed. Here are great
one-story rambling houses built at the end
Of broad lanes lined on both sides by the
giant trunks Of the Mauritius palm. Here
are great piaZzas whose pillars are entwined
by thick and sweet-smelling vines. Here
are glorious lawns blushing in the thousand
glows Of tropical flowers. Here in the day,
in cool and woody rambles the traveller feels
no sense of the heat of the sun overhead,
nor at night when the mountain winds come
perfumed rustling through thick foliage.
A life Of ease, OF comfort, Of rest and in
dolence! Six weeks OF il almost taught me
TO forgs: and to repent OF the object L had
in view, a:ld that had drawn me to the beau
tifJil island. Day by day the difficulties
increased aG to rcSchIng Madagascar. The
French had long since bombarded Tamatan
and taken possession of that seaport. Their
naval force on the Western coast had been
largely augmented, and their cruisers strict
ly blockaded all the small Malagasy trad
ing ports for 700 miles. Trade with the
great island and Mauritius was practically
dead; all communication had ceased, except
very occasionally when some daring dealer
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Grand Army Knapsack.

CoMRADE FRED TYHURsT was welcomed
back into Post 2S6 last Friday night.
COMRADES HUGH MORRISON and Hanmam
Gray, of Post ss, are regaining their health.
CAPTAIN JAMES THOMPSON, Of Post So, was
reported sick at the meeting last Tuesday
night.
WILLIAM PARE was mustered into Post 1855
last Friday evening, and two applications
were considered.
Posr 157 had short session last Thursday.
After Adjournment the comrades doomed
the Detroit Club.
Posr l51 had a good meeting last Tuesday
evening despite the hot weather. One ap-
plication was read.
THE idea of Comrades Pension Agent
Bengough, Thomas G. Sample and A. P.
Burchfield missing that side doorl
CoMRADE E. COLEMAN, Company e, Sew
enty-fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, was
mustered into Post ss last Tuesday evening.
CoMRApE SHEETS, of Post 236, who has been
sick for some time, was at his post meeting
Friday night and received warm well
come.
CoMRADE CHARLES v. LEWIS has been In
vited to go to Youngstown ON the Fourth Of
July to help defeat the enemy in the sham
battle.
CoMRApE PENSION AGENT BESeouaH an
nounces that the Pension Office clerical
force has been fixed for the next fiscal year.
commencing July l.
THE comrades OF Captain John W. Morrf-
son, of Post SS, are greatly pleased over his
prospects of securing the Republican nomi-
nation for State Treasurer.
TIE large Exposition building in Detroit
In which many thousands of comrades VIII
be uuartered during the Encampmeut has
been named Camp Sherman in honor Of the
General.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Addresses Wanted.

Through Department Headquarters the
following addresses are asked for: Edwin
Blake, late private Company E, One Hun
dred and Ninetyeight Pennsylvania Vol
unteers, by Abraham Wanger, West Chester
Pa. Any person who knew William Helm,
of Company 1, Seventy-fourth Pennsylvania
Volunteers, who was wounded at Freed.
mans Ford, Va, August %, 1862, by Mrs. Ann
NJ. Helm, Ruth street, Thirty second ward,
Pittsburg, Pa. Any person who knew Aug
Ps5 Meyer p
Mt. Holly, N. j. The address of John Pow.
ELL Battery B, First Independent Light Ar.
tillery, who enlisted at Port Deposit, Md, in
knew George Leslie Dixon, who served in O
Pennsylvania regiment. Address of Samuel
Van Buskirk, Company F, Thirty-third
Pennsylvania Infantry, by Charles Yetter,
Adjutant Post No. 150 Stroudsburg, Pa.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Previous to july q

There will be an explosion of prices on good
clothing at our store Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday we will offer some of the
biggest bargains to the public that ever were
heard of. We will sell
1900 mems fine Bedford cashmere
suits, sizes "a to AZ, made up in
sack or cutaway style, former
price S12 and $14, now reduced to. 81 75
1,200 mems fine cheviot and tweed suits,
light checks and neat plaids, just
the thing for summer wear, made
in cutaway or sack style, former
price SIS and $40, reduced now to-. 9 90
P. c. c. c., Pittsburg Combination Cloth
ing Company, corner Grant and Diamond
streets.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Silver Anniversary I'm Post 1se.

A mans home is his castle, it is said. When
in its inclosure protection is afforded its in.
mates. But such was not the case with the
abode of q war-scarred veteran last Monday
night. After a well-planned move the
stronghold was attacked, and after a severe
storm and a scaling of the heights, it was
surrendered to the invaders without loss on
either side. The object of the attack was to
surprise O prominent member of Post 162
and his estimable wife, Comrade and Mrs.
W. I. Bradberry, who had reached their
twenty-flfth wedding anniversary.
The event was celebrated in O most happy
manner on Monday night. The surprise
party took along an orchestra and provisions
and the fun was not long III commencing.
Among the 40 or 30 present were Comrade A.
p. Burchfield and wife, Comrade H. c. Baer
and wife, Comrade Thomas Bradberry and
wife, Conrade George Lacock and wife,
Comrade Anschutz, wife and sister, and
Comrade Graham and wife.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Army of the Potomac.

The twenty-second reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Potomac will commence
at Buffalo, N. Y, next Friday, when there
will be, in the morning, corps meetings; in
the afternoon an excursion on Lake Erie
and Niagara river, and in the evening pub
lie exercises at Music Hall. The oration will
be delivered by Major General Henry W.
Slocum, of Brooklyn. There will be grand
illumination of the principal streets and the
Soldiers Monument and memorial arches
with incandescent lights on Friday evening
On Saturday, the Fourth of July, there will
be a grand parade of the National Guard,
Grand Army, fire department, etc. This will
be followed by brigade drill at the Park
Parade. Excursions will be run to Niagara
Falls, 20 miles distant. Atsoclock Saturday
evening the banquet will be held in Music
Hall. A number of very prominent COM
rades are expected to attend the reunion
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Why They Were Not at the Meeting.

The slimness of the Grand Army Day Com
mittee meeting yesterday a week ago has
been in part explained. A number of COM
rades got as far as the door of Municipal
Hall and then turned back. It will be re-
membered that the Saturday in question was
the first one on which the City Hall en-
ployes were allowed the Saturday half holi.
day, and that the big front doors were
locked. The members of the committee
who reached the meeting entered the build
ing through the room of the Department of
Public Safety, to the right of the corridor.
doors was Conrade A. P. Burchfleld Chair.
man Thomas G. Sample and Comrade II. II.
Bengough. A comrade should have been
did not know the way This oddly prevented
attendance of comrades will not likely occur
again. AT the next meeting of the commit
tee Saturday afternoon, July II, the unin-
tie side door"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

accommodations will not be reserved for
them. Comrades accompanied by their
ladies and children will be assigned to
thing will be done by the COMMITTEES to make
the trip pleasant and agreeable The train
will be under the entire charge of the com
mlttee, and no one will be permitted to ride
on 1T except those holding tickets from
them, and they will see that the cars are not
overcrowded. Comrades having friends not
members of the G. A. r. who desire to ac-
company the post to Detroit will notify the
committee at once, so arrangements can be
made for them"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

-''''a'"o' Australia A glance
at n map of the Eastern world viii show the
Indian Sea can claita no such advantages as
are possessed by its two big brothers. If a
straight course be drawn from the Southern
extremity OF Java to Mauritius in the East
Indian Ocean between the parallels Of about
bO TO 200 south latitude, distance of 5000
miles, it will be seen that this line inter-
sects no land Of any character (save the
rocky, uninhabited peak Rodriguez till the
Sugar Island of England stands solitary
sentinel of the coast OF Great Madagascar.
Penniless at Singapore.
It is dreary lonely voyage to those to
whom the novelty of ocean travel has
long since lost it's freshness. But withaI
peaceful voyage, with steady, warn winds
of tropic trades, with blue and aloudless
skies and bluer almost unruliled water. It
was nv fortune once, some half dozen years
ago, TO find myself stranded and almost
penniless, in that hot and dusty outpost of
the British East Indian Empire, Singapore I
was endeayoring in some way to reach the
coast Of distant Madagascar, without money
and friendless. Absolute necessity and the
ALAAs 4lLA'taNN i4Atb tllG VI
est of sailor boarding houses made upon my
scanty purse at last drove me TO wandering
hour after hour, about the shipping wharves
and to sit in gloomy detection in the tar
smelling rooms Of ship chandler shops.
At last q little luck came to me in the
shape of a small, hairy, Scottish skipper
who commanded a little Australian brig,
then lying in the outer harbor and loading
for Mauritius. We soon struck bargain;
he wanted mate to his 3OO-ton ship and to
his crew OF seven men, one lascar and one
Chinaman cook and I wanted a cheap pas
sage somehow across the Indian Ocean to
funds and TO friends.
How Mauritus Appears.
So one brilliant tropical day we got up
our rusty anchors and steered down and
along the high verdure-clad shore of
Sumatra through the Banca and the Sunda
Straits, and hauled up to the eastward and
across the Indian Sea Fifty-eight days
after this, one dark and stormy night, for
the southwest monsoon was freshly blowing,
the little vessel rushed by the rocky peak of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Chicago and the Encampment Of .es.

George II. Thomas Post, No 5, usually in
the lead in everything, has now several COM
mendable and important schemes ON hand
1t is generally understood that the national
encampment of 1898 will be held in Chicago,
and that the Cook county posts will be
called upon to entertain visitors and COM
rades from nearly all parts of the United
States, and committee of ways and means
has been appointed to provide a programme
for such generous hospitality as the post
may decide to Chicago Times.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad.

Through sleeping cars to the Thousand
Islands leave Pittsburg daily at 9:45 P. NJ,
arriving at Buffalo 6:20 A. NJ, Rochester
11:30 A. NJ, Syracuse lbs P. NJ. and Clayton
$50 P M
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

lonely island of Alauri-
thus rises from unfath-
omed depths No ocean
in the world presents
to the mariner such an
equal stretch of haven
less water. In the
crowded channels of
the stormy Atlantic the
companionship of an
other and often many
sail in sight is of daily
occurrence to the trav-
eler across the ocean;
in the greatPacifc, 100,
the surface of thepeace-
ful sea is dotted with
countless isles and
arc hip elagoes an d
crossed by the great
highways of commerce
20 the Orient and to
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

Will not prevent you from looking at our
complete stock of wall papers.
JoHN s. ROBERTS, 414 Wood street.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
Excursion to Atlantic City
The Strike

Next Thursday, July 2, via the. B. & O. R
r. Rate $40 the round trip.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28

HANOVER awnings at Mamau1-& Son's,
$50 Penn avenue. Telephons 1e72
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-28
His Weazen Face Was That of an Old
Man While His Body Was
That Of a Boy Of 16.
MASTER OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH,
And Apparently Devoted to His Rescuer
From the Fate of Stowawsy on
Craft in Indian Seas
YET HE WAS THE BLACKLIST TRAITOR
Another Of Lieutenant Mason w. Shufeidts Experiences
in His World WanderingS


For 5000 trackless miles the vast expanse
of the Indian Ocean sweeps from the narrow
Sunda Straits to where, green-hilled, the
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-07-16

The Empress Eugene, though nat
urally intelligent, was in some respects
extremely ignorant. Educated as were
the high born young Spanish girls of
her generation-that is to say, not edu-
Gated at all-she was forced all through
her palmy days to struggle against this
great disadvantage. She never could
learn the art of spelling, and all her
private notes and letters are thickly
peppered with faults of photography.
She assembled the throne at the age of
twenty Ska period in life rather late
for the commencement Of ones educa-
ton.
But, to her credit be 1t said, she did
her best by incessant reading to supple
ment the defects in her early mental
training. She spoke English to perfec-
ton, and the emperor and she were
wont to converse in that language
when they did not want their attend
ants to know what they were talking
about She was an elegant and fear.
less horsewoman; and her skill in equi
tation was among the first of her ac
complishments that attracted the no
tice of Napoleon III, himself an ac
complished rider. But her principa
talent was for art, and she drew ir
crayon exceedingly well.-Cor. Phila
delphia Telegraph.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-07-16
A Gaia Devotion.

A strange story in which a cat is a
pathetic character has come to light at
Paoli. A little boy Of that village
owned cat that was a great pet in
the family. But the cat would have
nothing to do with any one except the
boy. The latter died, and for two
weeks the cat would come as usual
every morning to the door and going
IN the room would cry very mourn
fully and walk over the child's bed
hunting for his lost friend. Finally the
cat disappeared, only returning occa-
sionally. At last one of the child's sis
tiers saw the cat in the graveyard,
where it remains, only returning for
food. 1t keeps guard at the boys
grave, and can be heard at night cry
ing pitifully Atlanta Constitution.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-07-16
Palms I'm California.

Although it has been Shown that the
climate of certain parts Of California is
suited for the growth of the date palm,
but little effort is made to introduce
the species into general cultivation
there. The reason alleged for this is
that too many years must elapse after
planting before the trees come into
bearing. Here and there, however,
there ARE few specimens that, hav-
ing come to maturity, yield good
crops On the farm Of Mrs. M. II.
Wolfskill, on Putah creek, Solano
county, in the Sacramento valley, are
four of Persian variety, of large pro-
portions and great beauty. They are
thirty-four years old, and bear fruit of
good quality. Two others of the Afri-
can variety, of about the same age, are
growing on the neighboring farm of j.
r. WolfskiD. The date palm is the palm
of the Bible, and has handsome droop-
ing fronds from,eight to ten feet long.
Philadelphia Ledger.