-,? 12 Toward the middle of the fourteenth century, Toledo was laid under Biege by Don Enrique de Trastamara; but the city, faithful to the King surnamed "The Cruel," offered a brave and obstinate resistance Often had the loyal and valiant Toledans crossed the magnificent bridge of San Mar tin one of the structures of greatest beauty of that city of splendid erections and had cast themselves on the encamp ment of Don Enrique, -which was pitched on the Cigarrales, causing sad havoc to the besieging army. In order to prevent the repetition of these attacks, Don Enrique resolved upou de stroying the bridge. The Cigarrales, upon which the army was encamped, were beautiful lands enclosing luxuriant orchards, pleasure gardens and 'summer residences. The fame of their beauty had inspired Tirso and many Span ish poets to sing its praises. One night the luxuriant trees were out down by the soldiers of Don Enrique, and heaped upon the bridge. At day-dawn an immense fire raged on the bridge of San .Martin, which assumed high proportions, its sinister gleams lighting up the devastat ing hordes, the flowing current of the Tagus, the Palace of Don Kodrigo, and the little Arab Tower. The cracking of the strong and massive pillars, worked with all the exquisite skill of trr artificers who created the marvels of the Alhambra, sounded like the piteous cry of Art oppressed by barbar ism. The Toledans, awakened by this terrible spectacle, ran to sane the beautiful erection from the utter ruin which menaced it, but all their efforts were una ailing. A tremen dous crash, which resounded throughout the creeks and valleys watered by the Tagus, told them the bridge no longer existed. Alas! it was too true! "When the rising sun gilded the cupolas of the Imperial City, the Toledan maidens who came down to the river to fill their pitchers from the pure and crystal stream, returned sorrowfully with empty pitchers on their heads; the clear waters had become turbid and muddy, for the roaring -waves were carrving down the still smoking ruins of thj bridge. Popular indignation rose to its highest pitch and overflowed all limits; for the bridge of San Martin was the only path that led to the lovely Cigarrales. Joining their forces for one supreme ef fort, the Toledans made a furious onslaught on the camp, and after blood had flowed in torrents, compelled the army to take flight. II. Many years passed since the bridge of San Martin had been destroyed. Kings and Archbishops had projected schemes to replace it by another structure, of equal strength and beauty; but the genius and perseverance of the most famous architects were unable to carry out their wishes. The rapid, powerful currents of the river destroyed and swept away the icaffolding and framework before the gi gantic arches could be completed. Don Pedro Tenorio, Cardinal Archbishop Maidens Jtdumci Sorrowfully "With Empty of Toledo, to whom the city owes her glory almost as much us to her Kings, sent criers throughout the cities and towns of Spain inviting architects, Christian and Moorish, to undertake the reconstruction of the bridge of San Martin; but with no result. The difficulties to be encountered were judged insurmountable. At length one day a man and a woman, complete strangers to the city, entered Toledo through the Cambron gate. They carefully inspected the ruined bridge. Then they engaged a small house near the ruins, and proceeded to take up their quarters there. On the following day the man proceeded to the Archbishop'K palace. His Eminence was holding a conference of prelates, learned men and distingushed knights, who were attracted by his piety and wisdom. Great was his joy when one of his attend ants announced that an architect from distant lands solicited the honor of an audi ence. The Cardinal Archbishop hastened to re ceive the stranger. The first salutations over, His Eminence hade him be seated. "My Lord Archbishop," began the stranger, "my name, which is unknown to Your Eminence, is Juan de Arevalo, and I am an architect by profession." "Are you come'in answer to the invita tion I have issued calling upon skillful architects to come and rebuild the bridge of San Martin, which in former times afforded a nassage between the city and the Cigar rales?" "It was indeed that invitation which brought me to Toledo." "Are you aware of the difficulties of its construction?" "I am well aware of them. But I can surmount them." "Where did you study architecture?" "In Salamanca." "And what erection have you to show me as a proof of your skill?" ".None whatever, my lord." The Archbishop made a resture of im patience and distrust which was noticed by the stranger. "I was a soldier in my youth," continued he, "but ill-health compelled me to leave the arduous profession of arms and return to Castille, the land of my birth, where I dedicated myself to the.study of architec tuee, theoretical and practical." "I regret," replied the Archbishop, "that you are unable to mention any work of skill that you have carried out" "There are some erections on the Tonnes and the Duero of which others have the credit, but which ought to honor him who now addresses you." "I do not understand you." "I was poor andtobscure," rejoined Juan de Arevalo, "and "j sought only to earn bread and shelter. CLYi-v IJeft to other." "I deeply regret," replied Don Pedro I Tenorio, "that you have no means of assur- I !pCTP.HjS,HiIo1 ' -S """ ing us that we should not trust in you in vain." "My lord, I can offer vou one guarantee which I trust will satisfy your Eminence." "What is that?" "Mv life!" "Explain yourself." "When the framework of the center arch shall be removed, I, the architect, will stand upon the keystone. Should the bridge fall, 1 shall perish with it." "I accept the guarantee." "My lord, trust me, and I will carry out the work!" The Archbishop pressed the hand of the architect, and Juan deArevalo departed, his heart-full of joyous expectation. His wife was anxiously awaiting his return. She was young and handsome still, despite the ravages of want and suffering. "Catherine! my Catherine!" cried the architect, clasping his wife to his arms, "amid the monuments that embellish Toledo The Flames Ascended XTUh Fearful Sapidity' there will be one to transmit to posterity the name of Juan de Arevalo!" III. Time passed. No longer could the Tole dans say, on approaching the Tagus across the rugged clifls and solitary places where in former times stood the Garden of Flor- inda, "Here ohce stood tne bridge 01 e new bridcre ban Martin." Though the new bridge was still supported by solid scaffolding and massive frames, yet the -center arch already rose to -view, ana the whole was hrmly planted on the ruins of the former. The Archbishop, Don Pedro Tenorio, and the Toledans were heaping gifts and praises on the fortunate architect whose skill had joined the central arch, despite the furious power of the surging currents, and who had completed the gigantic work with con summate daring. It was eve of the feast of San Ildefonso, the patron saint of the city of Toledo. Juan de Arevalo re spectfully informed the Cardinal Aroh bishop that nothing was now wanting to conclude the work, but to remove the wood work of the arches and scaffolding. The joy of the Cardinal and of the people was great. Tne removal ot tne scattolding and frames which supported the 'masonry was a work attended with considerable danger; but the calmness and confidence of the architect who had pledged himself to stand on the keystone and aw ait the consequences of success or lose his life inspired all with perfect trust. The solemn blessing and inauguration of the bridge of San Martin was fixed to take place on the day following, and the bells of aU the churches of Toledo were joyously ringing in announcement of the grand: event appointed for the morrow. The Toledans contemplated with rejoicing from the heights above the Tagus the lovely Cigar rales, which for many years had remained solitary and silent indeed, almost aban doned but which on the day following would be restored to life. Toward nightfall Juan de Arevalo mounted the central arch to see that all was ready for the opening ceremony. He went humming to himself as he inspected all the works and preparations. But, suddenly, an expression of misgiving overspread his countenance. A thought had struck him a thought that froze his blood. He de scended from fhe bridge and hastened home. At the door his wife received him with a joyous smile and a merry word of congrat ulation. But on beholding his troubled face she turned deadly pale. "Good heavens!" she cried affrighted, "are you ill, dear Juan?" "No, dear wife," he cried, striving to master his emotion. "Do not deceive me! your face tells me that something ails you?" -'Uhl the evening is cold and the work has been excessive." "Come in and sit down at the hearth and I will get the supper ready, and 'when you have had something to eat and are rested you will be at ease again!" "At ease!" murmured Juan to himself, in agony of spirit, while his wife busied her self in the preparation of the supper, placing the table cloke to the hearth, upon which she threw a faggot. Juan made a supreme effort to overcome his sadness, but it was futile. His wife could not be deceived. "for the first time in our married life," she said, "you hide a sorrow from me. Am I no longer worthy of your love and confidence?" "Catherine!" he exclaimed, "do not, for heaven's'sake, grieve me further by doubt ing my affection for you!" "Where there is no trust," she rejoined in feeling tones," there can be no true love." "Then respect, for your own good and mine, the secret I conceal from you." "ITour secret is a sorrow, and I wish to know it and to lighten it." "To lighten it? That is impossible!" "To such a love as mine," she urged, "nothing is impossible." eryweil; men near me. To-morrow LFhr uuBb " utu G ii.uj, auu a. uil Hie keystone shall perish with the fabric which, with so much anxiety and so many hopes, I have erected!" "No, no!" cried Catherine, as Bhe clasped her husband in her arms with loving tender ness, smothering in her own heart the an guish of the revelation. "Yes, dear wife! When I was most con fident of my triumph, I discovered that, owing to an error in my calculations, the bridge must fall to-morrow when the frame work is removed. And with it perishes the architect who projected and directed it." "The bridge may sink into the waters, but not you, my loved one. On bended knees 1 will beseech the nobte Cardinal to release you from your terrible engagement." "What you ask will be in vain. Even should the Cardinal accede to your entreaty, I refuse life destitute of honor." "You shall have life and honor both, dear IV. It was midnight Juan, worn with grief and anxious, work. wstmTTi THE last had fallen asleep; a feverish sleep that partook more of the character of a nightmare than of nature's sweet re storer. Meanwhile his wife had for some time made a show of sleeping. But she watched her husband anxiously. When she felt cer tain that he had at length succumbed to a deep sleep, she softly . rose, and scarcely daring to breathe, crept out into the kitchen. She opened the window gently find looked out. The night was dark; now and again vivid flashes of lightning lit up the sky. No sound was heard save the roar of the rush ing current of the Tagus, and the sighing of the wind as it swept in and out among the scaffolding and complicated framework of the bridge. Cathenng noiselessly closed the window. From the hearth she took one of the half burnt faggots which still smoldered, and throwing a cloak over her shoulders went out into the silent streets, her heart beating wildly. "Where was she proceeding? "Was she carrying that burning fagot as a torch to light her path in the dense darkness of a moonless night? It was indeed a danger ous track, covered as it was with broken boulders and uneven ground. Yet she strove rather to conceatthe lighted wood beneath her cloak. At last she reached the bridge. The wind still sighed and whistled, and the river continued to break its current against the pillars, as though irritated at meeting obstacles which it could no longer sweep aw ay. Catherine approached the buttress of the bridge. An involuntary shudder of terror passed through her frame. Was it because she stood on the edge of that abyss of roaring-waters? Orwss it because her hand, only accustomed hitherto to dceds'of good ness, was now brandishing the torch of destruction? Or rather did she tremble because a tremendous peal of thunder at that moment resounded through the vault of heaven. Waving the torch to kindle it afresh, Bhe applied it to the dry, resinous wood of the scaffolding. The wood quickly ignited. and the flame, fanned by the wind ascended with fearful rapidity, spread ing and involving arches and framework and tne whole structure 01 tne bridge. Then she quitted the scene swiftly. Aided by the glare of the conflagration and the vivid flashes of -lightning which lit up the sky, Catherine soon traversed the space which separated her from her home. She entered as noiselessly as she had left it, and closed the door. Her husband still slept soundly, and had not missed her. Catherine again pretended to be fast asleep, as though she had never left her bed. A few moments later a noise of many peo ple running arose within the city, while from every belfry the bells rang forth the terrible alarm of fire. A tremendous crash succeeded, followed by a cry of anguish as hadbeen uttered years before, when the besieging army wrecked the former bridge. Juan awoke in terror; Catherine lay at his side, apparently sleeping calmly. He dressed himself in haste and ran out to learn the reason of the uproar. To his secret ioy he beheld the ruin of the burning bridge. The Cardinal Archbishop and the Tole dans attributed the disaster to a flash of lightning which had struck the central arch, and had, moreover, ignited the whole struc ture The general sorrow was intense. Great also was the public sympathy with the despair which the calamity must have caused the architect, who was on the eve of a great triumph. .The inhabitants never knew whether it was fire from heaven or 5 n .A;4ATit 4i.n v,nA nnr,BnA 1... nnA I uu atuuuib mai uuu muscu 1110 uvuuiiiif tion; but Juan de Arevalo, who was good and pious, and firmly believed in the protection of heaven, never wavered for an instant in the belief that the bridge had really been destroyed by lightning. The destruction of tne bridge, however, only retarded Juan's triumph for a twelve month. On the following year, on the same festival of San Hdefonso,his new bridge was solemnly thrown open by the Cardinal; and the joyous Toledans once more crossed the Tagus to visit the lovely grounds of the Cigarrales. which they had been deprived of for so many years. On that auspicious day the Cardinal eelcbrvtd the event by giving a magnificent banq.tj. At his right hand sat the architect and his noble wife; and after a highly complimentary speech from the Cardinal, the whole company, amid a tumult of applause, conducted Juan and Catherine to their home. Five hundred years have passed since then, but Juan's bridge still stands secure above the rushing waters of the Tagus. His sec ond calculation had no error. The illustra tion at the head of this story shows its ap pearance at the present day. Strand Maga zine. A BLOODTHIRSTY ATTEMPT. KENTUCKY ROUGHS PLOT TO ASSAS SINATE A POLICE FOBCE. They Decoy the Department in Ambush and Open Tire "With Winchesters The Police Driven Back Citizens Reinforce the Officers A Lynching Bee Follows. Louisville, July 17. A desperate at tempt was made to assassinate the Middles borough police force yesterday afternoon. A lot of disreputable characters who fre quent Gum Springs, a low drinking and gambling dive just outside the city limits, concocted the plot to murder the officers. They accordingly stationed about 15 of their gang in ambush along the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad, and tuo of their number coming just within the city limits, commenced fitting their Winchesters. These two -wereGillis Johnson and Prank Rossimus. Chief Maples with a posse of officers went in pursuit of the pair, and they were led into the ambush. Over 100 shots were exchanged. Special Officer Dorscy Williams was shot through both thighs, "and Patrolman Todeker was shot through the leg. The police were forced to retire. They returned to the city. A posse of about 100 citizens, armed with rifles, were soon marching in pursuit. Pin ally one squad came upon Johnson and Kossimus at a sharp bend in the road. They fired. The squad returned the fire, about 75 shots being exchanged, when the toughs took to the bush. Bosiimus was caught a few minutes later just as he had drawn a bead on Officer Douglass. Five Winchesters leveled at him induced him to surrender, and he was placed in jail. About 1 o clock last night Johnson sent word that he would surrender if he would be taken immediately to the county jail at Pineville, as he feared violence here. He accordingly surrendered to Deputy Sheriffs outside the city limits. He was smuggled to the couutv line in the 9 o'clock train. About 4 o'clock this morning a crowd of masked men entered Jailer Pollitt's sleep ing apartments at the city jail, and pre senting pistols to his head, demanded the keys to thejaiL The jailer was forced to give up the keys. The crowd then went into the iail. took ltossimus out and led him to the big bridge over the canal on Twentieth street, where he was shot several his neck, and he was swung over the side of me bridge until 7 o clock, when he was cut down. A placard was tacked on the bridge rail just above the body bearing this in scription: "Warning This is the fate of all would-be murderers." BISMARCK John Rnssell Young tells of tho meetlnc between Bismarck nnd Grant at Berlin for readers of THE DISPATCH to morrow. Amasterfnl analysis of the Iron Chancellor's character. A good appetite is generally restored to adults and children alike by Dr. D. Jayne's Tonic Vermifuge. A mild tonic, an excel lent anti-acid, and the best of vermifuges. Where worms are suspected, give the Ver mifuge: for whether present or not, the strengthening action of the medicine is sure to do the child good. Sold by all druggists. B. & B. 500 lined Bolid leather belts artistic, oxi dized or horn bucklers 15c regular price .35c JBOGG3 & BuiIL. PITTSFOUG STYLE OPT OF DOORS. Fashion Designers Turning Out Some Novel Outing Costumes. GARDES, TEA AND WHEEL GOWNS. The Daisy Miller Type of Girl Kow Said to Be a Memory. i. BUDGET THAT WILL CHAEM WOMEN People say that gallantry is soinc out of fashion. This is what was written by a woman from one of the Southern springs, says a writer in the New York Sun. "I do believe the colored people are the most polite in the world. You know what a wretched memory I have for names? "Well an African gentleman has been in the habit of bringing me my coffee every morning, and from the depths of my pillowI always addressed him as William. At last one morning, when I was rather more wide awake than usual, I said to him: 'By the by, is your name William?' And he answered, 'Well, no.Miss, it ain't William, it is George; but if it gives you any pleasure to speak to me as "William, it makes me more than happy.' Can anybody say chiv alry is dying out when Such an answer as this is received?" Outing and riding costumes are no w oc cupying the attention of the designers. She who must be obeyed in the matter of gowns has not for any lengthy period had bioycle dC6?es ; under her jurisdiction. Now that she finds the sport important enough to ex tend her regis over it, the gray cheviot skirt illustrated gives oni a fairly good idea of the recent drift other views. Two rows of dark erav A Wheeling Outfit. braid encircle the bottom. The bodice is of blue stockinet, with turned down collar and lapels. The blouse is in stockinet also, and a jockev cap and spotted silk tie do their best to forward the happiness of the rider on the swift and silent wheel. Aquatic costumes appear this summer in lighter materials than have been in vogue up to date. The young woman who goes a-yatching will still do so in serge, in blue and cream color; but the young woman who curls up on crimson cushions in a row boat will be more than likely to do bo in butcher-blue linen with an embroidered de sign in anchors worked in white about the hem. Her blouse bodice -will be edged with white, and she will tie her neck scarf in a sailor knot and gather her full sleeves into long and tight fitting cuffs, on the general principle that it is not well to challenge the gods by seeming too happy and too comfort able. What wicked underskirts these new ones are! For summer use, of course. They are ankle long, yes; but the lace on the edge is a good half yard deep, and you can see right through it. Especially if the skirt is black, you know, and the lace is black; it looks so modest, nice and all that. But you can see right through the lace just the same, and well they are as you may imagine. Many a girl who would faint if obliged to wear tights migh't as well be clad in them on a windy day, whea the breeze sweeps aside the drapery of her full, plain skirt, and apparently puts her in tight trousers. But, then, the girl doesn't know this hap pens, or when it happens, and that makes a lot of difference to the girl. The young woman of to-day who is sweeping Broadway with the tail of her frock would do well to remember the story that was told in the Middle Aeet about a proud dame who flaunted along with her tail behind her as vain as a peacock, and yet presenting a most horrible appearance, says the Sun. For on this tail sat a collection of little devils, all fighting as hard as they could and making her burden very hard to bear. At last, however, she became con scious oi ner lolly, ana, reaching a sloppy place, she lifted the train, and all the devils fell in the mire." Her sense returned to her, and she cut off the nonsensical length and and gave it to be made into flannel petticoats for the poor! History doesn't relate how many petticoats were made out of this tail, but it is fair to conclude that there must have been several, else they would not have been referred to in the plural number. It may be mentioned, quite casually, that the little devils sitting on the trained skirts of to-day are named Dirt and Bags. She who runs ought to read the moral of this story. A little fresh air amid fairy lamps and Chinese lanterns is the chief and most fas cinating frivolity of the season. The pic turesque gayety and color make it almost impossible not to enter svmpathetically into the spirit of the scene. One al fresco fete in Gotham offered a dress of white spotted muslin for inspection. It was sprigged with bouquets of colored flowers. Sewn about the hips on the skirt was a deep frill of whit Garden Party Dresses. lace deftly manipulated to fall to the hem while the full bodice which was tucked be neath the skirt under a striped band of dull green ribbon, was gathered at the throat in a small open V and had a rather high collar of the lace turned over behind. The girl who wore this toilet was tall and very slight and rosy. She was the kind of girl one associ ates nafcirally with a black dress and a black hat and veil. Perhaps for this reason she had an especially festive look in the flow ered muslin with its big hat covered with long white ostrich plumes and tied with pale green velvet ribbons. A pink-cheeked young married woman wore pink bengaline figured in black. Her frock was draped with fine black lace, and at one Bide it was festooned with hanging ribbons. The tight bodice was edged with a flounce of lace, and the nrettilv dr.inpd joke and full sleeves were made of the Lsame fiJmy material. The black, lace hatJLbnrjs at 8:15 A. M, DISPATCH, SATURDAY, JULY tied with crepe de Chine was trimmed with pink roses. According to one of Harper's correspond ents, the Old type of American girl abroad, which the satirist still continues to describe from force of habit, no longer exists. The smart and fascinating creature has changed her tactics. She has retired, and another has come to the front to assume the position and privileges of the captivating woman of 30, no matter if the daughter's years approx imate that number. She walks meekly and with downcast if expectant eyes, awaiting her fate. The smartest ball dress seen this season is an old rose chiffon, made with skirt of dancing length and a bodice of velvet ex actly the color of the lighter material; about the skirt, in rows arranged to represent stiff hows anu enas, is ieatner trimming ot the rose shade carefully appliqued on; the neck is outlined with pink feathers, a pink feather aigrette is worn in the hair, a pink feather fan is carried, and the long un dressed kid gloves are pink. The wearer of this costume, however, perfectly understood the coquetry of slippers, and bo she wore black silk stockings and black satin slip pers, realizing that they made her foot look much smaller than .any light shoe. July always witnesses an evolution of tea jackets, in which perhaps to drink iced tea. Averyprettyaudquiteoriginalone isof yellow crcpon studded with iridescent beads. It has full sleeves of pale green crepe, and a A Tea Jacket. lace trimming which, as shown in the cut, forms epaulets and cascades. The waist is clasped by a girdle. Yellow surah shot with peach blossom is the material of a second neglige. It is com binded with pale gray crepon. The crepon is so draped as to display a complete under dress of the silk, and its edge is worked with a herring-bone stitch inyellow filoselle. The fuU sleeves are made of the surah, and a draped sash holds the full folds at the waist in position. The amateur dressmaker has usually a number of petty worries, and one special to her is the cutting of velvet. As it is used so much, even on cotton costumes, it is necessary that she should know just how it should be done. Dressmakers prefer to cut velvet with the pile "running up, for then it doesn't flatten down from wear; however, no matter what way you cut. it, at least have it all alike. When you cut anv figured or floral de sign do not make the mistake of cutting two pieces at once, as is often done with plain goods. The figures and stripes should always match perfectly, and this is not possible when two sections are cut to gether. About velvet folds. Don't rely on hav ing the last ones the right size by laying the first one on the material and following its outlines. The result will be waste of fabric and irregular folds. The same care in measuring mnst be taken with each one, and it is not wise to rely on the eye for exact ness, but to mark the line with chalk and then to cut it. It is most desirable to put braid on by hand; hem it down, because then it will not curl up at the sides. Do not put it on very tight, as it draws and looks very ugly. Never tear lawns or cambrics; it rolls the edges. Draw thread and then cut the widths. Do not under any circumstances make a bodice that fits you like a tight glove. It is not good to look at, and it will certainly stretch at the seams and ravel and proclaim that it was made by some one who didn't understand the art of dressmaking. Kose Coghlan retains her shapely love llnes, she claims, by brain work. "There is nothing," she says, "like an active brain for reducing flesh. Then" too, I never drink when I am eating, for I believe that drinking with your meals makes you grow chunky." Mrs. Martinot, the inventor, has taken out 35 patents, and five of these have been patented in seven countries. Among them are a steam washing machine, a gas stove, an ice-cream freezer and a clothes dryer. The inventor makes all her own models, and is very dexterous with tools. One-half ounce of the spirits of lavender and a lump of salts of ammonia placed in a wide-mouthed fancy jar or bottle and left uncovered in a room acts as a pleasant de odorizer and disinfectant, filling the room with a delicate perfume which will be sooth ing to the nerves and senses this warm weather. A long sleeve makes the hand look tiny; an elbow sleeve cuts off the best part of a woman's arm, shows that which is usually the worst, and certainly does not decrease the size of her hand; an extremely short sleeve, the regular cream puft sleeve that permits the shoulder to show above it and the entire arm to be visible, is, for evening, a most desirable style, whether the arm be a plump or a slender one. If the arm is slen der the glove can be worn to cover the el bow, and then the plump part of the arm would be visible. But happy is the woman, who has arms like Mrs. Kendal's, white, firm, and shaped like those that might have belonged to Venus. PERSONAL Portraits and paragraphs nbout people who have figured prominently in the world's news recently In TIIE DIS PATCH to-morrow. BIO EAILB0AD EARNINGS. The Pennsylvania System Slakes One-Third of Its Capital in a Year. The gross earnings of the Pennsylvania Railway system for the year 1890 readied the enormous total of 5133,531,623, and its expenditures were 592,603,325. The net earnings were 511,518,253. The capital stock of the corporation, including ?9,600, 000 issued last year, is 123,082.050, or nearly $15,580 per mile of road operated. The earnings were thus about one-third of the capital stock in a year. These earnings were realized on 7,915 miles of road operated 2,435 east of this city and Erie, and 5,480 west of these points. The net earnings are about 55,255 per mile of road in operation. A fact about this system is that while its mileage is less than one-twentieth of the aggregate mileage of the oountry,its gross earnings last year were about one-ninth of the gross earnings of all other roads. Excursion to Ohio Pyle On Sunday, via the B. & O. E. K. Bate ioo the rouna trip. Train leaves Pitts- 18, 189L LATE NEWS IN BRIEF. Austria will increase its navy. Deaths from cholera in Mecca average B0 dally. The Manchester Ship Canal is completed and in use. A railroad will bo built from Piorre, S. D., to Denver. Texas fever is killing oft cattle in tho Cherokee Nation. The Canadian gulf fisheries are reported to bo a total failure. Edward Grippor & Son, a large grain to of London, has failed. Salvador is preparing for reciprocity with the United States. ' Italy will take pnrtinthe World's Fair, but not officially, it is said. The United States Bering Sea Commis sioners have sailed for Alaska. A Denver syndicate has bought all the leading Colorado tin mines for $300 000. Ex-Senator Ingalls favors and predicts the ronomination of President Harrison. A new installment of gold $300,000 has been ordered for shipment to Europe to day. The United Scandinavian Singers of America are holding a saengerfest in Minne apolis. Baron Ilirsch will form a great English company to carry out his Hebrew emula tion scheme. Captain O'Shea's counsel denies that Parnell has paid the costs of the captain's divorce suit. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach says over-production caused the shut-down in Welsh tin plate mines. Miners of McLean county, 111., are out on a strike for tho socond time this season. They demand higher wages. The number of pauper immigrants re turned to Europe from New York yesterday, exceeds all past records SI in all. A rain storm in Duluth Thursday after noon was so severe that two entire business blocks must be thoroughly repaired. St. Petersburg newspapers soy the rela tions between Germany and Russia are greatly strainod by tho renewal of the Drei bund. Suffering peasants of NIjnii-Novgorod. Russia, petition the Government for the loan of $5,125,000 for the purchase of seeds and bread. British Columbian sealers complain bit terly to tho Br tish Commissioners of tho losses they say they will sustain by the clos ure of Bering Sea. Arrangements aro being mado in Ports mouth, England, to entertain the officers of the French fleet, when tho proposed visit of war-ships is made. The deal botween tho Chicago Junction Railway and the Union Stockyai ds Company and tho Chicago packers, Armour, Morris, Swift, and others Is off. Prof. Snow, who was sent to Colorado to investigate, reports that the loousts aro now overwhelming part of that State, will prob- UUJJ llUh lilVtLUU JUIUSUS. Twenty-eight immigrants, mostly Rus sian Hebrews, wero not allowed to land at Boston Thursday, on tho ground that they might become public charges. Senator Carlislo is indignant at tho re port circulated against him that he has re ceived a house and lot for his opposition to the proposed new constitution of Kentucky. An explosion of gas occurred Thursday in a colliery at Pont-y-Prid, Wales. Manager Abraham, cousin of William Abraham, a Liberal member of tho Houso of Commons, was jtiueu. The Yellow Pine Lumber Association, of Alabama. Mississippi and Florida, met yes terday with most ot tho delegates from Ala bama, at Birmingham, and resolved to allow for tho next 60 days a reduction of 10 per cent from the price list. Tho Secretary of the Treasury has awarded a silver medal to Mabel Mason, daugntor of the keeper of the Mamajuda lighthouse, Lake Erie, for heroic conduct in saving Thomas Jones from drowning in the Detroit river, May 11, ISM. The National Farmers' Alliance will not hold Its encampment near Baltimore in Sep tember. The encampment will be held there probably every year, certainly for the next live years, and it is probable that a site will bo purchased and tho institution located permanently. Deputy United States Marshals Nail and McCune returned Thursday evening to St. Louis, from anino days' trip in Southeastern Missouri, where they have beou huntint? among the bayous, lagoons and canebrakos for moonshiners. They brought back with them two prisoners, Theodore and Thomas Patton. The prisoners confessed to selling illicit whisky, but deny that they manu factured it. SPORTING Resume of tho week's events and all the fresh sporting news in THE DIS PATCH to-morrow. ' THE W1SC0HSHT T0BNAD0. Further Particulars of the Storm "Which Played Havoc at Superior. Minkeapolis, July 17. Dispatches from various towns in Steams, Sherburne and Benton counties show that much dam age was done to crops by hail storms that accompanied the tornado at Superior yes terday. The track of the hail storm was from St. Joseph, passing over St. Cloud, St. Augusta and Fair Haven in Stearns county. Here it crossed the river and struck Haven, Sherburne county, and the southern portion of Benton county. The storm was from three to five miles wide and destroyed or seriously damaged 2,500 acres, or 50,000 bushels of wheat. Farmers in this belt have suffered in this way for three suc cessive seasons, and are left almost desti tute now. Later reports from Superior, "Wis., show that the collapsed building was a flimsy af fair, intended for a hotel, with 80 rooms, and much feeling is manifested against Con tractor Gross and Proprietor Bcdocker on account of the evident unsafety of the struc ture. The escape of all the carpenters is pointed to as proving their knowledge of its condition. A large frame building was blown down in South Superior, and reports from the steel plant say n number of build ings were leveled but without casualties. Lightning played havoc with the Fisher Hotel, the Unitarian Church, the Union depot and other buildings. FIGHTING FOE A B0E0UGH. Tho' Question of Incorporating Duqnesne Argued Before Two Jnilces. There was an argument before Judges Stowe and Slagie yesterday, in the matter of the incorporation of Duqnesne borough. Mr. Bankin represented the objectors, seven in number, and claimed that a large section of the proposed borough was made up of farming and manufacturing land, which were let out by the act of Assembly. The Allegheny Bessemer Company and the Howard Plate Glass Company desired to be let out, as they could see no benefits. The total acreage of the proposed borough is 831 acres. Mr. Bankin claimed that his clients wero not opposed to the incorporation of the borough, but they do not wish to be in cluded in it. "V. B. Bodjers stated that Duquesne now has a population of nearly 4,500. There is no systeni of sewerage, no fire protection and no police system. The land of the pe titioners would be largely improved, and they could not be let out,"as their property is surrounded by the new borough. The Court took the papers, but gave no idea of when an opinion would be rendered. BEVENTY STUNNED BY LIGHTNING. They "Were All Struck Speechless and Some Badly Hnrt by One Bolt. SrurNCiriELD, O., July 17. A remark able effect of lightning was experienced during a storm at St. Mary's, O. The chain factory of the Bimet Standish Manufactur ing Company was struck, and 70 of the employes were made speechless by the shock, and some were seriously hurt. The lightning set the factory on fire, but the flames were extinguished. Jusx.the drink for summer Iron City Beer. All dealers sell it; best bars keep it on tap. Coolest place in the city Tho Bustic Dairy BunchK35 and 37 Diamond street. 81 OO Until September 1, '91 83 50. 12 cabinets for 51 00 and a life-size crayon for 53 50 at Aufrecht & Co . Elite Gallerv. 16 Market street. Pittsburg 3W3 IS FAY0E OF TEE CHLTJJEEir. Judge Over Decides the Famous Ann Qualters Will Case. Judge Over, of the Orphans' Court, yester day, handed down an opinion in the matter of the estate of Ann Qualters. Mrs. Qualters was a widow with children when she married Qualters, who was a widower with children. Qualters claimed that he turned his earnings over to his wife for safe keeping, and that the money she had she got from him. At her death her children claimed the estate to the exclusion of Qualters. He asserted that what Mrs. Qualters had was held in trust for him. The court held that it did not appear that Qualters had made more than was necessary to support the family, as his employment was irregular. Mrs. Qualters also had means before her marriage and received money from one of her children. If the money in bank had be longed to Qualters there -was no reason why he should not have deposited it in his own name. Judge Over decided in favor of the children. Caligbaph operators are convinced that life is too short to write with the pen. TVS rOREIGN The cables that bring the news of the world to TIIE DISPATCH office to-night stretch beneath every sea. Most complete foreign service of any newspaper West of New York. CITHG JESUITS Showing the Power of Electricity for the Curing of Disease WHEN SKILLFULLY APPLIED The Difference Between Scientific and Unskillful Methods. VARIOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS On the History and Uses of Electro-Therapeutics Tho Difference Between "Rubbing Doctors" and Scientists. INFORMATION OF STRIKING INTEREST Copyrighted. It is interesting to notice that the science ofelectro-therapeutics.whichnowcommands some of tho best skill and brains of the pro fession and is represented in Pittsburg by sucn tnoroughly scientific physicians as those of the Electropathio Instituto, had like all of the great sciences and some of tho great religions a very humble origin. It is said that centuries ago the inhabitants of West Africa wero accustomed to diD their sick children in water where lay tho electric fish called the torpedo. As late as the eighteenth century priests and paupers, monks and mountebanks were tho leading authorities on this subject, the priests hon estly seeking to cure mankind with their accidental discoveries, the mountebanks striving, as they still do. to bewilder and deceive the public with their dangerous mixture of imperfect knowledge and low cunning. PHILOSOPHER AND POOL wero then pretty nearly on the samo level, with tho advantage on tho side of the fool, be cause through the very excess of his ignor ance ho dared and ventured where the phil osopher knew just enoughto fear to tread. Then, as to-day, however, we are forced to admit that marvelous results were obtained by mountebanks, quacks and empirics, re sults that only intensify the vast value and power of electricity in curing disease. But tho trouble with the work of such men is, that through their ignorance of the laws of electricity itself, no less than through their ignoranco of the human body, they make serious and dangerous mistakes. Where in one case they achieve a success, in a vast number of cases they do incalcuable harm. In the hands of such men, electricity is an uncertain and even dangerous powor. In the hands of men who aro trained physi cians and educated and experienced elec trical experts as well, it becomes the safest, surest and most potent agent for relieving suffering and healing disease that modern science has developed and brought into per fect use. Its simplo naturalness and harmlessness when proporly applied is well shown by the fact that children and weak women aie the most tolerant to its use. Compared with the violent action of many of the drugs which it is supplanting, it comes like a gift of nature protesting against the habitual derangement of the system by noxious poisons taken through the stomach. .. To obtain desired results from medicines drugs must be carriod through the body. To confine their action to any one point is impossible. Electricity can be localized to a muscle or nerve or any one organ. We obtain from electricity permanent tonic and sedative effects that are far more wonderful even than its primary stimulat ing effects. It must be borne in mind that it supplants by its superiority as a remedial agent the uso of many drugs. It is not a specific. As quinine is not a specific for any disease unless it bo chills and fever yet it is used freely as a tonic in an indefinite num ber of diseases. So electricity is effective of wonderful results in any disease where local or general nutrition Is impaired. Is there any uncertainty about the uso of electricity by skillful physicians? No. Its effects aro simple, less complicated and more natural than those of drugs. We know more of the rationale of electricity to-day than of that of any agency used lor the euro of disease. Wo are not speaking now of those who apply electricity afterthe manner of nurses and "rubbim; doctors." They do not use, but abuse it. Wo are sneaking of its uso by the skillfully trained physicians and electrical experts of the Electropathlc Insti tute. In nervous diseases someauthorities main tain that electricity accomplishes its most brilliant results. T6 believe, however, that this is because the results in nervous dis eases are often the most immediate and ap parent, and because u good result is assured in almost every case of this class or troubles. The results in our experience which have seemed the most remarkable have been in ennes of narnlvsis. chronic rheumatism and consumption, which have been pronounced Incurable and given up to die. Aro the physicians of the Electropathlc Institute specialists? No. That wofully abused word, which has from time im memorial served as a cloak for unutterable and infinite humbug, can hardly be applied to them. They are not specialists. Scientific electro-therapeutics requires a scientific diagnosis, n knowledge of disease, requires scientific application of electricity, a knowl edge of tho forces, laws and best methods and appliances of eleotriclty. Theso re quirements lead into every department of medicine and sumery as well ot mechanical electrization. It will be seen that tho word specialist is not a broad enough term to apply. . Thcro is as much difference between a skillful and an awkward application of elec tricity as there is between a skillful and an awkward operation in surgery. By the skillful operator and trained physician tho element or pain is entirely avoided. The scientist knows that the best results nro ob tained with a mild current, and in nervous dyspepsia, sleeplessness, mental depression, hypocondriasis, locomotor ataxia, muscular atiophy, nnd tho vast varieties of neuralgia, tho treatment is the most mild and dellcato imaginable, a gratifying change from tho sovcre and drastic treatment by drugs. . With those who having held two sponges to a patient, forthwith announce them selves ns electro-therapeutists, tho physicians of the Electropathio Insti tute, have nothing in common. Theso are tho men. that bring discredit upon tho scienco Doth with the pro fession and the public, by overdoing tho applications, not only In strength, but in length and frequency, by treating nil cases alike by routine mechanical applications, regardless either of tho disease or the pecu liarities of the patient. Tho usage of elec tricity is a special study of the greatest practical importance, tho difference in re sult between a very gentle and short appli cation and a strong and protracted one be ing all tho difference between agreeable sne ccss and very painful failure. To distin guish between the various gradations that lie between tolerance and susceptibility is the business of a scientist, not of a mounte bsudc ox trifler. PRACTICAL RESULTS Citing Incidences of the Remarkable EC ficacy of Electrical Treatment in Various Diseases. CATARRH OF EIGHT YEARS' STANDj ING Thq patient was 23 years of age, had been afflicted with nasal catarrh for years. After CO applications tho result was a corny plete recovery. HEART DISEASE AND DROPSY-Lady 35 years of aze, suffering with general dropsy, abdomen distended and low er limb J doable their natural size. Patient frail and delicate, had suffered for years from valvu lar diseaso of the heart resulting from artic ular rheumatism. Electrization proved of f;roat benefit, relieving the pressure on the ungs and alleviating distress. RHEUMATISM OF LONG STANDING Patient, a railroad engineer, 42 years of age, suffered from rheumatism three years. Treated by general electrization six weeks. Gradually improved, and when treatment was discontinued remained free from any symptom of lite disorder. CONSUMPTION Patient prononnccd in. curable at the hospitals. Woman 35 j ears of age. consumption nereuitary in iamny. Still under treatment and improving. Gained 33 pounds in weight. Benefit of. electrization apparent in tho muscular de velopment it is causing and the greater amount of oxygen it enables the lungs to breathe. ECZEMA, 12 YEARS'STANDING Patient, a servant girl, 30 years old. chronic eczema, itching and pain intolerable, eruption, very red, angry and rapidly extending. Refused, to yield to any treatment that had been given. After two months' treatment by electrization patient was "discharged, cured." DYSPEPSIA ratient, a. lawyer 43 years of nge, retained appetite but had constant! burning in stomach, sinking sensation, rcirunruntions. soar taste, headache and inclination to vomit. Twenty applications in a period or two months resulted in an approximate cure. NEURALGIA Patient. 63 years of age, contractor, suffered excruciating torturd from the worst forms of facial neuralgia, acq or eating attended with great sunenng Three applications reduced pain andinsia weeKs was aiscnargea completely cureu. NEURASTHENIA DEI5ILITYAND S1CH HEADACHES Patient. 2(5 Tears old. clerk comnlained nrincinallv of ncrvou3 and sick headaches, melancholy, no ambition, no in4 tercst in w ork or friends, sleep broken and) restless, appetite poor, losing in weight! AuoriwoiQoninsoi treatment uy tneuirixa tion, nnds himself in perfect neaitiu The cases above cited aro only a few out ofj many. Tho run particulars regarding tne mav be scon nt the ofilces or tho Electr pathic Instituto by any who desire to con-J suit mem. Copyrighted. The statements or Electropathio Institute physicians, which they publish In tho new papers, aro copyrighted by law and any ini mngement upon their rights in tho promises win do vigorously prosecuted. Besults or Experience. For the present we will simply state thao through the physicians of the Electropathio) Institute, the profession and the public am to have the benefits of tho scientific applM cation of electricity. These gentlemen recJ ognize its limitations and are not placing it before tho public as a cure all. Its wonder ful power, within the limits In which they have by practical tet and experience as well as by scientific deduction established its value, will bo set forth no more. I In other words, tho physicians of tho Electropathio Institute will give their electrical treatment for just such diseases and to just such class of patient3 as they have lound it effectivo within the past. They confine their experiments to their laboratories. They do not experiment in their practice. The diseases that they will treat by electricity in Pittsburg aro diseases that they havo cured by elec tricity time and again diseases over which the power or electricity, as a curative agent, has been abnnd tly and unquestion. ably established in their own practice and under their own observation. , Their theories and methods they hold in, common with such men as Wagner, Lunv broso and Matteini, with Corning and Rey nolds, Cogney or London and Gartner, of Vlennn. with these and other scientists of 'the modern school they find electricity potent as an ageut in maladies or the skin and mucus membranes, in diseases or tho nerves and the blood. Its wonderful effects UPON THE NUTRITION IN CASES Of CONSUMPTION and wasted vitality, its marvelous power Tor STIMULATINO NERVE AND 3IUSCLE, tor reaching the tissues and fluids or the body, RELIEVING PAIN, DESTROYING GERMa AND MODI FYING 3IORBID PROCESSES, theso are not too conclusions or theory, Dut tne demon strations of their own practice and expert ence. The physicians In charge of this Institute, . receive and successlully treat all patient, '" suffering from chronic ailments: NERVOUS DI3EA3E3, BLOOD DISEASES, HIIEUMATISJr, paralysis, neuralgia, scrofula and catarrh. also diseases of the Eye and Ear. Operations in electrical surgery performed by the consulting physicians or tho Institute. Consultation and diagnosis free. Ladles will find a trained female assistant in cnarge or their special department. Office hours: 9 a. si. to 12 M., 2 to 5 P. jr., 7 to S.30 r. x. Sunday: 10 a. M. to 4 r. x. Ail communications addressod I ic 507 PENN AVE., PITTSBURG, PA. 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