IHRiUtJi 121 iKArnTTT?.TA3 TTa WTTi'AtaTPti !BgJ5.fp,?JVs; JIT ehf (- ;? r" .-,ir psrw?3c'tkss5Tei? '. f TWfc -- 'V-' JT3P IKHtiSJBSfe-UlMUWW lij.. MISSISSIPPI'S SOURCE, Wiilrrrl f.ir''iir 7rlls 1'mr lis rmn io Discover It Latolv. TilEKE WAS ASOTflLR SMALL LAKE ifsiucs ILc itascs. to V.hich (he Credit lias I on? L'ecn Give::. THE HZTUUi 0? Tl! EXPWSATIOX Chicaoo, Jan. 2a Mr. TVillard Glazier has filed his report on the objects and re Milts of the expedition of 1881, to find the real source of the Mississippi river, in which he says: "For ncarlv 50 years prior to 1SS1, it had been generally accepted as established beyond question that the ulti mate source of the Mississippi was in Late Itasca, Northern Minnesota. Henry Eowc Schoolcraft, geologist of the Cas Expedi tion and leader of a subsequent exploring party, had announced to the world his dis covery of this lake in the year 1S32, and pronounced it Veritas caput, or true head of the Great River. '"Geographers, map makers, educational publishers, college faculties, and teachers in variably published and taught that the source of the Mississippi was in the lake thus designated by Schoolcraft. However, a few pioneers and others who had come in contact with Indians on the Chippewa Iles- evation stoutlydenied the claim of Itasca to the distinction given it by its discoverer. Tins lact, coupled with an earnest desire to ascertain the truth or error of Schoolcraft, led me to organize an expedition, having for its object the possible settlement of the mooted question. That expedition resulted in locating a hitherto unrecotrnized lake to the south of Itasca as the primal reservoir, on the 2id day of July, 1SSL" Tbe Cause of the Expedition. The dUcoverv that a lake of fair propor- !ion, above and bevondItaca, was the true source of the Mississippi, was followed by an attempt to discredit tbe validity of Mr. Glazier's statements; and misrepreseuta- t tieus were made which rendered it expedi- t - ent tr-at further investigation should be made in that quarter, and in May last an expedition was formed, but it was not until August that it started for the new lake". On August 21 Mr. Glazier says: We broke camp at 7 a. 31., and were soon in our canoes paddling up the southwestern arm of the lake. a it was the intention to establish a camp and base of operations on lire south Mde of the elevation of land which veparate that arm of Itasca from the lake which is the true source of the Missis sipui. As we approached the southern end of Itasca, my companions were more than usually interested. It was this part of Itasca, together with the fine lake beyond, and their respective feeders, which have occupied the attention of geographers for the past ten years. Directly in front of us was a small stream, known as fine or Nicollet creek, the outlet of ponds situated in marshes to the southward. This creek, and the ponds in which it originates were named by my party in 18bl, but have since been visited, christened and rechristened so manv times by two or three gentlemen from St. Paul, tha. it is now very doubtful if the people of Minnesota or elsewhere have any definite idea of their claim to consideration. The Month of tbe Infant Itiver. "We now sought the mouth of the infant Mississippi, the view being obstructed, as during my former visit, by a rank growth of reeds, rushes and wild rice. Fixing my eye Won a small pine which marks the precise point of entrance, we turned our canoes and pushed them through the dense vegetation out into the clear water of the inlet. I was now in ciy old tracks, ascending the stream which originates in the lake which has, for more than a decade, been the central figure in geographical discussion in this country. "We continued to move up the stream until stopped by fallen trees, then, landing, wc hastened forward on foot to the crest of the hill which overlooks Lake Glazier and its outlet. Much has been said and written since my former 'isit to this interesting spot tending to throw discredit upon my announcement of that date, and yet I hon estly believe and feel confident that I shall be able to maintain that this extensive body of water the Pokegania oT the Chippewas renamed after me bv the companions of myfirst expedition, is the primal reservoir, Jhat it was not so considered prior to onr expedition of 18S1, and that we were the first to correctlv locate its feeders and es tablish its true relation to the 3Iississippi river. Exploring Urite Itasca's Feeders. "The next dav Surveyors Horton and Keay, accompanied by Messrs. Cobb, Crane, Cutting, Whitney and myelf, proceeded to the mouth of Pine or Nicollet creek. The length, width, depth and velocity of this trcam were to be ascertained by careful Mieisurement. We found it was 10 feet at its mouth aud 2V feet deep. We then as ueaded the creek, and came to a small pond, r rather a floating bog, which on being measured was found to be less than half an acre in extent. Continuing up the creek, ire reached a second pond, somewhat larger than the first, and a few yards further on, to the origin of the stream in a spring at the .foot of a sandhill. The distance from Lake Itasca to this spring was iound to be 7,307 icet." Then Itasca was coasted for its feeders. The outlets of six small streams were found, two having well-defined mouths, and four filtering into the lake through bogs. The stream flowing from Lake Glazier known js the Infant Mississippi and the one from the Xicollct Valley, are the only affluents of Lake Itasca worthy of consideration. A Mammoth side UH1 Spring. Mr. Glazier, continuing, says: "Excelsior cri-ej. was so named by me lor the reason tbi! it is the longest, and, in its origin, the highest stream which pays tribute to the primal reservoir of the great river. Leav :ni' the promontory, we continued along the southern shore to the mouth of Deer creek, ft here we landed and walked along the w hite sand beach. Our attention was ar rested by the great number of deer and moose tracks indenting the beach. A simi lar incident during mv previous visit caused me to give to the stream falling into the lake at this point the name of Deer creek. On our way back the sound of a waterfall was heard on the eastern shore, which, on examination, we found to originate in a -mammoth spring on the side of a hill, about 40 feet above the lake. "A stream of great velocity rushed down the hillside, and. passing" over broken ground, formed a cascade midway between its source and the lake. The water was largelv impregnated with iron. I inav here ! state that this lake is nearly an oval in ; form, its greatest diameter being a fraction ' less than two miles. Its area is 235 acres, ! and the average depth 45 feel. The water is exceedingly clear ami pn the shallow er parts a pebbl and thickly wooded picturesque, the regularitv aud uniformity t Iiores are extremely i ,,a'.";lIU '; auuros ms icsi5iaiure mine of the trees and their luxuriant loiiage giving the scene an artistic semblance to an extensive park, lather than a wild product " of nature. The pme, spruce, tamarack and several varieties of hardwood, including oak, beech, birch and maple, were observed from our canoe, gracefully bending to the "" parsing breeze. " Conclusion Reachc-tl by the Part. Several more days were passed in the neighborhood exploring the streams and exploiting the lakes: Mr. Glazier describes these at length and thsn finds the following ' conclusions: That Lake Itasca cannot longer be recog , tMd as the origin of the Mississippi, frr f: (He reason tha. it is the custom, agreeably 4o the definition of geographers, to fix upon f remotest water, and a lake, if possible, 'f as tire source of a river. That the lake to 5j 'the south of Itasca, connected therewith by A-(a permanent stream, is the primal reservoir, or true source; that it was not so considered prior to the visit of my party in 1881, and Xiitbat we were the first to locate its feeders correctly and establish its true relation to the great river. J . That Schoolcraft could not have seen the J -! lake located bv me. else he would have as. ! signed to it its true chsra-ter in the narra- j tivc of his expedition. Thai Xicollet, who I followed Schoolcraft, coild not have been I nwnre of il printpnot. rji tit? rives it no place upm his map, or inscription in the j arcount ot his explorations. TSw take N'f- Known firfors 1811. That Julius Chambers did not see this ; lake, as his published statements demon- j strate most clearly and concl'invely that be ascended Xicollet creek to the first pond on that s-tream, and describes a lakelet in a "floating bog," instead of the large ami beautiful lake which is now rcgardd S3 tha source of the Mississippi. Finally, whatever the verdict on the merits cf my claim to have been the first to definitely locate the lake beyond Itasca as the source of the Mississippi, and to have published it to ih world, it was certainly not known tc the white inhabitants o'f Northern Minnesota prior to 1881. Lake Itasca was still recognized as the fountain head, was so nlaced upon ail mops and taught as such in all theschools of the coun try. I siinnlv claim to have established the fact that there is a beautiful lake above and beyond Itasca, ider and deeper than that lake, with woodland shores: with five constantly flowing streams for its feeders, and in every way worthy of the position it ocenpies as the primal reservoir, or true 'source of the Mississippi. THE COST OF THE OHIO. ACoutraC Which TOndc the Government to f.iy a Heavy Sam. Bostox, Jau. 29. SpeciaL Captain Selfridge, Commandant of the Charleston !Navy Yard, received a dispat'eb this morn ing from tho Xavy Department at Wash ington, ordering the discontinuance of all work at once on the steamship Ohio, which was chartered last week by the Government for the purpose of utilizing her as a floating repair shop for possible use in Chilean waters. Every preparation had been made for fitting her out for immediate service, and part of the work had already been com menced. The regular crew comprising about 03 men, were discharged yesterday, and a crew of men selected from the recruits aboard the receiving ship Wabash wcre- ordered to get themselves in readiness to take their places. Nearly 53,00t) worth of work had been accomplished when the orders to stop arrived this morning. In chartering the Ohio the Government has gone jto a considerable expense. The contract with the owners, who, it is said, are the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad, is a very binding one. The Gov ernment must keep her for 90 days, and pay a sum of 5500 a day for the use of her. If she is lost or destroyed the United States will be a loser to the amount of 5100,000, the price claimed for her by the owners. Under no circumstances will the ship be re ceived by the owners in any other condi tion than that in which she left their hands. There are other important clauses laid down in the contract which the representatives of the United States Xavy Department will have to follow closely if they desire to save their Government enormous expense. MESSENGER TiOTS their present and fatty e prospects, hy Manager G. V. It. Frost, in THE DISPATCH to-inorrow. M0 WITHE8SE3 TO S&.VS IX An OH Well Torpedo Companj SoaVed for the Price of an Ic? llous. Wakeei.", Pa., Jan. 29. SpccaL In Xovember, 18S9, the Oil Well Torpedo Company, of this place, sent one of its nitro-glycerine boats, loaded with that explosive, down the Allegheny river for delivery to a cus tomer. The boat landed below Oil City, outside the limits. Its red danger signal flag was displayed, as the law requires. John Green and Samuel Wall were hunting in that vicinity. There is no positive evidence of the fact, but cir cumstances indicate that there was no doubt that these men, seeing the red flag, thoughtlessly made of it a target and fired at it. Some of the shot struck one of the nitro-glycerine cans in the boat. At any rate, soon after the two hunters had been seen going toward the river and imme diately after the report of the guns was heard a frightful explosion occurred. The nitro-glycerine boat had blown up. The scattered fragments of the two men were found ia the vicinity, and Breen & Fair's big icehouse on the river bank was completely demolished. The owners of the icehouse sued the torpedo com pan v for the destruction of the icehouse. The case has just been tried for the second time, and both were decided in favor of the ice men, who have recovered a judgment for 51,500. The defense could not prove that the explosion was caused by the target practice on the part of. the two hunters, which was the ground on which the com pany denied responsibility. AKOTHESAIKY SENSATION. A Pal of Crlstio Warden's Mnrderer Haunting the Famous Barn. Hastovek, N. H., Jan. 29. The famous Warden barns, at the home of Almy's vic tim, have been thoroughly searched this afternoon by about 40 college students under the direction of Prof. C. H. Pettee, with some expectation of finding a man be lieved by the Wardens to be lurking there abouts with intent to do them harm. The family has received several anonymous let ters declaring the intention of the writer to take the lives ot members of the family. Unaccountable noises at night have been heard around the barn, cows have been milked and strange tracks have been seen in the snow around the buildings. These facts led to the belief in an in truder, and this belief was strengthened about two weeks ago when a strange man was discovered in a dark passageway of the barn. He dashed quickly out of doors and next morning his tracks were followed some distance, but were lost in the highway. Opinions differ as to whether it was a tramp or an old pal of Amy's, bent on carrying out the threats made in the letters. In the hunt to-day every possible hiding place was gone into, and sharp-pointed rods were re peatedly thrust into the big haymows, but nothing was found. HUMOIt br Bob Iturdctto in THE DIS I'ATCll to-morrow. WATTEESON BEFOKE A XEGISLATUBR Tariff It-form Is thr Democratic Keynote in Concres and thn Cainpaicn Jackson, miss., Jan. 29. The presence of Hon. Henry Watterson in the city to-dav was signalized by the passage of the liichly- prescctati In his remarks Mr. Watterson said the Democratic party in Congress is practically united tip'in the issue ot roenue reform, and that" thii would undoubtedly be the keynote to the present sessions of Congress and the leading issue of the coming Presi dental campaign. He expressed no prefer ences as between individual Democrats, but declared that whatever ticket the coming National Democratic Convention nominates will teceive his hearty support. Governor j Stone has received a telegram from ex. 'resident Cleveland in response to his tele gram of Jauuary 27, conveying the invita tion to visit the Capitol as the gnest of Mississippi. 3Ir. Cleveland regrets it is impossible for him to accept. Fplsc Kronomy Is practiced by many people, who buy in ferior articles of food because cheaper than standard goods. Surely infants are entitled to the beit food obtainable. It is a fact that the Gail Borden ".Eagle" Brand Condensed Milk is the best infant food. Your grocer ecps it. - I CUlUlBLlli It-fLUb 1C3U1UL1UI1 III. Llir LHII Illllltl'V I At . 1 nfftf 14 lAInf Aa Al ti inn At- 41h 4 m XJ . . ire, revealing in j , ,r ..." ,T ., .... , v bed. Its high C the M'niwippi Legislature inviting Mr. .representatives liai:. .It STORAGE BATTERIES TO BE USED. A i'eir Tolkinjr Machine That Is Taking Indiana Lj Storm. WHEILS AND C01S TOTIKTO NEW USES There -5il i?on b? exhibited in the streets of Boston an electric carriage, which is de cidedly novel and useful. The problem of applying electric power to the work of proi pelling wagons is one that has previously occupied the attention of inventors. All that is required to make such a result possi ble is a light vehicle, suitable for city use, au efficient electric motor and storage bat teries cf medium weight and lirg? canacity. In 1888, a dog cart was electrically fitted by a Loudon firm, for the Sultan of Turkey, weighing 1,100 pounds in all; and with a motor of only one-horse power this cart could make ten miles an hour on a level. Such a weight is certainly not too great for American carnage builders to provide for. It has always seemed to us that it would pay manufacturers to take up this uew line. If they can build the apparatus and rent it. furnishing the power, for 512 to 520 a month, uot counting the cost of the vehicle, they could place several thousand in the city of New York or Boston alone. The stable nuisance in large cities isfast becoming intolerable, and the public will be in sympathy with and support any effort that is made in the direction of its abatement. People who love horses will continue to own and to use them; but it is reasonably safe to assert that if an electric vehicle for pleasure purposes can be built, combining speed, ease of control aud dura bility, it will at once fiud a large field for its profitable use, provided of course that it can compete with the horse. The vehicle, which we illustrate here with, is a Boston production. The vehicle is easily explained by the illustration. The motor is mounted centrally on the front axle, with the armature above and parallel with the axle; on cac.1 end of the armature shaft is a crank disk y,.. .ii 4it, V'-W v 'J.i 1, '!.. n vsr k'W'l fromnhich extend two connecting rods to clutches below the axle, these clutches be ing mounted upon short shafts, arranged to revolve beneath the axle, with pinions mounted upon the outer end and set to mesh into gears mounted upon the hubs of the wheels. The motor is of a closed-field type, work ing at 1,000 revolutions per minute, with a potential of 40 volts. Upon a level grade, a speed of from 10 to 15 miles an hour can be accomplished. The steering apparatus aud brake, attached to the same, are in genious and readilv operated by the person in charge of the vehicle. Helving upon these auxiliary attachments, the steepest hills may be climbed with impunity. The vehicle .cannot go backward, unless so directed. Should the motor faii to act, a connection break, or an accident of any kind occur the carriage will stop (and this irrespective of the brake. ) Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the storase celU, with which the carriage is fitted, will also furnish light and heat, if requisite, at but slight increase in cost of running. A few words must be said in regard to the storage cells to be used on this vehicle. They are of a type which neither infringes nor even suggests any storage cell hitherto shown. A Lugo cell, while weighing nearly tvo-thirds less, will equal the capacity of any other known cell of similar superficial area. It will thus be seen that, for road carriages, a suitable storage cell has already been Invented, notwithstanding the un happy litigation, which has been waged all theselater ytars. Taken as'a whole, the combination is de cidedly in the line of progress. Anot careful investigation and test disclose no defects that cannot be easily remedied. As a method of propulsion it is admirably adapted for all business purposes, effecting a saving of money aud time; for the transportation of passengers and baggage over routes where travel is insufficient to justify the laying of rails; over hilly or otherwise difficult roads, coaches could thus be run with profit, with all the advantages gained of a regularly constructed electric railwav. This cut shows the gramophone or speak ing machine, seen in London for the first time this season. The gramophone steadily recites "Old Mother Hubbard," and 'this without the least prepar- ation or special skill on the part of the manipulator! We slip off one disc and re place it with another, turn the handle arain and one hears "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," "Sing a Song of Sixpence" or "Who Killed Cock Kobin?" A London journal speaks favorably of what is termed the latest addition to the many products obtained from coal tar, an article described as possessing all the de sirable properties of India, rubber. A method has been discovered by a German chemist, it appears, by which, after the tar has been refined by means of sulphuric acid, the residum can be worked up by simple manipulation into a black mass bearing in appearance a very close resemblance to or dinary asphalt, but at the same time having the well-known characteristic of elasticity possessed by India rubber. On beiug sub mitted to continuous aud intense heat the material, n is said, can be decreased in bulk some 50 or 60 per cent, under which operation it acquires a great degree of hard ness, but at the same time verv elastic. In the original or soft state the material is a kind ot mineral rubber asphalt, but when dissolved in naphtha it becomes a fine water proof varnish, suitable for forming Hnr- J able and reliable covering, especially for I most textile substance?. Another ingenious mechanism has been added to the vast number evolved in rail road economics m the present instance a new kind of clock, the peculiar capabilities of which it is thoueht nresent unri-ial orl. i Tantageg to locomotive engineers. The diil QTTPI?Q fW QPTI?TPtlM OLIUCjU JV OuLJliXVjiJt t i Electric Force lor Propelling Car- i iii- ti i riaijeS JJalUng llCaawaYt ( WTO Plate 'and' figures areoflarge size, as are also both the hour and minute hands, and the operation of these latter constitutes the novel feature in the invention. As a train whl";ls p4, a 8ta"n, the hour and minute "Rn(ls whirl around like a flash to mark the, correct time, and a red bullseye flashes into the dial; live minutes later tne rea ngnt turns green, and in five minutes more the green light disappears. The engineer on the next train following can thus tell ex actly how manv minutes ahead is the train that precedes Him. Tho clock is a perfect timekeeper, and when the train passes drops the signal light. Some time ago, says a writer in the Ln glith JTaJianic, an idea for a mousetrap sug gested itself to me, which I carried into effect, and the results were highly satisfac tory. My trap was as follows: I procured an caithenware glazed "pan, about two feet high and 18 inches across the top, which was half filled with water; then placed two strips of wood, about four inches wide, across the pan. In the center I placed a diamond shaped piece of wood, with two nails, one at each of the two points which rested on the iour-inch boards; one end of the diamond rested on the pan, and at the other end a piece of cheese was tied, as shown in the sketch. Then I placed a narrow board, running from the floor on to the edge of the pan for the mice to reach the cheese men tioned above; in trying to do this the extra weight of the mouse, or mice, sends the diamond board downwards, and into the water the little pests are thrown. The beauty of this trap Is if arranged properly it resets itself every time a capture is made. By a new process now being introduced the coloring of sheepskins for rugs, etc., has been much simplified, while at the same time the appearance is said to be considera bly improved beyond the ordinary article. According to this method the skins, after being tanned in the usual manner, are well watered and nailed flat on a board of corre sponding size, with flesh side downward. A bath or beck is made up with the colors re quired, and the beard with the skin allowed to float upon it, so that the wool hangs downward; the beck is then gradually heated up to the temperature necessary for dyeing, care being taken that no waves are produced the point of consideration in this respect beiug not to allow full boiling to be reached and, after the dyeing is accom plished, the skin is rinsed on the board, then loosened and dried. If many skins are to be dried, large, shallow vats and casks are fitted up, upon which may float the boards, the latter to be well dried to pre vent warping. In a recent paper on steel, read bv Dr. Anderson before the Iron Institute, Eng land, he is reported as saying that when a piece of solid iron is thrown info a pot of molten iron or steel, the solid metal at first sinks, which shows that its volume is less than the melted substance, but soon the solid piece becomes heated, -which causes it to expand, its volume is increased, and it risas and floats on the surface of the molten mass. The action is remarked as being tho same both with iron aud steel, and is ex hibited at once on simply throwing a piece of iron into melted steel, when it can easily be seen to go down, a movement which might be thought to be due to the impetus attained by the piece of iron falling that height, but, as a matter of fact, the iron, if placed upon a fork and lowered without any such impetus, would go downrin the course of a few seconds, however, it comes up again, and keeps on expanding until the piece ot iron is a considerable distance above the surface of the metal, when it de creases in volume, aud, of course, becomes of the same volume as the molten metal metal which it joined. SEW YORK GOSSIP, by Arthur Brisbane and Charles T. Murray, in THE DISPATCH to-morrow. A Bfg Regular Army. The mightiest host of this sort is the army of invalids whose bowels, livers and stom achs have been regulated by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. A regular habit of body is brought about through using the Bitters, not by violently agitating and griping tho in testines, but by reinforcing their energy and causing a flow of the bile into its proper channel. Malaria, la grippe, dyspepsia and a tendency to inactivity of the kidneys, are conquered by the Bitters. To the Saloon and Private Trade. As the season is now at hand for ale and porter, the Straub Brewing Company take pleasure in announcing to the saloon and private trade that they are prepared to nil all orders promptly. We also claim that our celebrated brands of "Pilscner" and "Munich" lager beer cannot be excelled by auy brewers of the States. We guarantee our beer to be. four and one-half months old and all our coods are made of the verv best quality of hops and malt. Ask the saloon trade lor it or telephone Ho. 5038. The Straub Brewing Co. Corner Main street and Liberty avenue. ITS His Fame Is Widespread. Kennedy's restaurant at No. 2 Sixth street is popular among shoppers and ladies generally who wish to get a nice lunch while downtown. Kennedy's fame as a caterer is widespread, and there are no weddings of note or social gatherings that he is not called upon to serve. His name adds so much to affairs of this kind that it is the proper thing to secure his services. TTSSU The National Capital v Can be visited at an extremely low rate by availing yourself of the opportunity offered : Dy the Pennsylvania Jtailroad special ex I ciirsion to Washington, D. C., Thursday, ! February 4. Rate $10 00 from Pittsburg, good ten days, with stop off in Baltimore within limit granted. Tickets sold for all trains that day except "limited express." A special train will leave Union station at 9:00 a. si. in addition thereto. Grip Gets the Blame, But in a great many cases it is not the grip, but impure, unwholesome food that is re sponsible for sickness. Crackers, for in stance, that have been transported a long distance and stored in damp, moldy ware houses are very apt to breed disease. The way to avoid this is to buy only fresh, wholesome crackers, made right here in Pittsburg. That's the kind Marvin's are. Don't be fooled into buying crackers or cakes that are said to be "just as good." Insist on having Marvin's and you may bo sure of having the purest, the freshest, the best in the market. wssu Holmet' Best Monongahela Pure Itye Whisky was first introduced in this market in 1858. It has held its own as one of the leaders ever since. Always uniform in quality and purity. " us Blaine's Name Booms Alongside of that of Maginn, whose crack ers and confections are always strictly pure and fresh. Ask your grocen E. Maginn, 913-915 Liberty street; 80 Federal street, -Allegheny. 600 Men Wanted At once to save (3 on a pair ot $6 merchant tailor made pants, which we are selling at 53. Misfit Clotiun o Pabloes, 516 Smithfield itreet. rVirir ?si55' v imp W . ) eSL-J7 WP MSSPd IA WEEK Ilf M0R0GC0. Edgar L. Wakeman's 'en Pictures of the' Shores of Two Continents. THE ODD LANDING AT TANGIER. Weird Sight Experience! in the Interest ing Moorish City. AT THE MEDITERRANEAN'S ENTRANCE fconnisposDENCE or the dirfatcii.i Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 15. At Tavira we had no difficulty in securing passage in a staunch coasting steamer, ply ing between Lisbon and Cadiz. After a day in the latter, once the emporium of the world and still the most winsome and beau tiful city of Spain, we sailed on a smaller vessel, little better than a ferryboat, for tho African coast, touching for an hour at Tarifa, the southernmost city of continen tal Europe, but 15 miles southwest of Gibraltar. In this less than 100 miles from Cadiz there are innumerable scenes and memories of wondrous imprcssivencss. Cadiz itself was the Tarshish of Bible history, Juno's wondrous island, and the glorious Iberia of Anacreon and Homer. At the end of the fourth century it was the richest, most brilliant, and most profligate city in the world. Then the Goths and the Arabs pos sessed it, the latter for 500 years from the eighth century, when Alfonso the Learned retook it in 12G2. What a vision of riches and pillage comes with vanishing sight of the beautiful citv, when its American treasure is remembered. The old writers tell that in the one year of 1792 the gold and silver imported at Cadiz from America amounted to 5125,000,000; and away back of this, when the English Lord Essex sacked and pillaged Cadiz, the booty amounted to 40 great galleons and 13 ship's of war laden with American gold. Travel on Historical Waters. In anjiour's time you have come abreast of Cape Trafalgar. "Your steamer's course is through the very waters where Nelson won his immortal victory over the combined fleets of Gravina and Villcneuve. All the mighty paintings you have seen, all the majestic monuments to Nelson underneath whose shadows you have stood, all the thrilling prose and verse you have read upon this inspiring theme, fill and thrill your mind and heart, until the air is dimmed with smoke, the hoarse bellowings of can non deafen you, the sheets of flame from those two solid columns of war ships bund you, the shrieks of wounded and dvintr and the crashing of masts add to the conjured horror all for an instant, may be; but no poet or painter has ever brought its glory and savagery to your comprehension so matchlessly as your own brief presence there. Aud now Tarifa is reached; Tarifa cele brated of all cities of the Latin race for the fatal beauty of its women; Tarifa where the besieging Moors put to death the son of Don Alfonso before his eyes in an attempt to effect the city's surrender; w here mighty battles between the Kings of Castile and Spain against the Moors were fought be neath its walls; where once 4,000 Itoman sons came and took to themselves their pick of Spanish women; where the Berbers first met the dispirited armies of IJoderick, last of the Goths; Tarifa with its scores of tow ers and gatea, labarynthinestreets.balconies hidden behind masses of flowers, and its half-Spanish, halt-Moorish scenes aud life which taunt and tempt ravishingly to dallv ing and delay. Across the Strait of Gibraltar. From this point, as vour course is set in the southwest for Tangier almost straight across the Strait of Gibraltar, the scene on every hand is one of matchless beauty and grandeur. Back to the northwest stretches the Spanish coast line to Trafalgar, low lying along the sea, but 'with a background of undulating foothills, breaking into deep gorges, and capped by lofty sierras, the whole checkered by vineyards and dotted with cities and hamlet", in the distance as white as flakes of snow. Back across the waters to the northeast looms gray old Gibraltar, a line of fishing villages, arsen als, quays aud moles at its base like a slen der ribbon of loam, its thousands of threat ening cannon above hidden and summitted by terraces bright and vices and gardens fair. Beforn yon is Africa, warm and glowing beneath a midwinter sun. Away to the southeast is the shadowy .peak of Ape's Hill, at whose base Ceuta lies. A grand and diversified coast stretches westward, past as yet invisible Tangier, to Cape Spartel, the northwesternmost point in Africa. .Feasting with eager and selfish delight upon the glorious shores of two continents, I had lose sight of honest Dobrado; Dobrado who was f o have returned to his place by the babbling fountains of Lisbon, from Beja, should I persist in tramping thence to Tavira and the sea; Dobrado who was now sworn servitor and friend; Dobrado broad of grin as Gargantua, and of beam as Quixote's no less faithful snuire: Dobrado whom I found with lowering eyes and hid eous face, as rapt as I had been, scowling with unutterable hate at the fair land of the Moors. The Gallecan Gets Confused. I touched the Gallegan gently upon the shoulder, and my eyes sought "his inquir ingly. He trembled and was wofully con fused for a moment. Then his great blue. eyes saddened anu ne said soitly and slowly, as though his heart meanwhile traveled a long and bitter way: "There is not a choza (cabin) from Finis terre to Palencia in which there does not hang some forefather's gaita, or hoz (sickle) or sword upon the wall, under which the Gallegan boy is not daily brought to swear vengeance for the murders of the Moor!" As I pondered over Dobrado's dramatic action and words, I could not but feel that, after all, it is a pleasant thing to live, as wc Americans do, so far removed from end less mental, if not physical, clashings of these awful hereditary religious hatreds of the centuries. But just now we have rounded Cape Mala bar and Tangier lies before us like a mass of foam churned in the seething tides of Gib raltar Strait, and tossed into structural semblance upon the mountain-rimmed shore of the bay, There is no mole, quay or pier at Taneiers: and we came to anchor near the shelving shore, where the harborside traffic goes on with wondrous din, and the Moorish cus toms officers squat upon their haunches transacting their duties in severe silence and gravity. On either side were number less fellucas, with strange craft from the lower Mediterranean, and perhaps two score of French, Spanish, English and Dutch schooners, barks and brigs. Bather a lone- some harborjseems that of Tangier; and, the two uuge riusn men-01-war, wnicn nau been lyingnere several days in view of possible danger to British interests from the threatened revolt of interior tribes, who seem always to be about to be doing some thing unpleasant, brought again the keen and humiliating longing I have had in a hundred other ports, that the American Government possessed sufficient character and dignity to make our flag a tithe as well respected as any other that floats the seas. The Landlns at Tangier. Getting ashore at Tangier is not alto gether a stately performance. Scarcely had our steamer anchored, when there came swarming over the rail from all quarters a horde of swarthy turbaned harbor porters, dressed in the natural black 'leathern skin of Morocco, many with huge rings in their tars, danglets and banglets ot tinkling metals and bright sashes, barelegged and barefooted, or shod with loose sandals; all as uncanny and weird a lot as ever looted a ship and butchered its crew in the good old days of Moorish piracy and pillage. Formerly these black imps grabbed trav elers bodily, lifted them astride their backs or shoulders -And traded uhore with them. Recehtly a diminutive landing-stage, has been built, but the treatmentvis"quite as ferocious. Ordinarily the stranger's be longings are seized and pitched into ft half dozen different small boats and himself made the unwilling subject of a fierce scram ble, after which the victor pulls and hauls his victim into still another boat, aud rushes him to tha land where a separate bribe must be paid for the recovery of each ar ticle, and a final heavy tribute ia exacted for one's own liberation. Precisely the same form of treatment is repeated on your way toa hotel with your own effects; but once within the great gates leading into the city from the harbor side, and you are safer from annoyance and exaction than in any other Moorish or Christian city in the world. Good fortune had more than once at tended me through the alert and cunning service of Dobrado, and it stood me now in good stead, getting me on African soil unrelieved of as much as a copper fln; al though his rugged diplomacy at first sub jected me to some disquiet. Standing in front of me, as each furious onslaught by a porter was made, and without apparent effort of his giant strength, first with his open right band and then with his left, he sent African, Moor, Berber and what not, alike sprawling to the steamer's deck. Each jumped nimbly to his .feet and slunk humbly away. Meeting of Two Affectionate Kinsmen. Suddenly a fellow, swarthy as a Moor, with hair and matted beard, black, curling and glossy as Astrakhan wool, sprang from the crowd full upon Dobrado. Visions of tragedies, dungeons in the Kasba, consular courts of inquiry and international compli cations flashed before me. The two clinched: parted; clinched again; and, after various alarming contortions, fell in what still seems to be a terrific embrace together upon their knees. Then such kissing and em bracing began as I had never before seen be tween man and man, man and woman, or stranger still, between woman and woman. Soon they arose utterly breathless but radiant. Dobrado half dragged the hulking fellow to me, and after the latter had em braced my still trembling knees, Dobrado said apologetically but laconically: "I feared I would not meet him, Senor. He is my kinsman, from Mondonedo. be side the Itia de Foz. You know the Galle gans go wherever there is money for toil. He is half-time portero and half-time does some service for a merchant here who has traffic with Valladolid." And then hesi tantly: "Perhaps Senor could find him use ful in Tangier?" '"Senor" could aud did., "Senor," the writer, shuns great hotels in'his wanderings; loves toknow the lowlv, and irom their standpoint of thinking, feeling and condi tion, to thus look through thebackwindows of foreign life and ways. No Street Geography at AH. No one can wholly tell another what Tangier is like within its ancient city walls. It lias no street geography. Though it contains scarcely more than 20,000 souls, its own inhabitants get lost within it; and there is but one street or way in which the stranger is safe from absolute wreck of con sciousness of location. This extends up ward irom tne harbor side to the soc-de-Barra, the great outside market place of Tangiers, just where you leave the city on the way to Fez, Morocco's capital. Once a dozen yards away from this narrow thor oughfare of bazaars, and the prompting to prayer to Allah or Allah's subjects for sne cor is a quickly realized experience. But for Dobrado aud his kinsman, I should have turned back, passed the night outside the great city gate upon the shore beneath the stars and some handy tarpaulin, and incontinently fled the place upon the next day's steamer for Gibraltar. As it was. I kept close to my Gallegan guides. The evening had fallen before we had entered the city. The single thoroughfare was a babel of donkeys, camels, goats, water car riers, bare-legged African soldiers and mer chants closing their tinv shops. The din of "Balakl Balak! Bala'k!" the equivalent for our "Look out!" bhrieked by thousands of voices in the choky, chasm-like street, was deafening. Scores of times on our half mile way we were ground aeainst buildings, wedged between camels or flung into pitch black archways. After an hour's struggle, we turned from this main thoroughfare and plunged in and upward among a maze of streets, so narrow that opposing wans could be touched by outstretched hands. The silence here was as startling as had been the din. Now and then perhaps a ghostly figure flitted up. Here aud there was heard the wimpling sound of water from overflowing fountains. Occasionally a muffled form asleep beneath an archway was stumbled upon. Not a light was seen in the whole distance. But for the stars overhead, it was like groping torchless through the catacombs. A Night in the Eand of the Moors. At last Dobrado's kinsman halted. AVith the hilt of his heavy knife, almost S3 pon derous as a Cuban machete, he knocked loudly upon a barred and bolted door. A black face peered savagely from a tiny wicket. There was parley which sounded like a mixture of the Komany tongue and Gallegan Spanish. The wicket closed and soon an old man clad in flowing robes, at tended by the African, returned. We were admitted to what seemed the dungeon ante chamber to a larger dungeon. Directly uoDrauo s Kinsman suoweu tne way up some slippery stone steps. Following a long gallery, we soon emerged into the open air. Tflence we were conducted along what appeared to be a crumbling parapet, and I was finally led into a room perfectly bare of furniture. The place seemed to be a de tached structure set upon a housetop, abut ting against the walls of a still loftier abode. Some fine rugs were brought for a pallet. The African almost as soon appeared with a cut brass lamp, a cup of tea in which mint leaves were floating and a small roll of white bread. He deposited these in tbe middle of the floor and disappeared. Do brado, who was to pass the night with his kinsman, showered the blessings of God upon me and left. I relished my food, put out my antique lamp, wrapped myself in my splendid rugs, and passed my first night in the land of the Moors in sweet and dreamless sleep. EdgaV'L. Wakeman. MAltn. TWAIN'S story with summary or prevlom installments, in THE DISPATCH' to-morrow. Combination to Collect Bills. Wilkinsburg grocers have determined to follow the example of the doctor; in the matter of dealing with bad debts. They will not servo anyone who has let a debt run, and a debt owed to one grocer will be tbe concern of all. This arrangement has' been threatened by the grocers for a long time, and now that they find the plan works well with the doctors, they are determined to carry it out without more delay. Besides tho grocers, tne butchers and other mer chants will follow tho method. Somo who have already acted, on this arrangement say that they do a utgger business than ever, and that it has the advantage ol being all cash. . Pabst Tilue Elbbon Beer. Parties wishing to get the Blue Ribbon should not be deceived by dealers who are handling cheaper and inferior grades. None genuine without tbe blue ribbon. Pabst Brewesg Co. DREAMS that tell of coming event dis cussed by Dr. William A. Hammond In THE DISPATCH to-morrow. The Late FIELDMARSHALMOLTKE Never suffered from a cold or catarrh, simply because be al ways used the Soden Mineral Pastilles when going outdoors from a heated room during tho winter months. lie at tested tho effi cacy of Soden Mineral Pas tilles in a letter iiisB with his auto graph signature aaaresseu t o Soden Mineral Springs Co., of Soden, Ger many. Beware of Imitations. The genuino im- Sortcu must have the signature 01 "Eisner & endelson Co.," New York, around each box. JEW ADVERTISEMENTS. B. & B Evep the odd or surplus lots of MUST GO THESE STOCK-TAKING T Good ones to-day that the people will come for if they read this, and if they don't and happen in and see glove values they'll buy. Gents' English Walking Craven Tan Gloves, spear points and im perial stitching, 50 cents. Gents' Mocha Palm Driving Gloves, $1. Gents' heavy black Suede Walk ing Gloves (Dent's make) 1.25. Odd lines of Ladies' Evening Gloves, 12 and 16-button lengths, SlA to 631 $1.25. ' For Boys and Girls small sizes, 3 to 6 years fine heavy Tan Kids, stitched backs, 50 cents. A good lot Ladies' White and Natural best Chamois Mousquetaires, siza6 to 7, 50 cents. ' Space prevents mention of numer ous lots of Children's, Ladies', Boys' and Men's Cashmere and other Gloves that are out on counter for to-day's sales at prices there will be no conversation about. We don't say these Gloves are or j4 -price, but we say they're good and .they are odd lines, and there are a good many, and at the prices affixed their prompt sale is assured. BOGGS&BUHL, ALLEGHENY. ja30-79 TVe make more porous plasters than all other makers in this country combined, because the public appreciate the mer it that exists In our goods. BENSON'S fs the only me dicinal plaster for house hold use, all others being weak imitations. Get tbe Genuine. BMhffli -IfiHM r2" ff JHAYNE5S&. Dj-eTV.t'X' Uv3 VSW MASS. AT THE NEXT MORNING I FEEL BRIGHT AND NEW AND MV COMPLEXION IS BETTER. My doctor says it acts gently on the stomach, liver and kidneys, and lsa pleasant laxative. This drink is made from herbs, and Is prepared for use as easily as tea. Itiscallcd LUlHE'S MIDIGIHE AUdrtunrtstssell It at 50c and 1.00 wr tvu-Jcasre. Eny one to-day. Lane's Family Medicine moTr thn bowels each dav. In order to be healthy, tnU Isncces3ary. de23-24-TWThs EE'S BULLETIN. I sell 5 lbs. Evaporated Raspberries for $1 00; 4 bottles of Catsup for 2jc; 1 doz. fine table peaches for $1 23; 1 doz. West Jersey Tomatoes for $1 00; 1 doz. Egg Plums for $1 20; I dozen fancy California Apricots for $2 00; 10 lbs. Evaporated Peaches for$l 00; L? lbs. Evaporated Apricots for $1 00; 20 lbs. French Currants for $1 01; 12 lbs. French Prunes for $1 00; 70 lbs. Washing Soda for $103. I sell pure white Rock Candy, all on string, a 5 lb. box, at COc. This is 3c a box cheaper than any wholesale store will sell it. I sell Singapore Sifted WlioloPepperSlbs.for $1 00. I sell the finest Four Crown Figa, than which there is nothing finer, at 2 lbs. for23e. It is worth anyone's while to calt and see this bargain in figs. Don't forget, Jordan Shell Almond's at 50c per lb. I have just re ceived an invoice of the finest Marrowfat Beans from New York State. I never had anything prettier, only 10c per quart. I sell all kinds of crackers lower than you can get the same quality any whers. 1 sellasplendld Roasted Coffee at 5 lbs. for $1 OJ. Don't for get, Momaja Coffee at 3 lbs. for $1 00. This is the finest coffee ever sold. "Vancleef Flonr Is still suprcrr.ef Onco a customer for "Vancleef," always a enstomer. There Is but one other bread to be compared to tho Vancleef bread and that is the bread madb of ttiesame Hour. I am selling goods now at a very small margin over cost and all good and economi cal housekeepers will do w ell to avail them selves of tho opportunity of cheap pur chases. Join with your neighbors and make up a $30 order'and get5percent'd!sconnt. Goods delivered to anywhere within 150 miles free of fi eight. JOSEPH M'KEE, Ja30-SAT 36 OHIO ST., Allezhenv. M. MAY, SONS & CO. FINE DYEING AlfD CLEANING. 3! Sixth Avfnni GLOVES 1 a fir JfWv 1 WW M'K .v mhia-CB-TUThs Pittsburg Pa. OIL TVIXI. BOTFLIES. JW. M.'FARLAND, 96 FOURTH AV. - - - PITTSBURG, PA BROKER IN OIL PROPERTIES. ja7-5t-TTS M. V. TAYLOR, on, "SVTSXvIv StTPPIvIES. The Celebrated ALLISON TUBING AND CASINli ALWAYS IN" STOCK. Rooms 33 and JC Fidelity building. Phone 737. de33-TTS HAYS & TREES, Contractors We mate a specialty of buildlmj BATUHAL m il'itS M WATER MIS. Boom 410 Hamilton Bulldlasr, riTTSBUKG, PA. Correspondence solicited. Telephone, 51. mvl-S-TT3 T. FLETCHER GRUBBS W1TIITHE OIL VELL SUPPLY CO., XOS. 91 AXD 02 WATER STREET, PITTSBURG, PA. Estimates furnished on the celebrated Mosul & Innis oil well engines. O. W. t. Co.'s Bed Dome steel boilers. O. W. &. Co.'a tapered joint casingand totv inc. O.W. S. Co.'s drilling and fishing tools. The Philadelphia & New York Cordage, and everything necessary in an oil well out. fit. The patronage of now companies beinr lormed earnestly solicited. Drop a postal Card and I will call on you. Telephone 1271. se-20-la-63a OIL WELL SUPPLY CO., 91 and 92 Water Street, PITTSBURG, PA. noAXns-ao-A STANDARD OIL CO., PITTSBURG, PA. BRAXCII OFFICES: Standard Oil Co., Wheeling. W. Va., Standard Oil Co., Cumberland, MO, Standard Oil Co., Altoona, Pa. Capital City Oil Co., Harrisbnrj, Pa. We mannfactnre for home trade the finest grades orinbricatlng and illuminating oils. Our facilities are such that our statement that wo furnish all oils standard for quality every where cannot be disputed. OUR REFIXED OIL LIST! Water White, 150. Prime White, 1CW. Standard White, 113. Ohio Legal Test. Ohio Water White Legal T03S. Carnadlne (red), ISO Tejt. Olite, 130 Test. OUR NAPIITHA LIST: Deodorized Naphtha for varnisamakerst painters and printers. Gas Naphtha for gas companies. Deodorized Stove Fluid for vapor stovo burners. Fluid, 74 gravity, for street lamps, burn ers and torcheo. Gasoline, 80, S3 a"nd 90 gravity for gas ma chines. OUR LUBRICATING OIL LIST Includes the lincst brands of Cylinder, Engine and Machinery Oils. Spindle, Dynamo, 200 Mineral Seal. Neutral Oils, Miners' O J. Wool Stocks. Pamfflne Oil, Parafflne Wax. Summer and Cold Test Black Oils. Signal and Car Oils. Mica Axle Grease, Bailroad and Mill Grease and Arctic Cup Grease. Where it is more convenient, yon may order from our Branch Offices, irom which points deliveries will bo made. STANDARD OIL COMPANY, Cor. Duijuesne Way and Eighth Street, 1S-H.d . PITTSBURG. PA STEAMERS AND EXCTJ5ION3. STEAMSHIP TICKETS TO AND FROM all parts or Europe, drafts, money or ders, cable transfers and foreign coin at low est New York rates. ilAX SCHAMBEKG A CO.. No. 527 Smithfield St., Pittsburg, Pa. Es tablished in IStW. selO-TTS AMERICAN LINE. Sailing every Wednesday from Philadelphia and Liverpool. Pasengcr accommodations for all classes unsurpassed. Tickets sold to ana from Great Britain and Ireland, Nor way, Sweden, Denmark, etc. INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CO.. General agents, 303 Walnut St., Philadelphia. Full information can be had of J. J. Mo CORMICK, 639 fcmithfleld street. LOUIS MOESER, 61C Smithfield street. mh844vrrs UNABD LINE-NEW YORK AXD LTVEK POOL. VIA QUEKNSTOW.N From Pier 40 Ncrth Klver. Fast express mall service. Etruria. J.in.sa55)a.m.Etrurla. Feb. 17, 5 a. m. Anranla, Feb. fi. 1 v. m.l Auranla, Mch. 5. 11 a. m. Umbria. Feb.lioX)a.m. Cmbrla. Mch. Ii o a. m. Scrrla. Feb. a. 11 a. m.lberrla. Mch. 13.9 a. m. Extra steamers Bothnia, V,"ed., Feb. 10. 2 p. in. liallia. Wed.. Feb. 24. 2 p. m. Cabin passaze. JW and upward, according to lo cation ; seconil cabin. !-. Meerape tickets to aud from all parts of Europe at verv low rates. For'frelslit aud passairs tpplytofheeomnanv office. 4 Bowling Green. New York. VKRNON H. BKOU'N .t CO.. General Agents, or CHARLES P. SMITH. Third av. and Wood St., Agent ror Pitts burg. Pa. JaS-p WHITE STAB LINE For Queenstown and Liverpool. Royal and United stite Mail steamers. Majestic. Feb. 3. 10amMaitlcMar. i, 8:30 am "Adriatic. Fed. 10. .1 pm Germanic. Mar. 9.3 pm Teutonic. Feb. 17. 9 amTeutonIc, Mar. 16. 8am Britannic Fcb.24,2:30pmiBrltannle.Mar.ZM:a)pin From White ijtar lock, root of West Tenth St., New York. Second cabin on these steamers. Saloon rates. t-Y) and upward. Second cabin. $3 and S40. Excur sion tickets on favorable terms. Steerage, from or to old country, ?J0. White i-tar drafts payable on demand In all the principal banlC3 throughout Great Britain. Apply to JOHN J. McCOIUIICK. 6S)and 401 Smithfield St.. Pittsburg. nrll.MAITLAND KEKSEY. Gen eral Agent, 29 Broadway. New York. ja23-D ROYAL MAIL STEAMSIIIP3. GLASGOW TO PHILADELPHIA, Via Derry and Gatway. The mo direct routo from Scotland and North and Middla of Ireland. ACCOMMODATIONS UNSURPASSED. Intermediate, $30. Steerage, $1 5T4TF) Service or I IMP f AIXAX IXPCB LINE i STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK AND GLASGOW, Via London every Fortnight. Jnn 23, Slate or Nebraska, 8 a. zt. CABIN, UO. Second class $23. Steerage, $15. Applv to J. J. McCOitMICK, 639 Smithfield street, Pittsburg. no25-33-p Norddeulscher Lloyd Steimskip Company. Fast Bine of Express Steamers New York to Southampton (London). Bremen. SPUING SAILINGS. lS3i Ems. HaveL Saale. Lahn. vjder. Spree. Elbe. AJler. Trave, Ems HavcL haale. Lahn. Eider. Spree, Sat.. Tiles.. bat.. Tues., Sat.. Tnes.. Wed., Sat.. Tues., Sat.. Tnes., bat.. Tues., Sat., Tues.. April Elbe. Alter. Trave. Ems, Havel Saale. Lahn. fclder. Spree. Elbe. Aller. Wed.. Sat.. Tues.. Sat.. Tues.. Sat.. Tues., Sat.. Tnes.. Wed.. Sat. 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