-fjt ,-rfrq i- SECOND PART. THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, PAGES 9 TO 20. I PITTSBURG, SUNDAY. iffEBRUAItY 14 1892. FROM LAKKTO GULF The Elaborate Canal System to Be Proposed in Ohio's Legislature. GHAXXELS 20 FEET DEEP, So as to Accomodate the largest Boats on the Inland Seas. A BRANCH TO EEACH PITTSBURG. The Great Objection Is That the Ohio Can't Carry Large Craft. TTATEE SUTPLIES JSD EIGHTS OF WAY rcoRBrsroxTExcs op Tire dispatch. Toledo, O., Peb. It PROJECT has turned up in the shape of a bill soon to be intro duced in the Ohio Senate whose ob ject is to form a continuous wa terway from the Mississippi river to the ocean, via the Ohio, Eake Erie and the Erie Canal. It is quite similar to the scheme agitated in Ohio in 1SS7. It lacks, how ever, some of the objectionable features then urged. At that time it was proposed the Walllonding to almost, if not entirely, equal it. This would provide a splendid outlet to the immense coal production there. v essels would be enabled to float through Cleveland, Akron, Canal Fulton, Massillon, Canal Dover, New Philadelphia and a hun dred thriving villages, to Coshocton, wfcere the Wallionding leaves the parent water way. Then for 40 miles they would pass only coal mines and what might be coal mines. Their cargoes would be bandied but once, and the ship, laden with fuel for cold feet a thousand miles away, would have plain sailing. But what if Duluth and Chicago and a hundred other cities should prefer coal from Pennsylvania's famous mines? Mr. Gear's bill provides the way. The canal would be enlarged to Dresden, where the millions expended by the State on the Muskingum, make it navigable to Marietta, at its mouth. Zanesville and McConnells ville would be the only laree cities passed. Vessels destined to Pittsburg would wind past them, up the Ohio, passing Bellaire, Wheelimr. Steubenville. "Wellsville and East Liverpool to the Iron City. Cargoes ot wheat, flour, lumber or iron would be brought, lor they find a market in the East, PittSDurg could send her products straight to the great lake ports, paying only the small freights which have "long been the bane of the railroads which have to compete with lake rates. A Short Cut for Plttstmrjr. The proposition to sell or lease the minor canals would also give an opportunity for a good waterway in and out ot Pittsburg. It would be the improvement of the old bed which runs from East Liverpool through 2Tew Lisbon, Hanoverton, East Kochester, Bayard, Minerva, Malvern and "Wavnesbor ough, joining the Ohio Canal at Bolivar, on the line between Stark and Tuscarawas counties. The distance by water between Pittsburg and Cleveland would be about 175 miles. Without this short cnt it would be 423 miles or more. The benefits to be de rived irom such inland navigation are incal culable, and should Ohio once complete what Mr. Gear has planned for her to do. inland commerce will receive such an im petus as it never had before. The enlarging of theMiami and Erie Canal would entail by far the greater expense. The projectors of the bill estimate that two thirds ol the ?28,O00j000 would have to be Garfield followed the towpath are still strong and abundant. But the Miami and Erie Canal has to depend on reservoirs. There are three of them, one for each of the levels which have been established. The first level is from Toledo to New Bremen. 114 miles; this is called the Lake Erie rise. The ascent is 118 feet, and to make it 49 locks are required. Several of these, however, are used to drop into valleys where the ad vantages of some navigable stream may be utilized. This level is led principally by the St. Marv's reservoir. Several ntxpftm which flow into the Maumee at Defiance and Ft. "Wayne assist somewhat in helping out, but the great volume, of water comes from the reservoir. The Great St. Mary's Beservolr. The latter is the largest artificial body of water in the world. It is 12 miles long and has an average width of 6 miles. It is lo catedat thesouroes of the Little Wabash, St. Marys and about a dozen of smaller rivers. The site was once a vast swamp. The State built a big bank around it. itllnwl thn streams which came down from the high land around to flow into it and retained the natural rainfall as fast as it came. In this manner an average depth of six feet was ob tained. The first level ends at New Bremen where the summit level nnminnnc At tYtta ;f the canal is 512 feet above the Ohio river and 118 fet above Lake Erie. A gorge or canon 119 leetleep wonld allow the water of Lake Erie to flow into the Ohio river and the canal problem would then be for ever settled. The gorge need extend no further south than Locfclngton, it the Boutnern enu ol the summit level. This fixes the length of the level at 23 miles. It has no locks, the south end being at the same altitude of the north end. The water supply iB obtained from Laramie reservoir. J. s ft" Po1 about two miles long and half a mile wide. There is considerable question as to how long this reservoir would bold out when great ships drawing 20 feet of water passed through the locks at Til KmifhAvn . .l ml . r.uuu cuu. j.nB reservoir is so small and its feeders are so spasmodic that it Is unsafe to depend upon them. Oreater drains would be made upon the Laramie reservoir than any of the others because ot the great incline at Lockington. At this village alone there are 43 locks NEW THEOKY OF GRIP Based on the Ocean's Low Tempera ture the last Three Tears. ABSORBS THE HEAT 0P THE BODY. The Heart Is Overloaded and Congestion of the Blood Follows. NOVELTY THAT KJfOCKS OtJT T0TTEN " ' ' r- Ji MAP SHOWTSTC THE PROPOSED SYSTEM OP IXIiAXD WATEEWAYS. that a ship canal be constructed from Toledo to Cincinnati by merely enlarging the pres ent Miami and Erie Canal. The fact that Ohio had another canal connecting the lake and the Ohio river excited the jealousy of the portions of the State through which it passed, and the attempt died with its agita tion. To get around this the new bill pro vides that both canals shall be so enlarged that the largest lake vessels may navigate them. By its provisions the State is to appro priate 28,000,000 for the canals. All tha other canals in the State the Licking, "Walhonding, Wabash and Lake Erie, "Warren county, about three-fourths of the Ohio and overa dozen short ones are to be sold to private corporations. If they can not be sold at a good figure the State is to lease them. The fund thus raised goes into that for the improvement of the two re maining canals. To Bo Surveyed Kelt Summer. It is estimated that five years will be re- expended upon it? Ever since its construc tion, which commenced in 1837 and ended in 1S42, it has been the second largest canal in the United States, the Erie alone exceed' ing it. It extends from the heart of Toledo, about six miles from the mouth of the Mau mee river, to the heart of Cincinnati. The distance is 244 miles. The first part is CO feet wide, G feet deep and Cf miles long, between Toledo and Junction, in Paulding county. The next part, 114 miles, between' Junction and Dayton, is 5 feet deep, and 50 wide. The remaining part, 64 miles long, is 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide. The Ohio Canal is also about the sase average size. Size of the Proposed TYatertray. The proposition for the new canal is that it be 150 feet wide and 20 feet deep. The proposed canal would therefore be about 11 times as large as the, present one. It Wonld undoubtedly be the greatest canal in the J woria, an points consiaerea. ane object in making it 0 deep is to keep- in step with the demands made upon Congress bv the Detroit Waterways Convention lor 'a 20- SIIOWKfO LEVELS OKf THE MIAMI ASD ERIE CANAL. quired to complete the work, and every rt "11 be made to get the measure through this session of theAssemblv so that the surveyors may complete the'ir work during the coming summer. The bill would have been introduced last winter had it not been for the great rush over Senatorial and Congressional district matters. The nart of the Ohio Canal to be im proved is that between Cleveland and Dres den, about 70 miles. Dresden is at the head of navigation on the Muskingum river. A vast amount of money has been spent in making this river navigable, and with a few hundred thousands more ttoe largest lake carriers couia iwist around its manv shoals and bends. The canal part is a gentle slope from the highwater to the lake. A reservoir perched np among the hills supplies water for the raising and lowering of vessels. The feeders to this reservoir are believed to be never-failing. The Walhond ing, formerly the Mohican and Wal honding, runs into the Ohio and is by far the most picturesque of any canal in the State. It follows the valley of the Mo hican river around hills and across plains to the famous Walhonding coal mines. It was for this industry that it was built. The narrow canal boats carried food and cloth ing to the miners, who, save for the canal, were isolated from the world. To reach them the boatmen had to twist and turn in all directions. The horses walked on a path of stone, in places hen n out of the solid hillsides. Opening Up Coal for the West. u"his is one of the canals which Mr. Gear, the father of the bill, proposes to have sold or leased and the proceeds expended on making great arteries of commerce. He be lieves that by making the Ohio. Canal 20 feet deep private capital will soon bring foot channel all over the lakes. Thus the largest lake carriers would be enabled to navigate from Duluth, "the Zenith City of the unsalted seas," to New Orleans, the Horizon City of the Father of Waters. There would be a continuous stretch of over 3,000 miles of fresh water navigation, the longest on earth. It would render pos sible a multitude of schemes which would naturally be declared crazy ones. Think of shipping a cargo of cotton direct from Natchez to Buffalo, or a boat load of copper from Marquette to GalvestonJ Salt loaded on a ship at Saginaw might be unloaded at Nashville or Wheeling or Sioux City. "War vessels stationed on the Mexican frontier could hasten to repel an invasion at Sault Ste. Marie, on the Canadian frontier. A Very Big: TTndertaking;. To accomplish all this would require the removal ot 2,792,688,800 cubic feet of earth, not counting in the hills and hollows on the route and counting out the present canal bed. It wonld necessitate the removal of hundreds of large warehouses and manufactories built upon the canal banks in Toledo, Defiance, Troy, Dayton, Hamilton and Cincinnati In some places railroads have secured the right of wav along the canal bank, and to widen the channel the State wonld have to fight a, legal battlo with them. Nearly everv foot of the wav wonld have to be bought, except in some of the large cities.. xicre the State is supposed to own 90 lect on each side of the canal. However, it has long been appropriated to private uses and it would take much litigation to recover a good title. As to the supply of water in the case of the Ohio canal it is Relieved the natural feeders tapped along the route would be ample. The same streams and lakes which furnished the supply when James A. leaving but six for the entire 107 miles be tween there and Cincinnati ' It is the most tedious part of the whole canal for travel ers. For lake vessels it would be the hard est part of the trip, although modern en gineering would reduce the number of locks by at least two-thirds. At Sault Ste. Marie vessels are lowered and raised 20 feet at one lock, and it is believed that similar locks would be practicable In Ohio, if water enough can be gotten to fill them. The water supply for the Ohio river rise comes from Lewiston reservoir, a body nearly round and about four miles in diame ter. It is in the northern part of Logan county, and is one of the natural sources of the Miami river. Having only six locks te supply there is no question but that it would be never-failing. The water frdrn it carries canal boats through TtOt. Pinna. Dayton, Middletown and Hamilton. The easiest navigation on the whole canal is the part between Dayton and Cincinnati. "What was once the southern terminal of the M. & E. Canal is now owned by Cincin nati, which purchased it for sewer purposes. Green scum and floating filth now have the right ot way and canal boats stop long be fore they reach the Ohio. The engineers who have recently been looking over the route say the best way is to lock the canal into Mill creek, seven miles tip from the river. , Most Dredge the Ohio. After having finally reached the Ohio, Mr. Gear's elaborate scheme would seem to have been carried out, and his hopes ful filled. They would be in the spring and summer, but along about dog days, when farmers are threshing wheat, the Ohio rapidly subsides. The floods with which Cincinnati contends every spring are away down in the Gulf of Mexico, and only a few feet of water is left. The Ohio is only 4 to u teet in aeptn at Cincinnati in Sep tember the time when the great grain crop of the West is.on the move, and thus the canal would be rendered useless at the very time when wanted the most. The only way to obviate the difficulty would be to dredge a channel in the river which would always be 20 feet in depth. The probability of the passage of Mr. Gelr's bill is much greater than would be' at first supposed. He is virtually the Democratic leader of the Sen ate, and would probably be backed by his party in the House. Independent of politics, the proposed improvements would greatly benefit 27 counties, which iiiiHI Sues of Ote Projected and Preient Canali. The following comes to The DlSPATCn from a gentleman who is not altogether un known to readers of newspapers. Ills theory as to the cause of the grip is given for what It is worth. As a scientific novelty Lieutenant Totten's notioni as to the con junction of Jupiter and "Venus are not much ahead of it: The grip, or, more properly, "congestion of blood in the veins," results from the workings of certaiu natural laws, which are as yet but partially understood, affecting life and health, climate and vegetation, to an extent which is quite incredible to those who are uninformed as to their subtle and far-reaching effects. In order to convey a clear understanding of the subject, it is necessary to exolain some of the laws of neat, espe cially in connection with water. Heat is always passing from the warmer to the colder body of matter in proximity, whether it be earth, air, animal or water. If the disparity in temperature be slight the draft of heat from the warmer to the colder bodv will be slight. If the disparity of temperature be laige the heat current will be increased accordingly. Dis tance is no bar to this law, and heat will pass instantly from the warmer to the colder body, and its current will continue until equalization of temperature between the two bodies is effected. A Tact About Water. "Water hal the capacity of holding more heat in an insensible condition" than any other natural substance. If the tempera ture of the water of the Atlantic Ocean should from any cause be lowered 10 from its normal condition, it would reduce the temperature of a weight of iron equal to me weignt oi tne waters ot tne ocean S9U to restore the 10 of sensible heat to the water. This illustration conveys but a faint idea of the volume of heat that is drawn from the adjacent continents when the waters of the ocean and the Gulf stream have been lowered in temperature 12 to 23, as has been the case for some three years past During the summer of 1888 the flow of icebergs was almost continuous, and in Sep tember of.that year they still reached as far south as the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 1889 immense icebergs and fields of floating ice kept flowing southward to and beyond the bauks of Newfoundland till the summer was past, which was quite unusual. In 1890 the same condition continued, and as late as the 12th of October the commander of an in coming vessel leported passing an iceberg near latitude 33 north, an event which, at that late season of the year, was pronounced Unprecedented. Temperature of the Atlantic. Judging from-the few tests of the tem perature of the waters which fell under the eye of the writer the ocean was about 13, and the Gulf stream about 25 below nor mal in the fall ot 1890. May not this low temperature of the Waters lying between the continents whose people have suffered so terribly from the mysterious malady ..called grip be the cause Of the disease? When the temperature of the wateis of the ocean is below that of the continents on either side, the heat currents must be con stantly passing from the warmer substances on the continents, including animated bodies, to the colder waters of the ocean, until the temperatures become equalized. The greater the disparity of temperature, the greater the draft of "heat. Hence gur bodies being warmer than the air, earth, water, buildings andothersurrounding mat ter, are drawn upon for a proportionately larger amount of heat; and it is this subtle draft upon our life force tnat causes so large a number of our aged and infirm fellow creatures to be gathered to their fathers. None are exempt from danger, for the strongest by exposure to this ijeat draft may be stricken down in an hour. "Why the Body Keeps Warm. Friction is the source of heat, and the heat of our body is produced by the friction of the blood in Its channels in our systems as it is driven through, by the heart. If, however, a portion of this heat, which is re quired for the well-being of our bodies, be drawn off by the laws before stated, the heart fails, especially in old asre and infirm ity, to supply this extraordinary draft and the wants of our bodies at the same time, and it is precisely these conditions that cause tne temperature Ot the blood to lower, which is followed by chills. The heart, na ture's heat force, is still doing its best, but the blood thickens and it. soon congests in the veins, circulation ceases, which is called "heart failure," and the coldness of death follows. This is the grip. All its victims are not affected alike. Manv cases are diagnosed as the grip, then heart failure, pleuro pneumonia, 'paralysis, meningitis and sudden pains, all springing in large measure from the same source, loss of heat from the blood and resulting congestion. In demonstration of this fact a thousand facts could be stated. The winter of 1891 was remarkable for its high temperature throughout the United States, the mercury ranging generally 10 to 35 degrees Fahren heit above the temperature ot the waters of the Atlantic to the eastward. During all . the winter and until the beginning of sum mer the grip manifested its power, Becoming More Virulent As the temperature went up, holding carni val in the cities, towns and villages, and maniiestinc its aeatn-aeaiinz sotrer in a still greater extent, in proportion to popu lation, in the rural districts. Its victims in the region lying north of 35 degrees north, to the lakes, if they could be counted would outnumber the victims ot cholera, yellow fever or any other plague that ever devas tated our country. ' North of the lakes the winter was cold and severe! Blizzards, snowfalls, ice and zero weather prevailed, yet we had no ac counts of grip in Canada until late in the spring, and late in July in raged in Quebec. A slip now before the writer, dated Mon treal, July 8, 1891, says: At Piaster Cove and Helgan, dozens of people have died, dozens are dying and iuau uavt guuo iiiwuv, uuu lu maiCQ tuo manor worse, provisions have run short. Bishop Bosss is down with the disease, his prelato is dead and a number of the nuns are also among the dead. On July 6, 1891, the inspector stationed at Quebec writes: knon people who are ill. In Leicester SS members or the police force are ill, and GO percentof the teachers fn the public schools are unable to continue their avocation. Another dispatch, dated London, May 21, 1S91, says: The report of the Kegister General for the West End for the last weekshow s that the epidemic has made sad ravages in the hum ble ranks of life. The death rate for the last four weeks is as follows: 10, 3d. 149, 260, the latter being double that reported lor any week during the scourge in 1S90. Preventing the Grip. The foregoing facts should be sufficient to convince the careful reader that the grip only prevails when ard where the tempera ture is above that of the waters of the ocean. To avoid the chilling of the blood, from which the grip and other kindred diseases arise, it is essential to keep as far as possible all the heat within our bodies that the action of the heart can produce. The test mode of doing this is to wear plenty of wooien clothiug and to avoid exposure when the weather is moderatelv warm, that being the time when this incomprehensible heat-draft from our bodies is greatest. Avoid exposure. Sleep in a warm bed, and if aged or infirm, keep within a warm room, and you will be safe from the blight of this invisible foe. As soon as convenient after the patient is attacked with pains, or chills, a bath or tub of hot water should be procured, tempera ture about 130f. Use a cloth or large sponge. Bring thfe nater well over the limbs and aid the circulation of the blood by friction. When the proper circulation is effected the pains will cease, generally in 15 to 30 minutes. Take a warm bed in a warm room; drink plentifully of hot water or hot weak tea, which will promote per spiration, with which the pain is sure to cease. Has Known of Cares. The writer has known many cases treated as above, and all were relieved of pain in a .short time and well in one to two days with out the use of any medicine whatever, and no lingering, annoying results ioiiowea. Heat up the blood and its congestion in the Veins will be removed, but do not use Ipiritnous stimulants. They accelerate the action of the heart before the blood is in proper condition for circulation. The foregoing paper has been written with the hope of turning abler minds to this line ot investigation. That more die in this disease from the use of drastic drags and the want of proper treatment than from the malady itself there is no room for doubt. I'ronerlr treated the disease is 1 easily mastered, but the disease must be clearly understood belore it can be properly treated. In the light of all the known facts relating to the grip, to treat it as a result of microbes or baccilli or as an infectious epidemic seems to be nothing less than dangerous sclentlne-nonsense. A Peculiar fact About Corns.' The effect of this heat-draft from our bodies is manifested to all who are subject to rheumatism or neuralgia or have corns. When there is a cold wave up in the region ef the lakes, 100 or 500 miles ofF, or when there is a heavy snow fall in the lake region, and the temperature here in the Ohio valley is warm and pleasant, all who are subject to rheumatism, neuralgia or Corns suffer intensely till the disparity of tem pera tuie in the locations mentioned is more nearly equalized. Then the heat-draft which so injuriously afiects the blood, ceases and the pains are gone. This represents, upon a miniature scale, the action of the same laws which astound the world when the mighty ocean is brought under their effective force. D. T. L. QRXVE DIGGER HILL WAS J. LITTLE TOO PREVIOUS. WH5TEBH FL0TJE TOB ETJ8SIA. f A HSW iqCK-HUT. An TIIE BOW OF PROMISE, That Filled the Heavens With Glory in Minnesota Recently, WAS CAUSED BY FJIOST SPICULE. It Is a Celestial Phenomenon Quite Common in Polar Eegions. STPJCTLT LOCAL H ITS CUAEICTER A TOTAL ABSTINENCE MANUAL. The Catholic Church's' Stand as to the Ap plicants for IIoense. The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America has just issued a manual on total abstinence. Some Of the greatest minds of the Union has been employed for some time ilpo'n it, notably Bishop Cotter, of Winona, Minn., and Dr. Conaty, Of Springfield, Mass. The little boolf takes the form of question and answer after the style of a catechism". Among the good things in it is Cardinal Manning's famous expression, '"Temperance is good, but total ab stinence is better," and that of St Augustine, "The man who gets drunk does not commit sin; he becomes Bin it self." Gladstone is quoted as saying: "In temperance"" brings more calamities on the world than the three great historical scourges, war, pestilence and famine, com bined," Statistics are used to prove the evil is in creasing. Much stress is placed on the in herited tendency of children of drunken parents to intemperance and immorality generally. Attention is called to the dangerous practice of treating. The concluding chapters are devoted to hygiene, the saloon and remedies for intem perance. The declaration of the third plenary council is quoted to show the posi tion of the Catholic Church on the subject: "We call upon all pastors to induce any of their flocks who may be engaged in the sale of liquor, to abandon a3 soon as they can the dangerous traffic, and to embrace a more becoming way of making a living." It is expected to cirouUte the manual amon? school children ?enerallv. bnt it is 'especially interesting in Pittsburg just now on account of tne applications lor license now being" filed. BTBlSlNG BAGS AT THE ClAFLIHS. alone have 47 members of the Legislature. These, with a few friendly votes which could be easily obtained, would send the bill through a whooping. The shallowness of the Ohio in the autumn is the greatest brawback, and if the project is a failure, this will be the mam reason for it. A second handling of the grain at Cincinnati would perhaps be adopted. The large map shows-the ideal waterway system connecting the great lakes with the Ohio, Mississippi and the Gulf on the South and the Atlantic seaboard .via the Erie Canal on the East The proposed canal from Pittsburg to Erie and the Chesapeake and Ohio outlet, with which readers of The Dispatch are familiar, are not shown on ,the map. From the latest reports received, tho Straits of Belle Isle and to the eastward are full or heavy ice. The grip is working havoo among tho inhabitants of that locality, and a great many are leported starving, dead and dying. It Bages In Warm Weather. The winter of 1891 was a very cold one in Europe, and during the continuance of cold weather the people there were exempt from the grip. Late in the spring, when the temperature raised higher above that of the waters of the ocean, the death rate was high in many places on the continent and terri ble in England. A telegram to The Pitts bubo Dispatch, dated May 13, 1891, said: Tne weather has been almost tropical dur ing the last three days, bnt In spite of the changed cllmatlo conditions there has been no abatement in the grip. The capers ore filled almost to the length of columns with names of titled personages and other well- Cincinnati Merchants, Acquitted of Embez zlement, Sue for Damages. CuiciNifATi, Feb. 13. Charles S.Weath erby and W.' E. Stevens, doing business as Weatherby & Stevens, were arrested some days ago at the instance of S. B. Claflin & Co., of New York, on the charge of embez zlement amounting to $70,000. They were tried before a justice of the peace on. a spe cific charge of embezzlement of f 10,000. It was shown that Weatherby & Stevens were agents for Claflin & Co. upon salarrr and at the termination of the agency there was a disagreement as to the state ot the ac count The magistrate who heard the testi mony decided to-day that there had been no embezzlement and dismissed the accused. Now it is said they will bring suit against A Full Blood White With a Dark Skin. Nashvill, Feb. 13. A bill to be filed in the Chancery Court of Butherford county was presented yesterday to Judge Eldley, and he granted a decree for an in junction. Joe Bartlow, who, the bill al leges, is of a dark complexion, is the com plainant. He claims to be the son of K. C. and Lockie Barlow, white people, now de ceased, and claims to be a full brother of Jack and Mary Barlow, who are white. He alleges that by a mere unaccountable freak of nature he was born with a dark skin, but he was recognized by K. C. and Lockie Barlow as their lawful son, and was treated as a member of the faniilv. A Messiah Born at New Jerusalem. Dubuque, Ja., Feb. 13. News comes from Iron Hill, or "New Jerusalem," as it is called, in Jackson county, that the Free Methodists of that section have gone wild" overa religions craze. Bevival meetings are being held. The climax of excitement was reached when the announcement was was made in "New Jerusalem" that a child naa been Dorn wmen tne promoters of the meetings declared was none other than a second Messiah. A Penniy Strike That May Spread. Indianapolis, Feb. 13. The strike of the Panhandle machinists is still unsettled. The men now declare that unless the com pany grants their demands every machinist on tne Pennsylvania system between In dianapolis and Altoona, Pa,, will be caned out Order Prom Philadelphia's Mayor for G.OOO Barrels Filled in Six Boars. Minneapolis, Feb. 13. Mayor Stewart, of Philadelphia, Chairman of the Bussian Famine Belief Association, yesterday placed an order with a local milling com pany for 5,000 barrels of flour, and the train of 30 cars required to carry it left at 3 O'clock this afternoon. The company turned out the flour in six hours. The train was handsomely decor ated and placarded and marked "rush." It will go from Chicago on fast time via the Pennsylvania Bailroad, arriving at Phila delphia February 17, where it will be loaded on the American Line steamer In diana, which sails February 20. The vessel will go direct to Buisia anil' will sail under the American flag. Two Homestead Men Discover What Me chanics Have Long Wanted. The. illustration shows a nut-lock which has Just been patented by Messrs. Leo Bul lion and David James, of Homestead, Pa. After the nut A is drawn into its proper position on the bolt the split pin B is in serted through the slots in the nut and the hole D in the bolt it is impossible for the nut to turd and become loosened. A safe nut PICKETS FIBED "UPON. s-i -v -32L kV Tennessee Soldiers Preparing for Farther Trouble With Miners. ICnoxvtlle, Tenn., Feb. 13. A num ber of drunken men, supposed to be miners, fired upon the pickets of the State troops at the Coal Creek convict camp, about 10 o'clock Thursday night. The Gatling gun was turned on them, and two of them were wounded. Commander Anderson has telegraphed to General Carnes. at Memphis, 'for more am munition and arms. Crowds of men are seen amohg the hills in and around Coal Creek, and the operator there predicts an other attack soon. ofthUklnd has long been sought in the field of mechanics,railroading, bridge build ing, etc., etc Constant attention and freat expense is entailed in efforts to keep olts and nuts tightened and many a life has been sacrificed through their becoming loosened. The new lncknnt is being put to a practical test on several of the railroads in and around Pittsburg, as well as at the Homestead Steel Works, and so far they have fully snstained the favorable opinion one forms at first sight. Mr. Bullion, one of the inventors, is a cousin of Mr. Andrew Carnegie and a manager in his Homestead plant. S50O Beward "So Candidate Against Diaz. Citx oi? Mexico, Feb. 13. Eighty new- I papers are supporting President Diaz for re- I ICrause's Headache Capsules. .l.nttiin 'Plid,. iv rtr Afl,nf ndHfliilaf. I i!-l- CAHAUU. .UAb M ill UlUU ,..UU4UAt&. giahSi For any trace of antipyrine, morphine, chloral or any other injurious compound in All drug- TVFSSU The beautiful midday phenomenon re cently witnessed at Lake Benton, Minn., a brief account of which was given in Tub Dispatch, belongs to a rare order of ap pearances for this latitude. Like the rain bow, such a spectacle is local, so that while it may be seen in a given place, there may be no display at all a few miles away. "Very few persons in describing an nnnusual exhibition, as was that at Lake Benton, do so without giving some rein to the imagina tion; and .there seems to be something mis stated in this case, as the published de scription does not fully comport with what would seem to fall within the lines of analysis. The writer witnessed one similar exhibi tion in February, 1880, which took place between the hours of 9:30 and 10:20 A. Jt. The day was cold, the sky nearly clear, with a horizontal circle of mist-like light bisecting the heavens abont midway be tween the zenith and the horizon. Four immense globes of light mist, lay at eqnal distances right on the line of the buminons ring, the band apparently passing through them, the sun also being'in the path of this circle. At some distance ont either way from the sun on this band, was an immense "sun dog," each located across the line in in the form of a segment and having all the hues of the rainbow in the usual order. Near the zenith, on the sun ward side and with the convex side of the arch turned from the snn, was a per fect section of what maybe termed a rain bow, although the phenomenon was not the result of falling drops of water. Such occurrences are necessarily restrict rd , to the winter season and to sunny days. In the Polar regions they are very frequent and they there assume a splendor and a variety unknown to dwellers of temperate and tropical zones. A cold temperatnre, with sunshine and frost spicnlae borne on currents of proper angles to the sun's posi tion and the plane of the observer's vision, are the conditions under which such a-phe-nomenon may make itself manifest It would be possible, if properly located in mid-air, to see 'a rainbow in a continuous circle, but as the drops of rain fall nearly perpendicularly and the observer is located at the terminus of the column of falling drops, the angle, even with the sun on the horizon,. can. afford no more than a half circle. But this frost spiculs, moving perhaps quite horizontally, n it has the proper translncence, may project the complete cir cle which must lie in the heavens on a plane coincident with the plana of the movement of the floating parti cles. The parts of perfect rain bows are the resnlts of either clearer and higher spicula?, or thev are projected from where the focus of light is most intense and the opaque accompani ments are the result of the imore indirect transmission. The common rainbow, tha brilliantly burnished clouds in the evening or the morning, and the celestial happenings described, all belong to one general class, the differences being merely caused by somewhat varyingiactoia. There is nothing ' auroral in their character, as these latter lights of the night have no kinship no direct kinship with sunlight and floating matter. N. I AMM Do you notice this man hammering the Carpets down? Well, he isn't in it with- us ham mering the prices down. You must come in this week and see the elegant CARPETS AT 50 CENTS PER YARD Moquettes and Velvets. We carry the largest line in the city. EVERY CARPET MADE, LAID AND LINED FREE OF CHARGE. T ALL CARPETS , Ar LAID FREE THIS MONTH. 1 Sub Oor 1-Piti Cfiatote M at $20. 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