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THE PITTSBURG DISPATm TUESDAY, AUGUST 16. 1892.
SNOW SEEN ON MARS.
TVhat M; Flammarion Deduces From
Bis Recent Observations.
SIGNS OF HOT WEATHER THERE.
TTater Courses Seen on the Fame Level
Eetween Flat Ground.
ITS INHABITANTS SIMILAR TO OURS
In a cable letter transmitted Saturday M.
Camille Flammarion says: Every one can
admire at the present moment the brill
iancy ot the red star which brightens the
heavens with its fiery light. This star will
reign tor several nionthR over our heads. It
shines with greater luster than any other in
the heavens, because it is now at its nearest
points to the earth, an event which has not
taken place since 1877, and which will not
recur beiore 1909.
For more than two centuries and a half
scientific observations have been directed
to an analysis of this neighboring world.
"We gradually learned that this globe is
composed, like the globe on which we
dwell, of continents and seas; that it is sur
rounded by an atmosphere in which the
spectral analysis reveals the presence of a
watery vapor; that its years are twice as
lon,' as ours; that seasons are of the same
intensity as ours, but twice as long; that
its poles are covered with snow during the
winter, and almost entirely free from it
during the summer, and that the climate
closely resembles that of the earth; in a
word, that this other world ap pears to be
habitable just as ours is.
The last perihelic appearance of Mars, in
1877, resulted in curious discoveries, and
since then much progress has been made.
At tlieobservtory in Milan Schiapnrelli
succeeded in making a topographic trian
gnlation map ot Mars with a precision al
mot equal to that of terrestrial maps. He
discovered the famous canals, which were at
first objects ot so much natural skepticism,
but whose existence has been confirmed by
observation.
Mars naturally occupies a foremost plsce
in the work ot" this observatory at Juvisy,
ai d, since the beginning ot Mav, not a day
bu elapsed without the planet being ob
served and drawings made, its austral
declination, however, has kept it little
above our horizon, and it has not been
able to disengage itselt from the low-lying
mists.
Snow and Water Discovered.
Nevertheless, we obtained results which
ere not wanting in interest.
First, with regard to polar snows, it is no
longer possible to doubt that the white
spots at the poles are due to snow which ac
cumulates during the winter and melts
tinder the rays of the summer sun. Doubt
less this snow and this water may differ in
some chemical properties irom terrestrial
water, but it is analogous in aspects and
transformations. The atmosphere in more
rarified than ours and the lighter barometer
it always at a low point. Evaporation is
easier, snows are less dense, ici softer and
melts more easily, but there remains a great
analogy between them astronomically. Ob
servation and spectral analysis combined
show us there is -real water Identical with
ours.
The most characteristic fact this year
relating to the higher austral polar snow,
now turned towards us. with an inclination
of 14 in jiayi 160 in junei 140 i juiVi
cud 12 in August, has been their rapid
melting under the heat of the summer sun.
Mars had its spring equinox May 20, and
will not have its summer solstice till Octo
ber 13 next; nevertheless austral polar snow
has already diminished by three-fourths.
Should this rate ot progression continue the
polar snow of Mars will have almost entirely
melted by the summer solstice, a thing not
hitherto seen. May there not have been in
Mars as with us a hot summer without rain?
A short and altogether senseless para
graph, concocted by an ignoramus, has re
cently appeared in the newspapers, statins
that observations now being made of Mars
h.ive not shown the enigmatic lines to
which the name canal has been given, and
that these alleged formations are only fads
ot the Italian astronomer. It is a pity that
bi:cli gross idiotic observations, which dis
play a want even of common courtesy
toua.nl one of the most eminent astronomers
of modern times, should have been laid be
iore some millions of readers. The truth is
the exact opposite.
Cnnala Clearly Drflnrd.
' In spite of the low position of the planet,
v ith regard to our horizon and the conse
quent difficulty in making observations, a
Cf rtain number of these canals have been
clearly defined, even at the Observatory of
Juvisy, whose equatorial is of moderate di
mensions, but wbose observers are zealous,
ardent and laborious.
I have beeh especially occupied measur
ing the diameter of Mars and of the Cape.
As regards the canals I have only been able
to recognize personally the presence of N as
myth, Indus and Ganges. The diameter of
Mars I have ascertained to be 9 minutes 39
seconds instead of 11 minutes 10 seconds,
OUT OF THE RUNNING.
BY A. CONAU"
It was on the north side of Butser, on the
long swell of the Hampshire Downs. Be
neath, some two miles away, the cray roofs
and red houses of Petersfield peeped out
amM the trees which surrounded it. From
the crest of the low hills downward the
country ran in low sweeping curves as
though some green primeval sea had con
pealed in the midst of a ground swell, and
f-et for ever into long verdant rollers. At
t lie bottom just where the slope borders
upon the plain there stood a comfortable
square, brick farmhouse, with a gray plume
o' smoke floating up from the chimney.
Two oowhouses, a cluster of hayricks and a
broad stretch of fields all yellow with the
ripening wheat, formed a fitting setting to
tjje dwelling of a prosperous farmer.
The green slopes were dotted every here
and there with dark clumps of corse bushes,
all alight with the flaming yellow blossoms.
To the left lay the broad Portsmouth road
curving over the hill, with a line of gaunt
telegraph posts marking its course. Be
yond a hugh white chasm opened in the
crass, where thereat Butser chalk quarry
had been sunk. From its depths rose up
the distant murmur of voices, and the clink
ipg of hammers. Just above it, between
two curves of green hill, might be seen a
little triangle of leaden-colored sea, flecked
with a single white sail.
Down the Portsmouth road two women
were walking, one elderly, florid and stout,
with a yellow-brown Paisley shawl and a
coarse serge dress; tiie other young and fair,
itith large 2 ray eyes, and a face which was
Ireckled like a plover's egg. Her neat white
blouse, witli its trim black belt, and plaiu
close-cut skirt, gave her an air of refinement
which was wanting in her companion, but
there was sufficient resemblance between
them to show that they were mother and
daughter. The one was "gnarled and hard
ened and wrinkled by rough country work,
and the other lresh and pliant lrom the be
nign influence of the boarding school, but
their step, their slope of shoulders and the
movement of their hips as they walked, all
marked them as of one blood.
"Mother, I can see father in the five-acre
field," cried the younger, pointing down in
the direction of the farm.
' The older woman screwed up her eyes,
and shaded them with her hand.
"Who's that with Mm?' she asked.
"There's BilL"
the measurement adopted by Leverrier. "We
learn that the canals, those already named
or other, have been seen by other observ
ers, notably through the enormous magnifi
cent equatorial at Mount Hamilton.
Astronomers are not agreed as to the na
ture of these strange formations. That the
continents of Mars are crossed by a network
of lines, often perfectly straight and of
geometrical aspect, is undoubted by all
who have studied the question, but it is
difficult to decide what is the origin of
these tracings. Mouths of the principal
ones Beem to be those of former rivers.
Nevertheless, they are not real rivers, be
cause they do not have their origin in shut
in land, but run direct from one sea to an
other, and, fnrthe'r, because they cross each
other. This leads to the conclusion that
they are watercourses on the same level be
tween flat ground.
Thru Canals Ar Evidently Water.
It has been found that the effects of time
on the xerographic surface of continents
(Mars is older than the earth) is to flatten
them. It is probable that 4,000,000 or
5,000,000 Years hence one sea will reach to
another, "it is also probable that 4,000,000
or 5,000.000 years hence all land on the
earth Will be leveled.
On the other band, it is probable the
canals are water, because they are the same
color as the seas of Mars, because they
communicate with the seas, and because
they change in width and even position.
Are they for that reason full of water?
Certainly there is nothing to prove it is'
their vegetation, tender, perhaps, so science
does not forbid the supposition that the in
habitants of Mars were able to change the
courses of old rivers with a view to making
a general distribution of the water already
become scarce, but in places threatening
the surface of the continents flattened by
the wear and tear of the ages.
This is one hypothesis. It is not opposed
to science. It is to be feared that it will
never be possible to explain the canals jtf
Mars by leaving out of sight the possi
bility of an identical rectification of the
watercourses, any more than the astrono
mers of Tenus could explain our railway
systems, if they persisted in refusing to
a'dmit any other influences affecting the
surface of "the earth than the blind forces of
nature. We cannot say this is; we can only
say this might be; and should any better
explanation of things that have been ob
served on Mars be forthcoming we are quite
prepared to accept it, the above being only
provisional. Until better appears it is be
yond doubt.
Double Canals at Certain Seasons.
It has been observed that at certain sea
sons these canals have been doubled, formed
of two parallel lines. This extraordinary
phenomenon was first observed in 188L, It
will probably not be seen this year, be
cause it only occurs in the spring and au
tumn of Mars, that is to say, equinoxes,
and not in the summer, and because the in
habitants of Mars are approaching their
solstice; but whether they be seen or not
this vear, thev exist It is more difficult
to explain them than even the canals. May
they not be due to some atmospheric refrac
tion, caused by crystals of ice, as happens
with us, producing halos and parhelia re
sembling more or less the double refrac
tion? However it may be in regard to existing
problems set by our neighboring planet we
may state that Mars, ot all the planets in
our system, is the most interesting through
its resemblances .and differences from our
earthly habitation. "We can only repeat
what Herschcl said more than a" century
ago: "Its inhabitants probably enjoy a
situation in many respects similar to ours."
Novelty has always an especial attraction
for us. This is the first time since the origin
of mankind that we have discovered in the
skies a new world sufficiently like our own
to awaken our sympathies. Many years
will doubtless pass before science is able to
acquire ideas as complete respecting our
other neighbor planet, Venus, as those we
now possess respecting this new world of
Mars, but what wonders has not the science
of the future in store for onr successors, and
who shall dare say that the mankind of
Mars and the mankind of this earth will not
one day be able to communicate with one
another? A generation will pass away and
progress will long continue its upward way.
Light Salts Are Doomed.
Fashion's otltot has gone forth. Black Is
the coming color. Your light summer suit
will dye that color. Telephone to Pfeller,
U3 Smlthfleld street, 100 Federal street, Alle
gheny. He -b 111 dye that color and keep
your suit until you need it. Tel. liM-3469.
TTSU
The Iron City Mining Company.
The great popularity with the trade which
this firm enjoys is due to the snperior qual
ity of the 'Bosalia" and,"Our Best" brands
ot flour which they are now manufacturing.
The demand upon the grocers for these
flours is simply immense, as their equal does
not exist.
flrent Oaks From Little Acorns Grow.
Large fortunes can often trace their origin
to small deposits in the People's Savings
Bank, 81 Fourth avenue. You can open a
bank account with this bank by depositing
$L Interest allowed on deposits.
"Why Not to Ton?
You certainly want good boarders and
roomers. How to eoure them? A few small
adlets in Tub Dispatch oent-a-word adver
tising columns have sent them to others.
Why not to you:
Perteot nction and perfect health result
from the use of De Witt's Little Early Bisera
A penect little put. very small: very sure i
DOYLE.
"Oh, he's nobody. He's a talkin' to
someone."
"I don't know, mother. It's someone in
a straw hat. Adam Wilson, of the quarry,
wears a straw hat."
"Aye, of course it's Adam, sure enough.
"Well, I'm glad we've come back time
enough to see him. He'd have been disap
pointed if he had come over and you'd been
away. Drat this dust It makes one not
fit to be seen."
The same idea seemed to have occurred to
her daughter, ior she had taken out her
handkerchief and was flicking her sleeves
and the front of her dress.
"That's right, Dolly. There's some on
your flounces. But Lor' bless you, Dolly,
it don't matter to him. It's not your dress
he looks to, but your face. ITow, I
shouldn't be surprised if be had come over
to ask you lrom father."
"I think he'd best begin by asking me
from myself," remarked the girl.
"Ah, but you'll have him, Dolly, when
he does."
"I'm not sure of that, mother."
The older woman threw up her hands.
"There. I don't know what the gals are
coming to. I dbn't, indeed. It's the board
schools as does it When I was a gal if a
decent young man came a courtin' we gave
him a yes or a no. We didn't keep him
hanging on like a half-clipped sheep. Now,
here are you with two of them at your back,
and you can't give an answer to either of
them."
"Why, mother, that's it," cried the
daughter, with something between a lancrh
and a sob. "Mavbe if they came one at a
time I'd know what to say."
"What iiave you agin Adam Wilson?"
"Nothing. But I have nothing against
Elia Mason."
"Nor I, either. But I know which is the
most proper-looking young man."
"Looks isn't everything, mother. You
should hear Elias Mason talk. You should
hear him reDeat poetrv."
"Well, th'en; have Elias."
"Ah, but I haven't the heart to turn
against Adam."
"There, now. I never saw such a gal.
Yon're like a calf betwixt two hayricks;
you have a nibble at the one and a nibble at
the other. Here's Adam with 3 10s. a
week, foreman already in the Chalk Works,
and likely enough to be manager 11 he's
spared. And there's Elias, head telegraph
clerk at the Petersfield Postofnoe, and
earnlnc good money, too. You can't kaen
'em both on. You've got to take one or J
WILL PULL TOGETHER.
It Is Now Decided That Colnmbns
Day Will Be Celebrated.
THE WHOLE COUNTY WILL BE IN IT.
Majors of the Two Cities Will Appoint a
Committee of 50.
SESTIHENT IN FAVOR OF A BIG JPABADE
The meeting to decide whether there
will be a general observance of Columbus
Day in this city was held yesterday after
noon in the Mayor's office as previously an
nounced in The Dispatch. The question
was decided in the affirmative, and steps
will be taken at once to popularize the
movement and make it a grand success.
'The celebration is to be entirely non-sectarian
and will not be confined to this city.
Allegheny is to have a share in the pro
ceedings, and the whole county will be in
vited to participate.
Mayor Kennedy having gone ' away on ft
vacation did not appear, much to the dis
appointment of those present Mayor
Gourley had invited Fublio School Super
intendent Luckey, who ""offered some
valuable suggestions. The committee repre
senting the'Columbus Club, which made the
first move in the matter, was composed of
John Farrell, Charles Yeagel, Andrew
Stock, Anthony Glaueser, Joseph Rosinski,
J. N. Sullivan, J. Skelly, Herman
Kunkle, D. J. McKelvey, Henry Baker,
T. D. Casey, M. J. Clark, D. G. Donovan
and John Madden. These gentlemen repre
sented nearly all the Catholic organizations
in the county.
Every Community tP Celebrate.
The meeting was informal. Mavor
Gourley acting as chairman, asked, for a dis
cussion of the question. As the committee
for his opinion in the matter he was ready
to give it, but he wanted to hear some ideas
of the others present.
Superintendent Luckey was the first to
respond. Having attended the .National
Convention of School Superintendents last
February, he was conversant with the ob
ject of the National Columbus Celebration
Association. It had established a bead
quarters at Washington, with branches in
every State in the Union. Its object was to
organize a grand simultaneous celebration
of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the
discovery of America on October 21 in every
city, town and hamlet in the country. The
proposed manner of celebration was to have
the children of all schools gather in their
school buildings in the morning of that day
and have read to them the story of Colum
bus' great achievement. In the afternoon
the children are to be assembled in some
public place and addressed by speakers. In
the evening there should be a general as
semblage of citizens. Mr. Luckey had a
plan of his own which, although be" had not
nad an opportunity to discuss it with Chief
Bigelow, would meet with that gentleman's
approval. s
To Be Held In Schenley Park.
It was that eight or ten acres In Schenley
Park be ret aside for trees, to be known as
Columbus prove, and the trees planted by
the school children on Columbus Day. Such
a grove would stand for years to come
as a monument to the discoverer of this
country.
The proposition met with general favor of
the committee, and Chief Bigelow will be
communicated with concerning it as soon as
possible. A suggestion to call a pub
lic meeting, made by Mr. Madden, to dis
ouss the proposed celebration, was opposed
by the Mayor.
"Such meetings are seldom well attend
ed," said His Honor, "and when the citi
zens do turn out and take an interest the
movement for which they are called is dam
aged rather than benefitted. In my judg
ment the best results are gained by the
selection of a committee of good, energetio
men who are interested and will work for
success. In this case 1 would suggest a
committee of 50 citizens, representing the
public and parochial schools of the county,
and the citizens of the county."
The JIayors Wit! Selrct the Committee.
This suggestion met with approval and
it was decided that the Mayors of the two
cities be delegated to select the committee.
Mr. McKelvey wanted some information
relative to the style of demonstration. The
discuision developed a strong sentiment
in favor of a kig daylight parade,
hut it was decided to leave that
question to the committeo of 60. There
was also an evident desire to make the cel
ebration entirely non-sectarian in character
and to have it include all forms and classes
of organizations. The meeting adjourned
with the understanding that Mayor Gourley
is to communicate with Mayor Kennedy at
once and ascertain if Allegheny will co-operate
in the celebration.
If Allegheny decides to have a celebra
tion of her own the movement on this side
of the river will go on without her.
Why allow bed bugs to keep yon awake at
night when a bottle of Buglne will destroy
them all in a minute! 25 cents.
t'other, and it's my belief you'll get neither
it you don't stop this Bhilly-shallv."
"1 don't care. I don't want them. What
do they want to come bothering for?"
"It's human natur', gal. Thev must do
it. If they didn't you'd be the first to cry
out, may b'e. It's in the Scripture 'Man is
born for woman, as the sparks fly upward.' "
She looked up out of the corner of her eves
as If not very sure of her quotation. "Why,
here be that dratted Bill. The good book
says as we were all made of clay, but Bill
does show it more than any lad I ever saw."
They had turned from the road into a
narrow, deeply rutted lane, which led
toward the farm. A youth was running
toward them, loose jointed and long limbed,
with a boyish lumbering haste, clumping
fearlessly with his great yellow clogs
through pool and mire. He wore loose
brown corduroys, a dingy shirt and a red
handkerchief tied loose around his neck.
A tattered old straw hat was tilted back
upon his shock of coarse, matted brown
hair. His sleeves were turned un to the
elbows, and his arms and face were both
tanned and roughened until his skin looked
like the bark ot some young sapling. As
they looked up, at the sound ot the steps,
his'face with its blue eyes, brown skin, and
first slight dawn of a tawny mus
tache, was not an uncomely one, were it not
marred by the heavy, stolid, somewhat
sulky expression of the country yokel.
"Please, mum," said he, touching the
brim of his wreck ot a hat," messier seed
ve coming. He sent to Bay as ow 'e were
In the five-acre lot"
"Run back. Bill, and say that we are
coming," answered the farmer's wife, and
the awkward figure sped away upon its re
turn journey.
"I say, mother, what is Bill's other
name?" asked the girl, with languid curi
osity. "He's not got one."
"No name?"
"No, Dolly, he's a found child, and never
had no father or mother that was ever heard
of. We had him from the work'us when he
was seven, to chop mangel wuriel, and here
he's been ever since, nigh 12 vear. He was
Bill there, and he's Bill here. " -
"What lun. .Fancy having only one
name. I wonder what they'd call his wife."
"I .don't know. Time to talk of that
when he can keep one. But now, Doily
dear, here's your father and Adam Wilson
comin' across the field, I want to see you
settled, Dolly. He's steady young man.
He's blue ribbon, and has money In tha
poatoffice,"
"I wish I knew which liked roe best,"
said her daughter, glanoing from under her
hat brim at the approaching figures. "That's
the one I should like. Bat it's all right,
mother, and X. know haw to find out, so
don't you fret yourself any more."
The suitor was a well-grown young fellow
A BABY INCUBATOR-
How a Puny Intent Is Being developed In
a Novel TVay The Eighth Occupant of a
French Machine Saving the Lives or
Weak Tots.
New Yobk, Aug. 15. Blanche Isabella
Evans was just 23 days old at noon to-day.
Two weeks ago it seemed almost impossible
that she would attain this advanced stage
of existence, for she weighed only three
pounds and bad a temperature of less than
96. Under ordinary conditions the child
could not have lived, but fortunately for
Blanche, Dr. Clinton Edgar, of the Ma
ternity Hospital, on Blaokwell's Island,
brought an incubator from Paris two years
ago, which has since been doing notable
service in the line of saving despalred-of
infants' lives.
Blanche is the eighth occupant of this re
markable machine since it has taken its
place among the working paraphernalia of
the charity hospital, and, like her prede
cessors, she will probably go forth from the
incubator to do battle in life on no more
disadvantageous terms than It she had
soored nine pounds at her birth and enjoyed
the normal temperature of 98. Dr. Aid
rich, who' has charge of ward No. 2, where
Blanche is being hatched into robustness,
said this morning:
"The strangest feature about this baby is
that when the hot spell of two weeks made
life almost unbearable under temperature
of 98, Blanche was brought here with a
temperature of only 96. Twelve hours
after her introduction to the incubator her
temperature rose to 107, but twelve hours
afterwards we had her down to normal, 98,
which she has held ever since."
TO EUROPE IN THREE DAYS.
Oar Northern Neighbors Contemplate- a
Short Cot for Steamships Between Ibra
dor and Wales Trying to Interest the
Canadian Paclfle in tha Scheme.
Quebec, Aug. 15. The shortening ot
transatlantic passage to a three days ' voy
age is the inducement now held out to the
Canadian Government by the promoters of
the New Labrador railway scheme. The
proposal involves the establishment of an
ocean steamship port at Port Manahan, on
Lewis inlet, about 60 'miles north ot the
Straits of Belle Isle. It is claimed that the
short orossing between Port Manahan and
Milford Haven, in Wales, could be easily
made in 72 hours by the greyhounds now
running between New: York and Liverpool.
It is claimed by the authors of the scheme
that during the season of navigation almost
all the mails between Europe and America,
as well a the bulk ot the passenger trade,
would follow the shortest existing route.
Public interest in the scheme has been
awakened in Canada bv the publication of
the report of a survey for a line of railway
from Quebec to Labrador.
'The Westward connections of the pro
jected line would be more easily controlled
by the Northern Pacific people than by
anybody else, and railroad men are now
asking if it is with this object in view that
Mr. McNaught, of that corporation, and his
friend, John C Eno, and others connected
with them, have secured a controlling in
terest in the eharter and existing lines of
the railway running westward toward the
Great Lakes from a point on the line of the
Quebec and Lake St. John Kailway.
W0BKIHG UNDER & K0ETAL WOUND.
A Fainter Who Quarreled With His Wire
Dies From a Strange Cans.
Philadelphia, Aug. 15. The Coroner
is investigating a peculiar case which was
reported yesterday. The victim is Joseph
Birney, aged 31 years, a painter, who died
Friday at the Philadelphia Hospital.
Birney insisted frequently on drinking to
excess, and his wife left him July 28 to live
with her sitter, Maria Birney, whose home
is in Manayunk, a suburb of this city.
On August 1 Birney went to his sister-in-law's
house and demanded that his wife
give him their three'-months;old boy. He
was refused, and became quarrelsome.
When he became too boisterous the sister
took a hand in the trouble. Birney called
her vile names and finally made a motion as
if to strike her. Before he could do so Mrs.
Birney picked up a heavy hammer from the
floor and threw it with force at the ap
proaching man. It struck him on the
stomach, and as soon as he could regain his
breath the man left the house. For a few
days Birney worked as usual, but on Satur
day was found' suffering from hemorrhage of
the stomach. He was taken to the hospital
and died yesterday.
TBACXED BY BLOODHOUNDS.
A Son Arrested on Suspicion of Murdering
Uls Father.
AusTiy, Tex, Aug. 15. A. H. Ashe, a
prominent and well-to-do farmer, living 20
miles north of here was found dead yester
day on the highway his body being riddled
with bullets.
His son, 20 years old, has been arrested on
suspicion of having committed the crime as
l-tj. ti.H hAa. n.nlr1nr 4l,Mia(a An T amA1
hlnndhonnds followed a train from the bodv I
to young Ashe's room at his father's house. I
in a gray suit, with a straw hat jauntily
ribboned in red and black. He was smoking,
but as he approached he thrust his pipe into
his breast pocket, and came forward with
one band outstretched, and the other grip
ping nervously at his watch chain.
"Your servant, Mrs. Foster. And how
are you. Miss Dolly? Another fortnight of
this and you will be' starting on yonr har
vest, I suppose.'
"It's bad to say beforehand what you will
do in this country," said Farmer Foster
with an apprehensive glance round the
heavens.
"It's all God's doings," remarked his
wife, piously.
"And He does the best for us, of course.
Yet He does seem these last seasons to have
a kind ot lost His grip over the weather.
Well, maybe it will be made up to us this
year. And what did you do at Horndeau,
mother?"
The old couple walked in front, and the
others dropped behind, the young man
lingering, and taking short steps to Increase
the distance.
"I say, Dolly," he murmured at last,
flushing slightly as he glanced at her, "I've
been speaking to your father about you
know what"
But Dolly didn't know what She hadn't
the slightest idea what She turned her
pretty little ireckled face up to him aud was
lull of curiosity upon that point
, Adam Wilson's face flushed to a deeper
red. "You know very well," said he, im
patiently, "I spoke to him about mar
riage." "Oh, then It's him you'want"
'There, that's the way you alwars go
on. It's easy to make fun, but I tell you
that I am in earnest, Dolly. Your father
says that he would have no objection to
me in the family. You know that I love you
true."
"How do I know that then?"
"I tell you so. What more can I do?"
' "Did you ever do anything to prove
it?"
"Set me something and see if I don't
doit"
"Then'you haven't done anything yet"
"I don't know. I've done what I
could."
"How about this?" She' pulled a little
crumpled sprig of dog 'roses, such as grows"
wild in 'the wayside hedges, out of her
bosom. "Do you know anything of that?"
He smiled, and was about to answer,
when his brows suddenly Contracted, bis
mouth set, and his eyes flashed angrily as
they focussed some distant object Follow
ing his gaze she saw a slim, dark figure,
some three' fields off, walking swiftly in
their direotlon.
"It's my friend, Mr. Elias Masou," said
she.
"Your-friend." Ha had lost his difflj
denoe in his anger. "I know all about
MYSTIC NOBLES MEET.
They Take a Grand Caravan Through
Omaha's Crowded Streets.
VITAL STATISTICS OP THE ORDER.
Qlowlnjr Tributes Paid to the Memory of
Departed Comrades.
THE QUESTIONS BEFORE THE COUNCIL
Omaha, Neb., Aug. 15. Three thousand
nobles with gleaming lauces and brilliant
apparel, on foot, in carriages and bestride
gaily caparironed camels wended their
way through the oasis of Omaha this even
ing. The caravan was a magnificent spec
tacle, and as it wound around the trail lead
ing from the temple through the haunts of
the traders it was greeted with a grand dis
play of bunting, illuminated with pyro
technics. Twenty thousand people gathered
along the line of march and witnessed the
grand parade of the ancient Arabic Order
of the Mystic Shrine now assembled in
Omaha. It disbanded after having been
reviewed by Illustrious Potentate Briggs
from the Paxton balcony.
Then came a grand reception to the nobles
and their ladies, at which they were wel
comed by Mayor Bemis and given the key
and the freedom of the city. The rooms of
the tetanies represented here were crowded
.with nobles all day and far into tbo night,
and there was muslo to beguile tha senses
and revive memories of other day The
water bottles, long upon the backs of the
camels, were opened and the sojourners
drank deeply of the refreshing liquid. Then
for those who desired deeper draughts there
were punch bowls presided over by dusky
sons of the desert, and other refreshments
worthy the travelers who hail journeyed
hither from every State in the Union.
Potentate Briggs Gives Statistic.
The Imperial Council opened this morn
ing at 9 o'clock in the Masonic Temple.
Illustrious Potentate Briggs called the
meeting to order, and Imperial Order Frank
M. Luce called the roll. Immediately after
the call, Potentate Briggs delivered his
annual report. Among other things he'
said:
Illustrious Associates Again I have
the pleasure of greeting the Imperial body
in annual Congress assembled with the
salutation ordained by the prophet (Honored
be bis name), and in accordance with statu-l
tory regulations, I present the report of the
transactions or the Imperial officers as farsa
the same may have come to my knowledge,
with such recommendations as seem to be
proper lor your consideration.
He then quoted statistics showing that
there were in this country 62 Temples and
22,789 Nobles, against 13 Temples and 425
Nobles in 1878. A grand achievement for
the few years elapsing since the introduc
tion of the order in the Western hemis
phere, and a noble organization whose light,
once kindled, has never been extinguished
at any oasis where a charter has been
granted. An order not requiring to shine
by borrowed light, but giving abundant
tangible evidence ot its ability to live and
prosper in the light of its own beneficent
and appreciated influence.
Honors to the Fraternal Dead.
Of the fraternal dead, Noble Briggs said:
While none of the active members of this
Imperial Council have been summoned to
tne portals 01 cue unseen tempie
during the past vear our altars
have been draped In mourning fog
the demise of several prominent In the an
cient Arabic order in America as well as
one, who, by reason ot his position as a ruler
in the East, had endeared himself to his
people and to those of other nations who
had been brought In correspondence with
him by his many acta of courtesy and for
bearance which would yield his memory ad
ditional glory by reason of the possession
of those characteristics which should be
common to all claiming membership In this
Oriental order.
The list of those who have been called
rrom among us Is as follows:
David Kalakau, thirty-third degree, King of
the Hawaiian Islands, a Noble of Islam
Temple, San Francisco, Cal., died at San
Francisco January 20, 189L
William Jermyn Florence, thirty-third de
gree, Grand Shareef of Mecca Temple, New
York, and Representative of temples In the
East, died at Philadelphia, Fa., November
19. 1891.
Tewflk Mohammed PashtuVlceroy Khedive
of Egypt, died at Cairo, Egypt, January 7,
1892.
Edward Mitchell, thirty-third degree,
Right Worshipful Grand Treasurer of the'
Grand Lodge, A. F. & A. M. of Ontario, a
Noble of Alkoran Temple, of Cleveland, O:,
died at Buffalo, N. x"., February 22, lS9i
William Franklin Baldwin, twelfth degree
Bight Worshipful Senior Warden of Grand
Lodge, A. F. and A. M., of O., a Noble of
Alkoran Temple, Cleveland, Ohio, died at
Mount Vernon, O., April 3, 1891
Charles H. Harris, thirty-second degree,
a Noble of Medlnah Temple, of Chicago.
Ill, died at Chicago May 4, 1892.
"I have secured; as far aa possible sketches
of the 1 lie and service of each of the above
prominent members of our nobility and the
same are appended to this address for the
consideration and recommendations of tne
proper committees."
The lleports of tha Other Officers.
At the conclusion of the address, which
contained reference to by-laws, charters,
dispensations, official visits, finance and ac-
counts, new ritual, foreign correspondence.
grievances and appeals, jurisdiction and I
that "What does he want here every
second evening?"
"Perhaps he wonders what yon want"
"Does he? I. wish he would come and
ask me. I'd let him see what I wanted.
Quick, too."
"He can see it now. He has taken off
his hat to me," Dolly said, laughing.
Her laughter was the finishing touch. He
had meant to be impressive, and it seemed
that he had only been ridiculous. He swung
round,upon hisheel.
"Very well, Miss Foster," said he in a
choking vobe, "that's all right. We know
where we are now. I didn't come here to
be made a fool of, so good day to you." He
? ducked at his hat, and walked furiously off
nhe direction from which they had come.
She looked after him, halfi irightened, in
the hope of seeing some sign that he had re
lented, but he strode onward with a rigid
neck and vanished at a turn of the lane.
When she turned again her other visitor
was close upon her a thin, wiry, sharp
feature.d man with a sallow face, and a
quick, nervous manner.
"Good evening. Miss Foster. I thought
that I would walk over lrom Petersfield as
the weather was so beautiful, but I did not
expect to have the good fortune to meet you
in the fields."
"I am sure that father will be verv clad
to see you, Mr. Mason. You must come in
and have a glass of milk."
"No, thank you, MUs Foster, I should
very muoh prefer to stay out here with you.
But I am afraid I have interrupted you in a
chat Was not that Mr. Adam Wilson who
left you this moment?" His manner was
subdued, but his questioning eyes and com
pressed lips told of a deeper and more furi
ous (ealousy than that of his rival.
"Yes, it was Mr Adam Wilson." There
was something about Mason, a certain con
centration of manner, hxh made it im
possible for the girl to treat him lightly, as
she had done the other.
"I have noticed him Lere several times
latelv."
'Teg. He is head foreman, you know, at
the big quarry."
"Oh, indeed. Ho is fond of your society,
Miss Foster. I can't blame him for that,
can I, since I am equally so myself? But I
should like to come to some understanding
with you. You cannot have misunderstood
what toy feelings are to you. I am in a
position to offer you a comfortable home.
Will you be my wile, Miss Foster?"
Dally would have liked to make some
jesting reply, but it was hard to be funny
with those two eager, fiery eyes fixed so in-,
tently upon her own. She began .to walk
slowly toward the house, while he paced
along beside her, still watting for bis an
swer. "You must give me a little time, Mr.
Mason," she said at last. " 'Marry in haste, '
they say, 'and repent at' leisure.' "
laws, diplomas and other features of the
order it waa referred to a special committee
appointed for that purpose.
The reports of the Imperial Treasurer,
Joseph 8. Wright and tne Imperial Re
corder, Frank M. Luce, were then read and
referred. The Imperial Becorder in con
cluding his address stated that the Imperial
Council was entirely free from debt and had
a balance of 16,571 42 in the treasury. A
recess for one hour was then taken tb give
the various committees an opportunity to
report
At 11 o'clock the session of the council
was resumed. The Committee on Juris
prudence at once made its report and the
active work of the session began. The
qnestion of limiting the number of temples
in a State to three recommended by the
committee called forth a great deal of ora
tory on the part of Moslems and it was
finally decided to leave the whole matter
to the discretion of the Imperial Council.
BELIEVE LIZZIE INNOCENT.
.The Fal) Itlvrr Police Assailed by New
England Papers Christian Endeavor
Boclety People Send a Note of Sympathy
to the Accrued Girl.
Fall Bivee, Mas&, Aug. 15. City
Marshal Hilliard was this morning shown
about 50 editorials clipped from various
papers published in New England during
the past few days. Most of them reflect a
'belief in Miss Lizzie Borden's entire inno
cence of the crime charged against her, and
assail the Fall .River police for the pro
longed delay in the case and for directing
their efforts wholly toward proving Miss
Borden guilty. Marshal Hilliard read
most of the editorials carefully, and said:
"You and every other citizen mnst re
member that the newspapers have not given
anything near the iacts disclosed at the in
, quest. This case will depend on circum
stantial evidence wholly, and the people's
interests cannot be subserved throwing the
evidence into the hands of the defense until
a hearing 'of the trial takes place. You and
the public may rest assured of this fact
The District Attorney and myself are satis
fied that the police authorities have ample
cause ior holding this girl, and she has not
been imprisoned in haste nor without a full
understanding of what has been published
in connection with the case about the Bor
den family honor."
On this point the most important member
of the Borden family said for publication
this morning: "The honor of the Bordens,
wnose names are so closely allied with the
prosperity of the town, is not to be affected
by a police suspicion perhaps resting justlv
on Miss Lizzie Borden. No Borden has
ever placed a stumbling block in the way
and no member of my family will in any way
hamper the police."'
The following was sent to the Taunton
jail this morning: "We, the members of the
Young People's Society of Christian En
deavor, desire to exteny to onr fellow mem
ber, Miss Lizzie A. Borden, our sincere
sympathy with her in her present hour of
trial, and of the confident belief that she
will soon be restored to her place of useful
ness among us."
THE CHABLEST0H QUICKLY BEPAISED.
Her Steering Gear Got Oat of Ordor and
She Put Into Port.
San Feancisco, Aug. 15. The report
last night that the United States cruiser
Charleston had returned here with her
Bteering gear disabled was due to a slight
accident which befell the cruiser off Santa
Cruz Saturday. She had the California
naval batallion aboard for the purpose of
target practice and a bolt in the steam
steering gear slipped.
She steamed into Santa Cruz Bay a mile
or so, steering with her propellers but the
damage was repaired at once. The cruiser
returned here last evening uninjured. She
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"But you shall never hare cause to re
pent" "I don't know. One hears such things."
"You shall be the happiest woman in Eng
land." "That sounds very nice. You are a poet,
Mr. Mason, are you not?"
"I am a lover of poetry."
"And poets are fond of' flowers?"
"I am very fond of flowers."
"Then perhaps you Know something of
these?" She took out the humble little
sprig, and held it out to him with an arch
questioning glance. He took' it and pressed
it to his lips.
"I know that it has been near you; where
I should wish to be," said he.
"Good evening, Mr. Mason." It was
Mrs. Foster who had come out to meet
them. "Where's Mister ? Oh ah!
Yes, of course. The teapot's on the table,
and -you'd best come in afore it's over
drawn." When Elias Mason left the farm house
that evening, he drew Dolly aside at the
door.
"I won't be able to come before Satur-
day,'
"v
'," said be.
We shall be glad to see you, Mr.
Mason."
"I shall want my answer then."
"Oh, I cannot give any promise, you
know."
"But I shall live in hope."
"Well, 110 one can, prevent you from
doing that" As she came to realize her
power over him, she had lost something of
her fear, and could answer him now nearly
as freely as if he were simple Adam Wilson.
She stood at the door 'leaning against the
wooden porch, with the lone trailers of
honeysuckle framing her tall, slight figure. J
j.ne great reu sun was low in tne west, its
upper rim peeping over the low hills,
shooting long, dark shadows from the beech
tree in the' field, from the little group of
tawny cows, and from tbe roan who walked
away from her. She smiled to see how im
mense the legs were ana bow tiny the body
in the great flat giant which kept pace with
him. In front or her in tbe little garden
the bees droned, a belated butterfly or an
early moth fluttered slowly over the flower
beds, a thousand little creatures buzzed and
hummed, all busy working out their tiny
destinies, as she, too, was working ont hers,
and each doubtless looking upon their own
as the central point of the universe. A few
months lor the gnat, a few years ior the
girl, but each was happy now in the heavy
summer air. A beetle scuttled out upon
the gravel path and hored onward, its six
legs all working hard, 'butting up against
the stones, upsetting itself in ridges, but
still gathering itself tip and .rushing on
ward to some all-important appointment
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DOZEN.
x Ho stairs to climb.
xny-rrs Use the elevator.
breath of night air sighed softly over the
hillside, with a little tinge of the chill sea
spray in its coolness. Dolly Foster shivered,
and bad turned to go in when her mother
came out from the passage.
To B Conducted To-morrow.
HARD OK GHIPHZ1T,
The Hot Weather slakes the Cable on the
Fifth Avenue Tilne Very Slippery.
"The Pittsburg Traction is the hardest
road in the country to work pn in summer
and the easiest in winter," said a gripmau
to a Dispatch reporter yesterday. "I
have never seen so much grease and tar
used on a rope as they use here. This just
makes the gripman use about twice as much
exertion as necessary to get a grip on the
cable in starting. We not only have the
extremely hot weather to contend witb, but
the beat makes the grease and tar thin,
causing the cable to be even more slippery
than it is in ordinary weather. We are
certainly having a hard time this summer.
On the other hand, the roads In Chicago
and Kansas City have open cabs on the
cars, affording no protection against the
weather in winter."
MTJBDEBED AND MUTILATED.
IJzzle Struber's llody Found With Three
Ballet Holes in It and the litfjs Gone.
Mt. Vernoh, Iix., Aug. 15. The miss
ing Lizzie Struber's body has been found in
one of tbe wildest parts of this county.
She was last seen Thursday night as she
passed through a section of woods driving
from her home in tfie southern part of this
county. Just after she was last seen the
reports of two pistol shots, followed by
woman's scream, was heard.
Search was at once instituted hut no trace
of her murderer or herself was found until
to-day, when the body of the girl was dis
covered in the woods horribly mangled,
with three ballet boles in it and both legs
cut off. The place where the crime occurred
is one of the wildest parts ot this county
and particulars of the crime are hard to get
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