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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

The wonderful object lessons which the
Americans have been able to avail them
selves of during the last few months in the
production on the piano of the ideal tone,
that approaching most nearly the quality of
the human voice, lend interest to descrip :
pianomakers strive to make this tone pos
sible on their instruments. Each of the
seven octaves requires different treat
ment, and as regards actions the class OF
action suited to one make OF piano NAV be
totally untitled for another. The exact
speed and power of blow are essential to
good tone. Much also depends upon the
shape and weight of the hammer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

nominations very strange that the Congrega-
tionalists, who are notably generous in their
gifts for missionary propaganda, and who,
moreover, have stood historically for the
principle of self-government and representa-
tion, should be content to conduct their
missionary undertakings through an Or
ganization which, while of the most dis
tinguished and most thoroughly effective
character, is not directly accountable to the
Congregational Churches although its men,
bership is almost wholly made up of Con-
| gregationalists The next annual meeting
| of the American Board will be held in Oc-
tober at Chicago. 1t is likely to give much
attention this year, as in previous years, to
the controversy over the manner of determin-
| ing the precise doctrinal views of young
men and young women who offer themselves
as missionaries. In the Congregational
| press of the country, this interminable con-
| troversy occupies far more space and atten-
tion than all the work of all the boards mis-
sionaries in heather lands.
LUTHERAN GATHERINGS-TheL Luther
an Churches of America are organized in
four general bodies, namely, the General
| Synod, the General Council, the Synodical
Conference, and the United Synod of the
South. The General Synod holds no con-
vention this year, but will meet in Canton,
O., May "a, 1898; and the General Council
VI VIC IIfduSCliCdi OAuiOh VI
North America will meet in Fort Wayne,
Ind, in October, 1898. The United Synod
of the South will hold its next convention
this summer at Staunton, Va. One of the
most important of forthcoming Lutheran
gatherings will be that of the Evangelical
Ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent
States, at Reading, on June 9, 1892. This
is the mother synod Of the Lutheran Church
in America, having been organized in 1S4S.
HEBREW OCCASIoNS-So tar as we have
learned there will be no popular assembly
of Hebrew bodies at any time during the
coming summer The American Hebrew
Publication Society will meet at Philadel-
phia on the first Sunday in june and the
meeting of the Central Rabbinical Confer
ence is to be held in New York City in July;
but these gatherings have little bearing
upon general questions.
SALVATION ARMY-May1 II there will be
a great Interstate Salvation Army demon
stration at Carnegie Music Hall, New York
City, and on the following day devotional
meetings in the Association Hall an Twenty
third street. In Boston, on May 81, there
will be demonstration in fremont Temple
in the aid of the memorial building fund.
On the 10Th of July Salvation Army camp
meeting will open at Old Orchard. On July
% the Commander will speak at Chautauqua
upon the social side of the Army's work in
the United States and on the 23th addresses
will be made at Prohibition Park, Staten
Island, on the effects of Salvation Army
work upon the liquor traffic
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
WHERE WILL YOU COZ
Here Are the Leading COnven-
tiOns and Gatherings for
the Season.
POINTERS IN POLITICS.
Where the Religious Questions of the
Day Will Be Discussed.
EVENTS FOR THE SCIENTISTS.
Pleasant Places for the Ambitious Students
of Both Sexes.
POINTERS IN POLITICS.
EVENTS FOR THE SCIENTISTS.
WHAT WILL BE GOING on ABROAD

While considerable percentage of the
millions who propose to break the monot-
ony of life this summer by "a little journey
in the world will seek recreation and en-
joyment without the excuse of any definite
mission or errand, the majority will take
advantage Of reduced railway rates and of
the society Of friends and associates to par
ticipaJe in some great gathering whose OBJ
iects enlist their sympathy, writes Albert
Shaw, in the RerieaO Of ReuiaoS Such will
have variety of conventions to choose
from. No summer ever saw more such gath
erings nor so important A brief outline of
-he season in conventions follows:
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

convention, which will occur in October
Last year they met at Toledo. MI. T. v.
Powderlv is still President of the organiza-
tion. Important dates already fixed are:
International Typographical Union, Phil
adelphia, early in June.
International Machinists' Association,
Chicago, June6
Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers, Pittsburg. June 6.
Boot and Shoe Workers international
Union, Philadelphia, June 6.
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners and Brotherhood of Painters and
Decorators, st. Louis, August 10.
American Federation OF Labor, Philadel-
phia, December IL.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
SOME FOREIGN OCCASIONS.

Columbian Celebration, Genoa, June to
November.
Exhibition at Madrid, September Il to
December 81.
Summer Theology at Oxford, July ls to
August
Oxford University Extension, July % to
August 26.
British Association, Edinburgh, August 3.
Reunion Conferences, Grindelwald, July 20.
Vienna Exposition of Music and Drama, all
summer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
Improved Appliance in Stretching.

Some of the many who will spend large
portion of the next few months of their lite
i'll the open air will be interested to know
that new appliance has been brought out
for facilitating the making of sketches of
landscapes, buildings, etc. The device COM
prises an instrument to enable draughts-
man to mark off on sheet of paper the
relative position of as many points in the
view as may be considered necessary to OBJ
tain correct representation. This instru.
ment is based on the well-known method of
measuring with the pencil and thumb. One
torn of the appliance resembles pair of
compasses, with fixed limb between the
two legs
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

present them in Congress. Secretary Rusk s
opponent followed and he said it was true
he had been a log-roller, but he had rolled
logs by proxy. He had hired others to
do his work for him and he, in fact, had
never worked as lumberman.
While this man was speaking Uncle
Jerry had arrived and he was sitting be-
hind him on the stage. As he closed he
jumped up to his feet and walked out to
the front of the platform and said: "Gen-
tlemen, my opponent it seems is ashamed of
being charged with being laborer, and in
his nice, aristocratic way he boasts that he
has had others do his work for him. He
saws that owned stage line, and want
to say to you right here that he tells the
truth and that am proud OF it. not only
own line, but have driven the stages
myself and drove them we'll and no man
who went with me ever got left and this is
what 1 want to tell you concerning this
Congressional canvass. If you get into my
stage you will be in safe quarters and 1 will
get you there every time" As General
Rusk said this there was shout of ap-
pIause A few days later he was elected.
The Rich Lands of Florida.
Speaking of Secretary Rusk, had chat
with him the other day about the wonder
full work that is going on in reclalming the
swamp lands of Florida. A large part of
lower Florida is susceptible of easy drain
age. The land at it's highest point is only
Y feet above the sea, and it is cut up bv
such set of lakes and streams that a small
amount of dredging will give the water a
natural outlet and vast tracts can be re-
claimed at small expense. The richness
of this land can hardly be conceived 1t
surpasses in its fertility the valley of the
Nile and the soil is jet black or brown
muck, which is from to 16 feet deep and
which is mixed with natural phosphate so
that when cultivated it produces most
wonderful crops.
General Rusk tells me the soil looks like
peat, and it is made of the rotten vegetable
matter ages. 1t contains so much fer
tllizing material that some of it would sell
for $40 ton, could the nitrogen in it be
brought to the market Some OF the land
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
Photography in Detecting Crime.

Photography is being applied with great
success in the detection of the Justification
OF handwriting. The picture can always be
enlarged, and erasures and alterations can
be seen more plainly than in the original.
A remarkable TACT is that the Photographic
sight is infinitely keener than human eye
sight, and brings out distinctly differences in
inks which cannot be perceived by the eye.
This difference can be considerably intensi-
fed by the use OF suitably colored light and
color-sensitive plates.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
How Mules Wear Snow Shoes.

lOr tHe raising OF VeSetaDles.
How Mules Wear Snow Shoes.
asked General Rusk how these lands
were worked, and he told me that the plow-
ing was done by mules who wore snow shoes
or mud shoes to keep them from sinking
into the muck. These shoes are round thin
disks, each Is inches in diameter, which are
fastened to the hoofs of the mules and which
work exactly like snow SHOE Tine mules
do not like them at first, but they soon get
used to them, and it is found that the plow =
ing can be done in this way.
General Rusk tells me that there are large
phosphate beds in Florida, and that there is
strip of these beds which is 20 miles wide
and 150 miles long, and this is filled with
the most valuable of phosnhates. The field
is not definitely mapped out as yet, aud
new phosphates are being found. These, in
connection with the muck lands, promise to
make Florida one of the richest States in
the Union, and English capitalists are
making large investments in the phosphate
lands, and I am told that thev will have a
monopoly of them if Americans are not
careful. The chances for investment in
these and in the muck lands are said to be
good, and Prof Wiley, who has Just re-
turned from Florida, predicts that this will
be the market garden of the United States
He tells me that the dredging and reclama-
tion of new lands is going steadily onward,
and he gives q rosy report of the success Of
the sugar experiment station of the Agri-
cultural Department.
Jerry Rusk Was onos a Sheriff.
If Uncle Jerry ever should be President
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

One result of the various attempts made
in Germany to produce building material
at the lowest possible cost is the brick of
sawdust The sawdust is immersed in
specially prepared liquid and then SUBJ
are said to be extremely hard, practically
non-combustible, much lighter than either
iron or steel, and much stronger than
timber.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

A good coating for the protection ofmaps,
pictures, drawings, etc, can be made of a
solution of Gutta percha in benzne The
evaporation OF the benzine leaves a thin
film of the protecting medium on the sur
face to which the application has been
made. The best way of fixing crayon
and charcoal drawings is to spray them with
the fluid through an atomizer.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

HE quiet talk which
is going on among
the Republicans in
discussing the next
Presidential situa-
tion often includes
Secretary r u s k
among the possibili-
ties. There is no
doubt that Uncle
Jerry. has many ele-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

National Educators. Saratoga. July Ia.
Southern Educators Atlanta, july g. z
and 2
Institute Of Instruction, Narragansett Pier,
July D, g, 7andS.
10
University Extension, Chautauqua, July
1923
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

Mr. Elkins lived next door to Grant in
New York and the two were close friends
during the last year of Grants life. had
asked Mr.. Elkins as to how General Grant
impressed him and he replied: "He talked
about himself and his great actions in the
most simple way and was surprised that the
world thought he was more than an ordin-
ary man. I remember chatting with him
once on the porch of nv home in Deer Park
when the conversation turned TO his ap-
pointment as cadet at West Point at the
request of Congressman Harmer. After
telling me how Harmer came to appoint
him he turned to me and said, DO you
know, Mr.. Elkins, Harmer thought l had
something in me- Something in him! He
uttered this as though it were a surprise to
him, and as he did so looked at that great
bundle of greatness and wondered.
eat another time in the same language"
continued Secretary Elkins, "Grant re-
ferred to Lincoln's opinion of him as
though he were surprised that he should
hold it. 1t was one night when we had
dined out together, and, after the dinner,
had dropped into the Union League Club
for moment before we went home. We
were both members OF the club, though we
seldom visited it. This night, however,
General Grant was in chatty mood, and
as we passed the club he proposed that we
Ia-,o
90 IN anu res' a"hile oeiore we went nonne'
How Grant Felt in Battle.
"while we talked the battle of Fred
ericksburg came up, and Grant told me all
the details of that terrible fight. As he fin
lshed L looked at MIN with WONDER ana
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
STAGE DRIVER RUSK.
How He Caught a Horsethief and
Got Himself Elected Sheriff.
HIS OPINION OF FLORIDA LAND.
Grants Simplicity of Character and How
he Felt in Battle.
CAME VERY NEAR BEING A PROFESSOR

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DrsPArcH,1
WASHINGTON, May Z.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

and though he positively says he will not
be candidate before the convention and
that he is body and soul for Harrison, his
strength with the farmers makes him a
strong possibility.
His sturdy honesty would appeal to the
people, and the stories of his having worked
as cooper at 25 cents barrel, of his having
driven team and carted dirt for the build
ing of railroad and of his stage-driving ex-
periences would bring him right down to
the people and give him something of the
same boom that President Lincoln got from
his rail-splitting. Speaking of Secretary
Rusk's stage-driving, heard new story
last night which illustrates his lack of snob-
bishness and at the same time gives an idea
of his political foresight.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
Jerry Knows What the People Like.

1t was when Uncle Jerry was running for
Congress and his opponent was man who
had made fortune in lumber and one of
the charges made against him by speaker
at joint debate was that he was nothing
but log-roller and the people wanted
something better than a lumber man to re-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08
PLo,Uin0 With S1l0tUshoes.

has been cultivated, and there are several
thousand acres in sugar cane and about
5000 acres of it in rice. 1t Is very valuable
for the raising of vegetables.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-08

During a talk which I had the other
night with Secretary Stephen B. Elkins he
spoke most interestingly of General Grant.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25
Columbus Idea of the World.

Columbus believed the solid part of
the sphere to be larger than the liquid
part, and the distance by the sunset
road between the East Indies and west
ern Europe to be less than it is. But in
those two capital errors lay the great
incentive to the execution and success
of his purpose. Had he known the vast
planetary spaces covered by the waters;
the continent interposed between his
own Europe and the land Of diamonds,
gold and spices; the difficulty and peril
Of the passage vet to be braved in the
far regions of the antarctic pole in order
to sail from our continental Europe to
the oriental Indies by the western way,
he would perhaps have shrunk buck in
alarm and dreud.-Century.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25
CONGRESS.
Epitono OF tho Proceedlnga 81 Doth
Houses the Past WeaL.

Houses the Past Weel.
THE silver question was debated In tho sen.
ate on the 18th. Senators Morgan. Palmer ana
Stewart occupying the floor. No action was
taken. .. Tho house passed the fortihcations
bill and Mr.. Shiveley introduced his tin-plnte
measure.
In the senate on the 10th Mr.. Morrill, spoke
on the free coinage Of silver BILL Tho senate
was on the point OF adjournment when Mr..
Washburn called up tho anticipation bill and
after some debate Il was referred to the COM
mittee on the judiciary. Then Mr.. Frye re-
ported that the conferees on the river and har-
Dor bill had failed TO agree on the senate
amendments providing for boat railway
around The Dalles, Ore. and for o canal
from Lake Washington, and the senate agreed
TO insist on It's amendments and nsk further
conference The senate adjourned until Mon
day the Goth. -. Tho tin plate bill occupied the
time OF the house Among the speakers oppos-
ing tho bill were Mr.. Z. b. Taylor (rep.). Ohio:
Mr. Atkinson trep), Pennsylvania, and Mr..
DalZoll (rep), Pennsylvania while Mr.. Bunt'
ing (dem }, New York, favored It.
THE senate was not In session on the 17th..
There was an unusually large attendance in
the house The republicans had returned from
Minneapolis and large number OF democrats
were attracted to the capital by the informa-
ton that the river and harbor conference re-
port would be submitted This was done, and
rs the report was o disagreeing one further
conference was ordered. The remainder OF the
day was consumed in llibust erlng over the Sib'
ley claim bill without action.
THE senate was not In session on the 18TH.
The house. having disposed OF all the appropri-
alton bills, except the general deficiency bill,
decided that when It adjourned II be to meet on
Wednesday The senate joint resolution au'
thorizng the president to issue proclamation
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25
FATHER MoLLINeER DEAD.
The Renowned Faith Cure Priest Passed
Away Sketch of His Lie.

The Renowned Faith Cure Priest Passed
AwRy-SkOtch of His Lie.
PITTSBURGH. Pa. June, -16-Father
Mollinger, the renowned faith cure
priest, died yesterday. He was pros
trated Tuesday (St Anthony's day.
and yesterday an operation was per-
formed for rupture of the stomach but
it was useless.
Father Mollinger was born of Dutch
parents, from whom he inherited con-
siderable wealth. He only recently at
tanned his 61st birthday. The little
church in which he had labored for
years il known as the Church of the
Most0 Holy name of Jesus, and is stu
ated at Troy hill, not far from the heart
of Pittsburgh.
Father Mollinger years ago obtained
the name of being a miracle worker.
Miraculous cures were credited to him
and thousands hocked to his little
church to receive his blessing, although
he never claimed to be a miracle mon
ger. The feast Of St Anthony of Padau
had long been the day which the priest
physician set apart for the reception OF
his patients from all over the country.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25
WHO WERE 1.-THE HEsslANs ?"
nomo Light ON tho Subject from the Pages
OF History.

WIN NN6N6 W.
uome Light ON tho subject from tho Pages
OF History.
The term "Hessians," rs generally
used in this country, was first intended
10 signify o mean-spirited man who Tor
money hires himself to do tho dirty
work of another and his fighting. The
word with these meanings was never
recognized until after the defeat OF
Burgoyne, and the peculiar infamy
which attached to 1t is derived from the
supposed voluntary employment OF the
Hessian soldiery by Great Britain
against the Americans.
That there was no such voluntary
employment is historically true, and the
reproach which has been so long con-
nected with the word Hessian in this
country is as undeservcd as 1t is un-
founded, for the Hessian soldiers had
no more option in their employment to
fRht against US than had our negroes
to work our rico and cotton fields be-
fore the war. As men they were honest,
industrious, and peculiarly domestic,
and would have given half they were
worth or years of labor to have remained
in their fathcrland.
To England alone belongs the dis
grace and infamy of enticing the rulers
of these men by large subsidies to COM
pei their subjects to fight her wars. The
facts are these: On February 16, 177e,
Lord Weymouth laid before the house
of lords treaty with the Hesse-
Darmstadt, dated January 5, 1776;
second, treaty between George III.
and the Duke of Brunswick, dated jan
uary 0, ITO, and third, treaty with
the landgrave of the Hesse-Cassel, dated
January Is, 17T6, for the line of troops
to the number of 1890. After argu-
ments pro and con, and after much OPP
position, the treaties were ratified.
brunswick furnished 4,0s4 men, for an
annual subsidy of $50; Hesse-Cassel,
Il, 900 men, for al0,3s1; Hesse-DarIn-
stadt, 6ss men, for $4,000; Prince OF
Waldeck, $40 men, on about the same
terms. The king Of England further
agreed to guarantee the dominions OF
these various provinces against any for
eign attack. =.
To the Englishman belongs the terri
BILE infamy and disgrace OF hiring men
of IN alien race to slaughter mon as
noble a. themselves, and related by tics
of blood and speaking the same lam
guage. But to the landgravcs OF Hesse-
Cassel, Hesse- Darmstadt and duke OF
Brunswick attach deeper infnmy and
disgrace more damnable for the man
ner in which they obtained possession
of their subjects. They tore them with
out warning or an opportunity for
leave-talsing from their families and
sent them to foreign land, and many
to their graves.
Such were the foreigners to whom
we, in our short-sightedness, have at
tached all the brutality and fiendish-
ness which obtained with England's
king. and which grew rank and foul in
! the lives and acts of those German
princes. Late though it be to do
Justice, yet let us endeavor to divest
the name of Hessian of the indignities
which have surrounded it, and retain
only our memory of hatred for these
em6odiments of human demonism who
babe their subjects to lift unwilling
hands against men whom these subjects
would have gladly protected.-Charles-
| ton News and Courier.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-25
FOUR IN THE PARTY.

And Three Of Them Drowned In the James
River SOath OF Springfield. Mo.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June 21.-Mrs
Ella Brady, her S-year-old son and her
cousin, Miss Kingston, aged IL. were
drowned while attempting TO cross the
James river 10 miles south Of this city
yesterday afternoon.
The party drove into the river and
one of the hack wheels went into q
deep washout, upsetting the vehicle
The four occupants were thrown into
deep water. Willard Brady, husband Of
Mrs Brady, narrowly escaped and wa
unconscious when rescued