BLISS 66 BLISTER FLY of the dry goods commission house of Bliss, Fabyan & Co., New York City, in 1881. He was a member of th'^ Pan- American Conference; Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee in 1877-1878; and Treasurer of the Na- tional Republican Committee in 1892 and 1896 ; declined to be a candidate for Gov- ernor of New York in 1884 and 1891 ; and was Secretary of the Interior Depart- ment in President McKinley's cabinet in 1897-1898. Treasurer National Repub- lican Committee, 1900 and 1904. He died in 1911. BLISS, DANIEL, an American mis- sionary, born in Georgia, Vt., Aug. 17, 1823; was graduated at Amherst College in 1852, and at the Andover Theological Seminary in 1855; was ordained a Con- gregational minister, Oct. 17, 1855; en- gaged in missionary work in Syria in 1855-1862; and in 1866 became President of the Syrian Protestant College of Bei- rut. His publications include "Mental Philosophy" and "National Philosophy," both in Arabic. President Syrian Protes- tant College (1902). He died in Beirut, Syria, 1916. BUSS, EDWIN ELISHA, an Ameri- can missionary, born in Putney, Vt., April 12, 1817; graduated at Amherst College in 1837, and at Andover Theolog- ical Seminary in 1842; was ordained as a missionary in 1843, and joined the American Mission in Turkey, being sta- tioned at Trebizond, 1843-1852; Marso- van, Armenia, 1852-1856; and at Con- stantinople after 1856. In addition to the ordinary work of a missionary he edited, 1865-1892, the "Messenger," published at Constantinople in the Turkish and Arme- nian languages, and compiled a number of text books, notably the "Bible Hand- book," in Armenian, He died in Constan- tinople, Turkey, Dec. 29, 1892. BLISS, FREDERICK JONES, an American explorer, born in Mt. Lebanon, Syria, Jan. 23, 1859; son of Daniel Bliss; was graduated at Amherst College in 1880, and at the Union Theological Sem- inary in New York in 1887; was prin- cipal of the preparatory department of the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut for three years; was appointed Explorer to the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1890, and is best known for his excava- tions and finds in Jerusalem in 1894-1897, and again in 1898-1900. From 1911 to 1914 he was dean for men at the Univer- sity of Rochester. He was a member of the committee appointed by General Allenby to report on the condition of buried ancient buildings in Syria and Palestine in 1919. He has published "Mounds of Many Cities," "Excavations at Jerusalem," etc. BLISS, TASKER HOWARD, an American soldier; born in Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 31, 1853. He graduated from West Point in 1875 and from the United States Artillery School in 1884. From 1885 to 1898 he was professor of mili- tary science at the United States Naval War College. He served in Cuba and GEN. TASKER BLISS Porto Rico in the Spanish-American War and became commandant of the Army War College in 1903. He was made Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army in 1917, succeeding Major Gen. Hugh L. Scott. During the World War he repre- sented the United States at the sessions of the Inter-Allied war conferences, and in 1919 was one of the American dele- gates to the Peace Conference at Paris. BLISTER, a topical application, which, when applied to the skin, raises the cuticle in the form of a vesicle, filled with serous fluid, and so produces a counter- irritation. The Spanish fly blister oper- ates with most certainty and expedition, and is commonly used for this purpose, as well as mustard, hartshorn, etc. BLISTER FLY, the name for any fly, using that term in its widest sense to designate any flying insect. The more common blister flies are beetles, and they are in consequence sometimes called blister beetles. That most frequently em- ployed by medical men for raising blis- ters on the skin is the lytta vesicatoria,
