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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-03-29
Dust and Smoke Blown in the Eyes Of the
Public bY Wall Streat.

SOAlA auhAP1bB thAOuBA 1A0 NoAAy pASoS
upon the mysterious causes Of the enor-
nous expectation Of gold from America.
We are persuaded, however, that these
men are not SO foggv upon the situation
as they would have us believe, but like
Hamlet, they are only playing the fool.
To any man moderately versed in the
economic conditions Of so-called modern
civilization, the whole affair is so plain
that, though q fool, he need not err
therein.
A casual glance at the reasons ad-
vanced by men in high places, will re-
veal to any thinking mind that such
reasons are only advanced to veil the
real issue; efforts to dodge the question;
smoke and dust thrown in the eyes Of
the multitude, while the enemy further
forges it's chains.
TheIfollowing reasons are among those
most urged on the causes Of the gold ex-
portation: american tourists taking
gold With them to bear their European
travelling expenses. The silver agitation.
Balance of trade. Barring Brothers fail
ure. Americans residing in Europe.
Wholesale purchase Of unmatured bonds
of the United States The boarding of
gold by Austria, Germany, Russia and
France. The Sherman act" and last and
among the least, the San Francisco EG-
GmSner says that "the fact that gold is
going is proof that the people of the
United States have brought more than
they have sold" These frivolities are
said to be the causes. These are the
dust and smoke. Now what solution do
they offer? What chain are they forg-
ing? 1t is suggested that the Worlds
Fair may turn the tide this way, as
though values were currents Of wind
blowing lawlessly through this world.
AS we'll may we expect the old woman
with her broom to sweep back the ebb-
ing sea, as that theWorld's Fair will turn
the tide of gold this way. More dust
and smokel There is not finsnoier on
this earth but that knows the Worlds
Fair cannot turn the tide. Disagreeing
among themselves as to the causes and
suggesting the most improbable Incl
dents for it's solution, yet these finsn-
ciers strangely enough agree upon one
thing which, if adopted, will, according to-
them, put an end to all this trouble. The
panacea is $50,0OO,O00 in per cent. bonds
to be issued by the United States. Ali
Here is the link in the chain they are
forging. 1t is made Of gold. 1t is tenn
pered in the fires of hell. 1t is forged
by the money Of this world.
Fifty million dollars of bondsH And
is this expectation to be stopped by our
beginning at once to export 81, 100000
more annually, as interest, than we are
now exporting? A solution as remote
and false. as their pretended causes.
But what is the cause Of this fight Of
gold? Every finsncier and bondholder
is as familiar with it as he is with the
routine of his business, for it is the
routine of his business. The municipal
debt bearing upon our country amounts
to $3,OOO,OOO,OO0. The railroad debt
amounts to $5,OOO,OOO,OOO.. The mort
cages upon real estate in the United
States amounts to s5,0OO,OOO,O00. Of
the many trusts controlling all the moat
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
CAPTURED A CATARACT.
Capitalists VIII Soon Have Put Niagara
to Hard Work.

Capitalists Will Soon Have Put Niagara
to Hard Work.
For more than f1ftyyears the dream
of engineers has been to harness
Niagara" Well, the dream has come
true. Niagara is in harness.
To be sure the trace-chains have
not yet been hooked to the whiffie-
trees of industry, but the collar and
harness, the bride and bit, are in
position and ready for the strain
when it shall come.
The greatest cataract Of the world
has been subdued, says Buffalo cor
and if, in knowledge of it's captivity,
it's roar is more sullen than of yore
when it existed only as an insur-
mountable obstacle to navigation and
a wonder for sightseers to grow
solemn over, the smiles on the faces
Of capitalists, the new jingle in the
pockets of residents of the village Of
Niagara Falls, and the complacent
prophecies of the Buffalonian that
ten years hence Chicago will not be
in it, sir; no, sir, not on your life, !"
are atonements.
It is estimated that the total power
Of the great waterfall is equal to that
of $4,000, 900 horses. The present
scheme will only utilize less than
1-lOOth of that vast wasting force,
but it may be stretched in the future
to as great length as may be made
useful.
The effect of this great enterprise
may not be as great as the sanguine
remark of the Buffalo man who has
been quoted would imply, but it will
be very great.
But plan has been devised where
by the power will be electrically
transmitted to Buffalo with compare
lively small loss, so that the city will
undoubtedly come in for many of the
pudding's plums.
The first attempt to utilize the
water power Of Niagara Fails was
made by Horace A. Dey, who in 1850
built the old hydraulic canal running
from above the rapids to what are
now known as Shoelkopf's mills, on
the brink of the cataract This canal
discharges its water into wheelpits
only sixty feet deep, which in turn
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Pacific Coast Notes.

George B. Daniels, wealthy San
Der nardino County, CAL, truit-grower,
became suddenly insane recently. He
believes Cleveland desires him to be-
come secretary of the interior. He is a
relative of the late Daniel Manning.
A Whatcom County, Wash, mill has
just received two orders for shingles
from the East, aggregating 100000
Half this number are wanted in Chicago
and the other half in Pittsburg. The
mill, which has been shut down since
the cold weather, will start up next
week.
During the recent blizzard the Skagit
River troze solid. and snow in the
sauk Valley is now reported to be
seven feet deep on the level. Should
the snow in the mountains of Western
Washington 60 off suddenly under the
influence of chinook most disastrous
food is to be anticipated.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
HERE AND THERE.

LONDON has blind mans paper.
CANADA has about ii, 600 miles of rail-
road.
ENGLAND pays yearly in police pen
sions 81, 067 ,435.
THERE are said to be 5l2. 500 telephones
in this country.
THE Paris sewers are the largest and
most complete of any city.
The total number of gypsies in Hun
gary is estimated at 1856, 900.
THE st. Louis new water tower is said
to be the highest in the world.
FISH said to be $1,000 years old are tun-
neled out in the great salt strata Of the
Rockies.
\ PHILADELPHIA girl who gives dainty
little 5 O'Clock tea parties has the sugar
plums specially tinted to exactly match
her soft silken tea gowns.
THE telephone connection between
Sweden and Denmark across the sound,
from Malino, on the Swedish, to Copen-
probability, be shortly accomplished.
CARROLL D. WRIGHT, chief Of the
United States bureau of statistics, re-
ports that wages in Massachusetts aver
age $l.70 to 81 paid in England, while
SLY here to ST in England.
HAPPY the young woman nowadays
who has middle name with sonorous
sound. Susan c. Nipper looks common
place, but Susan Cholmondeley Nipper
is too fine for anything.
THE Royal Institute of British Archi-
tects has decided to award to Richard
M. Hunt, of New York, the gold medal
given every year by the Queen, on the
recommendation OF the society, to the
gentleman who has distinguished him
self in that art.
MISS MARY WINSTON, who died at
Downey, CAL, one day lately, had been
a sufferer from spinal and nervous dis
eases since 1889. She had not been
able to walk for the past ffty-one years,
and since 1871 she had been confined to
her bed.
JOSEPH SCHIEssER, of Oakland. CAL,
thinks he has solved the problem of
Arctic travel by means of device which
puts a petroleum engine on a sled, and
makes the engine drive series of spurs
which take hold of the Ice and force
the sled forward.
A MAN weighs less when the barometer
is high, Notwithstanding the fact that
the atmospheric pressure on him is
more than when the barometer is low.
AS the pressure of air on an ordinary
sized man is about Is tons, the rise of
the mercury from 20 to 81 inches adds
about one ton to the load he has to
carry.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

mains of buildings erected by the old
Spanish conquerors of the country.
One of these, the Adobe Palace, has
been used as the Executive" man
sion since the first Governor and Cap
tain General, Juan de Otermin, oc-
cupied it in 1880; while the cathe-
dral, built in 1861, is now rapidly
crumbling away, and will soon be re-
placed by modern stone building.
Another interesting ecclesiastical
edifice is the Church of San Miguel,
erected in the sixteenth century, but
destroyed during the Pueblo revolu-
ton of 1880, and rebuilt in ITO.
Close to this structure stands house
generally recognized as the oldest in
the United States" It was built be-
fore the Spanish conquest, and it is
traditionally reported that Coronado
lodged in it in 1910.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

THE Goajira Indians live in the
Businesses of Colombia's mountains,
far from missions and tracts and re-
f1ning influences. Recently they
caught some traders from the super.
ior pale-faced race stealing their most
comely girls. The Indians, in a
crude but effective way, bound the
traders to a stake and roasted them.
Civilization heard of the affair and
threw the inevitable stone. And now
the rafting fragments Of civiliza-
TONS glass house bang about it's own
ears.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
He Wanted Powder.

Here is one of the occasional joys of
life in the South. The incident is
narrated by Florida shopkeeper to a
New York Recorder man. 81 was
awakened few nights ago oy thump-
ing on my door. L put my head out of
the window and could make out the
figure of a big negro. What do you
want? p said I.
"'I'm sick, boss he said, an l want
some medicine
every we'll, said I, and got up and
with him over to my store, which is
across the street from where l live. AS
soon as [ got behind the counter the
fellow said, Il want half pound O.
powder
"'I thought said I, you were
SICK
"'No, I amt, boss,' said he, L said
that to, get you up. [ want that
POWDER
"Couldn't you have waited till morn
ing?
tonight
"'Well,' said I. you can't have pow
der for any such purpose as that
"But got to have it, boss. Sell me q
quarter poun'n
"'Give you dollar for it'll
"'Nov
"'Two dollarsn
"'Non
"'1'm jest a-goin' to have it ? said he,
and he whipped razor out of his pock-
ct. | just said: Here, Prince, sic
him = and the big mastif that I kept
in the place made break for him. The
negro gave one yell and rushed for the
door, and upon my word, l doubt if he
has stopped running vet.''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

at San Francisco, and her name IS
the Hiram Bingham. She was paid
for, however, by the American Board
Of Foreign Missions, of Boston, and
is registered in that city. Rev. J.
Walkup, who commands her, is a cap
tain as well as a missionary, who has
passed twelve years Of his life among
the Gilbert Islands. Internally the
vessel is all cabin, as the crew is
composed entirely Of the missionaries
who intend TO work among the ISL
ands, and the vessel is designed for a
sort of tender to the big missionary
brig Morning Star. 1t is built, there
fore, to run in and out among all the
channels and harbors where the large
vessels cannot go, and an odd feature
about it is 1O-horse-power gasoline
engine and attached screw, so the
vessel can navigate the narrow chan
nels by steam in calm.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Betrayed by an Echo.

Perhaps the most interesting echo,
partly because Of it's history, is that
of the Cathedral of Girgenti, in Sicily,
where the slightest whisper is borne
with perfect distinctness from the
great western door to the cornice be-
hind the high altar. The fact that
a faint whisper could be thus carried
$50 feet was discovered accident tally
by man who overheard the contes-
sion of fair sinner, the confessional
being just at the most unfortunate
place. The secret was kept jealousy
guarded by the discoverer and a few
intimate friends to whom he confided
it, while escapades Of the most pri-
vate nature became public property
in the most mysterious way. Finally
one listener had his curiosity more
than satiated by hearing his wifes
confession to the priest, and raised
such row that the secret became
known, and the location of the con-
fessional was changed to more Sc
cure part of the edifice
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Internationally FUNNY.

The making of jokes has come to
be recognized trade, but it is still
true that the funniest things are
those that are said Internationally,
especially by men who feel it their
mission to be eloquent. The New
York Tribune brings together few
specimens of that peculiar form OF
ridiculous speech knows as anti-cli-
max. 1t prevails in India among all
classes, but is especially resorted to by
natives who have occasion to petition
Europeans for favors. Thus such a
man will say:
will the Presence, whose reputa-
ton for justice is known from the
East to the West and whose counte-
nance spreads JOY among His inferi-
ors, who are as the sands of the sea-
shore, in number, graciously deign to
take but an instant's notice of him
who has the delicious honor to name
himself one Of the most unworthy
among the servants of the Protector
Of the Poor; and will the favorite
son of the Lord of the Universe mag
unanimously overlook my amazing pre-
sumption in asking him for the pay
ment Of bill of two annas for hen
feed?"
The same thing is not unknown in
the United States. A Florida police
justice was trying to impress upon a
prisoner who was to testify in his
own behalf the solemn nature of an
oath. Assuming the most pompous
tone he thus addressed him:
prisoner at the bar! In taking
this solemn oath to tell the truth
and nothing but the truth, take care
that you do not allow yourself to be
tempted to commit willful perjury.
Remember that the eye of an all-see-
ing Providence and the village con-
stable are upon you"
Another Judge, in rough and
ready but ambitious frontier town,
had occasion, or thought he had, to
comment severely upon the heinous
crime of DEMONSTRATING, and thun-
dered forth:
"For century after century that
dread command, Thou shalt not
steal, has rolled along the ages. 1t
is, moreover, a standing rule of this
court, if not yet bylaw of our pro-
gressive and soon-to-5e-incorporated
city,"
Ludicrous deliverances of similar
sort are common in advertisements,
especially in those Of a personal nat
ure. Here is one that appeared not
long ago in a New York paper;
willie, return to your distracted
wife and frantic children! Do you
want to hear of your old mothers sui
eide? You will if you do not let us
know where you are. Anyway, send
back your fathers colored meer
Schaum"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL: The Co

INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL: The Co.
lumbar souvenir coin has proved a
failure. Congress made gift to the
Exposition managers of $500, 900
worth of the coins. and the managers
expected to sell them for a dollar
apiece, realizing S., 100000. Instead
of that only 1927. 900 worth have
been sold up to date, and over s4,-
900, 200 worth of the pretty pieces
are left in kegs in the safety vaults.
The coin does not seem to have hit
the popular fancy to anything like
the extent that it's designers ex-
pected.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

IN list of people killed by rail
road an attorney specifies under the
caption of occupations" tramp,
Suicide" "boy," and young lady
Being a tramp" "boy," and a
"young lady" may, perhaps, involve
some occupation, bnt suicide"
would hardly seem to fall within the
widest acceptation of the word A
suicides occupation" would certainly
seem to cease with his becoming a
suicide
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Oldest Pieces of Iron.

The three oldest known pieces of
wrought iron in existence are the sickle
blade that was found by Belzoni under
the base of sphinx in Karnac, near
Thebes; the blade found by Col. Vyse
imbedded in the mortar of one of the
pyramids, and portion of cross-cut
saw which Mr.. Layard exhumed at
Nimrud-all of which are now in the
British Museum. Another piece OF
iron. an account of which might not
be inappropriate in this connection,
is the wrought bar of Damascus steel
which King Porus presented to AleAan
der the Great. This bar, which is OF
unknown antiquity, is still carefully
preserved in the National Turkish Mu-
scum at COnstantinOple.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
A RESIDENT of Salt Lake has

A RESIDENT of Salt Lake has a
a copy of a mortgage made in Boise
City in 1861. 1t was to secure $17O,
with interest at ten per cent. every
month, the interest in case Of default
to be added to the principal and COM
pounded semi-annually. The mort
gage was never satisfied, and as it
now amounts, according to the terms,
to $40, 972, OO3, 1872, 5000, and is still
growing, there are grave fears that
it never will be.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
pected.

OBJECTS to crinoline? OF course
she does. 1t is pleasant to know
that the first lady in the land sees no
reason why women should return tC
the absurd fashions of 1860. Let the
enterprising modistes. who have been
pushing the reactionary hoop, take
warning. The White House bric-a-
brac is not to be knocked about by
ten-yards-wide crinolines, and the
ladies in the Presidential social circle
are not to be turned into the SEM
blance of Dutch pin cushions Mrs.
Cleveland merits the gratitude Of all
lovers of aesthetic dress.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Early English Sllverware.

Old English silverware is much in de-
mand just now, and genuine pieces,
especially those Of historic interest, fetch
high prices. There is special interest
In tableware OF the Seventeenth, Eigh-
teenth and Nineteenth centuries. AS
both tea and coffee came into use in En-
gland near the middle Of the Seven
teenth Century some these coffee pots
and teapots are among the earliest of
English make. Even then the device
of the wooden handle, designed to inter
pose a non-conductor between the hand
and the hot metal, had come into use.
The best coffee pots are large, stable
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

THE first man to introduce a bill
in State Legislature against the
wearing O. the crinoline provoked a
laugh. The second got only smile.
The third had to be content with q
solemn and noncommittal ignoring
Of his wit. The fourth received a
look of stern disapproval, and the
fifth was howled down as an ass for
dragging the mangled remains Of the
jest into view again. There are
forty-four State Legislatures, with at
least one clown in each, and If the
crinoline resolution is to worm its
way into every Legislature, some
where along the line there will be
adjournment for a lynching bee.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Helping the Memory.

The railway. postal clerks have
unique method for learning the ronteS
on which post-offices are located. TaLo
for example, the state of Pennsvlvan;a'
in which there are over 5000 Office
The prospective mail distributor huvs %
quantity of blank cards-abCut the So
of the ordinary visiting Garland ON
each of these he writes the name of an
Office. On the back of the card he writes
the name Of the route by which the
Office is served with its mail. Takine in
hand pack of these cards-sav from
so to 1O0-he goes over them one after
another studiously, looking at the back
each time and getting the name and
route clearly associated in his mind
The second time he goes through tha
the routes by reading the name of tho
office. 1t is dull student who unon
going over pack of cards dozen times
does not know them thoroughly. The
method is so simple and such an aid to
memorizing that it is adopted bv all
railway mail clerks. BY it clerks have
been known to memorize a state like
PENNSYLVANIA or New York inside of two
months.
On all large routes clerks work but
halt time, the other half being devoted
to rest and study. The mail clerk at
home, continually reminded of coming
examinations, carries his cards where
ever he goes, coming them over at
every opportunity. One demonstrative
clerk on the New York & Pittsburo
R. p. 0. is famed for having learned
the state of Ohio in four days. AS he
shuffled over his cards he walked from
garrett to cellar, and vice versa, from
dawn until the shades Of twilight fell.
On the fourth day he went to the ex-
aminer's office and separated Ohio
without an error. 1t is related that the
wife of postal clerk adopted the card
method tor increasing her vocabulary
in French. On one side of the cards
she wrote the French word and on the
other the English equivalent to be
learned. Another lady, hearing of this,
used the same system successfully for
learning mythology, placing the word
Mars" for instance, on one side of the
card and "war" on the other. The
method has so many advantages over
the old and tedious way of learning
from the pages of book that it might
be utilized with advantage by teachers
in search of new methods of imparting
instruction.-Ph PHILADELPHIA Record.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
No DOUBT many fortunes were los

No DOUBT many fortunes were lost
in the great Reading slump, and the
friends of the Reading management
have suffered severely, but it was a
battle between giants, and no abso-
lutely dead giants are reported yet.
Those who deal great blows must ex-
pect heavy wounds in return. Read
ing will be the better soon for the
nursing it will receive at the hands
of it's receivers. The curious feature
of the battle is that the roads own
finances do not seem impaired in any
way.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16
Bridal Tour en- Fannie.

A variation from the ordinary brida
tour is the trip of couple now passing
a portion of their honeymoon in Denl-
son, Tex. The bride is so years of age
and the mother of thirteen children,
eight of whom accomany her on her
wedding tour. The groom has also
brought along mis- five children, he
has been married four times, the bride
five times. They arrived at Denson IN
a wagon, and intend to make circuit OF
their friends and relatives. They re-
side in the Red River country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

RESIDENTS of Arizona are planning
a sham battle, to be participated in
by hundreds of Indians, the need Of
victory being 10000 pounds of -four.
The plan, if carried out, will involve
a number of surprises; the principal
one of which will be revelation to
the Arizonians that while they can
successfully arrange battle the
sham will not be there.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-03-16

MARIE TEMPEST lost $1,000
brooch while performing at the Casino
Theater, New York. Had the Chi
cago show people seen the little prima
donna when she first discovered her
loss they would have bought her a
diamond breastpin as big as cheese
plate if she would have consented to
stand as model for "Pity smiling
at Grief" group for exhibition pur-