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The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

The whisky trust, with headquarters in
Peoria, ILL.,, and it's hipdqusrders in hades,
has begun it's toboggan slide by announcing
it's inability to pay profit to those who
pooled their issues and distilleries in the ex-
pectatiOn of controlling congress to place a
higher tax on whisky made after a certain
date, in order to enhance the price Of all
made before that date. God pity the man
who is 30 lost to all sense of humanity az to
seek to speculate in an article that is the
cause of nine.tenths of all the crime and
misery there is in this world.-Reporter,
April 27.
The Reporter seems to have got the
position of the animal reversed-the
head on the wrong end.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

We CLEAN from the Capital that
another Populist official, S. M. Scott,
has had the sudacity to draw a
months salary for services rendered
as q member of the board of public
works. This is perfectly outrageous.
1t Is bad enough for republicans to
have to yield the Offices to Populists,
without having to stand back and see
them actually draw the salary which
a republican legislature has provided.
o, this is awful.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
The Columbian Historical Novels.

Volume vi of this interesting series
is just issued, and is fully up to the
standard established by the preceding
numbers. The following paragraphs
from the announcement Of the publish
ers will give the reader some idea Of the
character Of the work:
"Among the English colonists in
America at this time, the two principal
classes were the Cavaliers and the Puri-
tans. The former were Kings men,
or royslists, the latter, as q rule, repub-
licans. Sir William Berkeley, q tyrant
and lover Of royalty, who declared that
he thanked God that there we're neither
printing presses nor public schools In
Virginia. because these were promoters
Of personal liberty and popular advance
mont, was governor Of Virginia and
leader of the Cavaliers. A clash between
the classes was the inevitable outcome Of
Berkeley's tyranny and selfish greed.
Bacon's rebellion, failing on the very eve
Of victory, because of the brilliant rebels
untimely death, came just one hundred
years before the great revolution, which
achieved the independence Of the Amer
lean colonies.
"Che story is entirely different in style
from any in the preceding volumes Of the
series, and the interest never relaxes.
The merry Cavalier, the sedste Puritan,
the snake-eyed aborigine, and the half
civilized negro, all play important parts
in the story. The reader seems to live
among the people, the scenes, and the
events Of the time, 30 vividly and nstur-
ally are they portrayed.
"John Stevens, financially embarrassed
through the extravaganza of his luxury
loving wife, starts for England to collect
money owing him there. His shipwreck
on desolste and unknown island with
only one companion, his Robinson-Cru.
soc like existence, the wonderful adven-
lures which betel him and the mysterious
developments which followed absorb the
readers attention.
"The illustrations are graphic in por-
trsysl Of the text, and are exceedingly
well executed. The index, given at the
close Of the volume, is ready key to it's
many historical Incidents"
The series is being published by Funk
& Wsgnslls, 18 and 20 Astor Place, New
York, Price per volume, s1.50.
s. Stanton, 2O7 west Sixth street, To
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

The consoling intelligence comes
from Wall street that MIR. Carlisle
satisfied the bankers in his last inter-
view, and that all is now serene. This,
of course, is all that is necessary. If
the bankers are satisfied, the people
be id.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

s. Stanton, 2O7 west Sixth street, To-
peka, wishes the readers to know that he
has the finest line Of pumps and cylin-
ders in Kansas. Stock, house, force and
spraying pumps Of all sizes, makes and
materials are in stock. Freight is about
20 cents for q complete pump per hun
dred miles Pumps exclusively. Write
or call.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
Same the World Over,

The Populists Of New Kensington,
Penn, elected their whole ticket at the
late municipal election, but the republi-
can occupants refused to vscste the posi-
tions. The lower court sustained the
Populists, but the republicans still hang
on to the Offices and appealed to the
supreme court. We had little OF that
kind of shenanegan right here in Sully
county once. Republican nature is the
same the nation over.-Onids, S. D.,
Journal.
DuttOn House, Topeka, Kas,. 81 Is s15O per day
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

JUDGING from the difficulties ex-
perienced by the mayor and city
council of Topeka IN distributing the
city patronage satisfactorily, even re-
publicans are not altogether free from
Office itch.
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10
WHITTIER ARE WE DRIrTTNa2 2


our minds, while in reality the grasping,
heartless, brutal money power governs
the nation? Certainly il we Judge by the
financial policy Of our government we
must admit that the words Of a true
representative of our government, "The
people be ID" comes nearer stating
the true condition than anything else
could.
In 1873 silver was demonetized accord
ing to the wish of our rulers, without
any regard to the wishes Of the people
In 1878 the people asserted themselves so
far that law was passed making silver
again legal tender for all debts, public
or private, but without putting it on an
equality with gold in permitting free
coinage. This law being passed, the So
called servants Of the people turned an
arChists, deied the law, and refused to
pay out silver. The real rulers used their
plant tools, the partisan press Of both
the leading parties, to create public SEN
timent against the use of silver as
money. With all the power Of the press
and the influence Of the leaders Of both
parties, they have not been able to
change public sentiment. There is not
a man living to-day who has an intelli-
gent idea of public opinions who does
not know that the great mass of the peo-
pie want silver restored to it's former
position-free coinage.
After the secretary of the treasury per-
sistently refused to pay out silver and
hundreds Of millions were piled up in the
vault, congress passed resolutions de-
claring that silver should be paid out,
that it was legal tender for all debts, but
neither the resolutions of congress nor
the Well-known wishes Of the people
could balance the demands of Lombard
and Wall streets. The policy Of the ad
ministration remained the same. 1t may
change from republican to democratic,
from democratic to republican, and back
again; plutocracy smiles serenely; it's
only the difference between tweedledum
and tweedledee.
In 1890 an act was passed making it
compulsory to buy 100000 ounces of
silver every month. The silver was
bought, but not to be used. Now we
are reaching an interesting climax in
this program. The United States bonds
have gradually bsen diminished against
the wishes Of our rulers; they must do
something to stem the tide, or the much
coveted United States bond will be- q
thing Of the past. Their servants talk
road improvement through their great
papers, but the farmers will not take
the bait after they learn that it means
bonds. There is another way. Buy
4 100000 ounces Of silver monthly, pay
for it with silver certificates, and cash the
silver certificates with gold. This brings
us to the present situation, but we must
not forget the bond, because that is the
kernel in the nut.
Now Cleveland comes out with a pub
lie statement and says: While the law |
Of 1890, forcing the purchase Of fixed |
Of silver every month, provides
that the secretary Of the treasury, in his
may redeem in either gold or |
silver the treasury notes given in pay
ment for silver purchases, yet the deela- |
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

CertlncaGeS with gold means bonds; that
is what they want, and they always get
what they want. They want peculiar
kind OF bond, too. Secretary Carlisle has
been negotiating with the bankers Of
New York, and this statement is given
in the Kansas City Star: "What the
bankers are willing to do, although they
have not made the direct offer, is: They
will turn over $5O,0OO,OOO Of gold to the
treasury if it will issue in exchange GER
tificates or notes bearing 21S per cent.
interest which can be counted in the re-
serve, and be used in settlement Of bal
snces at the clearing house, the same as
money, and which will be received for
balances due to the sub-trsasury, and be
reissued in exchange for greenbacks or
legal tender notes. The certificates
would be the same as the old clearing
house certificates issued against Collat-
erals, which in this instance would be
gold"
This is getting things down to fine
point. Only 2115 per cent. How liberal
and patriotlc 1t will only cost the dear
people Sl,l25,000 a year, and what a
blessing to the bankers it will be! How
many wants Of their dear ones can be
supplied! How many innocent pleasures
obtainedl So much can be given to
charity! How much better can these
cultured, refined people use this money
than the common crowd would who have
to pay it to them! Then, besides this,
they have the proud consciousness OF
saving the honor and credit Of the ma
tion!
/ hope that every reader understands
that under this arrangement these bank
erV, while they give their gold, obtain
certificates that are just as good and can
be used in their business just the same
as if they had the gold. All they make
is the interest. l hear some farmer say:
My farm, with what is on it, cost $20,.
600. l would like to have the govern
ment pay me 215 per cent. and still let
me keep it; $500 year would be q nice
help, especially when crops fail" Keep
still, brother; it's not for US; we are or
dained to suffer till we get sense.
One more thought, and / will close. /
look at a local democratic paper before
me, and read: "Senator Hoar declares
that the people can not be trusted to act
nationally on public questions" In the
same paper: Secretary Carlisle will
show the Wall street gold ring that he is
not wearing their collar or chained IN
their kennel, as they think he is. In
other words, he is q democrat, and is
backed by a democratic administration |
from top to bottom" In the same pa
per: "The Cleveland administration is
committed to the proposition that silver
ia good and lawful money for the pay
ment Of all debts, public and private" |
would have liked to see the writer, if he |
had accidentally looked up, and seen his
face reflected in the mirror, after penning |
the above, how sheepish he would have |
felt to look at that kind Of a man. Seri-
ously, is it not about time for decent,
self-respecting democrats to pause in
their silly, undemocratic, undignihed |
man worship Of that very ordinary NOR
tai, ClevelsndP Ask yourself, In what |
respect does he represent the wishes of |
The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-05-10

DuttOn House, Topeka, Kas,. &l.25- -sl5Oper day
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11

The training of men for work which
requires the highest possible nicely Of
hand is not really training. Ii is far
more the selection, by experiment, Of
men born with the true touch. For ex-
ample, we doubt whether the very
greatest surgeons-the men whose sue
cess depends upon their ability to make
sharp steel as sensitive "a a fnger-tip-
perform their hundredth operation better
than their fist. They have more conf
dence. no doubt, but the sleight- hand
is unborn Nobody can train a medi-
cal student into a great oculist. Ii
is only the ordinary man of whom
it can be said that practice makes
perfect. The man with the special gift
is born perfect. But genius is only the
mental side of this gift, apart, and if the
people whose business is with mind were
as honest and as unsophsticated as those
who deal with horseracing or brick
laying, we should not hear anything
more about genius being merely the
capacity for hard work. To say that the
bricklayer with the "knack is only a
bricklsyer who takes pains, would be a
patent absurdity. 1t is not less an alb
surdity, though less obvious one, to
say that man with genius for style
and literary form is only man who
knows how to take pains, but no amount
of takingpains will give him the genius
OF verse. London Spectator.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
The Origin OF Starching.

The course of history carries us back
no further than the year 1864 for the
origin of starching in London. II was
in that year that Mistress Van der Plasse
came with her husband from Flanders to
the English metropolis "for their greater
safety" and there profcssed herself u
starcher. The best housewives OF the
time were not long in discovering the
excellent whiteness Of the Clutch
linen" no il was called, and Mistress
Plassc soon had plenty OF good paying
clients. Some of these began to send
her ruffs of lawn to starch, which she
did so excellently well that it became n
saying that is any one sent her rulle
made OF a spiders web she would be able
TO starch il. So greatly did her reputa
tion grow that fashionable danes went
to her to learn the art and mystery Of
starching, for which they gladly paid n
premium of 500 or $25, and for the secret
OF seething starch they paid gladly n
further sum of s.. New York World.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
Made TO Speak.

Last week Miss Nellie Bullard, Of
Waycross, Ga, was dumb. To-day she
talks huently. The cause OF her being
speechess was cleft palate, a misfortune
from birth. Her voice is clear and her
words are uttered distinctly. This
change has been wrought by means Of
an artificial palate obturator made Of
vulcanite and rubber. IL twas made by n
dentist OF that city. Formerly Miss
Bulard experienced great difficulty in
swallowing. The dentist learned Of her
misfortune, and after making an examin-
alton decided TO try an experiment.
For several weeks he has worked on the
artificial palate obturator. Last week 1t
was completed. Miss Bullard came on
visit 10 her relative, Colonel r. &.
Cannon, and she was presented with the
palate obturator AS free gift 1t was
adjusted in her mouth, and for the first
time in her life she uttered word.
Like a little child, she began 10 talk
from the simplest words in common use
until to-day she converses freely with
her friends. Miss Bullard is seventeen
years Of age, and is pretty.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
lie Made His Deposit.

There is more or less humbag about
the traditional slowness of the messenger
boy. At least, there is one Of them in
Kansas City who is abreast Of the age in
which he lives. This uniformed urchin
keeps an account in one OF the banks,
and it is growing rapidly, too. The
other day he went in to deposit so cents
The teller, with more than his custom
airy haughtiness, informed the boy
that deposits Of less than 81 could
not be received by the bank. The young
ster wasted not word iu argument, but
walked quietly to desk, wrote a check
for s and presented the same at the
window of the paying teller. The check
was honorcd, OF course. Then the car
rier of the messages revisited the re-
ceiving teller.
I'D like to deposit s1.5O, if you
please be said.
The deposit was accepted, and the re-
ceiving teller was very much chagrincd.
-Detrort Free Press.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
A Remarkable Collector

A boy in Portland, Me-, many years
ago, was deeply interested in collec-
tions, and after taking up several things,
minerals. stamps, and the like, he settled
down in making collection of shells.
At seventeen he had developed such
keenness of observation as TO discover a
new species of shell, and presented pa
per before the Boston Society of Natural
History on his discovery. In a few
months he again discovered new spc-
cies that had been classified as the young
of known species. A great English
naturalist visiting this country was taken
to visit this boy and see his collection OF
shells. lie was so interested that on his
return to Boston he spoke of the collec-
tion to Professor Agassiz, who Invited
the collector to Harvard as a special stu
dent. That boy is known to the world
az Professor Morse. He went TO Japan
40 Professor OF Zoology in the University
Of Toxic, and while in Japan began
studying the beautiful pottery OF that
artistic nation, until he had become an
authority. and was made Judge at the
Chicago Exposition. Professor Morse at
tributes his knowledge of Japanese pot
terry to the habits of close inspection ac-
quired in his boyhood when making his
collection of shells.-lThe Outlook.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
Avenged by His Pets.

Meinrad, a famous Swiss saint, who
flourlshed in the ninth century, led a
hermit's life in cell at Einsiedein, where
he was often visited for advice and help
The companions of his solitude were two
tame ravens, to which he was much at
tached.
In the year SCI the saint was mur-
dered in his cell by some men inspired
by greed of gold, which they supposed
the poor man to possess. After the foul
deed they fled toward Zurich, whittier
they were followed by the two ravens.
There certain pilgrims identified the
birds, and inquiries having been made at
once, the murderers were arrested and
punished.
The saints cell remained untenanted
for nearly fifty years, but was rebuilt Of
stone about a century afterward, and
some two hundred years later the great
convent of Einsiedein, still the richest
and most frequented in Switzerland,
arose on the spot where the lonely
preacher was slain.-- New York Jour
nal
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
A Sun Furnace.

Sir Henry Bessemer, the well-known
inventor Of the steel process which bears
his name. tells how he tried to construct
a "sun furnace" and failed. His inven-
tion was intended TO revolutionize not
only the science Of metallurgy, but the
whole world. IL was to attain a temper
aturc of nearly 60, 600 degrees, and there
fore fuse anything and everything, and
Sir Henry puts the blame OF its failure TO
fulfill these expectations on the stupidity
of country lensmaker The"s furnace"
consisted Of wooden building thirty
five feet high and about twelve feet
square. A few feet from the ground was
fixed large inclinable mirror for catch
ing the rays of the SUN from this mirror
the rays were TO be reflected onto n num-
Der of powerful super-imposed lenses
above, which, by a simple arrangement,
were TO throw the enormously concen
trated rays upon whatever object might
be in the crucible below. Such was the
mighty plan, but the manufactures Of the
upper glasses brought it miserably to
naught, for instead Of turning them out
uniform he made them all different and
thus spoiledthe focus New York Tee-
gram.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11
Insects In Pharmacop9a.

Not only in industry and art. but in
medicine also, insects are now utilized to
considerable extent, and indeed to a
degree not generally understood by the
non professional. Even cockroaches,
dried and powdered. are recognized now
adays as a remedy for dropsy, the dust
contains an active principle termed anti
hydrophia, which stimulates the kidneys
and checks the complaint. Probably
everybody is familiar with the fact that
pulverized Spanish flies are commonly
utilized for blisters, inflaming the skin
through the operation of substance
called cantharadine; and it has latterly
been ascertained that ordinary potato
bugs dried and powdered possess an
equal virtue of the same description; :;
many other insects are also used for sup
plying cantharadinc, there being so many
as fifteen species of blister beetles OBJ
tanned in this country, Cochincal in
sects. so valuable as dye, are admins
tered in small doses for neuralgia and TO
check the spasms of whooping cough.
Lac insects, from which shelac is made,
are resorted too as "A remedy for dysen-
terry; and the medical properties Of eX-
tracts derived from the gals formed on
plants by gall flies are we'll understood; !;
these gals, which contain about seventy
per cent. of tannin, being largely gath
cred in Asia Minor, mostly from oak trees.
New York Telegram.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11

The rocks are series OF sandstone
bluffs, rising in many places abruptly
out of the water To height varying
from so TO 200 feet, and are situated
about seventy miles west of Whiteiish
Point, on the southern shore of Lake
Superior. The "Grand Portal is the
most imposing feature of the series. 1t
is 100 feet high by l6S feet broad at the
water level, and the cliff il is cut in
rises above the arch, making the whole
height 1875 feet. The Great Cave,
entered through the Portal, extends
back in the shape of vaulted room, the
arches Of the roof built of yellow sand
stone and the sides fretted into artistic
shapes by storm driven waves. About
mile west is "Sail Rock" group
of detached rocks which bear rescm-
blance to the mainsail and jib Of sloop
The height of this 10 forty feet. The
Chapel" is vaultcd apartment in the
rock. An arched roof of sandstone rests
on four columns of rock, 50 as To leave
an apartment about forty feet in diameter
and the same in length; within are a
pulpit and altar. West n short distance
from the Chapel is Chapel River, which
falls over a rocky ledge fifteen feet high
in the lake. Miners Castle, five miles
west of the Chapel and just west of
Miners River, is the western end Of the
Pictured Rocks, and resembles an OLD
turretcd castle with an archcd portal,
The height of the advanced mass in
which the Gothic gateway may bc recog
nized is about seventy feet, and the
height OF the main hall forming the back
ground is l40 feet.- Detroit Free Press.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11

A successful system of producing ar
tiicial ice surface has been inauguated in
Paris, andavailable in large areas at all
seasons Of the year. As explained, the
machinery consists Of two ammonia ice
machines, driven by two fifty horse
power steam engines this ice apparatus
has pumps which force ammoniacal gas
into water cooled condensers, liqulfying
the gas. which then passes into large
reservoirs. where il expands with the pro
duction of cold, the same gas being
pumped back and used continu-
ously. In the application of this system
for the formation OF a skating surface, a
rink has been constructed 60 by 130 feet.
having a floor of cork aud cement, upon
this being laid three miles OF connected
iron pipe; through this pipe circulates a
solution Of chloride Of calcium, an un-
congcaable liquid, which, by passage
through spirals in the refrigerating reser.
volrs, is cooled TO some five to twenty
degrees below zero. The water over the
pipe is thus kept frozen, and daily sweep
ing and. flooding insure smoothness. -
New York Sun. u 46.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-11-11

The troupe Of eight collies at the Royal
Aquarium, London, enacts quite a little
stage play. After performing some clever
feats, without the instigation Of a whip
or stick, the dogs Of their own accord,
on a stage property house appearing to
be on fire, rush of on their hind legs and
fetch from the wings Of the stage fire
escape, truDdling it up to and placing II
against the burning house. Bruce, the
head fireman, rushes up the ladder, and
entering through the window Of the top
floor room, returns, carrying child in
its mouth, with which il descends, de-
posting its burden safely on the ground.
Bruce, who is supposed to be injured
during the rescue, Stimulates death; one
OF the collies rushes of for a policeman,
returning with dog cOstumed as a
policeman, wheeling an ambulance, into
which poor Bruce is placed, its widow,
a collie in petticoats, apparently greatly
distressed. This Is only a part OF the
general performances. i Globe.