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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13
bright. raw colors against the gray

bright, raw colors against the gray
walls Of the houses; they poisc
themselves awkwardly on feet that
are too small, in the pretty poses OF
little firescreen figures.
These images deiile rapidly on each
side Of us; they disappear. and we
again encounter an interminable
series of deserted streets.
We are in the Yellow, or imperial
town, and all these old. dead districts
bear an aristocatic character. Walls,
walls without end; walls all crooked
with age, all carpeted with moss and
ferns. Behind them are immense
parks. where nature artificial and
whimsically Chinese has been fash.
toned at great expense.
Occasionally entrances are opened
entrances with heavy oaken doors
worn by time, and enormous pilas.
ters. They have extravagant roofs,
these entrances, yellow roofs whose
extreme angles ute raised skyward In
capricious crooks, in grimacine
forms Of dragons and monsters. All
are guarded by two marble beasts,
half lions, half chimeras, which. with
one clawed paw posed on . ball, 70.
gard the passer.by with mysterious
rictus.
And over all this the neighborine
desert has placed its mark; q layer
Of gray dust, effacing the ancient
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13

cess to the country, We now follow a
great. straight artery, entirely bor-
dered by palaces. AZ we advance the
lines Of monumental and imposing
constructions emerge from the whirl-
winds OF dust, and the semi.obscur-
ity Of the luminous mist; double
row OF hoar.frost covered trees
stretches before us In endless per.
spective; and on either hand there
are always the same great walls, the
same grand entrances with their pent.
houses bristling with chimeras and
monsters, the same marble lions
squatting on the ground and grind.
ing their teeth ut the people who
pass. These Yamen are academies,
ministries, law courts, temples, bon
zcries, converts OF lamas.
As the hour advances the boule-
ward becomes animated; we meet wa.
CONS, bourgeois on donkeys, cavaliers
mounted on little Mongolian steeds,
with large heads, and the ruse, knav.
ish airs Off Termed horses.
Now the boulevard begins to fill
witch people: 1t Is becoming perfect
tumult. Riders come and 20, pre-
coded by Mafoos In livery. They are
all Of q heap In their long gowns,
and look as though squatting on their
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13

Our vehicle IL mounted upon two
enormous wheels, and covered with
. blue awning to protect us from the
dusty north wind. Our mules are i'm.
tued with unshakable principles,
which preclude them from going
ever forty lis an hour (about three
cd one half miles).
The landscape which meets our
eyes consists OF q cloud Of dust,
come expressly from Mongolia to vex
-. Il envelopes everything. DO not
1ako the trouble to look outside, for
q opening your mouth you will swal-
Bow pounds OF dust. Just keep quiet.
However. our little trip will only
last three days, and we shall have for
distraction the view Of our muleteer,
Who Is as round as n poosah under
His seven or eight goatskin nantes.
Toward the evening Of the second
Day we perceive in the horizon ar
old, gray. crenellated wall. with bas'
tions situated at intervals OF an ar
Guw's flight from each other.
Behind us Is the huge palace oil
1he Son Of Heaven; one perceives the
Top OF It's mysterious walls, within
which no European has ever been. II
OGill plumbers In Its inconceivabl'
Oplendor. and ut Its feet the Lotus
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13

colors and gilt, the strange medleys
painted upon these Yamen by the ar
tist OF long ago.
In the direction OF Sitchemen, the
Western gate, which will give W. &C.
high saddles. They are attired In
garments OF silk trimmed with pre-.
cious furs, and black velvet boots
turned upat the tips, with thick, i'm.
maculately white solos, made Of lay
ers OF paper. Among them are phi
siognomies that, while very Chinese,
are stamped with kind Of distinc-
ton peculiar to the upper classes.
They eye us as we pass with a GER
tain expression OF establishment, with
an imperceptiblc shade OF irony,
though in their department there Is
nothing but benevolence and courte-
sy; but the Asiatic rictus Is always
there, even in the kind and distin-
guished physiognomies OF the upper
classes. There is an impossible
abyss between this antique Asia,
which still lives in spite OF all, and
us, who, born yesterday, have chang
ed everything.
A cloud OF dust; children scam
pering about and uttering cries as
piercing as steam whistle; dirty
looking men beating gongs; people
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13
Lake lies furnished and dead under
the January ice.

Lake lies furnished and dead under
the January ice.
One experiences sort OF indefin-
able uneasiness at the thought OF the
immensity 0! this city, awaking In
tho bright morning; one feels op.
psessed, n It were, by this cramped,
confused, inextricablc dedalus one
snakes out around one, covering q
greater extent than any OF our capt.
tails Of Europe.
The dogs bark furiously at us
and make menacing charges at the
legs OF our animals, whose move.
Dents are becoming restless and ir.
SECULAR. These dogs issue from all
tho allies. all the cloacae, and the
troop pursues US, showing their
ohsrp fangs, eager to bite.
The cOuntenances Of few young
Tartar girls, who have just got up,
already appear ut the doors OF the
little. low, gray-brick houses. Their
broad, full-moon-like faces, befarded
with white and vermilion, peep Curl
ouxiy after us, like lot OF kittens
beads; they have little airs OF tim
idity; blankness and establishment
1t tie sight OF the Western carnival
passing by. Their large casques and
bullying pantaloons stand out II
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13
The Squirrel. Hunters.

81 have been among the squirrel
hunters, said the gentleman who
had just returned from his vacation.
"The squirrel hunters are a pecu-
liar people inhabiting the south
vestern counties OF Mississippi and
adjoining Louisiana parishes. They
have been living there for generations
and preserve the primitive customs
and habits OF their forefathers.
1.-The squirrel hunter is doubtless a
Aesceudant OF Kentucky settlers, for
shey are all tall, stately people, and
great lovers OF the hunt. But there
e now little large game to be found,
and 80 they spend their time hunting
the squirrel, which is also scarce.
TIE squirrel hunters are farmers, Du'
raise httls except corn. The pine
Nil region where they live Is not
psuetrated by railroads, and there
are hundreds Of such people who
hayo nsves seen . steam engine.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13

saw a great many Of the Oldest SPUR.
rel hunters OF the country, and found
them to be very strange looking
people. They all wear long hair,
which often reaches down to their
belts. Their boards, too, are long,
often matted with their hair. They
wear homespun panta'oons and
homemade shoes. Their shirts are
oftentimes made from che skins OF
squirrels, which they wear in the
winter, while in the sImmer they
wear an open blouse shirt, aleo OF
home make. Their houses are made
OF pine logs, between which mud Is
placed as q plastering. These houses
are covered with pine boards split
from the woods. There are never any
enclosures about their homes, their
yards opening out into the pine for
est.
"These squirrel hunters, while
they have no churches, are very re-
ligious people, though great deal Of
superstition 10 connected with theil
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13

ONE OF the curiosities OF railroad
building Is the construction OF a road
running from Ismid, a harbor about
sixty miles from Constantinople, to
Angora, about 800 miles. The bridges,
sleepers, string pieces and telegraph
poles, as we'll as the rails, are OF iron,
nine-tenths OF which Is Of German
manufacture. The bridges average
about four to the mile, there being
], POO of them, the longest having a
stretch OF 500 feet. In addition to
these there are sixteen tunnels, the
longest measuring ], 43O feet. This
is the only railroad which penetrates
the interior OF Asiatic Turkey, the
smyrna lines being near the coast.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13
WALLS OF PEKIN.
lptCRRE LOT, DESCRIBES HIS
JOURNEY THROUGH THEM.
- vIcndrovs Word Painting o. This
Carly World Metropolis. with les
vsai's Upon Walls, It's Grotssaue
j Architecture. Etc. Etc.

The browning ambition Of japanese
Datriotism since war was declared
Against the Celestial Empire is to
emulate the prowess OF the French
md English and march to Pekin. The
bncient and gigantic Chinese capital
likely. therefore. to occupy the at
lention OF the unlocking world for
some time to come.
Its sights have often been depicted
~ travellers who had the fortune to
visit It in it's normal, workaday state
- che piping times Of peace, but by
cone more graphically, more pictures
Quely than NJ. Pierre Lott, French
0aval officer, litterateur, and Acade-
0lciaa.
0ubjoined IL q translation Of NJ.
Goti's experiences.
In route for Pekin! Clio! Clac
sNa. t., ta, tai" cries our pigtailed
0oachman, aud our two thin mules
1eart on with trot.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13
THE PROFESSOR


The genuine apply either They possess magnetic
all know that masnetzed piece of steel will pick needl
the mind Of do the bidding of the other The lad
ny and while lady may be able many gentlemen
sufficient magnetic draw him to her. The Egyptian Ct
and confidential agency, working for their
Scores Chicago who have consulted him consider his
Them through his power of second sight, that
led miserable lives united and living connted and hap
families Absent friends have been found hayward girls have
and moral reformation has restored their social standing the
great city Letters pouring in from all parts of the
gratifying To the troubled and unhappy his advice soothing
Men the world consult him upon matters Of business and
for his wonderful Egyptian Charm and marvel at his power
Professor Jefferson is the only clarvoyan in the Weste
Oriental Egyptian Charm His truthful reading OF the past pre-
his many The Professor wishes distinctly unierstoo
companies it. All letters with stamp answered Address
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13

worship. Their churches are made
OF boughs OF pine, placed upon q
scafYolding, to keep out the sun.
Now and then a country ievival II
held in these arbor houses, but this
Is seldom. "-[New Orleans Times
Democrat.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-10-13
Goodrich
Line
PLEASANT,
HEALTHFUL
TOURS

On agn!nesnt New Of the ceodoh
Resorts Lake Michigan and Green Bay.
Spring
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VIRGINIA
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LunRton and Msnstee
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). W. GILMAN ovpt JOHN siMoIgroM, Gen. Pass. AIT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
BEATS The RECORD.
Unprecedented Flood at Pueblo,
Colorado.
Water Comes Up Into Hundreds
of Residences.
RESCUERS IN BOATS
Save the People from a Watery
Death.
Santa Fe and Rock Island Roads
Washed Out.
The Damage at Pueblo Esti-
mated at $3,OOO,OOO.

PUEBLO, Colo, May 31.-It has rained
necessarily for thirty hours, all over the
eastern part of the state. The rainfall
is one of the heaviest ever known. In
this city the Arkansas river broke the
levees in six places. From Union ave-
nue. viaduct to the postoffice three-quar-
ters of mile, water rises six inches to a
foot above the first floor.
Electric street cars have stopped run
ming, the works being flooded Hun
dreds of men are out in boats rescuing
families from flooded houses and remov-
ing goods. The five railroads entering
the city are tied up. The damage
amounts to at least 100000. The flood
danger in this city is practically past.
SALIDA, May 31.-The storm in this
city exceeds anything in the memory of
the Oldest inhabitant. The Rio Grande
railroad is blocked by rock slides, wash
outs and damage to bridges.
CANON CITY, Colo, May 31.-The rain
tall here has exceeded five inches and is
the heaviest ever known. Both the Rio
Grande and Santa Fe tracks east of here
are washed out in places and in other
places covered with rock and sand.
MANIToU, Colo, May 31.-Apprehen-
sion was felt here last night lest the dam
at Lake Moraine, built to supply Colo
rado Springs with water, should break,
but Superintendent Rice says it is
secure. Pixies Peak railway has been
damaged by floods for the first
time since it was built and no trains are
running. The Rio Grande and Santa Fe
railroads are blocked by washouts and
land slides.
DENVER, May 31-The rain which be-
gan falling here at 8 a. IN. yesterday
still continues. Platte river is higher
than it has been for many years but n o
damage is reported here. Railroads
running west and south are all tied up
by washouts. Telegraph and telephone
wires are down between Denver and
Pueblo and no news had been received
here up to II o'clock concerning the
food at Pueblo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
PARTICULARS FROM PUEBLO.
The Damage by the Flood Estimated AT
100000.

PUEBLO. Colo, May 81, 8 p m.-Sev-
eraI thousand people have been rendered
homeless by the flood and property was
damaged to the amount of probably
$3,0O0,00O.
Although it is impossible at this time
to estimate the exact loss, four
breaks in the levee on the north
side and two the south side
have flooded the regions between
Eighth street and the river on the west in
a zIg-zag course, thence TO Fourth and
Main, Second and Santa Fe and every
thug south of and including First street.
On the South side the flooded area ex-
tends from West Fourth street bridge
down through the Rio Grande yards to
Union avenue, practically evicting all the
people west of Union avenue from the
river to G street and all west of Victoria
avenue.
Stanton & Suyder's addition is under
water While the Arkansas was thus
coming on its mad career, great torrent
was coming down the mountain, which
reached almost the stage OF food of last
year.
The east approach to the east Eighth
street bridge was largely carried away,
and the water main under the Fourth
street bridge was destroyed.
At $40 the discordant notes of fire
alarm whistle in long and repeated
blasts warned big throng of residents
on the low lands to get out and they did
SO in hurry, some managing to carry off
part of their belongings. The first
break was in the levee on the north side
lust west of the Main street
bridge. The efforts of score
of men to repair the Ievee
were as those of pigmies and wider
grew the gap until it was seen to be USE
less to strive further.
The water then rushed in torrents and
flooded the entire block from the river
to Richmond avenue between Union
avenue and Main street. Meanwhile the
dirt approach to the West Fourth
street viaduct. on the north side
of the river had been slowly but surely
melting away and by $50 small stream
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
TOM REEDS BOMB.
He Takes a Stand on the Silver
Question,
In an Interview in the Fort
nightly Review.
QUITE UNEXPECTED.
Republicans Won't Turn the
Other Cheek to England,
AS these befaOcratic Gentle
mea'' Havs Done
Used AS A CLU B.
sED AS A CLUB.
The High Tariff a Retaliatory
Measure
For Britain's Treatment of the
Silver Question.

LONDON, May 31.-The FOrtnightly
Review published an interview with ex-
Speaker Reed on silver which will make
a sensation on both sides of the ocean.
The great Republican leader sounds
key note for future campaigns by de-
claring that silver and the tariff must be
regarded "net as two issues, but as one,"
and that the depreciation of silver Is
vastly increasing the exporting business
of silver nations representing seven hun
dred millions of people. In the inter
view Mr. Reed says:- "You in England
want us to lower duties. What will you
give us in exchange? Will you open
your mints TO silver by agreement?
"One thing at least you may rely upon
you will not find the Republican party
offering the other cheek, as these Demo
cratic gentlemen do. For years past
they have been posturing as the friends
of silver and because you in England
close the Indian mints and put duty on
silver bullion. these friends of free silver
are now preparing to reward your gen
erosity by lowering duties all around
zone thing at least have learned since
the cessation of silver purchases last
year-that cheap silver is an effective
stimulus TO Asiatic exports and this being
the case we have got to consider silver
and the tariff not as two issues but as
one.
'fIt is evidently no time to lower our
tariffs when the currency of seven hun
dred millions of Orientals is depreciat-
ing and their exporting powers to gold
using nations is thereby increasing.
"The fall in silver, its value to pay
wages and to buy products in India and
China being great ever; this it is,
that makes the silver question an issue
that we are forced to face. You recog-
nize, of course, that the posi-
tion has entirely changed in the
past six months. The previous
enormous compulsory monthly purchase
of silver, most vicious proceeding, went
far to confuse mems mind and to disguise
the fact that there really is in the back
ground serious currency problem to be
solved.
at is evidently important to the debtor
nations, on which list we stand first, to
raise the price of silver and thereby re-
duce the bounty on exports which Asia
now enjoys. This can be done best by
agreement with other nations favora-
BILE to silver, and by such a scale
Of high tariffs against those nations
which reject monetary agreement as
will insure us a favorable balance of
trade In short higher price for silver
by reducing Asiatic exports to Europe
will, increase ours; add to this high
tariff and we can keep our gold at home
or at least if sold it will quickly come
back again."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
MADE LUMBER FREE.
An Amendment to Tariff Bill Made Will
that Effect

An Amendment to Tariff Bill Made With
that Effect
WASHINGTON, May 31.-There was a
good attendance on the senate floor when
the senate met today.
Senator PETER offered a resolution
which was appropriately referred in
structing the judiciary committee to re-
port whether the government of the
United States could by virtue of an act
of congress constitutionally take pos
session of and hold for public uses, pay
ing compensation therefor, all the coal
beds of the country.
the tariff bill was then taken up. Sew
eral amendments offered to the lumber
paragraphs looking to a duty on rough
lumber were voted down by a strict party
vote.
Senator Allen moved to strike out par
agraph 178.
Senator Vest surprised the Republic
ans when he announced that the amend
ment would be accepted by the Demo
cratic side. The vote was imme-
diately taken and it was agreed to. 30 to
"a. strict party vote, Messrs. PETER and
Allen voting in favor of it,
This will have the effect of putting all
lumber on the free list
The sugar schedule of the tariff bill
was reached and Sherman of Ohio took
the floor to make speech.
Senator Sherman in the course of his
remarks asserted that if President Har
rison had been reelected and there had
been no fear of tariff tinkering the Nc
Kinley law would have yielded su ufficient
revenue The fall of silver and the in
creased demand for gold had something
to do with the present financial depres-
sion which had been added to by fear of
the tariff tinkering. He also declared
that the south was coming around from
its doctrine that protection was uncon-
afitufi0ua1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
BOATING IN PUEBLO.
The Water So High That Rescue Parties
Needed.

PUEBLO, Colo, May 31.-The rainfall
all over Colorado for the past So hours
has been the heaviest ever known. In
some parts it exceeds five inches. The
food here is the worst ever experienced.
The Arkansas river has broken levees
in six places and the water covers an
area three-quarters of mile square.
In the city the water is rising above
the first floors of the buildings and hun
dreds of men in boats are rescuing fami-
lies and goods. No loss of life is re-
ported. Five railroads entering the city
are tied up owing to washouts, landslides
with the north is cut off, as wires are all
down.
ASPEN, Colo, May 31.-Owing to the
cave-in in the Hagerman tunnel no trains
have reached Aspen over the Colorado
Midland since yesterday. The extent of
the cave IN is not known here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
BILL HIGGINS POINTERS.
He Casts His Prophetic Eye Over the
Convention Programme

He Casts His Prophetic Eye Over the
Convention Programme.
81 did not know it, if was put on the
Shawnee county delegation" said Bill
Higgins, who is in the city today. II
don't want 10 be in the convention.
can do more good on the outside. There
is only one position in the state conven-
ton that l ever cared for, and that is
sergeant-at-arms, and l am past that
now"
"Will you be at the state convention?"
"Yes; it will be cold day if don't
get to the state convention
In speaking of the chances the various
candidates had for nomination, Mr. Hig-
gins said that Troutman was sure to be
nominated for lieutenant governor.
IF 1 Wad any money" he said, 81
would gamble on it, too. He is as sure
of the nomination as Morrill, is for gov
ernOr.
''There will be a new departure in the
state convention" he continued They
are going to allow the chairman of the
state central committee choose the tenn
porary chairman and I understand ]. Z.
Moore has been decided upon, and ex-
Congressman Peters is to be permanent
chairman.
81 do not know who will be selected
as chairman Of the state central commit
tee. l am in favor of Cy Leland"
Mr. Higgins still registers from TOpe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31

knew, is likely to be the scene of the
greatest labor struggle of the century.
w. T. Rend, the millionaire coal opera
tor, has notified his miners in the Pan
handle district that they must return to
work by Monday, June 4, or their places
will be filed by Southern negroes.
The notices have been posted for several
days at the mines. and the men have all
been notified specially by the mine
bosses. Mr.. Rend's interest are the
largest in the district, and he employs a
couple of thousand men. If he can run
independent of the miners organization
the others will be able to do the same.
The miners are determined these works
shall not be run by nOn-union men, and
people all through that section expect a
battle worse than the riots at Homestead
on July 6, 1892, and accompanied by
struggle drawn out even as long as that
was.
1t is stated on authority of the miners
at Noblestown and Mcdonald that Rend
has his Office at Mcdonald we'll stocked
with WincheSters ready to put in the
hands of the watchmen who are to guard
the negro miners. Some say they have
seen the boxes of arms and ammunition
taken in there, and others who have
been inside, declare they have seen the
guns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-31
AN OUTPOURING.
A POpuIist Scheme TO Take the Town"
June IL.

n Fopuhse scheme TO Take the Tow n"
June 12.
Chairman John W. Breidenthal who
Astonished the state few days ago by
having all the Populist county conven-
tions held on the same day in ninety
Kansas counties where big meetings were
held opening the campaign, has another
plan which is equally as interesting.
He has instructed the county central
committees of all the counties within a
radius of seventy-five miles of Topeka to
send all their farmers to Topeka to at
tend the state convention.
These farmers will drive in with
their wagons and will camp on
the state house grounds the night
before the state convention meets. and
the day of the convention they will give
a monster parade through the city.
1t Is expected that 5000 four and six
horse teams drawing farm wagons filled
with farmers, will march down Kansas
avenue In this remarkable parade. They
Sre all TO wear badges labeled, "Keep
OH the Grass"