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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

NEWSPAPERS which favor bonds aud
a gold standard take great pleasure in
mentioning the fact that the national
debt of various European nations is
much greater than that of the United
States. They neglect to call attention.
however, to the additional fact that our
national debt is but a small percentage
of the total indebtedness, represented by
real estate mortgages, municipal, county,
state, railroad and corporation bonds
largely held in Europe. This is a form
of Indebtedness comparatively unknown
over there, and is just as much a burden
on the entire people of the United States
as the national debt is. The interest is
oollected.of the people in increased fares,
freight rates and profits of various kinds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

IT is now said that the United States
will take steps for the purpose of COM
polling Turkey to pay an indemnity for
the destruction of the American mis-
sions, even to the extent of forcing the
passage of the Dardanelles and making
q denomination in front of Constantine
pie. Mr.. Olney seems to have all the
nerve that is necessary or proper in every
foreign complication except the Waller
affair. While we are protecting the
Fenezuelans and demanding justice for
the missionaries, poor Waller is per-
mitted to lie unnoticed in e French
prison. The only apparent reason for
this is that his skin is black, although it
fs probably little darker than that of the
majority OF the Venezuelans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

the cash. He is the president and chief
engineer of the Niagara Falls Power
company, and thus far the work of har-
Messing the great cataract has been
thorough success. At the present time
two turbine wheels are operated by the
water of the Niagara river and third
is held in reserve so that the numerous
customers of the company may not suf-
fer in case one of the regular turbines
is disabled. These turbines severally de-
velop 5,400 horsepower and turn two
mammoth dynamos, each of which gen.
crates 5, 900 electrical horsepower.
Each turbine wheel is Enclosed in
steel casing and is % feet from the bot
tom of the great tunnel which dis
charges the water into the river below
the falls. In the casing also are two
wheels, an upper and a lower, which
are connected with a great vertical
shaft SO inches in diameter and 100
feet long. This shaft weighs $4,000
pounds and extends upward 100 feet to
its dynamo. The field magnets of the
dynamo, which are attached to the up
per end of the shaft and revolve with it,
also weigh 1000 pounds. They are at
tached to the inside surface of wrought
iron ring over II feet in diameter, and
when the mammoth turbine and the
gigantic dynamo warm up to their work
the outside of this ring flies around at
the rate of 104 miles an hour.
The water which turns the wheel is
conveyed from the canal above by
great steel pipe 3 feet in diameter and
rushes into the turbine with such force
that it lifts the entire weight of 100, 900
pounds SO that the lower end of the shaft
does not rest upon "step,'' as in other
water wheels, but is suspended, whirl
ing at the rate of $50 revolutions per
minute. Thus far the power has been
all utilized at Niagara falls, and none
of it has consequently been transmitted
long distances The company is conf
dent, however, that when more turbines
are in operation the power may be eco
nomically conducted to Buffalo and sue
cessfully compete with steam power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

OSCAR E. Peterson. and recen ~
made charges that under Professor Ad-
ans management the university has
raised its fees so high that poor boys
have no chance to enter, that Adams is
an aristocrat and has no sympathy with
the common people, that the number of
pupils is decreasing for this reason and
that owing to lack of discipline many
pupils carouse in saloons and become in
toxicated. The charges have caused fu-
rore in Wisconsin educational circles and
a committee has heen appointed to in
ves1igate them.
Oscar E. Peterson was born in the old
Indian village of Winneconne, % miles
from Oshkosh, in 1867. His parents
were poor, and he has gained a good
education by the exercise of considerable
will power. He worked hard to get
common school education, and then by
even harder work secured year study
in Valparaiso, Ind, and a three years.
course in Lawrence university, Apple
ton, Wis. He has risen from obscurity
to his present position, and is one of the
youngest school superintendent in the
west, as we'll as one of the we'll inform
ed, progressive superintendent of Wis
consin. He says the state pays $500 per
capita to educate her university stu
dents and only So per capita annually
for. the tutoring of her common school
children.
Professor Adams is one Of Americas
best known educa tors. He was born in
Vermont 60 years ago, was graduated
from the University Of Michigan in
1862, and became president of Cornell
university in 1885. He remained at Cor
nell until 1892, when he devoted year
to historical research and then accepted
a call to the presidency of the Universe
ty of Wisconsin. His defenders say that
the only aristocracy he recognizes is the
aristocracy of brains and good scholar
shin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
THEY TOOK RAZORs.

Thieves Enter the Drug Store of A.
j. Kane of North Topeka.
Sometime between twelve o'clock Sat-
urday night and Sunday morning thieves
entered the drug store of A. ]. Kane at
S26 North Kansas avenue, and made
away with goods amounting in value to
about $50.
The thieves opened a back window.
The goods taken were liquors, cigars and
razors. Four razors are missing.
A young woman who sleeps up stairs
heard noise about 1:30, and it is proba-
BILE that it was at that time the store was
anfarad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
THE CHAINED CATARACT.

Niagara's Mammoth Turbine Wheels and
DynalpOs ana the Power They Develop.
There is one very important difference
between Colonel Mulberry Sellers and
DR.. Coleman Sellers. ''There's millions
in it, was the view of each concerning
his pet scheme, but of the twain Cole
man Sellers alone is hot on the trail of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
In THE SUNNY VENEZUELA.
Features of Life in a Land of Per-
petuaI Summer.
ORE THOUSAND RIVERS TRAVERSE

The Republics Surface Great Min
eraI Neutrality-suspicious. of the Caribs.
Venezuela, the country about which
we are just now talking the most, is the
one about which we know the least.
Most of us have a dim idea that it is
somewhere on the northern coast of
South America, that it contains the ORR
noco river, that it was freed by Bolivar
and that it is country where earth
quakes and revolutions are of almost
daily occurrence. We have learned late
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

IT has been decided that Dickinson
county cannot afford to have a grand
jury, but then Dickinson county has no
medical college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

DEL VALENTINE: Tom Anderson is
the big Rock Island man in Topeka;
Jerry Black is the big Santa Fe man in
she same village. and they are mixing up
right lively on rates this winter. Tom
and Jerry is, or are, as the case may be,
right popular in righteous Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

Chinese born in this country are citizens.
John will now probably sond for his
wife. If they are citizens of course they
must be allowed to vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
Uncle Sans Army.

The men of our army are believed to
be physically the best chosen body of
soldiers in the world. At a recent ex-
animation of applicants for enlistment
in a western city 900 presented them
selves. and all but were rejected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

applicants for jobs who failed to get
them are against him and his admins
sration, there must be an army of them.
He will show wisdom, therefore, in de-
clining to be candidate for renomina-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

A LARGE majority of the people of the
United States will endorse one of the
principles of the A. P. A. as set forth by
the supreme president of the order The
A. P. A is declared to be opposed to the
issuanca of hODdS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

THE report of R. G. Dun s. Co. for the
year shows that the marked advances in
the prices of many articles of commerce
earlier in the year were nearly all lost
before the close. The closing prices of
1895 were on an average very little above
those at the beginning of the year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

Tn 10 now reported that the president
ls mad at the syndicate and may not is
sue any bonds at all. 1t is almost too good
10 be true. In the mean time the gold
reserve is perilously near the $60,0O0,0O0
mark which he established some time
ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

+ In the Getty" of London the night
population is only %, 900, though in
1861 it was 112, OOO The day census
taken in May, 1891, showed that 1, 1856, :
600 persons and 1000 vehicles entered
and left the CITY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
Perfumed Butter.

Perfumed butter is becoming fashion
able in New York. Wrapped in cheese
cloth, the butter is allowed to stand in
a bed of roses or violeta
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

THE Oskaloosa Independent is now ar
eight-page, seven column paper, and one
of the handsomest in the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

IT is said that Gladstone's eyes are
better and he has resumed work. The
chances are now in favor of there not
being tree left in the vicinity of Ha-
warden
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
As Bad as English.

There are words in the Chinese Ian
guage that have as many as 40 different
meanings, each depending on the into
nation used in pronouncing it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
NOW THE "GOODLANDER,' .
Name of the Largest Hotel in Fort Scott
Changed.

FORT SCOTT, Kan, Jan. 6-The name
of the hotel which, since its erection, has
been known as the Inter- State, has been
Goodlander, ST., who is now the exclusive
owner of the house. he having secured
the stock from the others interested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

WHERE is that 100000, 600 of gold
which has been coined at the United
States minis during the past year?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

In London the bicycling women Of the
upper 10, 600 have their wheels painted
TO match their carriages.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

IF Mr.. Cleveland desires to be presi-
dent again he should go to Venezuela
and run.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
Weather Indications.

CHICAGO. Jan. g. For Kansas: -
Fair and warmer tonight and Tuesday;
southerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

We mend and sew on buttons free of
charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
Harper's Bazaar
IN 1895

Tae twenty ninth year of HARPERd
BAZaR, beginning in January, 1895, finds
Is maintaining its deserved reputation
both as fashion Journal and a weekly
periodical for home reading.
Every week the BAZAAR presents
bea utiful toilettes for various occasions,
SANDoZ, BAUDE, and CHAPUIs illustrate
and engrave the newest designs from
the finest model in Paris and Berlin.
New York Fashions epitomfzes cur
rent styles in New York. fortnightly
pattern-sheet supplement with diagrams
and directions enables women to cut and
make their own gowns, and is of great
value to the professional modiste as
we'll as to the amateur dressmaker.
Children's Clothing receives constant
attention. Fashions for Men are de-
scribed in full detail by a man. bout
town. Our Paris Letter, by KATHAR-
INE De FOREST, is a sprightly weekly re-
cital of fashion, gossip, and social doiugs
in Paris, given by clever woman in an
entertaining way.
Both the serials for 1895 are the work
of American women. Mrs. Gerald, By
MARIA LOUISE Pool. is a striking story
of New England life. MARY E. WILKINS,
in Jerome, a Poor rIan. discusses the
always Interesting problems OF the re-
lations between labor and capital Short
stories will be written by the best authors.
Special Departments. NJ usic, The
Outdoor Woman, Personals, What We
Are Doing, Women and Men, report and
discuss themes of imm ediate interest.
Answers to Correspondents. Ques-
tions receive the personal attention of
the editor, and are answered at the earl
lest practicable date after their receipt.
The Volumes of the BAZAAR begin
with the first Numbe for January of
each years. When no time is memGion-
ed, subscriptions will begin with the
Number current at the time of receipt of
order
Remittance should be made by Post
Office Money Order or Draft, to avoid
chance of loss
Newspapers are not to copy this advertise
ment without the express order OF Harper g
Brothers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west Come and try it
]. W. PHILLIPS, 612 W. Eighth ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06

tocracy in college
life, and is doing
his level best to
accomplish the
overthrow of Pro-
f @ ssor Charles
Kendall Adams,
NJ. A. LII. D.,
president of the
Uni v g r sity of
Wisconsin. Pc
derson is super
i u t en- dent of
schools of Win
nebago county,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
HARPER's PERIODICALS

Everybody takes the JOURNAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-06
PEDERsoN OF WlNNECoNNE
He Says the University of Wisconsin In
Too Aristocratic.

Peterson, Oscar E. Peterson of Win
neconne, is on the warpath AGAINST aris-
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Rebates on Road Tax.

Attorney General Mccormick has Civ
en- the department of agriculture an
opinion on the act passed by the last leg
islature to encourage the use of wide tires
upon wagons on the public highways.
The opinion is in answer to question
from Secretary Edge as to whether a
farmer residing near a large city, who
has placed wide tires upon all his farm
wagons except a covered wagon which
he uses for hauling market products to
the city market, can claim the reduction
of road tax under the law so long as his
one wagon has narrow tire.
The attorney general says the evident
purpose of this legislation was :oprevent,
as far as possible, the use of narrow tires
and wagons upon which heavy loads
were carried and to encourage the use of
wide tires to the end that the roads
should be injured as little as possible.
He is of the opinion, however, that a
farmer who uses a draft wagon carrying
1900 pounds or more, has them equipped
with four-inch tires and uses no wagon
with narrower tire for the purpose of
carrying 1900 pounds or more, brings
himself within the provisionsof this act
and is entitled to the rebate of one-fourth
of the assessed highway tax
If a farmer has a covered wagon which
he uses for hauling market products to
the city markets, presumably with tire
narrower than four inches. loads that
wagon with 1000 pounds or more. Gener-
al Mccormick holds, he is not entitled to
the rebate of the tax, even although all
his other wagons are equipped with the
tires of the required widths. The four
inch tire must be used on all wagons of
the person claiming the rebate that have
carried 1000 pounds or more.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Township Building.

The last legislature enacted law that
empowers supervisors, at their option, TO
purchase suitable building for a
town house or hail, in which To hold cleo
tions, store road machinery, hold meet=
ings of township officers and for other
township uses. The payment of such a
building is also provided for.
The supervisors are authorized, if nee
essary. to borrow money at not more
than 9 per cent. interest, and issue bonds
therefor. But the Indebtedness of any
township under this act shall not exceed
one-half of one per cent. of the assessed
value of the real estate in such township.
Another method Of paying for tie
ground aud hall is provided. II is that
supervisors may annually collect a cash
tax not exceeding 50 per cent. of the rate
OF assessment by them laid in each year
for road purposes.
1t will be observed that this law per-
mits the foregoing To he done, but does
not compel it. Townships desiring 10
avail themselves Of the law can do so,
and no one can prevent it. 1t is law
that, II Is said, meets with favor in many
parts OF the state where public houses
and halls are less numerous than in some
counties of the state.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Fool Friends.

Senator Chandler, a reputed friend of
for President by the st. Louis Conven-
ton. has, by his iniudicious utterances
and actions, done more that was detri-
mental TO his nomination than could all
his enemies and all his rivals combined.
The Somerset Stand trd for this week,
with ghoulish glee, gloats over the de-
feat of Biesecker as an aspirant for the
Somerset Congressional Conferees, at
tempting to prove that it was defeat for
Thropp, and, inferentially, advantageous
to Hicks in Somerset county, and there
fore q ''boostr for him in Bedford,
where he is contesting againt Thropp
for the Conferees from that county.
Mr. Kooser is certainly not in sympa-
the with the utterances of his pretended
organ, for he can not be, and be the hon
est, level headed man he is. Ii he was
running in Somerset county against
ThrOpp, and in the interest of Hicks and
not for himself, then he was deceiying
the honest Republicans of Somerset
county. If he was running for himself
and desires the Congressional nomina-
ton, he could not think it favorable TO
his chances that Hicks should get Bed
ford county in addition to Blair, which
he has, and thus have half the Conferees
OF the Conference. And if Thrcpp should
carry Bedford county and thus have
three Conferees 10 three for each of the
other candidates, it would certainly not
benefit Mr.. Kooser's chances to have thus
unnecessarily antagonized Mr.. Thropp,
as the Standard inferentially says he did.
Fool friends are much more injurious
than open avowed enemies. politically.
socially, and in business affairs.-Johns-
foara Tribune
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Frightfal Accident.

A frightful accident occurred about four
o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home
of Norman Shaffer, who lives on the farm
OF Samuel Trent, two miles east of here.
Mr.. Shaffer, who is about twenty three
years of age and is employed rs miner
in the Listie mines, was attempting 10
dry a lot OF rock powder before the kitch-
en- fire, when his wife picked up a few
grains of the wet powder and proceeded
to throw it on top of the stove. Oliver
ShalIer, neighbor, who happened 10 be
present at the time, called to her not do
it, but before she could return the pow
der to the tin basin from which she had
taken it, grain or two fell from her hand
onto the stove and ignited. Instantly n
bright flame shot up to her hand and
communicated with the powder in the
basin. The burning powder was thrown
all over the upper part of the bodies of
the husband and wife and both were hor-
ribly burned about the shoulders and
face. The dwelling was fired by the
burning powder and the occupants were
compelled to flee from it, Oliver Shaifer
rescuing the infant child OF the uDfortu-
nate couple. The building with all of its
contents was burned to the ground DIR.
r. F. Shaifer was called upon 10 render
professional services. and says that the
unfortunate victims will recover.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
The Question Of Wagon Tires.

Attorney General Mccormick gave the
Department of Agriculture an opinion
last week ON the actSpassed by the last
Legislature to encourage the use of wide
tires upon wagons on the public high
ways. The opinion is in answer to
question from Secretary Edge as to
whether a farmer residing near large
city, who has placed wide tires upon all
his farm wagons, excepta covered wagon,
which he uses for hauling market pro-
ducts to the city market, can claim the
reduction of road tax under the law so
long as his one wagon has narrow tires.
The Attorney General says the evident
purpose of this legislation was to prevent,
as far as possible, the use of narrow tires
and wagons upon which heavy loads were
carried and to encourage the use of wide
tires, to the end that the roads should be
injured as little as possible. He is OF the
opinion, however, that farmer who uses
draught wagons carrying 1000 pounds or
more, has them equipped with four-inch
tires, and uses no wagon with a narrow
tire for the purpose of carrying 1000
pounds or more, brings himself within
the province of this act and is entitl ed
to the rebate of one-fourth of the as
sessed highway tax. Ifa farmer uses
covered wagon which he uses for hauling
market products to the city market, pre-
sumably with tire narrower than four
inches, loads that wagon with 200
pounds or more, General Mccormick
holds he is not entitled TO the rebate of
the tax, even allowing all his other
wagons are equipped with the tires of the
regulation widths. The foar inch tire
must be used on all wagons OF the person
claiming the rebate that have carried
1000 pounds or more,
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Berlin Items.

Prof. w. II. Kretchman, who has been
principal of our schools for the past two
years and was reelected last week by the
Board of Directors for third term, left
Tuesday for Indiana, Pa, where he will
assist as an instructor in the State Normal
during the Spring Term. Our schools
have been meeting with marked success
under Prof Kretchman and his valuable
services have been appreciated by the
patrons of the schools.
Communion services were held in the
Lutheran and Reformed churches on
Easter Sunday. Children's services were
held in the evening in both churches.
The Lutheran congregation received four
and the Reformed twenty-one new mem.
bers.
Mrs. Jennie c. Miller, of Somerset, was
welcome visitor among her many
Berlin friends early this week.
Mrs. Sadie Slower and her son John
from Cessna, Pa, are the guests ol
the formers parents in this
place. c.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-04-08
Pl0Hed WithaDen0cTaie Hsifer.
Democrats Active For Kooser in Order to
Cancel Political Obligations.

Elaied, inflated, intoxicated with de-
light over having carried majority OF
the votes at the late Republican primary
election, and thus having secured the
Congressional confeie ees from this county,
fen OF the political friends of Mr.. +. j.
kooser through their personal organ
make a vicious attack upon the friends
Of +. W. Biesecker and especially upon
the family of the editor Of the HERALD.
The HERALD last week evinced dis
position TO let Mr.. Kooser and his pro-
fessed friends enjoy their boom TO their
full capacity, but in the interests of true
Republicanism and for the sake of the
party it now thinks best 10 puncture the
bubble beforeit il suffers collapse by reason
of its own dilation.
Mr.. kooser is not the first candidate to
secure a majority of the votes east at a
Republican primary election in the coun-
ty, but SO far as our knowledge goes he
is the first candidate 10 secure majority
where so many members of the Demo-
cratic party were permitted to vote and
exercise their influence. To make this
more clear let US present the cold figures: