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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
CARBONIZED SPARROWS.
A Chemical Mystery Discovered Dur
ing DemoIition of 9 Furnace.

Anderson, Ind, May 21-Workmen
tearing down furnaces at the Columbia
Encaustic Tile works yesterday ran
across a chemical wonder. SparrOWs in
attempting to fly across the great Chin
neys of the furnaces, are overcome with
the heat and fall as though dead. Hun
dredS have fallen into the big furnaces
four birds. perfect in color and eye and
feather. They looked as though they
had just died, but when touched the
birds were found to be perfectly car
BOMBED and as hard as flint. Even the
tips of the feathers were perfectly tenn
pered- The chemical conditions which
brought this about are mystery
It is thought that a small vacuum was
formed in the furnace and that they fell
into this and were exposed to the in
tense heat. They have evidently been
there for months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
ELECTRIC CARRIAGES.
Placed on the Market at Hartford and
Are "Fool Proof"

Hartford, Conn, May 21.-4"o cleo
trio phaetons were placed on the mar
ket in this city today, and many more
are under way. The street railroad
and the third rail are not likely to be
crowded out of public favor at once,
however, for the price of the carriage
has been fixed at SO ,OOO The cost of
maintenance and operation should be
much less than the cost of keeping a
pair of horses. however, so that it is
easy to make out a strong case for
the utility of the new vehicle. OF
course it can be used for the present
only by those who have access to a
source of electrical supply, in order to
charge the storage battery which fur
nishes the power.
No. special skill is required for direct
ing the movements OF the new carriage,
while the new possibility of riding at
the rate of ten or even fifteen miles
an hour in a safe and comfortable car
riage with no horses to be looked after
will prove a great attraction to many
people. 1t is only necessary that there
should be good roads in order to make
long summer trips in such carriages.
The carriage will run about thirty or
thirty-ffve miles without recharg1ng
and has a maximum speed of fifteen
miles an hour. The company says its
carriage is fool proof" and that any
one who can drive a horse can easily
run their vehicle. Before the carriage
leaves the shops it is subjected to
variety of running tests, in which it
encounters every sort of obstacle that
it could meet with in actual use, and
is subjected to strains to reveal any
weakness of the structure The car
riages are available in the most severe
weather, and while their radius of &C
ton is, of course, necessarily reduced,
six or eight inches of heavy snow is no
obvious obstacle, and the same is
proved to be true of mud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
sPRECKELS DONATESs5, 900
Sends a Check to Aid the Frisco
Children's Hospital.

San Francisco. May 21.-Although
Toby RosenthaFs celebrated picture
The Cardinal will be on view today
from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m, the brilliant
gingerbread fete at the Clark Croker
residence virtually closed last night
The management could congratulate
itself on it's decided social success, but
was somewhat doubtful as to what the
financial outcome would be.
But yesterday this element of doubt
was practically removed by generous
donation received by the ladies from
Claus Spreckels. It was in the form of
a check for $4,000 and was accompanied
by a note stating that the money was
intended for the benefit of the Chill
dren's hospital and training school for
nurses and that it was sent with the
best wishes of Mr.. and Mrs. Claus
Spreckels."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
SMALL STRIKES OFF.
Miners of Pittsburg to All Go Out at
Once June 1.

Pittsburg May 21.-In accordance with
the action taken at the Miners national
convention recently held at Columbus o..
the miners of the Pfttsburg district are
preparing for a general strike for the
restoration of the SO cent rate.
The miners officials are reticent but
it is understood the strike will take place
about the first week in June. There are
%. 900 miners in the district, but it is not
believed that all of them will strike.
Pending the general strike the miners
have been notified to stop all individual
strikes and to return to work until the
general strike is ordered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
NEVER BEEN AN ARREST
Since the Village of Potwin Place Was
OrOauiZed

Since the Village of Potwin Place Was
Organized.
Out in the little city of Potwin the fun
list of city officers are elected and the
whole machinery of municipal govern
ment are ready for action. but it seldom
occurs that the officers have an oppor-
tunity of exercising their authority
There has not been an arrest in Potwin
since it's organization as city. Notwith-
standing this fact there has been city
marshal and police judge all the time
About the only officer who has real
steady work to do is the street commits
sioner Under the recent law governing
small cities the police judge, street COM
missioner and city marshal are elected
by the people instead of being appointed
by the mayor. Vim. Henderson, cashier
of the First National bank is Potwins
police judge. He don't have an office for
the transaction of the city's business for
the reason that there is none to be DONE
A. H. Vance is city attorney, but about
all he has to do is to attend council meet
ings and draft new ordinances as they
are needed. In Potwin, although the tax
levy is the same as is in Topeka the
valuation is only about one-half of that
in Topeka. This makes the taxes very
low.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
sEx RAYS

Good work ought always create its
own demand, but it is difficult to make
some people believe it.-Leavenworth
Standard.
It is alleged that Rockefeller has
cleared $55.0OOOOO in the last ten
months. Five million month. We
don't believe the story.-Wichita Eagle.
Common people cannot afford to ex-
pectOrate on street car floors in St
louis. It costs $5O.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
The shirt-waist girl. with the frizz-
iron curl and the straw hat, weird and
queer, now walks the streets with
smile that is sweet, and her necktie
under her ear-Abilene Chronicle.
No person is so good that he does not
find it more easy to denounce evil in
others than to renOunce it himself
Atchison Champion
Family ties in these degenerate times
are pieces of neckwear that the girls
can steal from the old man and wear
whenever they go to a party.-Law
renee World.
A Denver Chinaman claims that
George Washington was a native of the
Flowery kingdom, and that his name
was originally written Wah Shing
Tong.-Chanute Tribune.
Thirty-six wagon loads Of hogs were
on the streets of Topeka one day this
week. All the men who are opposed
TO the auditorium must have been out
driving News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison GIobe.1
The more extensively a man is en-
gagged in politics the greater fraud he is.
It doesn't do your friend any harm to
bear all your burdens, nor does it do
you any good.
The girls are trying to make life
harder for timid horses than it already
is by tying ribbon streamers on their
wheels.
We have reached that stage when we
don't thank people for the nice things
they say to US, but for the mean things
they leave unsaid.
The graduates are right. There is
room at the top, but if followed by
pure reading matter it will cost you
25 cents an inch.
After a mans children are grown and
acquire bad habits, he wonders that he
ever complained of the trouble they
caused when teething-
An Atchison merchant who hates
loafers, says he does not want to go to
heaven, because he knows what hap
pens when people have nothing to do.
After all. there are few compliments
more effective than when a woman
says in repeating gossip: Il wouldn't
tell this to anyone in the world but
YOU
We have always had an idea that
some day scientists will discover that
the gooseberry has crop in its
stomach, full of sand and stones, like
the chicken.
Every day we see some fat man or
woman trying to reduce their flesh.
There is only one way to do it: eat
less and take hard physical exercise,
or do hard physical work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
EXPLORED THE ANDES.
Miss Proctor, the Boston Poet, Has
Arrived at New York


New York, May 21.-Miss Edna Dean
Proctor, the Boston poet, arrived here to-
day on the steamship Trojan Prince from
Rio Janeiro, after an exciting trip
through the Andes.
Miss Proctor, although over so years
aid. travelled for distance of 1Oooo miles
over the mountains of South America
and scaled the precipices of the Andes
with comparative ease.
On the summit of the highest mountain
peak she stopped to write some poetry
inspired by her surroundings
Miss Proctor modestly withholds this
altitudinous verse from the public for
the present. She will spend few
months in the neighborhood Of Boston,
writing an account of her travels, after
which she is to join another party of ex-
plorers in Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
Lake Shore win Borrow Money.

Cleveland. May 21.-By a vote Of the
stockholders of the Lake Shore & Michi-
gan Southern railway this morning it
was decided to increase the Indebtedness
of the company to $50 600. W. K. Van
derbilt. chairman of the board of direc-
tors, and E. D. Worcester, vice president
and secretary were present. The loan
will be negotiated at S1k Fer cent interest,
payable semi-annua1ly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

will be colonial, and the mantels, fire
places, lockers, sideboards and otner
fittings will be in keeping with tnls
idea. The mainmast comes down
through the after end of TINS room;
finest in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
Weather Indications.

Chicago, May 21-For Kansas: Cen
orally fair tonight and Saturday! warm
er in northern portion tonight; fresh
snut herlv winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

The use Of Halls Hair Remover pro-
notes the growth of the hair, and re-
stores its natural color and beauty, frees
the scalp of dandruff, letter. and all i'm
purities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

The bars fold up out of the way when
the machine is started. They add scarce
~ pound to the weight of the wheel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

We take special pains in laundering
ladies' shirt waists. Peerless Steam
Laundry, 112 and ia West sth St.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
To San Francisco via the Rock Island
Route

Tickets sold June 20 to July g in
elusive, $3.50 one way. $500 round trip
-stop-OVer given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

Not how cheap but how good is the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia West 9Th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

The graduates are right. There is
room at the top, but if followed by
pure reading matter it will cost you
% cents an inch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

After a mans children are grown and
acquire bad habits, he wonders that he
ever complained of the trouble they
caused when teething.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

We have reached that stage when we
don't thank people for the nice things
they say to US, but for the mean things
they leave unsaid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

An Atchison merchant who hate
loafers, says he does not want to go t
heaven, because he knows what hap
pens when people have nothing to dc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

The girls are trying to make life
harder for timid horses than it already
is by tying ribbon streamers on their
wheels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

[From the Atchison Globe.1
The more extensively a man is en-
gagged in politics the greater fraud he is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

It doesn't do your friend any harm to
bear all your burdens, nor does it do
you any good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

After all. there are few compliments
more effective than when a woman
says in repeating gossip: Il WOuldn t
tell this to anyone in the world but
YOU -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-21

Common people cannot afford to ex-
pectOrate on street car floors in St
Louis. It costs $5O.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13
PASSENGERS DEPART.

For Kauai, per stmr Keauhou,
October IL - Fl Morrison, w
Kinney, S Gumpher and Mrs
Gumpher.
Fo' San Francisco, per o & 0
S S Belglc, October Ex-senator
J L Morgan, the Misses Morgan,
Hawaiian Minister Francis NJ
Hatch and Mr. Holbrook.
For Kauai, per stmr Mikahala,
October 12-Miss Knudsen, V
Knudsen, Il j Ross, A V Peters,
j S Hipa, Joseph I'll K Kaiwi, G
N Wilcox, Mrs A Jaouen, G Tuch,
j B Hsnaike, Mrs Kalaenoe, Mrs
n Macdonald.
For Maui, per stmr Helene,
October ia Won Graevemeyer,
Mrs w j Balls, Mrs G E Bryant,
Mrs HI p Robinson and three
children, l. NJ Vettlesen, l. A
Dickey, George L Robinson, c
Wilcox, Young Chong, X r
Akana, + HI Hayselden, w III
Hayselden, T G Thayer, II z
Baldwin, b X Kaiwioea and
daughter.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13
ITEMS FROM HARBOR FRONT
Mysterious BarkGntine Discharges a
Load at Kaena Point.
Accident 10 the Iva - Bark KOSCuSkO
ClearS-Bark CeylOn Not Alone OH
Arch Rock. ,..

The bark Kosciusko with 400
tons of ballast cleared for Port
Townsend this morning.
The bark Ceylon which drifted
on Arch Rock off San Francisco
September s, was only one of a
large number of vessels whic b
have come to grief on the same
rock.
The steamer Iva, which was
sold by r r Hind to Wilson &
Whitehouse the contractors, sail
ed yesterday for the Oahu rail
way extension at Makua with Il
cargo of material, bnt, breaking
the condenser outside the harbor.
was compelled to return aud was
towed in by the tug Eleu. TIE
Iva was repaired this morning
and again sailed for Makua.
The imports of sugar into the
United States, during the six
months ended June 1897, amount
ed to 3.253,347,16 pounds, of
which 255,963,502 pounds was
Hawaiian, 3l.4 per cent of which
was above No. 16, and 1,363,19O,-
$50 pounds was beet. The total
imports Of raw wool, during the
six months mentioned, amounted
to 2SS, 2OS,2Sl pounds.
A barkentine was off Kaena
Point at 2 o'clock last Monday
afternoon and sent boat ashore
to statements from the
natives at Kawaipae to Captain
Parker of the steamer Kaena
which arrived from windward |
Oahu last night. The Kaena
came round the point later in the
evening and could see the barken-
tine sailing off on the horizon to
the eastward.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13

Petrie's Merry Makers will per.
form again on Thursday night,
when new items will be intro
duced in the program. The solid
impression made on Saturday
night by this clever vaudeville
company will in all probability
ensure a good attendance the re.
mainder of their season, which
closes on Saturday night. On
Saturday afternoon a matinee
will be given for ladies and chill
dren at the low charges,o of 50and25
cents. The entertainment is re-
fined, vulgarity being at a dis
count. The eccentric olifans,
laughter makers; the brilliant and
elegant singer, Miss Helen Cor
don; Tom Edward, singing come
dian; Petrie d Elise, the great
sketch train; the Cicero Sisters
and Cunard will present some
thing new. An expose of So
called spiritualism will be illus
trated by A. l.. Cunsrd, Willie
Cunard acting as spirit medium.
This seance has created pro-
found sensation the civilized
world over, and has never failed
to draw large attendance. Seats
on sale at Wall, Nichols Co.,
popular prices.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13

Miss Helen Wilder, officer of
the S. p. G. A., had the mules
taken out of the traces of tram
car at the King street bridge
switch, the breasts of the animals
being in a shocking state from
chatting. A $40 fine to the driver
in the police court, for cruelty to
animals, was the proper sequel.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13

The Standard time whistle sounds AT l2h.
ON. os. (midaight), Greenwich time, which
is III. som. p. IN. of Hawaiian standard time.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13

STEAMERS.
DEPART.

STEAMERS. FoR. SAILS,
Kaena--W aialua Oct Ia
Alamcda-San Francisco. Oct Is
Warrimoo-Colonies via Wellington. Oct I6
Mokoli Molokai and Lanai. Oct Is
Mauna Loa kona ............... Oct IL
Helene Kahului and way ports. 80. Oct 10
Mlkahaia-Lecward Kauai ports ..... Oct 10
Austraiia-->an Francisco ............ Oct 90
Moana--Colonles via Auckland go. ...Oct II
kinau-Hilo and windward ports. -. Oct %
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13
SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Diamond Head Signal Station, Oct u, J
p m. The weather cloudy fresh n f..
TIDES.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13

CLEARED FROM HONOLULU.
Br blk Kosciusko, Rodd. for Port Town
end.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1897-10-13

ARRIVED AT HONOL LII.
Stmr kaena, Parker, from Oahu ports.
Sip Kawailani, from Oahu ports.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-06
Business Revival.

The wholesale merchants of Kansas
City report that they received larger
and moro numerous orders in the
month Of March than they received in
any month of last year. In nearly every
branch of trade there is more activity,
With indications that things will grow
better from this time forward. Such
reports as these are the best evidence
that a healthful revival of business is
at hand. Many retailers have not yet
experienced any substantial gain in
business, but their trade is less rapidly
affected by improved conditions. The
wholesalers first feel the effects of re-
stored confidence and the release of
boarded money. Such evidence as they
give refutes the taunts OF those who
demand spectacular results, as if there
had been any promise that the new ad-
ministration would witress an imme-
diate revival of all the interests that
fourished before the great depression.
The most hopeful change is that indi-
Gated by the gradual increase in the
volume of trade, for that denotes natu-
raj and conservative enterprise. There
is nothing fictitious about the improve
ment in business conditions, whatever
the scope of that improvement may be.
But when it is shown that in a single
state 100000 more men are employed
now than were employed before No
vember last, and when large dealers
make like comparisons between the
trade at this time and that before the
presidential election, the pessimists
and the sneerers should be silent
Kansas City Journal.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-06
Trouble for Two.

Two classes OF people have failed to
prosper since the election OF Mckinley.
One of these classes is composed of sill
yer advocates, the other the trusts. The
election of Mckinley and the rejection
of the free silver proposition started
similar action by some other nations
which had been looked to as support
ers of the silver theory. and the friends
of free coinage have witnessed with
dismay the transfer of Japan, Russia
and China to the gold standard col
umn. The trusts have also Jared as
badly. The railroad corporations,
the sugar trust, the standard oil trust
aud many minor organizations Of this
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-06
Wilson's Wall,

EX-PostmaSter-General Wilson. in
| continuation of his protest against the
new tariff bill. has evidently persuade
ed himself that the measure will in
some way lie injurious TO the farmers.
| He doesn't tell why or how. but he
hints at an explanation in this vague
and uncertain way:
For thirty years the farmer was de-
luded by the cry Of a home market
| and CT the benefit in store for him from
bringing the factory to the farm
Factories were built up. but he saw
them filed, not with living
Of his products. but chiefly with ma
cbinery of iron and steel"
Mr.. Wilson's sneer at the home mar
ket" idea is distinctly that of the free
trade theorist who imagines that it is
better for the American farmer to sell
n bushel Of grain TO English buyers
than it is I'd sell three bushels to Amer
lean consumers. The fact that the
home market absorbs so per CEN of
our agricultural products counts for
nothing with Mr.. Wilson. He doesn't
consider that this market needs or de-
serves any protection, and he would
neglect 1T or impair its purchasing
power by forcing it's industrial ele-
ments into wage-cutting competition
with foreign labor. The farmers real
interest lies in a system that will main
tain and expand the domestic demand
tor his produce, and this is to be found
in a tariff that will open the mills, pro-
vide employment for labor and encour-
age the extension of native enterprise.
Agricultural prosperity cannot exist
without industrial prosperity. They
are dependent on each other. When
one thrives the other will thrive with
1t, n the man who attempts TO con-
vince the farmer and the mechanic
that their interests are conflicting is
an enemy to both.-Mail and Express.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-06
"InexCusable Cowardice."

The men who style themselves sill
yer Republicans" have told the country
why they refused to vote on one side
or the other on the Dingley bill when
that measure passed the house. we
took this course" said Representative
Hartman, of Montana, ito prevent the
diversion of the great issue of current
politics from silver to the tariff. Our
object was to emphasize the fact that
the tariff is not and can not be made
the main issue, and to give warning
that the silver people will not accept
the tariff as. the paramount question
of the time" According to the same
authority another reason for the refusal
to vote was that the joint caucus OF the
Populists of both branches of congress
and a private conference OF the Teller
ties urged this inaction.
This is presumption and c~owardice
of a particularly ineXcusable character.
4. handful of men %arrogate to them
selves in their prejudice and blindness
the right to dictate TO the great body
Of congress what is and what is not
an issue, without having the courage or
capacity to reveal then position in q
manly and practical way.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.