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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-08
AMERICA FACILITATING.
The Charge Made By Sir Charles
Tupper.
IN ADDRESS BEFORE BEHRING
SEA COMMISSION.

Mr. Bodweu Concluded His Speech Yester-
day After Five Days of Ta1king-He is
Followed by Sir Charles in the Same
USrn
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-09-08

er 7.-Fo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
BoOTH-TUCKER FLIES BY.
Caught on the Wing by Journal Re-
porter He Talks of His Coloni-
cation Plan

Commander Booth-Tucker of the Sal
walton Army passed through Topeka
at 1920 p m, his way to California
where he will start the first of the Sal
walton Army colonies.
The train stopped about ten minutes
and the comma nder divided his time
between a cup of coffee and large
doughnut and the reporter. He said: Il
am on my way to California to orga-
nize our first colony. Col. Holland, our
Social Secretary and Adjutant Ferris,
late of Tammany Hall but now reform
ed, is our legal adviser. We will start
with about 40 or 80 families and we hope
to grow very rapidly.
Our next colony will be in eastern
Colorado very near the border of Kan
sas. The army has a kindly feeling for
Kansas because it is a prohibition state
and we hope to be able to start a colo
ny in this state some time before long
but at first our Colorado colony will be
able to care for Kansas. My wife will
DE here on the 22d and I understand she
is to speak at the First Congrega tional
church. 1 would be glad to have her
have a large audience as she is going
to explain our colonial ton idea. No
one need be afraid, she is not going to
ask for help" The commander gulped
down the last of his coffee and with
doughnut in one hand and a copy of the
Journal in the other he caught his train
just as it was pulling out of the sta
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
"WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE Rules
GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF
SAPOL %
CORN HAS SUFFERED
Throughout the Country by the Hot
Dry Weather.


Washington, Sept. 15.-The weekly crop
bulletin issued by the Agriculture de-
partnlent for the week ending at a. M,
September Is, says:
The week has been excessively hot
and for the most part dry in nearly all
districts east of the Rocky mountains.
With sufficient moisture, the condi-
tons would have been most faVOrab BILE
to corn, but in most of the important
corn states, the crop, more particularly
the late planted. has suffered seriously
from drought and is being prematurely
ripened. Much of the crop is now safe
from frost and cutting has begun in
more northerly sections.
In Nebraska, recent rains will i'm
prove late corn, and with favorab BILE con-
ditions in Iowa during the next two
weeks, some of the late corn will make
a fair yield. The early crop having
been rapidly ripened under the excess
sive heat of the past two weeks, with
some detrinent to quality.
In Kansas most of the early corn has
been cut and the late planted is suf-
fering from drought. Subsequent wea-
Their Conditions will have but little eff
feet upon the crop in Missouri, where
it has been seriously and permanently
injured.
Showery wea Their OF this and the pre-
ceding week has caused slight injury
to harvested grain in Oregon and
Washington. Threshing is about fin
ished in Oregon, but has been somewhat
delayed by showers in Washington and
portions of Minnesota.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
BLACK BEARS FOR SALE.
The Government Has a Surplus in
Yellowstone Park

Washington, Sept. 15.-Colonel s. NJ B.
Young, acting superintendent of the Vel
lowstone park, in his annual report says
there has been a rapid increase of bla ok
bears within the park limits and that
complaints have been made that bears
have broken into the storehouses and de-
stroyed meat and other provisions in
large quantities. 1t is a common occur
renee to see from six to twelve bears any
afternoon feeding on the garbage dumps
within a few hundred yards of the hotel
He recommends that some of the bears
be disposed of to geological gardens. He
also says coyotes are numerous and bold
and kill many young antelopes.
Colonel Young estimates the number of
buffalo at "a and that they seem to be
the only game which is not increasing
under government protection. He says
he has consulted with DR.. Baker, super
intendent of the national geological park,
as to the practicability and advisability
of corralling the remaining buffalo in the
park with a view of their preservation
and increase, and that their concurrent
conclusion is that it has been the ex-
perience of most persons engaged in the
capture and domestication of wild ami
mails that, while the young may be con-
fined with successful results, it is other
wise with adults.
Colonel Young estimates $250000 as nee
essary for next years improvements in
the park.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
REEDS COMPARISON.

Mr.. Thomas B. Reed, speaker of the
national house of representatives. has
recently been interviewed in a New
York paper on the now popular subject
of prosperity.
In the course of the article referred
TO he makes some interesting compari-
son between what he terms the pros
perity of 1897 and the prosperity of 1879,
the period of the resumption of specie
payment, for the purpose of showing
the similarity between the two periods.
In regard to the resumption period be-
ginning January 1, 1879, he says:
From that moment prosperity began
not the eternal prosperity of the New
Jerusalem, but an earthly prosperity,
would permit New York Central was
112 and went to 100. Northwest com
mon rose from so to 81: the preferred
from S5 to 1O4 St Paul from 20 to 10;
the preferred from Sc to 100, and all the
rest of them in like proportion Of
course, the greenback leaders explained
that this was all temporary, because
no real prosperity could come without
grecnbacks. Nevertheless, the world
went on. There was no lack of money,
because we had business which paid
and whenever a nation has business
which pays it can draw on the money
of the whole world.
In making the comparison between
now and then he says:
How like this are the events of the
last twelve monthsl Prior to the pass
age of the tariff act we had scenes like
those which preceded the first day of
1879. The offerers of the patent remedy
stood by and jeered. They Knocked at
US when our fear came. But when the
due legislation had been had and there
was no further change to be looked for
ward to; when business had reached its
sound basis and there was a reasonable
chance to calculate the future, there
came a repetition of the phenomena of
1879.
Stocks have gone up, not because
gamblers have played, but because
mems minds have changed and the
whole nation takes utterly different
views of the future. A stock which is
worth 40 when everything seems on the
down slope easily becomes worth 80
when people feel that we are on the
into the dark nobody knows how far
down you may go, and when you go up
into the sunlight nobody can tell how
far up you may go. Fear increases the
fall; hope increases the rise.
But. finally, when all things are ready,
something always happens which de-
velops the fact that confidence has re-
different aspect. Wheels begin to turn,
freight begins to move, commerce re-
Sumes her full sway, one by one each
employment takes up its march and the
nation as a whole goes to work again,
urged on by the never-dying yearning
for the increase of wealth to be con-
sumed for pleasure, wealth to be
comes all stand fearful on the brink.
When it will come no one can tell be-
forehand, but that it will finally come
every wise man knows.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
EDISON AND AIR SHIPS.
The Wizard Says Inventors in the
Past Have Started on the
Wrong Basis.

New York, September 15.-Thomas A.
Edison has taken up the study OF arr
ships, partly as an amusement ana
partly with an idea of adding to the
practical knowledge of the world on the
subject. He believes that man Will sue
cessfullv navigate the air before the
close of the next century.
When. asked if he believed there was
such a thing as successful AR SNIP
Mr.. Edison answered:
mo, certainly not among those thaI
we already know about
what is the fault with them?''
f'They all start upon a wrong basis. Inc
principal of each is wrong. don't be-
lieve in the aeroplane or in the use of
hydrogen gas to establish buoyancy-
They will have to apply some mechanl-
cal principle, and this must be Operat-
ed by higher power than can be pro
duced now except by machinery that
is too heavy and cumbersome to be
used in an air ship
"A few years ago devoted consider
able study to the subject and made
many experiments remember that IN
an attempt to get great power with lit
tie weight 1 exploded gun cotton on
long strips between copper cylinders,
but with Indifferent success as to re-
suits. I, however, became fully convin-
ced that L would have to commence
studying the question from the bottom
and find the true principle to work upon
before reaching. the experimental pc
riod. We must begin with the A, B, c.,
ana not attempt 70 spring LoAly SduAp-
ped, like Minerva from the head of
Jove.'
What do you think of the efforts to
navigate the air with wings?''
Not even as good as the aeroplane
or hydrogen gas. There is no use of
trying to initiate nature, for we can
never do that successfully. Look at the
bicycle for instance. That is made up
on purely practical principles, and does
not try to initiate the horse or the dog,
and yet it is swifter than either"
DO you consider that Prof. Lang
ley's experiments are likely to result
successfully
mo. To be sure he has managed to
make his model sail a short distance
after gaining impetus from descending
an inclined plane, and it returned to the
starting point against the wind, but
that is more like a boomerang than an
air Ship
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
HIT THE GERMANS HARD.
Dingley Tariff Causes Manufactures
to Suspend.

Washington, Sept 15.-The effect of
the recent tariff legislation upon Ger
man trade is set out in a report to the
state department from the United States
consul at Bremen.
He says that while there was a de-
crease in the exports from that consul
lar district to the United States during
the first three-quarters of the last fiscal
year, there was a marked increase in
the last quarter. Shipments were so
large that steamship tariffs were raised
The obvious intention was to supply the
demands of the United States market
before the Dingley tariff took effect. The
manufactures of cutlery were working
day and night, but by the end of Au-
gust all were idle, thousands of work
men had lost their employment, and it
win be quite a while before the trade
recuperateS.
Business in silk is likewise depress-
ed owing to the advanced tariff, but In
other industries a prosperous trade with
the United States is expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
POSTAL BANKS.
Postmaster General Gary Will
Urge Their Establishment.

Washington, Sept. 15.-Postmaster Cen
eral Gary is devoting considerable atten-
ton these days to an investigation of the
wisdom of establishing postal savings
banks. When in the last congress a bill
was sent to him providing for such insti-
tutions he declined to indorse it because,
he said, he had not had an opportunity
to investigate the subject.
He has since taken up the matter, read
ing all the literature bearing upon it he
could procure and seeking opportunity
to discuss it's merits with those familiar
with it. The result is that he has be-
come convinced of both the wisdom and
the utility of postal savings institutions
and has decided to have a bill prepared
providing for their establishment and to
recommend it's passage by congress. In
all probability he will treat the subject
in his annual report at some length. He
has not yet decided upon the details of
any plan, but will soon give his atten-
ton to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
w. l.. BROWNS VERSION.
He Tells the Story of the Kingman
County Convention.

The reports from Kingman county's
Populist convention last Saturday,
printed in Sunday papers, gave out the
impression that the convention had
repudiated w. L. Brown and declined
to endorse Governor Leedy and the
state administration
Mr.. Brown who is chairman of the
state board of charities when seen today
by a Journal reporter with reference to
the matter said:
Il have read those reports and am as
tonished beyond measure There is not
the slightest grain of truth in them.
The convention endorsed Governor Lee
dy and the state Administered ton, in a
Straight-out way. There were no fights
in the convention except on the part of
one man who wanted a position under
the administration and did not get it,
1t was he who was turned down in the
convention and no one else.
1.-THE claim was also made that my
candidates were defeated. That is an
other falsehood. I had no candidates;
did not participate in the convention
and was not turned down at all.
1T as also said that the POpulists of
that county are violently opposed to
Gvernor Leedy. I want to say that the
governor is stronger today in Kingman
county than his party is. There is no
better evidence of his popularity than
this one fact
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
MAY DESTROY ALL LIFE.
Fear that the Big Sun Spot May Soon
Explode.

New York, September. 15.-Astrono-
mers are now watching with increased
interest the big sun spot which has been
in great activity for the last two years.
and are specializing on the outcome. 1t
is said the molten mass is likely at any
time to burst from the SUMS surface.
Prof. Siverimus ]. Corrigan, director of
the Goodsen Observatory of Carleton
University, on the subject says:
"A new planet may at any instant
break away from the sun, and the ter
rife explosion which will neces-
sari1y accompany this breaking away
will produce a great disturbance of the
entire universe, but particularly OF the
earth, perhaps completely smashing it,
and surely destroying all animal life on
land as we'll in the waters.
THE results of my Investigations on
this subject indicate that the earth is
closely approaching a critical epoch in
it's career; yet the day or the hour of
visitation no man knoweth,' but these
results have convinced me that it is i'm
minent. Look to the sun.
Neither is this tremendous disturb
ance of the earth and the destruction of
all life upon it completely unprecedent-
ed. A similar detachment of solar mat
ter by the same means is known by sci
entists to have occurred %, 900, 600 years
ago, a period simultaneous with the pa
laeozoic age, at which time all animal
and vegeta BILE life then existing on the
face of the earth was completely
crushed out"
Commenting on Prof. Corrigan's state
ment, Prof. Carrot P. Serviss says:
Every astronomer knows that the
sun is the parent of the earth and of an
the other known planets. The famous
discovery, two years ago, of the strange
solar element, helium, in the rocks of the
earth, was really a beautiful proof of
the substantial identity of the two bod
les, the sun and the earth. Helium on
the earth is mark of parentage, like
a peculiar strain in the blood of an ami
NAL. No astronomer doubts that our
globe, and all its comrades, had their
origin from the sun.
THE idea which he suggests that the
birth of a new world should have the
effect of destroying the life of an older
one, has peculiar significance. Grant
ed that a planet may be born from
the sun in the way he points out, the
consequences indicated might well re-
suit. Life on this earth is possible only
through a very delicate balance of con-
ditions and forces, and the evidence is
daily accommodating that even compare
lively slight disturbances in the sun are
capable Of affecting that balance in va
riOuS WAYS"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
TO BRIDGE THE ATLANTIC.
French Capitalists Intend to Establish
a Line of Stationary Vessels
on the Ocaan

New. York, Sept. ia sea tanned har-
messed, robbed of it's terrors no longer
the "tra ckless'' sea, but marked by shin
ing steel from Sandy Hook to Fastnet
Light-lighted. policed, patrolled, ambu-
lanced until it is as safe as Broadway,
with men watching by day and night to
guide vessels, TO shelter disabled craft,
and telegraph for help when needed-a
5000 mile street of the sea, with all mod
ern safeguards. This is in brief what a
great syndicate of French capitalists pro-
poses. And high engineering talent has
pronounced the proposition feasible.
To make the Broadway of the sea is
the joint plan of an Italian named Car
vello and Frenchman named Lemieux.
Public experiments have been made by
them at the mouth of the river Seine,
near the ocean, which seem to demon
strate that success is possible. Sig. Car
vello has invented a ship which, in this
instance, will serve a novel purpose. Its
framework consists entirely of steel tubes
covered with steel netting with quarter
inch meshes, which are filled in with con-
crete, rubbed smooth to diminish the
liquid friction.
AS the bird flies the distance between
Havre, France, and New York city is g.,
900 miles. A sailor in the mast of a vessel
can see at a distance of 50 miles the masts
of any vessel which may happen to be
at that distance. Bearing IN MIND these
facts, this enterprising syndicate pro-
poses to construct from 60 to IS ships
built the plan of Carvello and fitted
with great searchlights, and station them
fifty miles apart in an almost direct line
across the Atlantic. But instead OF
moving about from place to place, each
is to be supplied with eight immense ca
bles of woven steel wire, similar to those
upon which hangs Brooklyn bridge, but
smaller. Three of these cables will hang
from each side of the vessel and the other
two from the front and rear, all at an
giles of As degrees with the ships sides,
and each will be fastened by immense
anchors to the nearest ocean bottom that
can be discovered by sounding. There
will thus be established a straight line
of stationery ships directly across the
ocean and at regular intervals of prob
ably fifty miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
A BIG BLUE STONE.
A Turquois Worth $4,000 Found in
New Mexico.

Denver, Colo, Sept. ia special to
the Republican from Santa Fe, N. NJ,
says: Probably the largest and finest
turquois ever taken from American soil
was received here yesterday from
southern New Mexico.
1t weighs in the rough 176 carats and
it is estimated by competent experts
that it will weigh fully SO carats when
cut and polished. 1t has the best color
known, being a delicate sky blue, just
a shade lighter than a blue birds wing.
This with a number of smaller stones,
running from 40 to 10 carats was taken
from newly discovered mine, the To-
cation of which, it is believed is in Lin
coin county, N. NJ. No details of the
discovery can be learned. The largest
stone is estimated to be worth Sc, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
TOUSE THE VERTICAL.
st. Louis Adopts a New System OF
Penmanship.

St. Louis, Sept. 15.-The. upright sys-
tenn of handwriting is to be introduce9
if it prove the success which its advo-
Gates anticipate, the new style Will pre-
vail in all of the public schools OF the
city The upright system is also called
the hygienic by people who consider
that pupils sit in a more natural ana
therefore more healthful position wh',n
upright against the desk with the right
hand straight out in front.
The present system is as old as the
public schools themselves, and everyone
who attended school in this country
studied what the professors style the
Spencerian system of penmanship.
In addition to the shifting of the po-
sition of the body there will be a change
in the style of the writing Now the let
tiers are written in a slanting position
In the schools where the change occurs
they will be perpendicular
The innovation will start at the bot
tom and work its way up, so that those
who have already learned the old style
will not be put to the inconvenience of
taking up a new and different one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
HOT WEATHER'S WORK.
T. B. Jennings on the Effect of the
Recsnt Drought.

Weather Observer T. B. Jennings has
issued the regular weekly climate and
crop bulletin, in which he gives as gen.
eral conditions: IAN unusually hot week,
the daily temperature ranging from 8
degrees above normal in the southwest
ern counties to 10 above in the northeast
ern. Very light showers occurred on
the 9Th, 10th and 18th in many counties,
with good showers through Gray and
Ford, in the northwestern and extreme
northern counties, and the contiguous
parts of Dickinson, Morris and Geary
Riley and Clay. These rains cooled the
air and ground in the northwestern coun-
ties perceptibly-''
For the eastern division of the state
he gives:
Late corn has been prematurely ripen-
ed and has consequently shrunken- Early
corn is generally in shock. Haying has
ceased, grass too dry; pastures Drowned.
Wells low and stock water scarce. All
fruits dropping badly. Some farmers are
feeding stock on account of shortage in
pasture, some are selling cattle on ac-
count of scarcity of water"
Middle division:
I'm the southern counties the ground is
in good condition for wheat sowing; plow-
ing is mostly done and sowing has begun.
In the central and northern counties the
ground is generally too hard for blowing.
Corn is done for this season. Late corn
has been considerably injured by the pre-
vailing drought and heat. Pastures and
fruit are also suffering from the same
cause"
Western division:
mo reports from the southwestern
counties. In the southern counties for
age crops are ready to cut Fruits and
the range are good in the central coun-
ties, with cattle in good condition. In the
northern and northwestern, early corn is
in good condition, but the late corn has
been damaged some, while in the west
ern and northwestern the crops are in
good shape
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
MILLIONS OF SOCK-EYEs.
Salmon Were Almost Valueless This
Year.

Port Townsend, Wash, Sept. 15.-An
official report has been filed at the Gus
tom house here by inspector Weber,
who has been detailed at Point Roberts
for the past three months showing that
the catch of the fishing season just clos
ed is the largest ever known in the
northwest. The Alaska Packing COM
pany, at Point Roberts alone put up 95,-
600 cases, using: IS, 900 salmon. Alto
gether two and half million fish of
the sock-eyed variety were caught near
the mouth of Frazer river during the
season, and nearly as many hump
backed salmon were taken from the
traps and left on the mud flats to die
and decay.
AS result of the unprecedented large
run this season the fishermen predict
While prices last year for fish ranged
from 20 to rs cents each, this sea son the
fishermen were glad to sell them at
8 cents each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-15
SMALLPOX DISINFECTION
To be Taken Up by the Embalmsrs'
Convention at Detroit.

Detroit, Mich. Sept. 15.-More than
200 practical embalmers are already en-
rolled on the list of delegates to the
National Association of Embalmers,
which opened its first annual conven-
ton here yesterday. President Frank
Merrill, of Detroit, presided. The pro-
fesSion is represented by delegates from
all parts of the United States ana many
from Canada. 1t is thought that the
association will soon be made an inter
national one.
One of the important subjects to be
discussed by the embalmers, will be the
methods of arriving at such a perfect
development of the knowledge of en-
balmiug, that the victims of smallpox
may be disinfected, preserved and ship
ped with safety to any part of the
world.