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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
Peter Christensen brought an accor.

Peter Christensen brought an accor-
dion out Of his chest when the ship was
two days out. and Immediately he was
the idol Of the forecastle. Then God
fried Klenger produced a tambourine
and shared the honOrs But Peter was
leader and determined to have a band
to lead Hendrich Willig had an ear
for mdsic. and he said he could play a
triangle if there was one to be had. Pc
ter tied a string to marlinspike and
told Hendrich to use his sheathknife to
beat a tattoo. julius Hallock cut the
heads off herring barrel and covered
both ends with canvas, which he soak
ed with water, and, 10! he had snare
drum. Carl Hensen sawed the ends
off -four barrel and, stretching canvas
over the apertures, created a fine-sound-
Ing bass drum. Then Carl took the
heads Off coal oil can and made a pair
Of cymbals, and the little German band
was complete.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
Dogs and WOOdchucks.

To show that dogs have the power to
intercommundcate ideas-the power OF
converse tion-allow me to tell a story
which came to me from a Mr.. Wood
ruff, Of this State. There were two
dogs at summer hotel in the Catskill
Mountains They were once noticed to
chase woodchuck into hole. To this
hole there were two openings-one on
each side of stone fence The dogs
saw the two openings. and each of them
took one and began digging. Because
the day was hot and the work hard, be-
cause they saw that the stony charac-
ter Of the ground would not allow the
sufficient enlarging of his opening to
let the larger dog in, or for some other
reason. the dogs simultaneously quit
digging and met in consultation on the
wall. When their plan was completed
the smaller dog, who had sufficiently
enlarged the opening at which he had
been working for the admission OF his
body, entered, while the larger dog
took his station at the other opening.
What took place in the hole do not
know. All that know ION the very
best evidence) Is that the woodchuck
soon appeared at the larger dogs open
Ing, was nabbed, dispatched, and the
two dogs had a great feast.
AS to how these dogs carried on their
conversation l can not say, but that
they did SO there can be no doubt.
They formulated plan. Their knowl-
edge Of the plan was mutual. Their
shouts were together as they talked on
the wall. Their interchange Of ideas
may have been telepathic, If there be
such a thing as telepathy, Of which l
am not sure.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
A Queer Chicken.

Mr.. More, chicken fancier of Great
Bend. Pa, has queer chicken. It
Is a Plymouth Rock. two years old.
that In addition to all the characteris-
tics OF fine cock. possesses the natur-
al instincts Of a hen. He crows and
fights and conducts himself "a most
chandeliers do; vet he has been known
TO adopt chickens, mother them, scra tch
and pick for them, raise a note OF
alarm when danger appeared and fold
them under his wings at night. He
raised two broods of chickens last year.
AS soon as the chicks hatch under a
hen, Mr.. More removes them to a small
cop, In which the cock is placed. He
Immediately adopts them, and Is a
model mother until they are ready to
shift for themselves.-NewY York Press
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
THE LONGEST RAILWAY RUN.
From London to Exeter, 1914 Miles,
Without a Stop.

From London to Exeter, 1914 Miles,
Without Stop.
The longest regular daily run made
without stop by any railway train in
the world has just been placed on the
schedule Of the Great Western Rail-
way of England.
1t is made between Paddington sta
ton in London and Exeter. a distance
of 194 miles. in three hours and thirty
six minutes, by what is known as the
Cornwall express. 1t is remarkable
not so much owing to the time as for
the fact that not a stop is made from
one end of the run to the other. There
have been longer runs made without a
stop, but they have been made by spe-
cial and not regular trains The aver
age speed attained by the Cornwall ex-
press when making this run is SIT
miles an hour, although, owing to a
peculiar construction of the road at
Bristol, 11S miles from London, the
train is obliged to slow down to a
speed of ten miles an hour
The express train is composed of six
long coaches a tender and engine. An
American would call it a vestibule
train, but the English prefer to call the
cars "bogie clere-storied corridor
coaches" boyle being term applied
to the trucks. They are fully as heavy
as an ordinary drawing-room car, each
one weighing about 1900 pounds,
while the train without the engine and
tender weighs 14O tons. The weight Of
the engine and tender is 81 tons, max
ing the total weight of the train as it
rushes along on its long run 221 tons.
During the run it is necessary to take
water for the engine twice. This, how
ever, does not necessitate any stop, as
it is taken up from trench beside the
track as the train speeds along at near
~ mile minute.
The engine which draws this essen
tally through train Is curious-look-
ing, ponderous affair, quite unlike any
locomotive seen on American roads. 1t
has on either side single huge driving
wheel seven feet eight inches in dame
ter. while what must by comparison be
termed the small wheels of the engine,
six in number, known as trailers, are
four feet six inches in diameter.
The water tank of the engine holds
10000 gallons, and when running at
full speed there is steam pressure OF
16O pounds to the square inch, while
there is a heating surface Of 1861
square feet.
Each day the run is made, the train
leaving Paddington station at 1925
o'clock in the morning, and 1t never
fails to roll into ST. David's station, in
Exeter, exactly on time. The time al
lowed by the schedule for this run
makes no allowance for delays of any
kind. Even the time lost in going over
the loop around Bristol and the neces-
sity Of slowing down when going
through Bath is not allowed for.-New
York Herald.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
An Island and q Peninsula.

AT a school the other day teacher.
having asked most Of his pupils the diff
ference between an island and penin-
sula. without receiving satisfactory
answer, came to the last boy. II can ex-
plain 1t, SIR" said the bright youth
First, get two glasses; fill one with
water and the other with milk. Then
catch fly and place It In The glass OF
water. That fly is an island, because
1t is entirely surrounded by water. But
now place the fly In the glass Of milk,
ana It will be peninsula, because It y
nearly surrounded by water" The boy
went to the top Of the class.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
The Use Of ChOpsticks.

We are very apt to think that the use
of chopsticks is a heather custom and
should be left to the Chinese But if we
only knew it the despised little sticks
are Of great service in everyday work
and play, and the boys and girls cam
not do better than learn to handle
them.
The first thing in the use Of chop
sticks is to hold one of them very firm
" in the right hand, just as an awk-
ward boy holds his pen, and to get the
trick Of holding it SO 1t will not slip.
The other stick is held in the left hand
and is placed in the fingers as If it were
a pen held properly. SO it will slide and
move with the motions of the fingers.
A little practice with two pointed
sticks will soon give the necessary ex.
perience, so that any boy or girl can
use the chopsticks nicely.
Now, when you have learned the use
of the sticks. you will soon find how SER
viceable the knowledge will be to you.
Suppose you want to pick up some
think which is very hot or sticky or
dirty, and do not want 1t to come in con-
tact with your fingers. Why. YOU can
quickly make pair OF chopsticks and
get what you want without any trouble
Or IL anything falls into small crack
you can get it easily with the sticks
And by and by, when you SO to Japan,
you will be able to eat at the Japanese
tables without any trouble and PICK up
the rice as II you were Japanese
New York Ledger.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
Drumming Up a Band.

The German ship NiObe, which arriy-
ed from Newcastle, England, early in
November. boasts Of the most unique
band that has ever been seen here, says
the San Francisco Chronicle. It con-
sists Of an accordion, bass and snare
drums, tambourine and triangle.
When the Niobe left Antwerp about
seven months ago she shipped u new
crew, the men Of which were strangeu
to each othe.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
HOrRef1e4h in I4nnlon

Inc meat inspectors of London have
discovered that not only Is horsefesh
served to unsuspecting customers In
the metropolis as beef, but also that
goatf]esh masquerades a. yenison A.
many restaurants.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06

1t appears from statistical reports
that the world now consumes twice a.
much sugar 40 It did In 1870. and four
times - much II in 1850.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06
Not Plagiarisn

spats-Hackley Is being accused Of
plagiarism in his last book,
Socratoots-l would not say that. He
was merely collecting his thoughtA-
Ftt3burg News.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-06

II am very glad to see you--mcst
thankful to you for your kindness in conn
ing; you must know that" she says, earn.
estly and gratefully; but he knows that
it is all for Miles sake.
He signs involuntarily and draws his
arm away, and Muriel intuitively reads
the meaning Of the action.
II am most grateful to you: it is SO good
of You to come so quickly" she falters,
looking up at him with eyes starry
through tears. Il wish l knew how to
thank YOU"
He does not see the changing color. and
the trembling lips and heaving breast with
which she makes this last little speech.
He does not see the timid usefulness in
her eyes, or read the meaning of the pure,
fond soul that brushes back it's womanly
love-for Murieps trembling words mean
this.
If he could but have seen! If he could
but have known and understood!
II need no thanks-I wish no thanks"
he says, coldly. II would go willingly to
the other side of the world to do Miles =
service, much less to take few hours
journey to see him when he is i'll"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07
GOODBYE ARBITRATION.

II. with comfort, the mass of the peo-
pie in the United States could bring
themselves to feel that arbitration be-
tween this nation and Great Britain
was possible with even-handed justice
10 this country. the United States sem
ate, for its defeat of the arbitration
treaty arranged by Richard Olney and
Ambassador Pauncefote, would today
be overwhelmed with popular condem-
nation.
Primarily the people are against war
Wars grow out of the ambitions, jeal-
ousies and innocent-apearing emula-
tons of statesmen, and in the end the
people pay for it with their blood. So
that anything which would eliminate
war would naturally have the support
of the people. who, when war comes.
make privates and taste lead.
But much as the bowling eastern
mugwumps and New York Anglomani-
aos say, the people of the United States
were not for the arbitration treaty and
they were not for it because they be-
lieved that it would he ineffective. aud
that it would be used by England 10
our disadvantage.
No one knows how deeply the warn
ing of Washington has rooted itself in
the average American breast. The ma
ton viii beware Of entanSling alliances
on the mere order and without ques-
tioning its meaning. Washington also
warned them of sectional differences.
but they did not heed him and paid for
their folly with four years of blood.
At all events the American people are
glad that arbitration has gone by the
board. We never can safely be an ally
Of Great Britain's except in language.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07
oREECRS CHANGED FRONT.

Greece was cheered for the first time
Wednesday by the news that her troops
were holding their own Ii had come
10 be accepted so earnestly that al
Greek news was bad news that the
news of a bit of stubbornneSs on the
Part of the ancient glory" corps was
pleasant.
Young Prince Constantine dashed
about the field nobly. and after hearing
a bullet or two travel near his ear sat
down and wrote dispatch to Athens
with something in ii about God help
ing him. 1t would be better TO with
draw Constantine and put him near
enough Athens to telephone his mes
sages IN. 1t was his stupid inacIion
which permitted the Turks to take La
rissa, as ii was his fathers idiotic sub
mission to the suggestion of the powers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07
Along the Kansas Nile.

The Topeka airship has been discovered
to be a weather observatory kite
Reverend Gragg OF Pratt is preaching a
series of sermons on How to Make Matri-
mony a Success
Brown Of Pratt's vote on a telegraph bill
in the last legislature is causing him trou-
bic among his constituents.
Thomas Ryan has appointed a young
man named Raymond, who, it is said, can
proves he lives in Kansas, his private sec
rotary.
Topeka might catch that bar-keeper In
that real open saloon and have him on ex-
h.bition in the Historical Rooms at the
State House.
Kansas is already very weary of Leedy.
Kansas in elect.ng governors. should do as
women who trade at stores do-cemand the
right 70 return goods taken out and ex-
change them.
When Mrs. Cleveland OF Pratt shot her
husband last week at Pratt ne was 80 anx-
ious that no one should know II that after
falling 10 the ground he arose and walked
home with her. five blocks.
Jerry Simpson told some ore the other
day that the reason he cut more Of figure
In congress this tine than before Is because
the congressman this tine are an inferior
lot and he just comes on; By contrast
A Kansas preacher in marrying a couple
ended by saying: My children. May your
pathway DC strewn with roses. but deTn
me. II il DONE ran before tomorrow, your
pathway won't have even cactus fowerz.
T. B. MurGock OF II Dorado nae got 2
new scheme II politics. He wants 20 ran
for congress ani when any one eonpi'-
nsnts him he tells ire fellow 20 qu.- talk
Ing and rustic around and get the county
delegates tor him
TIE Atch!son Champion says: NC; %
be born at a. Is 20 nIii.els Tire creates;
blessing" However. the Champion should
take a drill and fuse ard Euz powder
ard break that statement open and see
what there Z IN g.
Ths-e are a WASTE 10: O. politicians n
Kansas who are afraid 70 szy 80 hus " IL
believe that CO Leland J1sf ho.1s his pace
a. boss By chance Thsss ner have never
run W sSzins; the sharp end .. III, L.
izDz's pike i fight
Leland Pssha may be getting saso troz-
be. The SKY Is looking ruurky II ;hxf T.
r.ctson. Leland P1shz ca rut I'D a aga.
With fringe OF burning gan-yoz3er. ar
heaven help ths 1sz7 Who crosses swords
xs;h him = Kansas.
10 B-is;ox has appointed rs broths-. !
:. Br.stog. 20 -as chief clsTkss-o o. "a =
foe- Il pays ESQ tn. - u16srs,c5s .
:. aae Politics. What bess~ez civil st--
vsce ard relatives iAs poor poEticl1z Wa
a out % sob = iEksly . stay CIT
TIE Metropolitan Life izs1Tz1es cczr-
parry % Ne~ York sas soi PAD a ~tsos
- Top<kx H~r uscnss- wsse liz Mar srote
20 TIE company asksrx len % g - qsscx
A-a re aozpzay 81 There = sozsssszs
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07
TOPEKA'S open" SALOON.

Topeka is just now exercised over an
"open" saloon. the first. its local papers
say, the town has seen since 1881. A
rather cold spray is shot upon this
thrilling piece of news when it is learn
ed that this "open" saloon at Topeka is
upstairs.
An upstairs saloon is almost the per-
sonification of innocence. While It
may be true that this Topeka saloon
may have a mahogany bar with bevel-
ed plate mirrors, rejecting in perplex-
ing multiplicity other FURNISHED mirrors
opposite, and pyramids of delicate wine
glasses may be piled high behind the
aproned bar-keep, and towels may be
tied TO the counter and a foot-rail tied
to the floor and bulldog tied to the
front door, still Topeka has not tie at
tnal open saloon which used to flourish
in that city so many years ago that the
citizens there have forgotten what a
saloon looks like.
The saloon which is now narrowing
the innocence of that city may have all
the appointments enumerated above,
but if it is upstairs its fangs are pulled.
The upstairs saloon has no black
marks against it. 4 fight Of good steep
stairs. as a temperance measure, is
wonderful thing. The Topekan who
visits this saloon and goes beyond the
bounds Of temperance may get down
those stairs. but he will never get up
again, or being once down he may get
I'D but never get down again.
Next in decency to the upstairs sa-
loon is the ground floor saloon, which
admits of horizontal locomotiop but
lacks the deterrent influence for good
Of the upstairs affair. But the real
monster of the liquor traffic is the
downstairs, the. basement saloon,
W here the victim falls down the stair
way and never does get up again.
BECAUSE Topeka has an ur stairs sa-
loon it should not consider itself tough.
II is not 1t is quite innocent But it
is Oh the way back to the real old sa-
loon. for the retreat from prohibition
seems to take this route: Bootleg; hip
pocket; alley joint; club room; cigar
stand, wooder partition to the rear; sa
loon, second story; saloon, first story;
saloon, basement; perdition."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

which kept the Greek feet from bonn
harding Salonica and cutting off the
route of supply 10 the Turkish army.
The royal family has been a burden
to the Greek side. If they had hidden
away in the palace as the sultan, and
permitted the generals TO take chargc
In the field, the Greeks might now be
far up the Balkan peninsula and the
Greek fleet might be pouring long
streams Of hot lead into Constantine
ME
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

There are four graves il a lot II Mount
Vernon. a bunch OF 'old man grows OF
the fathers grave; lot OF odd woman
covers the mothers grave. a sons grave
IS decorated with bachelor buttons. snd o.
a daughters grave grows the plaai FaowE
as odd maid"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

II was also reported to Secretary Lamont
that a quantity of fine furniture, book
cases, cabinets and writing desks Of ma
hogany had been shipped to GAINESVILLE, and
he had an interview with Mr.. Doe on that
subject, but what occurred is known only
TO the two men. Colonel Lamont is very
secre;ive and naturally wished 10 avoid
scandal during the closing days of the Gle
veland administration, so he left no record
on this point. and the investigation was
not pursued further. II IS understood, how
ever, that Doe made restitution IL cash,
and that he would have been dismissed in
disgrace but for the Intervention OF Sena-
tor Villas, upon whose recommendation he
had been originally appointed, and who IN
terceded for him with the president How
ever, from and after this Interview, Mr.
Doe was practically IDLE. so far as Official
business was concerned The storekseper
received instructions 10 fiji no acquisitions
that were not approved by Secretary La
mont himself. and he Gid not trust his sup
plies to the protection Of the ordinary lock
and key. Shortly after Secretary Alger
took charge Whitton was removed ana
Captain Thorpe was restored 10 his old po-
sition.
Mr.. Doe. however, denies that he was re-
moved from Office By Secretary Lamont,
and also denies tina; he was asksd 10 re-
store any property 10 tie government, or
pay S.eoc. as charged in Washington Dis
patches, for government property inprop-
erly used BY him. Bicycles. he said. were
bought for department employees and were
Left al the department. Books he sent home
were paid fer oG; OF h-s personal purse
Captain Thorpe. he said, resigned 70 en-
gage in private business and Wilton was
appointed 10 succeed Thorpe b. Secretary
Lamont. Tia: RS duties were siaecure.
he said. any ore acquainted with his Of
cal work knew was a base.ess charge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

Topeka Independent: We take the Hserty
OF suggesting the names OF p. 3. Maxson
OF Em2oria as M LsVelhaSs successor
or TIRE hoard CO railroad commissioner
SIR Nzxson was an original s-es1oacxeF,
ard also helped 70 organize the Pcpuils.
party He has ever been bod and -rs',.-
rup,ibse advocate OF economic refoEzq-
ready 10 compromise with fr.e9s but ~
MIA the enemies CO bis PRINCIPLES ~
MsSsoE. tss always been siadsss; of AL
ROAD problems He was one OF re orig
rators sni most efficient promoters % TIRE
Galf ot Mexico rssirosa movement ths- se-
Sultsi tn thA battling % IRE NJ X aid a
with valch he vas contacted f0- several
years ae was -z5lrosd commissioner DR.
ag NJ Lexe-lzxs Administrator. SEi
Was removed By Governor xnrrI-s 70 make
roo-a Coz . Republican We knew - man
II the state better aiSes sor The S.ac.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

With the fall of the arbitration treaty,
Mr.. Olney may not longer be considered a
super-heated fragment of the program.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

Turkey will now observe tearfully that
every time the Greeks don't run, the news
papers call it a Greek victory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

The most horrible thing in the Partisan
dispatches is the idetification Of the Ouch
ess dAlencon by her dentist. Teeth don't
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

1t may be that the Cubans and the Span
iards got so excited watching the Turks
and Greeks go for each other that they for
eot to fight
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

Miss Olga Nethersole announces that she
VIII be married in June. make a tour OF the
provinces Immediately afterwsrd. then lease
a theater in London. where she viii pro-
duce number OF her own plays. and. In
1852. return 20 America under her own
mana cement. She seems 10 have left no
room for an emergency OF any kind-5u;
perhaps she hasn', thought OF that,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

The fierce senatorial struggle in Ken
lucky is now explained. The new senator
from Kentucky gets 10 sit right beside
Mark Hanna.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

As two-thrIds of the earth's surface Is
water, the disquiet!ng fear many people
have had that the Turkish and Greecian
navies might meet. is groundless.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

No earthquakes are predicted along the
Atlantic coast this summer, but in Sep
TENDER. Mr. Bundy, the colored cadet. en-
tiers ANNAPOLIS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

The Populists are on the run. Since It
has been charged that putting idiot children
te death in their infancy is Populist doc
trine. the last Popul!st has taken to the
woods
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

The Greeks pushed the Turks back just
an inch and a half at Velestino, and Con-
stantine telegraphed Athens: with Gods
help our side has conquered"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

The president of the Podunk Pie Platoon
has called upon President Mckinley and
requested McKinley's presence at the Pla-
toon's Pie-eat at Podunk
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-07

In tire last battle Constantine exposed
himself and Athens feels little kinder to-
wards him. But it Will never entirely for
give him until ne permits himself to De
totally killed