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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Philadelphia Franklin Statue.

On the spot where Benjamin Frank
lin stood when he sent up his kite to
"wrest the lightning from the skies, I"
and where he later laid the corner
stone of the old University of Pennsyl-
vania, will be shortly erected hand
some bronze statue Of the philosopher,
as a gift to the city from Justus G.
Strawbridge. It will stand on the
postoAice plaza, on the spot recently
vacated by the removal of the Lion
Fighter. The statue will be in bronze
of heroic proportions, representing
Franklin seated on colonial chair,
attired in the loose robe which is
given to him in one of his most ia
nous portraits. From the pedestal on
which the statue will rest the latter
will rise to a height Of nine feet, and
the proportion will be about one and
a half life size. John J. Boyle, the
sculptor, who has been commissioned
to do the work, will have the model
completed in short time. The cost of
the piece will not be less than $40, 900.
philadelphia Record.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
A Pyramid OF Barrels.

A pyramid, not Of the kind usually
read about, but one composed Of hogs
heads, barrels and casks of every kind
and description, which has been in the
process of construction for several
weeks on the top of Gallows Hill,
Salem, where nineteen persons were
executed in 1892 for alleged witchcraft,
collapsed yesterday afternoon, much
to the cnagrfn Of many persons, who
had been anticipating big bonfire at
midnight Of July4. The pyramid had
reached an altitude of 1870 feet and was
to be still higher. It was forty-seven
feet square at the base, and contained
more than 10000 barrels, thousands Of
them being crushed by the fall.
Several persons narrowly escaped
being hurt While its destruction
has somewhat spoiled the ardor of
those building the pyramid, it is an
nounced that there will be another one
erected, but it will not be anywhere
near as high.-Boston Transcript.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Legs Lost in Battle.

IT can tell almost to a certainty to
which branch of the service he be-
longed when I see an old soldier
stalking around on one leg," said
Colonel Lamar Fontaine, of Mis-
aissippi, the famous Confederate
scout and poet, who was at the Lac
lede yesterday. ''If the left leg is
missing then I am pretty certain he
belonged to the infantry, and if he is
minus the right leg, then I feel safe
in betting that he was cavalryman.
In either case, the absence of the leg
proves more conclusively than the
written record that the man who lost
it was fighting like soldier when
wounded.
''The reason the infantryman loses
thelef leg in battle is this: Infantry
men are drilled to place the left foot
forward when firing in order to
balance the body so that steadier aim
can be taken. This naturally acts IS
protection to the right leg, which,
of course, is more or less concealed.
Consequently, the bullet of the enemy
is much more apt to find Judgement
in the left leg than the right. Now,
the cavalryman uses pistol nearly
altogether. It is handler and less
cumbersome. The pistol is held in
the right hand, and this causes the
cavalryman when firing to place his
right foot forward for support. In
this way that side Of him is much
more likely to suffer than the left.
But, as I said, either case is conclus-
i've evidence to me that the soldiers
thus manned were facing the enemy
when shot. The loss of the leg in
dicates almost to certainty that the
sufferer was standing in military posi-
ton and not crouching or running. -
st. Louis Republic.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
COOL THE YEAR ROUND.
Never More..Than Thirty-Two Degrees In
Cold Storage Warehouse.

OVAu 04VA"60 V0AOAOUSOs
Year in and year out the tempera-
lure of dozens of cold storage ware
houses in New York City is thirty-two
degrees above zero. Hundreds ofmen,
some engaged in makingice and others
in handling it, have no opportunity to
realize that their fellow citizens are
suffering from the heat within fifty
feet of them. It is winter all the year
round to these men. They go to their
work wearing heavy rubber boots,
thick underwear, warm winter cloth
ing and caps. They labor with their
coats and vests on, and not few of
them wear gloves from morning to
night. Like woodchoppers in forest
in the dead of winter, they can keep
warm only by working hard.
In one of the plants on the East
Side upward of 275 tons Of icei manu-
featured every day, and the men who
handle this vast product are the ones
with whom I talked, says a New York
Herald reporter who visited "a cold
storage warehouse. They evinced lit
tie interest in the feverish condition of
the weather outside. Indeed they
seemed to regard it as taunt when [
told them that people were dropping
in the streets under the terrific heat Of
the sun. That might be true, they
seemed to think, but what of it?
Gould one expect to interest Lap
lander by telling him how hot it is in
Florida?
Like the Laplanders, the employees
in the big cold storage warehouses OF
New York are dressed for their situa-
tion. They glory in living where the
temperature never varies. They catch
no colds through sudden changes in
the temperature of their workshops.
They contract no inhammations
through substituting light clothing for
that which they have been wearing.
Year in and year out they live in
world whose temperature is thirty-two
degrees above zero. They know each
day what they need to wear, and they
thrive on the knowledge and its bene-
fits.
But the men who work in q temper
ature of thirty two degrees have rivals
in the same industry whose surround
ings are cooler than their own. In the
upper stories of these ice plants the
normal temperature is many degrees
lower, the ice being frozen at tenn
perature Of sixteen degrees. My in
vitation included q visit to this de-
partment, but it was accepted with lit
tie avidity. The change from ninety
to thirty-two degrees was not without
its rewards, but the further change to
sixteen degrees was quite too much,
even on hot day.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Life Should Be Longer.

It was the naturalist, Button, who
asserted that human beings should live
to 40 years instead Of merely seventy.
Button argued that all creatures of the
animal kind live at least six or seven
times as long as it requires them to
obtain full development. Thus the
horse is full grown at three years, and
lives to eighteen and twenty. The OK
is fully developed at four years, and
the dog at two. The former lives ia
twenty-four and twenty-five and the
latter to twelve and fourteen. There
is no doubt that in these respects Buff
fon was right, and if his theory were
borne out in the case of humankind
the period of life should be at least
100 to 40 instead of seventy.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28

times, signs for the return of the good
old days Of 49, Why, man, '49 was
nothing to this! johannesburg is no
such centre Of gold fields as is Juneau.
''But there is this difference between
California in 40 and Alaska in '97.
Alaska is oil staked out. The news
has not gone abroad until the people
near at hand, the people who have
spent money, time, and their very
lives in developing the country, the
people, in short, who deserved tho re-
ward had seized on everything in
sight. Down along the coast in the
quartz lodes the stamp mills have been
established one by one, twenty stamps
here, forty there. They have not any
Of them begun to be worked as hard
as the available area of ore will per-
NIT. With mills running altogether
$40 stamps, more than half the stamps
working only half q year, the product
of the quartz mines Of Alaska in 1897
yielded $2,355,OO0. I say to you
earnestly, honestly, that is only a pin
scratch. Work in Alaska cannot be
said to have begun. There was never
anywhere anything like it. To sum
the whole thing up, I believe that
right in the Alaska gold deposits is
the mother vein of the gold of North
America.
"a few weeks ago two young men
came to me with letters. They were
wild with enthusiasm and confidence.
They were going to Alaska they said.
I told them to stay at home, Then
one of them said that he had had lots
of experience in rough knocks. You'll
get lot more out there T said
There is more experience out there
than there is gold, and that is saying
heaps But I control $4,000 he
said. BY glory, said I, you'll need
it, And they will. It is no poor
mans country. A man might as we'll
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Big Block of Granite.

The pedestal for the new statue Of
Peter the Great, which has recently
been erected in St. Petersburg, con.
sists Of block Of granite which weighs
about 1917 tons. In order to get to
its destination it had to be carried
four miles overland and thirteen miles
by water. For the overland journey d
railway was used consisting Of two
lines Of timber furnished with hard
metal grooves. Spheres of hard brass
about six inches in diameter were
placed between these grooves, and on
the spheres, the framework contain.
ing the block was moved by means Of
sixty men.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Causes of Indigestion,

Indigestion is superinduced quite
often by the very bad habit Ameri.
cans have Of drinking as they eat.
Ice drinks, so common in summer,
arrest digestion till the liquid becomes
heated to the proper temperature, and
disturb the flow of the gastric juices.
Tea and coffee, thought to be so in.
furious to a weak digestion, lose hall
their terors when they are taken after
the meal is over. The natural liquid
for the dissolving Of food is the gastric
juice, but it is given no chance when
liquids like iced tea, hot coffee or
lemonade are swallowed by the quart.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Wanted, . Cook and q neetor,

The Maharaja Of Durbangah, .
small State in India, is advertising
two somewhat unusual wants" One
is for an elephant doctor on a pay of
SIS q month with allowances. The
other is for an experienced chef de
cuisine" proficient in teaching the GU
linary art in all its branches. The
wages for the Hindoo cook are not
stated. The Maharaja being Of the
highest caste usually cooks the food
for his own consumption with his own
hands,
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Living Crate Of Eggs.

A successful shell game of new
brand was worked on Cleveland (Ohio)
egg consumers the other day by an
honest Ohio farmer, who lives down on
the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
road, seventy-five miles southeast of
this city. This time the farmer came
near victimizing his city cousins, and
all but succeeded.
A case of eggs reached commission
house, and when opened it was found
that one of the eggs had Matched, and
fifteen minutes later, when the eggs
we're exposed to the air, q dozen chick.
ems were peeping.
The eggs in the first two layers con-
tanned chickens, most of which were
dead. The commission merchants re-
ported that as soon as the eggs were
exposed to the Dir chickens were
Matched. The temperature in which
the crate Of eggs had evidently been
since the shipment will not be changed,
and all the eggs will be given chance
to hatch.
The commission merchants decline
to give the naene Of the consignee, and
agree that now they have good start
in the poultry business. The eggs
which are Matching must have been in
a temperature Of ninety degrees for
the last three weeks.
Stoves Giving Out Cold.
Professor William NJ. Watts, Of Still
Pond, has a novelty in the form Of a
cold stove. The stove is for use in the
heated months of summer for reducing
temperature, just as stoves heated by
fire ore used to raise the temperature
in winter. BY the use of salt, small
quantity of ice and patented chemi-
cal the most intense degree Of cold is
secured. So great is the cold that it
is as dangerous to touch this cold stove
when in operation as it would be to
place the hand on q fire stove at high
degree of heat. The skin is instantly
taken of, and painful injuries are the
result Of the slightest contact. Pro-
lessor Watts states that during the
hottest weather the temperature of q
room may be run down and made
pleasant by the use Of this novel de-
vice. The new process was discovered
by a college mate of the teacher Of the
Still Pond school. The cost of opera
ting the stove is very slight.-Chester'
ton Transcript.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28

start out from Juneau, after all his kit
and outfit are bought, without a cent
as without $500 or $500. But it is .
country every American who can af-
ford to travel ought to see. It is
beautiful country to visit, and there
is no pleasanter trip anywhere. New
York Sun.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-08-28
Across the Sahara Desert.

A letter has just reached the Gov.
ernorG General at Algeria from the Gov
ernor Of the French colony of Senegal,
by way of Timbuctoo. The dispatch
was carried by Arab couriers on
dromedaries, and it constitutes the
first known instance on record Of
European official communications hav.
ing traversed the great Sahara desert.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
NO USE FOR HORSES.
TheiNew York Cab Company Will
Try Motor Carriages.

New York, Jan. 13.-The New York
Cab company has been making prepar-
ations for some time to introduce horse
less carriages to take the place of the
carriages now in use, and the strike of
its drivers has FASTENED it on to spur
the work of the inventors. One in
VentOr who is connected with the COM
pany has made q carriage which he
thinks will accomplish all that is re-
quired of it. and the New York cab
company will give it a full and COM
plete trial.
Allan Lexow, the treasurer of the
company, said last night that he
thought the carriage referred to would
be complete success. He said that
the motive power of the carriage would
be compressed air and that it would
run for twenty-four hours without be-
ing recharged. Mr.. LeXoW added that
the company would have the carriages
in use by April l, if not sooner, and
that the company could begin it's horse
less carriage service sooner, but that it
was determined to make no mistakes
and to give the public the utmost salts
faction from the start. The expert
ments in London had been watched
closely by the company, and though the
carriages used there had proved mod
erateIy good, Mr. LeXoW said that the
New York Cab company's horseless car
riages would have many improvements
which the English carriages did not
possess and would be better in every
respect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
MRS. EDWARDS NEW NOSE.
It was Constructed by Skillful Sur
geon From One of Her Fingers.

Philadelphia. Jan. 13.-As a result of
sldllful surgery by Dr. Joseph P. Tunis at
the Methodist hospital, Mrs. John Ed
wards of Chester, now has a new nose
and a. fairly prepossesinE countenance.
The third finger is missing from Mrs
Edwards right hand, but it is now a part
of her face. for it was grated there to
form a much needed nose for her
Mrs. Edwards was admitted to the hos
pital late in the fall to be treated for a
cancerous growth. This aiIment was
checked. but it left unsghtly blemish
where the patients nose had been Mrs
Edwards grieved over the fatal disfigure-
ment. and when DR.. TuniS suggested a
remedy she Immediately agreed to UNDER
go the operatiOnu-
The patient was etherized and the oper-
alton was begun DIR. Tunis cut off the
end joint of the third finger of her right
hand and disarticulated the remaining
Two bones. The hand was held in posi-
ton over Mrs Edwards face and the
homeless flesh was laid over the damaged
nose and stitched to the face. Bandages
OF crinoline spread with plaster of Paris
We're wrapped about the patients BODY
holding the arm firmly in place Her hand
almost entirely covered her face and il
was necessary to feed her by means OF
a tube inserted into the left corner of her
mouth Occasionally the bandages were
removed. but the hand was never allowed
to change its position
AT the end of three weeks the finger wa g
hrmly grated to the face and Mrs Ed
wards left the hospital with a nose hard
ly less perfect in form than the original
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
BLOOMER CRUSADE.ENDS.
Charlotte Smith Who Tried to Reform
Gotham Girls Quits.

New York, Jan. 13.-CharIotte Smith
has gone. The Office from which she
issued her anti-bloomer Inanifestoes is
for rent and the New York bicycle girl
can rest in peace. Mrs. Smith made
her headquarters, when she came to
this city four months ago, at No. "a
Union square, and there she established
the Women's Rescue league. Her
avowed object was to show the world
that the combination of bicycles and
boomers was productive of more i'm
morality than anything else on earth.
Trouble began as soon as she had
opened the offices. Among the first of
these was the unexpected withdrawal
of the typewriter, the eXhorter and the
assistant manager. Mrs. Smith al
legged that they took with them certain
articles of clothing which she had used
as horrible examples For a time
the work was suspended, but some more
boomers were secured and the work
went on.
Mrs. Smiths next trouble came when
some Unfeeling thief picked her pocket
of a purse containing $3.50 While she was
attending services at ST. Xavier's
church. With the loss of the money
came another setback in the work, and
a few days ago the doors of the office
were closed and the landlord, to whom
some rent was due, was told by Mrs.
Smith that she would be back in a few
days. She has not come back.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
ELECTRICITY IN TREES.
Peculiar Phenomenon Attending a
Snowstorm in South Dakota

Huron, S. Jan. ia peculiar fea-
ture of the late great wind and snow
storm was the great amount of cleo
tFicity in the atmosphere. 1t was quite
difficult to operate telegraph instru-
ments, SO heavily charged with cleo
tricity was the air. A touch of the
stoVepipe with an iron poker or other
metallic substance would result in send
ing a sharp current up the arm and
thousands of electric sparks into the
room.
Another peculiar fact was the appear
ance on the tips of tree twigs of bright
sparks of electricity. They were seen
in different parts of the city Monday
evening and presented a strange and
beautiful sight. On touching the twig
with the finger the electric spark would
Immediately be transferred from the end
of the twig to the tip of the finger, and
there remain as long as the finger was
IN contact with the twig upon which
the spark appeared. Remove the finger
and the spark would again take it's
place on the tip of the twig, and no
amount of shaking of the tree could
diSDlace it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13

Johnson objected no one could find any
thing unparliamentary but the descrip-
ton fitted to Mr.. johnson as the man
who had so cowardly attacked the boy
hood of another HE Witness" Mr..
Mcguire continued Sarcastica1ly, 'at
this attack upon himself. He does not
think of the grief and anguish until it
strikes himself. Why did he not think
of these things when he made the at
tack ON another who was not present
and not a member of this body The
man who makes this appeal today has
used this language toward Mr.. Hearst
Mr.. Mcguire then read Mr.. JohnSOn'S
charges against Mr.. Hearst. These"
said he, ARE false and it i'll becomes
the author of those charges to whine
because reply
This was greeted with a scattering
burst of applause.
Mr. Mcguire went on to say that
''The gentleman from California need
not concern himself with my courage or
that of Mr.. Cooper With regard to
the attack on Mr.. Hearst, he said that
the gentleman needed no defense in
California, but here, where the assault
was made part of the permanent rec
ord he thought it proper to make
reply. Mr.. Mcguire, continuing, said
some very complimentary things or Mr..
HearSt'S newspaper in New YORK, char-
acterizing it as the greatest newspaper
on earth. This part of his speech evoked
a chorus of groans from the house, and
amidst much laughter Mr.. Mcguire
concluded.
The house was still buzzing with ex-
element when Mr.. Poole of Syracuse,
the old home of Mr.. Johnson, moved to
eXpunge Mr.. Maguire'S remarks from
the records. He concluded by saying
he did not think the house could afford
to have Maguire's remarks go into the
permanent record.
Mr.. Perkins Rep., Ia.), chairman of
the printing committee, was forced into
action. He said if Mr.. Johnson'S re-
marks were to be stricken out they
should have been objected to at the
time they were spoken. He was not for
delay. He said he was in favor of ex-
punging Mr.. Maguire's remarks from
the record.
Mr.. Poole's motion was agreed to
without division.
Mr.. Towne (Rep., Minn) presented as
a privileged matter a motion to strike
out that portion of Mr.. Johnson's re
marks constituting the attack on Mr..
Hearst.
The motion was defeated-S2 to "a
The speaker counted four members
as present and not voting. to make
quorum. This closed the incident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
TO SEE THE MONEY FIRST.
South Dakota's Governor Will Not
Approve the Treasurer's Bond.

Pierre, S. D., Jan. ia sensation has
been created in this state by the state
ment of the governor that he will not
approve the state treasurer's official
bonds until he has seen the state funds
which it calls for counted before him
and is certain that all the dollars about
one million, which it calls for are in
sight.
He further recommends the appoint
ment of a commission to ascertain the
saftey of the funds. The governor says
he is not doing this because he doubts
the existence OF the money or the hon
esty of those handling it, but he says
the state laws on the subject are so
vague that he is forced to take these
measures for his own protection. Treas
urer Phillips is perfectly willing to pro-
duce the money, but it is deposited
around the state in various banks, ac-
cording to law and ii will not only re
quire many days to secure it, but the
cost of transmitting that amount of
money will exceed the amount of his
annual salary.
He says if the governor will be re
sponsible for the funds in transit he will
call them in, but the governor says he
cannot take this responsibility, but
must have the money in sight at once.
Politicians favor the appointment of
commission to visit the various banks
and check up the funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-13
PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM.
American Catholics Will Start on
Long Journey on Saturday Next

New York, jan, 13.-It is expected
that the pilgrimage of Americans to the
Holy Land and Rome this year will be
unusually large. Already very large
number have signihed their intention
of making the journey. The party
will sail on the steamer Vera next
Saturday.
I'VE expect to be gone about three
months" said Francis H. ThrOup of
Brooklyn, who will have charge of the
pilgrims, land will visit all points of
interest in the Holy Land and after
ward will go to Rome, where the mem
bers of the party will be presented to
the pope by Cardinal Satolli and Bishop
Keane."
Following the custom of former pill
grimages. the stars and stripes will be
carried through the Holy Land and
finally deposited in the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. A hand
some flag, made of banner silk, with
the badge of the pilgrimage and the
year 1887" embroidered on it, has been
especially manufactured for the pur-
pose.
Bishop Hennessy of Kansas will head
the fourth annual pilgrimage to Lou
dres which is now being organized.