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The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
THE MINERS STRIKE.

Unless something shall occur soon to
put an end to the strike inaugurated
by the United Mine Workers, it seems
destined to take rank with the greatest
and most disastrous movements of the
kind in the country'S history.
Never before, perhaps. has a strike
attracted so much attention from pub
lie men and lawmakers at SO early a
period in it's existence. This apparent
ly Indicates that those who have the
country's welfare in their keeping are
alive to the Importance of the situation
in its relation to the business of the
country.
The coal miners have it in theirpower
to stop the wheels of industry all over
the Union. Already the manufactures
have begun to close for lack of fuel.
Coal intended for their use is being
confiscated by the railroad companies
as measure of self-protection, in pur-
suance of a court opinion recently pro
mulgated according them the right to
do so.
The strike burst so suddenly on the
country that perhaps but few people are
informed regarding the causes of it.
From a statement made by the presi-
dent of the miners association it ap-
pears that the order issued by the ma
tiona1 officers of the miners simply
calls into effect the scale of wages
adopted at the annual convention held
in Columbus in January, 1895. Owing
to the demoralized coal market at that
time it was deemed best not to enforce
7 the new scale Immediately. When it
should be called into force was left with
the judgment of the national executive
board. 1t calls for SO cents a ton for
pick mining in Pennsylvania, 60 in Ohio
and Indiana and 55 in Illinois. The
difference is founded upon comparative
difficulties of mining work.
What this means can be judged from
the statement of r. NJ. Hazleton, mine
inspector of Ohio, in his last annual
report, that the average yearly earn
ings of the Ohio miner for that year
amounted to only $221.75. From this
must be deducted 81 a month which
the operators charge for blasting pow
der and pick-sharpening, making his
net yearly earnings $173.75.
That year the Ohio miners were get
ting SO cents a ton, or 4 cents more
than they are now getting; besides,
they get fewer days work, for ma
chimes are displacing hand labor.
The miners have been waiting from
January, 1895, to the present time for
a return of prosperity which would JUS
tify a demand for this slight increase
in their wages 1t is not surprising
that they should become tired of wait
ing.
The prevailing opinion seems to be
that the trouble should be adjusted by
arbitration. But there can be no ar
duration unless both parties to the con-
troversy are willing.
The law should step in as it does
between man and man. 1t does not
allow individuals to fight out their diff
ferences.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
IS IT PLEASANT WHERE
YOU LIVEP

(From Myron Reeds Sermon)
The plan for a summer home for ba-
bieS is good as things are, but the best
summer home for a baby is with its
mother in a. comfortable home furnish
ed with furniture and food by a father
who has enough wages for eight hours
work to care we'll for his family. AS
things are, am in favor of summer
home for babies. AS things will be
any house in which a baby is born will
be a good enough summer home
A summer home away from home is
for babies who are sick. The ideal
summer home is where babies don't get
sick. There is a babies home few
miles outside of Baltimore. A beau
tiful place, but why not reform Balti-
more and make every block of it a
safe babies home? Block by block the
people are reforming Edinburgh. They
are tearing down the old tenementS and
closets and making the city as healthy
as it is handsome (at a distancel: L
have seen nothing finer than old Ed1n-
burgh, looked at from window of a
good hotel on Princess street when the
moon was shining. But walked over
by the long lane" the next day when
the sun was shining, and it was differ
ent.
The old notion was to leave the place
you are in and migrate to where it is
thought is, stay where you are and
make it healthy and free. There is a
heap of money wasted in transporta-
ton. There is no benefit in bringinS
an ESquimaux to New York. He will
be homesick. There is no use in ex-
porting a New York church to Green
land; it will be homesick. We spend
asylums and all sorts of homes-and on
rnUiVaIS
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
MORGAN GETS THE LEHIGH
The Valley Road About to Pass to
the VanderbiIts.

New York, July 10.-The Journal says
that J. Pierpont Morgan will shortly re-
sumo the management of the Lehigh
Valley railroad.
Recently when the Lehigh Valley was
in difficulties, Philadelphia capital,
mostly came to it's aid, the large Pack
err estate shouldering most of the re-
sponsibiIity. The estate, in its turn, be-
came involved, in way, and Mr.. Nor
gan, representing the numerous English
Stockholders, obtained an option on all
the Packer holdings. This has given
him an absolute control of the road. 1t
is known that so far advanced are his
plans that he has determined to substi-
tute either Edwin NJ. Winter, the for
mer president of the Northern Pacific,
whom Mr. Morgan elevated to the posi-
ton, or else DR.. w. q. Webb, the sec
ond vice president of the New York
Central, who is a son-in-law of the late
William H. Vanderbilt, as president in
place of Mr. E. p. Wilbur.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
ELKS ELECT OFFICERS.
Grand Exalted Ruler Detweiler was
Unanim mouslY Re-alected.

Minneapolis. July 10.-The grand
lodge of ElkS has succeeded in disposing
OF two of the most important matters
before it, the trouble over Golden Gate
lodge of San Francisco and the Ques-
ton of re-instating Allen o. Myers to
membership in Cincinnati lodge. The
Golden Gate matter occupied four hours
of debate and in the end the action of
the grand exalted ruler in organizing a
new lodge was almost unanimously sus-
tained. Grand Exalted Ruler DetwelIer
took the floor himself to defend his act
ion and the delegates from San Fran
cisco were also heard.
The result of the debate in the case of
Allen o. Myers was the expulsion of
that Elk from the order by an over
whelming vote.
Toledo and Louisville took part in the
prize drill for Elk clubs, and in the
band contest were the Duluth City
band and Naval Reserve band of De-
troit, the Fourth Regiment band of
Sioux City and the Twenty-second Reg
iment band from FIT. Cook.
The following officers were elected:
Grand exalted ruler, Meade D. Det-
weller, Harrisburg, Pa
Grand exalted leading knights, B. NJ
Allen, Birmingham, Ala; Louis Hau-
ser, Newark. N. J.; Charles NJ. Foote,
Minneapolis MINI.
Grand Secretary, George A Reynolds,
Saginaw, Mich.
Grand treasurer, Ed S. Orris, Mead
Grand tyler, Scott Holmes, Cincin-
natl, o.
Grand esquire, Lew A. Clarke, ST.
Louis.
Grand inner guard, George Meyer, Jr..
PittSburg, Pa.
Grand chaplain, Rev. DR.. S. D. Tim
berlake. New Albany, Ind.
Board of grand trustees: Jerome B.
Fisher, jamestown, N. Y; Hunter A.
CraycrOft, Dallas, Tex; George B.
Cronk, Omaha.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
CARNEGIE'S SHREWD MOVE
Plans to Control Nine Mile Strip on
the Monongahela River.

McKeesport, Pa, July 10.-The firm
hand of Carnegie has been shown in a
scheme to corrall nine mile strip of
has been displayed a vigorous attempt
on the part of other stream shore con-
Germs will be made to Outtrump it.
Today Maj. Charles F. Powell, chief
of the United States engineers at Pitts
burg, announced that he would estab-
lish harbor lines on Tuesday, July 13.
Investigation proved that the Carnegie
Steel company, who owns nine miles of
river front between Hays station and
McKeesport. had made a private sur
vey of harbor lines for Homestead,
Braddock, Port Perry, Duquesne,
Demmler and McKeespOrt and had pre-
sented the same to the government and
this is the survey that will either be
adopted or rejected by Major Powell
on Tuesday next.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
New swedenborgian Pastor.

Rev. Geo. L. Wheeler, pastor for
seven years of the Bridgewater, Mass,
Society of the New Jerusalem church,
one of the largest societies of the de-
nomination in New England, arrived in
Topeka yesterday on his return from
Denver and will conduct services Sun
day at IL a. m. in the Swedenborgian
chapel southeast corner Sixth and Har-
rison streets. His physician advises
that he must remove from the seaboard
to a higher altitude and his trip is to
determine whether to transfer his pas
toraI duties to Denver or Topeka, as to
which he will decide upon reaching
home.
1t will be very gratifying to the So
ciety in Topeka if his decision favors
Topeka, as they have been without
minister for over two years and are
anxious to reopen the church in the
fall. The trustees hope that all who
are interested in the doctrines or de-
sire to attend the service, will prepare
to do So Mr.. Wheeler is at the Nation
al hotel and will be glad to meet any
who are interested.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
SILVER CAMPMEETING.
A Monster Gathering in Ohio of Sill
yer Peopls During September

Cincinnati, July 10-There will be a
great national free coinage camp meet
ing held in this state for one week
beginning September 18th. 1t will take
place at the state fair grounds, Co
lumbus or at the Springfield fair
grounds.
The American Bimeta1lic union of
Washington. D. c., is back of the move
ment. Great silver leaders, irrespective
of party, will be present. The local ar
rangementS will be in charge of AttOr-
ney A. A. Brown of this city, and Col.
]. G. Roberts of Michigan. DR.. r. H.
dent and secretary of the Ohio Valley
League of Bimetallic clubs, have been
asked to assist in the movement.
Mr. Brown states that the railroads
have agreed to issue round trip tickets
from all parts of the country to the
meeting, and on September 81 and %
a return rate of cents a mile from all
sections of the United States. Tickets
will be good TO return until September
27th.
The idea of holding a camp meeting
of the silver forces is not a new one.
The old Greenback party in 1881 held
such a meeting in Michigan, when the
JeromeS bOSsed that state. 1t resulted
in the Greenbaclx party electing its tick
ct in Michigan Those having the affair
in charge believe that over 100000 per-
sons will attend the silver camp meet
ing, and that it will greatly aid the sill
yer forces in carrying Ohio this fall.
The following speakers have al
ready accepted the invitation to be
present:
w J. Bryan, Chas. A. Towne of Min
nesota, H. F. Bartine of Nevada, Sen
ator Teller of Colorado, Senator Dubois
of Idaho, George Fred Williams of Mas
sachusetts. Senator 10 Blackburn of
Kentucky, Senator Allen of Nebraska,
and Charles J. Bronston OF Kentucky.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

Atchison Globe: A Colorado Christian
Endeavor delegation has this for it's
yell: Pixies Peak or bust; Pixies Peak
or bust; Colorado! ColoradoI Yell we
must!" Another crowd yells this:
Christ we love; Christ we love; Chris
tian Endeavor; Christian Endeavor; Je-
sus forever" This yell not indicating
any particular state as its origin, has
been adopted by two-thirds of the peo-
pie who wear &C. E. E."badges, and march
through the streets of San Francisco.
The Bible gives no yells for soldier of
the cross to cheer him on his way.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
IT INDUCES SLEEP.
a New and Harmless Narcotic bis
covered in Mexico.

City of Mexico, July 10.-Eforts on
the part of physicians in charge of the
insane hospital for women to discover
some safe narcotic which should pro-
duce sleep, have resulted into bringing
into daily use in that institution sim
pie remedy prepared from the seed of
white ZapOle. ~
1t produces a tranquil sleep, and since
it has been used no deaths from cere-
bral congestion have been known at the
institution.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
NO SLEEP FOR THREE MONTHS.
One Cause of SleepIessneSs That Can
BE Readily overcome.

Mr. VIM. Handschu of 46th ST., Cotton
Alley Pittsburg, Pa, expresses himself
as follows regarding the new remedy for
that common and obstinate disease,
piles: Il take pleasure in stating that I
was so afflicted with piles that for three
months 1 got no regular sleep; L became
completely prostrated, the doctors did me
no good: my brother told me of the new
remedy for piles, the Pyramid Pile Cure;
1 purchased from my druggist three 50
cent boxes and they completely cured me.
1 am once more a my work and but for
this excellent medicine L should be on my
back. I take great pleasure in writing
this letter because so many people are
sufferers from this trouble who like my
self did not know where to look for a
permanent, reliable, safe cure.
Experience with the Pyramid Pile Cure
in the past three years has demonstrated
to the medical profession, as well as to
thousands of sufferers from piles, that it
is the safest and most effectual pile cure
ever offered to the public, containing no
opiates or poisons of any kind, painless
and convenient to handle, and being sold
by druggists at so cents and 81 per box, is
within the reach of every sufferer.
Very frequently two or three boxes
have made a complete cure of chronic
cases that had not yielded to other reme-
dies for years.
There is scarcely a disease more aggra-
waiting and obstinate to cure than the
various forms of piles and it is a common
practice to use ointments, salves and sim
liar preparations containing dangerous
poisons to remove the trouble. The Pyra-
mid has superseded all of these ineffect-
ual remedies and no one suffering with
any rectal trouble will make any mis-
take in giving the Pyramid a trial.
If in doubt as to the nature of your
trouble send to the Pyramid Drug Co,
Albion, Mich, for a valuable little book
on piles, describing all forms of the dis
ease and describing the method of cure.
Any druggist can furnish the Pyramid
Pile Cure as it is the best known and
most popular remedy for piles and if you
ask him he can doubtless refer you to
many people in your vicinity who have
| been cured completely by it.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

You may hunt the world over and
you will not find another medicine equal
to Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints.
1t is pleasant, safe and reliable. For
sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

The people of Kansas do not kick
on fast mails out of Kansas City but it
man TO do the work of a carrier pigeon.
Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

The Fourth of July was celebrated for
three successive days this year, and yet
the old American Eagle is but a trif1e
sore from Soaring.-Wichita STAR
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
BOYS AND THEIR WAYS.

TFrom the Wichita Eagle.l
The two most widely known names OF
presidents among boys are those OF
John Adams and John Quincy Adams.
In naming the presidents the average
boy will skip several after John Adams
in his anxiety to name John Quincy
Adams.
Every boy has a legend to the effect
that once a boy in his town was walk
ing on the joists of the garret of his
house and rammed his foot through
the plaster right into the parlor ceiling.
No actual evidence can be shown that
this thing ever took place.
It is a positive tenet of boys that the
yellow and green crackers in bunch of
squibs, make more noise than the red
ones.
1t is a mistake to think that most
boys want to grow up to be presidents.
They think that the loafer who can cut
a chain out of a wooden stick is a much
more valuable man than the president.
The youngster of today is so often told
by his father that they had cornstalk
f1ddles when "he was a boy and no
cornstalk fiddles ever appear, that the
boy puts his father down as a liar.
Boys hold that the clown in a circus
is the best SommerSault turner, trapeze
artist and bareback rider in the whole
would hurt himself.
A great deal of fun is made of boys
prodigiOus appetites but there never
was a boy who did not have to be call
ed to his meals repeatedly.
One of the greatest vexations of
boy is to have his father buy a phaeton
with lamps on the side which were
made so they cannot be opened and are
consequently never lighted.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
Weather Indications.

Chicago, July 10.-For Kansas: Fair
tonight and Sunday; cooler in east por-
ton tonight; northerly winds.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

You can tell a lot owned by a nom
resident same you can a widow-by
the weeds.-Ottawa Republican.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

Rev. Charles Nessley, a preacher, an
ex-judge, a pioneer, a printer, a re-
porter, a Populist statesman, and the
man who killed the last buffalo in Sedg-
wick county, was fined in Wichita Mon
day for raising the wind by unlawful
means. Recently the boys got Ness
ley statement of the various places he
lived in and the time spent in each
place, and found him to be 6S2 years
old.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

Every husband in the city would kick
on his wife taking the same privileges
that he does.-Arkansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

The most Indifferent bicyclist is cas-
lily a scorcher these days.-Ottawa Re
publican.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

The grass is so short in western Kan
sas that it is hard for some of next
years candidates to keep out of sight.
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

1t is well to give other people credit
for intentions at least as good as your
own till you find out otherwise.-Par-
sons Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

whats the matter?" yelled one
tramp to another who was running fit
to kill himself. Did you see bear?'
Bear nothing" gasped the running
man. q didn't see a bear. 1 saw a
armer.''-Wichita Eagle.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

A bride likes to go home soon after
marriage to see if all her old fellows
are mourning for her.-Arkansas City
Traveller.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
"EX" RAYS.

1t is not until a man reaches 80 that
he begins to wrap the small bills on the
outside of the roll.-Augusta Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

It is a positive tenet of boys that the
yellow and green crackers in a bunch of
squibs, make more noise than the red
ones.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

At this season of the year we always
make g. resolution to be Drawer in fac
ing the cold weather next winter.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

(F'rom the Atchison Globe)
Don't take advantage of every oppor-
Unity to find fault.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

North Pole explorers are always most
popular this time of year.-Marion Rec
nd
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

When a baby is sick all night, the
mother is sickly all day.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

It is all right to make boy look you
in the eyes in order to see if he is tell
ing the truth, but a better plan these
swimming days is to look at his back.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

1t is not difficult to be a model hus-
band: all a man need do is to be salts
fed with a glass of water and bread
and butter Tor breakfast, eat his dinner
down town, and be thankful for berries
and bread and butter for supper If
he can manage to eat his supper down
town also and save this much dish
washing he is not far from a pedestal.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

If you feel that you must give advice
become a lawyer or a doctor, and sell
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10


Don't take advantage of every oppor-
tunity to find fault.
When a baby is sick all night, the
mother is sickly all day.
If you feel that you must give advice
become a lawyer or doctor, and sell
it.
At this season of the year we always
make a resolution to be braver in fac
ing the cold weather next winter.
Tt is all right to make boy look you
in the eyes in order to see if he is tell
ing the truth, but a better plan these
swimming days is to look at his back.
Thirteen sit down to an Atchison ta-
BILE three times a day, and the only
one who shows any signs of bad luck
is the hostess and mother, who does all
the cooking.
There isn't any picture in the world
prettier than lot of harvesters at
work in a field on a hot summer day,
but you have to be standing off in the
cool shade yourself to get the proper
effect.
One of the stories told on an Atchi-
son man of forty is that thirty years
ago he attended a party in Atchison
and threw grape skins on the parlor
carpet. Though he was only ten years
of age at the time his crime is still re-
membered.
In order to harvest crash towels off
the ends of a pair of linen pants at
every washing they must be ironed up
and down. By ironing them around
and around, the pants stretch larger in
circumference, and grow shorter. The
Linine Suit club will shortly issue a
book on Linen Pants and their Treat
ment" for the benefit of crash towel
raiSers.
If a linen pair of pants will stretch
sufficiently after washing to permit a
linen skirt should do still better. There
is consequently no excuse for women
being poor: let them wear linen skirts,
wash them frequently and sell the in
crease for crash towels.
Il
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

A great deal of fun is made of boys
prodigious appetites but there never
was a boy who did not have to be call
ed to his meals repeatedly.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-10

Thirteen sit down to an Atchison ta-
BILE three times a day, and the only
one who shows any signs of bad luck
is the hostess and mother, who does all
the cooking.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

time by watching the flame as it gets
nearer and nearer the powder. When
it touches, goodbye to you. Ha! hal"
With fiendish laugh, he glided out
of the room, and the banging OF the
outer door a few seconds later told
me he was in the street, and l was left
face to face with certain death.
My brain reels as | recall the awful
time that followed. Slowly, but sure
ly the candle burned away, each flick
er of it's flame bringing me closer to
the fate 1 was powerless to avert. l
writhed and twisted at the cords
which bound me, until my veins were
nigh to bursting, but withOut avail
Call for help l could not, for the gag
that the wretch had placed over my
mouth rendered breathing itself a
matter of difficulty, and made shout
ing an impossibility.
Big beads of perspiration broke out
on my forehead as, more dead than
alive, l watched the receding light
Bit by bit the taper dwindled away,
until half an inch of wax separated
me from my doom. The events of
lifetime crowded into those last few
minutes, and transfXed me with hor-
rOr. Before me was reflected as in
mirror every scene in which | had
ever played a part for good or ILL
Each particular of my career stood
on the canvas, lined in distinctive
outline, and the record of an entire
existence was reflected with as much
fidelity as if they were the original
acts [ was witnessing. Engrossed, en-
chained, my mind seemed held by
some magnetic spell from which there
was no escaping.
Suddenly Pickering at one of the
windows arrested my attention, and,
like the drowning man who catches at
a straw, I looked toward it, half hop
ing to get rescue from thence. But it
was only moth fretting at the Win
dow pane, and, sick at heart, turned
my gaze away.
Yet, although at the moment l eX-
pected it not, it was from that insig-
nificant insect that deliverance came.
There was a fracture in the glass, and
through it the moth presently career
ed into the room. 1t flew aimlessly
about for "a few seconds, until, at
tracted by the Turing light it sped
toward the candle. Hesitating an in
slant, it made circle around the
burning wick, and then, with the mad
inpetuosity of dts species, dashed
headlOng into the flame. The fatuous
act cost the creature it's own life, but
saved mine, the impact completely eX-
tinguishing the light at a time when
it wanted but few more moments to
reach the powder and explode it!
This unexpected escape from what
looked like certain death had such an
effect upon my overweight nerves
that [ swooned right away, and when
consciousness returned to me daylight
was breaking into the room. With re-
newed strength | struggled at my
bonds, and at last the ring that held
them gave way, and [ fell exhausted
to the ground Somehow [ managed