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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
SECRETS THAT ARE SACRED.

OF the six men who have been tried
for being in contempt of the United
States senate, in refusing to answer
questions propounded to them by the
committee appointed TO investigate the
connection of the American Sugar Re
fining company with state and national
politics. but one was adiudged guilty.
Broker Chapman, who handled the in
vestments of senators l1 sugar stocks
Investments made ou the strength of
their knowledge of proposed changes in
the sugar tariff scha aule. refused to give
the names of his patrons For this he
WAS adjudged to be ian coGtempt and
sent to jail for 80 Gays.
The history of MS incarcera tion,-
which was little els than a farce-is
familiar to the public
Among those arraigned with Broker
Chapman were two newspaper CORES
pondents. Their offense was that they
refused to give the sources from which
they derived certain information given
TO the public in relation to these same
transactions of senators in sugar stocks.
However the cases of the sugar trust
officials and of the brokers may be re
Earded the acquittal of the newspaper
men will probably be received with
general satisfaction.
The public is so dependent upon the
press for truthful information about
what is taking place that it must re-
gard as a serious misfortune any inter
probation of the law which in any way
limits the newspapers in obtaining facts
concerning public characters, especially
the peoples servants.
IF newspaper men should tell all they
sznow and give the sources of their in
formation not man in any walk of
Bife would be safe. Editors and report
ers are the custOdians of more secrets
than all the diplomas on earth. The
writer who falls into the habit of be
Eraying condolences might as well with
draw from the profession. He is no
longer of any use as a newsgat herer.
A newspaper man is rarely known will
angly to betray a confidence or a trust.
In the current number of the Cosmo-
politan, T B. COnnery, once editor of
Ehe New York Herald relates some of
the inside history of the Garfield-Conk-
ling imbroglio, which if told 16 years
ago could easily have set the whole
country by the ears-what he was ask
ed to do by Conkliug; how the Herald
was induced to support the sena tor;
why the Herald's support was with
drawn; why Conkling quarreled with
Jay Gould and thousand other things
which he must have known and has not
told even in the magazine article. Such
things are as sacred to a newspaper
man as his religion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
A CLOUD PIERCER.
ture More Than 1000 Feet in
Height.

New York, June 23.-Wm. J. Frye an
architect of this city, has drawn plans
for tower to commemorate the con-
solidation of Greater New York The
proposed tower is to be 2,140 feet in
height, in all respects the most Won
derful structure in the world. The
Eiffel tower in Paris is 1874 feet in
height, or less than half the height
of the proposed observatory tower for
New York.
The tower is to be u sided and built
of steel. The lowest portion will be
800 feet in diameter and will be fanked
by four pavilion buildings, giving the
structure a base of 400 feet. The outer
walls will be of cement and wirecloth.
Internally the tower will be a labyrinth
of steel columns, girders, beams, plates
and other shapes in steel, no particle
of wood being used in construction or
finish.
Electric cars with reserved motor
power of compressed air will run spiral
ly around the 100 foot central area, max
ing a trip to the fifth floor from the top
about a two and a half mile ride.
From this point to the top visitors
will be conveyed in an elevator. The
proposed tower is to be built within the
next three years some where in Upper
New York, where there is a firm, rocky
foundation.
The promoter and protector of the
scheme, E. c. Townsend, is confident
the necessary funds will be forthcom-
ing for the enterprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
SAW KEELY,S MOTOR.
Big Railway Officials of New York
Fail to Understand It.

New York, June 23.-Some little inter
est has been reawakened in Keely' s
much talked of motor from the fact
that General Manager F'ransioH OF the
Manhattan Elevated railway and +. S.
Pearson, engineer of the Metropolitan
Traction company, expressed them
selves as astonished with what they
saw in Keely's workshop.
Pearson said today:
1T was interesting, but I did not go
down to investigator fact, was given
no chance to investigate. All there is
so far as can say, is that Mr.. Kelly
has a machine that he calls a motor,
another that he calls a transmitter and
a third that he terms a. compound dis
integra tor.
There is apparently little connection
between them, though he Joined them
together by wires before he set the ma
chine in motion. AfterWard he cut the
disintegratOr off.
All we saw was a wheel rotating
very slowly. The power developed by
the motor was not more than one two
hundredths of a horse power, I should
judge. Whatever machinery there was
was in brass ball about a foot in di-
ameter. We were not asked to look into
this and as 1 was there as a guest,
I did not think had any right to make
such request.
In explaining the motor, Mr. Kelly
said that through this transmitter the
polar and di-polar currents were caus-
ed to work in harmony. He went into
far as modern scientific terms are con-
cerned, though it may nave meant a
great deal to him. Although Mr.. Keely
struck me as being eminently honest
he threw a general air of mystery about
the exhibition.
He would climb up and sit on the
ball of the transmitter, or rather on the
brake, then touch some little prongs
that looked like tuning forks. They
would emit musical sound, and then
the pulley of the motor would begin to
move.
= L have no idea what caused it to
move. The machine is hung about with
tubes and gimcracks that seem to have
no earthly use. I think I could dupli-
cate everything that he did by cleo
tricity, yet there was no indication that
electricity or magnetism was used. 1t
may be that he discovered some new
force. I simply don't know, and so I
would not care to express any opinion
ON that.
Mr.. Kelly said that he expected to
have the machine in better shape in
two or three weeks, and asked us to-
come down again. think shall co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23

then finally $4,000 a year for third
term of five years, to get rid of this lit
tie enemy, or 81, SIS 600, in addition to
the large amount already expended. It
must either do this or abandon all its
orchards, its fruit and shade trees, and
leave t. state treeless.
Already a great deal of injury has
been done to the forest and the shade
trees in the towns, and the losses and
expenses run UP well in the millions. It
is a startling picture of the immense
losses that may result from a trif1ing
mista ke-for all this worry and trouble
and expense owe their origin to a piece
of carelessness of a distinguished scien-
fist, Mr.. TrOuvelOt. That gentleman
came to Massachusetts from Paris some
years ago, bringing with him number
of insect eggs, whose nature he desired
to study.
Among them were eggs of a gypsy
moth. There were lying on a piece of
paper on his desk when a breeze blew
the paper out doors. Prof. TrOuvelOt
realized the evil and was very much
disturbed over what he had done, and
told people Of the dangerous seed he
had planted, but they laughed at his
scientific alarm and the idea that a few
insect eggs could do them any serious
harm. For ten or Is years the people
of MedfOrd laughed over this story and
told the joke about the credulous sci
enlist who believed that a scrap of
paper would bring them injury and loss
1t was not until 1889 when the gypsy
moths began to be seen in great num-
bers around Medford, and they remen-
bered the professors warning. They
turned out by the thousands, and be
gan a vigorous warfare on the little
pest, out all in vain; and the next year,
in 1890, they threw up their hands, ad-
mitted that the task was too much for
them and appealed to the state to de-
clare war against this insect nuisance
and visitor.
It needed a rich state like Nassachu-
sets to carry on this war, and millions
full conclusion. That little scrap of pa
per which the breeze blew from Profess
sor TrouveIot's desk will cost the peo-
where between IS, 00O, 900 and 100000, 000-
1t is much the same story as our water
hyacinths, or that of many of the insNet
and other nuisances brought to this
country by scientist and planted here
nv accident
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
WOMAN'S SUPERIORITY.
Greatly Excels Her Male Rival for
Office Under Secretary Gage.

Washington, June 23.-Woman doesn't
always get the worst of it in the gov
eminent departments.
Miss Lillian Pike of Arkansas, a clerk
in the office of the coast and goedetic
survey, has just distinguished herself
by defeating the brightest young man
in the Office in a difficult mathematical
examination.
A few weeks ago Secretary Gage
needed an expert mathema tician to per-
form certain duties in the treasury.
A young man in the coast survey APP
piled for the place and SO did a young
woman from the same office. Secreta-
~ Gage asked the chief of the survey
to recommend one or the other of the
applicants, but he refused to do so on
the ground that both were equally pro-
ficient and capable. The secretary then
decided to examine the two clerks to
determine which should have the place.
The civil service commission was di-
rected to conduct the examination and
make it as difficult as possible. The
young man pulled through with a per-
centage of "a, but Miss Pike got a per-
centage of "a. She was accordingly
given the place.
An interesting feature of this case
is that the young woman had very few
influential friends, but the young man
knew several senators and congress-
men, and they all urged Secretary
Gage to give him the place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
TO wH1rEwAsH svENGALL

ltrOIn the Chicago Ir1Dune.I
Marie CoreIli, we all know, has given
Satan a spotless character-in fact, the
devil is the only real gentleman that
she has admitted into her novels. But
this is not altogether surprising in view
of the modern trend of demOniacal
apOlOgetics. People are not nearly as
particular as they used to be about re-
stricting his Satanic Majesty to a ward
robe of sober black. 1t is different,
though, when it comes to withdrawing
Svengali. We draw the line on seeing
the hypnOtizer of Trilby in angelic
robes with a harp in his hand.
Ostensibly on the principle of giving
the devil his due, Alfred Welch has
cOncocted an imaginary diary supposed
to have been kept by Svengai from the
day he left the shadow of the Ghetto
in his native village of POrlisz to the
fatal day when he expired in the midst
of the great concert that he was cauS-
ing Trilby to sing in. Mr.. WEIGH tries
to arouse sympathy for Svenga1 in his
jealousy of Little Billee, and seeks to
give him high motives by recording his
determination not to interfere if Tril-
bY's love for the artist was reciprocal
ed. The apOlogist seeks to portray
SVengaH as a poor, pinched, poverty
stricken Jew. working beyond his
strength and maintaining the dndest
of motives toward Trilby to the very
end. But, though the author fortifies
his position with extracts from Du
Maurier's novel. we cannot allow this
plea. Anybody who has once looked
into those terrible Svengah eyes will
know for a certainty that Mr.. WEIGH
has gotten hold of the wrong diary. We
utterly refuse to entertain a white
Svengali.
It is appalling to think what a state
we shall soon be in if something is not
done to stop these bold attempts to rob
us of all our villains and devils. Not
only is the arch fiend rapidly being rel
egated to the realm of myth, but all
the time-hOnOred villains of human
shape are being explained away. LOm-
brOso and his ilk are writing books to
prove that all criminals are merely ir-
responsible victims of atavism and en-
vironment. The first thing we know
the world will be swept clean of the
last willful sinner against whom one
can be comfortably and piously indig-
nant- The apOlogists of villainy are
reducing life to a dead level of mediocre
goodness.
Won't Anthony Comstock or some
body please start a movement to save
US from this desolation-say a sort of
Society for the Preservation of Vii
lains? And let the forces of the So
ciety be thrown at once about the
threatened character of Svengau.
Rather let US part with a thousand
goody-gOOdy heroes than abate one
shade from the bIackness of SvengaI
What's the good of having a world at
all if everything interesting is to be
explained away out of it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
1 CENT TAX ON PINEAPPLES
Ex- Mayor Swift of Chicago Wants
Them Taxed at That Rate.

Washington, June 23.-Ex-Mayor Geo.
B. Swift of Chicago has come to Wash
ingtOn to ask congress to put a duty of
1 cent on every pineapple that is
represents his interests and the inter-
ests of several other pineapple growers
on the Indian river, in Florida. They
do not fear the competition of the inn
ported pineapples, but the effect that
they have on the market.
"A man who has eaten none but i'm
ported pineappleS," said Mr.. Swift to-
day, doesn't know what a pineapple
is. In order to get their fruit on the
market here before it decays the grow
ers in Central America, the Bahamas
and Cuba pick them green and let them
Tipen in the era teS.r The result is that
you have a woody, fibrous pineapple
wi hOut taste, instead of a soft, sweet and
apples that is eaten tends to discourage
the man who eats it, and he doesn't
buy pineapples again.
THE truth is that a well-ripened,
fresh pineapple is one of the most de-
liciOus fruits in the world but the
northern people have formed their ideas
of the fruit from the imported product
and thereafter the pineapple is not a
good seller.
Before the Cuban war" Mr. Swift
added, $3.50, 900 barrels of pineapples
were imported from Cuba to the United
States, but the importa lions this year
viii probably not exceed 100000 bar
rels. We usually get about 20 cargOes
of 10000 each from the Bahamas.
The present duty on pineapples is an
advalOrem tax of 20 per cent. The car
goes are underValued, of course, and
the government loses much revenue
that it ought to get. For instance, last
year the revenue from pineappleS i'm
ported was about S66000 whereas it
would have been $4,000 if the pineap-
pies had been taxed at cent apiece"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
FLAT JEWELLERS AND NOISES.

TFrom the New York World
Utley Hare moved his family into a
fat in West Eightieth street, taking
sixteen months lease. For eight
months they endured nocturnal piano
playing, barking dogs, screeching cats
and squalling children. For eight
months they implored and denounced
their neighbors Then they departed
with battered nerves and shattered
health.
The owner of the fiat sued Hare on
the lease, and Judge O'GOrman of the
Eleventh district court decided last
Saturday that Hare must pay. The
Judge laid down these two principles
that are of Importance to all persons
who have nerves and live in flats in
this city:
l. The lease cannot be broken on ac-
count of noises, however intOlerable,
unless it contains q clause guarantee
ing protection against noise.
. Flat jewellers cannot expect, still
less demand, the quiet of a private res
idence.
If these principles are sound in law,
then it is even more necessary than
was generally thought that our laws on
the subject of nuisances shall be re-
vised to conform to modern conditions
and especially modern nerves. All
jewellers in cities are dependent one up
on another for comfort and repose
Flat jewellers are helplessIy interde-
pendent. And any fat dweller who
by making an unnecessary or untimely
noise disturbs those about him ought
to be filed with shame and contrition-
However, as it is a regularity of
nOise-malcers furiOusly to resent the
politest request that they restrain
themselves, there ought to be and must
be laws to punish them into outward
which they so brutally violate.
Down with the Se-makerSI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
LET TEEN TRY IT.

The Chicago Tribune talks about Mr..
Debs' Washington colony exactly like
the pro-slavery papers did about the
coIonists who started for Kansas in the
Sos to found a commonwealth in which
no man should be held in bondage"
The Tribune was then an advocate of
abolition of slavery, although a eau
tious and doubling one. How does it
know but that the Washington colo
nists may have discovered something
new and good in the possibilities of the
human racer There is no telling until
the experiment is tried. The Tribune
appears to have but one eye, and that
tn the back of its head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
AN INSECT WAR.

Prom the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.D
The legislature of Massachusetts I'D
propriated $3.50 coo a few days ago to
continue the campaign against the gyp-
Ey moth, which threatens to destroy all
Ehe trees in that state and leave it
''hOWing wilderness"
The state has spent a very large sum
already to get rid of this little insect
but il has been able only to keep down
its ravages, and it will have several
millions to pay before it can hope to
be free from the nuisance.
The battle began in 1890, when the
legislature created gypsy moth
commission to investigate the pest and
10 lnaugurate a campaign against it
It was thought that $4,000 would suf-
nee for the work. but this amount was
doubled a few weeks afterwards. then
increased to $1,000 a year, and finally
20 $3.50, 000
The commission declares that it will
cost $500, 600 a year for the next five
years. then 100000 for Eve years more,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23

When a doctor starts gossip. it is worth
listening to.
A wife has only one master. but a man
has two. after his daughter grows up.
If a man tries, and does the best he
can, everybody suggests that he do lot
of things he can't do.
We believe that a clever person could
start the SphynX to talking by looking
sympa thetically at her.
The woman who entertains the most is
the last one to be entertained. An Atch-
isOn woman who has averaged a guest to
one meal day for five years says she
has never been invited out in all that
time and had tibet day set"
AS people grow older they find that the
Sundays are not long enough to rest
them.
We were shocked today to hear new
ly married man say he liked bakers
bread.
We love the Lord Of course. but we Of
ten wonder what in the Sam Hill he finds
to love in US.
Usually when a man controls his tongue
he is so proud OF it that he feels con-
strained 10 tell afterwards what II Is
that makes him so proud.
Boys who make three-base hit should
not strut; in the course of a day they
meet many who don't know of the three
base hit, and their strutting is ridicu-
louS.
Whenever We have ar uncomfortable
prejudice against a girl, We can usual
" trace it to the fact that somewhere,
sometime, we saw a picture of her
showing her teeth.
An Atchison woman is going to the
women with a subscription paper ask
ing for money to enable her husband
to take a trip this summer. She says
he needs trip far more than their
ministers.
A man has been visiting in town for a
few weeks past-whO managed to create
the impression by his dress and his tastes
that he was a thoroughbred. He gave
himself dead away this morning by get
ting up and dressing before Z o'clock; a
thoroughbred never rises before II.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
WAITE NOT IN IT.
The Ex-Governor is Not in Sympathy
With the New Debs Movement.

Kansas City, Mo, June 23.-Ex- Gov.
Waite of Colorado is not connected with
the Social Democracy of America, the
successor of the A. r. u, of which Eu-
gene V. Debs is the head. He has been
stopping in Kansas City for a week or
so.
Il have nothing to do with organizing
cooperative communities, and 1 have
little use for them" he said. Il have
been in sympathy with Eugene V. Debs
in his fight in the A. r. U. for the rights
of labor, but [ was never and am not
now what is called a radical socialist,
by which I mean one who faVors the
ownership of property generally in the
community.
Z believe in the private ownership OF
the homestead, of personal property and
the public ownership of ty, such as
water, light and transportation. When
we get these perhaps we shall be ready
for other reforms. I have no conf
dence in either reform or prosperity I'M
der the rule of the Republican party or
the Democratic party, and none in the
POpulist party, though I favor Populist
principles; nor do I look to see this new
idea bring prosperity to its advocates.
No, I shall not be an officer of the So
cial Democracy. I shall have nothing
to do with it. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
MISS POLLARD IN LONDON.
Is Studying With the View of Engag-
ing in Literary Work.

lard. who was the plaintiff in the sem
sational suit against former Congress-
man w c. P. Breckenridge of Frank
fort, Ky, and who disappeared after
the trial. which resulted in a verdict in
her favor for $500 damages, has been
living quietly in London.
She is apparently in good circum-
stances, and IS understood to be study
ing with a view of engaging in literary
work.
She intends to make England her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23
FUNNYaRAPHs.

She-"What a little mouth your young
lady friend has! It doesn't look large
enough to hold her tongue" He-'It
doesn' It'd Bits.
His fdea-'Tsn't the Emperor of Ger
many the grandson of the Emperor Will
liam the First?'' Yes, but he thinks he is
the great grandson. Puck.
Flippant Cockney Ito countryman)-
Are there many fools in this part of the
world, my lad?' Yokel-''Not as knows
on. EUR. Why. dyer feel bit lonesome
like ?"-Tid Bits.
Mrs. AIulchahy-'And so your COW is
sick?" Mrs. Burke-''She is, and it
makes it hard for me-silf and the child
rem. We have no milk at all; I have to
sell it."-Boston Transcript.
Magistrate-''What made you steal the
jewels of that actress?'' BurgIar-'I saw
her in the theater and admired her art so
much I concluded to give her a chance
for free puff in the papers. -Fliegende
Batter.
And now" said the Cornfed PhiIoso-
pher, lis the time of year when the col
utters great Observation-Disclosures in fact,
that have been thought by the greatest
thinkers. ''-Indianapolis Journal.
Il understand their engagement has
been broken" YES. She says she was
deceived. He had only six century runs
to his credit. instead of 16, and, as she has
IA herself. he was clearly out of her
class. Chicago Post.
after my experience with Tom Reed"
said the Populist congressman, my wife
will have no terror for me-" But I
don't see the comparison" quoth his
friend. Then you don't know my wife
She never lets me get a word in edge
ways.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A Galveston (Tex.) firm recently re-
ceived the following letter: ct have read
so much about the MardI Gras that
would like for you to tell me where I can
get the seed, and if you think it is
good grass to feed cattle. Let me know
as soon as you can and oblige."
The Obdurate Boniface-"Seve dollars
for room and breakfast? Great Scott,
mani that is awfully steep. And awfully
high said the victim. Yes" admitted
the summer landlord, lit is so high and
steep that I don't see how can come
down. indianapolis Journal.
An Attack of Modesty-Great Editor
q think it would be a good idea to print
our circulation at the head Of our edi-
tOria1 page. What's the population of
this country? Business manager About
"A, OOO, co., Great Editor-''Weu. Wen not
claim a circulation over so. 100000. No use
being hosgish. New York Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-23

Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment gives
instant relief. Tt allays Inflammation
and heals. 1t is prompt in it's action
and positive in its effect. 1t is the
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Tubes. 75c. Geo. w. Stansfield, 632 Kan
sas avenue, and NIfller's Pharmacy, cor
ner Sixth and Topeka Avenue.