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The advocate., 1897-10-27
Kansas Gleanings.


The Wichita Fair Association had a
balance Of $4,347.
A new addition to the city Of Topeka
has been plated.
improvements are being made in the
Topeka city prison.
Two men suicided at Clay Center in
one day last week
The State Bankers Association meets
at Wichita this week.
POpulist meetings are quite well at
tended for an off year.
The lola Register began the publica-
tlon OF a daily Monday.
Washington county claims the record
In the production Of corn this year.
A poor farm proposition will be voted
on in Rocks county at the regular cleo
tiOn.
Carpenters are at work finishing the
north and south entrances to the State
House.
Fx-R Representative Bucklin, Of Thomas
county, will go to the Klondike in the
spring.
The Graham Gem is reprinting Dan
Zercher's seventy-fve reasons why he Is
q POpulist
Albert Finger has sold half interest
In the Girard Independent News to Will
M. Goodwin.
II Populists are elected to the local
Offices the fight will be easier at the next
general election.
Owing to failing health, eXLeutenant
Governor Felt Is Offering to sell the
AtchisOn Champion.
This year the square to be marked on
the ballot is at the right Of the name.
Last year 1t was on the left.
The Salina Union, with its usual en-
terprlse, prints pictures Of the POpulist
candidates for local Offices in Its last
issue.
Doctor Allen, who preceded Bill Hig-
gins as Secretary Of State, has moved
from Wichita to his ranch in Kiowa
county
A bed of fossils has been discovered
on the COlvin ranch, near Oberlin. The
petrified bones of mammoth turtles pre-
dominate.
The story that Mr.. Fleharty would or
had resigned his position as executive
clerk to the Governor is denied by that
gentleman.
George w. Jackson Topeka COlored
deputy constable, has fallen heir to rs
acres of land in a growing suburb of
Annapolis, Md.
The Eldorado Advocate prints the pic
lures OF the POpulst candidates In It's
last issue. They look like men who could
safely be relied on.
II wholesale advertising on the part
Of the merchants in the local papers in
dlcates anything jewell must be a
very prosperous county
Salina is considering the advisability
Of buying the paper mill and converting
II into an electric light plant to be owned
and operated by the city.
Seth Low, who is one of the candidates
for Mayor of Greater New York, has
given $1OO to aid in repairing Trinity
Episcopal chapel at Lawrence.
The net earnings of the Santa Fe for
the year ending June 30 were $6OS3, ,OS5.
IG has 1S,459 employees, S27 locomotives,
SAC passenger cars and 23,957 freight
cars
1t is as essential that Populists be at
the polls off years as at the general cleo
tlOns. The local offices are powerful
weapon in the hands of the gold standard
party,
Representative Larimer (Rep), of
Shawnee county, is quoted by the Topeka
Journal as saying: Il do not believe a
Republican will be elected Governor
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He Shows in Them How He Hates the
FrenChmen.
States That He Will Not Leave
without Playing a Trick of His
Own on Them, and That He
Would Have a Hundred Thou
sand Frenchmen Killed With
; PIeasure-.Figaro" Will Main
tain That the Letters Are Gen.
uine.

PARIS, Nov 2S.-The Figaro
caused a sensation to-day in connection
with the Dreyfus affair by publishing
several letters purporting to have been
written by Comte Ferdinand Walsin
Esterhazy, who has been accused by NJ.
Scheurer- Kestner, one of the Vice
Presidents of the Senate, of being the
author of the unsigned letter which led
to the condemnation of Dreyfus. In
one of them, after expressing his inten-
tion to enter the Turkish service, Comte
Esterhazy is reported as saying:
Il shall not leave without having
played a trick of my own on those ami
able Frenchmen."
Other passages illustrating the char
acter of the letter as follows:
Our cowardly and ignorant great
chiefs will go once more to people Ger
man prisons"
Il should be perfectly happy if l were
told | was TO be killed tomorrow as a
Captain of Uhlans sabering French
men"
Il am capable of great things, or
crimes, if that could avenge me. l
would not harm a little dog, but l
would have a hundred thousand
Frenchmen killed with pleasure.
Comte Esterhazy proceeds to say that
''Frenchmen are not worthy of the car
tridges intended to kill them" and he
conjures up "a dream of festivity," in
the shape of the pillage of Paris by a
hundred thousand drunken soldiers.
Tomorrow the "Fiagro" will print
fac SMILES of the Esterhazy letters,
and will maintain that they are gem
nine
The record-union., 1897-11-29
SHARP EYES AsToNdsHED.
Even an Expert on the Chase for
Bargains May be Fooled.

Ralph Bernal, famous connoisseur.
was once in the Colnaghi establish
ment, and Mominic Colnaghj was look
ing over portfolio of old prints. Ther1
was a good copy of HogaTth's mid :
night Modern Conversation"
What do you want for that?" asked
Bernal
Three guineas," was the reply.
I'll take it," said the connoisseur.
Send it to you. Mr.. Bernal?"
NO, / will carry it home myself"
At glance the purchaser had read
that Modern had been spelled Mod
dern." and the additional I'd" made
all the difference. 1t was the rarest
of the Hogarth impressions, and for
this proof the British Museum had to
pay ISL
Dealers got frightened when Be1naI
entered their shops. The wife of a
Weli-known print seller was tending
shop when Bernal entered. AS he came
In he noticed that she was hastily put
tlng away something in an out -of-the-
way drawer. The instincts of the col
iector were instantly awakened.
what have you there, Mrs. Town ?'
be asked. Let me see it,
"Oh, no, sir; it is nothing you would
care about she replied.
Come, come said Bernal, 81 know
it is something good"
Whereupon the bashful lady dis
played to the eager eyes of the virtu-
oso pair of her husbands old socks,
which she had been assduously darn
ing when their inquisitive client en-
tered.-San Francisco Argonaut.
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SLOAN CAPTURED THEM.
English Owners Are Now Anxious
to Engage Him to Ride.

LONDON. Nov. 2S-The close of the
fat racing season sees Mornington Can
non at the head of the winning jock
eys. with 145 successes. Loates second
and Wood third.
The papers comment at length upon
the remarkable success of Tod Sloan
during the present month in England.
Sloan's victories for November num-
bered twenty in fifiy-eight mounts
The Daily Mail'' viii say to-mor-
row that Sloan intends to return To
England, and therefore left a good
impression at Manchester. 1t win add:
I'm the teeth of much hostile criticism
Sloan has conquered the English own
ers. Where formerly he found criti-
cism, he now finds people anxious 70
engage him. He has ridden for the
Prince of Wales. for that magnificent
judge of horesmanship. Captain Ber-
wycke. and for the Foxhall stable"
Other papers WIFI pay similar en-
coiniums with such captions as Great
Day for Sloan''
The record-union., 1897-11-29
ANTS AND FLIES.
A Naturalist Proves How They
Distribute Yeasts and Molds.

The part played by insects in the
distribution of minute vegetable organ
isns has been made the subject or an
interesting investigation by DR.. Anne
deo Berlese at the Portici Laboratory
for Agricultural Chemistry That they
do perform this task, often a very mis-
c'hievous one, has long been known,
but the professor as is shown in the
current number of Nature" has
proved that. for good or evil, they
are more active than had been hith-
erto ascertained. Ants were the sub
jects of his first experiments. He had
frequently detected the cells of two
alcoholic yeasts hidden in assures Of
the bark on the trunks of both fruit
and forest trees. These he suspected
to have been transported by the ants,
which were constantly travelling UP and
down the trunks, and it seemed likely
that flies might cooperate in the WORK.
First. he put the question TO the ants.
He collected a large number of a species
which is very common in vineyards
They were allowed access to punches
of grapes which had been carefully
sterilized, and afterward placed under
conditions that prevented the possi-
bility OF any introduction Of moldS or
yeastS from the outer air. The result,
in less than a fortnight was that all
the punches which the ants could visit
were abundantly infested with yeasts
and molds, while several others which
had been preserved, even for a much
longer time, in sterilized vessels from
which the ants were excluded, had
neither molds nor yeasts nor bacteria
on their surfaces.
DR. Berlese then turned his attention
TO the flies His methods of inquisi-
ton, we fear, would not be approved
| by those who share Corporal Toby $
view, and are merciful even to the
housefy and the bluebottle. In fact,
these torments of the human race must
have had decidedly bad time in the
laboratory. The first experiment, how
ever, was simple and humane. A num-
Der of bits of sterihzed meat We're set
out on a terrace, some of them covered
by wire gauZe, others accessible TO the
flies After two hours exposure to
them and thirteen to the air, yeasts
were found TO be much more abundant
in the former; indeed, DIR. Berlese esti
mates that the quantity Of yeasts con-
veyed by flies is about twenty-six times
as great as is brought by the air. Sim
liar experiments We're made with
grapes, and with similar results. The
next point to settle was the precise
way in which the transport was ef-
fected 1t was first aScertained that
ferrnents were often more frequent in
the bodies OF flies than on their legs
and feet; next, cells similar to those of
yeast were detected in their excreta 1t
remained then. to study the passage of
these cells through the digestive ap-
paratus of the insect. Common blue
bottles or meat flies We're selected for
this purpose, and a large number OF
experiments We're made on them; but
some other flies and cellar midges were
also tested.
1t was proved in all cases that when
the flies were fed with steriliZed ma
terial the excreta contained no yeasts,
but when they had a diet of pure
cultures of sundry yeasts the excreta
The record-union., 1897-11-29
Natives Of the Congo Free State We're
the Murderers.
"A Band of Dwarfs That Had Re-
to Dislodge Them, and Cut Off
the Legs and Arms of Burke
and Divided Them Up, Fighting
for the Remains.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 2S.--A startling
and horrible story Of the killing OF two
Washingtonians and the mutilation of
their bodies by the natives of the Congo
Free State has just been received here
in q letter to Leon Harmon Of this city
The men were members of a party
which, during November and Decem-
ber, 1894 and January, 1895, went from
this city to enlist in the Belgian army
for service in the Congo State. Those
erlisting Included Edward Thornton, a
commanding officer of national fencibles
employed in the War Department:
Lindsay Burke. Frank Bachelor
Harry r. Andrews, Harry Sparlin and a
MIR. Mellin or Mellen, who was at one
time a n-commissioned officer of the
United States army. All except Thorn
ton and Mellin were members of the
National Guard Of this district
The information received by MIR. Har-
mon is that MIR. Burke and party of %
natives who were sent out TO dislod2e a
band Of dwarfs who had revolted. were
ambushed and killed. An Arab who was
With the command, but was some dis
tance off at the time of the ambush
states that he knows Burke was dead
before the natives reached him and that
the most hideous looking little men
walked up and cut off Burkes head with
one blow with a knife The chief then
began to slice off his legs and arms
and to distribute them among his fol-
lowers. There We're so many of the
fiends that the pieces were very small
and before they had concluded there was
a free fight to see who could get the lit
tie remaining. In some manner the
dwarfs became alarmed and left the
place, one fellow carrying off Burke s
arm. The Arab saw the cause of their
alarm. as Windeve New Yorker, who
had command of another detachment OF
soldiers. sent out on the same errand,
arrived a few hours after the natives
left
Windeye gathered up the remains or
Burke and buried them. When he
learned the strength of the rebels he
hurried back to Michau and notified the
commander of the post.
The other Washingtonian who lost his
life was killed on March lst, when the
troops under command of Baron
Dhanis revolted near Kabanbarre ana
assassinated a number of officers or
their regiment, among them being Mel
lin. The body of Mellin was butchered
almost beyond recognition, his heart
having been cut out and burned.
Thornton is said to be in a ver-' pre-
carious condition at Basaka. A relief
expedition has been sent to his rescue
Gage. another American, is very sick
with the fever at Vangine. The killing
of Burke occurred in December, 1896.
The record-union., 1897-11-29
CITY OFFICIAL ADVERTISING.

Committee on Water Works may agree
upon, subject to the approval of the Board
of Trustees.
Section "A. No person shall use any city
water without first having secured per-
NIT so 10 do from the City Collector; nor
shall any person having a permit to use
city water supply any person or family
not having permit, or allow them to use
city water from his or her hydrant
Section 25/ Any person violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall. upon conviction thereof. be punish
ed by q fine of not less than $l5 nor more
than $25 and may be imprisoned in the
city prison until such fine is satisfied, at
the rate of 81 per day for each days i'm
priSOnment for such fine.
Section 26. All ordinances or parts of or
dinances in conflict with this ordinance
are hereby repealed
Section 27. This ordinance shall take ef-
feet on the 1st day of April, 1897.
Passed March /, 1897.
CHARLES E. LEONARD,
President of Board of Trustees.
Approved March 5. 1897
c. H HUBBARD. Mayor
The record-union., 1897-11-29
KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
Theorists Sometimes Shocked in
Sudden Emergencies.

Apropos of the question OF cruelty 10
animals, a correspondent sends this
story: Two men were walking along u
shady path in the woods OF Northern
New Hampshire recently. One of the
men owned a beautiful dos, and the
animal was bounding alons in advances
OF them. smiling here and there, and
looking frequently UP into the branches
of The tan oaks which lined the way.
The men We're conversing. Mr.. Hotch-
kiss was talking about his love for
al animated nature. His companion
agreed with him in that it was q down
right shame to Kill or abuse helpless
animals Of any description. The bark
ing Of the dog interrupted them. Air.
Hotehkiss spoke in vexed and angry
tone. and striding forward. he seized
a piece Of dead wood lying near, See
that dog worrying that poor SQUIRREL
said he "It makes me SO mad l could
kill the dog!"
This somehow reminds the Listener
Of q speculation into which ne was
once plunged by the conduct Of a fa-
vorite cat The cat, which was q SUI
perb black one; Wore about his neck /
collar 10 which the children had al
tached q. little dnkliug bell. One day.
in the garden, the Listener saw the cat
creeping up on a bird ip ii bush 10
prevent the tsnkling Of the bell from
warning the bird. the cat was creeping
with such slow and steady move
mert that the bell wes not shaken L
bit, and was perfectly silent. Ii WAS
an admirable performance. The bird
must have seen the cat. but acted rs
if charmed Then the Listener won
dered, Is it my duty, as i humane
person to make Il noise and scare
away that bird So that it shall not
be caught and eaten?" 1t occurred so
him that 1t might be inhumane to the
cat, after all the pains and skill ;n
yolyed in keeping that bell still. to in
terfere With his performance, 1t might
be a shock to the whole physical AMI
moral system to scare away the bird
at that moment one should beware
Of interference with the established
economy of nature.
And yet it could not be said that the
cat needed the bind. lie had abund-
auce Of food given him every day at
the house. His attack On the bird was
mere wanton destructior--a killing Cor
the fun OF it, no more justi1iable than
mems hunting II would be right tS
warn the bird. And yet who could
blame the cat for obeying his most es-
sential instinct? He had no moral re-
spousibility; his right to kill the bird
was derived from the organic law OF
nature This was true as to the cat;
but did his natural right relieve the
human observer from the obligation Of
humanity? Clearly, he was bound
But at this juncture the cat sprang
swiftly through the air-the bird fiut-
tered-too late! The cat mad it in his
jaws, and made off with it-Boston
Transcript.
The record-union., 1897-11-29
DIFFERENCES ADJUSTED.
Boots Will Run His String at
Oakland and Ingleside.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2S.-The
Williams Boots controversy has finally
been brought to a close and the diff
ferences satisfactorily adjusted between
Charles T. Boots, President of the Cali
fornia Owners and Breeders Pro-
tective Association, on the one side,
and Thomas H Williams, Jr, President
of the California Jockey Club of Oak
land, on the other
Boots assured Williams and Colonel
Dan Burns that he regretted the stand
he had taken, certain misunderstand-
ings had been made clear and mutual
explanations Of a satisfactory nature
followed. The Elmwood Stock Farm
horses, owned by Boots. will be here
after welcomed at the tracks at Oak
land and at Ingleside, and the horses
will go to the post as though no ill
feeling ever existed between their
owner and the racing association.
The record-union., 1897-11-29
The Dignity of a Gamin.

Miss Tneresa Vaughn, the actress,
has had in her employ a little negro
boy who ran errands and made himself
generally useful. Tony, for that is his
name. one day was walking down
Broadway near the Casino when he
saw stump OF a cigar fan on the
sidewalk i'll front Of the store of 4
prominent druggist. lie mad, a second
base slide for it. and when he had il
safely corraled beneath HIM he rolled
his eyes around the points of the COM
pass TO see if another gamin had also
seen the stump fall
Dat war III Cuba is making Havanas
skace, an you can't take no chances"
he remarked. as he brushed off the ash
and blew away The sand and dust from
the coveted stump. Going into the store
he said to the clerk: Boss. gimme a
match, please, sab"
Matches are not here to give away,
but to sell, said the clerk.
"Dey is, eh?"
That's what they are
Wen, how much is dey er box?"
"A rickel"
The Samin tilted the stump in one
corner of his mouth, held to the band
OF his pantaloons with one hand, ran
the other hand in his pocket and pulled
forth 9 nickel
Gimme box" and he laid down the
nickel
He got the box, struck a match. lit
the stump so well that it poured forth
volumes of smoke. and then handing
the box back to the clerk assumed a
look of intense severity and said:
Put dat box on de shelf and de mex
time gemmen comes in hyar and ak
you fer match you gin him one outen
my box. x."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The record-union., 1897-11-29

soon contained in great quantities the
yeasts that were in the food. These
cells also We're not dead. but living
If collected, they duly terminated ana
developed, though the rate of the pro-
cess and the abundance of the result
We're found to depend 10 a consider
able extent on the temperature main
tanned. Further experiments indicated
that the cells increased in number in
passing through the body of the fly,
and the general result of the Whole
series was TO demonstrate that ants
and certain flies play an important
part, not only in the distribution Gas
was already known, but also in the
preservation and multiplication, of al
coholic ferments. Insects, in fact, con-
tribute far more than atmospheric air
to the dissemination of yeasts, which
are conveyed internally rather than ex-
ternally. In some cases this distributing
agency may be exercised for good. but
We suspect it is far more often potent
for evil.-London Standard.
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The teams lined UP as follows:
HAD NO FALSE MODESTY.
The Colonel Used to be an Old
CampaigEer.

Yes, suh.' admitted the Colonel from
the South who has been enjoying the
health and beauty of the lake regions
for the summer, Il used to be a cam
paigner. / have no false modesty in
the match, sub. l reckon l was as good
a one as eveh took the stump in my
district, and it is famous fo' the cato y
that gave the Southern eloquence a
Worldwide reputation. sub / was
booked from the beginning TO the end of
the campaign, and ou' people wen just
as anxious to heah me as 1 was TO ad-
dress them.
But times have changed down theh.
Two yeahs ago / was assigned to my
usual service fo' the patty. / had the
finest line of Argument 1 had eveh pre-
pace my voice was cleah and strong
as church bell, and / was healthy as
a mountain lion, sub. l was prepa' Ell
TO su'pass myself.
My first meein' was in the pine
woods, the logs rolled to a cleah spot
and the platfo'm or rough lumbeh
urdeh an a'ch of green bows Nohin'
could have been finch O mo inspirin'
After | had sat theh fo' time the
committee looked at theh watches and
L reckoned they web gettin' anxious.
Where ah the ladies that always
occupy the front seats?'
Gu women have dropped out of
politics, said the Chairman
Il held my tempeh and said Too
bad the wind is in the wrong direction.
gentlemen. We can't get the odoh of
the ba becue, smokin' in the pits oveh
the hill theh.'
We have abandoned the ba'becue.
Colonel retorted the Chaman: it's a
little out of date, you know
I took one mo- look about me. Theh
Wasnt a watermelon in sight Not a
mountaineh was crowded up to the
plat or exhilaratin' himself with
mountain dew. Not gun was in sight
and not an Argument goin' on. Gentle
men,, said, this meetin' is dismissed
Inc glorious days of ou' political en-
thusaasm ah depa' ted You will never
heah me from the stump again. New
ehn'-Detroit Free Press.
The record-union., 1897-11-29

cEAuvTTF Nov. 2S.-JameS Wells,
xvaIl-knovn policeman of this city,
while acting as City Jailer tonight,
was cowardly murdered by Charles
Phillips. an ex-convict who was re-
leased from Jail at New Westminster,
B c. Phillips had been arrested on
suspicion of having been implicated IN
a recent burglary. and had been taken
To the City Jail in a patrol wagon.
When the wagon reached the jail ON
Ger Wells met it and told Phlllips 10
get down. Phillips responded by draw
ing a revolver and shooting Wells
through the body. He then ran across
the street Wells. mortally wounded
staggered to his feet and fired at Phil
lips. who returned the shot. Wells Tell
to the sidewalk, dead
Phillips then broke and ran, with
Officers Barber and Meredith in hot
pursuit Sheriff Meyer, who was pass
ing ON a street car, heard the SHOTS,
and seeing the crowd, alighted and took
a shot at the fleeing Phillips, who final
" took refuge under a building at the
corner of Fourth and Main streets
Chief of Police Reed ordered out the
entire police department, and the mouse
was surrounded Officers Meredith
and Barber with lantern craWled in
after Phillips. whom they saw sitting
under the rear end Of the building,
With his revolver in his hand. Mere
dith called out TO him to surrender.
Phillips drew his revolver TO fire, but
Meredith was too quick for him. Their
pistols rang out, and Phillips fell
wounded through the arm and leg. He
then surrendered When taken to Jail
he said that he did not intend to kill
Wells. but only to injure him. The
shooting caused an immense sensation.
Wells was very popular officer.
The record-union., 1897-11-29
ON THE ENGLISH COAST.
A Northwest Gale Does Great
Damage to the Shipping.

LONDON, Nov. "a heavy north
west gale, with terrific hail squalls, has
done much damage at Hollyhead and
near Liverpool. Many yachts and small
crafts have been sunk at their moor
ings. and some buildings have been in
jured.
AT Hollyhead tugs and lifeboat res
cued with great difficulty the crew of a
Nova Scotian bark, which was in dam
ger OF running on the rocks
The wreck Of Lord Nelson's old flag
ship. the Foudroyant, supposed to be
firmly embedded off Biackpool. has been
dashed TO pieces. The gale has been
general all along the English coast. but
only few casualties are reported from
the English Channel