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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-04-07
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Tower. MINI. April ..
DEAR EDIToR:-Enclosed find a
pone. Hope you viii be able To give
it a good place on first page. Yours
truly etc.
By sending Us enough TO cover
freight charges. we will return the
''p0me" TO the sender. Life is TOO
short to fiji up column or more with
dlations on Tower weather THE
gentle zephyrs watt sweet fragrance
through the lanes and by ways. lead
ing our thoughts hedvenward, believ-
ing that the angelic chorus had
uncerked the scent bottle OF heavenly
odors." is all very well enough in
''pomes," but if the lanes and by
ways in Tower resemble those in this
city, the poetical ode should read:
The wind blew through the alleys
and waited sawdust, ashes and offal
into our faces leading our thoughts
scayengerward. believing some william
had opened the vent-holes of glue
factory or uncorked {; box of linn
burger"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT GREECE

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
It has a population Of 2,1S1 zOS.
No part of Greece is 40 miles from the
sea nor 10 from the hills.
About one-half of the population are
agriculturists and shepherds.
1t has an area of a, 977 square miles,
or trif1e over One-half that of Penn
sylvania.
The Greek flag is a white cross on a
blue ground-the Bavarian co1ors and
the Greek cross.
1t is more thickly populated than any
other country in Europe, with the ex-
ception of Sweden and Prussia.
It's present boundary limits were de-
termlned by arrangement between
Great Britain, France, Russia and Tur-
key, concluded at Constantinople on
July q, 1882.
Only about 10000 of the inhabitants
speak any language other than Greek,
and only about 1000 profess any reIig-
ion other than the orthodox.
The chief characteristics of the aver
age Greek are his inquisitiVeness, fond
ness for excitement, love of discussion,
desire for knowledge, an aptitude for
learning and aggressive patriotism.
The climate has two striking pecu-
Harities-the heat in summer and the
cold IN winter are far more intense
than those of any other country in the
world lying in the same latitude
The present king, George I, came to
the throne in 1868. in his 18th year.
He draws an income Of 100000 an
nually, including $4,000 from Great
Britain, France and Russia.
He is the son of the present king of
Denmark, Christian TX, and brother of
the Princess of Wales and the dowager
empress of Russia.
He married in 1867 the Grand Duchess
olga, eldest daughter of the grand I'M
Gle to the present emperor of Russia.
The king has a palace at Athens, built
by Ohio, at 81 cost of 81, 500, 600, and
summer residence at Corfu.
He shares the legislation with a sing
lie chamber, called the boule, the MEM
bers of which are elected by the people
every four years.
There are seven ministers of admin
istration, whose salary is 81, $50 a year
each.
1t has an excellent legal system, based
upon the old Roman law
It's regular standing army consists of
$3.50 Infantry, 3, 12O cavalry, SAP artil-
lery, 1850 engineers and transportation
men, 3.400 officers and men, making a
total OF 28.41O troops in the land forces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
INGALLS, GROWN GENTLER.

Crosse Field in Chicago Evening Post)
1t is impossible to read the calm and
dignifier reply of Sportink Editor In
gals to Bishop McCabe of Kansas with
out recognizing the mighty influence of
the press.
AS we recall Mr.. ingalls, savage at
tacl<s on President Cleveland ten years
ago. his fierce arraignment of the De-
mocracy and his bitter abuse of every
body not in his little charmed political
circle, il is difficult to realize that the
same man is now so gently reproaching
a bishop and an adversary. We firmly
believe that this wonderful transforrna-
ton has been accomplished purely by
association with newspaper men, whose
equability of temperament and dispas-
siOnate survey of things mundane are
known to all students of psychological
conditions.
Although we were not affected to
tears by Mr.. ingalls, defense, as clever
in its way as OthellO'S, we were greatly
moved by the evidences of regen Grafton
and we submit that the newspaper pro-
fesSion of the rarefied air of Carson City
or the society of the gentlemen and Ia
dies who composed the visiting delega-
ton to Nevada has developed signs and
worked wonders. 1t is pleasant also to
note that Mr.. ingalls, again calamity
defends Mrs. Fitzs1mmOns from the
scurrilous attacks of the clergy and the
irresponsible laity and corrects the i'm
preston that she did not depOrt herself
in a manner becoming a perfect la
dy.'
We are very proud of the temperate
letter written by Sporting Editor In
gals, and consider it far and away
ahead of his report of the fight, which
was not written in his happiest vein. If
we had the honor to be Mr.. Ingalls,
managing editor, we would call him off
the road and put him at the head of
the Letters From the People depart
ment, for it is a great pity to waste so
good humOred and logical a man on
proSy descriptive details.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
PUBLIC BATH DEDICATED.
Formal Opening of Sanitary League
Established in Chicago.

Chicago, April 3.-One more link has
been added to the chain of free bath
houses which the Free Bath and San
itary league hopes to encircle the city
with in a few months. The doors of
the Martin B. Madden" bath were
opened at Thirty ninth street and
Wentworth avenue, and that handsome
institution was dedicated to the use of
the public. The actual opening of the
new bath house will be today, when it
will be put into practical operation I'M
der the superintendent, w. w. Sprague.
A score or more of the members OF
the league were present to witness the
croWning of their efforts The exer-
c1SeS began with an invocation by Rev.
t1avius 8robst, after which Mrs. Eliza
DeIh WlnSlOW Shipper, who presided IN
the absence of the president, DR.. Ger
trude Hall Wellington, made a few
general remarks upon the object of the
Free Bath and Sanitary league and its
method OF working. Mrs. Shipper pre-
sented Mrs. Lucy L. Flower, who had
for her subject Public Baths in the
Schools and Their Effects" 1t was an
alarming condition of things, Mrs.
Flower stated, when less than per
cent of the people who live in the tene-
ment districts of Chicago had an OPP
portunity for bathing.
1.-The results obtained in such of our
public schools as have been fitted up
with bathing facilities for the children
said Mrs. Flower, inspire me with the
hope that the city will soon extend the
facilities to every school. I believe
that the city can we'll afford to estab-
lish baths in the school houses, not for
the school children alone, but for the
use of the general public. All of the
schools have Easements and hot water
plants that can be easily and cheaply
converted into bathing places 1 do
not favor this extension as a charitable
project. for the iself-respect of poor peo-
pie can be best preserved by the charge
of a small fee. and the receipts would
be ample to meet the running ex-
penseS."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
NEW YORK MILLIoNA1RE ROW

From the New York World
A mirage of many millions CLEANS
over the row of Fifth avenue houses
extending from East Sixtieth street to
Seventy second street. It is a mirage
of billions, for the occupants of the
forty-four private residences and two
club houses between those streets rep
resent wealth amounting to $2,500, 00O,-
600.
1t is New Yorl's R1illionaires' row.
Park Lane is popularity called Mil
HOnaires' row of London. 1t is a street
about a half a mile in length connect
ing the west end of Piccadilly with
Oxford street and forming the eastern
boundary of Hyde park. There for
many years multi-milliOnaireS of Eng
land have sought sites for their resi-
dence with the result that many of
the finest palaces in London overlook
the green lawns and wooded knobs of
the city's greatest public playground.
There rises the massive pillard front
of Apsley house, the former residence
of the Duke of Wellington. Next to it
is the home of Baron ROthSchild, and
near by is the house occupied by the
Duke of Cambridge. Further up the
lane are Dorchester, Gloucester, HOl-
derness, GrOsvenOr and Dudley houses.
The milIiOnaires of New York are en-
ulating those of London in selecting
that section of Fifth avenue overlook
ing the great Central park as the loca-
ton for their palatia1 homes BY steady
degrees the fashionable district of the
city has moved northWard- At the
beginning of this century and long be-
fore it's homes bounded Battery park
on the north. 1t moved rapidly up
Broadway and fingered long about
washington Square, where few infiu-
entail families still remain in the now
old fashioned buildings.
Then the march up Fifth avenue was
begun, eliminating ten years ago or
so at Fifty-eighth street In the dis
trict between that and Fiftieth street
were and still are, the homes of many
families whose combined fortunes
amounted to two hundred millions, and
they made it worthy the name of Mil
Honaires' row. But the progress up
town. due to the encroachment of bust
ness continued and the new row be
tween Sixtieth and Seventy-se
streets has been created.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
10000 WE'RE KILLED.
A New Story of Calamity at the Cars
Coronation.

Milwaukee, Wis, April 3.-Theophile
F. Lawezynski, who says he is a ma
tive of Russian Poland, a graduate of
the Academy of Medicine of st. Peters
burg, and an ex-attache of that instt-
tuition, is a guest at a hotel in this
city. He says he was in st. Peters
burg during the coronation of the car,
and that instead of 1900 or Whereabouts
reported killed the number was be-
tween II 900 and 10000, and the number
injured between 10000 and $4,000. The
details of the calamity, he says, were
suppressed by the Russian government
officials
The massacre, or slaughter, Mr.. Law
eZynski says, was the result of a Mini
list plot The nihilists were RESPONSE
bic for the trenches that had been dug,
and into which SO many fell and were
crushed. Many were killed and in
jured he declares, by bombs that were
thrown during the height of the e1-
element. The occasion furnished the
nihilists a most opportune time, he
says, to carry out their awful work.
The nihilists, it was asserted after
the calamity were disappointed at the
i'll success of their scheme, which had
in view the bringing of the car and
czarina to the place, through the sym
Dathy that would be aroused in the
royal pair for the unfOrtunateS, when
bombs would again be used. The car
did not visit the place, as he was attend
ing a ball, and he and the czarina con-
tented themselves with sending express
sions of regret, though doubtless
warned by those high in authority to
A bsent themselves on the statement
that their lives would be endangered.
Mr. LaWezynski says there were few
private burials of the victims, and the
in trenches in the field where the &C
cident occurred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
MAYOR TODD TO MARRY.
Mayor of louisville Will Wed a st
Louis Belle.

of Mayor Todd of this city and Miss
Helen Durkee Of st. Louis has been an
nounced. The marriage will take place
during the latter part of this month.
Miss Durkee is said to be worth over
half a million, while Mayor Todd is a
well-to-do man. The engagement is
of several years standing.
Miss DurSee is a member of one of
the best St. Louis families and has
been quite a social belle for a number
of seasons. Mr.. Todd is 40 years of
age and a bachelor. He comes of good
old Puritan stock and before his cleo
ton to the mayors chair he was the
head of a wholesale iron company in
this city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03

tuberculosis, be eradicated from our
herds and finally from our homes.
hansen has a keen eye to the main
chance and sells interviews at a high
price. r. H. Sherard, a London newspa-
per man with a reputation, has brought
out this fact by libel suits against two
papers which charged him with fabricat-
ing an interview with Nansen which aD-
peared in the Strand Magazine with
number of pictures representing Nansen
at several periods of his life and scenes
in his explorations. Sherard went to
Christiana authorized to offer $500 for an
Interview, but Nansen wanted $3.50, and
Sherard returned without any Never
theless the NanSen number appeared as
advertised NanSen repudiared the IN
tervieW, and alleged that the pictures
were reproductions from Norwegian pub
LEGATIONS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
HARD TIMES IN INDIA.

LFrOm the Rocky Mountain News.]
James Seller, ship repairer and dock
builder of Singapore, was a guest Of the
Brown hotel yesterday on his way to
England after an absence of ten years
in India
Mr.. Seller talked most entertainingly
of the financial conditions of India, the
great famine and the habits of the ma
uves. Just as our vessel reached ia
pam said he, cit was spread aboard
that the parliament of the country had
adopted the gold basis. The people we
met on the shore were greatly surprised
as the change had been engineered so
quietly that business men were kept in
profound ignorance 1t was claimed
that the change had been brought
about by European influences and
against the wishes of the people Of
Japan. In India the closing of the
minis has wrought vast injury, but the
hnanciers are in favor of the gold
standard and the people are not strong
enough to restore silver to it's former
condition. The gold standard has ruin
ed thousands of business men and
many officers of English companies who
had counted upon returning to England
have been compelled to remain indefn-
itely at their stations. Many of them
have sent for their families in England
and the result will be that families will
live in India instead of enjoying the adj
vantages of life in the old country. Wo-
men find the climate of the tropical re-
giOn very trying and are able to stand
a residence of only three or four years.
Then they go to England and in the
past the husband has followed after
two or three years. The financial con-
ditions will cause a great change in
this respect as the agents are not able
now to maintain two establishments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
TO BRIDGE THE SEINE.
French Public Contracts Differ Wide.
ly From Our Own.

Paris, April 3.-Work has begun on
the new bridge over the Seine which
is to connect the two parts of the Paris
exposition of 1900, situated as they are
on opposite sides of the river
In this connection it is interesting to
note how contracts for public construc-
ton are awarded in France. In the
first place, plans are submitted, and,
after mature consideration, accepted by
the authorities With them the archi-
tect must submit carefully detailed and
specified estimates as to the cost of
construction, a certain percentage be-
ing always allowed for Unforeseen and
additional expenses.
Contractors are furnished with the
specifications and figures of the archi-
tect, and make their bids, not by offer
ing to do the work for a lump sum, but
by stating a percentage of rebate from
the estimate at which they will under
take to do the work according to the
specifications.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
FOR COLORED SCHOOLS.
Booker T. Washington Explains the
Needs of the Southern Negro.

Philadelphia, April 3.-Plans for the
elevation of the colored people of the
south were outlined to large audience
last night by Booker T. Washington,
who addressed a public meeting held
in furtherance of the education of the
race at the Friends Meeting house,
Twelfth street, above Chestnut. Alli-
son T. Morris presided and introduced
the speaker, who is a colored man and
interested in charging the work of an
Industrial school at Christiansburg, Va.
Mr. Washington pointed out that be-
cause his people in the south had failed
to put brain power and skill into their
work they are being driven out of pur-
suits formerly monopolized by them.
The industrial school, where hand and
mind are trained alike, and where the
colored people are taught to become
self-reliant and self-supporting, he held
to be the only solution of the problem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
DIR. DANA,s pRDANrRY.
rFrom the Philadelphia INQUIRER.

IFrom the Philadelphia. Inqu1rer.1
The New York Sun has a sondness
for what a popular writer calls attrib-
uting to the Individual the virtues and
ecomplishments of the masses 1t
likes to name the ten best short poems
six best American novels, or the score
of books best worth reading, and it has
just declared that the ten men who live
longest in American history are Wash
ington, Franklin, Jefferson, Monroe
Cooper, Lincoln, Grant, Seward, Full
ton and Morse.
Before protesting against all such
lists as forms of easy generalization.
tending to afford ready excuses for
slothfulness that is satisfied to have
great movements brought within the
limited range of the single mind of the
spectator, it may be said that the
names given ought to be very satisfac-
tory to the pride of the middle states.
The absence Of New Eng1anders is no
ticeable. Franklin and Fulton are
connected with Pennsylvania. Cooper
was a Jerseyman. Pennsylvania had
a share in the production of Lincoln
and Grant Washington, Jefferson and
Monroe were Virginians. Seward and
Morse are associated with New York.
But what assurance is there that as
America grows in greatness she will
not be associated with events that will
cast into the shade the civil war, and
even the revolution. The Suns list
assumes that American history has
been made and has only to be reWr1t-
ten. The two powerful countries of the
future, says Prof Cheney, are Russia
and America. If a country's future
depends upon its supply of barbarfc
blood as Brooks Adams SuppOseS, then
the destinies of the world may depend
upon Russia and the United States. In
which event the United States history
that has been written will pale into in
significance beside the history that is
vat ha
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
FROM AUBREY BEARDSLEY.
Sister of the English Artist Now in
Chicago Receives Letter.

Chicago, April 3-Miss Mabel Boards
ley. a sister of Aubrey BeardsIey, the
artist. who is at present playing an
engagement in this city with Richard
Mansfield, received a letter from her
brother yesterday. The letter was da-
ted in London March 10.
AS recent cable dispatches have left
his trends in the dark concerning Mr..
Beardsley's whereabouts and condition,
his sister is considerably relieved to
hear that he is improving in health, and
that he is probably now in Bournmouth
in southern England. In the letter he
announced his intention of going to
Bournmouth for two weeks and then
taking a trip to Paris. His mother is
with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
THE ANIMAL FLOODS.

The great foods which have extended
over the valley of the lower Mississippi
this year possess few really new fea-
lures. They are an every year occur
renee. being only a little worse than
usual this time.
The many millions of dollars which
has been expended by the government
for the protection of this portion of the
country seems to be of little avail when
the food comes. Year after year enough
property is destroyed, which if convert
ed into money and properly expended
might prevent a recurrence of such dis
asters. And this has been going on for
years and years.
1t would seem that sufficient expert
ence had been g1ined long ago to cause
the government engineers and con-
gress to devise some better means of
protection than they have done, but
they go right along building Ievees and
repairing those which are washed out
from year to year.
Their seem to be two principal diff
culties in the way of any adequate &C
ton in regard to the region subject
TO annual overflow. One is that the
system is all wrong and the other is
that even if it were right, there are so
many other undeserving localities
clamoring for a portion of the public
money that it is never possible to get a
sufficient sum at any one time to make
the work effective.
1t is but reasonable to expect that
after so many years of failures there
would be a change of programme, but
none is apparent or even in prospect.
The trouble with the lower Mississippi
country seems to be that it is too fat
the fall not being sufficient to carry
ity- This being the case the remedy is
clearly to give the Father of Waters a
swifter current, which would not only
carry away the water with greater
rapidity but act as a dredge in the
channel This can only be accomplish
ed in one way and that is by following
the system in use at the rivers mouth
and extending the jetties on up toward
the source until the danger point is
passed. These jetties while serving the
purpose indicated would also take the
place Of Ievees.
If all the money appropriated for
rivers and harbors throughout the
country for one year were devoted to
the one purpose of protecting the Mis-
stssippi country something permanent
and effective might be accomplished.
IL the government would adopt the
plan of doing one thing at a time, and
doing it right more would be accomp-
hshed and a saving of money be made
beside.
It would be a good time for the pres
ent congress to drop everything else in
the way of Improvement of rivers and
harbors and devote the sum which will
be appropriated for that purpose Who'll
~ to the Mississippi. Such an expend-
iture would give work to a large num-
Der of men who need it, and could be
done cheaply owing to the low price of
labor brought about by so many idle
persons.
It is surely time for the exercise of a
little horse sense in public matters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03
MUCH INJURED CALL1NGI
address by President Wholesale Liq-'
uOr Dea1erS)


uor Dea1erS.)
Gentlemen, thank you most sincere
ly for the great honor you have done
me. and can only show my appreciation
by doing all that lies in my power to
advance the interests of the associa-
ton.
There is no trade in the United States
that is so harrassed and attacked as
ours, and no trade which, through alb
solute want of organization, is so unable
to resist it.
We are constantly denounced by the
would be mOralist (the spurious reform
err as being in a covenant with the dew
il and in league with hell; and some OF
those occupying pulpits, forgetting the
great truths they should teach, have
laid down as the great desideratum
the prOhibitiOnism of Mohammed rath-
er than the liberty of Christ.
To all these we have merely present.
ed a negative form of opposition. I
think it Is time to carry the war into
Africa, to meet organization with or
ganization, and to use every legitimate
means in our power to make at least
Improbable the ways of our oppo-
IlentS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-03

Topeka had a big meeting last night
10 work up enthusiasm for the pro
posed auditorium. That is a little funny
isn't it? It would seem that every man
woman and child in Topeka ought to be-
heartily in favor of the proposition. A
building of that kind is an absolute ne
cessity to the city, and Topeka has al
ready lost more money by reason of
having no building fit for a public
gathering than it would take to build a
half dozen auditOriums. The people Of
Kansas want to go to Topeka to hold
all their state meetings, or most of
them. They will go there. too, if the
city provides a place for them to hold
their meetings and treats them decent
" when they visit the town. For q res
ident of Topeka to oppose the erection
of an auditorium is for him to write
himself down as opposed to the best in
terests Of himself, his neighbors and his
town. But strange as it may seem
there are some people of that kind still
living in the world.-Lawrence Journal.
The meeting the other night was held
to see that the auditorium proposition
was legally placed before the people.
There is no fear that the city IS not
practically unanimous for it.