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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-19

Ed T Hackney, j. c. simmons.
It is reasonably certain that the above
men are fully pledged although several
of them would probably deny it if
they were asked today. There are sew
eral more fusiOnist members that are
looked on by the leaders of the move
ment for a special session. as being
favorable to caucus measures, but it is
not known whether their promises in
writing have been obtained.
Those who have had charge of the
arrangements for the pledges and the
session refuse to give out the names
of the ''pledgees'' and have contented
themselves with the assertion that there
are sixty-eight members promised.
There are one hundred and twenty
five mem bers of the house and it will
be necessary to have sixty-three votes
favorable to any measure to pass it.
There is considerable speculation as
to whether there are really siXty-eight
members of the house promised or not.
The above list contains only SiXty-fVe
and leaves out several prominent Popu-
lists, such as w. F. Brown of Pratt, who
was chairman of the house committee
on railroads last session. Browns pet
railroad measure was defeated and
PopuIist politicians do not think it safe
to count on him as giving support to
any measure proposed at this session.
Some other Populists not in the above
list have not been heard from and some,
it is rumoreG, have replied in such an
indefinite way as to make them uncer-
tain.
While the POpuHst leaders refuse to
confirm or deny any rumors, it is rea-
sonably certain that they will have over
twenty supporting votes in the senate,
as follows:
J. A. Stone elected to succeed W. A.
Harris), W. B. Crossan, J. N. Caldwell,
NJ. A. Householder, George Campbell,
w. H. Young, H. q. Jumper, ]. F. Brad
dock, w. f. Benson, J. Helmick, L. P.
King, A. G. Forney, L. D. LewelIing, J.
A. Reeser. Arson S. Cooke, w. B. Helm,
+. c. Field, A. J. Titus, A. H. Lupfer,
Levi Pritchard and Dan Hart. w. H.
Ryan's friends claim that he will be
with the majority, although it is known
that he answered the question as to
what his action would be by saying that
he would go into a caucus and support
it's decision, provided Governor Leedy
would agree not to veto railroad bill
when passed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-19

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The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05
Not All Selfishness.

1--WE read a good deal about the
hog, as he is called, on railway
trains" remarked an old traveller,
"but there is one thing that 1 have
noticed in my Journeys that seems to
me to deserve more attention than it
receives. That is the regard that
travellers show for the rights of others.
never go on trip that 1 fail to
notice it. 1t is the universal custom
to recognize the right of person to
seat if he or she has pre-empted it
by leaving a valise or other property
in it to indicate that it has been re-
served, so to speak. In all my ex-
perience l never saw any one seize
upon such piece of baggage and
eject it, and then sit down and oc-
cupy the seat. That seems to me to
be really remarkable. And then how
rarely does it happen that passen-
ger loses any baggage that he may
have left unguarded in seat. A
man may go into the smoking car
and remain an hour or more, and on
his return he will find the property
intact. At stations where there are
eating houses, passengers get out by
the score, reserving their seats with
bags, overcoats, books, magazines,
etc., and on coming back will find
everything undisturbed. What would
happen If a newcomer into car
should remove the traps from seat
and take possession of it? don't
know for l never saw case of that
kind, but / fancy that the public
opinion of the other passengers would
speedily make itself felt in an un-
mistakable manner. This regard for
Others rights is one of the character
istics of American travellers that
ought to be emphasized. have seen
specimens of the genus
hog and nobody can be more dis
gusted than l at the exhibition they
make; but over against them l like to
set the other quality of which I have
spoken. There is good deal of I'M
selflshness in the world after ALL
New York Tribune.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05
the second-story windows across the

the second-story windows across tn
court from his own.
He rose now, hearing the voice he ha
come to thrill at as the dearest music O.
earth, and folding his invalid cow
about his rather attenuated frame, tot
tered over to the window and threy
himself upon the broad window seat, t.
see her, trembling with emotion as mucl
as with weakness.
Oh. Viva, beautiful Princess of til,
Sea! Each time he looks he deems he
grown fairer, and his heart is less hi
| ownl
She was standing on the top step Of
an ancient sun-dial, careIessly dressed
In a long, filmy white role of many
iolds, with @angel sleeves" from which
her exquisite arms stretched forth, offer
| lag crumbs to cloud of sea- birds which
had followed her up from the shore;
| whittier 1T was evident she had gone for
her morning bath, for her hair streamed
over her dress In endless ripples, and her
appraised face was fresh and rosy, and
brin'ful of animation.
Old kenmore, standing below her on
the garden walk, leaning on his rake
with his broad bonnet In his hand, eyed
her with mixture of proud affection
ana uOgged resolution.
IL see no pitfall at my feet, Kenmore, !"
cried Viva, looking at him wonderingly;
"but have noticed that ever since you
came home you have not been like your
own old self What is vexine you, Ken
moro? Not /, hope?"
She tossed the last of her crumbs upon
the broad slab at her feet, and was in
stantly the center of fluttering, hust-
ling, white-winged cloud of birds, who
pecked and quarreled with each other
quite confdingly. Viva crossed her
soft warm arms upon the gray lichened
stone, and leaning there, showered all
the gentle beauty of her eyes upon her
old servant.
at is not my Lady Oolava that could
vex Kenmore, said he soemnly; @but
the weird that is laid upon her-that
will break his heart"
"Now, Kenmore!" she held ND her fin
ger with . laughing menace, al know
something supernatural is coming.
You're going to prophesy bad fortune
for me-"
God Forbid" exclaimed he, fervently.
San the doom will pass If ye will but
heed in time"
swell. speak, Oracle, listen"
Laugh an ye will. my lady, I'm your
own to laugh at-only heed the words
I'll make bold to speak" He sunk his
voice to more impressive key, and drew
himself up to more imposing attitude.
sits not for naught that I've lived for
eighty years within hearing OF the voices
Of the sea. There's many true word |
uttered by those who have hearkened to
the waves. 1t has been said that who |
ever saves a man from drowning, that |
nan will be his curse. IT'S an old law.
hat, my lady, but well known to be
rue one
Viva received this dark utterance with |
lstonishment. and dawning indignation.
no BE Continued
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05
Care Of an Invalid's Bed,

The care of an invalid's bed is ap-
parently very simple affair. But
every invalid knows that few except
professional nurses understand the
art of changing the sheets in such a
manner as to relieve rather than
weary the patient. An exchange
gives these directions, which are at
once simple and practical: after
placing your invalid on one side Of
the bed, begin at the opposite side
and roll the sheet its entire length in
a tight, straight roll, until it reaches
the side of the patient. The clean
sheet, which should be aired and
warmed, should now be put on and
carefully turned under the mattress.
the other half being also in a long
tight roll.
1T is easy to pass these two soft
rolls under the patients body by tax
ing first the top and then the bottom.
The work should be done very slowly
and without nervousness, else the
patient will be weary. The old sheet,
in its rolled form, is now slipped out
Of the bed, and the fresh one unrolled
and tucked in smooth and straight.
1t is good plan to secure it in place
with safety pins, which prevent an
noying wrinkles. The upper sheet is
put on in the same way except. of
course, 1t does not require the same
position. And the patient has nice,
fresh bed, and has not become ex-
hausted in the change. New York
Ledger,
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05
CHAPTER ".
THE TWO WARNINGS.


kenmore, tell you there's some
thing on your mind-yOu can't deceive
me. l read dissatisfaction In the very
back OF your neck assyOu bend there
stubbornly grubbing away among your
weeds. What's the matter, Kenmore?"
Eye hae eagle-e'en, Lady Oolava, an
they can gaze at the sun, but can they
see the pitfa!l that lies at your feet?"
Fair Viva was in her fower-garden,
watching the old Highlander as he raked
the beds In the early morning; and
Edgar Arden, lying In the stately guest
chamber above, with a square of the
lozenge-paned window aiar for the heal
Ing salt breeze, heard the colloquy, and
eagerly lent his ear to catch every sweet
infection of the malden's voice.
For his fever was passed, he was con-
valescing finely, and his secret was yet
his own. He had begged thcm to fetch
his mate to his bedside In his first lucid
moment that next morning, and LAZY
Dunraven having given orders that they
should be left alone, Edgar was able to
make such arrangements with the faith
full, incurious fellow, that when he and
his mate left Sleat-na- Vrecken for the
mainland In the first fishing boat they
SOutu udit, uOOOuy Iidu uedIu any OtQGr
name tor their young master than sCap-
tain Edgar" as they were won't to call
him among themselves. As kenmore
had never deigned to make any en-
quiries. concerning his employer while on
board the Mergauser, and his saturnine
air checked freedom of speech in his
presence. he had no knowledge of
Arden's identity with his revered Lord
Inchcape's heir; SO that upon his re-
covery he was quite unable to answer
Director Sircombe's searching questions
the too young and person
able stranger who had penetrated into
my lady's seclusion.
Edgar had not seen Viva in his room
since the first night. but he had grown
very familiar with her lovely voice as she
talked or sung In the old tower garden,
and had fed his eyes many. many times
upon her maiden form as she fitted to |
and fro among her flowers, or in the |
brood stone balconies that ran undev |
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05

The sultan Of Morocco has been Offer
Cd a bicycle as present, but the poor
monarch dare not accept 1t. At any
rate, his grand vizier, who is the power
behind the throne in Morocco, wouldn't
Let the sultan ride bike, because he
was afraid he would fall of and get
hurt, and the chances are that he
would have done 80.
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05
Double Daily Trains
Fast Time
Close Connections.

Through Pullman Palace Sleepsrs
between New Orleans and Memphis,
Kansas City, st. Louis and Chicago
without change, making direct connec.
tions with first-class lines to all points
The great steel bridge spanning the
Ohio river at Cairo completed, and ell
trains freight and passenger) now run
ming regularly over it, thu avoiding the
delays and annoyance incident to trsns-
fer By ferry boat
A. h. HANSON. Gen. Pas. Agt,
Chicago.
Two A. sooTr. p. ?. A., Memphis
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05

Christmas, but I found printed on a
little card Luncheon" and the menu
said "Consomm," which I supposed
meant soup, and ordered some. The
waiter thought I was sick and brought
me little beef tea in tea cup. I
ventured to taste it and couldn't tell
what it was, but twas the poorest APP
petizer ever tasted, and / showed it
aside. Consomm, consomm-nivernaise.
Consound the consomm, thought I.
"Got no soup today" said 1. He
pointed to the tea cup. I'm not
SICK" said I, ''bring me some spring
chicken" I was always fond of spring
chicken. When it came it was, I think,
part of two-year-old spring rooster,
fried in batter Ia my Maryland.
That's what the menu said, ga la my
Maryland. wish that Randall could
have been there to have seen that
parody on his grand old lyric poem
.The despot's heel is on thy shore,
My Maryland"
But called for coffee and it was
good and refreshed me. Then I went
round to Bukorsners and got my din
ner. No more luncheons and con-
somm for me. Luncheon is German
for small slice, slight repast be-
tween meals, and that was luncheon
where I lunched on Christmas day.
and it cost me 70 cents. asked for
a room few minutes to change my
shirt. 1t was little Sx10 and that
cost me rs cents more.-BILL ARP in
Atlanta Constitution.
1t Is not wen to let misguided spirit
Of compassion interfere with the proper
Of the hobo. In the great
Of cases the tramp is tramp
because he prefers tramping to work
Ing. Mendlcancy and theft are more
to him than labor. He must
be dealt with accordingly. The best
thing to do with the hobo Is to keep
him moving. If he is willing to work,
hat is different thing. II he won't
work he should be driven out Of town
md kent out
The new public library at Great Bar
dngton, Mass, was admirably equip
,ed with one exception-it had no BIZ
Die. An eminent jurist discovered this
and sent volume of the
to the librarian with q
slightly sarcastic note. But didn't all
the trouble arise from the fact that
there was no demand for the precious
Folume? Wasn't the fault the patrons
rather than the hbrarian's2
The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1898-03-05

Who could res st him? His eyes were
humid, his air was gentle and depress ID;
and nothing coull be more wistfully
sweet than the glance and the tone with
which he named them "children."
Mrs. Crecy, utterly unimpressed, how
ever, gave him the permission he sought
by an impatient wavo of the hand
at Is part Of the Japanese religion, !"
said Accrington, delighted with she op-
portunity of posing before all Stafford as
the deeply interesting friend of the pop-
ular Mrs. Crecy, "to believe that good
mans spirit passes in death into a rock
crystal, the comparative purity of which
depends upon the sanctity of the mans
life. Thus, when a saint dies, and his
body has been consumed flor they prac-
tice cremation), rock crystal, perfect
ly fiawless, is found in the ashes. That
crystal is the sanity soul The princi-
pal globe there is the cast-off soul OF the
illustrious Rim O, martyr and priest.
The smaller stones in the drawer are the
ghosts of now extinct house; they
were sold by the heir-at-law.
Loveday and Auberon were immensely
amused with this odd conceit, and made
several jests apropos of it.
Even the appearance of such amity
between her family and Colonel Ac-
crington was as vinegar to Mrs Crecy's
teeth Her frigid demeanor cost the
Colonel decided anxiety; what II she
should reject his gift in the presence. of
all these people?
aWhen saw that flawless star, !" con-
tinued he, indicating the ball in the
petrel's claws, amy homeslck fancy
went back to place where had seen
several pure spistts-to Stafford; and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-12
PURDUE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL
One of Largest Purely Technical
Schools in the Country.

The report of the trustees of Purdue Uni
versity was filed with Governor Mount yes
terday in compliance with the law. The
during the year ending June 80, 1898, was
750, classified as follows:
Graduates, 81; seniors. 49,; juniors, 1873:
pharmacy, 50; special classes of agriculture,
50; special 62.
The graduates during the past year num-
bered seven more than in 1897 and twenty
more than in 1885, The States and
countries represented by the students were:
Arkansas, British America, Colorado,
Maryland Massachusetts, Michigan.
Missouri Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey,
New York, Ohio, oregon, Pennsylvania,
west Virginia, Wisconsin. Japan, Ontario.
There was gain in attendance during the
past year of eghty-six over the previous
year. which. with one exception. is the larg-
est IN the history of the university. COM
parison of the catalogues of other institu-
lions shows that Purdue is one of the larg-
est of purely technical schools in the United
States. During the year large additions were
made 10 the mechanical department by the
gifts of apparatus by manufacturers. and
the purchase of new locomotives making
the plant without equal in the world. The
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
has not only expressed its approval of Pur-
dues system Of locomotive testing, but has
given description of the practice followed
at Purdue an important place in its code.
The two associations representing the
mechanical interests of American railways
have also, in various ways, made use Of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-12

facilities of the laboratory, and have
sought to sustain its work by financial and
other assistance. The American Railway
Master Mechanics Association has, for ex-
ample, on three occasions appointed COM
mittees to officially represent 1t at the lab
had special interest During the past year
the Master Car-builders' Association has de-
posted at Purdue a brake-shoe testing
plant valued at several thousand dollars.
which is to become part of the permanent
equipment of the laboratory. As the ma
chine is one which will lend itself to investi-
cations of great scientific value, and it
has no duplicate, its presence in the Purdue
laboratory is mark of real distinction
The expense of running the Institutional
side of Purdue is. according to the
it says: Taking the whole mum
Der of students enrolled, which is
admissible only as furnishing a basis of
comparison with other institutions we have
as the per capita expense of maintaining a
student at Purdue University $40. OF this
amount the State pays little moro than
one-half."
In dealing with the question of whether
or not education is conducted along eco
nomical lines in Indiana, the results being
taken into account, the report says: In
diana has spent, in twenty-four years, $3.50
900 towards the permanent equipment of
$6,000,0o0 in establishing one of its many
technical schools. and Germany has recently
expended So, 200, 600 in the erection and equip
ment of a chemical laboratory for one of
its technical schools, and that this labora-
tory forms but one department of that in
has established in all seventy high-grade
technical schools, we may have some con-
ception of the great effort she is making
for industrial supremacy"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-12
THE GOOD TEMPLARS.
Its FOrty-FOurth Annual Convention
Will BE Held To-day.

The Indiana Grand Lodge of the indie
pendent Order of Good Templars will hold
its forty-fourth annual convention in Red
Mems Hall to-day and tomorrow. About
one hundred delegates are expected from
the different lodges in the State. This secret
organization of temperance workers has
grown rapidly in the past year. The finan-
cial condition has improved so per cent. At
the present time there are about 1900 active
members in the State. The following is a
list of the officers:
Grand chief templar. J. B. Stanley, Lo-
gansport; grand counselor John c. Shank
lin, Cutler; grand vice templar. Mrs. Alice
M. Van Pelt, Shelbyville; grand secretary,
b. A. Harding. Shelbyville; grand treasurer,
Dr.. J. z. Powell, ,Logansport; grand sq-
perintendent juvenile temple. Mrs. M. S..
Henry, Southport; past grand chief templar,
l. S. Wade, Lafayette; gra - chaplain, T..
j. Legg, Logansport.
Reports of officers and lodges will take up
most of the time to-day. Tomorrow will
be devoted to the consideration of means
for spreading the work of Good Templary.
The executive committee has its headquar-
ters at the Virginia Hotel.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-12
WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS.
Convention of the Seventh District in
Session.

Mrs. Thomas Hanna, of Irvington, opened
the annual convention of the Woman's Re-
lief Corps of this district yesterday morn
ing at Showers Hall, on East Market street.
Mrs. Nettie Ransford, in an address. well
coined che two hundred women who were
present. The morning was taken up with
tine hearing Of reports of the corps of the
district. The reports had to do with detail
work Of the order and the progress that is
being made. Luncheon was served at the
hall at noon, and in the forenoon a secret
session was held, which, apparently, con-
sisted of much marching about with flags,
singing and recitations. Mrs. j. V. Hadley,
president, Mrs. Benjamin Thomas secre-
tary. and Mrs Alice Pike, treasurer of the
State Department of the order were pres
cnt. All three live at Danville. Mrs. Olive
Miller, of Brownsburg. was chosen pres
ident of the next convention. Last night a
campfire was held. Mrs. j. V. Hadley,
Daniel Brown, James A. Carnahan and
Rev. d. r. Lucas made short addresses. A
programme of music and recitationS filled
out the evening.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-12
WORMS in ALL THE FISH
RESULT OF POLLUTION OF WHITE
RIVER BY SEWAGE AND REFUSE.
Fish Commissioners Sweeney and DIR.
Hurry Discuss Problem of Saw
ing the Finny Tribe.

Fish Commissioner Sweeney had long
conference with Secretary J. N. Hurry, of
the State Board of Health, yesterday, con-
corning the pollution of the streams and the
problems of saving the fishes in them. DR..
Hurry maintained that any fish law would
be incomplete and vitality defective without
having in it a clause prohibiting the pollu-
ton of streams by cities and towns as well
as industries such as strawboard works
and the like There are now, according to
DIR. Hurry, two well-known sanitary meth
DDS for the disposal of sewage. One is to
use it on land as fertilizer and thus turn
it into profitable crops. Where, however,
lands cannot be obtained suitable for this
work, the method known as sand filtration
must be used. Either of these methods
obviate the throwing of fish-killing, health
destroying refuse into the streams
A bill is now being prepared for the con-
sideration of the Legislature in which the
fish commissioners will prepare the features
pertaining to the unlawful catching of fish
by dynamiting, SEEMING, etc., while the
Board of Health will draw up that portion
relating to the pollution of the water. In
drawing up the bill, however, the promoters
are confronted with grave obstacle. 1t is
otOR
cities and towns from dumping refuse into
the streams at once, and therefore, while
the law relating to the unlawful catching
of fish is to be made operative at once, that
portion relating to the stopping of the pollu-
ton of the streams is not intended to take
effect until five years after the passage of
the bill. The right of the Legislature to
pass such a bill wherein the time for the
beginning of the operation of law is fixed
al period after the Legislature itself is out
of office, has been questioned and passed on
adversely in the case of the franchise of the
City Railway Company, but it is the hope of
the promoters of the BILL that, as the pro-
visions of the bill require the building of
new sewerage systems in many of the
towns and cities, the law will be so con-
strued that this limit will be granted, as
any shorter period would make the plan
practically impossible of accomplishment in
many places where the bonded indebtedness
any further increase
So serious is the problem in the mind of
DIR. Hurry that he says a person who
really wishes to know why the State Board
of Health is so serious about having the
streams clean, has only to go to White
river. catch a fish, cut it open and see what
there is to see. Each and every one of
them is filled with worms said DIR. Hurry.
II don't mean by this, infinitesmal worms
or bacilli, but big squirming worms large
enough to see with the naked eye. Any one
who can be satisfied with such a condition of
affairs deserves to be examined for insan-
ity.'