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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

Gus, but wonderfully plant fabric, will
rest, as it were, in the hollow of his
hand. And that hand will need to be
a steady one, its every action ordered
by a Judgment as cool as it is master
full and quick, if disastrous mistakes
are to be averted. For If in a moment
of panic or hesitation or fear the
wrong command should be sent to the
engine-room or the wrong button
touched, it might mean, and would
most likely mean, the loss of the ship
and those aboard of her.
1t was one such fatal mistake as this,
a wrong order, or an order that was
misunderstood, that launched the Brit
ish warship Victoria with her crew of
half q thousand men swirling toward
the bottom of the deep. If such an &C
cident could occur in time of peace,
when there was nothing to quicken the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
WORKING FOR RATES.
Santa Fe Shopmen Anxious to Visit
Omaha.

The committees on the Santa Fe ex-
cursion are hard at work trying to
secure a rate to Omaha. The only
trouble they will probably experience
will be that of obtaining a rate to
Omaha from some ponit on the Santa Fee
where there is a connecting road that
can handle the excursion. The nearest
connecting places and probably the
best are Kansas City and St. Joe.
The custom of the Santa Fe for years
has been to allow the Santa Fe en-
ployes special rate to some point
once a year for their annual picnic.
These picnics or excursions have al
ways been run to some point on the
Santa Fe. The idea of going to Omaha
by way of some other line than the
Santa Fe is entirely different than any
arrangements heretofore made but the
committee has received such encour
agement that the opinion prevails that
a rate in proportion to the one generally
given by the Santa Fee will be made for
the excursionistS from either ST. Joe
or Kansas City. AS yet nothing def
mite has been announced and it may be
a week before the committee reaches
any conclusion. Probably no PROPOSE
ton has ever met with the favor of
the excursiOnists as has the proposed
trip to Omaha.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

From the coming tower will come
the order that will fire the first shot OF
send forth the first torpedo against the
foe. Then when the mighty storm of
battle breaks with its pent-up thunder
to ring forth across the water, from his
narrow cage, its rim of steel perhaps
ten inches thick surrounding and shell
tering him, he will order every move
ment governing the fight. The speaking
tubes will put him in control of every
important position where his men are
stationed. Steady hands at the an
nunciators will send his orders to the
engine-room. A touch on one of the
row of brass-topped buttons and he
will have command of the guns; the
pressure of a finger and they will be
aimed and discharged at his pleasure.
The delicate nerves of the great fight
ing machine will center there in the
brain of the ship. The whole ponder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

When one of these great modern
fighting machines, which we call ship
because it floats and because we lack
any other more definite or discriminate
ing name for it, goes into action with
decks cleared for battle and guns
manned for the impending contest of
skill and courage and strength; with
her sailors stripped to the waist, ready,
and waiting grimly and silently for the
signal that will precipitate death and
carnage; here fate. and the fate of all
those aboard of her, will be, in great
er measure perhaps than ever before in
the evolution of naval warfare, the care
and responsibility of one man.
More than ever before, perhaps, in all
the time that has interviewed since that
remote day when man first took to the
sea in ships, will the ability of the
man in command count for failure or
success as it is great or small, much
or little. More than ever before will
the demand for GOODNESS and judgment
be paramount There will need to be
steadier motive than that which the
fever heat of battle will inspire and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

THE BRAINS OF THE SHIP
Which the Commander the Coming Tower Is Sub
ected Who Gives Every Order and Controls Every Move
of the Great Floating Fighting Machine.
49, FgES ~ zsssss 80 ~ US -

the enemy. The shrouds have gone with
the masts and sails, literally by the
boards. His ship has become a modern
thing, an invention if you like, and he
will do his fighting in modern way,
and that will be, in part at least, by
telephone. He will stand in the coming
tower of his ship with his lips to a
speaking tube, or it may be with his
fngerresting on one of the row of brass
topped push buttons that line the walls
of his steel cage, and so direct the fight.
But these ingenious aids, push buttons,
speaking tubes and telephones, have in
creased his responsibilities, not lessened
them. It is true, he is more master of
the situation than ever before, but he
has more situation to master, his care
has broadened with the means to meet
that care.
touch of the finger and the electric
bells will communicate his commands
to the gunners, or give the orders for
some necessary maneuver of the ship
to gain an advantage in position-for the
coming struggle, the increasing or di-
minishing Of her speed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

part of officers and men alike, the lack
of which in time of actual war no
amount of courage could replace or
atone for.
The days of the cutlass and boarding
pike are gone forever from the annals
of the sea. Great guns and great
p-ojectiles have rendered our fore
fathers manner of fighting obsolete. 1t
Will never again be yard arm to yard
arm and gun muzzle to gun muzzle. The
captain will no longer lead his men
sword in hand over the enemy's side.
His sword might just as well be glued
fast in its scabbard, for any use be-
yond the purely ceremonial one that
it is ever likely to be to him, in time
of war, at least, for the spectacular has
departed almost entirely from his call
ing. Nor will he climb into the shrouds,
she better to observe the movement of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
FROM NEWTON.

Word has been received in this city
that Brakeman o. c. Bannister, who
was recently adjudged insane, and is at
present in an asylum at Osawatomie,
is getting along nicely and will ulti-
mately recover from his terrible aftiic-
ton.
Night Wiper Charles Teeters has
been transferred to Hutchinson and
Larry Burns will return to Newton.
The foundation for the rail mill is be-
ing rapidly pushed to completion, and
the new machinery is expected to ar
rive next week.
Engineer James Roddy has taken a
Is days leave of absence and will spend
his vacation in Chicago. John Ward
has charge of the 2S7 in the meantime.
Brakeman Will Bonner, while at
tempting to secure a hat which he saw
lying near the Santa Fe right of way
about ten days ago, severely sprained a
knee and has been unable for duty
since.
The Missouri Pacific last Saturday
ran II trains over the Mcpherson
branch through this city. This is the
largest number of trains run over the
branch in recent years. The trains were
mostly stock extras.
Bob Snyder,a former southend brake
man, was in town yesterday renewing
acquaintance. Bob is on his way to
the City of Mexico where he expects to
accept a position.
Miss Clara B. Tamplin, a daughter of
Engineer William Tanplin of this city,
was married recently to Edmund B.
Doan of Sterling. The ceremony took
place at the home farm near WherrY.
Assistant Storekeeper John Gorsuch
and Oil Superintendent Jack Mayber-
ry, are planning a feast for the near
future. John is to furnish the straw
an opportunity to milk the old colored
lady's cow again, will produce the
cream. It is to be strictly private and
no invitations have. been issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

pulse or disturb the GOODNESS of judg-
ment of the man in the connin g-tower
what will the chances for similar mis-
takes and accidents be when the ship
is the center of a titanic conflict, when
her decks are black with SCOT and
smoke, or perhaps shrouded thick with
the escaping steam from her crippled
engines; when they reek wet of blood;
when the great projectiles are crashing
against her side, while the hail from
the gatlings in the enemy's tops rake
back and forth across her length; when
there is the revibrating thunders of
steel on steel and the rending and
spIntering of plates, and the air is
thick with flying bolts and rivets; OF,
perhaps, to add to the deadly peril of it
all, one of her super-heated guns will
burst to deal forth death and destruc-
ton to the men serving it.
It will require something more than
the possession of mere courage, or the
contempt and scorn of death and phys
ica1 suffering to stand cool and collect
ed in the midst of it all, scanning
through a narrow aperture in the steel
wall, the patch of sea and sky, against
which the heart of an angry, seething
cloud oflow-lying smoke, shot with fire
in its center, the ship of the enemy may
be seen. Nor will there be any partic-
ular safety for those in the brain of
the ship; that will offer no refuge for
fear. Any moment may bring annihila-
ton to the conning-tower and blot out
in a fleeing instant of time the lives
Of it's occupants. Bullets may stray
death dealing through its port holes, or
q shall OlnIuiT1r Mt tic cida
plode and blow it clear of the deck.
For while it is true that good armor
plate has been invented, it is also equal
ly true that mans inventive skill has
been at work to create projectile that
will pierce the best of armor plate, and
his labor has not been entirely in vain.
The fight of the Huascar with the Al
merante Cochrane off the coast of Boz
hvia in 1897 has only to be recalled to
give some idea of the danger that
threatens the conning-tower and its oc-
cupants. The conning-tower of the
Huascar became her commanders
tomb, for when Commander Aguerre
entered it after the fight was well on
in search of Admiral Grau, he stumbled
over his superior's dead body; near the
admiral was Lieut.. Ferre, his naval
aid, also dead. A shell had struck
the tewer-and Aguerre was in com
mand of the ship. He took his station
in the tower and when a little later
Lieut. Palacios entered he found
there three men lying prone and dead
upon the deck instead of two. He had
hardly given his first order when a bull
let from the rifle of a marine perched
in the enemy's top struck him in the
head, so that when Lieut.. Garezon
observing that no orders issued from
the brain of the ship, made his way
thither, he found there four dead men
instead of three.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Within Three Miles of
Blackwell.
Extension Reaches a Fertile
and Prosperous Country.
SOLDIERS RIDE FREE.
California Railroads Make Con-
cessiOns to Volunteers.
Chapter of Accidents to Kansas
Railroad Men.

The Hunnewen branch on the Santa
Fe is being extended south into the
territory and is now within three miles
of Blackwell, a small and prosperous
town twelve miles from the Kansas
line.
The town of Blackwell is one of the
most prosperous in Oklahoma and the
extension of the Hunnewell branch is
expected to add considerable to the
business of the Southern Kansas as
the wheat crop around Blackwell is
estimated at forty bushels to the acre
and it all goes to Kansas City for mar
ket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
TO BURN WEEDS.
Solomon City Young Men Invent a
Locomotive Attachment

Solomon City, Kan, June Wv. H.
Hutcher and N. B. Young have manu-
featured a model for a weed-killer to
be attached beneath locomotive, I'M
derneath the pilot. When attached to
the engine it breaks off the weeds, be-
tween and on both sides of the track
The machine is arranged so that it can
be made to work or not at the will of
the engineer and when an article is in
the way it will run over it without in
jury. 1t is the intention of the inven-
tors to have these machines attached
to the regular trains, and thus keep the
weeds down without the assistance of
the section men. The machine was ia
ken to Armstrong Wednesday for
trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
SEALED PROPOSALS.
Office of Board of Education.

Topeka, Kan, June l, 1898.
Sealed proposals will be received at this
office until o'clock p. M, June 18th, 1893,
on the following propositions
.First-Bids for five thousand single
desks, more or less, having all the latest
improvements of such desks.
Second-Bids for exchange of three
thousand double desks. more or less, now
owned by the board, for five thousand new
single desks, more or less
Samples of single desks must be exhibit;
bids must be F. o. b. Topeka.
Third-Bids for the purchase OF all dou-
BILE desks now owned by the board, three
thousand more or less.
Each bid must enclose certified led, cheek t9eS
of the city of Topeka, to be forfeited to
the board in case the successful I'LL bidaeP
fails to enter into contract and furnish q
satisfactory bond in the sum of one thous-
and dollars Isl, COO within three days or
the time of the awa1
The board reserves the right to reject
all bids. ~r,-rv,,,,,rr c,,,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
(First published in the Topeka State
Journal June 2, 1881
LOOK OUT FOB YOUR COWS.

On account of some complaints having
been made about animals being picketed
near walks and on parks, the following
is published:
ORDINANCE NO. 1858.
Sec. 1. 1t shall be unlawful for any per-
son to Craze or permit to be grazed any
horses mules or cattle, upon any puphc
street, public park or parkings OF any
public street, or to picket out or fasten
any animal upon any such public streets
or parks, or upon the premises ad1acenb
thereto, in such manner as to permit them
to go upon or across the public streets.
sidewalks or parkings of the streets or
the city, or upon any public park. of said
Sec. 2. Any person violating the pro-
visions of section one of this ORDINANCES
shall upon conviction. thereof be fined IN
any sum not exceeding five dollars TOE
the first offense and for any subsequent
offense by a sum not exceeding twenty
Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of the police
force of said city. whenever they see any
animal picketed or fastened so as to Craze
upon or across any street, sidewalk or
park of said city in violation of section
one of this ordinance to Immediately take
possession of said animal and place the
same in the city pound, and when the
owner is ascertained, to cause SAID owner
to be prosecuted for violation OF section
one of this Ordinanc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
MUNYON'S GUARANTEE.
Strong Assertions to just What
the Remedies VIII Do.

Munyon guarantees
that his Rheumatism
Cure will cure nearly
all cases Of rheuma-
tism in a few hours;
that his Dyspepsia Cure
will cure Indigestion and
all stomach troubles;
that his Kidney Cure
win cure 30 per cent.
of all cases Of kidney
trouble; that his Ca
tarrh Cure will cure
catarrh no matter how
long standing; that his
Headache Cure will cure
any kind of headache in
a few minutes; that
his Cold Cure will
quickly break IN auy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
PIXIES PEAK
And Other Distin ctive

And Other Distinctive Colorado
Scenes for the Car Windows.
Santa Fe trains carry you through
some of the most pleasing sections of
Colorado by daylight. Tickets to Pu-
eblo, Colorado Springs and Denver on
sale, June 5, and 6, 1898, at one fare,
plus $500 for the round trip. Good for
return June II to July 6, 1898. Details
on application to
W. c. CARNEY,
Agent A. T. & S. F. Ry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
2Os Finn Avenue, New York.

e-THE SALE OF a SOUL. By c. NJ. S. Mcclellan.
EIHE, COUSIN OF THE KING: By A s. Vanwestrun.
SIX MONTHS IN HADES By Clarice I. Clingham-
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zO-ANTHoNY KENT. BY Charles Stokes Wayne.
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SS-A MARTYR TO LOVE. By Joanna E. Wood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
GOOD TIMES HAVE COME.

You can afford to indulge yourself or your
family in the luxury of good weekly news
paper and a quarterly magazine of fiction.
You can get both of these publications with
almost a library of good novels for Sc per year..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

holding a1oof from the Southwestern
bureau agreement, pending a settle
ment of the seaboard rate question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

fern Of cold and through the entire list of
remedies At all druggists. Is cents vial.
If you need medical advice write Prof. Muuyon.
96o6 Arch ST.. PhiIa. 1t is absolutely Tree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
CFirst published in the Topeka State
Joruna1 May 80, 1881
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Sealed bids for constructing the diagonal
walks on the state house grounds and for
covering the present walks and drivewayS
upon said grounds, or so much thereof as
Trinidad lake asphalt or other asphalt of
equal quality, as per plans and specihca-
lions now on file in the office of the sec
rotary of state, will be received at my Of
flee UP to II o'clock noon, Saturday, June
49, 1898. The executive council reserves
the right to reject any all bids.
BY order of the executive council
w. E. BUSH,
(SeaD Secretary of State.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02

CFirst published in the Topeka State
journal June 1, 1889
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
Som ethinC Swell.

Those Stanhopes. See them at
WARNER & POTTER,
628 and $50 Quincy Street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-02
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONS.

s. E. SHELDON, NJ. D.,
Surgery an6 diseases of women. with
private hospital. Office No. 40 Kan. Ava
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-30
DUNMoRE.

The postoh'ce hours today will be as
follows: 100 to $50 a. m. 1915 to II .4J
a. m, and l2o to go =. IN.
The Grand Army Of tho Republic pa
rade win leave Dunmore corners at
$50 o'clock sharp. All the school chill
drln who desire to participate are re-
4uested to report on East DrinkCr
street where each one Of them win be
pr, sentCd with a flag. when the ceme-
terry is reached, the following program
will he followed: Roll cali of the dead,
J.. DcLacy, q. of d; G, A. II. mcmor-
ial service, conducted by T.. j. Mean
drew, commander: America" VI. T..
choir; prayer; Just Before the Pattle,
Mother" Arlington Double Quartette;
address Rev. A. J. NunCleft; COM
rudes responses; Sons Of Veterans me-
mortal services: salute for tho dead;
Lncoln's Gettysburg address; Dream
Sweetly Dream" choir; address. a. l..
Collins; Rest, Rest Thee in Peace"
choir; bCnediction; firing detail Lieu
! tenant y. $. Griffin camp, No. s, Sons
! Of Veterans; tapo, Major Andrew Al
/ len; committee, John B. Holiday, j.. T..
! Vert Chauncey Cole, John Chandler,
| All members Of the Independent hose
! company are requested to meet at their
! headquarters al - CLOCK Shtfp TO par
| ticipate in the Memorial Day parade.
Mrs, Y, +. Letchworth ami son of
| Chestnue street, have returned from a
visit with friends In Dundaff.
The following uncallcd fer letters re-
main i'm the postofice for the week end
ing May 2S, 1898; persons calling for
| them will please say "advcrtscd:" Nor
ton Beers, Charles CromC, \. Gillispie,
135 Drinker street George Jcinke, Mrs
X Larkin, Mss Emily Miller, NJ, Me-
| Hale, Miss Pridget McDermott. For
cign-P. w. Taylor, Miss Maggie Weld
ensalt, Larch street; I3rancc Di Pas
quale.
The funeral Of Arthur H. Jenkins oc-
CURED at the residence on Butler
street yesterday morning. Rev. w. F.
Gibbons Ofciated. lnterment was
made at Waymart
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-30
HosrON HAS EMPTY PEWs.
Figures show That There Are $4,000
Umaccupicd sittings.

Massachusetts,, and moro particular.
Boston has been regarded Tor man.
yaars us being Il great center or super
0uo,Is women Now il seems likely 10
achieve a reputation as the city OF an
abundance of church SittinES. rms -
Gathered from a report submitted at the
annual meeting Of the Boston CITY Mis-
sionary society. The statistics show tha'
the Protestant churches Of the city pro-
vide over $1,000 surplus sittlhSS lor the
Protestant population, even were theN "''
10 attend church at any one service, says
the New York Press.
These figures are the result OF careful
investigation made by the society IN
Nnycmber. when the attendance at the
various services on a given Sunday was
obtained BY an accurate count. Out ~
,fi. placcs Of worship count was made Ban
sci The aggregate attendance at tn
several services and meetings was Gi.5,+
An estimate Of those present at the ..
CHURCHES where no count was made
brings this figure up to lOS,&l3, Based on
tbc estimate of the seating capacity Of
Tho Protestant churches made I'm 1872, the
figures provo that il an the wOrshipvr.
of every description gathered I'm the
churches at one service the Churcrrs
would have only been two-thirds nllCd,
From the experience of the suporinty nd
cnt of tho society ne states that liL0o
may be regarded as the total available
attendance at any one church service
From this il may be seen that If the sun
| total Of an these who had attended al
| the services had gone to church at any
| one given service there would have beer
over 10000 empty seats.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-30
FIRE COMPANY MEETINGS.

In the houses of the three fire COM
panies of this side meetings were held
yesterday which were attended by
ladies who are to assist the fire boys
at their coming excursion and picnic.
The William Connell company had a
very enthusiastic meeting and the re-
ports of the committees in charge in
dicate that the excursion will be a
great success. Friday evening of this
week a general meeting of the citizens
of that vicinity will be held.
The Neptune Engine company is SAN
guine that the result of it's efforts will
be fruitful, and it is expected that a
large gathering will accompany the an
nual excursion to Lake Ariel.
Many of the ladies who will render
much assistance to the Century Hose
company at their picnic met in the par
lors of the company at o'clock Much
Of the preparatory work was attended
to. Another meeting will be held We'd
nesday evening.