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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-07
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'onun"fo run "'~, p"E--
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GisloCating greatly the mechanism 81 the t'e-
publican machine" along the line of the canals
rho -eason of this g thar few OF the CHIEF canal
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0'"''A'S eN''p' .''1' ,,..,, $1,000.
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,..s.. 80 1,,,hiio Works s,iu has charge ~
in'sndent OF Fu'"e WORKS sun has 'na,Se Of
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,c declines 20 Do so on the ground that Wheeler
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IS an en- NJ 'ana' ''h'er scattered along ne
l're 81 the canals are great many officers Ike
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'hE I'" N'9 ae' 1'""' 'ne 'e'e"'''H Cd ~
Wheeler said. AS long as Wheeler and other
r4ral officials Of that TYNE are retained the
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reformation Of the canal administration They
wfre Aldridges Neutenauts They were In
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,snal work where only one was needed Ger
.
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-~a5s as have stated before the people will
,,
believe that all has been done Tor me improve
-renf - The canal administrator which can NJ
done and I am free to say that I think the
people are considerably disappointed over the
foo..,.,- Administration because q its neglect
> take radical steps To lmpr"N" me ana.
80 .a-',ty ~ -6ion~r Partr,axe and Mr.
Hooker g. take charge q the canals. but other
changes we've needed es well IN the list OF rana.
0'a.s ,'aN-.s ' ever, 80 anal otli
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-07
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-07
JOHN y. PARTRIDGE
Superintendent Of Public Work
NLATGHLLN. HILL, TAN]fANY.
BROOKLYN LEADERS AIDS SAY THERE IS
80 ALLIANCE AGAINST THE TIGER

\ MAN Prominent n THE KINGS COUNTY DE-
Mo--RACy. HOWEVER, SAYS oTTERwIsE
AND INDIANS TIE QUESTION
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
Life Preservers on Wrong.
[From the Youths Companion
vivid ill11 ira tinr of the nnmar

From the Youths Companion.1
A vivid illustration of the power of
mere words over human beings is no
ted by a thoughtful French writer,
Francisque Sarcey. He says that after
the wreck of the steamship Bourgogne
many passengers were found floating,
life preservers were fastened upon the
bodies, but were fastened around the
belts instead of under the arms. and the
greater weight of the upper part of the
body had tipped the head under water,
and the person was infallibly drowned.
Now, the greater part of the persons
so drowned were French, and the French
term for life preSerVer is celnture de
sauVetage, or fe-Saving belt This
word ceinture suggests to the mind, in
it's moments of disorder and unreadinesS
such as a great catastrophe brings, the
idea of putting on a belt, and as a belt
is put around the waist and nowhere
else, the frightened person instinctiVely
adjusts the life preServer close about
the hips. The result is that as soon
the person so provided falls into the
water his body tips over, with the heav-
Ter portion downward, and the head is
plunged beneath the surface.
The word belt" therefore the French
writer insists, was the cause of the
loss of many lives in the BOurgogne dis
aster. Unfortunately, it was not the
cause of so many as the want of cOur-
age and chivalry on the part of the
crew. In the English language we have
no such confusing notion connected with
the word which describes the same OBJ
ject. Perhaps it is the word life pre-
server" that inclines US to put the ar
ticle on close under the armpits, so that
it holds the head of a floating person
out of water.
The French propose to counteract the
fatal effect of their own word by
naming the article and calling it a bras
siere which is a kind of waist, and by
bringing in the word bras, or arm, it is
expected to teach the people to put
life preserver on just under the arms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
INGERSOLL'S LATEST.
(From the New York Journal.)

(F'rom the New York Journal)
Robert G. Ingersolrs speaking in glow
ing language of the beauties of the Chris
tian belief was the feature of his lecture
at the Academy of Music last evening. In
sentence after sentence, rounded with all
his oratorical skill, he pictured the joy
and bliss possible to the Christian believer,
but closed with the solemn regret that
to him there was more of untruth than of
truth in the Bible, and that he could not
What ecstasy he exclaimed. at would
6 be TO Know 6hdt t 9q 6 Ges aGd
for the children of men! To know that all
the tb Pa{ gate tho Of 5ne Dfn e
How the heart would thrill to know
that Christ was the conqueror of Ceath;
that the tomb became the door thai opens
on eternal life! To know this would change
Would be all that the heart could bear
Beyond this joy cannot 60"
had aiternated with laughter and ap-
piause. listened silent and, Impressed. and
declaration of unbelief with which he con-
Guided.
Devil and Mr.. Ingersoll announced that
a great many clergymen had recently been
tan World could not deny the existence of
the devil without denying the Bible, and
the devil was not a literal being, but
merely a personification Of evil In two
that the devil is the keystone of the
Take the devil from the scheme OF SAL
walton; from the atonement; from the dog
ma of eternal pain, and the foundation is
III. we say that the devil was a persona
f sav OF tb eT n9t Tee
ton of good? If the devils were only per-
caons aso ef Se angels lng Of the Bbe
were real angels, the devils were real
He Illustrated his points by, making quo
tat9n f a9d tne T 4e fnd
know where the devils, if there are any,
1--we was surprised i by the reply IN New
''Rev. DR.. Parkhurst denounees the
Apostles as worthless cravens," he said.
'T do not agree with him. 1 think they
were good men,
He paused a few moments, and then
them eyer tried to reform Jerusalem on
another ae burst Of 9iI iaughter TINS 'neS was
'All the fathers of the church believed
ant churches-all the leading Protestant
theologians from Luther to the President
levers in the devil If the devil does not
exist the Gospels are not inspired and
I'VE have no right to change or avoid
the meaning of the writers of the Bible
Tfmid preachers must not change what
the Biblical writers believed to be facts
1t was at the close of the lecture that
he surprised the AUDIENCE by. his encomi-
ums on the beauties of Christianity.
How beautiful, how enchanting death
W tPgam be- from Wh h aYS 9f g5e wo aud
how the heart would long for the touch
of his stilling hand! The grave would
mark the end of sorrow-the beginning of
1t was in a tone of eloquent sadness that
he concluded:
And yet it were better that all this
should be false than that all of the New
Testament were true. 1t is far better to
have no heaven than to have both heaven
and hell: better to have no God than both
God and devil: better to rest in eternal
sleep than to be angel and know that
the ones you love are suffering eternal
raair1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
SHOES AND SHORT SKIRTS.

[F'rom the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
The Rainy Day club hasn't done
great deal toward reforming the skirts
worn by women on rainy days, but it
has done a good turn to the shoemakers.
Women'S clubs that are worthy of the
name usually accomplish some good,
even if in a roundabout way, but just
why they accomplish the things furthest
removed from the fundamental purpose
of the club, before they correct the err
rOrS that they organize for the express
purpose of rectifying, is one of those
things which lend CLEAN of fun to
the otherwise solemn meetings of these
conscientious organizations. The
rainy day skirt is not a popular feature
of womans attire, except on the golf
links or on a bicycle; and on a rainy day
skirts unpOpularity. Notwithstanding
this aversion to wear a skirt-fOr the
sake of which dues are paid, officers
elected and speeches made-eVery rainy
day advocate feels in duty bound
to buy stout shoes or high boots. She
might find it in her heart to go forth
in the mud and the rain dragging her
long dress after her, but she could not
find a clause in her code of vanity that
with unsightly boots. So she lays in a
stock of becoming wet weather foot
gear, whether she intends to wear a
short skirt on every rainy day or only
on club meeting days, and the shoe
makers rejoice. The rainy day boot is
usually a stout, cork sOled, felt lined
affair, laced up the front and reaching
three inches higher than the ordinary
walking boot. 1t has a fiat heel and
the golf boot, but no relation to the BIZ
cycle boot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
HINDU RHETORIC.

from the st. Louis Post Dispatch
Hindu rhetoric is as gorgeous as the
rainbow.
A newspaper published in the vernac-
ular goes into raptures over the new
vicereine. "All the goddesses of the
Hindu pantheon must hide their heads
in the presence of Lady Curzon," says
this Oriental journalist. Her color is
like molten gold, it's whiteness having
assumed tinge of red in the warm eli
mate of this country. Her teeth are
like set of pearls, her waist is beau
tifully slender. Her raven treSSeS set
ting off her white complexion make her
like, we imagine, the Goddess Saraswa-
ii. Her neck is like the neck of a swan
and her voice resembles the voice of
cuckoo"
Just think of it! The lady is a Chi
cago girl, too-a true blue American,
Yet she looks like the Hindu goddess,
Sara Swat, and everybody knows that
Sara is the most beautiful goddess in
the pantheon of the Orient.
But even the goddess isn't so wonder
full as the rhetoric. 1t is almost as fine
as that of the sweet girl graduate. Ma
ture never made a Bird of Paradise so
brilliant. Nature hides her head when
the Hindu journalist feels the sweet in
fiuences of a Chicago girl and binds
them in such shining eloquence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
How It Feels to Be Hanged.

TFrom the Wide World Magazine
Richard Hicks, an old-tinne actor tells
of his narrow escape from being hanged
on the stage of the Queens theater.
Dublin. He was playing the part of
Achmet, a, particularly Villainous char
acter, who after a long career of crime
is to the general satisfaction of the au-
dience, captured by two British soldiers
and promptly hanged. zone night while
struggling with my captors the rope
slipped from my shoulders and knotted
itself around my neck, just as I was
being hauled up" says Mr.. Hicks. "Nev-
er shall I forget that awful moment. Di-
rectly felt the tug at my neck I gave
a convulsive kick and tried to shout
Stop but the word could not escape
from my twitching lips. I could only
make a gurgling noisei Frantically
kicked and struggled. Pain there was
none, strangely enough, beyond a chok-
ing, suffocating sensation, and I could
hear the tumultuous applause of the
audience, who were hugely entertained
with what they imagined was my real
istic acting. Then a horrible sensation,
like molten lead rushing down my
spine, pervaded my body and thought
my legs were bursting. L gave another
mighty struggle and stroVe-ah, how I
strove-to scream. I seemed to behold
a mighty rush of green water and my
ears were filled with the roar of a cata-
ract. I have dim recollection of see
ir9g a great crimson sun shining dimly
from behind the waterfall and l can re-
member falling indefinitely through
space. Two days afterward recovered
consciousness and then I suffered in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
Suicide IN German Schools.

IFrOm the Chicago Chronicle.1
During the ten years ending in 1896,
407 school children 1881 boys and 76 girls
in Prussia alone succumbed under the
strain of education and took their own
lives before they had arrived at the age
of fifteen. 1t is extremely significant
that without a single exception the chill
dren were pupils of elementary schools
and schools where training for a partic-
ular profession is given.
The German educational methods and
institutions are held up models, and
rightly so, to the other commercial ma
lions of the world. To them is undoubt-
edly due a large measure the CONNER
cial success which Germany has attain
eded. The question is, has this success
been attained by Sapping the heart
blood of the nation?
The sons of the sturdy victors of
Sedan and GraVelotte had stamina
enough to overcome education as their
statesmen prescribed. Whether the
present generation can stand it seems
to a foreign observer doubtful. The pale
faces and generally weakly-looking
bodies of the youth of Berlin, for ex-
ample q refer entirely to the working
clasSes), are not wholly accounted for
by town life.
In an article in the current number of
the German Imperial Gazette on ma
tional Economics it is stated that in
Prussia, out of a total population of
nearly 80, 900, 900, S,740, 900 heads of fam
lilies and persons with an independent
existence with their families, represent
ing nearly 20 per cent of the popuIation)
do not earn G45 Cs225) per annum.
This shows that the ordinary work
ingman is very poor, and as meat of all
kinds is terribly dear in Prussia. it is
evident that the pupils of elementary
schools can not, as rule, receive the
nourishment necessary to sustain them
during their hard school life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
CURES WITHOUT PAIN.
One of the Best Features of the New
Pile Cure.

The Pyramid Pile Cure cures all
forms of piles without one particle
of pain. This desira bic point is not OBJ
tained by the use of injurious opiates
which simply deaden and paralyze the
nerves of the parts and make matters
worse in the long run. But it is done
solely by its remarkable healing and
soothing effects.
And while it thus gives immediate re-
lief. at the same time the disease is not
merely checked, but a radical cure is
rapidly accomplished
And the point we want to make clear
is that all this is done without a par
tiCle of pain.
This fact is one great reason for the
popularity of the Pyanid Pile Cure and
constitutes one very great difference
between it and almost any other kind
of treatment for piles.
Every kind of surgical operation for
piles is excruciatingly painful besides
IN most cases is not to be compared
with the Pyramid Cure. neither in max
ing successful cures without pain nor in
cheapness and safety
The Pyamid Pile Cure has been be-
Tore the public so long, and it's merits
recognized by too many people to al
low 1t to be claSSed with the many
salves, suppositories, pills, etc, and you
run no risk in trying it, as is often the
case with untried preparations
If you are ever troubled with anv
form of piles or rectal disease do not
forget the Pyamid. Pile Cure Prepared
by the Pyramid Drug Co. of Marshall
Mich, and sold by druggists at so cents
per package.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
LIST OF CASUALTIES.
Cabled to Washington by General Otis
From Manila

Washington, March 9.-The following
cablegram has been received at the
war department:
Manila, March 9.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Casualties March near
pumping station:
KILLED.
First braska-Company B, Private
Roscoe W. Young; Company G, Guy C.
Walker.
WOUNDED.
First Nebraska-COmpany B, Capt.
Claude H. Augh, thigh, moderate; Pri-
waite Herbert Hedgel, neck, moderate.
Twentieth infantry-Company NJ, Pri-
vate Frank Young, arm, moderate;
Company II, John Curran, chest, lung,
severe
First Wyoming-Company F. Capt.
John D. O'Brien, forearm, moderate;
Company G, Private Joseph Spaeds,
pubes, severe: Engineer Maj. J. F. Bell,
thigh slight.
Near San Pedro Macatf: Wounded
First Wyoming, Company C, Musician
G. F. Small, knee. moderate; First
Washington, Company H, Private Sid
ney o. Dickinson, breast, slight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
A NEW ELMs HOTEL.
James Manning of the Kansas City
Ball Club May Invest at Ex-
celsior Springs

Kansas City March 9.-James Man
ming. the owner of the Kansas City
Blues baseball club, may become a
hotel proprietor. He is interested with
Postmaster Sam F. Scott and other
Kansas City parties in the erection of
an elegant hotel at Excelsior Springs,
to take the place of the Films, which
was burned something over a year ago.
1t is understood that the hotel PROPOSE
ton has no connection with the Blues,
but Mr. Manning stated yesterday that
he would probably keep his pitchers at
the springs for a time before the reg
ular season opens, though of course the
hotel Will not be in readiness for occu-
pancy before the time to play ball ar
rives Mr. Manning said that all the
details of the deal had not been ar
ranged. Postmaster Scott said that I'M
til the architects had completed the
plans the complete details would not
be divulged.
The hotel will contain 125 rooms and
will have elaborate bath house an
mex. The hotel will cost about $65, 600,
exclusive of furnishings. The total in
vestment will amount to something like
$50 600
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
1T WONT STOP.
Miss Natalie Schenck's Endless
Chain Has Raised
$4,000.

New York, March 9.-Miss Natalie
Schenck's endless chain is still as end
less as ever. Every Monday morning,
even now, the postman drops from forty
to fifty letters at the door, and on other
days in the week there are anywhere
from fifteen to twenty-five.
Miss Schenck's endless chain was
started last summer when the sick and
wounded began streaming home from
the Santiago campaign.
She thought it would be a worthy
charity to supply ice to them, and at the
time calculated that about $4,000 would
buy all the ice necessary.
So, in the enthusiasm of her idea,
Miss Schenck sat down and wrote four
letters, each one to a friend. She ask
ed them to send dime to her. and for
each one to write the same number of
letters to other friends.
They did so, and the next day the
dimes began coming. The endless letter
chain has brought in $25, OOO, all of which
has been turned over to the Red Cross.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
NEW CITY HALL.
Hutchinson Secures a Three Story
Building For Use of It's officials.

Hutchinson, March 9.-The deed for
the large three-story building on Sher-
man street west, which was recently
purchased by the city, arrived yester-
day. The building is now owned by
the town and as soon as arrangements
can be made will be converted into a
city hall, fire department headquarters,
etc. All of the city offices will be To-
Gated in the building.
The structure was a speculation of a
Mr.. Moore, and was built in 1887. Mr.
Moore's idea was to build a substantial
three-story business block to rent. The
materials used in it's construction were
the finest obtainable. When the build
ing was almost completed the owner
went to the wall and nothing more has
ever been done with it. 1t is not known
just what the building cost. Mr.. Moore
was able to get a first mortgage upon
it for $4,000 and later mortgages,
bringing the amount up to $40, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
BLACK RECORD OF DRINK.
Robert Ineersoll.l

III
IT am aware that there is prejudice
against the man who manufactures alco-
from the coiled and poisonous worms in
the distillery. until it empties into the jaws
Tnoraiizes Everybody y that touches it, from
its source to where it ends. do not pc
object without being prejudiced against
the liquor crime.
think of the wrecks on either bank of
the stream Of death of the SUICIDES OF the
ton, of the little children tugging at the
and despairing mothers, of wives asking
wrecked, the men gtruggling with imagginI-
thing; and when you think of the 1ails, the
iums, of the scaffolds upon either bank, I
tleman is prejudiced against the damned
down youth in its vigor, manhood in its
breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the dot
ing mother, extinguishes natural affection.
tachment, blights paternal hope brings
down mourning age in sorrow to the
1T produces weakness. not strength;
sickness. not health; death, not life; 1t
fathers, fiends: and ali of them paupers
and beggars. It feeds rheumatism, invites
cholera, imports peStilence and embraces
consumption. 1t covers the land with
idleness, misery and crime. 1t fills your
jails,, supplies your aImshouses and de-
mands your asylums. 1t engenders con-
trOVerSieS, fosters QuarrelS and cher1SheS
riots. 1t crowds your penitentiarieS, and
furnishes victims for. your scaffolds. 1t
is the life-blOOd of the gambler. the ele
ment of the burglar, the prop of the high
wayman, the support of the midnight in
cendiary.
1T countenances the liar, respects the
thief, esteems the blasphemer. 1t violates
obligation, REFERENCES fraud, and honors
infamy. 1t defames benevolence, hates
love. scorns virtue and ISLANDERS Innocence
1t inciteS the father to butcher his help
less offspring, helps the husband to muir
der his wife and the child to grind the
women, detests life, curses God, despises
heaven. 1t suborns witnesses nurses per-
jury. def1les the witness box and stains
''It degrades the citizen, debases the
legislature, dishonors statesmen and dis
honor; terror, not safety; despair not
hope; misery, not happiness; and with the
malevolence of a fiend it calmly surveys
it's frightful desolation and unsa tiated
havoc 1t poisons peace kills felicity,
ruins morals, blightS confidence, Stays rep
utations, and wipes out national honor:
then curses the world and laughs at its
ruin. 1t does all that, and more. It MUIR
ders the soul 1t is the sum of all viii
lainies, the father of all crimes, the mother
of all denominations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
A CLEVER TRICK
By Which Arms Are Supplied to the
Filipinos.

Cincinnati. March 9-Mr. NJ NJ. Shoe
maker of this city, author and traveller,
has just returned from a years tour in
Guiding. India and the. Philippines. He
Of January in and about Manila. where
he made study of the FilipinOs- He says
elf-sOvernment by the F'ilipinos would be
Impossible; that the natives would soon
relapse into savagery. They are, he said.
naturally a treacherOus, suspicious and
a no account race They need the iron
rule of good government to keep them at
all times within the bounds of civilization.
The half caste class in Manila. correspond
fng to the mulattO. are the most intelli-
gent. Speak king of how the insurgents
procure arms, Mr. Shoemaker says there
is a report in Hong Kong that firm in
Shanghai consisting, of five brothers. fur
nishes arms and escapes responsibility by
representing that each one is resident
of a different country. so that if one ma
tiOn objects the blame can be laid on
some other country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-09
SUGAR AT FORT SCOTT.
Boston Capital to Purchase and Run
the Beet Parkinson Plant

Fort Scott, March 9.-Chas. D. Steele.
interested in the Parkinson sugar plant
of this city is here and will make a
proposition to the business men of Fort
Scott. Mr.. Steele it seems, has investi-
gated the report made upon the plant
by the Illinois company's consulting en-
gineer, and is prepared to make adefinite
proposition.
Mr.. Gum says a beet sugar plant for
Fort Scott is an assured thing, and he
is feeling pretty good over the prospects
of selling the Parkinson plant to COM
pany that will make it a labor employ
ing and paying investment.