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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-05

The first people to use the gas for
manufacturing purposes to any extent
were the canyons, family of Cor.
nishmen, who came to this country
fifty years ago and settled at Mineral
Point, Wis, where they have been
manufacturing zinc oxides ever since.
There were eleven children in the Or
iginal family, nine of them boys. All
married and raised large families,
who have generally followed the oe.
cuDati@n of their fathers, so that scat
tered over the country are now eighty
or more men named Lanyon engaged
in smelling zinc. You can find them
at Mineral Point, Wis, LaSalle and
Peru, ILL.,, Nevada, and Joplin, Mo,
and wherever there is zinc mine.
Most of the machinery and processes
now used in reducing zinc are the in
vention of the Lanyons, and wherev-
er they have gone they have been sue
cessful in that peculiar trade.
They built and are running the
smelters at lola and four cousins are
acting rs managers here. These are
said to be finest zinc smelters in the
world. The machinery is all new and
much of ii is OF recent invention,
while the natural gas, with its steady
flow, enables them to maintain a reg
ular temperature day after day with
out varying, which is necessary to
successful smelling. They have been
in operation only about two years.
The value of the product in 1897 was
ii ,220, $50 and in 1898 it was 81 ,339 SOS.
The falling Off last year was due to
the destruction of one of the largest
plants by fire, which has since been
rebuilt and enlarged, so that the pro.
duct for the current year will doubt
less exceed S2,OOO,OOO.
The first zinc smelter in Kansas
was established In 1873 at Weir City.
In 1893 the total product OF the State
had reached 22,Sl5 tons, and in 1898 it
was 33 ,443 tons, valued at S2,755, ,7O3.
The construction of the smelters at
lola practically stopped the importa-
tion of zinc and gave a surplus for ex-
port in competition with the mines of
Wales and Germany, for they added
81 per cent to the product of this
country.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-05

The zinc ore comes from a strip of
land about 100 miles long and 40 miles
wide in the southwestern corner of
Missouri and the southeastern corner
of Kansas, the cities of Joplin in the
former state and Galena in the latter,
being the mining centers. They dig
zinc very much as they do coal and
find 1t IN pockets or seams from 30 to
800 feet below the surface. 1t looks
like bituminous coal when it comes
from the ground, although it is of a
yellowish-brown color. There are
three kinds of ore-carbonates, which
are mixed with clay; silicste, which
is yellow, sparkling sand, and
resinous, or Jack" ore, which is hard
and flinty and comes like gold in
crystal quartz. 1t is first crushed
into powder aud then subjected to a
powerful and regular heat, which
consumes the foreign substances and
leaves the metal.
There is great boom in the zinc
just now, and the price has advanced
from S22 to $56 ton within the last
few months. The operators here ex-
pect to see it go to $50 before the end of
the month and remain there. The
advance is SAID to be due to the de-
mand both in this country and in
Europe, and not to any speculative
influence. Enormous quantities of
zinc are used nowadays in the manu-
acture of electrical supplies and for
galvanizing, and in anticipation of a
still further and permanent increase
the miners.and the smelters ere en-
arging their capacity of production.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-05-05

Prot. Grimsley, the state geologist
of Kansas, tells me that "the lola gas
occurs in porous sand rock, and
when the wells are drilled about
fifteen feet into it the pressure is so
great that 1t throws out the tools.
The gas is held in this rock by cap
OF hard shale from one to eight feet in
thickness. The total volume of the
twenty wells at present is about 1856,
OOO,OOO cubic feet day, but the most
of them are not used. The wells lie
about 40 feet above the sea level.
With regard to the duration of the
supply, he says, "there is very little
data, because of the newness of the
field, and the fact thai most of the
wells are shut in to prevent leakage
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
~BLONDINED DOG.

New Orleans Times-Democrat: Dur
iEG the occupation of Paris at the close
of the Franco-Prussian war;" said a vet
Urinary surgeon Of this city, 1.-The French
men used to catch the small white poodles
belonging to German officers and dip
their headquarters in blue dye and their
forcouarters in red, transforming them
into animated copies of the French flag.
greatly to the wrath and disgust OF their
The only other instance of dyed
dog Of which l have any personal knoWl-
cam under my observation Il few
weeks ago, when a lady brought me a
pet spaniel to treat for an liberated paw.
The little creature was a sort of taWny
fellow, quite different from any spaniel l
had ever seen, but when / came to exam
ire him CLOSELY l found that IL had been
'b,onGired.' His natural color was steel
gray, ard the fur at the roots showed II
Enthusiastically. The lady was an actress,
who was RAISING through here on ner way
to New York. and when she called for her
pet | Incidentally referred to the dyaing.
She laughed and admitted at once that
she had colCred the fur t o match a ia
v0rite costume. adding that she had been
assured by a doctor hat the process was
entirely harmless. AS far as I could see,
the dogs health was not affected. He
certainly looked very odd. and ! must adj
nit, rather pretty. When the blondlne
begins to wear off, however, he will be a
holy terror
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
SONG OF THE SHIRT WAIST.

Hank! the pipes Of Pan are pleading
like a sweetheart i~nterceding-in behalf
of lazy follow n~owadays-for the proud
and painted tulip-and the meek and
minted julip-are abloom again along the
arid ways!
Yes, it works a chaps kindergarten
he knows that natures Wooing-frOm the
uplands and the lowlands and the meres
-Whcn the noontide CLOVIS in splendor-
when the nights are soft and tender-and
the captivating shirt waist reappears!
When the liver pad is wilting-and the
lily pad is tilting-on the breeze bedim-
pied bosom of the pool-When the ripe
red rose comes pleasing-and thesripe red
nose stops s~neezing-and the little boys
play hockey from the school.
1t is lawful to be lazy-when each dear.
old-fashioned da~isy-bTeathes a message
from the fragrant yester years-When
the fields are sweet with clover-and (be
still, my-heart) moreover-When the airy,
fairy shirt waist reappears!
When the violet blossoms happy-on
the coatlet of the chappie-When we hus-
tie out the old mosquito bar-When the
tipsy bee holds wassail-in his honey
suckle castle-when the t~roubadour is
tuning his catarrh.
When that tired, transcendent feeling
Into every heart come stealing-sweet-
ly pensive, like a sunny maiden's tears
When the bird chOirs lift their voices
when, in short, all earth rejOices-and
the immemorial shirt waist r~eappears!-
Exchange
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

1 nave said more than once On u side
| of the Atlantic that this newspaper work
| bears to fiction and poetry the same re-
lation that photography bears to the
| original work of the artist. The writer OF
| news makes a picture of what exists and
of nothing else. She poses her subjects,
arranges her lights and. pushes the but
! ton. If she is faithful and intelligent in
| doing this she will at the same time Sc
cure most valuable art ideas. Mixing in
the living. breathing world, she will come
in contact with the raw material of the
novelist, the poet. the playwright. If
she ever tries constructive authorship,
this experience will give her sanity and
balance, as well as dramatic material, to
handle.
SO I would not hold that the advan-
tages of newspaper work are limited to
the immediate returns from such work.
AS for making a career in itself, for 20
a such work well done may Ead, IS
in my own case, to the management pr
a news department in which executlfe
ability. an altogether new faculty. vail
be tested: or it may lead to the control
of a critical department. IN which more or
less original writing will be possible.
The occupation of advertisement writ
ing is one that has attracted the actlvl-
ties of a few score OF women IN the
United States, and some of these have
achieved marked success. The big re-
tail advertisers in our larger cities APP
peal mostly to women buyers, and SONS
of them have found it profitable to have
their appeals cOlne from a Woman's pen,
but it is hardly necessary to treat of the
"ad' writer's here, because there are so
few of them altogether, and because most
Of them are not employed by the period
icals. but by the firm that advertises.
Several hundred women in the Uniped
States make a living by writing fiction.
poetry and essays for the Sunday edi-
tons of the dailies and for the maya
zines. Their average economic condition
is not so good as that of the women reg
u,arly employed as news gatherers, but a
number Of them have considerable in
comes. and some are we'll known as book
producers. I have been told that Miss
Mary E. Wilkins nets over 5000 a year
from her royalties and her current short
stories: how much from the former and
how much from the latter l have never
been informed. There may be a dozen
others who do as we'll. Mrs. Margaret
E.. Sangster. who is edito: Of Harper's
Bazaar. probably has the position in
journalism that is most coveted by all
that are held by women in America,
because of its relative dignity n Sc
curity. She is a poet of rare delicacy of
feeling and expression. and her name
was we'll known to the world of letters
long before the death of Miss Mary
left a vacancy at the head of the
Bazaar staff.
l am aware that T am only sketching
in outline the part that women are takins
in making the press of our country what
it is. ] feel sure that their contributions
to this work will be much larger ten
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01

years from now than they are at present.
daily newspapers are rapidly in
crGasing the number of women in their
employ, as a natural result of the social,
literary, musical, reform and philan-
thropical organizations in which women
are exclusively concerned as active par
t~icipants. Such organizations have to be
kept track of as a matter of news, and
1t has been discovered that women, as
reporters, find it much easier to keep
track of them than men. Executive ca
pacity will be developed among women
in almost exact ratio with the number of
women who get a chance to show that
they have it or have it not, precisely as
it is developed among men. l do not
think that in such ability women are nat
urally or necessarily inferior to men, but
their opportunities are likely to be fewer
for many years to come.
The wisdom of man is ever m
when not supplemented by the instinct
Of woman. In matters involving taste
and matters involving conscience, as
journalism does, the learning of a Glad
stone, the originality of an Edison, the
philosophy of a Spencer may well take
lessons from the spirituality of a Frances
Willard. or from the delicate, tactful
womanhood of a Lady Somerset or a
Countess Aberdeen. Yes, there was a
depth of meaning in the words chosen by
Britain's greatest laureate in contrasting
the allied powers behind the Arthurian
reign Of purity on earth:
And there I saw Mage Merlin. whose vast
wit
And hundred winters are but as the
hands
OF loyal vassals toiling for their liege.
And, near him, stood the Lady of the
Lake, -
Who knows a subtler magic than his
Clothed in white samite, mystic, won
derful,
She gave the king his huge cross-hilted
sword
| Whereby to drive the heather put: a
mist
OF incense curled about her, and her
face
| Well nigh was hidden in the minister
gloom;
But there was heard among the holy
hymns
A voice. as Of the waters, for she
dWells
Down in a deep. calm. whatsoever
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
AN AMERICAN WOMAN
IN ST. MARTINS HALL
SPEECH DELIVERED IN LONDON ON FRIDAY. JUNE 3d. BY CYNTHIA
MISSIONER ALDEN. ON WOMEN AS JOURNALISTS"

With a. whole bale of isms tied together
with rhyme.
The top of the hill he'll ne'er come nigh
reaching
Till he learns the distinction 'twixt sing
ing and preaching:
His Tyre has some chords that would ring
pretty well.
But he'd rather by half make a drum of
the shell,
And rattle away till he's old as Methusa-
lem
At the head of a march to the last New
Jc tsalem.
Nevertheless, Lowell came to be regard
ed as a great poet, after he had put a
muzzle on the energy of his youth and
arrived at a modus vivendi with the only
half-regenerated world. ARID l ppo
our women knights errant. like dear
Susan Is. Anthony. and Belva Lockwood.
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and
Mother" Stuart. might in time either
compromise with the world as Lowell
didn't. and then they could make their
sort of journalism profitable. as well as
dignitied and energetic.
Our public reads too widely to pay
much attention to the trend of editorials.
even IN strong established newspapers.
1t asks for the evidence, the facts. and
forms its own conclusions. For example,
80 N'N H'2t AS"N ~ ll1 4 vi
New York, a city second only to London
in population and commerce, there was
not a single consistent journalistic cham
pion of the regular democratic candidate.
who was finally elected and is at present
mayor.
Now, as to ONE who are employed
on newspapers. | may say that their in
comes run from SIS a week up to S10O. but
| SHOULD not be altogether frank if I were
to omit stating that the number who
make less than $40 a week IS far greater
than the number who make more. 1
think the disabilities under which women
labor in the daily newspaper field are
constitutional, and not to be renledied by
legislation or education of public senti-
ment. AS a reporter. I have invaded at
late hours sections corresponding to the
Nhitechapel district in London, the Fau-
bourg St. Antoine in Paris. the st. PAUL
section of Hamburg, or the Pots1amer
Niertel Of Berlin. and l judge from expe-
Renee that a woman of c~ommon-sense
not conspicuously dressed, has no more
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
han a man to fear from the people of

than a man to fear from the people of
the Sums.
In dealing with editors. l have never
found the slightest disposition to take
advantage of me as a woman, though |
often had to prove by my work what
would have been taken for granted in a
man similarly employed. ] noted that
male employees of the paper l worked for
We're uniformly courteous and consider
ate to women. But in our American
newspapers news is the first thing. The
aim is to present a truthful n at the
same time dramatic picture of what the
world has been doing for "a hours. 1t fol-
lows that a woman entering this field
must enter it as a reporter. The hours
of a reporter are irregular. A reporter
has no time that can be called her own.
She must be out in all sorts of weather,
and must meet all sorts Of people.
You will see at once that these condi-
tons are not at all tempting. But even
the disposition and the fixed determine
ton to meet them will avail little unless
the young woman aspirant really has
those qualities of mind and of temper
that go to make a man a good reporter.
She must see things as they happen, sup
plying by sane historic Imagination such
details as seem important only as back
ground. but investigating with stern con-
s~cientiousness every point that seems to
be a matter Of contest. She must have
an accurate memory. She must be able
to write in Lacedamonian style, and at
the same time arrange her story SO as to
bring out all its dramatic value. She
must be a good judge of human nature
to get the most out of those to whom she
| goes for news. She must sink her per-
sonality and leave affronts to an editor
to avenge.
| 1t is no extravaganza to declare that
not one woman in 100, 00e has these quail
ties, and there might be pretty nearly $50
good women reporters in the IS, 900. 900
| female portion of the United States if
children did not have to be allowed for,
and if all naturally qualified women
were compelled by fate to earn a living
| at so hard a calling.
| believe, as a matter Of fact. that
about 500 women are classed as reporters
| in tbs United States census. but not all of
them are really doing that sort of work,
and many are not doing 1t well. The
weakness of woman in this field is not
due in any degree to scholastic deficien-
cies. i body and in temperament. not
in mind. she finds herself at a disadvan-
tage.
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May shake the world, and when the sur
face rolls,
Hath power to walk the waters, like our
Lord!
WAS o

New York Tribune: The trials of an
artist are many n sore, but one encoun-
tered recently by a young New Yorker
who earns a scanty living with his pencil
and brush has its ludicrous side also.
Though his heart is true to art for arts
sake the eXigencies of REM, clothes and
food make necessary an occasional resort
to trick painting, at which he is clever:
and a liquor dealer who was about to
open a new and extensively decorated
saloon gave him an order for ''something
that will put the laugh on a fresh Gus
TONER Design, size. etc. were left
wholly to the artist; price not to exceed
SIS: acceptance subject to approval.
TIL artist cudgeled his brains for a
time, and then, procuring a small. rough
deal box. about IL inches long and six
inches wide, spread his canvas on the in
side of the bottom of it and painted there
on about a half pint Of broken peanut
shells and a handful of broken eanuts
He executed the work so we'll that when
the box, which had no cover, was set on
a table or bar and tiltedback against the
wall the temptation for a man fond of
peanuts 20 reach into the box for one
was almost Irresistible, and the artist
tried the trick upon some OF his own
friends with success before taking it to
the liquor dealer.
He asked $50 for it and felt that the
money was as good as in his pocket. but
to his intense disgust the man of spirits
would not accept it. and when pressed
fer his reason would give no satisfactory
explanation. A friend of the artist. who
had the confidence of the rumse!ler, un-
dertook to fird out.
"They We're too natural altogether"
said the art patron, land some of my GUS
toners who do not care for peanuts, see
ing the box standing AT the end of my
bar. night go away undeceived and think
/ was selling peanuts. That would never
do. Now, If it had been some rare tropi-
cal fruit, or even burnt almonds. that
might so, but peanuts, never; not in his
heightened place-they are too cheap
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
Railway Time Tables
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific HALLWAY
LOCAL TIME TABLE,

LOCAL TIME TABLE
Trains leave r A. & P. depot, Butte.
as lollows: 10 a. m. i:O5 p. m, 4:45 p. m.
1O:40 p. M.
Trains leave Union passenger station.
anaconda, as follows: $40 a. H., 12:4O.
q. M, 3 p. m, 1920 p. m.
Great Northern Trains Leave Anaconda:
S:4O a. m. Great Falls and Helena local.
via Butte.
1'2O p. NJ. Through train for all points
East and West.
Northern Pacific Trains Leave Anaconda:
l0:Ao a. m. Pacific Express for Portland
and al! points West.
100 p. m Copper City Limited. Mis-
soula ana Hamilton daily except Sun
day. ~ ~
S:35 p. m. Through train for all points
East and West.
Oregon Short Line Train Leaves Ana
conda
500 p. m. For all points East, West and
ricketts, for sale for all points, local and
tnrongh, on the Great Northern railway.
oregon Short Linz railroad and Northern
racine railway. and their connections.
Steamship tickets for sale to all points
IN europe via the above lines.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-01
A PLANT THAT ENPLODES.

A curious fruit has been discovered
growing wild in PataV.a. and a sample
has been sent to a French professor Of
botany in Paris. 1t appears to be q spe-
c;es of bean, resembling a cigar both in
form and color, though only about an
inch n length. But it has a peculiar char
acterist.c, Which renders it a unique and
interesting object. and this is the exceed
lG&ly energetic manner i'll which 1t scat
teys its seeds. If one of these little fruits
be thrown into a basin OF water it will
rest quietly on the surface for from two
to five minutes then it will explode with
violence, hurting most of its contents into
the air with a noise and smash FOR all
the world like that of q orp6do. 1t is
hardly necessary to say that this phe-
nonenon is caused by the pressure of the
elastic substance of its interior overcom-
ing the resistance of it's hard outer shell.
The fruit usually splits open length
wise. If plucked before maturity and al
lowed to riDen in a warm spot it opens
gradually from apex to base, making, as
it Were, d pair of diverging horns start
ing from the same point. If left to ripen
on the plant, since the process is quicker
and the internal moisture greater. the
opening is sudden and accompanied by
a slight noise, though this is much less
than that which takes when it has been
put into water. In this case the dry but
porous tissue of the surface of the fruit
quickly absorbes the liquid, especially at
the grooves caused by the junction of the
two halve or outer shells of the fruit.
The internal tissue, being very elastic,
exerts upon the latter a tension which
soon results in the violent bursting al
ready described. The curious property
of explosion is given the little plant for
the dissemination of it's seeds. which
would otherwise stand a poor chance Of
~propagating its species.
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@E;|z1IG
MONTANA CENTRAL RAILWAY.

MONTANA CENTRAL Rk1LWA Z.
New fast time between st. Paul, Minne-
apolls. Helena. Butte, Anaconda, Spo..
kane. Seattle end Poi tland. Close co...
nections for .Kootenai country, Oregos
and California points. Alaska, Japan and
China Connections at Twin Cities for ali
points Cast and South.
LEAVE BUTTE.
Great Northern Flyer, daily....8;3o a.. N
Local for Great Falls. daily ...s:46 a. m
ARRIVE BUTTE.
Great Nortier Flyer, daily. ..1o:3o D. m
Local from Great Falls, daily....4:so n "a
Through sleepcrs going East.
City Tickle. Office, No. Al North MIN
street. Butte. J.. T.. DAWSON. Gen. A1f
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j. o.
VETERINARY SI1RCEON

honorary graduate of the Ontario Vet
efihary College. Toronto, Canada. Treats
all diseases of domesticated animals &C
cording to scientific principles. Office at
Marlows Stables. 104 South Main street.
tended to.
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DR.. HUE POCK
227 S. Nal st,

The only pure roo and herb treatment
in Butte.
specialist in Chronic Diseases Of long
standing: Permanent cures made in all
rrlVase Disease. The Diseases of Wo-
men have been made a study Of for wears.
an ~ are successfully treated.
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Short Line
New Double Train Service

To and From the East and West via Salt
Lake and Denver.
WORLDS PICTORIAL AND SCENIC
NO 3 NO. 10
For the east and west. Trains made
up at Butte. hence always on time.
roo n M. FIRST DAY ....6:AO p m
Arrive Ogden. Utah, connecting with
the Union Pacific, Denver & Rio
Grande, and Southern Pacific.
ri "A M. SECOND \ OUT...6:O5 y m
Arrive Denver. Colorado. Queen City
of the west.
a.4s - M. SECOND DAY :. $3.50 n M
Arrive Omaha. Nebraska.
1:45 a NJ. THIRD DAY OUT =. s:45 p m
Arrive Chicago, only one change or
cars from. Butte lat Ogden).
ga IS u M. SECOND a OUr....9:45 a m
Arrive San Francisco. Cal.
trains arrive at Butte from the east
and west as follows:
NO. Z, 1865 a ms NO. 8. 1::4S p m
Passengers leaving Butte at 3:45 a. m.
may occupy Sleeping Cars at depot after
Q %. m, and arriving at Butte at :55 a.
M. may remain IN Sleeper until 1880 a. m.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations
and further particulars. call on or ad-
dress No. 10 East Broadway. Butte, Mon
tana.
H. O. WILSON,, General Agent.
D. E. hurley. G. P. & T. Agent,
Salt Lake. Utah.