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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15
Child smothered to Death.

Newton, Dec. 15.-The infant son Of
the Rev. and Mrs. Goree was smoth-
cred to death last night in bed The
child was sleeping between its parents
IN a narrow bed and died while nesting
on its mothers breast. The child US
ualIy awakened early and would then
arouse its mother. It's failure to do 50
this morning led to the discovery that
it was dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15

Bibles. books and tracts in German
and Swedish languages. Call and see
them. The Kansas Tract society, 11S
East Fifth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15

Kansas city, Dec. 15-The announce
ment of the marriage of Mr.. Charles
W. Mcdaniel to Miss Annie NJ Rich
creek, both of this city, has been made
for December q at Hannibal, Mo. Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15
Not Subject to Copyright

Denver, Col, Dec. 15.-Judge Moses
Hallett, in the United States circuit
court render a decision In the case Of
the Detroit PhOtOgra phing company
against Frank S Thayer to the effect
that photographs of natural scenery ~
other objects not the products of the
artists originality are not subjects Of
copyright. This applies to all photo
graphs of Rocky Mountain scenery.
Amonio lBenzilene Soap; try it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15
CHRISTMAS
PRICES:

Bargains in everything you want for
Christmas. Compare these prices with 9th
ers and you will readily see that you will
have nice little sum left to use in other ways
to make your friends happy. The amount
you can save on your grocery bill will aston
ish you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15

Mcdaniel is superintendent Of the
Kansas and Missouri Telephone COM
pany and is a splendid business man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15
Navy Is Short Of Men.

WashingtOn, Dec. 15.-The navy IS
1000 short of the legal maximum, and
this in spite of the best efforts of the
recruiting officers. Secretary Long has
written a letter calling the attention
of congress to this state of affairs and
suggesting that it might offer a decided
incentive to enlistments by extending
to sailors enlisting the benefit of the
act allowing to apprentices a full outfit
of clothing not to exceed S45 in value.
Under the present system the men are
kept in debt for months after enlist
ment by the purchase of the necessary
outfit from advance payments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15

to the attention of the president. Very
truly yours,
Secretary to the President
George McAney, Esq"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15

New Testaments for Sc. The KAN
sas Tract society, 11s East Fifth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-15

Good food makes good blood. which
makes good muscles and brains. Try
the Sanitarium Health Foods. at rs
East Fifth street The Kansas Tract
society.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
IeatS of Indinn Enkirs-

~ AhANAuAh AdhlISs
lndia, writes a recent traveller, is
pre-emlnently the land of mystery, and
our most advanced magicians have
never been able to reproduce all their
marvellous performances. One day in
the market place of an Indian village
l saw a curious performance. It was
conducted by two men-one old and
emaciated, carrying a native drum; the
other young and well fed, Enthusiastically
gowned with an oversklrt of colored
handkerchiefs and a multitude of bells,
which tangled noi3ily at the slight
est movement; long, ragged hair-alto-
gether a hideous figure. The drummer
began a weird tom-toming, and the
other man an incarnation. Then he
extended a "supra"-a bamboo tray
used by all natives-on which any one
who pleases places a large handful of
rice and the same quantity of grain.
The two ingredients are thoroughly
amalgamated, so that it would in the
ordinary way take hours to separate
them. Now the fantastic man with
his tray begins. He turns around
slowly, gradually quickening his pace
(the drummer also keeping time),
faster and faster, in a giddy vortex. the
tray at times almost out Of his hands,
yet 81 cleverly handled that not a
grain fails out. 1t is very trying to
watch, hut in a couple Of minutes both
stop simultaneously, and the man
shows to the wondering spectators two
little heaps, one of rice and the other
grain, at different ends of the tray,
which In his sickening gyrations he
has been able to separate by some ex-
tr~aordinary manipulation. Later, it
was my good fortune to be able to wit
ness n of those remarkable cases of
voluntarily suspended animation of
which | had so frequently heard, with
a somewhat dubious smile, I am afraid.
But am convinced now. It was called
a "Joghee" performance and took place
before the Maharajah OF D~hurbanga.
whose guest I had the honor to be. The
-~"Joghee" was put by his disciples into
a trance. He became perfectly uncon-
scious AID dead to all appearances. An
English doctor present felt his pulse
and found it had ceased, and a looking
glass showed not the slightest mois-
ture Of any breath in the body. The
"Joghee" was put into a coffin, the lid
screwed on, and seals were impressed
on 1t with the Maharajah's signet ring.
The box was buried five feet deep.
earth thrown in and we'll STAMPED.
Grain was then sown and trusted SEN
tries guarded the place.
The grain had sprouted and borne
corn when We were invited again, after
sixty days, to witness the resurrection
of the body. The grave was opened and
the coffin found to be intact. The seals
were broken, the lid unscrewed, and
the "Joghee" was taken out stiff and
stark. His disciples now began to
manipulate the body and go through
certain rites, very similar to mesmer-
ism, ard by degrees the dead man
opened his eyes, a culver ran through
his body and he sat up erect.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

In these days of proposed i~nterna-
ttonal alliances it is interesting to read
OF the little difficulty in which a Chi
cago newsboy found himself involved,
and how he extricated himself there
from. He had wandered over into one
of the foreign quarters" on the west
side, where n can hear almost every
language except our vernacular, and
he was set upon by two or three boys.
He defended himself bravely and was
holding his own fairly we'll, until the
two or three were Joined by as many
more, and then the battle began to go
against him. SAY" he yelled to a
group Of boys watching the fight from
the sidewalk, SIS there an English boy
in the crowd?" YES" shouted a
stockily built urchin of about his own
size. Come yere, them" painted the
young American, laying about him
with all his might, IAN we'll clean
out the hull gang!" And they did.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

as many others as his nature 2 ompts
aud his purse affords, she looks for
support and protection. For full Eve
miles on both sides of the Menam river
Bangkok stretches it's floating shops.
and for at least half that distance an
extra row rests behind on the steadier
site OF the bank. Here are the great
est number of the shops, and along the
banks reside probably one-third Of the
city's 1000 00 inhabitants. Over half
of the remainder live along the several
klongs, which wind in and around the
city with certainty all the d%eviousness
and apparently the equal aimlessness
OF a cow path. They are not nearly
so broad as the country klongs, though
wider than the chief business streets
of the native town, Sempang; this is
not saying much of their breadth, how
ever, since Sempang is not more than
ten feet wide, and in places not so
much as that.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

"Looky here!" snarled Jason Haw-
buck, whose nose was sadly abraded,
and who walked with a decided limp.
What did you mean by tellin' me that
that ere old brindle demon | bought OF
you yesterday wasn't a bad COW? Why
-gol-slam it!-first thing when I went
to milk her last night she hauled of
an kicked me head over heels, jam
min my skull into the milk-pail an
nearly unj'ntin' my fool neck. Then
she got me tangled up in the halter
rope somehow, an drug me across the
COW lot an back an forth so many
times that I couldn't keep count of
'em, an kicked me every once in a
while, for good measure. There's
skurcely a bit of whole skin left on my
body big enough to make a common
sized watch-pocket. If she amt a bad
cow I'd like to know what in tarna-
ton would make you consider a cow
bad?"
"Wa'al." mildly replied Aaron ALL
red, eff she'd lone that wilfully an
malieiously, I s'pose I'd consider her
bad, but bein' acquainted with her
ever since she was a calf an havin'
known her to cut up that same caper
a good many times before, I've decid-
ed hat she's only jest thoughtless.
There's a good deal of difference be-
tween wickedness an mere thought
lessness, you know"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

ANh
We hear many stories of animals and
birds that have been carefully edu-
Gated, but a story told in the Cornhill
Magazine is somewhat novel, inasmuch
as the crane of whose doings it tells
educated itself, and became a very ac-
complished bird without any outside
assistance. 1t lived with it's mate in
a German village, and grew much at
tached to the farmer to whom it be-
longed. The two cranes found the
simple country life exactly to their
taste, and soon knew every inhabitant
or the place. They used to call regu-
larly at the houses to be fed, and all
went well until the female bird died.
Then the other chose a new companion
and his choice was a strange one. He
took as his friend a bull, to whom he
showed the utmost devotion. He would
stand by the animal in the stall and
keep the flies off him, scream when he
beloved, dance before him, and fol-
low him out with the herd. The COM
munal system of joint herding of cattle
and swine, and driving them together
to the pasture, prevailed in the village,
and in following his new friend the
crane learned the duties Of cowherd.
so that one evening he brought home
the whole village herd of heifers I'M
aided, and drove them into the stable.
From that day the cranes life became a
busy one. He undertook duties enough
to last him from morning till night.
He acted as policeman among the poul-
try, stopping all fights and disorder.
Once, when a turkey and a game cock
were found fighting, the crane first
fought the turkey, and then sought
out and punished the cock. Once, when
W heifers Jagged behind, he drove
them through the street so vigorously
that they became frightened and
broke away, running two miles in the
wrong direction. The bird was not dis
c%ouraged. He could not bring them
back, but he did the next best thing.
He turned them into a field, and then
stood guard over them till they were
fetched. He would drive out t~respass-
ing cattle as c~ourageously as a dog,and
unlike most busybodies was a uniyer-
sal favorite and the pride of the vii
lage
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

A new fire-proof material has recent
ly been invented by a Swiss engineer
which is called "papyristite" on ac-
count of paper pulp being one of its
leading constituents. 1t will make a
solid, impenetrable, and jointless roof
or floor, and is claimed to be abso-
lutely f%ire-proof. 1t is also a non
conductor of heat, and while hard as
stone, has a soft feeling to the foot
and is quite noiseless. Two hundred
and twenty pounds Of the material
will cover an area of 91R square feet,
with a layer four inches in thickness.
1t is mixed wherever it is to be ap-
piled and hardens and dries twenty
four hours after spreading. The sub
stance is transported in bags or Lar
rels like cement. and is always ready
for use.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
A Spiders Bridge.

Some sarcastic writer has said that
philosophers, like spiders, spin their
web out of their own insides; but not
every philosopher would be able to get
out of a tight place" as quickly and
safely as did the particular spider of
whose exploits a writer relates this
story: One day l caught a spider and
brought him into the house to pray
with. l took a basin and fastened a
stick to it, like a vessels mast or a
liberty pole, and then poured in water
enough to turn the mast into an island.
On this l placed my spider-Crusoe as 1
called him. AS soon as he was fairly
cast away, he began a~nXiously running
around to find a road to the mainland.
He scampered down the mast to the
water, stuck out a foot, got it wet, ran
around the stick, and tried the other
side, and finally ran back up to the top
again. Here he stopped, as il to IN
slider the matter. I put a little sweet
stuff on the stick. A fly came, but
the spider cared not for flies just then.
He went slowly down the pole to the
water, and touched it all around, shak-
ing his feet like a cat, when she vets
her paws in the grass. Suddenly, al
if inspired with a plan for escape, he
mounted to the top like a rocket. He
held one foot in the air, then another,
and turned round two or three times.
He seemed excited, and several times
nearly stood on his head. He had
somehow discovered that there was
wind enough to carry a line ashore.
He pushed out a web that went float
ing in the air until it caught on the
table. Then he hauled on the rops I'M
til st was tight, struck it twice or thrice
to &c. If 1t was strong enough to hold
him, and then he walked ashore. He
had carried his liberty, and I carried
him back to his web"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

for the lighting of the pyramids b1
electricity and the installation of ar
electric power transmission plant OF
2 5 1000 horsepower. The plan ~involves
the erection of a power generating
plant at the Assouan falls on the river
Nile, and its transmission over a dis.
lance of 100 miles, through the cotton.
growing districts, where, it is thought,
the provision of cheap power from this
source will permit the building of cot
ton factories. Part of the scheme con
templates the lighting from this
source of the interior corridors Of the
pyramids, and also the operation of
pumping machinery for irrigating
large areas of desert lands along the
Nile. 1t is also stated that an Ameri-
q company is Likely to receive The
contract for this work.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
Admiral Makaroff's Ice-Breaker.

The ice-breaking ship invented by
Admiral Makaroff of the Russian navy,
lately completed at Newcastle, Eng,
has been completely successful. 1t has
three screw propellers in the stern,
and another screw for ice-breaking at
the bow. Apparatus which permits
the shifting of $50 tons of water from
n end of the ship to the other, and
of 100 tons from side to side, enables
the navigator to change the lie of the
vessel at his will. 1t is said to have
"cut through the thick ice of the Fin
nish gulf as easily as a hot knife goes
through butter. On it's way to Kron-
stadt it went through two and a half
feet of ice at a speed of nine knots.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
SCIENTIFIC TOPICS.
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOVERY
AND INVENTION.
Some Scientific Facts About the Hair
Model Showing How Curly Hair Is
Produced-How the Beetle sees-Hun-
dreds of Images Upon the Eyes.


Prof. Tucker OF Columbia university
mas succeeded in producing the great
Jest heat yet known to man. A spe-
lcially-constructed electrical furnace
ana current of unusual power were
used to create this temperature, which
was so high that under it steel, hard
quartz and even platinum were vapor-
ized. AS for ordinary crucibles, they
disappeared at once in a little puff of
smoke. The heat obtained was $500
degrees Fahrenheit, 200 degrees hotter
imam any temperature before pro-
duceo. Says a correspondent: 1t is
'olnlcult to appreciate the degree of
such neat without some comparisons.
Scaldlng water means a temperature
OF 2l2 degrees Fahrenheit, and red
not iron 800 degrees. Steel melts at
5000 degrees, and boils like water at
o,50O degrees. AS for the heat of lie
sun, 1t Is estimated at 10000 degrees,
SO that Prof. Tucker obtained a tenn
perature which came within only 300
degrees of old Sol himself. Of course,
a special apparatus was needed to
measure the temperature obtained by
Prof. Tucker-ordinary thermometers
being quite out of the question. The
arrangement for this purpose is called
a calorimeter, and it is a rather intri-
cate piece of apparatus. While it de-
pends upon mercury for the recording
OF the degree of heat or cold obtained,
the reading is not made in the direct
way that obtains with the ordinary
thermometer. The same calculation
is necessary to determine the exact
value in degrees of heat or cold of the
figures. Because of this fact it Is usual
Ily found that the actual heat obtained
is slightly above that recorded. The
heat obtained by Prof. Tucker was
5000 degrees, 1t is not improbable that
1t was nearly $500. Scientifically the
experiment was Of Importance because
1T has demonstrated that the degree of
heat obtained some time ago by Prof.
'Molsson of Paris, was not the greatest
possible. Commercially it is useful,
because it has shown that diamonds
of marketable size and purity may be
made artificially. Further, it has CIV
len to commerce two products of al
most incalculable value-calcium car
Ibide n silicium carbide.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
An Accommodating Waterspout.

1t is very rare hat an opportunity
occurs to make a truly scientific OBJ
~servation of a w~aterspout. Mr.. D. r.
Crichton, a British engineer, had what
is said to be a unique experience of
this kind off Eden, New South Wales,
last year, and his report has been pub
lished by the Royal Society of that col
ony. Fourteen complete waterspouts
formed off the shore where he was at
work with a t~heodolite, and he made
careful measurements of them. The
largest spout consisted of two cones,
connected by a p~ipe-shaped spout. The
top of the upper cone, which was in
verified, was 5,014 feet above the sea.
Each cone was about 100 feet in diam
eter at the base, diminishing gradually
until it merged into the spout. The
length of the was about ESQ feet
each, leaving 4,50O feet for the length
Of the spout connecting them.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
WHY Some Hair Is Curly.

Prof. Arthur Thomson recently ex-
hibited a model to illustrate how nat
ural curliness of hair is produced. Ac-
cording to the explanation three fac
tors require consideration in the pro-
duction of curly hair: % the hair
shaft, (2) the hair muscle, and (3) the
.sebaceous gland. Straight hair is al
ways circular On section, and is usual
ly thicker than curly hair, which is
ribbon-like and fine. In order that the
muscle nay act as an erector of the
hair it is requisite that the shaft of
the hair embedded in the skin should
be sufficiently strong to resist any ten
dency to bend; unless this be so the
lever-like action necessary to produce
its erection is destroyed. When the
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

Inc lchneumon, or "Pharaoh's Rat"
as 1t is popularity called, prevents the
too rapid Increase of ~crocodiles by feed
ing largely upon their egg These
eggs are, considering the size of the
adult reptiles, exceedingly small, and
the Ichnelmon is able to take several
of them at a meal. The ancients be-
lieved hat this little animal entered
the crocodiles' mouth and killed them
by gnawing upon their intestines. On
account of its usefulness in destroying
crocodiles' eggs and vermin of all
kinds it vas tanned by the ancient
Egyptians and venerated by them as a
Deity. 1t is shy in its habits and lives
in holes near the banks of rivers, pre-
ferring the daytime for making its
raids. The total length of the animal
is about three feet three inches, of
which the tail measures eighteen
inches; it's color is brown, plentifully
ringed alternately with gray and
brown. The Ibis or Nile bird is also
said to feed on the eggs of c~rocodiles,
while it's feathers are tabled to scare
or even kill the reptile itself. The
Gallinago, too, a species Of vulture, in
habiting South America, keeps down
the number of c~rocodiles by eating
their eggs. From the branches Of the
trees that shade the river these birds
watch the female laying her eggs.
When she has retired they flock to-
gether upon the hidden treasure, tear
up the eggs. and devour them in far
quicker time than they were deposited.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
To the Wood Robin.

To the wood Robin.
Bard of the twilight hour!
My soul goes forth to mingle with thy
hymn,
Which floats like slumber round each
closing flower.
And weaves sweet visions through the
forest dim.
Where Days sweet warblers rest,
Each gently rocking on the waving
spray,
Or lowering the dear hedglings in the
Without one care-pang for the coming
day.
oh, holy bird, and sweet
Angel of this dark forest, whose rich
notes
Ger which a world of mirrored beauty
floats.
My spirit drinks the stream,
TIL human cares and passions fade
away;
And all my soul is wrapped in one sweet
OF blended love. and peace, and melody.
Sweet bird; that wakest alone
The moonlight echoes of the fowery
dells,
"heH every other winged lutte is flown,
And Insects sleeping all in nodding
bells;
l bow my aching head,
And walt the JUNCTION of thy voice OF
love:
l feel 1t DER my weary spirit shed,
Like dew from balmy flowers that
bloom above.
Oh! when the loves of earth
Are silent birds, at close of life's long
day,
birth
Bear on its holy hymn my soul away!
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

hair is fine and ribbon-like, the shaft
is not sufficiently stout to resist the
strain of the muscle and naturally as
sumes a curve, the degree of curva-
ture depending on the development Of
the muscle, the resistance of the hair,
and the size Of the sebaceous gland.
The curve thus produced becomes per-
manent and affects the follicle in which
the hair is developed. the softer cells
at the root of the hair accommodate
themselves to this curve, and becoming
more horny as they advance towards
the surface retain the form of the
follicle; the cells on the concave side
of the hair being more compressed
than those on the convex side. In this
way the hair retains the form of the
follicle after it has escaped from it.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12

Bangkok, the capital of Siam, is va
rlously called by those people who
reyel in comparisons the Venice OF
the east, and the "Constantinople OF
ASIA" in the first instance because of
the many canals that run through the
city, and in the second because of the
hundreds Of wretched and ownerless
parlah dogs that roam its streets with
IMMUNITY. There is much truth in both
comparisons, writes a recent traveller.
Certainly Bangkok is the home of the
gaunt and ugly pariah dog, which
spends its life f~oraging and getting
just enough to keep life in it's NANCY
carcass, multiplying meantime with
great rapidity because the Buddhist's
doctrine forbids its killing. Outcast
dogs are not the only pests whose
multiplication in Bangkok may be
charged to Buddhism; more noisv
crows perch OF an early morning on
your window casing and the tree i'm
mediately beyond it than in the space
OF a day hover near the Towers of ST.
at Bombay awaiting the pleas
ure OF the vultures that feed on the
last earthly remains of those who have
dled In the faith of the parses.
In by far the larger half of Bang
kok the easiest means OF travel is bv
boat, and half the city is reached in
no other way. The Siamese woman NJ
the lower class daily paddles her own
canoe to the market and bazaar, or, if
she be OF the better class, EMPLOYS a
rua chang-if indeed is not includ-
3D. with ricksha for road travel, among
he possessions of him to whom With