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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03
From Sire to Son,

AS II Family Medicine Bacon's
Celery King for the Nerves passes
from sire to son as legacy. If you
have Kidney. Liver or Blood disorder
get free sample package Of this
remedy. If you have Indigestion,
Constipation, Headache. Rheuma.
tism, etc., this appetite will cure you,
J. ). Lowry, the leading druggist is
free. Large packages SOC and 25c.-
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03

ts-w. w. Hamilton, of Denver, lowers
worlds professional bicycle record.
mile l:55 As unpaced.
23-Cornell wins tri-university boat race on
Thames river. New London, Conn.
miles, 2S:4s Yale, I'd; Harvard, Cd. d
Washington park, Chicago. Time,
2:42 "a; Warrenton, second. -. Tom Lin
ton, of Wales, rides 20 miles on bicycle in
5000 at New York.
Jul. 8-At Philadelphia Tom Linton rides
80 miles, 963 yards, in hour, making new
record.
24-At Indianapolis, Ind, Chas. Gardner
broke worlds record for killing and
dressing sheep in 80 minutes, 80 seconds
Aug. 23-Whitman wins national lawn ten
mis- championship by defeating Davis, at
Newport, R. ....1n Baltimore Henry
Smith rides 80 miles on bicycle in l:02,
breaking record.
| miles in "a hours, at Baltimore, breaking
/; record.
! 6-Two-mile tandem record broken at De-
troit by Joseph and Porter, in 4:0l 3-5.
20..kansas City club wins Western league
l baseball pennant.
Oct. lo-Boston baseball club wins pen
nant, with Baltimore second and Gin
! cinnati third.
29-University of Penn. defeats University
! of Chicago at football, in Philadelphia,
by score of % to II.
/! Pin San Francisco, L. o. kragness rides
so miles on bicycle in 2:l3:29, breaking
record. >. AT Chicago, University OF
Wisconsin defeated at football by Chi
cago university by score of 6 too.
. l9-In New Haven, Conn, Harvard wins
eastern football championship for 1893
by beating Yale II too.
/ PIN New York, in prize fight between
1 j. j. Corbett and T. Sharkey, the latter
won on a foul.
pat Chicago, University of Michigan, by
defeating University of Chielgo at foot
ball, by score of u to II, wins western
e Championship II a x I'm VA u
to 2, securing southern championship.
Dec. 5-Frank Waller, of Boston, breaks
record for continuous riding, in New
York, going 3l4 miles in l6 hours, 10 min
| ntea
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03
HAPPENINGS OF 1898

zo-oevere STORMS ana pnzzaros no mum
damage. in Wis, MINI, Mich, H., ILL.,.
Mo. and southwest.
Nov. l0--Seyen schooners wrecked in storm
on Lake Michigan.
N-Snowfall throughout New England
ranged from to "a inches, blocking rail.
New En pdsnF e sas d s. pe sssasa
Dec. 4-Terrible blizzard ragged in Kansas
for over "a hours. Snow, sleet and wind
storm does great damage in Ind, o.,
Pa, N. Y, Mass. and Nd.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03

SfOhIING.
Jan. 2s-Elkes wins 72-hour bicycle race at
Pittsburgh, Pa, rides 1929 miles.
Feb. Union Pacific mail train covers 5l7
miles in $50 minutes, breaking all long
distance records. Cheyenne to Omaha.)
Mar. American clipper ship Tacoma
completed race from Philadelphia to Ia.
coma, Wash. 10000 miles. Time, 1888
days.
SIN Chicago Henry Leveson lifts lob.
dumbbells above his head 1850 times in
2 hrs. and As minutes, breaking o-hour
record.
Apr. 6-Ncrth German Lloyd steamer Kais-
er Wilhelm der Crosse, from Southamp.
ton, to New York. 5 days 20 hrs.
A-ln Springfield, o., Lizzie CLAW, of Ber-
lin, Germany, breaks worlds bicycle rec
ord--l00 miles in hrs. 80 minutes.
lS-Walter ID. Mansfield, OF San Francisco,
casts fish line l20 feet in, breaking
world $ record
May 20-In London, j. w. Stocks rides mile,
paced, in l:35, breaking bicycle record. :
24-Dasey, Seller and Russell rode triplet
m. at Denver in l:46 10.
Jun. lO-In Boston, Eddie McDutfie breaks
worlds bicycle record for 8 miles. Time,
600 2.h.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-03

Proper knowledge the treatment of coughs and colds OF
the Importance to parents This knowledge is offered
free All catarrhal diseases succumb to Pe-ru-na.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
VICTORY FOR SPARROWS.

TFrom the Boston Evening Transcript
A complete victory has been gained
by the friends of the sparrows in Bos-
ton. Mayor Quincy yesterday issued an
order to Foreman William J. Kennedy
of the public grounds department. who
had charge of the work of destroying
the nests of the birds for several weeks
past, instructing him to stop the work
at once. The mayor announced. MS de-
cision late yesterday afternoon, when
he had the following self-eXplanatory
statement sent to the newspapers:
In view of the urgent need, as rep
resented by Superintendent Doogue of
the public grounds department, OF as
signing Foreman Kennedy and his as
sistants, who have lately been engaged
in destroying sparrow nests upon the
common, back to the regular work OF
the department, Mayor Quincy has di-
rected that this work of destroying
nests be now discontinued for the sea-
s0l. He did not anticipate originally
that it would prove such an undertake
ing or that it would withdray so much
labor from the regular work of the de-
partment. and he does not now feel
that such work of the department
should be longer sighted. Mr.. Ken
nedy has been directed to report to the
mayor upon the results of the work ac-
cOmpliShed and to observe as far as
possible whether the sparrows proceed
to rebuild their nests as soon as the
men are withdrawn"
The work of destroying the nests was
begun on March 10, and at the outset
was confined to Boston common, where
Foreman Kennedy and a force of five
IabOrerS cleared the nests out of the
trees, in the caves of the low buildings
and from the hoods of the electric lights.
Then the men visited the public garden,
and after their work was finished there
they began operations in Blackstone
and Franklin squares, at the south end.
Up to the time that the work was or
dered to be stopped it is estimated that
fully 1000 nests and 1900 eggs had been
destroyed.
In speaking of the work yesterday
afternoon Mr.. Kennedy said: In going
through the trees we found many cur
ious things. In some of the old elfns
in the common and parks the nests
were arranged like apartment houses
They were in tiers, each separate from
the other Some of the old elms are al
most hollow, and every space where u
nest could be hung was taken. When
we had cleared out a hole and freed it
from all that would affect the tree, we
plugged up the entrance to keep the
birds from building there again. The
birds would come with strawS in their
beaks, and, finding the place plugged
up. would sit on the branch and look
in wonder at the spot where their nests
had been. l have seen them sit With
heads cooked and peer at the place for
a quarter of an hour at a time"
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HOW THEY DOIT.
Officer Tells How Kansas Soldiers
Operate Railroad.

Little has been said about the part
taken by the Twentieth Kansas in the
Philippines in the capture and operation
of the only railroad the island of Lu-
ION. Corporal John Haisch of Topeka is
the manager and Frank McFadden, also
of Topeka, is assistant.
Major g A. ,DevoI of New York, who
has general supervision of the road, says
in u recent letter printed in the New York
journal:
Il was with the Utah light battery by
the church. The railroad had all its en-
gines and rolling stock within the insur-
gent lines the night We took Caloocan.
where the shops are. L found five
gines somewhat disabled The Twentieth
ment is simply full of railroad men. There
isn't a branch of the business that hasn't
good. capable representatives among the
fighting men from Kansas.
They just turned in, those boys. and
showed that while American soldier
can shoot straighter and faster than any
body else. shooting is not his only ac-
complishment, by any means. We worked
all night, and by morning had train run
ming.
Il now have four engines, crews. con-
ductors and repair crew, all organized
and operating the road in great shape.
supplying almost all of MacArthur's di-
vision. l also running a steam BOAT
up the river. which supplies Anderson's
division. l send time tables and tickets
in case you want to take a ride on my
road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News.1
"a stump speech ought to be short
one.
The best material for a successful
novel is brains.
Whatsoever a man reaps some one
must have planted
A child may be the father to the man
or the stepmOther.
=
The evil-doer is apt to find the pros
ecuting attorney case-hardened.
A man always says appearances are
deceitful when they are against him.
The race isn't always to the swiftest.
Sometimes it is to the bookmakers.
1t is pleasant to have what we desire,
but it is better to desire only what we
have
A man may have his price. but he is
apt to be shy about showing his cost
mark
A horseshoe over the door may be
lucky, but if it falls on your head it's
hard luck.
When one woman wants to say some
thing mean of another she refers to her
as that woman"
It's easier for an old bachelor to say
that he is perfectly happy than it is for
him to prove it.
OF all sad words of tongue or pen, the
saddest are these Where have you
been?''-from your wife.
Mans greatest responsibility on this
mundane sphere is woman-and she
never lets him shirk it, either.
Swear neither by heaven nor by
earth: swear by nothing-eXcept by
yourself when no one will hear you.
When a man begins to argue with MS
conscience as to whether a thing is
right or wrong the chances are it is
wrong.
Many a misguided candidate VINO
considered himself a Clay before the
election now realizes that his name as
simply Mud
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peated the ceremonies already describ-

peated the ceremonies already describ-
ed.
Mass was said second time so that
since then the volcano has not thrown
out any more fire smoke. However,
while Father Thomas Abrese was par
iSh priest of Taal, thunder and plaintive
cries were heard again: therefore the
priest had cross made of anObing
wood, borne to the top of the volcano
by more than 400 natives, the result be-
ing that not only the volcano ceased to
do harm but the island has regained it's
original fertile condition
But harm was to come. Friar Gas
pars account was written in 1898 of
events that occurred during the pre-
ViOuS century Years after the eXor-
clsed spirits returned and the Taal vol
cano resumed activity on a large scale.
Eruptions of exceptional violence oc-
CURED in 1f49 and 1854. That of 1749 was
characterized by series of reports
resembling cannOnading, after which
great volumes of smoke issued from the
crater, accompanied with showers of
ashes Fountains of sand rose from
the bed of Lake Bombon and earth
quakes opened assures along the shore.
This eruption lasted three weeks
Five years later the volcano was in
active eruption for six months Begin
ming on May Is, 1854, with a discharge
of molten lava, the volcano kept the in
habitantS in state of terror until the
end of November, when series of
earthquakes destroyed the town of
and several other villages, besides dam
aging property in Balayan, IS miles
away. For eight days according to one
historian, Manila, though "a miles dis
tant, was in darkness, people dined by
candlelight in midday, and sought
priestly confession in fear of the judg-
ment.
The volcano necessarily emitted
stones and fire, and on July 10 threw
out a shower of inky mud. swapping a
small village. On November 29 and 80
darkness overspread the country. relieved
only by lightning flashes. Showers of Gin
ders fell to the depth of five inches: an
earthquake heaVed up the waters of the
lake. flooding the surrounding villages.
and the inhabitants fled in panic
There was some loss of life. but the IA
talities were few compared with those in
htcted by the eruption of the Volcan de
Mayor in 1874 when 200 persons were es-
timated to have persisted in the sudden
foundations of lava. This volcano was
IN eruption in 1887 and again in 1888 when
nfteen lives We're lost and considerable
damage done to property by election of
Taal apparently has not been active
during the present century. Its two near
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

The japanese are adopting in For
mosa the heroic remedy of deporting
bodily the population of an entire city
when that city is so dirty as to defy
solution of the cleansing problem. Thus
they have ordered 10000 people to pre-
pare for immediate removal from the
infected and swampy ground on which
the commercial town of Teukcham
stand. and to take up their residence
on hillside several miles away. Here
streets have been laid out like, but bet
ter than, the old town, and to every
property owner there has been assigned
a plot of land corresponding in position
and size with that which he formerly
occupied Sewers, railways. public
buildings. waterwOrks. and many other
improvements have been provided at
government expense. and. with further
assistance, which the people will re-
ceive, it is expected that within II
months the transfer viii have been sat
isfactorily effected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
CHICKENS IN EGYPT.
TFrom the Washington start

TFrom the Washington Start
s"The Egyptians may be slow and be-
hind the age in some things. but in
the science of raising chickens by arti-
fetal means I think they could give
many other more progressive nations
points," remarked an Observant Amerl-
can who has Just returned from a visit
to Egypt to the writer yesterday. For
instance. near the Pyramids there are
eighteen or twenty rudely constructed
incubating esta blishments, none of
which from the outside, looks as if they
were ever intended to make money But
on entering one of these Matching con-
Germs, especially if it happens to be
early in March, one soon realizes that
the simple but extensive arrangements
within are capable of turning out be-
tween 1000 and 100000 little chickens
every year.
The incubators are one-story build
ings made of sun-dried bricks, so ar
ranged that the eggs are laid upon cut
straw in racks in rooms around the
ovens which are kept well fired during
the Matching season. The outside walls
are very thick. and are built so that
they retain heat. and the only Their
mometer used is the blood of the boy or
man who attends to the fires. BY long
practice these men learn just how hot
the ovens ought to be kept. and they
mands. Only a small amount of fuel is
needed. and the temperature of the
ovens is about that of SO degrees above
zero The fires are built up for eight
or ten days before the eggs are put in
to thoroughly warm the buildings, and
after this they are not allowed to go
out during the Matching season, which
is from March until May. The eggs
are turned four times day while
Matching.
The whole outfit of an establishment
which matches over four hundred thou
sand chickens a year does not. 1 was
told, cost more than $3.50, and one man
runs the whole machine, keeping the
fires. buying and turning the eggs, and
selling the chickens. There are in the
incubatOry twelve compartments. each
20 feet long, 60 feet wide and 16 feet
high. and each of these compartments
will hold 1900 eggs at a time. or 10000
eggs in all. 1t produced last year more
than $50 600 chickens. and did the work
of more than 90 600 hens.
THE supply of eggs for these incu-
batteries is furnished by farmers living
within radius of eighty miles, and
they either receive ten cents a dozen
for their eggs, or five young chicks in
exchange for every dozen eggs that
prove productive. In this way more
than twenty million chickens are raised
and sold in Egypt annually. The value
of this product is estimated to be worth
50 600. goo, which is about twenty cents
for every chicken raised
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

(From the American Review of Reviews)
1t has been generally suggested that the
workingman's enthusiasm for kipling IS
due TO the omniscience of this writer of "a
knowledge of a soldiers work, pleasures
and woes; that the railroad man sWearS
how an engine IS built; that the sailor ana
the fisherman. the public school boy. the
city clerk. the mechanic, find the fascina-
life. No doubt this clincheS the charm.
but certainly broader principle underlies
the popularity which the poet and nc!lon-
list has won with the masses. This is
that he appeals to the emotional side of
his readers as well to the intellectual.
A man like Matthew Arnold. be he never
great, finds himself, perhaps with some
approval. cut off from all but those read
of intellectual training and refinement
Kipling masters such readers, too, with his
magnitieent certainty of phrase and
rest Of the world that Knows better how to
feel than to think Doubtless, too. his
brilliantly early success as popular au-
thor is due very largely to his choice of
subjects: to the vigorous launching of his
genius in to the topic of the hour, the pres
ent problem of the nation. Thus as good
a poem The White Mans Burden
world at large had it none of the ire
mendous public interest which has brought
millions of Americans.
Here Mr.. Kipling has in his poetic work
advantage and a danger analogous TO
those which are before the lesser singers
certain to fetch the whole house; the
other hand, the populace is expecting a
invariably meet its demands. Mr.. Kipling
seems to be such an inevitable sort of
fellow that one is surprised even to hear
that he even writes things over twice be
fore giving them to us. But he assures
the rare and happy interviewer that most
of what he writes goes into the waste bas-
ket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

Indianapolis News: Nothing could
conduce to the greater unification and
final progress of this country than thor
ough amalgamation. The sooner we
abolish the "German-American'' the
better. We want no Germa n-American
nor French nor Italian
American, nor Anglo-American. nor
Scotch-American, nor Irish-American
We want plain American, the man who
lives in this land because he loves it
and wants to live in it and is ready to die
for it; who has backbone and independ-
ence enough to formulate his own
ideals and live up to them and not look
across the sea for his standards of NOR
ais, his customs and his language
which is a language foreign to this land.
Shame on the people who are referring
to some other country as the standard
to which they shall cleave, They are
not good Americans that do so. Let us
be men and let us be American men
not German-American men or some
other qualified American men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
THAT ECONOMICAL HAT.

F'rom the Philadelphia Inquirer)
I'm never be economical again. said
the girl in the new gray gown, she sat
down hard and empha ticany on a chair.
I've been out buying a spring hat. and
L m a financial wreck, all through trying
to be economical. 1 had some beautiful
thought L would just them to trim a
spring hat and it would cost me scarcely
thrifty and virtuous as I planned it, [
went to swell millinery shop and the
sort of hat L wanted had to be made
:, That will be S. said the saleswoman.
Very well: / replied; for thought of
my tips and felt that very economy war
ranted a little extravaganza in the matter
of the making:
Just me thing for t. said the shopwoman
rich it gives such a finish. Have. a loop
half of it will do
. All right said I with bit of a pang;
You really need little black velvet
to pqt, in n with it for the contrast. Cream
and 81 biafk are SO elegant together
not cost more than $1.75-all silk, you
..J1I-Im afraid can't afford it,
the G rms yes ar yeH cana nd you are Furnishings
hat cost much less than it would other
Satan put it into her head to say that.
- Very well; put in the velvet; but that's
. Really. my dear just a little bunch
will make it too Frenchy for anything. 1t
is too bad to spoil handsome hat for the
simply stunning on you. Your tips are
so handsome You can wear them this
- Trim it to suit yourself / cried in
desperation: its S13.75 now. and if l stay
3eFe ys m Tdn o g m9rf it b6m viii IL be $40
Wednesday, and then l simply ran out"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
WE ANNEX VOLCANOES.

GFrom the Chicago Times-HeraIdI
Major General Henry w. Lawton's
flying column is now operating in the
nefghborhood of the most famous active
volcano of the Philippine islands. This
is the Volcan de Taal which rises from
an island in Lake BOmbOn, southwest
of Laguna de Bay, and about "a miles
directly south of Manila in the Province
of Batangas. The Taal volcano and it's
companion. the Mayor or Albay vol
cano. on the southeastern extremity of
ergy dating back three centuries, and
have always been objects of SuperSti-
tious awe to the natives.
A curious light is thrown on the me-
dievalism of the Philippines by an ex-
tract from the manuscript of the Span
ish friar, Gaspar de San Augustin, quo
ted byJohn Foreman, describing priest
ly methods of aVerting volcanic dis
turbances. Writing of the eruptions of
the Taal volcano. F'riar Gaspar says, in
his quaint way:
The volcano formerly emitted many
large fire stones which destroyed the
tions belonging to the natives of Taal
on the slopes of the mountain. Also it
happened that if three persons arrived
on the volcanic island, one of them had
infallibly to die there without being a BILE
to ascertain the cause of this circum-
stance.
This was related to Father AIbu-
querque, who, after a ferVent prayer
entreating compassion on the natives,
went to the island. exercised the evil
spirits there, and blessed the land. A
religious procession was made and mass
was celebrated with great humility.
ION the elevation of the host horri-
BILE sounds were heard, accompanied by
grooming voices and sad lamentations;
two craters opened out, one with sui
phur in it and the other with green wa
ter which is constantly boiling. The
crater on the Lipa side is about a quar-
TOR of a other
smaller and in time smoke began to
ascend from this opening, so that the
natives. fearful of some new calamity,
went to Father Bartholomew, who re-
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well that they have no additional ia
vors to confer upon friends.

well that they have no additional ia
vors to confer upon friends.
There is an auditor i'm every mans
life, to check him up, and every man s
auditor is usually as mean as the devil.
Every woman confides to such an ex-
tent in her grocer and milkman that in
time she becomes as attached to them
as TO her preacher.
i
When a man who has been getting
$40 a month, has his wages raised to
$45. he begins to think that he is earn
ing enough to marry on.
AS a rule, mothers know how to cook
the French sounding recipes in cook
books, and their daughters know how
to pronounce them.
We never could see what fun there is
in surprise parties. Where does the joke
come in in finding the host in his stock
ing feet, and the hostess with no cakes
baked?
The women begin to demand of
man that he hand all his money over
TO his wife from the day he marries her.
He has had experience in learning how
hard money is to earn, and she has had
none, yet women demand that he put
all he has saved into her lap just the