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The age-herald., 1900-08-15

Many times I came into personal con- tact with Collis P. Huntington said a Bir- mingham man who dwelt several years in Washington and enjoyed the friendly good will of the great millionaire. "Ebe was one of the most easily approached and best-na- tured of all the notable men whom my newspaper work required me to seek, and I felt for him the greatest respect and friend Hest regard. His principal chara cteristics. and nearly everything about him personally, have been made familiar to the public But his peculiar habit of never carrying money in his pockets is perhaps not so we'll known. Often he didn't have as much as d quarter of a dollar in cash about him, and if he hired a cab or other conveyance the driver would be asked to call at his office or hotel for his fare. One night he received me at his Fifth Avenue palace and granted me an interview. After my work was done, | ven tured to remark on his habit of not carry ing cash about with him, a chance remark from him having opened the way. T have no use for cash. Why should I carry it?' he said. Any purchase necessary for me to make I pay for with my check or a bill is sent to my office. Everybody knows me, or any rate knows I am good for personal purchases
 And this man of hundred millions, in his p. ace fit for any king, smiled in self satisfaction MT. Huntington was a re- markedly abstemious man He never took a drink or smoked a cigar in his life. and was wholly unacquainted with most of the
The age-herald., 1900-08-15


 constitution: Congress shall have power to declare war;
 General von Waldersee, in bidding fare we'll to an army corps. inttmated that every German soldier is expected to do his duty when new entangIemsnts'f come from the Chinese problem.
 The Boers deny that they have money to burn. or to send to Brother Webster Davis They did not send him $l25, ,OOO. Brother Davis is now patriot of purest ray serene.
 
 Mark Hanna has decided that the Joan Jewett movement is not party mai tter," and he therefore declines to put himself in his dollar-mark suit on the firing line. The Russians in Manehuna have joined the mo quarter" movement, which now em- braces about one-half of the forces oper- ating in China.
 The administration is exposing this coun- try to what Commander-ln-Chief Waldersee calls new entanglenents" without consult ing Congress.
 The Shah of Persia has left Paris, and the Parsians are considering a fumigation scheme as broad in scope as the city itself. The esteemed MT. Ruhlin is an Ohio man, and his fate is regarded as significant. It Is not Ohio's year. All years are not hers.
 
 MT. Ruhlin of Ohio, made only one mis- take, and that consisted in fighting the Hon. Robert Fftzsimmons.
 Pony steaks in Pekin are the best hope of the egationers Pony steaks are much preferred to auto steaks. Russia has grabbed New Chang. and Eng land Shanghai. The Chinese problem is de- rapidly.
 M de Gfers, the Russian minister at Pe- kin hesitates to jump from the frying pan into the fire.
 Count Lamsdorff, Russias new minister for foreign affairs, is probably an aggres- sive person.
 Dr. Dozier and the Goebel jury are now the chief targets of the inspired epistolary idiots.
 The difference between d shirt waist and shirt sleeves is simply a pair of suspen- ders.
 Presidential candidates are outranked just at present by professional pugilists. America is pulling chesnuts out of the fire for the effete monarchies. The Jewett emente is strictly matter of advertising on both sides The Decent lunch counters decline to well come the shirt-wafst mln. Weather is not permitted to interfere with office hunting in Ohio. Keep away from the mometer, for 1t may explode.
 General Joseph Wheeler is a man of many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
CALLS IT UNFAIR.
Speech of David B. Hill Declining the
Vice Presidential Nomination.

Convention Hall, July 6--In declining
the nomination for the vice presidency,
Senator Hill said: Mr.. President and
gentleman of the convention: (Great ap-
plause) Whtile I greatly appreciate the
action of the delegation from New York
it is proper for me to say that it is
without my approval (Cries of mo no'')
I appreciate also the manifestations of
friendIiness on the part of the delegates
from oher states. but I feel that 1t is
my duty to rise here and now and say
to you that, for personal reason and
good and valid reasons can not accept
this nomination. Great applause and
cries of mo, no. and you have got to
take it.'') 1 have not been candidate
do not desire to be a candidate and I
must not be nominated by this eonven-
ton. (Renewed applause and cheering
and cries of you must, you muSt-")
There are gentlemen here whose
names have been or will be presented to
this convention any one of which names
is stronger than my own. (Cries of no,
no'). There is no difficulty whatever in
making a satisfactory choice and I
ought not in justice to them to permit
my name to be used a single moment
further and this convention should pro-
ceed to nominate candidate from some
of those who have been named In jus
tice to me. in justice to them, in justice
to the party, in justice to the ordinary
procedures of this convention it is un-
fair to me to place me in this position
without my consent Great applause).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
LOCAL MENTION.

Mrs Alva Hupp, of Twin Mound
Kas., and Miss Helen Johnson, of ST.
Marys, were operated on by DR.. Mum
at. Stormont hospital today. The first
operation was for stone in the kidney
and the second for appendicitis.
Governor Stanley is at his office to-
day. having returned from Horton,
Kas where he delivered the Fourth of
July speech. He will leave Tuesday or
Wednesday of next week for Colorado
to spend a short vacation nj the mean
time Private Secretary Henry Allen will
spend a few days at his home in OF
tawa.
H G. Larimer has returned from
Kansas City. He secured admission to
the convention by paying for a ticket
There will be a handicap tournament
at the golf links Saturday afternoon
The only business in police court this
morning was the trial of a tramp for
vagrancy. He was given a term on the
rock pile. The application of the rock
pile remedy which has been so well ad-
ministered in Topeka has caused the
tramps to avoid the town.
H G.. Rising special agent, will go
to Admire tomorrow to establish a free
extend north and east of the town.
A one-legged man who refused to give
his name, was arrested Tor drunkenness
this morning. He was found in a coal
shed back of Nick Chiles' place, where
he had spent the night.
John Lewis, young man employed
by the Hall Lithographic Co. has re-
ported to the police that suit of
clothes, pair of shoes and a grip had
been stolen from him. He was roo.ning
at 629 Quincy with another young man,
and his roommate is missing.
Capt. J. G. Waters has returned from
Kansas City, where he stirred up the
national Silver Republican convention
by one of his speeches.
Rookkeeper Maxwell says that the po-
lice made an error in reporting the
short change episode in Warren NJ
Crosby's store. The man asked for a.
SO bill for change, and then throwing
down another so he asked for a 500
bill, and got it. The cashier afterward
found she was 80 short.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
TUBE IN THROAT.
Child at Topeka Hospital Which Re-
quires Artificial Air Passage.

There is a child in Kansas who will
be compelled to wear a metal tube in
his throat as long as he lives. he is
the 3-year-old son Of Harry Crtttenden,
a wealthy cattle man of Coolidge. Kan,
and so far as known Is the only child
in the United States who gets the air
necessary to sustain life through a
small tube of gold plated metal.
The child was born with q malforma-
tion of the trachea, and as the maifor-
nation advanced with his growth the
air passage gradually closed. Several
weeks ago the child reached the first
stages of suffocation, and was brought
to Topeka for treatment. A tube was
inserted in the throat, and the child i'm
raediately revived and grew strong.
At the end of six weeks it was decided
to withdraw the tube, but as soon as
this was done the child commenced to
smother. The tube was again inserted
and left four weeks longer, and this
week was again removed, but a minute
after it was withdrawn from the throat
the child was in a dying condition. The
tube was quickly reinserted, and now
the physicians say that the boy will be
unable to live without the artificial
opening for air.
AS the child grows older the size of
the tube will be changed, SO as to pro-
vide the requisite supply of air. Medi-
cal history gives no instance of sim
liar case.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
A RUSH FOR LINCOLN.
Is Expected to Follow Adjourn
ment at Kansas City.

Lincoln, Neb., July 6.-Chief interest
in Lincoln today in regard to the Kan
saS City convention seems to be as to
the time when it will conclude. for
after the anal adSo,,rnrnent II will nat
urally drift to Lincoln. The local dem
onstration IN honor of Mr.. Bryan, while
it was slow in starting. showed respect
able proportions after midnight when
a marching party formed and with
bands paraded to the Bryan home and
Serenaded the presidential nominee. The
Bryan telephone was kept ringing late
into the night by friends who wished
to offer congratulations. Many tele
grams from distance were received.
Mr.. Bryan was asked what effect he
thought the adoption of the platform
in its present form would have on the
vice presidency. He replied that 1t
tended to eliminate some candidates
who would have remained in the contest
had the platform contained a mere re-
affirmation of the silver plank of 1895.
No names were mentioned, of course.
Mr.. Bryan was asked who is to be the
nominee for vice president.
1.-The man who knows" replied Mr..
Bryan, were he to telegraph the in
formation to Kansas City would be
distinguished man in moment"
The discussion of Mr.. Bryan's possible
visit to Kansas City came up at fire.
quent intervals. Mr.. Bryan said that
while reading the bulletins he had done
some figuring with the result that he
had found that the delegates had put in
two solid hours shouting. He jokingly
remarked that he guessed he would not
go to Kansas City for the Democrats
had already done so much shouting
that they would be shouted out and on
his arrival they could not make much
noise and the Republican papers would
then state that he did not meet a cor
dial reception.
About the city today was much spec
ulation as to the result of the nomina-
ton. It was hailed with delight by
the hotel people who are already pre-
n n5a ta lie
when the delegates shall visit Lincoln
on their way home The Chicago march,
ing club is expected here and doubtless
many of the eastern and western dele
gates alike will stop here. If Mr.. Bryan
does not make the Kansas City trip
the number who will come to Lincoln
will be much larger. Friends who ex-
pected Mr.. Bryan would leave for Kan
sas City on the early morning train
were at the depot in force, but he did
not put in an APPEARANCE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
SKETCH OF STEVENSON.
Illinois Man Most Likely to Be
Named as Bryan's Running Mate.

Adlai Stevenson was born in Chris
tian county, Kentucky, October %. 1885.
received a common school education,
and was also a student at Center col
lege, Danvi1le, Ky. His family re-
moved to Bloomington, ILL.,, when young
Stevenson was II years old. He was
admitted to the bar in May. 1857; made
master in chancery in 1S60-'64; was
elected to congress in 1875; sent as a
delegate to the national Democratic
convention in 1884 and 1892; appointed
first assistant postmaster general un-
der President Cleveland, 1885, SO; elect
ed vice president on ticket with Grover
Cleveland; appointed q member of the
commission to Europe to try and secure
international bimeta11ism in 1897.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
HIGH PRICED ADMISSIONS.
Kansas Farmers Said to Have Paid
$25 For Tickets
Especial to the State Journal.l

Especial to the State Journa1.1
Kansas City, July 6--The ticket bro
kers were sharp enough to get hold of
hundreds of tickets to the convention
Wednesday season tickets brought $25.
Thursday afternoon the Journal cores
pondent saw a man pay a broker $5 for
a single admission.
These brokers sold a ticket, to farmers
especially, guaranteeing reserved seats,
special privileges, etc, which admitted
the innocent purchaser to the conven
ton hall building, but took them only
beyond the entrances. having no cou-
pons or numbers, which entitled the
holder to even see the inside of the con-
vantion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
BRYAN WON'T GO.
Decides That He Will Not Visit
Kansas City.

Convention Hall-11:07 A. M-Mr
Bryan had a talk over the wire with
Senator Jones. Norman E. Mack and
others and has decided not to come to
Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
AdIai E. Stevenson -KOmi-
mated for the Second Time
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Hill Positively Declined to Ac-
cept the Place
Though Tt Seemed To Be His
If He Wanted 1t.

Convention Hall, July 6, 2:44 p. m.
-AdIai E. Stevenson. of Illinois, was
nominated for vice president on the
first ballot. He received a total of
SSoH votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
BOTH CLAIM DAVIS.

Especial to the State JournaL]
Kansas City, July 6.-Kansas and
Missouri had a quarrel over webster
Davis Immediately after Davis Joined
the Bryan forces
That's a Missourian,'' exclaimed a
gaunt clay-eater who runs a job office
(cnntin11ed on sixth Parel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-06
W Gather Indications.

Chicago, July 6.-Forecast for kan
sas. Fair tonight and Saturday, except
showers in east portion Saturday; south
west winds.
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be brief when he took the platform and
he kept his word, seconding the nomi-
nation OF Stevenson.
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Continued on Sixth Pagea
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CONTINUED on Sixth Page.)
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

sible for him. A lady has no right to
refuse recognition to a gentleman who
has been presented to her; %presenta-
tons, however, must have been pre-
viously assented to by her. The hus-
band is responsible for a breach of
etiquette committed by his wife. The
American who is married supports
his wife. The Frenchman makes her
work. If he is in business she keeps
his books and acts as cashier. The
aristocratic French woman even keeps
house no matter how sick her nus
band is. In the poorer classes the
husband works at his trade, and the
wife at her own unless there are too
many children to take care of. By the
way, the Partisan wonan seldom
nurses her own children, she sends
them to the country to be raised by
peasant women until they are two or
three years old. A. Partisan woman is
seldom, if ever, seen in the parks nurs-
ing her offspring.
Any n seeing a woman carrying
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
In Cattle.

Blackleg in cattle also goes under the
names of symptomatic anthrax and
black quarter. The disease was for
many years ~confounded with anthrax,
and it was only found after careful
research that it differed in a great
many ways from that disease. ,Espe-
ctally in its contagious nature is the
distinction marked, for Of animals
other than cattle only sheep and goats
are susceptible and these slightly. The
symptoms of the disease are familiar
in a front or hind leg, accompanied by
the development of a tumor on that
limb. This tumor is filled with gas,
and upon pressure a peculiar crack
ling sound is produced. The meat
which this tumor affects Is black. and
the tumor itself contains a dark fluid.
Blackleg is caused by the Introduction
into the system of a germ known as
the blackleg bacillus. The usual man
ner of infection Is through a wound
of the skin or mucous membrane. The
germs do not pass out with the ex-
cretions, hence the disease is not conn
municable from animal to animal. But
If a blackleg carcass be skinned and
the blood and juices be allowed to n
ter the soil or If such a carcass be
allowed to decompose without being
buried, the germs form spores. or "go
to seed" and In this form may live in
the soil for many years, ready to be-
gin life anew as soon as conditions are
favorable. Thus the pasture may be
a constant source of infection. To pre-
vent this the carcass must be burned
Immediately, or buried at least six
feet under the ground. There have
been many treatments advocated for
this disease. The most common are
rowelling and the use of setons. These
are alike utterly worthless.
Within the last five years there has
been introduced a vaccine prepared
from the dried meat of the muscles of
the tumor of an animal that has sue
cumbed to the disease. This is the
only practical method at command at
present for combating the disease Ii
the animal is exposed to infection.
For information on free vaccine and
how to obtain and use it, our Nebraska
readers should address A. T. Peters,
Nebraska Experiment Station, Lincoln.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Power Of Horse aud Mule.

Professor Henry, in his book on
Feeds and Feeding" says: Rennie
found the hauling power Of a draft
horse weighing 1000 pounds equal to
about 108 pounds at 2.5 miles an hour,
or $4,000 foot-pounds per minute, for
8 hours per day-a twenty-mile haul.
This is a little oVer two-thirds of a
Watt horsepower, at which value
Rennie rates the average draft horse,
and this is taken to be, ordinarily.
five times the power Of a man. Be-
tween 2.5 and 4 miles an hour. the
hauling power of the horse is nearlS
inversely as the speed.
The mule carries a load of 200 to 400
pounds, and its days work consists,
usually, in the transportation of the
equivalent of 5000 to 5000 pounds per-
mile. The ass carries It's pounds and
upward, and its days work is the
equivalent of 5000 to 1000 pounds per
mile.
According to Weisbach, a horse
should be able to carry 240 pounds on
its back IS feet per second ten hours
a day. Carrying 160 pounds, he should
be able to trot seven feet per second
seven hours a day, doing in the day
nearly ten per cent less work than be-
fore. The pulling power of a draft
animal is said to be, as a rule, about
one-fifth its weight. Its usual effort,
in the case of the horse at least. is
seldom in excess of o~ne-tenth, or
about one-half the maximum. One
hundred pounds is a common pull for
the average horse in draft vehicles.
In racing, the requirement of speed
reduces the work performed Garry
ing the rider) to the smallest amount
possible.
Low writes: when it is consid-
cred that an ounce of additional load
ing to the same horse may make the
difference Of a yard or more in half a
mile Of running, it will be seen how
greatly the weight borne may affect
the issue in the case Of horses of equal
powers"
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Where Byron was Born

Another birthday of Byron has lust
passed, and still the long promised
memorial to mark the spot is conspicu-
GUS by its absence. The place of the
poets birth is the corner of HOLES and
Oxford streets. A large drapery I'M
porium covers the site, and the bust
ness stationery bears the poets busts
in the right orner. But Byronites
look in vain for a marble bust outside.
which it was understood would re.
place the bronze one removed years
ago OF account of structural altera-
tions.-London Express.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
Wars of the Candidate.

"Well, suh," said the old-time color
ed voter, "de ways er de canderdate is
past findin' out! All de year 1 been
lax cryin' in de wilderness, en- no
man 'spon ter my cry. 1 boiler fer
bread, en- dey give me a Belgian block
en- thirty days! En- now look at EN-!
'Leckshun time come on, en- bless God,
eff dey amt pay my house rent, took
de mortgage off my mule, settle my
street tax en- gimme enough old cloze
ter go to preachin'l En- all I got tex
my name is n vote en- der rheumas
tism!"-Atlanta Constitution.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
The French Do Everything Just
the Opposite from Americans.

The following lette5sis from a young
American who is onA of the advance
guard at the Paris exposition. 1t is
needless to say that the writer is a
close and critical observer. His OBJ
%servations are keen enough to be of
Interest to others besides the friend to
whom the missive was addressed:
MY Dear Friend: Without preamble
] forward 0 the results of my scout
Ing expedition in behalf of our party
of Exposition visitors. / am sorry
now to have accepted the job. l have
not seen very much so far, and the
skin left on my anatomy amounts to
very little. Tell our friends to bring
along a barrel or two of well assorted
money.
Their main graft" if l can use this
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

The same rule applies to all the NUM-
cipal institutions Of the French CAPT
tai; the city pays, the government
rules.
There are a thousand other dissimi-
larities between the French and the
Americans; it would require a dozen
letters to make mention of them. What
is the end for us seems to be the
commencement for them. To quote
only an example, "our school COM
mencement" is called by them the end
of the school year" Our working
week ends Saturday afternoon; they
work until Sunday night late, and if
they rest at all take their vacation on
Monday. The workingmen are paid
on Monday, which they call "St.
Lundi" (Holy Monday, because they
seldom work On pay day.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11
ALETTER FROM THE FRENCH CAPITAL

freely offered in this way on top oil
the omnibuses and tramways, when
the sun Is too hot or when 1t rains. To
America such offer would appear inn
pertinent. When a vehicle is stranded
in the streets Of Uncle Sans domin-
ion the passers-by generally let the
driver get out of it as best he can.
The Parisians of all classes do the re-
verse; rich and poor, young and old
push at the wheel. II two men fight,
everybody takes a part in the fray,
even jumping on the Sergeant de vile
who attempts to restore peace. The
fun of 1t is that most of the time the
fighters do not know what the whole
business is about, and many a poor
devil gets a thrashing simply because
he happens to be there.
Paris has twenty mayors who are no
mayors at all. The Prefect Of the
Seine, appointed by the government, is
the real chief Of the municipality.
Paris pays a police force amounting to
$1,000 men, including sthe municipal
guard, and the regiment of firemen,
but the government alone represented
by the project commands this force.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-10-11

guardians at an interval of six months
before the court which decides the
case. Girls, however, occasionally
elope SO as to compromise their repu-
tation and thus compel their family to
give their consent. An elopement not
followed by marriage is called by the
facetitious Parisians ga marriage at
the City Hall of the Twenty-frst Ar
rondissement," there being only TWEEN
ty ACCOMPLISHMENTS or DISTRICTS In
Paris. Some 500 or 500 children are
weekly born in Paris from these
unions contracted with the left hand.
Presentation is not necessary in the
French capital; in fact, you enter into
conversation in public places with any
one you meet. But If you present
some one you are absolutely respon-