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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25
SOME VEN BOOKs
whales.

Tn, la,s., addition TO "Ths Progressive Science
Series published by the PutnAps, ~ . volume
entitled A Book o, Whales, by the editor Of tho
s,rle, r r. IjEDDARD. This u, We pTlr'o'
,be 0rs, book Of a comprehensive kind dealing
with the c.lncen in the English language there
4. n course sections devoted TO The ce'acen IN
many natural histories, but here We ha'r' IN a
com ,,n,i,cly small com pass, a reasonably full
description Of this groip 81 mammals anu a 'h'
,ullv COMPLIED selection Of Interesting features
Of tn. yoluminons literature relating to the group
II. the r.riormanc. Of his task, tho author has
sndeayored To steer a course midway between m
.,po.t,ion Of technical facts and a popular &C
count Of whales He has aimed at producing
a solid book ,enrerrd by anecdotes. OF course.
he does not profess 10 have produced q mono
rr.ph for such = rrctenslon would imply that
IN. book purpur,rd 10 bs exhaustive Al least
N. main facts however. pertaining to III. struc-
,ur and mode = life u these creatures viii le
found So, forth in these pages The authors
Apology for dpypung a volume TO The ceta'ea
\, his belief that. by means 81 the group 81 whales
may bs illustrated n very important bI"ioS''a'
generalization, 10 VII the intimate relation
between structure and environment.
To many people the whale is a para dox. by
reason Ut the It't tndl ~ INfS III NV "h'i ""'
vet Is not 4 Ash At n date no more remote IMAM
1896. the question Of ths iIh Ike nature Of whales
vss not settled for many persons The profess
sional naturalist Of the six teen;h, and even tho
seventeenth century, classified whales with hsh'
and even so recently ~ 1918, an edition Of John
.on's Dl t,onsry defined a fish a. an animal IN
bnb,ting the water hence a whale, coming under
the definition, would have been classified by the
sditor of that edition Of the lexicon a. a fish No
com petent soologist, however has any longer
any doubt Of the mammalian character OF the
c.taoea, which. nevertheless, present a field Tor
speculatlon that, at present, has harily any
limits, because the exact afinities Of whales to
some OF tho existing and vanished groups of
mammals are stIll disputed our present
knovledge Of THIS group, In fact. ~ far
from being complete From the nature 81
the case, whales are not easily in vestigated Tho
opportunities for dissection are practically con
fined TO stranded specimens, and the STANDING
Of whales is no, an everyday occurrence Even
In our knowledgeoi the skeleton ithe cetacea, there
are many reg rstiable gaps, not only by reason
of the frequent impericctons Of the skeletons
accessible. bu, alsp by sheer lack Of material
in the case Of manyforms. particularly among the
dolphins
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25
A Fire Alarm That Give, Particulars.

Fr'm ne ctSnf' s Ni1Gt
Anfs alarm recently invented is a combina-
ton o'th' graph uhonc and telephone. In tho
uso ~ tha talking alarm one ~ the Grapho-
phone mHcnineS IL placed on each floor OF .
building and connected with the telephone IRE
alarm system. For each machin" u record ia
l,r"pared, For instance. the graphOphOne on
The second. floor ~ n hullling woull contain
N" record Thor" j. q FIRE on re second
noor re. THIS r"cOrt i then adjusted 40
thht thrsA words are r"i"a'" MO the tela-
phone ~ tn" "&pan aug ~ u ~iE,rans'lt when
ever n Mr." ocr1r- In This way rho origin of a
~" IL located lmm"i n'r.y and nu'omatically.
ne alarm also ,iEh'- the electric lights In thu
pudding. seIs a red light blazing In front OF the
oullhinR TO nuid" IA" rremcn and sounds tho
p~hone-so We are told
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25

BY the word hnrpoon. OF this industry a number
OF Important observations, together with references
10 the literature, have been collected by NJ. Fischer
and by Sir e. Markham. The earliest documen
relating Ia the whale fishery Of the lnsques In
dated from The year 1850. II In grant 81 pn,i
legcs by Sancho the Vie 10 the 'ity Of San Sc
bastian. A little later, In 1897, John, King Of
England, gave " Vital de- Biole and his heirs To
take nty Angeyin pounds on the two first whales
captured each year al Biartiz In exchange for
the fees which King Richard his brother had given
him ON account OF the fishery Of Gucrnscy The
pursui, Of the Biscaya an whale was AT Its height
at this period It's Importance Is shown by the
fact that a whale Is Incorporated In the coats OF
arms OF many towns wing upon the bay OF Hsay
Other traces Of the former prevalence Of this in
dustry are to be seen In the remains Of "yigias" OF
look out towers, whence the whales were espied,
and n fleet Of boats sent out In pursuit, In the
sixteenth century. the trade was still considerable
Rondeletius remarks in 1859 upon Bayonne as a
centre Of the traffic. and the flesh Of the whale,
especially the tongue, WAS eaten, In the records
OF a marriage a, ~lequeito as late az l7l2, the bride
and bridegroom are described as possessing be
tween them oil the outfit for q whaling voyage,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25
Ill.

We paAs over the chapter on the internal suuct-
ure Of whales, with tho exception Of a passage
dealing with whalebonp, the real nature OF which,
Ike that Of spermaceti, or nmbcrgrts. was. in
post tines, misunderstood Whalebone has been
e~orfounded with whales teeth. again. with whales
rths willis DR. John-on's Dictionary, in the
edition Of 1918, defined whalebone as the An OF a
whale, cut and used In making stays" Whale
bone, Of course, has nothing 10 do with true teeth,
but Il IL analogous to the horny so called teeth Of
thu ornithorhynchus. The whales. IN fact, show
the SANE tendency observable in other groups Of
the animal kingdom to the replacement Of teeth
by horny structures. Thus, In birds. the most
archaic forms had teeth. but the birds Of to
day have developed In their place the horny bask
which chnracterzes them The whslebone whales
start in life with rudimentAry teeth, which ulti-
mately disappear On tho appearance OF the whale
bone, The general character Of whahbone re-
sern bies that Of horn, or hair. Tho color Is black,
or Whit. or brown, The place where the
whAlebone II formed Il the roof of tho mouth.
The plates Of whalebons are Triangular In shape.
the base Of attachment bring broader than the
lower free extremity. The plates are attscAh
BY their broad bases To ths roof Of tho mouth. and
may be regarded a. an exaggerstion OF the Ridges,
often horny in character, which are found upon
the roof Of the mouth In all mammals Tbs plates
arc arranged In q direction transverss 70 The long
axis Of he mouth, and are very aunssouA -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
FOOTBALL LEAGUE D1sBANDs.
Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska Asso-
citation Broken Up.

Columbia, Mo, March 5.-The Western
Football league, composed of the Uni
versities of Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri,, which was threatened with dis
ruption two or three times last fall, has
at last been broken up. Secretary Y P.
Rockwell, of the Missouri University
Athletic association, is in receipt of
letter from Nebraska university, stating
that that university intends to have
nothing more to do with the league
Secretary RothWell says that this
means disrupting of the league, as Kan
sas and Missouri could not maintain it
by themselves.
The breaking up of the league, how
ever, does not mean that the three uni
Versities will cease to play football with
each other. 1t simply means that each
game hereafter will be played on con-
tract between the universities playing
and no pennant will be awarded.
The dissolution may prove to be a
good thing after all, as it relieves the
athletic associations of the universities
of a great responsibility and trouble. 1t
is also better as regards finances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
KANSAS NEWS.
The Atchison Champion to Have
a Special Week.
VIII Be Run by Editor BroOkes
as Satan Would Do.
A UNIQUE NEWSPAPER.
He viii Do Some Exposing of
Public ImmOrals.
At the Same Time viii Be After
the ShekeIs.

Atchison, March 5.-The old Atchison
Champion. which has given a governor
and lieutenant governor to Kansas,
and which has died and been resurrect-
ed almost times without number, is to
be revived again-this time by a man
from Texas.
H. H. Brookes, who for thirteen years
has published the Live Stock Champion
at Amarillo, Texas, and who owns a
large and well stocked ranch near that
town, is the new editor and proprietor
of the Champion. Mr.. Brookes pro
poses to inject new life into the once
powerful paper, and has gone about it
with characteristic enterprise. During
the week beginning March IL, the
Champion is to be run as Mr.. Brookes
thinks the devil would do it.
I'VE shall ask some pointed ques
tionS,' said EdiGOr BrookeS, ''Such as
Would Jesus enter upon a scheme to
advertise and boom the circulation of a
newspaper under the guise of pointing
a lesson in Christianity?' If he should
do so, would he advertise it for weeks
ahead, and then more than double the
subscription price for that week?' And
there are other questions equally as
searching.
90, yes, we have advanced the price
of our paper for the week, too, but that
is due to the devils greed, you know, .
said Editor Brooks, shrewdly. THAT is
devil, and we have to do it to be con-
sistent.
What will our paper be like? Well,
that would be giving away the secret
you know. We are not telling; it would
satisfy the public curiosity and curtail
the receipts of the business office. don't
you see. Yes, we are out for the shek-
els. But I will say that while we shall
pry into things and do some exposing,
it will be a chaste, clean paper, that
anyone may take into his home-seduc-
tive, you know, such as the devil might
issue to catch the unwary. We shall
show up the unchristian doingS of some
Christian institutions; we shall tell some
things about Atchison and st. Joseph,
and Kansas City. that some persons
might wish untold--in short, we shall
be a free lance of the very keenest
Sort
Some idea of what the Champion may
be for a week may be gathered from the
fact that Editor Brookes was a friend
and great admirer of Brann, the Icono-
clast man, when that erratic genius
startled the world with his exposes.
Among the contributors will be John
]. ingalls,, Ex-Governor St. John, Jerry
Simpson, Mary E. Lease and other Kan
sans who have Vitriolic pens.
Associated with Mr.. BrookeS will be
W. P. Campbell. now with the Cham
pion, DR.. Nunnelly, the we'll known
British adventurer, who was with
Kitchener at Khartoum, and later in
Cuba, during the war there. Mr..
Brookes is not wholly unacquainted
with Kansas, having established the
Republican at Oswego, Kan, eighteen
years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
M'KINLEY'S SUNDAY.
The President Attends Church With
His Brother Abner.

New York, March 5-Although Pres
ident Mckinley was up late Saturday
night attending the banquet of the Ohio
society, he arose about s o'clock Sunday
morning and breakfasJed shortly after
wards.
Later in the morning the president,
accompanied by his brother Abner,
and Secretary Cortelyou, attended ser
vices at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian
church, where the sermon was preach
ed by Rev. DR.. Edward G. Andrews,
resident bishop of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, of New York.
Quite a crowd gathered on the avenue
after the services, and greeted the pres
ident and his party with showers of
handclapping.
The president remained in a hotel
until about O'Clock, when he went out
for a drive with Mr.. Hawk, proprietor
of the hotel at which he is stopping,
through Central park and Riverside
drive.
Mrs. Mckinley remained at the hotel
all afternoon, receiving callers. Some
of those who called were former Gov
ernor and Mrs. Levi P. Morton and the
Misses Morton, General Arson McCook
and United States District Attorney
Burnett.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
CURES
Blood Troubles
FREE.
DEEP SEATED CASES.
Spring Humors.

Ulcers, Cancers, Eating Sores, Painful
Swellings, Effects of Blood Poison, Per-
sistent Eruptions that refuse to heal un-
der ordinary treatment are quickly cured
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nounced by the Medical Investigator the
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obstinate deep-seated Blood and Skin
troubles. Is your blood thin? Are you
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Pimples? Blotches and Bumps? Skin or
Scalp Humors? Boils? Eruphons? Skin
Itches and Swollen? Tired Out with Ach-
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oughly tested for thirty years, For sale
by druggists and Swift & Holiday. 523
Kansas avenue, and Rowley & Snow, 600
Kansas avenue in Topeka at 81 per large
bottle, or six large bottles (full treatment)
s.. To prove our faith in B. B. B. we
will send a Trial Bottle free to sufferers
so they may test the remedy at our ex-
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ical advice given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
Mercer May Manage the senators.

Washington, D. C., March 5.-Earl
Wagner of the Washington Baseball
club was in the city yesterday and to-
day completing arrangements for his
team for the coming season.
He filed contracts with the following
players with President Young: Pitch
ers, Mercer, weighing, McFarlane and
Evans; catchers, Kittridge and Nc
Manus; infielders, Padden and Mccain:
Outfielders O'Brien and Slagle have not
returned their contracts. but there will
be no trouble securing their signatures.
Another pitcher, q right fielder, a, short
stop, and a utility man will have to be
signed. The Washington club will carry
fourteen players this season. The fans
are quite disappointed over Mr.. Wag-
ner's announcement that he will make
no offer for Patsy Donovan. In all
probability Mercer will manage and
captain the club and play third base.
The team viii go south for spring prac-
tice. The point has not been selected
The players will report in Washington
March -, though Mercer will come on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
CoMIsKEY's ULTIMArUM.
Will Either Have Chicago Team or
&c On Police Force.

Chicago, March ST will either have
a team in Chicago. or else go on the po-
lice force" said Charles Comiskey. Il
am tired of being the filler for the West
ern league. have been the filler for
two or three seasons. LOTUS has had the
eighth club. l am going to have the
eighth club this year or else go on the
police force. l think can pass a good
enough civil service examination to get
a job as desk sergeant. shouldn't want
to travel a beat, but I guess could If
worst came to the worst. I am pretty
near six feet tall and weigh over 1856
pounds. I ought to be able to qualify as
a policeman. That is the proposition so
far as l am concerned"
COmiskey has two grounds under con-
stderation, and is occupying his spare
time in figuring on plans for a grand
stand. He has had several plans for a
grandstand submitted to him. but he has
ideas of his own as to the proper equip
ment of a baseball park and will have the
plans altered to suit his purposes. He
has also sent out contracts to a number
of players. McGin yesterday struck for
higher wages than Comiskey offered him.
If We were good enough to get per-
mission to run here when the Arson
crowd and the American association
threatened President Hart territory, - the
veteran player and manager said, 1--WE
terfere with the National league. Com
petition will do both sides good.
Why is the National league afraid of
1t? Harris permiSSiOn2 Certainly. he got
1t. Didn't he come to our meeting at
the Great Northern and assure johnson
it was all right for to place q club
here and to go ahead and make the an
to invent any such a story. It is GER
tainly a case of war"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
Kingnan,
A Big Family Reunion.

The family of Mr.. and Mrs E. Mills,
residing just west of the city, will have
a reunion here all this week, when all
the children and grand children of the
aged couple will be here, numbering
most of whom are well known in indie
pendence, will be here from various
parts of Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and
Colorado. Some of the children are
here now and others are expected. Mr.
and Mrs. Mills are growing quite old,
and Mr.. Mills has been quite feeble for
some time. They have lived in Mont
gomery county about thirty years and
for twenty years have been residents of
independence .-Independence Reporter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
Urge Our Interference.

Pittsburg, Pa, March Sat the reg
ular meeting of the Americana German
League of Western Pennsylvania, con-
sisting of 200 branches and representing
an aggregate of 10000 members, a petit
ton urging that the government of the
United States use its friendly offices to
bring about a cessation of hostilitles
between Great Britain and the South
African republics was unanimously
adopted It was Furthermore resolved
that all Boer sympathizers throughout
the land he cordially invited to cO-Op-
crate with the association for the pur-
nose of sending a general appeal to
Washington at the earliest possible
date A form of petition to President
Mckinley was drafted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
IMPERIoUs THE WINNER.
Rowell's Bay Gelding Captured the
Rich California Stake.

San Francisco, March Son a heavy
track in drizzling rain, DR.. E. H. Row
ellis bay gelding, Imperious, by A1orello,
dam Helen Scratch, won the fifth Burns
handicap, the classic of the California
turf, at Oakland Saturday. This is the
second time Rowell has captured the rich
stake, having won it with Satsuma in
1898 and finished second with the same
horse last year Contrary to past prece-
dents, the winner was well backed at
short odds-in fact the stable may be
said to have been favorite. though the
price on Acrobat was shorter at post
time. The plunge on Acrobat was fore
most and from the opening odds at to
I, the money of the best informed talent
was poured in the twenty books in
golden stream. The strong play was due
TO the fact that Acrobat was purchased
by J. W. Schorr this morning and F. ".
Brode scratched out of the race in order
to give Burns the mount OF Acrobat.
Rowells stable, Inperious and Malay,
were well played by the smaller bettOrs.
The opening odds of to 1 fiuctuated
slightly and closed at the same figures.
The others were backed at odds ranging
all the way from to 1 to so to l.
There was a delay of twenty-five min
utes at the post and this, with false
starts, killed whatever chances the
weight packers had under more favor
able conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
WOMEN RUN THE TOWN.
Beattie Municipality Flourishes Under
the Rule of the Fair.

Beattie, March 5.-This little town,
which elected a complete set of women
municipal officers last spring, is said to
be enjoying unusual prosperity in con-
sequence. The streets are kept clean,
sidewalks repaired, laws enforced and
municipal affairs administered with an
economy unknown before. Mrs. Eliza
Sheldon, Lulu Smith, Elvira Watkins,
Lettie Birlin and Mary E Schleigh are
council-women, and Kate ONeil is city
clerk The nomination of d board of
women was at first regarded by the ir-
reverent as a joke, and was nicknamed
Mamma ticket" but the new officers
have done so we'll that a prominent eiti-
zen of Beattie is now reported as say
ing: Women can beat men in domes-
tic economy, and our experience looks
as if they could beat them in political
economy too"
The ticket was a strong one. Mar
garet Sheldon is the richest woman in
Beattie; Lulu Smith is a college grad
uate, and has been a teacher. Lettie
Mary E. Schleigh is the mother of a
family and is training her children to
be good citizens. Elvira Watkins be-
longs to one of the wealthy families in
the business connection of Beattie. and
Mayor Totten is a matron descended
from a long line of New York politi-
clans.
Councilwoman Sheldon mentions an
entirely new and original way in which
politics may benefit women.
She is reported as saying: Politics is
the best cure for rheumatism" Mrs
Sheldon was a rich woman with moth
ing to do; an idle life made her an in
valid; active work in the service of the
city has cured her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
SIX BURNED TO DEATH.
Fire in Seven Story Tenement in
New York.

New York, March Six persons
were burned to death and. three were
injured Sunday morning in a fire which
occurred in a seven story lodging house
at a to 48 Bowery.
The dead are:
Charles Butte, 40 years old.
John Clark, so years old
Edward Doyle, 35 years old
Henry Jackson, colored, 80 years old.
old
Stephen Carney, rs years old, was
burned about the body, face and hands
and removed to a hospital in a serious
condition. He died tonight
Martin Gallagher, SO years old, was
burned about the face and hands and
also removed to a hospital. Edward
Walker. AZ years old, was burned, but
after having his wound dressed, re-
manned at the lodging house.
The TrSe was first discovered shortly
after o'clock. Smoke was pouring
from the windows OF the fifth floor and
the flames were making rapid progress.
The lodging house was cut up. into
1872 rooms, and ninety of these small
places We're occupied when the fire
broke out. Policemen sent in an alarm
and burst into the place to arouse the
inmates. They notified the night clerk,
who Immediately rang the alarms all
over the house.
The Railways were instantly filled
with a crowd of excited people. The
policemen forced their way to the up
per floors in an effort to rescue some of
the helpless, or any who might be over
come with smoke. They carried out
Thomas Harper, a one legged man, and
Edward Walker, who had been burned
and partially overcome by the smoke.
Stephen Carney was found lying on the
floor in his room. The flames had al
ready burned the old mans hands, face
and body, but a policeman picked him
up and carried him out of the building.
After the fire was out they began a
search. The bodies of all five of the
victims were found on the fifth floor,
where the fire did most damage. Butte
was suffocated in his bed. John Clark
was found on the floor of his room dead,
as was also Edward Doyle. The col
ored man was found dead at a window
and the unidentifedm man had been over
come just as he was dragging himself
from the window to the fire escape.
All the bodies were taken to the
morgue.
The damage to the building amounted
to about $4,000. The place was con-
Quoted by Dominica Milano, and was
a cheap Bowery lodging house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-05
Pensions For Kansans.

Washington, March 5.-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
Original-Alfred j. Simpson, Kansas
City, IS; James Moore, Thayer. Sc;
Robert H. MassengilI, Caldwell, IS;
Martin w. Murgrove, Kansas City, Sc.
Restoration and crease-William r.
Chandler, Webster, IS to $24.
Restoration, reissues and increase
William H. Fleming, Erie, 81 to $14.
INCONSISTENCIES NJ. Veach, Toronto,
SIS to s27; Morgan T. Williams. Wich-
tia, Sc to IS; William d. E1sley, Augusta,
$24 to $50.
Reissue-Evan M. Tapp, Kingman,
Original widows, etc-Special acc.
Feb. Is, minors of Joseph E. Young,
Kansas City, $12; Viola A. Young, dead,
Kansas City, IS; Mary E. Need. In
dustry, IS; minor of Alonzo M. Gibbs,
Walnut, $40.