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The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
TsRRoRs OF INDIAN FAMINE.
Condition of the People on Relief Works
Is Beyond Description.

Condition of the People on Relief Works
Is Beyond Description,
Aletter from the Rev. Edward Fair
bank, missionary of the American
board at Yadala, India, gives some
particulars OF the famine in India. 1t
is as follows:
Here at Vadala, aud within three
miles Of us, there are 5000 persons on
the relief works. 1t was only two
weeks ago that there We're less than
30O0 People are focking to these
camps by the hundreds. The over
seer of the works told me that he took
on 900 in one day. These facts alone
will show that the stress is rapidly
growing extreme.
The condition of the people on the
relief works is far beyond description.
Three years ago, at Shoapur, at the
end OF the famine / saw less wretch
edness and emaciation than | see here
today at the beginning of the famine.
People have not recovered from the
last famine. They have nothing in
their houses to pawn but few brass
vessels that they had been able to buy
since that famine. These brass dishes
are now being pawned by those who
come into the relief works. 1t is their
last resort to keep their bodies and
souls together before they get relief
from the government paymasters.
The merchants here and in the near
villages have carloads on carloads of
brass dishes.
"There is great suffering from the
cold in the nights of these sys. The
people are not only clothesless, but
almost ragless. The wret,hedness is
terrible, but still worse is the emacia-
tion. Living skeletons in abund-
ance are in evidence on every
side. The village clerk tells lne
that many children are dying in the
cGmps-too far gone to reaover.
Many men and women have also died
here. The only reason given is lack
OF food. he other night q man died
in the camp who, they say, had not
had anything to eat for three days. e.
"This famine IS undoubte tly far
more severe in these parts than that
of 1876 or that of 1896. One of the
worst features is the lack of water.
Rivers usually flowing full at this
time are dry beds Of sand. Wells that
have never failed before in the mem
ory of any one living have not drop
OF water in them. The we'll that Writer'S
our garden and has never failed since
my father came here, almost 40 years
ago, is dry. The village well, that
was supposed to have a large living
spring, has nothing in it now. Our
little town is, however, we'll off in the
matter of water as compared with most
of the towns and villages in these
parts.
Government officers tell me that
the Indian government looks with the
/ greatest apprehension on the famine.
1t already feels unable to cope with
| 1t, so great are its dimensions and pro-
portions at the very opening, and
without any doubt for nine months
more the famine must rage.
Undoubtedly private philanthropy
must supply great help in this famine,
far greater than the. last famine, if
millions in these and other parts Of
India are to be saved from starya-
/ tion.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
PEARLS oE THOUGHT.
Use palliatives when you contradic

Use palliatiyes when you contradict
Modesty is the only sure bait when
you angle for praise.
The desire of pleasing is at least
half the art Of doing it.
Give me but yirtuous actions, and
/ will not bubble and chicane about
the motives.
1 believe there is more judgment
required for proper conduct Of our
virtues than for avoiding their oppo-
site vices.
When you have found out the pre-
vailing passion OF any man, remember
not to trust him where that passion is
concerned.
A wise mau will live at least as
much within his wit as his income
Culled from the Earl of Chesteriield's
Letters to His Son.
Ireally know nothing more criminal,
more mean, more ridiculous than lying.
1t is the production of either malice,
cowardice or vanity.
Style is the dress of thoughts.
it is not every understanding that can
Judge of matter, but every ear eau and
does Judge more or less of style.
If you will please people, you must
please them in'their own way; and, as
you cannot make them what they
should be, You must take them as they
are.
a spruceness of dress is very be-
coming at your age, as the negligence
of it implies an indiiferency about
pleasing, which does not become a
young fellow.
Wrongs are often forgiven, but con-
tempt never is; our pride remembers
it forever; it implies a discovery of
weakness which we are more careful
to conceal than crimes.
A man is fit for neither business nor
pleasure who either cannot or does
not command and direct his attention
to the present object and Danish for
that time all other OBJ from his
thought.
Next to doing the things that de,
servo to be written, there is nothing
that gets man more credit, and gives
him more pleasure than to write the
things that deserve to be read.
Great talents are above the gener-
ality of the wolld, who neither pos.
sess them themselves nor Judge of
them rightly in others; but all peo-
pie are judges Of the lesser talents,
such as ciyility, atfability and an agree
able address and manner.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
suRscR1PuoN RArEsI

Entsval at tAe Post Office for t''aBSHaSsstOH
a -o,,Sh A. aaaib al sSoond-cldss rotss-
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
Bagplpes on the veldt.

Strangely enough, Englishmen hal
the bagpipes long before the High
landers. Then, as British musical
art developed, the pipes were passed
on across the Tweed. They were
first used in battle by the Scottish
forces at the battle of Balrinnes, in
1894, although tradition has it that
they formed one Of the most potent
elements in the rout at Bannock
Since that day they have done Won
ders in cheering and rallying the
Highland forces at critical moments,
notably at the battles Of Quebec
(1760), and Porto Nuoyo (1781), and,
still later, at the celebrated charge Of
Dargai, on October 81, 1897.
The Cockney Tommy" whose for
tune it may be to sleep for the first
time alongside the tents of High
land regiment, may we'll be excused if
he awakes under the mistaken i'm.
preston that the Transvaalfe feliues are
at their wauling." The fact of the
matter is that the "braw laddies"
have from time immemorial turned
out to the sound of the national bag
pipe, the sound of which, as heard in
the cold gray light of a winters morn.
ing, is the reverse of cheering. Lon
don Mail.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

We understand the Commissioners
have before them a bill, II. r. 0l48,
to regulate the practice of veterinary
medicine in the District Of Columbia,
and we hope they will see their way
clear to approve it, so it can be en-
acted into law. OF late years so many
sfake" veterinarians have been oper.
ating here that something ought to be
done to protect the profession as we'll
as the general public.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
Ice CAVE mn WYOMING.
French Trapper Discovers Large Cavern
in q Glacier.

Catacombs of marvellous extent and
beauty exist in the living ice OF Cloud
Mountain, in northern Wyoming. They
we're found by jacques Moulin,
French trapper. Nothing like them
is known elsewhere in the Rocky
Mountains, and the circumstances Of
their discovery form a strange story.
Cloud Mountain is a lofty peak in a
littIe-explored region of the Big Horn
range, and near its summit, Judging
from Moulin's description, is true
glacier. His story, in substance, is
as follows
'In the snow near the top OF the
mountain 1 made a dugout to live in
while I was trapping there last De-
cember. This hut was in the midst
of a great snow and ice drift that
clings to the side of the mountain. /
was far above timber line, and to make
the wood that brought there go as
far as possible 1 used to build my
campfire on the floor of my little cave.
One morning 1 awoke to find that
where the fire had been was yawn.
ing well, the bottom of which 1 could
not see. 1 had been living on the roof
OF huge cavern and the fire had
melted its way into the depths.
Taking a long and istout rope, I
fastened one end Of it secure near the
edge of the hole and lowered myself
into the depths. l took with me
pitch pine torch and q ball of twine.
The opening rapidly became larger as
l went down, and at a depth of about
forty feet I stood upon the floor Of a
large room. All around me were walls
of ice, blue in color and clear as crys-
tai. Through the ice the light filtered
dimly, giving the place a shadowy I'M
reality. 1t was intensely cold and l
returned to the surface for my fur
clothing.
"After lowering myself into the
cavern again tied the twine to the
end of the rope, lighted my torch and
| followed the course of the opening,
which seemed to lead like q long hall.
way directly toward the heart OF the
mountain. The cavern became higher
the farther I went, aud about 150
yards from my starting place the roof
seemed to be at least seYenty-hve feet
above me. Here found myself in O
room from which galleries like the one
1 had entered stretched away in every
direction. In width the galleries va
ried from ten to fifty feet, and at their
intersections great transparent col
umns extended to the roof. The mix
ture Of the dim, white light of the
cave and the reflections of the torch s
flame from a thousand of glittering
surfaces was at once bewidering and
fascinating. Again and again L re-
turned to feast my eyes on the beau.
ties of this natural ice palace. But
the cold was so great Chat I always
had to cut short my visits. 1 never
explored the other galleries, and how
far they extend I cannot guess. The
ice seems to be honeycombed by the
caverns, and yet the walls and floors
are as hard and firm, apparently, a:
the mountain itself.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
The prosid.nt of the English Board

The President of the English Board
of Agriculture, which, Of course, is
department OF the Government, has
appointed a committee of experts to
decide what is milk. and to frame
regulations to determine what de.
fceney in any of the normal constitu-
ents Of genuine milk or cream, or
what addition Of extraneous matter or
proportion of water in any sample OF
milk, including condensed milk or
cream, shall raise the presumption
that tAe milk or cream is net genuine
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

A friendly shoulder nlap broke 9
mans neck the other day in Now Yorh
City. There is only one worse nuis
Ance in the world than the rib-poker,
aud that is the shouldor-slappcr.
Taey have both outliyed their useful.
ness and are fit objects of solicitudo
for the Society for Doing without
Some People. Tho fend who takes
you unaware on crowded pavement
with facetious bat on the shoulder.
blade when you are meditating on the
ideal and the beautiful, and expects
yo1 to twist your shaken verterbrae
into a genial nod and greet him with
a happy, appreciatiye smile, possesseS
an heroic soul that would notrecognize
the language of conventional remon.
STRANGE. He is not criminal and he is
not crazy; he is simply an idiot. The
lunatic asylums and the jails are over
worked, but the fool-kiiler doesn't
hall know his business.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

Superintendent Of Schools Frye has
reported TO Governor-G General Wood
that 1873 primary schools have been
opened in the island of Cuba and that
100, 600 children are in attendance.
The opening of the schools has done
much to bring about a better feeling
towards the Americans throughout
the island.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17

The Ripans Chemical Co., Of New
York, has just contracted for consid-
erable space in our columns, and by
paying for it in advance for a full
year they make a net saving Of about
forty dollars.
The suburban citizen., 1900-03-17
rnnd for Mine suherers.

Charleston, W. Va, Especial. )-The fund
being raised in this city for the widows and
orphans OF the Red Ash Mine disaster has
reaehed SS2s. A check for 800 was re-
oeiyed from Senator s. b. Elkfns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
Anew CRAWFORD THEATER.
liz ALL THIS WEEK.
VERONEE-FALK Go.
TONIGHT
Wicked London.
SATURDAY MATINEE,
Little Lord Eaunt1erOy.
Bargain Prices: Adults Csc, Children I5c

prices are sustained by strong foreign
quotations, activity in Chicago by Cali
fornia tanners and government pur-
chases for harness.
Bradstreet's finincial review says:
Pronounced dullness still prevails In
the stock market, the total transactions
at the New York stock exchange on sew
eral days this week falling below to
1000 shares. The public is entirely out
of the market and the large financial in
terests are apparently waiting for re-
vival Of general activity.
Some investment purchases are appar-
emily in progress from time to time in
the dividend paying part of the railroad
share list, and there has also been more
or less manipulation of a few special
stocks. 1t is however "a long time since
the market has been so lifeless or so de-
void of features.
The London market is to all appear
ances as dull, If not dul1er than our own.
The large increase of the Bank of Eng
lands gold reserves. amounting to Ca
400 600, representing the shipments from
New York on account of the war loan
subscriptions, has eased the London
money market to such an extent that
there is no longer any reason to appre-
bend further Withdrawals of gold from
this country. The money market has
been relieved from this danger, and at
the same time has been helped by the
large disbursements the New York sub
treasury has made account of re-
demption of the old per cent bonds
Easy money, however, has little effect in
view Of the total absence Of speculative
interest. The crop news was on the
whole favorable. despite the prevalence
of drouth in the extreme west and the
consequent adverse talk about corn
crop prospects. Little effect was pro-
duced by the greater activity of the iron
and steel trades, though the industrials
as class were 6rmer. The general list
was on the whole steady and bear selling
by the traders did not bring out any
stocks The only real activity was in a
few manipulated issues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
SHERMAN coUNTY's WEALTH
Prosperity Due Largely to Her Many
Windmills

Goodland, Aug. FISHERMAN county
sets in the ever growing shadows of her
windmill wells and smiles in peace and
plenty.
The county now has at least Is. 900
head of cattle as against 5000 three
years ago, and to the windmill is to be
creolted the increase of kline and the
fairness thereof. The county numbers
these wells by the hundreds, the aver
age depth to water being 100 feet About
~ per cent of the county area, however,
showing depths to water under 2 5feet
With an area of 30x36 miles the county
still offers at least one-third of its entire
acreage for occupancy, the vacant por-
lions including government lands and
many acres on sale with decided titles at
from $1.25 to 81 per acre, with also con-
siderable choice hay lands at SIS per acre
The dairy and poultry interests are
being extended, and well nutured by the
windmill well, while the same safe
source of water supply gives ready ir-
r1gation to garden and tree growths
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
NEW GARBAGE PLAN.
Topeka Considering Use of Cans on
Streets.

w. H. Ramm, representing st. Louis
firm, is in the city today. He brought
with him and placed on the street in
front of sos Kansas avenue a receptacle
designed to be used as a place to throw
waste paper, banana peels, cigar stubs
and any other rubbish which a person
wants to throw away and which should
not be thrown in the street.
The matter of placing such receptacleS
all over the business portion of the city
came before the council and was re-
ferred to the streets and walks commit
tee about a month ago.
This committee has been in commune
cation with several companies which
manufacture the boxes and viii later on
make a recommendation to the council.
This is the first box to make it's ap-
pearance in Topeka and it is being put
to a practical test.
Kansas City recently adopted this
plan and passed an ordinance requiring
all persons to throw their waste in the
boxes and it has so far proved to be
benefit to the city.
A similar ordinance win probably be
passed by the Topeka council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
BROOM CORN RUINED.
Hot Winds and Rains Do Damage of
100000 in ILLINOIS.

Arcola, Ill, Aug. 25.-Three hundred
thousand dollars worth of broom corn
IS rotting and worthless in the fields
OF thistle greatest broom corn district
of the world. Profit to that amount
belonging to the farmers of the broom
corn belt has been destroyed by blast
ing winds, terrific heat, showers of hail
and scalding rains. So aggravated has
the effect upon prices become that the
Union Broom Corn company-the So
called trust which deals with the pro-
ducers-held a special session in Chi
cago today to try to make arrange
ments to meet the emergency. Every
woman who uses a broom is interested
in the situation. Brooms that sell in
Arcola for 25 and 20 cents are selling
in the outside world at from 40 to so
cents, price unknown for years.
Every woman who buys a broom,
every retail grocer, all the big whole
salers of Chicago. all the woodenware
people are deeply concerned in the
knowledge that the broom corn crop
of the United States is shorter this
year than it ever has been before, and
that the farmers, raisers of broom
corn, are in a position to demand from
$3.50 to 5000 per ton for their crop, where
the ordinary price in the past has been
Illinois has the greatest broom corn
area in the world. The largest broom
corn shipping town in the world is
county on the Illionis Central railroad.
Here, this summer, the temperature
has ranged from 50 to ITO degrees,
baking the earth, blighting the fields,
driving the harvestters to shelter.
Here four great storms have swept
the broom corn fields with hail, heavy
winds and hot rain, beating down and
breaking the tender corn, and with
every gust raising the value of the
product surviving from 10 to 20 per
cent. Little wonder that the Union
company worked very hard today to de-
wise ways and means not only to over
come the shortage but to meet the
price demands of the farmers.
Charleston farmers have already held
one public meeting and will hold an
other to raise prices on such of their
stock of broom corn as has survived
the storms. They have the buyers at
sas and Nebraska crops have been de-
stroyed by hot winds.
1t is not improbable that before fall
sets in the price of the corn will be
5000 a ton at Arcola, Charleston, Tus-
cola, Paris and Neoga. Such a price is
unprecedented in the history of the
broom corn industry in the United
States.
The great broom corn belt of the
Edgar and Cumberland counties of this
state. The heaviest crops are raised in
Douglas and Coles counties. The ship
ping center is Arcola. 1t is not gem
orally understood that to raise broom
corn two essentials are necessary-cap-
ital and a fat, black, 1oamy soil. No
farmer can well engage in the broom
corn industry unless he has at least
500 or $500 in hand. It is useless to
quality raised deteriorates on any other
Kind of soil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
FROM NEWTON.

F. G. Morrow of Dodge City, has ia
ken position in the telegraph room of
the Santa Fe in this city and began his
new duties last night.
Engine Inspector Ben Ditlow has Sc
cured a few days leave of absence and
has gone to PittSburg, 1t visit relatives.
He will be home next week.
Master Mechanic Neubert is slowly re-
covering from the effects of his recent
accident, though he is still unable to be
at the shop. He will probably be ready
for active duty by the fore part of the
coming week.
Fireman Walter Sherer has gone to
Denver where he will remain a week or
two, in the hopes of regaining his health.
Walter has been having quite a seige
with an attack of fever. The mountain
air will probably brace him I'D.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
MONEY AND MARKETS.
Dun and Bradstreet Hold Encourag-
ing Views of the Situation.

New York, Aug. PR. G.. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
The sky is not cloudless, but there
has been no backward movement of
business this week.
The chief drawback of the week has
been the intense heat in some sections
of the west, which was more efficient
in retarding business than the lower
temperature east was in stimulating it.
Crop adviceS continue as cheerful as at
any time lately, and the labor situation
shows no important changes in working
forces. Prices are steady but there is
talk of a decline, perhaps $40 per ton
in steel rails, shortly, to a basis at
which it is believed the railroads will
be willing to place orders for the en-
suing years supplies.
More good news comes from the great
iron centers, where bridge and boat
builders and makers of agricultural i'm
plernents, stoves and cast-iron pipe are
finished material. Prices are sustained
and in few cases move upward. Iron
generally is a more solid and better
balanced market than for two months
past. Reduction in output of pig is
having the desired effect at most north
ern points, though at the south stocks
are still heavy and complaint is heard
of prohibitive freight rates to the sea
board. Large export business is wait
ing, and foreign buying of finished ma
teria1 continues large.
Production of coke has been decreased
to 1880 tons weekly in the Connells-
vile region. Another sharp decline has
taken the price of tin to 301k cents,
but copper is firm
Wheat declined still further on Sat-
urday, touching the lowest price since
early in June and making the fall 1875
cents from the top point of the season,
about two months ago. Vigorous mar
keting by farmers shows their willing
ness to sell at current prices, receipts
at primary markets during three weeks
amounting to 19, 999 900 bushels, against
10, 633, 051 last year. Daily figures of ex-
ports continue light, although there is
much talk of purchases for foreign ac-
count. Prices recovered from the low
est point, traders on the short side
taking profits freely.
Corn is steady, but drop last year
makes the present price only four cents
above that of 1899. Sales of wool at the
three chief eastern markets have in
creased to 5,062, 500 pounds. against A.
231, 800 in the week previous. Today's
wool was active in Boston and territory
grades are all firmly held, though prices
are nominaily unchanged There is no
pressure to sell, some dealers shipping
east with definite instructions to hold
until after election Factories are still
working only part time in the eastern
boot and shoe districts and it Is evident
that earlier estimates of accumulat ted
stocks were much too small There is
more activity in the hide market and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-25
LETTER FROM JAPAN.
Chanute Man Writes Home Interest
ingly of the Country.

Chanute, Aug 26-Mr. Charles Nc
Cready, who is now working for the
Standard Oil company in Japan, writes
home interestingly to his brother here
from Yokohama He says in part:
Well. will write you letter on Jap
anese paper (the letter was enclosed in
an envelope made from wood fibre, quite
an oddity)- We had a very fair trip
over. 1t was stormy for a few days,
and of course we were sea sick
On our last trip we Travelled about $50
miles in Jinrikishas. We had two men to
each one. Part of the way we were in
the mountains, over roads about like
Pennsylvania roads. They will make six
miles an hour On good roads they will
make seven and eight. We tarveled in
the mountains where they had never
seen a white man before We were treat
ed very nice. had guides all the way, and
dined with chiefs We stopped with
one that was the boss of So villages We
stopped one night at a hot spring close
to the snow line and tried to take a bath
in the spring, but it was too hot for us
The mountains are white with snow all
the time. In going over there we cross
the mountains on cog railroad, and can
see a volcano in the distance. It is only
smoking now
The railroads are built on the English
plan They are run by the Japs. 1t is