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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-25
tFIRsT PAPER)
THE PRINT SHOP IN JRHnkLIn's TIME.
by Eugene Slough, Sioux Falls.)

"The children of Seth wrote on columns
of brick and stone; Hesiad's works
were on tablets of lead; and Soion's
laws upon wooden plank
Civilization may move in cycles, as
The distinguished scientist Alfred Rus
sci Wallace afirms, but If so, the world
has been on the long side of that orbit,
SO far as remaining records attest, II
measured by our metewands, until
within a period spanned by two or
three life-times to us, and the present.
That the art preventative OF the arts
has been the most potent Of all the en-
gines OF progress, there can be little
question: and by way of retrospection
want to take you back beyond the
lives of two gray haired men and open
The door to the print shop the elders
father knew.
FIRST NEWSPAPERS.
The first newspaper in America (the
States now) was the Boston News-Let-
ter. established in 1904. 1t was a two
column two-page folio; this means, as
comprehend it, that the two printed
pages were opposed by two blank ones
"a style Of printing followed in China,
from art or necessity, at the present
time. Fifteen years later the second
paper, the Boston Gazette, was estab-
iished, and Andrew Bradford launched
The American Weekly Mercurie, at
Philadelphia, the sane ye4". The
fourth newspape venture was by
James Franklin, elder brother Of Ben
Iamin, at Boston in ira weekly,
styled the New England COurant. It
- f. Ali - nn- & min lfFsu n lin
then a youth Of fifteen years, was first
aprenticed to the trade, under linden
.ure-candles and cutlery not bring to
his liking.
THE OLD PRESSES.
The printing press of that time was
II a type which with a few slight
changes was N vogue for over two
hundred years; the kind on which
Franklin, later on while working for
Keimer, printed paper MONEY for the
colony of New Jersey. They were
constructed almost entirely Of wood by
a printers joiner, as p~ress-euilders
were styled in those days. The car
Rage consisted of a coffin in which the
bed, d stone slab, was imbedded in
oran, plaster paris, or heavy brown
paper. 1t was carried under and from
he platen by girts around the rounce-
oarrel winding and u~nwinding.
The impression was effected by
means of a wormed spindle working in
4 threaded opening in the head and
acting against a seating-plate in the
platen; the spindle being actuated by
4 lever, exactly as the common jack
screw known to us. The head of the
press movedsin slotted ways, or NOR
tees within the cheeks or side frames,
and when the form was under the
platen for impression the upward no
ton OF the head was arrested at a
point to give the desired squeeze by
inserting within the mortices q suita-
BILE thickness of felt. cardboard or
wood; this was termed justifying the
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-25

"The children of Seth wrote on columns
of brick and stone: Hesiod's works
were on tablets of lead; and Solon's
1,,.,g. anon ,yopdau plaDk
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-25

Quincy. Mass, was not burt UNI. ioZ1,
steam never turned a press wheei III
this country until 1872: .no
Franklin's print shop knew o cue
nlume-not the pen; it came IN leov'
n knew the candle an6 the dlp Pr
the kerosene lamp; it came IN leLo,
The flint, the steel and finder or tns
potash sulphur splint and PHI a. OF ac!u
mot the friction match; it came IN
1900
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-25

London. Jan. 23.-The CORRESPONDENT
of the Times at Lourei.zo Marquee,
t~elegraphing Saturday, says:
II learn from an absolutely unbiased
and trustworthy informant that the
Beers are dishearteneG. | also learn
that the British residents in the two
republics would suffer severely ut the
hands of the burghers did not the lat
ter fear the result to the Beers In the
hands of the British"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-01-25
FIRST IRON PRESS.

There was no outfit material to be
had in America when Franklin wanted
II establish for himself. - was ten
years after Frankiin's death when
Earl Stanhope of England built the
first iron press. IL was a toggle-joint
ard lever-the prototype in this re-
spect of the Washington press built in
this country by Samuel Rust in 1923.
Treadwell, Clymer and Smith were also
early American press builders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
STILLWELL ENTHUSIASTIC
Says It is Easy to Raise Money For
His New Project.

st. Louis. May 5.-A. E. Stilwell of
Kansas City, Lorenzo Elizaga n
Alonzo and Francisco Fernandez of the
City of Mexico are at the st. Nicholas
hotel as the guests of W. w. Sylvester
of the Sylvester Coal company. Mr.. Syl-
vester is interested with them in the
construction of a railroad from Kansas
City to Topolobampo bay on the west
coast of Mexico. After they have fin
ished their visit to this city he will
join them in a tour of the east in the
interest of the new road, to last about
three weeks.
when I undertook to build the Kan
sas City, P~ittsburg & Gulf road I was
enthusiastic and predicted a great fu-
ture for it." said Mr.. Stilwell, speaking
of the project, but the enthusiasm that
1 had for it is nothing compared with
what l now have for the new road. II
opens a vastly richer territory, and the
possibilities are far beyond any 1 saw
for the Pittsburg & Gulf. 1 have found
it easy to raise the money to build this
road. It will pay as soon as we car
get the cars running owe it. Work or
the road will begin within six weeks
We expect to have our cars running by
January, 1902, and possibly earlier"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
CRIES 0 HELP.
Waverly People Ask Attorney Gener-
al to Strengthen Their Prose-
cutor's Back Bone.

Since the attorney general has taken
a ham in enforcing the prohibitory law
in the Klondike and at Arkansas City,
other places II Kansas have requested
him to offer assistance to them on the
same subject.
Several applications have been made
recently for such assistance, but the
most important comes from Waverly,
M. l. Hayes and L. c. Liggett having
personally called upon the attorney
geenral to present their grievances.
These men were selected for this mis-
sion by the temperance organizations of
Coffey county. They represented to the
attorney general that the county attor-
ney, 5. ID. Weaver, a Republican, is
being miSled by the jointists and
druggists from whom he recently pro-
cured a signed agreement to refrain
from selling liquor. But the jointists
and drug stores continue the practice,
so say Hayes and Liggett.
While they did not ask for proceed
ings to Oust Weaver from office, they
requested the attorney general to take
the matter UP with Weaver and dis
cipline'' him ito a certain extent"
The two representatives made a spe-
cial effort to give the attorney general
to understand that they a no per
sonal fight against Weaver, but they
asked that the state assist Weaver in
compelling q performance OF the DOLL
cation found in the agreement to stop
selling liquor.
A case in court brought through the
fundamentally of the temperance
workers was dismissed by Weaver in
the face of the agreement The tenn
perance workers claim that Weaver
agreed to continue the case, but soon
dismissed it. He was suffering with a
sprained wrist as the result of an acct
dent with a horse.
Mr.. Hayes said: Mr.. Weaver wanted
to continue the case until his injuries
healed. so he could give personal at
tention to the prosecution. To this we
agreed, but were surprised two days
later when he dismissed the case by
sending word to the judge through an
other lawyer"
Mr.. Iiggett said: eve think we have
been deceived and want the attorney
general to help US secure the enforce
ment of the prohibitory law"
Did you ask the attorney general
to proceed against Weaver to GUST hin
from Officer" was asked.
mo, we did not care to do that" re
piled Hayes and Liggett, but we would
like to have the attorney general en-
courage Weaver to a more faithful per
Torrance. of his duties"
The attorney general has the matte
under advisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
SOCIALISTS DISAPPOINTED
G. c. Clemens Did Not Cut a Wide
Swath in Oklahoma.

Guthrie, o. T., May 5.-The socialists
of Oklahoma are disappointed al the
lac of interest manifested in the meet
ings at which G. c.. Clemens, the Kan
sas socialistic candidate for governor,
was the speaker.
Clemens was brought down from t.
peka to open the first campaign to be
conducted by the socialists of the terri
tory. He toured Oklahoma, topping
at h largest towns on the Santa Fe
and Rock Island lines. but at no place
was he rewarded with anything like a
large audience. The leaders in the
movement expected a big reception for
the Kansas speaker and made the mis-
take of securing the largest halls in the
various towns for his meetings. In
Guthrie the principal meeting was held
in the new opera house, but the attend
ance was so small hat the atmosphere
was positively chilly, although the tenn
perature outdoors was in the neighbour
hood of blood heat. The outlook for the
socialists this year is anything but en-
%couraging to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
FL TO CAPE NOME.
Santa Fe Starts a Party of % in a
Special Pullman.

Wichita, May 5.-Twenty-two men
from different parts of southern Kansas
and Oklahoma passed through Wichita
on their way to Cape Nome, in a special
Pullman. The party came in on the
Panhandle at 1880 and were cheered n
jollied, hand shaken and kissed by a
good part of the 500 men and women
who had gone to the Santa Fe to see
them go through. Brothers, sisters, &C
quaintanees and friends Of the gold
seekers were among the visitors and
there was as much of laughing and
crying as is the case sometimes when
men go to war.
The party left over the Santa Fe for
Colorado Springs, accompanied by Har-
ry NJ. Swan of Topeka. travelling pas
senger agent. The special Pullman por-
ter, VS.. Russell, will go through to
Seattle. They viii sail from Seattle on
the steamer Centennial. May 20, and ar
i've at Cape Nome June 1. The cost
of the trip to Seattle is $40 for each tick
ct, n about the same from Seattle to
Cape Nome.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
SIX DROWNED
As a Result of the stranding of the
Steamer Virginia.

Cape Henry, Va, May 5.-The British
steamer Virginia. Captain Charles
Samuel from Daquiri, Cuba, for Balti-
more, with a cargo Of iron ore and with
a crew of tw~enty-six men including one
stowaway, stranded on Diamond Shoal
about 6 p. m. Wednesday, May g. dur
ing thick, heavy weather. The crew
took to the boats and attempted to
leave the ship. One ca with fifteen
of the crew got away but the other boat
was swamped and six men drowned. The
remaining five got back on the steamer
where they remained until this morning
when they were rescued and brought
ashore by the crews of the Creeds Hill
and Cape Hattaras life saving stations.
The ship stranded about twelve miles
from shore and owing to the heavy
equally eathe which has prevailed for
several days she was not discovered by
the life savers until this morning. The
rescue vas made in the station life
boats.
The following are known to be
drowned:
SAMUEL PARK, steward.
p. ST. GEORGE VALLEY, chief en-
gineer.
HARRIS, seaman
OLSEN,
TWO FIREMEN, names unknown.
The boat. with fifteen of the crew
which got away from the ship, when
last seen was running off shore before
the wind and was apparently safe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
GROWL FROM MILES.
Sneers at SIMPSONS Bombardment OF
Moro Castle.

New York, May 5.-A special to the
Journal and Advertiser from Washing
ton says:
General Miles makes a sharp criticism
of the engineering department in the
disappearing gun carriage matter in
which he characterized h Arguments of
General John NJ. Wilson, chief of engi-
neers, as academic"
General Miles also takes occasion to
pay his respects to the futility of the
furious fire of SIMPSONS fleet at the
ancient artillery of Spain at Santiago.
General Miles points out that the dis
appearing gun carriage a been used
in this country to the exclusion prac-
tically of all others.
General Miles continues: The corr
clusion to mount upward of 80 per cent
of our modern high power coast defense
guns in deep pits on disappearing car
riageS was apparently reached after a
long continued academic discussion of
the question in successive annual re-
ports of the chief engineers. This con-
cluSiOn is not believed to be based pom
any practical results of fire from ship
board or Ian fo~rtifications obtained in
war service.
Old Moro Castle, the 18th century
work exposed on a block less
than 200 feet above tide water and arm
ed with four eighteenth century smooth
bore cannon, withstood on one occasion
the concentrated fire of our fleet at close
range for three hours, with the result
that one corner of the masonry was
struck and damaged, but the parapet
wall remained intact and not a man or
a gun was injured so far as known.
Il deem it most unfortunate that we
should take up, develop and place al
most sole dependence upon a type of
mount that has been tried n practic-
ally abandoned abroad"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
EMPLOYERS LOOK OUT.
Change in Food Doubled the Wages.

The manager of a certain large pub
LEGATION, who deprecates the use Of his
name in public, has experienced a
curious change in his general character
by reason of a change in the cells of his
brain, brought about by a change in
food and his experience is interesting,
as given in his own words:
up to a short time ago,I was alwayil
known, both to myself and friends, as a
very mild sort of individual, obeying lit
orally the Scripture injunction to turn
the other cheek and let people run
over me generally, with a spirit of
thankfulness that I was permitted to
"Along last fall I changed my diet.
leaving off coffee entirely and taking up
Postum Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts
breakfast food. I had learned that
these articles both contained the fine
particles of phosphate of potash and
albumen that nature uses to build the
gray matter in the brain and nerve cen
ters, so I determined to see what effect
they would have on me.
1T was not long before I discovered
nat I had changed in a most remarks.
able manner My old mother wrote ne
that there. was a great deal more
Sunk in my letters han she ever saw
before. l began to vigorously kick at
any injustice. / am about instituting a
criminal libel suit against a party who
supposed I would stand anything. [
send a dish back that is not cooked
right, ABOUT three IInneS Week On the
31st Of December last I demanded dou-
bic wage for the coming year and
found 1 had backbone enough to lay
down If I didn't get it.-and I got it. I
get clean sheets twice a week now. They
used to take the upper sheet and put it
under once a week.
Il am able to do five times the brain
work that I ever have before. In fact,
I can get about anything 1 want nova
days, and to top it all, am perfectly
well. A new world has been opened
to me and l know exactly where the
change has come from. 1t has come be-
cause I have been using a food and
drink that have changed my whole
brain and body. You can use this letter,
but don't use my name, for obvious rea-
sons"
Grape-Nuts breakfast food and Pos
tum Food Coffee ar kept by all first
class grocers and are used by nearly all
; drst-class people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
ANIMAL MARVELS.
Gentry Dog Show More Interesting
Than Ever.

At the corner of Thirteenth and Har-
rison streets Gentryss dog and pOn
show is holding forth. Two perform
anees were given Friday, one is being
given this afternoon M the closing
performance will be given tonight
This is the twelfth year of the sue
cessful career of the Gentry dog shows,
and it is much larger and better than
ever before. The show opened with an
exhibition of trained ponies. A COM
pany of twelve ponies was put through
a drill. They marched n counter
marched and went through all the evo-
lutiOns of a well drilled company with
a precision n accuracy hat a per-
son would think was only attainable by
human beings, At the end of this act
a team Of four Newfoundland logs. a
pony and an elephant did a clever trick,
the dogs and ponies lying down and
the elephant walking over them with
out stepping on. them. A number of
new features have been introduced in
the show this year. One of these is a
punching bag suspended from the roof
of the tent. A pugilist in the shape of
a bull dog took his daily exercise by
pounding the bag around by his nose.
Another new thing this year is the
high dive by a small dog. A ladder
! about twenty feet high is placed in an
upright position, up which the little
dog climbs one step at a time until
he reaches the top and climbs out on
a little platform from which the high
dive is made. This was one of the best
features of the performance.
A great lea of interest is shown in
the jumping of the hounds.
The most interest and excitement was
shown, at least by the young folks
when the climax was reached at the
conclusion of the performance. Fire
broke out in the roof Of the little build
ing erected in one end of the tent
The fire department was called out
The o. and ladder truck arrived
first and a ladder was run up to one
of the windows, while a fireman in the
shape of a monkey ran up and dashed
in at the window to begin the work Of
rescuing the inmates of the burning
house. The hose cart was next to ar.
rive, while the force pump followed
closely after. When everything was il
readiness a stream of water was turned
on the building and the fire put out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
EASTERN AGENCY
Appointed For Collection of Funds
for Scofeld Sufferers.

Salt Lake, May Sin response to
many inquiries from citizens of the
United States and from numerous firms
and corporations outside of Utah, ad-
dressed to the governor and other citi-
zens Of Utah, making generous proffers
of financial assistance for the stricken
families of the victims of the Scofeld
mine disaster, Governor Wells will is
sue an address stating in view of the
appalling magnitude of the mortality
and the very large number of depend
ent women and children requiring care
and -sustenance, that contributions will
be most gratefully received from kindly
disposed and sympathetic people every
where, and that all subscriptions should
be sent to James 7. Hammond, secre-
tary of state and chairman of the CEN
trail relief fund, who is authorized to
attend to the equitable distribution Of
the fun to the sufferers.
The governor will designate Spencer,
Trask & Co., of New York city, as an
eastern collection agency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
BUST OF WEBB WILDER.
It Is Presented to State Historical
Society by E. F. Ware.

1t Is presented 60 SEaI0 h1SGOr1cdl
Society by E. F. Ware.
E. F. Ware has presented to the State
Historical society a bust of D. w. Will
der, the author of the Annals of Kansas
n one of the most prominent men in
lis state.
In a letter to the society Mr.. Ware
says: 'Mr. Wilder came to Kansas in
1857; in 1858 he was one of the editors
of the Elwood Free Press of Doniphan
county. He ran a Republican paper, he
Free Democrat in st. Joseph in 1850.
MI. Wilder, with Colonel D. R. Anthony
and others, founded the Leavenworth
Conservative in 1861, and Mr.. Wilder
was editor until 1864. President Lincoln
appointed him surveyor general of Kan
sas. In 1871 he became the editor of the
Fort Scott Monitor. 1873 to 1876 he was
auditor of Kansas He was one of the
organizers of the State Historical So
ciety in 1875. In 1876 he resigned the
office of state auditor to become editor
Of the st. Joseph Herald. Mo- long af-
ter that he eturned to Hiawatha and
bought the Hiawatha World, which he
sold to Ewing Herbert in 1886. Mr.. Will
der was executive clerk for Governor
/. john A, Martin, and during Governor
Humphreys administration he was
superintendent of insurance. He is now
editor of the Insurance Magazine of
Kansas City, and lives at Hiawatha.
Mr.. Wilder is one of the really great
men of Kansas"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
Want Free Rural Delivery.

Calderhead has filed petitions for the
establishment of rural free delivery SER
vice as. follows: Blue Rapids. Marys-
vile, Beattie, Home City and Irving,
Marshall county; C~oncordia, Cloud
county; EIlville, Republic county; Ash
land township, Clark county, and for
two additional routes at Scandal, Re
public county. Congressman BOwersock
has filed petitions for like service at the
following places Agricola, COffey
county,; Eudora, Douglas county; Bos-
mer, Wyandotte. county; Olathe, John
son county; Garnett, Anderson county,
and for two additional routes at
burg and Paola, Miami county, and for
extension Of the route at Merriam
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
HOLTON WILL BE R
N. M. Beck Gives His Word to G. A
r. Officials.

NJ. NJ. Beck, of Holton, while in To-
peka yesterday comforting with G. A.
R. officials. stated that the joints and
saloons now running in the city will be
closed during the G. A. R. encampment
there mex week. MI. Beck said:
"Holton will be a dry town during
G. A. R. encampment week. The back
as well as the front dOo of every joint
in town will be closed during the stay
of the veterans or the people of the
town will know the reason why. A
large majority of the old soldiers are
prohibitionists, n if they visit Holton
and find the joints running they will
carry the disgraceful story oiever sec
ton of thes state. There are a few of
the old soldiers who cannot withstand
temptation. and it is the duty of the
a and count officers to protect
these battle-scarred old veterans from
the villainous decoction that is usually
sold in these dens of infamy."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
HAWAIIAN POLITICS.
Steps Taken to Organize the Repub-
lican Party.

Chicago, May 5.-A Record special
from Honolulu April q (via San Fran
CISCO says:
A call has been issued for a v
tion to organize the Republican party
Of the territory of Hawaii. The onven
ton is to meet in Honolulu May 10. All
persons who believe in the principles OF
the Republican party as Laid down by
the last national convention of the party
are invited to meet in their respective
localities and elect delegates to this
convention. Representation is accorded
on the basis of the representation of the
several districts in the asst house of
representatives of the islands. In
addition to organizing the party
the convention will select del
egates to erpresent the territory in the
Republican national convention at
Philadelphia. AS yet the Democrats
avemadenomov towards organizing in
any part of the islands. 1t is hard to
tell yet whether political divisions OF
the people will be along national party
lines or not. There is a great deal OF
talk of a native party, composed of the
native Hawaiians and the whites who
were royalists at the time Of the over
throw.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-05
JAPANESE RUSH
To United States .and British Colum.
bia Unabated.

Tacoma. Wash, May 5.-Oncers OF
the steamship Tacoma, which arrived
from Yokohama yesterday, speaking of
the great numbe of Japanese hocking
to the United States and British Column
bia, say it was current talk in Yoko-
hama that there would be 10000 Japa-
nese to leave their native country for
British Columbia alone his summer,
and it is believed that the number COM
ing to the United States would be
The steamer Tosu Maru is
now due on the Sound with 1000 Japa-
nese on board, and the D-alnyvostock,
one of the Tacoma liners, will be here
in a few days with 900 more.