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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12

The proprietors of the Quincy street
merry go-round" continue to have
trouble with bad boys who jump their
little wheel without paying the custom
airy fee of "5-cents-a -half-a dime tn
TWEEN tieth- part-of- "a dollar" Policeman
Henry Aye captured one of these youth
ful aggravaters,a and brought him swiftly,
and not very gently, to the city keep.
Mr.. Charles Tyler, as he handed in his
name, was fined 81, and the court de-
clared that the nice little pleasure re-
sort on the corner of Fourth and
Quincy streets should be defended. Mr..
Aye promised to furnish a wagon load
of Offenders for Mondays court.
A lady living on the ragged western
edge of the city who had never seen a
policeman, sent in a hurry up call yes
teFday which brought the Black Maria
and pair of officers to her door in
hurry. She informed them that she was
much gratified to see them, and they
went their way. but not rejoicing. AS
secondary consideration she said that
her husband had gone off somewhere
and he might possibly come back some
time and act in a disorderiy and dis
agreeable manner. Should such an oc-
casion arises. she thought 1t a good
plan to be acquainted with the police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12

place during his absence and answer
telephone calls, book an occasional VIC
tim and look at the clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12

James Black, Mr.. and Mrs. James Price
Howe, Mrs Davis and Miss Alice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-12
NORTH TOPEKA.

deave items for this column with Kim
ball & Son. s12 Kansas avenue.l
My gallery is for sale cheap.
S L. COURTNEY.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02

And the qualification of zinc is
constantly going on in the earth's
furnaces, and the heavy, pungent
smoke OF zinc has also an affinity
for your sulphurous water and two
parts of zinc unite with one part
OF sulphur and the zinc blende is
deposited or precipitated in your
veins prepared before nil time for
it,"
"And is the galena or lead pro
duced the same way?"
VERY much the same way; lead
heated us the middle fires of the
earth heat it, also volatilizes. You
can observe that in cupel furnace
the heavy, thick smoke passing
off. This smoke also passes
through the carboniferous region
and also through the sulphur wa
ters. In one you have the carbo-
nate of lead in the other, the gale
M consisting of one-eigth sulphur
the balance lead. Nature never
varies; galeur is always composed
of the same units, so is zinc
blende, so is huor spar. Now, in
the latter the water may be unduly
impregnated with lime, the huor
spar is always the same, so many
units Of lime, SO many of hourine,
the excess of lime will always be
found by itself, as notice the blot
ches of Gale spar on many pieces
of huor spar. Nature never chan
ges. never varies"
"And are there many veins of
these minerals in our country,
Princess?"
Now | thought | would do the
cunning act. | would find out all
about it and got mp little syndi.
cate of my own and just run
things.
There is more zinc in Crittenden
than the entire world could use in
two centuries" said the Princess
"bnt You must earn il through the
the same old command that yeho-
yah gave Adam, by the sweat of
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02

your brow"
Then | am out, | thought, for /
don't believe | care very much fDt
zinc anyhow.
The evening Of the ball arrivrl.
There were knights and laG
from the Hodge, the Yandell, as
Holly and Memphis sent regrets.
the Mistress Edible Hodge re re-
s,niatiyes were in brown, the 3 .
lem contingent came gaily H., a.
tomobiles, with outriders tund
guards, and made brave az 80
ance, the Columbia had man. i.,
PIE, all dressed in orange, tn Ca
Donates from the Rice, the ION
Hodge, Mexico, Valley, Lvt-.
poured out people, Crider ioi.
were on time, and the grea $40
at tho John Hodge mine Itllj
minated by crystals until il $50
bled a huge diamond: the u,l
go pieces sat up on the ,ft
bench Of spar twenty fe il
the floor and each man la an
room by placing the so IN t
deep, as the big vein is IN ~
twenty feet wide. At the Isl
ment an infant, dressed j j
with slight pipings of pu asa
white, arrived at the door IA
he belonged to the Bigh a.
they said he was too srt,I
aud he took it good natu Is 81 i
said that the next ball !. ~
be there with full grow an
hope he may for he wa lui
nice lad
And to my sorrow. whc
to ask the Princess Carbonate >,
open with the grand marc 81,
bled over box of old tyl md
my head against the haa | p
and there | was in the ] Ess
flee, and there | had cen
night. and how TO account fo +
/ don't know, without il Al
pened .Qs have stated. Aid
know whether to sign t 9 &c
or not.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02
Grand Ball in the Slope Of a
fIuor Spar Nine.
INTERESTING FACTS FOR MINERS.

Tho old man wants la see you,
said the office boy. He wants To
compliment mo on one Of nay bril-
liant stories, | remarked. with an
Interrogation point tone,
Don't you fool yourself" RS
piled the boy. "he aint in any glu-
rose mood this evening, he is us
ing five en- dashes in his talk and
has talk is scandalous plain"
ooh, its you. is it," said the old
man as | entered the sanctum.
Young fellow, the whole county
Is alive with new mining develop
ments. has been for the pas; six
weeks. aud I'm blessed IL you
have turned in enough copy to
sad "A gun. Get out and dust,
,aung fellow; go aud interview
that Aphrodile or Etidorhpa, AS
that Cincinnati author calls her;
20 and interview somebody, any
body, or go to the and hsre n
seven em dash was made.
The old mans statement would
anllyzo about seventy per cent
truth, | thought 10 myself, for !
.ad bcea having a pretty click six
weeks Of it, Tho Marion athletic
club had been having some heavy
weight boxing matches and the
new swimming tank la the base
mont was especially enjoyable du-
ring the warm evenings, while the
hiiir blonde in the vaudeville al
the ncw Crittendcn theater on
south Thirty eighth streetwas ma
KING eyes at mo every time / en-
tered the house; aud then there
aerc the broiied Holsters and the
Ir.me clam bakes in the cafe un-
der the opera house, accompanied
ajh "A taukarl of Bass ale drawn
from the wood imported direct
from old London Pretty tough,
/ thought, TO give all this up and
go and interview Etidorhpa. |
wonder who the blazes she is, any
how "Etidorlpa is here came
IN "a clear, musical voice from the
adjoining room. Well, that saves
car fare, anyhow, ! thought, aud
taking out my card case scrlb-
bled: The Press would like some
straight goods mining news, no
faxed up stuff either; don't tell us
about an eight foot vein in seven
foot shaft, or try to stuff us with
the story of raising forty tons OF
iluor spar daily from sinking n foot
dry, on n prospect hole; don't
worry the mining reporter by Civ
my him CUFF, get down TO bed
rock and go slow, for am no pho
nograph,' and | opened my note
book.
| was startled by the same clear
tones, Mortal, arc you ready
Now, n newspaper reporter must
always be ready, and while | was
entirely in the dark ms to what de-
scription of ready | was to be in,
! very promptly and in my most
gallant voice replied; "Madam, |
am Mt your service" A wave of
rosecolored light filled the room,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02
THE EXPERIENCES
OF A REPORTER.
TAKEN DOWN AMONG THE MINERAL veINS-lNTR0DUcED
TO THE NOBILITY OF UNDERGROUND LAND.

accompanied with the delicious
fragrance Of altar Of roses, and
the transformation from tho plain.
ly furnished apartments OF news
paper Office To the gorgeously dec
Grated, brilliantly lighted palace
OF either ono OF the worlds poten-
tates. or Of old Midas himself,
was instantaneous.
Standing in the center OF this
royalty appointed apartment Was
the loyeliest creature in the shape
OF womanhood that the world ever
beheld. All OF tho lights and sha-
dows, the colors aud ,ints that the
brilliant sun imparts to the fruits
and flowers Of the sunny South.
were reproduced in this Juno. this
Iebe. this Venus, clothed in some
diaphenous material Of a metallic
sheen, her very appearance in.
spired love. reverence and obe,li.
ence!
Il ann the soul of mineral, the
spirit of the veins, ! am the Alpha
and Omega. the beginning and tile
end; ] cause tho mineral saturated
waters that como through your
land TO give up tho treasures that
you mortals set such store by. At
the raising OF my right hand the
rocks open, Of my left they close.
/ am the supreme queen OF tho
mineral .sing,lom; command,
they obey. Are you ready
Gov this'wus the sccon6 fme
this question was asked me. Here
| was entirely alone with trans
confidently beautiful woman, who
evidently had it in her power to
change me, mo Press rcpresen-
tative, into IA mass of iron pyrites,
or zinc blonde, or piece of coal,
or any old thing that was mineral.
How did wish that Glenn Num-
or John Blue or Congressman
james would happen along aud
look in the window. felt that |
needed some good legal advice and
that | needed il right quick. |
would have been willing 10 pay
half cash and half advertising for
it. | felt shaky,
Are you readyY' the voice re-
peated and | began to feel confus-
ell. | knew that early in the eve
ming | had had a prescription put
up by DIR. Orme in his private of
fee, just across the alley from the
drug store, and come to think OF
il there were two or three other pre-
scriptions put up and introduced
into my system; now was this the
real thing or was it the aftermath
Of the Prescriptions; could it be
connected in any way with the
Marion still house; no il was too
loud to DO still, | thought if l
could only have one OF Dudley
Wallingford's men, one in particn-
lar that | remembered, if he was
here and would use a little of his
balky horse profanity, the blue
streak that such an explosion
would cause would clear the atmos
phere and perchance | would find
it all myth and | seated, as is my
usual custom, by the side OF the
evening lamp, reading bound
copy of Godey's Ladies Book. The
question was again hurled through
the atmosphere; l say hurled adj
yisedy; it wasn't thrown or pum-
meled about, it was just hurled.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02

cry OF tho Columbia mine, several
hundred years before, and now it
was noised about that in recogni-
tion OF the rcopening and working
of the old mine this grand affair
was to happen
Tho court milliners and modists
were besieged: everybody wanted
costume o. "A suit Of brightly va
riegnted iluor spar Fluor spar in
tho meantime was scarce aud daily
beco;ning more 50. the price was
advancing with bounds and jumps
somebody bad Numbered in not
looking forward, but n way was
opened.
Mortal" commenced the Prin.
cess, when iuterposing | said,
Your Highness, please drop the
mortal pNrt of your address; in
newspaper phraseology blue pen
Gil mortal and interline darling;
its simply an idea of mine, but in
the mineral Iingdom it sounds
better, | am sure; anyhow it sets
better and looks better and feels
nice7"
Enough" she replied, would
you SOC the forming of the car
donates of which | am the type;
come with me.
That Jared me; that, too, after
all tho sweet talk | had made and
| answered haughtily,
"your Highness has but to leatl
the way, your vassal will follow"
This in sort of high & tone
thu. ordinarily would cause fid-
die rtring to break.
1T is but proper that | lead the
way aud unfold To you the treas
ures Of Natures great storehouse
II is | who hold the keys; it is l
who direct the compromising of the
weiers and tae direction of their
y s,ItEene&, ilE0sine and iilne s5r the
lfiuor spar veins, carbonic acid
gas, lime and zinc for the Gala
mine, lime and gas for the carbo-
nate of lime; add to this lead for
the carbonate of lead. Name your
desire
ooh, great Princess, take me to
the source, the beginning, the very
birth of these mysteries
God alone is great" she rever-
emily replied; there is but One
who Was and Is aud Will BE,
One Father, Almighty Maker of
Heaven and Earth, | who am
his servant will conduct you
Know, then, that deep in the bow
els of the earth whore the fire is
never quenched great vapors of
zinc and of lead are constantly be-
ing evolved and are continually
passing through the plants and
forests of ages gone by, through
buried marshes and beds of peat,
where the deadly carbonic acid
gas is produced. Here the fumes
of the zinc combine with the gas
and up still higher the two meet
your lime saturated waters, and
these three, this trinity, flow over
and through the veins precipitat-
ing little by little, here scale,
there a scale, until in ages, in
cons of time the carbonate bed is
made, be tt lime, zinc or lead.
Yesterday, today, tomorrow the
work continues. Nature is ever
repairing, ever producing, this
year scale the thickness of la
dy's finger nail, next year the same
and the same the next.
Tell me, Princess, how many
years did it take to deposit the
thirty feet thickness of carbonate
of zinc that is now being uncov.
cred at Marion?'
ooh, mortal, you are curious"
and she smiled, take your pencil
and know that it would require
sixty-four years for one inch of
precipitation, 76S years for one
foot of twelve inches, over twenty
three thousand years, or more than
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02


/ quickly, although tremblingly
replied: II have been ready some
time, simply waiting for you"
"Tis WELL" she answered, lad
vance and embrace the spirit OF
carbonate, my youngest sister"
Your Majesty" / replied, for
being of English descent and con-
versant with court etiquette ] said
your majesty. would your majes-
| ty deign to materialize the spirit
OF your youngest sister. She is
goodly to look upon and | fain
would embrace her we're she but
flesh and blood; but 10 embrace
the cold, empty air, to embrace so
per cent nitrogen mixed with 20
per cent oxygen, and that is our
atmosphere, your majesty am
not Duilt that way.
Rash mortal" the queen re-
piled, forget your earthly habits
eliminate your gross desires. spir-
iiualize your body and 10y So do
ing you shall see nud observe what
no mort / since the days Of king
Solomon ever bcheld; You shall
witness the inception. tie Alpha,
tho very beginning of the forma-
iiou Of the great mineral filed
veins. when perchance in n few
months shall make your pleasant
southern city very hotbcd Of toll
and speculation and scheIning and
money making and avariee and
strife, and Of charity and good
will; you shall see the waters de-
posting their treasures OF lead, OF
zinc, OF lime, Of huorine. the earth
shall he open To you, the veins
shall unfold and reveal their trea-
sures, tho mineral kingdom shall
I've nj your beck and call
Timidly I advanced with out
, stretched arms toward the charm
, ing picture produced by the Prin'
cess Carbonate, the youngest sis
Ter sef the qusen. Dressed IN n
costume " gray, Of color like to
the aahes OF roses, with ruchings
Of slightly darker color placed
in irregular and eccentric lines,
with an occasional flash OF yellow,
and the loveliest laces, falling AT
interval around her neck and
shoulders. The princess greeted
me with the kindly air that 81 be-
comes the woman of the South,
of which she seemed n represent
alive.
The princess | admired much:
her graciousness was only exceed
ed hy her beautiful form and fen
lures; there was something about
her, perhaps it was what the
French term chic, that was irresis-
table. | ventured to ask her her
christening name and she told me
it was Calamine. Great Zinc, |
thought, what n name to bestow
upon an innocent child; however,
/ held my peace. wondered if it
was the same substance that Blue
a. Num- had such quantities of
down around George Rice's old
place; perhaps there were other
calamines, other carbonates Per-
ish the thought! there could be
but one, my calamine, but ! would
wait and watch, | would be Pin
kerton, | would be another 1--WE
never sleep" and now Looking
Backward" as Edward Bellamy
puts it, i am grieved that | did
sleep, but | simply couldn't keep
awake; but of that hereafter.
My love making seemed to be
one sided, il was very similar TO
the Magnet making love to the
Silver Bell in the opsra of Pa
thence. The magnet would attract
all the needles and pins, all
the nails and iron and steel in the
hardware shop, but the silver bell
was obdurate, so was Calamine.
A day of days dawned, the queen
was TO give a ball, Her Majesty's
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02

Her Imperial Majesty, the
Queen OF the Mineral Kingdom,
commands that you present
yourself at her Fluor Spar pal
ace on the evening .of the ninth
day OF the full moon.
DANCING.
The entire mineral kingdom vi
New-York tribune., 1901-01-24
WHAT Is GOING ON TO-DAY.


Poultry Show. Madison Square Garden.
Park Board. i q. m
New East River Bridge Commission, ?. m.
Rapid TRANSIT Commission. afternoon.
ST Andrews Society, meeting No. 120 Broadway,
3 r. m.
Meeting If British subjects. No 6o Pine-st, p. m
Actors Church AIsnce, reception parish house
Church of Zion and st. Timothy. No SSS West
Fifty-sEth-st, 230 10 $50 O. m.
Columbia University, lecture Or. Gustav Gott-
he'll No 300 HaVemeyer Hall. 45O .. m
evening
Dinner Of the Amherst Association. sherry's. Z
2.
Dinner Of the Church Club Sherry's. evening.
Woman's Municipal League. public meeting
Cooper Union 2. m.
Junior Law Alumni, New-York University, dinner
Hotel 81 Denis, evening
Congregational Church Extension Society. annual
meeting, Lewis Avenue Church, Brooklyn evening
Board Of Education free lectures. p. m: Public
School No. 8, Grove and Hudson sts-, Growth or
Union" Miss J. NJ. Davis; Public School No. TO-
One-hundrad- -seventeenth-st and St Nicholas
ave ireland" Thomas McNeigh. jr.; Public
School No % Albany and Carlisle SITS, The Great
L. North Moore-st. The Meaning Of Egyptian
Art Professor William @ Ward; Public School
No. ~. No. 523 West FOrtyfourth-st.. Downfall OF
Slavery-the Thirteenth Amendment, h W; Elson;
Public School No So First-ave and Seventieth-st-,
THE City as Family (stereOpticOn), the Kew.
John Bancroft Devins Public School No. &c.
ment OF Broken Bones, Dslocations, Sprans'
r " KilmeT: Public school No. g, Eighty
ference and i' Polarization. Professor E R. Won
Nardroff: Public School No 49, One-hundred- and,
forty-ffth-st and Mott-ave., oliver Goldsmith
between Columbus and Amsterdam aves., Life in
the Philippines" Miss A. \. Benjamin.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-24
PORT CHESTER.

Mrs Sarah A. Robinson, who lives in East Port
Chester was found yesterday morning by her
sister Mrs. Mary Allen. sitting dead in rocking
chair at an upstairs window in her home. II is
thought that Mrs. Robinson was taken i'll in the
night and mao gone the window 10 get air and
died there. The body was nearly frozen stih
Mrs. Robinson fOrty-eight years old, and was
the wife Of James T. Robinson, a foreman
A band Of Russian immigrants, about twenty
fNe in number. which arrived here few days
ago. forced 70 move on yesterday by the
Health Department. They were surrounded at the
railway station by about five hundred boys and
curiosity seekers, who hoOted and jeered at them
until they were nearly frightened to death. The
baggagemen at the station came 70 their rescue
and saved their clothing from being torn from
them by locking them IN a until the train
arrived and they put board
New-York tribune., 1901-01-24
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
YONKERS.

Or Henry n. Baird, Of Yonkers, will be the
guest OF honor at the annual dinner OF the Alumni
Association OF the New-York University, at the
Hotel Savoy February :. A loving cup will be
given TO DR.. Baird by his fellow alumni, TO COM
memorate his ffty years an alumnus. Dr.
Baird has been for many years A professor OF the
NeW-YOTk University.
At the annual meeting Of the Palisade Boat Club
on Monday night + swim A. Oliver was reelected
president. and Thomas f. Booth, vice-president
The secretary's report showed that forty-twO mem
hers were elected during the year The club assets
said be S32,92s
The Bricklayers' and Plasterers' Union has in
formed the boss TnasOns that after May ! II VIII
demand an increase in wages, The new scale VIII
give the men an increase OF 40 cents day.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-24
YOUNG BOYS STRANGE SUICIDE.
REPORT THAI IT WAS CAUSED BY AN
AGREEMENT WITH A GIRL DENIED.

REPORT THAI IT WAS CAUSED BY AN
AGREEMENT WITH A GIRL DENIED.
Harry Burmeister, nineteen years old. Of No. 555
East Eighty-second-st. committed suicide on Tues
day night at No East Thirty-frst-st, by hanging
himself with a rope TO the rafters. Burmeister was
employed by Wirth & Fyfe. gilders, who occupy the
first floor Of the building. He was learning the
trade He had keys the place. and locked up at
night and opened in the morning. The other en-
ployes remembered having left him there Tuesday
night when they went home. When the employees
reached the building yesterday morning they could
not get in, and had wait until Mr.. Wirth ar
rived A boy then upstairs ahead of the others.
bur back shrieking after entering the business
rooms. The others hurried in and saw Burmeister
hanging by a rope the rafters. An ambulance
was summoned. but the surgeon said the boy had
been dead some time. The body cold, and il
all night.
The Burmeister boy lived with his father and
grandmother. on the second floor of the address
given. The father said that Monday morning.
when the boy started from home, he was in the
happest frame of mind. and so also was he Tues
day. He off whstling familiar tune. When
the boy did come home Tuesday night his
father and grandmother waited up for him. this
being the first time that he had remained away
from home
1t was said at the shop that the boy said. before
many had departed that he would be dead before
morning. and that he had agreed with Katie
Strauss to commit suicide. Katie Strauss lives at
No 5$7 East Etghty-seCOnd-st. She said that she
had only spoken to Burmester twice-once on
Sunday night, when he took her picture with sew
eral other girls. and again Monday night when
taken She says the idea of suicide with him is
absurd.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-24
MEETS GALES AND CYCLONE.

OVERDUE cIRCAssIAN PRINCE DRIVEN OUT OF
HER COURSE BY CONTINUOUS BAD WEATHER
The British tank steamer Circassian Prince
whose non-arrival caused some apprehension
came into port yesterday. Since leaving Shields on
December a. in ballast. she reported until
sighted off Fire Island yesterday.
She had moderate weather up 10 December q
On December 2s when off Bishops Rock she ran
into a heavy gale from the west. which lasted
twenty-four hours. a heavy came over the
port quarter and smashed the jolly boat ON jan
uary the steamer met a cyclone. The storm was
accompanied by fearful squalls and tremendous
seas, In the teeth of which the vessel was unable
TO make any headway. On January TO- the weather
showing no signs Of moderating Captain Young
headed the snip away 10 the southwark as far as
latitude SO, when she was put on her course for
this port.