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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-03
DRUGGISTS.

THE CAPITAL. PHARMACY. 929 Kansas
ave-: Andy Jordan Tom McCampbeu,
propr. Mr.. Jordan has been with the Sim
Drug Co. for % years and will be glad to
see his friends in his new location. 8
TOPEKA DRUG CO.. 1872 Kansas ave. Tel.
~ filled. All kinds soda drinks at fountain.
w F. LAKE. drugs, $50 Kansas ave.
Ind phone 121- Prescriptions carefully
compounded by registered pharmacist.
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PASTRY AND LUNCH.


CROWS LADIES EXCHANGE. S07 Kan
sas ave-: 119 w. 9Th St: los Topeka ave.
Strictly first class home made cakes. pies,
bread, etc. Discounts on party orders.
Phone 540-2 rings.
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BARBER SHOPS.

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w. D. BISHOP. S. w. corner 9Th and Kan.
ave. Barber shop. Baths. The best bar
bers in the city.
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WALL PAPER.


G. A WOOD. Ss2 KANSAS AVE.
Wall Paper Prettiest Fall Patterns.
Paperhanging and Painting.
Promptly and Neatly Done
BY Experienced Workmel.
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FLORISTS.

MRS NJ E. HOLLCRAFT cut flowers
and floral designs, SIT Kansas ave. Tel
eeDhone 176.
CUT FLOWERS and floral designs ar
Hayes, 1O7 w. 18th st. Phone $50.
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
sANITARIUM.
MEDICAL.


CANCER. tumor. eczema, scrofula aud ali
forms of skin and blood diseases positive
~ cured. Address for free advice Home
Remedy. Co., Topeka, Kan.
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wANTED-MIsCELLANEoUs.


WANTED-To trade good counter for gro
ceries, dry goods, clothing or shoes, at 1o9
w. 7th st.
WANTED-To buy 7 or room house,
close in. not over $3.50 Address S. G..
care Journal.
WANTED-To rent or room housL:
must be in good repair. Address House
care Journal.
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DIAMONDS.


bought at pawnbrokers auction in New
York city ct half their value; also 100
watches Elgin and Waltham movements.
ranging in price from IS to $40 each Guar
anteed 20 year gold filled cases 1. NJ. Blitz,
jeweler, 429 Kansas ave.
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JEWELLERS.

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JAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Optl-
clan. Complete stock of watches. dfa-
nlonds silverware, etc. Eyes examined
and spectacles properly fitted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

ing them, Boys do not use bolts often
enough for their work. They are
quite as easy to put in as screws and
they not only make much f1rmer job,
but also one that is far heater.
Whether bolts or screws are used,
enough must be put in to assure COM
plete rigidity. If only one is used
at each corner, the entire frame will
have a constant liability to give side
ways.
Now youshave your framework COM
plete. The next step is to bore holes
for ropes to hang the ewing.
If the ropes are simply put through
ing that occurs constantly when the
swing is in motion, will soon fray them
out and they will be dangerously weak
before the swing has been used many
days. But this difficulty can be over
come in simple and easy manner.
Get piece of old, WORKOUT garden
hose, which can be obtained almost
anywhere. A hardware store will be
sure to have some, if you cannot find
a piece knocking around the house.
Cut it into sections a few inches in
length. Then heat a poker red hot
and with it burn holes, just large
enough to allow the hose to pass
through, into each corner of the frame
six inches from the ends and sides.
Then comes the operation of making
the stay block, which is to act as sup
port for the swing when it is hung
This stay block is shown as figure
in figure l. 1t is simply a good strong
block of wood, hickory preferred, with
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

In getting ready to make the swing
described here the best thing to do
first is to study figure 1 in this pic
ture. 1t shows the swing complete, and
when its details have been mastered
the steps told here win be perfectly
clear.
To begin, get two old wooden chairs
of the common kind used in kitchens.
Saw the legs off neatly, so that the
bottom of the seats will be entirely
smooth.
Then get two strong boards of good
wood about IL inches wide and at
least inch thick. The length of these
boards must be such that each one
will project IL inches on either side of
the chairs after the latter have been
fastened to the boards in the position
shown in figure 4. In fastening the
chair seats, remember that the wood
of which chairs are made is extremely
likely to split along the grain. 1t is
better to bore holes for the screws or
nails first, with a sharp gimlet.
Now get two boards 6 feet long each,
II inches wide and l inch or more in
thickness. Set the boards that have
the chairs fastened to them on the
floor, the proper distance apart and
lay the long boards, c. and D, over
the ends of the short boards, E and F,
figure 4.
Screw them together with the larg-
est screws that you can handle. If
possible, bolt them instead of screw
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

From the Chicago Daily News.
A germ proof house is the latest adj
dition to the hygienic terrors of life.
1t is not yet actually in existence. but
medical congresses are busily and even
hopefully paving the way for it's ad-
vent. When 1t arrives and everybody
is thoroughly scientific and uncom-
Portable all the homes will be single
storied, without stairs. built on gravel
soil, destitute of cellars, with concrete
and blocks of earthenware pierced
for ventilation" placed under the
floor, and the ordinary bricks will be
superseded by glazed and tightly fit
ting hygienic bricks" The roof will
be tiled. not slated. and the windows
will reach from top to bottom OF the
walls. The dining table will be Of
polished mahogany, the chairs cush-
ioness or stuffed with medicated wool
The walls ought 10 be made Of a ce-
ment that takes a high polish. can be
stained 20 any color and washed fire.
quently Curtains and draperies OF eli
kinds will be abolished. pictures will
be permitted only when let into the
cement wall for artistic touches we
shall be depending on plants Of the
india-fubber and eucalyptus type" In
no room viii there be corners 20 harbor
dust and bacteria, and the fkirtinF
viii always curve into the hardwood
parquet noor instead Of striking them
az night ansles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

driver of the department Now you
are spoken of as often as he is. The
crack man usually drives for Chief
Corbyn, and Hansen is afraid he will
have to go back to a truck or some
battalion chief. He won't dare to fight
you openly, but he will trick you if he
can
Dan smiled, but nevertheless he look
ed out for Hansen. ITO drive the
chief" was distinction almost as great
as to be an officer. A driver fills the
position of aide-de-camp to his chief
and can do his friends many small
favors. Moreover, he goes to fires of
Importance only and does not have to
turn our for every small alarm.
Since he gained renown by forcing
his truck between a street car and a
safe truck, Dan had learned much
The series of brilliant feats by which
he had gained recognition almost be-
fore his probationary period had ended
apparently had been interrupted by the
last-named accomplishment, though
many bits of driving caused talk in
the department.
In reality, experience was teaching
him many things besides driving. He
learned not to walk upright in room
filed with smoke. He had tried it
once, only to drop like a shot. When
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

he recovered. on the sidewalk, Franks
stopped to say:
Don't be so proud next time. Hale.
Crawl in. There is always some air
near the floor"
The tip had saved Dams life twice,
and was destined to prove his saliva
ton again.
They had answered a call to a fire
on the water front. A huge ware
house was ablaze, and from the sub
cellar volumes of pungent smoke we'll
ed up through the gratings. Five
alarms had been turned in. bringing
out twenty-four engine companies and
six trucks.
Dan had answered with Six on the
fifth alarm. He had looked after his
horses, and was standing quietly by
the truck. Johnson, one of the men,
had Just gone off with the helmet,
after Dan had helped him to adjust it.
The helmet one of which is carried
on each truck. is like a divers helmet
except that il Is not connected with
a full suit. Two valves. fitting around
the neck, make IL alright. A reservoir
IN the back holds air enough for a half
hour, and. thus protected, the man
can enter places where no one could
breathe otherwise
Six men. one from each truck, were
IN the basement with cellar-pipe noz-
zles. which are sioped like an Il. Il"
that they may be lowered through
holes cut IN the floor. All were located
on the River street side. seeking 10
Hood the sub-cellar. where blaziuR
gafpish Was making all the trouble
Near Dan dozen ambulance doc
i'Fs were working over the men who
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

would give the insensible figure a tug.
and then working ahead, would rest
before giving him another pull. II
seemed at times that he would have
to give up, but he kept at it. Just
as his cropping hand touched the cool
stone below the grating Che could no
longer use his eyes, strong hands
grasped his collier and rapidly passed
him up to the street.
who was it?' he asked, as he swal-
lowed the cool. sweet air greedily.
Chief Cross of the Fourth" some
one answered.
Dan gave sigh. That's good" he
murmured with parched lips. He was
a captain who would never ask his
men TO go where he wouldn't so him
self"
The young fireman was thinking of
the time long ago when, as a barefoot
boy, he had seen Cross. then a cap
tain. brought out unconscious.
They took him to the hospital and
Corbyn promptly started an inVestiga-
ton. 4 policeman had heard Hansen
give the order in his chiefs name. and
Corbyn knew Of Hansens enmity. The
rescued men had retreated 10 the rear
when the smoke drove them back from
the River street side and no human
being knew that they We're there Han
sens murderous attempt had resulted
IA the saving Of a battalion chief and
six men.
That night Benton drove Corbyn TO
a second alarm. II Was his debut in
the buggy Hansen was broken IN a
double sense. for passing through the
yard ~ the training school behind
neadqunrfers he had been soundly
thraehed and Corbyna perfupct0ry IN
quiry had not discovered ths offender.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

holes bored into It Just as In the frame.
Its dimensions are feet long by 4
inches square and the holes are 4
inches from the end. Figure shows
the direction in which the ropes must
be passed through the frame. up to and
through the stay block and the loop
that thew form above it.
Two ropes of exactly equal length
must be used. They must be lust
thick enough to fill the diameter of
the hose. First pass the end of a rope
through the hole near E, having first
inserted the bit of hose to guard it
from the wood. Draw the rope through
until only enough remains of the
loose end to reach to the middle of D.
as shown in figure 1. Draw the rope
o into the hole into the stay block.
When it energies draw it through
section of rubber tube long enough
to reach around a post or branch as
thick as the one shown as H and K
in figure l.
Then the rope passes back again
through the hole in the stay block,
down to the frame. through the hole
opposite the one where it entered, and
then the two ends are knotted firmly
! together underneath. Figure shows
how the ropes are to be drawn through
ths frame and the stay block.
Figure shows a method of making
a swing that looks more graceful 1t
is made by merely making a long loop
! above the stay block instead of the
short one shown in figure l.
Figure s shows how the rope passes
: through the hose NJ.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

ones to plant in certain places for GER
tain purposes.
Many of Uncle Sans foresters stud
led the business at his expense in Ger
many, where men have been foresterS
for hundreds and hundreds of years.
Such places as the Black Forest in
the Hartz mountains are famous be-
cause, although there has been lum-
herring in it for centuries, yet the
great woods are still as thick as ever
so thick, indeed, that they look quite
black and there is the darkness of
evening in them from morning till
night. Scientific forestry did that.
For every tree that was cut down,
many more were planted. No tree
can be cut there until the scientist in
charge permits it.
This is what Uncle Sam is trying to
| do now. If any state or community
or private individual that owns forests
wants to know the wsest way to
| treat them. how to lumber in them
| without harming them and how to pre-
serve them, the foresters will visit the
place without charge and draw up a
! full plan of procedure.
7 Uncle Sans foresters showed Kan
| sas how to plant trees to that they
| would break the violent winds that
| sweep across that state; as a result
the velocities of the famous Kansas
| storms have actually been reduced by
many miles an hour.
| Once Uncle Sam had even more I'M
| common persons than foresters in his
| service. They were rainmakers, and
for sevral months they tried expert
ments with canonn and dynamite
bombs that they exploded high in the
air on the presumption that the shock
to the atmosphere would cause the
| collected moisture to fall as rain The
rainmakers were not very successful,
and folk poked a good deal of fun at
Uncle Sam. But other governments
followed him, and have been trying
experiment on the same lines.
A queer occupation that is followed
by a number of Uncle Sans employees
| is that of reading illegible addresses.
In every large postoff1ce there is at
every kind of a scrawl. Addresses
| that look like the marks of fly's feet
after it has been in the ink bottle are
as plain to these queer employees as if
the addresses were written in the finest
copper plate. Sometimes ingenious
persons write addresses on envelopes
in ways especially designed to puzzle
the experts, but they do not often sue
coed. Foreigners often write address,
es that ordinary persons would give up
Immediately as utterly hopeless, but
Uncle Sans riddle solvers rarely fail
to find out where the letters should
| go.
Another unusual occupation that can
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

cannot escape. So long as the insect
struggles, the leaves remain closed. AS
soon as it ceases to move the lobes open
lightly. The leaf secretes a digestive
juice similar to the gastric juice of the
human stomach, and the prey is slowly
dissolved and absorbed.
In France there is a plant found fire.
quently in marshy places, which is
named the Rossolis. 1t has the same
properties as the Venus. It's leaves are
covered with thick hairs, The trans
parent glands of which resemble small
drops of dew. They close up if an in
sect touches them, but if a bit of min
eral substance is placed on them,
neither the leaves nor hairs make Il
movement. 1t is only when an insect
touches them that they close up.
Another plant, the darlingtonia, feeds
on insects, but in a different way. It's
leaves form a species of urn, which
ordinarily holds some water. on the
inside there is also some honey, which
attracts rho insects. These unhappy
animals slip at the smooth incline. fall
to the bottom and cannot get up again,
for there are sharp hairs, that are
directed from the top toward the bot
tom to prevent them.
Little by little the plant absorbs
them, just as does the Venus. But it
has an advantage over the latter 1t
can save lts 1000 IL II does not Wish
to eat 1t AT once. Its urn is a llrder,
in which it can heap it's provisions up,
forming a bountiful reserve on which
ii may draw when it is hungry
If the provision is too abundant for
its consumption, the dead insects give
birth to a great quantity of larvae,
which grow and develop quickly in this
leafy medium and offer for the appe-
lite of the srcedy iarlingtonia a
choice food-tender, fresh and unoeas-
ingly renewed.
whose large tunnel-ehaped flower ex-
hales an insupportable deadly odor,
which attracts ilies from a distance.
They precipitate themselves TO the
bottom of the tube of the flower which
secretes the sickening juice and die
there. Then the serpentaire, like the
Venus, absorbs and devours them
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24
ry their diet with a little animal

vary their diet with little animal
food.
The most remarkable of these car
nivorous. or animal-eating plants is the
Venus fly trap. which is common in
North Carolina. All its leaves radiate
from the root. and form a spread-out
rosette. A strong vein extends from
the base to the summit and their edges
are furnished with stiff, spiny hairs.
Each half of the leaf presents a slight
ly concaVe surface, strewn with glands
These glands distill a liquor which at
tracts insects.
The stiff hairs on the edges are placed
in such a manner that the insect which
hovers near the leaf is almost certain
before long to touch one of the hairs
And, as these are endowed with a great
irritability. when they are touched the
two lobes of the leaf close quickly, one
shutting against the other, and they
interlace their spiny lashes so firmly
that the prey which they have seized
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

be entered only by going into Uncle
Sans employ is that of looking for
wrecks and other floating dangers on
the high seas and blowing them up.
For many years shipmasters COM
planned of the many half-sunken
wrecks that f1oated around in all the
seas of the world, and threatened nav
igation. But title or nothing was
done about it, probably because 1t was
everybody's business, and. therefore
nobodys. The wrecks were in the
open sea and, therefore, under no one
nations jurisdiction. So they all
looked toward each other to do some
thing insntead of pitching in.
But finally Uncle Sam and Uncle
John Bull got tired of doing nothing,
and they fitted out warShips to cruise
for wrecks. These ships get all the
logs of incoming vessels which report
having sighted anything that looks
like menace to navigation, and sthen
they steer out to the latitude and
longitude mentioned in the log. If it
is an abandoned ship that is not worth
salvage, the cruiser lies off and fires
explosive shells into it until it sinks
completely. If it Is a waterlogged
wreck that cannot readily be sunk by
gunfire, both parties are sent to it 10
blow 1t UP with dynamite, or to sat-
urate it with kerosene and set fire to
it.
Many wrecks that had become ia
nous because they had drifted so
many years, have been destroyed since
the work started. And many a ship is
sailing strong and beautifully to-day
that would be lying shattered and split
on the ooze of the oceans bottom
| from striking one of these wallowing
sea-terrors, if it were not for Uncle
| Sans wreck breakers. ]. w. NJ.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24
PLANTS THAT CATCH INSECTS.

True CarnfvOrous Things That Feed
Wild Animals Do.
Plants really are living beings. the
same as animals. and, like the latter,
they are obliged to absorb nourishment
to develop them. and to remain alive.
But since they cannot, as do the beings
of superior species. go in search of this
nourishment, most of them depend on
their leaves to draw moisture from the
air and their roots to absorb food from
the earth
Some, however. do not content them
selves with the food obtained in this
way from the air and earth. They
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24
CHAPTER VI.
HANSEN,S REVENGE.


Hale, look out for Hansen. He says
he will do you"
Dan laughed. II don't think he will
get a chance, captain" he answered.
Hes not in this house, and besides.
the department won't stand for such
nonsense"
Dan had been driver of Six truck
for nearly a year, having gained the
place by beating the water tower to
a fire He sat talking to Capt. Franks
in the latter's room. Franks took his
pipe from his mouth and laid hand
on his shoulder.
You can't be too careful, lad" he
urged mo private grudge is permit
ted in the department and a man can't
keep his job if he fights. but Hansen
is a crafty sort of a fellow and he
fears you"
Dan laughed again. II don't see
what Hansen can have against me-"
Simply this. Hansen was the crack
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

The darning needle rs. they say.
Polite and good in every way.
Yet SIN feel. where'er they swarm
That they VIII surely do me harm,
And though they may be gentle quite
] cannot help but think they'll bite.
I've heard II one Hoes not take care
And lets them take one unaware.
Theyli ~ on one. despite ones walls
And stitch ones mouth up with their
LILA.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24

Autumn in New Zealand is the
time of the bush fires. AS soon as the
hot months of summer have done their
work thousands of acres of forest are
set blazing, until in some districts
the country lies under a pail of smoke
and along the coast navigation is hin
dered by the huge clouds that drift
out to sea. Throughout the year the
bushmen, who usually undertake the
work by contract with the farmers,
have been busy telling, and 'under-
scrubbing." All the tangled under
growth of creeper and sapling and
tree-fern, smothered with moss and
lichens and carpeted with beds of
smaller ferns, delicate as seaweed-al
this is ruthlessly slashed down and
the trees within a certain limit of size
are felled. This done. it remains only
to pray for dry weather. Fires are
lighted and in an hour acres of mag
nificent forest are going up in smoke
and flame to prepare the land for Gull
tivation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-08-24
BROTHER COON
TALKS OF HIMSELF
TO UNCLE DOG.

Tells Him What He Eats. Where
He Lives, How He Can Fight
and Climb, What Uses His Fur
Is Put TO, and How Fast He
Can Run.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-25
EXHIBIT FOR NATURE STUDY
schooI Children Given Unusual OPP
p%Ortunity by Display at
Public Library.

In a commodious room on the second
floor Of the Omaha library building there
was opened yesterday an exhibit Of art
work that is to remain on display over Sun
day, and that Is intended primarily to be OF
assistance to school children and others
who are interested in nature study, and
secondarily to more fully acquaint the gen.
eral public with the resources Of the IL
brary as a reference department.
Miss Tobitt, librarian, said: Just at
this time. when animal and plant life APP
pear to take a new start, nature study is
most profitable and most pursued. 1t wac
because Of this that we are making this ex-
hibit at this time. but later, should the
public seem interested in such displays, we
shall try others in different branches, as
for instance in music or in painting. We
have fine works o every subject under the
sun, but many Of them are not known to
people who would be interested in them
and we would prefer that the good that is
in every book we have should be discov>
cred and shared"
In this present exhibit there are the in
comparable Audubon birds, with Elliott's
larger supplemental charts. One table IL
devoted to a set on the silva OF America.
other prominent works are: "scudder on
Butterflies" "McCook's American Spiders
Ernest Thompson's famous Anatomy Of
Animals" Henrlette Ronner's cat paint
ings, Audubon's 'Quadrupeds OF North
America" the New York Fish commissions
fnny tribes In colors, Theodore Roosevelt's
illustrated volumes on the hunting of large
game and an abundance Of splendid draw
ings Of flowers and plants Of various kinds.