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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

Halifax Society Takes Exception to
Helen Milecete's Novel

Halifax Nova Scotia) society takes
exception to Helen Milecete' 5 picturesque
descriptions Of life in that garrison city.
which are 10 be found in her new novel
"A Detached Pirate" published by Lit
tie. Brown & Co. A writer in the Hal
flax Evening Mail" pays his respects to
"A Detached Pirate" in the following
words:
1t is sufficiently hard to have Can
ada pictured to the allen eye as a land
OF eternal SHOWS. but to have one Of its
chef cities represented as a place where
all that is necessary for a lady to enter
the best set Is an indefinite supply Of
smart gowns and a French maid is
really quite too bad. The Detached
PiRte, who gives the book its name,
Beings to that contingent whom a flip
pat world is accustomed to call grass
waows.' She is divorced, and having
btnt her bridges in England. comes TO
Antax with Tell determination TO
b the fashion, once she is beyond the
sE line. On her journey over she meets
With distinguished acquaintances OF
erlier and decenter days, and is besei
b fears that these will recognize hel
fBm paper corresponding in character
q that eXquisitely high class periodical
koWn as the Police Gazette which ex
lis TO chronicle the doings OF ladie.
sd gentlemen with past or present
lowever her fears prove groundless
nd with the courage born of a gooC
0nscience she descends on Halifax. L
usual in local society for gentleman
II a very slight acquaintance. to ex
press a desire TO kiss a lady. as he ha
often thought how he would like to
Ours may be the point Of view Of tn
merely respectable, and not smart,
but we believe the picture OF local socie
" given in this volume IS a calumn.
on it which should not be allowed to g
unchallenged."
Mrs Milecete. the author. Is a Canad
ian who makes Halifax her home, ant
she is doubtless well acquainted witt
the ways OF the military set" Of tina
city. about whom she writes SO breez
fly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
AMONG The BOOKS
Life Company Issues Beautiful
New Book.
The Author Is Fife Douglass
Putnam.
is HER FIRST BOOK.
Story OF the Love of an italian
Singer.
Slight Touch Of Mysticism Is
Entirely Natural.
S HER FIRST BOOK.

"CiriIlo." by Fife Douglass Putnam.
New YORK.: Life Publishing Co PIP.
lac. Bound in red leather and gold.
"CirillO," by Miss Efie Douglass
Putnam. in both makeup and contents
r. as dainty a work as has come from
any publisher for many a day. Inside
and out, from the clear-cut type to the
luxurious red leather binding decorated
with gold. it is a credit to the Life Pub
fishing company it, producers.
The story itself is a simple one OF
love. music and painting. but its
authors style IS so natural and direct
that 1t possesses a peculiar charm in
this day OF literary affectatiOn. Some
one has said that easy writing makes
hard reading, and II the converse be
true Miss Douglass-Putnam must have
bestowed uDon "Cirillo" a truly re-
markable amount of work to give her
style its limpid sweetness and ease Of
understanding
It must not be inferred from this that
"Cirillo'' is edeminate or Mandy pam by.
The tale OF the love Of the great Italian
singer for the American heiress, al
though simply told, is a strong and
absorbing one. and forms a powerful
contrast to the cynical treatment of a
similar question in Mr.. Graham Phil
lips Golden Fleece"
Throughout the story runs a philos-
ophy both sound and consoiing. The
slight touch Of mysticism is brought in
so naturally that 1t will seem natural
even to the most skeptical.
"CirillO" is Miss DOuglass-Putnan' s
first venture in the field of literature,
but 1t rings so true and the story is so
well told that her future efforts Will be
awaited with interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

and grouse may be killed only from
Aug. Is to September Is according to
law.
The people in the mining camps pay
little attention to the game laws. If
they need fresh meat and can kill deer
they do so and woe to the game warden
who questions the proceeding A citi-
zen of Warren thus expressed himself
on the game law: They never did and
never will make a game law that will
go over the Secesh mountains. 1 don't
believe that 1t would travel we'll over
here and 1 know it wouldn't do the
game warden any good"
STRAW IN IDAHO.
The Topeka visitors reached the Idaho
mountains in the height of the straw
berry season. July II. Every cabin
along the trail boasts a strawberry bed
and the fruit is as delicateIy favored
as it is abundant At the foot of the
Warren mountains stands a little cabin
surrounded by a few acres of tillable
land 1t is called Smcad's ranch and
1t was to this place that Thomas Smead
miner. took his half breed Indian
bride 20 years ago. He TILED his little
farm and prospected for gold but never
found any and when he was stricken
with an incurable disease his wife
nursed him tenderly, for there were
no doctors. but neither nurses nor med
icines could have saved Thomas Smead
and one morning he did not wake and
the neighbors gathered in and buried
him on the hill back OF his cabin In
a few weeks they were called upon to
perform the same office for the devoted
wife and now the traveller may see two
white slabs side by side on the little
KNOLL marking the place where rest
these two people who lived and were
happy in the deep solitude of the lofty
snow covered mountains. They left be-
hind them three children. who still live
in the rough log cabin The eldest, A
girl, keeps house and the two boys. aged
10 and u. spend their time much as
Kansas country boys do. They have
never seen railroad train but that
does not matter for they are rich in
knowledge which does not come with
civilization and steam cars. 1t was
the eldest of these boys who picked a
hat full of strawberries for the travellers
and thought himself well paid with a
nickel.
The question of road building is nat
urally paramount in this region but It
must be considered that only for three
months in the year would any kind OF
a road be passable. For nine months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

three blankets on the ground He may
work a month without seeing any other
face than that of his camp mates and
If he decides TO go to town he can
knock off work and take the trail for
jaunt of go or so miles. which Is either
up or down. but usually up At the
town he will see the barkeeper, the
barber and the hotel man and when his
money is all gone he can hit the trair'
for the mines TO resume his solitary Ia
Dor. The Topeka visitors met one Of
these miners at this place He had
been working for the Deweys and had
Just returned from a several days ses-
sion with a saloon keeper at Roosevelt
He had come out alive after d hand IL
hand struggle with Delirium Tremens,
an old enemy and his shaking hand and
rubicund countenance Indicated that the
battle had not been easily Won He
was without money and was very
communicative His story will be told
in his own words. Most of the min
ers are Irish, for they are the best
I've worked in these diggin'S for three
years and before that 1 had been for
20 years in the Pennsylvania mines
The worruk here is purity stiff, tells
yez- There is plenty TO do for good
miner but ! DON'T care to worruk for
any but the Deweys- 1 wouldn't worruk
fer lots of these fellers up here because
il yeZ do your money Is never SAFE
Now Whin 1 worruk for the Deweys
knows my money is safe livery day in
the week I viii go back to the DeWeys
jist as soon as kin
His greatest fear was that he would
work for some one who would not pay
him but a week after pay day it was
always the same story-the barkeepel
had the money and the grizzled old mi
ner was penniless and nearly dead II
| the bargain
WORK OF THE MINERS.
The greater part of the work in tn
| Thunder Mountain district consists il
/ digging prospect holes and tunnels be-
cause there are few developed mines
Tunnels are usually built on contract
As they are driven through quartz for
nations il is no small task and ths
miners receive from so to S12 a foo
/ for the work Dynamite or giant pOwdei
/ is used TO blast the tunnels and this is
/ packed into the mountains on the backs
+ Of horses. The tunnel driven for tbs
{ Topeka company cost $3.50 per foot OF
/ 1875, and it is 230 feet long. All oil
nearly all this work is done by pFacti-
I cal miners who sometimes by this means
/ make very good wa ges. OF course theA
furnish their own supplies. which some
! times especially in the winter become
/ a very serious problem
PEOPLE ARE TRUSTFUL@
The people Of Idaho are trustfuL A
/ Warren. a town of log houses. 100 mile:
/ from a railroad. a check on the CentrsT
| National bank at Topeka is just as goo
as il is in Topeka The check of an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
NO CITY TIME NOW.

That sign reminds me Of the old
timers" remarked a 5eweler, pointing 10
a placard in a shop window reading,
Keeper of the City Time" The sign
passing pedestrians set their watches
Its a good many years now, went on
the jeweler. since that sign lost its
former meaning Now all II means IS
that the chronometer there Is right ac-
cording to the time fixed by the OBJ
servatory at Washington But it isn't
city time. as the term was once under
stood.
city time in the old days was determ-
fned by the meridian passing through
the city and it differed from the time OF
other cities by just SO many seconds
or minutes as those places were east
or west of US. II you lived in Philadel-
phia it was to your advantage to hunt
up a New York jeweler and get New
York time because IL you didn't you
might miss your train home The
jeweler OF those days really reserved
the title of timekeeper. because he cal
cu1ated time for himself To have II
right he took an observation at noon.
Just as they do on shipboard. and thus
got real New York time. Nowadays
Washington does it for the 5eweler and
lets him know right on the dot when It
is noon
.sThe title of keeper Of the city TINA
belonged to the man who had the con-
tract for keeping the city hall clock
right by his own observations There
is no need of this now. New York'S
watches and clocks are really all slow
when compared with real New York
time, as determined by our own meri-
agreed to be wrong il doesn't matter.
All that the change has done has been
to rob the 5eweIer of some OF his former
usefulness New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

one is taken in payment for goods with
out question The state has recently
taken measures to protect the merchants
and 1t IS a felony to give a check which
is worthless. A few years ago the per-
son who accepted the check had no other
safeguard except a right to sue the per-
son who had committed the fraud Theft
is practically unknown. Valuable goods
are left piled up by the trail or in the
door yards with a reckless disregard of
consequences. When a nountaineer was
asked why this was done he carelessly
replied: Tt isn't healthy to steal in
Idaho" 1t was not difficult to under
stand his meaning. especially when it Is
remembered that it is many miles to a
magistrate and there is no time to await
the slow process of the law
While the people are sticklers for this
code of morality it does not apply TO the
question of barter and sale AS I have
before stated every man is a mine own
CT and his great object in life is to get
rid of the thing he calls a mine and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
Marina Laboratories.

The proposition to establish. by the
aid of the Carnegie institution, scien-
tific laboratory for studying the ma
rine life of the tropical waters in and
adjacent TO the Gulf of Mexico has
raised a discussion in Science as to the
most desirable location for such an in
stitution The Dry TOrtugas about rs
miles west of Key West. which were
first proposed are objected to by sew
eraI biologists because of their cOmpar-
alive fnaccessibility and the lack of any
of the comforts of civilization. Jamaica,
which has been proposed instead, IS SAID
to possess all of the natural advantages
OF the TOrtugas, so far as regards the
large amount of marine life available
TO the collector, and also the comforts
OF a CITY Of considerable size-physi-
clans. good mail and telegraph facili-
ties good markets and regular lines OF
passenger steamships
The fact. however, that the Tortugas
station would be on American soil may
outweigh its Disadvantages in other re-
spects. There are three distinct faunae
along the Atlantic coast OF North Amer
lea Prof. J. s. Kingsley places the
dividing lines between them at Cape
Cod and Cape Hatteras. For the mid
there are already three well equipped
laboratories-the Marine biological lab
oratory and the station of the United
States fish commission at Woods Hole,
and the Cold Spring laboratory on Long
Island The southern coast has at pres
ent only two stationS-the recently
Quilt station of the United States fish
commission at Beaufort. y. c, and an
other. only opened this month. at the
mouth OF the Calcasieu river, near Lees
burg in Louisiana
The stretch of coast north Of Cape
Cod has but one small station the
HarpsweH laboratory. on Casco. bay.
near Portland, Ne. which is maintained
by Tufts college-Boston Transcript
city Ticket OEc=. Onion Pzcins
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

tirely solve the transportation question
But the Topeka people with Thunder
Mountain holdings are confident that
they are on the road to wealth and this
feeling is heightened by the fact that
the assays of the samples taken along
the whole length OF the 230 foot tunnel
all show pay ore-low grade, to be sure
but high enough to yield incalculaole
wealth If it were where # could be han
died or transported. But perhaps this
vexing question win be solved sooner
than Anticipated and then there may be
some gold kings in Topeka
i. i. K.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

She Tells What She Thinks About
Her Latest Publication

Herbert S. Stone & Co, publishers of
Mary MacLane's forthcoming book.
furnish the following:
1T is made uD." she writes, ''of re-
Elections and impressions and sketches
but I hate the words-and my refec-
tons are not reflections. and my i'm
pressions are not impressions, and my
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books Which
Are Attracting Attention.

Mr.. Arthur Stanley Riggs. an Ameri-
can journalist who has been successive
" the editor OF The Manila Daily
Bulletin" and the Manila Freedom
contributes to the August number of
the Atlantic Monthly an interesting
and valuable letter from the Philip
mines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

City Ticket ONES. Onion Pacina
Railroad. SIS Kansas avenue-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

The September number OF Harper's
Bazaar contains a story entitled Mum
Der Seventeen: An Episode" by Elk
abeth c. Jordan. author of Tales Of
Destiny and Tales of the Cloister." The
central episode OF the story arises from
the strange experience of young
newspaper woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

One Of the early fall books of the
Outlook Co, will be a Preacher s
Story OF his Work" in which WIS.
Rainsford. tells among other things how
he transformed St Georges. New York.
from a dying family parish into the
present active and powerful church, that
is serving rich and poor as few churches
have ever done
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-22

which were once the possessions of the
admiral. Verandas and vines help TO
make the homestead spacious and beau
tiful. and the fine old trees and superb
view OF the bay and of the sea to the
Isle Of Shoals complete its charm Here
much. being one of the most indus
trious OF authors His last volume was
the much talked of Questionable
Shapes
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
CURRENT COMMENT.

Gen. Miles may have noticed what
a pretty jolly Elihu got when he uprooted
himself from the war department.--At-
lanta Constitution.
President Roosevelt should call
down Hanna, Cullom, and that section of
the administration press which is fan
ming revolutionary fires in Panama.--Al-
bsny Argus.
If the administration is so worried
about getting the money back into circu-
lation among the people it might begin
by adopting measures calculated to stop
taking it away from them by excessive
taxation.-The Commoner.
If the Turks and the Bulgarlans
should exterminate each other, includ-
ing Peter Karageorgevitch and Abdul
Hamid, the civilized world would not
grieve deeply, while the volcanic politics
OF Europe might be freed from internal
commissions for some time to come. AS
Gen. Sherman nee said: WAR is help
even In its mildest form; yet it seems
inevitable that nature adopts that meth
cd from time to time, in carrying out her
policy of the survival Of the f1ttest. Let
'em fight. Uncle Sam has no business to
interfere unless American interests are
.jeopardized. There is no need for our
strenuous president to seek further self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT by calling down" the
strenuous sultan.-Buffalo Timer,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
Rev. DR.. R. F. Coyle Believes in
Ultimate Union Of All Branches.
1t Will Come About As n Result of
the Reconstruction of the Creed
of the Denomination

Denver, Col, Sept. 12.-Rev. DR.. r. F.
Coyle, moderator of the general assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian church, who
has just returned to his home in this
city from a lecture tour in the east,
believes that the time is not far dis
tant when the IL different Presbyterian
churches in the United States will be-
come one. This probability, he says,
is due to the reconstructing of the
creed of the denomination which took
place last May. Calvinistic and Ar
menian lines. which have so long kept
his and the Cumberland Presbyterian
churches separated, have now, he says,
been effaced, and at present no distinc-
lions other than ceremonial separate
the two great religious bodies that be-
gan as one in the days of Cromwell.
Another STEP" said DR.. Coyle, that
our church took at the last general as
sembly in May, and one that tends
toward the unity idea, is to emphasize
Christian education. With Intellectual
development, many sordid distinctions
that tend to keep churches separated
will be obliterated.
Our church now has an educational
committee, and upon it has been i'm
posed the duty of raising $12, 000, 900
for educational purposes. Most of this
money will be spent upon schools in
the west, for u institutions of learn
ing in the east are in good shape finan-
cially."
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
llFE-SAVERS At THE FAIR
Exhibit of United States Life-Saving
Service at Worlds Fair.
The Government Has Decided ON the
Exhibition of This Service and
MIKE IL Most Elaborate.

Washington, Sept. 10.-The treasury
department has fully determined TO
make an exhibit of the United States
life-saving service at the ST. Louis
Worlds fair. 1t will be on a larger
scale than ave before attempted. The
question whether there would be an
exhibit was fully settled Wednesday
morning, when a letter was received
from the exposition authorities on
tanning definite information that Il
lake for the life-saving service would
be furnished. Plans of the lake and a
description Of its location also came in.
The lake will be 800 by $50 feet and
8 feet deep. 1t will be in the heart
Of the exposition grounds. between the
Agricultural building on the south and
the French building on the north. The
banks will probably be embellished
with water lilies.
The site in part had been assigned
to Ceylon. but Ceylon will be given
another location The department will
send Is men to the exposition. They
will give two exhibitions daily, n in
the morning and one in the afternoon.
AT the Buffalo exposition there were
but II men and exhibition a day.
The equipment will be the most mod
ern. The men will be located in a
house erected close to the lake. At
first the exposition authorities wanted
the ~life-saving service to share a lake
with The Filipinos. This the govern
ment declined. Chief Clerk Hills and
Capt. Kimball both visited the exposi-
ton grounds some weeks ago, and con-
Guided it would be unsatisfactory to
compel the men to give exhibitions in
a lake filthy from the sewage OF the
Filipino village. The department was
on the point of refusing to exhibit the
life-saving service, but the arrange
ment for a separate lake has put a new
aspect on the matter.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
STORM DEVASTATES
GREAT BRITAIN
Bodies Washing Ashore Swell the
Terrible List of Fatalities.
MANYVESSELSAND CREW LOST
All the Coast Towns Suffered IncaI-
culeble Damnge-In Addition to
Deaths From Drowning Are
Many Other Fatalities.

London, Sept. 12.-While the details
of the havoc wrought by the great
storm which ragged over the British
isles, Thursday, are necessarily incom-
plete the reports coming in from all
parts of the United Kingdom show that
the devastation was general, and it is
feared that the loss of life is much
greater than was at first supposed.
Vessels With Entire Crews Lost.
Lloyds already report over fifty seri-
GUS casualties to shipping. All sorts
of vessels were caught in the gale and
many foundered, several with their en-
tire crews. A great number of minor
craft is believed to be lost, and the
bodies washing ashore continue to
swell the terrible list of fatalities.
seventy-Two Miles an Hour.
The gale sprang up with sudden fury
from the southwest, and the wind blew
with a velocity at times reaching 70
miles an hour, and this continued for
several hours.
sheep ana Cattle
All the coast towns suffered more or
less, and the agricultural sections IL
the interior report incalculable damage
owing to the late harvest. The beau
tiful hop gardens of Kent have been
ruined, and in many places the valleys
of the Thames and the Severn have
been submerged, quantities of sheep
and cattle being drowned.
LOndO Suffers Great Loss.
For some time Geographic commune
cation was completely stopped and the
land lines are still interrupted. The
telegraph companies report that the
wires and poles are down everywhere.
Great numbers of fine trees in the
parks of London and other cities were
torn up by the roots or stripped of
their branches, and the list of minor
damage casualties is amazing. in adj
dition to deaths from drowning reports
from the inland give many fatalities
resulting from various causes incident
to the storm.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
RAIN STORM IN KANSAS CITY,
Street Cars in Kansas City Put Out
of Business-Many Families
Forced to Move.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept. lO.--The
heaviest rain storm in the history of
western Missouri fell in Kansas City
Tuesday night and Wednesday. AT
noon the storm was severe and rain
fell in torrents. For a time the street
car lines were put out of commission
and business practically suspended. In
six hours. according to measurements
taken at the Office of the local weather
bureau 4.20 inches of rain fell. In
Rosedale, a suburb, water covers the
streets to a depth of two feet, and nc
cars are being run to that place. Tur-
key and o. X. creeks rose rapidly, and
families living along the banks were
forced to leave their homes. The rise
brought down a large amount of drift
and for a time it was feared that the
bridge which carries the flow line
across Turkey creek, and which sup
plies Kansas City with water, would
be carried away.