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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

when the section gang came along and
picked him up. He was taken 10 Waldo
station and message sent to Ell Paso
asking for medical aid The extra switch
engine in the Fl Paso yards and n coach
We're sent to Vaddo with the company
him some time he was revived and
brought into Ell Paso and returned to his
home in Rincon on the passenger Out
side of being badly bruised and shaken
up Mr. Hawk did not appear to be seri-
ously hurt and the doctor is of the oJ1sn-
home, be able to again resume his duties
on the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
FRIsCo's FIRST AID
Packages for Use in Emergency Are
Being Distributed.

Enid. Ok, Jan. ga sample of the
first aid packages to be issued by the
Frisco" system was received here yes
terday. They will be distributed over
the entire system, in stations, water
tanks, section houses, switch shanties
and trains, so that in case of accident
remedies viii be at hand. The package
contains one tourniquet-a hoselike
cord of rubber to bind tightly above
wound to check the flow of blood; four
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
Good Coal at Re duced Prices,

We are obliged to move large stock
of Arkansas Anthracite and Semi
anthracite coal on account of certain
changes in our yard, buildings and
sheds due to changes made by the
Santa F'e to accommodate their new
freight depot. In order to move this
coal quickly we have made a large re-
duction in the price Preference will
be given in the delivery of these Goals.
THE SOUTHWESTERN FUEL
COMPANY,
734 Kansas Avenue
Telephones I'll, 1913. 144.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

ern Pacific steamship lines, who has
lust been made Cuban worlds fair COM
missioner BY President Palma of the
republic of Cuba
The party will be entertained quite
royalty by the Southern Pacific, and the
fact that Mr.. Flanagan has just been
appointed worlds fair commissioner for
the republic of Cuba gives the company
a prestige which win have a favorable
effect upon its handling OF business
from Cuba to the worlds fair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
LIMITED DOING WELL.
Santa Fe's Pet Train Hauls Big Loads
to California

Records have been compiled by the
Santa Fe passenger department which
show that for the first IA days of this
month the limited passenger business into
southern California has increased Il per
cent over the traffic for the same number
of days last year. On the other hand the
business of the regular overland trains
estimates that IS per cent of its CaIifor-
MIA traffic comes to the southern part of
the state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Washington. Jan 27.-Hezekiah A.
Gudger, at present United States con-
sui at Panama, has formally applied
for promotion to the place of minister
to Panama which he expects is soon to
be vacated by Mr.. Buchanan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Detroit, Mich, Jan. 27.-The Demo-
GRAFT state central committee has decid-
ed that the state Democrat convention
to select delegates to the national con-
vention at st. Louis shall be held at
Detroit June 1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
RoADMAsTER HAWK HURT.
Electric inspection Car Jumped the
Track Near Ell Paso.

Thursday afternoon Y
wards Ell Paso on his
car, RoadmaSter John T
Fe was thrown from t
hurt While rounding
miles north of Waldo
jumped the track and
thrown to the ground,
car fell on top of him.
senseless and lay until
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Peruna is recommended by fifty members of
Congress, by Governors, ConsuIs, Generals, Ma
jors, Captains, AdmiraIs, Eminent Physicians,
CIergymen. many Hospitals and public institu-
tions, and thousands upon thousands of those in
the humber walks of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Berlin, Jan. 27.-Near Dombrau, il
Upper Silesia, a pile of Stag, which Ia
borers were removing for railroad build
ing caved in today, burying nine men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

You may trust Piso's Cure to relieve
sore spots in the lungs. 25c Dsr bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

While speeding to-
electric inspection
Ia wk Of the Santa
he car and badly
a curve a few
station, the car
Mr.. Ha wk was
while the heavy
He was knocked
some time later,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Ft. Wayne, Ind, Jan. 27.-Judge Rob-
ert Lowry, former member of congress
from the Twelfth Indiana district and
one of the best known jurists in the
state, died at his home in this city to-
day, aged so years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Richmond, Va, Jan. 27.-The two
houses of the general assembly voting
separately chose John w. Daniel, to
succeed himself as United States sena-
tor for the full term beginning March
next.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Chicago, Jan. 27.-Carl Copper. head
of the Copper Brewing company, was
found dead in his Office last night He
had committed suicide by shooting
himself through the head. Business
troubles are supposed to have Seen the
cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

New Orleans, Jan. 27.-The Lilly
White" Republican state central COM
mittee met here and selected February
II as the date of the convection to name
state ticket and select the delegates
to the Republican national convention
at Chicago. No negro was present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-27

Washington, Jan 27-Secretary Moody
entertained a large company at dinner
last night in honor of President and
Mrs. Roosevelt. The dinner was given
at the new Willard hotel, where covers
were laid for 40 persons. The guests
included President and Mrs. Roosevelt
and several members Of the cabinet.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
NEED FEAR BUT ONE ENEMY.
Turtles Can Defy All Living Creatures
Except the Human Race.

Turtles Can Defy All Living Creatures
Except the Human Race.
Almost alone among Gods creatures,
the turtle has but a single enemy
man. 1t does not seem TO matter to
the turtle whether he stays beneath
the surface for an hour or q week,
nor does it trouble him to spend an
equal time on land if the need arises
He is neither fish, flesh nor fowl, yet
his flesh partakes of the characteristics
of all three. Eating seems a mere SUI
perfuity with him, since for weeks at
a time he may be headed up in q bar
rel with the bung OUT and emerge
after his long fast apparently none the
worse for his enforced abstinence from
food, from light and almost from air.
And, finally, it may be truly said that
of all the higher warm-blooded organ
isms, there is none so tenacious of life
as the turtle.
l can truly say that l have seen the
flesh cleared out of a turtles shell and
hung up on a tree. where for hours
the quivering, convulsive movements
of the muscles went on. Not only SO.
but on one occasion only the head and
tail were left attached to the she'll
Some time had elapsed since the meat
had been cut out of the carapace, and
no one could have imagined that any
life remained in the extremities. But
a young Dane, noticing that the down
hanging mead had its mouth wide open.
very foolishly inserted two fingers be-
tween those horny mandibles. They
closed. and our shipmate was two fin
gers short; the edges of the turtles
Jaw had taken them of clean with
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
The Best OF minority Leaders

Never has a Republican speaker pos
sessed the good will of the opposition
in the House as Uncle Joe Cannon has
it to-day, and surely not since Mr.. Car
Isles time has a Democratic leader on
the floor had the Republican good will
and admiration bestowed upon John
Williams in the present Congress.
1t was no small task to hold togeth-
err and in harmony the discordant ele-
nents of his party throughout the ses-
sion but he did 1t adroitly, tactfuliy,
successfully. He is not thcorist. but
he tolerated the theories Of others
without stamping them with the party
brand and giving them the full APPROX
al of his leadership. He was not led
IF into any socialistie vagaries. for he
knows thing or two. and among 9TH
er things he knows an initiative from
referendum when he sees them. but
be made no display of purglng his par
ty of its socialist adhereuts. His steady
purpose seemed to be to occupy such
rational grounds on the issues that
aave divided parties and created fac
tional confusion, as to rally around one
standard all the scattered forces OF
Democracy for the impending cam
oajcn. That he did this skilfully Hn-
dor all the circumstances. IS universal
IL conceded. II .eslle's Monthly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02

upon 1t with sincerity and spotless
character upon which the unscrupu-
lous associates banked while robbing
the subscribers. He was beyond the
psalmist's allotment of years to man
and physically incapacitated, mentally
weakened and leaning upon an iaeom-
petent son to look after his affairs
when they most needed the supervi-
sion of man who would sanction
nothing questionable. He never knew
that the son was party to disreput-
able methods, thar he himself was con-
victed of misGppropriation of funds
and sentenced to I've years imprison-
ment. or that while he sat paralyzed
at home the finding was reversed by
the court. He did know that the I'M
dertaking was doomed TO failure and
the burden of his lament was that so
many Of the poor of France had suf-
fered loss where he confidently ex-
pected to give them profit. He-saw
them gathered about him as he gazei
into the embers of his CRATE fire dur
ms lis AHSe u3S anu his ulnu went
to them rather than TO the friends
who called. His honor to-day is held
above reproach among the great body
of the French people and they pro.
nounce preposterous the suggestion
that he was swindler. He was tech
nically such because of the position
which he nominally allied. but the con-
yincing evidence is that he was vic
tim, not consplrator; worthy man
among rogues that included his son.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
GO MAD rRoM MoNoToNY.
Lighthouse Keepers Often Suffer
From the Inevitable isolation.

From the ineNltapie isolation.
People who read books--and ali do
in this day-will recall Kipling's
story of the lightkesper who became
mad from the mo,lotony Of his sit.
uation. While the story was fiction,
it nevertheless was in accordance
with many actual occurrences. A cor
respondent submitted the question to
the lighthouse board. and found that
while there had been no such cases
as that of Kipling's character. Dowse,
there had been many which showed
the maddening effect of monotony and
isolation upon the human mind.
The madness of the lighthouse is
much like that of the desert, for they
are traceabla TO like cause. In the
desert there is ronotony of silence.
At sea there IS monotony OF sound.
One is a. bad as the other, since
both derive their entire pain from
mental effect. 1t is a fearful disease.
moi YET fully understood, though many
noted aiienists have made study
of it,
This government maintains 1900
lighthouses and about 100 CT them
are isolated and communication with
the outside world may be interrupt
cd sometimes for months.
Ii man is taken from the ordi-
nary walks of life, where he mingles
with his fellow man, and sent to a
lighthouse where no human face is
seen except that of the ever present
assistant and no sound is heard save
the roaring of the wind and wave,
he has been transferred from normal
to most abnormal conditions.
In remarkably short time keeper
and assistant have talked on. Then
they begin to wear on each other
and soon they fall to quarreling.
Sometimes melancholia attacks one
of them and unless he is speedily re-
lieved his mental balance is disturb
ed. When the disturbance becomes
extreme it takes either a homicidal
or suicidal turn and the unfortunate
has to be watched closely and some
times confined to keep him from do
ing violence to himself or others.
1t is we'll known that the Minot
Ledge light is noted for the number
of men who have gone cry in it, and
for that reason is an object Of In
teTest to students of mental diseases.
1t is, as everybody knows, piece
OF engineering of the very highest
order, being in that respect second
only to the famous Eddystone light.
More than year was consumed in
getting a foundation for it, and SO
high are the tides and so terrific the
storms that the entrance to the light
water. Then, one above the other,
come the five rooms occupied by the
keepers and used for storage pur-
poses, then the watch room, and final
ly the lantern.
The tower being circular and space
greatly in demand, naturally every
thing is made to conform, so that no
room shall be lost. Even the beds
on which the men sleep are curved.
! Everything is round. The govern
ment has done the best it could to
make life there as bearable as pos
sible and keeps five men stationed
there so that they may go ashore
as often as the chance is afforded
without detriment to the service
Indianapolis Sentinel.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
Vertioal Grain FIoorine.

Vertical grain yellow pine flooring,
read the sign on the fence of the lum-
Der yard; and Vertical grain floor
ingT' said a man in the office, "why,
that's nothing new.
But you never heard of it before
Well, vertical grain flooring is sawed
from logs that have first been quar-
tered; as quartered oak is sawed.
Flooring sawed in the ordinary way,
with it's grain lying fiat, is more or
less liable to splinter; vertical grain
flooring, sawed from quartered tim
ber has it's grain on edge, the rings
that mark the timber's growth show
ing in parallel lines, for which reason
vertical grain flooring has sometimes
been called comb grain flooring.
Vertical grain flooring does not
splinter, but will wear smooth down
makes a very durable and handsome
flooring besides.
Vertical grain yellow pine flooring
is laid in places where the floors are
subjected to great wear and where
freedom from splinters is especially
desirable. 1t has been used for school
room flooring and it is used in stores
and office buildings, and in fine kitch-
ems. 1t costs more, of course, than or
binary flooring. With the regular
flooring at S2T to $50 thousand YER
teal grain flooring would cost $3.50 to
$3.50 a thousand.
i"Maple flooring, costing $40 TO $40 a
thousand is now also used TO fill the
same requirements for a good floor
but there are people who still prefer
the vertical grain yellow pine. New
York Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
SIZE OF OCEAN STEAMERS
Increased Over Fifty Per Cent During
Quarter of a Century.

Increased Over Fifty Per Cent During
Quarter of Century.
The average length of ships has in.
creased some 90 to GO per cent during
the last quarter of century. The
100 feet of tbs Britannia of 1874 seem
almost Insignificant compared with eae
702 feet of the latest White Star Liner
Cedric and the $50 feet of the project
ed Cunarders. The i, O00-foot vessel will
assuredly not be long in coming.
Berths are even now devised to accord
with this standard. and entrance locks
and craving docks are also being
Heightened. A few years back 500 feet
We're considered an extreme dimension.
nowadays this is deemed very moder-
ate. The length of an entrance lock
does not, of course, absolutely limit
the size of vessels.
The beam of ships has increased
more rapidly than the length. The
beam of the Brlttanic was 40 feet and
d ratio between length and breadth of
about 10 to l was maintained fairly
well until ten years ago when the
Campania was built with a breadth of
80 feet to a length of 600 feet. At
present the dimensions exhibited In the
Cedric and Celtic, length $50 feet,
breadth 20 feet; the Waimer Castle,
length $40 feet. breadth GA feet. and
other recent vessels indicate a decid-
p6 fnn6nnRU t1 ha foh A.. .
OF ratio of 8 TO 1. The maximum
beam does not yet exceed rs feet,
which is amply covered by entrance
locks and passages 80 to 100 feet in
width, constructed fifty years ago un-
der the regime of paddle steamers
Consequently the increase in beam has
not had so perceptible an effect on
dock construction as the increase in
length.
Only in depth has the progress of
naval construction been less marked.
The draught of the Campania, % feet,
in 1893 was no greater than that of
some vessels twenty years before. The
latest German types have a loaded
draught of only % feet, while the most
modern British vessels attain to 81
feet, but in neither case is the increase
proportional to that of the other dimen-
sions. This discrepancy is due to the
difficulty of obtaining adequate depth
of water in approaching channels and
over the sills of existing docks.-Cas-
sier's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
EXPENSIVE MINING IN ENGLAND,
Cost of Sinking the Deep Shafts That
Are Now Necessary.

Cost of Sinking the Deep Shafts That
Are Now Necessary.
With increased and increasing de-
mand for coal came the necessity for
opening our lower seams, and deeper
shafts meant heavier capital expen-
diture in colliery enterprise. 1t is
worthy of remark how little the out
side public realize of the great diff
culties that often have to be over
come in sinking-such as passing
through water bearing strata or rum
ming sands-or of the enormous cost
entailed by some colliery develop
mentS.
AS cary as 1929 John Buddle. in Civ
ing evidences before the House OF
Lords, declared that the cost of sink
ing. even then, was frequently 910,-
600 to e15,000, and j. T. Taylor stat
ed before a select committee on rat
ing of mines in 1857 that at Haswell
colliary, in the County of Durham,
100000 was expended in contending
with a quieksand, and that the shaft
had ultimately to be abandoned. At
Murton colliery, a few miles distant
from Haswen. e300Oo0 was expended
in sinking; the quantity Of water
pumped during the operation of pass
ing through the everything magnetism
limestone bed amounted to an aver
age of 1896 gallons per minute. from
a depth of $40 feet; and the three
shafts ultimately reached tae Hutton
seam, at a depth Of LASS feet from
the surface. in Auril, 1S4S.
Many deep and costly sinkings-
several much deeper than in the last
instance-have been put down since
the Murton winning but none, | be-
lieye. at a greater expenditure of cap
ital. owing doubtless to the greatly
improved methods now employed in
carrying on such operations through
watery strata. notably the Kind
Chaurdon system, whereby the shaft
is bored out and the side protected
by metal cylinders loweied from the
surface: and the Putssch or GoseTat
methods. whereby tha water IS frczen
in the running sand or other water
bearing stratum, and the shaft sunk
through the solid misunderstanding
Magazine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
THEY HAVE EMOTIONAL HAIR
Londoners Who go Gray" ard Black
AGAIN Within a Few Hours.

Again Within Few Hours.
Not only IS emotional hair well
known to medical specialists, but
every hair dresser of experience rec
ognizes ii frequently in connection
with his own customers.
With some peculiarly constituted
people the hair is affected by every
passing emotion, and not only does
it reach the extremes of crispness,
but it varies in color vastly. This
latter popularity is so well recog-
nized by every hair dresser that some
members of that calling are prepared
to say definitely of given regular
customer, Blank is not well, or he
has some great trouble on his mind
just now"
Many a man who appears exceed
ingly gray on one day is comparative
" dark haired the next, and cases
are known where the single white
locks of hair that sometimes are
found on a head otherwise wholly
black have disappeared almost entire
ly and then come again. That it to
say, the white tuft has gone almost
black like the surrounding hair and
has then become quite white again,
and SO on.
We all know what use Shakespeare
and other dramatists and poets have
made of the influence of emotion upon
human hair, but one of the most Gel
ebrated detective inspectors now at
Scotland Yard said to the writer in
regard to this very subject:
When l have put my hand sud-
denly on to the shoulder of some
man | was arrasting l have actually
heard the rustling of his hair. or
thought that l could; at least, l have
seen all the hair about the ears palp-
ably move like that of an animal,
and when that man has been SEN
fenced afterward his hair, that had
before seemed to be crisp and bristly.
has appeared dark and thin and
poor"
Two of the best known hair dress
ers in London have assured the writ
er that they have customers who go
gray and black again within few
hours. One instanced the case of a
financial magnate who came to griet
and was tried for fraud. During the
proceedings he went iron gray, but
directly he HAD been acquitted his
hair returned TO its normal color
Of course, quite without any artificial
means.
Another strange fact is that there
are a comparatively limited number
of people whose hair will never take
any dye, no matter what II may be,
successfully and thoroughly. Bottle
after bottle of hair dye may be cx-
pended upon it, but it viii never take
any pigment properly.-Londcn Tit
Bits
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
STORY OF a GREAT SCANDAL.



Special interest attaches to the Pa
mama canal scandal in France because
the great undertaking has become an
American enterprise and because, from
partisan sources, there have been
grave charges of financial crookedness
in connection with securing title
from the French holders. The plan to
cut the isthmus of Panama with ca
nal was projected in May, 1879. NJ.
de Lesseps went personally over the
ground in 1880. said that the water
way could be completed in eight years
and that from the start it should pay
per cent. or better, upon the invest
ment. 1t was his name and standing
that interested the French people, for
he had built theSue canal, an achieve
ment of his own suggestion. 1t was
opened with imposing ceremonies in
1869. the empress of France leading
the procession of royal personages. The
man who had done so much to honor
his country upon the eve of her mis-
fortunes was beloved OF his people
and their confidence in him amounted
to enthusiasm.
All classes, capitalists. tradesmen
and peasants, We're eager to subscribe
for stock and SOL, 100000 were real
lied, it being given out at the time
that two responsible contractors had
agreed to do the entire work of con
struction for about double that sum.
Later, after the chamber of deputies
had twice rejected the proposition. the
establishment of lottery to raise
more money was Authorized. a condi-
ton imposed by the Minister of FL
nance being that the tide-water canal
be abandoned and locks substituted.
NJ. Eiffel, of Eiffel tower fame, was
paid 100000 francs merely for the
machinery necessitated by this change.
After the lottery scheme was sanction
ed loan was authorized by the cham
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-08-02
Isncoln,s way of reasing.

In his home city. Springfield, H., a
story is told OF Lincoln which has
never appeared in print His house
had long needed a fresh coat of paint
but political campaign was in prog
ress and ABE" had no time to look up
painters.
During his absence for six weeks OF
circuit-riding in his one-horse shay,
Mrs. Lincoln had the matter attended
TO. and on his return when he drove
up to the little cottage Oh sth street
she came ont on the steps 10 welcome
him. Paying not the slightest atten-
ton to her. Lincoln surveyed the
house from foundation TO caves In A
dazed manner and then drove to the
next door. and called TO his neigbbor:
SAY. Can you tell me where Abe
Lincoln livesE'
you old goose. come home ana be-
have yourself" laughed Mrs. Lincoln.