The Daily Press from Topeka, Kansas • 1

Pail Qtoeta 482 TOPEKA, KAJSTSAS MONDAY MEMBER 23 1896 VOL. 8. A LITTLE NONSENSE. GIRAFFES ALMOST EXTINCT. HUNTING BUFFALOES.

I FASTER RIGHT ON DS. STRUCK IOWA. FASTER. 4 Method That Lacked the Spice of Sport and Was Cruel. Of all the deadly methods of buffalo slaughter, the "still hunt" was the deadliest, says a writer upon the extermination of the buffalo in America.

It was destitute of nearly every element of the buoyant spice of danger that accompanied buffalo hunting on horseback, and to-day it is considered to have been mere butchery of the tamest and Prosperity Coming Our Way Under a Full Head of Steam. Railroads Running Their Engines Into Winter Quarters. Prosperity Doth Tread Thf Heels of McKinley yet the most cruel kind. About it I With Brakes All Off and Throttle Wide Open. That Wonderful Motive Power Furnished by McKinley.

Old Confidence Fully Restored and Getting to Wori. SOMEBODY HEAD US OFF, LARGE FURNITURE FACTORY. LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. Opened Via KamaiUlt? Same Old Slum 'For Kent" Advance Agent nir. lv Dead.

Three Thousand Men Made Idle In New York Mollne Fall of Trampt-Factorlee are hutting Down. My Country Tig OP Thee Bleak Land of Misery Gloomy Out look For Labor "Far, what is your 'busy day? "Well, happy urchin, it is when 1 stay at home to rest, and your mother gets me to do a few little odd jobs around the house." Tit-Bits. To Please the Public. "The people seem to be getting tired of this brar.l of cracked wheat," said the wholesale dealer. "We'll have to change the name of it." Chicago Tribune, A gentleman's linen cuff directed to the owner, and stamped ith a penny stamp, recently went through the post office.

It bore this message: "Please call and pay your washing bill. Your Laundress." Tit-Bite. Sure Not to Fit. "1 have been reading about the coming styles in sleeves," remarked Mrs. Frankstown.

"Are they to be too tight or too loose?" asked Mrs. Point Breeze. Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Dealer "Here's a cyclometer I enn recommend. It is positively accurate; not at all like some cyclometers register two miles, perhaps, where yor have ridden only one." Young Lady "You haven't any of that kind, ha you?" Boston Transcript.

"Your money or your life," be hissed. The girl, who was taking advantage of the gloaming to mount her wheel, frowned. "Sir," 6he answered, with a trace of irritation in ber mau-ner, "if I felt that it were necessary for me to be held up, 1 should employ a regular instructor, (iood evening." Detroit Tribune. "I never want to hear anything about a woman's extravagance," said Mr. Mcekton's wife.

"A wonan always tries to get more for money than a man does for his." "That's true," was 1 answer. "When we went to the theater last night your hat and sleeves enabled you to occupy twice the space that did." Washington Star. "What is the complainant's reputation for truth and veracity?" asked the lawyer. "It's generally good, 1 think," answered the witness, "though in telling about the size of snakes he has killed he seems to be inclined to go to almost any length." Indianapolis Only Two in Captivity in America and But One in England. There is only one giraffe in England, two in America, and on the continent of Europe the dearth is as remarkable.

In the wild beast market there are none to be had, and collectors are compelled to send agents into the interior of South Africa to secure them. The giraffe is fast disappearing before the encroachment of man. and long before the great central plateau of Africa, which is its habitat, has been opened up to civilization it will, like the great auk, have been completely wiped out. Formerly giraffes were imported from North Africa by way of the Mod sea, but since the introduction of firearms, and their general use by the Bedouins and Soudanese in hunting, these timid animals have been driven far to the south of the Soudan. So the only gateway that is practicable to bring them out of Africa now lies through Cape Town, and for the last half dozen years even that presents almost insuperable difficulties on account of the constant wars between the natives and the Boers and English.

At the beginning of the present century giraffes ranged as far south as the banks of the Orarge river, but they are not to be met now below the North Kalahari country. There has never been a very large number of giraffes in American collections, though in 1S83 one great show went long on giraffes, and exhibited a herd of 21, the largest number probably that has ever been seen together, since in the wild state they do not herd in large numbers, and are never found in groups of more than four or five. The giraffe is not a hardy animal in captivity. It does not thrive on dry food, like most ruminant animals, which do almost as well on hay as grass. In the wild state the giraffe feeds almost entirely on the leaves and twigs of a species of acacia which the Boers call kameel-doorn or camel thorn, the giraffe itself being known to them as kameel, or camel.

The food imparts to the flesh pungent aromatic flavor which makes giraffe steak a delicacy highly esteemed by African hunters. There is no animal which gives its keeper more trouble in a menagerie, not even the treacherous elephant. While the giraffe is gentle in disposition, and not given to attack, even in the wild state, it is stupid and obstinate, and cannot be taught to mind. A fuli-grown one cannot be taken alive, for when defense is no longer possible it will kill itself. Self-destruction is not difficult in its case, either, for the long neck is easily broken.

London Mail. No one would more heartily embrace the return of prosperity than we, but until it returns it is the height of nonsense and emphasized injustice to human ity to attempt to make people believe something that everybody knows is false. We are "from Missouri; you'll have to show us," The mere plutocratic newspaper reports of prosperity's return denied by sickening conditions all over the country, gofor naught. Give McKinley a chance: don't blight the administration with false representations before it is in power. Such tactics are suicidal from any standpoint.

tnere was none ot tne true excitement of the chase. The chase on horseback furnished sport of a superior kind, keenly exhilarating, with an element of danger, in the excitement and eagerness of which the horse shared with the rider. To be successful in this chase required a good horse, a bold rider, a firm seat and perfect familiarity with weapons. Whenever the hunters discovered a herd of buffalo, they usually got to leeward of it and quietly rode forward in a body, or stretched out in a skirmish line. Usually the animals, with a confidence due more to their gTeat numbers than anything else, would allow a party to approach within from 2G0 to 400 yards of their flank, and then they would start off at a slow trot.

The hunters then put spurs to their horses and dashed forward. The fatal spot on a buffalo is 12 to 18 inches in circumference, and is situaed immediately back of the foreleg, so that a man, even if a poor shot, keeping his nerve, was almost sure to bring down his game at close range, seldom, if ever, wasting a shot. The dangers, of course, were many, and on almost every roundup accidents occurred, a few of which every year were fatal. Put with the still hunt all different. So long as the chase was the order of the day, it ordinarily required the united efforts of from 15 to 25 hunters to kill 1,000 buffaloes in a single season, but a single hunter with a long-range, breechloader, who knew how to make a "sneak" and "get a stand on a bunch," often succeeded in killing from 1,000 to 3,000 in a single season by his own unaided efforts.

Capt. Jack Bridges, of Kansas, who was one of the first to begin the final slaughter of the southern herd, killed by contract 1,142 buffaloes in six weeks. By daylight the still hunter sallied forth on foot, carrying in his hand his huge Sharp's rifle, weighing from 1G to 19 pounds, with from 75 to 100 loaded cartridges in his two belts or bags at his side. From his belt hung his ripping knife, his skinning knife and a butcher's steel, upon which to sharpen them. The total weight was seldom less than 3G pounds and often more.

Having selected a position within 100 to 250 yards of his game, although the distance was sometimes greater, the hunter got a comfortable rest for his huge rifle, and, all the time keeping his own presence thoroughly hidden from view, estimated the distance, carefully adjusted his sights, and deliberately began business. If the herd was moving, the animal in the lead was the first one shot. If the herd was at rest the oldest cow, which was usually the- leader, was the first one killed. The noise would startle the buffaloes, and they would stare at the little eloud of white smoke and feci inclined to run, but seeing their leader hesitate, they would wait for her, but she would fall to the ground, and the other members of the herd would go on grazing. The policy of the hunter was not to fire too rapidly, but to attend closely to business, and shoot down any buffalo which attempted to make off.

One shot per minute was a moderate rate to fire, but under pressure of circumstances two per minute could be discharged with deliberate precision. St. Louis Paxa, 111., Nov. 23. The Illinois Central Railroad company is decreasing its force in different departments.

The section force the Pana division was decreased to-day and the others were reduced to nine hours per day, a reduction of wages from $1,10 to 99 cents per day. Depression in traffic is given as the cause. It is said all departments will be affected. Even plutocratic papers are now void of news of the starting up of factories and the general opening up of industrial establishments which is considered by many a Godsend to the poor wretches who have been skating about the country looking for the spots of alleged prosperity. The dispatches fail to show any increase in the industrial activity, but, on the other hand, teem with shutdowns, lockouts and general activity abroad and at home.

While the large armies of idlers are becoming larger despondent men and women are committing suicide for want of work, the trusts are getting together for another grand march against the people to plunder the producing masses and steal what little is left. Owing to a large surplus of carpets on hand the big tapestry mill of the Alexander Smith Sons Carpet company at Yonkers, N. Y. closed down Saturday. It is rumored that the shutting down of other mills operated by the company will shortly follow.

Saturday's close down throws from 3000 to 4000 hands out of employment. It is stited that if the rumors of closing down of other mills prove true there will be 7000 hands out of employment. The Smith carpet mills are the largest in the world. A telegram from Moline, 111., says that city is being overrun with tramps and men looking for work and the police of the city are being kept busy. The starting up of the factories of that city has been so falsely advertised that men are going there from all parts of the country in the vain hope of finding work.

It is claimed that fully 1000 men were turned away from Deere Co's works one morning last week. The joint w'age scale committee of window-glass workers and manufacturers, after a two day's conference at Pittsburg, adjourned without having reached any agreement. The result of this failure means the continued idleness of 12,000 men throughout the country who have already been without work for the last six months. About 25 per cent of the number of employes of the Kaiser Lumber and Box company of Muscatine, when paid off Saturday evening wereinformed Dm Moines, Nov. 23.

The good times that were to have arrived have not yet in Des Moines. The laboring men of this city are not only willing, but anxious, to furnish affidavits as to the real merits of that wonderful new motive power, of which McKinley is the advance agent, if only given an opportunity. The citizens here were no less pleased than astonished to learn, via Kansas City, that ft "furniture factory had opened up in Des Moines since election, giving employment to 200 men." The matter is being investigated. In anticipation of a mild winter, the Des Moines glove factory has shut down. The only manufacturing establishment to be opened up here since the election was a bioom factory, with a six-horse power engine and a ten horse power whistle.

They stopped the engine to blow the whistle and "haven't done anything since" save to hang up in the window the same old sign: "For Rent." Of the railroads centering here the Des Moines and Northern, the Great Western and the Chicago and Northwestern have all cut wages and laid off a number of men. As "economy is the handmaid of prosperity," the latter road has run ten engines into the round-house at Boone for shelter during the winter. Des Moines is a flourishing city. Her business men are of that variety frequently described as "live." They have nothing to gain by misrepresentations. As ft matter of cold, hard fact, the only legitimate opening up of any new business here since the election occurred last week on the east side.

The Salvation Army people opened up a soup house. There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall Catarrh ure, manufactured by F.

Cheney Toledo Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surface of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials, Address, Toledo, O.

Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall, 3 Family Pills are the best. Dubuque, Nov. 23. Norwegian Plow company, capital $195,000, assigned yesterday cause slow collections; nominal assets, it may yield enough to pay liabilities, which are may reorganize.

AMERICAN CATTLE. Prevent sickness and save doctor's bills at this season by keeping your blood rich and pure with Hood's Floating Sanitariums. The sanitarium at sea is a European idea. A large steamer especially fitted up for the accommodation of invalids in need of fresh air and a favorable climate is to be constructed by a ship-owning association. The ship is to be in constant employment for eight or nine months in the year, but lor at least three months out of the twelve she will go into dock in order to be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected.

It is proposed to make this steamer, which is to be the forerunner of a large fleet similarly equipped, a veritable floating paJace in the mtter of boih comfort and salubrity. Although skilled advice and nursing will always be available, the accomjnnimenta of a sanitarium will be kept as much as jkjs-ible in the background. The prominent idea to be carried out in this new departure- is the isolation of a dangerous class, with the least pos-ible amount of discomfort to its members; and, furthermore, that by a judicious timing of moves th sufferers will be afforded a chance of recovery under the most favorable climatic conditions, which it would be diflicult to secure otherwise. A list of anchorages has leen made, all of which have their special seasons. As soon as any undesirable change of weather is imminent at the port of stopping, the ship wild sail for a more salubrious climate.

Washington Star. ike a Cyclone, "Our party wili sweep this country like a whirlwind." shouted the leather-tongucd orator from the stump. I guess if sweep her you'll get there." came from the granger with a reserved seat on a barrel. Detroit Free Press. A Deception Easily Practiced.

is the offerof a reward "any case of catarrh not cured" by certain Nothmg is said regarding tha number of bottles required and therein lies the deception. Ely's Cream Balm is an elegant preparation agreeable to use and immediate in its beneficial results. It cures catarrh. You can rely upon the fact that it contains no mercury nor other injurious drug, 50cents. that their services were no longer required.

There had been about two hundred hands on the company's pay rolls when the reduction of the force was made. The major portion of the men who were thus laid off had been engaged "in lumber pulling." Tne Modern Way, Commends itself to the well informed, to do pleasantly and effectually what formerly done in the crudest manner aud disagr. as well. To cleanse the system up and great colds, headaches and fevers without unpleasant af effects, use the delightful liquid laxitive remedy. Syrup of Figs.

Manufactured by California Fig Syrup Growth and Peculiarities of the Export Trade. According to a British government report, the importation of American cattle into England is steadily on the increase. For the first five months of the current year it was 175,000 head, as compared with 112,000 for the same period last year. If this rate per month be sustained, the year's import will be over 400,000, or much larger than the exceptional importation in 1S92. The London and Liverpool markets have been so heavily supplied that the prices of American beeves have there fallen as low as 9 to 9y2 cents per pound (estimated dress weight) while export steers were being quoted at Chicago at 3.75 to 4 cents per pound live weight.

At these rates shipments must have been at a loss. The development of the chilled beef import trade presents many interesting features, and is in many respects verisimilar to that of live cattle. Taking 600 pounds as the average weight of cattle slaughtered for the dressed beef trade, last year's export from this country of fresh beef to England represented a number of cattle nearly equal to that exported alive, the latter being, however, heavier cattle. The past five months' export of chilled beef was 108,759,600 pounds, as compared with 81,841,065 pounds for the same period last year. At this rate the year's export will be some 60,000,000 pounds greater than in 1892.

It seems still a matter of doubt which of the two branches of the trade offers the largest profits. The secretary of agriculture, in his report for 1895, says: "It appears to work out more profitably to transport the live cattle. They are carried on parts of the ship that would otherwise be unoccupied. They do not require such special fittings and appliances as to debar the vessel from carrying other cargo when cattle are not available." The ocean freight on the forequar-ters of a steer varies from five to six dollars. Cincinnati Enquirer.

Paper Floors. At Einsiedeln, Germany, paper floors are manufactured. In he form of a pasty mass the paper is spread upon the surface to be covered and submitted to pressure. It behaves like plaster of paris, and is said to be noiseless under the foot, and particularly effective in preserving a uniform temperature. Having no joints, it presents a perfectly smooth surface.

Youth's O-'on. Some kinds of wasp honey are extremely poisonous, a few grains can Ing a kind of delirium. CATARRH IN THE HEAD. Is a dangerous disease. It may lead directly to consumption.

Catarrh is caused by impure blood, and the true way to cure it is by puriying the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures catarrh because it removes the cause of it by purifying the blood. Thousands testify that they have been cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Hood's Pills are purely vegatable and do not purge, pain or gripe. All druggists.

25c. WhTch Is the Anarchist? Edward Lauterbach of the New York county republican committee and delegate from the state at iarge to the republican national contention, says: "If a majority of the votes at the approaching election should be cast for Bryan and the Chicago platform, we will not abide by that result," William Jennings Bryan pays: "I am willing to submit any question, however great or small, to the people of the United States, AND I AM WILLING TO ABIDE BY THEIR DECISION. Which is the anarchist? Free silver would raise the prices at the farmer's products and make it impossible for anybody to buy them. Chicago Tribune, August 25, 1S96. Those who.

know that national prosperity depends on the prosperity of the farmer are willing to take a chance with heat at one dollar a busheL COLORED FLAMBEAU CLUB. "I don't want any man to voce for me because lie thinks that if I am elected I will help him put his hands in somebody else's pocket. All I expect to do is to prevent somebody else from putting his hands In your pockets." W.J. Dryan. Lions Disappearing.

Just as the buffalo has been exterminated from our great western plains, so lions are disappearing from India before the rifle of the hunter and the ax and plow of the farmer. In Kathi-awar, whose forest have furnished one of the last retreats of the retiring king of beasts, an attempt is being made to save the animals from complete extinction by prohibiting lion-hunting during a period of six years. It is said, however, that the gradual clearing away of the forests will in itself result in the extermination of the lions. Youth's Companion. A Sure Sign.

"I saw Muggins on his front porch this evening smoking a cigar; it must be that his wife is away." "What makes you think so?" "Why, when she's at home he smokes a brier root pipe and tries to look economical." Buffalo Express. How contemptibly men kick and wrangle over a dollar, end how magnificently they throw it away i Collapse of an Empire, The probability of the collapse of the Austrian empire before many years is great. The archduke, Fanz Ferdinand, nephew and, the death of hi father. Archduke Karl Ldwig, heir presumptive of the emperor of Austria, is now in his 33d year, but ia health so feeble that he was not allowed to attend his father's funeral. He is unmarried.

Since he inherited the property of Francis the last duke of Modeim, in 1875, he has styled himself archduke of Austria-Este. This archduke's heir and brother, Archduke Otto, has made himself so notorious throughout Furope by his profligacy that it is doubtful now if even Austria would accept him as a mon-erch. The aged emperor has, therefore, as heirs a dying invalid and a discredited man. The various races of the heterogeneous empire are ready at a convenient moment to assert tlx ir in-deDendence. St.

Louis Republic. Senator Brice, of Ohio, has finally announced his opposition to Bryan. This was quite to be expected, and the wonder is that he has been so slow bout it. Cal. Brice and his fellow-plutocrats are not running the democratio uartv any more and that is why it is so popular and is going to win this Homeaeek era' Excu.slons.

Very low rates will be made by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway on November 3rd and 17th, December 1st and 15th. to the South. For particulars apply to the nearest local Agent, or address: G. A. Mc Nutt, G.

P. A 1044 Union Ave. Kansas City, Mo. Salesmen Wanted. Wanted Traveling Salesmen to sell our line of Package Roasted Coffee Exclusively or as a side line on big commission.

Thos. M. McBee A Manfieid, Ohio. For Kail Road Ticket For all points east or west for sleep, ing car reservations for information as to routes and rates apply to F. A.

LEWIS, Union Pacific System, 525 Kansas Topeka, Kansas A. T. Waggoner, Druggist, 73 1 Kansas Avenue. Will Continue its Organization and Strengthens Its Forces. A special meeting of the members of the Bryan and Leedy Free Silver colored flambeau club is called to meet at 415 Kansas avenue on Tuesday evening Nov.

24th at 7 :40 o'clock for the purpose of reorganization and election of tne following officers Captain, first and Second Lieutenants. Quartermaster Treasurer, Secretary and assistant Secretary, also a board of directors to be appointed by the captain. Said board shall draft a constitution and by laws for the club and fix the term of office, James Mitchell W. H. Smith J.

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