Wellington Daily Standard from Wellington, Kansas • 2

X-'' "'k eXV'' AMWi mi. Daily Standard EXPLOSIVE COAL OUST. Remarkable Energy Developed from 1 Buoeesslon of Dischargee. JOHN A. KENDALL The use of the safety lamp In coal mines has long been regarded as the J.

R. ROMIG proper and sufficient preventive for ex J. R. ROMIG Entered In the postoftloe at Wellington, Kan sas, as Beoonu-iiiass waiter. plosions, but of late years there has been an accumulation of evidence going to show that fire damp is by no means SUM.

BATES OK BUBSORIPTION: the only danger to be guarded against fO- aluminium iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimitiiiiiiiiitiiiiiHiiiiuiiiaiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiimmimiiiiHtiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiait WSft? Jr'jSJ'. Ten Oeuts per week, delivered to any part of cue city, cw-I'avahle to carrier everv Saturday nialit The conditions under which coal dust will act as an explosive agent have been carefully investigated, and it it We carry no person forward upon our books and the weekly payment must be made tu order to secure the paper. All complaints against carriers should be found that explosions often occur in bancs where firedamp is unknown, but MISTAKES OF HISTORY. Error That Creep Into the Popular Mint Mid Are Hard to Eradicate. "What is history but universally accepted fable?" said a learned Smithsonian professor, "I quote the great Napoleon.

For example, consider Plymouth rook. In the town of Plymouth is a rock with a fence around it. It i a sort of local fetish. On Forefather's day every year exercises are held there commemorating the alleged fact that on this rock the pilgrims landed. As a matter of fact, there is no evidence that such was the fact.

Prof. Chan-ning, the historical expert of Harvard, has traced the story back, and believt it to have been started by an old man named Faunce, who many years ago pointed out the rock to some children, saying: "Here they landed." "History states that the pilgrims arrived on Sunday, but refrained from landing until Monday lest they should break the Sabbath. That is pure nonsense. As a matter of fact, the women and children stayed on the ship all winter because it was more comfortable. "The gorgeousness and high civiliza made at tue standard omce.j where the dust abundant.

In one colliery the roof of an incline was being ME YOU LISTENING I Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiimiiimiiiiiiii iiniiiiiiiiiiiiiinii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiii mini If you are you will hear something of special interest to all who blasted. PADVKKTISING RATES furnished upon application at the business oltlre. All programmes and cards of thanks Inserted at regular advertising rates. All changes in ads should be in the business ofUoe by 11 o'clock to Insure attention on same A shot was "blown out," says tie New York World, and the energy liberated from the powder, instead of be tot tfil iay, OFFICK-Standard Building, Standard Block ing absorbed in fracturing the rock, was thrown directly on the coal dust lying around. The dust was thereby subjeoted to destructive distillation, rcast Harvey Avenue, "nd in the temporary absence of The 16 page issue of the Topeka State Journal for Friday evening oxygen great volumes of hydrogen WEAR PANTS and hydro-carbon gases were given off, is ao exceptionally good one.

Almost immediately after these gases were generated they exploded in com tion of the ancient Mexicans at the Ed Hoch is suffering from a bad attack of the colic because Geo. T. ing in contact with the air. The explosion naturally made more dust, and so there Resulted a series of phenomena of the kind, no fewer than ten separate, successive reports occurring In the space of win ivv- i Anthony was appointed insurance Ml. commissioner.

I have a large line of Pantaloonings which I am selling about one thousand, yards. The experiences in this direction call at the following very low prices Tt is amusing to read the Eepubli rn weeklies and see the amounl to mind the similar disasters happening 33? of abuse they are heaping upon their governor. Choice of over 1000 Samples, made in The advance in oil has caused the very latest style, work and ma in flour mills and other places where the air becomes surcharged with dust. Curiously enough, the returns in Great Britain as to the health of coal mines show that the rate of death among them from phthisis is remarkably low, and this immunity is thought to be due to the fact that they work in the dust-laden atmospheres. COMPRESSED WOOD.

producers to go wild with excite time of the Spanish conquest have been permanently embalmed in history. The whole story is a misrepresentation. Cortez naturally wished to give the impression at home that he had conquered a great and rich nation. In reality it was only a half-civilized and untutored people. The mode of living was patriarchal, whole families of one hundred or more persons living in one house.

The communal dwelling was of one story and necessarily of large size. These structures were described by the Spaniards as The people ate only, one cooked meal each day, for the rest of their food depending on a 'grub diet' picked up anyhow. The dinners partaken of by so many individuals are reported in history as "The schoolboy learns that Cohimbus was the man who first conceived the idea that the world was round. Nothing could be more nonsensical. The truth is, that he merely accepted a notion on this subject which had been handed down from classic times by scholarly men.

Strabo, the Latin ment. New wells are being drilled terial guaranteed, at $6, $7, $8 and Upwards. all over the Pennsylvania and Ohio fields. 1 SUITS, choice of 1500 Samples, Ex-Chief Justice A. H.

Horton will engage in business with Bailey "Waggener and James Orr, both of Atchison. The new firm will be one of the strongest law firms in the at $20, $83, $25 and Upwards. Goods delivered in five days from time of leaving order. WILL SUIT YOU IN A author, was one of these. The concep A Fraetleal and Inexpensive Substitute for Certain Sorts of Bard Wood.

The advance in the price of some of ithe hard woods required in various special branches of trade has directed attention to the possibility of producing some less expensive material as a substitute, and in one branch of trade thls has been carried out with very successful results. For the manufacture of loom shuttles boxwood has hitherto 'been very largely used, but the price of Ithis kind of wood has become almost prohibitive, and it has been found that by compression of cheaper classes of timber teak being about the most suitable for this purpose a substitute meeting all the requirements can be obtained. For carrying out this purpose 'a Manchester firm has just completed a powerful hydraulic press to be used tion was for many centuries as a faint The Woman's Progressive Political league of Topeka in a recent meeting adopted resolutions to the light glimering in darkness. "Let me call your attention to an in mi effect that the reason the women cid not vote in the mayorality con stance of the making of fictitious history. There are excellent reasons for believing that the Norsemen reached the shores of North America before Columbus.

The records of their sagas, because thev didn't like e'rther of the candidates. J. R. R0 I TAILOR however, give no notion of the locality The Daily Standard made a ser where they landed. Only a few such ious error in reporting the theory of OVER SHARE BROS.

non-descriptive facts are stated as that they found grapes growing. Yet an enthusiast named Horsford, a trustee of Harvard, a few years ago built on the Charles river a tower between Waltham and Newton to com J. R. ROMIGr J. R.

ROMIG Sherman's defense to be that Dug Jlill did the shooting. Mr. Krank, attorney for Sherman, says that the defense are at a loss to know who fired the fatal shot, their theory being that Sherman's position made it impossible lor him to have done so. memorate the landing of the Norse voyagers at that point. The sagas tell of going up a river and Borytii chose to assume that the CharlesT Fiver was the river referred to.

in compressing timber for loom shuttles. This press consists of a strong castiron top and bottom, with four steel columns and a steel cylinder, with a large ram. In the center of this ram is fitted a similar one, with a rectangular head, fitting into a die which is placed on the top of the large ram. The timber Is put into this die, and a pressure of fourteen tons per square inch is applied. The pressure is then relieved, land the large ram descends.

The top pressure block, which fits the die, is, then removed, and the small ram, rising, pushes the timber out at the top of the die. The timber so treated is made jvery dense and uniform, and so close-grained that it is capable of taking a Very likely the notion thus recorded flbPlTlOML LOCAL. by a monument will gain a 'gnefa'l credit some day, though there is no more reason to suppose that the river was the Charles than that it was the Delaware or Hudson, or any one of 11AILR0AD NEWS. dozens of other rivers. "I quoted Napoleon a moment ago.

Personal and General Items For and About You probably know that no battle was ever fougiit at Waterloo. Waterloo was a post dispatch station some miles Very high finish. For the manufacture of shuttles it has been found as good as boxwood, and there is no doubt it will be applied to other branches of industry where expensive hard woods have to be used. distant. Dispatches were sent thence I the Railroad Boys.

Ed Huffman returned Irom Winfield this morning. Engine 352 went into the shops this morning tor general overhauling. to England, and hence the name given to the battle. "Sheridan's ride to Winchester was HOW THEY WERE PUNISHED. not twenty miles not over ten miles, think.

There never was any founda Miss Flora Fultz is visiting' for a few days in the country northwest of the city. District Clerk J. D. Simpson' and wife will go up to Conway 8prings this afternoon. R.

J. Hukle, ex-representative from the north district, is down from Peck today. Chas. A. Uirons of Anthony is visiting the family of his uncle, John Hirons, on East Ninth street.

L. M. MuBgrove of South Haven, came down from Topeka this morning and will go home tonight. Asa M. Black made a business trip to Corbin this morning and was back before the boys got the office open.

Mra. Bertha Langdon of Iowa is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J.

Arnold on North Washington avenue. Frank Michael went out to Milan this morning to play with Alton's Military band in a concert at that place tonight. Ex-Mayor J. P. Allen, who is a prominent druggist ot Wichita, is in the city today.

He came down to select a lot of tion in fact for the story of Barbara Frietchie. The same -is true of the J. E. Battorff, who baa charge of the freight depot at night, went out to Harper this morning to visit over Sunday. W.

M. Russell will take bis place. Lineman J. L. Kiae came in from the west laat night.

He nays he has an ail yarns about rocanontas and John Smith. Washington Star. Conflicting Views of Eloquence. In the recently published life oi summer's job getting the lines in shape George William Curtis there is an ac RAILROAD'ylME TABLES. Ksussaa and Bebraaka.

GOING KAST. No. 2. Chicago Mall and 8 x) a. No.

4. Chicago Fast Line No. 82. Local 8:18 a. in OOINOWBST.

5" Mal1 and 8:13 p. No- 3. Chicago Fast Line 6:43 a. No. 81.

Local south e.li p. 3 runs tntongh to Fort Worth without change. All trains run daily. Free reclining chair cars on all passenger to Kansas City and St. Joe, where direct conneo-tlon Is made with all lines north, east and south-Tickets sold and baggage checked to all lmpor.

tant points In the United States and M. W. Adams, Agent Wellington, April 7. 1895. Atchison, Topeka and Santa re ARRIVAL.

From north and east-No. 439. Accommodation 7:45 p. No. 427.

Passenger 8:35 a. Southern Kansas division No. 208. Panhandle Express 9:50 a. ho.

219. Accommodation. 9M p. From the west-No. 204.

Passenger 4:50 No. 292. Accommodation 10 00 a. From the south: Caldwell branch-No. 428.

Passenger 4:50 p. From the south Hunnewell branch-No. 448. Accommodation 9:45 am, DSPARTUKKS. North and east-No.

428. Passenger 5 10 p. No. 448. Accommodation 10: 10 Southern Kansas division No.

204. Eastern Express 5:00 p. ra No. 218. Accommodation West-No.

2M. Passenger wm a. No. 291, Accommodatton 1:06 South: Caldwell branoh No. 427.

Passenger 8:40 a. South Hunnewell branch-No. 489. Accommodation 8:00 p. All trains run through without change to Kansas City Atchison and St.

Joseph, making all eastern connections. Reclining chair cars on all trains. Trains 218 and 2iil leave Freight Dnpor, February 14, 195. THOS. E.

PUKOY, W. KOHRBR, Agent Ticket Agent. y. count of a conversation between Mr. Curtis and Eoscoe Conkling on the subject of eloquence at the time when the relations of the two men with each other had been undisturbed.

Mr. Conkling asked Mr. Curtis what was the most eloquent passage of an author he could remember. Mr. Curtis immediately recited a passage from one of Emerson's essays.

Mr. Conkling failed to approve it as the best speci men within his knowledge, and gave as his ideal an extract from Charles Sprague's Fourth of July oration in lioston descriptive of the American trees from the Worden nursery. Wiley Hill is over from Winfield. He is looking tor work and will probably remain here. He will play with the boys in thpir game with Aehton next week.

Charlie Cox came down from Beloit ehis morning to attend the funeral of his little sister this afternoon. His wife, who has been visiting at Argonia, came over last night. Indian as our forefathers found him. SHIPS LOST AT SEA. Swift Destruction Awaits a Sunken Vessel at the Bottom of Old Ocean.

In looking at the oceans, the mind almost instinctively turns to the fate of the ships which found their resting place upon their floors. If tho reader were appointed to inspect the bottom of the drained sea, he would be sure to look at once for some remnants of his kind, overwhelmed by storm or battle. Fancy has depicted these vessels as thickly strewn over the bottom of the ea and at times as hung in the depths, unable, on account of the density of the water, to 'find their way to the earth. But all we know of the conditions of the deep leads us to believe that the sunken vessel finds its way quickly to the foundations of the sea. Jn a few hours at most it reaches its everlasting grave and is ready for the swift destruction which' awaits its form.

At the stroke of its fall it must in part sink into the ooze, which everywhere is deep. Quickly the creatures of the sea, who by long existence in fields where food is scanty have learned to avail themselves of every chance of subsistence, seize upon all the organic matter which fortune has sent to them. Even tho masts and the other woodwork will shortly be honeycombed "by living species and weighed down by encrusting forms. Thus before long the masts will fall and the decks will share in the ruin. If the reader could traverse the field wherennto came the shot-riddled ships of Trafalgar, he would probably, says a writer in Youth's Companion, be surprised at tho slight effect they would make on the landscape.

Each wreck would most likoly appear as a low mound of debris, la which it would be difficult to trace tho semblance of the utout craft which waged the greatest -sea-fight of all time. tihips of European people have been for centuries finding their way to the floors of the ocean. Probably over a hundred thousand vessels have met this fate since the time when our race began to find its way around the world. Yet ly far tho greater part of these have fallen upon the shallows near the shore, where tho swift currents and rapidly moving debris are likely to aid in their destruction and burial. How swiftly they disappear in these conditions may bo judged by the experience of a diver who has sought for fsniiken treasures.

Almost Invariably, after a hundred years or so has passed, thry find that tho craft Is quite lost to night. Far more money has been spent fn tljnso explorations thun has been won from them, Curiously enough, tho most permanent records of man's empire of the seas are being written In the ashes from the coal-fed fires of the hteamshlps. This -waste is in its nature Indestructible, and the rniiMS of material contributed In any one year to the ocean floors is to bo reckoned by the million tons. In time all the great ship routes will be paved with this debris, which will bo built "into the rocks, to remain as the most tjnduring physical monument of man's way upon this sphere. Mr.

Curtis found this extract only ridiculous in the comparison, and confesses to have, been so impolite as to A Mussulman's Method of Disciplining His Family. Dr. Jessuf Bloch, a native of Budapest, lodged upon the ground floor of a house on Bulak street, where he had an extensive practice among the Turkish population. The flat above was occupied by a bey and his harem, composed of three or four women, who, as fls the custom, were jealously secluded from the gaze of all male creatures. During the night of the first earthquake, says a French paper, Dr.

Bloch lay on his couch sleeping the sleep of the just, and all unconscious of impending danger, when suddenly the catastrophe came. The earth trembled, houses rocked, cracked and toppled over, and among the rest the house on Bulak street, which collapsed like a house of cards. The poor doctor started up from his sleep, when he saw, to his horror, the ceiling burst asunder and amid a shower of miscellaneous articles, a couple of ladies dropped down upon him in the attire worn by the harem. The doctor and the women escaped into the open air, and, in consideration of Dr. Bloch's innocence, the stern Mussulman refrained from taking Vengeance on the Giaour.

The two women, on being questioned by the grand mnfti, were, however, drowned in the Bosphorus i. not actually only symbolically, so to speak, for they were sewn up in sacks and immersed in' the water, and immediately drawn out again, their expiation accomplished. The Statue Granary at Bamlan. The wonderful East Indian statues and temples cut from the solid bowlders and stratified rock are duplicated, if not excelled, by the Afghans. Prof.

'J. A. Gay, in one of his recent lectures oa the far east, tells of a stone statue of a god which he saw at Bamian, near the Russian frontier. This particular statue was one of a score, but was the giant of the lot, being one hundred and seventy-three feet in height and large in proportion. It was used as a store-bouse for grain, and at that time contained over two thousand bushels.

laugh after it was recited. The effect upon the mighty Roscoe can well be imagined. lioston Herald. Sasher Schonert will make your old buggy new at a very small cost. h.

See the middle man at the Bon Ton. Cleaning Fot and Pan. A woman naturally hates to clean up I again from the effects ot the storm. Brakeman Wm. Schamaborn of this city and Conductor Leddy of Newton returned this morning from Amarillo, Texas, where they had been as witnesses in a railroad trial.

Mrs. Chas. Dobson yesterday received a draft from Wm. P. Daniels, grand secretary and treasurer ol the Order of Railway Conductors, for $3,000, the amount ot her husband's insurance in that order.

L. P. Downey, Fred Fisher and John Nollner went hunting around Cicero yesuerday afternoon. The boys in the yard say they were hunting snipes and left Mr. Nollner holding the sack.

He bad not showed up this morning. PERSONAL. Mention of the Going and Coining of Various People. J. A.

Mathews is over from Winfield today. W. T. Brown was over from May field last night. Ed Jones returned from Kansas City this morning.

Miss Ida Gray went up to Wichita this morning. 0. J. Wood came down from Topeka this morning. Luke Barnes ot Palestine township is in the city today.

Rev. Geo. M. Weimer returned from Iowa this morning. Mr.

and Mns. E. A. Kelly ol Millerton are visiting in the city today. Mrs.

V.C. Sleeper went out to the farm in Barber county this morning. J. M. Rogers, an implement man of Wichita, Is in the city today.

W. M. Russell ot Nlotago, a son-in-law ol W. J. Bebb, came in this morning.

C. L. Crhwman, proprietor of the hotel at South Haven, is in the city i WHAT'S M3 THE MATTER a bread or cake bowl alter the dough has got hard. They should be cleaned as soon as used, but if necessary to leave them for a time, run the tray or bowl full of cold water and let it stand so. When you get ready to clean it the dough will be in the bottom of the utensil as a general thing, and you will only have to rinse and dry it.

The same is true of kettles and skillets. I 68 SB do not approve of setting any uten WITH YOUR LITTLE GIRL'S sils aside when the dishes are washed, for if you keep an oyster shell with a thick smooth edge at rand you can HAVING clean the roughness out of anything in half a moment, but if you don't want to do it just then you will find that an iron pot in which potatoes have burned IS A PARTY Novelty In A young gentleman applied the other day to a clergyman after church for half a sovereign that he had dropped into the collection plate by mistake for sixpence. He could not afford to give half a sovereign, he said, and should be glad to have his nine and sixpence back again. Curiously enough, when one considers how prone is the natural man to be generous at other people's expense, tho clergyman declined to ao-cede to his request. He examined the contents of the collecting plate and found only a very few gold pieces, tho donors of which were all identified.

The device In question therefore appears to ho a novelty In tho art of swindling and must he added to the long list of "plants." The Texas Coast country vies with California in raising pears, grapes and strawberries. The 1803 record of H. M. Stringtellow, Hitchcock, who raised nearly worth of pears from 18 acres, can be duplicated by you. G.

T. Nicholson, G. P. A. Santa Fe Route, Topeka, will be glad to furnish without oharge an illustrated pamphlet telling about Texas.

HER to the bottom, or a skillet in which meat or gravy has simmered to a crust, will he easy enough to clean, after "Tf DIDTUniV standing an hour or two filled with 3 WITH te8ti5 cold water. Washington Star. PRETTY i ft Ills Manner of Working. "Yes, I've been working like a dog INVITATIONS' lately," grumbled Swigglcs, leaning back In his chair at the club house. rROH THE 'Like a setter dog?" asked the other Wanted Ills Commission.

Two newsboys were fighting on a Chicago coiner. Billy, having got the worst of it, went away crying, when a benevolent gentleman came forward and gave him a dime, comforted him and told him to bo quiet. When the gentleman left, Jimmy ran up and said: "Here, Billy, give mo half of that, for if I hadn't tumped yor, yes wouldn't ha' got it at all." fellows. Without hhlftlng his position Swig- gles lazily pushed the button of the electric bell and ordered four large beers. Chicago Tribune "i.