The Gate City Journal and Arkansas City Enquirer from Arkansas City, Kansas • 2

SMALLEST REPUBLIC. THE TRADERS EXCHANGE. A GREAT INVENT0B A PIRE IN JAPAN. tmm and Half Square IfUes, with The reople la a To malt and Kverykejr HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS. ITEMS OF INTEREST TO DWEU LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.

Population of Sixty. The smallest republic in the world Carrying a Lighted Lantern. MAKER OP THE LINOTYPE PASSES AWAY. The State Bank at Galena ia a sew one. The post-office at Ilazelton has been robbed of 875.

Wichita is moving in the direction ot a free public library. Kansas City, has issued $55,000 1b that of Tavolara, an island about Published Every Friday. Subscription Price, 60 Cents Per Tetr. live miles long, with an average width TbWek'i Review of Fersonel aad Qeej oral Newt Condensed to Paragraph of a little more than half a mile, situated about a dozen miles to the north Ottroar Mergenthaler, Whoie Idea Ilai Revolutionized the Printing Business, Dies at Hie Home In Baltimore 111 Wonderful Uen'os. internal improvement bonds.

east of Sardinia. The total population C. M. McINTIRE, Editor. J.

X. Roskbwibt, Collector. of the whole republic does not exceed The Osborne county third party pro 60, but they elect a president every six hibition ticket received 31 votes. The Melvern bank has been dyna years, and a council of six members, all of whom serve the state without pay. The women ot this island go to the polls and vote with the men, and mited and its cash carried away.

Entered at the Post-Offlce at Arkansas City, Kuum, eoond-olasa matter, February llth, Lett. Congressman Rldgely has bought a ever since it became a republic, in 1886, all public business has been transacted Ottmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of the linotype machine, which is now used by the principal newspapers of the country instead of the old method of setting type by hand, died recently at his home in Baltimore. He was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, In 1854. While he was still a mere boy he was apprenticed to a watchmaker, but 200 acre farm, paying 830 an acre for it. THE MUTINEER IN THE CHURCH The Rock Island's taxes in Shawnee eounty, just paid, amounted to 83.

At Kyoto, among hundreds ot queer sights waa that of a fire at night, lays writer In the Baltimore Sun. All Japs who have friends within a ra-idius ot half a mile must present themselves or their representatives at their friend's house during or immediately latter the fire to inquire if they tot be of any assistance. The result Is that thousands turn out at every fire. The almost deserted streets were quickly icrowded by thousands of Japs, ewa carrying a paper lantern. They came down every street and rushing in a confused mass.

Some of the paper lanterns were four feet long and as big as a barrel, carried high above the Icrowd at the end of a bamboo and followed by a dozen lanterns halt so large, such special delegation representing some rich family or a prominent firm. Our hotel was out in full force, all the guests with their lanterns, and made visits of condolence to friends In the vicinity of the fire. The firemen upon the roofs of houses car-Tied paper lanterns and fought the fire with water forced by a hand pump through a few lengths of bamboo poles, answering for hose. To gaze from more elevated heights down upon the whither your jlnrlklsha was iswlftly carrying you, was a glittering, jf-weird panorama, a unique spectacle u' soon forgotten. In some respects It Twenty thousand sheep will be fat without turmoil; the elections taking place without any high party feeling or undue excitement.

In 1836 King Charles Albert of Sardinia granted the Island of Tavolara to a family of the name of Bartoleonl, but in less than half a century the Inhabitants threw oft the yoke of monarchy and took to themselves. This little war did not alarm the world, and was quite a peaceful one. King Paul I. reigned until 1882, and on his deathbed re toned in Dickinson county this wln ter. Archie Keech, a Gray county farmer rounded up $30,000 last week in a cat) tie deal.

Burlington estimates that Ilolloween quested that none of his kin should cost the town about $100 in broken oidcwalks. succeed to the throne, and fca no one A large natural cave was found on claimed the honor four years later the people decided to draw up a constitu tho farm of John J. Ingalls, near Atch-j ison, this week. tion, and Tavolara has been a very successful little republic since. Twelve years ago its independence was recog Heavy shipments at Liberal continue nized by Italy, and, It is to be pre and the record of the year are likely td beat the record.

sumed, other powers would have recog The University of Colorado has chain nized it also if they had known of its existence. The inhabitants live prin was a sort or pandemonium; the noise 1m Haelaren Describes Him Big, Blatant and Cowardly I "The mutineer Is an able-bodied miscreant, who will strike a hard blow whenever he can get an opportunity, and at any person he can reach," writes Ian Maclaren, of "The Mutineer In the Church," In the November Ladles' Home Journal. "His sole desire la to do mischief, and the more pain he gives the better is he pleased. He will write Insulting letters to the minister, charging him with every sin from heresy to lying. He will get up a public controversy about the affairs of the congregation In any newspaper which la foolish enough to Insert his letters.

He will attack the most reasonable proposals of the office-bearers, and Impute to them the worst motives. He will move through the congregation as an incendiary, and set fire to every inflammable person. When he Is in his glory he will threaten proceedings in the church courts, or in the civil courts; and although he will never carry them out, being a coward as well as a bully, he will take the preliminary steps, which cause talk and alarm. It will also be part of hia role to pose as a straightforward and honest man of unflinching rectitude and Spiritual aims. What he does will always be under constraint of con-' science, and he will summon himself and his opponents with much rhetor-; leal effect before the bar of eternal justice.

He Is so big and blatant, and. good people are so charitable and easily cowed, that they often take this man at his own value and come to terms with him." lenged the Kansas State University to, a joint debate. cipally by fishing and raising fruits and vegetables. They fear no sudden invasion, for they dispense with any Frankfort is said to number among army or navy, and, presumably, in case her citizens an unusually large nuinbeii of retired farmers. of need, would rely upon the entire population to uphold the freedom of Near Clyde, Kansas, the young cattlq the country.

are dying off with something whicly resembles black-leg. INVENTOR MERGENTHALER. he failed to serve out his full time on account of difficulties which made him resolve to seek his fortune in the United States. When he landed in Baltimore his worldly possessions barely exceeded $30 in cash. Going to Washington', D.

where his uncle was engaged in the building of machines, he obtained employment with his relative at that place. Here In the course of time he originated and perfected the machine which has since The Topeka dailies now reach Wich THE SUTHERLAND FAMILY. The Duchess of Sutherland, who has KANSAS ITEMS OF INTERESX. Tlve Wellington men are ready to put up cash for a wholesale grocery there. The Twenty-eight Annual meetingof the Kansas State Grange will be held at Olathe, December 11, 13 and 13.

There is a contest In view In Atchison county over the office of sheriff. It will cost the county about 81,000. The commissioners of Sumner county have decided to advertise for the building of three steel bridges and one pile bridge. Miss Ada Bryant, a Lincoln girl, has been elected leader of the choir of a big St. Louis church at a salary of 81,000 per year.

Lieutenant Sam Ilopkins of Leavenworth, may return to Manila as he has been tendered a position on General Funston's staff. Several hundred head of cattle are being fed foi the market near Burlington. They eat about 13,000 pounds of corn chop a day. M. A.

Low, the Kansas railroad man lived in Missouri, back in 1870, and practiced law and had a half interest in a weekly newspaper. The proposition to establish a court of common pleas in Cherokee and Crawford counties carried in the last election there by 700. Grant Gillett and Mrs. Gillett are reported out of danger. His sister who went to Mexico to nurse them, has returned to Woodbine.

Daniel Hileman, who died at Oswego recently was a delegate from Ohio to the convention which nominated James K. Polk for president in 1844. Joseph H. Dohner, who died recently near Peabody, was the father of fourteen children, thirteen of whom were with the mother at the funeral. People who own lots in Leavenworth continue to sue the coal company for the value of coal taken from under their property.

The last suit is for 893,000. Members of the State Board of Education visited Fairmont College and Friend's University at Wichita to decide upon their right to issue certificates to teachers. Rev. vllerrlich has resigned as rector of St. John's Episcopal church at Wichita.

He says he has propositions from five places from which to choose his field of work. Two masked men broke into the Parker state bank, bound and gagged Cashier Slaughter who slept in a rear room, blew open the safe and got $1,500. They then stole two horses and skipped. Mrs. Ellen Kelleher is register of deeds of Graham county.

Two years ago she was the only one on the republican ticket elected. This year the populists refused to nominate anyone ita one whole day later than they did up to a few days ago. Jnst published an antl-soclallstlc novel, The Southern Kansas Teachers' asso is the wire of one of the richest noblemen In England. Though still a young ciation will hold a convention in Wich woman, she has been prominent for ita December 1 and 3. vmv wuTu, niu iwgiiuui liana auu ichatterlng of thousands of running each with a paper lantern, the iyells of hundreds of jinrikisha coolies (shoutlng for gangway as they sped inlong, the clatter of the wooden shoes jot the multitude afoot, resounding upon the stone-paved streets, the dart-jing of lanterns to and fro and the con-: fusion at the fire were all very, very jstrange Indeed.

Japanese newspapers ithe next day contained entire pages of cards of thanks of those who received visits of condolence due to the iflre. In winter there are on the average jthree fires per day in the large cities, resulting in plenty of advertisements for newspapers and work for carpenters. Carpenters are often accused of practicing incendiarism to secure work. 'Fire insurance is very rare and expensive. Business firms endeavor to 'build fireproof shops.

Usually mud plaster Is used for the walls and tiles for the roofs. The openings which for windows are closed with doors a foot thick. Block after block of such shops, all painted a solid black, line the chief streets of Japanese cities, giving a very somber look to the thoroughfares. some years in philanthropic and temperance work. The town house of the A Silver Lake man is selling man duke is one of the show places of Lon frogs to Topeka hotels.

He gets 60 cents a dozen for them. don. The duke's father, whom he suc placed him in the fore-front of great modern inventors. Mr. Mergenthaler was barely more than thirty years of age when he conceived the idea of the linotype.

Seldom has genius been more precocious. On account of ill health Mr. Mergenthaler had not engaged in active work for some time previous to his death. ceeded in 1892, startled London society, after the death of his Invalid wife. Ex-Congressman Ben Clover fell out of a wagon in Butler county the other by marrying the widow of his game- Keeper, Mrs.

Blair, to add to tne day and broke his collar bone. complications of the situation, Mrs. Up to date only eight members ol Blair became a widow through an un OVER 83 MILES OP WIRE. QUEER BEVERAGES. Molasses or brown sugar takes the place of sirup in the drinks of Porto, Rico and Manila.

They give a peculiar) flavor much liked by the natives, but. I which is not alwavs auDreciated by? fortunate accident on the part of the the Twentieth Kansas have applied for labor through the State labor bureau. duke. While hunting one day he ac Water Makes 10,000 Horae Power, cidentally shot Mr. Blair, and it was The Woodmen of the World have Which Is Sent to Los Angeles.

Today the most notable transmission plant In existence is that of the South while calling on Mrs. Blair to express his sorrow and sympathy that he fell in love with her. She was then over 40 vears old. hut as the dowaeer duch erected a monument at Wynnewood in honor of Oliver G. Cable, a deceased sovereign.

ern California power company, designed to carry 10,000 horse power at ess is still a somewhat prominent and The stamp department of the inter OVERRUN BY RATS. i Rice wine Is not unknown there, al-j 'though in no great demand. it Is quite a favorite in the (Where, under a warm sun, its intoxi-j eating effects are fufiy appreciated. Aj gun barrel Is generally used by thej natives in preparing the mulled por-j nal revenue office at Leavenworth during twelve days of this month received $16,575.94 for stamps. Enforced Closing of the Utrlcl 1 aeo it office in London.

Something like twelve months The Kansas river is lower than it hah itlon, a superstition prevailing that the been at this season for many years. Irrigation schemes in western Kansas and Colorado are said to be the cause; idrlnk thus compounded absorbs some of the peculiarly effective fighting 'qualities of the gun and gives strength accordingly. i More deadly than rice wine is bar The Rock Island depot at Wellsford, Kansas, was entered by thieves and about three dollars in money secured. ley ale. Old and experienced drink-: 33,000 volts over 83 miles of line from the power house to the town of Los Angeles.

The power house is situated at the base of the San Bernardino mountains, on the Santa Ana river, and the power water intake is at the junction of Bear creek and the Santa Ana river, about seven miles below the famous Bear creek dam. The water In this river, like all waters in southern California, Is owned by water com-, panles, and as soon as it reaches the valley it is led off in Irrigation ditches in different directions. Under these conditions any power company using the water must not interrupt the flow, and the regulation of the Pelton water wheels which are used must be by deflecting nozzles. The water is carried about two and a half miles, 80 per cent of which is through tunnels, and the rest of the canal is open masonry and wooden flumes. The elevation at the intake Is 3,422 feet above sea level, and that of the power house 2,670 feet, giving a head of 735 feet on the wheels.

Cassler's Magazine. They effected entrance by prying up an office window. Governor Stantey urges superin ers have been brought to grief by a couple of glasses of this palatable intoxicant. It is sometimes mixed with lemon juice to deaden the effects, but for the average American the fascinat-; tendents of State institutions to be carefully saving of coal. The prison coal shaft is being repaired and but little coal can be mined.

an important district postofflce in London was closed. It had been opened stamps, money orders and postofflce orders and telegrams till midnight, and it was in the center of a thickly populated district. One day, without any previous notice, the doors were closed and a card affixed stating that It was closed for repairs. Weeks passed and it was not reopened. The postmaster-general received complaints by the score.

But the weeks became months, and still the doors remained closed. And the people around wondered why. The murder is at last (out, and some of the families residing near know it to their cost. The post-office in question had to be closed because it had become the happy hunting ground of vast hordes of rats who consumed letters by the bagful, and postal orders, money order forms and other official papers. The rats -forced the postofflce to be closed, and after numerous attempts to- rid the of the rodents it was found possible to do so only by putting down entirely new cement foundations and en ing flavor is destroyed by such against her.

Governor Stanley appointed the Ex-Governor G. W. Glick has sold his famous Shanon Hill stock farm Court of Visitation on the first Monday, in April, 1899, in compliance with aj lav enacted by the extra session in near Atchison, to John W. Knight of New York for $00,000. The deal includes the well known Glick herd of 1898.

Since that time six cases have been placed on the cOurt docket. THE DUCHESS, extremely Interesting factor in English society. The present duke owns acres of English land. Shorthorn cattle. AUTOMOBILES IN DESERT.

Germany wants our beef in spite of the embargo she has placed on it. A Belgian Nobleman Makes a Tour Proving Its Possibilities. It seems likely that trade in the desert of North Africa is going to undergo a startling revolution. The Kansas State banks hold more than $13,000,000 in cash more than the 20 per cent required to be held as reserve. In the national banks in this state itj is about the same, though 25 per centj reserve is required.

John Briedenthal) says New York bankers may send on their callateral. The Kansas State Horticultural Society will hold its thirty-third annual representative of the German government has been conferring with the managers of Kansas packing houses with the view of stocking the German army with American beef. Guirdilec is made in some parts of; the Sandwich islands. It is prepared from sugar cane. The cane is chopped, into pieces an inch or so in length and; placed in a trough exposed to the sun.

Water is added from time to time as fermentation progresses. When this' has reached the proper stage the mass jis distilled over a slow fire. To impart new sensations to a hardened palate a moderate use of me-, quonao is recommended, but long-con-; tinued use of this tipple results In the: complete shattering of the nervous system. The manufacture of mequonao is carried on principally in Native coffee is first roasted and' crushed, then mixed with an equal1 part by weight of molasses and water. mass is allowed to ferment and 'the wine Is then distilled.

Sandwich islanders are extremely fond of cocoanut milk, but the American and European residents improve ion the natural liquor by adding a liberal dash of brandy and shaking the; fwhole with Ice. Henry L. Woods, a Burlington attor tirely retimberlng the place. As nearly as possible the postofflce had, but for its mere shell, to be rebuilt. That done, the troubles of the immediate neighborhood became accentuated.

Driven from the postofflce, the rats have journeyed to the surrounding houses, which are now Infested with them. The corresDondent from whom this infor ney, lost his barn by fire. His fine meeting in the rooms of the society in. phaeton was cut to pieces in front of the State house in Topeka Dec. 27, 28 his house.

and 29. One fare for the round trip. The Oketo bank people are erecting mation comes has had several cats in Everybody is invited to attend. The recent fire at Troy destroyed a stone bank building, and the prospects are that several merchants will build stone business blocks next year. Cy Leland's opera house building in Cats Made Over.

"If you want a Persian cat bring me any common kitten you like, and within six months I will return it to you with a coat which would put to shame that of the shah's favorite pussy," said a cat fancier to the writer. "No torture or fake is employed. Some time ago it was brought to my notice that the cats living in refrigerating chambers got coats ot enormous thickness, and also that they grew to nearly double the size of the ordinary pussy. The Idea being given, the rest was easy. I bad a small refrigerator fitted up in my premises, and made an experiment.

It was so successful that I have since made a profit, by turning common pussies into genuine Persians, of $2,500 a year. Again, I now have only one cure for eats, never mind what disease they are suffering from. I freeze them, and am by this remedy able to return them to their owners, within a week, perfectly happy and well. Again, for the last two years the majority of show cats have come to me in the early autumn to have their winter coats made by my method, so that they shall not catch a chill owing to any sudden change in the weather." "There will be no need of a charity ball in Burlington this winter," re. which were the Doniphan county State bank and the post office.

His building occupied as a hardware store was burned and his two story brick general long caravan of camels, with their tinkling bells and white-robed drivers, may shortly become nothing but a poetic memory and live only in verse. It is the autocar which is to effect this revolution, and the way has already been prepared by the adventurous tour of two Belgian noblemen, Baron Pierre and Baron Joseph de Crawhez. The tour lasted thrpe months and extended over vast tracts of northern Africa. Once they came to a river, but drove boldly into the flood. The bottom was very rough, and the car bumped from side to side, but after a most perilous passage, being nearly swept away more than once, they reached the other side in safety.

Their proudest achievement, however, was the crossing of a ridge of the Atlas mountains, through vast snowdrifts, at the height of 6,500 feet above the sea level. The great success of this expedition should open the field of a great deal of kindred enterprise, and possibly In the f'iture camels will be found only In zoological gardens. Chicago Chronicle. marks the Jeffersonian. "If there ia a man in the town or neighborhood who is out of work it is because he will not his place, and they have done thing to keep things down, but, to use his words, "to go home is to find the wife and the maids with flying petticoats rushing up the stairs; servants won't stay In the house except for a very short time; mats and pictures, some of the latter several feet up the walls, have been consumed.

My wife is terror-stricken, and when I reach home at night I often find her locked half starved, in an upper room afraid to move about and too nervous even to go near where the food is kept store, on the corner was badly dam work." Capt. Adna G. Clark of Lawrence, aged. The two steeples of the new German Catholic church in Topeka are nearing completion. They are probably the tallest steeples in town.

commanding the Lawrence company in the Twentieth Kansas, will draw a pension of $36 a month. He was wounded in the shoulder, and the examining board rated him as half Two sons of Captan Means, of Sedg-j wick county, put in, cultivated and gathered 170 acres of corn, without anyi until I come In." The informant states that his experience is similar to that of many residing near him. London Daily News. outside help. This alone is worthy of) mention, because it could not hava been done anywhere else in the world; Wellington's refunding bond deal has been finally closed.

The city's of railroad aid bonds bearing six per cent interest have been taken up 44 'He That Any Good TT7- XITU" outside of Kansas. When they had Ancient Betrothal Ring. Engagement rings among the Egyptians were always of iron, to indicatei the mutual sacrifices of liberty of the' contracting parties. One of the very earliest adornments of betrothal rings Was a loadstone, which symbolized the attractive force which drew a maid from her own family circle Into that of her husband. The ring was used' as an accessory of the nuptial rite long before the Christian era.

In early' times gold money used to circulate in1 Egypt in the form of rings, and thus when a man placed a gold ring on the finger of his bride it was a token that he endowed her with his wealth. We trace the same idea in the marriage irite of the Church of England, which directs the bridegroom to place the ring on the bride's finger, saying: "With all my worldly goods I thee endow." It Is believed that the fourth finger has always been the bride's ring finger. by the state school fund commission finished cribbing they found that the two boys had earned within 90 days and been exchanged for the four per Uncle Sam'i Big Menagerie, The national government has Just decided to into the menagerie business on a scale which will make the ordinary collection of animals look lonesome by comparison. The new menagerie will occupy 166 acres of land northwest of Circulars over 7,500 bushels of excellent corn. cent refunding bonds.

The State printer has delivered vol Should have good health. Ture, rich blood is the first requisite. Hood' Svsa-parUla, by giving good blood And good health, has helped many a. man to success, besides giving strength and courage to ume 60 of the Supreme court reports, In the fire at Troy, the Higby house was burned. It was a large three story frame building, built about thirty It contains all the cases decided up to have been prepared and sent out to the date not befere reported.

Judge Val consular representatives of the govern years ago by Charles Higby who kept the house until his death a few years ment all over the world, instructing women nho, before taking it, coma not even see nv good in life to tuin. Vacant Lot Farming in Richmond, Ind. Under the direction of Miss Emma Rhoades, city missionary, the town of Richmond, has Just completed its fifth successful year of vacant lot farming for the poor. During the season Just past there were 148 lots under cultivation, with 145 tenants. The total cost to the city was $184, leaving $16 of the amount appropriated by the city council to be turned back into the treasury.

The value of the produce raised on each of the lots was $10, making the total value of the crop $1,480. One poor widow planted her two lots in corn, which she sold for enough to pay for her winter's supply of wood. At the close of the season an exhibition was held and premiums were awarded for the best specimens shown. entine says it is the first time in the history of the court when all of its them to purchase and forward to ago. Chief interest in the election in Sum work has been reported.

Washington animals of as many different species, indigenous to the countries A White Cloud farmer bought one ner county centered in the fate of the proposition to maintain the county in which they are located, as possible It is expected that Africa 'will con of the ranges from the traveling ped high school in Wellington, the canvass dlers. He thought he was to pay $30, tribute the most specimens, among of the votes showed the opposition them the gorilla, giraffe, and chim He signed a "receipt for the stove." The receipt has turned up in the hands lacked fifteen votes of the majority re- panzee. The national "zoo" will be It Is Mistake. From the Pittsburg Chronicle: Mr. Pitt I hear that you have decided to buy a horseless carriage, Penn.

Mr. Penn It's all a mistake, Pitt I shall wait to get one of the new flying A. PRlESttEYER SHOE EVERY PAIR GUARANTEE maintained in connection with the quired to defeat it and the school will of an "innocent purchaser" as a note Smithsonian institution. continue in operation. for $69, and he will have it to pay,.