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WICHITA TRIBUNE.
For The Afro-Anmsrican.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
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ROBINSON & SWiITH,
. .. ROBINSON, Editor,
IRA SMITH, Business Manager.
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CORRESPONDENCE:
Address all communications to THE TRIRB
TINE, 157-159 N. Emporia, Wichita, Kansas.
Official Call for Republican Convention.
The Republican City Central Com
mittee, at a meeting held on the 22d
day of February. directed the chairman
and secretary to publish a notice that
the republican convention for the pur
pose of nominating city and township
officers. would be held in Garfield Hall
on the “th day of March at 10 o'clock
a. m. That the primaries for the pur
pose of electing delerates to the con
vention would be held ia the city wards
on the Gthdgy of March, 1299, the poll
ing places to open at 4 o'clock p. m.
and closing at 7 p. m. The basis of
representation will be upon the vote
cast for H. T. Cramer. city clerk. two
years ago, which gives the following
number of delegates to each ward:
Ist ward—llB,
2d ward-—25,
3d ward—:24,
4th ward—:9,
sth ward—l 3,
6th ward—ll.
J. A. BRUBACHER. Chairman.
FRED 1. BELL. Secretary.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
S. B. Kernan hereby announces himselfa ean
didate for City Mayor. subject to the republican
primaries,
Billie Pierce presents himself a candidate tor
City Clerk, subject to the republican primaries.
H. T. Cramer announces himself a candidate
for City Clerk, subject to the republican pri
maries.
H L Addington hereby announces himself a
candidate for City Treasurer, subject to the re
publican primaries.
H. T. Cubban hereby announces himseif a
candidate for City Treasurer, subject to the re
publican primaries.
John Williams, a brilliant young
man from Irankfort, Ky., is one of the
two colored students now enrolled at
Yale College.
Rev. .2. DeWitt Talmage, D. D,
preached recently in the Metropolitan
A. M. E. church, Washingion, D. C.
This was his first sermon in a colored
¢hureh.
Miss Millie Smith, a coiored lady of
i.onisiana, Mo., has been left a $lO,OOO
estate by John L. Roe. a well-to-do
white citizen of that place, who also
named a Mrs. Mattie LEdwards, color
ed, as exeeutrix.
There were four labor delegations
m colored labor organizations of the
tthe Miners’ Couvention late
2ittsburg. These colored
as)comrades”
HEARING THE HEAT,
INGENIOUS ELECTRICAL I
STRUMENT INVENTED.
New Thermometer Will Doubtiess Be of
Much Value in Cold Storage Ware-
Irouses and on Warships—Dr. Whipple
the Inventor. a
It is now possible to hear heat and
cold. Dr. George C. Whipple has in
vented an electrical instrument by
means of which the various ranges of
temperature may be heard in sn or
dinary telephone receiver. Explorer
Peary owns one of these instruments,
and he will take it with him to the
north pole to listen to the very in
tense cold which is supposed to pre
vail there. The apparatus is very
simple in construction. In external
appearance, according to a writer in
the Golden Penny, it is like an ordi
nary electric battery box, such as is
used in sick rooms. From one side
of the box extends a very long insul
ated wire, carrying a small coil of
bare wire on the end of it. From the
other side of the box extend wires
which hold a telephone receiver, The
latter is to be held to the ear, so that
the temperature into which the bare
coll is thrust may be heard. It may
seem strange that heat and cold may
be heard as well as felt. To be ac
curate, it is the presence of heat, or
cold acting on the bare coil of wire
which causes an electric current to set
up a buzzing in the telephone. When
the instrument is used the telephone is
held to the ear, while the listener
Jooks at a dial on the battery box
mentioned above. This dial, which in
appearance is like the face of an or
dinary mechanical thermometer, is
marked with figures representing de
grees of temperature above and below
zero. Let us suppose, for instance,
that we are to listen to the tempera
ture of a pail of water. The coil of
bare wire is thrust into the water and
the observer places the telephone to
his ear. There ig a band or pointer
pivoted in the middle of the dial face.
The observer proceeds to turn the
pointer from figure to figure on the
dial. When the telephone is placed
first to the ear a loud buzzing sound
is heard. This is because the pointer
does not happen to be at the figure
representing the temperature of the
water in which the bare coil is placed,
As the pointer nears the figure that
indicates the correct temperature, the
buzzing sound in the telephone gets
fainter until, when it comes opposite,
it stops altogether. As soon as the
buzzing stops the observer knows that
the temperature of the water has been
found. Dr. Whipple tried the instru
ment the other day in a room the
temperature of which was about 70
degrees. An experimenter placed the
telephone to his ear and heard a loud
AIROLO, SWITZERLAN, OVERWHELMED BY A LANDSLIDE.
used in cold-storege warehouses to as
certain the temperature of the various
!rooms without opening them. In the
‘old davs of cold-storuge work it was
' necessary to keep the refrigerating
!p]ant operating under high pressure
| all the time, because it was not pos-
sible to tell the temperature of any
individual room without opening it,
and it was not always advisable to do
that. So to make sure of all of the
rooms they were kept as cold as pos
sible. Now. however, each individual
room in the warehouse has in it one
of these new electric thermometers.
Several times a dav an official goes
to a series of push buttons upon the
office wall and throws into circuit one
after another the thermometers in the
various rooms of the warehouse. By
placing the telephone to the ear and
manipulating the dial he is able ac
curately to determine the temperature
of every room in the building. The
new thermometer will doubtless be of
much value in factories where furnaces
and ovens are used, [t can be made
to ring an alarm, and hence would Le
useful in the powder magazine of a
warship. In faet, it will be invaluable
in any situation where increases of
heat or cold must be known at once.
CROSSING DASHERS.
They Are Not the Least of the Trials
of the Motorman.
“These here crossing dashers will be
the death of me yet,” grumbled a trol
ley car motorman, as he gave the
crank a vicious twist, says the New
Orleans Times-Democrat. “What are
they, did ye say? Why, those unde
cided folks that stand waiting for the
car to pass until it’s just beginning to
move and then give a plunge and
barely clear the safety net. See that
woman? She’s the worst kind of a
crossing dasher. 1 know her Dbecause
she's given me palpitation of the heart
more times than I've got fingers and
toes. When 1 stopped a minute ago
she came walking up to the corner
and stood there, looking kind of re
signed, as if she was really waiting for
me to go by. There was time enough
for a whole regiment to crawl across
on their hands and knees, but she
never budged an inch until I had
turned on the current and the wheels
were just beginning to move, and then
she made a dive that nearly scared me
to death. What makes them do it?
1 dunno. They seem to be working up
their courage and get it to the sticking
point at about the same time ve get
through waiting. 'They are the plague
af the business, but I think 1 broke
one crossing dasher of the habit a few
days ago. He was a middie-aged man
very respectable-looking and very tim
id, fet he'd take chances right along
thatj' were worse than San Juan
hi]]\ At last 1 got tired of having my
ner\iis jolted that way, and, besides,
I dide't want his’blood on my wheels,
s 0 1 ].‘y for him. Next time he came
ifs vour street. Tell you the rest an
other time. Well, good-by.”
TAX PDOBCGING IN ITALY.
Government 1s Taking Stc‘ps to Capture
the OfTenders.
It is always said that Italy ils &
heavitly-taxed country, but it might bhe
more ftruly said that the taxes are
heaviest for those who are unable to
avoid payving them, says a Rome cor
respondent of the L.ondon Post. Among
the wealthier classes, manufacturers
and professional men in Italy a great
deal of what Americans call “tax-dodg
ing” goes on and if the “tax-dodger”
possesses political influence he is oftexn’
able to escape punishment. At the
beginning of the year the chamber
passed an important law on infortunii
sul lavoro, or accidents to workmen,
by which the responsibility of employ
ers for accidents happening to their
workmen was defined. In it employers
were called on to state the number of
workmen in their employ and the
number of steam engines and other
machines in their factories. A laree
number of Palermitan employers, how
ever, feared that if they informed the
government of the real number of
workmen in their employ the tax agent
might be able to calculate the amount
of their profits and increase their in
come tax. In fact. out of 1,000 steam
engines in the Palermo district only
one has yet been reported to the au
thorities, while of the 8,000 men at
work in the sulphur mines only 3,500
have been declared. A government in
spection is asked for and meanwhile
the employers who have not conformed
to the law are being prosecuted.
MOTES IN A SUNBEAM.
They May Now Be Counted and Classi
tied.
Counting the dancing motes in a
bar of sunlight sounds like one of
those hopeless, never-ending tasks
with which malignant fairies delight
to break the spirits of little heroines
in the German folk stories. Something
more than this, however, has been
achieved by modern science, which is
now able to count the particles float
ing in any given portion of the atmos
phere, says Pearson’s Weekly, and de
termine what proportion of these are
dangerous germs and what are mere
dust. Dr. Frankland's experiments
have shown us how to ecunt the micro
organisms, and now a Scotch scientist,
by a totally different method, has been
enabled to take stock of the more
harmless but hardly less interesting
dust motes. Thirty thousand such par
ticles have been detected by him in
the thousandth of a cubic inch of the
air in a room. In the outside atmos
phere in dry weather the same meas
urement of air yielded 2,119, whereas
after a heavy rainfall the number was
only 521. That this power of prying
into atmospheric secrets will eventual-
MICRORE COLLECTING SKIRTS,
Women Are Learning to Hold Them Up
Gracefully.
“The only good word I can say for
the trailing street skirt is that it has
taught women to hold up their skirts
more gracefully than they have ever
done before,” said a woman who was
tramping along Twerty-third street
vesterday with her voluminous gown
tucked neatly into folds at one side
and held high enough above the ground
to show an expanse of pink-and-black
petticoat that exactly matched the
tints of ner velvet toque, according to
the New York Commercial Advertiser.
“Before we wore these absurd, dust-
sweeping, microbe-collecting trains we
used to pick up our skirts when we
crossed the street or came upon a
puddle. Did you ever watch twenty
women pass a wet spot on the sidewalk
Or go over a crossing on a rainy day?
My dear, it is the greatest advantage
of a corner house. To sit in a corner
window for one afternoon and take
notes on the one hundred wrong ways
of holding up skirts is an education
that Delsarte or Paquain would charge
thousands of dollars for. The short,
tight skirt was almost impossible to
hold up comfortably, the full skirt was
impossible to hold up neatly unlesz
one had the hand of a giantess, The
Parisienne, always practical and equal
to emergencies, used (wo hands, gath
ering up the skirt gracefully at either
side and thus lifting front as well as
back. The Parisienne’s petticoats are
perfect, and her little mincing glide is
well adapted to the tucked-up frock.
Fancy the long, tramping stride of the
athletic woman beneath a gathered-up
dress' I am not complaining of the
look of the trailing skirts now in fash
jon. They are graceful and becomins.
But when one picks them up no one
knows whether they hang well or not,
and if one lets them trail they wear a
dust border in fifteen minutes. They
may be charming in Paris, where the
streets are clean, but as well-dressed
French women walk about as much a 8
do the wives of first-rank mandarins,
1 don't see the great advantage of the
long trains for outdoor wear. But, as
I said before, the fashion has its com
pensations. Look at that woman ahead
of us. See how neatly and easily she
keeps that tail above the ground and
out of the wav of her feet, too. She
doesn’t drag the petticoat up with it,
either, and she doesn’t hold the skirt
too high on one side and let it drag
in the dust on the other side. That's
system and science and grace combin
ed. Before the trailing skirt came into
vogue she probably clutched her dress
into a bunch that waggled as she walk
ed, cramped her arm by holding it too
far back, and dragged the flounces Off
her petticcat in her efforts to escape
puddles and mud. The logic of &
trailing skirt held up is not quii¢
clear to me, but one thing 1 do knoWv,
and that is that it has cured scorgs
of women cf their most awkward mgn
nerisms.”
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ALGER A COUSIN TO MILES.
A Denver Doctor Traces a Kinship Be-
tween the Two Army Rivals
DENVER, Colo., March 2.—Dr. T. W,
Miles of this eity says General Miles
and Secrctary Alger are second cou
sins onee removed. He discovered the
relationship when he traced the gene
alogy of the Miles family some years
ago on entering the Society of
the Sons of the Revolution. Tenny
son Miles and John Miles were broth
ers in the New kEngland states in the
carly days. Dr. Miles of this city is a
direct descendant of Tennyson Miles
and General Miles is a direct deseend
ant of Joun Miles. One of the grand
daughters of Tennyson Miles married
an Alger and was Secretary Alger's
grandmother. Dr. Miles says the two
men hardly knew each other before
they met in Washington: in fact, they
only recently iearned of the relation
ship existing between them.
THE SAGASTA CABINET OUT,
Opposition to Treaty Forced the Premier
to Offer His Minlstry’'s Resignatlon,
Maprip, March 2 —Senor Sagasta
has handed the resignation of the min
istry to the queen regent. The cab
inet crisis is expected to last for two
or three davs os it i ideiabe Necessary
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