The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
January 28, 1895

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it V A 1 10 CENTS A WEEK. HALF ABILLION In Bonds Will Be Required to Carry Ont President's Plan Recommended in Urgent Message TO CONGRESS TODAY Begging That Some Action be Taken for Relief. Legal Tender and Treasury Notes to be Replaced BY GOLD BONDS ONLY. National Banks to be Allowed to Use Them As a Basis of Circulation to Their Par Value. SILVER IS IGNORED. The White Metal Receives No Consideration In. the President's Plan for Cur rency Reform. Washington, Jan. 28. The presi dent today sent to congress the following- message on the financial question: To the .Senate and House of Eepresentatives: "Id mjr last annual message I com mended to the serious consideration of congress the condition of our national finances and in connection with the sub ject endorsed the plan of currency legis lation, which at that time seemed to fur nish protection against impending danger. This plan has not been ap proved by the congress. In the meantime the situation has so changed that the emergency now ap pears ao threatening that I deem it my duty to ask at the hands of the legisla tive branch of the government such prompt and effective action as will restore confidence in our financial soundness and avert business disaster and universal distress among our people. Whatever may be the merits of the plan outlined in my annual message as a remedy for ills existing and as a safe guard against the depletion of the gold reserve then in the treasury, I am now convinced that its reception by the con gress and our present advanced stage of financial perplexity necessitates addi tional or different legislation. With natural resources unlimited iu variety and productive strength and with a people whose activity and enter prise seek only a fair opportunity to achieve national success and greatness, our progress should not be checked by false financial policy and a heedless dis regard of sound monetary laws, nor should the timidity and fear which they engender stand in the way of our pros perity. A Condition Xot a Theory. It is hirdly disputed that this predica ment confronts us today. Therefore, no one in any degree responsible for the making and execution of our laws should fail to see a patriotic duty in honestly and sincerely attempting to relieve the situation. Manifestly this effort will not succeed unless it is made untrammeled by the prejudice of partisanship and with a steadfast determination to resist the temptation to accomplish party advan tage. We may well remember that if we are affected with financial difficulties, all our people in all stations of life arc concerned and surely those whc suffer will not receive the promotion of party interests as an excuse for permitting our present troubles to ad vance to a disastrous conclusion. It is also of the utmost importance that we approach the study of the problems pre sented as free as possible from the tyran ny of preconceived opinions to the end that in a common danger, we may be able to seek with unclouded vision, a safe and reasonable protection. Lack of Confidence. The real trouble which confronts us consists in a lack of confidence wide spread and constantly increasing in the continuing ability, or disposition of the government to pay its obligations in gold. This lack of confidence grows to some extent out of the palpable and ap parent embarrassments attending the government, under existing laws, to pro cure gold and to a greater extent out of the impossibility of either keeping in the treasury or cancelling obligations by Its expenditure after it is obtained. The only way possible to the govern ment for procuring gold is by the issue and sale of bonds. The only bonds that can be issued were authorized nearly twenty-five years ao, and are not well calculated to meet our present needs. Among other diiadvantages they are made payable in coin, instead of specifi cally in gold, which in existing condi tions, detracts largely, and in an in creasing ratio, from their desirability as Investments. It is by no means certaia that bonds of this description can much longer be disposed of at a price credita ble to the financial character of our eov ernmnt. The most dangerous and irritating leature of the situation, however, re mains to be mentioned. It is found in the means by which the treasury is de sponed of the gold thus obtained, with out cancel hag 8ingie government obli gation, and solely for the benefit of those who find profit in shipping it abroad, or whose fears induce them to hoard it at home. Jionds Have lon Jio Good. We have outstanding about five hun dred millions of currency notes of the NIGHT EDITION. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDAY government for which gold can be de manded; and, curiously enough, the law requires that when presented and, in fact, redeemed and paid in gold, they shall be reissued. Thus the same notes may do duty many times in drawing gold from the treasury; nor can the process be arrested as loug as private parties who profit or otherwise see an advantage in repeating the operation. More than three hundred millions of dollars in these notes have already been redeemed in gold and, notwithstanding such redemption, they are still outstand ing. Since, the 17th. day of January, 1894, our bonded interest bearing debt has been increased $100,000,000 for the purpose of obtaining gold to replenish our coin re serve. Two issues were made amounting to $50,000,000 each one in January and another in November. As a result of tho issues there was realized something more than $58,00J,000 in gold. Between that issue and the succeeding one in No vember, comprising a period of about ten months, nearly $103,000,000 in gold wai drawn from the treasury. This made tho second issue necessary, and upon that more than $58,000,000 in gold was again realized. Between the date of this second issu" and the present time, covering a period of only about two mouths, more than sixty-nine millions' of dollars in gold were expended without any cancellation of government obligations, or in any per manent way benefitting our people, or improving our pecuniary situation. Depleting: Process Growing;. The financial events of the past year suggest facts and conditions which should certainly arrest attention. More than one hundred and seventy two millions of dollars in gold have been drawn out of the treasury during tho year for the purpose of shipping abroad or hoarding at home. While uearly one hundred and threo millions of the same were drawn out during the first ten months of the year, i sum aggregating more thau two-third3 of that amount, being about eixty-nino millions, was drawn out during the fol lowing two months, thus indicating i marked acceleration of the depleting process with the lapse of time. The obligation upon which this gold ha3 been drawn from the treasury aro still outstanding, and are available for use in repeating and exhausting opera tion, with shorter intervals as our per plexities accumulate. Conditions are certainly supervening, tending to make the bonds which may be issued to replenish our gold less use: f ul for that purpose. Gold Reserve Essential. An adequate gold reserve is in all cir cumstances absolutely essential to tho upholding of our public credit and to the maintenance of our high national character. Our gold reserve has again reached such a" stage of diminution as to require its speedy enforcement. The aggravations that must inevitably follow present conditions and methods, will certainly lead to misfortune and loss, not only to our national credit "and pros perity and to financial enterprises, but to thos6 of our people who seek employ ment as a means of livelihood and to those whose only capital is their daily labor. It will hardly do to say that a simple increase of revenue will cure our trou bles. The apprehension now existing and constantly increasing as to our finan cial ability, does not rest upon calcula tion of our revenue. The time has passed when the eyes of investors abroad and our people at home were fixed upon the revenves of this government. Changed conditions have attracted their attention to the gold of the government. There need be no fear that we cannot pay our cur rent expenses with such money as we have, 'lhere is now in the treasury a comfortable surplus of more than $t53, 000,000, but it is not in gold and there fore does not meet our difficulty. Silver Cuts N'o Figure. I cannot see that the differences of opinion concerning the extent to which silver ought to be coined or used in our currency should iuterfere with the coun sels of those whose duty it is to rectify evils now apparent in our financial situ ation. They have to consider the ques tion of national credit'1 and the conse quences that will follow from, its col lapse. Whatever ideas may be insisted on as to silver or bimetallism, a proper solutiou of the question now pressing upon us only requires a recognition of gold as well as silver and a concession of its im portance, rightfully, or wrongfully ac quired, as a basis of national credit, a necessity in the honorable discharge of our obligations payable in gold and a badge solvency. I do not understand that the real friends of silver desire a condition that might follow inaction, or neglect to ap preciate the meaning of the present ex igency if it should result in the entire banishment of gold from our financial and currency arrangements. Besides the treasury notes which cer tainty should be paid in gold, amounting to nearly 500,000.000 of dollars there will fall "due in 194. one hundred mil lions of bonds issued during the last year for which we have received gold, and in 19J7 nearly 6j0 millions of 4 per cent bonds issued in 1877. Shall the pay ment of these obligations in gold be re pudiated? If they are to be paid in such a manner as the preservation of our national honor aud national solvency de mands, we should not destroy, or even imperd our ability to supply ourselves with gold for that purpose. While I am not unfriendly to silver, and while I desire to see it recognized to such an extent as is consistent with fin ancial safety and the preservation of na tional honor and credit, I am not willing to see gold entirely banished from our currency and finances. To avert such a resdlt, 1 believe thorough and radical remedial legislation should be promptly passed. I therefore beg the congress to give the subject immediate attention. The Remedy. In my opinion the secretary of the treasury should be authorized to issue bonds of the government for the purpose of procuring and maintaining a sufficient gold reserve for the redemption and can cellation of the United States legal ten der notes and the treasury notes issued for the purchase of silver under the law of July 14, 1890. We should be relieved from the humiliating process of issuing bonds to procure gold to be immediately and repeatedly drawn out on these obli gations for purposes not related to the benefit of our government, or our people. The principal aud interest of these bonds should be payable on their face in gold, because they should be sold only for gold, or its representative, and be cause there would now probably be diffi culty in favorably disposing of bonds not containing this stipulation. I sug gest that the bonds be issued in denomi nations of twenty and fifty dollars and their multiplies, and that they bear interest at a rate not exceeding 8 per cent per annum. I do not see why they should not be payable fifty years from their date. We of the present generation, have large amounts to pay if we meet our obliga tions and long bonds are most saleable. The secretary of the treasury might well be permitted at his discretion to re ceive on the sale of bonds the legal ten der and treasury notes to be retired, and of course, when they are thus retired or redeemed in gold, they should be can celled. National Ranks. These bonds under existing laws could be deposited by national banks as secu rity for circulation, and such banks should be allowed to issue circulation up to the face value of these, or any other bonds so deposited, except bonds out standing bearing only 2 per cent interest, and which sell in the market at less than par. .National banks should not be allowed to take out circulating notes of a lesj denomination than ten dollars, and when such as are now outstanding reach the treasury, except for redemption, and retirement, they should be cancelled and notes of the denomination of $10 and upward issued in their stead. Silver cer tificates of the denomination of $10 and upward should be replaced by certificate3 ot denominations under $10. As a constant means for the mainten ance of a reasonable supply of gold in the treasury, our duties on imports should be paid in gold, allowing -:ll other duties to the government to be paid in any other form of money. I believe all the provisions I have sug gested should be embodied in ourlawsif we are to enjoy a complete reinstatement of a sound financial condition. They need not interfere with any currency scheme providing for the increase of cir culating medium through the agency of national, or state banks, since they can easily be adjusted to. such a scheme. Objection has been made to the issuance of interest-bearing obligations for the Xurpose of retiring the non-interest beam ing legal tender notes.. In point of fact however, these notes have burdened ua with a large load of interest, and it is still accumulating. The aggregate interest on the original issue of bonds, the proceeds of which i:i gold consituted the reserve for the pay; ment of these notes amounted to 7J, 320,250 on January 1, 1895, and thew-f nul "charge'fbr interest on these bond:! and those issued for the same purpose during the last year will be $9,145,000, dating- from January 1, 1895 While the cancellation of these notes would not relieve us from the obligations already incurred on their account, these figures are given by way of suggesting that their existence has not been free from interest charges and that the longer they are outstanding, judging from the experience of the last year, the more expensive they will be come. lie Hates to 1 11. In conclusion I desire to frankly con fess my reluctance to issuing more bonds in present circumstances, and with no better results than have lately followed that course. 1 cannot, however, refrain from adding to an assurance of my anxiety to co-operate with the present congress in any reas onable measure of relief, an expression of my determination to leave nothing undone which furnishes a hope for improving the situation, or checking a suspicion of our disinclination, or dis ability to meet with the strictest honor every national obligation. (Signed.) Grover Cleveland. .ue Executive Mansion, Jan. 28, 1895. PROMPT ACTIOX. Springer Has a Bill All Ready Embodying tlie President's Views. Washington, Jan. 28. Chairman Springer, of the banking and currency committee of the house, has introduced a bill to carry into effect the recommenda tions of the president's message. He has notified his committee to meet tomorrow and consider the bill. The bill is as fol lows: An act to authorize the secretary of the treasury to issue bonds to maintain a sufficient gold reserve and to redeem and retire United States notes, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that in order to enable the secretary of the treasury to procure aud maintain a suffi cient gold reserve and to redeem and re tire United States legal tender notes aud treasury notes issued under the act of July 14, 1890, entitled "An act directing the purchase of silver bullion and the issue of treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes" he is hereby authorized to issue and sell at not less than par in gold, except as provided in a section of this act, United States regis tered or coupon bouds, in denominations of twenty dollars and fifty dollars, and multiples of said sums respectively, pay able fifty years alter date in gold coin of the United States, of the present weight and fineness, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding 3 per cent per annum, payable quarterly in like coin; and such bonds and the interest thereon shall have like qualities, privileges and exemptions, as tue bond issued under the act approved July 14, 1870, entitled "An act to autho rize refunding of the national debt." Such bonds may be sold and delivered in the U. S. or elsewhere as may be most advanteeons to the interests of the government ec. z. That whenever any other legal tender notes, or treasury notes Bhalfbe redeemed in gold, they shall be can- ceiiea anu. not, reissued; and the secre-. tary of the treasury is h'ereby authorized in his discretion, to receive United States legal tender notes and treasury notes issued under the aforesaid act of July 14, 1890, in payment for any of the bonds issued under the preceding' section EVENING, JANUARY of this act and the notes so received shall be cancelled and not reissued. Sec. 3. That hereafter national bank ing associations may take out circulating notes in the manner now provided by law to an amount equal to the par value of the bouds deposited to secure the same. But this provision shall not apply to any bonds now outstanding, bearing interest at the rate of 2 per cent only. Sec. 4. That hereafter no' national bank notes of a less denomination than $10 shall be issued, and as rapidly as such notes of denominations of less than ten dollars shall be received into the treasury, otherwise than for redemption and retirement, they shall be cancelled and an equal amount of notes of like character, but in the denominations of ten dollars and multiples thereof shall be issued in their places. AH silver certificates now outstanding, in denomi nations less than ten dollars shall, when received into the treasury of the United States, be retired and cancelled, and sil ver certificates in denominations less than ten dollars shall be issued in their etead. Sec. 5. That from and after the 1st day of July, 1895, all duties on imports shall be paid in gold only and all taxes, debts and demands, other than duties on imports, accruing or becoming due to the U. S. shall be paid in gold or silver coin, treasury notes. U. S. notes, siiver certifi cates or notes of national banks. Sec. t. That ail laws and parts of law inconsistent with the provisions of the preceding sections be and they are here by repealed; and a sum sufficient to carry the provisions of this act into effect be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not other wise appropriated. THE HOUSE HKARS IT. The Message Is Read and Referred to Mr. Springer's Committee. Washington, Jan. 29. There was a good attendance today in anticipation of the president's message. The house was not long kept in suspense. While Mr. Lynch (Dem., Wis.) was trying to get unanimous consent to consider a bill to quiet the title to certain lands in Wis consin, Mr. Puden, the president's exe cutive clerk, appeared and announced a message in writing from the president. Speaker Pro Tern Richardson laid the message before the house. Mr. Reed and other Republican lead ers followed the president's argument as closely as the Democrats. When the reading was concluded thero was a round of applause from the Demo cratic side, in which quite a number oi Republicans joined. Mr. Chairman Springer, chairman of the committee on banking and currency forthwith sent to the clerk's desk the ad- 1 ministration bill, stating that he would fuiave the reference of the bill and mes sage. to his committee. Mr- Bryan, (Dem.) Nebraska, and Mr. Bland, (Dem.) Missouri, showed signs of opppoditioa and raised several points of order which were overruled and tho message was referred without division to the banking and currency committee. IN THE SENATE. The Message Is Read and Referred to the Finance Committee. Washington, Jan. 28. There was but a small attendance in the senate when that body met today. The session was called to order by Vice President Steven son, who has returned to the city after the burial of his daughter at Blooming ton, 111. Soon after the senate chamber began to fill and before soma preliminary business on the vice president's desk was dis posed of, there was the largest attend ance oi senators since the session. The president's secretary was" an nounced very soon, and all knew he had the special message on the financial question. There was the utmost quiet in the senate chamber while the message was being read, and senators on both sides gave it the closest attention. At the close, of the reading Mr. Sherman suggested that the message be referred to the finance committee. There was some objection on the part of several senators including Messrs. Stewart and Harris, who desired that the message should lie on the table so that if senators desired they might submit some remarks upon it Mr. Sherman's motion prevailed, how ever, on a viva voce vote. ATCHISON POLICE BOARD. The Governor Xatnes the Xew Commis sioners for That Town. Governor Morrill today named the new police board for Atchison. It is: Georgo Storch, president; David Baker, secre tary, and George C. Carpenter, Demo cratic member. The board is composed, entirely of business men, none of them being actively engaged in politics, though Mr. Baker was for many years i member of the city council. Geo. Storch, the president of the board is a banker and German, and was backed by the business element. Mr. Baker is a merchant He was the old soldiers' candidate and lost a leg in the war. Mr. Carpenter the Democratic mem ber, i3 an extensive property holder and is the proprietor of a creamery. A TURNER PLAY. A Kansas Clty-Topt-Ha Company Produced a German Play Last "ight. There was an entertainment at Turner hall last night in the form of a play, en titled "Hotellenleben, or die Tochter der Harfenistin." There were eleven people in the cast, two women and three men of whom were from Kansas City. It was produced under the direction of Oscar Meyer of Topeka and is said to have been very good for an amateur enter tainment It was all in German, 'ihe scene was a small town near Berlin. After the play there was dancing and refreshments. A large number were present and all enjoyed it Churchill Funeral. London, Jan. 28. The remains of the late Lord Randolph Churchill were con veyed from the Churchill residence on Groavenor square to Paddington railway station this morning, and placed on board a train bound for Woodstock, Oxford shire, where they will be buried this f&ec&ooa ia Blaion church. 23, 1895. IT GOES THROUGH. The Senate Constitution Con vention .Resolution Adopted in the Committee of 'the Whole BY SENATORS TODAY. The Senate the Only Body in Session. The Milling Bill Arouses Some Discussion. The wheels of legislation began to buzz and whirl on schedule time in the senate this morning. While the house seems prone to long adjournments the senate stops only for meals, and on tho Lord's day. A man with his thumb cut off could count the -bills on one hand which were introduced this morning. Mr. House holder after thinking it over pretty care fully concluded that it was a hardship to compel druggists to get up a ne peti tion every year to sell liquor, and he therefore advanced a bill to make this compulsory only once in two years in stead of one. Senator Taylor doesn't smoke cigar ettes, but he thinks those wh& do are en titled to good ones, so he introduced a bill "to prohibit the sale of adulterated cigarettes and providing for the inspec tion of the same." If all Impure cigar ettes are condemned, it is doubtful if there will be enough left to meet the de mands of the public schools alone. Senator Sterne had a bill to vacate Metsker place addition west of Tennes seetown, and iseaator O'Bryan had a bill exempting from seizure judgments for damages arising from personal dam ages, nd also fire insurance. Senator Senn who takes a great inter est in federal affairs introduced a con current resolution which "views with alarm" the action of the United States senate in guaranteeing 70 million dollars for the Nicaragua canal, and refuses to profit by its experience in giving bonds to the Union Pacific. The resolution says the government Bhould either own the canal or have nothing to do with it, and urges the lower house of congress to defeat the measure. The resolution will come up tomorrow. At 10:S5 the senate went into commit tee of the whole with. Senator Carpenter as president, to consider bills on the cal endar. The senate joint resolution calling for a convention to revise, amend and change the constitution of the state, passed the committee of the whole short ly before noon, without debate. The only vote cast against it was by Senator Cooke, of Mitchell. Constitutional Convention. The resolutiou is by Senator Dillard, as follows: "Skction 1. That it is hereby recom mended to the electors of the said state of Kansas, to vote at the next election of members of the legislature, the same to be held in A. D. 189C, for or against a convention to revise, amend or change the constitution of the said state of Kan sas. "Sec. 2. This recommendation shall be summitted to the electors of this state at the general election of members of the legislature in the year A. D. 1896, for their approval or rejection. Those voting in favor of this recommendation shall have written or printed upon their bal lots, 'For a convention to revise, amend or change the constitution.' Those voting against this recommendation shall have written or printed upon their ballots, Against a convention to revise, amend or change the constitution.' And said bal lots shall be received, and said votes shall be taken, counted, canvassed, and returns thereof made, in the same man ner in all respects as is provided by law in the case of election of members to the legislature." To Protect Hotels. The committee of the whole decided by a vote of 14 to 9 to reject Senator Baker's bill to protect hotel and boarding-house keepers from persona dis posed to "jump" their board bill, and making them not liable for valuables Un less deposited in the hotel safe. The discussion of this bill oc cupied considerable time. Senator King said the only redeeming feature of the bill was in cases "where widow women are keeping boarders to support their husbands." Senator King said nothing about widows who are not women. Senator O'Bryan has a substi tute to Senator Baker's bill which has met with the endorsement of the State Hotel Men's association, and which ia liable to be more successful later in the session. Senator Cook's bill to have the rates charged by mills for grinding grain reg ulated by the county commissioners in each county. Senator Thacher said the bill was unconstitutional inasmuch as a mill needed no public franchise, and after putting his capital into it, a man had a right to whatever he can make out of it Senator Cook replied that if capital couldn't come into Kansas prepared to be decent and treat all persons alike, it had belter stay out. Senator Scott said he had never heard any comp.aint over the price of grinding grain, and the miller's rates could no more be regulated than the price of merchandise in a store. Senator Taylor said he was in the milling business and always "charged a plenty" for grinding grain because it is a nuisance aud lie didn't want such cus tomers to come again. Senator O'Bryan said he didn't want his attorney's lees regulated by law and he wanted the millers to have the same courtesy to charge what they can get. Senator Brown said little millers had to charge more than big millers with better facilities, and the law would tend to operate in favor of tlie big millers and drive the smaller ones out of existence. TWENTY-THIRD YEAR, He added that the law pould not be en" forced. The Mill Bill Defeated. The bill was finally defeated by a mo tion to strike out the enacting clause, which motion carried by a vote of 15 to 4 r A portion of the bill which was most ia controversy is as follows: "There shall always be kept at a pub lic mill by the owner thereof a half bushel and peck measure, tried .and sealed by the proper authorities, and the owner of every public mill ahall cause a statement of the rates of toll by him' charged for grinding and bolting the different species of grain to be pasted ia at least two conspicuous places within the mill; and the county comtnisaiuners of each county shall establish and reg ulate the amount of toll allowed to be charged. Afternoon. In the senate this afternoon the com mittee of the whole went tJ work where it left off before dinner. The first bill was Senator Shearer's (S." B. ?so. 25) to prevent injustice to shippers at stock yards and to regulate the charges of commission men and stock yards opera tors. Senator Metcalf opposed the bill. He said: "It will have the solo effect of driving the stock yards of Kansas City, Kan., to the Missouri side of the line." Senator Taylor said: "I hope the sen ate will not act hastily in this matter. This is one of the greatest industries in the state, and this bill, if passed, will cut the receipts squarely in two. I hope the stock yard! will be inves tigated, so that we may know how much it cost3 to handle cattle before we dispose of this important measure." Senator King said: "The people of Kansas know all they w:nt to about the Kansas City stock yards. That industry planted on Kansas soil has been built and fostered by Kansas producers, who have paid extraordinary charges for their benefits. This bill is not to injure the stock yards men but to protect the Kan sas producers." Senator Taylor explained that he didn't wish to be considered the defender of the stocK yards although he has had considerable experience with the men who would be affected by the bill. He didn't want to cut any slash until he had proof that the charges were exorbitant. Senator Thacher said, "the stock yards have recently raised their rates 25 per cent and it is time we called a halt. They charge $20 -a ton for hay when the- market price is $t, and they charge $1 a bushel for corn; All these exorbitant charges come out of the pockets of the Kansas stocmueo." A motion to have the Kansas Cit y stock yards, their prices and mode of doing business investigated by a commit tee of five senators, was defeated. The bill ia almost certain to pass the committee of the whole this afternoon. -JACOBS -IS" BACK.; Sheriff Iiurdge Brlri;tHlin Hack From Texas Charged With Embezzlrinent. Sheriff Burdge returned yesterday from Dallas, Tex., with Fred Jacob3, the de tective who was here last summer in the interest of suppressing the rum holes. Jacobs is charged with embezzlement by It L. Stevenson Co., who claim he skipped with $33.50 worth of their sam ples. Jacobs declares they knew he was going away and expresses no fear of conviction. He is at the county jail. Court Notes. Scott Brier, for the Merrimac River Savings bank have begun foreclosure proceedings against Jusper M. McCay, requesting the sale of lots 7 and 9 on AVest Sixth street, to satisfy a debt of $2,000. John Knott, the Silver Lake jointist who was recently found guilty on oae count, was this afternoon sentenced to a tine of $100 and costs and thirty days in the county jail. He has already served about four months awaiting trial. Archie Dennis has sued his wife EUa Dennis for divorce. They were married la Topeka in January of 1891. He charges abandonment and gross neglect of duty. Today was motion day in the district court. The Gulf Interstate railway injunction case was set for hearing this afternoon. SAMUELSiPROAT'S WlLL The Property to lie Initially Divided He- tveen His Wife and .Six Children. The will of Samuel S. Sproat was to day filed for probate before Judge Wood, By the terms of the will the entire es tate is to be divided equally between the deceased's wife and their six children. The amount of property involved is not yet known, but will probably not amount to more than $15,000. Mrs. Sproat was named as executrix. THE DEATH RECORD Mr. K. A. Call, formerly of Oberlin, Kansas, and a most faithful Odd Fellow and pioneer Knight of Labor, died at his late residence in this city yesterday at 2 a. m., ol tuberculosis of the liver. He leaves a wife and six Children. The funerai takes place tomorrow at 2 p. m.. at the undertaking chapel of De Mos3 Penwell, under the auspices of the I. O O. F. l!av. Jas. 1L Lathrop will officiate. Mrs. Sally Proctor, aged 45, died at 114 East Fourth street, S iturday afternoon of rheumatism of the heart. She will be buried in the Topeka cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Lewis !Nubin died of pneumonia Sat urday at his home on Washington street, between Tenth and Eleventh. He was buried at the Topeka cemetery this forenoon. He was 19 years old. To the ladies. The second in the series of free lec tures to mothers and daughters will be given under the auspices of the Viavi company, at the Bijou opera house, cor ner Seventh and Quincy, lhursday, Jan uary 81, at 3 p. in. Subject .-Heredity and Pre-natal Influences. All ladies are Cordially invited. Howard tJourant: "There is nothing in it," shouted an exasperated attorney, as he brought his fist down hard on the table in court the other day. Just as he was preparing to resume his speech a half-pint flask dropped out of his pocket. He had spoken the truth, there was nothing in it. i I

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STATE JOURNAL. MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 28, 1895. TOM REEDAHEAD. He Seems to Ibe First Choice at the Capital For Eepublican Presidential Candidate Next Year., MR. M'KINLEY SECOND, Harrison is the Favorite Among the Hoosiers. Cixcinxati, Ohio, Jan. S3. The Commercial-Gazette prints two pages of preferences for the next Republi can nomination for president from representative Republicans all over the country, and especially from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Wes Virg-inia, New York and Vv'ash. ing'ton city. In its summary it says: "Ohio is for McKinley and Indiana for ex-President Harri son. New York hardly kiows where she stands. The Republicans of the Empire state are holding off, ia the end to either dictate the nominee, or failing in that, to drive the best bar gain they can with the man they see is bound to win. One New Yorker declares himself for ex-Governor i'oraker. 'West Virginia seems to be for the best man, whoever he may be. One West Virginian declares himself for Senator-elect Elkins, while several Republicans of that state express a preference for Judge Nathan Goff for tecond place on the ticket. Governor McKinley seems to be the first choice of the Republicans of Kentucky. 'At the national capital the pre ponderance of sentiment appears to be for Tom Reed. Attention is called to the declaration for Reed by General John Beatty of Columbus. In the Washington interviews it was sought to obtain expressions from either sen ators or representatives from every state in the union. McKinley seems to be their second choice, while Har rison, Allison and others have quite a respectable following." HAWAIIAN FINANCES. Minister Thurston Says They Are la First Class Sbape and Denies Rumors. Washing tox, Jan. 2S. Minister Thurston said to-day of the state ment that the Hawaiian government was selling bonds in this country at twenty-live cents on the dollar, for the purpose of influencing' a feeling in favor of annexation: ''There is no more possibility of such a thing being done by the Hawaiian government than "by "the United States govern ment. By law the Hawaiian govern ment can borrow money for two pur poses only first, to pay postal savings bank depositors in case the treasury Is unable to meet the demand; second, for the purpose of constructing certain public improvements, such as wharves, roads, bridges, harbors and publio buildings, which, together with the amounts to be spent for each, are specified in the several acts authoriz ing the loans. So iar from being troubled, concerning financial mat ters, the provincial government was and the republic now is stronger in that department than in any other. The continuous balance in the treas. ury has ranged from 200,000 to $400, 000. Not only has the government not been obliged to borrow money for its current expenses, but it had snch a large surplus on hand from current receipts that it advanced from the current receipts in the treasury to the loan fund account the sum of $82,693, which was expended on the specified public works, and also met a run of over 5300,000 on the postal savings bank." THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION. Republicans Expect to Have Senator Vest's Resolution Reconsidered. Washington, Jan. 2 S. The week In the senate will open with the renew al of the discussion of the Hawaiian question which promises to become the subject of several more very ani mated speeches before it shall be definitely and finally disposed of. The adoption of the Vest amend ment to the Allen resolution, instead of discouraging tha an tagonism of the administration, has apparently had the effect of spur ring them to even more strenuous and pronounced opposition. They express themselves as hopeful of reversing the verdict of Saturday when the next vote shall be reached, which shall ba on the final adoption of the substitute. Senator Teller will inau gurate the discussion for the week with a continuance of his speech be gan Saturday. A Meeting of e York Bankers. New Yokk, Jan. 28. The clearing house committee met last night and discussed the recent withdrawals of gold from the United States subtreas ury. The opinion was general that the government should at once issue bonds. That the subtreasury is for tifying itself against all demands for gold was shown by the big ex press wagons that are unloading their precious freight at the vault doors of Uncle Samuel daily. As sistant Treasurer Jordan, however, says there is no significance to be at tached to these .movements. Mrs. Hammers ley's Kew Noble Catch. London, Jan. 28. It is now posi tively announced that .uord William Beresford is to be married to the lhichess of Marlborough, formerly Mrs. Louis Hammersley of New York, during the coming spring. Campbell Wins the Contest. Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 23. E. F. Campbell won the contest and will represent Kansas university in tha state oratorical contest. His oration was "Social Condtions." Wheat Below Fifty Cents. Chicago, Jan. 28. The cash price of wheat in Chicago dropped under fifty cents to-day and the May price got below fifty 'three cnt. MAFIA IN NEW ORLEANS. The Society Baa A sain Bee on Opera tions In the Crescent City. Kew pniBANS, Ja., Jan. 28. Tha Italian Mafia has again begun opera tions in this city. The murder of tha Italian, Tony Chisesi of Chicago in the Italian quarter of the city Wed nesday morning, was followed yester day by a letter from the Mafia to- one of the wealthiest. Italians in tha city, demanding S2.000 on pain, of as sassination. Chisesi was murdered to wipe our a debt which he had against two members of the associa tion, one of them who had just served a term in the penitentiary. The mur derers fled to Thibodeaux, about seventy miles from the city, and have so far eluded capture. The letter demanding money was to A. Montelone, a large shoe manufacturer, and one of the wealthiest Italians in the city. The letter demanded that he go to Don aldsville, in the same section of the state as Thibodeaux, and place $?.000 behind a tree, in the woods, which would be known by a red rag hang ing from one of the limbs. It stated that the woods would be closely watched and advised that no police be brought to the scene. It threatened assassination in case the police were notified. Montelone was very much frightened, but finally de cided to place the matter in the hands of the police and appeal for' protec tion. The police and better class of Italians think that it is a genuine letter and that the mafia, which- has been silent since the lynching, has again sprung into existence. ENTIRELY DESTITUTE. A Subscription To Be Taken Up for Airs. Kate Cbase.Spragne. "Washington, Jan. 28. A well known lawyer of this city writes a letter to the Post to inform the pub lic that Mrs. Catherine Chase, the daughter of the late Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, the divorced wife of ex-Governor Sprague of Rhode Island, is entirely destitute. Her home was sold last week under a deed of trust for just enough to cover ine mortgage and costs, although it is worth three or four times that amount, and is assessed for more than it brough t. Thirty years ago Mrs. Chase was the belle of Washington, and without a rival. It is doubtful if there is a woman in this country who has en joyed so much admiration and so many social conquests, but the other side of her life has been very dark and few women have suffered as she has done. It is proposed to appeal to her father's old friends and admirers to subscribe a sufficient fund to en able her to spend the rest of her days in peace. Snow In Louisiana. Natchitoches, La., Jan. 23. There was a snow fall of five hours' duration yesterday. It is sleeting heavily. BRIEFS BY WIRE. Marshal Canrobert, the last mar- shal of France, is dying. A rebellion has broken out in the United States of Colombia. It is estimated that the Brooklyn strike so far has cost $1,000,000. The dog belonging to the lost eel Chlcora has turned up sound ves and well. It Is said advertisements for an other issue of bonds will be published this week. Emperor William of Germany writes a flowery letter to '"my army'' on his 36th birthday. A congress of religion and education will be held in Chicago during the coming summer. Howard Jolly restored the money taken from the railroads at Memphis and was released. P. T. Miller, uncle of the wife of Governor Stone, died at his home in Jefferson City,. Mo. Congressmen expect to be able to supply Nebraska sufferers with all the seed they need. Efforts will be made to get a hear ing on tha Ady-Martin contest case in the senate this week. Ed Bennett, alias Ed Clark, leader f a band of Florida outlaws, was ar rested at Wichita, Kan. Mgr. Satolli read a paper before the Gridiron club at Washington highly eulogistic sf the daily press. The Crescent oil mill of North Lit tle Rock, Ark., burned. Loss, $50, 000; insurance, about two-thirds. M. de Gires, Russian minister of foreign affairs, and one of the most celebrated diplomats of Europe, is dead. The Union Pacific railroad laid off one thousand men last week, owing to poor business, and more may be let out. Missouri Valley College of Marshal has secured a legacy by the will of the late John Denny of Syracuse, Mo., of 815,000. At Rolla, Mo., Dolly Worner, 22 years of age, committed suicide in a store by swallowing ten grains of btrj-chnine. Miss Bertells of near Martinsbnrg, Mo., secured $3,000 judgment against Chris Marburg for breach of promise and seduction. The "minister of Norway and Sweden to America has consented to act on the Venezuelan claims arbitra tion commission. The president of the Belgian cham ber of deputies has resigned as a re sult of the quarrels between the Cath olics and Socialists. Constable Kuntz brought the little finger of a negro who had been hanged to Jefferson City, Mo., to be mounted for a watch charm. The Santa Fe railroad has notified its conductors to be on guard against forged annual passes, which have been issued by the wholesale. Senator Hill made a speech before a Democratic club "in New York in which he pleaded for harmony in-the party, and then denounced the income tax. Governor Holcomb of Nebraska has declined to offer a reward for the arrest and conviction of Barrett Scott's lynchers, on account of lack of law. The jury to determine the sanity of Arthur Duestrow, the St. Louis mil lionaire who killed hia wife and child, failed to agree. Seven declared ha was arizf, JERRY W THERE; A Biff Mass Meeting is Held in Brooklyn By the Striking Trolley Men and Sympathisers. 8 P E E C HE 8 MADE By Congressman Jerry Simpson and Henry George. Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 23. Were it not for the scarcity of cars yesterday one would not have thought that one of the biggest strikes in the history of Brooklyn was in progress. Church goers had to walk to their devotions in many instances, or take chances in the enormous crowds which took pos session of the cars. Otherwise there was-perfect calm. Large crowds as sembled around the depots where military guards are stationed, but there was no violence there and the bantering the troops received was of a good natured kind. Those in a position lo draw conclu sion from facts and without prejudice say that the strike is about ended. The companies seem to be in a position to run their cars. They are not skillfully operated and through out the day there were many col lisions and there was much bumping together, but there was uo accident of a serious nature. Starvation already confronts many of the families .of the strikers. The men were not well equipped finan cially when they decided to stop work and the bulk of their funds has been used for the transportation of non union men to cities whence they came to replace the strikers. This alone has cost the strikers many thousands of dollars. Storekeepers have been very considerate, but now that they see the strikers are being replaced by men from other cities, they are loath to give credit and the wives and chil dren of the men out of work are go ing hungry. Landlords, too, do not enter into the merits of the situation between the strikers and the com panies, and promises to pay when the strike is ended has not cut much figure with them. The demands for food and for rent have crippled the re sources of the strikers and many of them are in sore straits. A mass meeting of the strikers' friends and sympathizers was held yesterday afternoou at the Athena eum at Eighth and Clinton streets. The house was packed to the doors. Clarence S. Roberts, president of Stereoty pers" union No. 1, presided. Henry George was the chief speaker. He-said if the municipalitj' owned the roads and taxed land valves the rail roads would be free to the people. Congressman Jerry Simpson, who also spoke, urged the audience m .the future to vote the Populist ticket. One-of the principal planks in the Populist platform was the ownership of the railroads, telegraph and tele phone lines by the government. AN OHIO TOWN BURNED. A Gasoline Kxplosion Results la the De struction of Sixteen Buildings. Elmork. O. Jan. 28. A fire which was started by a gasoline explosion in the kitchen of the American hotel at 7:30 o'clock last evening destroyed the principal part of the business portion of the town, and at least two lives have been lost. A strong wind was blowing at the time the fire started, and the American hotel was soon a mass of flames. Two girls employed in the hotel, Maggie Flynn and Mary O'Malley, were hemmed in by the flames, and were forced to jump from a, second story window. Miss O'Malley was fatally, burned and cannot live. Miss Flynn was seriously hurt and it is believed she will die." Sixteen buildings in all were destroved. THE INCOME TAX. Members of Congress Gratified at the Outlook for Revenue. Washington, Jan. 23. Members of congress who believe in the income tax as an equitable method of raising revenues are gratified at the unexpectedly good showing of the preliminary canvass made by the collectors of internal revenue at the direction of Secretary Carlisle. They believe that the greater the amount realized from the tax the more popular it will become and the more firmly rooted as a part of the policy of the government. Tammany's Reorganization Delayed. New York, Jan. 23. Tammany hall at a meeting of the general commit tee decided not to reorganize until after the reapportionment of the city by the board of aldermen next June. Those who expected a warm fight on the matter were disappointed. The meeting was short. A Beef War at Dobuque, la. Dubuque, la., Jan 23. As the result of competition between the Armour, Hammond and Swift. Packing com panies, the price of beef in this city has been reduced from six and six and a half cents to five cents per pound. Brookfield Has Bkookfield, Mo., Dogsrett Hardware a Blaze. Jan. 2a The com pa ny was burned out last night Loss, $20, 000; insurance, jfiJ.voa. fire is unknown. The origin of the Alleged Train Robbers Captured. .Pine Bluff, Ark., Jan. 28. Con stables brought to this city and placed in jail two young men said to answer' the description of McNeill Cotton Belt train robbers. Hotel Destroyed by Fire. Alma. Kan., Jan. 23. Fire destroyed the Commercial hotel, the oldest and one of the best of this place. Loss, 5,000; insurance, g2,00U. MAY BE NO W All. Mexico-Guatemala Trouble May Be' Set tled Peacefully. City or Mexico, Jan. 23. The city is quiet although in the lobbies of the hotels and wherever groups are gath ered the topic discussed is the Guate malan question. Yet the excitement has, to a large extent, abated. The president and officers of the cabinet have been considering Guatemala's last document for several days. It is believed that it is not nearly satisfac tory to Mexico, although had it been very radical the people would un doubtedly have learned of it by now. Preparations for war are now being made by both countries, no doubt,but there seems to be a feeling of under current of opinion that the trouble may be diplomatically settled, and, while President Diaz is firm in declar ing that Mexico must and will have her rights in the matter, he said last night: "There has been no declara tion of war with Guatemala and I hope for a peaceful sol u lion of the question." If Mexico is pushed into the fight over the international boundary her policy will be as outlined from the first by General Diaz and his cabinet, to the effect that this dispute and other little matters will be settled once and forever, and the necessary means used to that end. It is prophe sied in some quarters that Mexico will settle the boundary line by quietly appropriating the whole Guatemalan republic as aparof the United States of Mexico, with the City of Mexico as its capital, and with the chief execu tive of the republic as its ruler. The O. C. Ord post of the G. A. R. have passed resolutions of fealty to the Mexican government in case of war with Guatemala. A number of union veterans, ini-luding an Ameri can general, have signified their will ingness to go to tha front for Mexico if the service will be accepted. The memorial will be presented to General Diaz on Tuesday. Troops are being concentrated at all Pacific and gulf ports and the government has char tered two merchantmen in Acapulco. In the event of war, the invasion will be made from several ports, princi pally from the Pacific side. Two People Horribly Mangled. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 28. John Snyder and Bridget Murphy -were run over and killed last evening at Coulterville by Baltimore and Ohio No. 8. The couple were walking along the track' on their way to church and, stepping from one track to escape the West Newton accommo dation, got in front of the limited, which was coming- toward Pittsburg at a terrific speed. Their bodies were thrown fifty feet and were horribly mangled. Pacific Railroad Report. Washington, Jan. 23. A report on he existing condition of the Pacific yailrods has been presented to con gress by Chairman Brice of the senate committee on railroads. It gives a complete history of indebtedness of the Central and Union Pacific roads. No direct recommendations are made but the necessity of taking some de cisive action on the matter is especi ally urged. The Sugar Differential. Washington, Jan. 2ti. The house Saturday begau the consideration of the bill to repeal the differential duty of one-tenth of one per cent per pound imposed by the tariff act on sugars imported from bounty paying countries. Mr. Wilson, chairman of the ways and means committee, opened the debate with a long argu ment. It is expected a vote will be reached by Thursday. A $500,000,000 Bond Issue. Washington, Jan. 23. The presi dent. Secretary Carlisle and Attorney General Oiney baa a long conference Saturday on the financial situation, and practically decided on a bill pro viding for the issue of 5500.000,000 in three per cent bonds, coupled with some silver legislation. Jought a Duel With Pistol-. Rinton, W. Va., Jan. 23. M. F. Wykoff and FreclNihoof, an engineer, fought with pistols and Nihoof re ceived a fatal wound. Wykoff found Nihoof at his home in the parlor with his wife. Wykoff was arrested and is in jail. He was also shot" in the leg. Destitntlon in Wisconsin. Grantsbl'RG, Wis., Jan. 23. Reports from the town of Rusk, this county, confirm the news of terrible sufferihg and starvation in that town. One fifth of the people are without prop er food, and a. large number of them have not a pound of flour in the house. Eight Thousand Men Idle. Wii.kesbarre, Pa., Jan. 23. All the collieries of Lehigh and Wilkesbarre coal company will be idle during the coming week. Eight thousand men will be without employment Super intendent Lowell says the coal trade nvas never known to be so dull. EXCLUSIVE. Berlin Will Hold sn Exposition All Her Own. Washington, Jan. 28. United States Consul DeKay at Berlin, informs the state department that an exposition ia to be held there next year. Its purpose ia to demonstrate the fact that Berlin has outstripped all the other German cities in manufactures and is now the leading industrial center of the empire and the exhibits will therefore be limited to Berlin products. Manufac tures of other citiea and other countries may exhibit only if they have established agencies in Berlin. A. ilk Handkerchief Uiven Away With Every Can of tiypsy fcueu Bakins Powder. This is something new in the market, and to introduce it we have in each 1 lb. can a fine silk handkerchief, which alone is worth the price of the powder. We do not ask 25 cents mors per can to help pay for the advertising; we will sell it on its merits and 'guarantee it superior to any high priced powder. Try it and you will use no other. Ask your grocer for it. You would have no trouble in reading if your glasse3 were fitted by Chaa. Ben nett, ophthalmic optician, 713 Kan. ave. NOTES OP AN INTERVIEWER Cow Incereoll, Rer. Dr. Ball, Governor McKinley and Others Meet Reporters. Special Correspondence. New York, Jan. 24. It has been my experience and the experience of most persons of my acquaintance who make a living by the practice of interviewing that the greater the man the more easily and gracefully will he eubmit to ques tions from an interviewer. One of the pleasanteat interviews I erer engineered was with Colonel Robert G. IngersolL I was not at all certain he would be willing to answer the questions I desired to put to him, bat I did feel reasonably Euro that if he concluded to answer them at all he would be better pleased if his words were taken down in short band than if they were reported from memory or longhand notes. According ly, when I went to his office in this city, I took with me a shorthand reporter. I found the colonel up to his ears in work, aa I had expected, and, as I had feared, he hesitated a little about talking on the subjects I asked about "I do not object," he said finally, "to answering yonr questions if yon feel cer tain the public would be interested in what I may say, but I am in great haste and want to be perfectly sure that I am reported with absolute accuracy. Do you write shorthand?" Then I called in my shorthand report er, who had been waiting in the outer office. Colonel Ingersoll talked for 15 minutes, and hi3 words made a good column when written out General Nelson S. Miles, the hero of the Pine Ridge and other notable Indian campaigns, is not an unpleasant man to the interviewer. In his manner General Miles in inclined to be abrupt, and the stranger might even think him gruff, but with his abruptness there ia a de gree of frankness and directness which tend to make him ono of the most satis factory men to interview it has ever been my luck to meet. Rev. Dr. John Hall, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church of New York, knows how to decline an inter view without being discourteous as well as any man I ever saw. I have called to interview him four or five times. The first time ha listened to my inquiries with grave rourtesy, and then slowly shook his head. "My friend, he said, "you will have to excuse me from answering these queries of yours. In the first place, I know nothing about the matters they involve, and, in the second place, I am not sure that if I did I would wish to make my views upon them public, but I am always ready to talk to the press whenever I have anything really worth saying, and I should be glad to see you at anytime." It was perhaps a fort night later when I again called. This time the subject upon which I wished to interview him was not uncongenial. We had a long and delightful informal conversation about it, and there were no restrictions as to the doctor's words be ing printed. Thoroughly cordial in his manner to ward newspaper men is the Hon. De witt C. Cregier, ex-mayor of Chicago and now superintendent of Uncle Sam's Indian warehouse in that city. Mr. Cregier, though advanced in years, has all the sprightliness of a man of 25 or 80, and he answers questions with a directness and quickness quite unusual. His life has been an eventful one. He was born in New York so long ago that the city had not more than 250,000 inhabitants, if as many as that. He left the town when it had 800,000, and for some two or three years after ward passed his time in the interior of the Empire State. He built the first two steamboats that ever plied the waters of Oneida lake, and after they had been safely launched transferred his activi ties to Chicago, where he constructed the first waterworks of th8 city. He likes to talk about this, and I don't blame him, for the stories of his strug gles and successes are highly interest ing. Governor McKinley of Ohio is a pleas ant man to interview, whether he de cides to tell yon anything or not. Since he has been made governor he has stud ied more closely than ever before, I am told how to read men, and who ever calls upon him, whether an inter viewer, an ofiice seeker, a politician or what not, is sure to be impressed by the strong, steady gazij of the gubernatorial eye straight into his own. For a moment or two the governor will converse upon the weather perhaps, eying his caller all the time. As soon, however, as he has made up his mind as to the charac ter of the visitor Major McKinley goes straight at the business in hand. Samuel Gompers, for many years presi dent of the American Federation of Labor and now ex-president, though with excellent prospects of again becom ing an incumbent of the office, never turns away a reporter discourteously, no matter how busy he may be. He likes to consider his anywers well, however. and sometimes requests the interviewer to call later. When he ia ready to be pumped, Mr. Gompers' face takes on a thoughtful look,, and he speaks with great deliberation. John Burns, M. P. London county councilman and British labor leader,, who lately left these shores for his na tive England, after inspecting and criti cising America for several weeks, was subject to an enormous number of inter views here. I called npon him at his ho tel in New York, and we talked for about two hours. At first he seemed re luctant to consent to be interviewed, saying that he had not always been cor rectly reported, but finally yielded grace fully. During the entire conversation he never forgot for a single moment that his words were likely to- be read by thousands of persons, and frequently he stopped the course of the interview to ask that a sentence ox two which he had formulated with considerable care f hould be read over to him. I do not be lieve that I have ever interviewed a man who was so thoroughly self conscious from start to finish aa Mr. Burns,-but his interview was excellent reading. M. L DfiXTEB, ME. M. YALE, DISCOVERER Or The Ezcelsior Hair Tonio. Grey Hair Restored. Falling Hair Stopped. BALD HEADS COVERED. For the first time in the history of the world a discovery is made that restores gray hair to its natural Color without dye. Mme. Yale, that most wonderful woman chemist and great scien tist, is the discoverer. The Exefelsior Hair Tonic is the remedy. Mme. Yale has placed ic on the market for die benetltof the public, and guaranrees it will restore the natural color baclc to tile httir. no matter how long it has been gray. The cure is permanent in every way. It will also stoj falliiijr hair iu lrom 24 hours' to one week. It restores the hair on bald heads and creates a luxuriant jrrowih. It is a guaranteed cure for every ailment of the hair or scalp. The whole worid bows down to Mine. Yale's discov ery and her great skill as a chemist, which has never heen equaled by win or woman. -The Kxcelsior Hair Tonic holds complete sway over the human hair. There are no ailments which the hair is heir to that it cannot cure. Beware of Imitations. See that every bott e Is labe ed 'Mine. M. Yale"s Excelsior Hair Tonio. Guar anteed to Kestore Gray Hair without Dye." Fr.ce $1 per bottle; S for Sold by all Druggists. Mall orders promptly filled by. Mme. M. Yale, Chicago CHICAGO R.fi CHLY STCSS BALLASTED THICK. NO CHANGE OF CARS BETWEEN KANSAS CITY and CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY and ST. LOUIS, ST. LOUIS and CHICAGO. Ho Extra Cliarga for Passage la Palace Reclining Chair Cars NOR IN Fast Yes'ilmlea IMtei Trains. Ask your own Home Ticket Agent for tickets Tia the Chicago Alton Railroad, or write to O. BOWES, Gen'l Western Passenger Agt. SIS KOBTU BBO AD WAY, 81. 1,0 CIS, MO. JAMES CHARITON, General Passenger and Ticket AgecL CHICAGO, ILL. Smolss .Slater's 1; aZumfoetarfti t S09 Zaa. Ave. TopeSa. SUPERIOR in design and execution, and in the quality of matarial, STANDARD. CHARLES WORK AXIL, 807 KANSAS AVE. TRY V.' .J SILVER LEAF TOMATO CATSUP Is antiseptic and should be used at your meala regu larly. For eale by lead ing grocers. Dr. N. W. Tracy- Will deliver his celebrated illustrated lectures as follows: Footsteps of Cnrist. Monday evening Tie World's Pair. Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock Free Lecture to Young .Women. Sunday afternoon Free Lecture to Men Only. Admission to each of these lectures, 10 cents. The Statb Journal's Want and Mi, cellaneoua columns reach each working day in the week more than twice a many Topeka people as can be reached through any other paper. Thi3 ii a fact.. Read the "Wants." Many of them are as interesting aa newt items, See if it is not 80k Kill 1 B I Is 1. HI Mm B K S 43 11

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STATE JOTJRN"ATj, iONTl)AY EVEXENG, JANUARY 28, 1S95. 3 MYSTERIES! The Nervous System the Seat of Life and Mind. Recent Wonderful Discoveries. No mystery has ever compared tb that of human life. It has been the leading subject of professional research and study in all ages. But notwithstanding this fact it is not gener- that the seat ef life is loca ted in the up per part of the spinal cord, near the base of thebraln, and so sensi tive is this portion oX the nervous sys tem that even the prick of a needle will cause instant death. v I i j j1t,.TAfiatrntPti that all the organs of the body aw under, the con trol of the nerve centers, located in or near the base of the brain, and that when these are deraneed the organs which Vielf-v.supPryIa 11 nerve fluid are also deranged. When it Is re membered that a serious injury to the spin.il cord will cause paralvsis of the boJ y below the iniured point, because t lie nerve force is prevented by the injury from peaching the paralyzed portion. It will be understood how the derangement of the nerve centers will cause the derangement of the various organs which they supply with nerve force. Two-thirds of chronic diseases are due to the imperfect action of the nerve centers at the base of the brain, not from a derange ment primarily originating in -the orpan it self. The great mistake of physicians- In Treating these diseases Is that they treat the organ rather than the rerve centers which are the cause of the trouble. Dr. Franklin Miles, the celebrated spe clalist.has profoundly studied this subject for over 2i) years, and has made many important discoveries in connection with it. chief among them being the facts contained in the above statement, and that the ordinary methods of treatment are wrong. All head-ache, dizzi ness, dullness, conrusion, pifcssure, lnue, mania, melancholy, insanity, epilepsy, t. Vitus dance, etc., ar-3 nervous diseases u matter how caused. The wonderful success of Dr. Miles' Restorative-Nervine-is due to the fact that it is based on the foregoing principle. Miles' Restorative Nervine is sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by Dr. Miles Medical. Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, $t per bottle, six bottles for S3, express prepaid. It contains neither iniafp or dantrerous drugs. For Kale by alt UrngsUti Hiram Hulse, florist. Cor. Elmwood and Willo-w Ave.. Potwin Place, Top ska, Kansas. Grows and sella Plants. Makes a specialty of Cflt Flowers. Does all kinds of floral wort in first class manner. Telephone 453. ARTHUR MAS3AY, Practical Horse-Shoer. 213 WEST FIFTH STREET. Telepboin 488, Topefca. Horses with diseased feet skilfully treated. Track aud road-shoeing a specialty. "HOLLY SPRINGS ROUTE" To Florida via St. Louis Carlo Short Line. From St. Louis, the Illinois Central railroad to Holly Springs, K. C, M. B, the Southern railway and F. C. P. rail road toJackson ville and all Florida points. This new route is the quickest line to Birmingham, and a direct route to Atlan ta, Macon, Charleston, Savannah and all southeastern points. Through Pullman buffet sleeping cars, St. Louis to Jacksonville, Fla. Call on your nearest ticket agent for our "Florida Folder" and full informa tion regaraing this new route, or address Geo. E. Lary, General Passenger Agent. St. Louis, Mo. Itapm Movements la Insects. The rapidity with which certain Bpecies of insects move is something' truly astonishing. The common house fly is known to make 600 strokes per second with his wings and the dragon fly 1.500. In the case of the fly the 600 strokes cause an advance movement of twenty-seven feet. These are figures on ordinarv flight, and it is believed that the fly" is capa ble of increasing both the strokes and advance movement sevenfold. Free Rides to and From School. By a vote of the aldermen of Mai den, Mass., the children of Linden will be conveyed to the Maplewood prammer school at the expense of the city. The Lynn and Boston street railway has agreed to carry the forty lour pupils the distance of one and one-half miles for SI a trip, and to meet this $200 was appropriated. Remenyi Concert Co. at Hamilton hall dmwaiou 50 cents. Reserved seats 75c.' Chart opens Monday at Kellam's. New neck binds put on your shirts at Topeka Steam Lacndbt. 31S and 114 West 8th. Peerless Steam Laundry. Prescott Co. have removed to N'o. 118 West Eighth street Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless Bteam Laundry. TOPEKA k Transfer Company, K 609 KANSAS AVE. Tele. 320. P. P. BACON, Prop. OFF TOJHE WAR. The Fourth Battalion of Mexi can Infantry Sent From the City of Mexico to Acapnlco TO TAKE SHIPPING For the Invasion of the Guate malan Eepublic Mexican People Enthusiastic for' the War. City of Mexico, Jan. 28. The fourth battalion of infantry is making prepara tions to move from this city, its ob jective point being Acapulco, on the Pacific coast, where it will be held with the other forces now there for trans-, portation by sea for the Guatemalan In vasion if thus ordered. Francois Varona Muras, the Cuban journalist, who made such a vicious at tack upon Mexico in connection with the reception of the Guatemalan minister by General Diaz, is supposed to have left Vera Cruz yesterday by steamer for Havana. Several influential newspaper men of this capital made peti tion to Don Romero liubio, secretary of state, asking official action against Muras. Getting wind of the matter, he quietly left town without fighting any of the numerous duels which he had re turned to participate in. Appearances are that the pending Guatemalan wtfrwill not be as expensive to Mexico as was at first thought. The government has received many prof fers of aid from wealthy citi zens of the republic and the mass of the people are so enthusiastic in their promises that these items, with the numberous individual state appropria tions, will very nearly relieve the treasury department from material ex penditure of an extraordinary nature. The country is ready and willing also for a special war tax if the government finds this necessary. LOAFERS AS REBELS. Joaquin Miller Watches an Engagement at the Sandwich Islands. DuiX'TH, Minn., Jan. 28. E. Z. Will iams, of Dululh, now in Honolulu, writes as follows: "Like their brothers in many of the streets of the American republic, a num ber of the restless, adventurous spirits of these islands consider it quite the proper caper to start a revolution before break fast, and by dinner time to have the gov ernment reconstructed, and the deposed officers beheaded. The tuppence ha penny rebellion Honolulu has just passed through, would lead many to suppose that such is the case. "All the theives. drunkards, loafers, gamblers "and opium eaters in town seemed to have been enlisted by the rebels. There were a few who had been in Royal military organizations, a very few dock laborers and a few boat boys (Kanakas.) They told all sorts of stories after their surrender, and were about as guileless a lot as ever assem bled in any quarter of the globe. As nearly as can be gathered from their statements the insurgents had 6J0 rifles. "The most serious engagement during the troubles occurred at Diamond Head. The engagement at Manoa was witnessed by quite a number of spectators from Honolulu, among whom was Joaquin Miller, the Bard of the Sierras. WASHBURN IS SORE. lie Predicts the Disruption of the Repub lican Party In Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn, Jan.28. Senator Wm. D. Washburn spoke with much bitter ness last evening in regard to his defeat. He says: "My candidacy for re-election to the senate was not a personal matter. I had no particular desire for.re-election, but I believed it was the desire of the people of Minnesota that I should serve another term. "However, I found the situation honey combed with treachery. The methods of the opposition have been most disgrace ful. There was a shameless use of mon ey. "But even worse than the use of mon ey," continued Senator Washburn, "was the outrageous manipulation of state pa tronage. Ihere have been promised everything there is to be given, and more everything was traded to beat me, every dishonest method of manipulation known to ring politicians was resorted to" "What do you think will be the effect of this scandal upon the Republican par ty in Minnesota?" "It will create the greatest upheaval ever seen. The people will not counte nance such methods. I look to see the Republican party rise in its strength and wipe out every politician who has been connected in any way with thia unsavory case." IT WAS CHEAP. The Pop's Encyclical was Appraised at Five Dollars. New Yobk, Jan. 28. The pope's en cyclical, which came in on La Bur goinyne passed the custom house on the payment of $1.25, It came as printed matter and it was rushed through the custom house with almost unmatched celerity. Most packages of printed mat ter are released in about ten days. Hardly two hours were required to get the encyclical letter released and placed in the hands of the Adams Express com pany who expressed it to Washington. it was appraised at Some people always look fresh and young, while others look prematurely old, with skin dried up and wrinkled. The only difference between the two is the loss of vitality in the blood. People using Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker always look fresh and healthy. Sold and warranted by your popular druggist, W. R. Kennady. The Old. ssitory. New Yobk, Jan. 2& Heidelbach, Ickellieimer Co. will ship $2,000,OUU, and Heidelberg, Thalman Co., $1,000, 000, in gold, on the steamer tomorrow. Lazard Freres will ship $500,000, making the total thus far engaged, $3,500,000. NEW RAILROAD Bi)ARD. The Executive Council in Session to Hear Applications. At three o'clock this afternoon the executive council began the hearing of applications for positions on the state board of railroad commissioners to sue-" ceed W. 1). Vincent, Perry B. Moxson and John Hare, the present board. The plan is to give each candidate a thirty minute speech or so much of the time as he desires, to present his claims. Some ol the candidates say they will not go before the council at all, believing that their deserts are well enough known to be passed upon without further pre sentation. Those who compose the executive coun cil and have a vote are the governor, sec retary of state, auditor, treasurer, attor ney general and superintendent of pub lic instruction. The only change in the situation is that D. V. Eastman of Em poria, who has been an avowed aspirant all along, has declared that he ia no longer a candidate. Ex-Secretary of State William Higgins says the slate has written upon it the names of James M. bimpaon of McPher son, Ed H. Brown of Girard, and Joseph Lowe of Washington, the latter to be the Democratic member. The greatest kick made against this trio is that the Mis souri river towns and Wichita are none of them represented. Wichita has three candidates and two .delegations are here today to urge their claims. If all the candidates be heard or any considerable number of them, it is doubtful if a choice will be made to day, at least not until late tonight. Most guesses seem to have settled on J. M. Simpson and Joseph G. Lowe as two of the members, with the field fight ing for the third place. The commissioners get $2,500 a year and a pocket full of railroad passes. The avowed candidates are: Ex-Governor Anthony of Ottawa, F. M. LocKurd of Norton, G. A. Spaulding of Phillipsburg, Webb McNall of Smith county, J. M. Simpson of McPherson, G. W. Clement of Wichita, Bernard Kelly of Topeka, O. B. Taylor of Leavenworth, E. II. Brown of Girard, Francis House of Kansas City, ex-Governor Humphrey of Independence, D. W. Finney of Neosho Falls, II. T. Flint of Hutchinson, L. L. Bigler of Newton, E. E. Dix of Fort Scott, P. G. Noel of Topeka, H. C. Tay lor of Lyons and J. C. Atkinson of Co lumbus. The candidates for the Demo cratic place on the board are Joseph Lowe of Washington and Conductor Charles Short of Topeka, who runs the Santa Fe plug. THOUGHT IT SMALLPOX. A Case of Chicken Pox Which Frightened Residents on Monroe Street. Considerable excitement was caused today by the report that there was a case of smailpox at 906 Monroe street The case afterwards proved to be chicken pox. Last Friday Dan McCoy, who was formerly a member of Orlin Crawford's Comedy company, came home from Kan sas City sick. He went to bed. and the next day an eruption which resembled smallpox appeared on his body. Drs. Munn, Hibben and Lewis made an examination and pronounced the dis ease a bad case of chicken pox. The red sign on the house, whicli bore the doubtful words, "Contagious disease here," was taken down and the more define words, "Chicken pox." were posted up. W IT H A BLAZING C A R. An Air Line Train Has an Interesting Time Near St. Louis. St. Loos, Ma, Jan. 28. The Air Line train from Louisville arrived last night minus the combination mail and bag gage car. Tne car caught on tire about fifty miles east of St Louis from an overheated stove and was entirely con sumed. A number of overcoats belonging to the traiu crew and all of the baggage and mail were burned except one regis tered mail pouch, which was thrown out by Clerk L. O. Donnell. The car was detached and abandoned. SNOWING IN TEXAS. All Except the Southern Part Covered With a White Mantle. Dallas, Tex., Jan. 28. Specials to the News from all parts of northern, central, eastern and western Texas and the Pan Handle, report a general snow storm all day. The fall is from three to five inches. In central Texas, it is sleeting. The weather is not cold and the result of the storm has been to break the long winter drouth. A VALUABLE WORK. King's Wonderful Hand-Book of the United States. One of the haudsomest and most val uable books for reference and for the general library is King's Hand Book of the United States, published by The Matthews-Northrup Co., art printers. Buffalo, N. Y. The book contains nearly a thousand pages, treats of 7,000 subjects, has 2.600 il nutritions. There are lLty-two colored maps. The text is embellished with pictures of the prominent buildings in the leading localities in this country. There are fifty-two chapters, system atically presented, covering the United Mates as a whole and each state in the Union separately, besides territories and districts. The article on Kansas was revised by Ex-Senator Ingalls, covers ten pages, and contains twenty-seven illustrations, amon them being views of scenes and buildings at Topeka, Wichita, Leaven worth, Lawrence, Garden City, Manhat ton and elsewhere. The statistics covering just what ia so often desired about cities and states are presented in a graphic manner, This book is now being sold by sub scription only in Topeka and, Mr. John Lampton, a representative of the pub lisher, will call on the citizens and show the work itself, which can only be truly appreciated by a careful examination. It is thoroughly up-to-date and ali that it claims to be. Bf ejs' German Salve. The household remedy. Every family should keep it for cuts, burns, bruises, and inflammation of all kinds. W. R. Kennady keeps a full supply. Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 Kans. Ave. Call up Phone 153 and have our wagon call for your bundle. Topeka Stkam Laundrt. Good work done by the Peerless WILL RAISE PHEASANTS. Ohio Has Gone Into the Business in a Regular Way. Mt. Marts, O., Jan. 28. The Ohio state fish commission has gone into the pheasant raising business near here and for that purpose has leased 3 acres of ground along the St Marys reserve for a period of five years. Hundreds of dol lars have already been expended in erecting coops and sheds suitable for hatching and breeding purposes. Forty-three pheasants were placed in the coops last week, brought from New Jersey at a cost of $4 a head, The En glish ring-necked pheasant of brilliant plumage is the kind bought So far this is the only state station in the United States. As boon as the pheasants get to be plenty they will be turned loose in the fields and forests of the state. HOW HE SERVES PEOPLE. Senator Quay Leares Washington to Go Fishing in Florida. Washington, Jan. 28. Senator Quav concluded that he could leave the senate and the political situation in Pennsylva nia and took a morning trai? today for Florida, where he is likely to spend several weeks fishing for tarpon. It is not likely that he will return for several weeks. NOT HAR310MOUS. All is Not Yet Serene at the French Capi tal. Paius, Jan. 28. The newspapers this morning are less hostile in their utter ances in regard to the Ribot ministry. M. Goblet, however, announces the secession of his group of followers from M. Ribot's supporters. After discussing the amnesty motion the government will ask the chamber of deputies to devote itself entirely to the budget The amnesty motion will include M. Gerault-Richard, Count Dillon and M. Henri Rochefort GLORY DON'T COUNT. Corbet Says Money Is All There Is In Prize Fighting. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 28. Champion J. .7. Corbett, who appeared here last night with his company, in answer to the question whether he would go out of the country to fight, said: "Now, why should I do that; is there anything in this fight for me but money. It is simply a business proposition with me. Some people say that I don't appreciate the glory there is in it. I tell you that the glory don't count. I settled that in my mind when I went into the ring with John L. 'When I appeared there was a dis tinct hiss, and when the champion came on he was cheered to the echo. When I had him licked the people who had hissed me went wild with enthusiasm and cheered until they were hoarse, and what was there for Sullivan, the hisses. The public favor is a good thing for the champion, but it only lasts while he is champion. Klixzard in Oklahoma. Henxessky, Ok.. Jan. 28. A blizzard has struck Hennessey continuing with great fury. Thermometer 2 degrees be low. Much suffering prevails among settlers in the Cherokee outlet, many of whom are unable to procure sufficient protection. Snow has fallen to the depth of three inches and has drifted several feet high. Civil Service Examinations. Washington, Jan. 28. The civil ser vice commission will hold examinations Feb. 4 for the office of librarian clerk at a salary of $640 a year, and on Feb. 14-15 for library cataloguer at $1,200, in the department of agriculture. For Over Fifty Year Mrs. Winslisw's Soothing Syrup has been used for teething. It soothes, softens the gums, allay3 pain, cures colic. Best remedy for diarrhoea. 20 cents a bottle. Mr. J. E. Maxwell, of Warren M. Crosby Co., who has formerly had charge of the linen department of the store, has been promoted to fill the va cancy recently made by Mr. Roehr. Mr. Maxwell has been with the firm for the past two years, and has been connected with the dry goods houses of the city for the past seven years. He will now have charge of the whole store under Mr. Crosby. Go and see Joshua Whitcomb tonight at Bijou. Tbe Ladies' Minstrels. The first rehearsal under the direc tion of the manager, Mr. Haskell, will be held Tuesday, January 20tb, at the ladies' physical culture rooms on Jack son street, at 2 p. m, All who were solicited to take part are invited to be present. By order of Committee. Go to the Bij ou and see the play Joshua Whitcomb.- All members of Topeka lodge No. 40 are requested to meet at the temple at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow to attend the funeral of Bro. E. A. Call, of Oberlin lodga All Odd Fellows in the city are cordially, in vited to attend. E. A. Alexandek, C..J. Rolfe, N. G. Secretary. See the Old Homestead at Bijou to night A (!ilk Handkerchief Given away with every Can of Queen GypBy Baking Powder. The Bijou is the best place in town. Cough and Cough and Congh. But if you desiie to stop coughing, try Begg's Cherry Cough Syrup. It relieves instantly, and will effect a permanent cure quicker than any cough cure on the market. Price 25, 50 and $L00. A posi tive guarantee with every bottle. Sold by W. R. Kennady. A Milk Handkerchief Given away with every Can of Queen Gypsy Baking Powder. Beggs' Little Giant. Pills! Beggs' Little Giant Pills! Beggs' Little Giant Pills! Keep the name in mind when you want a perfect and honest pilL 40 pills in each bottle. All others have from 25 to 30. Sold by W. R. Kennady. Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 Kans. Ave. A Silk Handkerchief Given away with every Can of Queen Gypsy Baking Powder. The Bijou is the place to have a good time. Highest of all in Leavening1 Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to ta 6tate Journal. Chicago, Jan. 28 Wheat was ner vous today. May opened J-c higher but immediately lost Jc on heavy selling on renewed gold shipments. There were liberal selling orders and" Bartlett-Fra-zier sold freely for French account At the decline Linn brokers, Baldwin-Far-num and.others were fair buyers, caus ing a reaction to the opening figures. May started at 53-8, declined to 52 and reacted to 53tg. Corn was dull and followed wheat in its fluctuations. May opened gC higher at 451 c, touched 45J, and reacted to the opening price. Oats were dull following wheat a,nd corn. May opened unchanged at 29,5, touched 29 and reacted to 29j. Provisions were dull and slightly high er on moderate hog receipts and higher prices at the yards. May pork started 10 cents higher at $10.75 and sold to $10. To. May lard sold at $6.75, and ribs at $5.57i'. Wheat Jan. 503c; May 53c;"July 54ac. Corx Jan. 41jgc; May, 44sa'c; July 44c. Oats January, 2SJ2'c; May, 29V. June 294a Pork January $10.321:,V Mav $10.57. Lard January, $6.52; May, $5.70 bid. Rib 5.52i -January $5.35; May $5.50 Hogs Receipts today, 23,000; ofScial shiuments 3,190; left yesterday (,0.8; over, none. Market firm 510c higher.. Trade rather slow. Lights $3.954 3o; mixed $4.o54.50; heavv $4.104.Gl; rough $4.10425. Cattle Receipts, 11,000. Official Saturday, 332; shipments 1,172. Mar ket generally 510 cents higher. Sheep "Receipts 12,00a Official Saturday 1,589; shipments 1,702. Mar ket generally 510 cents higher. Estimated hogs Monday 21,000. Kansas City Market. Kansas Citi, Jan. 28. Cattle Re ceipts, 4,5j0; shipments, 1,9J0. Mar ket steady to strong. Colorado steers $2 90 4.10; Texas steers $2.753.75; Texas cows, $1.502.75: beef steers, $1.755.05; native cows, $1.753.50; stockers and feeders, $2.25(3.75; bulls and mixed $1.903.25. Hogs Receipts, 5,300; shipments, 8)0. Market stronger, 5 cents higher. Bulk of sales $3.804u0; heavies $3.954.2o; packers $3.8J4.2o; mixed $3.70(0(4.15; lights $a503.95; yorkers, $3.85(3.95; pigs $3.103 60. Sheep Receipts, 1,500; shipments 300. Wheat Easier; No. 2 hard 5152c; No 2 red, 5Jolc; rejected 47c; Sales by sample on 'change f. o. b. Mis sissippi river, No. 2 hard 5657c; No. 2 red 5657a Corn Easier, No. 2, mixed, 4040 No. 2 white 41a Oats Firmer; No. 2 mixed, ZQl4 30c; No.2 white 3132c. Ryb Firm. No. 2, 50a Flax Seed Dull; nominally $1.30 1.31. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FASHIONS HOW TO cur AJ make lor 11 OWN DEESSIiS AND THOSE of your children without tiie use of paper pat terns or othur outlay. TO INTRODUCE MOODY'S NEW IMPROVED TA1LOK SYSTEM AND combination of squares for DRESS CUTTING tre will teach a limited number of ladies FjE OF CHAliiiii provided you call at once. THIS SYSTEM IS EN11KELY NEW. It can be learned in one-tenth the time of any oth er system ever ottered the public. AVE OFFER TO TEACH YOU FEEE because we want to prove the system to be what we claim for it. Our rejrular price for teaching Is $-'i.ou, but we lind it alwavs pays 11s to teach a limited number tree because strangers 10 us and the now Moody System UouDt our ability to comply wi.h our advertisement, but when their friends take a few lessons ihey unhesitatingly indorse every claim in our advertisements, aud it is then many say they would like to be taught k' ll E K and many others are then willing to pay our orice for teaching. Never before has there been a dress cutt:ns svstem on the market tnat couid be introduce! in a new locality on its own merits as we offer von Trot. Moody's New System and to induce vou to call, on us at once we will teach you also FKEE ol charge Trof. Moody's New Method of Hasting. Stitching and Boning a waist. This lesson you can nut learn elsewhere at any priue. WE AL.--0 UUAKAN I EE TO 1 EACH the cutting of every namable garment worn by ladies and children to lie without a wrinkle or pav you for your time while learning. Oltt EXFEKiENCE OK OV ER 20 YEARS TEACHING DRESS CUTTING AND DRESS MAKING warrants you in calling on us at once because we can teacu you more in one day man you can learn of otiiers in a full week. TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE who can not at tend to tne scnooi we wiu send teachers to your house if you drop us a card giving name and auaress. LADIES. WE OFFER YOU the opportunity of a lifetime. Come and see us at once; vou can never again get so much for your time. We V A nm.ui.E. w iieu wh g.ve Vou the teaching absolutely free of charge. Viitt .u.u.Wi care now we caa airora to teach you free. Theifact Is, we ask no money for the lessons, nor do we expect one cen: for teach ing any lady who answers this ad prompt.y, and we will permit you to cut, baste, stitch arid bone a compete dress while receiving free les sons, and if the first dress you cut does not lit Wituouc a wrinkle we will pay you for your time anil the goods. FLEASE BE PROMPT. Our rooms are large, light and warm, school opens at 8:30 a. in., closes at 9-.3U p. m. Students can bring their lunch and remain all day or such time as suits them, day or evening. Remember the place, C24 Kansas ave.. Rooms 2 and 3. VV,TANTE1 Gentleman wants room and board in private family, center of city. C. this office. w ANTED To rent a good 6 or 7 room house close in. Address Jack, Journal. YV 7 ANTED To purchase typewriter; must tie cneap lor casn. ah uox isi, lopeka. WANTED-Io buy a good second hand type- writer at the Topeka Vinegar Works. Xorth Topeka. YVTA"!0- A young man who is Just learn- in? stenography and typewriting at the Topeka Vinegar Works, "ortu Topeka. 1 wo iisnn.tinm nt a vSeleuiu. "It is to bo honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to ba bravj, to be wise, and possessed of all these qualities, to exercise them in the most graceful manner," says the great novelist, Thackeray. A diner, who had been im bibing' too freely, became so noisy that the proprietor directed his re moval. The waiter who successfully accomplished this,., on returning to the room, expressed his regret at having been obliged to put the indi vidual out. "For," said he. with em phasis, "he's a perfec' gentleman:' adding, after a pause, as if to ex plain how he arrived at so decided a conclusion, '"he gave rne 'alf a crown." Front In Fggs and Apples An egg expands when it is frozen, and breaks its shell. Apples contract so much that a full barrel will shriul; until the top layer is a foot below the chine. When the frost is drawn out the apples assume their normal size and fill up the barrel again. Some varieties are not appreciably injured by being frozen if the frost is drawn out gradually. Apples will carry safely in a refrigerator car while the mercury is registering twenty degrees below zero. Potatoes, being so largely composed of water, are easily frozen. celling His Hoy. Every man has his price in Eng-land as is shown by an advertisement that appeared recently in a newspaper, which read: "A beautiful boy for adoption. Gentleman going1 abroad. Would give his boy to lady or gentle man for the sum of 300." The society for the prevention of cruelty to chil dren investigated the matter, and found that a farmer who had lost his wife and intended to emigrate was actually trying- to dispose of his child. A rasper Supports Himself. The town of Orneville up in Maine tried a queer experiment, the queer est part of which was that it was suc cessful. The superintendent of (ha town farm havingTun away, and the town having an able-bodied man and his family to support, moved them upon the farm and puttliem in charge of it. Thus far he has been able to support his family. GREAT DISCOUNT SALE. The Boston Shoe Store will cut prices to the core for the next 30 days in order to make room for our Spring goods. LOOK AND READ. Ladies' fine Doug, hand Welt Razor Toe, in A to E wide, $5.00 Shoe, $3.75. Ladies' line French Kid. hand welt or hand turned S5.0U Shoes, US3.O0. Fine hand turned or welt 4.0J Shoes, $2.35. Ladies' good, warranted all solid $2.00 Go. at $1.35. Ladies' Tong. Kid pat. tip $1.30 Shoes. 85c. Muses' and Children's School Shoes, 50 to T5 cents. Finest line Children and Misses' Cloth Top. T5c to $1 SO. Infant s Shoes at 13c. 35c, T5c ANY sty'.e desired. Ladies' Rubbers, 30c, 25c. Men's fine Kangaroo and Cordovan S6.00 and $7.00 Shoes, Bion Reynolds' goods, $4.50. Finest line of Men s razor toe, hand sewed and we!ts, from A width to LEE, S4.0J Shoes, $3.50. Men's warranted heavy $2.00 .Work Shoei. $1.45. Men's $2.00 Dress Shoes. $1.25. Men's Buckle Arctics, 80c. Men's Seil-ACi.u Ituobers, 45c. Cheapest line of Boy's School Shoej In the city. Call and see and be con vinced, as you never seen or heard of such a cut in Shoe leather since Topeka be came a metropolitan city. BOSTON SHOE STORE C. BAIERSCHMIDT, Prop. U OPERA HOUSE tCor. 7th and. Quincy Tt. J. C. Dablixo. Mr. Prices: 10, 20 and 30 cts. Joshua wnibGoiiiD OR THE Old...... Homestead.... The Beautiful Comedy with Specialties. January 28 29. BIJ

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4 STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVEXIN&, JANUARY 28, 1895. The State Journal OSoial Paper cf tha City of Toptka. BT FBASK P. MacLbNKAH. TS22I3 0? S7S3CSITTICSr. Isily eiitlea, delivers! "by carrisr, 13 eents a week to aay part of Topeka er nburbs.'cr at tha earn price in any Kansas toira whoratnis papar has a car riar aystsm. By nail, tkrse mostni t .93 By mail, one year 3.33 Weakly Edition, per year S3 GREATEST IN KANSAS. AVESASE IAILY CIECULATIOJT: 8,806 For the three dull summer months of 1834 an increase of over fifty per cent in one y;ar. OIK PKOOJTs The Issues of the Topeka Dailt Statu Journal for the three months, viz.. from tha 1st day of June. 1884. to the Slat day or August, )&i4. inclusive, have been as follows: 8. y. o. 11. J-'. 13. 14. 15. 10. 17. IK. ia. i'o. i so. in Julio July August S.i93 8,60 8.312 8,720 8,670 8.842 8.600 H.am 8.752 8,&)8 S.3bi 8.70 8,94a 8.6SO 9.7U0 10,02-i 8.720 8.-W1 8.741 8.253 1 l.l:!0 8.728 S.9.'.J 8.753 E,a90 9.540 8,600 8,tt43 9,023 8.947 8.994 8 743 8.470 9.000 8.547 8.522 8.o3 8,502 8,853 8,570 tS.MX) 8,502 9.210 S.520 8,410 8.90a 8.380 8.923 8.503 8.403 8.892 8.500 8.452 8. 54 A 8.485 8.W 8,573 I 8.792 8,503 8,473 8.781 8,497 8,492 9.222 8.463 8,746 8.521 8.492 13,800 8,557 8.453 8,545 8,462 8.740 8,510 8.720 8,550 222,508 241,173 231,988 Sunday; do. Issue. The total number of copies printed in the three months nauiud above. a S.67, divided by 79. tht number of issues, show the average to be 8,806. This is a correct 'sport of the issue of the loPKKA Ijary sir Aiii Juijit-N for tha thred months as staled. (Signed) Editor and Proprietor. Sworn to and subscribed Kept. 11. 1894. (SAALj s. M. Gap.dexhibb. CleiH. of the District Court, Shawnee County, Kansas. GffThe STATE JOtJESTAL is the only paper in Kansas receiving the Full Day Associated Press. EafKemter American Newspaper Puo lishers's association. EfTThe STATE JOUENAL has tL handsomest and most complete -web stsr ectype perfecting preEs. tEastern ofSce, 73 Trioune Building1, New York, Perry Lnkens, Jr., manager. Weather Indications. Chicago, Jan 28. Forecast for Kan sas: Local snows and warmer tonight; Tuesday, fair, variable winds. By that time tha strike will probably- ba over and forgotten by everybody outside of Brooklyn. The trouble with every thing connected with the courts is that it takes too long to get action. Why should the people of Brooklyn walk three weeks longer? Because that's the law. The sacred gold reserve has now reached the lowest point known since the resumption of specie payments. Following each issue of bonds the secre tary of the treasury has made the exper iment of allowing the reserve to drop a little lower than before. It is now down to 56,000,000, and the country still lives. The regular annual announcement is made that the south is ready to abandon the Democratic party. Governor Till man is its author this time. This aban donment of Democracy has been going on some years but the electoral vote of the south always comes up without a fracture and it ia the chief reliance of the bosses. Legislators should think well before they establish a precedent of conferring pensions on private citizens -who have rendered no service to the general public as is contemplated in the ca3e of Harry Parks. The custom once established there is no knowing where it will end. Bo many questions in this country are de cided by precedent Cf rover Clevklasc appears to have a desire to go down in history as the great peacemaker. Following the tender of his services in that direction to China and Japan, we now find him trying to mediate between Mexico and Guatemala. It will e fortunate if, metaphorically, sticking his fingers in other people's pie he does not burn them. The board of directors of the United States government, otherwise known as the New York clearing house commit tee, has held a meeting and decided that there shall be another issue of bonds. They used to convey information of this kind to Mr. Carlisle privately but there doesn't appear any reason for secrecy now and they have notified him through the public prints. The secretary will doubtless make haste to do their bid ding. Democrats are doubtless able to view with much complacency the fact that they are no longer in complete control of the government Their majority in the senate has disappeared owing to the election of a Republican from North Car olina and one each from Wyoming' and Montana. These new senators are all elected to fill vacancies and may take their seats immediately. The Demo cratic party can now claim that it is not responsible if the country does go to the dogs. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. Jcdgb Gatnoh's writ of mandamus is sued in the Brooklyn strike case is of the alternative variety and allows the trolley company twenty days in which to show cause why it dooi not operate its lines. STANDS UP FOR KANSAS. One after another the western states are learning that they can disregard the fundamental laws of trade only at their peril. A Populist legislature in Kansas two years ago passed a law interfering with the foreclosure of mortgages on real estate in the alleged interest of the creditor, and the result has been the withdrawal of $15,000,000 in loans se cured by such mortgages. New York Evening Post. Was it the result of the law? We neither desire to defend the law nor the Populist legislature which passed it, but we do oppose the "post hoc ergo propter hoc" method of reasoning. There has been an enormous amount of capital withdrawn from Kansas, it is true, but there has been almost an equal amount withdrawn from Missouri and Minne sota, where there was no Populist legis lature nor aty such law. People discov ered they had been lending on overval ued property and pulled out as fast as possible. Chicago Times. Senator Sterne's bill to do away with justices' courts in cities is a step iD the right direction. It is from the first class cities that the greatest complaint cornea. The country justice is not so bad. He usually has some other occupa tion on which he depends for a living, and is not up to the methods of making exorbitant fee bills and working up cases. The city justice knows all the ins and outs of the business, and has a lot of assistants in the way of deputy consta bles, who Tender all the aid possible ia working up case3, so as to swell the ag gregate of fees. One court and one con stable could very easily take care of all the business in a city the size of this one. It is not infrequently the case that in violations of the law there are two par ties to the transaction and the principle involved in Senator Brown's bill for the suppression of bucket shops, that of punishing both the operator and the patron is a good one. If there were no bucket shops there would be no patrons, and on the oilier hand if there were no patrons there would be no bucket shops. It might be a good thing to incorporate the same principle in the prohibitory law. Eugene Debs, and a number of other prominent A. R. U. men, are on trial ia Chicago, on the charge of conspiring to obstruct the passage of the United States mails. This is the most serious charge. The former trial was merely a skirmish before the general engagement. The government will probably have little trouble in establishing the charge of conspiracy, but whether it will be able to prove that it was for the purpose of obstructing the mails remains to be seen. The probability is that they had no thought of the mail when the strike was ordered. In the face of the fact that the gov ernment is just about to be swindled out of the payment of the bonds issued in aid of the Union Pacific railroad the senate has p:tssed a bill authorizing the issue of $70,000,000 in bonds in aid of the Nicaraugua canal. The payment of these bonds, both principal and interest, is guaranteed by the government There can be no possible excuse for being taken in twice in the same way. Senator Peffer voted against the bill and Senator Martin did not vote. KANSAS PARAGRAPHS. Miss Loveless has been visiting in Yates Center to see if she could remedy her deficiency. Nothing can cool the ardor of Leho sports. They have horse races there in the dead of winter. Emery Toogood lives in Woodson county but his is the only case of the malady in that section. Jennings Echo: They have found a natural cave north of Dresden and talk of moving the town into it Larned presents to the world an anom aly in the. shape of a mule which at tacked a boy with its fore feet C. Bugg has gone to farming near Par sons. Ilis namesake. Chinch Bug, has been in the business a long time. All the musical clubs in Larned are not sufficient to keep the Chronoscope from saying "Le Trovotore" and "Chop ins." A Lebo family took advantage of the nice sunshiny weather to start overland to Oklahoma just in time to get caught in the snow storm. Stockton Record: Concordia has a Del mo nico restaurant where they serve chuck steaks and doughnuts in a manner that looks like styla A game of football as late as last week between Yates Center and Neosho Falls proves that when Kansas gets taken with a fad she never lets up. Those who have been in doubt as to the Intentions of Benjamin Harrison will be relieved to know that he is going to establish a store in Parsons. A Chetopa man recently had a piece of meat bone inches long removed from his throat He was evidently one of those people who go it whole hog or none. The News says enough ice has been pat up in Severance to make ice cream for 100,000 girls next summer. No one supposed there was that much ice in the state. The M. E. church at Lebanon has pur chased new song books, and the young men and women who attend the evening services are especially requested not to write notes to each other on the fly leavsa. Jewell Republican: When a French official is abused by his opponents he resigns his office. The Populist party, headed by Mrs. Lease, would clean out the whole French government in 24 hours. A woman who was about to be bap tized in the Campbellite church atjames town fainted away but the preacher, never losing his presence of mind for a second, promptly dipped her under and aha came to all right. CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF BUSI NESS IN CONGRESS. No Financial Legislation The Indian Ques tion Chasing the Elusive Barn Stormer. Interview With the Chairman of the Na val Committee Annexation of Hawaii. Special Correspondence. J Washington, Jan. 24. Since it is settled or the old heads say it is that there is to be no financial legislation at this session we naturally feel like ask ing what there will be, and this leads us, as usual, to consider a very preva lent error. Most of the people fix their eyes on one or two leading measures last session it was the tariff, before that the repeal of the Sherman act, and now it ia the currency bill and forget the enormous labor that is done in commit tee rooms and the hundreds of bills which are passed in the course of gen eral business. Besides the'appropriation bills, whiifc are now sufficient to occupy at least half the time of every congress, there are general bills on roads and bridges, very many private bills and local bills and almost innumerable relief measures, from those which give mil lions to great commonwealths down to one giving a few dollars to pay Feliz jMcStadler and Ann Jane Jones or other parties for cows accidentally killed at Ohickamauga and all around there. In cidentally it may be added that the re fusal of this congress to pay a mass of just claims dating from the war period had a great deal more to do with the defeat of some of the members than is generally supposed. Lo, the Poor Red Man. As to the appropriations bills, the gen eral statement is made by all members of the committee that the total will fall a little short of that appropriated last year and but little; how much will do pend upon the amount forced into the congressman geissekhainer. general deficiency bill, which is the last to get through and is therefore loaded as much as possible in the hurry of the olosiug hours. The house committee on Indian affairs has had wha?" may justly be termed a high old time, not only in committee, but in open house, but has managed to carry its point and in such a way that, aside from those directly interested, it will take an expert to find out just what ha3 been done. Two facts are prominent. The appropriation for contract schools ia cut down one-fifth, and suoh broad dis cretion is given to the commissioner of Indian affairs as to show an evident in tent that such schools shall soon be done away with. Now, the fact that all such schools to be terminated soon are Catho lic schools may be a mere coincidence, as some members of the committee claim, but outsiders generally take it as a result of the A. P. A. movement. The long cherished intention of Chairman Holman that Indian children shall be educated at their homes upon the reser vations will probably be the policy here after, and finally the appropriation is considerably below the estimate, being less than $7,000,000, and the usual promises are made that hereafter the In dians will not cost us so much as here tofore. The popular impression that great areas of Indian land are to be opened up ia singularly at varianoe with the truth. Indeed the only tract worth mentioning is that obtained from the Wichita Indians, and that only contains 700,000 acres, and there is still a ju dicial question to be settled before its opening is certain. The old and familiar Nicaragua canal bill may be a little nearer to final pas sage than it was, but if so nobody can prove it. With it go to limbo all the other great canal scehmes, and the next congress will have them to wrestle with de dovo. As to railroads, the discussion on the Pacific railway companies' in debtedness has broken out in a 'new form, and the latest proposition from the reorganization committee of the companies is that the interest shall be reduced to 2 per cent, and that in case of foreclosure by the government the reorganizers shall be preferred purchas ers. Another proposition is that the stockholders be assessed a sum sufficient to pay all the bonds which rest on liens prior to that of the government, and that the debt to the government be consoli dated into 50 year bonds at 2 per cent After listening to the evidence and argu ments before the house committee we usually go over and ask the latest opin ion of Senator Cullom, who replies just as he did a year ago, with a emile that is childlike and bland: "Don't worry yourself. It is fixed that nothing at all is to be dona Eluding Judicial Processes. All that noble array of measures from the committee on agriculture seem ap pointed for defeat, and even the bill to subject oleomargarine to the laws of any state into which it may be import ed, which bill had gained the right of way, was euchred out of it by the adroit minority and must now take its chances in the general scrambla The committee on patents and incidentally on copy right is still chasing the elusive barn stormer. There is such an interlock of local laws, and in many states such an absence of all law on the subject that e trolling dramatic companies -can make up their route for the season and keep far ahead of any judicial process. Of late they have been using many plays which were not even printed. A stenog rapher was employed to take down the words when the play was first present ed, anl an expert to study the scenery and situations, and thus the strolling dramatists were able to start in distant Itates and run a season with impunity. A general bill setting forth the powers of the federal courts was introduced by Hon. Amos Cnmmings, and Judge Dit tenhoefer of New York has been quite tctive in support of it Chairman Cov ert of the committee says the greatest difficulty in getting a proper bill through is the present objection of southern and western members to enlarging the juris diction of the federal courts, and he re grets to add that, so far as he can see, said objection is very much on the in crease at present. Naval Prospect. The greatest interest just at present is probably in the committee on naval affairs, and Hon. Jacob A. Geissenhai ner, who became its chairman on the re tirement of Amos Cummings, talks with an earnestness amounting to warmth about the random statements that have been made in the papers. In answer to my questions he summed it up thus: "Please dismiss from your mind all, statements that we are going to build 8 or 48 or any other number of war ships right away. It is all speculation on the part of the public. The commit tee is an uncertain body, the house is more uncertain still, and as to the sen ate well, you ought to know by this time that it is safer to guess at the ver dict of a petit jury. The navy has long been a subject on which there is a deal of partisan debate. Each party wants to prove that it is a better friend to the navy than the other. But the great trou ble is that naval construction is rapidly improving, or, at any rate, changing. "The great powers of the world copy from us, and we copy from them, and by the time a certain type of vessel is really perfected it is obsolete. An effi cient navy, therefore, is always in a con dition which the philosophers call an unstable equilibrium. I don't know but the process will result as it has in bo many other things that is, we shall go on adding and adding to the appliances for naval warfare until they reach such a point of complexity that they will be useless because nobody can work them, or, more likely, when we shall have reached the greatest possible perfection, some entirely new system will be in vented, and the great navies will be sal able as old iron. All you need say at present is that the department has asked for nearly $8,000,000 for construction and repairs for the year 1895-6, and with this I hand you over to Mr. Meyer, .who is doing his best for the bill to re organize the personnel of the navy. The V'alne of Age. Mr. Meyer explained his bill at some length, and after hearing him and read- ing the recent report I can only conclude J that there has been a deal of unneces sary delay for a matter of such impor tance. The chief trouble is that, owing to an enormous excess of appointment in 1860-7 and other causes, certain grades of the service are overloaded, and if the regular rules are followed officers will not reach a rank to command until their best years are passed and tha habit of depending on others has become chronic. Thus the age of reaching the grade of rear admiral is now 58, and in a few years it will be 602 with only 18 months to serve before retirement, while the age of reaching the grade of captain is 502 years and rapidly increasing, and so of the grades of commander and lieutenant commander. In 1841 there was such an excess of appointments that very few were made for several years afterward, and all the appointees of that era are long since out of the service. Thereafter until 1 860 the graduates from the naval academy did not supply the annual waste. A tremendous change fol lowed, and now there is an excess of 126 officers on the active line list of the navy, and promotion is distressingly slow. Surplus Officers. By joint resolution of Jan. 12, 1884, a joint committeee on this subject was created consisting of Senators Butler, Blackburn and Hale and Representa tives Meyer, Money and Wadsworth,bnt owing to the tariff debate and other causes it has done little until lately and now has acted in a great hurry. It rec ommends, in brief, that 100 of the sur plus officers be transferred to various shore duties, such as inspecting mer chant vessels, supervising harbors, in specting steel and other armor, superin tending gun factories, naval homes and hydographio offices and serving as sub ordinates in the naval bureau. It is claimed that this will reduce expenses, give more room for promotion and yet retain these 100 officers ready for active service afloat in case of war. Much is said about the fact that there is so little chance for enlisted men, and that in consequence our vessels are manned mainly by foreign seamen, and the bill reported provides for promotion on the same principle as promotions from the ranks are made in the army. There is also great inequality in the pay lists, the result being that the commanding officer of an American man-of-war often re ceives several hundred dollars less per annum than his subordinates of the staff corps, such as surgeons, paymasters and engineers. It is evident that men of these three classes can enter private business in their lines at any time on leaving the service, while regular naval officers cannot. Everybody knows that if we annex Hawaii there must necessarily be a large increase in our navy, and it need there fore excite no surprise that naval circles are generally 'for annexation, and that this fruitful subject of partisan debate joined to the equally fruitful subject of the navy generally makes the prospects of Mr. Meyer's favorite bill very doubt ful. Just the same I must express my private opinion that this nation has as much use for a big offensive navy as a peaceful giant has for a stuffed club. J. H. Beadle. The w Popular Low Prig? Qrocji E ars the DeoDie who make the prices and save you those good hard-earned dollars of yours. Look over th following Drices. We have them just as advertised. 100 lb sack finest and best Granulated Sugar ..$4 SO 23 lbs finest and best Granulated Sugar 1 00 SO lbs N. O. Sugar..... 1 00 1 lb fresh Country ButterT. 7. 15 10 lbs best Rolled Oats 25 7 lbs hard picked Navy Beans 25 1 package best Corn Starch 5 6 lbs lump Starch 25 Large pail Table Syrup 45 Large pail Jelly 40 6 bars Ivorv SoaD 25 7 bars Kirk's White Rnssian Soap 25 6 cases iiranapa s onaer ooap Corles' Self Rising Buckwheat Flour, package Package good cleaned Rolled Oats 7 lbs pure New York Buckwheat Flour New Orleans Molasses, per gallon 40 8 cans Eagle Milk.... 50 2 lbs Butterine 25 6 cans Concentrated Lye 25 5 5 15 California Raisins, per lb 4 packages cleaned Currants 25 5 lbs California Pears 25 4 lbs California Apricots. 25 Finest White Evaporated Apples, per lb 1( California Evaporated Peaches, per lb 10 5 lbs good R.ce 25 2 cans California Table Fruits 25 8 cans California Pie Fruit 25 Best Oyster and Soda Crackers, per lb 4 1 gallon pure Maple Syrup 65 2 packages Scotch Oats 15 Preston's or Pettijoha'a Break fajt .Food 10 2 packages Condensed Mince Meat 15 4 lbs Ginger Snaps. 25 4 cans good Sweet Corn 25 5 cms 3-lb Tomatoes 25 2 lbs Cream Cheese 23 2 lbs New York Cream Cheese 35 London Layer Raisins, per lb 10 White or red Colorado Potatoes, per bushel 65 5 lbs Pearl Barley 25 8 lbs Pitted Plums 25 Pail Hone-y Drip Syrup 60 5 lbs California Prunes 25 2 sacks Table Salt a COFFEE 1 lb select Golden Rio Coffee 1 lb Mocha and Java Coffee Arbuckles', Lion, McLauglin's, 4X Jersey, Mokaska, Gold Band, per package MEAT AND LARD No. 1 Sugar Cured Hams, per lb. Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per lb California Hams, per lb Side Salt Meat, per lb Nice Sweet White Lard, per lb 8 lbs Armour's White Table Lard Boneless Ham, per lb 25 HO 22 5 25 10 FLOUR FLOUR We are selling all brands of Flour at very low prices; have one good grade at $1.25 per 100 lbs. Ooade packed and delivered to depot free. Write for complete price Hat ana order blanks, THE STAB tiitOlKK Tel. 252. J. S. SPROAT 112 E&s-TSigih 1845 A RECORD OF FIFTY YEARS. 1895 -YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO., 346 and 848 Broadway, Sew York City. JOHN A. JVIcCALL, President. COMMISSIONERS' CERTIFICATE NEW YORK CITY, November 28, 1894. i We, the Insurance Commissioners and Superintendents of the Sates ot Massachusetts, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky. Missouri, Ohio and Texas, pursuant to the invitation of the r-resl. dent of the Company, dated June 1. 1894, do hereby certify that wa have been for the past lour months engaged in a thorough and searching; official investigation into the affairs of the Iew York Life Insurance Company of the City of New Yorlc. We further certify that each Stock and Bond owned, each Collateral Loan, each Bona ana Mortgage Loan made, the Casn and eac'.i Bank Certificate of Deposit, was caraf ully examined, checked and verified: that the Folicv .Loans and Premium Notes were examined and checked with the Keserve on each Policv; that Interest and Rents due and accrued, unreported and de ferred Premiums, were also v'eritied; thai the values of Stocks anl Bonds owned, and Epal Estate owned, were individually and closely scrutinized and conservatively made; that the title to each piece of propercy secured, and Bond and Mortgazo Loan made sinoa the 1891 Aej State Insurance Department Investigation, was exam. nod and found satisfactory. That the Policy Keserve was checked and verified bv the Actuar.es of our several State Insurance De- Eartments, and that every Policy and its Reserve, on tha books of the Company, was checked idividuallv with the Valuation Policy Registers of the Massachusetts Department; that all Sundry Liabilities were also verified: that each debit and credit entry in the Company s books was checked from the date of the said New York State Investigation; and that as a result, on the most conservative basis of valuation, we found the Company possessed ot AiSKI iatia factory to us, amounting to S155.453.423.73, for out per cent And that, after providing for all possible Liabilities. Including lS5,5S,al.O standing Policy Reserve, as por the -Cembined (experience Table of Mortality," with 4 interest, the total ot the same amuuntea to We further certify that, bv the severest test, the JiiJT aCRPLl" to policy-nolders, after providing for every liability, and deducting Agents' Balances, was on June 80, 184, 817,329,064.92. Wltaeea Whereof. We have hereunto subscribed our respective names, City of New York, the day and year above written. GEO. S. MERRILL, Insurance Commissioner, State of Massachusetts, In the BRADFORD K. DL'RFEE, Superintendent of Insur. no t. ouue ui uuiiuk. S. 11. SMDER, Superintendent of Insurance, stats oi jB.auM. BLRY F. DUXCP,! JAS. R. WADB11L, Commissioner of Insurance, state oi iientucKy. Superintendent of Insurance, State of Klisouri. W. M. HAB3, J.0. E. H0LLLSSY0RTH, Superintendent of Insurance, state ot unio. Insurance Con ml sioner, state of iexas. ORTLAND'S CHEAP TEXAS EXCURSIONS. Ortland's next Texas excursioa leaves Topeka via Santa Fe route. January 15. Low round trip rates have been recured for Alvin, Eagle Lake, Matagorda, coun ty, and all points ia Texas. Stop over privileges. Call on or address A. T. S. F. agents or Chas. Ortland, Immigration Agent, Topeka, Kans. Why Experiment? Some persons are always ready to be hum bugged. When you have a good thing, stick to it You know what Osage City Shaft coal is, and you ought to know by this time that the' best of it can be had by placing your orders with us it will not cost you any more to get the best. The Southwestern Fdei, Company, J 634 Kansas avenue. Telephone 193. Save the Pennies By securing one of our banks. 6 interest paid, 7 hen savings amount to $100.00. Cther classes of stock more profitable still. Call ia and see us. Undoubted security. Savings and Loan JQ Association- west sixth. We put on new neckbands on shirts Peerless Stem Laundry,, 113 and 114 West Eighth street. It costs you nothing to consult Chas. Bennett, opthalmio optician, about your eyes. 713 Kansas avenue.

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STATE JOURNAL,, MONDAY EVENING. JANUARY 28, 1895., 7 "to DRESS AMONG SOLONS. Neckties as Telling the Character of the Wearer. SOME OF THE NOTABLE EXAMPLES. J. V. Beckman Appears to b the Berry Wall of the A.eilatre. Dress, of course, ia only one of the unimportant details of a legislator's life. The great questions of vacating certain alleys in Podunk or changing the boun daries of the town of Wildcat or disor ganizing certain school districts in Coy ote county, take too much thought and weighty consideration for them to give much attention to the trifling details of personal adornment or habiliments. But since man is a clothes wearing animal and since legislators are men, garments must be worn and in them are shown certain peculiarities and eccentricities of the individual. Now one of the smallest articles of a man's attire and one which at the same time gives the widest scope far the expression of singular or char acteristic bents of mind, is the necktie. o one has ever pretended to say that it is a necessity. No one has ever dis covered that it kept a man any warmer or thai it isd any raison d'etre except as an adornment. It is because of this peraaps that it expresses better than anything else the taste of a man and re sponds more accurately and quickly to his varying moods. It is impossible to lay down any absolute rules in rsgard to it,' and it would be unfair to draw from general laws tpecitic conclusions, so wherever in thi article general laws are stated it would be injustice to make par ticular deductions. The senate and the house represent different political majorities and it would eeern upon an examination of them that among the Populists the Hue of evolu tion of the tie and the line of political advancement ran in the opposite direc tions, while among Republicans they pointed the same way. So that while the Populist members of the lower house have no't beeu able yet to throw oil the habit of concerning themselves with such petty things as neckties the sen ators are enslaved by no such vain cus tom. For picturesque and varying neck wear, J. V". Beekman is the most con spicuous man in the house. It is a dull monotonous day indeed when the mem ber from Cowley doesn't have on a tie different from the one he wore the day before and the variation may be of the most pronounced kiud, either of color or shapa One day it will be a white lawn bow with blue stitching and the next a Budford cord four-in-hand. For dark days when the gloom needs chasing away by some bright cheerful object, Mr. Beekman culls his large store of ties and puts on a bright cow maddening four-in-hand and wears it with a blue shirt. The only other members of the house who seem to have any marked views on the tie question are those who wear none at alL A few members of the house cling to the old theory that the exposed and naked shank of a bone or washed gold collar button is the chief and most appropriate ornament for the masculine neck, but most members are willing to leave that peculiar tenet to their Popu list brethren in the senate. This doc trine doesn't belong to all Populists, how ever, for those in the house are up to the average, but even a cursory glance at tue senate shows that saould Mr. Beekman, or any other man who has an almost limitless store of ties, be seized wiih a disposition to give them away, he would not have to seek far to find suitable objects for his gener osity among the majority party in that body. There are curious things about ties and tie wearers, and in the general shuf lling around of phenomena in the mate rial world, it ahvays seems to happen that the man with the soiled shirt front comes into conjunction with the narrow est tie. Hunt out the little black bows, the old fashioned lawn string ties, and you will find a man usually belongs to them who dotes on low cut vests and hates laundries. On the other hand the man who but tons hi3 coat closest or whose taste runs more after the four-in-hand or ascot will be found to have the closest acquaint ance with his washerwoman. Character and history and geography, who would suppose they were to be found in a simple bit of cloth encircling a collar? And yet who would think the man with the flowing Windsor was from anywhere but the coyote counties. "Hasn't he a right to; is he any worse for itf do you ask. Certainly not, but does that alter the fact? To turn to history, there is Mr. Grimes of Wichita county, who wear3 a medal as big as a dollar in his tie. It calls to the imagination the weekly "literary," the budding orator, obstacles of speech aud manner perhaps, which were finally overcome, then the contest, the victory, and last of all its glorious emblem. And as for geography again. There is Mr. Cubbison, who wears the cleanest kind of clothes, but who wears a four-in-hand tucked either in his shirt front or to one side under his vest. What discern ing person would have to be told that he came from Kansas City? To be sure Mr. Cubbison has a diamond stud and must necessarily wear his tie that way if he will have a four-in-hand, but why not forget Kansas City, with its oleo and its lotteries long enough to put on a string tie To prove where character is shown there is Campbell, of Stafford, who not infrequently takes his tie and collar off and peaces them on his desk. There is independence, true freedom of spirit The man who was a slave to social usages wouldn't dare to do such a thing. One of the strange things is that bo neat a dresser as Mr. Eckstein, and one who is bo up to snuff on everything, should have developed no distinguishing trait on this subject, and why Harry Bone, of Clark, who draws all the young ladies irresistibly to him is content with a clergyman's black cravat passes all un derstanding. Then there is the member who wears the crocheted article. He is a very do mestic man, and is closely bound by home ties. He is frequently to be seen, and there are a few on the floor of the house whose untamed brawny necks have never felt the restraining and subduing influ ence of a necktie, but happily they are Very few. A SHORT SHARP SHOCK. Hampton Pay the Penalty of Crime in the New York Way. Sing Sing, Jan. 28. David Hampton, the murderer was electrocuted at 11:31) this morning. Hampton's crime was the murder of Mrs. Annette Ahrens, a widow 70 years of age in her apartments in West Fifty fourth street, on the night of December 29, 189a Hampton and his wife at one time boarded with Mrs. Aherns, who owned the building in which she lived. She had accumulated money by renting out roooms, but being of a miserly disposition, she kept most of her money in a cotton bag under the bag. Hampton knew this and one morn ing stole $83 and skipped from the house with, his wife. Mrs. Aureus followed him up and demanded that he return the money. Hampton was heard to say that if the old lady did not stop bothering him he would cut her throat. On December 30, 1892, .Mrs. Ahrens was found in her bedroom with her throat cut from ear to ear. On a wash stand near the bed was a bread knife and a finger stall, which belonged to the murderer. This was all the clue the po lice had to work on. The knife was iden tified as the one Hampton had stolen from a boarding house keeper named Mr a. Josephine Johnson. The morning after the murder Hamp ton went to Mrs. Johnson's house and showed her a roll of bank bills and gold. The money was in a white cotton bag, like the one in which the dead woman kept her money. The next day Hamp ton met Joseph Papsico and told him he would pay his expenses if he would ac company him to Newark. He showed Papsico a roll of bills and the gold. The two men went to Newark where Hampton purchased a complete outfit of clothing. He then disappeared and was arrested on February 16. When the murder was committed Hampton had a sore finger and wore a finger stall on the wounded finger. He was placed on trial for the murder and found guilty and sentenced to be executed last year, but his case was taken to the court of ap peals .When the decision was handed down sustaining the action of the lower court he was again sentenced to die to day. MORE SENSATION. Cold at Denver. Denver, J an. 28. The thermometer ranged from 5 degrees above to 2 degrees below during the 86 hours closing at 6 tk m, today. The Topeka Club the Thorn in the Flesh at the Temperance Meetings. There came near being another trou blesome time at Dr. Tracey's temperance lecture at Hamilton hall Sunday after noon. During his address Dr. Tracey had occasion several times to refer to the Topeka club in uncomplimentary terms, and made the statement, "If I could prove all that 1 know about the Topeka club it would create a sensation that would shake the city from one end to the other, and which would not soon be for gotten." Then Q. Q. Lee, a tinner by trade, who was in the audience arose and said: "Our courts have decided the Topeka club to be a legal and legitimate institu tion and in speaking of it as you do you make yourself liable to arrest for con tempt of court." Dr. Tracey replied that he had no fears, and that after the arrest he would be "found doing business at the old stand." Immediately there were three or four people in the audience and at least one on the platform ready to make talks, but Dr. Tracey declined to hear them, and the meeting was soon closed. This (Monday) evening Dr. Tracy will deliver his celebrated illustrated lecture, "A Reproduction of the World's Fair." Thi3 will include 150 grand transforma tion views; realistic fireworks; electric fountain; a realistic grand balloon ascen sion. Admission, 15 cents; children, 10 cents. THEY NU3IBERED FOUR. The Culprits in Police Conrt This Morning Each Fined Five. There wa3 not much of a docket in po lice court for Monday morning. Alex. Patterson, who was arrested for disturbing the air of Saturday with his spirits, forfeited the $5 he put up for his appearance. A. Suinmerlot, who is an elderly gentleman, and was not vacant Satur day, was find $5, after he had pleaded guilty. Frank Wilson also was intoxicated and admitted it, was fined $5. John Dahlgren, who had a bit of a scrimmage in the Monarch billiard hall Saturday night, was fined $5 for it. QOQOODQOQDQOODQDODQOQQQDQOQnOOQDQOOOQLjQOQOQOQIJOHOnOtJQ Sid Q o o o 0 3 o o o o o o o

3 El 2 O 22X28 Bath Towel 25c. Warren M. Crosby CO. (Successors to Wiggin, Crosby Co.) 70-INCH Cream Damask WOKTll OOe. For 75c- SEMI-ANNUAL OPENING OF FINE LINENS. On tomorrow and during the balance of the week we will hold our SPRING LINEN OPENING for which we have been preparing for several wreeks; the result of which is we have the largest and cheapest stock of Linens ever owned by us, and expect the largest sale ever experienced by any house in Topeka. 56 in. Bleaeh Daihask, .50 62 in. .65 65 in. .75 68 in. LOO 72 in. 14 1.00 72 in. 1.25 72 in. 1.50 90 in. 1.50 90 ia. 2.25 8-4 Bleached Damask WITHOUT DRESSING For Si. 00 W0ETH $1.25 Table Sets, $5, $6, $7.50, $8, $9, $11, $12, $16, $19.89. Tray Cloths, 19c, 25c, 35c, 50c up to $1.00. Lunch Cloths, 98c, $1.25, $1.62 up to $3.00. 56 in. Cream Damask, .39 60 in. .50 64 in. u .58 65 in. .65 66 in. .75 70 in. .75 72 in. M .98 72 in. 1.25 C El O o G G c o D O G G O E3 O O; o OOOOOOOOOGOGOOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOODOOOOOOODOOmJOOaOOOO 5-8 Napkins, 75c, $1.00, S1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $2.00, $2.50, $3.00. Look at our 10c, 12 ic, 19c Towels. Better ones for 25 and 35c. 3-4 Napkins, $2.00, $2.25, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $5.00. DOYLIES, 5c, 10c, 12c, 15c, 20c, 25c. SCARFS, 50, 63, 75c, $1, $1.25, $1.38 Red Damask, 25c, 29c, 39c, 50c, 75c. $I.OO Bleached Damask For 79c. We Continue Our Muslin Underwear Sale Another Week. c C, HE GRABS A BURGLAR. Mr. John Brier Severely Cut By a House Breaker. THE THIEF MARES HIS ESCAPE. Another liobbcry Committed The Robberies Were by a Colored 3Lan. A particularly bold attempt was made to rob the residence of John Brier at No. 415 West Sixth street, last evening. Mr. Brier ia of the firm of Scott Brier. The house is a fine, large one and would be looked upon with considerable satisfaction by a member of the light fingered, soft footed fraternity. Mr. Brier and his young grandson, Edd e, had been at church and were re turning at 9 o'clock or a little later. No one stays in the house besides them but one servant, a young colored woman who was at the time visiting her folks, so the house was entirely deserted. When Mr. Brier opened the front door he thought he heard a noise in the mid dle hallway, beyond the reception room. A gas jet was burning low, and Mr. Brier thought the person was the colored girl, so he called to her. There was no response, and Mr. Brier advanced. lie suddenly found himself in front of a young colored man, with a particularly large pistol which he took both hands to raise. lie covered Mr. Brier and called on him to "Stop." Mr. Brier is quite an old man, within a very few months of his sixty-eighth birth day, but he has the courage of youth yet in him. toMo, you don't," he said, and knocking aside the revolver with his arm he grab bed the fellow's throat. The thief then clubbed his revolver and the struggle lasted several minutes and was so confused that Mr. Brier does not know how many blows were struck. The fellow managed to get away finally. He went through the kitchen and picked up a pair of skates which he threw at the window in the back door breaking out a glass. The key was in the door, however, and he unlocked it and ran out lie ran over the cistern and fell to the Topeka avenue sidewalk, got up and ran south on Topeka avenue. The boy Eddie who is only fifteen years of age, was too frightened to help his grandfather, and it is supposed he did the screaming. People were passing on their way home from church, and a large clowd was attracted by the cries, and many went into the yard. One man who came from the south says the thief ran directly by him, but that he supposed he was running to a fire alarm box, and did not try to stop him. To enter the house the fellow had broken out a south window, unfastened the catch and cut out the screen, lie had evidently ransacked the house, using a candle for a light, for there were tallow drippings in nearly every room in the house. The only thing miss ing this morning, however, was Eddie a bank which contained $1.80. Mr. Brier was not very badly hurt but Ia quite sore today. lie has cuts on both sides of his face, one long one Btarting from behind the right ear and extending forward under the jaw. His right hand has a bad cut I ou the back and his left shoulder is bad- i l i in. i j i i l iy uruiseu. aid ueaa is aisu uruisuu ou top a good deal. All of it was done with the pistol. He was able to be at his office this morning. ANOTHER ROBBERY. Van Buren street, was also burglarized last night by probably the same thief that entered Mr. Brier's house. Mr. Klingamau and his wife and child were at a neighbor's house, not fifty feet away, and had locked their own house. It was not later than 8 o'clock last even ing. When they returned there was a lamp burning in the house although they had left it dark. Investigation revealed that the back window had been pried up and the house entered. The thief succeeded in getting the baby's bank with $8.79 in it and Mrs. Klingaman's purse containing $5 05. The purse was lying on a dresser near a box of jewelry but none of the jewelry was taken. Thieve Take $14 From W. F. Klinga man's House Early Last Etenin. The home of W. F. Klingaman, at 507 SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. The rabbit hunter ia satisfied with this weather. There ia but one case of diphtheria in the city. The street commissioner is having plenty to do now. Probate Judge Wood ia at his desk again after a brief illness. Councilman Fulton has opened up his campaign for justice of the peace. J. J. Hitt was acquainted with Blind Boone, the colored pianist, when he was a child. Speaker Lobdell spoke at the Union Temperance meeting at the First M. E. church yesterday. S. E. Kuykendall has sold to Charles Sebring 160 acres of laud three miles north of Kossville for $4,000. Sleigh bells were out in profusion yes terday and there was skating wherever the snow was sufficiently off the ice. Prof. J. G. Princell of- Chicago will preach at the Swedish Bethel church to morrow evening, between Fifth and Sixth streets on Polk. There has been an unusual lull in the marriage license business in probate court of late. No licenses were issued for five days last week. From the Mississippi river to Kansas City the Atchison road ia being put in nrst-class condition. Stone culverts are being put in and all the bridges are being supplied with stone abutments. Dr. Tracy will give a "Ben Hur" en tertainment at the Grand opera house to morrow evening. The recitation of the chariot race scene will be one of the features. The Dr. will refrain from Curfew Shall Not King Tonight. Don't Forset it. When you order Osage City shaft coal from us, you get it. It might pay you to give ua a trial order. The Southwestern Fuel Companv, 634 Kansas avenue. Telephone 193. SOCIAL-FAVOR Approves of our writing papers, which combine eloquence with perfect taste. Stamped with the new Louis XV Monograms, nothing could be more dainty and exquisite. ...BROS. 7 I I K&rjS&S Avenu. Reception and Wedding Invitations. WE'VE STOeK THE RIGHT S PT BY appealing to the pocketbook of the economical rand it's just right in point of time. We're cleaning out our winter stock at phenomenally low prices for such excellent qualities. Our ever increasing success and popularity is due to the fact that we are i i -i j r i j i j i J J Ut.ii i. i.1 1 CA mlc.. Keenly alive in tne interest or our patrons, uur Dusiness gross uay vy aay proving usyoua uuuui mm iub yeupie uuuuueutc is uuk uuo placed, and that they appreciate our honest efforts to undersell any and all. M PWTALOOr SALE mMM Men's all-Wool Trousers, made of very fine Cassimeres, Worsteds, Cheviots, Tweeds, that sold at $3.50 to $6, of which we have but few of a lot, clos ing out price, Several hundred pairs of fin est custom-made trousers, made from finest fabrics, worth as high as $3 a pair. January Trousers sale price, i MEN S FINE Suits, Overcoats, Ulsters, $12.50, $15, $13, $20 kinds, of which there are broken lines closing out price, IO.OO Bee our window. Youth Suits Heavily overstocked; Boys' all-wool Suits, latest cut, that sold at $3, $10, $12; also Overcoats of finest $10 and $12 grades, closing out price S5 All very finest Suits, Over coats and Ulsters, that sold at $15 to $30, closing season price, Si Mothers, Call and See A Great Bargain in Children's Overcoats Ages 8 to 6 years all this sea son's stylet sold from $5 to $3; closing season price is $3.50; also Knee Pant Suits of finest all-wool, all size?; sold at $5 to $7.50, closing season price, M $350 CRACK-A-JACK PWTS Wool, double knees, doa ble seams, riveted buttons, elastio waistband, $1 value, our sale price, 50c Mothers Friend Waists 40c Waists only 25a 60c Waists only 89a 75o Waists only 59a $1 Waists only 19a Flannel Waists- Fi lend, sold at $1 price -Finest ?rade Mothers' and $1.50, closing out 79c Cnderwear Fine lines of fine Shirts and Drawers, sold at l, closing out price 48c Unlaundrled White Shirt, our famous 75c rj f Cue Shirts, double shoulders, double back, Ur closing out price fcJP kJ l Ba&s Up Its Advertisement With a 7 Years' Record of Honest Dealing. 709 Kansas iTenne. 1UERBACK CUETTEL Hat Bargain One lot of fine $3 Stiff Bats until sold pries will be 79c WINTER CAPES, HALF PRICE, NOTHING RESERVED

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STATE JOURNAL,, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1895 c-ff fsj t-'-r Wt K-fF v4t -7 v-a Tj--st 625 Kansas Ave. The New Tariff Bill Has had a demoralizing effect on the price of Carpets. The New Bill Goes into effect on the first of next month and as our spring purchases have been made under the New Tariff They will be marked to sell on the same basis. We have a large stock on hand that must be reduced to make room for the new stock, and in order to do it we have made remarkable cuts in the prices of these goods. Our Customers Will Receive the Benefit. To give you an idea of the opportunity you have to buy Carpets Cheaper than they were ever of fered to this public be fore, we will quote some of the sale prices as compared with the regular prices. Tapestry Brussels Car pets that were 75c, for 62 in PER 2 YARD Tapestry Brussels, were 90c, for lrf PER 72 YARD that Body Brussels, all the standard makes, always sold Jot 11.00, $1.10, $1.15 and 31.25, for and $I.IO YARD All wool extra superior two-ply Ingrain, that were oe, toi 67 n PER 2 YARD We also have a line of Matting Samples that we will close out at ioc Each. They are one yard square and make very nice mats. This sale will last only until we have reduced our stock sufficient to accommo date our large spring pur chases. You can well afford to buy your carpets now, even if you are not quite ready for them. H. H. MILLS SON. 1 CLOAKS 4& a- So Have To Be, We Are Stuck. bjS., nt T-'-JI T-i TA-n "r.l -.7 rr--f "r" IX SOCiETY CIRCLES. Recent Social Events in Topeka and Vicinity. GENERAL EOTES OF SOCIETY. Personal Item or Interest Aboat To pekaPeosle and Visitors in Town. A bob sleigoing party was given by several young men Saturday evening, complimentary to Miss Helen Alger of Boston, who is the guest .of her sister, Mrs. Edwin Scott. After a delightfui ride in the frosty air, the party were served with supper at the home of Mrs. C. J. Brown. Those in the party were Mr. Jonn C. Waters, Miss Helen Alger; Mr. EI McBride, Miss Helen Moon; Mr. George Rust, Miss Franc Liitletield; Mr. Cliff Histed, Miss Mabel Johnson; Mr. "Walter Burgess, Miss Eina Best; Mr. Horace King, Miss Julia Street; Mr. Frank Edson, Miss Carrie Clarkson. The Pansy club will meet with Miss' Henrietta Thompson next Tuesday after noon. This popular club will make a reading a feature of each meeting. Mrs. Dr. A W. Carson of Dover, who has been spending a week with the family of J. J. Hitt, returned home today. Mr. and Mrs. John R. Davis of Savan nah, Ga., left for home today via Atlanta. Mrs. G. P. Ashton is entertaining Miss Madeline Treatrail this week. Miss Trestrail was the guest of Mrs. G. B. Palmer last week. Miss Gus.iie Fuller goes to Ottawa to morrow to attend the marriage of her friend Miss Blanche B-'air to Mr. John W. Bright. Miss Margaret Casey is entertaining Miss Abbie Sullivan of Des Moines.Iowa. Miss Ada Coukle is entertaining Miss Miller of Olatlie. "Illustrated Songs" under the direc tion of Miss Myra Williams will be a fea ture of the "Railroad Excursion" bv the ladies of Grace Cathedral at Library hall Wednesday evening Mis3 Ruth fhilhppi of Omaha, .Ne braska, is visiting the family of Mr. Homer Boughton, 1108 Topeka avenue. 1 he .Ladies Aid society of Grace Ca thedral will give "The Railroad Excur aioa" at Library hall Wednesday even ing, January 30. Part second of the en tertainment will be "Illustrated Songs.' under the direction of Miss Myra Wil liams. Admission 35 cents. Mrs. V. A Morgan and daughter Miss Anna, went home Saturday, to be pres ent at the old settlers reunion which will be held at Coitonwood Falls tomorrow, on which occasion Miss Anna will recite. The ladies are looking forward with pleasant anticipation to the Topeka Club's regular evenings at home. Mr. and Mrs. John Powell are enter taining Miss Bessie lladen of Kansas City. Miss Laura d'Isay who has been the guest of her cousin, has returned to her home in Kansas city. A valuable prize is offered to the par ties miking the bast ti.ne on the "Rail road Excursion" at Library hall Wednes day night. Thirty-five cents takes you to any part of the compass ednesday night at Li brary hall. Xo passes. Mr. George Stevens of New York, ar rived yesterday. Several "bob parties" are on the tapis for tonight. ACTORS ARE FOit DEBS. They Denounce Jurtije Woods for Con demning Debs to Prison. Boston, Mass., Jan. 23. At a meeting of the Actors' union last night, the ac tion of United States Judge vVood of Chicago, in sentencing Eugene Debs for contempt, was condemned. More Than 93,009,000 Passengers Have been carried by the Lake Shore Michigan Southern railway during the past twenty-live years. Very few were able to find any fault. The rest were de lighted. One of them recently said; "For several years past I have made from two to four trips each month betweeu Chicago and New York, and am almost always accompanied by from one to four others. I believe (as 1 em informed by your conductors) that I have made more trips between Chicago and New York than aoy other one man during the past few years. I have always traveled over your road in prefer ereuce to any other, because by careful comparison with others 1 have found not only that the road itself is far superior, bat the table and tne service are in every respect the best of any road 1 have ever traveled on. The conductors, stewards, waiters and porters I have found to be uniformly courteous and attentive, ad ding greatly to the comfort of those who are obliged to travel as much as 1 am." Trains leave Chicago as follows: 8 a. m., 10:30 a. m., 3:25 p. m., 5:30 p. m., 8:45 p. m., daily, and 11:30 p. in. d-iily except Sunday. B. P. Humphrey, T. P. A., 727 Main street, Kansas City, Mo., C, K. Were Never Cheap. I-" V-T"-1 Ir-- A. v-3 rV--, fc- NO RIGHT TO HAVE WORK. Labor Has Xo Right to Claim Employ ment, Says an Illinois Lawyer. Springfield, 111., Jan. 28. At the ses sion of the State Bar association, C. A Evving of Decatur delivered a special address on "Compulsory Arbitration." He said: "Experience had shown that compulsory arbitration was not an effec tive remedy in the solving of labor trou bles. The verdict of an arbitration board, if enforced against the will of one of the parties, leads to hostility and hatred on the part of the vanquished, nut only toward the victor, but toward the body that gave the victory and per haps toward the government which cre ated that body. What is known as "com pulsory arbitration" involves a violation of personal rights. "In my judgement," said Mr. Evving, "there is no room for the proposition that the laborer has a right to certain special opportunity to labor and that his em ployer cannot deprive him of it Sub stantially that propositioa was advanced in the United States senate during the Homestead disturbance. It was there maintained that the laborer had a right to employment; that he had a right to live; that he had tha rights to the means of living. This propositioa is a general one and means nothing unless it is understood to mean that the owner of a particular plant has no right to discharge the men in hi employ; that they have a right to a livelihood at his hands. That proposi tion, in my judgmeut, has no foundation in sound reason or natural justice." REVOLUTION SPREADING. The Revolution in Colombia is Growing; in Strength and Latitude. New York, Jan. 28 A special to the World dated Colon, Colombia, Jan. 2T, says: The revolution iu the department of Canea is reported to be spreading north. Dr. Mendoza, the editor of a liberal newspaper in Panama, has been ar rested here. The United States consul here has had a conference with the local authorities. French and Italian warships are ex pected. AN ELECTRIC SNOW PLOW Huns Amuck on a Street in Haverhill, Mass. Haverhill, Mass., Jan. 28. As an electric snow plow was coming down a Main street hill late last night the brake chain broke and the motorman lost all control of the car. Five emploves working the plow jumped for their lives, and one of them, John Marsh, sustained severe injuries. I he plow left the rails at the foot of the hill and dashed through a plate trlass window of a drug store, wrecking that part of the building. NORTH TOi. iuii.X. Items of Interest from the North Side of tne rfiver. The revival at the Baptist church con tinues. Miss Anna Campbell is visiting her cousins for a few days at Hortou. Miss Annie Nystrom has returned from a four months' visit in Colorado. Mrs. D. J. Hathaway is entertaining Mrs. VV. N. Hathaway of Lafayetie, Col. A number of persons were baptised yesterday morning at the Baptist CMiirch. B. F. Goodman is recovering from a severe attack of erysipelas, and is able to walk about. 'lhe street force is entitled to credit for the promptness with which they removed the snow from the crossings. Mrs. S. T. Cromwell, of Menoken, is spending a week with her sou and daughter, at Hi) West Gordon street. Owing to the cold weather the attend ance at the North Side churches yes er day was not as large as it ought to nave been. John Ogee, wife and daughter, left Saturday for Purcell, Oklahoma, in re sponse to a telegram announcing the dangerous illness of .wr. Long, formerly of Silver Lake township, Mrs. Ogee's father. R. M. Wasson, the artist, brother of W. H. Wasson, has moved from 2j9 Madison street, on the south side, to 110 West Gordon street. A pound social will be given tomor row evening by the Ladies Benevolent society, for the benefit of the poor and needy on the north Bide. The social will be held at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Ryder, corner of Gordon and Cen tral avenue. All are invited to attend, bringing with them a pound of some thing to help sustain life. You do not want any Missouri coal when you can get for the same money Osage City or Frontenac coal. Our Frontenac egg coal is the best in the market for domestic uses. Tar fiiF"TIT W 1.-CT C U XT PrST. f ViWD i ll 1 11 m 1' 634 Kansas avenue. Telephone 19a HETTY GREEN'S AFFAIR. Say That Lawyer Choate Used to Keep Company With Her. KewTobk, Jan. 28. Hetty Green, the $4o,0u0,000 heiress, was ordered out of Referee Anderson's office today for tak ing too much. However, she talked so effectively as to secure a postponement of the case against her father's execu tors Joseph H. Choate was the objt-ct of her wrath today, and she said: "Choate is the daddy of all this worry of me, and it makes me laugh. I can remember when I was a girl ue used to c ill upon me and Kitty Wolfe (Catharine Loril lard Wolfe), who endowed one of the handsomest galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and is now dead. He used to sing us the same song, and we got together every Friday and compared notes and laughed and laughed." Mrs. Green here buried her face in her muff and laughed heartily. "We called him Cupid, then," she went on, "but now I call him Cherub, because he is a reformer and his wings are sprout ing. "Just think of that man running me in the manner he has of late times. You noticed the way in which he defamed poor Mr. Sage in public last week. Did you ever notice a yellow dog tied under a red wagon? The dog trots along until the dust puts him out of sight, and that's me. They are trying to lose me, but they can't da it. J have beaten Hunting ton in live big suits, and will beat these people who are conspiring against me. Mr. Choate pokes fun at my clothes. Look at thoml "Let mo show you," exclaimed Mrs. Green. "Here is an article from a Chi cago paper. It tells the truth," and she read from a newspaper, saying that while she might be crazy, like Hamlet, she knew a hawk from a handsaw, which nobody will deny. JUST THEIR WAY. Revolution in South America the People's Way of Holding Political Meetings. New York, Jan. 281 Merchants in this city who do business in the South American republic of Colombia, are not particularly alarmed t what may be the consequence of the present reported rev olution there. Mr. Charles R Flint of the importing house of Flint Co. of this city in speak ing of the matter said: "I do not think the trouble will affect trade with this country very much. It may to some extent but not very greatly. It is their way of changing poli tics, their idea of holding political meetings. South American countries are inclined to hold our flag in awe, especial ly since the Benham incident in Rio harbor. Our agents have telegraphed us from Buenaventura on the west coast, that there is trouble, but no definite idea of its extent could be given. "The three greatest American inter ests in Colombia are the Pan-American railway which is owned nominally by the Pan-American railway company but real ly now belongs to capitalists in France, stock not being held to any great extent in this city; the Carthagena railway which was recently built and connects the JNIagdalena river with Carthagena and is owned by Boston capitalists rep resented by Jefferson Coolidge Co. of this city and the street railway of Bogota, which is owned by capitalists in this city, represented by McMartin and Tunis G. Bergen. "Lieutenant Henry Lemly, the United States army officer who is reported to be at the head of the military academy and at Bogota was assistant sergeant-at-arms of the international American conference held in Washington and there became acquainted with Carlos Silva who was one of the Colombia representatives. Clima Coldoref, the Colombia consul in this city was also a member of the Pan American congress. Consul Caldoran could not be seen iu this city today in reference to the matter." WAR RUMORS. This Time it is Between France and San Domingo. New York, Jan. 28. A special to the Worid from Puerto Plata, San Domingo, dated January 18, says: Trouble seems imminent between France and the Domingo republic. A Freuch man-of-war appeared off San Domingo City a few days ago and began to take soundings. Soon after she de parted and reappeared. The latter was boarded by a ilot who was informed that his services were not needed and when he asked the commander what his intentions were, he was told none of his business. The San Domingo authorities had a dispute with a bang a few years ago and eventually took ?oJ.000 from it. lhe bank was backed by French capital and the backer laid their case before the French government. France demanded that the money be restored to the bank, but diplomatic negotiations seem to have resulted in nothing. lhe World correspondent learns upon trustworihv authoritv that the French ultimatum has already been sent in and that it demands the return of the $6j,0j0 and $200,0. 0 as indemnity. President liareaux, it is said, has de clared that he has no money to pay it with. Despatches for the British admiral at Jamaica passed this port today probably asking him to look after British inter ests in cae of bombardment. NEW CORPORATIONS. Companies Organized To do Business iu Kansas Granted Charter. The following charters have been filed with the secretary of state: The charter of the Prospero Land Cattle company has been filed. Its prin cipal officers are at Wichita and it has a capital of $35,000. The place of busi ness is Kiowa and adjoining counties. Directors C IL Brooks, J. E. Oldham, Iowa Watson, C. P. Fullingtoa, of Wich ita; and D. K. Watson of Columbus,Ohio. Santa Fe to Build. It is sail that the Missouri Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, and the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific will soon organize a company to build a line from Atchison, Kan., to St. Joseph, Mo. These roads now use the Kansas City, St Joseph Council Bluffs line between those points, which is the only road that was not washed out by the lata overflow of the Missouri river. Do You Cet It? You think you do, but you don't. Do they keep it? Well, we do Osage City shaft coaL The Southwestern Fuel Compans, 634 Kansas avenue. Telephone 193- A GROUP AN ILLEGANT T0IME. Mourners at a Funeral Use Grave Crosses as Shelalahs. Mount. Vernon, N. Y., Jan. 28. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. William Trodre died of pneumonia last Thursday and interment was arranged later in the cemetery of holy Sepuvher, which be longs to the church of the Blessed Sac rament at New Kocelle. lhe hearse and seven carriages con taining the family and friends reached the cemetery all right. Mr. I rode owns a plot in the cemetery, and the grave was ordered dug there. Gravedigger Patrick Fox, in carrying out the instructions, struck a large rock near the surface and as time was short, he dug a grave in the public part of the cemetery, thinking at some other oppor tunity when not so hurried to blast out the rock in Trode's plot and re-inter the infant. The funeral party arrived at the grave, when a discussion arose between the mourners and the grave digger as to the correct location of the grave. A word war ensued, which resulted in the grave digger taking one of the strips of wood used in supporting a coffin over the empty grave, and hitting one of the mourners, John Callahan, who had be come very boisterous. This was a signal for a general attack of Fox. The men of the party promptly armed themselves with the wood crosses with which several of the surrounding graves were marked, and a gen eral fight ensued. This was 'only stopped when the drivers of the funeral coaches and several passers-by inter fered. Grave digger Fox was badly hurt and several others are bruised. The body was finally buried with the assistance of the mourners, the party re turning to Mount Yernon. ENGLAND'S COLD CLIMATE. People Freezing to Death and Out Door Operations Stopped. London, Jan. 28. There was a heavy snow storm during the nieht throughout England and severe cold weather pre vails. The snow drifts are six feet deep in many plnces. In Lincolnshire there have been cases of "persons frozen to death The railroads and country roads in the north of Scotland are blocked with snow, and out door work in many parts of Eng land has been stopped. MAY HOLD BOTH. A Homesteader May Also Pre-empt a Quarter Section of Publ'c Land. Washington, Jan. 28.r The judicial determination of the question whether a person who has rpceivfd the full number of acres of land allowed under the pre emption law can also enter an Addi tional 160 Acres under the homestead law, or vice versa, is sought in a com munication forwarded bvthp secretary of the interior to the attorney general recommending that suit be insti tuted to cancel patents for lands near Dnrango, Colo., issued to James Cash. Cash removed from land of his own in the same state when he took up his residence on his preemption claim in the Durnngo land district and the pre emption entry is held to be illegal. The question is one of great import ance in the administration of land laws and involves the stability of titles ac quired under these laws. The settled rule of the department is that both en tries can be made, the onlv restriction being that both shall not, be consum mated at the same time. WHITELAW REID BETTER. The Kditor's Health Much Improved by His Journey. New York. Jan. 28. According to the latest advices Whitelaw Re id.after spend ing some time in Morocco and Algerit, reached Cairo on the dav after New Year's. His health has been so much benefited by his short stay in North Africa that the bronchial and asthmatic troubles have all disappeared and he la now in as good health as he has been in at any time during the last five years. Mr. Reid and party were to start up the Nile about the middle of January, and expected to b absent about thirty five davs. On their return they have planned to take another desert trip from Ismailia to Mount rMnia, and go around in Palestine. Mr. Reid does not expect to return to New York before May or June. rrions Trouble in Colombia. Colon, Colombia, Jan. 2a It is re ported here that serious troubles have occurred in the interior. Troops have been sent to Cauca, the largest of the de Dartments of Colombia. Two political arrests have taken place here. Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 Kans. Ava, OF HATS. METAL RAILROAD TIES. The Agricultural Department Urges Their Use to Save the Forests. Washington, Jan. 28. A protest against the denudation of forests in ord er to secure material for railroad ties is made in a report issued by the agricul tural department on the use of metal railroad ties and preservative processes and metal tie plates for wooden ties. It shows that about 20 per cent of the railroad mileage of the world outside of the United States and Canada is laid on metal. Although process in this direction in this country has been slow, the reports say, by the waning of forests jsupplies, and as the railroad companies be. 'an more and more to assume a permanent and less speculative character, it can be a question of only a short time when this saving of forest supplies will be forced upon them, insuring greater efficiency and final economy. Throuffhout the world, it is shown metal ties have been successfully applied and are in successful use under all condi tions of climate, traffic and track. The use of metal tie plates has spread to an enor mous extent during the past few years, owing to improvements effected in econ omy and efficiency of track for a very low first cost. Even in many parts of Africa steel ties are extensively used, and in India nearly 50 per cent of the mile age is laid with metal track. In the United States little practical progress in metal ties is reported. The proportion of track laid with metal ties to the total length of railway throughout the world has increased from 7 per cent in 1890 to 10 per cent in 1894. DEATH 0 F W. T. B0RT 0 N. An Emporia Man Accidentally Kills iv i nisei f. Emporia, Jan. 28. Friday evening a little after 8 o'clock Mr. W. T. Borton was in the drug store of Charles hyder, his brother-in-law. He was explaining to a couple of friends how a few nights ago he had been awakened by men who claimed to be looking for a purchase of. seed wheat, but whom he believed to be burglars. "The next time," he said, I will be ready for them," and he drew out a self-acting revolver. While carefully displaying the revolver and explaining to his friends how he would use it, in some way the revolver went off, just aa the muzzle swung in front of his breast. "Boys, 1 have accidentally shot myself," he cried, as he fell, and those were his last words, as the bullet had penetrated the breast and death came four minutes after the fatal shot. The news was at once taken to his wife, mother and sister, who are almost crazed by the terrible tidings. The ver dict of the coroner's jury was in accord ance with the facts above stated, that death was the result of accidental shoot ing. Mr Borton was wealthy and one of the best known young men in Lyon county. He had been engaged in the real estate business quite extensively, was a good business man, and had an unusually promising future before him. He was 32 years of age and leaves a wife and young son. The funeral took place Sunday after noon from the residence of his mother, Mrs. E. Borton, 617 Union street PATT1 VERY SICK. She Has Cancelled All Her Engagement In Germany. London, Jan; 28. A dispatch to the Standard from Vienna says that Mme. Patti became chilled when leaving a concert in that city and has since kept to her bed. She is suffering with pharyngeal catarrh. Her engagements at Leipsic ana uresaen nave seen canceuea. ALTGELD TO HAVE IT. He IT ill lie Offered the Presidency of the Sew Labor Union. St. Loos, Jan. 28. The statement is made by one of the most prominent labor leaders in the United States that the po sition as president of the Universal Union, which is now in process of or ganization, would be tendered to Gover nor John P. Altgeld of Illinois, within the next few weeks. ROCK ISLAND. Home Seekers' Excursion. On February 14. we will sell round trip tickets for one first class fare plus f 2.00 to points in Kansas, Oklahoma and In dian Territory, Texas, Arkansas. Louisi ana, South Missouri and New Mexico. Tickets good returning in 20 days with stop over privileges. For further par ticulars, tickets, etc., call on or address IL O. Gabvkt, City Ticket Agt. 601 Kansas ave. Wasson Cromwell, North Topeka P. O, Also Depot, First and Kansas ava. 32 calls up the Peerless I Wilber, W. P. A., Chicago.

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STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENTING, JANUARY 28, 1895. BENTS SITUATIONS I REAL ESTATE! AUCTION SALES! OTHER CLASSIFIED ADS. The Topeka State Joitrsal gT 3ZiZ. every day it is printed, to give a local )rcul tiou more than double that of any other Touk ka paper, and by far More than mil O' laiie Com blued. This makes this paper the cheapest, as well as the best daily MJ mg medium in Topeka. the classified advertise aieuts below costing but FITE CENTS A LINE, T20 cents a line for a week; 60 cent by tar City 'circulation everyday exceeds 5,000 total circulation over 8.0). mwm Sworn detailed statements of circulation pre seated on apptieation. -fc-CaU and see any afternoon between 4 ana 6. the hand-iomest. fastest, most perfect Piece uflpriming machinery in Kansas a nsorenaw lug press, which prmts from two to three conv ive t 8-page papers a second. SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Are yea In need of work? If so, yon are at liberty to use these columns for assistance la that direction. While this notice appears the fcTAT JouB.f ax. will publish free on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas peopie. ail notices of "Situations Wanted," not exceeding Ave lines, or thirty-flve words, in length. Provided that all advertisements of this nature are handed in previous t ten o'clock Saturday morning; also on Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, all advertising of this class handed la by tan e'eiock Wednesday morning. No advertisements of this nature to be started except on Saturdays and Wednesdays. No ob ligation is incurred on the part of the advertis er. No worthy and needy man or woman need hesitate to take advantage of this offer. No on in business or having employment is expected to take advantage of it, bus all others invited t avail themseives freely. WANTED H EL P. "TANTED Good white girl about 18. gener- al work; small family, 315 west 12th st. "WANTED Two kitchen girls, white. South- east comer 8th and Quincy. "IV'.aXTED A middle aged woman as house keeper at CIS Western ave. T ANTED Situation at house work, by a white girl; good references. Inquire at 155 Arter ave. Oakland. VAXTED- By a girl, work in a small family or place to leara dress making. 1M north Jefferson St. VAMUD-By a girl a place to work for 1oard and go to school. Address yoo Cjuiney st. AXr ANTED Situation in Job oilice in Topeka to learn artistic printing, by a young man with a year's experience in news oftiee. Ad dress box 27, Kichiand, Kan. T ANTED Two solicitors pav salary and commission. .N. B. Campbell, 704 Kan sas ave. ANTED Situation "by competent young lady stenographer. Address 'Stenogra pher' this oilice. "Vr ANTED l ocal and district apent for the Mutual Benefit Lite lnsurauce Co. of Newark. N.il. l or particulars write to C. Courtnev. Stale Agent, Massachusetts building, Kansas City, Mo. VyANTED Travelers Faithful gentleman or !dy to travel rppresentinir established liuuse. Salary $6o monthly- and expenses, with Increase. Enclose reference and seil-addressed stamped envelope. The Dominion Co.. Chioago. "T?" AN TED Active salesmen to handle our line, no peddling. Salary $73 per month, find expenses paid to all. Goods entirely new. Apply quickly, P. O. Box 5308, Boston, Mass. rANTED Salesman; salary from start; permanent place. Brown Bros. C'-o., Nur serymen, Chicago, ill. WANTED M !SC ELL AN EOUS. T ANTED Loans in any amount on city property and farms. Rates low. 1. L. yetzer, 519 Kansas ave., Dudley's qank. T ANTED Application for loans oa good city or farm property. Kates six to seven per cent interest according to size of loan. MUo Norton, aseut, 110 west Sixth ave., Topa kn, Kans. WANTED To move, STOKE or ship housa hold goods, freight, etc. SAI.V ic SKIS.VK8, 13 E. 6th St. MERCHANTS' TRANS Ell STORAGE CO. FQ3 RENT-ROOMS. IOR RENT Three unfurnished rooms suita ble for light house keeping. Inquire 616 Jackson St. F03 SALE-MISCELLANEOUS. 17"OPt SALE 10 acres of No. 1 Kaw bottom land, 2 miles west of Kausas ave. All cul tivated and fenced. Small dwelling, good well, fruit and shade trees, $1,400. Time on ran- a bargain. Also 10 acres 2 miles southeast from ur oflice. Dwelling and stable. W.u make a good fruit or dairy farm. Clear, $1,300, easy terms. W. J. Long, 700 Kansas ave. lOR SALE OR EXCHANGE Over 200 im proved city properties, all clear of incum brance. W ill seii on installments or will trade for farms in east half of Kansas, W. J. Long, 700 Kansas ave.. Topeka, Kansas. XT OR SALE a very desirable residence prop erty containing eight rooms with all mod ern conveniences, l' j lots of ground, perma nent walks, nice shade, good barn. First class location in the western part of the city witlnu cue half block of car line and very cheap. Pos session given at once. For particulars inquire .f J. S. Collins Co., 115 west Sixth st,. for the liext hve days. IOR SALE Farm at barsan, joo acres near Dover. 75 acres in cultivation rhard. story and half hnusH hii on;..T i;ri. r .uuwi vi viio piduc, must ue soiu. j-w c.rtn uiiu uiiiance to suit purchaser. 1 have for rent 20 acres with iuuiu uuuss, statue, wetl and spring water ;.oodland$o. 'lhos. G. Shillinglaw. real es tate and rental agent, 117 east 5th st. Topeka, Kansas. T, OR SALE Two good cows and one pedl jand gr Jersey bull, at 2o Forest ave., oak- P?.rrlLEvf)Br TKADE-House and lot for Aiuiu, &uorey jans. F0.,1',??.81161 rshtubs 65 cents. Shelden 702 Kansas ave. pOR SALE OR TRADE-Pieasant home at sacnhce. 8U7 Harrison st. W. H. Griffith. POR SALE-A gentle Shetland pony. L R. Hazen, 6i Kansas ave. Wm. MISCELLANEOUS. TTOTraTSe AuggTneXrTvewfora good lumber wagon and double harness or wagon and good work horse. 234 Western ave. fpOLKT A choice furnished room with or ,T,-T uo,ut boaril. 'wo blocks from state house, jijo an Buren st. rpo TRADE House and lot clear and other acreslw'tIn1'.f neoes,sary. for equity in 40 or w cres within eveu miles of eitv. Give leal de Bcnptmn and 1ml particulars to S. G. B. is of- IOR TRADE J room house and Slots one block from W ashburn college grounds f o? fame kind of property or farm near Guthria i X. Address "47'f Journal oflice uturie, O. "TV"OTlCE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCFHV Be it known that my petition is' on file the office of the probate court of Shawnee coun ty. Kansas, asking for a permit to sell Inu.vt eating liquors a,t Hotel TUroojj, 4th and Kansas avenue, Topeka. Kansas. Hearing of said tition is set Tor. the 21st day of February jsT at 10 o cloek a. m. SV. JlKssiuT Toneka, Kjitti. January 22. wai. RE Ali estate or rental property Benedict Co., 601 Kansas ave. IT" OR RENT Blacksmith and wagon shop do ing good business the year round. Address J. W. liouse. Pery, Kan. TRAVELLING salesman wanter to take our manufactured Jeans, Cassimeres, Cotton ad es, and Dress goods as a side line. South Fhila. Woolen Co., Box 1341, Phda Pa. MEN AND WOMEN to work at home. I pay $S to J16 per week for making crayon portraits; new patented method; anyone who can read or write can do the work at home, in spare time, day or evening. Send your address, send work at once, H. A. GRIPP, Uernian Artist, Tyrone, Pa. 1 B. STELLA KIRBY. 600 Kansas ave. Office hours 10 to li a.m., 2 to 4 p. m. 'Phone 123. PIANO TUNING A. J. King. 505 Kansas av. Idas charge of pianos at Bethany college. .1ENERAL repair shop 410 east 4th st. Re l pair firearms, locks and clocks. Powder, shot ana sporting goods lor sate. JUST found the place where you can get yojr furniture repaired and aiso pasked for ship meuL Cleaning and laying earpju a spociaU Ail kinds of general joooing work done on siurs notice. Worn guaranteed 0 a good mechaaii No. MS't Kansas avenue. MARPENTEtt and repair work. Address, Wm. lieedy, box 82J. North Topeka. Kan. HARNESS AND REPAIR WOltK. HarneM and shoe shop; patens leatnar polish far buggy tops; repairs in all kinds 01 leataar goods; shoes hail soled forty cenU. Jl. b llj.i derson. West Sixth street. MONEY TO LOAN. M ONEY to loan, long or short time. March uo., vub iausas ave. MONEY LOANED on horses, pianos, ho.isa hold goods and all kinds of chattel securi ties. L. Biscoe, o-i Kansas avenue, room A. EQUITY LOAN CO. loans money at musical instruments, jewelry, etc.. and on personal security. 713 Kansas ave. PARTIES wishing a safe and paying invest ment for their money, call at ouue on a. ii. Wood 61 Co., &H Kansas ave. INARMS FOit SALE Parties wishing to buy farm or city property will do well to consult Robert Dietrich, llti East 8th st. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. JTA C. BARNES, M. D. Oflice 732 Kan. Ave. Residence 13th and Clay. Oilice hours a. m. to 11 a. in., and 3 p. in. to 5 p. 111. Harrison telephones both residence and office. D R.MARY E. STEWART. 634 Harrison street. Consulting hours 10 a. m to 2 p. in. HENRY W. KOBY, M. D. Jl 1? (M IVO V XorsKA, Kansas. f SE. SHELDON, M.D.. SURGE UK AJJB DISSASBS OP WOMBX, With private hospital. Oihca: No. 723 Kansas Ave. L. A. RYDER, M. D-. OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon street ani Central ave.. North Topeka. Pnona 214. Uses the Brmkerholf system of Rectal treat ment, a successful and paimess treatment for piles, hstuia, nsiiure, ulceration, etc. ARCHITECT. JOSEPH MARSHALL, Architect and Superintendent. 1004 KANSAS AVENUE. MUSIC. GEO H. HUGHES, teacher of banjo. Banjos, strings and music Xor sale. U22 North Har rison st. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. C. M. Welch. E. G. Wix-sox. WELCH WILSON. XTTOBNKY3 AT LAW, 623 Kansas Avenue. Commercial Law and Land Litigation. De faulted Mortgages attended to. Practice in all Sate and Federal Courts. Official statement of the financial condition of the Bank of Topeka, At Topeka, state of Kansas, at the close of business on the loth day of January, 1895. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts on personal and collateral securitv 740,253 94 Loans on real estate 58,292 20 Overdrafts 3,373 21 Real estate 140.120 00 F:pense account 834 50 Other stocks and bonds at their pres ent cash market vaiue si.r.n 77 Demand loans 60.000 00 Cearing house items 9.113 49 Currency... 51.000 00 Gold coin.... 120.000 0!) Silver coin 10,100 00 Fractional currency 11153 Due from other banks, sight ex change 70,783 65 Total $1,334,934 78 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $3"i0,000 00 Surplus fund on hand 100,000 00 UuJivhled profits... 14,082 83 Interest 1,005 13 Exchange 140,55 Dividend declared but not paid 25 00 Individual deposits 744,973 54 Banks' and bankers' deposit 63,779 14 Demand certificates 60.388 59 Total $1,334,994 78 STATE OF KANSAS. I COVSTX OF SHAWNKE. f SS 1. J. W. Thurston, cashier of said bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. So help lne God. J. W. Thurhtov. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before1 me, this 22nd day of January, 1895. F.W. Freeman, seal Notary public. Commission expires on the 23rd day of Decem ber, lfiyo. Correct: Attest: A. "W. Knowxes, Henry Taylor, H. 12. Rowley. Directors. To John 7. Breidkxthal, Bank commissioner. Topeka, Kansas. There's m Difference In Dollars. Claude N. Bennett says he went to the mint in the City of Mexico and ask ed to have a United States silver dollar weighed and compared with a Mexican standard dollar. The Mexican dollar went down in the balance, and the United States went up, showing; the Mexican coin to contain more silver. A little later Bennett went into a restau rant. The dinner cost I. He paid with a United States silver dollar. The res taurant cashier took hie United States coin and handed him back a Mexican dollar. Although the Mexican dollar was heavier than that from the United States, it was worth only half as much. In Texas at the raliway eating houses a meal costs 50 cents. Cross the border into'Mexico, and you are charged $1 for the same kind of meal, though if you tender a United States dollar in payment you will get back a Mexican dollar. The price is just the same prao tically. It does look as if the able finan ciers of the civilized nations had mud dled things somehow when of two mine made of the same metal the heavier one is worth only half as much as the light er one. Mercantile and Financial Times. First published January 9, 1895, In to T peka btate Journal. OFFICIAL NOTICE. Office or I Costmissioeb or Elections, V Tofeka, Kan.. Jan. 2, WSo. I, Frank Herald, Commissioner of Elections of the city of Topeka, Shawnee eounty. Kansas, do hereby in conformity to section three, of aa act of the legis.ature entitled, "An act to pro vide for ami to regulate the registration of vot ers; to regulate elections, and to provide for the appointment of a Commissioner of Elections in. Cities of the first class, approved March 2nd, l&ss, do proclaim and deciare that the bound aries of all the wards as made by the council thereof, and the division of said wards into precincts as made by the Board of Supervisor of Elections, are as follows, to-witi First Ward. AH north of the Kansas river. FIRST PRECIHCT. All east of Kansas avenue. SECOND PBECIITCT. AU west of Kansas avenuo and: sooth of Gor don street. third precinct. Ail west of Kansas avenue and north of Gor don street. RMioad Ward. All south of the Kansas river, east of Kansas avenue and north of Eighth street, except Mets kei' H third addition. FIRST PRECIIfCT. East of Kansas avenue, west of alley between Monroe and Madison and north of Fourth street. SECOND PRECINCT; East of alley between Monroe and Madison streets, west of Washington street, and north of fourth street THIRD PRECINCT. East of Washington street and north of Fourth street. FOURTH PRECINCT. South of Fourth street, east of Washington street, and north of Eighth avenue, except Meu ker's third addition. Fifth precinct. South of Fourth street, west of Washington street, north of Eighth street, and east of Kan sas avenue. Third Ward. All south of Eighth avenue, except Metsker's third addition; north of Eleventh street to Washington avenue, thenoe north of Tenth street and the north line of ttie northeast quar ter seotion 6, township 12. range IS, north line of Douthitt tract and Euclid avenue. FIRST PRECIXCT. An that part of said ward east of Kansas avenue. SECOND PRECINCT. All that part of said ward vest of Kansas avenue and east of Tyler street. THIRD PRECINCT, All that part of said ward west of Tyler street and north of Twelfth street. FOURTH PRECINCT. All that part of said ward west of Tyler street and south of Twelfth street. Fourth Ward. All west of Kansas avenue, north of Eighth avenue and south of Kansas river.. FIRST PRECINCT. West of Kansas avenue, north of Eighth ave nue, east of Tyler street, and south of Fifth street. SECOND PRECINCT. West of Kansas avenue, north of Fifth street and east of Tyler street. THIRD PRECINCT. West of Tyler street and east of Western avenue. FOURTH PBEOINCX. All west of Western avenue. Fifth Ward. All south of the south line of the Third ward, including Metsker's third addition. FIRST PRECINCT. All of said ward sonth of Seventeenth street, (or Kuolid avenue.) SECOND PRECINCT. All of said ward north of .Seventeenth street, (or Euclid avenue), including Metsker's third addition. FRANK HERALD, Commissioner of Elections. SCHOOL 0F DANCING 5 CLASS for ladles and gentlemen MONDAY evenings, 8 p. m. Social par ties FRIDAY even ings. M-r- Invitations required. Mr. Mrs. J. H.Wetherell, Masonio Building. 3 Jackson Street. HE SAW THE JOKE. The Remarkable Quickness of an Eng lish Traveler. Lord Fitznoodle, the second cousin of Lord Dundreary, had, with his valet, the estimable James Yellow plush, come to America and gone West in the hope of bajrg-ing' a few grizzly bears and buffaloes. America and Americans seemed to the noble lord "beastly vulgar, doncher know,! and this opinion he frankly told these Americans whom he favored with his lordly society. Nevertheless, fate compelled him to accept as a traveling companion a rampant American. They were traveling1 on horseback across the prairies, and one day, after a vain search for the settlement in which they were to spend the night, they came to a cross road which boasted of a charcoal blacksmith's hut and a sign post. The sign read: "Mugg's corner, four miles on the right-hand road. If you can't read ask the blacksmith." Thereat the American laughed long and loud but the Englishman re mained silent and pensive. "I say, my good fellow," he expostu lated, "I cavvn't see the joke, doncher know. What is it?" "If you don't see it," replied the American, "I shall not tell you. But I will tell you what I will do. If you see it before we leave the inn to-morrow I'll pay the bills." All through the rest of the day and evening the Englishman remained silent. He was working the brain of five centuries of culture. When the American retired to his straw mat tress there had as yet dawned no gleam of intelligence on the English man's face. But in the middle of the night the former was awakened by a loud knock on hia door accompanied by a hearty laugh. "I say, me good man," came the voice, "it is a good joke, doncher know. Suppose the blacksmith should be out?" The Stat Jouksais Want and Mis cellaaeous columns reach eaoh working day in the week more than twice as many Topeka people as can be reached hrough any other paper. This ii a faot Rock Island Playing Cards. No. 601 Kans. Ave. Topeka Steal 625 Jackson street. Laundry. E who would form his mind, settle hia judgment and create for his old age a fund of agreea ble recollections should travel a great deal. M. Cyprian Du rand, architect of M- presi of the cathedral dent of the council of church war dens, father, and even grandfather of a family, and decorated with the Ro man medal of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great, because of the un alterable purity of his morals and the precepts that he practiced, had made but' one voyage, one only, yet he swore that never again would he be persuaded to make another. That voyage had lasted but one day and night But the provision of mem ories collected by M. Durand in that very brief while was sufficient to last him a lifetime. For, truly, it is not the lot of everyone to become the hero of an adventure, and it is an ad venture, even an extraordinary ad venture, that befell the worthy archi tect in the short space of time neces sary to arrive at Paris, to descend at a hotel, to go to bed and to sleep there, to be awakened by a commis saire of police and dragged to the station house under the serious accusation of broken marital vows. He, the good Durand, who swore only by the 11,000 virgins! The model Durand, for forty years past the vir tuous husband of the most virtuous of wives, and the most influential mem ber and contributor to the Order of Saint Anthony the chaste! Pooh! Nonsense! an idle tale, my friend, go, tell it to another! Pardon me, not a bit of it, a proces verbal, flagrante delictu, made out by the commissaire himself in the pres ence of witnesses and of the outraged husband. A proces-verbal that bore upon it textually and specifically as follows: "and in that aforesaid chamber we found, side by side, feigning to sleep, Mme. Virginie Cardinal and M. Cyprian Durand." It was all on account of M. Fortune, Gustave Adolph Cardinal, whom we are compelled to designate, all the same, as the "unfortunate" Cardinal, since he was the husband of the too susceptible Virginie Cardinal, for he had really had for some time past some reason to suspect the fidelity of hia pretty better half. In order to clear up these suspi cions, he put in practice the eternal feint the only one, apparently that never grows gray with age, and set off on a pretended voyage of two or three days. He strapped his embraced his wife, departed. valise, tenderly and regretfully Virginie, leaning from the win dow, saluted with a sigh of satisfaction the fiacre bearing away her husband; then, hot footed, put on her hat, gloves and mantle, and ran to carry the happy news to a young lawyer's clerk, very strong in sentiment, and exercising in idle moments the functions of third assistant in a bailiff's office. "No, not at your house, my friend," said he. "Your Cardinal might re turn, which would surely be awk ward, nor at my house either, be causa of the neighbors. I know, however, a snug little hostelry in the Rui Montmartre where the chops are per- I "FROM WHENCE CAME THIS JEZEBEL?" feet and where no one would ever dream of looking for us. Come, let us start." And in a very few hours Virginie had the long-dreamed-of pleasure of dining in a private cabinet, then of passing the evening at the Folies Bergere, where the honest Cardinal had always refused to take her be cause of the "ladies" one met there. It was close upon 12 o'clock when, the representation over, her eyes shining, her cheeks like roses, and tenderly leaning upon the arm of the third assistant, she took her way to the little hostelry, whose chops were equalled, but not excelled by its dis cretion. Meanwhile, the suspicious Cardinal had dismissed his fiacre and taken up his post, en sentinel, at the corner of the street, his eyes obstinately fixed on the door of hia house. As I told you, it was only a few min utes when madame appeared, all fresh and radiant in a beautiful toilette that she had purchased but a day or two before, on the anniversary of their wedding day. Seeing his wife so charminsr and enticing, cardinal had a vertigo of anger, and was ready to rung himself there ana then upon his faithless better half, only fear of scandal restrained him. He buried himself in a doorway of a neighboring house and remained there, glued against the walL Poor Cardinal, coming out from his concealment, followed her at a dis tance, with the concentrated atten CMS) 1 tl tion of a hunter pursuing a trace, j Moreover, keeping her so well in view that when, at 1 o'clock in the morning, accompanied by the magis trate of the quarter, he rang at the door of the little Montmartre hostelry, he was absolutely certain of his mis fortune. Yet, amazing to say, when, at last the third assistant decided to obey the summons of the commissaire of police ani had opened the door, and the magistrate had rummaged the bed, in and under it, inspected all the nooks and corners and scrutinized even the mysteries of the cabinet du toilette, he found not the slightest trace of the third assistant's charm ing companion. Monsignor Cardinal, it seems to me, -ought to have been exceedingly well pleased that the innocence of his bet ter half had been proved in this brilliant and unexpectedly triumphant manner; but strange contradiction of the human heart.his first surprise past, felt himself angered and humiliated,, and resumed his rummaging around, even into the drawers of the ward robe and commode. "I am sure of my facts," he stub bornly responded to the inquiring gaze of his police companions and the confident smile on the lips of the third assistant. "I am sure of my facts, and we. must look everywhere." No evidence resulting, however, they were about to lift the siege. The magistrate had already given the signal of departure, but just at this moment the idea came to him to turn the handle of a door to one side, com municating with the adjoining cham ber, and from whence escaped the continuous sound of a robust snoring. The handle turned, and the door opened without the smallest difficulty. Followed by the husband, the com missaire entered the room, where the arrival of two men and a lantern at this hour of the night naturally awakened M. Durand, at the moment when, deliciously plunged in a ser aphic dream, traversed by the wings of archangels, he was accompanying the celestial choir with all the power of his most convincing snore. And there, the truth must be told, beside the pious sleeper, the worthy Fortune Cardinal refound his lost Virginie. "You will rise at -once and follow me, monsieur," said the commissaire severely to the bishop's architect, for here and now I charge you with unbecoming conduct with Madame Virginie Cardinal, wife of this gentle man present." "Madame Cardinal! what are you talking about?" demanded M. Cyp rian Durand, brusquely torn from the beatitudes of his dream, and stretch ing eyes misty with sleep and blink ing weakly under the sudden erup tion of light. "What Madame Car dinal are you talking about?" "She who is lying beside you," re turned, the commissaire, with, re proachful dignity. The president of the church war- 1 dens turned his head quickly and saw for the first time the charming j features of the pretty Virginie, who, j red now as a cardinal flower, mod estly lowered her eyes. I "From whence comes this jezebel, and how came she in my bed?" shout ed the worthy architect, bewildered with fright and bounding from his covers. But he cried out and pro tested all for nothing, and swore vainly that he knew absolutely noth ing of a single word of the adventure; that he had just arrived at Paris, and was the father and grandfather of a family. Nothing, availed him. The delit was flagrant, consequently un deniable. That which had happened was very easily explained to all save the com missaire. Mme. Cardinal and the third assistant.hearing the rap on the door and the ominous "In the name oi the law," had hastily, and for a while unsuccessfully sought a place of con cealment. Over in the corner was a door. The poor woman turned the handle swiftly, it yielded, she entered and found herself in blackness, troubled only by the snorings ol a heavy sleeper. She stood still for a second, irresolute and listening, but when there resounded in the room she had left the voice of her husband she lost her head, advanced by feel ing till she encountered a bed, and softly hid under the covers, so softly that the sleeper never an instant in terrupted his snoring. Of course the outraged husband knew the innocence of the good M. Durand, but that was of no conse quence, he held to hi3 vengeance, and fast tohkn till he could plead for adi vorce.in spite'of the desparing supplt cations of the unhappy architect, w he was shame crushed,and who dared not for his life return to M because of his wife, his bi shop, and his virtuous brothers of the order of Saint An thony, the chaste. What a scandal! What an uproar! What would they say at M when the terrible news reached there, and how was it all to end? But one thing is certain, if Cyprian Durand ever does return to his home, it will be,a s stated at the outset, with memories to last him a lifetime and the firm determination, no matter what happens, never to journey from M again for so much as an hour. Tho "Why" ot Colors. The theory has been advanced that the conspicuous colors developed in various species of snakes, insects and animals are nature's method of ad vertising the fact that such are poi sonous, either in the bite or sting which they inflict, or that the flesh is unpalatable if used for food. 'The be lievers in this theory cite the won derful display of colors in the eclaza wasp, the coral snake, the horridium fish and the Gila monster. "Going to swear off after the holi days, old boy?" "No, don't swear such a bad example for the children!" lcotud set relief from m most horrible blood i disease, I bad spent hundreds of ollat i TRYING various remedies and physicians, it HUD9VI wuiuu uiu ui? uy kuuo, jut HriKer 1 nails came off. and mv hair came out. laa.irfnff I IUV y.1 lUVkl J U.1U, HWJk M HOT SPRINGS Hoping- to be cured by this celebrated treat I ment, bat very soon became disgusted, and decided to TRY s. '4 Tbe effect was f truly wonderful. tT i I com roe need to recover aitertag mm nm tm In if tne Erst Dot-! tie, and by the time I bad taken twelve bot- ties 1 was entirely cored cared oj a. a. p. i I when the world-renowned Hot Springs bad 1 laiiea. w M. s. jlajomis, enreveport, jl. Oar Book on tht Mmn and im TnaisMBt aulM tn ta say sddrMS. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, da. SAITA rs E03TZ. TRAINS TO RIDS OS. la Effect oa aad afte-r See. 16, 1394. WESTBOUND. BEFORE t4 Leave Arrive Leave Trains. Kansas Topeka. Topeka. City. Wichita Tex. Express- 113 8:15 am 10:33 am 10:40 am Den. Tex. Lim 6 9:00 am 11:00 am 11:03 am California Lim.. 8 1:50 pm 8:45 pm 8:50 pm Kansas City plug...! 109 4:30 pm 6:40 nm Night Express.. 7 9 :'JO pm 11:35 pm 11:45 pm M. A. B. Acc. Ex. Sunday... 153 7:30 am Between Kansas City and lopeka only. EASTBOUND. Arrive Topeka. leave Topeka. Arrive Kansas City. Trains. K. C. Local Columbian Lim. Chicago Lim.... Night Ex Atlantic Ezd 114 1:50 pint 2:00 pm 2:15 pm 2:40 pru 5:45 pm1 6:05 m 3:25 am 8:33 am 4:00 am' 4:10 am 4:20 pm 5:00 pm 8:00 pm 5:45 am 6:10 am 9:40 am 4 6 8 2 Kansas City piug Man. B. Acc Ex. (Sunday.. 110 i:S0 am 154 9:00 pnv Between Kansas City and Topeka only. ATCHISON AND ST. JOSEFH. Troin. v Leave Leave Arrive Arams. o. gL Joo AtcUls.n xopeka.1 Day Express.... 105 8:00 am 9:00 am 10:55 am Night Exp 107 8:05 pm 9:10 pm 11:15 pm Leave Arrive Arrive Topeka. Atchis'n St. Joe. Morning Exp... 108 4:15 am 6:15 am 7:20 am Evening Exp 100 6:09 pm 7:65 pm 8:55 pm Buy railroad, Pullman or steamship tickets of ROWLEY BROS., Agents Santa Fe route, southeast corner Sixtk and Kansas avenue. Topeka. Or W. C. Garvky, Agent at Depot. Or Arnold Sour, Agents, North Tcpeks. BOCK ISLAI3 H0UT2. In effect en and after Deo. 2, 1894. WESTBOUND. Leave Trains. No. Kansas Arrive Leave City. Topeka. Topeka. Through Fast express B s 9:00 pm 11:10 pm 11:20 pm Chicago. Texas Express A I 10:50am 12:55pm 1 :05 pm Southwestern LvS.J. Express A 13 9:35 am, 12:50 pm Southwest Night LvS.J. I Express A 25 7:40 pmll :05 pm 11:20pm EASTBOUND. Arrive" Trains. No. Arrive Leave Kansiu Topeka. Topeka. City. Solid Limited Vestibule Ex press A 2 8:15 pm 8:20 pm 5:25pm St. Joseph and Eastern Ex- ArR.J. press A 14 8:25pm 6:50pm Express and MaU via St. Ar 8. J. Joseph C 4 5:35am 6:40am 9:25am Express and Mail via Kan- tas City A 26 5:85am 5:40 am 7:45am A Daily. B Daily, except Saturday. C Daily, except Monday. For tickets, sleeping-car berths and general Information, call at City Ticket office. 601 Kan sas avenue, corner Sixth street, telephone 430): at Passenger Station, corner First street and Kansas avenue, (telephone 384); or at Postomue, North Topeka, (telephone 364). H. O. GARTET. City Passenger Agent. UIIS3 PACIFIC. Change of Time. To Take Effect Sunday January 6, 1895. WESTBOUND. Leaves Trains. No. Kansas Leaves Arrives City. Topeka Denver. Denver ft Pacific Vestibuled Express 7 7:30 pm 9:40pm 2:25 pm 1 9:80 am 11:20 am 4:09 am EASTBOUND. Arrives Trains. No. Leaves Leaves Kansas Denver. Topeka. City. Eastern Vesti buled Express, Limited- 8 8:20pm 2:50pm 6:00 pm 2 12.50 pmi 6:37 am 8:50 am Daily, except Sunpay. All others daily. Train No. 8, solid vestibule to Chicago, dining ear, free chair cars, etc.. ruuninir over the Chicago Alton from Kansas City, has through sleeper for St. Louis via Missouri Faciflc. Train No. 7. solid vestibule for Denver, mak- ing direct connection for Pacific coast, through 'uilinan car for Salt Lake; through colonist car to Portland, etc.. etc. City ticket office, 525 Kansas avenue. MISSOURI PACIFIC. Train. NO L"v's Topeka Topeka and Fort Scott ac commodation. 285 10:00 a. m. AVsTopek. Topeka and Fort Soott ac- omiaoaation..... 286 61SO p. m. X. T. 8. W. EAST. Leave Tepexa. 4Tkal??a 7:99 m-m Arrive Leavenworth. .11:00 a.m WEST. Leave Leavenworth, via Oskaloosa.. 4:80 p.m Arrive Topeka 120 pan Aooommodation, daily ex. Sunday. VINEWOOD HIGHLAND PARK Ii. B Trains will leave Quincy Street station we3 days for Vine wood as follows: 6:45.11:51, 3:07, 5:41. Trains wiu leave Vlnewood for Quincy straa; at 7:57. 1:02, 4:19, 6:50. NATIONAL STABLES, First-class Livery. Boarding a speciality Tslapioas 43. GILC2SIST E203, 70S Jaci3oa street. Pr jprietoii.

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s. I STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, JAN GARY 28, 1S9 Rt 433 Kansas R venue i i Is still in active operation. If you have not attended this sale you certainly should do so, for there is many a bargain awaiting you. Remember we are giving 1-3 off on every article in stock. NOTHING RESERVED DURING THIS SALE. Do not think of making a purchase in the Clothing line anywhere until you have seen the special bargains that we have to offer you. This SALE WILL CONTINUE FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY. Do not delay if in need of anything in our line, but call at once. 433 Kansas Avenue. AN ACTHESS' PLUCK. Carrie Turner Fainted in the Third Act Saturday Wight. ALTE0UG3 ILL WITH THE GRIPPE She Curries on. Her Part in the Play, Staymj in Bed IV lien ot on the It may not have been directly apparent to the large audience that saw her Satur day night, but Miss Turner was really too Bick to play her great part of lira. East lake chapel in "The Crust of Society." Two weeks ago in Illinois she was taken with the grippe and was so sick at Bloomington that the doctor who attend ed her positively forbade her to go on the stage at all, but she did and played her part and the doctor respectfully dropped her case, with the remark that if she really intended to commit suicide he would no longer endeavor to keep her from it. All d7 Saturday when 9he was not on the stage she was in bed. It wa3 the first place she went when she arrived in Topeka, and she left it again to go to the train that took her to Kansas City yes terday afternoon. There was no exposed neck and shoul ders for her in the piece Saturday night, and she wore wraps through both of the performances. "I took my wrap off once in the after noon," she said, 4,to show the ladies ray dress, but I had to have it put on again immediately." It was with difficulty that she suc ceeded in getting through the third act in the evening, and when the curtain went down she dropped exhausted. She was carried to her dressing room and laid on a sofa. Restoratives were ap plied, but it was several minutes before she opened her eyes and rallied suffi ciently to go on with the part. She got through the fourth act only with the greatest effort, and once she thought she was going to faint Along with her ability she has pluck and lots of it. She intends to keep on playing. "This is the sickest I ever was," she said, "but I don't propose to give up." At her room in the afternoon llr. Ormonde asked her if she would be well enough to play that night. The sick woman smiled faintly and held out her hnnd. "Have I ever failed to play?" she KSked, and Mr. Ormonde admitted that Bhe never had. Besides being a sure enough actress of unusual ability, Miss Turner is sur rounded herself with talented artists. Edgar L. Davenport has enough of his family talent in him to be superb. He is a brother of Fannie Davenport. The audience was delighted with his por trayal of Oliver 8t. Aubyn. Miss Turner plays the "Crust of Soci ety" for the lust time in Kansas City Wednesday night. This company is her own, and she has been Droducinsr the plav by agreement with John Stetson, who owns it, and under whom she form erly starred in it. On Thursday night she will produce for the first time a new play by Sutton Vane. Mr. Vane has endeavored to g.ve to the world a society drama called "Un der Compulsion," and Miss Turner will produce it at the Coatea under the man agement of Wm. Calder, who also owns "The 5pan of Life," which played here Friday night Most of the company will stay with her. Mr. Davenport, however, did not like the part offered him and will go to Philadelphia to take a leading part in a new production that Jacob Litt, owner of "In Old Kentucky," will soon put on. "I hope to have a company of my own on the road next year," said Mr, Daven port, "I have been working tnr it tor u ior nr Awarded Highest Honors World Fair. CREAM MOST PERFECT MADE. A ptiTe Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. IMiNi wmmm nearly fifteen years and now I am about ready." Mi's 8 Turner is Mrs. John Mack, and her husband is an Albany N. Y., b-ink-er. She is young, handsome, pleasant and talented, and has been playing for about ten years. This is her second sea son with her own company, and her first appearance in Topeka. Mr. Davenport say a hia sister, the fa mous Fanny, who is now playing Sar dou's Gismondi in New York, will bring it west next year. But Topeka will hardly get it A New York pper says of it, that it is the most elaborate produc tion ever staged in this country, and that there are less than twenty stages in America that can accommodate it 'PEERLESS COKIXXE." She Will Be Here Saturday Ira "Hendrick Hudson"-The "Green Goods Mm" Friday. The paper in on the bill boards an nouncing that "Peerless Corinne" will be at tne Grand on next Saturday afternoon and night, the 2nd, and a good many people are saying "Ah," with rapture in it. Corinne herself has been criticised severely, perhaps, but certain it is that she has the reputation of carrying with her. people who are good enough to be enjoyed and make you laugh. There will be comedians, impersonators, pretty girls and good music, dancing and marches. "Hendrick Hudson'-" is a spec tacular production and surrounds the early settlement of New York by the Dutch. On Friday night "The Greangoods Man" will be at the Grand. It is a farce comedy and tells the story how a farmer with hair in his whiskers answers the greengoodi man's circular, goes to New York and gets swindled. If you think of taking a few thousands of stock in "greengoods" it may be well to see this play first The son and namesake of J. K. Em mett, the great "Fritz," will be at the Grand Monday night, the 4th, in the comedy drama "Fritz in a Mad House." The piece is said to be very funny and ia highly spoken of. IT WASN'T THE BEST. Criticisms of "The Girl I Eeft Behind Me," were All Right. The State Joursal dramatic reporter was differed from considerably in his criticisms of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" company. He takes great pleasure in announcing on the word of members of three different djamanc organizations that the company was "No. 3," and that none of the original characters are with it Mr. Davenport and Mr. Ormonde, of the "Crust of Society" company, said it was a Gustave Frohman company, using some of Charles Frohman's old pa per, and that all or nearly all of the ac tors are from the New York schools of acting, and have not had a great deal of real stage experience. The company plays the Ninth street theater in Kansas City, whicu is consid ered the third on the list there, and ia a "popular price" (5D cent) house. It is pretty safe to bank on what the State Journal tells you about plays and play ers. WITH SONG AND SPEECH. The Kansas Day Celebration Takes Place Tomorrow Evening. The fourth annual banquet of the Kansas Day club will be held at tue Copeland tomorrow evening. Provisions have been made fo 175 guests, and the indications point to the most successful of the events which c elebrate. the birth day of Kansas. The president, P. P. Campbell of Pitts burg, will make a short addresa, and Charles M. Sheldon of Burlingame re sponds to the toast "Kansas The rest of the programme is as fol lows: Song "Life's Vision" 1 lie Clarion Quartette, (lakpr nnirorsVrv I "Why Should Kansas Have a iay?'' Widiam (J. Hook. Leaven north. "College Men in Politics" M. J. St.ckel. Baker universir.v! Son-i The Coyote CiUu, Laruecl. "llie Kansas Parenthesis" B "Preserving the Fruits B. Turtle, Cmy Cenier. A. W. Dana, Topeka. Smt.r "Tho Mill" TheCarions, Baker" university I "Kansas Kedeemers" n H. Madison." Do'die'City. "W iiy I am not a Popu.ist" B. B. McCall. Baker university. "The F.rst Tarty and the Partv of the Second Tart" 11. M. Pickler. Smith Cen.er. Son? Coyote Club, Lamed. Toasts by John Kandolplu Pittsburg, and Z. T. Armstrong, Arkwn.as City, whose sub jects h.tve not yel been given. Soug "lhe Vacant chair"' 'i'be Carious, Baker university. V hat wi 1 Hapi;en U hen the Populist Party Comes Into Power?" T. A. McXeai," ''topeka! If you want to be governed by a gov ernment, test., you can gee one on the Fronteaac coal by calling at our offica The showing ia equal to any so-called semi-anthracite, and the Frontenao can be delivered for about one-half the price. Give it a trial. For sale only by The Southwestern Fuel Co. 634 Kansas avenue. Telephone 193. TO WIDEN TUE STREET. People in South Topeka Want the Street Made as Wide as Other Streets. The people living in South Topeka want Seventeenth street widened from the fairgrounds east to Kansas avenue. The street is only half the width of the other streets in the city. The council is in doubt whether or not it has authority to widen the street, as the land on the north is not in the city limits, so the city would have no right to condemn the property. A resolution vill probably be introduced in the coun cil and then the necessary action taken before the board of county commission ers. FORTY-TWO POKER ROOMS. Is It True That the "Kedeemers of Kansas" Are Patronizing Them William Higgins, whose friends de light in calling him Bill, thinks the Cu bison gambling bill may have just the opposite effect from what is intended. T never gamble," he told a Journal reporter Sunday afternoon at the Cope laud, "txcept occasionally to bat on a horse race or election, but I think the bill is most too severe, and may have just the opposite effect from what is intended. Juries as a rule are reluctant enough to send a man to the penitentiary who de serves to go there, without sending oyer the road a man who has tolerated a quiet poker game or possibly a crap game. in his building. I detest hypocrisy, and it seems strange to me that the members of the legislature should vote for a bill like this one and then help to patrou.za the forty-two poker rooms which I under stand are running in Topeka." Mr. Higgins told the reporter where some of these places were and five of them were not a great ways off. Tnere i3 a gamblers' lobby in Topeka wording day and night to defeat anti gambling legislation. Mr. Cubbison's bill passed the house early in the session and will no doubt pass the senate, as the latter body sitting as a committee of the whole, adopted it section by section late Saturday afternoon. The bill is without exception the most stringent one ever enacted agaiasi any of the so-called "popular evils It make) the keeping or operating of a gamLling house or poker-room not a misdemeanor but a felony along with manslaughter, forgery, burglary and arson. The punislviuent provided is not less than one year or more than hve years m the state I i i t i ptjuiiemiai v ai uaru laoor. "Bill" Buchan of Kansas City, re presents, it is asserted, the legal end of the gambling and. lottery lobby, and the remaining members are not only repre sentative Kansas City but Wichita men. Tne efforts of this lobby to defeat legislation hostile to their profession will probably be unavailing. Even were a few members disposed to suc cumb to their "seductive influences," they have not the nerve necessary to fight the measures in question. This fact alone prevents several members from voting against the measure who are honest in the belief that a term in the penitentiary is excessive for the offense. Senator Sterne of Topeka is one of those who, while voting in favor of the bill, says "A county jail sentence rigidly enforced would have just aa wholesome results. I fear the bill may become inoperative by virtue of its own over-stringency.' So anxious was tue senate to avoia any appearance of tampering with the bill that an B amendment to correct a clerical error was rejected, as it would send the bill back to the house. The error occurred iu line five of section four, and says "any officer of the property county," instead of "proper county. A comparison of the original bill with the printed bill showed that this was not as might be imagined, a typographical error, but was written so in the manuscript. Judge Dennison and other lawyers in the senate said ihis error wou;d not invalidate or in any way endanger the law. THE REMfcNYI CONCERT. Popular Prices The Chart Opens St Kellam'ii Tody. Hamilton hall is fast becoming the most popular amusement hall in this city Besides the Hetneuyi concert Marshall's band will give their annual concert in this hall. Musicians say the accoustic properties of the hall are magnificent, and there are plenty of comfortable chairs. Chart opened for the Remenyi concert this morning at Kellam's and it has been a rush all day for reserved seats. The reason for this is that Rem enyi has never played to popular prices before in Topeka, and he will, no doubt, have the largest audience he has ever played to in this city. The hall is ample to accommodate an immense audi enca Remenyi is acknowledged to be among the finest violinists in the world, and his company is better than ever before. The newly-installed state officers and their wives will attend in a body. A large circle of reserved seats will be re served on the stage for them. PASTORS FEEL DOUBTFUL. Members ef the Ministerial Union Criti cize Some of the Governor's Acts. There was a special meeting of the Ministerial union this morning. Some one suggested that the union should have taken some action in reference to the ap pointment of police commissioners. Rev. J. B. Thomas said that a commit tee of six ministers had waited upon the governor in the. interest of Thomas Bain and Wm. Green (as the Democratic mem ber). "VVewere received very courteous ly by the governor," said he, "and while the governor told us he could not appoint the men we a3ked for, he said that he in tended to see that the law was enforced, and if the board he would name did not do so he would remove them at once and appoint others, and he said he would do this every thirty days, if necessary. We were treated very well, and left with a very good impression." Rev. Charles M. Sheldon said: "I re ceived an entirely different impression from our visit, and I still have that im pression. We were entirely ignored in the appointments. We went to the gov ernor to urge the appointment of certain men and he appointed some one else. He also said that there was something more than principle involved that there was a question of policy, and policy de manded that he put a stalwart Democrat on the board, and that he was expected to keep the state Republican for the next two years." Rev. Richard Wake said: "I find that the governor is trying to do what policy demands. Topeka demands the enforce ment of the law and he appoints men in favor of it. Wichita and Leavenworth want saloons and they are given commis sioners favoring them. I have found that the Republicans use prohibition simply for their own advantage. If it will help them they advocate it' and if not they drop it." Rev. Stewart Sheldon, the president, said: "Governor Morrill has promised just what every other governor did before aim, and I have no more assurance that the law will be enforced now than before. They all make the same promises." "Put not your trust in princes," said R ev. B. L. Smith. Rev. Mr. Blakesley said that he under stood the governor had decided upon the board before the ministers called upon him and he could not very well go back on his former decision. The matter was then dropped. Over 20 People Viait the Doctors JLat Week. The physicians and Burgeons of the World Medical Institute are meeting I with murked success, over 20J people I having visited and consulted .them dur j ing the last week and what is most grati- tying to the doctors is that tue large ma jority of these were the best people of Topeka, intelligent men and women who seem to grasp the idea why this institu tion is establishing itself here. Not iu competition with the family physician who deals with acute diseases and acci dents. Topeka has enough of them and most excellent ones too, but what the people do need are the services of men of superior skill and attainments in deal ing with those important troubles known as chronic diseases. Physicians of the highest standiug who have devoted their entire time for years (to the exclusion of all acute diseases and local practice.) to i the most important speciality of chronic rtiaataaa llnt.il thair am rnmnlata mjalapa of tnam. It is the general verdict of all ,.,i,, .v, u: I WUO I j Qgice 631 Quincy street, that their examinations are the most thorough. complete and intelligent and their advice superior to any that they had ever before received. Their offer of one month's free treat ment is continued till further notice. temi-Anthracite Smokeless Coal. Analysis: Water 199 Volatile Matter 17.77 Fixed i arbon 72.87 Ash 4.68 Sulphur 2.68 Excels all others for Range, Cook Stove and Furnace use. Will last as long as the best of Anthra cite, at one hlf the cost. Will make a more intense heat than the Anthracita Will hold fire longer than any other coal. Contains no gas, makes no Boot, has no b ad odor. Government Tests show Semi-Anthracite Smokeless Coal to be the best Steam Producer in the United Spates. Topeka Coal Co., A. F. Hornkr, Agent. Sunt JKe Coals. We are the agents for all Santa Fe coals, and we can deliver you any quan tity of the best in the market. You need not experiment; we can satisfy you as to which is the best for your use if you will give us a chance. We have a complete stock of both hard and soft coal. The South-Western Fuel Comp ant, (OH Kansas Avenue. Telephone 193. Opposite Postoffice. i western; Foundry flachine Works, ESTABLISHED 1875. FORMERLY Topeka Foundry and Machine Works ESTABLISHED 1868. R. L. COFRAN, Proprietor. 07 STEAM ENGINES, JtTLL KACHUJEBY. SHATTIN& PULLISS. GEASmSS, riTTINS3. ETO. Write for Prices. J. M. Knight, Undertaker 0 Embalmer. AXlti-GOillT-illS dealer in Heavy Weight Fall Ornament Xetallio Caskets. Erape Cloth with Zink and Copper Linings. Children's White Caskets, Full Ornament Metallic A full line of Wool and Cloth Coffins ui Caskets. 4q6 Kas Aye phone 52. A tLrtND SAW IS A GOOD THING, BUT NOT TO SHAVE WITH." IS THE PROPER THING IN FA Volt OF HEMINGEU. House Committee on Elections Decides the Haskell County Contest. In the Haskell county contest between A. P. Heminger and J. W. Michaels for a seat in the house, the elections commit tee will this afternodn' report in favor of the Bitting, member, .A.. P. Heminger, who is a Republican. The claim of the Populist contestor. Mr. Michaels, was that the judges in one township had clqsed the polls at noon; that one of the judges had taken the ballot box home, and while there, ballots which had been obtainedfrom the printing office, were put into the box. Heminger, on the face of the returns, had a majority of fifteen in the county. Air. MilUr, chairman of the house elec tions committee, said: "Michaels brought twenty men here who swore that they had voted for him but as there were only fourteen votes cast in the township that would indicate that votes had bean taken from the box instead of put in as claimed. In the face of this fact and the extremely conflicting testimony of the witnesses the evidence was wholly insufficient to support the claim of the contestor. Even if the fourteen votes of the township had all been cast for Michaels that would have left Heminger a majority of one, The contestor also claimed that one man had voted ille gally, but had no evidence to show for whom he had voted or even that he voted at all." CHIEF LINDSEY RESIGNS. He Forestalls Removal by Handing in His Resignation. Chief of Police Lindsey and Captain Pete Gish did not wait to give he new board of police commissioners a chance to discharge them. When the Populist board met for the last time Saturday evening Chief Lindsey and Captain Gish tendered their resignations. They were accepted, to take effect next Thursday, February 1. The Populist board then turned the records over to the new board and gave up their offices. There was no formal meeting of the new commissioners, and none of the candidates were discussed. A meeting will be held tonight, when the principal officers will be elected. The indications are that John W. Gar diner will be appointed chief, .though there are several other candidates who would like to have tue place. The latest applicant is Major Thomas Durham. Thomas IX Bain has entered the race for police judga Subscribe for the Dailj State Joursal TOPEKA, KANSAS. FOR HOUSE-CLEANING HOUSE WILL PASS IT. It Is Thought the Pacific Railroad Re funding Bill will Get Through. Washington, Jan. 28. Arrangements are being made for the consideration in the house of the Pacific railroads fund ing bill. Chairman Reilly of the com mittee on Pacific railways will lead the debate for his bill, while Boatner, Louisiana, who made the minority re port against it, will control the time of the opposition. The opponents, of the bill desire more time, aa they assert that the more thoroughly it is discussed the better the chances for defeating it will become. 1 The four Democratic members from California are devoting most of their time to their campaign against the plan for extending the debts of the Central and Union Pacific. .They concede that the prospect is that the bill will pass by a safe majority but say this is because members have not studied the history Of the relations of these roads to the .gov ernment and will naturally support the bill, which hat behind it the prestige of -the committee's recommendation. COAL. That Camden Coal Don't clinker! Don't smoke and soot your stove! Don t sputter and pop! Don't take half a day to ignite! Don't burn out of a sadden! Don't fi.rget to try it! For sale by Topeka Coal Co., 6th and Knnsa J. W. F. Hughes. 5th and Adams. E. P. Ewart, 219 West 6th St. E. P. Ewart, Aorth Topeka. R M. McGaw, 63 East4th St. J. V. McNeely, 519 Ea 4th st Geo E. Cole, 2nd and Klinf. Johnson Olson. 6 18 Ea 2nd. Davies Lumber and Coal Co., lit and Kansas ave. V. Kaczvnski, 401 Jackson st C. C. Nicholson. North Topeka. Reising Coal Co., 110 West 6th. W. a Charles, 106 East 10th. J. E. Pottinger, 8th and Hancock. Kansas Coal Co., 512 Kansas ave. Capital City Coa! Co., 7th and Wash ington. S. C Swartz, 10th and Madison. Sneahan Wassen, 918 East 6th. Hargoams Bass, 8th and Holliday. Telephone us. "AC uyAUrm. The fire department was called to the state house at 6 o'clock last evening by a man who said the state house was on fire. A column of black smoke rolling out of the south chimney was the cuse ef the