The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 11, 1895

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10 CENTS A WEEK. HOPE SINKS LOW. La Gascogne is Now Eight Days Overdue. None of the Vessels Entering the Port of New York HATE SEEN THE SHIP. The French Company Still Hold Out Hope. She May Be Heard From Bermuda or Azores. at New York, Feb. 11. The French liner La Gascogne is eight days over due and the steamers which enter port all report having seen nothing of the missing vessel. La Nomandie, a sister ship of La Gascogne, anchored outside Sandy Hook lightship at 1:40 this morning and in response to signals announced that she had not sighted La Gascogne during her voyage. La JSorinandie passed in at Sandy Hook at 7:48 this morning and reached quarantine about a quarter of an hour later. The Maasdam from Rotter dam and the Dania from Hamburg, both having the same story to tell "nothing of La Gascogne." The non-arrival here of La Gascogno and tiie fact that she has not been sighted in the regular track of steamers both westward and eastward bound Beams to be conclnsive proof that her progress is hampered by deranged ma chinery and that she has drifted or been blown far out of her course. As the winds which have prevailed re cently have been mostly from the north west, the probability is that her course would be toward the Azores, although there is a possibility that she may be heard from at Bermuda, Nothwithstand ing that she is so long overdue, the hope has not yet been abandoned, that the La Gascogne will soon be heard from. Agent Forget now hopes that one of the steamships due from Gibraltar may bring news of La Gascogne. These steamers are the Alsatia, Valentia, St. Oswald, Bolivia and Letimlso. All are due today. MAY HEAR FROM BERMUDA. The Gascogne May be Heard from at the Island Ports. London, Feb. 11. The manager in this city of the French Trans-Atlantic Steam ship company, says the fact that the N'ortnandie ivhich af.ived in ttis city this morning had not seen La Gas cogne need not increase the anxiety felt for the safety of the latter vessel. lie adds that after so long a delay he hardly expocta to hear of La Gas cogue from a port in the United States, as if she was disabled and proceeding under sail, she would not be in the course of the ordinary Havre line, and it "13 probable the first news from her will be received from Bermuda. A Stoamer Burning Her Woodwork. London. Feb. 11. Tho British steam- -Mr i a r xii -1 er iniiryianu, irom i'niiaaeipnia on January 22 for this port, arrived at Va lencia, Ireland, last evening, having damaged her bows in towing a disabled steamer which she was obliged to aban don, owing to the fact that her supply of coal whs exnaustea. The disabled steamer which the Mary land was obliged to abandon owing to the lack of coal was the British steamer Lochmore, Captain Allison, from Charles ton, Jan. Id, f.r Bremen. The latter had run out of coal and had been obliged to burn all of her available wood work. She was proceeding under sail. Sent to Look for the Gascogne. St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 11. The regular mail steamer, Grand Lake, will leave here tomorrow for Halifax. She has been instructed to go as far south as Sa ble island to ascertain if the missing French steamer La Gascogne is or has been in that vicinity. Hasn't Seen I-a Gascogne. Halifax. N. S., Feb. 11. The steamer St Pierre has arrived from Newfound lanVL She encountered cold weather and had a rough trip. The steamer did not pass near Sable Island. Captain An grove had seen nothing of any steamer that would answer the description of La Goscegne. X.a Normandle'a Report. New York, Feb. 11. The Normandie wnicn arrived this morning has nothing of La Gascogne. seen lhe Dutch steamer Maasdam from Rotterdam arrived also, saw nothing of the overdue La Gascogne. The French line La Normandie reach ed quarantine shortly before 9 a. m. Her officers reported that nothing had been seen of La Gascogne. In fact the first news of the steamer being overdue was learned from the pilot who boarded the steamer Sunday. HOPE REVIVES. Fire Island, Feb. 11, 4:15 p. m. There are three steamers off the life saving station. One of them is a French steamer moving very slowly. Will not reach Fire Island for two hours yet. EATING THEIR HORSES. A Chance For DelTitt Talmage to Kxtend His Usefulness. Albuquerque, N. M., Feb. 11 Rev. fi'anJ r uft.he. NavaJ agency at Ft De nance, who is m this citv, says the In- winDtrare TlVing 8 b8rdt'in9 to exist this ZW' Jhexr wol cliP as hardly fV.i?P Thet114 th?? grain last year, f hey are eating their horses of which they have great birds Two representatives of the interior de partment are now at the agency investi gating the condition of tne NavaToe .A o work is now being done on the irri g ition system that is being put in by the government, but it is expected that active m begin on the ditches fn the NIGHT EDITION. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MONDAY SECRETARY OF HEALTH. The Man Suggested Not of Extended Experience. From the ninth annual report of the board of health, W. M. Sterrett, who has been recommended by Governor Morrill for secretary of the state board of health, appears to be a physician of little expe rience in general practice and less in matters pertaining to sanitary affairs generally. From the report Dr. Sterrett had practiced four years, was registered in 1S92, resides at Jetmors in Hodgman county, and was graduated, at a date not given, from Gross Medical College, Denver, Colorado. In view of the importance of this office the selection would be a great disappoint ment. The law governing the qualifica tions of a member of the hoard provides that the incumbent shall have practiced for not less than seven years. As the secretary is the executive officer he should certainly have at least the quali fications n3cessary for a member of tho board. This board was appointed by Governor J,ewelling, and not by Gover nor Morrill, although it is understood the latter approved the Republican appoint ments. It is possible, however, that tho board may see fit to elect a man of mora extended practice and experience. HARD ON GOT 11 AM. Eatables Are Way Up and a Shortage In Sight. New York, Feb. 11. Dealers in live stock and dressed beef express consider able concern about the meat supply. None of them say that there is any im mediate daDger of a meat famine, but they are unanimous in saying that tho market will be seriously crippled unless the blockade on the roads leading to New York is raised in a few days. Advices received by New York deal ers from their agents in Buffalo and Chi cago are anything but encouraging. They state that it is next to impossible to get any consignments out of Chicago, and that freight is stalled at Buffalo, and that immediate prospect for moving are not good. But few consignments of live stock have been received since the middle of last week. The consignments that reached New York during the last two days have been a long time on the way. The advance in price on dressed beef it is said, will be all the way from $1.50 to $2 per 100, since the storm blockaded the roads. There is a corresponding advance in veal, mutton and pork. The poultry supply is also diminished and prices have been increased Mil K is scarce and many restaurants aa well as hotels and private families do not receive nearly what they need. But very few vegetables are being brought to New York. Many grocers have raided the prices on eggs. Some are charging as high as 50 cents a dozen. STRIKE IMMINENT. It is in Jersey City and Newark This Time. New York, Feb. 11. The employes of the Consolidated Traction companies in Jersey City are growing restless, because of the failure of the company to act on their petition presented to President F. F. C. Youug two months ago. The re sult of the strike has led some of the officials to imagine that a strike on the part of the Jersey City motormen is now out of the question. Nevertheless there is much murmuring among the trolley men. They suffered great hardships during the last week'a blizzard and some of them do not hesitate to say that a strike- will be ordered in Newark as well as Jersey City unless the company takes some cognizance of their petition. The petition demands in part a stand ard wage and time schedule for $2 a day for every trolley man in stead of the present pay which hardly averages $1.85: an impartial trial of all- men accused of violating the rules; $1.75 a night pay for night trips; the employ ment of no new persona whom the breakers-in do not deem capable; a proper place for the employes to store their clothes and eat their lunches. SAYING OF 820,000 ANYWAY Worthless Consular Reports That Won't Need to Rot in Basements, Washington, Feb. 11 Under the new printing act a difficulty has arisen with reference to the publication of consul reports, which, unless remedied, will have the effect of curtailing their distri bution. These reports cover a wide rantre of information. The department of state has an annual appropriation of $20,000 to expend for this purpose. The public printer has. however, taken the ground that under the provisions of tion 89 of the new printing act, sec- ap not proved January 12, 1895, he is authorized to print a greater number of these reports than 1,000 copies during the present fiscal year except by order of congress. WAY DOWN IN TENNESSEE. Six Inches of Snow at Chattanooga and Still Falling. Chattanooga, Feb. 11. Snow began falling here this morning and it is now six inches on the level. Street car traffic has been practically abandoned. This is the heaviest fall here in many years. DUNLAP TO GO AWAY. Robert Dunlap of the Santa Fe Law part in en t Goes to Chicago. De- Mr. Robert Dunlap, the assistant solici tor of the banta Fe tor Kansas, has been appointed assistant attorney for the re ceivers at Chicago and will leave this week to become familiar with his duties. lhe appointment is to ia.ae ertecc on March 1. The position held bv Mr. Dunlap will be abolished though 6. J. Wood and W. Littlefield will remain here and continue o hold their places as assistant attor ney s. Mr. Dunlap takes the place made va cant by the resignation of J. G. Egan, who was formerly of Emporia. Mr. Egan will engage in the private practice of his profession at Chicago. The posi tion which wiil be assumed by Air. Dun- iap will be directly under George R. reck the general attorney. TO BE CONFIRMED. Ex-Gov. Anthony Not Alarmed At All By the West Affidavit Published Saturday. CONFIRMATION SURE. Mr. Anthony Assured That It Will Be Unanimous. He Will Go Before the Senate Committee TO REFUTE THE STORY. Ex-Commissioner W. M. Mitchell is in the City. Says Some Terrible Things About S. B. West. Ex-Qovernor George T. Anthony of Ottawa, whose confirmation as insuranco commissioner has been "hanging fire" in the senate since early last week, is in Topeka today, and was seen by a State Journal reporter this afternoon at tho Throop. When asked what he knevs about S. B. West, the man who made the affidavit published in Saturday's paper Governor Anthony Baid: "I do not know Mr. West I never saw the man, but during the last few days 1 have learned consid erable about him. As to the affidavit, I will have nothing to say until the proper time. I have de manded of the senate investigat ing committee that I be allowed to go before that body and defend my self, which I expect to da 'As to my conformation there is no longer any doubt. I have the assurance that it will be practically unanimous. Governor Authonv expects to be called before the senate committee either this evening or tomorrow morning, to defend himself, and he promises to make things interesting for his accusers. Ex-Railroad Commissioner W. M. Mitchell who now lives in Denver, ar rived in Topeka this morning and is at the Throop. Mr. Mitchell had, heard about the jsud- lication of the S. B. West affidavit and came to Topeka on the first train to look after his interests. To a State Journal reporter Mr. Mitchell said: "Yes, I know S. B. West, and he is a black hearted scoundrel if ever one lived. The only grudge West has against me is that I have at various times loaned him money to the amount of $218 which he has never paid. I loaned him the money to keep his fami ly from starving, les, 1 know him. He used to run a train on the Pan Handle division of the Santa Fe. We lived neighbors in Arkansas City and were members of the same O. li. C. division. He got fired off the road for stealing a pair of deers from an agent in the Pan Handle. "He has a most estimable family and the last I heard of them was about six months ago when I received a letter from Mrs. West, who then said she was in Kansas City and was in destitute cir cumstances. At tne solicitation of my wife I sent her $26, although 1 had pre viously loaned her husband $218. I don t know where West is now, but I propose to make things interesting for a lot of fellows before I get through with this now that the ball has been started rolling. "I loaned West the money on account of our close relations in rail roadinz together. I had been his brakeman and he had been mine in the ups and downs in railroading and it was after X was on the board of railroad com inisaioners that I gut him his job as a switchman for the Lmon Terminal com pany." it has been stated tnat Mr. Juitcneii has in his possession an affidavit made by West bearing a later date then the one published Saturday in which he retracts all he Baid in the first affidavit. When asked about this Mr. Mitchell said he had some documents which he would use at the right time, but that they are not yet ready to make public. It is understood that Mr. Mitchell will go before the senate committee and give some interesting testimony. THE LEGISLATURE. The Senate Met This Morning, the House Xot Till 3 O'clock. The senate met one hour later than usual this morning and the roll call showed the presence of .only two more than a quorum. Senator Leody lives in Coffey county and while his constituents don't know what hunger is, and have never asked for state aid, they have a considerable thirst that only legislation will satisfy. Senator Leedy presented a petition from 100 of his constituents asking for the re submission of the prohibitory amend ment 'lhe committee on employes held a meeting this morning and decided to make the employes attend more strictly to business. The senate with forty mem bers has 127 employes on its pay roll, or more than three servants to each sena tor. Nobody pretends, so many are needed but thev get their $2 and $3 a day each. The employes are divided this way chaplain, 1; secretary's force, 4; journal clerks, 5; document clerks, 2; docket clerks, 3; postoffice, 2; doorkeepers, 9; cloak room guards, 2; janitors, 10; pages, 10; stenographers, 10; specials, 6; enroll ing clerks, 23; sergeant-at-arms, 4; com mittee clerks, 43. SENATE FESTIVITIES. Talented Employes of That Body Will Give a Performance Tonight. The employes of the Kansas senate are EVENING, FEBRUARY a talented set, and there are only a few of them who can not do well their part on any occasion when a recitation or a song and dance are in order. Tonight the sen ate employes will give an entertainment for the benefit of the senators, members of the house, press representatives and the employes of both houses. The en tertainment is free to those named, and those who are not named will be unable to get in for any consideration. It will therefore be very exclusive. The enter tainment will be given in the senate chamber. Assistant Sergeant-at-arms E. G. Marshall is booked for master of cere monies, and this is the programme: Song Quartetta I Address Secretary W. L. Brown. I Music Miss Edna Steele. Selection Rosa Davidson, clerk rail road committee. Song Quartette. Selection W. G. Ruggles, clerk com mittee on public buildings. Music Miss Netta Murphy. Poem C. L. Bradshaw, clerk ways and means committea t Song Quartette. Selection Miss Mamie Martin. Music Miss Edith Coles. V." Paper Assistant Secretary Jai I JJoot. Senator Dillard's bill giving the su preme court permission to hold its sit tings in the senate chamber after the legislature is gone, passed the senate this noon. The present quarters of the Supreme court are inadequate and the fchange is agreeable to the court, lawyers land litigants. A House Dili was passed and sent to ;he executive office giving the city of fPoffeyville authority to vote bonds for he erection and equipment of a citv water supply plant A senate bill giving the city of Cherokee the same privilege Uso passed. Afternoon Senate. Senator Danner's bill to localize copies of original records in the office of regis ter ot deeds at Newton, Harvey caunty, was the special order of business in the senate at 2 p. m. today. Senator O'Bryan owns the only complete set of ab stracts, and the bill would make his records of little value. O'Bryan made the best fight and succeeded in having the consideration of the Dan ner bill postponed indefinitely. A bill was passed and heralded to the house, pensioning Harry Parks in the sum of $25 a month. He was hurt by the explosion of a Btate cannon while a mem ber of the militia in October, 1891. The back pension amounts to $1,113. Parks had both of his arms shot off. BIG KANSAS CITY FIRE. Kansas Citt, Mo., February 11. Fire started in Reeves Co., manu facturers of straw packing on Eleventh, between Hickory and- Liberty streets shortly afterljo'clock this after- noQu and at 2:30 that property and the building of the Campbell Paint company and the Creamery Supply company have been destroyed. The fire is not yet un der control Kansas City, Feb. 11 3:15 p. m. The lire is spreading. The loss up to this hour is about $110,000. EUGENE WARE'S SEWER. II r Wants a New Sewer District in the Western Fart of the City. Eugene Ware wants a sewer district formed and a sewer built in the neigh borhood including Sixth avenue and West street, where Mr. Ware lives. That part of the city is entirely with out sewerage and it is located somewhat at a disadvantage as the drainage is through Potwin and it would be difficult to secure a right of way. "I am in favor of public improve ments" said Mr. Ware. "I believe in taxation, high taxation, and that the peo ple who own property should furnish work for the idle people in the city. We must make improvements and get ready to take care of a population of 100,000. 1 expect to take the necessary steps to se cure a sewer, and if we can get through Potwin in no other way we can condemn a right of way through their city." STARVING BUCKEYES. A Terrible Condition Exists in Gov. Mo Klnley's State. Columbus, O., Feb. 11. Distress in the mining regions of Ohio increases and hundreds of people, men, women, and children, are threatened wiih starvation, which is only averted by contributions of charity from other parts of the state. John Eddy, chairman of the relief com mittee, and William Edwards, a mer chant, both of Shawnee are in Columbus to lay before Governor McKinley the urgency of further immediate relief. They say that there is intense and widespread misery in the valley, and that unless speedy assistance is furnished there will be not only one death, but many deaths from starvation. Governor McKinley has received a telegram from F. S. Coultrap, chairman of the relief committee at Nelsonville, stating that there is great distress at Lathrop, a town near Gloster, and that unless immediate relief is furnished there will be intense suffering and prob ably actual starvation. The governor made the necessary arrangements to send assistance to Lathrop, and will also provide for the sufferers at Shawnee. IMPROVING THEIR TIME. Bobbers in Mexico Talcing Advantage of the Unsettled Conditions. Oaxaca, Mex., Feb. 11. Three Ameri can tourists, whose names are not know, left here about ten days ago for the state of Chiapas, to make explorations of the ancient Aztec cities of that section. Advices were brought in today by a mail courier announcing that the travel ers were attacked near the village of San Javier by a band of Guatemalan refugees and robbed of all the money and valua bles which they carried. Tito Weather. Sergeant Jennings of the United States weather bureau, says it will be fair tomorrow and the tempera ture will be about the same as today. At Topeka it wis six degrei s above zero at 7 o'clock a. m. It is 2L2 above zero in Topeka this afternoon. Subscribe for the Daily State Journal 11. 1895. THE PEOPLtVWARilED. An Attack on a Constitutional Safe Guard By the House Committee Elections. on A MIXORITY REPORT In Which Attention is Called to the Danger. A Judge to Have the Power of 356 Men. Washington, Feb. 11. Representa tives Beckner, Lock wood. Brown and Jones, members of the elections commit tee, have united in a minority report against the bill reported by the majority giving to the United States district judges the jurisdiction to determine the prima facie right of a member-elect to his seat pending a final decision by tho house itself. The argument of the majority, the mi nority asserts, is really directed against the wisdom of that provision of the con stitution which makes each house of con gress the judge of the election re turns and qualifications of its members. "It is," said the mi nority, "an insiduous and dangerous assault on what we consider one of the most precious safeguards of the rights and liberties of the peopla It ia a ser ious impeachment of our system of pop ular government. It is based on the idea that one man may be trusted to do what 856 others, each perhaps his equal are not fit to undertake. "It is confessedly an effort to break down the barriers between what were in tended to be separate and distinct de partments. It assumes in terms that some obscure judge who may be the accident of executive selection or perhaps the beneficiary of the diligence of some special interest, having influence with the appointive power, can give to his dictum such force as would subjugate the so-called prejudices and passions of the representatives of the people and compel them to accept his decision as final and conclusive in all cases of contest. "It is a glorification of that department of the government which is of more re cent origin in our system, and a degrada tion of that which the founders of the republic considered most important." Some attention.ia then paid to the nority as to what it thinks might be the result in the event of the passage of the bill. The argument is made that one i man could control the political complex- ion of the house. 'It is reported," said the minority, "that there are i five seats in the next house from Virginia to be contested. Four of these will come before the same judge. Again in Kentucky there are eleven districts, and tne state nas but one United States judge. The seats of all the members from that commonweal j might at the same time be contested. "If there were a narrow margin be- I tween the parties a single officer might determine which party should organize that body and thus lor two years control the legislation of congress affecting the prosperity and happiness of 70,000,000 people. This is a tremendous power and not to be lightly conferred." Respecting the contention of the ma jority relative to the settlement of con tested seats in the English house of com mons by the courts, the minority argues that the condition in this country and England are different. In the latter country members of parliament receive no compensation and the expenses of a contest are unbearable. Prior to 1870, there was no pretense of fairness in dis posing of a controverted election case in the house of commons. It was under stood to be a mere party question on which the Btrength of contending fac tions might be tried. "We have," the minority asserts, "reached such a stage here." It is pointed out that in England con troverted election cases in the house of commons are referred not to a court of one judge, aa in the bill reported by the majority, but to the judges of the queen's bench of the high court of justice, a thing, the majority says, that cannot be done in the American congress because the constitution provides otherwise. Summing up, the minority believes that the bill is unconstitutional, that it is an invasion of the rights of the states; that it violates one of the boasted and most esteemed features of our govern mental systems, to-wit: A rigid separa tion of the executive, legislative and ju dicial power and that it would have a tendency to strengthen the growing feel ing of distrust among the masses of the people. The report concludes: "During the labor troubles of the past few years the United States judges have been called upon to play parts that have not in creased their standing in the popular favor, and we do not think it wise to bur den them with other dangerous respon sibilities in order to relieve this house of a duty imposed on it by the executive." DRIVEN BY FIRE. Family Walked a Mile Barefooted In the Snow. Ft. Wayne, Ind., Feb. 11. The family of Henry Archer, consisting of the pa-, rents and eight children, had to leave their burning house, six miles north of the city, and walk, clad only in their night ciothing, to the nearest house, nearly one mile away. The cold was in tense, the mercury being 12 degrees be low. Three of the smaller children are so' badly frozen they will probably die. A Record Brrakin: Winter. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 1L The sanny south woke up this morning to find itself covered with a heavy blanket of snow. Snow began falling at half past twelve and continued at intervals until daylight. It is now three and a half inches deep on the level. Street car traffic is practically abandoned for the time. TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. THE PRESIDENT REPLIES. He Answers the Senate's Request formation. For In- Washington, Feb. 11. The president today sent the following message to con gress on the Behring sea question: -To the Senate: On the 8th of January I received a copy of the following senate resolution: Resolved, That the president be re quired, if not incompatable with the public interest, to communicate to the senate all the reports, documents and other papers, including logs of ves sels, relating to the enforcement of the regulations respecting fur seals by the government of the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the tribunal of arbitration convened at Paris, and all papers not heretofore published, including communications of the agent of the United States before Baid tribunal at Paris relating to tne claims of the British government on ac count of the seizure of sealing vessels in Behring sea. In compliance with said request I here with transmit sundry papers, documents and reports which have been returned to me by the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of the navy to whom said resolution was referred. I am not in possession of any further in formation touching the various subjects embodied in such resolution. It will be seen from a letter of the secretary of the navy that it is impossi ble to furnish at this time the complete log books of the naval vessels referred to, but I venture to express the hope that the reports of the commanders of such vessels herewith submitted will be found to contain in substance so much of the matters recorded as are important in answering the inquiries addressed to me by the senate. Signed G rover Cleveland. Executive Mansion, Feb. 11, 18s5. Flan Out Your Day. t Special Correspondence. New York, Feb. 7. The stay at homo woman looks at her bread win- niug sister in critical surprise at the amount of work she accomplishes. .It is because the business woman, whose time is money, must conduct her work with system. If a regular plan of action be adhered to, it is surprising how hitherto lost moments may develop into golden hours. A certain woman who is a happy wife and a literary worker the terms are no longer paradoxical tells of her busy days. She prefaces her remarks by say ing: "I believe it was Goethe who stlp- ulated a day as lost in which he had not seen a fine picture, heard a noble strain of mnsio and committed to memory a passago from a great poet I have made a modern adaptation. To me the lost day is the one in which I have not add ed to my stock of knowledge, taken from my intellectual force, furthered my social influence and drawn the bonds of love tighter around my husband. "How to do it? "I make each action of the day dove tail: 1 arise at half past 7 to breakfast with my husband at 8. After the meai is finished we look over our morning mail. When he leaves at 8:30. I proceed to the kitchen to get my cook's orders for the day. After answering my letters I am, at 10 o'clock, ready to go to mar ket. As I take the elevated down town, I seize that as an opportunity to read the morning papers. After my marketing is finished I walk homo for the exercise, trying to be as observing as possible as I go along the streets. It is often on such occasion I get suggestions for my stories. On my way I add variety by pay ing an informal call of a few minutes on some friend, arriving home an hour before luncheon. I spend those precious 60 minutes in reading. One cannot find time to progress with the age and keep in touch with the old authors, so my hour oil Sunday is devoted to them. After luncheon I get my mending, and as I do some sewing each day there is never an appalling heap. While 1 am holding a seance with my husband's but tons I have a book of 'familiar quota tions' or 'Extracts From Balzac' by the side of my workbasket, commit ting to memory as many as possible. At 2 I commence to write. My mental effort for memorizing is what I call my 'training, so I am prepared to expend my best intellectual force on my liter ary work. I write until 4. After mak ing my toilet I consider myself free un til 0 to make calls, attend teas, recep tions cr club meetings. We dine at 6:30, my husband and myself, giving the evening to recreation of some sort, either entertaining our friends, going to the theater or in some way indulging in a social dissipation. And this little woman is a popular contributor to the magazines. Maude James Chilton. LOCAL MENTION. The ladies aid society of the First, Presbyterian church will meet in the church parlors Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock instead of Tuesday as announced from the pulpit Mrs. Julia Thiele has begun suit in tho district court for divorce against her. husband Charles Thiele. They were married at Hastings, Neb. fourteen years ago. Th petition alleges that Thiele abuses her and beat her and finally abandoned her altogether. She asks for permanent alimony in the sum of f 5,000 and the costs of the suit. CHESTERFIELD CHANGES. Cot' John F. Carter of theU. P. Hotel Will Take Charge. CoL John F. Carter, who has been in charge of the Union Pacific hotel in North Topeka for two years, has leased the Chesterfield and will assume the management on the 15th inst It is not yet known who will succeed CoL Carter at the Union Pacific. J. Long, who has been in charge of the Chester field for about a year, will retire from the hotel business.

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STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1895. SENTEHCE0TQ' DEATH. Six of the Leaders in the Ha waiian Eebellion Condemned to Death by a Mili tary Court. LIL'S TIME NEXT. The Ex-Queen's Trial Begins Today. Victohia.B. C, Feb. 11. The steam ship Warimoo, f rom Australia via Hon olulu, arrived here yesterday with advices from Hawaii up to February 2. The press correspondent at Hono lulu says: There is a lull in affairs here, and quiet will probably reign until the military court, now sitting1, will have finished its work. There are a large number of conspiracy cases yet to be tried, and the proba bilities are that the court will sit for two or three weeks at least. Great interest is attached to the forthcom ing trial of the ex-queen. The gov ernment claims to have more than sufficient evidence t convict her of treason. What her punishment will be in case of conviction is hard to conjecture. Her case will probably come up on next Monday. She is charged with treason. The charge reads: "First Treason by engaging in open rebellion against the republic of Hawaii, by attempting by force of arms to overthrow and destroy the same, and by levying war against the same, and by adhering to the enemies of the republic of Hawaii, giving them aid and comfort within the Ha waiian islands and elsewhere. "Second Treason by aiding, abet ting, procuring, counseling, inciting, countenancing and encouraging others to commit treason and to en gage in open rebellion against the re public of Hawaii, and to attempt by force of arms to overthrow the same, and to adhere to the enemies of the republic of Hawaii in giving them aid and comfort in the Hawaiian islands i and elsewhere.w j The military commission has brought in findings in twenty-four cases, sentences were nxeu by tiie commission subject to review by Pres ident Dole. The sentences vary much, all the way from sentence of death to imprisonment for five year-, with fines. The lowest sentence for trea son by the Hawaiian statute is im prisonment for five years and a fine of not less than $5, 000. The six leaders were all sentenced to be hung. Tbey are Charles T. Gulick, William H. Rickard, William T. Seward, Robert T. W lcox, Sam Nowiien and Henry Bertelman. Sen tence in the last two cases will be commuted, as both men have fur nished valuable evidence for the government. Gulick was born iD this country, Rickard is an Englishman, Wilcox is a Hawaiian. The only one of the four who is entitled to protection of the United States is William T. Seward. As yet no date has been set for the executions. The only import ant case tried before the military court since the departure of the Aus tralia is that of V. V. Ashford. He is charged with treason. A batch of twenty native rebels, charged with treason, is now occupying the atten tion of the court. United States Minister Willis has changed his attitude somewhat since the last advices. He is not so belig erent in his demands. His latest communication to the government is a request that if the death penalty is imposed in cases of any Americans that the executions be postponed until he can communicate withhis govern ment. The British commissioner has made a similar request. Thus far but two men whe claim American protection have been tried. They are Louis Marshall, charged with open rebellion, and Thomas Walker, who pleaded guilty to the charge of treason. The government has decided to banish three persons from the islands for complicity in the rebellion. They are J. E. Cranston and A. Muller, for conspiracy to use dynamite, and J. B. Johnstone, special police officer, who turned traitor. The men will be sent on the Warimoo, leaving for Victoria to-day. Cranston and Muller were to blow up the Central Union church on the night when the rebellion broke out. Of the three exiles, Johnstone is a British subject. Cranston an American and Muller a German. They say they do not know what they were arrested for; were given no trial, were kept confined without any chance of communica tion and did not know they were to leave until the Warimoo whistled to leave. Johnstone will remain at Van couver, but the others say they will not leave the steamship, but will re turn on her to Honolulu when she goes back. They claim that they have been victims of gross outrage. Reported Seizure of learl Harbor. Sax Francisco, Feb. 11. The Ex aminer prints a story from its cor respondent at Honolulu to the effect that Admiral Beardslee has taken pos session of Pearl harbor and declared a protectorate over the Hawaiian islands. The news came to Victoria by the steamer Warrimoo. He Bonfht Creen Good. Chicago, Feb. 11. Central station officers last evening arrested four men charged with having worked the "green goods" game on George W. Ehinger of Muncie, Ind. One of the men arrested is asserted to be "Happy Cal"Wagner, who at one time was famous throughout the land as a minstreL New Spanish Tariff Laws. Mao bio, Feb. 11. The law impos ing protect. ve duties on cereals went into effect yesterday. It increases the duty on corn pesatas per 100 kilos, on flour to 4 pesatas, on chaff to 2 pesatas. The law will expire on December 31 next, but tie govern ment reserves the right to prolong it. Nw neck bands put on your shirts at Tor ska tiijtAM LAOHoar. BIG FIRE AT OTTAWA, KAV Six St eras, Four Offices and a Hotel in Ashe Loss S40.OO0. Ottawa, Kan., Feb. 11. Six stores, fonr offices and a hotel lie in ashes as the result of Saturday night's fire in this city, and $40,000 will scarcely represent the amount of property de stroyed. The fire originated in the bookstore of Clark Bros.,- on Main street, about 10:30 o'clock,: and it was 8 o'clock yesterday morning before the fire department had control of the flames. Clark Bros', bookstore, E. P. Stewart's men's furnishings store, C. B. Jones' boot and shoe store, Morrison's drug store and J. C Armstrong's jewelry store were burned, together with the Hamblin house and George Steinbaugh's in surance office, Parkinson's land office and the offices of Davis and Gilley, physicians. Two buildings were burned to the ground and a third completely ruined. They were all three story brick blocks, located on the principal business corner of the city. All the losers were well insured in fact it is one of the best insured fires that ever took place in the city, j there being about 850.000 insurance on 540,000 worth of property. FIYE MURDERED. XI. M. Tucker, 'nil Wife and Three Chil dren Slain and Burned. Akdmore, J. T., Feb. 11. Living in an isolated part of the country, fif teen miles west from here were M. M. Tucker, his wife and three children, 6, 3 and 12 years, the two latter girls. All were cruelly murdered Wednes day night and the buUding burnt over them. Suspicion rests on Fred Wilson, a son-in-law of Tucker. On the spot where the h me had stood nothing remained but blackened cinders. In them were the charred bones of the five victims. The theo ry of accidental fire is scouted, and robbery and murder with the subse quent use of the torch to cover up the crime, seems the most probable. ST. JOE'd DEPOT BURNED. The Railroad Building and Hotel De stroyed by Fire Very Little Saved. j St. Joseph, Md., Feb. 11, The Union depot of this city was totally de stroyed by fire Saturday night. The buildiDg contained a hotel of nearly 200 rooms, waiting rooms for passen gers, ticket offices and the offices of the United States and Pacific Express companies. The contents of the express com panies' offices and baggage rooms were saved, and part of the furniture from the hoteL The depot was built in 1882 at a cost of 8250,000. The loss on building and contents is $300,000; insurance, 840,000. Chinese Demolish Their Fort. Lonhoh, Feb. 11. A dispatch from Wei-Hai-Wei, February 4, says that the Chinese demolished the west shore forts before retiring from Wei-Hai-Wei. Some of the Chinese war ships tried to land their crews in or der that they might escape the Jap anese, but the latter drove the Chi nese back on board their vessels. The Javanese troops are in good health and under strict discipline. Printing l oose Burned. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 11. Fire destroyed the large printing es tablishment of Clarence M. Bush on Herr street at midnight. The loss will probably reach $100,000, and is covered bv insurance. One hundred men are thrown out of employment. Mnrderous Mr. Kotunek. Chicago, Feb. 11. Albert Kotusek made a murderous attack on Mary Zelusink because she had refused to marry him, and then attempted to cut his own throat. Both are in the hospital in a critical condition. Jockey Madisran Dead. St. Loots, Mo., Feb. 11. Jockey Madigan, who received a fractured skull by a fall from Free Trade in the fifth race at Madison, died from the effects of his injuries. Stole the Students' Money. Priwcetox, N. J., Feb. II. Oliver Kenley, the proprietor of the largest student boarding house in Princeton, has absconded with $40,000 of the local students' money.

peace Envoys Given I nil Power. LiONDOX, Feb. 1 1. A dispatch from PekiP says that full powers have been telegraphed to the Chinese peace envoys with a view of a renewal of the negotiations with Japan. Murderer Dies In JalL Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 11. Young Stovall, who, thirteen months ago, assassinated his brother-in-law, Wiley Jordan, near Jacksonville, Ala., died in jail at that place last night. I In Knog Tao Falls. Yokohama, Feb. 11. The Japanese have captured the island of Liu Kung Tao, the strong Chinese position at the entrance of the harbor of Wei Hai Wei Two Children Incinerated. Brazil, Ind., Feb. 11. A 6-year-old son and a 3-months-old daughter of William Cassidy, residing eight miles north of this city, were burned to death last night. JBatlne Hone at Colby. Daring the distribution of food, etc., at Colby, Kan., one of the applicants waa asked what his family needed, food or clothes. He replied that they needed clothes and flour as they had plenty of meat as he had killed a horse for food. Several of the families in his neighbor hood received a portion and pionounced It equal to beef. Civil Service Liw Violated. Washington, Feb. 11. The civil serv ice commission has completed its inves tigation of the San Francisco custom house. The report has not been made public, but it is understood to sustain the charges of partisan removals and other violations of the civil service laws. Kay the Light Ranninf Domestic. The best sewing machine in the city. Gat it at Babcock Frost. 701 Kansas ave. Subscribe fox the Daily Stats Joobhal IX10USLY WAITIIIG. Agents of La Gascogne Think She's All Eight. Say She Has Weathered Many Storms Before. IT IS EIGHT DAYS Since She Was Due to Arrive at New York. New York, Feb. 11. The French steamer La Gascogne, so far as all sources of information go. has failed to reach harbor. The three steamers which arrived at this port yesterday have seen or heard nothing of her. But the fact that vessels not nearly so staunch as the French liner have weathered the gales that have swept the Atlantic for the past two weeks, has given heart and hope to those who can view the chances of the big steamer from an impartial standpoint. La Gascogne is now eight days over due. She has faced many a furious gale in the years that she has crossed the Atlantic, but never was bhe so tardy in reaching port. On October 26, 1891, she came into New York harbor, 920 souls on board, salt encrusted to the top of her fun nels. She was only twenty-four "hours late, but for four days and nights she had been in the grip of a hurricane. One day of such weather would have tested the staunchness of almost anything that floats, but La Gascogne wore out four days and n ghts of it and reached New York practically uninjured. It is such experiences that have given the agents in this city the confidence that their boat is still ploughiug the seas, or safe in some out of the wav harbor. ON .1 TWO OF -IHK CKEW LRFT, Terrible Suffering of the Men on the Louis V. Place Seven Dead. Fire Island. Feb. 11. Two men who clun for forty hours to the rig ging of their vessel off Fire Island beach, were rescued at midnight by the crew of the Lone Hill life saving station. Te vessel proved to be the Louis V. Place, Captain Squires, coal laden, from Baltimore to New York. She left Baltimore on January 28 and was wrecked during the height of the gale. Nine men took to the rigging when the vessel went down, an eighth of a mile off the shore and there- they clung in the raging blizzard, with the spray freezing as it dashed over them, until, one by one, seven of them sl.pped into the sea, or hung lifeless, bound to the rigginsr by a rope. Two only were able to endure the terribla exposure. They were S. J. Nelson, whose home is in Providence, R. I., and William Stevens, a Germen, of Rockland, Me. The rescued men are badly frostbitten and it is thought that Nelson will loe both feet. SAILOUS KEstUUD AT SEA. The Cmbria Ficks Up the Crew of the French liark Jean Raptiste. New York, Feb. 11. The Cunarder Umbria, Captain Dutton, which sailed from Liverpool February 2, reached quarantine at 11.42 yes terday morning. She brings no word of the La Gascoene. Shortly after noon yesterday the monster ocean greyhound passed quarantine, her shrouds and part of her hull covered with ice aud glistening like myriads of diamonds. Icicles-hung from her shrouds both fore and aft. From the top most edge of the bridge to the deck was one mass of gl ttering ice, and the lifeboats, davits and taffrails were covered with it. It was during the only spell of good weather on the vessel's voyage that she was enabled to rescue fourteen persons who were adrift in a water logged helpless bark, the Jean Baptiste. Covered ith Ice. Nk York, Feb. II. The Red Star line steanfchip Rhineland arrived in port yesterday. She was covered with a layer of solid ice three feet in thickness in many spots. The deck is altogether inaccessible, an d tons of water had been shipped over her sides and formed into ice on her decks. River Thames Frozen Over. London, Feb. 11. The cold con tinues unabated in England. Several rivers are frozen over, including the upper reaches of the Thames, where bicyclists are crossing on the ice. Fifteen Lives Lost. Halifax, N. S., Feb. 11. The Glou cester schooner Clara F. Friend, has been wrecked at Eastern Head on the Nova Scotia coast, and her entire crew of fifteen men lost. Kansas Flax of Good Quality. Fort Scott, Kan., Feb. 11. The flax tow factory which wa recently es tablished here as an experiment has developed the fact that Kansas flax straw is peculiarly adapted to the manufacture of tow and the company is preparing to equip the industry with weaving facilities. It is the first of the kind in the West and its success tie re bas opened a market for flax straw from fifty miles around. The farmer gets S3 per ton for his straw, which heretofore has largely gooe to waste. Two oth?r factories may soon be started in this state. For a Memorial to O II m ore. New York, Feb. 11. The Marine band of Washington will give an en tertainment at Madison Square garden to-morrow night in aid of the fund for a memorial to the late band lead er, P. S. Gilmore. Lord Randolph Churchill's Successor. London, Feb. 11. Mr. Fardel, Con servative, has been returned without opposition as a member of parliament for South Paddington. in succession to the late Lord Randolph Churchill 112 and 114 West 8th, Peerless Bteas Laundry. TEXAS FETE E LINE. JSnrean of Animal Industry Preparing a Map Denning the Boundaries. Washington, Feb. 11. In accord ance with the act of congress of May 29. 1894. the secretary of agriculture bas Issued to "managers and super intendents of railroads and trans portation companies of the United States, stockmen and others," the usual regulations concerning cattle transportation, to be in force from February 15 to December 1, next The principal difference between the regulations and those of last year lie in the fact that the Texas fever line, as it is called, has been extended westward to the Pacific coast. The principal change in the old Texas fever line affects the territory of Oklahoma, a large portion of the northwestern part of that territory which was formerly included within the line being now left outside. There are also some slight changes in the line in Missouri, Tennesssee and Virginia. The bureau of animal in dustry is preparing the map for 1S95, showing the Texas fever line in its entirety under the regulations, and it will be printed and ready for dis tribution as soon as possible. The regulations imposed upon the trans portation companies, stockmen and others with regard to the removal of cattle from south of this line do not differ from those in force last year. TRADES ASSEMBLY ACTS. They Express Their Views on Some State Matters. The Topeka Trades and Labor assem bly held a meeting Friday night and passed resolutions protesting against the rjlan to abolish the office of labor com missioner. Resolutions were also passed protest ing against the passage of auy l&W re ducing the fees of the state printer. The garnishment law wuicu win ex empt all salaries of less than $100 per month from garnishment was favored. A Southern Methodist Editor Dead. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 11. The Rev. Dr. W. D. Harrison died at Columbus, Ga., to-day, aged about 70 years. He was for many years sta tioned here as the book editor and editor of the Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal church, South. BUIEFS BY WIKE. Opponents to the Teller Indian bill are workiug for its defeat. John Dunbar was shot dead at New kirk, Ok., while stealing chickens. Fire at Aurora, Mo., destroyed the new Mercantile block. Loss $20,000. The loss feo the Florida orange crop by the storm is estimated at $10,000, 000. At Belleville. I1L, Annie Kahn was sentenced to hang for killing her hus band. At Richburg, Ky., Henry Denson was murdered by his stepson, Jean Burke. Experiments are being made in St. Louis with anti toxine as a cure for email pox. Most of the present week in the senate will be devoted to the appro priation bills. Two miners were blown to atoms at Palmyra. Ohio, by an explosion of giant powder. Henry T. Uinton was acquitted of the murder of Dr. W. H. Houghton at Benton City, Mo. Colonel Cody Bourne, aged 93, was married to Rose Brown, aged 16, at Lawrenceburg, Ky. The president signed the bill creat ing a new federal jngeship for the new Chicago district Ireland has experienced great snow storms. Snow in Dublin is three feet deep on the level. The mystery surrounding the mur der of the Tucker family, near Ard more, is still unraveled. Ex-Congressman Wade of Missouri is making a canvass for sergeant-at-arms of the next congress. Judge O. M. Spencer, of St. Joseph, Mo., and Miss Kstherine Turner of Columbia will be married March 5. That Governo" McKinley aspires to the United States senatorsnip from Ohio is political gossip in that state. An organized gang of freight car thieves has been broken up in St. Joseph and five of the men arrested. There seems to be no show for legislation to carry out Mr. Cleve land's recommendations for gold bonds. A bill was introduced in the Arkan sas legislature prohibiting the manu facture and sale of liquor in Ar kansas. A dispatch from Shanghai says that the Chinese have a total of 173, 000 troops in Manchuria opposed to 50,000 Japanese. Miss Jennie Hughes put gasoline instead of petroleum on wood in a stove and was fatally burned at Sedalia, Mo. It is not beyond the bounds of probability that 'Senator Peffer will be call d to preside over the senate as president pro tern. In Pensacola, Fla., Te mple Bethel the Jewish synagogue, was destroyed by fire. The organ and altar and ornaments were saved. The Blackwell mail coach was held up and robbed near Newkirk, Ok., by two men. One named Johnson was killed and the other captured. Policemen Healy and Moran of Chi cago have been given fourteen years in the penitentiary for killing a Swede who refused to treat them to whisky. The Kansas supremecourt has de clared unconstitutional the law under which western counties had been pay ing bounties for the killing of wolves, rabbits and gophers. At Louisville, Ky., fire completely gutted the Crescent tobacco ware house and Meyer, Bridge Ca's woodenware establishment. About 850 hogshead of tobacco were burned. The total loss is estimated at 8175, 0CO. An agricultural bulletin says farm animals in the United States are worth nearly $2,000 000,000; there are 15.000,000 horses, 2,500,000 mules, 50. 000,000 cattle, including 16,000,000 milch cows; 42,000,000 sheep and 44. 000,000 hogs. Peerless Steam Laundry Fearless Steam Laondrx. TRUE TO A TRUST. Mine is a railway family. One night, when It was Just time to get oat of the shed and take the o'clock express, one of the cleaners comes to me to say; 44 Jim, old So-and-so'a took suddenly bad, and the doctor says he won't do any more en gineering for days to come. You'd better -ae the superintendent." Well, I trots off to the office, and when I got there, to my big surprise, I found the boss talking to my brother Jack. He'd Just come in off a journey, and the super intendent was telling him he'd have to work the express through that night. "Here's your brother," says he, "will be with yon, and yon both of you know the road thoroughly well. You're about the only man on the spot that I can trust, and when I tell you that my own wife and lit tle ones are going down by the 7 o'clock you'll see how much confidence I have in you. Now, Jack, he'd never run an express before, but orders were orders, and we were nearly a minute behind as It was. So off we goes to the shed, Jack putting on the pea jacket he's just taken off and shouting to one of the lads to get him a tin bottle of tea and a crust. When we Etarted out, we were nearly three minutes over the time, and it was one of those journeys where we had to look lively at ordinary times. We had to pull np those minutes somewhere on the line, and we went in to make the engine do 'her level best over a bit of straight road when we knew everything would be clear for a run of 15 miles. We had got her np to a speed of over 60 miles an hour. We were fairly flying, and the old lady went leaping along like a greyhound. It's thundering hard work, let me tell you, is firing on a job like that. You'd hardly believe how the coals are gobbled up before yon've hardly got them into the furnace. And an engineer wants just two pairs of eyes and three hands, besides a cool brain, to look after his work, let me tell you. It looks easy enough to stand there and hang on to a lever and just keep your eyes open for signals, but an engine wants just as much humoring as a race horse, and the quicker you go the more she wants watching. Well, Jack had just started the whistle In the usual way as we ran into a tunnel two miles long when a dreadful thing hap pened. The connecting rod on the right side of the engine broke, and I just heard Jack give one terrific yell as he saw it fly np and inward, when something seemed to come down upon me like forty thousand tons of pain and blackness, and I knew no more about it. I never heard exactly how it happened, but Jack said that every thing seemed to go to pieces in front and around him, and he lost his senses too. He woke up presently it could only have been a second or two in awful ag ony, burned and scalded and almost blind, to find himself lying on the tender, with the flesh all peeled on his hands. And then he remembered how the engine waa rushing away to certain smash if he couldn't manage to get to the valve and shut off steam. He said afterward that he could see the whole of the people in the carriages, like as In a mental photograph, laughing and chatting and carrying on, unconscious of the danger in front of them, and especially he thought of the superintendent's little yellow haired baby and his good natured wife, cuddling up In each other's arms as we had seen them just before we started. How he did it he never could tell, for besides the rest of the damage one of his legs was badly broken, but he crawled down from the top of the coals, right into the blinding steam that kept on escaping from the broken gauge, and shut off the steam and wound down the brake. There was no Westinghouse then, and all we'd got was the old fashioned style of thing. When the frontguard jumped out to see what was the matter," he found that Jack had fallen insensible in the six foot way. As for me, they picked me np nearly a mile back of where the train came to a stand, and the two of us were taken away to the nearest house, while the guard went to the next signal box and got them to telegraph for help. It was many a weary week before I was able to get about, and poor Jack, he lay between life and death for weeks longer. But he pulled through, and I must say that all the time we lay sick nobody could have been kinder than the officials of the company. As soon as we could go they sent us down to Seatown, and there we lived like fighting cocks till we were on the upward grade again. At last, when we were just beginning to go for short walks together and pick up a bit, thero came a sudden message that we were wanted at a meeting in the com pany's room, and off we toddled, wonder ing what it could be about. When we got there, the room was nearly full of folks, and there was the chairman of the line and the mayor of the town on the plat form and a whole crowd of directors and other swells around them, with our super intendent and his wife and daughter. As soon as we entered there was such a hooray as you never heard before, and we were pushed along to the platform and helped up the steps before we'd time to ask a question. Then they gave us a seat each, and the chairman of the line he got up to 6peak. Well, to cut it short, it turned out there'd been a collection made, and there was a gold watch and chain for Jack on the table, and a silver ditto for me, and a nice new silk purse chock full of money for my brother, and a crisp $50 note for yours truly. Then Jack, he gets np and rubs the tears away with his sleeve, aDd he lifts up the child and kisses her.. But be wouldn't take the money. Instead of that he takes hold of one ringlet of her pretty hair and says quite quietlike, "Can I have this in stead, ma'amf" And the superintendent's wife, she says. "To be sure you can!" And then they cheered again and again till you'd have thought the roof would split, and Jack and me were driven home to our lodgings in the mayor's carriage, and there was no end of a to da And when we were well enough there was a big dinner in Jack's honor among the peo ple of the town, and another from the Aquarium people, and free tickets for us to everything in the place, and the ladies were sending him presents of books and a harmonium and all kinds of nice things till you couldn't rest until the nine days' wonder was over. And then they forgot us just as punctually as they always do in Did I refuse to take my $50 bill What do you think No. I always admired Jack, both before and since those times, but if ever there was a soft hearted fool well, no matter. We're not all made ct the same metal, you see, and p'rhaps it's as well we're not It's all over and done with bow Exchange. MASONIC Pete Gerard, Founder of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem 3?otea The brave Godfrey de Bouillon and his undaunted crusaders captured the city of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099, after a siege of six weeks. During the siege such Christians as remained in the city were Imprisoned. Among those imprisoned was the rector or administrator of the Hospital of St. John, a Frenchman named Peter Gerard, native of the island otMartlgues, In Provence. Upon Godfrey's first visit to the house of the hospitalers he found Peter Gerard at the head of the adminis tration. He also found many wounded crusaders being cared for by the hospital ers. Returning crusaders spread the fame of the hospitalers, and Pope Pascal II, at the request of Peter Gerard, the adminis- PETER GERARD. trator of the Hospital of St John, con firmed the new institution 4 to his venera ble son Gerard, founder and master of the hospital of Jerusalem, and to his lawful successors forevermore," in a bull bearing date of March 15, 1113. It is recorded that Peter Gerard erected another hospital, which be dedicated to John the Baptist, and placed it in charge of Bro. Raymond du Puy, and it was here that the order which became known as "Hospitalers, or Knights of St John" was founded. Peter Gerard died in 1118, Raymond du Puy be ing Immediately and unanimously elected his successor. Voice of Masonry. The Masonic record of Detroit dates back to 1761, when a military lodge was in ex istence there, under an English charter. At that time Detroit was simply a frontier post, in the heart of the wilderness. Zion lodge, the oldest now in existence in the city, dates back consecutively to 1794. The annual report of the Pennsylvania Masonio home shqwed cash contributions amounting to $27,000, exclusive of sup plies and provisions valued at $400. One donation of $12,000 was received from Mrs. Abbie Queen for the erection of the proposed new addition to the borne. Ohio lodges have "a net increase in mem bership of 728 the past year. The present membership Is 38,851. The salary of the grand secretary is only $1,500, with no assistant. The Scottish Rite of England has con tributed nearly $25,000 for Masonic char ities in the last 20 years. The Masons of Cuba have sent a contri bution to the grand lodge of Wisconsin to aid the sufferers by the forest fires. RED MEN. Laws For Degree of Pocahontas Around the Council Fire. A code of laws for the government of great councils of the degree of Pocahontas was adopted by the last great council, but it omitted to abrogate existing statutes. Thus certain powers seem to be given the Independent organization and government of the great councils of the degree of Po cahontas, which yet remain, by previous statute, in other control. The only authorized diploma, Red Men's chart or certificate of membership is the one issued by the great council of the United States, to be procured only through the great chief of records of each state great council. It was ordered by the great sun council that hereafter the great chief of records Bhall accept only eastern exchange, United States money orders, express money orders or United States currency in payment for per capita tax or for supplies. The laws of the great council provide that all reports and per capita dues shall be sent to its great chief of records not lat er than tha first sun of corn moon. In the case recorded at the last great council the report and tax of a state great council ar rived while the great sun council fire was burning, end therefore 12 suns behind time, and the ruling was made that said payment did not entitle said state great council to representation. A. and I. O. Knights of Malta. Palestine commandery, No. 153, of Brooklyn, Ancient and Industrious Order Knights of Malta, under the immediate jurisdiction of the supreme grand com mandery of the continent of America, with headquarters at Philadelphia, which, in turn, derives its charter from the imperial parent grand black encampment of the universe, with headquarters at Glasgow, was recently mstitutea. Three new commanderies have been in stituted in Minnesota and Wisconsin. There are now 157 commanderies in 13 states and Canada. The American body pays an annual tax to the Imperial parent encampment of Scotland and receives an annual password admitting a Knight of Malta into any com mandery in the world. Supreme Commander Rugh has made the following appointments of deputy su preme commanders: Wisconsin, Sir N. A Chamberlain; Minnesota, Sir Melvin A. Wolcott. The new command in Brooklyn will be under the care of Sir William J. Duff, who is D. S. C. for New York. United Order of Foresters. The annual session of the high court of Dliiiois was held in Chicago, with 60 dele gates present. The following officers wero elected: High chief ranger, Z. L. Barn hart; high vice chief ranger, A. W. Put nam; past high chief ranger, Theodore Worland; high secretary, T. H. Waites; high treasurer, James Duekhouse; high counselor, A. E- Whitney; high physi cian, H. M. Cowan. The report of the secretary shows hatL the membership has doubled in Illinois since Sept 1.

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STATE JOTTRXATi, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1895. MYSTERIES! The Nervous System the Seat of Life and Mind. Recent Wonderful Discoveries. TCo mvsterv has ever compared with that of hnmSp It tobeen the leading subject ofTrofeksfonil rSarch and study in all aes. But notwXtkadina this fact it not gener- that the seat of life is loca- tf.fi in i.hfii UD- per part of the spinal cord, near the base of the brain, and so sensi tive is this portion of the nervous sys tem that even the prick of a needle will cause instant death. i tmAutiinnctrntptl that all the organs of the body are under the con trol of the nerve centers, located in or near he base of the brain, and that when l these. are deranaea the organs which they supply with nerve fluid are also deranpd. When ic is re membered that a serious injury to the sp al cord will caue paralysis of the boJV bt low the injuria point, because the nerve force is prevented by the iniury from reaching the palalyzed portion, it Wilf be understood how the derangement of the nerve center will cause t he 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 organ it self The great mistake of physicians in treating these diseases Is that they treat the oran rather than the nerve centers which are the cause of the trouble. Dr. Franklin Mii.es, the celebrated spe ctalist.has profoundly studied this subject for over 20 vears, and has made mauy 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 headache, dizzi- v ltus aancc. eic ur-j uei uu3 ui.-.... matter how caused. The wonderful success of Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine is due to the furt that it is based on the foregoing principle. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervin e la sold by all druggists on a positive guarantee, or sent direct by Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lnd., on receipt of price, il per bottle, six bottles for express prepaid. It contains neither onia es nor danaerous drugs. for Sale by all Drnjsht SILVER LEAF TOMATO CATSUP Is antiseptic and should be used at your meals regu larly. For sale by lead ing grocers. SUPERIOR. in design and execution, and in the quality of material, STANDARD. CHARLES WORRALL, 807 KANSAS AVE. "HOLLY SPRINGS ROUTE" To Florida via St. Louis Carlo Short Line. From St Louis, the Illinois Central railroad to Holly Springs, Iv. C, M. B, the Southern railway and F. C. P. rail road toJacksonville and all Florida points. This. new route is the quickest line to Birmingham, and a direct route to Atlan ta, Macon, Charleston, Savanuah and all southeastern points. Through Pullman buffet sleeping cara, Bt. Louis to Jacksoaville, Fla. Call on your nearest ticket agent for our "Florida Folder" and full informa tion regarding this new route, or address Geo. E. Lart, General Passenger Agent, St Louis, Mo. ROCK ISLAND ROUTE. Home Seekers' Excursion. February 12 round trip one fare plu3 $2 to Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Sew Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mis souri Good returning 20 days, stop overs. For particulars call on or address Rock Island City Ticket Agents. Hoimeseekers' Kxcamion. On February 12, 1895, the Union Pa cific will sell tickets from Nebraska and Kansas points to all points in Kansas. Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and iuauo, at race oi one tare for the round trip, plus $3.00. Tickets good 2) days. Stop-overs allowed. See your nearest Union Pacific agent E. L. Lomax, G. P. and Ticket Agent. E. Dickinson. General Manager. All K.ind of Machines repaired, work guaranteed. At Babcock Frost's, 701 Kansas ave. 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. AU others have from 25 to 3a Sold by W. R, Kennady. Bezs' German Salve. The household remedy. Every family should keep it for cuts, burns, bruises, and inflammation of all kinds. W. It Kennady keeps a fall supply, Topeka Snan Laundry. 625 Jackson street The State Journal's Want and Mis cellaneous columns reach each working day in the week more than twice as many Topeka people as can be reached through any other paper. This is a fact. 682 calls ud ttua Peerleaa bhi TRY -t-- .a "BY DIRECT VOTE The Resolution from the Legis lature of Kansas, Favoring Election of U. S. Sen ators by the People, IS PRESENTED TODAY. Minnesota's Legislature Joins in the Request. Chicago's Public Building Bill Goes to the President. Washington, Feb. 11. The senate amendments to the Chicago public build ing bill were agreed to by the house to day. The Denver mint bill was called up by Chairman Bland of the coinage, weights and measures committee. Mr. Pence (Pop. Cola) spoke of the advantages to be gained from coining gold at the Denver assay office because large quantities of gold are mined in the surrounding country. In reply to questions from Mr. Dingley (Rep. Maine) he explained that the officers would be given the same com pensation received by those at Carson City, .Nevada, branch mint. It was agreed that a vote should be taken on the bill at the end of the session today. Mr. Somers (Dem., Wis.) was at his re quest relieved of duty on the committee on public lands and Mr. Caminetti (Dem.. Cal.) appointed to till the vacancy. T he house then went into the commit tee of the whole and resumed the con sideration of the legislative appropria tion bills. In the Senate. Washington, Feb. il. The creden tials of Mr. Hoar for another term in the senate beginning March 4 next, the fourth term for Mr. Hoar, were pre sented to the senate today by his col league Mr. Lodge. JVir. Davis (Rep. Minn.) submitted res olutions from the legislature of Minne sota, characterizing the railroad pool ing bill as an effort to legalize a giganic trust and requesting the Minnesota senators and representatives to work against the measures. Meas ures were presented by which the legis latures of Kansas and Minnesota express themselves in favor of the election of U. S. senators iy direct vote of the people. The senate agreed to the conference re port on the bill for the removal and set tlement of the southern Ule Indians. A FORMAL PROPOSITION. Pacific Railroads Ofr.sr to Pay the Princi pal of Their Debt. Washington, Feb. 11. The house committee on Pacific railroads gave a hearing today to representatives of the companies. E. Eilery Anderson, re ceiver and government director of the Union Pacific, A. A. H. Boise vane, who represents large foreign holders of the same company, and C. H. Tweed of the Central Pacitio presented the proposition of the corpora tions to settle their government debts by the payment of principal thereon, an arrangement by which the Union Pacific would pay the United States about $33,500,000 and the Central Pacific about $27,500,000. Rep resentatives of large interests in -ew York City have communciated with Chairman Reilly, among them Pres ident Fitzgerald of the Mercantile Trust company and J. P. Morgan, a member of the reorganization committee whoae dis patches were read today asserting that a bill authorizing the secretary of the treasury to accept cash payment of the principal of the Union Pacific debt in full satisfaction of all claims upon it would be accepted and carried out by the company. The prop osition was formally made by Mr. Roise vain for the Union Pacific today. Mr. Anderson said that the recommittal of the Reilly bill by the house without action, and the fail ure of congress to give the executive branch of tne country any instructions as to the protection of government inter ests left the whole matter in a very un satisfactory condition. The Central Pacific representative, Mr. Tweed, was not prepared to make the same proposition in behalf of that com pany, but said that if the parties who might advance the principal of the debt could be protected by holding the government lieu as security for their ad vances, the same terms could be carried out by the Central Pacific. Such securi ty was necessary in his opinion on ac count of existence of the liens prior to the government lien. The result of such plan, he argued, would protect the government against its obligations to pap the currency sixes. OVERDOES IT. The Sunday Closing Law in Detroit Cannes Hunger. Detroit, Mich., Feb.. IL The efforts of the civic federation here in closing all saloons on Sunday, resulted in the clos ing of half the restaurants of the city, and the consequent inconvenience of the people who eat in them'.' The state liquor law requires that all rooms opening into saloons shall be sub ject to the same regulations as the latter, and that restaurants, pool and billiard rooms, cigar stores and the like, which adjoin saloons by doors or other passage ways must be closed during all the hours that the law closes the bar. In insisting upon an enforcement of the law to the letter the federation and the police have made half the restau rant eaters in the city go hungry today, and have created a howl that the law be amended so that the restaurants may lawfully remain open on Sundays. Take a trip to Europe with Hon. C C Baker, at Unity church, Wednesday nights, 25 cents pays for the entire jour ney. See the kinetscope on exhibition at Woolverton's, 703 Kansas avenue. Among the muscal features of the Flambeau club benefit Thursday evening, will be Marshall's band and the Lotus quartette. See the kinetscope on exhibition at Woolverton's, 703 Kansas avenue. A NOVEL PHILANTHROPY. The Log Cabin College Settlement In the Mountain! of North Carolina. The latest movement in feminine philanthropy is the log cabin col lege settlement proposed for erec tion in the mountains of North Caro lina, not very far from the famous Vanderbilt castle. Miss Chester, a sister of the organ master of St. George's church, and who spends the greater part of every year in the North Carolina wilds, has offered her idea for development among the earnest young women in New York who wonld be interested in the men tal and moral advancement of their mountain sisters. She has found them, she says, as needy in spiritual and intellectual elevation as the wo men of the slums. Education and the refining influences have not yet pen etrated to those barren but bsautif.ul regions, where ignorance unhappily does not produce the bliss of sim plicity or a wholesome, robust, and pastoral existence. Therefore the -necessity of carrying some light to the women of the isolated uplands. The plan is to build a fiue, large log cabin, "fill it with good books, pictures, and the suggestion of what the mountaineer's wife and daughter could do in the way of softening and refining even her crude surroundings. The gospel of teaching through friendly intercourse is to be closely adhered to as in the slums, with a broader seope for the best sort of phil anthropic work than has yet been found anywhere in this country. The mountain vvomsn are, first of all, Americans; they are not unintelli gent, they have strong and correct principles of duty, and if rightly ap proached, Miss Chester and those who share the log cabin have every prospect of finding more rapid response to their improving sugges tions than the foreign -bred class in the city ever gave. COMPRESSED WOOD. A Practical and Inexpensive Substitute for Certain Sorts of Hard Wood. The advance in the price of some of the hard woods required iu various special branches of trade has directed attention to the possibility of produc ing some less expensive material as a substitute, and in one branch of trade this has been carried out with very successful results. For the manu facture of loom shuttles boxwood has hitherto be n very largely used, but the price of this kind of wood has be come almost prohibitive, and it has been found that by compression of cheaper classes of timber teak being about the most suitable for this pur pose a substitute meeting all the re quirements can be obtained. For carrying out this purpose a Manchester firm has ;just com pleted a powerful hydraulic press to be used in compressing timber for loom shuttles. The press consists of a strong cast iron top and bottom, with four steel columns and a steel cylinder, with a large ram. In the center of this ram is fitted a sim ilar one, with a rectangular he.id, fit ting into a die which is placed ou the top of the large ram. The timber is put into this die, and a pressure of fourteen tons per square inch is ap plied. The pressure is then relieved, and the large ram descends. The top pressure block, which fits the die, is then removed, and the small ram, rising, pushes the timber out at the top of the die. The timber so treated is made very dense and uniform, and so close grained that it is capable of taking a very high finish. For the manufacture of shuttles it has been found as good as boxwood, and there is no doubt it will be applied to other branches of industry where expen sive hard woods have to be used. Hop Kedl. In the good old colony times, and even later, the hop pillow was pre scribed for sleeplessness, and now it is a hop bed which is to cure insom nia, to use the word exhumed from Plantus to serve the needs of pathol ogy. The hop bed is about as com fortable as the corn-husk mattress of the county farm-house, but it is fondly supposed to bring slumber. Hops and skips are natural compan ions, so it may be proper to say here that a London doctor introduced skip ping as a form of exercise especially adapted to professional women who have not much time. Imagine a com pany of teachers, actresses, female doctors, artists, with a stray female minister, perhaps, skipping merrily through a public street! Cleopatra's forty paces of hopping would be a trifle by comparison. A Chance for Inventors. "I dare say," remarked Mr. Bill tops, "that sometime somebody will make a fortune by inventing some thing that will enable us to get a straight part in our hair the first time. Everybody knows that often though we try and try again the part still looks more like a zigzag streak of lightning than a straight part, and we lose much time in this way, and sometimes we lose our temper. What a blessing the hair parter will be, a simple and inexpensive contrivance that will need to be passed over the head but once, giving a straight part every time." A. Sndden Kise in Price. Maurice Thompson tells of a certain buyer of sheep who went into the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, where the following dramatie inci dent took place between him and a grim mountaineer who had one ewe for sale: Buyer That ewe is worth about seventy-five cents. Mountain eer Hit air wo'th jest a dollar 'n' er half. Buyer You are joking; the old thing is lean and Mountaineer, drawing a nuge pistol and cocking it Stranger, w'at did ye say 'at that air ewe was wo'th? Buyer, briskly Nigh on to ST is what 1 said. y?vi7 f PlMalM NOT -THAT KIND. fVl VjJ f Colonel Gilder Wasn't Particular Enough In His Directions. Cclou'el W. H. Gilder in his spare moments indulges in a homestead in quaint old Bordentown, N. J., and rev els in "hip" roofs, large open fireplaces and antique mantels. In charge of the old place are a Mrs. Watson and her husband. Watson is a skilled mechanic, but has a disposition which divorced him from work years ago. He also has a thorough Jerseyman's thirst for liquor. "I went down to the old place several days ago, says Colonel Gilder, "just to look around and have a good chicken dinner. I took a friend along, enticing him by my description of Mrs. Watson's cooking. "Now, I have those old fireplaces, and I concluded to get some wood for winter use. "'How much wood will I need,' I asked Watson. 'Well,' replied that worthy, 'yon can get a 1 load or a 2 load. I reckon a $2 load will about carry you through. 'Well, here's 2. Go and get a $3 load,' I answered, and he disappeared. In doing this I broke a practice of nev er giving this man a cent. "About two hours later I looked out of the window, and there beheld Wat eon, with maudlin gravity, trying to navigate his way through the gate into the grounds. "I had neglected to tell him what kind of a $2 load I wanted him to get. -Life's Calendar. She Found a Way. The wife of a gentleman living on the west side has recently opened a bank account much to her delight. Her husband has been in the habit of indors ing over to her small checks that he re ceived in his business and which in the course of a few days would accumulate into a fair deposit. The bank where the account is kept is some distance from the house, so, at the husband's sugges tion, the wife has been in the habit of mailing the checks. The other day, however, her husband gave her $50 in small bills, and after expressing her surprise and gratification she exclaimed: "Dear me, I almost wish you had given it to me in checks. I can't send all this money by mail. Her preoccupied better half thought no more about the matter until the next day, when it occurred to him to ask his wife if she had found time to go to the bank and leave the money. "Oh, dear, no," she replied smiling ly. "I found a better way than that. I just sent them a check for the amount. New York Sun. Very Much Occupied. Witherby Did you sew the buttons on those shirts I laid out this morning? Mrs. Witherby I'm sorry to say I didn't. Witherby And I dor' suppose you've had time to crease those trousers I spoke about? Mrs. Witherby No, dear. The truth is Witherby How about those socks of mine that needed darning? Haven't you touched them? Mrs. Witherby No. I Witherby Exactly. And I don't suppose you've given a thought to that hole that is in the lining of my dress coat. Mrs. Witherby Oh, yes, I did. But I'vo been so busy. Witherby Busy! What on earth have you been doing? Mrs. Witherby I'vo been down town getting fitted for a pair of bicycle bloom ers. New York World. A Time to Fight. The little fellow had been told never to strike back. He came in much the worse for an encounter wholly peaceful on his part. "Who have you been fight ing with?" asked his mother Bternly. "Nobody," he smiled serenely. "That little wee fellow's been a-fighting at me. And if you hadn't told me not to strike back he'd have been littler'n ever when I was done. Say, mamma, ain't it right to fight when such a little wee fellow hits me?" Boston Transcript. No Doubt of It. Smith I see where a Rhode Island man has successfully experimented with an airship. What do you think of it? Jones Rhode Island, eh? Hum, well, I call that flying in the face of Provi dence. New York World. One Route. She I notice that the Lightleys are becoming prominent in New York so ciety. Where did they come from? He From New York via London. Harlem Life. She Was an Artist. Chimmey Say, Maggie, you're a wonder when it comes to cooking. You oughten ter be wasten yer accomplish ments here, f er the way you kin cook fancy dishes like liver and bacon is a perfect dream. Truth. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report. NEW YORK DISGRACED. Eansas May Have a Hairy Senator, But Now York's Goes to Cockfiglitx. New York, Feb. 11. A correspond ent publishes the following: "One of the passions of Senator Mur phy of New York is cock fighting. I am told that he would much rather miss a caucus than a shindy between game roosters. When he was seeking a resi dence here, a real estate agent escorted him around and showed him a number of available buildings. Many suited, but none of them exactly satisfied. Tha agent finally took him to Stanford's house. They went through it, the agent extolling the apartments, the arrange ments of the building, the decorations, and its delightful location. Murphy fol lowed him through the house listlessly, out into the back yard, and into the sta ble. This latter building is about the best arranged of its kind in Washington. The loft, in fact, is a good, sizable hall. When Murphy saw it his eyes glistened, he became animated, clapped his hands with delight, and exclaimed, 'My God, what a beautiful place for a cocking main! How much did you say the rent was, Mr. Agent?' And then and there a bargain was struck." yj ROTARY FLOWS FAIL. They Can KotCat Open the Drifts in West ern New York. Oswkgo, N. Y., Feb. 11. The big storm which haw been raging for a week, shows no signs of abatement. The ther mometer has averaged about 10 below zero with the wind 30 or 40 miles an hour for several days. The street cars are at a standstill and traffic on the Ontario Western railroad has been abandoned since Thursday. Only two trains from New York have come over the D. L. W. in three days. The Rome and Watertown is tied up a3 well us the Central's Oswego and Syracuse division. The rotary plows are unable to force their way through the drifts, all break ing down in the attempt. Batavia, N. Y., Feb. 11. The storm of the past few days hm broken. Trains due here Saturday at 3 o'clock p. m. from the east which were snow bound about five miles east of here, arrived last evening over a day late. Other trams followed as rapidly as local en gines could return for them, the regular engines being "dead. The first two trains to arrive contained over 20 J pas sengers. PLAYED KATE FIELD. An Adventuress Obtains Money by Imper sonating: the Publisher of "Washing ton." Dbtboit, Mich., Feb. 11. Ismena T. Martin, who, dispatches say, is wanted in Denver for forgery and other offenses, has had a remarkable career for so young a woman. She is not more than 25 years old, and began to get into public notice at her home here about four years ago. Various blackmail schemes on prominent men were worked with suc cess, but things finally became so warm that she had to leave town. She next appeared in Cleveland where she raised considerable money by falsely impersonating Mr3. Frank Leslie and Kate Field. Then she fled to New York and was sentenced to prison for a black mailing scheme, but pardoned shortly afterward owing to her youth. About a year ago she returned home and began the publication of a weekly paper, bhe raised considerable money through this and went west. Her parents are quite respectable people. TO STANDING ROOM ONLY A Woman Pronounces a Funeral Oration Over Her Dead Husband. Geasd Rapids, Mich., Fro, 11. A wife eulogizing the memory of her husband was an occurrence at the funeral of Isaac M. Turner yesterday afternoon. Mr. Turner died Tuesday in Washington, where he had gone on legal business. He was widely known in politics and legal circles, and the funeral was so largely attended that the doors had to be closed. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Allen W. Gould of Oacago, and Dr. Campbell Fair, and when they had concluded, Mrs. Turner entered the room unattended and unexpected. Tak ing a position at the head of the coffiic, for half an hour spoke ot the virtues of the dead. She spoke eloquently and from her heart, yet while many in the room were in tears she did not show emotion until near the close. A Vitriol Fiend. Chicago, 111., Feb. 11. Jealousy caus ed Charles E. Reynolds, colored, 28 years old, to throw vitriol in the face of Ella Yates, colored, 21 years old, last night. A physician said the young woman would lose the sight of both eyes. Mrs. Wayland, president of the Rebec ca Assembly of the state of Kansas, will deliver an address to the Rebecca lodges of this city, this evening, at Odd Fellows' temple. Card of Thank. We hereby desire to return our sin cere thanks to our many friends who rendered such kind assistance and for favors shown during the sickness and death of our wife and mother. F. E. McKeo.n, -Mr-j. J. E. Kraus. Cousb. and Cough and Cough. But if you desire 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 $1.00. A posi tive guarantee with every bottle. Sold by W. R. Kennady. We put on new neckbands on shirts Peerless Steam Laundry,, Ui and 114 West Eighth street j See the kinetscope on exnioition at 1 Woolverton's, 703 Kansas avenue. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Furnished by the Associated Press to tns State Journal. Chicago, Feb. IL Wheat was easy todav. The cables, which were lower. were principally responsible for the weakness, but the seaboard was a free seller at the start aiding in the decline. At the low prices there was some buying and a moderate reaction resulted. May ooened 16c lower at 53c and reacted to 53& Corn was easv m sympathy with wheat and on selling by longs. May opened unchanged at 44 40, touched 448c, and reacted to 43c. Oats were dull but about steady on moderate buying. May opened un changed at 29c, touched 288 c an(l re acted to the opening price. Provisions were weak on heavy hog receipts. May pork opened 171c lower at $9.85. and reacted to $9.93. May lard sold at $6.50 and ribs at $5.15. Wheat Feb. 505s'c; Mav 53; July 54o4c. Corn i'eh. 42c; May, 445gc; July 44448c; Sept U4c. Oats Feb. 2Sc, May, SSJjjc; June 2828c; July 27c. Pokk February $9.90; May, $10.15. Lakd February, $6 47; May,$6.62K. Ribs February $5.07J; May $5.27i; July $5.42J. lloas Estimated receipts today.65,000; official yesterday 23,665; shipments 9,888; leftover 7,000;"eastimated receipts tomor row 34,000. Trade slow, prices 2530o lower. Lights, $3.65400; mixed pack ers, $3.70410; heavy shipping, $&75 4.20 rough, $3 753.90. Cattlb Estimated receipts today 17,0uU; official yesterday, 1,305; ship ments, 761. Market slow; prices weak to 10c lower. Sheep Estimated receipts today, 17,0'J0; official yesterday, 5,085; ship ments 501. Market generally 10c lower. Kansas City tlarttec Kansas City, Feb. 11. Cattle Re ceipts, 6,100; shipments, 3,000. Mar ket steady. Texas steers, $2.3040); Texas cows, $1.502.80; Colorado steers, $2.00400; beef steers, $a005.OU; na tive cows, $1.()03.75; stockers and feed ers, $2.5a3.70; bulls, $1.503.65. Hogs Receipts, 12,200; shipmenti, 700. Market opened 1025c lower, closed 510c hiirher than opening. Bulk of sales 3.753.9; heavies $3.754.(!0; packers $3.70400; mixed, $3.503.85; lights, $3.5o3.80; yorkers, $&70)3.80; pigs $a353.65. Shekp Receipts, 7,6'J'J; shipmeatj 400. Market steady. Wheat Very quiet No. 2 hard 52 o24- No. 2 red, 5252c; rejected, 4748c. Sales by sample on 'change f. o. b. Mis sissippi river. No. 2 hard 575Sc; No. 2 red 57c58c. Corn c lower; No. 2 mixed, 40J 40Jc; No. 2 white, 40i41. Oats Steady. No. 2 mixed, 284'29c; No. 2 white, 30c. Rye Firm. No. 2, 52c. Flax Seed Dull; $1.331.3L Bran Steady at 6668c. Hay Steady and unchanged. Butter Firmer; creamery, 1722c; dairy 1215a Eggs Stead at 2324c Sfew Vork Snjar Market. New York, Feb. 11. Sugar Raw. weak; fair refining, 2 ll-16c; centrifugal 96 test, 44 3-l6c; granulated, 3 13-16 3 15-16&

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. See the kinetscope on exhibition at Woolverton's, 703 Kansas avenue. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. ANTED A student; Graham system of shorthand, to read two hours a day; state price. X W Journal office, city. LOST One sealskin mitten; linuerwm corner will confer a favor by leaving at Funnan's shoe store. THE KANSAS MUTUAL LIFE OF TOPEKA, SZAS. JOHN P. DAVIS, i President. STATEMENT For the year ending December 31, 1S9-1. INCOME. Received in premiums $is7,4is.r4 From all other sources 1 1 .lKM.L'4 Total receipts $199,322.73 DISBURSEMENTS. To policy-holders $SS.ll5.81 For ail omer arauuuu Total disbursements $158,276.71 ASSETS. Loans on mortgage, first lien on real estate $u3,49a.0O Value of bonds owned ah- solutelv ii.ooj.oo ..'rVt.ii. -irwl li;ml.i 54.112.07 Accrued interest, deferred premiums, eic iZ',.: ,7. AU other assets l,,ooi.-o $203,782.61 89.178.46 Reserve fo'r 'policies and oiner naoinnes Surplus $174,604.15 Insurance assumed and renewed, $8,348,000.00 JOHN E. KOON, Secretary. C. A. STULTZ, DENTIST. Over Dudley's BanV. 519 KANSAS AVE. Topeka, Kaa

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STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1 1, 1895. The State Journal CSolAl ?per of tha tttj of Topfcfc Bx Fbak P. MacLkkkajl rsaais or stjbsssiptio. Tillj edition, dellTerei Toy earrlsr, 19 isnta week to tnj part of Topei or inhnrbi, or at the lame prioe ia any Kansas tows where this paper has a car rier gyitem. By mail, three months t .80 Sy mail, one year 3.63 Weekly Edition, per'year 60 HOW WE GROW. THREE JANUARYS. The Topeka Daily State Journal. fle&rW 1 0,000 NoW. 9,478. The Issues of the Topeka Daily Statu Journal for January, 1891, January, 1893, and January. 1895, were as follows: J?n. 1891 Jan. 1893 Jan. 1895 l.. 2. 8. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. IS. 19. 20. 21. 125 135 135 8.723 8,748 8.752 8.735 8,762 350 ,5fd 35.1 ,750 ,800 ,100 135 ,135 135 185 .350 2s0 9.000 9.156 9,308 9,500 9,310 9.318 100 55 J 400 -DO 50O ,600 410 ,550 f 35 810 ,790 MO 9.693 9.8J7 9.808 9.811 9,839 9.63-2 ,800 ,av Sit) 700 ,vn ,:.0J .160 S30 ,400 ,430 ,410 4J5 110 180 910 7 3 775 6-5 9.P47 9,800 9.807 9.843 9.817 9,8.6 9.710 9,700 1:8. 24. 25. 26. 500 ilk) ,6 0 ,500 ,ii j.) ,500 28. 29. ,700 500 9.7 18 9.800 M .5,909 Totals... 106,285 172,100 uo issue. The iibove is a correct rennrt of thn Isomi nf the Iopeka Daily Statu Journal m the momlis of January, 1801, Jauuiyy. 1893. aud January, 189".. ajd hows a ial:v average of 8.936, 6,619 and 9,47 8 for the respec. to months named. (Signed) Editor and Proprietor. Sworn to an4 subscribed Feb. 11 1395. SfiALj E. M. COCKREiLL. Clerk of the District ':ourt, Shawnee County, Kansas. How We Grew: In the year 1885, the circulation was. 800 January 1. 1891. were prin d 3,125 J'aiiy average for year 1391 4,330 Daily averaga for year 1892. 5,o69 Daily average for year 1893 6.213 Daily average for ye.ir I8t 8.418 Daily average for last six months 1894..". 8.852 Weather Indiratloa. Chicago, Feb. 11. Forecast for Kan sas: Fair tonight and Tuesday; north west winds. R. G. Don Co. call attention to the fact that under the new tariff law the importation of foreign wool has not materially increased over that of a corresponding period under the McKinley law. While congress has not done anything for the benefit of the people it has not lost any opportunity to spend money. The house has just passed a bill which will give each member a clerk through out the year instead of during the ses sion as formerly. The salary is $100 a month. The national senate has passed a bill appropriating $500,000 to commence the laying of a cable to Hawaii As it is to be done by the government the Popu lists voted for it. They can always be depended upon to support any measure on the line of their hobby, government ownership of public utilities. Thb National Farmers' Allianoe, in Its annual session at Raleigh, N. Q, made some changes in the "Ocala De mands" which have done duty now for three years. The demand for govern ment ownership of railroads has been so changed as to apply only to enough mileage to put the government in control of the establishment of rates. Not satisfied with trying to ape England' financial system. President Cleveland has attempted another inno vation in American politics which is thoroughly English in its origin. It is the system of having legislation origi nate with the head of the government. It worked very well in the case of the re peal of the Sherman law, because he was able to enforce his wishes by the use of the patronage at his disposal. It was a partial success in the case of the tariff bill, because a majority of the members of the house had been elected on a dis tinctively tariff reform issue. When it came to having hia English gold stand ard ideas of curreucy engrafted on the financial system, however, the presi dent failed. Congress drew the line then and there, and it will probably be a long time before another chief magis trate attempts to Anglicize our American methods of law making. That waa rather an amusing state ment made by Representative Cole of Barton when he said that gsod citizens are some times on trial for violating the prohibitory law and that the rock pile is a disgraceful punishment It is an un usual thing for violators of law to be styled good citizens. What then consti tutes a bad citizen? To be sure there is a possibility that a good citizen who was not guilty might be on trial for violation of th prohibitory law, but if he were innocent he would be in no danger of the rock pile. There has probably never been an instance in the state where an Innocent man haai been arrested for sell ing liquor contrary to law. In perhaps majority of cases the state has failed to prove the charge or the offender has escaped punishment in some other way, but he has been none the less guilty. Because a man violates the law and escapes punishment it does not follow that he should be classed as a good citizen. Russell (Kaa.) Journal: The Topeka Statb Journal has been roasting the state officers and members of the legisla ture in the part they took at the banquet of Lucien Baker, the United States senator-elect, in consuming 300 bottles of champagne. It ia currently reported that quite a number felt the affects of the liquor consumed. If these reports are correct, and we have good reasons for believing they are, they are de serving of a roasting to a finish. It cer tainly does not look consistent for a leg islative body and state officers who be lieve and approve of prohibitory state laws, to go on a banqueting trip where intoxicating liquors now as free as wa ter. 'It practically amounts to saying: "Vfe believe in prohibition when applied to the other fellows." Because the liq uor was drank at a fashionable or high toned banquet, and that too by our state officials and law making bodies, does not make a particle of difference. If a lot of the "common herd" had done this in an ordinary place, some of these same legislators and officials would want to have a law passed to prevent it. Be fair, gentlemen, and give other people the same rights which you take yourselves. If prohibition is the correct thing, all should obey the laws making it so. WHAT AILii TUi LAV f What is the occasion of all these tamp- erings with the prohibitory liquor law which the legislature has been indulg ing in? Who wants it changed except its enemies? The present law was en acted by the friends of prohibition and is entirely satisfactory to them when en forced. If it can't be enforced how is a different law to be enforced any better? The prohibitory law waa enacted for the purpose of preventing the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage When enforced it will do that, and nothing more should be desired by its friends. Why then, should a less stringent law be urged? It is claimed by some who assume to be friends of prohibition that a modified law would be easier of enforcement. Would it not also be less effectual? After all is not this the motive which actuates ail who are desirous of a change? Prohibitionists are not asking for any change in the law and they should be ware of false friends. Neither of the leading parties of the state demanded any modification of the law in their last year's platforms. There are, therefore, no party obligations in the matter. The Populists have very wisely let the prohibition question alone ever since the formation of the party. It may be depended upon that any party that shall do anything to weaken the law will be held to a strict accountability by the peo ple of the state. One of the- changes proposed "in the interest of better enforcement," is to make the pecalty fine or imprisonment, instead of fine and Imprisonment.. There is no doubt that the law so changed would be more easily enforced, but would it have a tendency to lessen ille gal sales of liquor? Of course it wouldn't and nobodv believes that it would. Another proposition is to have fines administered under this law worked out on the rock pile. While this might be an advantage in carrying out the objects of the law in some instances, it would undoubtedly lessen the chance of convic tions. The idea which is advanced of making the buyer equally culpable with the sell er is not so bad, but it falls short in only including those who get drunk. There would always be an open question as to where sobriety left off and drunken ness began. If this proposition were made to include everyone who buys liquor to drink it would be effectual, for the very good reason that if there were no pur chasers there would be no vendors. KANSAS PARAGRAPHS. A man living near Ilollis has found a mastodon's tooth weighing 10 pounds. 80 many people own horses at Stafford that a liveryman has converted his stable into storerooms. Some thief at Concordia who knew just what he wanted, stole a set and a half of harness Gridley is the jumping off place of the Southern Kansas branch, and yet it has no bank. It wants one. "Labor omnia vincit" has again en tered the lists in an oratorical programme at the agricultural college. According to the cemetery rules at Sterling, you can't build a fence around yourself after you are dead. One hundred conversions is the record of the Paoia revival meeting, and they gay the work has just begun. ihe high school girls at Clay Center spend as much time doing up their hair in a new way, that they are falling be hind in Cssar. The blizzard froze up all the jars in the battery at the Missouri Pacific tel egraph office at Lamed, and the opera tor had a snap. Smith County Pioneer: Up in Phillips county they advertise "potatoes that were raised without irrigation." Perhaps it was by subscription. Another horse race for $50 a side is set for February 19 at Lebo. This will be one of the times when the country boys come in and stay all day. Hutchinson has begun preparations for the next musical jubilee. It is a good thing when a town knows how long it taices to tet a move on itself. The county officers of Butler county appreciated their election so much that they gave the chairman of the ooanty central committee a gold watch. There is great rivalry between Man hattan churches, as to which shall bathe bes ueated, One church has put in new grate and another a new furnace. The Question "Is there any good in WARREN A Cut of 1 ease 4x4 Bleached Muslin, would c be good value at 6o UU 1 case 4x4 Unbleached Muslin, con- n Bidered a bargain by many at 6)4a D U 1 case 4x4 soft finish Bleached J Musiin, others call it a special 7c. Ob LANGDON 76 These well known LANGDON G B I brands always in WAM ,E TTA f stock and soid at PRIDE of the WES V J regular prices. 50 dozen 3-8 Fringed Napkins, 39c doz. 50 dozen 17x17 Glass Napkins, 60c per dozen. All Linen Crash, 18 inches wide, in bleach or brown, a: 8J2. Better ones at lOc, 12Jj, 15c, 18c. 21x32 Pillow Cases made from Peperill Bleach Muslin, pair dancing" was thoroughly discussed at the Louisburg "h'erary and the con clusion reached that it was lots of fun anyhow. Peabodv Graphic: We have always thought that Marion county was better than niven credit for. A man died at Burns the other day and the Citizen says it was heaven's gain. At a revival meeting in Burlington some people seemed to think it the thing to get a change of clothes instead of a heart. 1 hey carried off overcoats and other articles till a man had to pray with one eye open to be safe. Sterling Gazette: As a Rice county man and his wife were passing a school house a flying snowball hit his wife. He was enraged, and justly, and turning to the schoolboys, shaking his fist in anger, he cried: "It's lucky for you, you young rascals, that you did not hit me I" PRITCHARD'S RISE IN LIFE. Kegan With lO Cents and a Sandwich, bat Ig Now a Senator. The youngest man in the United States senate is Jeter C. Pritchard of North Carolina, who very recently suc ceeded Mr. Jar vis, the man ap pointed by Gov ernor Carr to fill the vacancy caus ed by the death of Senator Vance. Another unusual thing about this new North Carolina statesman is the fact that he is a Republican. He will without jeter c. pritchard. doubt remain a Republican, but in March he must re sign to his colleague elect the honor of being tho youngest senator. Mr. Pritch ard is 37 years of. age, but Marion But ler, the recently elected Populist sena tor from North Carolina, is only 81, just one year beyond the constitutional limit for United States senators. Senator Pritchard was born in Jones boro, Tenn., July 12, 1857. His parents were poor, and at the age of 10 years he left home, with 10 cents and a chick en sandwich in his pocket, to seek his fortune. He walked from his home in Tennessee to Bakers ville, N. C, receiv ed food and work at a country printing office and began the battle of life as a printer's devil. He identified himself with the Republican party, and in 1876, when but 19 years of age, made a num ber of speeches for Haye and 'Wheeler. Two years later he again canvassed his county and was soon rewarded with an office in tho revenue service In 1879 he removed to Marshall, N. C, and in the Garfield-Hancock cam paign was a subelector. In 1884 and 1886 be was elected to the lower house of the North Carolina legislature, and the heavy vote he polled demonstrated that he was one of the coming men in his party in the state. Deserting the newspaper business for the law, he was admitted to the bar in 1887 and was soon the fortunate possessor of a large and remunerative practice. In 1883'he ran for lieutenant governor, but was iieaten. The recent successful fusion Hcheme in North Carolina was conceiv ed by Marion Butler, it is said, and Pritchard was his foremost lieutenant When the fusion ticket wen, Butler took the long senatorial term, and Pritchard accepted the short term. Easy 1'aymeats. Standard sewing machines, dinner, tea and toilet sets; watches, clocks, jewelry, rugs, lace curtains, chenile curtains, stand covers and lamps. A nice line of goods just received. Come in and get my prices and terms, aa I have no agents. Will save you money and guarantee perfect satisfaction. E. W. Hughes, 218 East Fifth street. Take a trip to Europe with Hon. C C. Baker, at Unity church, Wednesday nignts, 25 cents pays for the entire journey. M. Successors to Wiggin, Crosby Co. ANNUAL- O Housekeeping 3J1Q 10 to 15 on All One case Green Ticket LONSDALE. This mus lin we have never sold for less than 8Kc, but will make a leader of It for this week only. viz 22ix45 Pillow Cases, made of Lockwood Bleach, per pair 206 THE NEW FRENCH MINISTER. Possession of a Brilliant American Wif 1 One of Hia Qualifications For Office. M. Ribot, the new premier of France, who succeeded in forming a cabinet after more distinguished statesmen had failed in the attempt, is chiefly interest ing to readers on this side of the water M. RIBOT. as the husband of an American woman. Mme. Ribot is the daughter of Isaac H. Burch, a Chicago banker who has lived in Paris a good many years. There Miss Burch married M. Dominguez, a wealthy Parisian who died a few years later. After three years of widowhood Mme. Dominguez married M. Ribot, by whom she has had two children. She is now about 40 years of age, of charming per sonality and is very popular in the offi cial society of the French capital. This is the second time Alexandre Felix Ribot has been prime minister of France. He first took the office in De cember, 1892, but remained in power only a few months. Prior to that he had been minister of foreign affairs in two cabinets, and it was while holding that portfolio that he requested President Harrison to recall a military attache of the United States legation in Paris whose conduct had been offensive to the French government. In 1887 M. Ribot visited the United States. M. Ribot was born at St. Omar, Feb. 7, 1842. He was educated to the law and gained some distinction at the bar and was for several years a prosecutor in the department of justice. In 1878 he made his first appearance in parlia ment as a Republican and has been ac tive in politics ever sinca He twice re fused cabinet portfolios before entering the ministry of M. de Freycinet in 1890. M. Ribot is accounted a conservative and safe leader, and although not posi tively brilliant he is thorcugbly versed in jurisprudence and understands in dustrial, commercial and financial ques tions. While not exactly popular in the ordinary sense of the word, he has no enemies an enviable position in the present perturbed condition of French politics. The Qneen'g Iiousekeepins; Expenses. Students of economical housekeeping Will be interested to know that the ex-, penses of the queen of England's house-' hold last year amounted to $865,000, t three-quarters of which was salaries. I

Science and Earthquakes. The Japanese university has the most delicate series of instruments in the' World for measuring earthquake shocks' and plenty of material to use them on. oe4 fttiatinc at Pair treaads. The pond at the fair ground was re flooded Sunday night and there is a splendid ice surface now. Every lover of the sport will find the best skating of the season there tonight Take South Topeka cars, which land you a short dis tance from the pond The pond will be well lighted. Subscribe for the Joubsal. CROSBY 64, '14, 8 9! 10 One case of FRUIT OF THE LOOM. You all know what Fruit is worth. It Is only lately that we have sold it at 8Hc. 'Sou can buy it for one week at 7o. 224x45 from pair 256 MANUFACTURE'S SALE or uiimi mb mm 220 WEST SIXTH ST. Beginning Wednesday, February 13. All goods sold just What it cost to manufacture them. g "V7ESTEH17' Foundry flachine Works, ESTABLISHED 1875. FORMERLY Topeka Foundry and Machine Works ESTABLISHED 1868. R. L. C0FRAN, Proprietor. HAHTJTAOTUSES OP STEAK E2T3X2TE3, KILL HACEIUEBY. SHATTER PULLI23, DEALINGS, FITTINGS, ETO. Write for Prices. TOPEKA, KANSAS. C1YIC FEDERATION. Chicago to Hare a Series of Mass Meet ings to Arouse Interest. Chicago, Feb. 11. The committee on political action of the civic federation is sending out the following letter to a large number of citizens: "Dkab Sib: You are no doubt aware of the work the civic federation is en gaged in namely, laboring to elevate the standard of our local politics. It has now arrived at that, part of the work where the inspiration of the old-fashioned mass meetings is needed to arouse the latent pride and civio patriotism of our people, to the end that all citizens may become more active in their respective parties and voice the wishes of the ma jority at all primaries and elections. To carry out this idea meetings are be ing organized in each of the thirty-four wards in the city. Will you do the fed eration the favor of addressing one or more of these meetings and help to start the fire of patriotism and civic conscience that our future legislative and executive agencies may fairly represent the char acter and spirit of our people? By fill ing out the inclosed blank and returning it to headquarters, 215 First National bank building, the committee will be abie to assign you to convenient mee ing places. As it is desired to have at least two speakers at each meeting, represent ing different parties, please state what party you affiliate with." Heading: Room at Independence. Indepbndence, Kan., Feb. 1L The Ladies' Library association of this city has decided to open up a free reading room. The business men have con tributed liberally, and a room will be se cured which will- be fitted up in first class style and furnished books of refer ence and the latest papers and maga zines. The library has about 1,200 books. Never Maw Anythlnx lake It. Rifle. Cola. Feb. 11. Thirty inches of snow has fallen here. The oldest in habitants never saw anything like it be fore. It is feared there will be great loss of cattle on the range. There is a young lawyer in Topeka who continually .keeps a revolver on his desk within easy reach. The "majesty of the law" sometimes doesn't answer the purpose. co. I 1 milieu 3.1e I Sheetings. Hemstitched Huck Tow9L 22x45, very heavy, a special good thing, at $2.75 dozen. Glass Towel, 16x34, many call these' cheap at $1.25 dozan. We bought them at a bargain and will sell them while they last at 95c dozan. 19x34 Huck Towel, knotted fringe6 col ored border or plain white, good value at $2.75 dozan, but you can buy them for one week at $2.10 dozen. 16x34 Glass Towel, worth $1.75 dozen, but you can take them along this week at $1.25 Dozsn. Pillow Cases, made Fruit of Loom, 306 NEW CORPOIIATIOAS. Companies Organized To do Business lu Kansas Oranted Charters. The following charters have been filed with the secretary of state: The Peerless Fence Machine company of Abilene, capital stock $2,500. Direc tors. John B. Favors, M. Rothchilds, O. A. Kubach, Sam Landis and Albert Lenza Twelve different mining companies organized by Kansas City. Kansas men have also been chartered. Each com pany is capitalized at $10,000, and the companies are to be known as the Colum bus, Oregon, Saratoga, Louisville, Pitts burg, Buffalo, Utah, Arizona, ew Mexico, Wyoming and California. The directors of the twelve companies are L. H. Stevens. F. O. Pa tberg, L. A. Varner of St. Louis, Walter llendrix, K. S. Thomas, and C. M. Johnson, of Kan sas City, Kansas. All the companies are to have headquarters at Kansas City, Kansas. The STATlTjrjBNAL's Want and Mis cellaneous columns rdaca eaca worsua? day in the wee more than twice aj many Topeka people as can oe reached hrouga any otner papar. TaU u a iaJi Progressive Business Men Must have Progressive Printing. ADAMS BROTHERS, Progressive Printers. 7 1 I KAOSS Ave Pbone 404. 4 if J i tft M 8. I: i) Ml i,

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STATE JOURNAL., MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1895k TIIEIll LOUD SHRIEK. tlia Bloodsucking Leeches in Kansas County OfHces All DKITED IH A SUPREME EFFORT To prevent the People from Getting Fee and Salary Law at the Hands of the l.eeilatnre and the lietire Actios L,ine,Cowards Afraid to Paso the BUI. The Ballinger fees and salaries bill which has been made a special order for 8 o'clock in the house this afternoon, promises to provoke the most general and spirited debate of anything that has come up this session. Every representa tive knows that his position on it will affect his political future and there are very few indeed who are not preparing to trim to the breeze set in motion by the county officers of their particular coun ties. Too many are preparing: to regulate their course not by asking themselves the question what is just, but rather what is popular and what will send me back here again. Hundreds of telegrams and let ters are pouring in from county officers protesting against this bill. The follow ing received by a representative this morning is a sample: "Please vote against the unjust Bal linger bilL Will explain by letter. County Superintendent" They all remember that George I Douglass made aa attempt to regulate the fees of sheriffs and that when he came to run for congressman-at-Iarge they organized against him. Few repre sentatives think there is any limit to their political futures, and they know to get any higher they must stand well in their own counties. The probobility is there fore that the bill will be oversloughed with a multitude of amendments, and nothing will be done after all to correct the fee evil. One member indeed, who received a letter from a county officer telling him what to do, had the courage to answer: "It seems that the people made a mis take when they elected me to the legis lature. They should have elected you. It seems to me a man who can read the bill understanding, will know what he ought to do." If the house does not show itself more capable in a parliamentary way than it has hitherto there will be the most com plete tangle on th'13 bill that this body has yet twisted itself into. This i3 say ing a great deal, but when a simple two section bill can throw the house into such confusion that it had to "rub every thing out and begin over," what it will do with a measure of the voluminousness and intricacy of the Ballinger bill, would be beyond the power of man to predict. Each man from each county will have a kick. Nearly every one is willing salaries should be reduced in other counties but the representative has yet to be found who thinks the bill puts them too high in his own county. The bill attempts to regulate the sala ries on a basis of population. The offices moat affected are county superintendents and county treasurers. Under the old law county treasurers in counties of 20,000 got as much as those of 50,00J which contained large cities where there was the most work to do. Under the pro posed bill treasurers in counties having 20,000 to 40,000 are cut, those above that getting the same as formerly, or more. County clerks in counties having from 20,000 to 45,000 suffer but those above remain about the same. Mr. Ballinger estimates that the bill will save the state $100,000 a year on fee offices and $67,231 on salaried officers. Sheriffs, district clerks, constables and registers of deeds are cut about fifteen per cent, justices of the peace and pro bate judges twenty per cent. In the register of deeds office mortgages and deeds are reduced from $1 to 80 cents. Another general reduction is in the mileage for witnesses, which is changed from ten to five cents per mile. Lyon county is an example of the counties which suffer the most In it the county clerk is cut $500, treasurer .$1,400, superintendent of instruction $200, county attorney remains the same, while the other officers are reduced about fifteen per cent In Shawnee county there are few re ductions. The county clerk is reduced $200, county superintendent $200, trea surer and county attorney remain the ame, while the fee officers are reduced fifteen per cent THRKE BIG BILLS, Weto Reconfmended by the Senate Com mittee of the Whole Late Saturday. In the senate late Saturday afternoon Senator Stern's bill creating a "city court" in cities of the first class to take the place of both the police and justice courts, was favorably recommended by the committee of the whole. The bill makes the judge elective and his court to have the jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases now vested in justice courts. The policemen are to serve civil as well as criminal papers. Senator Sterne in support of his bill said the present system of justices of the peace gave rise to a great many abuses. The "irrigation bill of the session," the one prepared by the senate sub-committee on agriculture and irrigation, was recommended for passage. The bill cre ates a board for irrigation experiments and places $10,000 at its disposal. The board is to consist of live members, four of whom are to be the governor, chan celloi of the university, president of the agricultural college, and the secretary of the state board of agriculture, while the remaining member is to be appelated by the governor with the consent of the Benate, and must be a person versed in practical agriculture. The senate, after wading through sev eral sections of the 112 naca maiimnrr. freight rate bill, decided to "consider it read" and recommended the bill for pas sage subject to amendment and debate. In a general way the bill reduces freight charges nearly 50 per cent It will never pass the house. The title to the follows Sd "index t0 Ua Provi"on3, as iotlSeaMta bUl Na 283' Aa ac to regu late railroads and establish reasonable f1flminm,CharPa for the transportation of freight on the different lines of rail roads in the state of Kansas, and provid ing for a state board of railroad com missioners, with the general powers of supervision over the transportation lines within the state, and giving such com missioners full power and authority to control, fix and regulate the charges and rates to be charged by railroad and transportation lines for carrying freizht over such roada and lines in Kansas, and to prevent unjust and unreasonable dis crimination ia Buoh. charges, and pro. 1 vidinsr for the selection of such commis sioners and the manner in which they shall be chosen, and prescribing their compensation and duties and making ap propriations to enforce this act." '-Committee on Railroads." O'BETAN HAS THEM CINCHED. The Wichita Senator By His Possession Proposes to Profit of Harvey County Records. Senator Danner of Newton has Senator O'Bryan of Wichita to beat, in order to pass the bill he introduced Saturday legalizing a lot of county records of Harvey county. In the spring of 1893 the records in the court house at Newton were nearly ail of them destroyed by fire. The origin of the fire was a mys tery, but it is now known to have been incendiary. The only duplicate of the destroyed records were in the abstract office of George W. Rodger of Newton. Inasmuch as the fire made Rodgera' abstracts of almost untold value he was suspected of the crime and was arrested. He was convicted in the lower court of burglary and arson, and sentenced to five years; but it was appealed to the supreme court The record in this case is the largest of any case ever brought before the court The supreme court this morning announced that the decision of the lower court was reversed. Sena tor O'Bryan is Rodgera' attorney and it was his victory. The abstracts in ques tion have become O' Bryan's property in return for his legal services. Senator Danner's bill would, if consti tutional, make O'Bryan's records of Har vey county of comparatively little value. Senator O'Bryan says the Danner bill is illegal as it attempts to legalize records which are out of existence. Senator Parker opposes the bill on the ground that it is too broad and ought to have some restrictions with regard to time of challenging the records. It is understood that the Danner bill was prepared by Joseph W. Ady and Samuel R Peters of Newton. The bill has been made the sp.ecial order of busi ness for 2 p. m. today. To counteract the effect of the Danner bill, Senator O'Bryan will introduce a bill making his own records of Harvey county prima facil evidence to all titles in the county, provided that on or before July 1 he opens an of fice in Newton, and shall charge $1 for each original transfer and 50 cents for each subsequent transfer. These are the usual legal rates now charged in Kansas. It will be a snap for O'Bryan, but he ap pears to have a cinch, and he isn't too modest to take advantage of it Senator O'Bryan would prefer to sell the books outright to Harvery county, but there ia an extreme prejudice there against his records. When he was de fending Rodger3 the people on the street would remark, "There goes the from Wichita" The records are now in O'Bryan's law office in Wichita, heavily insured. He has been furnish ing abstracts free for no other considera tion than return postage stamps. The men who testified against Rodgers at the formal trial will not do so again, as they are now in the Iowa penitentiary for robbing a postoffice. It is doubtful if Rodgera will be tried again. LARGELY Bl'XCOJIBE. The $100,000 Appropriation for Seed Grain Seems to Be Misdirected Charity. It is becoming more evident every day that there was considerable buncombe in connection with the $100,000 appro priation to furnish free seed grain to needy settlers in western Kansas. The governor has already signed the bill. Much of the grain, in order to be used to good advantage, is needed now, and it is said that wheat delivered after the first week in March will be almost use less for sowing purposes. It seems prob able now, however, that none of the free seed will be delivered until the middle of March, when free snow shovels would be nearly as acceptable. The reason of this is the almost endless red tape which the state must resort to before a single grain of seed reaches its destination. The board of railroad com missioners must have blanks printed, which will be mailed to the clerks of each of the counties included in the li6t The county clerks will then mail calls for special meetings of the county boards, to each of the commissioners, which meeting is set probably for a week in ad vance. Then a call must be printed in a paper, probably a weekly, to the farm ers to appear before the boards and make their wants known. In the course of several weeks all this may be complied with, and when the replies are received to their circulars the railroad board will forward the seed grain. Inasmuch as the appropriation is not only for wheat, but corn, millet and other grains, much of it will still be avilabie. Or the farmers can "hold their grain" till next season. The original appropriation bill was in tended to relieve immediate suffering, and as Senator Leedy says, "It looks like a mockery to send a starving man some seed to plant in case he lives until spring." Senator Dumbauld said to a Journal reporter Sunday afternoon, "I think the state made a great mistake in this ap propriation. It ignores a great class who are just as deserving as our farmers. The appropriation ought to help every deserving workingman whether he is a farmer or is a manual laborer in town. I still think $50,000 for seed grain and $50,000 for food and clothing would have been wiser and more beneficial." SHERMAN'S GOOSE COOKED. J. H. Foacht Says the North District Has No Use For Him Now. To the Editor of the State Journal: I read with some amusement in your last Friday's Journal, the article claim ing that CoL Yeale and A. C Sherman, together with membera of the Topeka club, were backing Dave Mulvane for Congressman Charlie Curtis' place. From the sentiment of the leading Re publicans in Mr. Sherman's district, on his support of J. R. Burton for United States senator, it will need more backing than Mr. Sherman has in his district to get a corporal's guard to oppose Charlie Curtis. Curtis works for the majority of the Republicans of this district The Republicans understand it Sherman worked for self and Burton, a man that could not get one out of five Republi cans in the district, and his boom for Dave Mulvane will only mean a boom also for Burton. When the time comes the Republican boys will show Mr. Sher man that he is not in it at all. Give your self and the friends of Charlie Curtis no alarm. The district on this side is solid for him, regardless of Mr. Sherman and his Burton influence. If I know the pulse of this district, since Mr. Sherman's vote on Burton for United States senator, he could not muster a corporal's guard against our friend and congressman, Charlie Curtis. This district will be for Curtis for congress and Ingalls for United States senator, and Sherman, Mulvane and Burton won't be in it I believe I voice the voice of nine-tenths of all the Republicans in this north district and I believe this will be the ticket all over Bhawnee county. J. IL Foucht. TO PUNISH COUNTY ATTORNEYS. The Temperance Committee's Bill to Make Them Do Their Duty. The temperance committee which re ported a bill favoring the striking out of "and" in the prohibitory law and the in sertion of "or" between the words "fine and imprisonment," at the same time at tempted to square itself by means of a bill punishing the county attorney if he does not prosecute. The committee has claimed that tne change to or will secure more convic tions and a better enforcement of the law. Temperance people think differently as the committee now knows. Honest as the committee may have been in the con viction that the change would secure a better enforcement of the law it was no doubt in anticipation that everyone would not believe as they did they draft -ed the bill to punish the county attorney if he did not do his duty. A Few House Notes. The affairs at the Dodge City Soldiers' home are to be investigated by the legis lature. Representative Simons was one of those voting against killing Mr. Knipe's temperance bilL It is a mighty short speech indeed when Representative Cole doesn't get in "I yield to no man." The judiciary local committee has the name of the hardest working local com mittee in the house. The sway backed dove of peace, which hung from the house chandelier, has been taken down. Its mission had been fulfilled. Otto G. Eckstein, of Wichita, looks like Edward Everett, but then Represen tative Bucklin might be mistaken for Herr Most It is becoming more and more evident that the house superintendent of ventila tion considers his office a sinecure. The hall needs air. The first thing like business was done in the house Saturday. Fifty bills were considered in the committee of the whole in an hour. A Pratt county abstractor is lucky. A house bill makes his books prima facie evidence of title, since the court house burned. Under similar circumstances a Harvey county abstractor was sent to the penitentiary. MRS. LEASE'S QUEER BOOK. Some Fantastical Ideas Mixed With Some That Are Sensible. Mrs. Lease's book, "The Problem of Civilization Solved," is a disappointment to her friends. Mrs. Lease's mind is a brilliant one ark I people expected that her book would sparkle with word paint ing. Instead of that she has given us a compendium of essays filled with the most startling assertions the fruits of a wildly imaginative mind. Mrs. Lease sounds a continual note of warning against the anarchist and bomb thrower, until one might expect to meet in every fence corner a wild-eyed dis ciple of anarchy armed with a dynamite bomb, ready to hurl it at the first capital istic head he spies. Mrs. Lease is unreasonable. Her book sounds like the vagaries of a drugged mind. She wants to solve the problem of civilization by sending 100,000,000 white men to the tropics, they are to be plant ers and she generously gives each man three blacks or orientals to do the work. She treads on dangerous ground, but when the reader at once con cludes that her theory sounds like the suggestion of a return to slavery, she adroitly says that they are to be in dependent tenantry and will by degrees become educated and brought up to the standard of the white men. Mrs. Lease ia evidently a disciple of Malthus and if there is a general thin ning out she seems to think all discon tent and disturbance would cease and the people be contented and happy. ihe student or sociology will find many things that suggest Mrs. Lease's bright intellect in the book. The chapter on our financial system is worthy of careful study and she makes a really powerful argument for the gov ernment ownership of railroads and tele graph lines. Mrs .Lease wants a new political partv. She would call it "The American party." .f ollowing is her platform: 1. Arbitration of national disputes and cessation of warfare. 2. Federation of the Americas with United States as leader. 3. Tropical colonization in Latin America, with Caucasian planters and Oriental, negro and Indian tenantry. 4. Government aids to colonists. 5. Colonized lands to be held as a heritage by the people on a title of ownership by use. b. Dree trade in federated America with tariff on alien products. 7. Government ownership of railroads and telegraphs. 8. Free coinage of American pro ducts of silver and gold at a ratio of six teen to one. HE KEPT THE $5. A Policeman Who Was Paid For Work He Wasn't Allowed to Do. A North Topeka young man who was married recently went to Police Officer Capron, who was on a north side night beat at the time, and asked him to watch hi9 house a few nights as he anticipated a charivari Capron promised and the young man felt safe. That night at midnight Capron was un expectedly transferred to another beat and forgot all about the incident Several days went by, and the other day a boy called at Capron's house and left the following note: "I am much obliged to you for watch ing my house. iou did good work. We had no trouble at all. I am sure the boys saw you ana were Irightened away, Please accept the enclosed." The note was signed by the newly married man and with it was enclosed a five dollar bill. Capron has not yet returned the five dollars. You will ."miss It" if you forget it Hon, C C. Baker's lecture at Unity church, Wednesday evening, Feb. 13. Subject, "What 1 Saw Abroad," with il lustrations. For Over Fifty Veari Mrs. Winslsw's Soothing Syrup has been used for teething. It soothes, softens the gums, allays pain, cures colic. Best remedy for diarrb.ee, 25 cents a bottla. THE RESUBMISSION CRANK. How I wish 'at I could live 'em once again them good old days When we got lest what we wanted without any sneattur ways, When they warn't no applications an' ye didn't have to lie To get whisky straight or brandy for an op'ner fer yer eve; An' when goiri' home fer breakfast after rollin In gin phizz The sidewalks wus too narrer an' ye about this. walked like But them good old days Is over, aa we've got a a foolish law What beats anything fer tyranny a body ever saw; An' ye can't get drunk In comfort without lyin' fer the booze Nor retire in the gutter so really what's the use To try to be a gen tr man there's so much 'at we miss Sence we voted prohibition an' went about this. home like But we're goin' to have this altered by a resub mission vote We're mighty tired of ridin' in this prohibition boat. This forced respectability is getting mighty dry. If ye hear a thud in Kansas ye '11 know the rea son why; An' ye bet we'll celebrate It with a rip boom siss; An' we'll go home every mornin' with walk like a about this. F. B. HEERY OR RAMSEY? One of These will be Appointed, to the Board of Public Works. One member of the next board of pub lic works will be a Topeka man. So far there are only two avowed candidates for the place. Mr. Michael Heery of the Second ward and James Ramsey of the Fourth ward. They are both after it hard however, and it will be a fight to the finish. Heery is the candidate for the Demo cratic place on the board, and has the endorsement of David Overmyer. He is well known as one of the most faithful in the little handful of Topeka Demo crats. James Ramsey bases his claims for the place on the grounds that he is a practical builder and mechanic, and a tireless worker for the Republican tick et Ramsey has Senator Sterne working for him as well as a good many other Republicans of influence. Heery's enemies claim that he isn't the right kind of a Democrat to be re warded because he has always been an anti- Republican Democrat This dis tinction will arouse amusement in the non-partisan mind. Democrats don't seem to ba considered as an independ ent party any more, but only as a factor with .Republican or anti-Republican leanings. Heery's Democracy, however, has never been questioned. Both men are ex-councilmen and a power in the ward to which they belong. READ THEIR PROGRAMMES. Forty Elks Did it at the Grand by the Aid of Candles. For once the well known Egyptian darkness of the Grand opera house was overcome by a glow of light of forty candle power. "Let there be light," said the Elks at the minstrel show Saturday night, and there was. A little before the curtain went up, to disclose the beautiful array of lady min strel talent, about forty of the Elks, in cluding their wives who were present on the front rows of the parquet, lighted little wax candles by which to read their programmes. It was funny and so very apt that the audience laughed and cheered. The candles were only burned a few minutes. Among the torch bearers for liberty were iu follow'.ng well known men: Eugene are, Lee Jones, A. B. Wool vertoD, H. L. Shirer, Ed Curry, "Win. Henderson, Co as R. O'Donald, Bert Lucas, Pink Smith, O. P. Updegraff, E. P. Gill, We Wadsworth, E J. Dallas, Wm. Brewer, D. E. Palmer, Remus At wood, C. K. Hollidav, Jr., Geo. B. Payne, W. F. Fedderman, James B. Clay, E. B. Guild, F. S. Thomas, Robert Pierce, J. P. Cleaves, and Ralph Peterson. THE JARBEAU COMPANY. It Will He at the Grand Monday and. Tues day Nights. For people who like variety with spe cialties the announcement that the Jar beau company will be at the Grand to night and Tuesday night in "Starlight" is pleasurable. The company has been at the Gillis, Kansas City. The Jarbeau company is not a new one and the piece also is well known. The Grand will then be dark until Cleveland's minstrels arrive on next Sat urday. THE BOYS EXCLUDED. No Person Under Twenty-one Shall Attend Folioe Court Hereafter. As suggested by the Journal soma time ago, the police commissioners at their meeting on Saturday night voted to exclude from the crowd of spectators at police court trials all persons under the age of twenty-one, unless they were present in the case as witnesses. lbere are on trial in court nearly everv day cases that are almost too re volting for adult ears to listen to and this will keep out a good many persona who go every morning out of a morbid desire to near what they should not Judge Ferry announced the decision in court this morning, and Sergeant Donovan immediately began the good work by putting out half a dozen young fellows who were under the specified age. Hereafter they will not be allowed to enter the court room except aa wit nesses. The Passion Play. As presented at Uberammergau in 1890, is the only miracle' play of the middle ogea which now survives. It represents in a vivid manner, the suffer ings and death of Christ The play is given with entire religious fervor, and its enactment is considered a sacred ob ligation by the descendants of the pious villagers who first instituted this pecu liar and interesting open air drama. 60 stereopticon views, reproduced from pho tographs, and explanatory lecture at First Christian church, Tuesday evening .February 12. Admission 25 cents. A Trip to F.nrops ia expensive, but lor zo cents you may see 60 stereopticon views of the Passion Play, First Christian church, February 12. Bay the Light Kan nine Domestic. The best sewing machine in the city. Get it at Babcock Frost 701 Kansas ave. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. E. D. McKeever has gone to Gove City on legal business. The city primaries will probably be held late this year. The United States distriot attorney's office is being renovated. The Ninde Chautauqua circle will meet tonight at the First M. E. church. The "Douglass House" banquet at the Copeiand Friday night will be $2 a plate. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon is writing a serial story for the Youth's Companion. Isn't it strange how many disreputable places Hank Lindsey's police force over looked. The state house dome enclosure is so cold they are thinking of giving theatri cal performances there. More than two-thirds of the civil cases filed in the district court never get to trial. The new Congregational church in Seabrook's addition will be dedicated Sunday. The Masonio grand lodge will meet in Topeka one week from today, Mondav, February 1& It is expected that every ice houBe in the vicinity of Topeka will be filled with good ice by tonight W. G. Bird the new state labor com missioner used to be a Kansas City news boy and bootblack. The Grand opera house was packed at the second performance of the Ingleside minstrels Saturday night Ba patient, dear; ina few years a show will be along at which no one will sing "Little Ababama Coon." The John Thomas Concert company will give an entertainment in Topeka, Wednesday evening March 13. It will now be in order for the dress reformers to give a minstrel show. Near ly everybody else in town has. Albert Watkins read a paper on "Tam many and Parkhurst" before the Satur day Night Club at ita last meeting. The Epworth league of the First M. E. church now holds its Sunday evening services after the preaching service. Yesterday wasn't a very good day for sleighing, buggy riding or skating, and there were many despondent hearts. The State Editorial association excur sion left Emporia Saturday for New Or leaus, under the guidance of A.G. Stacey. There will be a council meeting to night to consider the bids for putting a new boiler in the city eiectrio light plant Frank Hoyes, who was Missouri Pa cific station agent in Topeka two or three years ago, died last week at Spring Hill, JLan. Capt W. A. Ogden, a formerly of To peka man, is now division storekeeper for the Atlantic Pacific at Williams, Arizona. An escaped lunatic from the Osawato- mie asylum who was captured in Tope ka Saturday, has been taken back to the asylum. R. B. Gemmell has been appointed chairman of the committee to organize a Men's League" at the First Presbyter ian church. The ladies' minstrels were about the best amateur show Topeka has seen this vear. but It was an eiiort to near tueni n you sat back a few rows. Richard WilHams, a Topeka man who was run over by the lopeka faper com pany delivery wagon last July, has sued the company for o.OJw damages. Several interesting cases that had been continued will be tried in police court tomorrow, including the Zimmerman and Callahan whisky cases and the Evans case. The $100,000 seed grain bill for the re lief of the western Kansas sufferers has been signed by the governor and will be printed in the official state paper this week. Governor Morrill has signed the bill changing the time of holding court in the Twenty -third judicial district and the bill trovidiusr for the deficiency in the appropriation for the Girls reforma tory at Beloit When the St Joseph ladies gave their minstrel show sixty of the swell young men of the town wore bald beaded wigs and sat all together in the front rows. The Topeka boys say this was nothing to what thev were going to do, but they didn t have the nerve. The police commissioners have remov ed John Dagg and U. 6. G. Davis and have appointed Charles F. Anderson and B. F. Massie. Massie ia a Democrat and was appointed to take the place of M. C Potter, who was removed soon after he was appointed. The rival candidates for the position of secretary of the state board of health say that Dr. W. M. Sterrett of Jetmore, who has been recommended by Governor Morrill, has not been a practicing phyai cian long enough to entitle him to the S2.000 salary attached to the office he wants. Mr. C. J. Brown clerk of the supreme court has received a letter from Mr. h. Hill of Santa Anna, CaL, who saya that 300 formerly of Kansas people who now live in Orange county, want to contribute to the need settlers of Kansas, lhey propose to ship dried and canned fruits, onions and clothing. The goods will be Bhippnd this week. ATE A DRUMMER'S SAMPLES Passengers On an M. K. and T. Train Daring the Blizzard. During last week's blizzard an M. K. and T. passenger train was enow bound for thirty hours near Selma, Anderson county. There were twelve passengers on the train, ten men and two women, among them being W. W. Read, traveling' for a Kansas City grocery house. The contents of his sample case waa all the food the entire party had. His coffee samples were ground in the stove shovel with the poker and cooked in a can of melted snow. The men took their turn carrying coal over the high drifts from a caboose which was stranded a. short dis tance ahead. The coal supply was lim ited, and all the passengers suffered from exposure. The Missouri Pacific train between Topeka and Ft Scott was snow bound at Waverly, CoSey county, and on Saturday had been moved as far south aa Maple ton, Bourbon county. Armenian Leader Coadmad. Lohdok, Feb. 11. A special dispatch from Moosh, says it is rumored the pop ular Armenian leader. Hadji Yallost, has been condemned to death and will short ly be executed. Hear Hon. C C Baker at Unity church, Wednesdav niirht. Feb. BOGGS' DAUGHTER. Mr. Boggs bad a daughter. When it is taken into consideration that this young lady was aa homely as a bald- headed pheasant and had lived, in spite of her money, to the mature age of seven and thirty without a suitor for her hand, the chagrin of Mr. Eolomon Boggs can be understood. Up to the thirty-seventh year of his daughter's existence the only man who bad wooed her was a gentleman from Mexico, who, just in the nick of time, was found to possess three other wives. So tormented and irritated did Mr. Boggs become that little by little his sub ordinates became filled with fear and un easiness and scarcely ventured to raise their eyes before him lest they should call down upon themselves some ebullition of temper and a discharge from their situa tions. Pennyboy, the chief clerk, whose duty it was to do all the work that should have been done by Mr. Boggs himself and to scatter over his desk every morning a huge mass of papers to make it look as though the first functionary was a terrifio man of business, began to think seriously of re signing voluntarily, to save himself the pain of a dismissal, and of establishing with his savings a small cigar stand on the corner. In a secluded street where lodgings were to be obtained at a ridiculously low figure, and where the principal features of the landscape consisted of washed clothes hung out to dry and clouds of soot ema nating from the chimneys, lived James Peruke. Right across the court from James Po- ruke lived Margaret Muffins, and between them there existed a romantic feeling that belonged to. sylvan groves and babbling brooks and was entirely out of place in such a locality. James Peruke held a very inferior posi tion in the office of the honorable the sec retary of the coastwise trade, where he conscientiously performed the tasks of 19 high officials, who on their parts lent a tone of dignity to the office. But the love that existed between James and Margaret was not a bread and butter sentiment, the lack of those elements in deed being the only drawback to its happy consummation. Mr. Boggs, having attended a meeting of the committee on pros and cons, was walking homo in a very bad humor when he chanced to get his foot wedged In be tween two paving stones so tightly that he could not draw it out again. James Peruke, happening along and seeing the predioament, hastened to lend his assistance and soon succeeded in set ting the foot free again, for which act of kindness Mr. Boggs invited him to his house to take dinner and meet his daugh ter. The acquaintance thus formed grew apace, ana it was not long Derore ne was a regular visitor at the bouse of the first functionary and was thoroughly posted about everything therein, including Miss Elizabeth Boggs. But all this time the heads of James Peruke and Margaret Muffins were filled with a wild and desperate scheme. James, when he visited Miss Boggs, as sumed a loverlike familiarity. All this was duly imparted by Miss Elizabeth to her father, and he agreed with her, that the only thing that prevented an avowal on the part of James Peruke was delicate recognition of his poor estate. A word to the honorable the secretary of the coastwise trade from his friend, the first functionary of the lord mayor, would set everything to rights. As a result the assistant secretary hand ed a bulky document to the custodian of seals and impressions, who put a stamp on it and handed it in his turn to the chief of the sixty-first division. The chief of the sixty-first division Im mediately waited upon James Peruke, who Bat at his desk copying a report sub mitted by the commander of the Ninth brigade to the first lord of the Shot Tower, and Informed him that he had been created seventeenth inspector of the royal ink stand. Seventeenth inspector of the royal ink stand 1 For a moment James Peruke's head swam, and he was entirely unable to grasp the situation. As soon as he could collect his senses James started to ask the chief if he might absent himself for the day; but, remem bering the situation he now held, he looked bored instead and remarked: "I think aw I think I will go home. Please convey my regards to the honorable the secretary of the coastwise trade and tell him I shall call to pay my respects to morrow." All this time Margaret Muffins wag quietly pursuing her household vocations unconscious of the great events that were transpiring. Suddenly the door was flung violently open, and in came James, the seventeenth inspector of the royal inkstand, breathless, exultant, happy. The cab was waiting outside, and Mar garet ran up stairs to put on her bonnet and came back looking so sweet and blush ing 6o prettily that James Peruke felt a tremulous thrill run down his spinal col umn and come out at the tips of his fin gers and toes. And now a cloud began to settle over the household and person of Mr. Solomon Boggs. Day after day went by, yet James James who was to marry Elizabeth did not come. Again and again did Mr. Bogga go up to the office of the seventeenth inspector of the royal inkstand, but an Inflexible at tendantsaid that Mr. Peruke was engaged and could not be interrupted under any circumstances. The first functionary was in despair. Finally The Daily Termagant came out with a graphic account of a gorgeous re ception given by the wife of Hon. James Peruke, at which noble persons were pres ent in great numbers. Mr. Solomon Bogg3 read it while he waa at breakfast and swooned. As soon as he came to his senses he has tened to the honorable the secretary of the coastwise trade and demanded that James Peruke's commission be revoked. The honorable secretary looked grave. He was afraid It couldn't be done. The appointment had been made and con firmed, and the occupant of such a high office as that of seventeenth inspector of the royal inkstand could not be tampered with. As for the seventeenth inspector of the royal inkstand, he remained in the enjoy ment of his high office and generous sal ary, the actual inspection of the Inkstand being attended to by an intelligent boy of 9 years, who washed it out and refilled it every morning. Cincinnati Times-Star. T-he width of the Atlantic could be re duced one-half by lowering its depth 6,664 feet. By lowering it three miles one tould walk from Newfoundland to Ireland.

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STATE JOURNAL,, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1895. zr. v -n ale s Removos wrinkles and all traces of age. It feeds through the pores and builds up the fatty membranes and "wasted tissues, nourishes the shriveled and shrunken skin, tones and invigorates the nerves and muscles, enriches the impoverished blood vessels, and supplies youth and elasticity to the action of the skin. It's per fect. Beware of substitutes and counterfeits. Yale's Origi nal Skin Food, price $1.50 and $3. At all drug stores. MME. M. YALE, Health and Complexion FnnpiMUst, Yaielemple of Beauty. 146 State-st., Chicago. ULSE, Cor. Elmvrooi and Willow Ave., Pctin Placs, Tcpska, Kansas. Grows and sells PI a at a. Makes a specialty of Cut Flowers. Does all Kinds of floral work in first class manner. Telephon9 458. T0PE2A Transfer Company, 509 KANSAS AVE. Tele. BACON, Prop. .ARTHUR MASSAY, Practical Horse-Shoer. 213 WEST Horses with diseased feet skilfully anu tuia roa-suoeing a specialty. CHICAGO SlALTOH R. R. 03LY ST033 SAIL 1ST ED TEAC5. 3TO CHANGS OS CARS BETWEEN KANSAS CITY ad CHICAGO, EANSAS CITY and ST. LOUIS, ST. LOUIS and CHICAGO. Eo Extra Charge for Passage ia Palace Keclinins Chair Cars NOFl IN Fast Yes IfcM Limitei Trains. Ask your own HomelMeket Agent for ticketa Win the Chicago Alton Railroad, or write te BOW, Gen'l Western Passenger AgL 318 SOKIH BfiOADWiT, ST. LOUIS, MO. JAHE4 CHARLTON, tianeral Passenger and Ticket Agent CHICAGO, ILL. (From IT. S. Journal of Medicine.) Prof W. H.Peeke,who makes a specialty of Epilepsy has wit nont doubt treated and cured more cases than eny living Physician his success is astonishing. Wo have heard of cases of 20 years' standing cured by him. He publishesa valuable work on this disease whicH ha ends with a large bottle of his absolute cure, free to ny sufferer who may send their P.O. and Express ad dress. We advise anyone wishing a cure to addrees, tret W. H PEEKJE, F. B.. 4 Cedar St., New Tort. ii Food m fllRAM H 1 FLCTRf Hffi In. yJs J v FIFTH STREET. TopoU. treated. j 1 y iH3WMbW IN SOCIETY CIRCLES. Hecent Social Erenta in and Vicinity. Topeka GESEHAL K0TE3 OF SOCIETY. Pnrcnil Items of Interest A boat To peka Meo&lo and. Visitors ia Town. Mrs. S. Hahn, Mr3. 8. Cashman and daughter Ruea, Mrs. S. Bernheiiner, and Mr. Leon Hahn left for Newton yester day, where they will attend the wedding1 of .viiss Blanche Baruum of that place tomorrow. Miss Madeline Trestrail, who has been the guest of Mrs. George B. Palmer and Mrs. George Ashton for some time, will return to her home in Kansas City, Wednesday. Hiss Madge Johnson and Mis3 Irene Horner have the Topeka club musicale for tomorrow night in charge. Mrs. R M. Akers entertained Miss Carrie Ilanscome of Lawrence, last week. Mrs.- John Crancer of Leavenworth spent Sundav with CoL and Mrs. George VV. Veale. Mr. W. H. Roasington returned from Chicago Saturday. In the evening he and his charming daughter, Miss The resa, entertained Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lau try, Misses Nellie and Katherine Lawler at a box party, and afterward at lunch at the TopeKa club. Mrs. Charles Lantry visited in Kansas City last week. Miss Susie Gay is visiting Mrs. A. D. ilintoneat Lawrence. Mr. T. K. Hamilton, sheriff of Ellis county, and his little daughter wers in iopeka Saturday. Miss Gertrude Devereaux visited her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L.; Builena in Lawrence last week. Miss Maude Griffith, daughter of Con ductor Griffith, has returned from Trin idad, Colo., where she has been visiting her brother Ed. Mr. Frank Jarrell spent Sunday with his mother and sister in Atchison. Mrs. L. IL Muun is visiting in Galves ton, Texas. During her absence she will visit Mrs. Pliny L. Super at Muscogee, I. T. Mrs. TV. W. Webb will entertain as her guest this week one of Atchison's most popular girls. Miss Lulu Talbot. Mrs. Willis Norton will entertain the Duplicate Whist club on Thursday after noon. Miss Bessie King left for her home in St. Louis, Saturday, after a delightful visit with Mr. and -Mrs. James L. King. Miss Bessie will be much missed in so ciety circles. Miss Mary McCabo came up from Kan sas City in time for the minstrel show baturday evening. Representative Caldwell spent Sunday at his home in Lawrence. Ash Wednesday ia two week3 and one day in the future. A Topeka young man is contemplat ing having his girl take the Keeley cure for the caudy habit. The face that there were thirteen in the front row at the minstrel show did riot detract from its success. Another superstition exploded. Miss 3Iorrill at Atchison. Mrs. E. N. Morrill returned from her home in Hiawatha Saturday. Miss Grace Morrill returned yesterday from a visit to Miss Constance Ingalls. Miss Morrill was the guest of honor at a reception given by Miss Ingalls Tuesday afternoon, a box party to see Emtnett by Miss Nellie Seaton, and a whist party by Miss Pearl Otis Saturday afternoon, beside numerous entertainments not especially complimentary to Miss Morrill, but where she was an invited guest. Mrs. Morrill and Miss Morrill' will be at home in formally to all callers at the Copeland tomorrow afternoon as usual. These "at homes" are simply the receiving days (Tuesdays) of Mrs. and Misg Morrill, and callers do not come by invitation. General Social Note. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Knowles will entertain the Euchre club tomorrow night. A new whist club will be organized in the near future, the prospective mem bers of which will meet Friday after noon for organization with Mrs. Theo dore Wear. Mr. C. C. Baker will deliver hi3 lecture on his travels in the Orient, at Unity church, Wednesday evening. Mr. C. J. Willett and family have moved from North Topeka to 512 Bu chanan avenue. Miss Gertrude Willett has returned from a visit to Emporia friends. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Crane left for Florida Friday on the editorial excur sion. Two prominent society ladies, sisters, will give a reception in the near future. Mrs. C. J. Brown entertained the At laateans this afternoon. Miss Babe Sturgis of Concordia, a former Bethany girl, will visit Misses Daisy Lakin and Julia Street this week. Mrs. A. II. Thompson will entertain the Occidental club tomorrow afternoou. Miss Henrietta Thompson is expect ing Miss Connelly of Rock Island, to morrow. Miss Nellie Hawkins of Ottawa, 13 visiting Mrs. Hughes the chief enrolling clerk of the house. Mr. Robert Thampson will entertain the Camera club one week from tomor row night, at 808 Topeka avenue. 'Miss Franc Littletield entertained at 10 o'clock lunch today for Miss Morrill. AN APPEAL FOR AID. Mrs. Seed Will Talk. mt Representa tive Hall. Mrs. A. Z. Reed, of Lincoln, Nebraska, who recently visited the western part of the state, will Tuesday evening speak at Representative hall, for the benefit of the needy and destitute in western Kansas. Mrs. Reed has personal acquaintance with the condition of these unfortunate settlers, and will tell the true story of the suffering of the people. The admission will be free. Frost On Windows. A Topeka firm recently took great pains to have their show windows so constructed that frost could not gather on the panes. In spite of this it did and the proprietors of the store were much disappointed. A Topeka mechanic says that a very thin coat of glycerine applied to both sides of the glass will prevent any moisture forming thereon, and will stay until it collects so much duet that it cannot be seen through. All f&.iuds of 3lacline repaired, work guaranteed, At Babcock Frost's, 701 Kansas ave. DONNING THE VEIL. An Accomplishment possessed by But Few American Women. It is an accomplishment worth ac quiring in these days when American women are almost as universally veiled as the beauties of the orient, to put one's veil on successfully that is, so that the hair is held securely in posi tion, the veil itself does not droop bo low the hat brim at any point and neither hangs loose nor draws across the face, rendering a wink inconvenient and the nose a martyr to the tickling sensation which every wearer of a veil knows. Half the beauty of the veil, or, more strictly, the enhancement of beauty which the veil gives, is due to the way it is put on. Worse than no veil at all is the veil put on before the bonnet is assumed, as one fashion writer recom mends. The filing meshes, pressed closely against the face and hair, leave no room for the charming, illusory ef fect which is the veil's chief "excuse for being." The first requirement in a veil is that it shall be of unstinted size, double width, unless it is to be worn with a very small bonnet, a yard long, so that it may be gathered up in gener ous folds over the hat brim and pinned a veil should never be tied well up at the back of the hat. A better fit and a prettier effect is given by a little cluster of gathers directly in the middle of the front. It is to be hoped that women will some time learn that veils figured with sprigs, or, in deed, anything but unobtrusive dots are never becoming, and make them look, as a man was heard to remark the other day, "as if their faces were cov ered with flies." Philadelphia Times. TWO GIRL STUDENTS. Bow They Keep House Cozlly in New York Skyscraper. Women bachelors in these days occu py an acknowledged place in social life, and their menages vary from the very handsome establishments, where the fair hostesses give entertainments that vie with those of the richest ma trons of their acquaintance to the fun ny and pretty little nests in a "sky scraper" of a couple of girl students. "My income is exactly 1,200 a year," said one of these independent damsels the other day to a New York Tribune writer, "not nearly enough for a fash ionable girl to dress on, and yet I man age to live a very pleasant life on that amount. I dress quite nicely, as you see; I go to all the newest plays and see the best pictures and spend my sum mers at the seashore or in the moun tains. How do I manage it? Well, I will tell you if you promise not to think me egotistical if I talk so much of my self. In the first place, I 'chum' with another girl, who is altio ttudying art. Together we pay $3 a week for our two rooms $4 each. We t ook our own breakfasts and suppers. In these days of prepared food we can, with a sheet of asbestos and a gas stove, have a va riety of dishes at a minimum of expense and with very little trouble. "You will laugh when I tell you about our kitchen arrangements. In one corner of our sitting room we have a most beautiful divan with two steps ascending to the high, triangular couch, like this" sketching rapidly an artistic-looking lounge. "The pile of cushions that you see to the right conceals a little door, and in the space under the divan we keep our kitchen table (which has legs that fold up), our gas stove, our sheet of asbestos for the THE GIKLS' BOOM. table, another one of oil cloth for the floor and our cooking utensils. It does not take a minute to pull these out and arrange our kitchen which, when in working order, occupies the space of a medium-sized rug. Our crockery, which is of blue and white Delft, we keep in a corner cupboard, and consider it quite an aesthetic addition to our room. Washing our dishes and getting rid of superfluous food were our chief diffiaul ties at first; but soon we had arranged it beautifully. We scraped all the de bris into a blue and white umbrella stand, which is much prettier than a pail, and which the maid who does our rooms takes away and washes. In this way our meals cost us exactly $1 per day, our table d'hote dinner at a very nice restaurant being 50 cents each, My rooms and meals therefore cost me just 11 per week. Last summer I spent four months at a summer art school at the Shinnecoc'k shore, where my board amounted to only $8 per week; this added to my winter ex penses brought my board and lodging to exactly $513. I allow for my dress $300, and have $3S7 left for extras not much, I admit, but I hope to supple ment it now by earning a little some thing for myself. In the meanwhile I am very happy, and do not envy the richer girls who live unemployed Uvea at home without any responsibility." How to Wash Silk Waists. Wash silk waists do not always wash well because of ignorance of the proper way of laundering them. Add a tea spoonful of borax to some lukewarm water and enough nice white soap to make a weak suds. Rub through the hands carefully; instead of wringing draw the silk through the tightly clasped hand. If all the dirt has not been taken out, wash again; then rinse in several waters to which have been added a pinch of borax or a half dozen drops of ammonia. Do not let the silk become quite dry before ironing; then use a moderately hot iron, as a very hot one will scorch the silk. LATEST BALL GOWNS. PROFUSE USE OF ARTIFICIAL FLOW ERS AS GARNITURES. Collar oi favorite Blossoms Worn With High or Low Necked Bodices Cerise, With Coral Pink, a New and Effective Color Combination. Special Correspondence. New York, Feb. 7. It is not often that the man of the house takes any in terest in the new styles for women, so when he does his reflections are worth listening to. Grip has had a short but strong hold on me for two days, and the man of the house, by some curiou3 line of reasoning, took voluntary notice of the novelties displayed in the windows for my particular benefit, and here is how he told it all to me: "Why, do yon know they have all the thin things that women wear in sum mer in the windows all kind of open work, don't you know, with holes all over and sewing around them? I didn't realize that summer was so near. And there are lots of flowers, artificial ones, some of them blue or purple or some such color, and a lot of little white flow ers with leaves,. Jots of leaves." The dear soul was so sure that he had told me about all that he had seen and in full detail that I have not the heart RECEPTION GOWNS. to undeceive him. He had seen several lovely" wax figures, with the dainty uew evening dresses on them, and some cf tho deep show windows wherein they bank up the sweet spring flowers to at tract the careless eye. In them we see millions of t.he dear and ever beautiful violets, the pure lilies of the valley and perhaps a few crocuses and hyacinths. Lilacs como later, but they come al ways, and we always welcome them with the same smile of content. The use of artificial flowers as garni ture for dresses, not only those for balls, but for theater and reception, is beyond all precedeut. They now make neck bands of ribbon or black or white tulle, and these they stud with violets, tiny rosebuds or, in, fact, almost any flower whose color is becoming and size suit able. These bands are worn afternoons and evenings, at home or abroad. They are worn with high dresses and low necked ones. In some cases the flowers extend all the way around, and in oth ers they are set on in bunches. Almost every evening dress for the young is trimmed with bunches cf flow ers on the shoulders and at the belt and often on the skirt. In one of the grand show windows there is a dainty gown. There is an underskirt of pale blue taf feta and over it a plain gathered skirt of silk muslin striped with narrow pale blue lines. The corsage and sleeves were of pale bine silk crape, trimmed with daisies and foliage. Hanging from the ribbon belt were six long flats of blue ribbon, three in front and three in the back. It could not be prettier. Standing beside that was a figure, the face being the image of Mrs. Cleveland,? This displayed a very rich reception gown of old rose French broadcloth, with green cloth panels and sleeves. The waist opened over a handsome Btomacher of the old rose, embroidered in green, with a finish of large jet beads at the waist line. Three rows of beads encircled the sleeves. On the waist were rosettes, and at the neck were two oth ers, ending with loops at the sides. These little touches add to the elegance of a gown. The social season being just at its height, ball and reception gowns are more in evidence than any other thing. EVENING ATTIRE. The new fancies in waists are extremely pretty and graceful and very modest be sides. One very attractive evening dress for a young lady had a skirt of black moire, the short puffed sleeves were of the same, and the waist was draped full with cherry red chiffon. There were full plaitings of the same on the shoul ders. At the sides of the waist in front and on the belt there was a rich beaded trimming and a long bow of cherry rib bon hanging from the left shoulder. There was another graceful costume, this of coral pink grosgrain, the skirt jquite plain. The waist was of the silk, completely draped over with point de Paris lace and trimmed with a little cerise ribbon. Cerise on pink is a rare but striking combination. I should have mentioned that around the bottom of the skirt of this gown there was a fes tooned lace flounce, with cerise ribbon rosettes at the apexes. Olive Harper. The First Free Pnblic School. Dedham, Mass., claims the honor of having established the first free public school in the world. ATTRACTIVE HOME TOILETTES. Tho fijfnpe on the right is a boucle cheviot draped over black velutina, tailor stitched on all edges. The central fijrure shows a slate whipcord gown bordsred with black fur. The front has an opening with two flounces of black grosgrain. The gown is for an elderly lady. The figure on the left is a prune colored twilled silk bordered with ostrich flues. The upper corsage is of black velvet, as are also the sleeves. A LINCOLN NURSE. She Cared For Rob and Willie Lincoln litlore tho War. Aunt Ruth Stanton, an old colored wo man who resides in St. Louis, was a nurse in Abraham Lincoln's family years ago, when they lived in Spring field, and long before tho ultimate glory of the great emancipator was outlined. Aunt Ruth is now a jani tress and drudges all day long, but she is yefc in robust health. This is the story tho old lady tells of her experience, minus tho quaint dialect: "The Lincolns were poor then and lived in a frame house with six rooms. Mrs. Lincoln belonged to the Episcopal church, and so did the Erarlfords. I used to tako the Bradford children to Sunday school, and on the way wo would sometimes seo Mr. Robert Lin coln, who was only 5 years old. He was going to Sunday school, too, and tho Bradford children would say: 'Oh, Ruth, there's that Bobby Lincoln with his patched pants! Let's go the other way, so as we won't meet him. Then we would go by a roundabout way to church to get away from Bobby Lincoln because he used to wear blue jean pants which his mother made for him and patched for him when he wore a hole in them. After awhile Mrs. Bradford sent me over to help Mrs. Lincoln every Saturday, for she had no servant and had to do her own housework. Then Mrs. Bradford sent me to live with the Lincolns. "I scrubbed the floors and waited on the table and helped Mrs. Lincoln to clean the dishes and do the washing. She did all the up 6taira work, made clothes for the boys, Robert and Willie, and cooked the meals. Mr. Lincoln was a very good and kind man, but I don't remember anything particular about him, for I was very young. Ho was a very tall man. That's all I can remem ber of him. He used to bo at his office all the day long, and I did not see much of him, but I never expected to see him president of the United States. "Mrs. Lincoln was a very nice lady. She worked hard and was a good church member. Every Thursday the sewing society of the Episcopal church would meet at Mrs. Lincoln's house and make clothe3 for the very poor people. She was very plain in her ways, and I re- AUNT RUTH STANTON. member that she used to go to church wearing a cheap calico dress and a sun bonnet. She didn't have silk or satin tlresses. The children, Robert, 5 years old, and Willie, a few years younger, were very good boys. I used to take care of them, for they were too small to go to school. We would play around the streets of Springfield, and the white children would throw stones at the col ored children. "After I left, Mrs. Lincoln had to do all of her own housework, for she could not afford to get "nother servant I have never seen any"? i the family since, but of course I have heard a great deal about them. I gness that Mr. Robert Lincoln does not remember when he used to wear patched jeans pants since he baa become a bia man-" lip 0MM.m ROYAL ARCANUM. The Order to Erect a Building: In Brook lyn Council Gossip. Brooklyn Arcanumites have selected and secured tho location for a building for the use of tho order. The situation is cen tral and easily accessible. The building wi'l be 100 by 95 feet, five stories high and constructed of brick and terra cotta. The entrance will be in the center. Tho ground floor will be used for business purposes. The first and second stories will contain the library, reading room, dressing room PROJECTED ARCANUM BUILDING, BROOKLYN, and parlors; in the rear of these floors, n large hall for banquets and receptions, 48 by 87 feet. Tho third floor will have two council rooms .ono 48 by 87 feet and two stories high and the other 25 by 38, with anterooms and parlors for both. On tho fourth floor will bo two council rooms, each 25 by 48 feet. The appointments will be modern, of the very bsst class. It is ex pected to be completed the coming spring. Star council of Boston lately lest one of Its members, and the death claim was paid by the supreme treasurer within 11 days from receipt of proofs of death by the supremo secretary and only 26 days after the death of tho brother. The total membership of tho order, as near as can be estimated, is 15S,9S)3, mak ing a total Increase for 1894 of nearly 11, 000. Reports from the various Ohio councils 6how that unusual enthusiasm pervades the older throughout the state. KNIGHTS OF HONOR. Consolidation of Lodges Zn Large Cities. Notes and Gossip. A correspondent of tho Knights of Hon or Reporter writes: In our large cities, where central locations are so easily reached, would it not be more beneficial all round to have only one, two or say three lodges than to give charters to 20 and more lodges, each with a separate date and rooms to meet in, to ekooutan indifferent and miserable existence. Our motto .should be, In union is strength." The amouut paid out monthly in all these lodges for rent alone, to the exclusive benefit of the landlords only, would In sure to all members stipulated sick bene fits without any extra charge to the indi vidual member. With the reduction cf the number of lodges, the vexed question of representation at the grand lodges would naturally be made an issu9 to bo rightly settled, giving the majority its due right to vote. Boston lodge made the largest net gain in membership during 1894 of any lodge in Massachusetts. Now let us all stand together and make one grand effort to secure a handsome In crease of membership by June 1, when the supreme lodge meets. If each lodge in the country would add one member a month for the next five months, the in crease would be assured. Knights of Hon or Reporter. Grand View lodge, Texas, was institut ed Nov. 6, 1894, with 26 members. Dur ing the first 48 days It Initiated 19 new members. Letters received from officers of various lodgos clearly indicate a general revival of interest in the order and its work among the membership in Ohio. A large num ber of petitions for membership are recent ly reported on file, and many blanks are being ordered. F. C. Sears, Paint, Glass and wall Paper dealer, removed t 702 Kanaa. avenue. Good work done by the Pewlest

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STATE JOURNAIi, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 11, 1895. BENTS! SITUATIONS!1 EEAL ESTATE! AUCTION SALES! THEE CLASSIFIED ADS. ThbTopkka statu JorBJTAij every day it is printed, to giro '"Vh.V Tone, tion mora than double that of any otte I ka paper, and by far Mon than "'"J Iafie. Combined. This makes this paper the cheapest, as well as the best daily lng medium in Topeka. the classified advertise stents below costing but FITE CENTS A LINE, er 20 cents ft line for a week; 60 cent by taS City circulation everyday exceeds 6,000 total circulation over 8,000. Sworn detailed statements of circulation pre sented on application. V feff-Cailand see any afternoon between 4 ana 6, the handsomest, fastest, most perfect Piece off printing machmer y in Kansas a VV el) iug press, which prints from two to tare oonv plet 8-page papers a second. SITUATIONS WANTED FREE. Are yeu in need of work? If so. you are at liberty to use these columns for assistance la that direction. While this notice appears the Stats Jourjtai, will publish free on Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas people, all notices of "Situations Wanted," not exceeding five lines, or thirty-five words, is length. Provided that all advertisements of this nature ara handed In previous to ten o'clock Saturday morning; also on Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, all advertising of this class handed in by tea o'clock Wednesday morning. No advertisements of this nature to bo 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 ono In business or having employment is expected t take advantage of it, but all others Invited tm avail themselves freely. WANTED H ELP. "WANTED Position, by competent man, as bookkeeper, salesman, or other clerical work; have jrood letters and can furnish Al reterencos. Address Bookkeeper, cara of Journal office. WANTED White lady wants a permanent place to do general housework. 012 West Fifth street. W7 ANTED A lady or gent possessing small capital to handle a rare invention; eclipses all others. No peddling; no opposi tion; no risk; easily shown: easily sold; sweep ins; success. $10 a day. $it)U a week, $.00 a month, $j,00J a year. Hillmaa Bros., 327 Mon roe street. "VrA'T'rD Whi.e girl for general house work. TOO Western ave. r ANTED Girl to work In candy store, 724 Kansas ave. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. "VT ANTE D $2.50 for making you a stylish cape out of your plush cloak. Dresses from $3 to $5. 413 Fillmoro st. WT'ANTED Work of any kind, by middle- aged man. Austin Cudney, 204 Hancock street. AY WANTED Furniture and clothing to sell. 1100 West 8th st. r ANTED Rooms. Persons having rooms to rent to delegates attending the Grand Lodge A. F. s A. M., February 15 to 22. please report same io me at once, with location and price. Geo. 31. Eagle. "VT ANTED Loans in any amount on city property and farms. Rates low. I. L. Betzer. oil) Kansas ave.. Dudley's n,anb. V r AN 1 ED Application for loans on good city or farm property. Kates six to feven per ceut interest according to size of loan. Milo Norton, agent, no west Siith ave., Tope ka, Kaus. WANTED To move, STOKE or ship house hold goods, freight, etc. SALS' SKLVXEIi, 13 E. 6th St. MERCHANTS' TKANSFEH STORAGE CO. FOR RENT-ROOMS. lOR KENT Nicely furnishedTronTroonTfor one or two gentlemen; 517 Taylor st. "TOR KENT Two unfurnished rooms, con nected. down stairs. 714 Jackson st. T?OR KENT Three unfurnished rooms for housekeeping, lis West 6th street. "7UK KENT Three unfurnished rooms suita- Jackson it1" Se k6epUl" ln(luire FOR RENT HOUSES. "17 OR KENT Good live-room house on Harri son street. Inquire yoi Monroe. 170K KENT A 5 room cottage, 329 Tyler sL Inquire atsoti Kansas ave? l1,Osire:ftLE-S0" Cal Stove- 811 West 7th r0?finfamriT,nk S'?fes with time Call or w rife w H t o i -7 re Proof safes and Iwesl.1106 g00d' fresh cows- 1" SALE-Bedsteads. hanging lamps all 1100 TeltskTree- se--"and cJtiung1. lalfitee A1)E-riea,ant home at sairmce. 30, Harrison st. W. II. Griffith. f0Kffia Pony. Wm. MISCELLANEOUS. k w Kansas, upon oath av That r ,T?rbeaT cYTseA Wltn insanity in the rTroba'e court of Jackson eountv Kant i ,")oae that he is not now insane and sWearTh'i him was groundless and false. uuy aainst Subscribed and sworn to befonP'me' h.FVh day of January, was. lo Dj'.He s!ha""k My commission expires Oct. l! Public' r t Topeka, Ks., Feb 9 im ti,-IrL-John A- Eeed lr Sf-I went out to K?ncKansas, StaU Insaue Asvlum at Toneka na?sas- a,ul quested Dr. B. D. Eastman tA i lake an affidavit that you was either sane whteh?nd fused to do either Tt hit me hed thatHh.n V,le 5tu of tnis ''"lh l am samsl Ser oauVoVninwr r tement W puSac1: very truly- LoMtrSVT?0'?','?? between 1024 Fill a ladv9 f?1trre"and I'.lrst. Presbyterian chuich. giveu for its return tA .'""'"a wm i vj. j inrj ill., be j. tiiiiiure st, YA71"loTr- with place: hou"e 'and barnbottonf Pes and; mortaaaee $1,800. runs two vearsd sJPe cent interest. If your rrotwrtv at 7 Pr want a farm come and Le ut l you son. North Topeka. Kan. Thomp- LilX8"?'3117, a bunch of keys on the" f wder leave at 502 Jiansas ava. river. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. I70K SALE Brick store building, one storv At Floats BEST TOR 5H1KTS. THC OAMBLK CO, CI Nit. PIANO TUNING A. J. King. 505 Kansas av. Has charge of pianos at Bethany college. 13 K. STELLA KIR BY, 600 Kansas ave. Office nours io to 11 a.m., 2 to 4 p. m. 'rnone 123. JUST found the place wliere you can get your furniture repaired and also packed for ship ment. Cleaning and laying carpets i specialty. All kinds of general jobbing work done on short notice. Work guaranteed by a good mechanio. No. 9os'i Kansas avenue. 1AKPENTER and repair work. Address, Wm. Keedy. box 323. North Topeka. Kan. EQUITY LOAN CO. loans money at reasonable rates on pianos, organs, jewelry, or other valuables. 713 Kan sas ave. FOR REAL estate or rental property see Benedict Co., 601 Kansas ave. V"OTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that my petition is on file in the office of the probate court of Shawnee coun ty. Kansas, asking for a permit to sell intoxi cating liquors at Hotel Throop, 4th and Kansas aveuue, Topeka, Kansas. Hearing of said pe tition is set for the 21st day of February, isaa, at 10 o'clock a. in. W. R. KE-VJfADY. Topeka, Jvans, January 22, 1895. GJ.ENEK A L repair shop 410 east 4th St. Ke- pair firearms, locks and clocks. Powder, shot and sporting goods for sale. HARNESS AND REPAIR WOKK. Haroest and shoe shop; patent leather polish for bugsy tops; repairs m all kinds of leatiisr goods; shoes half soled forty cents. K b Hen derson, llS'i West Sixth street. MONEY TO LOAN. M OXEY TO LOAN, on chattle securities at 10a west sth st. ONEV to loan, long or short time. March Co., 700 Kansas ave. MONEY LOANED on horses, pianos, hous hold goods and all kinds of chattel securi ties. L. Biscoe, oJ3 Kansas avenue, room J. PARTIES wishing a safe and paying invest ment for their money, call at onuo oa o. aL Wood Co., 5s Kansas ave. 7ARMS FOR SALE Parties wishing to buy farm or city property will do well to consult Robert Dietrich. llt i-ast 8th st. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. C. M. Welch. E. G. Wilsox. WELCH WILSON. ATTOKNEY3 AT LAW. 623 Kansas Avenue. Commercial Law and Land Litigation. Da faulted .Mortgages attended to. Practice In all Sate and i eueral Courts. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. JDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kan. Ave. Residence 13th and Clay. Office hours 9 a. in. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. in. to 5 p. m. Harrison telephones both residence and, office. D R. MARY E. STEWART. 634 Harrison street. Consulting hours 10 a. m to 2 p. m. SE. SHELDON. M. T.. BURUKKir AND DISEASES OF WOMBS', With private hospital. Office: No. 720 Kansas Ave. L. A. RYDER, M. D-, OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon street an Central ave.. North Topeka. Phone 21 1. Uses the Brinkerhott system of Rectal treat ment, a successful and painless treatment for piles, hstuia, hshure. ulceration, etc. ARCHITECT. JOSEPH MARSHALL, Architect and Superintendent. 1004 KANSAS AVENTJ2. SCHOOL 0F "LAS3 for ladles and gentlemen MONDAY evenings. 8 p. in. Social par tita SRlnV Man. DANCING- n& required. Mr. Mrs. J. H.Wetherell, Masonlo Building. 33 Jackson Straat. Grand OPEusE, Two Nights and T.l l,T3 11 1 O Tuesday Matinee, JSiOm II Ow 1a THE CELEBRATED u COMEDY COMPANY. Presenting the Funny Musical Farce Comedy, STAR-LIGHT! New SoDgs. rA COMEDIANS, SINGERS AND DANCERS! New Dances! SnoliD HHaucr's AITS Silk lip m Ii THE TALMAGE SERMON SHEEP THAT ARE NOT OF THE CHURCH FLOCK. Bring: Them In and Pat on Tbelr Uel xnets. Their Sandala and Tbelr Breast plates The Battlefield Is Tonder the Fifiht Ia On. HERE 13 NO MO nopnly in religion Th grace of God is not a little property that we may fence off and have all to ourselves. It is not a king's park at w"h 1 c h we look through the barred gateway, wishing we might go in and see the deer and the statuary, and royal conservatory. No, it is the Fath er's orchard and everywhere there are bars that we may let down and gat,ca that we may swing open. In my boyhood, next to the country school house, there was an orchard of apples, owned by a very lame InaJ1, who, although there were apples in the place perpetually decaying, and by scores and scores of bushels, never would allow any of us to touch the fruit. One day, in the sinfulness of a nature Inherited from our first parents, who were ruined by the same tempta tion, some of us Invaded that orchard j but we soon retreated, for the man came after us at a speed .reckless of making his lameness worse, and cried out: "Boys, drop those apples, or 111 set the dog on you!" Well, my friends, there are Christian men who have the church under severe guard. There is fruit in this orchard for the whole world; but they have a rough and unsympathetic way of ao costlng outsiders, as though they had no business here though the Lord wants them all to come and take the largest and ripest fruit on the premises. Have you a,n idea that because you were baptized at thirteen months of age and because you have all your life been under hallowed influences, that there fore you have a right to one whole side of the Lord's table, spreading yourself out and taking up the entire room? I tell you no. Tou will have to haul in your elbows, for I shall place on either side of you those whom you never ex pected would sit there; for, as Christ said to his favored people long ago, so he says to you and to met "Other sheep I have which ara not of this fold." MacDonald, the Scotchman, has four or five dosen head of sheep. Some of them are browsing on the heather, some of them are lying down under the trees, some of them are in hie yard; they are scattered around in eight or ten different places. Cameron, his neighbor, comes over and says: "I see you have thirty sheep; I have just counted then.." "No," says MacDonald, "I have a great many more sheep than that. Some are here and some are else where. They are scattered all around about. I have four or five thousand in my flocks. Other sheep I have which are not in this fold." So Christ says to us. Here is a knot of Christians and there is a knot of Christians but they make up a small part of the flock. Here is the Episcopal fold, the Methodist fold, the Lutheran fold, the Congregational fold, the Pres byterian fold, the Baptist and the Pedo Baptist fold; the only difference between these last two being the mode of sheer washing; and so they are scattered ail over; and we come with our statistics and say there are so many thousands 0 the Lord's sheep; but Christ responds' "No, no; you have not seen more than one out of a thousand of my flock. They are scattered all over the earth. 'Othex sheep I have which are not of this fold.' Christ, in my text, was prophesying the conversion of the Gentiles with as much confidence as though they were already converted, and he is now, in the words of my text, prophesying the coming of a great multitude of outsid ers that you never supposed would come in, saying to you and saying tc me: "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold.' In the first place, I remark, that the heavenly Shepherd will find many of his sheep among the non-church goers There are congregations where they are all Christians, and they seem to b completely finished, and they remind one of the skeleton leaves which, by chemical preparation have had all the greenness and verdure taken off then and are left cold and white and delicate nothing wanting but a glass case tc put over them. The minister of Christ has nothing to do with such Christians but to come once a week and with ost rich feathers dust off the accumulatior of the last six days, leaving them bright and crystalline as before. But the other kind of a church is an armory, with perpetual sound of drum and fife, gathering recruits for the Lord of Hosts. We say to every applicant: "Do you want to be on God's side, the safe side and the happy side? If so, come in the armory and get equipped. Here is a bath in which to be cleansed. Here are sandals to put upon your feet. Here is a helmet for your brow. Here is a breast plate for your heart. Here Is 8 sword for your right arm, and yonder is the battle field. Quit yourselves like men!" There are some here who say: "1 stopped going to church ten or twenty years ago." My brother, is it not strange that you should be the first man I should talk to to-day? I know all your case; I know it very well. Tov have not been accustomed to come intc religious assemblage, but I have a sur prising announcement to make to you you are going to become one of the Lord's sheep. "Ah," you say, "it Is im possible. Tou don't know how far J am from anything of that kind." 1 know all about it. I have wandered ui and down the world and I understate" your case. I have a still more startling announcement to make in regard tc you; you are not only going to become one of the Lord's sheep, but you will become one to-day. Tou will stay aftei this service, to be talked with about your soul. People of God, pray for thai man! That is the only use for you here. I shall not break oft so much as a crumb for you. Christians, in this ser mon, for I am going to give it all to the outsiders. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." When the Atlantic went to pieces on Mars' Rock, and the people clambered upon the beach, why did not that heroic minister of the Gospel, of whom we have all read, sit down and take care C of those men on the beach, wrapping them In flannels, kindling fire for them, seeing that they got plenty of food? Ah, he knew that there were others who would do that. He says: "Tonder are men and women freezing in the rigging of that wreck. Boys, launch the boat!" And now I see the oar blades bend un der the strong pull; but before they reached the rigging a woman was fro zen and dead. She was washed off, poor thing! But he says: "There is a man to save;" and he cries out: "Hold on five minutes longer and I will save you. Steady! Steady! Give me your hand. Leap into the life boat. I thank God he is saved!" So there are those here to-day who are safe on the shore of God's mercy. I will not spend any time with them at all; but I see there are some who are freezing In the rig ging of sin and surrounded by perilous storms. Pull away, my lads! Let us reach them. Alas! one la washed off and gone. There is one more to be saved. Let us push out for that one. Clutch the rope. Oh! dying man, clutch It as with a death grip. Steady, now, on the slippery places. Steady there! Saved! Saved! Just as I thought. For Christ has declared that there are some still in the breakers who shall come ashore. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Christ commands his ministers to ba fishermen, and when I go fishing I do not want to go among other churches, but Into the wide world, not sitting along Hohokus creek, where eight or ten other persons are sitting with hook and line, but, like the fishermen of New foundland, sailing off and dropping net away outside, forty or fifty miles from shore. Tea, there are non-church goers here who will come in. Next Sabbath they will be here again, or In some bet ter church. They are this moment be ing swept into Christian associations. Their voice will be heard in publio prayer. They will die in peace, their bed surrounded by Christian sympa thies, and to be carried out by devout men to be buried, and on their grave be chiseled the words: "Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of his saints." And on resurrection day you "Will get up with the dear children you have already buried and with your Christian parents who have already won the palm. And all that grand and glo rious history begins this hour. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Again I remark, that the heavenly Shepherd is going to find a great many sheep among those who have been flung of evil habit. It makes me sad to see Christian people give up a prodigal as lost. There are those who talk as though the grace of God were a chain of forty or fifty links and after they had run out there was nothing to touch the depth of a very bad case. If they were hunting and got off the track of the deer, they would look longer among the brakes and bushes for the lost game than they have been looking for that lost soul. People tell us that if a man have delirium tremens twice, he can not be reclaimed; that after a woman has sacrificed her Integrity, she can not be restored. The Bible has distinctly inti mated that the Lord Almighty is ready to pardon four hundred and ninety times; that Is. seventy times seven. There are men before the throne of God who have wallowed in every kind 01 sin; but, saved by the grace of Je sus and washed in his blood, they stand there radiant now. There are those who have plunged into the very lowest of all the hells in New Tork, who have for the tenth time been lifted up, and finally, by the grace of God, they stand in heaven gloriously res' cued by the grace promised to the chief of sinners. I want to tell you that God loves to take hold of a very bad case. When the church casts you off' and when the club room casts you off and when society oasts you off and when business associates casts you off and when father casts you off, and when mother casts you oft and when every body casts you off, your first cry for help will bend the Eternal God clear down Into the ditch of your suffering and shame. The Good Templars can not save you. although they are a grand institution, The Sons of Temperance can not save you, although they are mighty for good. Signing the temperance pledge can not save you, although I believe in it. Noth ing but the grace of the Eternal God can save you, and that will If you will throw yourself on it. There is a man In this house who said to me: "Unless God helps me I can not be delivered. I have tried everything, sir; but now I have got In the habit of prayer and when I come to a drinking saloon I pray that God will take me safe past and I pray until I am past. He does help me." For every man given to 6trong drink there are scores of traps Bet; and when he goes out on business to-morrow be will be in infinite peril. and no one but the everywhere present God can see that man through. Oh! they talk about the catacombs of Na ples and the catacombs of Rome and the catacombs of Egypt the burial place under the city where the dust of a great multitude lies; but I teil you New Tork has its catacombs and Bos ton Its catacombs and Philadelphia its catacombs. They are the underground restaurants, full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. Toug man, you know it. God help you. There is no need of going Into the art gallery to see the skillful sculpture that wonderful representation of a man and his sons wound around with serpents. There are families represented in this house that are wrapped In the martyrdom of fang and scale and venom a living Laocoon of ghastliness and horror. What are you to do? I am not speak ing into the air. I am talking to hun dreds of men who must be saved by Christ's gospel or never saved at alL What are you going to do? Do not put your trust in bromide of potassium. Or in Jamaica ginger, or in any thing that apothecaries can mix. Put your trust only in the Eternal God and he will see you through. Some of you do not have temptations every day. It is a periodic temptation that comes every six weeks or every three months, when it seems as if the powers of darkness kindle around about your tongue the fires of the pit. It is well enough at such a time, as some of you do, to seek medical counsel; but your first and most importunate cry must be to God. If the fiends will drag you to the slaughter, make them do it on your knees. Oh, God! now that the paroxysm of thirst Is coming again upon th.it man, help him! Fling back into the pit of hell the fiend that assaults his soul this moment. Oh, my heart aches to see men go on in this fearful struggle with out Christ, There are In this house those whose hands so tremble from dissipation that they can hardly bold a book: and yet I have to tell you that they wCl yat preach the Gospel and on communion days carry around consecrated bread, acceptable to everybody because otf their holy life and their consecrated behavior. The Lord is going to save you. Tour home has got to be rebuilt. Tour physical health has got to be restored. Tour worldly business has got to be reconstructed. The church of God Is going to rejoice over your disciple ship. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." While I have hope for all prodigals. there are some people In this house whom I give up. I mean those who have been church goers all their life, who have maintained outward morality but who, notwithstanding twenty, thir ty, forty years of Christian advantages, have never yielded their heart to Christ, They are Gospel hardened. I can call their names now and if they would rise up they would rise up In scores. Gospel hardened. A sermon has no more effect upon them than the shining moon on the city pavement. As Christ says: "The publicans and harlots will go into the kingdom of God before them." They have resisted all the im portunity of Divine mercy, and have gone, during these thirty years, through most powerful earthquakes of religious feeling and they are further away from God than ever. After a while they will lie down sick, ana some day it will be told that they are dead. No hopel But I turn to outsiders with a hope that thrills through my body and soul. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." Tou are not Gospel hard ened. Tou have not heard or read many sermons during me last lew years. Aa you came in to-day everything was novel and all the services are suggest ive of your early days. How sweet the opening hymn sounded In your ears and how blessed is this hour. Everything suggestive of heaven. Tou do not weep. but the shower is not iar off. Tou sigh, and you have noticed that there is al ways a sigh in the wind before the rain falls. There are those here who would give anything if they could find relief In tears. They say: "Oh, my wasted life! Oh, the bitter past! Oh, the graves over which X nave stumbled! Whither shall I fly? Alas for the future! Every thing is dark so dark, so dark! God help me! God pity me!" Thank the Lord for that last utterance. Tou have begun to pray, and when a man begins to petition, that sets all heaven flying this way, and God steps in and beats back the hounds of temptation to their kennel, and around the poor wounded soul buts the coverlet of his pardoning mercy. Hark! I hear something fall. What was that? It Is the bars of the fence around the sheep fold. The shep herd lets them down and the hunted sheep of the mountain bound in; some of them their fleece torn with the bram bles, some of them their feet lame with the dogs; but bounding in. Thank Godj "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." FLYINF MACHINES. They May Be Perfected, But Man Him self Will Never Be Able to Fly. Mr. Hiram Maxim, the Inventor of the famous gun which bears his name, is a firm believer in the possibility of so far perfecting flying machines that they may be used in warfare. He has been explaining his views on this sub ject to a contributor to Cassell's Sat urday Journal, who has been to see him at his English residence at Bexley. Mr. Maxim thinks that highly civilized nations, able to make and use flrst-rate machinery, will In the near future util ize flying machines In their armies. This mode of warfare, he bellves, could be carried on in spite of armaments and weapons of war as we understand them now, and if one clvilzed nation used flying machines in such a way. others would be compelled to follow suit. At the same time, he has no faith In navagable balloons, the whole thing being inherently wrong. In France, especially, attempts have been made to navigate balloons, and vast sums of money have been spent upon them: but no balloon has ever been navigated against even a very light wind. Anoth er point, Mr. Maxim thinks, is this, that man will never be able to fly by energy derived from his own muscles. A man with sufficient energy would have to weigh seventy-five pounds to have forty-pound muscles to his arms and seventy-pound, muscles to his cv "st and he would have to have a br .st beno twenty-eight inches. Klckel-La-the-81ot Ou Meters. The use of the "nickel-in-the-slot gas meters for small consumers at tracts a good deal of attention in Eng land. There are estimated u, be tween 80,000 and 100,000 houses and tene ments, for instance, in South London without any gas supply and the prepay ment meter is looked upon as the solu tion of the problem of furnishing gas to the poor people occupying such premises. The cost of gas is greater than it is to the ordinary consumer and hence a higher rate of charge is necessary. The would-be consumer of this class will not buy fittings and pay for fitting them, nor can he put down a deposit, which he generally does not possess. A quarterly account or month ly Is out of the question where removals of tenants are so frequent and hence the tariff has to be raised in order to help the gas company recoup itself on the unusual investment. But the serv ice proves a great boon to the working men of humbler condition and hence the rapid extension of the system is ex pected. It Was a Brilliant Affair. A London society woman, wishing to give a fancy ball recently, was be sieged by letters after her invitations were out, asking permission to appear in ordinary evening dress. Alarmed at the prospect of a colorless ball, she diplomatically replied that any woman over thirty-five might come In evening dress. The ball was a brilliant affair, and every woman came in a character gownl Which story is matched by one told at .a woman's club last week of the efforts of a good clergyman to interest the women of his flock in some church movement. "I will aak," said he, at the close of the sermon, "the elderly ladies of the congregation to remain a few minutes after the benediction." He found himself alone with one woman the mother of the teller of the story, who, at thirty-five, was willing to sac rilice herself for the sake of her pastor and remained to point out to him his grievous blunder. The same notice, dlf- ferently worded, the following Sunday secured a numerous response. Beady for Anything. Fair Patient Is there no way of tell ing exactly what Is the matter with me, doctor? Dr. Emdee Only a post-mortem ex animation would reveal that. Fair Patient Then, for heaven's sake, make one. I don't see why should be squeamish at such a tlma as this. Mercurial poison results from the usual treatment of blood trouble by which the system is filled with mercury and potash mixtures more to be dreaded than the disease and in a short while is in a worse con dition inan oeiore. oiuon inan oeiore. RHEUMATISMS soon takes pos. session 01 ine m e and it fi'nnAHnir TiK in a and aching Joints make life miserable, s.3.8. is a reliable cure for mercurial rheumatism, and uiuma reiiei even alter all else has failed. It is guaranteed purely vege table, and absolutely harmless; take no sub stitute!. Send for our treatise on blood and kin diseases, nailed free to an? address. SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Atlanta, Oa SAITA FE BOUTS. TBAIKS TO RIDS OH. In Effect on and after See. 16, 1804. WESTBOUND. 9; Leave Arrive Leave Trains. 9 Kansas Topeka. Topeka. City. Wichita St Tex. Express- Us 8:15 am lo-.ss am 10:40 am Den. &Tex. Lim B 0-.00 am 11:00 amll:05 am California Lim.. 8 1:50 pm 8:46 pm pm 'Kansas City plug 109 4:80 pm 6:40 pm' Night Express.. 7 9:20 pm 11:86 pm 11:45 pra M. A. acc. Ex. Sunday... 153 7:30 am Between Kansas City and Topeka only. EASTBOUND. is Arrive Ieave Arrive Trains. Topeka. Topeka. Kansas City. K. C. Local 114 1:50 pm 2:00 pm 4:20 pm Columbian Lim. 4 2:15 pm 2:40 pm 5:00 pm Chicago Lim.... 6 5:41pm 6:05 pm 8:00 pm Night; Ex 8 3:25 am 3:35 am 5:45 am Atlantic Exp 2 4:00 am 4:10 am 6:10 am Kansas City plug 110 7:80 am 9:40 am Man. St B. Acc. Ex. Sunday... 154 9:00pm Between Kansas City and Topeka only. ATCHISON AND ST. JOHEPH. Trains v Leave lave Arrive irains. no. st Joe Atchis'n Topeka. Day Express.... 105 S:fK am 9:00 am;i0:55 am Night Exp 107 8:05 pm 9:10 pm 11:15 pm Leave Arrive Arrive Topeka. Atchis'n St. Joe. Morning Exp... 10S 4:15 am 6:15 am 7:C0am Evening Exp 106 6:05 pm 7:55 pm 8:55 pm Buy railroad, Pullman or steamship tickets of ROWLEV BROS.. Agents Santa Fe route, southeast corner Sixth ana .Kansas avenue, lopena. Or W. C Gabvbt, Agent at Depot, Or Arnold Si Sox, Agents, North Topeka RGCZ ISLAID ROUTS. In effect on and after Dec. 3, WESTBOUND. 1894, Leave Trains. No. Kansas Arrive Leave City. Topeka. Topeka. Through Fast Express B S :00pm 11:10pm 11:20pm Chicago. Texas Express A 1 10:50 ami 12:55 pm 1:05 pm Southwestern LvS.J. Express A 13 9:35 am 12:50 pm Southwest Night LvH.J. Express A 25 7:40pm 11:05pm 11:20pm EASTBOUND. Arrive Trains. No. Arrive Leave Kansas Topeka. Topeka. City. Solid Limited V'estibule Ex press A 2 8:15pm 3:20pm 5:25pm Bt. Joseph and Eastern Ex- ArS.J. press A 14 t:25pm 6:50pm E x p r e s s and Mail via St. Ar S. J. Joseph C 4 6:85am 5:40am 9:25am E in res) and Mail via Kan- gas City A 26 5:35am 6:40 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 s.f4); or at Fostolhc North Topeka, (telephone 304). II. O. IjAKV H 1 City Passenger Agent. UXIG3 PACIFIC. Change of Time. To Take Effect Sand ay January 6, 1895. "WESTBOUND Leaves I Trains. No. Kansas Leaves Arrives City. Topeka Denver. Denver Pacific Vestibuled Express 7 7:30 pm 9:40 pm 2:25 pra 1 9:30 am'll:20 am 4:09 am EASTBOUND. Arrives Trains. No. Leaves Leaves Kansas Denver. Topeka. City. Eastern Vesti buled Express, Limited 8 8:20 pm 2:50 pm 6:00pm 2 12.50 pm 6:37 am 8:50 am Dally, except Sunpay. All others daily. Train No. 8, solid vestibule to Chicago, dining car, free chair cars, etc., running over the Chicago Alton from Kansas City, has through sleeper for St. Louis via Missouri Pacific. Train No. 7, solid vestibule for Denver, mak ing direct connection for Pacific coast, through Pullman car for Satt Lake; through colonist car to Portland, etc., etc. City ticket office, 525 Kansas avenue. MISSOURI PACIFIC Train. No L'v'a Topeka Topeka and Fort Scott ac commodataon..., 285 10:00 a. m. Ay's Topeka Topeka and Fort Scott ac- oominodation...... 286 5:80 p. m. Lf. 8. W. EAST. Lear. Tope. S"4 Arrive Leavenworth ll:00a.m WIST. Leave Leavenworth, via Oikaloosa.. :69 p.m Arrive Topeka. :20 pan Aoeommodatlon. daily ex. Sunday. VI NK VV OO I BtlGHXAXn PARK It. K Trains will leave Qulncy Street station wes c days tor V me wood aa follows: 6:45, 11:51, 8:u, 6:41. Trains win leave Vlnewood for Qulncy stre?; at 7:57. 1:02, 4:19. 6:6a 17ATI027AL STABLES, rirst-ol&ss Livery. Boarding a speciality Telephone 4G. GILCHRIST 2,03, TC3 Jaokaoa itreet. Projrietsr.

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STATS JOURNAL,, MONDAY ELVlNT?Gr, FEBRUARY 11, 1895. fALL 'IN LINE And come and look at the Fine line of FOOTWEAR AT THE BOSTON SHOE HOUSE... "We will give 35 per cent dis count for tan days only on the marked price of all Footwear. Bring your pencil and do your own figuring. Eemember we carry the finest make of Shoes in the United States, such as Drew, Selby Co.'s. Peyton Bros., Portsmouth, Ohio. Reynolds, Utica, N. Y. We also have a fine line of Bion Reynolds' goods, of Brockton, Mass. BOSTON SHOE HOUSE... 511 Kansas Avenue. "AllMail Orders Promptly Attended to. A. Police Raid. The police made another raid last night. This time it, was a colored dis orderly house on East Third 9treet be tween Kansas avenue and Quincy street It has been looked on by the police for same time with considerable suspicion, and four characters, two young men and two young women were found in it They were Ed. Wright, Charles Gibson, Sadie Johnson and Katie Banks. All were colored. Each was lined $0 in po lice court today. V Pay for Coyote Scalp. The supreme court has decided that the law under which western counties were paying bounties for the killing of coyotes, rabbits and gophers was uncon stitutional. The case was brought by the Union Pacific railroad to prevent Wallace county from collecting a special tax levy for gopher pelts. THE GE2AT Removal I JOE ADY'S, STRONG .WORDS. The Harvey County Statesman F Voice s the Real Sentiment of Kansas. J. W. Ady of Newton made some re marks in his speech at the Leavenworth banquet, which seems to have been buried in the general avalanche of "talks" made at that affair. But these are so vivid and vigorous that they should be rescued from obscurity and given to the public. Mr. Ady said: "We are facing a crisis in our financial affairs; it is an impending and awful crisis. The congress to which you will go is confronted by a proposition to issue $50,000,000 of bonds, due in fifty y6ars, interest aDd principal payable in gold, "Every man knows that if the silver dollar, which is by law and by the con tract, a legal tender for treasury notes, was actually tendered to the aliens and traitors who are looting our treasury of gold to ship to Europe, not a dollar of bonds would be needed or thought of. "We have just passed through a cam paign in which the Republican party in every northwestern state in some manner pledged itself to bimetallism, either by international agreement, by the coinage of American silver, or otherwise. The hour of the trial of our faith is at hand, for here is a cold-blooded propo sition to chain the American public, like Prometheus to the rock, to the gold standard for fifty years to come. "The dispatches say that Britain is well pleased with this singular proposi tion of our executive. Of course she is. They also assure that she will take all the gold bonds that we will issue. Of course she will. These bonds are the golden fetters which are to bind us and our posterity in financial slavery to the Albion lords for fifty years to come. When $500,000, 0. 0 of bonds, payable, principal and in terest, in gold in the hands of the invet erate enemy of silver, as a center piece in our fiuancial system, what hope is there for bi-metallism on any terms? "Of course there is the alleged menace to the public credit if we pay our debts with the money in which the contract say3 they may be paid, but there is also the menace of a long suffering people to the life of that party that dares without right or reason to mortgage the souls of our people and of their children to the gold monopoly of England, and there is the pledge of the Republican platform to deliver the people from the bondage." POLICE COURT NOTES. A I- yf'S'S Kansas P UiJ Ave., Is still in active oper ation. If yon have not attended this sale yon certainly should I do so, for there is I many a BAHGrAIN I avraiting yon. g Pwemember vre are giving 5 off on every article in stock. Nothing re served "during this sale. Do not think of making a purchase in the Clothing line anywhere until you have seen the special "bargains that we offer to you. This sale Tvill continue for a short time only. Do not de- j lay if in need of any- thing in our line, hut call at once. ucenson I t 1 T. WILL MOTE SLO WLY. The Topeka Civic Federation Has a Long Educational Work Before It. The Municipal League, Civic Federa tion or whatever it may be named is to hold its second meeting tomorrow even ing at the office of T. E. Bowman on west Sixth street. The business will be preliminary and a constitution will be reported for adop tion. It is the desire of the promoters of the organization to proceed cautiously and lay the foundation so carefully that the organization can not be overthrown by the machinations of politicians. It will, however, cut some figure in the coming city campaign, and the man who considers politics or political party supe rior to the welfare of the city will find that he is not an available candidate for office. T. E. Bowman said to a Journal re porter: "We are in no hurry. Whatever we do shall be done with care and fore thought It will be our effort to divorce politics and municipal government and I do not see why we should not succeed in Topeka as well as in other cities where the civic federation has proved a suc cess. "It is also necessary to go slow so that we may agree upon what is best to be done and the interests of the city be best served." OUT OF THE WRECK. Nomina I 433 .Kansas. Ave. g Car entire lino of $2, $2.50, $3 aad $4 Eats, tfioics for 51.50. f A Few of the Minor Cases That Judge Ferry Dealt With Today. In police court this morning the white boy, Arthur Lockwood, admitted having stolen a revolver from a North Topeka colored man, and was fined $15 for it. Miss Flora Douglass, whom the city accuses of streot walking, was arrested, but will not be tried until tomorrow. Ex Police Judge Ensminger is her attor ney. Guy Delano and Sadie Wallace, who were arrested by the police Saturday night for disorderly conduct, pleaded guilty and were each fined $5. Both are white. Finis Killibrue, the colored man charged with cruelty to a sick horse, had his case continued until tomorrow at the request of the city. FOUGHT FOR FOOD. A Story of Dissension Over Prison Food at the City Prison. Oscar Long who is serving fifty days in the city jail for selling liquor, has been appointed to the proud distinction of steward, head waiter, banquet distri butor or hash sliuger according to your social standing at the jail. lie was attending to his usual duties yesterday morning when he was rudely interrupted by Thomas Kelly and James Burues, who in a most unmannerly and unbecoming way deprived him forcibly of the feast and began fighting over it. There wasn't much left of the grub nor of Oscar when the fight ended and it was only just that somebody should be punished Kelly and Burnes were brought before Judge Ferry this morning, and arraign ed. They pleaded guilty, but were anx ious to get out of town. They were mar ried men, they said, and had several small children dependent on them for soap and water, and had never done anything wrong in their lives, and al ways saia their prayers, and never drank anytning anyway but water brought from the crystal fountain or hydrant, and were on their way to St. Joe, where there was plenty of work and plenty of water to drink. It was a pretty good storv, but Judge Ferry is catching on rapidly, and lined the fellows $15 each. From the Queer Stories Float Ashore X.ost Elbe. Lowestoft, Feb. 11. A man who at tended the inquest on the body of one of the passengers on the Elbe, supposed to be that of Edward Muskhowit'z, declared himself to be the real Edward J. Mush kowitz, and said that the body was that of a man named Guttman, his brother-in-law, who had absconded from Buda Pesth, taking the witness's passportB, cards, eta, and securing a second cabin passage to New York. Guttman, who was accompanied by his brother Adolf and his sister, lost 300,000 gulden in bourse speculations, and made good his losses with the funds of a com pany of which he was- a director. Gutt m.in's sister had booked as E3telle Gol der, and she had 16,000 guldens when drowned. The coroner's jury expressed themselves as satisfied with the Mush kowitz evidence. COAL IN THE SOUTH. A Falling: Off in the Production of Three States. Washington, Feb. 11. Statistics of the total coal production of Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina in 1891 are given in a statement compiled bv the United States geological survey. it is thown that Alabama produced 4, 377,977 tons valued at $3,982,007, against 5,135,935 tons in 1893, worth $5,083,729. This was a decrease of 753,958 short tons, or nearly 15 per cent, and a loss of value of -$1,114,785 or over 20 per cent The average price per ton declined during the year from 99 cents to 91 cts. During 1893, the mines gave employment to 11,274 men, while in the year just closed. 10,789 men were employed show ing that about 500 men were thrown out of employment by the depression in the coal trade in Alabama alone. The total product of Georgia in 1894 was 354,111 short tons against 372,740 tons in 1893, a decrease of only 1S,629 short tons or about 5 per cent. The vaiue however, shows even a sharper decline than that of Alabama, be ing $365,972 in 1893 and only $299,290 in 1894. The average price per ton at the mines from 98 cents to 84J cents, a decline of 13 per ton. v Extensive improvements were in pro gress throughout the year at the mines at Egypt, Chatham county. North Caro lino, and the productions are somewhat curtailed in consequence. The total pro duction for the state in 1894 was 13,150 short tons, worth $20,300 at the mines. A TOPEKA MAN GETS IT. E. C. Press HENRIETTA HAD A ROCK. But Along: Came a Blaeltbird and Almost Nipped Off Her Nose. Henrietta Powell, the colored girl who stabbed a white woman with a board full of nails sometime ago, figured in another encounter Saturday night. This time it was with Ada Birch and Henrietta gave her an unmerciful beat ing with a rock. Officer Campbell was taking them to the police station, when Henrietta made another assault and Ada reciprocated with a slash at her with a knile. The knife struck Henrietta's forehead above her right eye and dug across the cheek just missing the eyeball and fin ished its career by almost amputating her nose. City Physician Hibben sewed up the cut and after it was bandaged Henrietta admired it from ail sides in a glass and then seating herself on a table calmly lighted a cigarette. The case was continued in police court this morning. F 7 Snyder Who Organized the Club is Thurston's Secretary. E. C. Snyder, a formerly of Topeka man, who was an employe of the Lance under Harry Frost, and wlio practiced law as a recreation, has been appointed private secretary to United States Sena tor John M. Thurston of Nebraska. Mr. Snyder has been working on Omaha newspapers since he left Topeka. He was one of the organizers of the Topeka Press club, an organization which flourished a few years ago. P1NGUEE IS ORIGINAL. Be Puts Up Blackboards to Give News the Health Board Suppresses. Detroit, Mich, Feb. 11. Mayor Pin gree's latest scheme is municipal bulle tin boards. His honor is at odds with the newspapers in their effort to have a reorganization of the local health board, and charges them with com bining to "do him up." This morning the citizens noticed around the city hall boards four feet by six, painted black, hanging from electric light towers guy posts, and at the en trances to the building, and a hand-lettered notice pasted thereon. The bulle tin announces the number of smallpox cases at the pest house, the number of recoveries and deaths, and the number of houses quarantined. DO YOU LIKE YOUR CLOTHIER? HAVE YOU EVER TRIED US? .NOTE Reductions noted in our advertisements are always actual reductions the values quoted are real, not fictitious. Ve are care ful that every article advertised shall not be misrepresented or exag gerated one iota. The Relation of Supply and Demand Rules the Price the World Over! Whether it's stocks or bonds or' wheat or Clothing supply and de mand rules prices. Just now the demand for clothing is limited the sea son is well along and a great many people have already bought all the clothing they shall need this winter. On the other hand our stock is yet large very large so down go prices to a level not before reached this season. We Have Made Some Very Remarkable Reductions for This Wppl' WINTER GOODS MUST GO! Overcoats Ulsters. Men's and Boys' fa 00 and $8.50 Overcoats and Ulsters Overcoats and Ulsters that sold at $10.00 and ifii.UU Wli Overcoats and Ulsters that sold at $12.00 and $18.50 T,t t i Ulsters, that sold at $15. Mi 1 I 1 U U $18, $20 Men's Fine Black Im ported Clay Worsted Suits all styles $18.00 value e 1 $6.508 mm S8.50 U" ire m Pantaloons. Pantaloons, all wool. that sold at $3, 3.5) and choice now for Pantaloons, best cloth, nil wool, sold at $5.00, choice now for Trousers finest in the house, that sold at $6, ST. S3, choice now for.. Excellent 1.50 Jeans All Wool Pants, now Price h it m Pi S2.50 3 S3a50 I $4.50 1 97 cts 1 Boys' Wool Knee Pants, double seat,douple knees, elastic waistband, double seams, $1 value tin I cts 1 Knee Pant Suits. Boys' Every thread wool uouble breasted, me dium weight an eleauc suit CJrS worth every cent of this week QmvO Overcoats, some 14 to 19 '.a.nd$2.50 Aires 3 to C years also some 14. to 19 years, that sold at $4. $3 and 1 $0, our price tins weait IV i y Kail Ord II Backs up every advertissmsnt "with a S3ven years record ft hi for honora'ble dealing aad truthful advertising. Boys' Suits, 14 to 19 years. All wool siujrie and double breasted, worth and sold Q2L Q 7 at $i.50, some at $10, tliis week. srs ISIust Have Enclosed. Cash Kansas Avenue. AUERBACH

GUETTEL.. KTr.-: v- r.g-L.M a FAYTEMPLETON'S WEALTH HACKMEN TO STRIKE. The Kansas Mutual. The Kansas Mutual Life wrote $2,096, 000.00 new business in 1894, of which $191,000 was declined and $1,905,000 was accepted and placed on its books. It made a gain of $187,500.00 of in surance in force; a gain in assets of $41, 6J7.33; a gain in surplus of $14 493.9; its total receipts for the year were 199, 322.78 and its total assets are $263,782.61; its surplus $174,604.15; insurance assumed and renewed $S,348,00.000. The total death losses paid to date is $550,000. The company's condensed annual re port for 1894 is published in this issue. Hear Hon. C. C. Baker at Unity church, Wednesday night, Feb. 13. Call up Phone 153 and have our wagon call for your bundle. Topeka Steam Laundry. Hear Hon. C. C. Baker at Unity church, Wednesday night, Feb. 13. Want Shorter Hours and a Sunday Holi day. New York, Feb. 1L The Liberty Down Association of Cabmen last night discussed ways and means to bring about a strike. Their hours, they say, are al together too long. They are always on foot in all kinds of weather at both morn ing and night and are on their boxes during most of the intervening time. Sunday brings no rest, and it is to cor rect these faults that the Liberty Downers held their heated debate last night, 'lhe final decision will not be announced un til today. Should they strike, some 900 cabs owned by livery stables, will be tied up. Artist Brideeman Dead. New Yohk. Feb. 11. Chas. J. Bridge man, the noted Brooklyn artist and re cluse, is dead. His boay was found in his studio on the upper floor of the South Brook yn bank building. Mr. Bridgeman was the brother of Frederick A. Bridgeman, the Parisian artist and he was a painter of note himself, having a wide reputation for his landscapes and portraits. Eugene Ware ("Ironquill") promises a poem for the Flambeau club benefit at Hamilton's hall, February 14. The inimitable Joe Waters will help out the Flambeau boys Thursday night. Howell Osborn Gave Her Almost $160,000 While He Lived. New York, Feb. 11. While How ell Osborn's relatives are lighting over his property, it is inter esting to know what Fay Temple ton, the burlesque actress, is to have, She had nursed him through his illness, and he died in her arms. Osborn's wild career line culminated with his alleged marriage to Fay Tem pleton, which was announced in Septem ber, 1893. Charles J. Osborn, his father, accumulated a fortune as the favorite broker of Jay Gould, and when he died left his widow millions and Howell an income of $5U0,000. In spite of this, young Osborn was always in debt. iliss Templeton's escapades served to keep her own name as well as Osborn's before the public. She created a sensa tion in Chicago while playing with Rice Dixey's "Corsair" company by sud denly disappearing. It was learned aft erwards that she had sailed for France in response to a message from Osborn to meet him in Havre, lu Paris they lived in the most extravagant style and enter tained gorgeously in a residence that was palatial. The bathroom alone is said to have cost $35,000. Everyone remembers the diamond epi sode as a peace-offering after a quarrel Osborn sent to Miss Tetnpleton $20,000 worth of diamonds by his valet, Henry Herishy, Henry tried to smuggle them into this country, but was arrested. Jlis3 Templeton afterwards secured the dia monds by declaring that they were her personal property. Howell Osborn is said to have fre quently introduced Miss Terapleton as his wife and registered as such at hotels, but he declared before his death that no marriage ceremony had ever taken place. At the World's fair, in 1893, Osborn and Fay Templeton had one quarrel whicn threatened to last for good. It was oc casioned by Lillian Russell, who hap pened to be playing in Chicago at the time. Osborn showed too much devo tion to Miss Kusseil, to which Miss Tem pleton seriously objected. They parted, and it was not without great effocts on Osborn's part that he induced her to again return to him. Fay Templeton, though unable to in herit from the vast fortune, has, never theless, almost $60,000 worth of jewels given to her by Osborn from time to time, and will doubtless be able to claim at least $100,000 worth of plate in the resi dence in Paris. Mrs. Phi. Adams, soprano, Vincent Graham (of the Royal Academy of Lon don), Chas. Reeske, bass, Mrs. John Griley, soprano, Edward Brennan, baajo i3t, Misses Wyatt, quartette, James Scully, Prof. Wm. Davis, pianist and cornetist, Major Anderson, and "The Only" Modocs will assist at the Grand Concert of the Church of the Assump tion at Library halL Wednesday even ing, February 13th, 1895. Prof. Palmer, the talented elocution ist, is on the Flambeau benefit pro gramme. A silk handkerchief given away with every can of Gypsy Queen baking powder. St. Valentine and the Flambeau club at Hamilton hall Thursday evening. LEW WALLACE INDIGNANT. Bought a Copy of "Ben Hur" lu Canada and Didn't Pay Duly. Detroit. Mich., Feb. 11. Gen. Lew Wallace proposes to raise a row because he was not compelled to pay duty at the Detroit custom-house ou a copy of "Ben Hur," which he bought on a train in Canada while on his way to Detroit yesterday. Among a pile of books which the train boy threw down beside him he found a paper-covered volume of his own work, which the boy offered to him for 25 cents. As the book cannot be pur chased in this country for less than $1.50, owing to the copyright, the general was ruffled. Inspector J. D. Long examined the satchel of Gen. Wallace in the station, but passed the volume without asking for duty. The general called hie atten tion particularly and asked if it wa? the custom to admit free cheap Canadian editions of American copyrighted books. The inspector replied that it was in the case of single books. Gen. Wallai e an nounced his intention of taking the mat ter to Washington. He says that al though "Ben Har" has been translated into almost every tongue, he has only re ceived fifteen cents royalty from foreign publishers. ECHO FROM THE PAST. The Douglass House Will Have a Banquet at the Copeland. Republican statesmen will exchange war reminiscences at tne Uopeiana next Friday night, when the "Douglass house" and its friends will hold its first post-bellum reunion. The list of chose invited includes the Douglass house, the present members of the senate and house, state officers, members of con gress, justicos of the supreme court, ex state officers, attorneys in the celebrated "Gunn case and press representatives. Toasts will be responded to by the fol lowing gentlemen, who will select their own eubjects: George L. Douglass, E. W. Hock, C. E. L.obdell, J. tJuDDison, A. H. Horton, George T. Anthony, Luc ien Baker, Alex Warner, John Seaton, C. F. Scott, Otto Eckstein, W. H. Ross ington and Frank Montgomery. Since establishing in this city the phy sicians of the World Medical Institute at 631 Quincy street, have placed under treatment over four hundred people, all of whom are satisfied with the benefits they are receiving. Each and every one of these sret the advantage of the offer which the doctors have been making Qf one full months treatment free, this in the aggregate will amount to hundreds of dollars and can not be kept up indefi nitely. This offer will positively cease on March 1st, and will uaaer no circum stances be continued after that date. Bear in mind that these physicians are nrmanntlv established here, are the most exDert soecialists in chronic dis eases now Dracticinar and that their charges are within the reach of any one. Mrs. Parkhurst will assist the Flam beau club in their entertainment Thurs day evening, at Hamilton's hall; violin obligato by Miss Marie Norton. The Flambeau club benefit Thursday evening at Hamilton hall, will be well worth attending. UNIONS TAKE IT UP. They Object to a Rule Compelling; Waiter to Shave. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 11. Three dele gates from the Trades and Labor Union will go to Jefferson City in a few days to request the legislature to take some act ion against the rule which has been made in several hotels in this city com pelling waiters to shave. This was decided at the semi-monthly meeting of the Trades and Labor Union which adopted a resolution requesting the state legislature of Missouri to enact a law making it a felony for an employ er, or his agents, to exact such a condi tion from employes or those seeking em ployment. NORTH TOPEKA. Items of Interest from the tlie ltlver. North Side of Miss Anna Campbell has returned from her visit with relatives at Horton. Ray Johnson of Horton has been in the city a day or two visiting M. T; Campbell, his brother-in-law. The farmers in the vicinity of Menoken have more corn in their cribs than any others in the county. They have all the way from 500 to 5,000 bushels each. Frank Russell, proprietor and driver of the Inter-Ocean mills' delivery team, was relieved ol his overcoat during the late cold snap while his wagon stood in front of the mill. The Mid-Continent mills are being taxed to their utmost capacity to supply the demands of their product. Since the recent blockade on the railroads, oc casioned bv the severe cold weather, it has been "extremely difficult to procure wheat for grinding. I sell the genuine old style Osage City shaft coaL E. P. Ewart, 1012 Kansas avenue. Headquarters for Camden coaL E. P. Ewart, 1012 Kansas avenue. A. M. Cross has moved his jewtlry store from North Topeka to 427 Kansas avenue, nearly opposite postoffice. Robt. Mason of the Holden ranche, Kingsville, was in the city this morning. He has just finished shipping 150 head of cattle which netted an average of $50. TTa ia nnw fpfidimy 6j0 head for the Anril market, and about the middle ill nut on 50J head which be ready in June or July. Two of the flouring mills on the north side the Mid-Continent and Inter Ocean are members of the Southwest ern Millers' Despatch Freight car line. Each firm has fifty box cars allotted it, and the cars are all painted a lemon color. They likewise have the names and advertisement of these well-known firms painted on them m bold, black let ters. These cars are covered with a much better roof than the ordinary freight car, with a view of preventing any damage to the flour by leaky roofs. The Flambeau club have a spectacular feature, "Our Valentine," on their pro gramme for Thursday evening. Tickets for the Flambeau club benefit, on sale at U P. ticket office, and at C. a. Elliott's. Everybody gets a valentine at Hamil- Wa hall Thursday evening. io comic. of will