The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 4, 1896

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TWO CENTS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 4, 1896. WEDNESDAY EVENING. T WO CENTS. V 4 i FINANCIERS ACT. Wall Street to Make an Active Campaign. Against Free Silver Among Western Delegates. GROWTH OF THE BO 031. In Favor of McKinley All Over the Country. Likely to Be Nominated on First Ballot. New York, March 4. Steps have been taken today by the executive committee of the chamber of commerce "sound moaey" committee to conduct au anti free silver campaign among the dele gates to the Republican and Democratic national couvention3. The committee met in secret session at the chamber of commerce yesterday. In order to give their campaign more force the members of the exscutive committee determined to present their views to the chamber of commerce at a meeting' Thursday, and ask that body to invite commercial bodies and business men throughout the country to join in an evangelistic movement among probable national dele gates. A draft of the resolution that the chamber of commerce will be asked to pass was also prepared. It recites the ne cessity for active campaigning against free silver, and Buggeats that Secretary Carlisle's plan of forcing the national conventions to adopt strong gold stand ard planka is the best that can be devis ed. In their discussion the members of the executive committee were of the opinion that the chamber of commerce can do the most effective work by communication with other commercial bodies and by cor respondence with big firms. One of the methods to be pursued is for the big merchants of New York to write to the business men in the south and west with whom they deal, urging op position to free silver. The New York merchant will use all the arguments at his command against bi metaiism and he will ask his correspon dent to communicate In turn the argu ments to the retail merchants within the districts favoring free silver. In this way the chamber of commerce hopes to reach business men throughout the country. Another plan talked of was the sending out of anti-free silver orators. There are regiments of stump speaker anxious to educate the pnblic if they are paid for it, but the oratorical campaign is not looked on with as much favor as that of distributing literature advocating the adoption of a gold basis. The committee is already distributing pamphlets, pointing out the reasons for opposing free silver, and it was deter mined to continue the distribution and get as many more "good" documents as can be found. On of the documents that will proba bly be distributed is Secretary Carlisle's recent speech. Though that was not a set speech the members of the chamber of commerce consider it one of the best that has yet been delivered on the sub ject. It will probably bo sent to the del egates to the Democratic convention at Chicago, and although there will be noth ing accompanying it to indicate that Car lisle is being boomed for president, the distribution of bis speech may, it is thought here, help to win the nomination for the secretary. ;I KIMEI AND THE llOSSES. New York World" on the FIElit on McKinley. New York, March 4. The "World" says editorially: The indications are un mistakable that a large majority of the Republicans of the we6t and south ctronglv favor the nomination of McKin ley. Even in this state it will require all the power of the Piatt machine and of the governor's patronage to prevent the election of McKinley delegates in some of the strongest Republican dis tricts. An attempt by Piatt to throw the New York delegation as a unit against McKinley, with Governor Morton out of the race, would surely be futile. The Ohio leader represents as nobody else does the policy of high protection which Is the Republican party's pivotal princi ple for the coming campaign. Yet it is equally obvious that the most powerful bosses in the party are against McKinley. They dislike him only less than they did Harrison. Piatt in New "York, Quay in Pennsylvania, Reed and his managers in New England, and others of the most skillful politicians will defeat him if they can. It is for this purpose that they have instituted or en couraged the candidacy of various "fa vorite sons," hoping to make the field against McKinley so large that it can be combined to beat him. It is not likely that they will suc ceed. The bosses very rarely control national conventions. They were against Cleveland in 1884 and in lb92. and yet he was nominated. They were against Har rison four years ago, and yet he pre vailed. The Republican sentiment in favor of McKinley bids fair tp be irre sistible. McKlMLET ON FIRST BALLOT. Claimed that He Already Baa "Vote EnDh Win. Washington, March 4. McKinley managers in Washington are now claim ing that the nomination of their favorite on the first ballot is certain. A week ago General Grosvenor gave out an esti mate by states which showed that Mc Kinley was even now but a few votes short of victory, and that he would win beyond question on the second bailor, bince then Gen. Grosvenor has amended bis figures and now insists that the Ohio Napoleon already has votes sufficient to win before two-thirds of the roll has been called at St. Louis. With the present growth, of McKinley senti ment, in fact, the general would not be axprUed it the convention decided to j make it unanimous without toe formal ity of a ballot. General L N. Walker, commander-in-chief of the G. A. R, who was iu Wash ington the past week, had spent the pre vious woek in New England, and had taken some note of the political senti ment in that section. He Is quoted as saying that the masses of Repub licans in the states of New England were overwhelmingly in favor of McKin ley's nomination, and he believed that in the industrial centers the Republicans who were for McKinley outnumbered the others six to one. lie stated, also, that everywhere he went throughout the country he found the sentiment for the Ohio candidate very strong. Avoid tha Money Question. Cantos, O., March 4. Ex-Governor McKinley this morning was asked why he had not responded to the request made by the Commercial Gazette, Cin cinnati, for the views of the Republican presidential candidates (himself includ ed) as to their positions on the financial question. He replied that he had "noth ing to Bay." COST MORE THAN 150,000. "Extras" and Other Items Bring tile Cost of the Court House to $164,000. The county commissioners are face to face with a deficit for the erection of the new court house which amounts to several thousand dollars. They are now trying to devise a plan to get out with out leaving the county in debt outside the bonds for the new court house. While the original contract price of the new court house was $127,673, enough extraB were added, in the way of differ ent stone and changes in the plans, to bring the total contract price up to $189, 116.61. In addition to this the super intendent was paid $3.75 per day for overseeing the work, and the architect was paid 4 per cent of the contract price for his work, or about $5,000, and this takes almost all the $150,000 received from the sale of the court house bonds. In addition to this there is the furni ture and the elevator in the building which will be paid for out of the general revenue fund and which cost in the neighborhood of $18,000. If these had been paid out of the court house fund the commissioners would find their fund about $20,000 short. The commissioners are now consider ing the question of whether money can be taken from the county general rev enue fund and placed to the credit of the court house fund and they have asked the county attorney for an opinion. When they came to adopt the plans for the court house the board found that there was not enough land and the property on the north belonging to Charles Jockheck was accordingly con demned. The appraisers fixed the price of the property at $9,003 and as the commis sioners supposed that there would be no lack of funds the $9,000 was paid out of the court house, fond. Now the commissioners are trying to have the $9,000 taken out of the general revenue fund to reimburse the court house fund so that the contractor may be paid. Unless this is done Contractor Stevenson can not be paid in full as the fund will be about $5,000 short. The cost of the court house has been more than was iutended and the commis sioners might properly be accused of extravagance in some matters. Granite was substituted for stone in the base ment walls at a cost of over $9,000 over the original contract price, and there are other items which might have been eliminated. The following items indicate the cost of the building exclusive of the ground on which it stands: Original contract price $127,675 00 Extras 11,441 61 Architect 6,000 00 Superintendent 1,700 00 Counters 2,895 00 Desks and tables 1,020 40 Elevator 3,528 00 Metal furniture 11,103 00 Total cost of building $164,363 01 The grounds have not been touched and their improvement and building the retaining wall will cost not far from $10,000 additional. CUBAN FLAG IN K. C. It Hsngi Aeroif int!i Street, Xear "Ttie Junction," on at Wire. Kansas City, March 4 Stretching high in the air from the north side of the Sheidley building to the south side of the Junction hotel is a telegraph wire. From it floats an American flag and another flag with a blue triangle, a single large white star, instead of forty add small stars, three red and two white stripes, instead of thirteen in red and white. The strange looking flag is that of the new Cuban republic It was strung out upon the wire by Captain D. Harri man, who is a firm believer in the cause of the insurgents. HOLMES MUST DIE. The Supreme Court Refuses to Sara the Condemned Murderer. Philadelphia, March 4. The su preme court today in a decision by Just ice Williams, overruled all assignments of error in the case of H. H. Holmes, sentenced to death for murdering Ben jamin F. Piizel, and confirmed the judg ment of the court below. Holmes has lately been making prep arations for the gallows, and is said to have sent for a Catholic priest who has since visited him several times. If parlnrP From Topeka, The following persons have left To peka within the past twenty-four hours: Via Rock Island S. H.Harper, Muncie; Mr. and Mr?. W. H. Stillweil, Hot Springs; Charles Hayden, Holton. Via Santa Fe Mrs. J. T. Brown, Leaven worth; C F. Beebe, Euglewood; Geo. Chaplin, Leavenworth; J. J. Mulvane. Chicago; W. W. Cook, Oswego; H. W. Jackson, Atchison; John Frey, Manhat trn; Albert Parker, Pueblo. Can't Elect Blsekanrn't Sncceaeor. Cincinnati, March 4. The Times Star special from Frankfort, Ky., says: As soon as the house assembled today a resolution was offered for adjournment March 11, one week earlier than the con stitutional limitation. This is regarded as conceding that the present legislature cannot elect a successor to Senator Black barn. FOSTER SHOT. He Fires It at James A. Trout man From Wichita. Kansas Federal Judge Makes Fearsome Predictions OF THE DIKE RESULTS Of Troutman's Candidacy for Governor of Kansas. Troutman's Friends Seek a Mo tive for the Attack. Kansas Citt, March 4. The Times prints the following special from Wichita: Wichita, Kan., March 3. "I am tak ing but little part in politics," said Casius G. Foster, judge of the federal court here tonight, in an interview. "You will remember several years ago I took a hand in an effort to get the prohibition amendment again submitted to the peo ple, and you well remember the vials of wralh that were poured ont upon my bead by the intolerant prohibition press of the state. "I then prophesied that instead of the Republican party dowuing the saloons, that the saloons would down the Repub lican party. That prediction has been fulfilled, and today it must be admitted that prohibition has utterly railed as a means to promote temperance or to close up the saloons. It is like the ghost of Banquo; it will not down, but constantly intrudes itself into political and social affairs. "There will never be peace or unity in the Republican party until this matter goes to the people for settlement, either by a direct vote or through a constitu tional convention, and why should it not go to the people? "This is a government of the people, and the people must be trusted to settle all matters of public policy. "If I were the governor of Kansas I would show my confidence in the good sense of the people by abolishing the po lice boards and advocating a settlement of prohibition by submitting the amend ment to a vote of the electors." Continuing, Judge Foster said: "I don't know whether the people generally know it or not, but it is a fact, neverthe less, that the very things against which the people are crying out today such as the metropolitan police law, the assistant attorney general business and other un American measures were hatched and brougnt to life in the office of James Troutinan. "James Troutman is a brainy man, and it mnst be conceded that he is honest in his views, and of course his candidacy is being urged by the rampant, theoretical, spread armed, anti-seeing prohibition ele ment of the Republican party, but, while I have a kind personal feeling for Mr. Troutman as a man, it is my opinion that, should the Republican party be led to make him the nominee of the party, it would take something stronger even than Roentgen X rays to find the party after the voters of Kansas have got through with the head of the ticket next fall." When Lieutenant Governor Troutman was esked what he thought of Judge Foster's remarks he was loth to talk. "I do not care to talk about it," he said. "Judge Foster and 1 have been personal friends and I do not understand why he should attack me. I do not fear any serious harm from the position taken by Judge Foster against me, for the people have known his position for a long time." One of Mr. Troutman's supporters said: "I am not surprised at the posi tion of Judge Foster or at his attack on Mr. Troutman. Mr. Troutman was the attorney for Major Hudson in the suit brought against him by Judge Foster for libel, and while he treated the judge with all possible courtesy and deference, he would hardly speak to Mr. Troutman for some time after the suits were finally adjusted. I think that there lies the animus of the attack and that it would not have been made had not Judge Foster felt hurt at the action of Mr. Troutman as Major Hudson's attorney." TROUTMAN IS ENDORSED By the CenTotfon that Sends Curtis Delegates to Emporia. Charles Elliott called the Repub lican convention to elect delegates to the Fourth district congressional convention to order at Hamilton hall this morning at 10 o'clock. Thomas A Osborn was elected chair man and O. K. Swayze secretary of the meeting. The usual committees were appointed and they were" out but a short time. All the reports were adopted without division. Judge Guthrie, as chairman of the committee on resolutioos, presented the following resolutions which were car ried with cheers: Resolved, By the Republican party of Shawnee county in delegate convention assembled March 4, 1896, at Hamilton hall, iu the city of Topeka for the purpose of choosing 24 delegates to represent this county in the Republican congressional convention to be held at Emporia, March 9, 1896: Recognizing the ability, untiring indua-. try and loyal service of Hon. Charles Curtis, member of congress from this district, the delegates to the congression al convention this day chosen are in structed to earnestly present the name of Mr, Curtis as candidate for congress in this district and to use all honorable means to secure his election. Resolved, That the Republican party of this county extend its cordial and sin cere thanks to each of the ten counties of the Fourth congressional district for their generous and loyal sup port of Mr. Curtis for more than four years, and pledge that in the future as in the past he will serve his constituents with a loyal constancy and devotion and tb; t in the discharge of his high duties as a member of con gress from Kansas he will zealously labor to secure for our state a place in the front rank of the great common wealths of the republic. Resolved, That the delegates at the congressional" convention at Em poria be requested to use all honorable means to secure the election of such, delegates to the St. Louis convention from the Fourth con gressional district as will support Maj. Thomas J. Anderson for national com mitteeman. Resolved, That the candidacy of James A. Troutman for governor be endorsed by this convention. The following delegates to the con gressional convention were then report ed by the committee and elected: First ward. Delegates: A. J. Kane. J. E Dolman. Alternates: A A. Raub, Henry Lodge. Second waIid. Delegates: Leroy Currier, E. E. Lair, George W. Veale. Alternates: George D, Butts, Henry Scales, Joe Jones. Third ward. John Guthrie, C. E. Gault. Alternates, John Rhodes, H. T. Chase. Fourth ward. A. M. Fuller, H. M. Phillips., Alternates James Burgess, Geo. W. Smith. Fifth ward. A" F. Chesney. Alter nate, D. Hale. Rossville Delegate: A. C. Sherman. Alternate: H. II. Miller. Silver Lake Delegate: Fletcher. Helms. Alternate: Henry Miller. Alenoken Delegate: C. S. Ward. Al ternate: Wm. Ward. Soldier Delegate: J. Q. A. Peyton. Alternate: Jno. W. Ready. Monmouth Delegate: R. U. Farna worth. Alternate: Bruce McKee. Williamsport Delegate: George NeiL Alternate: James Hutchinson. Auburn Delegate: Philip Keck. Al ternate: H. 11. Sherman. Dover Delegate: Cary Snyder. Alter nate. Geo. Anderson. Mission Delegate: Frank J. Mather. Alternate: Chas. Holton. Topeka Delegate: Scott Kelsey. Al ternate: Freeman Foster. At large Joab Mulvane, Howel Jones, E. F. Ware, A. M. Thomas, J. M. Brier, C. S. Elliott, W. A. Bird, Geo. Tincher. The following telegram from Con gressman Curtis was read: Howel Jones, Topeka, Kan.: The convention and other Republicans of Shawnee have my heartfelt thanks for this and the many other favors I have re ceived at their hands. Charles Curtis. IN APPELLATE COURT. Tiie Essese Pcrrrmsn Caae and One Chsrffed to Locomotive Nparks. In the appellate court this morning Eugene Ferryman was ordered re leased from the county jail by a writ of habeas corpus. Ferryman's wife sued him for divorce some time ago and was awarded alimony, which Perryman failed to pay. He was thrown in jail in consequence. This morning he was able to show that he was totally unable to pay the alimony required and was allowed his freedom- The court devoted part of yesterday to a hearing of the plaintiff in the case of the Home Insurance company vs. the Santa Fe company. About six years ago a Burlingame farmer named Clemens lost his house by -fire. It was near the Santa Fe road. The Home com pany paid the loss and then sued the Santa Fe to recover, alleging that sparks from an engine caused the fire. The Santa Fe claims the condition of the flues of the house was responsible. Tne Santa Fe was allowed five days in which to prepare its brief in the case. Eugene Ware and J. B. Larimer are the attorneys for the plaintiff. K. C. BOOK FIRM ASSIGNS. The Old Established House or Brown A Co. Turns Over Its Stock. Kansas Citv, March 4. Tne Brown Book Stationery company, one of the oldest and best known wholesale station ery houses in Kansas City, has made an assignment for the benefit of its credi tors. The liabilities are placed at $30,000, and the value of the stock at 529-31 Del aware street at $50,000. The National Bank of Commerce is the heaviest credi tor. Arba S. Van Valkenburg, who was named as assignee, qualified by filing a bond for $100,000 in the circuit court. SPAIN FEELS BETTER. Assured That Grover Cloveland Will Stand Between Her aud American Peo ple. Madrid, March 4. The opinion pre vails in official circles here that Presi dent Cleveland will not approve of the Cuban resolutions adopted by the United States congress. General Weyler has cabled to the gov ernment on the subject, and referring to the question of American intervention, says he hopes it will not be necessary to reBort to extreme measures. He added that no alarm was felt at Havana, RECEIVERS SI 8 000 EACH. llraylon Ives Objects to Nortbern Pad He Receivers Getting that Hneh. Milwaukee, March 4. The final hearing of the accounts of Henry C. Payne, Thomas F. Oakes, aud Henry C. Rouse, as receivers of the North ern Pacific company, has been fixed for March 16 in New York city. The hearing will be before Special Master A. L. Carey, and it is expected to be more than ordinarily interesting as the salaries of- the receivers is to be de cided. It is said Brayton Ives will oppose the payment of $16,000 per year to each of the receivers, which the final amount calls for. Silver Meetlne March 11. The meeting that waB to have been held at Hamilton hall tomorrow evening under the auspices of the American Bimetalic league has been postponed until Wednesday evening, March 11. An effort will be made to make the meeting a big one, and the programme is to be announced next Monday. A Wcalthj Ksiissn.Dnd. Iola, Kas.. March, 4. Mr. L. L. North rnp, one of the most prominent bankers of southeastern Kansas, died yesterday of nervous prostration, after an illness of three months. His real estate is valued at $500,000. GONEjyiAD. Italy Rocking With Anger at Crown and Premier Because of Defeat to Her Arms in Abyssinia. DEATH LIST NOW 5,000. Riotous Assemblages in all the Large Cities. Mustering in of 80,000 Troops is Ordered. Rome, March 4. The kingdom of Italy today is in a condition of excitement, grief and anger, almost beyond descrip tion. Words can not adequately portray the situation, for every dispatoh received from Massowah adds to the gravity of the disaster to the Italian army at Adowa, Abyssinia. This morning's dispatches place the number of Italians killed at the battle of Adowa and in the long harassing retreat which followed, at 5,000, and it is be lieved that not even these figures tell of the full extent of the disaster. In these reports no mention is made of the wounded and there is good reason based on stories of recent Italian defeats by the Abyssinian3, but those who fell wounded during the retreat of over fifty miles, met a more horrible fate than those who were killed on the spot Throughout the night, the garrison here was kept under arms and mounted patrols traversed the principal streets. The masses, however, do not seem to have retired to rest. The streets are filled with people until day break and after early morning every public place was crowded with excited men and women. A number of disturbances which have oalled for police interference have occurred today, and the indications are that the people are assuming a most threatening attitude, not only in Rome, but throughout Italy. Demonstrations agaioBt CriBpi'i ministry aod even against the crown are reported from a number of towns in the provinces, in spite of the fact that the authorities are straining every nerve to suppress all alarming news. It is said that the government was aware on Tuesday of the full extent of the defeat inflicted upon the Italians, but it was judged to be dangerous to allow the startling information to reach the public suddenly. All fetes have been indefinitely post poned, massed for the repose of the souls of the dead have been celebrated this morning in every Catholic church in this city and crowds of weeping women and sorrowing men were in attendance. Rome is today a city of mourning and of sullen anger ready to break out into fierce open resentment. The opposition party and socialists are taking advantage of the situation. The latter, especially are very bitter against the government. Later in the day news from the pro vinces became alarming. It was stated that in a number of places the police have been unable to cope with the popu lace aud that the troops have been called upon to restore order. The soldiers,how -ever, appear to have been as helploss as the police and in several places crowds have been fired upon. At Milan the troops after vainly try ing to disperse a mob which was making demonstrations against the government were obliged to fire. One man was killed and several were wounded. This increased the excitement and report has it that the troops were stoned and had to clear the public square at the point of the bayonet. Dispatches received here from Venice say that the most intense excitement pre vails there and there were a number of riotous demonstrations during the night An immense crowd of people assem bled at the Piazza street market and there speeches were made against the government condemning the manner in which the Abyssinian campaign had been conducted and calling upon the military authorities to try Gan. Baratieri by court martial. There was another popular demonstration against the gov ernment at Venice this morning and the mob was only dispersed by the police with the greatest difficulty and after a number of arrests had been made. Advices received here from Padua say that'there was a riotous demonstration today and that the police had to inter fere to restore order. A mob marched through the streets hooting the govern ment officials and crying for the down fall of the Crispi ministry. At Verona there was a similar demon stration against the government and a number of socialists were arrested for stoning the police and uttering seditious cries. It is beiieved, however, that nothing short of the downfall of Senor Crispi and the despatch of strong reinforcements to Africa will satisfy public clamor. Shortly before noon today it was an nounced that Gen. Baratieri had been re called to Rojie, and that on his arrival here his conduct of the present campaign and defeat at Adowa would be inquired into. The socialists declare that the general should be shot as aa example to others and that the minister of war should share his fate. Gen. Baldisaera, who has assumed com mand of the Italian troops in Africa, is preparing a report on the battle of Adowa, which will be forwarded as promptly as possible to the war depart ment here. The array reserves of 1872, numbering about 80,000 men are being called to the standards, but it is feared that there will be serious rioting when the men muster in large bodies at their different centers. The people are murmuring greatly at being deprived of the heads of families who must now be placed under 'arms, and as each hour passes the situation becomes more and more perilous. The newspapers as a rule are filled with abuse of the military authorities and of condemnation for the manner in which the Abyssinian cam paign has been conducted. All sorts of charges of gross incompetency are made. WARMER RAIN PROMISED. If tha Weather Prophets Are Bla-ht Fair Weather la Not Near. Threatening clouds and an unlimited amount of nw, chilly air serve to form a disagreeable March day today. The weather me a state that we will have rain or snow tonight or to morrow, and from the present exist ing condition of the weather it is prob able that their prediction will be veri fied. They also say that it will be warmer tonight. Along the lines of the Santa Fe in Kansas today the weather is re ported cloudy and damp, with slight mists in some portions On the Chicasha division of the Rock Island a drizzling rain is reported to be falling, and on all other divisions cloudy weather exists. The average temperature over the state today is 30 degrees above zero. In Texas the weather is reported gen erally cloudy, and in Colorado cloudy and cooi. Cloudy weather with light snow is reported in northern New Mex ico, and in southern New Mexico clear and pleasant weather exists. ALL FOR GARDINER. Scarcely a Dissenting: Voice in the City Against His Appointment as Chief. The probable action of the police com missioners in electing a chief of police is still the principal theme on the streets. The commissioners still preserve si lence on tha question. It is generally conceded among the patrolmen and others who have not takeu sides, that Captain Gardiner now stands the best chance of election. The business men of this city are almost unanimous for his choice, and no word is heard against him. The protest that arose when it was told that Ellison would probably be appoint ed, was a surprise to the commissioners, and the protest is bearing fruit. It is the unanimous opinion, that Ser geant Ellison's friends have pulled all the wires they can and that his appoint ment is now out of the question. There have been no more applications for the position, and probably but the two men named will be considered. CANED IN THE SENATE. Flood and flanasan Settle It in Old Doa njbroolc Style. Richmond. Va., March 4. Senator Flood entered the senate chamber this afternoon and walking up to Senator Flanagan belabored him over the head with a cane, inflicting a painful but not dangerous wound. The assault caused much excitement. Flood was arrested. The assault was provoked by the fact that Flanagan a day or two ago said on the floor that Wood had "falsified" him. CALL TO SEE SUPT. MUDGE. Wellington Railroad Men Who Ware Be.' leased Come to Headquarters. T. E. Purdy, formerly agent for the Santa Fe at Wellington, C D. Ige, formerly cashier at the freight depot, and H. W. Cook, formerly yardmaster at that point, who were released from the service of the road several weeks ago for alleged complicity in a plan to defraud the company; visited General Superintendent Mudge this morning for the purpose of asking for a consideration of their case, with a view to their reinstatement. The matter has been taken under con sideration by Mr. Mudge. TOO MUCH GOING AGROUND And Captain Grant of the Liner Sew York Resigns. New York, March 4. The Bteamship New fork, of the International Navi gation compony's line, sailed today under command of Captain Watkins, Captain Grant, who was in command of the steamer when Bhe went aground on Saturday, having resigned. Vice President Wright announced to day that the company had yesterday re ceived the resignation of Capt. Grant to take effect immediately. "I mnst say," said Mr. Wright, "that Capt. Grant's resignation was not demanded by. the company. I have nothing more to say about it." GOT. GREENHALGE SINKING He is 'ow Cneonscloos and Lile Can Last but Little Longer. Lowell, Mass., March 4. Governor Greenhalge's condition remained un changed at noon. Pulse 140 to 145. Had taken no. nourishment since 3 o'clock a, m. Not under opiates but unconscious. Governor Greenhalge had rallied slightly at 1:30 p. m. WEYLER'S THREAT. If Cuban Iielllejereocy is Reooj nlzsd Ha Will Withdraw Protection From Ameri cans. New York, March 4. A special to the World from Havana says: Captain General Weyler, the commander-in-chief says: "I cannot understand the sentiments which lead the United States con gress to do what it has done. If recognition of belligerency is formally declared America property will lose the legal rights of protection by my soldiers it now eo joys. There are ex tensive American interests here, and if the United States government recognizes the rebels, it relieves my government and myself from responsibility." The Seals Jt nst So. Washington, March 4. The senate committee on foreign relations today de cided to report the Dingley bill authoriz ing the extermination of fur seals unless England consents to further arbitration without amendment. There was but one dissenting vote which was cast by Sena tor Morgan. CommitteemanWni.J.Campbelinead. Chicago, March 4. William J. Camp bell, the Republican national committee man from Illinois, and for years promi nent in the councils of the Republican party, died this afternoon of pneumonia, after a short illness. Everybody takes the Journal. BLAINPS BODY Is to Be Disinterred at Wash ington This Spring And Taken to a Bluff on the Kennebec THERE TO BE BURIED In a Permanent Tomb Near Augusta, Me. The State of Maine May Take Some Action. Washington, March 4. -'It has been the cherished wish of Mrs. Blaine," re marked Josoph H. Hanley, formerly postmaster at Augusta, Maine, where tha Blaine family reside, "that the remains of her family should be removed from their temporary resting place in Oak Hill cemetery, Washington, and placed at Augusta. "Mrs. Blaine has been negotiating with a gentleman at Augusta for the pur chase of a suitable site where the re mains of the Blaine family may be in terred, and it is likely the work of re moving the bodies from Oak Hill ceme tery will be done during the coming spring. From the fact of the publica tion in regard to Mrs. Blaine s intentions in this respect, I infer that the negotia tions have had a satisfactory conclusion. "It is the desire of Mrs. Blaine, to have her dear ones at their old home, for she feels in common with the citizens of the state that the honors' heaped upon her illustrious husband came to him as a, citizen of Maine. Whatever action tha state may desire to take in re gard to the erection of a mon ument over Mr. Blaine's last resting place, will be entirely satisfactory to Mrs. Blaine, but she will insist upon re moving the remains from Oak Hiil aod having them interred in the site she has selected at Augusta, at her own expense. "It would be difficult to picture a more beautiful spot than that chosen by Mrs. Blaine, located, as it is on the brow of the hill overlooking the picturesque Kennebec river. There has been a number or communications passed between Mrs. Blaine and ihe state authorities iu regard to the disposal of her husband's remains, but everything was held in abeyance pending a settle ment of the negotiations for a site." MRS. PECK MUCH BETTElf. Charles and Slinnle Peek on Their Way to Chicago. Mrs. George R. Peck continues to im prove daily, and is now able to rest com fortably at night without the aid of nar. cotics. This morning Dr. Hogeboom, re ceived the following telegram from Dr. F. Paschal at San Antonio: "Glad to tell von. -Mrs. Peck is -doin? well. I have discontinued the use of narcotics entirely. She -passed a good night without artificial sleep. Temperature and pulse normal and ap petite and digestion improving." Charles and Minnie Peck and Ed. Net tles, stenographer to Mr. Peck, arrived in this city this morning, and remained here until 3:20 this afternoon when they left over the Rock Island for Chicago. PIERF0NT MORGAN'S NEXT. New York, March 4. Upon what is stated to be the best authority the World's evening edition says that the reorganization of the Baltimore Ohio will be conducted by J. Piernont Mor gan. BISHOP K FN I) KICK DEAD. The Well Known Catholic Prelate at St. Louis Passes Away. St. Louis, March 4. Peter Richard Kendrick, who for nearly half a century prior to three, years asro was a Catholic archbishop of this diocese died at 1:30 today in the 88th year of his age. The old gentleman had been in very feeble health for several years and about two and a half years ago Bishop Jno. J. Kane, of Wheeling, was elected to an archbishoprio and Bene here to relieve him. CONVENTION MEETS At 3 O'clock This Afternoon to Select Del agates to Wichita. The Republican county convention to elect delegates to the state convention at Wichita next Tuesday is in session this afternoon at Hamilton hall. Chairman Charles S. Elliott of the county central committee called the con vention to order. A. W. Dana was elec ted chairman and T. F. Doran secretary. Judge J. B Johnson made a speech in which he thanked his friends who had worked for him in the recent contest and pledged himself to work for the success of the Republican party. Major T. J. Anderson also made a short address. The Modocs then consumed tha time musically until 3 o'clock, when the reg ular business was taken np. There is no contest of any kind in the convention and Anderson delegates will be sent to Wichita. Wise Man. "I don't see how you got your daughter to give up bloomers." "I-told her they were not becoming." "And did she believe It?" '.Not when I told her, but afterward I got ber dearest girl friend to tell ber tbat she looked too lovely for anything In them." "And then?" "Why, then she naturally believed me." Chicago Post. An Easy Drinker. "I'm afraid," she said severely as she handed him a sandwich, "that you are a hard drinker." J'Madam," replied Meandering Mike, 'yer wrongs me hones' yerdoes. Efye'Jl pervide de opportunity, I'll convince yer dat I'm one o' de easiest drinkers on da hull route I" Washington Star.

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STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 4, 1896. DARK M CUBA. President Cleveland and Cabinet Oppose Recognition. Do JTot Favor Any Declaration of Independence. PERSONAL SYMPATHY. Spain Had Nothing to Flare Up Over. Can the Executive Defeat the Recognition? Washington, March 4. The Presi dent and his Cabinet are undoubtedly opposed to the present recognition of belligerency of the Cuban insurgents and to any declaration concerning their independence as embodied in re cent Congressional resolutions. The following is not an official statement, but it is known from careful inquiry that it accurately represents the ad ministration's views in the matter. While the President and members of the Cabinet personally feel the sym pathy common to all Americans with those Cubans who are contending for eelf-government, they feel that in their official action they should not de part from the well-settled principles which were followed by former Presi dents and Secretaries of State during prior insurrections iu Cuba. These were clearly set forth by General Grant in his message of 1875, in which he dealt with the question of the rec ognition of Cuban independence and also with that of the recognition of belligerency. Both independence and belligerency are facts, and their recognition by other powers, as the term implies, is merely formal acknowledgment of a state of things which, rightly or wrongly, has come about. When a people, united under some known and defined form of govern ment, which administers its functions by the usual methods, come to occupy and control a known territory over which it is competent to administer justice and within which it affords protection to citizens and strangers, a new state exists. Keiusal 01 recogni tion would not change the fact, any more than premature "recognition could create it. The former would be merely a slight to the new govern ment, just as the latter is merely an affront to the old one. The question necessarily is always what govern ment is actually in control of the countrv. Recognition of belligerency depends Upon the same facts, and is only a modified form of recognizing inde pendence, though the latter implies more perfect accomplishments. The difference between mere insur rection and war, though in both armed bodies are in conflict, is that in the former only one sovtreurn power is engaged, while in the latter there must necessarily be two. If an armed conflict be carried on by a "substan tial political organization, real, pal pable and manifest to the world, having the forms and capable of the ordinary functions of government to wards its own people and to other states," having a "local habitation," where it may be dealt with by other nations, then there is a war, and re fusal to recognize belligerency would be willful. In the absence of these features there is nothing "to take the contest out of the category of a mere rebellious insurrection, or occasional skirmishes, and place it on the terrible footing of war." The pretension of recognizing what does not exist "is always, and justly, regarded as an unfriendly act, and a gratuitous demonstration of moral support to the rebellion." It is understood that, judged by these tests, the administration does not think the present state of affairs in Cuba justifies any change in the at titude of the Government. Its func tion is to act and not to express feel ing. The only action now proper is to continue to hold responsible for in juries to American citizens the only government which, so far as appears, has and maintains authority in Cuba until some other government suc ceeds, at least temporarily, in cap planting it FOR MK1NLEY. Arkaasas Republican Shoot Themselves Hoarse for the Protection Leaden Little Rock, Ark., March 4. Three hundred enthusiastic Republicans shouted for McKinley yesterday until they were hoarse. They assembled to select delegates to vote for their choice in the national convention and every mention of protection or the name of William McKinley brought forth tu multous applause Delegates-at-large to the national convention were selected as follows: General Powell Clayton, Eureka Springs, and Hon. II. L. Remmei, II. M. Cooper and M. G. Gibbs, of Little Rock. They were instructed to vote for McKinley. &et Off With a S5 Fine. Wichita, Kan., March 4. Glass Pierce, ther Liverpool, Kan., postmas ter wbv6 was brought here and lodged in jail for sending obscene matter through the mails to the assistant postmaster general in order to get rid of his postoffice, pleaded guilty in the United States court and, to the great astonishment of everybody, was fined only $5. Womi Cleric Embezzles S3.0O0. Memphis, Tenn., March 4. Mrs. Georgia P. Harris, stamp clerk in the postoffice here, war arrested last night on a warrant sworn out by Postoffice Inspector Little, charging her with embezzlement of about $3,000 of post office funds. She waived examination and was admitted to bail. Ko A. B. for Women at Oxford. London, March 4. The congrega tion of Oxford university has rejected by a vote of 15 to 140, a resolution tc allow women to take the degree of Vavchelor arte. REBEL, GENEBALS KILLED. Death of Nicaragua Insurgents Confirmed Revolutionists Fortify leon. Managua, Nicaragua, March 4. The report of the killing of the rebel generals, Escalon and Barquero Sed iles, in the last battle about Nagarote, is confirmed. The United States steamer Alert arrived at Corinto Friday, in response to the representations of United States Minister Baker that there was need of protection to American interests there. The revolutionists have fortified the town of Leon in anticipation of an attack from the government forces. The Cathedral itself has been turned to account for defense and cannon have been placed upon it The gov ernment forces, together with the troops sent by Honduras to aid them, are advancing towards Leon and will soon storm the rebel capital. ABOLISH THE FEE SYSTEM. The Honge Spends a Day In the Question. Debating Washington-, March 4. The house spent the- entire day in debating the) amendment to the legislative appro priation bill to abolish the fee svstem in the cases of United States district attorneys and marshals. The salaries fixed by the amendment range from $2,000 to 85,000. The amendment was endorsed by almost every member of the judiciary committee. It was ar gued the amendment would reduce the expenses of the United States courts, which have doubled since 18,8 at least $500,000 for the first year, and result in stoDoincr the pernicious pad ding of the business of the federal courts. The debate will be continued to-day, under the five minute rule. A Stupendous Swindle. Pittsbubs, Pa., March 4. One of the most stupendous swindling oper ations that has occurred within this city in recent years has been brought to light by the disappearance of John Cowan, of the lumber firm of W. G. Cowan fc Sons., who left Pittsburg last Saturday mornicg, and whose whereabouts is unknown. The amount of his defalcations, it is said, will aggregate between 8100,000 and $150,000, the most of which is sup- posed to have been carried away by him. A Hanker and His Son Fatally Shot. Memphis, Tenn., March 4. John R. Jones, president of the Memphis Na tional bank, was mortally wounded, and his son Nat dangerously hurt in a shooting affray here yesterday. The elder Jones died at S o'clock last night. The father and son left the bank to go to dinner about noon. On the street they met W. M. Pardue, an attorney. and a man named Scarborough. There had been a feud of long standing be tween Pardue and Jones, and not ten words passed before scooting began, McKinley, Davis attd Lewis. Butler, Mo..' March 4. The Repub lican County Central committee met here yesterday and called a county convention for Saturday, March 21, to, elect eight delegates to the con gressional convention at Warrensburg. A ballot of the committee for presi dent, governor and congressman, re sulted in the entire fourteen votes be ing cast for McKinley, Davis and R. E. Lewis. English Arbitration Meeting. London, March 4. The demonstra tion at Queen's hall last night in favor of permanent arbitration between the United States and Great Britain was disappointing from the point of view of numbers, the audience, which was not large, being mostly made up of women. Letters were read from A. J. Balfour, Gladstone and others, all strongly favoring international arbi tration. Gasoline Tank Explodes. r Racine, Wis., March 4. By the ex plosion of a gasoline tank in the engine department of the Racine Hardware Company at Racine Junction, a fire was started that wiped out that part of the factory and caused a loss of 125,000. The workmen barely had time to escape, and many saved them selves by jumping from windows. Four men were badly, but not fatally burned. School Board Election at St. Louis. St. Louis, March 4. A school board election was held here yesterday at which a heavy vote was polled. At midnight the returns, which are not complete, indicate that the Republi cans have elected a majority of their ticket. The only other ticket was a non-partisan citizens ticket, which was indorsed by the Democrats. Silver Men Knocked Out. Kansas City, Ma, March 4. The Jackson county Democratic committee met yesterday and appointed April 11 as the day for choosing delegates to the Sedalia convention. The Marcy K. Brown-Governor Stone silver faction was completely knocked out, and the committee reorganized on anti-silver basis. Kentucky Republicans Dispirited. Frankfort, Ky., March 4. The Re publican caucus last night was barren of results. All propositions and plans to unite on a candidate failed. One member gave warning of the danger of the sound money Democrats being won over to Blackburn by some sort of a compromise. The Republicans seem dispirited. Heavy Snow in Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., March 4. Specials from every part of Nebraska and Iowa report a fall of snow ranging from three inches to a foot, evenly distributed, and still falling. Hone Cp Higher. That's what we did when we moved np on the first floor. Bnt the price of coal went down lower. There isn't a bet ter coal mined than the Leavenworth, u o:iie Mine or Hiversiae coals. Thev sell at $2.50 per ton. We started them at that and there they will stay. While we're in business. The Topeka Coal Co., 534 Kansas avenue, first floor. Telephones 483. 1 Subscribe for the Jouknaju SATOLLI AT KANSAS CITY. The Cardinal Will be Given a Kecrp tlon on Sunday Kext. Kansas Citt, March 4. The various committees aDDointed at last Thursday a meeting of the Catholics of the city to arrange for the reception of Cardinal Sa tnlli next Sunday are rjroereaaing. At Cathedral hall last evening the reception committee met. with Mr. E. L. Bier- smith in the chair. The committee de cided to hold the reception at the Coates House. No printed invitations will be issued, nor will any flowers or music be allowed at the reception, on account of the Lenten season. The cardinal will arrive Saturday night and will leave for the east Sunday night, A BIG SENSATION SPRUNG. Alleged That All Northern Faciae Bonds Are Null and Told. Milwaukee, Wis., March 4. The biggest sensation that has yet devel oped in the Northern Pacific receiver ship was precipitated yesterday by the filing of the pleas of the Wisconsin Central Company to the original, amended and supplemental bills of the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, on which the receivership is based. The company makes the claim that the Northern Pacific company had absolutely no authority whatever to issue any of the numerous mortgage? with which the road is incumbered and that in consequence all of the, bonds issued under the mortgages to the amount of nearly $50,000,000 are null and void. For Striking Billy Patterson. West Superior, Wis.. March 4. Jimmy Murphy of Chicago, the pugil ist who whipped Billy Patterson of San Francisco, in six rounds on Sun day at Howell, Minn., was arrested here last evening on a warrant charg ing him with engaging in a prize fight Another warrant is out for Billy Patterson. Murphy will return to Minnesota without requisition papers. "Spider'' Kelly, Murphy's trainer, was also arrested, but was afterwards released. The warrant for Murphy was sworn out under direc tion of Governor Clough. Four New World's Records. Coronado Beach, Cat, March 4. Four world's bicycle records were broken here yesterday. W. W. Ham ilton, paced by Taylor, Aldridge, Mill er and Vaughn on a quad," and Stone, Terriss, Washburn, Jenks and Connibear on a"quint," cut the world's record for one mile, flying start, to 1:3S 1-5. Caught At Columbus, Kan. BARTLESVII.I.K, Ind. Ter., March 4. Henry Hoffman, who is wanted for the cruel murder of Albert McPeck, a well-to-do farmer living near here, which occurred last June, has been arrested at Columbus, Kan., and passed through here on his way to Fort Smith, Ark., where he will be triad. Passed by the Senate. Washington, March 4. The Senate gave most of the day to the agricul tural appropriation bill and passed that measure, carrying 83,262,000, without material amendment. The item of $15,000 for irrigation experi menting was cut down to $4,500. A Boiler Explosion Causes Three Deaths. D anbury, Conn., March 4. By a boiler explosion in Parks Bros.' fur cutting establishment a fire was caused which did damage amounting to goou.ouo and resulted in the prob ably fatal injury of two men and a girl. Sam Cook Withdraws. Mexico, Mo., March 4. Hon. Sam Cook of the Democratic State commit tee, is out in a statement in which he announces that he has withdrawn from the congressional race. A Candidate to Succeed Dockery. Kingston, Mo. March 4. It is now authoritatively stated by his friends that Hon. W. S. Leeper, of this county, is a candidate lor Congress in the Third distriai, to succeed Mr. Dockery. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS. The senate confirmed the nomina tion of S. E. Wible to be nostmaster at Hopkins, Mo, The New Hampshire mills of the Amoskeag corporation will all be closed for two months on account of the damage done by this week's floods. Ten thousand operatives are affected. William 3. Campbell, Illinois mem ber of the national Republican com mittee, and one of the most prominent lawyers in Chicago, is dying of pneu monia. Mr. Campbell's father and wife are also critically ilL New Xork's second annual cat show is not a brilliant success. Less than 200 felines are on exhibition. The show is a swell society affair, Mrs. John Jacob Astor and Mrs. Fred Gebhard being among the patronesses. A dispatch from Omaha indio-nant.lTr denies the reports of destitution in Nebraska and repudiates the solicita tion oi aid ror alleged sufferers. The Genesee flats, the largest aDart- ment house in Utica, N. Y w burned yesterday, causin? a iokk nf $200,000. A woman, while descending a fire escape, fell from the fourth story and was killed, and a girl is missing. The United States has begun the in stitution of about 1,000 suits in Min nesota to recover 200,000 acres of land, worth $4,000,000. The present hold ers obtained their titles from rail roads which the United States claims had no right to give titles. Lsraed Jolntlst In the Toll. TTnitnri fltatna Marshal VaIt. va taken C V. Shepley from the county jail to Wichita to plead guilty to selling liquor without a government license. Shepley was a Larned jointisr. His home is in La Jnnta. Col., and he was cntni a. Chicago, 111. Cheap Rate to Swedish C'lnbi. The railroads have made a one and a third fare rate to the annual state conven tionof the Swedish Republican clubs which meets at Lindsborg on Fridav and Saturday of this week. If you want au. the news subscribe for the Journal. Subscribe for the Daily State Journal. GROVERTALKS. The President Presides at a Religious Gathering; Home Mission Movement of the Presbyterians, PRAISES THE CAUSE. Refers Strongly to the Evils of Gambling Houses. A General Reference to the Ar menian Troubles. New Yobk, March 4. One of th most important meetings held in re cent years in favor of the home mis sion movement of the Presbyterian church was that which took place in Carnegie music hall last night. The importance of the occasion was em phasized by the appearance as presid ing officer of the meeting of President' Cleveland. When the cheering had subsided Mr. Cleveland said in part: "No one charged with the duties and responsibilities which necessarily weigh upon your chief executive can fail to appreciate the importance of religious teachings and Christian en deavor in the newly settled portion of ear vast domain. It is there where hot and stubborn warfare between the forces of good and evill is con stantly invited. In these days the vanguard of occupation in a new settlement is never without its vicious and criminal element. Gambling houses and dramshops are frequently among the first establishments in a new community. It must also be confessed that removal from old homes and associatiot to new and more primitive homes has a tendency among honest and respectable settlers to smother scruples and breed in difference to Christianizing and ele vating agencies. "Those conditions, if unchecked and uncorrected, fix upon the new com munity by their growth and expan sion a character and disposition which, while dangerous to peace and order in the early stagss of settlement, develop into badly regulated- municipalities, corruDt and unsafe territories and un desirable states. These are ssAious considerations in a country where the people, good or bad, are its rulers, be cause the conditions to which I have referred, would certainly menace with a circle constantly enlarging, the safety and welfare of the entire body politic, if we could not hope that churches and religious teachings would from the first be on the ground to oppose the evil influences that are apt to pervade the beginning of organ ized communities. "These churches and this religious teachings were never more needed than now on our distant frontiers, where the process of forming new States is going on so rapidly and where new-comers, who are to be the citizens of new States, are so rapidly gathering together. Our nearts nave recently been pro foundly stirred by the dangers that threaten the devoted men and women who have gone from among us to preach and teach Christianity in a for eign land. Our sympathy with them and those witn whom they labor and suffer is made more painful because the arm of complete relief has not thus far been able to reach them. Our missionary impulse should be large enough and strong enough for both While we will not turn away from them nor allow discouragement to de stroy activity in their behalf, let us not forget the missionary in our own land who needs our aid, to whom we owe a duty, and who can be reached. The President was followed by Dr. Talmage, Booker T. Washington and other speakers. CRISP FOB SENATOR. Tne Ex-Speaker Announces His Can didacy In weorjis. Att.athta. March 4. Ex-Speaker Crisp ia out in a letter to the Democrats of the Thirrl r-nncrrftHaionil district, announcing that he will not again be a candidate for representative, but win, msieau, ue a candidate for United States senator. He refers incidentally to his appointment to the senate by Gov. JNormen, ana aia declination of the appointment at the in stance of the Democrats of congresB and other leaders. He was then speaker. He aaya it is his ambition to represent Georgia in the senate. This letter means that Judge Crisp has determined to make an active canvass of the state, and an active light. It is not beiieved here that Secretary Smith will make the race. Judge Crisp's principal opponent will be Fleming Da Bigaon, of Savannah. Pretty School Ma'am Arrested. Fort Scott, Kan.,-March 4. Miss Maud Stratton, a pretty young school teacher, who resides seven miles south of this city, but who teaches a school just across the state line In Vernon county, Mo., was arrested on a state warrant, charged with disturbing a religious meeting at a country church a few nights ago. She gave bond for her appearance for trial. The young man who was with her at the meeting escaped arrest and got across the line into Missouri. To Wed a Divorced Woman. St. Joseph, Mo., March 4. John Tootle, son of the late Milton Tootle, and millionaire twice over, surprised his relatives here by wiring them from Colorado Springs that' he would be married to Mrs. C. Robinson, a di vorced woman of Milwaukee. v To- Make Gold Contracts Illeg-aL Jackson, Miss;-, March. 4; Governor McLaurin sent to the Legislature a special message recommending the passage of a law prohibiting the mak ing of contracts payable in gold alone and providing that all contracts shall be paid in both gold and silver. Does your headache? Try One Min ute Headaohe Tablets. J. K. Jonks, Druggisfc Broken edge collars repaired by Peer less Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. SKETCHES BY M. QUAD He Was Mistaken. All the passengers in the car noticed that the big man on the left of the rear door was looking fixedly at the small man opposite, and by and by the small man noticed the same thing himself. After an embarrassing interval of three minutes he observed "Well, what ia it?" "Excuse me, sir," replied the big man, "but your face seems familiar." "YeB?" "Though I can't place it "No?" "Is your name Rambo?" "No, sir. "I thought it was. Didn't yon use to live in Sandusky, O.?" "No, sir. Never was in Sandusky in my life." "Wasn't there in 1890, eh?" "No, sir. That's queer. Just the minute I got sight of you I was sure yon was Rambo of Sandusky. If you are" "Bnt I'm not I" interrupted the small man. "I never heard of Rambo and was never in Sandusky. "Well, that settles it, I suppose," said the big man as he looked out of the window and back again, "bnt if yon hadnt said so I should have con tinued to think you were the man. "And what of it?" retorted the small man flushing up over it. "Oh, nothing much. He eloped with my wife from Sandusky in 1890, and I heard tbey were living here in Detroit. If you were Rambo, I was going to ask how" "If you'll get off the car, I'll lick you and Rambo and Bambo and Hoodoo aiid all the rest of the gang put togeth er!" shouted the small man as he got np and went out. "No oh, not" replied the big man. "No. there is no call to fight. If yon are not Rambo, I beg your pardon. Your face had a familiar look, and I just thought I'd ask if" But the small man bopped off the car and went his way, and the big man heaved a sigh and looked around and said: "I'm sorry I offended him, but I thought it was Rambo, and was going to ask if Maria had had her teeth fixed and her eyes straightened. Simply a Mistake. She was coming down Hastings street and he was going np, and they met at the corner of High street. "Deevin, Miss Wharton 1" he said as he bowed stiffly. "Deevin, Mistah Carr," she replied, with her nose in the air. "Miss Wharton," he continued as he swallowed at the lump in bis throat, "when your sister dun tole me yo' was at de candy pull wid dat low down pus son from Windsor I couldn't skasely be lieve it." "Mistah Carr," she replied as her nose went still higher, "when Linda Smith dun tole me dat yo' wanted her to help yo' git np a cake walk I lost my breff fur five minitsl" "Miss Wharton, I 'lows no woman to trifle wid my heart." "And I 'lows no man to trifle wid mine, Mistah Carr. "Under de circumstances, Miss Whar ton, it will be better dat we meet as strangers. "Dafs me. Mistah Carr." "But as life will hev no mo charms fur me, Miss Wharton as each succeed -in day would only add its burden to my grievin heart I will hang myself in de wood shed tonight." "An I will take pizen, Mistah Carr. Sooner dan live on, feelin dat no one lubs me, I will destroy myself. "Who doan' lub yo'?" 'Yo' doan'." "Who said so?" "Yo'did." "Miss Wharton Maggie I nebber axed dat Linda Smith to git np a cake walk wid me. "Mistah Carr Moses I didn't dun go to de party wid dat pusson from Windsor. "Den I won't hang myself. "Den I won't take pizen." "Maggie!" "Moses!" And a cnckco clock in the nearest house struck the hour of 7 in joyful ex ultation, and all was love and peace. One Too Many. By the roadside, between two hills half a mile apart, I oame upon a man seated upon a log with a shotgun across his knees. As there was plenty of small game in the woods I supposed he was out hunting, and as we passed the time of day I asked if he had bagged any thing. He- hesitated about answering, bnt finally replied "No, I h-hain't b-agged anything yet. Stranger, y-yon p -passed a cabin b-back there about two miles?" "Yes." "W-was there a m-man in f-front of that c-cabin?" "There was. "D describe that m-man if y-yon p-please. "Well, he was a man about 40 years of age, and he told me he had lately taken possession of the place. He was a quiet spoken man and impressed me favorably. Do yon know him?" "N-no, I d-don't, bnt I've h-heard of h-him. Say, s-stranger, I w-want to ask y-yon a q-question. "Go ahead." "When I t-t-talk, I stnt-stnt-stntter, d-d-d-don't I?" "Yes, a trifle." "So does the whole family. S-same with three of m-m-my nay-nayburs. W-we aVe all on t-t-t-the stnt-stntter, durn our hides. "Well, yon can't help that Plenty of great men have had that habit and cured themselves." "Does that man baok there stutter as bad as I do?" he asked, speaking very slowly and hanging on to himself, as it were. "Fully aa bad," I replied, hoping to console him. "H-he d-d oes, eh?" yelled the man be jumped in the middle of the road and then jumped up and down and cracked his heels together. "Yes,, bnt what of it?" W-what of it? W-what of it? Why, that m-makes f-f-f-four stut-stnt-stutter-ini? families in this naytrarhood, and I'll b-b-be dogoned if I s-a-stand itl He orter know better 1 This hain't no c-county of S-s-stam-stammerville, and this hain't no town of Stut-tnt-stutter-ashnn, and I'll go down there and f-f -fill his hide f-f -full of of" "Of buckshot?" I finished aa he jumped aronnd and tried ia vain to end the sentence. He nodded and shouldered the gun and started off, but ten rods away he stopped and shouted Y-y-yes, b-b-b-buok-bnckshot Good-b-b-b-byl" There Was No Shooting. This is the way the affair began A small, beetle browed man was coming down the street with two guns buckled around him and a necklace made of the teeth of grizzly bears around his neck. A rather overgrown man,1 with blood in both eyes, same nnmber of guns and a bowie knife in his boot leg, was going up the street. They met in front of the War whoop saloon. "Humph!" growled the little man after looking the big man over. "Humph echoed the big man as he spat over his shoulder. "Don't rub agin me!" "And don't tech me!" "I know a fighter when I see one!" "And you see one right yere "Shoo! Qoin out to shoot rabbits?" "No. This ar' my day fur shootin three men! Little one, don't yon start no avalanche "And mebbe yon don't want to start no cyclone!" "Humph!" "Humph yourself I" "All wind "All blow 1" "What ar' you w'arin them rabbits teeth fur?" "What yon doin with' that bread knife in your bute leg?" "Don't you get me mad or I'll bury yon!" "And look out fur me about a zninit before!" "Shoo!" "Shoo!" "What's the riot yere!" demanded the city marshal as be came out of the saloon wiping bis month on the back of his hand. "I'm goin to chaw him np!" shouted the big man. "He can't even chaw my ear!" howled the little man. "Say, yon!" continued the marshal aa- be pointed one band np the street and the other down, "be a-gittin to git!" And they "fcumphed" at each other and got He Got gome More. "I'd like to speak to yon a minute," be said aa he met a patrolman at the corner of Michigan avenue and Wayne street the other evening. "All right. What is itf "About six months ago I met yon down by the city hall one afternoon." "Well?" "I was after a marriage license and asked yon where to go. "Yes." "When yon found I was going to be married, yon laid your hand on my shoulder in a fatherly way and said, 'Young man, pause and reflect Do yon remember?" "Yes, I think I do." "Well, your words struck borne. I paused and reflected. I did not get a li cense. "No?" "And I didn't get married." "Yon didn't, en Well, I am glad if advice of mine prevented yon from tak ing a step which yon might ever there after regret. Did yon want any more ad vice?" "Well, yes. The girl sued me for breach of promise and got a verdict of $2,000 and cleaned me out of my last cent and all I can earn for the next five years to come. Mebbe you want to lay your fatherly band on my shoulder and give me some more wisdom. "Young man," said the officer as he slid his fingers along up his coat sleeve until they rested on his collar, "you move on!" M. Quad in Detroit Free Press. Her Xxtgio. Mamma You told me that John was worth a million before you married him, and now I discover that he's penniless. Marie Yes. I meant a million Mamma What? Marie Of those dukes, counts, dudes and other idiots to whom yon were try ing to marry me off. New York World. A Distinction. "There is a man who continually steals my ideas," said the young writer. "He's a kleptomaniac, sure," replied bis medical friend. "Yon mean a plagiarist. "No. A kleptomaniac'll take things Whether they are of the slightest value or not" Washington Star. In It, bnt Not of It. "Willie doesn't seem to have bad as good a time as the refit of you boys?" "No'm." "Why is that?" "Y see, we had onr fun with Willie!" Chicago Record. By No Means Perfect. "You're a bad man," she hissed. "You're another," he hotly retorted. And the new woman made no denial, but argued that she was a better and better man each season. Detroit Trib une. Donbtlesa, Miss Bluestock Which side will yon take in the coming new woman contro versy? Old Kilby (despondently) Suicide if they keep on. New York World. Saved by Hood's Is the experience of many who take Hood's Sarsaparilla. Bead the following -r"S!y--, 1 have been ti i since I wai 20 am now 61. Had it not been for Hood's Sar saparilla and Hood's Pills my days on earth would have ended. At first I had catarrh in its worst form, then asthma. No medicine did me any good except Hood's Sarsaparilla, which has no equal as a blood purifier. I have not only been benefited in health but in creased in weight from 100 to 172 pounds. I do all my housework without any help, and only Hood's is what I take and Hood's Sarsaparilla pays. We keep Hood's Pills on hand constantly." MBS. E. A. Gattkn, Blue Springs, Nebraska. j III easy to boy, easy to take, nOOQ S KlIlS easy In effect. Ucents. BAR- Harper's Weekly IN 1896 HARPER'S WEEKLY Is a Joaroti for the whole county. It deals with the events of the world that are important to Americans. In carrying out this policy, in 1893, Julian Ralph visited China and Japan, and journeyed through the Weit; Rich ard Harding Davis took a trip througU the Caribbean Sea; the evolutions of the new navy were described and Illustrated by Rufus F. Zogbatjm; Frkdirio Rem ington, presented studies of Army and Frontier life; Podltnut Bigelow at tended the opening of the Kiel Canal. In 1896 like attention will be given to every notable happening. The chief events in art, literature and music and the drama will be artistically presented, W. D. Uowells, in the new department. Life and Letter, will discuss in his in teresting way books and the social ques tions of the time. E. a Martin's spright ly gossip of the Busy World will be con tinued. 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STATE JOUKNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1896. 4r The State Journal TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. By Frank P. MacLesnan. Official Paper of the City of Topeka, TE2K3 OP STOSCEIPTIOW. Xaily edition, delivers! ij carrier, 10 tents a week to any part of Topeka or ttifcur'bs, or at the same pries in any Kansas town where this paper has a oar- xier system. ymail, three months S .90 Ey mail, one year 3.60 Weekly edition, per year 50 MARCH J 896. Sun. Mon. Tue. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6l7 8 9 10 11 U 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 I i i Wuiher Indications. Chicago. March 4. For Kansas Rain or snow tonight and Thursday; warmer tonight; warmer in east portion inuraaay; easterly winds. Tub Italian government should send to Cuba for somebody to take charge of the Abyssinian war news bureau. Since the McGrath-Lytle case has come to an end the public is begining to feel hopeful in regard to the Hillmon affair. Now that we have the new court house nobody seems to like it Iet us hope that it will be different with the bridge. At last one European nation seems to have struck a snag in Africa. The Ital ians have apparently met their match in Abyssinia. A Chicago alderman appears to be worse than a Topeka policeman. When -Se copper gets drunk he goes to sleep, but the law-maker of Chicago goes out to paint the town. Scarcely a day passes that some ex convict is not arrested for some crime which if proven will again send him to the penitentiary, and yet the pardon mill continues to grind. Uncle Sam is preparing to abojish the fee system in connection with the gov ernment service. It is an example worthy to be followed by Shawnee coun ty and the state of Kansas. It Bhonld probably be considered a bit of polite attention to one of its dis tinguished citizens that the state should undertake to supply Olathe with water. It is the home of John Peter St. John. Cal Brick seems to find timi to spare from his arduous duties as a United (States senator and a chaser after the Democratic nomination for the presi dency, to pick up a railroad occasion ally. In an address before the home mission society of the Presbyterian church yes terday President Cleveland commended the work done by the society in frontier settlements, and urged a continuation and extension of this branch of the work. The civilization, refinement and decency to be found in frontier settlements is so much more marked than in New York city, where the president was talking, that it is gratifying to know what has caused the difference. It woald show wisdom on the part of the society to let up on the frontier settlements for awhile and devote its attention to Gotham until that benighted and besotted community has been brought abreast of the aga The following is from Robert Giffen, the London statistician, and long time gold monumatalist: "Bimetalism may help to steady the exchanges. The metal becoming cheaper pours into the country to be exchanged for the metal becoming dearer, and so the rise in the latter and .the fall in the former is arrested. Of this the world had a conspicuous illustra tion after the Australian and California discoveries; silver from becoming cheap er became dearer. France had much silver to be exchanged for gold, so the rise in silver and fall in gold relatively to each other was arrested. Gold was poured into France in exchange for sil ver. Let each country select a standard money which suits it best and then adhere to it. It is the best rule that can be laid down in currency. The pressure on gold would have been more severe than it has been if the United States had not passed the Bland coinage law. The appreciation of gold would have been much less if the United States had not locked up so much of it. The leading nations of the world have accumulated sufficient silver to go to a silver standard without bnying an onnce more than they have, with the exception of England. The world, therefore, except England, can go over to a silver standard in a flash." If KIN LET WAS RIGHT. The speech delivered by Major Mo Kinley June 7, 1890, In the house of rep resentatives, on the Sherman silver pur chasing bill then pending, shows that he bad a proper conception of the intentions of that law as generally understood and fully realized the benefits which were to follow its passage. The bill wonld have accomplished everything that Mr. McKinley predicted for it except for a little inoffensive looking clause which sly old John Sherman in serted in it, declaring it to be the estab lished policy of the United. States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio. Coupled with this declaration was the grant of authority to the secretary of treasury to redeem the notes which shonld be issued .under this act in gold or silver at his discretion for the express purpose of maintaining this parity. There was nothing wrong about this law, however, in the hands of honest officials, but trouble began when Mr, Harrison's secretary of the treasury eleoted to Ignore the plain intention of the law as understood by those who voted for it, and construed it to grant him power to redeem in gold alone,"taus at once destroying that very parity which It was considered so desirable to main tain, that is the parity between the two metals. The parity between the. coins has not yet been disturbed. The mischief had not become so great, however, but it might have been reme died by Air. Carlisle, if he had done his plain duty as the country had a right to expect he would, in view of the declara tion made in the Democratic platform. He not only chose, however, to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, but he did more; he construed the parity clause of the Sherman law to include redemp tion of the greenbacks in gold and more lately it has been extended to silver cer tificates. Is it any wonder under such circum stances that gold left the treasury? It was the easiest commodity to procure in settling foreign trade balances which turned against us at the same time in consequence of the reduction in the prices of out other products, resulting from contraction of the currency and this revolution in the financial policy of the government. TROUTMAN IN HIGH FA YOU. He Hears 3To Unpleasant lomraeoton Bit Candidacy. Lieutenant Governor James A. Trout man is receiving by every mail letters from prominent men from every section of the state congratulating him on be coming a candidate for governor and promising him their support. He was invited to atteud the Rice coun ty Republican convention yesterday, but was obliged to decline the invitation. Mr. Xroutman feels very much en couraged in his candidacy, as he is re ceiving support from unexpected quar ters. The Ottawa Republican of Monday evening said: -'James A. Troutman has announced his candidacy for governor. No other need apply." Lieutenant Governor Troutman will go to Wichita next week to attend the Re publican state convention, and to meet the working Republicans from every county who will be there on that occa sion. Tne fyrnmafflac's Smile. Fire Marshal Whitcomb has been pretty busy taking testimony in" re gard to fires lately, and while speaking about examining witnesses the other day he mentioned several curioua things he had noticed. He says that in every case where he has discovered a pyromaniac he has had his suspicions of the person's guilt aroused by a pe culiar smile which plays around the mouth of the guilty one when under examination. It is hardly a smile, rath er a peculiar puckering of the corners of the mouth, an expression almost In definable, but it seems to mean, "Well, I'm too smart for you to catch me, any how." The marshal says he can recall a dozen caees where he noticed this smile and at the time had no other cause to suspect a witness, yet by fol lowing these, smiling ones he has ob tained the most convincing testimony of their guilt and almost invariably confession from the guilty ones them selves. Boston Transcript. Former Quack Medicines. Johnson bestows ironical commenda tion upon the modest candor of the vender of a beautifying fluid which "re pels pimples, drives away freckles, smoothes the skin and plumps the flesh, but does not profess to restore the roses of 15 to a ldy of 50,' while he also admires the zeal for the ease and safety of teething infants shown by the inventor of the anodyne neck lace, and the affecting terms in which he warned every mother that she would never forgive herself if her infant ehould perish without a necklace. It would be interesting to know what the great doctor thought of a certain ad vertisement in the Spectator of "grate ful electuary for the cure of loss of memory or forgetfullness, enabling those whose memory was "before almost totally lost to remember the minutest circumstances of their affairs to a won der. Price, two and six-pence a pot." Cornhill Magazine. Garters of Ribbon and Lace. Garters are marvelous creations this year. Unhygienic persons who persist In wearing the circular ones have regu lar "confections" from which to choose. Some are made of bands of elastic al most covered by tiny ruffles of narrow ribbon and butter-colored lace. An Inch wide piece of elastic will permit about four outstanding frills of each. The bow in the middle is made of the lace and ribbon. Somewhat less befrilled are bands of elastic edged with narrow ribbon -ruffles and fastened with a bow and buckle. The buckle may be of any sort gold, silver, or studded with mock-jewels. The monogram of the owner la usually engraved on the buckle. Some of the garters are of elastic incased in a puf fing of pompadour silk, and these axe particularly effective. We aim please our trade Peerle Steam. Laundry, 113 and 114 West eta. n J THRIFT IN CfflLEREN. A Scheme to Inculcate It in Public Schools. SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKS ESTABLISHED 9120,000 Deposited Where I Orig inated. Long Island City, N. Y., March 2. J. H. tffiiry, a member of the board of education of Long Island City, is the fa ther of the system of school savings banks which has extended now all over the United States. At the time of the last annual report, which was the tenth anniversary of the system, the school saving banks had been introduced in 290 schools of 69 cities of 12 states in Amer ica, and the scholars of those schools had deposited $324,665.69 and withdrawn $203,827.87, leaving $120,837.82 still on deposit. Hitherto its adoption has been in the smaller cities chiefly, but Mr. Thiry tells me he has hopes that it will find a footing in some of the large cities soon. "In Cleveland the question is nearly settled," said Mr. Thiry, "and in New York city the question of intro ducing the stamp savings system of the Charity Organization society among the childran of the public schools is in the hands of a committee of which Hon. Abram "S. Hewitt, ex-mayor of New York, is one. Mr. Thiry's system was suggested by the systems adopted abroad, bat it has many features sll its own features which he has worked out with much care. The school savings bank origi nated in France, where A. C. De Malarce was the founder of the system. It has had a steady growth in that country, and the depositors now exceed 500,000. Bel gium, Germany, Denmark, all have school savings banks, and a good start toward their establishment has been made in England through the efforts of Miss Agnes Lambert, the daughter of Sir John Lambert. The postal savings bank is the depository of small savings in England, though, and it is a constant obstacle to the extension of the school savings bank. The scheme of the school savings bank is very simple. The children are encouraged not to ask money from th&ir parents to put in the bank, but to save their spending money or earn what small amounts they can out of school hours. Whatever they have saved they take to the school on Monday morning, and as soon as the classes are called to gether on that day the teacher calls tha roll of the scholars, and each one who has a deposit to make answers, "Yes, 5 cents," or, "Yes, 1 cent," or whatever the deposit may be, carrying the money to the teacher's desk. The teacher enter the amount opposite the name of the child on a long deposit slip and at tha same time enters it in the regular roll book of the school. Thus the callings of the roll for attendance and for deposits are made one. When the deposits have been made, the teacher foots the column on the deposit slip, counts the money on her table, and if the amounts agree puts the money in a sealed envelope and sends it to the principal. The deposit slip has four columns, and it is kept by the teacher until the end of the month, when it is sent to the principal. Until the deposit of a scholar has reached 50 cents it is kept to the credit of a "gen eral fund. After it reaches 50 cents it is kept in the name of the scholar. When the deposit of any scholar reaches $1, the bank where the fund is kept (one of the regular city banks) issues a passbook to the scholar. Meantime the teacher enters the amount of each de posit on a folded card, on which is entered the name of the depositor and the name of the teacher. This card is given to the pupil. When the principal receives the week ly collections from the teachers, he makes up a deposit which he sends to the bank with the general bankbook, which is his receipt from the bank for the money. Although he makes the de posits, he cannot withdraw any of them without a check signed by the depos itor and the depositor's parents or guardians. The principal keeps account on a printed form of the amount sent in for deposit by each teacher. The bank which does the school busi ness charges nothing for its service if the deposit of a scholar reaches $3, and deposits of $3 or more bear interest quarterly. If the scholar does not deposit as much as $3 and wants to withdraw the money, a charge of 1 0 cents is made for the bankbook. All bankbooks are kept by the principal while the scholars are attending school, but they are per mitted to take them home on Fridays. The book is given to them if they leave school, and during vacation all of the books are given to the scholars, and the bank cashier acts in place of the school officials in approving withdrawals. These withdrawals are made by special check, which says, "Pay his par ents or guardians, dollars and charge to account of book No. This check is signed by the principal and by the depositor and is paid only on the or der of the depositor's parents or guar dians. If a child wants to make a with drawal without going to the bank, he can bring a check properly signed to the school on deposit day (Monday), and he will receive the amount from the teach er cut of the deposits made that day. The system seems complex, but it has not proved so where it has had a thor ough trial. As to its utility, Commis sioner Harris said of it: "The school savings bank tends to prevent pauperism, crime, sickness, prodigality and various "vices and to make children thrifty, or derly, frugal, economical, discriminat ing in the use of money. It has its in fluences on all phases of economy ia time and virtue as well as money." ubakz Hamilton. PERKINS' LXPERIENCE. B 9 11 Tea Tratb to B Stranger Than Fic tion His Miming loesses. Ban Fbancisco, March 2. "I. have a right to. believe truth is stranger than fiction," said Senator Perkins of Cali fornia when I met him not long ago. "You have seen the play in which a man swears he could prove everything he says if old Bill Jones was alive.' Well, the witness of my experience is aliva and living in San Jose, CaL Did I never tell you the story of the Lizzie Thomp son and how we put back to port at St John? WelL I'll tell it to you, because the climax is rather remarkable. Let me see. It must have been in 1854, because after I made that trip to Dublin I ship ped to Liverpool and then to New Or leans and back to New York, and then I went around the Horn to California, where I arrived in 1855. Yes, it was in 1854. I was on the Lizzie Thompson, Captain Oliver Smith, We had gone from Kennebunkport to St. John, N. B. for a load of deals. The ship was well built and well calked, but the weather had sprung her a little, and she was leaking when we left port for Dublin. The men were shipped at 13 apiece five times three yes, that's $05. Now, they received this money when the ship left port, so if she put back for any cause the owner lost that much. Well, she was leaking so that the captain had to keep men at the pumps most of the time, and at last the men insisted that it wasn't safe and that they wonld go hack to St. John. The mate was a fight er, and he had it up and down with the men. Gracious 1 There were all sorts of things going on, but I was at the wheel steering, and I didn't see much of it. The upshot was we went back to port, and several of the men were arrested and locked up, and policemen were put on the ship. "There were three New England boys aboard making their first voyage, and they were pretty sick before we got back. They wanted the oaptain to let them go home, but he wouldn't do it. I told them I would help them off one night, and I showed them how to get one of the three boats that were fas tened astern and drop their bundles of clothing in. When I got around, one of them was trying to get his chest into the boat, but I told him to stow it in the forecastle, and we dropped into the boat. I cut the painter, and the nest minute we were swept away by the tide. They called to us from the ship to stop, but we couldn't have stopped if we'd wanted to. The tide rises 28 feet there, and we were right in the current. We dropped down to a brig bound for Providence. I put the three boys aboard, and then I let the. boat follow the eddy and got the ship and crawled in through one of the portholes. The captain had come off in the meantime, and there was great excitement. I heard the cap tain say, 'I know George is here,' and the mate answer, 'No; he isn't,' and I SENATOR GEORGE C. PERKINS. sang out, 'Da you want me, captain:' 'There,' said the captain, I knew George hadn't been away, have yon, George?' 'Yes. captain,' I said, 'I helped those three fellows get away. They never would have made sailors, captain, and it's better they should go. He was very angry, and they put me in a boat, and the captain and two police men got in, and after they had cut loose the captain said, 'Yon must show us where you've taken them. But I told him it had gone too far for that. He threatened to put me in the calaboose, though I knew he wouldn't. And so the boys got away safely, and nothing more was heard of them. "Now comes the odd part of that ad venture. Four years ago a man called at the executive office at Sacramento and asked to see the governor. When he came in, he said, 'Are you George Clement Perkins?' I said I was. 'Do you remem ber helping three boys to escape from the Lizzie Thompson, Captain Oliver Smith?' I said I did. 'Well, I'm one of those boys,' he said. And he was. He had gone back to the farm, gone through the war and drifted finally out to Cali fornia. I never knew how he identified me. He is living now in San Jose, and I saw him just the other day, 41 years from the time I helped him to run away from the Lizzie Thompson." When I asked the senator to tell me something of his mining experience, bo said: "I never made much money in mines. I have made my fortune by main strength and stupidness. A man said to me not long ago: 'You're an awfully lucky man. You have always prospered, while I have never succeeded.' I told him all I possessed had been made by hard work. Jones, Mackay and Flood struck a bonanza and became wealthy. I started as a porter at $60 a month and lived on $15. That is when I began to be a capitalist. I started in business With a trade of $2,500 a month and made It $50,000 a month within three years. I made most of my money mer chandising and in shipping. I have lost a great deal of money in mines, chiefly through furnishing supplies to miners." George Grantham Bain. I Everybody takes the Jogbxai. JOKING IN THE HOUSE. JTne Congressman Talked Ixnd Knonjjb, but His Neighbor Heard Him Not. The members of the house are still laughing over a deliciously funny joke which Representative Fischer of New York perpetrated recently at the expense of Mr. Gibson of Tennessee. The pension bill was under discussion. Mr. Gibson was speaking to an amendment offered by himself. Mr. Gibson is con spicuous chiefly for his short stature, his fierce Napoleonic mustache and an opu- lence of lung power which reminds one of ex-Speaker Keifer. He was using this lung power to its best advantage. The volume of sound which escaped from his lips reverberated through tha chamber in trumpet tones iftd could be easily heard in the corridors. He was emphasizing his words with a series of gesticulations, which are the usual accompaniment of speeches on the southern hustings. He was fairly warming up to his subjeot When' Mr. Fischer arose. "Mr. Speaker," he exclaimed, "I rise to a point of order." "The gentleman from New York will state his point of order," replied the chair; blandly. "My point is this," went on the New Yorker. "A number of members on this side desire that the gentleman from Ten nessee shall speak louder. It is impossible to hear him in this part of the chamber.' Why, even the gentleman sitting next to him is not catohing a word." All this Fischer said with a face as grave as a Roman senator, dropping back quietly as he spoke into his seat. The house, which saw that Fischer was chaffing Gibson, awaited the result with much In terest. Gibson, who also realized that he was being guyed, turned and looked for a moment at the gentleman beside him. As he did so his face expressed, first surprise and then disgust. Fischer was right. The "gentleman beside him" could not hear him. He was sound asleep. Washington Post. 3Tot a Success. Mother Why, Fritz, what's happened to you? Where have you been? Fritz I've b-been over to that M-Muel-ler boy's. Mother It serves you right! Haven't I told you you mustn't go and play with that Mueller boy? Frits I d-didn't go to p-play with him. I went to 1-lick him I Humoristischo Blatter. The Sign Language. "I am goiDg to employ my spare time in learning another language," said the wife. "I might as well as not, and while I am doing nothing else I can easily do so. But I am undecided what to attempt. I should like to be able to know German, because I want to read the jokes under those funny pictures we see at the newsstands. Then I used to have a girl who spoke German. But I believe that I'll tackle French. That is more stylish, and I guess it is easier. Anyway it uses the same alpha bet we do, and I already know that and am so much ahead already. I should liketo know the Russian language, but that is too hard. The Italian is easy, but I don't expect ever to go to Italy. What would you edvise, John?" "If you are going to consider my wishes," said the brute, "you will learn the sign language used by deaf mutes and use only that." New York World. It's Often So. "I understand old Goldust carries $S0, -000 in life insurance." "I shouldn't wonder." "He must consider his life of very great value." "Quite likely, but that doesn't make it so." "No?" "Oh, no. It merely shows that he is worth more dead than alive, o far as the community is conoerned." Chicago Post. A Plausible Theory. Mrs. De Sweet I cannot understand why so many cultured men are willing to leave all the happiness of home, all the blessings of civilization and spend a life time in explorations in such countries as Africa? Colonel Warmheart (gallantly) All men, madam, are not blessed with such wives as Mr. De Sweet I New York Weekly. THE BLUE AMD GRAF. Efforts Will Continue to Be Made for a Joint Marching". New York, March 4 The general committee in charge of the proposed fra ternal parade of the veterans of the war of the rebellion does not intend to allow the project to be defeated by the views of Ivan N. Walker, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. Gen. Walker's statement that the union veter an couldn't march "with those who fought against the union, clothed in the nniform of a cause that was shot to death by the G. A. li. thirty years ago," has aroused much comment. Charles A. Dana, chairman of the gen eral committee on thejparade, said today: "If the people want such a parade it will be given. If they do not there will be no parade. There is nothing more to be said." Geu. Ferdinand P. Carle offers a sug gestion to meet Gen. Walker's objeotion to the Fourth of July. He said today: "I would suggest the anniversary of the battle of Harlem Heights, fought Sep tember 16, 1776. Why not bring the blue and the gray under the same flag in com memoration of the day on which our an cestors fought for liberty." Dandruff is due to an enfeebled state of the skin. Hall's Hair Renewer quickens the nutritive functions of the skin, heal ing and preventing tha formation of dandruff. On your for This 10 lbs. Navy Beans..... 6 lbs Lima Baans 7 lbs Lima Beans 10 lbs Dried Peas. 12 lbs Oat Flake... 15 lbs h.mtny ...v...... 6 lbs Rice 10 lbs Sal Soda 8 nice Mackerel 2 large Mackerel 1 extra large fancy Mackerel 4 lbs. California Evaporated Peaches. 8 lbs. Cal. Evap. Peaches, fancy 5 lbs Evaporated Blackberries 6 lbs dried Grapes. 6 lbs L M. Raisins 6 pkgs cleaned Currants Fresh Country Eggs, per doz 25 85 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 25 10 ESWe call special attention to oar line of Syrups and our Country Sorghums as cheap as any one can sell the same quality of goods. Only Grocery and Meat Market on south idcorsia between the Avenue and ftalneT BELL TELEPHONE 203. PHOTOGRAPHER, .GET A DOZEN OF OUR CABINET PHOTOS .$1.50 This Week. tt fea thssa U Lava Enameled Ksttles. Will M 1 SHELDEN, 702 Kansas Avenue. AW "A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOll- BAR- GAIN." MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHETUjSv B. 0. DE MOSS. ODD FELLOWS BUILDING, We bny our soods from the best factories on earth. UNDERTAKERS. Our prices are 25 per cent lower than any Combine or anti-combine. Hurl-lava Thou 77. Ball 'Ptiona 193. DE MOSS PENWELL. THE WESTERN. Foundry 0 Machine Works, ESTABLISHED 1876. FORMERLY T0PES4 FOUNDRY AND FIACHIHE WORKS, ESTABLISHED 1868. Tit only plaee In tta. city whore yoa can gt a complat. powct plant from a steam engine to a aet collar from stock. j., Get Prices Before Purchasing Elsewhere.1-" 1 L. COFtAJSI, prop. TOPEKA, KANSAS. II. K.BROOKS. (Established I87S.) Capital Iron Works (Two blocks south of Santa Fe depot on SeTentn st.) Builders' Iron work of all descriptions. Machinists, Iron and Brass Founders, Fn,ud machinery repaired. 'Pattern work and .difficult repairs a specialty. Bhaftine nulleys hanirers and brass fittings oi an aescnpiions in iwci oim. iifor efecttlo powers furnished. Mlllwrighting and gas enCine repairs a spe- Sialtnr. I. ..rnkt Foundry to Mil ty. PEOPLE WHO SHIP GOLD. A attire and Max I.ar.rl are Sight See Ins; In Frisco. Bah Francisco, March 4. Andre Laz ard and Max Lazard. the millionaire bankers of Paris, London and New York are at the Palace in this city. They are the sons of M. Lazard oi Laz ard Freres Co., the early bankers of San Francisco, for It was In this city that the elder Lazard laid the foundation, for the enormous fortune which baa re. suited from his investment and those of his sons. The two young men nere are or the firm of Lazard Bros. Co, Paris, In London and New Tork the firm retains ET3 Grocery List Week? Dried Apples per lb We have 4 or 5 kinds of splendid drinking Teas, per lb.... 25 Good Coffee t 2(1 Colorado Potatoes, per bu Iowa Potatoes, per bu 8" Native Potatoes, per bu -25 FRESH GARDEN SEEDS. i T Tr"5Q IK 3 pkgs Macaroni..;.-...; a 1 hi Ditai Pail Jelly 8 Pail Syrup 5 Breakfast Bacon per lb.... 1 8 J California Hams 7 f Extra California Hams 8" 2 lbs Maple Sugar 25 R. I. JONES. 632 Kansas Ave. Galvaniz3d Pails.. 18c Granits Pails 80c Granits Coflfss Pets, 55c Brsa&knife 3ot3 35c XZL Razor Strops, 10c Se3r;Ii or Scale SEE THEM. 9 4 L.M.. SEN WELL. 623 QUINOY STREET. O. W. BROOKS. its old name, that of Lazard Freres Co.. Fort W.rtto and Return, 1S.2S v,(iJr ClreaS Rock Island Route. March 7 and 8 the Rock Island will sell tickets to Fort Worth and return at one fare for the round trip.. Good retarnin up to and including March 20. 1888. Ac count Cattle Growers' association. For full information call on your neareit Rock Island agent. A. M Ffllek, City Passenger Agent, Ft. Worth and Return. SANTA FK EOUT1 One fare for the round trip. Tickets sold March 7 and 8, good to return in cluding March 20. J. P. Eowisr, 3L aaavaavaavaasaaaaaVBaaaBaaraassBaMla

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6 STATE JOITRNAIi, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, ,1896, OQOB0QOOOE1OO:O:OOOOOO0OBOO O O -iniirTmn llriFf irtc? O Oft O mi llll 625 and 627 SPRING DRESS i if III X 3 Neat mixtures pretty colorings always sold 39 to 50 cents a yard. Tomorrow for 25 and. 39c yard. Three Great Leaders- -In black figured novelties 59, 65 and 85c yard. Also in all wool Black Serges at 29, 50 and 75c yard. The handsomest Black Mohair Broches ever shown, $1.00, $1.25 and $1.50 per yard. Black Satin Umbrella Skirts fine quality -wide ruffle also skirts wide ruffle and wool, lace trimmed, were 2.25, for $1.50. Very fine Satine, lace trimmed, were 2.75 for $2.25. Ladies' medium weight ribbed vests 25c each. C-B and Warner's $1.50 Corsets for $1.00 each. C-B and S. C. $2.50 and $3.00 Corsets, for $1.75 each. Full lines W. C. C. and the Popular W. B. Corsets. o ei 13 E3 0 GCOnOGOEOGOnO:O:nOEO0O3OG FLOWER ON TILLMAN. The Ex-Governor Snym That Wall Street Men are the Soul ot Honor. New Yohk, March 4. Ex-Governor Flower in speaking- of the remarks of Senator Tillman on Wall street, said in part: "Senator Tillman is, of course, entirely wrong in his criticisms of Wall street men and their methods. If he has passed three days in Wall street and in that time has learned all about its busi ness methods, he has accomplished a great deal. Who are the men who bare been de nounced as thieves and robbers? They are men called upon for succor and help when crops fail in the Dafcotas or when an earthquake occurs in Senator Till man's own state. "Wall street is the whole country. The interests of Wall street men are identified with the prosperity of every farmer. The man in South Carolina who has a dollar for investment has a i interest in Wall street. When new rail roads are needed by farmers in the most remote section of the country they come POPULAR LOW 'T,HE science of good trading consists in getting the best values for the least money. That's why our patronage is so large. Everyone knows our prices are away below competitors and that we sell nothing that we do not guarantee to give satisfaction. We are selling hundreds of bushels of Colorado Potatoes every week at 40 cents bushel. They are the best. 19 lbs finest and best Granulated Sugar $1 00 100 lbsk Granulated Sugar 5 30 5 lbs good White Lard 25 Dry Salt Meat, per lb. 05 2 cans best Tomatoes 15 3 pkgs Pettijohn's Breakfast Food... 25 Condensed Mince Meat, per pkg.. 05 Large can Lye 05 6 Mackerel. 05 Corn Starch, per pkg 05 Gloss Starch, per pkg 05 6 lbs Tapioca or Sago. 25 6 lbs Pearl Barley 25 Good Rio Coffee, per lb. 20 2 lbs Java and Mocha Coffee. 55 Conntrv Apple Butter, per lb 05 2 sacks Table Salt 25 Fine Sorghum, per gallon 30 4 cans Kaw Valley Corn 25 Kaw Vallev Sifted Early June Peas. 10 2 lb roll Butterine 25 2V lbs Crushed Java Coffee. 25 2 boxes Shoe Blacking y.... 05 3 cakes Buttermilk Soap. 10 Box 12 cakes Coeoanut Oil Soap.... 20 SG boxes Parlor Matches. 25 8 cans Eagle Milk 50 8 pkgs Yeast Foam. 10 2 cans Warren's Salmon. 25 Even Chance Tobacco, per lb 15 Pkg Iowa Oats 05 10 lbs hand picked Navy Beans. 25 7 lbs Lima Beans. 25 Lion Coffee, per pkg 19 Arbuckle's Coffee, por pkg 19 7 bars Vacum Soap. 25 4 cans Salmon 25 3 cans California Table Quinces. 25 3 cans California Table Strawberries. 25 8 cans California Table Raspberries. 25 1 can California Table Pears. 10 1 can California Table Peaches 10 1 can California Table Apricots 10 Ohio Maple Sug-ar, per lb, 10 12 bars Laundry Soap 25 Large pkg Self Rising Buckwheat Flour 05 t"If you would like to save 10 to 15 cents a sack on FLOUR get our "price. tr.lAlL ORDERS SHIPPED PROMPTLY.H MTHE STAR Telephone 252. llfiFdfiriff 0. 0 iictiuiiiu a uu E3 O 7 E3 O Kansas AVenne. EJ O E3 o o a o E3 o O O o E3 GOODS to the men of Wall street for their capi tal. And all the Wall street men ask is that the dollar returned shall be as good as the dollar loaned. "Senator Tillman is wrong. The men denounced by him are not thieves, but are meu who transact business by sim ply giving their words for the payment of vast sums of money. In no other community in the world is there a higher sense of honor. Some of them are exe cuting commissions for purchasers in Senator Tillman's own state." German Mine Disaster. Berlin, March 4. Fire broke cut in the Cleophas coal mine at Kattowitz, Prussian Silesia. The bodies of twenty one victims have already been recovered, but the fate of the miners entombed, numbering about 100, is still uncertain. For Over Fifty Tears. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. PRICE GROCERY. Large pkg Pancake Flour 8 lbs Pure New York Buckwheat Flour. 18 lbs Hominy 6 lbs good Head Rice. 10 lbs Green Peas 8 lbs Split Peas Iowa Potatoes, per bu Kansas Potatoes, per bu 6 cans Sugar Corn 6 cans Marrowfat Peas, 6 cans Pumpkin 3 lbs Walter Baker's Chocolate 1 4 lbs fancy Evaporated Peaches 5 lbs Dried Apples. 4 lbs California Prunes 3 lbs Silver Prunes 4 lbs Evaporated Blackberries 3 lbs Dried Apricots Cleaned Currents, per pkg 6 lbs Raisins 17 lb pail Jelly Large pail Table Syrup 12 lbs bulk Scotch Oats 2 cans French Peas Gallon Apples, per can Gallon Peaches, per can Gillon Apricots, per can Mustard Sardines, per can No. 1 and No. 2 Lamp Chimneys... 6 lb wood box Gloss Starch 3 pkgs Imported Macaroni New York Cream Cheese, per lb.... Home made Mince Meat, per B.... Best Crackers, per lb by box 05 25 25 25 25 25 30 25 25 25 23 Oi) 25 25 25 25 25 2& 05 25 35 45 25 25 20 30 30 05 05 33 25 15 05 MEATS AND LARD. No. 1 Sugar Cured llama, per R.... 10 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per B 10 California Hams, per lb 07 Boneless Ham, per lb 10 10 tb can White Label Lard 85 5 lb can White Label Lard 45 Fresh Meats of all kinds at very low prices. 9 El GROCER. 112 East Sixth $t. NEWS AT THE STATE HOUSE Review of the Railroad Commission ers Report BY THE H. RAILWAY GAZETTE. A Very Complimentary One-Other Mutters of Interest In the State De partments. The two members of the state board of railroad commissioners that are here at present, Mr. Simpson and Mr. Howe, and Secretary Fienniken are congratulating themselves on the rather voluminous re view accorded their recent annual re port by the Railway Gazette of New York city. "These commissioners," say3 the Ga zette, '"have- only been in office since February 6, 1895, and they are all new to the duties of a railroad commissioner ship, but the report is comprehensive and compares favorably with the aver age of such documents. l'he commis sioners have evidently given thorough and Intelligent study to the prob lems before them. Most of their dis cussions are characterized by good judg ment and intelligent public spirit, though the report is too long. As these gentlemen of Kansas like ail the rest of us are hampered by the fact that most of the wise sayings concerning railroad problems have already been said, they can hardly expect the people of their state to read their extended discussion with remarkable avidity. The history of the Kansas commission is held to indi cate a successful career." IT BOLD SCRAP 1KOS. How Emmi Got $1. 95 of Its General Rev enue Fund fur February. The state treasurer's report for the month of February has just been issued. The total amount of cash on hand in the vault is $1,130,071.52. In January it was $396,152.39. 'ihe receipts of the state for February were 6C2.363.02, of which $338,731.59 is its general revenue fund, including $1.85 gleaned from its scrap iron sales. In February the state bought $12,500 worth of bonds, and there were paid off bonds to the amount of $54,557.21. The bonds on hand now amount to $6,767, 279.22. The bonded indebtedness of the state is but $752,000. The February earnings of the state penitentiary were $2,559.66. The entire disbursements of the state for February were $367,843.89. BOOK FOR NORMAL SCHOOLS Bains Prepared by the Assistant State Superintendent. H. C Fellow, assistant state superin tendent of public instruction, is at work on a book for use in the normal schools of the state. It is to be called "A Com parative Study of School Supervision and Maintenance." Normal school pu pils are compelled to study those ques tions and this is designed to simplify the matter. It will be a small book of twenty pages, and will contain eight chapters, as fol lows: State supervision, county super vision, township supervision, district sup ervisioo, teachers, certificates and main tenance. The treatise will embrace a description of the school system of every state in the -union. About 1,000 copies will be issued. SI I SSL OKI AM) KANSAS. A Financial Comparison That SHows Kan sas in tile Best Light. State Treasurer Athertun has just re ceived the report of the treasurer of Missouri foe February. Although Missouri is a much older and larger state and richer in resources, it is not in as good condition financially as our own state. Missouri's general revenue fund bal ance was but $146,652,02, Kansas was $672,423.41. The bonded indebtedness of Missouri is $5,434,000 while that at Kansas is bat $752,000. Only in amount of cash is Missouri ahead of Kansas. Missouri has a cash balance or $1,188,360.63, while Kansas has only $1,130,671.52. Twenty Acres of Plastering. Ou the walls of the state house there is plastering enough to pave twenty acres of ground, and in it is window cord enough to connect Garfield park with Washburn college. A Lebanon Charter Piled. The charter of the Derge Mercantile company of Lebanon was filed today with the secretary of state- The capital slock is placed at $27,000. State Home Personals. State Treasurer Atherton has returned from Smith Center where he has been on private business. Labor Commissioner Bird has been in Leavenworth this week collecting statis tics among tne workingmen for the labor bureau. State Superintendent Stanley has gone to Hesperto address the pupils and fac ulty of the Friends academy there this evening. Claud Stanley, bond clerk in the' state superintendent's office, went to Texas to day to visit a week. THIS IS NO LIE. Why the Parsons Sun Regards Tront iii an's Candidacy as a ".II is take." The Parsons Sun, in regard to Trout man's candidacy for governor, says: "Lieutenant Governor Troutman is making the political mistake of his life. We say this with the kindest and friend liest feeling, for he has no better friend or greater admirer personally than the editor of the 6uu." The editor of the Sun has a sister hold ing a clerkship in Governor Morrill's of fice. Some time ago the editor of the Sun said: "If you see it in the State Jouk nal it isn't so." But this is one of the things that is so. All Free. Those who have tried Dr. King's New Discovery know its value, and those who have not, have now the opportunity to try it free. .Call on the advertised Drug gist and get a Trial Bottle, Free. Send your name and address to ii. E. Buck Ion Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of Dr. King's New Life, Pills Free, as well as Guide to Health and House hold Instructor, Free. AH of which is guaranteed to do you good and cost you nothing J. K. Jones Drug Store. We mend and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam laundry. THE NEW LAMP SHADES. They Are Called "Empire," But Look More Like Tubs. The newest lamp shades look like in verted tubs. They are imported from France, along- with other things Napo leonic which have delug-ed the markets for two years, and are called "Empire" shades. Those which come from Paris are hand-painted, and range from one dol lar to twenty in price, according to the size and the elaborateness of decora tion. The largest shade is about as big as a large dishpan or, to speak more accurately, about 24 inches in di ameter at its lower edge. Its width is 15 inches, and if it were not trans lucent we should have a literal repre sentation of "the light under a busheL" The materia, however, is white paper, decorated in light colors, and in pat terns to suit the fancy of the artist. One of the prettiest is a representa tion of Apollo driving the chariotof the sun over masses of fleecy clouds, with three maidens in his wake, who look a if they might represent Morning, Noon, and Night.' It is a pretty idea for a lamp, with the suggestion of turning night into day. r The very large shades are intended for piano lamps and the like. There are, of course, smaller sizes for the tiny Dresden ornaments that are supposed to illuminate a lady's boudoir. These are very daintily decorated with eupids and blossoms, and are very small: not more than six inches across. The same style is used for candle shades, and they look like tiny illuminated drums standing on stilts on the mantel piece or dining table. i Small Dresden lamps are the correct thing for the dinner table one, two or three, according to the length of the table. These are trimmed with little decorated tubs and give the table quite the air of being ready for Mme. de Soinebody-or-other's feast of a hundred years ago. Low lamps to stand in a corner on the flooi are another fad. They are about 2 feet high, chimney, shade and ali, and are made of some heavy, dark porcelain such, as large plant jars are made of. Amateur artists can take the oppor tunity offered by these shades for dec- EMPIRE SHADES ITT ALL STAGES. oration. Any stiff, white paper will serve, but regular water-color paper is best. It can be bought by the yard'. A yard and a half will make a good sized shade. Ordinarily they are made about 12 inches wide and 15 inches in diameter. The edges should be curved and the ends slanted, so as to make the upper edge slightly smaller than the lower. The paper is decorated, of course, before the ends are fastened to gether. The fastening is a little wire clasp something like those used to'fas ten together sheets of manuscript, but without the brass head. The point of junction may be covered with a ribbon band, ending in a bow at the top and bottom. Those who cannot paint sometimes paste gilt or silver paper over the white in decorative designs, and the result is pretty enough for common use. These pretty shades have the great advantage that, while they veil the ob jectionable glare of the light, they do not subdue it so unpleasantly as the tinted or fancy paper shades.' They are also more in keeping with the new styles in lamps and bric-a-brac in gen eral. Wire frames made purposely for them sell at 50 cents and $1; but it is easy to make a wire frame to fit a tub. The small candle shades are very easily made, and a number of them perched about a candelabra give a pret ty effect. They need not be more than four or five inches in diameter and three inches wide. These may be stuck together with liquid glue, and the dec oration conceals the point of junction. Any kind of fancy paper may be used for any of the shades described, but when one begins to use dark thits there is danger of hiding one's light, which is open to objection unless a subdued light is preferred as in a studio or Turkish room. AnNFE IiATTRTK WOODS. A Conf using Tongue. Mrs. Vanderslang Now, tell me, count, how do you like America Count Parleyvoo Ah! cheremadame, your guntry ant your ladees are charm ant but your langweedge your 5di oms 1 gan not at all comprehend. You say. -vhen your butter is goot eet ees vresh, ant dat your leedle poy ees vresh vhen hee's spoiled. Puck. Rob a Santa Fe Contractor. General W. T. Clark, of Denver, fuel contractor for the Santa Fe railroad, was robbed by burglars at the Centennial hotel, at Ottawa, Monday night. He was despoiled of considerable monoy, jewel ry and all his clothing; also a highly valued army badge. Tne Hottest Room In Town. You can have it, if you want it. We will tell you the way to get it. Buy a ton of that Leavenworth Lump or River side, Home Mine Lump. Then you can have it any temperature you want it. Those $2.5u a ton coals will do it. And we've got 'em. Topeea Coal Co First floor 6th and Kansas avenue. Telephones 482. SPRING FASHIONS. Prevailing Color Combinations Simple Dresses Por XJttle Ones. Black and purple is a picturesque and at present a fashionable combination. The purple must be well selected, however, dull 'purples not being admissible with black. Bright violet and rich plum tones are the most satisfactory. Hats of black and purple are a fan cy of the moment. Children are now dressed very much as the individual fancy of the mother dic tates. For those who like to see little girls dressed like women there are numer ous models in which the godet skirt, stock collar and other mature peculiarities are repeated in miniature, but the prettiest and most artistic gowns "are the simple and characteristically childish ones, in which haircloth and canvas have no place. The Greenaway and blouse costumes are more becoming to children than any other kind and are the easiest to make. An ap propriate wardrobe for a little girl will not be elaborate enough to cost her mother a great deal of time and trouble. Velvet or silk Scotch plaids are effect ively combined with plain goods of gray, beige,- burned bread and other neutral tints.' The sleeves and part of the corsage x SPRING COSTUME. are of the plaid, the plain material forming the rest of the costume. Plaid velvet ia com bined w ith plain taffetas and faille as well as with woolens. A fashionable trimming for woolen gowns consists of embroidery or braiding on a ground of white cloth. This forms revers, vest, straps, collar and cuffs. Cos tumes of plain cloth, ornamented with stitching only, are also worn. An illustration is given of a striking costume for the early spring. It is of blue cloth and Scotch plaid velvet in tones of blue, white and straw. The godet skirt, of cloth, opens over a narrow tablier of plaid velvet, framed by gold galloon, which is carried around the lower edge of tho cloth portion of the skirt. The bodice, of plaid velvet, is slightly gathered at the waist in front and has a short rippled basque of the same material. The figaro is of plain blue velvet and is cut in two points in front. It has a wide collar and is edged all around with gold galloon. The gigot sleeves, of blue cloth, are orna mented with lengthwise bands of galloon. The blue velvet belt is fastened by a paste buckle. With this gown is worn a hat of ruby straw, trimmed with an immense bow of ruby velvet, which is held by paste rings. Black feathers are placed at the left side. Judic Chollet. VELVET- AND PLUSH. Summer Fashions Next Tea Clowns Change Their .Vame, but Still Remain. The new shirt waists of figured or striped cambric and percale have plain white or solid colored collars and cuffs. Velvet is exceedingly popular for skirts to wear with different bodices. Dark vel vet is preferred, especially black, as a black skirt with a bright corsage is one of the most effective and becoming combina tions. Colors, particularly rich shades, are also worn. Velveteen makes an ex tremely serviceable skirt for ordinary use. Tho wearer of a velvet or velveteen skirt should afways bear in mind, however, that a cane seated or bamboo chair means de struction to her gown. Plush is coming to the fore again, and It is predicted that by next winter it will bo as fashionable as it was seven or eight years ago. It has been relegated so long to tho domain of upholstery that the idea of wearing it is as little attractive as that of wearing leopard skin coats, which strongly suggest hearth rugs. This is the dead season of the year, as far as fashions are concerned. There wil) be nothing new to chronicle for several Weeks, this time being spent by dressmak- VELVET CAPE. era In the devising of warm weather fash ions, which will suddenly burst upon the Waiting world with a blaze of glory. While waiting for the secrets of the de signer to be revealed women can wear out their winter clothes, so as to be able to dis card them with a clear conscience when the time oomes. Tea gowns are seldom beard of now, but the thing, if not the name, remains, as being too comfortable and necessary to be lightly abandoned. Velvet is employed for these loose gowns as for everything else and is adorned with lace and silk. A sketch is given of an evening cape in lizard green velvet, lined, with cherry satin. It has a sort of double pelerine, composed of two rippled collars of taffeta, matching the velvet in color. These are bordered with a ruching of black tulle. Thn cape is worn over a gown of ivory satin, the bodice of which is covered by a Drapery of chains of crystal and jot beads. JtJDIC CHOLXET! m p MV G0i GOODS -&sr I To clean up a lot of odds and ends on All Wool Dress Goods slightly soiled, we have mark ed them--BaL o c- 15c, E2F Values run HLL ;W0Lr. BIKE AGAINST Six Riders and Can a bicycle beat a" railway train? That depends upon both of them. But we shall know later, for a wheel is now build ing, 13 feet over alt and weighing 137' pounds, that is to be r"mped by six hard riders, and, thus manned, is to be put next spring agiinst the Empire, state express on a stretch, perhaps, just, west of Albany. The wheels of this machine are 30 inches across, the tires two and one-half inches in Latest thing in cycles. Over In Ixndon they have a new cycli whether to give it the prellx uni or bl has not yet been determined which. Is alto gether different from the models seen in this country. Instead of being on the wheel, the rider is inside. As shown In the above picture, there are two wheels, one Inside the other. The inner wheel maintains a stationary position, which Is necessary because it hass fastened to it the rider's seat. Around it revolves the Parrots sprena consumption. Paris is troubled by the fear that parrots spread consumption. Some par rots brought from Brazil died two years ago of a mysterious disease resembling consumption, and recently several per sons at Versailles and Maissons-Laffitte have died of what seems to be the same disease. Swimmlig and "DIvlnjc Sparrow. Adrian Hickman of Bath, Me., owns a swimming and diving sparrow. The little creature takes to water as na turally as a duckling and swims rapid ly after bread crumbs. It will dive be neath the surface at the word of com mand. Smooth as silk is the way our collars feel now. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. 8th. Subscribe for the Daily State Jocks At. BaaiBaBiBittiaaiB9iia 19c, 25c, up as high as a

mi H a LOCOMOT IVE. Gear at 153. diameter, and the gear is 153. The sear ia compoun.l, having four driving a pockets. The lar&rest sprocket, the one nearest the rear wheel, has ?8 teeth, the next largest 23, the third 14, and the fourth nine. To. calculate the gear multiply the product o1 the two large spockets by the diameter cf the wheel. Divide thiB by the product of the two smaller spockets and you have the sear. 153. outer wheel, with which It has three points of contact, three grooved wheels, that form a runway. The power is obtained by the simple action of a spring attached to the treadles, and It is promised that great speed will be made when the wheel is properly used. Lightness and simplicity of construction seem to be its best points. The rider, being suspended below the ma chine's center of gravity, maintains a level seat whatever the seat or grade. Survival of tbe Fittest. Bobbie On my. way to school this morning I met the new boy who has moved in next door. Mrs. Bingo Yes, and here's a note from tho teacher saying you were late. Bobbie That's nothing. The new boy didn't get there at alh Truth. not Contented. Old Husband I think I ought to make -a few changes in my will. Young Wife Don't worry about it,, darling. Leave everything to me. Phil adelphia Record. Not the Right Han. Hatterscn I have been trying to teach my baby to stop drinking from a bottle. Catterson I should imagine that would bo a pretty hard thing for you to do. Truth. if If yon want ali. th new subscriba for the Jocbhai. -h.

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8 STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1896 GRATIFYING RESULTS. 'INTERESTING EXPERinENTS WITH THE NEW STOMACH REflEDY. Sot a Plnt Medlelnc, Bt a Sf Curt tor All Forms of Indigestion. The results of a recent iavestig atlon, bare established, beyond a question, the g reat value of the Lew preparation for indigestion and stomach troubles; it is composed of the digestive acids, pepsin, bismuth, Golden Seal and similar stom achics, prepared in the form of 20 grain lozenges, pleasant to the taste, conven ient to carry when traveling, harmless to the most delicate stomach, and probably the safest, most effectual cure yet dis covered for indigestion, sour stamach, loss of appetite and rlesh, nausea sick headaches, palpitation of the heart, and the many symptoms arising from imper fect digestion of food. They cure be cause they cause the food to be promptly and thoroughly digested before it has time to sour, ferment and poison the blood and nervous system. Judge Frank Ives", of District Court of Crooltaton, Minn., says: For spme time I have used Stuart's DiBpepsia Tablets with seeming great benefit, with few ex ceptions, I have not been so free from in digestion in twenty-five years. Geo. W. Roosevelt, U. S. Consul to Brussels, Belgium: Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets, Bafe, pleasant to take, conven ient to carry, give keen appetite, perfect digestion. Mr. W. D. Tomlin, Mechanical engi neer, Duluth, Minn.: One box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets has done its work, and I am again gaining flesh and strength. O. E Ransom, Hustonville, Ky., I was distressed and annoyed for two years with throwing up food, often two or three times a day; had no certainty of retaining a meal if 1 ate one. Feur boxes of the tablets from druggist, have fully cured me. I find them pleasant to take, convenient to carry. Rev. G. D. Brown, Mondovi, Wis.,: The effect of Smart's Dyspepsia Tablets is simply marvelous; a quiet hearty din ner cf broiled steak causes no distress since I began their use. Over six thousand people in the state of Mich, alone in 1894 were cured of stomach troubles by Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Full sized packages may be found at all druggists at 50c, or sent by mail on receipt of price from Stuart Co., Mar shall, Mich. NORTH TOPEKA. Items of Interest From the North Side of lha Kllir. J. Lapp has moved his store to 833 Kansas avenue. Friends here are entertaining Mr. Ed. Goolman, of California. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Petro have gone to Cawker City to visit friends. D. L. Miller's interest in the Star bar ber shop has been purchased by I. Un derwood, of Caldwell, Lung fever caused the death yesterday of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. By ron F. Edie. 1501 Logan street. Rev. David Shutt, of Silver Lake, was In the city yesterday. Rev. Mr. Shutt is pastor of the Silver Lake Methodist church. J. H. Heller, 1002 N. Kansas avenue, grocery and meat market. Good treat ment and fine meats and groceries; you can do better here than elsewhere. The Magnet Restaurant and Short Or der house, A. J. Proudflt, 800 N. Kansas ave. Wholesale fruits and confectionery. Geo. J. Graves Sons, 115 and 117 West Laurent street, North Topeka, for buggy tops, cushions, wagons, and bng- gies built to order. Bell 'phone 533. Items and advertisements for the Journal should be left at the drug store of A. J. Kane Co., 832 N. Kansas ave nue. An important meeting of the ladies' sewing society of the North Congrega tional church was held this afternoon in the church parlors. BUTLER IN MARBLE. Movement i n Mssischaietli a Erect m 91 on ii men ft to General Ben. Boston, March 4. The committees on state house and military affairs, ia joint session, listened to arguments advanced in favor of erecting an equestrian statue of Gen. B. F. Butler in the state heuse grounds to cost f 50,000. The argument was almost wholly in favor of the erection of the monument and it will probably be built; Col. N. A. Plympton said that a statue of Gen. Butler had already been present ed to New Hampshire, and that Massa chusetts should also honor him. Boils and sores indicate impurities in the blood. Ayer's Sarsaparilla eradicates humors. You can get part or all of your loan at any time. Savings and Loan association, Sixth and Kansas avenue. Try ns on collars. AVe can meke them look like new. Peerless Steam Laundry, 112 and 114 W. 8th. Save the Home Br renewing mortgage with ns on easy payments. Sixth and Kansas avenue. The daily State Jocrsal at news dealers anywhere in Kansas. Ten cents per week. Give os a trial Peerless Steam Laun dry. Awarded Highest Honors World's Fair, MM frilML. -MOST PERFECT MADE.. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free from Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant, 40 YEARS .THE STANDARD. CilEAM NOT A LOTTERY. The American Coupon Investment Company's Status. a DETAILED STATEKEHI G1YEH By lis Legal Adviser, Thomas II. Bain Who Declares That His Arrest Is Unwarranted and That Ills Com. Poj Is Violating; 9o Postal liiwt, But Operating; Under a Plan Ap proved by the Department. To the Editor of the State Journal: From what has appeared in the daily papers during the past week one might infer that I am engaged in the lottery business. Will you kindly give me space to make a statement from my standpoint regarding this? I do not ask it so much npon my own account as I do upon that of a large number of people whose hon esty and good judgment cannot be ques tioned, and who have invested in the American Coupon Investment company of which I am a member, and which, it is now charged, is conducting a business contrary to the United States lottery statute. In the limited space that I shall ask, I cannot hope to make a full and complete statement of our plan of work, but shall content myself by stating a few facts concerning our work. It may not be generally known that there are several scores of bond invest ment companies running in the United States, the principles underlying each being practically the same. The United States assistant attorney general, acting for the postal department, has held that a number of these plans were in conflict with the lottery statute. The company of which I am a member was organized about two years ago. Soon after we be gan running, the postal authorities said that our contract was not agreeable with that opinion. 1 was at once sent to Wash ington by our company to adjust our case, if possible. I there consulted his opinion, engaged a local attorney to help me, and we drew our contract in exact conformity with his opinion, a copy of which I have in my safe, and which is endorsed by the postal authorities as not being contrary to the postal laws of the United States. This contract we copied verbatim into our literature, and the certificate which we issue is an exact copy of that contract. We therefore believed that we were duly authorized to transact business, and felt per fectly safe. I do not believe the charge that it is a lottery can be sus tained as to our contract for a single moment, for there are positively no drawings or castings of lots; no "lucky or unlucky" investors; neither is there any feature in it coming under the legal definition of a lottery. Our bonds are matured upon a mathe matical principle which is regular in form, and every bond is matured in its turn, and there are no chance features about it whatever. However, the charge that is most emphasizsd is that we have too good a contract, and are therefore fraudulent. I desire to say that our con tract does not yield to the investor by a very large per cent as great a profit as do life insurance companies pay to their in vestors. There is no question that life insurance is a good thing; also thai mu tual life insurance is a good investment and practicable; but only 13 to 2 J per cent of the people are physically eligible to be insured, and it is rather a ghastly contract to make when a man knows "he must die to win." Hence it has been a study for years to evolve a plan of mutual invest ment that will permit a man to enjoy its benefits with his family while he lives. We believe bond companies have such a plan. It has only been a few years since the A. O. U. W., for instance, was started, and the same objections were made to it that are made to bond investment com panies now. Every objection made to our company applies with equal force to all mutual associations. The same gen eral principles underlie both, the only difference being that their contracts are matured upon death, and ours upon a mathematical calculation based largely upon the mortuary tables used by all life insurance companies. All that is claimed for our company is that the same principles which underlie mutual life insurance underlie this bond; the only difference being that the bond company kills the bond and pays the man, while the insurance company kill the man and pays his beneficiary. In either case the maturity is sure, and the payment of the matured obligation is certain. It will be conceded that no life insurance compa ny could run at all without new business and it is also admitted that a very large source of their income is from lapses. Now we offer to pay, within ten years, a bond calling for $450 in round numbers. In that length of time the investor is only required to pay in $155. His money is worth at least 6 per cent., and he, therefore, is actually out $201.50. Now we only have to sus tain a 24 per cent. lapse and a 36 per cent, increase, (both of which are very low estimates) to much more than reach the remaining amount. Mutual life in surance companies suffer a loss each year by lapses, defections and death of from 55 to 63 per cent. Of course those lapses all are of benefit to the remaining investors. There have been a number of court de cisions regarding bond companies, and almost invariably in their favor. There is a company based upon the same prin ciple as ours, running at Sedalia, Ho. The attorney general of that state brought 6uit a few months ago against the company in the supreme court to vacate i;s charter. Judge McFarlandjrendered the decision, and in his discussion said: "We aro unable to see that there is even a suggestion upon the face of the certifi cate of incorporation that this business is illegal either in its charter or the manner of conducting it. There is noth ing illegal in the issuance of bonds, nor selling the same npon installments, if it ia done in a legal manner. There is no suggestion on the face of the pleadings that respondents are abusing or misusing the franchise of incorporation for the purpose of conducting a lottery or other unlawful business, and until such abuse or misuse is done we cannot interfere to declare forfeiture." Two United States judges have Baid that they can see no lottery feature or anything fraudulent in the principles of these bond companies. The appellate court of Cook county at Chicago has said the same, and the district code t at Min neapolis, Minn., held the sameVway; and we feel perfectly confident tbatjany court ia which we may be held fir heariog j will also hold the same way. Our com pany has run about two years. We have sold about 6,000 certificates to something like 1,500 or 1,800 different investors. We have had about 24 per cent of lapse. We have had more than a 36 per cent in crease. We are maturing our bonds ex actly according to contract We have paid to -the people thousands of dol lars. We have, as a company, charged bat 20 per cent of the receipts, for transaction of business, thus paying back to the people a larger per cent than almost any other class of in vestment. What I 'especially desire at this time, is that our friends suspend their judgment until our case i3 passed upon by the courts. I always have been, and now want to be, s law-abiding citi zen. I believe our investors have the same desire. We all agree that lotteries are pernicious, and that the United States statute against them is moat beneficent, and hail all honest efforts of the govern ment officials to enforce it. We do not believe the law applies to our plan. Thos. H. Bain. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS- There are 2,500 male voters registered. There are now two cases of diphtheria in the city. Potwin will build an addition to its school hous9 before long. J. D. McFarland has moved his law of fice to the Real Estate building. Ex-Chief of Police Wilkorson is said to be worth in the neighborhood of $50, 000. P. Q. Davis has sold his harness store at 718 Kansas avenue to Bradshaw Friend. A Topeka man proposes to invent snow shoes for his bicycle and be ready for next winter. United States Commissioner Mileham says that the business of his office amounts to next to nothing. A Topeka weather prophet says that there will be seventeen days of bad weather this month. The Equal Suffrage association will meet in the parlors of the Throop hotel tomorrow afternoon at 3:30. Ex-Chief of Police Wilkerson has the revolver carried by Dr. Fraker, the famous insurance swindler. Some lawyers get more excited when arguing to a jury over money than in their murder trial j.leaa. The light in County Treasurer Stahl's office is not very good, and an electrio light is burned continually. The district court jurors like their opera chairs so well that they will hardly leave them daring adjournmant. The Sporting News says that Dick Cooley was offered only $1,500 for this season by Chris Yon der A lie. A new monthly paper, called "The Typewriter." has made its appearance in Topeka. Eugene Smith is the editor. The coal hole committee has made no report. Of course wo want that $10,000 for bridge approaches, or something eUe nice. West Fifth street, between Kansas avenue and Van Buren, is a lively place now that the court house has been fully occupied. A Topeka bard says he will write a combination poem on spring and beauti ful snow, so as to be sure to cover the ground. Joe Waters is already three days be hind time with his annual spring poem; it might be said that spring is also three days behind. Tony Brown, who has gone into busi ness for himself, has his cards printed "Anthony Brown," and no one knows who is meant. W. W. Learning of 1140 North Jeffer son street picked up a lost pocket book on Kansas avenue yesterday containing a small sum of money. Governor Morrill did not attend the opening session of the State Temperance union, but he had representatives there to look after his interests. The trade of the court house grocer, A, C. Hale, proprietor, is always poor on sloppy days like yesterday. Poor people don't like to shop on bad days. Rev. John A. Bright will address the Young People's society at the Swedish Evangelist Lutheran church, corner fourth and lyler street, tonight. Some Potwin people are talking of in troducing a high school course in their school. Potwin pays about $125 a month to Topeka for high school privileges. John Coyne is carefully treasuring the poker chip which District Judge liazen used to call the attorneys to order with in the Gaines and Coulter murder cases. Captain J. B. Doncyson, of the T. A. A. W., says that the complete schedule of all the Sunday road runs to be made during the season will be ready by April 1. Rev. J. G. Dougherty who wants Gov ernor Morrill to abolish the police com missioner in the cities of the first class is the acting secretary of the State Tem perance uruon convention. Objectionable characters who have friends in the county jail wonder why they can never strike the right visiting day. The jailer telU them a different day every time they come. The witness stand in the district court has been turned so that the witness faces the examining attorneys, with his right side to the jury and his left to the judge. Stenographer Ralph Gaw has to excuse the witness's bacar. Some of the Topeka stiff rage workers are threatening to tell some "awful things" about the way Helen Gougar was treated" by two prominent Republicans when she was here during the lan session of the legislature. The March number of the Jenness Miller magazine contains three pictures which were submited by William M. Lyon, of this city, in the prize amateur photographic contest. They are all pic tures of children. A Topeka man who never advertises writes long articles for the papers when ever his business gets him into trouble. Doesn't he know that people never read the papers. What's the use of writing to them when you're in trouble. Gandy tint Her Property. Miss Martha E. Barnes married George W. Gandy. a veteran of the civil war, on Washington's birthday in 1891. She deeded the homestead at 422 Lawrence to him June L, 1895, and he deeded it to h'lB children and fled to the Leavenworth Soldiers home. She wants Judge Hazen to4nnul both deeds and give her back her maiden name, as side dishes to the divorce decree. We mend and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam laundry. THROWN DOWN AGAIN. Abe Crofoot Tells Col. Dawson of His Lost Case. PIKE COUNTY SEES HE IS GOING TO Win and Issues a Fiat Crofoot's Great Grasshopper Scheme. "Waal, bnt I never did see! This yo', knrnel!" exclaimed Abe Crofoot as he ran across Colonel Dawson on the steps of his village drug store at S o'clock the other afternoon. "Yes, it's me howdy, Abe?" replied tbe colonel as he extended his band. 'Bout the same, kurnel 'bout the same. Some of the children ailinr" "No, thankee. One of my -workin mewl's off his feed, and I'm goin to tone him up a leetle. Let's see? Didn't I bear about some mo' scandalizin or sun tbin? Can't jest remember the particu lars, but! reckon Pike county was after yo' again." "That's it, knrnel mo' scandalizin, replied Abe as he drew his friend aside and sat down on tbe steps. "Yes, sab, the enemy moved down on my works again the other day, and they jest reck oned to wipe me off tbe airtb. Pike county has made tip her mind that I must go, and mebbe I'll hev to, but I'm gwine to die powerful bard, kurnel powerful bard. Bin lookiu fur yo'in fur the last three days "What happened this time, Abe?" queried tbe colonel as be cut a piece oflt bis plug of tobacco and passed the plug to Abe and carefully remembered to get it back again. "Kurnel Dawson, yo' run mostly to co'n and mewls and ar' a busy man. "Yes, Abo." "But yo' hain't too busy to remember that De Soto discovered tbe Mississippi about 150 years ago. You've read that in history. "Yes, reckon I have, Abe, but I didn't charge my memory with it. Name was De Soto, was it? Live in Pike county or around yore?" "Not exactly, kurnel. Pike county wasn't heard of till long after bis time. He was a Spaniard, and he enm over to thiw kentry with a crowd behind him to pick a fuss, make new diekiveries and run things to snit himself. It was while wandering over the kentry that be dia kivered tbe Mississippi river." "Shoo I Jest broko out of the wooda and diskivered her, eh?" "That was tbe way of it, knrnel. Now, then, last Saturday I went into cote fur Tom Jackson Tom's dawg bit the ear off of Jim Forbisbes' yaller mewl, and Jim sued for $50 damages. I was fur the defense. I not only had an alibi fur tbe dawg, bnt bad 17 witnesses on band to sw'ar that he was too dod gasted lazy to chase anything. Besides that, I bad the dawggone dawg right in tbe coteroom, that I might show the jury he hadn't but two teeth left and couldn't chaw off a baby's finger.". "And yo' won that snit, Abe yo' won it fur shore exclaimed the colonel. "Did I? Yo' jest wait! I stood to win it, of co'se, and tiver myself with a mantle of glory. That's what Pike county (was afeared of afeard I was cumin out on topand the fiat went fo'th that I was to be tbrowed down. Reckon yo' know what fiat means, kur nel?" ,"Sk assly, Abe not jest this after noon bnt go on with yo'r story. "Well, I had tbe neatest, slickest case yo' ever did see, but tbe fiat had gone fo'th and jedgo and jury bad to obey. Jest ruled me out all around and brought in a verdict fur them $50 and costs." Shoo I CouldD't be no mistake?" "No mistake, Knrnel Dawson I They not only throwed me down in the ver dict, but the jedge took occashun to say that if I hadn't fooled away my time and let my ambishnn run to weeds I might hev bin a De Soto. Yes, sah, said theni very words right to my teeth 1" "Hnl Waal, did I ever!" "Knrnel Dawson, ar' yo' lookin at me?" asked Abe as be faced the colonel. "Yes", Abe, I'm a-lookin." "Then, sah, let me ask yo'.if Abe Cro foot is a Spaniard?" "Of co'se not. "Did I ever live in Spain?" "Never. Yo' was bo'n and raised right yere in this county of Pike." "An was I bo'n about 200 y'ars ago, kurnel. "Shoo! How could yo' bel" "That's the pint, Kurnel Dawson that's jest what I want to know my self!" exclaimed Abe as be brought down his hand on Jiis leg. "I'm blamed by these yere Pike county scandalizers because I hain't as big a man as De Soto, who was dead and buried a hun dred y'ars befo' my grandfather was weaned 1 How could I diskiver the Mis sissippi river befo' "I was b'on? How could I be a great man a century and a half ahead of my openin my eyes on this sinful world? Answer me that, Kurnel Dawson. "Yo' couldn't do it, Abe couldn't possibly do it, replied tbe colonel. "Of co'se not, and yit Pike county throws me down again. She thought I was dun gone this time, bnt I'm right on deck, as usnal. I kin be throwed down, but the grass don't hold me fur long!" "Got a new idea, Abe?" "I hev, knrneL Yes, sah, I've cot the biggest thing of tbe lot, and if I don't hev the hull of Pike county lickin my butes inside of six weeks I'll be power fully disappointed. Kurnel Dawson, yo've seen grasshorjpers?" "Millions of 'em, Abe." "Every dawggone grasshopper is a jumper, and every summer thar ar' millions of 'em jumpin about. To cum down to figgers, the number of grass hoppers jumpin about in tbe United States every y'ar is jest exactly 2,149, 628,498. Takes power fur grasshopper to jump lots of power. "It does fur shore, bnt what's the pint?" "Right thar, knrnel right on that jumpin bizness. Catch up that power and storeit to run the machinery of THE COLUMBUS, PRICE S65.00. this kentry. Can't jest say how it's to be done, but I'm workin on tbe idea and will hev it in a day or two. A few months from now my grasshopper pow er will be turnin every wheel in Pike county and millions of dollars will bo laid at my feet. Got to cum, kurnel got to cum as suah's yo'r bo'n, and got to cum right threw Abe Crofoot! What d'yo' think of it?" "Yo've got 'em, Abe got 'em righi en the hip whispered tbe colonel a3 he extended his band. "Of co'se I hev of co'se, and now, Kurnel Dawson, bein as yo' ar' a true friend of mine, and bein yo' "Bein what, Abe?" "Bein yo' bev kindly asked me what I'd take I don't keer if I step around to Joe's place with yo' and wet my mouth with whisky jest dampen it, yo' know, to keep the cotton out!" M. Quad in Detroit Free Press. WANTS CANNING FACTORY. A Truck Farmer Sure that One In To peka Would Pay. To the Editor of the State Journal: I have been a reader of your daily pa per for the past five years and have1 no ticed with admiration the tenacity with which the editorial columns of yeur pa per follow up a certain line of thought. It may be to correct an error in the ex ecutive department of the great state of Kansas, or a dictation to the president of the United States "as to the financial way out," but whether they be turned against the adoption of an unnecessary and los ing proposition as the selling of the old court house or in favor of a much need ed improvement as the building of the Melan arch bridge, I have noticed that in a large majority of cases the stand the Journal took was the stand that pleasad tbe people best and was successful, and for this reason I wish that not only your valuable paper, but every paper printed in Topeka would urge and encourage the building of a factory in To peka that perhaps would benefit more people (and its owner as well) than any other that would likely come to the city. I believe I voice the sentiment of every garden truck raiser and farmer iu Shawnee county when I say that we would appreciate a good canning factory more than any other. The market gard ener has become too numerous and his productions far exceed the limited de mand in Topeka, and he as well as the farmer are asking and hoping for a place where they can contract their pro ductions at prices that will be remunera tive and where there will be no limit to the demand for either quantity or va riety. Farmers and gardeners, lets take hold of this matter in earnest and agi tate it until success crowns our efforts. A Faumib. The matter that "A Farmer" speaks of is one that should enlist capital at an early day and no doubt it will. Topeka already has a most successful pickle and vinegar factory, owned by Otto Kuehne. No doubt a cunning factory that would can corn, tomatoes, peas and other'veg etables would prove equally lucrative. The field is here, all it needs is a business-like man with capital to build and run the factory. GEN. MAHONE'S WILL. Ills Property Pretty Evenly Divided Among His Wire and Children. Petersburg, Va., March 4. The will of Gen. William Mahone, dated Decem ber, 1892, was proved today in the Hust ings court. The family residence is left to Mrs. Mahone, R. Butler Mahone and Miss Otelia Mahone, now Mrs. William McUill, to be occupied as a family resi dence as long as all remain single. The other property is pretty equally divided among the general's childreu. The es tate it is supposed will prove insolvent. If you don't smoke Sweet Moment cigarettes yoa don't get the be9L It is said by those who have heard Rev. Taylor that "the half has not been told" about his ability as a lecturer. He speaks in Topeka March 8, 9, 10, at the First Congregational church, Sunday evening; at the Baptist church on Mon day and Tuesday evenings. Kotice to Depositors. The Topeka Savings bank having de cided to discontinne business, this is to advise all persons that deposits will be paid on presentation of the bank- book; that no new deposits will be received or interest allowed on accounts after this date. Please present books, A. W. Knowi.es, Pres't. L. G. Beal, isec'y andTreas. Topeka, Kansas, March 3, 1836. Ft. Worth and Return. SANTA FE ROUTE. One fare for the round trip. Tickets sold March 7 and 8, good to return in cluding March 20. J. P. Rowmr, Citv Ticket Agent. Modern Woodmen of America Atten tion. Entertainment and ball. First anni versary celebration Shawnee camp, No. 2,800, at Hamilton hall, Wednesday evening, March 4, 1896. All Woodmen, their families, and friends are cordially invited. Anhenser-Busch's Malt Nutrine the food drink. For sale by all druggists and grocers. CLAIRETTE SOAP. w. This Great Soap makes home, home indeed. Keeps everything clean. Keeps the housewife and everybody happy. Try it. Sold everywhere. Made only by THE N. K. FAIR BANK COMPANY, st.Loui. First published in Topeka State Jour nal March 4, 1896.) Council Proceedings. Council Chamber, Iofeka. t, Kansas, arch 2, 1895. M Council convened in regular monthly session. Present, Counciliaen iirauford, Burgess, Drew, Elliott, Fulton, 1'attisou, Kouudtree, Stevens, Stephenson and Skinner 10. Quorum present, Mayor C. A. Fellows being absent. President of the Council J. T. Fulton presided. The journal of February 24, 1SU0, was partly read, when-Mr. Bradlord iuoved that the further reading be dispensed with and the journal be approved, which motion prevailed. Claims and accounts were presented and referred to the committee, who re ported the same back, recommending that the same be paid as follows; General revenue fund f 1,629 50 Fire department fund. 2,117 19 Met. police fund 1,571 0J General improvement fund. 3,195 65 Topeka avenue paving fund... 245 Uu Library fund. 59141 Extending Western ave. fuud. 237 20 Judgment fund 234 UO Total $9,821 55 On motion the report was adopted. Petition of D. O. Knisely and thirteen others, requesting that the ordinance im posing a license tax on persons engaged in clipping horses be not passed was pre sented and referred to the committee on licenses, together with the proposed or dinance in reference to same. The reports of city olbcers for the mouth of February, 1896, were presented and referred to the committee on claims and accounts as follows, viz: Report of city treasurer, police judge, food in spector, superintendent electric lights, weighmasters and dump master. Mr. Burgess, as chairman of the com mittee on coal prospecting, asked for further time, which was granted. Committee on claims and accounts re ported back the reports of city officer tor January, 1896, and recommended that the same be placed on file. On motion the report was adopted. Mr. Kouudtree introduced ordinance No. 1841, boiug "An ordinance to appro priate money," which was read the hrt nine. Mr. Bradford moved that rule 18 be suspended and the ordinance be con sidered now, which motion prevailed by the unanimous vote of the oouncil. The ordinance was then taken up, read and considered by sections. Sections one and two were read and on separate motions adopted. The ordinance was then put upon its final passage and passed by the following vote: Ayes Councilman Bradford, Burgess, Drew, Elliott, Pattisou, Roundtree, Stevens, Stephenson and Skinner 9. The title was read and agreed to. Mr. Stephenson introduced ordinance No. 1842, being ."An ordinance granting right of way to the Chicago, Rook Island Pacific Railway company, along, across and npon a certain street and alley in the city of Topeka, state of Kansas" which was read the first time. Mr. Drew moved that rule 18 be sus pended and the ordinance considered now,, which motion prevailed by the unanimous vote of the council. Sections one, two, three, four and five were each read and on separate motions adopted. The ordinance was then put upon its tlnal passage and passed by the follow ing vote: ayes Councilman Bradford, Burgess, Drew, Elliott, Pattison; Round tree, Stevens, Stephenson and 'Skinner 9. The tide was read and approved. Mr. Skinner introduced the following resolution, which was referred to the committee on streets' and walsa: Resolved, by the mayor and council, That the street commissioner be and ia hereby authorized to purchase one street grader, or road grader, for the use of the city in the first ward. THE COLUMBUS BUGGY CO, aro sailing; the Celebrated Isle asNi National Also their Own BCalto The Columbus. Folly Guaranteed. Stahl's Puncture Proof Tire a specially. P. J. ELD3URSU. Msnatcr. The 9 m m 9 m s me I Because there was no place like the home where they used Clairette a 9 Soap SOLID THROUGH VESTI3ULED TRAINS Kansas City, St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Atchison, to -st. louis, chicago, omaha, PEORIA, ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS. WITH Dining Cars, Sleepers and Chair Cars (sFer!). CONNECTIONS MADE AT St. Louis, Chicago 0 Peoria FOR Ail Points East, South 0 Southeast. L. W. Wakeley, C. P. A., ST. LOUIS, MO. Howard Elliott, Cer. Nter.. ST. JOSEPH, MO. H. D. Dutton, T. P. A., ST. JOSEPH, MO. H. C. Orr, A. C. P. A., KANSAS CITY, MO. 11 r li r 1 r Iff Vailnl III HI UUUi Is the Highest Grade of Flour t made. Ask your grocers for It.. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. .'''V Mr. Elliott introduced the following, which nn motion was adopted: Re solved, That the Sun Vapor Street Liht company be and are hereby notified that on and after April 1, 1890, the use of their lights will be discontinued. Mr. Fulton offered the following: Resolved, That the electric lights in the corridor in the city building be dis continued and that gas be substituted for same. On roll call the motion to adopt the resolution was lost. Mr. Drew offered the following, which on motion was adopted: Resolved by the mayor and council of the ci'y of Topeka That D. C. Tillot son, ex-city attorney, be and is hereby re quested to file with the city clerk a detailed statement of all moneys paid by him on account of witness fees and expenses in case ef the Kansas Natioual Bank against the city of Topeka, to enable pay ment to be made to those who are enti tled to pay from the city. Mr. Bradford offered the following, which on motion was adopted: Resolved by the mayor and council men of the city of Topeka, That the city eo eineer and street commissioner be and they are hereby instructed to cert down the grade f the Weat Side Circle rail road at the crossing of the alley between Lincoln and Buchanan streets, across Eleventh or King street, so as to allow the water to.fl.-w across the street in Urn; fOaRmo7iooeof Mr. Stephenson the coun cil adjourned to meet Thursday evening, Marou 5, 1898, at 7:3 J o'clock. City Clerk. Go