The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
April 14, 1897

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X TOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL 14, 1897. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TWO cents:- jfj J? yd A vr 1- j: 1 1 i I I: IT RAMIFIES. Evidences of Corruption in the Late Legislature Extended Farther and Farther by Each Day's Testimony. ALL KNEW A LITTLE About the Attempted Briberies On the the Various Bills. Rep. MeKeever of Shawnee Conies Out Fnseathed. 31 R. KEEFER IS SLOW To Tell Before the Committee What He Told Privately, But Finally Gets Started and Tells Considerable. A Roundabout Story That Mo. Pac. Had $50,000 to Spend. C03D1ITTEE ADJOURNS For Two Weeks to Meet Again April 27. Representative E. D. MeKeever was summoned before the bribery investigating- committee yesterday afternoon and put through an examination by Chairman Outcalt. The latter tried to discover, through admissions from Me Keever. some information concerning reports which the committee had re ceived, principal among- them being that MeKeever had received $100 for his vote against the anti-oleomargarine bill. .MeKeever, however, voted for the anti-oleomargarine bill, and he sug gested yesterday that it is difficult to see why a man should be paid for serv ices he did not render. The committee did not make much progress yesterday afternoon. The supply of witnesses having- been ex hausted, the sergeant-at-arms was sent after Mr. MeKeever, and pending- his arrival the committee waited some time. After the conclusion of his tes timony an adjournment was taken un til this morning. Do you know of any briberies or other corrupt practices?" asked Mr. Snelling. Only what I have read In the pa pers," replied Mr. MeKeever. Q- Were you offered $100 to vote against the anti-oleomargarine bill? A. No, sir. No one ever offered me money. Q. You know nothing then? A- To, sir, except that I heard, at the time, of the notes which passed between members and the book com pany representatives. Mr. Outcalt How did you vote on the ami-oleomargarine bill? A. I voted for it. Were you for it from the first? A. Well. I didn't care much about it at rust, tiut inquired among- mv con stituents and decided to vote for it, after receiving a letter from the Com mercial club of Topeka asking me to support it. The people of my district v.ere for the bill, and I represented their wishes as nearly as I could. Q- Were you offered money to vote against the bill? A. No. Mr. Boyd said one night that there might be money in it to vote against the bill. i Q. Who is Mr. Boyd A. He is a hail fellow -well met and lias lived in Topeka for several vears. He is taken seriously by very few peo ple who know him. J Did you ever say you had been offered $100? A No. Q. Did a member of the house of representatives offer you a money con sideration to vote against the bill, which caused you to change your mind and vote for it? A. No, sir. Q. Nothing of that kind transpired? A. No. sir. I promised Mr. A. K Jones of this city early in the cam paign to vote for the bill, and never had any other intention. Q- Who is Mr. Jones? A. He is in some way connected with the State Dairymen's association and was interested in securing that kind of legislation. Q. What do you consider legitimate influences to secure legislation? A. Governor Leedy's effort to secure a maximum freight rate bill. The ef l"rt of any man who uses influences that are not corrupt to secure the pas sage of a bill in which he may be in terested. What impression did Bovd-s statement, about money have on you' A. None at all. Q. What did you think? A It was -,y opinion that he never had that much monev Mr. Grimes-Is this man Bovd the one who attempted to bribe Senator Titus? A. I think so. His name is S R Boyd. He was in the loan and "col lection business in Topeka for some time and lived near me. Mr. MeKeever was excused, but may le recalled before the investigation ends. Representative Loomis, whose vote in the conference committee decided a tie vote on the proposition to appropriate money for the investigation which is now going on, was also examined. His testimony was of little importance. He could tell nothing- of attempted briberies or corrupt practices. Q. Did you at any time say that while you had not believed in the stor ies of corruption, yet your experience as a representative had removed such doubts? A. Yes, sir. Q- What led you to that conclusion? A. A man could not help using his feyes and ears. Q. Well, what did you hear? A- I was a member of the conference committee which agTeed to the appro priation for this investigation. The vote stood two and two, leaving me to cast the deciding vote. I asked Senator Jumper if he had evidence that would convict anyone in the legislature of re ceiving- bribes. He said he had. I then voted for the appropriation. Q. Did anyone try to bribe you? A. No, sir. Q. Did you hear of any attempted briberies? A. I was told there was a chance to make some money on certain bills if I wanted to. Q. Who told you? A. Representative Walters. Q. Which Walters? A. The representative from Labette county. Q. Who else? A. It was general talk. Q. What did Walters say? A. He was not talking directly to me. There was a crowd of representa tives talking in the postoffice of the house, including a stock yards lobbyist, whom I did not know. Q. Tell us what Walters said? A. That there was money in it. Q. What bill was up? A. The stock yards bill. Q. Who were present? A. There were several persons. Q. Did you meet there by appoint ment? A No. Mr. Loomis testimony developed nothing new, and a member of the com mittee, talking to another said aside: What good did it do to bring Loomis to Topeka?" Mr. Fairchild asked to make an expla nation and the opportunity was afford ed him. He desired to make a state ment concerning he testimony of the pagp Kben McCarthy, who stated that he had carried notes from Fairchild to Harry Wilson in the Veale block. Fair child said: "That note was simply a declination of Wilson's proposition. That was all.", He added a few other sugges tions to go on record and retired. Senator A. H. Lupfer of Pawnee countv. was the first witness this morn ing. He knew nothing from personal knowledge, only what had been toid him. Had heard of attempted briber ies but none had approached him. He told substantially as it had come to him. what Dr. Marks recited yesterday. Marks had volunteered the information to Lupfer. The latter told of a conver sation he had with a gentleman repre senting the American Book company. "But," said Mr. Lupfer, "if he had any intention of making a proposition to me, he was deterred by my statement to him that I was for the bill and no inducement whatever could cause me to change my mind." O.-Who -was it? A. Mr. Burton. I do not know his initials. I met him in 1S91, when as I understand he was not employed by the American Book company, but for another book company, not a member of the trust. Q. Where does Mr. Burton live? A. I think in Topeka. H. A.Keefer or Leavenworth, a mem ber of the last legislature, who keeps an office in Kansas City for the pur pose of selling second-hand railway equipment, was the next witness. Mr. Keefer said he hesitated to tell w hat he knew about men, as they would come on the stand, deny the statement, and bring upon him an attack from the newspapers and the allied forces of the corporations and their lobbyists. How ever," he said, "I have no doubt money was used. Had I shown a disposition to vote against the roalroad bill, I could have commanded $5,000. I could also have secured money tovote against the school book bill. From the action of members of my committee I am con fident money was used, although I did not see it pass. I am also confident that money was used in the stock yards transactions. Before the legislature was half over I was disgusted and wished that I was not of it. Q. Tell what led to the belief that you could have secured $5,000 for your influence against the railroads. A. The answer to that question in volves the names of men who. as lob byists were granted privileges of the floor in both houses while honest men were debarred. I do not therefore feel justified in answering. Mr. Snelling then explained the law which compels witnesses to testify or become liable to prosecution for con tempt. He said: "I insist that you answer this question." The question was read by the stenog rapher. Keefer said: "Others have been per mitted to evade questions, and I think it is unfair to compel me to impeach the motives of men. of whom I have no definite knowledge. Asked to proceed Mr. Keefer said: "I was waited on several times. A gentleman came to my room at the National and asked me if I had a price on my vote. I asked if there was a lim it. He replied several thousand dol lars. He told me I was a fool if I did not get some money out of it. Q. Were you invited to an attorney's office to consult with reference to rail road legislation? A. No sir. I was invited to the rail road offices. Q. Did you go? A. No sir. Q. Why not? A. I did not think it best. Q. Where does the man live, who came to you at the National? A. 1 do not remember. Q- What was the color of his eyes? A. I do not know. Q- What was the color of his hair? A. I do not remember. Q- Did you see the color of his mon ey? A. No sir, but that would have in terested me more than the color of his hair. Q. Since you know that this man was engaged in an attempt to commit a crime against the state, do you not think is wise to tell us who he was? A. I am willing to lend all the assist ance in my power to bring these men to justice, but I do not feel justified in telling this man's name. After some parleying Mr. Snelling aske the witness for the name of the person who had approached him at the National. A. I do not remember his name, as I have told you before. Mr. Keefer had intimated that he knew the man's name, but suffered at this moment a convenient loss of mem ory. Mr. Keefer and Senator Householder, a member of the committee were on the train out of Kansas City a few days ago. and Keefer opened his heart, tell ing Mr. Householder, it is stated, a number of sensational matters in con nection with his experience as a legis lator. "We want your evidence before the investigating committee." said Mr. Householder, "and I will have you sub poenaed.' "If you do." exclaimed Keefer, "I will deny all I have told you and will not tell anything." The following question was asked by the committee resuming its efforts to compel Mr. Keefer to talk: 9' "Who approached you on the school book bill? A. I do not care answer that. Q. V ho was it? A. I do not care to mention his name, as I might implicate a man whose mo tives were wholly honest. Mr. Outcalt. Mrs. Keefer, tell the committee this man's name. A. R. W. Turner, secretary of the state board of railroad commissioners. Q. Did he tell you how much money could be secured? A. No sir. Q. Did he say who had the money? A. No sir. Q. Mr. Turner told you money could De secured by voting against the Dili? A. Yes, sir. Q. What committee did you refer to in oeginning your testimony? A. The committee on telegraphs and teiepnones. The witness created a sensation by saying: "I want to know whether or not it is right tor me to testify before this com mittee when I feel that a membey of the committee used undue influence against legislation The four members of the committee started visibly at the thrust. Mr. Out calt said: "Mr. Keefer, tell all you know." air. Grimes I was a member of the committee to which he refera and I want him to tell all he knows. Keefer then explained that one even ing when the committee was in ses sion discussing a teleeranh and tele phone bill Mr. Grimes called Brown of .Piatt out of the room. "In five min utes. said Mr. Keefer, "Brown re- turnea and declined to join me in a minority report. Brown told me that nothing could be done when the mem bers had gone back on the chairman. Shortly after that Grimes called Arm strong of Wyandotte into the cloak room. Armstrong left town that night and carried my bill in his pocket; at least it could not bo found. Then a resolution, which was a joke from the newspaper men, passed the house, calling upon the com mittee to explain what had become of the telegraph and telephone bills. When Armstrong came back and found that the house had acted, he left town again I don't know whether Grimes had seen him in the meantime. Then the house ordered the sergeant-at-arms to print the bill and put it on the calendar. Then Armstrong got up when the bill was reached and opposed it. "I know there was undue influence used, because Davis of Wilson (Pop.), Williams of McPherson and Wallace (Pop.) received telephone and tele graph franks. It is generally supposed that Grimes and Bennett, the Repub licans, had the franks. The witness said he had gone into his committee room one day and found Dave Mulvane and E. J. Dallas wrestling with Davis of Wilson and Wallace, presumably to secure their in fluence against the bill. Mr. Snelling passed to the subject of stock yards legislation, but the witness could not remember the members of the house who had told him that Re publicans were willing to trade their votes for the initiative and referendum to secure the defeat of the stock yards ana anti-oleomargarine bills. Q. What was the deal? A. The Republicans were to deliver ten votes. Q. Who made the proposition? A. Mr. Cubbison. Q. What else did he say? A. Nothing that I remember. I will say that, in justice to Mr. Cubbison I was in favor of the trade. Q. What other conversation did you nave A. I remember that the deal finally narrowed down to a trade on the stock yards bill alone. Q. Who else talked to you about it? A. Mr. Lobdell of Lane. Q. Was anything accomplished? A. No, sir. Mr. Keefer then begged the indulgence of the committee to make a statement in justice to Representative Fairchild who, Keefer says, is charged by cer tain papers with having plenty of money since the legislature closed. He said: "While in Kansas City yester day a friend asked me if I knew Fair child, producing a clipping containing the charges of his having plenty of money and also the statement that Fairchild had paid off a mortgage of $2,000 on his cattle. The gentleman said to me that the charges were false, as he held the mortgage on Fairchild's cattle and that it remains unpaid." Mr. Outcalt then examined the wit ness, who said: "I was invited while on the Santa Fe train going home, by a man whom I do not know, to go to a certain room in the Hotel Throop, where he said I could get all the information I needed to make everybody in the legislature walk the plank and secure the passage of whatever bills I cared to present." Q. Who was it? A. I don't know. Q. What room did he tell you to go to? A. I do not remember the number. Q. Whose room did you understand was meant? A. 1 think, Balie Waggener's. Q. Was it Frank Strickland who In vited you to go to the Throop? A. No, sir. Keefer further testified that Kd Car roll of Leavenworth had told him that Balie Waggener had boasted that the Missouri Pacific had given $50,000 for legislative purposes. Asked if he received any of the money, Mr. Keefer replied "No," em phatically. Q. Did you make any overtures? A. No, sir. I misled these men to find out for my own information the methods by which the will of the peo ple was defeated. q. Who were the men who made the propositions to you? A. Permit me to say that if I might suggest the questions, perhaps I could answer them. "Who were these men?" insisted Outcalt. "Now, Mr. Chairman," said Keefer, "if the TTnited States should purchase an island in the Pacific ocean and rele gate to it for life all the lobbyists who surrounded the last legislature I might suggest some men I would like to see go there for life. Q. Who ore they? A. Bill Higgins, Oliver Hiatt and Frank Strickland. Q. Did these men approach you? A. I don't remember, but I would like to see them all sent to St. Helena for life. Q. Why did you name them? A. Because every time they cross the state they leave such a bad odor politically that they are a disgrace to the people. Q. Did they make any propositions to you? A. No, sir. Q. Who approached you on the school book bill? A. Fairchild and Davis. Q. What did they say? A. Davis wanted me to support the bill. Fairchild wanted me to vote against it. Mr. Grimes then took the -witness and there was a spirited contest be tween them in which Keefer boldly de nounced Grimes. The latter asked Keefer for the name of the man who called on him at the National. A. I decline to answer that question. I do not consider that you are compe- J tent to ask me questions and I refuse to answer. Mr. Outcalt That is not for you to pass UDon. Keefer I refuse to answer the ques tion and this committee may do with me what it may. I' will rot answer questions from a man whom I regard as incompetent to ask them. Mr. Grimes Did yen see me by -word or deed do anything wmcti was wrong Keefer was angry and looked at the floor. He recovered his composure and exclaimed: "I have answered those questions all T nronose to." Q. Who were the members of your committee? A. I won't answer and I want to say that if mv wishes were consulted I would never serve on a committee with you again. Mr. Grimes, however, proceeded with his questioning, to which Keefer replied insultine-lv and bv insinuation, finally causing Mr. Grimes to protest against "such stuff" going iato tne record. "Don't ask the questions," snapped Keefer. Mr. Outcalt Mr. Keefer.answer those questions properly. You have stated in your evidence that you would make, no "insinuations unless you had evidence to support them. "I will not answer questions from a man whom. I consider not worthy the power of asking them." Mr. Grimes Kxcept myself you had a good committee. A. I have no reason to complain against the committee. Q. Did vou show me the bill which other members of the committee eaw? A. No. Q. Was I absent? A. No. Q. Why did you not extend the cour tesy to me? A. I didn't feel like it. Q. Who killed the bill? A. The committee. Q. Did any of the committeemen a vor the bill? A. No. Q. Were all ngainst it? A. Yes, after they had seen you. In answer to other questions Keefer said his brother-in-law is the general attorney for the Western Union. Q. Might that not account for the very unreasonable bills which you pre sented? A The bills were not half so unrea sonable as the effort of the Republican party through John "Wanamaker to absorb the Western Union's interests seven or eight years ago. I think the government should own and operate the railroads and telegraph lines. "Since you have taken such pains to cast insinuations against me, do you remember the conversation you and I had." said Grimes, "up in a committee room?" A. Yes. q Did I tell you the reporters were having fun with you because you talked too much? A. I knew that at the time. Q. Did you on that day put your iionria rn mv jshoulders and ask me what in the name of cense I was doing to your committee.' A. I don't remember. Q. Do you remember that I told you I was only one of theeven members? A. Perhaps r do. Q. Did you say the committee had been seen? A. I do not remember. Q. Did you ask me why 60 me- one had not "seen" you? A. Well, I don't know. Q. You wanted to be seen didn't you? A. I can't say that is true. Q. Do you remember this conversa tion? A. Not definitely, but I do believe that it sounds very much like my feel ings at that time. Mr. Outcalt then took the witness. After some unimportant testimony Keefer was excused and the investiga tion was adjourned to Tuesday, April 27, at 9 o'clock a. m. A RACE WITH DEATH. Coasting: Down a Mountain 'With. 25, OOO Pounds of Machinery. Salt Lake, Utah. April 14. A special to the Tribune from Milford, Utah, says: The heavy mining machinery for the Delamar mines in Nevada which was sent by wagons from Milford some, time ago, is ready to be placed in the mine. The machinery was loaded on three wagons and drawn by 60 horses. poing down the canyon from Panca summit it was necessary to remove all the horses excepting six. With a rider for each horse and no chance of stop ping under three miles, the immense load of 25,000 pounds became unman ageable and went crashing down upon the teams. The procession rushed down the can yon at a terrific rate, where not a horse could make a misstep and live a mo ment. After going a distance of three miles, in which the lives of six men were in the greatest peril, the runaway was fortunately brought to a standstill without damage. HONDURAS STEPS OUT. The Government Gives TJp Every thing to a Syndicate of Astora and Webbs. New York, April 14. A dispatch to the Herald from Tegucigalpa, Hon duras, says: The Honduras syndicate, composed of prominent Americans, today received from the government valuable conces sions. The syndicate is represented by Messrs. Henry L. Sprague and Wash ington Valentine, and includes the As tors, the Webbs .and President Depew of the New York Central. The concessions which have been granted by the administration are of the most extensive nature. The Amer ican projectors are empowered to un dertake the building of an inter-oceanic railway and to establish a steamship line on the Atlantic coast to connect with New York. The syndicate may also organize banks in the republic, take measures to finance the foreign debt, collect cus toms, administer the general finances, control the mining interests of the country and arrange for all immigra tion privileges. Suit on a Paper BilL A suit to recover S7.712.77 from the To peka Capital company has been filed by tne Kemingion jrr t;omii.iiy m tne dis trict court. In the petition the Reming ton company claims that the Topeka Cap ital company executed nine promisory notes, dating frdm October 25. 1SP5 to Feb ruary 1SS6, and amounting in all to $7,712.77 and that these nctes still remain unpaid. The notes were Riven in payment for con signments of pap-sr. CRANDJUSH Of Enterprising Citizens to Put Their Names On the List of the Subscribers to Fall Festival. ONLY ONE MAN FOUND Who Believes the Fall Festival Doesn't Help Topeka. Many of the Leading Citizens Double Subscriptions. City Street Railway 300 00 Crosby Bros 100 00 Fifth Avenue Hotel 50 00 National Hotel 60 00 Cremerie Restaurant 50 00 M. F. Rigby 50 00 Warren M. Crosby 50 00 Swift Holliday 50 00 Mills Adams .Dry Goods Co 50 00 Model Store. Kemper Paxton 50 00 S. Barnum Co 33 00 Hub Clothing Co 25 00 B. F. Morrow 26 00 Dr. J. E. Minney 25 00 T. E. Bowman Co 25 00 Adams Bros. 25 00 W. C. Chaffee 25 00 Kellam Book Stationery Co.. 25 00 W. I. Miller Lumber Co 25 00 St. Nicholas Hotel 23 00 L. S. Woolverton 25 00 Charles S. Eagie 25 00 George Burghart 25 00 Thompson Bros 25 00 B. G. Walker 20 00 George Stansfield 20 00 E. B. Guild 15 00 W. S. Furman 10 00 Tayman Oberley Hardware Co. 10 00 W. B. Campbell 10 00 M. Heery 10 00 Henry Golmis 10 00 II. A. Klauss 10 00 T. P. Culley 10 00 Nick Chiles 10 00 B. F. Sim 10 00 H. Vesper 10 00 Warner Potter 10 00 Seerey Morton 10 00 Whitmere Bros 5 00 W. M. Hord 5 00 C. T. Trapp Co 5 00 W. T. Beerbohm 5 00 T. A. Beck 5 00 Total collections this year ....$1,350 00 Surplus from last year $1,800 00 Total resources $3,150 00 That was the condition of the books of the Fall Festival Committee of Fif teen when the Finance Committee quit work at noon today. Chairman Greenwald of the Commit tee marshalled his forces at 10 o'clock by sending a message for A. K. Rod gers and telephoning to C. B. Merriam. Secretary Doran was out of the city. Chairman Greenwald sighed as he started. "I suppose." said he, "that some people will think that we are trying to rob them. That is the way it is with some people. We give our time for their benefit, and they pay us back with insults." But the clouds soon cleared away from Mr. Greenwald's face, for the Committee was treated civilly every where. Business men were expecting them and as a rule were ready with their subscriptions The first halt made, by the Committee was at the place of business of Swift Holliday. Mr. Holliday told the Com mittee that he was ready. "We are willing to double our subscription," he said. "The Fall Festival is a good thing and we want to see it a success." He then took the $50 list and subscribed that amount for the firm. "A man after my own heart." said A. K. Kodgers. A sentiment which Chair man Greenwald approved by a satisfied smile. The next stop was made at the Hub Clothing company. Mr. Steinberg met the Committee and took the list of $25 subscriptions from Mr. Greenwald's hand. "Here is $25." said he. "We have decided to give that much." It took just a minute to close up business with Mr. Steinberg, and the Committee found B. G. Walker of the Walker restaurant on the street a little further on. Mr. Rodgers got hold of one of Mr. Walker's arms, Mr. Merriam took his station behind him, while Mr. Green wald stood in front and told what was wanted. If Mr. Walker had tried to run he could not have escaped, but he did not want to get away. "I gave $5 before," said he, "and I will make it $20 this time. I may do better after awhile." The generous victim was then released and Mr. E. B. Guild was visit ed. Mr. Guild gave the committee $10 last year and he was in a happy frame of mind. "I would like to give you $50," said he. "The fall Festival is a great thing for the town and it must natural ly be a benefit to every man, woman and child in the city. I will double my subscription of last year and make it $20, and I am sorry I cannot do more." Mr. D. H. Forbes had not made up his mind, but promised to notify Mr. Greenwald what his subscription will be before the end of the week. W. S. Furman said: "I do not feel like subscribing more than $10, but I will make it more if you run short." George Stansfield was found with his arms up and in a playful mood. "Just give me the $500," list said he. Chair man Greenwald began to fumble with the papers, but Mr. Stansfield changed the tide of affairs by remarking: "I guess I will make it $5." Again the members of the committee were non plussed, but the affable druggist then informed them that he would double his last year's subscription, and he did so. The Tayman-Oberly Hardware com pany was prepared for the committee. Mr. Tayman subscribed $10 and told the committee he would subscribe more if necessary. B. F. Morrow was waiting on a cus tomer, but he soon disposed of his busi ness. There were no preliminaries. "I will just make my subscription $25. gentlemen," said he. "I know the Fall Festival is a good thing and I will do all I can to help it along." W. B. Campbell of the Topeka Pack ing House market subscribed $10. The committee met Dr. J. E. Minney on the street. As a rule the commit tee has done but little work with pro fessional men, but Dr. Minney felt complimented when asked for a sub scription and put down $25. There's an example for the professional men. Contractor M. Heery was also seen on the street. Mr. Rodgers told him that the committee would expect him to give $5. "I will give $10," said Heery, "and if times were good I would make it $100. I know that the Fall Festival is a good thing." While the committee was waiting, C. B. Merriam, who was a member of the committee, took the opportunity to subscribe $25 for T. E. Bowman Co. Henry Golmis gave $10, doubling his subscription, and H. A. Klauer gave $10. Whitmere Bros, subscribed $5. Mr. Adams of the Mills-Adams Dry Goods company met the committee with a smile. "Give me the $50 list," said he. "We have just decided to give that much." This firm spent a large sum on its splendid decorations last year and will excel them this year. W. M. Hord subscribed and Mr. Beerbohm subscribed $5 for himself and $5 for his company. The next stop made by the committee was at the McLaughlin Shoe company. Mr. McLaughlin informed the commit tee that he did not propose to give any thing. "I don't believe that such a gathering does a town any good. It does not help trade, either directly or indirectly." "Other people do not seem to think so," said Mr. Rodgers. "Well I know It does not. These gath erings do not help a town." "But every man that comes here will spend something," said Mr. Rodgers. "and some one surely gets the benefit." "When you have to pay people to come here it does not pay and you can not make it pay." "Well we know Mr. McLaughlin that the Fall Festival helps Topeka," said Mr. Rodgers, "and that is what we are working for. Everyone in the city will receive more or less benefit, you with the rest but if you do not want to sgive that is your business." S. Barnum said that his firm had de cided to subscribe $35. Mr. Culley of the Kimball Piano company subscribed $10 and promised to increase the sub scription. B. F. Sim subscribed $10. Nick Chiles was seen on the streets and contributed $10 and said he might make it more. Mr. Henderson of the Kellam Book Stationery company said that the com pany had not decided how much it would subscribe. "I will make it $25 now," said Mr. Henderson, and the committee took his subscription for that amount. H. Vesper subscribed $10 without a protest and Councilman Warner did the same for his firm. Harry Seery of Seery Morton got out several fire arms In a joking way when he saw the committee coming, but he gave $10 just the same. W. I. Miller of the Miller Lumber company put down $25 and apologized to the committee because it was not more. Mr. Beck subscribed $5 and Mr. Paxton of Kemper Paxton put down $50. His firm gave $15 last year and the increase in their subscription proves that this enterprising firm knows "a good thing." The committee disbanded at 12:15 and will continue its mission tomorrow morning. SIN EVEN IN PRISON. Counterfeiting Dons Right Under the Nose of the Late Warden. James C. Stewart and C. L. Banks, two convicts of the state penitentiary at Leavenworth, were brought to this city today by Deputy United States Marshal Will Neeley and lodged in the county jail. They will be tried at this term of the United States district court on the charge of counterfeiting. Whatever else the two prisoners may be, they are original. Their counterfeit ing was conducted in the state peniten tiary, a feat never attempted before, and it was done by means of photog raphy, a way never before thought of by at least anyone in the district of Kansas. Before being sent to the penitentiary Stewart was in the photography busi ness, and when he became an inmate of that institution he was made peni tentiary photographer. While doing this work he conceived the idea Of pho tographing bank notes and working the photographs into first class counter feits by means of water colors and India ink, and this idea he managed to carry out, although a convict under guard. It is not known how long he worked his scheme, but when it was ac cidentally discovered last December, a number of the counterfeit notes were found in his possession. Banks aided him in the work of photography and was his accomplice in the counterfeit ing. Stewart and Banks were indicted by the grand jury, now in session in this city, yesterday. UNDER CIVIL SERVICE. No Change Will be Made in Pension Examining- Boards. Unless President McKinley sees fit to revoke the order of Grover Cleveland there will be no change in the person nel of the United States pension ex amining board in this city. In a letter to Dr. L. Y. Grubbs, president of the present board, received a few days ago. Congressman Charles Curtis states that all pension examining boards are included under the civil service order issued by President Cleveland, and that unless this order is revoked by Presi dent McKinley, or sufficient cause shown, none of the members of the present board can be removed. There are a number of Republican physicians in this city who want a po sition on the examining board, and a strong effort will be made from Topeka to have the civil service order revoked. Whether it will or will not be revoked remains to be seen. The present board is composed of Doctors L. Y. Grubbs, C. A. McGuire and S. N. Bur gen, all Democrats. WILD RUMOR AFLOAT. Fear of a Collapse in South. Africa Securities Depresses tne Lon don Market. London. Am-il 14. In the stock mar ket today Kaffirs or South African mining and other securities continued very flat and nervous and were gener ally lower. There were a number of alarming ru mors circulating, one of them being that one of the biggest companies was in difficulty and another referred to forced sales for a large Johannesburg speculator. Still another rumor was that the consolidated gold fields were issuing fresh capital. Thirty years is a long time to fight so painful a trouble as piles, but Jacob Mitchell of Unlonville. Pa., struggled that long before he tried De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve, which quickly and per manently cured him. It is equally ef fective in eczema and all skin affec tions. G. W. Stansfield, 632 Kansas ave. ANCEUNAMED. McKinley Appoints the Presi dent of Michigan University As United States Minister to Constantinople. ANOTHER MESSAGE. Congress Is Asked to Take Suit able Action Regarding the Paris Exposition to Be Held In 1900. Washington. April 14. The president to day sent the following nominations to Uia senate: State James B. Angell, of Michigan, to be envoy extraordinary and minWu-r p:on ipolentiiary of the L'ltlted States 10 Tur key; Geo. N. West, ot the District of "o lumbia, consul of the United State.- ac PIctow, Nova Scotia. War George 13. Meikel john. of Ne braska, to be assistant secretary of war. To be commissioners of the District o Columbia John B. Wright and John Ross. Treasury John W. Cunningham, of Idaho, as:?ayer of the United Stales as.-ay office at Boie City, Idaho. Justice Jasper P. Grady, of Indian Territory, marshal of ti-.e central district; in the Indian Territory. Navy Seligmivn brothers, special fiscal agents of the navy department at Lon don, England. War First Lieutenant E. IT. Brown, fourth infantry, to be captain: Socon.i Lieutenant P. A. "Wolfe, third infantry, to be first lieutenant; Second Lieutenant J. W. Joyce, fifth artillery, to be first lieu tenant; Corporal George. L. Byro-.vle, firsB artillery, to be second lieutenant. A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. The President Urges Suitable Action Regarding the Paris Exposition. Washington, April 14. The president today sent the following message ti congress, urging it to make suitable provisij.-. for adequate representation of the United States at the Paris ex position: To the Senate and House of Represent atives: I transmit herewith for the consider ation of the respective houses of the congress a report of the secretary of state representing the appropriateness of early action in order that the gov ernment of the United States may be enabled to accept the invitation of tha French republic to participate in the universal exposition to be held in Paris In 1900. The recommendations of this report have my most cordial approval and I urge upon the congress such timely provision for this great international enterprise as will fittingly respond t the widely testified wish and expecta tion of our inventors and producers, that they may have adequate oppor tunity again, as in the past, to fortify the important positions they have won in the world's competitive fields of dis covery and industry. Nor are the tra ditional friendships of the United Statea and France and the mutual advantages to accrue from their en.irg"d commer cial intercourse less important factors than the individual interests to be fos tered by renewed participation in a. great French exposition, especially when it is remembered that the present display is projected with a degree of completeness and on a scale of mag nificence beyond any of the European exhibitions that have marked the closes of the century. It is proper that I should urge the need of early action, for if the present session pass without suitable provision, being made, the postponement of ttui matter for nearly a year longer could but operately greatly to the disad vantage of the United States in view of the elaborate preparations already making by other governments and the danger that further dflay may result in an inadequate allotment of space to. this country as well as an Incomplete organization of the American exhibit. (Signed) WM. McKlNLEY. Executive Mansion, AVashington, D. C April 14, lsaT. FIRST STEP TAKEN. Senator Mason Offers a Resolution for the Appointment of an Expo sition Commission. Washington. D. C. April 14. The first step toward the acceptance of the invita tion from France to participate in tha Paris exposition of l'MO has been taken by this government in the following action: Senator Mason, of Illinois, offered in the senate, a joint resolution accepting the invitation and providing for the appoint ment of a commissioner general, and as sistant commissioner general, and nine scientific experts to represent the United States. The sum of $7r,0.000 is appropriated to meet the exDer.ses of the exhibit. Tlv salary of the commissioner general is fix ed at $10,000 a year, of the assistant com missioner eeneral at $7,500, and of tiia nine scientific experts at $1,500 a year each. The expenses of the commissioner and u assistant are also to be met with the sums set aside for their salaries, but separate appropriation of $25,0O0 is aiaOa to pay for the clerical assistance for iha nine experts. It is provided that these officials shall be named by the president; and confirmed by the senate. The. resolution directs the president or the United States officially to notify the governors of states of the desire of tfcf government to be represented at hi ex position and to request them to i.iKt proper steps for the representation of al the sta.tes and territories in the Unitec Slates exhibit. The resolution- also pro vides that the expert assigned to the de partment of agriculture shall hee.n ac the earliest possible moment to arrange for the collection of a suitable agricul tural exhibit THIS SHOULD SETTLE IT. Corporation Lawyers Say the Joint Traffic Association Ought to Win. New York. April 14. A conference of the board of control and a number of presidents of the trunk lines and the board of managers of the joint traffic association was held in this city today. T7-c ..n t at tTHmnnds 10 .T. Phelns and James McCarter, all of whom are counsel for the board were present. All were agreed that the association is legal and ought to win its case befora the supreme court.

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL, 14, 1897. ITS ONLTHOPE. W. J. Bryan Declares That the Only Hope Of the Republican Party Is to Secure an Agreement WITH OTHER NATIONS For International Coinage of Both Gold and Silver. Guest of Honor at the Jefferson Anniversary Banquet. Washington, April 14. The 134th an niversary of Jefferson's birthday was celebrated last niptht at the Metropoli tan hotel by a subscription dinner giv en under the auspices of the National Association of Democratic clubs. The first celebration of the anniversary of Jefferson's birthday occurred at the same hostelry. Jackson was the guest of honor and the occasion was made memorable by the presence of Vice President John C. Calhoun, and other Democratic leaders of that day. Last nierht William J. Bryan of Ne braska, the late Democratic candidate for president was the guest of honor. Senators, representatives, and others conspicuous in the councils of the Dem ocratic party were present. Many of them were from a distance. Covers were laid for 00, and many were denied seats for want of space at the tables. The decorations of the room were simple. The columns were trimmed with southern smilax and a full length portrait of Jefferson, draped with American Hags was hung behind the seat of Governor Chauncey F. Black of Pennsylvania. Upon his right were Mr. Bryan, .Representative McMillin, who acted as toastmaster and on the left Senator Jones of Arkansas, Repre sentative Bland of Missouri. Represen tative Lentz of Ohio and ex-Representative Sibley of Pennsylvania. Mr. Bryan was greeted with a lusty cheer as he entered the hall. The menu was carefully prepared and was similar to such a dinner as might have been served during Jefferson's days. The dishes were all American creations. The dinner began at 8 o'clock, an orchestra playing national airs blended with southern melodies to conform in sym plieity to the spirit of the dinner. The toasts were composed and brief ly responded to, except in the case of Mr. Bryan, who spoke at length to the toast of "Thomas Jefferson." The order of the set toasts was as follows: "Thomas Jefferson, we celebrated the anniversary of his birthday, not in the spirit of personal idolatry, but from re gard and reverence for his political principles," William J. Bryan of Ne braska. "The diffusion of information and ar raignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason," (from Jefferson's inaug ural address) James K. Jones of Ar kansas. "Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state of persuasion, relig los or politiced," Richard P. Bland of Missouri. "The declaration of Independence: An enduring monument of that devo tion of liberty and adhorrence of tyr anny which stamp the character and mark the whole course of the life of Its author," Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsyl vania. "Peace, commerce and honest friend ship with all nations entangled alli ances with none," (from the same ad dress), John J. Lentz of Ohio. "An aristocracy of wealth is of more harm and danger than benefit to soci ety," (Jefferson) Andrew J. Liseomb of Virginia. "A jealous care of the right of elec tions by the people: A mild and safe corrective of those abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution in countries where peaceable remedies are unprovided." (from Jefferson's inaugu ral address), William Sulzer of New Tork. Senator Jones, chairman of the Dem ocratic national committee, responding to his toast referred to the insults giv en Mr. Bryan at Yale college and the refusal of the students there to hear him during the last campaign. lie said: "And this in New England, the proud seat of our learning, where men in the old days would have died to maintain the right of free speech." The result of the recent municipal elections, he said, showed that the cities which in the last campaign were the strongholds of the Republicans had re gained their sense and had rallied to the standard of him who founded the Democratic party and whose motto was "Equal and exact justice to all." After the toasts had been responded to there were many impromptu speech es and it was hours after midnight be fore the dinner broke up. BRYAN'S SPEECH. Mr. Bryan said in part: "The Democratic party is strong just in proportion that it proves true to the teachings of the great founder. It is the mission of (he Democratic party to crystallize into legislation the principles which we taught. "The party applies Democratic prin ciples to the issues which arise from, time to time. For many years the tar iff question was the paramount issue Bid the party took a more advanced po sition each year until 1K92, when it de clared itself in favor of a policy which meant substantially a tariff for reve nue only. "But the president elected at that time, instead of proceeding to carrv cut that portion of the platform, forced upon public attention an issue which Jiad up to that time been secondary. Mr. Cleveland, more than any other person an this nation, is responsible for the present position which the money ques tion now occupies. It was his deter mination to complete the demonetiza tion of silver and make the gold stand ard perpetual that aroused the masses of the ("nited States to active ivsist ance. The struggle for supremacy be tween the gold standard and bimetal lism was recognized as a contest be tween the money power and the com mon people. "The explicit declaration in favor of free and unlimited coinage at 16 to 1 -without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation, was made necessa ry by the attempt of certain men to evade the preceding platforms. The party struggle which culminated In the i,iiKMBu convention or necessity alien ated a portion of the party. The party was placed in the position where it was compelled to indorse the financial poli cy of the president or adhere to the doctrines and traditions of the party. The position taken by the Democratic party in 1896 will not be surrendered. If you doubt the permanency of the Chi cago platform as a party creed, go among the rank and file of the party and measure the zeal and enthusiasm which that platform has aroused, and you will realize the impossibility of taking a backward step. "True, the present administration is seeking to turn public attention to the tariff question, but if our reasoning fr3 well founded-, an increase of taxes can not restore prosperity to the producers of wealth. If the Dingley bill brings general and permanent prosperity, the Democratic party will not be in a posi tion to win a contest by opposing it. If, on the other hand, the Dingley bill proves a disappointment to those who advocate it, our position of 18H6 will be strengthened and public attention will be riveted upon the fact that the cause of financial depression is to be found in our monetary system, "There is much in recent events to encourage the followers of Thomas Jef ferson. The spring elections indicate a growing sentiment along the lines of the Chicago platform. In fact, the elec tions which have taken place show so great a gain that the Republican party may now be considered a minority party. "It lias but one hope of escape from the wrath to come, and that is to secure bimetallism by international agree ment before the people of the nation have another opportunity to speak at the polls, while we, who believe in inde pendent bimetallism, generally regard an international agreement as neither necessary nor possible; we may well hope for success to any who may make the attempt to secure foreign assist ance. If our opponents succeed in open ing the mints of other nations, as well as their own mints, we shall rejoice be cause the condition of the people will be improved and they will be able to proceed with other remedial legislation. If. however, the Republican party, after pledging itself to secure international bimetallism, finds it impossible to ful fill that pledge, its expressed preference for a double standard will rise to con demn it, if it attempts to continue the gold standard." "ANTLERS" SEW MANAGER. George S. Elstun at the Head of Colo rado Springs' Swell HoteL Colorado Springs, April 14. Mr. Geo. R. Elstun has been made manager of the Antlers hotel here. On July 1, 1S90, the new appointee be gan his career under Mr. Barnett as night clerk. In March, 1895. he gradu ated to the position of bookkeeper and has since then acted in that capacity. Mr. Elstun was born in Duquoin, 111., about 30 years ago. In 1S90 he emigra ted to Emporia, Kansas, Having had experience in the hotel business and fa voring the popular idea which then pre vailed he located in Colorado where soon he became identified with the same interests in Colorado Springs. Subsequently Mr. Elstun was employed by Mr. Barnett. Since the inaugura tion of his services nothing but com mendation has met the efforts of his efficient services. Last June Mr. Elstun married a Miss Wilbur, the daughter of a prominent merchant of Admire, Kansas, and is now living happily domiciled on the west side. SOUTH SEA COLONT. Another Party from California Seek Plenty on a Tropical Island. San Francisco. April 14. Another colonizing expedition to the South Sea Islands will leave San Francisco soon. Its manager, A. S. Lowndes, has char tered the whaling schooner Mermaid, and he is now drumming up recruits at $100 a head. The vessel will be commanded by Capt. Alexander MacLane, widely known several years ago for seal poach ing in the Behring sea, and later for opium smuggling at Victoria. His first mate will be Capt. Quinton, who knows the South Seas intimately, and says he has selected an ideal tropical island flowing with cocoanut milk and honey. Many of the discontented who have small savings have joined the expedi tion, despite the unfavorable reports from Reichert's party.which started re cently for the Fiji Islands. ANTI-CARTOON BILL. New York Legislature to Amend Senator Ellsworth's Measure, Albany, N. Y., April 14. The Ells worth bill, to prohibit the unauthorized publicantion of portraits, is to be amended at the instance of its intro ducer so that it shall not apply to the pictures of public officers or persons nominated for public office, in so far as such pictures do not go beyond their public acts or duties. Senator Ellsworth says that it. has been his idea that without this specific provision the act would not be construed by the courts to apply to such pictures. One reason which induced Senator Ellsworth to amend his bill in this re spect is the effort that has been per sistently made to misrepresent the pur pose of the measure. This has come from the journals which desire to go on publishing the grossly improper pic tures of private persons, at which the bill is aimed. No Excuse for Going Hungry. Regular, satisfying and seasonable meals at eating houses for passengers ticketed via Santa Fe Route. Hood's is the Finest Spring Medicine Tonic, Ap petizer, Strength Builder It Makes You Eat, Sleep, Work and Happy. "We think Hood's Sarsaparilla ia the finest Spring and family medicine. I had been bothered with headache while at my work, many a time having to go home, and loss of sleep, tired all the time, and getting up in the morn ing weak. I decided to take Hood's Sarsaparilla and felt better after three doses. I kept on taking it and now I can go into the quarry and do a day's work and come home feeling well and always hungry. "VYe have also been giving Hood's Sarsaparilla to our youngest child, who was weak, lan guid and losing flesh. We could soon see a marked change. He ate better, slept well, and in a little while was like a new boy. He has continued to improve, and today is lively as a cricket, and the neighbors say he can talk more than any man around the place." Thomas White, Park Quar. ries, Freedom, Pa. Tf.B. Be sure to get Hood's because Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best In fact the One True Blood Puri fier. Sold by all druggists. $1, six for $5. are the only pills to take HOOd S HlllS with Hood's Sarsaparilla. COL. JOm HAY. TAMED BY: PRESIDENT M'KINLET AS AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO GREAT BRITAIN. CATHOLICS OPrOSE IT. The Order of Foresters "Wages War Against Free Text Book BilL Chicago, April 14. Hostility to the free text-book "measure which passed its sec ond reading in the general assembly Fri day has crystallized in the form of a con certed obstruction movement on the part of the Catholic Order of Foresters of Il linois, a body which represents the suf frages of 16,000 men. The high court of the orrier last week transmitted to the subordinate courts the following petition, which is to be addressed to each member of the. legislature: A bill now i-n the hands of the honora ble, state legislature at Springfield, 111., providing for the free distribution of school books to the pupils of the public schools, compels us to titate our attitude toward it in emphatic terms. We have no desire to attack the existing system of public schools in any way. but we do pro test against any further taxation of those citizens who not only pay taxes to sup port public schools, but, following the dictates of their conscience, i-n addition build and maintain their own parochial and private schools. We therefore con demn the bill mentioned above a.s an un necessary and therefore irrational, as an unjust, deceptive a-nd un-American meas ure. As unnecessary and therefore irrational we designate this bill, because the reason adduced in its favor, tiamely, relieving the burdens of the poor, is refuted by the fact that the really poor pupils have heretofore been and are provided with books free of charge. The bill is there fore entirely uncalled for. We designate this bill as a most unjust measure, since it provides for a-n un righteous taxation of a large part of the citizens of the United States, possessing equal rights like the rest, for a cause in whose public benetits they can in no way participate. The injustice appears the more flagrant when the fact is considered that these citizens build and main'-.'-m their ow-n parochial and private schools at an enormous expense and neither de mand nor receive any assistance what ever from the state to help them bear the burden: considering furthermore the fact tliat vast sums are. annually saved for the state by these same citizens through their parochial and private schools, who are now about to be burdened with fur ther taxation. That the bill advocates a deceptive measure appears from the fact that while it claims to provide school books free of charge to parents for their children, these same parents would have to pay for the school books by way of taxes, and would eventually pay higher prices to the sta'.e than they previously paid to the booksel lers. This bill must be branded as un-American, because it is directly opposed to tha fundamental institutions of a republic, inasmuch as duties which naturally be long only to parents are imposed oil the state, and therefore we emphatically pro test against any measure of this kind, as being unpatriotic and dangerous to the welfare of this country. Thomas H. Cannon, high chief ranger of the Foresters, says: "A free text-book law is neither expedi ent nor necessary, and the expense per capita to each family under a free text book law would be. much greater than it is at the present time. The furnishing of books free to pupils would invite the greatest carelessness In their handling by the pupils, and it cannot he denied that children as a general rule would not take as good care of that which costs them nothing as of books furnished by the purse of their parents. "There are over 75.000 children under Catholic control in Catholic educational institutions in the state of Illinois. Tho Catholic people support and maintain these schools, not onlv erecting the buildings, furnishing them with all the modern educational appliances and pavins the teachers, but also furnishing all the text-books required." A COMSTOCK IN PARIS. Notice Given of a Bill to Safeguard Public Morals in Europe's Gay Capital. Paris, April 14. M. Darlan, the minis ter of justice, announced in the cham ber of deputies today that he would soon submit a bill enabling" public mor ality to be more effectually safeguard ed. Previous to this the ministers of in struction and of the interior, replying to an interpellation of Deputy HeVen ger, said that immoral songs in the cabarets would be examined by the censor and that orders would be given to prohibit the sale or distribution of obscene papers and pictures in public places. IT ft EYE It TOUCHED THEM. The Joint Traffic Association Will Continue to So Business at the Old Stand. New Tork, April 14. An important meeting- of the board of control of the Joint Traffic association the first since the United States supreme court hand ed down its decision in the Transmis souri Traffic association case was held yesterday. The recommendations made by a number of eminent lawyers at a recent conference will doubtless be accepted. In substance, it was the judgment of the lawyers that the validity of the Joint Traffic association agreement had not been affected by the supreme court decision and the association was ad vised to continue as before. This is in line with the ideas of Chauncey M. Depew, president of the New York Central Hudson River railway, who Is also chairman of the board of con trol. It is also understood that the ques tion of inland grain rates will come be fore the meeting. Not how cheap but how good Is the way we try to do our work. Peerlesa Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th. NEW HOLY WATER FONT. St, Patrick's in New York Will TJse One Worth $10,000 Easter Sunday. New York, April 14. St. Patrick's cathedral is to be enriched this week with the costliest holy water font ever placed in a Catholic church. It is a Gothic design and cost $10,000. It ia a beautiful creation in pure Carrara mar ble. The bowl of the font Is cut from a solid piece of marble six feet square. The exterior of the font is richly carved. It was executed by Professor Fondi, a celebrated Italian sculptor, at the quar ries of S. A. MacFarland, in Carrara, Italy. Mr. MacFarland's agent in this city today said that there was no cathedral in Europe that possessed so beautiful and costly a holy water font. The arch itects of the cathedral, Renwick, Aspin wall Owen, designed the font. It is surmounted by a figure of an angel, nearly life-size, also in marble. The font is a gift to the cathedral by Arch bishop Corrigan and several friends who do not desire their identity to be known. It will be used for the first time on Easter Sunday. KNEIPP SOCIETY QUITS. Female Members of the New York Or ganization Refuse to Walk. New York, April 14. The Brooklyn Kneipp Curists society, which came into existence last year, is a thing of the past, and the officers have no idea of in fusing new life into it. There was a meeting of the society planned for this morning in Prospect park, where the big Inner lawn was. to be used, but not a member of the society put in an ap pearance, and later the former presi dent of the organization declared that he had resigned and so had all the oth er officers. The society included about 25 members of both sexes. The presi dent of the organization was Henry Moore, Jr. Mr. Moore said:: "Yes, I am out of the society and so are the rest of the officers. There is no trouble; we have simply disbanded. I do not care to give out the names of the members who signed the roll, as it was resolved in meeting that only the offi cers should be known in the society on account of the unpleasant notoriety that it would give. The young women were the first to back down from their resolve to walk. We had a few walks and would have had one today but for the fact that we could not get enough together." RAZOR BACKS DIE. Kidney Worm Kills Thousands of Texas Hogs in Iowa, Dubuque, Ia., April 14. Several thousand razor-back hogs, imported in to Iowa from Texas during the past year, have died from what was sup posed to be hog cholera. A post mortem examination of some of them discloses that instead of chol era a kidney worm killed the hogs. It is claimed that the disease is incurable, but it is not positively known that it is contagious. Fitzsimmons is said never to look In a glass. Most of us would be happier in our vanity if we did not either. Lawrence World. A CLIPPING- For Those Who Talk to the Public. The following comments on advertis ing made by the advertisement writer for the Postum Cereal Co., Lim., of Battle Creek, Mich., may interest some who have been attracted by the rather unique article from his pen: 'Make up the stories? why yes, to be sure they are dressed and trimmed some. but they are all funded upon fact. "That is, for instance, a mail carrier, clerk, lawyer, or what not with whom I may be talking, tells me his experi ence with 'Postum. His story, possibly. Is long enough for two columns of solid matter if reported verbatim. I take the main facts and boil down the talk until we can afford to run it as a pleasant bit of shop talk with our friends and customers (the public) and not bankrupt us. I always stick to the facts, as I consider that when a man advertises he simply talks to customers, and if he lies in his advertisements he will lie in the face to face chats. Tell the truth: it is more fascinating than all the romances one can spin up. When you write an advertisement try and look upon yourself as conversing with, cr explaining to, some one who wants to know about the article you have to sell. They are interested, and they want to know how near your goods will fit their needs. Tell them as plainly as possible with out exaggeration or subterfuge just what you have.and leave them to judge whether they want it or not. Don't tell them to "buy this" or "eat that." The public know what they want to do, and the duty of the "ad" writers is to explain facts in an easily understood way. First be sure you have an article of true merit, then tell the people about it. Tell them the truth and you add a goodly percentage of dignity and char acter to your business and to the pro duct you are furnishing. Wily grocers sometimes workin cheap imitations of Postum Cereal coffee if the customer will stand 1U MILLIONS MADE JWMAGIC. Standard Oil in Four Days Jumps $19,000,000. Bat How is a Mystery, for the Trust NEVER TELLS SECRETS A Boom in Yalues That Has No Parallel. Stock Paid 31 Per Cent Last Year. New York, April 14. Standard Oil is supplying Wall street with the biggest "boom" of the year. Since Saturday its certificates have jumped in value no less than 19 points and no one knows what the top-notch quotation will be. Of the secrets of Standard Oil the street knows nothing. It makes no re port, and its profits are divided in its own way, and all that the public is permitted to know is that on irregular dates the word goes forth that Stand ard Oil had declared a dividend of 10 or 15 per cent. Wall street, with all Its strategy, can learn no more than this. It asks questions only to answer them itself. Standard Oil is inaccessible. The closing bid on the curb yester day the certificates are not listed on the exchange was 294. On Saturday it was 273. And 294 is the top-notch price for the stock. Standard Oil last year paid 31 per cent in dividends on a capitalization of $30,000,000. This means that the enor mous profit of $27,000,000 was distribu ted. How much more of profit was in reserve? Wall street would give much to know, but Standard Oil books are closed. So far this year 10 per cent has been paid, on March 15. Another big divi dend will probably come in June. Whether it will be for 10, 15 or 20 per cent no one knows. The secret rests with six men, headed by John D. Rocke feller, who occupy offices in the gray granite tomb-like trust building at No. 26 Broadway. The sudden appreciation in the value of the certificates is not based alone on a prospective increase in dividends. There are rumors upon rumors of the trust's extending its territory of mar ket by arrangement with Russian oil kings, of the trust's doing this or ac complishing that, but there is no in formation to be obtained from the trust. But it takes little to encourage an ad vance in value of Standard Oil certifi cates. It is a tradition of the street that the measure of trust profits dis tributed to the public depends upon the whim of the Rockefellers. With its rec ord for enormous dividends a report of an increase, no matter how circulated or who the authority, at once causes an advance. The big jump in prices of the past three days is based on rumors and re ports. But Wall street capitalists are willing to take a chance that the trust is about to distribute an unusually large dividend, or that it has acquired a new outlet for its product which will mean such a dividend in June, or with in the next six months. Standard Oil, with all Its millions, is ruled by a committee of six. This coun cil is made up of John D. Rockefeller, president; William Rockefeller, vice president: John D. Archbold, H. H. Rogers, Benjamin Brewster and H. M. Flagler, treasurer. Not a single secret of this council has ever leaked out. There is not a possi bility of any line of policy being di vulged prematurely. The combined fortunes of the two Rockefellers will aggregate nearly $300,000,000. In their offices in the Trust building, No. 26 Broadway, the Rockefellers are well nigh inaccessible absolutely so except to their intimate friends. John D. Rockefeller's sanctum is on the eighth floor, at the front, with a su perb view of the river from the plate glass windows. The brothers are wide ly separated during the day. William Rockefeller's office being on the second floor, far at the back. They see each other at committee meetings, which are frequent, no day going by without at least half a dozen of them. They are members of all the important bodies that manage the af fairs of the company and the trust, and they devote the most of their time to the details of these. They are seldom to be found at their desks. John IX Rockefeller's private room has a large mahogany roll top desk, a ticker and a comfortable couch. Its floor is covered with a dark moquette carpet and its walls are plain, una dorned white. His two private secre taries sit outside, but within easy call. It is almost a case of Jeffersonian sim plicity. Nor can this room be called his private office, even, for Mr. Ward well, the company's treasurer (and the noted temperance advocate, as well), has his desk but a short distance off. William Rockefeller's sanctum is.like wlse, unadorned. He has but one pri vate secretary, and this Individual is hardly overworked. Few people get through the outer rooms of either of the brothers. Business matters invari ably go to the heads of the departments and from them filter through the ap propriate committees. The Rockefel lers do not touch the great public. They are barred in and Impregnable to the outer world. JUNK SHOPS OF SCHOOLS. Thrifty Habit3 Inculcated In the Ger man School Children. Washington, April 14. Consul Ger main, in a report to the state depart ment from Zurich, in regard to a plan recently Introduced in the public schools of several European cities.says: In Brussels the children attending pub lic schools were requested by their teachers to gather up on their way to and from school all such apparently valueless objects as old metallic bottle caps, tin foil, tin cans, paint tubes, refuse metal, etc., and deliver their col lection daily to their respective teach ers. In the period from January l'to Oc tober 1, 1895, or within eight months, the following amounts were collected: Tin foil, 1.925 pounds; old paint tubes, 220 pounds; bottle capsules, 4,415 pounds; scraps of metal, 1,121 pounds; total, 7.781 pounds. This apparent rub bish was disposed of and the proceeds applied so as to completely clothe 500 poor children and send 90 sick ones to recuperation colonies, and there still remained quite a balance, which was distrubuted among the poor sick of the city. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th. St. Beecham's Pills will dispel the "blues." GERMAN BANKERS OPPOSED They Will Fight Any Attempt at In ternational Bimetallism. Washington.April 14. The naming of three commissioners by President Mc Kinley under the act of the last con gress, to promote bimetallism, was the subject of considerable discussion about the capitol. Almost without exception, the selections were commended. Sena tors, regardless of party were pleased with the selection of ex-Vice President Stevenson. It appears that this selec tion was the president's own, no one appearing to urge his appointment. The president desired a Democrat who stood high in his party and who was an earn est silver man. He sent for Mr. Stev enson and after talking the subject over with him decided to make him a member of the commission. President McKinley desired that the subject of international bimetallism should be lifted above party politics and that the men selected should be those who would work in harmony toward bringing about an agreement. It was also believed by the president that the name of Mr. Stevenson would give the commission great weight abroad. Among the earnest advocates of the selection of Mr. Payne were Senators Hoar, Allison and Chandler.all of whom talked with the president on the sub ject and recommended him as a man who would materially aid the cause of bimetallism. It has been generally conceded for some time past that Senator Wolcott would be one of the commissioners, as his hardest work since the election has been in the direction of bringing about an international agreement. Senator Wolcott is very hopeful of success. He looks forward to hard work, but says from what he learned while abroad last year, he is most sanguine of results. Senator Wolcott believes that in the selection of the commission and espec ially in naming Mr. Stevenson, a silver man and one who supported Mr. Bryan, President McKinley has convinced eve rybody that he is an earnest bimetal list. Bimetallism at home and abroad, he says will be promoted by this selec tion. Opposition to the scheme for Interna tional bimetallism has developed from an unexpected source. Morton Frewen of England, who has given a great deal of attention to the subject and who has visited this country several times in the interest of silver is now opposing an international agreement and de clares that the money question is one which each nation must settle for it self. Mr. Frewen will oppose any agree ment and use his influence against the new commission when it goes abroad. Senator Wolcott said today that gold standard countries would oppose any further depreciation of silver and that efforts were now being made to prevent any further fall of silver in India, also that the demand for gold there by Jap an in establishing a gold standard would cause a drain of gold from Eur ope which would be resisted by gold countries. In the United States Sena tor Wolcott anticipates little opposi tion to bimetallism. What opposition, Mr. Wolcott says, there is comes from the German bankers of New York, who are already fighting bimetallism and whose opposition the commission will meet when it goes to Europe. A VESSEL LOST. The Samaria is Believed to be at the Bottom of the Sea. San Francisco, April 14. The general opinion in shipping circles is that some dire calamity has befallen the American ship Samaria. 28 days out from Seattle for San Francisco, coal laden. Several captains who started from Seattle at the same time are firmly con vinced that the Samaria is at the bot tom of the sea. The master, Capt. McRae, had on board his wife and two children. The other vessel which started in company with her, made the trip in 11 or 12 days. It is known that several days after the Samaria sailed she was caught in a se vere gale which Capt. Ryder of the El well declares was the worst he ever en countered. The Samaria was an old vessel, built in 1876, and it was said she was under the disadvantage of having poor shifting boards. TRUST CASE ADVANCED. Supreme Court Will Hear Texas Case U" ext Term. Washington, April 14. The supreme court of the United States has ad vanced the Texas anti-trust case to be heard on the second Monday of the next term. The law in controversy de fines trusts and declares them to be il legal. Several arrests were made un der it, but the prisoners were released by the federal court on motion for ha beas corpus. The state authorities ap peal to the supreme court. Edward L. Shaw filed a motion for a writ of certiorari to the circuit court of appeals of the ninth circuit in the case of the Mutual Life Insurance com pany vs. Nellie Phinney, executrix of the estate of Guy C. Phinney, to have the case brought to the supreme court. The case involves an insurance policy of $100,000. It was decided against the insurance company by the Califor nia federal court. MISS COUSINS SCORNS PITY Expresses Her Opinion of Her Form er Woman Suffrage Associates Caustically. St. Louis, Mo., April 14. In an inter view today Miss Phoebe Cousins said: "When 'the returns' are all in and I am stronger I shall ask for a clearer definition of my reference to woman suffrage and the 'bossism' which now rules in its ranks. But. as a starter, I want to say In reply to the various com ments which a New York paper has published, that in so far as my co-laborers are concerned their pity at the pres ent moment is entirely superfluous and void. "When I was an anguished sufferer out on the Pacific coast among strang ers and needing: the helping" hand, I re ceived not a scintilla of 'pity or so much as a postage stamp in financial aid from any of them. To put forth their condolences when I have reached the Beulah land of dear old Missouri, where women with tender and compas sionate souls enfold me with a gentle ministration and men with liberal hearts and generous hands have made it possible for me to reach both hospital and sanitarium, wherein physicians and nurses put forth their best efforts to bring me to my feet, is an exhibition that smacks of sarcasm and partakes of the ludicrous, if such past indifference can be characterized as such. "That I am not in a pine box out in an alkali hole of California is certainly not due to interested efforts within the ranks of my co-laborers, and the spec tacle of Susan B. Anthony, who had my loyal devotion and effort for over 20 years, brutally replying to my appeal that she needed all the cash for cam paign purposes, while Anna Shaw ran about the state at $50 and $75 per night, telling of the '10 cent man and $5,000 woman,' not pausing so much as one evening to reverently pay tribute to her father, who lay dead in Michigan, replying from the platfom that it was 'more essential to carry woman suffrage than to help Pheobe Cousins' will ring in the minds of California men Ions af- orrarii eumaosm. The busiest and most useful men are not always exempt from sickness. Especially are they liable to be at tacked and completely disabled by that most annoying- and painful ailment Rheumatism. Men in all walks of life are subject at any time to be seized with this disease, and besides the great bodily pain, there is almost unbearable mental anguish at the thought of hav ing one's strength and vigor gradually supplanted by a condition of utter helplessness. Under the effects of Rheumatism, the strongest men be come the weakest, and the most useful are robbed of their usefulness. Mr. J. A. LeSeur has lived in At lanta, Ga., for years, and some of the prettiest residences and most substan tial business blocks of that city are monuments to his skill as an architect and builder. a- m i it Mr. J. A. LeSetjr. But like many other busy men, Mr. IeSeur was overtaken by Rheumatism, and soon his streng-th grave way to a condition of helplessness. This dread disease produces more agony, he says, than can well be described. ''For years I have suffered with Sciatic Rheumatism and often felt as if a small piece oi my spine had been taken out, also as if a fragment of bombshell had passed through my left hip. When I would sit down, I could not straighten up for several minutes, and then only at the expense of great pain. I could get absolutely no relief, though many remedies were tried. Someone recommended S. S. S. and I was almost in despair when I began its use. In three days, however, I was so greatly relieved that I felt very little inconvenience from the rheuma tism. The disease grew less painful as I continued the S. S. S., and very soon disappeared entirely. S. S. S. also proved to be a fine tonic, as I now have more appetite, and feel better than ever before, in my life. I cannot Bay too much in praise of S. S. S." Rheumatism is a condition of the blood which has always baffled the doctors, and it is a peculiarity that those who once have it are sure to al wavs be subject to its attacks from time to time. The reason of this is that the doctors are only able to give temporary relief, but cannot rid the system of the disease permanently. S. S. S. guaranteed purely vegetable) is the only real blood remedy for real blood troubles, such as Rheumatism, Scrofula, Cancer, Eczema, Catarrh, Tetter, Contagious Blood Poison, etc. When S. S. S. once forces a disease from the system it never returns. Our valuable books will be mailed free to any address. Swift Specific Co., At lanta, Georgia. H. F. BIRD v 9 STORE 821 mm AYESIE. (With Batman k Clark.) Greenhouses I2tb and Monroe. Floral Besigsis a Specialty. 6HAY Mm OESTOHEO to its natural color by LF.K'S 1IAIX M CAM', no rive.harinlfls, pleasant odor. $1 00a bo'-t l.FE'S HAIR TOMC Minora dandruff. etoy Lair from fl line out annVromotP3 growth SI 00 a Sot f LEE M ED If. '.a NT f.'O JOti-Fulion M..N.Y 0VC JltuLrated '1 reauso cn liair on application If 9e3. For sale by Swift Holilday, E. T. Sim. Is. S. Woolverton, F. A. Snow, lee Jones. Arnold Son. THAT OLD WALL PAPER. Make your old Wall Paper look like new. W. G. Torrenee, practi cal Wall Paper Cleaner. Leave orders at J. K. JONES', 427 Kansas Ave., opp. FostofEce. Made From Old Carpets. ST. LOUIS RUG CO., 3830 Franklin Ave., ST. I.OCIS, MO. Send for price list. ter the memories of the campaign have departed." Speaking' of the World's fair board p lady managers, Mi3s Cousins said: "At the close of the fair we adjourned subject to the call of the president to be convened for final review of our entire record. Forty-three thousand dollars, which represented the receipts of the tables for bric-a-brae, was placed in Mrs. Potter Palmer's hands for keep ing. Four years have passed and we have heard neither of the principal nor interest." A it -s 4 r. Hons. Rugs

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1S97. THE NEWARK. U Topeka Shoe Co,, 5 1 1 Kansas Avenue. LOWEST PRICE WE CARRY IN STOCK All the latest and popular colors in Ladies', Men's and Children's Slices in any style toe you may desire. We Polish Your Shoes Free. TARIFF YOTFi IN SENATE. An Unexpected One is Precipitated and Hands Revealed. Washington. April 14. An unexpected tariff vote was precipitated in the sen ate by Senator Morrill's motion to re fer to the finance committee, the Vest resolution declaring- the order of Sec retary CJape as to the retroactive clause of the tariff illeerat. A yea and nay vote was taken and Mr. Merrill's motion to refer prevailed, veas 21; rnxys The detailed vote was as follows: Yeas Baker. Burrows. Carter, Clark. Cullom. Davis. Foraker, l-'rye. Galiin-g-er. Ilawley. Hanna.Ilansbrougli.Hoar, McMillan. Mantle. Martin. Xelson. Piatt of New York. PritcharJ, Proctor. Quay, gpooner. Warren. Wellington -4. Navs Kate. Butler. Cannon. Chand ler. Chilton. Cockreil. Cot-man. (Iras', Harris of Kansas, Heitfield. Lindsay, McKnerv. Martin, Mills, Morgan. Pasco, Petugrew. Pettus. PawUns. Turner, Turpie. Vest and Walthall The only Rep ublican vote east against the motion was that of Mr. Chandler, whil'- the Democrats voted solidly against it. They had the assistance of th" silver Republicans and the Popu lists present except Mr. Mantle, silver Republican of Montana. who voted with the straight Republicans. Mr. Cannon, silver Republican, and Messrs.Hutler, Harris of Kansas. Heit feld, Pettisrew and Turner, Populists, were recorded apainst the motion. Messrs. Teller and Jones and Stewart of Nevada, were absent. SHAWNEE INSANE. Forty Cases Now Taken Care of Out aide the State Asylum. The board of county ccmmissioners of Shawnee roumy have decided that the xrerf-s of the county must be redncd. 1'e.x returns are small, the county is con siderably in debt, anil retrenchment is the wonl. The ccmmisiomrs are. now work ing on a matter m vh ich i hey hop to save the county a large amount tvery year. There are at present about forty insane and idiotic persons in tnis county who have, hail guard iv-ns appointed by the pro late court, and for the care of each one of these unfortunates the comity ;ays the Kuardia-n T.O eems a lay. This amounts to J'-11 a day or something like $7.:ii"t a year. ;-7d although the .siate is supposed to reimburse the county for t he care of these cases, yet t he last legislature fell fhort in t lie appropriation to Siia wnee i-ounry about $10,000. The bill of the county for the yeti'-s 1S9G and isft.j. and a part of 1x94. was $i.S.K, and the. lpgisla Ture allowed a-n appropriation of but &00. The commissioners are now examining Into these caches, and tJtey will f-ndivor to hav tlw unfortunates cither 5fnt to the asylum, the count y ixjor farm, or discharged, from the care of tiie coutny. It is believed that some are re-.Hy -not it i need- of guardians, and can be discharged, while many others are fit subjects for the phylum. Kven it' a number of th cases fere transferred to he or.nty pcor farm, the rouiuy will save considerable by the ec: ion. The board will undoubtedly rrv-ke a ma teria! reduction in the countv's expense e-'.'ou-nt by the time, they finish their ex amination. Shawnee, county's population is large enough to require a separate and inde pendent county asylum. BORROWS 8100,000,000. Tha Naw York Central Negotiates a Big Loan at 3 1-2. New York. April T4. The New York Central railroad has arranged for the sale of $100.00t'.nno of Sti per cent hun dred year gold bonds and the Xew York Harlem for S12.ii00.000 of the same class of bonds. These bonds will be used to retire or convert the present bonded debt of the companies and will thereafter become a first lien on the companies. The Xew York Central will reserve $15,000,01)0 of its bonds for new construc tion r.fter ISO:!. It is announced that meetings of the stockholders will be held to ratify the mortgages of the Xew York Centra-'on May 2J and of the Js'ew York Harlem on May IS. Bueklen's Arnica Salve. The best salve In the world for Out. Bruises Sores Ulcers. Salt Rheum. SV, .SoresA Te"er. Chapped Hands Chilblains. Corns, and all Skin Erup tions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed 'to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by J K. Jones. Fifth and Kansas Ave. Dandruff forms when the glands of the skin are weakened, and if neglect ed, baldness is sure to follow Hall's Hair Renewer is the best preventive Asphalt Paving. I am prepared to lay street pavements, sidewalks, drive ways, floors, etc., of Natural Asphalt from the Indian Terri tory, at reasonable price. ESTIMATES HKMSHKB. J. BHADLEY, Mgr. lo East Firtti Street. TOPEKA JKAXKAB For Thursday Friday and Saturday We still offer that fine line of Men's 4.25 Shoes For $3.35 AJso our fine line of ladies' 3.50 Shoes For $2.98 SHOE HOUSE. OUR, $2.48 SHOE. BRYAN IS PLEASED. The Personnel of the Bimetallic Com mission Suits Sim. Washing-ton, April 14. Spsaking- of the president's appointment of commis sioners to foreign countries in the in terest of an international monetary conference, Y"m. J. Bryan said he thought the personnel cf the commis sion was excellent, so far as Mr. Ste venson and Mr. Wolcott were concern ed. Mr. Payne he did not know. "Mr. Wolcott's visit abroad last sum mer," said he, "especially liis him lor service as one of the commissioners, and Mr. Stevenson's conspicuous posi tion in the Democratic party and the nation makes his appointment entirely appropriate. The fact that he is a bi metallist and actively supported the Democratic party in the demand for independent action by the United States, instead of being an argument against him, will lend weight to his influence as one of the commissioners. "All independent bimetallisms favor international bimetallism, if that is possible, but do not believe in waiting for other nations to act. The six and a half millions who supported the de mand for independent bimetallism will hearty rejoice if the commission is able to bring about a restoration of in ternational bimetallism. But a large majority, if not all independent bi metallists regard international bimetal lism as a very remote possibility. If the commissioners fail to secure an in ternational conference, or if successful and an international conference does not secure foreign co-operation for the restoration of bimetallism, the cause of free silver will be stronger in 1H0O than in ISftG, because many who have inclin ed to rely on foreign aid will see the necessity of self-reliance on the part of people of the United States." MOMICELLO WILL BE OPEN Visitors May Sea it at All Times Though, the Owner Will Not Sell It. "Washington, April 14. W. J. Bryan Tias received a letter from Jefferson I-evy, owner of Monticello. Jefferson's old home, saying he doe.-i not desire to part with the place. He assures Mr. Bryan the place will be open to visitors at all times. Mr. Bryan had written Mr. J,evv ask ing if he would convey t"ie home "to the national govern men t, the folate of Vir ginia, or some association like that which controls Mount Vernon. S. B. BRADFORD'S RECORDS. Request From Judges that the State Accountant Examine Them. Governor I-xedy lias received a letter from the judge of the northern depart ment of the court of appeals, asking that Stale Accountant Riggs be instructed to make an investigation of the records and accounts of t i ie department daring the period in which R. B. Bia-Jford of this city served as clerk. The letter .states that an investigation i.- Jiecessarv in or der to enable i.'ie present clerk to deter mine what distribution to make of the fees now collected ii cases which are tiled during Bradford's term of office. 'lite siate accountant will probably ake up this work in a few d;v--t. The judge.s decided to have this investigation made seme time ago in the event that Mr. Bradford did ioi furnish a statement of the standing of all accounts of the court to the present clerk. So far Mr. Fradlord iia.s failed to furnish the de.sired informa tion. WATER AT LEAVENWORTH. It is Higher Than at Any Time Since 1891. Leavenworth, April 14. The river has risen one foot since yesterday and at noon at 4S.S is higher than at any time since is:a, when the Pontoon bridge wot out. The banks have begun to overflow at some points, and this morning carrted out a p-ortion of the Rock Inland track across in Plat te county. That road and the Chicago Qreat Western have been compelled to use the Burlington tracks between Leavenworth and Beverly Junction. A Sparring Exhibition. The pugilistic and athletic element in this city will be offered a couple of hours' entertainment at the Crawford Opera House next Saturdav evening, when Jack MoAuliffe. the i'ghtweight champion of the world, will give a sparring exhibition with H?nry Pep pers, the champion California middle weight. The two pugilists are now touring the west giving exhibitions of their skill. Besides the McAuliffe Peppers exhibition, local talent in the pugilistic line will take part in the en tertainment. The prices will be $1, 50 cents and 25 cents. The Camera Club's Work. The members of the Topeka Camera club met in the rooms of the club last evening to inspect the set of lantern slides contributed to the American Lantern Slide Interchange by the Frankford club of Philadelphia and the Camera clubs of Glens Falls. N. Y., and New Britain, Conn. The slides are of very good quality, among them being a number of views from Arctic Si beria and some from Eavpt. The larger number however, are of the points of historic interest in Connecti cut and Xew Hampshire and of the picturesque upper Hudson. Dirt to give away at 513 Fillmore st THE AIRSHIP FROMKANSAS. Chicago Inventor Is of the Be lief that Chas. Clinton Of Dodge City, Is the Maker of the Ship SEEN BY CHICAGOANS. Saw the Kansas Man's at Patent Office. Flans Cigar Shaped, Has Wings and Two Ejgines. Chicago, April 14. Oscar D. Booth of l.r8 South Peoria street, who himself claims to have solved the problem of aerial navigation, firmly believes the strange object seen by Chicagoans is indeed an air ship. He thinks the mysterious craft was made and is being operated by :n in ventor named Charles Clinton, residing near Dodge City, Ford county, Kan sas. The air ship theory set forth in Clin ton's patent papers on file at Washing ton, is a true though bungling solution of the problem, according to Booth. The fact that the curious object was first seen in Kansas strengthens Booth's be lief. The Chicago inventor has not seen the aerial shii, but wants no further proof than the word given by eo many reputable citizens. "Why couldn't it be an air ship?" he said testily. "The reason so many peo ple doubt the reports is they do not be lieve in air ships. Aerial navigation is possible. It is easy, and in a few weekn I will prove it by myself flying far above the earth. "That a machine has already been launched and is even now soaring through the air, I have little doubt. Why, various persons have seen the wings and the cigar shaped car. They are not all fools, r.nd the reports come from so many places, too." Referring to the Kansas ship, Booth spoke good words for his rival. "His machine is practical, I am sure. When I first read of the air ship being seen over Kansas, I ran through the papers in my possession to see what in ventor resided in Kansas. I found the plans which this Ford county man has filed. He has wings, or large, propell ers, p'-'ced at both ends of his cigar shaped car, and has two engines. Ab-ive is a balloon. The general shape of this machine corresponds with the descrip tion given of the oiv? flying over Chica go. It is likely the same one." "Do you not think it unlikely a man could build and launch -his machine in the air and keep it secret?" "Not at all. I judge that the flying machine seen over Chicago is one made only for a trial trip probably a small one. "It would be very easy to take a me dium sized ship to a secluded place, put together the parts and start it off. Now, with my invention" and when he said "my invention" his eyes brightened and he talked more rapidly "I could leave Chicago without a soul knowing it. My car is but nine feet long, and could eas ily be drawn to some quiet spot." Booth expects to be cutting the clouds side by side, perhaps, with his Kansas rival, within a month. 'I have everything ready but the bal loon." he said, and anxious to prove his words, he showed his visitor his inven tion. Car and frame work were in place. Large frames for wings fanned the air as though chafing at delay. A little engine was complete and ready to perform its mission. As soon as Secretary F. H. Benjamin of the Booth Flying Machine company returns to Chicago from Montana which will be within a few weeks New York parties will be ordered to commence work on the balloon, which forms an upper part of the machine. The start for the trial trip wiil be made not later than the end of May. TEACHERS AT HORTON. Northeastern Association to Convene April 15-17. Tlorton. April 14. The Northeastern Kansas Teachers' association convenes here April 15 for a tl-u-ee days' session. A lcrge. attendance of teachers is prom ised. Following is the programme: THURSDAY EVENING. Address of welcome Pres. J. E. Dyche Response Prof. D. A. Evans Lecture "Wyandotte Caverne," FRIDAY. APRIL 1. Dr. Robert Mclnfyre. Chicago. Paper, "The Teacher and the State," W. D. Kiiiin, Holton. Discussion Mis Anna Bowman, Leaven worth; E. J. Benton. Holton. Paper "Practical Child Study," J. H. Gloli'elter, Atchison. Paper, "Child Study in the District School" J. W. Stout. Topeka. Discussion Ethel Mct'c-rtney, Valley Falls, D. A. Chapman. Wetmore. Ernerimental Science in Elementarv. Schools B. F. Eyer, Topeka Pi.per, "Tii Hipth School Curriculum," Geo. E. Rose. Kansas City. Discussion L. B. Morgan,- Sabetha; C. A. Sliively. Atchison. Paper,.. "The Ethics of Our Profession," Guy P. Benton. Baldwin. Discussion J. G. Schotield, Seneca; S. J. Hunter, Lawrence. Numbers i-n the School (a; In Primary Grades.J. H. MeBride, Topeka. (b) In Intermediate Grades, Miss Joie Rivard. Leavenworth. (c) In Grammar Grades, H. M. Means, Everest. Language in the School (a; In Primary Grades, Eliza.beth Orem, Centralia. (b) In Intermediate Grades, M. E. Pear son. Kansas City. (c) In Grammar Grades, Miss Maud Myers. Xortonville. Lecture. "Our Citizenship and Our Pub lic Schools." Chancellor Draper, III. SATURDAY. APRIL 17. Pr.per."How and What Should Pupils Uead?" Supt. l- P. Smith. Lawrence Discussion Charles V. Norman, Troy; M. D. Wellner. Onasa. Paper "The New Course of Studv," Ex-State Supt. Stanley. Discussion C. A. Strong, Seneca; J. E. Pears, Lawrence. BARBED WIRE PHONES. Three Jliines Now Working Success fully on the Taylor farms. Abilene. April J4. The telephones at Pe&rl over the barbed wire fences of the Taylor farms are now in working order, after three years of preparation u.nd ex periment. P'rora J. H. Taylor's to Clar ence Taylor's, one mile apart, was the first line, the wire being plain barbed fence wire stapled to posts. As soon as success was assured two more instruments were ordered one for the raiircc-1 station at Peer! and one for the residence of T. E. Taylcr, one mile from Pearl. High poles carried the line over roads and the few spaces where there are no wire fences. Glass insula tors were put on the. high poies so that in case it was found necessary to insu late all the way through, tha.t much would have been done. The bringing of the two bouses into communication with the railroad station was of great benefit to Clarence Taylor, who was thereby able to conduct his business quickly and conveniently. Be sides operating a la.rge farm four and a half miles from Pearl, he is a dealer in live stock and grain, and owns a coal yard and other enterprises at the station, j. H. Taylcr carries on a large farm and breeds fancy cattle, and is manager of a cheese company with a factory on his place and others at Herington, Dillon and Carlton, with which, by means of the tele phone line he ccji always have teie graphic communication. To the women on the farm it is a great boon. By means of it they feel a.s close as if they were together in one room and when their clocks step all they have to do is to call up the depot and get the cor rect time. Important news from the out side world is also telephoned to the peo ple on the farms. LETTER FROM C. B. HOFFMAN. Says that All the Professors at Man hattan Were Not Dismissed. I see in the edition of April 12 under the caption "Wholesale Removals," a statement concerning the removal of professors at the Kansas State Agricul tural college, which is incorrect. For instance, you say that among those who were dismissed were Profess ors Kedzie, Winchip, Brown, Hitchcock and Graham. These have not been dis missed, but will continue in the service of the institution, except possibly Mrs. Kedzie, who has so far not signified her intention to continue. The board has not dismissed anyone except that it elected Professor Thos. E. Will, A. M., a graduate of Harvard, president of the institution, in place of Geo. D. Fairchild, LL. D., who declined to accept the presidency at the hands of the present board of regents. No charges were brought against Professor Fairchild, and while there may be some truth in the charges made in yours of the 12th inst. against said gentleman, the board took no cogniz ance of them. It is the intention of the board to make the institution efficient in every department, and partisan politics will have no place in the curriculum or in the methods of teaching in the future. In the interest of accuracy and facts which the people are entitled to know, I trust you will publish the above. Yours respectfully, C. B. HOFFMAN. MABYSVILLE TURNERS I To Send a Class to St. Louis National Tourney May 5. Marysville, April 14. Tt is expected the national tournament of German societies which meets in St. Louis May 5 to 10, will be the largest meeting of the kind ever held in this country. Under the leader ship of Carl Hanni, the Marysville Turner society will send a clues to compete for prizes as follows: Carl Hanni. leader and teacher: George Hoerath. Henry Langlitz, Benjamin Frlseh, Mitchell Herbolsheimer, Hugo Hohn, George Mohrbaeher. Wm. Krae mer, Frank Knipp. Eritz Moeiler. Wm. Barks. August Kaemer, Henry Mueller and Erske Davis. The Marysville Tum verein ht a total membership of 120. in cluding a class of twenty-eight young ladies. They have sent a class of active Turners to every national tournament and expect to return home with several ftrst prizes, as tliey ha-ve been successful in other annual tournaments of the Turn ers. The Marysville cIliss and their friends will charter a special car from here to St. Louis. G. A. R. MONUMENT. Conway Spring3 Veterans to Honor Their Soldier Dead. Conway Springs, April 14. The G. A. R. post of this city has let a contract for a monument standing eleven feet above the surface of the ground. It will be com posed entirely, base excepted, of the best of Vermont marble, and the engraving will be something out of the ordina-ry. On the face of the. base will be a com plete list of the departed members of the G. A. R. post at Conway Springs, and just underneath will be six large, cannon balls stacked one upon another, with two large cannons surmounting the entire si balls. On the right side of the base will be engraved W. R. C. There will be other engriivings upon the stone. HIS KANSAS BONDS. Myron T. Herrick, an Ohio Capitalist, Goes to Medicine Lodge. Wellington. April 1 i. Myron T. Herrick. president of the Society for Savings of Cleveland, and one of the most prominent capitalists and politicians in the. state of Ohio, has arrived in the city on a Lake Erie Western special car. He was ac companied by his fa.ther and sister, who came to pay a visit to the family of Judge Herrick of this city. He left this morning in company with Judge Herrick for Medi cine Lodge, where he goes to look after Barber county bonds, in which his insti tution is interested to the extent of about $2t)0,0u0. DEMOCRATIC EDITORS Hold Their Annual Association at Lawrence Elect Officers. Lawrence. April 14. The annual meet ing of the Kansas Democratic Editorial association closed last night with a ban quet at the Eldridge house. It was voted to hold the next annual meeting at Jola. and the following offi cers were elected: President, L. L. Pur cell of the Lakin Index: vice president, V. J. Lane of the Wyandotte Herald; secretary, J.B. Goshorn of the Iola Sen tinel: treasurer, J. K. Watrous of the Burlington Independent;executive com mittee, Warran Knaus of McPhcrson; W. E. Timmons of Cottonwood Falls, and J. T. Herman of Ola the. ?EOM KANSAS TOWNS. General and Personal News From All Over the State. EMPORIA The board of regents of the stale normal school met yesterday and organized as follows: President, M. F. Knappenberger of Jewell City; vice president J. H. Richie. Cherry vale; treasurer. S. H. Dodge, Beloit; (secre tary, John Madden, Emporia. ATCHISON An attempt was made to reopen a gambling house in Atchison last nighl. The police got wind of it and raided the place, releasing those caught with a warning. The gambling houses in Atchison were closed a month ago. WELLINGTON J. V. Cunningham, the Texas deputy marshal who killed J. B. McMahon, proprietor of the McMa hon circus, in the Manhattan hotel in Wichita recently, will be tried on the charge of murder in the first degree in this county on change of venue. Hous ton Marum of Woodward. O. T.,have been retained as counsel for the ac cused. Real Estate Transfers. The following real estate transfers have been filed with the register of deeds: J. Thomas to Annie E. Shaw for $1. 200, a tract on Van Buren street ad joining the city park. J. E. Davies to J. IT. Kane for S1.800 lot 627 and the south half of lot 625 Lane street. Martin Dennis' addition. Daniel Hogan of Mound City, 111., tr D. J. Trickier of Chicago. lib, for Jl and other considerations, lots 2. 4, 6 and S, Kentucky avenue, Highland Park addition. Broken edge collars made smooth 10J Peerless Steam Laundry. RAILR0AD NEWS. The A. P. Surgical Associa tion Honor Dr. Itaster, Present Chief Surgeon of the Santa Fe. CHANGE TIILlIt NAME. Organization Now Known as tlie liaster Surgical Ass'n. Mo. Pacific Roads In Kansas In Prosperous Condition. Txf Vegas. April 14. The Atlantic Pacific Surgical association met at the office of Dr. A. B. Ealy, Kingman, and the following surgeons and doctors along tiie road were present: Or. T. O. Cornish, chief surgeon, Albu querque, M.; Dr. J. P. Booth-, local surgeon, Needles. Cal.; Dr. C. F. Roberts, local surgeon, Williams. Ariz.; Dr. E. D. Jlarpe', local surgeon, Gallup, N". M.-; Dr. F. A. Childs, local surgeon. Ash Fork, Ariz. Dr. A. F. Ealy, local surgeon, Kingman, Ariz. The wives of Dr. Corn ish e-nd Dr. Harper accompanied their husbands. After many scientific points bearing on their profession were dis coursed, the following resolution was un animously adopted: Whereas, Chief Surgeon Kaster has beer promoted to be chief surgeon of the Santa Fe railroad; and Whereas, This promotion tiiw necessi tated his removal from our midst, bo it therefore Resolved. That the members of the At lantic Pacific Surgical association, an organization created by Chief Surgeon Kaster, in regular meeting convened, while regretting the loss which his moval entp-ils. rejoice at his deserved pro motion and iieartily commend him to tha officers and employes of the Santa Fe railroad as a brilliant surgeon, a pains taking gentleman and u warm-hearted friend. Resolved, That as a slight token of re gard for our ex-chief. the name and style of this organization be changed to that of the. Kaster Surgical association of the Atlantic Pacific railroad. Resolved, That these resolutions be spreal upon the minutes, and a copy of them forwarded to Dr. Kaster. JAMES P. BOOTH, M. D., 1-iOcal Surgeon. Needles, CaJ. CHAS. F. ROBERTS, M. D., Local Surgeon. Williams, Ariz., E. D. HARPER. M. D.( Local Surgeon, Gallup, X. M., Committee. On motion. Flagstaff was selected as the next place, of meeting, which will be the first Wednesday in June. BLACKLIST PASS LENDERS. The Pennsylvania Koad 'Will Stop the Loaning of Passes. Philadelphia. April 14. The Pennsyl vania Railroad company has determin ed to break up the practice of transfer ring passes, whether for a single trans portation, or annual pass. For some time past there have been a number of cases reported to the officers of the company relative to the abuse of the pass privilege. The most trouble came from politicians and it was done to such an extent that orders were issued to take up all passes whenever they were presented by any one but the owner. During the last month there have been a number of passes taken up by the different division train conductors and notwithstanding orders have been issued to those who were suspected, warning: was not taken and the conse quence is they are now minus the courtesies of the Pennsylvania Railroad company. Whenever a pass is taken up the owner will be put on the black list and no further courtesies of this kind will be extended to him. The principal trouble is said to tie caused by some of the representatives at Har risburg. who it is alleged are con stantly loaning their passes. "KATY" FLYER OFF. Fast Train From Senison, North, to Discontinue Sunday. Galveston, April 14. It is announced from Dallas, that, beginning next Sun day, April 18, the Missouri, Kansas Texas railway company will discon tinue the Oalveston-St. Louis train, known as the "Katy flyer." This is really a local train through south Texas but from Denison north it is a veritable flyer, stopping only at the more im portant points. Strange as it may seem the taking off of this train will be a benefit to Galveston, and a railway offi cial explains it this way: "If the flyer is taken off and I have no official knowledge yet that it will be the two local trains now being run by the Katy will be pushed on through to Galveston. So that, instead of one train out and one in at hours haTdly suitable to local business, we will get four trains, two each way. at more season able hours. This will put the Katy in line for local excursion business to Gal veston this summer." NO USE FOR THE OFFICE. City Will Not Pay for a Police Sani tary Officer. The appointment of a sanitary ser geant by the board of police commis sioners will be the first breach between the commissioners and the city council. The board has already gone far beyond the demands of previous boards for improvements at the city jail and the council has shown a disposition to grant what they have asked but the city fathers will insist upon one thing and that is on the exercise of economy by the commissioners toward which the board shows no inclination. There is about as much use for a po lice sanitary officer as there is for an extra wheel for a wagon. When Fred Hudson acted as sanitary officer under the previous Populist administration his principal duties consisted of draw ing his salary. The sanitary force working under the supervision of the board of health is large enough and competent to take care of all the work in that line. These officers are respon sible to the city physician and board of health while the officer appointed by the police commissioners is answerable only to the commissioners who certain ly know little about sanitation, and who from the nature of their office, can pay little attention to it. Councilman Elliott of the Third ward in discussing the action of the board said: "We will see whether a sanitary officer appointed by the police commis sioners will get any pay from the coun cil. The law provides for the appoint ment of a sanitary officer in cities of 40.000 inhabitants or over, but that does not apply to Topeka. There is no use of a police sanitary officer and we do not propose to have one if we can help it." No one knows why the law authoriz ing the appointment of a sanitary ser geant by the police commissioners was passed for that is a line of work that is entirely outside the province of the po lice department. DENNIS MADDEN SAW IT. Prominent Emporians Sure that They Witness an Air Ship's Flight. Emporia, April 14. What was sup posed to be the mysterious air ship passed over Emporia Saturday night fibout 9 o'clock. It was first seen by Willie Puffer, a boy who was returning from choir practice at the Episcopal church. He ran home and called his parents to the door to see the "air ship." Wm. Puffer, his father, who is one of the best known citizens of Emporia, laughed at the boy.but went to the door when he was surprised to see, almost overhead, but very high, either a, clus ter of lights or one large light in the shape of a letter A, which was moving rapidly in an almost westerly direction, almost in the teeth of a very strong: northwest wind. Mr. Fuffer is positive that the light, or lights, were not such as could have been made by any large toy paper bal loon or by a lantern fastened to a kite. He is also positive it was neither a planet nor a meteor. Mr. Puffer sent word to a number of. his neighbors, who also saw the aerial visitor. Among them, besides the members of his own family, were the families of Mr. Mckenzie, one of the best engineers on the Santa Ee road, and Dennis Madden, brother and law partner of John Madden, late candidate for congress against Charles Curtis. Mr. Madden today corroborated what Mr. Puffer said, except by the time he had been called the light was so far away that he could distinguish no par ticular shape to it. He described its movements as something irregular, seeming to drop a short distance and then move on in a straight line until it disappeared seemingly beyond the fir mament or behind some trees very far away. He. is also satisfied that what he saw was not a planet, a meteor, a star or an illuminated toy balloon. Cruel Injustice. J "The charge against you, prisoner," said the magistrate, "is that you were caught in the act of purloining haberdash ery. "It ain't so, y'r honor," sniveled the abject wretch, "an do cop knows it. All I wuz doin wuz stealin neckties." Chicago Tribune. Misnamed. "Lemme see. That play of yours was called 'A Cup of Tea,' wasn't it?" "It was, admitted the returned come dian, "but it ought to have been called 'A Cup of Coffee.' At any rate, a few eggs settled it." Cincinnati Enquirer. Pat's Anxiety. Doctor Now, Pat, I'll cure yon if you'll only take the medicine I prescribe. Pat Go ahead, sor. Oi'rn thot anxious to be well ag'in that Oi'd take yer medi cine aven if Oi knowed 'twould kill me. Philadelphia Record. She Looked It. Dora That Miss Passea's great-grandfather came over in the Mayflower. Flora Did she come with him? Brook lyn Life. The Csefnl Compliment. Always pay a compliment whenever it is possible. You may want to borrow money some day. Somerville Journal. Legerdemain. ""What's tho 'urry, Jimmy?" "Can't stop, sonny. Just been 'elpin a onjurin chap make a old gent's gold watch disapiear. Pick Me Up. F. Q. Ijogan's Grain Letter. P. G. Logan's Grain Letter, furnished Goodwin Chamberlin, Brokers, Topeka, Kan. Chicago. April 14. WHEAT Cables tUis morni-n. notwith standing: our yesterday?? weakness, came in with an advance oi" d. There were people iiere who believed this was brought about by buying orders from this side by same interests who were heavy sellers at opening. As heretofore, however, at l7 and below, the market found support and the fact that foreign orders were here and at seaboard and that ocean tonnage showed a hardening tendency, brought the trade to the conclusion that in ad justment of things foreigners were after more wheat, especially as Minneapolis millers were reported to have sold about HX'.OOO barrels flour again yesterday o-n top of extraordinary sales on the day previous of twice the amount. Milwau kee reported good demand for flour with some foreign r.?ceptanres. 100. ml:) oart wheat was reported taken here and forty load.s at Xew York. Four ports and Xew j Orleans cleared r,r,0TH. Primary market receipts 430.000 of which 365.00 were at lHilmh and Minneapolis! shipments 27.000. j CM. OOo cash wheat was reported taken at i Duluth today, while foreigners bought wiieat at opening in Xew York. St. Louis j reported receipts there almost nothing. disappointing tnose w.io nave been ex pecting an increase in receipts in April. Our second Liverpool cable was steady at i2l decline, but had no effect on the mar ket. A proposition was brought before the board of trade, yesterday to confine speculative trade to Xo. i! red winter or Xo. 1 northern, wbich will probably meet with considera ble opposition. All foreign markets for grain twid stocks olo3 as us ual from Thursday night until following Tuesday, over Kaster holidays, so thai after tomorrow we shall have no news from those sources. As indicated yester day, we think there has been better huv- Uf? for past two days thcdi heretofore. bnouiu consumptive dcraatia continue prices will likely do better. ('ORN Was attacked early on more favorable weather and elevator people were free sellers. On the decline, how ever, good buying was reached, and esti- f mated receipts for tomorrow the smaJiest for some days. There is no export busi ness but bids are close to the market. The cloe was firm in sympathy with other markets. OATS Followed wheat and corn with considerable selling on a report circulat ed that with present weather seeding the country over would be soon completed. Think th?s an error as we know of loca tions in Wisconsin where it has not vet begun. Fair cash demand. Receipts however, only enough for loca.1 trade. Market closed firm. PROVISIONS-Were weak and lower early wich good local selling, uJthough volume of business large. On declin es sellers of yesterday were buyers. Tiiere seeniH to be very little. May stuff offered today. Cash trade fairly good. Estimat ed tomorrow 25,000. We rattier look for lower prices. To be troubled with drowsiness indi cates the need cf Ayer's Sarsaparilla. THE GIN DUKE. E I Expected to Succeed the FnMnt Governor General of Canada. The state of mind which the Canadian prohibitionists are in can better be im agined than described since it has been announced that Lord Aberdeen, the present governor general, is to be suc ceeded in June by the Earlcf Leeds, the great "gin duke" cf England. There is really little cause for alarm however. The Earl of Leeds is by no means a dis sipated young man, as his nickname might imply. It is only because he owns great distilleries which earn for him an enormous income that he in famous throughout the United Kingdom as the "gin duke." The duke is a most popular man and has already had quito a brilliant career, though only 34. He once sat in com mons as member for Brixton. The queen is very fond of him, and for several years he acted as treasurer of the royal household. He owns Hornby castle, a fine estate in Yorkshire, where he enter tains lavishly. The Duchees of Leeds is a handsome and clover woman, tall and stately, like her husband. She is tha mother of four little girls. Osborne is the family name of the new viceroy, and he is the ninth Duko of Leeds, so, you see, his family is au ancient one. Tho history of the founder of the house reads like a story in a Suu- th T ?t 1 DUKE OP LEEDS. i day school book. The original duke be-J gan life as a merchant's apprentice and won his master's favor by diving into the Thames to rescue his daughter from a -watery grave. Of course the girl was an only child. She grew np and mar ried the apprentice, who succeeded hia father-in-law in business and in time became lord mayor of London. The present duke's name is G-eorge Godol phin Osborne, and about a year uga lie succeeded to the title on the death of hia father. IN BEHALF OF GOOD FOOD. Bliss Sickles Wants tlio Government to Teach Domestic Science. iliss Emma C. Sickles is what might be called an aggressively industrious young woman. It was not so very long ago that she was out on tho Dakota plains trying to civilize Indian children and instill in their untrained minds a respect and liking for honest labor. Now Misa Sickles has changed the scene of her en deavor. She has dropped the hopelessly lazy young Indians and has set abend the task of reforming the habits of the American housekeeper. Sometime ago Miss Ciokles establish ed herself in Washington and started classes in what she calls domestic sci ence. She thicks that housework is of sufficient importance to human happi ness to be done in a scientific manner. Perhaps her progress in this direction has been slower than she expected. At any rate Miss Sickles has determined that she must have help to spread the new evangel of the kitchen. Being a young woman of resource and courage, she has applied for aid to the United States congress. She wants a bureau of domestic science established in connec tion with the department of agriculture in Washington. Miss Sickles has organized in Illinois a domestic science association, and re cently the executive committee of this organization sent to the National Farm ers' Alliance and the National Farmers' Council resolutions setting forth tha aims of the domestic scientists and de claring that, as the ultimate oVject of agriculture was the production of proper food for mankind and that "food raised with skill is often ruined through igi.o-

Jilt MISS EMMA C. SICKLES. ranee in preparation; therefore, be it re solved that departments of domestic ccience should be established at the vari ous state agricultural fairs and colleges throughout the country where the bet methods and appliances for the prepara tion of food shall be exhibited." Both organizations have replied favorably, and the cooking school may become an institution at state fairs. Miss Sickles is a Massachusetts girl and was educated at Mount Holyote college. She went west aDd taught school among the Indians. She became the hero of the Pine Ridge uprising and was given a modal of honor by La Sava teur society of France. if V if M

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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAI WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL. 14, 1S97. The State Journal TWENTY-FOURTH TEAR. BY FRANK P. MACLENNAN. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Eally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same- prlca In any Kan Baa town where this paper has a carrioJ system. mail, three months 90 By mall, one year S.63 Weekly edition, one year 6 PERMANENT HOME Topeka State Journal Bu'.laing, 800 and US Kansas avenue, corner of Eishtb. TELEPHONES: BusSness Office Bei! 'Phone 1W Reporters' Room Be!; 'Phono lOT1 Vew York address: 200 Potter building, care American Newspaper Publishers' ass ociation, where files of the pape?- are al ways own to advertisers or reader. kJLA4.J-t-.J-4.XO.J.J.-l.y APRIL 1897. t Sun. Won. Tub. Wed. Thur. Fri. Sat. jf 8 10 ii 12 13 14 15 16 11$. 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 29 30 X TTTTTTTTT-TTfrTTTTirT The Greatest Three Months on Record. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL'S showing for the First Quarter of 1897 exceeds all former Circulation Records in the history of the paper. THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. Circulation Statement, First Quarter, 1S97. Daily Average 11,917 The Issues of the Topeka Daily State Journal, of Topeka, Kansas, for three months from January 1st, 1897, to March 21st, 1S97, inclusive, actual number of com plete copies printed, have been as stated below: Day. Jan. Feb. M'oh 1 10.700 11.900 1 2.1t0 2 10,700 11.950 12,075 3 11,900 12.500 4 10,800 11.950 12.440 5 ...10.900 11.900 12.200 6 10.900 11,900 12,200 7 10.850 8 11.000 12.025 12.200 9 11,050 12.200 12.700 10 12.050 12,350 11 11,500 12,20i) 12.100 12 11,750 12,000 12.900 13 11.950 12.250 12,000 14 11.S00 15 11,700 12.000 11.930 16 11.709 12.075 12.000 17 12.050 15 OtiO 18 11,875 12.350 12.075 19 11.800 12.300 11.910 20 12.000 12,300 11,900 21 11,9:0 22 11,800 12.300 11. mo 23 11,800 12,050 11,950 24 12,100 11.S00 25 11.900 12.100 11.KO0 2 11,900 12.190 11.700 27" 12.050 1 2,050 11,700 28 11,900 29 11,900 11.700 30; 11,900 11.750 11.725 Totals 99,825 90,030 327,845 Sunday: no issue. Grand total of copies printed during the three months. 917,670. The grand total when divided by 77, which is til actual number of days of issue, shows that the average number of complete espies printed per issue was 11.917. This Is a correct report for the three months of 1S97 and is made for the pur pose of being placed on file and securing ui acurate and exact circulation rating. (Signed.) Editor and Proprietor. Sworn to and subscribed before me, thi Ith day of April. 1897. A. A. MAJORS. (Seal.) Notary Public. My commislon expires April 4th, 1898. CIRCULATION GROWTH. In the year 1SS5. the circulation was.. SOO January 1st. 1S91, were printed 3.126 Daily average for year lj!l 4.3S0 Daily average for year 1S92 5.069 Daily average for year 1S'j3 6.213 Daily average for year 1S94 8.41S Daily average for year 1(S95 9.217 Daily average for year 196 10,709 Daily average for first three months 1S37 11,917 The State Journal has been under the present management for over eleven years and its daily circulation in that time has increased from 800 to over 11,000 or an average growth of one thousand a year. The State. Journal receives the full day leased-wire Associated Press report, is a member of the American Newspaper Pub lishers' Association, has four linotypes, fast Web Perfecting press, etc. The State Journal has a larger circula tion than any other daily paper published In the great state of Kansas. It requires forty-three (43) carriers (exclusive of newsboys) to circulate the paper In To peka and suburbs. Don't advertise in the State Journal un less you feel confident that its dailv cir culation exceeds 11,000. Any evidence ap parently to contrary will be cheerfully re ceived and proof produced to convince the most skeptical that we do not claim anything about our circulation for which we cannot vouch. In ISM the State Journal erected for its exclusive use as a permanent home, a handsome double front pressed brick building of three floors. The location Is one of the most eligible business sites In Topeka the southeast corner of Kansas avenue and Eighth street. The building Is one of the most complete newspaper etructures in the west and has many uni que featueres among these are construc tion and arrangement by which the four linotypes are seen in operation behind plate glass facing Kansas avenue and also through a large glas window from the business office. The fast Web Perfecting printing press is placed at the middle of the north ground floor, behind IS feet of plate glass facing Eighth street, thus affording a complete view from the sidewalk of the wonderful printing machine, turning out complete eight page papers, printed, fold ed and counted at the rate of between two and three a second. A press room bal cony offers a similar view from the in .u of the building. STEEL TRUST AND UNCLE SAM In the introduction of a bill for the seizure of the Carnegie armor plate factory and its appropriation to the service of the government until pres ent and immediately prospective needs are supplied. Senator Chandler ha3 fired the first gun in the battle which is to determine whether the govern ment is to control the trusts or the trusts are to control the government. Having been pampered and protected through legislation favorable to its in terests for years the steel trust has at last grown so arrogant that it has plainly said to congress within the past week that the government shall pay the price demanded for armor plate or go without. When the government requires the property of an individual for public use and he declines to part with it at a reasonable price it takes the property by force and settles with the owner aft erwards. Senator Chandler proposes to apply the same rule to dealing with a corporation. The steel trust will probably conclude that it has at last gone a little too far. It did not expect to have its bluff called. It is peculiarly fortunate that the movement to make the trust under stand its relations with the people orig inated with a man who has perhap3 done as much as any other to assist it in attaining its present power. If some new member of congress had advocat ed the course proposed by Senator Chandler, there would probably have been raised a cry of anarchy, socialism, paternalism, interference with vested rights, confiscation and so on through the catalogue. It augurs well for the measure, therefore, that it is backed by a member in good standing of the party in control of the government. Some years ago the proposition for the government to go into the manu facture of armor plate might have been viewed with some misgivings by the conservative people of the country, but we have become so accustomed to see ing the government do things in late years that it is unlikely to attract much atention. The contest between the government and the trust will doubtless be watched with much in terest. It is Mr. Carnegie's next move. MRS. EESANl'S CAREER, (From the Denver Republican.) It has been the record of Mrs. Besant's checkered career that her enthusiasm for a c-j.use soon bums out, and she starts on an eager chase after some other fail. While the whim prevails. File works with remarkable energy and power. Mr:. Bezant was liorn of Irifh parent, and wh inherited all the eloquo-nee r-nd enihusiasm of her ancestors. She mar. ried a Cburch of England clergyman, but, finding llie canons of the church repug nant to her ideas, she renounced it and left her husband and children. Then she became identified with free thinkers y.nd radicals of all kimi.s. She wrote a book 0:1 population in line with the Malthusian theory, that population tends to increase faster than subsistence. There was nothing new In the theory, and it was nowerless in itselt to startle. because very few bothered themselves to follow the thought to a logical conclus ion. Mrs. Besant took the bull by the, horns end advocated the enforced restric tion of marriage to prevent an increase in population. Her book created a sensa tion, and many good people were horri fied. Mrs. Besanf became a socialist, and threw her whole soul Into the work. She surrounded herself with a choice society of university graduates, who became en thusiastic to bring about a change in so cial conditions. The coterie of .socialists, of which Mrs. Besant was the leader, published a great many tracts, which were distributed broadcast over Great Briton and America. It startled many of her admirers when it was announced that the materialist had become a- theosophist. It seemed a long stride from agnosticism to the strange religion of Blavatsky, but she carried mtviy of her admirers with her. Mrs. Besant had not utterly repudiated her old opinions in regard to social re form: but she hopes to accomplish ail re form through theosophy. She expressed this belief in a lecture delivered four years ago, in the follow ing words: "Why did I become a teacher of the osophy? Because the cause of labor re form is comparatively well provided for, while the cause of spiritual and ethical reform lacks teachers. There are many others to work for the labor movement; theosophy lacks workers." The Topeka Journal says the present legislature is the most disgraceful one Kansas has ever had. This must be very consoling to the Journal when it remembers that it did so much to elect that body. Lawrence Journal. The State Journal fails to recollect a single legislature where there was not crookedness. The State Journal believes there are bad men in all parties, and it regards with contempt any man or ed itor who thinks his own party is per fectly clean. Eternal vigilance is the price of honest legislation and there are always scamps everywhere. The Jour nal will expose them whether they are Republicans or Populists. Until the people take a more vital personal and continuous interest in their government they will be more or less at the mercy of scheming and designing politicians, and these politicians will be in both the Republican and Populist parties. Keep turning them down, first one, then the other, as fast as election day comes around and the lessons will not be lost. "EX RATS." The city of Emporia refused to elect a man named Idleman for city marshal by 627 majority. Wichita Eagle. About all there is good in a man oozes out of him when he runs for of fice. Atchison Champion. In Kansas the office fever is harder to cure than the mountain fever, and it works night and day. Chanute Trib una. A Newton milliner at her spring opening served punch. More- men than women attended. Wichita Eagle. The "darkies'" along the Mississippi river are beginning to doubt the rain bow story. Fort Scott Monitor. That man is certainly original who can go his own way without running against somebody. Ottawa Republican. Emporia having elected a Populist mayor. Bill White is requested to write a piece on "What's the matter with Emporia?" Hutchinson News. A Kentucky cow swallowed a watch. She is always on hand at milking time. Arkansas City Traveler. King George speaks fluently in eight different languages and he has our most gracious permission to use every one of them in expressing his opinion of the so-called Christian powers, Minneapolis Messenger. THE CHILD-SAVING PROBLEM. From the Chicago News. In the current North American Re view Dr. Henry Smith Williams dis cusses the question of dependent chil dren and states that, as nearly as can be ascertained, there are about 100. 000 children in the United States that are public charges. About 25.000 of these are classed as juvenile delinquents or as defectives, including the blind, deaf, dumb and feeble minded. The remain ing three-fourths are dependent, through orphanage or desertion, or because their parents are either incapable of taking charge of them or have been adjudged unfit to do so. They are therefore cared for in various institutions, cost ing the state about $10,000,000 a year. The most primitive form of child in stitution is the county almshouse. It is simple and causes the least possible immediate inconvenience to the local authorities, but rr. Williams says that In the opinion of all who haw given the subject attention the throwing in of children with the human wreckage of the almshouses is most disastrous in its effects, producing a class of vaga bonds instead of useful citizens. The effort which has rescued thousands of children from the almshouses has been chierty made by benevolent individu als and great numbers of private or phanages have sprung up everywhere, supported as a rule by private endow ments and voluntary subscriptions. In two states, however New York and California the experiment has been made of partly maintaining such insti tutions by money granted from the public treasury. The principle of thus giving support to institutions under private control is not universally ap proved of. Ofie result has been the development in New York of the largest and most elaborately organized system of children's institutions that has ever existed, and one child in every thirty five in New York city is being reared at the public expense in an institu tion. The merits of the New York system however. are gravely questioned. The radical defect of the institu tion plan is said to he that it ignores the fact that the most important knowledge gained by the mind of any child in the world is gained Dy imbio tion rather than by direct training. The institution makes the child, ac cording to Dr. WTilliams, simply a part of a great machine whose working is never duplicated in the outside world He becomes piteously abnormal, an au tomaton, rather than a tlesh-and-blood mortal. One observer has declared that institution children "grow up into half idotic men and women." Another asserts that he can tell an institution reared man at sight by his manner ana expression. The conclusion is reached that the experience of child-savers in many lands and under widely varying con ditions proves that the one best method is that of finding a home for the de pendent child in a normal, ordinary family. The plan has been tried with success not only in Ireland, Scotland, England, Austria, Germany and Aus tralia, but in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Kansas and Massachusetts. Since its adoption in Michigan the population of the state has increased more than U0 per cent, yet child dependence has decreased more than 50 per cent. Minnesota, un der the Michigan system, cares for 130 children at a total annual tost ot 000. Merely finding a home for the de pendent child in a family is by no means the whole of the work. A sup plemental system of official inspection is necessary in order to secure the best results. COUNT TOLSTOI'S LIFE. TFrom the Chicago Times-Herald. The wives of writers are often of great assistance to them. For exam ple. Count Tolstoi's wife has been the chief means of making him famous. She was Countess Tolstoi at 18, her husband being a score of years her senior. A year before her marriage she took her diploma at the Moscow university. During thirty years she has been the count's coadjutor in all his literary pursuits. She copies and recopies his manuscripts not an easy task owing to the self-made system of shorthand he uses. On one occasion she made with her hand fifteen copies of one of the count's books. Another clever woman is Mrs. Grant Allen, who acts as her husband's aman uensis, and as he is numbered among the most prolific and versatile writers of the day, her task is not a light one. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) Some smart people are not in position to use their sense. After a boy gets in a three base hit, ha is never good for anything else. "When vou say no to a woman, you must follow it with an explanation. After a man has learned to dislike a woman, she can no longer punish him. In breaking himself of a bad habit, a man usually accumulates the bad habit of boasting about it. A man will always give up the rock ing chair to his wife, but he demands that she give up the newspaper. People eat lettuce because it is the first green thing of the season; there are very few people who honestly like lettuce. If you are looking for something new, turn over the pages in the dictionary: you will find more new words there than your little head can hold. A man is compelled to spend at least an hour a day listening to the com plaints of other people. Sympathy pro bably takes up more of a man's time than any other sentiment. The men are learning to understand women better. Instead of fighting the custom of wearing birds on hats be cause it is cruel, they are taking the ground that the style is unbecoming. An Atchison father has two pairs of children's shoes to buy every month. Now guess how many children he has. The family is economical and the shoes are always worn out before discarded. After this, it will be easy to believe anything. The most capable house keeper in Atchison is said to be the greatest church worker in town, and one of the best posted on church af fairs. If a member of the family is sick, let all visitors see him, whether it will en danger his life or not. Otherwise some of those offended will go away and say that he is crazy, or that he is neglected and starved, or that he is shut in a dark closet. A distressing piece of gos sip about an Atchison girl is said to have originated in this way. Weather Indications. Chicago, April 14. For Kansas Fair tonight and Thursday; warmer tonight; southerly winds. St Louis and Return $9.50. On May 4th, and Bth the Santa Fe route, the home road, will sell tickets to St. Louis and return, good till May 12th, at one fare 19.50 for the round trip. THE BASIC CONSIDERATION. (From the Chicago News.) The Hon. Lyman J. Gage makes mild complaint of "the inroads made on his time by office seekers. He drives at his office at 9 a. m. to find a long line of seekers waiting to present their respec tive cases to him. Mr. Gage has established a rule which prevents the hordes getting to him un til he has gone through his mail and started the treasury machinery for the day. This rule is not to the liking of of fice hunters. Without desiring to med dle with the official affairs of Mr. Gage we wish to suggest that he is pursuing a wrong course. The government of the United States is for the benefit of the greatest number. The greatest num ber voted for McKinley last November. And if all reports be true, almost every one of that blessed greatest number is in Washington.or has been in Washing--ton, or has representatives in Wash ington, plugging for a fat job. Follow ing this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion we find that dealing out of fices is realizing the purpose of our gov ernment. It may sound all right to say that the old, time honored treasury deficit is now changing to a treasury surplus, and that Mr. Gage is working assiduously to make the income exceed the outgo. But the mapority isn't interested in de ficits or surpluses. What they want to know is whether there are snaps enough to go round, and if so, about how long a sovereign citizen of this great republic must wait to get his re ward for helping to make McKinley president. LONDON HAT CRUSADE. Lady Douglas Galton Tries to Start One, but With No Success. London, April 14. A crusade has al ready begun in London against the matinee hat. In view of the jubilee street spectacles, Lady Douglas Gal ton, wife of a leading scientist, has written to the newspapers beseeching English women to show some consider ation for each other, not to speak of mere men, by discarding on Jubilee day all headgear of the flower garden vari ety in favor of the toque of limited height and narrow rims. She appeals to them to imitate the unselfishness of the aged queen, who, to please her sub jects, is undertaking a most trying pub lic ordeal. But there is reason to fear that Lady Galton's is but a voice crying in the wilderness. The milliners, having laid in their stocks of empire hats, are ap palled at the idea of finding them left on their hands, while the fair sex. so far as their intense indignation has allowed them to become articulate, denounce the monstrous innovation of attempting to make fashion laws subservient to any consideration whatsoever. They rightly scent danger In Lady Galton's mere suggestion. London crowds are no respecters of persons. and if a woman's right to obstruct the view by expansive headgear is ques tioned it is very likely that Lady Gal ton's proposal will be effected by sum mary methods on Jubilee day. WOLSELEY'S AILMENT. Commander-in-Chief of the British Army Said to Have Cancer. London, April 14. Lord Wolseley is not likely to retain for any length of time his position of commander-in-chief of the British army, for, although after being confined to his house for weeks he has at length returned to duty at the branch of the war department known as the Horse Guards, yet it is no longer a secret that he is afflicted with cancer of the stomach, which is in a very ad vanced state. It is said that his phy sicians have very little hope of prolong ing his life beyond the end of the year. In the event of his death his only daughter, Frances, will become Vis countess Wolseley in her own right. When she marries, if her husband be a commoner or a baronet, she will retain her own name and title, which he will in no sense share, and she will drop these only in the event of her being led to the altar by a nobleman whose rank in the peerage is loftier than her own. Her peerage will descend at her demise but not until then to her eldest son, if she has one, and. failing that, to any daughter she may have. Two years ago Tt. J. Warren, a drug gist at Pleasant Brook, N. Y, bought a small supply of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He sums up the result as fol lows: "At that time the goods were unknown in this section; today Cham berlain's Cough Remedy is a household word." It is the same in hundreds of communities. Where ever the good qualities of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy become known the people will have nothing else. For sale by Druggists. CATARRH OF THE STOMACH. A Pleasant, Simple, but Safe and Ef fectual Cure for It. Catarrh of the stomach has long been considered the next thing to incurable. The usual symptoms are a full of bloat ing sensation after eating.aecompanied sometimes with sour or watery risings, a formation of gases, causing pressure on the heart and lungs and difficult breathing: headaches, fickle appetite. nervousness and a general played out, languid feeling. There is often a foul taste in the mouth, coated tongue and if the inter ior of the stomach could be seen it would show a slimy, inflamed condition. The cure for this common ana obsti nate trouble is found in a treatment which causes the food to be readily, thoroughly digested before it has time to ferment and irritate the delicate mucous surfaces of the stomach. To secure a prompt and healthy digestion is the one necessary thing to do ana when normal digestion is secured the catarrhal condition will have disap peared. According to Dr.Harlanson the safest and best treatment is to use after each meal a tablet, composed of Diastase, Aseptic Pepsin, a little Nus. Golden Seal and fruit acids. These tablets can now be found at all drug stores under the name of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab lets and not being a patent medicine can be used with perfect safety and as surance that healthy appetite and thorough digestion will follow their reg ular use after meals. Mr. N. J. Booher of 2710 Dearborn St., Chicago. 111., writes: "Catarrh is a lo cal condition resulting from a neglected cold in the head, whereby the lining membrane of the nose becomes inflam ed and the poisonous discharge there from passing backward into the throat reaches the stomach, thus producing catarrh of the stomach. Medical author ities prescribed for me for three years for catarrh of stomach without cure, but today I am the happiest of man after using only one box of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. I cannot find ap propriate words to express my good feeling. I have found flesh, appetite and sound rest from their use. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the saf est preparation as well as the simplest and most convenient remedy for any form of indigestion, catarrh of stomach, biliousness, sour stomach, heartburn and bloating after meals. Send for little book, mailed free on stomach troubles, by addressing Stuart Co., Marshall. Mich. The tablets can be found at all drug stores. THEOSOPHY ON THE STAGE Mrs. Tingley Has Written an Occult Play for New York Production. New York, April 14. Mrs. Catherine A. Tingley, the theosophist crusader who recently returned to New York after a world girdling tour in the inter est of the cult, has just blossomed out as a playwright. Her play will be given its first metropolitan production next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the theater of the Knickerbocker Athletic club, Madison avenue and Forty-ninth street. Theosophists all over the country will be celebrating on Tuesday, that being the anniversary of the birth of William Q. Judge, the dead leader of the move ment. As explained by Mrs. Mayer, who is stage manager and various other things in connection with the produc tion, the play, which is entitled "The First Crusade," is intended to disclose to the audience the work accomplished by the crusaders whom Mrs. Tingley chaperoned around the world. The curtain rises on a family gather ing, in which all the countries visited by the crusaders are represented. To empnasize the idea of all the countries being on loving and intimate terms, the fifteen characters in the play are united in a circle by a white cord, which they hold at intervals. In this dramatic attitude the characters are "discover ed." The performers are clad in costumes characteristic of the countries they represent. The countries are England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, France, Hol land, Germany, Switzerland. Austria, Italy, Greece, China, Japan, India, Egypt and America. America is rep resented by Miss Marie Ferm, dressed as the "Goddess of Liberty." Truth is represented by Miss Ralston, a young woman of taller stature than the others, her height being intended to call attention to the fact that Truth, or theosophy, is head and shoulders superior to mere matters of racial dif ference. Truth will open the show by raising America to her feet and addressing her as follows: "Stand up, my favorite child, because through your fidelity to my messengers, H. P. Blavatsky and W. Q. Judge. I have been enabled to proclaim to men and women throughout the world my teachings of wisdom. For yours was the crusade led by Katherine A. Ting ley, and it was made possible by the heroic self-sacrifice of your first presi dent, William Q. Judge, whose mem ory we are here to perpetuate on this, his birthday anniversary. People of every nationality are flocking to my standard, and already the dawtv is breaking of that happy day when my dominion shall reach from pole to pole and all nations shall dwell together, united by this cord of universal bro therhood." Following this sweeping prediction comes an assurance of everlasting friendship from England, which makes America blush and Truth turn pale, so intense is it. Then Scotland steps up and makes a speech of welcome, and j iitiaiiu afciaits mat .n.1111 is awak ening and the light of your torch is re flected in the warm hearts of her sons." France modestly declares that "we but renew the link forged by our an- cestois' mighty upheavals of the past." After some grandiloquent phrases have been uttered by each of the countries represented, India and Egypt make the two far lands into one and crown America, who makes a little speech of thankfulness to the speechmakers. Then America goes up to the bust of William Q. Judge, which has been be nignly surveying the procedure, and places the garland upon its brow. After this the entire company assisted by 300 singers in the orchestra seats, will sing in chorus: "Dare to do right, dare to be true. You have a workthatnoothercando." The final curtain will descend as the last words of the song are sung, and Mrs. Tingley will then address the gathering, explaining how she came to circle the globe, what she thinks of theosophy and what induced her to write a play. MAGNOLIA BLOSSOMS. Dr. Roby Has Them on His Trees Right in the Open Air. Dr. H. W. Roby is having remarka ble success with semi-tropical shrubs and plants which he is raising at his beautiful country place south of the city. Yesterday he cut full grown blossoms from his magnolia trees raised in the open air. Few people realize that magnolias can be raised in this climate. The only precaution that Dr. Roby takes with the trees is to bank the roots thoroughly when winter comes on. One of the trees is four years old and four or five feet high. A single magnolia blossom will fill a room with frag rance. When Topeka gets a park there is no reason why there shouldn't be dozens of magnolia trees in it. They bloom early in the spring, almost before the pear and cherry blossoms. Besides magnolias. Dr. Roby has a banana tree 17 feet high. This has to be placed in a tub in the winter, however. It is now in the window of the Cremerie restaurant. It will be taken out and be placed in Dr. Roby's lawn this summer yhere its broad tropical leaves have already been a source of wonder to passers-by for two years. It ought to blossom and bear fruit this year, for this is its third summer. Besides the trees mentioned. Dr. Roby's garden contains many other rare plants and trees, not excelled by any place west of Shaw's garden, St. Louis. Good Lack on Tim. 1W v "Oh, lieutenant, I have found a four leaf clover I" "How odd, and here is the kiss!" Meg gendorfer Blatter. We do mending and sew on buttons free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry, mi AN OPEN LEI To MOTHERS WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "C ASTORIA," AND PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now on every bear the facsimile signature of Ck&z7-GUc wrapper. This is the original PITCHER'S CASTORIA which has been used in the homes of the mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought, on tha and has the signature of (Zck wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. 2?&.&ys&-r,pt Do Not Be Deceived. 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