The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
July 19, 1897
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TWO CENTS. MONDAYS, NG. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JULY 19, 1897. MONDAY EVENING. TWO CENTS. LIKE SCHLATTER. Strange But Well Authenti cated Cases of Healing1 Performed in Topeka Daily fcy a Negress. Best People in the City Are Yisiting Her. SOME FROM CURIOSITY But They Find That the Woman Is Gifted With a Hidden Power of Help ing Sickness. A new and rather startling "fad" has struck the 400 of Topeka. It threatens to bankrupt the physicians of the city and carry society back to the 16th cen tury as far as the treatment of all the ills that man is heir to is concerned. Whether from amusement or profit, the 400 appears to be thoroughly interested. In the; forlorn looking settlement of Pleasant Valley, located about a half a mile east of the Santa Fe shops, is a tumble-down frame building of two rooms, and in this particular habitation the chief luminary at the new "fad" re sides. She is a colored woman a. Mrs. Thompson and occupies the proud po Eition of a seventh daughter of a sev enth son. The satellites are at least 200 people who visit her almost daily for treat ment, and among this number can be found scores of the most prominent names. of Topeka. Mrs. Thompson is not prepossessing in appearance. She is short and heavy and has all the distinctive features of the negro race. She can neither read ior write.but according to her own belief and the belief of many who have been treated by her, she has marvelous mag netic power, sufficient to overcome dis ease and work almost miraculous cures. "Ize de sebenth daughter of de seb enth son, and dats whar I gets mah power," says Mrs. Thompson proudly, and after making this statement she generally subsides into silence and al lows her husband to do the talking. This member of the family is unlike his wife in the fact that he is tall, lean and ungainly. He is fairly well edu cated and looks after the business end of the healing part. It was over a year ago that Mrs. Thompson came to Topeka. Up to that time Mrs. Thompson had not exercis ed her healing power, and they were in almost destitute circumstances. They took the little shanty in Pleasant Val ley and Thompson secured work at wages of $1 a day. It was long, how ever, before he. had to give up his em ployment and devote his time to the management of his wife's trade. The first cure accomplished by the woman was in the immediate locality of her home. It was of a chronic nature and the patient's case had been pro nounced hopeless by some of the Tope ka physicians. Under the care of the colored doctor the vtoman regained her health, according to the statements of her neighbors, and from that day Mrs. Thompson never lacked for work. Her fame as a healer first circulated in the vicinity of her home.progressed through Parkdale into the city proper, and at last reached the most prominent fami lies in Topeka. Now the narrow street tn front of the little frame shanty is thronged with carriages every day. At present the number of patients receiv ing treatments daily is 102. Medicine, magnetism and mystery is combined to form the treatment of the colored doctor. It may not be voo dooism. yet she claims to have power to diagnose cases by means of charmed phials, to read the future and to work miracles. She invokes the aid of no spirits in her treatment, yet she says the air is full of spirits while she works, that a mysterious light burns in her house all night long, and that if absent from home spirit forms will answer the ques tions of patients who call. People in the neighborhood bear out the state ment of the light by stating that at all hours of night the house is illuminated as by a lamp, although no lamp is in Eight. "There's a woman that can neither read nor write and yet has the power to heal,"said the doctor's husband in a proud sort of way. as he pointed to his wife at work sorting herbs of her own gathering for the little medicine which she uses. "She is the seventh daughter of the seventh son, and she can lay her hands on you and make you well. Her fame is going out over this city, and every day we have more patients than we can take care of. "They are the leading people of the town, too." he continued. "They are the most prominent people of your city. Here, right next door, with the family what lives next to us, is a Topeka lady that came down here to stay because my wife could cure her when the other doctors were only making her worse. That's Mrs. S. L. Seabrook. When she came down here she was powerful sick. Now she is pretty nigh healed." "Funny how I done come to got Missus Seabrook," interposed the doc tor herself, stopping her work of sort ing herbs, and laughing good natured ly. "You know dat Mr. Seabrook, At torney Seabrook dey call him. Well, he wasn't a goin' to let his wife cum down here at all. He said dat he knowed dat I couldn't do nothin' for her, and he wasn't a goin to spend no money foolishly. Well, you know dey stoled her away from him I mean Mrs. P. I. Bonebrake and Mrs. Cooper. and dey brought her down here caise dey said he was goin" to take her away to some place. And when dat pore woman cum in dat door she couldn't tell if I was black or white. "Well, Mr. Seabrook cum down here a storming when he found his wife gone. 'Mrs. Thompson,' says he, 'Mrs. Thompson, let my wife out'n your spell and I'll pay you for it. 'Go way,' says I, 'I haint got your wife under no spell, Mr. Seabrook. Ize simply givin' her treatment and Ize a goin' to cure her, I is.' Well, he fussed aroun' for a bit, but pretty soon he cooled off, and now I tell you he's powerful glad he let her stay." "Oh, I tell "you, we got the people of this here town," chimed in her hus band. "Why,' there's General Man ager Frey of .the Santa Fe. I'll tell you what's an actual fact, that man couldn't have an ingrowing toe nail witholjt coming down here. And there's County Attorney Jetmore and his mother, they think we are the people who knows. My wife did all kinds of wonders for Mrs. Jetmore. Course you know Judge Hazen. Well, the judge brought his wife down here and she was treated, and there's Mrs. Snattln ger on West Tenth street that used to have my wife come uq every week. And Mr. Avery Washburn and his son Frank, and Frank's wife. Talk about prominent people, I guess we know who our patients are. "This here treatment of ours is most ly magnetic." he went on. "My wife puts her hands on you and shakes you a little, ana then you feel all your pain and all your sickness going. We give 'em a little blood purifier now and then just to kindy stimulate them, you know, but that's all the medicine we use. I diagnose all the cases inside of a minute with the charged phials we have. See here. The doctor's husband walked over to a table and removed a cloth. The charmed phials lay in full sight. They were four pint bottles filled with liquid and when they stood up showed a sed iment in the bottom. He lit two small lamps and placed them at either corner of the table. Three of the bottles were then placed in a row between the lamps and the fourth set behind the others. "This is the position we have the phials when we diagnose a case," said he. "Everything is revealed. My wife can not only tell you what the matter is by looking at the phials, but she can tell your past and future as well." "This here business of mine aint run as it ought to be right now," said Mrs. Thompson. "It needs a brass band to go along with it. I'll have things my own way here some day, I guess." Whatever Mrs. Thompson's power in reality may consist of, the scores -it people who visit her believe that she can benefit them, and many state that she has already performed remarkable cures. The woman has risen from des titute to comfortable circustances by means of her "power" and has now a small amount to her credit in one of the Topeka banks. Those who claim to have been benefited by her tell their friends of their experience, and in eon sequence the doctor's practice is grow ing daily. People who have visited Mrs. Thomp son credit her healing power purely to magnetic influence and the strength to properly given massage treatment. Scracelyanyoneof her patients believe that she obtains her power by super natural means. "I believe that every person posses ses magnetic power to some extent," said Judge Hazen, "and this woman seems to possess it to a remarkable de gree. She gave Mrs. Hazen several treatments and apparently benefited her. She Is strong and healthv and capable of giving good massage treat ment." "Mother believes that Mrs. Thomn- son did her a great deal of good," said county. Attorney Aaron Jetmore. I think there is a good deal to be derived from magnetic and massage treatment. Now rnere's Charlie Nelson, secretary of the Athletic association. He believes that this woman saved his life after the doctors m town had given him up. She undoubtedly has power of some kind sufficient to benefit people." mere seems to be no doubt of tho doctor's magnetic power, and it seems to be of the same quality as the famous Schlatter's. This peculiar effect of strong animal magnetism on those suf fering from nervous or chronic de rangements has often been noted bv physicians and it is now generally ad mitted tnat it nas the power to cure. These "healers" are peculiarly sriffed people. By some combination, psycholo gical or otherwise, they can control the health of their patients. Strange; as it seems, it is a matter that cannot be doubted. This power is as likely to re pose in an ignorant colored woman as in the most cultured and enlightened. Many scientists are investigating these peculiar powers, and at no distant dav another wonder of the powers and at tributes of the human race is likely to be unveiled. Christian science and philosophy may be a faint glimmering toward the truth. BROADMOOR BURNS. The Casino is Destroyed and the Hotel Narrowly Escapes. Colorado Springs, Col., July 19. The fa mous Broadmoor Casino, the $100,000 pleasure resort of Colorado Springs, was burned to the ground this morning. The flames were discovered about 4 o'clock in the boiler room and in about one hour the site formerly occupied by one of the hand somest buildings devoted exclusively to pleasure in the west, was covered with a mass of ruins. There was no water available and in ten minutes after the flames were discovered all hopes of saving the structure were given up and efforts were directed to wards saving the Hotel Broadmoor, ad joining. This was saved through the timely assistance of United States sol diers camped at Broadmoor. The loss will be $100,000 to the Broad moor Land Improvement company and $10,000 to Kappler Miller of Denver, leesees. There is scarcely any insurance. It is doubtful if the resort will be re built. "CINDERELLA" TICKETS. A Thousand Calls for Them as Soon as on Sale. "Cinderella" tickets were placed on sale at twelve stores in Topeka late today. The demand for them was very great, over a thousand applications having been made for them. The tickets have been printed in large quantities and it is thought enough have been supplied for the crowds who will attend tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday nights at the fair grounds. The following places now have tickets on sale at 10 cents each: Swift Holliday. Rowley Snow. Geo. Stansfield. L. S. Woolverton. Sim Drug Company Matt Weightman. J. K. Jones. A. W. Lacey, North Topeka. W. H. Wilson, East Fourth street. Dr. Karr, East Fifth street. Geo. Burghart. ANDREE'S BALLOON. Has a Narrow Escape From aCollision on a K,ock- Berlin, July 19. The Lokaianzeiger, des cribing the start of Herr Andree's balloon from the Island of Tromsoe, says the wind was so gusty that Herr Andree was obliged to give his orders through a speaking trumpet. Everybody was sur prised that the start should have been made in such weather. The balloon had a narrow escape from being driven against a rock in Smeeren burg sound. ACRES J) FOLKS. Nothing Bnt Faces From the Fairgrounds Gate Clear Up to the End of the Ex position Hall WILL BE THE SIGHT At Fairgrounds Tomorrow Night, If Weather is Good. Stage Will Be the Biggest Ever Erected in the West. EVERY TWO MINUTES. Cars Will Run Almost Continu ously .to the Grounds. Performance Will Not Begin Until Almost Dark, In Order to Heighten Light and Color Effects. An open-air entertainment has never been undertaken on as large a scale in Topeka as the "Cinderella" extrava ganza in the fair grounds grove, which will open tomorrow night. Never before has the experiment been tried here of giving tableaux, music and dancing with calcium light effects out of doors. Every precaution has been taken to secure the best results, and colored fire will be used to height en the effect of the scenes. The stage is wider than the stage at the Grand Opera House. The seats have been arranged in a vast semi-circle and rise in tiers above each other, covering two or three acres in extent. At the rear, circus seats will be erected, and the whole will seat 3,000 people. It will be a good idea to take your opera glasses. Behind the seats is a dense grove of evergreens and elms which Will make a pretty set ting after dark. The performance will not begin until darkness has fallen, as it requires dark surroundings for the fire and calcium effects. The entertainment has been prepared at considerable expense and the audi ences must be on the same scale as the attendance at the food show in order to realize the amount expected" for the benefit of the floral parade floats. There are to be ten of these built by those in terested in the floral parade, in addition to several private and secret society floats which are expected, bringing the total up to as many as twenty. If this number is reached the Topeka floral procession will exceed that of any other city in the United States where such entertainments are given. The only cities where floral parades are now given are Saratoga, N. Y. Kansas City, aio. Colorado Springs, Col.; Los An geles, Cal., Topeka, and a number of smaller California towns. The "Cinderella" entertainment is an opportunity for the people of Topeka to contribute to this beautiful pageant and at the same time enjoy a pretty opera extravaganza for only ten cents. it is calculated that at least 10,000 to 15,000 people will attend and thus raise handsome fund which will enable the floral committee to purchase materials lor noats, pay ror their construction, hire horses and drivers and buy col ored fire to illuminate the night pa rade which is to follow the day parade. The floral committee have pinned their nopes on the Cinderella entertain ment and there is every indication that it will be a thorough success. This morning a full dress rehearsal of Cinderella" was held at Hamilton hall. and the spectacular extravaganza is an assured success from the stage point of view, mere are exactly 150 children who take part in the production and their costumes are beautiful and bril liant. Steinberg's augmented orchestra will furnish the music for the piece. There will be two pianos placed in front of the stage at the fair grounds and a regulation orchestra pit. Electric lights will be strung around through the audi ence space and over the stage. Most of the lighting of the stage will be fur nished by four large calcium lights. which will be operated by R. H. Baker. Mr. Baker will be on the ground by six o'clock in order to have everything in working order. There is now an amphitheatre in the fair grounds close to the main entrance. It has sprung up rapidly but is for all that, strong and has a seating capacity of 3,000. There is more space for seats, and should the attendance the first night be so large as to require more seats they will be built Wednesday morning. The stage is one which is exactly suit able for the production of "Cinderella." On this account the production is given an advantage. There will be no cat calls to "raise the drop" for there will be no drop to raise. The only drop to be seen will be the trees or scenery at the rear of the stage. The rear of the stage will reprssent the grounds of the king s palace. There will be a huge stairway leading down toward the front and it will be handsomely draped. The side setting will represent massive pil lars in the royal grounds. The four cal cium lights will be placed on either side of the stage and hidden from, view of the alience. Mrs. E. B. Meredith, whose plans are now after six weeks work approaching fruition, is enthusiastic over the pro gress made by the children. She says that they have learned their parts so quickly and that every arrangement for the production has been made so thor oughly that it seems as if there could be nothing to hinder the performance except the weather. She said: 'Our dress rehearsal this morning was an excellent one. The dancers are trained thoroughly and those who have speaking parts know their lines perfect ly. I am very much encouraged, and the only thing I fear is that we haven't got seats enough for the crowds who will attend, vve have built seats for 3.000 people. I will have plenty of help in staging the play and I hope the good people of Topeka will pronounce it the finest thing ever seen in Topeka of the kind." Mr. L. M. Crawford has kindly offered the use of any of the scenery out of his opera houses free of charge. The special features or the opera in troduced In the action of the play, are going jto be novel and brilliant. The march of the Palace guards, the ribbon and tambourine dances, the pic ture and rainbow dances by Ethel Nich ols, the fancy dance by Odes Samuels, the black bird dance with solo by Char lotte Butterly, the lobster dance by Leo Shreve, the posing in the banquet scene by Ina Boger and Katherine Ben nett, the song by Mary Sutherland and Charlotte Butterly, the specialty and song by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Thumb, the song, "When Manma Lets me Out" by Dimple Baker, tlH da&ice of the butter flies, and the fire dance by Fay Shreve, are features which will make the enter tainment a most successful and pleas ing one. Mr. J. H. Wetherell and Major Shreve have both devoted many days to the special work.. Mrs. E. B. Meredith will sing the new song recently composed by R. L. Jones and Phillip Eastman of this city, en titled "Say You'll Be True to Me Sweet heart." There will be orchestral ac companiment. "Cinderella's" coach was turned out of the shop this morning and the final finishing touches are being put on it today. From the Topeka Railway fair ground terminus to the audience seats it is a walk of about 300 feet. Cars will run every two minutes from 7 to 9 p. m. Secretary Swayze of the Committee of Fifteen and Captain Titus have been doing Trojan service looking after the construction or tne ampnitneater ana a host .of details that no one can appre ciate who has not undertaken to assist in such a gigantic undertaking. FATAL ACCIDENT. J. B. Bratten Dreadfully In jured in a Runaway on West Sixth. J. B. Bratten, who has been in the livery business at 523 Western avenue, had his skull crushed in a runaway at noon today and will probably die. He was taken to the Stormont hospital in an ambulance and an operation to raise the skull .from the brain was per formed at onde by Dr. L. Y. Grubbs, but there is scarcely any hope of recov ery. The accident occurred at Sixth and Buchanan streets, two blocks from where Miss Minnie Wolff was fatally injured but a short time ago. Mr.Brat ten was driving a spirited team and at Sixth and Fillmore streets they became frightened. They ran as far as Bu chanan streets where they collided with a telegraph pole throwing Mr. Bratten to the pavement. He struck on his head and the skull was crushed. The injured man was picked up un conscious and carried into the store of D. D. Knox and Dr. Grubbs was called. William Crawford who is employed in Knox's grocery says that he was in the store when he heard the horses run ning. Before he fr-ad moved there was a frightful crash and running to the door he saw a team running west on Sixth street while the buggy was in the park. Mr. Bratten was lying face downward on the pavement about half way between the curb and the car tracks. He did not move and Mr. Craw ford supposed he was dead until he turned him over and found that he was breathing. He and two other men car ried him to the store and an effort was made to revive him but without suc cess. Dr. Grubbs arrived while efforts were being made to resuscitate Mr. Bratten and he ordered the crowd which had gathered to stand back until an ambu lance would arrive. Mr. Bratten has recently sold his sta ble. He has a family and lives near the stable on Western avenue. C031E OUT TONIGHT. Members of the Fall Festival Carni val Committee are urgently requested to meet tonight at the Commercial club rooms at 8 o'clock. Business of very great importance is to be transacted. Each of the following is hereby person ally requested to be present: Paul Tor- rington, A. W. Dana, Frank Crane. O. K. Swayze, Paul Lovewell. Frank Ben nett, John Selover, Ed Curry, C. M. Merriem, Walter Noble, E. L. Copeland, E. P. Edson, C. T. McCabe, Pick Smith, H. A. Weaver, C. K. Holliday, Jr., Geo. E. Heyden, Jno. Waters, C. S. Downing, W. A. Adams, Morris Schlegel. T. W. Bean, Galen Nichols, W. C. F. Reichen bach, Jno. F. McManus, H. G. Lescher, B. B. Blythe. Tom King, H. F. Bird, F. O. Popenoe, Geo. P. Ashton, W. J. Burgess, Robt. Pierce, F. B. Chase, F. H. Collier, Willard Scott. Edw. Hender son, J. B. Doncyson, F. E. Nipps. SPECIAL WEATHER Will be Provided for "Cinderella' Tty Weather Observer Jennings. Weather Observer Jennings promises that the weather tomorrow shall be cooler and that the storm which will likely occur tonight in Topeka, will be over. He says that "Cinderella" will have the best kind of weather for the opening night, and that from present indications the weather will be fair for the other two nights. "The 'low' which has caused this un settled weather," said Mr. Jennings to day, "is directly south of us. It is moving eastward and by tomorrow will be out of the way. That ordinarily means clear weather, with cooler tem perature." Today at 2 o clock on Kansas avenue the temperature was 83 degrees. On the Columbian building it was SO de grees. Last evening there was a shower which amounted to two-one- hundredths of an inch. The minimum temperature for the night was reached at 6 o'clock this morning, it being 69 degrees. Official heat figures from the Columbian building follow: 2 p. m. 80 degrees. 1:30 p. m. 81 degrees. Noon 70 degrees. 10 a. m. 77 degrees. 8 a. m. 73 degrees. 7 a. m. 70 degrees. 6 a .m. 69 degrees. Midnight 73 degrees. STAINED GLASS WINDOWS. An Agent in the City Replacing Broken Ones. J. G. Turfler. with the Campbell Glass Co., 1228 Main street, Kansas City, Mo., is in the city and is taking orders for replacing stained glass windows that were broken during the storm. He has secured the contract for replacing the glass in the Methodist and Catholic churches. Any one wishing to com municate with him can do so in care of the A. B. Whiting Co. of this city. KLONDYKE. It Turns Out That Nearly 2, 000,000 in Gold Was Brought Back by the Alas ka Gold Hunters. THEY HAD IT SECRETED Dawson City, the New Mining Center, to be Incorporated. No "Sure Thing" Gambling De vices to be Allowed.' Seattle, Wash., July 19. The amount of treasure brought down from the famed Klondyke district by the steam ship Portland is now placed at $1,500,000 and there is good reason to believe that the sum was nearer $2,000,000. In this connection, something in the nature of a confidence game appears to have been worked on the North American Trad ing and Transportation company, or its officials in charge of the Portland, by i the miners. Each man was required to place his gold dust in the ship's safe, but this was not done by any means. Many of the miners secreted their dust in blankets and luggage, which were taken either to their staterooms or thrown carelessly about the ship. Clarence J. Berry, one of the Klon dyke kings, brought down at least $84, 000 in nuggets, not a cent of which the Portland had any record of. The state ment is made on the authority of Cap tain William Kidson, the master of the vessel. When pressed for an estimate as to the grand total of the Portland's cargo, Captain Kidson said it was no doubt nearer $2,000,000 than the amount ac counted for on the ship's records. At present only miner's laws rule the camp, but next year Dawson City will be incorporated and municipal officers elected. The miners are determined on one thing, however, namely that order will be preserved at all hazards. No sure-thing gamblers will be permitted in either Dawson City or the diggings. Information comes from Juneau to the effect that several rich strikes have re cently been made in the neighborhood of Forty-mile. It has been christened Minute Creek, and is now panning out $22 a day to the man. Another dis covery on American Creek, 50 miles be low Forty-mile camp, is said to be pay ing well and a great number of men have flocked there during the last few weeks. The pan runs from $10 to $18. It is thought likely that many of the prospectos will strike for these camps, thus relieving the strain on Dawson City. San Diego, Cal., July 19. An Inter esting letter telling of the recent trip of the steamer Excelsior to Alaska, has been written by Captain J. F. Higgins. of the steamer, to a friend in this city. He says: "The word Klondyke means 'Deer River' and is called Reindeer river on the charts. It empties Into the Yukon 50 miles above the big river. The geo graphical position of the junction Is 76 degress, 10 mins. north latitude, 138 de grees 50 mins, west longitude. Bonanza Creek dumps into Klondyke about two miles above the Yukon. Eldorado is a tributary of the Bonanza. There are numerous other creeks and tributaries, the main river being 300 miles long. The gold so far has been taken from Bon anza and Eldorado, both well named, for the richness of the placers is truly marvelous. Eldorado, 30 miles long, is staked the whole length and as far as worked has paid. "As each claim Is 500 feet long the creek bed, there is half a million to the claim. So uniform has the output been that one miner who has an interest in three claims told me that if offered his choice he would toss up to decide. One of our passengers who is taking $100,000 with him, has worked 100 feet of his ground and refused $200,000 for the re mainder and confidently expects to clean up J400.UOU ana more, tie nas m a bottle $212 from one pan of dirt. His pay dirt while being washed averaged $250 an hour to each man shoveling in. Two others of our miners who worked their own claims cleaned up $6,000 from the day's washing. There is about 15 feet of dirt above bed rock, the pay streak averaging from four to six feet which is tunneled out while the ground is frozen. Of course the ground taken out is thawed by building fires, and when the thaw comes and water rushes in they set their sluices and wash the dirt. Two of our fellows thought a small bird in the hand worth a large one in the bush and sold their claims for $40,000. getting $4,500 down, the re mainder to be paid in monthly install ments of $10,000 each. The purchasers had no more than $5,000 paid. They were 0 days thawing and getting out dirt. Then there was no water to sluice with, but one fellow made a rocker and in ten days took out the $10,000 for the first installment. So, tunneling and rocking, they took out $40,000 before there was water to sluice with. "Of course these things read like the story of Aladdin, but fiction is not at all ih it with facts at Klondyke. The ground located and prospected can be worked out in a few years, but there is still an immense territory untouched, and the laboring man who can get there with one year's provisions will have a better chance to make a stake than in any other part of the world." Port Townsend, Wash., July 19. The excursion steamer Queen has arrived from Alaska with 170 passengers, prin cipally tourists. The officers of the Queen state that the merchants and traders in both Juneau and Sitka are closing their stores and shops and has tening to the new El Dorado. Firty business men left Juneau for Dawson City on July 12 and 150 would leave on the 16th, two days after the Queen, sail ed. The officers say that by the time the Queen returns to Juneau on her re turn trip, nine days hence, there will not be an able-bodied man left in town. Many men are leaving Juneau for the gold fields without provisions or means to buy them. The steamer Alki sailed for Alaska at midnight last night She carries 40 horses and 1,000 sheep for Dyea, where they will be landed and driven across the summit to tne iiiKon valley, stock men say the sheep are the finest band ever collected off eastern Washington ranges. They will be taken to Orel City and Klondyke and slaughtered. Any kind of fresh meat there sells at 50 cents per pound. NEW YORK STIRRED TTP. Alaskan Gold Fever Breaks Oat Thousands Ready to Start. New York. July 19. The Press says: New York has been touched with the Alaskan gold fever. The past 24 hours has seen come to the front at least two thousand argonauts who will be on the way to the Klondyke region just as soon as arrangements can be made for trans portation. This city furnished more "Forty-niners" than any state in the union. It would not be strange at all if this city should, within the next six months, as suming a corroboration of the present marvelously favorable reports, be more largely represented in the boats slowly stemming the currents of the Yukon than will tho entire Pacific coast. Some notion of how the craze is spreading may be had from the fact that within 48 hours an advertisement calling for those who desired to Join an expedition to Alaska and who had from $500 to $2,600 to invest was answered by more than 1,200 applicants. In this par ticular case there was some misunder standing inasmuch as the company publishing the call is, in the main, a trading company, while the applicants were eager to go as prospectors or to ally themselves with what even might be "grub stakes" concerns. However, 32 men have enlisted in its service, and will strat for the Klondyke region with in three weeks. They will go as em ployes of the company essentially, but, in the eVent of their striking a paying claim or becoming interested in one, the company will aid them by advancing money sufficient to develop promising strikes. The interest displayed is evi dence that the fever has reached the town, and an indication that one of the largest colonies which will winter about the gold-bearing region will be com posed of New Yorkers- START FOR KLONDYKE. First Steamer, Al Ki, Sails for Gold Regions From Seattle. Seattle, Wash., July 19. One hundred men took passage on the steamer Al Ki today, most of them starting on what is called the overland trip to Klondyke From Juneau they will go 100 miles fur ther by water to Dyea, then over the mountain passes, down Lakes Lindon man and Bennett to the Yukon river and down the river to the new discov eries. Among the crowd are many well known men whto have long been identi fied with the growth and development of- the- northwest. An immense crowd was at the dock and when the Al Ki threw oft her lines and pulled into the bay thousands of people gave cheers and shouts and bidding her godspeed. Every inch of her passenger and cargo space was taken. A NEED OF GOVERNMENT. Extension of the United States Stat utes to Alaska. New York,- July 19. A special to the Tribune from Washington says: .The Increasing number of gold seek ers in the. Yukon basin, not only in the Klondyke region in British Columbia, but in Alaska also, has impressed of ficials of the government in Washing ington anew with the necessity of re inforcing the agencies of the govern ment in the latter. From Circle CityJ on ine xu&un uunug iu uisi j.ew months have come the most urgent ap peals and demands to have the mineral land laws of the United States extended over the surrounding region and it is probable that in his first annual speech to congress Secretary Bliss of the in terior department will approve the rec ommendation of Commissioner Heir mann of the general land office that this be done and also that a fully equipped local land office be established at Circle City. Of course neither of the thing3 can be done until authority is given by congress,- Among members of that botdy a strong indisposition has been manifested toward the extension of the powers and agencies of civil govern ment over Alaska ever since the acqui sition of the territory thirty years ago because of the meager population and the apparent lack of necessity of such legislation. In the course of a recent conversation with a correspondent on this subject Representative Lacey of Iowa, who was chairman of the com mittee upon public lands in the last congress, said: "I suppose one reason that no legislation has been had to re move some of the anomalous conditions which exist in Alaska is because the committee on territories had its time fully occupied on other matters and that the committee on public lands had thought it inexpedient to take action in regard to land legislation there until after some further legislation respect ing the government of the territory has been enacted. "Our committee, however, did rec ommend the passage of a bill for the establishment of a land office at Ju neau and the house passed it, but the senate did not act on it. Juneau is a town of several thousand inhabitants, some three thousand I believe, and I am informed that it is a thriving place, containing a number of substantial brick" buildings for business purposes, and" so on, and that all the improve ments stand on the public lands of the United States, the owners being simply squatters. I am also informed that there is no legal authority to levy and collect taxes or for officials to receive and disburse such taxes if collected. When money is needed for any pub lic purpose the hat is passed. I have always been averse to legislation pro viding full-fledged territorial govern ment for Alaska with a delegate to con gress, and so on. But conditions there appear to have been changing rapidly during the last two or three years, and it is possible the time has come when the subject ought to be dealt with by congress." It is not improbable that Major Lacey will visit Alaska after the adjournment of congress and try by personal investi gation and observation to see what leg islation in regard to the public lands in that territory would be expedient and wise in order to meet existing condi tions. ITS EFFECT ON COINAGE. Washington Authorities Do Not Be lieve Values Will be Unsettled, Washington, July 19. A number of statesmen were asked what would be the effect .of the Alaskan gold discover ies on the silver question. Most of them were inclined to the belief that the production of the new gold country had been greatly exaggerated for the benefit of the transportation companies and local supply companies. Senator Allison when asked about the situation said: "If the product of gold in Alaska is really enormous it would of course tend to approximate the value of gold and silver but the yield would have to be unprecedented to prove much effect for our supply of gold is very large, you must remember." Another authority said without hesi tation that there could be no possible effect on the monetary situation unless the discoveries of gold were so stu pendous as almost to take gold out of the list of precious metals. He ex plained the situation by saying:"Speak- CContinued cn Sixth page. AGREED ON. Conference Committee on the Tariff Bill The Beaches an Agreement and Re ports it Back to Congress. HOUSE WINS ON SUGAR Tariff on Hides is Retained With a Proviso. Senate Backed Down on Many Other Points. Washington, July 19. Mr. Dingley has presented the conference report on the tariff bill in the house. In the sugar schedule the conference inserted the words "ninety-five one hundreds of" in line 13 before the words "one cent" so that it will read "one and ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per. pound" and struck out the words "three one-hundredths" in line 15 and inserted the words "thirty-five one hundredths." The rating makes the duty begin at ninety-five one-hundred thrs of a cent et pound on sugar testing 75 degrees, ac cording to the polariscope and makes a polariscopic gradation of 35-1,000 of a cent or 3-100 on each additional de gree. Hides of cattle, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled, 15 per cent advalorem: Provided, that upon all leather ex ported made from imported hides there shall be allowed, a drawback equal to the amount of duty paid on such hides to be paid under such regulations as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe. Lead ore remains at one and one-half cents per pound. Lead bullion and pig lead two and one-half cents per pound. The statement of the Republican con ferees made the following explanation of the effect of the changes agreed upon by the conferees in the schedules other than the sugar schedule: "Metals and manufactures of The re ductions of duties on some forms of iron and steel proposed by the senate are ac cepted in part as proposed and several new paragraphs are introduced not heretofore specifically provided for. "Cotton ties which were placed on the free list by the senate are. restored to the dutiable list at a reduced duty of -five-tenths of one cent. "Tin plates are placed at the rate of duty provided in the bill as it passed the house. "Structural Iron Is reduced one-tenth of one cent. "All sawed lumber except sawed tim ber exceeding 8-inches square is left at the rate of $2 per thousand as provided by the house. Planed lumber is also placed at the house rates. "Tobacco and manufactures of The duty on wrapper tobacco is placed at $1.85 per pound, a compromise between the house rate of $2 and the senate rate of $1.75 and the senate reduction on filler tobacco accepted. "The duty of $1 per ton on gypsum, proposed by the senate is reduced to 50 cents and the duty on ground and cal cined plaster raised to $2.25 per toir A compromise between the house and the senate on cattle (371) is agreed to. In general the duties proposed on agricultural products are the same as those in the act of 1890. Cotton and cotton goods The duty of 20 per cent on imported cotton as pro posed by the senate is not agreed to.. The house rates on wool of 11 cents on class 1 and 12 cents on class 2 are adopt ed and the senate specific rates on car pet wools agreed to with a modification raising the dividing line so as to place a duty of 4 cents per pound on such wools valued at 12 cents and less and 7 cents on such wools valued at mora than 12 cents. The duties on manufac tures of wool are placed at substanti ally the same rates as in the act of 1890. Coal is reduced to 67c per ton and coal slack or culm to 15c per ton as proposed by senate amendment 674. The house and the senate reciprocity plans are united and adopted, with modifications. In the senate plan any commercial treaty must be approved by congress before it goes into effect and in the house plan chicle, silk laces, su gar, mineral waters and hides have been stricken out and tonka and vanilla beans added. Then senate provision imposing an equivalent countervailing duty on im ports from foreign countries which have been paid an export duty is adopted. The senate provisions increasing the internal revenue tax on cigarettes is agreed to with an amendment covering cigarettes wrapped in tobacco and pro visions to enforce the collection of tax. The senate provision changing the law so as to allow no rebate on beer is agreed to. The senate provision for a stamp tar on the issues and transfer of stock and on bonds issued by corporations is omitted from the bill. The administra tive sections added to the bill by the senate are substantially the same as those passed by the house in the 54th congress and are agreed to with slight amendments. SENATE MAY DEFEAT IT. Though the Prospects are Decidedly Against. Such a Result. Washington, July 19. Some of the op ponents of the tariff bill made a hasty canvass of the senate during the exe cutive session of the senate today and expressed the opinion that it was possi ble to defeat the conference report by one majority if a senator is appointed to the Tennessee vacancy. To secure this, however, all the Demo crats, including McEnery, who voted for the bill, all those who refused to vote either way including Stewart of Nevada and Mantle who voted for the bill, would be necessary so that the prospects are against the success of such a move. TO VOTE TONIGHT. Republicans Will Force a Vote Be fore Adjournment. Washington, July 19. The Impression in the house, based on statements made by the house leaders that the tariff de bate will extend late into the night, the Republicans intending to fonce a vote before adjournment.
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4 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, JTJL.Y 19, 1897. The State Journal TWENTY-FOURTH TEAR. BY FRANK P. MAO LENNAN. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan eas town where this paper has a carrier system. By mall, three months 90 By mall, one year t.60 Weekly edition, one year 60 PERMANENT HOME Topeka State Journal Building. 800 and OS Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. TELEPHONES: Soilness Office Bell 'Phone 107 Reporters' Room .-.Bell 'Phone 107H New York address: 20S Potter Buildinf, ear American Newspaper Publishers' as sociation, where files of the paper are al ways open to advertisers or readers. JULY 1897, Sun. Mon. Tub. Wed. Thur. Frl. Sat, 2 3 11 12 13 14 15 16 7 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31 Weather Indications. Chicago, July 19. Forecast for Kan sas Local rains tonight; Tuesday part ly cloudy with, showers in east por tions; winds mostly easterly. DON'T DODGE ANY MORS. Governor Leedy, asked what he thought of the proposed proceedings to oust Chief of Police Steele by quo-war-ranto for not enforcing the prohibitory law, said: "I think that if these people, instead Cf fighting the police would help them, they might accomplish something. If they know where liquor is sold let them furnish the evidence and the police de partment will attend to its duty as laid down by the law. Every citizen who knows of violations of the law can make Complaint and cause the arrest and pro secution of offenders. These temper ance people have the district court to appeal to if they doubt the efficiency of the police." It is useless for Governor Leedy to close his eyes to plain facts and pretend that he is not cognizant of them. The Topeka police department accepts "fines" for protecting the jointists. It isn'tamatterof hearsay. It is a fact.The governor cannot pretend that he is 'ir responsible in the 'matter. He accept ed the Metropolitan police law with all its responsibilities aid he will have to abide by his action when he prevented its abrogation. It would be a good thing for him and for any governor if there were no Me tropolitan police law, but there it stands aid any executive who poses as the embodiment of "backbone" and "firm Bess" and all that ought to be ashamed to dodge the responsibility. If the gov ernor is going to stand by the whisky business, let him come out plainly and say bo, and not whine about it's being other people's fault that it goes on. The people can respect firmness everi. In the wrong, rather than ekulking and the cry of "other people are just as negli gent as I am." KJrwln Independent: The silliest twaddle of the age is that this is a "christian nation," just as though it had become so lately, when the facts are that it is not near as christian as it used to be, years ago. Statistics show that murders, robberies, suicides and alll sorts of crimes have been increas ing tor some years at an .alarming rate. Nations are divided into civilized, heathen and savage. Christianity Is an Individual matter. In order to be chris tian we must be Christ-like. If nations were Chriet-like they would not be con tinually preparing engines and projec tiles with which to destroy one another. THE WORM WILL TTJKN. From the El Dorado News. Said an old lady the other day as she brushed a. tear of indignation from her are: "I get so riled up whenever I go to X buy anything, that I have a nervous V hAnHrhi) nil thft riiivt Hciv T .T rr' full you some of the experiences I have had mis morning; ana every woman win tell you that she has had the same, scores and scores of times. I went to a grocery to buy some berries; I asked the smiling clerk behind the counter if he had good berries, and he said they had: 'O, yes, ma'am, excellent berries, indeed,' and he showed me two or three boxes of wilted and mouldy things. I told him that I wanted good berries, with an emphasis on the good; and then Re. undertook to convince me, a grey haired woman, that those mildewed berries were first rate. "I went to a butcher shop next, and asked for 15 cents worth of sirloin steak. The butcher slapped a slice of meat on the scale, and wrapped it up; I gave him a quarter, and he handed me back 6 cents. I told him I had asked for 15 cents worth of meat and not 20 cents worth. Oh, yes, he said, he knew that, but he didn't like to cut the piece. I told him to hand over my quarter and he did. Butchers are doing that trick every day of their lives and the women should put a stop to it. "Then I went to a drug store and asked for a bottle of Dr. Clinker's Balsam of Crab Apples, which is my favorite remedy"; and the druggist went to a shelf-and got a bottle with a white label and began to wrap It up; now ev erybody knows that Dr. Clinker's Bals am has a yellow label on the bottle, and so I cried: 'That is not Dr. Clinker's Balsam!' 'Oh, no,' said the druggist, -with that sweet but false smile, 'this is something that we put up ourselves, and it is infinitely superior to Clinker's.' I want Clinker's or nothing,' I shriek ed and I flounced out of that drug store. "Next I went to a shoe store to set a. pair of shoes, for those that I am wear ing are pretty badly worn; and the af fable clerk helped me on with a pair about three sizes too small, and "looked at them admiringly, and said: 'They fit like a glove, madam.' .'They don't fit at all.' I said. 'Pardon me," ha sigh ed, 'they could not fit better.' I felt the blood rushing to my head. Human nature is weak, and the temper can be controlled only so long. I hastily put on my shoes, my old ones, and went out of that shop. "What's the matter with the mer chants? Do they assume that the aver age customer Is an irresponsible Idiot, who does not know what she wants, or how much of it she wants?" CHILDREN UNSPOILED. (From the New Orleans Times-Democrat.) It is hardly safe to make fondness for all children a positive test of virtue. Every one has not philoprogenitiveness so largely developed as to want to kiss even little faces that are dirty, or to pat little heads that are unkempt. Slum children, indeed, appeal rather to pity than affection. Those sharp faces so unyouthfully wise, those shrill voices which are raised to prove their owners' ample acquaintance with what is known as "bad language," give sad evi dence that such little ones have been defrauded of their birthright of inno cence. Yet though the hardship of their condition may be keenly felt, and steps taken to ameliorate it, the fas tidious person.however kind his nature, is not inclined to take them to his bosom until they have been subjected to a cleansing process. At the same time it is safe to say that no one whose heart is in the right place dislikes children, or can remain un moved at the idea of any cruelty being practiced upon them. The artists and sculptors who reproduce childhood fitly are sure of a sympathetic audience. There is endless charm in such sub jects the grace of the rounded limbs before self-consciousness has come to make them stiff and awkward, the careless ease of posture, the exquisite texture of the skin, and the artless way in which those soft features betray the passing emotion of the moment. MAKING OF PHYSIOGNOMY (From Munsey's Magazine.) "If you don't want the world to know that you have done a thing, don't do it," was the sage observation of an ancient philosopher. The advice has a renewed force now. when women are becoming more and more emancipated, and are taking up the pursuits and occupations and even the sports and pleasures that used to be considered men's especial prerogatives. "Whether women's faces are more mo bile and more ready to receive an im print, or whether women are less given to self-restraint, and so express more of their inner feelings, is not definitely un derstood; but the fact remains that on nearly every feminine face Is indelibly stamped some impress of her favorite pursuit of amusement. The bicycle face is well known, with its tightly drawn muscles, resolute.tensa expression, and an underlying air of resignation, as if it were saying: "If death whirls around the next cor ner I will meet it with fortitude." The long distance lens of the golf eye is also growing common, but the card face is comparatively new. The more experienced Sherlock Holmeses of society claim that they can detect the difference between the whist face and the countenance molded by progressive euchre, but the card face in general is recognizable by the veriest tyro. There are women who have thrown themselves into card playiiig so fever ishly, with such intense excitement that it is no longer a diversion, but a serious task. Whether they play for money or points, or for some trumpery prize which they would n(jt admit to their drawing room except as an evidence of their skill at the game, the result is the same. The strain on their nerve3 is expresesd by closely drawn brows and an eye eager and watchful for an op ponent's plays and misplays, while greed and the desire for gain show themselves in ugly lines about the mouth. This description applies, of course, to the worst victims of the craze but the same symptoms. In a more or less modified form, ere appearing on the faces of not a few of society's maids and matrons. WHAT WE" IS SAYING. There's an old man "back east" whom we used to hate because he objected to our "keepin' company" with his daugh ter. Since we have a few daughters in our own family, we now wonder why the old man didn't make a funeral.with a wooden legged corpse in the front wagon. Concordia Kansan. A teacher, male or female who will bum the streets at night until the wee sma' hours, should be deprived of a cer tificate. They are not fit persons to teach the young. Westmoreland Sig nal. Henry Steele won first money in a foot race at Rock Ford on the Fourth. Henry developed into a racer while chasing Wallace county gophers back in '93. Western Times. Will some one bring us some chicken feed on subscription? Now, don't all come at once or wait to see if some one else comes. Chase News. Sort of a growl has drifted to this office touching the work or the lack of work of a certain popular preacher. First of all is his salary paid up in full? If so, perhaps the growl may be other wise this paper will continue to mind its own business. Clay Center Times. "There is an old saying that to kill a cat will bring bad luck; but there is an Abilene girl, on the shady side of 40, that don't believe it. Last week her brother was asked to kill a cat and re fused for fear of the proverbial bad luck. His sister took the old man's shot gun and shot the cat with neatness and despatch, and that night received a pro posal of marriage from a man she had been trying to land for seven years." Abilene Democrat. No Flirting on Duty. Muncle, Ind., July 19. Trainmaster J. B. Thomas of the Fort Wayne, Cincin nati Louisville branch of the Lake Erie Western railway, has issued a bulletin1 to trainmen forbidding them from waving hands or handkerchiefs, or in any manner flirting with women along the line of his road, or in any manner conversing with ladies on trains, only to answer questions when asked. Locomotives Shipped to Africa. Philadelphia, July 19. The six loco motives manufactured by the Baldwin Locomotive works for the Cape Town railroad were shipped to their desti nation yesterday. The Japanese en gines, for which the firm has an order for 30, have gotten into the shops and the work of actual construction is now under way. Laxation Bromo Carb sures headache and neuralgia; guaranteed by all drug gists or money refunded. Price 25c Being highly concentrated, only small doses of Ajer"s Sarsaparilla are needed. KANSAS CITY- WANTED TO BE IN KANSAS. (From the Kansas City Times.) The recently forwarded plan of Ed C. Little, who is private secretary to Gov ernor Leedy of Kansas, to slice half a mile en the western edge of Missouri and paste it onto Kansas with the aid of a government resurvey, has resur rected an interesting bit of ancient his tory of the time when Kansas City was so anxious to get into Kansas that she wanted seven times as big a change made as Mr. Little asks. It is Mr. Little's contention that the dividing line of the two states was drawn from the Missouri river north of Kansas City and thence straight south. Since the original survey was made of the line the river north of Kansas City has so shifted its course that land formerly half a mile east of the river is now In the bottom of it and the river bed half a mile west has been made into farm land. Mr. Little holds that the line should have shifted with the river. Rev. Father Dalton of the Annuncia tion church was in Kansas City and well remembers the attempt, made by her citizens in 1875 to have a strip three and one-half miles in width ta ken from Missouri and given to Kansas and talked to a Times reporter about it last evening. The attempt was made in 1875. There was in Kansas City at the time a home for Confederate orphans. The land for this home had been deeded to the state by Mrs. Johnstone Lykins and the state was to support the insti tution. For some reason the Missouri legislature sent an Investigation com mittee here and upon its report that the home was worthless, ordered it closed and the property deeded back to Mrs. Lykins. In other ways was Kansas City slighted by the Missouri legislature in the matter of patronage, and it was as a measure of retaliation that the citi zens began the agitation of a plan to make it a part of Kansas. A resolution was passed by the city council asking the Kansas legislature to aid in the matter, and a delegation of prominent citizens went to Topeka and presented the petition, but nothing was ever done with it. Then the Kan sas congressmen took the matter up and undertook to get a resurvey of the boundary line, which would have thrown three and one-half miles of Jackson county into Kansas. This would have taken all of Kansas City and more.for her eastern limit then was Woodland avenue. Kansas was booming at the time.and the idea was that since St. Louis seem ed to have the pull at Jefferson City, Kansas City had rather be first in Kan sas, as she believed she could be, than be second in Missouri. The efforts at Washington proved futile, too, and aft er a year of agitation, the matter was dropped, but it resulted in scaring the Missouri legislature and state into wholesome recognition of Kansas City and her greatness. Father Dalton, who is conversant with the history of the west, says the boundary line was established on the corner-stone at the southwest corner of the state, with which Kansas has noth ing to do, and that the changes of the Missouri river can have no effect upon it. MOST BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS. (From the Chicago Times-Herald.) Princess Helene, the crown princess of Italy, has been voted the most beau tiful woman at the jubilee. She easily carries off the honors for personal beau ty from all other titled and royal ladies representing European courts at the re cent festivities. As future queen of Italy,, her posi tion is one of the foremost in Europe, and she has already won the regard and esteem of the Italian people, if not their love. Princess Helene's beauty la of the open air, mountain kind. As a girl she was brought up in her father's moun tainous principality, and until she went to live with the Dowager Empress of Russia she never knew the meaning of stifling drawing rooms or the pent up feeling of a boudoir. Indeed, her fath er, the Prince of Montenegro, could not afford to give his daughter either. A poorer prince does not exist than Nich olas, and it is said that Helene would not have accepted the dwarfish crown prince of Italy, who had been rejected by every marriageable princess in Eu rope, had it not been for her father's all but abject poverty. Italy's fu ture queen is as rugged, strong and blazingly healthy in complexion as her husband is weak,small and bilious look ing. Her out of door life has given her a "beauty truly blent whose red and white nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on," and these charms, com bined with her very shy, modest and even diffident ways when she is brought before the people have made her vast ly popular in Italy, whose citizens do not love a too royal manner in their rulers. Considering the laboratory in which her complexion was made up it is no wonder that the Princess Helene, whose features are not altogether per fect, was easily first among the hot house princesses who came in flocks to the jubilee.. The little crown prince was delighted with the universal homage paid his beautiful bride and queen. GLOBE SIGHTS. (From the Atchison Globe.) If a person who has a little trouble is not very careful, he is in danger of becoming a professional martyr. A grief that is prolonged when prompt action would be more effective, is not only very foolish, but very tire some. There are two sides to the kin ques tion, after all: if it were not for kin, some married women would starve to death. "There was a crazy man on the streets this morning,"the new reporter wrote. "Designate him," the old man said; "the town is full of them." If there are no female angels in heaven, a man can look forward with great peace to entering there without being asked what made him so late. Every once In a while a case is re ported of a woman having so much trouble with her husband that she walks the floor nights. The first night or two that she walks the floor, there is much sympathy for her, but if she continues the practice, she wears' out the sympathy of her friends. Instead of walking the floor, she should turn him out, and make arrangements to earn her living without him. FROM LOWELL, MASS. The Home of Hood's Sarsaparilla A Wonderful Cure. "A swelling as big as a large marble came under my tongue. Physicians said it was a semi-transparent tumor and must be operated upon. I felt I could not stand it, and as spring came began to take my favorite spring tonic. Hood's Sarsaparilla. The bunch gradually decreased and finally disappeared. I have had no sign of its re turn. I am glad to praise Hood's Sarsapa rilla." MBS. H. M. OOBUKN, 8 Union St., Lowell, Mass. Get HOOD'S. Hood's Pills cure Sick Headache. 25c GOOD BIBLE BEADING DOES. (Rose Field in Chicago Evening Post.) The local chroniclers are Justified in pronouncing Dr. Lyman Abbott's re marks before the educational associa tion at Milwaukee a "remarkable ad dress." Dr. Abbott took the strong ground that the Bible should not be forced on the public schools, and the "remarkable" feature of the address was that he. objected to a compulsory Bible because the reading In the schools "was In danger of becoming perfuncto ry." In view of Dr. Abbott's able lec tures to his Plymouth congregation we had feared that he might pronounce against the Bible on the score of its un reliability, and we are gratified by this exhibition of restraint and prudence. For our part, we believe in Bible read ings in the schools for the literary ad vantages to be derived therefrom, if for no other reason. There are not a few men of middle age today who will frankly declare that much of their in terest in the Bible as a marvelous lit erary composition was stimulated by the constant reading of chapters In the schools of their childhood, and these same men, who may forgret tomorrow what they read today, will retain dur ing their lives the words that sank into the receptive minds of childhood and the definite idea of good literature that was impressed day after day. It is true that everything in the matter of educa tion to a child is more or less perfunc tory, but a certain quantity is sure to stick, and the continual reading of good literature may be likened to the exper ience of the sower -who went forth to sow and found that some of the seed fell on good ground. We do not believe that perfunctory reading is worse than no reading at all, and we do believe that the knowledge often picked up by Bible reading in the schools is the stimulus to later reflection and study. PASSING OF THE COTTONWOOD (From the Nortonville News.) Near the front end of the fifties and earlier, when the white man began to dispute with the Indian, the buffalo and the coyote for possession of the fertile plains of Kansas, the planting of the Cottonwood marked the first step to ward civilization of the upland prai ries. Every farm had its row of eot tonwoods along the highway and num- which the tree was held. Onlv a twiar was the beginning of what soon be come a giant in form. The Cottonwood's rapid growth was its redeeming fea ture. Something that would stay the force of the continuous "prairie zeph yrs" was the prize, and that something was the cottonwood. But other quali ties it had few. So the second thought was broader and farther reaching. Trees in possession of more than one commendable quality were planted. And they flourished too, soon supplant ing the plate of affection in the hearts of the Kansas people. Then the plant ing of the cottonwood ceased, and soon, as other trees encroached upon Its hith erto undisputed domain, the king of the prairie was dethroned. Its fateful his tory was short, its downfall rapid. But few cottonwoods remain to tell the story of their reign. The elm, the ma ple, and the ash have come and will stay. Our home is their3. Yet the dear, old cottonwood, with its lack of virtues, is pleasantly remembered be cause it gave shade when there was no other. It sheltered us from the scorch ing sun of early hardships and will be kindly remembered even after the last tree gives place to those that stand in higher favor. WALLED IT CAT. Lived for Five Years in the Hole Family Mystified by Its Cries. Wilmington, Del., July 19. Ex-Mayor E. G. Shortledge today released from a wall in his home a cat which has lived within the wall since 1892. In that year the ex-mayor erected an annex to his home, its wall being put up hurriedly. For five years Mr. Shortledge and his family have heard cat cries in the house, but until today were unable to locate them. About a year ago the cries of the cat became so frequent and annoying that, as a test, the ex-mayor killed the family cat, be lieving that it was largely responsible for the mysterious cries. This, how ever, did not solve the mystery, and, after a great deal of deep study over the matter the ex-mayor decided a few days ago that the cries came from one of the walls in the annex. Today he sent for George W. Dorsey, Jr., who, with a chisel and a hatchet, opened the wall. As soon as Mr. Dor sey had chiseled a hole large enough a cat jumped out. Ex-Mayor Shortledge Immediately recognized it as a kitten that disappeared from his household at the time the annex was built. The cat. he says, has not grown an inch, although Its appearance shows that it has lived well during its long confinement. Mr. Shortledge, who is a physician, will present the cat to the Natural Historical society as a curios ity. RUSSIA FOR CAUL SCHURZ. He is Offered the Mission at St. Pet ersburg Washington, July 19. President Mc Kinley has. It is said, offered the posi tion of minister to St. Petersburg, to Carl Schurz. Mr. Schurz has the offer under consideration and will probably accept. Free Attendant Service, Grand Cen tral Station, New York. The system of uniformed attendants, established by the New York Central, at Grand Central Station, New York City, last spring, has grown as popu lar with the traveling public as the fa mous Empire State Express. It sup plies a long felt want, and is especially appreciated by strangers and ladles traveling alone. The corps of red-eap-ppd attendants has recently been great ly increased, and they are now found In every part of Grand Central Station; at the entrances to the Waiting-rooms, ready to assist you from your carriage, and show you to the train; and at the platforms of all arriving trains, pre pared to carry your luggage, summon a carriage, or direct you to the elevated or surface lines of railway that radiate from Grand Central Station to all parts of the city. This service is absolutely free. No tips are necessary. The at tendants are active and intelligent, po lite and well-posted; they speak several languages, and are walking encyclope dias. The Rock Island Route Has through sleeping and chair cars on both day and' night trains to Colo rado Springs and Denver; leave Topeka 1:20 p. m., arriving at Colorado Springs 7:35 next morning; leaving Topeka at 10:40 p. m., arriving at Colorado Springs 3:40 1. m. Everybody Bays So. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won derful medical discovery of the age, pleas ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please buy and try a box of C. C- C. to-day; 10, 25. 50 cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by all druggists. Large assortment of Sterling Silver Belts at your own price at 632 Kansas avenue. ENGLAND WON'T LET GO. Balmont Says English Moneyed Men Will Never Consent to Bimetallism. New York, July 19. Perry Belmont, who returned from Europe on Saturday, in a carefully prepared interview which he gave out for publication today, had this to say on the money question: "In regard to the present attitude of Europe toward international bimetallism, there are advocates of It in France, En gland and Germany, as there was a year ago, but the advocacy has not increased In volume or intensity. Neither France nor Germany will unite with us In plac lng gold and silver on a parity, unless England leads the way. The continued increase in gold production, the surplus last year and this year of British incomes over expenditures, the continued suprem acy of England In commerce and of Lon don as an international money market have the effect of persuading parliament that the present coinage, currency and financial system Is good, even though there Is distress in India. Re duction of taxation with an enlargement of Its basis there may be, if peace con. tinues, but probably not a modillcation of coinage or currency laws, so long as ex isting British industrial prosperity en dures. "The McKinley administration Is ac tively endeavoring, as the Republican platform of 1896 requires, to promote the free coinage of silver by international agreement. Its ambassadors and special commissioners are working in concert, under the law enacted by the last con gress, which Cleveland approved. The question of dates to be adopted is kept in abeyance. There is every prospect of an international con ference to be held within a short time, and probably to assemble In Paris. "European bimetallists believe that if, in the failure of international bimetallism, we shall open our mints to silver on the ratio of IS to 1 and subsequently Europe opens her on the ratio of 15, then all our gold will leave us, as it did In 1834, and only token silver coins would remain." COLO. EQUAL SUFFRAGE. Mrs. Sue M. Hall Enlightens the East Upon Its Workings. Washington, July 19. President Thomas of the District of Columbia Woman's Suf frage association has received a letter from Mrs. Sue M. Hall, president of the Denver Civic Federation, on the effect of woman's vote, and refuting statements made in eastern papers regarding the ef fects of equal suffrage in Colorado. Mrs. Hall's letter states that "women do use the ballot, and that the conservative ex ercise of the ballot is seldom neglected by them." She discusses at length the charge that the votes of good women are offset by those of the demi-monde. She says these women would not vote at all except that under the management of the gang they are compelled to register and vote. That should not be used as an ar gument against universal suffrage; that the present methods of carrying elections "we, as women, hope to overcome by eliminating partisanship from local af fairs." Continuing, she says that the Civic Fed eration, which is composed entirely of women, caled to their assistance all men and women desiring good government.and nominated and elected a non-partisan municipal ticket in April, notwithstand ing the corporations, the liberal element and the political machine were combined against them. "Let me say that while we, who have had practical experience of the working of universal suffrage in the largest city where it obtains, do not claim that it is a panacea for all ills, we have demonstrated that all the arguments against it are Invalid, and we hope and believe that the future will show women to be true and loyal to right, as they have been in the past." SOUTH DAKOTA'S STANDING Farmers Have Liquidated $50,000, 000 of Debts the Fast Four Tears. Sioux Falls, S. D., July 19. The various loan agents of Sioux Falls all agree that the last four years have been years of wonderful debt paying. D. L. McKinney said that $50,000,000 would just about cov er the aggregate of the debt liquidated in that time. When the hard times struck South Dakota, four years ago, people stopped going into debt because they could find no one of whom to borrow.Then came an era of close economy, followed by a superhuman effort to get out of debt. For the last two years crops have been good, and for the last year have sold for a good price. The creamery industry has brought into the state $3,000,000 a year, and live stock $25,000,000. Loan agents here are unable to loan one half the amount they are willing to place, even at reduced rates of interest. Mark Russell, whose company has 1500 loans In South Dakota, says that over 30 per cent are paying up in full at maturity of the loans, and most of the rest are making partial payments. Figures from several counties show that where one mortgage has been recorded five have have been paid. It is estimated that in 1897 the product from the South Dakota farms, including the live stock and creamery industries, will aggregate $100,000,000. This distributed among 350,000 people is enough to give a comfortable living and, in addition, to make a great inroad on their indebted ness. BAD AS GOLD BRICKS. 100 Unsuspecting Ohio Hayseeds Taken in by Sharpers. Defiance, O., July 19. Fully 100 farmers have discovered that they have been swin died by a couple of strangers. The farm ers were collected at the Wabash depot, where they had just received and paid cash for $700 worth of groceries. The or ders were taken two weeks ago, when the farmers signed an agreement to take the groceries on the promise of the strangers to take all the butter and eggs the farm ers had on delivery day at good prices. After the farmers had settled for their groceries at exorbitant prices the swind lers refused to take their produce at any price, and this so incensed the victims that for a time It looked as though the strangers might be roughly dealt with. Realizing their danger they fled. TYLER'S GRANDDAUGHTER. She is Appointed Postmistress at Courtland, Va. Washington, July 19. Miss Mattle R. Tyler, granddaughter of the former presi dent of the United States, was today ap- Stranger to Va'it re ss)-Is there any other attract ions besides yourself in this city? GOLD Labor Time Cost THE SAVED BY V What More Can be Asked? Only tali aak your grocer for It, and lnalst on trying It. Largest package greatest economy. THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, Chicago, BU Louis, New York, Boston, PnlladelphJa pointed postmistress at Courtlandt, Va. The selection ends a long contest in which Miss Tyler came here and presented her claims In person to Postmaster General Gary and Fourth Assistant Bristow. During the Tyler administration the president, in the course of a trip, picked up a child in his arms and remarked: "That's a bright little boy." That boy is the present postmaster gen eral, who, after the advisers of the ad ministration in state patronage had failed to reach an agreement today settled the postoffice case for himself. The office pays $565 per annum. Miss Ty ler succeeds Eugene C. Barrett. FOOT-BINDING CRUSADE. Ancient Custom in China to Be Abol ished Result of Rebellion. Tacoma, Wash., July 19. An agitation, now spreading like wild fire in China, threatens to wipe out the ancient habit of binding the feet of the female popu lation in order to keep them unnaturally small. The literary and highly educated Chinese are leading the agitation, and in one prefecture, that of Shoeing, Kuang Tung province, the inhabitants of eighty villages have been induced to allow the feet of the rising female generation to have natural size. Heretofore Chinese girls with large feet could not marry re spectably, but the leaders of the anti-foot-binding societies have pledged them selves to allow women with naturally large feet to marry their sons and to en deavor to make the small foot a badge of disrespect. This will give the girls with large feet a chance to marry into the wealthiest fam ilies In the empire. At present the reverse is the case, and mothers have been taught that if their daughters had natural feet they could not marry well. The crusade against small feet in women had its origin in a rebellion in Taiplng, when the rebels killed all the women who had bound feet, while those with natural feet escaped. ENGAGED IN BABY FARMING Deadville Woman is Said to Have Ta ken Up a New Industry. Leadville, Col., July 19. A short time ago an advertisement appeared in the morning paper here that a baby boy could be secured for adoption. Investigation of the matter revealed the fact that an old lady named Mrs. Flanders had a child and was peddling it around for the sum of $10. It appears from statements made by other parties that Mrs. Flanders has es tablished an exchange for the surplus In fantile population of the city. In othej' "words, when a little one arrives in the world that is not particularly desirable Mrs. Flanders accepts the responsibility for the care of the child and then endeav ors to dispose of it at a good figure. Con siderable interest has been manifested in this so-called baby exchange, but thus far only one sale has been reported. The rul ing price is $10 a head. OASTOZUA. 5i fee limile la n rerf tipyei. IgutuK, CASTOD.ZA. Yht fio- tlBll n vnppas. dgutvt iiails Hgutnrt If n DUST. MILLINERS UP IN ARMS. Massachusetts Law Against Wearing Feathers Causes a Protest. Boston, July 19. The law against selling birds, their bodies or feathers, which was passed by the last legislature, was today officially communicated to the milliners and dealers in birds throughout the com monwealth. Senator Roe of Worcester is the father of the new law, and United States sena tor Hoar is said to have written the pe tition in answer to which the act was drawn. The petition purported to be signed by thirty-five undomesticated birds, and is an ingenious plea that "no one shall wear our feathers, so that no one shall kill us to get them." The millinery trade is up in arms over the enactment. What the result is to be will depend on the extent to which en forcement is carried. PALLBEARERS STRIKE. Pittsburg Funeral is Delayed Until Other Men Can Be ;Procured. Pittsburg, Pa., July 19. Today Mrs. Adela FeigenlJaum and her son Morris, a butcher in the Pittsburg market house, were made the defendants in four law suits brought against them before Alder man B. F. McNlerney by Herman Bern hardt, Joseph Rice, Henry Lipsig and Ja cob Heppner, to obtain money alleged to be due to them for their servicesJn the burial of Mrs. Feigenbaum's husband on July 7. He died July 6 from the effects of heat. Mrs. Fiegenbaum, It is declared, engaged the four plaintiffs to act as pallbearers at the funeral. While the hearse was waiting at the door for the body the pall bearers struck for $50, which they claimed they were to receive. Other pallbearers had to be secured, but the first four sued for the money. M'3IAU0N BROS.' SHOWS Will Exhibit in Topeka Monday and Tuesday July 19 and 20. The MacMahonBrosiare now making, their 20th annual tour and will give two performances daily on the lots at the corner of Fourth and Jefferson streets, Monday and Tuesday, doors opening at one and seven o'clock. Admission 10 and 20 cents. Cheap Hates East The Union Pacific will sell tickets to Chicago for $10.50 and to St. Louis for $7.40 July 16th to 21st inclusive; also on July 23d, 26th and 30th, August 2d, 6th, 9th and 13th. Proportionately cheap rates to all eastern points. For further information call on F. A. Lewis, City Ticket Agent, 525 Kansas avenue, or J. C. Fulton, Depot Agent. Shirts, collars and cuffs laundered to look like new by Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 11 West 8th St. Mineral Water. The finest in the west. Come and try It. J. W. PHILLIPS, 612 W. Eighth st. $10 50 to Chicago. And proportionately reduced rales to points east. Tickets sold July 16 to 21, inclusive; July 23, 26, 30; August 2, 6, 3 and 13, via Santa Fe Route. $5,000 worth of high-grade Jewelry must be closed out. 532 Kansas avenue. Not how cheap but how good is the way we trv to do our work. Peerless Steam Laundry. 112 and 114 West 8th.
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