The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 14, 1900

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4 HOWE'S "LAY SERMON Ho. 2 in this issue. "LAY SERMON" No. 2 in this issue. ct-Xy. 16 PAGES. LAST EDITION. PAGES 1 TO 8. WEDNESDAY EVENING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 14, 1900. WEDNESDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. Slf IT.-.., Chinese Political Magazine About to Explode. German Ambassador Tells U. S. Officials THE TIME HAS COME Russia Is at the Head of the Disturbance. Strong American Squadron Ordered Oat To Protect U. S. Interest in the Orient. KRUGER AND STEYN Believed to Have Aided in Precipitating Trouble. New York, March 14. A special to the Journal and Advertiser from Washing ton says: The German ambassador, Dr. von Holleben. had a long conference with Acting Secretary of State Hill, in w hich the latter was presumably informed that a demonstration in China might be expected from Russia shortly. The chief of the bureau of navigation. Rear Admiral Crowninshield, sought Secretary of State Hay, and found him at the Hay residence, after which the navy department announced that a Chinese squadron will be established and that Rear Admiral Kempff, now commandant at the Mare Island navy yard, will be sent to Manila to take th;s equadron for cruising the Chinese and Japanese coasts, also that Rear Ad miral Remey, in charge of the Asiatic station, will maintain the naval base at Manila. It is understood that Rear Admiral KempfC's squadron will consist of the Oregon and Baltimore, now at Manila, the Iowa, Philadelphia and Marblehead now on the Pacific coast, and the Mont gomery now attached to the South At lantic station. It is believed here that the formation of the Chinese squadron by the United States is to be a spectacular warning to Russia and France that American in terests are involved in any change in the conditions in China. Presumably Oermany will make a similar demon stration. KRUGER'S SHREWD MOVE. New York, March 14 The Journal and Advertiser says: Presidents Kruger and Steyn have apparently made a shrewd diplomatic move, or it can not bo supposed that they expected Lord Salisbury to consent to peace on any such terms as those they proposed. They have, however, obtained from the British premier a tangible state ment of the intentions of England, and her determination to take from the two republics their independence. This gives them something on which they may appeal to the Powers, ask ing if the latter will stand by and see them crushed and turned into integral parts of the British empire. The strengthening of England's fleet In Chinese waters is a part of her aa ewer to the peace proposal of the Boer republics. Lord Salisbury realizes that England's enemies have never had so good an excuse for making trouble for her as they have now. Should the Boer presidents appeal to the powers against the premier's ultimatum and ask them to interfere to prevent the political an nihilation of the republics, the oppor tunity of Russia and France would have come. These powers would, very likely, noti fy England that they would not consent to the taking away of the Boers' inde pendence. And that would mean war. For England would allow no such inter ference in what she regards as her private affairs. Russia and France have Important interests in China the one on the north, the other on the south And Russia has been unwontedly ag gressive of late. Hence the dispatch of two such powerful warships as the Ter rible and the Argonaut to reinforce the Chinese squadron, already stronger than that of any other power in Pacific waters. What may have a direct bearing upon this phase of the situation is the de termination of our own government in Washington to dispatch a fleet under Rear Admiral Kempff to Chinese wa ters. The ostensible reason for this is the protection of American interests, but England's enemies, who have been Jealously watching the growing friend ship between Washington and London, will certainly regard it as a demonstra tion favorable to Great Britain. THE HAGUE CONFERENCE A FAILURE. Washington, March 14. In diplomat ic circles here an unpleasant suggestion has been thrown out to the effect that The Hague conference has resulted in CunHilete failure and that even the lim ited programme agreed upon is never to be perfected. The basis for this view is the fact that up to this moment it is not known officially that a single one of the powers represented in the confer ence has ratified the three conventions prepared there. The treaties themselves require that each of the participants in the conference shall be notified whenever the other patties ratify the conventions. Up to this time no such notifications have reached this coun try. It is probable that appearances in Washington of the newly appointed Dutch minister, bringing with him the official copies of the conventions mav result in further action by the United States upon them. EXPECTATIONS. London Anxiously Awaits News From Roberts. Early Occupation of Bloemfon tein Looked For. London, March 14, 2 p. m. A few hours should bring important dis patches from Lord Roberts. No word has come from Bloemfontein today, al though sharp fighting is believed to have occurred since the commander in chief was last heard from. London con fidently expects the occupation of the Orange Free State capital will occur today, as previously forecasted. In the meanwhile attention turns to Mafeking. That hamlet of the plains can scarcely hold out much longer. The news of Colonel Plummer's approach has given substance to the rumors of its relief, but those best, informed are inclined to think the relief is more likely to become accomplished by Colonel Peakman's column from Kim berley. General Cronje, according to a Cape Town special, sails for St. Helena March 15, accompanied by all the Paar deberg prisoners. Cecil Rhodes is suffering from catarrh of the stomach and is unable to sail for England. ALLIANCE IMPOSSIBLE. London, March 14. Regarding the United States' offer of mediation, the Globe sajs: "The incident is of interest only in the light it throws on American politics. Republicans and Democrats alike are always prepared to risk the friendship of England in the party game. v e may preserve amicable relations with the United States and it is to be hoped we always shall do so, but an alliance is impossible. We were brought to the verge of war four years ago for the sake of Mr. Cleveland's re-election, and a pretext for a diplomatic quarrel will never be wanting when the anti-English elements of the republic have to be conciliated." KOO AGAINST 40,000. Pretoria, Tuesday, March 13, Com mander De" Larris report of the fight at Abraham's Kraal, Saturday, says: The British were estimated to num ber 40.000 men. Their first assault was repulsed. Only two Boers were wound ed. The second assault was made on the hill to the left of our position. These hills were of great strategic importance. Appreciating this, I and 300 men de fended the position from nine in the morning until sundown. The burghers fought like heroes and three times re pulsed masses of the British who kept relieving their tired men. Every at tempt to storm was defeated. At sun down there were not 50 yards between us. The British lost heavily. No accur ate returns of our loss are available. SHELDON UNDECIDED. Does Not Know What to Do About Vice in Topeka. At the conference between Mr. Shel don and the newspaper correspondents today, one of the latter told Mr. Shel don that there are 25 joints, 6 or 8 gambling dens, and other places of evil resort running openly in Topeka, and asked if he would print the names if they were furnished him. "I will treat that in my own way," he said. "I have not decided just how I will go about it, but I will take some sort of action." He intimated that he would inaugu rate a crusade against local evils in Topeka, but has not decided whether it will be in the newspaper, or whether he will put it off and make the attack from the pulpit or in the courts. Mr. Sheldon has not been publishing the cards of the fraternal societies and lodges, but when asked for the reason he said they had been left out by his order, but he was not prepared to say why at present. He said, however, that he believes in life insurance. "Are you a socialist?" one corres pondent asked. "You must let me use my own term," he replied. "If you say 'Christian So cialist,' I am. A Christian Socialist is one who applies the teachings of the Sermon on file Mount to his daily life." "Do you like editorial work?" "I do not see that is of public con cern." was the reply. Mr. Sheldon refused to say anything about E. W. Howe's lay sermon pub lished yesterday in the State Journal, stating that he had not read it. JUDGE HORTON IMPROVES. His Condition Is Still Regarded as Serious. Judge Albert H. Horton. who was taken suddenly and seriously sick with pneumonia Monday night is better to day. Dr. J. G. Mulvane, the attending phy sician, said: "Judge Horton is resting more comfortably today, and I think he is slightly improved since yesterday. I cannot say that he is out of danger." CRISPI SERIOUSLY ILL. Rome, March 14. Former Premier Crispi is seriously ill with influenza. Commercial Club Meeting. The meeting of the Commercial club tonight will be an important one, and Secretary Anderson urges a large at tendance. In addition to the matter of securing the Santa Fe improvements for Topeka, several other matters of inter est will be discussed. THIS MORNING'S CAPITAL. In response to request last night from New York Herald for signed criticism of Mr. Sheldon's issue of this morning, the editor of the State Journal wired the following at 10 p. re.: Special to the Herald, New York: Early proofs show that Rev. Mr. Sheldon has made several improve ments in his Christian daily over the first issue distributed Tuesday morning. The flrst page has.decidedly, a more ed itorial aspect than heretofore, in fact the articles appear to have been made prominent for the purpose of attaching to them editorial comments. In other words Mr. Sheldon seems to have been casting about over the entire country from the East Indies to Massachusetts in the endeavor to find matter to go ahead of his editorials. In doing this he sacrifices the value of his paper as a news purveyor. I think he should have taken the important dispatches and lo ,cal happenings of the day, instead, if he Intended to work in the comment in the same place; that would have made the editorial timely. Instead of this, prom inent on the first page is an article on "New Zealand" taken from advance sheets of a forthcoming book. In this article Mr. Sheldon advocates his the ory on municipal control and govern ment ownership. "Another first page article is an es say on the progress of socialism in the New England state which has asocial istic mayor at Brockton. On this same page Mr. Sheldon presents a strong plea for insurance for church members, along the lines of the fraternal orders, r think that these matters separated or confined to the editorial page would give the paper more weight- "The page is decidedly more interest ing to the general reader than was that page this morning. "Governor Stanley's contribution thereon covering reform in the penal institutions is a stroke of enterprise which would be a good feature on the inside of any Kansas newspaper. "Mr. Sheldon apparently sees the im portance of putting news to the front as he has, I understand, almost decided at this hour, 10 o'clock, to put on the first page tomorrow morning a local re port of a Millers' convention in session in Topeka. The millers are going 'after the railroads, and Mr. Sheldon seems to be approving them for it, taking a posi tion which is surely not without rea son, that the railroads have been dis criminating in freight rates. "The fact that the news boys could not readily dispose oftheir papers this morning seems to have convinced Mr. Sheldon that he must put something besides magazine and encyclopedic ar ticles where the public cari sse-the pa per without asking the news boy to unfold his wares. "An article on 'Crimes in Kansas' and their cost to the state, contributed by a local criminal court reporter, presents some statistics which are not so stale as some of the articles in this morning's paper. "In the advertising department to morrow morning's issue is known as 'the clothing issue.' In this paper are the advertisements of five clothing merchants ranging in space from 10 to 20 inches. Mr. Sheldon asked these ad vertisers to avoid any extravagant or unreasonable assertions in the large black type in which they are set. The merchants seem to have followed his suggestions but apparently did so be cause they were afraid if they did not, space would be refused them. Nearly all of these clothing men wished for larger space than Mr. Sheldon could give them. On the street a clothing dealer said he would not advertise be cause the Capital would not put his advertisement in on the day he wanted it. Not liking to discriminate Mr. Shel don told the clothing men that they must all come in today. I think this is very poor policy for a newspaper to pursue, although probably under the extraordinary circumstances Mr. Shel don knew not what else to do. "Thursday will be dry goods day. I do not think a paper should attempt to say on what day a particular merchant shall advertise. I think such a policy is disastrous and unbusinesslike. "On the first page tomorrow morning will appear a cartoon on the 'Horrors of War' taken from the Ram's Horn. Mr. Sheldon has improved this morn ing's issue in putting the cartoon on the first page instead of placing it on the inside. He apparently has a high opinion of the Ram's Horn cartoonist. I think he should have drawn from an other source for tomorrow morning, particularly as he is careful to divide up the honors in advertising space on different days to different people." Mr. Sheldon today again makes prom inent the Famine in India; a signed ar ticle by H. T. Chase being the first on the page. Mr. Sheldon is truly indus trious for those unfortunate people. Another article on the first page, sent from Washington March 10th, is about Sunday observance, and advocates the absolute abandonment of Sunday trains. Mr. Sheldon Ioes not say how he expects to circulate his "Sunday substitute," to be printed Saturday night, without the running of Sunday trains. Does he expect the sacks of newspapers to be thrown off one min ute before midnight fifty miles west of Topeka. where the trains would be, leaving Topeka at ten o'cIocK Saturday night. On the editorial page is a splendid signed editorial, by Mr. Sheldon, upon how to make Topeka a better city. An other article on the same page refers to the scandalous amount of liquor ad vertisement in the magazines. Another article gives figures to show that pro hibition pays in Topeka. This is im portant, if true, and we believe it is, in a large measure, but it would pay much better if prohibition really pro hibited, that is if the officers woujd do their duty in enforcing the law. The Capital has some other good articles, although they are not news, covering the corn and wheat crop of Kansas for the past ten years. SOMEJlpONS.' Topeka Ministers Talk About the Sheldon Experiment. Generally Pleased With Result So Far. TIME IS TOO BRIEF. Dr. Fisk Says It Can Not ProTe of Much Worth. Hope Managers Will Look Be yond Counting Room. The following expressions concerning the Sheldon edition are from Topeka ministers: Dr. T. J. McFarland of the First Methodist church said: T am well im pressed with the first number of the Sheldon edition of the Capital. I was not expecting anything marvelous, but a natural, rational Christian newspa per. That he has given us. The feature about that is noteworthy is the new moral perspective of things which he gives. Great things are put first, small things are put in their place. The Cap ital is not a cosmopolitan paper, and Mr. Sheldon wisely makes no attempt to make it such, but taking it at its level, seeks simply to make it Chris tian." Dr. Fisk, pastor of the First Congre gational church, said: "As an experi ment along the lines Mr. Sheldon is moving the publication time alloted is too brief to prove of much worth. The chief value lies in the fact that the movement has focused the world's at tention on a fact of increasing im portance, viz: The rising demand that religion, ethics, high ideals and so-called sentiments of civilization shall be come applied righteousness worked out in the concrete. The experiment is a recognition and attempted application of this principle. My hope is that own ers and managers of great metropolitan papers will be compelled to recognize in this move that there is another side to newspaperdom than the counting room. The move against the rapacity and greed of the trusts is one of the best features: "But there is another side; when Mr. Sheldon's reign of a week is over who must bear the violation of canceled ad vertising contracts. The business office can, perhaps, best answer that. It will take them at least a year, I should judge, to square themselves." Dr. John Gordon of the First Presby terian church said: "I am pleased with Mr. She' Jons paper It wni be maiily valuable in cailins;.'"ttenti.ii to the 'act that there is an increasing demand for a wholesome healthy family daily newspaper. Proprietors of cosmopoli tan papers must recognize that scan dals and sensational occurrences must be subordinated to cleaner news items." Dr. A. S. Embree said last evening: "I have been so busy today that I have not had time to read Mr. Sheldon's ini tial number, therefore I cannot discuss its contents or give out any impres sion." KANSAS CITY OPINION. Ministers Express Themselves About Sheldon Edition. The following opinions about the Sheldon edition are from Kansas City, Mo., pirachers: The Rev. Stephen A. Northrop, pastor of the First Baptist church, said: "Most decidedly the first issue of the Topeka Daily Capital is not a newspaper: A little lad cl a newsboy struck the nail on the head when he shouted: 'Oh, Pud, whit they makin' such a fuss over this here papy; I ain't sold a one the hull alternocn!' The editorials are commonplace: there is no discussion of current cuestions of the day and no consideration of themes the public is interested in. I can select a score of daily papers that excel by far in moral izing on the live issues of the hour. "Placing a prayer at the top of the first column' of the first page is out of editorial taste. It ought to appear in another part of the paper. People look for news on the first page. Then, too, it is a travesty on prayer and a sac rilige on the name of Jesus Christ. What would Jesus do?' and 'If Christ Came to Chicago' and books of that sort, have done much to bring the hal lowed name of our Savior into public contempt. In fact, those phrases are now being blasphemously used by street Arabs and non-church-goers to the dis honor of the Christian religion. The clergy had better attend to their own business and fight the forces of evil from their strongholds, where they can better reveal their skill as specialists in striking sledge-hammer blows against the world, the flesh and the devil.- I am much disappointed in this first is sue. May a kind Providence deliver us from another. It will only afford the press at large the delightful privilege of poking fun at the preacher, showing up the weakness of pulpiteers in edi torial sanctums." The Rev. H. D. Jenkins, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, was pleased that the paper excluded objec tionable advertisements, but "I think Mr Sheldon ought to have let himself oit a little," he said, "in the matter of news and literary contributions. With the immense resources the paper must command this week, it would seem that he might have had his leading articles from the most eminent specialists in the land. I do not understand why the market columns and general telegraphic reports were so blue-penciled. A daily paper must entertain and to this end a wide range of topics is needed. The spirit and tone of the paper ought to work a revolution. I take a great many periodicals and among them several English papers." DISGUSTED NEWSBOYS. Sheldon Edition Fails on Streets Why They Were Not Sold on Trains. The experience of the Topeka news boys with the Sheldon edition of the Capital has not been such as to make them enthusiastic about its merits. A boy who had a bundle of Sheldon papers under his arm was accosted this morning with a question about his sales. "Pshaw, it's no good," said he. "I got up early and only sold three copies. I am going to give it up. I won't try to sell any more." The experience of this boy is similar to that of others. There is little de mand on the street for the paper. The experience with news agents on the trains was also unsuccessful. On Monday a representative of the Sheldon paper met the trains- with an unlimited supply of papers tied, up in packages of 100 each. The news agents were informed that they must take not less than 100 copies at the uniform price of two and a half cents per copy. They refused to take that number and. the trains went west without a supply of the Sheldon edi tion. State Journals were eagerly sought for and all the news agents were supplied -whether they wanted one or 50 copies. GOLD ISJROWNED President McKinley Signs the Financial Bill. Washington, March 14. At 14 min utes to 1 o'clock this afternoon the pres ident affixed his signature to the finan cial bill, thus making it a law of the land. Mr. Overstreet of Indiana, who had the bill in charge, arrived at the White House about five minutes before that time and was shown into the cab inet room, where he was joined by the president, who after inquiring if the bill had been compared with care, affixed his signature to it. At the same time he recalled to those who stood by the fact that many of the important financial bills which had been passed by congress had been approved on the 14th of the month. He spoke of the Sherman act, the resumption act, and now the bill which was before him. In signins the bill the president used a new gold pen and holder which Mr. Overstreet had brought with him for the purpose. SHERM PEFFER'S DEATH Son of Senatop Peffer Kills Himself. Word was received in Topeka this af ternoon that J. S. Peffer, better known as "Sherm" Peffer, committed suicide in Kansas City this afternoon. No particulars were given in the dis patch. Mr. Peffer was a son of ex-United States Senator W. A. Peffer of Topeka and lived here the greater portion of his life. He was a printer by profession and worked for several years on the Kan sas Farmer and afterward on the Advo cate. He has been somewhat dissi pated in his habits. Associated Press Dispatch. Kansas City, March 14. A man be lieved to be. J. S. Peffer. son of ex Senator W. A. Peffer, of Topeka, was found dead in his room at the Smith hotel, a cheap lodging house in East Eighth street today. He had taken morphine, and left -i card Inscribed "Father I'm tired. J. S." Mr. Peffer, who was about 35 years old, was a printer, and bore a card of a Topeka union. No cause is known. ROBERTOiiERE. London, March 14. 9 p. m.--It Is offi cially announced that General Roberts has occupied Bloemfontein, and that the British flag is flying over the capitol. IN A DEADLOCK. Republican Senators Can Not Agree on Porto Rican Bill. Washington, March 14. The Republi can senators spent the early hours of today's session of the senate discussing among themselves plans for the contin uation of the caucus on the Porto Rican bill called for this afternoon. While a majority still felt bound to observe the secrecy imposed in yesterday's caucus, most of them freely admitted that a deadlock with numerous shades of opin ion demanding recognition existed. None would admit, however, that there was any serious doubt of reaching a harmonious solution of the problem, and most of them believed that result would be reached at today's session of the caucus. There is an apparent increased dis position to adopt the house revenue bill, leaving the government questions pre sented in the senate measure to be dealt with later. It is asserted by those who favor this course that a large ma jority of the Republican members can be brought to this view, but it is ad mitted that the minority is very per sistent in its determination to oppose this course in the interest of absolute free trade. Senator Foraker and others of the Porto Rican committee, are still hold ing to the senate bill. Did Stockholder of Capital Violate, Copyright? The only paper so far as known which has violated the copyright of the Howe "Lay Sermons" is the Chicago Times Herald, which according to a wire re ceived today published a half column of the "lay sermons." These "sermons" are protected by the American copy right law, and at the beginning of each one appears the words "Copyright, 1900, by E. W. Howe. Reproduction of an part of this article prohibited." Does Mr. Sheldon approve this sort of thing, particularly when it is under stood that Mr. A. C. Babize, the corre spondent of the Chicago Times-Herald, is a stockholder in the paper vhich Mr. Sheldon is conducting this week. The Times-Herald is also a special pro moter of the Sheldon edition. If Mr. Babize has simply published a story of the "sermons," without quoting from Mr. Howe, he is all right, otherwise he is gravely at fault. The State Journal withholds judgment for more definite information and is inclined to believe that Mr. Babize told his paper that the matter was copyrighted. Weather Indications. Chicago.March 14. For Kansas: Rain or snow tonight and Thursday; north east winds. LAY The Second in Mr Series Which at Once Produced Comment From New York to San Francisco THE SENSATION OF THE DAY The Globe Man Continues His "Discourse" Along Lines Already Mapped Out Matter Eagerly-Read. Later Numbers, the With LAY SERMONS IN PARAGRAPHS. By E. W. Howe. NUMBER TWO IN THE SERIES OF SIX. Copyright 1900 by E. W. Howe. Reproduction of any part of this articl prohibited. There was a time when the leaders of the church gained some benefit. They do not now. I do not accept the theory that ministers are idle men who profit by the labor of others. Ministers as a rule occupy very uncomfortable positions. They do not have a great deal to do, but idleness is no favor; there is more content in a busy life than in an idle one. I believe minis ters, as a rule, know that men do not like them: I have heard ministers say so. I believe ministers generally know that they are looked upon with a sort of contempt. They must realize that they are outside of the great active world; that they are non-producers; that people give grudgingly to their cause, and do not believe in the objects for which they give. I was brought up in a minister's family: I know something of their trials. There is a vacant pulpit in the town in which I live: one hundred and eighty appli cations for it have been received. Think how much dissatisfaction this rep resents amorig ministers of one denomination in one small section of the country. There are a few ministers who receive large salaries, and live pleasant lives, but the great mass of them receive a mere pittance, and know they are not welcome to that. It is another evidence that the people do not believe in orthodoxy, and the time has arrived when the fact should receive serious consideration, a consideration free from sentiment or tradition. It is idle to say what the people ought to do. There will be less respect for the church in twenty years than there is now; we may as well face the situation and make the best of it. And it is worth saying here that the people have re jected orthodoxy not because they are vicious, but because they are intelli gent and progressive. Now let us teach them that the death of orthodoxy does not mean that there is any less reason for good conduct than there was before. The statement is made, and honestly believed by many, that without the Bible, there would be no law, no order, no morality. This is foolish. Here are the essential principles of the orthodox faith: 1. The fall of man. 2. Atonement through Christ. 3. Heaven for those who accept the atonement. I 4. Hell for those who, for whatever reason, do not accept it. 5. The infallible Bible, which has revealed these things, and by means of which only are they known. I quote a doctor of divinity literally. morality. i It is as certain as anything can be that the world does not accept any' of these five principles. And since the great question is morality, why en cumber your creed with a lot of nonsense that is imaginary and foolish? The civil law is what people lespect, and not the ecclesiastical law. There are no penalties attached to the violation of the ecclesiastical law. The great world pays no attention to the church: it has outgrown it. The people have adopted laws for their own good, without regard to religion. Civil law is superior to ecclesiastical law: civil law has made ecclesiastical law conform to it, as in the case of polygamy, slavery and human sacrifice. Civil law is the result of education and experience; ecclesiastical law is the result of sup erstition and ignorance. Religion does not mean morality; indeed. Rev. Minot J. Savage, a doctor of divinity, says, "that the whole plan of salvation is dis tinctly and definitely an immoral scheme from beginning to end." Every sensible man should know that the church is not the founder of moral laws. The Ten Commandments existed among the Egyptians for more than twenty centuries before the time of Moses, and in addition to these rules of conduct, the Egyptians had many others of equal value: one among the number prohibited the people from talking too much. The claim that the civil law originated with the saints of the church is equally absurd. The old Roman laws, formulated by men long before our present religion was adopted, is the foundation of the English common law today. Our religion has absorbed everything it possesses, including belief in immortality, from men. The old Egyptians preserved the bodjess-of their dead for resurrection and Moses did not become a law-giver until he came out of Egypt, where he learned the law of the oldest people of which history has any accurate knowl edge. The man who knows the Bible, and Bible literature, knows nothing that 13 of value, or that is accepted by men of learning and intelligence. This is not an impious statement: it is the truth. If you doubt it, begin to investigate, taking the ordinary books of information to start with. Examine the books your children study at school. You will find that they teach evolution direct ly and positively. Evolution is so generally accepted now, that it is taught in the public schools without protest, yet if evolution is true. Christianity can not be true. Evolution teaches that the account of the creation of the world, given in Genesis, is nonsense: it denies every doctrine of the Christian religion. If the men and women of the church are not familiar with this fact, they may rest assured that their children are. Lately I heard my son, thir teen years old, talking to a companion of evolution, and practically applying it. I did not know then that the doctrine was taught in the public schools, but he brought his books home, at my request, and I made a discovery that is probably new to half the men and women of the present time. He told me that his teacher, whom I know as a member of the church, taught evo-, lution to his class as a matter of course. That is what evolution is teaching your children: 1. That the world was not created in six days, as taught in the Bible; that the world is millions of years older than the Bible claims. 2. That man was not created in the manner described in the Bible; that life has existed upwards of twenty million years, and that man has been evolved from a very low beginning. 3. It denies tne fall of man absolutely, and teaches the ascent of man. 4. It denies the story of the flood. 5. It denies every thing stated on the authority of Moses. 6. It denies tjie immaculate conception, and that Christ came to life af ter his crucifixion, and ascended into Heaven. 7. It denies every doctrine of riot only the Christian church, but the doc trine of every other church now in existence, or that has ever existed. It denies every supernatural story, and teaches naturalism. 8. It denies every miracle in the Bible. 9. It denies all the prophecies. 10. It denies that there is any sacred significance attached to Sunday. 11. It denies the Original Sin of Adam and Eve, and denies the existence of these mythical persons. 12. It denies the redemption through Christ absolutely. 13. It denies the existence of the orthodox God, and gods of every kind, except the god of nature. 14. It denies existence after death, except as every living thing exists in definitely by propaging its kind through natural processes. What is Original Sin? What sin did Adam commit, that Christ waa E30H" E Howe's Remarkable of Six, Best Written, Awaited Interest. Tou will observe not a word about

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2 TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING,, MARCH 14, 1900. compelled to die for his descendants. In order to save them? I do not know: nobody knows. Adam Is as purely imaginary as Gulliver, but admitting that he lived, as narrated in the Bible, what terrible sin did he commit that ren- dered redemption of his descendants necessary? Theologians do not agree what his sin was, but let one of them tell you his theory about it, and its ab surdity will cause you to laugh. There never was a "fall of man;" on the con trary, mankind of today has been evolved from a very low beginning our improveme.it has been simply marvelous. Why should men invent falsehoods about themselves, to bolster up an utterly baseless and foolish superstition? Is it an offense to tell the truth aboul mankind when the truth is credit able? The church has been so cruel in punishing its enemies that many men are stiil afraid to declare their beliefs. Good men dread to be accused of op posing morality and the home, and this is the first charge the church makes against a man who opposes Its doctrines: the church makes this charge be cause of the discovery that it Is effective. The great philosophers have al ways been timid in opposing the doctrine of the church. Think of truth and progress standing before ignorance and superstition in awe and fear! Yet this has been the case since Galileo was so terribly punished for making a discovery in science that has since been accepted every where as truth. This discovery was opposed to the theory of the church, and Galileo was punished. This persecution has been kept up ever since, but modified as enlightenment Increased. The church has not low the power to summon a scholar before It for making a discovery and announcing it, but it persecutes through its wo men members. On oth.-r subjects, they may be well informed, but in relig ious matters, they consider it a sin to doubt any teaching of the church. The leaders in religion are the real culprits: they have always known better than they have taught. Mahomet knew he was a liar when he pretended to have visions, but his followers "were no doubt in earnest in accepting his teachings. Ignorance has always been the mainstay of the church, and when 1 say ignorance, I mean only ignorance of church history. Church members are fairly well informed on other subjects, but on church history they know almost nothing at all. Many of them are well informed in the Bible, and in church literature, but so far as information goes, they might as well devote their spare time to studying the ritual of a lodge. This is not a Christian nation. Statistics show that more than two-thirds of the people of this country nearly three quarters are not identified with any of the Christian organizations. But we all know that the church is full of insincere men and women: men and women who do not believe in church doctrine, but who attend church for various reasons other than actual piety. Is'o man can know what proportion of church members are insincere, but I believe that ministers will say that fully one-half of their members are insin cere in matters of faith. The other half only half believe. Admitting this is true, and out of a population of upwards of seventy millions In this coun try, we have ten millions, largely women, who believe in Christianity in a half hearted way, from sentimental and other reasons. I am trying to be liberal in this estimate; in my own opinion, not one intelligent man or wo man in a hundred sincerely believes in the orthodox religion. That is, in the fall of man, in answer to prayer, in the atonement through Christ, in Heaven for those who accept the atonement, and hell for those who do not, etc. The church statistics are not reliable; we do not know how many unbelievers there are because unbelievers do not declare themselves. But whether these figures be right or wrong, it is known that a great ma jority of people in this country at least two to one are outside Of the church; it is generally known that the men who are foremost in the progress and moral advancement, are outside of the church; it is admitted by church auth orities that the church is rapidly declining; it is known that the great active world is outside of the church, and is not influenced by it, and that in spite of this indifference, the world Is improving in every material and moral sense: In short, it is known that the church is not important to the world's welfare. Then the question arises and confronts every honest man: shall the great majority of the people, including most of the men and women of marked in telligence, fairness and respectability, be controlled by the great minority, distinguished and influenced by an exploded superstition? It is a situation that must be met. Either the sixty and odd million people who reject ortho doxy are wrong, or the ten million who half accept it are right. One or the other should prevail, to the end that right teaching should prevail. The great majority should prove its case or join the church. As one of the great major ity, I am tired of the minority teaching my children that I am not an honest man, for no other reason than that I can not accept a theory repugnant to common intelligence and information. The popular cry is, there is nothing to take the place of orthodoxy. This is nonsense. Insignificant as I am, I can in a thousand words write a moral creed superior in every way to the present Christian religion. Let it .be re membered that my contention is that if the churches were all closed today, the world wouldgoon just the same. Morals would slowly improve, as they have done during the past centuries. The theory that religion holds the world from rushing headlong into immorality, is the sheerest nonsense. Men behave them selves because of their own laws; because of their necessities. Their laws do not enforce belief in doctrine, but they do demand good conduct. It is a favorite theory that religion is natural to' men. The idea of the supernatural originated in countries where storms and floods were most com mon. It is natural, I admit, for men to fear the storm, the flood, and the dark. But if religion is natural to every man, as is claimed, why do they not accept it? If you say religion is natural, why do you not pay attention to it further than to declare occasionally that every man is religious? If I be lieved in religion, I would fall on my knees, and begin praying. If religion is true, it is too important a matter to neglect. But the fact remains that the intelligent and progressive races of the earth pay little attention to it, and it is accepted actually only by the inferior races. In India, and Turkey, and China, the people pray half the time. In America, England, France and Ger many, the great nations of intellectual progress, not one man in fifty prays one hour in a thousand. I was talking with a gentleman the other day, and he quoted Byron to prove that all men believe in some form of religion. Byron, of all men! I have no use for any man who talks li'ie a taint, and acts like a devil. And when were poets accepted as critics of practical affairs? Poets are all dreamers: spiritualists. They believe in anything, everything. It is the practical man of affairs, the man who practices good conduct for his own sake, whose opinion i3 of value. If it is true that every man has some sort of a religious belief, and no two of them agree, of what value is the fact? Spir itualism is the father of all religions: the man who sits in the dark waiting for the spirits to rap on the table, is no more absurd than the man who re tires to his closet In secret, and expects answer to prayer. The religion that we Americans accept has no better foundation than the religion of the Chin ese, the Turks, or the Indians: all religions are the same: they are all found ed on fear, on the supernatural. Civilized men should have a better religion than savages, yet we are sending missionaries to the savages to teach them a religion we stole from them. Poetry and religion are closely related: both are obscure, both are pa tronized as a sense of duty. There was a time when a new book of poetry at tracted attention. This does not occur in modern times, and it is a fact that no religious book has attracted great attention in several generations. There was a time when a religious zealot could arouse the people, aa Peter the Her mit did in arousing the people to rescue the Holy Sepulchre. No such thing has occurred in hundreds of years. Old poetry wa3 weird and unnatural, like religion. Poetry was nearly always written by men of extreme religious con victions, and concerning religious subjects. The reader of this probably feels ashamed because he does not admire Dante or Homer. Why? Because he has been told they are great poets. Who says so? The men who say that the Bible is literature. There is no more reason to believe that Dante and Homer were great poets than there is to believe that the Bible was inspired. One of the principal arguments in favor of religion is that our mothers believed in it. It is not as generally accepted by the best mothers as is be lieved. Women more generally believe in religion than men, because they know less' about it. It is part of a woman's policy to be religious. She en joys the ceremonies of the church. Marriages are held in the church. Love affairs often begin in the church. Christenings are held in the church. Fun erals (which some women enjoy, for some strange reason), are held in the c hurch. The pastor is a man. Men would take more interest In church af fairs if the pastor were a young, good-looking, and bright woman, who called on them during the absence of their wives. That women are the mainstay of the church, there Is no doubt, but are not men worth saving? Was the plan of salvation for women only? Watch tr-ose who attend the Lenten services: ninety out of every hundred of them are women. It will be said that men have the same right. But the men are busy: they are compelled to work. Besides, they do not believe in It. You can not control the mind. You can not say, "this shall go in," "this shall re main out." The men who have accomplished the great things in the world: the men who have worked so patiently to support and educate families: are they not worth saving? Are the women willing to save themselves, and let the men go to hell? If the plan of salvation were true, could not the men discover it, and accept It, as well as the women? I was going down town the other morning, and caught up with a citizen who was going to his work: a locomotive engineer, one of the most trusted men in the employ of a railroad company for which he works. I have known him for years, and think a great deal of him, because of his clean, manly life. In a little while we met his mother and wife, going to Lenten cervices. I asked him why he did not attend. He laughed, and said he was going to work. He was going to the round house, to look over his engine, before starting out with a passenger train. I thought about the incident a great deal. Here was a manly, progressive citizen that the community was proud of, yet he did not attend church. His mother and wife attend regular ly; special as well as regular services. These women are very fond of this eon and husband; they know him to be an excellent man. What conclusion must they come to when they remember that the son and husband does not go to church: does not believe in the doctrine? Are they willing to save them selves, and let him go to perdition? They accept his judgment In all other respects. Why do they not accept his judgment in this matter? If I had a man In my employ who would quit work to attend Lenten services, I would discharge him. Most employers would; It would be a shift less piece of business that would indicate shiftlessness in other respects. Men do not like the manner In which the women. take the Lord and their parson into partnership, and become "churchy." Men are not offended be cause they believe they are in danger of hell fire, but because they dislike the attitude of the women on the question. Men do not like it when the pas tor calls on their wives, and when men do not like a thing, they have a way of resisting It. Over-zealous women have done a great deal toward forc ing the men away from religion. I have heard ministers say that the great foes of religion were the over-zealous women who devoted so much time to the church as to disgust the men, and nothing important can be done in this world without the assistance and support of the men. Women are the great supporters of the church because of the claim that the church protects the rights of women, fosters the home, etc. It Is a mis taken idea: civilized men deserve this credit. Who made the laws punishing men for wrongs against women? Who. but the men themselves? Who abol ished polygamy, in spite of the fact that many of the old saints practiced it, and In spite of the fact that a religious dogma taught that polygamy was a divine institution? Did not the men do it? Then In the name of justice, why not give them credit, instead of giving credit to the church? The church has no other mission than to teach doctrine: the world has progressed, not be- .cause of Doctrine, but in spite of it. gaining their rights, but they have always had the cheerful assistance of men. It is unfair to give the church credit that belongs to humanity. I have long been impressed with the prevalent insincerity on the subject of religion. Neither side has been fair with the other, and the opponents of orthodoxy have masqueraded as disciples of Jesus. Religion is either true or false; it should be either accepted or rejected. It has been rejected. The sin cerest believers in religion are found among ignorant negroes who can neltheh read nor write. The least belief In orthodoxy is found among those who are most learned and intelligent: this will be generally admitted. Do you mean to say, then, that the most worthy people In the world are to burn forever Jn a lake of fire and brimstone? Think of this horrible thirfc: to burn forever, and never be able to die. You may say they may escape this, by faith, but suppose they can not have faith? This is the trouble: the people lack faith. Or you may say the church has modified this sentence. It makes no differ ence what the church has done In the way of modification: if the law was di vinely instituted In the first place. It will be carried out. And we can not say religion is partly true: It is either true according to the Bible, or it is false. Give up one part of it, and you must give up all of it. Every intelligent minister must be ashamed of the real meaning of his doctrine. And he must know that he has no right to modify it: it Is all true, or all untrue. Martin Luther is heralded as a reformer, yet the church founded in his honor teaches that the wine in the sacrament is not wine at all, but the actual blood of the Savior. Is it possible that the intelligent Lutheran ministers do not blush when they are compelied to declare that they believe this doctrine? In every church you will find doctrines that the minis ters are ashamed of. When the confession of faith Is read to a young person joining the church, he does not understand what it means. We are told every day that the church does not teach what it formerly did. This Is no more than an apology from the church for its religious doctrine: an admission that the people have outgrown the supernatural, and will not have it. But the original doctrine Is what governs: if God said certain things for the gov ernment of men, men have no right to change these rules, and the changes will not be accepted. We are told also that the new testament does away with the old. It Is ridiculous to suppose that God would say, "I have made mis takes; I have changed my mind." Not long ago. In the town where I live, an old woman doctor killed a man by "cupping" him. Physicians swore on the stand that the practice of "cupping" had once been a recognized practice among the best doctors, but it had been given up as dangerous. This will do among doctors, but it will not do for the church. The church refuses to accept the discoveries of men, and rests its claims on divine origin. Jf it divinely origi nated in the first place, its practices can not be changed. There is only one thing to do: to admit that civilized men have demonstrated that the alleged divine message was absurd, and that it originated with ignorant men. This being the case, is it not only the right, but the duty, of civilized men to give up supernaturalism? It is said by many that religion, even If it has no basis in fact, is useful, and that it controls the ignorant and vicious. Is it fair that learning be de nied, and the learned subject to slurs and slanders. In order that a few Ig norant people may be controlled by superstitious fear? But are the ignorant controlled by religion? The chief of police of the city in which I live, says that a certain church causes the police more trou ble than any other institution in town. The police officer to whom I refer is named O. E. Seip. He is a Presbyterian. Any one who wishes may write, him, and find that what I say is true. The negro church In question is a nuisance to the neighborhood in which it is located. Something is going on there nearly all the time, and the revivals are as disorderly as the festivals. The revivals are disgraceful to human nature. Of my own knowledge, I know of a negro revivalist who had a habit of announcing In the papers when he would have a "big time," thus inviting the whites to be present, and see the members of the church "carry on." The fact that many young people attend church for no good purpose, has become so notorious that one of the white pastors in the town in which I live, refuses to hold services in the evening. Is there anything elevating in this sort of thing? Would not police officers with authority be more effective than pastors without It? I think I never knew a religious person who did not exploit the feeling that, in going to church, he was doing a great deal of good for others. "I may know better," he seems to say, "but the vicious must be controlled in some way; this seems to be the best thing offering." I think I never knew what they call "a brother-in-law of the church," who did not look wise and good, and ask credit by the expression on his countenance for not telling the startling things he knows about religion. Almost no one really believes in religion: they are all pretending to believe In it, to save others, and for "the good of the children.'" Meanwhile, the children are taught the doctrine of evolution at the day schools, and laugh at their elders as foolish old fogies. Children learn the truth about religion almost as soon as they learn the truth about Santa Claus, but they keep their religious discoveries quiet longer, through fear. The story of Santa Claus is a story that does no harm, because no one pretends to-believe in it, and because Santa Claus is not an avenging Saint, but the orthodox story has caused a great deal of trouble in the world, and is as baseless as the Santa Claus story. The more ignorant the com munity in which you live, the more viciously you are abused and slandered, unless you pretend to accept the orthodox story, and become a hypocrite. I go so far as to say that I have never been able to understand the use of the Santa Claus story. If parents give their children' gifts, and please them, why give the credit to a mythical saint? Why not let the children know the truth, in the hope that they will appreciate the favor, and be more mind ful of their duty to their parents? Since men and women have sprung from a very low beginning, and practice good principles because of the necessity of law and order, why give the credit to a mythical saint? I can not under stand it. I can not see any use in it. On the contrary, I can see harm in it. For one thing, it makes hypocrisy and foolish sentiment, not only respectable, but virtuous. How do the ordinary members of a church like the Imputation that they are ignorant and can be controlled through fearonly? This has always been the theory of the really intelligent leaders of the church. There is no disputing that the Roman Catholic priests control their con gregations, and it is therefore true that the modern Roman Catholic church accomplishes good. But the Protestant churches attack the Catholics with undisguised venom. The Protestant churches would rather see all the churches burned than see the Catholic faith control. I never attended Catho lic service in my life: I was brought up a Methodist, and therefore have no prejudice in favor of the Catholics, but my experience has led me to believe that if we must have a religious faith, the Catholic faith should be adopted, because of its better system of government. It Is nearer the original faith of Christians than any other, and it3 policy is better adapted to human needs. Atchison, Kansas, March 12, 1900. End "Sermon" No. 2. MARBLE MAN SUED. J. N. Suddarth Wants $5,000 For False Imprisonment. J. N. Suddarth has filed a suit in the district court asking for $5,000 damages from W. J. Mattern for causing his ar rest and imprisonment on the charge of embezzlement. Mr. Mattern is the proprietor of a marble establishment in North Topeka. Mr. Suddarth was a solicitor to secure orders for him. He took a bicycle on trade and then sold It, and for this Mr. Mattern had him arrested. In his petition Mr. Suddarth states that he solicited orders for Mr. Mattern up to March 18, 1899, and secured orders for monuments amounting to $2,300; that he was to receive 20 per cent com mission on these orders, but that there is still due him $75; that on one deal, acting under instructions from Mr. Mat tern, he took a bicycle in trade at $55, which Mr. Mattern told him he might have to apply on his commission; that he afterwards sold the bicycle for $10, whereupon Mr. Mattern had him ar rested for embezzlement, and that he was in jail for a long time. Mr. Suddarth claims that he was not guilty of embezzlement and that Mr. Mattern knew it, and knew all about the transactions. He therefore asks for damages to the amount of $5,000 for the Injuries done to his reputation, his per sonal feelings, loss of time and other things. THREE JOISTS RAIDED. Police Capture Pine Bars and Small Supply of Liquor. The police raided three joints Tuesday afternoon and gathered in three pine bars, three kegs and three jointists. Fritz Durein's place in the rear of the Milwaukee restaurant on Kansas avenue between Fourth and Fifth street. George Klauer's place near Sixth and Kansas avenues and Frank Bates place in the rear of the Royal billiard parlor near Seventh street were raided. Similar ar ticles were seized at each place. The three bars were of pine and the cheapest kind possible to obtain. At each place a bucket of glasses and bottles and a part of a keg of beer were confiscated. Mrs. Booth-Tucker Prostrated. Racine. Wis., March 14. Mrs. Booth Tucker, of the Salvation army, who was to deliver a lecture in Racine last night, was prostrated on her arrival and unable to fulfill her engagement. Mrs. Tucker was taken to a private residence and medical aid summoned. It is said that her voice has failed completely. Women have aided very materially in THE ST. LOUIS BROWNS. Probable Position of the Players For This Season. TFrom the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.l Of all the youngsters, on last season's form, little Harper, the former Exile, looks the best of the lot. Knepper Is a twirler of good promise, and as a south paw would be needed. Bert Jones will likely get a berth. For first big Dan Mc Gann, the recent purchase, should have little trouble in making the position. Mr. Robinson never would have paid $5,000 for his release if both he and Tebeau didn't consider him the right man for the place. He Is just as free a hitter as Cross, equal ly as speedy on the sacks and certainly better qualified to fill the bag. He has the proper build, and while playing in the east was rated with the top-notchers as a guardian of the initial corner. For second, providing "Cupid" Childs come on and makes a bid for the position, there will be a three-cornered battle between the Baltlmoreaji. the ever reliable Quinn and the highly promising Iveister. Con sidering that Keister is a much younger man than either Quinn or Childs. and that his ail-round work during the is:9 campaign was the superior, he looks the right man for the position. Then with MoGraw a Tebeauite, the third sack will be his, and, of course, Wallace will ca vort at short. Cross, unless he could be traded advantageously for a star pitcher, preferably a left-hander, would make an ideal extra infielder. Lave can play any of the sacks right up to the handle, and can also fill an outfield berth, as well as don the mask and catch with the best of them. In fact, it was as a back-stop that Cross started his professional ca reer. He is a prime favorite with local "fans," and they would be loath to see htm leave. Quinn. too, may be retained and if the California "phenom," Thomas Sheehan. "makes good" Lange's tip, Te beau will keep a strong on him, so that he can be used at some future date. In the outheld it Is coins to be Burkett Heidrick and Donovan, with the chances favoring "Mike" Donlin for retention as utility fly-catcher. Baseball enthusiasts can not but admire this aggregation, which would be bound to have a larore sized say in the settlement of the 1900 bunting. It would be insured of grand support at home, and the money recently invested by the Robisons for the purchase or players would come Daca to tnem ten fold before a single season had been com pleted. Place For a Kansas "Woman. Washington, D. C, March 14. Miss Anna B. Moore, of Lawrence, Kan., has been appointed assistant matron at the Indian school at Zunt, .New Mexico, ana Miss Margaret J. Beal, of Kansas City, appointed a seamstress at Fort Yuma, Ariz. SPORTING NEWS. New Rules of Baseball Ex plained by President Hart. Shape of Home Plate Not Hard on Pitchers. BALE RULE REVISED. No More Double-Header Games For One Admission. Exhibition Games Allowed With Minor Leagues. Chicago. March 14. Rules governing baseball were subjected to several changes by the National league last week which were almost entirely over looked in political acts of the magnates. President James A. Hart of the Chicago club returned from the meeting yester day and furnished light on new regula tions which are to govern the national game .for this year. The makers or baseball law toon notice of the fact that the balk rule which was put into practice a year ago was too huge a joke to be continued. They reformed it into a more sensiDie rule. The ideav that a batsman should be allowed to walk down to the initial bag because a pitcher made an illegal motion to throw to first base was al ways a puzzle that the "fan" could hot solve. Hereafter the batsman will con tinue at the plate so long as the illegal motions are not directed at him. A false move to throw to a base for the purpose of catching a tnan will give the runner and not the batsman an advance. President Hart's explanation of the change in the shape of the home plate settles the controversy now going on among the" pitchers. The plate will not be shifted so that a broadside of only a foot will be presented to the twirler. The rubber will not be moved from Its present position, but the angle pointed toward the pitcher's box will be filled out. This will offer a front the full width of the plate as it is now located. about seventeen inches instead of a foot. As remodeled the plate will still have the diamond point facing the backstop. The magnates have tired of tne plan of giving double-header games for the price of one admission. The double header will be barred in the future. The only point at which the bars have been let down is in the matter of exhibition games. National league teams will be allowed to play with minor teams, but no exhibitions between clubs of the league will be permitted. Hart op posed the exhibition game, but was out voted. SECURES RICHARD DWYEB. Washington Park Track Engages Him to Act as b tarter. Chicago, March 14. Richard Dwyer, the "prince of starters," will handle the flag at Washington park and Haw thorne this year. While he has not signed to do the starting at the Cicero track, he assured the owners last week he probably would accept the position which he filled so capably last season. Dwyer left for the east Saturday night after affixing his signature to a Wash ington park contract. MAY GET JAMES M'ALEER. Former National Leaguer Apt to Sign with, tne American. Cleveland, O., March 14. Indications point toward James McAleer, the center fielder of the former Cleveland National league team, becoming the manager of the new American league team in this city. McAleer was in conference today with Kilfoyle and Somers, the local owners, and Connie Macx, manager of the Milwaukee team, who is here rep resenting President Ban Johnson. Kil foyle and Somers declared they would uphold Johnson in his stand on the Chi cago club matter. THE DEAD TO LIFE. Maximum Freight Hate Law Is Re vived in Nebraska. Omaha. Neb., March 14. The state of Nebraska has appealed to the supreme court to assess heavy damages against certain railroad corporations for re fusing to obey the provisions of the maximum freight rate law. The amount for which the Union Pacific is sued is $535,000, the Missouri Pacific for J4SS.000 and the Rock Island for $310,000. The suit comes as a great surprise to the state board of transportation, to the railroads and to the public at large, who have believed the maximum rate law to be dead and buried in conse quence of the decision of the United States supreme court. The attorney genera! holds to the contrary, that the law is still operative, constitutional and valid. He bases his position on the "Great Oaks From Little Acorns Grow. A single microbe contains the germ of the most malig nant maladies. The Blood is the means by which microbes are sent on their deadly mis sion. Small at first, the mi crobe soon becomes a giant. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the arch enemy of all germs of 'whatever nature. Its small doses master these microbes by dissolving and passing them off as refuse of the system. Female Weakness" have had female tueakness all my life and suffered day and night from hea.da.che. I have taken Hood's Sarsaparilla and am nvw strong again." Mrs. Gertie Landon, Harlem, Mo. Rheumatism -"If I have a touch of rheumatism. I take Hood's Sarsaparilla and it soon cores me. It is the best rem edy I know of for that trouble." H. W. Hutchinson. Newark Valley, N. Y. Neuralgia" took Hood's Sarsapa rilU for neuralgia and in less than one month Itvas perfectly cured." Annie M. Luck, Benfer, Pa. Wood' fflU cure H-rerUi; the nop -Irritating and only cathartic to take with Hood' Sargaparilla,. 5 Our Annual Clearance Sale of .Books to. reduce stock, will commence Next Monday, March the 19th, and will last for one solid week. Every book in the house to be sold at a discount of 25 per cent,', and a great many at a greater discount than that -these you will find on our bargain counter at a price. These counters will give many a chance to pick up some book that they wish at very little cost. All Copyright Books to Be Sold as Follows: Regular $-2.00 Books Our Price $1,50 Regular $1.50 Books Our Price $1.13 Regular $1.25 Books Our Price 9 5o Regular $1.00 Books Our Price 7 5C The Sheldon Books in Different bindings From 5c to 75c. Howe'sThe Story of a Country Town, $i.oo; paper 25c. Sets of Dickens, Thackeray, Bronte, Eliot, Field, Riley, Scott, Dumas, Holmes, Hugo, Cooper, Correlli, Caine 1 and many others are marked with a price. We "will be glad to have you come in and look at our books, even if you do not wish to buy. REME Commencing Monday, March 10. X X i x Main Bool 711 KANSAS AVE. ground that the decision of the supreme court was expressly declared to be bind ing only on the parties to the suit, the railroads who came into court and showed that their gross earnings under the law would be reduced so far as to prevent a fair return on their invest ment. But the three railroads named were not parties to the suit, and are said, therefore, to be legally bound by the provisions of the act. OBJECT TO ST. LOUIS. McGraw and Robinson Declare They Must Stay in the East. Baltimore. Md., March 14. When the first conference between Magnates Han Ion and Robiaon on the one side and Mc Graw and Kobinson on the other broke up the two players, though they declared positively that they would not go to St. Louis, agreed to sleep on the proposition and come to another conference today. Promptly at the hour set Hanlon and Robison appeared at the Rennert, but found instead of the players a note signed by both of them, which was brief and to the point. It stated that they liked Mr. Robison very much personally, and had no fault to find with the terms of fered, but they had a large business here which required their attention, and they could not afford to go so far away from it. If they were located in New York they could come over on Saturdays and stay until Sunday, but if they were as far awav as St. Louis they would not be able to get in from the beginning to the end of the basebail season. HE WONT RACE SUNDAYS. Negro Cyclist Taylor Refuses an Offer of $10,000. "Worcester March 14. Major Taylor, the negro cyclone, rejected an offer of $10,000 to go to France last week. Mark Braun came direct from Paris to Worces ter as the representative of the French evele makers and the tracks of Paris. His offer was a guarantee that Taylor would make $10,000 and he said that the amount would be much above that. Tay lor's reply to Mr. Braun was: "I can not and will not ride on the Sab bath day. Providing they will make my races week days I wiil go to France, oth erwise I shall stay at home and endeavor to secure my reinstatement from the American Racing Cyclists' union in or der that I may ride here." WASHBURN BASE BALL.1 A Strong Effort Being Made to Se cure a Winning Team. The Washburn college boys have held their first practice game of baseball. About thirty candidates were put out and entered into the spirit of the game with enthusiasm. The boys who are practic ing for places on the team are: Catchers Gramlev, Stahl, Brockett. Pitchers Aiken, Cave, Backenstoce. Inflelders L. Stahl, P. Anderson, Gar tha. Page. B. Stewart, Meade, Bronson and Gephart. Outfielders Richards, Jones, Lux, Det wiler. Hitchcock, Sutton and Ritchie. There is material for a strong ball team In this list of names and Washburn should show up well at the front at the season's close. An offer has been made Randolph or Emporia to coach and manage the team this season. READY FOR SPRING TRIP. Captain Delehanty and Philadelphia Players to Go South. Philadelphia, Pa., March 14. Sixteen of the twenty-two baseball players who are claimed by the Philadelphia club are expected to start south for spring practice today. The destination is Charlotte, N. C, and there they will train till the first week in April. Should Lauder fail to report the team will need considerable strengthening. Treasurer Rogers says he tried to gret x X x M sia. Co.. Jennings and Kiester from the Brook lyn club, offering $7,500 for Jennings or $10,000 for the pair. Mr. Ebbetts an swered that twice the amount offered would not buy Jennings, and that Kies ter had been sold to St. Louis. Should Sheckard of Brooklyn or any other good outfielder be secured Dele hanty will come in from left field and play first base.' Delehanty will captain the team and first base will, therefore, be the best position on the team for "Del." AMERICAN LEAGUE MEETING. Magnates Meet Monday to Adopt Schedule and Decide Circuit. Chicago. March 14. Magnates of the American league of baseball clubs will hold a schedule and circuit meeting next Monday at the Great Northern hotel. The meeting will be an Impor tant one in view of the propositions to make several changes in the circuit by way of taking in Chicago and Cleve land. That such action will be taken is a forte-one conclusion. James Bunis, the new manager of the Detroit club, was in Chicago yesterday conferring with President Johnson and looking after new players. He considered the outlook bright for a good season at Detroit. Manager Sulpaugh, of the Minneapolis club, who came to town Sunday, will remain until after the league meeting. In view of the act of the National league in reviving the American asso ciation. It is possible Comiskey will lo cate his Chicago club on the west side.. WESTERN LEAGUE SCHEDULE. Season Will Begin May 5, and Con sist of 110 Games. Denver, Colo., March 14. President Hickey of the Western league of base ball clubs, announced today that the season will open May 5 with the Omaha club at Denver, St. Joseph at Pueblo and Stoux City at Des Moines. During the greater part of May Omaha, St: Joseph, Sioux City and Des Moines will be playing in Denver and Pue'olo, after which the latter two will make their first eastern trip. The season wiil close September 9. Each club will play 22 games with every other club, 55 at home and the same number abroad. 1 Tanforan Races. San Francisco. March 14. Weather cloudy; track fast at Tanforan. Sum maries: First race 7-18 mile: 2-year-old maiden fillies: purse. Floranthe, 108, 10 to 1, won; Too Hot, 108, 15 to L second; Princess Leota. 108, 15 to 1, third. Time, 0:43. Second race mile; selling. Afghan, 105, S to 5. won: Momentum, 108, 4 to 1, second; Vioris, 100, 4 to 1, third. Times, 1:13'A. Third race 1 mile; purse. Erwln, 107, 8 to 5, won; Flower of Gold, 107, 4 to 5, second; Norford, 107, 4 to 1, third. Time. 1:42. Fourth race mile; gelling. Topmast, 111, 3 to 5. won; Chimura, 101, 8 to 6. sec ond: Twinkler, 107, 5 to L third. Time, 2:07H- Sixth race 1 mile; purse. El Mido, 112, 2 to 1. won: Acrobat, 111, 1 to 2, second; Cromwell, 114 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:43. Fifes and Roeber Make Up. New York, March 14. Harmony now reigns between Bob Fitzsimmons and Wrestler Ernest Roeber. A few days ago Roeber brought suit against the former champion for back salary, which Roeber says amounted to $875. Today Fitzsimmons called on Roeber and gave him ali the money that he owed him, and the two made up. Fitz simmons then engaged Roeber as a wrestling partner and trainer for his coming battle with Tom Sharkey.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 14, 1900. 3 Crippled by Rheumatism. Those who have Kheumatism find themselves growing steadily worse all the while. One reason of this 13 that the remedies prescribed by the doctors contain mercury and potash, which ulti mately intensify the disease by causing the Joints to swell and stiffen, produc ing a severs aching of the bones. S. S. 6. has been curing Rheumatism for twenty years even the worst cases which seemed almost incurable. Cant O K Hughes, the popular railroad con ductor, of Columbia, S. C, had aa experience with Rheumatism which eonvinoed him that there is only one cure lor that painful disease. Ha ays: I wan a freat suf ferer from muscular Kheumatism for two years. I could Ret no permanent relief from any medicine prescribed by my phvtuciau. I look about a dozen bottles of f ycur a. S. 8., and now I am as well as I ever was i In my life. I am sure thatyourmedieine rured tn Knd I vim I i reptirn- nend it to any one suffering from any blood disease." Everybody knows that Rheumatism is a diseased state of the blood, and that a blood remedy is the only proper treat ment, but one containing potash and mercury only aggravates the trouble. being Purely Vegetable, goes direct to the very cause of the disease and a per manent cure always results. It is the only blood remedy guaranteed to con tain no potash, mercury or other dan gerous minerals. Books mailed fre by Swift Specifio Company, Atlanta, Georgia. till l3 yy SHORTEST LlfllE. COLORADO FLYER. California... THE LAND OF SUNSHINE. PICTO HAH7 EOTJXtS SAVED BSTWEEIT IIA1TSAS POINTS PACIFIC COAST BY TAKING THE UNION PACIFIC. Palace Si.kepivo Cars. i KKR liFCI.lMMi l"" FT AT R CARS. DlSIMi CARS. MKALS A LA CARTB. FlSTSl H LlOIIT, STEAM HEAT. Blue Grass, 2 lbs. for 25c. White Clover, 20c per pound. Sweet Peas, 10c per ounce. Nasturtiums, 15c per ounce. GARDEN and FIELD SEED PETER IIE1L SON 210 Sixth Avenue West, TOPEKA. KANSAS. geo. n. mm co., TOPEKA, KANSAS. Buy, Sell, and Manage Real Estate for owners. Negotiate and collect mort gages and bonds for Eastern investors. Make settlements between Eastern investors and Western debtors. Thirty years' experience in the West. WE'LL DO YOUR HAULING RIGHT. Topeka Transfer Go. 509 Kansas Avenue. Office Tel. 320. House Tel. 395. F. P, BACON, Proprietor. WSEE ME ABOUT STORAGE. THE EARTH Secure a Home in the Best Part thereof. Farms and Eaaclies, $2 to $20 per acre. Homes in. city, $300 to $3,000. Write to or see W. R. ADAMS, Larned, Kas. He's a lucky fellow who can fall in lava without iurting himself. Blood 7 lt -s p JEW SETOF BOOKS Different System of Keeping Accounts Will Follow The Inauguration of the New Currency Law at NATIONAL TREASURY. Secretary Gage Tells llow the Thing Will Work. Treasury Balance Will Not Loom Up to Previous Extent. Washington, March 14. Secretary Gage has made a statement in expla nation of the provisions of the finan cial bill that passed the house yester day, in which he says: The financial bill which now await3 only the signature of the president to become a law, has for its first object what its title indicates, the fixing o the standard of value and the main taining at a parity with that standard of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States. It reaffirms that the unit of value is the dollar consisting of twenty-live and eight-tenths grains of gold, nine-tenths fine, but it goes on to make the duty of the secretary of the -treasury to maintain all forms of money issued or coined at a parity with this standard. It puts into the hands of the secretary ample power to do that. For that purpose the bill provides in the treasury bureaus of issue and re demption any transfers from the gen eral fund of the treasury's cash $150, 000,000 in gold coin and bullion to the redemption fund, that gold to be used for the redemption of United States notes and treasury notes. That fund is henceforth absolutely cut out of and separated from the cash balance in the treasury and the available cash balance will hereafter show a reduction of $150, 000,000 from the figures that have here tofore prevailed. This $150,000,000 re demotion fund is to be used for no other purpose than the redemption of the United States notes and treasury notes, and those notes so redeemed may be exchanged for gold in the general fund or with the public, so that the re serve fund is kept full with gold to the $150,000,000 limit. The secretary is given further power. If redemptions go on so that the gold in this reserve fund is reduced below $100,000,000 and he is unable to build it up to the $150,000,000 mark by exchange for gold in the general fund or other wise, he is given power to sell bonds, and it is made his duty to replenish the gold to the $150,000,000 mark by such means. The "endless chain" is broken by a provision which prohibits the use of notes so redeemed to meet deficiencies in the current revenues. The act pro vides for the ultimate retirement of all the treasury notes issued in payment for silver bullion under the Sherman act. As fast as that bullion is coined into silver dollars treasury notes are to be retired and replaced with an. equal amount of silver certificates. The measure authorizes the issue of gold certificates in exchange for de posits of gold coin, the same as at pres ent, but suspends that authority when ever and so long as the gold in the re demption fund is below $100,000,000 and gives to the secretary the option to sus pend the issue of such certificates whenever the silver certificates and United States notes in the general fund of the treasury exceed $60,000,000. The bill provides for a larger issue of silver certificates by declaring that hereafter silver certificates shall be is sued only in denominations of ten dol lars and under except as to ten per cent. of the total volume. Room is made for this larger use of silver certificates in the way of small bills. By another provision which makes it necessary as fast as the present silver certificates of high denominations are broken up into small bills to cancel a similar volume of United States notes of similar de nominations and replace them with notes of denominations of ten dollars and uiiward. Further room is made for the circulation of small silver cer tificates by a clause which permits na tional banks to have only one-third of their capital in denomination under ten dollars. One clause of the bill which the public will ereatly appreciate is the right that it gives to the secretary to coin any of the 1890 bullion into subsidiary silver coins ud to a limit of $100,000,000. "There has for years been a scarcity of subsidiary silver during periods of active retail trade, but this provision will give the treasury ample, opportuni ty to supply all the subsidiary silver that is needed. Another provision that the public will greatly appreciate is the authority given to the secretary to re- coin worn and uncurrent subsidiary sil ver now in the treasury or hereafter received. The bill makes a continuing appropriation for passing the difference between the face value ot such coin and the amount the same will produce in the new com. "A distinct feature of the bill is in reference to refunding the 3 per cent Spanish war loan, the 2 per cent bonds maturing in 1&07, and the 5 per cent bonds maturing in 1904, a total of $839 000,000 into new 2 per cent bonds. These new 2 per cent bonds will not be of fered for sale, but will only be issued in exchange for an equal amount, face value, of old bonds. The holders of old bonds will receive a premium in cash to compensate them in a measure for the sacrifice of interest which they make. The cash premium will be com puted on a basis of the present worth of the old bonds at 2Vi per cent, and will be, on April 1, the date that -the new 2 per cent bonds will bear, $103.6851 for the threes; $11.6763 for the fours and $110.0751 for each $100 of the fives. This exchange will save the gov ernment, after deducting the premium paid, nearly $23,000,000, if all the hold ers of the old bonds exchange them for the new ones. New national banks that take out circulation based on the new bonds are to be taxed only one-half of one per cent on the average amount of circulation outstanding, while those who have circulation based on a depos it of old bonds will be taxed, as at pres ent, 1 per cent. "There are some other changes in the national banking act. The law permits national banks with $25,000 capital to be organized in places of 3,000 inhab itants or less, whereas heretofore the minimum capital has Tjeen $50,000. It also permits banks to issue circulation of all classes of bonds deposited up to the par value of the bonds, instead of ninety per cent of their face, as hereto fore. This ought to make an immediate increase in national bank circulation of something like $24,000,000 as the amount of bonds now deposited to secure cir culation is about $242,000,000. If the price of the new twos is not forced so high in the market that there is no profit left to national banks in taking out circulation, we may also look for a material increase in national bank circulation bases on additional deposits of bonds. "National banks are permitted under the law to issue circulation up to an amount equal to their capital. The total capital of all national banks is $616,000, 000. The total circulation outstanding is $253,000,000. There is, therefore, a pos sibility of an increase in circulation of $363,000,000, although the price of the new two per cent bonds, as already foreshadowed by market quotations in advance of their issue, promises to be so high that the profit to the banks in taking out circulation will not be enough to make the increase anything like such a possible total." Comptroller Dawes when asked what his course would be in connection with requests for national bank charters un der the new law said: "The question of the best methods of preventing the abuse of the new law which authorizes the establishment of banks of $25,000 capital in towns with not exceeding 3,000 population has had my careful consideration. "In view of the large number of ap plications for charters of small banks, I shall institute special inquiry in ad dition to the usual examination as au thorized by section 5169 of the revised statutes of the United States whenever there is the slightest ground to suspect the existence o improper motives on the part of those applying for charters un der the national system. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS Mr. E. H. Crosby is in the east. Saturday will be St. Patrick's day. H. A. Heath is in St, Louis on busi ness. Dr. "Wm. Maclay Lyon is visiting In Topeka. The Elks will initiate a large class on March 28. The Elks have an election of officers on the 28th. George W. Crane spent yesterday at Lake View. I. N. Ury of Fort Scott Is In the city on business. J. G. Waters returned from McPher- son yesterday. Mr. John R. Mulvane Is In the western part of the state. General Manager Mudge of the Santa Fe is tn Chicago. The Scottish Rite bodied of the Valley of Topeka meet April 10 to 13. Mr. J. B. Bartholomew has been ser iously ill with pneumonia, but is better today. The anti-cigarette meeting will be held at the First Methodist church, to night. Mr. J. J. Krey has returned to To peka after visiting his family in Albu querque, The flower beds in the state house grounds are being made ready for planting. Runaways are now the style. There has been from one to three a day since Saturday. The coal dealers do not like to have remarks made about them. Neither do the ice men. The pine bars seized in the joint raids are used at the police station for build ing purposes. Marshall's band has resumed practice preparatory to the summer concerts at Garfield park. The Woman's Foreign Missionary so ciety met today in the parlors of the First Methodist church. Emma Dixon, who was arrested for stealing $272 from Mrs. Anna Kelly was discharged in the city court.. Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Thompson will return from Philadelphia in May to re side permanently in Topeka. J. P. Davis, president of the Kansas Mutual Life has returned from a busi ness trip to southern Kansas. Congressman Calderhead will be re nominated for the fourth time for con gress at Manhattan tomorrow. Kansas will furnish 5,000 to 6,000 of the visitors at the national Democratic convention in Kansas City July 4. A new sort of fumigation has been adopted by the police. Once a month the prisoners bed and bedding are burned. Mr. C. G. Sholes, superintendent of telegraph of the Santa Fe, is present at the O. R, T. conference in Chicago this week. The members of the state board of ed ucation are arriving for the meeting at the office of the state superintendent tomorrow. The regular meeting of the Commer cial club will be held tonight. The Santa Fe shop ground proposition will be discussed. Messenger boys will earn their money this week attending to the needs of the small army of newspaper correspond ents m the city. The men who are working horses at the fair grounds were able to drive on the track yesterday for the first time in several weeks. Judge D. M. Aralentine. who is suf fering from partial paralysis at his home on Polk street, is reported to be somewhat improved today. Social dance given by Washington Legion No. 26, Select Knights, at Secur ity hail, inursday evening, March lo. Steinberg's orchestra. Admission 50c. Ralph Dudley of the Pittsburg Gulf railway omces in Kansas City has re turned home after a visit with A. L. Davis and Adrian Sherman. There should be an alley commission er, 'lne street commissioner probably never visited the alleys in the business districts or he would call for a cleaning up. llr. J. S. Hobson, signal engineer of the Santa' Fe, will leave this week for California to look after interlocking plant work on the San Joaquin Valley line. Governor Stanley has appointed E. W. Stanley justice of the peace for St. John township, Stafford county, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of C. H. Linderman. W. E. True, a former member of the nnBO Natured Bas mm Condensed Mil& Borden's Condensed Miik Co., N. Y. 9 gggggg T TVT IO .Trove What the Reader of Reporters Have Convincing Df. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Vjentlemen: In justice to you. I feel it is mv bwamp-Koot you so kindly sent me. I had beeti out of health for the past five years with kidney and blad der trouble. Had our best physicians prescribe for me. They would relieve me for the time beinsr. but the old complaint would m a short time return again. I sent for a sample bottle of Swamp-Root, and I found it dtd me a world of good. Since then I have taken eight small bottles bought at my drug store, and I con sider myself perfectly cured. It seemed as though my back wou'd break in two after stooping. I do not not have to get up during the night to urinate as I formerly did, three or four times a night, but now sleep the sleep of peace. My back is all right again, and in every way I am a new man. Two of my brother officers are still using Swamp-Root. They, like myself, cannot say too much in praise of it. It is a boon to mankind. rewuiuituu ii. iu an xaumanicy wno are suiiermg irom kidney and bladder diseases. My brother officers (whose sip-natures accamomv thts blessing you have brought to the human race in the compounding of Swamp-Root. w e remain, yours very truly, Officers of the 65th Police Precinct, Greater New York. THEODORUS VAN WYCK, former vernon iNews, ana one of the most prosperous real estate brokers in New York, 128 South Eleventh Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y, To Whom It May Concern: I had been a sufferer for over four years from severe at tacks of rheumatism and kidney trouble, probably con tracted by exposure on hunting expeditions and wading trout streams. I tried many remedies, the patent and other jsauu, uut none or mem seemed to do me any good. I was pursuaded by an old and valued friend to try Swamp-Root, and frankly confess that it has benefited me as no other medicine has. I now feel like myself again. I do not have the constant aches and pains which at one time seemed to make me unbearable. It is a positive benefit to ailments of this kind. I always keep it in the house, as it is just as necessary as bread and butter. very respectfully, EDITORIAL NOTE The which all our readers who have not and bladder troubles and containing many of the thousands upon thousands of testimonial letters received from men and women cured by Swamp Root. Be sure and mention reading this generous offer in Topeka Daily State Journal, when sending your address to Dr. Kilmer Co., Bnghamton, N. Y. Twentieth Kansas regiment, has enlist ed in the Fourth United States infantry and will return to the Philippines. Mr. irue is a iopeka hoy. George Bertinkam has been arrested on the charge of larceny and burglary. tie was seen escaping from a house on East First street with a suit of clothes which he tried to pawn. Some girls at "central" seem to enjoy cutting in when people are carrying on a lively conversation over the telephone and ask if they are talking. What would they be doing, looking at each other? From the fact that the James-Kidder-Hanford organization will be in Topeka on a Saturday, a matinee performance may be given in addition to the evening performance. The date is March 31. Monday afternoon the police raided the joint at 410 Kansas avenue and ar rested James Sheasley for running it. A rickety old pine bar was captured and several empty bottles but not a drop of liquor. The superintendent of the fair grounds keeps the property in good condition. He works all the time. That principle of doing business might be emulated by the powers that have charge of the state house grounds and property. Li. Li. Higgins, who was so long a resident of Topeka as the general west ern agent of the Washington Life In surance company of New York, recently located in Denver, has been transferred again, this time to Kansas. His offices have been established in Kansas City. Mr. Higgins was here yesterday on bus iness. I. S. Lewis, of the office of the super intendent of insurance, is one of the most faithful workers in the state house. He has but one arm, but dis patches work with wonderful celerity. As a result of too much confinement in the office during the past few months he has been threatened with an attack of fever for several days. An entertainment was given at the reform school Monday night for the benefit of the boys. Stereopticon views and vitascope pictures were shown, and phonograph selections heard. In addi tion several instrumental numbers were contributed by Miss Walker, one of the teachers and Master Eddie Shumway. The affair was one of a series planned by Superintendent Hitchcock for the entertainments of his charges. Dr. J. T. McFarland desires to recall the announcement made last Sabbath that Dr. T. C. Iliff. of Salt Lake City, would lecture next Thursday evening at the First M. E. church on "Twenty nine Tears in Utah." This is done on account of the feeling expressed by Mr. Rankin and representatives of the Young People's Federation that Dr. Iliff's lecture might divert interest from the temperance meetings being held, an effect which Dr. McFarland would very much regret. He therefore telegraphed Dr. Iliff canceling the ap FOR YOURSELF THE WONDERFUL I I lk R mSm IBS 8 F" P J mmm m mm A IP 4x SUB Pi T n ma Fk A sr UUKMIIUh niUPtKI to Or SWAN MtUU Lrreat Kidnw Rom the State Journal" May have a Sample Bottle Free, Interviews With Prominent People in Greater New York Regarding Wonderful Cures. 1 65TH POLICE PRECINCT. Y. dutv to send vnn an r-tnnwli.4rmnt Editor of the Mt. neuralgia and Dictated, J.R. e-reat kidnev remedv. alreadv tried it. mavhave a smb. pointment, but hopes to secure him for the lecture at some future date. The regular church prayer meeting will be held on Thursday evening, at which the topic will be, "The Newspaper and Re ligion." KENTUCKY WAR ENDS. Rival Factions Have at Last Reached an Agreement. Frankfort, Ky., March 14. The legis lature of Kentucky adjourned sine die last night. A conference between Adjutant Generals Collier and Castle man resulted in a perfect understand ing being reached. Governor Taylor will continue to act as governor. Governor Beckham will make no move toward securing purifica tion of the state buildings until the court of appeals has decided the mat ter. The legislature appropriated $100, 000 for the use of Governor Beckham In reorganizing the state militia. GOLD BILL PASSES. Only Lacks the President's Signature to Become a Law. Washington, March 14. The last leg islative step in the enactment of the financial bill was taken by the house of representatives yesterday afternoon when the conference report on the bill was adopted by a vote of yeas 166, nays 120, present and not voting 10. The sen ate had already adopted the conference report, so that it remains only for President McKinley to affix his signa ture to the measure to make it a law. Lillian Bell to Marry. Chicago, March 14. It was announced here today that Miss Lillian Bell, the authoress and Arthur H. Bogue, a young Chicagoan, well known in society here, will be married April 9. Miss Bell became known to fame seven years ago, when her first book, "The Love Affairs of an Old Maid," wa3 published. P. G. Sale Monday. The sale of the Kansas City. Pitts burg Gulf line will take place at Joplin next Monday. The reorganiza tion committee will assemble in Kansas City on Saturday and proceed to Joplin on Sunday evening. It is again re ported that Vice President bi.dbury, of the Lake Erie Western, has been offered the presidency of the reorgan ized .Pittsbur? Gull. Snr;.mn.Rnrtt Will Greater New York, Nov. J I, J 899. nf t f .t, t,.tf r JAMES COOK, HUGH E. BOYLE, JOHN. J. BODKIN. His Physician Prescribed Swamp-Root. New York, Nov. 17, 1899. To Whom It May Concern I was all run down in health and spirits, from overwork on the Exchange floor. I developed nervous also suffered from an acute attack of Of course, I had careful medical attention, but while convalescing my own physician himself ordered me to take Swamp-Root to build up my nervous system, and put my kidneys in shape. It helped me more than any curative or tonic I ever used, and now I always keep it in my medicine chest. With best wishes for suffers, cnr!if arra n orment has been made by ktt!. m akcnWoiir f, -.n. HENRY SAVAGE LANDOR. Noted Traveler Sees Banger For Eng land in the Boer War. Chicago, March 14. Henry Savage Landor of London.traveler and explorer, whose name was brought prominently to public notice two and one-half years ago through the tortures he suffered while in captivity in Thibet, Asia, ar rived in Chicago last night and regis tered at the Auditorium Annex. Mr. Landor is only 33 years old. but he says there is hardly a country on the globe he has not visited. He has traveled since he was 16. His journeys include all the nations of Europe, Morocco, Egypt, most of the states and republic of both the American continents, Japan, Mongolia, Corea, Kurila islands, Aus tralia, South Sea Islands, Tasmania, India and Africa. Mr. Landor says he has watched closely the progress of the war in the Transvaal and declares that unless England achieves decisive victories im mediately France and Russia will in tervene in behalf of the Boers. "It took 50,000 English soldiers to cap ture 3.000 Boers," he said, "and all the British have done has been to relieve Ladysmith and Kimberley. England is in danser. There is no doubt that Russia is preparing to enter India. She has 250,000 troops along the border of Afghanistan. The declaration sent out a short time ago by the ameer of Af ghanistan that he was in sympathy with Great Britain was made merely to throw dust into England's eyes. The fact is that the ameer is hand in glove with Russia." Mr. Landor is of the opinion that in event of war between Russia and Eng land Japan would remain neutral. as her naval and military force is not of such a condition as to permit interference. He thinks Japan's facilities of warfare have been exaggerated. Tonight Mr. Landor will lecture before the Century club. HIUII WATER DAMAGE. Much Loss of Property at Ottawa and La Salle More Flood Feared. Ottawa, 111., March 14. The damage caused by the high water-m the Illi nois and Fox rivers at this point during the past 24 hours will amount to thou sands of dollars. A great portion of the city is under water. Never before except in 1S83 have the waters in the Fox and Illinois rivers risen to a point as high as at the present time. Grave apprehension is felt that greater dam age will be done by the heavy ice. Today the water in the Illinois river is 13 feet above the low water mark. The people residing along the banks of the Fox and Illinois rivers were com pelled to abandon their homes, many being forced out during the hours of the night. Portions of buildings, out Every How to Find Out if You Need Swamp-Root. It used to be considered that onlsi urinary and bladder troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all diseases have their beginning in the disorder ot these most important organs. The kidneys filter and purify the blood that is their work. So when your kidneys are weak or out of order, you can understand howt quickly your entire body la affected, and how every organ seems to fail to do its duty. If you are sick or "feel badly,'' be gin taking the famuos new discovery. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because aa soon as your kidneys are well they will help ail the other organs to health. A! trial will convince anyone. Weak and unhealthy kidneys are rei sponsible for more sickness and suffer lng than any other disease, and If per mitted to continue fatal results are sure to follow. Kidney trouble irritates the nerves, makes you dizzy, restless, sleepless and Irritable; makes you pass water often during the day, and obliges you to get up many times during tha night; causes puffy or dark circles un der the eyes, rheumatism, gravel, catarrh of the bladder, pain or dull ache in the back, joints and muscles; makes your head ache and back aches causes indigestion, stomach and liven trouble; you get a sallow, yellow com plexion; makes you feel as though, you had heart trouble; you have plenty ol! ambition, but no strength; get weal and waste away. The cure for these troubles Is Dr. KiW mer's Swamp-Root, the world-famous kidney remedy. In taking Swamp-Root you afford natural help to nature, for Swamp-Root is the most perfect healer and gentle aid to the kidneys that is known to medical science. If there is any doubt In your mind as to your condition, take from your urlna In rising about four ounces, place it in a glass or bottle and let it stand twenty-four hours. If, on examination. It is milky or cloudy, if there is a brick-dust settling, or if small particles float about in it, your kidneys are in need of imme diate attention. Swamp-Root is pleasant to take and is used in the leading hospitals, recom mended by skillful physicians in theitf private practice, and is taken by doc tors, themselves who have kidney all-" ments, because they recognize in it tha greatest and most successful remedy; for kidney, liver and bladder troubles. If you are already convinced that Swamp-Root is what you need you can purchase the regular fifty-cent and ona dollar size bottles at tha drug stores everywhere. t AUn fcnnfc tllino- all about"kidney houses, etc., were completely wrecked and carried out into the channel of tha river. So grave becairi the situation at noon today that Mayor Maloney issued an order closing the bridge and suspending traffic between Ottawa and South Otta wa, and on the estst and west limits ot tne town tne suuauun wan annwoi. a- bad, but traffic was not suspended. Tha clav beds and car lina of the Pioneer Fire Proof Construction company wera completely covered with water and tha factory was compelled to suspend. Tha Ottawa Boat club house was wrecked, Allen Park was six feet under water and the W. J. Simon Company's bathins establishment was greatly damaged. A heavy ice gorge is torming in tne Illi nois three miles above this city and la is feared that when it gives way greater damage will be done. No Excuse For Being Sick. Gavitt's Svstem Regulator cures all diseases of the Kidneys, Liver, Stomacra and Blood. Tnere are 50,000 people )u Kansas who will vouch for this state- ment beine true. Composed of herbs. roots and barks in powder form. Great est Compound for chronic diseases known. 500.000 TESTIMONIALS on tile. 25 DAYS' TRIAL TEH 1 1'. MAlt. u 25c IN STAMPS. (FREE TO MINIS TERS.) Not in Drug Stores. Agents wanted. W. W. GAVI VT, MEDICAL CO., Topeka, Kansas. Grand Army CoaL We have moved our office and yard to 511 East Fifth street, on west sida Mo. P. depot, and we are still selling Osage City Shaft coal for $3.50 per ton, for spot cash, delivered. Call phono 15Q and order your coal. "JIT wlf bad pimple on her face, tint he has been taking CASCAfiETS and tbey bave all disappeared. 1 had been troubled with constipation for some time, but after tak ing tha first Cascaret I bav bad bo troubl with tbls ailment. We cannot speak too high ly of CsscaretE." Fred Wibtman, 6708 Genuasiown Ave.. PkUadelpoia, Fa. Plearant. Palatable. Potaat. Taste Goea. D Oood. Never gicli.n. Weaken, or Gripe. ICe. iic. Mo CURE CONSTIPATION. SLrilms Baandr CMr. Cklws., IMml, Irt. HI Tfl Elf Sold ana enarai!te.a by all rnt T)n fnr V( )l L vim CANDY d CATHARTIC

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1900. AN OHIOAN'S REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT. Invents a Device That Brings Happiness and Health to Every User and Cures Without Drugs the Most Obstinate Diseases by Na ture's Method of Steaming the Poisons Out oj the Blood. "JUST WHAT ALL OUR READERS NEED." A genius of Cincinnati has placed on the market a new Bath Cabinet, where by any one resting on a chair within enJoyB the famous Turkish, hot vapor or medicated baths at home for S cents each, hi-rtofore enjoyed only by the rich at public bathrooms, health resorts, hot Bprings and sanitariums. These baths are celebrated for their marvelous cleansing-, curative, purifying and In vigorating effects upon the human sys tem, adn this invention brings them within the. reach of the poorest person In the country. Clouds of hot vapor or medicated va por surround the entire body, opening the millions of sweat pores.causing pro fuse perspirations, drawing put cf the eystem all impure salts, acids and pois onous matter, which, if retained, over work the heart, kidneys, lungs and skill, causing disease, fevers, debility and piuggishness. Astonishing Is the Improvement in health, feelings and complexion by the use of this Cabinet, and it seems to us that the long-sought-for natural meth od of curing and preventing disease without medicine has certainly been found. The makers Inform the writer that more than 116.387 of the Cabinets have been sold since August, and showed letters from thousands of users who speak of this Cabinet as giving entire satisfaction, and a most marvelous Health Producer and Preserver. Dr. M. R. Beech, Chicago; E. M. D. Moore, of Brooklyn, ana hundreds of our best doctors have given up their practise to sell these Cabinets because they say it benefits humanity more than drugs, and Is all that Is necessary to get well and keep well. Congressman John J. Lentz, Rt. Rev. Bishop J. L. Spaulding. Rev. C. M. Keith, editor Holiness Advocate; Prof. Kline, Ottawa University; Edw. Risch rt, it. D., University of Pennsylvania; Senator McCarrell, Mrs. Kendricks. Principal Vassar College; Mrs. Senator Douglas, Rev. John A. Ferry, Brooklyn, and a host of our most eminent people us? and recommend it. Persons who were full of drugs and nostrums, and had been given up to die. were restored to perfect, robust iiealth. to the astonishment of their friends and physicians. J. A. Gehring. 342 Naghten street, Co lumbus, O., afflicted for vears with Rheumatism in its worst "form, also Pleurisy, Headaches, Dizziness, Stom ach Troubles, was cured with three L...i... i j. n i. ,ii We are agents for the QUAKER BATH CABINET, and carry them in stock. Call and see them. A. O. ROSSER, The Druggist, S. V7. Cor. Tenth and Topeka Avenue, Topeka, Kans. MADE III T0PEIIA GUARANTEED PURE trypsy pa BAKING POWDER. Fob Sale by Hanlev Bros. N. P. Conkle. Dibble Groc. Co. Webber Co. Sam Rice. J. H. Kine. O. W. Thompson. A. Sheetz. Fred Glide. Geo. Hafner. W. B. Brown. D. J. Dickenson. J. 8. Sproat. E. Jansen Co. Fitzgerald Lannan. Wood, Coa!, Charcoal, Kindling. Telephone 530 aczynski. Fourth and Jackson. Grading Work Commenced. Guthrie, Okla.. March 14. A large force of graders went to work this morning upon the Guthrie Western railroad, the line to be constructed from this city to Kingfisher and to be oper ated jointly by the Santa Fe and Rock Island. The condemning of all the lani for tho entire right of way will be com pleted tomorrow, and graders will be at work on the entire line within a week. treatments, and says: "My wife finds It a grand remedy for her Ills; also, for our chndren. A neighbor cured Scro fula and Bad Blood, after drugs failed." W. L. Brown, Oxford. O., found It bet ter than J50 worth of drugs. A lady in Rochester, Mrs. F. B. Williams, was cured of woman's ailments after suf fering for years, and writes: "It's a God-sent blessing to me worth $1,000. No woman should be without It." G. M. Lafferty, Covington, Ky., unable to walk, was cured of Rheumatism, Piles and Kidney Troubles. A prominent cit izen of Mt. Healthy. C, Mr. Owen C. Smith, afflicted since childhood, was cured of Catarrh, Asthma, Hay Fever, and writes: "Have sold hundreds of thes? Cabinets. Every one was delight ed." Rev. H. C. Roernaes. Everett, Kan., says: "It's a blessing; made me fUil of life a"hd vigor. Should be In use In ev ery family." Rev. Baker Smith. D.D., of Fairmont, says: "Your Cabinet rids the body of aches and pains, and, as cleanliness is next to Godliness, It mer its high recommendation." After examination, we can say this 1902 style Square Quaker Bath Is a gen uine Cabinet, with a door, handsomely and durably made of best materials, rubber lined, has a steel frame, and should certainly last a lifetime. It folds flat in 1 inch space when not in use; can be easily carried; weighs but 10 lbs. IT IS IMPORTANT to know that the makers guarantee re sults, and assert positively, as do thou sands of users, that this Cabinet will clear the skin, purify and enrich the blood, cure Nervousness, Weakness, that Tired Feeling and the wrost forms of Rheumatism. (They offer $50 reward for a case not relieved.) Cures Sleep lessness, Neuralgia, Headache, Piles, Dropsy, Eczema. Malaria, all Blood and Skin Diseases, Stomach, Liver. Kidney, Bladder, Nervous Troubles and all ail ments peculiar to women. It cures tha worst Cold in one night and breaks up all symptoms of Da Grippe, Pneumonia, Fevers, Bronchitis, and is really a household necessity a God-send to ev ery family. To please the ladies a face and head steaming attachment Is furnished, if desired, which clears the skin, beauti fies the complexion, removes Pimples, Blackheads, Eruptions, and is 'a sure cure for Skin Diseases, Catarrh and Asthma. ALL OUR READERS should have one of these remarkable Cabinets. The price is wonderfully low. Cabinet complete, with Heater, formu las and directions, only $5. Head Steamer, $1 extra; and It is .indeed, dif ficult to imagine where one could Invest that amount of money In anything else that guarantees so much genuine health, strength and vigor. Write today to the World Mfg. Co., 1723 Wrorld Building, Cincinnati, O., for full Information; or, better still, order a Cabinet. You won't be disappointed, as the makers guarantee every Cabinet, and will refund your money after 30 days' use if not just as represented. We know them to be perfectly reliable. Capital, $100,000.00. The Cabinet is Just as represented, and does all they claim, and will be sent promptly on receipt of remittance by express or P. O. money order, draft or check. Don't fail to send for booklet anyway. This Cabinet IS A WONDERFUL SELLER for agents, as there are millions of homes without bathing facilities, and the firm offers special Inducements to both men and women upon request; and, to our knowledge, many are mak ing from $100 to $150 per month and ex penses. Writs them today and mention our paper. COL. HINTON'S PREDICTION. Says Bryan Will Be Elected President This Year. Col. Richard J. Hinton, of Brooklyn, Is in Texas as correspondent of the New York Tribune. In the El Paso Times he is reported as nreditintr tho iti AV. J. Bryan to the presidency In 1900. "There is no question In my mind that Bryan has gained largely with the intel- JLee.nt,pe?Ple in the eaJ5t- I don't mean tnat his bl-metallism has grown in favor, out that his individual worth is more ap-precia-ted. His character, individuality, breadth and honesty of purpose has gain ed among those who gave McKinlev the benefit of the doubt In which means a great deal in the succeeding election. Ihe silver question is no longer the bug ber.l.n the east 11 was four years ago. and the thoughtful people are beginning wun.ij U.UUUL ay-cent col lars was for the purpose of subordinating w koiu ana placing the cur rency in the hands of the banks. Work ingmen who were led to believe they "y wti.ii silver as with gold, have discovered that silver f.i,.imiiiS power would De equal with that of the yellow metal. Personally. I .u"u .ni i me virtues ot bimetal lism, holding the same faith as did Linc oln, and the identical position once held by McKmley. "What Bryan has taught in the last few years Is now becoming an accepted fact, People of small fixed Incomes who were agajnst him in 18 are likely to be for him in the fall. The middle classes have found out their mistake, and the old time .Republicans are opposed to the presi dent s war record generally." Tourist Cars Popular. It Is understood that officers of the Pullman company are objecting seri ously to the inroads that are being made on their first-class sleeping car service travel by the increasing use of tourist or low rate sleepers. During the last two years the tourist car has come to be a popular institution. It is used almost exclusively now by persons making long journeys, where formerly the first-class car exercised a monopoly. On the western roads particularly has it become unusually well liked. It is said that 25 per cent, of the travel that for merly went oy nrst-class sleepers be tween Chicago and Pacific coast points now goes in the tourist ears. National Banks of Kansas. Washington, D. C, March 14. The fol lowing summary of the condition of the the last report was made by the comp troller of the currency today: Loans and discounts. J24.ffi2.174: stocks, securities etc.. Jri54.4S6: gold coin. $1.1(12.347: total spe cie, $1,558,340: United States certificates of deposit for legal tender notes, $-.2? 2f3: total resources, H2.017.462: individual de posits; average reserve held, 33.W per cent. KANSASJEWS. Two Soldier Deserters Give Themselyes Up To Leavenworth Officials For Sake of Reward. BUT THEY ARE FOOLED. The Brandley Murder Trial in Chase County Given Change of Venue Jury Could Not Be Secured. Leavenworth, March 14. Two sold iers, deserters from Uncle Sam's service recently gave themselves up for the sake of a reward. But they were fool ed. The policemen who arrested them wera the lucky ones and the exsoldiers are doing time. t Some time ago two men In citizens clothing accosted Policemen McDonald and Craig announcing themselves as deserters. They were taken at their word and were found to be private John L. Shellow and Albert Henry, of company B, First Infantry. The policemen turned them over to the authorities at the post where they were tried by court martial. They were not convicted of desertion but were found to have violated the articles of war by disposing of their clothing and were given a guard house sentence. They were also sentenced to pay the two policemen the J30 each out of their pay, that the government would have paid had they been found guilty of de sertion. The government will pay the police men and collect from the men sentenc ed. It was held that the policemen were entitled to the money owing to the rep resentations of the soldiers. Besides the reward the policemen get $4 per day witness fees, and mileage both ways. A SHREWD BURGLAR GANG Broken Up by Their Conviction at Quenemo. Quenemo, March 14. Frank Clair, Thomas Miner and James Hall, who were arrested a few weeks ago for at tempting to break into the Quenemo bank, have been tried and proven guilty. When the case was called Miner stood trial as a sort of test for the balance of the burglars and was found guilty. The other two men then pleaded guilty. Judge Thompson, who presided at the trial, took the cases under advisement, and when he imposes sentences will give the men the full limit of the law. It Is believed that in the conviction of these men there has been broken up the gang of bank robbers which has been operating all over Kansas. Chief Tillotson of the Kansas City Pinkerton force who was instrumental in causing their arrest considers this trio to be the best bank men that had ever operated in the western country. When arrested, a pint of nitro-glycerine and sixteen pieces of fuse were found upon them besides a very fine collection of skeleton keys. There was also some wood alcohol found. The men would place dynamite In the fluid and produce a good specimen of nitro-glycerine. The wood alcohol can be obtained anywhere as can the dynamite, and the cutting of the dynamite Is easily accomplished, if it is handled cautiously. The Pinkertons made measurements of the men and their pictures now adorn the rogues' gallery. These men have been operating in the state of Kansas and contiguous territory for the past winter. Miner was the brains of the trio and planned each job, and St. Clair and Hall possessed the re quired amount of nerve to carry the plans out. Both men were expert ma chinists and could crack a safe without the use of an explosive were it neces sary or more expedient. The Pinkertons have been after these men for several months and although they were on their track several times the men were so shrewd that they man aged to escape. They were finally traced to the vicinity of Quenemo, where they were surprised at their work and ar rested. A UNIQUE CONTEST. Soldier and a Woman Candidate For City Clerk at Independence. Independence, March 14. The Repub licans of Independence have decided to nominate a straight 'partisan ticket for the spring election, and have called a city convention for Thursday evening. The ward primaries will be held this evening. This city usually gives a large Republican majority, but the past two years the fusionists have made heavy gains, and it Is expected a straight ticket this spring will bring the party closer together for the fall election. The strongest fight in the convention will be for city clerk, which is sought by a corporal of Company G, Twentieth Kansas, and a young lady, the present deputy clerk. STATE C. E. MEETING Will Be Held at Hutchinson June 5 7, With. 1,500 Delegates. Hutchinson, March 14. Rev. A. M. Reitzel, who is president of the state Christian Endeavor Union, has re turned from Strong City where he at tended a conference of the state En deavor executive committee, and ar ranged the outline programme for the convention to be held in this city In June. The convention will open Tuesday af ternoon, July 5, at the Presbyterian church with a "Key Note" service, par ticipated in by speakers from the vari ous districts in the state. Tuesday evening the convention will open with the rendition of the cantata "Rebekah" by a mixed chorus of 150 voices under B. S. Hoagland. The president. Rev. A. M. Reitzel. will tre- sent his annual report and address at this session, and will be followed bv Rev. C. M. Howard, of Rochester, N. Y. The Wednesday morning session will be held at the Presbyterian church. Its prominent feature will be the Good Citi zenship hour, conducted by Rev. How ard. In the afternoon the missions will be considered, under the direction of Mrs. Allen, of Sterling, state superintendent of the mission work. The evening ses sion will be addressed by Clellan B. McAfee, president of Park College, Parkville, Mo., and by other prominent speakers and workers. The Thursday morning session will include the Quiet hour, the Bible study hour, and the Tenth Legion conference. all under the leadership of prominent C. E. workers. Thursday afternoon will be devoted to the Junior work under Miss Marga ret Carpenter, of Oswego, state Junior superintendent. An hour will also be given to prison work during this ses sion. The convention will close with a rous ing song service at the auditorium. Two addresses will be made at this session. About 1,500 delegates will be present. OLD SETTLERS AT RENO Will Celebrate on August 2nd and They Invite Gov. Stanley. Hutchinson, March 14. The old set tiers of Reno county will begin at once to make arrangements for their next annual celebration. The date of their celebration has been fixed permanently for August 2. The executive committee held a meeting Saturday afternoon at Justice Morris' office and made the first start toward making up a programme for this year. It was decided to first tender an Invitation to Governor Stan ley to be present at the celebration. This will be done at once, and the com mittee will wait to hear from the gov ernor before proceeding with the pro gramme. It was decided to make -every effort to keep up the features of early day relics and agricultural exhibits at the annual celebrations. Last year these attracted quite a little interest and the committee wishes to enlarge upon them this year. Mr. Marshall will have charge of collecting and exhibiting early day relics and Mr. Switzer will manage the farm product exhibits. CLOSING THE JOINTS. McPherson Law and Order League Continue Their Crusade. McPherson, March 14. In the district court here Mike Keen, proprietor of the Union hotel, and Andy Cheelberg plead ed guilty to violating the prohibitory law, and both were sentenced to thirty days in the county jail and to pay a fine of $100 and costs. Keen will also be required to give a bond of $500 to be on his good behavior .and not to violate any of the provisions of the prohibitory laws for two years. This is the first conviction from the arrests made by the law and order league. Other cases will ba tried to day. BURLINGTON JOINTISTS. A Hotel Proprietor and a Grocery Keeper Arrested Por Selling Liquor. Burlington, March 14. T. M. Ends ley, the proprietor of the Central hotel, and Henry Hannen, who runs a corner grocery near the depot, have been ar rested for violating the prohibitory law. Their places were raided and several cases of beer and some whisky found at Endsley's -and a lot of sour cider at Hannen's. The liquor is in jail and tho men out on bond. The arrests were made on informa tion filed by County Attorney S. D. Weaver, on complaint sworn to by I. C. Liggett, a farmer. There are several counts against each man and both are charged with maintaining nuisances. COULD GET NO JUBT.' The Brandley Murder Case at Cotton wood Falls Continued. Cottonwood Falls, Kan., March 14. The case of the state of Kansas vs. Harry Brandley, for murder in the first degree, which was placed before the district court here yesterday for a second trial, will be tried In Lyon county at some future date, as it was impossible to find a sufficient number of men in Chase county who were competent to sit on the Jury to hear the case. The postponement of the case was urged by the attorneys for the defendant. Prohibition Violators Appeal. Independence, Kan., March 14. The case of the State vs. Claude Miner and Ben Foote, who were convicted at a former term of the district court of violating the prohibitory law and sentenced to sixty days In jail and $200 and thirty days in jail and $100 fine respectively, will be ar gued before the appellate court at Fort Scott next Friday by Thomas H. Stan ford, appearing for the defense, after a long struggle to get a reinstatement and an appeal to the higher court. Larned Graduating Class. Lamed, March 14. The graduating class of the Larned high school will be com posed this year of twenty-one members, seventeen girls and four boys. This will make the largest class, by one, ever grad uated from the Larned schools. The com mencement exercises will be held in the Larned opera house Friday evening, May 25. It is the purpose of Superintendent J. W. Mayberry to secure a lecturer for the night proceeding the commencement ex ercises. GOOD ENTERTAINMENT. Closing Number of Union Lecture Course One of the Best. The closing number of the Union lec ture course was given at the high school Tuesday evening. It was a concert by the Spiering quartette, and proved to be one of the best entertainments of the series of eight that have been given during the winter. The Spiering quartette is considered one of the best in the United States, and all over the house could be seen prominent musicians of the city who have not been in the habit of attend ing these entertainments. The quartette is composed of Mr. The odore Spiering, first vio.in; Mr. Otto Roehiborn, second violin; Mr. Adolf Weidig, viola, and Mr. Herman Diestcl, cello. The programme was excellently ar ranged and comparatively short. The first quartette number was in four parts ty Haydn, and as an encore they repeated the last part. The cello solo by Mr. Dlestel was much enjoyed, though he refused to respond to an en core. A violin number in two parts by Mr. Spiering was one of the best fea tures of the evening. These numbers with two others by the quartette com posed the programme of the evening. An Electric-Lighted Chariot Novel Advertisement of Ben Hur Cigars. Mr. J. L. Schallaire and C. E. Fritzlen, the former being general western agent for the famous Ben Hur Cigar factory of New York and Detroit; the latter Stewart Bros." representative of St. Joseph, Mo., are in the city canvasing the trade in the Interest ot tnelr fam ous Ben Hur cigar. Mr. Schallaire represents that he and Mr. Fritzlen have sold all the first class dealers in the city. They are giving away an elaborately glass framed Ben Hur picture, which is an exact repro duction of the Grand opera House cur tain. Mr. Schallaire says that wher ever the picture has been shown it has created quite a furor. About the latter part of May Mr. S. will have a surprise for the city of To peka in the shape of a Ben Hur Koman chariot, lit up by miriads of little in candescent light bulbs in many differ ent colors, on the harness of the horses; also in scroll work on the chariot. The chariot will be drawn by four spotless white horses, driven by driver in Roman costume, for two weeks, on the public streets of the city, both night and day. Mr. S. says that this Chariot has cre ated a sensation in the east wherever It has been "on exhibition. It Is rathpr peculiar to note, said Mr. S., the de mands of smokers at the present time S for 25 stock is preferred in many cases. Yet the general demand is for the straight 10c article there was a time, continued Mr. S., when 3 for a quarter cigars were-ttniversaily called for. Now It is different, either one cigar, or 3 for SOc. Suits the. world of men. "Ben Hur" 10c cigars. Little "Ben Hur" a jewel for 5c RAILROAD NEWS. Large Personal Damage Suit Argued in Supreme Court. L. J. Merrill Secured a $22,000 Judgment in Kansas City. AN APPEAL IS TAKEN. M. K. T. Fighting Collection of the Amount. Miraculous Escape of the Plain tiff From Death. The largest personal damage case brought against a railroad In Kansas and involving the largest judgment ever returned in such a case for a plaintiff has been argued and submit ted in the supreme court. The M. K. T. railroad and the Kan sas City Suburban lines are the de fendants in the suit. L. J. Merrill is plaintiff. He has secured a judgment against these companies in the sum of $22,000 which, with interest and costs amount to more than $23,000. This is one of the most remarkable cases in the history of railroad acci dents in the world. Merrill was injur ed in the most unexpected manner. He was on a bridge over which the Belt and Katy roads operate in Kan sas City. Being struck by the train he fell partially through the bridge. He was seriously injured but had sufficient presence of mind to grasp the stringers and hold on firmly with his hands. To let loose was to fall to sure death In the Missouri river below. To raise himself above the stringers was to meet death under the wheels. Merrill was in this awful predicament for a short time but was finally releas ed. He was a physical wreck due to the injuries and a mental wreck be cause of the trying ordeal through which he had passed. There was a fight in the lower courts over the case and the jury returned a verdict for J22.000 for the plaintiff. The case has been appealed to the supreme court and the plaintiffs in the original proceeding are confident of winning in the court of last resort. In all the records of railroad acci dents no man who was ever caught in the position in which Merrill found himself, survived, especially when his legs had already been mangled by the train. It was a providential grab that he made at the stringers of the bridge. WILL OPEN RICH COUNTRY. Bock Island Extension Out of Moun tain View of Great Importance. Mountain View, O. T., March 14. A large force of graders is now at work on the extension of the Rock Island. The road will be built through the Kiowa and Comanche reservation to the Greer county line, a distance of 47 miles, where a new town will be built in Greer county. The activity of the road in extending Its line at this time indicates that the Rock Island antici pates the early opening of the Kiowa and Comanche reservation by congress. The road has been granted the right of way through the reservation by con gress and should the land be opened to settlers before the line was built it would then have to buy the right of way from the homesteaders along the line. Another reason for the construction of the line is the desire on the part of the Rock Island to control the terri tory in which the Wichita mountains are situated. The main line of that road from Wichita to Fort Worth passes to the east of these mountains and the branch from Chickasha to this place follows along the north side of the range at a distance of from 10 to 20 miles. From this place the road will bear to the northwest and pass around the west side of the mountains. Much has been said and written about the rich mineral deposits in these mountains. There are now prospectors there, some of them representing weal thy corporations, prospecting and lo cating claims which they hope to secure when the country is opened for settle ment. Perhaps the surest source of mineral wealth will prove to be val uable coal lands lying a few miles southwest of this place. Coal has been found cropping out of the ground in many places, and in some to such ex tent that it has been picked up on the surface and hauled out and burned by settlers. Almost a Million Increase. The gross earnings for 50 roads for the fourth week in February were $7, 349,543, against $6,36S,986 for the fourth week in February, 1S99, an increase of $9S0,54S. Fcrty-four roads show in creases and six decreases. Since Janu ary 1 the roads referred to above earned $58,500,823, an increase of $8,520,758 over the $49,980,065 reported for the corre sponding period of 1899. For the longer period 46 show Increases and four de creases. Wreck Causes Insanity. Denver, March 14. Edward McAllister, conductor on tho Union Pacific, who went crazy when his train was wrecked in a collision with the Cheyenne flyer at Brighton, in December, has not yet re gained his reason. He was charged with manslaughter because of the wreck. Yes terday he was taken by his wife and family to the home of his parents at Grand Island. Neb. It is hoped that the lower altitude and a change of scenes will restore his mind. FROM NEWTON. Brakeman Billie Peters has gone to the Cottonwood and will be one of Ed. Andrews' lieutenants on the "Irish mall" between Emporia and Newton. Conductor Harry Walters will move his family here from Hutchinson the fore part of next week. They will occupy property on West Eighth street. Engineer John Treadway and family will leave soon for Galveston, where they will witness the manoeuvers of the North Atlantic Squadron, which takes place there about the 16th of the month. An additional car and crew has been put on at this point, owing to the con stantly increasing business. Will Hyde is the captain with John Parham and Jack Peters as assistants. Albert Overton, of Topeka, was in the city figuring with the local officials on the proposed electric lighting plant. The company has decided to put one in here at an early date. Fireman Ike Mason has been assigned to the 140 on the Jetmore run with the Sunday layover in Newton. Theodore Dischner has fallen heir to the opposite run. Jerry Dunkleburger has been as signed to a switch engine in the Newton yards. ROCK ISLAND ITEMS. H. Tyer, agent at Fowler, was called to Burden, Kan., on account of his wife's sickness, and M. E. Holoday is now in charge at Fowler. Plains station was transferred to F. Hurt until Mrs. Kerr returns. She will be given charge of that station. J. D. Weaver has been checked in at Dover station in place of A. C. Black, who resigned. TV0 CONTINENTS USING IT! M w v-- -J.7i.-A -M V -ST Wy JF Positively Cures Catarrh, Asthma, Influenza, Colds, Coughs, and most Diseases of Nose, Head, Throat and Lungs. O3 Cure All the medical, recuperative and ben- j eflcial properties of the Eucalyptus and Pine trees combined, and harmonized with other efficacious and medicaments, are vitalized and made the more effec tive in the Inhalation treatment. The new combination of curatives prepared according to a formula discovered by Prof. Munyon gives forth in vapor a remedial power that is Invincible. It exudes, it exhales, it emits something call it what you will but that some- thing Is always health-giving, life-renewing. Under its influence throat and lung troubles disappear; malarial dis eases can not exist. It provides an al most miraculous antiseptic; it furnishes a germicide which simply annihilates disease-creating germs. The medicated vapor Inhaled through the mouth and emitted from the nostrils in clouds is so penetrating that stim ulating and revivifying effects are felt at once. The bronchial tubes quickly hif -pv yield up their phlegm. All the air pas- ber tohaler sages are instantly cleared, cleansed and purified. Made of Hard Rubber, Unbreakable, Unspillable. Can be carried in the Pocket Special Free Demonstration This Week at ROWLEY SNOW. Corner Sixth and Kansas Ave. WEIGHTMAN PHARMACY, 833 Kansas Ave. FRANK HOBART, Tenth and Topeka Ave, Price $1 (with all medicines) at all druggists, or will be sent by mail, rl WC postpaid, same price. For family use we have a larger glass inhaler. Price, $1.00. If you have rheumatism, try Munyon's Rheumatism Cure; If you have dyspepsia, try his Dyspepsia Cure; if you have kidney disease, try his Kidney Cure; if you have headaches, try his Headache Cure; if you have any liver trouble, try his Liver Cure. Professor Munyon has prepared a specific remedy for most every disease, with which everybody can doctor and cure himself. They are mostly 25 cents each. Write to Prof. Munyon, 1S05 Arch street, Phil adelphia, Pa., for free medicinal advice. TOPEKAJOCIETY. Interesting Meeting of the La kota Club. Famous Men and Their Work Are Discussed. THE MONDAY CLUB. Session Held TVith Mrs. A. Zahner in Fotwin. News of Personal and Social Nature. The regular meeting of the Lakota club was held Monday afternoon at the home of Miss Mary Thompson on To peka avenue. The subject under dis cussion was, "Napoleon, The Man," and the following programme was given; Reading from Emerson's Represen tative Men, subject. Napoleon, Mrs. Charles Adams Paper, "Napoleon, The Man" Miss Willa Rodgers Miss Vlrgiline Mulvane gave a read ing from Wordsworth's poem dedicated to National Independence and Liberty. Reading, The First Napoleon, from Ropes' lectures... Miss Alice Prescott Paper, "The Code Napoleon" Mrs. Walter Cust Discussion, "Did England act with wisdom In exiling Napoleon to St. Helena?" Leader Mrs. Harrison Morgan The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Charles Adams at 917 Fillmore street. The annual election of officers took place Monday afternoon with the fol lowing result: President, Mrs. Harri son Morgan; vice president. Miss Willa Rodgers; secretary and treasurer, Miss Myrtle Jetmore; delegates to the city federatlon.Mrs. Morgan and Miss Ware; alternates, Mrs. David Palmer and Miss Rodgers. Miss Abby Ware was ap pointed delegate to the state federation meeting in May at Winneld. The Monday Club. The Monday club was pleasantly en tertained Monday afternoon by Mrs. A. Zahner at her home in Potwin. Mrs. Willis Norton substituted for Mrs. E. H. Crosby and Mrs. Kd Herbst for Mrs. Frank E. Wear. The club will be enter tained a week from Monday by Mrs. Charles Blood Smith. During the latter part of the afternoon Miss Charlotte Parkhurst. Miss Augusta Dewey of Abilene, Miss Herbst and Miss Susie Herbst were guests of the club. The Ivy Club. The regular meeting of the Ivy club was held Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. F. W. Bramley on Monroe street. Dainty refreshments were served. The members present were Mrs. Bickley of Mulhall. O. T., Mrs. Atkin son, Mrs. Witchley, Miss Ransdall, Miss Miller, Miss Eddy, Miss Tefft, Mrs. Burdett and Miss Kinley. The next meeting will be held in ope week at at the home of Miss Kinley on Topeka avenue. The Lenten Maid. The Lenten maid Is busily engaged in preparing her spring wardrobe, and she is sure to be found these bright sun shiny days in some one of the attrac tive dry goods stores; at present the silk counter proves the most alluring for the silks and satins were never so dainty and pretty as they are this sea son. And by the way a great many of the Topeka society girls are observing Lent much more strictly this year than ever before; many of them have given up dances, parties of all kinds, and things they like best to eat, but few of ra Oil 'f J T'SS'f Begins With First Inhalation. It reaches the sore spots. It heals the raw places. It goes to the seat of dis ease. It penetrates obscure places where drugs taken into the stom ach cannot reach. It acts as a balm and tonic to the whole system. Better than medicine. Better than doctors. Better than going to .sunny climes. Better than anything you have ever tried. SWIFT HOLLIDAY DRUQ CO., bza .Kansas Ave. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO., 823 Kansas Ave. L. S. WOOL.VERTON, 704 Kansas Ave. them are self sacrificing enough to for swear the theater. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Avery Turner arrived from Chicago Tuesday morning in Mr. Turner's private car; they will remain in Topeka the remainder of the week with Mrs. Turner's mother, Mrs.C. Ten Eyck at 1266 Buchanan street; from here Mrs. Turner will go to Newton for a short visit. The Research club held a pleasant meeting Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Herbert Armstrong. The auth ors under discussion were Geroge Mere dith and Sir Edwin Arnold. Miss Ther esa Rossington will entertain the club next Monday. Mrs. P. C. Chamberlain Is confined to her home by Illness. Miss Gregory of Cottonwood Falls Is the guest of her cousin, Miss Hattie Mills at 1115 Polk street. Mr. Walter Noble has returned from a two months' business trip In the east. His wife and baby who have been in Atchison during his absence, have also returned. Miss Lotta Ranhey returned to her home in Arkansas City today after a several weeks' visit with Miss Alice Prescott. Miss Prescott did not ac company her as she had intended on account of the illness of Judge Horton. Miss Elizabeth Browning of Chicago and Miss Isabel McPherson of Howell. Mich., will leave Friday for their homes after a several weeks' visit with their cousin. Miss Hattie Mills Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Wardall have re turned from a week's visit with their daughter in Kansas City. Misses Hope and Katie Sprague have gone to Kansas City. Mr. Wallace Hill of Galva, 111., spent Monday in Topeka with Mr. and Mrs. A: A. Hurd. Mr. C. W. Kouns left today for a bus iness trip to Texas. Miss Addle Mattocks of Atchison !s in the city the guest of Mrs. Martin Oswald. Mrs. J. B. Johnson, who has been spending the past two months in Atch ison with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Thomas, will return in a few days. Mrs. H. C. Bentley will leave Friday for her home in Denver, after a several months' visit with Mrs. W. C. Kouns. Miss Marie Harrison has returned from a several weeks' visit with rela tive In Emporia. It is said that the newest thing in street gloves, has a small pocket in the palm, in which car fare may be car ried, and upon a pinch a handkerchief may be tucked into It. It is said that orange will ba much worn this season. TALK No. 63. CROSS EYE. A great many form the Impres sion that the only cure for cross eye is an operation upon the mus cles. This is true in cases of long standing, but It is not true in chil dren. Ninety-five cases out of every one hundred could have been cured by glasses if used in time. Cross eye is always caused by some de fect of the eye which requires too great an effort in seeing. Remov ing the cause removes the effect. If your children show the least symp tom of crossing their eyes give them attention at orice. Do not think they will outgrow the trou ble, for they will not. They need glasses every moment. I will be glad to make an examination at any time and tell you what can be done. My exclusive attention is given to fitting glasses. CHAS. BENNETT, OPTICIAN. 730 Kansas Avenue. Eitabllshed 1878. pnnr

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TOPEKA STATE JOI5ENAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1900. 5 Carpet y Judging from the numerous calls our Carpet Ad. wa3 not overlooked we should have mentioned, however, that all Carpets costing 29 cents per yard and under 50 cents will be matched and sewed free of extra charge. Those costing 58c and over will be made and laid free of extra charge as announced last week. Our Carpet Department is second to none in the state. We have the patterns and colorings that will commend themselves to the best taste of the community. The variety is large, and if you wish it we can give you exclusive patterns patterns consigned to us only. WE OPEN THIS WEEK OUR pring Stock 1900 Wash Fabrics A better selection cannot be found prices are exceptionally reasonable in fact, we guarantee every purchase and will stand back of this guarantee without quibbling. Extraordinary values nothing like this found else wherenote carefully. 2,000 yards India Linen Remnants, whose values are 15 to 20c, per yard 12Mc One case Mill Ends Feather Ticking, absolutely cheap at 16c per yard llie One case Indigo Blue, and Grey and White Calico, the best made 4Vic One case cardinal red Calico, whose value is now 6Vic 4c The above two items come in short length 2 to 8 yards, but as there are many of the same pattern, can match NOTION DEPT. 8 l-3c ball Knitting1 Cotton 4o 6c Spool Machine Thread, as good as Coats, or Clark's 3c 0c gold front Collar Buttons 5o 15c quality Boy's Linen Collars, 4- piy 7c lac quality Gent's Linen Collars, 4- piy 7c Celluloid Collars, for Men or Boys..3o Extra Special Extra Special 25 dozen Bicycle Hose, the 25c value 15o They are slightly imperfect, but you would hardly notice the imperfection. 50 dozen Boy's Buckskin brand Hose, the best Hose on any market 21c Were sold from 25c to 35c according to size. 15 doz. Infant's Hose, fine, IXI rib, elastic top, tine guage, value 15c. lOc 25 dozen Misses Black Hose, IXI rib, full 60 guage fine, lisle thread finish, worth up to 30c, being slightly imper fect, and broken in sizes 15c JUST OP EN ED. New Windsor Ties for the little boys, real pretty effects 15c Silk Teck Scarfs, all sink, for Men or Boys, worth up to 35c 15c New Neckwear for Ladies, the new Spring 1900 kind, worth up to 40c. 25c 50 styles of Belt Buckles, they are beauties, just opened them. Just opened advance styles Pulley Belts, Dog Collar Belts and all the pop ular things in Girdles. The opening prices on all of the above novelties will be made specially attractive. We are after a large trade. For This Week Only. 5-4 Table Oil Cloth, the best made 19c The best quality Carpet Warp 21c CHLRCiL MEMBERS HELP. Mr. Sheldon's Church Inaugurates Fraternal Movement For Com municants. A fraternal beneficiary organization to pay sick benefits, funeral expenses, arid to make small loans without inter est to members, is a new feature in Kansas churches which has been in augurated by the Central Congrega tional church, Mr. Sheldon's church. At the request of Central church a committee was appointed at the last general assembly of the Congregational churches of Kansas to formulate a plan for such an organization, and this com mittee is now at work. The Brotherhood of St. Paul, a new organization in the Methodist Episco pal church, has a feature of this kind in its chapters in the east, but it has never been put into effect in the chap ters in Kansas, so that this move on the part of the Congregationalists will be the first of the kind in the state. It is the design of the organization to aid its members In much the same way that lodges do, but there will be no expense in connection with the conduct of the organization. There will be no rent nor salaries to pay, so that. there will be no dues for these purposes. As sessments will be made which will go into a general banking fund, and from this will be paid the sick benefits, small loans will be made, and members will be otherwise assisted. It is the intention to make the organ ization interdenominational and, not confine it to the Congregational church, church membership in good standing being the requisite for becoming a member in the order. HOW HE VOTED. Councilman Mergan Misrepresented by Council Minutes. Heretofore the reading of the min utes in council meetings has been omit ted, but it will be done carefully in the luture. The change has been brought about by a discovery made by Council man Mergan. Mr. Mergan has found that that he was recorded as voting in favor of a certain ordinance, when as a matter of fact he was violently opposed to it. The ordinance in question was the poll tax ordinance, which was passed sev eral weeks ago. Mr. Mergan opposed it vigorously all the way through, but in some way or other his vote is re corded in the affirmative on the final passage of the ordinance. He does not know whether City Clerk Squires mis understood him or whether he inad vertently voted wrong at the time. When the clerk started to read the minutes at the last meeting of the council, and the usual motion was made that the reading be dispensed V'ith, Mr. Mergan brought his reforma tion guns into action. He demanded that the minutes be read hereafter, in Pepto GENT'S FURNISHINGS To Close Out 50c White Overalls, painters and plas terers kind 35o 50c Boy's Overalls, "cassimere stripes" 27c 75c Men's Overalls made from best quality, blue demin, all- double stitched 5bc 75c Men's Cass, stripe Overalls, to close .,.45o 25c Men's Jackets, blue and white and brown and white check 15c 100 Men's fancy Negligee Shirts, be low cost. The new Curtain Swisses have come. CA11PET DEPT. 15c quality Silkolines, choice lOo 10c quality Silkolines, choice 7c 65c Chenille Table Covers, size 4-4. -39c $1.00 Tapestry Table Covers.. ,.63c Brass Extension Rods 04e Curtain Poles with fixtures, com plete 18c LACE CUHTAINS. Our new Spring stock Lace Curtains just arrived, splendid values, 69c per pair and upwards. SPECIAL DRESS PATTERN OFFERING $2.98 Will purchase a Dress Pattern contain ing 6 to 8 yards (according to width of material). You will have choice of over 50 pieces assorted fabrics, none worth under 25c per yard, and up to 50 cents. And in addition you will re ceive without extra charge., the fol lowing trimmings: 5 yds. Cambric. I1 Selicia, 1 yard Canvas. 1 spool Silk, Hooks and Eyes, Dress Stays and Vel veteen Binding. The above offering is by far the great est bargain that has ever been placed before you it embraces exceptionally stylish and popular fabrics our object is to introduce our great Spring pur chase of Foreign and Domestic Dress Stuffs. order that the members might know that they are right. He explained his position with reference to the poll tax ordinance, and the result was that the minutes were ordered read. DR. NOBLE TO RETIRE. Chicago Congregational Pastor Who Has Served Twenty-one Years. Chicago, March 14. Dr. F. A. Noble, who for 21 years has occupied the pul pit of the Union Park Congegational church, has announced his intention of retiring from active ministerial work. Ill health is given as the cause for this action. Dr. Noble was born in the state of Maine, of revolutionary ancestry. He graduated from Tale in 1858, and stud ied theology at Andover for two years and one year at Lane seminary, Cin cinnati. For his first pastorate he went to St. Paul to the First Presbyterian church, and went from there to the Third Presbyterian church of Pitts burg, where he succeeded Dr. Herrick Johnson. This was his last charge un der the Presbyterj'. Eight years later he became pastor of the Center Congre gational church of New Haven, Conn., his college town, and three years later the Union Park pulpit was accepted by him. "IS CHRIST DIVINE?" That "Will Be the Text of Talk by W. R, Struble at Y. M. C. A. Dr. Wallace R. Struble who is here in the interest of the anti-cigarette league was for many years an infidel and was at one time associate editor ot the Pacific Coast Free Thinker at San Francisco. By special invitation of the T. M. C. A. he has consented to remain in the city over next Sunday and will address a mass meeting of men under their auspices at First Congregational church on the subject, "Is Christ Divine?" Dr. Struble's own experience has especially-qualified him to deal with this subject- Hoot Reassures Cubans. Havana, March 14. Elihu Root, the secretary of war in addressing the members of the planters' association yesterday said he understood that dis trust existed as to the carrying out of the joint resolution of the United States congress. He declared, however, that the American government intend ed to fulfill every obligation, and that the Cubans should believe and act ac cordingly. The editor of El Dia, at Caibarien was recently attacked by a crowd of sponge fishers, who attempt ed to lynch him on account of an article which appeared in his paper in favor of a recent decree in regard to sponge fishing. 7 RESCUE OF LADYSMITH. English Correspondents "Write of Bul ler's Movements. (Correspondence of Associated Press.) London, March 7. The siege of Lady smith with its harrowing experience has passed into history; yet it is only now that the British public has a chance to get a connected account and to learn the details of the sanguinary struggle whtch accomplished its relief. The latest mails only take the graphic story up to General Buller's third attempt, when, on February 6, for the second time he crossed at Potgieters drift and after three days' fighting was forced to re tire from Vaalkrantz. To this series o actions Bennett-Burleigh devotes four columns of the Daily Telegraph, while the other correspondents are not far be hind in point of length. After describ ing the feelings of keen disappointment that followed Spion Kop, Mr. Burleigh writes: "We all knew on Sunday, February 4, that next day General Buller intended attacking the line of low hills opposite Potgieters drift. Brakf6ntein is the principal feature of that chain, run ning nearly east and west, connects the Spion Kop mountain ridges with Dorn Kloop. There was to be a feint or dem onstration from our left against Brak fontein and a determined attack later in the day upon the right to carry the separate crested hills of Vaalkrantz." Referring to the many difficulties en countered, owing to the broken nature of the ground, the correspondent says: "Guns were with infinite labor placed upon Swartz kop and Warren's division with other troops, moved down towards the intended field of action. The ever wonderful mules, somehow, notwith standing many falls, got the mountain battery up, although the place was as steep in parts as the side of a house. The sailors.helped by the Scottish rifles, with steel hawsers, warped their guns up over the worst parts. It was alto gether an astounding performance, as heaving batteries to the masthead of a ship. As for the ammunition, the sol diers carried it by hand, each man bear ing a shell or powder charge. Except by using one's hands, there were parts of the hill it was impossible otherwise to surmount. I saw six mules toiling up on a later day with water breakers for the men. The leading one, when near the top, missed his footing, rolled over and over, caroming against the others. Down with fearful clatter of falling; rocks, scrambling hoofs and affrighted snortines, went the six mules, some 200 feet. Killed to the last kicker? Not a bit of it. Only their harness knocked about. About six a. m. the cavalry went forward, but it was an hour later ere our naval guns from Mount Alice began the battle. They directed their fire against the Boer works upon Spion kop. Brakfontein and the positions fronting Potgieters. Colonel now Major General "Wynn had succeeded to the commanding Lanca shire brigade since General Woodgate was wounded. About 9 a. m. he led his men forward from behind the five low detached hills, or hillocks, a mile north of Potgieters drift. The new balloon was sent up to spy out what the Boers were about, and more particular ly where their cannon were placed. As the Lancashire brigade went forward in widely spread and far apart successive lines of skirmishers, five field batteries and the fifty-pound howitzers thunder ed lyddite and shrapnel upon the en emy's trenches and works. The balloon ist directed by telephone where the Boers clustered thickest behind their defenses. The infantry went steadily, slowly forward, as if to charge the Boer works. By nine they were near enough for the enemy to begin sniping in earnest at range of 1,200 yards or less. Their marksmanship was indiffer ent and the troops, disregarding their tormentors, walked or ran forward. At convenient stages they would lie down fiat upon the ground and opened inde pendent and volley firing at the enemy concealed in dongas and trenches. CONSPIRACY DUG UP. Scheme to Turn Brazil Into a Monarchy. New York, March 14. The Herald's correspondent In Rio Janeiro, Brazil, says that the government has sent a circular letter to the governors of the different states announcing that a con spiracy to establish a monarchy had been discovered. Various officers are implicated. Major Francis feigned to participate in the conspiracy but his object was to ascer tain all its secrets and then tell the government. The plan, of the conspirators was to establish a provisional government and then take a plebescite. Major Francis declared that Viscount Ouropreto, General3 Cantuaria and PIragibe and Admirals Mello and Wan denkolk were concerned in the con spiracy. LOCAL MENTION. The small pins with "A. C. L.," means "Anti-Cigarette League." Temperance meetings are being held in the Shiloh Baptist church. In Tennesseetown 40 people bave signed the temperance pledge. The boys of Harrison school have or ganized an anti-cigarette league. The city council will be asked to pro hibit the sale of tobacco to children. A. C. Rankin lectured on temperance at the First Christian church last night. D. E. Purviance of Andrews, Indiana, is in Topeka visiting his uncle, C. E, Purviance. Police Matron Thorpe is recruiting scholars for the First Methodist Sun day school. Dr. Wallace Struble will lecture to night at the First Methodist church on "Burning His Brain." Miss Madeline Sputhard, of Winfield, is conducting a pledge signing temper ance campaign in Tennesseetown. A. K. Wilson today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomina tion for the legislature in the city dis trict. It had been generally supposed that E. D. McKeever would have no opposition. Mr. Wilson is grand secre tary of the Masons and is well and fa vorably known. The Curtis Republican club of First ward met at the hall last night. Many of the candidates for county offices were present and addressed the club. A resolution was unanimously adopted endorsing the candidacy of J. T. Cha ncy for state senator and pledging him the vote of the club. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's book "In His Steps"will be illustrated by a stere opticon at the Grand Opera House Sat urday evening under the auspices of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. A copy of the book will be given each person who buys a ticket. A matinee will be given Saturday afternoon. There will be 2, 000 books for distribution. LIQUOR DESTROYED. Fifty Kegs of Confiscated Stock Emp tied in to the Gutters. The police department was busy this morning knocking out the heads of i0 "Was a Godsend to Me.'. REV. HI. E ANDREWS. A Clergyman's Ringing Words in Pralso of MUNYON'S INHALER! The Rev. M. E. Andrews, Westfield, Mass., says: "I wish to acknowledge the great benefits received from the use of Munyon's Inhaler. More than a year ago my vocal cords were injured in a bicycle collision, so that I was unable to converse except with great difficulty. After one week's use of Munyon's Inhaler my voice was restored so that I talked as usual, with no difficulty whatever. It was cer tainly a Godsend to me that I procured your Inhaier. I can not use language strong enough to express my confidence In it as a remedy for catarrhal and bron chial difficulties. I shall ever feel grate ful to God that you made the discovery." Munyon's Inhaler is a Positive Cure for Catarrh, Asthma, Colds and All Throat and Lung Diseases. The pocket Inhaler is made of hard rub ber .and may be carried in the vest pocket always ready for use. It is unbreakable and unspillable. It reaches the sore spotsit heals the raw piaces it goes to the seat of disease it acts as a bairn and tonic to the whole system. Price $1.00. with all medicines, at all druggists', or will be sent by mail post paid, to all parts. For the use of families we have a large glass family Inhaler. Price, $1.00. Special Free Demonstration This "Weei at Rowley Snew, Sixth and Kansas are. Swift Holiday, 523 Kansas ave. Frank Hobart. Tenth and Topeka ave. Weightman Pharmacy, 833 Kansas ave. Gibraltar Drug Co., &23 Kansas ave. L. S. Woolverton, 704 Kansas ave. Miller's Pharmacy, Sixth and Topeka ave. A. H. Merrell, Sixth and Clay St. O. A. Keene. S03 Kansas ave. M. A. Funchess, Fourth and Quincy St. H. A. Willis, 302 East Fourth st. W. H. Wilson, 404 East Fourth st. Marshall Bros., 315 Kansas ave. B. A. Barrett. lti North Kansas ave. W. F. Lake, 530 Kansas ave. HinrrcN's fauous remedies. With Munyon's Remedies 57 in number, each a separate cure Rheumatism is re lieved in a few hours and cured in a few days: Colda are checked in a few hours: Dyspepsia is immediately relieved and permanently cured; Coughs are made to disappear quickly; headaches are relieved in from three to ten minutes; kidney dis eases are cured speedily and effectively; nervous people are made sound in health; Ijiver complaints are promptly cured, and with these Remedies within reach no one need complain of bad health. They may be had mostly for 25 cents each, at ail drug stores. Write to Prof. Munyon, 1503 Arch street. Philadelphia, for free medi cal advice upon any disease. beer kegs and allowing the amber fluid to flow in the most abandoned fashion. The store room, where liquor ajid joint fixtures are stored, was cleaned out and the accumulation of several months of joint raids was destroyed. The room is in the cellar and is a damis dirty, dinsy place. The city board of health ordered that it be fumigated. It needs it. MOEE THAN A BILLION. Increase in Value of Agricultural Products. New Tork, March 14." "The improve ment in agricultural conditions now, contrasting with the depth of depres sion in 1894-6, is as little appreciated by the outside public as was the farm ers' condition during the hard times. It is conservative however, to say that the produce of the United States farms for the past year was worth to the farmers over $1,600,000,000 more than in either of the depressed years noted. This is an average advance of 31' per cent in values compared with the low point." These statements are made by the American Agriculturist for March, which contains an elaborate review of the agricultural situation from a finan cial and industrial standpoint. The live stock of the country is said to be worth $700,000,000 more than during the hard times, or a gain of 38 per cent. Staple crops are worth $400,000,000 more than then, while other crops show an in crease of $200,000,000 in value, or a gain of 25 per cent compared with the de pression of '94-6. The produce of live stock, such as meats, dairy products, calves, mutton, sheep and lamb hides and pelts, colts, mules, etc., are said to show a gain of $370,000,000, or 40 per cent above the low point. TO NURSE A TRINC'ESS. Mrs. Fred D. Grant Journeys to St. Petersburg.. New Tork, March 14. A dispatch to the Herald from St. Petersburg says: Mrs. Frederick D. Grant has arrived here direct from VTashington with a trained nurse to assist in nursing her daughter. Princess Cantacuzene-Sper-ansky, who has been ill several weeks with an attack of typhoid fever. On her arrival at Southampton Mrs. Grant received telegrams from Prince Canta-cuzene-Speransky stating that the prin cess had not been seriously ill and was much improved. Mrs. Grant says that although her daughter is not able to sit up, she is rapidly convalescing. The princess' illness came at a most inopportune season. She had Just been presented to the empress informally, and the date of her formal presentation had been named and invitations to a court ljall and to other social func tirns from the American ambassador and Mrs. Tower and other families of social prominence had been received Mrs. Grant will remain at St. Peters burg for two or three weeks. i mall X NOW OFFERED. Trade-drawing: Attractions. Hundreds will take advantage of this Bargain Sale. March Inducements IN DRESS GOODS. 10 pieces new Plaids, worth 20c, for 12Ho 10 pieces 40 -in. Jacquard, worth 35c, for 25o 10 pieces 40-in. Serge, all new col ors, others get 60c, our price 48 3 All the new thing9 in Plaids for Skirts and Waists, from 25o a yard tog 1.25- 10 pieces silk Foulard, new colors, new patterns, others get 50c, our price 39o

Special for two days, Thursday and Friday, (only with a pur chase of Dress Goods Cambric Lining 3c a yard. Canvas Lining, a yard. Plain Velveteen Binding, 2c. Corduroy Velveteen Binding, 3e 27 in. Percaline Skirt Lining, 5c. The First Sh6wing of Price from 50c to OPEN Remember we give both when loose and in BRING US ftt YOUR STAMPS. ON HER METTLE. England "Will Tolerate No Interfer ence From Any Quarter. New Tork, March 14. A dispatch to the Tribune from London says: Dr. Jameson was down with enteric fever and critically ill when Ladysmith. was relieved. A private dispat-ch re ceived here by a prominent South Afri can states that he has rallied and is likely to recover. Dr. Jameson was anxious to have a military command in the campaign but as the leader of the raid he was excluded form the service for political reasons and was not wel comed when he arrived at Ladysmith a few days before the investment of the town. His opportunity came. When the garrison was fever-stricken he reverted to medical practice and did ten men's work in caring for the fever patients and the wounded soldiers. The peace envoys who have arrived at Lourenzo Marques are high officials in the two republics. Mr. Wolmarns is a member of the Boer executive council and a blind follower of President Kruger who has implicit confidence in his fidelity. While nearer forty than fifty years old, he fought as a youth in the first war of independence, and was bitterly hostile to the Outlanders and reformers. The South Africans describe him as an astute and crafty man who has learned all he knows about politics from Mr. Kruger. Mr. Fischer has been state secretary of the Free States and has exerted a strong influence over the Dutch leaders in Cape Colony. He had the reputation of being a strong advo cate of peace a year ago, but President Steyn carried him into the war and has been faithfully served by him. The ministers, having the moral sup port of the united nation, are indiffer ent to the appeals whlcn the Dutch re publics are making for foreign media tion, whether in Europe or America. They confidently expect Lord Roberts to go from Eloemfontein to Pretoria and are resolute in fighting the battle of the united empire. They will re gard the intervention of any European power as an unfriendly act, precisely as the Americans would have done at the close of the war with Spain, when the British government refused to med dle in what did not concern it. There is evidently the hope on the part of one or two European powers that have been approached through their consuls at Pretoria that the Amer ican government, which was under spe cial obligations to the British foreign office during the war with Spain, will make a serious mistake in its policy at the present crisis, but there are no signs that the state department has any intention of thrusting Its services upon a British government which Is satisfied with the present work of Lord Roberts as a capable and efficient diplomatist. SUFFERING AT HOME. Work For Charitably Inclined in Topeka. Poor Commissioner Hale and Police Matron Thorpe are both of the opinion that there has been and is more than the usual amount of destitution and suffering among the poor people of the city and county. "There are many severe cases of smallpox," said Mr. Hale. "The coun try people are particularly energetic irr taking the supplies from here to the needy. They not only come for the sup plies but when it is necessary they care for the family besides. In many cases I have had to keep the live stock as well as the people. Since December there have been 236 families sick with smallpox that have had to be furnished with supplies from this office while they were quarantined. "There are many destitute people who come here for aid who do not wish to have their condition known. Many who come here for food do not let their children know of their true condition. There are two widows who are utterly destitute, but who struggle along w ith nut letting the people of the neighbor hood know .of it. I furnish what they are lacking. If the public knew of their condition they would receive more aid than I can furnish, but their pride does WMJV 11 WHUimMMgW:lM A Few Good Things. 25 Oriental Silk Petticoats, aecor dian pleat, for $1.25 5 pes. 64-in. Turkey Red Damask, worth 20c, for 14o 500 yds. 30-in. fast color, Bed Mad ras, worth 8$e, for 5o 25 pair Cotton Blankets left, to close, the 75c kind, for 55o MARCH INDUCEMENTS IN MEN'S FURNISHINGS. 10 styles in Colored Percale Shirts, 2 collars, very choice 50o 100 pairs Cottonade Pants, worth $1.00 for 50c 100 pairs Boys' Knee Pants, worth 35c, while they last 19o Shirt Waists This Week $2.00 Extra Values. THURSPAY NIGHT.' Blue and Green Premium Stamps. We also buy them good condition at 20c per hundred in trade. CUSTRtBlTERS OT &ARCrAlfS, not desert them. "I have just succeeded in getting 'Old Daddy Woods.' an aged colored man who lived in a squalid shanty on the bank of the river, to go to the poor farm. I have tried to induce him to go for more than a year, but he has always refused. He lived in the worst place I ever saw. and he has suffered constant ly for food and fuel. I don't see how a human being could live in such a place. I gave him a bar of soap and a clean shirt and told him to get ready to go to the poor farm. He finally decided it was the best thing for him to do." This morning Mrs. Thorpe received the donation of a load of potatoes, from W. H. Barnes, to be given to the poor. All winter she has received contribu tions of food, clothing and money, and as fast as received the donations have been distributed where they would do the most good. "I know of 10 or 15 families that during the past week have been suffering for want of work. If the members of the families had work they would not be in want. A widow by the name of Serena Smith, living at 213 Fairchild street, with seven children, has been in a suffering condition for some time. One of the children died of measles. I found homes for three and she still has three more to care for. If she could find steady employment she would support herself and children although she is a small woman and not very strong. She is willing to work and can make her own way when employed. If it had not been for the sickness this winter the poor people would have been in a better con dition than before for some time." W. H. Caldwell, of Topeka, formerly with the Beloit Courier and a pioneer editor, said today: "I am astounded with the pertinacity with which Mr. Sheldon pushes the India scheme. Why has he put on telescope spectacles to look away over into India, when with no spectacles he could see Mrs. Thorpe and learn of direful suffering right here in Topeka. This morning he print3 a picture showing the horrors of the Phil ippine war, and is silent as an oyster on the war that aristocratic England i3 waging to blot out a peaceable republic, which, I suppose, when accomplished, will appeal to us of America to help the starving new subjects of England. In stead of appealing to us for aid for starving India, why does not Mr. Shel don demand that England shall cease spending money and blood to subju gate the Boers and send some of her wealth to this country to buy our food for her starving subjects In India?" NORTH TOPEKA. Items intended for this column should be left with the Kimball Printing com pany, 835 Kansas avenue. Mrs. Fowler of Silver Lake was in Topeka today shopping. Social and oyster supper at Rochester school house Wednesday night. Messrs. Skinner Olson of the Crys tal Ice Co. are in Kansas City today. Mr and Mrs. Van Orsdal of Silver Lake were North side visitors today. Messrs. Dickey Williams, the North side ice men, went to Kansas City this morning. Ladies get the latest New Idea fashion sheets and magazines at Cost ley Post's. Lewis James Is expected borne this week from Hot Springs, Ark., where he has been for several weeks. Misses Ella and Daisy Olinger of To peka avenue returned Monday from a week's visit to Horton rriends. Entertainment at the North Christian church Friday evening, March 16, under the auspices of the choir. Admission 10 and 15 cents. Mrs. Libbie F. Ingels of LaAnna, Kan., is in Topeka on business con nected with the state board of the Christian church and will be present to morrow afternoon at the C. W. M. meet ing at the home of Mrs. F. A. Powell. Mrs. Ingels is the wife of a former pas tor of the Christian church. Mr. Dickinson, general manager; L. H. Korty, superintendent of telegraph; Mr. McConnell, superintendent of mo tive power and construction of Omaha; Mr. J. A. Brinkerhoff, superintendent, and A. T. Palmer, assistant superin tendant of Kansas City, officials of the T'nion Pacific, passed through North Topeka this morning and made a short stop. Mill end sale Thursday and Friday: I, 000 yards percale, regular price 12 va v n Bra H THURSDAY IS Muslin Underwear DAY. 1 0 Discount I on every Garment in the X stock that day. Which means a $1.09 Gown for 90c. niLLINERY Spring styles ready to inspect X Friday Morning. 'Phone 822 4 and 15c, for 5c, 6c and 7c yard; 1,000 yards tent cloth, regular 8 l-3c, sale price 5c yard; 1.000 yards bleached muslin, short lengths, regular 8 1-3 and 10c, for 5 and 6'c; men's black bib overalls, worth 50 and 75c, while they last, for 25c. Open Thursday evening until 10 p. m. COSTLET POST. Golden Rule lodge No. 90, A. F. A. M. will celebrate their thirtieth anni versary Saturday evening, March 17, at their hall. An interesting programme consisting of addresses, music and reci tations has been prepared and refresh ments will be served. W. S. Bergund-thal-will be master of ceremonies. Tha committee of entertainments is com posed of A. W. Long, J. E. Brown, Wra. M. Clime, Chas. Kistler, H. L Sher burne and H. C. Bowen. SOW A CHAIN TRUST. Leading Manufacturers Enter Into a Strong Combine. New Tork, March 14. Representatives of the various companies to be included In the Standard Chain company are at present in thisc ity. It is expected that the deal will be completed today. The company is capitalized at $3, 000,000 and in addition there is an au thorized bond issue of $700,000, of which about $600,000 it is understood will be Issued at present. The properties to be taken over are the Garland Chain company, Rankin Station, Pa.; Ness Chain Manufacturing company, Tork. J. C. Schmidt Co., Tork; Fall City Chain works, Jeffersonvllle. Ind.;Frans Krein Chain company, et. Marys. Ohio, Franz Krein Manufacturing company, Marion, Ohio; the Lebanon Chain Works company, Lebanon; Baker Chain and Wagon Iron Manufacturing company, Allegheny, Pa.; Hayden Saddlery Hardware company, including rolling mill, Columbus, Ohio: Bower and Mai lery company, Carlisle. Vegetable Compound! cures the ills peculiar to women It tones up their general health, eases down overwrought nerves, cures those awful backaches and reg ulates menstruation !t does this because It ee's directly on the fe male organism and makes it healthy, relieving and curing all Inflammation and displacements Nothing else Is Just as good and many things hat may be suggested are dangerous This great medicine has a constant record of cure Thou sands of women testify to it Read their letters con stantly appearing la this paper Man

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6 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.. WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 14, 1900. Pre to the Hnptnred. Er. VT. S. Rice, the "Well SnowTi Avl tliority, Sends a Trial of His Fa mous Hethod Free to AIL There are people who have been totur irig themselves tor years with trusses. It Is hoped their attention will be drawn to urn DR. S. BALL. Pr. Rice's free offer. An elderly and re tired physician. Dr. S. Ball of Marlon. Ala., is one of the hundreds attracted lo tills generous announcement and as a result he is now completely cured of a bad rupture which was very hard to hold. Although 72 years of age he had the courage and determination to try this new and novel method and now he lives in peace, contentment and sneurity. Dr. Hall looks back to the old days of crude methods and in comparison hails the won derful method of Dr. Rice as a marvel ous God-send to the present (fenerations. v all means write at once to Dr. V. S. Rice. 553 S. Main St.. Adams. N. Y., and he will send you a free trial of his re markable home cure for rupture. There is no pain, danger, operation or an hour's loss of time and by starting now you will be sound and well by early spring-. Improved Stereopticons and Moving Picture Ma chines and Phonographs and all supplies. Illustrated price list mailed to any address. R. H. BAKER OPT. CO., Topeka, Kansas. LAKE VIEW OFFICERS. Popular Club Re-elects All Directors and Officers. The stockholders of the Lakeview club held the annual meeting" at the club house at Lakeview Tuesday afternoon and elected officers and directors tor the ensuing year. All of the old direct ors and the oilicers who have been in charge for the past year were re-elected. They are as follows: Robert Pierce, Topeka. president; "F.ben Baldwin, Lawrence, vice presi dent; George It. Palmer, Topeka, treas urer; Francis Jaeiicke. Lawrence, sec retary. Directors: Ebt n Baldwin, Law rence: Prrf. L. L. Dyehe, Lawrence; WiUard X. Hall, Topeka; Robert Pierce, Topeka. The treasurer submitted a report showing the financial condition of the association to be excellent. It was jir.'ictically decided at the meeting to enter into a perpetual lease of the Lakeview property. It is owned by Mr. Kben Baldwin, vice president of the club, and at present is held under a 20 year lease, which has yet several years to run. No improvements were authorized, although it is probable that the bank leading; from the club house to the lake rwill be teraced this year. YVE MAY ESCAPE. Rain or Snow Coming This "Way But May Miss Kansas. The weather forecast today is "rain or snow tonight and Thursday; north east winds." There is a low in the south west work ing eastward and should it pass over Kansas the wind will probably go to the north and a precipitation will fol low. If the low barometer should pass north the wind will likely swing around to the southwest and warmer weather will be the result. The wind today is northeast making 4 miles an hour. The maximum temperature up to 11 o'clock was 3i and the minimum 34. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. William Molford, aged 47 years, died Monday at the Santa Fe hospital of blood poisoning. Harry Morris, the three-months-old Son of John Morris, died Monday at 418 Lawrence street of chickenpox. Tha luneral was held Monday. Gertrude Long, aged 24 years, died this morning of consumption. The fu neral services will be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning from her late resi dence. Ml! Madison street. The remains iwiil be taken to Paxico for burial. HELP FOR INDIA. Dr. Hobbs Again Comes to the Rescue of Famine Sufferers. Springfield. 111.. March 13. Rev. Dr. Richard dear Hobbs. who, while associat ed with Dr. Klopsch. editor of the Chris tian Herald, of New York, raised 90.0JO bushels or corn in this country, a few years ago and took it in a shin to Cal cutta. India, for distribution among the starving Hindoos, has been asked by Xlopsch to accept a similar task and has consented. It wiil be his endeavor to raise aO.ooO bushels of corn. 10,000 each irom the states ot Illinois, Iowa. Missouri Kansas and Nebraska. He will not ak this time for the corn itself, but for the price oi tne corn. J he corn will be pur chased in New York and the Indian gov ernment will pay for the shin. Dr. Hobbs will begin work at once and will want lorty nien m each of the states named. ills headquarters will be m this city. TORltlNUTON MOVES UP. Appointed Engineer in Charge of water Works in Siberia. Paul Torrington has been appointed en prineer in charge of the complete water works system- of the lranssibena rail road and sails from New York in a few days for the scene of his labors. This is one of the most important positions ever filven to a young man in this country. Burns Estate $17,000. According to the report of the an praisers. which has just been filed in the probate court, the value of the es tate of the late Mrs. Ross Burns. amounts to a little over $17,000. The greater part of the investments were government bonds. These amounted to 511,384. The real estate is worth $5,500. there Is a library worth $150, and a ianj deposit or it3.bu. Commander Clover Sails. New York March 14. Command ed naval attache of the United States embassy at the court of St. James, sail ed today on the American liner St. Paul. Commander Clover was accompanied ly his wife and the Misses Dora and iieatrice Clover. Steel Works Burned. Flint. Mich.. March 11 Th. A rro Rtrong Steel works were destroyed by jire eany toaay. 'ine plant was estab lished In 1889, and employed 100 hands 3,oss estimated at $150,000. Golden'! brewery and cooper shop, adjacent to the steel woiks, were also destroyed Origin of the fire unknown. IT WAS DIFFERENT. Boer Appeal to United States Not lake Any Other Sent Out. Washington, March 14. The answer of Lord Salisbury to the message from Presidents Kruger and Steyn which was transmitted through our govern ment, was received at a late hour last night by Secretary Hay, through Mr. White, our charge at London. As in dicated in the London dispatches, the answer was a declination of the appeal. It has been transmitted to Adel'oert Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, who will submit it to the two presi dents. This marks the end of the first overture towards peace. It is believed here, however, that an other effort will soon be made by the Boers to attain peace, though recourse may be had to some other agency than the United States. The president has decided that it is not proper at this time to make public the text of the communications which have passed be tween Pretoria, London and Washing ton, relative to the peace negotiations. Therefore the Allen resolution, adopted by the senate, calling for the corre spondence, must remain unanswered for the present, though there is reason to believe the cause for maintaining secrecy on this point will soon disap pear. It is stated, however, that the press dispatches have indicated the salient features of the correspondence with sufficient accuracy, and about the only omission, so far as can be learned. was the failure to develop the fact that the appeal of the Boer government that the United States might be al lowed to intervene was accompanied by an earnest expression by the president of his willingness to do anything with n his power to bring about the termina tion of the war, which he hoped might be attained. Lord Salisbury's reply, while firmly declining the request of the Boer gov ernment, conveyed his appreciation of the commendable sentiments which in spired the president's utterances. Inas much as there appears to be some con fusion in the public mind respecting the various efforts made by the Boers to end the war. it may be stated that their particular correspondence passing through the state department was sep arate and apart from the note addressed by Presidents .Kruger and bteyn to nearly all the continental powers be lieved to be in sympathy with their cause, and it is also distinct from the appeal made directly to Lord Salis bury by the two presidents, which, with his lordship's answer, formed the sub ject of the communication made yester day by him to parliament. MRS. TRACY FAINTED. Ordeal of Testimony in Her Di vorce Suit Causes Collapse. When Mrs. Gretta M. Tracy, the plaintiff in a divorce suit in the dis trict court, completed testifying in her own behalf today, she was so exhaust ed that it was impossible for her to leave the witness stand alone. Assist ance was rendered her, but before she could be helped to the door she became unconscious and remained so for an hour. The Traoys lived on a farm near Val encia until they separated about a year ago. H. B. Tracy, the husband, was an assistant in the United States district attorney's office while W. C. Perry oc cupied the office, and during several preceding administrations, and is well know in Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. Tracy were married at Larned in 1890, and soon afterward moved to Shawnee county. A year ago Mrs. Tracy filed a suit for divorce, alleging that her husband did not provide suitable food and cloth ing for her, that the children did not have clothes to go to school and Sun day school, and that Mr. Tracy com pelled her to do a man's work on the farm, going out into the fields and tak ing care of the stock. Mr. Tracy filed a cross-petition in which he stated that Mrs. Tracy had a habit of getting unreasonably mad at him and abusing him; that she left him in 1891 and stayed away for a week; that the following year she went to her mother's home at Larned and remained for several months, after which she came to Topeka and applied' for a di vorce, but failed to prosecute it, and finally returned to live with him again. Mr. Tracy also makes charges of infi delity against his wife, and names Wil liam Deer, a farmer who lives near Val encia, as co-respondent. Mr. Tracy owns a small farm near Valencia and considerable live stock. Mrs. Tracy asked for alimony, and also for the custody of the four children, and the children are the principal cause of the litigation. They range from 3 to 9 years of age. Mrs. Tracy testified on the stand to all the allegations she had made in her petition, claiming that Mr. Tracy would not provide for her, made her work in the fields on the farm, and had even compelled her to sleep on the floor. She was represented by D. C. Tillotson and L. R. Greenwood, and was cross-examined by T. F. Doran, of the firm of Ferry Doran. She bore up under the cross-examination until it was con cluded, and then she collapsed. Court adjourned for a time, while her friends were trying to restore her to conscious ness, but it finally reconvened and wit nesses -were placed on the stand to prove Mrs. Tracy's good reputation, af ter which the plaintiff rested. The defense immediately entered a demurrer to the evidence. "If you will withdraw your cross-petition," said Judge Hazen, "I will settle this case in short order. Under the statutes the court cannot grant a di vorce to either party on the uncorrobor ated testimony of either. There has been no evidence introduced to make out the plantiff's case." "What effect will that have on the children?" asked Mr. Doran. "The court will have no jurisdiction over the children after the case is dis posed of," answered Judge Hazen. At the request of Mr. Doran the court then adjourned until afternoon to al low the parties to settle matters per taining to the children before conclud ing the suit. SHERMAN PEFFER SUICIDES Sherman Feffer, son of United States Senator Peffer, committed suicide in Kansas City today. Particulars In later edition. Sulzer Is Inquisitive. Washington, March 14. In the house committee on military affairs today Mr. Sulzer of New York called up his resolution directing the secretary of war to inform the house what fortifica tions Great Britain is erecting along the northern frontier of the Uui;ei States especially at Puget Sound and in the northwest border country. An amendment was made striking out the reference to Great Britain and making it reier to any toretgn power." A mo tion to postpone consideration of the matter for a week prevailed on a party vote of 6 to 5, and the resolution went over, without action. PAQUIN CURES DRUNKENNESS. An Eminent St. Louis Physician Positively Proves He Can Cure Drunken nessA Remarkable Test. Is drunkenness a disease or is it sim ply a temptation that can not be resisted by a vast number of the human race? The answer to this question has been sought after for years by scientists and physicians. Physicians rightfully claim ed that if it Is a disease it can be cured, and. therefore, went upon the theory that it was a disease and sought to perfect a treatment whereby drunkenness could be cured. Ir. Ozias Paquin, for years a practicing physician in the city of St. Louis, studied this question from every standpoint. Finally, after many scien tific researches, he completed a method which in his own opinion was a positive cure for this despoiler of happy homes. In an interview Dr. Paquin declared "that drunkenness is a disease which blights happiness, beauty, love and tears down homes to build up insane asylums, poor houses and jails." After the Doctor had his method perfected to his own sat isfaction, he decided to give it a severe test; he went to a prominent citizen and told that citizen if he would send to hi3 (Dr. Paquin's) office five of the worst drunkards that could be found, he would cure them of their disease, and return them sober without any further appetite for intoxicating drinks. The prominent citizen decided to accept the proposition, and, after looking the city over, he finally found five cases which he thought would till the bill. These five cases were all be yond middle age, four were men and one a woman: the entire five seemed to be beyond all hope, as they had sunk Into the deepest pit of drunkenness, three of EXCELLENT NEWSPAPER. That Is "What Miss Gaston Says of the State Journal. Miss Lucy Page Gaston of Chicago, who is conducting the anti-cigarette crusade in Topeka, said today: "I have had some newspaper experience and think I know something about newspa pers and I consider the State Journal an excellent newspaper." Miss Gaston says she has found that cigarette smoking is more general among messenger boys in Topeka than any class. She says that four out of five smoke. "About half the newsboys in Topeka use tobacco," said she, "which is an improvement over Chi cago where five out of six smoke." Miss Gaston will conduct a mass meeting at the First M. E. church to night. TORE OFF HIS BUTTON. G A. R. Man Confined in Idaho Bull Pen. Washington, March 14. Feeling ran high at the Coeur d'AIene investigation befoTe the house committee on military affairs today, and there were several spirited exchanges between Chairman Hull and Representative Lentz. George Cornell was on the stand relating his experience curing imprisonment which differed onl;- on the detail from those of other wi... esses. One of his recitals was as to an old soldier, who, because of brutality of the negro soldiers toward him, took his Grand Army button from his coat and with tears in his eyes threw it away. Cornell said he made a memorandum of the affair but the book was taken from him and he saw it afterward in the possession of Bartlett Sinclair, the governor's representative, during the troubles. Mr. Sinclair, who was present, arose and declared there was no such soldier as had been described. Mr. Lentz protested against state ments not under oath. He also gave notice that he would call on Mr. Sinclair to produce all his books to locate this alleged soldier. Chairman Hull here interposed to remind Mr. Lentz that he was not the entire committee and was not in a position individually to order the production of books. This was the province of the committee and without such action Mr. Lentz's notices amount ed to nothing. Mr. Lentz stated this was the usual notice that books referring to testi mony would be called for. He asked that the committee make the, request, and without objection it was done. Mr. Lentz also moved that the committee call for all rolls, records, etc., showing the names of those held in the "bull pen," charges against them, etc. The committee went into executive session to pass upon the motion. At the executive session the commit tee voted, 6 to 5. against calling for the immediate presentation of the rolls, records, etc., of the bull pen. It was agreed, however, that General Merriam and others be requested to present any papers when they were heard. When open session was resumed the testimony was soon interrupted by an other exciting controversy. One of th: attorneys present in behalf of the state of Idaho, occupied a seat near the head of the table and Mr. Lentz referred to the outside "coaching" which was go ing on. He also questioned the attorney as tow horn he represented, by whom he was retained and what retainer had been paid. The answer was that Gov ernor Steunenberg has given a$250check as retainer. The the following colloquy occurred: Chairman Hull What difference does that make? Mr. Sulzer of New York Don't be so timid, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Stevens of Minnesota There is such a thing as decency. Mr. Sulzer That may be. Mr. Stevens You had better get a lit tle of it. Mr. Dick of Ohio I object to the in sulting remark of the gentleman from New York to the chairman. Mr. Sulzer Never mind what you want to do about it. I will have my rights here. You can rest assured of that. I know Mr. Dick you are very sensitive. Mr. Dick Not at all sensitive to any thing you can say. Mr. Sulzer We will have our say here. The manner of the exchange showed the members were very much in earn est. The witness went on with his tes timony. He told of the vileness of the barn where the men were confined and of the harsh treatment accorded them. DR. PAQUIN. them were delirious and all were habit ual drunkards, with the odor of drink so obnoxious that it was almost impossible to stand within speaking distance. In thirty days' time Lr. Paquin returned the entire five in n. sober condition, with the flush of health upon their cheeks and the light of happiness in their eyes, and with all otior of whisky gone. It was al most a miracle, for he "had raised five hu man beings from the gutter of degrada tion into the sunshine of health and hap piness. Since Dr. Paquin's great discov ery there is no doubt in the minds of scientists and physicians but that drunk enness is a disease and can be cured. His method not only removes the desire for drink, but renders alcohol antagonistic to the system; 1n this latter particular the effect is much the same as is exper ienced when one is made very sick upon some favorite article of food and ever afterward that particular dish is ren dered repulsive. However, by the Paquin treatment the patient is not made sick, but, on the contrary, his health is im proved and the patient unconsciously loses all desire for drink, and later finds that the stomach will not tolerate alcohol even in small quantities. From what Dr. Paquin has demonstrated it can be said without hesitation that the most hope less case can be cured by this wonderful treatment. Dr. Paquin has had hundreds of patients who were relapses from other treatments, and in every instance he cured these patients, and thev have re mained cured for months and vears. It can, therefore, be stated that the Paquin treatment Is a permanent cure and not a temporary one, for the patient never re lapses to his former condition. We know of no more humane work being done at the present than that which Dr. Paquin Is doing. The Doctor Is comparatively a young man, taking into consideration the fame he has already achieved in his chosen profession, and to think that this young man has thrust aside the opportu nity which was surely his to become the head of the medical profession in his community for the purpose of taking up the work of planting the sunlight of so briety and happiness into the midst of drunkenness and misery. It is the duty of every reader to assist Dr. Ozias Pa quin in his noble work, and if any reader has brother, sister, husband, father or friend in whose system lurks the disease of drunkenness, he should at once send their name to Dr. Paquin, or see that they either visit or place themselves in communication with the Ozias Paquin Immune Co.. suite 1113 Chemical Bldg., St. Louis. The reader that does this will certainly be doing a Christian act, for no matter how hopeless the case may seem, and no matter how many other treatments have been unsuccessfully tried, the method known as the Dr. Ozias Pa quin's Treatment will perfect a cure, dis pelling all desire for drink and at the same time it will place the constitution in a robust and healthy condition. TODAY'S MARKET REPORT. Chicago, March 14. WHEAT The fore part of the session on the board of trade today the wheat market held hrm. sup ported by the cash business done here ana at JJulutn yesterday. The prospect of a rcold wave also had some effect in steadying the market. Trade was uuiet, however, and mostly local. May opened 1mc over yesterday at bbc, touched wkc and reacted to 6tvc. Receipts here were 25 cars, none of contract grrad.e. Minne apolis and Duluth reported 652 cars against 622 last week, and 321 a year ago. During the remainder of the session. May slowly climbed to 66 "sc. helped by the cash business and covering by shorts. May cioesd strong, c over yes terday at bbiC. CORN Trade in com was fairly active early and the price was steady after a little dip on protit-taking. Country offer ings were small ana .Liverpool higher. May opened a shade to Vic over yesterday at 37 to 372(ic, touched 37tH and re acted to 37iic. The most business was done around 3i12(iiG. Receipts here were 44a cars. May corn later declined to 3714'a34c. but reacted with wheat to 37$4,c, closing strong" at 37ti4c. OATS The oats market was steady, but unimportant early. May opened a shade higher at 23Trc, sold a shad lower but recovered. Local receipts were zs cars. PROVISIONS The provisions market was strong as otrerinirs were light and there was a good demand from shorts and for cash. Liverpool was firm for pro ducts Trade was fairly active. May pork openea a shade lower at 5iu.t&, advanced to $11.15: May lard opened unchanged at $6.02 and touched $U.U5, and May ribs opened z-rroc improved at t.UaW!ul.0.j. RYE May, 5Cc. BARLEY Cash, 36V-Vr?43c. TIMOTHY March, $2.50. Chicago Livestock Market Chicae-o. March 14. CATTLE Rerelnts. 21,000, including 2.5110 Texans, generally c to 15c lower, including butchers' stocK and Texans. Good to prime steers. $4.it0 u: poor to medium, $4.wra4.ti0; stocRers and feeders, $3.4iXi4.7o: cows, $3.o0'a4.20; heifers, $3.00'a4.3u: canners, !2.25'f2.90; bulls, $2.90f(j4.15: calves. 4JMr7.S0; Texas fed steers, $J.75&4.SsO; Texas bulls, J3.10-U 3.60. HOGS Receipts today, 32.000: tomorrow, 27,000; left over, 3,966. Moderately active, shade lower. Top, $5.05. Mixed and butch ers', $4.75'U5.021'..: good to choice heavv, $4.'.'2'41i5.10: rough heavy, S4.75'Q 'A.&V&; light $4.75'i4.R5: bullc of sales. $4.9O'a5.00. SHEEP Receipts, 18,000: about steady. Lambs, 10rl5c lower. Good to choice wethers. $0.5055; fair to choice mixed, 4.75'a5.30: westerns, S5.30S75.S5: yearlings, $5.706.40: native lambs, $5.60!3.7.25; west ern lambs. $6.00f(i7.25. Official receipts and shipments for yes terday: Cattle Receipts, K.129; shipments. 1,411. Hogs Receipts, 25,3(m: shipments, 5.071. Sheep Receipts, 11,255: shipments. 2,169. Kansas City Livestock Kai-ket. Kansas City. March 14. CATTLE Re ceipts, 9.000: market 10?il5c lower. Native steers, $3.75'y5.35: Texas steers, $3.75'&4.5"; Texas cows. $2.S0f(i3.50; native cows and heifers. $1.654.65: stockers and feeders, 3.tfu5.25; bulls. $3.WTi4.00. HOGS Receipts, 15.UO0: market weak. Bulk of sides, $4.751 4. S712; heavy, $4.&5'S 4.05: packers. $4.75'(4.92I'2: mixed. $4.70a) 4.S5: flffht. $4.504.7714; yorkers, $4.704.77Vi; pigs. $3.9Ca4.65. SHEEP Receipts. 3,000: market steady. Lambs, $5.0w&6.0o; muttons, $3.006.00. Kansa3 City Produce Market. Kansas City. March 14. WHEAT Mav, 63MiC. Cash: No. 2 hard, 64c: No. 3, 6icij 63c; No. 2 red, 70c: No. 3, 65-)r69c. CORN Mav, 34c. Cash: No.,-2 mixed, 35c: No. 2 white. 35c; No. 3, 35c. OATS No. 2 white, 25&c RYE No. 2, 53c. HAY Choice timothy $10.0010.50; choice prairie. $7.257.50. BUTTER Creamerv, 2023c; dairy, 19c. EGGS Fresh. 10ViV2e. Receipts Wheat, 24 cars. Topeka Markets Today. Topeka. March 14. Eased on Chicago and Boston quota tions. The following are net prices paid in Topeka this week: CATTLE. COWS $2.50'ff3.50. STEERS $3.50'd4.00. HEIFERS $3,0013.75. HOGS. LIGHT 54.30-iT4.55. MEDIUM AND HEAVY-$4.404.65. TiRAIN. NO. 2 WHEAT 61H!& 620. NO. 2 CORN 26 cents. NO. 2 OA1S 24c. HAY $5,5046.00. PRODUCE. EGGS 11H cents. CHICKENS 6g6i4 cents. BUTTER 18 cents. Topeka Hide Market. St. Louis olose: Wheat March, Tl'c; May, 703c bid; July, mrac asked. Corn March, 36c: May, 361 c; July, 36ic bid. Oats March, 25c; May, 24c. Primary receipts and shipments: Wheat, receipts 703.S77, last year 475,000: ship ments, 173.800, last vear 186.0ri0. Com. re ceipts 826.400, last year 769,000; shipments 208.348, last year 458.000. Chicago: Business very profesional. Puts: May wheat, 66:SsS14c. Calls: May wheat, 67HSHO. Curb: May wheat, 66?c bid. 4 JHZ?K R w if y I 108 E. SIXTH ST. Read the following list carefully. These prices are lower than prices made by any grocery house in the city. They will save you money. Don't fail to take advantage of them. PREMIUfl STAHPS ON EVERY ARTICLE. 19 lbs. Granulated Sugar 1.00 20 lbs. Best White C Sugar 1.00 SO lbs. Good Flour S5 1 bushel Fancy Colorado Potatoes... .75 I bushel Fancy Northern Potatoes 60 1 bushel Fancy Kansas Potatoes .35 Sugar.Cured Hams, per pound .11 Sugar-Cured Breakfast Bacon, per pound .10 Sugar-Cured California Hams, per pound...... Dry Salt Meat, per pound h Good White Lard, per pound .06 Soda Crackers, by the box 05 4 lbs. Soda Crackers 25 4 lbs. Fresh Baked Ginger Snaps .25 2 lbs. Lemon or Vanilla Wafers .25 9 bars White Russian Soap .25 9 bars Silk Soap 25 9 bars Lenox Soap .25 10 bars Diamond C Soap 25 14 bars Monday Morning Soap .25 6 bars Ivory Soap 25 6 bars Grandpa's Wonder Soap .25 18 lbs. Sal Soda 25 7 lbs. Gloss Starch 25 8 packages Pearline 25 1 gallon Sugar Syrup .25 1 gallon can Sugar Syrup .30 3 cans Table Syrup 25 1 gallon Country Sorghum .35 1 gallon Sour Pickles 15 1 can Zi lb. California Table Peaches 15 1 can 3 lb. California Apricots .15 2 cans 3 lb. Green Gage Plums. 25 WE CARRY THE BEST GREEN SALT CURED "c. NO. 1 TALLOW--114C. GREEN SALT HALF CURED 7c. GREEN UN SALT ED 6Vic. Market Gossip. Furnished bv J. C. Goings. Commission Merchant. 112 East Fifth street, Topeka. Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. London, 1:30 p. m. Cargoes steady, wheat lid lower. Kansas City: Hogs. 17.000; cattle, S.000. Omaha: Hogs. 11,500: cattle, 4,000. Chicae-o: Hogs, 32.000; cattle. 21.000; sheep. 18.000. Hogs, left over, 356; opens nearly steady. Paris: Wheat and flour, unchanged to 5c higher. Liverpool: Wheat quiet, d lower; corn steady, lid higher. Chicago receipts: Wheat, 25 cars: grad ed 0; corn. 445 cars, graded 1; oats ,208 cars, graded 4!. Chicago: Weather map shows colder north, but continued mild weather west and southwest. There are a few snow flurries in the Dakotas. Chicago: Hogs close fairly active and shade lower with 30,000 estimated receipts tomorrow. Minneapolis receipts: Wheat, 341 cars; last vear 174 cars. Duluth receipts: Wheat, 311 cars; last year, 347 cars. Liverpool close: Wheat, !filid decline from last night: corn unchanged. Paris: Wheat closes lac lower; flour 30c lower. Chicago: Provisions opened easier as usual with run hogs, but act steady to firm. St. Louis receipts: Wheat, 6,100 bu.. last year, 20,700: corn, 32.200 bu., last year 38, 200: oats, 14.400 bu.. last year 37,200. Kansas City receipts: Wheat, 24 cars, last year 74; corn, S cars, last year 20; oats, 3 cars, last vear 5. Cleaj-ances: Wheat and flour, 306,000; corn, 764.000; oats, 40.00p. Estimated car receipts for tomorrow at Chicago: Wheat, 28; corn, 400: oats, 250. Kansas City cash market: No. 2 hard wheat, 59-lbs test, 64c; No. 2 mixed corn, 35c; No. 2 white corn, 35c. Grain Letter. Furnished bv J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant. 112" East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. Chicago, 111.. March 14. WHEAT The wheat market has little more strength today, due in part to reported excellent cash demand, both here and at Duluth, while local shorts took a nice part to ward the close, causing an advance for the day of 1c per bushel. Northwest re ceipts will continue heavy while our ex ports are merelv nominal. Liverpool ca bles were not strong, while Paris showed a tendency to weakness. Most of the ses sion was noticeable for Its dullness until just before the end, when buying orders found, but few offerings and market ad vanced rapidly. Weather conditions have been favorable through the winter wheat section. Seaboard markets firm and re ported some little buying for foreign ac count. With strength in other articles on our floor, it would not seem likely to have fair advance in wheat CORN Closes about unchanged and the trade was fairly active. Country offerings which were large yesterday, dropped off materially today. Under 37c for May there was good buying by yesterday's sellers was the feature. Foreigners seem to follow our strength and buy liberally. Under these circumstances it is not likely that prices will set back much, although we still look for 37c before another ad vance. We know of 150,000 corn worked for continent today and more in progress at today's high price. p harri Cotton Market Liverpool, March 14. COTTON Cotton moderate, spot demand: prices higher 7 American middling. 5 9-16d. New York, March 14. COTTON Cot ton futures opened steady: March, $9.47; April, $0.42: Mav. $9.40: June, $9.32: July, $9.33: August, $9.19; September, SS.30: Oc tober, $7.99; November, $7.S6; December, $7.83; January, $4.b3. ft! mu 2 cans 3 lb. California Pears .25 1 can 3 lb. California Black Cherries .15 2 cans Sugar Corn .15 1 can Early June Peas .10 4 cans Peas 25 2 cans String Beans.. .15 2 cans Wax Beans. v .15 3 cans Mustard Sardines 25 6 cans American 1-4 Sardines .25 1 can Warren's A-I Salmon 15 3 cans small Warren's A-l Salmon .25 3 lbs. California Evaporated Peaches .25 1 lb. Evaporated Apricots .15 6 lbs. Raisin-Cured Prunes .25 2 lbs. Evaporated Raspberries 35 1 package Seeded Raisins 10 1 package Battle Ax Oats 05 12 lbs. Bulk Rolled Oats 25 6 lbs. Beans 25 2 packages Grape-Nuts .25 5 lbs. Japan Rice .25 3 packages Aunt Jemima Pancake Flour 25 3 packages Ralston Pancake Flour .25 s-id. pan Apple FRESH MEATS IN THE CITY Galveston, Texas. March 14. COTTON Cotton steady, 9 7-16c. Joseph's Tips. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. New York, March 14. Foreign houses have some scattering, orders. Atchison issues are certain to sell higher. Keep long of these, likewise of the Pacifies. The buying of sugar is better than the selling. Standard Oil interests are again buying B. R. T. We are bullish on St. Louis nd Southwest, believing that the income will look cheap at 15 to 20 points above their present prices. The general trend of the market will., be toward bet ter prices. Hew York Up-Town Gossip. New York, March 14. All that is now needed to keep the market moving: along its present course is a moderate amount of encouragement from the speculative public at large. Stocks have been ad vancing for three days, but as yet there is no sign of an awakening among out siders. The same stoic indifference is still displayed and opinions differ very widely as to whether the trader, far re moved from Wall street, can be persuad ed that this rise in values, based upon anything more substantial than the op erations of a little clique of professionals. The short interest has not been entirely eliminated, but it is insignificant com pared to what it was at the beginning of the week. The most urgent needs of the bears have been satisfied and it is a question whether new buying will appear in sufficient volume to make up for the loss of the demand for the shorts. Jt is true that the market possesses some ele ments of genuine strength. Thts is no ticeable in the rails, but it does not seem as if the time had yet come to become enthusiastically bullish. The advance looks too much like a movement in the interest of those who are heavily loaded with high-priced stocks cf every descrip tion, and the public should study the sit uation closely before beginning to load up with securities. There will probably be a further bidge as soon as the cur rency bill goes into effect, but it is safe to say that this factor has been quite thoroughly discounted, and if prices should be marked up another point or two stocks can be sold without hesitation for a good turn. Speculators with bullish proclivities see in this currency bill a cure for all financial evils, and refuse to pay any attention to the increasing evi dence of approaching stringency in the loan market. Whatever benefits, may ac crue from the enactment of this law will be felt by the banks rather than by Wall street. The pool in Mo. Pac. ran up against a snag in the heavy statement of earnings, and instead of a further adTance in the stock as was generally looked for, the price sustained a set-back. There is -no dividend in sight and to this Is attributed the sudden change of front by the bulls. Atchison preferred is the strongest stock on the list, and one of the most active. All the offerings are very large they are well absorbed and have no apparent effect upon the price. Where the buying power comes from is somewhat of a mystery. The general supposition that there is a powerful bull pool manipulating it. and that it will sell at 75 before the. first of May. Thre is renewed talk of an increase in the divi dend rate, but it can not be traced to any reliable source. The stock does not look cheap at 70 and those who feel In clined to buy it should wait for some thing authentic on the dividend before doing so. A leading house closely identi fied with the Baltimore Ohio syndicate seems to have a good deal of the common and preferred stock for sale on the bulges. These issues are too high. The common and preferred have no dividend and there is no reason for believing that it will pay one for a long time. Sugar is about high enough to sell for a good turn. The shorts have taken their medi cine and as no one else seems to want the stock it should react a few points. Third Avenue is another good subject for the short seller. It ought to be good for at least $10 per share, in view of the fact that a big assessment is sure to be levied upon it. R. N. HUDSON. my i Ml 'PHONE 425. t t i packages cagie rancaKe nour .za 3-lb. can Apple Butter .10 Butter 3-Ib. can Plum Butter 10 1 dozen Sweet Navel Oranges .10 2 dozen Country Eggs .25 2 lbs. Fancy Santos Coffee 25 1 lb. Mocha and Java Coffee .20 Lion Coffee 12 Arbuckle's Coffee 13 i AT THE LOWEST PRICES I New Tork Money Market. New York, March 14. MONEY Money on call firm at 6 per cent. Prime mer cantile paper, 55 per cent. Sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.85 for demand and at $4.82 for sixty days; posted rates, $4.83 and $4.87: commercial bills, $4.81?4'S4.824 SILVER Silver certificates, 60V4&61c; silver bars, 5c; Mexican dollars, 47ic. BONDS Government bonds strong; 2s, registered, 111; coupon, lll3; new 4s, registered. 136'i: coupon, lSei: old 4s, reg istered, 117; coupon, 118',2; 5s, registered, 116; coupon, 116V.. Butter Market. New York. March 14. BUTTER Re ceipts. 5.233 packages: firm: western crem-i ery, 20't725c: factory, 17i20c. i EGGS Receipts, 7.259 packages: barely steady: western. 16H'Src; southern at market, 155(iilGc. Sugar Market. New York, March 14. SUGAR Raw, firm; refined firm. COFFEE Steady; No. 7 Rio 80. Ranga of Prices. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street, Topeka, Kan, receiver and shipper of grain- Chicago, High Low March 14. Close "ies. Article. WHEAT- Mar. May Julv CORN Mar. Mav Julv OATS Mar. May July PORK Mar. Mav Julv LARD Open 66 634 67ft 65 66 66 66i-T4 5T4 66.- 67ft 66 36'4 3 37-H 37- S74- 37H- 37H 37- 3754 37ft 37 37- 23-4 23"4 22v4 23 23i-74 22-vi 23T4 22 23" 22 23 22 10 92 10 90 10 95 11 02 11 00 10 90 10 97 10 95 10 95 10 90 11 15 11 10 Mar. May Julv RIBS Mar. May July WHEAT- May Julv CORN May July 5 92 6 02 S 10 5 93 6 02 6 10-12 6 00 6 10 6 07 6 00 6 12-15 6 10 6 00-02 6 00 6 00-02 6 02 6 02 6 02 6 02 6 05 6 00 6 02-05 6 07 6 02 KANSAS CITY. 62 61TA 34 34 62 61 6314 62 62 61 62 3 i 34 34 34 34 34 Ranges of Prices on Stock. Furnished by J. C. Goings, Commission Merchant, 112 East Fifth street, Topeka. Kan., receiver and shipper of grain. New York, March 14. 1 I I I 1 Stocks. (Op'nIHigh Low Q'se Ts I I Sugar People's Gas Am. Tobacco A. S. W. B. R. T Leather Federal Steel C. B. Q. Rock Island St- Paul Atchison Atchison Pfd Atchison Adj Manhattan 104 104 98 1" 100 I 101t4104 96i 97! 98 105 I 105; 106 55 EG t 56 67 i 6S i 69 72l 72ftl 72ft 49ft I SO I 50 124 125 1124 10S 10X lOSft lZWJ 123ft:i24 98 1W 5SVi 69 72 60 124 1' saw 69ft 72 50ft! 126 1 123 123 23 23 68V4 82 13: .v 67ftl "7 6s 6S S2 82 82 I 82 93l 95 83 I S3ft 45ft I 46 4ft 93 S3 44 Western Union S3 46 83 46 Mo. Pacific IT. Pac. Pfd Union Pacifio.. So. Pac. Pfd T. C. I No. Pac. Pfd No. Pacific L. N C. G. W 74 49 38ft 74 49 74W 741-! 74ft 49 1 49; 49 3ft 38 921l 4ft 73 74 62! 53 81 82 13; lft 944. 74 53 94 74 53 73ft 52 SIV4 13, 81 13 81 13 Sales to noon, 192.21S shares.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, "WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1900. i r THE STAR GROCERY. J. S. SPROAT, Prop., Telephone 352. na East Sixth Street. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. TWO BLUE or one Green Premium Stamp tomor? row for every 10 cent purchase, except sugar, or an order on Downing, the photographer, for a Cabinet Size photo graph of yourself for every purchase of one dollar or over. l-!b can Victor Coffee Boka Tea, per lb fiweet Navel Oranges, per duz.. .DO .10 2 dozen fancy Lemons -o Large Kansas Potatoes, per bu 33 IS lbs best Granulated Sugar $1.00 Fancy Large Minnesota Potatoes, per bushel 60 Fancy Colorado Potatoes, per bu.. .75 25-Tb sack Corn Meal 25 30-Ib pail White Fish 45 10-lb pail Fat Mackrel 1.20 Armour's White Lard, per lb '16 Di-y Salt Meat, per lb 5 Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon, per pound 10 4 cans Corn 25 2 cans Cal. Table Apricots .2-: 1 can Cal. Table Peaches... 15 1 can Preserved Strawberries 10 2 cans Cal. Table Plums 25 1 can Cal. Table Orapes 10 10 bars Clairette Soap '-5 lood Parlor Brooms 25 Pearl Tapioca, per lb 05 12 lbs Bulk Scotch Oats 25 20 cents per Premium Stamps. For Sale by all.... A T 'Aurora' (Four sizes) 10c "Little Gem," 5c. Favorite These are Smokers' Favorites. MADE IN TOPEKA. Manufactured by 8oi Kansas Avenue. o Next to the Transfer Station. 4 101 The Bartholomew Real Estate and Investment Corporation Does a general Real Estate Business, pasture tracts, garden lands, and suburban tracts and homes. City Properties dwelings, large have the whole on every street and avenne in Topeka. Note Our Annual "Booklet" is now ready for distribution. Send postal card with name and address will send you copy FREE all about Topeka and loaning money. J. B. Bartholomew, Pres. Bank Room, 601 Kansas Ave. BARNES REAL GENERAL Your Business Solicited. Honest Treatment Assured. 113 TONIGHT. CLARA MATIIKS COMEDY COMPANY. Will present the powerful Comedy Drama, SLAVES OF GOLD. Big Bargain Matinee Wednesday. Popular Prices, 10c, 20c, 30c. "UNDER THE RED ROBE" The Brilliant Romance of the Days of Cardinal Richelieu. Two car-loads of Massive Scenery Effects. Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, $1.00. heats on sale at Uowley Suow's. One night only Monday, March 19th. Kirk Ca Dhelle and Fred Hamlin present the Ideal American Dram ARIZONA. Original Company. Magnificent Scenic Investiture. "The most successful Piay of the Year." PEICES $1.50. $1.00, 75c, 50c, 25c. Peats on sale Thursday, March 15. 8 a, m. AT1JIAYK FuT&Websters "A BREEZY TIME." ENTIRELY EEWKITTEN and TURNED UP TO DATE. Introducing our distinct Novelties. EVERYTHING NEW, NOVEL and ORIGINAL, "The Cat Serenade." "The Tennis Quintette." "The S-Lesreed Sailor." and a Grand Cake Walk, by the entire company as interpreted by America's Four Hundred. Enjoy 21 hours clean fun. PRICES-Matlnee, 15 and 26c. Evening-25c, 35c, 60c, 75c. Rest and Health to Mother and Child MRS. WIN8LOWS SOOTHING SYRUP ha-s been used for over FIFTY YEARS BY MILI.lnXS OF MOTHKRS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS all PAIN. CURES WIND COLIC and is the best remedy for DIARRHOEA. Sold by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure to ask for "Mrs. Winslow's Sooth ing Syrup" and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. A Railroad Prospers. Nashville, Tenn.. March 14. At a meeting of the stockholders of the Ten nessee Coal Iron Railroad company today the old directorship was elected. President Baxter's report showed the company in a highly satisfactory con dition. Property of great value had been purchased and the report recom mended an Issue of $3,000,000 of com mon stock to cover the outlay. The re port in full was adopted. Rubber tires $27.00,Rehkopt's Carriage Tactory, 207, 209 West Sixth street. 6 lbs Navy Beans 2o 2 cans Columbia River Salmon 25 N. Y. Cream Cheese, per lb IS 2j oz. can K. C. Baking Powder 20 1 lb frame extra White Comb Honey .18 2 pkgs. 24 boxea Parlor Matches... .lo Soda and Oyster Crackers, per lb. by box .05 1 gal. can fancy Table Syrup 30 3 lb. can Table Syrup 10 6 !1s Cal. Black Prunes 25 Whole Cal. Apricots, per lb. .10 Fancy t at. Peaches, per To 3 lbs Country Dried Apples Seeded Raisins, 1 lb pkg 3 1-lb pkg. Cleaned Currants 6 lbs Clean Uice 2 lbs Pure Vermont Maple Sugar.. 1 can grated Pineapple 1 lb layer Fiss 1 lb Japan Tea 1 lb (lunpowder Tea 1 lb Green Hyson Tea Lion and Levering's Coffee, per package .10 .10

.25 .10 .10 .;(5 .35 .35 .12 100 tomorrow for Blue or Green RDQ a "5c "Elk' 5c. (Made from Aurora Stock.) and have a large list of farms, ranches, and small business properties. range of the city, and have pro We i property ESTATE CO., AGENTS. West 5th St., Topeka, Kan. RELICS FOR MRS. 1IEARST. Ancient Greece and Egypt Will Be Explored and Excavated. Ran Francisco, March 14. President Wheeler has announced to the regents of the University of California that ex perts of acknowledged repute have been engaged to make excavations and ex plorations in parts of the world rich with relics of ancient learning. Ihe en tire expense of the work will be borne by Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. In Egypt Dr. George A. Reisner will have charge of the explorations. Dr. TJhle will pursue investigations in South America and Yucatan, Califor nia, New Mexico and Mexico will be searched for specimens by Dr. Philip Mills Jones. Dr. Alfred Emerson, recently profes sor in the Athens school of archaeology, is now on his way to this state to con fer with Mrs. Hearst in regard to the work in Greese and Etruria. The ma terials collected by the scientists will be placed in the archaeological museum to be established at Berkeley. MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. Unknown Woman Victim of an Assault in Chicago. Chicago, March 14. A woman prob ably fatally wounded was brought to the county hospital in a carriage early today and before the attendants had learned anything about the case her escort had driven away. She told the physicians that her name was Mrs Brown and then sank into unconscious ness. She is suffering from a bullet wound in the breast. The police were at once notified, but in no station in the city had a shooting been reported and the affair is enveloped in mystery. The victim is well dressed and is about SO years old. The doctors have slight hopes that she will regain consciousness. Later it was learned that a woman had called at the office of a physician on Halstead street for treatment about S o'clock last night. She told the doctor that she had been shot while she was walking on Van Buren street near Hal stead. When questioned further she refused to talk. An examination show ed that the bullet had penetrated the right lung. She remained in the phy sician's office until midnight. In the meantime another doctor had been call ed in but as both speak but little Eng lish the detectives investigating the ease could elicit scarcely anything more from them. At midnight the woman was assisted into a carriage and was driven away in the company of a man. The physicians did not learn who he was. BY A NARROW MARGIN. A Plot to Blow Up Forty Men With Giant Powder Was Frustrated Chicago, March 14. A special to the Record from Phoenix, A. T., says: Advices from Whipsaw mining camp, 60 miles from here, say that a plot to blow up 40 men there on Sunday was almost successful. The men were sit ting around the tables in the mess room when one of the miners who was about to enter the room discovered the burn ing fuse, which he removed. But for this discovery in two minutes the sparks would have reached a charge of giant powder sufficiently heavy to blow in atoms the mess house and all its oc cupants. A miner who recently came into the camp and of whom little is know except that he is eccentric, is suspected of planning the destruction of the work ingmen. He disappeared shortly before the dinner hour. A party of miners scoured the hills in a futil attempt to locate the missing man. The authori ties have been notified. OUR ARMORED YESSELS To Do Service in the Tropics Must Be Sheathed With Copper. "Washington, Max eh 14. Secretary Long will send to congress today the report of Rear Admiral Hichborn, chief construc tor of the navy, recommending that the battleships and armored cruisers already authorized be sheathed and coppered. He will also, send the dissenting report of the other members of the board of con struction. Admiral Hichborn declares sheathing is necessary, especially in view of the colon ial acquisitions of the United States and the greater prospect of tropical service. Replying to Rear Admiral Sampson's criticism, he quotes a report from Naval Constructor Gillmor, who says that sev eral ship-building firms in Kngland are sheathing armored and protected cruisers for the British government. Mr. GUlmor takes issue wit h the statement made by the majority of the board of construction that only a few vessels have been sheath ed in the last ten years. STEAMERS STILL MISSING. No Word Comes From Alaska of the Lost "Wolcott" and "Exelsior". Seattle, Wash., March 14. Two steam ers reached here from Alaska today, but they brought no news of the miss ing steamers Wolcott and Excelsior. Juneau newspapers published a story March 5 that report had reached Sitka to the effect that the Wolcott had been wrecked off Kayaka, Alaska. This, in formation, it was asserted, had reached Sitka by Indians from the westward, who arrived before the Cottage City, which arrived here a week ago, sailed from Sitka. The Cottage City's officers say they never heard such a story. A. G. McBride, who is in the city, heard that the Indians reported the wreck of the Wolcott as having oc curred January 7. As a matter of fact she was seen at Unalaska January 24. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS, Hugh Mullen and wife to Marcus Stumpff, $10, part n. e. 4 12, 12, 13. F. S. Stevens to Jno. H. Genter, $S00, part s. e. 14 36, 11, 15. Lon F. Ross et al. to Fred W. Wat son, $1, part lots 1," 2, sec 22, 11, 16, and part s. e. V4 22, 11, 16. W. L. Reid and wife to L. D. Rutty, $1,730, e. n. w. 9, 10, 16. Geo. W. Hill and wife to Anna Becker, $1,350, lot 97 Monroe St., Evan's add. L. W. Bodman and wife to same, $2,300, lots 3S6, SS8, 390 Qulncy St., Ritchie s add. F. S. Thomas and husband to Matt and Katie Harmon, $900, s. lot 153 and n. Vs loo Polk St. Hiram E. Davis et al. to Jno. W. Foster. $3,650, n. e. 8. 10, 15. J. E. Torrington and wife to Hattie A. Holly, $325, lot 4S0 Lane St., King's add. Jas. M. Westerfleld to Fred Engler. $1,850, n. Vi a. w. 32, 12, 15, except 3 acres. A. T. Batchelder and wife to F. S, Davis, $300, lots 705, 707, 709 Union ave.. blk. la, Martin Dennis sub. WETZEL DIYORCE. Husband Says He Has Been Cruelly Deserted. Elmer Wetzel has filed a suit for a divorce from his wife, Carrie Wetzel in the district court. He says he has lived In Topeka a year and a half, but his wite has never lived here. In his petition Mr. Wetzel says he and his wife were married in Dunkirk, N. Y., in 1S91, and from there went to Titusville, Pa. After a year or two he returned to Dunkirk, leaving his wife with his parents in Pennsylvania, but shortly afterwards she left them and went to Buffalo, and refused to live with him any more. He further says he owned a fine piano and $1,000 worth of household goods at the time his wife left him, which she obtained possession of without his knowledge. Capt. Clad Hamilton Will talk on "Soldier Life in the Phil ippines," under the auspices of the La dies' society, at First M. EL church. Friday evening, March 16. Amission, 15 cents. "To Have and to Hold," $1.20. A new story by Mary Johnston. Ben nett's book store. Concert and refreshments by the young people of the English Lutheran church, corner Fifth and Harrison, Fri day evening, March 16. Admission, 25 cents. DISC'I SSES PARKS. Secretary of American Labor Union Wants Money Expended in the City. To the Editor of the State Journal: A few days since a letter appeared in one of tne daily papers signed by one of the park commissioners that needs answering by some member of the American Labor Union, stating the stand that has been taken by that body. The A. L. U. for the past year has been urging the improving, at once, of the city park, for "the reason that it is the most accessible playground for the laboring class of our population. We, as a body, are willing to work for the issuing of bonds to the amount of $50. 000 for the acquiring of land for park purposes, and the improving of the same, but we are not willing to do so if the major part of that amount is to be expended in the purchase of Martin's hill, or any other outlying tract of land, for the reason that such tracts would not be accessible to any but those abie to own or hire a vehicle to take them there. In our city of 40,000 inhabitants a large majority, are not able to stand that expense, therefore we stand squarely for the purchase and improve ment of any land centrally located large enough to make a place 'of beauty and a breathing place for our overworked bread winners, whether they are em ployed in office, store, shop or out of doors. There is but one day in which they can take an outing as a relaxation to their overworked nerves, and we feel that it is unjust to ask them to go to any considerable distance to get the benefit derived from the recreation and quiet to be found in a beautiful park. Buy, if you please, tne proprty be tween Thirteenth and Fifteenth street3, but in the first place put forth all your efforts in the beautifying of the city park. Build a sea wall from bridge to bridge, and on the too ot the same build a graveled walk, wide enough to accommodate all pedestrians and baby carriages, and then continue in the good work till the park will Decome a place of beauty and will be sought by thou sands on every hot summer day. This is what the American LaDor Union is seeking to accomplish, and when the park commission declares the above to be its proposed action, then 11 the 250 voters, members of the A. L. U., work as one man for the carry ing of the proposition to vote $50,000 for their use. Pioneer Council No. 1 holds an open meeting at their hall. No. 115 East Sev enth street, on Friday evening. March 16, for the discussion of the park ques tion, to which the public is invited, Hie invitation is especially directed to the park commission, for it is desired that they be present to give us some of their ideas of what their action will be when the money is placed in their hands. c. a. 1 1 ir. Secretary A. L. U. NEW YORK AROUSED. Will Hold a Ringing Pro-Boer Meet ing Tonight. New York, March 14. The arrange ments for the big pro-Boer mass meet ing to be held at Cooper Union tonight were practically completed last night at a meeting of the committee held at the Morton House. Ex-Judge George M. "Van Hoesen will preside and among the speakers will be Montague White, John K. Milholland, William McAdoo, Robert B. Roosevelt, John De Will Warner and P. Louten Van Wessels. Mr. Van Wessels is a brother of the speaker of the assembly of the Orange Free State. According to the pro gramme Mr. White will confine himself to a clear explanation of the South Af rican situation and the other speak ers will appeal to the audience for an expression of the people's desire for intervention by the United States. A committee was appointed to take up a collection during the meeting. The question of what resolutions shall be offered during the morning called for much discussion. The reso lution offered hy Mr. Sulzer to congress was suggested as a model, but John E. Milholland, in a speech that roused the enthusiasm of the committeemen, ar gued for stronger resolutions. He asked that the president be called upon to make a firm demand for an ending by peaceful means of the conflict. In re ply to the conservative objections of another speaker, who feared that any demand on the part of this country would occasion conflict with England, Mr. Milholland said: "There will be no war. But the way to get peace out of John Bull is to pre pare for the other thing. The wisdom of the American people is greater than that of any administration and when the people express their will it will be carried out and carried out successful ly." Another bigger meeting Is being planned to take place in the Madison Square Garden. At the Whist Club. The following is the score for last Mon day evening's game (March 12): NORTH AND SOUTH. Tricks. Points. Koontz and Drum 13 131 Ness and MeKirahan 12 131 Parker and Robbins 12 329 Bronson and Norton 11 128 Shakeshaft and. Shakeshaft.. 10 124 Falkiner and Pavne 9t 12i5 Sibley and Hurrie Stii 126 Jolly and Merrick fl'-i 124 Rankin and Hogeboom 9-2 123 Noble and Prescott 83 120 Average, 126 2-10 EAST AND WEST. Washburn and Greenwood... 13 139 Murphy and Connors. lo'A 341 Mason ahd Troutman 10 134 Keeter and Knowles 9H 1?S Korn and Thrapp Si 132 Muirn and Ashbv S ;;1 Marshall and Pennekamp VA 33S West and "Copeland 7 127 Putnam and Fulton 6 121 Gill and Alston 6 123 Average, 133 8-10. MD MISCELLANEOUS ADS. ANN OUNCEMENTS. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR MEMBER of the legislature from the city district (consisting of the Third, Fourth and Fifth wards), subject to the Republican primaries, April 14th, V)r. ALBERT K. WILSON. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF A candidate for county commissioner in the district comprising the Second, Third ana i ounn warus. W. C. STEPHENSON. I ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A CANDI date for the office of representative of the Thirty-eighth district, comprising the First and Second wards of Topeka. the town of Oakland and the township of Te cumseh. Shawnee county. Kansas, sub ject to the Republican primaries. ALVIN J. DODGE. WKWTS jANDUNCEMJENTS. I HEREBY ANNNOUNCE MYSELF A candidate for. county commissioner in the district comprising the Second, Third and Fourth wards. C. A. FELLOWS. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR CLERK OF the district court for second term, sub ject to the Republican nomination. Pri maries April 14, 1S0. A. M. CALLAHAN. Z. T. HAZEN ANNOUNCES HIMSELF a candidate for the office of judge of the Third Judicial district, subject to Re publican primaries April 14th. J. W. MERGAN, COUNCILMAN FROM the Second ward, is a candidate for pro bate judge, subject to the Republican pri maries April 14. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY superintendent, subject to the Repub lican primary election, to be held on April 14. 1900. S. F. WRIGHT. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR PROBATE judge, subject to the Republican pri mary election, to be held on April 14, 1M0. W. E. FAG AN. THOMAS F. DORAN IS A CANDIDATE for county attorney, subject 10 the Re publican primaries. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR COUNTY superintendent of public instruction, subject to the Republican primaries, to be held April 14, 1000. WILL VANORSDOL. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OF fice of county attorney of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican pri maries, to be held April 14, WOO. CHAS. F. SPENCER. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF ASA candidate for representative for the 37th district, comprising the Sixth ward of Topeka, and all the townships in the county, exclusive of Tecumseh-and Oak land precinct. JOHN B. SIMS. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR REPRESEN tative in the 38th district, comprising the First and Seoond wards,- Oakland and Te cumseh townships, subject to the Repub lican primaries to be held April 14. H. C. SAFFORD. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OF fice of county attorney of Shawnee county, subject to the Republican pri mary, April 14th. GALEN NICHO LS. I ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A CANDI date for county commissioner of the city district, composed of the Second. Third and Fourth wards, subject to Republican primaries. C. V. WOLF. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR THE OF fice of state 'senator, subject to the Re publican primaries, to be held April 14, 3900. JNO. T. CHANEY. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A candidate tor countv commissioner of the city district, composed of the Second, Third and Fourth wards, subject to Re publican primaries. J. M. MILLER, SILAS RAIN, candidate for office of countv commissioner for the cltv district (Second, Third and Fourth wards). Sub ject to nomination by the Republican pri mary election. I ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A CANDI- date tor the office of probate judge of Shawnee county. Kansas, subject to the itepuDiican primaries. L. S. DOLMAN. UPON THE EARNEST REQUEST OF a great number of old soldiers, laborers and business men, I will be a candidate for state senator at the Republican pri maries in Shawnee county, April 14th, 1900, and if chosen for that honorable and responsible position I pledge my best ser vices to the faithful performance o the duties of that office. T. W. HARRISON. I HEREBY ANNOUNCE MYSELF A candidate for the office of probate judge of Shawnee county, Kansas, subject to the Republican primarv, when held this spring. H. J. BEVELLE. WANTED HELP. WANTED Position as housekeeper in widower's family in the city; no ob jection to children. Address or call at West Sixth st., Mrs. A. Brooke. WANTED Position as housekeeper in small fa nily. or for widower with fam ily, or care for invalid. Address Mrs. Bennett, North Topeka general delivery. WANTED A widow with a son wishes a position as housekeeper in a widower's family, on a ranch or farm. Address E. M., care Journal. WANTED A widow with experience would like a position as housekeeper in widower's family. Address A. M., care Journal. WANTED Girl wants a place to work; will do nursing or help do housework. Call at 1320 Quincy st. WANTED Work of any kind by a boy. Address S., care Journal. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED Reliable girl for general housework, family of three; good wages. 927 King street. WANTED Good girl for general house work; Swede or German preferred. 324 West Gordon St. WANTED Strictly energetic young lady to take orders for an article needed in every house. Salary, $1.00 per day and commission. Call after 5 p. m., 520 Mon roe st. WANTED Two white girls for first and second work. 1243 Topeka .avenue. WA NTED Dressmakers. Crosby Bros. Mrs. Mercer, WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED Farm hand eood man with stock. 2016 Clay st. WANTED A man who will put in eight hours at outdoor work; position permanent- Call 123 West Seventh St. WANTED AGENTS- WANTED Canvassers, either sex, for Topeka and nearby towns; $50 salary per month. Address A. S., care Journal. GASOLINE LAMP; best terms; retails. $5: polished brass; hundred candle light; cent a day. Standard Lamp Co., 112 Michi gan St., Chicago. $250 A MONTH and expenses. Samples free. 27-F Ridge bldg., Kansas City, Mo. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To buy team, wagen and har ness. Will buv together or separate. Call 400 East Eighth st. WANTED To buy a barn or an old building that will make a good barn. Must be cheap and-in good condition. Ad dress "Barn."' care Journal. WANTED Gas or gasoline stoves clean ed and repaired; improved new burners fitted to any frame. Gasoline stoves changed for gas. HULL STOVE REPAIR CO., Tel. 313. 116 East Eighth st. WANTED A medium sized electric fan. T. E. BOWMAN CO.. Columbian Building. WANTED Horses to wlnter.best of stab ling and care. H. W. McAfee. 16 Kan. avenue. FOB SALE MISCELLANEOUS) FOR SALE Four Kentucky jacks, at 523 AV estem ave. FOR SALE 3-vear-old colt, well broken double and single, good spring wagon, 3 work hanesses. 1101 -vv estern ave. FOR SALE A good white Sewing ma chine, $7.50. N. B. Campbell, 6ui Kan sas ave. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE Fine upright piano cheap for cash; also kitchen range. Mrs. M. K. Haines, 6254 Kansas avenue. FOR SALE Two cords of stone. 1300 Quincy. C. D. Skinner. FOR SALE Fine Plymouth Rock roos ter. 213 the Drive, j. W. Stoker. FOR SALE Grocery and meat fixtures, horse, poney and wagon. 220 W. 6th st, FOR SALE All household poods. 619 Clay st. Parties leaving town. FOR SALE Cottage home, four rooms, barn, six lots, Oakland. Price $S50. P. C. Moore. 420 Kansas ave. FOR. SALE Brunswick Billiard hall, 734 Kansas avenue. Cheap if sold soon. FOR SALE Building material, second hand Lumber, flooring and joist, stairs, windows, doors, cut stone, dressed range rock for embankment wails, window and door sills; everything in puilding line. If you are goine to build, Come and see what I have. J. S. Morse, 1005 N. Van Buren st. FOR SALE Brunswick Billiard hall, 734 Kansas avenue. Cheap if sold soon. FOR SALE A few more Black Lang shan cockerels for $1 each. 421 Quincy. FOB KENT HOUSES FOR RENT Six room house, close in: well, pantry, sink and cistern cheap to desirables. Enquire 12u0 Harrison st. FOR RENT Good five-room house, well, cistern and barn. !Hj7 Bast Eighth st. W. H. Whittelsey, 135 Madison, agent. FOR RENT Six room cottage, barn, cis tern, well. H24 North Van Buren key at 1302 Logan street. FOR ILENT jxOOMS. FOR RENT Rooms with board, $3 a week. 700 Madison St. FOR RENT Room with, board. 900 To peka ave. FOR RENT Unfurnished S rooms. 1101 Western avenue. FOR RENT Rooms for light housekeep ing and others, modern. 713 Topeka ave. FOB BENT MISCELLANEOUS. FOR RENT 30 acres 5 miles southeast, 3 rooms. Enquire 1428 Topeka ave., N. Topeka. FOR RENT A good piano. N. B. Camp bell, 6u5 Kansas ave. FOB SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE 1H or 2 lots, Clay St.. be tween Fourth and Fifth; sewer, brick walk. Shillinglaw, 527 Kansas ave. FOR SALE Ten room house, 3 lots, barn, etc. Belleview addition, east of ceme tery, $750 cash or payments. C. D. Skin ner. RAILROAD LANDS FOR SALE On ten years' time, at from $1 to $8 per acre. Write us about railroad lands. IMMIGRATION REALTY CO., 325 Kansas avenue. FOR SALE Farm, 160 acres, near this city, to be sold to settle estate. Call on or address for short time. J. G. Bain, exr., 821 Clay street. FOR SALE Filmore St., near proposed near new park, 6 room cottage, hot and cold water, bath, closet, electric litrhts. barn, furnace, 60 feet, east front. $2,100.00. On Lelaud St., 6 rooms, 2 lots, $900 $200 uuwn. uaiitiice mommy. TOPEKA REALTY CO.. 5?4 Kan. Ave. H. MACFERRAN, Mgr. FOR SATE My residence. 8 rooms, cel lar, well, cistern, barn, 3 lots, fenced trees, etc.; good condition: nice home. Expect to leave city and will sell cheao. Come and see. D. R. Moore, 907 Morris ave. FOR SALE CHEAP Building Lots On Fillmore, near paving, $325 each. On Clay, near 7th, $500.00 each. Trees 15 years ola. TOPEKA REALTY CO.. 534 Kan. ave.. H. MACFERRAN, Mgr. MISCELLANEOUS. MATERIALIZING SEANCE, Thursday, 8 p. m., bin i-jast tttn st., ur. liramnaike. A "NATURAL HEN INCUBATOR" plan for $1.00, and a set of caponizlng tools for $2.50; will increase your poultry pro fits 100 per cent. Capons bring twice as much per pound as ordinary chicks. Operation easily performed. Complete uuuie witn eacn set. Agents wanted. Address John Kritschgau, Scottdale. Pa. HOUSE ON WHEELS It will cost you only one cent to get my figures on any kind of a job of raising or. moving. Drop me a card, it win save you money. v, G. Tandy, 1731 Clay st Topeka. L. VAN HOOK, Collections, rentals and sales for cor porations and individuals. Dealer in nrst-class bonds and lirst mortgages. 11, Columbian Building, Topeka, Kan WANTED AND FOR SALE Moving pic ture machines, stereopticons, phono- 6muu uuu buyuues, xv. xa. xaiiar UUL. WANTED You to know we are agents for the Quaker Square Turkish -Bath caDlr.et. A. O. Kosser, the druggist, S. w. corner leaxn anu lopeKa avenues. FOR $1.00 PER MONTH The American Benevolent Association will insure you time against both sickness and accident, and will pay you from $20 to $100 per month. Liberal terms to good organizers. N. B. Campbell, state agent, C05 Kansas ave. BUGGIES. WAGONS, CARTS AND HAR- ness bought, sold and exchanged. S22 Kansas avenue. SAVE YOUR OLD CARPETS and have beautiful rugs made any size desired. Call or address, R. Eehnke, corner of Indiana and vv abash ave., Oakland, Kan HOW SOON GRADUATE IN MEDI- clne, dentistry, osteopathy, electricity, magnetics, tsox 0:10, Chicago. R-I-P-A-N-S. 10 for 5 cents at druggists. Thcv banish nain and nrolone life. One gives relief. No matter what's the matter one wiu do you sood. TO TRADE For more ground and smaller house further out. room resi dence, two blocks from state house on paved street", electric lights, bath, marble washstand. dry cemented cellar: sink and cistern In kitchen: hot and cold water grate and mantel, bp rn. brick walks, new fences, sewer tax paid out. Address. writh location, description ana price, hi. T. c, J ournai. STALLS IN GOOD BARN FOR RENT at ji wuincy street.. MONET. MONEY WANTED Want to reoresen capital for gilt edge, S per cent farm loans: best ot reference turnlsneo. J. a. Eldridge, Topeka, Kansas. REAL ESTATE, COLLECTIONS. Loans. EMMETT E. ROLUBBUSH, Tel. 267. 115 West Sixth, Topeka, Kan. .j v.-1 1 ,'iiiii--. ..it.., guns, watches, diamonds and any per sonal property. L. Biscoe, 523 Kansas ave. STAMPS. SEALS AND STENCILS. THE J. C. DARLING CO.. 734 Kan. Ave, Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum trade checks. Prices low. Catalogue free. TeL 292. LEOAL (First published In the Topeka State Jour- Closing of Registration. Office of Commissioner of Elections, Topeka, Kan., March 12, 1900. Notice Is herebv eiven that the rertisira tion books for the registration of voters in tne city or -rope.Ka win Close on Fri day, March 23rd, at 9 o'clock p. m, and remain closed until after the city elec tion, which takes place on April 3rd. when the booka will again be opened. Commissioner of Elections. (First published in the Topeka State Jour nai iuarcii x:, mw.) Meeting: of the Board of Super visors of Elections. Office of Commissioner of Elections. Topeka. Kan., March 12. WOO. Notice is herebv iriven that the boar4 of supervisors of "elections will be held on Saturdav March 24th, at 10 o'clock a. m. in the office of the commissioner of elections. 703 Kansas avenue, for the pur pose of letting contract for the furnish ing 01 meais Jor JlKlgcs anu ricrns 01 elec tions, revising the registration for the city election, and hearing all nppea'.M from the decision of the commissioner of elections relating to registration an-l transacting such other business as may properly come before the hoard IseaiJ j,. 1 1 o 1 i 1 Secretary Board of Supervisors. CLAIRVOYANT. MRS. WILLETT, 120 W. Sixth St.. Trance Medium, gives advice or. business changes, law-suits, love, marriages, di vorces, absent friends, wills, deeds, fam ily or money matters: changes luck, lo- ates burled treasures, reunites tne sep arated. Causes speedy marriages. Read ings 50 cents up. Letters with stamp en closed answered. GOWNS. MRS. MERCER, Crosby Bros., only es tablishment in the state where tailor costumes are made bv men. Dress making in all its branches. Plaiting and pinking made to order. ATTOBN ETS-AT-LAW. CLAD HAMILTON, Lawyer. Central National Bank bldg., lopeka, Kansas. MILTON BROWN, lawyer, Practice In all state and federal courts, suite x. Craw ford bldg. Topeka, Kan. PHYSICIAN AND 8U&3E0N8. Henry W. Roby. M D 73ft Kansas Avenue. Residence. Twenty- first st. and Kansas ave. Topeka, Kan. DR. EIDSON. the Eclectic Chronic Dis ease Specialist. lopeKa, an jvansas Ave. R. E. MASSEY, M.D.. Physician and Sur geon, vis ii.ast is ourtn street. 1j. J. IVILT.n, 11. L'. OFFICE and residence corner Gordon St.. 1 V v. rp-i,- m T" I I T T", an'l ICllLiai WVC, i. ui it, iv,,T-rt. x nulla 214. X'ses the Brinkerhoff system of rectal treatment, a successful and painless treat ment tUl yuca, ,j o u c, uouu.q, u.tauuii, etc. IDA C. BARNES, M. D. Office 732 Kansas ave. Residence Thir teenth and Clav. Office hours: 9 a. m.. to 11 a. m., and 3 p. m.. to 5 p. m. Telephone 69S residence and 16 office. F. H. MARTIN. M. D., 404 KANSAS avenue, over Wallace's drug store. Phones: 476, residence, 635 office. DR. EVA HARDING. Homeopathist, 629 Kansas ave. Telephone 402. B E. SHELDON. M. D. Surgerv and diseases of women, with private hospital. Office No. 720 Kan. ave. TICKETS TO PABIS. FOR LOW RATES to the Paris Exposi- r. (1 1 M i H' Stoanmhln Agent 325 Kansas avenue. BICYCLES. U. S. CYCLE CO., 118 E. 8th st. National and union oicycies. ouiiuiica, icitdu.. TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. 112 W. 8th stu Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and tan denis for rent; repairing of all kinds. WATCHMAXXH. WATCHES cleaned, 75c; clocks, 50c: main springs, 75c: crystals, 10c. Cash paid for old gold or silver. 11 work guaranteed. Old jewelry exchanged for new. If hard up, see Uncle Sam. 612 Kansas avenue. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCEBN. NOTICE: To Whom It May Concern Be it known that my petition is on file in the office of the probate court of Shaw nee county, Kansas, Hiking for a permit to sell intoxicating liquors at 226 Kansas avenue, in the Second ward, in the city of Topeka, Kansas, and the hearing o the same is set for Thursday, March 15. litoo, at 9:00 a. m. CHAS. W. KOHL. Topeka, Kansas. February 15. 1900. EDUCATIONAL. FRENCH AND GERMAN Taufrtit either in class or private, terms reasonable. Mrs. Hannah Kihlberg, 316 Harrison st. SPECIALISTS. DR. C. H. GUIBOR, Diseases of the Nose. Throat and Lunes. 7u Kansas avenue. OSTEOPATHIST. STEPHEN C. WOODHULL, Osteopath ist. Hours: 9-12; 2-4; Thurs., 9-12. 627 Kl Av. LIFE INSUBANCE. LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES BOUGHT, for cash or loaned on. A. F. Sherman. Crawford building. JEWELERS. JAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler end Opti cian. Complete stock of watches, dia monds, silverware, etc.. Eyes examined and spectacles properly fitted. FLORISTS. MRS. J. R. HAGUE, Florist, successor to R. J. Groves, S17 Kansas ave. Phone 603. CUT FLOWERS and floral designs at Hayes'. 107 West Eighth st. 'Phone 689. PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving t;o.. nas Deen removes to 118 West Eighth street. STOBAGE. TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE Co. Packs and ships household goods. Tel. 18S. C. D. Skinner. 123 East Sixth St. NUBSES. MRS. EMILY TURNER, Ladles" Certifi cated Nurse. 1028 Quincy St. N. Tonek.

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8 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MABCH 14, 1900. 5a;?M3 ffiflwttf lAZ&'l .V. -.-S "Vt W !.rrw ?i. v- C"W "VteT -v "V V- 'XX X'V -V.w "i. -Wv,- -fcTv -t. WiwiP a wh iisa isis wm m jm mm a wmm xmrnrmm wmrmm& wmmi mmm vnv lis lasi mm vm&a mmv imm xmgk m mwmm& mm mm mm mm- i&m&u The Kind Yon Have Always Bought and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the JiVegctablePr eparationforAs -similating ttieToodandRegala-' bug the S tomachs andBowels c PromotEsDrsgesKoaCheerful nessandEestContains neither Opiumlorpaine nor MineraL Not Nahcotic. JBtaym nSAliUEUVJ IMS Alx.Servm Him Seed -Ctanud Saaar hia m i fiarm A perfect Remedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, and Loss or SlEEE facsimile Signature ot NKW -YORK. signature of and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counter feits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. U ltd M Q Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea the Mother's Friend. GENUINE ALWAYS Bears the Signature of EXACT COPY OF WRAPPEB. j The Kind You H Bought. Iii Use for 0 Vegetable Prcparationfor As similating therood and Regula ting the Stomachs andBowels of PromotEsDigestion,Chcerful ness and Rcst.Contains neither Oprum.Morphinc nor Mineral. Kot Nabcotic. MtafK ofCldlk-SAMUILEITCEEB. Jimpim SmJ- hinjtSeed A perfect Kenuedy for Constipa tion, Sour Stomach.Diarrhoea, Worms .Convulsions .Feverish oess and Loss OF SLEER Tac Simile Signature ot OTW "YORK. TffS Aft EXACT COPY OT WRAPPEB. ave Always ver 30 Years. TO MEET IS AUGUST. Data Fixed For Farmers' National Congress. Chicago, March 14. The executive committee of the Farmers National congress, in session at the Palmer House last night, fixed August 21-31 as the date for holding the national meet ing of the congress at Colorado Springs. Chairman B. F. Clayton said: "We are asking the railroads for a rate of one fare plus $2, and if we get Jt there will be 5,000 people in attend ance. In recent years the attendance has always reached about 1.300. At the annual meeting the subjects of trusts, mail delivery in rural districts, sugar, extension of the signal service, the Nic eraguan canal and improvement of the agricultural department will be dis cussed. We are a non-political body, representing immense wealth, which seeks to better the condition of the ag riculturist by rational methods. It was through our organization in the first place that the office of secretary of ag riculture was made a cabinet position." General Elwell Dead. Cleveland, O., March 14. Gen. John J. Elwell, one of the best known citizens of Cleveland, and a hero of the civil war, died late last night. Death was due to old age, but probably hastened by injuries received during the civil war, from which he never fully recov ered. His military service extended from 1861 to 1S66. For gallant and faith ful service he was four times brevetted, and came out of the service a brevet brigadier general. He was badly in jured just before the close of the war, and partially disabled. J'!! 1 Ml III Can Work j Better t I when he uses I GRAPE-NUTS. I' II II I can work harder and with better pffect on Grape-Nuts focd than any food I have ever used. For days at a time I eat but Tittle other food besides Grape Nuts and a little fruit, and my exper ience teaches the wonderful nutritive power and value of it. "It is a great food for a man who has little time to spend at breakfast, it be ing fully cooked and ready for immed iate service. Yours truly," Wm. A. Ehinn, Sing Sing, N. T. Grape-Nuts furnish nutriment of a character that is shown upon the user. The person eating Grape-Nuts may not know the reason why he feels stronger and better; that reason can be explain ed and shown by chemical analysis, for the food contains certain elements ob tained from the grains, that furnish the Kray matter in the nerve centers of the human body, and the proof of this is best shown by actual use and experience. STANLEYREBUKED Labette Republicans Defeat Ad ministration Candidate. Convention to Be Held Today at Oswego. FIGHT AT PRIMARIES. Foley-Kimball Ticket Supported by Katy Railroad. Result of Parsons Asylum Lo cation Controversy. Parsons people who charge Governor Stanley with having aided and abetted the effort to prevent the location of an asylum in that city hope to be re venged on the administration at the county convention today by failing to endorse the state administration. Judge L. S. Crum, of the court of vis itation, one of Stanley's appointees, is also in disfavor, and is likely to be turned down in the convention this af ternoon at Oswego. The incidents leading up to the fight which is anticipated in the convention today had their foundation in the asylum controversy a year ago. Al though time is expected to heal all wounds the Parsons politicians exhib ited their scars Monday at the prima ries and succeeded in achieving a sweeping victory at the polls. The contest originated in the congres sional contest. This was the issue which precipitated the fcattls. J. W. Iden had the supporters of the state ad ministration; C. H. Kimball, ex-senator, was the favorite of the Katy railroad company, Pete Foley and the poli ticians who were prominent in the asy lum deal and who are now assai.ms Stanlev's administration, charging that he interfered in the asylum contest, and was really responsible for the failure of Parsons to secure the new institution. The Foley-Katy crowd which wr.a pushing Kimball's candidacy gave out the impression that Governor Stanley is "against Parsons," and thjtt he has exerted his influence against the busi ness interests of the city at 'every op portunity. Stanley is condemned be cause of his refusal to appoint a board of public works to condemn the asylum site so it could be legally purchased. It is a matter of history that Gov ernor Stanley declined to appoint a boarit of public works because he be lieved that the board is a sort of vermi form appendix. So he amputated it by not asking for an appropriation .for the per diem and mileage of the members. Then followed the litigation concern ing tlif" asylum location at Parsons. The decision of the courts indicated that the governor could appoint a pub lic works board and through that board enaMp Parsons to land the asylum as a closing chapter in the saandal3 con nected with the work of the special legislative committee in locating the asylum. The governor declined to act, and the Parsons people, who are herded by the Katy railroad and Pete Foley, started in to get even with Stanley. J. JV. Iden iwas supported by Harry Lusk. the Parsons editor, Asa Smith, census supervisor in the Third district, Wallace Ryan and Clyde Reed, ali avowed friends of Governor Stanley. Iden was what might be termed a can didate representing the gang, or the older men in Kansas politics. Kimball represented the faction of the party headed by the Katy railroad and the auti-gans forces. Lusk, Smith, Ryan and Reed are friends too of Leland and Baker. Foley and the Katy are ths backers of J. R. Burton. This crowd charged Stanley with being "against Parsons and having blocked the asylum gatr.e Incidentally, Foley was pushing an ambition ta be a delegate to the Re Tubiican national convention at Phila delphia. To win in Parsons he invoked the aid of the Katy officials and the employes of that company were ordered to vote for Kimball. To determine whether the employes observed the order of coercion the Foly torce3 had tickets of a color different from the tickets furnished by the county committee and the heelers kept tab on the railroad employes, so it was an easy matter to tell who obeyed the injunction to vote for KimbalL The teli-tale tickets did the work. The members of the Commercial club which named a committee to look after the members of the asylum locating committee also turned out and worked for the Kimball ticket. The Katy railroad is the largest and controlling factor in Parsons politics, and T. N. Sedgwick and Pete Foley took gooa care that the railroad vote was tecorded in favor of the candidate whom they were supporting. DODGE FOR LEGISLATURE. Beloit Editor May Be Republican Mitchell County Candidate. S. H. Dodge who has been preaching the doctrine of Republicanism through the P.eloit Gazette for many years is now threatened with legislative honors. Dodge is a pioneer RepuDlican in north west Kansas. He is a popular man and publishes a good paper, which he is now issuing in a new dress. The Kigbty-seventh district is com posed of Mitchell county vid the Re publicans want Dodge to accept the nomination. The district is represented by T. L. Rodgers, fuslonist, who will likely be renominated by that party. PARTNERS CANDIDATES. Two Goodland Docters Opponents For Legislative Honors. Two business partners. Dr. J. A. Smith and Dr. A. A. Shelly of Good land will probablj be the nominees for the lower house of the legislature in Sherman county. This promises one of the most interesting contests in the leg islative districts this year. Dr. Smith and Dr. Shelly are success ful physicians, doing a partnership bus iness. Dr. Smith is a Democrat wita fusion inclinations. He was in the Pop ulist session of 1896 and was elected to Etay at home in 1898. his business part ner. Dr. Shelly, defeating him. The Republicans will likely renom inate Dr. Shelly. The fusionists say they will renominate Smith, so the two doctors will in all probability again make the race. W. W. Caldwell of Concordia for dele gate to the national convention. The convention also elected delegates to the congressional contention to be held at Manhattan tomorrow, instruct ing them for the renomination of Mr. Calderhead. The endorsement of Judge Sturges who lives at Concordia is the formal presentation of the judge's name for consideration for re-election. The lawyers say that he has made a fair and impartial judge. RUN WAGON OVER. the Bent Murdock Falls Under "Wheels of the Vehicle. Another anti-Stanley administration advocate got a fall yesterday. The Re publicans of Butler county endorsed the state administration despite the fact that T. B. Murdock has been abusing the state officers and Stanley for near ly a year because the governor did not heed the demand made by the editor of the Wichita Eagle and appoint "Brother Bent" a judge on the court of visitation. The county convention at El Dorado yesterday endorsed the national and state administrations and elected dele gates to the various conventions. MILLERS VP IN ARMS. STURGES ENDORSED. Cloud County Republicans Approve His Candidacy. The Republicans of Cloud county in convention yesterday formally endorsed for re-election Judge F. W. Sturges and instructed the delegates to the state convention to work for the election of Claim That Railroads Discriminate Against Them. The Kansas Millers' and Grain Deal ers' association, now in session in this city, proposes to make a fight on the western railroads unless the discrimina tion now said to exist in favor of wheat and against flour be done away with. A committee representing the as sociation will ask a conference with the railroad officials in the near future, and an attempt will be made to settle the trouble amicably before any radical ac tion is taken. The grievance of the millers is stated in resolutions indorsing the Cullom bill, which were unanimously adopted. The resolutions are as follows: "Whereas, The present depressed con dition of the milling business is due largely to the unequal freight tariffs and to the arbitrary and unjcist policy inaugurated by the railroad corpora tions of granting special rates on wheat to the favored grain shippers that they may thereby secure the long haul and control its destination discriminating in favor of the chosen few at the ex pense of the miller, and leaving small and local wheat buyers to the tender mercies of the exacting printed tariffs; and further to the fact that railroad combinations grant a rate on wheat for export onlv' at from 6 to 10 cents per 100 pounds less than on export flour and other wheat products, thereby sup plying the foreign market with wheat instead of floor and building up the foreign milling industry at the expense of our own; and "Wrhereas, This arbitrary and unjust discrimination has virtually driven the western miller from the export mar kets, curtailing the demand for his flour and rendering the trade unprofit able; and as a result many mills of our state are standing idle or running on short time, and without profit; and "Whereas, These conditions, if allow ed to continue, will result in serious permanent injury to the chief manufac turing industry of the south west, threat ening its very existence: and "Whereas, A bill to amend the 'act to regulate interstate commerceknown as senate bill No. 1439. introduced by Senator Cullom. of Illinois, now in the hands of the senate committee on in terstate commerce, offers the only speedy remedy available or adequate, for the correction of these gross abuses, by securing stability and uniformity of rates and ey.ua! rights and privileges to all shippers, both great and small; therefore, be it "Resolved, That we hereby approve and indorse the provisions of the Cul lom bill now pending before the senate, believing that its enactment into law will relieve the milling industry from the ruinous exactions that now para lyzes its energies and cripples its pro gress; and be it further "Resolved, That a copy of this action be sent to each senator and representa tive of our state in congress with the urgent request tha.t they give the bill their earnest support and use their ac tive, persistent efforts to secure its early favorable consideration and adoption." Arrangements have been made to take into the association the millers of Kansas City and Oklahoma, and with this increase in membership the organi zation will represent a combined an nual capacity of 20,000,000 barrels of flour. The association will then be the strongest of its kind in the United States. The association will adjourn tonight, and tomorrow the members will leave in a special train of Pullman sleepers over the Santa Fe for Galveston. HATE THE QUEEN. Patrick Egan Says That Is Sentiment of 85 Per Cent of Irish. New York, March 14. Patrick Egan, ex-minister of Chili, and ex-president of the IrisirNational Federation, has writ ten a letter in which he says: "I think I know the Irish people, as a whole and in detail, at home and abroad, as well as any other living man, and I can say conscientiously that, out side of the immediate place holders, and hangers-on of the British government, the Orange fraternity, the landlords and castle shopkeepers, and a mere handful of the society people, known as 'Cawstle Cavvtholdics,' making a grand total of not over 15 per cent of the entire pop ulation; there is none in Ireland who wants Victoria as queen, or who has any other feeling for her than one of coldest indifferenee.if not actual hatred. "If an honest plebescite were taken in Ireland today at least 75 per cent of the Irish people would attest by their votes that instead of wanting Victoria as their queen, the most earnest desire of their hearts is to see established an Irish republic modelled after our own -republic before the glorious traditions were flouted and constitution trampled upon by the present pro-British administra tion in Washington. "Any address of loyalty from the so called nationalists of the Dublin city council must be untruthful on its face, and will be so recognized by the queen, her advisers and the whole British na tion. It will further be a slavish con cession to the huge buncombe game of British friendship that 'has been with such a measure of success worked off upon the weaklings of this country by Secretary Chamberlain and that is now being hatched, doubtless by the same active brain, for service among the gullible element in Ireland. "The present momentous occasion is one that demands dignified but un flinching manhood on the part of the leaders of the Irish people. Let us hope that they will not be found wanting." Not a Precedent. Ottawa, March 14. Late last night the house divided on "Mr. Bourasse's motion that the house refuse to consider the action of the government in rela tion to the South African war as a precedent which should commit the dominion to any action in the future, the vote standing 119 to 10 against it. The latter were all French-Canadians, six Liberals and four Conservatives. APPEAL TO MORGAN. Lumbermen Ask Him to Help Adjust Rates in Kansas. The legislative committee of the Kan sas Lumber Dealers' association has forwarded to J. Pierpont Morgan, in regard to freight rates in Kansas the following. The committee is composed of H. "C. Taylor, of Lyons; E. R. Burkholder, Of Hillsdale, and J. N. Cunningham, of Emporia. The lumbermen claim that Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma are be ing discriminated against on lumber rates and they have appealed to Air. Morgan, as the head of the transpor tation companies doing business in the west, for relief. The letter In part reads: "AVe have more than 1,100 paying members and represent a capital of more than $15,000,000. We present our case to you, therefore, as business men to a business man, in the opinion -that it will receive from you the considera tion that we deem its importance war rants. We claim that we are paying in Kansas and Oklahoma $500,000 annually more than we should pay on an equit able apportionment of rates from the yellow pine forests of the south to the markets of this country. These rates and these discriminations were put into effect about fifteen years ago, when the yellow pine manufacture was in its in fancy, at a time when it was claimed that it was necessary to do so to build up the lumber manufacturing industry in the south, and enable it to meet the competition of the white pine that at that time amounted to 90 or 95 per cent, of the trade in this territory. "We claim that the conditions have so changed that a rate based on condi tions fifteen years ago is entirely un warranted and absolutely unjust as ap plied to the conditions that are present today. The production of white pine is rapidly decreasing and the amount used in Kansas and. Oklahoma has de creased to less than 15 per cent, of the whole, and another year's time will see it less than 5 per cent. Cypress and W'ashington spruce are rapidly taking the place of the remaining demand that yellow pine had not already absorbed. The decreased production of white pine has so advanced the price of that pro duct that actual competition between the two products has receded from the Missouri river, where the yellow pine product met it fifteen yeftrs' ago, to a distance 700 to 1.000 miles farther east." The letter cails upon Mr. Morgan for a readjustment of rates. New'Orleans Races. New Orleans," La., March 14. Fleuron was the only derided favorite to win to day.. Anxious finished first in the race, but Francis Reis, who barly escaped a share of the money, was equally in de mand at the same odds. The fifth race was marked by a lot of jostling. Gil more fell off Rebecca. Wells and was suspended for the remainder of the meet ing except for his stable. A Weber, who had the mount on Brass, had his leg The good appearance of your: home is made or marred by its interior wall decorations. We have the right kind of Wall Paper, at the right price, and we are the people to hang it, b cause "We Do the Best Work" fl. L. LARSH CO., 116 W. Eighth St. badly bruised by being forced Into th fence. The track was fast. First race furlongs; selling. Cori alis, 104, 12 to 1 and 5 to 1, won easily by a length; Aratoma. 114. 12 to 1 and 4 to 1, second: By George, 101, 20 to 1, third. Time, 1:2114. Second race 1 miles. Colonel Cltike, 104, 12 to 1 and 5 to 1, won driving by a length: Plantain, 107. 5 to 2 and even, sec ond: Dr. Vauehan, liiS, 3 to 2, third. Time. 1:55M:. Third race 5 furlongs. Anxious, 96, 8 to 5 and 3 to 5, won easily by a length and a half; Fred Hanlon. 110, 12 to 1 and 4 to 1. second; Frank Johnson, 7, .12 to 1, third. Time, 1:02. Fourth race 7 furlongs; handicap. John Baker, 107, 10 to 1 and 6 to 1, won all out by a nose; Miss Mae Day, 100, to 6, and 7 to 10, second: Knights, Banneret. 95, 5 to J. third. Time, 1:28. Fifth race Mile; selling; Jennie F.. 107, 12 to 1 and 5 to 1, won all out by a head; Zolo. 109, 30 to 1 and 12 to 1, spcond: Lit tle Singer, 107, 10 to 1, third. Time, 1:43. Sixth race 6 furlongs; selling. Fleuron. 105, 4 to 5 and out, won drlvinjf by a neck; Miss Shanley, 105V4, 13 to 5 anil even, second; Jamaica, 103, 5 to 1, third. Time, 1:15. A Big: Canadian Paper Hill. Toronto, Ont.,Mareh 14 By an agree- ment brought down in the legislature last night, a big concession of pulp lands for 21 years, is granted to a syn dicate comprised of a number of Cana dians, and including Marshall J. Dodge of New York. The concessions -include 60 square miles on the Spanish, Ver million and Onaping rivers and in ad dition to the payment of the schedule of fees the syndicate agrees to expend $500,000 within three years in the erec tion of a pulp and paper mill. A wheelman's too! bag isn't complete without a bottle of Dr. Thomas' Eclec tric Oil. Heals cuts; bruises, stings, sprains. Monarch over pain. .woma T?o woman's happiness can be complete wiihotrt children it is ber nature to love and want thein. The dreadful ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass, however, is so fraught with pain, suffering and danger, that the very thought of it fills her with horror. There is no necessity for the ordeal of child birth to be either painful or danger ous. The use ot Mother's Friend durinc preifnancy so prepares the system for the event that it is safely passed without any discomfort whatever. This liniment has earned thousands of women through this great crisis without suffering, and they declare it a jfodsend to women. Send for free buolc containing information of priceless value. Address, Bradneld Regulator Co., Atlanta, G, NtyhnDare

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PAGES 9 TO 16. r M cr 1 V iiCfi IL We need more floor space to show our New Goods that are arriving daily. Oiir present stock must go. The prices we are making during this Sale will move them. 'Phone 353 h BEAUTY, PRIZE. Women of All Nations to Con test For Supremacy. Four From America and Four From Canada ARE IX C03IPETITI0X. Porerty Is No Bar and Manage ment in London "Will Furnish Necessary Gowns and the Expenses. New York, March 14. If you have the face and figure, are more than 18 years old, and less than 26, you have a chance of being selected as one of the four American beauties to compete in the in ternational beauty show to be held in Earl's court, London. The international beauty show is to be a feature of the Woman's Interna tional exhibition to be held in June, and 1o select the American competitors for the prize Charles Kiralfy, the son of Imre Kiralfy, is now in the city in the Continental hotel. Mr. Kiralfy said: "I am here to select four youns women from the United States and four from Canada to represent the two coun tries in the exhibition. Every country competing will be allowed four entries. Jt makes no difference what station in life the young women come from. If they are, to my mind, representative types of the American beauty they will be selected. All their expenses will be paid. and they will be costumed prob ably by the exhibition company. In ad dition to this they will receive a salary and will have an opportunity to see the Paris exposition. "There will be a vrize for the most beautiful of the women representing each country and a prize for the most beautiful of the women of all countries represented. I have advertised for women to send their photographs to me, and from the photographs I will select thivse I believe beautiful enough to warrant a personal interview. "I will not make any selection for more than a week, as I am going to Chicago on .Monday, and will not have time to look over the photographs sent me until 1 return, about a week later. The fact that a woman is working in a store or elsewhere will not discrimi nate against her. In fact, nothing will be considered but her face and figure. As to her costumes they will be made by the best makers of gowns in this country, in order to give her the best possible appearance. Her attractive ness will enhanced as much as possible by gowns, which will not cost her a penny. "It is an excellent opportunity for aome poor but beautiful woman to gain both money and fame." WEDNESDAY EVENING. eg. a inn i iLd HOW SWINDLE WORKED. Samuel Keller Tells ot E. S. Dean Company Transactions. New Tork. March 14. Samuel Keller continued his testimony today regard ing the methods of operations of the K. S. Dean company, when the trial of James K. Kellogg, indicted for swind ling, was resumed before Recorder Goft. Yesterday Keller swore that he was promised no immunity for turning state's evidence. Keller told of the brokerage transactions as conducted by him between the Dean company and Theodore W. Myers and company. He said that the shares would be bought and sold at the same time, thereby mak ing nothing- and losing nothing but merely deluding the customer. In telling of the division of the pro fits, Keller said they were usually di vided on Saturday, the bank balance being divided equally between himself, Kellogg and Charles Weinmann. DREW DISCUSSES "SAPHO" He Says the Vulgarity of the Play is All a Matter of Opinion. Detroit, Mich., March 14. John Drew looked bored when he was asked his opinion about "Sapho" today, but cour teously replied with a strong English accent: 'Sapho is a shockingly gpod play. The book is classic, don't you know. Those two papers in, New York that made a scandal about it are not re ceived in any respectable family in the city. It seems strange that New York didn't see the same about 'Zaza' or 'Camille.' The vulgarity or purity of 'Sapho' is all a matter of opinion. We might say that to the pure all things are pure and to the vulgar ail things are vulgar.. It appears that the latter might apply to the criticism of the play by the papers I referred to. "The tendency of the stage is toward purer and better plays plays, don't you understand? that young people can see and enjoy. As for 'Saplio,' no one is forced to see it, and everyone who goes to see it knows what he is going to see. Th manager of the theater does not pull people in and force them to stay. Hut I'm giving dignity to the matter by speaking about it." Kiint. Mich., March 14. At a special meeting of the city council today a reso lution was adopted in support of Mayor i Crawford's determination to prevent a proposed presentation of "Sapho" to night. The resolution instructs the city marshal to prevent the performance. Kalamazoo, Mich., March 14. A peti tion from lea-ding citizens to the city council asked that the presentation of "Sanho," booked for the Academy of Music tomorrow night, be prevented. The council voted unanimously in favor of the petition. Nearly every seat in the house had been sold in advance. Mrs.- Rittenhouse Squeer "That Bjones woman is simply impossible. Her manners are shocking." Mrs. De Lancey Place "Yes; she actually lis tens to the music when she goes to the opera." My lady fair observeth Lent, And this is her decree: As sacrifice, the penitent Is going to give up me' mo 0 VOL. XXII. "the 1 1 vtvm mm vr. AID RESOLVE. :'.;-T.":;- f. i w,ii-r,..i.,,oi).-i link ",!r"f.'"J tr,r;-..,r...r.',vrr; ,,u-3&$rr. v (.i facsimile TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 0 I o tu f ir ir ir ft 7 h P TOPEKA. KAN.. TL'KSDAY. MARCH IS. I. a spirit. Ttv--H:ixPR0i1lBm0N TESTro's- Wtec WfC Xfa ana ZatMt mi- TBS Cftl, LTjf or of Yestsrday's Tirst Page of the Sheldon Paper; 14, 1900. SHELDON EDITION.- NO. 61. COLORADO'S BCRDEff T tMf tfta Cwf u IV ihM4; rrsLrrA'Sssssss. ii-:.i-rit''-;w'Kv,-'!ia WEDNESDAY EVENING. FiLireltMre TO ansas LIQUOR CASES CONTINUED. Attorney General Will Not Prosecute Grimes and Childs. Attorney General Godard has asked, in the court of appeals, for an Indefinite continuance of the cases against Frank Johnson, whose real nama is D. K. Grimes, and Nick Chiles, charged with violating the prohibitory law. The cases were appealed from the Shawnee district court today: "In the Johnson case the defendant was formerly a joint and billiard room loafer. For nearly two years he has earned a salary sufficient to support his family and has spent his evenings at home. To have his conviction affirm ed would make him lose his position and would be the most important cause of driving him back to his former modes of life. "The Chiles case stood side by side with the Johnson case on the docket. He is not selling liquor: is the owner of the only respectable place where a col ored man can ffhd hotel accommoda tions in this city. He is publishing a good newspaper for the colored people: is giving employment to 12 or 15 of his race: and pays a substantial amount of taxes each year. "Under these circumstances I did not deem it advisable to take different ac tion in the Chiles case from that taken in the Johnson case. Both cases are continued indefinitely with the assur ance that if either of the defendants again engages in the liquor business. I will ask for a reinstatement of the cases and will prosecute them with vigor." Mr. Godard says these are the only cases that he has postponed during his term of office. Mr. Godard said: "I believe this action is in the inter ests of good citizenship and should not and cannot interfere with the enforce ment of the prohibitory law." BANK WILL PAY. Depositors of Stockton Institution Will Lose Nothing. John "W. Breidenthal. bank commis sioner, has turned over to the cashier the assets of the bank of J. Jay Smytli of Stockton which was recently closed The bank had S14.141 S4, liabilities with ample assets to pay off all claims. At the suggestion of the bank commissioner the creditors agreed to permit the cashier to continue the operation of the bank until liquidation takes place. Six per cent of the deposits were on hand in cash when the commissioner took charge. The bank cashier has un til September 1 to complete the liquida tion, at the end of which time all of the liabilities will be paid, a 60 per cent dividend having already been declared. Sir. Sheldon's Book Attacked. Fort Wayne, Ind., March 14. Rev. Dr. H. H. Wells, the widely known Frestyterain evangelist, at the Third church here, last night attacked Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's book. "In His Steps," as a book that spread poison from every page. An excellent likeness of Stuart Robson as he was seen in the character cf "Oliver Goldsmith" at the Crawford theater here appears on the front pajre ot the late Dramatic Mirror. Ave. COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS. "Under the Red Robe" will be seen for the second time in this city at the Crawford theater Thursday night. Its production will be marked with all the attention to scenery, costumes and stage garniture which characterized its run both in J,ondon and in New York. Mr. Julius Cahn has brought together a company of prominent actors. Notably among them, and heading the list are Mr. Paul Cazeneuve and Miss Amelia Gardner, a lady of much experience in emotional roles. The play is as absorb ing and fascinating as the novel. The dramatist, Mr. Edward Rose, has done his work with admirable discretion and good effect and those who have read the book will thoroughly enjoy the play, while spectators who have not read the book can follow and comprehend the substance of the story perfectly. "A Breezy Time" will be the attrac tion at the Crawford theater Saturday afternoon and night. The piece is a farce comedy, the plot of which is not so intricate that it requires any great mental activity to follow it. It is put together simply for the purpose of giv ing the comedians an opportunity to ex hibit themselves in thveir various speci alty performances. For the picturesqu enframement of Augustus Thomas' play, "Arizona," to be presented at the Crawford theater Monday night, Charles Ritter and Wal ter Burridge have painted a series of scenes which, they own to have been copied exactly from nature and man's handiwork, as it exists in the Aravaipa, Valley, in the picturesque southwestern territory. The red-tiled adobe build ings of Canby's ranch, the heavily beamed and embeasured Irving rooms of. the colonel's quarters at Fort Grant, have been reproduced truthfully in canvas and colors, by the clever artists who went specially to Arizona to make their color sketches. For the decora tions, uniforms and groupings, Mr. Thomas is happy to thank Mr. Fred erick Remington, the incomparable black and white delineator of far west ern scenes and people. Among the prin cipal artists to whom have been com mitted the task of vivifying Mr. Thomas' character creations, are Theo dore Roberts, Vincent Serrano. George Nash. Edwin Holt. Malcolm Dunn, Geo. O'Donnell, Edgar Selwyn, Lionel Barry more, Sidney Ainsworth, Eleanor Rob son, Ethel Harrison. Mattie Earle, Adora Andrews and Jane Taylor. CANNON TICKET ELECTED. Three Oaks, Mich., Keeps Right On Celebrating Its Victory. Three Oaks, Mich.. March 14. This vil lage, brought into national celebrity last year by winning the Dewey cannon, held its annual election today. The result was a triumph for the citizens' cannon tickt-t, headed by President E. K. Warren, the village thus voicing its approval of the energetic patriotism of Its officials dur ing the contest for the cannon. Besides President Warren, the officials elected are J. K. McKie, clerk: William Minster, treasurer; John Burkhardt, assessor. "Yes,"said the amateur photographer, "it is true that I proposed to her, and She refused me. But still I have a great respect for her. She resisted the ternpation to spring that old gag on me about developing a negative.'

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10 TOPEKA STATE 'JOURNAL,, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 14, 1900. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL BY FRANK P. MAC LENNA Ki OLUMn XXVII .No. 63 Official Paper of the City of TopeKa. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION'. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to anv port of Topeka or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper has a caniec system. l'.y mail, one year liy mail, three months Weekly edition, one year 50 PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal Buildinpr, 800 and 802 Kansas avenue, corner o Eighth. NEW YORK OFFICE. Temple Court Bldg. A. Frank Richardson, Mgr. CHICAGO OFFICE. Stock Exchange Bldsr. A. Frank Rkhan'son, Mgr. LONDON OFFICE. 12 Red I.ion Court. Fleet Street. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell 'Phone 107 Importers' Room Bell 'Phone 577 The Kentucky situation is impr!' !ng. Instead of two legislatures it now lias none. England wants no republics In her neighborhood and will not have them If she can help it. After the favorites are selected It looks as thoush there would be left an extensive field in the presidential race. The wave of prosperity seems to have reached Germany. where the Emperor is demanding an advance in salary. He has said nothing about shorter hours. The handicap of a year which has Teen accorded to Mr. "Wharton Barker in the presidential race seems to give Iiim an undue advantage of Eugene JJebs. Oom Paul's peace overtures have been pnsvvered. Lord Salisbury simply says 8ie cawn't do it y' know. The Boers jnay as well go ahead with the digging ipf trenches. If a 15 per cent tariff in Porto Rico means free trade, as asserted by the president, a ten per cent tariff prob ably would be regarded as equivalent to a bounty. A number of newspapers are engaged la the unkind act of trying to discour age Mr. Debs by expressing doubts of his ability to poll enough votes to se cure his election. If Mr. Quay had been in Mr. Hanna's position, it is improbable that he would have attempted the seemingly impossi ble task of collecting a $100,000 cam paign fund from Philadelphia. He would have resorted to his old habit of "frying the fat out of the manufac turers" or shaking the plum tree. Indianapolis News: Every day brings a fresh afterthought explanation" of the reason for denying free trade to Porto Rico. The explanations are failing to give satisfaction. The glar ing inconsistency of treating Hawaii and Porto Rico differently can' not be explained away. The government would facririee no rights it possesses under the constitution by doing what Mr. McKin: ley called our "plain duty" to Porto Piieo, any more than it does by treating Hawaii according to ancient precedents and principles. The Peoria Journal prints the follow ing editorial defense or western cities in general and Kansas City in partic ular: People will know what Kansas City Is by the time the newspapers get through. At present there is dense ig norance in the east. The New York Sun makes it out to be one of the half-horse, lialf-alligator towns that properly be longed some years ago in the southwest. It says that it is a bourbon strongholrT, when the fact is that for the last six years it has been strongly Republican. Kansas City is a city. There is none tf the rude and primitive features about the city that are drawn from the imag ination of the Sun artist. Except in the matter of morals, it is as much a rity as New York, population being considered. They nave no Seeley din rets with Little Egypt trimmings in Kansas City, nor is it the fashion out there for a woman div-orced from her husband, and married against thi law to the man who made the divorce neces eary, to lead the fashions. A ttTJICK CHANGE. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A very interesting illustration of the" consistency of the logic by which the I'orto Rican tariff Was sent through the house is afforded by a study of the full reports of the debate. On February 27, Chairman Cannon, of the house com mittee on appropriations, arguing hot ly for the 15 per cent tarifT bill, on the idea of the necessity of providing a revenue for Porto Rico, declared: "This bill must pass or we must vote $2,000,000 nut of the treasury for the coming year to care for Porto Rico. We do not care to do that." The bill passed the house and exactly three days later, on March 2, no other lerson than Chairman Cannon in re porting a bill, in accordance with the presidential recommendation to appro priate $2,000,000 of revenues in the Uni ted Slates treasury for Porto Rico, said: "Whether the further sum be much or little, it is $2,000,000 to the 1st of Janu ary. On this side we are going to vote for it." The eccentricity of saying one thing et one time, and exactly the opposite thing three days later is only unusual in the rapidity of the change. But the feature of getting a bill passed to avoid the necessity of appropriating $2,000.0(10 end then appropriating that sum indi cates that the necessity was the oppo site of what Mr. Cannon affirmed. WHOSE DUTY IS ITP If indeed the public do not fail to ap preciate the sufferings of the children born of intemperance, Ignorant, brutal and immoral parents, then it the more certain that they are unconscious of their duty to assist those who are doing the difficult work of relieving, day af ter day, poor little waifs living in the snly homes they ever knew, but having nothing of the quality of real homes. (Poorly clad, under-fed, unclean and Ignorant of almost everything that is good, these are the children who are to become a large part of the voters of ouf Country. It is, therefore, simply the duty of every man and woman to use every ef-fort-to change the conditions of the lives of these children by helping to sustain organizations which are making con stant arid systematic efforts to rescue the unfortunate in childhood and make them better citizens. The grown crim inals are caught and punished, but the prevention of criminality is more eco nomical for society, and this work is being done, so far as its financial means will allow, by the Massachusetts So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and. that, too, without any aid from state, city, or town treasury, being dependent entirely on contribu tions and bequests of individuals. Bos ton Transcript. On the Transcript's representation that the children alluded to are to be come the "voters of the country," why does not society in the form of the city and the state undertake the duty of rescuing them from their surroundings instead of leaving the task to individ uals who from an economic standpoint are no more concerned than those who never pay a cent or give the matter a thought? If it be the duty of every man and woman to contribute to the cause why should they not be compell ed to pejform that duty in some sys tematic and effective way, just as they .re made to contribute to the catching and punishing of criminals who are the outgrowth of the conditions set forth above? ED HOWE'S GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.3 A bad preacher is tolerated a great deal longer than a bad newspaper. Winter is now so near over that peo ple are buying coal by the half ton. When a woman gets in trouble she sends for her preacher, while a man sends for his lawyer. Most of the "shooting" in this part of the country, is shooting at signs warning hunters off the premises. If a girl wants to give- up something particularly foolish during Lent, she should ask her brother for advice. A man can no more be cool under ex citing circumstances than he can have his leg cut off without flinching. When the measles break out in a large family of children, it becomes a continuous performance lasting at least four weeks. It is said of an Atchison woman that when she lay prepared in her coffin for her funeral, it was the first time in her career that she was ready on time. When the husband is at home, the wife has two additional worries: that he may scold and wake the baby, or that the baby may cry, and make him scold. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. The one occasion on which a woman measures her words is when she sends a telegram. A man may drop into poetry without hurting himself. But that's a selfish view to take of it. Many an Easter bonnet is purchased with what a girl saves by denying her self things during Lent. Wrigwag "My wife is going on the lecture platform." Henpecked "Pooh! My wife doesn't require a platform." First barber "That man always wants a close shave." Second barber "Yes; I've noticed he never gives a tip." Sofleigh "They say every day will be Sunday by and by." Harduppe I'd rather have every day Saturday. That's pay day." Hoax "I hear you've bought a bicyc le on the installment plan. How does it run?" Joax "Well, it has succeeded in running me into debt." "What sacrifice are you making dur ing Lent?" asked Oldbach. "I'm drink ing my wife's coffee." replied Newly wed, who had married a cooking: school girl. "There Is only one thing that pre vents me from raising a good head of hair,"said the bald man. "What's that?" asked his wife. "I can't raise the price of a wing," sighed the bald man. "I have had many thrilling adven tures," remarked the old soldier, as he picked up an advance copy of his biog raphy, "but candor compels me to ad mit that this is the first time I have ever taken my life in my own hands." It seems quite strange, as such things go. However fair the tint, The girl who wears a calico bo seldom gets in print. TRANS-ATLANTIC TRAVELERS Furnished Special Attendants by the Vandalia-Pennsylvania System. The bureau of attendants for Trans atlantic travelers established in Jersey City and New York City twenty years ago by the Pennsylvania System, has proven a great convenience to persons making European trips and to tourists arriving in Aemrica at that port. It will be particularly convenient for vis itors to the Paris Exposition because the departure docks of most of the At lantic Steamship Lines are convenient to the new Jersey City Passenger Sta tion of the Pennsylvania Railroad com pany. This bureau consists of experienced agents whose duties are to meet pas sengers arriving in Jersey City and New York over the Vandana-Pennsylvania Lines and assist in arranging forTrans atlantic trip via any of the steamship lines by conducting them to steamships and aiding in preparations for a trip abroad. These agents will provide cabs op erated by the Pennsylvania System and aid passengers with their baggage. They are fully posted on matters pertaining to steamships leaving New York, and arrangements can be made through them for procuring steamship tickets in advance. They also meet incoming steamships to aid travelers in shaping details for continuing journeys from New York over the Pennsylvania Lines by fur nishing tickets, arranging for the trans fer of baggage from steamship docks after it has been passed by customs in spectors, and having the same checked through to destination. They will re serve sleeping car accommodations and relieve persons of the foregoing details, making themselves useful as attend ants and guides free of charge. Further information on the subject may be obtained by addressing J. M. Chesbrough, Ass't General Passenirer Agent, No. 809 Century Building, St. Louis. IN TILE SUNKEN TILLAGE. fFrom the Commercial Advertiser. When Beckie Ketchale married Henry Honeybein, Peter Roth, the bride groom's friend, said to the young cou ple: "You have no money and rent comes high, but I have an extension to my house, so move in, and welcome." Roth's "house" is a two-story shanty in Sunken Village. He is one of the old-time squatters of this block, better known as "the Hole," between Colum bus avenue and Broadway and Sixty first and Sixty-second streets. The Honeybeins' room was near the foot of the wooden staircase which leads from the tillage up to the rest of the world. There are some naked trees nearby, and protruding from the ground not many yards off is the village pump, which supplies the sunken population with water. They live in peace, these poor people, the men working and the women keeping house and gossiping quietly. As they give the police no trou ble they are not molested. Beckie was only eighteen and Henry twenty, but she was a good housekeep er, and he had regular work as a truck driver. So little by little they boueht some second-hand furniture, decorated the walls of their room with, adver tisement pictures, and were happy. Last Christmas Henry lost his job and wasn't able to get another one. Some of the neighbors say he took to drink. Others say he did not. At ail events, Beckie saw to it that his shirt was white and his collar fresh, and ev ery morning he would go out, as he said, in search of work. Beckie tried to look happy, as usual, but the neighbors saw- that she was not; and they talk ed it over with sighs of sympathy. Somebody knew the story of her father's death, and they told this to one another, too. Pier father had been a po liceman, and his beat was along the water front on the North river. One night the roundsman failed to find him, and several days after his body was found floating in the water. J'He must have been drunk," said one of the men at the station house. "De gang done him," retorted a friend of the dead man. Beckie was dark, and the villagers, men and women alike, agreed that she was beautiful "a regular brunette," they would say, fondly. Beckie's sister, Bella, is also pretty she is the belle of Snowball Row, where she lives with her mother but she is a decided blonde, and when she visited Beckie the people of Sunken Village would say that the two made a handsome pair. The Honey beins had other visitors, too. Jack, Beckie's brother, was married last Thanksgiving day, and he often took his wife to the village to spend an hour or two, chatting or singing. A few days ago Beckie, feeling lone some, asked Annie to stop with her for a week or two. Henry spent his days out, looking for work, as he said, and somehow Beckie found it harder to be alone every day. Night before last the two young women were in v.ie extension room, preparing chuck steak, when Henry came in. He was gloomy. "Hello. Henry. Where' ve you been?" asked Beckie. He made no reply. A minute later he turned toward the door. Ain't you goin' to stay home? We have steak." He went away without answering the question. After supper Beckie left the house, asking Annie to wait for her. She was going to look for her husband, she said. An hour passed. Annie was getting anxious, and finally she went to look for Beckie. She went to her mother-in-law's. There she found Mrs. Ketchale and Charley, Annie's brother, playing cards. They told her that Beckie had been there, cried a little, wiped the tears from her eyes and left. Then Mrs. Ketchale, Charley and Annie played cards together, and talked and joked until the big clock of the Vanderbilt hospital, which is only two blocks away, began to strike. Annie counted the hours. "It's 12 o'clock. I must go and see if Beckie's got home," she said, w ith sud den gravity. Charley went along with her. As they made their way down the wooden stair case into the village, Charley whisper ed to Annie: "Gee, how quiet it is!" They found Beckie's door unlocked. When they entered the room they found the lamp burning on the table, throw'ing patches of yellowish light on the pic tures which covered the walls. They did not see Beckie at once, but they heard her voice. She was feebly groaning nearby, and as they stepped up to the bed they found her lying in it, her face pale, her eyes shut. A strong smell of carbolic acid came from an open bottle on the floor by the bedside. A minute after the whole village was astir. A score of men and women, some half clad, were bustling about the ex tention of Roth's shanty. An ambulance was sent for. At first it was hard to get one, and then there came two. The two physicians worked hard. The neigh bors begged them to try and save Beckie and they applied every remedy they could think of. It was about 2 o'clock this morning when one of the doctors returned from his ambulance, where he had gone for some instrument. "Let me try," he -Whispered to his confrere. "No use; it's all over," was the an swer. The villagers then became a searching party. They went to look for Henry. With the ambulance lanterns, which they borrowed of the doctors, they searched every nook aAd corner of the "big hole." It was all in vain, and they were giving it up, when they him coming down the wooden stairs. He was morosely making his way to the ex tension, when somebody said: Henry, Beckie is dead." He stopped. They told him all they knew. Then he broke down, weeping and shuddering. By and by he started up and went into the house. He be gan searching in nooks and corners.and everybody helped him. Somebody lifted the matchbox on the mantlepieee, and on the bottom were two lines in pencil: "Henry, you can go out any time you like. Beckie. Goodby forever." FINES WERE DOUBLED. Police Judge Magaw Keeps His Word to Police Court Characters. The disorderly house at Third and Kansas avenue, conducted, by Vera Knowles, was raided Tuesday by the police. The inmates were commanded to ap pear before Judge Magaw at 11 o'clock. Three appeared. In January Judge Magaw announced that the next time the disorderly women who were arrest ed that month were brought before him he would raise their fines. This morn ing he fined Vera Knowles, the keeper, $50 which was double the amount she paid in January. Dot Knowles and Helen Nichols were fined $25 each. In January they were fined $15. INDIA FAMINE FUND. Mrs. Annie L. Dig-gs Adopts Rev. Mr. Sheldon's Suggestion. Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, state librarian has started a fund for the relief of the famine sufferers in India. Visitors to the library are given an opportunity to contribute 10 cents each. Mrs. Diggs adopted this measure upon reading the appeal by Rev. Chas. M. Sheldon, r! U tiuD c Pepsin. It your stomacn is in order, your bowels are generally regular, ana u your Dowels are regular, you are Iree from Headache, Dizziness, or General Languor. You must preserve -your health to insure happiness. If you have children, you owe it to them; if you have parents, you owe it tothem; if you have neither, you owe it to yourself to take Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, It is easy to take. v You will like it both in taste and results. It is put up in ioc (ten doses ioc), joc and $i bottles. SOLD BY ALL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGISTS. R. W. SQUIRES, 732 KANSAS AVENUE. SWIFT HOLLIDAY DRUG CO., 523 KANSAS AVENUE, A. O. ROSSER, CORNER I0TH AND TOPEKA AVENUE. A. S. KANE CO., FAMILY DRUG STORE, 832 N. KANSAS AVENUE. Pepsin Syrup Company, flonticello, Illinois, U. S. A. NEIGHBORHOOD QUARREL. Mulligan-Billard Feud Finds Its "Way Into City Council. J. 15. Billard, of North Topeka, was severely scored at the recent meeting of the city council. Mrs. Patsy Mulli gan, a neighobr of Mr. Billard, was the instrument of his humiliation. The incident occurred when the or dinance for the opening of Kistler street from Monroe street to Kansas avenue was under consideration. This matter has been pending before the council for the past two years, and last evening the ordinance wa3 introduced creating a benefit district for opening the street, but it, provided that the extension should be a little to the north of where it would be if run straight through. This makes a jog of about 60 feet, which is made to avoid houses. A protest against the ordinance was presented signed by about 25 people, among whom were J. B. Billard, pro testing against the opening of the street as contemplated in the ordinance. Just as the council began to vote on the final passage of the ordinance, Mr. Bil lard secured permission to speak and asked that the ordinance be delayed a little until he "could find out the senti ment of the people concerning the change made." Mr. Billard explained that street was not being opened in ac Send For Catalogues and Prices. The Factories of W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago, III., U. S. A. More than double the size and output of any similar institution in the world." Chicago Tribune. Kin BALL, PIANOS. KlflBALL REED ORGANS. KlilBALL PIPE ORQANS. BRANCH HOUSE. TOPEKA KANSAS. T. P. CULLY. MANAGER.' Q) NE trial on your might print here. cordance with the petition asking for its opening. Mr. Bird was asked what effect this would have on the ordinance, and he replied that the council could open the street wherever it thought best. The voting proceeded and again Mr. Bil lard secured permission to speak. "If this street is opened in accord ance with this ordinance," he said, "it will make a bad jog in it and will dis figure that part of the city." This is what aroused Mrs. Mulligan. She had learned that Mr. Billard was coming to the council meeting to fight the ordinance, and she had come to checkmate him. "I don't want the council to pay any attention to what this man here," point ing to Mr. Billard, "says about jogs," said Mrs. Mulligan indignantly. "No one has disfigured North Topeka more than he has. I am a good taxpayer, and I am sorry to have to express myself in this way, but when a man comes here and acts the hypocrite and talks about disfiguring the streets, hen he has dis figured them more than anyone, I will have to expose him. He would be quick enough to make that jog if it was only in his interest." After this Mr. Billard's protest did not amount to much, and the council pass ed the ordinance. Mrs. Mulligan and Mr. Billard have not been the best of neighbors for years. S- P-iC;MEEEr!tEESi;:t BEJi En 5 'itfii fr- I -mmf "V 1 1 I part will do more to convince you of its merits than anything we ou need no remedy to keep your stomach in order except Dr. Caldwell's Syrup There has been a feud existing between them. Mr. "Billard built high fences on either side of Mrs. Mulligan's lot, and he has also built out buildings as close to her premises as possible, all of which has had a tendency to augment the feud between them. MORE PAYING IN POTWIN. Petitions Presented to Council For Improving Woodlawn Avenue. The people of Potwin will this year continue the good work begun last fall by paving additional streets. A peti tion .was presented to the council last evening asking that Woodlawn avenue be paved from Willow to Park avenues, the paving to be 30 feet wide. The petition is signed by N. H. Loom is, F. E. Wear, W. M. Forbes. George W. Parkhurst, Ella H. Newman, F. A. Burdge, and C. T. McLellan. It was referred to the streets and walks com mittee. PRIVATE OPINIONS. Many People Reticent About the Sheldon Newspaper. The opinions of the newspaper men concerning Mr. Sheldon's first issue f CONSTIPATION INDIGESTION STOMACH TROUBLE AND SICK HEADACHE, which have appeared In the State Jour nal, were written for publication, but the writers expressed different personal opinions. "It impressed me as being very tire some." was the comment of one well known newspaper ma;,. "It is too much like a tract," said an other. r "I commend Mr. Sheldon's idea 'con cerning markets," said a well known Kansas newspaper man. "I don't be lieve in printing board of trade dealings in futures, and I also like Mr. Sheldon's idea concerning prize fights." W. P. Tomlinson, a veteran in news paper business, said: "It is a disap pointment, a great disappointment lo theTopeka public." W. H. Caldwell, an old newspaper man, said: "It is not what I expected." A great many people interviewed said privately that they regarded the paper as a dismal failure, but owing to their friendly relations with the Capital and with Mr. Sheldon, would not be quoted, or as in many cases, gave other expres sions in a modified form to be used in print. The State Journal makes this statement frankly and without preju dice. It simply states the fact, how ever unpleasant it may be to the people behind the Sheldon newspaper enter prise. If April showers bring May flowers do March breezes bring April sneezes?

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i S s LA JM FASHIONS I.- J 3 c fc JS 8 5 S if. ISA, I Mr, i, t HEW EOIEEO Walxt, Skirt and Bodice. If you wish to acquire distinction in dress with your separate waists, see to jt that there is some relation in color between the skirt and the bodice. The black skirt with bright colored waists ,7' U V-J'M, ISA ip i i i 1 1 i i x-: i i i i Tiir nim nhnniiu nr nnniirnn I UL LJUII IIVI UUtf I I L a I I U m L U V i fir iriii i iiriu i 1 1 i i i i n i 1 1 a I ML I 1 1 IL.UUUI 1 ACORNERLESS room would be monotonous to most of us. The appearance of greater space in a circular room of like area would not by any means compensate for the loss of variety that angles in a square or rectangular room impart. The break ing up of the wall space by corners per mits the introduction of that constant variety, united with similarity, which is the basis of all opportunities for dec orative beauty. Probably the most difficult parts of the room to finish off suitably are these same corners. All sorts of furnishing devices in the shape of oriental nooks and corresponding absurdities have been introduced with a view of dispos ing of unsightly spaces; but, as a rule, the result has been worse than the evil, for to the eye of good taste an oriental nook in a modern room is an incongruity sadly contrary to the spirit of art. Oriental corners are all very well in oriental rooms, but the "spirit of the best architecture has been that a house, even in its interior decora tions, should conform to the prevailing plainer idea. For instance, in the old Italian palaces there is an abundance of slender marble columns, delicate marble carvings, sumptuous marble stairways and pillared marble alcoves whose spacious windows looked out on fountained rose gardens. This was well in the architect who was striving after coolness and beauty. In the old Eng lish houses, with their dark wainscot ed halls and stoutly built rooms, whose design was comfort, there can be found a desire to shut out the cold winter blasts. The Englishman's halls were dark and heavy as his own brooding, sluggish temperament. In the orient the aim was to secure coolness and se crecy, and the light was allowed to shimmer into the house through del icately carved screens and latticeworks of wood or marble. It was not the Eng lish shrinking from intrusion that ac tuated the oriental, but a jealous horror of prying eyes. Throughout the more princely domiciles there were every where alcoves, curtained and latticed nooks, into which one might slip and escape one's own family in a country where no one trusted even his brother. The life of a land is therefore- the best criterion of what will be allowable in its decorative art. Most modern rooms are furnished without any thought of the corners. If the room is a small one and there is a desire to make it appear larger, the best way to accomplish this is so to fin ish the angles in its outline that they will not be noticed. A tall plant, a skill WALKING GOWN. which have no black in their composi tion is no longer considered swell. For example, a blue s.nd fawn checked siik blouse is very good style with either a fawn or a blue cloth skirt, while with black it would be very ordinary. 1 1 Ul UU1I ILim fully devised curtain, a cabinet, a small table crossing it, will perhaps give the desired effect. A corner in a library may be put to good use by fitting it up with a small writing table. This table may be noth ing more than a triangular board fitted to brackets screwed to the wall, the outer edge being nicely rounded off. The board Fhould be painted or stained and varnished and then covered on the top with a couple of thicknesses of heavy blotting paper. This should be fixed on with flat, brass headed tacks. A littie cupboard, into which writing materials may be put or in which mem orandum books and bills may be stow ed, should be placed in the corner a lit tle above the table. A narrow, orna mental shelf for the taper with whic. the wax is melted and similar trifles may border one side of Jhe. table. A calendar may hang on the wall opposite the little shelf, with .some photographs under it. To light the desk a lamp sus pended from a chain will be both useful and ornamental. A small wastebasket underneath, a chair at one side, with a tabouret, on which stands a flowerpot ar-d plant, for the other side, and the troublesome corner is finished. In the dining room the corner may be fitted with one of the triangular china closets which can be purchased for so little. In case the china closet owned by the family is a flat one, it can be placed across the corner and its height relieved by a set of ornamental plates on brackets. In the drawing- room a table on which china and a handsome unframed en graving or painting are arranged will give a pretty effect to a corner, espe cially if one side is finished with framed photographs and the other with small water colors or a piece of ornamental china. Having the background filled in with palms often relieves a drawing room corner of the effect of stiffness when it is occupied by a table or large ped estal on which is a marble figure. The plants are arranged on little brackets so disposed as not to be noticed at a casual glance. In a dining or sitting room which has. large, light windows in one corner, growing plants of the hardy, vigorous sort that bloom often will look well. They give a touch of brightness and cheer to the prosy apartment. In a library a corner may be furnish ed with low seats, above which are shelves ranged with books relating to some particular subject. Greece, for instance, being the topic, the corner can be ornamented with small, framed pic tures of the country, reproductions of PARIS, Feb". 24. There have been a good many Americans in Paris of late, the majority of them being on, their way south to enjoy the balmy air of the Mediterranean countries. The crowd that every day hangs about the exposition grounds is a foreign one, the majority being Americans. In, many things they are disappointed. The stat ue of Jeanne d'Arc, for instance, which should have been beautiful and impos ing, is, after all, cheap and tawdry looking with its veneering of gilt. It will not please and it will not last. Fremiet would have shown better taste had he executed his groups with less of a striving for modern gorgeousness and given them to us in white stone. The spring hats that are being shown in the shops are not especially novel. How could they be, for fashion tacitly acknowledges that she has come to the limit of inventive power when she re turns to first principles In the use of old costumes. Women of fashion and mo-' distes are ransacking the old galleries and poring over old plates in a vain effort to discover something at least relatively new. Vandyke's pictures suggested the new collars over the shoulders, lace broad and rich, and the. portraits of Josephine have been stud ied and restudied for empire effects. The Roraney and Reynolds and Gains borough portraits have likewise been analyzed for suggestions, and now there seems but little else to fall back upon. Some one says that the next Innova tion in skirtmaking will be the adop tion of the pannier; the natural se quence, this, of the very long skirts that we have been wearing, for the instruct ive draping of the long skirts over the hips in vain effort to make them walk ing length must sooner or later have suggested their adoption to some hawkj eyed fashion designer. At present gowns are merely plaited over the hips, but they are laid in loose folds so de-; cidedly suggestive of the pannier that; the inference that panniers are about to be adopted is a natural one. Another of the new ideas adopted i that of wearing sleeveless dinner gowns. These have the necks cut high, but are without sleeves. This is a fash Ion that was popular in 18i6 and is af fected only by ladies who have fine arms. A black or dark gown shows off the charms of the rounded white arm to best advantage, but the woman with the slender, graceful limb finds the rose colored or wine colored velvets or satins best for bringing out her good" points. Some odd combinations of colors are considered smart. For instance, lav ender and certain shades of blue, such as powder blue and hyacinth blue, are affected by fashion leaders. The pop ularity of a fashion seems to be gauged largely by its audacity. For those who desire a good durable silk of the newer style peau de gant is to be recommended for dress founda tions, especially those which are to be much trimmed. Those gowns which are to be decorated with many rows of stitching upon silk are best made of the peau de gant, as its wearing qualities are superior. Silk canvas is very fre quently employed in the making of evening dresses. It has the desirable prints of her famous art works, plaster casts of her famous statues and bits of pottery in the Greek fashion. This will make a picturesque and original corner. The style of the corner must conform with that of the rest of the room. A student of Shakespeare may arrange one corner with prints representing A TASTEFULLY A mfflai ii iMSi I Pr iSWi IKES- I jl F" .iii quality of looking well as long as any of the material remains. Mousseline duchesse is a new satin of very soft quality; it is especially charming in coin, reseda, lilac and brown. Khaki in wool and linen is beginning-a run which will probably be a popular one, as the material is a strong and therefore use ful one, especially for children's gar ments. Cloths gauffered and with checks and challies of silklike surface are indi cated as the proper things for spring juvenile gowns. Pastel colors still are worn. Light mauves, reed greens and the new shade called flame pink have been adopted for general wear and by spring will be all the rage. Ribbons will be a good deal used In trimming gowns, as they have been during the winter. The puckered ones, gauzes and shot ribbons, the ribbon with lace upon the edges, all will cer tainly be much in demand. The striped ribbons, too, will have their admirers. those with perpendicular lines being the most modish. Painted leather introduced on some street gowns is found to be a trimming of very good effect. We have had hand painted satin and silk and cloth, and now hand painted leather ornaments, much more lasting than any woven fabric, is sensibly being introduced. With care the chamois can be cleaned when soiled and the painting used to trim another gown when the cloth has seen its days of usefulness departed. Cloth gowns, too, are painted, but they are too expensive for ordinary wearers, especially with the painted skirt fronts which the fashionable wo men are fond of donning. Cut out patterns in cloth show no signs of disappearing in fact, it is a season of elaborateness combined with simplicity. Gray and brown street gowns with cut out bands across the skirt, and with silk of a lighter shade underneath, are upon the models in the shops now -displayed for spring wear. Coiffeurs are introducing the fashion of turning the hair straight back from the face, a style that suits very few women. Leghorn hats are expected to be very popular this coming season. For trim ming them wide ribbons, ostrich plumes and flowers will be much used, al though a great deal of straw braid is to be utilized. Fichus and lace scarfs are still a la mode; they give a softening effect to the severest toilet and serve admirably to touch up a rather shabby costume. Orange is a color that seems to be gaining in vogue. Where a season or so ago an orange gown was the excep tion one. sees much orange, corn color and amber use.d with black for matron ly gowns with most charming effect. Velvet for visiting gowns is popular. When the cotton stuff is adopted, only the best quality should be selected. Satin, faille or damask looks better for evening vwear than the light shades of velvet. The bolero and Eton jackets remain unabated in popularity and are expected to be features in spring fash ions. Corduroy, while not so much used as velvet, makes very pretty and very serviceable street dresses. It is a fact that corduroy will outwear almost any other fabric and still look fresh and places famous in Shakespearean his tory, prints of the poet's characters or of famous actors in favorite roles. Por traits of some of Shakespeare's friends and busts of Shakespeare himself in as many poses as can be obtained will add to the value of an interesting nook. The corners should be the cosiest spots in the room, each corner having St URANGED CCSNER. rSi' Ismail neat after repeated exposures to the weather and much hard wear. The cut of bodices is particularly pleasing. They are rounded in the front with graceful decolletages, cut or suggested, which add to the beauty of the figure graces that were not suspect ed in the less well shaped waists. CATHERINE TALBOT. I-'h H Ii iun In Honrnlus. Many widows, finding crape veils and bonnets too heavy, replace them with black silk grenadine, but the crowns of the crape bonnets are unlined and gen erally display an Alsatian bow in front. Frenchwomen lead the way in the mat ter of the long pendent veils; the most graceful is the Gallic, especially as worn by the young girls. Toques, hats and bonnets worn in the lesser degrees of mourning are made In dull, fancy and satin straw, cloth or felt. It is not considered good taste to combine ostrich feathers with crape; they are replaced by dull wings and quills, giving the appearance of great breadth across the face, sometimes brought about by straw wings lined with tuckings of chiffon or crape or by large bows of silk edged with fringe falling over the brims at the side. Many felt toques and hats are trimmed with huge rosettes and folds of chiffon, black paradise, osprey and gourras (the latter most a la mode), with dull jet; but mourning millinery follows the current modes as to shape and styles modified by the exigencies of the material used. Widows caps are now relegated to elderly women; younger widows simply wear a white rouleau inside the bonnet. The shape of the cap undergoes but lit tle change; in Paris the Marie Stuarr in tulle or lisse is still the prevailing form. Bonnet veils for covering the face in deep mourning are of grenadine or of net, bordered with a hem of crape or three or "five rouleaux. Spotted nets are not considered suitable. With regard to ornaments, in the first depth of woe jet only is permissible, giv ing place by and by to pearls and dia monds. Jet purse chains are made in bright, not dull, jet. There is plenty of choice in small dull and bright jet brooches and bracelets. Earrings are now entirely the fashion, and balls of jet, or, rather, onyx, which has exact ly the same appearance, but is harder and more durable, are made on the same .principle as diamond earrings. In the muslin or lawn cuffs and col lars for widows there can be little change. Sometimes they have broad hems, sometimes several narrow ones,, but they should always be worn over blocks viz, stiffeners, which keep them in shape. Even in the earlier stage of widowhood, when evening dress is ig nored and the deep mourning high gown is considered suitable for all oc casions, white Marie Antoinette fichus in chiffon or lisse, with plain frillings, are admissible. Lisse has been adapt ed to ruffles in white or black, and crape, lisse, chiffon and black glace ties of the now universal sailor knot form, with a silk fringe, are worn in all but the earlier stages. Tawdry Jewelry. Nothing is so very much out of place as to wear cheap, showy jewelry. Ev ery one knows from your dress and cir- its own use and individuality. If the bookcase stands in one corner, the writ ing desk should 'occupy another, the low couch still another and an easy chair or the low table, with its plants or useful and pretty odds and ends, yet another. MADGE PORTER. Giving Medicine to Children. Hospital nurses will tell you that a large amount of tact is required to get some patients to take medicine. This specially applies to children, who lack the reasoning powers of their elders'. Care should be taken that no oil med icine touches the lips, and it is a good plan when such medicine has to be taken to moisten the mouth not the 14ps with water previously. After tak ing bitter drugs such as quassia, qui nine, strychnine, etc. the persistent taste is best removed by masticating and swallowing small pieces of dry bread. This wipes and cleanses the back of .the tongue and cleans away the nauseous taste. Many medicines offend more by their smell than by their taste. Where such is the case the nostrils should be closed with the fingers before the medicine comes within range of the olfactory sense and kept closed until the draft or powder is swallowed. One can quite understand the unwillingness of a child to swallow a preparation of valerian or SPRING FANNIES SKTET. cumstances that you are not rich, and that therefore these brooches and bracelets, etc., cannot be real. It is far better to confine yourself to one or two unpretentious paste ornaments for even ing wear, and in the daytime to use asafetida which has been held right under its nose for a few minutes. Again, there are medicines which must be well diluted before they can be swal lowed, such as sulphuric ether or spirits of ammonia, etc. If given in a concen trated condition, the sensation of chok ing is dangerous to the patient and dis tressing to the nurse, and such med icines should not be given without full directions from the doctor or dispenser of the drug. Apple Cake. Stew some apples which have been peeled and cut into slices with only sufficient water to keep them from burning and without any sugar. When they are done, beat them to a pulp, add a small piece of butter and sufficient molasses sirup to sweeten the apple; then stir in half a saltspoonful of pow dered cinnamon and a little grated lem on peel. Cover a tin baking plate which has been buttered with some short paste of medium thickness, then spread with t -a layer of the apple and scatter some dates which have been washed, stoned and cut up into small pieces over it; add more apple and then cover in with the paste and bake at once in a moderately hot oven. A few minutes before the cake is done brush it over with white of egg and dust it with pow dered sugar. Turn the cake out of the tin on taking it from the oven and serve It cold. Frozen. Fruits. Boil two cupfuls of sugar and one" quart of water 20 minutes; skim and cool.. Add two to three pints of mashed and sifted pulp and Juice of any fruit or mixture of fruits you prefer, like peaches, plums and apricots. Freeze as usual, and, if you prefer, add, when partly frozen, one pint of cream, whip ped. Some fruits will need more sugar; others will be improved with lemon juice. only some simple pins that are pretty though sham, and these should be kept clean and bright. For silver there is nothing better than a cut lemon or sil ver powder. For stones rub up with newspaper. BREAKFAST. Fruit. Oatmeal Porridgot L Baked Egg-s. Potato Balls. Breakfast Bolls. Carrot Jam. Coffee, MUSHROOM TOAST. Peel some good fresh mushrooms and try in butter till cooked. Have ready some strips of buttered toast, arrange a few mushrooms on each piece, season with salt and a little cayenne pepper. Dust finely chopped parsley over, or, if you prefer it, grated parmesan cheese, and serve. With nicely fried rashers of bacon this toast makes an excellent breakfast disk. DINNER. Fruit. Mulligatawny Soup. Baked Herring. Baked Potatoes, Boiled Turnips. Endive Salad. Stewed Onions. French Rolls. Blancmange. Coffee, MULLIGATAWNY ROUP. Make some stoclc with any meat trimmings to be bad. Cut some slices of carrot, turnip and onion; fry them in an ounce of dripping with a bunch of herbs and at slice of bacon; add two ounces of flour, a table spoonful of eurry powder and a teaspoonfui of curry paste. Fry for a few minutes, pour in the stock, skim when it comes to boiling point, sea son to taste and simmer for an hour. Pas through a sieve or tammy, flavor with lenioo) juice and serve with boiled rice. LUNCHEON OR TEA. Fruit. Ragout of Mussels. Boiled Rice. Potato Ribbons. French Bread. Lettuce and Radishes. Preserves. Apple Souffle. Tea or Chocolate. APPLE SOUFFLE. Take .one pint of appl puree, one lemon, three eggs, one ounce of but ter, one round of sponge take, castor sugar, apri cot Jam, a few pistachio nuts and one glass of sherry. Cut the apples in quarters and, without peeling or coring them, stew them till soft with the pared lemon rind and enough water to keep them from burning. When soft, rub all through a fine wire sieved Stir in the raw yolks of two egss only and put the whites aside. -Add the butter and Bugar to taste. Cook this mixture for a min ute or two over the fire, but do not let it boil. Take the cake and carefully hollow out the cen ter, so as to leave a case. Sprinkle it over inside with the wine and, after slightly warming the jam, spread it thinly over the outside and sprin kle with chopped pistachio nuts. Beat the three whites to-a stiff froth and add them lightly to the apple mixture. Put this into the cake border and place in a quick oven till well puffed up, probably about 10 or 15 minutes. Dust with sug ar and serve immediately. Filleted Plaice. Skin the fishes, lay them flat on tha table and cut down the backbone, then raise the fillet from head to tail. Cut the fillets in pieces and fry them in two ounces of drippings, oil or lard. Season and add the Juice of half a lemon. Drain the fillets on a cloth and serv them on a napkin.

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TOPEKA STATE JOU11NAL. i. r n l: THOMAS A. EDISON, WHOSE WORK IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD HAS GIVEN HIM THE TITLE OF "THE WIZARD." THE PROGRESS OF A Ponderous Automobile of 1834 Has Been Succeeded by the Light Running and Marvelous Vehicle of 190a BY MALCOLM J. RICHARDS, PH.D. In spite of all failures and in spite of numerous mishaps, many minds have been engaged, theoretically or practi cally, in attempting to solve the prob lem of artilicial flight. Long before the dawn of the present century men were at work upon dying machines that re fused to fly, and the same question is still the most interesting and most im portant of the scientific problems that the nineteenth century will leave as a legacy to the twentieth. During the past hundred years con siderable progress has been made to ward the final solution of the great puz zle. There has been an advance along the lines of dirigible balloons, or air ships, but a flying machine that is in any way suited to the requirements of travel or transportation is still beyond the achievement of man. That such an invention is not only one of the possible, but probable re sults of twentieth century research is the opinion of most students. Every thing points to the fact that such an achievement is soon to be realized. It is not possible that so much time and money should have been expended for nothing, but it will undoubtedly be left to the next century to discover the true solution of the problem of successful aerial navigation. In spite of all this, however, there is much in the science of aeronautics that is deserving of the consideration in such a series of studies as this. Al though the great success has not been achieved, ballooning, as we know it, is still distinctly a science of the nine teenth century. Up to the close of the eighteenth century the progress along these lines had been scarcely worthy of notice, whereas the feats that have been accomplished during the past hun dred years have been distinctly worthy of notice. FAMOUS BALLOONISTS. Among the balloonists who are most deserving of attention and praise are Henry Giffard. the Tissandier Brothers, Gaston and Albert, and Renard and Krebs. In 1S52 Giffard broke all rec ords in the history of aeronautics by constructing a balloon which was pro pelled by a steam engine. This was the first air ship that could be navi gated in a desired direction. The next great achievement along these lines was made by Gaston Tis sandier, who exhibited a balloon that could be run by means of an electric storage battery, at the Paris Exposi tion of 1SS1. Later, assisted by his brother, he built another model, over i)0 feet long and 30 feet in diameter, which was fitted with dynamos and a f A 1 5 t I air I fii .1 1 1K I I VI 1 NEW YORK'S NEW FIRE ENGINE IS FITTED OUT WITH A SEARCH ING HT. A s. V THE PASSING CENTURY. driving screw nearly ten feet in diam eter, and was supplied with current from an accumulator weighing about four hundred pounds. In this machine the two inventors were able to make a speed of from seven to nine miles an hour for an hour or two together. In 1SS4 Renard and Krebs constructed a balloon on similar lines, but with it they were able to obtain a speed that sometimes equalled fifteen miles an hour. This invention was one of the most interesting exhibits at the Paris exhibition of 1SS9. Since that time this science has made rapid progress, but the most pretentious attempt to put a balloon to practical use was during the Journey undertaken by Andree in the hope of reaching the north pole by the use of his air ship. Whether he returns or not is a ques tion that time alone can answer, but there is one point that he has proved, and this is that it is possible to con struct air ships that will be something more than a toy. Of course, up to the present time the faultless balloon has not been con structed, but the work of recent years tends to show that this will be attained, and there can be no question but that the highest credit should be paid to the nineteenth century pioneers in this great work to the men who were able to give the first practical illustration of the fact that balloons, like terrestrial machines, might be made subject to the control of man. A PERFECT SUBMARINE. The search for a successful subma rine boat has also been going on for more than a hundred years, but there is little doubt but that the solution of this problem will prove to be one of the greatest achievements of the nine teenth century. The first mention of a craft of this nature was made about the middle of the eighteenth century, when the Gentleman's Magazine pub lished the description of a strange boat constructed by a man named Symons, which actually dived in the Dart. During the remainder of the eight eenth century several attempts were made to construct a submarine boat that could be depended upon to come to the surface again, but while some good results were obtained, not one of the crafts proved practicable. Despite all these failures, however, the work was taken up by inventors of the nineteenth century, and the past hundred years have been rich in prog ress along these lines of navigation. One by one the problems that have pre vented the successful use of subma rine craft have been overcome. Some- mi u" in .m t1 1 k' r "r. ili.. 'H FVi. I times it has been at the cost of human life, and always at a great outlay of time and money, but now, at the close of the century, it looks as If the world was to reap the benefit of all this re search. WTith the Gustave Zede In France and the Holland and Argonaut in this coun try, there seems to be little reason to believe that the successful submarine boat has not been found. The great American inventor, Fulton, failed, just as Symonds and Bushnell had failed before him, but to their failures are due a portion of the'credit of the pres ent success of Holland or of Lake. ROAD TRANSPORTATION. If there is any department of hu man endeavor in which unprecedented progress has been made during the past century, it is in that of road trans portation. In the eighteenth century the vehicles were still far from what one might have anticipated, and jour neys were made as often on horseback as by any other way. To-day the crude vehicles have dis appeared. In the early part of the present century they gave place to con veyances that were as comfortable as they were safe and ornamental, but now even these are disappearing to make way for a new vehicle that would have astonished our forefathers be yond the power of expression. This ve hicle, of course, is the automobile. Of course, as is well known, the steam carriage antedates the locomotive, and Isaac Newton suggested a rude form of the machine as early as 1680. From that time until the present day invent ors have been at work trying to dis cover some suitable conveyance of this kind. One of the first automobiles, however, was made in the early part of the pres ent century, and it is thus described by "The Mechanics' Magazine" for Jan uary, 1834: "The carriage is built to carry fifty passengers. The wheels are about six inches broad in the tire and eight feet in diameter. The crank shaft worked by the cylinders is connected by endless chains with the axles of the hind wheels of the carriage, and each wheel has a separate axle. "The spokes of the wheels are so con structed as to operate like springs to the whole machine that is, to give and take according to the inequalities of the road. "The boiler consists of a series of double tubes, one within the other, placed in a vertical position around a circular fireplace, and communicating with it; the heated air passes through these tubes, which are everywhere sur rounded by water. The tubes are in the form of siphons, to counteract the effect of unequal expansion. The draught is produced by a fanner worked by the engine, and the furnace is madd to consume its own smoke." Crude as such a machine would be to-day, it was a mechanical marvel three-quarters of a century ago, for it was not until 1S62 or 1S63 that even these steam road vehicles came into practical use. Constant efforts were made to improve them, however, and by 1893 it began to look as if the art of automobile building would finally be mastered. THIS DESOLATE ISLAND OFF IN THE FAR PACIFIC, IS NOW THE CAN FIND REFUGE. In that year a steam carriage made the trip from Paris to Rouen and re turn, a distance of some eighty miles, in twelve hours and fifty minutes, an achievement that was everywhere praised. Two years later, however, at the French competition, a petroleum carriage made a run of 736 miles in forty-eight hours and fifty-three min utes, or a little more than fifteen miles an hour. Not only is the automobile one of the most remarkable inventions of this century, but it has been of great ser vice to the people of the United States in that it has given a strong impetus to the movement in favor of good roads. SEARCHLIGHT FOR FIRE ENGINE. Xew Tort's Kew Apparatus For En abling the Firemen to See Through Flames. The new searchlight fire engine, which was built on the suggestions fur nished by Fire Chief Croker of New York, arrived there a short time ago from Elmira. It was received at the department repair shop in West Third street by Chief of Construction Ryan, who immediately started to get the en gine ready for service. It was given a test and was found to work success fully. The machine is the first searchlight fire engine ever constructed, and is ex pected to almost revolutionize the pres ent method of fighting interior fires by enabling the firemen to overcome the great barrier of smoke. The light pen etrating the smoke will allow the fire men to locate the seat of the fire in stead of, as at present, groping around in darkness and directing streams of water ahead. The machine will be located In the quarters of Engine Company 20, which commands the great dry goods district, where fires are hottest and smoke the densest. It will be manned by an offi cer, engineers and complement of fire men, and will respond to alarms .for large fires and when called out by spe cial alarms. Directly connected to the engine is a marine-type multipolar generator, sup plying sixty-five amperes of current at a pressure of thirty volts. On each side of the driver's seat is placed an eigh-teen-inch projector, and the seat folds over so that the projectors can swing through a complete circle. They can also be placed at any ver tical angle. The projectors are supplied with special deiiecting glass fronts, making it possible to cover a large area with the light at short range; or by using the plain glass fronts, also sup plied, the light may be thrown out in parallel rays to a great distance. WHERE FUGITIVES HAY HIDE. Few Spots Where Criminals May Con ceal Themselves From the Man With the Warrant It was Dick Swiveller who checked off the streets of London and then de cided that there was practically no thoroughfare that he could traverse without fear of meeting a creditor, and the fugitive criminals of to-day are in much the same position. They may seat themselves before a map 'and study the countries of the earth until mountains, rivers and cities mingle and become one before their weary eyes, but they will be unable to select a single spot in the whole civilized world in which they would be safe from the pursuit of the dreaded man with a war rant. To-day extradition constitutes so much a part of the jurisprudence of all countries that it is difficult for one to remember that such a condition of af fairs is something that is very new, but the public records show that it has only been within the past few years that the world has had no city of ref uge to which the criminal might hasten in the hour of his escape. A few years ago there were many such spots, scattered from one end of the earth to the other, and in those days the fugitive had but to select his place of abode. If he arrived at the chosen habitation, justice was unable to reach him. At that time safe harbors were of fered by Spain, Turkey, Algiers, Ja pan, Holland, Chili, Ecuador, the Phil ippines, Cuba and all of Central Amer ica with the exception of British Hon duras, to all kinds of criminals from the United States, from murderers down, while the places to which such offend ers as embezzlers might flee was much larger. WENT TO CANADA. Almost everyone can remember the time when every runaway bank cashier found refuge in Canada, but gradually the desirable hiding places commenced to narrow down. The United States Government lost no opportunity to per suade other Powers that nothing could be more advantageous than an, extra dition treaty, and it has now accom plished its purpose. Several years ago Canada passed the law that has made the Dominion an unhealthy resort for such tourists, and still later, Japan adopted a treaty covering what are called the "crimes against property." Eventually things simmered down un til there was nothing left but Central j merica, and at last only Spanish Hon duras was left. The treaty clause that was adopted in 189S robbed the fugitive of his last place of refuge, so that to day those who desire to escape the strong arm of justice will have to take up their abode upon some desert island or upon some one of the islands in the Pacific that are rarely if ever visited, and that have absolutely no means of communication with the civilized world. While it is quite probable that the fugitive in question would be able to escape discovery in such a place, he would not be thoroughly safe even there, for any country that desired his presence before the court would not hesitate to go and take him bodily from an island that had no treaty relations with its government. At the present time no one of these islands offers a safer haven than Pit cairn, in the Pacific, but the question that would trouble the gentleman who desired to escape would be as to the means of leaching that Island. It is so far away from the ordinary routes of travel that the regular ocean steamers never stop at its one port, and the only visitors are occasional sailing vessels that put in for water and to give the islanders an opportunity to exchange their products for clothes and other necessities of life. It is doubtful, however, if any fugi tive who had been used to the refine ments of civilized life would be willing to take up his abode on the island, even for the sake of his liberty. To those who are unacquainted with the condi tions that now exist on the island the very name of Pitcairn is suggestive of all kinds of romantic associations. Even the dull old school geographies used to pause for a moment in their painful round of rivers, boundaries and "principal oxports," to linger pleasantly over the romance of the mutiny on the British ship Bounty, in 1789, and the landing of the leader, Fletcher Chris tian, with eight other Englishmen, six Polynesian men and twelve Polynesian women, on lonely Pitcairn Island, where they founded a colony and agreed to live without law. There is no question but that the life was a wild whirl while it lasted, but in eleven years every adult on the is land had either been murdered or had died of dissipation, with the exception of old Alexander Smith, who was left alone with the children, who had sprung up like weeds. With the help of a few settlers dropped by stray ships, he began the Christian era, the Anno Domini of the Pitcairn microcosm, and from that date the virtues and simplicity of the Pit cairn islanders became one of the pret tiest pages in the history of modern civilization. That is the romantic side of the story, the bright side that history tells. There is another and darker side, however, that has been left to the modern chron icler to relate. For years things re mained in an ideal condition in Pit cairn. Everyone was moral and loved his neighbor as he loved himself, but gradually things began to change. Gen erations of intermarriage in a few fam ilies, coupled with the vices bred in the plenty and idleness of the tropical island, gradually undid all the good work that had been done by the earlier settlers, and to-day, it is stated, the people are little more than a race of degenerates. To banish a fugitive to live among such people would be worse than' to sentence him to prison, and existence on any of" the other islands -where he would be likely to be sheltered would be just as desirable. NO REFUGE. As the result, therefore, it may be said with truth that there is no place in the civilized world where the es caped law breaker can hide his head. To-day his. government could follow him to any spot where he might go, for even those places where there is no definite treaty are always willing to give up the criminal who has taken ref uge in that land. Among all civilized powers the principle of extradition is found and demands for the surrender of a fugitive by one government to an other are usually complied with on the ground of international comity. Of course it must be remembered that there are certain offenses in the mon archical states of Europe that could not be regarded as crimes in this coun try, and in no possible way can the present extradition treaty be so twist ed as to permit of the surrender of for eign fugitives who have taken refuge in the United States because of such offenses. For instance, in Germany a man might be seriously punished for hav ing offended the dignity of the Emper or, but if he succeeded in reaching these shores the fact that he had been ac cused of lese majeste would not be suf ficient to persuade the officials of this country to give him up. In the United States the work of ex tradition is done through the solicitor of the State Department, and the ex pense is borne by the counties of the State demanding the fugitive. The United States Government bears the ex pense only in the case of violators of the United States laws, such as coun terfeiters and mail robbers. The aver age cost of bringing a fugitive back to this country is $500, and in many cases the crime committed is not suffi ciently serious to warrant such an out lay. In important instances, however, much greater sums will be spent, for the French Government spent more than 200,000 francs in obtaining the ex tradition of Carpenter and other em ployees of the Railway of Northern France. Of late eome governments have been trying to make Nihilism, Anarchism and the like extraditable, but nothing has been accomplished along, this line owing to the fact that it is very hard to discriminate between these and oth er political offenders. King Humbert of Italy and the Czar of Russia are particularly anxious to see this provis ion made. They desire to make an arcy, like piracy, a common crime, but the United States will not heed the sug gestion. Like most countries with free institutions, it has a serious objection to turning over political prisoners, and in cases where other- and extraditable offenses are charged, they have even refused to surrender the fugitive on the extraditable offense unless there first should be an understanding that ONLY SPOT WHERE FUGITIVES he should be tried for the latter and not for the political crime. In this way does the law of this coun try protect the man who has succeeded in escaping from any political despot ism in Europe, but in cases of actual crime against life or property, the gov ernments of to-day have no sympathy for the criminal. One by one his places of refuge have been taken from him until now he will be compelled to take up his abode in a balloon or upon a practically desert island or else run the chance of being able to conceal his identity in places where he is not known. Of course this is being done ivery day, and it is possible that the de ception might be carried out success fully, but in no way does this condition of uncertainty compare to the time when Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as North and South America, all of fered havens of refuge to the violators of law. MARQUIS OF LORNEJNTRADE. He is in the Wall Taper Trnst, While His Wile Slakes Statues. Trusts have received the stamp of approval of the reigning family in Great Britain. It is announced that Queen Victoria's son-in-law, the Mar quis of Lome, is one of the principal organizers of the gigantic trust which has been formed to control the wall pa per output of the world. Lord Lorne has long .been interested in the production of wall papers, hav ing been for six years the active part ner of a firm of house decorators and paperhangers in Chelsea, London. Many i3 the suburban residence that has had the hangings of its parlor, the ceilings of its dining room and the cornices of its halls designed by the brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales. Lord Lorne and his royal wife are poor, and it is not to drive away ennui but to add to his income that he has gone into business. True, his wife re ceives from the Crown an income of $30,000 a year, with the use of apart ments in Kensington Palace. But the expenses incumbent upon her as a daughter of the Queen, such as, for in stance, the maintenance of gentlemen and ladies-in-waiting, the charities to which she is expected to contribute, etc., more than swallow up this an nuity; and as the Marquis has mani fested his-disapproval of the third mar riage which the aged Duke of. Argyle contracted recently he receives little financial assistance from his father. The Princess is herself not above working. Not only is she a clever painter, ready at all times to sell her pictures, but she is skilful with the chisel, and ready to take an order for a statue or a bust, charging as much as $S,o00 and $15,000 for her handiwork. A VIEW OF THE HONEY MARKET. Approved by Eussell Sage. "The financial situation in America," said Mr. Sage, '"was never more legiti mate and sound than it is to-day. The only cloud on the horizon is the pres ent War between Great Britain and the Boers. If by clever states manship international trouble is avert ed, there is no reason why good busi ness should not have plain sailing in the United States for a long time. If the war should be confined exclusively to themselves, the effect would not be disastrous in any way to American fi nances, for now, after the first shock our affairs here will run on smoothly and normally, and a considerable stim ulation in the prices of our products will ensue. The great danger is that as one spark may put a city In flames, so a war comparatively insignificant in itself may involve several of the first- class powers. The keenest states men cannot foresee the results. "The money question here has dis turbed public sentiment for thirty or forty days. The great demand upon the city banks for loans has come from all parts of the country, as well as from large dealers who are making applica tions for great sums of money for bus iness purposes. That the country at large is in a very prosperous condition commercially is indicated by the de mand upon New York banks from Chi cago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and in fact from almost all tho big cities of the United States. "That business men are preparing for a greatly increased volume of business in the immediate future is shown by the fact that they are willing to pay full rates and a premium for money in order to be in readiness for any tax which new enterprises may put upon their financial resources. There is lit tle chance of any relaxation in the price of money in the near future, as it is now loaning at full rates and a pre pium of from one to one and a half per cent, for thirty days,' three or six months. This is the strongest kind of an indication of the way in which bus iness men regard money prospects. "The offer of the Government to an ticipate interest on bonds will help to ease the money situation temporarily, but high- prices of money are legiti mately due in consequence of vastly in creased demands for industrial pur poses. Our cotton and wheat have a great market, and at high prices will bring vast sums of money from abroad. For we are spreading out and develop ing markets all over the world, many of which are greater than we can sup ply at present. Of course, all of this is a great stimulus to money. On the other hand, the very high price of iron has retarded the entering into contracts for the building of steam roads, trol ley lines, bridges, and the great build ings which are to-day constructed so largely of iron and steel. This has had the effect of restricting to a limited ex tent the employment of labor. "Apart from this question of war and its many complications and uncertain ties, the business prospects of the United States are infinitely brighter than ever before in the history of the country, as any one with a keen eye and good digestion can see. "Industrials have got to take a back seat, that is. most of them. There have been forced upon an ill-advised public great amounts of stock of over-capitalized concerns of tMis character. Of course, I have no reference to first-class properties. There was a time during the recent advance in prices all along the line when many industrials of ques tionable value were advanced in price artificially in sympathy with the gen eral market. The banks were prevailed upon to loan money on some of these securities, and I was afraid that this indiscretion might lead to a panic. But that danger is happily passed. A high rate is now demanded for money ad vanced on the majority of industrials, and even then it is insisted that they be put in at low prices. The rejection of these stocks by the banks of late has tended to increase public confidence in the integrity of our financial institu tions. "Naturally, high rates for money will cause the holders of gilt-edged securi ties that pay small dividends to sell out and loan their money at higher rates. The rates on mortgages will no doubt be advanced, but this will not hurt real estate, as the higher salaries paid to working people will enable them in turn to pay higher rent. The people in this country should remember one thing; that is, they are not living upon themselves, but upon the world at large, which they have made their mar ket, through industry and moral in tegrity. "In this war between England and the Boers we should, as I say, unques tionably support England, not only be cause she stood beside us during our recent war, but because England and America combined would be more pow erful, morally, intellectually and finan cially, than all the rest of the world. Without Mfting a finger we can, by our attitude, compel all other nations to keep their hands off. This will have the effect of not only shortening the war with the Boers, but preventing the dis organization of business and finance throughout the whole civilized world." Approved, RUSSELL SAGE. A ..i. i.i. ii i AN AUTOMOBILE WHICH WAS THE WONDER OF THE WORLD IN 1S34. IT CARRIED 60 PEOPLE. SECRETARY ROOT RIDES HORSEBACK. Though He Has Kot by Any Means Found the Animal He Wanted. When Secretary Root was at Lake Champlain with the President, he was called upon to review the Twenty sixth Volunteer Regiment, stationed at Plattsburg BarraGks, and he greatly admired the sight of the field officers dashing about the parade grounds upon their curveting steeds. He was offered a mount upon one of these mettlesome animals, but coyly refused and stuck to terra flrma. But the fine picture remained in his mind, and after his return, while sit ting in his office, one fine afternoon, he summoned to him Adjt.-Gen. Corbin. "General," he remarked, "I have been a busy man for a number of years back." Gen. Corbin bowed his head in as sent. "And, General, for my business I have neglected many pleasures pleasures and pastimes, sir that I once enjoyed." "Yes, Mr. Secretary." "One of which. General, I am sorry to state, is the noble and king-like sport of equestrianism. Ah, horseback rid ing a firm seat and a steady hand, a gallop in the bracing air over a smooth road! Could anything be more enjoy able?" "Nothing, Mr. Secretary. Nothing." "Well, General, to come to the point, I find that now, in the course of my duties, I shall need a suitable mount occasionally, and you know there is nothing like knowing the horse one has under one. I desire to make use of your superior judgment in these matters." "Certainly, Mr. Secretary." "As I said, I have neglected the exer cise, and, of course ah! well, I would like an animal with a mild temper, sweet dispositioned, you know, and a broad back the sort that is hard to fall off of.- "I understand, Mr. Secretary. I will ask Gen. Ludingfon. who has had con siderable more experience than either of us, to aid me in making the selec tion." "And I say, General," called the Sec retary, "this need not be made public, you know not just now, at any rate." "Yes, Mr. Secretary." Gen. Corbin hurried up stairs to the office of the Quartermaster General. "Ludington!" he gasped, short of breath, "the Secretary of War wants us to help him buy a horse a riding horse. He wants a fine, good looking horse, with a broad back, so he can't fall off, and gentle as a dog." "Sure! Sure!" answered Gen. Lud ington. "I can get it for him. Sure! What color does he want?" "Wait a minute and I'll ask him." Gen. Corbin retraced his steps and found the Secretary waiting for him. "Mr. Secretary, Gen. Ludington wants to know what color horse you want." "Ah, yes, let me see. What color? I had never thought of that. I always rather fancied a gray horse, you know; perhaps it was from a picture I once saw. Yes, I believe it was. You re ca"ll the magnificent gray horse Napo leon strides in the canvas, 'The Eve of Waterloo?'" "A splendid animal, Mr. Secretary." s "And then there was Alexander's Bu cephalus a magnificent black, if I re member. Black is a beautiful color for a horse." "But, Mr. Secretary, Bucephalus was i ns: RUSSELL SAGE, CALLED THE "UNCLE" OF WALL STREET. well, ah! you might say not exactly well broken." "Well, sir, I have no objection to a sorrel. In fact, I am not particular about the color, sir. A broad back, though, remember; that is the main point and the disposition." Gen. Corbin again visited the Quar termaster General. "Ludington," he said, "the Secretary says he likes a gray, and he likes a black, and a sorrel or a bay, or a straw berry roan in fact, any color, just so the horse is gentle and he won't fall off." "Sure, sure!" raid the Quartermaster General. "I will find him right away." But Gen. Ludington was too san guine, for the horse has not yet been purchased. If A. M l i i .1

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1900, -T n-w ir-- r e-- a -4 It 0 1? 1 Banger in Belay. Only a little backache, Tis the first symptom; Tells you the kidneys are sick, They are crying for help- Neglect delay The ache increases, Then 'tis serious, Urinary troubles follow. Retention of the urine Excessive discharges Painful passages. Don't wait until too late, The early symptoms are easily cured. But it's a hard fight When diabetes sets in When Bright's disease Has taken hold. Take Doan's Kidney Pills With the first sign of Kidney ills Relief will be prompt cure cer tain. Don't wait till its chronic There's too much danger in it. Get What Yoa Ask For! Get D-O-A-N-'S. Don't accept something; "just as good." Most druggists will give you what you call for. Some will endeavor to sub stitute an article they make more profit on. Don't ba misled. e the J 00 Tl L (Q, kJ 0. Watch the Urine, it should have the amber hue of health; if 'tis a dark reddish color, contains a "brick dust" like deposit, if the discharge is infrequent or ex cessive the kidneys are sick and need assistance. Neglect means Diabetes Bright's Disease. MIS cure every form of Kidney Ills cure all symptomatic pains and aches of sick kid neys; cure the aching back, the lame, the weak and painful one. East Seventh Street. Mrs. B. D. Williams of 118 East Sev enth street, says: "I was troubled more or less with my kidneys all my life, and last winter, 1S98. we had a good deal of sickness and I over-taxed myself. My whole system seemed to be out of re pair and severe pains in my back and head made me think at times I would lose my senses. I grot Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley Snow's drug; store and the results of their use were as tonishing. My general system was toned up and I was relieved of the trouble with my back and kidneys." The Proof of This is Positive, The Testimony of Friends, The Evidence of Neighbors, The Public Statements OF Hancock Street. Mrs. F. C. Robbins, No. 204 Hancock street says: "For eight or ten years, attacks of pain across the small of my back, became- especially acute if I stooped or caused any strain on the muscles of the loins. The action of the kidney secretions was too frequent and accompanied by pain. I. doctored and took many different medicines but with little if any relief until I procured Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley Snow's drug store, corner Sixth and Kansas avenue. They banished my backache and restored the kidneys to a normal and healthy condition. I could sleep better nights and the dull tiresome feel ing disappeared." PEOPLE m f Madison Street. Mr. O. Halterman of No. 2"3 Madison St. says: "I am getting pretty well .along in years. When employed at the Thompson Hardware Co. I was com pelled to give up my position on ac count of my health failing. A dull aching existed over my kidneys, ac companied with a weakness of the blad der, so bad that the secretions from the kidneys were not under control and my rest was greatly disturbed nights. I saw Doan's Kidney Pills advertised and procured them at Rowley Snow's drug store, corner Sixth st. and Kansas avenue. The treatment relieved me cf my trouble in a remarkably short time and there has been no recurrence since." Tyler Street. Mr. J. L. Beardsley, No. 633 Tyler St., employed in the Santa Fe R. R. shop., says: "I had. kidney trouble and suf fered severely for three or four years. After doing any heavy work during the day my back pained me acutely and I finally became so bad I could scarcely lift or straighten after stooping. I took many different remedies, but nothing ever gave me permanent relief until I procured Doan's Kidney Pills at Row ley Snow's drug store, corner of Sixth and Kansas ave. A few dos s relieved me, and in a short time I was surprised to find that all the pain and annoyance disappeared. My wife also used Doan's Kidney Pills, obtaining equally good results." Quincy Street. Mr. C. T. Schumaker, No. 42S Quincy St., painter by trade, employed by D. O. Burns, No. 513 Kansas ave., says: "I suffered with a lame back and kid ney trouble for six months in the winter of 1898, and was so bad I could not sleep. Many a night I arose and sat in a chair for the balance of the night. The pain was just like a knife going through my back, and I cannot describe how much I suffered. I tried different kinds of remedies, but received little benefit until 1 procured Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowely Snow's drug store. The prompt relief they gave me was wonderful. I was cured before I had taken all of one box. It is a pleasure to recommend a remedy which does all that is claimed for it." East Eighth Street. Mr. H. Smith, of 1408 East 8th street, carpenter at the Stnta Fe R. R. shops, says: "I did not feel well all the win ter of "1898, along in the spring I be came much worse, was bothered with a constant, dull, miserable, oppressive feeling, had no ambition, was nervous and coitld not sleep nights. I i was about to give up my work for a few days, when my wife procured Doan's Kidney Pills at Rowley Snow's drug store. I commenced to take them and a few doses relieved me. On finishing the treatment I feel like a different person. I give Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for completely curing me." That's The Spot. Know the spot Right in the "small n of the hack. Just above the hips. Bad place for pain, -But it always comes there When the kidneys are sick Comes in many formes,, Sharp, quick twinges, Slow, exhaustive aches, Always starts in the one spot But it don't stop there The ache goes on. Goes on op the back Follows the nerve centers. You call it all backache Ought to call it kidney ache, Because it comes from the kidneys. There's a lurking danger in it alL Never neglect backache. Never neglect the kidney's cry for help. Serious trouble is sure to follow, Urinary difficulties set in. Doan's Kidney Pills are for kid neys only. Doan's Kidney Pills cure back ache Cure excessive urinary discharges. Cure retention of the urine, Cure every kidney ill. A FREE SAMPLE of Doan's Kidney Pills mailed to every applicant. If you doubt the testimony of your neighbors y.ou can prove for yourself get a sample abso lutely free. Address, FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. v. 0 0 0 0 0 0 KEYMOTEOF MODE Gowns of Graceful Lines and Clinging Effects. Good Figures Are Well Set Off With These Styles. COST DISCOURAGING. Much Fine Hand Sewing and Dainty Embroidery Used. Lace Employed in Generous Pro portions This Season. TFrom the New York Sun.3 In such mundane matters as the com ing modes in dress, it may be wisest to prophesy after they have been finally settled and convincingly proclaimed on the house tops, but one feature which is distinctly manifest among the new materials already in sight is their sof: line texture, clinging qualities. and crepe linish. Htitf unyielding- fabrics are en tirely out of the line and while we may have tucks and garners without end la ter on, these supple materials will ad mit of them all without producing any clumsy effects. Even the cotton dimi ties, lawns and piques have a softer fin ish. iraceful outline is still the keynote of all things governed by the mode, and the figure is sure to have every advant age set off in the fashionable dress fa brics of the season. The most discour uging phase of dress at the moment is the important question of expense, for even if you purchase inexpensive ma terials they are made up with so much tine hand sewing-, machine stitching and dainty embroidery that the amount you saved in the first instance is lose again and again in the cost of making. I'nfortunateiy, it is only the high-priced dressmakers, who make great suc cesses of the present fashions in gowns, as inferior needle women cannot man age the intricate details of the .up-to-date gown. Certainly the fashions are original if the amount of expert labor represented in one gown is any measure cf originality. The new satin foulards are beautiful both in textuVeand coloring and so glos sy and soft that they look like panne. Some of them are double width, an ad vantage which is very apparent with the present style of tuck skirts, and whether you choose the delicate pastel colors or the brighter tones, they are a desirable purchase and a leading fabric for both dressy and plain summer gowns. Fabrics with the crepe finish are very popular now and will be very much worn through the coming season. There is some variety, too, in this sort of fin ish, one especial- kind being a' silk and wool mixture called Paris crepe. It comes fully 46 inches wide, costs $2.75 a yard, and has all the requisite qualities of dainty coloring and soft, glossy lin ish. Another silk and wool material which is very much liked is lansdowne and is perfectly smooth like satin-faced cloth, but soft and dainty in texture. It is not new, but as it costs only $1.23 a yard and has so many of the fashion able qualities, it fills a place between tiie cheap and the very expensive ma terials which every woman cannot af ford to have. If the variety in robe dresses already imported can insure a future for these specialties they will flourish as they never have flourished before, but they always seem to be an uncertain quan tity somehow, even though they are lovely to look upon. This, however, is probably due to the fact that they are so marked in style that it is only the woman with a long purse who can af ford to buy them. They are more var ied and beautiful then ever this season, as many different fabrics have ventured into this field. One of the latest novel ties is a robe of satin-faced cloth hand painted in a conventional design of tiowers and leaves in the ecru tints. Otie thread of heavy "white embroidery siik is couched around the edges of tiie de sign and bits of applique lace are added as a finish for the centre of the flowers. The effect on pale pirk and blue cloth is very attractive indeed. Somethins; new in the lace robes is a fine black chantilly lace applique with bands of black taffeta silk finished with a very fine silk cord on the edge. These ex tend in the long lines an inch wide to a little below the knee, coiling in a rouad loop for a finish and below this is a series of two-inch frills of plain black net edged .with a ruche of narrow black gauze ribbon. This costume is showi, in the illustration with another in white point d'esprit with scalloped bands of white taffeta and a flounce of lace be low. Something very similar in design comes in fine lace applique in the cotton point d'esprit net. Little plaitings of net finish it around the hem but the applique design covers the entire skirt. Robe dress ol nun's veiling with appli cations of lace for decoration are charming and then there are the new mousselines silk and cotton mixtures, with various shaped designs of em broidery besides a great variety of fine cotton batiste robes spotted all over with varied designs in embroidery. Striped materials and trimmings which give the effect of a stripe, are in great favor, stripes showing up again among the new ribbons which have lengthwise stripes of white with a hem-stitched finish on one or both sides. It is impossible to give and adequate description of the dainty novelties which are gradually unfolding their beauties in the ribbon department. Here the softest pastel colors are brought out and the fine thin quality suggests the most, effective., sashes and rosettes, for thin summer gowns. With such rib bons in sight it is safe to predict that sashes and how to wear them will be one of the problems in dress for the season about to begin. Soft long sashes which fa II gracefully at side or direct ly at the back are almost equally be coming to slender and to plump short figures as the long lines add quite a lit tle to the apparent height, and then if they are pVoperly and appropriately ap plied they have a picturesque effect which is always acceptable for summer gowns. Fringed ends, or rather ends finished with fringe, knotted into the sash itself, are a great improvement on any other finish, as the weight of the silk holds the sash down in place. The softest satin sash ribbons are figured With flowers, "and shadowy butterflies in the prettiest colors on pale gray and iv ory white satin and many of the deli cate shades as well. That lace In generous proportions will be a continued feature of dress goes without saying, as it still has some part in almost every costume that is made. All the tendencies show that it will pre vail to a greater extent than ever dur ing the summer. Everything which has a lace effect whether it is made of cloth, panne or silk cut out in guipure. Je- skgns, is to be more in demand all the time, and anything decorated with ap plications of lace will bo in order. Ap plique lace designs in panne form yoices and chemisettes in some of the hew models, and panels, deep flounce trim mings, or insertions in the skirt. Three wide insertions of lace encircles the skirts, one at the hem, one a little below the hips and one midway be tween. Another use of lace which is evident among the new gowns is for deep yokes, collars and various jacket effects. Lace gowns, beautified with rosettes of Liberty ribbon, black velvet ribbon or taffeta silk are more elaborate than ever before, while the gowns of accordion plaited tulle and net are dreams of diaphanous elegance trim med nearly half way up the skirt with applique designs of black Chantilly lace and white taffeta silk, either in bands or in conventional figures. Black velvet cut out in lace like patterns is sometimes applied to the taffeta with stunning effect, and the entire waist is made of tulle cover ed with the lace and taffeta bands. A charming novelty in trimming shown in the department of lace effects is called pompadour renaissance. It is a combination of lace and a raised de sign which gives it the appearance of embroidery, so it is both thick and thin and is a handsome trimming for th light cloth gowns. It comes in inser tions of two widths and a deep edging, both of which are entirely new. Tuck ing bids fair to be in greater demand for trimming than ever before if the advance models in simple muslins and point d'esprit net tell any story of things to come. Some of the gowns are tucked from the waits down to below the knee in half inch tucks running around and with only tiny spaces be tween. The bodice is tucked around to match and the sleeves, too, if you like. There are some new white gowns brought out as early inspirations of fashion Which completely overthrow all the oldtime ideas of sweet simplicity fn this particular kind of gown. Just one faint hint about the price is enough to banish all thought of any simple ef fect. They are complex masses of lace insertions, embroidery and tucks of finest lawn from the yoke to the deep flounce which finishes the skirt. This deep flounce seems to be a favorite mode of making the thin gowns and it is sometimes made of mull accordion plaited. It may be trimmed with rows of lace insertion above the hem or cut in scallop around the edge and finished with a ruching of narrow lace. Gathered narrow black ribbon and endless rows of black velvet ribbon trim some of the new organdies in plain colors. Black organdies trimmed with the gathered ribbon and black lace in sertion, one or both, with tucks in addi tion, and worn over pink, white, or pale green slips, will be one feature of dress during the coming summer. Black, and the extremes of pale dainty colors, are evidently favored by fashion, leaving the intermediary shades rather in the background. All the tendencies of the mode as yet revealed point toward the continued popularity and distinguished elegance of the dressy tailor-made gown of smooth-faced cloth. A tailor gown for distinctly traveling purposes and morn ing wear may be made of cheviot, and as severely plain as the most emanci pated woman could desire, but lor any other use the gown must have some dainty feminine touch in the way of embroidery on the revers and belt-lace vests and scarf ends. Triple revers. each of a different material, are one of the features of the Eton jackets; for example, one of stitched panne, one of satin embroidered around the edge or finished with applique lace, and another one of cloth. Eton jackets with revers and inside of collar faced with light cloth covered with rows of stitching are very pretty for the morning costume, made of dark zinc-gray camel's hair. Boleros of every form and mode in dec oration seem to have a conspicuous place among the new cloth models. One new model in pale tan cloth, made with a bolero, has a Medici collar and draped revers of velvet in a darker shade em broidered with white silk, and a new feature of this kind of embroidery for A DAINTY CLOTH COSTUME. i r x f r i 4 .ja Xk T S It iv V f I r 1 I S f 4 f Anl'- .All -f- f I? i J i' f r-f t V "-'A ,i

s 1. -5-" 4 1 is- Gown of parchment colored fine satin cloth. The skirt closes down the centre with email buttons and loops, a row of tucks on each side: these rucks are continued around the" bottom of the skirt and over them falls a shaped flounce of the cloth edged with, tucks. The blouse waist has a berthe of tucks. cloth gowns is the use of white porce lain buttons for the centers of the flowers. The really nw gowns which are in sight just at present are those which are made up for wear In the south, and here is a white crepe de chine shown in the illustration which is elaborately trimmed with fine guiptrre lace. The in sertions on the skirt extend around to either side of the plaited back. Another afternoon gown is made of beige voile, spotted with white, and finely tucked. Insertions of cream guipure with groups of tucks between form the bolero, and the Empire belt is of pale blue satin. A pretty model for the new mousselines organdies and nun s veilings shows a skirt tucked around in half-Inch tucks above a deep accordion-plaited flounce, scalloped on the edge and finished wttn a lace ruching, which also is the head ing. The bodice has a tucked yoke and sleeves, is plaited full below the yoke, and is trimmed with lace. Something novel in a simple white cloth gown is decorated with rows of stitching, form ing diamonds on the bodice, which has a vest of chiffon dotted over with lace applique designs. The novel feature of the next cloth is the cape effect around the yoke of lace and chiffon. It is ar ranged in folds as flat as possible, ex tends across the back in the same line as the front, and may be made of silk muslin lace or cloth like the gown. An effective model for a brown cloth gown shows a trimming of darker brown velvet covered with cream ap plique lace. As usual, tucks appear on the skirt and bolero. The vest is of tucked cream-white silk and the scarf of lace is confined with a. paste buckle. The use of silk pipings in scalloped lines is shown in- another .gown of pale blue cloth, with a yoke of tucked panne. The bodice edged around below with a band of embroidery, made of fine straw, and silk, on satin. A stylish waist model for a brown cloth gown trimmed with fur shows a vest of tucked lav ender blue, panne, with a broad belt across the front of lavender-flowered white brocade silk. Tucks adorn the jacket, and the skirt is tucked up and down in groups of three, with wide spaces between, all around, and finished at the hem With a band of fur. A scalloped trimming of black braid is the feature of another cloth model with black spotted velvet revers and bands of black velvet for a finish. A new fea ture in the finish cf the cloth costumes Is a very narrow binding of white taffeta silk stitched on. This appears around the edges of the Jackets, and down either side of the box plaits, folded underneath so that the edges meet on the outside. These double white lines at equal distances around the skirt are very effective in. a pale gray or tan skirt. Frills of Fashion. Incongruity in millinery has long ceas ed to cause surprise and nothing that the spring season 'develops may be expected to excite any special astonishment, no matter what the mixtures for certainly fur and tulle are as extreme as any two materials can be. Already there are toques made of chiffon, striped with fancy satin straw braids in different colors, and flowers are fast usurping the place of made-up feathers. A large toque of snow white tulle trimmed with, edelweiss blos soms and a large bow and band -of black panne at one side, is one Of the stunning novelties. Gardenias are one of the fav orite flowers of the moment with the al ways favored violet. The latest hats, which, however, are not really the spring models, have rather a high small round crown encircled with cords or tucks, and perhaps covered with a net work, hand made. Plaitings of tulle on whuch che nille is sewn like a cord are one of thfe popular hat trimmings. Belt buckles covered with suede in its natural color, and ornamented with steel Jet or turauoise are one of the nnvm' A freak of fancy or fashion as the case may be, is hand-painted nowers on gauze, silk, and suede, all of which are used for trimming gowns and hats as well. Nothing else in fashion is quite so ef fective for renovating an old bodice as the wide velvet corselet belt and a cravat, which may be of velvet or lace. Fasten the belt at one side with handsome but tons or with a knot and fringed ends as you fancy. Panne Is especially desirable for the draped belt. The short bolero of velvet or lace is another useful means of renovation where the bodice is worn un der the arms. Empire gowns are becoming to verv few women, but they are revived again as part of the scheme of soft, clinging ma terials. Long sleeves covering half the hand seem to have originated the fashion of wearing no gloves, at teas and the thea ters, providing, ot course, that vou are handsomely dressed. At least this is the latest Parisian idea of the fitness ot things, if you are well supplied with jew elled rings. The latest style of coiffure shows less crimping. The hair Is waved, of course-, but not in such decided rolls as formerlv, and is arranged very high on the head, n he pompadour still remains, but tha front parting is very much In evidence and the hair is not puffed out quite so much at the side, English women are trying to copy Mrs. James Brown Pot ter s style of coiffure, but It is too pro nounced to suit the contour of every face. The hair has a loose wave all around, is parted slightly at one side and carried in a deep wave across the forehead, falling much lower on one side than the other. Pretty combination of silk braid and narrow laces are seen among the new trimmings. The new pulley belt made of ribbon in all colors stiffened with feather bone. Is one of the season's novelties. They shape into girdle form at the back, and narrow ends, carried through a ring at either side, tie in a small bow in front. Lace effects in hosiery will be very pop ular for summer wear. Chiffon- toques combined with a fancy straw braid sewn on like ribbon with spaces 'between the rows are displayed in all colors. Valenciennes lace Is to be very popular this season for trimming the thin sum mer gowns. No D anger Of contracting Sickness, if you use Pure Water That's the kind fur nished by the TdpekaWaterLo- Telephone 122. 625 Quincy Street.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1900. 14 THE BRITISH DOCTORS CURE CATARRH. -:r,

TESTIMONY. Topeka, Kas., January 4, 190. This is to certify that I have received treatment by Dr. S. Edward MeCully," of the British Medical Institute, for a f'Vere case of chronic catarrh, and I am entirely satisfied and gratified with the rcMUlt of such treatment. JIIUDIK IRKNE MYERS, No. 200 Stevens St., Auburndale. Men are measured by their work. We pure Catarrh, and are ready with the Iirouf. We also removed from this youngr lady's throat a very large ade ricid tumor. "We healed a deep-seated catarrhal ulcer in the nose, and re stored her to her friends and society .strung, vigorous, and heaithy IX JUST TWO MONTHS. "WE CURE CATARRH of head, of lungs, of Ftoinaeh, of bowels, of kidneys, and all f. male catarrhal discharges. WE Ct'RK SKIX DISKASES from anv cause, inherited or acquired. VK CURE BLOATING OF STOM 1A CHS and bowel 4. WIZ CL P.E FALPATATIOX of the iieart, heart debility, functional de rangement. WB Cl'RE EVERT FEMALE AVEAKNESS, pains, and displace n nts. AVE CURE RHEUMATISM, Sciatica, Lumbago, in any statre. WE cTliE SKIN "DISEASES Ecze m.'i. Lepra, psoriasis. WE Cl'RE ASTHMA. Hay Fever, 2'roncnit is. Chronic Coughs. WE CURE CANCER by plaster no Muff or cuttme'. WE CURE PILES no cutting; all l-ectal diseases. WE CURE CHRONIC CONSTIPA 5'iO.N, bloating of stomach and bowels. AVE ('CUE RUPTURE, any size, any Etaure no cutting! "When your doctor fails come to the I'ritish Medical Institute. Our field is their failures. Avoid fake medicine companies. We are regularly quali lied medical men. Avoid surgical butchers who love glory and the al mightly dollar better than human life. We treat to cure! Oflice 412 Topeka. avenue. Office hours, 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Closed Sun day. S. EDWARD McCULLY, Surgeon in Charge. Special: No letter answered without stamp for reply. EXHIBIT1!" Queer Things Which Find Their Way Into Courts. George Sharitt Has Plunder Unlimited in His Charge. JUXK SHOP MATERIAL. Murderers' Instruments and Fruits of Patent Right Suits. Bottle of Brandy the Latest to Be "Filed." PENINSULAR. T.J. Coughlin Hdw.Co. AGENTS FOR TOPEKA. Telephone 606. 702 Kansas Ave. All sorts of peculiar things find their way into the United States courts as "Exhibit A," or some other alphabetical designation, and George F. Sharitt, clerk of the circuit court, is thinking of starting a junk shop with the' accumu lations of the years that he has been connected with the office. He has samples of different kinds of soap, sections of barb wire and other kinds of fences, cash carriers such as are used in department stores, water pipes, fruit evaporators, telephone in struments, and various other contriv ances over which tnere have been patent right suits. There are instruments with which murders have been committed: meat saw which was used in a murder at Leavenworth years ago, and the ball bat with which Joseph Leach killed Sergeant Fennell at Fort Riley iri 1897. Then there is the little old leather trunk which was the property of John Hillmon at the time he is alleged to have been killed, and which has been shipped around to the various trials of the Hillmon case during the past "20 years, but which the attorneys on both sides of the famous case have carefully avoided opening during all that time for fear they might find out something they did not wish to know. But a new style of "Exhibit A" has just been filed with Mr. Sharitt. It is a long dark bottle filled with an amber colored liquid, and bears the label of an old French liquor. It is to be used as evidence in a suit for infringement of a trademark brought by a French cog nac and brandy manufacturing firm against some Atchison druggists. This firm has been making cognac ana brandy tor a generation or two, and their trade mark is known the world over. They discovered that soms one was putting out spurious goods un der their labels ana trade mark, ana they have printed forms of complaints for filing actions in the federal courts. They claim to have discovered that Kaffer Kessler, an Atchison drug firm, was selling the spurious article. whether knowingly or not is not stated, and they sent a detective to Atchison to buy some of it. The detective was Sam B. Strothers, and his deposition in' the case is filed, in which he says he pur chased the bottle of spurious cognac of Kaffer Kessler in March, lStiS, and that he knows it is spurious because it lias not the private mark of the firm, although to must people a bottle of the real and spurious would probably ap pear the same. This is the bottle which Is filed as "Exhibit A" in the case. It is duly marked by the notary before whom it was identified in the deposition. When it is desired to open sealed de positions in any case, some one" con nected with the case moves that the depositions be "published." This is simply another term for opened. Mr. Sharitt says he expects that the first time the lawyers get together some of them will move that "Exhibit A" be immediately "published," and the mo tion will meet with little resistances The t rench firm is asking for an in junction to stop the sale of the spurious article under their trade mark, and for judgments for all the profits which have accrued from the sale of the spur ious goods. PAID FOli WOLF SCALPS Oscar Fell Is Now Having Trouble to Get His Money Back. fro recover $5,000 expended for boun ties on' wolf scalps is the purpose of a novel proceeding which has been argued and submitted to the supreme court. The case has been submitted and a de cision is expected at the next session of the court. When Wallace county was enjoying that great wave of prosperity desig nated as a boom in the early days Oscar Felix was a merchant at Sharon Springs Wolves, coyotes, rabbits and gophers were the plague of the settlers' lives and the county commissioners, upon pe tition, adopted a resolution binding the county to pay $1 for wolf and coyote scalps and five cents each for rabbit and gopher scalps. Later a. special election was held in the county to make a levy for a fund to pay these bounties. Then the county arranged with the merchants to take the warrants at a small discount. There by the warrants passed current before the money raised by the levy had been paid into the county treasury. Thus far the proceedings had not been interrupted but the Union Pacific railroad which runs through the county refused to pay the special tax, claiming that the election held for the levy was irregular. The railroad company was persistent in its refusal and a suit in the district court sustained the judg ment of the railroad lawyers. The dis trict court held that law for the spe cial bounty void. Felix had taken in exchangefor good in his store at Sharon Springs $3,000 of the county warrants in payment or these bounties. Following this the leg islature in 18H". passed a law that the innocent purchasers of these bounty warrants should be reimbursed. Then Mr. Felix started in to collect the sum due him from the county. Resistance to payment came from the commissioners and the suit which fol lowed resulted in a decision by -the dis trict court that the relief law was in valid. From the decision of the district court Felix now appeals. The decision of the supreme court is anticipated with much interest as there are many 1 Everybody I T- mm i u&es a i Good Bargain The best bargain in railroad travel at present is a person- J -H ally conducted excursion to California by the Santa Fe Route. -c Excellent accommodations and reliable personal escort -fc without extra charge. -K Three times a week from Chicago and Kansas City. Ask for full details. 3 T. L. KINO, Agent, TUa A. T. s. F. Railway, TOPEKA, KAS.

SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG, mf 5 CENT CIGAR, BUY THE CEKUIKE SV1HP IW o l lit? i Ua MAITUT ACTTTRED BY CALIFORNIA FIQ SYRUP CO. rr- XOTE Tl! E NAM E. H. C. BOWMAN, Fire and Tornado Insurance, Room 58, Columbian Building, TOPEKA, KANSAS. THE CANTEEN SHOULD GO. Indiana Prohibition Leaders Want Temperanck in the Army. Indianapolis, Tnd., March 14 A move ment has been started here to attempt to persuade President McKinley that he has taken the wrnns side of the canteen question, M. H. Mahurin is behind the movement and he has been assured of the hearty support of state committee treasurer, F. T. McWhirter and other prohibition leaders. Mr. Mahurin proposes that a speci.il day be designated for fasting: and prayer when the people may show by pious devotion their wish that the pres ident and congress shall abolish the canteen system. The Blot on His Pa3t. From the Chicago Times-Herald. 7 "Is there anything in your past," the beautiful gdrl asked, "that you have kept from me? Oh, Arthur, think be fore it is too late. Surely you cannot wish to make us both unhappy, as we should be, if I were to learn after we are married that you had not told me kept back. Arthur!" she exclaimed, all that there was something- you had drawing away from him, "there is there is something you have kept from me! You are pale and you dare not look me in the eyes!" The young man stood looking at the floor and nervously clasping; and un clasping his hands. At last he hoarsely replied: "Yes, Adelaide, It is true. I have'nt told you all. Ah, forgive me! It was not my fault! Before heaven I swear it' I had hoped that you might never need to know. Do not ask me to ex plain. It is too terrible. You will learn to love some other. I can go somewhere and drag out my days in shame and sorrow." Then, woman-like, she put her arms around his' neck, looked up into his strong, manly face, and gaid in low, sweet tones: "Arthur, let me helx to bear your burden. Have I not promised to share all your joys and sorrows? Do not keep this from me. Do not leave me in doubt. Perhaps I cart forgive you, and thus save both our lives from be insr wrecked." With an effort he pulled himself to gether, and replied: "Ml' mother used to dress me as 'Little Lord Fauntleroy and once she had my picture taken in that costume!" CASTORS A For Infanta and Children. Ths Kind Ycu Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of match-making is arranged by the hu man keeper, who puts each" pair of birds in a separate corral. Mr. Ostrich is likely to consider the question of marriage for some days after he is in troduced to his partner, and much thought on the question colors his shim and beak a bright red. When he finally determines that a family should be reared, he digs a nest in the ground. He then drives his mate up to the nest and calls her attention to it by giving her a kick. If she is duil of comprehension, and she usually is, he continues to kick her and scold her, and his voice much resembles the roar of the lion. He is of ten compelled to go to the extreme of kicking her over the eight-foot fence forming the corral. She finally, however, sees her duty and begins to lay eggs which average three pounds in weight. The first two or three eggs are not fertile and will not hatch. This fact, curiously enough, is known to the mother and she lays them outside the nest. But in this there is a wonderful provision of nature. On the African desert the nesting of the wild birds is done in the hills or moun tains, far from water and the haunts of beasts or men. But while the nest may be many miles from water, the first requirement of the chick when he comes from the shell is water or its equivalent in liquid food. Hence the ne cessity of the two or three sterile eggs, which the mother breaks after her brood is born, and on which the chicks live until they are strong enough to to her own judgment the hen lays perhaps ten eggs, at the rate of one in two days, and when the nest looks" comfortably full the incubatiot, begins. But the artifice of man deceive;? her. The keeper systematically takea the eggs from the nest, and as long as her work seems to be unfinished th? hen continues to produce eggs. By tteis system two hens on the Phoenix farm last year produced 50 eggs each. She cannot be deceived, however, as to the sterile eggs. If they are put in the nest, she will continue to pull them out, and will finally quit laying and abandon the nest. About 15 eggs constitute a "setting," and the period of incubation is 42 days. The male bird does the greater share of this labor. He takes charge of the nest at 5 o'clock in the evening and re- CLEVELAND IN FLORIDA FOR HIS HEALTH. y,m" 1 f- ft 1 Nv1 :'"XS. 'Although the ex-President has assured his friends that 'his health con-, tlnues good he has listened to their solicitations so far as to go to Florida, where he is at present. The milder climate, it is thought, will benefit Mr. Cleveland greatly, and it hoped that he will soon be able to deliver his course of lectures at Princeton University. purchasers of these warrants waiting for it. the value of warrants which they hold being determined thereby. PAWN BROKERS REPORT. Details to Be Filed With, the Police Daily. Commencing today the pawnbrokers will be required to report to the chief of police every day the loans and pur chases made during the preceding 24 hours. The reports will be made on blanks furnished by the police department. A description of the article pawned, the name and residence of person pledging or selling, the age, complexion, na tivity, height, color and style of beard and style of dress will be given. This will be done, as it is in many of ttte larger cities, in order that the police rnav know what is being pawned and disonsed of on forced sales. Much stolen property is found in pawn shops. AN ARIZONA OSTRICH FARM From the Arizona Graphic The Phoenix herd of ostriches inhab its an alfalfa pasture of 40 acres, three miles north of the city. The herd is second in size in America, numbering 175 birds, the largest herd being at Fui lerton, Cat, and numbering 300 birds. The first birds brought from South Africa to America for breeding pur poses came to California in 1SS2. Tn 18S8 fourteen chicks from this herd were brought to Phoenix for exhibition, and were bought by Josiah Harbert, who proposed to breed them. The purchase, was made during the summer, and Mr. Harbert put the young birds in coops, carefully covered the coops with cloths, to keep out the sun and prove out to his home at Alhambra. All the birds but two were smothered to death during the trip. It being impossible to distin guish between the sexes in young os triches, and fearing he had no mala bird, Mr. Harbert purchased one of the male birds brought from Africa. The 175 birds constituting the present herd are his- descendants. He has been hon orably retired, and with the dignity be fitting his patriarchal position he knocks the stuffing out of everything that comes within his reach. It was not long ago that he engaged Mr.- Pickrell, president of the Arizona Ostrich com pany, in an impromptu "scrip," and while Mr. Pickrell is a husky old bird himself and was armed with a wooden pitchfork, old "Oom Paul" hit him on? welt and knocked him out for several days. The ostrich is a monogamist. At least, he has but one wife at a time. Tha mains with it until 9 o'clock in the morning, when the female takes charge At noon he relieves her for an hour. while she lunches, and she then keeps house until 5 o clock. One of the most interesting charac teristics of the ostricii is the manner in which he takes what may be called his "constitutional." Every morning at sunrise the herd of young males en gages in a foot race, which concludes in a combination cake walk and reel. In single file they will race around the pasture at a 2 minute gait, until thor oughly limbered up, and then suddenly iorimng in a group go tnrough gyra tions that suggest the waltz, the Vir ginia reel, the cake walk and the "hap py jag." It is a grotesque performance but there is a singular grace in th birds' play, and when they are in full plumage, with their great wings spread the sight is beautiful. RI SIE TO PLAY. May Be Called to New York to Join the Giants. Indianapolis, Ind., March 14. Amos Rusie. whose controversy with Presi dent Freedman over salary kept him off the diamond last year, Is expecting to be called to New York this week to be gin practice for the season of 1900, and will not be surprised to receive a letter from Manager Ewing at any moment. Indeed, -he has made all his prepara tions to go east and, though he refuses to say on what terms he is to pitch this year, it is understood here that a com promise has been effected, and while he does not get all he wanted he will get more than Freedman first offered There is a report current that Rusie's case was taken in hand by John T, Brush at a recent meeting of the base ball magnates and that he was very emphatic in the sentiment that as good a player as Kusie ought not to be lost to the game. He admitted Freedman's right to fix the salary of his players. but questioned whether it was good policy to make conditions that would cause Rusie's talent to be lost to all the members of the league. 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IIAECH EAEES. Q The March hare led a troubled life. The lamb, she bored him sadly; And when the lion came and roared It always scared him badly. So that at last, between the pair, The hare became a mad March hare. National Magazine. "TT If 7 1 -r- .1 ilir"" iwPrEV i-ir-,r imrt, Tf T','ur" "You'd be a pritty ole bird ef dey reckoned a voman's age de same way at dey does a oak tree!" "An how is dat, Mr. Van Dyke?" "By de number of de rings." Types. LUNCHTmE IN THE WOODS. f A 'r' ,v ,01 V 1 '"si "Come, children, your Indian meal is getting cold." Scribner'a. JUNGLE DISSIPATION. Jim? M v3 4i Rhinoceros (severely): "Say, Stripes, I'm ashamed of you. Tou never know when you have enough." Stripes (the tiger): "Ah, sure, you're right. I never know! When I gets enough, I'm insensible." Types. EutIoqi Outsider. "She's a Daughter of the Amer ican Revolution." "She looks as if she might have been a sister of it." Chicago Tribune. How He Expressed It. "Doesn't golf interfere with work?" asked the young man. "Certainly not." answered the en thusiast. "Work interferes with golf." Washington Star. Also Gifted. "I suppose Sir Henry Irving's legs are the most talented known to modern times." "Oh, I don't know; there are Aguinaldo's." Chicago Record. HOW HE FOOLED THEM. "Ha, ha!" grinned Adolphus. "Come on, everybody., and see this fool sawing off the branch he's sit ting on!" And everybody hurried up for miles round to enjoy the joke. "Wait till he's sawed it off," grin ned Adolphus; "there'll be fun then." And so there was. But the chap who was sawing was the only one who enjoyed the joke. You'll notice he was well tied on. His rtility- Gone. "Shadbolt, I don't like to be a tale bearer, but I heard Dingus say the other day he had no use for you." "Well, that's true. I've quit lend ing him money." Chicago Tribune. Well Supplied. Visitor (looking at portraits) What a lot of ancestors you've got! Porkenchopps That's dead right! I didn't want so many, but Sarah she insisted. Brooklyn Life. A Clean Sweep. "What office is he running for? "Well, ef I've got it right, I think that he's a-runnin For ever'thing in sight!" Atlanta Constitution. THOSE WAITERS! 1 X 1 Jt I isfi'''. SUv Mi! t tA lf'11''-"'". 1 mj i.i 'i 'I' Waiter (who has succeeded in forgetting the order): "Are you a mutton chop or a boiled cod, sir?" A TIMELY WARNING, w5- 'Si p-i i i J try s w ,jiimx:-h: C sKiarr jth j-w i Fortune Teller: "Beware of a dark man. Miss Feathers!" New York Evening Journal. WICKED TOPST E00SEVELT. 1. A "Uncle Tom" McKlnley: "I can't do nuthin wid dat chile!" New York Evening Journal. HAED TO BELIEVE. The Crow: "Whew! No wonder they say we mustn't believe all we heir." Scribner'a.

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1900. 1XIGAN GOLD. Yellow Metal Held in Trust by This Government The Treatment of Diseases of the Hair and Scalp No Longer a Matter of Guesswork. Since 18 7 6, to the Amount of $900,000, to Be Paid Over. A SERIES OF SUITS. The Parasitic Origin of Dandruff, Itching Scalp and Falling Hair Proven and a Positive Cure for These Distressing Ailments Discovered. A Disputed Claim Over Talue of Destroyed Cotton. if TP!!?3 iiririiTi(ffiitJ'---,'''--fiiiiii f i Did you know that there are many men who smoke the GEO. W. CHILDS and yet never say anything about it? They want people to think that they are smoking a 10c cigar, tut for themselves they are willing to save half the price when they know they are getting just as good quality. Smokers who claim that they have tried almost every brand on the market say that there is no doubt about it that the CHILDS cigar is vastly superior of all the other 5c cigars, and quite the equal of most of the popular 10c cigars. The fact that many of the brands of JOc cigars are not selling as freely as they used to can perhaps be accounted for from the great sale that the CHILDS is having. WM. A. STICKNEY CIGAR CO., Distributors, ST. LOUIS AND KANSAS CITY. TtEil yy WITHOUT PAIN. NO EXPERIMENTING NO STUDENTS. Every Den tist in this office is a graduate of over ten years' ex perience, and a specialist in his department. We gua rantee the best. Why pay more SPECIAL PRICES UNTIL APRIL 15tH ONLY. Set of Teeth S5-00 Best Set (S. S. White; g.OO Bridge Teeth 3 50 Porcelain Crowns. 4. Of) 22-K Gold Crowns 5-CO Ail the latest appliances used. The treatment of sensitive teeth made painioss in many cases, and in ill! cases-as near as can be. Special care witu nervous people. C. B. LYON, D.D. 3. DENTAL PARLORS, 511 KANSAS AVE., Rooms 1, 2 and 3, Over W. A. L. Thompson Hardware Co. Gold Fillings Si UP Silver Fillings, 50c to 1 Extracting 25c With Odontunder Efr or Vitalized Air ,.wUw ACTED I THE LUCK OF ROBERTS. HAERY K. OAVTTT, MiNAGIR. TEXJEFHOrsTE No. OS. 7. W. GAV1TT PPilfiTiriG PUBLISHING CO., Printing Depa-tment of W. W. Gavitt Medical Co. One of the Largest Exclusive Job Printing Offices in the City. OUR FACILITIES enable us to turn out work in manv cases the same day received Five Presses, all thu Latest Styles of Type, and experienced Unien Labor, speak for them selves. When you are in need of anything in our line, send us samples by mail, or call us up by telephone, and our man will call on you and quote prices that's his business. We can save you money on your printing. GIVE US A TRIAL ORDER. v 1 on f 601-603 E. Fourth St., Telephone 99. 400-402-404 Adams st. Topeka, (Cans. Outraged 6fficial Dignity. From the X. O. Times-Democrat. J "It takes some time to learn the social ropes in Central America," remarked a gentleman in the banana trade, "and a stranger is very apt to put his foot In it. The "first time I ever went into the country myself was as the representa tive of an American machinery house. There was a good field for us in one of the republics, but the tariff was pro hibitive, and I concluded to go over to the capital and have an interview with the minister of agriculture, hoping to persuadehim to recommand a.reduction. I spoke pretty fair Ollendorf Spanish; but was otherwise preen as a gourd, and as soon as I arrived made a bee Hue for the administration building. "While 1 was cooling- my heels in an ante-room, waiting for a chance to epeak to somebody in authority and ascertain how the minister could be F"en, a very black, fat little negro wad dled in, wearing what I took to be a species of livery. He had exactly the air of an impudent, overfed housa servant, and he looked me, over in' a way that made my blood boil. 'Hi. boy'' 1 said sharply, 'how long must I wait here?' 'How should I know?' he -replied in Spanish: 'if it doesn't suit you get out.' He chuckled as he spoke and his answer so infuriated me that I lost my head. "Jumping up. I seized him by the col lar and the slack of his absurd em broidered trousers and propelled him. turkey fashion, through the open door. 'There, you black scoundrel!' I exclaim ed. 'Go and send somebody after my card!' The little fat darky' was. so amazed he couldn't utter a word. He simply gasped and disappeared. Half a minute later a squad of soldiers rush ed in and placed me under arrest, and then i learned that my friend in I'm embroidered pantaloons was the minis ter of public instruction. "I will leave you to imagine my feel luj;.s, il tut.lt three hours of solid talk. from both the American and British consuls to get me out of the scrape, and, incidentally. I made a groveling apology. Of course, I didn't dare to introduce the machinery proposition af ter such a debut, so my trip was a flat failure. As I said before, it takes some time for a stranger to grasp the eti quette of those parts." Tempering Copper Not a. Lost Art. TFrom the American Manufacturer. The allegation that ancient Egyptians tempered copper and bronze to carry a razor edge is not borne out by investi gation. Thomas Harper, of Bellevue, Pa.., challenges any one to produce a piece of metal tempered by the ancients that cannot be more than duplicated by any. metal worker today. He says that in examining hundreds of specimens al leged to have been tempered to the de gree that steel is tempered, he failed to find any, nor had he discovered any one who had seen such work, and the fable which has been implicitly believed for centuries is being shattered in the light of modern research. This is not the only story believed for centuries tend ing to belittle the man of today, to make him the inferior of his forefathers, which failed under the searchlight of inquiry and science. The ancients wera children in mechanical knowledge as compared to the people of today, and if there was a demand for any particular building or piece of work such as was produced by the ancients, it could be duplicated and improved on by the skilled artisans of the nineteenth cen tury. The American Manufacturer. o jak. m 3? o IE. 2: Sear dm Yga Bav8 '3VS BDIlgM From the London Mail. Lord Roberts is a living example of the hazardous nature of the soldier's calling; the number of narrow escapes which he has experienced leading one almost to suppose that he bears a charmed life. turing the fighting before the walls of Delhi a bullet struck him on tne back, passing through a leather pouch for caps which he usually wore in front near his pistol holster. The mere acci dent of this pouch Jaaving slipped around to his back prevented the ball from penetrating as deeply as it other wise would have done. As it was, the wound was a rather severe one. In the action at Bulandshar he saw a Sepoy taking aim at him. and was un able to get at the man because of the crush of soldiers around him. Just, however, as the mutineer fired, Roberts' horse reared and received the bullet in his head. A month later, during the advance on Lucknow, Roberts and another young oilicer rode forward to mark out tlv; camp, and were cut off from the main body by a large number of the enemy. Riding as hard as they could, under "a hot fire, they were attempting to escape around the enemy's flank when Rob erts' horse fell with him into a deep nullah. The enemy gained the edge of the nullah, and opened fire at close range, the situation being rendered all the more perilous from the fact that Roberts had accidentally cut his hand with his drawn sword, and he had some difficulty in remounting. At length he scrambled out, and, ducking to avoid the shots, regained the main body. During the attack on Lucknow, and in accordance with SiSr Colin Camp bell's orders. Roberts planted a flag on one of the turrets of the Motl Mahal. A shower of shot was aimed at it, and it was knocked down into the ditch. At great personal risk Roberts again placed the standard in position, only to see it struck again a short time later, the staff being actually cut in two. A third time the gallant young officer raised the flag, after which it suffered no further harm. On another occasion, when accom panying a body of cavalry in pursuit of the enemy, Roberts saw two Sepoys making off with a standard. Riding af ter the rebels he cut down one, and wrenched the staff from his grasp; but while so doing he was unable to deal with the other man, who. presenting the muzzle of his musket close to Roberts' body, pulled the trigger. Fortunately the piece missed fire. The Burlington Route the Best Line West:' Kansas City and St. Joseph to Nebraska, Denver, Utah-, Pacific Coast Two Trains Daily. Weekly California Excursions. Northwest: to Black Hills, Montana, Washington, Puget Sound, via the short Billings Route, the time saver 50 to 500 miles saved. Tourist Sleepers Tuesdays' and Thursdays, Kansas City and St. Joseph to Seattle. East: unquestionably the best trains via Chicago or St. Louis. North: to St. Paul, Minneapolis and the Northwest region. Homeseekers' Excursions to the West and Northwest. 7500 Miles of Standard Railroad. The Main Traveled -Road in the Louisiana Purchase. Wide-Vestibuled, Fintsch-lighted.com-plete trains of chair cars (seats free), Pullman sleepers. All Ticket Agents can ticket via the Great Burlington Route. Write L. W. WAKELET, Gen'l Passenger Agt.. St. Louis, Mo. J. C. BRAMHALL, T. P. A., 823 Main St.," Kansas City, Mo. HOWARD ELLIOTT, General Manager, St. Joseph, Mo. Decision- "Will Control Cases From New Possessions. "Washington, D. C, March 14. Nearly $1,000,000 in gold belonging to Mexico will be turned over to that government within a few days. N This money is now in the vaults of the treasury department, where it has been held in trust by our government since August, 1876. There is a story connected with this money wlych. has never been printed. An act of the United States supreme court made on Monday, February 26, opens the his tory. The act, so termed because it was prefunctory in its nature, was so quietly done that it created no in quiry. This act was a simple refusal of the court to grant a rehearing of the case which the court had affirmed when it came before it some time ago from the court of claims of the dis trict. The attorney of the Mexican govern ment. General James E. Slaughter, an ex-confederate, a lieutenant in the United States army at the beginning of the civil war, now in his seventy first year, and aiso connected with the engineering department of the gov ernment, is a most interesting person ality. From him were obtained the folloing facts in the case; In accordance with the treaty of 186S, the United States and Mexico appoint ed what was known as a mixed com mission to regulate accounts between the two republics. WEIL AND LA ABRA CLAIMS. Among the claims against Mexico were those of La Abra Mining com pany and Benjamin Weil. They set forth that Mexicans had taken from them l,ai4 bales of cotton, worth then 40 cents a pound. The Mexican gov ernment solicited General Slaughter, who at the time was a confederate com mander on the Rio Grande, to look af ter these claims. Each of the claimants had received awards from the mixed commissions aggregating $500,000 and $400,000 respectively. General Slaughter in his appeal from these awards estab lished by documentary and other evi dence the fact that the claims were false. The money, growing out of the mixed commission's duties, was already held in trust by our government. After General Slaughter's representation to congress it refused to permit payment of the money to the claimants. The case again came before a later con gress in fact, before a number of con gresses, year after year, and finally the last congress before which it came passed an act submitting the cases to the court of claims. This was in lsyi-'dJ. After years of litigation in this court it finally decided that the claims were fraudulent and that the money should be paid back into the Mexican treasury. An appeal to the supreme court of the United States resulted in an affirmation of the finding of the court or claims. SETTLED IN SUPREME COURT. The next step was a motion for a re hearing of the case before the supreme court, and an order denying the mo tion was made last Monday by the su preme court, and within the next ten days the money, which has been boxed in the treasury vaults all these years, is to be shipped back to the Mexican government. General Slaughter had a conference with the Mexican minister on Wednesday, February 28, to make arrangements for its return. The decision of the court of claims in this case was far-reaching and ira portant, inasmuch as it asserted the rights of a court to review a decision by an international tribunal. By it all treaties for the adjudication of claims pro and con citizens of the Uni ted States by foreign countries are safeguarded. The importance of the decision will doubtless be seen before long in the claims arising in Cuba, Porto Rico and thp Philippines, growing out of the late war with Spain. By this decision another important fact is established, not generally known namely: that the president of the United States may sign bills during the vacation of congress. Since the appointment of the mixed commission by the two governments claims to the amount of $470,000,000 have been filed against the Mexican government. The latter government has paid in installments $300,000 a year on account of awards. But in the cases of La Abra and Weil the money has been retained in the United States treasury as a special deposit, all in American gold, and when it is returned it will be without interest. CASES BITTERLY CONTESTED. In these two cases there are on file 20,000 pages of printed testimony, and although every committee that has passed upon them has reported ad versely on the claims, the claimants have had sufficient strength to have ac tion postponed from their first appear ance until they finally reached the sen ate, when it was quickly discovered that there were but five votes in favor of them, while in the house they were so overwhelmingly squelched that the yeas and nays were not demanded. The history of these claims is doubly interesting by reason of the history which attaches to Gen. Slaughter. He is a nephew of Mrs. Dolly Madison. He came to Washington to visit his aunt when Polk was president. Slaughter was then 19 years old. Through his aunt's influence he was appointed by Polk a lieutenant in the regular army. His was one of the four appointments to the regular army from civil life, a thing which, at that time, was so un usual that it excited comment and crit icism. When the civil war broke out Slaugh ter had charge of government property at Eagle Pass, Texas. The state auth orities of Texas demanded that Slaugh ter surrender to the confederacy all the government property at Eagle Pass, in cluding guns and ammunition. Slaugh ter refused. His reply to the state was: "If you want them, you have got. to fight for them as long as I hold a com mission from -the government." While the state was preparing to cap ture the property Slaughter chartered a transport, the Belle of the West. load ed the property, and shipped it to the government. It arrived in safety in spite of efforts made by the confeder ates to capture it. After the days of reconstruction Gen. Slaughter returned to this country.and, although he is well advanced in years, is now employed by the government in the engineering service, with headquar ters in New Orleans.' When Hans Zansz, the Dutch spectacle-maker of Middleburv, Holland, made his first compound microscope, he "builded better than he knew.' He little realized that his crude and imperfect apparatus would be developed into the most important instrument lor scientific would" become Ore means of discovering and proving the germ theory of disease. Two hundred years elapsed before any improvement was made upon the inven tion of Zansz, and it is only within the latter half of the present century that such important additions Were made as to enable Pasteur, Koch and other bacter iologists fo make discoveries and develop ments which have revolutionized the practice of medicine and surgery. The illustration shown on this page is a picture of one of the many compound microscopes used in the Cranttonic Insti tute, where microscopical examinations of hundreds of samples of human hair are made daily. On the field of the micro scope (A) is seen a hair which is magni fied 400 times. The -wonderful enlarge ment can be partially realized when you compare that portion of the hair in the FIgt. Z Shrivelled hair roots 1b catarrhal inflam mation of follicle. field with that part which lies outside (B) and which is intended to represent the hair in its natural size. So greatly is the hair enlarged that, if diseased, the fungoid growths may be plainly seen, dinging, like so many bunches of tangled yarn, along its shaft. These fungi are not visible to the naked eye, but they stand out boldly under the microscope, as shown in Fig. 1. In Fig. 2 are seen some diseased hair roots, which might easily be taken for a bundle of walking sticks. They are, however, atrophied, or shrivelled up hair roots, a condition often found in catarrhal inflam mation of the hair follicie. Another very common hair trouble is shown in Fig. 3. It is where the hair is dry, fragile and brittle and splits at the ends or along the A, v yiK-' t Fg. 1. rtmgtild growths found on diseased hair. and medical research that the world is possessed of to-day; much less that it over to a photo-engraver,' who "produced uie pnoio-engravmgs lor state Journal as you see them here. All work done In the Cranitonic lnsti- Tlg. 4. Fine, mealy-tike dost m dry AandrrriC tute is on scientific lines. The treatment of diseases of the scalp and hair is not a matter of guesswork. Skilful physicians, modern methods and the use of "the most approved appliances have reduced it to an exact science. Here was first dis covered, isolated and photographed the microbe, Pilatus Capillaris (Fig. 6), the parasitic origin of catarrhal inflammation of the hair follicle, a very' common dis ease in this country and one which causes nine-tenth of all cases of prema ture baldness. The microbe was discov ered in some hair sent to the Institute by a patient living in Murdock, Nebraska. If you, reader, have any disease of the hair and scalp if you are afflkted with dandruff, itchy scalp, or falling hair you Tlx. 5. Hardened crusts and scales in greasy dundrudf. Fig. 3. Hair wplit at the ends and along the shaft, a condition following Folliculitis. shaft. It is more often found in the hair of women than of men. Figs. 4 and 5 represent the hair'in cases of dandruff, (4) the dry and (5) the greasy variety. Both these diseases are of parasitic origin and both are contagious. These facts were first discovered and proven by experi ments made in the Cranitonic Scalp and Hair Institute, New York City. The circular pictures on this page of State Journal-micro-photographs they are called used in illustrating various diseases of the hair, were made from specimens selected from the thousands of cases which have been treated by the Ehysicians of the Cranitonic Hair and calp Institute. These specimens were placed under a microscope, a photo graphic apparatus attached and negatives secured on glass. These were turned are suffering from a disease which the use of Cranitonic Hair Food alone will, cure, but which, if neglected, will as sure ly result in premature baldness as night follows day. Consultation and micro scopical examination will cost you noth ing. Mail a small sample of your hair to the Cranitonic Scalp and Hair Institute, 526 West Broadway, New York, stating in your letter if you have dandruff, itch ing scalp and falling hair, when a micro scopical examination of the hair will be made by one of our physicians and a re- Fiir. puatos CaplUarls, Uie mlcxoba of XoITA callus. port of its condition sent you, without any charge being made for the pe fessional services rendered. USM PBS 2 2 As a compliment to the patrons of The State Journal, and to convince every reader of The State Journal of the absolute purity of the CRANITONIC SCALP AND HAIR FOOD, of its freedom from greasesediment, dye matter or dangerous drugs and to prove that it is a pure, clear, delightfully refreshing, and a most excellent toilet requisite, and also to prove that it will stop falling hair, allay scalp irritation, cure dandruff, and. make hair grow, an exquisite sample bottle will be sent by mail, postage paid, to every reader of The State Journal who will send their full address. CRANITONIC HAIR FOOD CO., 526 West Broadway, New York. STATE OFFICERS TO ATTEND "Will "Witness Renomination of Con gressman CalderheacL George Clark, secretary of state, and one of the political managers for the Republican party in the Fifth district, is arranging for the attendance of a number of the state officers at the Fifth district congressional convention to be held at Manhattan Thursday. A number of the officers have ac cepted the invitation tendered by Mr. Clark to witness the convention and visit Manhattan. A trip to the state agricultural college will be one of the methods of entertainment furnished the visitors. Congressman Calderhead will be re nominated by this convention by acclamation. NATY PROMOTIONS. The Retirement of Rear Admiral Mc Connick Brings Changes. "Washington, D. C, March 14 Incident upon the retirement of Rear Admiral McCormick was the issue of an order today from the navy department to Captain Cotton, commanding the re ceiving ship Independence at the Mare Island navy yard, detaching him from that place and ordering him home pend ing his promotion to the grade of. rear admiral. Captain W. H. Whiting, at present on waiting orders, has been as signed to command of the Indepen dence, succeeding Captain Cotton. Captain Merrill Miller has been as signed to duty as captain of the Mare Island navy yard relieving Captain .Wm. W. Meade. Rear Admiral Louis Kempff, the present commander of the Mare Island navy yard, is to be re- lieved of that command and is expected to take the place of second in command on the Asiatic station under Rear Ad miral Remey, to which place Rear Ad miral McCormick was ordered originally. E. W. HUG1IES. Carpets and Furniture. A nice new beautiful line of all kinds of Carpets, also Rugs, Lace Curtains, Chenilles and Tapistry Curtains and Furniture.' I am prepared to have your carpet made and laid in first-class style on short notice at the very lowest prices, cash or easy payments. E. V. HUGHES. 423 Kan. Ave. Women love a clear, healthy cony plexion. Pure blood makes it. Burdock Blood Bitters makes pure blood. "I 1