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THE WOBLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily Hews.
WASHI5GTOS VOTES.
Tm annual report of the third as
sistant postmaster-general for the past
fiscal year shows the total expenditure
for the year was 890,626,296. and re
ceipts, $83,499,208, leaving a deficiency
of $8,137,088. The number of postage
stamps, stamped envelopes and postal
cards issued was 4,195,665,523, an in
crease of seven per cent, over the is
sues of the previous year. The total
number of pieces of mail matter regis
tered was 15,106,336.
A Washington dispatch on the 14th
stated that there was high authority
for saying that Secretary Carlisle is
likely to succeed Senator Blackburn in
the senate, and that a deal to that ef
fect had been arranged between the
sound money democrats of Kentucky
and the republican leaders.
The October fruit report of the ag
ricultural department at Washington
showed a heavy apple crop, and an
especially fine quality in the northern
tier of states, but prices were extremely
low.
The 11th annual encampment of the
National Union Veterans' legion was
called to order by Commander George
C James at Washington, with about
1,000 delegates and as many more mem
bers present as visitors. They had a
parade through the streets which was
viewed by President Cleveland. John
O. Donahoe, of Wilmington, DeL, was
elected national commander and Co
lumbus, O. , chosen for the next meet
ing. Adjt.-Ges. Rttggi.es has made his
annual report to the secretary of war.
He stated that there were 8,498 enlist
ments in the army during the past
year and 1,375 desertions.
Assistant Secretary William E.
Curtis, of the treasury department at
Washington, has written a letter to
Assistant Secretary Dabney, of the de
partment of agriculture, in which he
defends the New York bankers from
the allegations often made that they
are interested in the withdrawals of
gold from the treasury.
Baron Fava, the Italian ambassa
dor, visited the white h'useonthe 19th
and presented to the president, by di
rection of the king of Italy, a testi
monial of esteem in the shape of a set
of 14 volumes, being a collection of
papers relative to the discovery of
America and the enterprise of Christo
pher Columbus, as well as the Italian
explorers in the hemisphere who pre
ceded the great navigator.
Chief Justice William A. Richard
son, of the United States court of
claims, died at Washington on the 19th,
aged 75 years. He was formerly secre
tary of the treasury.
GENERAL NEWS.
In a fight between two colored men
named William Leach and Jacob
Holmes at Waco, Tex., the latter
struck the former on the head and
killed him.
The body of a man, supposed to be
Henry Schumacher, of Springfield,
Mo., was taken from the river at Chi-'
cago on the 19th. The police believe
he was murdered as his pockets had
been tampered with.
A gigantic swindling scheme carried
on in America for the last five years is
said to have been laid bare by the
Chicago police. Seven men have been
arrested in connection with the charges
of fraud. The name under which the
allied manipulators of the scheme and
their agents are said to have been
operating is the Royal Spanish Lottery
Co. of America, which the police say
has no connection whatever with the
foreign concern.
The Portuguese bark Venus, which
sailed from Cardiff, Eng., for Lisbon,
foundered in a gale off Skermer island
and 20 persons were drowned.
Cardinal Satolli, sailed from New
York for Italy on the 17th.
A head-end collision occurred at the
trestle across Little Cypress bayou, 5
miles north of Orange, Tex., on the
Southern Pacific, by which John
3ancy, from Unionville, la., was killed
and the engineer, A. T. Toler, of Hous
ton, who was running the westbound
train, sustained a fracture of both
thigh bones and a dislocation of the
right shoulder. Five horses and some
other farm stock iu the car with Clancy
were killed.
Three masked highwaymen held up
the stage between Rock Springs, Wyo.,
and Hopkins on the 17th, but got noth
ing for their trouble.
Dun's review of trade gives the num
ber of failures for the week ended the
J 6th in the United States as 328, against
263 last year, and 40 in Canada, against
46 last year.
John Island, a Creek counselor, was
hot and instantly killed at Oaktaha,
by Buz Hawkins. Island had driven
off 27 head of cattle owned by Haw
kins and was preparing to shin them
when Hawkins found them. Some
words ensued and Hawkins pulled oat
nis pistol and killed Ireland. Both
men are prominent Creek citizens, and
the killing has created great excite
ment. J. D. Kennedy-, a banker of Man
chester, la., hanged himself. Bad in
vestments said to be the cause.
The connty workhouse prisoners at
Chattaaooga, Tenn., mutinied while at
work and 28 of them made a rush on
the guards. The gosrds opened fire
and wounded half of the men. all ne
groes. The mutiny was queiled. Four
negroes escaped, however, and four of
the wounded mav die of their-wounds.
A railroad train on the S3ar-Eifel
line, i a Germany, conveying a large
number of recruits, was thrown from
the tracks and 50 persons killed and
many more injured.
A pitched battle occured at Hunts
ville. Tex., between six negroes over
family matters and two on each side
were killed.
Thx National Oil Co. 'a mill at Corsi
cana, Tex., was recently destroyed by
fir., together with a large quantity of
cotton seed.
One of the compresses in the mines
near South McAleater, L T..' blew up
recently, wrecking, the cAn press and
destroying considerable property.
The concrete roof of the lecture
room of the state university at Char
lottesville, Va. , collapsed on the 19th
burying five workmen under the ruins.
Two were fatally injured and the oth
ers were seriously hurt.
A battle occurred at the Bell Ellen
mines in Bibb county, Ala. , between
whites and blacks, which resulted in
the death of two men and the wound
ing of two others, caused by a deputy
sheriff attempting to arrest a negro.
A dispatch from Springfield, 11L, on
the 19th stated that 300 coal miners
had struck for an increase from 32
cents to 40 cents per ton, and that it
was probable all the miners in that dis
trict would be called ont
B. P. Foster, grand secretary of the
grand lodge of Odd Fellows, died at
his home at Indianapolis, Ind., on the
19th.
The town of Carney, 16 miles east of
Guthrie, Ok., was held up on the night
of the 17th by six masked bandits and
the store of Trader Fonts was ran
sacked and $800 in money taken. Fouts
and bis son were taken a mile from
town and bound to a tree. Three
posses started in pursuit of the rob
bers.
The Joint Traffic association at Chi
cago has declared a boycott against the
Clover Leaf becanse the line cut rates
and gave sleeping car and chair car
privileges to holders of second-class
tickets.
The big steamer Australasia was
turned on Lake Michigan and now
lies at the bottom of Whitcfish bav. It
was valued at $60,009 and was loaded
with a cargo of 2,000 tons of coal for
Milwaukee. The vessel and cargo are
counted a total loss. The crew were
saved.
Over 10,000 railway employes parad
ed in Cincinnati on the 17th, with pres
idents, vice presidents, general mana
gers and other general officers in
line. The demonstration was in favor
of "sound money."
A fire broke out in the large ware
house of the chemical and fertilizing
works at Alexandria, Va., on the 18th.
The total loss was estimated at $100.
000. Fifteen small buildings near the
wharves were destroyed.
A three-year-old child of John
Morse, residing near Hopkinsville, Ky.,
fell into an open fire-place while left
alone and was burned to death. Other
children were playing near, but were
too badly frightened to call help.
Speaker Thomas B. Reed, of Maine,
spoke at Fort Wayne, Ind., on the
15th, but was unable to resume his
speaking tour the next morning on ac
count of his voice giving out.
The Army Correspondents' and Art- i
tists' memorial was dedicated on South
mountain on the 16th with military
and civic ceremonies. Gov. Lowndes,
Gen. Boy n ton, George Alfred Town
send and others made speeches. On
the monument are the names of 106
war correspondents, 11 southern corre
spondents and 30 sketch artists. . It is
50 feet high and 40 feet wide, and
through its open arches it affords ex
tensive views of the battlefield country
toward Washington and of Antietam
and Harper's Ferry.
Thomas E. Watson on the 16th for
warded papers to Kansas from Thom
son, Ga., notifying the secretary of
state to take his name as nominee for
vice president from the head of the
Breidenthal populist ticket. Mr. Wat
son's name will appear only once on the
official ballot in Kansas, and that will
be at the head of the middle-of-the-road
populist ticket.
Scott Benson, commercial agent of
the Illinois Central Railroad Co., has
sent in his report as to the ravages of
hog cholera along the Central lines in
Iowa. He reports a loss of 40 per cent,
of hogs from Jessup to Fort Dodge.
The disease prevails at Alden, Iowa
Falls, Williams, Blairsburg and other
points. Farmers are alarmed and are
shipping nnfattened hogs to market.
Three firemen were killed and six
badly injured at a fire at the chemical
warehouse of Gilmour & Co. , at Mon
treal, Can. The financial loss is 5100,
000. The International Typographical
union, in session at Colorado Springs,
CoL, re-elected W. B. Prescott, of To
ronto, Ont., president and chose John
W. Bramwood, of Denver, CoL, for secretary-treasurer.
A law for a nine
hour work-day was ordered to be voted
on by subordinate unions and $2,500
was voted to prosecute a boycott against
a printing firm of Kansas -City, Mo.
Syracuse, N. Y., was chosen as the
next meeting place.
Two men held up the saloon of Chris
Bauer at Galena. III., and killed the
bartender and rifled the cash drawer.
The sheriff and a posse started in pur
suit of them.
Through a misunderstanding of an
order to the north and southbound
trains on the Florida Central & Penin
sula railroad they had a head-end col
lision near Swansea, S. C, on the 14th.
The engines of both, trains were, de
molished and the tender of the south
bound engine telescoped into the com
bination mail, baggage and express
car. Express Messenger W. D. Lines
and Mail Agent L. A. Thomas were
pinioned in the wreck, which caught
fire from the coal oil lamps, and the
two men were roasted to death. Flag
man Ulmer wast supposed to have been
burned to death also.
Cor- Henry Spielman. of New York
city, a wealthy merchant and clubman,
was held up by two women just as he
was leaving the Union League club at
Chicago at 8:30 o'clock in the evening
and robbed of his gold watch and $20
in cash. The assault was made at a
time when many persons were passing.
Two women were afterwards arrested
for the crime. "
The Tramway elevator at Julietta.
Ida., was destroyed by fire, together
with S3, 000 bushels of wheat and two
freiirht cars. The Sre was the work of
incendiaries.
Seventeen women were recently ar
rested in a pool room at Chicago.
H. J. Schilling, a wholesale feed
merchant of Kansas City, arrived at
Tacoroa, Wash., on the 18th, complet
ing a journey of 3.900 miles from Kan
sas City on a wheel. He started on
June SO.-
The steamer Livingstone collided
with and sunk the propeller Grand
Traverse below the Colchester light on
Lake Erie on the 19th. The sunken
vessel was valued at $25,000 and was
well insured.
C H. Smith, at San Jose, Cal., took
51 2-5 seconds off the world's five-mile
bicycle road record, setting the new
mark at 10:20.
Richard Hayes and his sister, who
resided on a farm near St. Mary's,
Ont., were instantly killed by a train
while driving over a crossing near their
place.
Marion Kennard, of Wise county,
W. Va., went home drunk after his
family had retired. He awakened his
wife, quarreled with her and then al
most severed her head from her body
with a corn knife. He afterwards
killed his boy and tried to kill his
daughter, but she escaped. After
sleeping off his drunken fit he told his
neighbors that a tramp had murdered
his wife and child.
L. W. Yeomans drug store at Belle
ville., Ont , was burned on the 19th and
the proprietor perished in the flames.
Chairman Jones, of the democratic
national committee, has issued, an ap
peal that on Saturday, October 31, the
national colors be displayed by all citi
zens at their places of business and
their homes.
Five jieu called Lord R. T. Brooke
to his door at his ranch near Tonka wa.
Ok., at three o'clock on the iorning
of the 19th and ordered him to hold up
his hands, and he began firing at the
band, killing two and wounding two
others. A posse started afterwards on
the trail of the gang. Robbery was
the motive as the gang thought there
was a lar?e sum in the house.
A large steam gin near Selma, Ala.,
with six bales of lint cotton and 1,000
bushels of cotton seed was destroyed
by fire.
A negro dance near Scully ville, Ark.,
on the 17th broke up in a row. Two ne
gro men were killed.
A RIOT was caused at Portsmouth, O.,
on the ISth by the Sunday Observance
league attempting to break up a ball
game. Constables who tried to serve
warrants were chased off the grounds
by a howling mob of spectators and
narrowly escaped alive. The police
finally dispersed the crowd. Over 150
arrests will be made on the charge of
rioting.
Dr. Alfred Holt, of Hayes, Miss.,
shot and instantly killed Dr. P. S.
Rhett, of Jonesville. La., in the ro
tunda of a hotel at Natchez, Miss., on
the 18th. The killing was the result of
an old grudge.
The largest fire that has occurred in
Los Aneeles, CaL, in years started in
the Fowler paper box factory, and be
fore it was subdued over $100,000 worth
of property had been consumed. Sev
eral of the firemen were painfully in
jured by falling timbers. The causa
of the fire was not known.
The hardware store of George II
Cburchill & Co., at Galesburg, I1L, was
recently broken into and revolvers,
razors, cartridges and other articles
stolen. Five boys, whose ages ranged
from 11 to 16 years, were arrested and
confessed and all the stolen property
was recovered.
Nelson Morris, of Chicago; John
and Barringer Brown, of Crown Point,
Ind., and several other large stock
raisers along the Kankakee river have
suffered heavy losses recently by valu
able horses dying with an unknown
disease. As soon as the disease attacks
them their blood turns to water and
they soon die.
additional dispatches.
A special from Washington to the
New York Herald slated Postmaster
General Wilson for the vacancy created
by the death of Chief Justice Richard
son, of the court of claims.
Mrs. Con Reardon and her nine-year-
old son were burned to death at Potts
ville. Pa , on the 20th. The mother
had escajTid from the burning build
ing, but hearing that her child was in
the house she rushed back to reccue
him.
The first car load of California
oranges was shipped to Chicago from
Los Angeles on the 19th, four weeks
earlier than nsuaL
Gov. Clarke, of Arkansas, recently
pardoned an 18-year-old convict, whose
mother, Mrs. Gillean, had tramped over
200 miles with a petition and a letter
from the judge who convicted the
youth.
The fourth annual convention of the
National Spiritualists' association be
gan at Washington on the 20th.
J. G. Pinkerton, master of transpor
tation of the Kansas City, Memphis &
Birmingham railroad, attempted to
board a moving train at Suiligent,
Ala., on the 20th, missed his footing,
fell beneath a Pullman sleeper and was
killed.
By a decision of the court of appeals
the San Francisco & California railroad
has secured the title to 200,000 acres of
land near Portland, Ore. The victory
means a clear gain to the railroad and
a corresponding loss on the part of the
government.
Robert Noe, a farmer near Harlan,
Ky., became violently insane and at
tempted to kill his family. One of his
children was beaten into insensibility
and will die. The man was committed
to the insane asylum.
Prof. Behrisg and Herr Knorr, of
Berlin, have announced the discovery
of a tetanus anti-'.oxine which is ex
pected to greatly reduce the number
of deaths from traumatic tetanus.
The big distributing reservoir at
Oakland, Cal., broke its walls on the
20th and 2,000,000 gallons of water were
let loose. Beyond flooding the streets
no great damage was done. The offi
cials suspect the walls of the reser
voir were blown up by dynamite by
malicious persons. ' '
The steamer Arago was driven on
the rocks of the jetty at Cooshead.
Ore., on the 20th and while a boat
with a load of passengers and crew at
tempted to land it was capsized and 12
persons were drowned. The accident
i occurred during a heavy fog.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
There are 440 G. A. R. posts in Kan-
A $5,000 creamery will be built at
Canker City.
A Marshall county man this year
old 25,000 cabbages.
Pittsburg has a new city hospital,
thoroughly modern in every way.
Burglars entered the post office at
Manchester and stole $300 from the sale.
The Elk state bank has been or
ganized at Clyde, Cloud connty, with
$25,000 capitaL
Emma Dent, an Ottawa girl, has a so
prano voice which her friends think
will earn her fame.
W. W. Gallins, an old soldier of
Overbrook, fell from a barn he was
building and broke his neck.
An inexhaustible supply of zinc ore
has been discovered near E:lis which
is said to be 95 rer cent pure.
Dr. M. M. Cloud, of Kingman, has
been appointed physician - at Grand
River school. Standing Rock, JN. IJ.
E. A. Wordeman, of Arkansas City,
has been appointed receiver of the Ar
kansas City & Southwestern railway.
There are 40,000 members of the Bap
tist church in Kansas and 375 Sunday
schools, all reported in good condition.
Capt. Birkett, who recently shipped
cattle from Greenwood county to Liv
erpool, Eng., got $73 a head for them.
One hundred and fifty men are em
ployed on the new bridge across the
Kaw at Topeka, and the job will last a
year.
The old soldiers of Wilson, Woodson,
Allen and Neosho counties recently
held a well-attended reunion at Cha-
nute.
It is estimated that 40,000 head of
cattle will be fastened in Jewell
county this winter. Jewell led in corn
this year.
The Kansas society of Friends re
cently held a ten days' meeting at
Lawrence. Next year they will meet
at Wichita.
The State University Athletic asso
elation elected J. W. Green president,
Tom Wagstaff secretary and R. K.
Moody treasurer.
Samuel Shaumberg, a tailor of Rose
dale, was arrested charged with sys
tematically stealing the material to
build a new bouse.
- The Kansas railroads tre experienc
ing a heavy business m wheat, corn
and other grains, and there is danger
of another car famine.
Great herds of sheep will be fed in
Dickinson and Geary counties this
winter. Over 100,000 head were brought
from New Mexico alone.
The convention of the Central Evan
gelical church at Abilene elected J. H,
Tobias president, J. K. Young secre
tary and Charles Linge treasurer.
The Kansas State Baptist associa
tion, in session at Topeka, refused to
pas resolutions censuring Gov. Mor
rill's attitude on the temperance ques
tion. The Y. M. C A. state convention, in
session at Leavenworth, elected Bruno
Hobos, of Kansas City, president and
George W. Fleming, of Arkansas City,
secretary.
The Kansas City (Kan.) medical col
lege has been chartered with $10,000
capitaL The directors are C. E. and
W. L. Seamen, G. W. Fitzpatrick, G.
E. Tead and J. A. Smith.
The drill in an artesian well at Abi
lene broke at a depth of 750 feet. The
efforts to strike a flow of water had to
be abandoned and the drill containing
diamonds to the value of $100 was lost.
During the carnival at Leavenworth
the other night three men entered Mc-
Cool's restaurant and stole $100 from
the cash drawer, but officers nabbed
them a few minutes later, even before
they had divided their booty.
E. R. Potter, a young man who,
while assistant postmaster at Abilene
embezzled $540 belonging to the gov
ernment, pleaded guilty in the federal
court at Leavenworth and was sen
tenced to one year in the penitentiary
An Italian named . Torriani, who
died recently in a New York hospital,
confessed to having robbed the graves
in Topeka cemeteries last winter, for
which a number of officials connected
with a Topeka medical college were
arrested.
Rev. Don S. Colt, who recently re
signed the pastorate of the M. E.
church at Wichita to accept a call
to Allegheny City, Pa., is having
trouble about the matter. Before Rev.
Colt reached Allegheny City the Pitts
burgh conference had designated
member of its own body to take charge
of the Allegheny City church.
The annual meeting of the Anti
Horsethief association was held at
Hutchinson recently. It has 160 lodges
and over 4.000 members, the largest
lodge being at Humboldt. K. B. Cul
bertson, of Sterling, was elected presi
dent; J. W. Newland, of Earlton. vice
president; George Kaufman, of Gales
burg, secretary and treasurer.
C J. Norton has compiled statistics
for the Kansas Farmer showing that
if 200 bushels of potatoes are raised to
the acre, the cost to the farmer is not
more than 2 cents a bushel. If only
half a crop is raised, the cost is 4 cents
a busheL If $3.50 is allowed per acre
for the rent, wear and tear of tools,
etc.. the cost of raising ten acres of
potatoes will be .0385 cents per lusheL
By careful economy, the price can be
reduced to less than a cent a bushel, if
there is a perfect stand of potatoes,
with 18,000 hills per acre.
W. G. Souther, a veteran Kansas
newspaper correspondent and old-time
printer, who claimed intimate friend
ship with Abraham Lincoln, died in
Topeka the other day.
Mrs. Mary Ginter. of Kansas City,
who had made four previous but un
successful attempts to end her life,
finally succeeded the other d3y in ob
taining enough poison to shude her
off.
A railway man who had traveled
over the state said the attendance
from Kansas to the G. A. R. encamp
ment at St. Taul would be very light,
tae veterans preferring to wait and at
tend the state reunion at Topeka. v
KANSAS ODD FELLOWS
tkS9tliAnnaI
OOcen Klewtod H4 Reports Bfmda.
Ltcavknworth. Kaik, Oct. 15. The
Kansas grand lodge, 1 CLO. F., elected
W. M. Glenn grand . master; W. L.
Brown, deputy grand master; D. W.
Kent, grand secretary; L. G. Beal,
grand treasurer; W. T. Taylor, repre
sentative. The terms of secretaries of
subordinate lodges were made one year
instead of six months. Grand lodge
officers will hereafter be chosen by
grand lolge delegates instead of by
the members of the subordinate lodges.
The membership has fallen off eight
during the year, the present member
sbio being 22.086. ' The total amount
paid out in relief to indigent members
and farail es amounted to $48,693.36; ot
this amount $6,250.53 was for the burial
of the dead. The expenses for con
ducting the grand lodge amounted to
$10,405, which includes salaries of of
ficers, mileage and per diem of the last
session. But two lodges have paid
the special tax for the mainte
nance of the orphans' home at
Ottawa, and there is due on this
tax $3,247.40. The grand treasurer re
ported the amount on hand and the re
ceipts from all sources during the year
as being $23,411.14 and that he had paid
out $16,543.42, leaving a balance
on hand at the opening of the
grand lodge of $C,867.72. The in
surance feature of the order re
ported having paid 14 claims, amount
ing to $12,187.45, and having collected
$15,454.27. Since this feature was or
ganized, November 1, 1892, the amount
of $74,946.48 has been paid to the heirs
of deceased members.
In the Rebekah lodge officers were
elected as follows: President, Mrs.
Blanche M. Dryden, of Spring Hill;
vice president, Mrs. Ida E. Fladon, of
Waterville; secretary, Mrs. Lydia Shep
herd, of Wichita, re-elected for the
fourth time; treasurer, Mrs. Ida M.
Blum, of Kansas City, Kan. The Re
bekah degree will meet in Topeka next
year with the grand lodge.
SUIT AGAINST ODD FELLOWS.
Mrs. Martlnella Wants to Recover Title to
Property Donated for the Erection of an
Orphans Home.
Topeka, Kan., Oct 15 Mrs. Mar-
tinella, of France, has instructed her
Topeka attorneys to bring suit against
the Odd Fellows' organization of Kan
sas to recover title to $17,000 worth of
property in Franklin county which
was donated by her brother for an Odd
Fellows orphans home. The grand
lodge at one time refused to accept the
gift, for the reason that the will pro
vided that the first board of trustees
should serve for life, and this refusal
is made the basis of the suit by Mrs.
Mar tinella, who seeks to obtain posses
sion of the property as her brother's
heir.
Santa F Taxes a Big Fortune.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. It will -take
$100,000 a month for the 12 months of
this year to pay this year's taxes
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fa
road proper. This amount has been
set aside monthly on the estimate of
the tax commissioner, his statement
placing this year's taxes at $1,200,000
This amount will be paid to eight dif
ferent states through which the road
runs, the proportion for Kansas being
about $700,000.
Kansas Baptists In Session.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. The annual
meetings of the Kansas Baptist asso
ciation, the Kansas Ministerial socie
ties and the Kansas Baptist Young Peo
ple's union are all in session in this
city. The association elected the fol
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, W. C. Simpson, Emporia;
vice president, J. W. McWharf, Fort
Scott; recording secretary, W. Elliott,
Argentine; treasurer, John R. Mul
vane, Topeka.
Two Apple Crops This Year.
Atchison. Kan., Oct. la. M. S. Mor
rison, a farmer living near here, has a
lars;e orchard which is yielding its sec
ond crop of apples thin season. ' The
first yield was large, but the trees soon
bloomed again, and the apples, which
have since formed on them, are about
matured. Although they are not aa
large as the first crop they are sound,
and have an excellent flavor.
Kepford In Brant's Place.
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. Rev. A. JP.
Kepford, of Fort Scott, was yesterday
placed in nomination for the governor
ship in the place of Rev. J. E. Brant,
who withdrew. ,The central commit
tee of the independent prohibitionists
accepted. Rev. Brant's withdrawal,
after which, with little opposition, the
name of Rev. A. E. Kepford was sub
stituted and the vote was made unani
mous.
Swedish Lutherans of Kansas.
McPherson, Kan., Oct. 15. The an
nual state conference of the Swedish
Lutheran church of Kansas convened
yesterday in Lindsborg with a large
number of ministers and lay delegate
present, representing 5.000 communi
cants in the state. Organization was
completed and a two days' programme
of religious papers begun last night.
Reed Will Speak at Wichita.
Wichita, Kan., Oct.'-l.t The repub
lican county central ' committee has
been notified that Thomas B. Reed, of
Maine, has consented to speak in this
city on October 24. It is expected that
the greatest republican demonstration
of the campaign in Kansas will occur
on that date, as this is the only speech
he will make in this state.
Ballot-XSoxes Too SmalL
Topeka, Kan., Oct. 15. Secretary of
State Edwards says that owing to the
size of the tickets to be voted this fall
the ballot-boxes Dow ih" use - will not
hold half the ballots that will be east
in many precincts ' He says the only
way to remedy the difficulty is for the
county clerks to .purchase -new ballot
boxes. , . ' "'l -'-' ''
LesTeaworth Soldiers Home. '
Leavenworth," Kan., Oct. 15. There
were present at' the home -yesterday
2, 3S6 members; 763 are absent on leave,
making a total number" on the rolls of
3,143. Two hundred and seventy are
sick -in the hosoitaL
MEN'S MARRIAGEABLE AGE.
Old Subject Discussed From a "fw Pom
ot View. .
It is a singnlar fact that the discus
sion of matrimony in all its aspects is.
always made relative to the woman. Its
is as if she was the most interested of
the two persons in the case, and had
looked upon marriage in the light of
an achievement, upon whose laurels
she could rest for the remainder of her
life. The age at which - she should;
achieve matrimony . is gravely dis
cussed; also her qualifications for that
picturesque institution of society.
Yet marriage is not a one-sided affair.
There is a man in the case. What of
him? -. - ..... .
At what age. should a man marry?
This experiment of home-making con
tains as many complex elements, some,
hidden. some apparent,for him as for the
woman. Much of its success depends
upon the way he has approached it,
and the way in which he has approached!
it depends upon his age. A man at 34
will see differently and act differently
from his manner of seeing and acting
at 24, that is, if he has developed in
mind and character during the inter
vening ten years. Broadly speaking,
the marriageable age of men should
not be placed under 25; not alone be
cause men under that age are not, as a
rule, in a financial position to marry;,
chiefly because they have not sufficient
maturity of character to judge wisely.
Judgment is, indeed, out of the ques
tion in those tender years between 19
and 25. The man is a boy whom the
world has not yet taken into its confi
dence; and in spite of its absence of
idealism the wisdom of the world is a
necessary wisdom. Goethe (although
not by any means an example to be
held up to young men) was wise
when he did not allow his youthful
love for Frederika Bremer, the coun
try parson's daughter, to lead him into
marriage with her. He realized, per
haps, with the intuition of genius,
that love can never "make up for the
absence of intellectual sympathy be
tween a man and a woman. Men who
are not Goethes marry at 21 or 23 the
object of boyish love, only to find, as
they mature, that the wife, by her lim
itations, can be a housekeeper, but
never a friend. V
This does not imply that men do not
marry rashly after 30, hut that they are
less likely to marry solely because
they happen to be "in love," a sopho
moric experience which has never
known to occur more than once to tho
same person. N. Y. Commercial Ad
vertiser. Had the Bulge on the Old Lady.
There was a new baby in the family
a funny, little helpless creature that
five-year-old Myra and three-year-old
Burton admired with a condescending
wonder. That mamma sat all day in
a chair in the room with the baby, and
did not wander all over the house, as
was her custom, they also learned as a
surprising fact, to which they soon be
came accustomed. They liked, how
ever to play in the room with mamma
and the new baby, and they were not
always quiet. "Children," said mam
ma, one day when they had been more
than usually noisy and she was tired,
"if you are not more quiet I shall
punish you.". Myra regarded her
mother some time from across the
room with a thoughtful air. Then she
turned back to her play and to her
little brother. "Don't you mind her.
Burton," she said with a wise air, "she
can't walk." N. Y. Times.
The Singing Shad.
A reader of the Republic residing at
Bentonville, Ark., writes as follows:
"I read your 'note oa "vocal fishes' in
Notes for the Curious on September 12
and wish to say that along the coast of
Florida and Georgia I have often heard
the musical notes of what the old fish
ermen call the singing shad.' They
differ from the common shade in being
smaller and also in the formation of
their mouths. Their sinsing is pleas
ant at first, but soon grows monoto
nous, owing to the fact that it is a con
stant repetition of the same sounds."
St. Louis Republic.
Her Favorite.
He Permit me to present you with
a copy of my new collection of poems.
She Oh, thank you! I like poetry
bo much.
"And who is your favorite poet?"
"The man who wrote 'Ta-ra-ra
Boom-de-aye. "
Then be ran. He feared that she
might want to sing to him. Cleveland
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