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STATE JOCRSAI, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1894. The State Journal C2sial Fapar of tha City cf Topeka. Bt Fkank P. MacLkssan. cp s'jsssarpxxcir. rally edition, delivers! "by carrier, 10 cent3 a weak to aay part cf opeia or suburbs, or at the eamg price in any Kansas tzvm -where thi3 paper has a car rier system. By mail, thrsa ncttas $ .S3 Ly mail, one year 3.C3 Weekly Edition, per year .53 GREATEST IN KANSAS. AVZ2A33 IAIL7 CI2CrLATi:iT: S,So6 For tie three dull summer months of 1S3-1 an increase of over fifty per cent in one year. OCR PROOF: The t8u)s of th IcrEKA. Daily Statu Journal lor the ttsret mos'hl, viz., from the 1st day of June, 1894, to tae 3iki diy of August, 1894. inclusive, hare beea as follow: Juan July August 1., r. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. il . 12. 13. 14. 15. l'i. 17. IS 19. !M. 21 . iM. a. 24. ". S.4S 8.312 e ,r.o S'pOO S.700 .401 8.640 8,M0 8.593 8,720 H.M2 8.7.VJ 8. 7 J 8.943 11,120 9.9.12 9.S40 9.0.-3 8.94 U.UUO 8,313 8.Sli! it..' 10 8.9.n 8.9 :3 R.'J'tS 8.7JJ 8.7,11 y 2-"2 S.Tfci liJ.SJO 8.740 8.72) 8,080 8.7SJ 8.741 8,7-iti 8.702 S.iiuO 8.743 8.547 8,.r,!3 8.5-0 8..VKJ 8.50 8.502 8..T.0 8.G42 8.r,7i 8.603 8, e.r-ji 8,517 8.145 s..r)ia 8,5.1;J i'8. H9. 10. id. Totals 31. PI'S Sunday: no issue, '.fhe total numher of copies printed in the threa muu'.hs uaaia Java. 59.j,ti & , d ivuled ty7H. the number of issu os. shows ttie average to t9,SOS. Ill is is a cor t'tt report of itia issue Of U19 lOPEK DAILtf 2 TAl'S JuUttNAL lor me three moatus m timed. (Signed) T and Proprietor, e l sept. 1 1, i;m. M. (jARusNmmt. Pworn to and gubscr.b Clerk ftli of the District Court, allies couuty, ivanias. KSTThe STATS JOURNAL is the only paper in ITansa3 receiving th9 Pull Lay Associated Press. ITTXtrzlsv Amer:.can Newspaper ?ub lishers's association. . ELif-The STAT2 JSTJE2TAL has the handsomest and mas" complete web ster eotype perfecting press. ClPEastsrn cSce, 73 Tribune Building, New York, Perry Lu.lr.ens, Jr., manager. Weather I adicatlon. WAsniNr.TON.Oct. 10. Forecast till 8 p. m. Thursday. Fcr Kansas: Tonight fair; slightly colder in east portion; Thursday fair; warmer; north winds. Mr. II i li. is a great fighter, but the gubernatorial race will be the bitterest struggle he ever had. Bookkeeper Morit ought to be ashamed of himself .o pick on a great big man like McCasey and make him cry. Somb of the people of Nebraska are already appealing to eastern people for aid. Nebraska truth seems to be a great deal won than Kansas fiction. If the cloak talkers just keep up their strike they will make it easy for the women to do without new winter wrap without hu-rti l ? their pride. The czar fears to appoint a regent even with the prosp jct of saving his life by it. Such a alend ir" hold is it he ha on his people or any others in hi king dom. IIerr Host succeeded admirably in the play "The Weavers." As his part was that of a dirty urid ragged anarchist he attained the highest art, that of com plete naturalness. Somb of Governor McKinley's most en thusiastically received speeches have been delivered to children. From being a bugaboo the tariff is fast becoming a thing to amuse children. The Populists want to run ex-Senator Trumbull for senator in Illinois since his recent speech. It ii barely possible that Sir. Trumbull knew which side his bread was buttered on when he made that lit tle talk. It would perhap have been just as well for the country if Chili had delayed the payment of th judgments against her until after this administration had been retired. The money will now go the way of all the rent. Governor 31cKisi.et has consented to open the New York campaign in a speech at Buffalo, aad the Louisiana peo ple waut hiru. If he accepts all his iuvi tadons he'll come pretty near losing hia residence in Ohio. The Georgia Democrats, as indicated by a dispatch of yesterday, have adopted th same method of dealing with Popu lists that they hav.j hitherto had with colored Republicacs, viz. if they don't vote right shoot them. Da McCasey ha been kicked out of one of the offices at the state house and had bis face "pushed" by an undersized attendant at the asylum. Perhaps after be has been beaten around a few more times the state board of charities will bare the c&arae to taokle hia). TARIFF' AND FREIGHT RATES. Reports furnished ty the United States government show that for the nine months ending June 3J, more than a half million bushels of potatoes huve been shipped into this country from. Scotland j alone. The import duty on potatoes is 25 cents a bushel. Lund in Scotland is much higher than here and can hardly : yield better than American soil. The distance to our market is much greater than that to be traversed by our own product Why is it then that the Euro pean producer of potatoes can enter our markets in the face of the protective tariff of 5 cents a bushel? An investigation of some other facts may throw some light on the subject. The freight on potatoes from Dundee, Scotland, to New York ia $2.35 per too. The freight on a ton of potatoes from TopekatoNew York is $15.40. There lies the secret It costs the bcotch po tato grower 83 1-3 cents per bushel ia cluding the duty, to place his product on the New York market It costs the Shawnee county potato grower forty-six cents per bushel to place hia product on the New York market, making an ad vantage of more than twelve cents per bushel in favor of the Scotchman. It may be urged that the oa!y way to correct this matter, and give the Ameri can market to Americans, is to place a higher tariff on potatoes, but this would be manifestly unjust to the vast army of consumers in our ea3tern cities, as it would force them to pay a much higher price for this staple article of food with out a correspondiug beuetit to the pro ducer. Where then lies the remedy? It can come but in one way, aud that is ia a reduction of freigh; rates. Yv'e must have a cheaper means of transportation before we can compete with what is pop ularly denominated European cheap la bor. In the case here cited it seems the European labor is not so cheap as ours by a matter of twelve cents a bushel on producing potatoes. MUNICIPAL C II A LITERS. The time will soon be at hand when there will have to be a chaage in the municipal-charter system of Kausai The present plan is cumbersome aad full of faults. Michigan has recently alopted a new plan which hai features worthy of imitation. The vital feature of the new plan is its limitation of the aldermanic power aad a corresponding increase ia the mayor's authority. The departments of the cny governments are designated with ap pointive boards for each department. These boards execute legislation enact ed by the city council. They are not subject to interference in the letting oi contracts or other executive work, whioh has always furnished plunder for d.s honest aldermen. The responsibility for proper administration is centralized, so that every one may know who is the author of any given wrong or who de serves credit for good work. Other good points are the provisions for municipal ownership of lighting, transportation and water works plants, a maximum rate of taxation and a distinct adherence to the principle of local self government To those students of history who Bay that we are now entering upon another revolutionary period, the fact that there is boodling in high places in the state administration ought not to be a surprise. One of the inevitable signs of a real rev olution, as these history students say, is the coming to the top of elements that ordinarily lie at the bottom. As Carlyle would put it, Organized Scoundrelism is the first result of revolution. It is only when the dregs first thrown up by the Bocial irruption begin to settle to sink to their natural level again that the cul tured, intelligent and best men take charge of affairs and finish the revolu tion in the way foreordained by the law of revolutions. If this is such a revolu tion that we are now launched upon, it is quite evident, at least in Kansas, that Or ganizedScoundrelism is still mil itaut The best men show few sins of taking hold of anything save perhaps of a few oGjc ial individuals neck and crop and throw ing them into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teath. One of the results of the worldwide conspiracy against silver, by the Roths childs in Europe and their allies in America, is reported from far-off Syria. Horses and cattle feeding upon "raisins and other dried fruits" are reported to have been of late a common sight in that part of the Sultan's dominions. This is owing to the continued low values of pro duce in the European markets, which in the case of many staple productions of Turkey have gone from bad to worse. Of these are raisins, which have become so depreciated in value that unless some new market can be found the cultivation of the vine in Turkey will have to be discontinued. The poor raisin growers of Syria do not know why the price of their product has so suddenly gone down. Probably they are told that it is due to "overproduction." They are little more ignorant, even without schools and news papers, than many people in this country who do not know thit the reason why farm products have gone down in price ia because of the same worldwide con spiracy against silver. Farmers in Kan sas are feeding their cattle wheat and in Syria they re feeding them raisins, be cause Lombard street and Wall street and the Berlin bourse and the Paris bourse decided that they should; and the ignor ance on this subject isn't all confined to Syria, either. Congressman Wilson say: he gave almost his entire attention to a study of the wheat market while abroad. Dia he discover any way to raise the price? That ia what the people waas ta know. TT . T A CD TliliOifHI New Dress Goods fixtures, Serges, Henriettas, Fancy Checks, In all wool and A Great Bargain, . Fancy Eourettcs, Tito Toned EfMs, Diagonals, Plaids, In a!l wool, Special Valne 50-inch All Wool Two Toned Checks, Two Toned Diagonals, Two Toned fixtures In IlCils, In Bines and other .ew Shades, Yiovlh tally 75e yd., All go at only The State Journal is "catching it' again. If we couldn't offend all the brass collar organ3 at least once a week we should feel sorry. When they are all after us, then we are pretty sure that we have printed a piece of news which they would have "suppressed." Any paper that suppresses news is a cheat and a fraud aud works a confidence game on its readers. Some readers don't want the news, for fear they will find out some tiing that isn't pleasant The State Journal has the biggest circulation in Kansas, and the reason why it has it ia because it prints all the news. All the brewers and liquor dealers are now "coming out" and de-nouacing Gov. Lewelling for being corrupt We fear too much of the manifestation of the enmity of these classes will begin to make Lewelling friends. The Pete Kline letter business can be carried too far. You can't couvince the people that Lewelling is the enemy of the prohibition element ! in Karnas and the whisky element too. : lie can't be on both sides. ! milk Tlltored Through Gnreb At IIerr Bolle's famous da'ry in Berlin the milk is strained through wire sieves covered with a cloth over which fine gravel is sprinkled. After the milk is strained the gravel is put in a hot oven, that any germ that may possibly have been straine I from the milk mav be destroved. The crave! j is thus used for filtering the milk any i number of times. For the butter made at this dairy both sweet and sour cream is used, that made ffom sweet cream commanding the hisrher price. After the compartments filled with a particular kind of milk are filled, the wagon ia locked, and the milkman who delivers it has access to the supply only through the faucets j on the sides of the wagon. The Location of Memory. The memory remains intact and ia perfect working order in cases where the left side of the brain is badly dis eased, or even if portions of it have been removed. From this the natural inference is that the right side of the brain 5s the seat of that most remark able faculty. Lieutenant Brady, who lost a portion of the right side of the brain from a gunshot wound while in Assam, where two-thirds of the offi cials are negroes, suffered a remark able lapse of memory. After he had fully recovered he knew and could call by name all his white associates, but the negroes, whom he formerly knew as well as the whites, were per fect strangers to him. Deserve A It. "Died," wrote the editor of the Spiketown Blizzard, as a sudden in spiration came over him, "in our sanctum, between the hours of 7 a. m. and 3 p. ra. last Tuesday, of sticky fly paper, 1,227 flies. Their death has caused a glue'em over the whole community." The next day thirteen of the most reputable citiz ns of Spiketown went to the Blizzard ofHca ana ordered their papers stopped. fatally Scared by the Bojfle Man. The terrible dread of a begie man has caused the death of little Emelie Espye, aged 2 years, the youngest daughter of Fred Espye, a well-to-do Homestead butcher. One evening the child wriS warned that the bogie man would catch her, and it so worked on her youthful imagination that when she was left alone in a darkened room thtl next night she went into convul sions and died from fright. Corn Poppers. Kitchell & Marburg Ehiru mended by the Feerlefit 9Qfj e)yd M KJ yd Q6i Vi 1111 Successors to WIQQIJJ, CROSBY 2 CO. BLACK DRESS GOODS. 40-in. 46-in. Fancy Armures Heavy Serges Fine Henriettas 40- lri. 50-in. Diagonals 50-in. Heavy Serges 48-in. Fine Croise 46-in. Fine Henrietta 42-in. Extra Figured Bengalines and Soliels 50-in. Heavy Cheviot 50-in. Fine Diagonal 50-in. Clay Worsted 42-m. Fancy .Effects 40-in. Sebastapol, etc., Heavy Black Clay Ladies' Coats, Wraps, LADIES' COATSAND FUR CAPES. Receiving additions to our already large stock almost every day showing a large Fur Cape at 35.00 each. The best values in Astrakhan, Electric Seal and Beaver Capes in the city. Fur Muffs and Boas and lrur Collaretts, Cocque and Ostrich Boas. A NATION ON STILTS. PROGRESS OF THE SCHEME FOR AN ARTIFICIAL ISLAND. The Projectors of the I'lan Seem to Be In Earnest In Xlieir Purpose to Erect a Kew Atalantli In the Ocean How They A.T9 Proceeding. Atlantis as figured forth by Igna tius Donnelly may be a myth, but At clantis as projected bysomo New York era way prove a fact. If po, it will bo a unique fact, indeed nothing lens thau an artificial island about 11 miles oiT ehoro and accessible by steamers iu an hour and a half from New York city. It will be outside the jurisdiction of this or any other nation and will bo a summer hotel, sanitarium aud popular resort, will have nay, already has its own flag and will be altogether a puzzle for geographers, Jjwyers, custom house officers and euglTTtera alike. All tiiis will be if the plans of the enterprising projectors do not miscarry, and they some months ago made their location and began preliminary surveys and the drawing up of plans and specifications. 'What they propose in brief is this: To begin where the water is compara tively shallow on what is known as the "cholera banks," 11 miles south of the Long Island shore and 17 miles east of the Navesink highlands, and there put down piles or immense hollow cylinders, as hereinafter described, and on that foundation build their great rink and casino entirely of fireproof materials. The location is away outside of any three mile limit which w-ould give tne United States jurisdiction. The propo- V s ATALANTIS. sition was greeted at first presentation with a derisive laugh, but now that the promoters have actually gone to work the question stands, Is the scheme prac ticable? Who are' the projectors? Well, the three best known are Captain R. D. Evans of the LTnited States lighthouse board, Captain Howard Patterson and Mr. C. M. Coen. From the window of their ofHoe in New York floats a blue flag, vrith a red border and a white star in the ;enter, and another just like it floats from the staff on a buoy anchored on the Cholera banks, where the new Atalantis is to be. It is not just yet the flag cf a new nation. It is ctrtainly the flag of a new aud original notion. Some weeks ago the projectors steamed out to the banks, and with brief ct-remonies anchored a buoy and took formal pos session of the neutral water and the sand bank under it, hitherto sacred to the much besung AIcGinty. And now says Mr. Coen: "In the construction of a foundation we shall use about 900 sections of cast iron pipe, all 10 feet Tlx diameter and abotit lo inches thick. These sections are bolted together by flanges upon the inside. The joints are machined and filled with jute and red lead for the pur pose of making them absolutely water tight Each cylinder, when completed, will be 158 feet long. In the first place, we begin to put the cylinders together in shallow water near a wharf or shore. These will be put in place by the estab liaiiid processes, bolted together, and loy at c Yd. at Serge TTT f! v, I at., kll Worsted and Beaver for etc. rgmoriq 7bc Yd J . IS HERE TO STAY. YOUR TICKETS WILL BE HONORED AT ALL TIMES. A Firstclass Lunch and Short Order Housed TABLE AND COUNTER SERVICE. Opposite Transfer Station. Cars Fren All repots to Cur room. 734 KANSAS AVENUE. the whole finally made firm by frame work or How truss bracing. We shall dredge out the sand at the bottom of each cylinder till the weight of the cylinder sinks it sufficiently. Then the water will be pumped out, and the in terior made olid with concrete. The top of the cylinders, or foundation of our buildings, is to be SB feet above high tide, far above any tidal wave in this part cf the ocean." On this will be erected a large square casino, two stories high in the main and four in the towers. It will contain suits of rooms for hotel purposes planned with an idea to every convenience and to bo furnished luxuriously; will have four large piazzas, four extensive public promenades, eight private dining rooms, kitchens, lavatories, etc. Steam heat and electricity for lighting puriose9 will be used in every room and depart ment. The other building or buildings, for all sorts of picnics, conventions, pleasure parties, etc., will boon similar foundations and connected with the ca sino by bridges. The result, says Mr. Coen, will be to secure all the advan tages of an oceai voyage without crowd ing or seasickness. And they say they will have it ready for use in the sum mer of 1895. Sporting men say it would be an ideal place for a prize fight. It is also hinted that it is to supersede Monte Carlo, which is expected to close in a few years when the present franchise runs out. "And just think," says a brilliant criminal lawyer, "what a place for un willing witnesses. An hour and a half trip, and there yon are safe under the protection of a foreign flag. Then if a client gets into any little difficulty he Can take a trip for his health out there and stay until the thing blows . over. It's cheaper than Canada and more con venient all the comforts of a home, you might say. I should say that one of the things Atalantis could get along best without would be an extradition tret iy. " But the projectors sniff at all 6uch suggestions and declare that Ata lantis shall be a place of law and good morals no refuge for fugitives. A Hinle That Weight 320 Ponndl The largest bible in the world is to be found in Rome. It is written in Hebrew and weighs 320 pounds. It is as much as three men can do to carry it In the year 1312 a syndicate of Venetian Jews offered Pope Julius II. the weierht of the bible in sold, but his holiness declinee to part with it. At the present value of gold the bible wold be worth S375.0QO. Prom Jersey. The reed bird delicate and delicious lay supine on a bit of toast, when Uncle Caleb of New Jersey sat down. "Are you fond of . the little fowl?" asked the hostess. "Well," he re plied, "ez fur taste, they're fine. But ez fur 'pearance, I must say they mind me of a mosquiter growedup." Arrangements have been made by the Edison Electric Ihuminating company with J. F. Carter, proprietor of the U. P. hotel, to furuish electric lamps for re newals to North Topeka custumers. J. V. Hathawat, Supt i Plaint Fancy Silk in Two Toned Dots, Figures, Stripes, at 75c and OQe M Silk Yesting- Jloire, in lildtk and Colors, From S1.00 cp. Dress Trimming In .Mohair and Silk Braids, Jet Passamenteries, Jet Collars and Fougeres, .letted Xets, Insertings, etc. Fine Jetted Laces. Ladies' Extra kc i;i!,!td Wds and Pants in Aatural Cray, i! i a and Cream Fleeced, 50o ca. Ladies' and Children's KiM.id and Fleeced tehinali'ni Si;:U at 50c, 75c and 01 ca. Cent's Ecru VMUd or i'i'; Fleeced Shirts and I'rawers splendid value, 75c ca. scott & scorr, riujaiwiui.i. loBdm, Kansas. "One of ihe greatest amusements f r the children of Japan is catchint? tint 'dragon rly, ' " said Dr. W. 1 Tayl-n-of Boston, who has pp-jufc several ye:tr. in Japan. "Japan is aland of rbiMr n, and thousands of them literally -it in several weeks every autumn in cm dur ing dragon flies and tying kit'-s to thorn for the fun of seeing them fly. S ui after the trrn of the sun in th- ufiT noon hundreds and thousands of I n.' dragon Hies busy themselves flying Inn and there over the rice fields and i--.it dens, catching insects and gnats. '1 ii Japanese boys care fully sat urate t h' i l; of a bamboo with tar and start out f-jf the fun. They must hold the 1u!n!oo np to attract the unsuspecting dra.. in to take a rest. In a moment the Imv gives the bamboo a twi?-t and piif tie tar end into so many motions that it i-t impossible for the creature to avoid it. The boys are so expert at the bu irie-j that I have seen them chase a fly th if had got much ahead eif them ami -,u--ceed in sticking the dragon fly to the reed. When once on th tar end of i hx pole, there is n miserable future forth" captives. They are tied tcgethr :;d carried around in the cha:-e. Tl n a string is tied to each one, and a e-mail piece of paper, serving as u kite, wl.ieh the poor flies are required to sail. Ti: y fly away, but of course soon et c-inht in a tree or l,uh and die of starvation." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. I'nNUkpected l"s- of V :-!. t. Many wonder why it is that men f re port expensive iteam yachts and ("' .n cruises from place to place the whole season. Very oi'te-n tlier nr? raoiji which nobody supeets. The ca-'s i known ejf a wife who eneoiirnf d her husband to buy a yacht and took him away, because in that way only conhi she keep him nenr her and away fro; a others, and if he k?pt "half s'iss or" nobody was tha wiser. There is a ya- ht, now afloat which cott a ireat t'.ii of money, which is mainly inte;,dt d as a sure means of kee-ping a pretty and io mantio young wile clote to her husband during the honeymoon. It only fi,-a-sionally that she gets ashore, and ev'ii if friends are invited on board it is y to change plans and go off sora wh re else, for a yacht, like a woman, is veiy fickle and changeable, and it i-s hard to regulate or determine its rnovene rf-. Still another iustane-e is known of a yacht having been purchased for the ex press purpose of getting a tlauat- r afloat and keeping her away from tin impending unpleasant matrimonial al liance. So the yacht has itsoivu t art to play in social affairs. Philadelphia. Times. President Flllmer'm irn1- ie-e. WiSHiNuros, Oct. 10. The we 1-Ltig of Miss iiuie J. Fillmore of Vh i n t n a , a grand-niece of the late FreViJent ! : -lard Fillmore, nnd Mr. Guy Art hur C m of New York, took plac at Browklatid, D. C. today. Rev. Dr. Charlea V . Caiap of New York city cniciated at the cere mony. Attend the mielarned freight ! Santa Fe depot tomorrow. Superior ranges. Kitchell & Marburg.