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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, 1IOXDAY EVENING; MAY 8,1899.
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Radway'sReady Relief instanly relieves
Bid soon curs Cold. Coufths. sore
Throat. The Grip." Influenza. Bronchitis,
Pneumonia. Swelling of the Joints. I.arn-
t-ajro. Inflammations. Coneestions. Eheu
mutism. Neuralgia. Chilblains. Headache.
Toothache. Asthma. Cures the worst pains
in from one to twenty nv.nutes.
RADTVATS READY RELIEF
No matter how- violent or excruciating
the pain the Rheumatic. Bftind.l-n. In
firm. Crippled. Nervous. .Neura!;:c or
prostrated with disease may sutler. Ka.l
waVs Ke-idv Relief will afford instant
ease. Fifty cents a bottle. Sold by all drug
gists. Bo Sure to Get "Kad way's."
3TKISS0N" SCORES II ANN A.
Declares He is the "Old Kan of the
Sea" to President McKinley
Cleveland. O.. May S. Ex-Mayor Mc
Ki son today discussed Senator Han
na's statement in a recent interview
that he was not a factionist. McKisson
paid Hanna was to blame for all the
factional troubles in the Republican
party here. "'In his own mind." he sail.
-Hanna believes that any man who
does net bow- to Hannaism. bi.ssism
and boodleism ia against the national
administration and President McKin
ley. He objects to the opposition of the
people because he is for Hanna and,
Hanna alone: because he thinks that
he is the whole Republican party and
the sum total of the national adminis
tration. -Every one who speaks out truthful
ly about him "S considered an enemy of
the administration. Hanna today is at
the head of a syndicate, composed of
himself and other corporations, who
sro seeking to put the entire business
of the country on a trust basis and to
make all the ends of the government
subservient to the trust of which they
are the head.
"The time has come when Mark
Hanna and his trust associates must be
eliminated from the politics of this
country, not or.iy for the welfare of the
administration but the welfare of the
Republican party and the citizens of
the country as well.
" I have every reason to believe that
President McKinley has Ion?: ago be
come disgusted with the tactics of this
-would-be boss cf creation and is seek
ing an early opportunity to rid the ad
ministration of his influence.
"This Hanna combination, however,
has so deeply interwoven itseif into all
the different branches of the govern
ment that I believe even the president
wiil be powerless to act. and that nothing-
short of the power of the people
will be able to overthrow- them."
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
grrAr c.Ajira.
Score hv innings:
Cincinnati 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 05
St Lou; 0 0 0 10 0 0 i) 34
Ba:teri-s St. Louis. Powell and Blake;
Cincinnati. Breitenstein and Peitz.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
AT ST. PAUL.
Score bv Innings:
S. Paul 0 0 4 2 4 4 0 0 14
Kansas Citv 0 ) 0 l) 0 il 0 0 0
Batteries-St- Paul. McOill and Spies;
Kansas Citv, Pardee. Egan and Wilson.
AT MINNEAPOLIS.
Pcore bv inrjinss:
P.HEj
iMir.near.ons 4 u l l n b i-t to i
Milwaukee 000010000 I 6 5
Batteries Minneapolis. McNeeiy and
Dixon; Milwaukee. Hart. Reidy and Speer.
AT DETROIT.
Score by Innings:
R H E
De-roit 2000220 2 " 13 5
Indianaoolis 1 3 0 10 14 3 IZ 10 2
Batteries Detroit. Frisk. Buelow and
Andrews; Indianapolis, Keilum and Ka
li oe.
LOIE'S NEW DANCE.
Paris "Wild Over It "While a Great Man
Kisses Her.
Paris, May 8. Loie Fuller, "who goes
to London in a few days with new
dance effects, gave an entertainment
last night which was certainly the
unique thing of the present Paris sea
son. The Ouesto represented science, art.
literature and drama. Toward mid
nieht they w-re invited to the garden,
w here presently a cherubic-looking fig
ure, dressed in vaporous, trailing gar
ments, descended, or rather seemed, to
float, downstairs.
The figure pased into the garden, se
lecting a smooth patch of lawn lighted
by a pale moon and by yellow Chinese
lanterns, and began a mixture of skirt,
serpentine and Turkish dance.
It was a wild sucess. Even the great
Chinese representative in his yellow rid
ing habit was carried off his feet. Ben
jamin Constant, the famous painter, in
tiis excess of enthusiasm, pressed a
couple of sounding kisses on the cheeks
of the fair Loie.
MORRILL'S BOWLING ALLEY
Ez-Governor Having Trouble "With
Hiawatha City Council-Ex-Governor
Morrill is having trouble
w ith the city council of his home town,
Hiawatha. He and a man named Ruley
are interested in a bowling alley Gov
ernor Morrill furnishes the building and
Ruley furnishes the alley and runs it.
The city council at a recent meeting,
by a vote of 6 to 2, refused to grant a
new license for the bowling al!-y and
decided that the institution should close
"n May 15. Now. it is said. Governor
Morrill claims that the action of the
council is confiscating his property. A.
strong influence is being brought to
bear on the council to have it reconsider
its vote on the license and grant it
after all.
OUTBIDS EUROPE.
American Bridge Firm Gets Contracts
AU Over the World.
Philadelphia, May S. The Phoenix
Bridge Works of Phoenixville has just
contracted with representatives of the
Japanese government to build a large
steel bridge for the Imperial railroad
cf Japan. The contract was secured
after a sharp competition v. itn a num
ber of the leading bridge building firms
of Europe.
The company has also contracted to
build a number of steel bridges and
viaducts for railroads in Brazil. Can
ada. Central America and Peru, be
sides building twelve steel railroad
bridges for the Eastern Chinese rail
road, the southeaster terminus of the
Great Transsiberian railroad now being
built by the Russian government.
Hough Riders Reunion.
Chicago. May 8. Postmaster Charles
TJ. Gordon, who is the chairman of the
general committee of the Chicago
autumn festival, announces that Col.
Roosevelt's regiment of Rough Riders
will have their first reunion in Chicago
Is October, - -
FARMSTOR POOR.
Experiment of Booth-Tueker
at Holly, Colorado.
W. E. Cnrtis Tisits the Salva
tion Army Colony.
AX EXTIKE SUCCESS.
Started With Twentj-six Fam
ilies From Chicago.
Solving a Great Problem in a
Small Way.
In his latest letter to the Chicago Rec
ord, Mr. W. E. Curtis happily describes
life in the Salvation army colony at
Holly, Cob, just across the Kansas line.
He says:
Out on the arid plains of Colorado, on
the Santa Fe railroad, just across the
Kansas line. Commander Booth-Tucker
of the Salvation army in a small way
is solving the great problem that will
perplex the next century even more
than it has the last, and his efforts de
serve the admiration and support of
everybody who is interested in the wel
fare of his fellowmen. Three millions
of poor people, according to Commander
Booth-Tucker, "are rotting and fester
ing in the tenements of our great cities.
They constitute our Israel in Egypt.
Their numbers increase with a rapidity
that threatens to make the disease of
pauperdorn as chronic and severe in
our land as in the oldest civilization of
the western world.
"A year ago I formulated the theory
of deliverance as follows." he says.
"Place the waste labor on the waste
land by means of waste capital, and
thereby convert this trinity of modern
waste into a trinity of production. I
pointed out that the centripetal forces
of pur great centers of civilization
which are absorbing the masses of our
population must be countemcted by
centrifugal forces of equal strength. I
argued that if the $50,000,000 now spent
annually by our nation in merely af
fording temporary relief to this social
sore should be devoted to the planting
of the 3.000.000 of cur surplus population
upon say 6.00O.000 acres of fertile soil,
the following results, among others,
would be obtained: Their labor would
produce annually from the land at least
S120.000.000 worth of food for the con
sumption of their families. The value
of the land would increase from 50 to
100 per cent, thereby affording an abun
dant security for the investment of the
capital, which would be repaid within a
period of ten years with interest. The
tax-consumers would be converted into
tax-producers, and an enormously in
creased demand would be created for
the produce of our city manufactures,
while the dead weight of their taxes
would be simultaneously lightened by
the removal of the terrible incubus of
a vast pauper population."
In seeking a practical experiment of
his theory. Commander Booth-Tucker
laid his plans before Paul Morton, one
of the vice presidents of the Santa Fe
railroad, who promptly recognized its
value and offered whatever encourage
ment and assistance that railway could
give. James A. Davis, industrial com
missioner of the Santa Fe company,
took Commander Booth-Tucker and a
party of officials) of the Salvation army
over the line of that road in Mr. Mor
ton's private car as far west as Wins
low, Ariz., visiting nearly all of the
many sections where irrigation systems
are in operation. A few weeks later a
committee composed of two officials of
the Salvation army who are exper
ienced farmers and two Irrigation ex
perts visited several of the locations
that had been reported upon favorably
by the commander's party. They de
cided that a little spot in the Arkansas
valley near the boundary line between
Colorado and Kansas, upon the lands
of the Great Plains Water company,
.was the most desirable. Commander
Booth-Tucker made a favorable contract
with that company, upon which he ob
tained an option upon all of the land
that might be needed for a colony at
the rate of $22. 50 an acre, with a per
petual water right and a contract to
furnish all the water needed for an an
nual assessment of 25 cents an acre.
This is a reduction of about 20 per cent
from the ordinary price of lands, and
eleven years' time was allowed for pay
ment. On these terms the Salvation army
people took one section, or 640 acres of
land, which has since been increased
by half a section, making a total of 960
acres, a few rods from the track of the
Santa Fe railroad. They call it Fort
Amity, and a station will be built there
as soon as the business will justify it.
Then came the great question a? to
whether people who were failures in a
great city could be induced to do the work
and endure the hardships required of suc
cessful pioneers in a new country. Plenty
of disheartened souls were willing to try.
and when an advertisement was in-ertd
in the War Cry at Chicago more than 500
EXCELLENT RESULTS.
They Have Resulted In a Steady
Gain of Popularity.
People Who Are Ever Beady to Kec
ommend What Has Done Them
Much Good.
The people of Topeka feel very grate
ful for the great benefit they have re
ceived from the use of Morrow's Kid-ne-oids.
the great remedy for back
ache, dizziness, sleeplessness, nervous
ness and ail diseases arising- from the
kidneys. Morrow's Kid-ne-oids cure
where other remedies have' failed and
the people of Topeka have not been
slow to find this out. and they add
their testimony that their friends may
know what to get and get cured.
C. X. Ela. No. 916 Wuiney street, re
affirms his statement about Morrow's
Kid-ne-oids curing him. It has been
nearly two years since Mr. Ela used
Kid-ne-oids for kidney ailments and in
flammation of the bladder and he now
says. March. 1S9. that there has been
no return of the old trouble. He for
merly suffered with a. severe backache
as well as inflammation of the bladder
and he had great difficulty in urinating,
and pain in the kidneys. The urine
when standing awhile would get thick,
but two boxes of Kid-ne-oids have
cured him sound and well.
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills,
but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty
cents a. box at Swift & Holliday's drug
store.
Mailed on receipt of price. Manufac
tured by John Morrow & Co., Chemists,
Springfield, Ohio.
TtiAn. -with families, applied for member
ship in the volony. It was proposed to
limit to numbfr to thirty fajniliea so that
each might have a tract of twenty acres
and to srlert the best men who applied
with the view to versatility and adapt
ability such as seemed likely to be the
most enduring: and the most energetic.
All applicants were required to fill blank
forms with information as to their antece
dents and experience and bring certiScates
of physical and moral soundness.
On April 15. the colony started from
Chicago in charee of Thomas Holland, an
Englishman, holding the rank of colonel in
the Salvation Arm v. Mr. Holland came to
this country in li from London to work
in the slums of New York, as for seven
teen, years he had been working in the
stums of London under the persona! di
rection of General Booth. Accompanying
Mr. Holland were the following colonists
with their families:
George Cole, carpenter. "Waltham. irass;
Frank McAbee. dry goods clerk. Alliance,
O. : James Burrows, restaurant keeper,
Denver: George Rupp, motorman: Henry
Newman. carpenter; Walter Baldwin,
bricklayer: Robert Frewing, tlascerer;
Iavid Coker. painter: Robert Newman,
carpenter: Arthur Patterson, news dealer;
Elmer Cox. expressman: George Thomas,
expressman: James Childs. railroad clerk;
Eric Erickson, street railroad conductor;
Gustave Craig, farmer, and William Red
dick, laborer.
Unless otherwise indicated these are all
from Chicago. Thse people were after
ward joined by James Dean, motorman,
Denver; Albert Srimsort. farmer, Kearney,
Kan.; John Arketh. Pueblo. Salvation
Army officer: James Bennett. blackmi: h.
Holly: Elmer Harris. laborer. Holly;
Charles Cash, laborer. Holly, and two or
three others whose names I could not ob
tain, making a total of twenty-six fami
lies and about 100 people all told.
Several freight cars loaded with house
hold effects, lumber and tools had been
sent on in advance, also a supply of food,
extra clothing, hardware and other es
sentials, so that they were ready to begin
work at once.
"On the ISth day of April." said W. M.
"Wiley, manager of the water company at
Holly, "eighteen families arrived at what
hits since been named 'Fort Amity.' The
weather was horrible. One of the peculiar
spells of weather to which the arid regrion
is subject overtook them immediately
upon, their arrival and it rained constantly
for two weeks. The roads were muddy
and no houses were built. Their home was
in tents on the bald prairie and every ob
stacle presented itself to these 'tender
feet.' "To the amazement of the old settlers,
not a moment of a day was lost, but
through the rain and mud the material for
their houses was constantly hauled out
to the site and the bad weather was
laughed at. To such an extent was this
done that it was a common remark of
the old and successful farmers in the
country that few of them would have
worked with the vigor and energy that
these people showed through such weath
er. The confidence aroused by this enercry
has been cemented with time, until today
the o!d set:Iers of the country look on
the Salvation Army colony with the high
est regard, and its officers and members
have been elected by the surrounding
farmers to offices of trust and prominence
In their farmers' societies and institutes.
The ranchmen and cowboys no lonirer
make fun of the Salvation Army colony.
As Mr. Wiley says, they recognize not
onlv a great success but a purpose also,
and give the colonists their hearty and
cordial support. The colonists are not ail
members of the army. Colonel Holland
tells me that few belonged to that organi
zation when they left Chicago. The col
onization movement is intended to include
all worthy poor who sem qualified to
undertake farm life on the frontier and
are willing to submit to the discipline of
the army.
The section and a half belonging- to the
colony was divided into ten-acre tracts
and a family placed upon each alternate
tract, the land being sold to them at cost
price. $22.51 an acre, on eieven years' time.
No payment is expected the first year.
The second year nothing is expected" but
two years' interest at the rate of 5 per
cent. The third year the regular install
ments bgin and continue for nine years,
although a colonist has the option of an
ticipating his payments if he chooses to
do so and getting a clear title to his home.
It is proposed to sell the vacant alternate
tracts to the people whose land adjoins
them, but it is believed that ten acrps is
enough for an inexperienced farmer to
. beein or. All the expenses of the journey
1 from Chicago, a considerable part of the
ou-ni. tne tools, tne implements, the ma
terials for the houses, and. in fact, ail
the capital invested in the colony, was ad
vanced by the Salvation Army, and is to
be repaid in installments, with 6 per cent
interest. Commander BoothTucker does
not believe in direct charity. He thinks
it diminishes self-respect as well as self
reliance. The more you do for a man the
less he will do for himself.
Upon each allotment a pretty one-story
frame cottage was built. The work was
all done by colonists, assisting each other.
The several carpenters directed the labors
of their neighbors and in return received
assistance from them.
There is no neater group of houses in
Colorado, and no more contented commun
ity in the world. Nearly every one has
written to friends urging them to join the
next colony that comes out. and those I
talked with were enthusiastic over their
success and the pleasures they enjoy. It
was difficult for some of them to find
words to express their emotions. Only
one has returned east, and he. James Har
rington, of Cleveland, was reluotantlv
compelled to go because his mother, an
aged widow, wanted to spend her last
days with him and was too ill to be re
moved to Colorado. The children espec
ially have thrived, and vou can not rind
a sturdier lot of little chaps in all the
world than the pale-ficed and hungry
urchins that left the alley of Chicago only
a year ago.
In the center of the village is a neat and
convenient schoolhouse. where Miss Sadie
Gunnison, daughcer of a Denver editor,
who formerly lived in Iowa, presides, and
is teaching about forty young ideas how
to shoot. It is a regular district school
and is said to be the best in the county.
She has a piano in the schoolhouse. eives
music lessons to her pupiis after school
hours, plays for the amusement of their
parents during the long winter evenings,
acts as librarian in ch.iree of a fine lot
of books that look as if they were studi
ously read, and is a guide, cor.tidante and
friend to all the women in the colonv.
The schoolhouse is used for religious
services every Sunday under the direction
of Colonel Holland, and occasional preach
ing by a Methodist circuit preach. -r who
serves several congregations in this sec
tion. It is also the headquarters of the
Farmers institute. A debating society
meets every two weeks and discusses the
great questions that are interesting the
rest of the universe, and twice a month
there is a social gatherinsr. wirh occa
sional entertainments, in which not onlv
the colonists, but ail the people in the
neighborhood, take part.
Each colonist has two horses, one cow
and several hoss. and started with twenty-four
chickens. Each has planted two
acres of fruit trees and little patches of
berries and flowers, which the women look
after. A creamery plant has been pur
chased in common and is now producing
enough butter to supply the local demand
The first crops were raised in common
and consisted of seventy-five acres of
cantaloupes, which were shipped east and
sold at eood prices: rifty acres of beans,
a similar amount of onions, beans.- cab
bage and turnips, and fodder crops to
keep the live stock through the winter.
This srring each man is "taking cite of
his own allotment and is nlantirsr ir a
he pleases, but all are working under the
general direction of Colonel Holland, who
has shown great tact and executive abil
ity, and to whom the prosperitv and con
tentment at Fort Amitv is largelv di e
WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
POLICEMEN" BARKED
From Any Connection With Politics
in New York.
Albany. N. Y.. May 8. Governor
Roosevelt has signed a. bill passed by
the legislature providing that any per
son connected with the police force from
commissioner down to patrolman who
shall use his official power either for or
against any political party shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill pro
hibits promotions for political reasons,
contributions to or collections for politi
cal funds, and forbids any member of
the police force from being a member
of any political club.
Tell Your Grocer
to bring you Gypsy Queen Baking
Powder next time. It's the best you
can get. and besides it's made in Topeka.
RAILR0AD NEWS.
The Death of C. M. Higginson
. Will Probably Leare
A Permanent Vacancy 'In the
Santa Fe Personnel.
HIS WORK COMPLETED
Has Placed the Great System
on a Sound Basis
Of Economy, as Far as Consist
ent or Possible.
The death of Mr. C. M. Higginson,
for the past three years assistant to
President Ripley of the Santa Fe, will
probably leave a permanent vacancy
In the official personnel of the Santa
F"e railway. For two reasons the ap
pointment of a successor is not likely.
The first is that there are few men
capable of handling the work of the
office as it was handled by Mr. Higgin
son, and President Ripley might search
a long time before he would again find
a suitable assistant. ' The second is be
cause the systems inaugurated by Mr.
Higginson are now being carried out,
and the principal work for which he
was employed has been accomplished.
While Mr. Higginson succeeded ad
mirably in his peculiar position, other
men might be- in the way. Ic was hi3
duty to accomplish a saving wherever
possible without crippling in any man
ner the facilities of the road, and in
three years' time he had practically
every department of the immense Santa
Fe system on a basis as economical as
considerate with good management. As
assistant to Mr. Ripley he had unlim
ited authority, and he used it in se
curing information of the detailed work
ing of the road. Heads of the various
departments who were compelled to fur
nish this information very often thought
it a useless task, but later its value in
Mr. Higginson's hands was proven.
President Ripley is at present in Eu
rope. It is believed that when he re
turns he will declare the position of
assistant to the president abolished.
That is, unless he has a second Higgin
son In rrfind. .
SANTA FE OFFICIALS
Leave For Chicago to Attend the Fu
neral of C. M. Higginson.
'A special train made up of private
cars and carrying practically all of the
Santa Fe officials of this city left yes
terday afternoon for Chicago as a sec
ond section of No. 6. The train ar
rived in Chicago this morning, and this
afternoon the officials are attending the
funeral of Mr. C. M. Higginson, late as
sistant to President Ripley, who died
Saturday morning. General Manager
Frey and several other officials were
in New Mexico on a trip of inspection
w hen notified of the death of Mr. Hig
ginson. and they returned to Topeka
yesterday afternoon. Here they were
Joined by the officials of this city.
FAST TRACK BUILDING.
Santa Fe Makes a Kecord Between
Strong City and Neva.
Emporia, May 8. R. J. Parker, super
intendent of the middle division, as
sisted by Roadmaster Bradley and
ninety-eight men. laid three miles and
1.174 feet of 75-pound steel rails be
tween Strong City and Neva on Friday.
The work was done in nine hours and
is the fastest record ever made for lay
ing that length of track, so Mr. Parker
says.
This gives the championship to the
Santa Fe road for fast track building.
AWARDED $50,000.
Negro Gets Judgment Against White?
Assailants in Kentucky.
Louisville, Ky., May 8. Georg-e Din
ning, colored, has been awarded $50,000
damages by a jury of white men in the
United States court. The defendants
are farmers of Logan and Simpson
counties. The award Is for the full
amount sued for.
Dinning killed Jodie Conn, who, with
defendants against whom judgment was
rendered, visited his home at midnight
in January. 1S97, to drive him there
from. His home was afterward burned
and his family, including his wife and
ten children, were driven away from
home.
INAUGURATING A BIRD DAY
From the Albany Argus.
The Conservative, a Nebraska City
weekly paper.edited by J. Sterling Mor
ton, contains in a recent issue a Ions
plea for the addition of Bird Day to
the school calendar. C. A. Babcock.
superintendent of schools of Oil City,
Pa., is credited with being the origina
tor of the idea of Bird Day. He wrote
to Mr. Morton in 1"94 urging the estab
lishment of such a day on the same
general plan as Arbor Day. and his
suggestion met with the hearty ap
proval of the then secretary of agricul
ture, who was himself the founder of
Arbor Day. May 4 of the same year
Oil City gratified the wishes of the schoo!
superintendent by giving effect to his
idea. This was the first Bird Day, and,
according to the testimony of the Jour
rial of Education, it was observed in
the 'Oil City Fchools with a degree of
enthusiasm which was good to see.
"The amount of information about
birds that was collected by the children
was simply amazing. Original compo
sitions were read, informal discussions
were held. talks by teachers were given,
and the birds in literature were not for
gotten or overlooked."
Subsequent observances were equally
successful: a similar movement was start
ed in Iowa, and in other states there was
an awakening of interest on the subject.
It engaged the sympathies of the crusad
ers who deplore the sacrifice of birds to
millinery, and of those who would check
the murderous and predatory instincis of
small boys, but there has as yet been no
such generous support of Bird dav as has
been accorded to Arbor day. Time, how
ever, might be well spared to it. both be
cause of the instruction and the pleasure
it would bring. Here we note a stimulus
that is a real inspiration to study. Tire
less routine makes way for a series of ob
ject lessons, in the preparation for which
the youthful demonstrators have had their
faculties of observation exercised to the
utmost.
In larger cities the study of bird life
might be made in the parks and in those
delightful books of which the publishers
are so lavish nowadays. Never was there
a time before when children could get at
so many charming and attractive volumes
on any branch of natural historv. never a
time when so much was done in" literature
to correct the ignorance that has attacked
the feathered allies of men in field and
forest as if they were enemies. It is s.
good work that deserves the general es
tablishment of Bird day to further ita ob-4scu
FUNSTON QUICKSTEP.
Composer Concluded That a March
. Is Too Slow.
A march, or rather a quickstep, has
been written for Brigadier General Fred
Funston by Charles A. E. Harris, mana
ger of Ian Godfrey's British Guards band,
which will be in Kansas City on Decora
tion day. It was written in Kansas City
Friday and the Kansas City Journal Jells
how -it was done.
"A march is too slow for General Fun
ston : it wiil have to be a quickstep," said
Charles A. E. Harriss. the composer, and
manager of the British Guards band, yes
terday. "That fellow doesn't march, from all I
have read about him. Whenever he starts
after a bunch of Filipinos he charges
them, and I find what I have had in mind
is not a march at all. but a quickstep.
"Here is the theme." said he, writing
rapidly a few measures on a scrap of pa
per. "Come up to my room."- he added,
impulsively. "I feel in a mood for that
sort of thing and I think I can write it
out In half an hour."
Spreading himself over the table, his feet
crossed under his chair. Mr. Harris be
came immediately absorbed in his work.
The composer of "British Guards" march
and of operas and cantatas galore was in
a martial mood, from the way his should
ers and head now and then kept vigorous
time to a "tum-te-de-tum-te-de-tum" he
might have been at the front with the
Kansas troops, charging the intrench
meuts before Calumpit or the railroad
bridge across the Rio Grande.
With much whistling and humming and
excited beating of time, the Funston
quickstep was written, and at length the
.composer sprang up with a double .sheet
of music paper filled with the penciled
score and exclaimed: 'There it is. com
plete. Godfrey will say it's just the thing.
Let's go down to the hall and give it a
trial."
A few minutes later Harriss was at the
piano in the big Convention hall with an
audience of half a dozen, including Man
ager Loomas and Vice Consul Burrough.
"Fall in line." cried Mr. Loomas. as the
strains of music filled the spacious hall.
"We'll be the first to march to the Fun
ston quickstep."
Around the arena the procession filed, in
and out. among the seats, while the com
poser bent over the keys, his cigar bob
ing in his teeth.
"You're going too fast," puffed the last
man in line.
"That's what I would call a Cakewalk."
said Mr. Burrough. falling exhausted into
a chair. The music kept on. better and
faster. New runs were improvised and
changes made until the composer was sat
isfied with the production.
"That will bring forth a storm of ap
plause when the British Guards band
plays it on May 30 for the first time."
"It's a corker!"
To these compliments the glowing Mr.
Harriss remarked: "We can't all write
Sousa marches, but I think that will ac
cord musically with the dare-devil spirit
of the little Kansas hero."
MR. BROWN'S OFFER.
Might Be Considered a Good One Bat
For Conditions.
To the City Council and Xew City Hall
Promoters:
It seems that the proposed Xew City
Hall and Auditorium enterprise is blocked
until the present city building- can be sold,
and that no bids for it have been pre
sented. In order to accomplish the double pur
pose r.f disposing of the present city building-
and providing- a site for the new city
hall. I offer the following- proposition, viz:
To give the site heretofore offered the
city of five lots on northeast corner of
Seventh and Jackson streets, and S25.0O0
cash for the city building: provided, the
citizens will subscribe for. or procure the
floating of $40,000 oX first mortgage, ten
year. 4 per cent bonds, secured by a trust
deed on the present city building property.
Interest on these bonds to be paid quar
terly at any bank in Topeka. Title to be
taken to me and the bonds issued accord
ingly secured by trust deed with the us
ual provisions. Such trust deed to be
given to one or more trustees to be se
lected by the mortgage bond subscribers.
The above proposition hinges upon two
points First, the willingness of The city
council to give the present city building
for the five lots on northeast corner Sev
enth and Jackson streets, and S-.J5.non cash,
thus providing a central site for th new
building and a building fund of $.C,G00 in
cluding the $0,000 of city bonds to he is
sued. Second, upon the willingness of
$40.rn)0 of capital to invest the same in ten
year 4 per cent bonds of any denomina
tion desired, secured by first mortgage
on present city building: property.
This proposition is based on the idea of
giving the city an alternative by which
the new city hall and Auditorium" nro.iect
can go forward at once, rather than a
hone to get the city propertv on these
terms. We wish the proposition looked
upon and considered in that spirit. :f con
sidered at all. It can be carrie;! out upon
our part within a very few days, and f un
completed as soon as the funds derived,
from the mortgage bonds were avai'able.
FRANK J. BROWN,
Agent and Trustee.
IS TOPEKA LAZY I
Atchison Apparently Does Not Un
derstand TJs.
The people of Topeka have become lazy,
also: it has been decide.! to hold no Pall
Festival this year. Atchison CHobe.
Ic is not true that the people of Topeka
have become lazy like some of our neigh
bors who found it too much troubble to
give Corn Carnivals. The Pali Festival
has been shelved for this year for some
thing greater and grander and which will
interest every loyal citizen of Kansas. A
grand reception to the Twentieth Kansas
reeiment is under way. Nothing will be
left undone to make it the greatest event
in Kansas history. The people will work
as they never worked before. The Globe
evidently knows better for it printed the
following in the same issue:
Topeka people gave up their Pall Fes
tival in order to devote all their ener
gies to a fitting reception to Fred Fun
ston." This is right. The reception will be fit
ting and all the corn-throwers of Atchi
son are cordially invited to come.
When Mr. Ed Howe went up to Omaha
last year to have a good time on the Mid
way Atchison lost the only man in the
town who knows how to run carnivals so
I Charley Holliday offered to take a troop
; of Karnival Knights from Topeka over
I and run the Corn Carnival, but word was
1 received that it was too much work to
I sweep the com off the streets afLer the
blowout was over.
WILL MARRY WIDOWS.
Club Formed in Peoria With, This
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Peoria. III.. May 8. A club with thirty-five
charter members has been
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or other requirement placed upon the
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"BEN II UK" STARTED.
Dramatist -William Young Submits
the' Outline to Gen- -Wallace.
Crawfordsville. Ind., May 8 The
work of preparing for the dramatiza
tion of -Ben Hur" is well under way.
General Lew Wallace, the author, is de
lighted with the outline presented to
him by William Young, the New Tork
dramatist who is doing the work, and
Mr. Toung declares he never undertook
a similar task with such enthusiasm.
Mr. Toung and John Brooks, the latter
a member of the syndicate that is to
back the production, departed for New
Tork, having spent two days with Gen
eral Wallace. During their visit they
arranged many details.
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION?
Italian Papers Booming a Discovery
by Prof. Cervilio.
Rome, May 8. Some of the news
papers are booming an alleged radical
cure for tuberculosis discovered by
Prof. Cervilio of the University of Pal
ermo, and publish wonderful stories of
the success of the remedy, which is
called formalin a.
It is applied by means of subcutan
eous injections.
COUNTRY RULED BY WOMEN
From the Chicago Chronicle.)
The feminine element in protesrin Amer
ica that longs for equal suffrage might
gain, their deirs by emigrating across the
seas to the little country hemmed in by
the Alps.
A whole town In the Swiss government
has sucMenly come under petticoat gov
ernment. This is the Canton Ticino, where
stern necessity rtnjuired that the, women
should be allowed to vote. So many of
the men had emigrated to seek: for work
that the municipality was without voters
anil could not make laws and elect of
ficers. The commune of Melano having especial
ly suffered from the dearth of men and
all parish business having come to a
standstill, the parish council has decreed
that during the months of sprirur and
summer the emancipation of the women
hes become a necessity for the discharge
of p4iblic business: that, therefore, in do
fault of deputies of the male sex. each
member of the parish council may be rep
resented by a woman member of his own
household, the women having the same
right to vote as belonged to the duly elect
ed but mainly absentee council of males.
In consequence of this measure the com
mune of Melano is at present administered
by a council of wives and mothers, assisr
ed by a few azed men and invalids, win
are stated to form the opposition. The
liberal press of Ticino approves this new
form of government, while the Catholic
organs are strongly opposed to it.
Horse Standing Where He Froze.
Laramie. Wyo., May S. Out on the
Laramie plains, west of this city, there
is a grim monument to the terrors of
the past rigorous winter. Between the
two Laramie rivers there stands a
horse which was frozen to death dur
ing one of the very severe storms of the
past season. The animal was frozen
while standing, the snow having drifted
about him and held the carcass erect.
The snow has since melted away and
the horse is still standing, his four feet
being extended in a bracing position
America Gets the Order.
Washington. May 8. Particulars of
the new Syria-Ottoman railway, which
is to run from Haifa, near Beyroot, to
Damascus, and thence to the Persian
gulf, have been furnished the state de
partment by United States Consul
Rayndal at Beyroot- He says the
Thomas Iron Works, one of the contrac
tors, being crowded with orders, the
rails and rolling stock for this road will
be bought in the United States.
Santa Fe's Notice to Shippers.
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all valley road stations as far north as
San Francisco wiil be received on and
after July 1. as the Santa Fe will be
prepared to haul freight in and out of
San Francisco over its own track by
the date given.
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THE CULT OF ISIS.
From the London Telegraph.
Sects of "Xeo-Pagans." of Zoroas
trians and of other mysterious and oc
cult "religions'" have their representa
tives and quarters in Paris, and one nf
these fine days the inhabitants of this
gay cit may, as it would appear, be
treated to the spectacle of the ceremon
ies with which the rather eccentric peo
ple who have a sneaking kindness for
Isis. the ancient Egyptian goddess, de
light to honor her memory.
Some of our antiquaries are recalling
to mind the fact that the old Gauls
were somewhat given to the worship of
Isis. Enthusiasts even argue that Par
is is a corruption of Bar Isis. the ves
sel of Isis. A temple of Isis is affirmed,
by those who profess to know all about
it. to have crowned the summit of llont
martre. and a statue of Isis was dis
covered once npon a time in the neigh
borhood of the church of St. Germain
des Pres.
At any rate, it seems that we are
likely to witness some extraordinary
rites, including the famous "dance of
the four elements." divided into the
pas or steps of the Flowers, of the Mir
ror, of the Tresses and of the Per
fumes, and all this executed or led by a
graceful little "priestess." hailing not
from the banks of the Xile, but from
those of the Seine. Then there will be
singing of hymns and primitive tunes,
quite barbaric in fact. and. if report is
to be credited, the whole performance
will be under the auspices of an Anglo
Egyptian couple which is vastly inter
ested in this matter of the worship of
Isis.
Travelers and Home-Seekers Going
Northwest to Montana and
Washington,
After March 14th. can take through
tourist sleepers every Tuesday and
Thursday at Kansas or St. Joseph,
via the Burlington Route, for the entire
Journey through to Butte, Spokane. Se
attle. Puget Sound and intermediate
destinations on the Northern Facilkj
Railway.
These through sleepers are the "real
thing." and are carried on the Burling
ton's Montana Express, leaving Kansas
City 10:40 a. m.. St. Joseph 12:40 p. m..
via its Northwest Main Line, the Bil
lings Route the short line and the time
sver to the entire Northwest.
These are the only through sleeping
cars for first or second class passengers
from Kansas City or St. Joseph to Mon
tana and Washington.
Also first class through sleeping car
service every day from these cities to
Butte. Anaconda. Montana, commenc
ing March 12th.
Write us about these things.
J. C. BRAMHALL.
Trav. Passenger Agent,
St. Joseph, Ma.
L. W. WAKELET,
Gen'l Passenger Agent.
St. Louis. Mo.
Try the Brett Book Store for type
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