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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1900.
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.
ET FRANK P. MAC LEN'NAS,
VOLUME XXVII
Official Paper of tfc City of TopeKa.
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General Miles' opportunity for action
may come when the time arrives for
subduing the Kentucky insurgents.
The prices paid for senatorial votes
In Montana would probably be dis
couraging to aspirants in any other
state.
Democrats are finding at least one
1 thing to approve in President McKlnley
and that is his advocacy ol free trade
with Puerto Rico.
Count Castellane is now about the
proper distance for fighting a duel with
the editor of the Figaro, measured by
the French view of such things.
The victory of the Mexican army
over the Taquis is turning out to be
much like some of the British victories
In South Africa lacking in substan
tiality. .
The British have become so demor
alized by frequent defeats that they
no longer put much faith in reports of
victories. They fear that every tem
porary success may lead to another
Boer trap.
If the financial condition accredited to
the Castellanes be as represented in
Paris it must have been painful to
them to learn of Miss Helen Gould's
donation of $123,000 to the naval branch
of the Brooklyn Y. M. C. A.
Time was when such events as the
opening of the Chicago drainage canal
or the laying of the corner stone of
Topeka's auditorium would have been
made subjects of public celebration,
but in these days of injunctions all this
Is changed.
Colonel Bryan's experiences In the
"enemy's country" appear to be far
from discouraging to that gentleman so
far. Great chunks of harmony are ob
served to hang from the walls and ceil
ing of the buildings where he appeared
In Connecticut, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. Daniel W. Boutwell of Topeka who
performed a very brave and hazardous
act during the war is still waiting for
a pension which shall assist hi'm and
suitably recognize his conduct. His
bravery and success in carrying a dis
patch from General Curtis to General
Pleasanton in 1864, it is said, foiled
Price's raid in Kansas and saved vast
etore3 of government property. Con
gressman Curtis has recently intro
duced a bill for the relief of Boutwell.
According to government licenses is
sued there are 212.156 retail liquor deal
ers in the United States, 4,121 more than
in 1S93. There are 4,496 wholesale deal
ers, 1,959 breweries and 1,907 rectifiers
of spirits. During the last year 25.202,
901 bushels of grain and 2,198,513 gallons
of molasses were used for the manu
facture of liquor in this country, which
produced 107,618.120 gallons of spirits
and 1.657,808 gallons of rum, making a
total of 109,273,928, which is about one
gallon and a half to every man, woman
and child in the country.
DOWN WITH THE PAPER TRUST
At last a power has been Invoked
against one trust, which if vigorously
applied can hardly fail to bring the de
sired results. It is the power of the
press of the United States and It is to
be directed against the paper trust.
The organization which has lately
doubled the cost of white paper to the
publishers of the country has not only
secured the control of the mills but of
the raw material which enters Into the
manufacture of its product also. Both
the raw material and the manufactured
article are protected by a tariff duty.
With outside competition cut off, with
control of the mills, the spruce forests
and the water power adjacent thereto
It is not surprising that this gigantic
monopoly is able to give the screw of
the vise which holds the newspapers
of the country a turn whenever it feels
so disposed.
It is proposed. In an address Issued
by the Colorado Editorial association,
to unite the publishers of the country
in an effort to secure the repeal of thai
portion of the tariff law which affords
protection for the trust In the exercise
of Us rapacity.
There is every reason for the removal
of the duty on wood pulp and paper
and none for Its existence. The paper
manufacturers do not need It, because
they are already selling their product
in successful competition with the pa
per makers of other countries in all the
markets of the world.
As a revenue producer it amounts to
almost nothing and is therefore of no
Importance to the government.
Unless congress should forestall ac
tion in the matter by a repeal of the
paper and pulp tariff, it is expected that
the American Newspaper Publishers'
association, which will meet in New
Tork in February, and the National
Editorial association when it meets in
New Orleans next month will take such
action as will compel attention to the.
demands of publishers for relief from
the exactions of the paper combine.
CLOBE SIGHTS.
From the tchison Globe?
The comfort a man finds la a. good
smoke, a woman often finds in a good
cry.
SUIIie people muuuiu lu utile mat. I
other people refuse to gossip about ,
. i :
GossiD is conducted on the endless
chain lines. When It reaches you,
break it.
About the only time the average man
shows an interest in domestic affairs,
is when a rat trap is to be baited.
Here is something that may interest
women who are looking for husbands:
A man hates mightily to marry an en
tire family.
The average young person Bpends so
much time reading pretty poems about
Opportunity, that he neglects to grasp
those in his way.
An Atchison woman never gets to go
to church because her husband always
goes, and there is no one left to take
care of the babies!
"I can't gossip about her," said a
woman today. "I . have accepted no
favors from her, and, therefore, feel
that I have no right to abuse her."
Th?re are hundreds of books that are
not intended to be read: they are to
place in prominent positions in every
house, so that callers may see them,
and consider the family "cultured."
Most books of poetry are in this class.
'Pilgrim's Progress" is a parlor table
book. So is Dante's Divine Comedie.
So is "Paradise Lost." No sane person
ever read any one of these books, and
really admired it as literature.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
The unexpected seldom happens more
than once.
The bite of a toothless dog might be
termed a soft snap.
Some people are radical In theory but
conservative in action.
The hungry actor at the table Is will
ing to take everybody's part.
Men tell more lies about their weight
than women do about their age.
The foremost question of the day ..
concerning the prospective weatnCT.
The bill board makes the actor glad,
but the board bill makes him tired.
Whe two souls have but a single
thought the thought seldom interests
outsiders.
The silent watches of the night should
be replaced by an alarm clock for late
risers.
Some people remain away from
church when it rains because their re
ligion isn't waterproof.
The tariff makes some things come
high, but old bachelors and spinsters
are on the free list.
It is a curious fact that the best way
to make both ends meet is to pursue
a straight and honorable career.
BACHELOR BUTTONS.
From the New Tork Press.
Be sure you are right, then let the
girl go ahead.
Convention is the soul's barbed-wire
fence to keep the cattle off.
Love in a cottage is all right, only
it's kind of hard on the cottage.
A woman's sympathies half the time
are with the one she hopes will get
licked.
Probably the only place where a man
has a pocket where he never uses it is
in his nightshirt.
If all the microbes were elephants
some women wouldn't make any more
fuss about them.
When a man's 20, pleasure is busi
ness; when he's 30, business is busi
ness; when he's 40, business is pleas
ure. When a woman gets mad at her hus
band she always tries to break his
heart by taking to kissing him the way
women, do.
Every time a man gets married there
is some woman who makes up her mind
that she would have refused him, any
how, if he had been fool enough to ask
her.
It is a funny thing that a woman
can carry seven bundles and a baby
around all day and never get them
mixed up and hold the baby by the
string.
RAILWAY MAIL EXPERTS.
Petition Uncle Sam for More Fay and
Fewer Hours,
New Tork, Jan. 26. A special to the
Times from Washington says: Some
time ago Postmaster General Smith re
issued an order made by Postmaster
General Wilson in 1895, prohibiting
postoffice employes from visiting Wash
ington to influence legislation. The
order carried dismay to the hearts of
employes in the railway mail service,
who had been planning a vigorous cam
paign in support of their contention for
a reclassification of the service. Mr.
Smith, however, had no intention of
leaving them in the lurch or of having
the plan defeated through lack of sup
port. He has himself laid before the
committee on postoffices and post roads
the claims of the employes, with a
strong argument in favor of increase
in pay.
He pointed out that the United States
expects more from its employes in this
service and pays them less than the
leading countries of Europe. Compared
with France, our railway mail em
ployes do the work of two men and re
ceive comparatively less pay. In Eng
land appointment to the railway service
comes as a promotion from city post
office work, and carries with it an ad
vance of from 30 to SO per cent. Ger
many increases the salaries of its rail
way mail employes according to the
length of service, the average being 30
per cent.
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THE DON'T WORRY BOOK.
E. W. Howe's Atchison Globe has Is
sued the "Don't Worry Book," printed
for the Globe's "Don't Worry dub."
Accompanying it is a button badge a
white disc about the size of a five-cent
piece with blue letters D. W. In the
center surrounded by the words "The
Atchison Globe's Club."
The book is a booklet.vest -pocket size.
As the work is not copyrighted, not
even the Globe's announcement at the
end, the State Journal reprints it here
with in full, because of the good phil
osophy it contains.
DON'T WORRY CLUB.
Did you ever think seriously of the
folly of worry? Will you give ten
minutes to the subject now? Sleep
lessness, nervousness, insanity, and a
long list of bodily diseases, are the re
sult of Worry.
You are here, and you cannot honest
ly get away for a time, therefore why
not be as comfortable as possible?
The good prisoner finds life more tol
erable than his unruly mate who is
often in the dark cell.
We do not pretend to say you have
no cause for Worry. What we contend
is that Worry makes every discomfort
worse, and that you can overcome the
habit to some extent.
Join the Don't Worry Club. You will
not make much progress in a week, but
in a month you will have a better tem
per: in three months you will decide
that joining the Don't Worry Club was
the wisest step you ever took.
There is no initiation fee in the Don't
Worry Club. No foolish initiation cere
monies; no Riding the Goat. No one
to laugh at you. No expense of any
kind. No uniform to wear. No signs,
grips or passwords. No meetings. Noth
ing that is not sensible: nothing that
your own common sense cannot approve.
When you join the Don't Worry Club,
you simply resolve to make the best of
life. You need not wear a button or
badge: you need not tell anyone you
belong. No state or national meetings:
no delegates running around the streets
wearing badges.
A member of the Don't Worry Club
who does the best he can will enjoy
better health than the men and women
who run into every stone wall to dem
onstrate how much suffering they can
endure; he will be more agreeable to
his associates; he will live longer and
more comfortably; he will die an easier
death.
Christian Science has done good In
the world. The Don't Worry Club has
every sensible feature of Christian
Science, and none of its controverted
doctrines. A great many laugh at the
Christian Scientists. No one will laugh
at a member of the Don't Worry Jlub.
for there is nothing in its principles
that can be scoffed at, or ridiculed.
There is not a man living who, being
told of the principles of the Don't
Worry Club, will not approve of them.
Catholics, Protestants. Jews, Chinese,
Boers, Turks and infidels, and the
learned as well as the ignorant, will
accept the principles of the Don't Wor
ry Club. Heretofore, every Reform
has been the subject of a quarrel.
Here are the principles:
1. Worry is injurious.
2. Worry can usually be avoided. In
training yourself to avoid worry, you
get a mental training that will aid
you in other ways.
3. Worry can be most easily avoided
by those who are most fair and honora
ble. No one guilty of bad or foolish
conduct of any kind, can avoid worry
Guilt is a poor bed fellow.
(These three rules are the essential
principles of the Don't Worry Club:
they are all you need to remember. A
few others are given, which you may
remember if you choose.)
4. Whoever talks too much, has
cause to worry that cannot be over
come. Talk less, and better. If you
have secrets that do not concern the
public, keep them to yourself: the ex
change of "confidences" encourages
gossip and worry.
5. Avoid excess of every kind. Good
habits are as powerful as bad habits.
A good habit is the source of constant
pleasure, as bad habits are the source
of constant worry.
6. Don't boast your membership in
the Don't Worry Club, and of your su
periority over others. There is seldom
anything substantial back of a boast.
7. No good member of the Don't
Worry Club will have too much confi
dence in lawyers or doctors: to call a
lawyer or doctor is often an indication
that you are worrying about something
that might have been avoided.
8. Success has its worries but they
are not so great as the worries that at
tend failure. Lazarus must have had
some other virtue than failure in life:
than poverty. Failure in this fat old
world often suggests laziness.
9. We sometimes doubt (when we
fail to live up to the principles of the
Don't Worry Club) that any one ever
had an unselfish friend, but refusal to
worry is a good friend. A good charac
ter is a friend you can depend upon, and
good work for your employer is an
other. 10. Some men impose on others, but
their success in this direction must
cause them worry. You should help
your friends, rather than impose on
them. Be as kind and helpful as you
can to your neighbors, and you wi'A
not worry a great deal because of
neglect of duty in Hindoostan.
11. There are so many weak men In
the world that it must be a source of
satisfaction to be a strong one. Try it:
refusal to worry will help you.
12. A little common sense is worth
more than genius. Patience is com
mon sense; fairness is common sense;
honesty is common sense; refusal to
worry is common serse.
13. Some very eminent men say there
is no such disease as hydrophobia: that
what passes for hydrophobia is the re
sult of Worry over a harmless dog bite.
Don't argue about this question, or any
other, but it is evidence that some of
the wisest men regard Worry as very
harmful.
14. The barbarians were dishonest:
a successful raid was considered as suf
ficient excuse for bad conduct. But civ
ilization has discovered that honesty
is the best policy; that success is not
possible without it. If you hope to
avoid worry, you must therefore avoid
bad conduct.
15. Every man thinks with horror of
being a burden in his old age. Every
member of this club, therefore, will en
deavor by means of frugality, indus
try, and as good sense as he can com
mand, to provide for the inevitable
rainy days with which our lives end.
Much of the worry of the old is worry
over poverty that was unnecessary.
16. The best members of this club
will be temperate; a few will drink
moderately, but always with the con
sciousness that it is a bad habit to be
closely watched. No man who has been
intoxicated can fail to worry over his
disgrace when sober. Intoxication, is
one habit for which there is not a sin
gle excuse, and there is less charity for
excessive drinking now than ever be
fore in the history of the world. It is
always accepted as an evidence of
weakness.
17. It is easy to join the Don't Wor
ry club. You simply resolve to make
an effort to avoid the folly of worry.
You need not tell any one. You pay no
dues. You are the president of the club,
and responsible for its success or fail
ure. You earnestly try to control your
mind: to strengthen it: to do yourself
as much good as possible. You do not
write to other members saying you are
"making an effort." No other members
write to you, or bother you by calling
on you. Some people are naturally
members of the c lub: they have what
is known as a "happy disposition." It
is necessary for others to make an ef
fort. You need only say, "I will try it."
If you fail (and you need not fail, en
tirely), no one will know of your effort,
and no one will laugh at you. You hear
a good deal lately of occult philosophy.
So far as it is of any value, and has
any existence, it is possible to members
of the Don't Worry club.
18. The members or this club who
have been denied a college education,
will acquire one that is in some re
spects superior; no one need remain
poor or ignorant because of poverty in
youth.
19. Do not be too sentimental; senti
ment easily becomes weakness. A barn
yard hen cannot become a lark; there
are those who say a longing for such a
change is ridiculous.
20. Few men become greater than the
good citizen; the good husband; the
good father: the good brother.
21. The Don't Worry Club was sug
gested by the wisdom of an Atchison
butcher who never worries: Charley
Poehler (pronounced Pay-ler.) An
Atchison woman who trades with Char
ley Poehler says she has been abusing
him twenty years, and does not believe
he ever heard a word she said.
While the Don't Worry club has no
grips or passwards, it has a few signs
for recognizing members. Here they
are:
Signs for Recognizing Members of the
Don't Worry Club:
When you meet a man who Is neat
in his habits, intelligent and modest in
conversation, and quick to render as
sistance to children and the aged, he
is usually at least a beginner, and
striving for the higher honors of the
club. Unfortunately, however, a few
men of this description have not yet
learned the importance of the princi
ples of the Don't Worry club, but if
you watch the man, closely, you may
satisfy yourself fully. Here are a few
signs that will nearly always indicate
that he is a member: a. If he is a
young man, he will not speak of his
father as "the old man;" b. If he is an
elderly man, he will not speak disparag
ingly of the young; c. If he needs infor
mation, he asks for it politely, intelli
gently, and without a needless repeti
tion of words; if he has business to
transact, he transacts it as quickly
and thoroughly as possible; d. He does
not "argue" insolently, and in a loud
voice; e. He is polite in public places,
and does not try to attraet attention by
any species of smartness; f. He is
courageous in case of danger; g. Hs
seems to be a gentleman in all respects.
In order to avoid worry, it is necessary
to practice the virtues enumerated
above. The same rules, with a few
changes as to'conditions, wiir apply to
women and children.
(Note. The official organ of the Don't
Worry club is the Atchison Globe. The
Weekly Globe is an eight page paper;
eight columns to the page. The price
is not enough to worry you; twenty-five
cents a year, but no member of the club
Is expected to take the paper unless he
wishes. The price of the daily is equal
ly reasonable. The Atchison Globe is
the only paper printed in a city of six
teen thousand inhabitants. Its two con
temporaries worried themselves to
death. Copies of this booklet furnished
free; club buttons at the same price.
The Lawrence Journal says: "It is the
opinion of Kansas newspaper men that
the Atchison Globe is the best paper in
the state." William Allen White, who
wrote "What's the Matter with Kan
sas," says in the Emporia Gazette:
"The Atchison Globe is known wher
ever the English language is spoken."
Hamilton Holt, of the New York Inde
pendent says: "In my opinion, the
Atchison Globe prints better para
graphs than any other paper in this
country.")
BLANCHE WALSH WON $1930
Davenport Diamond Bracelet Gave the
Actress Luck at Roulette.
Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 26. Before
leaving this city Blanche Walsh, the
actress, said of her winning at roulette
in the Arkansaw Club last week:
"There were several gentlemen play
ing when we entered. Rouiette seemed
so easy that several of the party pro
posed playing a few silver dollars. I
had only a limited amount of cash with
me. By the time I had lost it others of
the party were winners.
"I presume it was my womanly ob
stinancy and an inherent dislike to, be
ing beaten that came to the fore.
Anyhow, I accepted the jeer of one of
the party to secure more checks on the
Davenport diamond bracelet, and said I
would take J200 worth. My luck from
the time the bracelet was mentioned
was unvarying and my pile of checks
increased, gradually for a time, but to
ward the last by jumps.
"The first check I put down (on the
OO) won me astonishing odds, and the
gentlemen of the party said that never
before did this number come so often
as it did during the two hours of my
play. At the end of my two hours' play
I was $1,930 richer. It was my first, ven
ture at gambling, and was unpremedi
tated." The FannyDavenport diamond brace
let, valued at $10,000, is familiar to theatre-goers
who have seen Blanche
Walsh's predecessor in "La Tosca."
ANOTHER BhTdEAL.
Air la Full of Startling Important
Railroad Rumors.
New Orleans, Jan. 26. An important
conference of high railroad officials that
may have as its result the sale of an
important railroad line is in progress in
this city. President Stuyvesant Fish,
of the Illinois Central, President E. L.
Russell of the Mobile and Ohio, and
President Milton H. Smith of the Louis
ville & Nashville arrived here last
night. There is reason to believe that
Mr. Fish and Mr. Russell are here to
confer over the sale of the Mobile &
Ohio to the Illinois Central. They were
together in a long conference and neith
er would deny today that the object of
their conference was as stated. Presi
dent Russell was asked if the story was
true that the Mobile & Ohio had been
sold to the Illinois Central; what he said
was this:
"If the Mobile & Ohio is going to be
sold I would as soon see the Illinois Cen
tral buy it as any other road that I
know of."
The same question was put to Mr.
Fish. He replied:
"Today the Illinois Central has not
purchased the Mobile & Ohio." It is not
known what has brought President
Smith here to confer with Messrs. Fish
and Russell.
CATTLE KING HURT.
Millionaire Miller of California Meet.
With an Accident.
Gllroy, Cal., Jan. 26. Henry Miller, the
California cattle king, was thrown from
his buggy today and sustained concus
sion of the brain. It is feared that the
injury is extremely serious, owing to the
severe shock coupled with the advanced
age of the millionaire. The accident was
caused by the horses taking frirtt at
the train. Henry Miller is one of the
richest men in California and conducted
the enormous cattle business of Miller
and Lux. The firm owns over a million
acres of land on the Pacific coast.
The modern and most effective cure for
constipation and all liver troubles the
famous little pilla known as DeW-itt'a
Little Early Risers. At ail drug stores.
January
This is the last week of this Great Sale. It has been such a satisfac
tory one, both for the public and ourselves. Come Tomorrow, and
take advantage of our offerings. Prices cut to the Lowest Notch.
Men's and Youths' $10 Suits and Overcoats, reduced to S7.00
Men's and Youths' $12 Suits and Overcoats, reduced to ... 8.75
Men's and Youths' $15 Suits and Overcoats, reduced to 11.50
Men's and Youths' $18 Suits and Overcoats, reduced to......... 111.25
Men's and Youths' $20 Suits and Overcoats, reduced to, 15.00
Men's and Youths' $22 and $25 Suits and Overcoats, reduced to 18.00
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Men's Winter Underwear,
1-4: Off-
Men's Fancy Hosiery, 50c, kind,
25c.
Men's $1.50 and $2.00 Hats,
98c.
Men's
STAR SCOLDS PATRONS.
Miss Dorothy Morton Creates a Scene
In a Quebec Theatre.
Quebec, Jan. 26. Miss Dorothy yMor
ton, prima donna of the Greek Slave
Comic Opera company, of New Tork,
now touring Canada, created a sen
sation in the Academy of Music last
night by rushing forward cn the stage
near the end of the last act, prior to
withdrawing, and, pointing directly at
the occupants of a box close by, call
ing out at the same time:
"Tou are very rude."
The audience were quite uncertain
whom the actress referred to, many
supposing that she was pointing at two
members of the local legislature who
occupied one of the boxes, and who,
conscious that they had done nothing
to merit the rebuke, called on Mis3
Morton immediately after the perform
ance to demand an explanation.
She declared that she had no refer
ence to them, but to a lady in another
box who had caused her considerable
annoyance during the evening.
The politicians insisted on a letter
to that effect, and finally got it. The
ladies who occupied the adjoining box
are all leaders of Quebec socitey, and
it is rumored that what excited the ac
tress' indignation was a remark made
by one of them that her diamonds were
paste.
STIRS JAPAN.
News of Chinese Emperor's Ab
dication Causes a Sensation.
London, Jan. 26. A special dispatch
from Shanghai says that the news of
the abdication of the Chinese emperor
has caused a tremendous sensation in
Japan, where a strong desire is express
ed to adopt stringent measures.
OKLAHOMA MAY RETALIATE
Threatens to Establish .Rigid Quaran
tine Against Kansas.
"Word has been received at the Santa
Fe offices in this city from officials of
the road in Oklahoma that the health
authorities of that territory are con
templating establishing the most rigid
quarantine possible against the entire
state of Kansas. They propose to pre
vent mail and freight, as well as pas
sengers, from entering Oklahoma.
The move is contemplated as a means
of a retaliation because of the action
of the Kansas board of health in quar
antining against Kay county. The peo
ple of Oklahoma generally regard the
quarantine as unnecessary because of
the mildness of the disease.
The Santa Pe people are considerably
worked up over the matter as a rigid
quarantine would mean a stagnation of
business. The Rock Island, and several
other roads would be affected in the
same way.
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS
Hovt's "A Stranger in New York" will
be seen in Topeka for the second time at
the Crawford theater tonight. It is, one
of the latest and most successful of the
Hoyt farces and will probably be seen by
a big audience. Paul Nicholson, who was
seen here last season with Alice Neilsen
in "The Fortune Teller," has Harry
Conor's part of the "Stranger" this sea
son. "The Real Widow Brown," a farce com
edy which visited Topeka for the first
time last season, will be the attraction
at the Crawford theater Saturday. A
matinee and evening performance will be
given. The performance includes a num
ber of specialty features.
"Darkest Russia" will make Topeka on
its annual tour at the Crawford theater
Tuesday night. The piece Is under the
direction of Edwin C. Jepson, and the
company includes Katherine Willard.
Herbert Kortier. Kate Jepson, Harry By
ers and Alfa Perry.
Prof. N. N. Rid dell is to give a series of
lectures on phVchic phenomena and their
relation to the truths o Christianity,
heredity and soul growth, in the Grand
Opera house, beginning Monday night.
January 29th. liis explanation of
the facts and fallacies of Christian
science, spiritualism, hypnotism and tele
pathv have created intense interest at
the Chautauqua and in the leading cities
of the east. Colonel Miller, for the Wil
lamette Chautauqua, says. "In his many
addresses at our Chautauqua. Prof. Rid
dell displayed a versatility of talent sel
dom equalled by any platform orator."
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G31 KANSAS AVENUE.
THROW DOWN PLATT.
Parkhurst Tells Boosevelt How to Be
come Great.
New Tork, Jan. 26. The most Inter
esting local development in the contest
between Governor Roosevelt and Super
intendent Payn was the sending of a
telegram by the .Rev. Dr. Parkhurst to
the Governor inviting him to "throw
down" Piatt. His telegram read: "If
you distinctly, uncompromisingly, and
promptly throw down the guantlet to
T. C. Piatt the state will stand by you.
Choose ye this day whom ye will serve."
Dr. Parkhurst, in explaining why he
sent the telegram, said the governor
might take offense at it, but he deemed
it a critical period in the life of the
governor, and if the governor were to
deal Piatt a blow at this opportune
time Piatt would never recover from it.
It was his opinion the . governor
should send in names of successors to
Payn, one after another, so long as
they were rejected, putting the blame
on Piatt and the state mcahine.
People were tired of Mark Hanna,
Quay, and Piatt, he said; a great revo
lution was dawning, and this was
Roosevelt's chance to anticipate the
event and aohieve greatness.
OPENING HEMP PORTS.
Otis' Men Compelled to Fight
For It.
"Washington, Jan. 26 Gen. Otis cabled
the war department today as follows:
Manila, Jan. 26. Kobbe's troops oc
cupy the hemp ports of Sorsogen, Dun
sel, Bulan, Albay and Eregaspi, south
eastern Luzon; will probably occupy
the ports of Caolbayoc, Cathbalogan
and Tacloban on the island of Samar
and of Leyte before tomorrow evening.
No opposition except at Lagaspi, where
eight hundred insurgents strongly en
trenched under Chinese General Powah,
made stubborn resistance, troops landed
under protection of guns of Nashville,
which bombarded fortifications at close
range. Enemy's loss over fifty killed or
mortally wounded 28 killed at Bridge
Head at almost hand to hand encoun
ter, refusing to surrender; our casual
ties, Capt. Bradley Hancock, quarter
master volunteers' aide to Kobbe,
wounded in hand. six men including one
sailor on Nashville slightly wounded.
Those ports contain great quantity of
hemp ready for shipment and will be
open on 30th instant-
PORTO RICO TARIFF
As Proposed by McKinley, Opposed
by Senator Piatt.
Washington, Jan. 26. Senator Piatt
of Connecticut is one of the Republi
cans who do not agree with the presi
dent in his proposition to place Porto
Rico on the same footing with the Uni
ted States as regards the tariff. Today
he introduced an amendment to the bill
providing for a government for Porto
Rico which declares that until further
legislation there shall be levied on all
articles of merchandise, the products
of the soil or industry of Porto Rico,
coming to the United States, a tax of
SO per cent of the duties levied on the
same articles imported from foreign
countries.
It also provides that products of this
character from the United States sent
to Forto Rico shall be subjected to a
tax of 80 per cent of the customs duties
levied on articles sent into Porto Rico
from other foreign countries.
The duties collected from the articles
imported from Porto Rico shall be held
in the treasury as a separate fund, to
be used under direction of the president
for the benefit of Porto Rico.
Another amendment proposed by the
Connecticut senator strikes out the pro
vision for the election of delegates to
congress from Porto Rico and Hawaii.
Kiralfy Arrested.
Paris. Jan. 26. As a result of charges
brought by shareholders of the Colum
bia theater against Bolossy Kiralfy, the
latter has been arrested and the books
of the theater have been seized at his
home. The shareholders allege that he
failed to gfve a proper accounting.
Strike on Exposition Buildings.
Paris, Jan. 26. A great strike of car
penters employed on the exposition
buildings, involving 6,000 men, has been
Inaugurated. The strikers demand an
increase of wages to one franc per hour.
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Men's Fancy Shirts, $iso and $i.oo Kind,
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Men's $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 Hats,
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at 25c
BRYAN MEETS! M'KINLEY 5
Not the President, But His Brother
Abner.
Smyrna, Del., Jan. 26. "W. J. Bryan,
arrived here from Harrisburg today and
spoke to a large audience in the opera
house. He was accorded' a hearty re
ception. Governor Tunnel of Delaware
and Congressman L. Irving Handy met
him in Philadelphia and accompanied
him here. He was warmly greeted at
stations along the route.
Mr.Bryan and a number of prominent
citizens were entertained here at lunch
eon by Governor Tunnel. An incident
on the train during the run from Wil
mington was a meeting between Mr.
Bryan and Abner McKinley, brother of
President McKinley who was on his
way to Norfolk. The two exchanged
pleasant greetings.
INTERVENTION ASKED.
Progressive Chinese Appeal for
Help in Present Trouble.
London, Jan. 26. A Shanghai special
says:
The dowager empress has dismissed
Jung-Lu, generalissimo of the Chinese
forces, on account of his supposed dis
approval of the coup d'etat. Other high
officials have been superseded. Extra
ordinary precautions have been taken
at the vice regal capitals to prevent ris
ings. The troops have been served witn
belt and cartridges. The interior of
China is greatly excited and progressive
Chinese are begging the American.Brit
ish and Japanese ministers to intervene
and restore the emperor to power. An
official communication received here
from Pekin says: Pu Chin, who has
been appointed hejr apparent to th?
throne has been given the status of a
son of the last emperor. The statement
that a new emperor has ascended the
throne is premature although it is like
ly the present action is preparatory
thereto.
DO BETTER IN BORNEO
British Win a Decisive Victory Over
the Natives.
London, Jan. 26. The British expedi
tion against the rebellious Tagals, un
der Mat Salleh, in British North Bor
neo, has been entirely successful. Capt.
Harrington with 100 -6ikhs, after two
days fighting, January 8 and 9 against
a thousand rebels captured two fort.
and two villages, blew up the rebI
magazine and killed or wounded 60 Ta
gals. The British had four men wound
ed. The remaining villages of the dis
turbed district submitted.
A Blow at the Mafia.
Paris, Jan. 26. The Temps Rome
correspondent says the government has
struck the Mafia another blow. A royal
decree dissolves the Palermo municipal
council which was composed mostly of
friends of Signer Palazzi. The council
almost caused a riot recently by in
creasing the octroi.
TALK No. 66.
SLEEPY.
Do you ever sit down to read In
the afternoon or evening and find
yourself going to sleep before you
nave read a dozen lines? Do you
have that experience every time
you read? It is such an annoyance
to you that you give up reading al
most entirely because you can not
positively keep awake? There are
a great many who are troubled in
this way. In a great manv cases It
is due to some slight defect of the
eyes. Not a marked defect, but
just a slight one. Just enough to
cause a little overwork, but not
enough to cause real strain. I do
not say that everv case of drowsi
ness in reading is caused in this
way, but a part of them certainly
are. If you find you have these
symptoms I will be glad to make
an examination and tell you if the
cause is in your eyes. If it ig
g!ass! for reading will be a com
fort to you and will keep your eyes
from growing worse. If it Is not I
will not sell you glasses under any
consideration.
My exclusive attention is given to
fitting glasses.
CHAS. BENNETT.
OPTICIAN,
730 Kansas Avenue.
f Established 137a