i TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1900. "Calumet" Do Nt Batons' ta Bakins Pwdr Trust, but Con. umarter Rapidly Learning ta Place Thair Trust In Calumet." dMjl .J & II Powder NONE SO COOD. koderateX IN ) V PRICE J r - 4("w.i J CARVING SETS S T. J. Cooghlin, Bdw. Co. 702 Kansas Ave. Ooen until noon Thanksgiving Day. DOERHOEFERS QUIT. Tnree Brothers Sever Their Connec tion With the Tobacco Trust. Iouisvllle. Ky., Nov. 2S. Changes in Ixuisville of great interest in. connection with the American and Continental To bacco companies will go into effect De cember 1. John Xoerhoefer, one of the most -widely known tobacco men in the country and one of the moving- spirits in the so-called tobacco trust, has resigned as a member of the board of directors of the Ameri can company and also as general manager of the company's laouisville establish ment. Bazil Doerhoefer has resigned as direc tor of the Continental company and as general manager of the re-handling plant in this city. Marcus Doerhoefer. brother of John and Bazil Doerhoefer, has tendered his resignation as general man ager of the plug factory here. It is said in Louisville that the three reclamations mean that the Doerhoefer brothers, who have been such a power in the affairs of the trust siitce organization, have severed iheir conne ition with the combine for good and hereafter may be allied against it in the independent field. John Doerhoefer refuses to say whether rie and his brothers have sold their to bacco stock, or whether they will engage in business independently of the big com panies. The resignations of the Doerhoefers will come before the regular weekly meeting of the general boards of the two tobacco companies in New York this week- EAGAN WANTS ABSOLUTION Will Ask For Pardon and Restoration to Duty. Kew Tork. Nov. 28. A Tribune special from Washington says: Charles P. Eagan, commissary general of subsistence of the army, has come to Washington, it is understood to appeal to the president for a pardon and. for restoration to duty. He was suspended from his rank and office for a term of six years on February 7, 1899, for his language before the court of inquiry on army beef. He has called at the White House, but he failed to see the presi dent, who it is generally rumored offered fsome time ago to remit the sentence of the courtmartial, provided General Eagan will apply for retirement. This Oeneral Eagan has refused to do, it is said, contending that he is entitled to return to duty and vindicate himself be fore retiring. McKinley's Thanksgiving Turkey. Westerly. R. I., Nov. 28. President Mc Kinley's Thanksgiving turkey has been shipped by Horace Vose, purveyors of turkeys to the White House. The bird weighed 31 pounds and is a fine one in every respect. JUSTIFIABLE DECEIT. Little Acts Practiced by Wives. The way a Cincinnati -woman cured her husband of the coffee habit by a little byplay i3 worthy of imitation in bad cases. He tells the tale himself: "For years I bad been using coffee and finally I got like a. morphine or opium fiend. I knew perfectly well that coffee robbed me of sieep, and I would lie awake hour after hour in the night, throwing away my life practically, for I needed the sleep to carry on my work. "Common sense and my knowledge of the medieinaJ effects of caffeine (the active principle of coffee) told me plain ly enough that I was ruining my life with every cupful, but to give coffee up was another question. I simply could dot. "About three months ago my wife brought home a sample of Postum Food Coffee, but I would not hear of it. She aid I was stubborn and hard headed. No doubt I was, but I wasn't myself. "She apparently gave up the effort to Induce me to change, and I went on (as I supposed) with my coffee right along, five cups a day. About a month after that I noticed I was sleeping very much better at night, my nerves were fully fifty per cent stronger. I drank just as much coffee as ever, and was delighted to think that it was not the coffee that was hurting me. "Speaking to my wife about the change in my health, I told her that there must be something in my habits that had changed my health, for I was Bo much better, and I was glad to know that I could get better and still use cof fee. She laughed heartily and said she might as well let the cat out of the bag. She said. 'I have been giving you Postum Food Coffee for a whole month and you have never known it.' "The proof was so plain and the Pos tum Coffee so good that I was simply delighted with the whole affair, and of course freely forgave my wife for the justifiable deception. I am getting well as fast as a. man could and am telling my friends about it. However, many of them, like myself, will not hear to any change, but stick to their coffee, and complain of headaches, indigestion, etc A few of them have been induced to make the change from coffee to Postum Food Coffee, and I have never known a case where it has not worked a great advantage." J. B. Huttenmilier, 118 Xiaca Su, Cincinnati, Ohio, BANK WRECKED. All the Money in the Safe Car ried Off By Masked Men Who Escape on a Hand Car. Emden, 111., Nov. 28. Four masked men wrecked the Farmers bank of Em den early today. It is stated that they secursx all the funds of the bank, be tween $3,000 and $4,000. When the robbers discharged their first blasts of dynamite in an effort to open the vault the explosion aroused a citizen, John Alberts, four blocks away. Alberts hurried to the bank. One of the robbers was on guard in the street. He seized Alberts who was bound hand and foot and dragged into the bank, where he witnessed the gang drilling in to the vault door, making ready a sec ond blast. When the fuse was lighted the robbers stepped outside and Alberts lay in the corner when it went off. He was not seriously injured, however. The second blast unhinged the vault doors, and the robbers made off with all the cash. Securing a handcar they pulled in the direction of Delavan. There they were met by Night Patrolman Sanford won attempted to arrest them. One of the robbers fired and Sanford fell, mortally wounded through the body. Outside the town the men boarded a passenger train on the Chicago & Alton. All traces of them were lost. The en gineer of the passenger train claims that he saw a man jump from the first car near Minier while the train was mov ing at a high speed, but a search of the locality failed to show any traces of the man. The bank building was almost a com plete wreck, and the vault was entirely ruined. JAPAN EMBARRASSED. Nation Finds Itself Involved in Diffi culty Over Chinese Affairs. Correspondence of Associated Press. Yokohama, Noy.10. A speech made by Mr. Kato, the newly appointed minister of foreign affairs, indicates that Japan finds herself involved in the same diffi culty in the diplomatic manoeuvres now progressing in China that she underwent in her military operations. Just as the supposed necessity for concerted action caused the disastrous delay then, so this country finds itself hampered by having to wait upon the action of the allied powers with all the impossibility of their coming to an agreement. The enormous commercial trade which it has at stake in north China, as well as the patriotic sentiment which will be aroused upon the least encroachment upon its rights in Korea will make it incumbent upon the western powers to be very cautious about slighting the counsels of the nation holding the bal ance of power in the Orient. Japan's great holiday, the 3d of No vember the natal day of the emperor was of unusual interest this year,, as in dicative of the pleasant relations now established between the government and the foreign community, fully justifying the wisdom of treaty revision and mark ing the disappearance of the fears at first engendered by it. The annual ball given at the Imperial hotel was attend ed by a larger number than was ever known to be the case ori a similar occa sion .and the cordial good feeling of the foreigners who were present in unusual force was specially notable. The review of the troops in the morning was a most brilliant and impressive spectacle more than 10.000 of the various branches of the service, including some who had just returned from the seat of war in China taking part in it. The concourse of spec tators was unprecedented, and it may be looked upon as one of the indications of the growing martial ardor which recent events have evoked. The return of Minister Konura from St. Petersburg en route to his new post in China and that of Minister Kurino from Paris, together with the appoint ment of Baron Kaneko to the post of minister of justice, are to furnish occa sion for a notable banquet of the Har vard club, of which all three of these distinguished men are members. It will be held in the latter part of this month. The club is the only western university Organization on this side of the globe, and it has already had a most success ful career. Its membership is almost ex actly divided between Americans and Japanese. There is talk of organizing an Anglo-American university club on an extensive scale, the constituency for it being very large. Comment is rife and much sympathy expressed concerning the almost impos sible task imposed upon Count von Wal dersee in China, while he is practically left without command or sufficient au thority to enforce it. Russia, France, Japan and America practically ignored his credentials and numerous rumors are rife that he has asked for his recall. JAPANESE OFFICIALS. Distinguished Party Arrives on Var ious Missions. San Francisco. Nov. 28. A party of distinguished Japanese officials arrived in this city on the steamer Nippon Mara. Captain T. Matsue and Commander Kyamada will inspect some of our mod ern war vessels, and provided satisfac tory terms can be made will negotiate for the construction of one or two more gunboats or cruisers. They will then go east and to England to inspect the tor pedo boat destroyers now being built there for Japan. H. Keizumi, superintendent of the Yokohama warehouse department, and chief accountant in the Japanese cus tom house, is on his way to France to Investigate custom house taxation Torojiro Watasa, a member of the higher imperial industrial council, is to make a tour of the eastern cities, pay ing special attention to agricultural de velopment. Captain Takenouch is on his way to Paris, where he goes as naval attache to the Japanese legation there. Public Land Withdrawn. Washington. Nov. 28. Commissioner Hermann, of the gentral land ofiice, has ordered withdrawal from public entry of 250.000 acres of vacant unappropriated pub- lie domain in Utah tha.t constitutes the watershed from which the domestic water supply of Salt Lake City is derived. Th action is taken with a view of reserving the land permanent! for forestry pur poses. New Bank For Eureka. Washington. Nov. 28. The comptroller of the currency today approved the ap plication to organize the Citizens National bank of Eureka. Kansas, capital. J25.000. Ed Crito, Eureko, Kansas; F. Ott, Sam Holmes, O. H. Hoover, R. A. Cross and others. Marconi Reports Progress. "London. Nov. 28. Sitrnor Marconi, ac cording to the Daily Kxpress, has prac tically solved the question of ocean trans mission by wireless telegraphy, and will soon be able to use his system across the Atlantic A CONVICT WAS USED. An Expert Taken From Ohio Peniten tiary to Open a Safe. Chicago, Nov. 28 A special to the Tri bune from Columbus, O., says: In order to immediately secure valu able papers belonging to her dead hus band, the late Col. F. J. Pickard, a civil engineer, who died a few days ago, an expert safe blower, now a convict in the state penitentiary here, was loaned to Mrs. Pickard by the warden long enough for him to open the strong box in which the important papers were kept. The entire affair was kept secret and the prisoner was conveyed through the city in a closed carriage to the safe which he blew open and was returned to his cell before daylight this morning. All private papers were locked up in Col. Pickard's safe, the dead man alone having known the combination. The town was searched in vain for an expert to open the safe, and the novel plan oj? securing the services of a burglar was adopted. It took the convict 12 minutes to open the safe. BARRIER OF ICE Now Shuts Cape Nome From the Outer "World. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 28. The United States revenue cutter McCulloch has arrived from Alaska with news that Nome is now completely isolated from the outer world by a barrier of ice. For seven long months this conditio! of affairs will continue. The camp is well supplied with provisions and fuel. It is possible that before the first steamers arrive at Nome in the spring there may be a slight shortage of coal, but it is not anticipated that it will be serious. November 8 the ice had crept out from Nome into the sea for a distance of 200 feet. Several mornings previous lighters had been frozen in. The warn ing was heeded by the steamers Centen nial, Santa Ana. Sadie and Portland. Late reports from the Koiugarock dis trict state that Quartz Creek is show ing up $2 to the pan. "WANT A CHANGE. Canal Preferred to a Boat Railway at the Dalles. Portland, Ore., Nov. 28. B. H. Libbey and John Adams of Lewiston, Idaho, met with the Chamber of Commerce of Port land to consider the matter of opening the Columbia river to free navigation. The particular project to engage attention was a canal at the Dalles of the river. It was resolved to ask congress to change the plan of improvement from a boat railway, for which an appropriation of $250.0uO has already been made, to a canal and locks to cost about $4,000,000. Inasmuch as the Idaho men have started the movement at this time it was agreed that the Idaho delegation should present the subject be fore congress and that the members of Oregon and Washington would be urged to support the measure The United States engineers asked Mr. Libbey for data as to the resources of the country for use in their request to the war department on the canal project and in summing up his conclusions he said: "Five years ago the Lewiston country produced only two hundred thousand bushels of wheat: this year the produc tion was 3.700,000 bushels. Five thousand cars are now required to market the grain. In the inland empire 40.000.000 bushels of wheat, barlev, oats and flax are produced, requiring 60.000 freight cars to transport it to the market. The Lew iston country sent forward this year 490 carloads of fruit and the inland empire shipped 3,600 car loads. Seventeen hundred car loads of wool and 4,000 car loads of live stock also were sent to market from that interior basin. The products of the inland empire tnis year required no less than 80.000 freight cars to transport them to market." It was the sense of the meeting that congress should authorize the canal at the Dalles to be built on the continuous con tract plan. THOUGHTFUL FOR FRANCE. Why Salisbury Didn't Announce An nexation of the Transvaal. New York, Nov. 28. Two mysteries in foreign politics remain unsolved, says the Tribune's London correspondent. The first is the difficulty in enforcing death sentences against Chinese princes. The second is Lord Salisbury's neglect to give notice to the powers of the an nexation of the Transvaal. The most reasonable explanation offered in diplo matic circles is the unwillingness of the British foreign office to precipitate the downfall of the French ministry. The exchange of courtesies between French officials and Mr. Kruger would have been impracticable if this notice had been formally served and neither the president nor the premier nor the min istry would have been spared if Mr. Kruger had not been received with proper state and ceremony Lord Salis bury studies the politics of foreign cap itals and sometimes makes it easy for a government with which he is in sym pathy to escape disaster. OYER 350,000 TOTES. State Board of Canvassers Announce Official Figures. The state board of canvassers has an nounced officially that McKinley's ma jority in Kansas is, over all candidates, 18.144. McKinley's plurality is 23,353. This is 2,000 less than the Republican state committee announced, owing to an error, it is alleged, in addition. The Kansas vote in full follows: McKinley 185.955 Bran 162,601 "Woolley 3.605 Debs 1,605 Total 253,766 English Church Affairs. New York, Nov. 28. The proceedings of the round table conference summoned by the Bishop of London for the discus sion of burning questions agitating1 the English church, have been published in authentic form, says the Tribune's Lon don correspondent. The nearest ap proach to a compromise was the offer of Lord Halifax and Canon Gore to ac cept the first prayer book of Edward VI as an alternative in the communion service and to dissolve the English church union, a high church body which has excited the hostility of low church men. The impression is strengthened that the only effective peace conference will be an enlarged convocation with all ancient rights fully restored. Eodgers For Asiatic Service. New York, Nov. 28. It is considered likely in naval circles, says a Herald spe cial from Washington, that Rear Ad miral Frederick Rodgers, president of the inspection board, will be assigned to duty on the Asiatic station. It can not be ascertained that he is to succeed either Rear Admiral Remey or Rear Admiral Kempff. though there are ru mors that he will relieve the latter. It is intimated that with the large force of American warships in Asiatic waters there should be a commander-in-chief and two subordinate flag officers. To Survey For Panama CanaL New York, Nov. 28. It is probable, says a Herald dispatch from Panama, that the oitieers of the United States gunboat Bancroft, which is now at Colon, will come to Panama to survey the Laboca pier and approaches to the canal entrance on the Pacific coast from Colon. The Bancroft will go from Colon to Bocas Del Tcro on an expedition in connection with the isthmian canal sur vey. - i RSm (Dam (M QOm.Womo' nMmaCaw- amte- - --t" J&S--.t--.---&:-- --.-.-.--:: .. - ---. - ' ai " u , SIS I I - 1 - r" THE BLUES. To keep a "stiff upper lip" is almost impossible for an ailing woman. She doesn't like to say anything about her troubles to her husband, because she knows they will worry him. She knows that he needs every minute of hi3 time and all of his ingenuity to hold his position and make headway in his business. She wants to help and not to hinder him. Tet, she has those awful sensations of weariness and weakness which, fight as she will, 6he cannot conquer. She ha3 headaches and a dreadful bearing-down feeling which nothing relieves. She doesn't sleep well, and is frequently attacked with dizziness. She keeps her troubles to herself as much a3 possible and consults the doctor, who doesn't help her. Then she gets discouraged and blue, and after "a good cry," tells her troubles to her husband. Of course, her troubles are his troubles, but a man i3 always more hopeful than a woman. It is impossible for him to understand how unbearable are her sensations. "Now, don't get the blues," he says to her. "Keep on with the doctor's medicine and you'll be all right soon." She is more cheerful for a while after that, but the medicine doesn't do her any good, and the feeling of failure comes back, bringing the old melancholy and depression of spirit. ' Let this disconsolate woman turn to Mrs. Finkham and she will get the help she needs. In every neighbor hood there are women who have been helped by her, and almost every day thi3 paper prints letters from some of those grateful hearts. If you are ailing and discouraged, why not do as these women have done and get the advice Mrs. Pinkham so freely offers to every suffering woman ? Her address is Lynn, Mass. . Mrs. Pinkham's medicine has a well -deserved reputa tion for curing the ills that give women the blues. It over comes menstrual irregularities and pain, all uterine and ovarian disorders, and brings the nervous . system to a normal state. An ideal medicine for women is Mrs. Pinkham Cured these Women. MHS.O.M.CHAP?eLL "Deab Mas. Pinkham: I am glad of the privilege to tell of the great good your medicine has done me. I had inflammation and falling of the womb and inflammation of ovaries, and was in great pain. I took medicine prescribed hy a physician, but it did me no good. At last I heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Co id pound, and after using it faithfully, I am thankful to say I am a well woman. I would advise all Buffering women to seek advice of Mrs. Pinkham. I remain a sincere friend of Mrs. Pinkham and her Vege table Compound." ME& O. IL CHAFPELL, Grant Park, 111. " Dear Mrs. Piukham : For years I had Buffetrd with painful men struation every month. At the beginning of menstruation it wa impos sible for me to stand up for more than five minutes, 1 felt bo miserable. One day a little book of yours was thrown into my house and I Rat ripht down and read it. I then got some of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. I can heartily tay that to-day I feel like a new woman, and shall alwavs praise the Vepetable Compound for what it has done for me." MKS. MAKGAEEX AttDEKSCN, 60 Maple Street, Lewis ton, Me. "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: I cannot praine your medicine enough. When I wrote to you last winter I was all discouraged. I had terrible pains in my back and sides and felt so weak. I did as you directed and now feci like a new wo man. When my babe was born, labor was very short and I have a large healthy child, which we feel assured is the result of my taking Lydia E. Pinkhom's Vegetable Compound. I uw.l ten bottles of your medicine and two boxes of Lier Pills. I beg of you to accept my thanks for what you have done for me. 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I had five different doctors and all Raid there was no help f.r me. My trouble was change of life. I suffered with ulceration of the womb, pain in sides, kidney and stomach trouble, backache, headache, and dizziness. I beard of your reme dies and began their use. Pvthetime I had tnken eight bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, two of the Blood Purifier, four boxes of Liver Pills, and used four packages of Sanative Wash, I was well and strong and felt like a new person. Hy recovery is a perfect surprise to everybody that knew me. There is no need of women suffering so much if they would take your remedies, for thev are a surecurr." ME3. CHARLOTTE JOHKSODJ, Monclora, Ohio. Qwinar to the fact that some skeptical people ha v. from tim. to Mim. quactfan4 the gcnuinenoBS of the testimonijU letters we are constantly publteluu. cav. -J 1 V... TCat-w-ttinl t:t.v Ronlr n T ...... 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