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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 30, 1901.
TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL
BY FRANK P. MAC LENXAN.
VOLUME XXVIII No. 258
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complete copy of the night report la also
received.
Buffalo lost $4,000,000 on her exposi
tion but she has got it back In adver
tising.
Nothing has happened In Kentucky so
far, -which Is calculated to induce Viov
ernor Taylor to return.
Chicago News: It would appear that
most things looking to reform are un
constitutional when tested in court.
The only plan of battle ever consider
ed by Schley seems to have been that
when the enemy appeared the thing to
do was to smash him.
" Dewey has demonstrated that he Is a
good admiral and a good judge. Pro
bably he would have made a good pres
ident if he had been given the oppor
tunity to try.
Isn't it odd that anybody should
think of giving $50,000 tQ Washburn col
lege when the money is needed so bad
ly to square those Bulgarian brigands
and secure the release of Miss Stone.
It -would be no more than fair for
Pat Crowe to pay postage both ways on
tils correspondence with Cudahy and
the Omaha police. He must be well
ahead on the deal after paying expenses
to date.
Miss Goggin.the Chicago school teach
er who engineered the fight against the
tax dodging corporations in Illinois has
been invited to come to New Jersey.
Some business might be found for her
in Kansas.
The woman who went over Niagara
in a barrel has not yet taken the pub
lic into her confidence regarding her fu
ture intentions. It is not known wheth
er it will be the lecture platform, the
etage or a book.
Perhaps as an evidence of how badly
a reduction in the beer tax was needed
the stockholders in a St. Louis brewery
company have presented the president
will a Pullman car costing $50,000 for
his own private use.
Attention is being called to the fact
that public sentiment throughout the
country favors Seth Low in the race
for the New York mayoralty, but un
fortunately for the cause of good gov
ernment in New Tork and some other
American cities the sentiment of the
country can't vote. The only time pub
lic sentiment gets in its work is on the
election of president. Probably that ex
plains why presidents and presiden
tial candidates are so far above the
average office holder in patriotism and
devotion to the country's welfare.
The supreme court of Illinois has just
handed down a tax assessment decision
which is one of great importance. The
court holds that franchises and capital
Etock of corporations doing business in
that state must be assessed and taxed
at their market value. The rule laid
down by the court is that the market
value of capital stock and of outstand
ing bonds shall be added together; after
deducting from this aggregate the assess
ment already laid on the tangible prop
erty of the corporation in question the
remainder must be assessed like any
other property. The practical
effect of the decision if it
Is strictly followed by the taxing
officers, will be to add to the tax rolls
of the state hundreds of millions of
property now untaxed. It is said that
the 23 "public service" corporations
named in this case have property, com
ing within the decision, amounting to
$235,000,000, which has heretofore escaped
taxation. Besides these corporations
there are the railroads of the state as
well as many mercantile and manu
facturing concerns, whose stock and
franchises are clearly covered by the
terms of the decision. Strict enforce
ment of the decision also makes these
companies liable to assessments for
back taxes covering a period of 25 years.
NEW 8TJFFBAGE JOURNAL.
The National American "Woman Suf
frage association has begun the publi
cation of a quarterly called "Progress,"
designed to promote the work of the
organization. It is issued from New
Tork city and the initial number bears
the date of October.
The salutatory is signed by Carrie
- Chapman Catt, the president of the' as
sociation and is in joart as follows:
"Within the last eight years, three
states of the Union have admitted wo
men to full suffrage, and six others
have given them partial suffrage. The
question of equal rights for women is
discussed with ever-increasing frequen
cy and seriousness in legislatures and
constitutional conventions, in society
and in the press. Tet there are still
thousands of persons who have never
beard aa equal suffrage lecture, or read
a statement of the arguments for equal
rights written by a specialist.
"The new quarterly, Progress, is pub
lished by the -National American Wo
man Suffrage association to supply this
need. It will state the arguments upon
which the advocates of equal rights
base their claim, and will support theia
with accurate facts and statistics."
Those named as editors are Alice
Stone Blackwell, "Kills Meredith" and
Laura A. Gregg.
FILLING NEW FIELDS.
The interest felt by the great manu
facturing and exporting countries of
the world in the growth of exports from
the United States and their invasion of
new fields is illustrated by a recent offi
cial report of the British commercial
agent at Chicago, In which he discusses
the export trade of the United States
for the last fiscal year. A copy of thU
report has just reached the treasury
bureau of statistics.
"The trade returns," says Mr. E. Sey
mour Bell, the author of the report,
"show evidence of a considerable in
crease in exports to Mexico, Central
and South America, and the West In
dies. There are many indications that
an attempt is about to be made to cap
ture the trade of South America. Ship
ping facilities are being improved,
though slowly, and every effort is being
made to draw more close the commer
cial relations of the two American Con
tinents. Particular attention is being
paid to the needs of buyers and the
conditions of trade are being closely
studied. Everything that can give
satisfaction to buyers is being done.
Close attention is given to packing of
goods, and price lists are circulated in
Spanish with, in many cases, prices
quoted in the current coin of the coun
try per 100 kilos. The advantage of this
to the customers cannot be overestima
ted." The report then quotes extracts from
leading newspapers of Chicago and
New York, in which the statistics of the
export trade for the last fiscal year are
presented, and especially those showing
the growth of exports to South America
and those showing the establishment of
new steamship, lines to operate along
the Pacific coast of North and South
America, and adds: "The states on the
Pacific coast have chiefly benefited by
the increase of trade with South Ameri
ca. The new steamships trading be
tween Pacific ports of South America
and Pacific ports of the United States,
due perhaps to the new interests ac
quired in the Pacific ocean, greatly fa
cilitate the trade between the several
countries. The development of railways
in Venezuela, Colombia, and Argentina,
often with American capital, has also
greatly aided the expansion. In all pro
bability this increase will continue, es
pecially if the plans of certain Ameri
can investors are carried out. The
whole of South America only takes
about 3, per cent of the total exports of
the United States, but they are increas
ing. The increase in trade with Chile
is considered particularly gratifying as
It was unexpected. Chile is recognized
as one of the most prosperous and most
progressive countries in South America,
and it is expected to have a great fu
ture. The desire to increase trade with
South America is very keen, and there
is probably no part of the world where
greater efforts are being made to obtain
a supremacy. Not only has the trade
been very small but in most cases the
South American Republics have been
selling to the United States more than
they have been buying. Particular at
tention is being called to the trade in
cotton goods. That the United Statej
should have only sold in 1900 to Mex
ico, Central and South America cotton
goods of the value of $3,605,269, while
the United Kingdom sold to these same
countries similar goods of the value of
$38,007,564 causes amazement, taking in
to consideration the fact that the Uni
ted States sold to the United Kingdom
raw cotton worth about $100,000,000."
GLOBE BIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.3
We have noticed that when we have
a boil, every one to whom we go for
sympathy, has two.
The day a man gets out of bed feel
ing quarrelsome, is the day he meets
everybody he knows.
Everyone on Sunday occasionally
stretches himself, and wishes he couid
get out of sight while doing it.
Girls who would be too proud to car
ry a chicken home from the grocer's,
are wearing birds on their hats this
fall that are just as large.
We are going to the theater Monday
night: "East Lynne" Is advertised as a
Story of a Woman s Wrongs, and it
will be something so new to hear
about a woman's wrongs.
After a woman has discovered a
slight resemblance between the hero on
the stage and a lover she used to have
years ago, she settles back in her seat
in pleasant anticipations.
An Atchison man who has been
around in the country a good deal,
says that invitations to eat at a farm
er's are not as plentiful as they used
to be, and he takes this as a sign that
the woman now has the man bluffed
in the country, the same as in town. He
says farmers wanted to ask him, but
appeared afraid of their wives. Ever
notice, anyway, that no company is
welcome unless it is the wife's?
A number of years ago an Atchison
woman made a good living for herself
and aged father. But she felt that
feeling of unrest, that yearning for a
strong arm to lean upon, that Is met
often in women's magazines, and mar
ried. His strong arm proved a glass
one, and now she Is supporting her
father, husband, and three children. A
woman who can take care of herself
should appoint a commission of disin
terested friends to investigate this
strong arm every time one is put out
for her support.
Two men. Tom and Ben. worked side
by side for thirty years in a grocery
store, where there were a great many
unreasonable people to satisfy. Both
had grown old, and finally one niglrt
Tom became violently ill. A doctor was
called, who. soon after his arrival, toil
Tom that he could not recover. Tom
thought about it awhile, and then said:
Wont It be a great joke on Ben! I
won't have to go to work tomorrow.
but Bee will have to turn out, as usual, J
and hear the same old unreasonable
complaints."
POINTED PARAGRAPHS. -
From the Chicago News.
The hardest work about a political Job
is getting it.
Blood never tells very much when it
meets a poor relation.
A man who is out for the rocks isn't
necessarily a geologist.
The whisky a stingy man drinks at his
own expense never hurts him.
Beware of the man who carries his
small change in a pocket book.
It is easier to find out what people
don t believe than what they do.
If a woman tried to make a secret of
her ignorance she couldn't keep it.
A woman's idea of a model husband
is one who insists on doing as she
pleases.
A hearty laugh is more desirable for
mental health than any exercise of the
reasoning faculties.
Much of man's trouble is due to the
fact that when he takes a drink he in
sists on taking another to keep it com
pany.
QUAKER REFLECTION'S.
From the Philadelphia Record.!
A powerful nation vaccination.
A fitting occupation the tailor's.
To flatter a sailor give him saltwater
tarry.
Courting a homely girl ia usually plain
sailing.
An ounce of experience is worth a
pound or advice.
The pessimist wonders if heaven is
paved with gold bricks.
The swindler generally has a pull
wnere legs are concerned.
No, Maude, dear: stock for soup can
not be bought in the stock market.
It's a poor rule that won't work both
ways, and a poorer one that won't work
at all.
About one woman in a thousand
truthfully admires another woman's
baby.
The Illiterate man often has pro
nounced ideas, but they are sometimes
mispronounced.
Blobbs "I hate to break in new
shoes." Slobbs "That's better than
having old ones broken out"
Seribber "Here's a story that's full
of snap." Serawler "What's it about?"
Scribbler "A mad dog."
"Why do you call him a lobster?"
asked the Simple Mug. "Because he
doesn't agree with me," answered the
dyspeptic.
"No, I cannot marry you," said the
beautiful maiden. "Of course not," re
plied the cheerful youth. "We'll let the
minister do that."
Wigg "Newrich is getting quite
fashionable, isn't he?" Wagg "Yes, in
deed. He used to complain of corns,and
now he talks about his gout."
The naval hero wrote a book.
In which his comrades all were scored.
"I'll prove," said he, "by hook or crook.
The pen is mightier than the sword."
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
From the New York Press. 1
Soap deferred maketh the boy glad.
A woman can't bear to tear up an
old love-letter even after she has forgot
ten who wrote it.
The best way to make a girl sure you
love her is to make her believe you can't
think of her without shivering all up
and down your back.
About the hardest thing to make a
woman believe is that she can be intel
lectual without Joining a lot of societies
for the improvement of something or
other.
The average mother would like to have
her first baby look most like its father,
except its mother, grandmother and
grandfather and all the aunts and
uncles that are good looking.
PICTURESQUE CEREMONY.
Handing Over of Flags Carried by
French Regiments.
Paris, Oct. 30. There was a pic
turesque ceremony in the grand court
yard of the Hotel Des Invalides today
consisting in the handing over of the
flags of the regiments which formed the
French expedition to China and the
colonial regiment which took part in the
Madagascar campaign. A company of
Zouaves, in gay Turkish costume, and
companies of other line regiments, were
drawn up in the court yard. Facing
them were massed the veterans quarter
ed at the Hotel Des Invalides. General
Faure-Biguet, the military governor of
Paris, surrounded by a brilliant staff,
reviewed the men and afterwards made
a patriotic address. Three grizzled vet
erans then advanced and took posses
sion of the flags, which they proudly
held while the troops marched past, sa
luting them. The flags were then placed
among the military relics in the Hotel
Dea Invalides.
Walter Wouldn't Work.
Anna R. Jackson brought suit in the
district court this morning for a divorce
from Walter Jackson. Mrs. Jackson
says that Walter would not work and
that what was more he would not let
her work and the result was that she
nearly starved. They were married
September 19, 1891.
For Female Complaints
and diseases arising from an impure state
of the blood Llchty's Celery Nerve Com
pound is an lnvaluabe specific. Sold by
George W. Stansfleld, 632 Kansas avenue;
Marshall Bros.. 115 Kansas avenue.
Difficult!
Edlrjcation
That is dyspepsia.
It makes life miserable.
Its sufferers eat not because they
want to but simply because they
MUST.
They complain of a bad taste in the
mouth, a tenderness at the pit of the
stomach, a feeling of puffy fulness,
headache, heartburn and what not.
Hood s Earsaparilla cured Joseph F. Laine,
Flanaean, Ky., who write: " I was troubled
with dyspepsia for a number of rears and
took medicine that did me no good. I was
advised br friends to try Hood's Sarsaparilla
which I did and it put my bowels in perfect
condition, cava me strength and energy and
made me feel like a new person."
Promises to cure and keeps the prom
ise. , Beware of substitutes. Buy
Hood's and only Hood's.
HE WAS FIGHTING DRUNK.
Wm. Lawless Gives Police a Lively
Time.
Thia afternoon at 1:30 some one called
up the police station by telephone, and
said that two or three noisy drunks
were In the back yard of Clarence
Young's drug store and their presence
was not wanted. Patrol Driver Asher
and Guard Boyd were sent to investi
gate, the scene being less than a block
from the jail. They found William Law
less, the Quincy street livery man and
N. S. White, a horse dealer.
Lawless became unruly, and refused
to go to the Btation, and required the
attention of Sergeant McElroy, Asher
Boyd and Pavey to move him. Boyd at
tempted to pick up Lawless' feet, in
tending to carry, instead of dragging
him, but received a heavy kick in the
mouth. Officer Pavey then struck the
fighting prisoner several times, which
seemed to . increase his rage. He con
tinued to struggle until after he was
locked in a cage. White was also lock
ed up, but gave the officers no serious
trouble.
CAUGHT IN READING.
Irving Billman, of Leavenworth,
Found in Pennsylvania.
Irving Billman, acused of embezzling
$86 from Phelps Bros., of Leavenworth,
has been apprehended In Reading, Pa.,
by the authorities. Sheriff Peter Ever
hardy went on to Pennsylvania armed
with a requisition from Governor Stan
ley, which was honored today by Gov
ernor Stone, of Pennsylvania.
The Information upon which the re
quisition was issued was made by
Frank Phelps. For more than a year
prior to September 1, last, Billman was
in the employ of Harry M. Phelps, do
ing business as Phelps Bros.
The sums of money Billman ia
charged with embezzling ranged in
amounts from 78 cents to $10, and was
for accounts collected from customers
and not turned in.
WOODMEN TO MEET.
Free
Entertainment to
Be Given
Thursday.
The following Is the programme of the
entertainment to be given free at the
Auditorium Thursday night by the Mod
ern Woodmen of America:
Music Steinberg's Orchestra
Opening address C. D. Welch
Solo Mrs. Kate Griley
Address ' 'Woodcraft" . . F. W. Emerson
A few minutes with a talking machine.
Address "Good of the Order"
W. E. Fagan
Recitation Miss O'Conner
Address Royal Neighbors
Mrs. Fannie Vickery
Vocal solo Mrs. Pennypacker
Piano solo Nellie McKirahan
Solo Woodmen Quartet
Drills by three teams Royal Neigh
bors. ADAMS IN CHARGE.
Cleburne Man to Oversee Erection of
New Santa Fe Shops.
S. H. Adams, formerly with the Santa
Fe at Cleburne, Texas, has been ap
pointed to take charge of the work of
the erection of the machinery in the
new shops of the Santa Fe now being
built here.
Mr. Adams will be In charge of the
work that would have been under the
supervision of Benjamin Johnson, form
erly engineer of tests, who resigned to
accept a position . with the Mexican
Central.
The position of engineer of tests of
the Santa Fe will remain unfilled for
the present.
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE.
John Branscomb, Well Known Pio
neer, Passes Away.
John Branscomb of Grantville, an old
settler and well known citizen died last
night at the age of 75 years. The fun
eral will be held tomorrow morning at
11 o'clock at the Grantville church.
Mr. Branscomb leaves a wife and
daughter and stepson. He was at one
time the largest stock raiser and breed
er of shorthorn cattle in this vicinity,
and was known at county and state
fairs all over the middle west.
Col. T. W. Harrison, the Highest Mason in Kansas.
The oldest Masonic supreme council, the mother supreme council of the world
of thirty-third degree Masons, has elected and coroneted Col. T. W. Harrison as
the sovereign grand inspector general for the state of Kansas, which is the
highest Masonic official position in the state. The office is for life and he has
the supervision of all Scottish Rite Masons in the state and is also an active
member of the supreme council which meets once in two years in the city of
Washington and is the governing body of the Rite. CoL Harrison has been the
deputy of the supreme councilj in this state for the past two years and under
his administration the Rite has prospered and grown more than ever before and
now he is installed as the head of the Rite- in this state for life. The Masonic
fraternity, not only in Topeka but throughout the state, Is to be congratulated
for having at its head a man with the executive ability, energy and zeal that
Col. Harrison possesses. Mr. Harrison has been a Mason for thirty-five years
past. He was born on a Wisconsin farm in 1842. He spent his early life in that
state, receiving his education at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor.
In 1867 Mr. Harrison moved to Iowa, where he engaged in the newspaper
business. He also practiced law, and was a member of the Iowa legislature,
residing at Emmettsburg and Independence. In 1887 he removed to Topeka.
Mr. Harrison became a Blue Lodge Mason in 1866. He received the Royal Arch
Chapter degree at Ann Arbor in 1868, and was made a Knight Templar at the
same place in 1869. He took the first thirty-two degrees of the Scottish Rite
at Topeka in 1892, and was made a knight commander to the court of honor
in 1895, in Washington. Two years later he received the honorary thirty-third
degree here, upon the occasion of the biennial convention of the supreme council.
I TREASURERS ARE HERE.
County Officials Discussing Flans to
Hold on.
The state association of county treas
urers is meeting in Topeka today and
will discuss the best means of their
holding onto their offices during the
vear that elapses after their terms ex
pire as a result of the biennial election
law.
Those who are attending the meeting
at the court house are President J. M.
Clark of Brown county; Kate T. John
son. secretary and treasurer from Nor
ton county; Ellwood Cote from Cloud
count; G. S. Brown from Graham coun
ty, J. R.Livingston from Marshall coun
ty; J. D. Creadie from Phillips county
D. E. Boone from Sedgwick county
Ichabod Warner from Sherman county
S. L .Mankin from Smith county.
ATTIRED AS A NUN.
Device of Miss Becerra to Escape
From Venezuelan Prison.
New York, Oct. 30. Miss C. Becerra, the
daughter or Ricardo Becerra, who was
Colombian minister to Washington fifteen
years ago, has at last succeeded in es
caping from Venezuela, where she had
been detained by President Castro, says
the Port of Spain, Trinidad, correspond
ent of the Herald. She has rejoined her
family at Port of Spain, where her father,
who is now blind, has resided since his
expulsion from the capital.
Her brothers are consuls for Colombia
in Trinidad and Curacao, and It is cald
to have been because of a desire to hold
them in check that President Castro re
fused to permit her deportation. With
the assistance of an officer of a French
steamer which plies between Jaguiara and
Trinidad she succeeded in eluding those
set to watch her, and dressed as a nun,
escaped to Trinidad, Miss Becerra, who
has been trying for two months to escape,
was educated In the united states.
POTATO CROP ABUNDANT.
In One County in Maine It Will Bring
$4,000,000.
Houlton, Me., Oct. 30. The potato
outlook in the county of Aroostook is
not o.uite so rosy as It was a few weeKS
ago. On Saturday the large shippers
were paying $1.30 and $1.35 a barrel for
Hebrons and $1.40 and $1.45 for Green
Mountains. The rot is affecting the
stock stored in the farmers celalra in
the northern section.
Some of the county's most extensive
farmers have had remarkable crops this
year, ahead of the average. The aver
ae is well un to 100 barrels an acre,
as compared with the usual yield of
from to to 70 barrels. Small potatoes
bring 60 cents a barrel at the starch
factories.
Unless the rot increases the potato
crop of the county will bring close to
$4,000,000.
MISS MARLOWE IN SOUTH.
Manager Signs a Contract For Four
Weeks With Large Guaranty.
New York, Oct. 30. A large deal in
theatrical touring was made today be
tween A. L. Erlanger of Klaw & Erlan
ger and Julia Marlowe's manager,
whereby Miss Marlowe will make a
four weeks' tour of the south, begin
ning February 17. To do this necassi
tated cancelling Miss Marlowe's New
York time and the postponement of her
new production, and in consideration of
this she is to receive for the 28 per
formances a guaranty of not less than
$32,090 for her share, the largest guar
anty ever paid since the famous tour of
Booth and Barrett through the south.
CUT IN OCEAN RATES.
Atlantic Passenger Lines Take $10
From First Cabin Fare.
New York, Oct. SO. The first cabin pas
senger rates to London on the Cunard,
North German Lloyd and Hamburg-Amer
ican line steamships were cut $10 today.
The present scale Is: North German
Lloyd ana -Hamburg-American, 67.&0
Cunard. SS7.50: White Star. 67. It is ore-
dieted in shipping circles that a rate war
will be the outcome of thia unexpected
reduction.
One of the officials of the White Star
line declared that the action of the Cu
nard line, which first made the cut, was a
direct violation of an existing cabin rate
understanding. It is not unlikely that the
White Star line will jump into the fight
within a few days with a reduction that
win stagger its rival companies.
The reduction of the Hambure-Ameri
can line was on the second and third class
steamers. The Auguste-Victoria's first
cabin was reduced from $65 to $62.50 and
the Pennsylvania type of boats from $55 to
CRASHES INTO A BUGGY.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth Has an
Accident.
Chief Wilmarth, of the fire depart
ment, and his driver, Carl Sawin. mak
ing a run to a fire last evening in the
enters wagon, collided with a buggy at
Seventh and Harrison streets, driven
by a man named Ellis, who was ac
companied by Mrs. Sullivan and two
children.
The chief was going east on Seventh
street and Ellis attempted to drive
across in front of him. The chief's
driver could not stop his horse nor
avoid a collision. The buggy driven by
Ellis was badly wrecked but no one was
seriously injured. The chief's horse
was seriously Injured about the knees.
The alarm to which the chief was re
sponding was for a small fire in the
building at 722 Kansas avenue, occu
pied by Delahoyde, M. L, Campbell and
Miss Eden. A small fire, which was ex
tinguished by the chemical engine,
started under one of the counters. The
building was not damaged and the
stocks of goods were slightly injured.
GOVERNMENT SWINDLED.
Bank of Russia Employe Who Went
Wrong Is Captured.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. SO. Simeon
Ivannow Grin, alias Malentls Zemashka,
has been arrested at Pasadena by Dep
uty United States Marshal McCulloch,
on the charge of embezzlement prefer
red by Paul Kosakevitch, Russian con
sul at San Francisco. Grin was em
ployed in the government bank at Ros
tow, Russia, up to March 6, 1901, at
which time he disappeared. Investiga
tion was made of his accounts and an
alleged shortage of $120,000 was discov
ered.
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 30. While indulg
ing in preliminary Halloween- pranks,
Fred Bradley, aged 15, was shot and
almost instantly killed last night by
Mrs. Margaret Cameron. A crowd of
boys gathered around the grocery store
of Mrs.Cameron on Kaercher street and
frightened her ten year old son by play
ing ghost, Mrs. Cameron fired into the
crowd.
Washington, October 30. Paymaster
General Bates in his annual report says
the pay for the army for the year was
$53,215,345, an increase over last year of
$1,301,364.
San Juan, P. R., Oct. SO. Andrew
Carnegie's offer of a $100,000 public li
brary for San Juan has been accepted.
St.Louis, Oct. 30. Telegraphic advices
from Van Buren,Ark.,say that National
World Fair Commissioner Scott has re
ceived a telegram from Miss Helen
Gould in which she accepts the appoint
ment of lady manager of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition.
Knoxvllle, Tenn., Oct. SO. The Cham
ber of Commerce has instructed its sec
retary to invite Admiral Schley to visit
Knoxville. The city officials will Join
in the invitation.
Washington, Oct. 30. Colonel George
B. Rodney, and Captains William H.
Coffin and G. E. Vandusen, of the ar
tillery corps, have been appointed a
board to meet at Ft. Riley. Kan., on
November 1, for the purpose of consid
ering and reporting upon the proper or
ganization and equipment of batteries
of siege artillery.
Washington, Oct. SO. In accordance
with an old custom among officials of
the government, Secretary Hay went
out on the claza south of the state,
war and navy department building yes
terday and planted a tree. Assistant
Secretary Adee performed a like cere
mony.
Berlin, Oct. SO. John D. Rockefeller
has presented 40,000 marks to the Amer
ican church fund, which now amounts
to 200.000 marks. Work on the new
structure will be begun immediately.
New York, Oct. 30. Goldman, Sachs
& Co., will ship $600,000 gold to Paris
on Thursday. Lazard Freres will ship
$2,000,000 gold to France on Thursday's
steamer.
New York, Oct. 30. Comptroller Coler
has opened bids for $3,600,000 of 3 1-3 2
per cent corporate stock of the city of
New York. Sixteen bids were received,
tne Highest being 107.271.
Manila, Oct. 30. A hat and umbrella
factory employing 900 hands, which re
cently found it necessary to close, thus
constituting the first labor problem
growing out of the new tariff has de
cided to remove to Hong Kong.
San Francisco. Oct. 30. Madame Wu
Ting Fang, wife of the Chinese minis
ter to the United States has arrived here
on the steamer Gaelic from China. She
is accompanied by her daughter, Miss
Wu Sin Chingo.
LOCAL MENTION.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Booth, of 847 Elm-
wood avenue, are the parents of a son,
born this morning. He will be christened
Melvin Adams.
John S. Hall, who Is the private secre
tary to the general auditor of the Atchi
son, Topeka & Stnta Fe road, with head-
?uarters in Chicago, is in Topeka for a
ew days' visit. He Is doing some spe
cial work for the company here.
The board of health meeting last night
was a star chamber session. The doors
were closed, and the participants in the
weekly municipal snap passed some reso
lutions instructing the health officers to
henceforth prohibit the dumping of refuse
inside the city limits, and especially In
the fills on the river bank. The health
officers will be sworn in as special police
men to give them authority to enforce
their demands.
The body of a child was found by two
small children in North Topeka this
morning. It was hidden under a coal
house at 617 North Jackson street, and
was inside a pasteboard box which was
wrapped with a newspaper dated Sunday.
October 27. The family of the little girls
who made the find notified Officer Mcin
tosh, who notified the coroner. The cor
oner will examine the body this afternoon
with a view of discovering color and na
tionality. One of a series of naxtlea eiven bv G. G.
Gage post of the G. A. R. was given as a
surprise last nieht to Mr. and Mrs W. W.
Gooden. Those present were: Mr,- and
Mrs. C, H. Goodwin, Mr. and Mrs. J.
Stoyell, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Swain, Mr.
and Mrs. D. A. M. Kidson, Mr. and Mrs.
M. Mulverhill. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Good-
en, Mr. and Mrs. D. EX Griswold. Mr. and
Mrs. E. R. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. O. S.
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. I 8. Elder, Mrs.
B. R. Suddarth, Mrs. F. A. De Bow, Mrs.
W. B. Stoich. Miss Laura Gooden, Miss
Kate Mulverhill. Miss May Mulverhill,
Miss Alice Griswold. Miss Frances Casey,
Miss Mavme Suddarth. Miss Alta Sud
darth, Miss Hilda Stoyell.
A Change of Sentiment.
New York, Oct. 30. A dispatch to the
London Times and the New York Tim3
from Wellington. N. Z., says the upper
house of the New Zealand legislature
has affirmed the principle that either
party to an industrial dispute may go
past the conciliation boards direct to
the arbitration court. The fact that
this motion was carried by both houses
against the government Is regarded as
significant of a change of feeling in re
gard to labor legislatior .
A Sour Stomach
Is Often the Real Cause of a Sour
Temper.
That the condition of the digestive or
gans has a marked effect upon the char
acter or disposition is a truism as old as
the hills. Old Ben Johnson wisely said:
"The pleasure of living depends upon the
liver," and it is a fact which none may
dispute that a sunny disposition more of
ten results from a healthy digestion than
from any other cause.
Acid dyspepsia, commonly called sour
stomach or heartburn. Is cause.d by slow
digestion of food instead of being prompt
ly digested and converted Into blood, bone
and muscle. It lies in the stomach for
hours, fermenting and decaying, creating
gases which cause pressure on the lunga
and heart, short breath and general dis
comfort and irritation.
Such half digested food Is Indeed poor
nourishment for the body, brain and
nerves and the result Is Bhown in irrita
ble tempers, unaccountable headaches and
that depressing condition usually callt'd
the "blues," but how quickly all these
disappear when appetite and digestion
are restored.
Laxative medicines only irritate the al
ready Irritated stomach and bowels and
have no effect upon actual digestion of
food.
The sensible course to follow is to make
use of simple natural digestives like
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets after mls
until the stomach has a chanoe to recu
perate. The natural digestives which every
healthy stomach contains are peptones,
diastase and Hydrochloric and lactic acid
and when any of them are lacking the
trouble begins. The reason Stuart's Dys
pepsia Tablets are so valuable and suc
cessful in curing stomach troubles la be
cause they contain, in a pleasant concen
trated tablet form all these absolutely
necessary essentials for perfect digestion
and assimilation of food.
Henry Kirkpatrick of Lawrence. Mass.,
says: "Men and women whose occupation
precludes an active outdoor life should
make it a dally practice to use Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets after meals. I have
done so myself and I know positively thut
I owe my present health and vigor to their
daily use.
"From the time I was 22 when I grad
uated from school with broken health
from overwork, until I was 34, I scarcely
knew what it was to be free from stom
ach weakness. I had no appetite what
ever for breakfast and very little for any
other meal.
"I had aciditv and heartburn nearlv ev
ery day and sometimes was alarmed by
Irregularity and palpitation of the heart,
but all this gradually disappeared aftr I
began using Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets
and I can eat my meals with relish and
satisfaction which I had not known since
I was a growing boy."
The success and popularity of Stuart's
Dvsoensia Tablets is enormous, but it Is
deserved, and every druggist In the Uni
ted States. Canada and Gr-at Britain has
a good word for this meritorious prepa
ration.
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Telephone 530.
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4th and Jackson.
Kaw Valley
Mince Meat
la made from strictly pure
and healthful ingredients :
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good, fresh beef, new seed
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of spices.
Prepared by thb
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Sold by all the best dealers.
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General Merchandise
228 Kansas Avenue,
Topeka Kansas.
NEW and
Secondhand Goods
Bought and Sold.
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