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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
KANsAs PARAGRAPHs.

a Coffeyville insbriats uses his wife's
powder puff to take the shine of his
nose.
The farmers of western Kansas are
getting figures on boats SO as to be able
to gather their corn.
Philip Krohn is now in Morris, Ills,
holding q series of revival meetings. He
is a Congregational minister.
]. z. Cubbison will be given all the
fried chicken and beer he cares for, to
speak at a picnic at Lsavenworth Au-
gust Is.
at Ottawa a man has appeared who is
SO thin he has to wear snow shoes to keep
from falling through the store cellar
gratings.
a Medicine Lodge man wants to know
if an account of a post-mortem on man
whose ribs were affected would be side
splitting story.
a Lyons mother said to her daughter.
'Why you're not going out in a buggy in
a storm like this" "Of course" she said,
"this is driving rain"
Nothing short of a catastrophe or pesti-
Ience can keepOttawa county in the back
ground when the births for the past three
years have exceeded the deaths by 357.
Emporia Republican,: Several Empo-
ria men have announced lately that they
are out of politics. and the MaroOns have
virtually said that they are out OF base
ball
Minneapolis Messenger: Minneapolis,
Mimi, ought to change its name A good
deal of mail that is intended for this city
gets side tracked to the Minnesota viii
lage.
Prof G. A. Preyer of Kansas university
who went to Vienna to continue his
studies ia music, has started home as an
attack of rheumatism made him incap-
able of work.
A Wichita girl, who is big enough to
know better, stretches her chewing gum
out of her mouth, and when reproved
says she does it for a calisthenic exercise
to make her biceps larger.
The appearance of sire laddies" in the
columns of the Wichita Beacon comes go
soon after Col Stacey began work on it
as to look like coincidence, but it is to
be hoped he can prove there is nothing
in it.
Holton Tribune: If some of the edi-
tors who are worrying themselves and
patient public about the new woman"
would devote as much time in an effort
to make new men of themselves the
world would be greatly benefited there
by.
Minneapolis Messenger: A Kansas wife
was released from her husband because,
as she stated in her petition. 'the de-
PENDANT pinched the nose of this plain
tiff, causing it to become very red, there
by causing the plaintiff great pain and
anguish of mind
A son was born to Col ]. B. Cook and
wife at ChetOpa the other day. and the
happy father celebrated the event by
hosting the American flag over his resi-
dence. The colone! is sixty-one years of
age, but this is his first born. It is
palpsble case of sold glory"
Solomon City Sentinel: A washer
woman applied for help to gentleman.
who gave her a note to the manager of
bicycle club. It read as follows: "Dear
Mr.. c.: This woman wants washing"
Very shortly the answer came back: II
dare say she does, but 1 don't fancy the
Job"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
FOR A NILE TRACK.

John Rogers Has Plan for New One on
the Terrs Hauts Idea.
John P. Rogers Is at the head of a plan
60 build a mile track in Topeka. He has
prepared the plans for a track modelled
after the Tsrre Haute track which is
credited with being the fastest track in
the United States. It is q track nearly
square with four stretches and gradual
sweeping curves. He estimates that the
track would cost 81, 400.
Albert Parker leading Topeka horse
man says the proposed track completed
would cost nearer $4,000 than 81, 400.
at would occupy nearly all the. space
from the south line of the present track
TO the north fence We would have to
move several buildings including the
grand stand. While like the Terre
Haute track think that in view of the
fact that we have the fastest half mile
track in the west it would be foolish to
make an Indifferent mile track. One
great trouble with a mile trick is that
the horses can't be seen the entire way
around and that's what the people are
there for"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
AN ELECTRICAL GIANT.
It Is a Ninety-six Ton Locomotive That
May RevOIutionize Railroadlng.

1t Is Ninety-six Ton Locomotive That
May RevOIutionize RatlrOading.
Is the age Of steam soon to give way
to the age of electricity? Recent devel-
opments point Enthusiastically in that di-
rection. In two places Of late the cleo
trio locomotive has succeeded the old
time iron horse driven by steam, and
there seems excellent ground for believ
ing that in the near future nearly all
transportation will be done by means Of
electrical power. The Baltimore and
Ohio railroad recently placed in opera
ton in its tunnel in Baltimore the most
powerful locomotive ever constructed,
and the power that operates it is cleo
tricity.
This wonderful electric motor is 80
feet long and tips the scales at SO tons.
It is Ia feet high, and its four electric
motors give it LAO horsepower. 1t is
built to maintain speed of 10 miles an
hour for passenger and 10 miles an hour
for freight trains and can drag train
of from 200 to 200 empty fat cars on a
level track without starting bolt. The
power is communicated to the locomo-
tive by means of a trolley arrangement
similar to that in use on the electric
street railroads.
The electric locomotive is designed
solely for tunnel work and is favored
for this task because it carries no coal,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
THE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE.

develops no steam, is smokeless and
sootless and does its work without puff
ing and roaring like some steel monster
in distress. 1t is built in two parts and
hitched together like the tender and
engine proper Of an ordinary locomotive
There are eight driving wheels Of steel
that have tires inches thick. The To-
connective is designed to push or pull,
and one end looks exactly like the other.
Sandboxes, airbrakes, headlights,
bell, a powerful gong and a whistle
operated by compressed air are part of
the equipment of the novel machine,
which is said to be so simple that a
bright boy can run it after ten minutes
practice. A wheel is twisted, the cur
rent enters the motors and the great ma
chine begins to move as easily and as
free from jars and jolts as ball in a
bowling alley. The big motor was built
by the General Electric company in
. Schenectady, n. Y, and in recent tug
of war against two of the largest steam
locomotives easily stopped them when
they were dragging it along at full
speed and drew them in the opposite di-
rection, although they resisted with all
the power they could develop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

little difficulty in winning the contest
and the honor Of being called the cham
pion Prohibition orator of the United
States.
The title of Mr.. Moore's successful
grafton was 1.-THE Scourge of the Re-
public - He made a strong argument
against the liquor traffic and declared
that it was sapping the hfeblood of the
republic. He denounced the political
parties for championing the cause Of the
saloon to gain the influence of the deal
ers in strong drink and was voted the
best orator in the contest.
Prohibition and vegetarianism are not
the only reforms that interest Mr..
Moore. He is an ardent woman suffrag-
list and has attracted some attention as
q budding Prohibition politician in
Iowa. He was once a candidate for sem
atorial honors on his party's ticket and
is anxious to make reform work on the
lecture platform his field of labor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

ACCORDING to a little book published
by the author, Mr.. J. W. Schuckers of
Newark, n. j., entitled "New York Bank
Presidents Conspiracy Against Industry
and Property" the crime of 1873, by
which silver was demonetized, sinks into
insignifcance when compared with the
"crime of 1898" Mr.. Schuckers was the
private secretary of Salmon P. Chase
while he was in Lincoln's cabinet He
makes a strong case against the bank
presidents, Cleveland and Carlisle aud
claims to have ample authority for every
statement he makes. He asserts that the
panic of 1893 was the result of a DELHI
erately formed conspiracy between the
banks and the government to wreck the
Industries of the country in order to OBJ
tain the unconditional repeal of the Sher-
men silver law. AS was said at the time
the people needed an object lesson and
they got it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
BUILDING A BIG DAM.

The Rock Island Constructing the LsrE-
est One On Its Line at Smith Center.
The Rock Island company have COM
menced work this week on the dam at
the Spring creek crossing east of Smith
Center. The Rock Island superintsn-
dent of water supply was in Smith Cen
ter few days ago making final plans
for the gigantic undertaking. In some
places the fill will be about thirty feet
and it will be about one hundred feet
wide at the bottom. Dirt will be taken
from big cut east of the creek with an
army of big four-horse scrapers. The
dam is to be the largest on the line of the
road from Chicago to Denver.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

JUDGE CALDWELL of the United States
circuit court has been making another
very sensible deliverance In case at
Cheyenne, when the baiIiff was being
sworn to take charge of the jury and to
keep Ehem together without meat or
drink, water excepted, until they should
agree upon verdict, the judge inter-
posed and refused to permit the clerk to
administer the oath. He said that Jurors
performed quite as important functions
as the judges, and should be treated
with the same consideration; that
in order to discharge their duties in
telligently they should be afforded
every facility for dsliberation under con-
ditiOns of mind and body that will evolve
their best judgment; that starving, freez-
ing, deprivation of sleep and denial of
all comforts is not the best mode of do
ing this, and that the old methods of
treating jurors was cruel, barbarous and
inhuman. He then went on to say to
the jury that they might retire to their
room, and if they could not agree before
supper they might adjourn and return to
their deliberations after they had eaten,
and so continue to adjourn for meals and
sleep until they had agreed upon a YER
dict or were discharged by the court
This will take jurors out of the category
Of crlminals
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
CHAMPION PROHIBITION ORATOR.
.. Howard Moore Won That Title at q
Recent National Contest.

q Howard Moore Won That Title at q
Recent National Contest.
t'The land of the politician and the
home of the sot, - not the Gland of the
Tree and the home of the brave" is
what the champion Prohibition orator
salls America. His name is J. Howard
Moore, and he is as firm in his belief
ihat vegetables are the only things for
nan to eat as he is that malt and spiritu-
JUS liquors are the things a man ought
1ot to drink, or to be permitted to drink.
He is a graduate of Oskaloosa college,
.owa, but is taking graduate work in
The University of Chicago and is presi-
lent of the University Vegetarian club.
lie won the individual oratorical in the
Prohibition club of the University of
Chicago and then took first honors in
he state contest of Prohibition clubs in
Wheaton. Then, having demonstrated
hat he was the best temperance orator
n Illinois, he represented the state S
group of Prohibition clubs in the recent
rational contest in Cleveland and found
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
HE'S STILL A MONK.

Dome Geza Has Not Left the Monastery
Fer Good.
Dome Geza, the Kansas university vio-
Iinist, who entered a monastery in Ken
lucky, has not deserted that institution
as has been reported, but ia in Kansas on
a leave of absence. He is visiting the
family of Chris Hoffman at Enterprise,
and in letter to Topeka friend he says
he has no intention of quitting the mon
astery.
Although known to the world as Dome
Gezs. his monastery name is Louis
Donenin, S J. A, and his permanent ad
dress is Abbey st. Xaviers Novitiate,
Bardstown. XIV,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
STILL SLOW FOR BICYCLES.

A Mistake IN Copying Leaves Bicycle
Speed at Six Miles Hour.
That ever recurring bicycle ordinance
will have to come up for consideration
again at the next council N Getting.
By the last ordinance passed it was
purposed to make the speed of all other
vehicles six miles an hour and extend
that of bicycles, and tricycles to ten miles.
In copying the ordinance for publication
City Clerk McFadden misunderstood the
intention of the council and put all We
hicles at six miles an hour, leaving
the ordinance in the same shape as the
first one.
The correction will be made as soon as
possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
A Great Success.

Johnny Dumpsey-Oh, ma, wish you
would make me a pair of homemade trou-
sers every day.
Mrs. Dumpsey (much gratifed) Why,
darling?
Johnny Dumpsey-Because the scholars
all laughed at me so today that the teacher
had to excuse me, and I've had a bully
time fishing with Bill Beck.-Current Lit
erature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

The ingredients in pound of Royal
Baking Powder have been determined to
cost fifty per cent. more than those in a
pound of any other brand. This indicates
so much greater strength and real value.
Yet pound of Royal Baking Powder
costs the consumer no more than many
Of the inferior alum made powders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

THE attention of Attorney General
Dawes is called to the situation in juno
ton City, as reported in our dispatches
yesterday. The county attorney up there
seems to think it is not his business to
enforce the law. He needs a little prod
ding in General Dawes own peculiar
stVIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

THE young woman who buried a nee
die in her flesh as a penance every time
she did wrong, was but following out the
prevalent idea of law; that one may do
anything if one pays for it. Having adj
ministered the self-inficted penalty the
transgression was considered wiped out,
and then she sinned again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

WHEN Annie L. Diggs said: "We
Knights of Labor have outgrown the
boycott long ago" probably she had not
heard of Mr.. Sovereign'a order boycott
ting the national banks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

Letter carriers in London sometimes
become crazy because of the vast NUM-
Der of streets which cave the same name.
There are 264 Victoria streets, 241 Gross
streets, 240 Albert streets, 212 Church
streets and 191 Queen streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

Nor satisfied with representing New
York and Ohio in the United States SEN
ate Senator Brice is about to add another
state to his list He is negotiating for
the purchase of an estate in Rhode
Island
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

THE people of Pennsylvania seem to
have decided to change bosses. Every
thing now indicates the downfall of
Boss Quay and the elevation of Boss
Hastin0a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

Harry Worral, who has gone to Bos-
ton aud Lake Champlain for short va
cation, will be home to resume teaching
on July 90.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
Mortgage Sale.

On Friday, July 26. the Sargent stock
of millinery goods and fixtures. at 727
Kansas avenue, will be sold at public
auction to the highest bidder for cash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

TIE gold reserve shows a decrease of
just about the amount exported on Satur-
day. $1,000, 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

ST LOUIS Posi- DIsPATCH: Senator
PETER is keeping very quiet, but his
whiskers are being utilized by the gold
bug organs as an argument against hon
est money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
weather Indications.

CH1cAeo. July 23.-For Kansas: Fair
tonight, except probably showers in
south portions; Wednesday fair; north
erly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

EFor saIs-A good family horse. suita-
bic for lady to drive. Enquire at III
Jackson street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
Mineral Wmtar.

phone 332-our wagon will call TO
your Iaundry-the Peerless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
Horse Ter sale

The finest in the west. Come and try II
J. ". PHILLIPS, 612 ". Eighth ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23
TRRNs oF sURscRTPTToN.

Daily eaItisn, delivered by carrier, 10
cents 3 week to any part Of Topeka or
suburbs, sr at the same price in any
Kansas town where this paper has car
Tier system.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-23

Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless
Steam Lsuzdry.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
EoR SALE.

DOR sALF-BUILDING LoTs-32x74
IL feet north side Queen, between Payne
aud West streets 33x115 feet cast side Of
West street, between Queen and Princess
streets Water; electric light fronting and
near. Apply to ROBT J. THOMAS. 316 N.
Washington street. marc I'm
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
RICHEST MAN ON EARTH.

Like the English millionaires, those
of the Cars domains mostly derive
their revenues from landed property.
While the Briton, however, devotes q
large part Of his gross income toward
improving his possessions and to the
amaloraliou of the lot Of his tenants in
one way or another, the Russian, on
the other hand, extracts every tarthlng
that he can from his property and spends
it upon himself, the result being that
agriculture in Russia is going from bad
to worse, that formerly fertile and pro-
ductive estates have become barren and
impoverished, AMI that while the peas
antry ara ia state of misery, bordering
on famine, the mobiles themselves have
been obliged to mortgage or sell their
lands and are at the end Of their finan-
cial tether. OF course there are some
exc ,ptions, such as, for instance, the
Demidoffs and Schelemetiefis and the
Yonsoupofl5. The wealth of the Dem.
idofls is so great that it is beyond cal
culation, and strangely enough the for
tune is of relatively recent creation, it's
founder having been country black
smith in the days of Peter the
Great. 1t was while in the Ural
mountains that the latter broke
one Of the most valuable English pis-
tolls. A village smith mended it so
quickly and so well, that the Gar was
delighted and asked the mans name.
"Demidoif, / shall remember you"
said he as he rode of. The poor man
was beginning to think that Peter had
forgotten him, when there came an Off
cial document adorned with the i'm
perial seal, granting him the freehold
Of a great tract of crown land in the
neighborhood Of the village. Demidoh'
went to work on his new property, and
found thereon inexhaustible mines OF
iron, silver and malachite. Young
Elm Demidofi-he does not bear in
Russia the Italian title of prince gener-
ally prefixed 10 his name by visiting
foreigners-is at the present moment
tile richest man in the world, Princess
Yousoupoff, with her great turquoise
mines, coming next in rank. Fortur-
atelv both of them are more freehand.
ed and generous than their respective
immediate predecessors as head of the
family, the late Anatole Demidal and
the late Prince Yousoupotl having been
alike renowned for their meanness and
avarice, Of which almost incredible
stories are related.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
REAL ESTATE. &c.
M. B. HARLOW & CO.,
Real Estate Loan 4 Insurance Brokers,
NO. 1O7 S. ROYAL STREET.
REaT, ESTaTE &c
FOR SALE.

FOB SALE.
North Columbus street. eight-roOm and
bath, metal roof bay window NEW FRAME
DWELLING. Nice side yard. Lot 36x9O
feet to al alley. Price So, 600. Terms $3.50
cash. Balance on easy monthly payments
Upper Prince street. nine-room and bath,
nearly new BRICK DWELLING. Lot 19x
100 feet. Price $4,000. One-half cash. Bal
ance in 1, 2 and years. Snug home
King street, between Fairfax and Lee,
twelve-room STORE and DWELLING. Lot
25I10O feet. Price $3, 150 Terms one
third cash. Balance to suit.
Payne street, six-room corner BRICK
DWELLING. Lot 13x123 feet. Price 81 900.
One-third cash. Balance to suit.
Cameron street. near Pitt, tcn-room, three
story BRICK RESIDENCE. Price $4,000.
$500 cash. Balance to suit purchaser.
South Henry street, seven-room FRAME
DWELLING. Recently painted and papered.
Big lot, 25x121 feet. Price 81 900. One.
half cash. Balance on easy terms.
New eight-room and bath PRESSED
BRICK HOUSE. This fine residence has
every modern improvement, including sta
tionary washstands, hot and cold water, speak
ing tubes, furnace heat, concrete cellar, ex-
pensive gas fixtures, handsomely papered.
Located in the most desirable residence Sec
ton of the city. Price $500. Terms one
third cash. Balance to suit.
NJ. B. HARLOW & CO.,
lot south Royal street.
Alexandria, Va.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
CLARKE COUNTY NOTES.

Duncan Memorial Church, of Berry
vile, was the scene of very pretty
wedding on Wednesday night of last
week, the occasion being the marriage
of Miss Nora, daughter of Mr.. James
w. Marshall, of this county, to Mr.. G.
Edgar Lancaster, recently of Greenbrier
county, W. Va.
Some inquiries are being made about
Clarke lands that are on the market,
but no sales have taken place except
that of "Chapel Hill,n which was dis
posed of at $40 per acre. The farm
contained 164 acres. Parties wanting
lands represent that they can buy at
lower figures east of the Ridge, though
the quality can hardly equal our Valley
lands. Still, it cannot he doubted that
the value of lands is affected by the
price at which the products of the same
is selling.
Owing to the critical illness of the
mother of .Jno o. Crown, the marriage
of his daughter, Miss Bette, and Mr..
D. r. Meade, instead of being solemn
lied at Grace Episcopal church on the
evening of March 9th, as heretofore
announced, was performed at the
home of the brides parents, at. Berry
vile on the evening of the 26tb, Rev
Edward Wall officiating. The welded
pair left on the evening train for a
visit to Washington and some of the
northern cities.
Mr.. Thomas H. Burwell, OF Mill
wood, has succeeded in organizing a
club to restock that section of our
county with partridges. They have or
dered twelve dozen birds, which they
expect to receive this week. They cost
81 per dozen in New York. These gentle
men are to be commended for their
practical efforts to restock the lands of
their section with this fine game bird,
aud clubs ought to be formed in other
parts of the county to accomplish this
same end. Courier.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-03-28
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