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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1895-09-10
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1895-09-10

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

THE disgust of the country with the
Democratic administration should not be
permitted to inspire Republicans with
such feeling of security IN the results
of next years election as to cause them
to neglect the interests of the people in
connection with the silver question when
choosing a candidate for the presidency.
1t is no time for hero-worship, rewarding
party service or any favorite son foolish
ness. There are getting to be more and
more people every year who place their
individual interests above party fealty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
SHOULD SUIT ANARCHISTS.
The Laws We Do Have Appear to Amount
to Nothing.

The Laws We Do Have Appear to Amount
Nothing.
Sheriff Dave Burdge says the present
legal system by which criminals convict
ed in the district court may appeal to the
supreme or appellate courts and then get
out of Jail on light bonds is an outrage.
Sheriff Burdge then cited the case of
Mike Etzel, who was recently convicted
In the district court Of selling liquor and
given heavy Jail sentence and fine.
Etzeps attorney took the case to the su-
preme court on the ground that the
complaint was made by q person who
did not witness the sale, although the
evidence in the district court was sufh-
cient to convict
EtzeI was released on bond and i'm
mediately went back to his old business
for which he was arrested by the police
Saturday night.
Another instance Sheriff Burdge called
attention TO was that of Gordon. the
gold brick man, who. although sentenced
to the penitentiary, is now a free man.
His case was appealed to the supreme
court, where he gave light bond which
secured his release from jail, which he
has since jumped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

STUCK IN The MUD.
it. Well, year passed, and the case
looked different. Still most of the old
fellows around here said one more big
victory would end it. The very day
was IS they took down my name, and
pretty soon sent me word to come.
paid no attention to it, and they came
and got me. got away and came home
again. Next time they got me they put
me through course Of sprouts and gave
me fair warning that the next time it
would be death. Just the same l took
my first chance, but that time l only
stopped at home long enough to tell
mother she needn't look for me till she
saw me. Then 1 struck out straight
west.
81 was so ignorant that I did not
know the best route, so l went right
over the mountains and across the hills to
the Ohio. lived three days once on slip
perry elm bark and buds and the like and
got so weak that I fell over rock in
the mountains and into a snowdrift
up to my waist. came mighty near
giving up the ghost right then and there
I thought I was getting long way
north when there was snow in the hills
that late in the season, but I found out
afterward that it is always that way in
West Virginia. Hunger finally drove
me to house, and then I found that l
was away inside the Union line, but I
kept right on to Columbus, o. soon
got excited and volunteered and was
back south again with the boys in blue.
''Iwas mustered out in Ohio, and my
first notion was to stay, but I got home
sick and ventured back in 1857, and, 10
and behold everybody was awful glad
to see me. They weren' t so savigrus as
in 1861; had got shet of considerable of
their hot blood. Plenty of 'em owned
up that was right from the start
have never had a particle of trouble
since except a little flare up now and
then on politics, but not bit of real
trouble. Old Yanks and old Johnnies,
north and south folks, live right along
here, and no trouble, but once in awhile
we jaw each other and threaten to fight
over a nigger's vote or something of that
kind. I start in with a whoop and work
for the Republican ticket till the finish.
They'll be no times fit for a white man
till they GUST old Cleveland and all his
crowd I am for Union and liberty, pro-
| lection to American labor, free vote and
fair count, and General Ben Harrison
for president again and the same good
old times we had when he was in be-
FORE and I want the whole Yoonited
States to know it.
Virginia's Variations.
The United States is hereby respect
fully informed as to Mr.. Hardin S
wishes. He went into railroading after
the war and had a responsible position
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

The fact that the bond syndicate is
forced to pay premium in order to get
gold with which to keep its promise to
the government shows what mistake it
is for anybody to promise to pay gold
The experience of the syndicate is
pointer for individuals and municipali-
ties that have been borrowing or shall
borrow in the future on gold bonds or
mortgages. When pay day comes they
too will have to go into the market and
buy gold at a premium in order to meet
their obligations, Nothing is needed
more than a law prohibiting contracts
for the payment of anything but lawful
money and providing that all forms of
currency issued by the government, or
for which it is in any way responsible,
shall be lawful money. In all our ridic-
absurd than the fact that national bank
notes, though guaranteed by the govern
ment, are not legal tender and can be
excluded from use in the payment of
debts by a stipulation for some other
kind of currency in the contract And
so it is with the silver certificates and
silver dollars, and all other forms of CUR
rency, which have been declared to be
redeemable in gold, and therefore as
good as gold 1t only shows that the
whole thing is a lie; that the govern
ment officials know that the redemption
of these various forms of currency in
gold is an impossibility if it were de-
handed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

WHEN the people of Salina lay their
case befor the supreme court, there will
be an opportunity to discover whether
the board of railroad commissioners is
worth anything to the people or not
If it is not and its mandates cannot be
enforced, then the $4,000 or Whereabouts
which it costs every year may as we'll be
saved by abolishing the board.-Topeka
Journal.
The utter uselessness of the board will
be esta blished if something cannot be
done in the Salina case. If there is no
remedy in this case, the Board of Rail-
road Commissioners should make haste
to resign and get rid of salaries they are
not earning.-Salina Republican Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

THE action of the free silver Republi-
cans who met in this city recently and
issued manifesto demanding a protec-
tive duty on foreign silver, is already
bearing fruit The Republican conven-
ton of Crawford county incorporated the
idea in their platform last week. 1t is
difficult to understand what these gentle
men mean. If free coinage of silver in
the United States, which can probably
produce more silver than all the rest of
the world, will not raise the price to
S129 an ounce then the gold standard
advocates are right and the silver men
are wrong and unlimited coinage is a
delusion. If on the other hand the open
ing of our minis to silver and gold alike
at Is to 1 will raise the price of silver
bullion to its coinage value as the friends
of silver claim it will where is the neces-
sity for protective duty? If silver is a
good thing to make money of why try
to exclude any of it? Can country
have too much good money? These gen.
tlemen are laying the foundation for a
division in the ranks of free silver Re-
publicans. Many Republicans already
see that protective duty on foreign sill
yer must necessarily, to great extent,
defeat the end aimed at Many more
will see it when they have thoroughly
investigated the subject. There Is but
one way to restore silver to an equality
with gold, and that is to restore it. Any
restrictions placed about it destroys the
parity desired.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

The Pittsburg Dispatch says that free
coinage of silver would be equivalent to
making the railroads of the country q
present of e2,75O,OOO,OOO. II that paper
can only succeed in making the railroad
people believe this it will have done
great service for the friends of the white
metal, because the railroads would then
all be for silver and whatever the rail-
roads are for goes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
Daily Average 1884.

This is the greatest showing the STATE JOUR-
NAL has ever been able to make for period Of
any six months in its history.
This is greater figure than was reached by
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1894.
The American Newspaper Directory. issued in
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894. gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only STA. These
figures were furnished by the publishers of the
Capital, to the Directory and are guaranteed to
be correct by forfeit of $780, which will be
paid to any one disprOving their correctness.
The following figures. substantiated by sworn
statements in detail, giving every issue for the
first six months in 1885, 1894 and 1895. shows the
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

The boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka dailies
combined, only proves the meagerness of its
local circulation as compared with that of the
STATE JoU RNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and away ahead of the combined circulation Of
all the other Topeka dailieS.
The circulation of the Topeka Daily STATE
JOURNAL In the towns near by and tributary to
Topeka is very large. as the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL.
giving its readers the first and latest Associated
Press and state news of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

IT is announced from Wichita that a
movement has been inaugurated to make
Ex-Governor Lewelling the candidate of
the POpulists and Democrats for COVER
nor next year. The people down there
must think that the voters of Kansas
we're joking last year when q majority
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

THAT David Overmyer is thoroughly
in touch with the sentiments of the
people of Kansas is evident by his
declaration at Buffalo that a large ma
iority of them are in favor of the free
coinage of silver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

CoxEY made a mistake in not running
for governor of Oklahoma instead of
Ohio. A politician who can get 10000
people in any locality to come out and
hear him speak these apathetic times,
ought to camp right there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

In The list of appointees at the Hutch
inson reformatory it does not appear
who is to operate the incubator or the
piano.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

THE split which occurred in the Cuya-
hoga county Democracy bids fair to ex-
tend to the Ohio state convention. The
only states in which the national admin
istration is able to control seem to be
those in which there are not many Dem
Ocratz
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

of something like $4,000 of them said by
their ballots that they did not want L D.
Lewelling for governor. Do they think
public sentiment has changed 80 greatly?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

THE gold bugs are clamoring for
short campaign next year. They are
afraid the people will learn too much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

A MAN who has not been faithful in a
few things can scarcely hope to be made
ruler over the United States senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

"HOCUs" SMITH is what some of the
southern Democrats call the secretary of
the interior now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

GOVERNOR MORRILL, should stop firt-
ing and declare his intentions as between
Reed and Mckinley, or he may come in
for q breach of promise suit later.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

LEAvENwoRTH has lost her distiIlery
but she still has her breweries, so there
is no danger of drouth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

GOVERNOR morrill, should close up
the Leavenworth saloons if he expects to
be q fit running mate for Tom Reed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
Weather Indications.

CHICAGO, Aug. 90. - For Kansas:
Partly cloudy; possibly showers; slight
changes in temperature; easterly winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
A CHARACTER STUDY.
''What's Bred in the Bone Win
Never Come Out" Etc.
Mr.. ]. 4. BEADLE DISCUSSES

The -Four Distinct Typographical Sec
lions of Virgin1a-Mr. Hardin, His
Views and His VVfshes-IaiOsyncra-
sizes OF Speech.
FALMOUTH, Va, August 1s.-"Did you
ever hear tell of or read about great
big government that laid down and died
just because a few thousand people
wanted it to? Did you ever know Of
any big thing that died without fighting
for its life? That's what said to 'em,
said I. Do you believe that the meanest
and measliest little government on
earth would give up and die without
making the biggest kick it could? No,
sir. said I, to my father and all the
neighbors, says I, don't tell me that
great big country like the Yoonited States
is going to split across the middle and
bust up the back without fight. Why,
a swapping bug wouldn't do it No, sir,
if this big government and this great
big country ever splits in two, it will
only be after a fight, and, mind you,
the fight will be as big as the govern
ment, and that will be the biggest fight
you ever read of. Well, they laughed at
me, but we've had the fight, and we
hain't had the split, and here am
Federal veteran and pensioner right on
nv native soil -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
HERE'S YOUR Def.

Now Let the Brethren Make the Fur Fly
on Baptism.
To the Editor of the State journal:
Noticing in last nights issue that Mr..
T. E Davis of 726 Topeka avenue wants
to debate with some one on baptism. I
will ask Mr.. Davis to define his position
on the question and he can be accommo-
dated. Yours respectfully,
Fl. O. AUSTIN.
703 E. Eighth St., Topeka
One Fare to Bestsn and Return
By the Union Pacific. Choice of routes.
Sold Aug. 18th to gath.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
Story of q Native.

The speaker was my host, Mr.. Har-
din, the only native of this battle SCARED
region I have yet found who served in
the Union army. He had painful and
peculiar experience and must have been
an unusually shrewd boy to reason ont
the matter as he says he did in 1901.
He ''never thought much of slavery no.
ways" he says, and when they first be-
gan to talk about dividing the Union
peacefully the idea somehow got into
his boyish mind that there was weak
spot in their reasoning somewhere. He
looked into history little and couldn't
find a case where anything that had life
in it would die without a kick" He
held up for the Union, and the men
laughed at him, but the rest may be
told in his own words:
"Away she went in spite of all that
could be said, and my father and all the
loose footed neighbors rushed off to the
war, and the boys Of my age pretty near
cried because it would be all over in
three months and they wouldn't be in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

By its sworn detailed statement Of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown to
have circulation. during the first six months
as stated of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20

Ask yonr dealer for Burghsrt,s cigars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-20
The Select r. F. VS..

Probably no select class in the world
has so completely maintained it's blood
by refusal of marriage with the other
classes as the so. called "F. +. V. 's'' of
Virginia, and so it resulted that the two
great streams have flowed side by side
for a century and half without inter
mingling. Thus it came about that Vir-
ginia supplied US in the west with our
best and our worst. Everywhere natives
of Virginia were prominent as our ora
tors, statesmen, lawyers and preachers,
and it is claimed that a section of the
old state containing no more than TO-
900 square miles has produced more
governors, congressman, generals and
great orators than any other equal area
since the golden age of Athens. This di-
vision illustrates also the most curious
phenomenon of the war. As in the
border states Of the north, active and
dangerous sympathy with the rebellion
could only be found, aside from the city
rabble, in the regions where these
"mean whites were most numerous,
SO in the central south Union sentiment
was strongest in the region which Pol
lard characterized as "the land of rocks,
fist fights and ignorance. - 1t isn't very
fattering to the pride of either side, but
we may as we'll admit the hard, cold
truth-the bone and sinew and brain of
the south went into the rebellion, and,
looking back 80 years later, it's thou
sand wonders that they did not make it
q success, J. h BEADLE.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-23
GENTLE BROWN SNAKES.
Live In Summer In bitches and Creeks,
and Dcvour Small Fish.

Live In Summer In bitches and Creeks,
and Devour Small Fish.
1t is hard for the average man or
woman to believe that any species Of
the snake family would ever make at
tractive and interesting pets. So
strong is our hereditary hatred of SER
| pents that many sensitive persons
| even dislike to read of them or their
habits. Yet ii is true that the venom
GUS and ugly kinds are in the minors
ty, and that several species are abso-
lutely harmless and very gentle.
No better example of the latter sort
need be cited than the brown snake
"pe Kay's little brown snake" as it is
more strictly known. While not
SO common a variety as the
true garter snakes (Which name
is applied by tho average
individual to about five or six separate
varieties). yet they may be found in
their favorite haunts all through the
spring, summer and part of the fall in
Connecticut, New Jersey and NewYorls.
The muddy bitches, shallow creeks
and spring brooks are the chosen abid-
ing places of the brown snakes in the
early months. Ono of tho first species
to leave winter quarters, they may al
ways be found summing on fiat stones
or dry logs by the creek side in April.
They are graceful in every movement
and quicker than thought. When
once they decide to devour small
frog on an aquatic insect it is the
surest and swiftest sort of death to the
victim. Initiating their larger breth-
rem, the real water moccasins, these
midgets are fast, fearless swimmers
and spend much of their time in pur-
suing small fish. They catch mar
velous number of clubs and sinners.
When the crisp nights and dawns of
September come the little brown
snakes take 70 the uplands. In sunny,
cozy corners and hollows. carpeted
with dry leaves, they may be found
sleepily basking as late as the end of
October The cooler weather seems to
drive them from their damp retreats.
While on the high ground they feed on
tree toads, slugs and insects of many
sorts. To secure one or two of these
beautiful reptiles is not easy, but may
be accomplished with long-handled,
light net, quick eye and ready hand.
Kept in n roomy box with glass sides.
good-sized pool and a bed of dry
leaves, with some growing plants and
moss. and placed where a warm, gem
erous flood of sunlight can battle The
box and its contents nearly all day, the
brown snake will be contented. lie
will learn to know his keeper, to take
his food from the latter's fingers, and
will teach him many ways and habits
of snakes not to be learned from books.
IN. y. World
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-11-23
FOREIGN.

I,y the burning of q school building
Mt Granada, West Indies, the teacher
anL 81 children were cremated.
Eighteen suicides occurred at Paris
and Lyons because of dependency re-
ing n recent panic.
Two hundred Armenians, disguised
as Circassians, attacked and plundcred
the Mussulman villages of Zeitoun, Bell
and Narl. killing number of the inhab-
itants.
A dispatch from Constantinople says
that all the Armenian Christian teach
ers in the Trebizonde and ErZeroum
districts had been killed by Turks.
At Nictheroy, Brazil, 81 political
prisoners who favored monarchy were
shot.
Adviccs from VladivostocL say that
owing to the presence of the British
fleet at Foo Choo the viceroy executed
eight assassins.
The Irish parliamentary party in scs-
sion at Dublin decided to summon a
convention of representatives of the
Irish throughout the world.
A wine merchant named Domergue,
of Montpelier. France, suddenly be-
came insane and shot his wife and
mother, and then opened fire upon the
people in the street, killing three of
them.
Five Russian warships were ordered
to the Mediterranean to join fleets sent
by England, italy, France and Greece
to take part in the naval demonstra-
ton arising out of the Armenian ques-
ton.
1t was announced that the rebellion
in Cuba was costing Spain $150,00o
day.
In st. Petersburg daughter was
born to the car and czarina. Both
mother and child were doing well.
The launch of the British cruiser Ed
gar sank off Nagasaki, China, and AZ
lives were lost.