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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-12
HEReERT WARD.
The Modest Young Explorer Is Still Ac-
lively Working.
J. II. BEADLE.
Especial Correspondence


LONDON, Oct. 28.-Friends in Amer
lea of Herbert Ward, the youn,~ African
explorer and lieutenant of Stanley, will
be interested to know that he is at work,
this time writing and drawing for a
London weekly. It was prophesied that
after Ward married the daughter of
millionaire and went to live at Garlic
ton House terrace, the former mansion
Of a great nobleman, and now the
town house Of Mrs. John ". Mackay,
he would neither explore nor write nor
lecture. As matter Of fact he meant
to do at least two of these things, and
he was dissuaded from lecturing tour
of the world only by the efforts Of his
wife and her family. He has since done
a good deal of writing, and his new
employment indicates that he means
not to DO an idler, the hardest possible
life for man of his truly restless en-
ergy.
Ward is about 80, and his life from
boyhood has been an adventurous ro-
nance. An incorrigible passion for wan
dering sent him to sea before the mast
when he was yet far from his majority.
His father was an Englishman Of wealth
and consideration, with friends the
world over, and when young Ward turn
ed up in an Australian port some ac-
quaintances of the family recognized
his ship as that upon which the young
ster had gone out. They did not guess,
however, that he had gone under an as
sumed name. Ward tells with glee how
as he sat aloft one day begrimed and
sunburned, tarring rope and exchang-
ing jests with a fellow seaman, a richly
appointed carriage, with coachman and
footman, clattered down to the wharf,
and the young delinquent heard from
his safe perch a distinguished looking
gentleman insisting that Herbert Ward
wac aboard that particular ship. The
puzzled old gentleman drove away IN
satisfied, but Ward eventually called
upon him in the habiliments of civiliza-
ton.
When Ward came out of Africa after
something like a quarrel with Stanley,
he had been steadily since boyhood serv-
ing before the mast, following the head
hunters of Borneo and tramping through
the wilderness of the Kongo country.
All this rough life, however, had not
robbed the young man of certain gra-
ciousness, and Immediately afterward
on his way to the United States aboard
ship ne made the acquaintance that led
to his marriage to the daughter of the
great Argentine millionaire, Sanford.
Wards old friends found him amid the
splendoxs of Carlton House terrace, the
same simple, unaffected young man he
had been as able seaman, explorer and
writer, and no one that really knows
him will be surprised to learn that he
has taken up again his pen and pencil
E. n. v.
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"smeary" that can't get rid of suspi-
cion that they were sent here as joke.
l am no artist, admit, but surely
common man may be allowed to know
beauty from homeliness, and of all the
displays at Chicago enjoyed that Of
the Art hall most and longest. I admit
that 1 find deal more fun in the streets
Of Atlanta than ON the Midway, as there
are more striking characters there, and
my only enjoyment in the Art hall is in
listening to the sayings of visitors.
There is but one painting in the lot in
which the nude is noticeable, entitled
''After the Bath and the lads and
lasses of rural Georgia certainly have
had warning of it before entering, fo1
each young couple walks by it with
head thrown back and eyes directed
straight ahead, with an air of not seeing
anything which is laughable.
Rural Scenes.
This reminds me of fact philosophers
should study, puzzling fact to NC
that the main feature of rural life in
the south is its persistence Of type.
Right along the main railway lines and
in cannon shot of the great modern city
the Cracker is what he was 40 years
ago. After few hours in the exposi-
ton it is like an amusing afterpiece to
me to come down into the streets, where
the ruralists are peddling "'truck. -
There one may see the same old ''spike
team" mule in the lead of two oxen,
or single mule or OK team, and hear the
same old speech. Alabama is "allow-
ed" as southerners say, to have the
poorest and most ignorant set of back
woods people, and the ruralist of north
Georgia is in natural sense quite a man,
but in both states they remain unchang
ed, and SO it is with the tackles of
Florida and the "sandhillers'' Of both
Carolinas. In fact, those inclined to
change always leave, and perhaps that
is the reason the residuary mass is SO
conservative. Many thousands Of them
have seen this show and enjoyed it, but
it is evident in their faces that they do
not envy the possessors Of such fine
things, and, as to the queer folks On the
Midway, the rural Georgian looks on
them with undisguised contempt.
J. II. BEADLE.
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Professor Booker Washington, SO de-
cidedly the best speech, all things con-
sidered, of the official week was made
by Professor J. E. ". Bowen of Gam
mon Theological institute Although
the Negro building had long been fin
ished and filed, its formal opening was
deferred till the squad of governors ar
rived, and besides the remarkably able
speech by Professor Bowen a poem Of
high order by Professor D. Webster Da-
Wis was beautifully rendered by Miss
Adrienne Herndon, a quadroon recita-
zionist.
consider the government exhibit by
far the most instructive exhibit on the
grounds. and the arrangements for see
ing the fishes are much better than at
Chicago, though of course there are not
a third as many.
The State Buildings.
The state buildings, Of which there
are seven, have, as aforesaid, become
places of great interest. Illinois was the
last to get hers finished, and it is sim
ply IN elegant clubhouse and place of
reunion. Easy chairs abound in every
room and on the long shaded porches, a
fine piano graces the ladies' parlor and
elsewhere are the latest papers of the
state and portraits Of its eminent men.
It is pre- eminently a place of rest and
in the Quietest part Of the grounds, the
extreme northwest corner. Near by is
the quaint building we'll filed with
relics of the dead southern confederacy
fragments of scores Of flags, photo
graphs of soldiers taken during the war
and very interesting they are too.
Across the driveway south is Alabama s
building, with its interesting mineral
annex built of huge blocks of coal from
her thickest seam.
With the so called Florida building
near by the state as such had nothing to
do. Depressed as she is by recent losses
and perhaps trifie Respondent, Florida
made no appropriation, but Mr.. Henry
B. Plant, president of the company
known by his name which operates rail-
ways and their adjuncts in four states,
determined that Florida should be as
we'll represented as any other state, and
it looks as if he had succeeded. New
York's building is a splendid clubhouse
of gray stone and is to be gift to the
Piedmont Driving club after the fair is
over. The California and Georgia build
ings are practically part of the main
structures, and that of Pennsylvania is
clubhouse. art hall and music room all
| in one.
| A Poor Art Exhibit,
| have said that the Government build
ing is, all things considered, the best,
and now that it can do no harm feel
free to say that the Art hall is by great
odds the poorest. 1t isn't fair, 1 know,
to contrast anything here with its coun-
terpart at Chicago, but one really can t
help 1t, and n this case tbs contrast is
ludicrous. In all the building there are
not so many fine paintings as one could
see in any one of 90 rooms there, and
acme Of the alleged great works are SO
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UNDER tie caption. Warning TO Re-
publicans," the Philadelphia American
prints the following:
Politically, the success of the Repub-
lican party in 1896 is impossible if it is
to stand for gold monometallism. We
speak with knowledge.
The west, the Rocky Mountain west,
will not support Republican gold-mon-
ometallist for president or a Republican
on a gold monometallic platform. These
states have heretofore been Republican.
They gave the votes in the senate to pass
the Mckinley bill, and at all times they
have sincerely, unhesitatingly and from
principle-for they were but indirectly
benefited by many of the tariff schedules
given their support to protection.
Such men as Teller, of Colorado, and
Jones, of Nevada. have ever been fore
most in standing by the eastern Repub-
lic2us, and none have more ably defend
ed protection. Western Republicans re-
manned firm in their faith III the Repub-
lican party in the face of the repeal OF
the Sherman act. made possible only by
Republican votes. They have seen the
direct interests of their states assailed
by Republican senators; they have seen
their demands for recognition ridiculed.
but they have steadfastly stood by their
rem would in the end see protection and
bimetsllism to be inseparable parts of the
same system.
But as day by day goes by and they see
Republican leaders vacillate, Republican
newspapers support the gold monometal-
lie policy of Democratic president, they
are losing faith.
The enlargement that separates the
two sections of the party grows wider
day by day, as bimetallists in the east
continue to keep silence and the gold
papers are permitted to voice what they
claim to be the sentiment of the party.
Such assertions must be challenged, and
the true position of eastern Republicans
as bimetallists set forth. or there will be
no victory for the Republican party in
1896 Vscillating leaders must be rele-
gated to the rear.
Senators Teller, Wolcott, Jones, Mantle
and others have warned eastern protec-
tionists of the inevitable disruption of
the party that must follow further vacil-
lation, for vacillation will be understood
as support of gold-monometallism.
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OCTAVE THANET,s NEW MISSION.
To the Rescue of Miss F1agler, Who Killed
a Negro Boy.

To the Rescue of Miss F1agler, Who Killed
Negro Boy.
Octave Thanet's mission heretofore
has been to write very readable short
stories and novels of western life, but at
present she has new mission. She has
left her home in Davenport, Ia, and
has gone to Washington to console and
comfort her friend, Miss Flagler, who
accidentally shot and killed a young ne
gro boy not long ago and has been in
dicted by the grand jury for the offense.
Miss Flagler fred a pistol to brighten
away gang of roughs who were de-
spelling her garden, and the bullet
struck the young negro who was outside
the fence watching the roughs and in no
way taking part i'll the disturbance. The
coroner's jury acquitted Miss Flagler,
but the grand jury took a different view
of her deadly act.
Octave Thanet's real name is Miss
Alice French. She was born in An
dover, Mass, in 1856, and admits that
her mothers ancestors came over in the
Mayfower. When she was but years
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old, her father removed to Davenport,
Ia, which has since been her home but
she was educated at the same seminary
in Andover that her grandmother at
tended many years before the birth of
the novelist. She is large, wholesome
looking woman, with fair complexion,
brown hair and bright, intelligent blue
eyes, which sparkle with good nature
and humor.
She was strongly drawn to literary
pursuits as a girl, and her first notable
published story appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly in January, 1884. The tale
was entitled ''The Bishops Vaga-
bond and was such strong effort that
people began to wonder who Octave
Thanet was and to predict that new
literary light had appeared. III March
the same year The Century Magazine
published another story, Mrs. Finlay's
Elizabethan Chair" Since then great
many stories and novels have come from
the pen of the gifted Iowa writer, and
she is now regarded as one Of the stron
gest short story writers in America. She
has a passion for old furniture and rare
china, and has also made quite valu
able collection Of pictures by modern
French and Italian masters.
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run Of cases, but Engineer Bill Turnkey,
who recently made the record breaking
run on the Lake Shore from Erie to Buff
falo, has been at the throttle for over
80 years, and is gray haired veteran
of the rail. The Lake Shore train ran
from Chicago to Buffalo at the average
rate of IS :07 miles an hour, excluding
time for stops, and made the fastest run
for the distance ever known in the his
tory of railroading. At Buffalo the train
connected with the world famous EN-
pire State express of the New York Cen
trail, and for the first time on record
Chicago newspapers reached New York
the same day they were printed.
Every precaution was taken to avoid
accidents and to make the record break
ing run of the special train perfect sue
cess. Superintendent Tracey ". Niles,
who has charge of the Lake Shore Ill
vision between Chicago and Buffalo, had
500 section men on guard along the line
Of the road, and the wonderful trip was
made without accident. The entire dis
lance covered was 510.1 miles, divided
into five sections, and the train was
drawn by five different engines, manned
by five engineers-Mark Floyd, David
Luce, James Lathrop, Jacob Garner and
William Turnkey. Turkeys run from
Erie to Buffalo was IS miles, which he
negotiated at the average speed of near
ly II miles per hour, the best time made
by any of the five men at the throttle.
The train consisted of an engine and
three cars, and weighed 48S. 500 pounds.
81 had no schedule, said Turnkey to
a reporter, "but I knew what time I
must make to beat the record, and
did it. We were moving at the rate of
80 miles an hour inside Of the first 80
rods. Near Algona I had only ten inches
of water. and felt little scared, but I
was all ready to dump the fire in the ash
box and run in on the steam I had stored.
When we rolled into Buffalo, I was
clean out, and couldn't have crawled
another mile at ten miles an hour. ="
During the World fair Turnkey handled
the famous exposition fier.
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THE probability that the next Demo
cratic national convention viii declare for
free silver and nominate, free silver
candidate, has not existed until since
the recent election. That course is now
what may be expected Mr.. Cleveland
is whipped. He acknowledges it. His
financial policy has been repudiated by
his party at the polls. He is not likely
to attempt to influence the party's future
action. Relying upon the success of the
Republican party in the next national
election and upon their ability to dictate
its policy and candidates the eastern
gold standard advocates who know no
principle but greed and self interest will
proba DIV allow what is left of the Demo
cracy to take such action as it chooses
without any effort at interference. II
the Democrats had been even as success
full as usual at the recent elections an
effort would have been made to control
the action of both parties next year in
the interest of gold but now it will hardly
be considered worth while to waste any
time or money on an organization which
appears to be as dead as the Democratic
party does today. But the gold bugs may
become over confident. The Democratic
party has wonderful recuperat've pow
ers. If it should espouse the cause of
the people it may yet become formida-
bic adversary in the next national con
test. Its greatest disadvantage is that it
has. fooled the people SO much that it
will find great difficulty in inspiring a
feeling of confidence in the masses.
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KANS.4S PARAGRAPHS.

A real sweet Z. Z. boy is said to take z
powder rag to parties for his own use.
Two Newton men who forsook Kansas
for Louisiana have returned repentant.
Newton has taken one step nearer
civilization by closing the stores on Sun
day.
A lecturer who was opposed to bloom
ers could only draw $40 house at Abb
lene.
Parsons Sun: Some men are born great,
some achieve greatness, and some have
the big head.
A spinster nearly hundred years old
has just died at Ottawa. She couldn't
wait any longer.
The failure of a billiard room at
Atchison might perhaps have been OBJ
Waited if they had run "wet game
A musical organization at Wichita is
called the white kid band" but reports
do not say whether dressed or undressed
A Fl. Scott furniture dealer who is a
careful observer of human nature adj
vertises: "Cosy divans for young peo-
ple."
1t has long been no secret that Wichita
wanted everyone to drink beer, but who
ever supposed those who refused would
be put in jail
The Atchison Globe tells of year old
baby there which wears boomers. That
wasn't what they were called when most
of Us were young.
A Kansas City man, Geo Wells. is
planning to make a pleasure park near
Leavenwerth which will be as fine as
Fairmount park in Kansas City.
The historical strife between college
and town has appeared at Ottawa where
the college faculty refuses to allow stu
dents to Join with "townies" in forming
q foot bail team.
The Wichita man who went to jail
rather than drink beer in court, was not
SO good as he was farsightsd. He knew
that one drink might keep him out oil
hundreds in the future.
Mcpherson Republican:-A McPher.
son boy told his best girl that she was
the only one he had ever loved, and then
she said their engagement was of as she
could never marry liar.
Atchison Globe: An Atchison grocer
who is a Methodist has a wife who IL
| Presbyterian, and their oldest girl is
Baptist. Three churches that depend
upon him to furnish free sugar and but
ter for church socials!
The Coffeyville Journal says when thu
state republican committee wanted $685.
right badly in the last state campaign they
sent Immediately to Coffeyville, bui
when it came to dividing the plundel
they forgot it was on the map.
!
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PRIDE OF THE SOUTH.
Notes of the Great Exposition at
Atlanta.
HIGH WATER MARX OF ATTENDANCE.
The BLACK Han Bear. ORRopora-The
Instructive Government Exhibit
Persistent Typo OF Rural Life.

The Black Han Bears or ROnors-The
Instructive Government Exhibit
Persistent Type OF Rural Life.
ATLANTA, Nov. 9-Roaring times in
the Gate City these days. Every one OF
the 81 hotels is damned full, and people
are sticking out at the windows. Every
bed in every boarding house is full as it
will hold, and the late conner has to
take cot in the valley. We have had
all sorts and grades Of officials from
president to town marshal, a whole
beYy of governors adorned the stage at
once, generals and foreign dignitaries
swarmed, and, as to common fellows
like colonies, captains and members of
congress, they have been so plentiful
that we no longer pause in the street to
look at them. The most pleasant change
has been in the state buildings. For the
first month they were dreary places to
visit, but now they really represent the
states in their crowds of visitors. The
exposition is a great success, and there
are those who say that this. little city
has ''overcrapped" herself, as the Geor-
gians say of a man who plants more
than he can cultivate. There are no
complaints Of any one suffering for shell
ter, however, though the streets have
often been uncomfortably crowded, es-
pecially when the military were on the
march and brilliant militia officers were
dashing around in all the pomp and
Circumstance of glorious peace.
Honors For the Negro.
The sixth week Of the exposition
doubtless brought the attendance to high
water mark. At least no one expects it
to be exceeded. Every day was notable.
The week is to be an epoch in southern
history, and once more the black man
bore of the honors. 1t is an interesting
and most important fact that, as the
honors Of opening day were accorded to
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JUDGE TUCKER of Wichita evidently
thinks that the old adage about taking
horse to water does not apply in the case
Of men and beer. He has a witness who
appeared before him in Jail because he
refused to drink beer when ordered to do
SO by the court. It appears from this
distance that more sensible plan would
have been to submit the beer to the iurv
direct. Ii hardly possible that jury
could be found in Sedgwick county the
members of which 01ld not determine for
themselves whether or NOS the contents
of bottle submitted in evidence were
beer. Courts have very round about
ways Of doing thiHgA
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FOLLOWING upon the recent utterances
Of Secretary Morton, the president has
announced that it is the business of the
members of his cabinet to attend to the
duties of their positions and not to lee
ture. Things must have changed great
~ since the election. Before that inter-
esting event they were running all over
the country "lecturing," and no protest
was heard of as emanating from the pres
ident.
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Daily Average g. 534.

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 a greater figure than was resched 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 tho Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1884, as only STA These
figures were furnished by the publishers OF me
Capital. to the Directory, and are guaranteed TO
be correct By a forfeit of 500. which will be
paid to any one disproving their correctness.
The following fgures, substantiated by sworn
statements in detail. giving every issue for the
first six months in 1898. 1894 and 1895. shows thu
Topeka STATE JOURNALS
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Mr.. CLEvELAND's friends, the Roths-
childs are now in the rescuing business
over in Europe They are reported to
have averted a financial panic in Berlin.
Paris and Vienna on Saturday The
money kings make pznics or avert them
just as happens TO suit their purposes.
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THOUSANDS of cattle will be fattened
on kansas corn this winter. They will
then be sent to Kansas City and other
eastern markets. slaughtered, and the
meat will be shipped back and sold in
the same localities where it was pro-
duced. This is a nice system for the
railroads. but when the profits of all the
people through whose hands they pass
are taken out it makes it an expensive
business for both producer and consumer.
Kansas needs more packing houses.
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Tho boast of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than AL other Topeka dailles
combined only proves the nleaserness Of its
local circulation as compared with that Of tho
STATE JopRNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka OF Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is faI
and away ahead Of the combined circulation Of
all the other Topeka dat.ies.
The circulation OF the Topeka Daily sTATB
JOURNAL IN the towns near by and tributary 70
Topeka is vety 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.
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RUSSELL SAeE's reason for favoring Nc
Kinley for the presidency aud predicting
his election is in fact the strongest'rea-
son why he will not be president It is
that he is for Sound money" The peo-
pie are going to look with suspicion on a
candidate who is favored by men like
Russell Sage
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fast trains ; that
their long expert
ence and their
knowledge Of the
dangers that sur
round them ruin
their nerve, and
that young men
are the only en-
gineers who can
keep the big en-
gines laundering
along on schedule
time. This state
ment may be true
in tho oc@.ra1