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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
Not to Re Trnsted.

"She has refused to marry me-" said
the lover despondently. "Do you suppose
she really means what she says?''
81 don't know replied the woman
hater promptly, "but wouldn't take any
mora chances if were you Chicago
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05

Willis-What does this advertisement
mean, Lady will make confidential ad-
vances on furniture?''
Kilton-Some old maid is anxious to
get man alone on the back parlor sofa
and pop the question to him.-New York
World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
CarIiSIe,s ReDort behaved.

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ut is probable
Secretary Carlisle's annual report will
not be semitic congress before Tuesday
of next week. Various matters delayed
its preparation SO that the secretary did
not begin writing it until the latter part
of last week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
A Question of Quality.

Mrs. Twickenham-Don't you think
that is better pie than your mother makes,
Bobbie?
Bobbie (dryly)-It ought to be.
Mrs. Twickenham-Why?
Bobbie-'Cause there's a good deal less
of it Brooklyn Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
WePaxthe Freight.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The treasury
department today received a shipment
of 100000 in gold from tho Peoples
National bank of Plttsburg. in exchange
for currency, and $4,000 from a Wash
iuctou. n, c. bank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
spofrord's RecapituIatiou.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The report
of the treasury auditor on the
shortages in the accounts of
Mr. Spofford, the librarian of
congress, has been completed and de-
livered to the president.
1t is understood that Mr.. Spofford has
deposited from time to time the amounts
found to be due.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
Yang Taxen Colning

SOUTHAMPTON, Dec 5.-The American
line steamer ST. Paul which sails for
New York on Saturday next will take
among her passengers Yang Tayen the
Chinese minister to Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
Honors For Young CnnrcniII.

HAVANA Dec. 5.-Gen. Suarez VaIdes
has telegraphed TO Gen. Campos COM
plimenting Lieutenant Winston Leonard
Churchill and Lieut. Spencer, both of
the British army, for distinguished be-
havior during the recent engagement
near Ciego de Avila, when Gen. Suarez
met and defeated Maxine Gomez.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05

The tracks OF the West Side Circle
railway, between Van Buren and Harri-
son streets on Eleventh, are being torn
up for the purpose of paving the street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.-The senate in
executive session confirmed Matt w.
Ransom, minister to Mexico, and then
adjourned at 1:35 p. m. till Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
HRS. MARTER STARVING.
Sister of GOV. REOrriII's Bank Cashier
in Serious Trouble Here.


Mrs. Albert Marter, sister of Amos
E. Wilson. ex- United States bank exam
iner in Kansas and now cashier of Gov
ernor MorrilIs bank at Leavenworth has
been starving in Topeka, so she wrote to
her father few days ago.
Mr.. D. W. Wilson. father of Mrs Mar
ter, who used to be postmaster at Solo
mon City, but who is now travelling for
seed house arrived in Topeka Monday in
response to an appeal from his daughter
who said she was starving.
When Mr. Wilson, ST., arrived in To-
peka he found that Mrs. MarteE and her
husband had separated and that she was
really suffering for the necess-
tiles of life. He Immediately sent
her to Leavenworth, to her brother,
Amos Z. Wilson. the cashier of Cover
nor Morrill's bank, and told her he would
look after the few household goods she
had. Mr.. Wilson found there was
chattel mortgage for $1650 on
the household goods, and he
paid that off and was
about to ship the household goods to
Leavenworth. when Mr.. Marter inter-
fered and said part of the goods belonged
to him.
The two men quarrelled over a divis-
ion of the property and Mr. Wilson is
this afternoon being tried in Justice
Growers court for assaultirg his son-in-
law with his fists.
was put on the household goods to raise
money to keep his daughter from starv-
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
Pratt Bank Closes.

PRATT. Kan, Dec. 5.-The First Ma
tional bank of this city goes into volun-
tary liquidation today. II was the Oldest
and most popular bank here. All de
positors were paid out in full
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05

WANTED-Two clothing statesmen at
once. Address Z, this Office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-05
Death OF NFrs. Hannah Ward.

Mrs. Hannah A. Ward, wife OF Henry
c. Ward who is employed in the Santa
Fe store house died last night at her
home at Forest avenue in Oakland. She
leaves family of three children The
funeral will be held from the Oakland
III. E. church at p. N. on Saturday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to-
the needs of physical being, will attest.
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of perfect lax
alive; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers-
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts on the Kid
ncys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed, you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
Forests WhittIed AWAY.

A notable example of a big result
produced by small means is found in
the fact that lead pencil users have
whitfield away several big forests of
cedar trees in Europe, and the supply
of wood suitable for lead pencils is
practically exhausted in the old world.
An order has just been placed by a
noted German firm of pencil makers
with California lumber company for
large quantity of sequoia wood, which
is found to be the best wood now avail
able for pencils The sequoia is the big
tree of California. 1t seems too bad
that the grand old giants should be
sacrificed, and especially that their end
should be lead pencil shavings- -Paper
Makers Monthly Journal
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

WALTER O. GRESHAM, United States
secretary of state, died at Washington
on the 28th, aged "a years. of acute
pleurisy, complicated with pneumonia.
He rose to the rank of major-general
of volunteers during the rebellion, was
for fourteen years United States cir
cult judge of Illinois, and held three
cal inet portfolios, postmaster-genera
and secretary of the treasury under
Arthur and secretary of state under
Cleveland.
THE United States supreme court on
the 9th denied the application of
Eugene ". Debs and the other Chicago
strike leaders for writ of habeaS cor
pus and reversal of the sentences to
jail passed upon them by Judge Woods
for interfering with the running of
the mails last summer. The supreme
court decided that the federal govern
ment had jurisdiction over every foot
of soil and every individual in the
United States. So President Debs and
the other officers of the A. r. q. will
have to serve their Jail sentences.
At Oberlin. O., Will Worcester.a rail-
road man, attempted to kill his wife
and then commit suicide. He started
at her with ball club, and after beat
ing her until he thought she was dead,
he took his razor and cut his own
throat: He then laid down the razor,
and with his finger dipped in his own
blood, wrote on the wall: ''GOod-by
pet"
JUDGE STUART on the 9th, at South
McAlester, I. tt, decided that the
Choctaw nation had no right
to confiscate the property of
United States citizens living in the
Indian territory. The Choctaw
sheriff had confiscated and ordered
sold nearly the whole business portion
of South McAlester, alleging that the
property, though owned by United
States citizens, was rented contrary to
Choctaw law.
CONGRESSMAN UPDEGRAFFE, OF Iowa,
said at Washington that the president
intended to call an extra session OF
congress in October for the purpose OF
raising revenue. Mr.. Updegraffe said
he got his pointer from leading demo
Gratis in touch with the administration.
A COLLISION occurred recently be-
tween sheepmen and. cattlemen IN
Routt county, Col. in which four men
were badly wounded. It was the
same old trouble of last year. The
cattlemen of the country objected TIC
the sheepmen, who were principally
from Wyoming and Montana. driving
their sheep through the county and
eating up the pasturage.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
THE USE OF FACTS.

Modest Self-Conhdence Is a Happy Posses
sfon-
To know what to do. What a world
of comfort it must be to those people,
and there are not SO very many, who
are always able to do just the right
thing at just the right time and in just
the right way! It is great gift To
some it seems to come naturally, and
others cannot acquire it, though they
strive for years
It is beautiful thing to see man
or woman who is never at a loss, who
is always easy. with a modest self-con-
fidence, and who therefore does not go
through the world treading on other
peoples toes, as the blunderer, more
conscious of himself than of what he
is doing or saying. is SO apt to do.
Everyone who has not been gener-
ously endowed by a kind providence
with this gift of knowledge of the right
thing to do owes it to society at large
to cultivate it in himself to his utmost
ability, not only for his own sake, but
for the sake of all those with whom he
is thrown in contact. Nothing is more
painful than to see man so embar-
raised that he has lost his head, and
nothing makes one feel more uncom-
Portable than to be the innocent cause
of throwing another into a panic of
confusion. For it is embarrassment
and loss of se1f-possession more than
anything else that prevents people
from saying and doing the right thing
at the right time. =
One soon loses patience with those
who are always becoming embarrassed.
There is little excuse for most of them.
They could overcome it if they would
really try. If they would grit their
teeth and go ahead when anything par
ticularly formidable seems to loom up
before them. they would soon find that
their fear and hesitation had fed and
that in their place had come power
they never before possessed to do and
say graceful things.
But what of those who in perfect
self-possession and GOODNESS make the
most outrageous b1unders, never con-
scious of what should be done, but, in
fact, thinking that what they are do
people tact if they do not possess it,
and without tact the case is hopeless.
There must be that subtle something
that informs one instantly what man
ner of people he is with and what he
may and may not say. among them.
Without this the unfortunate will go
laundering along, always doing the
wrong thing to the end of the chapter.
One should learn to judge the people
he meets. He should try to see things
from their point of view, and should
avoid as much as possible doing and
saying those things that he knows will
offend their taste.-Harper's Bazaar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary Of the Daily News
WAsHINGroN NOTES.

NEW treaties of far-reaching i'm
portance have recently been made be-
tween Nicaragua and Hondu ras and
official copies have just been received
in Washington. The treaties are the
first practical steps toward the forma-
ton of Central American nation out
of the several small republics, Near
aqua, Honduras, Guatemala, Salvador
and Costa Rica-
A DECIDEDLY unfavorable change in
Secretary Gresham's condition oc-
Cured on the night of the 25th and 1T
was said that for some time he was in
q serious condition. The change was
the result of a recurrence of the stom-
ach troubles from which he suffered
so acutely earlier in his illness. His
physician was with him for many hours
and left him in the early morning. He
was reported to be easier on the 26th.
His son Otto and Mr.. Lands, his pri-
vate secretary, had been telegraphed
to.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY REYNOLDS has
decided that in the absence of conclu-
sive evidence showing the dependent
or non-dependent condition of a
mother at the date of her soldier sons
death her claim cannot be rejected
solely upon the grounds that the SOL
der did not con tribute to her mainten-
ance.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND wrote letter
on the oath to the democratic editors
OF New York state regretting his ina
bility to be present at their banquet
at New York city-and touching on the
party's duty in the agitation for the
free coinage of silver.
SECRETARY HERBERT will deliver the
Memorial day grafton at the ceme-
terry at Washington, where are located
the graves of many union soldiers who
died in hospitals during the war. and
where over 100 confederates, who were
under the care of union hospitals, are
buried. 1t is expected that the presi-
dent and his cabinet will attend on the
occasion.
HUGH MCCULLoCH, formerly secre-
tary of the United States treasury.
died at Washington on the cath. He
was over so years of age.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
Women ONLY Know

How much they suffer when ner-
vous, weak and tired.
Nervous prostration is lingering,
racking, living death to those afflicted.
though wholly incomprehensibie to
others The cause of this condition is
impure and insufficient Blood.
Make the blood pure, give it vitality
and it viii properly feed the nerves
and make them strong. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla cures nervousness because it
acts directly upon the blood, making
it rich and pure and endowing it with
vitality and strengthening power. No
other medicine has such a record of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30

cures. Thousands write that they
suffered intensely with nervousness
and were cured by this great medicine
The building-up powers of Hoods
Sarsaparilla are wonderful Even a
few doses are sufficient to create an
appetite, and from that time on its
healing, purifying, strengthening eff
fects are plainly felt. The nerves be-
come stronger, the sleep becomes nat
ural and refreshing, the hands and
limbs become steady, and soon life
seems to go on without effort" ano
perfect health is restored, Such is the
work which Hoods Sarsaparilla is doing
for hundreds of women to-day.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
GENERAL NEWS.

1HE New I DIRK Telegram had an IN
terview with a cabinet official practi-
cally confirming the report that ex-
Secretary W. G. Whitney was the adj
ministra TONS choice for the demo-
cratic presidential nomination in 1896.
AT the session of the Democratic Ed
itors' association of the state of New
York, on the 9th, resolutions were
adopted that the democratic press of
that state pledge itself to oppose any
Legislation looking to the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver. There was
only one negative vote.
CATHOLIC missionary workers are
about to start movement of the great
est Importance among the masses of
population in Cleveland, o. It might
be called a Catholic Salvation army
movement, except that some of the odd
features of the Salvation army will be
omitted.
DEPUTY marshals had . fight with
Zip Wyetts gang of outlaws in Woods
county, Ok, recently. Wyett was
wounded and his horse killed.
THE miners of the Pittsburgh, Pa,
district have practically given up the
strike for 60 cents per ton and will go
back to work at the operators terms of
60 cents.
IN a Cincinnati Southern freight
wreck, caused by broken axle, near
Danville, KY, Stanley Davis, from
Chattanooga, and D. r. Stokes, negroes
from Georgia, both tramps, were killed
Five other tramps were slightly
wounded.
EIGHTY thousand children, repre-
senting 1S6 Sunday schools, or twelve
divisions, paraded in Brooklyn on the
cath, in honor of the sixty-sixth ami
versary of the Brooklyn Sunday School
union. The parade was reviewed by
ex-President Harrison, Prince Francis
Joseph, of Battenberg, and others.
THE Ohio Steel Co, of Youngstown,
O., has advanced the wages of all en-
ployes, over 1000 in number, 10 per
cent. The action was voluntary on
the part of the company.
A STRANGER giving the name OF
Lampson tried to buy farm of Assess
or Andrew Page, of Alexander, N. Y.
During the deal third man appeared
with the three card monte game, in
which all took part Page finally got
possession of So, 600 of their money. but
was forced to return it at the point of
a revolver.
AT the recent International Horse
shoers' convention at Milwaukee, reso-
buttons were adopted indorsing the
free coinage of silver.
Two young men were fishing in the
Neches river, 81 miles from Crockett,
Tex, when their canoe was attacked
by alligators and broken up and the
young men torn to pieces by the brutes.
The mother of one of the young men
witnessed the tragedy from the bank.
DURING the parade of Ring1ing Bros. >
circus at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the 22d,
arunaway horse dashed into the crowd.
killing Mrs. Elijah Lemay and iniur-
ing about twenty others more or less
seriously.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
Room for Doubt.

Mentrose-You seem to be under the
impression that Miss Toho does not
love you.
Meeks-Well, have my doubts.
But you say she sat on your lap last
evening"
Yes
DO you think she would sit on your
lap if she did not love you?''
well, weigh one hundred and sew
en- pounds and she weighs two hundred
and three pounds-do you think she
would if she did?'-Brooklyn Eagle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
Hoods SarsapariIIa
Makes Pure Blood.

A HOBBY sometimes runs away with its
rider, but unfortunately it can't throw him.
and kill hinl.-Galveston News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30
rha REASON for &c.

Chinaman-Me wantee play foot
ballee.
College Men-What for?
$50 teachee other Chinaman how
play footballee-
s'Then vhat?''
s"Then we go back to China and
hckee japanese like sixty.""-N. Y. Ad-
ver!iser.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30

. THE failures for the week ended the
cath (Dun's report) were 207 in the
United States, against 1873 last year.
CLEARING house returns for the prin
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended May "a showed an average
increase as compared with the CORE
spending week last year of 80. 8; in New
York the increase was 4O.5; outside
New York, 1873.
Two young white men, John Halls,
Jr.. and William Royce. brutality as
saulted young woman and were
afterward captured and jailed at Dam
vile, Ill. The citizens held a meeting
and resolved to lynch the culprits.
The doors of the Jail were battered
down and ropes put around the necks
of the two prisoners and they were
conducted to the scene of their crime
and suspended from the bridge. The
mob numbered about 1000.
WILLIAM DOoLITTLE, a married man.
and Bert Salisbury and Nina Patter-
son, both single, while fishing on Ma
harris lake, in Michigan, fell overheard
and were drowned. No one else was
present to tell how the accident oc-
Cured. The bodies were found in &c
feet of water near where the boat was
anchored.
Rev. WILLIAM E. HINsHAw, pastor Oh
the Methodist church in Bellevi1le,
Ind, was arrested in his study charged
with having murdered his wife last
January.
A STEAM yacht, bearing the name of
Tri1by, was capsized in the Hamburg
canal recently and two or three men
were thought to be drowned. The &C.
cident occurred at the Michigan street
bridge, Buffalo, n. Y, which was be-
ing repaired.
AT the meeting of the state fedora
ton of labor, at Ottumwa, Ia, on the
ed, resolution for the free coinage
of silver at 10 to i, although advocated
for hours by many delegates. was laid
on the table and the matter referred
back to the various unions.
Ex-Gov. w. D. HOARD was on the 23d
at Green Bay, Wis, elected depart
ment commander of the Wisconsin G..
A. r. The parade of veterans had 2, 200
in line. 1t was the last parade of the
Wisconsin members as the encampment
voted to abolish the parade hereafter.
owing to the age of the members of
the order.
FRANZ Won SUPPE, one of the most
popular of light opera composers, died
recently at Vienna. He had been i'll a
long time.
THE race for the claims in the Kick
apoo reservation came off at noon on
the Esd. Hundreds of women started
and exhibited the same amount of en-
thusiasm as the men. Every quarter
section has from two to half dozen
claimants and long before night many
settlers were turning back Disguised
at the fewness of the claims and the
miserable quality of what there were.
AT Choctaw City, Ok, w. L. Hale, OF
Guthrie, and gambler named Crump,
shot out an old grudge. Half dozen
shots were exchanged and Crump was
shot in the groin and SO seriously
wounded that it was thought he would
die. Hale escaped with piece of his
left ear shot away.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30

THE man who considers himself all wool
and a yard wide wants to make himself
fe3t.-Galveston News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30

WERE we eloquent as angels, yet we
should please some people more by listen
ing than by talSing.-COIton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-05-30

SHE-'sThe groom seems quite cool" He
1.-The bride is from Boston.'-Life
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-21
A LIVELY ANTI-DALTON MEETING

The ant-Dalton night in the new XIth Assembly
District grows warmer. Another meeting last night
In an empty store at Thrty-second-st and Tenth
ave. was 10 crowded that seven policemen and
roundsman had their hands full preserving order.
Ex-Assemblyman Drypolcher presided and James
A. McClosky secretary. The president delivered
a harangue against Dalton and then John ]. De-
laney handled the Tammany leader without gloves.
Mr. Delaney. however denied emphaticaly the re-
port that he expected to succeed Dalton He said
Dalton had circulated the story to strengthen him
self James A. McC.osky. William r. McAuley.
Richard j. Sullivan. ex-leader OF the district. and
James Keegan also spoke against Dalton.
When these had finished one OF the Dalton men
took the floor and began attack upon those who
opposed the Tammany leader. Mr.. Delaney jumped
up again and asked him II he want John McCourt
who married niece OF Dalton and held place IN
the Postoffice which Dalton secured for him. lie
evaded the question, but at last said yes Then the
audience cried, Put him QUIT" and the police had
to restore order There will be another meeting
next week.