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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-22

lists and fnanclers who frequent it. Like
a great many other literary women,
Mime. Adam, the modern Nine. de
Stael of France, turned her attention to
literature because her first matrimonial
venture proved unhappy. Her first book
was written when she was but 81 and
was a protest against an attack made
upon George Sand and Daniel Stern,
two French women novelists who had
for years been Nine. Adam ideals of
all that was noble and good.
Her maiden name was Juliette Lam
Der, and her salon is located on a street
named in her honor, the Rue Juliette
Lamber. She is the daughter of a coun-
try doctor and was born at Verberie, in
Picardy, France, about 81 years ago.
/ When a mere child, she displayed an
unusual taste for letters and politics,
and upon her second marriage to M.
Adam, the wealthy senator and republic
an poIiticiaH, soon achieved fame in
/ Paris, because her salon was tho head
/ quarters for Gambetta and the chief re-
/ publican leaders during the stormy days
/ of MacMahon s presidency. About this
! time she founded La Nouvelle Revue,
which was designed to be the republican
! rival of the old Revue des Deux Mondes,
and which she has since made such q
/ notable publication.
Despite the fact that she is 81 years
of age and grandmother, Nine. Adam
/ is still a handsome woman, with fresh
complexion, gray hair, shrewd gray blue
eyes and stately figure. She dresses
with elegance and taste, and her favor
! tie color is black. In these quiet times
in France she is as devoted to literature,
art and society as she was to political
! plots and counterplots in the days of
Gambetta and MacMahon. Her salon is
situated in the same building as La
| Npuvelle Revue Office, but has differ
EFT entrance. Mime. Adam is much in
terested il the American woman's adj
vancement. sit is what 1 hear of her
progress that keeps my heart up" she
says. Here in France we FTenchwom-
en- are watching the American woman
aad waiting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-22
Trunyzn as veranda Seats.

If your country house is unpretcn-
tious in size and there are more trunks
to be stored away than there are rooms
to accommodate them, let one or two of
them stand on the vcranda. Uupack
them first, and if they are Handicapped
trunks have u carpenter to make O 1lat
board cover to put over the rounded
top SO that they may be upholstered
and made into a comfortable seat.
Denim is the best material to use for
this purpose, as its wearing capacity is
great. The top of the board cover
should be cushioned comfortably and
thee 4 deep valance of the denim hung
from the cover to the bottom, entirely
screening the trunk from view.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-22
TIE MAElA oE ITALY.
Origin of the Blood-Stained Society
The Massacre OF Palermo.


Origin of the Blood-Stained Society
The Massacre OF Palermo.
Crime-stained as it is today, and
CHASTITY with murder every step of its
tortuous. secret career, the Malta of
Italy sprang into being from an inspir-
alton of patriotism, bat its very birth
was heralded by a libation of blood.
The Malta Society is over 500 years old,
having it's origin at the revolt of Pal
crmo, which took place during an east
ern ceremonial in the suburbs of that
city, in the year 1882. A beautiful
girl and her betrothed, in accordance
with the quaint and primitive Gus
toms of that people approached the
Church of the Holy Ghost to be unit
ed in marriage at its altar, and while
the lover sought the padre in the little
room at the rear of the building, his
bride paused upon the threshold. AS
she stood there a drunken sergeant of
the French garrison, named Druet,
strodc up behind her, threw his arm
about her waist and kissed her. With
a cry of horror she tore herself from his
grasp and turned to fly, but the heel of
her slipper caught in the coping of the
stone pavement and she fell, striking
her head against a sharp projection OF
the cornice. At that instant the return
ing lovers eyes fell upon her PROSTATE
form, and with the savage fury of
wild beast, he threw himself upon
Drue., bore him to the earth and drove
his stiletto to the wretch's heart, cry
ing. 'fMorte ALA Franciar C'Death to
the Frenchv0. There was a moments
pause of silence, and then that madden
ed cry became the roar of Infatuated
thousands It swelled and deepened-
it took more solemn meaning-it be-
came nationalized-and then burst
forth: "Morte ala Francia Italia ane
Leaf (sHDeath to the French is Italy's
cryvO. For seventy-two- hours armed
bands, headed by the father and be-
trothed of the hapless girl, hunted
down the French. But retribution was
to come after this carnival of blood
and in dread of the vengeance of the
French nation these unhappy people
formed themselves into secret organi-
cations with the password and name of
the society made up of the initial let
ters of the words which compose that
fateful death cry, thus forming Malta.
Its object was resistance to oppression
and as the lapse of years added to it's
power and influence it stretched forth
its hand against the rich and mighty
in behalf of the poor and down-trod-
den Today it is the hideous cloak of
the assassin of the night.
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slowed them upon many another than
the one for whom her efforts were first
undertaken.
The materials = required for the
friend are a little over a half yard of
ribbon, two and .one-half inches wide,
and yard of half-inch ribbon match
ing or contrasting in color. Half
yard of the wide is not quite enough,
though one-sixteenth more will suffice.
A bit of collar canvas, a piece of fan
mel, q paper of number seven needles.
and a spool each of white thread and
black silk, with rubber band, com
plcte the list. Cut piece of the can
vas ten inches long by an inch and
threc-quarters wide; cover one side
evenly with flannel, and on the other
haste the broad ribbon, folding the
edges over and Misunderstanding them
to the flannel. Cut from a visiting
card four circles the size Of a spool end
and cover from the broad ribbon,
working eyelethOle in the center of
each circle. Sew these circles, two in
each end, as shown in the illustration.
Fit a spool in the little niche thus
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HE ABSORBED THE PLAY.
Although His Descriptive Abilities Were
of the Smoky Row Order.

Although His Descriptive Abilities We're
of the Smoky Row Order.
There was a gallery god absent from
the opera house last night, because there
wasn't any play. He stood before an up
per Kansas avenue bill board explaining
the penitentiary scene from Human
Hearts" to q few Kansas avenue rem
nants.
"Dis is de way of it, fellers," said the
one giving the black board lecture. "Dis
deputy says Logan, step out, and den
he has two oders step out too. He
tells 'em to go on and work and leaves a
bloke dere to watch 'em, see? Well. dey
gets into mess and de prison bloke he
goes to shoot one of dem, coon. Den
Tom Logan steps up and says: Dis here
coon saved my life once and Pm goin'
ter save his and he jerks de shooter
out'en de prison blokie's paw. Dat play
was cOrker."
Some may think that the frequenters
of the first floor of the opera house, next
to the ceiling. do not see and hear all
that is done and said on the stage, but
they watch the play more closely than
those who nav 81 seat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-22
NOVEL SEWING CASE.

The Clever and Useful Design of an In
Genious Woman.
That necessity is the mother of in
venion is the most trite of sayings, but
it was the necessity of an unfortunate
bachelor which prompted a clever
woman not long ago to devise a most
ingenious means for his relief. and, in
cidentally, for the comfort OF consid-
cradle number of persons who are not
bachelors. The man in question
was painfully endeavoring to thread
needle, and confessed that his
occasional button sewing was q
difficult operation. because of the
effort to thread the needle.
So lis friend put her wits to work and
by the next day she had evolved most
valuable bachelors friend" as she
called it. The scheme is as simple as
it is ingenious. Its designer has be-
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LESS COAL PRODUCED.


A Falling off Shown in the Pennsylvania
R~Gions-EmpIoye increase.
HARRIsBURG, Pa. Oct. 22.-rhe Etatis-
tics of the mining regions, which will be
included i'll the forthcoming report of
the department of internal affairs, show
the production of coal for 1894 in the
anthracite and bituminous districts of
Pennsylvania to have been 825, 1896, 3S9
tons, decrease of 1926. or tons from
the production of 1898 The production
of anthracite coal was 45,506,179 tons
as against 47,792,563 tons in 1893 The
b.tumiucus production was 39,8a0.200
t)hs, as against AZ, 42l ,989 tons liz 1898,
reduction of 1921, 179 tons
While the production shows this great
falling off the total number of employees
in anG about the mines has increased.
The number employed during 1874
was 226,S72. as against 219,S21 in 1893. au
increase of 1851.
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but it is said that Francis G. Newlands,
the millionaire congressman at large of
Nevada, is seriously thinking of becom-
ing purchaser. This dukedom carries
with it a large estate il middle Italy near
the holdings of the Duke of Tuscany,
and the present duke has become so
weary of wearing his coronet that he is
perfectly willing to exchange it for
plain American straw hat providing said
hat has cool million of dollars tucked
away inside the band. The dukedom is
offered for sale on the bargain counter
Of Andrew Sbarbaro and General W. H.
L. Barnes of San Francisco, and it is
said that Newlands is going to Italy to
look the goods over before he makes his
decision.
If Newlands becomes duke, Nevada
will probably lose the only congressman
she possesses. He is a native of Natchez,
Miss, and was born Aug. %, 1S4S. He
entered the class of '67 at Yale and re-
maiyed i'll the university until the mid
die of his junior year. Strongly attracted
toward the law, Newlands removed to
Washington, where he attended the Co.
lumbian College Law school and was
admitted to the bar of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia. He then be-
gan the practice of his profession i'll San
Francisco and was soon one of the
prominent legal luminaries of the city.
In 1886 he became a trustee of the es-
tate of William Sharon, formerly United
States senator from Nevada, and two
years later removed to Nevada, where
he actively engaged in the silver agita-
tiOn and was for years vice chairman of
the national silver committee. LII 1892
he was elected to congress by the silver
party. He is closely affiliated with Sen
ator Stewart of Nevada in business as
well as politics and owns a great deal
of railroad and mining stock and real
estate
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SILVER Will BE STEADY.
The Current Quotations Have Little to d
With the Prict.

DENVER, Oct. 22-'sThe current QUO
taiion on silver means little or nothing :"
said well known ore buyer today. The
smelters have contracted their bullion
for months 10 come to the big agencies
in New York and these in turn have
sold to London.
The market will be steady at or near
present prices until these prices are
filled. Then it may go higher and it
may not"
Contracts with the large mines pro-
ducing silver in Colorado, Utah, ami
other western districts run with the
smelters to the first of the year In
many of these contracts the allowance
for silver and lead aud for treatment
charges is fixed, regardless of quotations
SO that the figures given each day apply
mainly to small lots OF ores.
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ALONG TIE LINES.
News Items Interesting to RaiIroaders and
the Public.

Kn6 3uDllc.
E NJ. Duncan, travelling passenger
agent of the Rock Island, went to Rnsh
Springs, L T, yesterday afternoon TO ar
range for the removal of a regiment of
troops stationed at that point.
Mrs. A. T. Abbott. wife of the Rock
Island chief dispatcher at Horton, Kas,
and Miss Lou Price. clerk in Division
Superintendent Hobbs office at that
point, visited friends in Topeka yester-
day.
The Offices of the claim department of
the Santa Fe are being repaired and
painted.
e. r. Hudson, assistant general freight
agent returned Sunday from st. Louis
where he has been attending a meeting
OF the representatives. of the different
roads interested in Texas freight bust
ness.
w. A. Goats, secretary of the Arkansas
Valley Town and Land company returned
yesterday from western Kansas where
he has been closing up land sales for the
company.
Morris Stevenson, of the stationery
department of the Santa Fe, returned
Sunday from a weeks vacation in DEN
yer.
John J. slavin. travelling passenger
agent of the Santa Fe at Denver, Col,
Was III tH6 CITY NoSsSIQdy FlSlLluG THid-
tives and friends. He left for Denver
last night on No. :.
Santa Fe passenger conductor W. II.
Hanam, in charge of a train on the
Howard branch, is laying off for several
days, and Conductor Geo Speer has
taken his run.
T. J. Foster, Rock Island station
agent at Addington, l. T., accompanied
by his wife, stopped over in Topeka
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made in each end, passing the narrow
ribbon through the spool and eyelet-
holes and tying it on the top in a sin
gle bow, or securing it at either end in
a bow that is sewed fast to the spool
ribbon.
The needles are placed in the flannel,
with eyes and points alternat4ng;
through each row of eyes is passed a
continuous thread from one Of the
spools, and when it is necessary to sew
. needle is found threaded and ready.
The second sketch shows the case
closed, with a rubber band holding it.
N. Y. Times.
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BADGES OF MATRIMONY.
Worn by Women Everywhere, Except in
the United States.

Worn by Women Everywhere, Except in
the United States.
Americans are the only women in the
world who do not exhibit some sign of
matrimony. OF course those who fol-
low in the wake of European etiquette
would not appear with their daughters
wearing hat without strings, but the
universal American woman buys what
she likes, regardless of whether it be
matronly or not and, what is worse,
her daughters will select articles of
dress only suitable to married women.
In no other country is this the case.
Among the Germans the badge of q
married woman consists CT a little cap
or hood of which she is very proud, and
looming the cap is the feature of the
wedding day among the peasants of
certain localities.
The married women in Little Russia
are always seen, even in the hottest
weather, with a thick cloth of a dark
hue twisted about their heads. In New
Guinea a young woman lets her hair
hang about her shoulders, but when
she is married this is cut short. In
Wadai the wives color their lips by
tattooing them with iron filings; in
parts of Africa, the married women
perforate the outer edges of their ears
aud their lips and stick rows Of grass
stalks in them; and among a certain
Mongolian tribe of people, the Manthes.
the women wear suspended from one
ear a little basket full of cotton, to
which spindle is attached. Thus in
every country, savage and civilized, but
our own, there is sign or symbol of
some kind that distinguishes the matron
from the spinister.-St. Louis Republic.
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TWO BRAVE WOMEN.
They Struggle to Set the Brakes on Run
nway Caboose Near NIeriden.

They Struggle to Set the Brakes on a Kun
nway Caboose Near SIeriden.
A hard bump in making a coupling
near Meriden one day last week broke
the Santa Fe freight train into three
sections. Two sections started down the
grade towards A1eriden at a lively gait,
but one was caught and stopped at the
lower end of the switch The other, con-
sisting of the caboose and three cars of
coal, got away from the brakeman and
were soon running at a high rate of
speed
Mrs, Charles Becker and baby of Duna-
want, and Mrs. Hollingsworth and two
little daughters of Meriden were the
only passengers. The two womun made
a heroic effort to stop the runaway train,
but their efforts were unavailing. One
seized brake at each end of the way
car.
After an exciting chase. the engine
caught them at Swickard's bridge. and
making \ flying coupling, soon brought
them to standstill The ladies were a
great deal worse frightened after the
rescue than they were during the chas e.
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IT Is GOING RIGHT Up.



Stories High, Begun Today.
Charles Wolff is going to be just as
prompt with the building of his pack
ing house as was the council to grant
him the desired right to the use of part
of Quincy street last evening.
Already a largo amount of stone has
been hauled in anticipation of the action
of the council and force of men are at
work throwing dirt from the proposed
site of the new building.
Mr.. Wolff will complete the basement
at once and use it this winter for salting
and packing purposes. As early in the
spring as the weather will justify, work
on the four story brick and stone addi-
ton will be begun. The size of the
building will be 35x125 feet, and will be
used for offices and shipping rooms.
A force of one-third more men VIII be
employed, while number of men are
given employment in the excavation of
the basement and stone work.
Mr. Wolff expressed himself as being
heartily pleased at the action Of the
council and the prompt manner in which
the newspapers had stood by him in his
application for the fright of way"
Erarvhodv axes the IOuRNAr-
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IN RAILROAD CIRCLES.
Eastbound Santa F'e Train Kills
Man Near Argentine.
RAILROAD NEWS OF INTEREST.

Items Along the Kansas Lines and
Personals From sIroD and OfIire.
An unknown man walking on the track
one-haIf mile east of Argentine, Kas,
was struck and instantly killed by Santa
Fe eastbound train No 4, Sunday even
ing.
The engineer of No. stated that the
man stepped directly in front of his train
out of the way of a west bound train,
apparently unconscious that the train was
behind him. His body was taken to
Argentine, but as yet has not been iden-
titled
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FRANCES FOREMOST WOMAN.

Mime. Adam, Her Famous Salon and Her
Influence In Literature and Politics.
The foremost woman of France is un-
doubtedly MINIS. Adam, who founded
that influential magazine. La Nouvelle
Revue, writes all the heavy foreign po-
litical articles herself and has a salon
that is famous the world over because
of the eminent politicians, statesmen,
artists, sculptors, literary men, journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-22

A. A Scott of the santa Fe law depart
ment, accompanied by his father-in- law,
W. J. Baldwin. went to Cottonwood Falls
Saturday morning on a fishing expedi-
ton and returned Sunday evening. Mr.
Scott brought back string of eighteen
bass, and reports that fishing is excellent
at that place.
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gain counter of
late, and an
American bid of
about $40, 600,
600 has resulted
in the quick sale
of one of them.
Anothe9which is
offered ca the in
stallment plan at
) the low figure of
$1,000, 1000 has
proved a slow
seller and is still
IL -
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Two-prongcd forks were made AT
Sheffield in 1903. Thrco-prongcd forks
were manufactured in England and on
the continent in 1850, and silver forks
did not come either in England or in
Trance until 1S14
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yesterday afternoon to visit friends
Mr.. and Mrs Foster were returning from
Kansas City, where they were called by
the severe illness of Mr.. Fosters mother.
II. W. Daub. superintende of the
Rock Island water service, went to Hor-
ton yesterday to inspect the water ser
vice equipment at that point.
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REGARDLESS OF EXPENSE.
Under such Double Addiction the Man
Became Reckless and desperate.

Under such a Double Addiction the Man
became Reckless aud desperate.
From the Washington Post: This is
story about a man over in Alexandria
who has great deal of money, to which
he is deeply attached. He is, in fact,
SO attached to it that that he hates TO
be separated from a dollar of it. He has
a silk hat, too. well-preserved silk
hat of great age and undoubted re-
spectability. He is fond of his hat. and
he'd like to wear it every day, but silk
hats, you know, are expensive, so he has
been wearing his for these many years
just on Sunday. On week days he wears
a shocking bad hat which does not con-
Germ this STORY The last time the
storks visited the Alexandria mans
house they were generous. They
brought twins, a boy and girl. The
father was sitting in the parlor when
somebody entered to bring the news.
well. you're father now" said the
somebody.
boy or girl" asked the Alexandria
man.
"Both-twins."
Great Scott!' cried the father.
springing to his feet. "Give me my
silk hat: 1 might as well wear it every
day now. What's the use of trying to
be economical, anyway"
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DIDN'T KNOW HER NAME.

Thought Her Maiden TilAs.Had Bern
Restored to Her, but It Hadn't.
When Nellie Lenbsrgj secuted her
divorce from john a. fenberg on De
mber ~, 1888. the attorney forgot to
ask that she be restored her maiden
name, Nellie A. Matson. She has al
ways thought that her name was Nellie
4. Matson until recently.
She took claim in the territory under
that name and has conducted all her
business by ii. She. fled petition to-
day asking Judg eHazen- to rscsifya the
mistake.
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GAMBLING BEGINS.
Montana Supreme Court D Declares the An
ti-GamblIng Law Invalid.

BUTTE. Mont. Oct. 22.-The state SUI
preme court has decided that the new
gambling law in Montana is unconstitu.
tioual.
The instant the decision was made
public in Butte, a score of gambling
houses reopened their doors. The de-
cision says that the old law licensing
gambling is still in force.
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Agent Houston Married.

Robert Houston, Rock Island station
agent at Goodland, Kan, and Miss Min
ME Sullivan were married at the resi-
dence of B. NJ. Van Cleve, 613 Lincoln
street, Sunday evening. Rev c. NJ.
Sheldon performed the ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Houston left yesterday
for Goodland
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A LONG EXPERIENCE.

Engineer Rust Runs An Engine 80 Years
without Killing Man Until Sunday.
Engineer H G. Rust OF the Santa Fe,
who has run an engine 80 years, eight of
which have been on the Santa Fe, IN
avoidably ran over d man near Argentine
Sunday afternoon and killed him. The
man stepped directly upon the track in
front of the engine. This is the first
man Engineer Rust has killed in all his
80 years experience as an engineer. The
man had nothing upon him to identify
him, having $3.50 in his pocket and
seemed to be laboring man. His body
was taken upon the baggage car and
carried into Kansas City, the train being
the one that reaches there at about 4
O'clock.
Engineer Rust says that 20 years ago
in Michigan his engine struck a man
who had been deaf and dumb from sick :
ness for several months and restored
TO him his faculties. This was lucky
accident Tor the man.
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Japanss cid Bank.

Japan has a banking house that has,
been in business without break for
over 500 years.