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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-27
FIRE AT PEABODY.
A Large FIGURING Mill Burns With Loss
of 100000.

PEABODY, Kas., Feb 27.-The large
Touring mill of Wilson Bros. east of
town, was completely destroyed by fire
today. Loss 100000. Insurance $4,000.
Origin of fire unknown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-27
MEMOIRS
OF NAPOLEON.

MADAME DE REM USAT, maid
of honor to the Empress Josephine, has
contributed valuable footnotes, making
this the most authentic edition extant
These memoirs have just been issued
in new and splendid edition, complete
in 4 volumes, in box, by the we'll known
house of the Scribners.
The citizens of Topeka will have an
unusual opportunity of securing this
valuable and most interesting work in
connection with Scribner's Magazine,
through Messrs. Scribner's special repre-
sentative,
MR.. F. A. MILLER,
Who is now at the Dutton House.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

Club of st. Louis have taken the
matter in hand to bring il to the at
tention of the people of st. Louis
and to ask for contributions to relieve
these worthy, but distressed citizens
of our sister st ltes.
81 venture in this public way to
suggest to the good people of the diff
ferent counties of the state outside of
st. Louis that some organized effort
be made to aid this charitable enter
prise, either by contribution of
money, wheat, corn or oats.
'If committee in each county,
having the confidence of their re-
spective communities should be APP
pointed and would take acti } in
est in the work, no doubt a 6,sa.
deal could be accomplished. Any
committees 80 organized can, if SO
desired, cooperate with +, O COM
mittee appoii'ted in ST. Lousy,. OF
which Geo-st d. Barnard Chair
man. Respectfully,
(Signed) ''WM. j. STONE,
"Governor.n
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
NO HUMBCG ADVERTISING.

| BY Charles Austin Bates.
Probably no other single sentence
ever hurt business so much as the
remark by p, T. Iarnum that "the
American people like to be hum
bugged."
You have heard half hundred
people say of different stores: .'[
will never go there again. They are
cheats. They advertised so and so
and when | got there, they didn't
have it, or it wasn't nearly as good
as they said in the advertisement
If pleased customer is the best
of all advertisements, isn't a dis
pleased one the worst? How often
the OPT ortunity comes to say: "Oh.
| wouldn't so there; why don't you
deal at Blanks?"
That comes from being humbugged
comes because the merchant be-
lieved Barnum.
And Barnum himself didn't really
humbug people. His show was
really 1.-THE greatest on earth" and
really gave a great iig fifty cents
worth for half dollar. An occas-
ional woolly horse, or white elephant,
more or less, didn't matter much.
People went to Barnum to be amused,
and he amused them. People 90 to
the theatre, and if they are carried
away by tie play, and laugh and
shed tears over the incidents they
are "humbugged''-to be sure, they
believe. for the time, all the fiction
OF the play-lt Is real TO them-but
how much more would they be hum
bugged if the play didn't seem real?
If Barnum advertised woolly horse
and then showed something which
could by no possible stretch of the
imagination deceive anybody, that
would be humbug.
No, Barnum didn't humbug. He
amused. He advertised to furnish
amusement, and he did. Even his
lies We're amusing entertaining.
We, none of us, believe in fairy
tales, but most of us, children or
grandpas, like to read.
But we don't buy groceries and
drugs and dry goods for amusement.
Not bit of it. We buy them be-
cause we have to, and we want
honest value for our money and no
nonsense about it. If we can't get
it in one store, We'll go to another.
We don't like to be humbugged, and
we won't if we can help it.
Barnum was wrong.
He's dead, anyway.
And buried.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
NAPOLEON'S FOOD.

From the New York Recorder.
Napoleon was not choice at all
about his eating. When seated at
the table, he wonld begin at once
on anything that was nearest, and in
ten or fifteen minutes had made his
dinner. He would eat anything, and,
If hungry, in almost any quantity.
The battle of Dresden failed of re-
suits through an attack of indigestion
from an over dose of mutton dressed
with onions. When at st. Helena,
he for time at least, had Chinese
cook, who made excellent blood
pudding, and the emperor daily
gorged himself with this appropriate
dainty until severe Indigestion COM
PEELED him to give 1t up. When on
his campaigns he often ate the ration
allotted to the private soldiers.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
FARMERS SHOULD BE WEALTHY.

Russell Conwell in Hawatha kansas World.
To be poor in America is some-
thing to be ashamed of. You farm
ers in Brown county ought to be
immensely wealthy. With wheat
and cvrn and stock at present prices?
Yes. You have raised too much
wheat. And with people starving?
Yes with less produced the price
would have been greater, work
would have been more plentiful.
Times are better for everybody when
flour is six dollars a barrel. You
farmers plant what will grow the
best. You don't study the markets.
When you learn to plant what is ad-
vancing and plow in what has de-
clined you will make money. Every
man ought to make money. Not to
hoard but to disburse. Have it said
that you have given more than you
have received.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
OUGHT TO MAKE MONEY.

Russell Conwell.
You have been running store
twenty years and haven't made any
money. You ought to be ashamed
of it. You don't know your business.
You are asleep. Wake up. Do you
run your store like did my father's?
When a man came in and asked IL
we kept jack knives l said no, and
turned away whistling, thinking no
more about it. A second many came
in and asked for jack knife, and a
third. See to 1t that you have the
jack knife in stock before the third
man calls.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

4 nizi " and removing the agricultural
| collpre was no toliows.
y,,'n, A.. 49, ..,. ,,.
\ Adk ns pon.har ua,nor panno,, pos,
l Bro.t C,Ihnrn r.na Carrou c,ar.,n,.
tor c,r,odaa nanor, Dari. ., ra,at,
/ oav, on noEnra nann, Dons,,n ~,
Dy,r Froom.n rn.on Gov co,r,,a
ON oh. crimtbs crubbs aurney tIai
! r1.r mon, ,,, ,,-.,, - 49,,
bee Tnbnstnn Ionos n, tI,orory I,.,oa .,
hyler' Leahenoy, Lehoy' Lynch
~, ~ -"'n' ,. n ', "n,er'
| pbiIlns por,araa,a pohna saohso ST..
eartin, schoppenborst. scbumacber shor,
Of Phelps, smith OF Howell, spencer of
Douglas. Steel, stickuey, Sullinger, swan
Ser, Itrtar' Tatum, femme, Tubbs, Walton,
"a'son' Waymeyer' Weaver,
r.s. NJ ,ou,Is OF '., Francois young oil
| vo,,r, M 40 ,.
l ritfipesr. Rotbw.ll porrn praI, pra,,nar
Ll,hinn, Choate, Collins, Correll, Cox Crisp
|ietsidson, DeReign, Drabelle, Gill, jenkins,
Ilan kssey, Kline, Lane, McCullom,
EcksFy, hckes. Nelson, Mcr-
H. ~ ~,
- p d d.
s1is, kmfth Of Buchanan, spencer Of 81
I ,odis, Tate. weinlold-ia
Absent-Messrs. Edgar, Hinde, Jones Of
fo'k' Leravor' Mcrherson, Moran Morti-
Sn' .n' y A0,'' % f''''e' hooer'S"n' ROSS
A,san, ,,,,i, ,..,.. IT,. r-,..
of waync, Ferguson. Moors of MississInrI
=.
sick--Messrs. Mueller, Shaw.
n. s. l. --.
y" ''e"s '"e senate "ppropria-
,'o"o S' "''on "au nau the
"1s. o.o a"u, ri, .o"''iu'"''on' submit
.u 'o ''su'' 10 an increase
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

The senate surprised every one,
itself included, by passing the Julian
house bill, providing for the sale OF
franchises. The fret section explains
the main provisions Of the act. It ia
as follows:
Thes public authorities Of every
county, city, village or other municipal
or public corporation to whom applica-
tion may be made by any private COM
Pany, copartnership, corporation, indi-
vidual or individuals, for consent to the
consent to the construction, extension,
maintenance, occupation or use OF any
electrical lighting plant, or plant for the
generating, transmission, sale or use Of
electricity, gas lighting plant, street rail-
way or railroad, for the transportation OF
either freight, passengers, or mail, tele-
phone or telegraph plant, or plant for
supplying water, above, ecross, along,
beneath or through any highway, road,
svenue, alley, park, square, street or
other public lands, must provide, as q
condition precedent to the granting OF
~-~'' Sohoo""t sh"s WIG ithhCnlbt, pTlNlltKC
and right of such occupation, and use Of
any such public places for any such pri-
vate purposes, shall be sold at public auc-
tion to the responsible bidder who will
give the largest percentage yearly of the
gross receipts derived from such occupa-
tion and use, with adequate security, as
hereinafter provided, for the payment
thereof, and for the prompt construction
and completion Of the proposed plant;
provided, that such payment shall in no
case be less than two per cent OF the gross
earnings during the first Ave years OF
such occupation and use, and thereafter,
for each period OF five years, such per-
centage shall be increased TO correspond
with the increase In value Of the land
thus occupied and used.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28
INFORMATION FOR THE CURIOUS.

From the somerville Journal.
The man who sent S5 last week
in answer to an advertisement prom
Using to tell how to make 81 go as far
as IS, got his answer yesterday. 1t
was q small card on which was neatly
printed:
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

The ofhcial vote in the house Of repre-
sentatives ON the Murray bill for re-orsa-
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

The house killed the Bittinger bill
bia under board OF managers to be
appointed from the state board OF agri-
culture. The vote was 81 to IS.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

Gov. Stone sent sharp message
to the senate in connection with his
approval OF road poll-tax law. He
pointed out number of blunders in
the measure, and said he signed it
reluctantly and with the belief that
1t Is invalid, but 1t may be enforced
by general consent. He said one
half the bills sent to him were char
acterized by errors. The bin In
question empowers local powers to
impose poll-tax ranging from two
to six days, as desired, or the equiv
alent in money at 81 per day.
The =, fy4nfal nate In Aha ha.xaa nj ras.ra-
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

The house disposed Of the follow
ing bills:
House bill amending the insurance
laws In regard to the date Of filing
reports. Lost.
House bill authorizing towns and
villages to take census for the pur-
pose Of becoming Incorporated.
Passed.
House bill requiring the public
administrator to take charge Of the
estate Of insane persons. Passed.
House bill amending the mortgage
laws 20 - to authorize the redemp-
ton Of property sold within one
year by paying interest and cost
thereon. Psssed.
House bill adding officers Of trust
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

Senate bill prohibiting Counties
from taking INDECENT insane persons
from asylums and placing them id
poor houses. Passed.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

Mail Both to San Francisco
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

moned, they must be taken from the
eligible list selected by county courts
or jury commissioner. Passed.
House bill requiring notes and sim.
liar evidences Of indebtedness to be
stamped oy the assessor when listed
for taxation. Lost.
House bill limiting indebtedness of
corporations to 100 times the paid up
capital stock. Passed.
Senate bill amending the dramshop
law so as to obviate the necessity of
procuring a new petition each time
the license is renewed. Lost.
The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-03-28

The agricultural college will remain
in Boone county and will continue as
a part Of the State University. The
senate, by a decisive vote, defeated
the Murray house bill roviding for a
dismemberment of the college and
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
AGAINST THE BICYCLE WOMAN.
Strong Language Used by the Wo-
mans Rescue League.
From the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American
Boston, Mass. June 9.-The Womens
Rescue League has adopted resolutions OF
timely interest, declaring that the bicycle
woman and the coming "mannish woman
are productive of much harm and no real
good to the Industrial and self-supportng
women who create 50 per cent. of the
wealth in all the light manufacturers
industries in this country" These women
are entitled to political recognition by
our lawmakers, because they help Greats
the wealth of the nation, while the sport.
ing woman" and the ''mannish woman
and the bicycle woman" bring disgrace
on the true womanly woman.
The league condemns bicycle riding by
young girls and women for these reasons
have come to the rescue league for anu
were bicycle riders at one time. 1t Is re-
solved that since the closing up OF the
houses of i'll repute in Boston the sport
ing girls" are taking TO bicycle ridlhs'
because they can better ply their Voca-
ton on account of the opportunities
given them as cyclists"
An appeal is made to the prominent
clergy of the United States for the sup
preston of bicycle riding by young girls
because of the tendency to encourage I'M
morality The league further condemns
the coming "mannish woman" as a cred-
ture entirely useless and an unnecessary
even in this country, which should not Oe
tolerated or encouraged.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

at other times by the wind, and each revo-
luton is supposed TO register the prayer
for their ultimate benefit.
Several hideous masks made of CLAW ara
in the collection These are painted a
bright blue and ornamented with gold
patches. Among the implements sent by
DR.. Abbott is one for digging, made of a
goats horn. There is also a queer pipe.
made from a gourd, and an odd teapot Of
silver and copper. a rare animal, whose
remains have been sent by Dr. Abbott
is the owls poll, named after Marco Polo,
the great traveller, not a single specimen
of which had previously existed in this
country DR. Abbott sent three perfect
skins and four perfect heads of this ami
NAL.
Hundreds of rare birds are in the col
lection, among them purple finch, Of
which there are two specimens in the
British museum but none in this coTn-
try. There are also sun birds of every
hue, some of them no larger than an
acorn. All of these were dried and la
belled by DR.. Abbott.
The natives of this country inhabit its
various climates, as is shown by fur
caps in the collection, as well as by thin
tbrous garments for the hot velley. One
curiosity is tiny buckle clasp of wrought
brass, a relic of a period of the world
before history began. Another odd thing
is prehistoric pair of stockings, male
without any heel and running straight
from top to toe.
The people here lead a simple, pastoral
life identical with that described in bib
lical literature, preserving every patri-
archal characteristic untouched by mod
ern civilization. They are known 70 be
among the oldest people on earth, and
their country is a veritable paradise, with
every delightful feature ascribed to the
Garden of Eden. The most ancient maps
eXtant placed the Garden Of Eden at thiS
spot.
geographically. the country where Dr.
Abbott made this collection. just now be-
ing arranged and catalogued in the Ma
tional museum at Washington, answers
every description of the Garden OF Eden,
which biblical scholars have also agreed
was here located. The plateau known as
the Roof of the World Is the highest
table land on earth, and is the natural
watershed for Asia
Only the invoices of the collection have
come so far, and a report from DR.. Az
bolt is expected within few days. d.
Abbott is about thirty-five years OF age
and had previously made extensive eA-
plOratiOns in Africa.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

at other times by the wind. and each revo-
luton is supposed to register the prayer
for their ultimate benefit.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

gend-that the ghost Of Dunscombe Hall
vas said only &C appear when death
threatened some member o. the family
MY GOdr' he exclaimed. can IL be pos
sfbler'
And without waiting 20 think another
moment ne turned and ran. ran as though
he were running a race for life, straight
hack 10 the Hall Breathlessly rushing
through the dark antiquated porch, he
jostled against a man coming out
Mr. Aliingham." he began
Il am not Mr. Allingham,' said the
stranger. i am DR.. Dean
The dOctOr2 Oh. then And he
leaned back against a pillar Of the porch
% recover breath and equanimity; Mrs.
AlIingham is"
Dead" said the doctor gently.
(Tne End
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

Mr.. William E. Smythe, who is an r.
rigation expert, saws the arid region oil tne
south as far as from Montreal to Mobile
and east to west further than from Boston
70 Omaha. When some cheap and praC-
tcal means of irrigation is found II IS eA
pected that the population of this resluL+t
VIII become greater than the present
population of the United States.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

Browns Iron Bitters cures Bad
Blood, Kidney ard Liver Troubles.
wonderful for Dyspepsia, Constipa-
uon' Female Weakness and Malaria.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16
OVERWORK.
OVERSTUDY.
POOR HEALTH.

Don't overwork the brain, for
the results are most serious.
Keep up your strength and
energy by taking Browns Iron
B;tters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09
HAD A CLEVER PLAN.
Ticket Broker Chamberlain Said to
Have Fixed Templar Tickets
so THEY WE'RE EASILY DISPOSED OF.

Railroad Hen Say That the Matter
Was UaderstOsd by Certain Rail-
road OmcIaIs-Mr. WI. Black says
They COuIdn't Possibly Have Been
Purchased.
w. l. Cham berlain, a Topeka ticket
broker, has been working a clever plan
to make money out of mutilated railroad
tickets, according to the Kansas City
papers.
The members of the Kansas City local
passenger association are now doing lots
of talking about Mr.. ChRmberlain's
scheme through which it is said he was
about to clear something like two thou
sand dollars
Broker Chamberlain it is charged pur-
sued a very shrewd plan in handling
Knight Templar tickets from Topeka to
Boston and return.
These tickets read from Topeka to
Kansas City; Kansas City to Chicago;
then an exchange order calling for a
ticket good between Chicago and Bos-
ton and return; then two more coupons
good between Chicago and Kansas City
and Kansas City and Topeka.
The tickets were sold, good until
August 27 going and until October 6 re-
turning, and the contract was printed at
the top.
The broker cut the exchange order
from the middle of the ticket, (Which
order represented the round trip fare
from Chicago to BOSTON, and pasted the
two Topeka Chicago coupons together,
making a straight round trip ticket from
Topeka to Chicago, which was placed
on the market at $21, or SO less than the
regular round trip ticket from Topeka to
Chicago. The exchange orders were
Ar,11N To h hox
were used for Chicago Boston business,
and found ready sale for that purpose.
The rate received for the Chicago return
ticket, plus the price received for the
exchange order in Chicago, footed up
considerably more than the original cost
of the tickets, and left the broker a very
handsome margin.
The Kansas City passenger association
having discovered these mutilatsd tick
cts has bulletined them and they will not
be honored for passage if the holders of
any of them are still travelling.
Broker Chamberlain refuses to talk
about the deal and said to a STATE
JOURNAL reporter that he would not
even admit part in any suoh transac-
ton.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Black of the Santa Fe said: "There
may have been few tickets mutilated.
but the Topeka broker could not nave
possibly purchased any number
of them. The roads would have
detected his crookedness if he had at
tempted to buy tickets in any quantity.
The Kansas City association may have
possibly gotten hold of two or three tick
cts which were mutilated, but it is folly
to talk about any number of them being
on the market"
The Kansas City Journal says of this
transactions:
"While the brokers are primarily
guilty of this manipulation, the scheme
could not have been carried out success
fully without the aid of certain regular
ticket agents in both Topeka and Chi
cago In the former. place there was an
agreement to leave eff the going limit
and in the latter there was an agreement
to accept the exchange order after it was
detached from the regular ticket"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09

A LOCAL gold organ calls the attention
of it's readers to the fact that the
United States is buying from Mex
loo and South American coun-
tries vastly more than it is sell
ing to them. It is clear to any man who
has made study of the question that
this condition of affairs must continue
just as long as this country tries to main
tain a gold basis. These countries buy
manufactured goods in England because
England by buying our silver at so cents
on the dollar and using it at 100 cents
on the dollar, in the purchase of raw
material, can undersen US in any market,
not even excepting our own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09
she Was a Peach.

They sat in the hammock-he and she
swinging the hours away in happy
manner peculiar to lovers. Finally he
whispered in her sheIl-lilze ear:
"You are like peach,'' he sighed
wistfully.
The maiden hung her head demurely
for few minutes, while warm blush
spread over her fair, blond face.
I'D rather be a pair, she an
swered TREMENDOUSLY. A long silence en-
sued. Then like d beautiful dream the
situation unfolded itself to the young
man, and the cards are now out--Roch-
ester Union and Advertiser.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09

TIE colored people are finding out
that there are worse places to live than
in the south. The experience of the col
ony which went TO Liberia last winter
seems to have been even worse than that
of the colony which went to Mexico.
The fact is that the average southern ne
gro is not competent to take care of him
self. He has not had the opportunity to
learn how. He is easily imposed upon.
Colored communities look to certain
white men in the neighborhood for guild
ance and advice. If these white men are
honest with them. as they usually are,
they get along well. but when the white
man goes in to take advantage of their
ignorance aud their confding natures he
has little trouble in doing SO. Those who
come north are those who have been de-
ceived and cheated, as a rule, and they
cease to put the same trust in white men.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-09
HAY MUST BE WEIGHED.
Receipts From the City Scales Have Been
Falling of.

The receipts from the city scales are so
light that the council has concluded that
something is wrong and an ordinance
will be introduced tonight which it is
hoped will have the desired result
1t cOmpels any one who stands his load
of hay on the market for sale to first
have it weighed at the city scales. He
will receive q certificate of the weight so
that he will not be required to have his
load reweighed when it is sold. A fee
of ten cents for each load weighed will
be charged.