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Evening star., 1895-08-03
rob the distant farmer and the far-ofr

rob the distant farmer and the far-off
fisher.
Rounders, male and female, who have
passed the night with wine and song, jaunt
through the throngs of sober workers, i'm
rudent and loud, exhilarated by the morn
ing air and the fresh. healing perfumes
where their drinks and spices and tobacco
left them nervelesS. All is noise and riot
all is bright with color. and the air of Paris
in the morning, cool and coffee-fragrant,
makes one for a time forget the air of
Paris in the afternoon, of horse sweat,
dust. absinthe and violet powder.
These HalleS Centrtles, as they. are
called, consist of a vast structure, made of
iron, and situated in the center of the great
French capital. For two full blocks before
their open square is reached, on every side,
the streets are made impossible by trucks
and hand-carts, barrows and great heaps
of produce, with a countless throng that
rerds the air with cries. The open squares
around the structure Of the Halles are still
more packed, SO that no vehicles may pass
them, and the foot passenger must thread
his way amid undyinS jesss and curses and
appeals. The great iron buildings, which
have ten pavilions are town itself, with
streets and cross-streets all arranged and
ordered with strict regularity, and where
one wanders from the cabbage market to
the street given over to black radshes,
and from the cheesas to the tripe, and
from the Holsters to The vfolets.
All goes by rule. The municipal labor
Evening star., 1895-08-03
Making Shot I'm Water.

From Hnrdware. .,
The shot-making trade has legend.
which recites that back III the days when
guns were shot off by lighted matches and
were swiveled to supports because they
were too big and clumsy to be lifted to the
shoulder. and when all shot was nodded as
bullets are today. some workmen were
fastening an iron grating to the wall of
castle. They had out out the hole in
the stone. and. after placing the iron in
the hole poured some lead in TO hold the
iron in place, Just as they do today. Some
of the lead escaped and ran over the edge
of the wall into the emoat below. Soon
afterward the attention of the soldiers was
attracted to the lead in the clear water,
and, dipping it out. they found that the
metal in falling from the height had be-
come globules. After that those soldiers
made their bullets by sprinklng melted
lead over the castle wall into the waters of
the moat
Evening star., 1895-08-03
CHARM OF THE "AUTocRAr..
DIR. Holmes Wrote 1t When He Wa
Nearly Half a Century Old.

DIR. Holmes Wrote 1t When He Was
Nearly Half a Century Old.
From St. Nicholas
Then. when Holmes was forty-eight years
old, an age at which most men have stiff
fened themselves into habits, he showed
the freshness of his talent by writing one
of the wisest and wittiest prose books In
the English language The Atlantic Monthly
was established in the fall of 1857. and
Lowell made 1t condition of his acting as
editor that DR.. Holmes should be a con-
tributor. Therefore 1t was that the first
number of the new magazine contained the
opening pages of the "Autocrat of the
Breakfast Table" which every reader fol-
lowed with delight month after month.
until at last the book was completed and
published by itself in the fall of 1858. Since
then it is rather as a writer of prose than
as a writer Of verse that DR.. Holmes has
been most highly esteemed.
The "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, is
a most original book; not that 1t Is espe-
cially original in form, for it is not entirely
unlike the Spectator of Addison and Steele.
wherein we have group of characters de-
scribed, and wherein their sayings and
doings are duly recorded. In the American
book the group Of characters meets at the
early morning meal, and one of them-the
The other figures are lightly sketched; some
of them are merely suggested: and even at
the very end there Is but the thinnest
thread Of story. The real originality Of
DR.. Holmes work is in the frank simplicity
and sincerity Of the Autocrat's talk. He
seemed rather to be chatting with himself
than conversing with others; and no such
talk had yet fallen from any American lips
none SO cheerful with humor. SO laden
with thought SO mellow with knowledge
SO ripe with experience. The reader Is
borne along by the current Of 1t, unresist-
ing, smiling often, laughing sometimes, and
absorbing always. even if unconsciously
high and broad thoughts about life.
So ample store of humor-and of good
humor-had DR.. Holmes so well filled
reservoir of sense and of common sense
that he had an abundance of material for
other volumes like the "Autocrat." In 1860
he published the Professor at the Break
fast Table" and in 1872 the Poet at the
Breakfast Table" Though these two vol
umes have not all the freshness Of the first
one, they are inferior only to it; they have
the same wholesome spirit. the same sunny
sagacity. And these are the qualities which
characterize also his last volume of prose.
"Over the Tea Cups" issued in 1880, when
he was eighty-one years old. In all these
books there is the precious flavor Of actual
converse ton, the table talk of a broad.
liberal. thoughtful man, full Of fancy and
abounding in humor. -. u
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Very Anonymous.
From the Christian Advocate.

Travelling on the Mississippi about the
close of the war. We rode in the pilot house
for three or four days, and the pilot in
formed us that during the war, as one Of
the vessels was passing Vicksburg, a cap
tain put his head out of the pilot house
and a cannon ball struck it off, the trunk
falling into the pilot house and the head
upon the deck. He said that he narrated
this circumstance the day after 1t occur
red to a lady, when she exclaimed: "Hor-
rible! 1t is the most anonymous thing I
ever heard of"
Evening star., 1895-08-03

en-. shrlveled and bedizzened. padded,
painted and adorned like a fine lady.
Ten thousand handsome servant maids
! with earrings, fresh-washsd and combed
and breezy in the morning of their youth.
of opulent contours, f1ower-faced, bright
eyed. fresh from their beds and bubbling
with delight at knocking down a quarter of
a dollar on their masters, rattle their stiff
skirts and swing their healthy hips and
show their sturdy calves encased in black
silk stockings stolen from their mistresses
to wiring the hearts of market men, and so
confuse them as to quite forget their prices
ard accept bad silver.
Slow, Conveyed peasant girls, astride their
pumpkins, count their cabbages. Zine la
dies who take pride in marketing turn,
shuddering, from the taunts of the gross
women of the Halles whose tongues are
scorpions. Sworn porters, in official blue
with numbers on brass checks sewed to
their hats, compete TO carry home the bas-
kets with the broken-down and tattered
loafers. absinthe-soaked. The wholesale
dealers and the great commission mer-
chants stand in corners. whispering and
planning how to further still combine in
their evasion Of police control and further
Evening star., 1895-08-03

ute?'' said the lady, mixing up morals and
hygiene of the situation. as she noticed
something of a change coming over the
chubby face of the yolfngster.
But the expression turned into the very
broadest of grins as this blase young man
Of four tender years turned on his heel
and Qn the most patronizing tones) said:
"Well, that's very gocd speak for you.'
And the lady did not seem inclined to con-
enough 70
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Revealed Unto Babes.
From the British Weekly.

Lord Salisbury's eldest granddaughter is
very clever child, and though she is kept
wisely shielded from notice. several of her
childish sayings have crept out at Hat
field. The following story is at least ben
troyato. Toward the close of the last par
Lament some one was asking Lord Gram
borne when a dissolution might be ex-
pected. He replied that he had no idea.
But 1 know" said the little listener in the
corner, "for I heard grandpa say he meant
to hang on as long as possible"
Evening star., 1895-08-03
Busint IS All Right.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
First Surgeon-"I don't see why you're so
blue, Scalpel, this soon after the Fourth"
Second Surgeon-"But there isn't an ache.
nor pain. nor accident
First Surgeon-"But the threshfng ma
chimes have started. and they are always
ready to give us a hand"
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patron of Paris up
per middle class res
taurants, who pays
II cents fo- a dimin-
Itiye plum tart and
20 cents for a stuffed
tomato, who, ever
seeking. ever reject
ing, roams in his
helpless folly forever
further and further
from the peace of
plain cooking into
more and more bar
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A Slight Alteration.

From Truth.
Ada-"Do you think the wcrd obey
should be omitted from the marriage serv-
ice?"
Ida-"Omitted? Certainly not. 1t should
merely be transferred to the other party
to the contract"
Evening star., 1895-08-03

atory has its sworn inspectors. noslns
doubtful fish and meats and probing into
butter, tasting, licking, snooping. lingering.
The prefect of the Seine, state officer, has
his detectives hunting tax frauds. his sworn
weighers and sworn measurers to hunt
out frauds upon the public, his sworn ac-
countants in continual conflict with the de-
tectives, weighers. measurers and account
arts, also sworn, pertaining to the prefect
OF police. another functionary of the state.
not of the city. And the municipality has
It's own corps, intent on satisfying the
never-ending differences between the retail
traders. all of whom obtain their places
Evening star., 1895-08-03
A Kansas Conundrum.

FfOm the N0DIuSUn IlueX,
If the chigger were bigger, as big as
COW, and his digger had the vigor of a
subsoiler plough, can you tell. dear picnick-
er, where you would be now?
Evening star., 1895-08-03

through ward politics, intent on making
and bewailing always that the city may
not run its market.
All goes by rule. The city may not run
its market, for the Paris Halles Cantrales.
by reason of their magnitude. do not per-
tain to Paris only, but 20 all of France;
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Chatty Topics From the Note Book
Of a Traveller.
RICH MEN IN TEE EMERALD ISLE
The Good Hotels and the Small
but Luscious Strawberries.
A N IRIS n 70 q 7 a

o W T H A T A
titled Irishman has
come to the British
embassy, anecdotes
with q shamrock fla
vor are timely. The
majority Of people,
and some of them
worldwide travellers,
too, who have never
been in Ireland. have
an idea that the rich
Irish. who are sup
posed to be few and
far between anywoy.
Evening star., 1895-08-03

PARIS, July IS, 1895.
p" D THE HABITUAL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
TURKEY REALLY REFUSES.

The POrte's Reply Equal to Refusal and
Powers May Become Urgent.
CoNsTANTINoPLE. June 18.-The Tur-
kish government has made a fresh reply
to the note of the powers outlining the
reforms insisted upon for Armenia The
porte accepts the principle of the pro-
posed reforms, but requests that several
of the points be discussed before any &C.
ton is taken.
The Turkish government also denie s
that the terms of the treaty of Berlin con-
fer the right of demanding the guaran.
tees formulated by the powers and ex-
presses the hope that the sultan's sover-
eign right will not be prejudiced.
The impression which prevails here is
that this last reply is tantamount to re-
fusal, and it is feared the powers will
adopt more urgent measures to enforce
their demands.
The British Mediterranean squadron,
which arrived at Beyrout on June 1, has
sailed from that port for Tripoli
Reinforcements of Russian troops, 1t
has now been definitely ascertained, have
been sent to the Turkish frontier in the
vicinity of Armenia in order to prevent
the passage of marauders and supplies of
arms and ammunition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18

JUDGE MCCONNELL of Illinois is one
of the wittiest advocates of free silver
coinage there is in Illinois. In his recent
speech at Springfield he said:
Mr.. Eckels, whom you have heard of
since he was appointed to Office Qaugh-
teri, talks about fiat, and says the gov
eminent cannot by law do anything. A
government which by law. converted
brass into craftsmanship in his case can
certainly do something. He said this
was a craze which was going to blow
over. That makes me think of a story.
Out in the northwest, where the
wind is high. the fences are some
times blown down, and some times the
houses are blown over. A man was 60
ing along one day and found another
man building a fence. He was putting
it up solidly-with mortar and stone.
The man said: "You are putting a good
deal of time on that fence; don't you
think it will blow overt" Aud the man
who was building the fence replied:
F'That is just the way l am building it. 1t
is five feet wide and four feet high. and
when it blows over it will be one foot
higher than it is now" Nasg hter) That
is the way they are building this silver
craze. 1t is wider than it is high, aud
when it does blow over it will be higher
than it is now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS.

The main street in Santa Fee is used as
a coursing ground for dogs and jack
rabbits.
If everybody has paid his dog tax in
junction City and no one has lied there
are only 10 dogs in town.
A Newton iointist has quit business
and gone to pitching hay--from cock
tails to haycocks as it were.
They are so particular about city Ii
censes at Ottawa that bicyclist was ar
rested for pedaling his machine.
A McCune farmer refused 81 per
bushel for 1900 bushels of wheat and
he doesn't feel bad about it either.
Mani attain women are going to get
out a special edition of paper on the
Fourth of July. 1t ought to be a cracker
jack.
Jesse James is a candidate for sheriff
in Barton county and it is hard to find
anyone to say openly that he isn't just
the man.
When a Mcpherson mother asked her
daughter what she was sitting out on the
steps for she said she was waiting for the
evening male.
Florence has suffered two defeats from
the Great Bend base ball team and is
now wondering If irrigation had any
thing to do with it.
It seems a little strange that enough
eligible persons could be found in
Wichita to fill the offices of a Christian
Citizenship league.
The Wellington man who has gone to
Arkansas to publish Republican paper
will probably either change his political
views or subsist on acorns.
The World says a Lawrence man who
paid 20 cents for a hair cut and then
found he could have had it cut for IL
cents. equally well, had it cut over so as
not to miss good thing.
'Surething Jim," horsemsn at Wich-
tia has been complained against by his
associates to the authorities. If his
name meant anything he had to be got
rid of or give up his secret.
There is a strong feeling among the
silver men that "The American trinity
which an Independence preacher is
going to lecture on is Grover Cleveland
John Sherman and the devil
a Hazslton base ball enthusiast who IL
spending more time capering around or
The ball field with the boys than ir
furnishing food for the home plate, il
about to call down the wrath of the
| whole town on his head.
! Mcpherson Republican,: When {
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
GOMEZ BURNS A STATION.
Attacks Alta GraciA and Defeats the Gar
rison Which Made Heroic Defense.

Attacks Alta GraciA and Defeats the Gar
rison Which Made a Heroic Defense.
HAVANA, June 18-Maximo Gomez
has attacked Alta Gracia and has burned
the railroad station and many other
houses. The garrison of the place, con-
sisting of twenty five soldiers, made a
heroic defense, losing five killed and
having seven wounded. The sergeant
who was in command OF the detachment
has been promoted to the rank of lieu
tenant for his bravery.
Owing to unexpected events, Captain
General Martinez de Campos has recon
sidered his decision and has proclaimed
the province of Puerto Principe to be
under martial law. Colonel Canellas has
had several engagements with the in
surgents at PHILIPPINES, Ueltas, Costas,
Passo and Songo dos Bocas. routing the
insurgents, who had seven killed.
Among the dead was the insurgent Col
Everesto Lugo
The Spanish commander also captured
a quantity of arms and ammunition. The
troops had one killed and twelve wounded
During the nights June 10Th and 10Th
the outpost of the Spanish troops at
Puerto Principe was fired upon by the
insurgents. One soldier was killed and
one njured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
C. s. GLEED TALKS.
En1ightens the Public ON Recent Move
ments of Santa Fe Managers.

EnIightsns the Public on Recent Move
ments of Santa Fe Managers.
c. s. Gleed, who is a recognized
authority on anything pertaining to the
reorganization of the Santa Fe railroad,
has returned from New York city, where
he has spent the past several months in
the interests of the reorganization.
New York life agrees with Mr..
GIeed, for he weighs more and looks
better than he ever has He will remain
in Topeka until Wednesday or Thurs
day, and then in company with D. B.
Robinson, acting president of the road, B.
P. Cheney, the young capitalist who is
largely interested in the system; II. Coll
bran, of the Midland Terminal road, and
c. D. tanning, of the San DISCO Land
and Town company, will leave for tour
of the system in Colorado and all other
western points touched by the system.
The party will be gone two months and
then Mr.. Gleed will return to Topeka.
To JOURNAL reporter Dir. Gleed ex-
pressed the greatest confidence in the
plan OF reorganization. He said:
"The reorganization work will not be
done until the new company is organ
lied and the new securities issued by
that company and the property of the
Santa Fe bought in by it at foreclosure
sale"
when will all that be done?"
ain six months or a year. The bonds
and stock have been deposited to the ex-
tent of about $285, O00,0 900, and that makes
the success of the plan certain. 1t will
only take time to perfect details"
"Who will be officers of the new COM
pany?"
ait is impossible to tell until the d.
rectors OF the new company are elected.
They will have the selection of the Off
GERS"
"Who elects the directors of the new
company"
"The reorganization committeeman
either the members of the joint execu-
tive committee or the committees in New
York, London and Amsterdam"
"When will this be dore?"
'tWhen the reorganizers arrive at that
step in the proceedings, when the'exist-
ence Of the new company is need ed.
That will probably be in about six
months"
"What is the protective committee
doing that the directors quarreled with
here at the last annual meeting?"
"The committee has retired very
gracefully with circular approving the
plan Of reorganization heartily"
"What will be the effect on Kansas OF
the reorganization"
at ought to have good effect. Il
ought to give q great number of en-
ployes confidence, and it ought to help
indirectly a large number of smaller in.
vestment interests along the line. We
all hope such will he the result. The
same is true of the other states and ter
ritories through which the system runs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
SHE WILL AND SHE WON'T.
England Has Declined to Afbitrate, but
sir Edward Gray says She win.

England Has Declined to Afbitrate, but
sir Edward Gray says She win.
WASHINGTON, June 18-Sir Edward
Gray's statement in parliament yesterday
that Am bassador Bayard had been in
formed that Great Britain would consent
to the arbitration of the Venezuelan
question under certain conditions,
creates some surprise among
officials here as Sir Edwards statement
is calculated to show that Great Britain
has accepted the suggestion of the
United States whereas it has been de-
clined.
The desire of Venezuela is to arbitrate
the entire boundary question and the
request of Mr.. Bayard in behalf of the
United States was in this direction.
But the answer of Great Britain
as given in the Associated Press
dispatch at the time, was that no
arbitration was admissible as regards
certain territory which Great Britain as
serts indefeasibly hers, though she offer
ed to arbitrate concerning certain terri
tory to which apparently Great Britain
regarded her title as less clear.
The practical effect of this was to re-
iect the only proposition the United
States had presented. A similar answer
was given by Great Britain to Venezuela
Eve years ago, but was rejected as an in
direct refusal to arbritrate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
THE POPE TO DECIDE.
Case of knights of Pythias Lodges to Be
Laid Before Him.

Case of knights of Pythias Lodges to Be
Laid Before Him.
WASHINGTON, June 1S.-Cardiual Glib
bons has taken to Rome the documents
concerning the Knights of Pythias so.
cieties of Fall River, Mass, with a view
to having the pope make a ruling on
them. The case is peculiar one, as the
Fall River societies are made up very
largely if not wholly of Catholic men,
ber5.
They have built up beneficial insur.
snce system, the benefits of which would
be lost if the members were compelled
to abandon the societies It would be q
special hardship on several Catholics
who have paid large insurance premi-
ums, and are now sick and dependent on
the returns from their investment.
A delegation from Fall River laid the
circumstances before Mgr. Satolli, but as
the decree against the Knights of Ply
thias made no exceptions, it was determ-
ined that Cardinal Gibbons should lay
the case before the pope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18

CHEROKEE Sentinel: The Topeka
Capital in its editorials is inclined to des-
ignate all persons and papers who favor
the free coinage Of both gold and silver
at ratio of 16 to as being infected with
the Pop disease. 1t this is true, then the
Republican county convention of Craw-
ford county two years ago was off when
it put plank in the platform demand
ing the coinage of all the products in the
United States of both gold and silver,
and the sentiment is much stronger to.
day. This is not q Pop disease, but
careful canvass of the voters in the Dem.
0cratic and Republican parties will show
two-thirds favoring the proposition. The
Republican party is good one, grand
old party that has the habit of graphing
with the live questions, and solving them,
and is will settle this one in a way that
will be best for the people. In the mean
time let federation prevail, and let no man
read those out of the party who do not
agree in the details of sewing the finan-
cial question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-18
ACCUSED MISS WILLARD.
s British Woman SnfvelIer Makes
CHARGES She Knows Nothing About.

= British Woman Sniveller Makes
Charges She Knows Nothing About.
LONDON, June 18.-There was a large
and enthusiastic gathering at the meet
ing today in the city temple of the Brit
ish Women's Temperance association.
Miss Florence Balgarnie accused Miss
Frances E Willard, president of the ".
D. T. U. and the w. Z. T. U. of America
of being an apologist for the lynchings
in the southern part of the United
States.
But both Miss Willard and the Ameri-
can W. c. T. U. were amply exonerated
from the charges. Miss Willard made a
spirited defense Of herself and of the IN
ion and was ably seconded by other dele
gates
A resolution carried unanimously de-
claring that the council emphatically be-
lieved that the American W. c. T. U.
maintained toward the lynching ques-
ton, the same attitude as other Christian
bodies, namely that under no Giro UNI
stances must human life be taken with
out process of law.