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The National tribune., 1895-08-01
ALL ALONG THE LINE.

Past Department President Flora Wulschner,
of Indiana, now on a visit to Germany for her
health, is writing interesting letters for the
Indianapolis Neos.
A fine pen picture of the young German
Emperor will be found in the Loyal Home
Workers Department.
Laura Rosamond White, whose graphic pen
is always at the service of the Grand Army and
Relief Corps, has taken an editorial position on
the Geneva Times.
She is a gifted writer member of the Cleve-
land Press Club, and has achieved high repu-
tation in literary and musical circles.
Gail and Georgia Hamilton, the bright
daughters of Past Department Junior Vice
President Lucy Hamilton, Orville, o., are be-
coming quite proficient in music. the one as a
pianist, the other as vocalist They partici-
pated in recent entertainments under the
auspices of tho W.R.C of Bellevue, o.
The Indiana District Conventions are in
charge of Gertrude l.. Mitchell, Department
Senior Vice President. Newcastle Ind. She
has arranged and promulgated instructions to
the District Presidents, concluding with an
order OF exercise for the business sessions.
Past National President E. Florence Barker
favors the editor with copy of her address at
the first annual Convention, Department OF
Massachusetts,, following the Institution OF the
National Womsn's Relief Corps
To read it is like opening box OF sweet
lavender, so full is it of the pleasant memories
of the arduous but happy days of the orsaniza-
ton of our vast Order.
Col. Thomas L. Barker mourns the loss oil
an only sister at Glmanton, N. H. leaving MN
the sole survivor of his family. His VIE, II.
Florence Barker, attended the funeral Win
him.
Department President Adah G.. Briggs, of
Missouri. has formally accepted the Home at
st. James donated by the citizens of that place,
and accepted by the Macon Convention. She
was delegated to this duty by Department
President Hall, other members Of the CCnven-
ton being Junior Vice President Mary McNab
and Christine B. Scott, st. Louis.
Forsyth Relief Corps, Toledo has now a
membership OF 1914. An excursion on Lake
Erie to Detroit has swelled the relief fund.
The National tribune., 1895-08-01
ALMOST SLAMMED A CENTURY.

DEAR TRIBUNE: Elizabeth Thompson WOOD,
a member of E. T. Wood Corps, 33. Ridgeville,
Ind, died at this place April 6, 1895. She was
bora at Elizsbethtown. N. j., and had reached
the advanced age of ga years. one month and
two days.
Wood Corps conducted their impressive
ritual at her funeral and Wood Post, $50 was
present in a body and honored the memory of
the venerable woman patriot by appointing
worthy comrades as pall-bearers, while two
others, Rev. T. Addington and Rev. Hagarty,
conducted the funeral services.
Grandmother" Wood was intensely pa
triotic, and no sacrifice seemed too great for
her to make in the interest of her country and
to perpetuate it's life. Two Of her were
killed in the Spirit Lake massacre in 1857, one
son commanded company at the New Ulm
massacre in 1862, and four sons were in the
service during the civil war, besides one who
Joined in the special service to repel the Morgan
raiders.
OF the four who were in the volunteer
service died of disease of wounds
ceived in battle and the remaining two still
suffer from wounds received in the line Of duty.
Her husband, Samuel Wood, and her father,
Smith Thompson, were in the war of 1S12-I4,
and her father-in-law served four years and
FIVE months under Gen. Green in the war of the
Revolution. He was wounded in the hip at
Guiford Courthouse, and again in the breast
at Eutaw Springs. He drew pension under
the law of 1873
Grandmother" Wood was the oldest mem
Der Of the W.R.C. in the United States at the
time of her death. and none can show brighter
record of patriotic sacrifice in tie cause of the
country which she loved so we'll.
Z. T. Wood Post, Ridgeviile. Ind, and E. T.
Wood Post, Long Prairie, Mimi. and Z. Il.
Wood Corps, &c. Ridgeville, Ind, are all named
in honor Of her son. E. T. Wood, who died in
the service. Her son, E. B. Wood, is Junior
Vice Commander Of the Department of Mime
sofa, GAR.
Sisters Eva Ginger, Ester Farquar and Diana
Allen, committee, reported very appropriate
y. d Impressive resolutions in accordance with
the facts set forth above, which were adopted
by the Corps and ordered spread upon the
records, and the Corps room was draped in
mourning for 30 days.
The National tribune., 1895-08-01
WITHIN.

ITO fail In finding gifts yet still to give,
To count all trouble ease. all loss as gain,
To learn in dying. as a self, to live,
This dost thou do, and seek thy JOY in paint
Rejoice that not unworthy thou art found
For Love to touch thee with his hand divine;
Put Off thy shoes, thou art on holy ground,
Thou standest on the threshold of his shrine.
But caust thou wait in patience, make no sign,
And where in power thou fail st, o. not in WILL
See sore need served by other hands than thine,
And other hands the dear desires fulfill,
Hear others gain the thanks that thou shouldst
win,
Yet be all joyf Then hast thou entered in!"
Hollen T. Day
The National tribune., 1895-08-01
James Karnes, Adjutant.

WHAT REWARD HAVE YE?
DEAR TRIBUNE: | have often received let
tiers asking what kind of encouragement can
give to members of the Woman's Relief Corps
who cheerfully discharge their obligation, and
yet, when honors are distributed at Conyeu-
tisns, the workers are set aside, and only those
who are in the Order for such honor as they
can get out Of it. who really have merit
except their wealth, or capacity for wire-pull-
ing, are the ones elected to fill the most i'm
portant offices, without regard to fitness, or
devotion to the cause which the W.R.C. repre-
sents.
Now, while / do not think that this plant
is entirely unjust, yet find that things go in
the Relief Corps pretty much as the world goes,
and for the consolation of the dissatisfied and
unsuccessful, though honest aspirants for honors
in the Woman's Relief Corps, 1 ask them to
study the following and extract its full mean
ing.
| have belonged to the Woman's Relief Corps
seven years, and have learned that duty done
is honor earned" and we must take our conso-
lation from within.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS.

Those who know say that mixed drinks
in Atchison are compounded felonies
The Clay Center Dispatch recalls the
fact that the cruci1xion of the Savior
was due to focal sentiment"
A Seneca man got so hard up he Of
fered span of mules,Iseventeen hands
high. and a buggy horse for $50.
At Emporia the people are so trusting
they have to be warned to lock their
doors when a circus comes to town.
The drink habit is such serious thing
with an Emporia man that when he has
been foolinG with Bacchus his family has
to hide out.
The Norton county institute imported
a lecturer from 200 miles away to tell
them they were the architects of their
own fortunes.
People who have wondered since times
gone by about the whichness of the what
will come pretty near finding it in Miss
With of Norton.
"Frog," a tough Leavenworth char
acter, is always put right in jail when
arrested. If let out on bail he will be
sure to jump his bond.
A Newton young man and woman
want al oak bedroom set badly enough
to get married on Il platform before a
Fourth of July crowd today.
Teachers at the Atchison normal insti-
tute, who have kept boys in at recess a
hundred times for doing the same thing,
played hooky and went to the circus.
One of the richest men in Dickin-
son county came in to pay his taxes the
other day, but looked so sesdy the treas-
urer handed him ten cents and told him
to get something to eat
q
recited "an act repeating an act entitled
an act" so many times, has embalmsd
his beautiful bass voice in q phonograph
cylinder.
The conductors on the Leavenworth
street railway rang up 5000 fares in one
day. Just think, if the people had
walked and saved their money, it would
have bought 5000 beers.
Mr.. Labor Commissioner Bird, who il
about to be deprived of his three eyed
peacock feather by Gov. Morrill,, will do
we'll to correspond with Swan Burk of
Mcpherson, who has them to sell
The Winfield ball club has built q
fence on one side of the park so high
that the people who have heretofore
watched the game from q box (car) will
have to come in the gate as common
people do.
Leavenworth complains because an
Atchison preacher cast aspersions upon
some of her ladies and gentlemen who
went over to Atchison to a Sunday pic
mic, and wants retraction. The minis
! ter should at least modify his language
to .ladiea and gentss1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

of this great library viii be a colossal
task, but already Mr.. Spofford is ar
ranging for it, and neatly tied bundles
of books labeled ''for the new library
are placed in heaps awaiting the auspi-
cious day when they shall find a final
resting place in the great building,
with it's spacious rooms and galleries
and accommodations for over 1000, 900
volumes.
In the new library, Mr.. Spofford
says, students will have adequate space
and seclusion. No one who has not
tried to work at the present library can
understand the Inconvenience and
drawbacks to the accomplishment Of
work. There is not sufficient room, the
tables are crowded, and quiet is impos-
sible where visiting public is permit
ted to make audible comments and
where the professional guide has entry.
But to no one will the new building be
so great satisfaction as to Mr.. Spot
ford, who has worked and waited for it
these many years. Small wonder that
now he is completely engrossed in
evolving plans for the administration
OF its affairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
Flying Snakes Of the Autlpoaes.

The race of flying dragons which
spread dismay and terror. in olden
times is not yet entirely extinct, if we
are to believe the utterances in late
Queensland (Australia) paper. The
Queensland Mercury, of March 18,
says: flames Bass, of the sandy fat,
lying beyond the Blue Hill, near the
head waters of earns creek, has
brought another specimen flying SER
pent to this office. It is somewhat
smaller than the one exhibited by him
at Gulley last year, and larger than the
one he presented us on Christmas day.
Like the other two it has four three
jointed legs, each z inches long. Be-
tween these legs, which are situated two
on each side Of the body, is a leathery
membrane, much resembling a bats
wing. Mr.. Bass declares that he has
often seen them fly across earns creek
at places where it is 60 feet wide"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
A FAMOUS LIBRARIAN.
The Great Life Work OF AIMS,
worth R. Spoford
He Has Done More Than Any other Man
to Make Anericans Proud of the Lit
ar@turs Produced by the Au-
theirs OF America.

just now Librarian Spofford, writes
the Washington correspondent of tho
New York Tribune, Is busy with plans
Z * the arrangement of the new library,
into which he hopes to move before
two years are past. The exterior of
the building is quite completed, and
work on the interior is going on rapid
1y, which is matter of great gratifca-
ton to Mr.. Spoford, who has 1abored
for years with one end in view-that
the national library should be worthy
of the nation.
Mr.. SpOfford came to Washington In
1851, when he was appointed first as
sistant librarian by President Lincoln.
Three years later on the resignation OF
Mr.. Stephenson, he was made librarian,
which Office he has held continuously
since. His remarkable memory is a
subject for wonder and comment. He
seems to have the 700, 900 books which
compose the library cata1ogued in his
mind, and remembers facts about the
most insignificant volumes, when they
were written, by whom, and when
they came into the library. A QUOTA
ton he will place at once, and can give
the references on every subject with
out having resort to any catalogue
save that in his own mind. His knowl-
edge is hmitless, and with it he is gen.
erous and helpful, seemingly having an
interest in the researches of each indi-
vidua1 Mr.. Spofford is a man of
great nervous force and energy, of in
defatigable industry and possessed of
immense power of concentration. The
force within him, indeed, seems to be
too great for his slender frome.
When Mr.. Spofford took charge of
the library it had not yet recovered
from the destructive fire of 1855, and
contained only 10000 volumes. In the
thirty years he has been in charge the
library has increased tenfold, and long
ago outgrew the space allotted to it in
the capitol. The alcoves and floors are
piled with books and documents, while
the immense number of pamphlets and
other copyrighted matter has found an
an asylum in the crypt. Mr.. Spofford's
desk even is surrounded by great piles,
and just at present the library, with it's
loads of matter for which there is no
room, resembles chaos. The removal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
BEAR THIS IN MIND

The Temperance Convention in ses-
sion today was called to strengthen the
enforcement of the prohibitory law and
to condemn policies that encourage its
violation in several prominent commune
ties in the state.
The delegates here today are not as
sembled under any duty to cover up,
gloss over or "whitewash."
IT they endorse policies which have
prevsiled-within a few days-st Atch-
ison, Wichita, Leavenworth and other
cities-under the fostering care of the
governor to permit the open and willful
violation of law, where public sentiment
is alleged to oppose its enforcement-f
the convention endorse such policy it
had better never have been called
The governor of Kansas plainly stated
after his election-that his position
was to favor the enforcement of law
where public sentiment opposed the en-
forcement of law that it was useless to
try to enforce it
During the last few days, just before
the assembling of this patriotic conven-
ton on patriotic day, there has been q
general scurrying here and there to
make an exhibition of the enforcement
FLAW, evensat Atchison. The governor
has thus shown that he has the power
to make the laws respected, despite his
own recently stated theory, and that laws
can really be enforced if the executive
exercises the power the people give him.
If the governor is sincere-and time
alone will demonstrate this-he should
be commended. The tardy action of the
last few days is an indication that the
effort is not an honest one-is made for
effect.
Let the convention today condemn pol
icies that should be condemned, take
action which will aid the honest and per-
manent enforcement of the law. Com
mendation can come later if earned and
sincerity is proven.
The convention should be brave and
honest 1t will be an easy thing for
it to stultify itself, if it is not
clearheaded and true to its purposes.
The governor need have no fears of an
endorsement at the hands of such people
as compose today's body when he demon
strates his honesty and sincerity. He
has not yet done that He can not do it
with two or three days efforts.
When that time comes he will need no
such begging humiliating appeals as are
now going up for Enforcement
When the time comes a body like
today's convention will give fully, freely
all commentator to officers who deserve
it They will be compelled to do this. 1t
will come spontaneously. 1t will not be
granted as favor. 1t will be given as 8
worthy, merited, earned testimonial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
Hlstorr OF ths wedding Ring.

A long time ago the wedding ring
was worn on the forefnger, and was
thiclly studded with precious stones.
People who have seen the old pictures
of the Madonna in Rome will remem-
Der that in one or two of them there is
a glisteninR ring on the forefnger of
her right hand, but with Christianity
came the wearing Of the wedding ring
on the third finger rather than the
frstA The old story of there being a
vein that runs from that finger to the
heart Is nonsense. It's use originated
in this way: The priest first put it on
the thumb, saying: "m the name of
the Father" on the forehnge r, adding,
''In the name of the SOM" ON the sec
ond finger, repeating, SIN the name of
the Holy Ghost" and on the third I'm
ger, ending with ''Amen," and there it
staids4~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

to 1, or deposit it and receive certificates
for it if hesprefers redeemable in dollars
of the kind Of metal that he deposits. II
the government is to go into the business
of buying a material to make currency
of it might better buy paper; it is
cheaper It is so cheap that it wouldn't
be necessary to beat down the price as
in the case of silver under the Sherman
law. The people will not stand any
more Juggling with the silver question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

PUBLIC sentiment in Atchison appears
idenced by the fact that, according to
the report of the police commissioners of
that city, the saloons have all been closed.
According to Governor Morrill, they could
not be closed if public sentiment was
against it. It would be interesting to
know how this reversal of public senti-
ment was brought about The plan
might be tried on Leavenworth. 1t is
doubtful however, whether a public
sentiment which lie so hckle is to be
trusted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

SOME papers which have always
claimed that everything in the way of
trade was dependent upon the tariff, now
explain the recent shipments of iron and
Rteel to Europe on the theory that it is
the result of low wages. We had the
low wages about the time the Sherman
law was repealed and some time before
the passage of the Wilson bill Why
didn't the expectation of iron and steel
set in earlier?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

EACH day seems to bring to light an
additional case in which state officials
have spent money for which there is no
appropriation. The Hutchinson re-
formatory board is the last one. The
board spent 81, 500 on the strength of a
$500 appropriation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

THE contest next year will be between
the advocates of an honest dollar on one
side and the advocates of 200 cent dis
honest gold dollar on the other. The
people who own large numbers of dol
lars will of course be on the side which
wants to keep them worth 200 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

ALL the most important and successful
manufacturing enterprises in the city
have started in the same way as the tele-
phone factory, which has recently been
opened. There has been no voting of
bonds, or other subsidies; no flourish of
trumpets As instances, there are. the
packing house, the planning mill, the pre-
serving works and the big Touring mills
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

The Royal Baking Powder maintains
its vigorous hold on the public, and is &C
tive and aggressive against the impure
and injurious baking powders paimed of
on the people. In this task it is perform
ing a good work for honest and unadul-
terRted food productA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

ONE hundred and nineteen years ago
we threw off the yoke of Great Britain.
Let every loyal American today deter
mine that he will be free from the fnan-
cial rule of that country The men of
that day established an independent gov
ernment let the men of today establish
an independent financial system for that
government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

THE administration has SO much on
. hand, in the way of removing objection
able officials, Populists and otherwise, it
is feared that when it gets through there
will not be much time left for the ''busi-
ness administration" which the people
were promised.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

DOES Attorney General Dawes mean to
wait till all the POpulists are out before
he attends to Mr. Birds case If he does,
it looks as though the labor commissioner
had long period of public service be-
fora him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

TX the face of so many instances where
state officials have exceeded in expendi-
lures the allowances made them by the
legislature, the fact that Bank Commits
sioner Breidenthal has turned back into
the treasury $1,000 of his contingent
fund is refreshing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

WHAT will be said now about competi-
ton with the pauper labor of Europe
since the Ohio steel manufacturers are
shipping their product to England on
orders from that country?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

Daily trains to Pittsburgh, Harrisburg,
Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia,
New York, leave St Louis Union Station
over Vandalia-P Pennsylvania Lines at
S:12 a M, $40 a m, and 1890 p. 10.
Drummer, 500 Chestnut st, ST. Louis, will
answer inquiries for further information.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04


Ex- GOVERNOR BOIEs of Iowa would
like to get the Democratic nomination
for president next year With this end
in view he has been writing letters out
lining his views on the silver question.
These letters contain a lot of slush
about buying all the product of American
silver mines at 6 premium of one per
cent above the market rate for a period
of five years Governor Boies ought to
know that the people had all they want
ed of that sort of thing under the Sher-
man law, except that the government
purpossly hammered down the price of
silver instead of attempting to raise it
as Governor Boise proposes. He may
secure 4 nomination on that kind of
atraddle but not an election. The masses
of the PEOPLE do not favor any scheme
which includes a proposition for the
governments to buy anything to make
money out of. All they ask is thatsilver
be treated exactly as gold is treated;
that any man possessing bullion of either
metal can bring it TO the mint and have
1t coined on equal terms at q ratio Of Is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
Oheap Rates to LouisvIIIe, Ry.

Baltimore s. Ohio Southwestern rail
way will during the G. A. r. Encamp-
ment, Louisville, KY, sell Excursion
tickets September 9Th to 18th, good re-
turning until October 5th, from St Louis
to Louisville, at rate not exceeding one
cent per mile. Address j. NJ. Ches-
brough, Genl Passenger Agent 81
Louis, for further particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

SOME people who pretend 80 be or i'm
agine they are friends of silver coinage
become jubilant every time a report
comes across the water that something
has been done in the interest of "bimet-
allism" over there. This is great waste
of energy, Whatever action a lot of
European bankers and f1nanciers might
take regarding silver cannot possess the
slightest interest to this country. A lit
tie thought ought TO convince any one of
that Any agreement which they would
be permitted to reach would not be such
a one as would suit the people of this
country. We can force them to our
standard but we can never coax them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
A RISK.

"Shall return his presents?"
'sNo. He might be mean enough to &C.
sept them. Life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

Denver. Pueblo and Colorado Springs
and return $40, via the Great Rock
Island Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
TERMS OF sUBscRrpTIoN.

Daily edition, delivered BY carrier, 70
cents 3 week TO any part Of Topeka Or
suburbs, or ct the same price in any
Kansas town where this paper has car
TisT system.
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