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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

woman, Miss Wells, sick. She is not
dangerously sick, however. She has
spinal trouble and is able to be out upon
the street almost every day.
The noise OF fire works on the street
would be more likely to cause sick wo-
man more trouble than the cheers of a
temperance convention. DIR. Anderson
had, however. made the announcement
just as local doctor had requested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

Columbia Council No so, Knighta and
Ladies Of Security, will give public
literary entertainment and installation of
officers at Lincoln Post hall tomorrow
night. to which all friends of the order
are invited. J. d. MILLER,
BELL Y. BAIR. Secy. President
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

MEADv1LLE, No, July As. A.
Fields, until recently editor at Peolo,
cut the throats of his wife and baby
with q razor this morning and then ended
his own life in the same manner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
HE IS REsPoNsIBLE.

Police Commissioner of Leavenworth
Says Orders Come Direct From Morrill,.
On the 9th of May the STATE JOUR-
NAL published an account of how the
law was being violated in Leavenworth.
It contained interviews with saloon keep
ers and members of the board of police
commissioners. It has been said that
Governor Morrill, was unaware of the
existence of saloons at Leavenworth and
the manner in which they were con-
Quoted. This is a falsehood or Police
Commissioner Hauserman of Leaven-
worth is a falsifer. We republish
that portion of the Leavenworth article
2s published in the JOURNAL of May 27:
The JOURNAL reporter called upon
Police Commissioner John W. Hauser-
man. who is the proprietor of 3 butcher
shop at 308 South Fifth street, and found
a jolly vgood natured German whose
ruddy face and embonpoint denate that
he has plenty to eat and drink.
"Mr. Hauserman," said the reporter,
show must a person proceed who wants
to start a saloon here?"
The butcher looked interested. ado
you want to start one?" he asked.
"Well, wanted to know what had to
be done," replied the reporter.
| "Where do you want to start up?"
II haven't decided"
swell, it will depend upon the loca-
tion. Some places it costs more, and
some places less"
There has been some talk about hav-
| ing the saloons closed. Would you
guarantee a person immunity from ar
rest?"
| "We might be ordered to close them ii
is true, but l don't think there will be
anything of the kind. The people here
want Saloons" replied the commissioner
| with mixture of confidence and doubt
| "Who might order you to close
them," asked the reporter with eviden
| interest.
1.-THE governor"
'sThen you get your orders from him?'
ayes, we get our orders from him, anc
| you would have to take your chances
| But don't believe there is any danger
| viii tell you just how it is. There are
/ large numbers of Germans in this town
| and am ono of them, and they mus
have their liquor. The people want th'
saloons, and I believe they will havt
them. There is one thing though, if yol
start; you must keep closed on Sunday
| / don't care, but it makes lots of kicking
and we can't have them kept open. I
| would be all right with me and the boart
if it did not make so much talk. You g
| aud see the marshal and make your ar
rangemants with him. He knows al
about it, and whatever he does will b.
right"
Does the reader suppose that Governo
| Morrill, who appointed this man HauseF
man, didn't know that he was letting tn
saloons run when he says point blaul
that he gets his orders from the COVER
nor?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

VIENNA, July 4-The American flag
hoated proudly over the United States
ministry and consulate general as well as
over a number of American business
houses and private residences occupied
by citizens of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
Military Balloon FxDIoaes.

BERLIN, July A military balloon
exploded in the sheds of the barracks.
Three soldiers were injured and one of
them has since died.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
To CeIebrate At COLOR.

NEW YoRK, July "A special to the
World from Colon says: In honor Of the
'Glorious Fourth" the consular acorps
here will make display of bunting to-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
VIII Visit Lafayotte's Tomb.

NEW YORK, July "A special to the
World from Paris says: Americans in
Paris will today visit Lafayette's tomb,
where a ceremonev arranged by a COM
mittee of delegates to the prison con-
gress will take place
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

Don't miss the music at Hopkins ice
cream psrlors tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

8.
At Omaha-Omaha, 8; Quincy, Z.
At St Joe-St. Joe. 8; Jacksonville. 4.
At Philadelphia - Philadelphia, 4;
Washington, 3.
At Kansas City-Kansaa City. 4; Mil
waukes, 3.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
NOrnfn@ Rull Games,

At Detroit-DetrOit 8; Terre Haute,
II.
At Pittsburg-Pittsburg, 6; Cleveland,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04
TRIES TO SQUIRM OUT.
Observation-Disclosures Many
Observation-Disclosures.

The friends of temperance from every
part of Kansas rallied at Hamilton hall
this morning. 1t was the opening session
of the convention of the State Temper
ance union, and the attendance has been
considerably larger than the officers of
the union had reason to expect There
were fully 500 delegates, and the hall
was comfortably filed, the remainder
being occupied by the Topeka delegates
and friends of the cause.
The decorations about the house were
intended more as object lessons in the de-
grading effect of liquor than attempts at
art One banner posted in a conspicu-
Gus place was significant It read:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

Go hear the Spanish music at Hopkins
ice cream pRIiors tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

ENEMIES OF LIQUOR.
Five Hundred Delegates Gather
in Temperance Convention.
An Experience Meeting Takes
Up the First Session.
GOV. MORRILL'S BLUFF
Delegates Believe Saloons Are
Only Closed Temporarily.
And as Soon as Storm Blows
Over They Will Reopen.
MR.M'AFEE CONDEMNE ED
D. R. Anthony Accuses Him Of
DESERVING the Cause.
That He is Trying to Evade
Blaming Gov. Morrill,.
TRIES TO SQUIRM OUT.
Gov. Morrill, is Attempting to
Deny His Interview,
In Which He Said Law Couldn't
be Enforced.
ResOlutionsCommitteeHasMany
Anti-AdministratiOnists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-04

Who runs LeaverworthP
The saloons.
Who runs the saloons?
The police commissioners.
Who runs the police commission
ers?
SOMEBODY.
Who runs the whole businessf
The devil
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
New Years Calling.

While the New Year S customs of an
cient times possess for us q certain fas-
cination, we find still more interesting
the celebrations of the present time
The one that is most characteristic most
truly American, is the old Knicker-
booker custom of making calls upon
New Years day, and it is to be hoped
that it will be long continued by those
who care to encourage and sustain
whatever is distinctly national and
characteristic among u.s. 1t is true that
this custom belongs to a time when
making calls had not become daily
business, pursued for want of other &C.
cupation by men and women of leisure
1t is true that it belongs to time when
men were too busy to do much visiting
and gladly seized this annual oppOrtu-
nifty of looking up old friends and es-
pecially the busy wives and mothers
they had known as girls and recalling
and recounting the scenes and events of
their youth.
This annual Frightening of the links
of old friendships is the special function
of New Years calls. The day is put to
very bad use when it is employed in
mere effort to count up long list of
names of persons whom one may have
seen yesterday or the day before and
who have no steady purpose to prevent
them from calling every day of their
lives.
OF course one does not want to miss
ones intimates on such day, but there
is not the same object in setting apart a
day for them, and that is the reason
why some modern and fashionable peo-
pie who have travelled relinquish
the custom when they return home to a
life based as far as possible on what
they have heard and seen abroad But
this class are not all of American sOcie-
ty. There are many who represent the
oldest and best families who cling to
old habits, who do not spend half their
lives abroad, but who are the strength
and honor of the best enterprises and
efforts at home.
Then there are others, busy business
and professional men and women, who
form the largest part of our "best" So
ciety, who perhaps do the most to for
mulate its habits and perpetuate its Gus
toms, and to these the LIST of January.
as day of freedom and devotion to the
social idea, is boon which they wei.
come apart from its significance and tho
desire 10 perpetuate it as a custom. -
Philadelphia Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
At Bavaria's Capital.

On the night of the cour the persons
who are to be presented assemble in an
amber hall lighted by wax candles in
six immense crystal candelabras. La
dies of honor stand here in group near
the door, while aids do-camp move
about, the strangers that come in one by
one being placed in a row that lines the
four sides of the room. ambassadors
ministers and ministers wives take up
their places along the line near the per
SONS who are under their charge.
Suddenly three taps of the marshal's
staff resound on the mosaic hard wood
floor, and majesty enters. All bow deep
ly. The queen gives her hand to the
minister's wife next to her. then steps
very close III front of the first lady to
be presented. Her master of ceremonies
mentions the lady's name Majesty
is nearsighted. The lady therefore
makes her reverence without taking the
conventional two steps backward. rs
she living in Dresden?" the queen in
quires. The stranger answers, Eyes,
your majesty" whereupon the queen
moves her hands nervously lingering
her fan. Tho page, in crimson and sill
yer, who carries the end Of her out.
spread, long, peacock colored, velvet
brocade train, stands motionless. like a
statue. His face is powdered, and his
curly peruke has been sprinkled with
white porcelainlike dust that glints in
the light. During the pause and silence
the stranger observes it curiously, though
her eyes are fixed on the queen and her
mouth fixed i'll grin, as if before
photographer camera. At last the next
question comes, is she not American
by BIRTH" yes, your majesty, -" comes
the stereotyped, stupid little reply Maj
esty pauses again one indecisive mo
ment longer; then finally she mods and
passes on to the next stranger. At once
the next stranger makes her reverence
of greeting while the first is finishing
with hers Of farewell. New York In
dependpnt
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
Hansell Monday i'm Scotland.

"Hansell Monday is still familiar
phrase in Scotland, notably in Fife
where old New Years day is still OBJ
served (Jan. l2). To hansell is to bless
or endow or give-a sort of luck penny.
To hansell "a new article is to wear it on
an auspicious occasion.
Work is hurried over in the morning,
and then all take holiday.
Rifle shooting at target or glass
ball shooting is an ever popular sport,
the prizes being given either in money
or beef. The local butcher kills fat
bullock, and the shooters pay so much a
shot in hope of gaining prize, The
Christmas dinner of English folk is
eaten by their Scotch compatriots on
this day. The master brews "a bowl of
punch or toddy and passes it round to
the servants, and all unite in drinking
and pledging good health and happiness
TO each other. In the evening dances
balls and ratfles are the popular amuse
ments. Philadelphia Public Ledger
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
New Years i'm Japan.

On New Years day the japanese
trade men send their cuetomors small
offerings, usually of something in their
line of business. A grocer will give per-
haps a poUAd of sCHar or % little pack
age of rice. Ev, q present, large or
small, costly II inCltisive, is accom-
panied by little folded three cornered
paper few inches in size Sometimes
this is of crimson or gilt paper or some
times blue or silver, according to the
taste of the sender.
The origin of this custom is very an.
cient and curious. In days of cid piece
of dried fish was sent with each gift.
but gradually people fell into a vicious
habit of sending ON the same piece of
fish with the next present they sent
away, as if they received so many offer
ings they could not possibly eat all the
fish that came. Finally matters got to
such a pitch that gentleman could
frequently smell his present coming
around the corner So in order to do
away with this abuse these little pieces
of paper were substituted
Another custom that seems very
presents of eatables, sweetmeats, mochi
or bean cake etc. Such dainties are
sent III priceless bowls of cloissone or
satsuma set on lacquer tray Over all
is thrown silk and gold embroidered
square of soft ribbed Grape, and the
messenger carries it through the street
held at arm 5 length. The recipient eats
the contents, and without washing or
cleani, Z the bowl in any way returns
1t and the cover with elaborate thanks.
The little shops, which look like dry
goods boxes set upon end, are filed with
gay toys, with dolls, kites and bits Of
tinsel and dyed feathers made into tiny
ornaments for the ebony hair of the
brilliantly dressed, powdered and rouged
little girls.
Acrobats and street actors attract
crowds of not only children, but their
elders. Then there are Punch and
Judy shows, but Punch and Judy are
replaced by fabulous cats, badgers and
foxes who play all sorts of tricks upon
men and women. Conjurers and snake
charmers reap IA harvest, and the man
who makes and plays bamboo flutes
earns a small fortune.
Every one from the little tots of or
to grandams of go or 20 plays bat
tledoor and shuttlecock. And such gor-
geous battledoors as were never before
seen! Great, awkward pieces of board,
plain on one side, the other deliberately
decorated with figure of a noted dan
Ger or geisha, the hands and face paint
= . 3 l.
paper pasted on and standing an inch or
more above the board. The shuttleccck
is gilded seed stuck around with dyed
feathers until it resembles a flower.
New York Advertiser
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
The Woman Growing Old.

The woman who keeps the simplicity OF
her girlhOOd, writes Julia Ward Howe, is
generous impulses and quick sympathes,
and who adds to her natural gifts the en-
largement of study and the crown of expe-
rience, is always at her best and never
past it,
Good AMI Mrs. Howe adds, and what
she says is SO truthful and entertaining
that we are glad to reproduce every word
of it:
when the exterior attractions of form
and color diminish and depart, as they
mostly do, the radiance of our inner illu-
mination will more than compensate their
departure, but in order that this should be
SO her moral must equal her intellectual
gain. She must be willing to learn not
only her own powers, but her own defects
also, and to court the good influences
which can help her to escape from the de
lusiUns of sense and the fatal tyranny of
self consciousness. She must discard the
petty measures of vanity and self seeking
and learn to love her race, her country
and the humanity which she should help
to adurn.
Herein, as we maintain, is the entire
philosophy of growing old.
Tho woman growing old, as Mrs. Howe
so well puts it, may we'll learn to love her
race, her country and humanity. She
may well learn to love all those about her
and If all good women growing old do this
the race and the country and humanity
will take care of themselves very hand
somely. One never grows old who pre-
serves the youthful expectancy and inter
est and appreciation in the things as well
as the persons about her.
This is the dear old soul who is the more
lovely If she is grandmother, as lovely as
anything in the world if she is a matron
She compels the admiration and attention
of the yolng; she advises, comforts, en-
courages appreciates In that condition
she is at her best. If she keeps so minded,
she is always at her best.-Cincinnat
Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
Women Misers.

Women arc born misers, even the most
lavish and generous among them. They
hoard apparently for the mere sake of
boarding. They save empty spools and
scraps of lining, bits of feather, small use
less odds and ends of velvet and ribbon.
Their scrapbags and sewing baskets re-
veal the instinct in it's commonest form.
The collection craze shows it at "a higher
point.
From the time when, as little girls, they
go about with strings of buttons to the
day when, as old ladies' they leave their
collections brio brac to some art mu-
seum they are everlastingly collecting.
The origin ones collect with a certain
degree of discriminatio,i and Judgment
The others collect whatever they hear it
is proper tu collect, from souvenir spoons
to handkcr =. Sentimental young per
sons colic,g ;,lhDies MOSES twigs, keep
old flowers nprnout veils discar d
gloves and tn lAs rs reminders of roman
tic episode: lis is harmless enough, as
it costs very ittl1 and does not really bur
den the mill with memories any longer
than the mind would be burdcned any
way. But ouco the collection craze passes
this harmless stage it becomes pernicious.
The woman who makes fetch of laces
anu COIicCls tuelll Is laying up lOr DerScll
a store of wrinkles and unhappiness. She
will worry about the genuineness of the lace
she buys. She will worry over the yellow
ing influence of time, the tearing of care
less cleaners the possibility of fire and
thieves, The woman whose one idea on
all her travels is to get souvenir spoon
or souvenir cup loses all the joys Of tray
cling, increases the difficulty of packing
and frequently burdens herself with things
valueless in themselves and not long val
liable as mementos.
The collecting fad is one to be decried
vigorously. 1t develops a misery spirit
1t adds burdens to life. 1t seldom, except
in the case of those collecting geniuses
who are the exceptions proving the rule,
possessions. The only good thing to be
said for it is that IT occupies the feminine
Misunderstanding Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
The Women OF Ushant,

II character the headdress is more Ital
ian than Breton. The Golf is small and
square shaped, with wide flap hanging
down behind and it is white when tho
wearer considers herself dressed and not
III mourning Bright colors, chiefly scar
let ana blue, are often introduced at the
side OF the head, especially in the case IT
children, but the strong singularity of the
couture is the manner in which, the hair is
worn. II hangs loose upon the back Of
the neck to the length of six or eight inches.
The first impression the women mako
Is that they are all recovering from fever
and cropping. Their hair is generally
lank and why, like u hOrsos NAME and
very dark. 1t Is rare to see it really gray,
even on the head of a very old woman
The short and thick locks are often with
out silver thread, although the face Of
the wearer may be as furrowed as block
Of seaworn granite. Baby girls, young
women and old women have their heads
dressed in exactly the same way After
her swaddling wraps the child Is given the
style of Golf and other clothing that she
will keep through life; consequently as she
toddles about in front of the cottage door
she Is one of the oldest of little figures.
In full dress the gown is always black,
but brilliantly colored handkerchief, in
which scarlet predominates, is so worn I'M
derneath as to show little down tho
front of the bodice. small shawl, gen.
orally blue or red In the case Of childrer
and young girls, completes the costume
Temple Bar
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
Only One Day in the Year.

Brother Christian, determine to make
this the best year of your life--the rich
est, ripest, strongest, happiest. But you
cannot grow in grace 'by wholesale. /"
Begin the year by putting the knife in
to some bad habit or besetting sin. Be.
gin by laying stiff hold on some neglect.
ed duty. Conservation means letting
Jesus Christ own the whole of you.
Holiness means serving Christ in little
things, and remember that in all the
year you will see only one day, and that
will be called today" The ladder to
heaven is climbed not by leap, but
round by round Theodore l.. Cuyler.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
Resolutions for the New Year.

Let us look over the mistakes of the
bygone days and plan new course of
action for the future. Where we have
been wrong let us now be right, and
where we have been right let us stick
to that course, going from good to bet
ter, from better to best.
A word about the resolutions that will
be made today and broken tomorrow
do not make them at all if you do not
mean to keep them. The promise bears
no weight that is so soon forgotten.
Make the covenant with your conscience
and your Maker Do not blazon your
righteous sentiments abroad, but with
sober sincerity of purpose watch out
against the faults, making a gallant
fight against the foes of evil.
With such an incentive to inspire You
the new year will gradually become to
you a close friend, bringing joy and
happiness III its path and breathing into
your heart messages that will indeed
make the wishes for happy New Year
materialize in every truth to your own
superabundant satisfaction. -Philadel-
phia Times.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-01-02
A Model Nursery.

A model nursery in house where
money is not plenty has been brought
about by study ingenuity and a little eff
fort. The walls are papered in plain pa
per of light cream, with frieze and da
do rail For the dado, since the expensive
tiles or hard wood was out of the ques-
ton, dado of gay cretonne was managed
The crctonne was hung by brass rings
mall ones. Just inside the dado rail, and
has the merit that it can be easily taken
down aud Numbered. For the frieze there
is the jolliest sort Of "A Noah's ark process
sion. extending all around the room in de
lightful confusion. This was produced by
FASTING the animal figures on a strip of
pale blue paper muslin, the animals ready
to cut out, being got from kindergarten
supply shop. At the windows are short
little muslin curtains that easily draw
back. and running all the way from one
to the other of the windows is IA big, broad
box Sofa or couch This is covered with
corduroy, and every child i'm the family
considers it the finest piece of furniture in
the house Tho seat raises and is the re-
tcptaclc for all loose toys and belongings
that keep the room in clutter and yet
must he constantly at hand. The interior
is purtitioned and part assigned to each
cliid. When the seat is closed, it is the
incest of stretching places, and there are
not wanting goodly supply of pillows,
whose stout and inexpensive coverings are
warranted to withstand many friendly
fight There is an open fire in this nurs-
cry, well protected by fender which
hooks on over the entire opening. The
floor is stained and shelacked, and largo
cotton rug, which is bright and cheerful,