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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
VIII XVheeI Around the World.

OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 12.-George 7.
Loher and T. F. Cornell have left for
trip around the world on their wheels.
They will go direct to Portland, Ore, and
thence by way of Minneapolis to Now
York, where they begin their journey
across the European continent They
expect to be absent about two years and
to return to Oakland from the west
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
NEW MILLIONAIRES' CLUB
About to Invest Over Two Million Dol
lars in Country Estate.


DoBBs FERRY, n. z, Aug. IA syn
dictate, composed of wealthy New York
ers, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, ].
Pierpont Morgan, General Samuel
Thomas, William and John D. Rockefel-
Ter. Chauncey NJ. Depew. J. G. McComb
and D. Archibald, have purchased about
230 acres at this place. and intend to es-
tablish a country club. The land pur-
chased is valued at s1,OOO,o0O, and in
cludes 1O7 acres of the old Cyrus Field
estate
A large hotel and casino, similar to that
at Newport, will be erected, and these
and other buildings, which will be put
up on the property, will cost about ST.
100000 more. The club will charge an
initiation fee of $3.50. and the annual
dues will be $3.50. A private dock will
be built, which will cost about $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
Excursion to the East Over VandaIia-
PennsylvaAia Lines.

August 18th to 25th inclusive, excur-
sion tickets to Boston for Z. 7. Conclave
will be sold via Vandalia- Pennsylvania
lines good to stop off at Pittsburgh,
points. Stop over privileges permit Wis
its to Atlantic City, Cape May, Long
Branch, Asbury Park and seashore re-
sorts. Return limit ample for other side
trips. Return journey may be made via
Hudson river, Niagara Falls, etc. Details
from Drummer, 500 Chestnut street, ST
Louis, who will furnish low rate tickets,
or they may be obtained of passenger
and ticket agents Of connecting lines in
west and southwest See that your ex-
cursioH ticket reads from ST. Louis over
VandaIia. Pennsylvania lines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
WOODEN MILL NOT WANTED
Nobody Bids Upon It When the Sheriff
Offers It Today.

Offers 1t Today.
The wooden mill was offered at sher-
ifs sale at 10 O'Clock this morning, but
there were no bids.
Several parties were present to bid for
it, but none of them broke the ice. II
will be offered again in thirty days if no
arrangements are made between the par
ties, which Sheriff Burdge thinks likely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
LEE JONES REFUSES.
he VIII Not Handle the Tickets for
Dallas Fight.

he VIII Not Handle the Tickets for the
Dallas Fight.
Lee Jones no longer cares for glory.
He was offered the sale of tickets for
Topeka for the Corbett Fitzsimmons
fight, and he Indignantly refused the
offer.
81 am not doing that kind of business -
said he. "and 1 do not want that kind
Of people around my place of business"
He has written President Stewart of the
Texas club that he can not sell the
tickets.
Denver, Colorado Springs and PuebIe
and Return.
Bv the Santa Fe route, $500. See
Rowley Bros.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12

Peerless Steam Laundry Peerless
Steam Laundry.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
THEY STAND TOGETHER.
Both CoIorS Included Among
the Fighters and Leaders of
the Insurgents.
SUPPLIES FROM NEW YORK
Arms Struggled in Streetcars Are
Captured by the Government
Officials.

TAMPA, Fla, March 23.-Dispatches
from Nassau, y. P, stating that the ne
groes of Cuba are attempting TO make the
instruction race question, have caused
much comment here, and il is denied by
Cubans generally. Colonel Figueredo was
questioned about it and said:
at is merely a rumor put up by the
Government 10 discredit the revolution.
There are many negroes under arms, but
the whites are undoubtedly in the ma
lority. To show you there is no line
between the races in this fight, Havana
papers state that a prominent lawyer,
named POrtuendo, of Santiago, has gone
out with thirty OF forty young men of the
best white families in that section.
"They were going to Join the forces of
General Guillemon Moncado, who is a
negro. He has many white men under his
command. The color line is not drawn in
Cuba politically and in business as it is in
this country. The negro population of
Cuba has decreased and the whites ON the
island are in the majority.
ut is said that one reason the province
Of Puerto Principe has been SO slow to rise
is because the Government SURPRISED the
insurgents in that district. They intended
to rise with Spanish arms, but Spain
was too alert. Some time ago the Gov
eminent gave the citizens of this dis
trict permission to arm themselves against
the bandits, who are very numerous. The
people took advantage of it, and two days
before the uprising every man was armed.
The Government officers who searched the
houses in Puerto Principe found no less
than 1000 rifles
"a young man was here two days ago
who conveyed arms in a streetcar from
New York to Puerto Principe. Streetcars
were ordered and one of them, intended
for carrying freight, was loaded with arms
in New York and shipped to Puerto Prin-
cipe. An examination of the general depot
there disclosed the cargo, and the arms
were seized by the soldiers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
MATRIMoNY AND TIE STAGE,
Why Wives Go on the Stage and Hints
for Keeping Them at Home.

Why Wives Go on the Stage and Hints
for Keeping Them at Home.
1t will be learned with some surprise that
"there is now a rather smart discussion in
progress in the United States upon the
question whether prima donna who mar
ries should continue her public career, or
whether married ladies should be prime
dome at all" According to a London
well-known writer, Miss Fanny Edgar
Thomas, who, in the Musical Courier. gave
at great length her reasons for an answer
in the negative.
There must" said somebody in the
foyer of a Paris theater, 'sbe something
wofully lacking in man whose wife is on
the stage after marriage" Nine Calve, it
seems. tells tale of a poor tenor who
actually 'held I'M his voice for several
weeks in terror of displeasing his soprano
wife, who wanted all the bouquets. But
on one occasion he sang out, and the first
bouquet that fell at his feet was divorce
bomb.
Then there is another amusing story of
married soprano who used to telephone
the nurse at intervals to know how bahv
was getting on. II have heard" saws
Miss Thomas, 'of bringing up babies by
bottle or by hand, but the results of bring
ing them up by telephone are dubious"
The exciting cause for a post-marital
public life is, Miss Thomas, declares, either
envy or vanity. A talented woman sees
Duse or Bernhardt act, or hears Calve,
Materna or Melba sing, and the crv is
raised, "Oh, W ish | were She" or rather
81 wish had what she has" 1t is not a
question OF art, but desire for money or
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

fame, and the writer makes merry over the
woes OF the husband of the 'tgreen-room
wife, the man who ruefulIy exclaims. II
am only doormat in the concern now"
Miss Thomas also has a straight word
Tor the husband. She is firmly of belief
that good deal of the wife's restlessness
and desire for public career lie in her
repugnance to come TO her husband for
every need of dress or luxury. Woman is
not necessarily mercenary or grasping, but
the most affectionate creature in the world
must wear shoes and gloves, hats and
skirts.
Miss Thomas asks triumphantly how the
husband would like to have TO go to his
partner or employer for every item of ex-
pendlture, regular or unexpected, and
watch the effect on the irritability of the
donor. The natural conclusion would,
therefore, seem TO be that the best method
to keep stage-struck woman from oper-
attic life or the concert platform is to in
crease the pin money.
Miss Thomas, who thus gives her views
to the extent of nearly five columns of
print, obviously attempts to prove. too
much. She cites the Kendals as executions
but they are not really so. There are doz-
ems OF musical artists who lead very happy
welded lives; and among married English
concert Yocalists, indeed, home unhappi-
ness Is extremely rare. Perhaps Miss
Thomas would contend that in these in
stances the wife usually is the breadwinner.
and the husband consequently has TO be
on his best behavior.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

similar to those on which street sweepers
are made. Underneath the bed OF
vehicle intended to be drawn by four
horses are six rollers, to all of which are
attached curved knives OF various lengths.
The roller nearest the front OF the struc-
ture, in revolving, cuts up the. earth TO
depth OF inches, the next GENERATES 3
inches deeper, while the third cuts to a
depth of II inches. Then roller 4 turns
the loosened surface completely over, and
roller thoroughly breaks it up. Roller 6
acts as harrow, and covers the seed. which
is automatically fed between rollers 5 and
| 6 from cylinder arranged on the bed of
the huge vehicle. The machine is to be
made to cut swath feet wide, and Her
| ing claims that twenty-five acres of land
can be properly cultivated and planted to
wheat by his invention in day 1t fur
Their, he asserts has the merit of effecting
large saving in seed, as the roller which
acts as harrow covers the seed for uni
form depth OF only IL inches, thus max
| ing every kernel tell By existing methods
he claims it takes from % TO 100 pounds OF
wheat to plant an acre, while with the use
OF his manifold pillow, cultivator, seeder
and harrow only 45 pounds are required.
| Despite his extreme poverty, his ad-
vanced age and the aggravating delay oc-
casioned by a long pending lawsuit, Her
ing preserves wonderfully cheerful tenn
! per, and displays a sanguineness that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Too much zeal in the discharge of his
stage duties has led a ieune premier at a
Paris preparatory theater into a disagreea-
bic not 70 say painful adventure. The
young actor was acting with lady of his
own age in a new piece, and had to make a
declaration Of love. He held the mirror up
10 nature 50 well in the matter that the
young lady's intended husband, who was
looking on from the stalls, few into a
passion and thirsted for blood. When the
performance was over the man possessed
by the green-eyed monster waited at the
stage door for the jeune premier and
whacked vigorously at the actors face with
his cane. The player-bruised, bleeding
and tearful-did not make any effort to re-
turn blow for blow, but holding up man
uscrpt which contained his part in the
play, remarked TO his aggressor that he
had done no more than follow the instruc-
tons of the author of the little love com
edy in which he mad acted with the beau
tiful young lady. The affair ended there
London Telegraph.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAs.
The In,prored Order to Be Questioned by
the Supreme Lodge.

The Insprored Order to Be Questioned by
the Supreme Lodge.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 23.-The I'm
proved Order Knights of Pythias, which
originated in this city last December, has
issued manifesto setting forth some of
the wrongs which it is alleged have been
inflicted on the German-speaking mem
bers OF the old order OF Knights of Pythias.
The manifesto declares that the act of the
last Supreme Lodge OF the Knights of
Pythias, in enacting law that the ritual
shall be printed in no language other than
the English, ought TO induce every lover
OF fair play to leave the old order and join
the new. 1t is announced that the oppo-
sition order has decided to establish
English-speaking lodges The original
intention was to make the order English
speaking exclusively.
In conclusion the manifesto says that
the new order is Chased upon the prin
ciples OF liberty, friendship and benevo-
lence, making no odious distinction be-
tween natives of this or any other country
or in any way debating what language its
rites and ceremonies are to be conducted
in" Red, white and blue, it is announced.
have been adopted as the colors OF the new
order.
Officers Of the Indiana Grand Lodge K.
OF 2. say that the action of the seceders in
starting a new. order with a name similar
TO the old order will be considered at the
next meeting of the Supreme Lodge, and
that legal steps will be taken to restrain
them from using the name of Knights of
Pythias.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

Others who were DESTROYS of emulating his
enterprise, and most of the remainder was
exported TO this city, where it sold for a
good price. Meanwhile, the Chinese had
settled In California, and with them came
heavy importations of rice, which broke
the market. Herring had leased large
tract OF land and invested all his savings
in his rice plantation, with the result that
he was ruined financially by reason OF
there being no foreign market for the crop.
In 1865 he came to San Francisco and
soon after preceded to Suffer City, where,
by plausible representations, he was in
duced to loan $1,000, the whole of his saw
ings, to man who turned out to be a con-
summate swindler and who was compelled
to flee to escape the fury OF the two or three
hundred people he had cheated. Herring
never recovered cent of this money, and
maintained himself on a small ranch,
whence he came to this city three years ago.
But the great fruit of Hering's labor and
ingenuity while in Honolulu was the
invention or machine which he claims
Will reyolutionize the present system of
land cultivation. He consumed the even
ings OF three years in constructing the
somewhat crude model on which he secured
letters patent. 1t is planned on principles
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24

and household utensils, all of which now
make part OF the unique decoration of his
In 1858 he met with an accident which
disabled one OF his arms, and he forsook
whaling and took up his residence at Hon
olulu. Here, in 1859, he met Captain
Coursen, a whaler who brought to Homo
lulu what he claimed to be relics of the ILL
lated expedition of Sir John Franklin
Captain Coursen said that he had bartered
clothing for them with some Esquimau1,
and that from the story thew told OF the
hnd1ng OF them he had no doubt that the
articles had belonged to members of that
disastrous enterprise. OF these Herring
succeeded IN securing compass and pair
OF spectacles from Captain Coursen, and
though they have little or no intrinsic
value he treasures them as almost price
less possessions.
In 1863 he got notion that the island
had all the requirements 10 make rice
growing profitable venture He wrote to
friend in South Carolina and imported
! fifty pounds OF seed rice, which came by
mail and cost him 81 70 for postage. This
! he planted on a little less than an acre of
! land, and was rewarded with a crop of
/ 34OO pounds, great portion of which he
] readily sold for cents pound. He was
/ thus the first, he claims, to introduce this
! industry into the Hawaiian Islands. A
portion of his crop was sold as seed to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
AMID CURIOS FROM
VARIOUS Chimes.
JOHN M. HERING'S POVERTY MADE
ENDURABLE BY HIS ODD
POSSESSIONS.
HAS WONDERFUL INGENUITY.
INVENTED A MACHINE WHICH He
CLAIMS WILL REVOLUTION
IZE FARMING.

Any one entering the basement of what
is known as 1917 Jessie street, near Third,
would find it difficult 10 determine
whether he was in an odd corner of a
museum, the forecastle of an old-time
whaler or the hut of South Sea Islander
Amid surroundings as curious and heter-
ogeneous as these there dwells alone John
NJ. Herring, aged 70 years, an individual as
remarkable for the perseverance he has
displayed as for his ingenuity. And though
Mr.. Herring has passed the Biblical limit of
three score and ten, and maintains an ex-
istence under conditions of extreme pow
erty, he is still most sanguine OF achieving
fame and fortune by his own efforts before
his span of life is broken.
His life history is varied and has been
interspersed with many peculiar and inter-
esting incidents. He is a native of Sake
Coburg. At the age of % he was soldier
in the German army and took an active
part in the war waged by that country
against Denmark in 1S48. He was thrice
wounded. One bullet imbedded itself in
his left leg. another blazed a path across
his left cheek near the jaw, and saber
nearly severed his left thumb from his
hand. After leaving the military service
in 1850 he located at Cuxhayen, Hamburg,
where for six years he followed the peace
full and unromantic pursuit of tailor.
At this time the spirit of adventure that
had been imbibed while under arms for his
country became dominant, and he shipped
on a whaler at Bremen for a two years
cruise, taking berth as cook. Before the
voyage was over he had become so expert
with the harpoon that during active oper.
atoms he filled the responsible position OF
harpooner in the captains boat.
During the stay OF the vessel at Kan
chatka, in 1856, it became known to the
Governor of the place that Herring was
considerable of musician, and he fire.
quently invited him to his residence to
play for his family and guests.
Extensive excavations were in progress
In the nelghborhood at the time, and a
mammoth, measuring between sixteen and
eighteen feet, had been unearthed. The
skeleton was complete, and as a reward
for his obliging services Herring was per-
rnitted to carry off one of the huge tiisks
OF the beast. Fart OF this has been worked
up into cane-handles and other ornaments
by the ingenious owner, and stump of it.
about a foot long and six inches in dame
ter, now adorns one of the walls of Her
ing's uncouth-looking den.
The winters OF the two years cruise were
spent in trading among the South Sea
Islands and in trips to China, Japan and
Australia, soiourns being also made at
Honolulu for the purpose of reftting each
season. During these iourneyings Herring
landed on fourteen different cannibal
islands and secured supply of aboriginal
war and hunting implements and other
curios sufficient to stock a respectable
sized museum. 1t includes bows, arrows
spears, lances, clubs, boomerangs, idols
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
a GREAT HERD.
Hundreds of Deer Seen Browsing To-
gether in the Northwest

gether in the Northwest.
]. B. Tyrrell Of the Canadian Geological
Survey has lately returned from the far
Northwest, and tells OF wonderful herd
of caribou which he encountered. He
says: when We reached the edge OF the
woods on Lake Athabasca, in the begin
ming OF August, we commenced to see a
few deer every day. One evening as We
were padding along the margin Of large
lake, one OF my half-breeds called my at
tention 10 what he thought 10 be earth
moving some distance away. and on look
ing through my glass ! saw that II was an
immense herd Of reindeer. They were in
bands of 300 or 30 each and crowded CLOSELY
together, We opened fire on them when
they siampeded IN every direction. We
killed seventy Of them and then went into
camp During the next three DAYS we
dried the meat OF all that We had killed.
The great herd remained in our imme-
date vicinity all the time we were there,
and at one time, when closely massed
covered about twenty acres Of ground
SOrthwe est Magazine
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
LOST TWO FORTUNES.
Clara Louise Kellogg Now Poor aud
Unable to Earn a Third.

Unable to Earn a Third.
On Twelfth street, near Sixth avenue,
New York, there is a little restaurant that
is known as 'Maria's 1t is frequented
by men and women of bohemian ten
denotes. A table d'hote is served for 80
cents. The quality of the food is just
about what one can imagine 80 cents will
buy. The people sit at one long table
They elbow each other as they eat and
half dozen languages are talked simulta-
neously.
1t is a place that one would probably
forego if he could afford to pay more than
80 cents a dinner. Yet to this place goes
almost nightly one of the most celebrated
women New York has known, a great
songstress-a woman whose fortune was at
one time estimated to be in the neigh or-
hood of 5000 This is Clara Louise KEEL
logg, whose name in private life is Mrs.
Strakosch. Not long ago large part of the
second fortune she has earned was swept
away by the failure of publishing-hou
in which her savings had been invested
1t was branch of the English firm OF
Cassell & Co., and had been considered
prosperous concern. The confidential man
of the house plundered it right and left
and fed, leaving Mrs. Strakoseh with little
or nothing. Years ago, in the heydey of
her prosperity, the singer intrusted George
W ctOODill1, sAAC nCAA-Ai1ON II bdllhSlf Win
the first fortune she had accumulated
This was also considerable. Miss Kellogg
had every reason to rely ON Mr.. Stebbins
as it was through his efforts that she had
been able to secure education and leading
position on the lyric stage. He obtained
for her, as far back as 1868, an engagement
in London, and she was thus able to
establish her claim to recognition. Mr..
Stebbins' speculations on her behalf went
wrong, and she was left without a dollar
Her splendid voice was still a magnet
at the time, however, and before long she
was once more weafthy.-New York
Journal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
GOLDEN
MEDICAL
DISCOVERY

Many years ago DR.. r. Y. Pierce, chief
consulting physician to the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N.
y, compounded this medicine of vegeta-
bic ingredients which had an especial
effect upon the stomach and liver, rous-
ing the organs to healthful activity as
well as purifying and enriching the
blood. By such means the stomach and
the nerves are supplied with bn,e blood.
they will not do duty without it any more
than locomotive can run without coal.
You Gan not get lasting cure ofDys-
pepsia, or Indigestion, by taking arti6-
cially digested foods or pepsin-the stom-
ach must do its own work in its own way.
Do not put your nerves to sleep with So
called celery mixtures, it is better to go
to the seat OF the difficulty and feed the
nerve cells on the food they require.
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Biliousness and
Nervous Affections, such as sleepless-
ness and weak, nervous feelings are COM
pletely cured by the Discovery" It
puts on healthy flesh, brings refreshing
sleep and invigorates the whole system
Mrs. x. HENKE. of No. S96 North Halsted
81, Chicago, X., writes: 81 regard my i'm
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
DOUBTFUL JUNIORS.
The Government Has Not Confirmed tn
Reported Surrenders.

The Government HGs Not Confirmed the
Reported SuFrenders.
NEW YORK, March pa special dis
patch to a morning paper from Panama
says:
Reports relative to the revolution in the
interior continue reassuring. The Govern
ment, however, has published no confrma-
ton Of the reported surrender Of the reyo-
lutionists in ST. Ander and Boyaca, and
this causes some doubts that the triumphs
have been complete. Reports are circu-
lated Of battles with the insurgents in Cali
and Bumaint.
4 dispatch from Colon says: The cap.
tain Of the Briefond, who has arrived here
reports that he met, near Cabo de Gracia, q
bark loaded with men. 1t is supposed
these men are another party formed to in
wade Cellebis.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-24
Troops at Porto Rico.

NEW YORK, March pa special dis
patch 10 the morning paper from Guam
tanamo by way of Havana says: 1t is
reported that Perez with his band
has attacked coffee plantation at
Hermitano in the vicinity of Tate
ras, with the result OF being repulsed by
volunteers who are pursuing him. The
steamer Santo Domingo arrived at San
Domingo with 500 Spanish troops. The
steamers Alfonso XIII and Antonio Lopez
with Spanish troops for Cuba, arrived al
Porto Rico last night.