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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
CRASH LOUISIANA.
Without the Sugar Bounty a millionaire
Planter Goes Under.

WITHOUT the sugar 6OuHl5 q lLIILIohaIFe
Planter Goes Under.
New ORLEANS, Feb. HI Kernochan,
one of the largest sugar planters in the
state, and prominent politically, on ac-
count of financial troubles due
to failure to receive the
sugar bounty, has surrendered to his
merchants his sugar plantation a few
miles below New Orleans. The pIanta-
ton is one of the best in the state and
made 100000 pounds, of sugar last year,
on which bounty amount of $4,000 is
due. Mr.. Kernochan has held high fed
eral offices as a Democrat
The exhibition of paintings at Library
hall will be kept open this evening and
tomorrow Sunday afternoon and even
ing, in order to give all as good an op-
portunity as possible to enjoy them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

LONDON, Feb. IN. Henri Rochefort
who has been exiIed from France since
he left that country for England with
the late Gen. Boulanger in 1889, has left
London for Paris, the amnesty bill hav-
ing been passed by both. the senate and
the chamber of deputies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
EUROPE BURIED IN SNOW.

Five Days Before Railroad Traffic Can
Be Resumed.
LONDON, Feb "A dispatch to the
Daily News from Paris says that naviga-
ton of the river Seine has been stopped
by ice. There is fourteen inches of snow
at Havre. The railways throughout the
country have been impeded.
A Vienna dispatch says that two thou
sand men are at work clearing the rail-
ways of snow near that city. 1t will
probably be five days before traffic is
resumed. One train was snow bound for
seventy-two hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
Sarcasm.

"Oh, don't ask me to chop wood Maria.
I'm half dead with fatigue already"
We'll, that's lucky. When half mans
half dead, it's about time for funeral.
New Y ork Recorder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
Coueh and Cough and Cough.

But if you desire to stop coughing, try
Begg's Cherry Cough Syrup. 1t relieves
instantly, and will effect a permanent
cure quicker than any cough cure on the
market Price %, so and $1O0. posi-
tive guarantee with every bottle Sold
by W. R Kennady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
EaOmeseekers' Excursion.

On February ~, 1895, the Union Pa
cific will sell tickets from Nebraska and
Kansas points to all points in Kansas.
Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and
Idaho, at rate of one fare for the round
trip, plus $500. Tickets good 20 days.
Stop-overs allowed. See your nearest
Union Pacific agent E. L. LoMAx,
G. p and Ticket Agent
F. DICKINSON. General Manager.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
"Hot Stuff"

do you think do bright works. asked
the poet.
Il do, replied the editor. your last
effort made the stove redhot. ATLANTA
Constitution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
Directed.

Tough want dozen eggs, and wants
'em bad, see?
Grocer-Go to that grocer across the
street. Every thing he keeps is bad.-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

''Say, j Jack, what is the capital of Swift
zerland?"
Jack (who has just returned from
abroad )-Why, the money they get from
travellers, of course.-Boston Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
She Had Cause For Fear.

Mamma" said the cannibal beauty to
her maternal ancestor, Il am really
alarmed at Mr.. Kinkey's intense passion
for me-
''Why, my dear?''
"Only last night he declared was sweet
enough to eat. Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
Big Postofffce Terms out.

WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-The terms of
eighty-seven postmasters at presidential
offices will expire during this month.
The most important office in the list is
Cincinnati. There were 135 expiration
commissions last month, and in March
the number will hardly reach half
dozen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
Hard.

Bradford-Dr. Dosier has been very un-
fortunate lately.
Rohinson-HOw so? a
Bradford-He has cured all his best pay
ing patients. -Brooklyn Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
NO FURTHER DOUBT
The Government is Negotiating the Sale
of Bonds.

of Bonds.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2.-There Is no
longer any doubt that negotiations are
in progress and about completed for the
sale in New York of $10O,O0OO0O per
cent 30-year government bonds
While the prospective purchasers are
New York parties, it is known that the
bonds are expected to be disposed of by
London bankers and that they will be
paid for entirely with foreign gold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
Its Aim.

Mabel-A lot of US girls have establish
ed secret society, Jack.
Jack-What are the objects of it?
Mabel-Why, we meet together and tell
secrets, of course. Tit Bits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

We put on new neckbands on shirts
Peerless Steam Laundry, liz and ia
West Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
A silk handkerchief Given Away
With Every Can or Gypsy Queen
Baking Powder.

This is something new in the market,
and to introduce it we have in each Id.
can a fine silk handkerchief, which alone
is worth the price of the powder. We
do not ask 25 cents more per can to help
pay for the advertising; we will sell it
on its merits and guarantee it superior
to any high priced powder. Try it and
you will use no other.
Ask your grocer for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Was Napoleon or Wellington the better
fighter? DR.. Price commands the bak-
ing powders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

A good sum for superior article is
real economy. That is why DR.. Prices
Baking powder is good investment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

They are giving away pocket knives
at Griggs s. Axtell's for little money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

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W AN4ED-By young man attending
schooI. place to work for board Adj
dress Standard Shorthand school NJ
WANTED Position by a young man and
house. Experienced and best Of references uilg
y. Y. L.. Journal Office.
FOE TR RAl e. 81 qe mirror ls54o beyeied
nne gas range for good wood or SOFT coal
range. 234 Western ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Call up Phone 153 and have our wagon
call for your bundle.
TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02
kannAs sslsy ,sarket.

KANSAS CITY, Feb. 2.-CATTLE-Re-
ceipts, 1000; shipments. 1900. Mar
ket steady to strong. Colorado steers
So 65@39O; Texas steers $2.450
400; Texas COWS, $2.15@3O0: beef
steers, $290@500; native cows, $L25@
800; stockers and feeders, $250@375;
bulls and mixed $200@330.
Hoes = Receipts. $500; shipments,
2,1OO. Market steady to cents higher.
Bulk of sales $3.55@39O; heavies
So. 7O@4OO; packers $355@400; mixed
$3.50@385; lights $35g@3.7O; workers.,
$3.6O@37O; pigs $300@355.
SHEEP = Receipts, 2,0OO; shipments
none Market steady.
WHEAT-Firm; No 2 hard 50@51o
No 2 red, 5O@51c; rejected Acc;
Sales by sample on Change f. O. b. Mis-
sissippi river, No. hard 561ac; No.
red 56@57c.
CoRN-Firmer; No 2.mixed, 1910
4O16c: No. white Ale.
OATs-15@1c lower; No mixed
29030c; No. e white 311.c.
RYE-Firm. No. 2, soc.
FLAX SEED-Dull; nominally $L300
1.3L
BRAN-Firm at 6s@7Oc.
! HAY-Weak, dull; timothy $800@9 so;
prairie $7O0@8 90.
BUTTER-Firm, unchanged.
EGGs-Active, steady, at 19@191a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Some people always look fresh and
young, while others look prematurely DID,
with skin dried up and wrinkled The
only difference between the two is the
loss of vitality in the blood. People
using Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood
Maker always look fresh and healthy
Sold and warranted by your popular
druggist, w. R. Kennady.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

F. c. Sears, Paint. Glass and Wall
Paper dealer, removed to 702 Kansas
avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Strikes and boycotts never effect DR..
Prices Baking Powder Everybody uses
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

at Charles Benefits Optical store. 713
Kansas avenue. No charge for fitting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Bird cages at less than cost. Griggs s.
AxtelI 20S west Sixth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Prescott s. Co. have removed to No.
118 West Eighth street
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

New York sugar Market.
NEW YORK, Feb 2.-SUGAR = Raw.
strong; fair refining. 224c; centrifugal
90 test, SAC; refined, firm; crushed. A
7-16@45sc; powdered, 1-1604c; gran
ulated, 13-16@4c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Beggs' Little Giant Pills!
Beggs' Little Giant Pills!
Beggs' Little Giant PillsI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

We want you to know that we are SELL
ing good goods cheap at 2O8 West Sixth
street Who? Griggs s. Axtell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-02

Keep the name IN mind when you want
a perfect and honest pill 40 pills in each
bottle All others have from 25 to 30.
Sold by W. R Kennady.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
THE ISSUE RAISED.

The material part of the defense made
by the Market-street Railway Company to
the Citys sui. for the forfeiture of the
Church-street franchise is that the Mayor
is not part of the legislative body of the
City, and that therefore his signature to a
franchise awarded by the Board of Super
visors is unnecessary. This ground has
been taken because the Mayor refused to
approve the franchise granted by the
board. Thus the issue is fairly raised and
will go before the courts unhampered by
collateral matters.
1t would not be in place here to discuss
the merits of the issue, further than to
say that if the position taken by the rail-
way company is correct this City is in n
very peculiar position an d unhappy pre-
dicament. 1t will not be sufic lent for the
court to confne Its decision to the one
point of the Mayors right to approve rail-
way franchises granted by the board un-
less it be assumed that as this right is
apparently 80 closely identified with his
right to approve or disapprove other acts
of the board a decision on this one point
will cover the whole ground. But unless
this is made perfectly clear, the whole
machinery of the City government may
be thrown into confusion and important
private and municipal interests imperiled.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
THE ANTI-POOL ORDER.

The new ordinance which the Judiciary
Committee of the Board of Supervisors has
agreed upon for submission to the board
seems to cover the evil of downtown pool
rooms completely. Especially stringent
is the feature holding property owners and
lessees responsible for the conduct of such
establishments. The Grand Jury has ap-
proved the proposed measure and it has
passed the favorable criticism of eminent
lawyers. There can be no doubt that the
board will adopt it without delay.
If SO a contest will likely at once be pre-
cipitated in the courts to test the legality
of the instrument. There is where the
real danger lies. The disposition of the
courts generally to set aside laws which
the people need has become offensive and
reused popular indignation. The absence
of a law prohibiting poolrooms has caused
large number TO be opened, and more are
projected. They are crowded constantly
with the very elements of the. community
who cannot afford to bet on races or spare
the time for it. Messengers and clerks
who handle money for their employers are
subjected to temptations which are peril
Gus to business. And yet this is trivial
COlli pdlSd Will tLC AiOioA -toA III AiU
degradation resulting from the indulgence.
The large number of persons now en-
gagged in pooselling downtown represent
resisting force which will exercise a
heavy pressure on the courts when the
question of the validity of the ordi-
nance is raised, and this may make it the
easier for the ordinance to be overturned
1t is time for the City to make strong
stand and crush the evil.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17

feet deep. After the settling the clear
water IS drawn off and emptied into fifty
acre ground filter, which is drained by
underground pipes. The water thus puri-
fed finds its way into the ship canal.
The precipitate, or sludge, in the settling
basins contains 80 per cent of water. 1t is
thick liquid. This was formerly carted
away and used as manure, but that plan
was finally abandoned as unsafe. 1t is
now forced through filter-press, which
squeezes out all the water except SO per
cent, and is then compressed by hydraulic
power into cakes, which are used as fertil-
izers and are highly valuable. Being per-
fectly odorless and comparatively dry they
are inoffensive and presumably free from
danger Of disease germs.
1t is too early yet to know whether this
system is the best. San Francisco must
sooner or later face its sewage problem,
for that the present system OF turning it
into the bay is bad admits of no serious
question. 1t will not do, however, to
adopt the practically abandoned and
wholly unsanitary plan of using the sew
age in its original form as fertilizer.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
WEST OAKLAND oRPHANAGE.

To the Editor Of the San Francisco Calt-SIR:
In your issue November 5, 1895, 1 find
these words: CDR. Gregory said he did
not wish to criticize orphanages, but that
some of them are liable to abuses.
He added: In the Children's West Oak
land Home so per cent OF the children die
from neglect" This statement of the doctor
astonished me beyond expression, especially so
as it stood with quotation marks. l have
waited till this date hoping to see it corrected
by the doctor himself for l know it to be in
correct. live one block from the West Oak
land home. l visit the home frequently. l
meet the children daily on the street and am
personally acquainted with most of them.
Fearing / might be mistaken l went to the
books and found these facts: Number in the
home, ninety-five; deaths within two years,
none; health of the children excellent, proved
by their appearance and also by the fact that
three months passed last summer without a
physician being called.
Thinking the doctor may have referred to the
infant department, I found this to be there:
Number OF infants, 81; deaths within a year,
10.
Even this is a remarkably good showing con-
sidering the circumstances
These infants are from hours to two years of
age and come into life diseased in the extreme,
exposed to degree that makes death almost
certain before being given to the home and in
majority of cases there is no desire for them
or wish that they may live the part of par
entS. Notwithstanding all these things against
them the death rate is but 3 per cent greater
than the average OF i've cities the statistics of
which could be had. The thirty children
are not in one home, but in five homes, thus
giving them almost family care.
This is written under the thought that an
injustice has been done, we doubt not unin-
tentionally, by DR.. Gregory. My relations with
him are the most pleasant, and l would be de-
lighted to have the doctor call some evening
and accompany me to the home. When he
shall have seen that large number of bright,
happy children gathered for the evening read
ing and study--the social hour-he will agree
with me that the 'West Oakland Home" is as
"homelike" as it is possible to make such an
institution. Many homes are less helpful to
their inmates. Respectfully,
GEORGE w. BEATTY,
Pastor Chester-street NJ E. Church, 933 Pc
ralta street, Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
DISPOSAL OF SEWAGE.

The idea that the sewage of cities might
be pro6tably used as land fertilizer was
exceedingly popular few years ago, and
was put in operation by number of cities.
But lately there has come about a strong
reaction, for sanitary experts have come
to the front with mass of educating data.
Salt Lake City has recently constructed
an expensive plant for such a disposition
of its sewage. This includes a large body
of land which the city bought for the recep-
.tion of the fertilizing material. 1t was
assumed that farmers would be eager to
take the land and pay handsome rental
in view OF the highly fertilizing character
of the sewage, but when it came to open
ing bids it was discovered that nobody
would accept the opportunity.
Another recent development of the idea
comes from Santa Rosa, where a citizen
has recovered heavy damages from the
city for maintaining a nuisance in the
form of sewage used for fertilizing land
near his property. The case will pro obably
be appealed. When it reaches the Supreme
Court we may expect some interesting
opinions on this important subject.
The tangible objection to such DISPOSE
ton of sewage is its offensive odor. This,
however, is likely the smallest. 1t is a
safe assumption that under favorable cir
cumstances sewage carries the germs of
diseases that may exist in the city, includ-
ing diphtheria. This matter has not been
determined with scientific accuracy, but
as the presumption in Its favor is SO
strong it IS unlikely that such determine
ton is unnecessary. Besides all this ii
has been satisfactorily ascertained that
the large excess of water in sewage practic-
ally nulliies the fertilizing value of the
organic matter which it contains.
Manchester, England, completed and
put in operation in January, 1894. one OF
the most scientific sewage systems in the
world. At the time the plans were under
discussion the question of utilizing the
sewage directly for fertilizing purposes was
thoroughly discussed, and the idea was
abandoned as unscientific, unsanitary and
positively dangerous.
The plan in brief is this: Instead of per
mitting the sewage to enter the rivers and
other streams which flow through the city
1t is taken by gravity to a place five miles
beyond the city limits. A sufficient
amount of storm water is permitted to
enter the new sewers to keep the sewage
moving freely, and the old sewers are used
exclusively for the surplus storm water.
Where the sewage leaves the outflow there
is screen to intercept the grosser matter.
The liquid is then treated with precipitat-
ing agents-sulphate of alumina and milk
OF llme-and passes into settling tanks six
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
RANDOM NOTES.
BY JOHN MCNAUGHT.

According to reports from New York the
Marlborough wedding, which began With
so stately a ceremonial. tailed off at the
end into procession of the most delight
full absurdity. 1t seems by some mistake
the Vanderbilt carriage was not in wait
ing for the bride and groom when they
arrived at Oakdale station, and to avoid
the staring of the crowd gathered at the
place they set out to walk 20 Idle Hour,
whose lodgegates are about quarter of a
mile away. The crowd, however, not to
be baked of the great American delight in
a free show. followed after them, and the
Herald says: ''It was an odd spectacle, the
solitary figures of the Duke and Duchess
trudging along the muddy country road
in the half darkness of misty twilight,
followed by motley cortege of bicyclists,
pedestrians and carriages OF all descrip-
tions." This is graveyard world, and all
of us have a foot in it, but if even skele-
tor could contemplate that picture with
out smile it would surely be skeleton
from whom some body-snatcher had
robbed the funny-bone.
Neither the motley cortege that fol-
lowed the Duke and Duchess along that
muddy road in the misty twilight, nor the
innumerable multitude of those who, with
an equal eagerness, followed from afar the
story of their courtshlp, engagement and
marriage, is to be Judged harshly by the
wisdom of the world. In their absurdity
there has been no more than that humor
which makes man SO amusing and so
lovable to his fellow-man. All the world
oil ho oil 70 i,,t = bo
pomps and splendors of life; and, while
all are not frank enough to openly mani
fest their pleasure in the sight of these
things, even those who do not are gener-
ally gratiied by the exuberant raptures of
those who do. In the wedding of the
young Duke and many -millioned heiress
there was an exhibition of one of the
brightest scenes the worlds great show
has to offer. People of frank instincts
showed a well-charmed interest in it, and
people OF Grabbed instincts Knocked at it..
In this case, as in many another, there
was more fun in watching the spectators
than in seeing the stage. There was
humor in it even in the benches where the
GROWERS sat. When you come to think of
it, what can be funnier than a grave,
sober, serious-minded man going about the
country growing because a young girl
married the young fellow that she wished
to marry, and did it with her papa's and
her mammals consentp
DR.. Samuel Johnson, in describing a
night which he and Boswell passed at a
Highland inn, SAID: "If the feas had
all pulled the same way they would
lran nnf nf hoA ha
stupid and the vicious magnates who sit
in the high places of earth and by their
conduct shock morality and the middle
classes while crushing virtue and the poor
might well paraphrase these words of DR..
Johnson and say, ''If the satirists would
pull together they would drag US off the
earth" Satirists, however, no more than
fieas, are able to pull together. Every age
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-17
PERSONAL.

Ambrose Bierce is at the Grand Hotel. -:
NJ. P. Gleason, Portland merchant, is at the
California
Raleigh Barcar, the yacaville barristera is q
guest at the Lick. -.
Frank C. Ross, one OF the leading citizens OF
Tacoma. is ill this City.
IT. NJ Baxter, a banker from Watsonville, is
guest at the California
A. L. Sayre, q merchant from MADEIRA, is
registered at the Grand. go:
D. Parkson, a lumberdealer of Los Angeles,
is guest at the Grand Hotel.
W. r. Louttit, the Stockton lawyer, is housed
at the Grand Hotel for few days.
c. Steenberg, one OF the well-to-do farmers OF
Brentwood, is registered at the Lick.
A. Ahlf, one of Colusa's solid merchants, reg
istered at the Grand Hotel yesterday.
Harry Harris, well-known New York book
maker. is a guest at the Palace Hotel
DR.. r. s Markell of CIoverdale arrived in the
City yesterday and is stopping al the Grand
Hotel. '.t
H. G. Wilson of England, who is making
tour of the world. registered at the California
yesterday.
DR.. and Mrs. Bogart have returned from their
honeymoon trip to the East and are registered
at the Palace Hotel.
J. w. Baily, wholesale boot and shoe man
of Buffalo, is visiting the Pacific Coast and is
registered at the Grand.
Naglee Burke, the owner of Crescendo. the
famous racehorse, was up from San jose yes
terday watching the flyers pass under the wire.
II. E. Pioda, the Minister from Switzerland to
The United States, with headquarters at Wash
ington, is back in the City again and is regis
tered at the Palace Hotel.
J. S. McMillin aud wife OF Rock Hnrbor,
Wash, are in the City at the Occidental Hotel.
Mr.. McMillin is the superintendent Of the
famous lime works located in that section.