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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04
st. Louis.

ST. Louis. Aug. 3.-Cotton-Steady: mid
ding, 11-16c; sales, 643 bales: receipts, 81
bales; shipments, is bales: stock, 1870
bales.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Chicago, Aug. S.-Hogs-Receipts. 1000:
market strong 10 a shad higher, ligh,
si.7Oa5.g5; mixed, s45Sa4-95; heavy. si-3er
4@
Cattle-Receipts. 500; market steady:
Texas steers. s2.9o6f4.5 80: bulk. t3.50lIs.75
Sheep-Receipts, 1890: market steady.
81. Louis. Aug. s.-Cattle-Receipts.e no;
shipments. !. 500; market slow: beef and
shipping steers, Si00g4.I5; butchers stun.
s.. 75sii.to.
Hogs-Receipts. 90; shipments. so: mar
ket 5G10 cents higher; heavy. &.75li5.05:
packers, si.6DfT4.9o; light, S4-s0li5.10.
Sheep-Receipts. TOO; shipments none;
market strong.
Kansas City, Aug. 3.-Cattle--Receipts
700: shipments, 800: market steady; Texas
steers, S2G1d375: Texas cows. 81 75fi250:
beef steers. s.. $3.50; native COWS. Sl.25ft
225: stockers and feeders, s2-324.25: bulls.
S2.0JIf2.75.
Hog-Receipts. 1870: shipments. 500;
market for best steady: others weak:
bulk OF sales 81 4oii.e 60; heavies. Si;alllA 81.
packers S43l4.c5: mixed. tf..Jflf. -;
lights. Si.3Ja4.70; workers, Si6pGl4.s0; pigs.
s.. Sl7i.G5.
Sheep-Receipts. 100; shipments none;
market steady.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04
FLORENCE WAS TEN
MISS BITING BRINGS HER LITTLE
FRIENDS ABOUT Her.

is Replete with Divers
Amusements Ending Up with a Fine Re
past that Makes Young Ones Eyes Dance
with Delight-Cooking Club Gives
Farewell Party TO Mrs. Strong and Mrs.
Todd-Miss Lehman Entertains wed
nesday and Thursday - Dir. and Mrs.
Mobiles Picn;c-Eews of Society.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04

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T-s~s.sa - ss4s1ss 80
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80 r,zs-l "a - ia As>c--
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SarA Hone treat
rrru- $500 . month
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04

Prices Down to an Export Basis-ArEentine
is Out of the Exporting and Russia Soon
will Be-Importins Countries Must
Look Authorization Decidedly
Weaker. the Continued Eject Of q Stu
pendous Prospective Crop-Oats Lower
than Ever at Chicago in the Like Season
Shorts Buying Steadies Provisions
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04
Chicago Market

chicago Market
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Articles. | Open. High | I.nX Chs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04
.SPREADO BETTER
WEEKS DEALINGS IN STOCKS WELL
DISTRIBUTOR

Close for the Day Above that of Friday and
the End Of the Week shows Gains for
that Period-Trading In the Hands OF
Professionais-Crop Reports have Given
the Changers Busy Week Clique
Manipulation of Sugar Continues-van-
derbiit, Gould and Cordage shares
Prominent-Bonds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-04

The Purdy Medical sHrga Institute aHd Lar
MAIN 81. KN~sSIA. kAAsAH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS.


Miss Wedd is not the only girl in Grant
who would like to be.
There is man in Clay Center who is
reported to have voluntarily resigned an
Office.
A latch key wouldn't be a bad thing
for Mr. Lockout of Florence, to carry
with him.
Mrs. Hugo, of Howard, is a woman
who doesn't fail to embrace her oppor-
tunities
It is no wonder that letter addressed
to Mr.. Bjorkman remains uncalled for at
the Morganville postof1ce
The Methodist ministers can pick up
considerable material for temperance
sermons while in Leavenworth.
Something is wrong at Clay Center.
Among the presents at a wedding there
were three tea pots and only one pickle
castor.
Salina bicyclists have been given per-
mission to construct track in the park
to keep them from riding on the side
walks.
Notwithstanding a number of deaths
the Times says the Republican river is
the only thing that has gone up in Clay
Center recently.
An inexperienced youth of 80 procured
q LICENSE 10 marry d lass Oh o. dI luCI uoE-
son the other day, and blushingly asked
that the names be kept secret for few
days.
A dance announced at Green the other
night didn't take place because there
wasn't girl in attendance and the men
didn't feel like waltzing around with
chairs.
Alma Enterprise: There are fifteen at
| torneys at law in Wabaunsee county, or
one to about every 100 inhabitants, and
plenty of room for more-more inhabi-
tants.
Clay Center Times: The Indian is
never without direct spiritual consola-
ton. Did not the Savior say: "Lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the
world?"
Atchison Globe: A man in town got
his yard raked without cost, by announc-
ing that he lost a dollar in the snow a
month ago, and would give it to the
finder.
Marquette Tribune: A 6wede came
into drug store last week and made this
demand: 81 tank l vii hav fin cent salt
pete. put som little on som meat und
ven cook him he get red like tunder. -
Ex-Pennsylvanians living at Salina, are
making preparation already for a cele-
! bration on the Fourth of July. They
can't have been in Kansas long or they
wouldn't need so much time to get ready.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

q man in his way, for even in an Office
building of moderate size, as such struc-
lures go nowadays, he has quite an
army of employees under him. The jan
itor's staff in building Of 500 num-
bered rooms includes about 20 persons.
A dozen of them are scrubwomen who
go to work at in the morning, quit
at and begin again at about p. M,
continuing till the work is done. There
are eight or ten men who polish brass and
do the heavier work of various sorts, in
GLIDING small repairs, and the night
watchmen. The engineer has his own
staff of 10 or Ii, including fremen and
elevator men.
Besides being to all intents and pur-
poses an employer the janitor is pur-
chaser of no small account. Brooms,
busting brushes, boxes of soap, polish
ing powder and soapine, rubbing cloths,
glass, putty, etc., are bought in whole
sale lots every six months, and the year.
y outlay for supplies, wages, etc., n
such building reaches well up into the
sums that ere expressed by four figures.
For all these expenditures and for the
conduct Of his employees the janitor is
responsible. and he has to keep very
level head all the time, for he has as
many masters as there are tenants be-
sides the agent and the owner.
''Some folks think janitors have a
SNAP, 2" said one Of the ablest janitors
know, man who has charge of IA
nous building in one Of our large cities,
''but they don't. Times ain t whatrthey
used to be. When 1 went into the bust
ness, Office janitors got no salaries
They had their rent free, as they do now,
and they looked after the scrubwomen,
as they do now, but they didn't take
care of the tenants rooms unless the
tenants hired them to. Most tenants did
this, and besides they paid the janitors
to keep their towels washed and furnish
soap and the like Of that. Why, in them
days l was in hard luck if / couldn't
get 5000 to $3.50 a month net out of the
job, and one year it run $500. Some of
the janitors used to make $400 or $500
month. Them was the days for money.
'tBut bimeby some fellow that put up
big building had new scheme. He
offered to keep the rooms clean and in
good order for his tenants without any
extra pay beyond the rent He thought
he could fill his building easier and
quicker that way. And, say, the scheme
worked, and now all the big buildings
are run so all we janitors are on salary.
and the real good times have gone. Oh,
yes, it's better fort he tenants and better
for the landlords, but where do we come
in, I'd like to know?
''To be sure, some of us have few
little things left, like getting ice for the
tenants and moving them from one floor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
ALL HOPE LOST.
He Tried to Get Ahead Of His wife, bu
Failed.

He Tried to Get Ahead Of His wife, but
Failed.
do you ever try to get ahead of your
wife2'' Mr. Mcbride asked of Mr.. Cumso.
mot now" replied the latter, with an
air which indicated the failure of some at
tempts in that line. do youf''
Il haven't been married as long as you
have, and that may be the reason have
not yet given up all hope of succeeding,
but must admit that my last attempt
was anything but successful. -
''Let US hear it. "a
81 found in the morning paper what
looked to me like very attractive adver-
tisement-that is, thought it would be
attractive to my wife. 1t was a glowing
description of new lot of sealskin sacks
just bought from firm which had gone
into bankruptcy, and which were to be
sold by the firm which had been fortunate
enough to secure them at an immense re-
duction from, ruling prices. Now, did
not feel able to indulge my wife in seal
skin, and 1 was DESTROYS that she should
not see the advertisement, but took the
wrong means to keep it from her."
'sWhat did you dor
why, cut outNthe advertisement be-
fore she saw the paper
ssWell?''
'sWell, went down town, and after
was gone she picked up the paper She
saw the hole. The rest of the sheet had
no charms for her All the other interest
ing news it contained might as we'll not
have been printed. She wanted to know
what was cut out, and she put on her
wraps and started for a newsstand without
a minutes delay. The rest of the story is
easily told. When I reached home, she
had one Of those sacks"
e 1t was such perfect bargain, could
not resist it, she explained. I really
needed it, too, for hadn't wrap that was
fit to be seen on the street, you know. And
you won't have to pay for it until the 1st
of next month, Harry, dear, for had it
charged. Now, tell me if your dear little
wife isn't an excellent nunager?' had
to admit that she was, added Mcbride,
with sigh. Truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

THE scenes of lawlessness and riot
Witnessed in Topeka in 1898 during the
session of the legislature have been COM
pletely eclipsed by the legislature of In
diana, and it was not by Populists, either.
It was the Republicans this time who
barred the doors of the Legislative cham
Der against the officers of the state who
were engaged in the legitimate discharge
of their duties, and when an entrance
was forced, mobbed the governors mes
senger and thus succeeded in defeating
q measure which they had been unable
to defeat in legal manner. Indiana is
sorely in need of campaign of ''redemp-
tion," and will probably get it They might
draw on Kansas for several first class
"redeemers" who don't seem to be need
ed here; at least no place has been found
for them yet. The Hoosier must hang
his head in shame for two years yet, how
ever, and when he goes east. instead of
proudly registering from Posey county,
he will whisper quietly to the hotel clerk
that he is ''from the west" He will be
ashamed of Indiana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

ventions have made possible the erection
of the great Office buildings that form
today such a notable feature Of these
great settlements.
In many ways the life of resident
janitor and his family is different from
the life of any other class of persons
Instead of dwelling in house by them
selves or in a fiat with many other ten
ants in the same building, these live in
apartments at the top of vast structure
of brick and stone and steel that is full
of life and action and companionship in
the daytime, but at night deserted and
silent as the grave. Even in the day the
companionship of the hundreds or thou
sands that inhabit the big building dur
ing business hours is not for the mem
bers of the janitor' family. So far as
the tenants are concerned, these might
as well not exist at all. Although they
are physically removed from them only
by the height of few stories, they are
virtually as remote as if leagues of sea
and walls of noun tains separated them.
Between the janitor's family and the
tenants, in fact, there exists that most
impossible Of barriers, difference in So
cial standing, a barrier that many would
have US believe is not as apparent here
as elsewhere, but which is quite as in
surmountable here, when it exists, as
anywhere else in the world.
Even the smart typewriter girls and
the junior clerks in the offices look down
upon the janitor's wife, his sons and
his daughters whenever they chance to
see them, while to the janitor himself
only that sort Of liberation is accorded
that is melted out to a servant of an up
per grade. When the building is a very
big one, however, the janitor becomes a
superintendent, and with the change of
title there is a vast change in the social
standing of the man in charge and that
of his family, though his duties would
not seem likely to undergo any great
change. But there is this really impor-
tant difference-the janitor is obliged
himself to perform part of the mental
services that must be rendered about the
building, while the superintendent, who
is generally also the renting agent, is
able to delegate all these things to en-
| pIoyees of a lesser grade, to spend his
own time in an Office quite as we'll fit
ted up as that of any tenant and to live
sup town. or in the suburbs.
OF course the superintendent general.
ly receives better pay than the janito1
and for that reason is usually of a high
er grade intellectually, for money will
always procure brains Janitors gel
from $75 to 5000 month, though the
latter figure is not often reached. Su
perintendents receive from So, 900 tt
S., 900 a year and occasionally more
even than the latter figure. The author
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

ity Of the superintendent extends over
the entire building from the stokehole
in the second subcellar to the tip of the
flagstaff. His subordinates include the
engineer and the elevator men, as we'll
as the scrubbers and cleaners and the
watchmen, and in some cases there is q
janitor as we'll as superintendent. In
buildings without superintendent, how
ever, the administration is two headed,
the engineer having charge Of the heat
ing, the engine and the elevators. while
the janitor has the care only of the COM
fort of the tenants and the cleaning and
care Of the rooms and corridors.
Yet, Notwithstanding his circum-
scribed domination as compared with
that of the superintendent, the janitor
of big Office building is good deal Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
Too Much Remorse.

There had been feud of long standing
between two Galveston darkies. They
were continually fighting and quarreling.
Not long since one of them died, and, to
the astonishment of the colored popula-
ton, the other one attended the funeral
After the funeral services were over the
Rev. Aminidab Bledso, the presiding
clergyman, met the surviving enemy and
said impressively:
Il was much pleased to see yer at de
obsequies oh yore ole enemy. Hit does
credit to de goodness OBJ yore heart Hit
shows dat yer don't carry yore PRESENT.
ments beyond de grave. Ever body is
praisin yer for yore goodness"
81 dunno about dat ar. had to lose
half day s work attendin dat ar funeral,
and de Bible says business fust and pleas
ure afterward,' and I tuck de pleasure
fust and did my work afterward. I reckon
I ought to be ashamed of myself. "-Texas
SiftinQS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

to another, and so on, but the hull bust
ness don t amount to much. The towel
supply companies have spoiled our towel
and soap business; we can't make any
thing on supplies for the buildings, for.
though we buy, we turn the bills over
to the agents-they're a new feature.
too, and they attend to the renting
nowadays-and we have to look good
deal sharper after the tenants comfort
than we used to. +"
OF course it is an object to the janitor
to get his living apartments rent free in
addition to his wages Sometimes these
apartments are large and handsome. Oc-
casionally they consist of house of sew
eral airy rooms built upon the main
roof, which serves as yard, albeit it
may not be converted into sodded
lawn. In the summer time this roof
yard is the most delightful place in the
world for a promenade or for quiet
1ounging. In the winter time it is bit
airy perhaps, but not so disagreeably
cold and bleak as might be expected. 1t
is capital play space for children at
all seasons if well protected by ratings.
When there is snow, it does not melt as
quickly as on the street level, and GER
tain small boy who has lived on one of
these roofs all his life can tell great
number of interesting yarns about the
snow forts he has built and the snow
men he has ''sculpted'' $50 feet above
the street level. The same boy pitches
tent on the roof in the summer time,
and the entire family enjoy its shade.
The apartments on this roof are furnish
ed with taste, there is a piano Of good
tone in the ''parlor,'' and etchings and
engravings hang on the walls.
1t should not be imagined that all
janitors are of the same social grade.
No, indeed. Janitordom assuredIy has
its aristocracy. Between the SO month
janitor of the old fashioned five and six
stored buildings and the 5000 month
janitor who has charge Of eight or ten
stories there is as great gulf as be-
tween the high grade janitor and the
superintendent who is able to associate
with professional men and small mer-
chants Upper crust janitors are treated
| with great respect when in the company
| of others of the same calling.
Of course there are thousands of resi-
dent and nonresident janitors in every
! really great city who care for business
| blocks, fat houses and the like; but,
| saving only those who have charge of
the biggest apartment buildings. none
| is to be mentioned in the same breath
as to social standing with the resident
| ianitor of Office buildings.
NJ. L DEXTER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
RESIDENT JANITORS.
ThoseWho Care for OficeB Buildings
the Cream of Janitordom.
lot so HIGH SOCIALLY As

superintendents. but @tilI Men OF
Some EmporeMnce-Their Homes at
the Tops of Great Structures of
Steel and stone.
The resident janitor is essentially a
city type.
Under one title or another he has ex-
listed ever since the first modern city was
built. In Paris, as the concierge, he has
fourished for centuries. He has been
much more in evidence than ever before
in American cities since the adoption of
the steel truss by builders and the in
PRODUCTION of the rapidly moving pas
senger elevator, because these two in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

The numerous murderous assaults
upon the colored population of New
Orleans suggests question as to what
is to become of these poor oppressed
people. 1t appears that they can't stay
where they are, neither can they go
away. Those who went to Mexico some
time ago are said to be returning, find
ing it impossible TO live under the con.
ditions which they found there. The par.
ty which was organized to go to Liberia,
1t seems was taken in by swindlers, and
when they got to the sea board found nc
transportation provided for them. They
are human beings. they are also Ameri-
can citizens, made so without their ask.
ing, and are entitled to some measure OF
protection. What is a government fol
If not to protect its citizensF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

TIE State Library again procured an
appropriation for the purchase of books
for its miscellaneous department. at this
session of the legislature. The public
has no sympathy with the renewal of the
old conflict with the State Historical
Society. It is absurd to suppose that
the state Is to permanently maintain two
libraries of the same kind In the state
house. For the past six years the appro-
priations for the State Library have been
confined to law books. This library is
essentially a Law library, and now, with
the Stormont endowment, q medical
library, Between these two special de-
partments and the general library OF
history, science, sociology and literature,
such a. the law requires the State His
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
STEAL THE WASTE.
Tramps Have that Habit and VIII Be
Arrested When Caught.

Arrested When Caught.
Waterman Wylie of the Santa Fe ar
rested John Wright, tramp, last night,
for trespassing. The company has been
who take the oiled waste out of the
boxes of the cars to build fires with.
This is triple offense Not only is it a
loss of waste but the fires are sometimes
built too near to buildings and cars when
the wind is blowing. The worst danger,
however, is that if the car should be sent
out without fresh packing it would only
be a matter of a few miles until the
journal would be burned off and the car
disabled for days
Wright was brought to the police sta
ton and was this morning fined So.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

FROM the report of the department of
agriculture the Globe Democrat figures
out that American sheep owners have
lost $49, 4S5, SOB in thaee years, and init
mates that it is all due to the changed
tariff Law. It negIects to mention, how
ever, the enormous losses of American
wheat owners and American cotton
owners. All these shrinkages in values
are easily traceable to one principal
cause and that Is the complete over
throw Of silver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

IT always happens sooner or later that
preachers who attempt to urge reforms
from the pulpit have to be disciplined.
Rev. Thomas Dixon has been forced to
follow Rev. Myron Reed and resign his
passionate. DR.. Parkhurst will be called
before the presbytery of his own church
t. show cause why he shouldn't retire
When will preachers learn that some
congregations want stupidity in the pull
pit. not progress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
The way the Case Was settled.

IA wire grass Georgia judge has just
decided big dog CASE
''How did it turn out?''
''You see, man went to Texas and left
his dog with a neighbor, and when he
came back he wanted the dog"
s'Well?''
''The judge decided that the man who
had the dog didn't have title, and that
a fellow who would leave a good dog
oughtn't to own one"
''What did the judge do about its"
Kept the dog himself. - - Atlanta
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

THE "Populist craze" appears to have
located, temporarily at least on the
Pacific coast The Populist candidate
for mayor was elected In Oakland, Cali
fornia, yesterday by 800 majority over
the united votes of the Republicans,
Democrats and non-partisans. Another
caaS of fusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

IT IS said that DIR. Parkhurst will now
take st. Louis in hand. 1t is presumed
that Sam Jones is merely paving the
way for the New York divine. The St
Louisans are such a sleepy lot that they
need somebody to arouse them before
anything can be done with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13

EVEN DR.. Talmage could not refrain.
from introducing little politics into the
pulpit on the occasion of the adjourn
ment of the late unlamented congress.
He returned thanks to the Most High
that the congress had gone and that the
members would not return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-13
An Untime1y ReminiscenOe.

Fair Caller-So that is your dear little
boys work? So olever But then he in
herits his talent 1 am told that his grand
father was a successful painter.
The Dear Little Boyle was thati
Papa told me once how grandpa fell of a
ladder while he was at work on house
and nearly broke his neck.
Fond Mother-Tommy, it Is bedtime.
Gol-Pittsburg Bulletin.