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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
Mr.. MANsUR NO BETTER.
He Is Very Low and His Death May Be Ex-
Dected at ANY Moment.

pected at ANY Moment.
WASHINGTON, April 6.-Mr. Charles
h. Mansur, Jr,, reached the bedside of
his father, Col. Mansur, yesterday
morning. There has been no change
of favorable character and patient
has not been conscious for two days.
A committee of the Masonic fra
ternity is in attendance at the bedside.
His physician states that there is abso-
lutely no hope for recovery, and the
end may be expected at any moment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
Always in touch-the good housekeep-
er AMI DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder.
Among Topeka Flour Mus.

This is the poorest season of the year
for the millers and the Topeka mills are
not doing much. Topeka has seven of
the best Touring mills in the west and
very few of them are working more than
half time-twelve hours. Just now they
are between two crops and are not hear
ing much that can be depended on from
the coming wheat The few reports that
do come in, however, are encouraging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
a boys new stem wind watch for 81 Is

I have the following second hand
watches, most of them as good as new;
the movements have been put in perfect
order, and the cases have been to the
factory and repolished and made fit as
tight as when new-cannot be told from
new watches. Note the following pricess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
The Land League an NTov,no

LONDON, April 6.-The Irish Land
league land bill passed its second read
ing in the house of commons yester-
day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06

Did you get ono of those nice Gypsey
Green handkerchiefs? Why not? They
are given away with every l. 10 can of
Gypsey Queen Baking Powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
Gents Sizes.

Full jewel adjusted Elgin, in 45 dwt
AK solid gold case, finely engraved, $50
No. 90 Elgin, 16 size, adjusted, espec-
tally adapted to railroad use, in heavy
14k solid gold case, $50
Full ruby jeweled adjusted Rockford.
in Hunting filed case, $187 70.
16 Ruby jeweled watch, made to
special order, open face, filed case,
$15S5.
II Jewel Elgin. Is size, in IS year filed
case, $1475
Z Jewel Hampden, in 10 year case,
$1475.
Is Jewel Elgin, in solid gold box joint
case, $1S25.
Full ieweled non-magnetic Waltham,
10 year case, $1675
II Jewel Elgin. in OF. gold iulaid
silver case, $1025.
10 Jewel Waltham, in 4 OF. silver
case, S1L00.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06

1 still have few more full jewel adj
justed H. H. Taylor grade Elgins, in 20
year filed cases, at $3.50. This is the
best watch on the market for the money,
and as the Elgin Company have discon-
tinued this grade TREY can be had only
a month or two longer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06

WASHINGTON, April GA call has
been issued by Allen w. Post for the
seventh annual convention of the rail-
way commissioners, to be held in this
city on May "A next, at the Office of the
interstate commerce commission.
Clearing house returns for the prin-
cipal cities in the United States for the
week ended April showed an aver
age increase as compared with the cor
responding week last year of SO;
in New York the increase was IA;
outside New York the increase was 8. z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06
shirts.

shirts.
Fine line of colored shirtin0s
As Topeka Shirt Mfg. Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06

Fast friends-the intelligent public
and the manufacturers OF DR.. Prices
Baking Powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-06

School days are here again. In all the
schools DR.. Prices is the favorite baking
nOvvf1er
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

Thus do the pr ophetic Jokes of the
humorists come true. A wedding Of
cyclists took place the other day. The
bride and bridegroom, the witnesses,
the two families and the attendants
rode to the church and stacked the
wheels outside the sacred edifice. When
the happy pair presented themselves
before the clergyman he looked from
one to the other in a puzzled way.
Both were dressed exactly alike. There
were the same coats, the same waist
coats, the same breeches, the shirts and
collars, the same short hair, the same
smooth face in each case. The en-
barrassed ecclesiastic was forced to
say: Excuse me, but which is the
bride5" Here is equality OF man and
woman turned into identity.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18
Mgr. satolm Plays Good Billiards.

Mgr. Satolli is great lover Of billiards.
People arc In the habit Of hearing Of the
delegate In some clerical capacity, but no
does not always preserve the severity Of
demeanor which characterizes his high
Office. He has recently introduced bill
lard table and an eolian at the papal resi-
dence In Washington. He takos great sat
isfaction In both Of them. He has learned
70 play good game Of billiards and fre-
quently knocks of a score Of 10 to 10 with
out break. DR.. Rocker, secretary Of the
delegation, Is usually his opponent, and
the honors are about even.-Rochester
Herald
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

dresses mp in fancy costume, carries
. silver mounted rife In his hand,
sticks his belt full of mother of pearl
handled revolvers and jewelled bowie
knives and poses for picture as one OF
the terrors of the West.
The reformer who spends his time in
boasting OF his stern determination TO
enforce the law, Of his independence Of
influence, of his fearless defiance Of
pulls" and Of his Indifference to pub
lie opinion may be set down as in
sincere and as posture-master play
ing to the galleries.
The American people like earnest
ness and sincerity and are quick to dis
cover sham and pretence.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The coming woman will be oil things
good that woman have been. She will
never be like the hideous caricatures
depicted by the newspapers, distaste-
full in dress and manner, masculine in
stride, throwing away influence for the
sake Of authority. There are highbred
beings who 60 shrieking through the
world for womAn's rights as though an
eternal war existed between men and
women, but the coming woman cannot
be judged by them. True men and
women hsye no interests apart. They
are one, and what God had joined to-
gether let no alleged woman put
asunder.-G. G. Jones, Methodist,
Pittsburg, Pa.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The international Mining and Indus
trial exhibition which was to be held In
Denver next summer, and which had been
widely advertised, has been abandoned
The reason given by the committee is lack
OF public spirit. One citizen gave $50, 00o
and about $1,000 was to have been ap-
propriated by the city and county, but the
Denver people did not back up the project
The most hopeful members Of the commit
tee say the exhibition will doubtless be
beld some time In the near future.-New
York Sun.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

True reform is earnest. There is no
sham or self -glorifcation about 1t. 1t
seeks TO accomplish apublic good, un-
selfishly, in the interest Of the whole
community. 1t never puts on frills,
and is never seen blowing its trumpet
on the housetops and proclaiming its
own merits.
When professed reformer "makes
mp" like an actor and rehearses his part
before looking glass he may be set
down as Of piece with the cowboy who
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The Woonsocket Call is very far
from right when it says: Tenders on
electric cars are responsible for about
two thirds of the accidents. Persons
who are killed by electric cars might
have escaped had they not been first
Knocked down by the lenders"
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18
Special Notice.

II youIare going away for the Summer,
don't forget to have the TRIBUNE sent to
your Summer home. 1t is no trouble to
us to change the address as Ioiten as our
patrons may desire. Also, don't forget to
send word to this Office of your temporary
removal.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

Councilman Thayer told some pretty
sharp truths to his colleagues last
night about that park and the way the
city was being mulcted.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The Populists are in convention in
Massachusetts,. That may account for
the change in the weather.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The City Council should at once in
sist upon the electric cars being
equipped with tenders.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The editor of the Journal scarcely
believes in the existence OF q sea ssr-
pent He must have reformed.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-18

The park will apparently cost the
city neat sum ere long.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
Sizing I'D Hotel Guests.

SIT may surprise you," said an old hotel
clerk, but we can tell man not used to
stopping at hotels at the first glance. His
unfamiliarity with the way to register,
with the way to ask for his letters, teie-
grams. OF how 10 give up his keys to his
room. gives him away Immediately. Now,
to-day, a middle aged man who is stopping
at this hotel came up tn me and asked me
if would keep The key to his room for
little while. That was the one sure way of
telling that he had probably not been in
half a dozen hotels i'll his life. Then we
can always tell the minute man comes
up to ask for his mail whether he is hotel
liver or not The commercial traveller.
before his name is written down in the
register, will ask to see the letters in the
box bearing his initial He will grab up
the kilograms and pour over them as IL he
were guiDg 10 catch train that left in
ten minutes Then he will take his arm
full of umbrellas and canes and throw
them at the bellboy and tell him to take
them to his room. The man unacquainted
with hotel life will be exactly the opposite.
He is usually as bashful rs a schoolgirl
with stage fright. He doesn't know how
to do anything.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
DID THE CAPTAIN LIE2

The letter published in The Times this
morning from Apprentice Goebel, OF the
U. s. S. Bennington, to his mother, in this
city, reveals a possibility that is some
what startling for the people IL San
Francisco, If not for the whole country.
The assertion of young Goebel that the
last Pacific moil steamer previous 10 the
writing of his letter brought the cholera
to Honolulu, though the captain reported
clean bill of health and gave false re-
ports in regard to the diseases which car
ried off three men on the voyage. would
appear to demand rigid investigation.
Evidently the theory of the young man.
who has himself died OF the cholera since
writing, was the theory of all on board
the Bennington.
The fact that the captain of the mail
steamer was able to escape clnse scrutiny
at quarantine by his own report shows
a carelessness of supervision at Homo
lulu. which probably also obtained at
San Francisco before the cholera scare at
the former place became known: and 1t
may be looked upon as good lnck more
than good management which has given
immunity to the Pacific coast from the
scourge which is now sweeping over the
Hawaiian Islands, Japan aud China. Such
negligence of quarantine officials should
not be overlooked, however. simply be-
cause no harmful results have arisen from
it on the Pacific coast up to the present
time.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
MORE MONEY FOR SCHOOLS.

The communication from E. L. Trebor.
published in The Times this morning. de-
Bcribing how the Business High School has
been kicked about from pillar to post, and
is now tn have a new temporary lodgment
In the old District buildings on First
street. but gives additional emphasis to
the demand for increased educational ac-
ronlmodations for the youth of Washington.
When wealthy corporation asks favor
of the District committee of Congress, it
usually not only gets sanattentive andgrcauy
Interested hearing, but Just about all it
wants. either 10 the way of increased fran
chise or prevention of interference by
citizens who are injured aud outraged.
Popular prayers for remedy of abuses re-
ceive no such consideration. andany who at
tempt 10 plainly criticise thissuspiciuus par
tiaiity are made 10 suffer for IL il possible,
just as the Commissioners promptly asked
for the resignation of that incisiye and
fearless trustee, Paul T. Bowen, when he
dared to apply prnper terms OF ccnsure
70 the Congressional committee In a speech
70 a citizens association.
Tue lack OF adequate school room, Tor the
The evening times., 1895-09-19
Gossip of the Day.

An old soldier who had been 10 Louisville
became very much confused last night at the
corner of Seventh street and Pennsylvania
avenue. He inquired the way to the isl
and" He could not be convin ced thatit was
in The direction pointed out to him, as he
said 10 reach that portion of Washington
IL was necessary to cross the canal. The
improvement made In the city since 1861
was explained TO him, and ne went on his
way rejoicing.
Its a very funny thing to me-" said
prominent Government official to Times
reporter yesterday, that something isn't
said or done about the different methods
Of stopping cars. OF course l refer par
ticularly to the electric and cable cars. s
"One never knows nowadays which side
of the street to stand and wait for the car.
It used to be that all cars stopped on the
''other side" Now some of the lines stop on
the near side. The uncertainty of this is
the cause of a great many people, Govern
ment people especially, being late to office.
II think the rule ought to be one for all
lines alike: for, as far as my experience
goes, all the cars which are supposed to
stop on the near side of the street really
halt right in the middle of the thoroughfare,
and that is mighty dangerous"
when two things come to pass don't
know but shall be willing to say let thy
servant depart in peace" remarked a
reader OF the Times to-day.
II hope to live long enough to witness the
construction Of garbage crematory, and
it is possible shall also be here when Con-
gress perfects the fire escape law.
, 'The strain is something fearful, but
have o good constitution and my ap-
petite is still pretty good.
''If only the discussion Of the garbage
question doesn't have the effect Of de-
stoyipg my interest in things mundane.
believe shall be able to stick"
The evening times., 1895-09-19
SPANS PATROL IN AMERICA.

Enthusiasm for free Cuba win ha rdly be
lesseDed in the United States by th eextraor-
binary announcement that the Spanish
governments has Just appointed four addi-
tional .'consuls" for Cuba -alone, and that
the purpose is to watch the organization
and movements of socalled filibusters.
This is probably the first time in the his
tory Of America when foreign government
has dared to appoint coast guards. detec-
tives and spies to patrol American soil
and give information Of the movements
of persons whose political views are
iDimical to those of their employers, con-
cealing their true character under the
thin disguise of the title of consul"
This act of Spain is .impudent to an in
tolerable degree. eonsuls are. in all
International acceptation. commercial
agents, and guides, philosophers and
frfehiis"- for citizens OF their respective
/, conBtHes who happen to stray into their
bailiwick. THIS act Of Spain transforms
this consular character to that OF spy
and infornler. There is no pretence that
/. these additional consuls" are needed for
any of the legitimate duties of consuls.
Their mission cannot be misintcrpreted.
They are coast guards whose duty 1t is TO
The evening times., 1895-09-19
SYSTEM DEMANDED.

That two accidents on Tuesday should
have been follow ed by another on wednes
day, on account OF the lack of clearly un.
derstood system or of flagmen at intersec-
tiOns of street railways, may well lead citi-
zens TO wonder who and where the next
accident will be:
In relation to the accident mentioned
each side claims the other was to blame.
That is usually the case. and, as usually. a
coroner's jury discovers that nobody is to
blame. To most observers, however. it
will be clear that such accidents are due
partly to the parsimony of the corpora
uans and partly in gross negligence in not
agreeing upon come system which Will
leave no chance for error of employees as to
which ears have the right OF way at cross,
ings.
Primarily, the city government is CEN
surable for not imposing the most rigid regu-
lations upon the railway companies. We're
this done, there would be no excuse for ac-
cidents, but as long as employees are forced
% depend Oh tfTefr own judgment, confu-
sion aud collision are certain to result.
The authorities will probably defer ac-
tion, however. until some catastrophe takes
place which is yet more serious than the
collisions now being Investigated.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
Five Oddities.

AT dairy in Berlin. famous for the purity
OF its milk, the milk is strained through a
wire sieve with a cloth. on which rests a
deep layer of fine sand Before the sieve i,
again used the sand is put in hot oven
10 destroy any possible germs.
Medical authorities assert that crying Is
the chief and best exercise for young chill
dren, and one hospital superintendent says
that healthful baby should cry three or
four times day at least and from ten to
fifteen minutes at a time.
A combustible clay isreported to have been
found in the suburbs of Baku When reduced
to powder this clay is said to be burnable.
giving a blush flame Of great intensity and
without the least smoke. Although this
new fuel gives much ash, we are told that
the working classes of Baku used it with
good results all through last winter.
Jewsharps are made chiefly in Boccorio,
the seat of the industry since the sixteenth
century A good workman can make seven
dozen in a day, and, simple as the little in
struments are, no less than twenty tools are
employed in their manufacture, including
..nvil, hammer. tones and so on. There are
moreover, twenty-four distinct operations
E. E. Lander, Of South Paris. Me-, can at
tire himself In broadcloth coat aged forty,
boots twenty. breeches thirty, carry pock
etbook 80 years old and gun about the
same age and rideon q wagon wheelseventy
f1ve years Old.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
TALK GOOD TKMES.

fessimists are inclined TO a serious
view Of the business situation. They can
not see any hope for better times, nor will
they believe them possible. They point
to the dangerous condition of our Trca sury
and prophecy trouble on account. of the
gold SPECTATORS. ard in anxious sim
cerity ask what there is in the outlook
TO encourage hope OF Increased business
prosperity.
There is this. Since the business de-
preston, brought on by financial juggling
and Congressional biunders, there has
been no dimipution Of our wonderful re-
sources nor lesscning Of the volume Of
money in the hands OF the people. These
factors Of prosperity are undiminished
and it requires only a demand for in
dustrial and agricultural products to open
up our standing raw material to public
consumption and put in active circulation
the millions of money now locked in banks
and places of deposit. Therefore. the ques
tion is how to create the demand.
That cannot be done by preaching ca lam
ity. Capitalists will not make Investments
and start up the cha nnels OF trade when ev-
everybody is predicting continued disaster.
Money makers are the greatest towards
known to the category of fear when it comes
10 investing where there is a possibility
Of loss, and they Will keep their capital Md
den a way as long as there is cry OF hard
times.
Then what should be done! Talk good
times. put Cd look Of encouragement, try
10 promote the sentiment that prosperity is
near at hand. aud almost before it can be
feaiized thcre will be a general revival
Of trade.
4 IN this country good times is entirely
question of sentiment. There is an abund-
nDce of everything, and IL a demand for
products can be increased by a general
feeling throughout the people that we are
not ready to go into a business collapse
there will be plenty ofmoney, plenty of
work and consumption of products that
will create substantial prosperity.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
Testing Diamonds.

The jewelers. Review says: A new and,
II is claimed, a perfect means of distinguish
ing diamonds from limitations has bsen in
vented by the chemist OF the Physical In
stitute at Geneva, Mr.. Margott. He uses
an aluminium pencil, with which It is posi-,
bic TO make a mark or write upon glass or
any other substance containing silcates.
Upon such surfaces, which are first moist
ened, the pencil viii leave perfect white
mark OF siiver-lik metallic brilliancy.
which cannot be destroyed. even By tie use
Of chemicals. Only diamonds, which, as
Is well known. consist of pure carbon, are
impermeable 10 the touch OF the new alu-
minimum test. All the other gems contain
more or less silicic acid. and the aluminium
pencil win, therefore. ieave ~ mark upon
them.
The evening times., 1895-09-19
Just Like Men.

France has three bishops who are not
ashamed to take exercise. The Archbishop
of Sens and the Bishop of Chalons keep up
their fencing. while the Bishop of Mende,
besides being a good fencer, rides horse
back and drives.
August Gemunder, who died i'll New York
recently. was at the time of his demise the
Oldest living violin maker in the country.
While in his own original manufacture Ge
munder ranked amolg comoisseurs with
the very best violin makers, it was in his
limitations of the old masters that he achieved
a SUCCESS which was his alone. Having dis
covered the secret processes by means of
which the early Italian masters succeeded
in constructing utterly incompatible in
strumcnts, he applied these processes to
reproductions whose fidelity was exact.
Mascagni has written an article on opera
librettos for a newspaper at Ceriguola. in
which he says that over 800 librcttos are
written in Italy every year and that 200
Of them are sent to him. He has had books
from a railroad porter. from a sailor. Z
shoemaker and pig doctor. Que dealt
with Italian unity. among the characters be-
ing Garibaldi. baritone: the Pope, q basso;
and Victor Emmanuel. q tenor. Another
called May Day" was about strike and
had a chorus, I'VE Want an Eight-houI
Day."
DIR. johnson had violent hatred of that
custom OF parents for displaying their chg-
dren'e bright accomplishments. At one
time, after he had become famous man, he
f,S
two SONS recite "Gray's Elegy." taking a
verse alternately Nay, SIR" said the
great doctor, -let the dears both recite at
once. More noise will by that means be
made. and the noise viii be sooner over"
The evening times., 1895-09-19
A Hereditnrx Habit.

unpleasant habit of biting the finger nails
is hereditary. Almost one-third of the
FerBch school children bite their nsiS
and the girls are, worse than the boys in this
matter. Not Oply does the habit disfigure
the ends of the fingers but as the fragments
of The nail are often chewed and swallowed
there is a constant danger that the sharp
fragments may injuze the lining Of the
stomach.