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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

sent by President Pierce to California
as a member of the commission appoint
ed to settle the land claims there.
Mr.. Jones served also in several other
public places besides being a senator.
President Buchanan sent him to New
Granada (now Co1ombia), South Amer
lea, as United States minister. Upon his
recall from that place in 1851 he was
accused of disloyalty and imprisoned at
Fort Warren, but he was soon released.
He was warm friend of Jefferson Da-
Wis, and it was partly owing to the in
timacy of the two men that MIR. Jones
was charged with disloyalty. Like both
the other venerable ex-senators here
spoken of, Mr.. Jones is in excellent
health in spite of his advanced age.
Three years ago he led the grand march
at a charity ball, and he was one of those
who, in 1898, escorted the remains of
his old friend Davis from New Orleans
to Richmond.
So much for these three of the Oldest
has beens. There are not many who have
attained to their great age. John I.
Blair, the venerable pioneer in railroad
building, is one of those who have. Per-
haps he should not be termed a has been,
yet he is one who has been obliged 90
retire from the stress and anxiety of ac-
tive life and whose name is seldom seen
in print, excepting when searcher aft
er "reminiscences seeks him out at his
home i'll Blairstown, n. j. Mr.. Blair is
possibly not so active as the Oldest ex-
senators. It is true that he is still presi-
dent of the Belvidere IN. j. bank,
which he founded so or so years ago,
but he is not now very active in its
management and he. passes most of his
time in the warm weather sitting upon
the upper veranda of the fine old house
which has been his home since very early
manhood. He likes to sit III the sun, and
part Of the veranda has been inclosed
with glass, so that even in cold weather
he may enjoy his much loved sun bath
every day that the solar luminary deigns
to show its face.
General James S. Greene, the Oldest
living graduate of West Point, is anoth-
er venerable has been. He lives in Nor
ristown, N. J., in the winter, but he
spends the summer, like the sprightly
old man that he is, at Newport, the
summer capital of America IS fashionable
folk, while his autumns are put in at
Schenectady, N. Y. General Greene has
other distinctions besides that of being
the oldest graduate of Uncle Sam IS mill
tary academy. It was he who when the
iron horse began to run his course on
roads of iron in America, nearly so years
ago, devised the railroad tie or sleeper.
During the civil war he was member
of the northern army and he distinguish
ed himself at Gettysburg.
The city CT New York is the home of
many has beens, several of whom are ex-
governors. Ex-Governor Hoadly of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

THE press and the public on the Pacif-
ic coast have been greatly interested for
some time in the proposed experiment of
Prof. ]. McIvor Tyndall, a hypnotist,
clairvoyant or something of that sort.
Prof. Tyndall some months ago anuounc-
ed his intention of going into trance,
being buried in the ordinary way, and
after lapse of some days being resur-
rected. The professor appeared to be
firm in the conviction that he would come
out of the grave alive and unframed.
Every preparation was made for the i'm
portant event, committees were appoint
ed to attend to the interment and resur-
rection and to watch over the grave. The
coffin for the occasion was donated by an
enterprising Los Angeles funeral direc-
tor. Every detail was arranged and at
the appointed time the prefessor entered
the proposed trance, when the commit
tee having the affair in charge was con-
fronted by a dilemma not previously an
ticipated. To bury Prof Tyndall dead,
it was necessary to have physicians
certificate of death and its cause; to bury
him alive the committee became liable
to prosecution for murder in case of an
unsuccessful termination of the expert
ment; so the com mittee, backed up by
telegram from the professors wife at
San Francisco, ordering the affair stopped
decided to wake him up. This was &C
cordingly done after some difficulty, his
pulse having gone down to Al while in
this comatose condition. The latest in
formation concerning the case is that the
professor, having been told that he had
been successful in his undertaking.
was still undeceived. pending his com
plete revival. So, after all, the world is
no wiser, and science has gained moth
ing. but the professor has received much
gratuitous advertising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

THE United States produced more gold
than silver during 1895. There is some
thing strange about this when we re-
member that, the Topeka JOURNAL says
you can make about 100 per cent profit
on silver by shipping it oyer to India
Lawrence Journal
The JOURNAL didn't say anything of
the kind. What it did say was that
an amount of silver which could be pur
chased in the United States for sixty
cents could be made by foreign mer-
chants and shippers to do the service of a
dollar in the purchase of Oriental pro-
ducts, thus forcing the prices of Ameri-
can products to the same level. It was
also remarked in connection with the
subject that no goldbug editor would be
expected to know or understand anything
about it
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ers, and Jonathan Cilley, the Maine con-
gresham who was killed in a duel by
Graves of Kentucky in 1888. Mr.. Brad
bury was practicing lawyer for many
years and when young man was also
journalist, being editor of the Maine
Patriot for number of years. He is ex-
tremely we'll preserved and attended the
Worlds fair in 1898.
Mr.. Felch, who served as senator from
Michigan, was the recipient of many po-
hticsl aozcrs in his young manhood and
middle life, having been member of the
state legislature, and serving part of a
term just before his election to the SEN
ate as governor of Michigan. After the
expiration of his senatorial term, he was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
LAW AND 0oMMoN SENSE.

If man steals he is sent to prison,
but no provision is made for restoring
the amount of the theft where it be-
longs. If man is assaulted and injured
his assailant is fined, but the fine is not
applied to paying the doctors bill OF the
injured party or for loss of time he may
sustain in consequence Of the affair.
The answer TO any suggestions as to
these matters is of course the one which
is nearly always given when it is pointed
out that any particular thing is not right:
1t has always been so and it cannot be
changed. Another favorite expression OF
those who oppose improvement or change
is that you can't alter human nature.
The Inconsistency of this is apparent,
however, when it is observed that many
of those who contend that human nature
cannot be changed are among the strong
est supporters of the plan of making peo-
pie good by statute.
The trouble appears TO be after all that
what is called human nature is forced to
bear an unfair burden. Much that is
called nature is in fact not nature at
all, but is the result of education, associa-
ton and surroundings. There is one
trait of nature, however, which pervades
the entire race and is responsible for
much of the evil in the world and that
is sel6shness. Punishment will not era
dictate it. The most that can be hoped
for is to make it directly accountable to
its victims rather than to society in gen.
eral and to remove as far as possible
everything which tends to its encourage
ment. 1t may not be possible to force
people to do right by law, but they may
be deprived of many incentives and op-
portunities for doing wrong.
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though not in public life, and no doubt
the intimate friends of many such would
be surprised to know how completely
they have dropped out of public knowl-
edge.
Among the most interesting of all the
present has beens are Joseph Bradbury
of Maine, George W. Jones of Dubuque,
Ia, and Alpheus Fetch of Ann Arbor,
Mich. These men are the Oldest living
ex- United States senators they were all
members of that body at the same time,
but they retired so long ago that they
have been forgotten by the great mass
of their fellow citizens, although during
the years of their public activity they
were all personages of prominence. The
Oldest of the three is Joseph Bradbury.
As he was born in 1902, he is now SO
years old. His six years term in the
senate began with 1847 ard closed with
1858. Mr.. Jones is nearly two years
younger, his birth having occurred on
April IL, 1904. His term of service in
the senate began in 184S and ended in
1859. Mr.. Fetch is little younger than
Mr.. Jones, his birth was on Sept. s,
1904, and he served exactly the same
time as Mr.. Bradbury.
All three were mem bers of the Thir-
tieth and Thirty first congresses. They
are the sole survivors of the senates of
those congresses. They were the col
leagues of John G. Calhoun of South
Carolina, Sam Houston of Texas, Robert
NJ. T. Hunter of Virginia, Tom Corwin
of Ohio, William II. Seward of New
York and John A. Dix of the same state,
Thomas II. Benton Of Missouri, Jeffer-
son Davis of Mississippi, Daniel Web
ster of Massachusetts, Lewis Cass of
Michigan, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine,
Henry Clay CT Kentucky, Herschell V.
johnson of Georgia, John M. Clayton
of Delaware and many others of lesser
Importance, long since called from the
scenes of their earthly labors and forgot
ten by the rushing world of today.
Each of the three Oldest ex- senators
must have stored up in his memory a
series of "reminiscences that would prove
a veritable mine to the inquiring writer.
What they could tell of the politics of
past years would no doubt be vastly en-
tertaining and valuable. They could talk
about other things than politics most in
terestingly also. Mr.. Bradbury was a
member of the famous class of 1926, at
Bowdoin, and among his associates there
were Longfellow, the poet; Nathaniel
Hawthorne, the writer of eerie romances;
John s. G. Abbot, whose 'Tales of
Franconia" delighted the young several
decades ago and whose life of Napoleon
found thousands and thousands of read
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
TURNING THE TABLES.
Southern Negroes May Issue Appeal
For Their Northern Brethren.

Southern Negroes May Issue Appeal
For Their Northern Brethren.
Mrs. Loren Williams, wife of a prorni-
nent Chattanooga lawyer, in an address to
the students of the Colored State Indus
trial college, at Tuskegee, Ala, the other
day, said:
''In the north the negro is crowded out
of everything. The trades unions forbid
his learning or working at any trade.
They are not allowed to be street car driv
ers, carpenters, brick masons, founders,
machinists or walters in hotels.
''In the south white and colored laborers
work side by side in all the shops and
fields, and the white man makes no effort
to hinder the negro from making an hon
est living and acquiring property if he
will.
''Soon the time will come when the
southern negroes will protest against the
unfair treatment of their brethren in the
north -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

A TwELvE-YEAR-oLD North Atchison
girl has written a play on the order of
''The Twelve Temptations" which will
be presented shortly by eleven girls and
two boys. Admission, ten cents. There
will be several dancers dressed in skirts
about an inch long.-Atchison Globe.
This is the kind of bringing up little
Atchison girls are getting; and it might
be added some little Topeka girls, too.
In Topeka amateur performances have
been given in which little innocent girls
have been taught to dance skirt Dances"
and told that the higher they could kick
the better the audience would like it.,
Oh, we shall have some "uew women"
sure enough, when children trained this
way grow up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

THE Wichita Eagle appears to have a
leaning toward Allison as a choice for
president. The Eagle favors silver and
Allison is a pronounced gold standard
advocate. The Eagle says. however, that
Allison in reality favors bimetallism, but
that his position as a leader demands
conservatism. Conservatism, which al
ways means a compromise with the
oppressors of the people, may be neces-
sary in a candidate in order to win the
support of the men who furnish the
money to run campaigns. and profit by
the results. But when was conservatism
ever demanded by the people? They
have been demanding the restoration of
silver ever since its characterization in
1873. Conservatives have succeeded in
being elected always on the pre-
text of preserving the party. The result
has been that all the silver legislation
has been in the nature of compromises.
Each succeeding compromise has been
more damaging to the cause of silver and
to the people than the last until it has
finally been compromised clear out of
existence as part of the money of the
country. Principle has given way to policy
and the action dictated by policy in
evitably includes an element of wrong.
In the present condition of national
affairs conservatism 10 not needed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
HAD WAITED ON WASHINGTON.
Hi1lie Tunnel of Long Island Claimed to
Be One Hundred and Eleven Years Old.

Mile Tunnel of Long Island Claimed to
Be One Hundred and Eleven Years Old.
Mile Tunnel, colored, died the other
day at her home in Jamaica, N. Y, from
old age. She is said to have been Ill
years old and was the oldest resident on
Long Island. Up to few years ago she
could thread needle as well any one.
About year ago she began to decline.
She had lost the sight of one eye and had
also become deaf She had lived in ia
maica for 60 years. The woman was a
slave and got her name, Tunnel, from her
owner, Henry Tunnel, a wealthy planter
of Accomac county, Va. The woman used
to tell about how she waited on General
Washington when he visited the estate of
her mother. She was married while a
slave, and Martha, her oldest daughter,
had been keeping her in Jamaica.
When Tunnel died, few years before
the war, he set all his slaves at liberty.
Mrs. Tunnel and her family lived in the
south for awhile, but travelled north and
settled in Jamaica. New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

WITH something like $500, 600, 900 in
the vaults of the United States treasury
and $3.50, 200, 900 in the vaults of the New
York banks alone, to say nothing of
other banks and treasures throughout
the country. it cannot be surprising that
there is no improvement in business,
and that SO many are in enforced
idleness. 1t is not more money
that is needed SO much as it is a
kind of money that will circulate. Money
which can be shipped about or sold as a
commodity, is not that kind. At present
we have no other. All our money is
gold or has been declared redeemable in
gold, which amounts to the same thing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

The STATE JOURNAL is authority for
the statement that Governor Morrill, will
decline a nomination for second term
Russell Journal.
The STATE JOURNAL doesn't attempt to
be authority" for everything it prints,
any more than it is authority for
the dispatches from Cape Town or ''au-
thority" for an Interview with Kansas
congressman at Washington. Printing
the news is not being authority" for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
REGULATORS PLAN A REUNION.
Members of a Band Formed In Indiana's
Early Days to Meet.

Citizens of Noble, .Elkhart Kosciusko,
Steubon and other northern Indiana coun-
ties formed an organization in 1852 to rid
that locality of horse thieves and other des-
peradoes, and several persons were arrest
ed, among them Gregory McDougle and a
man named Kessler. Both confessed, and
on the trial of McDougle by the lynchers
it developed that he had murdered man,
woman and child in Canada. He was
promptly taken to the woods and hanged.
Others were driven from the locality,
and the counties in which the organiza-
ton existed were soon freed of desperadoes.
The survivors of this organization have
called a reunion, to be held at Ligonier in
a short time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
ARE ALMOST FORGOTTEN.
Men Once Prominent Who Have
Dropped Out of Sight.
THE OLDEST LYING EX-SENATORS.

Many Has Beens Now Living i'm New
YOrk and Are Engaged i'm Business.
1t would be an interesting thing if it
were possible to find out and set down
on paper the facts regarding some scores
of men who once were prominent in the
great world of national affairs, but who
are now heard of but seldom. So seldom
indeed are the names of Some of those
once giants in the public's eye seen in
the newspapers that their appearance
excites surprise and occasionally the
comment, why, I thought that man
was dead
These men are sometimes termed fhas
beens," and so they are in sense, but
many of them are still in active life,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

j. PIERPoNT MORGAN, nor no other
Wall street footpad ever dictated terms
to the government under a Republican
administration Republican.
A large number of Republican con-
gressmen have shown a disposition,
however. to sustain Mr.. Cleveland's Wall
street policy by their votes ever since he
called the special session when they as
sisted in repeating the Sherman law,
passed BY their own party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

A KANSAS newspaper editor at this
late day is making fun of PETERS '.A
Way Out" Whatever may be said of
that book any plan would be better, even
PETERS, than cleveland's sway out;"
which is by issuing $t0e,O0o,0O of gold
bonds every six months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
RexixaI Meetings.

Elder DID, Boyle discoursed yesterday
morning at First Christian church on the
sheme, "The Royal Priesthood" very
large audience being present. His sub
iect at evening hour on "The sins re-
-ponsible for the death of Jesus"
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weather indications.

CHICAGO. Jan. 10. = For Kansas: -
Fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer in
northwest portion tonight variable
winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

Smooth as silk is the way our collars
feel now Peerless Steam Laundry, 112
and ia w. 8th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

Everybody takea the JoURNAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05
REAL ESTATE.
BUSINESS AT THE EXCHANGE


With one exception, all the parcels Of ,..,>
offered at the Broadway Real Estate saI.,,."
yesterday were sold
William NJ. Ryan Sold under decree OF sn....
performance No. Is West Ninety-six,h..,
brownstone front dwelling. with carpets -
Ward. for $1,000
James l.. Wells sold In foreclosure No N rs..
ave. two-story brick tenement house lot n Il" y
9. L. Guion. representing the plaintiff. cSsn,,en
JoSn as so ,ra' ses ETC. &c d1r @
yard. side 1873 feet north OF CoIu mbt nouls
6O5sxlOs s2x50xss57 to Charles r. Faber for ~
William kerneily sold. In foreclosure NJ T.
West One-hundred "A nd -frst-st.. n hve-st0ry X.
fathouse. lot &xI0Oli. to the plaintiff Cornera
TN. the Equitable Life Assurance Society Nos ~
3d. 312 and 3l+ West One-hundrcd a nd ffteen,sN
four three.story stone front dwellings, lots ~
4. A. Cruikshank r. Co have sold for Mrs Ia,
p. Kernochan the southeast corner Of Mad
ave. and Twenty ffth-st for something over 49,
The plot fronts 4s.4 on the avenue by 10 On ~
street and includes lot adjoining on the -
25x9S9 on which the Madison apartmeo.S ~
stands. The eale IL subject 10 long lease M
which the building IL now undergoing altera.L1
Mrs Kernochan bought the property IN IND
Nl2500
John p. Kirwan for S. ". y Smith. has sold ~
four fve-story fatbouses on the southeast, corn.
Of Amsterdam and Eighty-ninth-st lJs,:W
for about 10000. %
J. J. Phelan has sold Nos. Is and ~ IVES, N-..r
frst-st. two three-story brick dwellngs for Arm:
$4,000. S'
Petty Soulard & Walker have sold to M,,.h.,
Coogan two lots the southwest come, -
Brooke-ave. and One-hundred and -sixtynrs,-ss
6Oxi00 for Improvement.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05
BUILDING PLANS FILED.

The following plans for new buildings and alter
were fled yesterday:
New buildings at the main Office:
flOth-st S s 22J Z 4 Len'S ave. Tor rye
,hree-story brick dwellings. b. Anthony smy;h.
OF No 1873 West 22i -. owner. ...-.-...-.-.--.
Boulevard. corner I9'h-s,. for A cory
brick greenhouse by william " Astor, - Nc
81 West 28th-st owner ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Alterations the main Office;
0th-ave corner JGth-sf by J A Bsr1nolz, ~
No 2o3 West 2sth-s,. owner. % a iour-siory
brick tenement ..................-.- ..-.........
1osth-st. 5. 1896 Il o, Amsterdam ave ~
Mrs Josephine Schmd. n " so1 9TH ave. and
Bowery No 239. by the estate o, julia A Chase,
Of No los Fulton-st. owner. 20 four-sioy
Wall-st. No 50. west halt. by National cry Bark.
owner to a four-stOry brick Office building
2d-ave. No l.s27 by Theresa schcppeF' o, 81
ave and 94th-st. owner, 20 -stoFy DICK
hotel and tenement. Joseph Fante. lessee. cost
New buildings. az the uptown branch:
1sth-st. n =, 400 II OF White Plains Roai wa e
Heidi for a two-and-a-haf-story frame dwell
ing. by VI Lowitz. owner ............,-....
Brooks-ave e. 124 II OF 1S5th-s. FOR TWO
four-story brick flats by Otto Van Luck Co.
Of No 1851 Bathgate-ave. owners .....-.....,.
235th-st. $. 275 II OF 2d-st FOR a one-s,ory
frame stable. by John Schneider owner
175th-s,. 1.oll East. by John Cotter. owner. 20
t.o-story and attic frame dwelling
Melrose-ave, e s. between Hist and Orchard 80.
by Thomas McGrane, owner. 70 a tvo-story
frame dwelling ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ......'
by Michael Fischer. Of No 2D1 Iexngton-ave.
owner. TO a two-story frame dwelling .....:.-,
8d-ave Nos 2ass and 2psO. by David Allen.
agent, 10 two thrse-story frame dwellings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05
RECORDED MORTiAiES.

Greenthal, Morris. and wife TO Title Guarantee
and Trust Co., No 6D6 2d-ave. years -.
Hunt Agnes indv and extrix. etc. = the BOW
cry Savings Bank corner I'd ave and I'D
. Ienahan James. and wife to the Emigfan, In
? dustrlal Savings Bank. . corner lVth ave and
li7th-st. year .::.,...,'..' 80 -
Levy Aaron and wife ct al 20 LILY " Be- sotf
ct al, trustees Of l. Hamersley. No % Bsyard-
Middleton lane W 70 Thomas Cannon and John
Davis Nos 54G-54s West lJ0th-st. years. 2
mortgages
Mclaughlin Thomas J. and wife = " Ham
Halls Sons. 07th-st. n corner Lexington a'
months
Rollwasen Emily s. TO Title Guarantee and TrJs,
Co. Nos l54 and 1856 EsseX--t. years ....
S,etter David and Maria, 70 the Em.g-ant Intls-
trial Savings Bank. n s i2d-si. 80 z, y ID
ave, year - -.
Life Assurance Society u the United states > 3
l4ath-st. 1851 10 II u -. Nicholas ave. 2
Simonson Emily X. 20 Rononia q W Ciageti .
33d-st $50 II OF 7th-ave years............
Well Max and wife 70 Gus;ayus Sifsnb~rg ~ AZ.
$ Bronx-ave. T5.e n n Of l4ist-st. years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-05
REAL FsTATE TRANSFERS

x3d-st n .. 800 II Of 2d-ave 2jxir.J. Theresa
y Levy to David stetter .....................
Coumbus-aye. =. 1912 n OF ly,'h- q, ELK
100; Christian Frank and wife - Henry Sny.er
Greenw.cil-st No 4O3. Marion Butler 70 sane.
Walker No ~; came to same .............
Delaney ST No las; Louis Smith 70 Cite.
smith
12th-s, n = 300 II . Of Avenue A. 2sxiO33 Har-
ris Levy and wife to Francis Eife. --..--.......
143d-st o. G3.2 II . Of Arns,erdam-aye islor
90 II: Juliet Holland 20 Mary Seward and an
other
Lots 1902 and 394 map Section A. Nyse estate:
David Mcneil and wife 20 Iavna Miller 900.
Rurnsido-aye n g 81 II " % Ryer-age = liz
I39x25x9O; Assad g Khouri and wife 70 Meyer
Manassa and another. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.