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If the Spanish vote in this country were
as large as the German vote or the Irish
vote, President Cleveland might make a
strong candidate for Mr.. Whitney's ticket
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-03

The lapse of time brings very little prom
ise of an adjustment of that old difference
between Bourke Cochran and Tammany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-03

Mr.. Watson is in a position to patheti-
cally inquire how a man can be expected to
bolt his own nomination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-03

Washington has Enthusiastically expressed
herself in favor of sound butter as opposed
to the free coinage of oleomargarine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-03
Regretfulness.

IF / were a man." said the restless lad,
I'D never give up and be still and sad.
Were my name but known in the lists Of
life
I'd never say die till I'd won the strife.
But who will challenge the steel of youth,
Though his heart be brave, and his motto
truth?
There's work to be done in this nfe's short
span,
But, alack-a-day! l am not q man."
IF / were a boy says the toiler gray,
I'D fashion my lot In a better way.
I'd hope and labor both day and night,
And make ambition my beacon light.
Were my bark but launched upon youths
bright stream
I'd bend to the oar, nor drift nor dream,
Till reach the haven Of peace and joy
But, alack-a-day! 1 am not boy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Ever since Mr.. Cleveland was first
elevated to the presidency it has been
the belief OF many that he was desir-
Gus Of forming a distinctively CIeve-
land party. one which should represent
his personal views on public questions
and acknowledge him as it's founder and
head. The fact that until this year the
Democracy has bent to the will Of the
president although disagreeing with
him in some ways has precluded the
possibility of carrying out this plan
which he is believed to have long cher
ished.
The opportunity for launching the
new party came this year and its or
ganization was effected at Indianapo-
lis The National Democratic party is
in every sense a Cleveland party and it
has received his unqualified endorse
ment. It's platform favors everything
that Mr.. Cleveland favOrs-the per
petuation of the gold standard, retire
ment of all government paper curren-
cy. the control of all currency by the
banks
The Cleveland party may not loom
up greatly at the approaching election,
but being essentially a rich mans par
ty it is likely to grow. It viii proba-
ably attain the distinction of being the
third party, a position recently occu-
pied by the POpulists.
Apparently, the old Democratic par
ty cannot be killed but it had a close
call this year. 1t is probable that MI
Cleveland is the only man in the coun-
try that could have saved it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
SLANG SINGING WATSON.

CFrom the Chicago News Ond)1
In his speech at Dallas, Tex, yester-
day the Hon. Tom Endless Watson re-
ferred to his contemporary, Mr.. Sewan,
in the following chaste language:
"sewan is a wart on his party. He is
a knot on the log"
No further evidence is needed to show
that Tom would be just the man to pre-
side over the United States senate. His
parliamentary terms would not only
demand the attention of the senators.
but would hold the ear of every person
in the visitors gallery. We anticipate
a session of the senate with Vice Pres
ident Tom in the chair:
THE question is on the amendment
introduced by the gumboil from Michi-
gan. The able galoot in the clerks
desk will call the roll.
go The vote stands % for and19
against, therefore the amendment in
troduced by the gumboil from Michigan
is carried. What is the further pleas
ure of this aggregation of nits?
"& The spawned chump from
Kentucky IS out Oh OIuG1s anu Il A4C 49,
it again III throw the hooks into him.
I don't care a rap about Tom Reeds
rules of order, or any other gazobo's
I know my business and the first PIN
pie who gets gay will get it in the neck.
so Take the message back to
the fink in the White House and tell
him Tom Watson is on deck and needs
no messages from anybody. This coun-
try has suffered enough from White
House domination and so long as am
in the chair I propose to do as want
to. Now what does the carbuncle from
Ohio want?'
If Tom is elected we bespeak for our
esteemed contemporary, the Congress
sionaI Record. an immediate increase
in circulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

born truck gardener, who rents patch
Of uRcccupied ground and hires his
coUntryw@men to till it for him. The
Poles and Germans seem to take most
naturally to this business. Perhaps it is
because it is the work which they were
accustomed to do in the old country
Sometimes the truck farmer does his
work with the help of the members of
his own family, but in most cases he
becomes a capitalist in a limited way
and gets possession of leases for several
acres of ground. Then, when he comes
to get his helpers, he hires the cheapest
labor possible, and that. as is always the
case, is the labor of women.
The Polish women seem to be in the
majority among the truck garden work
ers. Before they came across the sea
Wanda and Ilona were accustomed to
do the hardest part of the work in the
fields, and they see no reason why they
should not do it here. So, while Yekel
gets job digging sewers, grading rail
roads or cleaning the streets at 81. % a
day, Wanda goes into the truck garden
and adds 70 cents or 81 a day to the
family treasury. Meantime their chill
dren are left to play in the streets all
day about the squalid tenement barracks
where these people herd
Perhaps you have seen them as you
whirled through the outskirts of some
big city on an express train. Between
the long rows Of vegetables you will see
bent figures of women drudging on
hands and knees in the baking, scorch-
ing sunlight That is the way they toll
from May until October. Sometimes
they work with the Thermometer at
from 100 to 1870 in the sun. There is no
shade for them. Again, they creep along
the furTows in two or three inches of
mud and water. The despised scrub
woman of the town is an aristocrat be
side one of these. Even the street labor
ers have easier work. The women are
naturally strong and rugged or the work
would kill them outright They are used
to standing in the bIisteFiug rays Of the
sun and the driving rain, but the toll
puts permanent crook ia their backs,
wrinkles their faces and makes them
prematurely aged.
In Greater New York are hundreds of
such farms, and within the limits of
Chicago are raised enough vegetables to
supply the whole of populous Cook
county. Gardening is most tedious and
back breaking work. as every one knows
who has ever tried it on even a small
scale It is new condition, and one not
as yet widely recognized, which shifts
this labor to the shoulders of the weaker
sex ANNETTE CRAWFORD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
III NFVER PAYs To eUsH.

CFrom the Atchison GlObe.l
A few weeks ago an Indiana girl
named Bryan ran away to marry the
man of her choice. It was said that
she was W. J. Bryan's niece, and par
tisan newspapers remarked that vein
of romance characterized the entire
Bryan family.
Shortly after. a sister of W. J. Bryan,
living in Illinois. saved two children's
lives in a runaway accident In the
same brave. fearless way viii w. J.
Bryan save the country's life in No
venber." remarked the Democratic pa
pers in commenting upon it.
Yesterday a cousin Of Bryan was ar
rested in Little Rock for obtaining
money under false pretenses. 1t is the
Republicans turn to find the point of
family resemblance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
MEAT FOR JAPAN.
Armour Gets Contract for Eighteen
Carloads of Beef

Kansas City, Sept. IA month or
six weeks ago the Armour Packing
company of Kansas City began hgur-
ing on an extensive canned beef con-
tract with the japanese government.
The negotiations were carried on by ca
bic with Japanese agents acting by di-
rect governmental authority. and a few
days ago the contract was awarded to
to the Armour company of this city.
The specifications arrived later. They
were sent by mail to avoid the great
expense incident to the transmission
of so much matter by cable. Accord
ing to the specifications, the Armour
company is to furnish eighteen car
loads of canned beef to the subjects of
the mikado. Eighteen cars will COM
pose a good sized train. and the COM
pany considers the contract a vast one.
1t is intended to make the entire ship
ment within ten days, and already IT'S
men and women are at work on this
contract alone.
About two years ago, during the war
with China, the company furnished
meat to the japanese soldiers and sail
ors, and it is supposed that the appe-
tite for the American product was ac-
quired at that time. At any rate, it
was stipulated in the second order, just
received, that the meat should bear the
distinctive red helmet trade mark. The
Armour people think that the meat is
intended for the Japanese navy.
The meat is being put Up in two
pound and six pound circular cans.
Twenty-fOur of the former and twelve
of the latter can be packed in a case.
The beef is fresh, not sailed, and the
cans contain no substance besides beef
and gelatine. Packed as it is the meat
is warranted to remain fresh and sweet
an almost interminable time and it is
admirably adapted for long sea voy-
ages.
Five thousand cattle in all must be
slain to fill the contract. This figure
represents an immense quantity of
beef, but not so much as might appear
at first blush, for not all of the beef is
used for Gaming purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
FEMALE GARDENERS.
Women Do the Work on the
Urban Truck Farm.
No Poetry in this Drudgery, Which
Is Usually Performed by Women
of Foreign Birth.

of Foreign Birth.
It IS net only in France, Germany
and other European countries that wonl-
ca work in the fields. They do it right
here in free America-thousands of
them. The time has not yet arrived
when they take the place of men on the
big western farms. They are not yet
harnessed to the plew with horses and
oxen to till the prairies.
It is in the suburbs of the great cities
that women toll and drudge. By the
sweat of their brows and by the aching
of their Bonded backs the fresh vegeta-
bic delicacies which grace the tables Of
the prosperous city folks are raised. In
most of the outlying metropolitan dis
tricts there are scattered tracts of land
that viii some day be swallowed up by
the advancing lines of tenements and
residences, but which for the present
are utilized as truck farms.
The unobserving city man fondIy
imagines that the crisp lettuce, the rosy
tinted radishes, the big, luscious toma-
toes and the other green and varicolored
products of the soil which make the
dinner and breakfast table inviting in
hot weather come from far out IN the
country. He pictures the honest farmer
and his broad sheUldered sons rising at
daybreak and plucking the dewy vege-
tables FROM the cool, moist soil to the
music of the bobolink's song, the load
ing of the stout farm wagon, the drive
to the sleepy little village, the wait for
the onrushing train which is to hustle
the barrels and baskets cityward
1t is a pretty picture But it is fc-
tion-pure, unadulterated fiction. The
honest farmer cannot pay the railroad
rates and compete with the city truck
gardeners. So he does not bother with
lettuce, radishes and such things beyond
providing for his own wants, but raises
wheat, corn, potatoes, hay, etc., which
require more space than can be found
III town.
The only exception to this is that the
early vegetables from the south, those
which appear before the frost is out of
the ground in the northern states, are
raised in the open country. But the
summer vegetables, which are consumed
in such vast quantities by those who
live in big cities, are largely produced
within urban limits.
This changes the picture to one in
which there is but little poetry. Instead
of the honest far1Aer there is the foreign
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
MRS. PARNELL'S DENIAL.
She Has No knowledge of the Person
Who Assaulted Her in New Jersey.

Who Assaulted Her in New Jersey.
London, Sept. IA correspondent
had an interview at Bray, Ireland, with
Mrs. Della Stewart Parnell, the vener-
able mother Of the late Charles Stewart
Parnen. in accordance with instruc-
tons, to ascertain whether a story was
true which has been published in GER
tain American newspapers.
This story is to the effect that Mrs.
Parnell was aware of the identity of the
persons who made a murderous assault
upon her in April last year; that she
had been afraid to disclose the name
while she was in the United States. but
that, now that she was in foreign
country, she was prepared to name the
assailant. and that he had been actu-
ated by political motives. Mrs. Par
nell denied all these assertions.
The venerable lady, when seen at
Bray, said that she still felt the ill-ef-
fects of the accident that befell her on
shipbOard while crossing the Atlantic
Ga falD.
Mrs. Parnen totally rejects the names
that had been suggested of those that
might have had a political motive for
the assault. She believes that it was
made by a tramp.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
The Discovery Saved His Life.

Mr. g. Cailloutte' druggist Beavers
Discovery I owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the ply
sicians for miles about, but of no avail,
and was given up and told I could not
live. Having DR. Kings New Discov-
ery in my store I sent for y bottle and
began its use and from the first dose
BEGAN to get better, and after using
three bottles was up and about again
It is worth its weight in gold We won't
keep store or house without it, Get a
free trial at J. K. Jones drug store, 9TH
and Kansas avenue. Regular size soc.
and SlOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
ICE FOR HONDURAS.
First Ice Machine for That Country
Will Bring Cents a Pound.


Columbus, Ga, Sept. IA Columbus
ice machine will soon be in operation
in Honduras, in Central America, turn
ing out ice for the sweltering people of
the tropics. The machine was manu-
featured by the Columbus iron works
of this city on the order of a number
of Montgomery, Ala, capitalists, who
have secured from the Honduras gov
eminent a valuable concession which
will practically give them a monopoly
of the ice business in that country
Heretofore the ice used in Honduras
has been shipped there from New Or
leans, there being no ice manufactures
in that country, and it will thus be
seen that the enterprising Alabama
men above referred to will have quite
a bonanza. The retail price of ice in
Honduras has been five cents per
pound, and the firm which will now
manufacture it there are assured that
they will receive at least four cents for
all they make. The machine which will
turn out ice for the Central Americans
will soon be put up in Honduras, as the
Columbus iron works will send a man
there in a few days for that purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
DEALT IN TRADE DOLLARS.
a Jersey Man Arrested for Trading
Them for Paper Money.

New York, Sept. IA clever swim
die was brought to light in Jersey City
today when James Blue of 126 Mont
gomery street, that city. was arraigned
in court on complaint of Harry Colston
a reporter. who charged Blue with ex-
changing trade dollars for one dollar
bills. Colston swore that Blue called
on him yesterday and said he wanted
to send a five dollar bill in letter and
asked COlston if ne would give him one
for silver dollars. Colston did SO. and
and later found that Blue had given
him trade dollars, which are worth only
50 cents each
He complained to Chief Murphy of
Jersey City and Blue was arrested early
today. Justice Potts remanded Blue
until tomorrow. in order to have his
record looked up. A search of Blues
room brought to light forty-three trade
dollars, which he claims to have pur-
chased in New York.
Cashier Muhriman of the sub-treas-
ury. this city, said today that trade
dollars are quoted in the market at 60
cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
Santa Fe Roulette Home Road

HOMESEEKERS' EXCURSIONS
To Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, Ok
lahoma, Indian Territory and Texas.
Dates of sale September 1, Is and %,
October nd 20. One fare plus $500
fer round trip tickets. Good for TWEEN
ty-one days
To act on the liver and cleanse the
bowels. no other medicine equals Ayers
Cathartic Pills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

1t is proposed to use asbestus in the
soles of boots. Asbestus wool, pressed
by hydraulic force into thin sheets, wa
terproofed on one side, is to be inserted
as the middle sole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

It is suggested that George Gould's
cruise toward the north pole was
brought on by a desire to reach a coun-
try where there were no assessors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Now that Corbett and Fitzsimmons
have signed articles of agreement their
managers will surely get them down
to hard training on their dictionaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Another massacre is imminent In
Constantinople After it is over the
ambassadors will meet and prepare an
other note.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

McKinley's promise to start the mills
of the country is likely to be taken by
the sports as an Endorsement of prize
fighting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Bryan and Mckinley don't know
what they viii miss by not coming to
our Fail Festival-but they'll be sorry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
Republican Chairman Commits Sui

Boston, Mass, Sept. 17.-Herbert F.
Plympton, chairman of the executive
committee of the Republican state CEN
trail committee, committed suicide yes
terday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

lis to be hoped that November will
not only end the campaign but will also
end the summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Boys will be boys but you can't
afford to lose any of them Be ready
for the green apple season by having
DeWitt's Collie and Cholera Cure in the
house. For sale by G. W. Stansheld,
s32 Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

If the New York Democrats had any
doubts on their mind as to supporting
Bryan they put them off at Buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Although serving their government
it is evident that the English police
kept an eye out for No l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Messrs. Bennington andwfllits should
get together and form themselves into
a national party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

workingmen can say they had a free
ride to Canton during this campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Very little is said by the gold stand
ard papers of the proposed fusion of
their forces in Texas with the ''anarch-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

Totals. 2s2, 1885 2s4.S2O 2s2. S75
Sunday; no issue.
The total number of copies printed In
the six months named above, 1857. $40
shows the average to be 10. sos. r1bfe i,
a correct report of the issues OF +ba
TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOLJRNAT.
for the six months as stated.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-12
THE RIDING CLUB MAY MOVE.

TO DECIDE IN TWO WEEKS WHETHER TO BUILD
THEIR OWN HOME.
The Riding Club heds It's annual meeting and cleo
ton of officers last evening at the clubhouse In
Fifty eghth-st.. near Fifth-ave. There large
number of the members present and much interest
evinced in the question of the clubs future To-
cation. The lease OF the present house expires soon
and II was expected that the meeting last night
some definite action would be taken to settle this
question but after discussion it voted TO post
pone action for two weeks. in which the Executive
Committee will prepare circulars of Information and
send them out to all the members.
1t is understood that the Executive Committee
favor purchasing plot Of ground in Eighth-ave.
facing the Park and erecting house designed par
ticuary for the needs of the club Such house
would have an ample riding ring and at the same
time all the other conveniences that are afforded
by other city clubs; also riding space for bicycles
and rooms for their and storage. bowling alleys
and stable and carriage rooms. 1t is argued that
such a house would be easy Of access. being near
the elevated road and that such piece of property
few years The location mentioned Is ir the neigh
borhood OF Sixtyninth-st and 1t is understood that
the Park Commissioners contemplate making an
entrance TO the Park al that street
The other alternative for the club is to lease anew
its present quarters. The lease would have TO be
for twenty years and at much higher rent. In
this case no permanent Improvement OF the prop
erty would be profitable The members are about
evenly divided between the two plans Some are
strongly in favor of remaining in the present house.
wa s s 2s 'S met
formulate the circular Of information which will
be sent out at once.
ton last night resulted the choice of last year
officers for the coming year
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-12
WHITE, PLAINS.

II would party OF burglars had settled mere
permanently 70 practice their calling The seventh
burglary In two weeks was committed Sunday
Presbyterian minister. at about O'Clock. while the
doctor was preaching sermon In the church not
n hundred feet away The burglars stole $50 In cash
and jcwclry belonging 10 Mrs. Macorbrcy valued at
t2o0 The minister left the house $50 o'clock. and
went 70 the church. Mrs Macouhrey followed fifteen
minutes later At about o'clock 4 light was seen
In Mrs Macoubreys room, the second floor from
the church. a friend Of Mrs. Macoubrey who knew
she never left light burning in her room. informed
her OF the fact A messenger was Immediately sent
ascertain the cause. when he discovered that all
the bureau drawers and closets had been ransacked.
There one in the house at the time or the
robbery. The burglars gained an entrance by break
Ing wire screen over n cellar window AT the back
OF the house They did not take any silvcrware.
A meeting OF the newly formed Westminster County
Bar Association was held yesterday in The Court
House for the purp)se of cecng permanent officers
and appointing committees. EX-JUdge William Rob
ertson presided There are three Vce-presldents
one from each Assembly district The following
were elected: Judge William II. Robertson Of Ka
tonah president. prcsidents-Ralph l.. Prime or
Yonkers. LIST Assembly District, Gideon W. Daven-
port, II New Rochelle. l11 Assembly District Fran
cts Lnrkn. 81. Of Sing Sing. lld Assembly District
corresponding secreary William A. Woodworth. OF
white Pains. treasurer. Joseph s Wood. OF Mount
Vernon The following were appointed Committee
on Admission: Ralph T. Prime. Yonkers; Wilson
ex-Julge isaac Mills. Mount Vernon. Committee
on Grlevances--E Judge William II Robertson.
Katonah. william W. Scrugham. Ionkers. Frederick
W Clark. White Pains Joseph s. Wood. Mount Yer
non Frank l.. Young. Sing Sing. The president and
two secretaries will constitute the Auditing Com
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