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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
THE WOMEN DEFEATED.
They Fought a Good Fight, But the
Fates We're "Agin En-

Olathe April S.-The municipal tick
ct at Spring Hill, this county. made M
entirely Of women candidates. the sac-
ond Of the kind nominated here. was
asaln de1eated by vote of three to
one.
Two years ago the women trfunphed
and gave the city an economica1 and
business-like administration buf last
year they were defeated bv a vote az
two to one, by the ticket headed bv
B0yce for mayor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
BRIDGE SINKS.
One Over the Maumee at Toledo Goes
Down, and a Train With 1t.

Toledo, o.. April S.-A span of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad bridge
over the Naumee river in this city.
went down under the weight of a
freight train, drowning one man.
The five cars next the engine went
down. leaving the engine on the pier
ahead and the remainder Of the train
on the next span backward.
James Marshall a brakeman, was
the man drowned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
ARE 100 9HY.
The Census Of Abilene Shows a Slight
Falling OF Of Population.

Abilene. April S.-This city appears to
be about holding it's own on population
City Assessor Herr said today that he
already has $3.50 residents of the city
ON his list and is not yet through with
his work He thinks the complete fig
ures viii be about $500 This is only
100 less than last year, which is en-
couraging considering hard times in
central Kansas during the past twelve
months
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
Kansas City Livestock Market.

Kansas City April g.
CATTL Receipts 49O0 shipments
300 Market strong 1Oc higher. Texas
steers So 0003 So Texas cows 81 coo
. 70; beef steers 50 OOGD4 10; native cows
81 6563 25. stockers and feeders 81 $50
3 s.: bulls 81 1903 co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
Stevenson Breaks the Record.

Webb c. Stevenson broke the IN
paced bicycle record to Carbonate
Saturday night. He made the is miles
in one hour and five minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
Capt. Jobn seaton's Daughter lIarries.

Atchison. April 8.-Theodore Byrarn,
stock raiser of Shannon. this county,
and Nellie Seaton, Capt. John Seaton's
youngest daughter, We're married at
Trinity Episcopal church Governor
Morrill, was among the distinguished
guests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
INVADE TIE WALNUT.
Eagle, Seward and Leonard Take q
Tin to FL Dorado for Fish.

NIessrs Geo. EagIe. Geo. Seward and
A. Leonard went to ElDoradO last
evening with nets, lines, etc. to capture
some young fish to stock Lakeview.
Fish are reported very plentiful in
the Walnut and water is plentiful at
Lakeview. The boys viii take along
plenty of water to season the bait
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
TIE POPULIsrs WIN.

Garry the Day at Lincoln Center r.
1eaVlng the Administration Ticket.
Lincoln Center. April RTb
@4sA mere was complete defeat tor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take laxative Bromo QUjnine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. 25c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08

Wife-My husband and I never have
q discussion before tins children. If see
O quarrel coming on, We always send
them out
Visitor-I thought had aaen them in
the street very often. Collier s Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
Kansas City Produce Market.

Kansas CIfy. ApriI 8.-Wheat higher
with no Improvement in demand; No.
? hard Soc; No. 3 soc; No. 2 hard 66c;
No. 8 soc; No. . red nominaHy 76G77c;
No. 2 spring Csc; No. 3 nOminally 61@
63c-
CORN-95l @91zc higher; dull; No. 2
mixed 23az Q2474c; No. 2 white 24L@
241ac.
20lzc
RYE-No. 2 nominany 33634c.
TdAY-F'irm; timothy firm; no quota
lions given.
BUTTER-Very weak and uncertain;
creamery 16017c: dairy 11@15c.
STEADY; receipts light, strictly
fresh SIC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08

Member and friends of TO

IT I'm HUN
Members and friends of Topeka
Lodge No. III. A. o. u. w. DO not for
get the entertainment tomorrow and
Friday evenings, at hall. 723 Kansas
avenue. Gormley's band viii furnish
plenty of music Admission 10 cents.
Miss AcCulIoch. the St. Louis Kin
dergartner. cannot come to Topeka IN
til later in the month. Her talk at the
Copeland next Saturday is postponed.
Pure Pennsylvania buckwheat flour
and Canadian maple syrup at j. H.
FIeller's 1902 North Kansas avenue, gro
Gerry and meat market.
Try our collars. We can make them
look like new Peerless Steam Laun-
112 and IA W. Eighth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08

All kinds of glasses fitted so as to
give perfect comfort, Charles Bennett,
ophathalmic optician, 73O Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08

St Louis closing. May Wheat va
May corn 279sc; May oats 1880.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-04-08
REPREsENTATIVE sALEs-

6DIo-- IleoEIDLa o-ovy. SD DIIIaIIVa 9-V-
Market strong sc higher. Bulk of sales
Sc 5003 IS; heavies So 1908 60; packers
So 5003 IS; mixed SO 1903 7O lights
SO 1908 IS; workers SO 65Q3 rs; pigs
So 55a3 70.
HEEP-Receipts ZOO; shipments p
500. Lambs 10c lower; mutton steady.
Lambs So 1904 40; muttons 81 1903 90.
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-25

him fortune in addition 10 fame. lie
has been engaged in newspaper work
in Chicago for a number Of years, and
is now financial editor OF morning
newspaper. In THE experience he has
found much of the material OF which
the novel is built. The realism Of the
story rs its most powerful and fascin-
ating element-free and simple, never
offending good taste. The interest that
captivates one in the description Of life
In Tampieo holds one through the trou-
Dles of the hero, and never wanes 10
the last word.
the coloring is as distinct as IL is
excellent. Jerry's worldly experience
was limited 10 Tampico when he start
ed for Chicago TO get work on daily
newspaper. AS a town Tampico was
an utter failure II had a poor little
street, degenerated into a mere country
lane-grass-grown, weed-grown. made
Tree OF by estray cows and chickens; a
half-dozen frame buildings. of which
only two-the postofilce and general
store and the Herald ofilce-retained
the dignity of their original urban use:
a surrounding OF sloping woods and
rolling fields. vacant save for the agri-
cultural intrusion which leaves so re-
spectfully large a margin OF nature TO
each human trespasser At night the
vast country solitude rolled down over
Tampico and ingulfed il like an At
Iantic ingulfng a derelict bumboat.
Such was the degree OF Tampicos de-
cadence that the countryfolk looked
down on the townfolk No town can
get lower than that.
"Old men Of the neighborhood still
talked fondly about the boom, although
at the period Of expansion referred 10
nobody had known it for a boom, that
invention OF the real-estate man being
then far in the future. il was admitted
that Tampico had one of the finest sites
for town in Illinois. The canal came
down in straight line from the north
and the Hare river swung in from the
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-25

aud thousands of them suffered death.
with accompaniment of frightful tor
lures. The sect was considered as thor
oughly annihilated. But its surviving
adherents could easily have recruited
some fanatical adopts. like the mollah
Reza, especially after dissatisfaction
had been created in Persia by the
granting of the tobacco monopoly 20 a
British firm, so injurious to the Persian
producers and consumers, and also by
other measures. like the facilities Of
fered clandestinely 10 the expectation
Of grain. This expectation ie prohib-
tied in Persia, as in Morocco by the
Mussulman tradition and by law. Late
~ frightful bread riots occurred In sew
eral cities of Iran. and they were sup
pressed only after bloody fights. The
tobacco monopoly was withdrawn re-
luctantly by Nassr-ed-Din, who de-
rived large and regular income from
IT. but this withdrawal could not wipe
out the anger Of the Persians, all Of
whom, women and men, are constantly
smoking, and who had been compelled
TO desist from II during the six months
because their mollRhs and ulemas had
preached that the tobacco was contain
mated through being handled by
christian dogs"
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new shah MOzaner-ed-D Din, was accom-
plished without any difficulty, though
he was far from the capital at the mo-
ment OF his fathers assassination. IL
seems also certain that his elder broth
er, Zeleh Sultan. Governor OF Ispahan
will make no opposition. as by too
hasty cable dispatches IL was intimated
he would. The late shah left three
sons. The eldest, Prince Zeleh Sultan,
was born from a mother not of royal
blood, and consequently he could not
according to the Persian law. inherit
the crown, unless no other son should
be born TO the shah by a royal princess.
Similar alarming rumors were prevail
ing at first in regard to the attitude OF
the third son OF Nassr-ed- Din, Naile
es Sultaneh, who was minister of war
ar the time OF the assassination of his
father, and who resided AT Teheran,
where be might. with the support OF
the army under his command. have
taken possession Of the crown. On the
contrary he FASTENED TO announce the
awful event TO his brother. who was al
Tauris. and TO prepare him a splendid
reception on his arrival at the capital
The new shah, Mozaffer-ed- Din. has
therefore everything highly suspicious
and in quiet condition on his assuming
the government OF Persia and his own
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-25
Director OF Paris Cons.rv.,o,,.

Ainbroise Thomas. the author ~,
'Mignon," who died last winter he.
came director of the French conserve
tore, on the death Of Auber. in 1871
and continued twenty-five years in a.
hce' The dictatorship, which had been
vacant since his death. was in the v,e,
OF the Minister Of Fine Arts. and 1as
hrst offered toJules Massenet. the autb.
or of "Manon" and "Herod;ade - who
declined it because Of the pressure Of
other duties. 1t was then offered -
Theodore Dubois. the author OF "Cu1o
ia" "L'Emir," lie Pain bis" "Aban
Hamlet" and "Xaviere," who accented
it. NJ. Dubois is perhaps best known &c
the organist at the Madeleine, in which
position he succeeded Saint-Saens He
is no stranger at the coneervatoire for
he has been professor OF harmony tbero
for twenty-five years. He was born in
1897, at Rheims, where he still has a
home. Both he and his wife are must.
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west. The time OF growth and hope.
long afterward called the boom, was CO.
incident with the making of the canal
in 1884. There was no ruinous specula-
zion in options on corner lots nor in
ninety-nine-year leases. But in two
years the population grew from $50 10
near 1000, and the number Of buildings
increased proportionately In fine sum-
mer weather men sat about watching
the digging Of the huge ditch which
was 10 float their commerce to Chicago
and the world. and felt in their blood
that vague itching fever of expectancy
which is the soul Of the boom. When
they went home at night they called
their possessions worth 10 per cent
more. which is the body of the boom
Eight years later the Chicago G. Great
Western road built its first line fve
miles 10 the west and established y
town, whittier in couple OF wears
most OF the material part OF Tamnico
which was worth the moving we
transplanted. In succeeding years Other
railroad towns took the better part Of
the remainder"
In the pure air Of this little tovn
Jerry had thrived, but his ambition
burned, and a relation in some dis,sn,
way, who held the position of United
States district attorney at Chicaeo
profered his aid in securing the "a
Nancement Of the boy. With a buovsn,
heart filled with youthful entbusiasr0
and confidence Jerry left his home and
entered the dark, uncertain world he
yond. When he got off the train a,
Chicago the purple clouds he saw in ,ha
distance from Tampico had cbanooa
TO gray. The air of the city grew,
murky with smoke; all was confused
blurred, unindividualized 10 his mind
He gained no impression excent Tho,
ne vas an atom whirling in intermin-
able space, cork bobbing up and down
on limitless, turbulent sea. He had
the sense OF being alien, aimless and
futile. No one seemed TO be aware os
MS existence, so when Mr.. Protbroe
paid some heed to him Jerry was raised
from a depth OF despair to sometime
Of his old-time lightheartedness
THE inner room was impressiyo .,
"Niis iVhh lNS hflbul ana the air ~ i
prosperous authority it wore. Protb- !
roe sat him down by table and /
beamed over at him. asking him oues-
lions OF Tampico. showing or pretend
ing an interest in him. taking nm his
poor bruised little atom of individual
ity, crushed and overwhelmed nv the
strange multitude. and getting II going
again. Jerry went in collapsed he
came out blown up, and he floated down
10 the street in a sort Of joyous maze
WIN prothroe's letter to the editor
rugged in his breast pocket"
On the Clarion Jerry's trial results in
laiiure' and through shame he is pre-
vented from returning to the news
paper ONCE. He is set adrift in The
s,eat city--a stupendous mystery 20
him, He seeks work at many places
ou. Is turned away. remembering with
owe this man who spoke to him k,ndIv
with such cheering effect Of regard
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Ing him as a fellow human" Finally
he finds place as printer on the New
Era, a queer. belsted fragment OF an
economic movement which had sweep
over the country like a storm-eloud two
years before. and at the further sloe
had vanished into wraek and limbo,
leaving the sky clear for other clouds.
Its editor was Wilson Dillingham;, a
socialist for business purposes. VINO
had had an eventful career in many
places.
The simple soul of Jerry was harden
ing. He began 20 see life differently.
He was bruised by the harshness ana
selfishness OF the city aud he Joined
IN the struggle for existence with the
same hard-heartedness Of his fellows
He labored on the New Era until he
found a way into employment On the
Evening Call Here ne succeeded slow
ly 10 a position of trust. The descrip-
ton of newspaper Office in the fourth
chapter is one OF the best bits In the
book.
When he found time to think OF him
self Jerry felt his isolation and was
overcome by sense OF his loneliness.
Georgia House was the only daugn-
ter OF Judge House of the United States
court, and IL was quite by accident that
Jerry met her For a long time their
meetings were clandestine. When
Judge House discovered the attachment
his pride was shocked and he forbade
his daughter TO see the humble reporter
Of the Evening Call. But the tie be-
tween Georgia and Jerry was not TO be
broken and failing 10 move the obdur-
ate father they eloped TO Wisconsin
and were married.
Georgia chung 10 her husband, max
ing every sacrifice 10 her love. and
Jerry worked assiduously 20 make
some recompense for all she had lost.
But between them was the breach
Of different antecedents and environ
ment Gradually they fell farther
apart, but through all Georgia was the
pure. noble and unselflsh wife. She
loved through all. but she could not
understand her husband. Sidney
Blame. her cousin and gilded. unin-
teresting butterfly, frequently took her
for drives. Against him Jerry had al
ways cherished resentment for an as
sumption of superiority and his contin-
ual attitude OF disregard
When Georgia is called 10 the sick
bed OF her father the estrangement
from her father has almost reached
a climax.
Jerry with heavy heart turns 10 Dill
bingham and the New Era and express
es his socialistic views with vigor. He
loses his position on the Call. and
the New Era, in which he haze great
hopes, dies. He is left respondent and
feels more than ever the need OF his
wife's comfort lie wanders past her
fathers house. hoping TO see her. Sew
eral times he walks up and down in
front of the house finally meeting with
Blame, who, he thinks, mocks him. All |
OF the old resentment rises in Jerry |
and he soundly thrashes his tormentor. !
This widens the breach for the time. |
but in the end sheer desperation drives |
Jerry 10 the arms of his forgiving |
wife.
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Governor in 1879, he succeeded 10 the
GoYernorship in 1881 by the death q,
Governor Wilt. In 1884 he was elected
10 succeed himself by large majority.
IN 1892 he was again nominated for the
uoVernorship, but was defeated by
murphy J. Foster. the candidate OF the
anti-jottery Democrats Mr.. McEnery
was appointed to the Supreme Bench
IN 1888. He has still four years tc
serve and will not resign the Judge.
ship until he takes his seat as senate,
IN March, 1897. Judge McEnery wa,
not candidate for the Senate. and en-.
tered the field only the night before he
was elected, when it became eyiden,
mat II required the strongest Democrat
IN the state TO beat Mr.. Denegre. ,bs
Independent candidate.
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Dana on LIncolo.


Charles A. Dana, in a lecture nm NJ
Lincoln, thus describes him: "He was
very tai! mani feet 4 inches r,,s
complexion wac dark, his eyes and hair
oiack' and though he was OF lean
spare habit. should suppose he mus,
nave weighed abolt $50 pounds He
was man OF fine caliber. and thus =
orain OF superior power was contained
~ small but rather elongated skpll
Horatio Seymour once spoke of him ..
man who wore a No. Z hat and = "a
IS DOo'' HIS movements were rather
angular but never awkward. and no
was never burdened with that freouen,
curse Of unfortunate genius. the drssa
Iul oppression OF petty self-conscious-
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SENATOR M'ENERY.
lately Chosen Ia Represent Louisiana in
the Upper House.

lANsiN Nhestu 10 hNtptththA
the Upper House.
Ex-Governor Samuel Douglas McEn-
cry, who was elected Senator from
Louisiana at the recent meeting Of the
legislature of that state, is the best
known man in that state, and by long
odds the most prominent in political
life. Mr.. McEnery is just fifty-nine
years OF age, his election TO the Senate
having occurred, by a happy coinci-
dence. on his birthday. The family is
OF Irish extraction. Senator McEnery
was born AT Monroe; was educated at
the Annapolis Naval Academy, at the
University of Virginia, Spring Hill
College (Alabama). and the New York
State Law School at Poughkeepsie,
New York. he served as a lieutenant
IN the Confederate army The election
of his brother, John McEnery, as Gov
ernor, in 1872, threw him into
politics. Nominated as Lieutenant
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-25
THE LATE AUSTIN CoRRrN.
Despite His Great Wealth He Was VERY
Popular Man.

Austin Corbin. whose death leaves
Long Island without king. reached
the summit OF his ambition as a man
of business when, short time ago. he
became master Of the island. Mr. Cor
bin was ever a shrewd financier. bold
in venture, modest in success. and I'M
dismayed by failure when he met il.
He was a native of Newport and was
closing his 10th year He lived in the
enjoyment of exuberant. buoyant
health up to the very moment when.
overturned by pair OF frisky horses.
he met his death. His rudy skin, elastic
step. and sparkling eye told of the bow
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THE NEW SHAH OF PERSIA
his ideas are large. and his mind in
quisitiye. In his youth he had for tutor
Mira Nizam, one of the most brilliant
pupils OF the famous "Ecole Polytech-
nique" Of Paris, and also OF the mining
school. The pupil and the tutor under
stood each other so well that the Mus.
sulman clergy took umDrage at II. and
the professor was sacrificed TO their re-
ligious prejudices. He affected 10 be
very friendly and submissive toward
the Mussulman clergy and also 10 be
satisfied with the life Of an exile, which
according TO Persian usages. the heir
presumptive has TO lead as governor Of
province distant from the canital
Teheran, where his cOurtiers might no
inclined 10 foster some OF those palace
revolutions so frequent in the Orient
He married his first cousin. a dauyb.
ter OF Firouz Mira, a woman of bigb
intellect. Unfortunately her children
died, and the three sons he has being
from women OF low rank. cannot he
MS legitimate heirs. The new shah
unlike his elder brother, Zeleh Sultan
mas always shown himself a partisan
OF Russia, rather than OF England II
is expected that he will keep the
balance even between these two pow
ers, each OF which has been always
endeavoring TO establish its exclusive
influence In the Persian empire now
ruled by the shah Mozaffer-ed- Din
writes Felix Aucaigne in Harper's
Weekly.
The late Shah fell a victim 10 the
feelings OF vengeance entertained by
the followers Of the Babism sect. which
started, some forty years ago, a revolu-
,lonary movement Of a social and re-
hsious character. The Babists were
crushed by the troops OF Nassr-ed Din.
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past history seems 10 be a guarantee
that his administration Of the EN-
pire Of the sun" will be prosperous
and beneficent TO the country. lie was
born in 1854, has been married for
many years and has several children.
His manners are very quiet and simple;
he dresses like his officers lie is a
good Mussulman, but not a fanatic:
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ISM spirit within. Mr.. Corbin began his
New York life as a banker in 1861. Ne
hrst tried his hand at railroad matters
about twenty years ago, when he buiIt
little road from Bay Ridge TO Manbat.
tan Beach. Acquiring control of the
Long Island Railroad in 1881 he made
1t pay. he turned the island into a
park dotted with pretty homes soon
villages and incorporated towns tool
tne place of waste land. and Mr. Cor.
DIN, rich by that time. now addaa
largely TO his wealth He believed =,
the theory that there are more tn
bit pieces than IS bills and he n,Ied
up the small coin, laughing as he ala
50, hs interests were large, including
shares in ocean lines, city realty ans
many large financial concerns IT, ~
product of New York. peculiar -
that city, and, despite his wealth W.
a popular man.
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CHAPTER Xxx.

MOGENE TREN
HOLMES condi-
tion did not i'm
prove. On the con-
trary. her violent
fits grew more fire.
Quent as ii III q
passed. Ralph had
the best medical
advice that could
be procured, hut
without giving her
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-25

it? Shall dare I-put upon that ac-
tion the sweetest Interpretation ] can
think of"
What would that be-" she asked
timidly
1T would be that you did il because
you loved me"
II did love you. o Lynde, | suffered
80 much because Of IL! And l never
dared TO think YOU would care for me "
MY darling / trust in God the suf-
fering is Ger past The joy is begun.
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The story Is told Of Oliver Wendell
Holmes that when one OF his friends
announced his intention OF delivering
lecture In Worcester Holmes cheer.
fully responded: I'm awfully glad to
hear IT, always did hate those wor-
cester people"
The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-25

1HE present discon-
tent In Persia will
be greatly atten-
uated by the horror
which the murder
of Nassr-ed-Din
cannot fail 20 in
cite in the minds OF
the Persians: and IL
is already reported
that the accession
TO the throne OF the