davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
WHAT WILL THE BANKS Dop

T. K. wilkins sends the State Jour
nal the following question which he
says he would like some banker to an
swer: There is a bank in this city
which has $1,OOOOO0 in deposits. It has
$4,000 in gold in it's vaults 1t has
$7OO,OO loaned out.
IF we establish the free coinage of
silver, and all moneys except gold de-
preciate to the extent of so cents on the
dollar, how is this bank, or any other
bank, going to make up the deficiency?
Is it going to take its own money and
pay it's depositors $3.50, 600, which would
be the amount required to make it's de-
positors whole?
ION the other hand, suppose that we
establish the gold standard, and it will
cost a premium of 100 per cent to buy
gold, would the officers of the bank pay
the premium for gold to pay their de-
positors?"
Whatever the standard is or may be-
come. the banks will collect their loans,
when not otherwise specified in the
contract, lin the kind of dollars current
in the country and will pay out the
same to their deposftors.
It can make no possible difference to
anybody what the commodity value of
a piece of money is so long as he can
exchange it for what he wants at the
same valuation as that at which it was
received The man who receives a
Mexican dollar at so cents sustains no
loss because he can exchange it at that
valuation. The man who receives an
American silver dollar at its face the
bullion value Of which is now less than
50 cents sustains no loss because he can
exchange it for 100 cents worth of com
modities. The man who receives the
governments greenback promise to pay
a dollar just as though it were an act
ual dollar can lose nothing because it
answers every purpose in his business
of a real dollar.
No sudden disaster can come to the
general public as the result Of the cleo
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
ALL FOR ONE BOTTLE.
How Beer Can Get Man into Worse
Trouble Than Whisky.

Ex-POliceman G. W. Hobson who was
discharged from the police force be-
cause he stols one bottle of beer from
Frank Durein's cellar, has disappeared.
He has been living on a farm near
HOyt in Jackson county.
Ex-Chief of Police John NJ. Wilkerson
was bail for Hobson at a Topeka bank
and when the note came due a few days
ago he started to make an investiga-
ton.
He went to Hoyt yesterday where he
found that Hobson had deserted his
farm and family and had fed the coun-
try Mr. Wilkerson held a mortgage on
the crop, but ne found everything on
the place covered with attachments.
He will sue to foreclose the mortgage at
once.
The old story of what an immense
amount of grief can come from the
want of one horseshoe nail' is here ex-
emplihed- HObsOn stole but one bottle
of beer, but as he was a policeman he
was made an example. 1t really looks
as if this were nearly a case of perse-
cutfOn- The punishment and results
are too enormous considering the tri-
Vitality crime
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

The Topeka Journal, the Free Silver
Populist mOuthpiece, said that there
were only so delegates present at the
national Democratic state convention
at Topeka Tuesday, when by actul
count there were nearly 200 delegates
present. The Journal is so prejudiced
and wrapped up in free silver that it
cannot print the news unless it hap
pens to be favorable to the popocrats.
Valley Falls New Era.
This assertion has been repeated
several times and is untrue. The Jour
nal said there were 80 delegates pres
ent at the conference held in the morn
ing; this appeared in its first edition;
later in the day more delegates ar
rived and when the convention opened
there was a much larger number pres
ent. This was stated in the Journals
article. The Journal objects to criti-
cism by persons who do not read an
article through before criticising what
is in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
WATSON GOING WEST.
Starts to Texas on a Speaking Tour
Friday Night.

Atlanta, Sept. 3.-Tonn Watson goes
west this week. Friday he speaks at
aCrtre oft c oils onh NH mhrnh n1hnnh
Gainesville and leaves Immediately
for Dallas, Tex, where he speaks on the
night of September Z. This speech viii
be delivered at a Labor Day celebra-
ton.
Where Watson will go after that is
not definitely settled. He wants to
make q starring tour through the
west, speaking in all the states. Denver
has invited him and the McDuffie coun-
ty man wants to go, but Marion But
Ter who is his manager, has a bride on
him and is trying to hold him in check.
He is afraid Watson will talk too much
and he is doing his best to stop him.
Watson is chafng bitterly under the
restraint of Butler. 1t is no longer a
secret that Watson and hos manager
are not friendly. Their ideas are far
from coinciding and more than once
Watson has openly rebe1led.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03


ing will be 675 feet from the ground,
far above any other building in the
country. At an elevation of 1000 feet
! will be the fourth landing. This will
be platform rs feet square, but it will
be as high as the very tiptop of the Elf
fel tower, yet above it, $50 feet higher,
will tower the apex of the structure.
There are to be many novelties in the
application of electricity connected with
the Chicago city tower. The "a eIeva-
tors in the structure will all be run by
electricity. and the unfurling of the flags
is to be done by an electrical contriv-
ance. By simply pressing a button 10
large sized flags will be simultaneously
unfurled to the breeze, and by touching
another button they will be as quickly
furled.
The various landings are to be given
up largely to amUsements, but not Who'll
~. On the largest there will be a good
sized continuous theater and big as
sembly hall where people may dance or
attend meetings of various kinds III
midair. On another there is to be BIZ
cycle rink. 1t has been proposed to de-
vote the very topmost floor to the uses of
a United States meteorological bureau.
The plan has been discussed by the au-
thorities at Washington and has been
favorably received. A signal station
above the clouds and yet in the midst of
the city would be a decided novelty.
Powerful telescopes and searchlights
are to be part of the equipment of the
upper part of the tower. On each land
ing there is to be a restaurant, and the
odd corners of the tower will be utilized
as barber shops, Photographic parlors,
bathrooms, telegraph and telephone sta
tons, cigar stands, etc. Tt is estimated
that in the entire structure there will
be accommodations for 40, 900 people
at one time, which means that it will
be the most capaeious as well as the
ta]Iest structure on earth.
The plan of construction is very SINH
lar to that Of the Eiffel tower, but it
differs in some respects. The framework
viii be practically the same as is used
in every modern steel building, the out
side covering Of stone or brick being
dispensed with. OF course it will be
braced and strengthened in every posi-
bic way, so that 1t will not be liable to
be blown over by a cyclone or collapsed
by an earthquake. Engineers say, how
ever, that there is less danger in such a
building, when properly constructed,
from wind or earthquake than in many
others Of far less height. While the Elf
feI tower cost 81, 200, 600 to build, it is
estimated that the Chicago tower can be
put up for about $500, 600, which is less
than the cost of many big Office build
ings
It is said that work is to be begun on
this cloud piercing structure very soon
and that by next summer Chicagoans
may show to their visiting friends sky
parlor worthy of the name
s. P. SCIENCE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Did it ever occur to you that the
speeches of the leaders in the otI- r
party are always referred to as win
dy platitudes" by your own party pa
per while the speeches of the leaders
in your party are referred to as win
dy pIatitudes'' by the opposition paper,
Perhaps they are both right Windy
platitudes are just as awn-provoking
and just as frequent from Doster's
mouth as they are from General Cald-
wells, but mind you, don't be so par
tisan as to think the kind of CUFF you
happen to like is anything else but
windy Dlatitudes" to the man who
doesn't think your way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
TOPEKA EQUAL TO 1T.
Most Agreeable and Munificent Enter
tairer in Kansas.

Says the lola Farmers Friend:
Topeka announces that her Fall F'es-
Invites for the Grand Army Of the Re
public to be held during the week Sep
TENDER % to October 8, is not merely a
reunion of all Kansas.
It will be a week full of pageantry,
floats, tournaments, carnival pranks,
military, civic and flower parades, il
Illuminated professions and camp fires
presided over by famous American
statesmen.
The Topeka newspapers are filing
their columns daily about the prepare
tons that are being made and the
whole town seems to be stirred with a
Give pride. The capital city wants to
prove to her fellow citizens that she is
the most agreeable and munificent en-
tertainer in Kansas, and it looks as if
she was going to be fully equal to the
occasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
BEATS ANY FISH STORY.
A Kansas Farmer CLAIMS to Have
Raised Coffee.

Uncle John Connell has demonstrated
that a new departure in farming in
Kansas is and can be successfully
maintained.
Last year he planted several grains
of coffee. In due time as many hills of
this popular article of beverage grew
and matured. When harvest time
came it was found that all but one hill
had been destroyed. This year he plant
ed the seed from this one hill and he
now has at least one bushel of nice COT
fee berries
The stalk is about two feet in height,
the pods are long and well filed and
shows that Kansas can raise anything
ion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
TITS NOT HIS DAUGHTER.
A Somewhat Curious Story UnraveIed
and Exploded.

A Kansas man who spent his vaca-
ton at Excelsior Springs had his at
tentfOn called to an invalid lady who
was being treated for consumption by
Dr. Fraker who is famous as having at
tempted to defraud insurance scompa-
MES of large sums of money. He was
told that the lady was a daughter of
ex-Chief of Police Wilkerson of Tope-
ka the man who hunted down and cap
tured F'Faker-
Mr.. Wilkerson says that the lady in
question is Mrs. Robert StrattOn and
is the wife of his step son. She is suf-
fering with consumption and heard that
DR.. F'raker had cured several cases,
WiIkerson says that he had nothing to
do with placing his step daughter-in-
law under the care of Fraker-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
CORN TEN GENTS A BUsHEL

Smith County Pioneer: A farmer
from the south part of the county was
in town Tuesday with a load of good
old corn. He put in several hours try
ing to sell it for enough TO make fair
wages for his days work, and finally
let it go for 10 cents per bushel. He
had 81 bushels, making him 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Jewell Republican: If John sher-
man comes to Kansas he ought to
make a speech in this Fifteenth dis
trict, the hotbed of Populism, une-
qualed in the United States. 1t would
be a mutual treat for the Pops to see
Sherman's horns. hoofs and forked
tongue, and for Sherman to see the
Pops going around with torch in one
hand and dynamite bomb in the other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
BRYAN'S WISH.
The Nominee Desires to Visit Penn
syIvania CoaIheIds.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept 9.-John NJ.
Garman, chairman of the state Demo
cratic committee, has had a conference
with Mr.. Bryan and the latter stated
that he wanted to visit the coal reg
ions.
a map of the railroads of the Wyoming
and Lackawanna regions so that a
route could be traced by which he
could take in Scranton, VVilkesbarre
and PottsviIle on his way to Buffalo
and Philadelphia next month
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
They ara Anin Il

There is a law firm at Fort Scott
known as Biddle, Boyle and Shepherd.
W. r. Biddle. the senior member is
the Populist nominee for the 1egisla-
ture. L. C. Boyle is the second member
attorney general. J. s. Shepherd the
youngest member of the firm is the
nominee for county attorney of Bour-
bon county. They each have the Dem
ocratic endorsement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Ii Hung Chang in response to ques-
lions said he had no unfavorable COM
ment to make on either England or
the United States. Ii appears to have
a great deal more pohteness and di-
plomacy than some distinguished per-
sons from what are called civilized ma
tons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

The Republican candidate for COVER
nor of New York is the congressman
who last winter ranked a bundle of
washing to his home in Troy. We trust
the gold standard organs will not ac-
cuse him of trying to get something
for nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

The Iowa home for feeble minded
children was burned last week; the
Kentucky institute for feeble minded
burned yesterday; and those who con-
tend that the tariff is the issue are
given me icy glare by party managers.
Truly this is a bad year for the feeble
minded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Rudyard KipIfng is going to leave
this country indefinitely. presumably
so he can say mean things about us
with greater personal safety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

The Indianapolis convention has ex-
cellent opportunity to know what the
gold standard Democratic vote Of kan
sas viii bit is all there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

If John Sherman and Senator Stew
art insist on hurting million word bill
lets at each other during the campaign
they should be humane enough to HE
them to a lodge in some vast wilder
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

The announced intention of Marc
Hanna to invade Utah and Wyoming
shows a disposition to cross the tro-
cha
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

T9tals-...........2s2.ss 5 2s4. $50 2s2. s75
Sunday; no issue
Inc total number OF copies printed in
the SIX months named above, l. 657. $40
shows the average to be 10. 625 This e
q correct report of the issues Of 49,
TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOIJRNAT
Tor the six months as stated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Vermont has about as much business
in the doubtful column as Alabama
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Mr.. Mckinley believes in having a
campaign with all the comforts of
home"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Perhaps Mr.. Henry Stanley can be
secured to seek the Democratic party
in Vermont
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
.abor DaY souvenir.

Besides containing the programme |
for Labor Day, will also have the |
programme of the Fail Fegtival for |
the entire week
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
Begg's Little Giant PilIs.

Try them if you have a sick head
ache or if you are constipated or bill
hous. Guaranteed by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
A Look Through South Missouri 1or
Four Cents.

The Kansas City. Fort Scott & Mem.
mis- Railroad Co. has Just ISSUED a
nagnificent book Of sixty or more
Dhoto-engraved views of varied scene-
~ in south Missouri. From these
Views an accurate knowledge can ~
obtained as to the productions and gem
eral topography Of that highly favored
section that is now attracting the at
tention of home-seekers and investors
the country over. The title of the
book is Snap Shots in South Mis-
souri," It will be mailed free upon re-
ceipt of postage four cents. Address
J. z. LOCKWOOD
Kansas CITY No
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03
IO,625.

The circulation for each day of the
first half year is given below.
The issues Of the TOPEKA DAILY
STATE JOURNAL for the six months
viz, from the first day of January, 1896
to the thirtieth day of June, 1896, in
elusive. have been as follows:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-03

Mineral Water.
The finest in the west. Come and try it
J. W. PHILLIPS. s12 W. Eighth Ave
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01

Scribner's Magazine of May opens
with the most intimate account OF
Robert Louis Stevenson in his home
life that has ever been published
This is the first of two papers by Mrs.
IsaL Ell Strong (his step-daughter and
amanuensis) which are to be publish
ed under the title of "Veilima Table
Talk" From time to time while
acting as Stevenson's secretary Mrs.
Strong put down bits of conversation,
characteristic epigram, jest, or seri-
GUS talk just as they occurred. These
papers are therefore the authentic re-
cord of Stevenson's everyday life by
one who had his confidence. The
papers are illustrated from photo
graphs in the family albums which
give an equally veracious portraiture
of the family life and travels. Many
of the anecdotes will pass into Stew
g lson history, and an additional
charm is given to the first paper by
two poems of more than 100 lines
which never before have been pub
lished.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01

About 40 bond money advocates
met in Louisville Wednesday and a
meeting was held, over which Mr. r..
T. Tyler presided. A large proper
ton of those present bolted the Dem
ocratic ticket last year and at least
three of the ten members of the adj
dress committee have public record
as boilers of party nominees. The
following were named as committee
to prepare an address: Henry Bur-
nett, Cromwell Adair, w. A. Wiekliffe,
S. B. Buckner, Jas. p, Helm, r. FL.
Elliston, Jas. A. Fiolett, Yoder Poig-
nard, Jno F Hager and John P.
Salyer
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01
conventions:
GoLD STANDARD.

1t is reported with seeming truth
that Gomez, the Cuban general who
has been reported SO sick, has really
sold out to the Spanish and deserted
from the patriot army. Discussing
the matter, Washington correspon
dent says: While the Cubans here
are not willing to confirm or deny
the story of Gomez treachery, they adj
nit that it is "not improbable" and
some of the Cuban residents OF
Washington hope that it is true, de-
claring it is the best thing that could
possibly happen for the benefit OF
the revolutionary cause. IT Maceo
also would clear out and take with
him Roloff, the secretary of war OF
the provisional government, and half
a dozen or more other aliens OF des-
perate characters it would
be grand thing for Cuban liberty
and would undoubtedly bring to the
support of the cause a thousand
good men for every rascal that de-
serted" Gomez is a full blooded
negro and Maceo is mulatto, facts
that have greatly hampered the
Cuban cause.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01

Michigan is an accession to the free
silver ranks which, though hoped for,
was hardly expected. 1t demonstrates
that the leaven is working everywhere,
and throws grotesque light upon
the oft-repeated assertions about the
waning of the "silver craze" Wis
consin and Minnesota are the only
Northwestern States that are likely
to be in line with the John Sherman
faction of the Democratic party at
Chicago.-Post Dispatch.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01
AT TWENTY SEVEN.
How George Washington Looked in
His Early Manhood.

At the time of his marriage
(when in his 9th Year, Washington
was in the prime of his magnificent
physical manhood, writes Gen. A.
W. Greedy, U. S. A, in Ladies'
Home Journal. Fortunately, con-
temporaneous sources do not leave
the description of his person to our
imagination. Such was already his
exalted standing that these pen
portraits omit entirely, or modify,
what might be thought to be defects,
as, for instance, the disfguring facial
marks, from smallpox. Straight as
an Indian, with limbs cast almost in
a giant mold Che was six feet three
inches tall at the time of his DEATH,
his self-cOntained untenance, agree
able speech and dignifed bearing
made his personality most impress
sive. Probably half of his time at
home was spent in the saddle, and
this active out-of-door life gave him
a glow of health and sense of vigor.
We learn from his intimate friend,
George Mercer, interesting details.
His skin was clear and colorless; the
nose straight; the face long, with
high, round cheekbones; the blue
gray and widely separated eyes
Swallowed by heavy brows; large,
mobile mouth, showing teeth some
what defective; the muscular arms
and legs unusually long, and we'll
shaped head, gracefully poised on a
superb neck. The brown hair was
worn in queue, and the small waist
well set off by neatly fitting garb.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01

The largest tree in the state of
California, or on the American con-
tinent, perhaps, is "Old Sequoia, ("
the Titan of all the redwood giants,
which stands at an altitude of $500
feet above sea level at a distance of
II miles from the Yosemite valley.
At present "Old Sequoia" is but a
blackened stump, but as it stands it
is without doubt the oldest repre-
sentative of the vegetable kingdom
in the world. At one time, before
fire and wind partially destroyed the
grove of "big trees" of which it was
the chief, cold Sequoia" was more
than 100 yards high and upwards of
so feet in diameter. At present the
stump" is 1876 feet high and about
Al feet in diameter near its charred
and blackened roots. Quite a
stump" after all.-St. Louis Re-
public.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1896-05-01
WoMEN AS WAITERS.
IN Cap and Apron They Now Attend
the Fashionable Table,

And now even the time-honored
Waterman must tremble in his
shoes, for the waiterwoman is at
hand, says the Philadelphia Record.
Already progressive caterers are
sending announcements that they
will supply neat, capable mattresses
for all social functions and women's
teas, feminine luncheons and strictly
female card parties revel in the com
forting consciousness that "there
isn't man around anywhere. The
newcomers are clad In black alpaca
gowns, covered with dainty white
aprons. and on their heads they wear
the conventional cap, Their hands
have so far been innocent of gloves,
for which long-suffering society may
breathe sigh of relief; did anyone,
by the way, ever come across man
waiter whose gloves fitted him? If
so let the day be marked with white
stone.
The mattresses, of course, are
more or less comely; they are ex-
ceeding def and nimble, and it is
whispered that even the woman with
the newest of gowns can dine in
serene placidity without even an I'M
canny dream of possible upsets.
Most of the new mattresses are
colored, but a word to the wise is
sufficient, and the first hints of the
innovation set wideawake people to
recalling the good old times when
pretty waiter girls made life a mer-
ry thing to chance travellers at Eng
lish inns. Visions of She Stops to
Conquer fit seductively through the
mind, and in the presence of the pos
sible revival of 50 good custom the
Waterman (alasD in his ill-fitting
somberness and his awful pompos-
ity makes us wonder why we never
thought of waiter girls before. 1t is
an experiment as yet, but it has its
attractions. 1t remains to be seen
whether it shall be a success. One
thing, however, may comfort the
supplanted hero of the dining table.
1t is scarcely probable that one
woman in thousand can ever learn
to balance on an outspread palm a
tray containing enough dishes to
supply small store.