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The Washington bee., 1896-03-07

hall and member of 8oI IS SICK; also
Brother Gains, of Simon Lodge 1902
at 900 M street, NV, and Sir Knight
Hamilton Sheppard, of Charles Sum-
ner I odge. No. 4, and Calamity Court,
c. of c. and Sumner Division, NO; 2
U. R. lat St. PauPs Court; Rue6en
Barker at II26 23rd street, OF MT. Olive.
No. {, and Brother Charles II. Mar
shall, Grand Sire, of Good Samarltans'
at 3o6 3rd street, S. W., lmucn I'M
proved) ditto ]. 0. Holmes, Sherlf Sui
tani, Kalif Alec.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
Sir Knight Captain w. H. Thomas.
of Division 1 has been recommlssloned
Deputy Supreme Chancellor for the
State of Maryland by the Supreme
Chancellor.
Sir Knight G.. r. Browne, of Mt. Cal
vary Lodge, No. 1. has been commis-
stoned as Deputy Grand Chancellor
for the District of Columbia.
T.W. West, G. c., the valiant Knight
of Pythionism has been reelected the
Third Term as Grand Chancellor Tor
this jurisdiction.
K. P. ELECTION.
GRAND LODGE.
PIG. c., w. H. Johnson: G. c.
Thomas w. West G.. V. c., w. H.
Stevens G. P. Thomas w. Hender-
son; G, K. R. S., Robert Rhone; q.
M. of Ex Daniel freeman; G. M. d.
Dr., c. H. Marshall; G. M. of A.. Ar
chic Robinson; G.. |. G., Bro. Knight
Boston, of No. g; G. o. G., Joseph
Young G.. Lecturer, w. H. Thomas
G. NJ, A. Bailey.
Sir George w. Boggan, of Mt. Cal
varv, Lodge No. I is confined to his
bed sick at his home, 1886 F ST., S. W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
RAILROADS AND SILVER.

Henry c. Payne of Wisconsin, who is
one Of Mr. Hanna's aides and is said
to be slated for postmaster general. ex-
presses himself regarding the silver
movement as follows:
7 consider the silver movement to
be nothing less than a revolution. The
country has experienced nothing like
it since the war and at the opening of
the war the agitation. general interest
and deep feeling We're not more gen
eraL Take, for example, the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad COM
pRny. Its bonds, principal and inter-
est, are payable in gold. BY no posi-
biIity could the company increase its
rates of fare, for they are regulated by
law. If the company has to accept sill
yer money from its patrons and pay its
obliga tions in gold it will have to have
twice as much money to pay its debts
The only way out of the dilemma for
the company would be to reduce wages
and if that were not done bankruptcy
would ensue."
The road could not increase its
charges but it could easily double it's
business and it's earnings and doubtless
would do so under a system of Ameri-
can finance which would revive the
paralyzed industries of the country.
The effort to brighten the people with
this scarecrow of reduced wages is a
waste of time The masses understand
this question quite as we'll as Mr.. Payne
does and they know there is never any
decrease in wages when there is an
increasing demand for labor and it's
products such as always follow an ex-
pansion of the currency.
Mr.. Payne is evidently lacking in in
formation or else is more interested in
the success of his party than he is in
the welfare of the Milwaukee railroad.
Nointerests would be more benefited by
the free coinage of silver than the rail-
roads of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

MR. AND MRS. RICHARD T. WILSON.
were in moderate circumstances he left
home as soon as he was old enough and
started to make his own way in the
world. The grocery store offered him
his first opening. He did not remain
clerk long, but by a combination of
fortunate circumstances and shrewd
business activity he became the proprie-
tor. Right then and there he began to
experience what others have since called
''Wilson luck . Perhaps it was luck,
and perhaps it WASH t.
AS southern grocer he was rem ark-
ably successful. He gave the planters
unlimited credit at good round rates of
interest and accepted the greater share
of their crops each year as payment. It
was about this period that he met Miss
johnson. She was one of the most beau
tiful young women of Macon, and Mr..
Wilson, who was an exceptionally hand
some man, wooed and won her without
difficulty.
Most of the southern merchants lost
their fortunes when the war broke out.
Not SO Grocer Wilson. His shrewd bust
ness qualities had attracted such wide
spread attention that he was appointed
the European agent of the Confederate
cotton for that government He did
this to the entire satisfaction of the
south and managed to come out with
not only a considerable fortune, but
with large amount of business prestige
When he came back to this country, he
settled in New York and began to make
use of the connections which he had es-
tablished with foreign business houses.
a Was soon in fO7,t TOl of larcyo
of English capital and started in to de-
velop the southern railroads. He dealt
extensively in cotton and started bank
ing firm of which he is still at the head.
1t was not long before Mr. Richard
Wilson found himself a millionaire.
Then he and his wife discovered that
they had high social aspirations With
remarkable tact Mrs. Wilson succeeded
in being welcomed into the most exclu-
sive Fifth avenue circles, and she has
kept her position. When her beautiful
daughters grew up, they had as intimate
friends the sons and daughters of the
most pIutocratic of the New York mil
honaires.
The eldest Wilson daughter, May,
was married 20 years ago to Ogden
GOelet, who is now worth $40, 900, 600
and who inherits big sum every little
while. Twelve years ago the eldest son,
Orme Wilson. married Carrie Astor,
daughter of Mrs William Astor, and
today the Orme Wilson's are ranked
among the wealthiest families in the
metropolis A few years later Belle
Wilson became the wife of the Hon.
Michael Henry Herbert. who was at the
time the secretary of tho British lega-
ton and counted the richest catch in
Washington. She viii be Lady Herbert
in few years, as her husband will soon
come into his title.
About four years ago it was an
nounced that Miss Grace Wilson was to
marry the Hon. Cecil Barring, but when
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
TO CLOSE IOWA SALOONS.
Law and Order League of Sioux City
Begins the Fight

Sioux City, Ia, July 22.-The law
and order movement, for the promotion
of which the citizens league of this
place was organized during the pro-
gress of the Williams revival series
here, a short time ago, will be com
Inenced in earnest within the next fort
night.
a start will be made on the local sa-
loon keepers. Under the Martin mulct
law it will be impossible for the league
actually to close the esta blishaentS,
but by compelling a strict Observance
of all its provisions the members are of
the opinion they can make it so IN
pleasant for the dealers that many will
be driven out of the business. Theleague
points out that scarcely a saloon in the
city complies with the provisions pro-
hibiting them from running on Sunday
or after 10 p. m, from conducting
games of chance over the bar, from
keeping tables and chairs in their
places, from having rear entrances or
placing screens in front of their doors
and windows.
Most of these restrictions have been
disregarded ever since the law went
into effect, and, except in the cases Of
a few disorderly establishments which
the police desired to close, no attempt
has been made by the authorities to
enforce them.
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BLAINE rs GOOD ENOUGH RE
PUBLICAN FOR US.

That greatest of Republican states
men, James q. Blaine, spoke in the
United States senate as follows.
81 believe the struggle now going
on in this country and in other cOun-
tries for a single gold standard would,
If successful, produce widespread dis
aster in and throughout the CONNER
ciaI world. The destruction of silver
as money, and establishing gold as
the sole unit of value, must have a
ruInous effect on ali forms of property
except those investments which yield
a fixed return in money. Those would
be enormously enhanced in value, and
would gain disprOpOrtionate and un~
fair advantage over every other spe-
cies of property. If. as the most re-
liable statistics affirm, there are
nearly $1,000, 900, 600 of coin or bull
lion in the world, very equally diVid-
ed between gold and silver, it is inn
possible to strike silver out of exist
ence as money without results that
will prove distressing to millions and
utterly disastrous to tens of thou
sands.
81 believe gold and silver coin to be
the money of the constitution, in
deed, the money of the American peo-
pie anterior to the constitution, which
the great organic law recognized as
quite dependent of its own existence.
No power was conferred on congress
to declare either metal should not be
money. Congress has, therefore, in
my judgment, NO power to demOuet-
ize either. If, therefore, silver has
been demonetized, l am in favor of
mOnetizing it, Ii its coinage has
been prohibited, am in favor of or
dering it to be resumed. am in favor
of having it enlarged
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
SLAP AT THE COURTS.

The New York Journal also sees the
ridiculous phase of our judicial decis-
ions, although in the case cited it
turns out that there was more smoke
than fire The Journal says: THE IN
animous decision of the Kansas court
of appeals, invalidating all the divorces
granted in that state within the past 25
years, has carried CONSERVATION into
thousands of homes. Tt is estimated
that from $4,000 to $4,000 divorces have
been annulled by this ruling. The cou-
pies that supposed themselves parted
are still legally united. Those who have
remarked are living in Illicit relations
and their children are not legitimate.
Property rights have been thrown into
confusion, the guardianship of children
has been complicated and the entire
social order upset. This affair might
furnish an excellent text for a dis
course upon the legal traditions that
make it incumbent upon courts in this
country to cause the maximum of in
convenience, suffering and disturbance
of vested rights by their method of at
lacking laws. In England the courts
cannot declare an act of parliament
null and void, and therefore the prin-
ciples of case law are naturally laid
down in controversies between man
and man. In this country we have
adopted the new principle of setting
the courts above the legislatures. but
we still hold to the old English theory
that a judge cannot concern himself
with moot cases, but must wait until
some personal issue is to be settled be-
fore he can make a ruling Hence we
do not allow an unconstitutional law
to be annulled before any harm has
been done; we wait until it is rooted in
the hobits of the people, until vast
mass of prescriptive rights has grown
up under it, and until the greatest pos
sible amount of distress will be caused
by interfering with it, and then we al
low it to be upset in some ten dollar
suit of Jones against Smith,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
AMPUTATED BY A cow.
Andrew Haag Will Lose His Thumb
Through an Accident.

Never twist a rope about your hand
when leading a fractions COW. An old
gentleman tried it yesterday, and as a
result will lose his thumb
Andrew Haag lives at the foot of
Van Buren, street and owns a COW
which is not of a lamblike disposition.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Haag had Oc-
casion to change the location Of the
COW, and to make sure that she would
not break away while being led, twist
ed the lariat rope about his right hand
Notwithstanding this precaution the
COW broke away, and in doing so came
near taking Haags thumb with her
One of the twists of the rope caught
about that member in such a manner
as to wrench it lose from the hand
The flesh and muscles were horribly
torn and the bone dislocated It will
probably be amputated today.
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the great banking house of that name
went down in the financial crash the
engagement was promptly broken off,
and the next that was heard Of Miss
Grace was that she was to marry young
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The only remaining child of the Will
sons is young Richard, Jr., and it is ru-
mored that he Is engaged to the daugh-
ter of Commodore Gerry, another New
Yorker who has many millions. When
this marriage occurs, there will be no
more matchmaking for Mr.. and Mrs.
Wilson to do unless they turn their at
tention to their grandchildren
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

Abilene Chronicle Rep): There ap-
pears to be nothing unreasonable in the
talk of the Populists and free silver men
nominating Ed Little for congressman
at-large against Dick Blue. Mr. Little
is certainly qualified as well, if not bet
Ter than Blue, and the POpulists, who
certainly owe much to the silver Re
publicans and who expect much from
them in the coming campaign, would
display a good deal of political wisdom
in naming as Blues opponent a young
man who has been prominent in the
Republican party and whose very in
dependence in cutting loose from the
party when he could not endorse its
platform bespeaks his honesty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
GEO. H. EVANS REPARTEE.
What He Said About VIM. J. Bryan's
Brains.

George H. Evans who has for many
years been a prominent figure in local
politics as a Republican, is now talk
ing for Bryan on the streets. He was
talking to several gold standard Re
publicans when he happened to men
ton Bryan's name favOrably.
''Pshaw," said one of the men with a
disguised air. Bryan has no brains -
Evans looked up surprised, and then
replied with his characteristic drawl:
We'll, if I had a quarter as much
brains as Bryan has, would be will
ing to let this crowd have One-sixteenth
of what I had and then some of you
would be able to go into business
The men looked disguised and dis
persed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
A Look Through South Missouri for
Four Cents.

The Kansas City. Fort Scott &. Mem.
pIis Railroad Co. has just issued a
magnificent book of sixty or more
photo-engraved views of varied scene
ry in south Missouri From these
views an accurate knowledge can be
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 viii be mailed free upon re-
ceipt of postage, four cents. Address,
J. e LOCKWOOD,
Kansas CITY. Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
CANDLES AWAY $4,000.
Big Gotham Merchants Loss at Rou-
lette.

New York, July 22.-In sporting cir
cles about New York they are discuss
ing a SO, 200 losing at Long Branch last
Saturday night. 1t was at roulette
that the losing was made. and the man
who dropped the bundle" is at the
head of one of the largest cloak houses
in this city.
Many of the plungers go to Fitzger-
AIDS New York club, but even there
the gains or losses of a night by any
player have kept within four figures,
until this gentleman made an effort
to get ahead of the wheel. He had not
the reputation of being a particularly
heavy plunger in the past. in fact, he
had to get friends in the house 10 guar
money he had in his pocket, and the
further in his efforts to recoup. His
wife called at the club house in a car
riage and sent a man inside to ask her
husband to join her, but he was then
so heavily indebted to the bank that he
was determined to remain till luck
came his way.
His wife remained outside some time,
but as repeated messages failed to
bring her husband, she finally Left He
got deeper and deeper into debt
until his losses aggregated $1,000.
Appleton, Minn.-Dr. A. P. Sawyer:
Dear SRI have used your Family
Cure and can safely say I have never
used anything better for kidney trOu-
BILE. Mrs. J. II. Craig. Frank SIM
Pharmacist. 607 Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

In reference to the Chicago conven-
ton Henry Clews says: If the senti-
ment of sectional and class discomfort
is as unanimous among the millions of
western and southern voters as it was
among the delegates from those states.
it is inconceivably strange that the
fact should have been so little known,
and should have been so little express
ed through the representative press. -
Not strange at ALL Any lack of knowI-
edge regarding what is going on out
side of New York, on the part of Mr..
Clews and the Representative press is
not surprising. If they had not been
so selfish, self-satisfed, ignorant and
stupid they might have known months
ago that the sentiment on the money
question which found voice at Chicago
was the sentiment of three-fourths of
the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
OUR LEAST EDUCATED PoPU-
LATTON

Henry Clews in the last circular is
sued from his Wall street headquarters,
in referring to the Chicago convention
uses the following language:
1.-The leaders of that gathering had
no case on which they could appeal to
the sober judgment of the country; they
therefore created a fictitious one, ex-
pressly constructed to appeal to the
masses of our least educated popula-
ton
Although the State Journal has no
desire to rush to the defense of the Chi
cago platform or of those who framed
it, it does feel called upon to defend the
west which region Mr.. CIews evidently
had in mind. against the charge of hold
ing our least educated population"
In order to show where our least edu-
Gated population is really located it is
but necessary to consult the tables pre-
pared by the commissioner of educa-
ton showing the percentage of litter
aey existing in the states exclusive of
those which have large Negro popula-
tions. As the Negroes are naturally
Republicans and therefore supporters
of the gold standard, the states in
which they form a large part of the
population need not be considered.
Taking a list therefore of "a states, the
following percentages of illiteracy are
found to exist:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
Laree Hnokleberrv Cron.

Bellefonte, July 22.-The huckleberry
crop on the Allegheny mountaisnfs this
year the largest ever known. Hun
dreds of bushels have already been
picked there and marketed, and reports
by the berry pickers are in effect that
the crop will aggregate several thou
sand bushels all toll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22
MARTRING MILLIONS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Have Re-
duced It to a Fine Art.
Their Children Have Married Into
-Four Very Rich and Powerful
Families-BriIIiant Record.

Families-BrilliantR Record.
In Fifth avenue and Newport circles
the Wilson's of New York are credited
with being the most successful match
makers in the country. As a matter of
fact, their children have married almost
5000, 600, 900, and the prospects are that
this sum win be largely increased before
many months They are now connected
by marriage with four of the richest
families in America. This is almost as
good a record as that made by the king
and queen Of Denmark, famed through
out the world for their expertness in
making desirable matches for their sons
and daughters.
Yet 40 years ago Richard T. Wilson
was a poor clerk in grocery store in
the obscure town Of Madison, Ga. He
was born in Tennessee. and as his parents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

Topeka State Journal Building. 500
and seq Kansas avenue. corner OF
Eighth.
TELEPHONES:
Business Office F.71 Phone 107
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Reporters Room 81 Phone 1919
Washington Office: 1919 K St N. W.
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ing, care American Newspaper Pub
lishers' association, where files of the
paper are always open to advertisers or
readers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

DR.. A. P Sawyer: 1 have used one
box of your Family Cure for a severe
pain in my side, and was cured from
all pain. Mrs Mary Jane Marshall
Galesburg. III. Frank Sim. Pharma-
cist, COZ Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

Dr. A P. Sawyer: After using one
box of the PastilIes I ind myself en-
tfrely cured. My case had been treated
by several DOCTORS Lucy Bitner. Kan
sas, Ill Frank Sim. Pharmacist, GOT
Kansas avenue.
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tire territory of Dakota in 1880. This
comparison may show a higher rate Of
increase for North Dakota and great
er decrease of the per cent of ilhteracy
for South Dakota than is equitable.
A comparison of states east and west
with regard to those favorable to and
against the free coinage Of silver shows
that II western states have lower per
centage of illiteracy than Massachu-
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Totals. ...........2 S2, 395 284, 500 2S2, 375
Sunday; no issue
The total number of copies printed in
the six months named above, 1,657, $40.
divided by 156, the number of issues.
shows the average to be 1852 This is
a correct report of the issues of the
TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL,
for the six months as stated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-22

So it appears that if the Chicago plat
form was constructed to appeal to the
masses of our least educated pOpula-
ton" it must have been designed for
use in the east. Taking that view of it
it could not have been meant for kan
sas, which shows per cent of illiteracy
as compared with SIS in New York, g.
in cultured Massachusetts, So in
Rhode Island and 1877 in Maryland,
which state is claimed for the gold
standard
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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:

Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10
cents a week to any part Of Topeka or
suburbs, or at the same price in any kan
sas tewn where this paper has 8 carrier
system.
BY mail. three months................. 80
BY mail. one year. $50
Weekly edition. per year. so
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In justice to North Dakota it should
be noted that the illiteracy in 1880 is
compared to the percentage for the en-
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TEMPORARY QUARTERS:

III and 113 East Seventh Street
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-28
Brooks and Macy.

Fred Emerson Brooks, the poet. of Cali
ifornia, and J. Williams Macy. the we'll
known buffo basso, of the East. gave a
rare treat to the audience ar the First
Methodist Episcopal church last evening
Mr. Brooks is a genius. his own poems con-
shutting the larger part OF his own read
ing They are gems. each one being per-
feet in itself and altogether forming
string of rare pearls. The themes are
varied. ranging from the deepest pathos TO
the extremely ludicrous. His "Barnyard
Chorus" and 'Piekets' Charge were rem
dered in a style making them very enec-
tive. and in rendering them Mr.. BROOKS
shows himself master of oratory as well
as a master of the pen. Mr.. Macy possess
es very rich. mellfiuous voice, ana
knows how to use il effectively lis songs
and his rec!tals were enthusiastically re-
ceived and he very generously responder
to repeated encores. Together they form
team of entertainers that will be welcome
as many times as they appear IN any
nlace. SO well were they esteemed that
the audience would not leave until a prom
jse was given of a return engagement on
Saturday night of this week, FEBRUARY
/ The programme will be changed through
our. They will appear at the same place
on Saturday night of this week