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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-10

and Quincy to First street, thence to
Kansas avenue, thence to Tenth, thence
to Jackson, thence to Eighth, thence to
Harrison, thence to Fifth. Counter
march on Harrison, Fifth to Ninth,
thence to Topeka avenue, thence to fair
ground, entering the race course at the
west gate, thence east, passing the
grand stand and pavilion, where the
parade will be reviewed by the Queen
of the Festival and her Court, thence
following the track to point or entry,
where the parade will be dismissed.
That reviewing stand be erected at
the northwest corner of the general OF
flee building, from which invited guests
may review the parade.
That the exercises at the fair grounds
consist of a musical programme, inter-
Spersed by addre SIS es from distlngulshed
guests who have been invited and VIII
be present, followed by general re-
ception.
The following programme is recon-
mended:
Address; Hon C. K. HolhHdag Hii
M5HasIemseiected- Mr. w M99os % Strong n1ne
Music-Selection.. .....-....;M Mr.. Jas; Moore Moore
Address; MT f. 4aet ey
Music-Selection.. Mrs e. L. l. 1fsIer aelr
Music~Seiection.. Mrs. Jester
and Mr. Moore.
Music-selection. Modoc Club
ADDRESS. MT. rsha1q, Rand
Selection. -MarshaA bdho
If the programme above outlined snail
meet your appreciation, we further rec
Ommend that a letter be sent to Mr..
James Moore and Mrs. L. l.. Jester, ae-
knowledging the tender OF their SerV-
ices.
Carriages to be provided to transport
officers and invited guests from hotels
to reviewing stands, and also to the
fair grounds, and suitable committees
should be appointed to accompany our
guests from place to place as above.
The grand marshal to announce in
special orders the details connected
with the formation and movement OF
the parade.
Respectfully submitted,
c. F. CAVERT,
A. NJ. BAIRD,
iAIEti45I J. H. GRIFFITH.
W. H. HAMILTON,
Committee.
Mrs. L. L. Jester, referred to in the
above report, resides in Tyler, Tex, ana
while not professional singer is known
through the south and west as an ac-
complished vocalist. She sang with
Sousa's band at the national encamp-
ment of Confederate veterans at Dallas,
and at the special request of Jefferson
Davis went to his home and sang The
Last Rose of Summer shortly before
his death. She rendered her services
for the Santa Fe celebration to Mr.. Z.
w. Kouns, with whom she is acquaint-
ed.
Work on the displays to be seen in
the big parade is now going on in To-
peka and at different points in the state,
and the number will aggregate over so.
These with thousands of marching men
and a score of bands will form a pro-
ceSsion several miles in length, and con-
Stitute the grandest display of the kind
ever witnessed in the United States.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-10
TEE TIE STAR GROCERY
WHOLESALE RETAIL
Groceries, Fresh Meats, Queensware,
Glassware and TinWare.

If prices and quality of goods any object every
family in Topeka should buy their goods here.
Sugar is getting higher every few days. We are
selling the very best 1S lbs. for $1.OO
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-10

Todav's Range of Prices
Furnished by the W. a. Michael Com
mission Co Brokers m Grain Provisions
and Stocks, 110 West Sixth Ave, Topeka,
KAN:
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-10

ERNEST MUELLER,
Recorder.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-10
Queensware & Glassware

Glass Berry Dishes ...$ .1s
Glass Water pitchers .25
Glass Jelly Dishes s .13
Footed Glass Berry Dishes - rs
Footed Glass Jelly Dishes - Is
Glass Salt and Peppers - .O5
Glass Sauce Dishes per doz $500. .2b
Glass Spooners ...... 10
Trmblers per doz. ....... 40
Cups and Saucers per set . As
emi-Porcelain Plates per doz. -. 10
Semi-Porcelain Sauce Dishes per
OOZen 4V
Semi Porcelain Creamers ... Is
Vegetable Dishes ... 10
IL quart Preserving Kettles ....... .35
Culanders - ~
II quart retinned Dish Pans 1890 80
9 hole Muffin Pans . .12
SO ID decorated Tin Flour Bins...... .55
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
MASSACHUSETTS NOTES.
Sold Her Body.

Strange BilI Of sale signed ny Yourg
woman VINO Died ut Montague---
Her Relatives viii Investigate the
Mystery.
Miss Mabel Opperman, %, of New York,
died Thursday Of consumption at Monta-
que. Mass, and was buried there Saturday.
She had lived for two years with Mrs. Ella
Barnes. an INDECENT widow. \ sister in
N w York wrote to a local undertaken
that she proposed to have the body cared
for by a New York undertaken, and buried
in New York, and that she would not be
responsible for any expense for burial
charges in franklin county. New ork
undertaken made his appearance after the
death of Miss Opperman with casket,
and when he found his services were not
required he returned TO New York.
On Nov. 12,1S97, Miss Opperman signed
the following: ain consideration of the
sum of 81 aud other valuable considera-
tions. |, Mabel G.. A. Opperman of Monta-
que, hereby make sale and sell &c Mrs. Ella
Z. Barnes all my clothing and my body
at my decease, my body to be buried in
reasonable time after my decease in Mon
tague, by the side or near the body OF Syl-
vester Barnes, late of Montague, deceased.
This bill of sale was drawn by John Nj.
Smith, and signed by him, Isaac II. Nun
sell and b. F. Miner. There is much
speculation as to the reason for Miss OPP
perman's sisters letter and the bill of sale.
Mrs. Barnes has made no statement as
to why she desired the possession OF the
body. Miss Opperman's sister and two
brothers in New Yerk city have employed
counsel and the mystery will be investgat-
ed. Miss Opperman had spent several
summers with Mrs. Barnes before coming
to Montague for her permanent home.
One theory is that Mrs. Barnes wished to
recover damages from hospital in Spring
field, where Miss Opperman had bone
set improperly about four years ago.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
The Treasury Report.
Secretary Cages Plan of Currency RE-
form.

The main feature of the annual report
of Secretary Gage of the treasury depart
ment is the plan of currency reform which
he presents. OF this plan the Burlington
Free Press gives this summary:
As preliminary step the secretary rec
ommends the establishment of a depart
ment, separate from the ordinary opera
tons of the treasury as they relate to rev
enue and expenditures, 10 be known as
the redemption division. To this division he
would have 1925, 000, 600 in gold set over
from the general fund in the treasury to be
used only for redemption purposes. He
also recomm, nds that all silver dollars now
held for the redemption of silver certif-
Gates and all silver bullion bought under
the act of 1890 be passed to the same ac-
count; and that 100000, 900 in legal ten
der notes of the United States, known as
greenbacks, be deposited in the division.
TO be disbursed therefrom only upon the
receipt of an equivalent amount of gold
coin.
In the second place the secretary recon-
mends that provision be made for the issue
of refunding loan bonds, payable after ten
years at the pleasure of the government
and bearing interest at the rate of p per
cent per annum, both the interest and prin-
cipal TO be payable in gold coin, and that
the secretary of the treasury be authorized
to issue these bonds in exchange for all of
the outstanding loans of the United States
which mature at different dates named.
In order to avoid the contraction of the
currency which these steps might cause
Secretary Gage recommends the amend
ment of the national banking act so as TO
provide for the enlarged use of bank notes.
He suggests the reduction of the minimum
| capital necessary for the organization of a
bank from $4,000, the present require
ment, to S2j, 900 for places having pop
ulation of 2U00 OF less, and the reduction
of the rate of taxation on circulating notes
secured by deposit of bonds TO one-half Of
one per cent per annum.
lie also recommends that national banks
be allowed to issue circulating notes to the
par value Of their refunding bonds; that
after such banks have deposited bonds,
greenbacks, treasury notes or silver GER
| tifcates TO the amount of 80 per cent OF
their capital they shall be permitted TO
issue bank notes in addition to the 30 per
cent thus provided, TO the extent Of p per
cent OF such deposit to be unsecured by
any direct pledge of security but TO be
issued against the assets of the bank; that
the government guaranty be extended 10
all circulating notes of the bank whether
issued against deposited security or assets
that to secure the government against loss,
if any, attachingto its guaranty, guaranty
tax of two per cent per annum be levied
on unsecured circulation to create a safety
fund which shall be invested by the sec
rotary of the treasury and the comptroller
of the currency in government bonds 4;
that all notes shall be redeemed at the sub
treasury in New York, and that the issue
of national bank notes be restricted to the
denomination of $40 and upward.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
The Massachusetts Election.

Municipal elections were held in l.
Massachusetts cities Tuesday, resulting in
several close contests and some surprises.
There was a marked gain in the license
vote over those of former years. In gen
eral the results went to indicate an increas-
ing tendency on the part of the voters to
disregard strict party lines in the choice of
the chief magistrate and to vote for the
most popular man. In most cities where
party lines were drawn the Republicans
won decisive victories. In Springfield the
Republicans swept the city, rejecting
Mayor Henry Dickinson by large major
ity. In Northampton the Republicans
won a decisive Victory.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10

The Glove tree is a native of the Moucca
Islands and belongs to the far-spread fam
lily of myrtles. 1t is tall, very handsome
evergreen, with ovate, obong leaves and
purplish flowers, arranged in eorymbs on
short, jointed stalks. The flowers are pro
duced in great profusion, and when they
appear, whice is at the beginning of the
rainy season, they are in the form of elon-
gated, greenish buds. These unexpanded
buds are the cloves of commerce, which de-
rive their name from the Spanish word
clavo, "a nail, so called from the real or
fancied resemblance of the bud to the nail
Cloves consist of two parts, a round head,
which is, in fact, the flower rolled up, en-
closing number of small filaments, and
the four points that surround the flower
and form the flower cup of the unripe seed
vessel When they are soaked for a short
time in hot water, the flowers soften and
readily unroll, so that all of the parts may
be seen. The entire Glove tree is highly
aromatic, and the footstalks of the leaves
have nearly the same pungent quality as
the calyX of the flower.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
The CurfeW Bell
Rings with SSlutRry Effect In Many
Western Towns and CIties.


The curfew laws enacted by various
Western towns and cities during the past
two years have not been taken very seri-
ously in the East, yet the results being
reported after a trial of the laws are such
as TO command our most respectful atten-
ton.
The curfew is an ordinance compelling
all children and youths under II years of
age, unless accompanied by parents or alb
sent with leave apprentices and those EN-
plOyed eXcepted), TO be at their homes at
the hour of 8 o'clock at night in summer
and O'Clock in winter. This ordinance
was one of a number recommended in 1894
TO town and city governments and state
Legislatures by the convention of the boys
and girls national home and employment
association. whose eighth annual gather
ing, it may be added, will be held in
indianapolis Dec. II and 10. This asso-
citation was organized to study the appal-
ling problem OF crime among youth, and
its labors do not seem TO have been in
vain.
The first city TO try the curfew ordinance
was Lincoln, Neb., which adopted it year
ago last January, and since then 1t has
been adopted and enforced in some 800
Wv 40 anu NAblVSs dLlOhE Autll btlIE AJUld-
ha, Neb., Denver, Col, Pueblo, Col, Kan
sas City, Mo-, Des Moines, Ia, Topeka,
Kan, Leavenworth, Kan, ST. Joseph,
Mo-, Quincy, ILL.,, and Evanston, Ill.
Reports have now been gathered show
ing the success of the curfew in those COM
munties, and so far as published they are
unqualified in praise. These reports are
from the mayors and chiefs of police of the
cities and from superintendent of schools.
Briefly stated they show that the enforce
ment of this ordinance has kept boys and
girls off the streets at hours when they
ought TO be at home, that it has largely re-
duced the number of arrests of juvenile Of
Tenders, and that there have been less com.
mitments to reform schools, while attend
ance in the public schools has increased
and the children go to school mentally re-
freshed instead of being duh and heavy
from late hours. / is a matter of course
for the young folk to go home when tine
signal sounds, the officers are given little
or no trouble, and parents find less trouble
in the home government of their children.
The experiment is now being tried in
Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, and the
Chicago papers say that the ordinance
there has practically enforced itself.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
Vermont DairY SchnnI.

The seventh annual session opens at the
experiment station, Burlington, Monday,
Jan. 10. The school lasts four weeks. No
tuition is charged, nor are entrance exam
nations required. Thorough instruction is
offered in handling separators, ripening
cream, making butter, testing milk, in pas
teurization, and in general dalrying. There
are three courses of lectures, aggregating
over fifteen in number. There will be from
eight to II separators in use, while the
churning and milk testing rooms are thor
oughly equipped with all modern ap-
planes. The course is open not only to
professional creamery workers but to any
one who may wish to learn the newer
methods in dairying. The capacity of the
school is limited, and all desiring to take
the course should apply al once to Prof. j.
l.. Hills, Burlington, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
Der.Ioninr American E1port..

Theodore c. Search, in discussing Count
Goluchowskfs cutlery against American
competition with Europe, says that Amer
lean exports of manufactured articles have
been increasing at the rate Of so, 900, 900
or so per annum for the last three years
and this mainly through the efforts of in
divdual manufacturers to find a market
for their products. He adds:
The past three years have made an era
in the commercial history Of the United
States that is Of far greater significance
than many people imagine American
manufacturers have been forced to make
goods for the home market more cheapy
than ever before. They have been forced
to seek trade abroad or shut up their shops.
They have found that In many lines they
could meet The prices and equal, II not bet
ter the quality Of the goods sold by their
foreign competitors. They have discovered
that they are no longer shut in by the
boundary lines of The United States, but
that the whole world is open to them for a
fair and square fight for business. Dollars
and cents will not measure the Importance
of the gain in exports Of manufactured ar
tiCles from the United States what has
been learned is more important than what
has been gained. The knowledge that
they can meet the world in the struggle for
foreign trade is of more importance to
American manufacturers than the hun
dreds of millions of dollars worth of goods
they have sold abroad in the past three
years"
The National Association of Manufac-
turers has now taken up the work, and
the development of foreign trade is likely
to be greatly increased through the efforts
of its committees. Foreign markets, par
ticularly those OF South America, are to be
studied. and encouragement is 10 be given
to such education of young men for com
mercial pursuits as has been provided in
European countries.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
IN GENERAL.

The lumber business has now reached a
point where there is profit in economy, and
millions of excellent shingles are being
worked out in Michigan from stumps of
trees cut 20 and % years ago.
Several years ago an English archmolo-
gical expedition eXcavated the Temple of
Athena, on the site of ancient Priene in
Asia Minor, opposite Samos. Nothing
further was done at the time, and the
ruins thus brought to light and abandoned
to the neighboring people were quickly
vandalized and wasted. The Germans, un-
der government authority, resumed work
on the spot two years ago, and have ad-
vanced sufficiently to discover the remains
of buried city as complete and interest
ing as that of Pompeii. The market place,
the council-chamber, right-angled streets,
a massive arch dating back to the fourth
century before Christ, are among the in
teIestlng discoveries already made.
The New York Sun claims that there
have been 5l66 deaths in Matanzas, Cuba,
during the past 10 months, and the appall-
ing rate is apparent when it is known that
the population of the city is only &c, 900.
In the province of Matanzas 40, 0OO people
have died during the same period, and
some towns have entirely disappeared. In
Pinar del Rio province the number of Or
phans, huddled together in the courtyards
of the several police stations and other
places, and many of them employed as
slaves by the Spanish officers and their
families, is 10000. The parents of these
children were alive when famine began to
spread in the province, and most of them
belonged to families composed of at least
four adult persons. In Pinar del Rio it is
estimated that 10000 persons have been
the victims of famine.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
A charter was granted for new bank at
the last session of the legislature.

the last session of the legislature.
Rev. George L. Thompson. recently of
Stafford, Conn, has begun his work as
pastor of the First Universalist society of
Keene. He is a graduate of the Tufts
divinity school and has preached for
churches in Londonderry, Vt. and in
towns near Boston.
Hosea Brown, who was 10j years old on
the 18th of last July, died at Grants Pass
Oregon, Nov. -. Mr.. Brown was born in
Westmoreland and was an uncle of Henry
Abbott of Winchester. He was the oldest
living soldier of the war of 1872, and has
always been remarkably active and vigor-
Gus.
AT the regular meeting of the city coun-
ellis at keene Thursday evening Hon.
George A. Wheelock, president of the
Ashuelot National bank and city park
commissioner, made an offer to the city OF
so acres of woodland on Beech hill for
park. The tender was promptly accepted
The land joins the city reservoir and
park of 80 acres previously given the city
by Mr.. Wheelock, known as the children's
woods. Mr.. Wheelock also donated a
large park at West Keene, which is called
by his name. The new reserve is to be
called Robin Hoods park.
Dana Ellis of Boston, son of VIM. H.
Ellis of Keene, was held up and robbed of
a gold watch and chain, S2j in cash and
two mileage books last Friday night. Ellis
is cashier at the Hotel Reynolds and was
returning to his rooms on Warren avenue
about midnight when he noticed a man
who was following. A moment later an
other stranger jumped out of the darkness
at street corner and grabbed Ellis by the
neck, while the man who had been follow
ing Ellis also took hand in overpowering
him. Ellis succeeded in knocking down
one of the men, but the other escaped with
the stolen goods,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
Shutesbury Maintaining Its Reputation
for. Raising HuckIeberries and Hell.

for. Raising HuckIeberries and He'll.
Shutesbury, to which the late George
NJ. Stearns once referred as being the town
where "thev raise hucklcDerries in the
summer and hell in the winter" is evil
IDENTIFY keeping up its reputation. Bert
Kimball, Bert Pratt, William Waterman,
Warren Manning and Dell Buckley went
out on Saturday, Nov. 20, on a raid after
hard cider They called at four different
houses, demanding hard cider and threat
ening violence if the liquid was not given
to them. At the first house they were I'M
successful and went away angry. At the
next place they grew somewhat holder and
a rifle and three dogs had to be used to get
rid of them. When they were refused for
the third time they broke windows and
even set fire to the house, which was oc-
cupied by an old man over 20 years of age.
At the fourth and last place where they
attempted to get cider they were met by
sturdy woman who knocked down their
leader with the butt of a shot gun and
drove off the rest with the muzzle. The
''boys" were arraigned at Greenfield Sat
urday and each pleaded guilty to the charge
of disturbing the peace when arraigned
before Judge Lyman, and were continued
TO await sentence on Thursday. They
were required to furnish bonds to the
amount of 500; Manning and Buckley
secured bail, their companions going to
the county Jail. The Haskins hotel was
set on fire the Sunday night following the
disturbance, and the officers have been
seeking information in an effort to con-
meet these men with that occurrence.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10

Indigestion is often taken for consumption.
The word consumption means wasting away.
and dyspeptics often waste away as badly as
consumptiyes.
The reason people waste away is because either
they don't get enough 10 eat or they don I di.
gest what they do eat
If the latter is your trouble, take Shaker Di.
gestve Cordial. This will help you to digest
your food and stop your loss of flesh.
Shaker Digestive Cordial is made from herbs
barks and juices of fruits, by the we'll known
Shakers at Mount Lebanon. 1t possesses great
tonic and digestive powers.
Shaker Digestive Coz dial has cured many sup
posed consumptives (who were really dyspeptics)
by simply helping their stomachs 10 digest their
food, thus giving them nourishment and new
strength.
Sold by druggists. Trial bottles 10 cents.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10

The New York chamber of commerce
has instructed its committee on harbor and
shipping to investigate and report on the
causes of the decline of the commerce of
the city. This action was taken upon the
suggestion of Gov, Black, who said in a
speech at the recent annual dinner of the
chamber, that while New York once had
seven-eights of the export and import
trade of the country the city now has bare
ly one-half
A. W. PiersOn & Co., of SOUTHPORT,
Eng, have rented the big mill at Athena,
near Passaic, n. j., with the idea of start
ing factory for the manufacture of silk
and plush goods. 1t will employ 500
hands. The establishment is due entirely
to the Dingley tariff, which raised the du-
ties on such articles as to make the sale of
the Pierson product in America unprofita-
BILE.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-12-10
Plans for a New Bank at Ksene.

In accordance with recent vote of the
trustees of the Cheshire Provident institu-
tion at Keene, Treasurer O. G. Minis
mailed Tuesday a circular letter to each of
the nearly 1000 depositors. The letter re-
quests public meeting of the depositors
at city hall at p. NJ, Tuesday, Dec 2l,
to consider proposition by the trustees
looking to the formation of a new savings
bank by the transference of part of the
securities proportionate to the percen-
tage of the accounts that may be
transferred voluntarily by the depositors.