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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
WoLcorr,s MISSION.

Senator Edward O. Wolcott has re-
turned from his self imposed mission to
Europe undertaken for the ostensible
purpose of promoting the cause of in
ternational bimetallism. In an inter-
view since coming back he takes a most
hopeful and roseate view of the pros
pect. He says:
IAN international agreement for the
remonetiza ton of silver is entirely feas-
1ble and its accomplishment, in my
opinion, rests largely with the United
States. I had interviews with such
German financiers as Prince Hohen-
lone, Baron Won Bieberstein and DR..
Koch and DR.. MIGUEL, the minister of
finance of Prussia. I was not able to
see either DR.. Arendt or Count Won
Mirbach
AT the present time do not care to
say anything more about the result of
my mission. You might say, however,
that Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Won
Bieberstein told me if I succeeded in
getting the consent of England as a
party to an international conference, I
might then meet with less opposition in
Germany
The ordinary observer will fail to
find anything in the information i'm
parted by the senator that was not al
ready known by the general public pre-
vious to his trip abroad. That interna-
tional agreement, if brought about at
all rests largely if not wholly with the
United States has been the contention
Of the advocates of Independent coin
age all the time, the only difference
between them and Senator Wolcott
seemingly being that they hold that it
must be forced from European nations
and that it cannot be coaxed from
them.
Prince Hohenlohe and Baron Won
Bieberstein showed thorough under
standing of the situation when they in
formed the Colorado senator that the
first step toward success in his under
taking must be getting the consent of
England Since they know and Sena-
tor Wo1cott and everybody else must
know that the consent of England can
not be obtained to anything which is
likely to lessen her advantage in the
monetary world this would seem to set
tie the whole matter. He does not seem
to have gained England's consent and
does not intimate that there is any
prospect of doing so.
This question of international bimet-
allism might as well be met fairly and
squarely. It will serve no good pur-
pose for Senator Wolcott or anybody
else to try to pull the wool over the
peoples eyes. If he has any pledges
or promises from European countries
regarding silver. and will see to it that
those countries are called upon at once
to make their words good. it is all very
well. But no good can proceed from
any attempt to deceive the people or
from any pretense regarding the mat
ter.
If there is to be any international
agreement or an attempt to secure one,
the people want to know it and they
want to know it soon, so that in case
of failure they can do something else.
There is a party other than Senator
Wolcott's standing ready to take ad-
vantage of any sign of weakness or any
mistakes.
"a sample of what might happen under
certain circumstances. It will not pay
to trif1e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
BEWARE OF OVER ExERr1oN.
[From the Denver Republican,

[F'rom the Denver Republican,
The body of John Phennah, who died
uddenly at his home on South Lafay-
cite street Saturday evening, will be
buried at Erie Col, today. Mr.. Phennah
died either from heart failure or hem
orrhage of the brain, brought on by
overtaxing his strength in riding home
on his wheel from the Colorado Dry
Goods company'S store, where he was
employed as stationary engineer.
Coroner Rollins investiga ted the case
and learned that Mr.. Phennah had once
had a hemorrhage of the brain and
that he had been warned by DR.. a. G..
Chase not to take any violent exercise.
DIR. Chase, who treated Phennah once
before for hemorrhage of the brain,
told me that he believed that his vio-
lent exercise in riding home rapidly on
his wheel had brought on another hem
orrhage-
In this altitude" continued the cor
oner, lit is not wise for persons who
have heart or brain trouble to indulge
in excessive bicycle riding"
At the last meeting of the Colorado
Medical association, the effect of BIZ
cycle riding upon health was discussed,
and several papers We're read condemn
ing this form of exercise as dangerous
DR.. Sewall said yesterday: Thus far
the only definite injury due to bicycle
riding generally acknowledged is the
local trouble caused by the saddle.
There might easily be found hundreds
of cases where riding has been injur-
ious and on the other hand hundreds of
cases might be found where it is bene-
fetal. AS yet we have not sufficient data
upon which to base generalizations. 1
am of the opinion that bicycle riding
will affect the rising generation and the
effects should be observed and studied
but it is too soon to draw any valuable
conclusions from what we know or to
decide whether people should be warn
ed against bicycle riding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
PHENACETINE COMBINE.
Complains That the Drug is Snug
gled Through the Mails.

Chicago, March 6.-The combination
which controls the phenacetine supply
in the United States has secured an
order from the postmaster general di-
recting postal officials handling Cana
dian mail to give a close scrutiny for
the arrest of the shipment of the drug
from Canada without payment of du-
ties.
The drug is of foreign manufacture,
and for some time druggists have been
getting supplies from the Canadian
combination controlling the supply in
that country and underselling the
United States combination. A cOnsid-
cradle quantity is alleged to have been
struggled through the Chicago postof-
flee and the local officials will now give
closer attention to the Canadian mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
TEXAS BRANCHING

IFrom the Beaver, Ok, Herald.1
Wild horses are getting to be quite
numerous again in the flats in the
Texas Panhandle and in Beaver coun-
&y. They are very troublesome, as they
lead away the horses belonging to the
COW men and grangers, and when
domesticated horse once gets with
wild bunch it is an all days job, and
some times it takes several days. to
catch him. The LATEST old crowbait
alive, or the gentleSt family horse aft
er association for a few days with these
mustangs, seems to forget his raising:
all the old time wildneSs of his fore
Fathers seems to crop out in him and al
though formerly he may have allowed
himself to be caught anywhere, he will
not then permit a man to get within
half mile of him. About the only
way to recover a horse of this kind is
to run the entire bunch down and cor
raj them, or rope the ones wanted. Near
~ all our stockmen have lost horses in
this manner, and the mustang instead
OF being looked upon with respect and
with covetOus eyes, as in the past is
now considered an intruder and pest
and is shot down whenever opportuni-
ty offers Since horses became so CHEAP
there is no object in catching MUSTANGS.
and this once valuable representative
of the best friend of man is now class
ed in the same category as the coyote
and other ''varmintS."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
PARDON Mill DON'T WORK.
Governor Examines Langdon's APP
plication and Refuses to Re-
lease Him.

Governor Leedy has refused to par
don Rev. John L. Langdon, who was
sent to the penitentiary for five years,
from Topeka Langdon was prosecut-
ed at the instance of the Social Purity
league, under charge of deserving his
wife and living with another woman.
December 81, 1896, the state board of
pardons recommended a pardon for.
Langdon. Governor Morrill, did not
act in the matter and the case was
presented to Governor Leedy and
hearing was had in the executive Of
flee.
The members of the Social Purity
league appeared in opposition to the
pardon. The case was thoroughly ex-
amined by the governor, who decided
against Langdon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Fred Vandegrift has gathered up this
pretty piece of sentiment from Prof
w. H Carruth of the state university
for the Kansas City Star: 81 was born
and raised in Kansas, and there has
grown unmolested in my breast the
firm faith that was expressed by Wis
itor to the top of the university dome;
God might have made a fairer land
than this, but He never did, There is
something in the southwest winds,
something in the aroma of Indian sum-
mer, something in the unexpectedness
with which the spring is on US, some
thing in the far away hazy blue hori-
ION that the true Kansan can never
forget, that makes him amid all the
eIories of the distant world turn with
homesick heart and moistened eyes to
the fiat and unclassical prairies of his
own state"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
WILDE TO 60 HOME.
Prison Official Says theiPoet Has Be-
come Good Bookbinder.

London. March Oscar Wilde will
be welcomed back into the bosom of his
family at the approaching termination
of his prison sentence.
The statement comes from an init
mate friend who has been the main
channel of communication between Mrs.
Wilde and her husband since the lat
ter's Incarceration The members of
the family are now residing at Naples,
and he will take up his abode with them
there upon his release.
One of the prison officers, under whose
observation Wilde comes daily, says
that he is in the best of health and spir-
its, and that his erstWhile aesthetic
frame has thrived so well on prison fare
that he now weighs in the neighborhood
of $50 pounds.
He is employed as foreman of the
prison book bindery, and has become so
expert at the trade that. if necessity
compelled, he could, after his release,
earn a good living as a book binder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
TAX DEPARTMENT STORES.
Minnesota Legislature Has a Bill to
Curb the So-Called CIVIL"

st. Paul, March 6.-Drastic legislation
is proposed to kill or curb the depart
ment stores of Minnesota. A special
committee reported to the senate today
that department stores seek to intro
duce the methods of the trust into mod
ern retail trade and are an unmitiga ted
evil, and the displacement of men by
women and children at lower rates of
wages is not for the best interests of So
ciety.
Senator Theden introduced a bill pro-
viding for a division of merchandise in
to SO classes. Then follows a provision
for a graduated occupation tax, based
on the number of classes of goods han
died.
The maximum tax on stores handling
one class of goods is 81 per year; for two
lines, $10;; three lines, $25; four lines,
$1O0; five lines, $3.50; from five to twelve
lines, 81, 900; from IL to 20 lines, $4,000;
over 20 lines, $40 900.
AS most of the department stores
handle over 20 lines, the tax would drive
many of them out of the business, or
cause them to cut their lines so as to
come within the $4,000 limit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Smith Center Journal: (Pop.) Two
charges of bribery were made by sena-
tors during the session Tuesday of this
week One of the men charged with
attempting to buy the support of sena-
tors for the Hanna stock yard bill
halls from some place in Missouri. while
the other man lives near Wichita. The
two men have been arrested by order
of the presiding officer and they have
to appear in court and answer to the
charge. The amount offered in each
case was 81 900. 1t would seem that the
time has now arrived when the Hobbies
should be expelled from the halls Of
our legislature. Every measure that is
up for consideration has a strong lobby
working either for or against it ac-
cording to the interests of the corpora
TONS IN our opinion the men cleo led
to our present legislature went to To-
peka with the honest intention of keep
ing the pledges to the people No
doubt the strong lobbies are RESPONSE
BILE in great measure for this trifing
with their obligations. 1t is a plain,
simple outrage and the servants of the
people elected to pass needed laws
should be made to answer for their ac-
tons. This is serious matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
NO HOPE FOR DURRANT.
Interference With His Sentence by
Anyone is Unlikely.

San Francisco. March 6.-District
Attorney Barnes, who conducted the
prosecution against Theodore Durrant
for the murder. of Blanche Lamont in
Emanuel church, thinks the murderer
will be hanged within 120 days. He
says the remmitur will be handed down
within 80 days. Then Durrant will be
taken before the superior court for SEN
tence.
The defense will probably ask for a
rehearing before the supreme court, but
the motion will likely be denied. The
defense will then be compelled to go
to the governor as court of last resort
It is considered unlikely that the gov
ernor will interfere with the execution
of sentence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

-Chetopa Advance: We are beginning
To breathe easier The days of the
first legisIativ body on earth eontroll-
ed by Populists are nearly numbered,
and thus far they have not made into
laws any of the calamitous measures
they Threatened during the campaign.
Our counties will not be flooded with
scrip that would be about as valuable
in II months as confederate money
Nor do we have to list our old notes,
broken in two in several places, against
constituencies dead-beats. But best of
all we will not have to brand our roost-
ers and give the pedigree of our old
hens. Kansas may be happy yet Who
said there was anything the matter
with Kansas?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

There is hardly a town in Kansas
with a waterworks plant but what the
civ and company are in a law suit
Fort Scott is now taking a turn at it
Ten years will not see the end of such
LITIGATION in our state.-Burlington In
dependent.
This shows the great mistake the cit
les of Kansas made in not building
their own waterworks plants in the
first place. Municipal ownership in
some things is all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Many cases of Grippe" have lately
been cured by One Minute Cough Cure
This preparation seems especially
adapted to the cure of this disease. It
acts quickly, thus preventing serious
complications and bad effects in which
this disease often leaves the patient. G.
w. Stansfeld, 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
FOR A MEMORIAL CHURCH.
African Methodists Plan a Lincoln
Building at Springfield.

Chicago, March 6.-The African Meth
odists of the state of Illinois will build
a memorial church at Springfield in
honor of the memory of Abraham Lin
coin. 1t will be named the Lincoln Me-
mortal church and cost $4,000. The
structure will be built of gray stone,
with modern features and two spires,
the main one reaching an altitude of
$50 feet
There will be three memorial wind
ows. The center one will be dedicated
to Lincoln, and the two smaller to
Frederick Douglass and John Brown
What might be regarded as the most
interesting feature will be the memoir
ial room, in which are to be kept slav-
cry relics of every diScription-pictur
of all the graf abolition leaders. an
auction block, the Lovejoy printing
press the rope which was used in the
hanging of John Brown, and whatever
else can be gathered.
If you have ever seen a child in the
agony of Group, you can appreciate the
gratitude of mothers who know that
one Minute Cough Cure relieves their
little ones as quickly as it is admins
tered Many homes in this city are
never without it. G. w. StansfieId, 632
Kansas avenue.
Broken edge collars made smooth by
Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

When you hear a woman say that
her greatest trouble is that she loves
one person too deeply for her own good,
1T is a sign that she is as tickle as a ST.
dog.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Nothing makes a cigar store keeper
quite SO mad as to have a man walk in
to his place, fill his pipe wqith tobacco
from his pocket and smoke it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

One Minute is all the time necessary
70 decide from personal experience that
One Minute Cough Cure does what it's
name implies. G.. w. Stansf1eld, 632
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

A recent dinner given in Atchison was
a great success; every one of the six in
vited guests was stupid, sleepy, and dull
all evening, as result of having eaten
too much.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

A whist crank is one who doesn't be-
lieve a game is interesting unless he
QuarrelS over it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Shirts, collars and cuffs Iaundered
to look like new by Peerless Steam
Laundry. LIP AID ia West 9Th st
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

If you want to know just how con-
ceited you are, recall how much you
think you lack appreciation, for ii is
absolutely certain that you are appre>
ciated at your true worth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

An Atchison man who is on his way
to the poor house stopped long enough
this morning to say that owning a
buggy and a typewriter is what sent
him there. They were both constantly
out of repair, and ate up all the money
his horse left.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Some people hate others for no other
reason than they are respectable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

The cold facts about a chafing dish
are that you can cook what you want
better, quicker and more economically
over a gas stove, and that the chatting
dish is a bad thing to have in the house.
because it induces people to eat hot
things at night, when they should be
in bed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
These days a statesman seems any
man who gets a majority of votes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

We like Atchison because you can
stand on a street corner here and pick
out a woman you are looking for five
blocks away, by her hat or cloak. 1t
must be very confusing to live in a
town where the women frequently buy
new hats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

II never loan or give away money!
said man this morning, because do
not know what vicious use the person
receiving it may put it to, while know
if keep it, it will be put to good USE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

The poorest way for a woman to catch
a man is to pursue him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

her greatest trouble is that she loves
one person too deeply for her own good,
1t is a sign that she is as tickle as a ST.
Bernard dog.
A recent dinner given in Atchison was
a great success; every one of the six in
V1ted guests was stupid, sleepy, and dull
all evening, as result of having eaten
too much.
If you want to know just how con-
ceited you are, recall how much you
think you lack appreciation, for ii is
absolutely certain that you are appre>
ciated at your true worth.
81 never loan or give away money"
said man this morning because 1 do
not know what vicious use the person
receiving it may put it to, while 1 know
if keep it, it will be put to good USE
The poorest way for woman to catch
man is to pursue him.
There is a difference between girls
and flowers: wildness is becoming in
a flower but never in a girl.
a farmers idea of good time is to
call at a newspaper Office and fuss
about his subscription account.
There is one kind of dress reform
that the world never hears ola kind
that would decrease the cost of wo-
mems clothes.
Tt is difficult to collect money from a
man while he is alive, but it is much
harder to get what is due you from his
estate after he is dead.
The people are not any more hard
up now than they were twenty years
ago; the difference lies in the fact that
in those days their appetites were bet
ter and they were greater fools in part
ing with their money.
1t has long been a theory that quiz
nine will break up anything. 1t was
proven in Atchison last night when a.
woman whose husband objected to the
drug put some in his coffee, to make
him take it anyway. The quinine
broke up the family.
We like Atchison because you can
stand on a street corner here and pick
out a woman you are looking for five
blocks away, by her hat or cloak. 1t
must be very confusing to live in a
town where the women frequently buy
new hats.
The cold facts about a chatting dish
are that you can cook what you want
better, quicker and more economically
over a gas stove, and that the chatting
dish is a bad thing to have in the house,
because it induces people to eat hot
things at night, when they should be
in bed.
to the poor house stopped long enough
this morning to say that owning a
buggy and a typewriter is what sent
him there. They were both constantly
out of repair, and ate up all the money
his horse left.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

There is one kind OF dress reform
that the world never hears ola kline
that would decrease the cost of wo
mems clothes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

A farmers idea of good time is to
call at a newspaper Office and fuss
about his subscription account
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

There is a difference between girls
and flowers: Wildness is becoming in
a flower, but never in a girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

Broken edge collars made smooth by
Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

1t is difficult to collect money from
man while he is alive, but it is niue
harder to get what is due you from hi
estate after he is dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

The people are not any more hard
up now than they were twenty years
ago; the difference lies in the fact that
in those days their appetites were bet
ter and they were greater fools in part
ing with their money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-06

1t has long been a theory that quiz
nine will break up anything. 1t was
proven in Atchison last night when a
woman whose husband objected to the
drug put some in his coffee, to make
him take it anyway. The Quinine
broke up the family.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-02-11

shoulder, her fingers dnbbled in his lifo
blood. Now and then her lips moved
but no sound of these pierced through
the flooding melody thnt doath itself
seomed drawing from the strings. Al
last tho player paused, with bow in mir.
An awestruol1 whisper, cit is Christmas
owe, too, pierced through his clouded
consciousness.
"Christmas eve---so 1t is," he said,
laughing softly, land have top foa
Jim and kiss for Sally. She WON'T
mind. Jim is just years old and has
not learned to do without what he
wants.
"Pray, my darling. pray. You have
only minutes now"
His breath came IN gasps. He CROPPED
for the fiddle bow and drew 1t foebly
across tho strings, singing:
"Lct the water and the blood
From thy wounded sido TINT flowed
DO of ain tho double cure
Tho bow fell. There was a convulsive
swapping Of strings.
One masQue Of the passions was ended.
THE END