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Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15

THE man who Is never tried,
never knows himself. 1t is only in
the furnace heat that the soul learns
Its own strength and weakness.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15

SELF RELIANCE, self restraint,
self.discipline, these constitute an
educated will.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15

WHY is a doctor never seasick :?
He's used TO see sickness.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15

a BOSTON mother took her four.
year-old girl to a photographer.
The child couldn't be made to sit
still. He of the camera was as suave
as he could be, and worked every
device Of gentle persuasion to make
the little wriggler keep still. FL
nally he said to the despairing
mother, Madam if you leave the
little dear with me few minutes,
think / can succeed" The mother
had scarcely withdrawn, when she
was summoned back by the triumph
ant photographer, who exhibited a
satisfactory negative. When they
got home the mother asked: mel
lie, what did the man say to you
when 1 left you alone with him ?''
He thaid," lisped Nellie, "thit
thill, you little rathcall, or I'll thake
you."
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15
Here rest, my oft-dividrd heart;
- happy bond that seals my vows
To irrnrn which lnnriis all m ~ lnun ~

Pretty Miss Grace was blushing
as red as roses in her picture hat,
and all the other girls were in state
of un- Christian glee before that
hymn was finished.
Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-07-15

THE comment of colOred
preacher on the text, 1T is more
blessed to give than to receive" Is
ininitable for its point as we'll as
elOquence "I've known many a
church to die cause it didn't give
enough but Inever knowed church
to die 'caure it give too much. Dey
don't die that way. Brederen, has
any of you knowed a church that
died cause it give too much? If
| you do, just let me know, and pll
make pilgrimage to dat church,
and 1'll climb by de soft light of
de moon to its moss-covered roof,
and I'u stand dar and lift my
hands to heaven and say, Blessed
are de dead that die in de Lord. -
a SMALL English terrier belong
ing to friend has been taught t.
ring for the servant. To test if the
dog knew aohy it rang the bell, he
was told to do so while the girl was
in the room. The little fellow
looked up in the most intelligen
manner at the person giving tn,
order (his master or mistress, for
get which, then at the servant, ant
refused to obey although the orde
was repeated more than once. Tn,
servant left the room, and in few
minutes the dog rang the bell i'm
mediately on being told to do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
NORTH TOPEKA.

Go to Costley & Post for Dry Goods
and Shoes. North Topeka.
Miss Jessie Lamb of Enterprise will
arrive Thursday to visit Mrs s. L.
Courtney.
Harmony Rebekah lodge will give a
moonlight picnic at Garfield park next
Tuesday evening.
Riley Ayers of Silver Lake, who is a
candidate for sheriff, is in town looking
after his political fences.
Mrs. S. L. Courtney has returned
from a short visit with Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Burger at Burlingame, Kan.
Miss Frances Ruttan of Leavenworth
is spending few days with her aunt,
Mrs. J. A. Fuller of 1928 Quincy street
Items intended for this column should
be left with the kimban Printing Co,
S35 Kansas avenue, before 10 o'clock in
the morning.
The Vincent reading circle will meet
tonight at the Kansas Avenue church
The sixth study in the life of ST. Paul
will be the lesson.
J. F. Dunwoody, a prominent miller
of Joplin, Mo, who has been spending
a few days with Mr.. J. B. LETTERS, Will
return to his home today.
Mr.. John Knowles. the Adams House
barber left Sunday afternoon for Os-
borne, Kan, where he will be married
to a young lady of that place.
The Ladies' guild of the Church of
the Good Shepherd will meet Thursday
afternoon at hdIf past Z with the pres
ident, Mrs. Fred Hes, 1104 Monroe street.
The ladies of the North Congrega-
tionaI church are very grateful to the
young men of the Baptist church and
to the others who assisted them in their
entertainment.
The following people who are mem
bers of the Festival chorus will leave
for Ottawa Friday morning: NJ. c. Hol-
man, Miss Blanche Shepherd and Mr..
and Mrs. Harry PribbIe
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Todd and sons,
Maurice and Roger, will move tOmor-
row from 1912 Jackson street to the
south side and will take rooms at the
corner of Harrison and Eighth streets
The De Wolf Hopper Opera company
arrived today at o'clock over the
Union Pacific. They left Colorado
Springs in special train at 1886 a. m
and made a very fast run
Miss Bessie Betz of Silver Lake is
visiting her sister, Mrs. T. N Davis
of Topeka avenue, and attending the
teachers' institute. Mrs. Davis is also
entertaining Miss Matte Mcconnell of
Menoken, who is a student at the in
stitute.
Fred Morns is the owner of a horse
that has a record of 2:11 John Pratt
and Bert Green are also possessors of
horses that can run Yesterday even
ing a discussion arose as to which man
had the best horse. To settle the ques-
ton a race was held at the fair grounds
at which time Mr.. Pratt's horse took
the blue ribbon and Mr. Green's the
red, but the other animal has the rec
ord
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09

legislatures to run their business on po-
liticaI platforms but courts should pass
upon cases according to the law govern
ing them. Holding to this opinion 1 indorse
Judge Aliens decision in the investiga-
tfon''
F. L. PIatt, who was graduated from
Washburn college in 1886. has been princi-
pal of the St. Francis, Kan. high school
during the past winter. He is visiting old
acquaintance at Washburn college Mr..
Platt was Washburn' s orator in 1895 ana
won the state oratorica1 contest. He VIII
teach in the Cheyenne county normal IN
stitute this summer.
When Pat Sherman moved from the
house in the City park which is to be
torn down, he left several brass gas fix
lures lying on the floor. Toby Ewing
Leon Mcmillan, Geo. Sherman and BOD
Long climbed into the empty house ana
took the fixtures. They sold them to
second hand dealer and were arrested
for it. Police Judge Atkinson fined them
50 each.
Topeka corps, No. "a will this evening
tender a reception at their hall, 422 Kan
sas avenue, to the new department presi-
dent, the managers of the Bickerdyke
home, Commander Bodl1in and Adjutant
Lewis Hanback,. All members of corps
No. 81 and Topeka post No. Il are expect
ed to be present to give the new G. A. r.
officers a hearty welcome. Admission
will be free, and there will be speaking
and music.
The following Topeka students will re-
ceive diplomas of graduation this week
from the Kansas State university: Misses
Edith Davis. Helen G. AGetcalf, Lou Nash.
Martha P. Williams and Daisy Starr, and
Messrs. VIII T. Reed, Palmer T. Stanton,
Howell E. Davies and Herbert G. Todd.
Miss Starr receives a degree for compile
ton of the course in fine arts, Nessrs.
Davies and Todd in pharmacy. Mr.. STAN
ton in law and the rest in the school OF
arts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
SEEKS COMPLIANCE WITH LAW
Mr.. Boyle Wants stockyards Officers
BROUGHT From Boston to Kansas.

Attorney General Boyle before the
close of the present litigation against
the Kansas City StOckyards company,
will ask the federal court to make an
order compelling the company to es-
tablish its general offices in Kansas, in
accordance with the Kansas law under
which it is Incorporated
The offices which the company now
maintain in Kansas are but a side is
sue The stock books, the settlements
in fact all of the business of the com
pany is transacted in Boston. The di-
rectOrs meet there. All moneys are
sent there; none of the Kansas stock
holders or officials has any Informal
ton pertaining to the general condition
of the business, except that which
comes from Boston.
Attorney General Boyle seeks to avoid
making an expensive trip to Boston to
continue the investigation and today
filed in the federal court in this city
motion asking that the company be
compelled to bring its books and other
official documents pertaining thereto
from Boston to Kansas. The motion
has not been passed upon.
The hearing of the stOckyards case
viii reopen in this city Wednesday, at
which time Colonel c. F. Morse, presi-
dent of the stOckyards company, will
be examined by the state. a large
number of shippers of stock will also
be examined and the company viii
submit the testimony of transportation
agents and railroad representatives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09

tertainments lately and gained note
in their posing in Greek statuary. Each
has a good voice and will do the parts
well. They are now training for the
opera. In the opera cinderella will
enter in her coach, a beautiful carriage
drawn by Shetland ponies. The con-
veyance will be one of the features of
the Floral parade next fall and will at
tract wide attention.
It will take four weeks of training to
get the opera ready for the public, and
next week the work will begin.
The price of admission will probably
be placed very low, so that everyone
may attend. It has been suggested that
10 cents be the charge at Garfield park
For the three nights with this admis
sion the receipts could easily be 81, 900.
The expenses in preparing the park
for seating and stage arrangements
need not be particularly heavy. The
work will be pushed ahead as rapidly
as possible, for to everyone to whom
the scheme has been explained, there
has been a. ready response and a sub
stantia1 encouragement. The opera of
Cinderella with it's fairy dances, its
beautiful music, its specialties and
the magnificent tableaux, will be "a
thing of beauty and a joy forever"
1t might be an excellent thing to re-
peat it during Fall Festival week for
the entertainment of the thousands of
people who will be here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
CALHOUN SEES M'KINLEY.
Commissioner to Cuba Makes His Re
port to the President.

Washington, June 9.-W. J. Calhoun
of Illinois, the special commissioner
sent to Cuba, arrived from New York
yesterday afternoon at o'clock and
went Immediately to the state depart
ment, where Judge Day, the assistant
secretary of state, was awaiting him,
and together they proceeded to the
White House. They We're shown into
the cabinet room, where President Nc
Kinley and Judge Day listened to Mr..
Calhoun's description of the situation
one the war-ridden island and to the
conclusions reached by him.
Judge Day declined to be interview
ed on the subject of the conference fur
Their than to say it was very interest
ing Mr. Calhoun likewise preferred
not to talk except to say he had report
ed to the president what he had seen
and heard. He had an appointment
to meet the president in the morning.
He will not go to Nashville with Mr..
Mckinley. but will leave for his home
in Illinois probably tomorrow, and if
necessary will visit here after the pres
ident returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
TAILORS ARE VIOLENT.
Striking Garment Makers Abuse Pro-
prietors of "Sweat Shops"

New York, June 9.-Nearly four
weeks ago the striking tai1ors exhibited
such an attitude that their every move
was watched today. Inspired with
new ideas inculcated at last nights
meeting, committees armed with au-
thority from the Brotherhood of Tall
ors called on the non-union men en-
plOyed in shops where prOprietOrs have
up to the present ignored the settle
ment committee.
Contractor Rottenberg, in East Hous-
ton street, whom they first visited pro-
tested against the interference of the
committee and sent for the police At
the arrival of the latter, 25 non union
men were induced to quit work and
leave the building. A fight between
ROttenberg and the picket followed,
which resulted in slight injury to the
former and the arrest of three of the
latter. The committee then called on
Contractor Tack in Attorney street and
lessened his force by %.
When going upstairs somebody
shouted fire" and the house was soon
in an uprOar. In obedience to the or
der of the union party, 20 operators left
their benches and went to the rendez-
vOus of the striking tailOrs in Orchard
street.
The last place entour visited by the
picket force was the shop of Contractor
Samuel Lewis in Delaney street, where
p hands quit work. A boy was sent
for the police, but was held captive by
the pickets until they thought better to
withdraw. Meanwhile Louis Steu-
beck, proprietor of a sweat-shop in
Willet street, was defending himself
with a. revolver at Broom and Pitt
street from the fury of a mob Of 500
striking tailors.
The sight of the weapon kept the
mob at q distance until the interven-
ton of a policeman, who escorted the
frightened contractor to his home.
The strikers, assigning a reason for
the attempted assault on Steubeok
said that he never paid his operators.
According to the strike bulletin issued
early today, over 5000 coat tailors and
1900 children's jacket makers resumed
work today under conditions stipulat-
ed by the brotherhood of Tailors.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
WHAT TO DO WITH IT.
Agitates the Populist Mind in Con-
nection With the Bribery
Committee.

What policy will be pursued by the
bribery investigating committee when
the members assemble in this city
Thursday afternoon is a question which
is receiving attention at the state house.
Some favor an Immediate adjournment
of the committee while other politicians
suggest that the committee proceed and
take further voluntary testimony. This
method does not receive the sanction of
the party managers.
It is said that some of the state Off
GERS will urge the committee to go home
at once and not drag the party down
any further by the investigation. Others
insist, Governor Leedy himself being
one of the most pronounced in that view
that if any of the men who have been
assailed in the investigation desire to
go upon the witness stand and make
statement in their own behalf they
should not be deprived of the opportun-
ity to do so.
Governor Leedy said today: eff there
is a man in the state whose character
has been besmirched he should be per-
mitted to so upon the stand and defend
himself It would be an injustice, in
view of the past action of the committee
to permit an adjournment without Civ
ing all who desire it a chance to be
heard"
Ex-GOv. Lewelling at one time ex-
pressed a desire to make a statement
in his own behalf but he now says he
will pay no attention TO the charges
that have been made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09

wrought in their attitude. The longer
this matter is put off the lower Will be
the reduction of rates when it does
finally come.
THE railroads figured around for
months striving to discover some meth
Cd of evading the decision of the su-
preme court in the tranSmiSSOuri case.
They have at last succeeded. Now when
they want to raise the rate on certain
classes of freight they simply change
the classification in which the particu-
lar article is now placed and remove it
to a certain class carrying a higher
freight rate. I presume passenger as
sociatiOns will soon pursue similar
methods.
IF we can get a state railroad the
people will patFOniZe it. Suppose we
should run a railroad north and south
through Kansas. We would cut through
could be made under which these exist
ing lines could deliver freight to the
state road which would be responsible
for great reductions. Then existing
lines would be compelled to accOmmO-
date themselves to those conditions. We
would not be placed under the necessity
of 1egiSlating against the railroads now
doing business. We would simply COM
pei them to come down in their rates
of their own accord. We would not be
tiOns who refuse absolutely to depart
from the error of their ways and con-
tinue to absorb from the people all the
profits of shipments to market.
Cutting through the trunk lines
would compel them to nquidate and
reOrganize on a lower basis. If we
were to shrink the wind and water out
OF these corporations some degree of
justice might be expected. We might
have some trouble as a result. These
roads are mortgaged to Europe and
they might send an army over here to
collect their interest and mortgages"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
GRAIN AT A CENT a BUsHEL
Buffalo Jones Says it Can Be Carried
to Tide Water at That Rate.

Buffalo Jones who built a part of
Fred Closes north pole railroad in
Texas, a total of so miles, is the latest
recruit to join Governor Leedy's air
line scheme. He was in Topeka a few
days ago and in the course of an in
EervieW pertaining to the subject, given
on his return to Oklahoma, said:
There will be no special session of
Ghe Kansas legislat ure before next win
ter. The railway people undoubtedly
sounded every member before they met
1he Kansas railway commissioners, and
felt that they could safely refuse to re-
duce rates. Had they doubted their
safety they would have compromised
by giving a reasonable reduction. Gov
ernOr Leedy realizes the situation and
viii not call the legislature together
unless he is satisfied that it will do bus
My opinion is that railway legisla-
tion to control rates is at an end for all
time, and that the only way we can get
relief is to build our railway to tide
water, and operate it at about cost.
Grain could be carried at one cent
bushel for each hundred miles and a
good profit made on the cost of the
road. I can build a road equal to the
Santa Fe, from Kansas to the gulf for
less than s., 200 a mile The rolling
stock sufficient to operate it on liberal
scale would not cost more than $4,000
mile. For safe figuring, put the total
cost at IS 900 a mile, which is only about
Dne-eighth of the average capitalization
of railways in the United States. The
IS 80 cents a hundred pounds, or 20 cents
a busheL 1t should be handled for
seven cents. and not more than ten
cents a bushel. There are 20 million
bushels of wheat to be moved out of
Oklahoma this year, which means two
million dollars virtually stolen from the
people, without considering the freight
on corn, cotton, cattle, hogs and other
products, which will be at least as much
more, or a total of four million dollars.
Then there is Kansas with 500 million
bushels of corn, so millions of wheat
and other products sufficient to swell
the total to 500 million bushels of grain.
1t is reaSOna BILE to suppose that one
half of this Will be shipped, and that
the railways will get an average of
eight cents a bushel more than they
should charge, or a total of "A million
dollars. That, with Oklahoma, makes
2S million We could build and equip
a railway from northern Kansas to the
gulf for six million dollars, leaving US
q millions from the savings of this year
for pin money
They should have a new legislature
Ia Kansas"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
A LITTLE HORSE
Sense and It Lands Home.

If a man would give his high-bred
horse, day after day, a connection to
drink, that was a certain detriment to
digestion and that slowly poisoned the
stomach liver and nerves, he would be
considered definite fool by all knowers.
Some mems bodies are worth as much as
those of a good horse In the isolated
cases where this fact seems clearly estab-
lished it would be the part of good cool
judgment and plain every day common
sense, to give such body as fair treat
ment as one would to the horse, partic-
ularly when it is remembered that with
a good physical body, kept in health and
strength, man can do things.
There is quite as great a contrast be-
tween the worth of well man and a sick
one, as between a we'll horse and foun'
dered old wreck, to say nothing of the
'feelins of the critter'' in either case.
Blind to the cause of his physical ais,
man (and women too persists, day after
day in pouring into the protesting body
a liquid drug called coffee, known by all
chemists and physicians, to contain the
same poisonous alkaloids as found in
strychnine, morphine, whisky and to-
baccO and to require a powerful consti-
tuition to withstand. The weak ones sink
under the insiduous drug daily adminis-
tered and seldom know enough to spot
their enemy. How do we know cOfIee IS
the enemy some ask.
Let the little spark of common sense
flash again, and direct. that coffee be left
off for ten days. You may not get enc
tirely well in that time, my impatient
friend, you would like to ride down hin
for several years and climb back in 10
days, but you must let the little spark
flash again. The quickest way to get up
the hill of health is by the royal road of
good food and nourishing drink
After a long line of experiments looking
to the production of a health coffee, the
Postum Cereal Co.. Linn, of Battle Creek,
Mich, perfected Postum by a skillful
treatment of the healthful grains, and
Postum now stands as a liquid food-drink
of great value, while it cannot be dis
tinguished from the choicest coffee in its
color. and the taste is such that it is
easily mistaken for Mocha coffee. Its in
PRODUCTION into the home, means that
adults and children can have all the en-
joyment of coffee and daily add to their
bodily health by the addition of just so
much nourishment, in palatable form, as
the pure grains of the field contain. 1T
makes red blood is the trade mark and
the rosy tinge of health attests the truth
of the statement.
There is but one genuine original Pos
tum Cereal coffee, with multitude OF
| limitations offered as ''just as good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
HAIL MAKES REPUBLICANS.
Webb McNa1l's Course Criticized by a
Storm Sufferer

Graphic, has sent a letter to Webb Nc
Nall superintendent of insurance. The
letter is dated at Oakley, June z. It is
as follows; Sir: This afternoon a big
hail storm destroyed thousands of acres
of wheat in the south part of Thomas
county beyond recovery, and owing to
your fool policy regarding hail insur-
ance this is total loss to every farmer
in the district affected.
Nearly all those affected are Popu-
lists, and it is unnecessary to say that
they love you and also a governor who
would inhict such as you upon them.
"A few more such hail storms as this
and such insurance commissioners as
you and Thomas county will be as reli-
ably Republican as is Logan county"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
A SWEET PEA CARNIVAL.
Redwood City Opens Ter Fiesta With
Queen Growing.

Redwood City, June 9.-The sweet pea
carnival opened under the most auspi-
cious circumstances last night in the
new pavilion. A perfect forest of
greens greets the eye on entering the
hall, and the decoration committee de-
serves the highest commentator and
praise for the manner in which they
have beautif1ed the scene.
On this initial night of the flower
show the queen was crowned, and a
more stately. imposing and beautiful
queen could not be found. Nor is she
the only handsome one; her maids
eight in number, represent different
types of beauty, blonde and brunette.
A lovely picture they made, surround
ing her majesty on the throne, all
dressed in spOtIess white.
The dancers then formed in the hall
in front of the platform directly below
the throne and upon the order of the
prime minister commenced to dance.
This dance ended, the queen and her
minister stepped down from the throne
and led the grand march, after which
dancing commenced and continued all
night. The carnival will last three
days longer.