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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
h. C.. BANKS UNITED.
Midland National and Bank of Com
merce are Now One

Kansas City, Mo-, July ia special
to the Star from Washington says: The
last formal act in the matter of con-
solidation of the Midland National and
the National Bank of Commerce of
Kansas City was finished when Deputy
Comptroller Coffin attached his sigma
ture to the contract between the
banks.
BY the absorption of the Midland Ma
tional, the National Bank of Commerce
becomes one of the strongest banking
institutions in the west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Chanute Militia Company.

Houston Carr of Chanute is in the city
today comforting with the adjutant gen
eraI in regard to the mastering in of
a new company at Chanute into the
state militia The company will be
composed entirely of Sons of Veterans
Mr.. Carr has made application for uni
forms and guns for the company and it
will be mustered in shortly as part of
the K. N. G., having the distinguishing
feature of being composed entirely of
Sons of Veterans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Educate Your bowels win Cascaree

CANDY Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
1Oc 25c. II c. G. c. fail, druggists refund money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
irving to Frighten Us

City of Mexico July 16-El Mundo
{newspaper) comments unfavorabIy on
the projected annex@r on of hawaii to
the United States and intimates that
Japan is able to make trouble for the
United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Made KNIGHT of the Garter.

London, July 16.-The Earl of Derby
has been appointed a knight of the gar
ter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-16
Conron Bros. Removed.

Conron Bros, piano dealers, have re-
moved from s25 Kansas aH-e, to III W.
Seventh.
The advocate., 1897-03-24

closed in mourning soon after he occu-
pied it.
j. B. Bostwick's charming place at
MamRroneck was his TO enjoy not very
long. Aspinwall met with misfortune
soon after he built his famous. place at
Tsrrytown, and not long after William
Rockefeller enlarged and improved it his
son was brought almost to deaths door.
Eliot F., Shepard died even before the
great mansion he was building at Tarry-
town was completed, and A. 7. Stewart
was barely settled in the marble palace
which he built on Fifth avenue when
death called him.
William II. Vanderbilts first stroke of
paralysis came soon after his new home
on Fifth avenue was completed, and
there, few years later, came with the
swiftness Of the lightning's stroke the
fatal attack. The marble house in which
William X. Vanderbilt expected to main
tain conspicuous social festivity became
Of such gloomy association by reason Of
domestic troubles that he abandoned it,
while Cornelius Vanderbilt had been in
all only a few months in his new man
sion when his active powers were shat
tered, and so the list could be extended.
There is no need to do chat to show
that Mr.. Huntington's fear may be due
to pardonable superstitution or that
there are other reasons than reluctance
to spend money that explains why it is
that the building Of costly private man
sions is the only investment in real
estate from which the greater capitalists
seem to shrink.
The advocate., 1897-03-24
New Superstition.
letter In Philadelphia Press.

Letter in Philadelphia Press.
Since Cornelius VRnderbilt's costly
city dwelling upon Fifth avenue, just
south of the plaza, was completed, no
propositions for costly and conspicuous
private mansions have been offered to
the architects.
There is a reluctance, due in part to a
superstition not frankly acknowledged,
to spend great sums in building city
homes or country residences. e. G.
Benedict's million dollar country seat,
erected upon the site OF Tweed's Ameri-
Gus Club house, is conspicuous as an ex-
ception.
There are melancholy recolIections
that may in part explain this supersti-
tion, On lower Fifth avenue the costly
mansions erected not many years ago for
August Belmont and Marshall o. Rob-
erts and Edwards Pierrepont and James
Gordon Bennett are deserted and are to
be delivered over to trade,
The elder Bennett had a beautiful
country place at the farther northern
point Of Manhattan island, but had not
many years enjoyment on it, nor did
Charles O'Conor, who was his neighbor
in this then country retreat, find that he
had bought much else there than ILL
health, which drove him to Nantucket
island to pass his declining years,
@. P, Huntington is said to have a su.
perstition that ill.tortune will attend him
It he occupies the granite mansion he
built upon Fifth avenue, nearly opposite
the Vanderbilt house.
Yet it may be that he is merely calling
to mind the experience of some Of his
friends. Charles j. Osborn, the broker,
built costly home just out of the city,
only to die in it, and the neighboring
mansion Of tho millionaire FlRgler was
The advocate., 1897-03-24

that though nations belligerent and re-
vengeful may sign articles Of peace and
come to an amicaBle adjustment, there
shall be no cessation Of hostilities be-
tween the forces of light and the forces
Of darkness until the kingdoms Of this
world have become the kingdoms Of our
Lord. Affrighted by no opposition, dis
couraged by no temporary defeats,
shrinking from no exposure-every man
to his position, while from the top Of
schools and churches and seminaries and
asylums, In the name Of God we will set
up our banners"
The advocate., 1897-03-24
peieetIye sIght In school children.

Minneapolis (Minn) Tribune.
The results of the newly instituted
eye examination that is in operation in
the schools at present bring out some
startling facts, which strongly suggest
that the eyes Of the present century are
not nearly, as good as eyes Of other days.
In an examination Of the eyes in the
German schools, there was found to be
rs per cent of the scholars who wore, or
absolutely needed to wear, glasses. The
Minneapolis schools are nearly as bad.
Professor Webster, Of the East Side
High school, has devoted his whole time
for three days to the eye examination.
The eyesight Of about 80 per cent. of
those examined is seriously defective,
and when asked il they suffered with
headache when studying, about one-third
of the scholars answered in the affirms-
tive, the headache being due to defective
eyes. The principal said he found that
the scholars of the better families had
the poorer eyes, and that the same was
true Of those who took the Latin course.
At the South Side High school the
eyes were found to be even worse Pro-
fessor Sawyer said that between 40 and
80 per cent. Of his scholars needed to
wear glasses, and that 80 per cent. more
were in need Of medical treatment. That
is to say, there are 80 per cent. defective
eyes in the South Side High school.
The advocate., 1897-03-24

Marvellous Mechanism of the Human Body.
Ladies' Home Journal.
The human body is an epitome in
nature Of all mechanics, all hydraulics,
all architecture, all machinery Of every
kind. There are more than 80 me-
chanical movements known to mechanics
to-day, and all of these are but modifca-
tions of those found in the human body.
Here are found oil the bars, levers, Joints,
pulleys, pumps, pipes, wheels and axles,
ball and socket movements, beams,
girders, trusses, buffers, arches, columns,
cables and supports known to science.
At every point mans best mechanical
work can be shown to be but adaptations
Of processes Of the human body, a
revelation of first principles used in
nature.
The advocate., 1897-03-24

New occasions teach new duties: Time makes
ancient good uncouth
They must upward still and onward, who
would keep abreast OF Truth.
Loi before us gleam her camp-hres; we our
selves must Pilgrims be,
Launch our MayfloWeT and steer boldly,
through the desperate winter sea.
james Russell LOWeu
The advocate., 1897-03-24
Learned While Visiting.

/ went visiting the other day and
learned something, as one may usually
do. IL they observe the methods Of good
housekeepers. Mrs. Smith is an ex-
tremely neat woman, and has the faculty
Of getting the full value Of every dollar
she spends. Stingy? Not a bit Of it.
Many poor woman who needed a little
help to tide her over some financial diff
Guilty can testify to her ready sympathy
and her deeds Of charity. Her hus-
bands income has never been large, yet
they have bought and paid for their
pretty home, taken care Of his widowed
mother who has been almost an invalid
for years, they are giving their four cbil-
dren good education, and the whole
family is always we'll dressed. We dis
cussed the weather, the last church
social and kindred topics, while Mrs.
Smith finished dress for her 7-year-Old
daughter. 1t was very pretty gar.
ment, which the elder Mrs. Smith told
me proudly that her daughter-in,law
had made OF an old dress she had worn
the winter before.
81 used to think l was economical and
good manager" she went on; "but
when 1t comes to making over dresses
and such things for the children, Jennie
is far ahead Of me-"
"And yet" remarked the younger
woman, 81 have been called extravagant
because l try to have the children
dressed nicely to go to school,"
"The idea |" exclaimed the grand
mother. "Charlie's suit and Carries
Sunday dress are the only really new
garments that have been purchased this
season. would think it almost impos
sible to provide for the family with the
allowance John gives her for that pur-
pose, but she does it, and does it we'll. I"
Then, encouraged by her mother in
laws praise, and finding that l really
wished to become better acquainted with
her methods, she gave me several Items
that think will be OF interest to other
economical women.
We live ten miles from city, and
when the dry goods stores advertise
large special or clearing sales she usually
attends them, taking with her carefully
prepared list OF the articles she needs.
The advocate., 1897-03-24
A Great Saving for Horse Owners.

Carriages, buggies and harness can be
bought of the Elkhart Carriage and Har
ness Manufacturing Company of Elkhart,
Ind, at one-third less than dealers prices.
Their products are described in large
catalogue that is mailed free.
The advocate., 1897-03-24

Then she does not allow herself to be
persuaded to buy things she does not
need because they are cheap. Table
linen, toweling, hosiery, handkerchiefs,
muslin, cotton trimmings, ETC., are pur-
chased in this way. Winter dress goods
can usually be bought at one-third less
than the usual prices at the close Of the
winter season. As she chooses plain
colors, unobtrusive pIaids or narrow
stripes, carefully avoiding novelties"
they are not out of season the next win.
ter. She is not tempted by the low
prices to buy any but sll.wool cash
meres, flannels and similar materials,
knowing from past experience that they
are cheaper in the end than the fimsy
half-cotton materials that lose their
beauty iu a short time; for when they
are worn a season or two they can be
washed, dyed darker color, and made
over for the little girls. They are as
pretty rs if made OF new goods, and last
until they are outgrOwn,
Skirts are lined with calico instead Of
cambria. It costs no more, and when
the dress is made over the lining can be
washed and stsrched and is then ready
to use again, Waist Innings are not used
the second time as Innings, but when the
girls dresses are made with blouse waists,
or jackets, the skirts are usually sewed
to an underwaist, and old silesia is often
used for that
Buttons are always removed from old
garments and kept in button bag which
hangs over the sewing machine. In that
way the same buttons may be used for
a great many garments. When sewing
them on muslin underwaists, cotton
dresses, and aprons, an interlining is
put in the hem; then a pin is slipped
under the button while sewing on, and
when the sewing is done, the needle is
pushed through the cloth to the upper
side, wrapped around the thread and
fastened, thus forming small shank for
the button. They are net likely to be
torn off when fastened in this way.
"You have often often admired the
green dress made this fall she said
81 will tell you how contrived it. had
pretty skirt Of green plaid, and an old
dress of fawn-colored cashmere. OF
course could not use the two together
as they were, so I dyed the cashmere.
The plaid was washed, pressed on the
wrong side, and used for sleeves, yoke
and collar. have not had more stylish
looking dress for years. Freddie's new
blue suit is made of the best parts of one
Of pGpa's old ones. In fact, try to allow
nothing to be wasted il there is bit of
good material in it, and that is the secret
Of economy" ELSIE GRAY.
The advocate., 1897-03-24
Family Reading.

We must not hope TO be mowers,
And TO gather the ripe gold ears,
Until we have hrst been sewers,
And watered the furTows with tears;
IL is not just az we take it,
This mystical world Of ours;
Lies field will yield, as we make II,
A harvest OF thorns or flowers.
--d lice CnTlL
The advocate., 1897-03-24
TaIrnage ON War.

mon on war by Mr.. Talmage:
~ hate war! In my boyhoOd we may
have read the biography Of Alexander or
Of some Revolutionary hero until our
young heart beat high and we wished
we had been born over a hundred years
ago, just for the glory Of striking down q
Hessian. For rusty swords hung up on
the rafters and bullets cut out Of log
houses in which they were lodged dur
ing the great strife we had unboundsd
admiration, or on some public day,
clothed in our grandfather's soldierly
acoouterments, we felt as brave as Carl
baldi or Miltiades. We are wiser now,
for we make vast distinction between
the poetry and the prose Of war. y 4
But there is now on the earth a kingdom
which has set itself up for conflicts with
out number. In it's march it tramples
no grain fields, it sacks no cities, it i'm
poverishes no treasures, it fills no hospi-
tolls, it bereaves no families. The courage
and victory of Solferino and Magenta
without carnage. The kingdom OF Christ
against the kingdom Of Satan. That is
the strife now raging. We will offer no
Rrmistices; we will make no treaty.
Until all the revolted nations Of the earth
shall submit again to King Emanuel, in
the name of God we will set up our ban
ners.'
"The church makes no assault upon
the world. l do not believe that God
ever made a better world than this. II
is magnificent in it's ruins. Let US stop
talking so much against the world. God
pronounced it very good at the begin
ming. Though wandering child Of God,
I see in it yet the Great Fathers Inca
ments, Though tossed and driven by
the storms Of 5000 0years, she sails bravely
yet, and as at her launching in the be-
ginning the morning stars sang together
and all the sons OF God shouted for Joy,
so at last, when coming into the calm
hRrbor Of Gods mercy she shall be
greeted by the huzzas Of glori6ed king
doms 1t is not the world against which
we contend, but its transgressions.
Whatever is obstinate in the will, de-
grading in passion, harmful in custom,
false in friendship, hypocritical in pro-
Ression--agAinst all this Christ makes
onset. From false profession he would
tear the mask. From oppression he
would snatch the rod. From pride he
would rend off the plumes. From re.
venge he would exercise the devil
While Christ loved the world so much
he died TO save it, he hates sin so vel
that 70 eradicate the last trace OF its pol
luton he will utterly consume the cont
nents and the oceans. At the gate O.
Eden the declaration Of perpetual enmity
was made against the serpent. The
tumult round about Mount Sinai wa
only the roar and flash of Gods artillery
of wrath against sin. Sodom on fire wsl
only one Of Gods flaming bulletins an
nouncing hostility. Nineveh and Tyr,
aud Jerusalem In awful ruin mark thu
track Of Jehovah's advancement They
show that God was terribly in earnes
when he announced himself abhorren
ct al iniquity. They make us belisv,
The advocate., 1897-03-24

DrOwsiness u dispelled BY BEEcHAM's PILLa.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
THE CONTRACTOR ATTEMPTS TO
KILL JOHN LMMELUTH.
The Ball Went Wide of the Mark and
Lodged in Timber-Cowardly At
tempt to Slay a Citizen.

About o'clock this morning
Thomas Walker. the brick contractor,
fired "A shot from behind the stone
wall, near the east gate of the Airing
ton grounds on King streets, into the
third story of the Emmeluth building
now in the course of construction on
the opposite side of the street. The
shot was intended for John Emmelut tn,
so it is claimed, and Walker is now
held at the police station on the
charge of assault with intention TO
kill.
The trouble between Emmeluth and
Walker seems to have been the out
growth of a brick contract on the
building, which Walker holds.
Walker had a rife belonging to the
Government, he being a member of
Capt. Murrary's company. After firing
the shot he emerged from behind the
wall, the smoke still issuing from the
barrel. He walked through the new
building dropped his gun in the back
yard and then walked TO the police
station.
The bullet went through the win
dow sash and lodged in some timbers.
1t came within about feet of Emme-
luth. Tommy Cummins. a brother-in-
law of Walker, was standing on the
stage back of Emmeluth and might of
had narrow escape. The bullet
struck near where two carpenters
were working.
1t is said that Walker has been
drinking of late.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
FOSTER MAY NOT GO.

WASHINGTON, April 7.-ENSecre-
tary j. W. Foster, who had an inter
Sherman and the President, was asked
whether he was to go to Turkey. He
replied that lie had supposed the dec
lination of the Sultan to create an EN-
bassy in Washington made it imprac-
ticable for the President to nominate
him as ambassador, and that he had
abandoned any expectation he may
have entertained about going to Con-
stantinople.
The creation of a special envoy by
act of Congress, he said, was an un-
usual proceeding, only warranted by
great emergencies.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
COST HIM ELY +.

When the Monowai arrived off the
City, says late Call, Hawaiian Consul
Wilder had a boat off to meet her,
seeking his mail from Honolulu. He
was anxious to secure ii and his haste
cost him s.. The boat hailed the
steamer apd asked for the Consul's
mail. 1t was thrown over, but landed
in the water. and it cost him just five
to have the papers fshed up for him.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
STEPHEN III. PHILLIPS.
Death of Man Once Prominent in
Hawaii.

\ telegram fro Salem, Mass, dated
April Sth, announces the death of
Stephen II. Phillips at his home in
that city. During the sixties the late
Mr.. Phillips was prominent figure in
Honolulu, and occupied the position
of Attorney General under Kane
hameha V. Upon the death of the lat
ter he returned to his home in the
States. He was a well trained lawyer,
a ripe scholar and an excellent speak
er, and did some of the best work of
his life in these islands. He was sew
enty-four years of age at his death
and left the islands twenty-siX years
ago.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
IS FRIENDLY 70 HAWAII THE RC INFLUENCE SOLID FOR ANNEXATION WALKER AND HIS RIFLE
Thu RSTON THINKS IT MAY BE
COME SUPREME.
Dilemma Presented TO People of Ha-
waii-Growing Power of the Fast
EN-Minister Favors Territory.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-"There are
but two futures before Hawaii" said
Lorin \. Thurston, cX- Minister 70 the
United States from the island, who is
here in charge of the annexation pro-
paganda. The islands must be 3n.
neNed to the United States, ~ Asia .ic
influence will become supreme. We do
not fear any forcible invasion by the
possession of the islands by any Euro
pean country. If we are not to bc an
neXed to the United States the rapid
increase of the Asiatic population will
swamp up within few years This is
inevitable from our commercial condi-
tions. The planters are the control
ling influence on the islands. If Ha-
wai is to remain outside of the United
States and be subjected to the possi-
bility of high protective duties or hcr
commodities the planters must neces-
sarily protect themselves by employ
ing the cheapest of cheap labor.
"There is nothing between Hawaii
and the United States now but mere
treaty, which can be obragated at any
time by Act of Congress. Once IN the
United States, the planters coult af-
ford to pay American rates of wages,
because their products would not have
to pass through the custom lous2. So
long as they are at the mercy of
changing political conditions in the
United States they must continue TO
be that, unless annexation comes
speedily, the islands will be over
whelmed with .Asiatics, who, in the
natural course of events, must sooner
or later assume control
1--WE do not ask for admission as a
STAKE, nor do we want it. Annexation
on such terms would be particularly
disastrous to Hawaii and would give
to America an undesirable State. If
annexation is to come at all it should
be on the basis established in the case
lines originally laid down for the
Northwest Territory.
The islands could be acceptably
managed by an appointive Governor,
with an advisory council. The islands
need not have as much Legislative
power as is now granted to the orga j.
lied territories of the United States.
We would be perfectly willing to ac-
cept the conditions usually imposed
upon rganized territories, and they
would, in fact be the very best for
Hawaii for years to come.
"On the other hand, for the reasons
! have indicated, absolute political
union with the United States must
come at once. or it will be too late TO
put stop to cheap Asiatic labor.
With annexation we can support hun
dreds of thousands of prosperous cit
izens and develop the islands enor-
mously. Without it, American inter
ests there will soon have to be
abandoned"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
DAVITT on HAWAII.

CHICAGO, April 7.-Michael Davitt,
the Irish leader, who is in Chicago on
his way to California, said in an in
terview today: II think the conduct
of this country in the matter of the
rehensible. 1t should, by all means,
annex the islands. The people. with
the exception of the japanese part of
shameful that it has not been done"
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-17
VICTORY FOR TRUST.

TOLEDO, o., April 9.-ln the Ar
buckle-Woolson injunction suit the
Circuit Court today overruled the
plaintiffs motion for new trial and
granted fifty days in which to file a
bill of exceptions. The Common Pleas
Court some time ago dissolved the in
junction to restrain the defendants
from cutting prices on coffee.