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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-07

BURKEVILLE, Va, July Especial
Miss Mary c. Agnew. aged thlrty-two
years, associate principal OF Ward SEMI
nary, in Nashville. Tenn. died at ;
o'clock yesterday morning at the home
OF her brother. J. Perkins Agnew, near
this place.
Miss Agnew, who was raised In this
section, was a most estimable young
lady. and drew around her large circle
of friends. who will be greatly shocked
TO hear OF her death.
For seveAl years she has been teach
ing in Nashville and had just returned
home 10 spend her vacation, but was
taken sick on her arrival and fingered
onV a few days.
The funeral services were held from
the Burkeville Presbyterian church at
10 o'clock to-day. Rev. T. p. Epes Of
ficiating assisted by ReVs. X. W. Grid
lin and s. G. Hutton, and the interment
was made at the family burying ground
about three miles from Burkeville.
She was the daughter OF the late DR..
Agnew, OF this place. and IS survived by
two brothers and three sisters-J. Perk-
ms Agnew. cashier OF the Bank Of Crewe:
Willie Agnew. OF Richmond; Miss Jean
Agnew. of Burkeville: Miss Ella Ag-
new. who Is now teaching In Cape Town.
South Africa, and Mrs J. ID. Hughes or
Burkeville.
The following gentlemen acted as pail
hearers: Messrs. Henry Hundley. w.
r. Cridlin Stephen Farrar =. ". Roswell.
Mclean Leath and Melville Harding.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
HE WAS NOT DEAD
But Only Sleeping-Man Found in an
Alley Late at Night.

Last night at 1890 o'clock someone
passing the alley south of Eighth street
and between Kansas and Jackson
street saw a man lying in the alley ap-
parently dead. An alarm was given
and soon a crowd had gathered to see
who it was who was found to be dead
The police department was notified and
DeMoss & PenwelPS ambulance was
called.
On the ground back of Keenes drug
store lay Jess Lytle, son of ex-Police-
man J. r. Lytle. People who shook
him, felt his pulse, and tried to arouse
him declared that he was dead Soon
a policeman arrived and further efforts
We're made at arousing the dead man. -
Soon he showed signs of animation. His
clothing which had been almost re-
moved from his body was replaced and
a friend took the young man away. He
had been drinking heavily. A few min
utes afterward the ambulance dashed
up to the transfer station ready to
haul the dead or dying. The affair
caused much excitement.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
CORN CROP Is SHORT.
Orange Judd Farmer Reports its Con-
dition as S6.4, Small De-
cline for July.

Chicago, Aug. 9.-The August crop
report of the Orange Judd Farmer,
based upon county returns from all the
principal agricultural counties of the
country, makes the condition of the corn
crop on August 1, S6.4 against SS.4 on
July 1. This is below the average for
a series of years, and it has been lower
but once in recent years, in the year of
partial failure, 1894. The low condition
a month ago merely reflected diSap-
pointment at the backward condition of
the plant, but the present figure not on
ly reflects this continued lateneSS, but
a further positive damage to the crop:
July was reasonably favorable east OF
the Mississippi river, and the condition
in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois advanced
to a point where a moderate crop is in
dicated. In Iowa and Missouri the crop
barely held its own, while in Nebraska
there was a slight falling off. The Sc
we're decline of the month was in Kan
SaS where there was a drop of II points;
in Texas, with drop of 20 points, and
in Arkansas of Is points. If the present
growth of the crop was nOrmalthe pres
ent report might be taken as indicating
a crop between 1900, 900, 900 and 1,900,-
600, 600 bushels, but in seasons like the
present the final rate of yield is apt to
be less than that indicated by condi-
tiOnal reports, and an expectation of
over 1880, ,000, 900 bushels must be based
upon entirely favorable weather condi-
tfons during the rest of the season, with
exemption from frost for at least ten
days later than usual in the more
northern part of the belt.
The average condition of spring wheat
is 87.4, a decline during the month of 6
points. South Dakota declined 10 points,
due to generally unfavorable conditions
during the month; Minnesota points,
the result of some rust and blight in
the southern counties. The northern
part of the state is still in good prom
ise. In North Dakota the early prom
Use is well maintained. With favorable
weather for harvesting the crop should
exceed 230, 900 bushels. Threshing
shows winter wheat yields uniformly
higher than expected. Returns from
nearly 1000 correspondents, giving
neighborhood results so far as deVel-
Oped, make a general average for the
breadth of 1876 bushels. Should the la
ter threshing confirm these earlier
yields the crop will equal 1862, 900, 600
bushels, the largest crop grown with
the single exception of 1891. The quail
ity of the crop is remarkably high and
very uniform. The last report on oats
condition is a trif1e lower than a month
ago. The average is S6.4. indicating a
crop approximating SOC, 100000 bushels
of fair quality, against III, 900, 600 last
year of very inferior quality
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
Illness That Brought Him Fortune.

It is Sir Harry Johnston, whose book on
Central Africa, just published, is securing
SO much attention in Europe, who has
succeeded Mr.. Haggard as consul general
at Tunis, his return to that place in an
official capacity serving to recall the cir
cumstances under which he went there
previously. A few years ago Harry John
ston was working as a craftsman in the
office of q petty London architect at the
munif1cent salary of 81 week, when sud
denly he lost his health and was informed
that unless he resorted at once to a hot
climate he would lose his life.
Accordingly he betook himself to Tunis.
where he was quickly restored to health,
but where he acquired that taste for Afri
can life which led him first of all to dis
tinguish himself an explorer in the
service of one of the great London daily
newspapers, and then to enter the consular
service of the government For several
years past he has been acting as admins
traitor of British Central Africa, and now.
after having married the popular sister OF
Lord Boston and received the knighthood
of the Bath. he is gazetted to the lucrative
post of British consul general at Tunis.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
WANT A REPUBLIC OF GOD.
One of the Ideals of English Social Re-
formers.

One of the Ideals of English Social Re.
formers.
Percy Alden, warden of Mansfield House,
East London, lectured the other day at
Chautauqua on university and Social
Settlement In London" He said:
''The settlements of today, little as they
have done, aim at nothing less than the
welding into a whole of the scattered and
one might also say the antagonistic ele
ments of society-not by any one powerful
stroke, but by the more mighty and potent
influence of personal friendship and love
expressed in the life of brother man and
fellow citizen.
"Men are beginning to recognize that
the best returns of a nation s wealth are
not always realized in hard cash; that the
problem of distribution of wealth cannot
be solved without reference to the duties OF
man and the well being of society. AL
charity is in a true sense impossible unless
founded on the basis of justice. The idea
underlying all our municipal life and gov
ernment is that there are in each district
men of leisure and education who are pre-
pared to give their time and talent to the
service of the people.
'FThe settlement is a temporary expedi
ent. The ideal to work for is the brother
hood of man without social schism-a re
public of God without disloyal subject. -
Exchange.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
KLoNDIKE Oh KLoNDYKE.
The First the Proper Way of Spelling tn

The First the Proper Way of Spelling the
Word.
The newspapers are printing nowadays
an unusual numb beP of place names in
Alaska and the adjoining regions. Some
OF the most promineD5 names appear un-
der variety of spel1ings, for which, in
mose cases, there is really no good reason,
for the orthography of Alaskan place
names has in recent years received much
attention from our geographers, and esps
cially from our government board on gee
graphic names, which, in all our govern.
ment maps and other publications at least
has brought order out of the great confur
sion in Alaskan nomenclature.
Mr.. Goodrich of our geological survey
party which studied the Yukon goldfelds
last year has written that the still unpub-
hshed report of the party gives "Clondike"
as the name of the river that is now the
center of interest. When the editor of the
geological survey documents has the re-
port ready for publication, it is safe to say
the name will not begin with capital &c G. -
Klondike is the white mani version of an
Indian expression, and in the hundreds Of
Indian and foreign names in Alaska and
elsewhere upon whose spellings the board
on geographic names has passed since
1890 there is not one name in which the
letter ''C'' has been used except to represent
the soft sound of that letter. The ortho-
graphic rules of the board, printed on page
9 of its first report, say tb86 in foreign and
aboriginal names t 'C' III always soft and
has nearly the sound of IS, as in Celebes, -
and '' X should always be used for the
hard co.
Some of our newspapers spell the name
'Klondyke," :" using ''y'' as vowel. This
is entirely contrary to the precept and
practice of all the leading geographical So
cieties and of our board. In none of the
spellings of the hundreds of Indian names
which have in recent years been unified
in our government publications has the
letter ''y'' been employed as vowel, and
the rule of the board says that q " is al
ways a consonant, as in yard and there
fore should not be used for the vowel i. 4"
The purpose in all proper spellings of
aboriginal words is to convey, approxi-
mately. the native sound. In accordance
with the best geographic usage at home
and abroad, the name of the river which
is now every ones tongue should be
spelled "Klondike. New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
SENATOR BAKERS WORRY.
Has Al Applications for the Leaven-
worth Postoffice.

Leavenworth, Aug. 9.-The real rea-
son for Senator Bakers anxiety to get
the Emporia postOffice matter off his
hands, was explained by one of his
friends last night.
Baker" he said, ''has a fight on his
hands here at home. There are just
Al candidates after the postoffiee. Each
is claiming old friendship and former
favors and the worst of it is that their
claims are true
Half of them have eaten in his
house and entertained him in their own
homes. They have been neighbors,
friends, associates for years, and the
senator would be almost glad if Case
Broderick or somebody else would take
the job off his hands. He sees no adj
vantage in the custom that gives the
senator the appointment of the post
master of his own town.
1t is -intimated that Baker did sug-
gest to Broderick that he would be
willing to waive his senatorial right
and let the congressman settle the
fight, but Broderick preferred to let
the senator have his just due.
Baker secured 143 pensions for Kan
sas people during the extra session, a
record which is considered remarkable,
but he would rather get 500 more PEN
sions than be confronted with the prob
lem of how to please Al friends with
one poStoffice.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
Strangers Dig Up Buried Gold.

Excitement prevails at Conner, Eufaula
county, Ala, over the unearthing of buried
gold on the Seay plantation, tenanted e1-
olusively by negroes. Two white men,
strangers, appeared there, and after max
ing inquiries descriptive of the locality as
it stood 80 years ago, went to an old land
mark and measured thence to spot where
they commenced digging. They dug up a
box and went away with it, one remarking
to the negro who had shown them the
landmark that the box contained $50, 900.
John W. Seay once owned the planta-
tion. He died N a Confederate hospital
in Mississippi in 1862, and is known to
have had considerab BILE money which has
never been accounted for.-F lorida Times
Union.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09

Things look bad. All these great for
tunes have been accumulated in the
last 30 or 40 years, and the world has
never known anything like it. The
poor and helpless seem to be increas-
ing all the time. The moderately well
off are falling among the poor, and the
very rich are growing richer every day.
Something is wrong, and it is time for
the churches to find out what it is. and
apply the remedies. The churches of
this country have the numbers and the
wealth to do it, But the trouble seems
to be that the religion is dominated by
the wealthy instead of the wealth by
religion.-Dwight L. Moody.
Dwight L. Moody is smart enough to
know what is the matter, but he is too
foxy to tell. A Christian with a cow
ards instincts can do more harm than
an open infidel. The Rams Horn can
have that sentence, for nothing.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
FISH BY THE TON.
Denver Water Company Drains I
Lake-Fun for the Boys.

Denver. Aug. s--Not less that 5000
pounds of fish were caught inside the
city limits of Denver today. This is
not prize fish story either. 1t is a
plain, unexa ggerated statement of facts.
The Denver Union Water company
opened the fiooggateS and let the water
out of Archer lake, just west of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway shops at
Bufnham- The water flowed out until
there was but q few inches left in the
lake and not more than two feet in
the canal leading from it. The water
remaining was literally swarmlng with
carp and suckers, ranging from three
inches to three feet in length.
Within an hour from the time the
water was drawn off every unemployed
man, woman and child in the neighbor-
hood gathered at the lake and COM
menced a war on the fish, catching
them with seines, by hand, in sieves,
ing them out with garden rakes and
knocking them over the head with
clubs. From the upper end of the
lake to the headgates of the ditch be
low Seventh avenue, men, women and
boys waded up to their waists in the
thick, muddy water, splashing about
after fish, while others waited on the
banks with bags, baskets, buckets, lard
cans and tubs to receive the fish as
they were thrown out.
Not fewer than 100 carp, each weigh
ing six pounds, were caught. One of
these weighed 26 pounds and many
were seen that would not weigh less
than Is pounds. Fish weighing frona
one TO three pounds were thrown out
by thousands One boy had a spring
wagon load of big, nasty looking carp
and suckers, ranging from four to six
teen pounds each in weight. Fish
weighing less than ee-quarters of q
pound were thrown out promiscuously
on the muddy banks to purify. Hun
dreds of women and children gathered
loads of little fish to feed to chickens
and pigs, but innumerable quantities
q 1fly1r n a hn ho o11lxC n
the crowds patrolling the ditch ground
hundreds of them under foot.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
DON'T "BELoNG" TO PARTY.

The excuse of a guilty conscience is
about the way the statement made by
the board fof regents of the state agr1-
cultural college will strike the average
reader They published their side of
the case in the InduStrialiSt of June Is.
From their talk about the professors
of economic and from iterations and re-
iterationS that their action was not po-
litfcaI we are forced to conclude that
they, for political reasons, removed
competent men who had built up q
great college, and now try to bel1ttle
their ability and defame their charac-
ter. 1t is about as sickly and f1imsy
and disgusting a document as we have
read in a long time.-Osage County
Chronicle.
Partisanship is disgusting wherever
you find it. The partisanship that has
driven President Andrews out of Brown
university in Rhode Island because he
is a believer in free silver is just as
offensive as the partisanship which
drove Prof. Fairchild out of Manhattan
college in Kansas because he was a Re
publican. Intolerance is just as mean
and smells as loud when Republicans
practice it as when Populists practice
it. Populists are no more high minded
than Republicans, no less. A partisan
is a man who has to belong to some
thing in order to have opinions. He
ought to have brain power enough to
have opinions regardless of the politi-
cal parties. AS sure as you give your
adherence to a party you must con-
done the bad acts and the bad planks
in the platform in that party
Vote with the party that comes the
nearest to doing right, but never permit
it to say that you belong to it. You
put the brass collar on your neck when
YOU do it
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
The Warning.

Was the tree thrilled by the wind?
There was never sky blown breath.
So still the day, ghostly gray,
1t seemed a soul in death,
Yet through each leaf a tremor ran
Like the blood in the veins of man.
Through each leaf tremor
Subtle swift and keen,
And the thrilling leaves, the unwilling
leaves,
Seemed over grave to lean,
And through the round limbs ever ran
The thrill of the rope at the throat of a man.
And the leaves moaned in the light,
And the light they did condemn
And cried to the tempest and the night
To darken over them.
And the sun sank low and his last beams
To the leaves. as If red with the blood of q
man.
And the silence is broken, and harkl
A shout, a shrek in the glen,
A ghostly face in the dark,
And the sky grows black, and then
The limbs and the leaves. feel the blight
and the ban
OF the blood of mani
Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
OFF COMES HIGGINS HEAD.
HePermits Boys in His Charge at Re-
form School to Escape.

William Higgins of Lawrence has
been discharged from the position of
family officer at the reform school and
he threatens to make a sensational lex
pose'' unless the state board of chari-
ties re1nstates him or finds another po-
sition and puts him in it.
Superintendent Hart discharged Hig-
gins for incompetency. He occupied
the position of family officer and per-
mitted three boys to escape through
what the management of the reform
school has informed the governor was
careleSsness.
He was told by the board of chari-
ties that if he permitted any more of
the boys under his charge to escape he
would be discharged. Two boys got
away from Higgins the first of the
week, and he was discharged Wednes-
day last.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09

The report comes down from Topeka
that the Populists will abandon the
north and south railroad scheme, and
build one direct from Kansas to the
gold fields at Klondike, Alaska. The
scheme is a good one and plausible.
The distance is only $500 miles, and the
road can be built at a cost of about
$14, 900 per mile. Our Populist brethren
will miss the great chance of their life
if they don't push her through.-Junc-
ton City Sentinel
No Populists are in favor of building
a north and south railroad except Gov
ernor eLedy and he only advocated it
to scare the railroad companies.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
a Remarkable Cure of Chornie Diar.
rhOea

In 1862, when I served my country as
private in Company A, 167th PennsyI-
vania Volunteers, / contracted chronic
diarrheoa. 1t has given me a great deal
of trouble ever since. 1 have tried a
dozen different medicines and several
prominent doctors without any perma-
nent relief. Not long ago friend of
mine sent me bottle of hamberlain's
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy,
and after that I bought and took a so
cent bottle; and now I can say that 1
am entirely cured. cannot be thank
full enough to you for this great remedy,
and recommend it to all suffering vet
Grams. If you doubt write me. Yours
gratefully, Henry Steinberger, Allen
town, Pa. Sold by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
A BAD, BAD MAN.
Is Our Consul at Apia From the Eu-
ropean Viewpoint

London, Aug. "a dispatch to the
Times from Berlin says:
The colonial journal here brands the
new American consul at Apia an ''un-
scrupulous man who considers all
means justifable to reach an end"
Such statements are not uncommon
and might be ignored, but this one is
used as a basis for demanding that the
government will deal with Samoa as
the United States has with Hawaii, as
the only possible means of protecting
German interests,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
EverHhodY Save So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try box
of &. @. G. to-day; 10, %, so cents. Sold and
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09

too.
To love humanity, a man should not
see much of it.
Atchison ball players are becoming
stuck up: they call practice "rehears-
ing"
An unmarried Atchison woman who
lives alone, keeps her front door open
with a bootjack
No American boy ever runs away
from home after he is eighteen years
old; he just goes away.
When an amateur singer becomes
old, he bushes when he thinks of the
'triumphs" of his youth.
Down at the bottom of his rotton old
heart, a man thinks more of friend
ship than he does of love.
Every boy believes it is all right to
steal watermelons and apples, but no
boy believes it is right to steal chick
ems.
Listen to an old man talk and you
will hear him lie about the great
amounts of money he made when he
was young.
You all know a woman's minute"
An Atchison woman went out of the
house the other evening, to stay "a
minute and did not come back for
four hours.
i
Don't talk kindly to shiftless people
to encourage them; you only do
them harm. Many people are worth
less for no other reason than that they
have been encouraged" so much
Shiftless people need the word with
the bark on
Investigation will reveal that people
who howl around at night and disturb
industrious people who want to sleep
are loafers during tha day.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09

There is no remedy equal to Herbine
for the cure of constipation, sick head
ache, Indigestion, vertigo, loss Of mem
or skin eruptions. If you want a per
feet tonic for the liver, Herbine will
not disappoint you. Geo. w. Stans-
field. 632 kansas avenue, and Mi1lers
Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Topeka
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
FOR HONEST METHODS.
An Association of Lumber Salesm en-
is Formed.

Milwaukee, Wis, Aug. 9.-The North
western Lumber and Sash and Door
Salesmen's association has been for
mally organized in this city. F. N.
Smell of Milwaukee was chosen tenn
porary chairman and w. r. Mckenzie
of Arbor Vita temporary secretary.
A constitution was adopted and much
general discussion of matters of gen.
eral interest to the trade took place.
The object of the organization as set
forth in the constitution is the promo
ton of honest business methods, OBJ
tanning better mileage rates and trav-
cling privileges and the dissemination
of information of interest to the lum-
Der statesmen.
Representatives were present from
Oshkosh, Steubenville,- Rockford, Mad
ison, Janesville and other places in the
northwest
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
THAT TIRED FEELING

Aching Sensation -Eruptions-lmm
diate Benefit.
OMAHA, NEB.-"I was troubled with
an aching sensation and tired feeling all
over my body. I concluded to try Hoods
Sarsaparilla and was benefited by it inn
mediately. At the same time suffered
with eruptions on my limbs, but all this
had disappeared after I had taken two
bottles of Hoods Sarsaparil1a." w. A.
HAGAMAN, 2033 South 10th Street.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
War stnries Tllnstrated

Are apt to be entertaining and give the
auditor a comprehensive idea of the
srinness of battle. Stories without
words are sometimes very impressive.
The scenes in Libbey Prison, Chicago,
will go a long ways towards effectively
illustrating the stories of the boys. -
If YOU go to Buffalo via Santa Fe's w.
r. c. official train of August e you'll
have about five hours in which to pilot
your friends through the old prison.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-09
Weather Indications.

Chicago, Aug 9.-For Kansas: Show
ers this afternoon and tonight; cooler
in east portion tonight; Thursday part
iy cloudy; variable winds.