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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1897-06-23

NOTlCE.-The militia company,
partially organized at the Court
House last Friday night, will meet
at the same place to night, at s
o'clock, for the purpose OF compile
ting and periec'mg organization.
BY older Of
S. GUGENHEM,
June Is, 1897. Captain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
PeraonaI and Social

Mr.. Charles D. Payne of Holton is
visiting his parents in the city.
Mrs. Chas. Kersey of Colorado
Springs arrived yesterday to visit her
father, Mr.. George Q. BOwes, at 1862
Tyler street.
Mr.. L. K. Danna, formerly Of this
city, but now of Burlingame, and Miss
BERTHE Beers of Spring Valley, Mimi,
were married at Milwaukee, Wis, April
4. by Rev. Hunsberger.
There will be a rehearsal of 'Billee
Taylor this evening at the Elk club
Mrs H. H Arthur is visiting her sis
ter, Mrs. J. H. Sherburne, at Pawnee
Agency, o. T. She viii return to To
peka about May /.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Going spent Sun
day in Kansas City.
Miss Lucretia Grosvener a Bethany
student, and Miss Ethel Short are
spending the Easter vacation in Os-
Mrs A. w. Parks and Mrs. A. S.
Rankin spent Saturday in Kansas City
Mrs. Charles W. Kohl will leave in a
Few days for St. Louis to visit her pa
rents
Mr. and Mrs Frank Cope hove re-
moved to 401 Tyler street.
At the Douze whist club Saturday
afternoon at the home of Miss Frances
Moon, Miss Glenna Cross substituted
for Mrs. w. N. West, Miss Caro- Pen
field for Miss Dora. Furman, Miss Villa
Rodgers for Miss Alice Prescott, Miss
and Miss Mary Noon for Miss Helen
Moon.
Miss Grace Stewart of Schuylerville,
n. Y, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. D. w.
Nellis-
Mrs. E. A. Terrell, has returned from
a. visit with her parents in Leaven-
worth
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Newcomer spent
Mrs. Frank J. Thomas will go to
Leavenworth this week to visit rela-
Gives.
Mr.. o. w. Little of Alma is visiting
Mr.. Archie Barnes will go to Leav-
enworth Thursday to attend the cotil-
Ion party.
Miss Blanche Best of St. Louis is
spending a few days with Miss Anna
DR.. c. G. Allen spent yesterday in
LeavenWOrth with Mrs. Allen, who IS
visiting her mother Mrs. NJ. A UNI
nenthun.
Mrs. J. B. Hibben and son Severy are
visiting relatives in EmpOria.
A city federation is being talked or
among the various clubs of Topeka
Mrs. Henry Grund and daughter
Clara are spending the day in Kansas
City Mrs. Grund will return to her
home in Girard from there and Miss
Clara will return to Bethany.
Mr.. Clarence Carter of Kansas City
spent yesterday with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Carter
Mr.. Herbert Armstrong spent Easter
in Lawrence.
Miss Moon and Miss Flora Platts
of Lawrence spent yesterday in the city
with friends.
Mr.. Henry Beerman of Ottawa Is
spending a. few days in the city
Miss Lulu Huckstadt is spending the
week in WamegO.
Miss Kate Montgomery of Carbon
dale spent yesterday with her sister,
Mrs. K. U. Whitfield
Mr. and Mrs 7 D NcInnes and baby
Of Kansas City spent Easter in the city
with relatives.
Mr.. John Work has charge Of a sub
scription party to be given at Har-
Enony hall Thursday evening.
Judge N. c. Mcfarland is critically
I'll at his room at the Copeland
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
TOPEKA TURNER'S WILL GO
A Strong Glass Will Attend the Ma
tional funniest at ST. Louis

The Topeka Turner society will be
represented this year at the National
funniest of the United States with one
of the strongest classes that has ever
trained in this city At many of the
National Turnfests in the past some of
the most important honors have fallen
to the lot of various members of the
Topeka delegation, and the class this
year will undoubtedly sustain the ex-
cellent reputation of the Topeka Turn
ers. The National funniest will be held
this year in ST. Louis. opening May 6
and continuing five days.
On Sunday afternoon, May 2, the To-
peka class will give an exhibition drill
at the Turner hall, going through the
various exercises that will form it's
part of the programme at the National
funniest In the evening a grand con-
cert will be given, and the gardens sur
rounding the hall formally opened for
the summer. The grounds will be bril-
liantly Illuminated in the evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19

According to Uncle Dan, they were i'm
possible creations, which no self respect
ing trout would look at twice Their
gaudy colors particularly offended him.
I have seen trout caught with these
same impossible flies, but it would have
been rank heresy to admit as much to
Uncle Dan.
There was time, when was sort
of undergraduate in Uncle Dams pisca-
torial college, that thought none but
those who had the advantages of his
tutorship could really enjoy trout fish
ing. I am convinced now that this was
a mistake. A tramp over country roads
and through dewy meadows on bright
spring morning; the plunge through
dripping, fragrant underbrush; the ex-
element which begins with the first
nibble and does not end until the last
speckIed beauty lies gasping in the creel;
the long walk home again; the antlcIpa-
tion and the realization of a platter Of
crisp, smoking trout-these are delights
which even the veriest bungler and tyrO
may enjoy.
But when the trout are scarce and
wary, then the ski1lful angler tastes the
full sweets of victory, for nothing IS
more humiliating than to come back
especially when the same roof shelters q
sportsman who has brought back a fine
string from the same stream. 1 have
fished several times in brooks which L
believe had not known a trout for years,
but these are occasions which would
rather not recall. I like to remember,
however, a mornings sport once had
in the heart of the White mountains.
That little brook we could step over
with ease, yet in little more than an
hour three OF us caught two dozen trout
of fair size and with the crudest kind
of tackle too.
The United States government has
recognized the virtues of the White
mountain brook trout and each year
stocks streams in various western states
with the spawn. This is a noble work,
for the New Hampshire trout is the
most beautiful fish that swims, and when
he is fried in salt pork and cornmeal
makes the daintiest morsel that the wa
ter furnishes to man.
SEwELL FORD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
TO SAVE FANEUIL HALL.
Proposal to Make the Structure Near
Iy Fireproof- Ancients' Kitchen
Put Out.

Boston. April 19.-The finance COM
mittee of the city council has before it
a proposition for the Improvement of
F'aneuil hall, which, if carried out,
means that the historical structure
will be made as nearly fire proof as
such an old building can be. 1t is sug-
gested by the mayor that something be
done to make the building safe, and he
asks for a loan of 1924, 900 to make the
needed alterations.
At present the building is in a bad
way. A fire would quickly make a
wreck of the place, and its historical
associations would be but a memory.
What the mayor suggests is that the
interior be reconstructed. Iron floors
for each story is part of the plan. and
d new roof of iron and slate is suggest
ed.
A source of danger that has been as
ISOLATED with the hall for several years,
the kitchen maintained by the ancient
and honorable artillery company, has
been removed on the suggestion of
Mayor Quincy. Instead of depending
upon its own steward for its collations
it must now go outside.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items Intended for this column should
morning.
Mrs. II. G. Stafford has been sick at her
home ON Railroad street.
c. z. Wilson of Jetmore, Kan, was a
North side caller Saturday.
The w. T K. club will meet tomorrow
afternoon with Mrs. Cheney
A L. Wagonseller of Kansas City spent
Sunday with North side friends.
Mrs. Fry of West Gordon street, who
has been quite sick, is very low again.
Miss Alice Roller of Jackson street is
spending the week with friends at Me-
nOken.
Mrs. Conley of Horton is visiting Mrs
Waidman and Mrs Laura Palmer OF 1911
Polk street.
Little Maud Ward has recovered from
the measles but her sister, Grace, IS now
down with it.
The ladies of section one of the Kansas
Avenue church will meet tomorrow after
noon with Mrs. T. z. Chandler.
Proctor FOUGHT, son of J. H. FOUGHT,
sang a solo at the Easter services at
Grace cathedral yesterday morning.
Mrs. Shafer of Indiana arrived Satur-
day and Will spend some time with her
daughter, Mrs. J. H. Todd of 1Ol2 Jack
son street.
Miss Louise Kimmerly of Horton spent
Easter with her parents Mr.. and Mrs
George Kimmerly of 800 West Curtis
street.
The leader of the Credo club requests
all members of the club to meet with
Mrs. Reagle, S23 Quincy street, tomorrow
afternoon, TUESDAY the 2UI1, at . d. III
Charles Morse. who travels for Otto
Kuehne, spent Easter with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. J. s. Morse of 219 West
Gordon street.
Mrs. and Mrs. NJ. J. Devlin of 912 Madi-
son street are the parents of a boy. Mr.
Devlin, who is section boss for the Santa
F'e, is very proud of his new assistant.
Ex-Justice Grover and family VIII live
on a farm near OSaWAie. instead of Te-
cumseh Mrs. Grover and the children
left this morning for their new home and
Mr.. Grover will go Wednesday.
Mrs. Fulton, mother of J. c. Fulton
met with a painful accident Saturday. As
she went to step back from the coping in
front of her house she missed her footing
and fell on the stone steps, dislOcating
her hip. AS Mrs. Fulton is 20 years old
serious results may follow.
As Ed Spear and Claud Shields were
their horse, which is rather frisky, ran
away throwing the two gentlemen out
and demOlishing the buggy. The horse
was unin jured and Mr.. Spear and Mr.
Shields escaped with a few scratches.
Michael Hanley, ST., and old and highly
respected citizen of this side. died yester-
day afternoon at o'clock of heart trou-
BILE a his home on Topeka avenue. Mr..
Hanley was IS years old and had been a
sufferer from this disease for some time.
He leaves y widow and family of grown
children, five sons and two daughters.
The funeral will be held tomorrow morn
ing al o'clock at the Church of the As
sumption, where requiem mass will be
said. The interment viii be in the CathO-
lie cemetery west of town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
IN SECLUDED BROOKS.
The Delights of Hooking Spec
kled Trout.
UNCLE DAVIS P1scAToR1AL LORE.

he Was Wise In the Ways of the Finny
Tribe and Impaired the Secrets Of Sue
cessful Angling to His True Disciples.
The White Mountain Trout.
In April the law withdraws its pro-
tecting hand from the brook trout, and
the wanton fisherman is left free to kill
the speokled beauty as best he may.
The law is ''off'' on the 1st, but it is
we'll toward the middle of the month
before the "snow water is out of the
mountain brooks, and the ice does not
go out of the RangeIeys and other north
ern trout haunts sometimes until well
into May. The boys up in the Green
and White mountains are probably still
waiting for trout time, but in most
other sections of the country tackle is
being prepared and worms dug.
All this reminds me that once took
a course in trout fishing myself. Uncle
Dan was my instructor. Mind, do not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
MUST RETURN TO GERMANY
An Ohio Music Teacher Notified to
Appear and Show Cause Why
He Left the Army.

Marion, O., April 19.-Prof. r. O..
Becker, Jr., a graduate of a musical
conservatory in Germany and music
teacher in this city, has received a let
ter from his father, R. o. Becker, Sr,
of Dresden, Germany, notifying him
that the military court at Leipsic, Ger
many, demands his return to Germany
and his appearance before the military
court by April 26 to show cause why
he left the German military service.
A levy has been made upon his father
by the German government of $4,000
yearly for his absence.
The professor says that he is now
an American citizen, that he came to
this country six years ago, after serv-
ing his time in the German army. In
case a demand is made through the
German representative at Washington
he will appeal to the state department
and ask the protection of this govern
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19

ran nolselessly and was clRmped to the
very butt of the pole, not half way up
the first joint. 1t was as flexible as a
willow wand and light as a feather.
When we came to bait, began to load
up the short shanked hook with what is
commonly known as tgob' of worms.
1--WE amt goin ter bob fer eels,' - re-
marked Uncle Dan. Then he took all
the worms off and put on a single one,
covering the hook neatly, but leaving
about an inch of worm dangling down
in lifelike manner.
ga trout hez more sense than ter ex-
pect worms ter come f1oatin down
stream in gobs, said he.
wanted to hunt for deep pool. but
Uncle Dan said it was too early in the
day. learned that before the sun began
to shine strong on the water the trout
sought their food in the rapid, shallow
waters, and Uncle Dan pointed out lust
the spot where there probably would be
a big fellow lying head up stream on
the wait for any choice morsel that the
current might bring along Under
Uncle Dams direction made a cast up
stream and let the bait float down. Sure
enough, there was trout there, but at
the first nibble I put the whole strength
VI Lly aIIu 1ubO al u BNf GA10 j0Ik OF the
pole and got-nothing
1t was then Uncle Dan showed me
how to make a proper strike. He taught
me the quick inward sweep of the wrist
which will so surely hook trout But
it was not all done in one lesson. The
impulse to yank the line into the air
with vicious swish was hard one to
subdue, although Uncle Dan eloquently
pictured the commotion which such an
event would make below water. Ny de-
sire to play the trout was also
checked. It might be we'll enough to try
those tactics if we were fishing for saIm-
on or black bass, Uncle Dan said, but
there was no trout in that brook big
enough to smash his tackle and there
was no sense in frightening all the other
fish in order to catch one.
tried to absorb faithfully all of On
Gle Dams wisdom, but it was with in
different success. His fishing was done
with the skill of an artist. His eyesighs
was marvellous. No trout could break
in a foamy shallow and escape his eye.
It seemed as if he could see clear to the
depths of the brook, and when he cast
it was with unerring aim. 1t was no
trick at all for him to make his hook
drift around the corner of a bOwlder
and drop down temptingly Just under
the nose of a speckled FOUNDER which was
lying sulkily in the shade. With one
finger ON the line, he would drop the
bait noiselessly into deep pool at mid
day and bring out the prize trout Of the
lot.
He was thorough fisher too. Uncle
Dan did not thrash up and down the
brook in any such haphazard manner as
have seen other fishermen do. He did
it systematically and let no wary trout
escape. Sometimes he would talk to the
fish, and his odd monologue sparkled
with a dry humor that was delicious.
But it was when the time for fly fishing
came that he became really eloquent
What invective he would use in de-
nouncing the lures which the fly hook
OF the untutored amateur contained
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
CIVIL SERVICE POLICE.
Governor of Wisconsin Signs the Wei
ton Bill-Democrats Are Put
Gut About It,

Madison, Wis, April 19.-The governor
today signed the Welton bill. putting
under civil service regulations the po-
lice and fire departments of all Wiscon-
sin cities of 10000 population or over,
except Milwaukee. The bill passed the
senate this morning.
1t enables the present mayors to APP
point the civil service boards and pro-
police and fire departments shall hOld
their places for six months at least and
be retained unless they fail to satisfy
the board of their qualifications. AS
Democratic mayors are to be indicted
into Office next Tuesday, relieving Re,
pubicanS in most of the cities affected,
the Democrats are much put out over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19

INTO THE BROOK AFTER A BIG TROUT.
say ''my Uncle Dan, !" for there was no
tie of kinship between us. He was Uncle
Dan to the whole village. He should
have had a more dignified title, say pro-
fessor, for professor of piscatoria1 learn
ing he certainly was. True, he was an
unlettered man and knew not the nat
ural history of books, but he knew the
brook trout like brother. What the
trout liked to eat and when and how he
dined, as we'll as when and where he
played and rested, Uncle Dan knew as
well as if he had had fms himself and
had passed months on the brook bottom.
At rare intervals Uncle Dan dispensed
some of this great store of knowledge,
but only to his ardent admirers and
faithful disciples. was among these
favored ones. Like the stole philoso-
piers of old, Uncle Dan used the fields
and woods for his lecture room, and
the brookside was his rostrum. HumiI-
ity, docility and navy plug in moderate
quantities were the rates of tuition he
expected. gave them gladly and threw
in unbounded admiration.
Perhaps I learned something about
trout fishing myself, but I have never
dared to express that opinion, and
neS1CaGe TO Go SO now. Uncle Ian never
would admit that did. Only by an abb
sence of adverse criticism was encour-
aged to hope that a cast was properly
made, a strike rightly executed or a
landing accomplished according to the
code. Once or twice have sneaked off
alone and caught a fine mess of trout,
but it was always with guilty feeling
that there had been something unsports-
manlike in the doing of it, and I never
boasted before Uncle Dan of my sue
cess.
I wish I could forget the infinite
scorn and contempt with which he
glanced over my kit when I presented
myself for my first lesson. I had 6
foot pole of jointed ash adorned with
brass ferrules and a big brass click reel,
a big book of flies, gaudy as the birds
of a Brazilian forest, and line stout
enough for cod.
''Goin after pickeren OF bullheads?''
inquired Uncle Dan.
protested that he had agreed to go
trout fishing with me.
WAL, you don't need derrick ter
pull in trout with,'' retorted Uncle
Dan. eye might ketch a trout with
one of them hooks, but it would be an
accident. AS fer that brass band on yer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
ROOSEVELT RESIGNS.
No Love Lost Between Him and His
Associates

New York, April 19.-PoIice Commits
sioner Roosevelt sent his resignation to
Mayor Strong this morning. Mr. Oose-
welt recently accepted the position as
assistant secretary of the navy, tender
ed by President Mckinley, and the res
ignation was the natural outcome.
His successor will probably be ap-
pointed by Mayor Strong at once The
ill-feeling in the police board had
reached such a point that COmmis sion
ers Parker and Grant absented them
selves from the special meeting to avoid
closing UP certain matters in which
Roosevelt was specially interested. In
a long letter to the mayor Mr.. Roose-
Welt told of the work done by the
board since he had been a member of
it, and praised Commissioner Andrews,
ignoring Grant and Parker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
THE OREGON'S BAD PLIGHT
The Battleship is Now Known to be
Seriously Damaged.

Seattle, Wash, April 19.-The dam
ages sustained by the Oregon are now
round to be serious. With reced1ng
tide 1t settled upon a hidden rock at the
entrance to the Puget Sound naval sta
ton drydock, and, Notwithstanding
every effort to get it off, the vessel
hung hard and fast upon the sunken
reef for two hours. At least one of the
plates somewhere on the port side was
bent and indented and many rivets
were lOOsened, but the Oregon was res
cued from it's perilous position before
springing aleak
The Oregon steamed up to the mouth
Of the drydock at high noon. Naval
Constructor Capps intended to dock it
at that hour, but finally decided, in or
der to insure perfect safety, to wait for
higher tide. Meanwhile the lines were
thrown out and the battle ship was
mOOred near the entrance Thousands
of visitors, lured thither by the report
that the monster war piece was going
to be placeAupOn the blocks, walked up
and down the shores admiring this one
of the nations finest floating forts. The
crowds dispersed and soon the tides be-
gan to flow outward.
Just at 4 o'clock it was discovered
that the vessel was settling upon some
thing, and that it was upon a sub
stance hrmer than sand. The report
spread throughout the ship with light
ming rapidity. There was great excite
ment for a few minutes. Orders were
given to try to pull the battle ship off,
the officers in charge believing the OBJ
struction might be snag.
The effort was made, but in vain.
Several other attempts demonstrated to
the entire satisfaction of the command
er that the Oregon could not be releas-
ed save only by an effort which would
tear off one or more plates, causing
leak which would in all probability sink
the ship. He desisted, but the battle
ship chung tenaciOusly to the rock until 6
o'clock, when the tide rose sufficiently
to float it in safety.
Seven hours later the Oregon was
successfully locked
The discovery of this reef in such a
locality was a great surprise to the
naval station officials, as many sound
ings were taken during the construc-
ton of the dock, the shallowest depth
found at extreme low tide being 26 feet
whereas the Oregon draws only "a.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
A CENTURY OF DISMEMBER-
MENT,

[From the North American Review ]
The idle talk about the integrity of
the Turkish empire deceives nobody to-
day. The ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Turkey
began over 100 years ago. In 1888
Turkey lost the Crimea. In 1880 she
lost Greece. In 1857 Moldavia and
Wanachia, the two Danubian principal
tiles, were united and finally became
the present fiourishing kingdom of
Roumania under King Charles in 1881.
IN 1852 the Turkish garrison evacuated
Belgrade, and in 1873 Servia became an
independent kingdom. Bulgaria is vir-
tually independent under Prince Ferdi-
nand, and Turkey quietly acquiesced
in the absorption of Eastern ROumelia
in 1887. Kars and Batum were snatch
ed by Russia in 1873. England seized
Cyprus in the same year, and Austria
was comfortably installed in Bosnia
and Herzegovina Where is the alleged
integrity of the Turkish empire in the
face of the above historical facts? BOs-
mia and Herzegovina, two essentially
Mussulman provinces, have nothing in
common with Austria, which now rules
over them. But when the question of
Crete and Greece comes to be cOnsid-
cred all Christian Eur ope shakes with
holy horror at the unreasonable aspira-
lions of Greece in seeking to free an
island inhabited by homogeneous
population, protesting the same faith
and situated at it's very doors. But
in this advanced era of civilization a
new force, that makes for justice, is al
ways felt on occasions like this among
civilized nations, and that is public
opinion" While Lord Salisbury was
declaring in the house of lords that
Crete cannot be united to Greece, one
hundred English Liberals were signing
a telegram of sympathy to King George
and a monster meeting of $4,000 Eng
lishmen in Hyde Park were passing
resolutions in favor of Greece.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-19
THE SOCIETY WORLD.
General Notes of Society and
Personal Items.
Recent Social Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
Items of Interest About Topeka Peo-
pie and Visitors in Town.

a subscription party was given at
Wetherell's hall Friday evening. Those
present were: Misses Mary Moon, Mar
cia Spivey, Daisy Davidson, Lulu
Ewart, Miss Greenwood, Roberta Akers,
Berenice Fuller Grace Beard, Grace
Atwood, Allabelle TrOutman, Estelle
Leon, Addfe Skinner, Efffe Hazen,
Maude McKibben, Nettie Ware, Nellie
BAKER, Mrs. G. G. Baker, Miss Ora Sam
ualls, Miss Hazel Baldwin, Messrs.
Charles Moon, Bert Garvin, Arthur
Hudson. Gene Ware, viii Davis, Carl
Wa1work, Jack Sharrit, Arthur Beard,
Jay Ward, George Allen, Otis Allen,
VIII Cartilage, Bert Cartilage, Bernard
Crosby, Urban POindeXter, Clarence
POindexter, Nesbit Smith, Earl Ewart,
Dana Davis, Jack Dillon. Bradford
Johnson, Roy Thompson, Jean Bailey.
Miss Martie Whaley and Miss Douglass
Were the chaperons.