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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
COMING TO TOPEKA.
Delegates From Fl. Worth's Carnival
Committee Will be Here After
POintera.

A lady at Fort Worth. Tex. an ac-
ouaintance of Mr.. Ed Little, the gov
errors secretary, writes him in regard
to the feature of the queen and court,
which are TO be given here, offering
some suggestions. She says:
Having had considerable experience
with carnivals, as the secretary of our
association, / take the liberty of telling
YOU something of the successful fea-
lures of ours. We found 1t necessary
10 choose a queen from lie beau monde
and as there are always rivals for so
cial honors in the swell Set a voting
contest brought in revenue and aided
the successful rival in purchasing her
wardrobe which is of necessity ex-
tensive and expensive. We solicited
the different cities or Kingdoms in the
state to send queens on floats, which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
EIFFEL TOWER TOBOGGAN.
Elaborate Scheme offered for the
Paris Exposition.

Paris, Aug. ia hundred projects
for attractions for the Paris exposition
of 1900 were submitted to the commit
tee today.
There was copy of Bartholdi's statue
of liberty in New York harbor 600 feet
high; the construction of q restaurant
under water, to be built of glass; an
enormous vertical screw, with a nut,
fitted as a cafe; a reproduction of the
thousand persons, and plans for fitting
the Eiffel tower with a spiral railway
and tobOggan chute The committee
decided that none of the schemes were
practicable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
BLISS IS THANKED
For the Departments Warning to the
Gold Seekers

Washington, Aug. 12.--secretary of
the Interior Bliss has received from
the president of the North American
Transportation and Trading company
at Seattle, Wash, the following tefe-
gram: I congratulate you and thank
you for the official warning to people
rushing to the Yukon Klondile mining
country at this season of the year"
Acting Secretary Ryan, commenting
on the above dispatch, says that it in
dicates that there must be very con-
gested state of affairs at Seattle and
points of departure for the gold fields,
or the president of large transporta-
ton company would not approve of the
warning issued by Secretary Bliss.
Surveyor General Diston, recently APP
pointed for Alaska, has qualified and
was at the interior department today
consulting with the officials before TAX
ing his departure. He will go at once
TO Alaska, but will remain al Sitka, the
capital. awaiting further instructions
from the department. While it is prob
able that the surveyor general will be
ordered to the Yukon country next year
there is no expectation of sending him
there this season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
CHINA CATCHES UP.
Will Make Her Calendar Conform to
That of this Country.

San Francisco. Aug. 12.-The Chinese
minister at Washington, proposes to
correct the Chinese calendar now in use
in this country which was calculated
at Hong Kong, but Is one day out of
true reckoning when used in this coun
try, no allowance being made for the
difference in longitude.
Acting on instructions from the Chi
nese minister, the Chinese consul gen
eral has just issued a. proclamation
which was yesterday posted in China
town and sent out to other places in
this state setting forth the error and
the reason of it, and directing that 1t
shall be corrected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
DROVE OFF MOSQUITOES.
Grade Petroleum Spread on the Wat
ers was Too Much for the Pests.

New York, Aug. 12.-Crude petroleum
has been successfully used a Midland
Beach, Staten Island, to rid that resort
of the mosquito plague In the neigh
bOrhOOd OF the beach are wide stretches
of meadow which made a model breed
ing place for the mosquito.
A week ago NJ. J. Wightman, the
manager of the beach, ordered four bar
rels of crude petroleum spread upon the
water in every pool within a mile of
the beach. This was done. Since then
mosquitoes have almost entirely disap-
peared in that vicinity, and only an oc-
casional stray one is found or rather
felt at the beach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
RICH KAOLIN DISCOVERED.
Ingredient of Porcelain Under tn ,
City of R aiding.

Reading, Pa, Aug. 12.-Six feet be-
low the surface upon the properly Of
A. Thalheimer, at the head Of Green
street, this city, vein OF kaolin four
feet deep and varying from 10 to II fest
in width has been discovered. 1t fits
in the earth like a green cheese. The
an ingredient for their wares.
The find is regarded as of greater
value than the kaolin beds at Media
and HANCOCK, Pa, owing to the fact
that ii is OF finer quality. 1t is the
equal of that from which the English
ware is n1anufact ured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
FRED GRANT FOR CHINA.
He is Endorsed for the Chinese Mis-
sion by Com mercial Travellers.

New York, Aug. 12--Col- Fred Grant
replying to a delegation of the Com
merciaI Travellers Sound Money league
who called upon him at his home to no
tify him that the league had Endorsed
him for minister to China and would
request President Mckinley to make
the appointment, said he had no idea
that the president had him in mind
for the Chinese mission or any other
diplomatic post. He added that he was
not a candidate for public office, al
though he had early in the Mckinley
administration expressed a wish to be
sent to Berlin.
Col. Grant agreed with the delegation
that China offers great possibilities in
the way Of trade with the United States
and said he had no doubt that the pres
ident would appoint a good man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
GREAT WHEAT CROP.
Washington and North idaho Report
Crop of 4I,6OO,oOO Bushels.

Seattle. Wash, Aug. 12.-The Spokes-
man Review has crop reports from spe-
cial correspondents. The estimated wheat
yield as given by the reports is as fol-
lows: Washington, Spokane county. A.
100000 bushels; Walla Walla, 1000. 600;
Adams 100000; Whitman 1876 600; Lin
coin 1S, 100000; Kittitas 100000; Yakima
3OO, 600.
North Idaho, Latah county 1000 900;
Nez Perces 100000. Total A, SOC, 900 bush
els.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
UNDER ANOTHER'S NAME.
a Man Secures Quarters in the Sol.
diers' Home for Two Years

Los Angeles. Aug. 12.-John c. Sven
ningsen, veteran of the civil war. lately
returned from South America and has
visited the soldiers home at Santa Mon
lea in search of an old army comrade and
was astounded to find that he himself had
been registered as an inmate of that in
stitution for more than two years.
The result of the discovery and ex-
posture is that Peter 1ikelson, aged
inmate of the home, is under arrest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
Lumber for Siberia

San Francisco, Aug. 1.-THE building
of the Siberian railway has been of
great benefit to the lumber trade of
this coast The Glen Turret, a new
freight steamer of 3026 tons net, now at
Shanghai, has been chartered to take
lumber and railroad ties from the Col
lIrnbia river to VladfVoStok-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

The play selected by THE Paiges"
for their opening performance at Craw-
ford's next Monday night is that sensa-
SIM Excellent specialties will be in
troduced between acts. Prices 10, 20,
and 80 cents. Secure your seats early.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
ELECTRIC Ritters.

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
for any season, but perhaps more gen
orally needed when the languid, ex-
hauSted feeling prevails, when the liver
a tonic and Alternative is felt. A prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and perhaps bilious fevers. No
medicine will act more surely in coun-
teracting and freeing the system from
the malarial poison. Headache, Indi-
gestion, Constipation. Dizziness yield to
Electric Bitters. soc and 81 per bottle
at ]. K Jones' Drug Store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
o lbs finest and best dranuIated

10 lbs finest and best GranuIated
Sugar .....--.-... ...........$1 90
Package Coffee per pkg ...... 10
Java Blend Coffee per Ib ..... %
lbs Anl<ora Coffee as
lbs pure Golden Rio Coffee. IS
3 lbs broken Java Coffee. 25
Good Japan Tea per Id ..... 20
Good English Breakfast Tea pr Id 25
Good Young Hyson Tea per Ib.. 25
Good 0unpowder Tea per lib. -. IS
Tea Siftings per lib. . 10
Pure Black Pepper, 2 lbs ..... IS
Pure ground Cinnamon, lbs. Is
Pure ground rlustard, 2 lbs. -. IS
Pure ground Allspice. lbs. -. IS
Pure ground Cloves, lbs. ...... IS
Quart bottle Liquid Bluing ...... 10
IL bars Silk Soap. % |
10 bars White Russian Soap. %
IL bars White Spanish Soap. IS
IL bars Calumet Soap. -........ rs
6 cakes Grandpa's Tar Soap. -. 25 |
6 cakes Ivory Soap ....... IS |
20 lbs Sal Soda ... Is |
9 lbs Laundry Starch. ...... 25
Bakers Breakfast Cocoa. ....... % |
Van Houten's Cocoa ....... Is |
lbs Candles % |
pkg Postum Cereal. ......-.. Is |
pkg Hires Rootbeer. .........- Is |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
No Need of Hurrzin.

Through dinner or supper to catch
Santa Fe train to Kansas City 1t
leaves at S:35 p. m. and tickets to
Kansas City and return will be sold for
$1.e0 on Saturday and Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

Hackney and Jennings, the highest
salaried black face song and dance ar
lists west of Chicago, are still with THE
PaigeS'' and will positively be intro
duced between acts at Crawford's OPP
era House every night next week. Pri-
ces 10, 20 and 8 0cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
BRYAN's OUTING ENDS.
He Leaves Yellowstone Park and
Starts on His Tour of Montana

Spencer, Ida, Aug. 12.-W. J. Bryan
has returned from his II days trip
through the Yellowstone Park. He was
met here by Governor Smith and Con-
gresham Hartman who will escort him
to Butte and other points in Montana.
Summer heats are comfortably en-
dured when the blood is cleansed with
Ayers Sarsaparilla.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
Leave at s:35 P. n.

And go to Kansas City on tie Santa Fe's
mail train Excellent accommodations
and very fast time. Only $100 for
round trip Saturday and Sunday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
S1.OO

Kansas City and return via the San
ia Fee Route. Tickets sold and good on
all trains August IA and Is. Passengers
may return on any train to and includ-
ing No. Z, leaving Kansas City at 800
p. m, Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

The Magic Healer of all Coughs,
Colds and Consumption is Beggs' Cher
ry Cough Syrup. At druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

Burning, itching skin diseases in
stantly relieved by De Wits Witch
Hazel Salve, unequalled for cuts,
bruises. burns. 1t heals without leav-
ing scar. G. w. Stansfeld, 632 Kan
sas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

They have taken it before.
They like it, and will take it again.
"The Rock Island" the Official Route
To the G. A. Il. Eneampment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
Eat Breakfast at Home

And then go to Kansas City Saturday
or Sunday on the Santa Fe's 1880 train
s100 for round trip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
S1.oo to Kansas City and Return

Via the Union Pacific-the first line to
make that rate-good going Saturday
and Sunday, Aug. 14th and 18th on all
regular trains-good returning Sunday
or Monday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

$1.OO to Kansas City and Return
Via the Union Pacific-the first line to
make that rate-good going Saturday
and Sunday, Aug 14th and 18th on all
regular trains-good returning Sunday
or Monday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12

webb buys and sells tickets. 500 Kan. Av.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
THE Cleveland Leader asks few

THE Cleveland Leader asks few
questions of interest:
elf a resolution should be adopted
declaring that the republic of Cuba
existed, and the President we're willing
to act on that resolution, where should
official notice of its adoption be sent2"
Send it to Cubitas, province of Pu-
erto Principe, Cuba.
"To whom should the message of
good cheer be addressed?"
Address it TO President Cisneros. 1t
will reach him as expeditiously as it
would il addressed TO Captain-General
Weyler.
"By what route should the message
be forwarded?"
1t may safely be forwarded by dis
patch messenger via Havana, or by the
like to Nuevitas, which is situated near
the inland headquarters of the revolu-
tionary government.
"When were the fficials of the Gu
ban republic elected, and under what
articles do they server"
They were elected in the first year
of the war, and the charter under which
they serve contains some of the best
features of the Constitution of the
United States.-New York Sun.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06

are reproduced all the known portraits
of Benjamin Franklin painted or
drawn fro m life. There are fifteen of
them, covering a perit d Of thirty.oue
years; and they are the o. ly authentic
documents whence the present genera
ton may derive any accurate concep-
all together, as they are here, with ex-
cellent notes giving the history of each
picture, they have an interest and
velue that cannot be estimated. The
fiction of the number has the usual
Mcclure vigor and freshness; and there
are two most romantic stories that are
not fiction. One is Ida Rose Nc
Cabe's history of the celebrated
Martha Washington case. The
other is Captain Musgrove Davis's &C
count of his subjugation of tough
Boweiy regiment that had conspired
to bully him out of bis command. The
s. s. Mcclure Co, 141-155 East 25th
street, New York City.
"How Not to Better Social Condi-
lions" is the title Of an article by Theo-
dore Roosevelt in the January Reuje,o
of Reviews. Mr.. Roosevelt is permitted
to pu olish letter addressed to him
few months since by the Hon. Thomas
Watson, then the candidate for Vice.
President on the Populht ticket with
Mr. Bryan. This letter was occasioned
by Mr.. Roosevelts article in the Sep
TENDER RtuieW of Reuieus dealing with
the Vice Presidential candidates. The
let er is most important and interest
ing contribution to what may be
termed the personal literature of the
last campaign; it puts its writer in
new light, and must lead to a thorough
revision of the opinions about "Tom
Watson entertained 80 generally by
his political opponents.
A NEW VoLUME.-With the number
bearing date January 2, The Lifting Age
begins its two hundredth and twelfth
volume. This sterling magazine loses
none of its intere st or value, but rather
grows in excellence as its years in
crease-adding the experience of the
past with full appreciation of the needs
of the present. This is emphasized ty
the advanced step it has just taken.
If anything more were necessary to
make it an ideal magazine, especially
adapted TO the needs of the American
reader, then the additions of monthly
supple ment devoted to readings from
American periodicals, readings from
new books, and list OF books of the
month is that thing. For fifty 80
numbers, aggregating about $500 pages
600 psges m, ntb), the subscription
price (S6.00) is very low. The Living
Age Company, Boston, are the pub
fishers.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
POLITICAL.
American Clothes and Principles.

Our esteemed contemporary the
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, COM
municates the information that the
suit of clothes which Major Mckinley
is to wear on the day of his inaugura-
ton as President of these United States
Will be of American weave, cut and
make. The cloth is 10 be woven of
American wool by wooden manufac-
turing company of this State; AID the
Inauguration suit b." will have the adj
ditionsl merit and distinction of being
unique, as only enough cloth to make it
will be woven and finished.
So Major Mckinley VII be able TO
appear at Washington, March a, in
good American suit, and manly and
an interesting figure he will be in it, if
the ClevelaLd artist, to whom the fine
work of cutting it out is to be given,
does his duty and doesn't transgress
the lines of architectural beauty. 1t
would have been safer 10 trust the job
to the constrU ctive genius of one OF our
New York tailors, but doubtless Major
McKinlt y determined to be thoroughly
consistent in his encouragement of
home industries, even at the expense of
some little sacrifice of symmetry. 1t
matters very little, after all, where and
of what cloth an American gets his
clothes, provided he pays for them, sl-
though if they are of imported ma
terials, those materials ought to be
made to pay their proportionate con-
tribution to the expenses of the govern
ment, whether under tariff specially
for protection with sufficient revenue,
or for revenue with sufficient proteC-
ton. Neither in his clothes nor his
messages will Major Mckinley give
any support to the fallacious and I'M
scientific notion of free wool, which
has got Judgment in the present pre-
posterOus tariff.
1t may be said that Major McKinley's
clothes are of no overpowering interest
to anybody, and least of all to him, but
this Inauguration suit is, we hope and
believe, symbolical, and meant to be so
of thoroughly American policy in a.
matters, domestic and foreign, and not
merely in re gard to home manufactures
Such policy the country expects from
Major Mckinley. Toward his own
countrymen and their institutions he
will demean himself as an American
and not as a sort of pig-headed Tory
only bent upon thwarting them and
evincing his superiority to them
Toward foreign countries which, like
Cuba and the Hawaiian Islands, neec
or are needed by the United States, hi
attitude will be that of an alert anc
a sympathetic American, who feels
with and not apart from his country
men, and who regards the prosperity
and grandeur of the United States anc
the approval of the great body Of
Americans as of infinitely more mo
ment than the menaces or the wishes
of any foreign powers whose selfish in
terests may be injured, or whose hatred
of the United States may be reused
bya wholly American policy.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Grant on the Field.

While the mott critical movements
were taking place, Gener,l Grant mani
tested no perceptible anxiety, but gave
his orders, and sent and received COM
munications, with coolness and dtlib-
Grafton which made marked impress
sion upon those who had been brought
into contact with him for the first time
on the field of battle. His speech was
never hurried, and his manner be-
tray ed no trace of excitability or even
Impotence. He never exhibited to
better advantage his peculiar ability in
moving troops with unparalleled speed
to the critical points on the line of bat
tie where they were most needed, or,
as it was sometimes cal ed, "feeding a
fight" There was a spur on the heels
of every order he sent, and his subordi-
mates were made to realize that in bat
tie it is the minutes which col troll
events. He said, while waiting for
Burnside to get into position and at
tack: 4" The only time | ever feel i'm
patient is when / give an order for an
important movement of troops in The
presence OF the enemy, and am waiting
for them TO reach their destination
Then the minutes seem like hours"
He rode out to important points OF
the line twice during The day, in com.
papy with General Meade and two Off
GERS Of the staff. 1t was noticed that
he was visibly affected by his proxim-
ity TO the wounded, and especially by
the sight of blood. He would turn his
face ::away from such sctnes, and show
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
Cupps Got Out.

"There was an odd fe low, PennsyI-
vanian, on our floor in Libby prison."
said Co. Richardson. "He was tall,
angular, stoop- shouldered, and had the
regl lar North Carolina dislect. Nearly
everybody liked hi and all t, liked with
him. He had been a prisoner some
time; his suit of blue had become a
bunch of rags. By some means he
managed to get new suit of butternut-
colored clio hes, and after that we called
him Old North Car l'ne.' One of the
prisoners asked him when he was going
to join his Tar Heel regimen.
"You jest wait and watch
SIN those days it was a common
thing for citizens 10 accompany Major
Dick Turner, who had charge of Libby
prison, on his visits to the prisoners.
One afternoon half dozen citizens of
Richmond were with him, and when
they marched out our Tar Heel SOL
der fl II in and went with them. He
was standing ty The door in Major
Turner's room when that officer, MOTTO
ing him, asked, Well, sir, what do you
want here"
Oh, nothin' in particular; Jest
thought I'd look around the prison
li,tle.'
"'Well, you can't look around the
prison little, and you had better move
on
"But Cupps-that was his name
stood thu re looking as innocent as a
boy on his first visit to town, when
Turner lost his patience, and said:
Come, move OIL Get out of here
and gave him push into the street. u
AS Cupps passt d out into the road
where we could see him from our win
dows be took { if his hat, made low
bow, and started on gentle sbambe
out of towr. He made his escape.
After that there was a great demand
for butternut suits, but no more could
be smuggled into the prison. Chicago
Times Herald.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-06
HOard's Dairyman.

The WATCHMAN has renewed its
clubbing arrangement with Hoard'S
Dairyman, published at Fort Akin.
son, Wis. We regard the paper as one
of the best Vermont farmer can read.
1t has won national reputation as an
authority in all matters pertaining to
the dairy. There is nothing /" fancy"
about the paper. 1t deals with the
common facts of the dairy in practi-
cal way. 1t is the paper for the mass
of the dairymen. The price is only one
dc liar year. The money will be wei
invested, and unlike many "wild west"
invt stments will bring large, sure and
continuous returns to the faithful
reader who faithfully observes its pre-
cepts and practices. Have the Dairy
man on your list of papers, if you keep
a herd of cows for milk, butter or
cheese. Subscribe with the WATCHMAN.