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FOUND GUILTY OF HEREsH.
The Rev. DIR. NJ. N. Houston Admonished BY
the Louisville Presbytery.

the Louisville Prssbytery.
LOUISVILLE, KY. Dec. 16.-The Louisville
Presbytery has found the Rev. DR.. NJ. H. Hous-
ton guilty Of heresy. because of his views on
modification. He was admonished to lay these
aside and conform TO the views and practices of
the Church, otherwise he will be suspended from
tho Church.
DR.. Houston is . well-known preacher and for
thirty years was u missionary in China, where
he 10 alleged to have taught his heresies. He
may take an appeal to the Synod.
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Iu,o-tod JUST to remind you of
po'. the foreign costumes de-
Costumes. stoned for all the various

social demands. The variety now here
is made doubly charming by price re-
auctions of a radical nature.
All imported costumes formerly $500 and
over are now at half prices. Last week
100 per cent. higher.
All imported costumes formerly at less than
$500 are now at two-thirds prices. Last
week so per cent. higher.
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Sis a suit

Slippers Se m,t paye &E1;rr say
a"u choosing hard by
having such variety-over a hundred
sorts; but we try to make it easy by
having them all spread out for your
picking. And then the prices are right.
Mems slippers, opera or toilet shapes, in
brown or black kid, Sf.2o.
Mems high-front Romeos, elastic sides,
brown or black kid, $40.
Others up to 50.
WomEN's SLlPPERs.-Black felt. easy, warm,
slightly, durable, for
thirty five cents.
RUBBER OvERsHoES.-First grade. best quail
ity:-
For men, twenty-five cents.
For women, Fifteen cents.
Fourth avenue and Ninth street.
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Fancy
Baskets.

arllStlc baSketS that are
so popular at Christmas time, we have
to 90 across the sea, to Lichtenfels,
Bavaria, the home of basket-making.
They are here now in lavish abundance
and variety.
Work Baskets, soc. to $3.50.
Scrap Baskets, 25c. to S4.75.
Bon.bon Baskets, toc. to Si.25.
Work Stands, 81. so to $6.75.
Some are already complete others
may be beautified by woman's hand
work with ribbons or other materials.
Basement.
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Mems
Clothing.

Mems In a large custom tailor
Clothing. nfs s' Uas'i sSs E fro "u't tims
to time left on our hands for various
reasons. W. make short work of
them by transferring them to our
ready-made stock, at such low figures
that they leave in double-quick time.
A lot of custom made suits, double
and single breasted sacks and cut
Always, of handsome mixed cheviots
and worsted, many of them silk lined,
are now
Sis a suit
Also, one lot at $50 a suit.
And another lot at S22.sO.
The lots are not large; come soon.
Second floor.
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& Nm~mq& d1nr
Store open evenings until Christmas.
Holiday Experiences.

l CITIES The extent of may be imagined by the following
People addy employed in Philadelphia, 5T6
Total Waamkn HohhyE Employees 1907
In New York buying began early, continued late and taxed heavily all the resources Of
so that the great business Of the day was successfully managed, and we begin to-day
without accumulation of transactions pertaining to past days.
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Shooting fur tho Absei Trophy Mt the seventh,s
Ranges.

Rsferoe-J. FenwIck. N. Y. A C. Time OF halves
90 minutes.
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In a large custom tailor
ing business a number
of suits are from tima
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-08
Doctors Who Can't Cure.

A new class of doctors has sprung up.
This consists of specialists of every disease
known who can't cure any one of them
These men are employed by railway or in
surance companies to prove whether people
who come to them and assert that they are
i'll are shanming.
Thus, if a man seeks an audience with
the manager of railway company and
claims damages for a paralyzed arm
brought about by an accident, he will be
handed over to the specialist If the syInp-
toms do not appear to be genuine, few
drops of weak sulphuric acid will easily
and effectively decide the matter.
A large number of people apply for ad-
mission to the hospitals who are suffering
merely from imaginary diseases. These
consider that the iaconveniezices of hospital
life are quite overbalaE-;ed by the good
food and the warm bed. They all give en-
ployment to the specialist, who finds his
trade paying one.-Pearson's Weekly.
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die the throttle and the reverse lever.
Mr.. Pratt does not pretend that he is
full hedged engineer, but he knows
enough about the business so that he
could jump into the cab and run loco
motive if necessary.
His next lesson in rai1roading he
learned in the civil engineering depart
ment AS a target and rod man he
tramped over every foot of the 80 mile
extension to Fresh Pond, and before he
left could handle a transit and compute
distances with much accuracy. Then
Mr.. Pratt spent some months under the
traffic manager and absorbed whole vol
umes of dry details connected with the
making up of train schedules. In this
way he acquired a practical if some
what general knowledge of every de-
partment connected with the system,
and when Mr. W. II. Baldwin was
elected president of the road a few
months ago young Mr.. Pratt was fully
equipped to step into the somewhat i'm
portant position of assistant to the pres
ident. This same position Mr.. Pratt
still holds.
The ether day the announcement was
made that Mr. Pratt had bought in al
most all the stock held by the Corbin
estate, and that he was practically the
owner of the whole system. Then it was
fully expected that he would have him
self elected president. But he did moth
ing of the sort. Mr.. Baldwin, who is a
railroad man of long experience and
great ability, has been continued in the
Office, and Mr.. Pratt has announced that
he has no intention of becoming the
president of the Long Island road
There is little doubt, however, that il
is young Mr.. Pratt who is debating
the policy of the road and in whose
hands rests the responsibility of carry
ing out the great projects which the
founder of the system had begun.
Whether he will be able to do all the
vast work which the late Austin Corbin
had planned or not remains to be seen.
If he does, he will build great seaport
out on the end of Long Island and an
other at Milford Haven, England, he
will establish a new line of ocean steam
ships that will give Americans a four
| days passage to Europa and by bridg-
| ing the East river and laying a tunnel
around the end Of Manhattan Island to
| Jersey City he will reduce New York
| from great terminal to a mere stop
| ping point on the journey from London
to San Francisco. This is an enterprise
of magnificent proportions, but Mr..
Pratt is young, he has great wealth be-
hind him, and he seems to be made OF
| the right stuff S. 9. SCHENCK.
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Cotton Mills West and South.
ISpecial Correspondence.1

ST. LOUIS, Jan 26.-New England
cotton manufacturers are arranging for
a cotton mill in this city. The idea of
making cotton goods near the source of
the raw material is not new. Some
years ago Georgia capitalists built cot
ton factories at Augusta, utilizing a fine
water power, and these mills have been
prosperous st. Louis is the distributing
point for most of the cotton crop of Ar
kansas and Texas, and about one-half
the cotton used in New England mills
passes through this city. A large
part of this cotton, of course, comes
back to St. Louis in the form of cloth
It seems wasteful to pay freight on the
cotton from st. Louis to New England
and freight on the cotton cloth from
New England to St. Louis when all the
facilities for manufacturing cotton goods
can be found here. Labor here is as
cheap as in New England. 1t is much
cheaper in Georgia, where negro hands
are employed. Coal is to be had from
mines Just across the river, in Illinois.
Local capitalists, however, have hest
tated to go into the enterprise alone;
but, through the Business Mems league,
they have intimated a willingness to
put up $40, 900 if some experienced
manufacturers will put up a like
amount. They will give also a 80 acre
site. Now the manufacturers are coming
here from New England to look over the
ground It is expected that the new
mill will employ 1900 men. It may
cheaper cotton goods in the southwest,
and possibly it will be the first of a
series of elements disturbing to the in
dustries of New England.
PERCY CoRTELYoU.
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6cantily covered coral rocks, but in ia
maica the hot blooded Cuban finds soil
and climate exactly suited to his needs.
There has already begun a hegira from
the southern parts of Cuba, which
promises to swell to great proportions if
the rebellion continues another year, as
seems most likely.
One would think that the struggling
patriots of Cuba might find ardent sym
pathizers among the islands around it.
But such is not the case. This island,
for instance, is SO thoroughly English
and SO entirely in the group Of British
commercial peoples that there is actual
1y no sentiment favorable to the patriot
cause. Those who come here are well
coined in a way because the residents
see a new industry possible through
their presence.
This island has grown tobacco for
many years and has produced a fairly
good brand of cigars. But the art of
properly curing the tobacco has never
been acquired. Now that Weyler, the
butcher, has actually invaded the Pinar
del Rio province of Cuba and destroyed
the resources of that great tobacco rails
ing district its population, skilled in the
raising and preparation of the weed,
are hocking to this haven for the op-
pressed. They are bringing with them
seed and methods of curing the "co-
hiba''-as the tobacco plant is called
and it will not ne long before you of the
United States will be receiving fragrant
Havanas from Jamaica We had the
soil; we had the tropical climate. Now
we have the industrious 'fabricators"
themselves. Look out in the very near
future for ''Reinas de Xaymaca, I"
"Conchas de Sir Henry Blake (the
governor) and "Damas de la Victoria -
As you know, the smokers of the
United States consume some 200, 600, 900
SO called Havanas, while we who have
been through the island know that not
over 80, 900, 900 real Havanas are ex-
ported to the States. At least 20 times
that number are used there, or about
4, 900, 900, 900 cigars. So it appears that
somebody smokes something different
from the exported article. In fact, it is
extremely difficult and always " as to
find good Havana cigar in the Cuban
capital itself, the best Of them going to
London and to the European courts.
Our millionaires sometimes get a few,
but most of them are absorbed by his
royal highness ''Tum Tum'' and his ilk.
In this matter of the refuent wave of
immigrants from Cuba it is only history
repeating itself, for this island was once
a Spanish possession and was wrested
/ from the dons by no less a parsonage
than the bold protector, Oliver Crom-
well, or rather by his admiral, Penn,
about the middle of the seventeenth cen
tury. You will find here many remind
ers of that Spanish epoch of possession
in such names as Spanish Town, near
Kingston; Santa Gloria and Puerto
| Bueno
In the year 1903 having cruised along
the Honduras and Cuban coasts, Colun-
bus was driven by dreadful hurricane
full upon the same north coast Of Ja-
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maica. His ships were in almost sink
ing condition, and SO, making the best
of a bad adventure. he drove them
ashore, where the water soon filed
them to the tops of their decks. That
was before the time of Great Easterns
and 10, 900 ton ships, and his little cara
vels-not much bigger than fishing
schooners-were beached with difficulty.
''Castled in the sea- as he expressed
it, Columbus remained for nearly a
year, until finally rescued and taken to
Spain, where he died two years later. It
was at this very spot that the great
Christopher played that Glow down.
trick on the unsophisticated natives
which has become historic. The native
Indians could not see why they should
be called upon to feed horde of ravag
ing and ravishing soldiers thrown up
from the sea, and SO they withheld the
bananas, yams and cassava upon which
Columbus relied to keep him and his
fellow pirates from starving. So, having
an cold Farmers Almanac with him
and perceiving by the tables that ''about
this time they might expect an eclipse
of the moon, he returned to his cabin to
commune with the god of storms. When
he came out, he told the chief, or ca
Clique, of the Indians that the Great
Spirit was very much offended at the
lack of yams and bananas, and in con-
sequence was going to quench the light
of the moon. And, sure enough, just as
he ceased speaking the moon went into
a cloud, and the Indians set up howl
of terror and alright, not that they
cared much for moonlight strolls, ETC.,
but they had no other light by night,
gas being SO high they couldn t afford it
and the electric dynamos all burned out.
They came to terms just in the nick
of time, for moment after they had
agreed to furnish the provisions the
eclipse was over, and Columbus 'saved
his bacon. The Spaniards returned the
favor after the manner of the times by
running off lot of the Indians to Haiti,
where they sold them as slaves, and car
rying away all the handsomest of the
Indian maidens.
All this happened in the year 1904,
but tradition has preserved full ac-
count of the proceedings, and it was
only last week that I took a salt water
dip in Columbus cove, where the dis
coverer lived SO many months in huts of
straw erected over the decks of his cara
wells. o. A FURBER
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Prizes For Railway Trucl1men.
Especial Correspondence. l

CHICAGO, Jan. 26.-The Wabash rail
road some time ago adopted device for
encouraging its track foremen to do
their best to keep the track in good con-
dition 1t offered prizes of $50 and $25
each to the foremen for the best and
next best showing at the annual track
inspection. The object of this was to
prevent accidents, and the managers of
the road say they have received more
than the value of the prizes every year
in additional protection to the COM
pany's property and to the lives of trav-
elers and employees. The amount paid
out in prizes recently was 81, O20. The
points covered in the competition are
drainage, policing, sidings, line and
surface level, joints. ties and switches.
Some English railroads offer prizes to
station masters for the best kept station
gardens.
The prize system usually brings a
great many times the value of the in
yestment GEORGE GRAHAM.
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Especial Correspondsnce.l

In the Sea-"
Especial Correspondence.1
FALMOUTH, Jamaica, Jan 16.-Drop
a plumb line due south from the prom
ontory of Cabo Cruz, Cuba, and it
will strike the harbor of this most beau
tiful of towns, on the north coast of
Jamaica. The whole southern coast of
Cuba lies open to the north of Jamaica,
indenting which are such fine harbors
as Port Antonio, Falmouth and Montego
bay. The first is the shipping port of the
Boston Fruit company, which has revo-
1utionized the agriculture of Jamaica
and made possible the building up of
great fortunes in banana culture. The
latter, Montego is now the terminus of
the inland railway from Kingston, the
capital, and, with it's glorious harbor
and surrounding lands adapted to fruit
and coffee growing, promises great
things for the future
The Pearl of the Antilles is almost
contiguous to five bodies of land and
groups of islands, in which are spoken
three different languages. Directly
north is Florida, with Key West distant
some 80 miles; north and northeast are
the Bahamas, all English speaking;
south of east is Haiti, where, though
the inhabitants are mostly blacks,
French is the dialect spoken; south rs
miles lies Jamaica, English, and west
of Cape Antonio lies Yucatan, 100 miles,
where, as in Cuba, Spanish is the Ian
guage now of the people there.
Cuba is isolated among its neighbors,
not only owing to its foreign ownership,
but to the archaic customs and fifteenth
century ideas of its oppressors only in
Haiti, that fragment of African barbar-
ism, are the roads in worse condition
and the public welfare less an object of
solicitude. The United States and ia
maica offer the only asylu1ns for the
Cuban refugees and those deprived of
their homes and properties through
Spanish tyranny. The Bahamas are so
poor that they can hardly support the
miserable population that clings to their
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CORBINS SUCCESSOR.
THE YOUNG MAN WHO CONTROLS
THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD.

A Millionaire Who Is Not Afraid to Wear
Commenced at the Bottom to Learn
Railroading.
The career of George D. Pratt, the
young man who has virtually taken up
the vast enterprises begun by the late
Austin Corbin, will be watched with
much interest by people who are familiar
with the circumstances connected with
the case.
Mr.. Pratt is millionaire's son, but
not of the type which Americans have
usually seen. His father was the great
Brooklyn oil magnate and philanthro-
pist whom the Standard Oil syndicate
was glad to cooperate with because it
could not crush him. When the old gem
tleman died few years ago, he left to
three of his sons equal portions of his
Standard holdings, and they took easy
positions in the offices Of that great
monopoly.
To George D. Pratt, the fourth son,
fell large block of Long Island rail-
road stock. The young man might have
become a second vice president or ac-
cepted some Office to which little work
and a big salary were attached. But he
WAS uOG tQdJ SCIG OF CHAP. he Liked
the railroad business and was ambitious
to become a power among railroad men,
but he did not think that was the way
to go about it. So as soon as he was
graduated from Amherst college, in
1898, he began at the bottom of the lad
der
The first position which this ambi-
tious young millionaire accepted was
that of a cleaner and helper in the car
shops He put on blue overalls and
jumper and for six months worked
among the other machinists, patching
up old cars and broken down locomotives
and taking the gruffest orders from the
foreman without a protest. Gradually
he was promoted, and before the half
year was out he had fair idea of the
general workings of the shop and knew
something about engines.
Next he became a fireman on loco
motive and worked under the direction
of one of the oldest and most experienced
engineers on the road. It was not play
by any means. He shoveled coal until
his arms and back ached, he learned
how to use a 20 foot clinlzer hook, he
polished up the headlight reflector, and
he crawled under the halted monster
with a long necked oil can When the
engineer was good natured, he allowed
the amateur fireman to take his seat on
the right hand side of the cab and ham
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Marital Condolences.

Mr.. Elwell-Isn t it strange, but true
nevertheless, that the biggest fools al
ways marry the prettiest girls?
Mrs Elwel-Oh, now, go on, you
hatterer!-Loudon Figaro.
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EEIGHBORS TO CUBA.
FLORIDA, THE BAHAMAS, JAMAICA
AND YUCATAN.

Tho Struggling Patriots Find Little Sym
pAthy Among the Islands Near Cuba.
Jamaica and Her Possibi1ities-~CastIes
In the Sea-
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LOST AND FoUNn

7 OST-Sunday, round gold breastpin.
brilliant center. Please return to 9l5
W. 18th St. and receive reward.
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"a ANTS, RENTS, SIT
EH UATIONS, REAL
ESTATE, AUG
q Cd TION SALES AND
OTHER CLASSIFIED AID
REFRESHMENTS
SITUATIONS wANTE0-FREE-

Are you in need of work? II SO, you
are at liberty to use these columns Tor
assistance in that direction WINE inns
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day for Topeka or Kansas people, All
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exceed five lines or thirty-five words, IN
length nrovided that all advertisements
of that nature are handed in previous to
20 o'clock Saturday morning; also on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, all
advertising of this class handed in by 10
o'clock Wednesday morning.
No advertisements of this nature to be
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nesdays. No obligation is incurred on the
part of the advertiser. No worthy and
needy man or woman need hesitate to
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business or having employment is ex-
pected to take advantage of it. but all
others are invited to avail themselves
freely.
The Topeka State Journal guarantees
every day it is printed. to give a local
circulation by far more than all otner
Dailies, combined. This makes this paper
the cheapest, as well as the best daily
medium In Topeka. the classified aoVer-
tisements below costing but
Five Cents a Line,
or 20 cents a line for a week; 50 cents By
the month.
Average circulation for the year. 1896.
IO,76O.
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presented to advertisers on application
Call and see any afternoon between
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most perfect piece of machinery in han
eas-a Web Perfecting Press which prints
from two to three complete SPACE papers
per second.
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Missouri Pacific.

TOPEKA & FIT. SCOTT ACCOM-, No. 2S5.
ToPEKA & 'FT. SCOTT ACCOM-. No. 2Ss.
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EOr1ND-PIace to get your watch or
II clock cleaned for 75c-S05 Kan Ave.
upstairs
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BOOKS AND STATIONERY.

>--~-~-~-~~~-~~~-~---~-~~~-
THE KELLAM BOOK & STATIONERY
II CO., 603 Kan. Ave. Latest books, cor
rect stationery. Newest wall paper. Ar
tistic framing.
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u OR <SALE-Bargains in all kinds of
Il Real estate, by J. s. Collins & Co.
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FoR RENr-HousEs.

----~--~~-~---~-~-~~~----~
+ OR RENT-S1s Huntoon ST.. rooms.
= path. closet, sink, electric light. 5
acres; 80 acres close in; store All kan
aye eS e. store and four rooms. 1904 E. 9Th !:
4 t I "a St., rooms, barn, s.; ia Win
equity in to 7-room house F. ]. Brown.
Mgr, q Columbian Bldg
FOR RENT-8-room residence with mod
- ern conTenienSes, line of electric
road Inquire of First National Bank
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PUS TESS OIL.

IT'D get the genuine Dustless Oil send
4 you orders direct to the Western Oil
Manufacturing Co., Kansas City, Mo.
Freight prepaid when cash accompanies
the order. Local checks not accepted.
Send for conditional order blanks. No To-
cal agent.
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BICYCLES.

TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 w Sth St
= Bicycles and sundries; bicycles and
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roa sALEREAL EsrArE-

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~---~------
EOR SALE@Special bargain in Groom
4 house and one and one-half lots, with
in 200 feet of the street car line, west
mari of the city Only 81 200. Must be
Gold within the next days. For par
ticulars see J. s. Collins & Co., LIS West
Sixth avenue.
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COAL.

phone ISL. Best grades. lowest prices.
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q so Weekly salary and expenses paid
R statesmen for cigars. Experience I'M
necessary. Permanent position. The W.
L. Kline Co., st. Louis, Mo.
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FUEL AND FEED.

T FAVE your orders for COAL. Flour,
- Feed and Seeds with Van Slyck. 5c9
w. 10th.