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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
Music Club.

The St. Cecilia club met with Mrs S.
J. Hodgins Monday, May 10. The fol-
lowing was the programme:
l. Fair, oh Sweet and HOly''-(OttO
CantOr)-Mrs. S. J. HOdgins.
2. Nocturne No. s .--........... Chopin
Miss Jessie GarwOOd.
3. LAS the Dawn. ........Otto Cantor
Mrs. John KIeinhans.
4. This and That Franz
Miss Minnie Marsh.
5. Banjo soIo-SchOttische.- $500. .AIbrecht
Miss Kathryn Mills.
6. Sunset Dudley Buck
Mrs. c. J. Smith.
z. ttWiegenlied" -...---..-..-.. Taubert
Miss Edna Carpenter.
The next meeting will be in two weeks
at the home of Miss Jessie Garwood at
632 Topeka avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
LABOR COMMISSIONERS.
Division of the Work With the Mine
Inspector.

Labor Commissioner Lee Johnson
leaves the latter part of the week to at
tend the national conference of labor
commissioners of the United States at
Nashville, Tenn. The convention will
assemble May Is and continue in ses-
sion three days.
Mr.. johnson and George T. NcGrath
state mine inspector held a conference
a few days ago and reached an agree
ment concerning their annual reports.
In years past there has been duplica-
ton of material and statistics in the
two reports but the present officers
have SO arranged matters that there
will be no conflict
Mr.. McGrath will treat of mines and
mining, sanitary conditions of mines
and other features of that character.
of the men, wages and subjects of kin
dred nature.
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STATE GRAIN INSPECTORS.
Appointments Made by State Grain
Inspector Culver.

Miles MulrOy will be Weighmaster IN
der the state grain inspector in Topeka
This is the place which John Jones was
to receive. Mr.. MulrOy now resides in
Topeka. but his home is in Hays City
There he was prosecuting attorney for
Ellis county and enjoys the distinction
of having closed up every joint in the
county without the aid of any public
sentiment or folderOl. MulrOy simply
told the jointists and salOOnists to quit
and those who violated his orders were
placed in Jail to repent.
Other appointments announced by
State Grain Inspector Culver last night,
after the conference with Governor
I.eedy were as follows:
W. F. Green of Wichita, inspector at
Wichita.
II. Woodring of Elk City. inspector
at Parsons.
J. A. Purviance of Great Bend, in
spector at Rosedale.
James Maxwell of Argentine, in
spectOr at Winfield.
S. s. Harvey of Minneapolis, weigh
master at Kansas City, Kan.
William Lawyer of Girard, weigh
master at LeavenWOrth
Jeff Durham of Little River, weigh
master at Wichita.
A L. futile Of Sterling, weighmaster
at Winfield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
IN THE SOCIETY WORLD.
General Notes of Society and
Personal Items.
Recent;SOcial Events in Topeka
and Vicinity.
Items of Interest About Topeka PEG
pie and Visitors in Town.

Miss Dora Furman entertained the
Pansy club informally yesterday after
noon. The guests were seated at one
long table, decorated in pansies and
pansy cOlOrs.
The favors were small cards with a
pansy in the corner and tied with pur-
pie ribbon. Each one bore a. verse ap-
prOpriate to the occasion. Miss Alice
Prescott will entertain the club Thurs
day afternoon.
Miss Ida Higgins entertained few
friends last night at cards and dancing.
Those present were Miss May Hig-
gins of Denver, Miss Tayman. Miss
Dora. Sutherland. Mr. Charles TrainOr
of Colorado Springs, Mr. Tayman, Mr..
VIII Carr and Mr. Dick Alden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
SPANISH BANK STILL OPEN
It's Reported Suspension Proves to be
Unfounded.

Havana, May 1.-THE Spanish bank
has not suspended. The report TO that
effect grew out of the suspension by
the Spanish bank of the exchange of
paper bills for silver which step was
brought about by order of the govern
ment
AS a result crowds of people went to
the bank yesterday to pay their taxes,
believing that scrip would not be re-
ceived in future on account of the eX
change of paper for silver being done
away with and also owing to the rumOr
that paper money would be listed thus
causing great losses. The bank however.
continues open and is doing business as
usual today.
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II HERMITS VANISH.
They are Found to Have Been Sealed
Up in a Stone Compartment
While Alive.

London, May 11.-According to a. dis
patch to the Daily News from St
Petersburg, a terrible crime, the result
of superstition, has been committed at
TirespOt, in the government of Kher-
son, where are a number of hermitages
inhabited by sectarians.
Recently II of the hermits disappear
ed, and it was believed that they had
emigrated in fear of the impending day
of judgment. But a hermit named Ko-
waling has confessed that he walled
them up alive in response to their ear
nest entreaties, that they might receive
the martyrs crown. The police exam
med the spot and verified the story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
DIAMOND MATCH co. SELLS
It's Liverpool Plant to a British Syn
dictate and Declares q Dividend.

Chicago, May 1.-THE Diamond Match
company has sold its Liverpool plant.
The sale was formally closed in London
today when the Diamond Match COM
pany. limited was registered under the
laws of Great Britain.
President o. c. Barber, of the Diamond
Match company of Illinois was present
with Edwin Lobdeu to look after the in
terests of the company in the formal
transfer of the property. There was
meeting of the directors of the Diamond
Match company here today and in addi-
ton to receiving this interesting piece of
news, they declared dividend of 21s per
cent, payable June p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
CHLOROFORM YOUR PLANTS
If You Want to Make Them Grow
Rapidly.

Washington, May 11.-United States
Consul Kirk at Copenhagen has made
a report to the department of state Civ
ing a description of an interest
ing discovery in the physiology Of
plants made by Johansen of Copenha-
gen.
The discovery is that plants are sus-
ceptible 10 the influence of ether or
chlOrOform but in their case the effect
is to awaken them instead of putting
them to sleep. Also that the plants are
made TO grow with great rapidity in or
Importance to gardeners and florists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
CONVENTION OF MINERS
Representing Several Western States
Meets in Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake, May 1.-THE fifth annual
convention of the western federation of
miners was called to order yesterday by
President Edward Boyce. of Wardner
Idaho, with about IS delegates present
representing Arizona, Colorado Montana
California, Idaho, Nevada and Utah.
J. T. Hammond, secretary of the state
made an address of welcome. State Sen
atOr Barbour then spoke for the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor.
After an address by President Boyce
the committees were appointed and the
delegates went into executive session.
The convention will be in session several
days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
Divine Scientists Meet.

St. Louis, May 1.-THE fourth inter
national conference of scientists, called
by the Divine Science association, be-
gan at Masonic temple this forenoon.
Daily sessions will be held during the
remainder of the week, ending with
special services Sunday evening. Rev.
D. L. Sullivan of st. Louis delivered
an address of welcome. An address
by Mary Whitney Densmore of Boston,
Mass. on THE Christ Plane of Con-
sciousness'' was the principal event on
the programme today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
NEGROES BOMBARD STORE
The Proprietor Holds the Fort Two
Hours Under Heavy Fire

Waycross, Ga, May IA race war at
Demare, a little town near here, resulted
in bloodshed yesterday. c. A. Demory.
a storekeeper refused to wait on VIM
Simmons, a negro politician of some re-
pute. Simmons attempted to brain him
with a scale weight, whereupon Denory
shot and killed him.
About 4 o'clock the store was attack
ed by a mob of negroes who kept volleys
of bullets pouring through the thin sides
of the building until o'clock. They ser
iously wounded Demory and several 9TH
ers. The sheriff and a posse from Val
desta drove the mob away and placed a
guard about the wounded men for the
night. A number of the negroes were
shot but none of them were killed so far
as known.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

noon for her new home in Tacoma,
Wn. She will visit a short time in San
Diego.
Mrs. Sallie Kearney has returned
home after a visit with her sister, Mrs.
Al. Re Lua.
Mrs. Frank James entertained 20
little girls in honor of her daughter,
Ethel's tenth birthday yesterday.
Miss Amelia Ward of st. Marys is
visiting Miss F. Freshman at 600 West
Sixth street.
Mr. and Mrs. c. A. Fellows went to
Lnnction CitN NastardaN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
REV. BARROWS RETURNS.
Arrives in San Francisco From a Tour
of India

San Francisco, May 1.-Rev. John
Henry Barrows and Mrs. Barrows of
Chicago, arrived here today from the
Orient He went to India last year to
lecture on religious topics He eX
poets to be in Chicago next Sunday
where he will lecture at the Chicago
university.
He found awaiting him here in
vitatiOns to attend a reception at the
Palmer House, Chicago, on Monday
night given by the COngrega tional club.
He viii give an account of his journey
through India.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
RAID o. DisorderIz Placea

Another raid on dis0rder1y houses
was made last night by Sergeant Dono-
van and officers. Two houses were
pulled about O'Clock and on the police
docket the names of Grace Blanchard
and Annie Johnson We're placed with
the charge of keeping disOrderly houses.
Ida Brown Min Johnson and Maud
'"YahOo' were charged with being in
mates of the houses. Patrolmen FOwl5es,
Groch, Kesson, and Gordon and Detec-
tive CaprOn assisted the sergeant in
the arrests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
State Horticultural Society.

Secretary William H. Barnes of the
state horticultural society today for
warded copies of the reports from the
department to Vinica, Russia Mr.
Barnes responded to the request of Of
fcers of the government school at that
city in sending the books.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
Surprise Party.

There was pleasant surprise party
given on Willrain Kester at his home
at 2O7 Adams street May TO- Those
present were: Misses Lizzie Kes-
ter Gladys Jeffries, Elsie Crit
fin, Myrtle Jeffries, Anna Horton,
Flora Peterson and LenOra Shay;
NIessrs. Ed Smelser, c. A. Perkins,
Ralph Griffin, Frank Dawson, James
Baker, w. n. Moore, Fred Burt, Will
liam Kester Delmer Shay. A pleas
ant time was enjoyed by all and re-
freshments We're served.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

F. A Wilson of Kansas City, Kan,
weighmaster at Kansas City.
Mr.. Green of Wichita, appointed IN
spector for Sedgwick county, made a
hard fight for a position on the state
board of railroad commissioners, but
was defeated by Lewelling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
Cnban Negotiations Denied

Washington May 1.-THE report that
secret negotiations of great Importance
are being carried on between Spain and
the United States in regard to Cuba is
denied at the state department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
Earthouake in Australia.

Melbourne, May IA severe seismic
disturbance took place today in South
Australia and Victoria. The shock
was intermittent and continued for
several minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
Mckinley Will Go to New York.

New York, May 1.-THE committee in
charge of the Memorial day exercises
today received telegram from Presi-
dent Mckinley accepting the invitation
to come to New York and take part in
the ceremonies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
NOV IS Your Tina

To buy the finest grade of high class
Millinery, for less money than others
will ask you for cheap goods. The Bon
Ton is sacrificing all goods at half price
to close out. They must be sold this
week. 500 Kansas Ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

From Friday morning until Saturday
afternoon over 1000 walls of Munyon's
rheumatism Cure were given away free
to the public, and, although but four days
have elapsed since the distribution com
menced, many have reported themselves
cured and hundreds, hearing from their
friends the wonderful results obtained
from the use of one small bottle Of these
remedies, have become convinced OF their
value and purchased some of the same
from the druggists.
Fifty Thousand Dollars
snent in advertising could not have Great
ed such a demand for any medicine. But
the fact that out of over 1000 trial bot
Ties given away only four persons have
reDorted no benefit received compels the
most sleptical to acknowledge the eff
cacv of Munyon's new method of treat
ing disease.
Rheumatism Cure.
Munyon's rheumatism Cure is guaran-
teed to be absolutely harmless and
strong tonic in building up the weak and
debilitated. It cures acute or muscular
rheumatism in from one to five days.
Sharp. shooting pains in any part of the
body stopped in a few doses. A prompt.
complete and permanent cure for lame
ness and soreness, stiff back and all
pains in hips and loins. Chronic rheuma-
tism, sciatica. lumbago or pain in the
back are speedily cured It seldom fails
to give relief from one to two doses, and
almost invariably cures before one bottle
has been used. Price 25c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11
The Bon Ton

Is closing out all Millinery at just half
price, which is way below cost on most
goods, but they must be sold this week
Never before has such desirable goods
been offered at such a sacrifice.
SC9 Kansas Avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-11

lately moved to the other side are Mrs.
Robert Morris. Mrs H F. Morris, Mrs.
w. H. Davis, Mrs. w. T. Eckert and
Mrs F. c. Bowen
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Rheumatism Cure.

A Cure for Every Disease.
Munyon's Dyspepsia Cure positively
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25
The Electrical Piano.

A piano on an entirely new principle
is announced from Germany. The
strings are stretched across the sound
ing board as in the ordinary piano, but
the entire hammer mechanism is alb
sent. Instead, the depressing of the
key puts in action amagnet, which au-
tomatically attracts and releases the
wire, thus producing vibrations with
out the metallic stroke which accom-
panies the sound in the common type.
The resulting effect upon the tones is
said to be very remarkable. The high
notes resemble those of an Eolian
harp. The middle and lower notes are
like a cello or an organ. It responds
readily to every variation in power and
expression. A note can be sounded
for several minutes without varying in
quality gu So EVfcally different from
all existing instruments are the effects
that a new style Of music is needed to
bring out its capabilities .-Illustrated
American.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25

In a late number of Science DR.. G.
Hart Merriam closes an article with
an appeal to museums, ,sportsmen and
naturalists to take advantage of every
opportunity before it is too late to Sc
r and preserve many of our larger
mammals from remote parts of their
ranges. Many species have been ex-
terminated in Europe by man, and in
this country the process is already be-
gun. The familiar story of the van
ishing buffalo is only one of many.
The giant grizzly of Southern Cali
fornia, the largest carnivorous animal
OF the United States, is about EXTERN
mated, and it is doubtful if a museum
specimen will ever be obtained. The
large wolves have been exterminated
over more than half the area they for
merly possessed, and no one knows
what forms have disappeared. An un-
known form of elk or wapiti, which,
within the memory of men still living,
inhabited the Alleghenies from North
Carolina to the Adirondacks, has been
wiped off the face of the earth.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25

The Kansas City Journal tells how
Miss Ethel Hoskinson the other day
started from Corning to Seneca to take
the examination for teachers. Reach
ing a stream which had been swollen
by the floods, her horses and buggy
were washed away. She kept her
head, however, and the horses man
aged to swim out on the other side,
after floating quite a distance down the
stream, though all the time the buggy
was so far below the surface that the
water came up to her armpits. Once
on the bank she drove hufriedly into
Seneca, borrowed some dry clothes
from an acquaintance, ran wei to the
courthouse, took the examination, and
triumphantly bore of: a first-grade GER
t~ifcate.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25

An article in the Railroad Gazette
asserts that the forcing of civilization
upon China is dangerous business.
There is present profit, of course, in
conquering the apathy of a conserve
tive people and in bestowing upon
them, despite frantic opposition from
the Mandarin class, the benefits of
Occidental inventions and methods.
but, asks the writer, '.has anyone ever
considered what will be the result
when q ~rejuyenated race, conscious Of
its W numerical strength, armed
with our knowledge, should resent the
masterful spirit displayed by us?
What If China should follow in the
footsteps of Japan? If she should de-
velop her untold hidden resources, as
simulate and apply our modern inven-
tions, and use the immense surplus
created by economy to arm herself
against us?" These questions have
been propounded before, and they in
innate dreadful things whose posi-
bility everybody admits with shivers
OF apprehension, which are, after all.
more or less enjoyable. People realize
i~nstinctively that, once the Chinese
are civilized, they will be much like
the rest of the world, and vastly better
customers than they arc now. The
general appreciation Of this fact. even
by those who worry most over the
bugbear of competition between the
white and yellow races, is illustrated
BY the writer whose words are quoted
above. His warning is followed by a
long account of the railroad situation
and prospect in China, and by detailed
information as to how Americans can
get their share of orders from the
Celestials. Theoretically he is gravely
alarmed; practically he is not at all
afraid, and with rather amusing incon-
sistency he is at great pains to tell
how best to .sdriye home with siedge-
hammer blows every little entering
wedge Of civilization
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Paper betting for machinery is be
ing made and used in Germany.
An Oshkosh WIS., firm is success
fully making binding Irvine Of marsh
hay.
Liverpool has the largest fire en-.
CINE in the world-equal to throwing
1900 gallons a minute and a stream
40 feet high.
The Athens check factory is to be
operated by electricity. This is the
first cotton factory in Georgia to use
electricity as a motive power.
Natural gas is fast going. J. D.
Weeks has just made a report on the
supply and its decline for the National
Labor Bureau in which it appears that
the supply has fallen q half in seven
years.
Fair-haired people are becoming
less numerous than formerly. The n
Gent Jews were a fair-haired race;
now they are, with few exceptions,
dark. So it is in a lesser degree with
the Irish, among whom $50 years ago
a dark-haired person was almost I'M
known.
The suggestion is advanced that
perhaps the ultimate field of acetylene
will be in the lighting of lighthouses
and on board ships. It's ~compactness
and the ease with which it can be
slowed away in the form of carbide
and ease of generation of the gas, to-
with great brilliancy, and point
its a~daptability for this purpose.
The stopping" qualities of the Lee
Metford rife, now in use in the Brit
ish army, has been the subject of
much comment eyer since the Chitral
campaign. The bullet used was there
found of very little use in stopping
the rush of q determined body of ia
natics. This will not be the case in
it is stated, as a new bullet has
been invented, the quality of which
Ire said to be undoubted.
A recent discovery that practical
men as we'll as scientists approve is
he complete transformation of wood
nto gas. The product has a power
our times greater than that made
rom bituminous coal. It's value lies
n adaptability as a motive power,
which can be applied to the produc-
Of ceramics, in glass manufacture,
or Bessemer hearths, and like indus
Rich in carbonic oxide as it is,
ne gas is available for the manufac-
ure of o4alic acid and other chemi-
ais, and, it is said, at a very consid-
rable saving in cost.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25

difficulty, engaging room for mothe,
and daughter, and quietly e~ffacing him
Self.
1t was far too long q story to try tc
record the three months that followed.
George Nanhorn was resolute on one
point. He would not marry Helen.
He hadho hope Of recovery, but if the
unexpected should happen he would
not risk running Helen's life by bind
ing it to his.
"Oh," she would cry, "what am I
to deserve the owe of two such men?
Mother, it humbles me to think how
they love mel"
And by this love her courage was
sustained through the three months,
when she and her mother smoothed
George Vanhorn's path to the grave.
Such happiness as could be hers, she
knew that she owed to Will Spencer,
who showed his love only by his care
of the invalid. He never spoke of love
to her, giving her up entirely, but
upon her lover he lavished every kind
ness wealth could procure, or friend
ship dictate. He gave him a brothers
devotion until the last parting came,
and when he was laid in the cemetery
Will Spencer took Helen and Mrs.
Raymond back to their home and left
them.
It WIS three years later when he
came Ipme from a European tour and
callefon Mrs. Raymond.
S"The old lady, sir, is dead" the
.servantoold him, an Miss Helen's liv-
in in - street. Maybe yees didn't
hear she's come into some money from
her uncle, sir, and Mrs. Grady, she's
took this house, sir"
Come into some money! Well, she
did not need him. He would wait
But in a few days O little note
reached him:
cit was unkindto letme hear of your
'eturn by accident. Will you not come
see me?"
Would he not? And when he went
lie could not keep the love out of his
yes or his voice, and she-at last!
Her eyes dropped under his gaze, her
.heehS Di'lSlleu lor MIN, ner voice
altered, with tenderness He had won
lis bride! And he had no secrethidden
rom her loving eyes, no treachery he
7ould dread to have her discover. By
he %frankness he had thought would
lienate her forever he had won.her
faithful love, a devotion as entire
8 that she had given in her girlhood
, the. man he had so nobiy b%efriended.
he Ledger.
The Opelousas courier., 1897-09-25
Bucks Paid Dearly for Their Scrap.

Two Susquehanna County young
men, q few weeks ago, returned from q
bear hunting tripthrough Pike County.
Pennsylvania, bringing with them 3
pair Of locked horns, which thew OBJ
tanned from IN old hunter in that Sec
tion. The hunter, in prowling through
the woods, came upon the carcasses Of
two me bucks, their horns firmly in.
terlocked. They evidently had been
lighting. andin the struggle had locked
horns. Being unable to get them sep
arated, and. consequently, unable to
obtain any food, they had starved to
death in that position. One set had
nine prongs. The horns are SO frmly
looked together that it is impossible to
separate them without saving OFF one
.ot the prongs.-New York Press.