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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
SNAKES IN OLD GRAVES.
Nearly 900 Reptiles Are Killed in an
Atlanta, Ga, Cemetery.

Atlanta, Ca, March 23.-Snakes hun
dreds of them, crawling. twisting kissing
among the forgotten graves of paupers
as they were frightened from their homes
was City Sexton Stevens queer experience
today, and now he exhibits nearly 200 dead
snakes as trophies of his days work. In
Oakland cemetery there is a portion
known as the paupers' ground. The sex
ton determined to clean up the place.
With ten hands he began to clear away
the weeds and brierS- They had hardly
begun when there was a Kissing noise
and one of the workmen exclaimed Good
Lord, there's a SNAKE" 1t was killed. In
a few moments another, this time a huge
fnoccasin, was seen and there was rush
for him with uplifted sticks Then there
was another and another, and the work.
men were kept as busy killing snakes as
they were in cutting down the weeds and
briers.
These reptiles crept from hiding places
where they had been undisturbed for
twenty-five years and tried to escape
from their pursuers- Nearly all of them
crawled from shallow holes in the sides
of neglected and forgotten graves One
large rattlesnake had his home beneath
jasmine vine and in an old iron pot
which had probably held flowers which
some poor unfortunate had been lucky
enough to get, although he was laid away
among the paupers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
A GREAT BIG CASE
Over a Little One. Horse Lead Dollar.

Sam Hayden, the colored boxer and
former janitor of the Grand Opera
House, has been arrested by Deputy
United States Marshal Currier on the
charge of passing counterfeit money.
The man who swore to the complaint is
r. B. Dudley, a colored barber who has
a shop d 230 Kansas avenue.
Dudley claims that on the 18th of last
October Hayden gave him counterfeit
dollar in payment for a shave, and that
he returned him 80 cents in change in
lawful money. At the time he did not
discover that the dollar was counter
felt, and here it may be remarked that
his eyesight must have been affected as
the dollar is lead and very poor coun-
terfeit, but afterward he found that it
was, and went to Hayden and asked
him TO make it good. This, he states,
Hayden has refused to do, and as last
resort to recover the 80 cents he had
Hayden arrested.
Hayden will have a preliminary hear
ing before United States Commissioner
John Mileham Thursday. He denies
having passed the counterfeit dollar. In
default of $500 bond he has been locked
up in the county Jail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
RED IS THE RAGE.

(E'rOm BaDS syndicate Letter.
And how an English woman sticks to
sailor hat! There is no coquetry in her
manner of assuming it. It is tilted well
over her forehead and gives her de-
cidedly hard look. But you couldn't con-
vince her no matter how strong your ar
guments were, that a sailor hat did not
look we'll on a woman past 80 and in
clined to be red-faced. The sailor hat be-
longs only to youth and beauty. 1t can
never be excused on the head of a wo-
man who looks over IS. 1t is true the
French mifIiners have trimmed the sailor
hat almost out of all recognition, put II
impossible to efface that severe line OF
ing girl seem hideous. We've had pur-
pie winter, and were going to nave a reo
summer. Well, a red dress looks very
pretty with the ocean or the mountains
as a background. A red bonnet may De
very becoming, and red shoes very CO.
quettiSh, but there is one thing limited
against which every woman's hand must
be raised, and that iS-red gloves 10
have ones hands look as if they had been
dipped in a dyerS vat is not interesting,
nor is it attractive. And a sensible We
man wants to be both She wants her APP
pearance to attract you, and her mentality
to hold you. Ina CINE making love to a
woman who presented you on departing.
would be abomination. And abomina-
tfons and pretty women ought not to be
thought of together. Pretty gowns and
flowers becoming bOnnets and fancy
shoes, gay parasols and fine jewels. all
these sound well, and do well combined
with women. But no denominations. Ihey
are the sort of things we pray to be de-
IiVered from. And one should not only
pray to be delivered from a pair OF red
gloves, but should flee from them as a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
vANDERvOORT'S NEW WORK
Will Locate a Colony of People in
South Texas

Galveston, March 23.-GeneraI Paul
Vandervoort, past commander in chief
of the Grand Army of the Republic and
a Populist orator of national fame, is at
the fremont General Vandervoort has
recently moved from Omaha, Neb., to
south Texas, and has located at Ches-
terville, Colorado county. The general
took a conspicuous part in the recent
campaign in Texas, and became so en-
thusiastic over the coast country that
he determined to cast his lot in the land
of sunshine.
He has just written a pamphlet en-
titled solid Facts About Sunny South
ern Texas which is full of informa-
ton. He has organized the Southern
Texas Colonization company, of which
he is manager. An office has also been
established in Chicago. in charge of
John Linderholm. The general says that
he will bring hundreds of people to the
vicinity of Chesterville in the next II
months. They will come" said he,
mot only from northern states, but
from north Texas. There is a grand
opportunity in this coast country for
farmers, better, in my judgment. than
in any other portion of the United
States"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
THE BRAIN OF THE CRIMINAL
TFron the N. Y. Ledger.l

TFrOm the N. Y. Ledger
An italian brigand having died after
a most notorious and remarkable ca
reer, even for man in his profession,
his brain was given to scientist for
examination in order to discover, II pos
sible, whether there was any difference
between it and the honest, or normal,
brain After exhaustive experiments,
the professor in charge was forced to
admit that he could find nothing abnor-
NAL about the brain structure
According to all known laws on the
subject, the man was possessed of great
ability, and. the professor says, might
have been a great man As the brigand
was a murderer, a thief and bad lot
generally, it would seem that the fact
Of there being no abnormal conditions
in the brain might have a bearing on
the much discussed subject of brain
structure. Some time since sugges-
ton was made that intelligent people
and those of eminence in their profess
siOns should will their brains to a So
ciety for scientific investigation in or
der to determine, by comparison, what
were the causes of criminal tendencies,
and what brain conditions these tend
encieS brought about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
A NEW CURRENCY SYSTEM.

The initial article in the current issue
of the Cosmopolitan is one by the ed
itor, Mr.. John Brisben Walker, and ap-
pears under the caption of 1.-The First
Essential to Prosperity" Mr.. Walkers
idea of what constitutes the first es-
sential to prosperity is "a Scientifically
Based, Automatically Regulated Sys-
tenn of Money
There are thousands of people in the
country who will agree with the editor
of the Cosmopolitan on his premises,
and these will find his contribution on
the subject we'll worth perusal and
careful study. 1t is addressed to the
bankers and business men of the Unit
ed States Accepting Mr.. Bryan'S def
milton of what constitutes business
man, this would include well nigh the
whole adult male population.
It is clear that Mr.. Walker is not one
of those who believe that a proper adj
justment of the tariff will prove a cure
all for the economic ills from which
the country has long suffered, dating
as he points out from a period shortly
subsequent to the foundation of the
government.
He calls attention to the fact that
there have been eleven financial panics
with all their attendant disasters to
rent century, and expresses the belief
that could these catastrophes be avoid
ed prosperity would be continuous in a
country possessing the natural advan-
tages of ours. This is what is aimed
at by his system of scientifically based,
automatically regulated money. Rec
ognizing the apparently impossible
gulf separating those VINO are ready to
fight to the last ditch any interference
with the greenbacks and those who re-
gard the greenbacks as the source of all
the financial ills of the present time, he
has endeavored to point out a common
meeting ground, where neither party is
compelled to surrender any of his cher
ished theories.
He disclaims any purpose of advanc-
ing any political party or personal
ends. He holds that the interests of
bankers, merchants, laboring men and
all classes in fact are identical as re-
CARDS a currency system.
After reviewing the financial history
of the country Mr.. Walker unfolds his
plan. This plan proposes the retirement
of all the present issues of legal ten
ders, national bank notes and govern
ment bonds and the issue in lieu thereof
of an equal amount of new bonds bear
ing interest at the rate of 2 per cent
per annum. The peculiar advantage
which these bonds are to possess over
other bonds, and which it is expected
will induce bankers and others to ex-
change their present holdings for them,
is that they can be taken to the sub
treasury and certain postoffices at any
time and exchanged for full legal ten
der treasury notes. which can be re-
converted into these bonds whenever it
is desirable to do so. The treasury
notes would be irredeemable except in
the new bonds, which would be payable
in gold coin and run fifty years.
If Mr.. Walkers plan would work as
he has demonstrated to his own salts
faction that it would do, it could hardly
fail to be a vast Improvement on the
present currency system. Only an out
line has been here presented. 1T must
be read in all its details to be under
stood and appreciated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
THE PRESS AND CRIME.

CFrom the st. Louis Republic.1
In his interesting discourse on THE
Increase of Crime" the Reverend Doc
tor Burnham of Pilgrim Congregational
church indicts the daily newspapers for
the promotion of crime on two princi-
pal counts. He charges them with sins of
omission in falling to print sermons and
other matter tending to discourage
crime and elevate the community and
with sins of commission in printing the
details of crimes that are committed.
Before proceeding with a discussion
of the increase of crime it would be
we'll to apply to the question the simple
test that the wise men of France for
got to apply to the question of the king
as to why the placing of fish in a
bowl of water did not increase the
weight of the contents of the bowl.
There is good reason to believe that an
accurate comparison of the conditions
of society at present with those of any
previous period will show, not merely
that crime is not increasing, but that
it is sensibly decreasing.
With regard to the publication of the
details of crimes, the newspapers plead
guilty to giving publicity to all the facts
that come within the purview of legit-
innate news; but vigorously demur to
the conclusion that the custom tends
to promote crime. In publishing the
facts of crime-that is the causes which
lead to them and the circumstances I'M
der which they are committed-the
newspapers accomplish two important
ends. They supply practical lessons OF
life that are more effective for good
than library of moral discOurses, and
that knowledge of the actual conditions
of society which is essential to all inn
provement. Crimes are either the Gull
limitations of misspent lives or the eff
feet of environment, condition or asso-
citation In the former case they are
warnings to the people and in the lat
ter case they are guides to the social
reformer and the missionary OF prog
ress. They mark the pitfalls OF life
and the moral cesspool of society.
The moral force of facts is infinitely
greater than the moral force of theory,
and the newspaper yields this force
when it exposes actual evil and the
causes of evil. If information about
crime and immortality were suppressed,
moral and social improvement would
cease and we would live in fools par
adise The preachers would be deprived
of one-half of their texts and nine
tenths of the illustrations that give
pith to their sermons would be miss
ing.
It ought not to be necessary in this
age to proclaim that publicity is the
enemy of crime and immortality, the
enemy of all demoralizing forces and
tendencies and the ally of progress. 1t
is the most potent factor in the i'm
Droyement of society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
DUTY ON STRAWBERRIES.
Tariff Legislation to Be Asked on the
Canadian Product.

New York, March 23.-Amasa Thorn
ton, late of St Lawrence county, now
of the twenty-fifth assembly district
had a serious, troubled but withal
firm look upon his face today as he
meandered into the lobby of the Fifth
Avenue hotel. He soon told what
was preying upon his mind.
I am going down to Washington. The
said, Ito have a duty placed on straw
berries and prevent Canada from IN
derselling US Many letters have come
TO me from citizens of St. Lawrence
urging me to have a duty placed on
Strawberries, and 1 intend to work to
that end. feel sure that when the
Dingley bill reaches the senate the SEN
ators will see the wisdom of placing a
duty on strawberries. Why, Canada
undersells US by three cents on a quart
They have cheaper labor in Canada
and naturally can raise strawberries
cheaper"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
WOMEN IN THE SOUTH.
(From the Chicago Tribune


Miss Frances E. Willard states that
great signs and tokens of progress in re-
forms come from the south, ard she is
exceedingly happy. The governor of Ar
kansas has appointed two women notaries
public. The governor of Missouri has de-
clared every office in the state open to
women unless they are speciality declared
by statute. Alabama has made women eli
gible as county superintendent of schools
The senate of North Carolina has pass
ed by a vote of Al to s, the bill appropri-
citing $4,000 for state reformatory. This
bill was brought before the state legisla~
ture by the Woman's Christian Temper
ance union Another BILL which the
..white-ribboners' of North Carolina can
designate as our BILL" has passed the
senate. forbidding the sale or giving of
cigarettes to minors. and prohibiting the
minors, under penalty of so fine from
smoking cigarettes. This gives minors
the right to testify without eliminating
themselves as to who sold or gave them
cigarettes.
Mrs z. A. Robinson, president of the
Woman's Christian Temperance union of
baltimore, has been appointed by the
mayor of the city member of the boarc
or visitors to the city jail. This board
composed OF men, with the exception Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

(FrOm the AtchlSOn GlODe-)
We wonder every time we see wo-
man riding in the patrol wagon that the
Lord doesn't throw cloud over the
sun.
Probably the first thing every man re-
solves when he gets up in the morning
is that he will go to bed earlier the next
night
In every house there is one member
who awakens earlier than the rest, and
whose duty it is to get all the others
out on time. 1t is usually the mother,
and she has to see that her husband is
up on time for his work, that her sons
and daughters who work down town
get started in season, and get the little
ones off for school. If by chance she
lets any one oversIeep, she is asked in
a whining tone why she didn't call him
earlier. She probab bly, called a half dOz-
en- times, and he turned over and went
to sleep again. Though she often has
extra work of her own to do, she has
to rely upon her own efforts to get up
earlier. No one has to ever call the
mother of the house out of bed, but she
has to serve as train dispatcher for the
balance of the family, on scant pay and
no thanks.
Sitting down on some people is like
sitting down on pin.
There are times when tears do no
good when a club should be used.
The man with the largest mouth is
not always the one who talks the loud
est.
What has become of the old fashion
ed woman who made her children
drink sassafras tea every spring?
There is a lot of time spent in putting
stuff on the table to eat, and then car
rying two-thirds of it back again.
A dozen times a day something oc-
ours to remind a man that he would be
in a position to laugh more, if he had
talked less.
1t makes a woman feel chagrined to
express admiration for an article in a
store, and find out afterwards that the
article is cheap.
A man is usually bald four or five
years before he knows it.
No girl should have the nerve to
crimp her hair in the back.
If a man works hard and gets along.
lazy people say he is lucky.
No man has a good appetite if he
can wait patiently for dinner.
Some very harsh things have been
said of the sin of loafing, but no one
can successfully dispute that loafng is
very pleasant.
A woman's happiness is never quite
complete until she is in A position to tell
doctor never left the house all day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
MoDJEsKA's SICKNESS.

(From New York Mail and Express)
Letters from Los Angeles, Cal, say that
Nine. Modjeska is dangerously i'll, with
but small hopes of recovery and almost
none of ever appearing on the stage again.
She caught severe cold on the evening
of February 10. while playing in the role
of Magda in the theater at Los Angeles:
She is now in the Van Nuys hospital. and
friends can give Modjeska is we'll known
in southern California The story of her
life on a farm in what is now Orange
county has been often told ana even after
she gave up the effort to make a living
by raising fruit she continued to regard
that part of the country as her home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
BILLIARD HALL FOR WOMEN.

(From the Chicago TrIbune)
Maurice H. Black, a ST Louis billiard
hall proprietor, who some time ago an
nounced his intention of opening billiard
hall for women, has since changed and
enlarged his plans. AS soon as he can Sc
cure suitable location he will fit up and
open a woman's public club with billiard
room, bowling alley, and possibly other
features. His intention is to provide
place where any woman alone, or accom-
panied by husband, brother, or sweet
heart as he expresses it, may enjoy her
self. The billiard hall, which will be di-
Wed into two apartments, will be the
main feature of the club The new club
there is only one public billiardroom for
women in the world-iR Vienna, Austria.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
EMPEROR IS ALL RIGHT.
His Chief Cabinet Officers Say So in
Answer to an Inquiry.

New York. March 23.-The World
says: The World cabled to Prince Won
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor of
Germany, and to Baron Marshall Won
Bieberstein, the imperial secretary of
state for foreign affairs that the dis
patches sent to the United States from
Europe represent that Emperor Will
ham's condition is grave and that his
malady is assuming the form of insan-
ity.
In response the World received this
official message: Berlin, March I'll
The condition of the emperor is ex-
cellent.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

Mrs. Robinson. has made her chairman
of the committee on discipline in the jail,
and her influence, says Miss Willard, is
already felt in numerous phases of its
management The mayor has also APP
pointed one of Baltimore's leading women
on the board of the city almshouse and
female house of refuge, and the physician
in charge at the WomenS college is the
only woman member of the new board of
school commissioners of the city of Bal
ffTr10r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
ST. NAZAIRE'S BOATS.
Two More of Them Found and Is Peo-
pie Rescued.

New York, March 23-The World
says: The officials of the Compagnie
Gentrale Trans-Atlantique have salts
fed themselves that the English
steamer Yanaranev has really picked
up sixteen of the survivors of the
French line steamship Vile de st. Ma
zaire.''
boat of the st. Nazaire was picked
up by the steamer Creole, which ar
rived this morning from New Orleans
Six dead bodies were in the boat No
one alive was in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
Rheumatism Cured in a Dav.

Mystic Cure for rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to DAYS;
Its action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. 1t removes at
once the cause and the disease imme-
diately disappears. The first dose great
ly benefits. T. F. Anthony, ex-post-
master of Promise City, Iowa, says: ''I
bought one bottle of Mystic Cure" for
rheumatism, and two doses of it did
me more good than any medicine ever
took" Sold by Swift &, Holiday, drug
gists, 523 Kansas avenue. Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
MCKINLEY a Mystic shriner.

Richmond, Va. March 23-Acca Tenn
pie, Ancient and Arabic Order Mobiles
of the Mystic Shrine, will join about 25
other shriners in Alexandria March 81.
and go to Washington to help initiate
President Mckinley into the member
ship of the order. President Mckinley
was elected to membership in the order
in Cleveland some time ago, but the in
iatiOn was postponed by reason of his
many engagements incident to his cleo
fiO0
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

If you have ever seen a child in the
agony of Group, you can appreciate the
gratitude of mothers who know that
one Minute Cough Cure relieves their
little ones as quickly as it is admins
tered Many homes in this city are
never without it. G. w. Stansfield, 632
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
Weather Indications.

Chicago, March 23.-For Kansas: Fair
tonight and Wednesday; colder in east
ern portion tonight; warmer Wednes-
day; northerly winds becoming varia-
h1e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

When a man begins to pay the same
respectful attention to dime that he
used to pay to a dollar, it is a sign that
he is getting rich.-Clay Center Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

Isn't it possible that the secret of this
whole trouble in the concert of Europe
is jealousy over the fact that little
Greece is given the solo part.-Leaven-
worth Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

Like a charm, Ayers Pills restores
bowels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23
@Ex RAYS

Greece is doing a tremendous lot of
bluffing on the principle that fighting
an infant ceases to be punishment after
a time and becomes abuse--Wichita
T7Hoc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

This is about the season when the
man of the house expresses the solemn
taking up this year-Ottawa Republi-
can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

Russia has got one of her warships
through the Dardanelles. The right to
repeat the opera ton at will is her dear
est Wish.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

On the day of the great fight Pres
ident Mckinley looked the other way
when he passed the bulletin boards in
walking along the street. That is the
most remarkable instance of self con-
troll and personal sacrifice on record
EmpOria Republican.
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GLOBE SIGHTS


F'rom the AtchisOn GIObe)
We wonder every time we see a wo-
man riding in the patrol wagon that the
Lord doesn't throw a cloud over the
sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-23

The citizens of Fort Scott are clam
oring for a pair of blood hounds.
Well. pair" is the right thing to
draw to.-Arkansas City Traveller.