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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
FROM KANSAS TOWNS.
General and Personal News From All
Over the State.

CALDWELL-A stage line has been
operating between South Haven and Cald-
well since the Frisco quit business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

HOPE-There was born to the wife of
a business man of this city a few days ago
a son who is healthy. handsome and we'll
formed save for the fact that it has no
hands, one arm ending in a stub above
where the elbow should be and the other
at the wrist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

LEAVENWORTH-Fr M. La Mar. an
old member of the Twenty-seventh Ohio
infantry, has arrived at the soldiers
home seeking admission He is feet. II
inches high, measures 81 inches around
the stomach, 81 inches around the chest
and weighs 327 pounds. He is an engi-
neer by profession and has never applied
for pension.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

DOWNS-W. P. Troth and Mrs. s. T.
Kindley. who conducted general merchan-
disc stores. have turned their stocks over
also taken charge of L. 2. Stump's hard
ware stock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

ATCHISON-A lot of Atchison street
railway conductors have been discharged
The explanation is that a spotter was re-
Gently employed by the company to
watch them, and that he ran away, rob-
bling the company. A good many of the
conductors laughed because the spotter
turned out badly. and every man who
laughed has been discharged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

ATCHISON-Sam Pryor's st. Joe band.
twenty-six men, Will come to Atchison
twice week during the coming summer,
to give concerts at the park; this is the
understanding at present. Within few
weeks, it is expected that the band will
give concert at the theater.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
THE MISERY EXHIBIT.
How the All Important Subject Will
be Exemplified.

Washington, Feb. 1S-One of the
practical things of the Mothers Con-
gress is the Model Nursery" which is
fitted up in the Arlington, where
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

MANHATTAN-Mrs James Reynolds
took a dose of red ink Tuesday, mist ak
ing it for medicine, and for several hours
was afraid she had poisoned herself, but
emetics were administered. and she was
soon relieved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

CHETOPA-The Telephone company is
making quite improvement in its sys-
tenn by changing the circuits from COM
mon return to metallic circuits that is,
connecting each phone with two wires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

LEAVENWORTH-It has been decided
that the reception rendered Senator Har-
ris will be given February &c. There will
be no banquet in connection with the af-
fair which will be held in Chickering hall.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

ATCHISON-The first of the suits to be
instituted by ex-police officers of Atchi-
son to collect pay. under the eight-hour
law, for services in excess of eight hours
day, was filed this evening. The plain
tiff is G. NJ. Finch, who sues for $30S over
time during the year intervening between
February Is. 1893. and February Is. 1894.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
ELEVATORS WILD FLIGHT.
It Goes Through the Roof and Falls
Back Five Stories With Three
Men in It

San Antonio, Tex, Feb. 1S.-One of the
passenger elevators in the St. James Ho>
tel got beyond control of the conductor
yesterday. 1t went up at full speed,
crashed clear through the roof, turned
over and fell down the air shaft, dis
lance of five stories. The elevator con-
ductor and a guest were in the machine
at the time. Both are dying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18
GREAT CONGRESS OF THE MOTHERS.
At Last Women Convention Discuss Their
Own Business-Women Who Have Been
Successful Mothers
Successful Mothers

Have Assembled Way Bring Children
That They VIII Be Healthy, Intelligent and
Moral Men Women
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

have given Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy a fair test and consider it one
of the very best medicines for Group
that I have ever found One dose has
always been sufficient, although 1 use
it freely. Any cold my children con-
tract yields very readily to this medi-
cine. I can conscientiously recommend
it for Group and colds in children.-Geo.
E. Wolff, Clerk of the Circuit Court,
Fernandina, Fla. Sold by druggists.
Force of a Sunbeam tonight First NJ.
E. church. 25 cents
Broken edge collars made smooth by
Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

ELLIS-The railroad authorities have
ordered sidewalks built between the
tracks on Washington street. thus filling
in the breaks between the two sections
of sidewalk connecting the north and
south side of town. This move was ac>
complished by the women council. the
men having been agitating the subject
ever since the city was organized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-18

of North Topeka is conducting revival
services for the Christian church. The
attendance was so large that the meet
ings were moved to the rink, building of
the largest seating capacity in town and
it is filed every night. There have been
twenty additions to the church. Mr.. NAL
lory was raised to manhood in this COM
munity and his parents still reside here.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

and does not need to be redeemed in
either metal To him the problems
above suggested are easy Of solution.
He has been accustomed many years to
the use of fat money. He saw a great
war successfully carried ON four years,
and the affairs Of great people man
aged eighteen years with fiat money,
and he knows of no case Of loss Occa-
stoned by receiving or paying a dollar
or a million dollars Of this fiat money.
Furthermore, he knows that with about
5O0,OOO,OOO silver dollars now in this
country, and containing metal that
would not bring more than $2OO,O00,0OO
in the bullion market, are as good as
gold eagles for all the purposes of trade
and commerce in the United States. He
knows that the fat or the law written
on the coin Zone dollar is it's commits
sion and gives it it's legal value, and he
cares nothing about the value of bull
lion.
The advocate., 1897-09-22
KANSAS IN sTATUARY HALL.

The hall in which the national House
of Representative sat before the new
Capitol buildings were erected, is now
known as Statuary hall, because it was
set apart by act of Congress for the
accommodation of statuary to be placed
there by the several States Of the Union
each State being entitled to space for
two statues representing two Of its most
eminent persons. Some of the States
have availed themselves of the OppOr-
tunity and their selections are now in
place.
Kansas is called upon to select her
representatives. II is to be done
The advocate., 1897-09-22
WHAT KANSAS POPULIsTs ARE DOING,

The Advocate is making speciality
Of Kansas POpulist news, and one very
important feature of this class of our
news is that relating to county and dis
trict conventions of the party. Mr.. j. w.
Morphy, who has exclusive charge of
this department Of the paper, is prob
ably as we'll acquainted in Kansas and
knows as much about State politics, as
any man. His facilities for collecting
information are unsurpassed, and he in
tends to make use Of everything Of a
political nature happening in the State
which is worth saving for use of POpu-
lists.
1t is his intention not only to keep a
record of the local conventions, but after
the convention season has passed he
expects to summarize their work in such
manner that it can be shown in tabular
form on one page Of the paper. This
table will be especially valuable for ref
erence in the future.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

Senator White, of California, In an
article published in the Forum quotes
the following significant paragraph from
letter written by Thomas Jefferson to
President Madison:
"It will be objected to our receiving
Cuba that no limit can be drawn to our
future acquisitions. Cuba can be de-
Tended by us without the navy. And
this develops the principle which ought
to limit our views. Nothing should ever
be accepted that would require navy
to defend it,"
The advocate., 1897-09-22

An effort will be made to admit to the
Union o new State called Superior at the
next session of Congress. The new State
would be made up of the upper penin-
sula of Michigan and the north One-thlrd
Of Wisconsin. All of the residents Of
this district are said by the dispatches to
favor the change. Upper peninsula
Michigan people claim that their pOr-
ton OF the State differs so widely from
the rest that 1t should have a separate
State government.
The advocate., 1897-09-22
THE INTEREST BURDEN.

Interest is gnaWing at the Vitals Of the
people. 1t has brought 80 per cent. Of
the population in all civilized countries
of the earth under the dominion of the
other 10 per cent, and the 10 per cent,
from the same source Of evil, are ruled
by a few hundred men at the money
centers. Almost everybody is in debt,
but If it were only the debts Of individ-
uals on their own account, men would
learn economy in the school of eXpe-
rience, and the result would not be so
bad. It is not that way, however. Under
our modern system of industrial Capi-
talization, the necessities of life are pro-
durable only through great business con-
Germs built on borrowed money and are
compelled to pay interest twice-OnCe
to the mortgage and once to the legal
owners-and these must be paid out Of
the profits in the business. Here is
a case in point.
A Chicago dispatch says: ga refund
ing per cent. gold bond mortgage for
SAC, 900 900, given to the Farmers Loan
and Trust Company, Of New York, was
filed at the County Recorders Office to-
day by the Peoples GasIIght and Coke
Company. The mortgage is to run for
fifty years, and Is intended to take up
the bonded Indebtedness Of the COM
panies consolidated to form the PeO-
pies Gaslight and Coke Company. 1t
conveys to the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, to hold in trust as security,
all the property of the consolidated COM
panies."
The interest on this enormous debt
must be paid out of the profits Of the
business, but If that were all, the own
ers of the plants and managers Of the
business would have nothing for them
selves; hence the profits must be large
enough to pay not only the interest,
hut, also, dividends to the stockholders,
and both these amounts must come out
of what the people pay to the company
for the use of gas In other words, the
patrons of the business are compelled to
pay enough money for the use of gas
to pay not only the actual cost Of the
article but also interest on the value
of the plant to the bondholders and
like or greater amount to the stock
holders.
That is equivalent to the people them
selves borrowing money enough to buy
the plant and then giving it to the COM
pany with a promise to pay enough for
gas to insure the company a good per
cent. on the value Of the property.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

Mr.. Bryan and those who concur in
his views, make a distinction between
what they term real money and what
they designate credit money" They
regard gold and silver coin as the only
real money, while all paper currency is
credit money which must be redeemed
in real money.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

Our exports last fiscal year ending
June 80, 1897, were the largest in vol
ume and value for any one year In our
history. The total value is put down at
81 ,O32, ,OO1, 300, and this amount is di-
vided into the following classes: Prod
ucts of agriculture, $6SS,S7S,9 800; manu-
factures, s276,S57 ,S61; mining, 1885,
1923; forest, SAC, 1921; fisheries, $6,1S4,-
OLA; miscellaneous, $S,SO2,9S5 This
shows over as per cent. to have been
The advocate., 1897-09-22

through and by the State Legislature,
and that body will want to know what
the people have to say on the subject,
so that their choice shall be to the ut
most limit generally representative OF
the common judgment.
The old States and the new ones
might be moved by different ideas in
making the selections, because in one
case some Of the pioneers have been
oVershadOwed by the luster of later lives,
while in the other case the prominence
Of the first men has not been Obscured
by anything occurring since. New
Hampshire chose Daniel Webster as one
of her heroes, though the world knows
were year ago, so money is said to be
citizen he won his fame. 1t was enough
for the people Of New Hampshire to
know that Webster was born among
them.
But whom shall Kansas choose? The
first selection ought to be that of char
acter representing the Kansas idea as
it shall appear in impartial history pre-
pared after the passions Of the period
have ceased to influence mems acts and
opinions. The most conspicuous period
in the history Of Kansas was and will
continue to be that Of her birth. Kan
sas is the first fruits of the conflict be-
tween the people and the slave power.
On her soil the physical contest began;
her admission to the sisterhood of States
took place the first month of the first
year of the great war waged on one side
to establish a cOnfederacy with slavery
as the basis of it's industrial system,
and on the other side to preserve the
union of the States, with liberty it's
guiding star. Of her sons she gave
as soldiers more than she had of voters.
In history Kansas will always be seen
and recognized in the dawn of that great
struggle and she will be remembered
because of the part she played. Moth
ing has since occurred to dim the splen-
dor Of her early history, and nothing
likely to occur in the future will dis
cover characters like those which ap-
peared here during the Border Rufian"
period.
We must look to that time for our
immortal actors. And who, though he
was not long with us in person, so we'll
the Kansas idea-a rugged
liberty, robust courage, a faithful 10y
atty and devoted patriotism-as John
Brown? Let Kansas fill her first place
with him, and then wait for character
that has cOnspicuously represented her
growing period to fill the second place.
WHAT KANSAS POPULISTS ARE DOING.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

It is not very long since India farmers
laid up wheat in store for famine years
But that was before the age of railways
and steamships. Now they can get
American wheat delivered at their chief
cities at from 12 to IS cents per bushel
freight.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

A correspondent calls attention to the
enormous waste occasioned by the traffic
in intoxicating drinks. He says the to-
tai output Of the worlds gold mines
last year was $2O5,OOO,OOO, while the peO-
pie paid for drinks $9OO,OOO,OOO, and he
estimates the actual aggregate injury
done at one hundred times that much
The advocate., 1897-09-22

Mr.. Debs says: "The Social Democ-
raCy is a great social, economic and po-
litical organization. 1t Is at once ma
tional and international. Politically
speaking, 1t is a party within and for
itself, and within twelve months its ma
tlOnal representatives will have fOrmu-
lated a national platform. Similarly,
the various State representatives will
have adopted State platforms and the
municipal representatives local plat
forms"
The advocate., 1897-09-22

The Social Democracy, with Eugene
v. Debs at It's head, is now publishing
weekly paper-the Social Democrat,
promising to begin the publication Of
daily about the first of next January.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

Mr.. G, VOgelsang, of San Marcos,
Texas, kindly sends the Advocate copy
Of his Gospel of Labor" with request
that we acknowledge its receipt. In
changing our monetary system we ought
to retain everything useful in the old.
The word dollar is good so are half
dollar, quarter dollar, dime and cent.
Present knowledge procured in bank
ing would be useful under any new sys-
tom.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

A writer in Scribners Magazine is au
thority for the statement that Russian
peasantry are going in large numbers to
the lands now being tapped by the ST.
berian railroad in the Yenesei valley.
The State allows them transportation
at the merely nominal rate Of mill
mile, and gives each family, under GER
tain conditions, about three acres Of
land on allotment, not to be at the unre-
stricted disposal of the occupants, but to
remain permanently for their benefit.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

products Of our manufacturing estab-
lishments, and that, too, in face Of high
duties on nearly all articles Of foreign
make.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

It will cost Russia 175,OOO, 900 to reach
the Pacific ocean by railway.
The advocate., 1897-09-22

A United States military post will be
established in Alaska.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-13
An Edison Yarn.

A Blue Line train was making a
blue streak through the New Jersey air
with the cowcatcher of the locomotive
pointed toward New York City. and
drummer was talking right along ahead
of it as easy as a bird flies. says the
New York Sun.
II want TO say to you, gentlemen"
he was saying. that Thomas Edison is
the greatest inventor in the world. not
only III the quantity of his inventions.
but in the quality of them. and every
new thing he turns out he gets patent
on before it is dry. Sensible man is
Ton. and a great snap is a patent
when the monopoly in it is yours. gen
tlenen. | know what I'm talking
about, for I had one once that was q
loc'Ico, only it wasn't big enough. But
I'm getting away from my tale, as the
dog remarked when he barely got his
hind legs from under the car wheels.
was in E6ison's town the other day
and heard a new story on him. New to
me, anyhow. Man over there that 1
sell goods To. and won't lie except
when the fishing season is on; he told
me. as an illustration. how absorbed
Edison is in his business. that one day
Mrs. Edison came TO her husband in
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-13

ed the east and west by its strong bands
of STEEL They were sisters. Alice and
Rose Sewall. Their father. a hale coun-
try grocer. was a victim of that con-
tagion known in '49 as the California gold
fever. and was en- route in a prairie
schooner for the gold fields on the west
sickened and died. Alice chung to life
with a pitiable grasp. Her lover was one
of the company of Iowa emigrants and
the young couple had rosy dreams of the
future home in the land beside the Pa
c.fic. Wrestling in the throes of fever,
she would pray for recovery. She died
with her arms about her lovers neck and
with her prayer for life echoin- in his
ears
Pose fingered days afterward until the
fever fiend had racked her frame beyond
prayed for as she was dying. and she
found il in the grave beside her sister on
the sun-kissed mill on the border line of
Utah and Nevada. IL was an invitation
to the red savages OF the western wilds
to mark the graves of the dead in that
later reign OF terror. There was nothing.
therefore. but memory as guide to their
resting place when ten years later Il
friend of the dead girls and their father
and the young man who had so sincerely
mourned Alice's loss visited the spot
again. The old man and the young had
met death instead of fortune in the
smiling new lend that Yves so cruel to
MANY OF her guests. The friend WAS re-
turning from the gold fields a poorer and
a wiser man. and he stopped on the
border line of Nevada TO pay last poor
tribute to the memory of the young wom-
en- who had given up their lives there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-13
THE SWIAGESAT STATE.
One Large County in North Dakota
Which Has No Population.

New York Sun: South Dakota, the
Swiagesat state" was admitted into
the Union on Nov. 2. 1882 after having
been organized as a territory along
with what is now North Dakota, for %
years. North Dakota has an area of
10000 square miles. 10000 more than the
state of New York, and its population
was returned by the last census of
SOS, 600, and is now probably in excess
of 100000. In the subdivision of North
Dakota into counties by those intrust-
ed with the matter no general rule ap-
pears to have been adopted other than
the rule of go as you please" For
instance, Dewey county. which has an
area of 1900 square miles Gt is larger
than the whole state of Delaware), WAS
returned by the last federal census as
having no population. and though Of
ficiaily organized as county, no votes
were cast in it in the presidential cleo
ton of 1896-there was no one to vote.
Delano county, in South Dakota. has
an area of 1,045 square miles. 1t is
about as large as the whole of Long
Island, and yet was returned by the
last census as having a population of
only 40 persons, and Ii contained at the
last presidential election five voters,
four of whom cast their ballot for Nc
Kinley and Hobart and one for Bryan
and Sewall. The population Of Scobey
county, South Dakota, which is as
large as Delano, was returned as 80 by
the last federal census, and there was
just enough voters in 1t to make jury.
for there are II citizens in Scobey.
Plat county is another which has ~
citizens only, and they might have