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The age-herald., 1897-08-01
THE GREAT SALE4
 -oF--- Oxford Ties
 ---AND---
 Tan Shoes

Which we advertised last month has proved a tremendous success, and not withstanding the bold move we made in such gigantic purchase at this late sea- son of the year, the results have already demons stated that when the proper styles of choice shoes are offered at the right prices shrewl customers appreciate the fact and avail themselves of the first pickinss. We had whirlwind of trade the past month regardless of the in- element weather. and as we intend to have no let up this unparalleled sale will continue to run i1 full blast during the two months, August and September. ''
The age-herald., 1897-08-01
CLEVELAND. 6: CINCINNATI. 3.

Cinclnnati. July 31-The Indians won from the Reds today by bupching lri,s. Dwyer vas hi. freely after the third in- ming, while Cy Young held the locals down. The playing of Corcoran and Me Phee ar'd sensa tional catches by Hoy and Bureo were the flea lures Attendance, $500. Score:
 Cincinnati. .. 70 0O01OO-3 9 2 Cleveland 70 0 0 l 0 2- 13 2
 Battem ss-Dwyer and PeitZ; Young and Zimmer. Umpire, Hurst. Time 50.
The age-herald., 1897-08-01
AN EVEN SPLIT.

St Louis July 31.--The Browns and Louisvilles split even in their double ahha,ier today. Grimes in the first game was weak anad cost the home team the ennIe. In dhs second a abatting rally in the eighth with two oU't gave the losals fonr runs and the game. Al enhance, 5,100. Score:
 First game RHE st. Louis. .. ..o1 4010O0 0-6 Il ! Louisville ... 70 1 4 0 Q 0 1 4---11 2 1'atteries-Glimes and Murphy; McGhea and Wilson. Empires, Hart and Cum min ghdm. 2:25.
 Second game R II E St. Louis ..-.. 70 0011O14-.7 15 1 LoGisUGle..- .. a 0 0 o o 2 0 0 g. 9 4
 Rsdtteries-Hart and Murphy; Frazer ard Wilson Umpire, Pears. Time, o:15.
 :. BOSTON, :: WASHINGTON. 6.
 Washington. July 31--The Boatons won the game in the ninth inning oday. The Senaftrrs defeat was due to wildrers on the. pant of McJamcs and Tom Browns errors. Score: f-a7
 ..sss RHE Washington 70 24 0 o 0 0 O. 6 II 5 Boston 70 3 8 1 0 0 IT 9 0
 Bptteries-7Mc McJames and Mcclure; Nichols and Bergen. Umpire, Emslie. Time, 1:57. Attendance, 800.
The age-herald., 1897-08-01

By virtue of exscutiGns tssued to me by the City Clerk oi Birmingham, Ala, whepchy , am commanded to make tha e 4.
The age-herald., 1897-08-01
WNDNESDlY, AUGUST 25. lS97,

between the legal hours of sale GO a. m. ard D. m), the following described prop erty, situated in the city If Birmingham, Ala. same being assessed $ follows: 975-A1 < Eart--I.et 19, block 1S0, taxes
 ard costs, $l010; printers fee, 90
 cents.
 Sle0-Owner Unknown-Lot 9. block 66,
 taxes and costs, S4.5o; printers fee.
 90 ceris. 3497-Ownor Ulkno wn-Lot 14, block go.
 taxes and cos5s, $7.e0; printers fee,
 90 cents
The age-herald., 1897-08-01
YEAR fS0O.

with costs added oa the property therein named I will sci public ostcry. to th hiphest bidder for cash. before the door of the City Hall of Birmirg gha m, Ala,
The age-herald., 1897-08-01
CITY TAX SALES

st By virtue of executions issued to me by
 the City Clerk of Birmingham. Ala, whereby I am commanded to make the amount of city taxes for the
The age-herald., 1897-08-01
YEAR 1895.

with costs added on the property therein named l will sell at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash, before the door of ths City Hall of Birmingham, Ala,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
ACTOR sOTHERN GRATEFUL
Man Who Saves the Actor and His
Wife From Drowning Gets $500.

New York, July 24.-E. H. Sothern,
the actor, and his wife, the latter bet
ter known as Virginia Harmed, came
near drowning Saturday. 1t happened
at Lawrence Beach, which is just be-
yond Far Rockaway. 1t is there that
Mr.. Sothern and Miss Harmed are
spending the summer.
They were in bathing with a woman
friend when they were caught by the
undertow and carried beyond their
depth Not one of them expected to
reach dry land again. but they were
seen struggling in the water by Joseph
Raynor, whose business was to look out
through the water like a torpedo boat.
they We're at their last gasp.
How they did it they do not know,
but after brief strenuous struggle
they all found themselves in shallow
water, with hardly strength enough to
stand upright. Raynor himself was on
the verge of exhaustion. AS for Mrs.
Sothern, she was completely prOstrated,
while the rich tan that her husband had
been industriously cUltivating on his
cheeks had given place to a 1eathery
pallor.
When Mr. Sothern had discovered his
presence of mind he made out a check
for $500, signed it and gave it to Ray
nor, with little speech that had more
real feeling in it than any Zines" Ned
Sothern ever spoke on the stage. The
Iife-SaFer took an early opportunity of
cashing the check and he has conceived
a high opinion of the acting profession.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
PINGREE ON THE TARIFF.
Says the Trusts Will Reap All the
Benefits and There Will be
Reckoning.

Detroit, July 24.-The News publishes an
interview with Governor Pingree in which
the governor denounces the pending tariff
bill. He says the duty hides, means
an average increase of 25 cents a pair on
mems shoes. He asserts that Armour,
Swift, Morris and the Libbys control the
hide market and will coin millions out OF
it. AS to sugar, Governor Pfngree said:
81 wish somebody would tell me how
a sugar duty that makes people pay more
is going to benefit them, or how higher
price for sugar is going to bring prosper
ity. 1t seems to me the trust is going to
reap all the benefits
1.-The lumber schedule hits people of
moderate means the hardest. 1t increases
the price 81 per thousand. Not much lum-
ber is used these days in business blocks
and fine city residences and of course it
is the farmer and the workingmen who
have to use lumber they cannot afford
brick and stone.
'I don't recall that the pingley bill i'm
poses any additional duty on paintings or
diamonds. 1t is the necessary commodi-
ties that are to bear the increased taxes.
The promoters of this bill ought to be
proud of it. I predict a reckoning for
them with the people,
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
CABINETS SUMNER PLANS.
Sherman is Gone and the Rest Will
Follow Soon.

Washington, July 24-The cabinet meet
ing yesterday was of short duration and
was attended by all the members save
Secretary Sherman, who had left town
Foreign affairs did not figure at all in the
proceedings and the only matter of conse-
quence before the cabinet was the submis-
sion by Secretary Gage of a plan for the
establishment of supports of entry in
Alaska to collect revenues from the goods
being imported in large quantities into
the territory result of the great i'm
migration of miners.
There was some talk about the currency
message and it was decided that it should
be sent in only after the tariff conference
report has passed the senate. The sum-
mer plans of the members of the cabinet
have been roughly arranged. Secretary
Sherman will stay on Long Island for
several weeks. Secretary Gage probably
will remain in his home at Chevy Chase
a Washington suburb.
Secretary Long will make a cruise on
the Dolphin.
Secretary A1ger, Attorney General Nc
Kenna and Postmaster General Gary will
spend some time with the president on
Lake Champlain and Secretary Bliss will
go to New Jersey. Secretary Wilson's s
plans are not yet formed.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
THE OLD AND THE NEW.

If competition is really the life of
trade as has been declared since a per-
iod when the memory of man runneth
not to the contrary, then current events
indicate that trade is doomed to lin
gering death. Competition is being
rapidly displaced by combination.
Many advocates of the competitive
system in business have regarded it as
an excellent thing for the other fellow,
but not at all necessary in their own
business. They like to buy in a cOmpet-
tive market and sell in a market pro-
tected by combination.
It seems to be a part of human nature
to want the best of the bargain, but
human nature is seldom gratified in this
respect for any protracted period. The
coal miner, for instance, thinks it a
great imposition, an outrageous wrong
in fact, for the mine operators to com
bine in such a way as to prevent his
receiving above an agreed price for his
work, but he regards it as perfectly
legitimate to form a combination which
excludes competition in the labor mar
ket. He has little patience with the
miner who refuses to enter the COM
bine and wishes to retain the privilege
of working a t whatever he can get.
There are few merchants who will not
resort to the lowering of prices on GER
tain articles, below the profit point for
the purpose of drawing trade from 9TH
er stores, and yet many of them are
loud in their condemnation of the de-
partment stores which are started for
that very purpose.
When there was competition in the oil
market in this city for a short time
some years ago and oil went down to 10
cents gallon, men who belonged to la
bor combines formed for the purpose of
keeping up wages We're sure that COM
petition was an excellent thing.
But whatever views people may hold
they do not arrest the progress of
events Combination of capital, COM
bina tions of labor and combinations of
business are growing, and as they grow
competition disa appears and there seems
to be no power to stop it all, even if it
were desirable to do so, which would
be hard to prove.
When there was a competitive sys-
tenn it seemed to regulate itself to a
fair degree. Under the changed and
still changing conditions it will proba-
bly, be found necessary for the whole
people through their organized govern
ment to adopt some regulations which
will prevent the members of one
combination from expressing the mem
bers of other combina tions. The best
way to do this is a subject which should
command the attention of statesmen
and patriots before there are more ser
ious results of the evolutionary process
than are so far embodied in the exist
Av1cr min s+rf1r
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
LAUNDERING JANITORS
Attempt to Clean Ohio Governors
LECTURES and Spoil Them.

Columbus, O., July 24-Adjutant
General Axline has recently been haV-
ing the interior of the rotunda of the
state capitol newly painted and reno
waited. Among other measures of re-
form conceived by him has been the
cleaning of the pictures of governors
which adOrn the walls. The state
house janitors have been assigned the
task of scrubbing these valuable works
of art.
During the past week the scrub art
lists have been busily engaged in giving
these pictures a good washing. 1t will
be impossible to tell how we'll the work
is done yet for some time. While the
real value of the pictures from an art
lists standpoint cannot well be COM
puted, the intrinsic value is estimated
at $4,000. 1t is now said by artists
who have examined them that fully
one-half of the portraits are ruined.
The famous bas RELIEF. representing the
surrender of Vicksburg, by General
Pemberton and staff to General Grant
in 1863, surrounded by a bust of Lin
coin, the work being one of the master
pieces in marble of Sculptor John
Thomas, it is understood, will be yellow
trimmed in ultramarine blue.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
TOPEKA'S BOOK CONTRACT.
Mr.. Squires Says It Is All Right and
Will En- tail No Extra Expense.

Recently there has been considerable
discussion concerning the validity of text
book contracts made by the state and by
various city school boards in the state.
Attorney General Boyle handed down a
tracts entered into by the boards would
have to be lived up to. In the case of the
Topeka contracts he stated that this
would be the case and added that in some
cases the city would probably have to
pay double price for the books Superin-
tendent Stryker added to this that the
city of Topeka would probably have to
pay 1000 extra each year on this account.
Mr.. J. H. Squires, who has been MEM
ber of the school board for five years, and
is thoroughly posted board matters,
refutes this statement. Today he said:
Mr.. Boyle and Mr.. Stryker are mistaken.
All our five-year contracts are made con-
ditional. That condition states that we
shall pay the same price for books that
the state does. If Mr.. StryI1er would take
the trouble to telephone over to the board
of education rooms he could find this out,
instead of sitting up in the state house
and blowing about what the Topeka board
will have to pay. Some time ago he gave
a statement for publication stating that
the Topeka school buildings did not carry
valid insurance, for the reason that insur-
ance companies did not allow a building
to be vacant. If he had taken the trouble
to telephone the clerk of the board he
could have found that we have a special
permit and that our insurance is all right.
Those contracts for the textbooks are
all right and it won't cost the city an ex-
ira cent of EXPENSE"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
ANOTHER ARCTIC TOUR.
DR.. Nansen's Navigator Will Explore
Greenland's Western Coast.

Berlin, July 24.-The Lokalanzeiger says
the Fran, the vessel on which DR.. Nan
sens last polar expedition was made, will
next year explore the western coast of
Greenland. The Fran will be under COM
mand of Captain Sverdrup, who sailed
with DR.. Nansen as navigator.
DR.. Nansen, the Lokalanzeiger an
nounces, will shortly make a tour of re-
search with party of English and Amer
lean biologists.
The 1okalanzeiger says Captain Sverd-
rup will endeavor to get around the north
ern end of Greenland. He expects to be
absent two years. The party will take
dogs along as a precaution against being
frozen up.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
MRS. LEASES @oBsCUR1TY." ."

Many persons who enjoyed notOriety
and even something of fame in Ameri
can politics a few years ago have by
the sudden shifting and changes of the
time fallen into almost complete OBJ
scurity. The decline of none of these
has been more notable than that of
Mrs. Lease of Kansas. A short time
ago a newspaper which appeared with
out her name could hardly have been
said to give the news of the day, but
at present she has passed almost as
completely from the stage of politics
dom she is referred to even as a mem
ory.-San Francisco Call.
While there are some traits in Mrs
able, candor will compel her enemies
much as they dislike her, she is getting
as much newspaper notice as she ever
did. Scarcely three days go by that
Mrs. Lease isn't interviewed at length
in some part of the country. Her
poems and articles in the New York
papers get as good prices as ever, some
verse from her pen appearing in last
Sundays New York Journal. Mrs.
Lease is as much in demand as ever
She is a notable person, and her move
ments will be recorded just the same
as Bob Ingersoll's, or De Witt Tai
mage's, or Chauncey Depew's, or
Sarah Bernhardt's, or Eugene v Debs'.
You can't kill notoriety or fame, which
are near allied. No matter how much
you may despise a noted character,
the matter, and it looks frivolous for
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
PEEYISH AND PROVOKING
Was Sam Small's Daughter, Says Her
Husband.

Richmond, Va, July 24.-Stewart
Ford today filed his bill for divorce
from his wife, Loretta Small Ford,
daughter OF Evangelist Sam Small, who
is going on the stage in Shakespearean
roles this fall. He charges her with
inf1delity. 1t is a peppery paper
Your orator. said he, had his af-
fections nipped in the bud by the peev-
ish, irascible, .quarrelsome and provok-
ing conduct of his said wife toward
him.
Though the marriage occurred some
three years ago, Ford says he did not
know until in May last that when he
boarded at the Imperial hotel his wife
often went into the room of one Becker
for an immoral purpose. The bill goes
into particulars, and says Mrs. Ford
visited with male companions resorts of
ill repute at No 76 West Broad street,
and 30S North Tenth street. as well as
other places. Ford names w. S. Capps
as one correspondent. Capps is a sport
ing man of some note.
Mrs. Ford has filed cross bill for
divorce, in which she alleges that her
husband is a loafer, a gambler, IAN adul-
terer and a brute in his treatment of
her. Each party claims to be innocent
of the charges brought by the other.
Sam Small, who is licensed to prac-
tice law in Virginia, is expected to ap-
pear for his daughter
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24

a newspaper here and there to attempt
to crush Mrs. Lease by saying ''she
is no longer heard Of When any per-
son really does fall into Obscurity the
newspapers don't mention the fact. 1t
is in that that the obscurity consists. As
for Mrs. Lease, there isn't any occasion
to be ashamed of her. She is a smart
woman, a great orator and her opinions
are her own and she has a right to ex-
press them. Kansas rather admires her
spunk and likes to- read about her.
There is room in this wide world for
both Mrs. Lease and Kansas, although
we are inclined to believe that this
gifted woman sometimes doubts it
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
USED THE HELIOGRAPH.
Messages Exchanged Between Ever.
green Mountain and the Equ1t-
able Building.

fcers at Fort Logan who have been un-
der the instruction of Captain Glass
ford, communicated by he1iograph with
the Equitable building yesterday morn
ing. The dazzling little flashes were
unusually distinct.
A few of the men were stationed at
while another detachment worked at
Fort Logan. The flashes were ex-
changed between the stations with con-
siderable rapidity. Captain Glass
ford's party included Sergeant Ivy
Baldwin and Sergeant Mclaughlin.
Sergeant Kennedy commanded the men
near Morrison. The drill will be re-
peated this morning.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
MODEL COLORADO TOWN.
Run on the Cooperative Plan and
Regarded as Pronounced Success.


Regarded as a Pronounced Success.
Denver. July 24.-Muckawanago is the
strangest town IN Colorado. 1t has pop
ulation of 160 people, consisting of thirty
families, two regularly paid policemen,
commissary, a resident physician, and is
conducted on the cooperative plan.
1t lies, spot of brightly painted rustic
cottages and tents. on the Frying Pan
river, about sixty miles west of Leadville,
on the western slope. It is peopled en-
tirely by prominent residents of Grand
Junction, who have formed an association
to incorporate a summer town in which
their families may find refuge from the
burning heat of Grand Junction, where
the thermometer often reaches 100 in the
shade.
Muckawanago has just been started, and
has already proven so popular that steps
have been taken to keep the modern para
disc from the gaze of the envious public.
The promoters of the plan were Orson
Adams, DR.. Eldridge and President Jones
of the First National bank of Grand
Junction. The cliffs. covered thickly with
vegetation. slope down to the Frying Pan,
and in the bend of the stream the village
is esta blished.
A commodious cabin is commissary head
quarters. Between 8 and 10 o'clock every
morning supplies of groceries, bread meat
and milk are distributed in equal propor-
ton. The milk is shipped in ten-gallon
tins to Muckawanago and is Immediately
placed ice, Keeping it cool during the
day.
Two policemen regularly patrol the viii
lage and hunt up lost children. This is
necessary precaution, as only three or
four men are in the place during the
week. Saturday evening the heads of the
Muckawanagoans come up from Grand
Junction and remain over Sunday.
Fishing is pronounced excellent. Sun
day David Roberts of the city -four mills
of Grand Junction caught twelve-pound
trout of the rainbow variety, while a fell
low fisherman landed a fish of the same
species weighing ten and one-half pounds.
Five and three pound trout are common
on the Frying Pan.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
L A w. Route to Philadelphia Meet.

From ST. Louis via Vandalia--Penn-
syIvania Short Lines, the cool and COM
Portable route through Pittsburg over
the A1leghenies, via Harrisburg and
Lancaster. Excursion tickets on sale
Aug. I'd, Sd and 4th. Opea to all. Find
out about them by addressing J. T.
Foley, Trav. Passenger Agt., Kansas
City, Mo, or w F. Brunner, A. G. p.
Agt., st. Louis, Mo.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
Melon Day at Rocky Ford.

Denver July 24.-The Rocky Ford
melon day committee was in the city
yesterday for the purpose of making
preliminary arrangements for the in
teresting event. The committee is con-
fident that all records will be broken
this year and the crops will be larger,
the melons juicier and the crowd
greater than ever before. Six special
passenger trains will be run the
Santa Fe road to meet the demand, in
addition to the regular train service.
Melon day falls on September 2.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24

We desire to tender our sincere
thanks through your columns to the
many friends who have shown SO much
kindness to us in our great sorrow.
Words are adequate to express our
feelings, but again we say thanks
MRS. J. B. BRATTEN and Family.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
WHAT "WE" rs SAYING.

Joe Jones from down on Crystal
Plains brought US in a handsome mess
of roasting ears Tuesday. Many thanks
Joe, the corn was very nice and filed
long felt want.-Smith County Pioneer.
All robbers are not hard-hearted as
people claim. Walt Johnson at Troy,
was robbed last Saturday a week ago
and the robbers were kind hearted
enough to leave him a dime to get his
regular morning beefsteak with.-Den-
ton Journal.
Joe Hesket counted 924 wheat stacks
from the cupola of the court house
yesterday and it was not a very good
day for counting wheat stacks either.
This statement gives a faint idea of the
immense amount of wheat which has
been harvested in Sumner county
Wellington Mail.
Saturday afternoon, as the rain began
falling, the attention of a number of
people at the depot was called to Will
liam McCoy's barn, where a small army
of large rats was seen scampering
the shower. As the rain grew heavier,
they disappeared through holes in the
roof'-Nortonville News.
There are men in Cimarron who
couldn't give in a correct decision at
dog fight, yet they know CD all about
how to run a newspaper. In fact one
of them told US the other day that he
knew more about running a newspaper
than we did. The world is full of Just
such people because the Lord is merci-
full and lets them ive.-Cimarron jack
SOnian.
A Kansas farmer who simply could
not get harvest hands put up this sign
on his front fence: Harvest hands
wanted. Hired girl, blond and genial.
Cabinet organ music in the evening
Pie three times a day. Three spoons of
sugar with every cup of coffee. Ham
mocks, feather beds or leather divans
at your option for sleeping. Rising hour
o'clock in the morning. Three hours
rest at noon. Come one, come all.'-
Dodge City Globe Republican.
II
A party of Ninth street men made up
purse Tuesday afternoon and hired
the Scotchman from Hamburg, who
seems to think that he plays on a bag
pipe, to serenade the editor of the
Journal when he was exceedingly busy
at his desk. They little know how we
do love the music of an ancient bag
pipe. OF all the many instruments it
is our favorite. In our estimation it is
excelled only by the swinette. We are
very grateful to our friends for their
kind remembrance. Such little atten-
tions help to make the rough places of
life very smoothly.-Coffeyvil Journal
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24

Beggs' Little Giant Pills cures Con-
stipation, SAM headache, and the many
other conph mt caused by indigestion.
Druggists sell them.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24

AS if not to be outdone by the Alas
kan gold fields, Cripple Greek has mus
tered up quite a respectable fall OF
snow.-Galena Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24

Taxation Bromo Carb sures headache
and neuralgia; guaranteed by all drug
gists or money refunded. Price Csc.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
W Gather Indications.

Chicago, July 24-For Kansas: Show
ers this afternoon; fair and cooler to-
night; Sunday fair, variable winds.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
.tEXo RAYS

The coal strike cuts but little ice, be-
cause it comes at the wrong season of
the year.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24

Any old editor, when he comes to die,
can always look back and think of
something good he has said about
someone.-Salina Record.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-07-24
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west. Come and try
it. J. w. PHILLIPS
612 w. Eighth st