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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
RocKEFELLER's WEALTH.
IFrom the ST. Paul Globe,

John D. Rockefeller sleeps eight and
one-half hours every night, retiring at
1920 and rising at Z. Every morning
when he gets up he is ST., 705 richer than
he was when he went to bed. He sits
down to breakfast at o'clock and
leaves the table at $50, and in that
short time his wealth has grown $1,041.-
SO. On Sunday he goes to church, and
in the two hours that he is away from
home his riches have grown $4,166. His
n ghtly amusement is playing the VIC
lin. Every evening when he picks up
the in~trument he is $4,000 richer than
he was when he laid it down the pre-
ViouS night These little facts give some
idea of the relentless growth of this
mans fortune.
The average great millionaire is con-
tent if his wealth is so INVESTED that it
W II brig in 4 per cent Many are con-
tent with per cent, but the Rockefel-
Ter riches earn more than Z per cent.
Just how Mr.. Rockefellsr's fortune
jumped $50 900, 900 in three months is
e7si1y explained. He owns 500, 900 shares
of the Standard Oil company, or a trifie
more than one-half of the total capital
liza ton. The par value of these is $780,
Gates were sold at $3.50. At this figure
his h I'D ngcs were worth $130, 000, 000 To-
day at $500, they are worth $3.50 .00O, 900.
Last August Standard Oil certificates
were sold at $3.50. At this figure his
holdings were worth sos. 900 900, or $751;
100000 less than are today.
jay OouIu achieved No&Iu- WIoe Ianle
rs money maker. When he died he
left $72, 900, 900, and the world stood
agha st-$72, OOO. 900 in 40 years, almost
81, 900, 900 year.
But here is a man whose wealth has
grown at the rate of s6, 600, 900 month,
and the outside world scarcely dreams
of it; man who earned his first quart
er of a dollar hoeing potatoes on a
Tioga county farm in the upper part of
this state; a man who, 35 years old, did
not have 81 900 to his name.
Some people say that money is not
made as easily or as rapidly nowadays
IS it used to be. This may be true as
far as the generality of money-makers
is concerned, but the chosen few, of
which Rockefeller is the premier, are
pulling up riches today faster than
ever. Where in the history of the
world did a man ever make $55, 600 900
in nine T11OnthS2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
NATIONAL DECAY AND SUICIDE

Lawrence Irwell, in July Lippincott's ]
The Sophists, declaring that the gods
had been invented by some clever
Statesman to overawe the people, preach
ed the new doctrine of individual lib
erty. They taught that the gods were
my tbs, that mans reason was his only
guide, and that, aided by both con-
science and reason, every man had abso-
lutte freedom concerning his own life or
death. With this teaching, suicide as
m ght be expected, quickly lost its FORM
er rcprehensible character and came to
but as an honorable mode of dea tn This
doctrine of individual freedom was
maintained by the Cynics some of
whose philosophers quilted life volun-
tar.ly when. for any reason, they thought
its continuance Undesira BILE. Thus Do
genes. named by Plato 1.-The mad So
crates" committed suicide, as did many
of his followers.
With the Stoics, who followed the
Cynics, suicide was mo de a Dogma and
the utter worthlessness of life was
preached at every opportunity. The
Stoics lived moral and useful lives; but
when, from any cause, they found life
q sp cas- ng, they promptly sought dea tn.
Zeno, the founder of the school, his sue
cesSor, CIeanthes, and many other lead
ing Stoics killed themselves.
The Epicureans, from a lower pla f.
terminate life as soon as it ceased to
give pleasure. 1t was from the Stole
and Epicurean schools of philosophy
that suicide spread to Rome. where if
naturally found a congeniaI soil among
a deteriorating nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
READING IN PUBLIC.
[Frorn the Chicago Tribune. ]

1t
Not longsince the wife of distinguish
ed engineer in that city was called on TO
read a paper in public. She accepted the
invitation and wrote an excellent ar
what she wrote, but they had grave
doubts concerning how she would say
it when the proper time came. =,
You have a charming voice, dear,
said one, but you know it isn't very
strong, and your paper is SO good that
the audience would be cheated if they
missed word; so don't you think you
had better get some one else to read 1t
for you?''
ct shall read my own paper" answer
ed the wife of the engineer firmly.
Really, your paper is so uncommon
ly strong, if I We're you I would get
some man to read it, suggested anoth-
II was able to write the paper, and I
am going to real it, insisted the plucky
woman; and she did.But she did some
thing else first.
Fortunately she had some time for
prepa RAJ ion,a and she determined to make
h rself as expert a speaker in that time
as p ssible. She was as nervous over
her first appearance as the average wo-
man, but she had no notion of forcing
her audience to strain their ears to
catch what she was saying or of giving
them a chance to be secretly amused
at her gestures. Therefore she went to
the widow of well known actor who
recently took charge of the school of
acting founded by him and told her
what she wanted. The teacher put her
through a short course of preparation,
and when the woman came to make her
speech she did it so well that she swept
her audience along with her and caused
eevn the women present to break into
exclama tons of admiration.
''That woman was my first pupil in
the art of public speaking said Mrs.
Adelaide Stanhope Wheatcroft, in re-
Spouse to question, land there is alb
solutely no reason why every club wo-
man in the city of New York should not
become a first rate speaker. How would
I go about teaching nervous, Shrink
ing woman to read or speak in public
so that to hear her would give genuine
pleasure? 1 am a great believer in per-
sonal magp etism, and the first thing
that do with such students is to show
them how to walk on the platform and
look al the audience. So much depends
on that. Some people repel, others at
tract A speaker can take in her entire
audience with one look, or she can bow
in one spot, so to speak, and the rest of
the audience will Immediately feel
themselves neglected.In singing a song
a great deal depends upon the way in
which the first bar is sung. So in pub
lie aiding or speaking just as much
depends on the first sentence"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
WHY MEN SUICIDE.
Prevailing Suicidal Epidemic Dis
cussed BY an Experr.

Bonner Springs, July 7.-Commenting
on the fact that there were five suicides
in Kansas City last week and five I'M
successful attempts, DR.. Sexton, who
for years has made special treatment
of nervous diseases, and who is in
charge of such an institution here says:
Insane persons do commit suicide, but
there are many instances of Self-de-
Struction which cannot be accounted
for on the theory that the suicide was
mentally irresponsible. Suicide is not
in itself an evidence of mental derange-
ment, and it is unreasonable to presume
that a man who talks with his friends
and has all the appearance of being
perfectly rational, and then deliberate
1y plans and executes self-murder with
in so minutes, is, therefore, insane.
1.-The wonder to me is that more per-
sons do not commit suicide. When you
consider the vast number of people who
have reason to court death as an end
to their neutrality-suspicious. who are la
boring under a load of poverty, disease,
domestic infelicity and financial reVer-
ses which make life a burden, it is real
ly surprising that the number of sui
cides is not much greater than it is.
'SUici de is more prevalent among the
materialistic Germans and the agnOStic
Frenchmen than among any other peo-
pc on the face of the earth. With moth
ing to look forward to in the shape of
future eXistence-nO reward to antici-
pate, no punishment to dread-they
seek death as the oblivion in which all
their troubles will be buried
There are many things which con-
tribute to bringing about this climax.
Continued and excessive heat might do
it, by affecting the nervous centers and
weakening the power of resist ence. All
persons are more irritable during excess
SiVely warm weather than at other
times. But there must be back of it all
the cause for desiring death. In all of
the instances cited during the past
week, there is plain and distinct cause
which if it had occurred in winter
might have led, in every case, to the
same rash act.
My attention was first called to the
prevalence of suicide among the Ger
mans by observing the death statistics
of a beneficiary order to which I be-
1onged. L noticed that the number of
SUICIDES in St. Louis, among the Ger
| mans, was startlingly large in proper
ton to those reported from other parts
of the country.
DO 1 think many persons are led to
commit suicide in order to secure for
their dependents the insurance on their
lives? Most certainly 1 do. Further
than that, 1 believe many persons in
sure their lives with the deliberate in
tention of committing suicide. The sta
tistics of one of the largest beneficiary
orders in the country show that one in
each ten of the deaths which occur in
the order throughout the country is a
suicide
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
COLORED SILVER LEAGUE.
It Elects Officers aud Passes Pointed
Resolutions.

The Colored Free Silver league passed
the following resolutions presented by the
committee, P. c. Thomas. chairman; J..
w. White, Jos. Brasher, J. B. Gibbs and
J. w. Anderson:
We the Colored Free Silver league of
Kansas, in convention assembled, do
hereby reaffirm our support to the cause
of the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer at the ratio of 16 to and do further
pledge our untiring support to this cause
and other reforms beneficial to the en-
tire people We take great pleasure in
congratulating the great champion of
free silver, w. J. Bryan, in his present eff
fort in behalf of the common people and
! further endorse his candidacy for presi-
dent of the United States in 1900.
We further endorse John w. Leedy,
governor of Kansas, in his manly stand
| taken Vetoing the so-called railroad bill
and also endorse his administration of the
great state of Kansas. We also congratu-
| late Webb McNan for revoking the Ii
cense of the Metropolitan Co. in Kansas,
| which company refused to pay just
| claims.
We therefore ask the colored citizens
| and in fact all citizens, to rally to the
| support of all reform principles.
| The following officers were elected:
President, J. r. Lytle, Topeka; vice
| president, w. NJ. Shrout, Emporia; secre-
| tary j. B. Gibbs, Kansas City; cores
| ponding secretary, P. C. Thomas, Kan
sas City; treasurer, E. B. Cabbell Coffey-
| Vile; chairman of executive committee,
| J. w. Anderson, Topeka. Executive COM
mittee, James Beck, First district; J. S.
| White, Second district; r. w. Lishie,
| Third district; Joe O'Dair, Fourth dis
| trict; Clifford Butler, Fifth district; J. w.
| Jones, Sixth district Thos. Glover, Sew
| enth district.
There are So delegates present and an
| effort will be made to more thoroughly
| organize the colored people in the state.
| VIM. Eagleson and j. B. Gibbs made ad-
| dresses this morning and Eagleson's pa
per, The Co1ored Citizen was made the
| official organ. J. R. Lytle's candidacy for
| register of deeds was endorsed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
HALLOWELL IMPROVING.
Not Now on the Verge of the Grave
as was Reported.
Topeka, Kan. July

Topeka, Kan, July z, 1897.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
Kindly allow me to correct an errone-
Gus article in last nights issue of the
Journal concerning the health of my
uncle, J. r. HalloweH While it is in
deed true that he was in poor health
nearly all of last winter, at one time
dangerously so, yet at the time I write
he is out of any immediate danger and
is enjoying rest and quiet at his father
in-law's farm in Indiana. 1 was the
recipient only last week of letter
from Mr. HalloweH, in which he stated
he was gaining flesh, was able to be
on his feet and was getting stronger
every day. Hoping you will see fit to
publish this, that his many friends and
acquaintance may see it, 1 am yours
truly,
CI.AITDE Z DITRHAM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
AMERICAN sELF-coNF1DENcE

CIV. D. Howells in EIarper's for July)
1t is in no overweening mood of opti-
n1ism that we trust the republic to save
itself.
There are almost as few mere opti-
mists mere pessimists among u.s.
Question those who seem to be the one
or the other, and you find that at the
bottom of their hearts they have the
same doubts, the same hopes. The blan-
dest optimist does not deny that there
are good many screws loose; the
bleakest pessirnist does not affirm that
there is no means within our democra-
cy of Tightening them again, or that
there Is any means outside of democra-
cy.
We trust the republic with itse1f;that
As, we trust one another, and we trust
one another the most implicitly, when
we affirm the most DANGEROUSLY, one
half of US. that the other half is plung-
ing the whole of US in irreparabIe ruin.
That is merely our way of calling all
to the duty we owe to each. 1t is not
a very dignified way, but the entire ma
ton is in the joke, and it is not so mis-
chieYous as it might seem. BY and by
probably we shall change it. We should
certainly change it in the presence of
any vital danger; for one reason be
cause we should then be all of one mind
an devotion to the republic.
Nothing in our modern mood,I think,
is more notable than the quiet of our
patriotism.
In this we are like people whose re-
ngion has become their life; it is no
longer an enthusiasm, and it is certain
" not ceremonial They do not seek
for a sign; the light is in them.
cannot answer for the new genera ton
which is soon to inherit Ame-ica, but I
believe we who are about bequeathing
1t to them desire nothing so little as a
miracle.
We have had many miracles in our
time, and we have not found that they
permanently profited, even as foun-
dalton of faith. But the age of mira
cles is past with us, and we are glad
1t is past.
They are never concerned with things
of the mind, or things of the soul; it is
as difficult to be good as to be wise:
either of these states is the effect OF
long and slow endeavor; and neither is
the effect of miracles. These gave Us
no righteous men and great men,
though they gave US many rich ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
RITE OF STARVATION.
Two Victims of a Religious Manis
Found in the Woods,

London, July 7.-According to dis
patch to the Daily Mail from st. Peters,
burg:
Two women have been found in the
forest of Zarevosantsch Urski one dead
and the other dying of starvation. They
were members of a sect regarding sui
eide by starvation as the highest form
of religious devotion.
Other members of the sect have dis
appeared and the police have instituted
a thorough investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
WEATHER CROP BULLETIN.
Threshing Eas Commenced and New
Hay Is on the Market.

Weather Observer Jennings has issued
his weekly weather crop bulletin which is
as follows:
A very warm week, with an abundance
of rain over the larger part of the eastern
half of the state and in the northwestern
counties, being excessive in Thomas
Washington, Marshall, Riley and the cen
trail counties of the eastern division. But
little rain fell in the counties west of
Sumner, Butler and Marion and south of
the Smoky Hill river.
EASTERN DIVISION.
The wet weater has largely retarded
work in the fields except in the south
eastern counties. Wheat harvest is pro-
crossing in the northern counties, oats
harvest in the central and fax in the
southern; all three crops good Corn is
in fine condition all over this division.
Some hot winds were felt in Montgomery.
Wheat threshing continues in the south
ern and has begun in the northern coun-
ties. New hay is on the Allen county
market.
MIDDLE DIVISION.
Wheat harvest is over in the south. is
progressing in the central and beginning
in the northern counties. Hot winds pre-
vailed on the End and 3rd, doing much
damage to corn except in the northern
and southeastern counties.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Harvest is progressing, but cling to the
continued dry, hot weather the crop is
light in the south. Alfalfa and the range
grass are in good condition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07

''Out in Kansas" said a Brooklyn man
talking to a neighbor the other day,
when a Populist administration goes in
to office, all the Populists are pardoned
out of the penitentiary and when a Re-
publican administration goes in all the
Republicans are pardoned out so that
the penitentiary is pretty near empty.
Those Kansas people are such fools. They
think their party is all right but have
heard that there is a big movement among
the better class of people out there to
kick both the parties out of Office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
RATS MAY BRING PLAGUE.
They are the Only Animals Spontane
ously Affected With the Disease.

Vienna, July THE special commits
sion sent to India to study the bubOnic
plague reports that in a majority of
cases the baccii enters the body
through the skin, although they some
times enter through the lungs or by the
tOnSilS.
The period of incubation is from four
to five days. The rat appears to be the
only animal spontaneously affected, and
it is not likely the disease will enter
Europe under the present methods of
supervision, except perhaps through
rats in ships
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
A FRENCH FLYING MACHINE
It Goes Faster Than Langley's but
Not so Far

Paris, July "A paper read before
the Academy of Sciences yesterday, re
cording the experiments of the French
aeronaut, NJ Tantin, at Carqueneeze, in
emulation of Prof. Langley's experiment
on the Potomac with a steam flying ma
chine.
It attained a speed of IS meters per
second, as against Prof. Langley's ten,
but the length of the run was only 140
meters as against Prof. Lang1ey's kil0-
meter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
NOW 4 BEER TRUST.
Detroit's % Breweries to be Operated
U1der One Management.

Detroit, July 7.-Proprietors of the 26
breweries in Detroit, are each planning
to sell out to a syndicate composed
chiefly of English capitalists. The
considera lions are to be cash and stock
and bonds of the new corporation.
Nearly all the brewers have signed an
agreement for the above purpose. A re-
suit of the consideration will be a raise
in the price of beer from 81 to SIS per
barrel To Sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
A Revolutionary Tree Cut Down.

New Haven, Conn, July 7.-Superin-
tendent of Parks Kelly has cut down an
old willow tree on Water street which has
been a New Haven landmark for years.
1t was near Sargent's shops, and for a
long time has been decaying. 1t is a
tradition that under it's branches Bene-
dict Arnold marshalled the first company
of patriots who left New Haven to fight
for freedom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
Canals Closed on Sunday.

Toronto, July 10. A. G. Blair, min
lister of railways and canals, has refused
to sanction the opening of the canals
to traffic on Sundays, except under ex-
traordinary circumstances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
OUTBREAK ALARMING.
Governor of Mozambique Takes the
Field Against the Rebels.

London, July IA dispatch to the
Times from Cape Town says:
That the native outbreak in Chasa-
land is assuming alarming proportions
The governor of Mozambique is per
sonally in command of the column sent
to suppress the rebellion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07

Every husband in the city would kick
on his wife taking the same privileges
that he does.-Arkansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
MISS HAYES TO MARRY.
Daughter of the Late President En-
gagged to q Naval officer.

Fremont, O., July THE engage
ment of Frances Hayes, only living
daughter of the late eX-President R. B.
Hayes to Ensign Harry E. Smith, U. s.
N, of this city, was announced this
evening.
Miss Hayes is a beautiful and talented
young lady. Ensign Smith is an in
structor in the United States training
ship, Constellation, at Newport, r. I.
Last Summer one of our grand-chil-
dren was SICK with a severe bowel trou-
BILE" says Mrs.. E. G.. Gregory, of Fred
erickstown, NO. Our doctors rene
dies had failed, then we tried Chamber
lains Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, which gave very speedy re-
lief" For sale by all druggists.
That dark brown taste and horrid
breath YOU have in the morning is cauS-
ed by an Nn@ctive liver. Some medi-
cines relieV& for a while; others for a
few days, but Herbine cures. Geo. w.
Stansf1eld, 632 Kan. Ave. and MiIler's
Pharmacy, Cor. 9Th and Topeka Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07

A hen that will lay eggs as big as the
recent Topeka hail stones is wanted
Parsons Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07

To Cure Cohs pa ton Forever.
Take Cascarets Cssh6v Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
II C. c. c. fail to cure. druggists refund money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07

A man never knows what a trouble he
was to his mother until his mother gets
70 be a Observation-Disclosures Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07
Weather Indications.

Chicago, July For Kansas-Unset-
tied, but generally fair and continued
warm weather tonight and Thursday;
fresh southerly winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-07

No-To-Baes foF Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobaccoAabit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. soc, 81. All druggists.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-28
sTECKLER's STATISTICS.

Mr.. Charles Steckler, one of the lead
ers of the Manhattan Democracy. has
compiled his figures from votes of the
several parties in this present contest,
made what changes in them he con-
siders warranted and sums up as his
conclusion that the present New York
city territory will poll 100000 votes. OF
these he allows 10000 to the Demo-
Gratis and $4,000 to the Republicans,
Georges vote he puts at 6 900 Demo-
Gratis and Lows vote at 10000 of this
old Democratic vote, five of the Dem
Ocratic organizations mostly Germans,
having pronounced for Low. The 115,-
900 Republican vote he divides by
giving Van Wyck 10000, which would
bring Tammany's vote up to 10000 in
Manhattan and Bronx, deducting three
or four thousand. for the other candi-
dates outside of Low, George and
Tracy. OF the residue of the Republi-
can vote in New York he gives Low
not less than 60 per cent. If Van Wycu
cannot get more than those Y, 900 votes
on the west side of East river he can
not possibly be elected. Brooklyn is
not his stamping ground, neither is
Staten Island. If Steckler is half right
as to New York, Low has a chance tc
come in at the head of the list. 1t Is
significant that all the estimates put
Tracy at the foot of the column, that
is all outside of the figures that ar,
made up in his own headquarters. TIL,
end of the fights not far off now.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-28

II the Luetgert defense are able to
locate Mrs. Luetgert as they hope, and
as it is to be hoped they will, it will
save the state of Illinois the expense
of another useless trial, also save Luet-
CERT the necessity of defending him
self against terrible accusation and
save the court the odium of condemn
ing an innocent man. Mrs. Luetgert
has been reported in Davenport, Iowa,
and that on more than one occasion.
The question now is whether it is her
self or some one much resembling her
Her husband has always asserted that
she is alive, and his friends are of the
same opinion.