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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26

OF the peoples trust Its distinct cam
paign declaration that it was unreserv-
eddy in favor of sound money. the
character and controlling effectiveness
OF the support it gained on the faith of
that declaration, the universal conces-
sion that the conflict on financial theo-
ries constituted the issue which was
passed upon by the suffrage of the
people and the country's pressing ext
gencies and needs, all demanded prompt
and efficient action by the party en-
trusted with power in an effort to place
our nations finances, adjusted to every
popular need, upon a safe and sure
basis, approved by the business judg-
ment of the land, and secure from sue
eessfuI attack because defended by a
majority of the thOughtfuIIy honest
men of all parties.
Instead, however of addressing
themselves to this task, the managers
and representatives of this victorious
party, these professed champions Of
sound finance, have, before the eyes
of an expectant people, returned
in hot haste to their wallowing in the
mire of extreme protection, offending
millions of voters by their exhibition
of a party's bad faith and disgusting
millions of voters more by their uncon-
cealed determination to repay partisan
support from the proceeds of increased
burdens of taxation placed upon those
already overladen.'
Wherein has the Republican party
failed to keep the pledges to the people
made in its platform? Did not the
platform promise and did not every
voter understand that the tariff was to
be reconstructed along protective lines
in case Of Republican success? Is not the
party carrying out this policy in the
fullest measure and as rapidly as pos
sible?
The only pledge made regarding the
the party should be put forth in the
direction of securing an international
agreement for the use of both gold and
silver as money. Is not the president
doing his best to carry out this prom
Use?
What is it Mr.. Cleveland complains
of? What did he expect? If he sup
posed that his successor would follow
his own example, ignoring the plat
| form on which. he was elected and be-
traying the people who elected him
| it seems that he is doomed to disap-
| pointment. So far President Mckinley
has done exactly what was promised
no more, no less And yet Mr.. Cleve-
land calls the party action on the tariff
| an act of bad faith
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items Intended for this column should
he LEFT with the Kimbau Printing Co,
sS5 Kansas avenue, before 10 o'clock IN the
morning
Will Hewitt returned Saturday from
Kansas City.
N. F. Conkle is painting his Quincy
street property.
o. F. Whitney is attending cattle
sale at Lawrence.
Glenn Lyon of Pueblo, Col, spent
Sunday with his family
Dan Hewitt has gone to Colorado,
where he has secured work.
There viii be no meeting of the Old
Folks high five club tonight
Miss Louie WATSON of Rossville spent
Sunday with Miss Grace Miller.
The members of the Congregational
church are now using new hymn books
Mr. and Mrs. Con. Morrow and daugh-
ter Ethel are spending the day at New
man
The Young Ladies Missionary society
will meet this evening with Mrs I. +
Chandler.
Dr. Samuel Ashmore of 1903 Jackson
street has rented one of the A. NJ
Baird houses.
DR.. G. B. Lyon has a new windmill
which will be put UP at his home, cor
ner Gordon and Harrison streets
Warren K. Damuth will be advanced
to the priesthood at Grace Cathedral
Sunday morning May 2, at IL o'clock
Hartley Green has a Syracuse wheel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
CLEvE1ANp,s PLA1Nr.

Judging by the speech delivered by
Grover Cleveland Saturday night be-
fore the Reform club at the Waldorf
hotel, he is inconsistent. After having
cut off one-half of the currency supply
of the country and bringing on one of
the worst panics in the history of the
United States; after having brought
the country to the verge of bankruptcy
by tinkering with the tariff: after hav-
ing plunged it in debt S262, OOO. 600 it
sounds like irony for Mr.. Cleveland to
say as he did on that occasion:
I'VE are gathered here tonight as
patriotic citizens, anxious to do some
thing toward reinstating the prosperity
of our fellow countrymen and protect
ing the fair name of our nation against
shame and scandal on every side.
I'VE are confronted with popular de-
preston and complaint. These are
largely due to causes of natural and
certain recurrence, as the inevitable ac-
Compartment of all human endeavor,
and perhaps they are as largely due to
agitators and denagogues who have
busiIy sowed the seeds of discomfort
in order that in the harvest they may
reap personal advantage"
Equal to the foregoing in inconsist-
ency is his reference to the Republican
party, of which he said:
1.-THE party placed in power as the
result of splendid Democratic patriot
ism has failed to meet the obligations
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26

Netherland was owned and was ruled
by the Dutch West India company, and
it was populated by persons sent out
by this company, or by those who ac-
cepted this company as their overload
OF course certain rights of oversight
and interference We're reserved to the
states general of Holland But the
West India company always bitterly
opposed any action on their part; and
its agents-the provincial governors
whom it sent out-Often denied the peO-
pies constantly asserted right of ap-
peal. The company wished to rule,
and at first did rule, as an autocradc
sovereign; and its agents, especially
Governors Kieft and Stuyvesant, were
more than willing to adopt this atti-
tude, keeping all judicial as well as
legislative and executive powers in
their own hands, or sharing them with
the members of a small council likewise
appointed and sent out from Holland
by the West India. company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
DOLLY MADIsON'S PRAYER
BOOK.
From the New York Press.1

TFrom the New York PresS.l
Moved thereto by some remarks pub
1ished in this column a few days ago in
praise of Dolly Madison, her godsOn
has presented to me the diminutlve
book of prayer which she was wont to
use and which she gave to him on jan
uary 1, 1916, eight years before her
death.
she lived to be 81 years old, because
her life was so gentle and frictionless-
This little book is a masterwork, pub
Hshed in Philadelphia in 1874, ana
purchased there by Mrs. Madison after
the government had paid $4,000 for her
husbands letters and private ar GO eor re
a157b1iebar The bookmark is on the
t RdP5I'7 page of the Psaiter. pointing out
Psalm l., which is the best thing ~, IN
the book for a young man to read. me
orateiy gilded and only slightly worn worn;
Dolly always loved Philadelphia, ana
often went there on shopping eXcur-
husband. good, honest John Todd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26

The trouble with this country is there
are not enough spring fever jobs for ali
+he victiuns.-Florence Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26

This is a soc quality usually. We
bought it at a bargain, and the price
will sell it at a bargain, the price will
be 30e yard while it lasts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
Old NEW YORK.

[From Lippincott's NTagazine1
The characteristic first fact about
New Netherland is that it was not
planted by the Dutch government, nor
by immigrants desiring to free them
selves from distressing home condi-
lions, material, political or religious. It
was the only American colony planted
wholly and solely for the sake of the
direct profit that might thereby accrue
to the motherland. Therefore it did not
even attempt at first to rule itself in
any degree. And it was not ruled by
the government of its motherland. New
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
Order of Hen Chasers.

Detective Capron has joined the An
cient Order of Hen Chasers, says Pa
trolman Kesson. Many complaints are
sent to police station about chickens
running at large and the special Off
GERS have to do lots Of notifying.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
eek RAYS"

We are pleased to note the bravery Of
the Circa ssians at Ligaria- We met
tbeir sister at Mr.. Barnum's show sew
eral years agO.-Wichita Eagle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26
NEW
PARASOLS.

We have opened our new
Parasols, both Ladies and
Children's. The Children's
are II, IA, Is and 18 inches,
Lawn and Foulard tops, as
low as 19c, 25c and 35c; bet
ter ones as high as 1925.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26

their SISTER d vi 4'eN-
eral years ago.-Wichita Eagle
Nobody knows anything about the air
shin but a good many people claim 10
have seen light on the SubJect-OttaWA
Herald.
SDrinzy flowers are very slow in com
ing this season They have probably
been discouraged by the protuslon OF
vegetation on the Easter hats-La"-
renee Journal.
Spring is here sure enough The cir
cuses have commenced to moVe.-Atch-
isOn Champion.
Colorado women demand change IN
military terms since they have become
eligible to join the state militia me
only term sure to be retained is dress
para de-Ft. Scott Monitor.
Marriage is not considered failure
in Ottawa. The married woman was
elected city clerk there over the single
woman.-Arkansas City Traveller.
The trouble with this country IS there
are not enough spring fever jobs for all
the victims.-FIorence Bulletin.
The world may have too little charity
but charity will not do to use on some
men.-Beloit Call
II is worse than vicious to repeat
story that would injure the character
of any person. Unless you know it to
be a fact avoid talking about it
Brown County World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-26

71obodv knows anything about the air
ship. but a good many people claim to
have seen light on the subject-OttaWa
Herald.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

q Spans The Harlem River at New
York City.



One Of the most remarkable feats Of
engineering on record is just com
pleted, and the passenger entering
New York from the north now rides
over one Of the grandest examples of
steel railway construction yet accom-
plished in this age Of marvellous results
ID that direction.
Going south, at One Hundred and
F~0rty-ninth street, the tracks OF the
New York Central begin to rise gradu-
ally. and at One Hundred and Thirty
Fifth street they ross the Harlem river
on the new four-track steel draw
bridge. at an elevation Of "a feet above
high tide.
This massive structure is remarkable
in being the first four-track draw
bridge ever constructed, and is the
largest bridge Of the kind in the world.
IT is 400 feet long and weighs 2 $500 tons.
The draw-bridge is So feet 6 inches wide,
from center to center of outside trusses,
and is carried on three very heavy
trusses. Between the central and each
Of the two side trusses is a clear space of
IS feet, which permits the passage of
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

my way. My wife never allowed such
liberties from her own. They were
afraid of a spanking or of being shut ND
IN the parloB when they got too bolster
GUS. And now she pleads for this boy
and says he is nothing but a baby. But
III get him some of these days when
abe goes to the missionary meeting
see If I don't. I've promised him q lick
ing every day for two months and he
retreats to her and looks defiance at
me But I'll get him, see If / don't. He
is nothing but a baby, but he takes the
dog to the COW lot and sets him on the
COW, and when I ten him that the cow
will horn him and that she gives him
milk, he says he don't want n more
milk. He let's the chicken out of the
coop, but he is nothing butte baby. But
I'll get him before the year is out-see
il I don't. I'll do like Dick johnson,
who was trying 20 raise his boy on love.
But the boy got so bad that one day
Dick picked up a lath and walloped him
good. It was a desperate remedy and
had a fine temporary effect, and Dick
walked the piazza with a triumphant
stride. 81 told you I was going to whip
you. sir. For five long years I have
promised you a whipping and now you
have got it, you son of Belial." And
Dick pulled and blowed like he had
fought a great battle and whipped the
fight. He Dragged about the perform
INC for a week. But it didn't do the
boy any lasting good. The whipping
came just five years too late. 1 never
did take much stock in bad little boys.
They are a nuisance, not only at home,
but abroad. Boys rhyme with noise,
and the little: rascals' want, a gun or
some fire crackers or a drum or a tin
horn. 1t always seemed strange to me
that mothers love their boys better
than their girls, but I reckon it is right.
I have known boys who had no other
friend. A father loves his boys accord
ing TO their conduct, but a mother loves
them anyhow.
A sweet little girl is a treasure in the
family. She is very close kin to the
angels. Her value cannot be estimated
in dollars and cents. If she is seriously
sick the alarm paralyzes everything
about the house. We whisper our anx-
ieties in sad voices. We walk lightly
and close the door gently and breathe
our prayers silently. If she dies there
is an aching void the world can never
fill.
What is the value of a child? When
the railroad train kills a man the law
yers sue for his value. It may be $1,000
or $4,000 or $4,000 according to his
consequence, but that is nothing when
compared with the value of a little child.
How rich these mothers are-rich in
their childrenl How utterly poor when
they lose them!-Bill Arp, in Atlanta
Constitution.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

and put a piece of stiff buckram around
the sides to give il shape. If the brim
Is out of gear, wire that, too, and put
in a plain facing of velvet to conceal the
wire. The top of the brim may be
trimmed around with a width Of soft
mousseline de sole and a few upstand-
ing osprey feathers ON the left side,
making a very pretty bit of headgear
for the end of the season.
If your skirt is too shabby for wear,
don't throw it away. But l may as we'll
tell you about the mother of five girls
who are always w~ell-dressed. They all
work, and are personally very careless,
I'm afraid, but their mother looks so
well to their gowning that many are
surprised when told of it's cost.
She never throws away a skirt. After
it is unfit for street wear the bottom is
ripped and any extra Innings and hair
cloth taken away. 1t is then thorough
Is brushed and aired; washed, and if of
q plain, s~erviceable color, laid in the
sewing basket to be transformed into a
petticoat. When ore of her daughters
needs an underskiTt, out it comes, to be
finished with Aounces of silk or heavy
lace, as the modes dictate. Many folks,
t is true, use their WORKOUT skirts for
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

two sets of double tracks. The floor is
corrugated, and the rails are bolted to it
on steel tie plates. The trusses of the
draw-bridge span are GA feet high in
the center and 25 feet high at each end.
AT the highest part OF these trusses is
situated the engine house, which con-
tains two oscillating double-cylinder
engines, which turn the draw and can
be worked together or separately, so
that il one should break down at any
time. the other can do the work.
From One Hundred and Thirty
eighth street south the four new tracks
rum over the steel viaduct to One Hum
dred and Tenth street, and thence by
the stone viaduct to One Hundred and
Sixth street, where they strike the level
OF the present four-track line.
The work of building this massive
structure, which is here illustrated,
began September i, 1893, and has con-
tinued without cessation until now, and
will cost when completed considerably
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

petticoats, but they do so without re-
making the garment in any way. The
result is an unclean, slovenly article Of
attire. that often hangs beneath the
skirt in the back, and is a disgrace to
womankind. The great lesson to learn
is that clothes carefully washed and.
kept in order cut the expense of a ward.
robe in half.
Now that Persian silk petticoats are
50 popular, this mother has decided to
use an occasional skirt of mixed goods
to be made up in this way. A blue
novelty goods, with a red silk thread.
makes a pretty petticoat with three
founces of the same material pinked
out in very large scoIlops. The pinking
is done by the small brother at home,
with a set of pinking irons. A pale
gray hend;etta, which served as an
Easter gown some seasons ago, is now
made into a skirt that is corded around
the bottom to make it stand out stir.
Adeep hounce of cream lace, shirred ON
a deep rose ribbon, is the trimming.
Ribbon, by the way, is used instead ~
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

that, with the right side up, brushing
it brislnly until the napis raised.
A buckram or, net frame should be
purchased. The crown of this frame
must be low and fiat, the brim turned
up and futed. If your old hat was en-
tirely of velvet, you will have enough
to make q plain crown, and a shirred
brim of it. If not, use the velvet for
the crown, and get smooth-faced cloth
or silk of the same color for the shirred
brim. This hat may then be trimmed
on the left side with outstanding feath-
ers of some kind. If you have three
ostrich tips, curl and wire them into
prince Of Wales plume, as explained in
these columns ON weeks ago. If you
have hone, buy a rather thick egret,
and fasten it on the left side with a
few loops of ribbon or velvet, and a
jeweled buckle. On the same side, to-
ward the back, three crush roses, one
beneath the other, may be arranged in
such a way that when the hat is donned
they appear to be fastened in the hair.
On the right side of the crown place
q similar bunch of roses.
This hat is very pretty if made up
of black velvet, with roses in shades of
h~eliotrope, and it's cost should be very
slight.
Your hat, however, may be a fiat felt
that needs r~etrimming. 1t is probably
broken only where the hairpin is in
serted. Remove all the old trimmings
and thoroughly brush the hat. Wire
inside the crown at the bottom and top,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

ident Tyler, aud is living in the Louise
home, Washington, d. C. Mrs. Dan.
bridge is the daugter Of President Tay-
Tor, and presided at most of the white
house functions during her fathers
brief occupancy-a little over a year;
she lives. in Winchester, Va. The only
surviving daugter of President John.
son, Mrs. Martha johnson Patterson.
lives in the old johnson homestead at
Greenville, Tenn. Mrs. Ellen w. Grant
S%artoris, the only daughter of President
Grant, is now living in this country
since the death of her husband-in
Washington, D. C. The only daughter
Of President Hayes. Miss Fanny Hayes,
passes much of the winter IN travel.
and spends her summer at the HAYES
homestead in Fremont, o. Mrs. Mary
Garfield Stanley-Brown, the "iittle Mol
lie'' of the Garfield family, lives in Wash
ington during the winter and at the
old family homestead in Ohio in the
summer. The only daughter of presi-
dent Arthur, Miss Helen Herndon Ar
thur. lives in Albany, N. Y, with al,
aunt, and spends much time in travel.
Mrs. Mary Harrison Mckee, the only
daughter of President Harrison, lives at
Saratoga, N. ". and the Cleveland chill.
dren, of course, are at their home in
the white house.-Ladies' Home Jour
nal.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

more than $3,0O0,0oO. The completion
OF the new work will permit the open
ing Of all cross streets under the rail-
way and 50 permit a perfectly free
passage for street traffic.
One Hundred and Thirty-eighth
street, which has become a great thor
oughfare, win be entirely free, as the
trains which heretofore crossed it at
grade will pass over it at an elevation
2haf viii allow street ears and all traf-
re perfect freedom. At One Hundred
and Twenty-ifth street the tracks will
cross the street IA feet above the level
ST the street, and at this point a mag
nffcent passenger station is to be built,
extending from One Hundred and
Twenty-ffth TO One Hundred and
Twenty-sixth street, under the four
track viaduct.
This improvement will be of immense
value TO the entire state-in fact. to the
whole country-as the bridge. being so
high above the water. will never have to
be opened except when large steamers
or vessels with masts are to pass
fhrough; all tugs, canal boats, barges,
etc, win have ample room togo under
the bridge while It is closed.
The Harlem river, having been de-
cIared BY congress q ship canal, the sec
retary Of war has issued orders that all
tugs and barges shall joint their smoke
stacks and hag-poIes, to enable them
To pass under the bridge while It il
closed. He has also ordered that the
bridge shall not be opened between the
hours Of seven and ten o'clock In the
morning. and four and seven IN the
e~fteFnoon, except for police, fire or gov
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27
4 FAMOUS R 5.
The Bravo Guides of the English Army
in India.

The Bravo Guides of the English Army
in India.
The guides are pre-eminently the
fighting corps of the Indian army, sthe
steel head of the lance conched for a de-
Tense of India" The origin of the corps
vas curious. It was raised and formed
on the principle Of setting a thief to
catch a thiefs for in the year 1886 Lieut..
Lumsden suggested to the government
that the best way of keeping quiet the
wild frontiersmen of Peshawar was to
form a regiment out of the motley race
Of freebooters then the terror of NORTH
ern India. Even Dilawar Khan, the
Christian subadar, lad once been a
mountain brigand. From the time Of
their formation until the present day,
the corps Of guides have been more
hard fighting than any other regiment
in the Indian service. They are con-
stantly employed against the predatory
hill tribes swarming in the, mountain
Gus districts of the northern frontier,
"a expeditions of which the public hear
Little or nothing, but which, neverthe-
less, afford ample scope for the fine
fighting qualities OF the guides.
The regiment is made up of Pathans,
Sikhs, Goorkhas and Punjabis. The diff
ferent troops and companies-for it is
both an infantry and a cavalry regi-
ment-are each composed entirely Of
men of the same religion and nation
atty. This arrangement has given to
each company and troop a separate
esprit de corps, and the ambition of
each is to eclipse its rival in valor
against the. common foe.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle,
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-03-27

eminent vessels, the hours named soV-
ering the great business traffic in and
out of the city. the important through
trains as well as the principal suburban
trains arriving and departing during
those hours. This will avoid delays,
which have been, at times, very annoy.
ing. and permit of much faster service
than could have been maintained under
the old arrangements; and. IS speed is
one of the principal factors in travel in
this age, this feature viii prove an inn.
portant one.
Quite a number of the great improve.
ments which have recently been made
in the northern part Of the city can be
seen from the trains as they pass over
the new viaduct. Among them are
Grants tomb, st. Luke's hospital and
the buildings of Barnard college and
Columbia college, on Morningside
Heights, and very soon the grand struc-
ture of the Cathedral of st. John the Di-
vine win be observed. Further north,
aud on the west side Of the Harlem
river, the now famous speedway is un-
der construction and approaching
completion; the magnificent High
bridge, Washington bridge, McComb's
dam bridge and the yiaduct leading to
it from the north are works Of art; as
well as of great utility, under which.the
trains pass, and on the right may be
seen the buildings of the University Of
the City of New York, Webb's Sailors
home, and hundreds of other new build
ings of less Importance. North of the
Harlem river, on the Harlem division, ia
Bronx park, which is to contain the