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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
ILLINOIS AT NASHVILLE.
To Erect a Building for the Centen
NAL Exhibits

Nashville. March 27.-The special
committee appointed to visit Nashville
and make arrangeme nts for the Illinois
building and exhibits arrived this after
noon. The party is composed of Presi-
dent F. w. Peck and Secretary Robert
j. Thompson, Ernest Graham, Elliott
Durs nd, and Mr.. Bile.
They were received by the Centennial
officials and Immediately conveyed to
the exposition grounds on a special
train. and a site for the building was
selected AS the committee has $40, 900
at its disposal it will be able to make
the building very creditable reproduce
ton of the administration building. The
site selected is at the eastern end of
Capitol avenue, Illinois avenue being
on the north and Kentucky avenue on
the south. Ground will be broken Mon
day morning, and the party will leave
for Chicago at noon The building will
be One-siXth the size of the adminiStra-
ton building at the Worlds fair. The
AZ pieces of statuary used at the adj
ministration building have been loaned
by the Columbian museum manage
ment to the commission and will be
placed in position at the Illinois build
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
cURFEw ON HOT NIGHTS.


(From the North American Review.
During the long suffocating nights of
July and August. and even June and Sep
TENDER sometimes, if anyone walks
through the poorer streets of our city, he
Will see every stoop covered with the
grown-up nhabitant of the tenements.
Chairs even are scattered along the side
walks. whose owners sit in them hoping
to catch the first breath of the breeze thai
never comes. Would the advocates of cur
few have the children shut up in rooms
such nights these2 Or in the noisome
Railways where, by the way, the chances
for mischief are just great in the
street. Perhaps they think it would be
enough if. the children were made to sir
quietly on the stoops with their parents.
That might be little difficult to manage.
however; for even the heat does not check
the energy of youth
OF course it is horrible to think that the
streets, bad as they are. are the best thing
that many of our children have. But SO
is 1t horrible that thousands and tbous>
ands, of people. young and old, must
spend their summers in city, and in the
slums at that; that honest parents by
working 10 or u hours day can only pro-
vide a home that it is best for their child
rem to be in as little possible: that par
ents with the finest natures and the most
earnest wishes through ignorance drive
their children into the very lives they
would die to save them from. The late
hours on the streets do not constitute the
only wrong our civilization allows to ex-
iGf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
EIGHTEEN INDICTMENTS
Are Found Against an EN- bezzling
Bank Cashier in Illinois.

St. Louis, March 27.-The Madison
county grand jury finished its investi-
cation of the J. A. Prickett & Son bank
failure at Edwardsville, ILL.,, today. AS
a result Harris E. Prickett, cashier of
the defunct bank, stands charged with
embezzlement and receiving money
while insolvent. Eighteen indictments
covering these charges were returned
against him.
Harris b. Prickett. more Familiarity
known as Harry Pricl1ett, disappeared
about March 4, just before Expert
Keshner made his report showing the
manner in which the bank was con-
Quoted for years before the failure. His
father ]. a. Prickett, president. died
about a month ago. The indictments
for receiving money while insolvent
are based on the transactions of the
last thirty days of the banks existence.
1t was shown that deposits We're re-
ceived long after the friends and rela-
tives of the Pricketts had been warned
to desert the sinking ship. The report
of the assignees of the Prichett bank
Just filed shows claims to the amount of
1926, 207 and also that the assienees have
collected, including cash on hand at the
time of the failure, $31, 166.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
GOV. PINGREE IS SCORED.
Michigan Senators Intimate He is an
Anarchist.

Lansing. Mich. March 27.-There was
an unusual scene in the senate today.
allel in the history of the state, the gov
ernor being roundly denounced by mem
was over the Covell bill requiring the
governor tie make all appointments to va
order that they might be passed upon by
: Senator Moore. a warm friend of the
the enacting clause denouncing the bill a
an insult to the governor.
senator COYeH, the lntroducer, declared
that the bill insulted no one. but simply
required the governor to do his duty and
give the senators a chance to do theirs.
He asserted that but few citizens of the
state would prove the governors inten-
ton of waiting until after the adjourn
ment of the legislature and then import
ing a labor commissioner from Chicago,
reference being had to Prof. Bemis, late
of Chicago University.
Senator Thompson Endorsed Senator Co
Wells position and said that he under
stood that BemiS is regarded in Chicago
as sort of anarchist, and he added by
way of scoring Gov. Pingree: I'VE have
Continuing Senator Thompson said that
Gov Pingree's denunciation of the SUI
preme court for ruling against him in the
mayoralty case would better become Herr
Most of his bitterst moments or Herr
When the governor stoops so low he
said as to teach the people to have no
then. indeed, will anarchy and confusion
reign and We will have fallen on woeful
times.
This sentiment was vigorously applaud
ed.
Senator Covell again came to the front
with the declaration that the bill was de-
signed to prevent the governor from i'm
porting an anarchist for labor commits
sioner, and asked why he was holding up
40 appointments which should have been
made weeks ago. He concluded by de-
claring that Gov Pingree was conceded to
be the biggest demagogue in Michigan.
Gov. Pingree was briefly defended by
Senators Moore and Wagner, Republicans.
the latter deprecating the calling of
Republican governor a demagogue by Re-
publican senators.
Senator Nudge, (Silver) said it was as
reprebensible for senators to denounce the
governor as for the latter to denounee the
supreme court.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
cHURLIsHNEss REWARDED.

IFTOm INC N I I9S9-I
An elderly lady boarded a Broadway
car at Thirty-fOurth street today-Three
other ladies had boarded the car at
Thirty-third street, and two more got
on at Thirty fifth street. The elderly
lady gave the conductor dime and he
handed her back five pennies viii
stead of these?'' she said pleasantly. I
have no purse with me and no other
money, and I fear if lose one will be
help YOU growled the conductor, I
get too many of them coppers.'' He
passed on and the old lady looked mort
flied. Here, madam" said one of the
other five women, here is a nickel;
five me the pennies" The exchange
was made. The pennies were then hand
ed to the conductor. and all four of the
other women delved into their purses
for five pennies each. Moreover, they
all found them and paid their fares
Herewith
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
ANNA HELD IN ENGLISH.
(From the Chicago Chronicle1


When Anna Held the best advertised
young woman who has ever come down
the Partisan pike, sang here earlier in the
season she had but song in English
in her repertoire. That was the somewhat
suggestive Come Play Wiz Mel which
chansons of the cafe chantant kind. In
French. Mile, Held, always seemed. to
those who did not understand her special
~, to be quite too terribly naughty. and
a venerable gentleman in the orchestra at
whom one song was levied blushed so i'm
moderately as he scraped at his bass viol
that his complexion has never fully
covered. it is said.
But Mile. Held has changed all that.
She sings nothing but English songs. or
ra Their American, and while she no doubt
Will put meaning as much as ever into
every wink of her bright eyes we shall at
least be spared the awful uncertainty of
not knowing how naughty the words of
her songs are She is to begin singing for
Chicago again next Sunday night at the
Great Northern tbeater in "A Parlor
Match, which Charlie Evans and "OId
HOsS'' Bill HOey are bringing back for
just brief engagement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
BRYAN TO BE THERE.
He Will Attend the Celebration of
Jefferson's Birthday at Washington.

He Will Attend the Celebration OF
Jeferson's Birthday at Washington.
Washington, March 27.-President c.
F. Black has just announced the COM
pletion of the executive committee of
the National Association of Democratic
clubs, which will serve until the con-
vention of Democratic clubs in 1900, as
follows:
Benton RcMillin, Tennessee; Steven
NJ White, California; George H. Lam
bert, New Jersey; Edward Murphy. Jr-.
New York; E. c. Smith, North Caro-
lima; Lloyd L. Jackson, Maryland; c.
c. Richards, Utah; ]. L. Mitchell, Wis
consin; John E Mclean, Ohio; c. ].
Faulkner, West Virginia; Z. B. How
ell, Georgia; VIM. J. Stone. Missouri;
II. b. Money, Mississippi; George Fred
Williams, Massachusetts; ]. c. Dahl
man, Nebraska; J. E. Hogg, Texas; J.
Q. Sibley, Pennsylvania
A statement issued with the an
nouncement Of the committee says:
Each of the gentlemen named on this
committee gave loyal support to the
candidates and platform of the party
in the last presidential campaign, there
fore it is to be presumed that they can
be depended upon in the future, there
by making this committee in great con-
trast with its predecessor, which had
upon it a majority of mem ers who not
only contributed money but worked to
ored them. Among these arc William
l. Wilson, Henry Watterson, Don NJ.
Dickinson and John c. Black.
President Black has issued a call for
the committee to meet at the Ebbitt
House on Monday, the 18th of April.
for organization and thorough discus
sion of methods looking to an agrees
siVe campaign.
Mr.. Bryan will be in Washington that
day and it is probable he will be in
Nited to attend the meeting of the ex-
ecutiVe committee. He is to be the
guest of the officers of the association
while in Washington and will be the
principal speaker ut the dinner to be
given in honor of the anniversary of
JefferSor's birthday. He Will respond
to the first toast: Thomas Jefferson,
We celebrate the anniversary of his birth
not in the spirit Of idoIatry, but from
regard and reverence for his political
principles
President Black has issued an appeal
to each Democratic society in the Unit
ed States to join the National AssOcia-
ton of Democratic clubs in celebration
of Jefferson's birthday by such cere-
monies as may be convenient to each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
MEN AT THE DOLL SHOW.
TFrom the Cbicago Trihnne1

|
Some surprise is expressed that so
many gentlemen turned out TO see tba
doll show in New York 1t is said that
the sterner sex equaled if not outnum-
bered the ladies on this interesting &C.
casion- Ordinarily, L man is not an
enthusiast over dolls. He tolerates
them because his children like them
but If his family is large they cost him
considerable money in the long run. and
ne Is apt to grumble about it. AS a
general thing it may be said that a
man IS not likely to close up his place
or business and take a day off to see a
colossal aggregation of imitation in
1ants, even for the cause of sweet char
lty. He would do it for a horse race
or a prize fight, but not for dolls. There
fore the preponderance of men at the
doll show has caused some comment in
society circles. 1t is easily explained
however. One of the features of the
exposition, as per announcement was
on immense pond lily of wax. which at
intervals opened its petals, disclosing
Ihereln lovely nymph-like Undine
Tor instance, or mayhap a rosy Venus
or a classic Leda. This enhancing
vision cast languishing chances upon the
young men of Gotham, ald caused more
than one susceptible heart to palpitate
at rate that would be difficult for the
most accurate specialist to record OF
course 1t must not be imagined for a
moment that this lovely creature was
Hesh and blood, that would not be
proper nor in accord with the ideas
OF propriety entertained by the prudish
NeM Yorker The graceful form that
reciined its rosy limbs within the depths
or the flower was cunningly fashioned
OF wax, Efe-Size, and the eyes that
Deamed from their liquid depths 1lnon
tne youth OF the metropolis were of
grass ana made to move by means of
wheels and springs inside the fair and
shapeiy head of the goddess or nyrnph
OF Whatever it represented, according
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

A newspaper correspondent says, in
speaking of Bristow's appointment, that
he did not want the office, much pre-
ferring to conduct his paper in Ottawa
but yielded to the wishes of his friends.
Undoubtedly the fact is that he did
want it and made the strongest kind of
a pull to get it. A man who would
rather run country newspaper with
such competition and in such q field as
Bristow has at Ottawa, than to hold a
big Office that pays 1000 a year would
be a chump of the first ma gnitude, as
every one knows. 1t is no credit to
Brstow to advertise himself in that
way; and, besides, what is the use in
persistently repeating that stale old lie
about any one?-Burlington News.
Bristow did not have to make the
strongest kind of pull to get the po-
sition or any kind of a pull Cy Lee
land merely decided that he wanted
Bristow there and he put him there,
just as an employer transfers a valued
employe from one post to another
Bristow was only the passive instru-
ment of Leland's purposes. Bristow,
however, is a capable man, a hard
worker, honest in his business meth
DDS, and the postoffice department could
not do better in its selection. Neverthe-
less, he was not selected on his merit,
but because Cy Leland claimed the ap-
pointment for him as part of his politi-
cal reward. There is a great deal of
tommyrot pretense about the matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
GIVE DAIsYBELLE A REST
[From the Atchison Globe.l

IF rom the AtcnlSOn GLOBE.
There will he a great deal of money
spent in Atchison this spring on a new
carpet for the parlor. new chairs, or a
piano, in order to make Daisybelle hap
py, that by right should be invested in
a bath tub in which the man of the
house can forget the world a few mo-
ments every night during the coming
summer. Daisybelle can receive her
beau in room with an old carpet, or
out on lawn. The beau will not prove
as good an investment to the family as
the father has proven why put so much
capital in him? Give the old man an
inning. If you have a piano, and no
bath tub, trade the piano for tub and
spend the surplus in hiring some one to
rub his back. 1t will soothe his feelings
more than to hear Daisybelle running
the scale on the piano.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Your Boy Won't Live a Month.

So Mr. Gilman Brown of "a Mil
street, South Gardner, Mass, was told
by the doctors. His son had lung trou-
BILE, following typhoid malaria, and he
spent 1915 with doctors, who finally
gave him up, saying: Your boy won't
Discovery and a few bottles restored
him to health and enabled him to go
to work a perfectly well man. He saws
he owes his present good health to use
of DR.. Kings New Discovery and
knows it o be the best in the world for
lung trouble. Trial bottles free at J. K.
Jones' drug store. Fifth street and Kan
sas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Secretary Gage Economics.

Washington, March 27.-Secretary
Gage has ordered the discontinuance of
the office of shipping commissioner at
Mobile Ala, and will follow this with
another order closing the correspond
ing office at Brunswick, Ga. The ami
mating purpose is an economical one,
the shipping commissioners work at
each place being so small in volume as
to justify it's imposition on the collector
of customs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
So. 600 Due From an Estate.

Suit has been commenced in the
United States circuit court by District
Attorney w. c. Perry to recover $32,-
600 which it is claimed is due the gov
ernment from the estate of Cornelius
Cdosgrove the Atchison mail contractor,
who died some years ago Judgment
in this amount against the CosSrove
estate was rendered by the court of
claims in Washington last NoVembe
h1t Amanda. NJ. Cosgrove administra-
trix of the estate, refused to pay it. The
suit is brought to compel the sale of
sufficient real estate to pay the claim.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Bitten by a Spider
Blood Poisoned and Body
Covered by Sores
Other Remedies Failed but Hoods
SarsapariIia Cured.

Whatever the nature of the poison
or humor in the blood, Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, as the one true blood purifier,
effects a cure. Read this letter:
"Eight years ago my little adopted
daughter, then two years old, was bitten
on the back by spider. We felt almost
sure she would die. She suffered terrible
agony, and we doctored her by every
means we could think of without a cure.
She was covered with sores from head to
foot. Then her ears discharged, and
blindness was the next thing. We were
not able to continue paying doctors bills.
One day a lady asked me why 1 did nos
try Hoods Sarsaparilla. She said,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Methodist Editor Convicted of Libel

Harrisburg, Pa, March 27.-Rev. DR..
Silas c. Swallow, editor of the Pennsyl-
vania Methodist, has been found guilty
of criminal libel in the suit brought by
Captain John c. Delaney, superintend-
ent of public buildings and grounds. DR..
Swallow, through the medium of his
paper charged that Captain Delaney
had been given presents by different
contractors to whom he had given con-
tracts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Bikes Must Go as Freight.

Madison, Wis, March 27--By a vote
of II to Is the senate killed the White
head bill to force railroads to carry
bicycles as baggage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

California Limited leaves Topeka
Thursdays and Sundays, 11:S3 a. M.
fornia. Vestibuled Pullman sIeepers
buffet smoker and dining car through.
California Express, with Pullman pal
ace and tourist sleepers leaves daily at
Abs .. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
German Ponulists Win a Point.

Berlin, March 27.-The reichstag has,
by vote of 179 to 40. adopted the radi-
cal Peoples party proposal for the pay
ment of members of the reichstag-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

to the vaudeville mythology of New
yorklyn. 1t was this work of art that
brought out the men to the doll show.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Switzerland Would Buy the Railroads

Berne, Switzerland, March 27--The
bundesrath has made a proposal to
purchase all the principal railways of
Switzerland The price set is 964,34S,-
769 francs. 1t is proposed to raise the
funds for this purpose by loan re-
deemable in 60 years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
Weather Indications.

Chicago, March 27.-For Kansas: Pro-
badly showers tonight and Sunday;
warmer tonight, east to south winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

The engagement is announced of the
engagement of Mile. Consuelo de Les
seps, daughter of the late Count Fer
dinand de Lesseps, and Baron de Lo-
grange THE bride-elect," says The
Gentlewoman, lis a most Charming
young girl, and a great favorite among
those who have remained attached to
the family of the Grand Francois"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

Ex-senator Edmund G. Ross of Kan
sas, who, though a Republican, saved
Andrew johnson from being deposed
from the office of president, has writ
ten an account of the part which he
took in the famous impeachment pro-
ceedingS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

By the terms of the will of the late
Louisa p. Hunt, widow of William
Morris Hunt, the artist, provision is
made for having a collection of many
of the painters finest works placed in
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts as a
memorial to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

Roscoe Conkling Bruce, son of ex-
Senator Blanche K. Bruce of Mississip-
pi, is a student at Phillips Exeter, and
made a striking impression in the
chapel the other day by his rendering
of Blaines Grafton on Garfield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

Leo XIII. recently received a sum-
mons from a notary in Syongyos, Hun
gary, informing him that he had been
left $40 by a priest named Anton Syur-
ky and telling him to come and claim
the bequest and bring with him the Of
fetal fee of forms and kreutzers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.

Ex-senator Pugh attempted to enter
the house of representatives last week
but the doorkeeper refused to let him
do so, inasmuch as the house recently
adopted a rule debarring ex-senators
from the privileges of the floor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

At least this can be said of fathers:
the majority of them are not as cross
as the wives represent them when hold
dren
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

From the AtchlSOn GlODe-1
No woman ever lacks self-confidence
when she is arguing about religion
You have no doubt remarked how eff
fective worthless man is in politics
We would hate to own a blooded dog:
it takes SO much to pay rewards for
finding it.
Nothing humiliates a man more than
for a woman to find it necessary to
take him down peg
Nearly all young men show conceit
in the belief that they would give sat
isfaction as husbands
There is great excitement in Atchi
son society; woman used pin tray
at an afternoon" as an olive dish.
The women say that whenever man
buys socks of a dry goods clerk, he al
ways gets them two sizes too small
There are a hundred times in mans
life when he longs to be in position to
go out and slam the door, and never
come back.
1t would not be difficult to become
hero to the women: invent dishes of
wood that can be burned after every
meal, and never have to be washed.
We have noticed that the Episcopal
women seem to have less trouble in
dra gging their husbands off to church
than the women of any other denomina-
ton.
Search almost any farmer who comes
to town, and you will find a string in
one of his pockets that represents the
length of a pair of shoes he is to buy
for one of his children.
If a man could enjoy laughing al him
self, he would have plenty of amuse-
ment.
Keeping the martyr look out of the
face should be ranked as high as the
virtue of controlling ones tongue.
A funny thing has happened in Atch-
isOn: the men are all fond of a certain
preacher, and the women do not like
him.
At least this can be said of fathers:
the majority of them are not as cross
as the wives represent them when hold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

A funny thing has happened in Atch-
isOn: the men are all fond of a certain
preacher, and the women do not like
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

Keeping the martyr look out of the
face should be ranked as high as the
virtue of controlling ones tongue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

You have no doubt remarked how eff
fective a worthless man is in politics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-27

George Peabody's donation of 81. 5OO.-
600 for London worlxingmen's houses
has increased to So 000, 900 in the "A years
since his death. Last year the trustees
of the fund provided IL 1867 rooms, be
sides bathrooms, lavatories and laun-
dries; 1854 persons occupied them. The
death rate of infants in the buildings is
4 per cent below the average for Lon
don