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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
THE MAMMoTH GAVE NOW

F'rom the New York Mail and Expressly
For the first half mile the ceiling of the
cavern is literally covered with bats. hang
ing by their feet in dormant condition.
After feeding for five months outside they
come by millions into the cave and hiber-
nate for seven months.
We were informed that no one was al
lowed to carry anything from the cave.
but it seemed an unnecessary warning. for
there was nothing to be seen but loose
lime stones. Early VandalS had carried
away nearly all the beautiful formations
i tnat had once adorned the cave and the
little that escaped them is now for sale at
stiff prices at the hotel. So today the
cave is bare and smoked from the thou
sands or open-air lamps that have been
taken through by visitors. In some places
you might just well be in coal mine
for there the darkness is just as intense
and the stiffness eloquent.
we came across some stone houses and
were informed that about forty years ago
to the unchanging temperature the cave
would be a cure for their Ills. They lived
there for five months, when one of the
party died. The others became discour-
aged and concluded to leave. All of them
died, but those who were considered the
lowest at the beginning of their under
ground existence lived the longest.
At 1915 o clock in the morning we emery
ed from the cave, having Travelled, going
ground. which completes the short route
At 3 o clock we We're supposed to be ready
or the long route, which requires until 6
eral of the party simply made the trip TO
the river and back. Then they settled up
preparatory to leaving for the north
Here is a copy of the iternized bill which
each one received:
d 81. W
91o[e rOute W
LONG route 5-0O
ONeraIIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 90
Total .:......................... so
1otaA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l1OO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
VENUS a DEAD WORLD.

[Percival Lowell in March Atlantic
We can understand, therefore, how it
came about in the case of Venus that
the axial machinery ran down so soon.
We can see why long ago it went slower
and slower, until her axial and her
Orbital motion, cOinciding, she was left
mOtionless, changeless, dead.
In Venus, then, we gaze upon world
which as a world has run its course.
Beautiful as she appears to US, as she
glows and sparkles on the twilight sky,
it is distance alone that gives her her
seeming loneliness and endows her with
external youth. In truth she is far
otherwise. All the comeliness she
may have had in the morning of her
prime, when the solar system itself was
young, has gone from her never to re-
turn. AS the Japanese prettily put it
of a woman, the cherry blossom has
passed into the leaf For she is no
longer young; she is Old wrinkled.
dead. Or shall we not better say she
sleeps, though it be with the sleep from
which there is no awakening? For it
is fitting that she should still seem so
fair to US, when she glows athwart the
cleaning in the slowly fading sky; fit
ting that the planet of love should
seem lovely to the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09

st. Louis is the result. This community
is described as a benevolent society
whose members hold all their property
in common, work according to their
ability, are supplied according to their
wants, and five together in a united
home, for their mutual employment,
assistance and support.
1t now has it's own printing office
and as fast as more members and
means are obtained it will gradually es-
tablish and carry on a store, restau-
rant, laundry and such mechanical,
manufacturing, farming and other bust
ness operations, in and near the city,
as can be engaged in to advantage,
and the customary prices and rates will
be charged in all it's dealings, SO as to
provide employment for it's members
and others who may wish to join.
The members will dwell together in
a united home. in which all will be pro-
vided equally with all the comforts that
can be afforded, including food, cloth
ing, lodging, laundry, bath room, Ii
brary and reading room, assistance and
support in sickness and misfortune.
and such instruction, entertainment
and recreation as may be agreed upon.
When there is plenty of anything, each
anything that is scarce will be divided
equally or in proportion to the wants of
each. An allowance of money will
be made occasionally of as much as can
be afforded, to all the members equally,
for outside personal expenses, and an
extra amount to anyone in need.
No reasonable objection can be raised
to an arrangement of this sort, and if
the members are satisfied with it there
is no good reason why it should not
succeed. But if this movement should
succeed and spread, it's effects on or
ganized capital and combinations for
controlling trade must be serious in
time.
The time seems to be approaching
when a man cannot hold his own in
the world without belonging to some
thing. It is largely so now. AS a
rule men who are members of secret
societies obtain employment much more
readily than men who are not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
WHEN WOMAN ARE UN-
PLEASANT.

(F'rom the Ladies' Home Journal)
During the tour through Canada I had
attributed the strange conduct of the ladies
to an excess of loyalty. AS soon as the
prince had left a hotel they would rush
into his rooms, seize all sorts of articles,
from a furniture button to a soiled towel,
as souvenirs, and even bottle up the wa
ter with which he had just washed his
face. But in the United States the wo-
men were equally curious and sycophan-
tic. The luggage of the royal party was
carried in small leather trunks-a trunk
for every suit of clOthes-and whenever
the train stopped the crowds would beg
that some of these trunks might be hand
ed out, and women would fondle and kiss
them. 1 need not say that the trainmen
were never too particular to whose
luggage was subjected to this alteration,
and have had the pleasure of seeing my
own portmanteau kissed by mistake Be
fore the prince arrived at Richmond his
room at the Ballard house was entered by
the ladies, and the pillowslips and white
coverlet was so soiled by the pressure Of
hundreds of fingers that they had to be
twice changed by the chambermaids.
When he attended church on Sunday the
whole congregation rose as he departed,
and climbed upon the seats to get a bet
ter view of him,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
rHEosoPH1sr POLICEMEN

When the theosophists get into pow
er, then all the policemen will have to
be theosOphists. To be sure, a police
2 man can't comprehend what theosOphy
: means any more than he can the in
ctricacies of the silver question, but
nevertheless his zeal in working for the
cause of theosophy will count for more
than his knowledge of ham stealers,
barn burners, and burglars with which
he has to do.
AS it is now, policemen are picked out
because they are Populists not because
they have had any experience in police
duties. So, if the theosophists ever wax
in power sufficiently to carry elections,
it will be the man who knows all about
projecting his astral body into space or
something like that who will have the
first whack at a policeman's job. Most
policemen know how to project their
corporal bodies into space, whenever
there is any danger in sight, but they
y will have to get up in theosophy before
they will have any chance al all, under
the regime we foreShadoW for the fu-
ture.
The rule of the present Topeka police
board is that if the candidate has not
a believer in the initiative and referen-
dunn, he is not fitted to arrest persons
who leave their horses united or to fer
ret out crime among the lowly. Crime
among the highly isn't ferreted out.
The theosophist policemen will be the
most interesting. When that good time
comes, there will be none but persons
with long "rat-taflly'' hair and spectac-
les on the police force. for theosophists
affect such things Nobody cares, you
know, whether a policeman can catch
a. thief or knows one when he sees him;
all we want to know, is he orthodox.
Does he believe right on matters of
. national concern. That is the grand
desideratum. But it is no use to poke
fun at the PopuliSts; the Republicans
do the same thing when they get in.
The only way to remedy the matter
is for the intelligent and tax-paying
citizens (not the ward politicians and
nobodies who control these things) to
determine that if they are to pay the
police force, they will select suitable
men such as they would hire to pro-
tect their property if they had to pay
them out of their individual pockets.
But as long is Republicans insist (when
they have the power) that the police
force shall be Republican, and Populists
insist that it shall be Populist and
Democrats insist that it shall be Dem
Ocratic, so long shall we have the ruin
Gus, rotten, worthless system we now
have.
1t serves us right for being so parti-
san in these matters. We must tear
ourselves loose from party in municipal
affairs, before a city government worth
having will ever be established in these
United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
SHREK OF SPOILSMEN.
Civil Service an "Outrage" to the Mob
That Wants Office.

If the ideas of the Republican ma
jority in congress are similar to those
of congressman GroSvenOr of Ohio who
is a close friend of President Mckinley,
there will be some radical changes in
the civil service rules.
Capt D. F. Wyatt of Topeka recent
1y wrote to Congressman GrosvenOr
'congratulating him on his position on
the civil service question and received
the following reply:
Washington, D. C., March L
1.-THE gross evil of this system as ad-
scribed. I have never known public of
flee to be handled for public benefit,
private aggrad abatement and political
corruption as has been the civil service
law under this administration. 1t will
be cured in just one way. When the
Republicans of the country refuse to
vote for any man for congress who will
not pledge himself to vote for a COM
plete mOdifica ton, far reaching and
comprehensive, of this statute. Then
and not till then will this outrage be
removed. AS it is now this admins
lie offices and have filled them with
men who were not examined and who
were subjected to no competitive exam
inatiOn wha tever. 1 favor putting no
man into Office who does not come up
to a high standard of efficiency and fit
ness. and am not willing that a bureau,
constituencies and irresponsible shall
bar the way of the young men of the
country when they attempt to partici-
pate in the affairs of government. We
appeal to the young men to help US
carry our districts and our states and
it is more than fair that they should
have our confidence and be allowed to
participate in the carrying out of the
principles for which they Iavbored at
the polls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
BOYS IN WALL STREET.

IFrom Harper'S Round Table,
A Wall street boy is expected to be
at the office at o'clock in the morn
ing and remain there as long as his
services are needed, though he usually
gets away about o'clock. He has an
allowance of half an hour at noon for
luncheon, but the rest of the time be-
longs to his employer. He is expected
to be neat in appearance, clean as to
hands and face, well hammered, truth
full at all times, prompt in obedience,
and faithful in guarding the secrets of
his employers.
The duties first assigned to him are
to carry messages, deliver stocks at
other brokerage offices, and obtain
checks for them: After awhile he is
advanced to making comparisons of
sales of stocks and taking the checks
received from other brokers to be GER
titled at the banks.
OF late years the stock exchange
clearing house has done away with so
much of the stock delivery by boys
that the number of them on the street
is not more than half what it used to
be. Formerly it was not uncommon
to see from % to 100 boys waiting in
line at each of the prominent banks to
get checks certified, and nearly every
bank employed a private policeman to
keep the boys in line and in order.
A story is told of a new boy on the
street who once went to make a deliV-
cry of stock. When the bookkeeper
made up the accounts at the close of
the day he found himself $50. 900 short,
and an examination of the books
showed that one of the boys had failed
to bring back a check in return for
some stock he had delivered
He was perfectly innocent about the
matter. and said that he had handed
the papers in at the office where he was
sent to make the delivery, and as they
gave him nothing he supposed there
was nothing for him to get. His en-
pIoyer treated him kindly, and told him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
THE SOUTHERN NEGRO

LFrom the North American Review
The world should have been given
clearly to understand that the white
people of the south, as we'll as their
brothers of the north or the east or the
west, always intended to rule, and if
there were just cause now to believe
the negro would still vote unitedly and
thus menace the south with negro DOM
ination, it is safe to assert that these
states would remain solid south to
the end of time. History clearly dem
onstrates this truth, that so long as
AnglO-SaXOn blood feeds AngIo-S Saxon
hearts, so long will Anglo-Saxon intel
Iect and AnglO-SaxOn will dominate in
feriOr races. We believe however
that the danger of negro rule now real
ly exists only in the distempered i'm
aginatiOns of political demagogues. No
one can produce any array of facts to
convince the unbiased observer that the
negro vote will be any more united
in future elections than the white vote
The race has made wonderful strides
in recent years and they have seized
upon every opportunity to better their
condition They have been given the
best schools, colleges and universities
and have not neglected their advant-
ages. Their moral and intellectual
improvement has been little less than
marvellous. 1t is unprecedented in the
history of any people. They are fast
becoming qualified to act, to think and
to vote for themselves. The time has
passed for them to ever again consent
to become the mere tools of unScrupu-
lous and designing office seekers. They
carefully and conscientiously study the
issues which are involved in every po-
ltical canvass, and in many instances
thoroughly understand them. Their
leaders read political economy, and
neither the tariff nor the currency
question is a stranger to them.
The property interests which are pos
sessed by this race in the south al
ready exceed twelve million dollars.
They have mastered many trades, be-
come proficient in the Industrial arts,
and sometimes prominent in the pro-
fessiOns. They need not now be told
their welfare is inseparable from the
welfare of the south, and the time will
soon come, if it has not already arrived,
when they will support with their Suf-
frage only those measures which their
matured judgment convinceS them will
most certainly promote the prosperity
of the section in which an all-wise
have come to realize that the people
who gave them employment, who an
nually pay twenty millions of dollars
taxes that their children may be edu-
Gated, who make it possible for them
to live in comfort and ease, and often in
luxury and refinement, who labor side
by side with them in the field or in the
factory, are their best friends. While
returning confidence and affection, they
will be Influenced as the weak are al
ways influenced by the strong, and
! they will be found supporting the party
which their employers support, because
they will learn that the interests of the
employer and the employee are one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
DAvIDHENDERSON BENEFIT
The Performance to Be Given at Nc
Vicker's Theater

Chicago, March 9.-David Henderson,
who for years has done so much to en-
terrain the theater-going public of Chi
cagO, is to be given a grand testimonial
by his friends and those aSsOcia ted with
him during the last u years. 1t will be
in the shape of a performance at Nc
Vicker'S Theater, Thursday afternoon,
March 25.
Postmaster Washington Hesing, pres
ident of the Press club, is chairman of
the testimonial committee, Hepburn
Johns is secretary and ]. Harry Ballard
is treasurer.
A number of managers of the leading
theaterS of this city and the mana gers
of companies playing here at the time
of the performance have kindly con-
scented to lend their aid to this cause
and an entertainment of high order is
assured by reason of the generous ser
vices volunteered by well-known MEM
bers of the dramatic profession.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
sePON"HORSEvWAS PUTRID
Several Indiana People Eat of the
Food and May Not Recover

Indianapolis, Ind. March 9.-Alvah
Short, wife and two children, William
Butts, Samuel Templeton the daugh-
ter of John Howard, of Fountain coun-
ty, While at dinner ate freely of a pre-
paration called ''pon horse a mixture
of hogs liver, hearts, heads and corn
meal all cooked into a muSh and when
cold sliced and fried.
Two hours afterw2rd all of them were
deathly sick and a physician found SYM
ptonls of arsenica1 poisoning. For sew
eral hours the patients lowered between
life and death, but they finally revived.
However, their condition is not assur-
ing as Short and his children and Mr..
Butts and Miss Howard are still pros
trated.
Examination of the "pon horse" show
ed that it was in state of putrefaction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
WOMEN TO THE RESCUE.
Hynotized Boy is Taken From Sa-
loon WindoW at Cleveland.

Cleveland. Ohio. March 9.-The tenn
perance women of this city have been
greatly wrought up over the fact that
in the window of the saloon of Sam De
Graw, on Superior street, directly across
from the city hall, there has for the last
two days appeared a hypnotized youth
under the influence of Professor Carson,
hynotist.
Twenty-Five of the women made raid
on De Graw'S place this morning and
demanded that the boy be taken out of
the window. Carson explained that the
exhibition was in the interest of science
but the women retorted that it was in
the interest of Satan to decOy the young
to the rumshop. From the saloon the
women went to the city hall, and in
Mayor KissOn's absence from the city
demanded of Director of Law Norton,
as acting mayor, that he compel the re-
moVal of the hypnotic subject. They
also complained to superintendent of
Police Corner who detailed Captain
Madigan to investigate.
The result was that the women trium-
phed and Madigan made the saloon
keeper take the boy out of the window.
Carson was highly indignant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
&C. H. GROsvENOR.
CHURCH DESERTS IT'S OWN
Whole Congregation of Presbyterians
Change to the Congregational
Religion.

Webster City, Ia, March 9.-The I'M
ique spectacle of the members of
church deserving their creed and ac-
cepting another has just been witness
ed in Iowa in the neighboring county
of Hardin.
At Steamboat Rock, town of about
400 inha bitants, Rev. H. B. Fonkin has
been the pastor of the Presbyterian
church. which embraces 100 souls for
over a year. He also occupies a charge
at E.ldOra. For some time there has
been dissatisfaction shown on the part
of a majority of the members of the
church, and when Rev. T. I. Baily. D.
D.. of Cedar Rapids occupied the pulpit
for one evening he captivated them He
is COngre gatiOnalist and was preach
ing to a Presbyterian audience.
At the close of the evening sevices
one of the deacons of the church arose
in his seat and said he hoped the con-
gregation would remain for a few mo-
ments. as there was a matter the Off
GERS of the church wished to have con-
sidered. 1t was the disbanding of the
Presbyterian church and the formation
of a Congregational church. 1t was put
to a vote and carried and then was
made unanimous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
MRS.VANDERBILT TOO POOR
Would Visit the Corcoran Art Gallery
on Paying Day.

Washington March 9.-The extrava-
gance Of the Cornelius Vanderbilts in
paying 81, 500 for three months rent for
their pew in ST. Johns church appears
TO have it's offset in other ways. A few
days ago, with a great clanking of har-
ness chains and fash of gorgeous livery,
the Vanderbilt carriage drove up before
the doors of the new Corcoran Art gal
lery, which was formally opened with
fine reception on the evening of Febru-
airy %. The footman clambered down
from the box and in an impressive way
made his way up the flight of marble
steps to inquire if it was pay day. or
free admission at the gallery
When informed by one of the attend
ants of the gallery that it was pay day,
he departed to give the information TO
Mrs. Vanderbilt, who sat in the carriage
waiting. Then, instead of the door of
the carriage being thrown open and the
Vanderbilts being RECALLED with the view
of statuary and paintings, the fOOtman
was given orders to remount the box
and drive off
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
CARRIED NO BEER esADS."
Student Management Fears the
Wrath of the Faculty the Reason.

Chicago, March 9.-Beer was not ad-
vertised in the last number of the I'm
iversity of Chicago Weekly. 1t proba-
bly, would have been had it not been for
fear of the faculty on the part of the
student management.
About a week ago a representative of
an extensive brewery establishment
sought the business manager of the
publication and offered inducements
that a big display advertisement be in
serted in the last issue. The lad" was
a review of the merits of a famous
brand of larger beer. At once the man
ager was placed in Quandary- It
would be money in his pocket to accept
the terms, there would be a possibility
off faculty manifestation of diSpleaSure
if he did. He finally cam tie othe con-
clusion it could not be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
The Discovery Saved rs Life.

Mr.. c. Cailloutte, druggist, Beavers
Vile. ILL., says: ITO Dr.. Kings New
Discovery 1 owe my life. Was taken
with La Grippe and tried all the ply
sicians for miles about. but of no avail,
and was given up and told could not
live Having DR.. Kings New Discov-
ery in my store sent for i bottle and
began it's use and from the first dose
began to get better, and after using
three bottles was up and about again.
II is worth it's weight in gold. We won't
keep store or house without it" Get a
free trial at ]. K. Jones drug store, 5th
and Kansas avenue. Regular size soc.
and SI.OO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
VANDERBILT WINS A SUIT.
He Gets Judgment For $4,000
Against the Government

Washington, March S.-The case of
the United States VS. the steam yacht
Conqueror was decided in the United
States supreme court today, the decision
being against the government. The
Conqueror is a pleasure boat built in
England for Mr.. Frederick w. Van
derbilt. which upon being brought to
this country in 1890 was seized as a du-
table article by the collector of Gus
toms at New York
Mr.. Vanderbilt brought suit to re-
cover the vessel and also for damages
in the sum of $40 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
In the Lead

If YOU are going to Kansas City, Chi
cago, ST. Louis or other eastern cities,
the Union Pacific offers the best serv-
ice and the fastest time. Don't pur-
chase your tickets until you have con-
suited our time card, or make inquiry
regarding rates and through car serv-
ice. r. A. LEWIS,
City Ticket Agt.
~ ErTTT TON
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-09
From Crinnle Greek

After the big fire in Cripple Creek I
took a severe cold and tried many rem
edies without help, the cold only becom-
ing more settled. After using three
small bottles of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, both the cough and cold left
me. and in this high altitude it takes a
meritOrious cough remedy to do any
good.@G. B. Henderson, editor Daily
Advertiser. For sale by druggists.