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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
CALvE BUYS a CASTLE.

(F'rom the Chicago NeWS.)
Calve, the prima donna, has purchased
an old castle with some thousands of
surrounding acres. in the heart of the
Cevennes. 1t is called Castle CabriereS.
after its original owners, and is Derched
alarmingly on rock 700 800 feet above
the valley of the Tarn.
The singer raises vegetables and sheep,
has dairy, and grows grapes and al
monds, intending to support herself by
these means after her voice is past its
prime. On Calves estate, are three
Carmen ''Cavalleria' and "Navar-
the means of providing her with funds
At the beginning of Calves artistic ca
reer her friend Mile. de WALSH induced
her to take a VOW that. should she be
successful, she would devote a certain
part of her earnings to some charitable
purpose. Accordingly the singer is build
ing on her estate an orphanage for forty
little girls, whom she gathers from the
slums and gives to the care of a Catholic
SiSterhood. They are taught gardening
and other useful emplOymentS.
Calve has two devoted friends-Miss
Post. wealthy American, who lives in
Paris, and Nile. de Walski. the daughter
of famous Polish patriot. Mile De
WALSH is prominent in humanitarian
movements and has founded an orphan
age in Brittany in the village of Ploubaz-
lance, made famous by Pierre Lofts book
An Iceland Fisherman which was
translated by Mrs. Reginald de Koven.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
JACK HAvERLY RICH AGAIN.
From the Chicago Tfmes-Herald.l

F'rom the Chicago Times-Herald.)
Jack HaVerIy is rich again The former
tne&trIcaI manager Of philadelphia and
other places and minstrel Snowman scat
tered his money in Colorado mines TWEEN
y years ago. and it is returning to him
after long waiting and hoping.
Nearly $500 900 dropped by Mr.
AaVerly in the mines which have now
become profitable 1t is said he has al
erty al a time when he hardly had a
cent in the world And the story has
been further told in Chicago that Jack
HaNeriy would soon be millionaire.
As the story from Colorado is told to-
day Jack Haverlys ship has come home
at last and he is said to be worth $3.50
0eO, with a prospect of a cool million. be-
fore many moons have passed
Jack HaVer1y bought outright a pla-
teau known as Bull Hill, nine miles west
OF Cripple Greek, when in the height OF
his prosperity. He dropped some of his
money in the mines there, lost more at
cards and the remainder in theatrical en-
invest in his mines.
Three months ago he appeared in Grip
pie Greek to look after his property. Faith
mad revived in gold mines. and Jack I1aV-
erly tried to interest capitalists in what
he thought would prove valuable mines.
Always a magnetic talker, he finally did
get some of the capitalists to look over
the holes in the ground They are
said TO have become as enthusiastic
himself, and at once had Bull Hill sur
Neyed and divided into building lots The
new town was dubbed Haverly. and the
minstrel became known Jack HaVerly,
of Haverly. Col.
A few days later the Cripple Creek pa
perS devoted much of their space to the
description of a big find at HaVerly. I'M
TO the town, and i'll four days more than
LOU miners and SalOOnkeeperS had plant
ed their stakes on the plateau. HaVerly
had two associates. and it is said the
and are still collecting. The plateau was
found to be rich in gold-bearing quartz.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
A CITY KITCHEN.
TFrom the New York Press.1

TF'rom the New York Press
Housewives who think the co-opera-
tive kitchen is so far in the future that
if would be absurd to look forward to
il for relief from daily drudgery will be
interested to hear that a kitchen with
the same end in view as the co-opera-
five has been in successful operation for
nearly so years. The Association Ali
menture of Grenoble, France, is pure
IL municipal affair. The city owns 1T
and supplies meals at cost in it's own
resta tlrant or delivers them at private
homes.
Prof Osborne Ward, of the depart
ment of labor statistics, spent his recent
vacation abroad, studying a number of
socialistic experiments that are being
carried on in various parts of Europe
He was interested more by what he saw
at Grenoble than by anything else The
authorities gave him all the aid in their
power when they learned that he was
from the American labor bureau.
Everything at the Association Ali
mentaire is as good is money can buy.
The cooks are as clever as any in
France which is saying a good deal.
The provisions are bought in the best
markets and are carefully selected. The
service is excellent. The dining rooms
are of several grades, according to the
furnishings Ind the attendance, so that
all tastes may be accommodated. One
may dine there for cents on bread and
soup, and be satisfied, or one may pay
IL cents and have full course dinner
In the best rooms, which are marble
f1oored and decorated with much ele-
gance, there are walters who look for
tips as naturally as though they We're
in the SWEETEST of Partisan cafes.
Pure wines, which have been proper
Iy aged, are served at about cents a
liter.
There is no financial profit to the city
in running this huge restaurant, which
serves some $4,000 meals a day. The
charges are based on the cost of the
materials used, the employment of help
,sr,-r = H.,
utensils, machinery and building in re-
pair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
sEM1-BARBARIc NEW YORK

The New York World thus refers to
one of the antiquated and semi-barbaric
laws of that effete community:
William Fem is not accused of any
crime. His sole offense is that he owes
money which he cannot pay Yet I'M
der the barbaric law of Imprisonment
for debt which still survives in an other
wise advancing civilization in New York
he was arrested last spring and thrown
into jail.
He got a bondsman and was released
on bail He went to PENNSYLVANIA to
earn living and failed to answer the
suit of his creditor, except in so far
as his bail bond answered il. There
upon his bOndSman sent to PennSyl-
vanfa, had Fem arrested and lodged in
Jail and brought him to this city hand
cuffed like dangerous felOn with muir
derous prDclivities.
All this because Fem owed money
that he could not pay!
When habeas corpus proceedings were
brought Judge Beekman decided that
the outrage is regular and legal under
New York law He is probably right
in his Interpretation of the law, as he
is certainly right in recommending it as
"savoring of barbarism.' We do not at
Beekman's decision. But we do say
and insist that the law as he finds it on
the statute books of New York is a bis
tering disgrace to the people of a state
that pretends to enlightenment.
Imprisonment for debt is relic of
the eighteenth centurys brutality of
mind 1t has been abolished, root and
branch. like other forms of slavery, in
every civilized nation and in every
1t is time to trample out the hideous
rx-T-OOer here
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26

church. He had no sooner announced
his candidacy than the apostles were as
sembled and steps were taken to expel
him from the church. Not satisfied
with this, the apostolic quorum deter
mined to pursue their backsliding broth
er to the bitter end and to thwart his
ambition in every possible way.
AS Thatcher has large following in
Utah and represents quite strong fac
ton of the church which he has been
forced to leave, the contest will doubt
less result in a church schism. If it
were not for the interference of the
church, there would be not the slightest
doubt of Thatcher s election to the SEN
ate, for of the 63 members of the Utah
legislature so are Democrats. Forty
eight of the members, however, are
Mormons in good standing, 8 are gen.
tiles and IL are backsliding saints. So
it is apparent that if the Legislators are
to obey the church Mr.. Thatcher will
stand no chance at all, but it remains to
be seen whether they will calmly sub
NIT to the arbitrary dictation of the
church or rebel and cast their votes for
Thatcher
This isnot the first time Mr.. Thatcher
has been a candidate for the senate On
the former occasion B. II. Roberts, an
other high church official. had been a
candidate for congress. As neither of
these men had asked the apostolic quo
rum for its consent, they were both
summoned for discipline. Mr.. Thatcher
was -sumnarily elected because he re-
fused to sign the manifesto prohibiting
independent political action. Mr.. Rob
erts, who had been defeated, was more
pliable. After feeble resistance he re-
canted and was taken back into the
church, being sent to take charge of the
Mormon mission in Cincinnati as sort
of penanee. He was recently recalled to
Utah, and it is expected that he may
later be announced as the church candi-
date for the seat which Mr.. Thatcher
hopes to get. He is also to be installed
as one of the apostles in the place of the
recalcitrant Thatcher. This gift it is
possible for the apostles to bestow, bat
whether they can also send him to the
United States senate remains to be SEEM
Besides Thatcher the principal candi-
dates are Judge o. w. Powers and Judge
H. P. Henderson, both gentiles. Judge
Powers is a brilliant. campaigner and
was chairman Of the state Democratic
committee in the recent campaign.
Judge Henderson is a law partner of
Senator Arthur Brown, the Republican
whose term is about to expire. There is
also ex-Delegate Rawlins, a former
Mormon who left the church some time
ago. The fight is waxing warm, and
there may be some interesting develop
ments between now and the election. 5
JOHN F. WuLoUGHBY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
HIGH ART AT SING SING.

\
In a sort of desperation because he is
not allowed to employ the convicts under
him in any other way, the warden of
Sing Sing prison has turned from the
lowest to the highest forms of industry.
AS he is not permitted to teach his con-
victs to weave horse blankets he VIII
teach them to draw designs for house in
teriorS. and since they cannot make shoes
and saddles he will try them at carving
and modelling.
It is believed by some that any person
who has common sense can be taught to
draw or to carve. matter how thick
his fingers are, if he can be induced to do
what he is told as often and as long
he is told to do 1T. But it is also said by
expert observers that not more than one
person in five hundred who have passed
the age of fifteen will do this except I'M
der the most powerful persuasion.
The warden at Sing Sing, having means
of eXerting the most powerful persuasion
is about to try an experiment that has
never been tried before. II it succeeds he
may find the best way of developing the
brutalized intellects of the criminal class.
But whether it succeeds not it is far
better than the cruel and demoralizing
idleness to which it has been sought to
condemn them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
VICTIMS OF REFORM.

The Arena, the leading reform peri
odical of the country, has gone the
way of very many of it's fellows. 1t
has ben sold under foreclosure proceed
ings. The Arena was up to the stand
ard of the leading magazines of the
day in size, in the quality of its mat
ter, and in typographical appearance,
but it could not live
The trouble about the reform business
appears to be that those who want it
most and advocate it most strongly are
either unwilling or unable to pay for it.
The large majority of those who are
able to pay for reform don't want it
and are perfectly contented to allow
things in the main to remain just as
they are.
When the time comes that periodi-
Gals of the character of the Arena can
thrive off public patronage-in other
words, when there is a demand for such
magazines sufficient to warrant their
publication-the established monthlies
will not be slow to see it. The vacuum
will be promptly filled.
A large portion of the general public
and an occasional publisher fail to I'M
derstand that successful periodicals are
not conducted on sentiment, but on
business principles. The great under
lying principle of the business is to Gre
ate a magazine or a newspaper, as the
case may be, which enough people will
buy to make it pay. The fact that so
few great and successful magazines
rarely support reform movements of a
radical character is frequently attrib
uted to the alleged fact that they are
subsidized, when in truth they are
merely following we'll established bust
ness principles. They know what the
people want who buy, and they give it
to them. They are ever watchfuI and
ready to supply any new demand.
The proprietors of the Arena made
the mistake of thinking there was a pay-
ing and lasting demand for that kind
of a magazine. BY the same rule most
of the papers which sprang UP in con-
nection with the Farmers Alliance
movement have gone out of business or
have changed their tone because the
demand for them has ceased to exist
For the same reason, at the end of the
last campaign, many papers started in
the interest of the free silver propa-
ganda succumbed to the inevitable.
The demand for free silver literature
has ended, to a great extent.
Periodicals devoted to giving the peo-
pie the news and information of gem
eral character go on from year to year
regardless of changes in public senti-
ment, while the class first mentioned
must in almost every case fail sooner
or later. Many publications and many
men have been wrecked pecuniarily on
the rocks and shoals of reform, and
there will doubtless be many more in
the future.
1t seems there must always be mar
tyrs and the material of which to make
them is ever ready at hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
PAULINE HALLS DROP.

[From the Chicago Times Herald.
Pauline Hall, once the queen of comic
opera, but who recently made her debut
as a vaudeville star, and will appear at
Hopkins next week, does not consider
that she has lowered herself in an arts
tic sense by entering this branch of the
entertainment business. According to
an eastern paper she has expressed in
the strongest terms admiration for the
independent and refined class of people
with whom she has been thrown in con-
tact on the vaudeville stage, and she
says that $3.50 week for an extended
enga cement, with no responsibilities of
a big organization, the terrible strain
and wear and tear on prinla donna, is
far preferable, and she will remain in
the sphere until some operatic role is
constructed to fit her. She does not
trespass on the "serio-comic" ground
of others, but confines herself to sing
ing the higher class selections with
which her name has become identified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
WHY PEOPLE LIKE DICKENS.

IFrom the N. Y. Mail and Express.
This is called the age of realism. Still,
the works of fiction that are read and
admired the most are those in which
the plot and characters are ideal. This
is why the people love the novels of
Dickens. Peace be to the dust of the
man who has frightened so many
hearths, and lightened so many hearts,
and whose genial humor and gentle
sympathy have made the poor man
laugh and grow tender toward his fell
lows; even toward them whose exac-
tions made him poor. The people love
him because he is real, say the critics.
It is not soft is because his personages
and purposes are ideal, and therefore
true. What is Little Nell, in her self
sacrificing love to her grandfather, but
an ideal character? No such girl, in
the PROJECTIONS of her heart and life, is
found in the real. Yet a thousand girls,
who have read the Curiosity Shop, are
daily trying to initiate her. The popu-
lar mind recognizes all standards of
character and conduct as ideal ones.
Shakespeare's characters are not real,
Scott's are historical in incident, but
ideal in essence. All of them are true,
and truer than common life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
SPARE THE CHILDREN.

TFrom the Philadelphia Americana
Many mothers entertain the notion
that it is a good thing for their chill
dren to have measles, whooping cough
and some tlSher childish diseases while
they are children. They have an idea
that the system is then better qualified
to throw off what they regard as chill
dren's ailments. Some mothers go so
far in this belief as to expose their
children to contagion for the purpose of
getting it over while they are young"
A recent bulletin of the Iowa state
board of health frowns down this prac
tice unreservedly. mo good reason it
says can, ''can be rendered for desiring
any child to be sick with any disease,
and what may be deemed right and
safe in one case may be wrong and
fatal in another Because one child is
rugged enough TO throw off the disease
ssily is no reason why he should be
turned loose and attend school or min
gle with other children and be thus the
means of communicating the disease to
those less vigorous, and thus inflict
pain. expense and possible death An
ounce of prevention is worth pound of
cure. Measles is preventable dis
ease. Statistics show a large percent
age of deaths from it, and this is
abundant reason for the efforts being
made to prevent its spread and exter-
inmate it wherever it makes its ap-
pearance."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
DEFIES THE CHURCH.
Moses Thatcher Boldly Opposes
the Mormon Apes ties.

The Strange and Interesting Senator
ial Contest Now in Progress in Utah
The senatorial contest which is raging
in Utah is of such an unusual nature
that it is attracting widespread interest.
1t is not party struggle or even fight
between factions. The real question at
issue is whether the Mormon church is
to be allowed to name the next United
States senator or whether it is to be left
to the Utah legislature.
The most prominent candidate and
the leader OF the antichurch faction is
Moses Thatcher, the deposed and ex-
communicated apostle. While the Nor
mon church has issued an edict in which
its opposition to Mr.. Thatcher is openly
announced. there has as yet been named
no man who can be said to have the I'M
reserved support of the church. That
such a condition of affairs should exist
in Utah is somewhat surprising in view
OF the solemp promises given by the
church when Utah was begging for ad-
mission to the Mnion. In these promises
the Mormon church pledged itself not to
NEEDLE with politics and to leave it's
members politically free. During the
time when statehood was pending the
church kept well in the background, but
now that Utah is unalterably fixed in
the Union the Mormon apostles come
out boldly and declare that one of the
vital tenets of the church is that no
Mormon shall accept nomination for
any Office without first consulting the
church authorities
1t was because Thatcher violated this
rule that he was expelled from the
church last April. For 16 years he had
been one of the IL apostles who manage
Mormon affairs. He had grown wealthy
and powerful and was regarded by some
as possible candidate for the presiden-
cy of the Mormon church. 1t appears,
however, that Thatcher has never been
in harmony with the rest of the apostles
since the death of President Taylor, for
he is man of strong character and a
champion of personal liberty. He often
clashed with those who upheld the su-
premacy of the church, but there was
no open outbreak until the rule prohib-
iting independent political action was
promulgated.
1t is doubtful if Thatcher would have
become a candidate for the senate at all
had it not been for his wish to defy the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
BAKE YOUR BANANAS.



Bestow a boon on humanity and help to
popularize the baked banana as an article
of food for rich and poor, especially the
poor. No poor child need go to school
hungry. One cent will buy a good sized
banana. which. when baked in its skin
in an over for fifteen or twenty minutes,
until it is quite soft and bursts open,
alone makes full meal. Now, the, ban
anaS sold at street corners are really
plantains. Humboldt calculated the food
product of the plantain, compared with
the potatoe, as A to l. and compared with
wheat as 1873 to /. I say from personal ex-
perience that three bananas weighing I
pounds of bread when baked.
Bananas must never be eaten raw they
are full of animal germs. Raw bananas
bananas nearly always suffer from dis
sions. Physicians call such children ''ba-
mana babies.
Baked bananas are also the ideal food
brain workers. 1 learned their great
If Wall street brokers and others who are
mornings every week. include a couple of
baked bananas in their menu and leave
out the chop or steak, they would last
longer. ! am as hard a brain worker as
any person in New York. and ] have sub
sisted for years entirely upon baked ba-
nanas. When 1 see lean, blood-poor per-
sons I advise them to eat baked bananas
and they unfailingly build up and gain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
WORST STORM ME YEARS
Much Suffering and Some Loss of
Life in Pennsylvania.

Pittsburg, Jan. 26-Western Penn
sylvania is still in the grasp of the
worst blizzard in II years. The mer-
curry in the civil service thermometer
dropped to 5 degrees below zero but
more exposed Thermometers registered
anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees lower.
The cold caused great suffering among
the poor and one life was sacrificed. Mrs.
Mary Norris colOred woman of Home
stead. She was overcome on the street
and died in a few minutes.
Michael Connolly "a tramp who boarded
a Pan Handle train in Ohio, was taken
from cattle car almost dead but some
stimulants soon revived him. All
freight trains and many through pas
senger trains were delayed by the biz
zard yesterday and last night and frost
bitten hands, feet and ears were fire.
quent among trainmen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
NEVADA TO GET THE FIGHT
Legislature Will Pass Special Act
for Dan Stuart.

San Francisco, Jan. 26.-The Corbett-
Fitzsimmons glove contest will take
place in close proximity to one of three
Nevada towns, viz: Carson, Reno, or
Virginia City. A bill permitting such
affairs has been introduced in the as
sembly at Carson, and there is every
indication that it will become law
within the next day or two. Such be-
ing the case all speculation as to where
the big mill will take place may safely
be said to have come to an end.
Dan Stuarts partner, William K.
Wheelock has been in Carson for weeks
past under the pseudonym of William
Kenyon. Whether Wheelocks advice
was of any assistance in framing the
measure, matters little. The fact re-
mains that Nevada is in fair way of
getting the contest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26

The new STATE JOURNAL. home Is
one of the neatest and most unique
buildings In the state model
newspaper structure. Its fast web
press and its Iinotypes are on the
the ground floor, behind plate glass,
affording never ceasing attraction
to the passerby ON the sidewalk.
The public can see and time the
printed papers and know that over
ten thousand are issued daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26
THE STORM WAS BELATED.
It Reached the Mountain Regions of
Colorado 40 Hours Behind Time.

Denver, Jan. 26.-Below zero weather
continues in eastern Colorado, Their
memeters registering 10 degrees below
in this city this morning A little snow
fell last night Today the weather is
clear with no wind.
1t is curious fact that the cold
wave did not extend to the mountain
regions until last night, IS hours after
it reached the plains. At LeadVille yes
terday the temperature was in the 30s
and the street spinklers were at work.
But last night the temporal ure quickly
fell below zero.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26

The American Newspaper Directory
each year gives the TOPEKA DAILY
STATE JOURNAL a guaranteed cir
cuIation. The directory for 1896
guarantees that the circulation
was larger than that of any other
Topeka daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-26

The STATE JOURNAL has forty
three regular route carriers in To-
peka and suburbs. These carriers
alone are paid over SIC, 900 a year
for circulating the paper in this
community.