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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
FAMOUS COLORED CHURCH.
The Lincoln Memorial at Springfield
to Cost $4,000.

Springfield, Ill, March 1.-THE finest
church ever erected for the negro race
in the country is to be built here. 1t
will be called the Lincoln Memorial A.
M. E. church, in honor of the emanci-
pator and the heroic men and women
who freely gave the best endeavOrS OF
their lives to the cause of human iber-
ty The idea of the building originated
with Rev. J. S. Woods, pastor of ST.
Paul a. M E. church. The SUPER
structure will be of Bedford stone and
covered with a slate roof. The main
audience room, including the gallery,
will seat 700, the Sunday school room,
which can be opened into the audience
room, will accommodate 300 more, thus
giving a total seating capacity OF 1,OoO
people
The semi-circular room Immediately
in front of the edifice, as planned, is the
memorial room, Is feet wide and II
feet long. This will be used as a public
collection of slavery relics, books con-
corning the negro race, histories OF the
progress and downfall of slavery, his
tories of the war, books written by ne
grOeS, pictures, bustS and Statuary- Ihe
large triple window above the memoir
iaI room will contain 1ife-siZe portraits
of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick, Doug
las and John Brown, Lincoln occupy
ing the center. large rose window
facing another street will be placed in
honor of the union soldiers and sailors
There are to be % other prominent
windows.
The material for the pulpit will be
brought from Harper's Ferry, while the
pulpit chairs will be made from mater
ial from LincOln'S old home at Salem,
Ill. The entire cost of the church is
estimated al $50;O00 two-thirds of which
must be raised before the contract is
let for it's building. The building will
not be dedicated until every dollar is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
THE STAGE VILLAIN.

factor E. s. Willard in Times-Herald.1
Your villain who looks like a villain
is understood al once, and is quickly
tripped up. But your villain who looks
and acts like gentleman has the adj
vantage of being unsupported, and is
able to work much mischief. Shakes
peare understood this perfectly when
he wrote '-IagO." He wasn't at all like
a villain; he was the exact reverse In
fact, he was SO guileless and frank in
manner, so thoroughly honest, seeming
ly, that people went around saying of
him, What an honest chap that Iago
is! And so, you see, he worked Won
ders as a villain. My ideal villain is a
man who appears to bubble over with
the milk Of human kindness, whose
smile is so genial and warming that
people are glad to seek him out and
conhde in him; a man to whom chill
dren will be attached, and for whose
tenderness of heart and large sympa-
thy everybody will vouch. This sort of
man may do anything if he is brainy
enough and INSCRIPTIONS enough. You
see, 1 believe that auditors should be
treated as reasonable beings, and if you
don't present a characterize ton which
they feel would have deceived them,
how can you expect them to have any
thing, but contempt for the play folks,
who are by it deceiVed?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
REAL KLEPTOMANIA.

[From the Chicago Times-Herald.1
That plenty of genuine cases of KEEP
tomania undoubtedly exist is well
known to both legal and medical ex-
perts. There was for instance, the case
of a not long deceased nobleman, who
frequently pocketed spoons at a dinner
party, and whose pockets were invaria-
bly, searched by his man on his return
with a view of prompt restitution. In
another case a lady who was quite ra-
tonal upon other points, was discovered
to have Is bags concealed about her, in
which were over !, 100 articles which she
had stolen and concealed although
nearly every one of them was abso-
lutely worthless clergyman has
been known to steal Bibles under the
impression that he was thereby pro-
paroga ting the gospel; another gentle
man invariably stole the towels from
any hotel he stopped at while travelling.
and returned them when he got home,
and. oldest of all, there has been a case
of man who would never eat food
which he had not stolen. He was a
man of means, and his personal attend
ant used to hide his meals so that he
might think he himself had stolen them
in order to induce him TO eat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
CIVIL SERVICE HERE TO STAY.

1t is announced that the extensions
of the civil service made by Mr.. Cleve-
land commend themselves to the pres
ent administration and that they will
be maintained. If they shall run the
gauntlet of two administrations under
control of opposite parties they are
probably safe from further interior
ence.
This decision of President Mckinley
and his cabinet must afford great en-
couragement to the friends of good gov
eminent and efficient public service.
The president and the heads of depart
ments are none the less entitled to COM
mendation for the stand they have
taken. even though they do assign as
reason therefor that it will relieve them
in a great measure from the importuni-
ty of office seekers. 1t is we'll that
something has happened to shut off the
hungry horde of place hunters who not
only make life a burden to the new
president and cabinet, but obstruct the
public business as well.
It may be that the country is entering
upon an era when a change of admin
istration means more than a change
of the personnel of the Office holding
class. When it shall become generally
understood that there is to be no whole
sale distribution of places and that
changes will only be made at the reg
ular expiration of official terms or for
failure to come up to the requirements
of the service, perhaps sufficient time
can be found to carry out some of the
promises which parties are wont to
make during a campaign.
The foregoing, however, constitute
but a small percentage of the good re-
suits likely to follow the permanent es-
tablishment of the course which Mr..
Mckinley is said to have Endorsed. The
campaign orator who hippodromes the
country with a flexible set of principles
that can be adjusted to suit any party
that gives promise of an office will be
out of job. The power of the presi-
dent to coerce congressman and sena-
tors into obedience to his wishes will be
gone.
If when Mr.. Cleveland entered upon
his second term the situation had been
what he afterwards made it, and he
had shown the same regard for its con-
tinuance as has been evinced by his
successor, the Sherman law could not
have been repealed and the country
might have been saved from three of
the worst years, from a business stand
point, that it has ever experienced.
The presidents further decision to
make few of the appointments left to
him until after the adjournment of the
extra. session is indicative of a dispo-
sition to attend to the peoples business
first and let political claimants wait. 1t
will be approved by the public. There
is no complaint about the way the rou-
tine public business is being carried on.
The masses do not care who does the
work. They are only interested in pol
icies and those who direct them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
THAT BIG SEA FISH.
More About the Immense Octopus
Found on Florida Coast

Pittsburg, March 1.-THE Rev. DR..
John F. Goucher, president of the wo-
mans college, has returned from trip
to Florida, in company with Mrs.
GOucher and their two daughters.
"One of the events of our trip" said
DR.. GOucher, was visit to AnastaSia
Island. about Is miles from st. Angus
tine, where the remains of an unknown
deep sea monster, which is thought to
be an octopus, were washed ashore
some time ago. The carcass is not in
tact, the head being missing, and as
well, the arms of the monster. In much
the carcass resembles that of an Octo-
puS, although L believe the carca IS
does not show whether or not there
were eight arms, which complete the
anatomy of the octopus. A fisherman
since our visit to the scene of the erea-
lures discovery claims to have found
one of the arms, which is said to be 50
feet in length.
Some idea of the size of this great
monster may be gathered from the
fact that this mutilated remnant weighs
about seven tons, and required a half
dozen horses to drag ii away from the
sea to a safe altitude. If it is true that
one of its arms has been found, and
that il is of the reputed length, then
the creature must have weighed fully
10 tons and have been between 20 and
so feet long.
1.-The octopus is found in these semi
tropical waters. and the sperm whale
which feeds upon the monster, may
have killed this gigantic specimen.
Sailors tell stories of finding sperm
whales with suckers similar to the
tentacles of the octopus the size of
dinner plate buried in the sides of the
whales. Such tales are commonly re-
garded as sailors yarns, but the finding
of the great monster on Ana stasia Is
land gives the color of truth to their
relations in this respect.
Portions of the creature have been
sent to the Smithsonian institution at
Washington, D. c., where it's identity
will no doubt be discovered
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
THE GILA MONSTER.
LFrom the San Francisco CALL

LFrom the San Francisco CALL
Professor John Van Denburg deliv-
cred an interesting lecture at the Acad-
envy of Sciences last night upon the
subject Of the ella monster. A good
sized audience was present.
1T has become a common SUPPOSE
ton for years" said the lecturer, that
the bite of a ella monster was as pois-
onous as that of a rattlesnake, but
many of the scientists denied this. MI
morouS eminent scientific men stated
that from actual experience they had
demonstrated that the bite was harm
less. One of these, DR.. Schubert, had
himself been bitten by one of the rep
tiles, and, beside the pain occasioned
by the ordinary bite of an animal, no
al results followed"
The lecturer then stated that he had
demonstrated that the saliva of the
ella monster was poisonous Its bite
would in almost every case cause death
II the teeth of the lower jaw penetrated
the skin 1t was the upper jaw of the
reptile which sank into the flesh of DR.
schubert, and as the secretion of the
glands of the upper jaw was harmless
the doctor lived.
The speaker said that he had inject
ed the saliva of both the upper and
lower glands into pigeons, and in eve
~ case where that from the lower Jaw
was injected the victim had died in a
short time He showed why so MANY
animals which are bitten by the poi
SonouS reptile live. The ducts which
lead from the glands to the mouth omen
between the lower lip and the gum
For the saliva to enter a wound it must
De forced up from the lip to the teeth
and thence into the wound Thus it ia
hard for the poisonous fluid to reach
the blood even if the victim is bitten
hY the lower teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
THESE OFFICIALS THRIFTY
Populists Elevated to Office Move
Their Families Into the
Court House

Spokane, Wash, March IA sensa-
ton has been created here by the dis
covery today that number of recently
installed Populist county officials have
moved their families into the big court
house and are there domiciIed paying
no rent. All told 10 people sleep, cook
and eat in the building.
The overpowering smell from the
cooking together with the presence of
children about the corridors caused an
investigation to be made. 1t was then
found that five families of the officials
and employees were inha biting rooms in
the basement and on the heretofore I'M
occupied top floor. The wife of one of
the employees is taking boarders from
among the employees in the building. Of
the Fopulist county commissioners, two
members live some distance from the
city. They fitted up a vacant court
room as sleeping room for them
selves They profess to see nothing
wrong in so doing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
FORGOT THE ELECTION.
Citizens of an Iowa Town Overlook
the Fact and Have No Mavor.

Jefferson, Ia, March 11-Official mat
ters in the little town of Rippey, this
county, are in an exceedingly Chaotic
state. Ripley has a population of about
400 people and is duly incorporated, but
at present it is without a mayor and
has but a part of a council.
This condition of affairs is all the re-
suit of the fact that the matter of hold
ing a municipal election last week was
overlooked by everybody. Altho1Igh
elections were held in 1000 towns in
Iowa last week, and Rippey has held
elections the first week in March for
many years, on this particular year
1t never entered the head of a citizen
Of that town that an election should
take place until nearlyevening of election
day, when the county attorney was
hurriedly called up by telephone and
asked for advice in the premises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
CIVIL SERVICE STANDS.
President and Cabinet Decide to Leave
CleveIand's Extensions Undisturbed.

Washington, March 1.-THE cabinet
meeting yesterday resulted IN one de-
cision of great interest to the place
seekers. The subject of patronage and
the civil service was taken up ana DIS
cussed at length. All of the members
of the cabinet told how they were
pinched by the law and the extensions
of it. Some of them had brought
friends here, expecting to put them IN
to confidential positions.
The president even gave his expert
ence. He said that he had discovered
upon inquiry that beyond his secretary
and confidential clerk he had no ap-
pointments to make in the White
said that the civil service law was a
and vacancies could be filled only on
examinat ton and selection from the
eligible list furnished by the civil ser
vice commission.
The members of the cabinet followed
with like testimony They had nothing
in the way of minor positions to fill ex-
cept private SecretaryShipS and a con-
fidential clerk apiece. But, after they
said that the civel service law was
good thing if it did pinch. They told
one another that while they had not
been able to appoint friends, as they
expected, they found the law was a
protection against the pressure of place
seekers. The expressions were general
that the civil service had better remain
as President Cleveland had left it.
Secretary Sherman was the only
that perhaps the extensions of the law
had been carried a little too far, but
he was not pronounced or definite in
his objection
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

senator's excursion was due to the ex-
pressed wish of Parson Brownlow to
see him hanged, but the parson thought
better of it afterWard.
Ex- Queen Isabella of Spain is much
affected by the death of her only sister,
the late Duchess of Montpensier. 1t is
said that when Queen Mercedes died.
in 1873, her mother, called the mater
dolorosa of the family, was so over
come with grief that her hair turned
white in a single night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
FRIGHTFUL ACT.
Panic Stricken Woman Tossed Her
Babe From Fifth Story Window
Then Followed It

New York. March 11.-Fire broke out
this afternoon in a five story apart
ment building at Canton street and Au-
burn place, Brooklyn. 1t was first dis
covered in the elevator shaft.
Mrs. Clara Goddard, who occupied the
top floor, became panic stricken at the
sight of the flames and threw her g.
months-old baby out of the window.
The little ones brains were dashed out
on the pavement. The mother, when
she realized what she had done, jumped
of her legs and sustaining several 9TH
err injuries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
SAN PEDRO'S BOOM.
Forenoon Lot Purchases Treble in
Value Before Shutdown.

Los Angeles, March 1.-THE excite
ment over real estate transactions at
San Pedro consequent upon the decis-
mating that port as the site for the
deep water harbor has had no parallel
in southern California since the haIcyon
days of the boom.
Everybody seems to have money now
to purchase lots or tracts of land at
San Pedro The apprecia ton In the
value Of real estate at San Pedro has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

been the most rapid ever known in
southern California. Lots purchased in
fhe forenoon have been sold in the aft
ernoon of the same day at ap advance
of 300 per cent
few is the head placed a large block of
lots on the market yesterday afternoon,
and so of them were sold before sun
down, men standing in line for hours
for a chance to buy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Every love affair is like progressive
game of cards: the players have moved
up from another table where they had
different partners, but the game they
play is the same, with the same points
and the same blunderS. 1t differs from
a progressive game of cards only in
the fact that the prize isn't as valuable
as the prize given at cards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

California Limited leaves Topeka
Thursdays and Sundays 1913 a. M,
via Santa Fe Route "a hours to Cali
fornia. Vestibuled Pullman sleepers.
buffet smoker and dining car through
California Express, with Pullman pal
ace and tourist sleepers leaves daily at
4:35 d. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

New York Press: A Topeka Iegisla-
tor, c. R. Walters, is trying to bring
the Ten Commandments into contempt.
He wants them incorporated in the laws
of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

One Minute is all the time necessary
TO decide from personal experience that
one Minute Cough Cure does what its
name implies q. W. StanzHeld. e22
Kansas avanuas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Not how cheap but how good IS the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia West 9Th
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

A new kind of a girl has been discov-
cred in Atchison: she refuses to let any
young man in town hire a carriage to
take her to parties, because no young
man in town can afford it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

The annual meeting of the Inglesfde
association will be held at Ingleside
Friday. March II, at o'clock up. M
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
PEOPLE you HAVE HEARD OF

Mr.. Mckinley weighed 1876 pounds the
day he was nominated. \ few days
before going to Washington to be in
augurated he was six pounds heavier
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Lord Salisbury's old trouble, over
stoutness, is again troubling him, and
as soon as the eastern crisis is over he
proposes to go abroad and rid himself
of the incumbrance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Stratton, the Cripple Creek million
a1re, refuses to go into any money
making schemes. What 1 am trying
to do" says he to the promoters, lis to
keep my income down within the limits
of decency"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Everyone has the secret feeling that
he is not treated right because appre-
hension over his little aches Keeps none
of his friends awake nights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

If nature gave you a certain DISPOSE
ton, you simply irritate yourself by
trying to get over it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

To a man sixty years old it must seem
like paying his funeral expenses several
times to pay two hundred dollars year
for life insurance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Mr.. Gladstone is gradually transfer
ring the bulk of his library to the in
stitution of ST. Deinol, at Hawarden.
retaining only a few books which he
treasures for personal rather than bib
nophilic reasons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

There are some men who experience
no greater enjoyment than sharpening
a dull knife.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

An Atchison woman who will go or
a short trip Friday is already worrying
for fear she will miss her train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11
GLOBE SIGHTS.
No one ever thinks that a boy is tire

No one ever thinks that a boy is tired.
When a little old man wants to make
an impression he puts on a plug hat.
It is not safe to bet on what you
feel in your bones.' unless you bet on
rheumatism.
There are some men who experience
no greater enjoyment than sharpening
a dull knife
If nature gave you a certain DISPOSE
ton, you simply irritate yourself by
trying to get over it.
An AtchisOn woman who will go on
a short trip Friday is already worrying
for fear she will miss her train.
There are some women who are re-
minded that they are superior crea-
lures every time a man takes off his
hat to them.
1t is not difficult to make old people
happy. Show them some one twenty
years older than themselves who is still
in good health.
Having company may mean the ex-
ercising of hospitable instincts to the
women, but it means giving up the
rocking chair to the men.
Every woman thinks she would be
an angel, if it wasn't for the men.
It is surprising how many more things
you believe than you know.
= L
If you hate your rivals, curse them in
secret, but don't let on in public.
A school teacher is as big a bum on
Saturday as a railroad man off his run.
If you have a tolerably good friend,
do not drive him off by foolish exac-
lions; tolerably good friends are very
rare.
To man sixty years old it must seem
like paying his funeral expenses several
times to pay two hundred dollars a year
for life insurance.
Everyone has the secret feeling that
he is not treated right because appre-
hension over his little aches keeps none
of his friends awake nights.
A new kind of a girl has been discoY-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Since the death Of Mr.. McCullagh,
the editor of the Globe-Democrat of St.
Louis, it has been discovered that he
was en- extensive owner of silver mine
stock, although he was one of the stiff
est gold men in the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

It IS not safe to bet on what you
feel in your bones,' unless you bet on
rheumatism.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

There are some women who are re-
minded that they are superior crea-
lures every time a man takes off his
hat to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

John Austin Stevens, the original
founder of the Society of the Sons of
the Revolution, is now living in New
port, and on Washington's birthday,
when the Rhode Island Sons of the
held their first celebration,
he delivered the principal address.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

Senator Harris of Tennessee was an
other Confederate who visited Maxi
milan in Mexico at the time General
10 Shelby was in that country. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

If you have a tolerably good friend,
do not drive him off by foolish exac-
lions; tolerably good friends are very
rare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-11

There is an idea abroad that Mr.
Chamberlain is the greatest amateur
orchid grower in the world. but this is
not the case, the collection of Empress
Frederick of Germany being worth
nearly double that of Chamberlain
probabl 5000, goo.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-16
SPECIAL NOTICES.

-~~"1'>~>~-~-~-~~---
r. DAVID STARR JORDAN. PRESIDENT
6~S of the Stanford University will lecture be-
fore oakland Psychical Society, on WEDNESDAY,
EVENING, the 18th inst, at Hamilton Hall; 8
O'Clock. subject, "a Sober Mind"
r. BAD TENANTS ELECTED FOR 81:
Er~S collections made: city country. Pacific
Collection Co, 415 Montgy ST., room 8; tel. $3.50.
Re- DR. BAIT REM OWED FROM PHE-
Es~S Ian building to 9GS Geary St: tel East S57.