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The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
THAT ST. LOUIS MEETING

The conference which has been called
by the striking coal miners, to assemble
in ST. Louis on the 30th inst, may mark
q turning point in the warfare between
capital and organized labor, but the
probability is that it will end in the
passage of some resolutions and the
issuance of another address to the pub
lie.
The conference is called primarily
for the purpose of enlisting labor organ
izations throughout the country in a
sympathetic strike In this the coal
miners are not likely to succeed. There
is a sort of bond of sympathy among
workingmen everywhere and they are
usually willing to contribute literally of
their earnings in aid of their distressed
brethren, but when it comes to resign
ing fair salaries and paralyzing the in
dustrfes of the whole country they have
hitherto declined to go so far.
The call for Che st. Louis meeting is
addressed to:
''Organized labor, its various divisions
and Subdivisions, and to all reform, So
ciaI, educational and scientific bodies,
who condemn government by injunction
and the use of force to coerce the peo-
pie and deprive them of their rights as
American citizens"
This call seems broad enough to in
clude Governor Leedy, Attorney Gen
eral Boyle, Commissioner of Insurance
McNaH and G. c. Clemens.
Since the striking miners already
seem to have all the public sympathy
that they can utilize and since it is i'm
probable that they will succeed in bring
ing on a general strike it will be inter
esting to watch the outcome of the pro-
posed conference and note what it is
they propose to do.
The call declares that:
1.-THE object of the convention will not
be 10 merely protest against unurpation
ulate plans to compel a return to the
principles of free government and put
said plans in practical operation
This may mean much or ii may mean
little. 1t is difficult to see how any ac-
ton which may be taken along the lines
laid down in the paragraph quoted can
be of any service in the present emer-
gency. As an adjunct TO Mr.. Clemens
move for the abolition of federal courts
1t might prove SerViceable. If, however
the strikers expect to wait for the courts
to be removed from their pathway the
probability is that they will all be
starved or put in Jail in the meantime
About the most that can be looked for
as the outcome of the st. Louis meet
ing is some interesting political deveI-
opments. 1t may turn 10 the support OF
Debs1sm,an element which last year was
divided between Organism and McKin-
leyism
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
WEST POINT GUNS SPIKED.
The Reveille Gun and the Six Guns of
the Light Battery Tampered With.

West Point, Aug 23-.Sound off"
said Sergeant Kensden to the drum
corps this morning in the center of the
cadet camp, but the reveille gun did
not sound it's morning greeting to "Old
Glory as it f1oated at the top of the
fiagpole. The detail from the cadet guard
whose duty it is TO fire the gun re-
ported to the officer of the day that the
morning gun was spiked with rat-tall
file. The officer ordered them to use
one of the guns of the light battery,
about 400 feet away from the reveille
gun, but they found the six guns of
the battery spiked in the same manner
1t took all day to bore out the guns.
No. post is on the north side of the
camp and the reveiIle gun stands few
feet away from this post The light
battery is parked about 400 feet from
it. Plebe Cad Morgan of Poughkeep-
sic was sentinel on No. 2 post. He al
lowed lot of cadets to cross his post,
and now a court martial stares him in
| the face. He says he did not see any,
one cross his post.
The light battery consists of six mod
ern guns and is used for the instruction
of cadets in light artillery drill. The
authorities are making strong efforts to
find the men who spiked the guns. Lieu
tenant Affair was officer in charge last
night and it is always pretty sure some
thing will happen when he is on. A
short time ago the corps gave him what
is known among them as a silence,
which means that when the battalion
enters the dining room not word is
spoken except the commands "be seat
ed'' and 'tarise, which are always tax n
by the first captain. This is a cadet
way Of showing their dislike for an Of
fcer. For this Lieutenant Affair re-
ported the whole corps for diSrespect.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
WOMEN AS HORSE JOCKEYS
Success of Novel Experiment Tried
Down in Maine.

Watervil1e, Me, Aug. 23.-The horse
race recently held at Pittsfield in this
state, in which the drivers of the horses
were women, has excited much interest
and many inquiries concerning the mat
ter have ben heard.
1t was a race of four entries, which
was won in four heats, the winner,
driven by woman seated upon a BIZ
cycle sulky, going one heat in 2:257s on
a half mile track
The driver of the winning horse was
Miss Leotta Elliott, popular young
woman of Danforth, Me. She is 21
years of age. From infancy she has
lived upon a farm, and while she ade
pets of all domestic animals the horse
stood first in her affections. She was
naturally an expert driver. Her train
ing to a sull1y was obtained on the Sc
cluded country roads. She had, how
ever, driven upon a track but three
times before the race in which she won.
The other drivers in the race were
Miss Sarah E. Crosby of West Brews-
ter, Mass, who took second money;
Mrs. Mary E. Woodcock of Ripley, who
won third position, and Mrs. Henry F.
Meader of Winslow.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
NEXT G. A. II. ENCAMPMENT
Gen. Clarkson Favors Taking it Down
in Dixie.

Richmond, Va, Aug. 23.-Gen. Clark
son, national commander of the G.. A.
r., is believed to be in favor of bring
ing the 1899 encampment to Richmond.
This impression is based upon a letter
received here today from his chief of
staff, Gen. Winans, who declares that
he would like to see the encampmen
brought to this city, and will work to
that end. He thinks the bringing of a
few of the encampments south of Ma
son and DixonS line would tend to
break down sectional feeling.
The rather cauStic letter of General
Bradley T. johnson has not only stirred
up the ire of those working to bring
the encampment here, but has led to the
suggestion that the ladies of Richmond
should be consulted. Confederate Vet
eran B. NJ. Parham, in his letter making
this suggestion, says:
"Our ladies have always been indis-
pensable to gatherings of thi sort, and
without their presence and cooperation
success is impossible. 1 presume they
will be requested to aid in entertaining
our visitors, and their wishes ought to
be consulted. They constitute large
and better part of the community and
have right to express their opinions in
such matters. / should be glad to be
made acquainted with the views of our
memorial associations and auxiliary So
cieties. This information would go far
toward determining the settlement of
this question, and Quieting the commo-
tion which now prevails
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
SERVANT GIRLS UNION.
Information, Bureau to Be Established
by Them at Cleveland.

Cleveland, Aug. 23.-F'or some time
quiet work has been done by number
of ladies identified with the labor move
ment in Cleveland looking toward the
forma ton of union of Cleveland do
mestics. Agitation has progressed to
the point where a meeting of domesticS
has been called for Tuesday, August 81,
at 15S Superior street. A union will be
organized.
The lady who originated the move
ment said: What we propose to do is
to esta blish an information bureau for
the benefit of the women and girls who
depend on domestic service for their 1iv-
ing, the bureau to be run without cost
to members of the organization We
will engage an attorney to prosecute
claims against dishonest employers.
When the organization grows little
stronger we will turn over to our lawyer
cases of Ill treatment, cheatin and
abuse from all classes of employ yers.''
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
SINGLE TAX CONVENTION.
Arrangements Being Made for Hold
ing One During the Fan Festival

r. T. Snediker, president of the Kan
sas Single Tax league, and J. H. LIE
Rue, secretary of the association, are
in the city to confer and make arrange
ments for the state single tax conven-
ton during the Topeka Fall Festival
The officers will make arrangements to
secure speakers of national reputation
probably ex-Congressman Tom john
son of Ohio or Thomas C. Shearman.
Mr.. Snediker is enthusiastic over the
outlook for the single tax theory in
Kansas.
The association has two workers in
Kansas. One is Robert M. Mobius.
who is speaking every night on the
streets of Topeka, and the other is J.
+. Herman, who is working in the
northeastern portion of the state. In
few days an effort will be made to
make an organization of single takers
in Topeka.
President Snediker has met with one
disappointment, and that was in Gov.
Leedy.
Il wrote to Gov Leedy," he said to-
day, land sent him two paragraphs on
the tax question. 1 told him he might
change them in any way he pleased
just so the idea would be Incorporated
in his message, but nothing was said.
The single tax theory is right and it
will win.
IF an extra session of the 1egisla-
ture is called, we will have some pc
titions on this question that will sur
begun to inquire, when speaking of an
administration, what good does this do
me?' If it does the individual no good
they vote the other way. 1 believe that
the time will come when our theories
will be recognized in Kansas"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
OUR WINGED NEIGHBORS.
Frances E. Willard Speaks in Praise
of Miss Ives and Her Bird Studies.

New, York, Aug 23.-"I have long
wished said Frances E. Willard yes
terday, that Miss Ella Gilbert Ives,
who, with DR.. Louis C. Purington, con-
ducts the Shawmut school for girls, in
Dorchester, Mass; might see her way
clear to go to other schools, seminaries
and colleges for women and give the
results of her bird studies.
Miss Ives has already become a
well known writer on the subject, be-
ing a born child of the outdoors >
recreation from her remarkably sue
cessful work as a teacher, which proves
that it was done from love, as every
thing must be that is worth doing; she
is poet as well as a student, and her
articles combine both qualities.
Miss Ives is an authority on the sub
ject of our winged neighbors, and a
few experiences would be likely to tell
more favorably on the character of
young women than to be attracted by
her rarerexample and persuasive teach
ings into the nature studies that she
has found at once so fascinating and so
helpful.
II notice that our bird takers are
finding congenial field in women's
colleges, and as Miss Ives is a thor
ough going white ribbon woman, the
talks she gives might we'll be utilized to
win the attendance of those who are
not wont to company with US. The
subject of bird study is becoming more
interesting to intelligent women every
year, and we have not enough experts
to go round, hence it seems to me an
act of public beneficence to bring the
merits of this scholarly but modest wo-
man to the notice of a larger circle than
has as yet enjoyed hearing her words
of gentle wisdom.
DIR. Purington, who was a school
mate of Miss Ives at Mt. Holyoke, and
her life long friend and associate ap-
preciateS the bearing of her work as
an adjunct to the department of
health-outdoor science being the chief
cornerstone in the doctors level head
ed way of thinking
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
Everybody Reads the State Journal
WALTERS TIPPING TRUST.
New York Has One, But Restaurant
Customers Don't Like the Idea.


New York, Aug. 23.-The Geneva
club, composed exclusively of hotel
walters, has purchased a splendid hab-
itation on East Twenty third street. A
glance at the system employed by the
average hotel and restaurant waiter
is not out Of place in this connec-
ton.
Most of the managers of metropolitan
hotels declare that they do not compel
walters to depend upon tips for their
salary.
At the same time they all agree that
tipping is necessary evil, because 1t
means better service. 1t is custom,
not a rule, they say. Here is a sched-
ule, made up by a prominent hotel pro
tip:
For a weeks service in the dining
room, with every attention that
waiter can give, 81; for other hotel
service, say that of the chambermaid,
about 81 a week, and 80 cents for boots
and odd services by hotel servants. For
all daily meals in restaurants and cafes
about Is per cent of the order, increas-
ed, of course if the order is for a party
of three or four.
In some metropolitan restaurants it is
customary for walters to turn in their
tips to a common fund, to be distributed
share and share alike at the end of the
week.
Customers, as a rule, object to this
plan, as they never know just how
much of the 20 cents or 25 cents they
have given to their walters really goes
to some other who has not received so
much and makes up his deficiency out
of the common fund.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
GOULD'S YOUNGEST son.
Frank, at Present in Charge, Talks of
Prosperity in the Southwest.

New York, Aug. 23.-Frank Gould, the
youngest son of the late Jay Gould, has
made his debut as a man of affairs.
In the absence of his brother George,
the baby of the Gould family is the
director of the various enterprises
forming the so-called Gould proper
ties.
Recently Frank Gould made tour of
inspection over the Missouri Pacific and
allied roads in the southwest, travelling
} in all about 5000 miles. He returned to
New York yesterday and issued an in
tervieW that attracted quite as much
attention in financial circles as the
semi-annual bulletins of brother
George.
THE outlook in the southwest every
where is bright" said Mr.. Gould, land
the people generally, were hopeful of
prosperity for business. When 1 left
the southwest the farmers were getting
sc cents bushel for their wheat, and
they are now doubtless receiving an
even better price. The wheat crop. as
you know, has been a fine one. In the
whole of the United States it will
amount to something like 470, 900, 600
bushels. of which 20, 100000 will repre-
sent Kansas, Nebraska and the neigh
boring states g
indications for our agricultural pro-
ducts in the southwest are excellent.
The sugar crop in Louisiana never has
been better, and will probably amount
to $4,000. 900 pounds The cotton crop
is not quite as good as in the last year,
but it probably will be 2,500,0OO bales in
Texas.
Lumber also is moving in the south
west, owing to the Dingley tariff, which
placed duty on lumber which enables
our lumber to compete with Canadian
lumber. The earnings of the railroa ds
are showing very large increases So
far this year tbs returns that have been
ia abulated show an increase in the~net
earnings of the Missouri Pacific rail-
road from January to June of nearly
$500 900 la ST and increase
of about $223, 900 on the Texas & Pacific
road up to June. The earnings will be
larger for the rest of the year, for the
last half of the year always is the
hest -
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
NOTED CENTURY PLANT.
The First to Bloom at the White
House Now in Blossom.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The century
plant at the White House, which has
been getting ready to bloom for several
months, is now in blossom, and every
visitor stops to look at it and talk about
it. There are many century plants of
all varieties at the White House, but
this is the first to bloom there and nat
urau attracts attention.
The plant is of the Agava Americana
variety, so plentiful and so beautiful in
Mexico and Central America. 1t is at
least so years of old and, of course, never
before has bloomed. After the blos-
SONS disappear, which will be in short
time, the plant will die. In the coun-
try in which the century plant is at
home, it blooms in from seven to fifteen
years, but the climate of this country
retardS maturity.
There were IS branches on the plant.
The first three branches to bloom were
sent to Mrs. Mckinley at Lake Cham
plain by the head of the White House
conservatory. Four branches now are
in bloom and six are yet to bloom. The
branches are about eight inches long
and the plant is about II feet high. In
Mexico the plant often grows as high
as 80 feet and has branches six feet
long, with blooms at the end. Mrs.
Cleveland may get one of the branches.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
MORMON GIRL OPERA.
Ysaye Discovers a Cantratice at Salt
Lake City and Marvels at
Her Voice.

New York, Aug. 23.-An apostate
Mormon has been engaged as Jessie
Bartlett Davis understudy. Mrs. Jen-
ME Hawley Woodrow of Salt Lake City
is the young woman who is to ut her
self and sing the fair Jessie's roles
when the contralto is indisposed or out
OF temper or tired. She is a handsome
girl of the voluptuous type, with cherry
lips and peachy cheeks of the sort that
set the chappieS to dreaming, big velvet
eyes and an abundance of rich chestnut
a sigh of envy.
Mrs. Woodrow, or Miss IIawley as she
VIII be presented by the billboards, is
tall, a head or so above the singer
whom she will relieve. hence it will not
happen that admirers will distribute
applause and flowers without intelli-
gent discrimination, as is the case when
star and understudy resemble each
other. But better than all these, Miss
Hawley has a voice that the most cap
tious critics have judged with favor. 1t
is a. powerful eontralto. and she uses it
with natural dramatic force.
When YSaye made a tour of this
country a few years ago he discovered
the young Mormon cantatrice. 1t was
at an informal levee held in the old
Brigham Young theater in the Mormon
Zion after Ysaye had played to the
usual big house. The great violinist
insisted that he be entertained, as he
was weary of the part of entertainer,
and Miss Hawley sang for him. He
graSped her hands when she had fin
1shed and said: My lovely lady, the
stage is bereft that you do not grace it.
You must go into opera. 1 beg it Your
voice is big. 1t is soulful. You can
make people smile and sigh with it, as
do with my violin.'
Miss Hawley paid no further heed to
the VlrtuosO's advice. Instead she mar
ried wealthy twice widowed mining
operator, Colonel Howard Cromwell
Woodrow. Contrary to the expectat ton
of novelists, they did not live happy
ever after" Mrs Woodrow will study
under local master until the Bostoni-
ans open their season.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
WANTS WOMEN TO VOTE.
Southern Editor Eloquently Cham
pions the Cause of Female Suffrage.

Chautauqua, Aug. 23.-Twenty-six
hundred visitors took advantage of
Grange day programme At 2:3O a
platform meeting was held with Dr.
Davis of Forestville, N. Y, as chair
man.
At its close John Temple Graves, the
brilliant editor of the Atlantic Jour-
nal, so popular with Pittsburg audien-
ces, made the address of the day on
THE New Woman and the Old" The
address was remarkable from the fact
that it was made by a southerner, the
home of chivalry, where the people are
supposed to be constitutionally oppos-
ed to a change in woman's state.
Mr.. Graves is the first public man of
the south who has had the boldness to
make a plea for woman suffrage on a
logical basis.
Mr.. Graves told the Dispatch corre-
spondent that, contrary to the popu-
lar belief, his views are shared by many
southernerS.
His plea for the equality of the sexes
was enthusiastically received by the
large audience.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
Bath for the Goddess of L berty.

New York, Aug 23.-The Goddess of
Liberty, who for eleven years has been
welcoming wondering foreigners to the
great New World. is to have her noble
face and majestic bronze gown soundly
scrubbed and done up" She has been
queening it at Bedlow's Island for 10!
these many years, and time and the
scornful waves have taken many liber-
ties with her-and she the Goddess of
Liberty herself! At any rate. she is to
be washed with soap and water and
scrubbed with a big bath brush at an
early date.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
"Exn RAYS.

tramp is never too lazy to work the
growler.-Ottawa Republican.
1t is claimed now that one of Andree's
pigeons has been found. The others
are probably rOosting on the hepole.-Law-
renee Journal.
Topeka girl is going as a mission
ary to Kansas City.-Hutchinson News
The Italian anarchists name is An
giolille- The way to remember how to
spell this is to think of picket fence
Wichita Eagle.
The duel between Orleans and Turin
simply made Rome howl-Wichita Bea-
con.
rich Observation-Disclosures City TRAY
eler.
A dispatch states that Corbett will
leave the ring. We We're not aware he
mad been in the ring since he was
knocked out several months ago by Mr..
zsimmons.-Emporia Republican.
A man is considerably responsible for
the evil that is around him.-SaIina
Record.
The ice man will not go to Alaska.
He has his own Klondike at home
Parsons Sun.
The length of binding twine, were il
CONTINUOUS, which was necessary to bind
the wheat of Kansas this year, would
go around the earth ten times and leave
enough to spare to hang everyone OF
Kansas detractors in the meaSly east
Morton Champion.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
so MILES FOR so CENTS.
Horseless Carriages Successfully Op
Grated in London.

London, Aug. 23.-The first real eff
fort of horseless vehicles in London
was made Thursday, when a company
placed a dozen electrical cabs on the
street.
They resemble coupes and the accu-
mulators consist of 40 cells capable of
propeIling them over so miles at a cost
of so cents
The rear wheels do the driving and
the front wheels do the steering. They
have heavy rubber tires, have uphol-
stored spring cushions, are lighted by
electricity, are speedy and almost
noiseless. They appear to be giving
every satisfaction. The machines seem
under perfect control and tread their
way wonderfully through the traffic.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
Saloons Do Not Paw Atchison.

Cliff Holbert, now city attorney of
Atchison, was in Topeka last week,
looking up the affairs of the Topeka
Commercial Security company in which
he is unfortunately a Stockholder and is
included in the double liability vic
Tins. Mr.. Holbert says that Atchison
gets $4,000 a year from the saloons
Each one is taxed $25 a month, and still
the city has to borrow money to pay
its running expenses. They are now
trying to make arrangements to refund
$17SO00 of bonds. Topeka is paying its
bonds as they fall due, and does not
have to borrow money to pay running
expenses, either.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-08-23
LAMBS ARE ALL DYING.
Sheep Raisers Greatly Alarmed at
the Death Rate in Their Flocks.

Denver, Aug. 23.-From reports re-
ceived by State Veterinarian Gresswell
it is evident that something of the ma
ture of plague has struck the lambs
of Colorado and Wyoming and that
they are dying at an alarming rate
Sheep owners are threatened with the
loss of all this years lambs. The sheep
are not killed by the disease from the
fact that they are old and able to with
stand the attacks.
From the symptoms as described to
DR.. Gresswell, he thinks that the lambs
are undoubtedly affected by tape
worms.