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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
YERKES TELESCOPE.
Chicago Astron omers Delighted With
the New Instrument.

Chicago, May 25.-The new Yerkes
telescope which has reached Chicago is
considered a gem by the scientific men
who have examined the skies through
its powerful lens.
Professor E. E. Barnard declares that
it is not possible to estimate what the
telescope may do for science. 1t will
take weeks and possibly months for the
operators to successfully solve the
problems which the atmosphere may
present.
I'VE have a right to expect great re-
suits" he said This instrument col
1ects IS per cent more light than does
the Lick. This means a great deal since
it allows US to penetrate One-fourth
farther into space.
This telescope will show the world
much that is new concerning the aster-
iods, the little worlds between Mars and
Jupiter and the science of astronomy
will be enriched by its exposures of
many of the secrets of the double stars.
We can promise more accurate measure
ments of the distances to the fixed stars
The moon viii be better seen, and the
little valleys and hills on the desOlate
surface will be more numerous. 1t is
too much to expect of any telescope yet
built that it should reveal whether it
ever bore life or of what it is composed.
1.-The moon looks as if it We're seen at
a distance of 200 miles with the naked
eve"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
CRIrICIsEs MES. srErsoN

l"Jane" in Chicago Chronicle.1
For the first few times that one hears
her Mrs. Stetson is interesting. After
that one loses patience.No a very pref
ty woman in repose, she becomes al
most beautiful when speaking With
her brilliant dark eyes, her ready flash
ing smile, her Wavy hair cOiled low on
her neck, her nervous hands and her
intense conviction she is fascinating.
One fancies that ROmoia, and later
Marcella must have looked like Mrs.
Stetson, particularly when one is so
placed as to see continually her strong
aquiline profile.
She talks well, always easily, fire.
quently epigrammatically; but she does
talk such nonsense. And she does get
so annoyed when anyone is heartless
enough to prick one of the brilliant
rainbow-hued bubbles OF her theories
with a little sharp pointed piece of
common sense. Anyone who does that
is likely to make herself very unpopular
with Mrs. Stetson.
1t was THE Body, the Dress, the
House." that was the subject of the
discourse up at Mrs. Parker's the other
day. Mrs. StetSOn has diScOurSed on
this triune subject before. She regards
the body as the sheath of the Soul
with a capital IS, - please. Mrs. Stet-
son is nothing if not soulful the dress
as the sheath of the body, the house as
the outer sheath of both None of these
successive wrappers should be of ma
ture to crib, cabin or confine the Soul
restraint on any muscle in any position
Perfect fit and perfect freedom seem to
be the goals toward which we must
tOtter. There is some reasonable doubt
as to whether this theory practically in
terpreted means all wool union suits or
the style of cIthing affected by the in
habitants of the DahOmey village on the
Midway during the fair
Then again. our houses, the outer
husks of the soul, are ugly and a con-
tinual Omense to the spirits yearning
for beauty. All outdoors is made up of
beautiful broken curves why not pro-
duce them indoors in place of the an
giles and corners, the fiat ceilings, rec
tangular doors and windows which
make our homes hideOus?
One night when Mrs. StetsOn had been
holding forth somewhat in this strain
up at Mrs. CoOnley's a bewildered girl
said, But there is the Sandwich island
er, the ideal toward which we must
strive. He lives out among those love
~ broken curves and his clothes don't
hamper him. I'm willing to admit that
I'm never so comfortable as in my
bathing suit, or my night dress but
utterly apart from decent respect for
the opinion of mankind there are rea-
sons which would have made that
style of costume undesira BILE say on
the Masonic Temple corner last week .
1t was that awfully cold week we had
in January There was no answer to
this logic, so Mrs. Stetson showed her
annoyance by snUbbing the young wo-
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
LOST HIS CHILD'S CORPSE.
En- Route to Cemetery a Man Gets
Drunk and Forgets What He
Does With It

Fresno, Cal. May 25.-John Ryan, who
lives near Kingsburg, staggered into the
Pleasanton saloon yesterday and wanted
to buy drink. Al Baker, the proprietor
of the hotel, was present, and seeing the
mans condition, told him he could not
have any more liquor.
Ryan told Baker that he had lost his
horse and cart. with the body of his dead
baby, which was in the cart and which
he had brought to Fresno to bury. He
stated that he had hitched the horse in
front of the house of a relative and come
downtown to get drink. During his alb
sence someone had stolen it.
Baker thought it was drunken mans
tale, but advised Ryan to go to bed and
sleep off his potions.
Later when Baker heard of the finding
of the dead baby he informed the officers
of Ryan's story. It was clear that the
man was so drunk that he did not know
where he had left the cart. A search for
Ryan was made, but he could not be
found.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
CARRIES S53,OOO,OOO.
The Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill
as Agreed Upon,

Washington, May 25.-The conferees on
the sundry civil appropriation bill have
agreed. The most important amendment
to the bill was that revol1ing the order
of President Cleveland of February %. 1897.
setting apart 81 0O0, 900 acres of land as
forest reservations. The senate amend
ment may modify, or revoke the procla-
nation and it is provided that the lands
of before March I, 1898, shall again be
subject to operations of the order of Feb
ruary q. or as they may be modified by
the president. The general provision of
the government forest reservations are
retained as provided in the senate amend
ments. A provision is inserted allowing
settlers in reservations to take other
lands in the public domain.
The appropriation for Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, is reduced to $4,000.
The senate amendment for improving
Salmon bay, Washington is stricken out.
The appropriation for a government ex-
hibit at the Omaha exposition is left at
$500 900, the $4,000 increase of the senate
being stricken out. The amendment for
investigation of sugar production, re-
mains in the bill. The appropriation for
the Improvement of the lower Aissss-
ippi river is increased to 81 933, 333 and is
made Immediately available by contract
or otherwise in the discretion of the Sec
rotary of war. The net reduction from
the senate amendments is $500, 600 The
Mobile bay Improvement is made $25, 900
instead of $4,000 inserted by the senate.
The total of the bill as agreed to is S53,-
500 e51
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
PROHIBITION IN CANADA.
LFrom the New York Mail and Elk

Among the many queer bits of news,
or alleged news, with which Canada is
nowadays supplying the American
market is that which declares the pro-
hibitionists to be in daily expectation
bill providing for plebiscite through
out the dominion on the question of
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of intoxicating liquors in all parts of
the country. We learn from this report
that the province of Ontario recently
showed a majority of 100, 900 in favor of
prohibition on a plebiscite, that Mani
tOba is also on record with a similar
verdict and that the maritime prov
inces feel the same way about it.
Quebec, which is English in name
but French in heart and tongue, is the
doubtful quantity in the calculation,
we are told, but the advocates of the
prohibition territory hope still to win
over even this territory, despite the fact
that the loss of excise revenue would
mean an increase in general taxation
sufficient to make good a deficit of 81,
600. 0O0 The enthusiasts go so far as
to predict the early closing of the
largest distilery in the world, which is
situate in the city of Toronto, and are
confident that a year hence it will be
impossible to secure a drink of whisky
anywhere within the dominion
While this is a purely domestic ques-
ton, it has a strongly indirect interest
for the United States. where the pro-
hibition theory has figured so promi-
nently for years in state and national
camDaignS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
sIss-BooM-AH,s ORIGIN
[From the New York Mail and f
press

[FrOm the New York Mail and Ex-
press.l
In Scrbner's Magazine for Time
James w. Alexander will have an arti-
Gle concerning Undergraduate Life at
Princeton" and it is said that he has
drawn upon the memories of aradu-
ates (printed and spOken), from colo
NAL days to the present in order to
obtain knowledge of anecdotes. tradi-
lions and customs peculiar to his sinh
ject. Perhaps no feature of Princeton
is more widely known than the famous
''skyrOcket' cheer through which stu
dent enthusiasm finds expression on
puglic occasions. MI Alexander writes
of it that undergraduates of today
may think it has come down from a
time whereof the memory of man run
meth not to the contrary But this
would be an error. All college cheers
among the Oldest. Nevertheless. thir-
ty-SiX years ago it was unknown
Where did it come from? Who in
vented it? These ara nlomentous ques-
lions and are answered differently by
different men. A MEMBER OF the class
sey johnson of New York, of that class
first sounded the 'HOOray, hOOray, hoo
ray, tiger, siSs- bOOm-ah, Princeton in
one of Prof. Schenck'S recitaticnS. But
Chancellor Alexander T AInC4ilI of the
class of 81, says he remembers quite
distinctly when the Seventh regiment
of New York went to the war, and how
nearly the whole college went down
through the Potter Woods TO the old
depot by the canal at midnight to greet
it as it passed through The cheers of
the boys were responded to by the
boys of the Seventh with the 'SkyrOck-
ct which so impressed the youthful
mind that it was INDUCED in at first as
borrowed property, and later, as time
advanced, was adopted as the college
cheer"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
RUFUS CHoATE.
rFrom the Boston HeraId. ]

IFrom the Boston Herald
New England has produced no per
sonality of whom it could be more truly
said that he who sustained it was not
of that section of country than Rufus
ChOate. This is said neither in dis
paragement of New England nor of Mr..
Choate. The man was essentially I'M
sympathetic with his environment. He
was tropical in his physical nature and
tropical in his mental development. He
had the temperament and the habit of
mind of the south rather than of the
north. Many years ago one of the
most brilliant men of the nation, born
in what is now the state of Maine, mi
grated to Mississippi. and there became
celebrated in OratOry as was almost TO
other resident of the south. There may
we'll be speculation as to what would
have been the future of Rufus CbOate
had he taken the same course from
Massachusetts. He was apparently
more a southerner by taste than was
Sargent S. Prentiss. Mr.. ChOate had,
however, one attribute in which ne
found more congeniality in the section
where he remained It was in his taste
for scholarship and his assiduOus ap-
plication to study. Here he was all
New England
Rufus ChOate was more closely af-
fected by the aggressive morality or
the rigid piety of the Puritan There
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
SAVINGS BANKS THAT SAVE.

It is reported that the administration
at Washington is constantly being urged
! to inaugurate a system of postal saw
ings banks. This matter has been agi-
tated for some years and there has been
almost constantly before congress a bill
for the adjustment of such a system.
In response to the increasing public de-
mand President Mckinley has become
interested in the matter and has sent a
communication to the senate on the
subject.
Unfortunately, however, for the
friends of the movement 1t is probable
that nothing more will be heard of it.
Acting comptroller of the currency,
George NJ Coffin has looked into the
matter and decided that the people
don't want it, don't need it and it would
not be good for them anyway. He says
that the people of the west and south
the region from which the demand for
postal savings banks comes-have no
money to save. And if they had he
says the best thing for them is the mu-
tual savings bank. It is pointed out
that this style of savings bank would be
much more profitable than the postal
could possibly be.
The mistake of Mr.. Coffin seems to
lie in the fact that he has misunder-
vocates of postal savings banks. What
they are particularly interested in is
having a place where they can put
their savings with the assurance that
when they want their money they can
get it. What they wish to avoid is be-
ing compelled to place their money in a
bank which at any time they may find
closed or its vaults empty.
Mr.. Coffin urges that the government
could not afford to pay more than per
cent, regardless of the fact that it is
paying from three to five at the pres
ent time on a debt of something like
billion. However, that phase of the
question is of little consequence since
probably a large majority of the friends
of the proposed system would prObab bly,
prefer putting their money where it
would be absolutely safe without any
interest to placing it in the savings in
situations as at present constituted
with a promise of three or four per
cent.
It is not profit that is desired so much
as safety.
If Mr.. Coffin Will devise some method
of rendering the existing savings insti-
tutions absolutely safe as postal banks
would be, he will probably hear no more
about the establishment of a system of
the latter by the government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
THE PoRrERs AND TIE PUBLIC


LFrom the New York Journal.
A porter in the service of the Pull
man Palace Car company writes 10 the
Sun a letter which throws a curious
light upon the methods of that corpor-
alton in dealing with its employees. The
porter asserts that the wages of the
men following his occupation are but
SO month, and that from that sum,
besides supporting their families, they
must buy two uniforms a year, make
good any shortage in food or supplies
furnished the cars, besides paying for
the accident insurance which any in
telllgent man in their position would
naturally carry. Strangely enough, the
complaint of the porters is not against
the amount of their wages-thOugh 81
1-3 cents a day is scarcely fair pay for
men who work nearly eighteen hours
day. Mr.. Pullman has so thoroughly
educated them in the belief that the
travelling public. after paying him for
bed, must pay the man who makes it
up, that the complaint of the pOrters
is directed wholly against a regulation
which may cut off their tips.
Nor are the pOrters alone in regard
ing the travellers as their paymasters
While the Pullman concern is their en-
plOyer. The Sun, on receiving the let
ter of complaint, promptly interviewed
the assistant superintendent OF the
eastern division of the p. P. C.-the til
tie really compels abbreViatiOn. This
potentate says: You may depend up
on it that if any order of this com
pany makes it impossible for its en-
plOyeS to live decently, that order will
be reScinded'' Apparently this applies
only to the order which has resulted in
the curtailing of tips. May we depend
upon it that the order which fixes $25
a month as the wages of Pullman
porter shall be reScinded, or is it that
the conscience of the Pullman corpora
ton is only to be moved at the expense
of the travelling nnbliC2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
HAYEMRYER AND sEARLEs.
Lawyers Expectsto Save Them From
an Experience Like Chapman's

an Experience Like Chapman's.
Washington, May 25.-The trial of Mr..
Havemeyer and Mr.. Searles for refusing
to answer questions asked by the senate
committee begins this week It is ex-
pected that they will be convicted this
week of contempt, and that the supreme
court will set aside the verdict and save
them from the imprisonment which
Broker Chapman is now undergoing. To
the layman there seems to be not much
difference between the refusals to testify,
but the lawyers have assured the sugar
trust magnates that they can keep them
out of Jail.
Mr.. Chapman refused to tell the COM
mittee whether any senators had specu>
lated in sugar or other securities through
his house. This affected the public well
fare as the legal phrase is, and Mr.
Chapman was held to have been guilty
of a misdemeanor in refusing to answer.
Mr.. Havemeyer and Mr.. Searles refused
to tell what they paid for their sugar
stock, what dividends had been earned,
what was the cost of manufacturing SUI
gar, what contributions had been made
for political purposes and other things
which the lawyers claim related to pri-
vate business, and not to 1.-The public well
fare" BY this distinction it is hoped to
save these witnesses from a jail SEN
tence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
from the Atchison Globe-1
woman handles a man as gracefI
: she handles a fan.

From the Atchfson Globe-1
A woman handles a man as graceful
ly as she handles a fan
In a country town, when a man buys
a new suit, people guy him for a week.
When a day or a base ball game
starts out wrong. it is hard to recover.
Look out for a man who says he is a
cynic: he is sure to be the most trust
ing creature on earth.
Possibly it is the mean people who
start the bad STORIES" but the good
people keep them going.
We have noticed that in cleaning
house in the spring, one is more apt to
unearth lost muffier than a fan
We have never yet seen girl wear
ing a shirt waist and a look of conf
dence and content at the same time.
If the angels in heaven look anything
like those in church memorial windows,
we will not know the difference between
| heaven and nightmare.
It has been decided that crappie is
! more correct than crOppy. We intend
to use croppy. The other word doesn't
look right, and doesn't sound right.
Custom is often better than the die
tiOnary.
The shades of sorrow fall heavily
over a summer girl visiting in town.
She has given herself the name of Aline,
and her uncle and aunt whom she is
visiting, insist upon calling her ALI
ing"
The school teachers are funny. Many
of them will spend the summer vaca-
ton in attending a summer school. We
don't agine that if we had a Vaca-
ton we would spend it around a news
paper office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
TELEPATHY PHENOMENA.
a Dog Proves an Interesting Subject
for Boston Man.

Boston, May 25.-It is probable that be-
fore last night no dog ever appeared be-
fore an audience in Huntington hall,
where the Lowell institute lectures are
given.
William Eliot Davis bright little ter
rfer, Dodgerdeld, is the animal that en-
joys the unique distinction.
The occasion was a lecture by James
Edwin Tough, before the Boston society
of natural history, upon the phenomenon
of telepathy, Mr.. Tough, to prove the ex-
istence of this phenomenon, quoted large
ly from recognized authorities on the sub
ject.
Then he spoke of Dodgerfield as being
supposed to have all the attributes of
a telepathetic dog, and entitled to due
respect in consideration thereof. Before
Dodgerfield was introduced. the presid-
ing member of the society explained that
this must be taken as an allegation on
the part of certain individuals rather
than as a supposition. The society, he
said, is in no position to suppose any
thing. 1t never supposes. 1t ever adopts
the proper scientific position which pre-
cludes supposition.
Dodgerfield was then brought out, and
Mr.. Davis put him through a performance
in many ways remarka Bile. A number of
colored cloths We're dropped in row on
the floor, and the dog each time picked
out the one chosen by some person in the
audience, with no word except bring
it., from Mr.. Davis, and no apparent
sign. The same feat was performed with
playing cards and numbers, and afterward
several tests were made to show is was
not the order in which the tricks were
done that gave the dog the necessary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
EARLY WAR ENLIsrmENrs.
[CoL T. W. Higginson in the June At
lantie

LCoL I. W. HigginsOn in the June At
lantic
1t is almost impossible now, to re-
produce the emotions of that period of
early war enlistments. As 1 ventured
to say in the preface to Harvard Me-
mortal biographies, ITO call it a sense
OF novelty was nothing; it was as if one
had learned to swim in air and were
striking out for some new planet" All
the methods Standards habits and aims
of ordinary life were reversed, and the
intrinsic and traditional charm of the
soldiers life was mingled in my own
case with the firm faith that the death
kneu of slavery itself was now being
sounded. Meanwhile, the arts of drill
and the discipline were to be learned in
practice, and the former proved in
comparably easier than had been ex-
pected; it turned out that there was no
department of science in which the eIe-
ments were so readily acquired As to
the exercise of authority however If
was different. It was no longer possible
to view command only lin the light Of
a suggestion" Moreover, we We're deal
ing with democratic society, on which
new temporary aristocracy Of military
rank was to be built, supersedingr all
previous distinction; and the task was
not light.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
MANY ELK PERISHED.
Past Winter Fatal to the Great Herds
in JacksOn's Hole.

Cheyenne, WyO., May 25.-The Sara
tOga Sun says that the winter of 1867
will long be remembered as a severe
one on the elk and deer. The story of
the vast herds of elk that wintered in
Jackson's Hole and their pitiful de-
struction by thousands from starvation
is familiar to all; but that was not the
only place that they were compelled. on
account of the deep SHOWS, to leave
the mountains and come down to the
lowlands for food.
Harry Hunter, the manager of the
Big Creek Live Stock company, says
that thousands of deer were driven out
of the mountain ranges that surround
the North park and that their hunger
made them so tame that they would
feed with cattle in the fields and wher-
ever they could find sustenance. The
same thing took place on Snake river,
and deer were lower down in the valley
than ever before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25

Curse cards are being used in Swift
zerland and Germany to check profan-
ity. People go about with the cards
in their pockets, and whenever they
hear bad language present one to the
swearer to sign. The card has printed
on it a pledge to abstain from swear
ing a specified time or to pay a pfennig
an oath to some charity Nearly 40
600 cards have been distributed in Swift
zerland, where there are three Ian
guages to swear fn.-New York Sun
This is such an original way of deal
ing with vice that it is a great wonder
it didn't originate in Kansas. Kansas
must invent something quick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25

The European concert won't be in it
with the Fall Festival concert of a
thousand voices at the opening of the
auditorium. That is, it won't if Tom
Anderson sims
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25

was nothing radical in his nature in
either direction He based his life on
conservative lines both in politics and
in religions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25

The new constitution of Delaware
covers IA columns in a newspaper. but
if Delaware's ears hold out she will be
able to see from under the brim of it by
tipping back her head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25

You have often heard of people
walking on their uppers, but since Jerry
Black made his new ruling on Pullman
berths, all the deadheads will be rid
ing in their uppers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25

A St. Louis girl baby born during the
great windstOrm last summer has been
christened "Cyclonia.' A child with
such a windy name ought to have no
trouble with collie