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For Sale i'm Kennebunk.

GTOCk and fixtures consisting of fruit con-
. fectionery, cigars, tobacco, soda fountain,
ice cream cabinet, show cases etc. Office of w.
U. Tel. & Bell Tel. Cos. Good store, best loca-
ton, low rent. Business conducted by present
owners 10 years. W. E. WARREN, Kenne-
bunk, Me. aug13d1w
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EOR SALE-Elegant musical instruments.
pianos, music boxes, Regnas, vioiins, man,
dolins, bantos, guitar harmonious, comets,
superior violin and banjo strings, popular sheet
Please CALL HAYES. Ala Congress St.
aup11ddw
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EOR SALE-New house on Pitt ST., Oakdale,
contains seven rooms and bath, hot and
cold water, wired for electric lights, cemented
cellar, sewer. large lot Will be sold on easy
terms. Apply TO CHAS. c. ADAMS, 81 Ex-
change st. aua11d4w
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LOST AND FOUND.

Forty words inserted under this head
one week for 26 cents. cash in advance
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STEAM YACHT FOR SALE CHEAP-Fitted
- throughout with brass pipe and nickeed
trimmings used part of one season only Owner
mas no further use for it and will sell at bar
gam For further particulars apply at 4s
UNION STREET. 1871
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TITO LET-Three small rents on Paris street,
Il below Portland, rooms each in good or
der, rent $500, $500 and $1,000; rooms up
stairs on Pearl street, near Federal, S140O, sun
ny and pleasant. HENRY S. TRICKEY, Real
Estate Agent, 121 Exchange street al
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FOR SALE-On Cumberland ST., between
- Green and CaSco 3 stored house of IS
rooms IN perfect repair. Must be sold to close
an estate. W. II. WALDRON & CO., 100 Middle
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w hams Jellycon made in minute For
sale by Grocers. Raspberry in full cases, and
assorted flavors in stock at H. S. MELCHER
co.'s. 5 per cent and outfit with 5 case lot.
Try it. 1871
WANTED--A chance to do any kind OF re-
w pairs in your heating apparatus by men of
experience. Send postal Telephone No..
1884 R. WESCOTT. 131 Lincoln ST., foot of
Myrtle. lett
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pOOMS TO LET-At No. 217 Cumberland
IL street. Transients accommodated. al
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MALE HELP WANTED.

p" ANTED-A boy in our clothing depart
w ment MILLIKEN, COUSINS &
SHORT AL
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WANTED-Two experienced table girls at
w once, at HOLLANDS DINING ROOMS.
Sc Exchange street. al
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EOR RENTAL upper tenement of eight
IL rooms, with bath. on New State ST. In
quire at 800 CONGRESS ST., room 8. aug13tf
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EoR SALE CHEAP-The rights and patents
- OF a keylesS alarm door lock. Apply to
GEO ii. HILL, Falmouth me. 1879
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DOR RENT-The substantial brick residence.
No. Deering st. Having open fire places
hot water heat and all other modern improve
be seen by permit only. For particulars apply
Real Estate Office, First National Bank Build
ing, FREDERICK S. VAIL 131
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ITO LET-Pleasant and convenient lower rent
IL of seven rooms and bath room, at Laural
street; house has large yard, gas and cemented
cellar Inquire of A. c. LIBBY s. CO., ~ 10
Exchange street. 1871
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NOR SALE-To close an estate. Brick resi-
Il dence on Spring ST., heated by steam, hav-
ing all modern improvements, stable and ii, $50
feet Of land Cost including repairs. S1S,5
Price only SC, 200; think of it. Particulars, Real
Estate Office, First National Bank Building,
S. VAIL. 141
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nRESSMAKERS WANTED-By September
~ 1St., three smart sewers. in shop. Only
those who understand their business need apply
to K. G., Press Office. 121
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FOR SALE-A sloop rugged boat, IS feet
at Higgins beach. E. s. HIGGINS. III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-17

trees, however, especially in New Eng
land. They are almost as numerous as
Washington headquarters. New Eng
1anders seem to have a special venera-
ton for the elm, and it is not to be
wondered at, for these stately trees are
to be found there in great numbers.
The elm likes a rich, we'll watered soil,
and under these conditions raises to
the forces of nature a monument which
no handiwork Of man can every hope to
equal in magnifcence and beauty.
Nowhere in the world grow sEch elms
as are found ON the North Conway in
tervales in the heart Of the White
Mountain valleys. Many Of them are
over 100 feet in height. They stand
with their feet sunk deep in the black
valley loan, moistened by mountain
streams. Their tall, straight trunks
shoot up sometimes as high as 70 feet
in perfect symmetry without a break
and then branch out into a graceful UNI
bel whose ends taper off into dropping,
slender wreaths of green. The Conway
eIns are famous the country over, and
they lend to the fat intervales a charm
which idealizes what would otherwise
be common meadow lands.
The campus of Harvard university, as
well as that of Yale, is shaded by noble
old elms which are dear to the memory
of every alumnus. New Haven has so
many of these trees that it claims the
distinction of being called the Elm
City. The monarch of all the New
Haven trees is the Beecher elm. It
stands right in the busiest part of the
town at the junction Of Church and
Chapel streets. 1t was planted by Thad-
deus Beecher on April II, 1890 This
happened to be the day On which Ben
jamin Franklin died, and for this rea-
son the tree has been tenderly cared for
ever since. In 1890 the centennial of
the tree planting was observed in New
Haven with appropriate ceremonies.
The old tree was decorated with flags,
and a grandson of Thaddeus Beecher
told how his ancestor paid farmer for
bringing into town the sapling. The
price was a quart of Santa Cruz rum
and Spanish miIled half dollar. A
substantial iron fence surrounds the
tree, and to it's trunk is fastened an iron
tablet telling its history.
Whittier was a lover of trees and
wrote much about them. Perhaps those
which he made most famous were the
sycamores planted by Hugh Talent on
the banks of the Merrimac at Haverhill,
Mass. Although Hugh Talent lived
many years before the gentle Quake
poet, the sycamores are still standing.
although they are locally known by the
more common name of buttonwoods
The Whittier buttonwoods are not the
only noted trees in this locality, for in
Salem, not many miles away, they viii
show you trees on Witch hill from
whose limbs, it is claimed, the early
Puritans hanged witches.
Another tree with somewhat sim
liar and equally tragic claim to fame
was the old mulberry tree which gave
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by acts Of the various legislatures, but
in others it is appointed annually by
the governor. The movement to estab-
lish this holiday began in Nebraska in
1879, but it is only within comparative
1y recent years that it has become at all
popular. Each year, however, it is rec
ognized more widely. and, although few
grown people today pay any attention
to it outside of the handful of enthusi-
asts who have assisted in its establish
ment, the day will probably become a.
national holiday in time. It will natu-
rally follow that when the children who
are now celebrating Arbor day grow up
they will continue the custom.
Arbor day should not have been hard
to establish, for man in general has a
native. admiration, which in many cases
amounts almost to veneration, for noble
and lofty trees. In the folk lore of al
most any locality you are sure to find
something about trees which have been
locally famous. The older portions of
the country are dotted with trees which
have been associated with important
events. Some of them are famous for
historical occurrences with which they
are connected.
Almost every one can recall two or
three of these celebrated trees. Charter
Oak, of course, was the most famous
tree in America. It stood in Hartford,
and to this day 10 American history
would be considered complete did it not
contain a picture of the old monarch
and story of how brave Captain Wads-
worth hid the Connecticut charter in its
hollow trunk to preserve the parchment
from the British governor general. The
end of Charter Oak came in 1854, when
it was laid low by a storm, but many
relics of it have been preserved.
Then there was Penns elm in Phi1a-
Gelphia, almost as famous. It was blown
down in 1910, and a monument now
marks the spot where stood the old
giant under whose spreading branches
William Penn made his treaty with the
Indians.
Not quite so ancient but by no means
modern was the old Liberty elm in Bos-
ton, under which the ''Sons of Liberty
stood when they first raised the banner
of independence. This was cut down by
the British in 1875. Then there was the
Burgoyne elm at Albany and the weep
ing willow which stood over the grave
of Cotton Mather in Copp's burying
ground, Boston.
But there are still standing in various
parts of the country trees celebrated in
song and story and associated with
events and persons of national impor-
lance. Perhaps the most notable of these
is the Washington elm in Cambridge.
When Washington took formal COM
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TREES KNOWN TO FAME
Some Historic Forest Monarchs
That Still Brave the Storms.
WESTINGHOUSE ELM AT CAMBRIDGE

The Gum Trees Which Alexander Hami1-
ton Planted and the sycamores About
Which Whittier Wrote-New England's
/ Noble Elms-Fate of a Giant Redwood.
The rising generation of young Amer
leans is growing up with several ideas
which we did not commonly possess.
The youngsters of today celebrate ami
versaries and observe holidays which
had not been heard of by the school
children of a generation ago. Among
these is Arbor day. In nearly every
state in the Union the school children
devote one day in the year to tree plant
ing, and each spring they observe it by
setting out many thousands of trees,
which Is or 30 years hence will add
much to the general comfort and beauty
of our cities and villages.
Arbor day comes the same date each
year in some states, having been fixed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-17
As BAD As TOPEKA.
Chicago's brilliant Police Arrest a
e Wealthy Paralytic and Imprison
Her Nine DAYS.

Chicago, Ill, May 17.-Family, friend
and police for nine days searched in
vain through hospitals and other pub
lie institutions of this city for Mrs
Caroline Nellis, the aged and invalid
wife of Aaron Nellis, 1912 Ellis avenue
Then, as if by accident, she was found
in a cell at the Bridewen. As a result
of the carelessness or stupidity of the
police, she was serving a sentence of %
days, in default of a fine of SO and
costs, which Judge William T. Hall of
the Stanton avenue police court had
imposed upon her for "disorderly con-
duct
It has been the habit of Mrs Nellis
to take walk about the boulevards in
the neighborhood of her home on pleas
ant days. In order to humor her she
was allowed to take these strolls with
out a caretaker She was stricken
with paralysis six years ago, and since
that time her speech has been affected
When she was found wandering the
streets the police diagnosed her condi-
ton as that of intoxication, and she
was locked up in a cell at the police
station at Thirty-ffth and Halstead
streets as Mary Doe" Being speech
less, she was unable to deny the
charges of the police next morning,
when taken to the Stanton avenue
court and Justic Hall fined her.
Mrs. NeIlis, who is II years old, is the
second wife of Aaron Nelns, who is SO
years old. He was one of the Demo-
cratic leaders of central New York, and
is still one of the wealthiest land own
ers in CanajOharie county, where he
amassed a fortune as merchant Mr..
NelIis is an intimate friend of Grover
Cleveland and ex-senator Palmer. One
of his grandsons is F. W. c. Hayes, a
law partner of Congressman Mann.
Another grandson is Prof. Burnap of
Lake Forest university.
Mrs. Nellis was the only daughter of
the wealthiest resident of JOhnstown, N.
Y, and has large fortune in her own
right At the time of her arrest there
was in the blotter of the police station
a copy of an alarm report which had
been sent out, telling of her disappear
ance and describing her dress. Since
then three other descriptions of the
missing woman had been flashed
through the city, while the newspapers
had contained stories telling of her dis
appearance and giving descriptions in
detail
The family of Mrs. Nellis had about
abandoned hope of finding her alive
when a letter from the matron of the
Bridewen telling of the whereab bouts
of the missing woman reached her
home At her home it was said the
authorities at the Bridewell refused to
release Mrs. Nellis unless the remainder
of the fine due the county was paid.
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NO CIGARETTES FOR WOMEN
New York Police Issue an Order Di-
rantad at seTenderloin" People.

New York, May 17.-Captain Chapman,
in command of the "tenderloin'' precinct.
has set out to stop the smoking of ci>
garettes by girls in the public places
within his domain.
There are various cafes in the tender
long. easy di7ans and Persian draperies
hanging from the walls and ceilings and
profusion about the places. The doors of
these cafes are wide open to the PnnllG,
while away many a night hour smoking
Joseph Oussani. who keeps the Cairo
Broad il7 has been visited by the cap
tain and advised not to allow women to
smoke in his place. Mr.. Oussani tried to
explain that he was violating no law.
and to do as the captain advised meant
ruin The captain was inexorable, how
ever, and now Mr.. Oussani, because he
had trouble with the police once before
is on tenterhOOks.
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SHAWNEE POPULISTS.
Shall All Who Voted for Bryan Vote
at the PrimariesP

The Shawnee county Populist central
committee will meet again next Satur-
day and attempt to settle the contro-
versy originating last Saturday and
causing an adjournment amid confus-
ion. The committee first decided to
hold the county primaries July 10 and
ing an early campaign in Topeka and
Shawnee county this fall.
A resolution was first adopted declar-
ing it to be the sense of the committee
that only straight out Populistss should
be permitted to vote at the primaries
This action was brought up again by a
resolution that all voters who support
ed Bryan in the late campaign should
be permitted to vote in the primaries
and be accorded recognition at conven-
lions of the party.
The resolution precipitated a lively
debate which ended, leaving the contro-
versy unsettled, by an adjournment
The question: To fuse or not to fuse?
will be settled at the next meeting.
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Mulberry bend, that unsavory portion
of New York, its name. For long
time this tree was known as Murderer
tree, and local legends had it that a
murderer had once been hanged from
its branches It was certain that many
a crime had been committed under its
shadow. In later years the Italians who
lived in the neighborhood adopted it as
their own, dedicated it to some patron
saint, and made it the object of their
love and veneration. They made a Wig
orous protest when the tree was cut
down about two years ago by order Of
the park commissioners when the i'm
provements which removed the old rock
cries and replaced them with a hand
some park were begun.
In the northern part of the city stands
a group of scraggy gum trees which
were planted by that great patriot and
statesman Alexander Hamilton short
1y after the close of the Revolution,
when he retired from the affairs of pub
lie life. Originally there were - trees
in the group, one for each of the new
states, but not more than half have out
lived the century, and those which are
left are manned by every strong wind.
They stand i'll a vacant lot now, but
that part of the city is rapidly being
built up with fine residences, and it
will not be long before the ruthless
hand of the urban woodman will lay
them low.
Ohio has at least one famous tree.
This is the Gary tree, a large sycamore
on the road from College Hill to Mount
Pleasant. 1t was planted by Alice and
Phoebe Cary, the novelist and poetess.
When it comes to big trees, of course
we have to go to California to find
them. There are several scattered groves
of the giant sequoia in the state, but
that at Mariposa is probably the best
known. Every one has read of these
wonderful redwoods and has seen the
familiar picture of a stagecoach being
driven through the hollow trunk of one
of these fallen monsters, but it may be
news to some CaIifOrnians to learn that
the trunk of one of their forest giants
has been shipped east, and is now doing
duty as a 100 foot bar at Coney Island,
within a stones throw of the Atlantic.
CYRUS SYLVESTER.
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SEEKING BEER.
Two Men Break Into the Bean Pack
ing House and are Caught

Two burglars searching for beer
were caught in the act" early this
morning in North Topeka And they
were caught by the police, too-astound-
ing to say.
In the old Bean packing house and
cold storage on Curtis and Tyler streets
two Russians broke two locks and en-
tered. They were not professional bur-
glars; merely ignorant fellows with bad
characters.
Patrolmen Davis and Murphy made a
hurried run to the place and with the
assistance of another man corralled the
intruders. They stationed the man at
the rear door which might have served
as way of escape and had him make
a noise. The two burglars, startled by
the noise ran out of another door right
into the official grasp of the two strong
policemen.
A short scuf1e ensued in which the
men tried to escape, but they were held
fast until the patrol wagon arrived. At
police station the men gave the names
of John Spon and John Kaperlen. They
live in the settlement east of North To-
peka known as"Little Russia" They
said they went in to get some beer which
they thought was on cold storage. They
had not broken into the beer room, but
had opened the lard rendering vat.
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TRIP TO MERRILL SPRINGS
Topeka Cyclers, 70 Strong, Take
Sunday Outing.

The first out of town club run and
| picnic was successfully carried out
yesterday by the 7. A. A. Wheelmen.
At 9:45 a. m. about 20 wheelmen form
ed in line and started for Merrill
Springs, fifteen miles south on Topeka
avenue There were eight ladies in the
party.
Ferd Driesbach was accompanied by
his wife on a tandem. Owing to the
number of green riders the trip out
was a little tedious to good many,
but all kept in line, and after three
or four short stops for rest the party
rolled into the Springs shortly before
L o'clock, all hungry, and good many
We're pretty tired. After partak1ng of
a hearty dinner the cyclers congregated
in little groups on the porcneS OF the
hotel or under the shade trees about
the place. The wheelmen, after resting
awhile, generally returned nome IN
small crowds, reaching home in time
for tea.
The run was without special incident
or any very serious accident There
were a few punctures, and VIII carr S
handlebars snapped Oft as ne was
starting for home. An improvised pair
was made of a forked willow stick and
with a little care the rider was enabled
to make the return trip in safety
The Ions line of Wheelmen made a
very pretty sight and was enjoyed by
the farmers along the route
One old gentleman, standing IN his
doorway viewing the parade much
after the fashion of a general reviewing
troops on parade, shouted; You are
a pretty respectable looking crowd,
boys
The other vehicles met on the road
gave the right of way to the wheel
men, and, as OFT Townsend remarked,
This is one time they have to respect
us" A mover with wagon full of
people and things, graciously acknowl-
edged, You are too many for me- boys;
I'll have to give you the road
An elderly woman driving a light
buggy was not going to surrender so
easily, and tenaciously held her half
of the road and compelled the wheel
men to pass single file around her She
shook her whip menacingly at some of
the boys. all the while uttering defiance
to anybody who dared to deny her her
rights She was not mOlested.
Much credit is due Captain Sheer and
the members of the 7. A. A. W. for the
success of the picnic and run, it being
the largest ever given by the club
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CLAIMS THE BELT
He Proclairns Himself the Champion
Cake Walker of Kansas.

To the Editor of The State Journal
I hereby claim the championship
cake walkers belt of Kansas. After
being defeated not long since by the
prejudice of the judges, I formally is
sued a challenge to the winner, Henry
Brown. for another match on May 20. I
exacted nothing unusual. 1t was to be
a straight contest, with no favors given
or received. Imagine my surprise to find
Mr. Brown sit down and fold his hands
and refuse to acknowledge my chaI-
lenge or make any arrangements for
the contest No one but pugilists are
allowed to retire on their laurels and
even they are not entirely exempt from
further engag ements. Since Mr.. Brown
refuses to meet me, hereby claim the
championship of Kansas and stand
ready to meet all corners at the cake
walk Yours for grace.
ANDREW JORDAN.
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