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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
MRS. MAYBRICK'S CASE.
Ambassador Hay Presents Another
Petition for Her Pardon.

London, July 6.-Mrs. Florence May
brick, the American woman sentenced
in 1889 to be hanged for poisoning her hus-
band in Liverpool, but whose sentence
was afterward committed, stands a bet
ter chance for liberation now than at any
time since her incarceration.
John Hay has interested himself per-
sonally in the case of Mrs. Maybrick, and
as ambassador of the United States has
formally petitioned the crown for the par
don of the woman. The question of the
guilt of innocence of the prisoner is not
considered in Col. Hays petition. It is
simply a request on the part of many
American people, through their aceredit-
ed representative for her release. The
British government has not refused to
accept the petition, which is circum-
stance favorable to Mrs. Maybrick, since
other petitions have been refused.
Ambassador Hay handed the petition to
the head of the department to which he
is accredited, Lord Salisbury, secretary of
acknowledged it's receipt and informed
Col. Hay that he had presented it to the
home secretary, Sir Matthew White Rid
ley. There the matter rests at present.
The home secretary has entire discre-
ton in the matter. If he chooses to re-
lease Mrs. Maybrick he can do SO to-
morrow, at any time he pieases. Other
petitions for Mrs. Maybricks pardon have
been handed to Sir Matthew before but
executive clemency in these was asked
on the ground of the innocence of the
prisoner. The formal request of the Uni
ted States ambassador for her pardon
without regard to her guilt or innocence
may receive different hearing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
FOUR LEGGED TRAMPs.

Unless somebody shall soon begin to
look after the interests of the American
horse, the occupation of that hitherto
useful animal will be gone and he will
be forced to join the great army of
human tramps that wanders aimlessIy
about the country. The time when the
farmer can look out at almost any hour
of the day and meet the wistful gaze of
a tired trotter, silently pleading for
handout seems not far distant. The re-
cent fall in the price of bicycles consti-
tutes a long step toward bringing about
this condition. Next year they will pro-
baby go still lower
If it had been possible to form a bicy-
Gle trust, the price might have been
maintained at the former enormous
margin of profit. But the construction
of the wheel is so simple and so few of
the essential parts are protected by pa
tents, that the "fgentIeman's agree
ment'' could control the market against
the manufactures, which were spring
ing up from time to time in answer to
the demand for cheaper wheels no long
er.
Unprotected by an effectual combin-
alton such as obtains in oil, sugar,
meat and many other articles in COM
mon use, the price tumbled. A further
reduction until the selling price is some
where near the cost of production, plus
a fair profit, is inevitable.
As wheels become cheaper, more peo-
pie will buy them and the manufactor-
les, which have hitherto for the most
part been taxed to their utmost to fill
the requirements of the trade, will be
kept as busy as before.
When the SIS people have all bought
wheels then the price will come down to
$50
Another result of the cheapening of
wheels and the consequent increase in
the number of riders will be the i'm
provement of the streets and roads. AS
the ranks of the wheelmen increase. the
demand for road Improvement will be
come Irresistible. They will get what
they ask for and what the horse would
have had long ago if he had possessed
a vote.
The change will come too late. how
ever, to do him any good. There is
but one more blow to fall and that will
come with the introduction of motor
carriages. The day is not far off when
the horse must become a tramp or emil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
"REsoRr1NG TO VIOLENCE"

After giving the striking coal miners
some good advice about being content
with their lot and to be satisfied with salt
meat and corn bread, as a steady diet
several newspapers end their comment on
the present strike with few stereotyped
remarks about securing the good will of
the public if they refrain from violence
OF course, all men should refrain from
violence. The man who loses his temper
generally loses his cause, whether he
loses his temper in company with his fell
lows or by himself. At the same time it
is not to be expected that ignorant men
unaware of their power of Fighting
wrongs by the ballot, will starve peace
fully. ineffective as violence is, and cer>
tain to be repressed as it always has been
among strikers, it is too much to expect
that workmen with empty stomachs who
are also excited by the misery of their
wives and children will remain as serene
as philosophers.
A high minded and thoroughly cultured
man might have some difficulty in main
tanning his eQuanimity under suffering
and injustice. Even Christ lost his tenn
per at the villainies of the money chang
in the temple and resorted to violence
and the instances recorded in the Bible
where the great Jehovah waxed exceed
ing wroth and visited well merited pun
ishment on the exasperating violaters of
his holy law, are too numerous to need
recall. Man, made in the image of God
will break forth in violence sometimes;
we cannot expect him to be superior in
self-restraint to his Maker.
So if there is violence during the pres
ent strike of coal miners, it will be well
for us to study the causes of it. We
must not expect angelic seIf-abnegation
from just plain human beings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
PAUPER BIBLES EXCLUDED
Senator Mills Am endm emit Admitting
Bibles Free of Duty is Defeated.

Washington, July Ex-senator Allison,
in charge of the tariff bill announced
yesterday that no agreement had been
reached for final vote on the tariff
and he would ask the senate to remain
in session tonight until the bill shall be
reported from the committee of the
whole, to the senate.
In some respects the senate made
good progress yesterday, diSpoSing of
two amendments, one placing a stamp
tax being agreed to with little or no
opposition and without the formality of
a vote, while the Spooner amendment,
proposing a tariff investigation, was
withdrawn after a protracted struggle.
The stamp amendment agreed to, fixed
the following rates on bonds, etc.
Bonds, debentureS or certificates of
Indebtedness, issued after Septem Der Is,
1897, by any association, company or
corporation, on each one hundred dol
lars of face value or fraction thereof,
five cents; and on each original issue,
whether an organization or re-Organ1-
cation of stock by any such company,
association or corporation on each one
hundred dollars of face value or frac-
ton Thereof. five cents; and on all trans
ferS of shares of certificates of stock in
any association, company or corpora
ton, on each one hundred dollars of
face value or fraction thereof two cents.
Exceptions on the stamp tax are made
in the case of state, county and NUM-
cipal bonds, and the stocks and bonds
of cooperative building associations.
Late in the day several amendments
from individual senators were voted on.
One by Mr.. Mantle. (Mont.l reducing
the internal revenue tax on distilled
spirits to 20 cents per gallon was de-
feated, 23-41. An amendment by Mr.
Mills (TeXas) proposing a tax of five
per cent on manufactured products, the
proceeds to go toward reducing the
bonded debt, was rejected, 1888. Also
an amendment by Mr.. Mills granting
20 per cent reduction in duties to those
countries admitting gold and silver to
their minis at the rate of 16 to 1, yeas
26; nays 81.
Mr.. Mills endeavored to amend para
graph 1850 by striking out "books of all
kinds his purpose being to place books
on the free list; rejected 1928. An eff
fort by Mr.. Mills to have the Bible ad-
mitted free was defeated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
A. KANSAS CITY OUTBREAK

An effort is being made to get the
Younger Brothers, murderers, horse
thieves. train robbers and back woods
ruffians, pardoned out of the Minneso-
ia penitentiary.A The effort is confined
to Missouri. The Younger brothers
should have been hung when they were
convicted and that would have obviat-
ed the present outburst of maudIin SEN
timent on the part of a Kansas City
paper that ought to have a better sense
of the fitness of things. Missouri has
too much trouble with train robbers,
and bank robbers every day to feel
kindly toward any of their kind.
The. effort to make these convicts
popular heroes is a most il-advised
move. It's direct result is to encourage
the lawless classes and it gives them
to understand that the train robber
the bank robber and the scoundrel of
high or low degree Is a person to in
epire sympathy, and that his calling in
the ranks of crime is an honorable one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
DENVER'S DEMOCRACY.
Over One Hundred Recruits Enlist at
First Meeting.

Denver, July 6.-The wave of social dem
ocracy which started from Chicago last
month as a result of the commonwealth
convention called by Eugene V. Debs has
struck Denver, and last evening the first
steps towards the organization of a local
branch were taken. The meeting was
held at the Coliseum hall and several hum
dred enthusiastic men and women listen
ed to an exposition of the principles of So
cialism. At the conclusion of the speeches
100 more signed the constitution. An
other meetings will be announced later and
then officers will be elected. If the local
order grows the county will be taken in,
then the state and finally Colorado will be
in line with her sisters who will by that
time, it is hoped, be strong for radical
change in national and state government.
The chairman was Attorney Hughes,
who said in part that he was ashamed
of this states government and had been
so since Colorado was admitted to the
union. He was tired, he said, of state
and national jobbery, Anything for a
change.
It three things now" said he.
which gifts of socialism. They are
the post offices, public schools and the
libraries. Are these gifts other than So
cialistic? And are they not the best
things we are getting out of this coun-
try's government? The socialistic gifts
are for the welfare of the people and not
for the interests of the individual A
government that robs the people is not
enduring. A government that is vascillat-
ing cannot last forever. A crime COM
mitted by the government against the
people is certainly than a crime
committed by a person against the whole
people. If you and L conspire together
to commit a crime against a party of
men, it is a graver sin than if only you or
only committed it,
Mr.. Hughes closed by speaking of the
senate sugar trust as the modern scandal
of the government.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
HARMFULNEsS OF SUMMER
GTRT,G
(Kate GARRETT Wells in North Ameri-
can Review for JuIy)

(Kate Garnett Wells in North Ameri-
can Review for JuIy.)
A summer girl is not half so serious a
business as a. platonic affair, though her
varieties, excuses and fritterings slow
ly bereaye men of any notion of stead
fast affection and rational enjoyment.
She fastens like a parasite on the ten
der college youth and adoreS his flesh
young manliness. She leads him a Jig
in the dance of his feelings, too wary to
accept more than bon-bons, and ready
to hold him in leash as a brother when
he runs to sentiment. One or two such
experiences teach him in turn, as he
grows older the art of 1irtatiOuS fenc-
ing and of breaking off in the middle of
declaration. At the end of a season
his vanity has not been hurt by re-
fusal and her conscience consoles her
Tor not having brought him to the point.
When he has re-established his good
opinion of himself, he finds he has lost
his zest for a lengthy marriage, thinks
less of girls and more of his mother,
and settles down as a bachelor ready
again for any test of his emotions which
will not eliminate in the f1xity of feel
ing requisite for wedding. One could
moraliZe over the harm these expert
enced summer girls inf1ict upon ideals
of loyalty and honor if they themselves
were not so capriciously bewitching, and
from an economic point of view SO much
less expensive than wives. That they
injure their sex does not disturb
their futility. Their reign is brief and
they care not that it's injuries are last
ing if they have got as much out of it
as they could.
A middle-a aged bachelor who has had
many summer girls is apt to allege as
the reason of his single life that he
could not find anyone to marry him.
Such simplicity betrays itself, even if
it is courteous to womanhood. What
ne really means is that his sum-
mer girls have destroyed his ability to
love but one person steadily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
PEARY AFTER THE METEOR
It LIES Near Cape York and Weighs
IS Tons

Washington. July 6.-sfLfeut. Peary's
trip north at this time" said General
Greedy, the arctic explorer, sis not intend
ed to be a polar expedition so much as
it is for the purpose of bringing back an
immense meteorite from the vicinity of
Cape York. Inasmuch as Lieut.. Peary
will return this year from his expedition
and will only be accompanied by possibly
a dozen persons. most of them scientific
men, it will partake more of a summer
excursion trip than a polar expedition.
The party will go up the west coast of
Greenland to about 76 degrees north
where this meteorite is situated. and re-
newed attempts will be made to get it
aboard the bark rugged steamer Hope.
which has been chartered for the use of
the expedition at ST. James.
This naeteoric has been known to arc
tic explorers for the last 80 years, it hav-
ing been first discovered by Captain Ross
in 1878 AS near can be ascertained
from it's general appearance the meteor
lite weighs about 35 tons and is pretty
bulky mass of material. Lieut.. Peary
made an unsuccessful attempt some time
ago to get this meteorite aboard the craft
in which he entered the northern waters.
but there was some characterization which
rendered his efforts unsuccessful for the
time being. Now, however, he will go
better prepared, with help and material
for getting the meteorite aboard the Hope
and bringing it to this country, as Lieut..
Gorrings did the obelisk from Egypt.
which is now in Central Park, New York.
while on this journey north Lieut..
Peary will make arrangements with the
Eskimos whom he meets to gather dogs
sledges, furs and other materials such as
may be needed for an arctic trip next year
and will endeavor to carry out his plans
for establishing bases of supplies at diff
ferent places in the north. SO they will be
all ready for him and the members of his
party when they start next year. Several
scientific men have been invited by Lieut..
Peary to accompany him on his present
journey, and assurances have been given
them that under circumstances will
there be any attempt made this year to
go where there is the least danger. Cape
York country, which will probably be
the last stopping of the expedition before
returning to the United States, is the
rendezvous for sealers and wl1alers who
have come down from the arctic regions
for the winter, consequently there will be
no danger of any kind from such an expe-
dition as Lieut.. Peary proposes this year"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

thoughts may have been lost to a pub
lie ever craving new ideas. Countless
thousands have certainly been uttered
that have never been heard by any
body except the speaker herself. The
trouble is that club women are afraid
to speak to one another about their ora
toricaI shortcomings, and as a result
they go on like the brook, forever, with
out improving in their delivery in the
slightest degree.
After a woman breaks the ice and
reads paper once that settles it. She
is always more than willing to do her
share, as club women modestly put it,
after that, and goes on indefinitely add
ing to the aggregate of misery that the
audiences have to endure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
Free Pills.

Send your address to II. E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, and get a free sample
box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills. A
trial will convince you of their merits.
These pills are easy in action and are
particularly effective in their cure of
constipation and sick headache. For
malaria and liver troubles they have
been proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from
every deleterious substance and to be
purely vegetable They do not weaken
by their action, but by giving tone to
the stomach and bowels greatly inyig-
crate the system. Regular size rs cents
per box. Sold by J. K. Jones, druggist,
Fifth street and Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
woMEN SPEAKING IN PUBLIC.
From the Chicago Tribu


Since all the women's clubs have
sprung into existence the experience of
speaking in public has come to- many
a woman'@ lot. To most of the women it
is a painful experience, but not half so
discomforting as it is to their audien-
ces.
1.-THE club woman is a queer species, -
so q Grabbed old bachelor saws, and
some who boast possession of the bad
ges of no fewer than IS organizations
must own that this is true when it
comes to speaking in public
Few club women refuse to read a
paper or speak when their time comes.
Nearly all of them declare that they
won't when appointed to do SO for the
first time, and they all say that they
can't stand the nervous strain of ad-
dressing a number of their sex, who
are certain to be amused at their awk-
Wardness in manner and inability to
make themselves heard.
But they always end by attempting
it.. Nobody could safely assert such a
thing positively, but since the era of
woman's clubdOm it is possible that a
great many brilliant and original
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
LAST OF THE SHOE LACE.
Device of st. Louis Inventor Which
Will Take the Place of the String.

st. Louis, July civilian Henry Daley
of this city has patented a device which
will be the death of the shoestring.
By is use one can lace his shoes with
the snap of his finger.
The device consists of double row of
groove-shaped catches. When the uppers
are brought together the catches join,
thus fastening the shoe. A leather ton
que riveted with buttons passes up
through the grooves and is fastened at
the top by the mere pressure of the
thumb.
MIR. Daley has received several good
offers for his device. Some of them were
in the way of lump sums, and one offer,
which the inventor will probably accept
includes a liberal cash payment and a
royalty on every pair of shoes manufac-
tured in which his patent fastener is
used. His immediate income under this
arrangement will be $4,000 year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

There is no pain or discomfort when
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment is used.
scratching. It is prepared with scien-
tific accuracy and professional knowl-
edge, and is the kind that cures blind,
bleeding, itching and protruding Piles
with no pain or loss of time. Geo. w.
Stansfie1d, 632 Kan Ave, and MilIers
Pharmacy. Cor. 9Th and Topeka Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06
COL.JONEs GOES TO EUROPE
Former Editor of the Post-Dispatch
Will Take Rest

Washington, July 6.-Charles H. Jones
of st. Louis, reached Washington today.
The purpose of his visit was to secure
passports from the state department. He
will sail on the 8th from New York. When
he called at the state department and in
formed Secretary Sherman of his inten-
ton to leave the country, the favor which
he asked was at once granted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

Is your child puny, peeked and peev-
ish? Does it have commissions? If so,
it has worms. Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge is the only safe cure. Every bot
tie is guaranteed to bring worms, Csc
Geo. w. Stansfield, 632 Kan. Ave, and
avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

It heals everything except a broken
heart, may be said of De Wits Witch
Hazel Salve. Piles and rectal diseases
all skin troubles may be cured by it
quickly and permanently. G. w. STAINS
field, 622 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06


When Gabriel blows his trumpet lots
of Atchison women will ask: What is
it?'
interested in a game that he becomes
offensive, he is called a base ball
rooter.
The main motive of church organiza-
lions of late seems to be to run excur-
sions on the railroads instead of to
heaven.
The woman who wears such full
sleeves to her clothes that they dip in
the butter and jam, should elope to
some desert island with the man who
gets soup in his whiskers.
II am good faithful worker in
have attended every Christian Endeav
or excursion for years"
OF course it's hot, but do you expect
snow in July?
An Atchison man recently bought a
pocketbook on credit.
Our idea of d thoroughbred is man
who takes nap" in the middle of
the day.
Every time there is an unnecessary
rain, we wonder that it is not held until
August.
If you have a kick coming to you on
this weather, don't kick; the exertion
will raise your temperature.
+
The amount of money a man earns
is never mentioned at a wedding, but
it is the whole thing in divorce.
Occasionally we hear of a man who
laughed heartily at the joke on him
self" No man ever enjoys joke on
himself
We don't want to go away to spend
the summer; what we want is to go
some place where they don't have any
summer to spend.
We are anxious for dry weather, SO
that the flies can go out of doors to
play. When the rain keeps the bores
out, the flies come in.
There are SO many men with big
heads who claim to be on the path to
heaven, that thrifty angels should COL
lect old bicycle tires for ha1os.
We have heard a great many COM
plants of the heat, but the worst was
from a woman who boards, and who
does nothing all day but fan and rock
+
A loafer always complains of warm
weather more than a hard working
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

He says that before the campaign of
1900 has begun he expects to have a wes-
tern newspaper and make a blaze in
western journalism
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

At present the whole world is wonder
ing at the tremendous sales and desira-
BILE effects of Beggs' German Salve.
Druggists sell it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-06

| Shirts, collars and cuffs Numbered
| to look like new by Peerless Steam
/ Laundry, 112 and ia West 9Th ST.
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Weather Indications.

Chica go, July 6.-For nsas-Unset-
tied but morally fair and warm wealth
er tonight and Wednesday; SOutherly
winds