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The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
EARw1 IN THE FIRST.
The Atchison Merchants Candidacy
for Congress

Judge Albert H. Horton who formerly
lived in AtChisOn says of A. J. Harwi
who is a candidate for congress in the
First district:
"A. J. Harwi is probably the most for
tunate business man in Atchison. He
came there several years ago with
small means. He engaged in the
hardware business, and has been very
successful. He operates now the larg-
est hardware establishment in the
state. He is considered one of the
wealthiest men OF northern Kansas.
He is more of a business man than a
politician. but has filled several official
positions with honor to himself and sat
isfaction to his constituents. At one
time he was state senator from Atchi-
son county, and that county was never
better represented in the higher branch
of the legislature than by him. He
would make a good congressman, dis
charging his official duties with the
same attention, energy and faithful
ness that he has given to his own busi-
ness affairs. He will have an enthus-
iastic delegation from AtchisOn at the
convention, and will Put mp a strong
fight for the nomination. His friends
believe that Atchison holds the key of
the situation, and that the result of the
convention must inevitably be his NOM
ination for congress"
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
MARLBOROUGHs BUSY.
Young Duchess Engaged in Charita
bic Work, While Her Husband
Goes in for Politics.

London, Dec. S.-The Duke and Ouch
ess of Marlborough are very much to
the fore of late. The Duchess is talk
ing to opening bazaars and other char
liable enterprises and has figured in
two of these functions during the past
week. She acqults herself admirably,
being both dignifed and graceful.
The Duke is pushing his way actively
into politics and intends to make the
Primrose league, a Tory organization,
the stepping stone to political office.
This league is one of the most potent
forces in politics on this side. It was
founded by Lord Randolph Churchill,
and it publishes a monthly journal, to
which the Duke has promised to con-
tribute some personal recollectiOns of
Lord Randolph early in the new year.
Even if you are ducal millionaire
your political aspirations are not likely
TO be realized unless you assert your
self, and this the Duke of Marlborough
has resolved to lose no further time
about doing
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
THESE FIVE BROTHERS
Of q Kentucky Family All Drawing
Government Pensions.

Richmond, Ky, Dec. S--The Sorrels
living near Knob Lick, Bath county, get
more money from Uncle Sam in the
way of pensions, perhaps, than any one
family in Kentucky. There are six
bachelor brothers in the family. and
five out of the six get an annual stip
end from the government.
Augustus, who is II, and went through
the Mexican war. gets $12; John, who is
62 years old. draws IS per month; Jas
per is 5S and gets $17 per month for ser
vices in the Twenty fourth Kentucky
Infantry; Newton, Sc years of age, re-
ceives Sc per month as a member of the
same company; EnOch, who is 81, be-
longed to the Fortieth Kentucky Cav
airy, for which he draws $12. Not con-
tent with this allowance it is said a pc
gresS to make them an appropriation.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
GIRLS TALK NAUGHTY.
London Educators Waking Up to the
Fact That Their Pupils Use
Horrible Language.

London, Dec. S.-Several lady mem
bers have been elected to the London
school board, and combination is be-
ing effected among them to check the
use of vile Language among girl pupils. 1t
is a startling reflection that after more
than quarter of a century of compul-
sorry education, the speech of the mass
es Of men and women alike in London
is interlarded freely though unconsci-
Ously, with the most abominable words
and phrases.
When Father Ducey was here last
summer he was particularly Mortified at
the aspect of London working girl life.
One has only to move among any
crowd of boys and girls in the East
End of London to hear a constant flow
of the horrible expressions, used mean
lnglessly and without any apparent
sense of their import
This vicious language has spread in
the board schools with such alarming
rapidity that nothing short of a con
certed movement among teachers can
stamp it out. Such movement is now
being organized, but it is a question
whether it has not been begun too late
to be effectiIaI
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
OF Interest to Rousekeepers.

Inasmuch as the Worlds Fair and the
Iowa and Minnesota state boards of
health, condemned baking powders con-
tanning alum, it will be of use to our
readers to have an official list of some
OF the powders in order that they may
be able to distinguish between them
and the pure and wholesome cream of
tartar article This is not an easy mat
ter, as none of the alum compounds is
labeled as such, but all masquerade as
pure" best in the world none so
good" etc. Our space will not permit
of a complete list and we give the pow
ders most generally sold in this sec
tion, which are known to contain alum:
Calumet, Climax,
k C., Mokaska.
Hotel, Taylor's One Spoon,
Manhattan, Grants Bon Bon,
Loyal, Cameo,
Chicago Yeast.
Reject all brands sold with a prize or
at % cents or less a pound, as they are
made of alum. Be on the safe side and
accept none other than DR.. Prices
Cream Baking Powder. which received
the highest praise and honors at the
Worlds Fair.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
The Union PACIFIC

Passes through the best cities and
towns of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming
and Utah, and is the best route to Den
YER Cheyenne, Salt Lake City, San
francisco, Portland and all Puget
Sound points.
The advantages gained by travelling
via the Union Pacific are Quick Time
Unequaled Service.
Magnificent Equipment.
Double Draw wing Room.
Pullman Palace SleeperS.
Pullman Dining Cars.
Free Reclining Chairs.
Pullman Tourist Sleepers.
Tor time tables, pamphlets descrip-
tive of the country tFaversed, rates of
fare sleeping car accommodations, or
any other information, apply to
T. A. LEWIS,
City Ticket Agent
J. c. FULTON,
Depot Agent.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
MONKEYS HAND READ.
Cheiro, the Palmist, Lectures on G
Ch.mpanzse's Paw Lines.

Chicago. Dee. 8.-Several scientific
men, including Professors Bryan. .Choap
and Aikley of the Field Columbian
attended a lecture given in the Audi
torium hotel last evening by Professor
Cheiro, the palnist. Several days ago
Tess, the chimpanzee on exhibition at
the Zoo. was obliged to have her left
palm examined, much against her WILL
after which several plaster casts were
made for scientific purposes. The lee
purpose of informing those interested
in such matters of the result of the
palmist's examinations.
The thumb of the animal was said to
be the strongest feature of the hand or
paw. and in many respects bore q
strong resemblance to the thumbs of
human beings possessed of a lower or
der of intelligence. None of the other
lines bore any resemblance to the hand
marks of the human. except that of af-
fection, which was strongly marked.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
BAD THIRD DEGREE.
Causes Candidates 10 Leap From Win =
dow5 to Avoid It.

New York, Dec. S.-A special dispatch
to the Sun from Stonington, Conn,
says:
Thomas Mccormick is laid up in bed
with his right shoulder dislocated and
two ribs broken. This is due to the
fact that Nina Council, Knights Of Co
lumbus, has been working the third
degree again. Stories differ as to how
it happened A small boy who was pas
sing the building says he saw man
jump out of a third story window. The
members of the council say that the
room was warm. and consequently the
window was open, and that in some
way Mccormick stumbled and topped
backward through the window.
At any rate, Mccormick went out of
the window. In his flight through the
air he struck on a cOrnice one story be-
low and on his feet. and then pitched
forward to the ground, striking on his
hands and side 1t is believed that he
Will recover.
It is said that the council of the same
organization in South Providence was
working the third degree some months
ago when one of the candidates made
a hasty exit down a convenient water
pipe.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
MOUNTAINS OF WORK.
Two Years of Suits Mapped Out
by Attorney General Boyle.
Hundreds Of Thousands of De-
fauIted Bonds in the Treasury.
State House and General Political
News of Kansas.

IF I am not elected for a second
term" says Attorney General Boyle,
I will leave work enough on the dock
cts of the various courts to keep my
successor busy for two years at least.
I can't possibly complete the business
I now have mapped out. There are
hundreds of thousands of dollars of de-
faulted bonds lying in the treasury
that should have been sued upon years
ago, but have not been noticed by my
predecessors.
I propose to resurrect these after I
get through with the Insurance cases
and the trusts. Nobody outside the
attorney generals office or the treas
urer's office has any idea of the value
of these defaulted bonds, some of
which have been lying there for many
years."
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
WESLEYAN GIRLS ANGRY.
Savage Attack ON Woman's Rights by
a Senior Rouses Their Ire.

Delaware, O., Dec S.-There is a SEN
satiOn within the walls of Ohio Wes-
leyan university. c. E. Billig, a senior,
of FOrreston, Ill, and Miss Evelyn
True, residing in McConneIsviIle, o.,
debated before the senior class. The
subject asked for by the young lady
was Shall the Right of Suffrage Be
Granted to WOmen?'
She took the Affirmative and BilHg
the negative. Billig- made such caus-
tic remarks that the ladies took offense
They drew resolutions of Indignation
denouncfng speech and speaker. Prof
Fulton was waited on by a committee
and he reported to President Bashford
Last night when Rillig attended St
Pauls Methodist Church choir prac-
tice the ladies publicly snubbed him.
He says his argument was proper and
viii not apOlOgize.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
F. D. ooBURN FOR GOVERNOR
Del Valentine Suggests the Secretary
of the State Board of Agriculture

Del Valentine in the Clay Center
Times brings out a new candidate for
governor. He says:
Fl. D. COburn will stand analysis as
a Republican candidate for governor,
A clean man, fearless, Republican
through and through, in active and in
telligent sympathy with the farming
and stock growing industries of the
state, capable. pleasant, affable and
available. 1t would not be strange if
the people of the state took him up and
made hima candidate in spite OF the pO-
liticians as they did with President Nc
Kinley."
Mr.. Coburn is secretary of the state
board of agriculture.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
LOW FOR GOVERNOR.
Scheme Afoot That4May Retire Platt
as Machine Leader.

New York, Dec. SIT is not without
humor the suggestion is mad@ that
Senator Platt and the other Republican
leaders who followed him to defeat a
scant three weeks ago may have to ac-
cept as the machine candidate for gov
ernOr Seth Low, late independent can
didate for mayor. The suggestion is
offered seriously by many Of Mr.. Lows
friends, and was decided upon at a
secret meeting last week.
Mr. Low is willing, too, and it is not
improbable that he will be selected as
the instrument of all anti-machine men
in the state. with which it is hoped to
dethrone Platt from the dictatorship of
the Republican machine.
Senator Platt will possibly view the
proposition that his next convention ac-
cept Mr.. Low as its candidate as a fine
bit of irony, yet it is almost certain
that unless political conditions radically
change in the interim Mr.. Lows name
viii be mentioned.
The friends of Low believe that he
viii be quite as strong a candidate for
governor as he was a candidate for
mayor, and they are already at work
throughout the state building up ma
chine. with a view of vindicating their
belief
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
LEEDY IS FIRM.
Shawnee County Populists Run Up
Against the Governors Strong
est Trait

George W Clark. chairman Of the
Shawnee county Fopulist committee
Charles Lindsay, L. 7. Yount and Mr.
Phillips called upon Governor Leedy
last night and urged him to dispense
with the services of Henry Steele as
chief of police.
Mr. Clark was the principal spOkes-
man and he told the governor if he re
fused to remove Steele Shawnee county
Populists would send to the next state
convention delegation opposed to
Leedy's denomination.
The other men made speeches before
the governor in a similar vein but the
chief executive has refused up to this
time, at least, to take any action along
the line demanded.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
CALL THE TOWN HOPKINS.
Chicago's Mayor and Others Lay
Out Settlem ent on the Shores
of Long Lake

Chicago, Dec. 9.-The Calumet Har-
Dor and Improvement company receiv-
ed 1900 abstracts yesterday at Crown
Point. Ind. for land near Miller station,
on Long Lake, where a town is to be
laid out.
It probably will be called Hopkins,
after eX-Mayor Hopkins, who, with
John r. Caverly, Bowen F. Hanee and
Henry J. Reynolds of this city, are back
Of the enterprise. The town already is
laid out and the streets are named. It
is said part of the scheme is to make a
summer resort on the lake shore. The
site is in Lake county, Ind, 80 minutes
ride from Chicago.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
BARS GIDDY POSTERS.
Mount Vernon, N. Y, Passes an Or
dinance Regulating the Display.

New York, Dec. S.-NO longer will the
giddy burlesquer, done over into pink,
green and purple Autographs. be permit
ted to gaze in pasty steadfastness at
the youth of Mount Vernon.
The towns board of aldermen has
passed and it's mayor. Edwin Fiske, has
approved an ordinance which provides
that hereafter all bilIposters must. un-
der penalty of SO fine or ten days
Imprisonment, submit to the mayor all
show printing which they desire to ex-
pose in that town, and paste up only
such posters as the mayor approves
The mayor says he viii draw the line at
boomers.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
POLITICS IN DRUGS.
How One Firm Lost Soma State Con
tracts.

In letting contracts for drug supplies
to the various state institutions the
state board of charities, specified in
nearly every instance, that the drugs
made by Merrill & Co. should be fur
nished. It was charged that this was
an effort to corner the business in IA
VOr of that company.
Nothing of this kind was done The
two leading competitors in the bidding
were Parke. Davis & Co, and the Mer-
riH company The former company
was one which is said to have dis
charged it's employees because they vo-
ted for Bryan. For this reason the
members of the board of charities, did
not care to cause the state of Kansas
to aid in maintaining so partisan an i'll
situation and they gave the majority
of the business to the Merrill company.
It is not charged that there was any
difference in the prices of the drugs 50
contracted.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
Civ Larislators

Mayor Fellows, City Clerk NJ Fadden.
City Attorney Bird and Councilmen
Patttson. Warner and Burgess VIII
leave this evening for Atcnison to at
cities OF the first class. Topeka has
no axes to grind. The officers would
ike to see the office OF. commissioner OF
elections abolished. but that is about
the only demand they viii make. As
usual the convention will probably rec
ommend that this be done and when
the legislature meets that body viii
probably fail to do anything.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
DORSEY'S RANCH SOLD.
Including the House Built for Colonel
Ingersoll

Denver, Dec. S.-A special to the Re
publican from Santa Fe, n NJ, says;
1t is announced here today that F. W.
Seward of Eddy, n. NJ. has purchased
the famous Hone ranch OF ex-senator
S. W. Dorsey al Chios Springs. Cclfax
county, including the palatial residence
built for Colonel Robert G. IngersOll,
and viii convert it into a sanitarium
for cOrSumptiNes.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

1t is not what a manufacturer says
about his own medicine that cures q
patient but what the medicine does.
BaIlard's Horehound Syrup does the
work and does it we'll. It cures coughs
and colds in a day. Its healing. sooth-
ing and quietIng. 25c & Soc Geo. w
Stansheld. 632 Kan. Ave. and Millers
Pharmacy, Cor. Sixth and Topeka Ave.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

The sale of seats for the engagement
of Thomas Keene in this city will open
at Rowley & Shows drug store tomor-
row morning. The regular prices Of
$1O0, IS. SO and 25 cents will prevail for
both the matinee and evening engage
ment The Merchant of Venice" with
Keene in the character of "Shylock, .
Will be played as the matinee piece and
in the evening Julius Caesar" with
the tragedian in the role of Marc An
tony, will be presented.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

To quit tobacco easily and forever. be mag
netic. full OF life. ne.ve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac. the wonder worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guaran-
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co. Chicago or New York
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

There is no finer, fresher. richer or
more varied line of suitings than that
kept by Olof Ekberg. 713 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

Ballard's Snow iniment will cure
Lame Back. Sore Throat, Wounds,
SprainS, Bruises, Cuts. Old Sores. La
dies, it will cure your back-ache- Geo
W. Stansfield, G32 Kan. Ave, and NH
Ier's Pharmacy. Cor. 9Th and Topeka
avenue
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
Christmas Presents Sold on Easy
Payments.

A beautiful line of Ladies' and Cen
tlemen's Watches, Rings and JeweIry
Photograph Albums, teachers and fam
lily Bibles, a handsome line of fancy
Chinaware and all kinds of household
utensils sold on easy payments at the
very lowest prices.
E. w. HUGHES
107 East Fifth street, just across the
street from the postofnce.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

He-"Mary, what are you grinning
she-"To think of a gentleman trim
ming a hat
He-'Its a beautiful sight, as you
may see
On Thursday night at Unftee."
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

At the High school assembly hall
next Friday evening, Miss Katharine
Alyord vii be seen in classic imperson-
ations as the third number of the High
school course. The advance matter
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

Not how cheap bur how good IS the
way we try to do our work. Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia West sth.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

There is one good restaurant in To-
peka, that's the Crenerie 726 Kansas
avenue, Scott & ScoCI.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
WANTS S3O,OOO,OOO.
Greater New York to Make an Enor-
nous Bond Issue.

New York, Dec. S-The board of es-
tlmate in making the budget for next
year viii appropriate more than $780,
900 to pay interest on bonds to be is
sued during the year 1888 for various
public improvements. These bonds
have already been authorized by va
rious acts of the legislature and in
nearly every case the law is manda-
tory They will amount to $50 600 600
The estimate of $40, 600, goo to be issued
next year does not include all the
bonds authorized. That amount it is
estimated, will be required before the
end of next year to carry on public
work already under way or contemplate
ed.
Included in the big estimate are items
of $4,000, 600 for new schools, 81, 900 900
dock bonds, and $1,000 coo for paving.
Seventy Years Ago in New England
is the title of a sketch which Miss Mary
+. wilkins has written for the next
volume of the Youths Companion. Miss
Wilkins, who has probably made more
thorough study of New England life
than any other writer. takes a typical
girl, who she calls Lydia, and shows
in vivid outline her tasks and amuse-
ments in a farmers family. What
Whittier's Barefoot Boy is in verse
Miss wilkins sketch is in prose. 1t
brings to the eyes a picture of a maid
who lost none of her charm or the joy
of life in a Spartan environment and
the performance of lowly tasks.
rs,,1--..-s,,. e. IT, ry4o4e r.,..r
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

Flo Irwin and her company in the
comedy, 1.-The Widow jones' comes to
the Crawford theater in this city next
Monday evening.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
BalIard'S

BalIard's Snow Liniment cures
Rhen1a tism, Neuralgia, Headache, Sick
Headache, Sore Throat, Cuts, Sprains.
Bruises Old Sores, Corns, and all pain
and infammat ton The most penetrat-
ing Liniment in the world. Try it, soc.
Geo. w. Stansfeld, 632 Kan. Ave. and
NIiller's Pharmacy, Cor. 9th and Topeka
avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

We do mending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

The up-to-date Lunch and Short Or
der Restaurant, The Cremerie, 7z6 Kan
sas avenue. SCOTT & SCOTT.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08
LOCAL DRAMATIC NEWS.

The audience at the Grand opera
house last night to hear the Wagnerfan
concert by the Apollo club was larger
than the audience of Monday night
and endeavored to make Prof. Won Dab
len and his musical associates forget
their disappointment over the attend
ance at the first season of Wagner by
generous applause If the concerts
were prolonged, and the attendance in
crease each night to the extent Of last
nights audience over that of Monday
night. in the course of two weeks. possi-
bly,, the club would have a good audi
ence.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

Olof Ekberg. mercnaut tailor. us
nausas avenue, firsr-class suit Of
clothes for $25
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

Have you seen US in our new place?
The Cremerie SCOTT e, SCOTT
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

"A Southern Romance" which comes
to the Crawford theater tomorrow night
was presented for the first time in
Kansas City Monday evening, and CT
the piece the Kansas City Star had the
following to say: "A Southern Rom
ance" is an interesting and clever play.
and it has the further advantage of
being played by a group of actors, ex-
cellently fitted in appearance and man
ners to the parts they assume. The
play, an adoption of a more or less we'll
known novel called In Gods COun-
try, illustrates with some fidelity the
most attractive phase of home life in
the South, with its hospitality and it's
class prejudice both clearly defined
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

Friday evening THE Dazzler" with
the same central theme, but with new
songs, dances, etc, will come to the
Crawford theater in this city for the
seventh time. During the six years
THE DazzIer'' has been visiting Tope-
ka, it has always attracted good audi
ences, made up of theater goers who
enjoy that class of farce vaudeville.
The company this year includes 19
people, and a material Improvement is
said to have been made in the fare of
humor.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-08

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The evening times., 1897-12-20
BUTTERFLIES AND BOWS.

Either butterfly or a Louis Quinze bow
take your choice, my dear nadane-as
a hair ornament for evening wear, IL you
would be strictly up-to-datc In the world
OF well-dressed women. So DEGREES Dame
Fashion. alM ays arbitrary and usually
successful in having her own way.
These butterflies are small, large and
medium size, and co.ne in every color
They are as daintily tinted as the hues
of the real butterfly wings. and quiver
in the most Iire-like manner on their in
visible spirals OF silver wire. Sometimes
one large one is used as an adjunct TO
the high style of haird-essing now in
vogue for evening wear. and two or thrse
smaller cnes will nestle here and there
among the fluffy waves of the sides ind
back OF the head
Holcing its own with the butterfly fad
is the Louis Quinze how-knot These
bows are sometimes In the style of true
lovers knots, OF crinkled ribbon OF q
fine ribbon wire. They ARE in all the deli
cate evening It sdes, and are generally the
has, ofmarabout tip or bunch of aigr cites.