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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
REVOLT IN COTTON RANKS.
Northerners Worried Over Action of
Southern Mills.

New York, May 26-The Post today
says: The revolt of the southern cotton
yard manufacturers against what they
condemn 5 the injustice of northern
commission men is the newest feature of
the southern cotton manufacturing situa-
ton During a meeting at Charlotte, N.
c.. the following came into existence:
Orders for goods shall not be Cancelled
except upon mutual agreement of the
manufacturer and the commission men
or purchaser. Nor shall any delay in de-
livery be allowed except when agreeable
to both manufacturer and purchaser.
1t is recommended that a straight COM
mission rate of per cent be adopted and
a committee appointed to ascertain if the
per cent discount can be taken. off,
This, it is true, is the action of the
yarn-nin men and not the weavers. But
many of the weavers of North and South
Carolina and Georgia attended the meet
ing, and it is to be supposed that their
general attitude was not one of antagon>
ism to the spinners. Indeed. there are
many straws to show that the southern
winds blow coIdly toward the northern
purchasers, and commission men are
really disturbed over the situation.
The head of New York concern which
represents a number of mills in the south
and deals very largely in cloths, particu>
larry for export use, said that the mill
men were not altogether to blame.
1.-The present is a falling market" he
said mot by any means an easy one in
which to operate. The eastern mill men
have found it a very disastrous market
lately. and the situation with them is one
which calls for a great deal of quiet
thinking and waiting"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
MORE TEMPERANCE LAWS.
Mass Meetings at Springfield in Favor
of Scientific instruction in Schools.

Springfield, Ill, May 26.-The Chris
tan churches of this state are bonn
harding the legislature with petitions
for a stronger temperance education
law.
At the call of their respective relig-
ious bodies the pastors at the capital
acting in behalf last Sunday evening
called union mass meetings in the
largest churches in the city for last
night, which were packed with enthu-
siastic listeners.
United States Senator John NJ. Pal
mer and Judge S. P. Wheeler presided.
Ten minute speeches were made by able
speakers, who. by interchanging, were
heard at both meetings. The following
resolution was adopted at both meet
ingS:
Resolved, That we, in compliance
with the request of various ecc1esias-
teal bodies to represent their senti-
ments at the state capital, in mass
meetings assembled at Springfield, Ill.
do again urge upon the legislature the
speedy passage of this bill, unshorn of
it's full strength. In doing so we would
respectfully remind our legislators that
these are idle and irresponsible pc
titions, but, on the contrary, they are
the wish and will of the sovereign peo-
pie concerning the education of their
children, expressed to the men elected
to transmute that wish and will into
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
LITTLEPERsONAL LIBERTY
Retiring Ambassador Eustis Speaks
of France and Its People.


Paris. May 26-The retiring United
States ambassador, Mr.. James B. Eustis,
drove to the Elysee palace today and pre-
scented his letters of recall to President
Faure. After the ceremony Mr.. Eustis
granted an interview to a representative
of the Associated Press and gave the lat
ter his impressions of France, expressed
his admiration of the French people and
gave his opinion of the rejected Anglo
American arbitration treaty. Mr.. Eustis
said:
MY four years residence in France has
afforded me a very favorable opportun>
ity of studying French institutions. It
has been a most interesting study, as it
has enabled me to contrast the working
of a Republican government in France
and constitutional government in the
United States. There are some points of
dissimilarity. They are called sister re-
pubIics, but as to fundamental principles
they are not closely related. In advocacy
of personal liberty, France has never pro-
duced a single great man, the fact being
that no matter how ardent a Republican
a Frenchman may be- and how great
may have been his devotion to the politi-
cal rights of the people. he does not seem
able to form the slightest conception of
what are known in England and the Uni
ted States as the fundamental rights of
personal liberty. They made a revolution
to destroy one bastile, but they have
many today upon the Republican soil of
France owing to their system of arbi-
trary arrests, detentiOns and perquisi-
lions, which exist only under the most
autocratic form of government.
ITO an American such a system would
render life intolerable. 1t could be wiped
out in one day, but no one seems to con-
slider it sufficiently important to protect
the personal liberty of the citizens. The
French certainly deserve great deal of
credit for having maintained their re-
public in the face of such adverse cir
cumstances, but they present the strange
anomaly of a self-governing people be-
ing fond of constant and unremitting in
reference of the government in their
personal affairs and their personal re-
lations and being supremely Indifferent
to the rights of personal liberty. An emil
nent Frenchman with whom I was dis
cussing this question, most truthfully de-
clared:
g The ignorance of public men in
France with regard to the working of our
constitutional government has often
amazed us
LAS regards the French people, my resi-
dence in Paris has increased my admira-
ton for them. I consider them a most
marvellous people as regards their intel
ligence, their thrift, their habits of So
briefly, their wonderful resources and
their devotion to political liberty, and if
as we do they allowed their free institu-
lions to develop instead of dwarfing the
individuals, their national power would
be much greater than it is
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DENVER NOT SLOW.
Business Men Doubling and TrebIing
Festival Subscriptions.
[From the Denver Republican.l


The most encouraging reports come
in from the soliciting committees of the
Festival of Mountain and Plain. The
past weeks work is a guarantee that
the requisite amount of money will be
raised. Subscriptions have been cheer
full and generous. Many have subscrib-
ed two and three-fold the amount of
their subscriptions of last year, and do
so with willingness, which shows appre-
citation of the good effects of the festi-
val No business man needs any con-
vincing or any argument, but recogniz-
es at once that the Festival is distinctly
a business move, and the proper thing
for him to encourage and support.
Last evening at 1922 Wazee street the
Chinese residents held a large very en-
thusiastic meeting, to which President
Byers and a committee were invited.
Plans for a Chinese demonstration
this fall were thoroughly discussed and
the Chinese merchants are going to see
what they can do for an elaborate Chi
nese display They are very much Ella
ted over their part of the programme
last fall, and the many compliments
they received, and they promise now to
do something much more gorgeous and
to do ii in thoroughly Chinese fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

Mr.. Stewart put in.
Mr.. Vest then turned to several of the
schedules and discussed them in detail.
First he took up the sugar schedule. In
genious tables could be prepared as to
sugar differentiaIs and the tables of the
senator from Rhode Island (Aldrich) were
of this ingenious kind. The whole thing
turned one point. said Mr.. Vest, and
no one but the expert inside the sugar
refinery was able to tell this. It was as
to how much raw sugar would make 100
pounds of refined sugar and what amount
of waste will there be.
Discussing the Hawaiian treaty Mr..
Vest said that it would have been at
least more honorable had the committee
proposed to abrogate the Hawaiian
treaty, rather than kill it indirectly.
How is it possible to defend the in
crease of duty on lead" asked Mr.. Vest,
when the lead trust is making enor-
NOUS profits and declaring IL per cent
dividends on it's stock, common and pre-
ferred. Why double the rate on lead, a
product going into every poor home, in
order to feed the cormorant taste of these
monopolists?'
On earthenware and crockery the sem
ator said the increased duties were ap-
palling. The trainers of the bill had UNI
dertaken to make the duties absolutely
pIOLADAl1NS- II WAS outrageous OppTSS-
sion, the senator declared. Refer
ing to the whole schedule, Mr.. Vest
spoke on the conflicting claims of the
wool manufacturers and Mr.. Lawrence,
1.-The Shepherd king"
AS to hides, Mr.. Vest said he warned
Republican senators that hides would go
back on the free list as result of thrifty
New England sentiment.
In conclusion. Mr.. Vest said there was
no disposition to delay the passage of the
bill.
Mr.. Cannon (Silver Republican, Utah).
introduced an amendment for a bounty
on agricultural exports and spoke briefly.
He said the pending bill without any pro~
lection to the farmer would be a rank in
justice, and would be a breaking of the
pledge which the party made in its plat
form to the voters last year.
If the bill shall fail to give some meas
ure of justice to the farmer, then he will
overthrow it at the first opportunity, de-
clared Mr.. Cannon.
The tariff bill was then laid aside for
the day.
At $40 p. m the senate went into exc
cutive session and soon after adjourned
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
SEE SILVER BOGY.
ties Would Force War to Re
store the White Metal.

New York, May 26.-The Herald has this
from Washington:
president Mckinley sees in the Cuban
agitation a deliberate scheme of the sill
yer senators to break down the treasury
and force the country to a silver basis.
Both he and Secretary of the Treas
Dry Gage realize that in the event of
war scare the gold reserve would be
quickly depleted. The expenditures Incl
dent to the preparations for war would
wipe out the cash balance in a week,
and the treasury would be left without
gold for the redemption of notes or cur
rency to meet current expenses. An ap>
peal to congress for emergency legisla>
ton would be necessary, and everyone
knows what that would be, with the sill
yer men in control of the senate"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
IN SCANTY GARB.
Afflicted Man Took q Promenade in
Baltimore at Noon.


Baltimore, Md, May 26.-George Boyd.
a drummer for a Richmond trunk house,
created tremendous sensation today
when exactly at noon he walked out of
the door of the hotel in which he was
stopping attired only in underclothes and
meandered leisurely down Baltimore
street.
It so happened that he met no police
man. but he did pass many ladies, who
would scarce believe their eyes. The
drummer, who was suffering from mania
a potu, walked to the City hall and
quietly marched into the room of Chief
Detective Freeburger. The latter saw
the mans condition and invited him to a
seat. In accepting, Boyd said he was
Lord Baltimore, and that he had come to
warn the chief that when the bells tolled
6 o'clock this evening the world would
come to an end. An officer was sent to
the hotel for Boyds clothing, and he was
subsequently taken to the City hospital.
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TO BE A WET JUNE.
Weather Observer jennings Prophe-
sizes Much Rainfall Next Month.

If the opinion of Weather Observer
Jennings is good for anything the
drought will not result seriously. He
thinks next month will be very wet one
but cannot speak for July.
He says that his opinion is based on
the fact that May has been a dry month
and says that it is almost a sure sign
that June will be month of abundant
rains. 30
THE people need not complain about a
lack of rain said Mr.. Jennings. Moth
ing is suffering and I am afraid that we
will get more rain than we want next
month. I base my opinion upon the fact
that we have had dry weather during the
past month. 1t is almost sure to be fol-
lowed by a wet spell. 1 hope we will not
get too much rain next month. 1t is in
July that rain is most needed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
STATE PAYS $4,000 A YEAR
In Interest on QuantreIl Raid claims.

= @70 III . % u VI Oh -9E94t4 NLetlAA45'
Failure of the last legislature to make
proper appropriations to pay QuantrelI
raid claims will compel the state to
continue for two years al least paying
a large amount of interest, amounting
to about $1,000, which would have been
prevented by a proper appreciation of
the Importance Of making appropria-
lions.
The appropriations for the frscal years
1898 and 1899 as made by the last leg
islature are $1,000 for each year
For the year ending June 80, 1895.
there was paid upon these claims S4G-
SO, of which $50, 25O21 was principal
and $5,e40.68 was interest The prin-
cipal decreases 10 per cent each year
The appropriation of $4,000 will
hardly discharge an obligation
amounting to about $50 600, sufficient
appropriations for which in two years
would have saved the state more than
So 600 in interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
DIR. BRIGGS AGAIN.
The Controversy Crops Out in the
Presbyterian General Assembly.

Eagle Lake, Ind, May 26.-The Pres
byterian general assembly has settled
two important questions. The first is
not to sell it's building in New York
and the second to have only one secre-
tary of home missions
The last echo of the controversy over
DR. Briggs and the Union seminary
came up in the report of the judicial
committee, which extended to all pres
byteries the order to exclude students of
that university from their care. It was
apparent that few commissioners knew
what they were voting upon, as the
matter came up on appeal from some
unnamed action of the synod of New
York, the name of the case alone being
given.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
TEN YEARS SICK.
Victim of Nervous Dyspepsia
and Nervous Prostitution.
The Experience of a Grateful Woman
Cured by DIR. Charcot's KOIa
Nervine Tablets.

Onalaska, Wis.-For ten years have
been the suffering victim of nervous
prostration and nervous dyspepsia.
cannot begin to tell you or remember
the remedies have taken or the pre-
scriptions I have tried. Take what
would, I grew worse instead of better.
and was well nigh discouraged. Then
came the grateful change One month
agO-on the advice of my brother, who
sent me a box-I commenced taking
DR.. Charcot's Kola Nervine Tablets.
have taken one box and gained five
pounds, but that is nothing compared
to the physical relief I have expert
enced. I am better and happier than
have been for five years. If could
make the recommendation stronger,
would gladly do so.
Yours gratefully,
MISS LULU GLEASON.
DR.. Charcot's Kola Nervine Tablets
are famous for curing nervous diseases
where other medicines have failed.
They will make you strong and well,
try them Fifty cents and 81 per box
at druggists or sent direct Eureka
Chemical & Mfg. Co, La Crosse. Wis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
WHO SAW WILLIE KENNEDY
His Father Will Pay $25 for News of
Him.

Samuel F. Kennedy of Richmond, Mo,
has lost his 12-year-OId son, Willie Ken
nedy. He has sent cards of information
to Topeka Offering S25 reward for news
of his whereabouts The card reads:
4 will pay to the party locating and
giving me the whereabouts of my son
Willie Kennedy, $25 reward. He is II
years old, tall for his age, fair com
plexion, brown hair, blue eyes, wore
brown SLOUGH hat dark brown suit of
clothes, black pick-toes shoes. Wire in
formation to John c. Morris, Richmond,
Missouri"
Mr.. Kennedy has reason to think that
his son is somewhere near Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
Train wrecker Tries Suicide.

San Francisco, May 26.-Salter D.
Worden, who is under sentence of
death for the wrecl1ing of a train which
caused the death of Engineer Clark and
four United States soldiers during the
A. r. u strike, made an attempt to
commit suicide in his cell today by
opening an artery in his wrist with
niece of glass. He was discovered be-
fore he accomplished his purpose.
The governor is now considering his
application for pardon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
FAITH IN CUBA'S CAUSE.
DR.. Seward Webb Buys Bonds for His
Four Children,

New York. May 26.-Mrs. Susan Morse
Perry, the friend of Cuba 1bre and the
granddaughter of Professor Morse, the
inventor of the telegraph, has received
from DR.. w. Steward Webb an order for
four bonds of the Cuban republic, which
he will present to his children-AIiss
Frederick " Webb, Masters James Wat
son Webb, William Seward Webb, Jr..
and Vanderbilt Webb-in memory of their
great grandfather, General Webb, from
Connecticut. of the army of the Ameri-
can revolution.
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Or Her Wav to Alaska.

New York, May Z6.-MIss E Iisal
ant Episcopal church, will leave this
city today for San Francisco on her
way to Alaska, where she will take
charge of the hospital work connected
with the missions of the Domestic and
Foreign Missionary society of the
Episcopal chuEch, under the direction
of the Right Rev. Peter T. Rowe, mis-
sionary bishop of Alaska
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
TO PUT A TAX ON GUM.
Proposed Duty Means Reduction in
the Wages of the Factory Girls.

Washington. May 26.-If the people who
chew gum want to continue the practice
at present prices, now is the time for
them to speak up. The pending tariff bill
imposes a duty on chicle, and chicle is
the sum and substance of chewing gum.
The bill, as it passed the house. fixed
the duty al 10 cents a pound, which the
senate bill reduced to cents. Senator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
QUARRELED OVER A BIRD.
Iowa Boy, Aged IL, Kills His Brother
for Trivial Cause.

Newton Ia, May 26.-Albert and
Perry Neale, aged 10 and IL, living at
Mingo, quarreled over a pet bird at
their home last evening.
The younger boy took gun and shot
the elder in the side. He then took
cloth. wiped UP the blood and went out
on the street to play. No clue to the
murderer could be obtained until mid
night, when the boy confessed his
crime
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
Boston Bank Messenger Gives Bail

Boston, May 26.-Albert NJ. King. the
Boylston bank messenger, who disap-
the banks money and who was ar
rested at Pennington, Ne, last Satur-
day, was arraigned in the municipal
court here today on the charge of en-
bezzlement. He pleaded mot guilty.
and was held in 5000 for the grand jury.
Bail was furnished by his father.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
Liberals Hava Quit.

uties met today without the liberal
members. The minister for the colonies,
Senior CastelIane, read a bill introduced
to provide for the expenses of the war
in Cuba and the Philippine islands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
Hoods is the Finest
Spring Medicine-Tonic, APP
petizer, Strength Builder
lt Makes You Eat, Sleep Work
and Happy.

awe think Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the finest Spring and family medicine.
I had been bothered with headache
while at my work, many a time having
to go home, and loss of sleep, tired all
the time, and getting up in the morn
ing weak. I decided to take Hoods
Sarsaparilla and felt better after three
doses. kept on taking it, and now
can go into the quarry and do days
work and come home feeling well and
always hungry. We have also been
giving Hoods Sarsaparilla to our
youngest child, who was weak, lam
guild and losing flesh. We could soon
see a marked change. He ate better,
slept well, and in a little while was
like q new boy. He has continued to
improve, and today is lively as q
cricket, and the neighbors say he can
talk more than any man around the
place" THOMAS WHITE, Park Quar-
ries, Freedom, Pa.
NIB. Be sure to get Hoods because
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Is the best fact the One True Blood Puri-
fer. Sold by all druggists 81. six for s..
Hoods Pills with wit n Ho os sarsap S ria
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
CHURCHES TO BE EXTINCT.
Rev. Thomas Dixon Says None Now
Existing viii Survive 200 Years.

New York. May 26-'T venture to say
that not one of the churches now existing
viii survive 200 years" said Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr. He continued:
Persons who profess to be religious
have asked me if Moses NIontefore went
to hell. I replied that would rather be
in hell with him than in heaven with
some of the good men whom I knew.
The trouble with creeds is that every fol-
lower thinks that God belongs to theirs
It is forgotten always that creed is in
most cases a question of inherited ideas
THE organized church is rapidly dis
appearing. It has been a human organ
ism, invented by mans genius purely to
further the interests of religion. 1t must
change with the developments of man
It must reorganize or perish, and the
churches that are not reorganized are
perishing rapidly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26

will fit any one young or old, with
Solid Gold Glasses from $3.50 to $500
Satisfaction guaranteed in the most diff
fcuIt cases. Chas. Bennett, Optician,
$50 Kansas avenue.
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GRIZZLY FOR EUROPE.
Lured From His Den in Central Park
for Shipment to Berlin.

for Shipment to Berlin.
New York, May 26.-The largest of the
four grizzly bears in the Central park
menagerie was taken from its cage yes
terday and boxed up for shipment. 1t is
to be one of the attractions at the Zoo
logical Gardens in Berlin. Germany.
1t was a difficult task to get bruin out
of the cage which he has occupied for
two years. Keepers Snyder, Tyson and
Shannon pushed the box in which the
animal is to cross the ocean up against
the iron-barred cage and opened the
door, but the bear would not pass
through.
Tyson punched him with a pole, but
bruin only growled and, Selling the stick
in his mouth, broke it After half an
hours vain coaxing and punching Billy
Snyder got some honey, smeared a stick
with it, and held it under the grizzly >
nose. One sniff and the bear forgot his
anger and followed the honeyed stick
into the box.
The animal belonged to William Conk>
ling, the former superintendent of the
Central park menagerie.
Ottawa Chatauqua Assembly, June II
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Leather Trust Declares a Dividend.
New York, May 26.-The United States
Leather company has declared dividend
of l per cent on its preferred stock.
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We do nending and sew on buttons
Gree of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry.
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Ottawa Chatauqua Assembly, June II
to %. One fare via Santa Fe.
Broken edge collars made smooth by
Peerless Steam Laundry.
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HIS NEW HOME.
Where the President Will Spend
Hot Summer Days.

Cherry Farm, Seven Miles
Southwest of Washington.