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slate the night he was elected. II
Vas at half-past 10 when he got a
telegram from Chester A. Arthur as
surfing him that New York had given
him 10000 majority. Gen. Swain, who
was with Garfield at Mentor at the
time, said. as they looked over the
telegram, THAT settles It, general. You
are elected: but before you go to bed
sit down here and write out a cabinet"
Gen. Garfield laughed at this. but fan
ally consented. saying. We'll, Swain,
let us see how nea we are together.
You sit down at that table over there
and write ont a cabinet. When you
have finished turn your paper face
downward upon the table. | will do
the same here and we will turn the
papers over together and compare
them" Both then sat down and be-
gan to write. When they had fin
ished on both states was James G..
Blaine. and Allison vas upon both for
secretaryship of the treasury. or the
others all but n were changed before
the inauguration, and Allison. you
know. would not accept"
Garfield was the first president under
whom Senator Allison refused a cabi-
Vet place. | understand that he has
been uppermost in President Mckin-
ley's mind as the head of the state de-
partment, but that the president-elect
has wanted to know whether he would
refuse or not before he offered the po-
sition. | get this from men very close
to Mckinley. Senator Allison told me
once that he could not take the in
terror department under Garfield be-
cause he did not van to antagonize
Gov. Kirkwood. of Iowa, who was then
a leading candidate. 1t was on ac-
count of the ambition of Clarkson, an
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ing how you a help me in this. We
will call upon Harrison together and
| will see that he talks to you first.
You can thus prepare his mind for my
refusal. You car tell him that l have
'ome out for this purpose, and he will
OF be surprised when I speak,
This ] promised to do" continued
Senator Cullom. when we got to
indianapolis We went direct to Presi-
dent Harrison's house. 1t was about
dinner time when We arrived and We
at once sat down to the table. After
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culiar results of the curio collectors
art that Is extant.
The collection OF postage stamps Is
something in which many persons are
engaged and thousands more interested.
1t Is really one OF the fads in which
young and old find equal enjoyment.
The little miss not yet in the grammar
school and her mother at home both
pursue with equal eagerness the accu-
mutation of those little bits of gummed
paper which carry articles through the
mail the world over. Strange and
unique are the forms the collections
take in order that they may be prop
erly preserved. But Mrs. Wilson's is
the queerest Of them all. Included in
the tiny specimens OF stamps which
conceal every vestige of woodwork
about the furniture which they adorn,
are stamps from everywhere that the
international postal system reigns and
several places where no exchange Of
mail matter has yet been agreed upon.
All these arc arranged In a manner as
quaint as the Idea itself. 1t must not
be supposed that Mrs. Wilson's patriot
ism is Of so light al order that she
would permit any other than the
stamps Of the United States to be In
the majority. There are the faces Of
every president who has been allowed
to be made a sample of the steel en-
graver's art from Washington down.
There are odd old stamps which most
people have forgotten ever existed,
stamps only known to the stamp col
lector as a rule, and which would be
immensely valuable by themselves.
All these curios are OF our own make,
that have borne missives on many a
strange errand.
There are stamps which journeyed
about in the crazy postal conveyances
which carried the mail that was not
Uncle Sans during the days when
civil war ragged relentlessly. Then
there are stamps of the days when
the missives from Southern battlefelds
to Northern homes brought both Joy
and sorrow, the latter quite as often as
the former. There are one or two
stamps that we're used when California
was the Golden Gate to so many for
tune seekers. The nations history Is
plastered all over this furniture and the
story that might be told about 1t, II
the truth were known. would no doubt
make 1t vie In interest In the eyes
OF the American people with the treas
ures Of Mount Vernon. the sacred rel
les Of Springfield. or those remem-
brances to which all the world bows at
Galena. There Is no particular meth
cd OF arrangement OF this nearly a
million OF stamps. Noble and peasant
are side by side, and the commonest
bit Of postage evidence is Just as LA
BILE to have a position of honor as the
big piece Of gummed paper with two
figures on It. Evidently Mrs. Wilson
believes with the poet, that rank Is but
the guinea stamp.
OF the foreign specimens o: postal
necessities there are very many. and
as odd as they are numerous. The
Queer-looking. dark colored affair that
comes from the land Of the Cossack and
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A LADY'S MAID DISCHARGED.
She Tried to Get the Lady Home, but
the Lady wouldn't Go.

the Lady Wouldn't Go.
A handsomely dressed blonde wear
ing diamonds, who answered to the
name OF Alice Brewer, was ~arraigned
in the Butler street police court. Brook
Ign, yesterday morning charged with
intoxication. She had been arrested
by Policeman Gallagher Of the Sixth
avenue street station late Friday night.
He said he found two m strug-
Cling In Sixth venue and n was try
ing to get the other to go home.
you're discharged" said the blonde
to the woman who was trying to get
her home; you are not fit to attend a
lady"
The policeman said the maid finally
went home, but the blonde sat with her
feet In the gutter until she was arrest
ed. A man who was in court informed
Justice Walsh that the woman was his
wife. but that her name was not Brew
err. He said she had attended a dinner
and had taken too much wine. She was
found guilty, but sentence was sus-
pended.
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SCRAPS"

p There are 1878 Americans living L,
Australia.
The queen has sixty pianos at Os-
borne, Windsor and Buckingham pal
ace.
Fleet street In London Is being Wild
ened and It cost $3.50. 900 to move back
one tavern.
There are still 20.0O0. 900 square miles
Of the earth's surface that have not
been explored.
There are $40 prisons In Asiatic and
European Russia, with the total num-
Der OF 1OO,913 prisoners.
Forty-fve carloads OF walnuts, val
ued at nearly $4,000, were shipped
from Fullerton. CAL, this year.
Wild dogs are becoming numerous in
the vicinity of Wilcox, Ariz., where
thcy kill a great many young calves.
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ReparatiOn.

John Butts, SRI want to leave my
property to my two sons-one-tenth
to my youngest son, John Butts, and
nine-tenths to my oldest son, Royal
Chesterfield Chauncey de Peyster
Butts.
Family Lawyer-H'm! Do you think
that's quite fair?
John Butts, Sr.-Yes; | want to make
some kind Of reparation to Royal for
allowing his mother to give him such
q crackjaw name.-Tit-Bits.
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Cause and Eject.

Here is a little rider to the history
Of the Shrewsbury church spire and the
Darwin memorial. l am told that while
t Is undoubtedly true that the steeple
vas damaged by the storm, and also
hat the Darwin memorial was then In
contemplation. 1t is also true that the
parson Of the damaged church was the
only one in Shrewsbury who had not
subscribed to the memorial. l cannot
say whether this is true. but 1t ought to
be.-Iondon Truth,
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Don't you let me catch you In
here again." roared the grocer as he
spanked the boy that had been filling
his pockets with ginger snaps.
ITS your own fault that you caught
me this time" sobbed the struggling
kid.
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PRESENCE OF MIND.

The Mule Persisted In Licking Her
Race.
Here Is n story the truth Of which
| do not vouch for. says a writer in the
New York Advertiser: The scene re-
minded one of that odl picture. when
shall We three meet again." 1t was
at n busy corner on Broadway and a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
3 CALVES AT A BIRTH.
North Chicago Builds Bonfires in
Honor of the Event.

Chicago, Aug. 4.-Bonfires were lighted
in North Chicago last night. Church bells
were rung several minutes longer than
is the custom in the pretty village, and
all because of the birth of triplets to s.
E. Arnold's cow. Citizens of the town are
glowing with enthusiasm over the promi-
nence given their town. which had eclipsed
Waukegan, it's rival suburb, and Ander-
son, Ind, noted for two-headed goats
and filters of twenty cats.
No astronomical phenomenon accom-
panied the bovine arrivals Mr.. Arnold
does remember a funny looking star
which he saw as he made haste to the
barn in the dark, and cannot remember
seeing it when he started back.
Friends of the owner of the Areaks at
tribute the number of the calves to the
recent eclipse of the sun. One of the
neighbors told Farmer Arnold at the
town store, which was opened to cele-
brate the occasion, that he saw June eye
ing the sun in a queer way While the
moon was travelling across it's orb.
do you know L had funny dream
about the time June made that racket"
said Farmer Arnold last night Il was
sleeping soundly and thought I saw three
chairs dancing around the foot of my
bed. Just about this time 1 was awaken
ed by that racket in the barn. The hay
stand in the top of the stall seems to
have come down with crash. thought
burglars were in my barn and seized my
gun and made a dash down the walk. 1
was so thunderstruck at what I saw that
1 fired off the piece and brought all my
neighbors around me, including the town
marshal. Since then 1 have had to show
the little fellows to everybody in the viii
lage."
The calves have all the evidences of
their simultaneous arrival. They are red,
with white spots their breasts. The
COW is described as seven-eighths Jersey
and years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
GRUBsTAKED STRATTON
Four Good Miners Sent to the Klon
dixie Country.

Victor, Col, Aug. 4.-Quite a number
of persons have left this city during the
past few days for the gold fields of
K1ondike, Alaska, and others are pre-
pairing to enter the new gold district
before the winter sets in. w. S. STRAIT
ton, owner of the Independence mine,
has grubstaked four miners who have
been in his employ for some years past,
giving each of them 81 900, and they are
now on their way to Alaska.
The quartette are all men of large
and varied experience in practical min
ing, and were selected by Mr. Stratton
for their diligence, as well as their abil-
ity as miners. They will be thoroughly
equipped, and will enter the new coun-
try with outfit equal to that of any
party in the new gold fields. For sew
alone, he desires that the names of the
prospectors be withheld at this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
FINED FOR VANDALISM.
First Arrest Under the New Arizona
Law for Protection of the
Aztec Ruins

Flagstaff, Ariz., Aug. 4.-The first step
in the direction of furnishing persons
under the new law against vandalism,
SO as to preserve the noble monuments
of Aztec civilization, has been taken in
this county. John O'Toole an eastern
tourist, was arrested upon a warrant
charging him with the wanton destruc-
ton of Aztec ruins, near Walnut can
yOn. He has been camping out in the
canyon for a week or more, and was
caught in the act of demolishing some
of the ancient cave dwellings there.
District Attorney E. S. Clark issued the
warrant, and it was served by Deputy
Sheriff FairchiIds.
When examined before Justice Will
cox the prisoner was found to have in
his possession a valuable collection
found in the cave dwellings which he
had destroyed. The entire collection
was confiscated by the court and will
be turned over to the United States
government. Under the law passed by
the last legislature O'Toole might have
been severely punished but as this was
the first case tried under the law and
the prisoners first Offense he received
a severe reprimand and was ischarged
from custody. Future offenders will not
be dealt with so lightly, for the author
tiles of this county, at least, are deter
mined to do all they can to preserve the
few fine ruins still remaining. Twenty
years ago there were hundreds of these
ruins, untouched by man, where now
there are scarcely a score of them in
good state of preservation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
Observation-Disclosures
Iowa Attorney Evolves Plan of Get
ting Rid of Hobos.

Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 4.-D. G. Shu1l
of this place thinks the railroads should
carry tramps at the same rates and I'M
der the same conditions as live stock.
Every year vast numbers of the hobos
pass through this section during July
and August, ostensib1y on their way
from the south to the harvest fields of
North and South Dakota, northern Iowa
and Nebraska, Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin. Later in the season they drift back
by the hundreds.
Their usual method is to steal pas
sage on freight trains or the brake
beams of passenger coaches. Gangs of
from twenty or thirty to several hun
bred frequently gather at a single point,
seize a train and force the crew to
carry them over the road. The police
at the small towns en- rytIte are power
less to cope with them, and bloody fights
often take place between them and the
railroad men. The situation has grown
worse year by year until the transpor-
tatiOn and support of the buns have
become a serious question. Mr.. Shul1
is a well known local lawyer, a railroad
attorney and is frequently compelled
to visit on business the smaller towns
had ample opportunity for studying the
problem and after considerable deliber-
alton says:
I'm my opinion the roads would do
well to run a tramp car on their regular
freight trains during the harvest season
and charge the passengers about the
same rates as they would live stock. All
those who are really looking for work
will pay this nominal charge, and I be-
lieve the number of others would be so
reduced that the train crews could pro-
tect themselves against them"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
HANNA'S NEW VENTURE.
He is Arranging With Bishop Brew
ster to Open Up Coal and Iron
Mines in China

Springfield, Aug. 4.-United States
Senator Hanna is arranging, in con-
nection with Bishop Brewster of Hin
qua, Climatic open up immense and very
rich deposits of coal and iron in the
vicinity of Foo Chow, China. Mr..
Brewster is here now on a visit to old
friends in this, his native city.
Mr.. Brewster, on being seen, confirm
ed the report that Mr.. Hanna had the
deal in hand. He said that Mr.. Han
mas agent and head man from Ashta-
bula would be here one day this week
for a conference with him about the de-
tails of the matter. Mr.. Brewster, who
is man of much push and enterprise,
is in high favor with the officials and
leading citizens of both Foo Chow and
Hingua, where he has introduced many
of the comforts of civilization and con-
siderable American machinery. Mr..
Brewster thinks there is a big fortune
in the coal and iron mines, which have
been barely touched by the slow and
antiquated Celestial Labor to work
them can be obtained in abundance for
almost nothing.
Bishop Brewster, accompanied by his
wife and a Chinese girl whom they
brought over with them, expect to re-
turn to Hingua next month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
QUEEN vIC's NEW YACHT.
When Completed it Will Be Superior
to That of any Other Euro
pean Monarch.

Washington, Aug. 4.-Queen Victoria
is to have a royal yacht superior 10
that of any monarch in Europe Plans
for this vessel have been received at
the navy department, and indicate a.
type of ship far SURPRISING the crack
war vessel which the German Emperor
uses for his private purposes, or the
fine cruiser at the service of the En-
ly official yacht really mounting heavy
guns and capable of a pretty good fight
with a gunboat or small cruiser, but
she is several knots slower than either
the German or Russian yachts used for
the same purpose.
The new yacht for the queen is to be
constructed according to her own wish
es and the plans are to be submitted
for her personal inspection. The new
vessel will not be built on the, general
lines of a warship, but designed ex-
clusively for the comfort and convent
ence of royalty, and with no idea of be-
ing converted into a fighting ship in
war time. She is to be built through
out of steel have twin screws and be
capable of at least 20 knots speed. She
will be the first royal English yacht
not built of wood, and with side wheels
of the old pattern. Her length will be
$50 feet, the same as that of the cruis-
ers Minneapolis and Columbia, and
draught of 20 feet, while the beam has
not been decided. She will have two
pole masts for signals, one or two l.
FOUNDERS for saluting purposes, and will
be the most 1uxuriantly furnished craft
afioat. She will be completed within
two years and will cost about 81, 500,0 90.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
FOUR INCHES OF HOUSE.
st. Louis Sheriff Must Remove With
out Damaging the Structure.

st. Louis, Aug. 4.-The hair of Sheriff
Troll is turning gray trying to find'
way out of dilemma that he is placed
in.
Mrs. Mary Mckinley owns a house at
4154 Fairfax avenue. Robert Kerschei
sen owns an adjoining lot. kerschei-
sen claimed that his neighbor had built
on four inches of his property. He
went to law and won the suit, securing
a decree for the possession of the four
inches. Being in the nature of an
ejectment suit, the sheriff is required
to execute the decree and restore the
four inches to- Kerscheisen. In order
to do this he will have to remove four
inches of the wall of Mrs. McGinley's
residence without dana ging the prop
egty. If there is any damage he may
be sued on his bond. Mr.. Troll is now
trying to figure out how he can execute
the courts order without laying himself
open to a damage suit.
The case has been in court eight
years. The estimated value of the
property is $40. The court costs fig
ure up $1,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
THE URBANA LYNCHING.
Gov. Bushnell to Attempt to Dust
Mayor Ganson and Sheriff McLain.

Columbus, O., Aug. 4.-Gov. Bush
nell today directed Attorney General
Monet to bring quo Warranto proceed
ings in the supreme court to have de-
clared forfeited the offices now held by
Mayor Charles H. GanSon of Urbana,
and Sheriff Lewis McLain of Cham
paign county. The petition to be filed
is based upon affdavits now in the
hands of the attorney general and will
charge these officials with having failed
to perform their sworn duty at the time
of the Urbana riot.
The afffdavits in Mr.. Monett's posses
sion charge Mayor Ganson with direct
completely in the plot to overawe the
militia and lynch Click Mitchell, the ne
gro ravisher The evidence upon which
the action is to be brought has been
obtained by committee of colored citi-
zenS of Columbus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
STRIKES AND THE TIMES.

The theory sometimes advanced that
hard times are more productive of
strikes than periods of prosperity seems
destined to receive a setback in view of
the present situation in the labor world
That there has been a great improve
ment in the business conditions within
the past few months scarcely anyone
will now deny. Prices of farm products
have advanced along with those ofsome
manufactured articles; many idle fac
tories have started up and nearly all
have large orders ahead; railroad earn
ings have increased; there are demands
for more Iaborers; an immense amount
of Indebtedness private and public, has
been paid off.
In the face of all these favorable con-
ditions strikes seem to be more numer-
Gus and of larger proportions than
usual. May not this circumstance it
self be regarded as one more evidence
of returning prosperity? Is it not pos
sible that seeing in the Immediate flu
tbre an increased demand for the pro-
ducts of labor the workingnen consider
this the best possible time to- demand
and force an increase of wages?
An American now in England, in dis
GUESSING the great strike of engineers
which is now in progress in that coun-
prosperous as she is today; that every
mill and factory is running at it's full
capacity with large orders ahead; that
there is work at good wages for every
laborer in the country, and adds that
it is only in such times that strikes OF
great proportions take place.
1t seems from this view of the mat
ter that in dull times men are glad to-
get employment at any price, but in
prosperous times they see the best OPP
portunity for enforcing a demand for
an increase of wages. Perhaps
it is some such considerations
as these which have led the
hodcarriers of Detroit, the quarry
men of Lemont, Ill, the cloakmakers of
Chicago and many other classes of
workmen to throw down their tools and
demand more pay.
Even the coal miners have continued
to work at starvation wages for num-
Der of months since the present strike
was arranged because they have not
hitherto felt that the time was oppor-
tune for inaugurating the movement
If they can't win under the present
conditions it looks as though organized
labor would see that it must turn to
some other method of advancing it's in
terests. Strikes are expensive even
when successful; when they fail they
are disastrous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
A TURTLES LONG TRAMP.
An Old Soldier Thinks He Marked It
80 Years Ago.

Clayton. N. J., Aug. Am last Wed
nesday's Philadelphia Record this item
was printed: Butcher F. H. Sheldon
Of Clayton picked up a land turtle there
with the initials T. K, 1866 cut on the
SHE'LL
The types We're in error, however, as
the initials should have been 81. K -
Now for the strangest part of the Incl
dent: Butcher Sheldon has received a
letter from T. Kaufman, Steelton, Pa,
saying: Il am inclined to think that
the turtle found was the one that I SO
marked while in front of Petersburg,
Va, during the war, in company a,
209th regiment, Pennsylvania vo1un-
teers, and would like to have it as
war relic"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
MOTHER M'KINLEY WINS.
G. A. Bied1er Commissioned Postmas
ter at Oklahoma City.

Perry, Ok, Aug. Another Mckinley
has won one appointment for a friend.
Two months ago, G. A. Biedler, friend
of Mother Mckinley, was appointed
postmaster at Oklahoma City, but Sen
ator Chandler of the postoffice senate
committee refused to allow Biedler to
be confirmed, owing to some charge of
embezzlement made against Biedler
The president and his aged mother
pleaded with the committee, but to no
avail. So the nomination was withheld
and since congress adjourned, Mr.. Bied-
Ter has been commissioned and will act
as postmaster, for awhile at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
EVERYBODY SAYS So.

Casearets Candy Cathartic, the most won
derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of e. c. G. to-day; 10, 25. so cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-04
Tin Works Start Up.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 4.-Worlk was re-
stunned at the Crescent tin plate mill
this morning. The company procured
men from Irondale to operate the plant.
The company has secured leases of all
vacant property about it's plant and has
fenced it in with barbed wire and
warned all strikers to keep off its prem
iSRS.
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BRIGHT ADVERTISERS.
They Put Their Posters on Nelson's
Flagship and the Court
Makes Them Smart

Liverpo ol Aug.4.-At the Liverpool as
sizes today a pill vendor and an ad-
vertising agent were fined $50 and $40
respectively for painting advertise
ments upon the hull of Lord Nelson's
old flagship Foudroyant
The vessel is lying stranded at Black
pool.