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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
LOVE IN A TREE.
How a Romantic California Couple
Spent Their HONEYMOON.

Mill Valley, Cal, July IA story
full of romance and excitement, having
features novel and interesting in the
extreme, has just come to light in Mill
Valley.
c. w. Jennings, a young writer whose
work graced the pages of various east
ern publications, sought new fields to
conquer and with longing eyes towards
the west he left his eastern home and
crossed the plains to the metropolis on
the Pacific coast.
Here among his wanderings he came
across pretty face that he vowed he
loved and would some day call his own.
Difficulties confronted him. That his
love was reciprocated there was no
doubt. Still there were reasons why
the couple could not be married and to
offset these they planned sort of an
elopement
After all the arrangements were COM
pleted they quietly slipped away and
were welded. Then followed the hon
eymoon in Mill Valley. and about which
the people Of that section are daily dis
cussing.
On the property of Geo. t Marsh, on
Corte MADEIRA avenue, in Mill Valley,
|. which is laid out ON the plan of a ia
panese village, there is house built
high up in one of the tall redwood trees,
and the only means of effecting an en-
trance is by climbing up a rope ladder.
The house is built around the trunk of
the tree, which passes directly through
the center of the strange abode. The
redwood tree bent downward, and the
interior of the structure is nicely fur
nished. There is a kitchen, pantry and
large living room, and Veranda, where
far above the earth, one can sit and en-
joy natures beauties without Interrupt
ton.
Here it was. between earth and sky,
that Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings )0assed their
honeymoon. They would climb up the
rope ladder, a distance of 20 feet, and
reach their abode; then they would
draw the ladder up and thus cut off
communication.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jennings occupied their
strange and romantic abode until the
day after the Fourth. On that day a
garden party for the benefit of the fire
men killed in the recent conf1agration
that destroyed the Standard cracker
factory in San Francisco was given in
the Marsh grounds. and the young coup
lie, rather than be discovered by the
visiting hundreds that gathered, vacat-
ed the house in the tree and left for
San Fran cisCO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
HOW KEENAN, LEARNED
COURAGE.
(Kenyon West in the Atlantic.)

(Kenyon West in the Atlantic.)
"When I was II or 10 years of age"
said Mr.. KEENAN,, Il went as tele-
graph operator to Cincinnati. had
become so morbid and miserable by
that time that I said to myself one
day, Pm going to put an end to this
state of affairs here and now. If I'm
afraid of anything, I'll conquer my fear
of it or die. If am a coward I might as
we'll be dead, because L can never feel
any self-respect or have any happiness
in life; and I'd rather get killed trying
to do something that I'm afraid to do
than to live in this way. 1 was at that
time working at night, and had TO go
home from the office between Midnight
and o'clock a. m. 1t was during the
civil war. and Cincinnati was a more
lawless city than it has ever been since.
Street robberies and murders were of
daily occurrence, and all of the night
men in our office carried weapons as
matter of course. 1 bought revolver,
and commenced a course of experiments
upon myself. When L finished my
night work at the office, instead of go
ing directly home through well-lighted
and police-patrolled streets, directed
my steps to the slumS and explored the
worst haunts of vice and crime in the
city. If there was a dark, narrow, cut
throat alley down by the river that L
felt afraid to go through at that hour
of the night, 1 clenched my teeth, cock
ed my revolver, and went through it
sometimes twice in succession. If
read in the morning papers that a man
had been robbed or murdered on a GER
tain street, I went to that street the
next night. I explored the dark river
banks, hung around low drinking dives
and the resorts of thieves and other
criminals, and made it an invariable
rule to do at all hazards the thing that
1 thought L might be afraid to do. OF
course 1 had all sorts of experiences
and adventures. One night 1 saw
man attacked by highwaymen and
knocked down with a slungshot, just
across the street I ran to- his assist
ance, frightened away the robbers, and
picked him up from the gutter in a
state of Inconsistencies. Another
night, after O'Clock, I saw a mans
throat cut, down by the river.-and a
CHASTITY sight it was; but although
somewhat shaken 1 did not become
faint nor sick. Every time l went
through a street that I believed to be
dangerous, or had any startling ex-
perience, 1 felt an accession of self-re-
spect.
I'm less than three months I had sat
isf1ed myself that while L did feel fear,
1 was not so much daunted by any I'M
dertaking but could do it if I willed to
do it, and then 1 began to feel better.
Soon after this time I went on my
first expedition to Siberia, and there in
almost daily struggles with difficulties
dangers, and sufferings of all sorts, I
finally lost the fear of being afraid
which had poisoned the happiness of
my bOyhood."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
THERE'LL BE NO MID
WAY THERE.
(From the Galveston News


The midway has been a diSturb fng
feature of large fairs ever since the
Worlds fair, and strong influences have
been eXerted to get rid of it.
Moral cOnsidera lions were urged
against it. and many regular exhibitors
a fairs finally threw their influence in
the same scale on the ground that I'M
Seemly shows tended to destroy the ie-
Ultimate trade benefits of an exposition.
1t will be gratifying to these combined
interests everywhere to know that the
management of the Texas state fair,
which in importance and magnitude is
second to no annual exposition in the
country, has decided to exclude all So
called midway features from its ground
hereafter, and to grant space privilege
only to entertainments that are wholly
above criticism from the standpoint OF
propriety.
This action was taken several months
ago without pressure or agitation on the
subject in any quarter. 1t is claimed
that the result will be not only to get
rid of Objectionable features, but that
a higher and better grade of entertain
ments will be encouraged to come to
the fair, greatly charging its scope OF
genuine amusement. No doubt many
an eye will be directed along the avenue
where the midway once stood when the
Texas state fair is opened to note the
effect of the change.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
BULLS AND BEARS WILD.
Decker & Howell Failure Caused Con
sternation in the Sugar Pit.

New York, July 14.-There was con-
sternation in the sugar pit yesterday
when the failure of Decker, Howell &
Co. was announced. Opening at 134
after closing at 1855 the previous even
ing, sugar declined to 1884 on sales of
2, 500 shares.
So great was the excitement that
sales were made at the same time II to
q per cent away Then it took on a
full head of steam and sailed up to
137A in a few minutes. 1t was then
that the announcement that the firm
was unable to meet its obligations, was
made The firm was founded in 1870
under the name and style of Leonard,
Sheldon & Foster. With unlimited cap
ital and exceptional opportunities for
speculation of the successful sort, the
firm soon had a large following. In
1881 the firm became known as Decker,
Howell & Co. Mr.. Howell died some
time ago.
The firm did a large and profitab
business until $780, when they were
compelled to make an assignment. Then
Wall street was startled by the an
nouncement that the liabilities OF the
firm would aggregate $1,000, 600. The
sum was paid in six days as the firm
had promised at the time of the sus-
pension, and business was resumed.
The street after this had the great
est confidence in the recuperative pow
ers of the concern and there were few
accounts withdrawn because of the
failure at that time.
J. S. Decker, the senior member of
the firm, said: 1T will be several days
before any true statement of our finan-
ceS can be prepared.
''Our difficulty is due to general de-
preston in business in the street and
certain fluctuations in the markets over
which we had no control.
''Of course our financial difficulties of
four years ago left US in such a weak
condition that we had to be very eau
tious. We were weak when the pres
ent blow came, and were not able to
meet the demands on US. 1 feel sure,
however, that some opening will be
made for us and we shall be able to set
tie with our creditors dollar for dol
lar''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
Is 1T HERMANS?
Man Arrested in Ontario Suspected of
Being the Murderer.

Pembroke, Ont, July 1.-THE author
tiles here have lodged in Jail man sup
posed TO be the Rev. Francis Hermans,
who, in 1895, murdered and cremated
Miss Henrietta Claussen of Salt Lake.
The man, who calls himself Hamilton,
has been in this vicinity for some time
acting in the capacity of a clergyman
on his own responsibility.
The authorities of the state of Utah
offered a reward and sent photographs
of the outlaw broadcast. Crown At
torney Metcalfe received one of these
photographs and was informed of its
resemblance to Hamilton. He at once
arrested the man, who protested his
innocence
This morning Hamilton came up be-
fore Judge Deacon, but was remanded
until the 18th, when it is expected the
authorities from Salt Lake will arrive
here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
DIALECT" AND BAD SPELLING

IRcse Field in Chicago Post.1
Tt was a singular oversight on the
part of the western poets during their
late convocation in Indiana that they
failed to lay down certain rules for the
guidance of ambitious dialect versifierS.
The need of such general instructions
was exhibited this morning in dia-
lect poem addressed to that admirable
dialectOIogist James Whitcomb Riley.
It would appear that many of Mr.. Ri
ley's imitators are laboring under the
delusion that dialect is synonymous
with bad spelling, as. for example "ust'
for used, "aked' for ached, rome" for
roam, kant" for can't, hart for
heart, and so on. Occasionally a real
master of dialect pops up an explains
very conscientiouS1y and cleary that
mfsspelling is necessary only to empha-
size different pronunciation, but one
might as well talk to the eternal winds
as attempt to instruct 10000 or more
dialect poets in this poetic country. The
verses addressed to Mr.. Riley are more
felicitous in sentiment and commend
able in rhythm, but we find it difficult
to believe that a gentleman who ex-
presses himself SO elegantly in per
haps you'll pause a minute would al
most Immediately declare "afore We
romed Bohemia in sorch o. recompense"
or that he who speakes of the olden,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
REAL BLUE GRASS.
(From the Washington Star.

(trOm the washington starr
One of the standing jokes of the blue
grass region is the fact that blue
grass is green.
People who visit the famous rich
grazing country found in Kentucky are
often the subject for jokes when they
want the blue grass" pointed out. But
there is a blue grass, a sample of which
can be found growing at the depart
ment of agriculture, which is as blue as
a cloudless sky on a summer day. 1t
is native of the Apache country. 1t
can be found all through New Mexico
and in some of the adjoining states. 1t
is known as the Apache blue grass
1t has broad spear and grows couple
of feet in height.
A field covered with it looks like a
lake in which has been dumped a bar
rel of indigo. 1t is said to be one of the
most beautiful sights of the southwest
to view great fields of this blue grass
dotted here and there with flowers. Es-
pecial attention has been paid to the
cultivation of patch of this grass at
the department of agriculture, where it
grows luxuriantly, and is one of the in
tereSting sights to all visitors to the
grounds of that department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
A BREACH IN THE RANKS,

There are indications of a breach in
the ranks of the allied silver forces
which may widen until it is beyond re-
pair. The voters who supported Mr.
Bryan last year appear to be divided
into two camps-one composed of those
who still believe that silver is the par
amount issue and that the next cam
paign should be made on that alone
and the other including those who be-
lieve that the silver question is of sec
ondary Importance and that the coun-
try stands in need of many other
changes in it's economic system besides
an expansion of the currency basis.
To the first class belong Mr.. Bryan
himself, Senator Teller and the Demo-
cratic and Republican followers of each.
To the other class belong Debs, Sow
ereign and the socialist and labor lead
ers of the country.
The latter class includes many thou
sands of voters who are not bound by
party ties and would forsake a political
organization without hesitation as soon
as it's platform failed to coincide with
their views. Just enough was conced-
ed to these men at Chicago in 1896 to
hold them in line and to cause them to
demand more next time.
However Judge Doster may try to
smooth things over for Mr.. Bryan, that
gentleman's answer to the question as
to whether or not he favored public
ownership of public utilities has cast a
shadow of doubt over many of his
former supporters. His speeches since
the campaign closed have been devoted
almost wholly to the silver question on
which the people SO recently passed
Judgment.
Public ownership of public utilities
was made an issue in 1892 along with
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer and the party advocating it has
been growing. 1t is a question that
the silver party will be compelled to
meet and take sides on.
If things go on as they are, we shall
see a split in the ranks of the Bryan
followers, and the cry of Bryan in
1907 may yet prove an empty cry and
a baseless fear to the Republican party
In spite of Chauncey Depew's prophecy
it may not be Organism in 1900 after
all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
FUNERAL PROPERTIES OF
DRESS.

washington Dispatch in St. Louis
Globe-Democratl
Little regard was paid to the prOprie-
ties of dress by many who yesterday
attended the funeral of Senator Isham
G. Harris. The services were held in
the senate chamber, and in the assem-
blage present were hundreds prominent
in civil and military, professional and
political life, who had come together
to pay a last tribute of respect to the
memory of one of the most distinguish
ed, as we'll as the most unique charac-
tiers in American public life; yet, with
comparative few exceptions, those VINO
attended the services had apparently
paid no attention to their style of dress.
The most notable exception was the
diplomatic corps. Every member of
that corps, except the Chinese and
Korean ministers, who were attired in
the court costumes of their respective
countries. wore the regulation black,
President Mckinley, always scrupu-
lously observant of the proprieties of
public ceremonies, was similarly attir-
ed. His secretary, Mr.. Porter, how
ever, appeared in a dark business suit
the kind he wears every day-and wore
a straw hat. The other members of the
cabinet were properly attired. Scatter
ed about the chamber, however, were a
score or more of the members of the
house in crash suits, and quite as many
more in light business suits. Even
among the senators there was an I'M
usual disregard of form in dress An
occasional pair of white duck trousers
was to be seen, and prominent men in
alpaca coats without waistcoats were
numerous. Among the senate employ
eS no attention was paid to dress. The
blind chaplain of the house was con-
Quoted down the main aisle of the
chamber by page who wore bicycle
costume ridiculously loud in style
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
MANS vANDAL HAND.

I used to live near Northern Wis
consin sawrnin and could ride log
The pine logs, as 1 remember them,
were two. three and four feet thick.
1t does not cost anything to raise a pine
tree three feet thick and 10 feet high.
Just let it alOne-the earth, the air and
the rain will take care of it. But the
last time 1 was in a Wisconsin sawmill
the Httleness of the logs hurt me- The
infants of the woods had been butcher
ed. They were not big enough for
planks and boards, hardly able to be
laths. But greed could not wait.
Has not the American any sense of
tomorrow? Are not the children to see
a pine tree when it has done its best?
AT present all I see are counties of
blackened Stumpage, one or two United
States senators, a few millionaireS, one
poverty and misery-all the result of
exterminating the pine. The track of
Gen. Alger through the woods of north
ern Michigan is better defined than his
track through any confederate bril-
gade.
The government could have been
worse employed than in keeping its for
ests from the hands of the spoiler
burned down a better thing than it can
ever build of marble-its last redwood
tree, 10 feet tall and II feet in dia-
meter. Visiting in that neighborhood I
shall go through Vancouver in the
night.
Not only have the Iunbermen of Wis
cOnsin and Michigan contributed to the
flood, but they have emptied their saw
dust into trout streams. Sawdust is
death to trout.
Nobody but novice with a 81. so rod
will ever fish near a sawmill. The thirst
for gold and a daughter who will Gre
ate scandal in Europe is making a
decent natural forest impossible. Pres
ident Jordan writes of the death of the
young seals, dead because seal hunters
kill their mothers.
Look a the mountains covered, not
with trees but with stumpS. Nature
has constructed reservoirs and delays
that we have suffered to be destroyed
for the sake of ties. What is a railroad
good for that leads to a country that
nobody cares to see, bare of trees, bare
of game. Snow nelts and the unhin-
dered waters runs out of the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
SOUTHERN DoMEsTIc1TY.

CFrancis A. Doughty in Lippincott's
All plantation life is to a considerable
extent patriarchal, except that, instead
of the woman's being Subordinated to
masculine pleasure and aggrandize-
nlent as with the patriarchs of old, they
are set on a pedestal and practically
worshipped. 1t makes little difference
to this modern patriarch of the Cotton
Belt if his cuffs are frayed and his coat
rusty, SO long as his wife and daugh
tiers wear suits to church that are as
stylish as his crops can pay for and
their village dr6SSmaker can devise. 1t
is a feature of the day in the south as
we'll as elsewhere that women are being
better educated than men. In the
northern states of the union this high
er culture is tending nanifeStly to cell
bacy, but in rural districts through the
south the girls come back from acade-
mics and colleges and accept the young
men who stayed at home to work the
plantations the same ones they would
have married had they not gone away
for the education the parents sacrificed
so much bestow. They know what
splendid material these men are made
Of and in the attraction between the
eternal womanIy and the eternal manly
the question of book-learning counts
for little. To lead patriarchal life
without a patriarch would be dull in
deed and il must be said that it re-
remain single in a situation which
would offer little aim and stimulus out
side of wifehood and maternity after
youth has waned. For this reason
youth is considered the high prize, the
valuable capital and stock in trade.
The women fade no earlier than their
northern sisters, but, owing to an in
herited habit of thought, the label of
decay is respectfully fastened upon
them by the popular mind while they
are still in their prime and in the north
ern and eastern states would be ac-
counted capable of all things, even of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
SHED BRITISH BLOOD.
English Soldiers in Crete Battle With
Bashi Bazouks.

London, July 1.-THE Times Athens
correspondent says official dispatches
have been received announcing that a
serious conflict has taken place at Can
dia between force of British troops
and a party of Bashi Bazouks, arising
from the British intervening in a Skin
mish between Bashi Bazouks and the
Christians.
Sixteen of the British force and
number of the Bashi Bazouks were kill
ed. The admirals of the foreign fleets
have sent five warships to Gambia to
suppress any further Mohammedan
movements.
No further details of the conflict have
been received, but passengers who have
lust arrived from Gambia state that on
account of reports of excuses by Bashi
Bazouks, 800 British marines have been
landed at Gambia to replace the Italian
garrison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-14
KANSAS DIALECT WORDS.


BANG UP-SpIendid As "Leedy is
having a bang up time with the pro-
hibitionists.''
BENEATH THE CLOvER-Dead.
tom Anderson's political hopes are
beneath the clover"
CALL DOWN - To rebuff-"Mrs
Lease recently called down Queen Vic
toria-''
CHIN MUsIC-Plenteous talk-..we
hear little else than chin music from
Jerry Simpson
CLOSE ONES PEEPERsLTo go to
sleeP-"It has been SO hot that few
people have been able to close their
CLOSE YOUR FACE-shut your
mouth-This is very vulgar and is not
used in print.
CROW HOP-To craw fish-'Leedy
has crow-hopped out of the special SEES
sion of the legislature"
DO TO A FRAZzLE-To annihilate-
"As Milt Brown is waiting to do Mr..
Leland to a frazzle.''
EVERYWHICHWA all direc-
tions-'The little Fort Scott boy who
hammered dynamite candle depart
ed everyw hichWay.'
FLOCK BY ONESELF-Act in a re-
served manner-'Joe Bristow flocks by
himself when he meets a crowd of
fourth-class postoffice aspirants on a
Washington street."
GOING SOUTH-To take a favora-
Bile turn-''The Kansas wheat crop is
going south"
HAVE ON DR1NkS-TO be intOXi-
cated-"The fellow who said that To-
peka hailstones were the size of ostrich
eggs probably had on plenty of drinks -
HEART BURNER-A drink of IiQ-
uor-"Let us drop into Topeka drug
store and take heart-burner"
HIS MESA pretentious person
Has his nibs arrived this morning? ''
asked Governor Leedy, referring to his
private secretary.
ITEM CHASER-A newspaper re-
porter-'"The item chaser does the
hardest work on Kansas newspapers -
JERKWATER-Insi John
J. Ingalls, regards the Swiss mission as
jerkwater job and would not take it
if it were offered to him."
LALA-A lulu-"Eugene Ware, the
poet, is a lala.'
LEAN UP CLOSE TO LUCK-To
run on a close margin-''Tom Ryan in
pulling for that job in Washington
leaned close up to luck
LONESOME-As ''All by my lone
some"-''Mr. Lease takes care of his
house all by his lonesome"
NOPE-No-Purely Kansas 1.-The
legislature said nope to PETER"
SOONER-A mongrel cur-Afterward
adopted by Oklahoma to designate pao-
pie who made prior and illegal settle
ment-