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Business Situation.

BTOdStreet'S review of last weeks
business says: Notwithstanding cool,
wet weather which checked the dis
tribution Of seasonable goods, dissppoint-
ment at the restriction of distribution of
merchandise in the spring and early
summer is giving way to hopefulness
for the fall trade Business is better
than year ago. The volume is larger
and there are more people employed
than prior to the last Presidential elec-
tion. The movement of merchandise in
the past five months has been dissp-
pointing, but jobbers are beginning to
report fair orders for fall delivery. The
encouraging features announced for the
week are May railroad earnings and the
advance in the price of Bessemer pig
iron, although the latter is less significant
than some reports indicate. Manufac.
turers Of woolens are more hopeful, the
outlook for higher prices stimulating
speculative demand for both raw and
manufactured products"
r. G. Dun & Co. say: "The gain in
business continues, not without fuctua-
tiOns and at best moderate, yet distinct
1t is still in quantities rather than price,
although in some branches an advance
in prices appears, but on the whole the
number Of hands employed, the volume
Of new orders and the amount OF work
done, are slowly increasing. Wheat
looks we'll, and the best trade authority
now estimates the yield at 515,O00,OO0
bushels, with many State and railroad
returns to support it. Some large woolen
mills are preparing to increase output
and have bought heavily, sales of foreign
wool at Boston alone having reached
6,3l0,0O0 pounds out of S,36S,O00 sold Of
ell kinds at the three chief markets.
Carpet mills at Philadelphia have just
resumed after long idleness and all are
now running nearly full time. A some
what better retail order demand for
woolens is reported, and especially in
medium and high priced goods and
fancy worsteds, without change in prices.
The strike at Pittsburg ended without
success. Failures for the week have
been 262 in the United States against
GAG last year, and 30 in Canada against
27 last year"
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delegate e,st-laEge and one additional
delegate for every twenty votes (Or
major traction thereof cast for F, W.,
Leech for County Clerk in 1895.
The following table gives the appor-
tiOnment OF delegates and the name Of
the present Precinct Committeeman:
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EASTMAN REMOVED.
Better Times Ahead for the Inmates Of the
Topeka Asylum

Better Times Ahead for the Inmates Of the
Topeka Asylum
Doctor Eastman, who has been per-
mltted to retain his position as Super
lntendent Of the Topeka Insane
Asylum for several months after the
Board Of Charities passed into the
hands of Populists, has resigned.
designations of remunerstiVe offices
are usually more or less Of a joke.
They 'sre usually requested, and the
officer understands that failure to com.
ply with the request means removal.
In this case the resignation is good
thing for the State. Several Republi-
can papers are bowling about whole
sale removals Of competent men In
charitable institutions. If Doctor
Eastmsn's administration has been a
competent one, then the commonly
sCcepten definition Of competency is
decidedly erroneous.
The ADVOCATE hRsrepeatedly called
attention to the treatment given pa
tients at this institution. 1t has re.
ferred to specific cases and shown that
gross cruelty has been practiced during
Doctor Esstmsn's term, and that he
not only must have known this to be
true, but he endesvored to conceal the
evidences Of it. These charges against
his administration came to be so gen.
orally believed that the Abilene con-
Vention inserted the following resolu-
tion in the last State platform:
ave condemn the present Republi-
can State administration for
its conduct of the State institutions
where brutality and homicide have
been permitted Il"
That resolution was directed at and
intended to refer to the Topeka
Asylum. The Board of Charities has
very properly done Its part to rid this
institution of it's Superintendent, who
tolerated the brutality and homicide
referred to.
DR.. G. II. Wetmore Of Emporia has
been appointed as Eastman's sue.
Cesgor. He is one of the city's leading
physicians, has had ten years expert
enCe In a New York asylum, and is
believed to be possessed of splendid
qualifications for his new position.
1t is to be hoped that he will see to 1t
that patients are accorded humane
treatment.
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AL qualified voters who signify their
intention Of voting the ticket nOmi-
mated at the County Convention will
be invited to participate in these eau
cuses.
BY order Of the County Central Com
mittee. r. w. LEECH, Chairman.
GEORGE WAGNER, Secretary,
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First published June lG, 1S97.l
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS.

Notice is hereby give that sealed bids for
supplying the State House with ice for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1898, will be re-
celved at the Office Of the Secretary OF State,
Topeka, Kansas, until - o'clock noon, Wednes.
day, June 80, 1897 The Executive Council 70.
serves The right 30 reject any and all bids.
lsEALl w. Il, BUSH, Secretary Of State,
june "a, 1897,
The advocate., 1897-06-16
First published June 16, 1871
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that application for a
pardon will be made to the Governor OF the
State OF Kansas on the 9th day OF July, 1897,
by William Link, who is now confined In the
Kansas State Penitentiary under sentence of
the District Court of Shawnee Comfy upon
conviction Of murder in the second degree.
The advocate., 1897-06-16
First published June l6, 1871
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for
the hauling OF coal for the State House for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1898, will be re.
ceived at the office OF the Secretary Of State,
Topeka, Kansas, until - o'clock noon, Wednes-
day, June 80, 1897. The Executive Council
reserves the right TO reject any and all bids.
[sEALl W. L. BUSH, Secretary OF State.
June 14 1897
The advocate., 1897-06-16

Sample copies of the ADVOCATE will be
mailed free to any address
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MORE THAN HE COULD STAND.

The Sudden Ending of Mountain
Girls Breach of Promise Suit
While some of the members of the To-
cal bar were entertaining an attorney
from North Carolina, he told this
among a good many other professional
experiences:
Though our mountain people are
not educated, no Yankee can beat them
in a dicker or go after a dollar with
greater avidity. A rich young fellow
from our place went up among them
for a time to take on some health, and
while there paid more attention than
he really meant to one of the few beau
ties that live there She was a creature
of magnificent proportions, naturally
brilliant, and as relentless of purpose as
any moonshiner that ever went after
a revenue officer She sought to recov-
er ten thousand dollars damages for
breach of promise, and I had the young
mans case. fst a
"On the trial the girl made a star
witness. When ! asked her point-blank
if he had ever proposed to her, she re-
piled that he had not, in SO many
words, but his every action look, even
his tones, was proposal. She admit
ted that she had not gone into a decline
because of his Inconsistency, but graphi-
cally pictured months of agony, unre-
Quilted longing and wounded pride. 1t
looked bad for us.
"At this stage Of the case lank six
footer from the mountains came to me
and whispered that he wanted to be
called as my first witness. He sternly
declined to answer questions till on the
stand, but reckoned that his word was
good that he would pull the young fell
low through.
"All ever asked him was his name,
and you couldn't have stopped him
with a gun. He was the girls husband.
He had married her a week after the
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An INTERESTING PERHAPS.

When some scientists haven't any,
thing else to do they occupy them
selves with showing how little the hui
man race amounts to. A French scien-
fist has arrived at the rather startling
perhaps that animals are better
Christians than men. He doesn't offer
much in support of his perhaps" but
what he does say is not uninteresting.
He says that animal societies are less
polished, but perhaps more humane, all
things being equal, than our own" and
gives several instances of animal spe-
cies made use of by another and per-
forming services for the latter without
receiving anything In exchange.
Among others is mentioned the case of
the banks of the Nile. This bird per-
forms two services for the crocodile.
1t enters its mouth and dispatches there
the worms and leeches which trouble
the crocodile. It flies rapidly away,
giving vent to peculiar cry, when the
ichneumon, the enemy of the crocodile,
approaches, thus appraising Its COM
panion of the ichnepmons presence.
In return the crocodile shakes it's tail
whenever 1t wishes to close it's mouth,
thus giving the. bird warning. The
crocodile In no wise recompenses, but
contents itself simply with respecting
the person of the little animal. The
service rendered Is unilateral But 1t is
easy to understand that by the exercise
of extremely little intelligence, If not
unconsciously, the crocodile may be led
tosdefend it's trochilus. Sometimes one
animal will borrow the services Of
another temporarily, as IN the case of
the serpent who Is ferried across river
by q duck, or, as Is frequently seen,
several animals assist one another in
crossing streams of water, in lifting
large stones, in moving the trunks Of
trees, in constructing dams, in hunting
or in mutual defence.
Animals certainly don't appear to be
worse than human beings when the lat
ter are bad.
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MIR. FITZSIMMONS

MR.. FITZSIMMONS TELLS A
PEACEFUL MAN HOW TO PRO-
TECT HIMSELF.
A gentleman of the newspaper frater-
nifty, now connected with the Globe
Democrat was once sent to Louisiana
to investigate the ms and outs of the
political differences which finally re-
suited in the choice of Foster for gov
ernor, the discontinue Of McEnery
and the bursting up of the Louisiana
lottery. About the same time "Jim-
mic" Carroll and Billy Meyers were
about to have prize fight at the Olym-
pic club in New Orleans The writer
was telegraphed, after he was through
with his political mission: GO and
see the fighters; visit their training
quarters; stay and report the fight
The writer knew no more of the science
of pugilism than Mr.. ingalls, Is proved
to have known. But he did make use
of his opportunities at Jimmie Car
rolls training quarters at Bay ST Lou
is, Miss. There was a long, lank, awk-
ward, red-headed, small-faced man
with high pointed shoulders, whom Mr..
Noel of the Olympic club introduced as
Mr.. Fitzsimmons, a trainer for Jimmie
Carroll. Mr. Fitzsimmons was jollity
itself Mr.. Carroll was out for the time
on his run" and MIR. Fitzsimmons did
the honors. He trotted out the pipes
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and tobacco; he fished up somewhere a
bottle of something or other-not for
prize fighters, but for others-and then
he began to tell stories. Here is one of
his stories:
1.-THE greatest joker that ever saw in
the fighting business was Jem Mace,
He's great 'strlnger.' Once he got me
to box with eight men in his place In
Australia. He told me that II l would
knock them all out he'd give me a fine
gold watch, l put them all to sleep one
after the other. While was putting it
on to the last one I was wondering
whether the watch was a split second
or not. When I was dressed Mace
comes in and gives me his blooming
photograph. / asks him for the watch,
and he says, Think of the reputation
you're getting. Reputation was all 1
did get, too, and very little of that"
Then he began to discuss people who
cannot fight, but who ought to protect
themselves without gun play. Don't
show me gum" said Mr. Fitzsimmons,
I'm afraid of EN-
But how is weakling without sci
ence or strength to protect himself
without gun, as you call it?" asked
Mr.. Noel.
Easiest thing in the world" replied
Mr.. Fitzsimmons. Keep cool; don't
have too much lip; don't spread your
arms, and don't above all, make a bluff
at taking off your coat, Watch your
man; get closer and closer to him till
you're about three feet apart; then,
with your left hand, quick as flash
dash your hat In his face, and at the
same instant, with all your strength
drive your right into the pit of his
stomach, He will be goner, and the
fight is yours"
Mr. Fitzsimmons illustrated the point
by dashing his cap into the face of the
president of the Olympic club, and at
the same instant, so quick indeed that
1t is impossible to describe 1t, his right
index finger was probing Mr.. Noers
stomach. That's all. The point is
clear. With one hand obscure the enc
mys vision with your hat; with the
other give it to him. st Louis Globe
Democrat.
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SERTOUS.

Shade of Pharaoh's daughter-"sa
If you were on earth now you'd make a
fine sailor!" Shade Of Lots wife
"Why?" Shade of Pharaoh's daughter
-"Oh, you're such an old salt, you
know!"-New York Press.
State Pride.-Foreigner- suppose
even the residents of little Delaware
are proud of their state?" Jerseyman
ooh, yes; every man Of them would
tell you that Rhode Island was smaller,
Nevada fewer, and Kansas crazier''---
Truth.
Does this amateur you have engaged
know how to act?"
Act! He couldn't even act upon q
suggestion. Detroit Free Press.
She-"Our minister does not jump at
conclusions" es
He-'I should say not. never knew
him to reach conclusion in less than
an ur."-Brooklyn Life
Mrs. Pawson-"My sister is worried
to death over her son Reginald. She
wants him to enter the ministry, his
father wants him to go into business,
while Reginald himself has got his
mind set on being an actor, and says
nothing shall keep him from it." Mrs.
Dawson" Hum--how old is he?" Mrs.
Pawson-"He's going on seven."-Tit-
Bits.
A slate fell off roof and fatally in
jured an aged office-seeker, whose life
had been spent in ceaseless quest for
pie.
When the doctor told him he must
prepare for another and better world,
he family smiled.
"At last" he feebly murmured, "at
last I'm slated for mighty good
place"
And then he died.-C1eveland Plain
Dealer.
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A TEACHERS PENSION Plan.

Teachers and others who are inter-
ested in teachers will watch the work.
ing Of plan which is about to be put
In operation in San Francisco. In that
city compulsory pension association
for teachers has just been established
by a legislative enactment. Teachers
outside of San Francisco may also join
the association, but the Requirement.
to be members applies only in the city.
Each San Francisco member will be re-
quired to contribute one dollar a month
and will be allowed after thirty years
of service to retire with an annuity of
5000. Teachers who have already serv-
ed several years are to be permitted to
count those in the thirty by paying s12
for each year. In the interior the an
nuity will be $3.50 a year. Teachers
who become disabled before they have
served thirty years will be allowed such
proportion of the annuity as the time of
their service bears to thirty years. In
addition to the monthly contributions
of the teachers the fund viii be aug
nented from the absence" money Of
the teachers, "a, fine of one-twentieth Of
the months salary being imposed for
each day of absence. Twenty five per
cent. Of all receipts is to be placed in a
reserve fund until the total reserve
amounts to $4,000
This plan appears to be thoroughly
practical one. 1t may not please some
of the women teachers who expect to
get married and retire before they have
taught for thirty years, but they can
have the satisfaction of knowing that
if their expectation is fulfilled their
contributions will do others good.
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womens drapery. The bodice fits to
perfection, for she is perfection, you
know, and it fits her 1t is no more like
mans rig than it Is like the usual
woman's bodice. There are jaunty la
pels that suggest coat, but that is all
there really is of a coat.
Waistcoats are such becoming affairs
that she wears two or three of them in
layers, and each waistcoat is a different
color and different cuts BY the time
you come to the linen its irreproachable
finish and set seem joke, much as if a
policeman burst into a ballet skirt I'M
der his uniform Jacket. She carries her
head up in imitation of the real tailor
girl but the pucker between her eye
brows suggests that her collar is dread
fully high. and is not a bit the bored,
worldly-wise expression a real tailor
girl bears.
With all that perfection of shirt front
you would expect equally correct cuffs,
wouldn't you? But this damsel Is not
doing what you expect, and her sleeves
finish in any inconsequent feminine
fashion. So, too, instead of heavy dog
skin gloves, she wears delicately cling
ing kid that moulds to her dimpled fin
gers. She does her hair in some tan
talizing imitation of severity that only
emphasizes its bronze crispiness and
her hat, which sets out to be in dismal
ly unattractive lines, filings a challenge
in an utterly inconsistent knot, Of roses
tucked in for trimming. Like pewter
coins, she's calculated to deceive and
If she does so her aim is gained. So let
the men beware! FLORETTE.
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FASHION NOTES.
a Dangerous CounterfeIt.


The really gentlemanly tailor girl no
longer terrlfles us into admiration, for
we are used to her, Her irreproachable
neclltie may move us to envy, because
when a girl goes In for tailor wear she
always does 1t with minute attention
to detail that the average man can't
even pretend, but we don't futter at the
sight of her any more, The present
season, however, has developed new
style Of tailor girl, of the type pictured
herewith, and there's no resisting her.
Her trigness, little mink! is all fake.
She has her dress made of some ire
proachable tailoring material, and it
will fit close enough about the skirt to
seem unique besides the fulness Of other
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4 GOOD WORD.

The department of Public Works in
this city has had an acting superin-
tendent" for so long that the fact that
he is only acting has been almost for
gotten. And now another department.
the Police department-has an acting
superintendent These and other BIZ
partisan facts which might be mention
ed show that the bipartisan system
which was inaugurated here with such
a flourish of trumpets hasn't worked
as well as those who put it onto us said
it would. But patiencel Soon, if moth
ing happens to prevent, We shall have a
fine new charter which will in O mys-
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young man left the mountains. He had
consented to her bringing the suit in
her maiden name and saying nothing
about her being wife. But if it's so,
he roared, that she's been a mournin'
and pinin' an dyin' after this heah
dude critteh, / ask tn Govt fun di-
voice.
THE girl rushed to his arms. She
sobbed that she never loved another.
The case was won for me, but the
young man never goes to the noun
tains or makes any miscellaneous be-
stowal of his affections. Detroit Free
Press.
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terious but sure way abolish all the
evils of government which we have suf-
fered under. Those who will do the
governing may not be any ADLER or bet
ter than those who have done it, but
they will have more responsibility, don't
you know? And it cannot be denied
that responsibility is a good word.
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BRAVE AND TRUE IpoRDs.

! will tell you that the real criminals,
the people who endanger the life of the
State, the people who endanger the well
fare of the city, are not so much those
who engage in the grosser forms of
vice. They are not the sandbaggers;
they are not even the murderers. Those
men can be detected; they can be pun
ished as provided by law. The men
who corrupt public officials, the. men
who poison the very channels Of ad-
ministration-they are the men who
are striking the real blow at the vitals
of the community. They would make
republican institutions failure. They
would overturn the very foundations Of
our institutions by corrupting the Off
Gals. Of the two, the more dangerous
are those who attack the community.
The work of municipal regeneration
must be undertaken by the people
themselves. 1t cannot be undertaken
by any one individual, or any two or
three individuals. The people must use
their own servants, and those servants
will have power for the work that is to
be done only to the extent to which
they may have the people behind them.
These brave and true words, and
many more equally brave and true,
were spoken by John NJ. Harlan, the
independent Republican candidate for
mayor CT Chicago. But he wasn't
elected. A man who is in favor of
more "openness'' in Chicago rather
than less was chosen.
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"We have been considered very insig-
nificant by the men" said the Countess
ti Brazza at meeting of mothers in
New York the other day, "and yet not
one Of them would have been alive to-
day If it had not been for US Great
applause, but little thought will show
that what is sauce for the gander in
this case in also sauce for the goose.
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ADVERTISING RATES,

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
advertisements, One Cent Word each In
sertlon. Five Cents Word for full week
(sGven times).
Display Advertisements, per inch, one n,
Beltlon, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, ~
cents nne week, $500; one month, $40; one
year, $40. =.
Obituary Notices, In prose or verse, 10
Deaths and Funerals. so cents each. Local
notices Is cents per line.
Yearly advertisers are limited to their own
Immediate business (all mattev to pc un-
Objectlonable), and their contracts DO not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale. ETC.
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An advertisement in a London paper
announces that a young married Wo-
man of title Is willing to discharge the
duties Of chaperon for three months
for the modest sum of $1,000.
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Those who want to know who's got
the button will be pleased to read that
the authorities Of New Mexico have
succeeded in arresting the entire But
ton gang.
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When the expenses of the Inaugural
lion of Benjamin Harrison had been
paid in 1889 there remained the sum of
$4,000 which was transferred to the
commissioners Of the District of Column
bia to be used as fund, the interest
of which was to relieve the distress of
worthy poor. The fund is SO invested
that it brings AZ per cent. interest, so
that s1,170 is available each year for
charitable purposes. The Mckinley in
auguration committee has on hand
balance of $7.244.29. which after consid-
cradle debate has been given by the
committee to the inaugural fund, and
is to be used for the Same purposes.
The total receipts of the inaugural
committee, from sale of tickets for the
inaugural ball, supper, concerts and
subscriptions reached s116,S17.90 while
the expenses including the refunding of
the $47, 1885 guarantee fund subscribed
were 500, 1881. Hence the balance
now in the hands of the District COM
missioners.