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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
TO AMEND CONSTITUTION.
Swiss and German Clubs Agitate for
Initiative and Referendum.

Chicago, Aug. 1S-Representatives of the
bined forces to secure the Incorporation
of the initiative and referendum in the
state constitution met in Ulrich'S hall
yesterday afternoon to discuss the ques-
ton.
The meeting was an adjournment of
the convention of clubs of these nation
alities which met some weeks ago in the
same hall. julius Wegman presided and
addresses were made by General Lieb,
Carl Hearting, Frank Stauber, Max Stern
and others. General Lieb and Frank
Stauber were delegated to attend the
meeting of the Federation of Labor yes
terday afternoon called to elect dele
gates to the Bloomington state conven-
to instruct it's delegates to work for the
introduction of the initiative and referen-
dunn into the state constitution.
The confederated clubs passed reso-
luton authorizing the enlargement of
their executive committee from fifteen
to fifty, and to admit representatives of
all nationalities. The object of this reso-
luton, according to General Lieb, is to
elicit the. interest of voters in the city.
The meeting also passed resolution to
hold a series of mass meetings during the
winter for the purpose of informing the
public as to the scope and nature of the
movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
EX-SECRETARY CARLISLE
Favors the Gold Democrats Putting
UP Tickets EverYwhere.

Washington, Aug. sex Secretary
Carlisle, who is in the city, says he will
not be able to make speeches this fall
in all the states in which reports have
accredited him
He would like to do so, he says but
his law practice will not permit. He
intends to make at least one speech in
kentucky in favor of the gold Demo-
cratic state and county ticket He is
receiving requests from many direc-
lions for speeches, but so far has not
been able to accept any of them.
The ex-secretary says he is in favor
of the gold Democrats putting up tick
cts in every state in which an election
is to be held this fall no matter if they
poll mere handfuls of votes. He is as
uncompromising in his views as the
silver Democrats and speaks plainly
on the subject of the gold men main
tanning their organizations and their
principles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
YOUNG GIRL ASLEEP
Walks Five Miles on a RailroadTrack
in Her Night Clothes.

Wilmington, Del, Aug. 1S.-Miss Chel-
Ia Common, the 10 year old daughter OF
Alvin B. Connor, station agent on the
Delaware railroad at FELTON,. few
miles below Dover, disappeared from
her home on Friday night. Her par
ents did not miss her until the next
morning, when they began a vigorous
search for her.
Information reached them through a
man named Lynch, who said he had
seen the girl walking up the railroad
tracks dressed in night clothes shortly
after midnight
Lynch said he came up with the girl
near viola, three miles from FELTON,.
Acting on this information they traced
the girl to Woodside, five miles from
Felton, where her tracks disappeared.
returning to their home almost heart
broken, they We're about to give her up
Tor lost, when she surprised them by
alIght1ng from the south bound train
which arrived at FELTON, yesterday
morning.
The girl then told how she had wan
dered from the house While asleep and
walked up the railroad tracks in scan
" garments before awakening. Miss
Connor is addicted to the habit of walk
ing in her sleep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
WILL RUN PEACH TRAINS.
Immense Crop of Peaches to be Har-
vested in Pennsylvania.

Chambersburg, Pa, Aug. 1S.-The
first week of the peach season of the
Blue Mountain peach belt, which ex-
perts say is the only peach country in
crop, has opened with crowds of buyers
from New York and other cities.
Commission men, with offers for whole
orchards have not met with much sue
cess. Growers propose to pick and ship
the fruit themselves.
Along the railroads are standing
many cars filled with parts of crates,
baskets and carriers, all ready to put
together.
Reports of premature ripening come
from Slaithsburg and other sections, but
other reports say that the fruit is doing
well though not of the finest quality.
Several growers about Chambersburg
will have 10000 crates each. The Cum
berland Valley road has arranged to
put on special peach express trains to
carry the peaches in refrigerator cars
east and west.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
AN OFFICESEEKERS' TRUST
They Organize and Begin Movement
for the Repeal of the Civil
Service Law.

washington, Aug. 18.-The disap-
pointed officeseekers of Washington
have decided to organize, and to the
number of $50 they met at one of the
hotels and bestowed upon their new as
ISOLATION the title of 1.-The National Re
publican Anti-Civil Service League -
Thirty-one states are said to have been
represented, and the addresses of the
evening were evidently stirring and
most heartily applauded
The league proposes to organize in
every congressional district in the
country and submit to congress at the
December session petition for the re-
peal of the civil service law, signed by
every Republican who can be reached
In this and like movements, it is OBJ
servable that the scene of warfare has
shifted from the administration to- con-
gress. Mr.. Grosvenor's speech, attack
ing the reform, which came out in yes
terdays Congressional Record, asserts
that the time has come for congress to
take this matter up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
WASHBURN'S FACULTY.
How and Where the Mem bers Have
Spent the Summer

The Washburn college faculty re-
turns this fall decreased in numbers by
three of the regular professors. One
new one to fill the vacancy has been
selected. President G.. NJ. Herrick has
been travelling throughout the state
featuring and arranging for this years
college work. He and his family are
now at Green Bay, Wis. Professor L.
d. Whittemore has remained at his
home on College Hill and has been Gull
tivating a fine lawn and doing some
special studying.
Prof. Lovewell spent most of the
summer in Vermont, but is now at
in the state this summer preparing
report on Economic Geology but is now
at Columbus, Ohio. Prof. Hyde spent
his vacation in New England and in
cidentally got married. Prof. Palmer
has given Evolutionary recitals through
out the state, having had charge of this
work at the Ottawa Chautauqua. Prof.
M. H. Frank went to California on the
G. E. excursion and is now at Gin
cinnati. He has rendered his resigna-
ton to- the trustees as head of the
Miss Maddocks, instructor in litera-
ture, has spent the vacation at the col
lege in study. She is dean of the cot
tages. Miss Florence TownSley, voice
teacher, has camped in Colorado. Miss
kittie Fisher, art teacher has been at
Kirwin, Kan, while Miss Lucy Dough-
erty has been at the college arranging
the library catalogue. Miss Helen In
gals. instructor in pinafOrte has been
at her home in Cedar Falls, Iowa Prof
W. A Harshbarger spent most of the
summer in Topeka but is now in Frank
lin, Neb- Prof F. w. Ellis, instructor
in Greek, resigned last spring and is
now at his home in Connecticut
Miss Anna Adams, instructor in Ger
man and French, is at her home in
Clifton Springs, N. Y. She has resign
ed.
Prof r. S. Radford Phi. d. has been
elected to succeed Prof F. w Ellis in
the chair of Greek. AS yet Prof Frank
and Miss Adams have not been sue
ceeded, but the trustees will supply in
structOrS at the earliest opportunifv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
CAN'T MEXICO SEE TIP

The Mexican Herald, under date of
August IL, prints the following:
The financial agent of Mexico at Lon
don has cabled to Finance Minister Lii
mantour stating that the excha nges of
London and Amsterdam have listed the
following bonds of the second series of
the interior 5 per cent redeenlable
debt:
Bonds of 81, 900 up to No 9S,734
Bonds of $500 up to No. SO, 776.
Bonds of 500 up to No. 69,7S4.
This listing of a silver security by
two of the most conservative bourses in
Europe co-incidently with the decline of
silver would seem to prove that the
fnancierS of the world by no means
regard the future of the white metal in
a dark light.
Mexican bonds payable in silver have
been current in European financial mar
kets at a figure nearly approaching par
for a long time. The interest on these
bonds is payable in gold and has been
promptly met. Clearly European in
vestors see no reason to doubt con-
tinuation Of prompt and entire sat
isfaction of her interest charges by
Mexico.
Payment of the principal they do not
expect at present, and by the time it is
due either silver will be restored to its
place as one of the worlds money met
ais or Mexico will have been forced to
"a
is being made to, bring about the latter
solution of the problem, with good indi-
cations for success.
Mexico is dependent upon import du-
ties levied in gold for the funds neces-
sary to meet the interest charges. AS
silver declines in value imports will
also decline in volume, owing to the en-
HANGED cost of foreign goods which
must be paid for in gold or it's equiva-
lent.
Mexican merchants are already cur
failing their orders for foreign wares
because it now takes 81. so in Mexican
money to buy a dollars worth of
imported articles. 1t will not take long
10 reduce importations to point
where the revenue derived through the
custom houses will not be sufficient to
meet the interest charges, which, as
previously stated, are payable in gold.
When this time arrives, what is to be
done?
European financiers are convinced
that a young and growing country like
the Republic of Mexico will not see her
credit suffer, and that to avoid it, dis
astrous as it will prove to her internal
affairs. she will adopt the gold stand
ard
Mexico is the only important country
in the world now on the silver standard
China can be attended to any time
and when she is forced to a gold basis
the manipulators of the worlds supply
of money will feel that the victory over
silver is complete. Under the circum-
stances they can well afford to pur-
chase and list the Mexican silver
bonds offered. The more of these Sc
curities under their control the quicker
can they force the country to a gold
basis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
NO M'KINLEY $40 NOTE.
We Don't Put Living Presidents on
Our Currency Since the Law
Forbids It.
From the New york. Sun.

From the New York Sun.
The World says that the portrait of
President Mckinley is to be put on the
new $40 treasury note. This is rub
Dish. The United States statutes say:
mo portrait shall be placed upon any
of the bonds, securities, notes, fraction
al or postal currency of the United
States while the original of such por-
trait is living.''
This law was adopted on April Z, 1866,
after S. M. Clark, who was chief of the
bureau of engraving and printing, had
caused his own portrait to be put on
the scent fractional currency note and
the portrait of George Washington on
the Scent note of the same series.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
Excursion to the Southwest.

On August II. Sept. and 81, and
Oct and 10, 1897, the Santa Fe Route
will run cheap excursions to all points
in Arkansas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Texas
and Indian Territory; also to various
points in Louisiana and New Mexico.
Ticket rate, one fare plus 81 for round
p rTP These ecuTsions viii enar
BILE you to take an outing and see Ma
lures rich rewards for well-directed toll
For free literature descriptive of lands
in the Great Southwest, address W. J.
Black, G. P. A, A, T. & S. F. Ry., To-
peka. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
"HE THAT WORKS EASILY. WORKS
SUCCESSFULLY" CLEAN HOUSE WITH
SAPOLIO
MUST BRING GOLD.
Continued Exports of Silver and
Wheat Will Start the Yellow Stream.

New York, Aug. 1S.-Silver bullion
seems to find difficulty in touching bot
tom on its market. Saturdays price
was the lowest ever recorded, but Mon
days London quotation fell a quarter
penny per ounce further, and the New
York price &c. At the present price
for silver in New York the intrinsic
value of the dollar is approximately
42A cents.
This country exported in July, ac-
cording to the government report, only
S72, 1893 more silver than it supplied in
June. 1t is therefore plain that the
break in silver is not due to excessive
exports from America.
The Mercantile Safe Deposit company
holds 349,061.34 ounces of silver bullion
against which 349 certificates are out
standing.
The steamer Trave, sailing for Eu-
rope today, took out 225,000 ounces of
silver.
Gable advices from London say there
is an impression that gold may be sent
direct to New York from the continent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
TAGGED FOR HOLLAND.
Infant Passengers Will Cross the
Ocean in Care Of officers of
the oldham

New York, Aug. 1S.-The steamer
OLDHAM of the Netherlands line, which
sailed from Hoboken yesterday morn
ing, carried Harry and Elsie Stevens
of Chicago, aged Az and 21a years re-
spectively.
They were travelling alone. To the
clothing of each was attached a tag
bearing the words: ITO Holland. THE
children were dressed neatly and said
they We're going to their parents. They
arrived in Hoboken from Chicago on
Friday and were consigned to D. Van
WIKI of the Observation-Disclosures
line to be forwarded to Holland.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
(F7ro1n the Atchison GIobeO
A frown is a mild way of kicking

NfFOln the AlcnlSOn GIObe.)
A frown is a mild way of kicking.
+
A man wks laughs at his own joke
usually tells a poor story.
Some people get the swelled head
just because they live in big town.
If you have taken proper care of the
past, the present will be found all
right.
Only one bootblack in a hundred is
able to put five cents worth of shine on
your shoes.
who reads the Sunday sermons in
Monday mornings newspapers.
Find a man who is competent and
willing to work, and notice the worth
less people hanging onto his skirts
-.
Every man is secretly proud if his
beard is stiff, and hard to cut; he be-
Heves a stiff beard means more of a
man.
Our idea of good luck is to have coun-
try people think so much of you that
you out for Sunday dinner, and bring
you back again.
The ordinary dressmaker is so averse
to making clothes comfortable. that
when a woman does want a dress in
which she can draw long breath, she
has to pad herself during the fitting
process, taking the padding out wheI
the gown is completed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
EVERYBODY SAYS So.

Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most Won
derfuI medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cure headache fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of G. c. G. to-day; 10, %, so cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
PRICKED WITH NEEDLES.
a Dying Man Revived Long Enough
to Name His Assailant.

New York, Aug. 1S.-Harry Magee,
who was assaulted on August 5 in a
Coney Island dance hall, was visited by
Coroner Coombs today to take the
mans -morten statement
Magee was unconscious, but by stick
ing needles into him he was brought
back to life long enough to make
statement to the effect that he was
struck with a beer glass by Thomas
King, the floor manager of the dance
hall, who is under arrest. Magee re-
lapsed into Inconsistencies and cannot
live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
New York Physician Claims to Have
Cured Many by Electricity.

New York, Aug. 1S.-Dr.J. NJ. Bleyer,
a reputable physician, announces that
he has discovered new cure for con-
sumption by electricity.
He will read a paper before the coun-
ty medical society August 10, giving
the details, which is in effect the steril-
izing of the affected lungs in what is
known as electro1ysis.
He claims to have cured a dozen per-
sons classed as hopeless cases complete
ly and many physicians of high stand
ing are said to agree that the cures are
complete and effectual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
spreckels Buys San Francisco Call.

San Francisco, Aug. 1S.-The San
Francisco Call, morning paper, has
changed hands. Charles NJ. Shortridge
retires as proprietor, and John d.
Spreckels, eldest son of the sugar mil
lionaire, Claus Spreckels, assumes pro-
prietorship, with Edward S. Leake as
managing editor. It has been an open
secret ever since Mr. Shortridge
bought the Call at auction two years
ago for 1854, 900, that Spreckels was his
financial hacker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
Star Route Contracts.

department has prepared advertise
ments for contracts for all star and
steamboat mail service in all the
states west of the Mississippi river ex-
cept Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri.
These contracts, embracing about $500
routes, will run for four years, begin
ming July l, 1898. Bids will be opened
in the second assistant postmaster
generals office December L.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
TRY Grain o! Trv Grain-oI

Ask your grocer today to show you
drink that takes the place of coffee. The
children may drink it without injury as
well as~the adult. All who try it, like
il. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown
of Mocha or Java, but 1t is made from
pure grains, and the most delicate
stomach receives it without distress. Il
price of coffee. 15c and Csc per pack
age. Sold by grocers..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
Low Rates and Hot weather

Are here A trip to Colorado doesn't
cost much now, and you may be COM
Portable III cooler climate. Apply to
agent Santa Fe Route, or to w. j.
Black, G. P. A, Topeka, for rates and
copy of A Colorado Summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

If you want reliable dye that will
color an even brown or black and will
please and satisfy you every time, use
Buckingham'S Dye for the Whiskers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

Franchetti, the banker-composer, is
building an opera house al his country
seat, where he can have his own works
performed without subjecting them to
the judgment of managers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

President Barrios of Guatemala was
educated in this country and is a grad
uate of Yale. He declared himself die
tator to protect the interests of foreign
ers in his country, and is anxious to
have American capital develop it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

The Old gatekeeper OF Virginia
Springs, in speaking recently of the
early days of that resort, told of a din
ner given by Henry Clay to his friends
The dinner was solemn enough until al
most dawn, when the cloth was remov-
ed and the pipes passed around and a
negro fiddler brought in. Then Henry
Clay, the great statesman, and Rufus
Choate, the lawyer, stood up before the
company, and while Clay danced a
Kentucky breakdown, Choate danced a
New England pigeonwing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.

Prince Henry of Prussia has bought
a 5-months-old Siberian bear cub at
Hamburg to present as a suitable pet
to the crew of the warShip KONG Will
helm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

The Comrades Like H.
The People ssAII'' Like 1t,
And They VIII TAX g 1t,
The ssRoek IsIand"ao Buffalo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
Miss Braddol
nnNoliEt o ~on

Miss Braddon joins to her talent as
novelist genius for housekeeping.
She always trains her own servants and
can teach something to even the most
accomplished pupil of school of cook
cry. She is also an excellent needle
woman, and when her children were
young she delighted in nothing so much
as in making and mending theircIothes
Miss Braddon shares with Mrs Hum
phrey Ward the distinction among
leading lady noveIists of never having
been interviewed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

The Crown Prince and Princess of
Italy have been presented by the citizens
of Rome with a beautiful album con-
tanning over $4,000 signatures of nota-
bic persons from all parts of Italy, in
Guiding most of the mayors. The al
bum, which is intended as souvenir in
connection with the wedding of the
Prince of Naples and Princess Helene
of Montenegro, also contains loyal ad-
dress Illuminated by the most ceIebrat-
ed Italian painters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

Rider Haggard is an encouraging ex-
ample of what patience and persever-
ence can achieve. No one would take
his first book and he had to pay for
the production of it himself. ''She"
was written in six weeks, and Mr.. Hag-
gard, unlike most sensational writer's
has never kept a notebook. He die
tates all his work to a typist, but not
until he has already written out the
story in his own handwriting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

King Humbert of Italy is, like his
late father, Victor Emmanuel, a noted
hunter. He delights in organizing
large hunting parties in the mountains
of Piedmont, and not unfrequently
stays away for days when on the chase
bent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

Commander Philip Hichborn, chief
constructor of the navy, has presented
to the city of Hartford, through Sena-
tor Hawley. the figurehead of Admiral
Farragut's flagship, the Hartford, and
it will probably be placed in some pub
lie position in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
WOMEN CLEAN STREETS.
It Revuired Nearly Week, but the
Work was Done ThoroughIY.

Union City Ind, Aug. 1S.-The wom-
en- of this town have started IN at
street cleaning themselves. The place
is in two states, Indiana and Ohio, and
each part of the town has separate
government.
The street dividing the two is called
State Line street. The two municipal
governments refused to have the street
cleaned because of a difference in opin-
ion as to the expense, and for several
months dirt accumulated in the
. thoroughfare until it became an eye
sore and a menace to public health.
Finally the women on both sides of the
street, who do not share in the jealousies
between their governments. got to-
gether and decided that they would
clean the street.
Accordingly on Monday morning
thew appeared in organized gangs with
pick and spade and began to make the
dirt fly. They had their wagons ready
and as fast as the dirt was shoveled
into piles it was carried away. They
completed their work yesterday.
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment gives
instant relief. 1t allays Inflammation
and heals. 1t is prompt in it's action
and positive in its effect. 1t is the
the kind that cures without pains or
discomfort. It is for piles only. SOC.
Tubes, 75c. Geo. w. Stansfield, 632 Kan
sas avenue, and Miller's Pharmacy, cor
ner Sixth and Topeka avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

Dr. Davis Anti-Headache is super
ior in every way to all remedies for
headache.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

There are others-but none "just as
good" as DR.. Davis Anti-Headache.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
Confortable Reclinine che

Are carried between Topeka and Pueb
10, Colorado Springs and Denver OF
the Colorado Express leaving over thu
Santa Fe at 1905 p. m. daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
Educate Your Bowels with Ca.

CANDY Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. II c. G. c. fail, druggists refund money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18

Weather Indications.
Chicago, Aug. 1S.-For Kansas: Fair
tonight and Thursday; variable winds.