The Advocate and news., 1898-10-12


| friends have erected this monument"
f. B. Dawes claims to be able to de-
liver speeches of the vintage OF 1892,
1894, 1896 or 1898, as ordered Amy one
OF them is about as vile as an egg OF the
aforementioned date.
The twenty-seventh yearly meeting OF
Friends convened in Lawrence, Friday,
to continue In session ten days. Presi-
dent Stanley Of the Friends University
at Wichita is the presiding officer.
1t is proposed to bring Ex-Governor
Altgeld to Topeka for campaign speech.
If this is done he will hold an overflow
meeting outside Hamilton hall, and
without the aid of brass bands or fam
beaux. Altgeld will bring some truths
to tell.
DR.. L. A. Smith, of Topeka, stuck
pastors on his express packages telling
the truth about the patriotism of the ex-
press companies, and the companies re-
fused to transmit his packages. Here
after he will vote for stricter regulation
of telegraph and express companies.
According to the Augusta Gazette,
Stanley grew so frantic at his Eureka
meeting that he was taken for an old
woman with Mysteries, and thirteen la
dies in the audience passed their smell
ing salts up to the platform. The Ga
zette does not say what the remaining
| fourth Of the audience did,
The grand lodge of the /. o. o. F. Of
Kansas meets in Topeka to-day. The
report OF Grand Master w. L. Brown
shows an increase in the membership Of
20, 500. The grand lodge will decide as
to the advisability of establishing home
in the State. If an affirmative decision Is
made offers for site will be presented
by Topeka, WamegO, Mcpherson and
Wichita.
1t was the low rate of wages paid
miners which kept back the introduc-
tiOn of machines in mines, but it has not
taken so very long to overcome this diff
Guilty. 1t was thought, too, that ma
chimes would never be successful where
the coal is only three to four feet thick,
but the machine built for the coal in the
Cherokee district of this State is fully
up to expectations.
| The State convention of the Christian
church met at Wellington last week. 1t
decided to combine all the different
| boards for State work in a single organ
7. iZation, with auxiliary departments for
church extension, home missions, Sun
day schools and Christian Endeavor
work. The statistical reports from the
churches were incomplete, but they in
diCate present membership Of $4,000
for the denomination in the State.
1t is too bad to spoil all the nice things
that have been said about the closing of
all the saloons and joints in Topeka,
but 1t is true that they are with the town
again. Topeka is now said to have one
of the finest saloons in Kansas, and this
does not mean the Topeka Club, either.
By the way it was whispered around
that Mayor Fellows had promised the
State Temperance union that he would
treat the Topeka Club and the drug
stores according to the intention Of the
prohibtOry law, but it seems that this
was false Tumor.
G. Wood Davis predicts higher wheat.
In personal letter to friend in Abb
lene he gives it as his opinion "that
prices are, because of the persistent ex-
aggerations Of interested parties-grain
gamblers, both in America and Europe,
and buyers of grain in Europe-little
likely to advance materially until large
part OF the wheat has left the hands of
the growers; but actual conditions must
assert themselves about April and May,
and prices then advance materially. If
the crop Of Russia is no better than now
indicated, the years harvest-worlds
harvest-is likely to prove largely def
cient, with no considerable stores OF old
grain anywhere in the world. In fact,