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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22
WEST HALLIDAY.

Guiding Star grange enjoyed good pro-
gram at their last meeting, the question
for debate, Resolved, That the indepen-
dence of Cuba would be beneficial to the
United States" being quite lively debated
The decision was for the affirmative. The
program for the next meeting, which comes
Saturday, April 80, will be- IA Night with
Washington, and the reading of the grange
paper, 1.-THE HarrisVille Cleaner"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

Hiram Maxim, the American inventor
OF rapid-tire guns, says he thinks the war
will be terribly one-sided and that the re-
suit is a foregone conclusion. He adds:
ANY superiority which the Spaniards
have in the number of ships is overwhelm-
lngly balanced by the greater
strength, equipment and speed of the
American war ships. Spain has no re-
sources in the way of production of steel
or the building of ships, while Americas
resources are thoroughly adequate"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

The warlike conditions of the time give
poignant and impressive interest to Sec
rotary Olney's statesmanlike paper in the
May Atlantic on "The International Iso-
lation of the United States" and his we'll
weighed suggestion that the time is com
ing when this policy should be abandoned,
and we should no longer hold ourselves
aloof and stand alone in the family of ma
lions,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

The governor of Texas has ordered the
ehtlre Ranger force to the Mexican 'front.'
Ter TO repel any invasion from that coun-
Try that Spanish sympathizers may make.
Orders were issued to recruit every com
pany to double its present strength.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22
TOWNsHEND.

j. d. Ware will receive from the state
hsh hatchery next Tuesday 10000 trout to
De placed in Simpsonville brook running
through his farm
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

New style hat pins just received, ranging from
s5 cents for a handsome plated pin to S. for:14k
gold pins. Some new style shirt waist sets this
week. H. H. THOMPSON.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

And typewritng solicited. Lillian G PARK, stem
ographer and typewriter, Office with the New
York Life Insurance Co., Wston block.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22
MARLRORO-

Don't forget the Elliot Johns IN auction next
Thursday See advertisement.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22
pleasant Cottage House
l.Icensed Auctionee.

To rent. Six rooms, store room, large piazza
Only one tenement in the house
c. L. CoBB 10 Pearl street
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

g. P. Miller, office with A E. Miller, s. Main
street. Brattleboro
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

III is now dennltely settled that the pro-
ject to establish a corn canning factory
here this summer will be carried out. The
land wherein the buildings will be erected
has been staked out this week and the
work of putting up the buildings will begin
as soon as the contracts are secured by the
board OF trade. This announcement
would have been made last week but for
the fact that the question of location for
the buildings had not been entirely solved.
Several weeks ago Henry Allen, who owns
land on the east side of the railroad and
just south of the Central Vermont rail
roads land, offered to sell certain parcel
of land to the board of trade for 500.
After other arrangements had been nearly
completed the family raised the price to
$1,000, The board of trade refused to paw
that amount, and negotiations with the
railroad company were begun with view
to securing the use of a portion of their
land. A meeting of the board was held
last Tuesday to hear the result of those
negotiations, but as the figures were not
ready an adjournment was had to We'd
nesday. At that time the members of the
Allen family were present, and terms for
the sale or rental of their land were agreed
upon. They offered to sell piece having
a frontage on the railroad of 270 feet and
225 feet deep for $500, or to lease it for
$50 year for five years, with the privilege
of continuing the lease five or ten years, as
desired. They also gave the board
the privilege of buying the land at
any time within five years for $500. The
latter offer was accepted and the necessary
papers were made out. The land will be
bought as soon as the necessary amount of
money is subscribed, Between 400 and
500 acres of corn have been pledged, and
enough money has been raised to pay for
the buildings. Baxter Brothers, the pro-
prietors of the business, pay per cent
interest for the use of these buildings.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-04-22

To REST-Nice moiern tenement Of six rooms
on Harris place. Inquire Of JoHN DUNLEvY
Tailor. Hooker Block.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
A DOCTORS LETTER.


To the Editor of the State Journal:
In your paper of Monday evening
there appeared a short local item en-
titled Fight the Dust
I wish to congratulate you upon the
position taken, which not only looks to
personal comfort and economy. to COM
merciaI or business interest and profit,
but also bears upon the health of the
people, or the cause and prevention of
disease. By study, training, teaching,
desire or love for the work, I have been
identified more or less closely with mod
ern preventive medicine, the advance
ment of sanitary Investigations and the
application of sanitary and hygienic rules
or laws to the prevention of disease, or
the control or eradication of epidemics.
Therefore, I can most highly appreciate
this public spirited and absolutely nee
essary measure, and estimate it's full
worth
I am also glad that you have shown
that the public press is interested in
this line of thought and work and that
it exhibits a desire to point out the dan
gers surrounding the people or more or
less seriously affecting their health, as
well as a disposition to assume much
needed field of usefulness sanitary
educator of the public. Public reforms
of any kind or character, inVOIvIng any
social relations. business transactions
or health measures, can only be prompt
" secured, willingly granted. or intel
HCently efficiently and faithfully car
ried out or enforced, and If obtained
their value and necessity recognized or
felt unless the easily impressioned and
easily taught public mind-the reflector
Of government, the generator of law.
the creator of human thought, purpose
and action, be educated up to the de-
sired standard by some influential
teacher (as the public press, showing
the evils at present existing; the eff
fects following certain causes. which
may be generally admitted as existing;
how these causes may be removed, the
effects prevented. and thus the desired
reform obtained and its necessity and
value realized and recognized.
J. l. GILBERT, NJ d.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
CURTIS WORKS HARD.
Washington With Soldiers
Home Reports.

Leavenworth, Feb. 21.-Col- Sidney G..
Cooke, local director of the Soldiers
home returned yesterday from Wash
ington where he has been looking after
the appropriations for the home.
Col. Cooke is eIated over the prospects
for securing a liberal appropriation.
Il appeared several times before the
appropriation committee and had sew
eraI discussions with Chairman Can
non and feel confident that the addi-
tional barracks and cottages, which are
so much needed, will be secured.
Congressman Curtis is making siren
uous efforts for the appropriation in the
lower house and is meeting with hearty
cooperation from Senators Baker and
Harris in the senate.
The needs OF the Soldiers home as
presented to the appropriation commit
tee calls for an appropriation Of $45, 600
for additional barracks and furniture
in order that the numerous veterans
now seeking admission may be accom-
modated.
For the erection of a cottage for
women nurses 81. 600 is asked and $40 900
to provide for the construction of
Quartermaster cOmmissary building"
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21

lector. finished the first month of his
duties with a record of 1S4 licenses is
sued He devotes his whole time to the
collection Of the tax, and he will have
canVaSSed the whole city in few weeks.
Dogs on which no license has been paid
will be caught and killed.
Friday evening an overcoat belonging
lard han at 40 Kansas avenue. Jack
Lee, a tough character. was suspected
and he was arrested by PatrOlman Fieger
a short time afterWard- The coat was
recovered and Lee was committed to the
county jail on the charge of petit lar
ceny.
Kwong Wee. the Chinese Iaundryman of
1872 East Fifth street. who Sunday week
was shot through the leg by an unknown
man. is slowly recovering from the
wound. There has been considera-
BILE fever developed about the
in doubt. The injury to the bone and
Iigament at the knee makes the wound
more complicated.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
HAVOC AT TAMPICO.
Entire New Wharfage Burns
and the Loss is So, 100000.

Monterey, Mex, Feb. H-The new
wharf at Tampico, constructed by the
Central railroad under government super
vision, was totally destroyed by fire Sun
day. The fire started in a box car on
the east end of the wharf and quickly
spread to the sheds. The cause of the
fire is unknown. The Ward line steamer
Yumuri was alongside the wharf and
turned the first stream on the fire, but
without avail. and to escape the flames
she had to steam up the river. A 8
Robinson. the engineer in charge of the
construction, while fighting the flames,
was injured by falling timbers and will
probably die The construction of the
wharf was commenced in July. 1886. and
it was considered to be one of the finest
on this continent Its length was 2.515.
feet and all burned. The custom house
under construction. was damaged to the
extent of about $500 600. The total loss
on wharf. custom house and merchandise
is nearly 81, 600 600, fully insured.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21


@ clock in the morning.
Willie Pollom has gone to work Tor
stamps! Stamps! Stamps! c. c.
Nicholson.
Bibles. albums and books at cost In
ventory sale Cromwell & Jeffers.
Twenty-four pictures for Csc at
No fake. Bibles, albums and books at
actual cost Cromwell & Jeffers-
Miss lone Woodman left yesterday for
ST. Louis to be absent couple OF
weeks.
MI. Emil APPEL left today for Parsons,
Kan. where he has taken a position IN
a drug store.
Mrs. Herbert Milliken and little child
left yesterday for Kansas CITY ana
other eastern points
Mrs. J. A Fuller is suffering from an
attack of bronchitis at her home, 41z6
Quincy street.
Mrs. Lacey and Mrs. Ault of Meriden
were the guests today of Mrs. }. +.
Watt.
Miss Winnie Holcomb is i'll with ton
siIitis at the home of her aunt, Mrs
COIburn.
Mrs Fred Tompkins left Saturday , for 521
Arkansas City to be with her sister
Mrs. Will Danvers, who is quite Ill
Mrs. Lee Bliss who was the guest for
several days of Mrs. Agnes Mccormick
has returned to her home in Kansas
City.
The undertaking firm of Shellabarger
& Son will move the first of March from
S14 Kansas avenue to the Morse proper
ty at 913 Kansas avenue.
Mrs. Carey Afkens of Hoyt left yes
terday afternoon for Fort Wayne, IND,
in response to a telegram announcing
the serious illness of her father.
Kent Raub has resigned his position
with the Parkhurst-Davjs Grocery COM
pany, and taken place with the North
Star grocery.
Miss Minnie Neumiller and Miss Stel-
la Dearborn of Solomon City have
been the guests for several days OF Mr..
and Mrs. Mark Putnam of the Union
Pacific hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. L f Small of Des
Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Small of 927 Western
avenue. will visit Mr.. and Mrs. F. D.
Small of 127 West Gordon street this
week
Married. February 20. at the residence
of the brides parents in Shorey, by
Justice Thomas L Wright, Miss Rilla
Newman and Mr.. Oscar Hawkins.
Mrs J. E. Griest of Cheyenne Wells,
Col, visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ T Campbell over Sunday. Her
brother, Eugene Campbell, who has been
her guest accompanied her home.
Miss Grace Root, teacher of the 5th
B grade at Quincy school, was i'll for
several days last week with rheuma-
tisn Miss Laura Beverly had charge
of her room during her absence.
A large number of Miss Viola Wal
Iace's friends surprised her Friday
evening at her home, S31 Kansas ave
nue.. the occasion being her seventeenth
birthday anniversary. The evening was
spent with games and music, and later
refreshments were served
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
THE pEAcoN,s vERsloN.
story Of the Rich Man and Lazarus RssoId
For Colored Brotherin.


Story of the Rich Man and Lazarus RstoId
For COlOred BrOtherin.
s'pose 20 knows de story, oh, my brOtherin,
er de man
Dat wuz rich e cream. en- nvin on de fatnezs
er de Ian?
How he sot dar eatin 'possum, en- when Lsz'-
rus fer somes
He tell him, "Git erway, dar, Ger yo'n never
git q crumbl''
De rich man wuz a-feastin from his ehiny
plate en- cup,
Kase he 'fraid his po' relations come en- eat his
spec he had two 'possuns on de table long
en- wide,
En- iimmyiohn er cane juice WIZ a-settin
by his side.
En- he say: ''Dis heah des suits me, en- gwins
ter eat my fiji,
But III sic de dogs on Laz'rus, ef he waitia
roun heah still"
En- de dogs commence dey barkin, raise rack
ct high en- low,
En- when Lnz'ru see 'em comm he decide
So he limp of on his crutches, en- de rich man
But reckon Laz'rus answer, "I'n git even
wild you, sonl''
De rich man 50 enjoy hisse'f he laugh hisse'i
ter bed,
En-, brotherin, when he wake up he wuz stiff.
stone deadI
En- den he raise a racket. en- he holler out,
De place is unfamiliar, en- wonder where
is?''
Den satan, he make answer: esI'nn de man ter
tell you dat
Yos in de fire department. er de place livin
atl''
Den de rich man say, f'Vhar Laz'rus whah wuz
begin at my gnte?'
En- satan tell him: "Yander, wild a silver spoon
En- he eatin fit ter kill hissefl He spendin er
Wild good ole Mister Abra'm, but he mighty
fur awayi'
"win yo' please, sub, - say de rich man, "ax
him bring drink ter me,
Wild a Ill ice ter cool itf Kase hot ez hot kin
bel''
But satan fall ter Iaughin, while he stir de FIRE
ode ice would melt, my brother. fore it ever
hit de grounl"
Den he fill a cup wild brimstone-ln it steamin
ter de top,
But de rich man say he swore of, dat he never
touch n dropi
But satan grab his pitchfork, while de rich
man give a squan,
En- in bout a half a second he had swaIIered
cup en- ALI
Now, dat's erbout de story er de rich man At
de feas'
What wouldn't pass de possum roun when
Laz want a piece
De possum means yo' pOcketbook, de morals
plain eZ day,
Shake de dollars in de basket To- 20 20 de rich
mans way!
F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
WORKING FOR BASEBALL.
Des Moines Manager Would Come to
Topeka But Terms Are Too High.

The chances of Topeka's having ball
team in the Western association during
the coming season still hang by a
thread.
Clarence Smith who has been identi-
fed with base bah in Topeka since the
time of the Western league, has been cor
responding with S. F. Frick, manager OF
the Des Moines. Ia, team in regard 70
the bringing of the Des Moines team 70
Topeka to play this season So tar the
propositions made by Frick have been eX-
orbitant. The team did not pay IN pes
Moines during the last season and they
would undoubtedly do as well in Topeka
during the coming season as they d1d last
year Mr.. Frick suggests that a certain
amount be guaranteed. or rather p51u
him, for coming here. and suggests that
the city railway should help meet the
expenses Mr.. FTick's idea is a good one
and has been tried in larger and smaller
cities and has been found profitable
Last wear the Atchison City railway
company employed the ball players ana
managed the team, paid the salaries ah9
took the gate receipts. 1t was inquired
that the adnittance about pald the eA-
penses and that the money taken on the
cars for fares to and from the pan
grounds was profit. During the winter
many of the players are employed on Ine
c1rs as conductors and motorneers- MI
smith is still CORES pondtng with Mr.
F1Ticx lIpon the subject and Should the
Tes Moines manager make a ralr propo-
cffion Mr. Smith will endeaVor 10 ger
those interested in base ball together ana
see what can be done
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
IT WAS AN OASIS.
''The Mysterious Mr.. Bugle" Relief
From the Desolation of Poor Shows.

class comedy can't help but enjoy The
presented by as capable company as that
Of which Mr.. Joseph Holland is at the
head. There was enough of this class of
people at the Crawford theater Saturday
night to give the piece one of the largest
audiences OF the season, and they had
delightful evening
The MyteriOus Mr.. BugIe'' is a farce
containing a number of interesting char
acters and an unlimited supply of hui
morouS complications. Jealousy is the
foundation on which the complications
are constructed, and it proves to be an
excellent one. until it is suddenly demol-
lShed 3 Just oeIore the last curtain by ex-
pIanatlonS ana the death OF maiden
aunt This aunt. by the way, has as
much to do with the piece. indirectly, as
the mysterious Mr. BHgle' himself She
is wealthy, and presumably eccentric, as
she issues an ultimatum to her nephew,
rfes or becomes engaged before she dies
she will cut him of without penny. As
acre before the uItin1atum is issued, he
invents a husband for her in the person
ment a secret and frighten away all de-
sirable and annoying suitors.
This is the condition when the fun
starts, and Pollinger's natural jealousy
keeps it jogging along a a rapid pace un-
til Betty suddenly becomes Jealous herself
q Toms supposed attentions TO her sis
ter, when it breaks into a ganop. To
get even she attempts to make him be
Heve that there really is a Mr. Bugle.
and at this stage complicated fails to
express the condition of affairs.
The piece is admirably acted, all of the
characters working toward a finished
performance Mr. Hollands Tom Pol
finger and Gretchen Lyons Betty Fond
acre are excellent. and in this regard it
may be said that Miss Lyons deserves as
much praise as the star himself. Mr.. Jo-
seph Kilgour's ALLAN Fondacre" was an
unusually clever comedy part.
The piece was preceded by the curtain
raiser "Old Chums.'' which proved to be
an entertaining study of two old bach
eIor charac cters.
Why can't we have pieces like The
Mysterious. Mr.. Bugle'' at least once every
two weeks? It would silence the con-
tinuous complaint of the best class of
theatergoers that there lis nothing 1or
them see.''
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
AND THIS IS THE TROCHA.
Fred Funston Throws Light on the
Situation in Cuba

Kansas City, Feb. 21-"The Cuban
insurgents have three classes Of people
to fight said Col Fred Funston yes
terday, as he sat in an easy chair at
the Coates house and nUrsed the
wounds he received from Spanish bull
lets. There are the Spanish regulars
sent from Spain They are cOnscripts,
and. while they are under discipline
that is very strict and will take their
medicine well, they can be routed when
the insurgents make one of their dash
IS or when the dynamite gun does sue
cessfuI work They do the principal
fighting.
Then there are the volunteer forces
of the island and friendly Spanish cOun-
tries They are not as good fighters,
and are at times cruel and vicious.
Some of them are natives OF the island
and others are from other islands and
some regiments are from Argentine Re
public
The last and the meanest force is
the local guerrilla squads that go about
the Islands on marauding expeditions.
1 hey are unspeakably cruel and COM
init all sorts of nameleSS depreda atiOnS.
The order has gone forth among the in
surgents to show no quarter to the
guerrilla and none is asked or expected.
When there is meeting between the
insurgents and the gurTilIas It is a
fight to the death. and the insurgents
use all their powers and fury TO win
Colonel Funston has seen the great
trOcha that was put across the island
by Weyler, and he says it is impossible
by any small force, and could only be
cut by an army that would be willing
and able to do battle. He says it is
made by a ditch ten feet deep and
twenty feet wide, ffty-seven miles long
and extending across the island. Forts
with details OF soldiers are located eV-
cry 400 yards along the line. and SEN
tries traverse the space between the
forts day and night In the bottom Of
the ditch is a railroad that conveys
the supplies to the forts along the
banks, and a system of telephones has
been put in connecting all of the forts
and blOckhOuSeS on the trOcha
On either side of the ditch are five
barb wire fences of thirteen. wires each
strung on posts set close together and
amply secured. To try to force the
trocha with anything but a large army
would be futile. as the Spanish are in
a position to cut any small detachment
OF forces to pieces.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
AMERICAN GOLF STICKS
Are Being Sold in the English Mar
kets in Large Numbers.

Washington. Feb. 21.-At the pretty VII
lage OF Hoy Lake. suburb of LIVERPOOL
1here are golf links that are famous as
oelng the Oldest and among the best III
England. the game being brought there
by the Scotch, who have settled in large
numbers in the locality. For a number
OF years golf sticks and other parapher-
mana OF the game made at Hoy Lake
have been exported to the United Stat
quite recently, however. golf stocks made
IN the United States have been sent to
England ana their arrival has aroused a
great deal OF comment Within a few
weeks one EngIishman resident in Amer
sticks made in the United States to the
largest dealers, not only in England, but
in Scotland as we'll
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
THE PHONENDOSCOPE.
By it You Can Tell What Happens
When You Eat Boiled Lobsters.

New York, Feb. 21.-The invention is
announced of the phonendOscope, an
instrument of wonderful value in
studying the condition of the internal
organs of the body
1t is declared by physicians to be
tremendous advance on the old steth-
oscope. The phonendoscOpe conveys to
the physician the sounds made by the
internal organs. thus telling him wheth-
er they are healthy or not.
BY its aid he cannot only ascertain
the condition of an organ, but trace it's
shape It has been discovered with the
phonendoscope that the stomach as
sumes a different form when full of the
different kinds of food and drink. The
rapidity with which various kinds of
food and drink are digested can also be
studied accurately with the phonendo-
scope This instrument is the invention
of Drs. BIauchie and Bazzi of France.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21
SOLD TO NORTHERN PAC.
Washington & Columbia River Rail
road Changes Hands.

Walla Walla Wash, Feb. 21.-Rumors
of the sale of the Washington & Column
bia railroad to the Northern Pacific are
ahoat The board of directors of the
Washington & Columbia River railroad
have been in session here since Wednes-
day and President W. D. Tyler and Secre-
tary E A Buford rendered their resigna-
tions which were accepted.
It has been common talk among rail-
road men and others in a position to
know for several weeks that the Northern
Pacific had been negotiating with c. B.
Wright of Philadelphia, the principal
stockholder of the Washington & COlum-
bia river railroad for the purchase of
the road and now it is asserted that the
deal has been cOnsummated. President
Tyler would neither deny nor verify the
rumOT.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-02-21

All the good things that help make a
delicate Dutch lunch, such as ImDorte1
SWISS Cheese. German Hand Cheese,
tromage de NeufschateI Cheese. From
age de Brie Cheese, Double Cream
Cheese, Russian Caviar, Anchovies.
Russian Sardines, Herring, Eels in JeI-
ly, Crevelat Sausage, Italian Salami
Dill Pickles and Pretzels always on
hand and always the best Meats and
Groceries fresh every day.
Have had an experience of years in
this business in the old country VIII
be glad to see all my old customers and
q lot Of new faces at my new place.
PHILLIP ZIMMERMAN
21S Kansas Avenue.