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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

"Johni JohnI" exclaimed Mrs. Per-
kns; wake upi hear a burglar down
stairsl"
Mr.. Perkins jumped up, hurriedly
put on his trousers and slippers and
rushed from the ROOM
After he had been silent for min
ute or two Mrs. Perkins caIledI
"Johnl Johnl Where are Tous
JohnP
Here I am," Mr. Perkins answered.
What on earth are you doing In che
Htt1cf" Mrs. Perkins shriSked.
"Conround It," replied Mr.. Perkins,
didn't you say he was d0wnstaATSf'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
An Incident

An Incident.
Sir Kipling sat in a chief cafe;
A meatless joint before him lay.
The napkin was ragged and far from
clean
And a blonde tress lay in the butter
inc.
Sir Kipling unused as he checked a
swear:
"a rag-and a bone-and a hank Of
hair!"
B. T. Warner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
Too Much Economy Now.

Mandy-"Josh SEE in this ERE letter
thet he's studyin' like blazes for an
examination in Perlitical Economy
Silas-''Well. you set right down an
write to him an tell him to quit SIGH
gol darned foolishness. Votes down
this away was only dollar apiece last
fall an If they're goin' to larn Tem
economy up in tn cities we won't get
nothin' tall"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
Where the Gold Standard waves

'Muggins is pretty shrewd politi-
Eian. He is going around over the dis
trict now showing farmers how high
prices have gone since the election OF
Mckinley"
ooh, there doubtless has been
slight rise, but nothing extraordi-
nary"
Yes, but Muggins takes Alaska by
way of illustration
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
The Favored Farmer.

Farmer Mckinley promised us
prosperity and high prices. What has
he done to bring 'em. I'd like ter
known
Politician-"Humph Better read
the papers. Mckinley hadn't been
elected six months before wheat in
Alaska was selling for fourteen dollars
q bushel. You can't complain"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

''well, doctor. how's everything? Is
-FOUR business good?"
mot specially, but can always boom
it by good fishing; all my patients get
sick if l take a day off."-Chicago Rec
ord.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
A Cnlamitr Hnular

Prosperity here? Nothing of the
sort. I'm a good deal worse OF than
1 was before the election"
What business are you in?''
I'm not in any business. I was
running the straw vote department for
the Daily Blowhorn."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

man used to go there and look on the
native danes and blush for her own
poor efforts in the line of newness.
Here is a picture of the famous Anna
zon guards of the king of Dahomey
ready for a war dance. The woman
seated is the youngest of the ANA
IONS, and therefore under the protec-
ton of the others. They would not
be pleasant lot Of antagonists to meet
when their blood was up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

why has Mrs. Langdon left her
husband and gone back to her pa
rents7'
she got TO rummaging through his
papers the other day and found the re-
ceipt for his first wife's engagement
ring. It cost $50 more than he paid
for the second one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
Too Much Science.

1--WE threw that man into the lake. =
"What for?'
HE was getting of a lot OF CAB
about it being humidity and not heat
that makes people suffer so.'-chicago
Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
Great Change Neg1eoted.

Gummey-"It is said that Queen Vic
toria has sixty pianos in her three PAL
aces"
Gargoyle-"And yet I never saw her
name attached to a testimonial in
piano advertisement"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
Camp Life with
Home Comforts.

at Ottawa Chautauqua Assembly,
Forest Park. June 1s to "a, 1898.
One fare for round trip. Tickets
on sale June IL to "a, inclusive,
good to return until June 81, 1898.
The Santa Fe Is the best line to
the assembly grounds-station
only half block away. Particu-
lars on application to
w. c. CARNEY,
Agen< A. T. & s. F. Ry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
Anazons of Dahomey.

The Dahomey village at the Worlds
Fair was one of the most interesting
places on the midway. The new wo-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
WANTED statesmen.

$50 TO $50 monthly and expenses paid to
sell cigars on time; experience unneces-
sary. W. L. Kline Co., st. Louis, Mo.
WANTED-Traveling men to sell the
Ledgerette bill file; sells for $2.25. Every
retail merchant wants one Good commits
sion on every sale. Paying side line. Ad-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

Casey (pointing to person wearing
cycling sweater).-"Git onto de dude
wild his shurt on wrong"
Clancy.-"Phwat's wrong about it?"
Casey-"Can't yez see he's got tn
bib behoind instid av in front? Is it
blond yez are?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

''why do actors always object to one
night stands?''
Because they think the supply of
eggs might be exhausted by the second
or third night, I guess"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
CAMPFIRE SKETCHES.
GOOD SHORT STORIES FOR THR
VETERANS.

Eher1dan's Joke ON Grant-Hs Gave Els
Superior . Cigar That Made Him
sIck-A Battle Twenty Thousand
Years OLD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
LOST AND FOUND.

~~~~-~~~-~~~-~-~~~O~O0-~-
LOST-Sunday evening in Parkdale, a
ladys green leather pocketbook. white
metal corners. Please leave with Journal.
FOUND-The umbrella repairer and jew
eler, ". S. Mccormick at S13 Kan. ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
PAVING.

FOR first class paving; sidewalk or
building brick, dried by steam and
good yitrified brick can be made, caIl on
snd Paving Co. 1is w sth Ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
FUEL AND FEED.

LEAVE your orders for COAL -four. feed
and seeds with Van Slyck. sos w. 10th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS.

THE j. c. DARLING CO.. 734 KAN. AV.
High Grade Rubber Stamps; prompt work.
low price. Catalogue free. Phone 292-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

wANTED-At the National, an expert
enced chambermaid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
TUTORING.

TUTORING
w. G. MAGAW will give instruction in
Latin, mathematics and Greek in To-
peka during the summer. Address Law
renee, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
PRINTERS.

TOPEKA PRINTING CO., III East Sew
enth st. Mall orders given prompt at
tention. Print everything. Prices right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
BICYCLES.

TOPEKA CYCLE CO.. LIP W. sth St
Bicycles and sundries: bicycles and
tandems for rent: repairing of all kinds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31
wANrED-FEMALE HELP.

wANTED-A girl at the Peerless Steam
Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

g. e. SHELDON, n. D.,
Surgery ard diseases of women. with
private hospital. Office No. 100 Kan Ava
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

Agent A. T. & s. F. Ry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

MONEY TO LOAN ON farms or city
property at reasonable rates.
W. NJ. FORBES. 116 w. 9Th Ave.
LOANS on pianos. typewriters. bicycles.
guns, Watches diamonds and any per-
sonal property L Biscoe, 523 Kan Ave
MILO NORTON, at 4o6 West Sixth Ave,
will make farm loans of l,5Oo or over
at per cent interest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-31

DourHITT PLACE-Has been opened.
Your choice of lots x15Q 70 $3.50 Eugene
Wolfe, OH Kansas ave.
NofICE-TO WHOM 1T MAY con-
CERN-Be IL known that my petition Is
on file in the office of the probate court
of Shawnee county, Kansas, asking for
permit to sell intoxicating liquors at Ala
East Fourth street. in the Second ward in
the city OF Topeka, Kansas, and the hear
ing of the same it set for Monday, a. M,
June Is. 1885,
w. H. WILSON.
Topeka, Kan, May 10. 1898.
WEIBLE & HORNER, 113 East Seventh
st., make all sizes of door and window
screens. mouldings, brackets, sash and
doors, wood carving and turning.
GEN1TEMEN'S old clothes bought and
sold. 414 Kansas ave Drop me postal
card and will call I pay good prices-
n. Manson, Tailor.
VTious The best known remedy for
IluHl Kansas Viavi Co. 9 Columbian
Building, Topeka
FREE DISPENSARY of Kansas Medical
College: corner of Twelfth and Tyler, IL
open daily except Sunday. from to D.
N. e. II. Brockett. M. D.
FOR vIEWs-or residence or parlor.
interior or outside views. see Farrow. SIC
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
michigan NEWS SUMMARY.
0oings of the Week Recorded in a
Brief Style.
CONCISE AND INTERESTING.
The Supreme Court Hands Down a Num-
Der OF Most Important Decisions
Woman shoots Her Doctor. Kills
Her Daughter and Then Suicides.
Oleomargerine Law Knocked Out.

In an unanimous opinion written by
Justice Hooker, the supreme court holds
the oleomargerine law to be invalid.
The merits of the law are not discussed
in the opinion, the court simply holding
that the law is defective inasmuch as
the legislative journals show that it
was without an enacting clause when
it passed the senate, and that the house
failed to remedy this defect. This
clause was inserted previous to the
signing of the bill by the governor,
and the Encouragement urged that
this was sufficient compliance with
the constitution. This contention is
denied by the court, on the ground
that the constitutional provision is not
merely directory, no part of the legis-
lative power being vested in the gov
ernor. The court says: 1T will
be much better that the legis-
lature shall correct its mistake than
that the courts shall sanction the ir-
regular correction in this case"
The courts reference to the legisla-
ture correcting its mistake is taken as
an indication that it believes the law
is otherwise constitutional.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
STATE GOSSIP.

John Cope drank himself to death at
Mayfeld.
Mrs. Geo. Heimert, of Galien, has
gone insane over spiritualism.
The huge tank of the Roscommon
waterworks burned. Loss $500
Marquette people figure on building
an ice palace like that at Montreal.
Louise f. Bahle has been appointed
postmaster at Sutton's Bay, Leelanaw
county.
The total seasons shipments of iron
ore from the Crystal Falls district was
345, 900 tons.
Peter Kouing, a steward on steam
barge, suicided at Menominee by
drowning.
The National Prohibitionists of Shia-
wassee have again amalgamated with
the old party.
M. o. Youngs, of Detroit, was fined
$50 and costs at Lansing for violating
the liquor law.
Senator Burrows has introduced a
bill to appropriate $1,000 for public
building at Battle Creek.
A syndicate of Detroit and eastern
capitalists propose to connect Detroit
and Saginaw by an electric railway.
Two f. & p. M. freight trains col
lided at Worthwhile. Both engines and
10 loaded cars were completely
wrecked.
George Webster hung himself in the
county Jail at West Branch. He wa:
arrested for beating his wife while he
was drunk.
The official vote shows that a tota
of 421, 144 votes were cast in the state
election Pingrce's exact plurality
was 75,097.
John Reid. aged 90, of Grand Rapids
went to dance lie quarreled will
his best girl, then went home anC
killed himself.
Carmen Rocks, a clerk, aged 10
while hunting near Stanwood, was &C
cidentally shot by a companion. liz
died from hemorrhage.
IIeatons large flour mill at Lake
Odessa was burned TO the ground
The loss is $1,000, with small insur
Sace. 1t will be rebuilt.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
A Crazy Farmers Terrible Decd.

n tfaZy becO.
farm hand named Walter Hitchings
butchered three people on the farm of
VIM. Hunt, two miles west of Free
Soil, Manistee county, with an AK and
knife. The murderer afterwards cut
his own throat. The dead are: VIM.
Hunt, Mrs. Hunt, Thomas Hayward,
hired boy, and Walter Hitchings.
There are no living witnesses of the
awful tragedy, but the story is told by
surrounding circumstances. fiitchings
was known to be slightly demented,
but he was never very violent although
quick tempered. He was brother of
Mrs. Hunt and made his winter home
with the farmer. Hayward was Is
years old. The three men started out
to cut wood, and it is evident that they
had not long been at work when
Hitchings was seized with an insane
desire to kill, and raising his AK he
brought the sharp blade down on
Hunts head, cutting the skull open.
Young Hayward turned and ran in
terror, but stumbled and fell and the
mailman was upon him in an instant
and crushed his skull at blow. The
two died almost instantly. Hitchings
returned to Hunts body and dragged
it to a brush heap where he carefully
covered it up, but Hayward's body was
only partially hidden.
The insane man then ran hastily
to the house, grabbed his sister and
with n big, dull jack knife terribly
slashed and cut her in several places
before he succeeded in cutting her
throat. That the poor woman made a
desperate fight for her life was evident,
but her strength failed. The murderer
made two gaping wounds in the back
of her head, from which the brains
oozed and then pushed the body under
the bed. He then went up stairs and
tried to cut his throat with the jack
knife, but it was too dull so, with blood
flowing from his hacked neck, he be-
gan to search for razor. AT this
point Mrs. Kritzen, Polish neighbor,
and Hunts eight-year-old daughter,
ran over in response to Mrs. Hunts
screams. Hitchipgs started at the wo-
man, brandishing the bloody knife, and
she caught up the one-year-old baby
from the floor and ran out, slamming
the door behind her, and fed to her
home with the children. BY the time
help has been called and reached
Hunts home Hitchings had completed
his awful work and lay at the foot of
the stairs with his throat cut from ear
to ear, and bloody razor beside him.
Hunt lived with his second wife,
who was sister of his first. A son by
the first wife, aged Is, lives near Seat
tie, Wash, and another, aged 20, was
at work at Millerton at the time of the
tragedy. By his present wife Hunt
had two children, girl of and boy
one year old, who are being cared for
by kind neighbors. Hitchings and
Hunt were each about so years of age.
Mrs Hunt was about As years old.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
TICKNGS OF THE TELEGRAPH
News Of the Day as Told Over the
Slender Wires.
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS
Enormous Increase In Our Exports and
Large Decrease I'm Our Imports
Balance of Trade with All Countries
Greatly In Our Favor.

The report of Secretary of the Treas
NY Gage shows that our foreign COM
nerce of the fiscal year 1898 in many
respects have been phenomenal. The
operations of the products OF both
feld and factory exceeded in value those
O any preceding year, and the grand
| ttal of exports was the largest ever
rcorded-averaging more than $780,
| 90, 900 per month, the total being
| s,231 ,4s2, $3.50, against S1,050, 993,556 in
1907 and 81 900. 27s, las in 1892. The
v,lue of agricultural products exported
vas $3.50, 1888, $40, surprising by S54,-
| 1888 the highest record, that of 1892.
| Cur manufacturers also made their
| highest record, $500, 697, 354, against
SRI, 2s5, 39l in the preceding year. For
the first time also in the history of our
breign commerce, the exports of do
nestle manufactures were greater than
the imports of foreign manufactures,
while the total exports of the year
were twice as great as the total i'm
ports-a condition heretofore un-
known. Nearly all branches of the
great manufacturing industries shared
in this increase, particularly manu-
features of iron and steel, leather,
boots and shoes, and mineral oils.
Nearly all classes of the great agricul-
tural products made their highest re-
cord of exports in the past year. The
prices realized on nearly all important
articles of export were higher than in
the proceeding year
I'm importations, the year has
shown an equally remarkable record
the value of foreign imports being less
than in any previous year, with sin
gle exception, 1850, though the popula
ton has increased so per cent since
that time The total imports were but
S616, 049, 654 in value, against S764,73O,
412 in the preceding year, and S779,'
724 GA year earlier. The falling of
was almost entirely in manufactures
and articles of food. The importation
of wool manufactures was Sl4, 1923, III
against $40, 1852, 992 in the preceding
year; of cotton goods, S27,267,3 300
against S34, 429, 1863 in 1897; OF manufac
lures of iron and steel, S12,626, All
against S16, ,557 in the preceding
year; of earthenware and china, Sc,
6s7, 800, against 50, OF, 297 year earlier
of glass and glassware, S3,7S2,617
against S5,603, SOS in 1897; and of tir
plate, $500, las, against S., ,63s il
the preceding year.
This satisfactory condition of oui
foreign trade extended to our com
merce with practically every nation
Our sales to Europe alone increased
that section of the globe decreased
S124, 25s, 514; and to all the great divis
ions, except Oceanica, there was an in
creased sale, and from all, except Asia
and Oceanica, decreased imports. Oul
exports to Asia show a gratifying gain
those of 1898 having been 4,707, 791
against SIS, 63O,O2 in 1896 and S11 ,645,
703 in 1880, thus having quadrupleC
since 1850, and nearly doubled within
two years.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
"Bible Readings" in the Schools.

In case appealed from the Wayne
circuit court-which granted an order
compelling the board of education of
Detroit to discontinue the use of "Bible
Readings" in the public schools-the
supreme court reversed the order, de-
claring that the use of such book is
not unconstitutional. The court says
the precise question involved is not
whether the pupil can be compelled to
attend religious exercises, nor neces-
sarily whether the reading of the Bible
or an extract from it constitutes a
teaching of religion or amounts to a
restriction of civil or political rights or
privileges of such students as do not
care to attend upon the exercises. The
conclusion of the court after review
of the authorities and laws is that the
reading of extracts from the Bible
without comment, is not in violation
of any constitutional provision.
Justice Hooker wrote the decision
and only Justice Moore dissented.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
Pacific Coast Limited.

To California in three short days via
last winters route OF Sunset Limited.
No high attitudes; no snow blockades;
sunshine and comfort all the way from
Chicago and ST. Louis to Los Angeles
and San Francisco. Write for lowest
rates and illustrated pamphlet, giving
complete particulars, to James Charl-
ton, General Passenger Agent, Chicago
& Alton Railroad, Chicago, Illinois.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
Report OF Hawaiian commissioners.


President Mckinley has handed to
congress the report of the Hawaiian
commission together with three bills
drawn by the commission for the gov
eminent of the islands as Il part of the
United States. The principal one pro-
vides for the erection of the islands
into a territory of the United States to
be styled the territory Of Hawaii. A
governor, secretary OF territory, u. $.
district judge, L. S. district attorney
and u. S. marshal are TO be appointed
by the President, and an internal rev.
enue district and customs district
are to be created.
Section provides that ''all white
persons, including Portuguese and per-
sons of African descent, and all per-
sons descended from the Hawaiian
race, on either the paternal or mater
nal side, who were citizens of the re-
public of Hawaii Immediately prior to
the transfer of the sovereignty thereof
to the United States, are hereby de-
clared to be citizens of the United
States.
Provision is made for legislature to
consist of two houses--a senate of Is
members, and a house of representa-
tives with 30 members. These are to
be elected biennially. Voters for rep
resentatives must be male citizens, 81
years of age and of one years residence
in the territory, must have paid all
taxes due the government, and must
be able to read and write the English
or Hawaiian language. To be qualified
to vote for senator's he must, in addi-
ton to the above, own 81 900 worth of
real property upon which the taxes
have been paid, or must have an income
of not less 5000 per year.
The bill provides for the election of a
delegate to u. S. house of representa-
tives, and also provides that the con-
stitution and laws of the u. 5. locally
applicable shall have the same force in
the territory of Hawaii as elsewhere in
the United States.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
Can You Solve TIL. Puzzle verseY

IA simple go-between am /,
without a thought of pride;
! part the gathered thoughts or men, -
And literally divide.
/ set the soul of Shakespeare free,
To Millions thoughts give liberty.
bid Sidney speak with freer speech.
Let Spenser sing and Taylor preach.
Though through all learning swift glide,
No wisdom doth with me abide"
II you can solve the foregoing, and
send the correct answer to George II.
Heafford, General Passenger Agent,
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way. Old Colony Building, Chicago, to-
pether with a two-cent stamp, he Will
send YOU what it calls for.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-12-15
Hoods SarsaparilIa
Hoods pills cure all Liver Ills. rs cents.
HOLIDAY Excursions.

Excursion tickets will be sold at all
stations on the Northwestern line &C.
& N. w. R'y, c. st. p. NJ. e. o. R'y, s.
c. G. p. R'y and F. e. G. M. V. r. R.) to
all other points on this system and on
the Union Pacific Railroad, within 200
miles of the selling station, at greatly
reduced rates, December "a, 25, 26 and
81, 1898, and January / and 2, 1899,
good until January A, 1899. Apply to
agents Chicago & North Western R'y
for full particulars.