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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
STRIKERS STRONG ALLY.
Ernest H Crosby Offers Aid to the
TaiIors to Start Co-Operative Shons.

New York, Nov. 1.-Ernest H. Crosby,
son Of the late Howard Crosby, has come
He appeared yesterday at the headquar-
ters Of the strikers, in East Thirty-third
street. and said he would assist in starting
cooperative shops in opposition to the en-
ployers, and he would guarantee them 300
society women as customers.
This would mean great loss to the en-
p1Ioyers. some OF whom would have to
close up or come to terms with the men
Mr.. Crosby's words brought cheer to
the hearts of the men who have been so
long out of employment and many Wept
for joy. They feel now that they will
Nothing will be done. however, until the
Rev. Mr. Moran will call his fellow church
lay lay o 35 a plan to settle the dispute. On
discussion, in which the co-operatiTe plan
Mrs. Clarence Burns of No. 254 West
Eighty-fifth street has arrayed herself en-
taiiors Her charge to the west End
Republican club yesterday was telling in
the extreme.
There are a great many women here
who wear tailor-made gowns, and every
who have been turned out because they
would not sign the paper presented by
their employers which precludes their be-
S7How can you do it? BY promising to
support the cooperative shop which the
locked-out tailors are going to estab-
Mrs. Burns address had its effect A
little woman in a modest gown who had
to her.
Il am one of the striking tailors," she
whispered, and thank you so much for
your efforts in our behalf Only a little
help, little influence, and we viii get on
feet again.
To a reporter Mrs. Burns said: ct know
from personal experience that the work
of the Fifth avenue tailors is done in some
OF the worst tenement sweat-shops in the
Mrs. Cornelia Stewart Robinson of No
52I West One Hundred and Twenty-second
street, an expert economist, spoke strong
ly for trades unions.
THE government has never vet recog-
nized the right of labor to organize, and
it is high time we looked into it. The
practical way for every woman to help is
to require the name and address of the
factory where her garments are made and
to visit it herself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
JUST LIKE A WOMAN.
Said She Wouldn't Testify and of
Course She Didn't Testify.

New York, Nov. Married people
and those who hope to marry will find
these happenings in the courts very in
teresting and Instructive:
A woman sued another woman for
S50,O00 charging her with winning her
husband away and marrying him. The
woman who sought value is an actress.
Another actress accused her husband
of abandonment. He SWOre he would
give her money if he had it.
Yet third woman, married for more
than seventeen years, broke the marital
bonds which CALLED her-that is, the
referee reported she ought to have an
absolute divorce.
There was quite a stir in court in the
first case, where Mrs. Ella Mae Watson
sued Mrs. AntOinette Page, Mrs. Wat
son is a handsome woman, a blonde,
who says she married Watson in Meade
vile, Pa, in June, 1884. Mrs Page is a
handsome woman, a brunette, who
married Watson at BayOnne in January
1894. So it's probable that Watson
sings, with owen Meredith:
If woman be beautiful, to me it's no
matter
Be she blond or brunette. so she lets me
look at her"
or words to that effect
When Mrs. Ella Mae Watson married
Watson he was a horse breeder and
owned the Edgehill Stock Farm. In
1880 he and she came to New York, and
soon Mrs. Watson went on the stage
While he was in Virginia, some years
ago, she found some letters 1t would
have been better if he had taken with
him. and at once left his roof
According to Mr.. HummeI, Mrs. Wat
sons lawyer, Mrs. Page-WatSon had
two husbands before she met Watson
No i, Chaunoey r. Marshall. Brook
lyn millionaire; No. 2, DR.. Emmet D.
Page. Part of Mrs. Page-WatsOn'S de-
tense In this case is that Mrs. Ella
Mae Watson was never married to the
man they are cOntending about.
I call Mrs. Page as my first wit
ness" said Mr.. Hummel in the supreme
court yesterday.
There was no answer, although a few
moments before Mrs. Page was in the
corridor. Mr.. Snedeker, her lawyer, ex-
claimed:
My client was not subpoenaed."
However, Justice Beach granted
short adjournment, and the two law
yers' clerks soon reappeared with Mrs.
Page.
Page"
Are you a court oficer?'' asked Mr..
Snedeker.
Yes" answered Mr. Hummel "and
as lawyer so are you"
Officer or no officer, Mrs. Page did
not obey, but turned and fed from the
third to the ground floor of the build
ang, and absolutely refused to return to
the court room.
MY client is i'll and unable to be In
court" blandly said Mr.. Snedeker to
the justice, who once more proved his
wisdom by adjOurning the trial
The other actress was Mrs. Genevieve
Pierce, known on the stage as Gene
We've Delaro, a sister of Bonnie" De-
laro and a daughter of Selma Delaro.
She summoned her husband William
7. Pierce, to the west side police court
and charged him with abandonment
Mrs. Pierce, a really beautiful woman,
declared her husband was on the pier
when she sailed for Europe last sum
mer and kissed her gOodby. She re-
turned to find him so forgetful as to be
living with another woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
TEACHERS TURN FARMERS.
Tract of 400 Acres in Wisconsin to
Be Made a Summer Home.

Chicago, Nov 1.-visions of prfm Pris-
elias, CARRIED nilkmaids and happy shep-
herdesses were brought to the minds of
the members Of the Grade Teachers Fed
Grafton at their meeting yesterday. and
so rosy did the prospect appear as their
thoughts took form in speech that it was
all but decided that the teachers should
go farming in a body next summer. If
the present plans are perfected the young
the youth of Chicago their "a, b, c'S' will
organize the Teachers Country club and
will milk cows, make butter, cut hay, dig
hunt in the woods of Wisconsin.
The plan proposed is to buy a farm of
400 acres in the Green lake region of
most picturesquely situated has 800 acres
of pasture and farm land and 100 acres of
good timber.
It is situated on a knoll that overlooks
farm is $40 600 and it is proposed to pay
for it and secure an additional $4,000 with
which to improve the property by form
ing a stock company, the teachers to pc
the shareholders. It is proposed to in
terest 500 teachers in the project, the total
cost to each teacher being $50, which can
1t is proposed to run the enterprise as a
dairy and vegetable farm, and it is be-
lieved it can be stocked to produce all the
dairy products the teachers will use dur
also be erected on the farms, tennis courts
laid off and golf grounds surveyed These
teachers, and for the more serious side
they will conduct summer school and
invite lecturers to address them on special
topics.
The matter was explained to the feder-
alton by John Byrne, principal of the Au-
burn Park school, and committee con-
sisting of the leading principals and teach
ers in the schools has the matter in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
FOE BETTER Child Law.
Committee of Chicago Bar Association
to Urge Reforms.


Chicago, Nov. Reform Of child law
in Illinois, particularly as it relates to
delinquent and dependent children, VIII
be urged by the following committee OF
the Chicago Bar association, which was
announced yesterday: Ephraim Ban
ming. Harvey B. Hurd, John w. Ella,
Edwin Burritt Smith, and Merritt Starr.
The resolutions calling for the ap-
pointment of this COMMITTEES were as
whereas, The state of Illinois and
the city of Chicago are 1amentably de-
ficient in proper care for delinquent
children, accused or convicted or VIOLA
ton of law, lacking many OF those re
formatory institutions which exist In
other progressive states of the union;
and,
are kept in the common jails and police
stations, and children convicted of mis-
demeanOrS are sentenced to the bride
we'll, where they are kept in immediate
association with drunkards, VagabondS,
and thieves; and,
Whereas, The judges having charge
of the trial of children in our courts
are so Overburdened with other work as
to make it difficult to give due attention
to the cases of children, particularly
those of the dependent and neglected
classes; and,
Whereas, The state Of Illinois makes
no provision for the care of most of the
children dependent upon the public for
support other than the public aims
which have long passed laws prohibit
ing the keeping of children in public
almshouses.
Resolved, That the president Of this
association appoint a committee of hVe
of its members to Investigate existing
conditions relative to delinquent and
dependent children, and to CO.
operate with committees of other or
CARNATIONS in formulating and securing
such legislation as may be necessary
to cure existing evils and bring the
state of Illinois and the city of Chicago
up to the standard of the leading states
and cities of the union"
Mr.. Hurd and Mr.. Banning agree
there should be supervision over home
finding societies and a system to see
that children disposed of by adoption or
placed in families are properly cared for
and educated.
Mr.. Banning yesterday suggested
that a separate court and a separate
Jail for children might be advocated for
Chicago. Mr.. Hurd thought it possible
to provide such a court without viola
ton of the constitution, and it was sug-
geSted that all children'S cases in coun-
ties outside of Chicago might be heard
by the county courts.
Mr.. Hurd said the boarding master
system has scored a great success in
AIassa chusetts and Pennsylvania. With
the exception of the wholly vicious, I'M
ruly children under this system are
given over to boarding masters, who
are selected with reference to their dis
culinary judgment and capacity. Not
more than one boy is placed in the
same family, and not more than one in
the same immediate neighborhood
The system costs less to administer
than it costs to keep the same number
of boys in a Teformatory or penal in
stitutiOn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
SONS OF NOBODY
And Sons of Somebody Largely
Responsible
For Complaints Regarding Con-
duct of the War
ACCORDING TO NJ
Who Was ROOsevelt's Predeces-
sOr in the Navy Department.
Says They Played Into the
Hands of the Railroads.

Trenton, N. J., Nov. I'm the course
of a speech at Democratic mass meet
ing here last night former Assistant
Secretary of the Navy McAdoo criticised
the administration in the management
of the war with Spain He says the
administration started off with the de-
partments numbered up with a. lot of
bureaucrats and followed this up by
the appointment of sons of somebody
and sons of nobody without any mill
tary experience to positions of the great
est responsibility.
Camps were selected in out of the way
places and in spots where proper SAM
tation could not be had and all because
the men who made the selections knew
nothing about the deeds or were play
ing into the hands of railroads. The lives
and health of the men were entrusted
to incompetents and the president and
the secretary of war did nothing to
remedy this evil, that in some respects
rivalled the Black Hole in Calcutta. All
this, the speaker said, was because the
war department was controlled by poll
tics.
He complimented the management of
the navy department. Referring to his
successor, Colonel Roosevelt, he said he
would deem it a privilege if he were in
Colonel Roosevelt's place, to be able to
tell the American people of the mis-
management of the Santiago campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
DISAPPOINTS POLITICIANS
Mckinley Will Not Sign Civil Service
Order Before Election.

Washington, Nov. IAN impression
prevails among the politicians that the
civil service order, which has been on
the presidents desk for the past few
months awaiting his signature, will be
sweeping in it's character and will take
thousands of officehoIders from the
protecting wing Of the law. They also
hold to the belief that the order will be
signed just before election, and are
hopeful OF the benefits which will accrue
to them.
On the strength OF this they have been
making many promises to hand around
generous pieces of pie. In this they
will be disappointed. as it was learned
today on good authority that the order
Will not be nearly so sweeping in its
character as expected and that compar-
atively few offices will be relieved from
the restrictions of the civil service law.
1t will be confined to a few deputy coll
lectOrs, stOrekeepers and gaugers, and
a small number of minor offices located
in Washington.
The order will not be signed until after
the elections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
esWEBER'S'' LAW TRUE.
Psychological Discovery That Gives
Honor to Professor kitchener.

ithaca, N Y, Nov. 1-Prof E. B.
kitchener, head of CornelPs psychologist
cal department, with the aid of Miss
Z. A. Gamble, formerly one of his stu
dents, but now an Instructor in Welles-
ley college, has completed a series of
psychological experiments which have
resulted in one Of the most important
discoveries in this branch of science in
this generation.
He has demonstrated another feature
of ''Weber's law" by determining that
the correct ratio between the intensity
of stimulus and the resulting intensity
for the sense of smell and sensation lies
between one-third and One-fourth. This
law was first proved in 1894 and fur
nished an exponent for the senses of
sight, sound, taste, pressure and strain.
The sense of smell and temperature had
never been investigated until the Cor
nell investigators began work three
years ago.
The experiments were carried on
mostly by Miss Gamble. She tested
fourteen persons and thirty different
substances, and was rewarded finally
by demonstrating that Weber's law
holds true for the sense of smell as well
as for the other senses. DR.. Titchener's
discovery places him in the first rank
of psychological investigators, and he
is highly proud of his success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01

than six feet, and was a western cow
boy. He, to all appearances, had been
drinking, and soon after the train left
Pittsburg began to make trouble.
it from his belt, pointed it at the pas
sengers and threatened to shoot. He
speedily emptied the coach, the pas
sengers, as well as the brakeman and
conductor, being compelled to flee for
their lives into the next car. He had
the coach all to himself when the train
reached here.
With some trouble he was taken from
the train, disarmed and put in the lock-
up, where he now is. His name and
home are unknown, but he carried a
ticket for New York city. The train
was delayed here Is minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
BIRDS DAMAGE TREES.
Hundreds of Thousands of Blackbirds
Roost In Indiana

Anderson, Ind, Nov. Hundreds of
thousands of blackbirds are in their an
nual roost in the woods just east of this
city. Their number is so great that big
limbs on which they perch give away
under their weight. When this occurs
in the night many are killed by flying
against the trees and against each
other. There are almost twice as many
this year as in any of the remarkable
f1ocks in past years.
The annual roost east of this city has
inent one is at Irvington. At these
points, year after year, roOsting in the
same trees, hundreds of thousands of
blackbirds from all directions assemble
for their flight to the southland. They
are a week late this year, owing no
doubt to the warm fan weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
DANGEROUS SURGERY.
DEATH FOLLOWS THE SURGEONS
KNIFE-NOT THE SURGEONS
FAULT, OF COURSE HE
CAN'T HELP IT-YOU
CAN.
Pyramid Pile Cure Cures Piles Quick
Iy, Painlessly, Without Danger.

People go along for years suffering
with piles. Then try this, and that and
the other thing: from carrying a buck
eye to getting treatment from a physi-
clan They obtain temporary relief,
maybe, but they are never quite cured.
A little strain in lifting, excessive fati-
que, a little constipation or little diar-
rhoea and the piles come back.
They don't seem to amount to much,
but they Danish sleep and appetite. No
position is comfortable. There is in
these local pain and that dreadful feel
ing of weight in the perineum.
Mayb in the early stages some of the
many salves on sale will afford tenn
pOrary relief. If the case is of long
standing there is only one speedy and sure
remedy. It is Pyramid Pile Cure. Even
use. other applications may cure and
may not. Pyramid Cure is always. Ger
tain, always reliable, always brings
comfort at once. Its prompt use saves
months of severe suffering In extreme
cases it will save surgical operations
and their attendant dangers and dis
comforts It is better than a knife VIII
cure easier, quicker and safer. Thous-
ands have used it. Thousands have
been cured by it. The cost is trihing
compared with what it does. The price
is so cents. Most anybody would gladly
pay ten dollars to be rid of piles.
Druggists sell Pyramid Pile Cure
Send to Pyramid Drug Co., Marshall
Mich, for book on cause and cure Of
piles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
GREAT BUILDING STRIKE.
100000 Union Men in The Trades
Likely to Be Called Out

New York Nov. las a result Of the
small strike ordered about a month ago
on the Syndicate building 1t IS feared
in labor circles that the greatest labor
struggle in the history of the city may
be precipitated.
Unless a truce of some sort be ar
ranged at a meeting called for next
Wednesday night the indications are
that the affiliated unions in the building
construction line, assisted by $4,000
skilled artisans, will line themselves up
for battle against the Master Builders
association. And if the battle does
come it is predicted that it will be
fought to a finish with a bitterness
such as characterized no labor struggle
of recent years in this vicinity.
AS an illustration of what may grow
from small beginning it is interesting
to trace the present situation to its
source. Primarily the cause was the
last strike ordered on the Syndicate
building, but it goes further back than
that. The big strike, if it comes, will
be traceable to differences which have
arisen between the different branches
in the union of men employed in the
Woodworking industry.
There are three branches in the union
of workers in marble. The most i'm
pOrtant is probably that formed by the
cutters, who cut and shape the marble
in the factory and set the work in build
ings- Then comes the polishers' branch.
These men control the saving of the
rough blocks and the polishing. The
third branch is made up of the labOrers
who do the rough work in the factories
and assist in setting the finished work
in the buildings.
The most important principle profess
sed by all three branches is to refuse to
work for any employer who is interest
ed in or handles prison made marble.
Up to a comparatively short time ago
the three branches worked together in
harmony, but a breach has gradually
separated them until today the cutters
are entirely estranged from their fell
lows and there is no prospect, in the
judgment of labor men, of an adjust
ment.
As the breach widened it was openly
contended by the poHshers and helpers
that the officers of the cutters were vio-
lating their pledges. 1t is said by poll
ishers and helpers today that the agents
of the prison marble factories have
opened offices in this city, and have ar
ranged to put in bids for work in an
ticipation Of disruption of the Marble
Workers union. It is said further.
that an agent of the Franco-Belgian
syndicate, which controls the marble
manufacturing industry in the continent
tai prisons is on his way to this coun-
try to enter the field against the fair
MISREPRESENTATION who employ I'M
ion men and pay union wages in the
preparation of marble for building pur-
poses,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
COLLIER RESTING QUIETLY
His Reason Not Restored by Trephin-
ing, However.

Chicago, Nov. Frank H. Collier, the
eccentric lawyer who was yesterday OPP
Grated on by trephining the skull as
means of restoring his mental equilibrium,
is resting quietly today, and the physi-
clans at the county hospital, where the
operation was performed, say that unless
unexpected complications ensue, the pa
cry.
this condition is a natural result of the
opera ton. DR.. Davis, chief of the oper-
ating staff at the hospital, and DR.. King,
professor of nervous diseases of the Col
fege of Physicians and Surgeons, are not
fully satisfied that the operation is going
to accomplish the hoped-for results The
most discouraging feature encountered
was the fact that the brain as exposed
when the dura was open showed no pulsa-
ton. From this is argued the evidence of
a cyst, or tumOr, the only logical explana-
ton of the pathological conditions encoun-
tered. Another operation will follow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
HOUND EARNS A BOUNTY.
Kills Gray Wolf in the Suburbs of
Colorado Springs.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Nov. 1-Da-
go, thoroughbred Russian wolfhound
belonging to A. H. Dennis of Colorado
Springs, killed the second gray wolf to-
day, thus winning a second $40 bounty
for the scalp.
The dog was accompanying Frank
Hughes to town when it met its victim
at bay against the attack of a COW
herder.
Dago and the wolf at once engaged in
a fierce fight, but the dog was shaken
off and the wolf fed into the lake At
ter a short time it returned to shore
where the fight was renewed. In the
second fight Dago fastened on its an
tagonist's neck and hung there till
Hughes ended the fight with a few well
aimed blows from a club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-01
STAMP COLLECTION ROBBED
Ten Thousand Valuable Specimens
Stolen From a Noted Paris Display.

Washington, Nov. Information receiv-
ed from Paris states that the department
of post and telegraph at Rue de Grenelle,
Paris. has been robbed of enormous
number of valuable stamps, the collection
containing specimens from every different
country and state in the world and en-
bracing the largest assortment in the
world The number stolen is said to eX-
coed 10 900, the value of which cannot be
estimated
through the international postal agency al
Berne, Switzerland. five stamps Of. each
issue and every denomination which are
sent to the bureau in Paris. Among the
stolen stamps is one from the island of
Maurftius which is valued at 10000 francs.
The Mauritius stamp is said to have been
the only one in existence.