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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
Consolidation of Kansas Papers.

Nortonville, Kan, Sept. 2S.-L. F.
Randolph of the News today purchased
the Herald and the two papers will be
consolidated as the News-HeraId under
his proprietorship and editorial control.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
SAFE AT QUEENSTOWN.
The American Peace Commits
sion is Across the Ocean.

Queenstown, Sept. 2s-The Cunard line
steamer Campania, from New York on
September II, with the United States
peace commission on board, arrived here
at about 2 o'clock this afternoon after
an uneventful voyage, with all well on
board excepting Senator Gray, who has
been suffering from neuralgia for two
davs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
Bryan WIN Talk Politics.

Washington Sept. 23.-CoL Bryan said
last night that he would not leave for
Jacksonville until this evening. It is
understood that he has concluded the
business with the war department
which brought him to Washington. He
will devote the day to conferences with
some of his political friends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
BUFFALO BILL" SICK
In a Kansas City Hospital With
Typhoid Fever.

Kansas City, Mo, Sept 23.-Col. w.
F. Cody, Buffalo Bill,'' has been taken
very i'll here and has been removed
from his private car to st. Joseph's hos
pital
He is suffering from typhoid fever
and his physicians say his condition is
serious.
He has been aiIing for ten days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
GEN. FUNSTON
Volunteers at San Francisco
Will Ask That Gen. Miller
Be Made a Major General Before
Departure.
ONE MORE GENERAL
Will Be Asked For to Go With
H.. HFsIV
ONE MORE GENERAL
He FavOrs the Kansas Colonel
For the Place.

San Francisco, Sept. 2S.-An effort is
being made to have Brigadier General
Miller. who has been ordered to COM
mand the next expedition to the Phil
ippines, made a major general of volun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
Nra. stevens Chosen Presfdent

Chicago, Sept. ga telegram from Mrs.
Clara @. HOFFMAN, in attendance at the
Maine w. c. T. U. convention at Bangor,
to the National w. c. T. u. officers, an
nounceS the unanimous election of Mrs.
Lillian NJ. N. Stevens as president and
the solid Endorsement by the convention
of the action of the national executive
meeting in July anent the Temple.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
36 DROWNED
By the FOundering of a French
Vessel.

Paris, Sept. 28.-The French vessel
Vile de Fecamp foundered off Fecamp.
and her crew of S6 were drowned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
STORM on THE BALTIC
Causes the Drowning of 12O Fisher
TT7en-

ATemeI, Prussia, Sept. 23.-Heavy
storms are prevailing in the Baltic sea
and 120 fishermen have been drowned
between Polangen and Libau, seaport
towns OF the province Of Couland, RUS
sia-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
Today's Gold Engagementa

New York, Sept. 23.-Heidlebach. Ic-
kleheimer & Co, have engaged at Lon
don 100000 gold, and Kountz Brothers
S25O.00O for import to the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
CHECK!
Gov. Bradley Will Allow No Prize
Fight in Kentucky

Frankfort. KY. Sept. Ex-Governor Brad
ley, upon receiving a telegram conveying
the rumor that arrangements are being
made to have the Corbett-McCOy fight in
this state near Cincinnati, issued a proc
lamation today warning all persons not
to attend the same and directing the peace
officers of the state to take steps to sup
press the fight if attempted in Kentucky
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
FILIPINOS DIVIDED.
By the Intrigues of the Spanish
Priests in the Islands.

New York, Sept. pa dispatch to
the Herald from Manila says:
The schemes of the Spanish clerical
party have divided the Filipinos almost
beyond the hope of reconciliation.
On Sunday, when the archbishop of
Manila went to Gaco, to administer the
rite of confirmation, a party of rebels
attempted to kidnap the prelate. The
success of the plot was only prevented
bv the interference of the American sol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
DEPOSED.
Emperor of China is ShOrn of
His Power.
DOWager Empress Takes Up the
Reins of Government.
A BLOW TO REFORM.
His Liberal Policy the Cause of
His Downfall.
Emperor is Said to Have Re-
Quested the Change.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE
Is Undoubtedly Largely RespOn-
sible For 1t.
1t Means the Restoration of Ii
Hung Chang to Power.
Emperor is Said to Have Re-
quested the Change.
RUSSIAN INFLUENCE
Is Undoubtedly Largely RespOn-
SibIe For 1t.
1t Means the Restoration of Lii
Hung Chang to Power.

Pekin, Sept. 23-An imperial edict
just issued definitely announces that the
emperor of China has resigned his pow
er TO Lhs empress (dowager empress)
who has ordered the ministers to deliv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
" eather Indieations

Chicago, Sept. 23.-Forecast for Kan
sas: Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler
Saturday: south to west winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
INVESTIGATION ASKED

e has been ailing for ten days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-23
The Imperial Edict.

Washington, Sept. 23.-The Chinese
minister, Mr.. Wu Ting Fang today re-
ceived a cable dispatch from the Chi
nese foreign Office at Pekin giving the
text of the edict issued by the emperor
yesterday in which owing to the criti-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
LABOR AND INDUSTRY
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST TO
UNION WORKMEN.
Technical Education Is Now Boing
Discussed by Employers. and EN-
ployes - National Building Trades
COuncil-Spirit of the Labor Press.
The Wolves.

Ye who listen TO stories told,
When hearths are CHEEKY and nights are
cold,
OF the lonewood side and the hungry
pack
That bowls on the fainting travellers
track
Flame eyeballs that waylay
By the wintry moon the belated sleigh
The lost child sought in the dismal wood,
The little shoes and the stains of blood
On the trampled snow-O we that hear,
With thrills of pity or chills of fear.
Know we the fiend that is crueller far
Than the gaunt gray herds of the forest
are?
Swiftly vanish the wild fleet tracks
Before the rifle and woodman's axe;
But bark to the coming of unseen feet,
Pattering by night through the city
street!
Each wolf that dies in the woodland
brown.
Lives a spectre and haunts the town.
BY square and market they stink and
prowl,
In lane and alley they leap and howl,
All night they snuff and snarl, before
Thy poor patched window and broken
They paw the clapboards and claw the
latch,
At every crevice they whine and scratch.
Their tongues are subtle and long and
thin,
And they Ian the living blood within.
Icy keen are the teeth that tear,
Red as ruin the eyes that glare.
Children, crouched in corners cold,
SILVER in tattered garments old,
And start from sleep with bitter pangs
At the touch of the phantom's viewless
fangs.
Weary the mother, and worn with strife,
Still she watches and fights for life.
But her hand is feeble and weapon small:
One little needle against them all!
Tn evil hour the dauphter fed
U,ron, ber moor shelter and wretched he'd
rrbrougb tho citv,s nitiless solitude
To tho door If sin the wolves pursued.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

As a result of q convention held in
st. Louis recently permanent organ
ization, known as the National Build
ing Trades Council, has been effected.
The meeting was a very successful
one, something over fifty delegates
from all parts of the country being
present. Officers were elected as fol-
lows:
Edward Carroll, Chicago, president.
Theodore S. Jones of Kansas City.
j. p. Healy of Washington, A. ]. Franz
and j. F. Harvey of Milwaukee, Wis,
M. P. Carrick of Pittsburg, Pa, G. S.
.Leveling of East st. Louis, ILL.,, vice.
presidents.
w. H. Steinbiss, st. Louis, secre-
tary-treasurer
Mr.. Steinbiss was unanimously in
dorsed for the position Of industrial
commissioner, to be appointed by
President Mckinley when such an Off
Ger shall have been provided for by
congress. A petition was forwarded
to Secretary Gage OF the treasury de-
partment, asking him that when the
contract for the construction of the
new government building at Chicago
is let an adequate provision be insert
ed for the use of material produced by
the state of Illinois as far as practi-
cable, and also that the labor unions
of Chicago be employed on the build
ing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

chinery are looked upon with suspi-
cion. end If not directly opposed, are
tacitly discouraged. This is a mistake.
It hag no justification in experience,
and, willingly or unwillingly, Will have
to submit to the Inevitable. The splen-
did record of success made in late
years by German manufacturers, and
the aroused activity of other nations in
the same educational direction, and
the discovery by Great Britain that
her slackness IN this matter is rapidly
diminishing the volume of trade, both
home and foreign, are among the good
and sound reasons why the industrial
world should be unanimous in indors-
ing technical education.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

fore Judge Thomas of North Dakota
and the jury stood eleven for Mrs.
Hillmon and one for the insuran ce
companies The man who hung the
jury for four days was M. II. Young,
who lives at Marion. The fifth trial,
before Judge John F. Williams, re-
suited in hung jury, the jury stand
ing five to seven in favor of Mrs. Hill
| mon.
QThe sixth trial was set down for
February IA, and it may still be tried
unless the Connecticut Mutual and
New York Mutual follow the example
of the New York Life and pay the
claim.
Twelve years ago Mrs. Hillmon
married J c. Smith, travelling man,
and the couple have since lived at
Leavenworth. She was certain that
her husband was dead and so did not
hesitatate to marry again.
There have been numerous reports
about Hillmon having been seen and
once he was reported to have been
captured in New Mexico, but the man
cSCdpcu bcloTc ilc Was trough W Luz
peka and so it will never be known
whether Hillmon was ever captured
or not.
The insurance companies have
spent thousands of dollars in fighting
the case and it has become the most
famous insurance case on record.
sixth Trial Is Set.
Before going to California Judge
Foster set the Hillmon case for trial,
the sixth time, February IA. Unless
the Mutual Life of New York and the
Connecticut Mutual settle their part
of the case, as the New York Life has
done, the trial will again drag it's
length through the courts.
Another Company Settles.
Webb McNall, superintendent of in
surance, has received information from
Kansas City, Kan, that the Metropolis.
tan Life Insurance company has made
settlement upon the policies of Mrs.
Pertha f. Emery. 1t will be remem
bered that her heirs held two policies
upon her life, and the company re-
fused to pay. For this reason the
superintendent last spring revoked
the license of the company for doing
business in this state. The case was
set down for trial January 5.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS,

We are asserting in the courts our right to the
exclusive use of the word "CASTOR1A, and
"PITCHER'S CASTORIA." as our Trade Mark.
/, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachu-
Sets was the originator of "PITCHER'S CAS-
TORIA," the same that has borne and does now
bear the fac-simile signature of CHAS H.
FLETCHER on every wrapper This is the
original PITCHERS CASTORIA" which has
been used in the homes of the mothers Of
America for over thirty years. Look carefully
at the wrapper and see that it is 1.-The kind you
have always bought" and has the signature OF
CHAS. II. FLETCHER on the Wrapper. No
one has authority from me to use my name
except The Centaur Company OF which Chas.
H. Fletcher is President.
March g. 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER. NJ. D.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
Another Company Settles.


MADAM" said the urbane canvas.
ser, II have here a handy little article
that no well-regulated household
should be without 1t is at one time
a paper-cutter, an envelope opener, a
button hook, crochet needle,
a corkscrew, Il nut pick. bod
kin and many other things too uumer-
Gus to mention. 1t is small neat and
compact, and the price is but twenty
five cents.
The woman Of the house looked him
over contemputously.
HUH she said. DO | look like a
fool enough to pay a quarter for a
hairpin when | can get whole pack
of them for five cents" And the door
slammed in his face.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
Another Phase of the American Ideal.

Another Phase of the American Ideal.
Senator H. w. Blair in writing to
Miss Willard lately, sets forth one Of
the conditions which will doubtless be
realized in the New Jerusalem, where
in dwelleth righteousness" He says:
In the Union Signal of October 2S,
page 8, you are quoted as saying, and
that no patriot serves his country so
well as he who sets before it the high
est moral IDEAL That is all well
well enough as a sentiment, but 1t
should he, "and that no patriot serves
her country as well as she who sets
before it the highest moral ideal"
Reason-because woman is the equal
of man and should never merge her.
self in the masculine pronoun business
when it can be avoided 1t is form
of speech growing out of the long time
serf relation to men which women both
in fact and in law have maintained in
the past. When women learn to as
sert themselves up totheir true equal
ity in all the forms and opportunities
Of expression it will have powerful
educative force. The common law
holds that the masculine includes the
feminine; so it does and so does the
feminine include the masculine in the
true theory of all that relates to the
rights and duties of human beings. Let
the women express themselves accord
ingly and make no fuss about 1t, and
after awhile the words patriot, citizen,
American, Englishman, Frenchman,"
ETC., will bring to the mind the idea OF
women as well as of men. Now I'M
less some of you boiler, me too"
those words suggest only the men
folks"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

The wage earners have gained moth.
ing by the politics of the last thirty
years, because they made politics the
end and not the means.-Trades Re-
view, Bloomington.
The reason employers object to I'M
ions is because it means higher wages
for the workingmen. Now, will some
one please tell us why workmen should
object to unions Independent Bing-
hampton.
While the government is worrying
over the food shortage in the Klondike
and talking of a relief commission,
how would it be to look after the
starving coal miners of Illinois ?-Tole-
do Union.
How would it strike the east to have
a western federation of labor? That
is the talk on the quiet out this way
unless more attention is paid to the
western interests. We stand good
deal out this way, but there is limit
to ndurance.-Industria Advocate,
Denver.
The professional labor agitator" Is
an ever fruitful theme with critics of
the trades union movement; but if you
watch these critics long enough you
will find that their animosity generally
arises from desire to skin the worker
from some portion of the product of his
toil.-Exponent, Saginaw.
1t is surely bad judgment for union
men to air little differences existing
between brother unionists upon our
streets for the edification of outside
loungers, or to rush away to the daily
press with matters which should be re-
served for discussion in the union
meetings. One of the most baneful
influences against which organized la
Dor has to contend is the inconsiderate
actions of over-zealous members, who
never stop to think. Midland Me-
chanic.
Give to workingmen the eight-hour
work day and then they would have
more time to read, and as their knowl-
edge increases by reading they would
think more and they would be at lib
erty to think and study of the corrup-
ton that has come through the power
of corrupt political rings, in municipal,
state and national matters. The only
hope for the American people to become
free citizens and to purify the govern
ment is through studying the economic
questions of the day.--Critic, Oneonro.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
Technical Education.

The question of technical education
is being actively discussed both by
wage-workers and employers of labor.
1t is being forced on public attention
by certain facts concerning the rise
and fall of trade in various countries
where technical education is encour-
aged or neglected. 1t is acknowledged
on all sides that the more skilled the
labor put into product the better it is
and the more likely to command COM
mercial success. The expert in any
given trade or calling is less likely to
make mistakes than an incompetent
or half-instructed man. With his
mind in his work it is less tiresome or
monotonous, and it is also certain that
the nimble finger moves with the ac-
tive mind says a writer in the Age Of
Steel.
When we separate intelligence from
labor, no matter its kind or degree,
work is but drudgery, and an artisan
or mechanic is but an automaton.
Under such conditions but little prog
ress can be made in any line of indus
try. The worker himself is but a ma
chine. His mind moves in fixed
groove, and his hands toll on in the
same old rut. On the other hand, the
more he knows of the nature of what
he hammers or carves, FORCES, spins,
paints or chisels, and of its mysteries
and possibilities, the less arduous is his
task, and the more contented and ac-
tive his mind. Moreover, with a
broader knowledge of his art, his OPP
portunities of improving his position
are in ratio with his intelligence, and
in an all around sense he is the promo
ter, not only Of his own good, but
of the industry in which he is en-
gagged
Technical education is designed TO
bring this about and to lift labor above
the level of mechanical drudgery. 1t
has in some cases attempted too much
and in an endeavor to teach a little of
everything has missed it's mission by
teaching nothing we'll. General knowl-
edge may make scholar, but it needs
direct and practical teaching in this or
that trade or profession to make man
a good metal worker, physician, an
engineer or a maker of horseshoes
Wisely directed and restricted to spe-
cial lines, no man can sanely question
either the industrial or personal i'm
portance of technical education. So
plainly and forcefully is this apparent
in the development Of national indus
tries that we find England accounting
for much of German success in foreign
trade to its superiority in technical ed
ucation. Nor is America blind to the
advantages secured by this system. Ed
ucational facilities in this direction are
being constantly enlarged, and in
course of time may become part of
our common school training.
There has been some apprehension
on the part of the workingmen that in
some way or other technical education
as practiced in some of our institutions
is menacing 70 their interests. In
creased effictmcy and improved ma
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

An interesting ceremony took place
last week in the picturesque village
Surry village of Tilford, very close
to the last home of the late poet laur-
cate. For centuries the village has
boosted of Kings Oak. mentioned in
Il grant of land by King Stephens
brother to Waverly abbey. AS the
old tree was getting a little decrepit
the inhabitants felt that they would
like to see another oak on the historic
green, to perpetuate the royal asso-
Citations and in commemoration of Her
Majesty's diamond jubilee. The queens
oak was accordingly planted by the
Oldest inhabitant, assisted by the
school children, amid much local re-
ioicing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
HISTORICAL.

Glass was early known. Glass bead4
were found on the bodies of mummies
over three thousand years old.
Astrology was cultivated first by the
Chaldeans, and was transmitted from
them to the Egyptians, Chinese and
others at the very dawn of history.
The Jews became much addicted to it
after the captivity, 5S8 B. C. Bede,
the learned Saxon monk, was devoted
to it, A. D. 673-735, and Roger Bacon,
l214-1292. 1t was much in vogue in
Italy and France in the sixteenth CEN
fury.
The last instance of curing scolds by
ducking them carried out in England
was in 1901 at Kingston Ion Thames.
A contemporary "a newspaper records
such an event in 1745. Last week a
woman that keeps the Queens Head
alehouse at Kingston, in Surrey, was
ordered by the court to be ducked for
scolding, and was accordingly placed
in the chair and ducked in the River
Thames under Kingston bridge, in the
presence Of two CT three thousand peo-
ple." In Queen Elizabeth's time
ducking was the universal punishment
for scolds, and 1t appears that each
town had then at least one of these
penitential chairs in ordinary use. DIR.
Johnson once said to Mrs. Knowles:
Madam, we hare different modes of
restraining evil, stocks for the men,
ducking stool for women, and
pound for beasts"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

When the unemployed can become
not only self-supporting but wealth
producing, the hardest problem OF
civilization will be in a fair way to be
solved. The colony Of Victoria, Aus
!tralia, has brought about both results
iby establishing village settlements
near swamp lands, and maintaining
the settlers while they reclaimed the
waste and raised first crop. Twenty
five hundred families that once were
homeless now live in comfort on these
formerly worthless lands-and the in
Grease in the value of the reclaimed
tract has more than covered the gov
Iernment's expenditure. Over such an
achievement, philanthropy and finance
who should be better friends than they
ARE. are fully justified in shaking
hands. ,'
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

Here is a straight tip from a news
paper called Brains. 1t says there is
but one right way to advertise, and
that is to hammer your name, your
occupation, your business so constant
ly, so persistently, so thoroughly into
the peoples heads that if they walk
in their sleep they will constantly turn
their steps toward your store. The
newspaper is your friend in spite OF
your criticism. 1t helps to build up
the community that supports you.
When the day comes that the news
papers are dead the people are on the
ledge Of the grave with nobody to write
the epitaph.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28
Germans are adopting American ma

Germans are adopting American ma
chinery for their manufactures and
American ideas as well. The English
manufacturer proclaims boldly-prob-
ably for the effect it may have upon
Ais workmen-that If he cannot adopt
American machinery and methods in
Great Britain he will have to shut UP
shop. The Germans and English may
be able to compete with each other
with the aid of American machinery
and they may be able to excel all til
world save this great country from
which they are drawing new inspira-
itions. But they cannot go the Ameri-
can pace. Having caught up with them
I'VE will pass tfem-distance them, per-
ihaps-for in all the world there is nc
such combination of excellence as in
these United States Of America.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1898-01-28

If stomach be not indispensable
may not the time come when the
Iscourge of dyspepsia shall be practi-
lcally unknown? With the abolition
lof dyspepsia the heresy hunter would
find his occupation a thankless one;
the unfair critic would leave his
sbludgeon and coo like dove; the po-
'liceman and the west side conductor
would cultivate a memory and the
motorman would stop at street cross
ings in wet weather; the preacher
would study st. John more than Jere-
lmiah; cab drivers would consider the
rights Of pedestrians; even poets would
be tolerated as harmless; the anarchist
orator would have to earn his living;
the demagogue would be out of a job.