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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
AT WOMEN'S CONGRESS-.
Thirty Prominen Americans Will
Participate at London.

London, April 21.-Among the numer-
Gus women expected to take part in the
international congress of women in
June the names of 80 have been receiV-
ed from America.
Miss OctaVia Williams Bates. Mrs
Adelaide Johnson, the Sculptress, and
Mrs. Julia Marlowe Tia Der, the actress,
will discuss the professions open to wo-
men. Mrs. Mary Loves Dickson, whose
books are familiar in England, will
speak on educational questions.
The list of those who have promised
to take part in the discussion of politi-
cal subjects includes the Rev. Ida D.
Hulkin. pastor of a Unitarian church;
Mrs. H. Kate Waller Barrett, philan-
thropist and reformer; Mrs. Ellen c..
Johnson, superintendent of the Massa-
chusetts state prison; the Rev. Howard
Shaw. a Methodist minister; Susan B.
Anthony, Mrs. May Wright Sewal, and
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
FULLER SCORES YANKEES.
The Writer Pictures America as the
Great "Kid" Nation.

Chicago Ill. April 21.-Henry B. Fuller,
a writer of books which have found favor
with critics, but not with the public:
voiced last night before a gathering OF
artists his opinion OF n1s hey a
artistic of Chicagoans His talk has &c, caused 9
rush for dollars. Chicago is mad at Full
Ter. Here are some of the things he sa1q
is not so cheap as the Englishman, but
he is pretty cheap The text Of the Amer
of the American mind is light and sandy.
Nothing better than the cactus grows IN
american character is made up of lay
ers of slush and grit; except now and ma
keep pretty close to our grit. If l had
a enthusiastic emotion to deliver myself
of, I would trust myself to the Italian or
can He would either be brutality dense,
lean life there are no flowing springs from
which art can be fed.
a rough-grained substitute for a city. 1t
is ugly. 1t is horrid. Few of US know
do you want to succeed as an artist?
Be magnificent. If you can't be big, be
Doems. II YOU can't be that, then be An
ancially successful. All you have to DO
is, lower the standard and your stuff Will
Don't you know too much about art.
Sousa and your Hail Caine and your Alice
Nelson in The Fortune Teller and your
Then Mr. Fuller talked of the. American
as hGste b b9 s arf prh to
be for biography. That seems to be the
approved literary type. The public, any
way does not care for the artists ideas.
1t contents itself with trying TO get look
a him-once. Just a curiosity, that is
all. When the grand opera comes to Chi
cago. Chicago people do not care for the
operas, and, as to the poor composer, he
is nowhere. The fashionable audience
wants to see the great singers Then it
The trouble is that, art in America
meets internal need: 1t amuses US.
and we treat it cavalierly. but we do not
need it. The best of take little music
as a matter of culture, but could easily
get along without it. The next best toler-
ate it. and the rest won't endure it at all
There are no springs in the national
life to feed the artist. I see thousands of
budding writer's and painters and sculp-
tors and musicians. and know their fate.
They will shrivel up and pass off the fields
of art. There is a hand-to-mouth system
of intellectual living which makes all in
tellectual concentration impossible. The
motto for most of is: Sufficient unto the
day is the newspaper thereof
Short of any real appreciation OF art
we are driven to 'features'-turrets of tin
ensationalism- We are the great kid
11a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
PILGRIMS TO LOURDES.
Hundreds of Invalids Leave Paris For
the Shrine.

Paris, April 21.-On three special
trains yesterday 1900 invalids from this
city were started on their journey to
the great spring at Lourdes, in Haut
Pyrenees, hopeful that the miracles that
are attributed to the holy spring will
restore to them the health they have
lost The procession was mournful in
the extreme, for seldom is seen such a
congregation of the afflicted Through
the moaning, suffering, faithful mass
of humanity. on filters, clutches and
borne in arms, moved the priests and
sisters of charity, and with banners and
religious emblems floating over the peo-
pie they were borne in carriages.
LOurdeS gains each year in the num-
Der of pilgrims to the Massabielle rocks
where the Blessed Virgin is fervently
believed to have appeared in 1856 to
Bernadette Soubrious, 14-year-old girl,
and where from the niche in which the
Holy Mother appeared there now wells
a spring of miraculous powers
The pilgrimage of so many hundreds
at this time of the year is unusual, the
great pilgrimage coming in the early
autumn. but there are always those
bound for the beautiful basilica to be
healed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

house. V a., Virtues:
FOR six years 1 had
an obstinate, running
ulcer on my ank lie,
which at times caused
me in tense suffering. I
was so disabled for a
long while that 1 was
wholly unfit for BUSH
ness. One of the best
doctors tree tedm con-
stan lily, but did me no
good, I then tried va
nous blood remedies,
without the least bene-
fit. s. S. s. was SO high
ly recommended that
[ concluded to try it,
and the effect was won
derful. 1t seemed to
get right at the seat
Of the disease and
force the poison out,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
NEW DORIAN GREY.
Oscar Wilde Places an Edition de Luxe
of His Novel on the Market

London, April 21.-Oscar Wilde is
again plucking up courage and Offering
his wares in the shape of an edition de
luxe of Dorian Grey"
He has just issued an elaborate edi-
ton of this work, extracts from which
Mr.. Carson quoted with such damaging
effect at the trial of the marquis OF
Queensberry at Old Bailey.
The issue of the book is limited to $50
copies. Each copy is signed by the
author and published at the price of q
shilIings 6 pence. Nearly all the copies
have been bought by undergraduates at
oxford, Oscars old university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
After Johnson,s Scalp.

Washington, April 21.-Samuel Gompers.
president of the American Federation of
Labor. today presented to the president
a petition asking for the removal of
Claude NJ. Johnson. director of the bureau
of printing and engraving. He took this
action by direction of the delegates to the
convention of the Federation of Labor held
in Kansas City last December, as the re-
suit of charges which were exploited at
that time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
Running Sore
OnHiS Ankle.

Obstinate sores and ulcers are q sure
sign that the entire circulation is in q
depraved condition. They are severe
drain upon the system, and are con-
stantly sapping away the vitality. In
every case the poison must be e1imi-
mated from the blood, and no amount of
external treatment can have any effect.
Mr.. L. J. Clark. of Orange Court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
Carnegie After More Mines.

Ispheming, Mich. April 21.-It was
cure control of the Lake Superior mines.
the largest producers of the Marquette
range. T. F. Cole, manager for Car
negie in the upper peninsula, has been
making an examination of the property
and a circular has been issued offering
terms to stockholders for a controlling
interest. This would make Carnegie the
largest operator on the range.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
The Detroit Reaches ereytown.

Washington, April 21.-The Detroit has
arrived at Greytown for an inquiry into
the state of affairs there before proceed
ing to Bluef1elds United States Minister
Merry has already started for the latter
place from Managua, and it is believed here
that he will soon adjust satisfactorily in
the presence of the Detroit the issue be-
tween the authorities under General Tor
and the American merchants growing
out of the collection Of double taxat ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
Hirsch Estate Worth $125, 100000.

Vienna, April 21.-The Niue Erie
Presse asserts that the estate let by
the late Baroness Maurice de Hirsch de
Geruth, who died April 1, has been
valued at %, 0o0, 900 pounds, of which 90
O0O, 900 will be expended in carrying on
the various charities founded or fos-
tered by the baroness and baron. The
Hirsch foundation in New York receives
240 600 pounds and the institution at
Montreal one-tenth of that amount.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
$4,000 For a Husband.

Carthage. Mo. April 21.-The jury in the
suit of Mrs. Gilhllan against J. d. Nc
Crillis for 5000 damages for the murder
of her husband has given verdict of 81
900 damages in favor of Mrs Gilfillan.
NcCrillis claimed Gilfillan had wronged
his family and that in discussing the mat
ter he had killed Gilhllan in self-defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
w. K. WEIBLE.
Carpenter.
Repairing Promptly
Attended to.
HI East 7th st. TeIe. 7S1
Going Back to onha

New York, April GA special from
Washington says: The Tenth u. g
cavalry. the colored regiment which did
such brilliant service In the Santiago
campaign, is to have another tour of
duty in Cuba. The regiment is now I'm
Texas 1t has been ordered to leave as
soon as possible for Santiago. The regi-
ment will be stationed at ManzanfIIo
and Santiago and will operate against
the bandits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

and was soon completely cured"
Swift's Specific drives out every trace
of impurity in the blood, and in this
way cures permanently the most obsti-
nate, deep-seated sore or ulcer. It is
the only blood remedy guaranteed
purely vegetable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

Nice trimmed hats at Twentieth Cen
fury Millinery store as low as 81 so. At
Cross jewelry store, SIS Kansas avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

A lecture on Demands of Liberal
ISM will be delivered by Mr.. ]. E.
Remsburg, president of hte American
Secular union, at the Crawford theater
Sunday night. Mr.. Remsburg is said to
be an interesting talker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

Shadows of a Great City" will be
put on with special scenery and me-
chanical effects by the Arnold Wolford
company at the Crawford theater Mon
day night. The prices will be 10, 20 and
80 cents and ladies will be admitted
free. Tuesday night the company will
present Eagles Nest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
COMING DRAMATIC EVENTS.

After an absence of several years,
Robert ManteII will be seen at the
Crawford theater tonight, appearing as
Louis de Beaumont in "A Secret
Warrant" Tomorrow afternoon he will
put on "Monbars" at a matinee, and
tomorrow night will be seen in THE
Face in the Moonlight"
Few romantic actors can boast of
more continuous good fortune in pro-
auctions than Robert Manten. 1t was
in 1883 that the public became inter
ested in the young man who played
Louis Ipanoff'' to Fanny Davenport's
Fedora" and the theatrical mana gers
prophesied new star. 1t was not an
accidental hit. Following a school of
drama which had made his early mas
tiers famous, he desired to create new
role of the same type, and came to the
front and declared himself for French
romance In the past ten years he has
presented many new works with marked
success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
Comfortable and Economical.

The tourist sleepers that leave Topeka
daily for California via Santa Fe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
Hutchinson and Return S4e5.

Via the Santa Fe. Tickets on sal
April "A, rs, &c and 81, limited to May !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

The entire millinery stock at Twentieth
Century is new. At Cross jewelry
store, SIS Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21
~, The $4,000

cures contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula,
Cancer, C1tarrh, Eczema, Rheumatism,
Sores, Ulcers, Boils, or any other blood
trouble. Insist upon S. s. s.; nothing
can take it's place.
Valuable books mailed free by Swift
Specific Company, Atlanta, Ga.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-21

GA. r. Reunion at Hutchinson.
S4.65 for the round trip via the Santa
Fe, April "a, %, &c and q, limited 70
May l. -
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California

$3.50, via Santa Fe Route.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19
A MAN OF PRUDENCE.
He Thought n Cyclone Cellar Might
Come in Handy When He
Was Married.

Speaking of wives and their dispositions
and tendencies" said Mr.. Biskum to the
evening crowd in front of his crossroads
store, there was John Brunt, that lived
for ten years in the cyclone belt in Kansas,
trying to raise corn and mortgages and
things like that, until he was able to bor-
row money enough to get back to Mary
land again without walking more than half
way. John come right to me, and let him
have job OIL my farm at 500 a month,
for he was hard worker and thrifty. At
the end Of the first year he had got the
Widow Aliens promise to marry him in
October, and he rented a nice little farm
to do business again on his own hook.
John was a widower himself, and being a
practical sort Of man, he went to work
right away putting the farm and the house
into shape. One day happened over his
way, and found him digging hole in the
back yard.
whats that for? says l, walking
around and looking over things.
That's cyclone cellar, Mr.. Biskum,'
"'A cyclone cellar?' says /, considerably
astonished What do you want cyclone
cellar for? This amt Kansas
81 know il amt says he; but you
know, Mr.. Biskum, and he got very con-
fidential, I'm going to git married, and a
cyclone cellal may come in mighty handy oc-
casionally. "-Washington Star.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19
LATER.

The appeal of the citizens commit
tee of the District of Columbia asking
for aid for the Texas food sufferers
is being rapidly answered in sub
stantial way. Treasurer Edison al
ready has received nearly 81. 900, which
will be forwarded promptly to Gov.
Savers.
Nineteen thousand tin plate workers
returned to work on the 18th for an
other year at advanced wages, the
skilled workers getting Ii per cent. in
crease.
Engine drivers on the Manhattan
81" road in New York City have de-
clined to accept the offers made to
them by the officials of that road,
which were to take effect with the sub
stitution of electric motive power for
steam on their line.
The United States district attorney
at Jacksonville, Fla, has been warned
from Washington TO beware OF fill
clustering expeditions from the Florida
coast against Honduras, Nicaragua
and other Central American countries.
A dispatch from Victoria, b. C., says:
The steamer Tees brings news of the
death of a party of II prospectors by
drowning near Windy Arm.
A receiver has been appointed for
the MiddleseX County nank, of Perth
Amboy, n. j., which was wrecked by
its cashier, George NJ. Valentine.
The wages of the weavers at the
Slatersville cotton mills in North
Smithville. Il. l., have been raised
again. A previous increase which
proved unsatisfactory led TO a strike
and that demonstration was followed
by a strike by the socialist employees
because several of their party had
been discharged.
There have been six deaths in Bos-
ton recently from lockiaw. The VIC
Tins were boys injured in Fourth Of
July accidents.
Agents of the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit Co. have engaged 300 experienced
motormen and conductors in Philade-
phia to take the places of their strik-
ing employees. Many of them were
formerly in the employ of the Union
Traction Co., of Philadelphia, and lost
their places as a result of the big
strike on that system few years ago.
At that time they claimed their places
were taken by Brooklyn motormen
and conductors.
Frank Almond and Charles Van
Dresser, aged IS and 40 years respec-
lively. were drowned in Pleasant Lake,
near Lowville, N. Y, on the night of
the 10th. Edward White, who was with
the men, swan ashore. The men were
in boat and attempted to change
places, when the boat capsized.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19
A LIVELY BATTLE.
Glnssblowers at Bridgeton, N. j., At
tack Protectors of NOn-UniOnIsts,


Bridgeton, N. j., July 14.-The ar
rival of is non-union glass blowers
here Thursday was the cause of an
outbreak on the part of the strikers.
The strangers came from Indiana and
were met at the station by large
crowd of strikers who Immediately
stormed the train and captured the
non-union men. A lively fracas en-
sued, during which many blows were
exchanged.
The non-union men were sent away
by the strikers on the noon train. Sew.
eral of them, the strikers say, have
been here before and were sent away
in the same manner 1t is said they
come simply to get money from the
union as an inducement to leave. No
arrests have been made in connection
with the riotous demonstration.
Manager King, of the Cumberland
Co., who was struck with brick and
other missiles, is confined to his house
with a badly cut head and other
wounds. John Trance, an employe
Of the Cumberland Co., was severely
wounded, as was also Philadelphia
detective who accompanied the non.
union men here.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19


In the past 90 days 30 iron mines
in northern Michigan, which had been
idle from four to 20 years each, have
started up, employing fully 1000 men,
while the increased force at the mines
already working exceeds. this number.
The demand for ere is in excess of the
possible supply for this season.
The Rhenania silk mills at College
Point, l.. l., which employed more than
800 hands, has shut down Tor an in
definite period. on account of depres-
sion in the silk industry.
At Bridgeton, n. j., 90 striking glass
workers have been arrested, charged
with completely in the recent riots. A
number of the men are charged with
assault with intent to kill, and were
held in $500 bail for further hearing,
The charge against the others is riot
ing and they were required to furnish
5000.
AT Bainbridgc, Ca. on the 10th. 2:
business houses, tie pumping station
of the waterworks, the fire engine
house and the city hall were destroy
ed by fire. Loss 100000; insurance
$4,000.
The war department has concluded
an exhaustive series of experiments ut
Sandy Hook, n. j., with high eXplo-
sives and light field guns that promises
to make material advance in the ar
tillery branch of the service.
AT Fall River. Mass, the strike of
mill firemen for higher wages was in
augurated on the 18th, the night men
throwing down their shovels at the
end of their shift and giving notice
that they would not return.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19
4 BOOM N AXE FREIoAra
owners Of shipsAxpsrlsnes Tlms 81
Tsernarlr = hIa Tsrosnerrev

Chicago July 17.--The Lake Marine
News Bureau says: "The boom in
lake traffic has at midsummer exceed
ed even the expectations of the most
sanguine vessel owners at the opening
Of navigation last April. The ad-
vance in rates has been steady from
week TO week, first in one great line of
traffic and then another until ii has
reached the highest figures paid dur
ing the summer months in this decade.
"Still with tho advancing carrying
charges freight has steadily accum-
ulated. There is more coal to be
carried than there are ships to take
it; there is more ore to go from the
mines to the furnaces than vessels,
and were it not for the new position of
the great trunk lines Of railroads from
Chicago to the seaboard, grain would
be accumulating at upper lake ports
for lack of tonnage, to carry it to east
ern and foreign markets.
wages on lake vessels and on docks
have been advanced from 10 to 10 per
cent. Practically every demand of the
labor unions excepting that OF the
grain shovelers at Buffalo has either
been granted o. a satisfactory COM
promise reached.
"The direct cause of the boom in
lake business is the great activity in
the iron and steel trade. The iron
mining companies are putting forth
every effort to get down all the ore
possible from the mines before the
close of navigation. Notwithstanding
their efforts the movement of ore is
not sufficiently large to meet the de-
nand of the furnaces. The Illinois
Steel Co. at South Chicago is 250,000
tons short of what it ought to have
Mt this time of the year. The great
steel plants in Ohio and Pittsburg are
little better off, but they will need
every ton they can secure. Less than
three months ago even vesselmen be-
lieved a 81 rate on iron ore from Lake
Superior was thing of the past, yet
the iron mining companies are now
paying that fgure for ships outside Of
their own fleets.
at seems likely that the northwest
will be in bad way for fuel owing 10
tiC SlNdtiiii advancing hS hit III CO'il
freights from Ohio ports. Instead of
moving their stocks early in the sea-
son, the coal shippers pursued the
tactics which had been successful in
the years of depression. They got
together and made an agreed rate,
more than which they would not pay.
The result was that when the coal
ought to have been going forward,
ships were running back to Lake Supe-
rior without cargoes. At last when
the coal shippers found that they were
under new conditions and were not
masters of the situation as they had
been since the panic, they began to
bid up, but in the meantime return
freights had also advanced and they
were as bad off as before. Nesselmen
say that it is now impossible, with the
ships to be had, to take sufficient
supply of fuel to the northwest for the
coming winter, regardless of rates.
From now until the close of naviga-
ton there will be nothing but rush in
the lake business. Thus far the losses
from disaster have been exceedingly
small and the season to date is as pro-
fitable to the underwriters as to the
vesselmen"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19
EoREIeN INIELLleENoE.

An imperial edict has been issued at
Pekin denouncing the universal pecula-
tion in the collection of the Chinese
revenue and appealing for cessation Of
malpractices which are increasing the
country's financial straits.
Marconi's system of wireless tele-
graphy is to he put in operation in
Hawaii as a means of communication
between the different islands of the
group. An organization has been
formed, capital has been subscribed
for the project and some of the ma
terial for the system is already on the
way.
The steamer Purissima Conception,
sunk by the United States auxiliary
cruiser Hist at Manzanillo, has been
raised and will be put in condition to
resume running on the south coast of
Cuba, between Santiago and Batabano.
Her owners claim it will cost 100000
before she will be able to carry pas
sengers.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-07-19
whist Tournament Ended.

Chicago, July 17.-The ninth an.
nual congress of the American Whist
league came to an end early Sunday
morning at the Auditorium hotel. The
Hamilton club trophy and the cham.
pionship for teams of four go to the
Buffalo Whist club; the Chicago Du.
plicnte Whist club secures the Mime.
apolis trophy and the championship
for clnb pairs; and the American
Whist league challenge trophy be-
comes the prize of the st. Paul club.
These are the principal trophies for
which the expert whist players have
contended during the tournament,