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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-12-16
Suit, Overcoat and
Pants Department.

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ed, will make up to order in first-class style,
fit guaranteed or no sale. A dollar saved is
a dollar made Call and examine our stock
and we are confident we can save you money
and please you, at the old stand, No. 81 West
Main street. Westminster, Md.
ian2e-tf A. NJ. ANDERS.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-12-16
6tHEAP JOHN.
REMOVAL SALE.

har REMOVAL SALE. ass
will move to my new store room, wSaI
adjoining the one | now occupy, and F@N
will close out about 500 pair of -
MEMS, WOMEN'S AND chill 0REN'S
FINE SHOES
At and Below Cost, commencing today, Sep
tember %. Remember have no old stock,
all late styles. call special attention
TO the Men, Women and Children's Heavy
Shoes, the best for the money in the city.
Try my So hand d-made Kip Boots. Ny $500
Boots cannot be equaled. Give me call and
be convinced. Shoes made to order and re-
pairs done at short notice at low rates.
Thanking YOU for past custom | hope for a
continuance.
JOHN I. ZAHN,
East of Court Street,
sent % 3m Westminster. Md.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1899-12-16
TO CREDITORS.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

CFrom the Chicago News.]
Roast beef that is not well done is
a rare thing.
A young mans best girl is never too
good to be true
savages wear nose rings. Civilized
women wear earrings.
As a midnight entertainer the aver
age cat is bowling success.
There is an end to all things-except
ones desire for new things.
As a moss collector the rolling joke
easily distances all competitors.
The man who weds an hefress clips
coupons from the bonds of matrimony.
Some men have the faculty of letting
their friends and relatives worry for
them
The presidential bee in 6, mans bon
happiness
reform him seldom lives long enough to
finish the job.
Unless a woman is deaf and dumb she
has no need of a champion. She can
always speak for herself.
Every cloud may have a silver lin
ing, but the average man is satisfied
if his pocket is lined with silver.
A mean man is more to be dreaded
than mean animal A mans superior
intelligence enables him to do meaner
things.
There is a mother in St. Louis who
is so tender hearted that she invariably
chlOroforms her children before punish
ing them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
DANGER CAN BE AvERrED.

From the Rochester Democrat
Our native forests of spruce are rap
idly disappearing before the ak of the
pulpmakers- The puIpmakers gather
In the trees of middle age and the
Christmas Spectators take the young
Millions of young spruce are sacrificed
every year for Christmas trees As a
result the spruce forests of Maine are
being greatly depleted, and the Adiron-
dack lands, not owned by the state,
stripped At the present time there is
an actual scarcity of paper pulp made
from wood
II there are no new sources of supply
the scarcity viii increase with the in
crease OF demand. The newspapers use
a Tast amount of the paper made chief
" from wood pulp. and the paper COW
cred novels that Overspread the land
like swarm Of 1ocusts take thou
sands of tons.
Spruce grows slowly, but Carolina
poplar grows rapidly; and experimenters
IN Pennsylvania have begun to plant
waste lands with this poplar for wood
pulp In fifteen years or less the poplar
is ready to cut. This tree is a species
OF cottonwood, and is now in great de-
mand for street planting where rapid
growth is desired The nurseries Of this
state are fun Of Carolina poplar and the
trees are sold by the thousands every
year. If any one in New York wants
to plant waste land with wood pulp
trees there win be no difficulty in secur-
ing the young trees.
The experiment in Pennsylvania is
under the direction of DR.. J. T Rath-
rock commissioner of forestry, who
has employed a tract of land in Pike
county that recently reverted to the
state Pennsylvania has an efficient
forestry establishment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
Released Miner Addresses Meet
ing Of Strikers.
TALKS VIGOROUSLY.
Bitterly Denounced Federal
Courts as Tools
Of Corporations and Enemies
of Justice.
Big Meeting of Miners Celebrate
Reese's Release.

Fort Scott, Dec. 14.-The striking
miners and the employed union miners
of the Kansas coal fields Wednesday,
in response to a call by President Bone
of the Kansas district, formally cele-
brated the release of National Commit
teeman John p. Reese from the federal
Jail in this city, where he was confined
for contempt by addressing the strik-
ers at Yale, in the heart of the Big
-Four companies nOn-uniOn mines.
Reese, who is out on a $4,000 bond,
pending a hearing of his habeas corpus
case in the federal court of appeals in
St. Louis. was, in defiance of the fed
eral court, the principal speaker and
addressed a wildly enthusiastic audi
ence of strikers in the same hall where
he spoke before and which Judge VIII
liams said was so close to the non
union mines that his speech consutu-
ted contempt.
He bitterly denounced Judge VIII
liams and all federal courts as tools Of
corporations, enemies to justice and
menaces to the country. National Com
mitteeman James Boston of Duquoin,
Ill, also addressed the meeting and was
equally as bitter against Judge vii
liams ]. H. Richards, who prosecuted
Reese, said last night that Reese would
be Immediately cited again for con-
tempt if the reports of his meeting are
true. Similar meetings will be held
today at Weir City and Friday at
Fleming, and it is hoped to meet the 300
strikers and 5000 union men together
at ScammOn Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
He Is Reported to Have Urged
Aliens Appointment

Omaha, Neb., Dec. Alt is announced
that the appointment of W. V. Allen to
the senatorship was made certain by the
receipt of a telegram from w J. Bryan
by the governor in which Bryan urged
that good faith and party expediency de-
manded Aliens appointment In an
nOuncing the appointment of Allen, the
WOrld-Herald pull ishes the following card
from its proprietor:
ITO the many earnest friends who 50
generously and enthusiastically supported
me in my recent candidacy for the sena-
tOr1aI appointment at the hanQS OF the
governor, 1 herewith tender my thanks.
Il can not honestly deny that l have
been deeply disappointed and feel most
keenly the sting of ingratitude, but above
all, / have been deeply moved by the un-
people of Douglas county and the gener-
Gus endorsement of representative men
in all parts of Nebraska
GILBERT NJ HITCHCOCK"
BRYAN'S REASONING.
austin, 4eXaS, Dec 14---AN men asked To-
day by an Associated Press correspondent
to what he thought of Mr.. Aliens ap-
pOintment as senator from Nebraska, MI
Bryan replied:
Il think the appointment of Mr.. Allen
made a good record in the senate and last
year had the unanimous support Of the
fusion members of the legislature
think that in making this appointment
the governor acted wisely There are sew
era1 Democrats IN the state who would
have filled the office acceptably but the
fact that Mr.. Allen was last year the
choice of all three parties makes him the
logical man for the place 1 have no doubt
that a. Democrat will be chosen next year
give our state a POpulist and a Demo
crat in the senate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14

ness is generally brisk during the holt-
days anyway, and Judge Dolman's ac-
ton Will tend to increase it. The young
woman who has been striving long and
earnestly to collect 4S pages of stamps
with which to secure a Grecian vase but
who still lacks a page and a half, can
now persuade her young man to buy
marriage ceremony and fill out her col
lection. The young man who has never
married because he had not sufficient
means to go to housekeeping need not
hang back any longer. When he pays
for the ceremony he will receive rs
bright new trading stamps which he
can apply towards securing an onyx
stand piano lamp.
The trading stamp fad is rapidly
spreading. Topeka women now demand
stamps with everything they purchase.
The most of them are planning their
Christmas presents with a view to Sc
curing a large number of stamps. Even
the men are catching the stamp fever
now, and DR.. A. NJ. Callahan, clerk of
the district court, is thinking of offer
ing premium stamps to those who pay
cash for their court costs Topeka
real estate dealer, too, is thinking of
giving stamps to people who rent
houses of him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
LEAvENWoRTHs PRISON.
Plan For Building Cell Houses by
Outside Contract Meets Favor.


Fort Leavenworth. Dec. 14-Warden
McClaughry and the other officials OF
the federal penitenuary at Fort Leav-
enworth are highly pleased over the
recommendation of Attorney General
Griggs that $500. 900 be appropriated by
congress for building two cell houses
by outside contractors at the new pen
itentiary on the government reserva-
ton. This was asked for by Warden
McClaughry and Architect EameS, OF
St Louis, who prepared the plans for
the new penitentiary.
The necessity for having two cell
houses constructed at once Is set forth
in the annual report of Attorney Cen
eraI Griggs in mentioning the cOnstruc-
ton of the new government prison, and
he says. in part:
LAS the work progresses, carried on
almost wholly by the prisoners them
selves, it becomes evident that consid-
cradle time must elapSe before the new
buildings, or any portion of them, can
be completed or ready for occupancy.
So far it has been the practice to
march the prisoners from the old pris-
on to the new site daily, a distance Of
about two and One-half miles, where
they are employed on the walls and in
the quarry and brickyards, and return
ed to their quarters after the days Ia
bors are ended. In this way a cOnsid-
cradle of the working day is lost in go
ing to and fro, and the loss of time in
marching and on account of frequent
bad weather IS injurious in many ways,
ana seriously lnCerIGTeS WIN the proper
discipline Of the institution. 1t is there
fore deemed necessary and for the best
interests of the government that the
original plan of erecting this peniten-
tiary shall be 50 modified as to provide
of the erection by contract. as speedily
as possible, of a cell wing, with accom-
mOdatiOns for at least a portion of the
prisoners. with requisite additions for
heating, lighting, dining rooms, etc.
In this way the prisoners engaged in
the erection of the walls and buildings
can be cared for on the grounds of the
new prison, thus avoiding the danger
in marching them to and fro, as is now
done, as well as loss of time and injury
to discipline, referred to above.
1T is estimated that it will require
about $3O0.0 900 to complete the buildings
thus described. If this arrangement
can be effected, the erection of the re-
naming prisiOn buildings, workshops,
and wall can be readily accomplished
by the prisoners themselves. under the
superintendent of the officials.
Exhibit u accompanying this re-
port. is a communication from the war
den of the institution, Endorsed by the
architect, setting forth the urgent ne
cessity for this modification of the or
iginal plan, with the estimate of the
expenses involved The reasons set
forth in this communication seem to
me to be entirely convincing, and ear
nestly urge that the appropriation may
be made as asked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
HELP FOR Beers.
Irishmen Enlisting in Many Eastern
Cities to Go to Africa.

Cleveland, O., Dec. 1.-THE Plain Dealer
says: A party of twenty-five young Irish
Americans have left this city to join the
Beers in their fight against Great Britain
At New York the young men who are
mostly veterans of the Spanish-AAmerica
war, will join about 500 other Irishmen
and the party will sail from New York
on Saturday. In the latter city the men
will join an Irish regiment being formed
to go to the assistance of the Beers. The
recruits from this country come largely
from Chicago, New York, Boston, Phila-
delphia and Cleveland.
Five hundred more IriShmen will fol-
low to Paris in a couple of weeks. Plans
have already been made for the entire
regiment of 1000 to reach the scene of the
fighting.
Major General William J. Gleason, one
of the best known 1riSh-Amer1cans in this
city, said:
This movement has been on foot among
the Irish in Cleveland for about three
weeks In two weeks another party from
here will leave for New York to enlist
in the service. All over the country the
Irish are now joining with the Dutch and
the sending of volunteers to South Africa
will be continued
I'VE have tried to keep this movement
as quiet as possible"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
AT CHICAGO JUNE.
Place and Time Fixed For National
Prohibition Convention.

Chicago, Dec. 1.-THE prohibition
national convention will be held in Chi
cago on June q of next year. This was
tionaI committee of the Prohibition
party, held at the Palmer house, at
which tWenty-six national committee
men were present, representing sixteen
states. Chicago PrOhibitiOnists have
promised to pay all the expenses of the
convention, providing a hall with
comfortable seating capacity Of over
rates. 1t is the plan to hold the con-
vention in the Coliseum now being
erected on the site Of the old Libby
prison.
The resignation Of the national chair
man, Samuel Dickie, of Michigan, was
accepted by the committee after cOnsid-
cradle discussion and 0. W. Stewart,
chairman of the Illinois state commit
tee, was elected to the position Ma
tional Secretary w. T. Wardwell, also
rendered his resignation, but the COM
mittee refused to accept it.
A sharp debate took place while the
question of the time and place of hold
ing the convention was discussed. Com
mitteeman Carskadon, Of West Nir-
ginia, and Committeeman Smith OF
Iowa, criticised President Mckinley
and the Methodist church, Committee
man Smith asserting that the Method
ist church was the biggest stumbling
block in the way OF the prohibition
movement in Iowa
1t was reported before the meeting OF
the committee that the question OF ex-
Guiding women delegates to the ma
tiOnal convention would be taken up
The question was not touched on, how
ever, the sentiment OF the committee
men apparently being against any &C
ton at the present time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
HAS COME TO THIS.
Trading Stamp Insanity Reaches !
Bridal Couples.


Another branch of business has taken
up the trading stamp fad. Probate
Judge Dolman will hereafter give trad
ing stamps with marriage ceremonies
Further than that he will give stamps
with all licenses issued to parties liV
ing outside of Shawnee county who
come to Topeka to get married.
This departure from the old, long-es-
ia bliShed methods of conducting the
matrimonial conjunction business Will
doubtless be hailed with delight by
many prospective brides, and Judge
Dolman expects to be kept pretty busy
during the next month making two
hearts beat as one
Judge DOlman was called to the tele-
phone yesterday to talk to a young man
who lives in Jefferson county. He said
he understood that the probate judge
of Shawnee county gave trading
stamps with marriage licenses and ask
ed if it was a fact Judge DOlman re-
piled that he had not been doing so, but
if the young man wanted a license he
would supply the necessary trading
stamps to go with it. The young man
said he was thinking Of buying mar
riage license within a short time and
he intended to go where he could get
premium stamps
This set Judge DoIman to thinking
the matter over and he has decided to
give premium stamps under the condi-
tions above announced. He will give
either the blue or the green-the buyer
may take his choice.
This movement Will probably not meet
with favor among the ministers and
justices of the peace of the city. Here
tofore no special inducements TO secure
patronage in the marriage ceremony
business have been offered in Topeka
with the possible exception of the US
uaI autographed marriage certificate,
decorated with cupids and roses Now
that Judge DOlman has broken away
from the old custom it may be expected
that some enterprisiug minister viii go
still further and advertise cut rates and
b
les Some one may go 50 far as to
advertise marriage ceremonies at two
dollars each or three for five"
The trade in the matrimonial bust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
METCALF HEARD FROM.
Declares War Department Has Moth
ing Against Him.

Washington, Dec. 14-Brigadier General
Metcalf, former colonel Of the swimming
Twentieth Kansas, whose natatOrial featS
as well as their lighting prowess in the
Philippines won them fame, is in Wash
ington. General Metca1f called the sec
retary of war and the president today
and tomorrow will start for home. He said
that all the matters affecting himself and
the Twentieth Kansas had been closed
by the war department and that nothing
was now pending against them.
General Metcalf scouts the idea that
the American army will be able to catch
Aguinaldo unless the insurgent generals
followers turn traitors. Concerning the
action of the department in holding up
the pay of Surgeon Rafter General Met
calf said that it was due to the fact that
Rafter, instead of paying the bills for
delica cies for the sick soldiers out of a
certain fund, had sent them to Washing
ton to be paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
Western Kansas Gets Snow.

Larned, Dec IA heavy snow, the
first of the season, fell here all day of
Wednesday, without a moments cessa-
pletely with a sheet of white, ranging
in depths of from two to six inches.
The snow is wet and falls straight
down and drifts very little. The tenn
perature has fallen 80 degrees since
Tuesday night AS a general thing
the farmers and stOckmen of this por-
tion Of the state have made ample pro-
vision for the care of livestock during
SnOwstOrms and very little suffering is
expected among livestock. The snow
will be a benefit rather than an injury
to the wheat crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
AToHIsoNs's LIGHTS.
Street Car Company and Council Try
ing to Effect q Deal

Atchison, Dec 1.-THE street rail-
way company proposes to extend its
line to Mt. Vernon cemetery, providing
the city renews its lighting contract at
present prices, the work to be compile
ted by September l, 1901 The company
wants new contract for ten years, on
the terms of the old contract in con-
sideratiOn of the building and operation
of street railway line to Mount Yer
non cemetery. The indications are that
the council will hold out for several ad-
ditional lights, and, perhaps, a shorter
term for the contract. There are sew
eral localities demanding lights, but
the city is now paying SAIL a month for
lights, which is every cent it can afford
and cOuncilmen see, in the new con-
tract, an opportunity to try and get
more lights for the money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
GLOBE SIGHTS

rFrom the Atchison Globe1
People should be taught early that
the liver is Of more Importance than
love.
As soon as a man is as deaf as he can
get, he begins to walk along railroad
tracks
The meanest of men are compelled to
buy Christmas presents, in spite of
their screams
One of the haughtiest women in
Atchison is known as Sis" by mem
bers of her family.
Fate is what a man calls it when he
gets in trouble for doing what he
shouldn't do.
Some women's idea of Importance is
to go to a funeral. and be invited to
ride to the cemetery.
People speak of the havoc mince pie
can work on the stomach, but It Is as
pudding.
We like to see a curly haired man
get married, and the children arrive in
quick succession. He soon loses the air
of superiority he seemed to feel over
men with no hair.
The Globe once had a fighting editor
whose fearlessness Of man or woman
has married of late years. and now,
though still fearless of men, has lost
portion of his usefulness by being
scared to death of a woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14

Every steamer leaving this country
for Europe, it is said, carries dozens of
men for service with the Beers. The
recruiting for this service is said to
so on quietly in all the principal cities
most actively in Chicago. The volun-
teers are largely Irish or Irish-Ameri-
cans, but there are some Germans. and
some Of other nationalities The
Irish societies are the active agencies
IN the matter. The men leave this
country unarmed and go aboard ship as
individuals, with passage tickets unre-
lated to any concerted movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
A SURE CURE FOR GROUP.
Twenty-Five Years Contant Use With
out a Failure.

The first indication of Group IS horse
ness, and in a child subject TO that dis
ease it may be taken as a sure sign OF
the approach of an attack. Following this
hoarseness is peculiar rough cough If
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as
soon as tn echild becomes hOarse,
even after the. croupy cough appears, It
will prevent the attack 1t is used in
many thousands of homes in this broad
land and never disappoints the anxious
mothers We have yet to learn Of a
single instance in which it has not proved
effectuai. No other preparation can show
such a record-tWe nty-five years constant
use without a failure. For sale by all
6ruggisfs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
ONE YEAR FOR GOURDAIN.
This Time He Goes to the Peniten-
tiarY.

New York, Dec. 14-Louis A. Gourdain,
who was arrested on November % last
has been sentenced to one year in the
penitentiary. The specific charge
against GOurdain was the violation of a
section of the penal code which provides
that amy person. engaged in banking in
this state not subject to the supervision
of the superintendent of banks and who
does not report to such superintendent is
guilty of misdemeanor."
Cfourdain is said by the police to have
figured in various lottery and quick
money making schemes at New Orleans,
Topeka, Kansas City and other places:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14

One of the most inhuman acts ever
committed in Burlington occurred on Third
street Monday morning and witness
ed by number of men. It was an act
which has no excuse and if there is
society in town to look after dumb brutes
1t should take notice Of this. couple of
rats were caught in a trap and the in
human human who caught them, took the
cage containing the rodents out in to the
street where there was a hot fire and held
them in the flames until the poor things
were slowly burned to death. It was as
mean a deed as could be conceived. ?Bur-
nngLOn JefferSOnian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
Cofavville PonItrv Show.

CoffeyviIle, Dec. 14-The first annual ex-
hibitiQn Of the Southern Kansas Poultry
and Pet Stock association opened here
Tuesday. About $50 birds were on exhi-
bitiOn when the entries closed at noon.
Barred Plymouth Rocks predominated.
Consid cradle pet stock is also shown. L.
P. Harris of Lincoln, Neb.t is judge. The
membership of the association includes
nearly all the poultry breeders of South
ern Kansas The show closes tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-14
A BIG LAND DEAL
a New Mine Company Will Develop
Their Property in Crawford County.

Pittsburg, Dec. 14-C. E. Smith, a
resident of OskaloOsa, Ia, in connection
with other parties now operating min
ing interests in Iowa, has purchased
several hundred acres of land about
u miles from this city adjoining the
Missouri line but located in this cOun-
ty. The land is located between Fuller
and Vernon. It is on the Pittsburg &
Gulf road and on the east the Memphis
railroad runs within a short distance Of
it.
The land was sold through J. n.
Hodges and the parties are still negO-
tiating for other tracts adjacent to it.
The holdings so far secured are those
of $. H. LanyOn and AIiohau Hughes
and the new company is trying to pUr-