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The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

The city of New York had 1851 .060
inhabitants in 1895. The number of
admissions to charitable institutions
for ten years-1sS5-1S95-was 32S, 600;
number admitted to penal institutions
242. 0O0-total 570.0 900. The census of
1890. put the native born at IS per cent.
and foreign born at AZ per cent. Ger
many led with IA per cent. Ireland
next with 1875 per cent. but many ma
tionalities are represented. We get
these figures from a paper in the New
York Forum on "a Study Of Natavitiesl
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

Harry Skinner, the political acrobat,
has a resolution ready to amend the
constitution of the United States. He
proposes to %abrogate the 18th, 14th and
18th amendments to the constitution,
illegally accomplished as we can show.
and thus get rid for all time of negro
electors, and fix caucasian supremacy
He will introduce his resolution at an
early day.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

The newspapers echo the opinion OF
democrats in favoring a clean sweep
in the p~enitentiary business, including
all of Russelrs appointments. The
democratic party will not tolerate any
hesitancy or palliation here. It is a
case requiring the most heroic treat
ment for the patient is very foul with
disease.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13
HOME FOLKS

The defunct bank at Greensboro
brings loss upon the stockholders. Bad
management, a too free use of money
for certain persons The lesson of bad
banking is being taught daily if not
we'll learned.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

That was a fine sample Of giving en-
ployment to henchmen by sending
three negroes to pay off the negro regi-
ment. 1t reminds one of the jobs in the
state senate when it took one employee
to attend to n member and his de-
mandS,
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

1t looks as if the Jim Crow car ar
r~angement by h legislature would
come to a head. Public sentiment is
simply overwhelming in that direction
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

dreaded disease. Seeing DR.. Hartman's
Pe-ru-na recommended SO highly, / de-
cided to giveit a trial. and after having
used only two bottles, 1 am happy to
state I am rapidly traversing the road
to health. Pe-ru-na is more than il
claimed for it."
All druggists sell Pe-ru-na.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13
RREASTING
THE TIDE.

From every ham
let comes the same
story OF the uphill
fight against ca
tarrh.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

ment after another is tried without
RESULT for good. DR.. Hartman has made
this fight easier. His great prescrip-
ton, Pe-ru-na, cures every phase Of
catarrh and leaves grateful, healthy
people like those whose letters are
printed here.
Mrs. Jane Eldred, Max Creek, NO.,
writes:
Pe-rH-Ha Medicine Co., Columbus, o.
DEAR SIRs:-"I was under the treat
ment of several doctors and tried all
the medicines I could hear of for ca
tarrh, but got continually worse. 1
am now entirely well, thanks to DIR.
Hartman and Pe-ru-na. I recommend
Pe-ru-na to all afflicted with catarrh.
I think it has added years to my life"
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-01-13

Mr.. w. E. Shelton, !
Grove, 1. T., a y
1 am grateful for
opportunity to say to
b o who may be
suffering from ca
tarrh that Pe-ru-na'
is what they need.
1 had for years been
afflicted with this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
The LeaVenWOrth-k Kansas City
Electric Being Pushed.
To Be Second Best of the Kind
In the United States.
OVER 200 MEN AT WORK
Garden City Is Enjoying an Old
Time Boom.
Colony From Missouri Arrives
and Realty Advances.

Leavenworth, April 15.-Everything in
worth railway points to the building OF
a strictly first class electric line. Mr..
Winner said yesterday that, with one
exception, it would be the best built
interurban electric line in the United
States. Il am getting rock crushers
now to put to work along the line and
the entire track, besides having the best
rails and ties, will be rock ballasted."
The construction gang now at work
near the Grand View end of the line
mum bers 200.
The SWOpe park spur of the Kansas
City Interurban railway is being rap
idly pushed to completion and officers
of the company say they will run cars
to SWOpe park by May 10. 1t was at
first planned to reach Swope park by
a line running down the divide from
Waldo. but this was changed later and
the route laid out by the valley from
Dodson. The right of way has been Sc
lance through the property of a nom
resident and condemnation proceedings
have been begun to secure this.
The road, which has lately been chris
tened by its management the Swope
Park route, still operates as a dummy
yet been announced. The present time
table of the SWope Park route calls for
trains two hours and an hour and a half
apart, from O'clock in the morning till
at night and an hourly service till 8
p. m. on Sunday. On May 10, however,
trains an hour apart are promised, with
later service, and soon after the COM
half hour service, which will be fur
niShed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

Miss May Warde. who was seen at
the Grand Opera House last night as
"AmarylliS," one of the twins, in "A
Bachelors Honeymoon is the young
est daughter of Frederick Warde, the
well known actor, who is this year with
Louis James and Kathryn Kidder. She
is but Is years of age, and this is her
first season on the stage.
Strangely enough, the young lady's
father strongly objected to her entering
the profession. At first ne would hear
nothing of it, but finally when he be-
came convinced that she would event
ually take up stage work. he gave his
permission and advised her to go into
comedy. The purchase by her brother,
Arthur ]. Warde, of the right to pro-
duce "A Bachelors Honeymoon gave
her a particularly pleasant opening, and
she gladly accepted the part she is now
playing.
When his daughter went on the stage,
Frederick Warde insisted that she drop
her own name, and consequently she
appears on the programme as Madge
May. In giving his reasons for this, the
veteran actor said to her: IF you re-
tanned your own name you might re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

ceive f1attering notices in places where
1 am liked wholly out of consideration
for me. On the other hand. in places
where am not we'll accepted, you might
be criticised without reference to your
ability By taking another name, you
stand on your own footing and you
will be judged only by what you do"
Although the company has had some
unpleasant experiences on one night
stands during the tour this season, Miss
Warde's admiration for the stage has
not been affected in the slightest. She
inherits none of her fathers taste for
tragedy, and says it is her intention TO
stick to comedy. She is an ambitious
young lady and is confident of success
in her chosen profession. She possesses
a pretty face and a wholly unaffected
and pleasing manner to aid her in
achieving it.
Miss Warde is the youngest of the
Warde family and her fathers especial
pride. With the exception of Ernest
Warde, who was seen here this season
in My Friend from India" she is the
only member of the family on the stage.
The other daughter lives with her
mother in BROOKLYN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
TO RAISE THE SALARIES.
Sumner County's Population Will
Show 49, 900 by Assessors Returns.

Wellington. April 15--If the township
assessors returns keep up their present
average, the complete returns will show
Sumner county's population to be 25,-
600 or more, which will have the effect
of raising the salaries and clerk hire al
lowances of the county officers.
The returns from Eden, Wellington,
Conway, Morris, Harmon, Springdale,
Osborne, Caldwell, Ryan and Creek
show a total increase of 404. This is an
average of 404 persons to each town
ship, and will bring the population up
to within few of the required $4,000.
Wellington city may show an increase
sufficient to offset the falling off in the
population of a few townships, and
overcome the number required to bring
the county's population up to $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT

"a Bachelors Honeymoon" as pre-
sented at the Grand Opera House last
night by a company under the direction
of Ward & Sackett, is a farce worth
seeing. There are lines in the piece
which may in all reason be objected to.
and there is some of the work among
the members of the cast that might be
improved upon, but Notwithstanding,
the production as whole offers enter
tainment of an enjoyable order.
The farce is the work of John staple
ton, a New York actor, and in its
writing he evolved a clever story and
punctuated it generously with humorous
situations. Benjamin Bachelor, a wild
over, marrieS an actress, but because
of financial reasons is compelled to keep
the fact a secret from his maiden sis
ter and his two daughters. That is the
idea entire, but it is sufficient to give
several people ample opportunity for
farclcal ability in working out the COM
plications that are made to result.
Mr.. Walter Walker is at the head of
the company, as the unfortunate Bach
elor," and he leaves nothing wanting IN
the part. Mr.. Walker but lately gave
up tragedy to enter comedy, and his
work in the Stapleton farce gives evil
dence that the stage will not suffer by
the transfer of his histrionic affection.
He may be classed with Maclyn Ar
buckle, Harry Conor and others OF the
same school.
In the supporting company Mildred
Walker, Miss Della Stacey and Miss
Maud Slower prove themselves particu-
larly capable in their respective parts.
AS Barbara" the servant, Mrs.
Walker works out a very clever charac-
ter part and Miss Slower seems to grasp
all the possibilities of her role as the
maiden sister. Miss Stacey, as the ac-
tress, is responsible for the only digres
sion from the straight line of farce in
the introduction of a song in the second
act, and last night she was compelled
to respond to several encores.
Miss May Warde and Miss Ann Hath
away have purely conventional parts.
but looked pretty and made the most of
them.
The farce has a number of extremely
amusing situations that are well carried
out.
There are several lines in the piece
which are so broad that no excuse may
be offered for them. They are explained,
however, by the fact that Mr.. Stapleton
is a New York actor and that his farce
proved a New York success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
LOOKS LIKE MURDER
Evidence Bad For Hensley in the
Pratt County Killing Case.

Pratt, April ia murder was COM
mitted in the west part of the county
Thursday night, and the body of the
victim, Jake McCameron, was found in
a pasture the next morning.
McCameron and s. D. Hensley left
Cullison on that evening, both drunk
and with jug of whisky in the wagon.
A we'll point was also in the wagon.
Hensley drove up to the McCamerou
place along in the night and told the
boys that he and their father had
fight with two men and that their faith
er was getting the worst of it. The boys
started out and found their father in
the pasture, where the team was found
with his head pounded to a jelly with
the well point.
AT the inquest Hensley said that some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
A $4,000 FEE.
Kansas City Lawyers Receive That
From Wyandotte County.

The sum of $31, 225 is the fee which a
federal court jury today allowed the
firm of McGrew, Watson & Watson, the
Kansas City attorneys, for helping Wy
andotte county to get out of paying
over $500, 600 of road certificates.
This is the case which has been occu-
plying the attention of the federal court
during the entire week, and in which
about so attorneys have been here as
witnesses to testify to the value of the
services rendered. The amount asked
for was $50, 900, or 10 per cent of the
amount the firm had saved the county.
The jury decided that 5 per cent was
enough, and so allowed $50, 600 and in
terest. McGrew, Watson & Watson will
have to divide this amount with the
five or six attorneys who were assisting
them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
CONCEALED HIS IDENTITY.
A Stranger Sickens and Dies at Great
Bend-Buried by the County.

Great Bend, April 15.-On Wednesday.
the 9Th inst, a man about 40 years old
applied to the city marshal for lodging.
He was put in the city Jail, and the
next morning was a very sick man. He
tended by the county physician; was
then removed to Mrs. Tubb's, at which
place he died on Tuesday. and was
buried by the county. His disease was
pneumonia. The officers say he acted
like a man who was determined to con-
ceal his identity for some reason. No
papers other than a memorandum book
containing some street numbers in st.
Louis, were found on him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago Newsl
The first duty of a man is to do his
duty first.
Office seeking grows on a man like
any other habit.
The man who is disliked by children
and dogs has but few friends.
All the worlds a stage and all the
actors want to tackle star parts.
Much personal enjoyment results from
kind and charitable acts.
It's a mean bachelor who advises a
girl to marry and then fails to pro-
pose.
Men indulge in lots of beauty sleep.
but they haven't much beauty to show
for it.
Marriage is a business failure when a
man puts his property in his wife's
name.
Opinions are like watches; no two
his own.
A man is prouder of the things he
thinks he can accomplish than of those
he really can.
It's more often the husbands cross
grained streak than the wife'S cooking
that spells the dinner.
We are told that there was once an
old lady who lived in a shoe-and.
strange to say, she didn't consider it any
too large.
A young man keeps company with a
girl before marriage, but after the cere-
snony it sometimes happens that her
father has to keep both of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
AT MCPHERSON COLLEGE.
Two Men Will Be Added to the Work
ing Force Next Year.

MCPHERSON, April 15.-McPherson col
lege has entered upon a career of ex-
pansion. Two men will be added to the
working force for next year, Prof. S. G.
Miller of California and Prof N. r.
Baker of Chronicle college, Alabama.
Prof Miller took his A. NJ. degree from
the Kansas State university, after
which he accepted a position in Lords
burg college, California. This position
he resigned to take his present position
in the schools of Redlands, Cal. Prof
Baker has been for several years presi-
dent of Chronicle college. Alabama.
This years graduating class is the
largest in the history of the college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
osAwAToMIE ASYLUM.
Board of Charities Finds It In Excel.
lent Condition.

Olathe April 15.-The institute for the
deaf at Olathe~ is in good condition.
Number of pupils. 230. Highest number
for the year thus far, 267; will be
graduated this year.
While there is no legal limit to the
time pupils may be allowed to attend
it is generally understood and practiced
to stop at ten years. Some pupils from
long attendance come to look upon the
institution as a home which they leave
reluctantly.
About one-half of the pupils are being
taught articulation with varied degrees
of success. The feasibility of teaching
articulation to the deaf seems to be
matter upon which there is diversity
of opinion among teachers of the mute.
School is taught five hours per day
and five days per week.
There are but two of the eight char
liable institutions of the state where
salaries of officers and employees exceed
the sum used for care and maintenance
viz: The institution for the education of
the blind at Kansas City Kan, and
the deaf and dumb school at Olathe
The reason of this is because the num-
Der of blind or deaf pupils one teacher
can instruct is limited to about ten,
making their instruction much more
expensive than that of children who are
in possession of all their faculties.
of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

In recognizing Mr. Bryan as the lead
er ,of the Democratic party. in his
speech at the Milwaukee Jeffersonian
banquet, Carter Harrison proved that
he is a politician equal in shrewdness
TO the best of them. He knows that no
other man can enter the next national
convention with SO great a following as
will Col. Bryan. If owing to opposition
from the east the Nebraskan fails to
secure the nomination, the way is prac-
tically cleared for making it unanimous
for Harrison. 1t is improbable that
Croker would stand in the way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

all the time to see if there is coating
on it.
We wonder that men don't wage a
greater fight on the cruel custom of
trimming a hat with birds; a bird costs
more than anything that comes out Of
a nilliner's store.
The day is coming when the lodges
will become serious rivals of the
churches All the new lodges admit
women, and every woman who becomes
interested in lodge work loses some of
her interest in church work. The lodge
entertainments which women get up,
take the energy that used to be applied
in getting up church socials, and
preachers salaries and church work
will suffer as a result.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
COULD TAME LIONS
But Couldn't Tame an Unruly Hus
band.

Kansas City, Mo, April 15-Charlotte
Wilhemia Gertrude Bishop, otherwise
known as Madame Piancka, the lion
tanner, appeared in the divorce court
here today and was legally separated
from her husband, H. H. Bishop, a resi-
dent of New York. Madame Piancka,
who has appeared in cages of lions in
the principal cities of the country and
who is well known as a subduer of the
king of beasts, secured her divorce on
a complaint of cruelty, alleging that
her husband had brow-b beaten and in
Inundated her beyond endurance. The
defendant did not appear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

A woman advertises for a husband
in a newspaper in Japan. She thus de-
scribes herself and what she wants:
Am a beautiful woman, with cloud
like hair, flowery face, willow-like waist,
and crescent eyebrows. 1 have enough
property to walk through life hand-in-
hand, gazing at flowers in the day and
the moon at night. If there is a gentle
man who is clever, learned, handsome
and of good taste, 1 will join with him
for life and share the pleasure of being
buried in the same grave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
Cook Wanted at Pottawatomie School.

The United States civil service COM
mission is DESTROYS of establishing an
eligible register for the position of cook
in the Indian service of the department
of the interior and has issued a call for
persons who desire to compete to at
once write to the commission at Wash
ington for application blanks. From the
eligibles resulting certification will be
made to the position of cook at the
Pottawatomie school, Kansas lat sal
airy of 1920 per annum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
Regent L!mbocker,s Wages.

The only charge in Perkins COM
plant against Regents Hoffman and
Limbocker that even the enemies of
the college claim is worthy of any con-
sideration is that Limbocker received
SIS a month an empIoye of the COL
lege. Limboci1er acted as purchasing
agent for the boarding department. His
wages didn't come out of state appro-
priations, the endowment. nor from any
of the regular income of the institution.
but from the receipts of the dining hail.
That department, up to the time when
it was closed by the perfidy of Perkins.
had been more than seIf-supporting. For
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
Cheyenne County Prairie Fire.

A rip-snorting prairie fire came pranc-
ing over the divide from the south part
of the county Wednesday evening and
al one time threatened to obliterate St
Francis. All the able-bodied men and
boys of the town were out until after
flames toward Wheeler, where the fire
was stopped. Much feed and pasture
were acknowledgment County
RuStler.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
Flowing Up His Wheat.

Dodge City, April 15.-There Is some
damaged wheat in Ford county NJ
Hoover's farm shows it. OF the 235 acres
planted to wheat last fall not more
than 100 acres will make a stand, and
TINS is in stubble ground. In plowed
ground the wheat plant died out during
the hard winter weather. Mr.. CLAYTON
who has charge of the farm, is plow-
ing up the ground and putting it in bar
ley. In few weeks some of the ground
Will be planted to corn and Kafir corn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.1
Rouging wouldn't be SO foolish if
everybody was blind.
II
When women want to go one step
lower than problem novels they take
to smutty stories.
One little scandal party can take
more sentiment out of a man than ten
years of wine, women and cards.
Solomon's wisdom lay in his knowl-
edge that the way to argue down a
woman was to lock himself in the palace
attic.
A woman can always tell how much
her husband doesn't love her any more
by the way he doesn't ask her to wear
certain clothes he used to ask her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
TO PROD THE EARTH.
Cottonwood Falls and Strong City to
Bore For Oil, Gas or Coal

Cottonwood Falls, April 15.-The twin
cities Cthis town and Strong) are going
to sink a hole for coal, gas or oil The
Lantry Bros. have subscribed 81. 900 and
the citizens of Strong have raised ST.
900 and this city has it's 81, 600 almost
pledged. AT the rate the project has
been pushed the last few days, we will
have speaking-tube connection with
Manila by July 4. 1t took only ten min
utes to raise the amount in Strong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
GARDEN cITYs BOOM.
Missouri Colony Moves in and Land
Values Increase Rapidly.

Garden City, April 15.-Emigrants are
coming into cur county rapidly, and
property is beginning to realize the old
boom conditions. One man bought 4
quarter section of land for $500 and
three days afterwards was offered $3.50,
but asks $1,000. Six families from
with their stock and they say ten or
twelve more families will be out soon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

Every day in the year the govern
ment handles Il, OO0, 900 pieces of mail
There are 1850 postofices, from which
2S9. $50, 600 money orders were issued in
1898; the wealth carried every day is
over $1,000, 900. There are 100000 dead
letters received annually at Washing
ton, half of which are returned to the
writers. The mileage of post roads
is ia, III miles, and in 1898 our postal
cars ran a distance of 2S1, $50, 900 miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15

one got into the wagon and hit him in
the mouth, knocking him backwards,
and at the same time striking Mccain
erOn, who fell out of the wagon. 1t is
the general belief that McCameron and
Hensley got into a quarrel, as both men
are quarrelsome, and that Hensley kill
ed the man.
The inquest has not yet been COM
pleted. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-15
Cofeyville Brick Plant.

Coffeyville. April 15.-The fine new
brick plant of Coffeyville Vitrified
Brick and Tile company, at Corbin City,
Is miles north of Coffeyville and one
mile south of CherryVale, began max
ing brick Thursday. This is one of the
finest plants in the state and places the
Cofeyville company in a position to
control immense markets.