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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
GODDARD MUST HELP.
Court of Visitation Solicitor Needs
Assistance.

The court of visitation has requested
Attorney General GODDARD to assist in
resisting the injunction proceedings in
stituted by the Western Union TeIe-
graph company in the federal court, to
prevent the enforcement of the law re-
ducing telegraph tolls in Kansas
The solicitor for the court of vista
tion transacts nearly all of his business
at Wichita and the judges feel that it
is better to have an attorney who is on
the ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
WIN Present Hazel Kirk.

A cast made up of students of the
elocudon department of Washburn col
1ege VIII give performance of Hazel
Kirk at the college chanel +o11ierb+ 1Tba
parts will be taken as follows: Hazel
h1rk. MISS Ida Knauer: Pitticus Green.
a. " Newcomb; Squire Rodney. G.
Il Cephart; Dolly Dutton. Miss Elsie
Reynolds; Mercy Kirk Miss Grace
chandler; DunstOn Kirk, Allen ]. De
lay; Arthur Carringford, Lee GRANNY.
Methuselah higgins. Will TownsIey
Dan, mill hands, L. Stahl and FTad
Lees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
NEALL FOUND GUILTY.
Captain in Fourth Cavalry Sentenced
to Dismissal

San Francisco. May 3O.-It is report
ed here that the findings of the court
martial which tried Capt J. NJ. Neall
of the Fourth cavalry. have been re-
ceived by the judge advocate. that he
was guilty and that the sentence is
dismissal from the army
Gen. Shafter is said to have made a
plea for clemency. 1t is also reported
that John w Mackay, who is a friend
OF Capt Neall will intercede with Pres
3dent Mckinley in his behalf so he may
De permitted to leave for the Philip
pines with his command
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
WHAT Is THE NATTER 2
An Old Soldiers Complaint About
Topeka's Patriotism.

Mark Miller. an old soldier, contrib
uted the following to the State Journal
today:
Place, the loyal city of Topeka
Date, May 80, 1899.
Time, 10 a. m.
Occasion, Decoration Day.
Scene, Kansas avenue.
Stores wide open; business good.
Dollars flying but nary a flag.
Nothing to denote that there was
ever such a thing as a war of the Re
be11ion save a few old broken-down
coffee coolers and now and then a
one-armed citizen In the faded blue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
TWO BLOCKS BURNED.
Fire Destroys the Business Section of
Curtis, Neb.

Omaha May So.-A Bee special from
Curtis, Neb., says:
The whole east side of Main street is in
ruins from fire which started at 4
o clock this morning. Two entire blocks
of business houses We're destroyed to-
Eether with their contents. The firms
burned out are; F. Hickman. meat mar
ket; A. ]. Washburn, harness and sad
dtery; johnson q Co, farm implements ;
State bank of Curtis; StolI & Rumbaugh,
hardware; w. z. Palmer, general nner-
chandise; J. w. Adams general merchan-
disc The loss will reach $50. 900; only par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
Weather Indications.

Chicago. May 30.-For Kansas: Cen
eralIv fair tonight and Wednesday IRE
ct.do. ny thunder storms this afternoon
and in extreme east tonight; cooler
yVedne sday in north and western por-
ti0us: brisk south to west winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
Los Angeles Wants a CamD.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 3o-Tba Nrar-
chants and Manufacturers associ9tfo,,
of this city has inaugurated a move
ment TO induce the war department to
locate a camp here, where soldiers re-
turning from the Philippines NAV he
mustered out. 1t is argued that the
climate of southern California will
prove more beneficial to those who have
become accustomed to the tropical con-
ditiOns Of the Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
HARRISON THE CENTER
OF Attraction at a Banquet Given by
President Loubet-

Paris, May 30.-At the parliamentary
banquet given last evening by Presi-
dent Loubet, and at the reception which
followed. the center of attraction was
Benjamin Harrison, legal representative
of Venezuela at the forthcoming ses-
sions of the Venezuela boundary COM
mission in this city, and Mrs. Harrison.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
WHO TOOK 1T =?
Some Poor Joker Steals Conductors
Cash Register.

Conductor Staples. of the city rail-
way, had his fare register stolen from
the car Monday night and in conse-
quence is out of job.
Staples runs on the Parkdale car and
while at the end of his run he placed
the register on one of the seats When
the conductor started to collect fares
on the return trip and looked for his
register it was gone. He is diligently
hunting for it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
Easy on HooleY.

cutor announced today that he would
not proceed with the prosecution of Err
nest Terah Hooley, the corporation pro-
rnoter and speculator, upon the charge
of fraud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
Body Of Capt. George H. Tiliey,
of the Signal Corps,
Found Floating in the River at
Escalante.
KILLED BY NATIVES.
Body is Recovered and Sent to
IIOilO.
Victim Of an Insurgent Flag Of
Truce.

Washington, May 30.-The two follow
ing dispatches were received at the war
department today and give the first de-
tails Of Captain Tilley's death on the
island of Negros:
.Iloilo. May 3O.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Captain George H Til
ley, U s volunteer signal corps. was
killed at EscaIante, east coast Island or
Negros. by insurgents, Saturday, May
q. IL o'clock a. m; details not known
Buried at Iloilo May 80
VAN VALZAI."
OTIS REPORT.
Manila, May 30.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Gable company's vessel
placing cable between Iloilo and Cebu
ran to Escalante, east coast Negros, to
remove old cable connections. Captain
Tilley. signal corps, accompanied and
with captain of vessel and three men
visited town. natives making friendly
demonstrations While there, ambush
ed: vessels captain and one man es-
capped to vessel in launch, ,Tilley and two
men taking to water and not rescued; !;
vessel then reported at Iloilo; General
Smith informed who Immediately took
75 men and proceeded to Escalante. He
reports this morning that body of Cap
tain TilIey found floating in river;
marks of violence on head; body sent to
Iloilo; Smith remains at Escalante for
the present. OTIS
The age-herald., 1899-01-22
TWO NOTABLE BOOKS
ssThe Workeness Tine East'' and 1.-The Workerss The West''>-

Waller A. Wyekof has called his two remarkable books entitled '"The Workers" ian experiment in reality" That it was an extraordinary experiment will readily be conceded by readers of these really valuable works. MT. Wyckoff is assistant professor of political enconomy in Princeton Univer- sity. Some years since he conceived the unique idea of leaving the theoretical side of his problems and entering the realistic side of the question, where, from actual ex- perience, he could learn of the American working man as he is today-not as an eco- homie problem, but as human being.
 In his preface, MT. Wyckoff says that as he thought over and discussed various so- cial questions, he began to feel the differ ence between his own slender book-learned principles of sociology and the vital knowl- edge of men and the principles by which they live and work, eyinced by another. So the idea was conceived and grew in his mind, and eventually resulted in his leav- ing his home and starting out as an un- skilled laborer to earn his daily bread.
 It was a brave thing to do. He laid aside the luxuries and comforts of university life and without a cent in his pocket started upon his experiment in reality" For two years he toiled in the east and then in the west as an unskilled laborer. The results of his actual experience of the conditions which confront such Iaborers was after wards given to the world in two volumes entitled "The Workers;' the East, and 'sThe Workers;" the West.
 The thoughtful and intelligent treatment of the subject of his actual experience, gained at cost of so much pain and suf- fering, has been of great service to the large class of earnest men and women who study these economic and sociological questions and who see in the serious problems which confront the laboring man a menace to the peace and welfare of the future. The books are delightfully."- written with style that is graphic, forcible and impressive The hu- man element of the work Is so appealing that 1t is as interesting as a piece of fiction, while beneath the narrative the reader feels aware of the constant strenuous struggle and the grinding toll which seems part of the very existence of this large class of hu- manity. The first volume deals with his labors in the east and of his experiences, written 1t appears, with the crushing de- spair of labor still upon him. Still, much of his time is spent as farm hand and through the constant struggle and depress- ing toll under conditions which exist in the east was enough to make the author waver in his firm determination to proceed west ward, with his experiment. Yet 1t does not compare with the crushing conditions which exist in the congested centers of western city life.
 The second work opens with the authors approach to Chicago. Of his feelings as he neared this great city. he says: ''The un-
The age-herald., 1899-01-22
BY WALTER A. WYCKOFF

employed were there, and I had not seen them yet; hundreds lived there who are fiercey at war with the existing state of things, and their speech was an unknown tongue to me, and my conventional im- agination could not encompass the mean ing of their imaginings and then the poor were there, who in the grim clutches of starvation underbid one another for the work of the sweaters, until the brain reels at the knowledge of the incredible toll by which body and soul are kept together All this awaited me, the very core of the social problems, whose conditions I had set out to learn in the terms of concrete ex- perience."
 In Chicago MT. Wyckoff came into con- tact not only with the great army of the unemployed, but also into contact with the labor unions and organizations, and the meetings of the revolutionists. Living as one of them and depending for his daily bread upon any odd job of work that he could find, no matter how low down in the scale of work, the author describes the con- ditions of his life with intense cearness and lumnousness. He makes the reader feel the want and misery and cruelty of the circumstances of their life; the temptations and seductons of any place, no matter how evil that promises light and warmth and that human sympathy and companion ship that the soul longs for and craves as surely as the body craves for food.
  ture of the life and crushing hardships of the unskilled laborer, and should prove or great value in directing the philanthropie efforts of earnest men and women. The author shows how even the presence and the rooms of the Young Mems Christian association is simply green spot, an oasis, in the midst of the black desert of want, despair and temptation The place that th.s noble work holds in the authors book, in strong contrast to the numberless warm, inviting places of evil should prove or greater stimulus for the prosecution of the work than pages of less practical and actual testimony MT. Wyckoff has achieved a unique victory from his experiment, and the result of his experience is commanding much earnest attention.
 
 "The Open Question:" novel which is having big run in England, Is stated au- thoritatively to be by Miss Elizabeth Rob- ips, the actress, famous for Representations of Ibsen's roles. She published her work un- der the pen name of c. D. Raimond, and has recently had quite a tilt with the Chronicle in London because they made her identity known. However it is possible that no graver results will follow from their supposed indiscretion than goodly amount of free advertisement. For the Chronicle graciously allowed Miss Robins two col umns in which to vent her displeasure.
 
 In the Forum is found the following trib- ute to Thomas Nelson Page "Red Rock' is a contribution of lasting value to our knowledge of our own past veritable hu- man document, because 1t deals in serious spirit with a significant and tragic experi- ence; a genuine interpretation of the spirit the vicissitudes and the historical attitude of a great section in one of the shaping crises of its history"
 News comes that MT. F. Hopkinson Smith
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in the future is in the rich capital of the nation with the largest debt
 Spain owes her money almost entirely to foreigners, while France owns only her own people. Nearly every nation in the world is also in debt to her citizens. France will lend Russia some more soon. The English say that this is the only object the Russians have in the Franco Russian alliance, which is unworthy of English level-headedness There are thousands upon thousands of Frenchmen-even the peasants have money invested in national debts-who are glad of the opportunity to get good rate of interest from the Russians or from anybody else
 Following is the comparative list of the debts of countries owing over $500, 1000 900 in 1875 and 1899:
 Japan and the Argentine Republic, which are fast forging to the front, are among the new borrowers, the Argentine owing $370 000- 900 and Japan $235,O0OOOO. Other small bor- rowers are Belgium, with $455 ,00o 0OO; the Netherlands, with $46O 1000 ,OOO Canada, with $255 100000, an increase of s10o, ,00e, ,0OO, and
The age-herald., 1899-01-22

has placed on view in Fifth avenue, New York his annual series of artistic impress sons in water color of Holland, Constan- tinople and Venice, to which he adds this year three or four of scenery on the Thames. It is noteworthy that aside from MT. Smiths wel-known literary success that he is also one of the most energetic, industrious and successful of American artists. That his work is interesting and seriously considered is proven by the fact that his work sells well in Paris and that he has just received an order for all he can paint from a Parisian Art dealer for a sum of good figures It is said that MT. Smith paints these pictures during his brief an- naul vacation abroad in Venice and Holland. The gift is certainly a most happy posses sion. y
 Prince George, of Prussia, who writes under the nom de plume of G. Conrad, is the only member of the Hohenzollern family who exhibits decided literary talent, and 1t is said that some of his books have achieved popular snccess, while as a dramatist two of his plays are frequently performed on German stages. The Cosmopolitan is publishing a series of articles on Great Problems in Organiza- tion." In the January number paper is contributed by Charles R. Flint, a man whose practical experience fits him for the task. MT. Flint is the head of several of the Worlds largest busnesses-notably the great mercantile house of Flint, Eddy & Co. He is considered pre-eminently an or- ganizer and anything from his pen is wor- thy of the widest attention.
 Mr. Watts-Dunton's novel, "Aylivion," has passed into it's tenth edition in Eng land.
 
 Paul Leicester Ford's new novel will first be published in Golfers Weekly. The in- ital number began on January 2S. The tale is called Janice Meredith; a Story of the Revolution" MT. Ford has proven himself thoroughly familiar with the life and times of Washington. The illustrations of the new work will be by Howard Pyle The tale deals with the perpleXities of a mai den'SAheart between two lovers, one being an aide-de-camp of General Washington and the other Tory in the service of the kingSWe may readily infer that the story is fuHfpf stirring situations.
 Fifty-three thousand copies of Rudyard Kipling's "The Days Work had actually been sold up to last week. The book is in its fifth edition.
 "WHo's Who? 1S99," a convenient annual biographical dictionary has just been pub lisheds by the MacMillan company. This is the third year of it's reconstruction and the ffty-frst of it's existence.
 Miss Halls translation of Edmond Ros- trand's ''Cyrano de Bergerao" is now in it's thirty-ffth thousand Eleventh edition.)
 
 The publisher says that sTekla'' gives every promise of becoming Robert Barr's best selling book. PAUL PRY.
The age-herald., 1899-01-22

debt is France, which owes about s6,O00,C ,CO0,- GOO; England owes $3,900SQ000. Austro-Iun- gary is third with $3,O3O 0OO,OO0; Russia fourth, with S2, ,Si5 OO0 900, and poor old Italy fifth, with $2,53O 100000. The United States could pay it's debt any day, but it's policy is to owe about $10O,OOO00O, sometimes more and sometimes less.
 Though Spain is sixth, she is the only one of the lot which may be said to be com pletely bankrupt. Her debt is $1 ,395, 0O0OOo. The only hope she has of her floating loans
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money to pay off it's national debt. Of course, it was never fully paid. A small part of the debt was paid off and the re- mainder remains due till this day-always a little due, always a little paid.
 No prosperous business firm on earth keeps it's debts paid up. It regards it poor policy to do so. Some time the firm will want to stop business and 1t must owe money. If it were to keep its debts paid up
The age-herald., 1899-01-22

there would be no profit to the game It maintains its credit by having a certain re- serve or balance. That is the way with a nation. It is never paid up-always in debti
 The debt of the world increases all the time It is said that the combined national debt of all the countries amounts to $50, ,OOo, ,0OO,0 0OO The country most involved in
The age-herald., 1899-01-22

Most of the debts of nations have been made by war. In these progressive days it is not considered fashionable for a nation to be out of debt. The larger and more pGS"eii"i 'e? na'ion! :he iafger tae oeo1
 They are not fashionable unless they owe money. This fashion began among nations in the Middle Ages when Rome borrowed
The age-herald., 1899-01-22
In Olden Times

People overlooked the importance Of per- manently beneficial effects and were satls- fled with transient action; but now that 1t is generally known that Syrup of Figs wil1 permanently overcome habituI constipa- ton. well-informed people will not buy other 1axatives, which act for a time, but finally njure the system Buy the genuine, made by the California Fig Syrup Co.
The age-herald., 1899-01-22

Greece, with $1GO OOO GOO. The total debt of the British Empire it may be added, includ- ing all British colonies, is $5,4S5, 900, 600, al- most equal to that of France, money com ing. of course, almost altogether from the mother country.
 Most of this, in fact nearly all, was caused by warning with other nations. A nation seldom gets in debt unless it goes to wa-, in which case it has to pay indemnity and then comes the national financial compi- cation.
The age-herald., 1899-01-22
Puzzler
From the Chicago Post.

From the Chicago Post.
 "Yes," he said, 'it puzzles me-"
 ''What?" she asked.
 ..Why, man has been peremptorily or dered to leave Kansas City because he has acquired eight wives"
 q can't make out." he explained. "whether the action is an admission that the man is irresistible or the Kansas City girls so susceptible as to be foolish"
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The record-union., 1899-03-22
S-STREET SEWER.
The City Trustees Will Change the
Sewage Pumping Plant.

A committee of City Trustees-De-
vine, Paine and Kent-accompanied by
Superintendent of Streets Touhey, Wis
lted the city sewage pumping plant at
Front and streets yesterday morning
to investigate the condition of the
plant, as it was known that the late
rains had weakened the masonry
When they got there they We're great
ly surprised to see that there had been
heavy caving of the. sewer and sur
rounding embankments, and to learn
that it had occurred only an hour be-
fore their visit. The sipage nom the
rains in some way disintegrated the
cement, and down went the sewer.
buried under many tons of earth. The
pressure was so great that it snapped
one of the iron pipes leading to the
catchment well, and the sewage flooded
the adjacent lots.
The committee decided to run the
pipes around the debris for a few
weeks, and when the rains are over
it is probable that the plant will be
removed to near the Front-street side
walk. 1t is probable that a plan for
overcoming the quicksand will first be
adopted and this will probably be by
building a concrete 'founda ton on pill
ing
The record-union., 1899-03-22
GAGE AND THE BILLS.
He Signs a Few and Holds Many
Under Advisement

Governor Gage has not yet finished
his examination of the file of bills that
reached him after the adjournment Of
the Legislature, neither has he con-
sented to be interviewed CONCERNING
their status. He went to his office at Z 80
O'Clock yesterday morning and worked
until late hour last night, but he
says he will not finish the work Of ex-
amining the bills for several days.
The Governor yesterday transmitted
the following bills to the Secretary of
State, all bearing his signature:
s. B. 6o4E Authorizing the payment
of $3.50 to Downy Champion.
S. B. 5S4-Allowing the San Fran
cisco Chronicle $3.50 for printing
constitutional amendments
S. B. 530-Adding Section 25S to the
Penal Code, making new provisions re-
garding libel.
S. B. 9-Amending the Act of 1872,
relating to foreign corporations
A. B. 1,O15-Amending Section 3713
of the Political Code, relative to levying
taxes.
The Governor has also signed the
bill introduced by Senator Morehouse
which requires the writers of certain
classes of newspaper articles to sign
their names thereto
The record-union., 1899-03-22
ADJUSTMENTS.

The management of the Clunie an
nounces the opening of a subscription
list at the Opera-house for the Ellis
Grand Opera Company for the 29th
INST. Should the enterprise succeed
De Lussan will appear as Carmen y
supported by Gadski, Chalia and the
entire company, excepting Melba, Who
will not come here and who will not
be heard outside of San Francisco on
account of the great cost. The list,
which opened last evening with large
number of subscribers, will close this
evening at $50. If the citizens of
Sacramento desire Grand Opera it will
be necessary for them to respond
promptly as the engagement must be
determined one way or another this
evening.
The record-union., 1899-03-22
COUNTY LICENSES.
Arrests Made for Noncompliance
With the Law.

In Justice Henry's court yesterday c.
A. Sawtelle and James McCaw & Som
the former a stationer and the latter
firm proprietors of woodyard-were
charged by Deputy County License Col
lector Matlock with doing business
without a license.
The defendants admitted the soft i'm
parchment, paid up what they owed
and promised to proceed henceforth ac-
cording to law.
Tom Scott, the plumber, who was
similarly charged, refused to take out
a. county license and declared his inten-
ton of contesting the legality of the
ordinance.
The record-union., 1899-03-22
Funeral of Engineer Witham.

The remains of the late Fred With
am, the engineer who lost his life in
the train wreck at Clipper Gap on Sat-
urday night weres brought to this city
yesterday on a special train from Rock
lin. Members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers We're at the de-
pot to receive the remains, and the
funeral took place from there
Many other friends of the decea sed
attended and escorted the body to the
City Cemetery, including a number
who came from Rocklin. The floral tes-
timonials were very choice