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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
Blacks Last Novel.

It appears that the late William
Blacks publisher didn't like the mourn
full conclusion of his last story, wild
Eelin," and besOught the author to
change it in the proof. Not a bit of it.
Mr.. Black chung to the mournfulness,
persuaded that it was inevitable. IF
I had forced the conventional happy cli-
max" he said, then perhaps for
twenty-four hours you might have re-
membered something about the young
lass that was living at Glengarva
House; whereas, with the window blinds
down, you may from time to time have
a backward thought toward Eelin of the
eyes like the sea wave" All the same,
we doubt if Eelin gets any backward
thoughts, for, to tell the truth, her
story was somewhat wearisome.-From
the New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.

Paymaster General Stanton will soon
be placed upon the retired list OF the
army, having reached the age limit
Hard as hickory nut and at the same
time gentle as a woman, there is noth-
ing of the tin soldier about this veteran,
whose department is perhaps freer from
red tape than any other IN Wasnlng-
ton. 1t has been said of General Stan
ton that ''hunkies do not flourish
arouno him, and his latchstring-a long
one-always hangs outside"
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of
the telephone, has returned from Japan,
impressed with the belief that lin
landscape gardening there is no ques-
ton that the japanese lead the world
and that their method of rowing is far
superior to anything we have in this
country" Mr.. Bell will urge the estab-
lfshment at Washington of a Japanese
garden as a model, and will also do
what he can to introduce among Amer
lean oarsmen the Japanese way of
rowing.
The election of Mr.. Beveridge as sem
ator from Indiana recalls the fact that
Oliver P. Morton was the only native
born hoosier senator Indiana has ever
had and most of her senators for thirty
years past have been natives of Ohio.
Mcdonald, Voorhees,, Harrison, Turpie,
Fairbanks and BeVeridge were all Ohio
men by birth.
So totally lacking in aggressive fea-
son of Iowa that the more irreverent
members of congress sometimes refer
to him as "Old Man Afraid of His
Shadow" Nevertheless. he yields con-
siderable influence in the nations af-
fairs, being one of the half dozen mem
bers of the upper house who run the
senate machinery.
Ambassador Choate is credited with
saying many pleasant and clever things.
Once at a dinner party he was asked
whom he would like to be If he could
not be himself. He paused a few sec
onds, as if thinking over the list of
worlds celebrities. and then his eyes
rested upon his wife. If" he answer
ed, II could not be myself, should like
to be Mrs. Choate'S second husband"
OF the two young women who accom-
panied the peace commission to Paris
as stenographers and typewriters one
Miss Naughton-acquired thorough
knowledge of Spanish while connected
with the schools in South America, and
the other-Miss Atkinson-is not less
familiar with the French language.
They receive the highest salary paid by
the government to women, the sum Of
81, 500 a year.
Geronimo. the famous old Apache
warrior, has in his time caused south
western settlers and the government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
BILLS RECOMMENDED.
Senate Committee Advises That Ger
tain Bills Be Passed

The senate committee on education.
Titus, chairman, has recommended for
passage the following bills:
Authorizing Marion county to levy a
tax to support the city schools.
To authorize Graham county's school
district No. 20 to refund bonds.
To authorize school districts to levy
a tax to pay high school tuition of
scholars residing therein.
This was introduced as a local bill.
pertaining to school district 33, in
Shawnee county, but the committee
liked the idea SO well that it was made
a general bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
FOUR CANDIDATES.
A Lively Scramble For the Office of
CITY Treasurer. .

There is a promise of a lively fight for the
office of city treasurer c. s. Elliott has
announced that he will not be candidate
for denomination and there are at least
four candidates in the field who want to
succeed him.
George Neal, a retired farmer, who is
treasurer of the Topeka wooden mill and
one of the promoters of that enterprise, is
the latest candidate He is considered
wealthy and the $50 a month which is the
salary that goes with the office is not an
to him. L. G. Beal, who was
defeated by Mr.. Elliott two years ago, is
again in the field. Dolph Whitmer. ex,
HaWes are the other candidates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

Mr. Burkholder's school tax bill seems
to be another step in the direction of
making the state take care of it's own
Senator Anderson's bill to prevent the
unloading of waits on Kansas is one to
make other states take care Of their
own
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

knew a barber in this city by the name
of w. a. Stickler. Will Stickler was
working on a man at the time and inn
mediately put down his razor, walked
across the room and shook hands with
his father. The two had not seen each
other before for "a years and the meet
ing last Friday was indeed a happy one.
Mr.. Stickler the elder, lives in Spring
field, ILL.,, and happened to be here on
business so he hunted up his sonar
kansas City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
TRAVEL TO EUROPE.
Steamship Lines Will Be Heavily
Taxed this Spring and Summer

@0AOo Wits SO1111E5 anu Ou114L1IoI.
Tourist travel to Europe in 1899 will be
very heavy, and passengers are already
sending in applications for berths to be
reserved for them on certain dates in June
and July, and of course, the Paris ex-
position of 1900 comes nearer, not only
quite number of people want to do Eu-
rope in advance, SO as to have all their
time for Paris in 1900. but others want to
see Paris and continental Europe next
year, SO they will not feel obliged to visit
Paris during the exposition unless they
choose to do so; people of this mind in
tending to visit the British islands in 1900.
With the prosperity that this country
has had during the last year the foreign
travel during the next spring and sum
mer months will, without doubt, tax the
capacity of the steamers belonging to the
popular ocean lines to the utmost.-Chi-
cago Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
To Celebrate a Bridge Completion.

Lecompton, Jan. 25.-The citizens of
1ecompton met in the office of the
Vermont hotel, for the purpose of dis
cussing the various interests of the city,
and the celebration of the completion
of the bridge. After a general discus
sion of different interests and the cele-
bratiOn committee of five was elected.
This committee to meet with the COM
mittee from Perry and arrange for the
celebration which will take place in
the near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
A PerenniaI Bill

Senator Sheldon introduced in the SEN
ate a bill reducing the legal rate of in
terest in Kansas from 10 to per cent.
The bill specifies that if more than 8
per cent be charged the principal shall
be forfeited,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

more trouble than any other individual
Indian He is now detained on a reser-
walton near Wichita, Kan, and is slow
ly losing his mind. Since his capture
some ten years ago he has become won
derfully tractable, considering his form
er bloodthirSty behavior, but is never
freed from the eye of a guard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
To Improve Great Bend PostoAace.

Great Bend, Jan. 25.-The Great Bend
postoffice will have added to the boxes
a section of 72 key boxes on the east
side. The first section of ~ boxes next
south of the combination lock boxes
will be taken out and the key boxes
substituted. The lobby is SO dark peo-
pie can not see to unlock the combina-
ton boxes conveniently and for that
reason old-fashioned key boxes will be
used.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
WHEAT JUMPS UP.
May Closed 2 ga Gents Higher Than
Yesterday.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-Wheat today made a
most decided advance. 1t was generally
understood among the traders that the
bulk of the buying came from Wall street
and this was taken as an indication
that there a determination in that
quarter to support the market, May wheat
was hoisted TO 75c, where it closed That
was 2A cents higher than yesterdays
closing price and STILL as the bell sound
ed the end of the session, there were
many buying orders left unexecuted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
secretary Vanderlip Ill.

Chicago, Jan. 25.-Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury Frank A. Vanderlip is
seriously Ill at his home in this city.
Secretary Cages assistant has been in
Chicago several weeks, having come
direct from Washington. Before that
time he was suffering from typhoid
fever in Florida and it is the after eff
fects of this illness which confine him to
his bed now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
Gift For Hutchingon Library.

Hutchinson, JAN 25-J. S. May has
presented the Woman's club library
with a collection of the volumes thus far
printed of the official records of the re-
bellion. When complete the work will
consist of 40 volumes, including the
index. Thus far between fifty and six
ty volumes have been printed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
Death of an Early Settler.

Jewell City, Jan. 25.-Mrs. VIM.
Seamens died this morning at 1920
o'clock from a stroke of paralysis re-
ceived Friday afternoon. She was SO
years of age and one of the oldest pio-
neers of Jewell county. Her husband
is still living but is in such a feeble
state of health that his demise is ex-
Dected at any time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LF'rom the Atchison GlobeJ
When a man has plenty of time to
argue on the streets, it is sign that
he has little else to do.
There is more nonsense under the
head of literature" than any other
head we know anything about.
Don't button hole a busy man, and a
lazy man can do nothing for you that
will pay you for stopping him.
The trouble is that while an old
mans heart may be young, his stom-
ach, which is more important, is old.
When a young man and a young wo-
man have been engaged a long time,
they talk as rough to each other as
married people.
It frequently happens when q girl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
Death of DR.. Perdue.

Be1oit, Jan. 25.-Dr. c. A. Perdue died
at his home in this city yesterday,
death resulting from pneumonia. He
was 76 years old at the time of his death
and had been sick only about a week.
Iowa in 1873. He belongs to the Ma
sonic lodge of Eddyville, Iowa. He is
the father of Chan Perdue, present post
master of Beloit, and well-known citi-
zen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

If the o1eomargarine men initiate but
ter so nearly that the consumer cannot
tell the difference, laws against it would
seem to be uncalled for. 1t is not claim
ed that the packing house product is
deIeterious to health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

Young Ulysses Grant told the Califor-
mia investigating committee that his
contributions to campaign fund of var
ious legislative candidates was purely
in the interest of the party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

association people extended their 31k cents
export corn rate to include Iowa as well
as Nebraska The rate formerly applied
only to corn originating west of the Mis-
souri, river Under the new arrangement
it includes all corn west of the Mississippi
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
LOCAL MENTION.

Robert Alstrand, a 10-year-o1d eolored
boy, was run over yesterday afternoon
by a Rock Island switch engine in
North Topeka. DR.. H. B. Hogeboom
was called and it was found that the
toes of the right foot were SO badly
crushed that amputatNon was necessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

Chicago Tribune: 1t is time for the
calamity I1owlers to call attention to
the fact that the weather is still cold
and the Kansas farmers haven't as
many mortgages to burn as they once
had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

imagines she is wearing a sad and in
teresting expression, some one will ask
her what she is looking so cross about.
There is only one scholar in Atchi-
son whose knowledge of grammar is so
exact and extensive that she will bet
on it. Most people are undecided about
questions of grammar.
f.
There are a great many girls who
claim their hair is naturally curly, but
no married woman makes the claim.
Marriage has many effects on a woman,
and the funniest is its effect on her
hair.
The power for good a we'll balanced.
clever man yields is so great that we
wonder that more men do not resolve
instead of narrow, cranky, troublesome
and useless.
An Atchison man recently attended
lecture which he found tiresome, and
got up and left before it was over On
the church steps, he found a woman
sitting, and, thinking it was an ac-
quaintance. said: Wasn't the lecture
tiresome?' The woman looked up, and
the man saw it was the lecturers wife!
However. he feels that she can't take
offense, for didn't she also get up and
go out before the lecture was con-
Guided?
Holly, a town in Indiana, has built
itself up by working on very common
human weakness. Every man believes
that he is not appreciated by his fellow
citizens, and that he is not treated fair
ly in the town in which he lives The
of Holly appointed a committee
to visit manufacturers in other towns,
and represent to them that at Holly.
clever citizens were appreciated, and
their grievances attended to. As a re-
suit, Holly has stolen twenty manu-
factories in two years. The manufac-
turers who moved to Holly are not
treated any better than they were in
the towns they came from, but they
made one change, and will not make
another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

It seems hardly fair that Mr.. W. D.
Bynum and General Buckner should be
left out of the proposition to pension
John NJ. Palmer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

AS an argument against municipal
ownership of telephones. the Ohio State
Journal urges that politicians would be
liable to having their conversations
overheard by the other fellow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

If all the bills for regulating the prac-
tice of medicine should be enacted, doc
tors would be forced to include law in
their sum total of equipments for their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

1t looks as though Kansas might get
along without an adjutant general un-
til there is something for him to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

The recent rise in the price of gaso-
line is now explained. John D. Rookie
Teller has just given 900 to a college
at Anderson, Indiana.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

TELEPHONES.
Business Office. Bell 'Pnone ~
Reporters Room 'Phone Oh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

Are the people who sign anti-o1eomar-
garine petitions those who object to eat
ing it? If so, an easier way would be to
refuse it absolutely.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

The KIondize boomers are trying hard
to get their old place in the center of
the stage. The estimate of the winters
clean up is increased a few millions
with each report
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

If a house be built for the governor
who is to pay for the new paper and
window shades that the wife Of each
succeeding occupant will want?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
Knew His Father After % Years.

Last Friday afternoon, a man walked
into La Flowers barber shop and after
seating asked L. Z. Campbell if he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
Sale of Astor Property.

Another sale of New York property
went to live in England has been made.
The latest sale is the lot on Broadway
which adjoins the land on which Char
les Broadway Rouss' store is located.
Mr.. Rouss is the purchaser of the Astor
property. 1t is not long since two large
blocks of tenement houses on the East
side were sold by Mr.. Astor. The two
sales have led real estate dealers to
think that all of his New York property
will be on the market. In other days no
one ever found it worth while to make
offer on any of the Astor property
because the rich landowner did not care
to sell. 1t is now assured that he is
ready to sell at reasonable prices. AS
a result there is unusual activity in real
estate circles. The w. w. Astor estate
comprises many of the richest holdings
in New York, including residence and
business property.-N. Y. Cor. Pitts
burg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

A remedy for Nasal Catarrh which is
drying and exciting to the diseased
membrane should not be used. What is
needed is that which is cleansing, sooth-
ing. protecting and healing. Such a rem
edy is Ely's Cream Balm. To test it a
trial size for 10 cents or the largo for 90
cents is mailed by Ely Brothers sc
Warren Street, New York. Druggists
keep it. The Balm when placed into the
nostrils spreads over the membrane
and is absorbed. A cold in the head
vanishes quickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

1t isn't likely that Solomon succeeded
in convincing all his wives that word
to the wise was sufficient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

Geronimo, the famous old Apache
warrior, has in his time caused south
western settlers and the government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

It's much easier for appearances to
keep a man down than it is for a man
to keep appearances up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

Some girls seem to grow more beauti-
full as they grow older. Practice often
makes perfect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

An old bachelor says that it was
Adams wedding Eve that caused it all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

AS a rule cleanliness is next to godli-
ness, but in St. Louis it's next to i'm
possible.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

The man who keeps his mouth shu
seldom acquires a reputation as a liaI
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

The Michigan man who recently mar
ried at the age of ITO is a living ex-
ample of the fact that one never gets
too old to learn.
It has been said that all the mean
acts of his life are quickly brought be-
fore a drowning man. The same might
be said of a candidate for office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

EFrom the Chicago News.1
An oculist's bill is apt to affect the
yesight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

The average man is apt to blame his
lack of wealth to his Hberality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-25

The office seldom seeks the man, but
the officer very often does.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-04
FOR SALE.

OLD BUILDINGS AND BUILDING
materials, such as Corrugated Iron
Roofing, Lumber, States, Iron Shutters
and Frames, Window Frames and
Sash, Etc Enquire of E. 0. Hall &
Son, corner of Fort and King streets.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-04
THE HOME BAKERY CAFE
HONOLULU, II. I.
Civil Service Rules
IN OUR RESTAURANT.

1t has to. Our walters are trained TO
be civil, quick and attentive TO our
guests. Our chef is unrivaled In prep
aration of dainty and appetizing dishes.
Everything is scrupulously clean, ev-
erything as comfortable as we can
make it. And the prices are always in
reason.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-03
BOX FULL Of TROPHIES
Received by Sam French From
the Philippines.
RELICS OF THE CAMPAIGN
Buttons From the Coats of Spanish
Officers and Soldiers - Medals for
Gallant Conduct-Pocket Knives
From Mauser Bullets.

Great Falls, Jan. 2.--Sam French, the
chief of the fire department in this city.
has received a box full of trophies of
the Philippine islands from his brother
Charles, who is lieutenant of Company
A, 1st Montana. The box which con-
tains the relics is in itself a curiosity,
as it is a piece of Chinese laequering,
but of course the chief interest at
taches to the relics of the campaign.
OF these there are eight brass buttons
cut from the coats of Spanish soldiers
who fell in the various fights, some on
board the war vessels and others on
land. Then there are two insignia
takent from the hats of Spanish naval
officers but perhaps the most valuable
is medal given as a recognition of gal
liant conduct on the part of some Span
ish soldier in the two campaigns led by
his country against the most influential
island of the group, and an island
which is said never to have been any,
thing like conquered by the Spanish
Mindanao. The medal hangs from an
ensign of gold threaded with green and
gold ribbon. On the face of the medal
lion are the heads of Alphonso and of
the queen regent and the words Cam
panos de Mindanao." On the reverse is
wreath Of laurel leaves and 1880
1891 1S94-1S95"
The honors for uniqueness belong to
two pocket knives. manufactured by
Spanish prisoners out of Mauser bull
let's. The powder has been extracted
from the shell and then the slender
nickel-armored bullet has been used as
set for slender knife blades, the whole
pulling out of the brass shell and re-
versing when one wishes to carry it in
the pocket. 1t is a very neat and in
genious piece of workmanship.
Then the collection contains pair of
large wild boar's tusks and a number of
Spanish, Hawaiian, Chinese and Fill
Pine coins.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-03
Hard-Drawn Copper Wire.

From the New York Sun.
The fact is well deserving of note
here that at one of its recent meet
ings the Franklin institute of Philadel-
phia awarded the Longstreth medal to
Thomas B. Doolittle, well and widely
known in telephone circles for his
hard-drawn copper wire. most i'm
portant contribution. it is hardly nee
essary to say, to all electrical indus
tries. This wire, while retaining those
properties of conductivity inherent in
copper, has the additional quality of
great tensile strength, and it is the
opinion of those qualified to Judge
that, without this discovery, long dis
tance telephony and the electrical
transmission of energy over long dis
tances would be impossible-in word
the value Of this process and it's ex-
tensive application is sufficiently evil
dent from the fact that the annual
consumption of hard-drawn copper
wire in the United States alone alone
exceeds SO,000.000 pounds. With the
caution demanded by the subject. the
Franklin institute waited until it had
made an exhaustive examination of
the case. and until the value of the
discovery had been amply proved.