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 stances and combinations that he had not dreamed of on Devils Island, but he has two good lawyers Labori and Demahge. and his faithful wife is close at hand. and is with him as much as she is allowed to be. He has. too, the sympathy of the bet ter part of the world and the French gov- ernment itself. The man who left France disgraced and hopeless has at any rate conquered place in history, and he will probably secure an opportunity for an hon. orable career hereafter, for justice is not by any means dead in the new France and in part of the army. There is awidespread belief that the seven members of the court martial will see that justice is done. In no other way can they bring peace to them- selves and to their country. With Colonel Jououst at the head of the court and Gen eral de Gallifet in the war office, there is every reason to believe that the accused off, ficer will have the benefit of impartial jus tice
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2aeJ0,ea
RUSSELL SAGE

New York Letter in the Chicago Tribune.
 Russell Sage, the king of puts and "cals" and straddles, will be S3 years old tomorrow. During the thrty-nine years since MT. Sage joined hands with Jay Gould In the effort to tie up Wall street he has never permitted birthdays 10 dis turb the even tenor of his way.
 Mrs. Sage has been trying, it is saId to induce the great financier to take a day off and have family celebration at Law renee L. l., tomorrow. Mir Sage partly promised that he would remain idle for a day, but it is believed he will be at his of- flee as usual at 10 o'clock tomorrow with his eye on the ticker, looking over the first action in stocks on the Exchange.
 To friend who asked MT. Sage tho se. cret of his health amid the wear and tear of cares which in Wall street have killed many apparently more robust at d com. paratively early age. he replied:
 Tt is all simple, indeed. have always kept good hours and taken as much s.ce, as my system needed. I have ncver usea tobacco in any form, and the argument that others have been able to uso IL with out injury has never appealed to me.
 ''I have been temperate in the use of s;im. ulants. and, in fact, I have tried to be temperate in all things"
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Trial Day Close at Hand,

Tomorrow is the day set for the begin but as the examination of the secret dossier will be conducted secretly by the court and the lawyers, the open sessions Of the court may be postponed week. The secret dossier is known to be mass of forgeries and its examination will on that account be lengthy.
 The Rennes judges are between the gov- ernment and the army. and whichever way they decide they may make unbending and influential enemies. The army is quite largely banded against the prisoner, led by General Mercier, and all officers not con- nected with the garrison at Rennes have been ordered to leave that city today.
 If Frenchmen were like any other people in the world, the trial at Rennes would be the disclosure of the truth of the case; but nothing Is done in state trials by the French in that way. They are dramat tic, and the more important and wldely-known they are the more dramatic and unreal they become. That is the trouble now at Remes Other officers than Captain Drey. fus are on trial, even the republic itself Mobs will be surglng this week in the towns, and even the peasentry will be exr cited, and when q French peasent becomes excited then indeed there arc rocks ahead
 Drcyfua hiinscl: eo,ncs back to circum
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rival jobbing cites. The old traffic policy of fostering iron, and iron only, must give place to a new, broad, upto-date policy, which will give all interests-all classes a show. The tariff sheets in relation to Bir- mingham, so far as general merchandise rates are concerned. must be revised to meet these new conditions. With iron and steel the mainstays and with a eonsldera- ble jobbing business besides Birmingham will. in a few years outstrip every city south of Cincinnati.
 State Superintendent of Education John W. Abercrombie. was in the city yester- day.
 William A Driver, of Opelika. one of the best commercial travellers in the world, is in Birmingham en route to Chicago.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
Willie Astor's Ready-Made Pedigree

William Waldorf Astor has been burnt in effigy in the heart of fashionable New York, apparently with the approval of the police authorities and the community in general. It was done in the presence of a throng of people, at an early hour in the evening. all present looking on and ap- proving the ceremony. He has thus achieved the deepest condemnation and contempt that American public sentiment is capable or.
 Willie is not playing in good luck. He has become, it is true. Brlton, thus shak- ing off American citizenship, which had scendant of John Jacob Astor, pelletier. but his pedigree scheme has miscan-ied in the most frightful manner before the eyes of the whole world. It is a pedigree won derful to behold in the columns of the Pail Mall Magazine, over Willie's own sigma ture. It is so wonderfully constructed that it shows the grandfather of the village butcher of a little German town, and the subsequent pelletier of the wild and woody west, to have been married fifteen years after his son Was born. Bad as this is in these Victorian days, there Is verse still to come.
 Mir Astor, Briton, had selected one Pedro dAstorga, who was both Frenchman and a Spaniard as the true and only source 4t,. eleventh century. This is all right He no doubt did, or al least might have done so But MT. Lathrop Wellington, the most learned and jackassical genealogist in Eu- rope, takes up the Astor pedigree, and shows beyond question, at least by pie bians, that "the link was a peasant and tiler and that he married the daughter of toll gat'herer. The records of the little German town show that the alleged link did not flee from France to Germany; that he knew no more about the d 'Astorgas of France and Spain than he knew about Paradise, and that the whole Nine of de- scent simply goes back to ordinary Ger man farmers about the year TOO, and ends there. The French evidence is equally strong. No member of the d'Astorg fam lily left France because of Professionalism, for none of them were Protestants, and the very Jean Jacques dAstorg that w. W Astor, Briton, claims as an ancestor, re- nlained in France and died there, after holding military governorship under Louis XIV. As things now stand, the noble Astor family is headed by peasant and tier who died in Ill at Nussloch in Ger many This abrupt but not dishonorable start may not suit Wilies British plans among the British aristocracy, but it is all his particular tree admits of. He must ac- cept the peasant and tiler. or else permit his line to drift back simply to indefinite ness Nille's mistake consists in not re- lying on the achievements of the close listed John Jacob Astor pellelier. If he had stood by the peIletier, as long as he has achieved nothing of merit himself ne would not have become entangled beyond hope of rescue in the meshes of German peasantry.
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ANOTHER COUNTY RESPONDS
From the Winfield Enterprise.


 A strong effort is being made by the board of trade. the leading citizens of Bir- mingham and the most influential farmers all over the state to revive the state fair question and effect arrangements by which fair can be held some time this fall. This move should receive the hearty approval of all our citizens. and the state press especi- ally ought to fall into line in helping to promote this grand enterprise. A state fair is the best method of bringing our natural resources, manufacturing enter prises. etc., before the notice of the gen. eral public. Our county cannot be surpass- cd in natural resources, and let us see Marion county come to the front with an exhibit and show to the outside world that we possess more than big rocks and razor haclS' AogN
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REFLECTIONS OF 4 BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Judas was probably good female im- personator
 Adam and Eve probably began by pla- tonic friendship.
 Love twists it's own crown of thorns and is condemned to bear us own cross.
 Marriage is a business that never fails to pay when Love is the silent partner.
 Ehe thing that frightens a man most when he cries is that he docsa't .snow what lc ms:' Go next.
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Congressman Bailey still has time to as- sert that a treaty offensive and defensive exists between the United States and Eng land. It is believed Chauncey Depew for the United States and Willie Waldorf As- tor for Great Britain did it.
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From the Alexander City Outlook
 The Birmingham Age-Herald says: steps should be taken toward securing sixty-six distinct county exhibits at the ap- preaching state fair" Correct; and Talla- poosa county should take steps to have as good exhibit as any of them.
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LAW IS LETTER THAN MOB RULE

From the Butler Herald.
 Since January 1st, last there have been seventy-two lynehings in the South. We are glad to state that only two occurred in Alabama. If those two could have been averted until the victims had been tried by law, how mch better it would have been. ,
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:roo EARLY TO sELECr CANDIDATE

From the Warrior Breeze.
 Candidates for governor of Alabama are more numerous now than they will be when the campaign is really on in earnest Lets just be quiet awhile and then select a real good, honest, conservative man and make him a sure enough governor of whom we can all be proud.
The age-herald., 1899-08-06

While the other aspirants are holding confabs at the Morris, Jess Stallings is progressing from county to county kissing babies and attending singings He prac- tices true statesmanship.
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Admiral George Dewey is about to see Naples but he should not endeavor to carry out the rest of the programme pend- ing a reception at home. It would not be fair towards the receptionists.
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The anti-rent agitation is evidence of this city's want of more buildings. One thousand more stores and dwellings should be erected this year.
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The libel suit against Mrs. Eddy Is misfit. She will simply convince herself that there is no such thing as libel, and the courts will do the rest.
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If 1t is as wet in the Philippines as the esteemed organs say it it is the fleet of tin warships should be dispatched inland, or rather, overland
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The Shamrock will soon be in American waters, hunting for cup that has become moss-grown in the land of the free and the swift.
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Governor Pingrees attempt to adjust a crown of martyrdom to MT. Alger's bulging brow is not taken seriously by the general public,
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It turns out that the kissing bug is not the pecipes melanolesthes, but is the comorlinus sangusugus
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Sir Julian Pauncefote, ambassador, is to go into the peerage as soon as a title can be invented for him.
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The Alabama goat becomes choice nut ton in Yankee meat stalls, despite his we'll known strength when tested by the palate.
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GROUNDS FOR SUSPICION

From the Chicago Tribune,
 As to Mr. William Waldorf Astcr tie good Queen Victoria may coms to .hc con. clusion some day that her Amarica an oaa,sinA haEA aannaA kaA hkN as. hAA
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THE GOLD COUNTY HEARD FROM

Mississippi refuses to promote Private John Allen.
The age-herald., 1899-08-06

Alabama has no time in these days of sixteen-dollar iron to give to the antics of the politicians.
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The combines grow as the days and the clouds roll by.
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MT. Alger still claims that he has politi- cal prospects
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Etiquette at a lynching bee-never recog- nze a neighbor.
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When business is booming, politics is a bore to the people.
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Mexico is moving in earnest against the Yaqui insurgents
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An iron famine actually exists, not in the future but in early deliveries-in spot iron.
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Aguinado is not doing any running in the prevailing sloppy weather, nor swimming either.
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The administration feels that Senator Burrows needs censor
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The Ei Reconcentradoes, of Cleveland, may be suppressed while it is under martial law. tIA.'
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As true Briton, MT. Willie Waldorf Astor is trying to marry an American.
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Grandma Otis seems inclined to do something between showers.
The age-herald., 1899-08-06

Retail merchants must come to the
 Magic City, no matter what the transpor- tation lines might charge them in the way of freight rates. As for a jobbing trade, it was something unthought of, or thought of only as something far in the future. The minds of railroad officials were taken up entirely with the idea of fostering this heavy traffic-coal and iron. And that was natural and proper. Iron and its more valuable offspring. steel must always be the paramount factors of Birmingham. That goes without saying. But today the transportation companies have to reckon not only with the furnace and steel mill people, but with an energetic class, known as the wholesale or jobbing trade. Whilst this mercantile interest is. and in a certain sense must always be, secondary to the iron and steel industry, yet the merchants are coming to the front. They are going to be much in evidence from now on. Bir- mingham jobbers aspire to competition with Richmond Atlanta, Cincinnati, Louis- vile, Nashville, Chattanooga and Mont gomery. And why shouldn't they? Ger tainly Birmingham jobbers should have A fair share of the trade of Alabama and Mississippi. to say nothing of Georgia. They will have it just so soon as the rail- roads make reasonable concessions which Win ILt Ricpsinzham on a footing with,
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thousand more stores and dwellings should be erected this year.
  If it is as wet in the Philippines as the esteemed organs say it it is, the fleet of tin warships should be dispatched inland, or rather, overland.
 The Shamrock will soon be in American waters, hunting for cup that has become moss-grown in the land of the free and the swift
 The Alabama goat becomes choice nut ton in Yankee meat stalls, despite his we'll known strength when tested by the palate.
 Governor Pingrees attempt to adjust a crown of martyrdom to MT. Alger's bulging brow is not taken seriously by the general public.
 It turns out that the kissing bug is not the pecipes meanolesthes, but is the comorlinus sanguisugus.
  go into the peerage as soon as title can be invented for him.
 st Alabama has no time in these days of sixteen-dollar iron to give to the antics of the politicians.
 An iron famine actually exists, not in the future, but in early deliveries-in spot iron.
 Aguinado is not doing any running in the prevailing sloppy weather, nor swimming either.
 The Fl Reconcentradoes, of Cleveland may be suppressed while it is under martial law. tx'H;' As true Briton, MT. Willie Waldorf Astor is trying to marry an American. Grandma Otis seems inclined to do something between showers. The administration feels that Senator Burrows needs a censor.
 
 When business is booming, politics is bore to the people. Mexico is moving in earnest against the Yaqui insurgents
 Etiquette at a lynching bee-never recog- nze a neighbor.
 Mir. Alger still claims that he has politi- cal prospects
 The combines grow as the days and the clouds roll by.
 Mississippi refuses to promote Private
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-06
RAILRoAp LoCALs

Dan Lane, who has been in the hos
pital for the past two weeks with
crushed hand, the result of an accident
while coupling cars, was out walking
last night for the first time since his
injury. His hand is getting along nice
", but will be badly SCARED and minus
the middle finger.
Fireman Frank Crawford has been
assigned to his old run on No. between
Topeka and Newton.
Switch engine No. 229S. is about the
only engine in Topeka carrying a "dia-
mort1' smoke stack. This kind of
stao6 was formerly used altogether, but
of late the straight stack has been put
on as it is thought to be much better.
Engineer Chas. Bates has been restor-
and Chanute.
Engine No. 81, of the plug run, is in
the shops for a new set of f1ues.
Engine No. SOB, in the shop for slight
repairs, will be tried today and put into
service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-06
BANQUET COMMITTEE.
Grocers and Butchers to Have a Meet
ing This Evening.

The regular meeting of the Grocers'
and Butchers association will be held
this evening at the Commercial club
rooms The meeting will be called to
order at eight o'clock
AT the meeting this evening, there
will be much important business trans
acted and it is very necessary that
there should be a full attendance. The
committee on arrangements which was
appointed at the meeting last Monday
night will make it's report, and follow
ing this report, the different committees
having in charge the different features
of the banquet will be appointed.
The time is short now until the TWen-
tieth Kansas regiment will be in To
peka, and if the GTocers and Butchers
of the city, in whose charge is this ban
quet, expect to make it a success, they
must show their patriotism and turn
out to these meetings and do their
share towards making this banquet a
the Twentieth Kansas the biggest and
best of its kind ever given. The grOcers
and butchers are not asked to put up
the money for this banquet. as the
finance committee of the general re-
ception committee has that in charge
and already they have assured the
grocers and butchers that they can
have a sufficient sum to defray the ex-
penSeS of the banquet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-06

keys of a steam caIliope. He pronounces
a name at least six times, and each
time he uses a different pronunciation,
if the name is composed OF three or
more svllabIes. Crawford runs on the
Chicago & New Orleans nmited.-Chi-
cago Record.
There is a man in Topeka who might
enter into competition with Crawford
and feel safe in regard to the result
He is Henry Washington, the cOlored
depot master of the Rock Island, who
makes his presence known for several
blocks around the depot when he calls
a train. If the Illinois Central man
can outcall Washington he must be
'fearfully ana wonderfully made"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-06
PROM EMPoRIA.
Items of Interest Among the Santa Fe
Employees There.


VIM Hall is in the hospital at Topeka
with typhoid fever
Brakeman Q. d. Shaffer has returned
from a trip to Nebraska and has re-
ported for duty.
Edward Jones is working the day
trick in the stone depot, taking the
place of Operator Forsythe. who is on
duty at night.
Fireman John Shields has returned
from Arkansas City, where he went to
take an examination on the time card.
He passed in all the degrees.
Ed. Shepherd, who was scalded sew
eral weeks ago while pulling a fire, is
recovering slowly. He carries his right
hand in a sling and will not be able
to work for several days yet.
A message has been received an
nOuncing that Dan Jones, the engineer
on the Mexican Central, was not killed
in the recent wreck at Cardenas. but is
alive and we'll His relatives here are
much pleased with the news.
Bert Dunlap. who has been clerking
in the yard Office for several weeks
past, has resigned his place here and
has gone to Cottonwood Fails. Robert
Fithian is filling the vacancy tempOrar-
lily.
Frank BIoomhuf has returned to call
ing train crews. He has been Off fif-
teen days on an account of fever. Fen
ner Williams has been filling the va
cancy.
Fred Horn, inspector of electric sig
nails from Kansas City to Newton, has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-06
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Santa Fe's Valuable
Freight Car Models
To Be Sent to the Shops Here
For MOdernizing.
USED AS WITNESSES.
Have Saved Company Thou
sands Of Dollars.
Railroad News OF a General and
Local Nature.
USED AS WITNESSES.

There will soon be sent to the Santa
Fe shops in this city for repairs three
models of Santa Fe freight cars that
have played an important part in the
litigation of the company during LHe
past dozen OF more years. The mooels
are now in the Office of Mr.. A A Huru'
general attorney for Kansas, when mas
been their home since their Dulldlhs
and where they have remained Wheh
not travelling about the country as VII
nesses in damage suits against the
company
Two of the models are Of box cars
and one of a fiat car loaded with briggs
timbers- The repairs they viii receive
at the shops will consist OF equipments
of automatic couplers and air brake ap-
planes. When the miniature cars were
built automatic cOuplers and air brakes
were unknown in railrOading, and they
We're made exact models Of the roll1ng
stock in use at that time
The three models have not only
Travelled from Topeka to practically
every county seat along the line of the
Santa F'e in Kansas, but to different
points all the way from Chicago to
Albuquerque and FL PasO, Tex They
have been used by the Santa F'e attOr-
neys in illustrating the natures of acct
dents. and have saved the Santa F'e
company thousands of dollars in dam
ages claimed.
The models are perfect in every de-
tail, and when equipped with air brake
appliances and automatic COuplerS, will
be exact representation of the modern
freight cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-06
Ordinance No. 2Oss.

AN ORDINANCE amending the first sec
ton of ordinance No. 2,O4S providing for
the opening and extension OF Fillmore
street, approved July IS, 1893, and repeal
ing said original section one.
Be it Ordained by the Mayor and coun-
cilmen Of the City OF Topeka;
Section / That section one of ordinance
No. 2,94S providing for the opening and
extension of Fillmore street, approved
July IS, 1899, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
Section l. That it is hereby declared
to be necessary to appropriate for the use
of the city of Topeka, for the purpose OF
opening and extending Fillmore street
estate situated in the city of Topeka
Kansas tO-wit:
l. Beginning at a point on the east line
of Fillmore street SOS feet south Of the
south line of Thirteenth street; thence
south 100 feet; thence west so feet; thence
north 100 feet; thence east so feet to the
point of beginning, known the Luf
2 Beginning at the southwest corner OF
lot No. 54S Fillmore street in Storrs'
addition to the city of Topeka; thence
south about 105 feet to the northwest cor
ner of lot No. 55S Fillmore street In
Eckerts addition to the city Of Topeka;
thence west 20 feet to the northeast cor
ner of lot No. 557 on Fillmore street IN
said Eckerts addition; thence north about
los feet to point five feet east of the
southeast corner of lot No. 547 on Fill
more street in said StOrrs' addition
tract
ordinance No. 2,04S of the city of Topeka
be and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec: :. This ordinance shall take erect
and be in force from and after its pub
ncation in the official city paper.
Passed the Council October 2 1899.
Approved October 4, 1899
c. J. DREW. Mayor.
Attest: J. H. SQUIREs.
LSeaLl City Clerk