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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
HER HONESTY REWARDED.
A Surety Company Makes Gift to
an Absconder's Wife.

New York. Jan. 9.-Mrs. Ray Frank
Beaudry had 1921 when her husband
fed. When she learned that he was a
defaulter and that others would have
to make good his stealings, she did
something which gave the officers Of the
American Surety company a more ex-
allied opinion of human nature.
From the sale of Long Island rail-
road tickets at the foot of East Thirty
fourth street, Beaudry managed, by
classifying his accounts, to pocket So, 200
OF the company's money. As auditing
time approached he made ready to de-
camp. One day he handed his wife a
pOcketbook containing 5000.
Il found it in the station a week
age" he said. There was no way OF
finding who lost 1T, though made many
inquiries. 1t will probably never be
claimed now, SO you'd better take the
money"
Mrs. Beaudry had many scrupples,
but her husband overcame them by tell
ing her that it was quite common
thing for wealthy persons to lose their
pocketbooks and never take the trouble
to inquire for them. Many bills were
unpaid, and the three children and
herself were in need of clothing, and
there were Christmas presents to be
bought-fine presents, she was detern-
ined they should be. in view of this sud-
den good fortune. In this way $40 went
quite easily.
Then came the awakening. Beaudry
mad gone. His wife had no money save
the $l2l that remained after her shop
ping. And she remembered that the
American Surety company had given a
bond for her husbands honesty. She
was beset with trouble, not the least
of which came with the humiliating
discovery that her husband had gone
away with a woman. But nothing OPP
pressed her so much as the thought
of those who had given cash guaran-
tee of his good faith being made to
suffer.
Not a penny Of the money would she
spend. The Rev. G. H. McCandless a
friend of her girlhood, called to con-
sole her in her trouble, and she begged
him to take the 1921 to No. 100 Broad
way and give it to the American Surety
company. The clergyman did so, and
he took the opportunity to dilate to the
vice president of the company on Mrs.
Beaudry's sorrows and her necessities
as throwing her inVincible honesty into
high relief.
Never before had the vice president
encountered such a case. 1t became
the talk of the office, and at the first
meeting of the board of directors a
| resolution was passed directing the sec
rotary to send Mrs. Beaudry the COM
pany check for $121, with a nice little
letter asking her to accept it as a
Christmas gift. The money so grace
fully rendered enabled the deserted wo-
man to remove with her little brood to
Nashua, N. H, where she has rela-
tiVes.
In the meantime Beaudry was track
ed to South McAllister, Okla, and a.
rested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
WHY NEGLECT THE HEN.
An Appropriation Wanted for En-
couraging Chicken Shows

The members of the Kansas State
Poultry association wish the legislature
to pass a bill appropriating money for
the advancement of the poultry indus
try in Kansas.
Secretary j. w. F. Hughes, of the as
ISOLATION, said: 1--WE wish an, appro-
priation from the state for the further
ing of the poultry industry in Kansas
Two years ago Representative Gray of
Lyon county asked for an appropria-
ton of $1,000 for this purpose but the
committee on appropriations turned it
down We will ask again at the COM
ing session for the appropriation. An
appropriation to hold exhibitions of fine
poultry and to encourage the industry
in other ways. The breeding of blooded
cows, swine and stock of all kinds re-
ceiVeS encoura cement and why should
the helpful hen,' as Secretary Coburn
says, be sighted? Secretary Coburn'S
report for 1897 shows that the sales of
poultry and eggs in Kansas amounted
to 81, 145,733- That is an increase of four
fold since 1885 but does not include
fancy poultry.
1.-The State Horticultural society has
appropriations for encouraging that in
dustry and the aggregate value of the
sales of horticultural products amount
ed to but 81, 429, 900 for 1897. Nebraska
appropriates 81, 900 a year for the ad-
vancement of the poultry industry in
the state. That is what Kansas needs
I'VE would have a board of directors
appointed or elected by the association
who would serve without pay We
shall make a strong plea for the passage
of this bill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
ALGER DOWNS Dewey.
Prevents His Appointment as
Governor General of
Philippines.

Chicago, Jan. "a Daily News spec
ia1 from Washington says: Secretary
Alger has made such strenuous opposi-
ton to the suggestion that Admiral
Dewey be made governor general of the
Philippines and insisted on the right
of the army over the navy in all mat
ters of military rule that he has prob
ably won his point.
The president put the matter forward
merely as a suggestion, it is said. with
out consulting with the admiral and
the probability that Dewey would de-
cline to act except possibly temporarily
was preached at the same time in the
cabinet. Dewey's expressed request to
the navy department to return to the
United States in the next few months
was made known, as well as was the
fact that his request had been condi-
tionally granted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
Hours of Maximum Deaths.

IFrOm the New York Herald.
There are a great number of curious
EuperStitions as to the time of day when
dying person is most likely to draw
his last breath, and the tide, the moon
and the wind have all been supposed to
have some share in the matter. Accord
ing to the British Medical Journal |,
RaSeri, who has analysed 25,474 cases
of death and sc, SIS of birth, where the
exact time of day was noted, finds that
the maximum number of deaths occur
IN the afternoon e to p. No. and the
minimum in the last hours before mid
night while the maximum number of
births occur in the early hours of the
morning and the minimum in the early
hours Of the afternoon. AS regards the
cause of this, he points out that the
hours of the maximum number of
deaths are precisely those when the
pulse rate and temperature are at their
highest In health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
WEIGHS ONLY TWO POUNDS
Tiniest Baby in All New York at
Gouverneur Hospital

New York, Jan. 9.-Little Annie AL
bert, two months old, fifteen inches long
and weighing two pounds and three
quarters of an ounce. is the smallest
baby in New York today. She lives at
Gouverneur hospital. When she came
into the world she weighed only one
pound, and those who listened to her
thought that most of it was lungs.
There is a special nursery bottle for
the small Annie. It holds only about
an ounce, but that makes a big meal
for her. If it is not ready when she
wants it she is heard from. Her cries
drown even the distant clang of the
bell of the ambulance which is bringing
to the hospital some rash mortal who
jumped off the dock only to be fished
out by the policeman.
The remarkable thing about Annie
is her luxuriant black hair. It matches
her head completely and grows down
like that on a Japanese doll, perfectly
straight 1t must be cut in a few weeks
or it will reach down to her ayes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
SHE HAD KIDNEY COMPLAINT.
Her Father Died With It-Here
is the Cure She Took.

Mrs. Eliza Woodruff, q lady living at
1920 jackson St., this city says: It
have never been obliged to use much of
any medicine, or employ a physician
until about a year and q half ago when
7 was suddenly attacked with pain in
the small OF my back over the kidneys.
Shortly thereafter other symptoms de-
weleped which the doctor told me was
the effect of kidney disease. was
created by the doctor and took kidney
cures without getting any relief. In
fact the treatment seemed to aggrR-
wate rather than allGy the trouble.
Seine time ago procured a box of your
Morrow's Kid-neoids at the store of the
Swift & Holiday Drug Co. took them
according to directions receiving relief
an two days. I kept taking them right
along until now I am happy to state
that I am perfectly cured, all traces of
the old disease are gone. My father
died of kidney disease and 1 feel rea-
sonably assured had he known of them
On his day. he too would have been
cured" Druggists so cents. Manufac-
fured by John Morrow & Co.. Chemists
Springfield Ohio.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
SAGE GIVES WARNING.
Says We Need Some Great FirancieI
to Guide Just Now.

New York, Jan. 9.--Russen Sage, In
discussing the general business and po-
litical situation, says:
cit must be taken into consideration
at present that we are now on high
plane of prosperity. This fact as the
country has accumulated from $500, 000,-
coo TO 81, 900 600, 900 cash in surplus re-
serves and for investment purposes. To
be able to spend this wisely and judic-
GouSIy, requires the use of great tact
and foresight. In fact. it is the great
est responsibility this country has ever
had.
Both commercially and politically,
this country has suddenly 1eaped into
the society of nations. We are like a
young man raising a family without
previous experience. We have attained
q standard of commercial and political
supremacy which must be maintained
f'I do not wish to be misunderstood
as being pessimistic. but it seems to me
to be the proper time to use great con-
seryatism in spending the enormous
monetary wealth we have SO recently
acquired, and in laying plans for the
raising of our new territorial acquisi-
lions to a lucrative position. Now is
the time to lay something by for a
rainy day. To do this properly we re-
Quire some great financter to guide U.S.
1T is well known that I have the
greatest admiration for President Nc
Kinley. 1 have been and am willing
to follow his leadership, because be-
1ieve Mr. Mckinley to be safe and par
ticularly sound in his conservatism. We
have, however, no man of proved ex-
perience In financial matters and states
1nanship to so guide the destinieS of
this country that we will be able to sup
port the high level we have reached.
1t would seem to me, therefore, advis-
able to be prudent in the Investment of
our vast stores of money and in the
management of the new political pos
sessions we have assumed
1T is usual, in the height of pros
perity, for people OF wealth. as well as
others, to speak with undue encourage
ment While this is self-pleasing it may
lead to greater dangers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
HALL GAINES EYES.
Saw Only Prosperity While in Amer
ica-No Beggars, No Trampa
HAL Game in London Teiegrapj

Hall Game in London TELEGRAPH
The general prosperity of America,
both an the eastern and western states,
must impress any traveller, but particu-
Iarly one who has lately seen the pow
erty of eastern Europe. I spent last
winter in Rome and saw the beginning
of the bread riots. The abject poverty
of the people was almost the most pitt
able spectacle 1 ever beheld. I"
Fresh from such scenes, the traveller in
America feels that he is in a land of
great prosperity. No beggars in the
streets, no idlers at the street-corners,
and few tramps. Such, at least, is the
first impression. 1t is hard to imagine
anything more impressive than one of
the great centres of American industry.
To see Pittsburg at night, with it's hum
dreds of furnaces agIow, is to look upon
a spectacle more moving, because more
human, than a volcanic island In erup-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
BACHELOR LIFE IN CUBA.
American Young Men Discover the
Art of Luxurious Existence at
Low Cost.
[From the Chicago Tribune

[From the Chicago Tribune.1
Santurce, a pretty tropical village
three miles outside the city walls, on
the government military road to Ponce,
is now the site of a little American
bachelor colony. Already the settlement
comprises six houses, and doubtless it
will be popular this winter with young
business men from the United States in
search of a cheap, healthful, and pleas
ant home near the capital.
The boarding house keepers of San
Juan compelled the adoption of the
bachelor settlement idea by their re-
cent general advance in the price of
board and rooms. Up to three weeks
ago young man could hire small
single room for two or three pesos a
week. Owing to the present rush from
the states prices have been doubled.
Even a single bed in room with two
others costs at least 31a pesos. For a
room and meals the Spanish landlady
charges at least 2 pesos a week. Young
men of small capital, therefore, are
compelled to seek quarters elsewhere
than in the city. Six such Americans
who had become Nacquainted on the
steamer voyage from New York. in a
search for rooms one day recently found
a number of unrented cottages in San
turce village, and, after ascertaining
the cost, decided to rent a whole house
and keep bachelors hall. They accord
ingly secured from the mayor a two
story stone house, consisting of nine
bed rooms, sitting and dining rooms,
kitchen and bathroom, completely furn-
ished, for 55 pesos a month. Now at the
end of three weeks, their other monthly
expenses, roughly estimated, are a st.
Thomas Island negro cook, II pesos;
food for six hungry men, 70 pesos;
native woman, who lives at home, to
take care of the beds and lamps,6 pesos;
and a negro to scrub the floors once a
week, pesos. In four weeks, therefore
the total bill does not exceed 14S pesos,
which makes the Individual cost for
each OF the six young men hardly 81 a
week in American money.
In their country home, then, for a
sum much more reasonable than they
could live uncomfortably within the city
walls, the lawyer, architect, civil engi-
neer and three prospectOrs now enjoy
every luxury OF a house in the tropics,
And their experience is also the story
of the other five houses in the bachelor
COLONY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
A FEMALE WAR VETERAN.
Friends to Get Pension for Mrs. Will.
Jams Who Served With
Her Husband.

Springfield, o., Jan. 9.-Mrs. Spencer
Williams of this city, who carried a
musket through the civil war. will be
given a pension; that is, she will if the
energetic efforts of influential friends of
this city avail anything. Mrs. Williams
is 81 years old, and yesterday lost her
husband, her companion for 40 years,
who was found dead in bed from heart
disease. He enlisted in the One Hun
dred and Seventeenth United States
colored infantry; his wife, who was de-
voted to him, could not bear the idea
of separation, so she donned mans
clothes and enlisted in the same COM
pany with him and for months shared
were brought out here today by her
husbands death and are fully substan-
tiated. Deceased will be buried tomor-
row in Soldiers Mound.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
MARIE CORELLI SUICIDE
She Thinks it an Act of Unjustifiable
Cowardice.
GFrom the London NALL

GFrom the London MALL
Miss Marie Corelli has sent her views
on suicide to the Kingston Debating So
ciety, in the following letter:
81 may state at once that I do not
consider suicide justifiable under any
circumstances whatever.
"It is quite true that God has given
us free will in the matter Of ending our
lives If we wish, but at the same time
we must not forget that free will was
not ours when we came into the world
There can be no doubt that we are
brought into it for some purpose known
only to the Creator, and it is but a
towards act to shrink-nay shirk-the
work he has given US to do
1.-THE most difficult course is the most
heroic. To die is easy; it is but the
matter OF few minutes; but to live a
life OF hardship, toll, privation and sor-
row, and to live it well. is the work of
a hero. Does not our frail human ma
ture exult and glow when we hear of
some grand act of se1f-abnegation or
extreme bravery, or when we read of
ism that men have performed ever since
the world began? Therefore, arguing a
la Socrates, the most difficult is the
best to do and the bravest.
mo; this gift of free will Is a very
sacred one. And who knows but that
there are invisible spectators of our
acts watching as to whether we use it
to the best of our ability as soon as we
become conscious of the gift
eff we use the free will to CONSUME
mate an act of cowardice-suicide-w
Immediately state plainly that we care
nothing for the precious gift of God
which He gave us in the beginning, and
what the result of that contempt may
be we cannot possibly imagine, save that
cowardice is instinctively despised by
both earth and heaven"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
A KINDERGARTEN PLEA.
They Are Being Encouraged, in a
Modest Way, in New York Schools

LFrom the New York JournaI1
The public school system, which was
once thought to be amply equipped
when it provided for instruction in the
three RS, has now been extended until
1t takes in the kindergarten at one end
and the college at the other. And no
part Of the whole course is more i'm
portant than that which takes the child
at the threshold of life and moulds his
character for his whole existence.
The kindergarten works on plastic
material. 1t takes the slum child be-
fore he has been degraded and brutal
tied by his surroundings and develops
the better side of his nature until 1t is
strong enough to resist the adverse in
f1uences about him. 1t is a more power
full force for good citizenship than a
thousand theoretical lectures on civfcs
delivered after the mind has been per-
manently bent in the wrong direction.
But the New York public kindergar-
tens are hardly more than experimental
aa yet. They do not reach the great
mass Of child life that is waiting in pa
thet1c, dumb endurance for chance to
develop In the right direction. The
city should organize its kindergartens
ON the same scale as its schools, with
the Intention of covering the entire
ground and reaching every child that
needs its care. That is the course die
tated alike by logic, humanity and
good, practical sense,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
VIOLA ALLEN DISTURBED.
A Soldier Insists That the Actress is
His Wife.

New York, Jan. 9.-For several days
a tall, good looking man, wearing the
uniform of regular army sergeant, has
been making desperate efforts to see
Viola Allen, the actress. He insists
that she is his wife, though the pretty
fore.
Yesterday morning he again appeared
Sn the lobby of the Garden theater.
where Miss Allen is playing.
viola Allen is my wife, he said.
land 1 demand to see her. I am tired
waiting around here all morning.
The astonished employees of the
theater could only say that Miss Allen
was not there then.
Where is she? I must see her." he
insisted, and became so noisy that
Patrolman Davis of the West Thtrtieth
street police station was sent for
When the soldier saw the policeman
he brought his heels together and gave
the military salute, which the police
man graVely returned.
Il am August NJ. Holberg, sergeant
of Company e, Thirteenth infantry"
Viola Allen. She is my wife. 1 haven't
seen Viola for some time, and it is my
right, as a husband, to see her. These
people here have been keeping my wife
from me-"
Patrolman Davis again sa1uted the
sergeant, who returned it.
LAS an officer of the United States
army you have a right to see your wife
whenever you DESIRE" said the police
man. Miss Allen is not at the theater.
but 1 shall call a carriage and take
you to her. Far be it from me to keep
man and his wife apart"
HOlberg expressed his satisfaction,
and was soon put in a patrol wagon
and taken to Bellevue Hospital. At the
hospital he insisted that his wife was
Viola Allen, and said that he lived in
White Plains. Holberg will be held for
observation for five days, then will be
examined by DrS. Fitch and Wildman,
and if insane, will be sent to the state
asylum,
George C. Tyler, a representative of
Miss Allen, was seen in the Garden
theater in the afternoon. He said that
the man had been annoying persons in
the lobby for several days. A few days
ago he asked to see Miss Allen, and Mr..
Tyler told him, thinking to get rid of
him, that he must send in a note. The
man sent in the following note, which
never reached Miss Allen:
MY Dear Miss Allen:
''Wil you kindly grant me an inter-
your own lips as to whether have been
a deluded lover for nine years. Very
respectfully yours,
AUGUST NJ. HOLBERG,
Sergeant Co. E, 18th U. s. Inf.
On Monday the man bought So
cent ticket and sat through the per-
Torrance. He made no demonstration,
though it was feared that he would do
so, and he was watched closely. After
the performance he insisted upon see
ing Miss Allen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-09
SUPREME COURT OPINIONS.

The supreme court has announced
the following opinions:
BY CHIEF JUSTICE POSTER;
VIM. T. Cor1ett ct al. VS.. Mutual Ben
eft Life Insurance Co. ct al; error
from Cowley county. Affirmed.
City of K. c. VS.. Grace File; error
Standard Oil Co. ct al. VS.. G. II. Ange-
vine; error from court of appeals. Dis
missed.
smith Drug Co. VS.. First National
Bank of Emporia; error from Lyon
BY JUSTICE JOHNSTON.
s. B. st. John VS.. I. A. Strauss; error
from circuit court of Shawnee sounty.
Missouri Pacific Railway Co. VS.. Chas.
Moffatt ct al; error from Wyandotte
county. Affirmed.
Jacob M. Crawford ct al. VS.. Lovina
Crawford; error from Corey county.
Reversed.
Grand De Tour Plow Co. VS.. Rude
Bros: error from Sedgwick county. Re
NJ K & T Railway Co. VS.. c. F.
Medaris: error from Labette county.
Reversed.
Chief Justice Doster concurring spec
tally.
Mary H. Pierce VS.. Topeka CONNER
cial Security Co. ct al; error from
Shawnee county. Affirmed.
VS.. Chas. H. Elliott; error from Cowley
county. Affirmed
BY JUSTICE ALLEN.
C. J. Phelps, administrator, VS.. Henry
Lodge, mayor, ct al; original proceed
ings in mandamus- Judgment for the
plaintiff.
State ex rel VS.. F. NJ. Bilby; original
proceeding in quo warranto. Judgment
for plaintiff.
The National Mortgage & -Debenture
Co. VS.. Ephraim J. Lash ct al; error
from Reno county. Reversed.
T. w. Harrison VS.. Margaret A SHAFT
fer, executrix, ct al; error from Shaw
nee county. Affirmed.
PER CURTAIN
Simon J. Lonergan VS.. Thos. Loner-
gan; error from Leavenworth county.
Affirmed.
Patrick Loeb VS.. Sarah Fenaughty;
error from Marshall county. Reversed.
National Bank of Paola VS.. Lucy A.
Gaylord; error from Miami county. At
flrmed.
A T. & s. F. Railroad Co. VS.. John
Beaver; error from Neosho county. At
firmed
Farmers Alliance Insurance Co. VS..
H. V. Nichols; error from court OF ap-
peals. Affirmed.
M. K. & T. Railway Co. VS.. Ira Stein
berger; error from court Of appeals.
A. r & 8. F. Railway Co. VS.. William
L. Forkner; error from Atchison coun-
ty. Affirmed.
William Docking ct al. VS.. A II.
Hale; error from court ofappeals. Judg-
ment of the court of appeals affirmed.
District court reversed.