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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
ELVIA CROIX SUES
Her Husband, Thomas O. Seabrook,
For Absolute Divorce.

New York, March AT last the do
nestle troubles of Thomas Q. Seabrook.
the comedian, and his wife. Elvia Croix,
which have been several times aired in
the courts, have eliminated in a. suit
for absolute divorce.
AS usual, Mrs. Seabrook is the plain
tiff. Heretofore her suit has been for al
separation, but this time she has made
her husband the defendant in an action
which, if decided in her favor, will Leave
her free to marry again.
The fact that Mrs. Seabrook had
abandoned her suit for separation and
sued for an absolute divorce was made
public today when A H. HummeI OBJ
tanned in her behalf a commission from
Justice Gildersleeve in special term,
part 2, of the supreme court, to take her
deposition in support of her suit In
San Francisco, where she is now ap-
pearing as a prima donna of an opera
company.
Mrs Seabrook charges that her hus-
band has been guilty of improper con-
duct with a woman whose name was
not given in the papers filed today
Seabrook, who is at present playing in
La Belle Helene" Casino produc-
ton, denies all of his wife's charges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
For a Woman's Hotel.

TIL Woman's hotel committee has al
ready registered over 300 names of bus
mess and professional women who ask
to be notified when the hotel company
is ready to receive applications for
rooms in the hotel which it is proposed
to erect for their special accommoda-
ton. Miss Grace Dodge,o the Woman s
Advisory committee, states that the
project is well under way. The hotel
Will be located between Fourteenth and
Twenty-third streets and Lexington
and Seventh avenues. 1t is calculated
that women can live in such a house at
any rate they may choose between 81
and SIS a week and secure all the COM
forts and conveniences which the better
class of hotels provide for men, with
entire freedom from the rules and re-
strictions which obtain in homes and
boarding houses for younger women
under benevolent auspices.-N. Y. Cor.
Ptttsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
FREE TO MILLIONS OF
SUFFERERS.
The New Cure for Kidney, Bladder and
Uric Acid Troubles.

Almost everybody who reads the
newspapers is sure to know of Swamp
Root
1t is the great medical triumph of
the nineteenth century; discovered af-
ter years of scientific research bv the
eminent kidney and bladder specialist,
Dr. Kilmer, and has truly wonderful
powers in curing kidney, liver, bladder
and uric acid diseases.
Kidney trouble is responsible for more
sickness and sudden deaths than any
other disease, and is so deceptive that
thousands have it without knowing it,
Thousands owe their health and even
life to Swamp-Root and thousands more
who today think themselves beyond
help, can be made we'll by the use of
this great remedy.
Swamp-Root has been tested in so
many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to
purchase relief, and has proved so sue
cessful in every case that a special ar
rangement has been made by which all
readers OF the State Journal, who have
not already tried it, may have sam
pie bottle sent absolutely free by mail.
Also book telling more about Swamp
Root and containing some of the thous-
ands upon thousands of testimonial let
ters received from men and women who
owe their good health, in fact, their
very lives, to the wonderful curative
properties of Swamp Root Be sure
and mention the Topeka Daily State
journal when sending your address to
LIT k1Imer & Co, BinghamtOn, N Y
If you are already convinced that
SWamp-Root is what you need. Won can
purchase the regular fifty-cent and one
oo4iar size bottles at drug stores.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
VOLCANO MELTS SNOW
And Causes a Flood in the Carl
boo Gold Mining District.

Vancouver, B. c., March "A letter
from Lac La Hoche, a camp in the Carl
boo gold country, says that flood caused
by volcanic action in Lookout mountain,
which melted the snow, has caused much
damage The miners are fleeing to high
ground as the water continues to rise. The
mountain was covered by snow ten feet
deep in places, when steam issued from its
side and the snow was sent in streams or
water into the valley, causing all the
creeks to overflow
The letter adds: 1.-The rumbling from
Lookout mountain increases hourly in
volume. Volcanic action, which undoubt-
edly has already commenced, is momen-
tarily expected to become visible to the
terror-stricken inhabitants of the valley.
Thousands of dollars worth of property
and number of lives are said to be in
danger"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
NOT IN SALT TRUST.
JOY Morton Says National Company
Controls Prices in the East,
But Not in the West

Chicago, March 2.-Joy Morton Of the
firm of Joy Morton & Co., which handles
large quantities of the Michigan salt
output, said today he had heard moth
ing of the attempt to form a general
salt trust.
1.-THE present National Salt company,
which is virtually a trust controlling
the New York output, has been in ex-
istence for some time" Mr.. Morton
said. IF there is any talk of trying to
get control of the output in other states
L have heard nothing OF 1t. The present
trust does not affect Chicago, as prac-
tically all the salt sold here is from
Michigan. The National Salt company
controls prices in the east, and the high
tariff salt makes it Improbable to
import it."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
COST OF VENEZUELA LIFE.
[From the Venezuelan Herald.1

IFrom the Venezuelan HERALD
To those who would like to try the
experiment of coming to establlsh
themselves in Caracas, or to those sent
here by foreign administrations to rep
resent them that is to say, to those who
are not common immigrants, poor
things who have never seen or known
anything but pain or misery IN Spain
or Italy, living on minimum wage,
and who may therefore be satisfied with
a change of cline only, we do not hest
tate to say, without fear of contradic-
ton, that the cost of living in Caracas
is excessively high, and it costs a good
deal to maintain any sort of social posi-
ton, and therefore to come to live in
Venezuela on a small salary is to par
take the life of the immigrant.
"A little house for two" Small, clean
and comfortable houses are very rare
and rent at from $40 to $55 per month
A cook costs SO per month, and a
maid who does not know how to sew on
a button IS. and it requires three maids
to perform badly the service OF I'M
trained Limerick girl.
Provisions vary with flour, which is
usually at 10 cents per pound The loaf
of u ounces sells at 10 cents; ordinary
beef TO 10 cents, filet at 20 to %.
Mutton properly so-called does not
exist; vegetables are three times as
dear as in the United States, and there
is very little variety of them; fowls sell
at from 40 to so cents, according to the
size; vim Ordinaire at 20 cents the bot
tie; oil 40 cents the bottle; eggs 80 to 40
cents per dozen; fresh fish, 20 cents per
pound.
To pass to clothing: A suit to meas
ure-ready made clothing does not ex-
ist-costs from $25 to $35, and that of a
very bad material, but tolerably well
made; shoes from 81 to So; washing,
shirts, Is cents each; collars, 4 cents
each; cabs, so cents per hour and 80
cents per trip; cars, cents; stabling
of a horse from $40 to SIS per month;
gas. 20 bolivars per 1000 feet; hotels
charge $3.50 to SO per day; and when
We end with the price of a wretchedly
made cocktail, namely, Is cents, our
readers will have an idea of the cost of
living in Venezuela
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
How Robert Jesse Defes Milt Hull

All, there, Milt Hull of the Kiowa Re-
view, Robert Jesse has been in and laid
down his ultimatum. He says he will
go to Kiowa, put up 500, and the money
is to be yours if you kill him, provided
you will put up enough money to pay
his expenses if you won't shoot. Or you
can come to Medicine Lodge any day
and take a 800 shot at him. He says he
has heard of men who said they would
shoot at him, and has spent all the time
and money he can afford in chasing
around after them. To put it mildly
Milt, he thinks you won't shoot. and
says he will not spend the money and
time necessary to go to Kiowa on an I'M
certainty. Robert flashed the 500 on us
our eyes are still dazzled-and offered
to deposit with us until you appeared to
take your shot, but we were afraid to
have so much money about us and de-
clined to hold it, with thanks. Robert
has been warned by signs that he will
never die, and is willing to risk 800 to
prove it.. Come up, Milt, come up, or
send the expense money, and Robert
will show up. However, don't forget
our advertising fee must be paid before
the ball opens.-Medicine Lodge Cresset.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02

but the man who takes his daughter to
see Camille is a gentleman whose
sense of the fitness of things is, to say
the least, not abormally developed.
The matinee girls who flock to see
''Zaza" do not hurt the magnificent art
OF the play or the players.
"Zaza" does hurt the matinee girl-if
she's worth hurting.
woman told me that her daughter
had come home from the matinee the
other day and told her all about Zaza.'
Il sat down. said the woman, and
wrote a note to the manager Of that
theater and told him what I thought of
him. I think he ought to be arrested,
don't your
NO" said I. 'But some one ought to
be-
''who?" said the woman.
'You," said I.
D'Annunzio's Triumph of Death"was
probably more widely read in this coun-
try by the young person. than by any
other class of people. And if she was
demora1ized by it her parents were to
blame, and not Mr.. D'Annunzio or the
booksellers.
The Puritan spirit was bad enough,
with it's prudery and its narrow bigot-
ry; but the modern American spirit of
what 1 know my daughters shall
know is worSe-a thousand times
worse.
No French parent takes his daughters
to see sa1acious plays, and the English
mother would lock up her daughter for
or even a modern American novel
1.-The Scarlet Letter. of which Miss
Bell says so much that ought to be true
but is not is a different matter.
1.-The Scarlet Letter. is classic, and
it carries it's readers into the high,
clear air of genius, which purifies all
that it touches.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was old-fash-
toned enough to forbear from entering
into details concerning the affairs of his
heroine.
But, work of genius, and purity it
self, the book is, it is not thing for
girl of 16 to read and wonder over.
Girls of 16 there be who could read
and appreciate it, but the ordinary, gig
Cling young person who has outgrown
the calm innocence of a child and has
not yet attained the reserve of a woman
has no concern with the sorrows of poor
Hester Prynne.
1t is not narrow-minded prejudice
which makes the young girl a menace
to American art
1t is lax-minded discipline which
makes art a menace to the American
girl.
If mother of advanced ideas should
insist on feeding her newborn infant
with rare roast beef her conduct would
not materially affect the price of beef,
but it would probably kill the baby
My sympathies in this case are all
with the baby.
The American girl is living too
high"
Some day her mother will find it out,
and then, as we say in the west, some
one will be looking for trouble"
WINIFRED BLACK.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
A BIRTHDAY OFFERING.
(By E. w. Crumb.)

Ry E. w. Grumpy
TO A FRIEND, BORN MARCH 2.
Though silent waits the heart in vain,
To catch some sign, list some strain
Across the white and frozen plain,
I'm glad
That memories sweet, like leaves, lie deep
Safe from the gray clouds shivering
sweep,
Fadeless till spring. I say then sleep,
That thou
May'st cherish roots and buds most rare
To resurrect in hopes more fair,
For this tbs, thou, an answered prayer,
Vert born.
end of each verse;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
A MASCULINE HABIT.
(Fronn the Philadelphia Tim

7
s'Sorne men, nay many men, have a most
reprehensibIe habit of showing the notes
and letters written them by girls not only
women,'' said bright girl yesterday.
Every woman knows that this is true
Doubtless there is not one of us who has
not had submitted to her scrutinizing gaze
epistle written by some fair maid to
man whom she thoroughly trusted.
"On1y a day or two ago this breach of
confidence on the part of masculinity-for
it is nothing less-was brought wildly to
nv notice by a man who handed me
three letters, written him by feminine
friends to read. 1 know that when he
offered them to me I should, by all the
laws of honor, have put my hands Sternly
behind me and said in stilted fashion, 7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
WALDORF ASTORIA GUEST
Under Arrest For Failure to Pay His
Board Bill

New York March Wv Wayne Belvin,
the ''highhyer'' arrested last Saturday
for failure to pay his bill at the Waldorf
Astoria. had almost a score of prominent
callers in jefferson Market prison today.
Among these. Were three lawyers. doctor,
and a colonel. They failed to secure his
release. but hope to have him out tomor-
row. morning The prisoner was arraign-
ed before Magistrate Mead. 1t was ar
ranged if he could pay the bill of s143 the
complaint would be withdrawn. His
friends took the money to the Waldorf
Astoria Manager Thomas gave them, a
receipted bill. but could not find Schuyler
West. the hotel detective who made the
complaint.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
"FALSTAFF OF THE ARMY"
Speaker Reed Has Fling at General
Shafter.

Washington, March 2.-Speaker Reed
did not see the attack made upon him
by Gen. Shafter out in California until
it was shown him by one of his intimate
Republican friends.
1t will be remembered that Shafter
said that the speaker was so much
opposed to the presidents policies that
the interests Of the country demanded
his retirement, and that a new man
ought to be selected to preside over the
house.
Mr. Reed is reported to have ex-
claimed after reading the illusions:
ct is too bad that the FalStaff of the
army should be so worked up against a
civilian like myself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
MEXICANS TEACH INDIANS
President Diaz Sends Twenty In
structors to the Yaqui Tribe

Ell Paso, Tex, March 2.-Prof. Fernando
Beltran and nineteen other teachers of
note from the City of Mexico We're in Ell
Paso today on their way to the territory
in the state of Sonora, Mexico, occupied
by the Yaqui Indians.
Their purpose is to establish first class
the Indian country for the higher educa-
ton of the natives, so long at war with
the Mexican government and never con-
Quered. The teachers We're sent by PreSi-
dent Diaz at the expense of the govern
ment in response to a request of the
YaQuiS made after the treaty was signed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
Uruguay's New President.

Montevideo, March 2.-Senor Ceustas
has been elected president of Uruguay.
Ceustas was president of the Uruguayan
senate at the time of the assassination
of President Bordeou of Uruguay in
August, 1897, and assumed the preSi-
dency ad interim. He was afterwards
appointed provisional governor of Uru-
quay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
ON SPANISH DISCOVERY.
Two Albums Being Prepared at Rome
For Spain and America

Rome, March 1.-The officers of the
vatican library are preparing two mag
nificent albums, containing copies of all
the priceless unpublished documents
relating to Spanish discovery and rule
in the western hemisphere contained in
the library. The albums are designed
for presentation, one to the queen re-
gent of Spain, and the other to the
president of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
FATHER VILETTE RECANTS
Priest Who Strayed Into Other Folds
Asks to Be Taken Back

Milwaukee, Wis, March 2.-Josef Rene
Vilette, who assumed the title of arch
bishop of the ''old Catholic church in
America and was at one time a priest
in the Roman Catholic church and later
a minister in the Fond du Lac diocese of
the Episcopal church, has recanted.
He seeks re-entry into the Catholic
church and his letter of recantation has
been published in Rome. Vilette suffered
major accommodation, the pope having
issued a bull last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
All Women Barred From Saloons.

Atlanta, Ga, March mayor Wood
ward sat down on an effort of the Sal
walton Army to invade the saloons here.
Several women of this organization called
on him today and asked the privilege of
entering barrOOmS to prosecute their work
of redemption, but the mayor replied that
he could not disregard the law which for
bids women entering saloons, even if they
desired to go there with a laudable pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
TOO BAD TO PRINT.
Spanish Paper Has Horrible News
From Manila.

Madrid, March 2.-The Reforma hears
the Spanish government has received a
dispatch from the United States pro-
testing against the statements cabled
from Manila by Gen. Rios who formerly
commanded affairs there. The Core
spondencia asserts that it has received
such serious news from Manila that it
believes it to be it's duty not to publish
it until confirmed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
rheumatism Cured in a Day.

MYSTIC CURE for Rheumatism
and Neuralgia radically cures in L to 3
days It's action upon the system is re-
marka BILE and mysterious. 1t removes
at once the cause and the disease i'm
mediately disappears. The first dose
greatly benefits. rs cents. Sold by
Swift & Holiday, druggists, 52S Kansas
avenue, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
SMOKES A CIGARETTE,
Then Dies-A Michigan Boy Takes
Parting Puff at the Destroyer

st. Joseph, Mich. March August
LANCER, this city, aged i? years, died last
evening after long illness caused by
cigarette smoking He had been a vic
tim of the habit about four years. The
last few days of the boys life were ex-
tremely distressing, as cigarettes were the
only thing that would appeaSe his appe-
tite- Five minutes before he died he beg
ged so pitifully for a cigarette that his
wishes were gratified.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
Silver Vases For the Gear.

Moscow, March 2-The car has Just
bought from a New York dealer two
magnificent silver vases of artistic design.
He has also purchased from Princess Eu-
genie of Oldenburg vase of similar pat
tern in her private collection
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02
SCHARWENKA NOT ILL.
Noted Berlin Pianist Makes a Queer
Excuse to Break an Engagement.

Berlin, March Enquiries have been
made in reference to Xavier Schar-
wenka. He did not wish to fill his en-
gagements in America, and made as ex-
cuse an imaginary illness.
1t was announced February 81 last
that, according to a letter received in
New York the pianist had suffered a
paralytic stroke in Berlin. 1t was said
that among his future gementS he
had intended to come over to the United
States to hold the annual examinations
at Hardin college, in Mexico, Mo. He
was to fill this engagement for five
wears to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02

We do mending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun-
dry, 112 and ia West Eighth street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02

Infants are effected by
foods taken by the nursing
mother.
Prof. w. B. Cheadle, of
St. Mary's Hospital and
author of a treatise on the
feeding of infants, has shown
by experiments that wasting
diseases, will result from de-
Priving children Of fats and
hyPophosPhites.
DR.. Thompson says Cod
liver oil is what such mothers
and infants require. '*Scott's
Emulsion" is pure Nor
wegian Cod-liver oil with
hyPophosphites.
soc and $500, all druggists.
SCOTT 81 BOVINE. Chemists, New Yo<1.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02

Everyone who is a Kansan should up
hold Kansas by buying Kansas manu-
featured goods. By so doing you will
help home industries to grow; help
build up factories and cities, and in the
end help yourselves. The further a dol
lar goes away from home the longer
1t will take it to come back. Be wise
and call for the Silver Leaf brand of
goods. All made at home and every
grocer carries them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-02

We viii wash your colored shirts ana
guarantee colols from fading Peerless
Steam Laundry. 112 and ia w. sth.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-01-23
PORTO RICo's SOAP TREE.

The natives of our new territory,
Porto Rico have no need to buy soap,
for the wooded country abounds in
plants whose leaves and bulbs supply
most fully the place of that indispen-
sable article. Among the best of these
is the soap tree, so called though it is
more of a bush than a tree. It's bulb,
when rubbed on wet clothes, makes a
snow white lather which has an odor
like old brown Windsor soap. The Por-
to Ricans, who are all, from the high
est to the lowest great dandies in their
way, make soap out of cOcoanut oil
and home made lye-and a fine soap it
is-smooth and fragrant. This cocoanut
oil soap is used for shaving. When a
man wants a shave in the morning he
starts out with his cocoanut shell cup
and donkey tail brush and bottle. 1t is
never any trouble to find an empty
bottle in Porto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica or
almost any of the larger West India
islands, even in remote spots in the
mountains. At least twenty generations
of thirsty people have lived there and
thrown away the bottles. The man car
ries no mirror he is too poor to own
such luxury. Not one house in TWEEN
| ty in Porto Rico has even the cheapest
kind of looking glass. But generous
ly rich nature provides the mirror as
| well as the soap.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-01-23
To Rent.

At Hanalei, Kauai, the Princeville
Plantation Company, will lease their
Mill and Diffusion Plant, capacity
twenty-five tons in twenty-four hours
also, their Lands not under Lease,
comprising 1900 to 1000 acres of ara
BILE land, which can all be irrigated by
water from the mountains, by bitches
or pipes.
Something over one-half the stock
of this company is for sale. Land in
cludes the Valleys of Hanalei, Kalihi.
kai and Kalibiwai, most of which are
under lease for rice culture.
For all particulars apply to
GEO. II. ROBERTSON,
At Brewer & Co.'S, Queen Street.
Honolulu, August 81. 1898.