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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-16
RAILROAD LINES TNAFRICA
GFrom the New York SUM-

When we hear that two railroad
routes are surveying through the dense
forest Of equatorial Africa in regions
that have never been penetrated by
white men except when Emln Pasha
pushed through them just before he was
murdered, it is easy to see that great
changes are occurring in Africa. a
while ago men were exploring the land
merely to improve the maps and see II
the country was worth anything Now
they are entering new regions with the
sole purpose of making preliminary sur
Veys for railroads. Business, and not
research, is giving impetus to their ef-
forts.
The Congo state has decided to have
outlets to the Indian ocean and the Nile
as well as to the Atlantic. 1t also de-
sires to tap the great central lake region
and make a highway for some Of its
commerce to the west and down the
Congo. There is another potent reason
for building the proposed railroads. Be
yOnd Stanley falls the Congo afduentS
are so cut up by rapids that they can
not be used as routes to connect the
provinces of the eastern frontier Of the
state and the great lakes with the rail-
road and river route below the falls So
railroads are essential to unite the east
ern and western provinces
a party of six engineers, headed by
Mr. Adam, formerly at the head of the
engineer corps of the Congo Railroad
company, have begun the survey for the
railroads. The station at Stanley falls
is the point of departure. There will be
only one road for several hundred miles
east of Stanley falls. Then there will
be a bifurcation. one line running to the
northeast to some station near the south
end OF Albert Nyanza, where it will De
at the head of navigation in the Nile
valley. The other road will turn to the
south and terminate at the north end of
Lake Tanganyika, where steamers will
connect it with the south end and with
the Stephenson wagon road between
Lakes Tanganyika and Nyassa, which
was put into good condition last year
OF course when Cecil Rhodes gets his
transcontinenta1 railroad NJ into the
lake regions it will form a junction with
both these lines
1t is known that for a good deal of the
way these roads will traverse densely
wooded country just like the terrible
forests through which Stanley passed
on his way to the relief Of Ernin. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-16

died in 597. Several portraits OF Charles
le Chauve exist showing him with fleur-
de-lis in his crown In 972 Lothaire for
the first time used a seal with scepter
sl1rmounted by a deur-de-lis. Hugh
Capet and all his successors wore them,
Tnonarchs who used the lis in France,
where, though different races succeed
ed one another in the cOuntry's rule,
it remained the royal emblem for over
l 200 years 1t was not until 1179, how
ever that the arms of France were first
formally mentioned. French kings, re-
turning from the crusades, brought with
were introduced in Europe, and coats
of arms were adopted in imitation Of
Arabs and Persians- Then Louis lie
Jeune, arranging for the conservation of
his son, Philippe Auguste, at Rheims,
ordered that his garments be covered
with fieurs-de-lis, and after this the
king wore them without number.
All ecclesiastic and secular institu-
lions of royal foundation received the
heur-de-Iis into their coats of arms.
They were introduced as ornaments for
the apparatus in all military games;
they were Sprinkled over the flags and
standard of the army, they surmountea
the helmets OF princes and decorated
their arnor and coats of mail; they
trimmed the heads and TANKS of horses
in the tournament. In the days of Louis
XIV, XIV and XVI all the royal orna-
ments, carpets, windows, the kings
prie-dieu, his throne, his oratory, the
pulpit and the pOntifical robes of the
high priest, the vestments of the deacon
and archdeacon, the bench Of the peers
and the standards of grand dukes, all
were strewn with fieu-de-hs, embrOider-
ed or wrought in gold. With the queen
and her ladies it was the same.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-16
PLENTY OF 1T.
Lots More Proof Like This and It
Is all From Topeka People.

1.-THE proof Of the pudding is in the
eating of it." IF any city or town in the
uniOn has sufficient proof on the fol-
lowing subject, it is Topeka. Genuine
merit is finding its reward in the hearty
endorsement of local citizens. When peo-
pie right here at home, friends and
neighbors of our readers give a state
ment like the following for publication
1t is proof convincing for the most skep-
fical. Read this testimony:
Mr.. w NJ Smith of 316 Lawrence
street, blacksmith by trade, says: Il
had most depressing pains in my back
and across the lOins. In the winter Of
1888 they grew much worse, and at
might after working all day I suffered
severely. I took a number of kidney
remedies and wore an electric belt for
three months, but obtained little relief.
Ally rest at night was frequently broken
on account Of a kidney weakness and
on learning Of Doan's Kidney Pills,
went TO Rowley & Shows drug store
and got a box. The treatment relieved
me of the annoying weakness Of the kid
neys and the pain in my back passed
away. DOan's Kidney Pills did more for
me than any other remedy ever used
Doans Kidney Pills for sale by all
dealers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Fos-
TER Ailburn Co. Buffalo. n. Y, sole
agents for the Z. S.
Remember the name-Doan's-and
take no substitute.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Rapid Rise of D. S. Clark of the
Union Pacific.
Made Assistant Engineer of the
Manhattan Elevated.
is ONLY % YEARS OLD
Has Been Building Bridges and
Supervising Work.
Young Nan Left College But
Four Years Ago.
is ONLY % YEARS OLD

Denver, Aug. 16.-Thomas S. Clark of
the engineering department Of the IN
ion Pacific. has resigned to become as
sistant engineer of the Manhattan Ele-
waited in New York.
Mr.. Clark graduated only five years
ago from Cornell, having taken the en-
cheering course. He secured a posi-
tion in the engineering department of
the Union Pacific with headquarters in
Omaha under George r. Pegram. then
chief engineer. He was given the su-
perintendency of bridge building and
constructed a dozen large bridges on
different parts of the system.
Mr.. Clark was transferred to Denver
last winter. Mr.. Pegram was appointed
chief engineer of the Manhattan Ele-
waited six months ago and since occupy
ing the place has several times written
to Mr.. Clark rendering him the place as
his assistant.
Mr.. Clark is % years old and the posi-
ton which he goes east to Ill is one of
the most responsible in railroad circles
in the country.
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KANSAS CATTLE.
Returns Show an Increase of Nearly
100000 Head.

With such immense crops of corn and
forage in Kansas there Is sure to be
much interest among feeders, shippers
and slaughterers as to the states sup
ply Of cattle. The assessors returns
are all made now, and the state board
of agriculture has just completed their
compilation, which reveals a showing
for the Sunflower state most satisfac-
tory indeed.
There is a net increase over 1888 in
all cattle, (nlilch cows included,) of 2S2,-
003 head, or 1882 per cent, making the
number for the state this year 2, $50, 06S.
An but II of the los counties report an
increase, Barber distancing all others
with a gain of %, 207, and Butler next
with 1858, and ranging from that fig
ure down to 70 in Cherokee. The II
counties sustained a loss of 44,012.
Greenwood county easily leads in the
total number of all cattle, having so, 429
head, followed by Butler with II, $50,
Cowley 69, 124, Barber 69069 and Reno
$1,000. The county having the least
number is Greeley with 2,529.
The total number of mich cows in the
state is 684, 1872, an increase of 7S,257, or
1873 per cent. Dickinson county leads
with II ,948, with Pottawatomie, Usage,
Sedgwick and Washington following in
the order named; the aggregate gain of
these five counties is 7,716. The increase
in mich COWS in 1897 was 81, 1853, and in
1898, SO, 1897, making a total increase for
the three years of 1853, 10Y.
The number of cattle other than COWS
is the largest Kansas has ever had, and
for the first time in the history of the
state has passed the 100000 mark; in
the last four years the number has in
creased nearly 100000 or 70 per cent.
This years gain over 1898 is 2O3, TAG, or
1913 per cent, making a total of 2,201,-
$50. Greenwood county retains her lead
in other cattle, having 69,177, followed
by Barber with 65, $685. Butler 59, 610, and
CowIey 56,S29
The table herewith shows the coun-
ties of Kansas in the order of their rank
in ownership of cattle, including mich
cows. It shows also, separately, the
number of mich cows and other cattle
in each county, and its loss or gain in
cattle since the returns of 1898:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-16
AN AFRICAN LOVE CHARM.
rFrom the London NALL

CFrom the London NALL
A new peril seems to threaten white
men in south Africa They are in dan
ger of being cut into love charms and
used to increase the marriage rate
among the natives The flesh of Eu
ropean is considered by the black inhab-
itants of Natal as a charm powerful
enough to compel the love of any IN
willing maiden. When a young black
man loves a maiden and his love is not
reciprocated. he goes to a witch doctor
and asks for a love philter. Other phil
tiers of a milder potency having been
tried and the maiden still remaining OBJ
durate and refusing to love her black
sutton, the witch doctor, as last resort,
preScribes the flesh of a white man.
Murders committed for the possession
of the coveted white flesh while not
common, occur from time to time. News
has been received from Natal of the
hanging at Harding of a witch doctor
and his pupil for the murder of a farm
er named Kay. The farmer was drag
ged from his bed at night and after be-
ing stabbed several times with an as
segai, his throat was cut aud his body
left on the veldt. Part of the dead
mans neck was cut away, and subse-
quently found in the witch doctors bag,
with other medicines The head deviI''
IN the murder was a witch doctor named
JImtanti. With him was associated his
pupil. SibalWeni-
y
gree as a witch doctor, but was study
ing under Umtanti. who considered him
a promising pupil. The two were helped
in the murder by two men, who seem
TO have been simply employees of UNI
tantis college of medicine. These two
men received life sentences When I'm
tamil and his pupil were hanged eighty
native chiefs and headmen We're assem-
bled in order that they might see the
execution and spread the news of it
abroad among the natives The natives
have had an idea that when one of
them has been arrested for a similar
crime he has not been killed, but simply
sent to some far-Off place. where he
eventually died. The recent execution
was intended as an object lesson. Re
Gently a little child, which was stolen
from its parents in the BarbertOn dis
trict of Natal is supposed to have been
taken by the natives for the same pur-
pose as that for which they murdered
Kay. Umtanti the doctor, who was
something of a south African Charles
Peace, confessed to other murders which
the Chief Umshweshwe's sister His
face is in keeping with his character
crafty and cruel to a degree. His pu-
Pill, Sibalweni, also had a repulsive face,
while the other two men, Conf and I'm
bOnWa, who received life sentences
have n pleasanter appearance
A police trooper, who discovered Kay's
body lying in the moonlight. was so un-
nerved by the CHASTITY sight it presented
with gaping wOJfnds and clad only in
shirt, that he was unable to sleep or eat
for some time after, and at night awak-
ened his comrades with screams.
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WONDERFUL RESULTS.
People Tell What Has Been Done
For Them.
The Testimony of Well Known Citi-
zens Ought Surely to Con-
vince You

If we publish the recommendation of
some person in Topeka who has used
MOrTOw's Kid-ne-Oids for backache and
kidney disorders and has been cured.
you have no reason 10 doubt We give
you the names Of people living right
here in Topeka so you can consult them
We make no false statements nor claims
for Kid-ne-Oids. but give you the evil
dence Of people whom you know. If
kid-ne-Oids did not do as we claim they
do. people would not give their testi-
mony.
H L. Shick, with VIM. Shick. dealer
IN uphOlstering, tents, awnings. etc.
makes this statement: Il was attacked
severely with lumbago and sciatica re-
Gently. I got a package Of Norrow's
kid-ne-oids and used them according
TO the directions and in three days I
was completely relieved OF all rheumatic
pains and have had no return of them
since being cured. Kid-ne-Oids knock
out the rheumatism in short order; they
are splendid remedy.
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills,
but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty
cents box at Swift & Holidays drug
store kid-ne-oids cure backache
nervousness and sleep1essness
Mailed on receipt Of price. Manufac-
eured by John Morrow & Co., Chemists,
Springfield, Ohio
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-16
KANSAS FAIRS.

Following is a list of fairs to be held
in Kansas in 1899, their dates, locations
and secretaries, as reported to the state
board of agriculture and compiled by
Secretary F. D. Coburn:
Allen County Agricultural society:
c. H. Wheaton, secretary, lola; Sep
TENDER IS.
Anderson County Fair association:
c. H. Rice, secretary, Garrett; Septem-
Der 26-29.
Brown County Fair association:
Grant w Harrington, secretary; Hia-
watha; August 29-31
Clay County Fair association: E. E.
Hopes, secretary, Clay Center; Sep
TENDER 1915.
Coney County Fair association: ]. E.
TENDER lib
Cowley County Fair association: w.
]. Kennedy, secretary, Winfield; Sep
TENDER 2O-22.
Douglas County-Kaw Valley Fair as
sociation: Tracy Learnard, secretary,
Lawrence; September 12-15.
Finney County Agricultural society:
D. a. Minis, secretary, Garden City;
September 1915.
Franklin County Agricultural socie-
ty: Z. NJ. Sheldon, secretary, Ottawa
September 1922.
Greeley County Fair association: /
Der As.
Jackson County Agricultural and Fair
association: S. .. McGrew, secretary,
Holton; September I-15-
Jefferson County Agricultural and
Mechanical association: Edwin Snyder,
secretary, Oskaloosa; September 5-S-
Johnson County Cooperative Fair
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EXIT WOODEN TREsTLEs.
Santa Fe Pushing Work on Its Stone
Culverts on Main Line.

Improvement work on the Santa Fe
lines is now being, pushed at a more
rapid rate than probably ever before in
the history of the road An unusually
large force of men are at work in the
track and bridge and building depart
ments, besides the men employed in the
contract work.
The condition of affairs is directly the
result of the economy the mana cement
of the road found necessary to exercise
prior to July 1. In order to make a
good showing for the year ending June
80 all improvement work. except what
little was absolutely necessary, was
called off during the last two or three
months of the fiscal year. Not until
after July I was it taken up, and an
effort is now being made to carry out
the work planned for this year in the
somewhat limited space of time.
With the completion of this years
work the Santa Fe proper will be in
first class shape. The main line will be
pra ctically all of new steel, and a wood
en- trestle will be almost a curiosity on
the several thousand miles of road.
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KANSAS AT PARIS.
Memphis Road Arranges For Speci-
mems of Wood From Its Planta-
tons at darlington.

Kansas City, Aug. 16-Kansas will
furnish a. forestry exhibit at the Paris
exposition, as an agent for the govern
ment has arranged with the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis railway to
secure specimens of wood from two
plantations owned by the company near
darlington.
The display will be prepared by Geo.
f. kessler, park engineer, who has
had charge of the company's planta-
lions for the past twelve years. The
manner of preparing the exhibit will be
prescribed by an agent of the American
commissioner, who was in the city last
week. 1t will probably consist of sec
tons of trees of various growths and
photographs of the plantations, which
were started with the idea of demon
strating that the Kansas prairies are
good for growing trees.
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CHINESE JUSTICE.


OF Ii Hung Chang numberless stor-
les are told in Chinese society Now
and then one reaches this country
through our consuls in China.
On one occasion when the premier
was having a bitter fight with some of
the more conservative members of the
Tsung-1i- Yamen he received as a pres
ent a magnificent cake, which he had
reason to suspect contained poison. He
put the cake aside and set all his pow
erful machinery to work to find out
who was at the bottom of the plot. The
invest cation was partly successful, the
crime being traced to three men, of
whom one at least, was absolutely
guilty Ii had the trio arrested and
brought to his Yamen- When they ar
rived they were ushered into his pres
ence and were received in his courtli
est manner. The cake was produced,
with the remark that ''politeness for
bade his tasting it until the three gen
erous donors had had an opportunity
to enjoy its excellence" Ii cut the
cake and one of his servitors handed it
to the unwilling guests. Each took a
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THE FLEUR-DE-LIS.
TFrom Harper's Bazar.l


For 1000 years the f1eur-de-lis has
been a popular symbolic decoration. 1t
appears on the heads of the most
ancient Egyptian sphinxes. and it was
used by the early Persian and Assyrian
kings upon scepters and crowns as an
ornament symbolic of fruitfulness,
honor and royalty. Solomon. in build
ing the house of the forest of Lebanon
and the house of PharaOhs daughter,
sent to Tyre for Hiram. the widows
son, who was filled with wisdom and
understanding and cunning to work all
things in brass" and he made two
chapters of molten brass to set upon
the tops of the pillars, and upon the
tops of the pillars was lly-work." And
he made a molten sea to contain 1000
baths, ''and the brim thereof was
wrought like the brim of a cup with
flowers of lilies" This was 1.50O years
before Christ.
According to the legend. in 491 A D,
an angel appeared to Clovis, the first
Christian king of France. and bestowed
upon him a fieur-de-Iis. From this time
it was considered as the emblem Of
royalty in France, to which country is
due its preservation until modern
times.
The f1eurs-de-lis have been found in
the Abbaye de Saint German des Pres
and on the tomb OF Fredegonde, who
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piece and ate, or pretended to eat it.
One crumbled the pieces and let them
fall upon the floor, but the other two
ate calmly, without manifesting any
emotion. Ten minutes and the two
men began to show symptoms of suf-
fering. Lii smiled benignantly, and
said to the man who had not eaten:
Your wisdom is so great that am
compelled to preserve your head as a
souvenir to transcendent genius
The man was removed and promptly
decapitated. To the other two the pre-
mier remarked: THE cake that you
are eating is not the one you sent, but
one which had my cook initiate The
poison from which you are suffering
exists only in your Imagination. 1
know of no way to cure your present
pain except by letting you share the
same fate as your friend who has just
left the room"
AS they We're led away the states
man said to his retinue: 1T is a pity
that a man who can eat a deadly cor
rosive poison with an unmOved coun-
tenance should SO misapply the talent
wherewith heaven has endowed him. !"
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TO ABOLISH PASSES.
Action of the Texas Roads in Accord
ance With the Anti-Rebate Law.

Galveston, Tex, Aug 16.-Today the
general managers, or their authorized
representatives. of all the Texas rail-
ways, except the Texas Pacific and a
few short lines. met here for the pur-
pose of taking action to meet the re-
qUirement of the anti-rebate law, which
Perkins. general attorney of the Cotton
Belt, was made chairman. The meet
ing was executive.
The afternoon session was brief No
statement of any kind was issued, but
it was unanimously agreed that ali out
standing free transportation should be
called in after August 26, the date the
that date, no free transp OrtatiOn will be
issued except to a very limited number
Of shippers on each line, TO peace Off
GERS, to representatives of eleemOsynary
institutions, and to persons specially
mentioned in the act. 1t is said to be
the most sweeping anti-free pass con
struction ever given to any law.
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National Encampment, G. A R. at
PhiIadeIphia

Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
Baltimore and Ohio official route for
Missouri veterans.
Has three daily trains leaving St
Louis 500 a. m. sos p m, 2:35 a. m,
running through Cincinnati. Cumber-
land. Martinsburg, Harper's Ferry
Washington and Baltimore. The com
Portable route, the picturesque route,
the historic route.
Rate. one cent per mile. Passengers
ran return via another route by nav
ing a slightly higher rate.
For all information and @. A r. edi-
tion Book Of the Royal Blue" address
G. B. WARFEL
Assistant c.. P. A,
st. Louis, Mo.
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difficulties of building the roads are ex-
pected to be very trying but Belgian
enterprises has carried other formidable
undertakings in equatorial Africa to
success and it is fully expected in Bel
GUM that the building of these roads
will begin as soon as the preliminary
surveys have been completed.
The success of the Congo railroad.
which has been opened just a year and
is already earning good dividends, has
made African enterprises very popular
in Belgium. In the month of May its
receipts for freight and passengers were
1922, 900 and in the first eleven months
Of its operation its gross earnings were
81 $50 1873
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Freight-Rate war Over wool

Chicago, Aug. 16.-The latest freight
rate war is over wool shipments from
Colorado and Montana to New England
The rate from Denver to Boston has
been cut from S1.54 to sL15, and the
rate from Portland, Ore, to Boston was
reduced yesterday by the Northern Pa
clfic road to 50 cents per 100 pounds
The fight has just begun and rates are
certain to go lower. The Santa Fe Off
Gals are trying to find out how the
Burlington took from them, after they
had several OF their cars loaded with
the wool, a shipment from Denver to
Boston worth $13, 900. The Santa Fe had
cut the rate from S1.54 to S134 and be-
gan loading the wool, when suddenly
an order came from the consignee that
the wool must be shipped via the Bur-
HngtOn-
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Result of a Wreck INQUIRY,

Wellington, Aug. 16.-As a result Of the
investigation held here to inquire into
the cause of the wreck at WaynOka
August Z, in which seven cars went into
the ditch and engine 191 was thrown
onto her side, several of the boys in
charge of the train were discharged.
The men who We're let out were Con-
ductor Woodcock, Engineer Lalonde
and couple of section foremen. Fire
man Bert Ramey was awarded ten
credit marks for setting the brakes.