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The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
PAY COLLEGE DEBT.
Presbyterian Institution at Emporia
Will Soon Be Clear.

The Emporia Presbyterians who were
attending the meeting of the Kansas
synod have returned from Concordia.
The synod heard with pleasure that the
citizens of Emporia were willing to
raise IS 1000 of the college debt and the
synod agreed to raise the remaining
$4,000. 1t was decided that each min
lister was to collect from each member
of his church so cents. AS there are
26,011 Presbyterians in this state this
will make the $13, 600. OF course there
will be members who will not give, but
it is hoped to cover this by larger dona-
tions from richer members. The money
as fast as collected will be sent to Ma
jor Hood.
The $500 is to be raised and in the
hands of the treasurer by May 1. This
with the $4,000 by Emporia will clear up
the debt. The synod thinks that after
this is done the college will stand a
good show of going ahead. The trus-
tees will elect a president of their
board as soon as they hold their next
meeting. 1t looks now as if the worst
of the college troubles are over. DR..
Harshaw, moderator of the synod, will
come to Emporia in the near future and
at public meeting of the citizens dis
cuss the future of the Emporia college.
The date of the meeting will be an
nOuQCed later.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
MINERS WIN.
Strike Settled at Fleming by Coal
Company Selling Out.

Pittsburg. Oct 19.-Flening miners
have settled their troubles. The Kan
mines at Fleming. No, outright to new
men and the new operators have sight
ed the national officers and the execu-
tive board to this fact with the authen-
tic papers, showing a bona fide trans
fer. The union scale has been signed
and Superintendent Ramsey of the
Kansas & Texas Coal company is out
of a job after all his work for the COM
pany, and union miners only are en-
pIoyed by the new operators.
This is a great victory for the union
in this district Tt is probable that sim
liar action will be taken all along the
line Of the Kansas & Texas system.
President Wright shipped away At
non union miners yesterday over the
Pittsburg & Gulf. The end of the strike
seems nearer, as the imported men are
quitting their jobs steadily, grown tired
of scabbing. Their position is not an
enYiable or endurable one.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
DEATH OF MIssALExANDER
It Occurred This Morning at at Tus-
cola, Illinois.

Miss Priscilla Alexander died at her
home in Tuscola, ILL.,, at $3.50 o'clock
this morning of lung trouble. She was
a sister of Will Alexander of the KEEL
lam Book & Stationery company, and
was well known here, having made
her home with Mrs. Reid Alexander for
some time prior to the first Of last
June.
While in Topeka Miss Alexander was
in i'll health. and at one time was in
the Stormont hospital for several weeks.
She was taken ill soon after returning
to her home in Tuscola, and her condi-
tiOn gradually grew worse.
Miss Priscilla Alexander is the fifth
member of the Alexander family to die
within the past six years. About a
year before the death of DR. Reid Alex
ander of this city, Mr.. Alexander, SEN
ior, died in Illinois The death of an
other sister occurred the same year as
that of DR.. Alexander, and the death
of Mrs. Alexander and another daughter
followed not long afterward.
Miss Alexander will be buried at her
home. VIII Alexander left this after
noon for TuScola.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
KLoND1KER KILLED.
franklin County Gold Seeker Meets
Death on His Way Home.

Norwood, Oct. 19.-Afrs. H. G. Purple
received a telegram last night annOunc-
ing the death of her husband by rail-
road accident at Cheyenne, Wyo, yes
terday.
Purple was enroute home from Klon-
dixie. He went to the gold country from
the west last March. His wife received
a letter from him last Saturday stating
that he would take a short trip through
the west with friend of his before re-
turning home. 1t is probable that he
was on this trip when he met with the
accident. The body will be taken to
Kidder, MO, for interment.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Labor Organization Celebrates.

The Building Laborers, a colored or
ganization, celebrated last night, the
close of their first year, with q. free
entertainment at their hall on East
Sixth street, with some 300 in attend
ance. Representative men from the
Building Trades unions were present
and greatly enjoyed the occasion. AS
a result of the organization, the build
ing laborerS of this city have secured
this summer, almost steady employ
ment at reasonable wages.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
GOLF CLUB OFFICERS.
Organization Completed at Meeting
Last Evening.

The board of directors of the Topeka
Golf club held a meeting last night II.
P. Dillon acted as chairman. The fol-
lowing permanent officers were elected:
President, c. E. Gault vice president,
w. H. Rossington: secretary and treas
urer, H. S. Morgan.
Green committed. w. Mulvane, Ned
Osborn and L. L. Kiene.
The list will be extended up to go within
a few days. A green keeper will be en-
ployed to keep the course in order and
the green committee will fix rules to gov
ern the play.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
WHEN THEY WILL COME.

The Santa Fe passenger department an
nounces that it intends to take the Twen-
tieth Kansas soldiers out of San Francis
co the day after they are mustered
out, October %. Unless something inter-
feres the troops will therefore leave San
Francisco Sunday afternoon and arrive in
Topeka on the morning of the fourth day
out, Thursday. November 2
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

John Hyde, the statistical expert of
the department of agriculture at Wash
ington, a. few days ago issued a state
ment showing that the wheat supply of
the world this year, as compared with
last, is one-eighth smaller. The aver
age of the three best estimates of the
crop of 1899 gives the total yield as q,
$40, ,000. 600 bushels, which is 327, 100000
bushels smaller than that of last year.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Several years ago there lived In a
town near Atchison two brothers, law
yers. One of them was q. drunkard,
and was known as the smartest lawyer
in the west, although he never distin-
guished himself except as a drunkard-
The other brother was sober and an
excellent lawyer. He became rich.
and was very successful in the practice
of his profession, but no one ever said
he was q good lawyer.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Pension Commissioner Evans has re-
Gently stated that every old soldier on
reaching the age of 65 years is entitled
TO the minimum pension of S6 per
month under the law Of 1890, and that
every one reaching the age of IS years
is entitled to the maximum of S12 per
month This, the commissioner says, is
the practice of the department, which
is as good as law.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
cLoBE sIqHTs


TFrom the Atehison Globe.1
Economy, we regret to say. is never
the fashion
If man viii only tell his women
folks he is sorry, it is not necessary for
him to be,
A cup has to be too small to drink
out of before the women win admit
that it is pretty.
Remember when telling a Joke that
all of your hearers are trying to figure
how many times they had heard it be-
fore.
Every thing disastrous that happens
to a man who is not a church member,
is traced to dissipation by the church
women.
The women pay too much attention
to trimming up their voices in sweet
ness for the telephone, and not enough
to brevity.
The season has arrived when a wo-
man will quarrel with her husband and
call him a brute, offend her best friends,
and spend every cent she can scrape to-
gether in order to entertain her whist
club.
1t is estimated that an Atchison wo-
man walks five miles a day in going
to the corner with departing guests
She has so much of it to do that she
has been compelled to abandon her
custom of walking to the front gate
with her husband.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton is an
expansionist. She doesn't know ex-
actly what it means, but Lysander
John is opposed to expansion, and
Mrs. Lysander John always takes the
other side because she doesn't think
Lysander John has any sense any way.
Are the men as considerate of the
men as women are of women? When
an engagement is announced. the girl 5
friends give her doiIies, linen, lace
things, tea cups etc, but does any one
give the man anything? On the con-
trary, his creditors become particularly
active, knowing that his expenses will
soon be larger, when it will be harder
to collect from him. No engaged man
was ever called upon by other men and
presented with socks tied with light
blue ribbon, or pair of new suspend
ers with pink bows on. All the atten-
tion he gets from the men consists of
gJIViuS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
WILL BE AN EXODUS
Montgomery County to Have Grand
Jury Next Month.

Independence, Oct. 19.-T S. Salathiel
has returned from Oswego, where he
presented to Judge Skidmore a petition
with 204 names asking that a grand
jury be summoned for the November
term of court. This action makes it
certain that a grand jury will be called.
The grand jury will consist of Is men
and doubtless the county clerk will,
within a. few days, be instructed to
draw it in the usual manner.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
BRIDGES BLOWN UP.

Cape Town, Oct 19.-The Beers have
blown up the bridges at Fourteen
Streams and the Modder river the for
mer north and the latter south of Kim
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

On the 10th of December, 1897, Rev. 8.
A Donahue, pastor NJ. E. church. South
PIT, Pleasant, w. Va. contracted a severe
cold which was attended from the begin
ming by violent coughing. He says: after
resorting to a number of so-called 'spe-
cifcs,' usually kept in the house to no
purpose. l purchased a bottle of Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. which acted like
a charm. I most cheerfully recommend it
to the public" For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Aguinaldo can learn a lesson from
the sultan of Sulu. The sultan remain
ed peaceable and set his price and got
it. The Filipino general commenced
shooting first, and now it doesn't seem
likely that he will get cent.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Philadelphia Record: There are not
cars enough nor ships enough to carry
the piled up freightage that awaits
shipment at the great centers of trade
and production. Prosperity seems to
have brought on blockade Of it's own.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Cen. Henrv Asaienad.

Washington, Oct. 19.-By direction of
the president. Major General Guy F.
Henry, now on waiting orders in New
York city, has been assigned to the
command of the department of the Mis-
souri,, with headquarters at Omaha,
Neb.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Martin Van Buren, Home soId

New York, Oct. 19-The dwelling once
occupied by former President Martin
Van Buren at No. 81 East Twenty
seventh street has just been sold and
it is announced that the property will
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Pensions For Kangans.

Washington, Oct 19.-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
Origfnal-Ira B. Smith, Smith Center,
s.: George F. Nealley, Lansing, Sc;
Increase-Reuben L. Beebe, Bluff City,
S. to SO: Henry Jones, Downs, s24 to $50;
James r. Harris Anthony s24 to $50:
James s. Price, Baxter Springs, $13 to $17;
William Morgan. LINCOLN. Sc to IS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Police Judge euy Is sick.

Police Judge Guy is quite sick and is
not able to hold court. Mayor Drew
C1intock to occupy the Judicial bench
until Judge Guy is again able to sit
upon it himself. Judge Guy has been
III Tor week or more, but has tried to
hold court each day until today.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

A man whose wisdom probably comes
from experience says that a wedding
tour very often turns out to be merely
a lecture tour.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Helen, the II months old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Theirling. died at
noon today at the home of the parents,
209 East First street. The funeral will
be Friday at 2 o'clock, from the Ger
man Catholic church.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

The bankruptcy law has been a good
thing for the actor people. When other
forms of advertising become thread
bare they try the bankruptcy court.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
The Aristoeratic Refinement

Of the furnishings of the Santa Fe's
California Limited will commend itself
to those who appreciate the luxuries
and conveniences of a perfectly ap-
pointed fast train. The limited will be
composed exclusively ofPullman sleep
car and Dining car. It win leave To-
peka at Hip a. m. every Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday and Sunday begin
ming November s. For tickets and
Agent, Depot
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Bismarck's Iron Nerve.

Was the result of his splendid health
Indomita BILE will and tremendous energy
are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kid
neys and Bowels are out of order If
you want these qualities and the success
they bring, use DR.. Kings New Life Pills
Only 25 cents at Waggoner's drug store,
731 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

If that corn husking contest between
the mayor of Chicago and the mayor
of St Louis had been a wood saving
bout instead, the betting would have
been at odds on Carter Harrison.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

The impression is abroad that the
result of the Ohio election will have lit
tie value as an indication Of how the
wind is set for next year. Tt is merely
a contest between barrels.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

have no more American securities to
send, and then we shall have to hunt,
like the British capitalist, for safe in
vestments for our superf1uous wealth.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Foster, the great weather prophet,
predicts warm weather from October
goth to the 25th, followed by cool wave
which will cross the Rocky Mountains
about the 18th
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Hetty Green has announced her in
tention of buying an automobile. Rus
sell Sage, perhaps, viii continue to
walk
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
REFLECTIONS OF a BAcHELoF

CFrom the New York Press.l
The trouble with love is that you al
ways have trouble with it.
If women had pockets they would
be lot more likely to keep their hands
where they belong.
AS soon as a man gets so he can
afford to keep q. hired girl his wife be-
gins to go visiting and talk about all
the trouble she has with "the servants p
The first thing Eve said when they
got outside of the Garden of Eden was
probably that no matter how nice it
was he knew she always did hate to be
cooped up in there.
When the average man stands up to
get married he looks to the women like
hero, but he looks to the men more
like curly-haired steer at a prize fair
with pink ribbon tied to his horns.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Judging by the rate ar which bridges
are being destroyed in South Africa,
there will be much business in that re-
gion for American bridge builders when
the war is ended
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
Senator Boar Cbosen.


Washington. Oct. 19-United States
Senator Hoar was today unanimously
reelected president of the Unitarian
council.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

125 feet high, six feet wide at the top
and fifteen feet wide at the bottom. 1t
viii take about 125,000 brick TO complete
it.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Don't be deceived by an offer of few
unstable cooking utensils. The price
you pay for a Steel Range is what
counts Call and examine our line and
get our prices. T. J. Coughlin Hard
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19
TOO LATE no CLAgsrFY.

LOST-s5 bill at 1st NJ. E. church Tuesday
eve. Return to D. H. Branaman, 500
Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

The English sporting fraternity seems
to know when 1t is whipped even If the
contest hasn't ended.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

cup has to be too small to drink
out of before the women win admit
| that it is pretty.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Remember when telling a Joke that
all of your hearers are trying to figure
how many times they had heard it be-
fore
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

TFrom the Atchison Globe1
Economy, we regret to say, is never
ne fashion
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

Every thing disastrous that happens
to a man who is not a church member,
is traced to dissipation by the church
women.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

If man win only tell his women
folks he is sorry, it is not necessary for
him to be,
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

The women pay too much attention
to trimming up their voices in sweet
ness for the telephone, and not enough
to brevity.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-19

The season has arrived when wo-
man will quarrel with her husband and
call him a brute offend her best friends,
and spend every cent she can scrape to-
gether in order to entertain her whist
club.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-20
FIGURES OF SPEECH.

While aunty reading story one night,
To good little divers smiling delight, -. -,
She came upon something remarkably queer
That good little Oliver wondered to hear.
And this was the something she placidly read
''Jane Ann then determined to enter the shed.
and, cautiously dropping her eyes ON the heor,
They fell on the snake which had caught them
before" f-'-@'
interruption was rude, the dear child had been
taught,
So he said not a word, but hs thought. and be
thought,
And the longer he pondered the stranger it
grew
The thing that Jane Ann was reported to do
He felt of his eyes with mysterious doubt
And wondered how she could have taken hers
ont;
And how-this was really what puzzled him
more
They could fall on thing which had caught
them before.
Mary E. Bradley in st. Nicholas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-20
The Art of Lighting q Pipe.

Now, comrades, not to waste time
talking of style of pipe or brands of to-
bacco-tastes differ in those things-try
this: Keep pipe and stem as clean as
possible, and the time to clean them is
Immediately after smoke. Fill the
bowl with your favorite brand and press
down firmly, but don't strive to see how
solid you can pack it. If you make it as
solid as wood, it will burn like wood
and make a coal fire about as hot and
ungrateful. Don't light the entire sur
face. Don't pull" as though you had no
more matches and feared it would Ego
out. ;" Light small spot directly in the
center. Smoke slowly until it works its
way gradually downward. If it under
takes to spread, press it down again
with thumb or finger. a half minutes
care in starting is all that is required.
Now smoke slowly. The little fire con-
tinues downward, delicately roasting
the tobacco on the sides, and presently,
when you cave this off, there will como
a revelation in soft, mellow smoke, so
cool, SO delicious, so soothing, that you
will never regret having read this
Sports Afeld.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-20
HIDDEN GOLD IN PARIS.
Many Fanatics Spend Their Lives Hunting
For Buried Treasure.

Many Fanatics Spend Their Lives Hunting
For Buried Treasure.
Some Parisians are actually kept from
wandering by conviction that there is
hidden treasure behind the walls or be-
meath the flooring or in the chimney
nook or under the roof, says Chambers
journal.
You are told that during the number
jected and the internal revolutions it
has undergone there exists not a cellar
or a garnet but has become the recepta-
Gle of some part of the immense riches
accumulated in religious houses and old
families. There is, perhaps, nothing ir-
rational in the superstition that in the
good old times when converts We're
made the repositories not only of the
secrets of the aristocracy, but of the
family jewels likewise, instances must
have occurred wherein these deposits
were buried and remain undiscovered,
together with the treasures of the con-
fraternity. But human folly has of late
years exalted this rational possibility
into dazzling certainty. Every means is
now resorted to and more gold and pre-
cious time expended than the most val
liable treasure could repay in order to
seize the secret which still resists dis
covery. 'While you of the matter OF
fact, plodding Anglo-Saxon race are
toiling and broiling in Australia and
California, searching for gold, we gold
seekers of Paris find it here beneath our
feet i'll the old quarters of the city round
Notre Dame and the Hotel de Vile,
where gold Is teeming in greater plenty
than amid the rock powders of Califor-
mia or beneath the soil of Ballarat,"
said Ducasse, the great treasure seeker.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-06-20
A SHERMAN ROMANCE.
His Old California Sweetheart Loyal t.
the General.

His Old California Sweetheart Loyal to
| the General.
When General William Tecumseh
| Sherman was a raw subaltern in the
United States army, without fame or
laurels and little apparent hope of win
ming either, relates the Chicago Chron-
icle, he wooed and won a beautiful
Spanish girl then living in Monterey,
Cal. DOna Maria Ygnacia Bonifacio
fell beneath the ardent glances of the
lank, ungainly youth just as the flag of
the sister republic was lowered before
the triumphant army led by Scott. To-
day she is still true to her early love
and unaware of the fame and death of
her lover.
California was then part of the
Mexican republic. Sherman, like many
another, was forced to make war against
the land of the MonteZumas. In the
closing year Of the struggle, when Cali
fornia was occupied and became part
of the United States, Sherman was as
signed to duty on the coast. Here he
met the fair dona, lost his heart to her
and won hers in return. She was a
member of an old aristocratic Spanish
family, and the subaltern was congratu-
lated upon his luck. To emphasize his
devotion, the young officer in 1855
planted rose tree before the entrance
to the home of his beloved.
Then came the inevitable misunder-
standing which accompanies every TO-
nance. The lovers disagreed. Sherman
left the army and went east to take up
the law. He never afterward saw his
sweetheart, nor did she ever permit his
name to be mentioned in her hearing.
She speaks Spanish only, never reads a
newspaper, and while the nation has
sung the praises of the hero of Atlanta
the Spanish maiden knows nothing of
him from the day he left her. She still,
although long past her youth, waits for
the return of the man whose image has
never left her heart.
But in spite of the separation of the
sweethearts that rose tree throye and
waxed great. Now its branches have
spread until they form beautiful bow
er over the doorway of the old Spanish
mansion. Here the dona, sole survivor
of her race, sits and waits, silent and
alone, for the return of him who can
not come. Under the bower of roses due
to her lovers care she stood recently
and permitted her portrait to be taken.
She is still very beautiful in spite of the
ravages of time and secret sorrow.