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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
MRS. FLAGLERsINSANE.
Wife of the Standard Oil Magnate
Haunted by Peculiar Decisions

New York July 1S.-AIrs. Ida A FlagIer,
ard oil company, is hopeIessiy insane She
is in Dr. Carlos +. MacDonald's sanitari-
UNI at Pleasantvile, near West Plains.
place before commissioners ana a jury So
that she may be legally adjudged incOm-
petent, in order that a committee to take
charge Of her person and estate may be
Mrs .Flagler's mental condition viii be
learned with regret BY her friends and
those of her husband. The fact that she
is insane has been carefully concealed
According to DR.. Macdonald. there are
many phases of Mrs Flaglers condition
incompetent to manage either herself or
her affairs in consequence of her mental
one of chronic delusional insanity. This
shows itself in various ways, one of which
is imagining that she is being prosecuted.
In an affidavit made by DR.. Macdonald.
under the belief that she is the Princess
Ida Alice Van Shotten Teck, and that she
bears evidence of royal heritage in her
arm.
She also, entertains a delusion, that. eff
forts are being made to poison her; that
she was never married to Mr.. Flagler;
also that her husband is dead. She be-
Heyes at um TINES, that she she IS much "a younger
In addition TO these decisions the ply
stefan says she ina gines that the Car of
Russia intends to marry her. She i'm
AGNES also that she holds communica-
tions with him frequently through an I'M
stl another delusion is that she was di-
WI ecu II p4ll MI r Las IeI lWO years az
and will never see him again. She has a
delusiOn that her brother Charles Francis
Adams ShrOuds, a Boston merchant is a
judge of the United States supreme court,
and that he was instrumental in obtain
ing the divorce for her.
She also believes she is a great musician
and poet. and beyond this she collects
large quantities of stones and pebbles,
which she regards as rare and Valuable
Under the delusion that they are of such
great worth that they can be sold for
large sums of money.
Her marriage to Mr.. F'lagIer took place
on June ., 1888. The couple have no chill
dren- Mrs Flagler has in her own right
property valued at $1,000. 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
GOLD STATUE DEAL.
Colorado's Cast of Maude Adams viii
Cost Over 100000

Denver, Col, July 18.-The solid gold
statue of Maude Adams, to represent
the great gold state of Colorado at the
Paris exposition, will be cast. That
was settled at a meeting of the Colo
RADIO commissioners and Sculptor Hig-
bee today when the contract was
signed.
Twelve hundred pounds of gold avoir
dupois will be required to make the
figure, and the cost completed viii be
over S4O0, 900.
Higbee, who represents the American
agrees to purchase the bullion, COM
plete the statue and deliver it to the
Colorado commissioner at the Paris ex-
position not later than April l, 1900.
Remuneration in installments to the
amount of 81 coo shall be paid to the
American Gold Statue company upon
delivery.
The figure will be on exhibition in the
Colorado department and after the
exposition closes viii be shown through
out the world for a period of two years
under the management of Higbee's
company, which is to have all the gate
receipts. 1t viii at all times be ex-
hibited as THE Colorado Gold Statue, -
the idea being to advertise the gold
mining industry of the state
Colorado, by the contract, gets the
privilege of leasing the statue for ex-
hibitiOn at the Ohio centennial expOsi-
ton of 1902 and the St. Louis Louisiana
purchase centennial exposition of 1903
on payment of an additional IS, 900 to
the American Statue company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
SNUBS FOR MILES.
His Humiliation Said to Have Been
Planned by Alger.

Washington, D. C., July 18-By the or
ders of Secretary Alger General Miles was
given terrific snub during the absence
of the secretary at Long Branch, which
administered by subordinates. The gem
eral was acting secretary of war, accord
ing to President Mckinley'S order, but
things We're 50 arranged that he was com
officers. The humiliation, while petty.
was complete and premeditated. and it
has caused a scandal in the department
which may hurry the departure of Secre-
tary Alger from the cabinet.
General Miles is not faVorite with the
adm1nlstra ton at large, owing to his per-
SOnal loneliness about matters of eti-
Quette. but even officials who do not ad-
panied and shocked at the slight put upon
him by the Secretary'S orders. The bust
ness OF the department was of the VerieSt
routine character but matters were so
the general for his signature acting
secretary of war. He was ignored as com
pletely as if he had been an outside clerk.
Papers which ordinarily would go to the
secretary'S office were Intentionally held
over to await the return of Secretary Al
ger, and the routine work Of the depart
ment was delayed a whole day for the
sole purpose of snubbing the general He
has been ignored so long that he took the
insult Is matter of course, and sat
quietly at his desk, ready for the hum
drum official work which was painfully
absent.
Such a thing has not happened before
in a government department in the mem
DRY Of the oldest officials and even the
enemies or the general are wondering that
Secretary Alger should have been willing
to carry his enmity to such extremes.
General Miles was acting secretary of
war, but the real head of the department
was his subordinate, AdJutant General
Corbin, and this fact was painfully appar-
enL TO every one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18

sible. and here again Washington over
ruled his suggestion.
Naturally the Washington officials
were unwilling to have the people know
that they had refused to follow Dewey S
advice and accordingly the matter was
kept quiet. No one in authority, from
the president down, had any wish to
appear antagonistic to the admirals
opinions. Every one was quick to real
lie that in the eyes of the American
people his word has weight and they
did not want to run their heads against
q stone wall. Consequently his message
was never made public.
AS an instance of how little attention
Admiral Dewey pays to the interference
with his work occasionally attempted
by the navy department, General
Reeves told a story which was current
at Manila before he left that city He
did not, however, vouch for the truth
of the incident.
The admiral, it seems, had purchased
somewhere a large quantity of coal,
much larger quantity. in fact than the
navy department officials thought he
needed. They Immediately cabIed him
demanding to know for what purpose
the coal had been bought. The answer
was terse and unsatisfactory. Dewey
simply replied, ITO burn and let it go
at that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18

nervous, petulant and Respondent.
Generally ill-health in a woman is due to
disorders or arrangements of the delicate
and important feminine organs which are
the cradle of the race No woman who suf-
feTS in this way can retain her good looks
or her attractiveness. The daily burden of
torturing, dragging pains that she carries,
will soon make her a physical wreck, and
eventually either kill her OF drive her to
insanity Any woman may restore and re-
tain her health and strength in a womanly
way by the use of DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription 1t cures absolutely and COM
p1etely the weakness and diseases peculiar
to her sex. 1t does away with the neces-
sity for the obnoxious examinations " and
local treatments - insisted upon by nearly
all physicians, and enables her to treat her
self in the privacy of her home. 1t is the
invention Of DR.. R. v. Pierce, for thirty
years chief consulting physician to the
Inva1ids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at
Buffalo, N. Y. Any woman may consult
him by letter free of charge. All cores
poudence sacredly confidential
Il was sicxly for sixteen years with prolap-
sus, weakness disagreeable drain pain in the
small of my back and costiveness, - writes Mrs.
Mary AShiin, of Barrozett, Barron Co, Wis.
Prescription I could not sit up. After taking it
for one week got up and did my Homework I
have taken four bottles of the FavoTite Prescrip-
ton one bottle Of the Golden Medical Discov-
erv' and three bottles of the Pleasant Pellets
These medicines have cured me. I feel as well
as I ever did. Seven of the best doctors in the
land treated my case, but gave me no relief"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
HE STOLE SI5O,OOO.
Yet Young Valentine Had Only Seven
Cents When ARE sted.

New York, July 1S.-In wrecking the
MiddleseX County bank at Perth Am
boy, N. J., George NJ. Valentine may
not only earn a long term in prison, but
will probably shorten the life Of his
mother
Grief and worry over the unexpect-
ed-and, to her, unaccounta ble-crime
of her son has made her seriously i'll,
and physicians in attendance said she
had been attacked by nervous prostra-
ton and that her condition was criti-
cal
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert NJ Valentine,
the parents of the confessed embezzler,
live at Woodbridge, about two miles
from Perth AmbOy- They are regarded
there as Well-tO-dO, and are among the
most respected residents of the town.
Mrs. Valentines distress since the
disgrace of her son became known has
been pitiful. She made q great effort
to retain her strength and self-pOsse-
sion today and succeeded in going to
New Brunswick with her husband to
see the prisoner. She collapsed when
she returned to her home. Her nus
band was little better off. Both had
given way under the weight of grief
which had come upon them so unex-
pectedly.
Valentines first Sunday in Jail was a
very quiet one. His wife, whose deVo-
ton has never wavered, and who SEEM
ingly fOrgets his crime in her great love
for him, was with him during the great
er part of the day.
After his father and mother arrived,
all had dinner in the upper corridor of
the jail. While they were at the table,
the Women's Christian Temperance un-
ion held services in the lower corridor
for the benefit of the prisoners.
Valentine is overwhelmed with re-
morse and keenly realizes the disgrace
which he has brought upon his family
by his folly.
It is the general impression that he
will sign a petition for immediate trial.
of the $3.50. 900 which he stole, Valentine
did not save a dollar. The money was
spent in dribIets in Wall street, and
when arrested the embezzlel had only
cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
WHY DEWEY BOUGHT COAL
Gen Reeves Tells of a Terse Reply
the Admiral Made to Washington.

Minnea polls, July 1S.%The Times
says: General Nee. Reeves does not
give much credit to the recently pub
hshed reports of friction between Dewey
and the authorities at Washington. He
says that Dewey is far too big a man
to allow himself to be placed at a dis
advantage, but at the same time says
that the admirals advice relative to
affairs in the Philippines has been en-
tirely ignored.
Admiral Dewey advised the govern
ment to enlist native Philippine troops
and officer them from the regular army.
This suggestion was not adopted, not
withstanding the fact that a similar
course is invariably pursued by all 9TH
er civilized nations in their warfare
against barbarOus or semibarbarOus
people. He advised also that local self
government be conceded wherever pos
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
from Mrs. Sumter
to Mrs. Plnhhnus.

LETTER TO MRS. P1NKHAM NO. z6,z441
zone year ago last June three doc
tors gave me up to die, and as 1 had at
different times used your Vegetable
Compound with good results, / had too
much faith in it to die until had tried
it again. was apparently an invalid,
was confined to my bed for ten weeks.
Il believe my trouble was liberation of
vvomb).
After taking four bottles of the
Compound and using some of the Liver
Pills and Sanative Wash, at the end of
two months I had greatly improved
and weighed 155 pounds, when never
before weighed over 1873. Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the
best medicine ever used, and I recon-
mend it to all my friends. "-MRs. ANNA
EVA GUNTER, HIGGINsvLLE, Mo.
Mrs. Barnhart Enjoys Life Once More.
F DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM-I had been
sick ever since my marriage, seven
years ago; have given birth to four
children, and had two miscarriages. I
had falling of womb, Ieucorrhoea, pains
in back and legs; dyspepsia and a
nervous trembling of the stomach.
Now 1 have none of these troubles and
can enjoy my life. Your medicine has
worked wonders for ."-MRs. s.
BARNHART. NEW CASTLE, PA.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
PALMER HOUSE SUED.
Mrs. Laura Mclean Asks For $4,000
For Illegal Eviction"

Chicago, July 1S.-AIrs. Laura Mclean,
who claims to be the wife of William S.
Mclean. a tailor at % Monroe street be-
gan suit for SO, 600 dana ges in the su-
perior court yesterday against Potter Pal
mer proprietor and Willis Howe as
manager of the Palmer House The pro-
ceedings were instituted by Attorney
Frank Ives on behalf of Mrs Mclean and
charge that she was unlawfully evicted
from the hotel
The story of the incidents which cul-
minated in the slut are of a rather inter
esting character. and the statement is
made that the action Of Manager Howe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18

Thomas Rhoads.. Centerheld, O., writes:
ct suffered from piles seven or eight years.
Witch Hazel Ssiye: less than a box Of
ing healing. perfectly harmless. Beware
of ceunterfeits. Geo. W. Stansfleld. W
H. Wilson, A J. Arnold < Son, A. J. Kane
& Co
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
A woman

A woman
does not have
to be placed
under an X-ray
70 show to all
beholders that
she is suffer
ing from ill
Il e a1th. Ill
health marks
a woman much
more quickly
than it does a
man 1t de-
S Us the
sparkle in her
eye, the bloom
of health on
her cheek, her
Wv city of
manner, b er
sprightliness
of carriage and
m a q . hR-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
n TALL KINDS SOUTHWESTERN
UUd ALL ALL R PIM5S +. FUEL !, CO. co: =

was due to allegations made by Mr.. Nc
Lean, who is said to have told him that
the woman was not in fact Mrs. Mclean
It is said that for nearly two years, while
at different hotels where the two stop
ped, Mr.. Mclean always registered as
Mr.. and Mrs. Mclean and that he intro
duced her as such. For some time. how
ever it is said that quarrels have been Of
frequent occurrence and that Mr.. Mclean
has shown a disposition to avoid her.
Gun-shot wounds and powder burns.
cuts bruises sprains, wounds from rusty
nails, insect stlngs and ivy poisoning
quickly healed by DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Saive. Positively prevents blood poison
ing. Beware Of counterfeits DeWitt.s
h Wilson. A J. Arnold & Son, a. J.
Kane & Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18
SMOKE
-KLAUER'S GOLD BUG.

Z MRS. WINSLOW's SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their
CHILDREN WHILE TEETaINGs with
CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS. AL
LAYS all PAIN, CURES WIND COLIC
and is the best remedy for DIARRH OEA-
Sold by Druggists IN every part of the
world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. VIM
slows Soothing Syrup" and take no other
kind. IWenty-aYa cents bottle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18

Fire. Tornado, Life and Accident.
Good territory and liberal contract to
first-class man to represent the old re-
liable Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.
GOSSETT & BLAKELX,
519 Kan. Ave. (Dudley's Bank(.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-18

Collars and cuffs laundered to look
like new by Peerless Steam Laundry,
112 and ia West Eighth street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
When Are Women "oldvp
0ondon GIobe.)

According to the advertisements for
head-mistresses of girls schools in the
educational journals. it would appear that
80 is still considered in some quarters as
the age after which women are regarded
as unit to take up serious responsibility.
This absurd prejudice is an old-fashioned
remnant of the ideas of the eighteenth
century, when. as writer in the Com
temporary points out, men and women of
40 and 30 were always spoken of as
aged. and unmarried ladies of g were
looked upon as hopeless old maids. A
hundred years ago children of 6 were
supposed to have developed a moral sense.
as all the grown-up books for little bows
and girls published in those days prove to
US: Stories of horrible little prigs of
scnool girls who set examples at the
age of 10 were common, and at is girl
was supposed TO relieve her exhausted
mother of housework, and to brighten her
fathers declining years until she should
be thought worthy to be the wife of some
worthy young man, with whom she was to
sink into premature old age. Nowadays
all that is changed, and the period of
youthfulness has been largely extended
AT 10 a girl is still child. and at 20 she
Is still girl. Even at so she is not upon
the shelf. while the modern mother, so far
from being decrepit when her daughters
are grown up. generally looks upon that
as reason for renewing, her own youth.
Greater mental activity has given fresh
ness and interest to life. and since girls
have been taught to use their brains the
conception of the necessary
failure of power after So has become alb
srrr6
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31


had mat Of the white satin which had
been used for her wedding dress, and
across one corner was a bit of the lace
with which the dress was trimmed
To sister she gave a picture also
mounted in the white satin. but with a
design of orange blossoms embroidered
upon it: while the mount for the one
gwen her maid of honor was of the white
satin embroidered with a graceful spray
of bride roses
Friends less near received pictures
mounted with the goods which had gone
10 make up the different gowns of her
rrosseau- The mount made from the ma
terial of her going away gown had
forget-me-nots embroidered in small scat
tered sprays. while some of the silks and
figured goods were made up plain. being
sufficiently decorative in themselves
In each case the mounted picture was
bound to the glass with narrow strip
of soft leather in shade to correspond
with the color of the mount. Upon the
back of each was plainly written the
name and the date of the wedding
1t is needless to state that the gifts
were priced as the pictures alone never
could have been. and it is safe TO pre-
dict that other brides viii follow the
graceful fashion.
JULIA D. COWLES.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

insensible from pain and have not been
able to eat or sleep for the horrible
anguish ever since" came filtered
through a lace edged handkerchief
And how beautifully you do bear it, -
sighed the sympathetic occupant of the
chair.
IF you could have seen me in my
skating dress, Mary" continued the
voice. behind the valenciennes tear
Stauncher THE most becoming thing
I've owned this winter. I'd only had it
or once and-and'-
Il faint gurgle very clearly indi-
eating to the listener that ANOTHER
riedly and automatically inquired:
do tell me what it was like. My
youngest sister is out, you know, this
season: she must have a skating suit
and I am quite put to it for advice to
give ner.'
Tell her to have her skirt only to
the ankle. None of the smart wo-
men are wearing theirs an inch shorter
that is absolutely necessary, respond
ed the hostess. with a sudden return to
fortitude and things of sublimary in
terest. Last winter most of us skated
in golf skirts and red flannel or vel
veteen shirt waists; but this season the
consensus Of opinion seemed to be in
favor of a becoming little gown that
viii not only do for skating but for
bad minton bowling and the like win
Ter sports where one really wants a
short skirt and pretty trimmed
waist -
Sporting Scarlet.
. "On careful investigation of the
whole question, ] discovered that do
what you like, scarlet must play a
prominent part in ones winter sporting
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31
A PROMISING BUD.

they set forth any less sumptuouS re-
! Treatments than are regarded as ortho-
! dox for debutante teas and champagne
is the one proper beverage to be poured.
There is no going behind the rule
regarding debutantes' bouquets, and
here we come very often upon a path
etc skeleton in the closet of an ambi-
tious but not too pretty or too popular
social bud. Having issued her cards,
bought her fine gowns and ordered
her delicate wines and viandS, she and
her mother sits with palpitating heart
to watch her bouquets arrive. The
friends of her family and the young
men in the society she is entering are
supposed to send them, and to appear
to proper advantage it is obligatory
that she receive with not one or two
but a dozen huge ynosegays about her.
So obligatory indeed is this feature
of the coming OUT that not one girl
in a dozen ever receives from her adj
mirers half the bouquets she appears
with on her reception day. but stands
embowered in the posies ordered up
from the florist by her diplomatic par
ents. However society enjoys It's self
receptions. and to such an extent has
the bouquet fad grown. that this Win
ter scores of young girls have stood to
receive their friends beside tables
heaped with as many as thirty punches
of the costliest roses and staggering
HELPLESS under the burden of posies in
their arms
When the coming out tea is over then
the debutante enters really on her but
terfiy season of brilliancy and power
If she is to do her family credit, like
a high strung race horse or prima
donna, her health and spirits must be
maintained at concert pitch The fam
lily carriage is put at her command or
she must be given a good margin of
credit at the livery stable, the freedom
of the drawing room, the luxury of
breakfast in bed, the comfort and slim
illus of a maSSeuse, manicure and
hair dresser and first claim on all the
opera, theater and concert seats are
yielded up to her. Having invested a
large sum of money in the making of a
fashionable daughter the wise parents
give her every opportunity and three
months in which to prove the value of
their investments.
OF course this is all very we'll with
parents whose incomes will guarantee
the enormous expenditure entailed by
complete single, campaign, but the
extravagant demands of the ambitious
buds today have forced the merely
we'll to do families into combinations
for mutual protection against the enor-
nous expenses of the initial tea. Two.
three, or even five buds will appear
together at single reception held in
some hosts private drawing room, their
mothers bearing each a portion OF the
costs and thus the effect of a thousand
dollar entertainment is secured at a
third of that sum.