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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11

LANCASHIRE INSURANCE CO., of
Manchester, England.
Kansas risks written during
year 1898. Observation-Disclosures IT'S, SAT 90
thereon .................... 1851 80
Kansas losses incurred. 1857 81
Dividends paid in 1898. Observation-Disclosures.
Gross assets ........... 1890, 3S9 IS
stock $780,, o5s. "a
Income 2,O47 ,267 ga
Expenditures .. 1866, 342. 81
1888 ..................... 1878, 7sS. 81
JAS. H. NEUVE, State Agent,
St. Louis, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The Informal club gave their regular
dancing party at Hudson's hall Friday
evening. This is the last of a series of
parties which has been thoroughly en-
joyed by all who have attended.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. G..
S. Eagle, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Eastman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Freeman, Mr. and
Mrs. l. S Ferry, Mr.. and Mrs. H. L.
Hall, Judge and Mrs. J. B. Furry, Mr..
and Mrs. L. L. Korn, Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
L. King. Mr. and Mrs. A. r. Lingafelt.
Mrs. F. J. Shubert, Mr.. and Mrs. L. G.
Tuttle, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Webb,
Mr.. and Mrs. N. S. Wear, Mr.. and Mrs.
H v. Hinckley, Mr.. and Mrs. w. J.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Downing, Misses
Bessie and Kittie Pennell of Atchison,
Miss Norma Wheeler of Kansas City,
Miss Edna McClintock, Miss Susie Gay,
Miss Gertrude Devereux. Miss Hila
Hinckley, Miss Ivah Davis, Miss Lillian
Tefft, Miss Bessie Stewart, Mr.. Dick
Alden, Mr. Edward Dennis, Mr.. r. M
Ruggles, Mr.. Austin Brady, Mr.. Lon
Davis, Mr.. Pierre Allaire, Mr.. Frank
Davis, Mr.. Lew Graham, Mr.. Welcome
of Wisconsin, Mr.. Jim Clay, Mr.. Hal
Hazlett, Mr.. Adrian Sherman, Mr.. Joe
Morgan. Mr.. Charlie Lagerstrom and
Mr.. viii Wikidal.
A Birthday Party.
Miss Henrietta Alexander celebrated
her tenth birthday Friday afternoon
by entertaining twenty of her friends
from until at her home on Topeka
avenue. Games were played, refresh
ments were served and a jolly good
time was had by everyone present.
The guests were Alice Willard, Ruth
Brown, Josephine Norton, Helen Stew
enson. Mary MacLennan, Bernice
Healy, Susie Rodgers, Jean Rodgers,
Esther Rodgers, Rachel McGihert,
Juanita Lord, Eugenia Quinton, Virgil
Cain, Frances Bonebrake, Frances Will
lard. Bruce Willard, George Willard,
Clyde Bonebrake, Francis Joslin and
Harvey Dinner.
The Viennese Club Party.
The Viennese club gave their usual
pleasant party Friday evening. Those
present were Miss Elizabeth Cole of
Girard, Miss Bessie Gleason of Seneca,
Miss Anna Cavert of Nashville, Tenn,
Miss Ethel Leek of Oxford, Pa, Mrs.
George Melvin of Washington Court
House, O., Miss Jessie Warner of Chi
cago, Miss Vida Wood, Miss Mabel
Wood, Miss Roberta WATSON, Miss Ida
Stage. Miss Belle Stage, Miss Emma
Dennis, Miss Ethel Wilson, Miss May
Wilson, Miss Jessie Stultz, Miss Ruby
Roark, Miss Edna Carpenter, Miss
Maud Van Houten, Miss Eda Smythe,
Mr.. Paul Roehr, Mr.. Will Hilton, Mr..
Fred Gahagen, Mr.. Allen Lauck, Mr..
Harvey Davis, Mr.. George Barry, Mr..
Malcolm Gerard, Mr.. George Duden,
Mr.. Ralph Van Houten, Mr.. Herbert
Robinson, Mr.. Sheldon Wentworth, Mr..
Hal Niles, Mr.. Otis Dalton, Mr. Louie
Felt, Mr.. Roger Van Hook, Mr.. Phil
Daley. Mr.. Clark Daley and Mr.. Ev-
erett Akers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11
Ranea of Pricaa.

Range of Prices.
Furnished by E. NJ. Strawn Broker
age Co.. Room Central National Pank
Bldg, Seventh and Kansas ave-. Topeka,
kan.
II qoIBV 'o9BolQO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11
INSURANCE STATEMENTS.

LONDON & LANCASHIRE FIRE IN
SURANCE CO., of Liverpool, Eng.
In Kansas, risks written
during year 1898. ........ s5ss. 1888. 90
In Kansas, premiums re-
ceived thereon ............ S,348. 10
In Kansas. losses incurred 2645.6 81
Dividends paid in 1898, none.
Gross assets ................. Z,S15,6So-O
stock /, 737, 318. Sc
Income - 1 1902, 613. II
Expenditures ~ L ,S23, 949. 81
Total premiums received in
1898 4,Ioo,o4A'oV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-03-11

NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of
New York.
Risks written during year
1898 5000. 937, PSI 90
Premiums received thereon 1892 IS
Losses incurred ........... S46, 247 56
Dividends paid in 1898 So 900. 90
Gross assets - 27S8, TAI .04
Liabilities Except capital
stock ........... 2,2SS, TAI 04
Income Observation-Disclosures. 1852, 476. Al
Expenditures . 1880, ST.. %
Total premiums received in
1893 1902, 259. IA
F. w. BENEDICT, State Agent,
Lawrence, Kan.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
GENERAL LAwToN's DEATH.

General Lawton, whose death at the
head of his command was recorded yes
terday, was one of the most striking
personalities in the United States army.
He never bothered about the justice or
injustice of the cause, the correctness
of the policies he had TO support-their
discussion and settlement he left to civ
ilians who are free to express them
selves for or against the party in
power.
He never shirked responsibility,
however, but his duty was TO perform
the functions of our fighting machine.
He did his duty and did it well. The
Philippine war was not of his making,
but he was a soldier and soldiers are
not to reason why; theirs but to do
and die" Wherever there was fighting
was Lawton TO be found. War was his
business; fighting was his profession.
Such men are sent to death in all coun-
tries and in all ages by designing and
ambitious politicians
He was a leader the army in the
Philippines can i'll afford TO lose. He
understood guerilla warfare. He was
an Indian fighter of experience, super
ior judgment, and rare combination of
caution and courage. Personally he
was Indifferent to danger, yet no gen.
eral was more careful of his troops. He
often exposed himself recklessly, which
may have been a failing, considering
the fact that his ability was needed to
plan while the army executed, but his
men were never unnecessarily exposed.
The regular army mourns one of its
most gallant and distinguished leaders.
The volunteers have looked upon him
as an ideal soldier, and his death is
like the breaking of an idol of hero
worshipers everywhere. The nation
feels its loss and public men who knew
him wonder who there is to take the
place of General Lawton.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
ROBERTS AND CONGRESS.
The Committees Mistake.
Boston Herald.)

Tine. special committee on the Roberts
affair is having difficulty in making out a
case against Mr.. Roberts by conducting
Its hearing in judicial manner. and yet
it would seem to be impossible for it to
report against his taking his seat I'M
less it has such testimony. Its members
find "hearsay'' evidence only, and act
ing. as they are. as a judicial body, they
cannot condemn him on this. They are
proving themselves, what the Herald
laid down as the correct doctrine on
which to act in the beginning that
there is no evidence in Washington
which justifies Mr.. Roberts being de-
MED the taking of his seat. We said
also at the time that the members who
voted against him probably knew this.
but were prevented from acting on their
judgment by the fear of the popular
action against polygamy. One of the
southern members is quoted as having
said on this point: IF were to take
stand antagonistic to the wishes of the
great mass of my constituents in regard
TO the Roberts case, when the next cam
paign comes on 1 wouldn't get 800 votes
in my district Yet this man knew
that, rightly regarded, polygamy was
not in issue in the affair The only issue
then was on the right to have a man
sworn into his seat if he presented what
the constitution had defined TO be the
proper credentials. Polygamy might
properly be brought into consideration
later, but it was not appropriate at that
stage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
STABILITY OF THE STANDARD,

There is nothing stable about cur
rency system for America, England,
Germany and Russia that can be snak-
en- by 10000 Dutch peasants in the
heart of Africa. And yet there are
grave ard learned financiers who SOL
EMMY assure us that Great Britain
the home of trade, the center of COM
merce, the ruler of the financial world
the mistress of the seas with argosies
in every current and sails in every
breeze, our financial model. in fact
is on the verge of a money panic.
Great Britain, the hope of the gold
standard, the government after which
Mark Hanna fain would moda our
own, the land to which Mckinley looks
for an approval of his policies. the
source of inspiration for goldbugs and
imperialists. is in gloom because a
handful of farmers and sheepherders
in the African interior-worthy of emu
lation in this respect, at least-refuse to
submit to her dictation-
The financial system of Great Britain
with her 4e.OO0.OOO of people at home
and her $50. 100000 OF subjects scattered
over the earth-is shaken by the oppo-
sition of $4,000 farmers whom she would
have us believe are most undeserving
and ignorant.
Stocks are falling, interest rates in
oreasing. banks are locking UP their
vaults. exchange rates have leaped like
rockets sending warning to the finan-
cial world.
1T is no secret" says one OF the lead
ing financial authorities of Great Brit
ain. in statement cabled TO this coun-
try yesterday. that some big firms
were helped over at the last settlement.
and there was much forced selling of
stock yesterday, with the evident idea
of not maintaining Il false position any
longer. The last account of the year
will bring a crop of failures. This is in
evitable, but it IS unwise 10 place re-
lance upon absurd inventions or to
consider that while there are natural
financial difficulties arising out of dear.
money and lower prices. there must
necessarily be a real financial crisis"
Here is England with untold wealth
and the single gold standard, with an
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
What Gould He Dop
Oetroit Free-Press.l

lDetroit Free-PreSs.)
That a man should think several times
before he speaks never impressed me so
strongly as it did the other day." re-
marked a well known young man.
What's the trouble?' questioned a
friend.
We'll. it don't amount to much" con-
tlnued the young man. But it will serve
as an example tor me. You know Jones?
Wen, II you know Jones he has probably
borrowed enough money from you to give
you reason TO remember him. Yes Well
lent Jones 50 not long ago and the other
DAY he met me on the street. l thought
It was fer another touch and got awfuliy
busy right away
" Say said Jones. have you got IS
bill about your
Il hurriedly told him that L was dead
broke and continued on my journey.
Well. cried Jones, when / was a few
feet away. i thought if you had s.. I've
got a $40 bill here and could paw YOU
what owe you, He shook the money
at me. but hurried on. ard 1 cursed my
luck | met him yesterday again, and he
popped similar question at me. / pulled
out some money, selected a five, thinking
he was going to give me a ten in return
Let me have that until next week. old
man, he remarked. and what could 1
do?''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
CONTRACTING THE CURRENCY.

The greenhacks, the best paper the
world ever saw. the product of the pa
triotism and craftsmanship of the Re-
publican party in the days of Abra-
ham Lincoln, are to be virtually des-
troyed by being changed into gold GER
tificates, TO be locked up in the treas
ury and paid out only for gold
The foregoing is an extract from the
address recently issued by Senator Tel
Ter and the men who walked out of
the st. Louis convention with him in
1896.
1t was the Republican party that paid
the Union soldiers in greenbacks and
afterwards robbed them of one-fourth
of their value. Afterwards when the
bankers had gathered up the green
backs from all over the country at a
% per cent discount the value was re-
stored and paper money was worth
more in the hands of the Insurers than
it was worth in the hands of the vet
Grams.
What is the object of this proposition
to impound the greenbacks as fast as
they can be corralled? 1t is TO still
further contract the currency. Owing
to accidental causes there is more
money in the country than the wreck
ers had counted on. By retiring green
backs and forcing gold to take their
place and perform the work that they
are doing is another drain upon the
Inadequate supply of gold for which all
gold standard countries are now
scrambling. India has begun to hoard
gold as basis for her new system OF
finance; the Bank of England is lock-
ing up all the British fnaneiers can
get their hands on; Germany is forti-
flying herself against a drain to Eng
land; gold is already crossing the At
lantic from this country; the South
American republics are having gold
panic which will have to be relieved;
still our lawmakers are retiring green
backs and eliminating silver as a ba-
sic money that the currency may be
further contracted in spite of the in
creased output of gold. that money may
be made scarcer and dearer, harder for
the producer to get and more valuable
to the man who deals in money as a
commodity.
The object is to decrease the money:
increase the burdens of debt-to rob
the people and pay the Wall street
brokers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
Hypocrisy a Fine Art.

AOIudlid W OrlC-t1erdlu-D
When Mr.. Roberts of Utah stood
upon the floor of the house and de-
clared that President Mckinley had ap-
pointed polygamists to federal office in
Utah. the administration press entered
vigorous denial of the charge and as
serted that Roberts was guilty of false
hood But it seems that Roberts was
correct in his statements. The Wash
ington correspondent of the Chicago
Record teIegraphed to his paper on Dec
il that president William Mckinley has
started u vigorous personal campaign TO
crush out polygamy- in Utah. and then
goes on to say that number of Mormon
postmasters will be fired out without loss
Of time. The postmasters TO be dis
charged and punished are polygamists, a
number of whom were appointed by the
present administration, and two or three
of them by President Mckinley. OF
course. the administration organs will
now declare that the president did not
know, when he appointed these men,
that they were polygamists, but Rob-
erts charges that the facts were
brought to the presidents attention be-
fore the appointments were made. These
men were made postmasters for ''politi-
cal reasons and now that the admins
tration is convinced that it will be good
politics" TO Gust them the ousting process
will begin. AS long as it Injured to the
benefit of the administration to retain
these polygamous postmasters the fact
that they were polygamists cut no figure.
Now that it will benefit the administration
to put on a virtuous air and denounce
polygamy the postmasters will have to
go. The present administration is bring
ing hypocrisy down to a, fine art.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21

the situation offers, and some Of which
he has worked out in Twelfth Night
But the charm of Viola is of a depend
ent kind. to'which a little ridicule is
not fatal. 1t may be thought that she
keeps Orlando too long in suspense, but
IL must be remembered that till their
second meeti6g there has been no word
OF love between them; that she has TO
assure herself of his feelings and her
own, and that the wooing is real WOO
ing to her-and. in short, the situation
has charms Of its own which no witty
woman could forego.-J. C. Smith.
The two cousins. Rosalind and Celia.
seem at first glance like variations o.,
the two cousins. Beatrice and Hero. in
the play Shakespeare had just finished.
Rosalind and Beatrice in particular are
akin in their victorious wit. Yet the
difference between them is very great;
Shakespeare never repeats himself. The
wit of Beatrice is aggressive and chal-
longing; we see, as it were. the CLEAN
of rapier in it. Rosalind's wit is gay
ETY. without sting; the CLEAN in it is
of that sweet radiance which Oehlen-
schlager attributed to Freia: her spor-
tive nature masks the depth of her
love. Beatrice can be brought to love
because she is a woman, and stands in
no respect apart from her sex, but she
is seized with a passion for Orlando the
instant she sets eyes on him. From the
moment of Beatrice's first appearance
she is defiant and combative, in the
highest of spirits. We are introduced to
Rosalind as poor bird with dropping
wing; her father is banished. she is be-
reft of her birthright, and is living on
sufferance as companion TO the usurp-
er's daughter. being. indeed. half a
prisoner in the palace where, till lately,
she reigned as princess. 1t is not until
she has donned the doublet and hose.
appears in the likeness of a page and
wanderS at her own sweet will in the
open air and the greenwood that she
RECEIVERS her radiapt humor. and rogu-
ish merriment flows from her lips like
the trilling of bird.-George Brandes.
Note-A paper on the musical struc-
ture of CAS- You Like It" by DR.. Egan
of the Catholic University. of America
will be presented on Monday next.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21

neighbor as thyself'-how selfistnness
complexities the plot-may it not be
that AS You Like It is a divine mo-
rality. as well as a charming play!
, ('-Morality' is here used in the old
dramatic sense of a play meant TO en-
force moral truth or lesson.)
And Lady Martin. who had PERSONAL
ed the heroine of the play in manner
to charm all who were so fortunate as
to see her on the stage, remarks:
ITO me AS You Like Tt seems to be-
as much a love poem as Romeo and
Juliet with this difference-that it
deals with happy love, while the Vero-
neSe story deals with love crossed by
misadventure and crowned with death.
1t is as full of Imagination of the glad
rapture of the tender passion, of its i'm.
pulsiveness. its generosity, it's pathos.
No 'hearse-Ijke airs, indeed. come
wailing by, as in the tale of those star
crossed lovers to warn us of their too
early overthrow All is blended into a
rich, harmonious music which makes
the heart throb, but never makes it
ache. Still the love is not less deep,
less capable of proving itself strong as
death; neither are the natures of Or
lando and Rosalind less touched to all
the fine issues of that passion than
those of Juliet and her Romeo Is not
love, indeed-love, too. at first. sight
the pivot on which the action of the
play turns? Does it not seem that the
text the poet meant to illustrate was
that which he puts into Phebe's mouth,
Who ever loved that loved not at first
sight?'"
AS another critic (Henry Morley has
said:
In AS You Like It there are two
discords; each is between brother and
brother, each is at the outset fierce.
They are set in a play filled with tho
harmonies of life and are themselvesi
reduced to music in the Close
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
Tried the Switch On His Own Leg.


Six or eight years ago. said Attorney
General Walker of New York. the other
day at the Brown Palace, Senator Bey-
erldge was pracIicing law in Indianapolis,
When school mistress, who was men,
Der of Meridian Street church was arrest
ed for whipping a boy. Beveridge was a
member OF the same congregation and he
offered TO defend her as personal friend.
one of the points brought out against the
teacher was that she had raised welts
upon the pupils legs.
Beverage possesses a great deal of dig
nifty and under ordinary circumstances he
maintains that sort of an attitude, but
this was a time for unbending and he
knows how to get down off his perch and
get next to the people if he wants to.
The young attorney got possession of the
very switch the schoolmarm had used on
the unruly youngster and took it into
court In the midst of his argument he
furnished such surprise as is rarely
given TO a jurynan.
You have heard great deal of talk.
gentlemen or the jury began Beveridge,
about the immense weits this petite
woman has raised upon the legs of this
young upstart over on the other side of
the room. | wish to protest that il takes
very slight blow from a birch stick to
raise a welt, and l could do so on any
one OF You without causing the least
tremor of pain. Is there anyone of you.
gentlemen. who would like to expose the
calf of his leg for a few moments that I
may have a chance to demonstrate my
Counsel for the school teacher paused
for minute while the jurymen blushed
and looked nervousiy at each other Then
ne reached down and pulled up his own
troEser leg in the presence of the court
After administering several weak blows
on the calf he exhibited several good
sized welts on the cuticle passing him.
s sS.r along no;a to the twelve jurymen that
mat was enough. Beveridge won his case
ana ne got a unanimous verdict
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
WALL STREET RULES.

Gage has gone to the rescue Of the
stock gamblers again. Thrice they
have called and thrice he has re-
sponded.
1t is a shameless thing for him TO do
and a shameful prostitution of the gov
eminent for the benefit of spectators.
1t is all the more disgraceful because
the president required it DONE
So long as the national treasury,
which the people are filling through
various channels of taxation, is held
subject to the demands of Wall street
wreckers and trust manipulators. the
influences behind the administration
will threaten and thrive at the expense
of the government.
1t is most hun2iliating to see a presi-
dent and secretary of the treasury
dancing all the time while Wall street
brokers pull the strings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-21
SOME GOOD SHORT STORIES.
Power of the Imagination.

(Medical Press)
The influence of the imagination is a
factor with which physicians have to
reckon very largely. and in the minor all
ments OF life. at any rate, the most sue
the faculty OF inspiring coincidence in
himself TO begin with, and then in the
treatment he advises. A recent number
of the Psychological Review relates an
interesting experiment made by Mr.. Slos-
son with the view OF demonstrating how
easily this faculty can be called into play.
In the course of q popular lecture he pre-
sented 10 his audience a bottle contain
tanning distilled water which ne I'M
corked with elaborate, precautions. and
then, watch in hand, he asked those pres
ent to Indicate the exact moment at
which the peculiar odor was perceived by
them. Within fifteen seconds those i'm
mediately in front of him held up their
hands and within forty seconds those at
the other end of the room declared that
they distinctly perceived the odor. There
was an obstinate minority largely COM
posed of men, who Stoutly declared their
inability TO detect any odor. but Mr..
Slosson believes that many more would
have given in had he not been compelled
to bring the experiment to a close within
a minute of opening the bottle, several
persons in the front rank finding the odor
SO powerful that they hastily quilted the
lecture room. 1t would have been inter-
eSting to know the attitude of the audi
enee on learning the liberty that had
BEEN taken with their maginations, but
on this point. unfortunately, the report is
silent.