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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

on the various mining markets and the
action of your operators has again been
lions. Holders have been selling Ana
condas all the week and the impression is
who are Interested have now few of these
Nothing better illustrates the determip-
alton of the public to speculate than this
weeks movement in silver and silver
saw a chance there, silver having long
call dealing in bars was started Imme-
and then the Stock Exchange Joined in
Mexican bonds of all sorts and every silver
security that could be found. The mar
be resumed affer Mondays rest. for sta
duction of the metal it is really in short
supply. Besides, it is argued That those
who hold up copper will likewise corner
opened. which, BY the way, they won't be.
we might have the metal at three shillings
per ounce before we could turn around.
It will be Is Sd in another week, other. en-
thuslastlc prophets say and such Falk
Spurts like this little one of this mid
week are useless; they beget no confidence.
upward move and make sensational dashes
with first this share and then the other.
Rd S9e II We o DO nof fe fe to fG9w
shall probab bly, still sell, but strong ad-
vancing market has only to be kept before
our eyes long enough to turn US into buy
We are just now in a mood for the big
gest gamble all round seen here since the
Kafhr boom in 1885. Look how we are
Gont YOU Sh might be tempt edFf to scoop
that market also. It is best left to itself
and the Freneh are are taxing part h in the
gamble with money got from you for Tin
Schroeders are asking for subscriptions
for shares for the amalgamated Copper
company of New Jersey. They will prob
ably get many.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
PERUGINI HERE.
Actor Who Was One of Lillian
RusseIEs Husbands.
He Plays Leading Part In "The
Turtle"
HE is Sill E n T.
S IL E n T.
Does Not Care to Discuss His
Matrimonial Experience.
Very Frenchy Play Fails to
Draw In Topeka.

Signor Perugini, Lillian RusselPs di-
vorced husband her last, up-to-date,
who was seen at the Grand Opera
House Saturday night in the leading
role of The Turtle is just as much
carried away with the idea of import
ing several thousand of the surplus
population of New York city into this
western country as he was at one time
by the charms of the fair queen of
comic opera. In fact, the former tenor
declares that if he was a millionaire
he would forever divorce himself from
everything pertaining to the stage and
devote his time to philanthropy in the
east and agriculture in the west.
'Ah, if I had but a Million" said the
signor in a voice of longing and with
an elevation of the eyebrows. how
many of the poor souls of New York
city I would bring to Kansas and give
them homes. You people here have but
to stamp on the ground, and presto.
you have gold before you. If I had but
a million. or two or three, what phil
anthropy / would show the world,
and again the erstwhiIe operate star
elevated his eyebrows, and sighed.
SignOr Perugini's appearance in The
Turtle marks his first entrance into
dramatic career. He had to abandon
the operate stage because of a slight
deafness, which interfered with his
singing, and he now says that he VIII
stick to the dramatic. Five or six
months I will spend on the stage" said
he, and the remainder of the year L
will devote to saving my soul, and the
signor laughed at his own remark until
the points of his black mustache al
most reached to the lower lashes OF his
eyelids.
Did it grieve you to give up comic
Opera?" was asked.
No, not at all; no grief at giving up
comic opera or anything pertaining to
it, and again the signOr laughed.
Comic opera has no longer any charms
for me, not even personally" he said
But you know" he continued, my
right place was never in comic opera
Grand opera was where 1 rightly be-
longed, and even the lighter operas
comique and not comic operas. Very lit
tie difference. you might say, but L
mean that they did not depend upon
horse play for their humOr. Nowadays,
comic opera is all hOseplay, practical
Iy, and a man to make a success must
be more of knockabout comedian
than a vocalist"
Signor Perugini stUdiously avoids
conversation in reference to the far
Lillian or his divorce from her He
says that because of the nOtoriety
thrust upon him through the divorce
ing anythin printed about MN
in the newspapers If L don't know
what they say don't care" he said.
Signor Perugini's present salary suf-
fers greatly in comparison with the
salary he once commanded in grand
opera. For several years he received
$500 week for his services on the OPP
cratic stage. He is Portuguese on his
fathers side and Irish on his moth
erS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
SONS AND DAUGHTERS
Of the Revolution Gather at Detroit
in Large Numbers

Detroit. Mich, May 1.-The First Con-
gregatiOnal church was crowded last
evening by a congregation comprising
exclusively members of patriotic SOcl-
cites, participant in the religious ser
vice preliminary TO the tenth annual
congress Of the Sons of the American
Revolution Flags were cOnspicuOusly
hung a the front of the church A rep
resentatiOn Of the Liberty bell, sur
rounded by the Is original stars of the
national flag, was suspended over the
altar, and wide bands sOf bunting in
blue. white and yellow. the cOlOrs of
the order. were draped from the central
chandelier to the walls Of the auditor
FUN.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olutiOn and other auxiliary societies.
the Loyal Legion and the G. A. r.
were all represented. Secretary Alger
and Major General Joseph Wheeler
were in the congregation. also a hun
dred delegates to the congress from
other cities
The service was conducted by the
pastor, Rev DR.. Nehemiah Boynton-
The sermon was by the Rev. Rufus
w. Clark, D. D., chaplain of the Ma
tional Society. He preached from the
text from Isaiah 3: They shall fear
the name of the Lord from the west
and His glory from the rising of the
sun
The discourse referred to the years of
revolutionary struggles and especially
its history in Detroit and vicinity. The
speaker eulOgized the conduct of the
war in the west and the subsequent
federation of colonies. even though the
senSibilitieS OF New England seems
shocked over the savage wars. This
and the subsequent requirement of ter
TitOry, including that accomplished in
1895, the speaker asserted to be part OF
the divine plan under which the Amer
lean nation had been the chosen in
strument for fulfIlment of the divine
purposes, because it is the nation which
has had the most to do with the eleva-
tiOn of society.
The business session of the congress
will begin today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
The Turtle.

The much discussed and much criti-
ciized French farce The Turtle reach
ed Topeka Saturday night The audience
that saw 1t was only large enough TO
half fill the Grand Opera House, ana
it was by no means representative
one A scarcity of femininity in its
make up showed that Topeka theater
gOerS. generally, were afraid to trust
Partisan Importation carrying a dis
robing scene and a record of 200 nights
of extraordinary success in New YORK
city.
It may be said at the start that THE
Turtle is indecent. 1t is not made SO
by the much talked of disrObing scene,
which in itself is a harmless affair and
not one-haIf as disturbing to ideas OF
propriety as the suggestion of the
French maid to the lawyer in his search
for his boots But the whole atmosphere
of the farce is more or less tainted, and
every line in its composition, which be-
cause of it's aptness was either laughed
at or applauded, is to use common
term ''smutty." It's best situation from
the standpoint of farcical complications
is where "Champalier" finds himself in
a bedroom with two women, both of
whom have claims upon him, and this
may be taken as a trademark of the
play
The farce is very turtle like in start
ing. For several minutes it proved in
sufferably dull, and when at last the
audience was moved to laughter 1T was
because of a half expressed permission,
gratuitously rendered Madame Cham
palier'' by the divorce specialist, to
consign herself to the Internal regions.
1t was some time between the first and
second ripple of laughter, and then
reference to the nude in art proved the
occasion. Finally the action of the play
changed from the slow to the boisterOus,
and the first act ended in a manner
neither startIingly original or amusing.
The disrobing scene was a part of the
second act, and if any of the audience
expected to see something wicked in
this feature of the farce they must have
experienced a feeling of disappointment.
Miss Evesson discreetly retired behind a
screen after removing her gown, and
then proceeded to hand over the top at
separate moments a silk and lace petit
coat a corset, two white stockings and
a pair of slippers to match. He retire
ment after disposing of her gown shat
tered every precedent identified with
the disrobing of a daughter in the pres
enee OF her mother only, but even the
broadcast of the French farces could
hardly follow the natural in this par
ticular and live. After going this far
and no farther in the separation of her
wearing apparel she gracefully stepped
into a construction of silk and lace and
retired.
Nothing. in fact, can be said against
features have no place upon the stage
But in itself it was really one of the
least suggestive points of the farce
To the credit of the cast presenting
The Turtle" it must be said that what
ever success the individual memb ers
achieved in the respective parts was
due to personal effort alone. The farce
gives its actors but little opportunity.
1t isn't funny, and there are but few
really amusing situations With the
suggestive lines cut out the piece would
die in a week This may not be COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

pantheon of strange gods. Different beasts
and birds in the street, different clothes TO
fOod-the very cOmmOnest things are al
tered; You begin a new life in a new
1t takes time to come to yourself. At
first everything is 50 noticeable that you
come sorted and sifted. Bombay reveals
itself as a city Of monstrous contrasts.
Along the sea front one splendid public
facades, with arch and coIonnade. cupoia
and pinnacle and statuary. At their feet
with leaves. which a days rain would re-
villa. and look out over gardens of heavy
scarlet and purple flowers choking alleys.
lies together in open-fronted rooms, and
filth runs down gullies TO tester in the
sunken street In this quarter you may
Der wool a hand lOom-a skeleton
simple and fragile that a kick would make
you see black smoke belch from a hundred
mills. whose competition cuts the throat
Parsees bowl each other underhand full
pitches and cry Tank you, tank you.
who would like. if only the law would let
hiW to marry babies and burn widows
never let's you forget that it is very
great city. If it had no mills it would be
would be famous for its beauty. And if
it were as ugly as it is fan. it would still
be one of the most astounding collections
of human animals in the world; Forty
languages, II Is said. are hab1tually spoken
in its bazars. That. TO him who under
stands no word of any one of them. is per-
haps more curious than interest ting, but
then every race has its own costume. so
that the streets of Bombay are a kaleido-
scope of vermilion turbans and crimson.
orange and flame color. of men in blue and
brown and emerald waiSte0ats. women in
cherry colored satin drawers mantles,
drawn from the head across the bosom to
the hip, of blazing purple or green that
shines like a grasshopper. II you check
your eye and ask your mind for the mas
ter color in the crowd it is white, white
hordered with brown or fawn or dam
son legs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
MILLS DRY GOODS co.
Some Relations of
Retailing and Advertising.

We take advertising seriousy-with extreme
gravity when pay the bills for it. 1t is object of
socitude and at all times for it both formuates
and the policy of business Idle words
and careless statements have part in it.
If it costs much in money, time and thought,
may not you respect its statements earnest and
truthful?
There is constant succession of strong statements
appearing in advertisements. Suspicious people
may doubt them, incredulous people may wonder at
them ill-informed people may not understand them.
We want a few words with such, namely:
The proper presentation of goods calls for
exaggeration.
Plain truth gives all the needed scope
Some bargains most extraordinary, but wthal
perfectly natural.
Our point is to Intelligent understanding
Of
First-The possibilities of modern merchandising
Second-That command the latest and best mer-
chandisng facilities in small degree
This is the searchlight that will reveal the earnest
of advertising in the future.
THE MILLS DRY GOODS co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
SILVER TO GO HIGHER.
Recent Advance in the White Metal
Started in London

New York. May 1.-The Times London
nancial correspondent ca bles:
This has been a week of speculation in
minor demands in our market. A season
of cheap money has arrived and the con-
vietion that it Will abide throughout the
summer has been deepened by the high
New York exchange, which leads many to
believe that you will have to send US gold
before long It will be enough 10
courage great gamble in all the markets
if you should not withdraw any from
The Bank of England is now collecting
small sums in metal. and this likewise en-
courages US to launch out. None the less
does the open credit market remain Door
and it had to go to the bank for upward
of million pounds help it over the
Stock Exchange settlement. The gambling
which was so brisk some weeks back in
stocks like Spanish As is now unheard of
Al the energy has been concentrated up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
Hanged For Barn Burning.

Memphis, Tenn. May Information
was received in Memphis last night that
Willis See, negro, aged about 30 years,
was taken from the jail at OsceOla.
Ark, Sunday morning al 1 o'clock and
hanged in the jail yard by a mob of
forty men See was in Jail on charge
OF barn burning. After being suspended
in midair twice the negro confessed the
crime of which he was charged and he
was then hanged. Several houses have
been burned in the neighbOrhOod OF Os-
CeOla TecenfI "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
DUE BILLS FOR CUBANS
To Cover Arrears in Pay For Army
Service.

New York, May IA dispatch to the
Tribune from Havana says:
The decision reached by the commit
tee of generals representing the Cuban
army to give each discharged soldier
or officer a certificate fixing the COM
pensatiOn equitably due him, when
Cuban republic shall have been estab-
Hshed, is likely to influence very seri-
ouSly the future course of Cuban poll
tics. For one thing, it will keep the
army intact a political factor, if
each private is adjudged to have a
claim on the future insular government
for arrears at the rate of $50 for each
months service and each major general
at the rate of $500. The army will
naturally endeaYor to hasten the or
ganization of a native state and will
struggle to control its policy and its
purse strings. Necessary delays in sub
StitutiOn of native sovereignty for
American military control Will, of
course, inspire unrest and suspicion in
the breasts of the claimants, whom
common interest will spur into siren
uOuS political activity. Whether the
nom eombatant Cubans can unite suffi-
GENTLY to check the army's influence
and compel it to moderate it's demands
is still a problem. But the certificate
scheme will prove a powerful weapon in
the hands of the army leaders for every
holder of such an L o. U on the still
unOrganized Cuban treasury, can easily
be persuaded that having lived in the
woods and swamps for two years in the
cause Of freedom he is fully entitled to
all the arrearageS a grateful republic
can raise and pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
LEADS THE WORLD.
Montana Shows Greatest Total Min
eral OUTPUT

Butte, Mont. Nay 1.-The annual re-
port of Eugene b Braden of the United
States assay Office, just published,
shows the Montana mineral product for
1898 as follows:
Gold. 253. $50 fine ounces, value So
247 912; silver. 14S1S661 fine ounces.
value 14.159 4s2; copper. PIG. 979 354 fine
pounds. value $26. 1O2, SIC; lead p, 4O3. 592
fine pounds, value $500. 655: total value of
mineral production, S51 319.O67.
The state leads the world in total min
eral output, but is the third state in the
production of gold. Colorado and Cali
rornia leading in that product. Silver in
Montana is entirely a bi-product.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
QUIET MAY DAY
Report From Labor Circles Through
out Europe.

London. May MAY day is proceed
ing quietly here and on the continent
The customary labor demonstration in
London consisted of a procession from
the Thames embankment to Hyde park
There was also a cart horse parade,
the animals being gaily decorated with
ribbons and rOSetteS. This procession
paraded the streets in the south of Lon
don
On the continent work is proceeding
as usual, except in Italy, where the day
is being celebrated a day of rest
There is perfect order everywhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
FIRST SIGHT OF INDIA.

&c. ". Stevens in the London MaiLl
The first sight of India is amazing, en-
traneing. Supplying. OF other countries
you may become aware gradually; Italy
leads up to the Levant and Egypt passes
you on insensibly to the desert. Landed
in Bombay you have strayed into most
elaborate dream. infinite in variety, blur
red with compiexity, gallery of strange
of strange coloFs, a garden of strange
growths. a book of strange questions, a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
Murdered For Revenea

Little Rock. Ark, May News has
been received here of the assassination
in Van Buren, county of the son of
Hugh Patterson who was murdered in
December. 1887. by Lee Mills and viii
Hardin Mills was hanged while a few
days ago Hardin was shot to death in
jail It is believed that young Patter-
son was murdered by friends of Hardin
in revenge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

The following programme will be
given at the regular meeting of the
Stedman club this evening:
Paper. Mrs. P. H. Coney
Poem. Mrs W. E. Atchison
Poem Mrs. Aida Otis
Poem. Mrs. Sarah Hargreaves
Poem. Observation-Disclosures Mrs L. L. Case
Poem. Mrs ]. R. Hague
Reviews.
Responses to roll call, My Native
81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
Ice. Ice. Ice.

Telephone r. E Jones Phone 430 and
get prompt delivery, courteous treat
ment, full weight and best Ice at bot
tom prices. Office III E. Norris, North
Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

You will have no more saw edges on
your collars if you will send them to
the Peerless Steam Laundry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
a Deaf Actor.

George Holland, the man who took
the part of ''Briquet" in The Turtle
was at one time a member of the stock
company at the Chestnut Street theater
in Philadelphia, managed by ]. Fred
Scott of this city The acquaintance of
the two men was renewed Saturday,
and Mr. Scott entertained the veteran
actor in the Afternoon and evening.
Mr.. Holland is a brother of Joseph
Holland, who was seen here last season
in the farce, THE Mysterious Mr.
Bugle.'' Like his brother. he is deaf
and takes his cues on the stage from
the actions and facial expressions of the
other actors. In reference to this in
trinity, Mr.. Scott tells an amusing
story.
One day along in the 70s, Mr.. Scott,
his business partner and Mr.. Holland
where standing on the steps of the Phil
adelphia theater. Turning to his part
ner, who was next to him. Mr.. Scott
said in low voice, Bill, let's go and
take a drink" No sooner had he the
words out OF his mouth than Mr.. Hol-
land, standing on the other side of the
partner, supposedly oblivious to the re-
mark, bowed most graciOusly while he
said: Don't care if do, Fred
Both men have remembered the incl
dent during the many years they have
been in different parts of the country,
and when Mr. Holland saw Mr.. Scott
Saturday afternoon the first thing he
said was, Don't care if 1 do, Fred"
Mr.. Holland has not visited Topeka
since 1873. He said the streets were full
of Indians on the day he was here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

Topeka Carpet Cleaning Works, next
to Columbian building. Phone 7s9.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

Portland, Spokane and Butte $2aS5
Via the Rock Island Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

We will wash your colored shirts ans
guarantee coIofs from fading. Peerless
Steam Laundry. liz and ia w. sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

We mend and sew on buttons freA
American Steam Laundry. TeIe- Sal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
Emporia and Return s1.s4, via SAINTS

Account Redmen's Jubilee; tickets on
sale May 1, ?, 3. 4, and 6; final limit
MAY s.
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plimentary to the American public, but
ii is SO.
factory in her part She looked pretty
and was at her best in her petulant
moments. Signor Perugini as Cham
paher," didn't exactly convey, by his
appearance, the idea that he was
SLOW" AS far as gestures and gyra-
tions were concerned he was sufficient
ly a Frenchman, but his articulation
endeavored to keep pace with his hands
and feet, and as result his lines were
not we'll understood. Marion BalIou as
the irrepressible French maid looked
naughty enough in the part, and Ada
Deaves made a good character part out
of that of Mime. Giboleau.'' The work
of the other members of the company
did not show to particular advantage
The farce was we'll staged. The seem
cry and settings of the bridal chamber
were particularly pretty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01
One Fare

For the round trip, via the Union Pa
cific. to San Francisco. Cal, for Ma
tional Baptist societies anniversa rfes,
May 25. 1899. For dates on which tick
cts will be sold limits. and full informa-
ton. call on F. A Lewis. city ticket
agent or ]. c. Fulton, depot agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-01

100 For $500.
Lucke's Rolls at Sim Drug CO.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-28
Sparks From The Engine.

The G.. q. & s. A. caboose, No 81,
which has been in the repair shop for
some time past, was turned out yester-
day looking fine.
Fifteen car loads Of cattle were load
ed at the G.. n. stock pens yesterday
afternoon and at y O'Clock last night
they left for Cuba.
Mrs. Morse, wife of q railroad man
employed on the Mexican Central
a. Jimulco, Mex, went south over
that line yesterday to join her hus-
band.
The Santa Fe passenger train from
the north arrived here on time this
morning with an extra Pullman and
two extra cars containing 1.-THE South
Before the War company" which
shows at the opera house tonight.
The first shipment Of ice was put in
to the New Santa Fe Pacific ice house
yesterday morning. F. 81. Pierce, the
contractor, under whose instructions
the house was built, came down from
Las Vegas to superintend the work.
Albuquerque Journal Democrat.
Engineer Ed. Piper, of the Silver
City branch of the Santa Fe came in on
the passenger run on that line yesterday
and was shaking hands with old friends
on this end of the line. He took the
passenger north this morning. Mr..