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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-06
Notes From Baldwin.

Baldwin, Aug. 6.-Mrs. Lucy Best, who
has been the successful principal Of the
Baldwin public schools for the past two
years, has resigned to accept a like po-
sition in Riverside. Cal.
A car load of poles has been shipped
and work on the telephone system is to
begin about August 10. The entire sys-
tenn is to be completed by September l.
DR.. NJ. G. F'indley goes to Chicago soon
to take work in the university there
c. Fletcher Clark, B. U. '95, died after
a very short illness at his home in Wa
terville, Kan, July "a.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Fork, July
Is, boy.
Mrs. Sadie Allen of Leavenworth is
visiting with her sister. Mrs.O. G. Mark
ham.
Mrs. Frank Mcclure of Beloit has re-
turned to her home after a visit with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Barton of Bald
win.
The new gymnasium is progressing
nicely. The building is to be entirely of
stone and the main part to be complete
by the opening of the college this Sep
TENDER.
Rev. J. A. Motter and family who have
been spending the last three weeks in
Baldwin, leave this week for their home
in Kansas City, Kan.
Mrs. c. F. Clark has purchased the
Martin house from the M. E. church
building committee. She will have the
house moved on to her lots on Ninth
street.
Miss Katherine Underwood of Barnes,
Kan, is visiting with friends a few days
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A'DOOLEY IN THE CABINET

IFrom the Saturday Evening POST
Mr. Long the secretary OF the navy,
gave the final cabinet dinner of the sea-
son on board the yacht Sylph. 1t was
Mr.. Long who thought of the idea Of
giving this official function aboard a
luxurious boat on the Potomac. He is
always individual and never does what
other people do.
The secretary of the navy announces
that his very position cOmpelS him to en-
terrain on water instead of land, and
every member of the cabinet confesseS
that no dinner is looked forward to with
such anticipation as that given by Mr..
Long.
Whats Long going to do, I wonder? ~
is the social question that interests the
cabinet for weeks before the evening ar
rives. And at this last dinner he GER
tainly gave them a surprise.
1t was in the form of a DoOley letter
read aloud by Mr.. Gage, secretary of the
treasury. Mr.. Mckinley has long been
in the habit of reading to the cabinet Mr..
Dooley's weekly letter on some issue or
national politics. The hits" on the pub
lie officials are very much enjoyed.
Taking this as a cue, Mr. Long, When
coffee was served, announced that, &C
cording to custom, Mr.. Dooley's latest
letter would be read and that 1t was
written for the occasion.
The host added that Mr.. Dooley with
characteristic insight had named his ar
ticle: why no cabinet members can be
nominated for the vice presidency.
Secretary Gage read the letter, and in
dialect, spirit, humor and keen penetra-
ton it bore so verify the hallmark of
Dooley that the guests were kept in a
gale of merrfment. 1t was written in a
particularly happy vein, and was filed
with so many personal illusions and
with SO many jokes that referred to do
ings or discussions in the cabinet that
there were shouts of laughing amaze
ment The president himself is said to
have enjoyed it more than anything else
written this year.
Finally there came the explanation
an explanation that elected more ap-
plause than did the original reading. 1t
was no Dooley letter to which the cabi-
net had been 1istening-for the secretary
of the navy had written every word of
it!
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SUMNER BELTS AND TIES.
[From Harper's Bazar.1

IT BdZaT.
Belts, collars and neckties continual
ly present novelties as the season ad-
VanceS, and the woman who has wear
led of her stock in hand may change
to something more to her fancy of the
moment. The pulley belt, for instance,
which has been found such a useful
affair, has emerged from the erstwhile
somberness of black and taken on the
hues of Joseph's famous coat, or, more
correctly, of all the clans of old Scot
land. The belt is made of silk cut bias
and the tie ends of straight ribbon in a
corresponding plaid. These are espe-
cially pretty for golf gowns, to go with
the plaid silk scarfs which still retain
their popularity. The same style of
belt is made with the main part of the
familiar black, and the ties only of
plaid.
Little narrow satin and velvet ties
are much worn, especially in black, as
they add a strikingly effective note to
a light gown. A new idea is to finish
the ends of these with a heavy bead
fringe instead of one of silk.
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LOANS ON CATTLE.
Wichita Bankers Expect to Handle
Much Money This Fall

Wichita, Aug. e.-Bankers of this CITY
confidently predict that fully $1,000 900
worth of cattle paper will be negotiated
this fall The cattlemen of southern
Kansas and Oklahoma have long wished
Tor an opportunity to place their loans
here and now that the banks have de-
cided to make a speciality of handling
cattle paper they expect to deal with
Wichita
Not few cattle feeders in this sec
ton have been caught rather hard by
the failure of Kansas City commission
firms The latest sufferer is r. A.
Sykes of New Murdoch. He obtained
a loan of $4,000 from Sadd, Penny &s
Swayze of Kansas City, on a bunch of
feeders. A few weeks ago when they
were ready for the market he shipped
them to the commission firm to sell
They sold the cattle and wrote him that
they would send him his note and chat
tel mortgage and balance within a few
days.
Now the chattel mortgage has turned
up in the hands of a bank in Wisconsin
and they are suing Mr.. Sykes to enforce
payment. In the end Mr. Sykes will
lose SO, 700 in addition to his labor for
several months and the amount of
money he spent for feed.
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F. r. b.

RAILWAYS READY RELIEF. USED
TTES CURE CRAMPS. SPASMs, SOUR
STOMACH. HEARTBURN, NAUSEA,
SEASICKNESS, N E r V o U S n E s,
SLEEPLESSNESS, SICKHEADACHE,
SUMMER COMPLAINT, CHOLERA
MORBUS. DIARRHOEA. DYSENTERY,
collie, BLATULENCY AND ALL IN
TERNAL PAINS
Take % drops of Railways Ready Re-
lief in half a tumbler of water on rising
in the morning to strengthen and sweeten
the stomach and prevent all of those feel
ings of lassitude and ''tiredness'' so COM
mon at this season.
RAILWAYS READY RELIEF IN
STANTLY RELIEVES AND SOON
CURES BRUISES, BURNS. BITES OF
INSECTS, SWELLING OF THE JOINTS.
LUMBAGO, INFIAAAMATIONS. CON-
GESTIONS. RHEUMATISM, NEURAL
GIA, HEADACHE. TOOTHACHE- SOLD
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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SUPERIOR IN VOWELS.
[From the Mexican HERALD

[From the Mexican HERALD
A few days ago 1 was dining in one
of the restaurants of the city. At a
table next to me sat a party consisting
of a. Frenchman, a German, an Italian,
a couple of Mexicans and a Scotchman.
The conversation turned upon the COM
parative beauty of language. Each one
of the party contended that his own
language was the superior of all others
The German based his contention upon
the wonderful strength and self-suffi-
cheney of the German language and the
viriIe character of it's thoughts and its
literature. The Frenchman claimed
that the French language not only had
no superior, but no equal, in its ability
to express all thoughts accurately and
with true beauty and depth of feeling.
The Italian and one of the Mexicans
each claimed one beauty to which no
other language could lay claim, the
beauty of sonorous sound. The battle
waxed hot between these two the Mex
lean maintaining that Spanish had
more true full vowel sounds than any
other living language.
Finally both appealed the matter to
the Scotchman, who had, contrary to
the characteristics of his race, not TAX
er any part in the discussion. good, bad
or Indifferent.
Saundy scratched his head for mo-
ment, as though rejecting deeply; then
he SAID: An, Weel, "A Q1nna ken Out
wha' yee'I be bath RIGHT, for we ocht to
ken yer aine langwidge weel But when
it comes to talkin' o. vowel soondS A
dinna ken ony langwidge that ken COON
oop to thae Scotch. All jist give We a
wee story taht Illustrates wha' A wad
tell We.
"A mon ance went into a store in
Dunkirk, an catched a piece O. cloth
atween his fingers an his thumb an
he said to the storekeeper:
"'Oo?'
land the storekeeper said: 'Ay, co.
'Aw Oo?" said the mon.
Gay, aw co. answered the store
keeper.
'Aw a oo?' asked the mon.
Gay, aw a co., said the storekeeper.
There's is a complete business trans
action carried on wi'out the use o a
single consonant soond. A dinna ken
if either Italian or Spanish or any
ither langwidge can equal thot."
The above story, as told by the
Scotchman, is here given with the rep
resentation of the sounds of the words,
in preference to the Scotch spelling.
which might not be familiar to some
of the readers. The translation of the
conversation which took place between
the merchant and his customer is as
follows:
wool (oo)?"
yes, wool cay. oo)."
''All wool Jaw oo)?"
Yes, all wool Gay, aw oo)."
"All one wool Jaw a oo)?"
Eyes, all one wool Gay, aw a oo)-'
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on all main lines between Chicago and
New Orleans and between Chicago and
Omaha.
The action of the officials in raising
the salaries was largely voluntary, as
but a mere suggestion came from the
men, 1t is conceded that one of the
most trying positions and one of the
most difficult to fill acceptably is that
Of train dispatcher. On the Illinois
Central the trick dispatchers work
eight hours at a time, and during their
trick the mental strain is exceeding
ly great. For this work chief dis
patchers on the Illinois Central receive
$125 a month, and the increase will
give them a salary of $137.5O a month.
The trick dispatchers now receive
$40 a month, and the increase will give
them 1921. The trainmaSters are now
paid $3.50 a month, and will hereafter
receive S165
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old granger plants his succotash and
corn, and the chinchbugs come and eat 1t
while he sleepeth in the morn. In the
spring the old SOW wanders to some quiet
fen or brake, and returns with seven
pigletS toddling Gutely in her wake. In
the spring the good dog Rover hides be-
hind the bushes damp, waiting always,
wailing ever, for a chance to nail q
tramp. In the spring the bull so gentle,
which has been a pet for years, cores
the poor confding farmer, sits on him
and eats his ears. In the spring the
youths and maidenS go to picinc in the
woods, packing with them in their bask-
cts sandwiches and other goods; and
they fall into the river. and the chigger7
eat them up, and they come back from
the picnic swollen like poisoned pup
1 have hot pains in my larynx and my
liver is out of whack, there are rurnb-
lings in my stomach, there are creak-
ingS in my back. When I go to hed
at evening I can only roll and grOarl, for
my mouth tastes like a hens nest, and
my head feels like a stone. And read
the daily papers. where they tell on
Shoppers pills as sovereign specific for
these kinds of vernal ills. And buy the
pills and eat them, and feel a Whola
lot worse; there are times when I am
longing for a sleigh ride in a hearSe.
And the ancient DANES come to me, and
they brew their magic tea, and they
say If will take it I'll feel happy as q
flea. But their dismal. dark decoctfons
only make me Shrek and wall, and
wish that all herb doctors could be cart
ed off to Jail. In the spring the willy
stranger comes to sell a patent oat, and
he gets the names of victims to a thou
sand dollar note. In the spring you make
a garden full of things you like to eat,
and the chickens come and scratch II all
to thunder and repeat. In the spring
your lawn is pretty and you point to it
with pride, till some cattle come and
spoil it in the silent eventide.
In the spring the grooming husband
eats his victuals in the barn. for his wife
must clean the mansion. and she doesn't
care a darn; and the yard is full of car
pets and Tia trees are full of sheets, and
he has to live on sauerkraut, cistern wa
ter and sliced beets. Oh. a woman's in
her glory when she tears things all
apart, piling beds and chairs and pillows
in a way to break your heart. And at
night the grooming husband has to sleep
upon the porch, and he feels so plum
Disguised that he can't enjoy his torch.
When the blamed old cleaning's over,
then the wife is taken i'll, and it keeps
her husband busted buying dope and
drug and pill; and the mansion is no
cleaner than it was when she began. but
she'd slay him if he said so-and he is
prudent man.
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Record Price For Great Auk's Egg

From the London Mail
The first bid for the hitherto unrecord-
ed egg of the great aux at Mr.. Stevens
auction rooms yesterday was $50 guineas.
The successful offer was $3.50 15s, and es-
tablished a record.
Even the smaller, and, in comparison,
poor specimen, which was also offered yes
more than in 1894. when it brought its
lucky owner 175 guineas.
The history of this particular egg is in
teresting. A young fellow attended fur
niture sale in Kent, riding to the place on
his bicycle Among some odd fossils he
caught sight of two large eggs. Under
ordinary circumstances he would have got
the lot for about eight shillings, but a
man who wanted the fossils started bid
ding, and ran him up to Sc shillings.
In the end the eggs, which Travelled
home tied up in a pocket handkerchief on
the back of the bicyclist, turned out to be
those of the great aux, and one of them,
proving a handsome specimen. fetched,
though cracked, 260 guineas in 1894
The increase in prices for these eggs
has of late years been very remarkable.
In 1856 egg was sold at Stevens for
the Royal College of Surgeons averaged
ego apiece in 1865. One of these in 1887
brought &16S. A year later another speci-
men, bought privately for ELS in 1851, was
Rocked down at King street, Covent Car
den. for cps.
In 1892 Sir Vauncey Crewe had to give
300 guineas for an historical specimen, and
twice that sum in the same year pur-
chased stuffed great aux and its egg.
Since then cracked specimen cost Mr..
Middlebrook 300 guineas.
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ROCK ISLAND INDEPENDENT
Proposes to Make Rates Regardless
of Other Lines.

Denver, Aug. ct will soon be that
a man can travel as cheap as child.
This millennium in travel will be brought
about, it is believed by passenger men,
by the action of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific in notifying the pas
senger associations that hereafter it
would govern itself independently in
making excursion rates to Colorado.
This means that the Rock Island will
make special rates for Colorado from
Chicago whenever it chooses, and not
wait for the association to make the
rates for it
This policy was adopted by the Rock
Island last spring, when it announced
a round trip rate from Chicago to Dem
YER of $3.50. when the regular fare one
way rate is S29. The other roads fol-
lowed, naturally, with the same rate.
AS a result the largest number of tour
lists on record has visited Colorado.
A formal notice by the Rock Island
of its policy in dealing with Colorado
was hardly necessary. 1t announced
additional west and east-bound excur-
sions without the consent of the assO-
citation. and as it, had put in it's $31. so
rate without the associations consent,
that body was firmly convinced that
the road proposed to get along without
outside advice.
BY some passenger men it is believed
that the Rock Island will withdraw
from the passenger associations This,
however, is not considered probable by
the more conservative.
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ICING RATES ADVANCED.
Santa Fe Notifies Melon Growers of a
so Per Cent Increase.

Las Animas, Colo, Aug. 6.-The
Santa Fe Railway company has notified
the Melon Growers association here,
as elsewhere along the valley, that a
so per cent raise has been put in force
on icing cars of melons to eastern
points. This raise, it is believed, is due
to the advance in the price, of ice. 1t
will make considerable difference in the
profits of the members of the associa-
ton, as they have figured very closely
on the melon crop this year. The for
mer rate for icing a car to New York
City was $40 and now is $50. The aver
age charge to other eastern points from
$24 to $50, now from $36 to $45. On a
basis of 100 cars for the seasons ship
ping from here the total amount runs
into money fast.
A protest has been lodged with the
company, but as yet has borne no fruit
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penver-Pueblo Block System.

Denver, Aug. 6.-Superintendent Dyer
of the Colorado & Southern has gone
to Chicago, where he will confer with
the Santa Fe officials regarding GER
tain improvements which will be made
on their system between Denver and
Colorado Springs, should the traffic ar
rangement between the two roads be
again renewed. Mr.. Dyer will also
place several orders for machinery for
the new Colorado & Southern shops at
Seventh street, and will arrange for the
transportation of several new locomo-
tives. a block system between Denver
and Pueblo may be installed before De-
cember.
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TOPS FIFTY THOUSAND MARK
Kansas City, Kan, Population is Said
to Be Over $4,000.

Kansas City, Kan, Aug. 6.-There is
an unofficial and unauthenticated ru-
NOR here to the effect that the new cen
suS had given Kansas City, Kan, a
population of So 1000. If such is the case
it will be a source Of much satisfaction
to those citizens who worked so ener-
getically to get the figures up to the
$4,000 mark
In Kansas City, Kan, the citizens
made recanvass of the city after the
enumerators were through and found
hundreds of persons that had been
missed. These were added to the lists
and sent in by the local supervisor be-
fore the books were closed so that they
helped to swell the number to the ex-
tent taht the much wished for increase
has been secured.
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NEW OPERA HOUSE.
Galena to Have One of the Best
Theatres in the State.

Galena, Aug. 6.-The Galena theater-
going public will be able to see good
plays this season.
The Sapp opera house is to be en-
1arged, remodeled and newly furnished
throughout and will be made into one
of the best play houses in the state.
The plans have already been drawn
and accepted and work will be COM
menced this week and pushed Just as
fast as possible and a new opera house
will be opened to the public October 1.
The plans which have been accepted
provide for a seating capacity of 1000;
the stage will be 47x36; the curtain
opening will be 20x30; eight elegant
dressing rooms will be added; the gal
lery will be torn out and a good one
put in. The stage will be larger than
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BLACK HATS IN VOGUE.
TFrom Harper's Bazar.1


The all-black hat is one of the most
valuable of summer possessions 1t sets
off and balances certain fitmsy but
fashionable materials and is at all
times appropriate, whether for walking
or driving, for maids or matrons. The
black hat of the moment is wide of
brim, which turns down over the hair
in the back and scoops" somewhat in
front 1t is trimmed with large fluffy
bows of mousseline de sole, chenille
edged, and the most coquettish place on
the extreme front edge of the brim one
or two pale crush roses that slightly
droop downward
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Dummy Printer Killed.

Sa1fna, Aug. 6.-Thomas Lawson, a
deaf and dumb printer, was killed hers
yesterday afternoon by being hit by a
Union Pacific passenger train. The man
was about so years of age, and a bache-
lor, and was walking on the track when
he was killed. He was badly bruised
about the head and both legs were bro
ken, and he was otherwise badly bruised
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Pensions For Kansans.

Washington, Aug. 6.-Pensions have
been granted as follows:
Original-Henry A. Strone, Mound City,
So
Increase-David F. Anderson, Atchi-
son, 81; Joseph r. Duncan, Conway
Springs, $12; Theodore Hoffman, Nation
al Military Home, Leavenworth, So; VIM.
H. Maultby, Kfckapoo $12.
Original widows, etc.-Sarah A. Ling,
Lebanon, IS; special act July 90 Mary
NJ. Staples, Cottonwood Falls. IS.
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ONE WAY TO END A JOINT.
Resort at Williamstown, Kan, Demol-
ished by Dynamite.

Perry, Aug. 6.-At williamstown, a
small station on the Union Pacific, three
miles east of here, Saturday night, I'M
known parties placed dynamite under
the building occupied by joint. The
building was badly demolished and its
contents shattered. The joint had been
running for some months and there was
strong sentiment against it in the COM
munity.
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447,o4e CARS EQUIPPED.
Railroads Entering Chicago Have
Complied Well With Coupler Law.

OF the 45s.o16 cars owned by roads en-
tering into Chicago, Al. 046 are freight and
$50 are passenger cars table showing
the number of cars owned by each road,
together with the number, If any, of I'M
equipped cars owned by them, is as fol-
lows:
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Kansas Pioneer Dies Suddenly.

Coffeyville, Aug. 6.-Peter L. Davis,
an early settler in this section, and a
we'll known citizen, died suddenly of
heart failure at his home in this city
Sunday. He retired in his usual health
He was 20 years of age.
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Stacked Wheat Spelling.

Salina, Aug. 6.-Reports coming in
from farmers are all to the effect that
wheat stacks are rotting as a result of
the heavy rains Unless stacks are
opened soon farmers will lose much
wheat
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TROUBLE FOR OTHER ROADS.
Illinois Central Advances Salaries OF
Trainmasters and Dispatchers.

Tt has been decided by the Illinois
Central management to advance the
salaries of between seventy five and
100 of its employees 10 per cent. The
men who will thus be benefited are all
the trainmasters. the chief train dis
patchers and the trick dispatchers
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Spring Poetry From Nebraska.

[From the Nebraska JournaL1
In the spring the whiskered farmer
drinks hard cider from a can, throwing
wads of burning language at the indo-
lent hired man. In the spring the grand
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You will never find any other pills so
prompt and so pleasant as DeWitts Little
Early Risers. At all druggists