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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
BOOKS WITH A HISTORY.

bear his signature on the fly leaf and
the date 1901 Justice Fairchild pre-
sented them to Colonel Thornton, and
he in turn gave them to Judge Martin
many years ago.
I first knew Colonel Holiday about
April 1, 1855, forty-five years ago., said
Judge Martin recently. 1T was about
that time that he formed his partner
ship with Colonel Thornton. I had set
tied a Tecumseh, but Holiday had
pushed on through and founded Topeka.
They had a little stone office about 10 by
u feet about where the Hotel ThrOOp
now stands, and as 1 remember it there
was a lean-to on behind where they
slept for time. These four books Col
onel Thornton had brought with him
from Maine, and they formed great
part of the first law library in Topeka.
1 value them highly both on account of
their associations with Thornton & Hol-
liday, and because they were once tle
property of Chief Justice Fairch1ld, who
was one Of the great lawyers of the
early part of the century"
Judge Martin campaigned with Colonel
Holiday to secure the passage of the
bond issue with which the Santa Fe
railroad was started.
Colonel Holiday was a man of much
more than ordinary ability" said Judge
Martin. If he had turned his attention
to law or any other profession as as
siduously as he did to building up To-
peka he would undoubtedly have be-
come a great man.
He had two ideas in view, the build
ing of a city which should become the
capital of a great state, and the build
ing of a great system of railway which
should connect the Missouri river with
the far southwest. and eventually branch
out west to the Pacific and San Fran
| cisco, and south to the City of Mexico.
In fact, he hoped to push it on through
Yucatan and the Isthmus of Panama
to the South American republics.
He interested every free state man
of any influence or Importance in To-
peka in one way or another, and in that
way he brought the state capital to To-
peka. He himself picked out the site
on which the state house stands
LAS soon as he had done that he turn
ed his attention to his railroad. He
spent all his money working it up and
then borrowed from his friends and
mortgaged his farm Finally he got a
| proposition submitted for Shawnee
| county to take S150000 of stock in the
road to be built from st. Joseph over
| to Topeka and then on southwest. ]
! canvassed the county with him in the
| interest of these bonds, and his enthus-
| iasm was wonderful. He could paint
/ wonderful pictures of the future road
how it would stretch out across the
continent to the Golden Gate and south
to the Halls of the Montezumas, and
how It would cheaper the price of lum-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
RARE OLD BOOKS.
Four Volumes From Which Col.
Holiday Read Law:
Now Highly Priced by Judge
John Martin.
WHAT ENERGY WILL Do
How 1t Built the Santa Fe Rail
Road.
WHAT ENERGY WILL DC
Won For Topeka tho Kansas
State Capital.

On an upper shelf in the law library
of Judge John Martin in his Office in the
Crawford building are four small, we'll
Worn law books. They do not present
very attractive appearance by the side
of the more modern volumes with their
white sheep bindings, but Judge Martin
values those four books above any 9th
ers in his library. They are Blackstone
Commentaries, and they formed part
of the library of the first law firm in
Topeka, that of Thornton & Holiday.
Thomas G. Thornton, who was the
law partner of the late Colonel Holiday
until his death about 25 years ago, was
a relative OF Samuel Fairchild, formerly
chief justice of the supreme court of
the country during the early years of
the nineteenth century. The four vol
umes of Blackstone were originally the
property of Chief Justice Fairchild, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUSSELL.
Author of 'David Harum" Intended
Him as the Hero of His Story.

The announcement of the dramatiza-
ton of David Harum' brings to light
the fact that Sol. Smith Russell was
originally intended by the author of the
book to create this part on the stage.
The author of David Harum'' contem-
plated a stage version of the novel 81
most as soon as it appeared in print,
and he regarded Mr.. Russell as the ideal
man FOR the part of his hero. The rights
to David Harum'' are controlled by
Charles Frohman and if Mr.. Russell
had accepted an offer from Mr.. Froh-
man at the time it was made he would
have been forced to cancel many con-
tracts. This Mr.. Russell could not do
then.
Manager Frohman was thus forced to
find someone else to play the part. Dig
by Bell was his first choice, it is said
This engagement slipped through some
way or another and Mr.. Crane was final
ly chosen to play the part. OF course
Mr.. Crane will give a fine performance,
but numberless readers of the novel who
had conceived Sol Smith Russell in the
part viii regret that he can not appear
in character which he would surely
make notable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07

Der and raise the price of corn and
wheat. He had unbounded faith in it
himself, and he carried the bonds, al
though it looked preposterous to build
a railroad across the mountains at that
time.
THE bonds provided that the road
should be built through the county with
in a certain time or they should be for
feited. Then the war came on and OF
course the whole thing had to be drop
ped, and the bonds We're forfeited But
after the war he took the matter Up
again and got a proposition for $3.50, 900
in bonds submitted, and 1 canvassed the
county with him again, and again the
bonds carried.
Then he commenced to build the road
from Topeka south. When 1t was com
pleted to the south line of the county
$3.50 900 of the bonds were to be avail
able and the balance when the road
was built to the north line Of the coGn-
ty remember well the day that it was
completed to Wakarusa. The whole
country went out there and we had a
big celebration
AFTER that Colonel Holiday, with
the assistance of David E. Lakin, VINO
ness, succeeded in interesting eastern
capitalists in the road, and after that
it went forward without so much diff
Guilty.
THE credit for building Topeka and
the Santa F'e railroad belongs to Colonel
Holiday, for without his great faith in
both Of them and his pluck and perse-
verance in pushing them, neither would
have ever been what it is today"
He surely merits such a monument as
Topeka proposes to erect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
THEATRICAL news
Mr.. James O'Neilrs Visit Here
Arouses Interest.
Has Not Been Seen in Topeka in
Several Years.
ROLE OF D'ARTAGNAN
viii Appear in Grundy's Version
of ssThe Musketeers.''
Something About the Life of
the Romantic Actor.

James O'Neill will be seen in Topeka
for the first time in several years at the
Grand Opera House next Saturday
night. He will appear as d. Artagnan"
in the Liebler & Co. production Of sgd
ney Grundy's version of THE Muske-
teers''
Mr.. O'NeiI is an old favorite in this
city. He has been here several times in
Monte Cristo," and years ago was seen
at the Crawford theater in support of
Edwin Booth. An elaborate revival of
Monte Cristo'' is being prepared for
Mr.. O'NeilPs tour next season.
The life history of the romantic actor
is full of interest. He was born in Kill
kenny, ireland, about 48 years ago, and
has won his way from poverty up to a
position Of influence and wealth. Most
of his youth was sent in Cincinnati, O..
and his parents designed that he should
enter the priesthood The imaginative
boy chose the stage, and when he was
II played his first part in the old Ma
tionaI theater in Cincinnati. He obtain
ed a position as an extra in Edwin
FORESTS company, where he had the
dlgnlned task of carrying a. spear Two
years afterWard, however. he played
Icilius to Mr.. Forests Virginius. His
success on the stage was then assured.
lie was leading man at HOOley ana
McVicker's theaters, in Chicago, and at
the Union Square theater, New York 1t
was in these days that he appeared
with Adelaide Nelson and made the be-
ginning of his national reputation. At
this time Mr.. O'Nein was % years of
age, and for the next few years he sup
ported Edwin Booth.
Mr.O'N eill then turned his face stead
tasty in the direction of the romantic
drama, and has been its strongest ad-
herent. The most notable incident IL
his career in recent years was in con-
nection with the elaborate production of
Salmi Morse's Passion Play" at the
Baldwin theater, San Francisco, Cal.
Herein Mr.. O'Nein was cast for the
Savior, and, though at first entering up
on it most reluctantly, for he is a con-
scientious churchman. he finally essay
ed the character and created a profound
impression by his nlasterful portrayal.
Enormous offers We're made to the Pa
cific coast managers for a New York
production of the Passion Play" but
various impediments, not the least of
which was an aroused public sentiment
against the production, discouraged the
enterprise.
Since this time Mr.. O'Nein has devo-
ted himself to plays of a romantic char
acter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07

Europe is the little village Of Altenberg,
where on its border four countries meet.
1t is ruled by no monarch, has no soldiers,
no police and TO taxes Its inhabitants
speak a curious jargon of French and
German combined and spend their days
in farming the land or working IN the
valuable calamine mine OF which II
boasts.
The little town of Stanley. in the Falk-
land Islands. possesses the most unique
school service ever known Two travelling
schoolmaSters are provided by the gov
eminent, who visit the different families
where there are children and give instruc-
ton. The length of their-visit depends
on the astuteness of the children, and
they may spend days OF weeks, as the
case may be, at one house alone.
A town boasung OF q railway station
which cost 80, 900 to erect and a duly ap-
pointed station master, and yet having
no train service, is unique beyond dispute.
Dundee, in New Jersey. is in this predica-
Inent the inhabitants having actually no
trains, although their fine station is
the reason given for this strange fact. IS
that so long as the trains run through
the inhabitants ought to be satisfied.
There is a place in the middle OF the
Pacific ocean well known TO mariners
where there is never any Christmas day.
This is owning to its being in the 180th de-
gree of longitude and directly opposite to
Greenwich. and. therefore, twelve hours
ahead of Greenwich time. In a journey
around the globe the other twelve hours
would have to be marked out of the navi-
gators calendar. and if this point cross
ing the antipodeS is touched Christmas
eve then there can be no Christmas day.
In one of the West Indies group there
is a colony of some 800 whites and blacks
where there are neither towns nor VII
lagos. nor fresh water supplies, In tact,
there is such d scarcity Of every thing that
the government has to send food and en-
plovrnent to the inha bitants to keep them
/ from starving. Salt fish and sweet po-
1 las. and the only water obta1nable Is
brackish and tainted BY the sea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
IRVING AND RILEY.
Great English Actor Has Deep Re
gard For "Hoosiern Poet.

gard For "Hoosier" Poet
Sir Henry Irving has the greatest af-
lection for James Whitcomb Riley, says
the Chicago Record, and has the deep
est sympathy with the poets tenderest
reveries and his rich, ebullient humor.
Once, in Chicago, Irving heard Riley re-
cite his delightful story of the Dutch
shoemaker, and when Riley had finish
ed. Irving. with his big, heavy eyes wet
with tears, went over to the modest
Hoosier. laid his long arm across the
poets shoulders and said:
My dear young man, come to US in
London-to England-we shall care for
you so much over there. I was never
more touched in my life than by your
little reading just now; your dialect
simplicity of expression and all that
are revelations. Come to London with
me or after me-"
And Riley did so finally, and Sir
Henry entertained him in q regal
fashion. The poet made an enormous
social success there, and was lionized
almost beyond endurance during his So
journ among the splendid companions
who always throng around Sir Henry
Irving and Ellen Terry.
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her studies ended, she closes her books:
'adieu paniers, vendanges sOnt faitesr'
That most useful help to feminine intel
lectual development, reading has not yet
become a habit with her There are co1n-
tries where books are more used by Wo-
men than by men, rich, they buy them:
poor, they have the lending library: in
small 1t be- literature has its place There
is nothing like this in Italy. With the
exception of small minority. the women
do not read, and have no wish to read
Their celebrated ancestresses of the six
teenth century must look at them with
reprOachful eyes If the shade of the
President des Brosses recrossed the Alps
called the oracle of seven languages and
the servant of the poor. and declared by
him to be more marvellous than Milan
Cathedral. Benedict XIV. granted pernis-
sion to this learned Milanese lady to take
her fathers place as professor of mathe-
mates at the University Of Bologna dur
ing an Illness of the latter
The tradition of feminine learning is
lost in Italy, indeed, it was lost long be-
The Italian of today may yet prove her
self capable of emulating her great fore
runners, but in the meantime it is GER
tain that modern ideas have made so
much less way with her than with the
women of other European countries that
she offers a more formidable resistance
than even the men of her own land to any
inferiOrity of culture has the double eff
feet of greatly limiting the number of
women capable of taking any part what
ever in public affairs. and of creating an
utter want of sympathy with the emanci-
patton movement in general.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
STORY OF SHERIDAN.
Why the Brilliant Irishman Thought
the Dramatist Ungrateful.


the Dramatist Ungrateful.
One of the neatest of the authenti-
Gated stories of the stage relating to
Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the
dramatist Cumberland, is recalled by
the Detroit Free Press:
Sheridan being anxious to collect the
opinions of the acknowledged judges Of
dramatic merit concerning his comedy,
The School for Scandal" asked a. friend
what Cumberland said on the night of
the first performance
Not a syllable" was the answer.
But did he seem amused?"
why, faith" was the reply, "he
might have been hung up beside Uncle
divers picture. He had the villainous
disinheriting countenance like the ladies
and gentlemen on the walls-he never
moved muscle
'Devilish ungrateful that said Sheri-
dam for I sat out his tragedy last
week and laughed from beginning to
end
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
WALTER WALKER AGAIN.
Clever Comedian and His Wife In
Topeka Monday Night.

Mr.. Walter Walker and his wife, Mil
dred st. Pierre, who VIII be seen in
The Nominee" al the Crawford the
alter Monday night, We're here last sea-
son in "A Bachelors Honeymoon 1T
was the first visit of the successful
farce to this city, but as Topeka theater-
goers were not familiar with it to any
extent, the first visit was rather fail
ure financially. Only limited number
of people saw it, but probably each one
of these will be glad of the opportunity
to see Mr.. Walker and Miss st. Pierre
again.
Mr.. Walker had the leading part of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07
THE ITALIAN WOMAN.


IFrOm the Contemporary
The rather low standard of her culture
tends to keep the italian woman behind
hand In the march of emancipation.
though one comes across remarkable ex-
ceptiOns among those occupied with edu-
cation or literature, and even in society.
The Italian has very acute intelligence
which takes in with extraordinary
promputude anything presented to her
mind; but she does not cultivate it; once
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-07

benjamin Bachelor who marries III
haste" and he made it thoroughly en-
tertaining. He is a comedian of much
ability, and undoubtedly has a success
full career before him. Miss St. Pierre
was seen as Barbara the maid SER
want with literary and other aspila-
lions" and her work was particularly
clever. The Nominee" is one of Nat
GOodWin's past Successes.
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JAS. A. HERNE I'LL.
Veteran Actor Obliged to Retire From
"Sag Harbor."

James A. Herne has been obliged to
retire temporarily from the cast of Sag
Harbor," now playing at the Grand OPP
era House in Chicago owing to a severe
attack of rheumatic govt.
His physician has advised him to I'M
dergo a surgical operation and ne has
gone to New York. He will not act for
some time. Mr.. Hernes part is being
taken by Frank Monroe
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to DIR. Rice's free offer. An elderly and
retired physician, DR.. S. Ball. of Marion
Ala, is one of the hundreds attracted to
this generous announcement and as a
result he is now completely cured of a
bad rupture which was very hard to
hold. Although p years of age he had
the courage and Determination to try
this new and novel method and now he
lives in peace, contentment and security
DR.. Ball looks back to the old days of
crude methods and in comparison halls
the wonderful method of DR.. Rice as a
marvellous God-send to the present gen
erations- BY all means write at once to
DR.. W. S. Rice, 553 S. Main St, Adams.
n. Y, and he viii send you a free trial of
his remarkable home cure for rupture.
There is no pain, danger, operation or
an hours loss of time, and by starting
now you will be sound and well by early
spring.
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FREE to the
RUPTURED
DIR. w. s. Rice, the WeII-known Au-
thorlty, Sends a Trial of His Fa-
nous Method Free to All.

There are people who have been tor
turing themselves for years with trusses.
1t is hoped their attention will be drawn
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The times., 1900-12-23
THE OIL TEST A FAILURE.
Torpedo Beats to Use Coal ms Fuel
Hereafter.

NEW YORK. Dec 2e-The Department
for several months has been experiment.
ing with two burners in the hope of OBJ
tanning a higher speed in torpedo boats
from oil than from coal, but these tests
are about to De abandoned. The expert
ments have been made on the torpedo boat
Talbot. at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Yesterday J. A. B. smith, Chief of the
Steam Engineering Department, said that
orders had been received to remove the
fuel oil appartus on the Talbot and fit her
out like the other beats. and that hereaft-
er coal would be burned. Mr.. Smith said
the speed obtained from the oil was not as
great as that from coal. and that the Navy
Department had decided to abandon the ex-
periments. which have been conducted un-
der the direction Of Lieut. John S. Dod-
dridge.
The Talbot has made a number Of trips.
The longest was from Annapolis to the
navy yard The boat has run at a speed
Of about fourteen knots. but it was ex-
pected that with the fuel oil she could go
several knots faster. The object OF the
Navy Department in trying the oil fuel
was to find a method where by the steam
ing radius OF the tiny crafts could be in
creased. They cannot steam a long dis
tance at present, owing to their limited
coal capacity, and It was hoped that with
the oil fuel higher speed could be OBJ
tanned and large quantity OF oil could be
stored. Moreover, the trouble of ashes
would be obyiated. The Talbot may soon
be sent with the North Atlantic squadron
on its winter cruise.
The times., 1900-12-23
DEFENCE OF TIE cANADA,s CUP.
Chicago Yachismen in Need of .
Trial Roat.

CHICAGO. Dec. 22.-The yachtsmen here
who have the International challenge for
the Canada's Cup on their hands are in
dilemma about possessing no trial boat to
test the defence craft now to be built.
There has been some talk of rerigging toe
Prairie as jib and mainsail yacht to sup
ply the want. but as the Prairie was a
failure two seasons ago. it is suggested
that she has become no better through
disuse. Commodore Charles H. Thorne.
of the Chicago Yacht Club. has helped ti5 tho
matter by purchasing the Driar, 35-foot-
er, which was finished too late for the tri-
al races for this cup in 1899. The bulb on
the fin of the Briar was found wrong end
foremost when she was finished, but this
has been remedied and she will be pos
sibility for 1901.
Unfortunately, the Briar is an unknown
quantity, and the Canadians have four fast
aud we'll proven thirty-fves with which TO
try out their new challengers. 1t has
therefore been proposed to buy one OF
these, the Beaver. to act as trial horse.
The Beaver raced for the cup in the last
contest and is extremely fast, although she
lost to the Genesee.
At the recent meeting Of the Chicago
Yacht Club the building fund for the new
proposed clubhouse received a good start
in having 5000 subscribed, and 1t was
thought that the balance OF the $4,000 re-
quired would be easily obtained. The mem
bers say that as the Royal Canadian Yacht
Club. at Toronto entertained the Chicago
ans in a fine clubhouse at the last races in
1899 the defending club should have a bet
ter headquarters than at present for the
return entertainment