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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
HOME FOR REED BABY.
Topeka Orphans Home Offers to Pro-
vide For the Child.

The Topeka Orphans home, by Mrs.
Howell Jones. secretary and a member
of the board of directors, has offered to
take charge Of the five days old child
of w. I. Reed. left with ]. c. Morrow,
superintendent of the children's home
association.
1t was reported yesterday that exist
ing laws prevented the Topeka home
from admitting the child, but no COM
munication was had with the officers Of
that institution. They were out of the
city yesterday, Mrs. Jones being in Kan
sas City Today the circumstances were
reported to Mrs. Jones who Immediately
called upon Mr.. Morrow and on behalf
of the home offered to take care of and
provide for the child until the father de-
termines what course he will pursue. II
TIE experience of these institutions IL
frequently occurs that angements are
made by the surviving members of a
family to take care of children placed in
circumstances like those surrounding
the Reed baby, after the grief has been
abated.
Age is no bar at the Topeka Orphans
home. there having been cared for dur
ing the past year "a babies under the age
Of 2 years. The misunderstanding con-
corning the admission of children to the
Topeka home was due. the officials think,
to a lack of knowledge concerning its
methods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
FILE COUNTER SUIT.
The CastelIanes Make Vigorous
Defense in Werthefmer Suit.

Paris. Dec. 20.-The suit OF Charles
Wertheimer. the London bric-a-brac dea-
Ter against Count Bonf De CastelIane to
recover payment for art objects sold the
Count and Countess de Castellane, be-
gan today in the first civil chamber. The
transaction taken as a test case invOlv-
ed the sum of 1896 francs The hearing
was devoted to the arguments of cour-
sci None of the parties was in court.
The total sum involved in the trans
actions is $500. 600 francs.
Count Boni de Castellane has answer
ed with filing a counter suit, demanding
q full statement of all transactions.
claiming that various objects. admitted
~ authentic were sold at scandalous;y
exaggerated prices and that many artic-
les were represented as authentic anti
quities when they were really limitations.
exchanges in 1899, Vvertheirner took back
a number of articles at prices greatly
inferior to their true worth The count.
therefore, demands a reduction of the
debt, Professionally estimated to be at
least two million francs and the restitu-
ton of the objects taken in exchange by
Wertbeimer under the penalty of j
thousand francs for each days delay in
the restitution on the day of judgment.
Finally he claims damage to the amount
of 100000 francs.
Count de Castellane also asks, in case
the judges decided it is necessary to
throw further light on the case, that ex-
perts shall be appointed to appraise the
articles involved. The appointment OF
these experts is the first aim of counsel
for Count de Castellane-
The judges win probably decide this
point today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
CLOSING 1T UP.
Final Argument in the Porto
Rico Case Under Way.

Washington, Dec. 20-The closing ar
gument in the Philippines and Porto
Rico cases was made in the United
States supreme court today, and the
cases were submitted for the final adj
judication of the court. The crowds
which have filed the chamber since the
cases were taken up were again on hand
in REINFORCED numbers today, entirely
occupying the quarters reserved for the
bar and the outer area for the public
Many people came early in the day to
secure advantageous seats As the gov
ernment's case had been closed by the
attorney general it remained only to
hear the senior counsel in the Philippine
case. Mr.. Charles H. Aldrich, Of Chi
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GROWING WORSE.
Situation in China Promises a Renew
al of Trouble

London, Dec 20.-A dispatch to the
Reuter- Telegram company from Pelsin.
dated Wednesday. Dec. 10. says the sit
uation throughout the province is rap
idly growing worse and is causing grave
anxiety. The dispatch adds that unless
a definite system ofgovernment isspeed-
lily installed a recrudescence Of the anti
foreign outbreaks is confidently predict
ed. The pressure Of winter begins to be
felt by the people. who are also suffering
on account Of the blackmail levied by
the native employees OF the allies, for
which the foreigners are blamed. A
number of despeTadOes. imprisoned at
San Chow Flu by Gen. Mel. whom the
Germans released. are now hurryinR to
the Chi Ii Shang Tung border burning
houses, numbering and piilaging
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
GROWING ISLAND TRADE.

EXPORTS from the United States to
Cuba. Porto Rico. and the Philippine.
Hawaiian and Samoan Islands will ag-
gregate $50 900, 600 in the year 1900,
against 81. 600. 600 in 1899. SO. OOO. 900 in
1898. and 81, 000. 900 in 1897. This enor-
mour growth is shared by each of the
islands named but is especially appar-
ent in the case of Porto Rico, to which
the exports in the year 1900 will show
an increase Of about 90 per cent, as
compared with last year. and 100 per
cent as compared with preceding years
An estimate made by the U. S. bureau
Of statistics brings the exports to Porto
Rico in the calendar year 1900 up to
s5.4OO.O 600; to Cuba, $4,000. 900; to the
Philippines, SO. 500, coo; 10 the Hawaiian
Islands. s15,0OO.0O0. and to the Samoan
Islands and Guam. $4,000 making the
grand total of s50.000 900 of exports to
these islands in 1900, compared with
S41, 5S1. Os4 in 1899, 1917. s42 in 1898, and
SIG. 1929. 305 in 1897.
In every case our exports 10 these
islands in the year 1900 will exceed
those in preceding years To Cuba the
exports of the year viii be double the
average annual exports to that island.
except during the fiscal years 1892. 1898
and 1894 when the reciprocity treaty
Win SPAN largely Increased our safes
to that island To Porto Rico the ex-
ports of the year viii be double those
Of any preceding year except 1899 and
viii exceed that year by so per cent. To
the Hawaiian Islands, estimating fig
ures of the closing months of the year
upon those of the earlier months and
other obtainable data, the exports of
the year are more than double those of
any preceding year except 1899. To the
Philippines the figures for 1900 will be
double those Of 1899 and more than 10
times the highest figure in any earlier
year To the Samoan Islands the total
will be double that Of any preceding
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
GRINSTEAD CONFIDENT.
Thinks He Will Be Acquitted of
Violation of Postal Law.

Pool Grinstead, the Wathena editor,
was in the city yesterday to see about
his last case which comes up, or was to
come up, in the United States district
court. The case is for violation of the
postal laws and in the indictment Mr..
Grinstead is accused of sending matter
through the mail calculated to fnjure
the character and good name of Cyrus
Leland.
The indictment was issued by the
grand jury in Leavenworth last October
and in the bill Mr.. Grinstead is accused
of writing on the back of letters mailed
at the Troy postoffice The words quoted
in the bill as copied from the letters are:
Don't steal this Tt is no good to Cy."
and Mail robbers are requested not to
send this to Cy as the old man has
enough trouble on his hands to explain
possession of stolen letters"
1t is claimed by the postof1ce authori-
ties that Grinstead wrote these remarks
on the back of letters while he was serv-
ing time in the Doniphan county Jail.
In speaking of the matter this morn
ing Mr. GrinStead said: please do not
refer to me as a Populist editor, for I
to be. I am the descendant of a long
line of Kentucky Republicans and my
entire family are Republicans. This suit
is simply q continuance of the perSecu-
ton of Cy Leland and is the latest of
nine suits which have been brought
since my fight against Leland and his
gang. There is a suit now pending in
the county court at home for ST., 600
damages which was filed by Leland for
some remark made in my paper con-
corning him. have lost every suit in
the county court and have appealed
them and in every case the higher court
has reversed the decision of the county
court. have no fear of the outcome of
this case as it is on par with the other
cases and I am not guilty of the offense
as charged. The judge of the district
court is an enemy of mine, but when
asked for a change of venue from his
court he stated that he could give me
fair and impartial trial The way I was
treated when my bond was forfeited and
/ was sent to Jail shows how impartial
the court was toward me-
Mr.. Erinstead went over his trouble
since the time he says he refused to do
as Cy Leland babe him do, after he had
taken money from both sides in the
judge fight, but he does not seem to be
as sore as the average man would be un-
der the circumstances. He is a fat
healthy looking man and is not the
soured dyspeptic that the papers have
represented. He is jolly and good ma
tured and is confident that he will win in
all the suits which have been filed
against him that have not yet been de-
cided.
Mr. Grinstead is the cousin Of Captain
Grinstead, Of Wellington, who was in
the Twenty first Kansas and is now in
the Philippines in the volunteer army
and is the nephew Of Judge Grinstead OF
LaFned- Major A. NJ. Harvey is the a +
torney for Grinstead and he said this
morning that he thought the case for
the violation of the postal laws would
not come up before the April term Of the
federal court
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20

cago, former solicitor general, who had
one hour and a half remaining of the
five hours given to the plaintiffs
Mr.. Aldich had before him the plain
tiff's brief, and a voluminouS portfolio
of notes. but he spoke freely with only
occasional references to them. At the
outset he said he would confine himself
largely to legal argument, following the
attorney generals points and seeking
to meet them, although he regarded
much that the attorney general had pre-
scented as Irrelevant He spoke deliber-
ately and seldom with any effort for
dramatic force He first directed his
attention to the circumstances under
which this government came into exist
ence, the struggle for liberty and the
American protest against England's as
sertion of the taxing power over the
American colonies. With this history
before us he said, it was a remarkable
fact that the attorney general OF the
United States should come into this
court and assert taxing power more
extreme than had been asserted by the
most ardent defenders of England's tax
ing power over the colonies.
Mr. Aldrich spoke of the decision OF
Justice Marshall in Loughborough
versus Blake, as of decisive importance
and he summed up that decision as
bearing on the present conditions as FOL
lows:
etc, extends to the entire United States.
THAT the term United States en-
braces our great republic which IS COM
posed of states and territories.
That it is not less necessary on the
principles of our constitution that uni
formity in the imposition of impostS,
duties and excuses should be observed in
the one than the other"
1T follows from the above that the
rights and obligations of the territory
thus a part of the United States and the
inhabitants thereof are measured ana
tested by the constitution
10 f1n1 that
pines were not a part of the United
States, Mr.. Aldrich said:
IF the Islands ceded by Spain are
foreign territory then our country would
have it's merciaI representatives
requisite official acts prescribed by our
customs laws regarding shipments or
merchandise from any of these Islands
to any. port of the United States.
THE court takes judicial notice OF TIE
fact that our government has no con-
slls in the Philippines and that when
Spanish sovereignty ceased in those Isl
ands the United States consuls therein
were withdrawn and that the consular
agents OF foreign powers thenceforth
were the accredited representatives Of
the respective foreign governments to
the United States and our government
signed the exeQuatur of such cOnSslls.
What an anomaly It is to have Spain
send its consuIs to the Philippines, if as
commended for the purposes Of revenue.
they are still foreign territory If they
are not American territory they must
still be Spanish; for it is not pretended
that any other nation foreign to the
United States has acquired any sover-
eighty over them, nor is it pretended
that the Philippine islands in the eye of
intef-na tiOnaI law occupy the status of
an independent nation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
THE POINT Ar ISSUE.

The cases which have been argued in
the supreme court of the United States
this week are generally regarded as be-
ing among the most important present
ed to that tribunal since the famous
bred Scott case. They involve the fu-
ture political status of territory ac-
quired by the United States by treaty
or conquest. with especial reference to
Porto Rico and the Philippines. the
present subject under discussion being
the constitutionality of the exaction of
duties on goods brought from these
countries to the United States.
The cases to be adjudicated bear
these titles:
John H. Goethe, appellant, vs.. the
United States. No. $40 on appeal. and
fourteen diamond rings Manuel Pepke.
claimant. plaintiff in error, vs. the
United States, No. 41s, on writ of
error.
On June 6. 1899. John D. Goetze &
Co imported a quantity of leaf. or
filler tobacco. from Porto Rico to New
York Duty at 35 cents per pound was
assessed under the Dingley law. Goethe
K Co. protested on the ground that the
merchandise was not subject to duty.
because Porto Rico was not then a for
eign country and because, therefore. the
imposition Of duties on goods brought
from place within the territory of the
United States into a port of the United
States is not lawful and valid under the
constitution.
The lower courts held to the con-
trary.
In the case OF the fourteen diamond
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
JONES WILL STAY.
Has Mo Intention of Resigning the
Chafr1nanship

Washington, Dec. Ex-senator Jones OF
Arkansas. chairman Of the Democratic
national committee, said today that there
Is no foundation for the report that he
contemplates resigning the chairman
ship.
4 have had no correspondence on that
suggestion Of that nature has ever been
made to me by anyone. nor have suE-
Eested IL TO anyone Indeed the subject
has never entered my mind until ] saw
the report in the newspapers There Is
no occasion for "a meeting Of the national
committee at this time and no meeting
is liable to be held. In a word, the report
Is Without foundation.f
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20

Remember that if you go visiting, you
must entertain visitors
1t is better to take the worst of
deal than to suffer the consequences of
a quarrel
In order to make the cook book more
attractive for women it should be en-
titled THE Inner Life"
Philosophy helps us bear the misfor-
tunes of other people with equanimity-
but our own-well, that IS another
story.
When a girl baby Is born, 1t is re-
membered that the father has always
regarded a girl baby as equal to draw
ing blank
This is the season when bashfal
young men from the country come to
town, and buy plush toilet cases at the
drug stores. indicating love affair.
The people have so much to worry
and distress them in the present that it
indicates an abundance OF spare time
when they worry about the hereafter.
This is the season when members of q
family quarrel about the heat Some
one in every house is freezing to death,
while some other member is roasting.
When a woman makes a friend in
some OIner town IN the summer, she is
sure to hear from her at least once
again: at Christmas, asking for a dona-
ton to her church bazaar.
There should be more patience with
the girl who sits on a back seat in
church and giggles: the time is near
when she will be star witness in Civ
ing testimony at prayer meeting.
When a girl appears with a diamond
ring on her engagement finger, we all
ways hear she is to marry a rich east
ern man, but when the wedding comes
off she marries one of the home boys
Acting on the theory that he should
give sensible presents. which will be use
full in future years for house keeping.
an Atchison young man figures that he
has given seven rocking chairs to seven
different girls in the past seven years
During the winter owners of fancy
chickens are compelled to sell their eggs,
as there is no demand for them for set
ting As a result, Jim Ayres is now
selling eggs at 25 cents dozen that are
worth IS or 50 each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
POINTED pARAGRApas.

IF'rom the Chicago News
Pawning the engagement ring is a
pledge of love.
Many q man praises virtue who never
thinks of practicing it.
A long walk is a severe trial for the
human understanding.
In the ladder of success there are
many rounds OF failure
Ingratitude is a vice that renders all
others less disgusting.
A good conscience is the most reliable
witness a man can have.
a wife never objects to her husband
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New York World: For 100000
year, the amount proposed to be paid
in subsidies to already prosperous
steamship lines under the pretense that
It will promote the foreign commerce
of the United States" the government
could borrow $3.50, 600 900 at the present
rate of interest on its bonds With $780,
100000 the government could build
fleet Of steamships that would more
than double the tonnage Of our ocean
going merchant marine. and turn them
over. free of cost, to private steamship
companies for operation. If the real oh
5ect of the subsidy bill advocates is, as
its preamble declares. to promote the
foreign commerce" of this country. it
would be attained much more surely by
this direct investment of $3.50. 900 in
building merchant vessels and making
a present of them to private corpora
tions to use in their business. Those
corporations could then certainly af-
ford to reduce freight rates. And it
could be done for the IS, OO0. 600 a year
which the pending bill proposes to give
away without any assurance that it viii
add single ship TO our merchant feet
or reduce freight rates by a single cent.
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SMOOTHING THE WAY.
Netherlands Parliament Arranees For
Marriage Of the Queen.

The Hague. Dec. 20.-BilIs were intro
duced in the second chamber today APP
proving Of the marriage OF Queen VIII
helmina TO DulxeHenry Of MaclSlenburg-
Schwerin. regulating the procedure OF
the celebration and the contingencies
arising therefrom. providing for the nat
uralizatiOn OF the bride groom and max
ing provision for an allowance payable
to the duke from the national treasurv
in the event Of the queens diving befor..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20
QUAKER REFLECrIoNs.


IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Christmas greens-country shoppers.
Every dub has his double.
Ambition is often the assassin Of hap
piness.
A pawnshop is a bad place in which
to hang up Christmas stockings.
Usually the fellow who says s'I told
you so" never did anything of the kind.
Lofter-"why do you think golf is a
sleepy game?'' Wigwag-"Oh, hear SO
much talk about bunkers."
The man who doesn't believe in hiding
his light under a bushel usually feels
that bushel isn't large enough to hide
it.
Hoax-'T got hold of a plugged So
cent piece the other day, but my wife
worked it off for me- Joax-"Trust the
better half for that
Wigg-'T consulted a fortune teller the
other day. and she gave me spirit mes
sage from the grave" Wagg-''Written
on rapping paper, I suppose"
Blobbs-"Wen, I see the Widow Co
trox has captured Oldbach at last The
invitations are out" Slobbs-'' Another
illustration of the widows might
Be Christmas green or Christmas white,
In country or in town,
It's all the same to turkeys, for
They're always served up brown.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20

FOR SALE-Good square piano. good tone
Just tuned, a bargain. 918 West Fifth 81.
FOR SALE-New Testaments at cents:
bargains in Bibles. etc IFS East Firth
ST The Kansas Tract Society.
FOR SALE-A good second hand safe
cheap r. z. Hedges. 121 West Sixth.
LOST-Friday, December Il little brown
pup, months old Reward for any In
formation about same at 5o4 West First.
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st. Petersburg. Dec 2o.-Yesterdav be
ing the name day or the car. thanks
giving services were held ia all the
churches for his recovery and the city
was Illuminated at night.
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chronic Rhenmatiam cnrad.

DR.. H B. Hettinger, indianapolis Ind.
says; For several months after sprain-
ing my ankle was severely afflicted with
Rheumatism I finally tried Detchon's
Mystic Cure for Rheumatism, and in
days could walk without my cane: two
bottles cured me sound and well I take
great pleasure in recommending the AIys-
tic Cure to all who are afflicted with
Rheumatism Sold by Swift & Holiday
90 Kansas avenue. Topeka
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Via ssRook Island Route. ,

One fare for the round trip to points
within 200 miles. west of Missouri river
Tickets sold Dec. p, %, "a, Is, and 81,
2 1901
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Chicago News. President Mckinley
receded from his position for free trade
with Porto Rico on the ground that the
constitution does not follow the flag
Elx- President Harrison, an able lawyer
as well as a statesman, now says both
Porto Rico and the Philippines are part
of the United States. It may be added
that until the lawyers. began talking
about it. no one probably ever had any
doubt that the Islands are part OF the
United States Are the people right2
Ex-President Harrison says they are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20

Annie Butler filed suit in the district
court this morning asking for divorce
from John Butler. She charges drunk
enness and gross neglect of duty. Ths
couple has been married for IL years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20

The continuation of the fighting in
the Philippines makes it evident that
Aguinaldo has not yet heard the election
returns. The country was assured that
the war would end with Bryan's de-
feat
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RevoIution Is C1.ushed.

Caracas, Venezuela. Dec. 20.-Advices
received here from Cumana, on the Gulf
of Cariao, say the Colombian revolution
has been crushed.
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The fashionable boarding house tablt
should show less gliding and more cary
ing
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Ambition is the road that leads to
pass.
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The average baby has no earthly us
for anything he can't put in his mouts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-20

When married man is missing from
home his neighbors wonder whether h'
ran away with a woman or from one.
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Don't dress for show. The thinnest
soap-bubbles wear the gaudiest colors-
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Christmas slippers at Furnan's.

Every toy in my stock is brand new
My old stock was destroyed by fire
while in storage this fall. 7. J. Cough
lin Hardware Co, 702 Kan. Ave.
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sartoris EngaEement penied.

Washington, Dec. 20.-AIrs- Nellie Grant
Satoris desires the statement ma1p
that there is no truth in the rumored
engagement OF Miss Saforis and Mr.
Nichols Of New York