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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
BRITISH WAR POLICY
Receives Severe Scoring by Sir W.
v. Harcourt in Parliament

New York, Aug. "A dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
The war in South Africa is clearly
approaching an end. Hunter has report
ed that he will have fully 1000 prison
ers among the hills south of Bethlehem
and that Olivier alone has succeeded in
breaking away toward Harrismith with
a thousand men.
Forty thousand British troops ought
to be able to catch that commando with
it's five guns. The Free State forces now
consist of two columns of 1000 men
each under DeWet and Olivier, several
hundred miles apart and enveloped with
British troops and when these surrender
the Transvaal Beers will not have any
Justification for holding out, especially
when the campaign has become one of
intolerable suffering on both sides. The
Beers are fighting in rags and bare
footed, and are suffering from hunger,
cold and every conceivable priVation.
The British troops are also badly
clothed and fed, owing to the Wretched
work of the transport service.
Sir William Vernon HarcOurt made
speech against the government yester-
day in the house of commons and dis
played semblance of his old-tifpe
fighting form. He referred to the esti-
mate of $4,000 600 for operations in
China and intimated that the ultimate
cost of British operations in that quar-
ter might exceed that in South Africa
He also assumed that the war in South
Africa would cost fully $500, 100000 and
commented on the facts that the consolS
winch uSed 10 Stanu at loo mad gone TO
below par. He even ventured to predict
that Sir Michael Hicks Beach. If he
We're borrowing, would emulate Mr..
Goschen's achievement in sending them
down to 95.
This speech was the most effective at
tack which has vet been made on the
government. The war has not been we'll
financed. A tax of a penny a pound
on sugar would have yielded more reve-
nue than the new schedule of increased
taxes imposed by Sir Michael Hicks
Beach at the expense of payers of in
come duties and other direct taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
Steam Fitters Strike Fogtponed.

Nv York, Aug. ga threatened strike
of $50 steam filters ordered for today has
been postponed until Monday, pending a
conference between the union and employ
ers Five hundred shirt waist makers.
four hundred of whom are omen, went
ont TODAY on account 70 a reduction in
wages They were employed by one firm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

1t is thought that the sight of Ben
jamin Harrison and Thomas b. Reed
on the campaign circuit this year would
he as welcome to the Republicans as
Cleveland and Whitney to the Democ-
rracv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The city should insist upon the great
est possible dispatch in the settlement
of che waterworSs controversy-there
has been too much time wasted in in
effectual law suits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
Tourist Rates to Colorado and utah.

Tickets will be sold from points of
Missouri Pacific to Denver, Colorado
lake and ogden, Utah, June 1st to Sep
feraber 18th, at greatly reduced rates
See nearest ticket agent or write
H. c. TOWNSEND, @. p. & T. A.
st. Louis, Mo
Topeka. Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

They are trying to pass law in
England to protect the people from dis
honest lawyers. They might as we'll
pass a law making it illegal for wolves
to kill sheep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The Chinese mandarins who work the
shell game seem to find the diplomats
of other countries about as easy for
them as the farmer is for the shell
game man who follows a circus.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Topeka's auditorium is now under roof
and the dyspeptic editor of the Law
renee Journal is respectfully invited to
come to Topeka and look at the best
convention hall in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The cannon presented to the Topeka
park commission by Lieutenant John
j. Haisch will be an everlasting re-
minder of the heroic deeds of the Kan
sas soldiers in the Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

It has been definitely decided through
the agency of Major Tom Anderson
that a person may be a good Republi-
can and still not vote for every person
nominated simply because his name
happens to appear on the ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Emperor William of Germany is very
bloodthirsty but then he has the assur-
ance that he is in no personal danger
from an invasion of Chinese who may
wish to retaliate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The more ignorant the man the more
excited he can become over politics.
This is especially true when the ignor-
ant man has the office hunting fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

There are so many heroes of the civil
war, the Spanish war and the Philip
pine war that the hero" of the state
house war is apt to be overlooked.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The assassination of King Humbert
OF Italy. by a man who made his home
in free America, again exemplifies the
truthfulness of the old saying that eli
matte conditions do not eradicate evils.
either genuine or imaginary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Trenton. N. J.. Aug. 3.-The Herring
Hall-Marvin Safe company was incorpo-
stock, of which s600,000 is first preferred,
bearing per cent. dividends. and $50, 600
second preferred, bearing per cent divi-
dends after payment of first preferred div
idend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Mary E. Lease must be losing her
voice. Breidenthal was nominated more
than a week ago and her clarion tones
have not been heard in protest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The red shirt cavalry of North Caro-
lima are not the sort of Rough Riders
that Governor Roosevelt would have In
1ected into the campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The people of North Carolina have de-
cided the question of white Su-
premacy'' and they figure that the rest
of the world. ought to keep still.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

General Apathy is not commanding a
brigade in either party this year, con-
Bequently the campaign promises to be
a lively one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The Democrats will have a 100000
campaign fund this year, it is reported.
The Clark and DAILY Montana feud
has not been in vain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The corn fields in eastern Kansas hold
a promise of an unclouded future for
the farmers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Occasionally a very wise man talks
too much 1t may be a blessing in dis
Euise that Congressman Curtis has tenn
norarily lost the use of his voice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

G. c. Clemens is happy. He has hear'
from six men in one county who viii
vote for him for governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The politician with a rainbow nara
tive is always a welcome caller at cam
paign headquarters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
New Wage Scale For Tin Workers

Cleveland, O., Aug. San important con-
ference between the representativ Of
nearly 1900 tin workers and manufac-
turers was held here this afternoon, for
the purpose of adjusting the wage scale
during the ensuing year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

The Lord arranged the sunsets for
the girls to rave over, and tyrant
mothers arranged a dish washing hour
to fall at the same time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Every once in awhile a genius in
vents a stove, a washing machine, or
a furnace that "a child can rum" but
we notice that the old folks continue to
run it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

See the handsome moving pictures
now on exhibition at Union Pacific city
ticket office. Free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Eczema, scald head. hives, itchiness
of the skin of any sort instantly relieved,
permanently cured. Doan's Ointment.
At any drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

An Atchison woman looks so enter
tained when others talk that she ha.
earned the reputation of being a bril-
liant conVersationalist
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.

tFrom the Atchison Globe.l
Porch parties are lately becoming as
great a nuisance as cabinet organs.
over the door Of nearly every pleas
ant place, you find this sign: mo ad-
mission"
Title of the latest serio-comic song:
IF Your Teeth Don't Ache, You Are
All Right
she can't tell her preacher how mean
her husband is.
AS soon as a man discovers a new
thing good to eat, the women make
the discovery that it can be fried.
A woman tells her troubles to a doc
tor almost as literally as to a preacher.
The men still prefer a policeman.
A mans experience in life often
causes him to wonder if mirror
wasn't broken the day he was born
Writers of love stories speak of the
heroine drawing up her lissom figure
as if the girl opened out like a jack
knife
OF course a husband should be pa
tient and kind, but once or twice in
hundred years. a husbands kick is in
dorsed by the women.
tained when others talk that she has
earned the reputation of being a bril-
liant cOnVerSationaliSt
The Lord arranged the sunsets for
the girls to rave over, and tyrant
mothers arranged a dish washing hour
to fall at the same time.
Every once in awhile a genius in
vents a stove, washing machine, or
a furnace that "a child can rum" but
we notice that the old folks continue to
run it.
When a woman belongs to a church
and her husband doesn't, the members
call the husband a ''brOther-in-law of
the church. Churches have more
brothers-in-law than any other kind of
kin.
An Atchison boy of twenty-one
lately married a double grass widow of
fOrty-tWo. Still, no one uttered a word
of protest Had the young man smoked
a cigarette (Which would not have in
jured him a particle), a dozen people
would have offered him advice, but no
marriage that may affect him unfavor-
ably all his life. Love, you know, is
Divine.
Soon after a young man is graduated
from college, and takes the first prize
in oratory, We have observed that he
attends all of the political conventions,
where he talks a good deal, and tries
to purify politics. and reform things.
But the old fellows grumble about his
taking up so much time, and in a year
or two, he drops out, and becomes so
ordinary that people express wonder
that he is a college graduate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

When a woman belongs to a church
and her husband doesn't, the members
call the husband ''brother-in-law of
the church" Churches have more
brothers-in-law than any other kind of
kin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

OF course a husband should be pa
tient and kind, but once or twice in a
hundred years. a husbands kick is in
dorsed by the women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Subscribe for the Joarnal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Concert Tonight
At Garfield Park by Marshall's band,
o'clock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Stop in at city ticket office, 525 Kan
sas avenue, and see the wonderful NOV
ing pictures. and gaze at the grand
scenery on the line of and the flight of
the Overland Limited over the Union
Pacific railroad, which will be shown
free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

IFrom the Atchison Globe1
Porch parties are lately becoming as
reat a nuisance as cabinet organs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Writers of love stories speak of the
heroine drawing up her lissom figure
as if the girl opened out like a jack
knife
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

AS soon as a man discovers a new
thing good to eat, the women make
the discovery that it can be fried.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

A woman tells her troubles to a doc
tor almost as literally as to a preacher
The men still prefer policeman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

A mans experience in life often
causes him to wonder if a mirror
wasn't broken the day he was born.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

We feel sorry for a preachers wife:
her husband is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

over the door of nearly every pleas
ant place, you find this sign: mo ad-
mission -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Title of the latest serio-comic song:
If Your Teeth Don't Ache, You Are
All Right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

TELEPHONES.
Fsuzfness once .............. Bell Phone 107
Reporters Room. Bell Phone SIT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

It's a case of misdirected energy whel
a young man runs after a girl VIII
doesn't appreciate him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

Many a man is in advance of his age
and many woman is several years be-
hind hers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-03

If people were to get paid for all the
foolish things they say and do poverty
would soon be a thing of the past
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
MANY Die From Heat.

New York, Special.-The hot weather
Wednesday caused or contributed to-
ward the death of more than seventy
persons in this city and vicinity. AS
many more stricken ones are In the
hospitals and some Of them will sue
cumb before the night is over. More
than half the fatalities were among ba-
bies and little children and there are
now about forty bodies of the little
ones lying at the morgue at Bellevue.
This is the third day of the spell of in
tense heat. Late at night the heat
moderated. On the streets the temper
ature ranged from 90 to 105, and tie
official record from the weather bureau
high above ground was 81 degrees
shortly before 3 o'clock in the after
noon.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
Fire in the Dismal Swamp.

Norfolk, Special.-Weeks o. drought
have put large portion of the Dismal
Swamp in highly infammable condi-
ton, and fires are eating into the tim
Der underground and peaty ground at
several points along the Norfolk and
Western Railroad. Fires are supposed
TO have been started from locomotives.
If no heavy rain comes soon, there
may be heavy losses in the destruction
Of standing timber. The drought has
effected the depth of water in both the
Dismal Swamp and Albemarle and
Chesapeake Canals, and some vessels
of deep draft have not been able to get
through.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
The Blue and the GRAY.

Atlanta. Special-A genuine Geor-
gia barbecue Friday afternoon closed
the reunion in this city Of the Blue
and the Gray. Although it was given
out at its inception that the reunion
was for the benefit only of those who
participated in the battles around At
lanta, and the city's invited guests,
veterans from all parts OF the South
were present, swelling the crowds to
large proportions. General john B.
Gordon, commander-in in-chief Of the
United Confederate Veterans, dis
obeying his physicians order, was
present with the other distinguished
guests.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
The South.

In consequence of the atrocities OK
The Alban;ans who recently raided old
Gervia. numerous bands Of Christians
have fed into Servia and Montenegro.
In three-cornered fight at Hawes-
vile, KY, Jack Hesson and Allen Pull
liam were killed.
The Southern Industrial League met
at Atlanta, Ga, last week.
w. H. Culton, as witness st the
trial of Caleb Powers, accused OF the
murder of William Goebel, revealed a
plot to bring armed men to Frankfort
to kill legislators.
At the trial of Caleb Powers, charged
with completely in the murder of Will
liam Goebel, witness testified to
threats by Powers against GoebePs
life.
Arthur Bailly Blanchard, Of Louis
lana, has been appointed third secre-
tary OF the Embassy at Paris.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
Morrow Escape.

New York, Special.-Capt. Burg of
the Savannah, Line steamship City OF
Birmingham, reports that when pass
ing Sandy Hook shortly after noon
Saturday, bound for Savannah. shell
which was fired from the Sandy Hook
proving grounds struck the water be-
tween his vessel and the shore, about
$50 feet from the vessel and ricochet-
ting passed over his vessel about mid
ship. There was great excitement
aboard the vessel at what was con-
sidered a very narrow escape, and
many of the passengers were very
much frightened.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
Foreign

Lieutenant Colonel Perisse, a
French officer, was accidentally SUI
located by gas in India.
Additional details are made public
of an alleged invasion OF Siberia by
Chinese.
Beers made a spirited attack on Pole
Carew's position, not far from Pre-
toria.
The Shah Of Persia called upon the
Car of Russia at Petersburg.
The Canadian Parliament was pro
rogued Thursday.
The immigration authorities are in
vestigating the proposed large influx
OF Roumanians, who are said to be
undesirable, into this country.
Governor General Wood, OF Cuba,
who is in Washington, spoke enthusi-
astically of the improved conditions on
the island.
Spanish Consuls in Cuba have pro-
tested against a death sentence for
Jose Garcia for alleged murder Of Gu
ban prisoners in the revolution.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
The North.

John Matthews, of Columbia COL
Iege, New York, is the American dele
gate to the general meeting of tn So
ciety OF Chemical Industry, at Lon
don
Two hundred fishing vessels are
caught in the ice off the Labrador
coast, and it is feared some OF them
will be lost.
Fifty bathers, powerless to rescue
her, saw t3-year-old Margaret OBrien
drown at Lighthouse Point, Conn, on
Tuesday.
Professor J. NJ. Meneck, a distin-
guished scientist Of the Smithsonian
Institution, at Washington, d. T., was
lost several days ago in the desert or
Southern Utah, and is believed to nave
pershed.
The National League Of RepuDll-
can Clubs elected Isaac Miller Hamll-
ton. of Chicago, president
stockholders OF the National Wall
paper Company decided at meeuns
in New York to wind up its ahalrs'
Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston, has de-
clined the appointment OF FIRST AS
sistant Postmaster General, rendered
him in succession to Perry 5. Heath.
The President has appointed II. Per-
cival Dodge and Samuel Morrlll' OF
Massachusetts,, respectively as second
and third secretary of the EMBASSY d.
Berlin.
Nicholas Pierson. prominent DEM
ocrat of New York State, was killed py
a train at Ithaca.
Fiye-year-old Matthew Allison drank
a probably fatal dram OF gin careless
" left on a table at Brooklyn, n. Y.
Joseph A. Donnell, New York. let
fer carrier with eight years OF service
is alleged to have been caught roboins
the mails.
The steamer Colorado, from New
York for Brunswick, Ga, is achore at
Doboy, Ga.
William Waldorf Astor will build a
hotel to cost $4,000 900 between Forty
fourth and Forty-fifth streets, OH
Broadway, New York.
John G. Woolley, Prohibltionist can
dwidate for President, is to make a
tour of the country in a special train,
TO be known as the Prohibition train.
A formidable Ice Trust, in which
nearly all the shareholders are Repub-
licans, is crushing small dealers in
Syracuse, N. Y.
General Lew Wallace will probably
preside over the meeting Of the Ma
tional Anti-Imperialist League, at IN
dianapolis, Ind, August 1o to II.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
NEWS REGARDED AS AUTHENTIC.
The Message Came to Minister Wa
and Stated That 1inistcr Gonger " :, >
Still.Alire Department Inclined 10
to Bell W the News

Washington. .. c.. Special.-The
State Department Friday morning re
ceived the following cablegram from
Minister Conger. at Pekin:
I'm British legation. Under continued
shot and shell from Chinese troops.
Quick relief only can prevent general
massacre"
The message is not dated, but it is
understood was sent from Pekin on
the 18th.
Washington. D. c., Special.-Lik" .
fash OF sunlight out Of dark sky came
the intelligence at an early nour mar
United States Minister Conger lad
sent a cipher cable dispatch from He-
kin TO the State Department. at Wash
ington, making known that two days
ago he was alive and that the f. reign
ers were fighting for their lives. The
message was received by the Chinese
minister, WI Ting Fung. at $50 a. N.
Within an hour the welcome intelli-
gence that Conger had been heard
from, after weeks of silence and evil
report, was flashed through the coun-
try. and indeed throughout the world.
dispelling the gloom which had pre-
vailed everywhere and bringing to OF
ficials and 10 the public, generally. a
sense of profound relief. TIE dispatch
was in reply to Secretary Hays cable
inqu.ary to Minister Conger on July
Il. and as both messages were in the
American cipher code they were re-
garded b. the officials as above the
suspicion cf having been tampersd
with in the course OF TRANSMISSION
through Chinese channels. Mr.. WI
promptly con- rl.!unicatCd the dispatch
to the state Department, where the
tulnSlaticH was made from me cipher
figures and soon all Washington was
as,ir with ,he intelligcnc2. 1t was
telegraphed by Secretary Hay to the
President who responded with whole
some expression OF qualification, and
word of it was sent to the various
cabinet officers. They gathered in
Secretary Hays Office and an i'm
promptu cabinet conference was held
in the diplomatic chamber mainly for
tfe purpose of exchanging congratula-
tions and Of taking survey Of the
situation TO see if it had been ma
terially changed by this important de.
vclopment First of all, from the
standpoint OF the administration Of
ficiais, the most welcome feature of the
message was the assurance that the
American minister himself was alive
two days ago. But with this cheering
news came the ominous statement of
Minister Conger that the besieged
foreigners We're in the British lega-
ton under continuous shot and shell
from Chinese troops, and that only
quick relief could avert general mas
sacre After the first flush of thank
fulress. this graver feature of the
message began TO impress itself upon
cabinet officials most deeply. AS one
OF them remarked: There are the
poor creatures, penned up under fire
of shot and shell, appealing to us for
help"
The consultation brought about no
pronounced change of policy, for it was
felt that already absolutely every en-
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1900-07-26
Sixty Missionaries Killed.

London, By Cable.-A dispatch from
Shanghai, received here Saturday, re-
ports that 60 missionaries and 100 ma
tive converts have been massacred by
Boxers at Tai Yuan. Tai Yuan is a
fortified and populous city in the
province Of Shan 81, on the Fuen Ho,
an affluent of the Hoang Ho, 250 miles
southwest Of Pekin.