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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-01-12
THE STAMP CRAZE.
The Premium Stamp Business on It's
sLaat Legs"

The premium stamp craze is becom-
ing more and more unpopular in To-
pela with both customers and mer-
chants. 1t is likely to wink out" any
day. The Lawrence Journal says about
It:
when the premium stamp craze first
struck Lawrence. the Journal said that
the scheme was a fake, and that there
was no legitimate business in it. The
paper was abused very rOundly both
by the promoters of the scheme and by
merchants who We're infatuated with
It. But what of the result2 There is
not a merchant in town who is not sick
unto death of the losing game 1t has
proved a nuisance and a VexatiOn. 1t
has demoralized trade and spoiled the
shopper who has been touched by the
mania. The consequence of the scheme
is that the man or woman who is
known to the merchant as a stamp
hend is dreaded by everybody. and it is
with fear and trembling that they see
one enter. But the injustice of the
whole business comes in when the Gus
toner who is not afflicted with the
stamp craze has to pay a 3 per cent ad-
vance In order to supply others with
stamps. There has never been devised
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PLENTY OF TIMBER.
Sixth District Fusionists Have Many
Congressional Candidates.

AT the recent meeting of the Sixth
Congressional District Populist COM
mittee at Colby, it developed that there
many prospective candidates for the
nomination.
The meeting was called by the Sec
rotary, T. C. Johnson of Phillips coun-
ty, for the purpose of getting an ex-
change of opinion as to the wisest
course to pursue in the approaching
canvass. Perfect harmony prevailed,
and the members of the committee pre-
sent reported ready for the political
battle Another meeting of the COM
mittee will be called in February, not
earlier than the 18th, to TX the time
and place for the convention to meet
There seemed to be a pretty general
opinion in for favor of holding the con-
vention the first week in June.
The following names were mentioned
for the nomination. From Decatur
county: Judge A. G. T. Geiger, Judge
Sam w. McElroy, ex-speaker W. d.
Street and Tully Scott.
Phillips eounty-Ex-Congr N.
B. Mccormick; F. c. Johnson.
Osborne-Harry Gray
Mitchell county, w. Parks. editor
of the Beloit Call.
Smith-Dr. J. B. Dykes
Lincoln-Ed. Smith.
Graham-senator Levi Pritchard.
Norton-Granville Shelley.
Russell. C. RupenthaI
Thomas-W. s. Willcoxson.
Wallace-Josiah Gorsuch.
Wego-E. D. Wheeler.
Ellsworth-W. B. Helm.
David Jones, who represented Jewell
county said his county hal two or
three candidates.
While Tully Scott didn't attend the
meeting, he was heard to remark that
he thought the committee was called
together for no other purpose than to
fix up political states. He can't see
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COUNTY TEACHERS.
They VIII :Meet Tomorrow to Talk
About Experiences

Following is the programme of the
Shawnee County Teachers association
which convenes at 1870 tomorrow at
high school assembly hall:
Music.
Paper. Story Telling in the School
Rooms. Lee Gilmore, Shorey school
Discussion-Mabel Phillips, Oakland
school; Myra Corning, Seabrook school;
Madge Moore, Jackson school,
Paper, Influence of the Study of His
tory in the Formation Of Character
Alice B. Patterson, high school.
Discussion-Lenora Henry, Quincy and
Grant school; Lawrence Sims, District
g.
Music.
Paper, A Teachers Kodak-Mabel
Smith, Harrison school
Discussion-W. W. Fiske. principal
Belleview school; Emma Kassebaum,
Rossville school; Mrs. A. K. Palmer,
Garfield school.
Paper, Culture Studies as Outlined in
the State Course of Study. A. Coul-
ter, Oakland school.
Discussion-Genera1.
Criticism and Summary-County Sup
erintendent John W. Stout.
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without success. He has devoted
great amount of his time to furthering
the interests of the club, and he felt
that he could no longer afford to do SO
in justice to his own business interests.
Mr.. Holman has been one of the most
active members of the club since its or
ganization, and has been in the front
rank of nearly all the important move
mentS in which the club has engaged.
He was secretary of the Twentieth
Kansas reception committee, and much
of the success of that undertaking is
due to his efforts in carrying out the
details which fell to him as secretary.
The selection of Mr.. Holman as pres
ident of the club is looked upon as most
fortunate. He is representative not on
ly of the North side, where his business
and residence are but of the entire city
as well. When other North Topeka
members of the club became disgrun-
tied because the. club pushed the erec-
ton of the auditorium on the site Sc
1ected by the city council, Mr.. Holman
overlooked all personal interest in the
matter and worked for the interest OF
Topeka as a whole.
Mr.. Holman is a man of great ener-
gy," said Mr.. Brigham today, land the
interests of the club will no way suf-
fer in his hands. I am confident that he
can carry on the work of the club fully
as well as I could have done, and [
look upon his selection as a good one.
John o. Frost was elected vice pres
ident of the club by the directors, and
T. J. Anderson and D. J. Greenwald
were reelected secretary and treasurer
respectively.
''The Commercial club could not be-
gin to attain the success it has in the
past year." said Mr.. Brigham, IF it
had not been for the efforts of Major
accomplished what he has done as Sec
rotary of the club"
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a more mischievous scheme to upset
trade''
Whist Club News

A team Of four''has been selected out
of the Topeka whist club and those
players are anxious to meet four other
strong individual players. In nearly
every large whist club Of the country
teams of four are played and they are
always represented in national tourna-
ments. The Topeka team is composed
of W. N. West, E. L. Copeland, L. c.
Bronson and H. L. Armstrong. A good
way to determine who should play them
would be to take the highest north and
south and the highest east and west
teams on Monday nights and arrange
q match game for some evening during
that week. If these teams should be
high, take the next highest to them
That could be done every week and
would be 8. fair way to select the best
teams of four to represent the club
There will be q game at the rooms on
Saturday night of this week.
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HOLMAN CHOSEN.
North Topeka Man Elected
President of CONNER
cial Club.

M. c. Holman. of North Topeka, will
be the leading spirit in the Commercial
club during the year 1900 and viii lguide
its destinies up to the opening Of the
new century The new board of diree-
tors of the club met at the club rocms
yesterday afternoon and elected him
president of the club to succeed r. s.
Brigham, whose term expired Wednes-
day evening.
An effort was made to induce Mr..
Brigham to accept a reelection, but
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.
The ice is Out Of the kansas liver.

The funeral of Joseph w. Saywell.
aged AZ years, who died Wednesday,
will be held Saturday morning at 10
o'clock from his late residence, corner
of Oakland and Belmont streets.
The funeral of Dolly McFadden. aged
q years. wife of NJ E McFadden, who
died Wednesday was held this after
noon at two o'clock from her late resi-
dence, corner of Nineteenth and Lin
coin streets.
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PROPOSALS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Office. SUI
pervising Architect, Washington. 2. c.,
January 8. 19Go-SEALED PROPOSALS
O. clock ,. M, on the 26th day Of Febru-
airy, 1900. and then opened. for the
Struction Except heating apparatus. cleo
trio wiring and conduits) Of the addition
to the u. s Court House and Post Office
building at Topeka, Kansas. IN accord
ance with the drawings and specification.
which will be furnished at the discretion
of the Supervising Architect on appli-
cation at this office or at the office OF
the Custodian. u. s. Court House and
Postoffice. Topeka, Kansas. James Knox
Taylor, Supervising Architect.
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SHORT SESSION.
After . Few Minutes Work House
Adiourns Until Monday.

Washington, Jan. 12.-Mr. Catchings
(Miss.) was sworn in as a member ut
the opening of the session of the house
today. He has been detained at home
since congress convened. The speaker
laid before the house the resignation of
John Walter Smith, governor of Mary
land Mr.. Sulzer IN. W then present
ed for immediate consideration q reso-
luton for the appointment of a special
committee of nine members to investi
gate the relations Of the secretary Of
the treasury with certain New York
National banks ard the transactions
relative to the sale of the New York
custom house. Before the reading Of
the resolution was completed, Mr.. Dali
eel, (Iaep., PAD objected on the ground
that the resolution should go through
the box In the regular way.
sHThen l ask unanimous consent" said
Mr.. Sulzer, for its consideration
Il object shouted Mr.. Hopkins,
(Rep., ILL., and several other Republi-
cans.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Ohio) moved that the
resolution be Laid on the table.
1T is not before the house." observed
Mr. Hopkins the able report of the
secretary of the treasury has met all
the charges it contains.
Mr.. Richardson (Dem.) the minority
leader. as a matter of privilege called
attention to what he claimed was an
infraction of the rules of the house in
the printing of the shipping bill. APP
pended to it was a partisan argument
by ex-senator Edmunds which had no
business here and which made it nom
frankable document. He thought the
whole document should be suppressed.
Mr.. Payne IN. Y.) explained that the
Edmunds argument had been printed
by inadvertance. After some discussion
it was agreed by unanimous consent
that the bill should be reprinted with
out the argument attached in the present
print. The house then at 1920 p. m,
adjourned until Monday.
Kansas City and Return $500 Via the
Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-16-17th,
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ENGLISH ENTHUSIASTIC.
In Spite of Disposition to Critical
Attitude.

Englishmen are supposed to have very
little language of praise in their linguis
tic magazines. They are apt to say
nothing or else criticise sharply. But
we have failed to see in the notices of
De Pachmann in the English press a
single frigid notice. Here are three
such notices. the first in the Brighton
Society" the second in the Manchester
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Kansas City and Return $2.oo Via the
Santa Fe.

Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-16-17th,
final limit Jan Goth; six trains day in
each direction.
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RTCYCTES.

-~~~~~~~~--~-~-~-~-~~~
u. S. CYCLE CO., 11s E. sth St National
and Union bicycles. Sundries, repairs.
TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 1I2 w. 9Th St
Fsicycles and sundries: bicycles and tan
denis for rent: repairing of all kinds
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PAVING.


THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitriffed
Brick and Paving Co., has been removed
to lis West Eighth street.
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MATCHMAKER.


WATCHES cleaned, T5c; clocks. SOC; main
springs, TIC; crystals, Zoe. Cash paid for
old gold or silver. All work guaranteed
Old 1ewelry exchanged for new. IL hard
up. see Uncle Sam, SIP Kansas avenue
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HAIR DRESSING.


LADIES HAIR DRESSING PARLOR
and Bath Rooms, 700 Kansas ave. I'M
der Central National bank. Entrance East
Seventh street. A skilled lady hair dress
err in charge.
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Kansas City and Return $500 Via the
Santa Fe.
Tickets on sale Jan. 14-15-16-17th,
final limit Jan. goth; six trains a day in
each direction.
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EDUCATIONAL


FRENCH AND GERMAN Taught either
IN class or private, terms reasonable
Mrs. Hannah kihlberg, BIG Harrison ST
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MONEY.

WANTED-Farm loans in eastern Kan
sas and western Missouri. $500 and up
wards.
GEO. NJ. NOBLE & CO,
Crawford building, Topeka, Kan.
800 900 coo TO INVEST through Bankers,
Brokers, Promoters. send for circular
Investors Directory, N. Y.
LOANS on pianos typewriters, bicycles
guns watches. diamonds and any per-
sonal property. L. Biscoe. 523 Kansas ave.
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paYsrc1Au AND sURaEoNa

L. A. RYDER, NJ d
OFFICE and residence corner Gordon St.
and Central ave, North Topeka Phone
214 Uses the Brinkerhof system. of rectal
treatment, a successful and painless treat
ment for piles. fstula. fishure, liberation.
etc
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JEWELLERS
JAMES B. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Opti-
clan. Complete stock of watches. dia-
nonds, silverware, etc, Eyes examined
and speetacles properly fitted
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STORAGE


TOPEKA STORAGE AND WAREHOUSE
Co Packs and ships household goods
Tel 1876. c. D. Skinner. 123 East sixth ST.
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CLEANER AND DYER.

CLEAN ER AND DY E6-
LITTENsS STEAM DYE WORKS
Does the finest work in city, fine press
ing, and repairing done; clothing called
for and delivered Drop me a card 10
w. st st.
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HAIR GOODS.

SWITCHES. CHAINS. Face treatment
Shampooing and hair dryed by hot al
Mrs Hattie Van Week, go East Fifth St
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MRS. J. r. HAGUE, Florist, successor to
r. J. Groves. SIT Kansas ave. Phone 60z.
CUT FLOWERS and floral designs at
Hayes. 10I West Eighth st. Phone 5ss-
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STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS

THE J. c. DARLING CO. 734 KAN. Ay.
High Grade Rubber Stamps prompt Work
low price, Catalogue free. Phone "
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I
MILTON BROWN, lawyer, Practice in al
state and federal courts. Suite Al, CraB-
ford bldg Topeka. Kan.
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CHEMIST.

J. II LOyEWELL, Phi. D.. Analytica
chemist and assayer. 523 Kansas ave.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08
NOW A CAPE NOME NABoB.

Several scores OF men in the new
and extraordinary gold fields of Cape
Nome, away up in northwestern Alas
ka, have made marvellous leaps from
direst poverty into the lap of riches
during the past year. But no one at
Cape Nome has had more unusual
career and has gone more swiftly from
poorest, pinching poverty to abundant
wealth than Jacob B. Halsey. who Is
known all along the coast of Alaska
Jake, as he is called, is one OF the SIX
richest men in the Cape Nome gold re-
gion.
Jake is a native of Maine and is nov
thirty-two years old. He was born in
poverty, and up to the age of thirty
had tasted deeply Of its bitterness. For
fifteen years his total annual earnings
never amounted to over $215- Five
years ago Jake worked on wharf in
Rockland, Me-, and later was freight
brakeman for a while. Three years
ago he tramped from Chicago to Kan
sas City and beat his way on the cars
from Kansas City to San Francisco.
He wandered around Frisco during
July, 1897, without cent in his pocket
He then got odd jobs cleaning windows
or doing something of that nature, and
by strict economy managed to save a
little. In February. 1898. with but $102
in his pocket. he started for the Klon-
dixie gold fields. Here he endured ter
rible hardships. nearly dying from
hunger and cold, and found that all
the claims were taken. He managed 10
live for a while doing chores at a Daw-
son hotel. He received $65 from man
whom he nursed while sick, and was
about to start back for 'Frisco when he
heard wonderful tales Of the immense
gold deposits at Cape Nome. He start
ed for the new field, located claim on
Snow Creek, six miles from Nome, and
struck 1t rich from the start. His luck
was phenomenal. Today he has $685.
900 on deposit in a San Francisco
bank. He owns two placer mines at
Nome easily worth $4,000 more. Be
sides he has real estate at Nome that
rents for $7OO month and might be
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08
CHINA AND SEWERAGE.
Impossibiiity of Introducing Ideas Into
That Country.

Impossibiiity of Introducing Ideas Into
That Country.
1t appears strange to us that, when
railroads and machinery are SO useful
to us, any one in China can be so
stupid as to fight against their intro
duction. But what does the introduc-
ton of our civilization and our ma
chinery mean to the Chinaman? 1t
means that their population will be re-
duced by at least 50,000,000. They say
If railways, gas works and machinery
are introduced it will throw a lot OF
land out OF cultivation. American and
European travellers on visiting China
are shocked at the filth which is ap-
parent everywhere. Their nostrils are
outraged by the nauseating odo.s
They say that the Chinese have no
idea at all of decency, cleanliness OF
sanitation; that our modern system o.
sewers has no existence in China. The
Chinese on their part look upon the
waste of our sewerage system as crimi-
nal folly The quantity of nitrogene
GUS matter that is discharged by tn
London sewers would make a whole
should introduce our sewers and oul
sanitary appliances into their country
one-half of the Cinnamon would die O.
starvation during the next ten years
England can enjoy the luxury of sani
tary appliances and still prosper. be
cause England lives on other nations
If all the food consumed by English
men had to be raised in England it
very evident that 1t would not do to
allow any organic substance to go to
waste. We should have to do exactly
as the Chinaman does. But England
itself is a comparatively small country
and obtains the greater part of her
food supply by dealing with other and
larger countries. 1t is necessary tina
the food should come from some
where; some one has to raise it, ana
as England is a small country there L
no trouble in finding sufficient food for
her population. But would such
thing be possible in China? II the
Chinese should adopt western civiliza
ton and should only be able to pro
duce as much off their land as is pro
duced, say in France or England. she
would very soon run short OF FOOD, ana
being the most populous country in the
world it would be eventually quite i'm
possible for her to draw an adequat2
food supply from foreign countries. Il
might be said that as far as food sup
ply and giving employment to a grea
number of workers is concerned the
Chinese system of civilization has
to- n ttYIa ef-
BILE pitch, and the population of China
is so numerous at the present time
that this high state of skill and culu-
vation is only barely sufficient to sup
port the population. Therefore 1t
would appear that any interference
from outside nations in the internal
economy of the country can only di-
minish the food supply and lead to thu
most deplorable condition of affairs
Fielden's Magazine.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08

ell is the son of minister. He joined
the Thirteenth Hussars in 1876 and, as
adjutant, served with his regiment in
India and Afghanistan and in South
Africa Early in his military career
he became familiar with the parts OF
the African continent with which his
name will hereafter be associated. In
1887 he was again at Cape Town as
assistant military secretary to Gen. Sir
Henry Smyth, and during his two
years stay there he served in the
Zululand operations. After serving
three years at Malta, he again re-
turned to Africa. charged with the
special service of raising and COM
manding the native levies in the Ash
antee operations. For his work in this
campaign he received the brevet- rank
of lieutenant colonel. After the Jane
son raid, when the Matabeles rose
second time, he was chosen as chief
staff officer of Gen. Sir Frederick Car
rington. At the beginning of the
Transvaal war he was selected to pro-
ceed to South Africa to raise mill
tary force on the spot and to drill 1t
into efficiency. That he succeeded In
doing so was attested by his long re-
sistance against a superior force.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08
COL. BADEN-POWELL.
DEFENSE OF MAFEKIN0 HAS
GAINED HIM DISTINCTION.
His Long Resistance of - Superior
Force Has Made Him . Hero in Brit
ish Eyes-Type of the Army Made
Mana Fighter by Trade.

Col R. S. S. Baden-Powell, defender
Of Mafeking, is seasoned frontiers
man. At the beginning Of the Trans
vaal war Col. Baden-Powell undertook
the defense with force consisting of
part of the First Battalion Of the
Lancashire (Royal North) Regiment,
the First Battalion Munster Fusiliers.
and 1000 colonials. with one battery of
artillery-in all probably 1000 men.
The siege began on October Is, 1899.
and was led by Gen. Cronje in person
until he went to Kimberley to oppose
Methuen. Baden-Powell was bonn
barded almost daily. He made occa-
sional sorties. but his force was too
small and his weapons too ineffective
to make headway against the besieg-
ing force.
Col. Baden-Powell is a cavalry Of
ficer, who Joined the Hussars when he
was nineteen. and is now a lieutenant
colonel in regiment of Dragon
Guards His life has been spent in
the army and in special service and
travel, and he is an authority on cav
airy tactics. having written manuals
on reconnaissance work and scouting.
Like Cecil Rhodes. Col Baden-Pow-
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08
IL n Secret Proces..

Lovers of the exhilarating cocktail,
which cheers and makes a difference IN
the morning, ought to be interested in
the experiments which are being made
in this country to produce a good Yer
muth. I'VE have succeeded in making
a passably good quality of Vermuth,"
said a liquor man, but l am afraid it
will be long time before we can equal
the foreign article. The best Vermuth
comes from Turin. Italy, and the next
in quality is made in Marseilles. In
fact, about all the Vermuth sold is
made in these two cities. The latter
named city produces practically all
that comes from France. 1t is not
easy to arrive at the quantity Of YER
muth imported to the United States for
the reason that it comes classified as
wine. The secret of its manufacture is
closely guarded in both France and
Italy, and 1t would not surprise me If
we were making first-class quality of
champagne in the United States before
we can make a prime quality of YER
muth. New York Commercial.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-05-08

crawl upon this globe. An English
lady advised me to go and see the rich
Parsi young women riding bicycles on
the road beside the sea at 4 O'Clock of
any afternoon. What an ideal. The
bicycle has SO revolutionized young
womanhood in England that men who
return there after a short absence can
not cEedit their Senses as they note
the change in the maidens and their
home government. What will it do
or not do-in India? Truly that mod
est-looking toy has worked as much OF
the change in this swift-booted CEN
tury as many of our important inven-
tions. 1t has proved steeG @t.ch
leaps the highest bars of prejudice,
runs away with the deepest-roo ed con
ventions-even outpaces the plans OF
women for their own emancipation
try to fancy what it may do in India.
but. after all. 1t has only few thou
sands of Parsis upon whom to work.