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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
DIDN'T SEE CzOLG0Sz.
Assassin's Br0ther-in-Law Re-
fused Admission to Prison.

Auburn, N. Y, Oct. 2S.-Czolgoszs
brother. Valdez Czolgosz, and brother
in-law, Valdez Thomas Bandowski, did
not see the prisoner this morning.
Valdez Czolgosz appeared in front
of the prison very early but made no
request to see his brother. He walked
up and down in front of the prison, and
one or twice stopped at the gate and
peered through. He did not seem es-
pecially worried Bandowski asked to
see the prisoner, however, and was re-
fused admittance pending the arrival Of
superintendent of State Prisons Collins
at o'clock this afternoon. In addition
to Czolgosz's lack of interest in a visit
from his brother-in-law the prison Off
Gals had another motive in delaying
the matter They have a suspicion that
Bandowski is using his relationship TO
the prisoner in behalf of individuals
who are said to have paid his expenses.
If the fact can be established to their
satisfaction Bandowslki will speedily
forfeit any right to recognition and adj
mittance.
Waldeck Czo1gosz has made no for
m al request for the body of his brother.
He merely discussed the question in a
general way with the warden. Bandow-
ski is the author of the plan to take the
body to Buffalo for cremation.
State Comptroller Knight today tele-
graphed Warden Mead, declining the
invitation to act as foreman of the jury
that will witness the execution. 1t will
therefore be necessary to select another
foreman and that will be done this af-
ternoon. State Treasurer John Jaerkel
will probably be asked to take the fore
manship. He is among those required to
witness the execution
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HE MADE FOOL BETS.
rFrom the N. o. Times-Democrat

IFrom the N. o. Times-Democrat.1
A fiorid man with a sample case
f1ourished a pen above the register OF
a minor st. Charles street hotel and
told the clerk to give him room No. Is.
TITS TAKEN" answered the man behind
the diamond stud. What? Is there
another blank fool on earth?" mum
bled the visitor as he grasped his valise
and made for the door. A reporter VINO
had heard the request hurried after and
sandbagged the stranger as he hit the
sidewalk. Excuse me, sir, superstition
of yours, I suppose, that thirteen bust
ness?' Young man. answered the
red faced individual. its not super
stition at all; it's the fool cure I am
taking. I'm in my third month of a
six months treatment. It's effective,
and you can recommend it to your
friends. Step in this place and Iii
tell you all about it. Two highba;ls
here. Now, it's this way: I was born
a tomfool, and when I was a kid If
anybody dared me to jump off the roof
of the coal house I did it, even if ii
jolted me 'dotty' for a week l was
expelled from college for plugging
'Prex' with a SNOWFALL at the instiga-
ton of coed and when I grew in
terested in politics spent half my time
wheeling fellows around courthouse
squares in barrows. / went with one
half of my whiskers shaved off till my
own family wouldn't speak to me 70
pay for my confidence in John L. Sui
Ivan, and this spring l got thumped
for trying to work the buffalo hO1d-ur
on man who couldn't see the joke.
Then, to cap it all. made this thirteen
bet with a fellow idiot, and have $500
of my hard earned lucre deposited IN
neutral hands in New York to guarar
tee that 1 will sleep in only No. IL hotel
rooms during my six months trip. If
had only agreed to tar and feather my
self or eat a wine glass every morning
or wear one foot in sling for a week
it might not have been so bad. but six
months of room No. IS will hasten my
death ten years. In the first place, half
the hotels I find haven't any No. IS at
all, and when they do they assign the
disgraced number to some purblind
apartment at the opposite end OF the
building from the elevator and fire
escape, mouldy, musty and used by the
cha mbermaidS as a stOrehouse for
soiled sheets which it is too much
trouble to carry downstairs. There is
generally a horseshoe dangling from the
gas jet and the negro porter keeps his
fingers crossed as he brings in your
grip. I'll gamble that not per cent.
of the calI-bells in rooms IL of the
United States are in working order In
my supposed mania, and in Atlanta
surprised a house detective comparing
my features with those of a small
photo taken front view and side view,
with specifications and aliases on the
back, with the name of one of the lands
most notorious hotel workers. Then
the man with whom I made the bet
writes me on black margined paper
with a skull and crOSSbOneS in the cor
ner, and addresses it in immense fig
ures to room 49,"
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IMPORTANCE OF sT.THOMAs

IFrom the London Chronicle1
1t is too early yet to say that the sale of
the Danish West Indies is a fait accom-
pill The announcement made by a tele-
gram from Copenhagen the other day that
the United States had purchased the three
with reserve until confirmation arrives
from Washington. St. Thomas is the only
one of the three islands that tempts the
Americans. Its value lies in its geographic
the Atlantic highway, with a large and
safe deep water harbor, led up to by a
trance. Steamers and battleships of the
heaviest draught can lie alongside the
dock and coal in security. St. Thomas also
possesses large dry dock built by British
enterprise, and cable station. Somebody
once described it as a place which is on
the way to every other place in the West
Indies. It was this convenience of its
position that made it some forty or fifty
years ago the rialto of the West Indian
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NOTED OCEAN TRIP.
[From the Chicago Inter ocean,

TFrom the Chicago Inter ocean,
A London cablegram saying that the
last trip of the White Star steamship
Oceanic. the longest ship that ever rode
the seas from Liverpool to New York,
broke all records of profit making, sug-
gests the interesting and complicated
question of the expenses and nnancierlng
of the big ship on her 3.007-knot journey
The cost of running the vessel, accord
ing to the London Daily News, was $685.
600, while from passengers alone was re-
remainder of profit of $780, $50
bringing to New York 1000 tons of wool
ems dry goods, cutlery, goat skins, olive
oil and grapes, raisins and almonds from
Spain, at the rate of $3.50 ton, or a
total of s.. 900, or other revenues Only g.,
COO tons of the Oceanic's LOCO tons of cargo
space was utilized
The subsidy from the French govern
ment for the right to enroll the Oceanic
as an auxiliary cruiser is private. 1t is
divided into twelve parts, and even
Agent John Lee doesn't know what this
means. The Oceanic brought 300 bags of
mail, but she receives from the king the
same amount, brings she much or little.
In view of the profit on passengers alone
no wonder Bruce Ismay, of Ismay. Imole
& Co., said on his last trip to New York:
~. Pierpont Morgan hasn't enough
money to buy the White Star line
Yet the dividends paid by the close cor
poration, considering the enormous ex-
penses of all the ships. are probably less
than II per cent
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.I

From the Atchison Globe-1
How we all love a forgiving person'
Your friends probably say you are
bull headed
A girls engagement is not a success
unless it sets society ''agog-"
When some people attempt to jolly
you, they make you mighty tired.
Other peoples love affairs seem so
silly. But your own seem to be all
right.
You have seen thousands of pictures
of angels. Ever see a picture of a man
angel?
A man who prospers gets even with
some of enemies by making them en-
vious.
Some people have to scratch so hard
to get along that they are sore" all
the time.
Girls who wear fancy shoe strings,
shouldn't get mad if a man looks OF
their feet.
Nothing makes white man quite so
mad as to have to work while some col
ored man is loafing around.
The worst robbers are the most re-
spected men of civilization. Any mer-
chant in town can tell you who they
are.
Every time a man is married, some
woman SAYS: We'll, goodness gra
cious: them that want him. can have
him.
When a man has a sufficient accumu-
lation of complaints and diseases, the
undertaken steps in and puts them in a
glass case.
The Indian as a decoration fad has
about reached his right place: his face
now appears in rugs, where you can
wipe your feet on it
An Atchison man complained so mucn
that his life was monotonous that his
wife invited her mother to come and
visit them.
Every woman thinks before she has
had trial that her influence would be
next to hypnotic in getting a sick man
to take his medicine
Along about this time every year, ma
and the girls get together, and decide
that if pas Overcoat has new collar
on it, will save buying q new one.
An Atchison woman who has money,
has permitted her children to go to
school when and where they pleased,
with the result that their education is
as shattered as a child's first copy
book.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
An old fool is always more foolish
than a young fool
Long sermons are sometimes referred
to as clerical errors.
When American meets Greek the
chances are he can't read it.
Always do the best you can and let
others think as they will
The swimming instructor is apt to be
Immersed in business.
Beauty is deluSion and a snare
especially to women who lack it,
A hypocrite is like the letter p-the
first in pity and the last in help.
Never give up" is a good motto for
people who don't pay their debts.
Love is blind. That is why so many
women marry men to reform them.
Every man knows a lot of other men
that he would like to class as strangers
Many a mans success is due to the
fact that he never attempts to do any
thing beyond his ability.
A physician always asks a sick man
what ails him. and then proceeds to
charge him 81 for the information.
Some men get on in the world on the
same principle that gives a man with a
paint-pot the right of way through a
crowd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
THAWING FROZEN NEAT.

[F'rom the London Daily Newsl
In order to make it of pleasing and ap-
petizing appearance and fit for the board
in the home that every self-conscious En-
glishman conjures as his castle, oversee
raised meat that has been frozen to pre-
serve it requires to be thawed. The latter
process is the least lovely of any, and ii is
wasteful to boot-wastefu1 of those quail
toothsomeness, but also Of nutrition
well. When taken out of the cold storage
chamber frozen chilled meat at once
begins to absorb whatever moisture
humidity there may be in the atmosphere;
the carcass becomes wet and clammy, and
eventually it begins to weep" drip.
Ali of which is far from pretty, and does
everything else but enhance the value of
the commodity.
A New Zealander, A. A. Chapman, hall
with simple patented contrivance for
the treatment of frozen meat, which does
away with all that is unpleasant and
stores to its original qualities. and what
is more, its perfectly natural color. He
calls it dry thawing," and it is being
used with eminently satisfactory results
by one of the largest firms of importers
and statesmen in Smithf1eld market. In
stead of being exposed to the open air,
Mr.. Chapman's method is to place the
in alright macintosh envelope. and
after it has so hung for a number of
hours it comes out of beautiful color, dry
and hard which is BY way of being re-
markable in point of contrast with the
wet, ffabby, ill-colored and sometimes evil
treated The secret of the dry thawing
process is that the atmospheric vapOrs
are condensed on the outside of the mack
intosh cover and not on the surface It's
sues of the carcass. Publicity is all that
is required to bring the system into great
der md
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
New Greek Postage stamps.

When, some six months ago, the Greek
postmaster general sent a magnificent
New Years greeting card to his col
leagues throughout the world bearing
impressed upon it by the original dies
the designs of the new Greek stamps to
be issued to the public six months after
ward, great interest was aroused in off,
cial postal circles by the promise of a
striking and handsome set of stamps
This promise has now been fulfilled by
the issue of a complete set of fourteen
new and beautiful postage stamps by
Greece. The new stamps in design, color
and execution are among the most beau
tiful ever issued. The motive" of the
design is, as it has always been in the
case of the stamps of Greece, q figure
of Hermes, with his petasus, or winged
caduceus. or serpent entwined and
winged wand, denoting his Office as
herald. The particular form of the mes
senger of the gods portrayed on the
stamps is that of the statue of Mercury.
by Giovanni da Bologna OF the new
stamps there are fourteen different
values embraced by three distinct de-
signs, the central figure being always
the peculiarly appropriate Hermes, the
difference consisting only in the frame
work. and. in the case of the four high
est values, in the size of the stamp. The
third group, consisting of four long
stamps for the values OF one drachma,
and the two. three and five drachmae.
has the simplest and most severely
classical design, though this is, of course,
relieved by the richness of the colors
which are black, with bronze, silver and
gold respectively. The design consists
of a simple Greek ornament border, en-
closing the figure of Mercury, with the
word ELIAS" at the top, and the value
in drachmae at the bottom. The new
stamps are all alike most delicately en-
graved and beautifully colored, and
reach the greatest excellence of printing
and production-the perforation and
"centring' of the first impressions alone
leave something to be desired. They
marked with "E. T." and a crown for
the Hellenic government, by Messrs.
Perkins, Bacon & Co., to whom much
praise is due for these beautiful speci-
mems of the engraver's and color print
er's arts, the technical excellence of
which says much for at least one branch
OF British industry-LondOn Timea-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
OF Interest to Kansans.

Washington, Oct. 28.-Rural free de-
livery will be established to commence
January l, as follows:
Kansas-Rantoul, Franklin county,
carrier, Henry A. Furness; route, twen-
ty-four and one-half miles; population.
575; postoffice at McCandless to be dis
continued.
The following changes of fourth-class
postmasters have been made:
Observation-Disclosures, Rawlins county,
J. f. Bartholomew, vice J. S. Burkett,
removed; Gaylord, Smith county, G. r.
Parker, vice L. c. Headley, removed.
The following pensions have been is
sued to Kansans:
Decentralization A. Tucker. Little
River, S. William ingalls,, Topeka, Sc;
Thomas Hogan, Wichita, Sc.
Increase, restoration and reissue, etc.
Peter Hantz, Pittsburg SO; Alexander
Sanders. Wamego, SO; Asbury l. Foutz,
Sylvan Grove, $12; Francis NJ. Foss, Gar
field, $27: John D. Stowell, Kilbourn, So;
Thomas Haxton, Cuba, $S;John W. Pier
son, dead, Lyons, SIT; James A Death,
Blue Rapids. SO; Richard Slyter, Wich-
ita, SIT.
Original widows-Rebecca S. Haines,
Manhattan IS.
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JUSTICE BREWER ON TRUSTS

IFrom the Chicago Record-Herald.l
People who can see no immediate So
luton of the trust problem have the
distinguished companionship of a mem
Der of the United States supreme court
Justice Brewer declared that the pres
ent movement toward consolidation
and Capitalization was a natural evo-
luton, that "injunctions against strik-
ers will not stop it, legislation against
trusts will not Assuming that the
movement might have a dangerous ton
dency he could suggest only one safe
guard, namely, a proper public senti-
ment formed under the leadership of
educated men,
This leaves us very much in the dark
as to how public sentiment should act.
but the address is instructive from its
negations. 1t is worth remembering
when numerous glib persons are clam
oriDg for radical legislative restrictions
on trusts that one of the greatest legal
aathorities in the country admits his
inability to devise such restrictions. No
judge upon the bench stands higher
than Justice Brewer. He is marked
man in the supreme court, a man whose
superior strength and talents have COM
manded general recognition. But he
stops short where the voluble regulat-
ors of the trusts propose to begin.
Furthermore, reason il all on his
eide What possible legal way is there
"a free country to prevent two or two
MMndred corporations from selling out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record1
The fortunes of war are those made
by army contractors.
Sound money must be the kind that
jingles in fellows pocket
Fame often consists of having yellow
dogs and fve-cent cigars named after
you
No, Maude, dear: there is no similar
ity between ship hatchway and an in
cubator.
What's the use of talking about ele-
waiting the stage? Every stage has its
wings and flies.
says the Manayunk Philosopher, but
don't pick them to pieces
Sometimes a man boasts that he holds
the key to a situation, and then discov-
ers that the lock IS rusty.
Teacher-"What is politeness?" Lit
tie Boy-"Not to ask for a second piece
of pie when you're out visiting
Nell-''I admit that Mr. Staylate has
his shortcomings" Belle-"What I OBJ
ject to is that he's so long going"
The married man who stays out late
discussing the questions of the day may
have to face the questions of the night
when he CTS home.
Oldbach-"what limit do you play in
your married mems poker games ?"
Newlywed-sOh, no fellow can bet
more than a ton of coal"
First Goat-''What became of that
smoking Jacket you stole from the
clothesline?" Second Coat trans
formed it into an Elton jacket"
Mans inhumanity to man
Fills BARRIERS hearts with woe,
All men they place beneath the ban
Who let their whiskers grow.
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RUSSIAN STORY REVIVED.
More Rumors About a Murder in
North Topeka.

Three Russians, only one of whom
could speak English even in a broken
way, called at the police station today
and questioned Jailer Jester about a
eral months ago.
The story as told by the boy was SO
absurd that the police simply laughed
about it, and compared the youth with
Munchausen and Ananias. He said that
two weeks prior to the time, which
would place the occurrence in June, his
father and brother had killed hobo
who was stealing chickens. First he
said his brother shot the vag," and
finding that he was not quite dead his
father cut off his head with an ak.
Then the father and brother buried the
body in the back yard, where he re-
manned two days. Then dogs moleSted
the grave, and they dug up the body,
carried 1t to the river near the house,
which was near the north end of the
Rock Island railroad bridge, and buried
him a second time in the sand near the
second pier of the bridge.
The police did nothing about it and
forgot the circumstance. 1t was in re-
gard to this boys story that the three
Russians called today. They also had
a story to tell A friend of theirs whose
name was Davids,. was scheduled to
start for Rush county about the time
of the alleged incident but he has never
reached his destination. They say that
the last time he was seen by any of his
friends was while drinking beer at the
house of the boys father, on a night
corresponding with the time of the muir
der as told by the 10 year old boy, and
they are now confident that he was
murdered.
The family suspected have since moved
to another place and the house, which
a small one. is also alleged to have
been moved. but hese Russians seem in
tent investigating the case to satisfy
themselves about the probable end of
their friend Davids. All names are with
held by the police, who await further de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
Gas Company Wins a Point.

Chicago, Oct.2s.-Judge Haency in the
circuit court today declared valid the
gas consolidation act of 1897 by which a
number of gas companies were merged
into the Peoples Gas, Light and Coke
company. The matter before the court
was a petition by the people" and
States Attorney Lineen for quo war
ranto proceedings to CON pei the Peoples
Gas, Light & Coke company to show
by what uathority it operated the COM
plainants avering that the consolidation
act was invalid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

CFrom the New York Pressl
Good cooks make cheerful husbands
The best way for a man to get mar
ried is to try not to.
When you speak of catching things
men think of fish. colds and seedlings;
women of husbands.
A woman can always be happy with
out a man to rule her, but she can be
happier with one to do it,
One thing that takes away a good deal
of the pleasure for women in camping
out where you sleep on -he ground is
that there is no chap"e to look for q
man under the bed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-28
Every Exertion a Task
Every Care a Burden

There is failure of the strength to
do and the power to endure; there is
weakness all over" that is persistent
and constant
The vital functions are impaired.
food does not nourish. and the whole
system is run down.
A medicine that strengthens the
stomach. perfects digestion. invigor-
ates and tones is needed.
What Hoods Sarsaparilla did for Mrs l.. B.
Garland Shady. Tenn. it has done for others.
She took it when she was all run down-with-
out appetite losing flesh. and unable to do
her work. 1t restored her appetite. increased
her weight. and made her well and strong.
This is her own unsolicited statement
HOODS $as.SaFsas.ENa
Promises to cure and keeps the prom.
ise- The earlier treatment is begun
The better - begin 1t today.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Joseph Meredith, son of William Mere
dith, of 504 East Eighteenth street, died
last night of typhoid fever after a sick
ness of two weeks. He was "A years old.
Funeral announcements viii be made
later.
The funeral of Mrs. Phil Henderson
was held Saturday morning at the resi-
dence of her mother. Mrs. J. NJ. Blake
at No. 403 Liberty street.
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Found Dead in His Buggy.

Plymouth, Ind, Oct. 2S.-At daylight
today four miles north of here the dead
body of Myers Beard, aged 10, was
found in a buggy, the horse having
carried him to the gate of his fathers
farm home. Young Bear had spent
Sunday evening away from home. There
was a bullet hole in the temple and a
pool of blood in the buggy There is no
doubt that Young Beard was murdered,
but there is no clue to the murderer.
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THE RIVER WAS FROZEN.
IRON the London chronicle.l

from the London Chronfcle.1
new theatrical story is always well
come Here is one whose novelty is
vouched for by one of our readers
When Miss De1avelle harrington was
playing Miami in 1.-THE Green Bushes"
at the old Mary street theater, Cork. u
ludicrous incident occurred. Miami has
to jump into the Mississippi. but when
Miss harrington reached the rocky emf
nence from which she had to leap she
saw there was no mattress below TO
receive her: also the ledge of rock III
front of the supposed river was too
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Presidential Appointments.

Washington, Oct. 26.-The president
today made the following appointments:
State-Ethelbert Watts, Pennsylvania
u s. consul at Prague, Austria. War
Samuel D. McMaster, second lieutenant
artillery Navy-Augustus c. Almy,
lieutenant commander; Martin J. Clam
cey warrant machinist.