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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
GIGGLING GIRLS AT PLAYS.
Where Cackling Is Distressing to
Audience and Actors.

"Giggling is such a very common
habit that it is altogether foolish to
make any sort of reference to it," said
an observant man, and yet at the risk
OF being put down in this class I intend
TO make few remarks on this very
commonplace subject. The fact is, that
giggling is to my mind about the most
disgustingly foolish habit know any
thing about While INDUCED more fire.
Quently by very young girls, it is yet
Quite common among older members or
the sex, and not infrequently we find
men and boys who are given to the same
unhappy habit This is particularly
true on public occasions. 1 have fire.
quently known lecturers and public
speakers to be interfered with by per9
sons who are gaVeh~-te the giggling
habit
Men and women are probably worse
about giggling at the theater than at
any other place, and it is singular what
foolish things will start them. Some
times these glSSlerS Will actually spoil
a whole scene by breaking into a fit of
half smothered laughter. They will
giggle at the most fnOpportune time. 1t
may be during a particularly trying
situation, when the performance turns
on climax which will bring tears TO
the eyes Of the less giddy auditors. But
scenes of this sort make no difference
10 the person given to the giggling
habit. Here is an instance at the Or
pheum; One Of the Harmony Four is
singing I'm Wearing My Heart Away
for You a sWeetly sad musical lyric,
when another member suddenly shows
up on the back part of the stage and
pulls the red portiere across his breast.
The song and the singer are forgotten
by the gigglers, and they giggle. Mind
you, have no quarrel with laughter /
like laughter l like to hear the hearty
ring Of the old fashioned ha-ha. 1 am
sorry there is not more in the world to
provoke laughter. more to stir the
dimples. But what I do object to is the
foolish and insincere cackle which we SO
often hear in public places, and partic-
ularly at the play. Down with the
giggle and the gigglers. New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19
SHE KNEW JOSH ALL RIGHT
This Witness Not at All Reluctant to
Speak Out.

Now. madam said the counsel for
the defendant to a little. wiry. black
moned in case you will please give
your evidence in as few words as possi-
bic. You know the defendant"
Know who2"
1.-THE defendant-Mr. Joshua Bagg?'
Josh Bagg2 1 do know him, and I
knowed his father before him. and I
don't know nothin' to the credit of eth
er of 'ern, and I don't think
I'VE don't want to know what you
think. madam. Please say yes or no
to my questions
What questions?'
do you know Mr.. Joshua Bagg?"
Don't I know him though. You ask
Josh Bagg if he knows me. Ask him
II he knows anything about trying to
cheat poor widow like me out of S25.
Ask
Madam, -
ASK him whose orchard he robbed last
and why he did it in the night? Ask his
wife, Betsy Bagg, If she knows any
thing about slippin into a neighbours
field and nilkin' three COWS on the sly.
Ask
Look here. madam
ASK John Bagg about that uncle of
his that died in prison. Ask him about
lettin' his pore old mother die in the
workhouse. Ask Betsy about putting a
big brick into lot of butter she sold
last spring"
MdudIh tell you
See if Josh Bagg knows anything
shout feeding ten head of cattle on al
the salt they could eat, and then let
ting them swi1l down all the water they
could hold, just fore he driv them into
town and sold 'em. See what he's gOt
to say to that
That has nothing to do with the case
i want you To
Then there was old Azrael Bagg
own uncle to Josh, got kicked out of hi.
native town, and Betsy Bagg's owl
brother got ketched in a neighbours her
house at midnight. Ask Josh
Madam, what do you know abou
this this case2"
L don't know Twin thing bout it
but Pm sure Josh Bagg is guilty. what
ever it is. The fact is, I've owed then
Baggses q grudge for the last Is years
and I got myself called uD on Durpos
to get even with EN- and I feel I'v
done it."-London Tft-Bits
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19

I'd "a made him yell it all over camp if
I'd got here a leetle sooner! 1 married
agin var ago, and my husbands over
thar, but 1 jest wanted to wollop Sam
Brown black and blue for old times
sake and let him know that l wasn't
sheddin' any tears on his account. So
he's dead. eh?"
Yes, ma am, and guess it's lucky
fur him that he is
You bet it is replied the woman
and she shouldered her club, lifted her
skirts and walked back to her horse and
husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-19

Larned, Kan. Dec. 1s.-G- o. Webster.
an organizer from Chicago, is here and
is endeavoring to organize the threshmen
of this county into protective associa-
ton for their mutual protection against
the Kansas collection law. This viii en-
able the men to charge a higher and
more Uniform price for threshing grain.
Thus far but little has been done toward
forming the union.
The Conservative, 1902-02-13
GENERAL EVOLUTION AND NATURAL
SELECTION AS EXEMPLIFIED
BY MAN.
PART III.

Darwin's work leads up to that
transcendant question, the Evolution
of Man. There may be said to be
three problems for solution-viz:
1st. The Evolution Of Man from some
lower form of animal. 2nd The
Evolution of the different races of
mankind. 3rd. Social Evolution. To
all these Darwin applied the principle
of natural selection, and he did not
shrink from following his theory to
the logical conclusion.
The evolution of man from lower
form is, of course, a necessary conse-
quence of the general theory of evolu-
tion. 1t was, no doubt, the realiza-
tion of the fact that caused the attacks
npon Darwin and Huxley as soon as
"The Origin of Species" reached the
reading public.
must explain that the theory of
evolution does not entail the descent
of man from any existing ape, or
monkey, and Darwin specifically
The Conservative, 1902-02-13
THE TENANT.

/ lived, one time in the strangest house;
entered it some soft morn of Spring;
cannot remember the opening;
But only, the birds began to sing,
And the chambers one by one to rouse.
The frontward rang from the first and cleaned; !;
The inner lay in the dark and dreamed.
Till their time should walsen them too to air ;
And they were the deepest and richest there; {;
One, over the rest the mansions throne,
Where all its order was framed alone.
Well, years drew over my canny house,
And the more noted the more mused
1t wore not but grew, forever used,
1t rallied whenever assailed or bruised,
In toll unbending, or gay carouse;
And those chambers widened, as Of themselves,
The halls and arches, the vaults and shelves;
And marvels so many the closets held,
Such law CONSTRUCTED and life outwelled,
learned to fancy it might rehearse
On a stage so little the universe.
And ever spent maturer care
To hold my lodging in safe repair,
As I strove, communing long, to find
In that fair building the builders mind
But the wonder at last befell my house,
More strange than all Of the vernal prime;
It had fitted myself, that early time;
1t was not wearied with stain or CRIME,
With rift or-reeling, with mould or mouse
But now, when so long those cares I spent
To cleanse the blemish, to heal the rent,
but found, in the home would shape so true
More alien every year grew.
1t would not yield as before to me
The instant claim of it's service free;
1t vexed me without, it was gnawn within,
1 felt the old trusty joints unpin,
With buttress the mouldered walls I propped,
Door numbered and thickening window stop
ped;
There was ever fall, and ever strain
That of old knew not ; called it Pain;
And all my endeavor but set it clear
That and my dwelling were not so near.
However the place might fix my love,
Resistance palled; it was time to move.
And strange again, of my house knew,
But nought Of myself, what would ensue!
Yet stranger, the word of those who say
That the two are one, as they go or stay.
The Conservative, 1902-02-13

gill-slits close up, except the first,
which persists as the Eustachian
tube, connecting the throat with the
middle ear.
After time the distinctly man.
malian features become more promi-
nent and there comes time when no
one can determine between two en-
bryos which is that of man and
which that of a dog. Later, the two
can be distinguished; but still there
is no apparent distinction between the
embryo of man and that of one of the
anthropoid apes
Permit me now to mention few of
the monkey-like characteristics Of the
human embryo. The great toe, in
stead of being longer than and parallel
to the others, is shorter and extends
at right angles to the axis of the foot,
just as it does in the foot of the ape
At the seventh month, the convolu-
tions Of the brain are very close to
those of the baboon There is, at one
period (thirty first to thirty fifth day.
a true tail extending considerably be-
low the coccyx of the adult. At the
seventh month the entire body, ex-
cept the palms Of the hands and the
soles of the feet, is, like that of the
apes, covered with hair, the technical
name of which is lanugo, and which
is usually shed before birth. Even
after birth the monkey like character
istics do not disappear. The young
orang -outang clings with it's hands to
the hair of it's mothers breast, and
the newly born infant, so weak in
other respects, will cling to any sur
face with sufficient grip to support it's
weight. Again, if you will watch a
full grown man, who cannot swim, in
deep water, you will notice that he
moves first one arm and then the
other-the very thing he ought not to
do-just as the apes move their limbs
when climbing a tree.
In structure, the differences between
man and the anthropoid apes are, of
course, very great, but they are differ
ences of degree rather than of kind.
None of the anthropoid apes walk
erect with ease, and their arms are
longer than are those of man. The
apes possess an apposable great toe
which enables them to hold on to al
most anything with their feet. Be-
tween some Of the teeth of both jaws
there is space, known by the word
"diastema, and into this space the
tooth of the opposite jaw fits.
hesitate to say much concerning
mans brain weight because my views
upon this subject have been so persist
emily misrepresented in the past. 1t
is not probable that any normal adult,
The Conservative, 1902-02-13
Tbe Conservative.

still insists that man is sort OF edi-
tion de luxe of the gorilla or the
chimpanzee.
The truth is that man and the an
thropoid apes have descended from
some common ancestor, and that in
the course of time, and as result OF
natural and sexual selection, the
branches have diverged, the termina-
tion of one branch being man, and of
others the various tail-less man-like
apes. While this common origin does
make the tail-less apes mans nearest
relatives, it does not make them his
ancestors. The relationship, however,
is about as remote as fiftieth cousin
ship, but it is not so far removed as
is the relationship between, for ex-
ample, the chimpanzee and the lemur.
am anxious to point out that,
whatever views anybody may hold
upon religious questions, the admis
sion that man has been derived from
ape-like ancestors by the process of
evolution, cannot influence those views
provided you admit-as every sane
man must-that the human animal
grows up by process of development
from fertilized ovum in exactly the
same manner as every other mammal.
now wish to draw attention to the
life history of man. In this case, as
in the case of the frog, there exists
the same sequence and the same con-
ditions which the theory of evolution
demands. A few condolences might
be explained as mere accidents, but
the evidence, taken as a whole, is so
overwhelming that one is fully war
ranted in asserting that each organism
in the course of it's embryological
history repeats in short period the
entire history of the race.
In the embryonic history of man and
of all other mammals-there are Pc
culiarities which, upon the hypothesis
| of special creation, are not explain
able in the light of evolution, they
are exactly what one ought to expect.
The ova of all mammals in their
earlier phases pass through stages
which are capable of exact comparison
with those of the frog. The ovum
divides, forms the germ layers, the
nervous system, the notochord, and
the muscle-plates in the same way.
Then comes the same formation Of
heart and blood vessels. In man, as
in the fish, the heart is, at first. two
chambered; then it becomes three
chambered, as in the lower reptiles
and later it develops the four
chambered condition, which it retains
through life. In the blood vessels, are
the same gill arteries as in the frog
or shark, running in the same direc-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17
KANSAS NEWS.
Clay County Girl Elopes With a
ClairvOyant.
Fifteen Year Old Edith Herman
Missing From Home.
SHE TOOK $500 IN CASH
Her Father Thinks the Profess
sor Mesmerized Her.
Is Searching For the Man
Around Wichita.
SHE TOOK $500 IN CASH

Wichita. Kas., April Us. H. Her
man, wealthy farmer, who resides
several miles east of Clay Center, Kas.,
arrived in the city today in search of
his 15-year-old daughter Edith. whom
he suspects of having eloped with
ciairvoyant named Prof. William Clen-
ents. The professor was in Clay Center
all last week, where he posed as a for
tune teller, hypnotist and medium Mr..
Herman says his daughter went to see
him several times, but that he did not
think anything of that, as many other
people called also. On Friday morning
the girl left ho~sas, saying she was go
ing to Clay Center to spend the day
there with friends. Since that time she
has not been heard of. Inquiry at the
bank in Clay Center developed the fact
that Miss Herman drew out $500 which
had been left her by her mother. The
Union Pacific ticket agent at Clay
Center said that a man and woman
resembling the missing couple bought
tickets Friday evening for Manhattan
Mr.. Herman says he does not believe
his daughter went voluntarily with the
cIalryoyant, and that if she is with
him he exerted some hypnotic influence
over her. Mr.. Herman describes his
daughter as being a brunette, good
looking and rather large for her age
Her mother died several years ago,
leaving her $500 in money. This was
deposited in the girls name in a bank
at Clay Center. Mr. Herman thinks
the professor learned of this by mis-
merizing his daughter and induced her
to get the money and elope with him.
The description which Mr.. Herman
gives of the clairvoyant is as follows
He is about 3 feet inches in height
dark brown hair and eyes the same
color; smooth shaven; rather slim. and
usually wore a black suit with a Prince
Albert and a silk hat He did a thriv-
ing business at Clay Center, especially
among the women"
Mr.. Herman says it viii not go well
with the professor if he gets hold Of
him While in the city Mr.. Herman is
the guest of Frank Donaldson, an en-
ploye of the Santa Fe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17
JOHN CROWLEY MISSING.
Thought That Council Grove Man
Was Murdered Near Emporia.

Emporia, Kas., April 17-About a
week ago John Crowley, a second hand
dealer from Council Grove, disappeared
near this city under circumstances that
suggested murder. He was on a trip
with his wagon through the country
gathering up old junk With him were
a man and boy The latter returned
home with the wagon. stating that
Crowley had been missing for several
days, and that the other man had left
them some time before. Wednesday A.
L. Dryer, a farmer who lives a few
miles north of Emporia, came to town
and told the following story:
About a week ago the actions Of two
men attracted his attention They had
a team hitched to a wagon and were at
an old deserted place in d lonesome To-
cality- He did not get a close enough
view of either of them to give a good
description. There is an abandoned
well near the place. One of the men
had a light and seemed to be investi-
eating the we'll Mr.. Dryer did not at
taeh much Importance to what he had
seen until he heard Of the Crowley dis
appearance. Now he thinks that these
men might have waylaid Crowley and
flung his body into the old well. Last
evening deputy sheriff and party went
out to make an investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17
SPORTING NEWS.
The National League Season
Opens This Day.
First Of the Leagues to Start
the 1902 Series.
FOUR SEPARATE GAMES
At Cincinnati, st. Louis, New
York and Brooklyn.
Secretary Young Issues In
structiOns to Players.

Washington, April 1.-THE 1902 cham
pionship baseball season is here. The
National league, whose disrupted condi-
ton furnished subject for the base
ball dope" writer's during the past
winter, viii be the first to start in the
long race for the pennant, despite the
fact that it was the last to announce its
schedule. Today the old baseball or
ganization Will open its twenty seventh
successive championship season, I'VE
days ahead of the rest.
N. Z. Young, secretary Of the ex-
ecutive board OF the National baseball
league has issued the following in
StructiOns to umpireS:
The Office of president of the Ma
tional league has been abolished for the
season of 1902, and an executive board
invested with full authority to act has
been appointed for the purpose of con-
Quoting the business Of the league, and
its members are.
A. H. SOden, of Boston; James A
Hart, Of Chicago, and John T. Brush,
chairman, of Indianapolis. N. E. Young
is secretary and the offices OF the league
are to be located in the city Of New
York.
All reports of umpires, that formerly
were required to be sent to the presi-
dent Of the league, are in the future to
be forwarded to N. z. Young, secretary,
except such reports as may be specially
arranged to go to the chairman Of the
board, and in all such instances due
notice VIII be given.
The imposition of fines upon players
and managers for violation of rules, as
provided in the playing rules, is sus-
pended until further notice, and in lieu
thereof a removal from the game, or
from the game and field is substituted,
and in every instance where a removal
from the field occurs a telegraphic re-
port containing the facts and a brief
report Of the cause must be promptly
sent to the secretary of the league, and
whenever in the Judgment of the umpire
the player deserves a longer period than
one day he shall recommend it.
The opening games will be played as
follows: Cincinnati with Chicago at
Cincinnati; Pit2sburg with St Louis at
st. Louis: New York with Philadelphia
at New York, and Brooklyn with Bos-
ton at Brooklyn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17

sheriff and by him to Judge Smart.
who read it and inquired: rs this your
verdict, gentlemen"
The jury assented. Judge Smart
passed the paper to the district clerk,
who stood and read: I'VE. the jury,
find the defendant not guilty"
Marie Stanley had been looking in
tently at the floor. AS the words Not
guilty" were pronounced she sprang TO
her feet and but for the restraining
hand of an attorney on either side she
would have run directly to the jury. She
stood smiling supported by the two
lawyers, while Judge Smart thanked the
jury and announced the adjournment Of
court.
Then the girl was accompanied to- the
Jury box by Attorney Costigan. She
shook hands all around, saying L thank
you to each juror Mrs. SearIes. who
came in Just as the verdict was an
nounced, also thanked the jury. Only a
small crowd was in the court room. The
jury took six ballots. On the first ball
lot it stood seven for acquittal
Mrs. Stanley viii make her home tenn
porarily with Mrs W. G. Searles, wife
of the minister of the Congregations
church here. She was on the street last
evening greeting friends and receiving
eonGFa tuIations- The verdict came as q
surprise to almost every one. The cruel
n1uI der of James Booth must remain q
m VStery
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17

St. Joseph. Mo. April 1.-THE second
days programme of the Missouri State
Amateur Shooting association was fin
ished in spite of rain. Fred Gilbert, of
Spirit Lake, Ia. and W. r Crosby, of
O'Fallon. H.. again won highest aver
ages of the day They shot in sweep
stakes in ten events at 100 targets, q ch
missing only eight out Of the entire
number.
John w. Garrett, of Colorado Springs.
and Fred Arnold, Of St. Joseph, broke
149 out of 100, making second average
for the day. Gilbert won the average
for the two days shoot, Crosby second,
Ed Fulford of Utica. N T., third, and
John W. Garrett fourth. The Missouri
state amateur team trophy, a cup, was
won by B. W. Eisenh0ur. of Hale. No.
and Dr. Hardy. Of Sumner, Mo, with a
score of A out of a possible So The w
T. Vanbrunt trophy, watch chain and
charm was finally won by b. w Eisen-
hour, after a tie with Walter Allen. of
Raymer, each man breaking 48 out Of SO
targets. In the shoot Off EisenhOur won
with a score Of % to % by Allen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17
COLUMBIA FELLOWsHIPS
Have Been Awarded by the Univer-
sity Council.

New York, April 17.-Annual fellow
ships in Columbia university have just
been awarded for the academic year by
the university council Tkirty-eight were
awarded each carrying an annual
stipend Of $780, or more. The success
fuI candidates come from 20 states and
territories, almost half of them west Of
the Mississippi river.
fellows passed-In chemistry, Hal Beans
of Moscow. Idaho;in administrative law.
Harold Bowman of Des Mofnes, Iowa.
in European history, VIM Boyd of
Durham, n. c.; in zoology. Charles
Brues of Austin, Tex: in netallurgy.
VIM. Campbell of Kempsey, England;
in economies, Walter Clark Of Delaware,
O.: in Greek Stephen Hurlburt of Madi-
son, Wis; in geology, Douglas johnson
of Albuquerque, N. NJ; in physiology
James Miner of Berlin, Wis; in constitu-
tional law, Samuel Orth Of Akron, o..
/ nzoology, Raymond Osborne Of Fargo,
N D in Germanic languages and litera-
lures, Charles TurreIl, Arkadelphia. Ark.
AIternates under the faculty of phi
Iosephy and anthropolgy, Jos. Blair of
Hall Pa: in psychology, Jas Porter of
Bloomington, Ind.
cal seience-In finance, Robert Olsen of
WaHa Walla, Wash; in statistics, Dan
/ Tel Peacock Of Richmond, Ind.
AIternates under the faculty Of pure
and anDIied scfence-In chemistry. David
i Mcfarland of Lawrence, kan; in civil
engineering. Richard Lyman Of Salt
Lake City, Utah
Honorary fellowships. in economics
and political science, Henry Mussey Of
/ Atkinson, HI
Carl schurz's fellowship for the study
| of the German language and literature.
John L Kind Of Omaha, Neb
+ Annual fellowship, in anthropology,
Vim. Jones, Sac and Fox agency, Okla
hoIna.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-17

Memphis. April 1.-THE steeplechase.
over the short course, brought ten horses
to the post Helen Paxton was held
favorite. It was announced that a
Frenchman. Mr. Taffin, had arrived to
accept the mount on Maze This horse
was at liberal odds in the ring and was
played by Canadian contingent To
a good start Maze went to the front
and taking the jumps gamely, won by
three lengths from Precursor. There
We're two bad falls. Helen Paxton turn
ing a somersault over the fifth hurdle
and Jennie Day stumbling over the
eleventh jump. Slater. who rode the
favoFite, was rendered unconscious by
the heavy fall but Lyons, who had the
mount on Jennie Day, escaped without
injury. John A. Scott, the favoffte in
the first race. fell after running a fur
long, throwing Jockey Woods to the
ground. He sustained no injury. In the
Cordova Hotel handicap. at a mile and
an eighth, Vulcain was a slight favorite
over Silurian, but the best he could do
was third. The finish was an exciting
one. Silurian beating Barouche a head,
Vulcain being third a neck away