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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30

Berlin, July 30-The foreign Office
announces a list Of presents made
by Prince Henry. Some of them
were conferred by the prince while
he was In the United States. but
most of them were sent recently. Da-
vid J. Hill. assistant secretary OF state.
received geld snuff box bearing the
letter H and q crown in diamonds;
Rear Admiral R. D. Evans was given
an enamel portrait of the prince sur
rounded by diamonds. Major General
H. C. COrbin's present was gold ciga-
rette case, on which was the princes
portrait in diamonds Colonel Theodore
A. Bingham and Commander w. s
Cowfes of the navy each received gold
cigarette case on which were a crown
of diamonds and the letter H" a
bracelet bearing the princes portrait IN
rubies and diamonds was presented to
Mrs. H. H. Pierce, wife of the third as
sistant secretary Of state, and to Mr.
Pierce was given a framed portrait of
the prince
Other presents were given as follows:
Major Richard Sylvester, superintend-
partment; John E Wilkie. chief of the
United States secret service: John c.
Stubs, railway official; Cornelius Van
Colt. postmaster at New York, and J.
3. Reynolds, secretary to the mayor OF
New York diamonds scarf pins: Nc
DougaH Hawkes.. dock commissioner,
New York. a gold scarf pin: Thomas
Sturgis. IRE commissioner. New York.
and Detective Thurston, New York, gold
cuff buttons; Police Inspectors Cor
right. Harley, Thompson, Kane and
Cross: Police Captains Schnittber ger
and Wenzell and Captain Smith of the
harbor police, all of New York; As
sistant Superintendent Hunsdorfer of
the Pinkerton bureau; Mr. Deutsef.
who was telegraph agent at the Thirty
fourth street pier, New York. where the
Hohenzollern lay, and Louis Murphy Of
the United States secret service all re-
Ceived scarf pins.
Postmaster Frederick E. Coyne OF
Chicago is given a gold cigarette case I;
Chief of Police Frank O'Neill of Chi
caso. gold scarf pin, and the manager
of Wizards hotel, Washington, a gold
cigarette case.
Framed portraits of the prince are
sent to Seth Low, mayor of New York !;
Patrick A. Collins, mayor of Boston:
Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago;
TO tie navy department at Washington.
naval and military academies, tie New
York Yacht club. to the arrnory of
squadron A, New York, and to the Mil
w;sukee museum
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finally fallen apart or the wheels of
thy wagon wahbled away beyond re-
coveryT
Nay, kind sir. The bones and the
wheels may be a little shaky, but they
are still doing business at the old
stand"
"And then why these grim prepare
tons w
For the reason that my voice has
gone back on me and I can no longer
roar. The loudest yell can now utter
fails to awaken a sleeping babe q hun
dred feet away. Without q voice to
yell what will become of my strawber-
ry trade? How can 1 bring customers
from their domicilesT'
1T loeketh a hard case, Friend Roar
err" unused the sage as he softly ca
ressed his ear; but, like all diseases,
1t hath it's own remedy. Yeu must turn
from strawberries to string beans"
But why, O eonselef?"
THAT they may climb up into the
windows and fnd their own customers
while you simply make change and
take care not to heap the measure"
Moral-Nothing is SO bad that it can
not be mended.
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UNCLE ELLIS FABLES.

Copyright. 1892, by c. b. Lewis)
One day as the Good Hearted Man
was passing along the highway he
came upon Traveller who had sunk
to his knees in q mudhele and was
making NO effort to exGieate himself.
T "How new. man?s cried the Coed
Hearted Man But why don't you
work yourself clear OF the mud?
"It would only be to fall into the
pool just beyond" was the reply.
''I see, and as admire philosopher
I will help You eut Of your TX and take
you home with me. Ne doubt you can
de labor enough to pay for your 9s0d
and lodging"
However, when 4 spade was put into
the Travellers hands next day and he
was asked to dig. he premAtly replied:
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back to my beyhood days. In our
homely old garden we had thyme and
hollyhocks and pinks and creeping
Charlie and catnip. You must remen-
Der catnipr
Yes"
1.-THE scent of it comes to me through
all these long years. remember moth
ing of the past SO wildly as catnip-"
They didn't make you eat catnip
soup when you were a boy. did they =
she asked.
Madam" answered Mr.. Bowser as
he stopped before her and glared,
don't run this thing into burlesque!
IL you have get a briekbat where your
heart ought to be, haven't 1 am still
human being. although you have
tried your hardest to make me q man
Of stone"
"Well, you saw two punches Of cat
nip"
II did, and I bought them at once l
have brought them home, and 1 am
now going to plant them in our back
yard ann going to have something
around to recall the happy days of the
past don't want to forget that was
once young and innocent hearted By
thunder, but that cats got q bone in
her throat and is choking to deathr
The cat had one eye cooked up to the
ceiling and was gurgling and choking.
but al M. Bowse- stepped forward
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BoWSER'S SENTIMENT.
He Is Reminded Of Days Long
Gone By.

Copyright. 1902, by c. B. Lewisl
There were a softness and a sadness
in Mr.. Bowser.'s face as he came home
the other evening, and Mrs. Bowser
was puzzled to tell whether he had
found nickel on the street corner or
heard of the death of cousin After
dinner, during which he mentioned his
childhood days and sighed over the
passing OF years, he proceeded to ex-
plain.
do you know that we have become
cold hearted. Indifferent and selfish? p
he asked as he heaved sigh and shook
his head in a solemn way
Not in particular" replied Mrs.
Bowser, who remembered that she had
fed four tramps within week.
But We have, just the same. How
often, as We sit here of an evening, do
we call up and discuss the days of our
childhood, Of our boyhood and girihood,
of the dear old homes that sheltered US
before we went out into the world
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THROAT"
Not once in ten years. Ny father and
mother are dead as well as your ia
ther''-
And what else?' she asked as he
paused.
He suddenly remembered that her
mother was still living and was won
dering why death had not also claimed
her. He thought it best not to say any
thing about it. however, and went on:
land the dear old homes have pass
ed into the hands of strangers Do we
ever speak of the gardens, the mead
ows, the cid pear trees, the lanes and
the orchards? Never. There are the
hills we used to slide down in winter,
the brooks we padded in when summel
came, the groves with their swings and
the big walnut trees shading the front
porch, but we never recall them. In
stead OF that we sit here and read or
play euchre or go to the theater. and
our hearts grow hard and selfish. We
ought to be ashamed of ourselves
Mr.. Bowser got up and wiped at the
corner of his eye and walked around,
and the cat came out from under the
piano and sat up and looked solemnly
at the figure of the carpet
And what happened today to start
this train of thought?' asked Mrs.
Bowser after awhile.
The merest trife," replied Mr.. Bow
ser. "On the street 1 saw a vender Of
flowers Among his flowers he had
two punches Of catnip. The instant
got the odor of it I was carried
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General Nord Was Licked.

Cape Haytien. Hayti. July a0.-Gen. Al
bert Salnave. commanding an army in
support of NJ. F'irmin's candidacy for the
presidency is camped, with large body
of troops, about three miles from this
place. Gen. Nerd, who went out to give
battle to Cen SaInave, was defeated and
his army retreated in panic to Cape Hay
ten The volunteers have abandoned
their posts. Confidence has been restored
among the foreign residents of this city,
thanks to the energetic measures taken by
Commander McCrea, of the United States
Gunboat .Maehias, and United States Con-
sui Livingston. to guarantee them pro-
lection in case of an attack on the city.
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JUDGE HoKE.
Justice at Sandy Bend Has Ne Flies


Justice At Sandy Bend Has Ne Flies
on It.
Copyright, 1902. by C. B. Lewis)
I'm openin' this yere court this morn
IN" said Judge Heke of Sandy Bend
as he glared around at the audience
in openin' this yere court fur the ad-
ministration of jestice, but before pro-
ceedin' to administer, I wish to an
nounce that thar will be q boss race
over at Scalp Hill on Thursday after
noon. Thar will be three cayuses in
that race, and one of 'em viii belong
to this court. The stakes ar $50, with
owners to ride, and, If thar is 4 eritteI
within sound Of my voice who don't
hope that jestiee will prevail and them
$50 come to Sandy Bend, then I'll give
him year in Jail as soon as the other
bizness is concluded
THAR is only one case befo' US this
mornin', but it's case that appeals to
our feelin's. Everybody around yere
knows Lop Eared Pete. He has been
the cause Of more snowslides, ava
lanches. stampedes and funerals thar
any other six critters in the bixness
It il generally understood that THU
we're court ID lightnin' On the draw and
straight ON the shoot and that 1t has
never laid down to anything on legs
but We ar at the same dne goin' t.
admit that thar hev been eceAsienl
when the majesty Of the faw has taker
short cut to avoid meet1n' up with
Lep Ear. AZ matter Of fact, and it,
ne use to decay it. he's run the town Of
Sandy BEND to suit hisself and coca
sienalfy stopped over into Scalp Hill
fom&hawk CITY and Dead Mans Gulcl
to End 4 victim. Hes been Bad mai
with 4 big 3. Hes been Tough mai
with q big T. It's OWN to his enter
prise and industry that thar u AM
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she made a dive under the lounge, and
Mrs Bowser quietly said.
"She often does that when she's
amused
"Oh, she doesl Then there's some
thing to amuse her. take it. Let her
do any more gurgling around here to-
night and III wiring her old necks You
and the cat make a nice pairr
''Then you are going to plant the cat
nip in the back yard?" Queried Mrs
Bowser-
He made no reply, but, getting the
parcel from the front hall, he passed
out of the back door and looked around
for suitable spot.
rs it anything that's going to swell
up and bust up and tear the house
down." anxiously inquired the cook.
mo. my good woman Didn't you
ever hear of eatnip!"
Seems as if did Didn't the Span
ish blow up the Maine in Havana with
the same, bad luck to emp
Mr.. Bowser smiled in his benign and
paternal way and set about the work
of planting, and in ten minutes the job
was done. Then he stood back and sur
y q
sadness and qualification and said to
himself:
"Remembrances of the happiest days
Of my life, days before I met Mrs. Bow
seri When 1 feel that mercy, pity and
charity are being crowded out of my
heart, will come out here and sniff the
fragrant odor of this eatnip. It's but a
homely plant, but It's full of sweetest
memories"
Then he returned to the sitting room
to say to Mrs. Bowser:
Il want to give you and the cat and
the cook fair warning that if come
home tomorrow evening and find that
catnip damaged or missing there will
be row around here"
why should you say that" she ask
ed.
Because you have no sympathy with
nae. The past does not appeal to you
1 don't believe you call up old times
once year. Should an old tramp come
| to the door and prove to-be playmate
of your childhood, you'd hit him in the
eye with a cold potato instead of clasp
| ing his hand"
| Mrs. Bowser went up stairs and left
him reading his paper, and half an
hour had passed when a wild, weird
yeowl from the back yard raised what
| little hair he had on his head. 1t also
brought the family cat out from under
the lounge, and her eyes giared and
her tail grew bushy.
His exclamation was cut short by a
cd " a t. r
Ting and a banging on the back fences
Then came six other yeowls and rat
ties and bangs. and the voice of Mrs.
Bowser called down:
YOU'D better go out and see to your
catnip! There's more than thousand
cats ON the feneesr'
by thunder, but I'll murder 'en to
the very last oner' shouted Mr.. Bow
ser as. followed by the excited and
meowing cat, he rushed down stairs
and out into the yard
| There were not thousand cats
There were only 900. They were scam
pering across the yard. roosting on the
fences, fighting ten deep over the eat
nip plants. He picked up a spade and
dashed forward with a yell, but his
foot caught in an old iron hoop. and he
went down. The 800 fed. Six hundred
| trate form as they did so. and when
Mrs Bowser got down and extended a
hand to help him up his emotions were
too deep for utteranee-
"Come, Mr.. Bowser; come in" she
| said, and he humbly followed her.
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BACK In HIS CAGE.
Panther Which Escaped in Bronx
Park Has Been Captured.

New York, July 30-The young panther
which escaped on Sunday from Bronx
park and which had been dubbed Tracy
after the Washington outlaw, has been
captured in Bronxviile by a crowd of
farmers living in the neighborhood and
returned to his cage.
John Stearss who lives about one mile
east of the Geological gardens caught
sight of Tracy near his barns He gave
the alarm and about 100 persons respond
ed, armed with all sorts of weapons. The
panther was overtaken but only two Of
the pursuers stood their grouni They
succeeded in throwing a net over the ami
NAL and carried it back to the park.
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Both Loved the Same Woman.

Eagle Pass. Tex, July 3e.-Augustine Al
agaraza was fatally stabbed at an early
hour Tuesday morning by Estinalado Pc
rez in Cuidad Porfirio Dfaz. Mex. Perez
in return received shots that caused his
death few hours later. Both men were
enamored Of the same woman, and in a
quarrel which followed a conversation
about her. the shooting and cutting oc-
Cured The heart of Alagaraza was sew
cred, but he succeeded ins infficting fatal
injury to his adversary before he died.
A1agaraza was well known in musical cir
cles here and Perez belonged in Monterey
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'Tt often works that way, but you
didn't knew it," she continued, and
still he was dumb.
IT'S my seventeenth attempt to as
sassinate you, and Of course you'll ap-
ply for divorce"
But he simply sighed and greaned
and went to bed. like an overtired boy.
He had met the catnip and the cats,
and he was theirs
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sale fur cofnns or any use fur grave
yard in this town
Yesterday mornin' Lop Ear got up
as usual which means with . banker
in fur blood He shot Chinyman be-
fore Breakfast and white man soon
after, and then he took his windin'
way up the Scalp Hill trail. Some
body had told him that a Chinyman
over that way had accumulated about
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Tomato Trust Files . Mortgage.

Baltimore. Md, July 30-The officials
of the American Packers association.
known among Gamers of the eastern
shore of Maryland as the Tomato
trust" is having a 81, 100000 mortgage
recorded in all the co1nties on the
Maryland and Delaware peninsula in
which the trust has been able to acquire
eanneries.
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A Decline in Dividends

New York, July 38,-Divfdend dis
bursements thus far announced by in
dustrial- companies for August are tn,
smallest for any previous month thi
year, amounting to only 81, 264, 500.
was but reasonable, however. to expect
says the Journal Of Commerce, a mark
ed falling on from the large seminar
nual payments In July.
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wArcHMAKn

WATCHES cleaned. &c; clocks. SOC; main
springs, &c. crystals. Ice Cash paid for
Old -5eTelry exehan9ed for neS. 4. hard
up. zee Uneae Gam. s1z Kansas ave,
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RAILRoAD THE TABLES.
Rock Island.


Tn effect May Is. 1902
west bound Arrive Leave.
Texas Elk No. L. .x--..--.- Y 80 pm leo pm
St J. & Top. Elk 70. b. :45 pm
Night Colo. Flyer No 9---- $40 pm $40 pm
Fl Paso Limited 10. 2--.-k-49 am II so am
Nieht Texas Ex- No. g. n IS pm 115 am
Z Chick. Ex. No. a5 :ss am az an
raSt bound LIN Ex. No. :. $50 pm SIS pm
Ton z st J. Ell No a.. 33S pr71
Eaxt Ex & Mail No. A.. so am 80 an
10 . "a Paso & Chicago - am $500 am
roI r K c. Flyer No TO- 7115 am
Ton = ST. J. Elk. No. B. z,46 am
chick. q K C. Elk No 49, $50 pm 80 psu
al trains daily, except Nos. IS and e.
daiIy except Sunday.
Union Pacific.
WEsTBOUND
Der. !. rae. Coast No. az g Pm = g sa
juno city Pass No. B. SO pm Sc pm
salms Ell Ne EsAsTB0;UiiaD : nm 70 :"
Atlantic Elk No 49, 350 pm So pm
Limited No z@-.------..-- 80 am 80 am
K C. Pas4- No e-~.-.--.-- e-0 am 80 ~
Salfna Ex- no. 8----..- s,S pm 41o pm
K C. Bx- No e-.-.-.....-. 80 Pm o:10 -
an trsins dairy exeept 9ssa z ana -
daily except assndAy-
Missouri Pacific
ropena.Et. Scott Aecem-
Ne IS ..................6 50 pD - a.
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THE J. C. DARLING CO., - Kan Ave.
Rubber stamps, brass and aluminium uade
checks- Frtces l1W- Catalogue frees Tel "a
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New-York tribune., 1902-10-17
GERN4NY AND RECIPROCITY.
TREATIES PROVE OF GREAT BENEFIT TO
TRADE

Washington. Oct IA report OF great interest
In the United States AZ this moment in view Of the
pendency ~ reciprocity treaties before Co~Cress is
that made TO the state Department by United
States Consul Ozmun. at Stuttgart relative to the
workings or reciprocity arrangements in Germany.
He shows that Germany has had ten years expert
ence In trade relations with seven different Euro
pean countries. conducted under commercial
treaties and the results OF their workings have
been carefully compiled and arranged in tabular
form I'm this report which is published in the ad-
vance sheets OF consular reports issued by Fred
eric Emory from the Bureau Of Foreign Commerce.
The consuls conclusions are in brief that Ger
many, by entering into commercial treaties with
these seven countries. able TO increase her
port trade with them a par cent while at the
same time the imports from these countries ex-
ceeded the exports TO them, this excess being 50
per less in the three years OF treaties than
II the three years before they into operation
ThiS greatly increased volume of trade has made
reciprocity treaties popular in Germany.
New-York tribune., 1902-10-17
CASTRO FORCED TO RETREAT.
COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT TROOPS IN BAT
TLE-GooD WORK BY ARTILLERY

Willemstad. Island Of Curacao. Oct Io.-Ih7
pattle near La Victoria, Venezuela between tli7
army commanded by President Castro ana Ihe
revolutionary forces. which began Nohaay
morning, lasted until the afternoon OF that gay
ana began again on Tuesday morning resulting
IN the retirement Of President CastIe 20 Ia
Victoria on Tuesday afternoon was resuii7u
again ferceIy at o'clock on wednesday morn
ing At that time the President had received
retnforcements and had over six thousand men
engaged against the seven thousand placed N
line by the revolutionists-
The artillery played part never BEFORE seen
in Venezuela. Shortly before O'Clock on
Wednesday afternoon the revoiutlohis's az
peared 70 have gained slight advan'sse. Inc
Presidents artillery, which numbered nrteen
guns. had been reduced to four guns. la VIC
toria was crowded with wounded. ana there
were no provisions in the town
The British cruiser Indefatigable mas lett La
Ciuayra for the purpose Of carrying provisions
to Tucacas. twenty-five miles from Puerto Ca
bero for the foreign residents there. some of
whom are said 10 be diving from hunger as
result of the concentration measures adopted ny
the Venezuelan authorities The lndetausap.e
IN order 10 accomplish her mission VIII nave W
run the blockade OF Tucacas-
The German cruiser Nineta has also lert La
Guayra and it is regarded as probable that she
The French cruiser Suehet arrived at Caru-
pano yesterday and entered a protest against
the arbitrary arrest of French citizen, VINO was
subsequently, released with an apology.
Fighting took place Monday ard Iuesday De
tween the government forces and revolutionists
at CarupanO.
The German cruiser Panther has forced the
entrance Of the OrinOco River and has reached
Ciudad Bolivar. to protect German interests
there.
The United States Minister, Mr.. Bowen, has
announced that he will not ask for a guard of
bIueiackets 10 protect the United States LeSa-
tion at Caracas, and all his colleagues will fol-
low ROMens examine