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crude force of Matilda Heron to the subtle
fineness of Eleonora Duse. would seem TO
have been exhausted long ago. Yet here
simultaneously come Virginia Harmed and
Margaret Anglin with newly devised nov
city. Neither OF them gives a view of
the character or presents an old one with
distinction. and both, therefore. are disap-
pointing for we were eXpectant. But they
do ingeniously strange things in the scene
of Candles death.
The farewell words of Miss Harneds
Camille have been spoken, she has thrown
Nichettes bridal veil over her face in
mute longing for what might have been
and has sunk limp into Armand's arms.
when suddenly she takes a fresh and very
picturesque grip on life. The cynic may
say and with some justice, considering how
Miss Harmed has already protracted the
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musical sketch; Cooke and Hayes, clever
singers and dancers; Krauss and Rosa,
condolences, and Ira kessner, the soprano.
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of the indianapolis Journal.

wv YORK, April PA thousand
actresses have played Camille in
America within the half century.
All possibility of variation in
that miserable sinner. from the
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for several weeks. and Gallettis wonder
ful troupe Of performing monkeys viii
doubtless attract an unusual amount of
attention This act is considered the great
est exhibition OF its kind now before the
public. Ii Is an act that will prove es-
pecally interesting To children. Mr.. and
Mrs. Jimmy Barry old-time favorites here.
will be on the bill in a farce entitled, a
Skin Game" and other contributors 70 the
programme will be the Trocadero quartet.
in a repertoire OF new songs: Ziska and
King. in a bErlesque magic act that is very
laughable; the Four Flying Bambards. ex-
pert trapeZe performers. equilibristS and
gymnasts and MignOnette Kokin, the sing
ing Comedienne. The boscope will, as
usual. show some new moving pictures.
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In VAUDEVILLE at the Grand
Annie Russell. one of the
most charming of American act
i resses. will appear at English's
u tomorrow eveping for a single
performance OF Madeline Lucette
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Richard Mansfield
on Stage Make-Up

ICHARD MANSFIELD. who APP
&c peared in Indianapolis yesterday
~ :. in two Of his great characterize
S*<S>b tiOns-Karl Heinrich, in "Old
.-e....s Heidelberg" and Ivan the Terri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-05
KANSAS FAIRS IN 1904.

Following is a list OF fairs to be hello
and secretaries. as reported to the A stats
BOARD Of agTiculture ana compiled By
0I Ba rtS County Fair Association-w p
FEEDER. secretary, Great Bend: Sept. 1915
Hewins Park and Fair Association
6chautauaua county)ssW. N N. Jones. sec
ation.s. D. Weaver. secretary. Ruriing-
ley eounty)--J.- N. Henderson. secretary,
Elk County Agricultural Fair Associa-
tom. F. Deal. secretary, Grenola; Sept.
Greenwood County Fair Association-c
H; Weiser, secretary. Eureka; Sept. 1916.
John c. Nicholson, secretary, Newton:
cSHRtg PHrtFk kan ana Pet
G. II. Rhodes, judge; z. W. Kaufman
Marshall County Fair Association-E
Miller, secretary, Marysville; Sept. j3-1e
Miami County Agricultural and Ne
seanar Paola; Sept $7-sol 30 a. sloyd'
Neosho County Fair Association-H
Ness County AgricuituraI ASSOC tio,-
!. B. Pemper, secretary Mesa City: Sept.
Central Kansas Fair Association ,(Reno
codnty).,A: L 20 sponsier' secretary. Hutch
Riley County Agricultural Association
R. T. Worboys, secretary, Riley; Oct. IA
Adams, secretary, stockton; Sept. 2i-2s
Southern Kansas Fair and Carnival
Association (sedgwick county)-H. L Re-
Kansas State Exposition Company
tary, Topeka: Sept. 12-17.
Howard Street Fair and Gas Carnival
and Old Soldiers Reunion-Oct l2-15
STAFFORD County Fair Association-G
E. Moore, secretary. st. John; Sept. 10.
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JAYHAWKER JOTS.

a clear conscience is a luxury that
even some state house plutocrats can t
afford.
In spite of Concordia's blue laws it
seems possible to paint the church
pewS red
Peace once more reigns in Lenora.
The editor of the News offers his shot
gun for sale.
A baby show has been suggested for
Stockton and until after the event is
pulled off no more cream goes in the
coffee.
A Frankfort fruit tree has a limb
bearing a half dozen ripe apples and
equally many perfect and fragrant
blossoms.
While trying to chase a COW from his
premises a jamestown gent" tripped
over his shadow and dislocated his
shoulder.
The Lyons Republican has rounded
out its twenty-fifth year under the
same management and is growing BET
ter every week.
The Wellington man who takes his
whisky from a cows horn declares that
the animal owner was almost a 'muley'
and not a Texas steer.
Cawker City still has billiard halls,
Notwithstanding the majority of the
players have signed petitions asking for
their adjustment.
While quarrying rock at Beloit a
prominent citizen unearthed a petrified
snake seventeen Ieet mas peeh gotlen
out and the end is not yet.
There was a very questionable decis-
ion in the game of Saturday in Topeka
Baseball is played on the diamond but
that's no reason why it shouldn't be
played on the square.
A Dighton man admits himself that
he killed a snake with 25 rattles and a
button. That sounds like the estimates
of this falls election by headquarter
politicians
A Greenleaf man asks the Central
Branch to pay him 800 for a dog run
over by the cars that he didn't con-
slider good enough last winter to sleep
on the back porch.
Two Rice county paupers cheerfully
partOok of the poor farm hospitality for
a month without a muImur. The other
day they We're asked to help pail the
cows. In ten minutes they had packed
their carpet sacks and jumped the res
ervatiOn.
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LOCAL MENTION.

Rush Wise and Kirk Cecil have gone to
St. Louis for a weeks visit at the expo
sition.
There is to be a meeting of the Shawnee
o'clock at the National hotel parlors. The
evening will be devoted to a discussion of
bronchitis A paper will be read by DR..
w. E. McVey.
License Collector Page turned in $50. Is
to the city treasury during the month Of
August.
There were two small fires Sunday,
neither one causing any damage of inn
portance. A coal shed at SIT Lane street
took fire from spontan eous combustion at
$40 in the morning and was extinguish he'd
with small loss. At / 40 p m a telephone
alarm came from SIG Van Buren,, where a
story and a half dwelling owned by w. s.
Walker had become ignited by gasoline.
The loss was small.
Captain John Dadisman of the Wash
burn football team has returned from his
western trip and practice Of the WASH
burn team will begin this week
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GRAFSTROM'S BODY.
Believed That 1t Is the One Found at
Lawrence.

1t is believed that the skeleton found in
the river at Lawrence is that of Edward
Grafstrom, the Santa F'e mechanical en-
gineer who was drowned in Topeka dur
ing the food year ago.
The Lawrence World says:
Coroner Phillips today received let
ter from John Penny, superintendent of
motive power at the Santa F'e shops at
Topeka, asking him to hold the skeleton
found buried beside the railroad tracks in
North Lawrence. Penny is very strongly
of the opinion that the bones are those
of the machinist, Edward Grafstrom,
drowned during the flood. The cloth
found with the bones has proved to be
rotted macintosh goods and Grafstrom
had on macintosh when he disappear
ed. 1t is known that this kind of clotn
would hold together and not be whipped
off the limbs of the body by the water,
as is often the case.
Another argument that the body found
is that of the young Topeka man is that
he had on laced rubber hip boots and
these probably remained on the body un-
til it decomposed somewhat and then
slipping off. carrying away the feet, as
these were missing from among the other
bones found. The button found with the
skeleton is one like those usually used
on that article of wearing apparel
Mrs. Grafstrom. the widow of the ma
chinist, has left this country and is sup.
posed to be visiting in Sweden. One man
who knew Grafstrom well is almost sure
that the skeleton in Phillips possession is
that of the unfortunate machinist.
There was $1,000 insurance on the life
of the missing man and also reward
for his body if dead.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The sections daughter is not necessarily
a church belle.
It's all right to respect old age except in
eggs.
Gloves should always be on hand when
they are wanted.
It's hard luck to go hungry with a
mouthful of gold teeth.
One of the most annoying things in the
world is to be prepared for an emergen-
cy that doesn't turn up.
Some people waste a lot of energy in
patting themselves on the back.
a man likes to feel young, but a woman
is satisfied if she looks young.
At any rate the Shoe Trust can not be
referred to as a sole-less corporation
The money that burns hole in a fell
lows pocket can scarcely be cold cash.
One good turn deserves another, but it's
the bad turn that generally gets it.
A self-made man is one who takes adj
vantage of his self-made opportunities.
No woman is such gossip to respect
the mean things she hears about herself.
The Armless Wonder of museum fame
Unto boarding house for actors came,
And loudly kicked-he did, upon my soul
Because the waiter brought no finger
how'll
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MAYOR TO FILE VETO.
His DisapprOvaI of the Franchise Will
Be Explained.

Mayor Bergundthal has three and a
half pages OF typewritten veto ready for
the city council meeting this evening
The veto gives in detail the mayors OBJ
tections to the proposed franchise of the
Excelsior Coke and Gas company, which
was passed a month ago by the city
There is a disagreement as to when
the council must act upon this veto:
Mayor Bergundthal will ask the council
to take immediate action.
Unless the council takes action on the
matter tonight, and either sustains or
the gas franchise is practically dead,'
said the mayor today
City Attorney Spencer says: Il think
that it would be proper for somebody to
move postponement of the consideration
It can take up the veto at some future
time There is nothing in the statutes
veto. 1t is my idea, however, that a
speedy action is in accord with the best
Mayor BergundthaI refuses to give out
any information concerning the nature of
his communication to the council. 1t is
considerable length his objections to the
proposed franchise and tells the council
slider satisfactory. 1t will then be put to
the council to either sustain or reject
There is a general belief that the gas
company will still make further conces-
sions, rather than lose its chance for a
renewal of its franchise Whether it will
concede all that Mayor Bergundthal asks
is T quite another Pro post onaa %
ing the present franchise over Mayor
Bergundthals veto. Further concessions
must be made by the gas company. This
would involve the introduction of an en-
and Griley, who have been out of town,
have both returned, but Councilmen
Green and Nellis are still away. Council
men Neil and Sinner will probably vote
to sustain the mayors veto, and these,
with the absentees, will be sufficient to
protect the veto.
Councilman Howe is likely to favor the
granting of the franchise provided a few
more changes are made in it. Councilman
Howe does not ask the gas company for
lower rate on gas He said u few days
ago:
gas below $1.25 for the present. 1 am will
rate. But there are some other changes
which I think ought to be made in the
ordinance"
Councilman Neil is said to object prin-
cipaily to the 30 year feature of the pro-
posed franchise. 1t seems quite likely
isfy the demands of sufficient councilmen
to insure the passage of the ordinance
1t does not seem likely that tonight s
council meeting will be very prolific OF
important business. Nothing of impor-
lance promises to come before the meet
ing with the exception of the mayors We
to- On account of the fact that it is a
legal holiday the council will not let the
coal contract for which bids have been
received.
1t is expected that representatives of
the Second ward opponents of the sewer
proposition will be present to state their
case, provided there is any disposition on
the plans for the construction of the
sewer.
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most remarkable growth during the
period of "a years, the growth in iron
and steel having been from Ii million
dollars in 1870 to Sill, Gas, 5S6 in 1904;
and copper, from half million dollars
in 1870 TO 81 millions in 1904. Mineral
oils increased from 80 millions to y
millions during the same period; leath-
er, from less than I million to over 30
millions; cotton manufactures, from
less than millions to % millions; ag-
ricultural implements, from 1 million to
over % millions.
These 10 articles or groups of articles
form about so per cent of the total man
ufactures exported. In 1870 their total
amounted to less than 60 millions. Cop
per show remarkable growth, especial
ly during the last decade From 1870 to
1898 the expectations of copper were
small. seldom exceeding million dol
lars. In 1894. however,there was an in
crease to practically 20 million dollars;
by 1898 the total exceeded 80 millions;
by 1900 it was over so millions. and in
the fiscal year 1904 was over 81 million
dollars. as compared with $504,741 in
1870. Leather manufactures also show
a marked gain, having been but $673,331
in 1870. and $33, $50, SIS in 1904.
Equally interesting with the growth n
expectation Of manufactures is the
growth in importation of foreign ma
terial required for use in manufacturing.
Curiously, manufacturers materials i'm
ported in 1904 are almost identical in
value with finished manufactures eX-
ported. The raw materials imported for
use in manufacturing in 1904 amounted
to 321 million dollars. and the partially
materials for use in man
amounted to 1876 million dol
lars. making a total of ASH millions of
materials imported, as
against 452 million dollars worth of fin
ished manufactures exported. These
materials include raw
silk. hbers, india rubber, hides and
skins, furs and fur skins; chemicals,
drugs and dyes. wool, cotton, wood, tin,
and iron and steel, ard sundry other
articles in a partially manufactured
state.
A table showing the ten groups of
materials. which form
about 80 per cent of the raw material |
imported for use in manufacturing, is |
published by the bureau of statistics. 1t |
shows that the importations Of fibers |
have increased from million dollars in |
1870 to So millions in 1904; silk, from 5 |
millions to 46 millions; india rubber, |
from 31a millions to AZ millions; hides, |
from IA millions to 81 millions; chemi-
,als. from 2O1z millions to 65 millions; |
WOOL, from 61k millions to 241s millions;
cotton, from less than a half million
dollars in value to over 3 millions;
wood. from a little over a half million
dollars to over 20 million dollars, and
in, from less than millions to over
i millions of dollars in the period from
$40 to 1894.
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GROWTH OF FOREIGN TRADE


The fact that the exports of manu-
features from the United States in the
fiscal year just ended were the largest
I'm the history of our commerce. and
that during the last three months they
have actually exceeded the value of
agricultural products exported. lends
interest to some figures just compiled
by the department of commerce and la
Dor through it's bureau of statistics
showing the growth in the exports of
principal manufactured articles from
1870 to 1904, and the increase in inpor-
tations of materials for use in manu-
featuring during the same period
The statement divides the manufac-
lures into ten great groups, which
form, it says. about so per cent of the
total value Of the manufactures ex-
ported These ten groups are iron and
steel, mineral oils. copper, agricultural
implements, wood manufactures; chem
icals, drugs and dyes, leather and man
ufactures thereof, cotton manufactures
paratin, and paper and manufactures
thereof. Iron and steel shows the Iarg-
est total. being in round terms H. mil
lion dollars: mineral oils, 70 millions:
copper. 81 millions; leather. "a millions;
agricultural implements. % millions:
chemicaIs.i Is millions; wood manufac-
lures, nearly 10 millions; paraffin. over
millions, and paper, over million
dollars
Iron and steel and copper show the
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been a practitioner forty years and has
had much experience A young doctor was
ular practitioners" the young doctor saio
call him quack-
If you treat your enemies as well as
the Good Book desires, then what dis
elimination IS left to show to your
friends2
In seven cases out of ten when a wo-
man goes into dry goods store she does
not want any particular thing; she just
goes in to see what is doing.
1t is hard to tell which makes the wo-
men the more angry: a widower who
marries before his wife is cold in her
grave, or one who will not marry at all
The children are having their own way
to such a degree that old bachelors and
old maids are expecting to see another
custom upset by the pie being served first
at meals.
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Took a Shot at Him.

Mr.. Miner asked Me. Richardson
about something, and Mr.. Richardson
answered by swatting Mr.. Miner a
swat on the jaw, putting him down
temporary, and Mr.. Miner 'riz up and
borrowing a gun from Mr.. Anthony,
took shot at Mr.. RichardSon-but he
didn't hit him. All this occurred on
Smoky Row" near the south extrem-
ity of the Melan bridge
When the case came up in police
court this morning there was nothing
doing. the defendants were willing to
plead guilty to- disturbing the peace, but
the court said that at least one court
in the city would be run according 20
law, and as it was an arrest on view,
and the defendants were doing nothing
some one would have to make out a
complaint. AS they had seen nothing
of the scrap, and had only the word of
the defendants for it, all the officers re-
fused to swear to something they knew
nothing about. The case was continued
until tomorrow morning, when the de-
PENDANTS will be one and all discharged
Jeff Davis, the negro orator, was ar
rested this morning for stealing a load
of sand from John Wilkerson. The no
ted windjammer denies the allegation,
and defieS the. alligator. He says that
one witness, the man who hauled the
sand, will put him in the clear. The
case was set over. The colored speaker
is accused of hauling away a load OF
Kaw river dirt which Wilkerson had ac-
quired for building purposes.
A. B. Williamson. Ed Brown. Oscar
Gay, Ike Yancey and Walt Lewis, ne
groes were sitting i'm at little pri-
va1e poker party on the second floor of
400 Kansas avenue last evening when a
squadlot of coplots blew in and there
was a misdeal. The evidence against
the party is slim. They held poker
hands of five cards each, but there was
no cash in sight, and a small bunch of
worries on one corner of the table may
have been markers for some newfangled
card game. The entire bunch, however,
were run in, incarcerated, canned, etc.
Mary Jordan was gathered Saturday
night for running a boozery. So also
was Andy Dupree. George klauer was
grabbed and accused of violating the
hop-tea ordinance, and selling a little
booze on the side, but the officers did
not add the booze to the complaint
George Youngman, colored, landed
once or twice on his lady love, Ida
Porter Ida didn't like it. so she roared,
and the police gathered Youngman into
the fold. The case will be heard to-
morrow.
Once more Bess -.Battleaxe'' Lane is
in the village keep. Same offense, for
which she has been arrested five times
in the past two weeks,-S soliciting on
the Streets She was fined $50 a few
days ago, but she got out on an APP
peal bond, and there is more work for
female will either have to leave the
city or secure the services of an able
bodied balloon. 1t is a cinch that the
police force will not let her walk.
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ia East Fifth Street.
Over One Hundred Remnants of Carpets

Many good housekeepers will no
doubt become deeply interested in the
offering of these remnants.
We have remnants of Ingrains,
Tapestries, Velvets, Moquettes and
Body Brussels. The lengths run from
to Is yards, thus presenting an excel
lent opportunity to those in quest of a
carpet for hall, stair, small bed chamber
or of rugs.
About one-half off regular price.
Save these quotations:
Remnants of Granite and reversi-
Die oultanas ......... .1I12c
Remnants of Ingrains 1900. .21c
Remnants of 85c extra super
1ngralns $500. SOC
Remnants Of 75c ex. supers
Ingrains -. 4215c
Remnants of Union Ingrains 321ac
Remnats of Tapestries, 39c, 48c,
SOC and 67112c for the very best.
Remnants of Royal Velvet, $1.25
quality .75c
Remnants Of Royal Velvet $1OO
quality ........ ................ .65c
Remnants of Moquettes and Ak
ministers ...... $50. .75c and 821ac
Remnants of 1925 Body Brus-
sells 1880. .Ioc
Think of obtaining Moquette or
Administer Rug, size 54x27, at. $1.13
You have paid $3.50 and 1915 for
exactly the same kind.
You have an opportunity to pur-
chase a Velvet or Administer Carpet for
your hall or stair or for small bed
chamber at price 25c per yard less
than you pay for Brussels carpet.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
In promises for the future your friends
are all good to you.
An old man who dyes his whiskers is as
bad as the old man who wears a wig.
When we see dab of powder on a wo-
mans face are proud of her; it means
that she is an amateur.
If a husband doesn't like to have his
wife save the old love letters he wrote her
let him write her new ones.
In Chicago there is a noted doctor who
has unqueStionably done much for hu-
manity and for his profession. He is
known far and wide as a man of progress
intelligence and great learning He has
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFTOIn the chicago NeWS.I
Milk is often but another name for a
white lie.
A jolly good fellow is the one who
foots the bill.
The egg that can't be beat isn't as
good as it might be.
1t takes some men an hour to make
a ten-minute speech.
If man is prejudiced and knows it
there is still hope for him.
1t takes the new hat on one woman's
head to turn the head of another.
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Vermont will elect state officers to-
morrow The Green Mountain states
normal Republican majority is regarded
as about $4,000. 1t has long been 4
theory that the September election in
Vermont furnishes an indication of the
probable result of the presidential cleo
tion and figures for a number of years
are given intended to show that there
is ground for the theory. 1t is pointed
out that in every presidential year
since 1872 when the Republican pluraIi-
~ in Vermont has fallen below %. 900
the Democrats have won in the ma
1ional election. In 1884 the Republican
plurality in Vermont was 22,704 and
Cleveland was elected in November
-Four years later the Republicans car
ried the state with plurality of 2S, 995
and that year General Harrison was
elected There was a marked slump in
Nermont's Republican plurality in 1892
and again the Democratic national tick
ct was successful. In the next two
presidential years the Republican plur-
alities were heavy at both the Septem-
Der and November elections.