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The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18
THE CLEAR GRIT
OF AMERICAN WOMEN.

EX HEN a gentleman in the talk
wv ing professions runs out of
something to say he generally
utters an utter on the deterioration of
the simon pure American woman of the
old stock. There is nothing in it, find.
This morning-just between us girls
= had a new jacket and skirt suit
fitted at one of those big department
store, marked down half or one-third
sales.
sT will call the htter," said the nice
girl clerk.
Presently came the filter, a pleasant
faced, good tempered looking woman
with prettily arranged gray hair, red
cheeks and bright blue eyes. She was
middle aged, but those bright blue eyes
needed and looked through no glasses.
They were as clear and strong evident
ly as when Madam Filter was a merry
girl. She spoke gently and pleasantly
mirabile! In the same store at the
same time I had struck two obliging
women employees, a saleswornan and a
filter. I felt like salaaming on my
head, like an oriental, for this great
mercy. At one place previously 1 had
just been crushingly snapped off by one
"sales lady, high, mighty and a cross
patch.
Madam Filter began to pull me in
she did so noticed that the forehnger
of her right hand was entirely missing.
She had broken the skin of it one day,
and dyestuffs or other vicious sub
stance had got into the wound, and
after horrible suffering the chief finger
she depended on for her living was sac
ridced.
Madam Filter was widow with two
little children. If she had been as much
weakened and deteriorated as the talk
ing gentlemen say the American wo-
man is she would have slumped down
upon some relative or at least have put
her children into charity home. But
here was a woman of the Oldest, b1uest
blood in America except that OF the IN
dian. Her great grandfather was a
soldier under washington. Her ances-
try goes as far back as any white an
cestry in this land can go.
Madam Filter never thought of
slumping. On the contrary, SO soon as
her mutilated hand was well this royal
American woman went calmly back to
her old duties in one of the leading
fashionable stores of New York city,
cutting, fitting and draping gowns,
skirts and jackets and supporting her
children just as if she had not lost the
forefinger of her right hand. Through
all the pain, the awkwardness and dis
comfort of learning to do things IN new
ways she passed without word, gain
ing presently her former adept skill.
An odd thing about this American
woman of the old stock is that she
never gives down, no matter what
happens. Just day or two ago she was
attacked with grip. suffering as only
grip can make people suffer. Sympa-
thizing friends said:
"Oh. you must go home and go to
bed
But the American woman is no quit
ter. Grip only meant more grit to
Madam Filter. She stayed at her post
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

much more slowly. and it lies IN the
power OF the discriminating mother
practically to surround her daughter
with whatever future associates she
wills. On the other hand many a di-
astrOus intimacy, many a distasteful
name on a WOman's visiting list. may
be traced back to a school beginning
It's funny, isn't it." remarked a lis
tener, but a mother never seems to
realize her daughter is really growing
up. To her loving eyes she always
seems a child, and there is no real hur-
~ for anything, as everything will
come out all right in time. Suddenly
the daughter herself forces the mother
to realize she is a grown woman, and
then it is too late"
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18
Two Women Leaders
Of Russian Politics

EW rights or none at all does
the law give to women in Rus
sia, yet today in each of the
A two parties. that of .despotism
and the other of revolution, a woman is
a prime mover.
Marie F'edorovna, ex-empress, mother
OF Gar Nicholas, is one of the leaders
in the policy of keeping the people
down During the lifetime of her hus-
band she opposed everything looking to
the enlightenment and emancipation of
Russian women, even their admission
to the universities and their education
in professions.
Unfortunately Dagmar of Denmark,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

called in Russia Marie Fedorovna,
mother of the czar, in the course of her
Outstanding has become more reac-
tionary than old Time himself. She
is bigoted and stubburn; the czar is
weak and vacillating, not knowing his
own mind overnight. The dowager
empress knows hers and silently i'm
poses it upon Nicholas. She does not
talk much; she wills. She and those
high old grand dukes, the cars uncles,
control the czar.
The young czarina, Queen Victoria's
favorite granddaughter. Alix, is highly
educated and liberal minded, but
against her mother-in-law and the
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Going through her husbands pockets.

tunes with tags and French knots and
our shirt waists with lace and tulle
bows. The Englishwoman can certain
Iy teach us how to be beautifully tailor
made. She is not always pretty, but
she Is nearly always trim. The
Frenchwoman would die rather than
leave her carriage and walk in gowns
that have seen Americans consider
none too conspicuous to wear when
shopping.
It seems to me the secret of good
dressing consists in having things as
simple as possible and in wearing as
few colors at one time as possible
''You could pick off enough ornaments
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

Romanon uncles what chance has she?
The woman prominent in the oppo-
site party is one of the chief founders
of the present Socialist Revolutionary
party in Russia She is Nine. Cath
crime Breschkovslzy. Father Gepon, the
holy cross in one hand. the cars por-
trait in the other, headed the strikers
march on the imperial palace in ST.
Petersburg, but for more than thirty
years, except during the long gap when
she was a prisoner in Siberia, Gather
inc Breschkovsl1y has been working
among the Russian peasantry. teaching
them to read, to write and to think
Mime. Breschkovsky is sixty two
years of age, white haired and now old
looking. She was four years awaiting
trial for treason in a Russian prison;
after that was eighteen years in exile
in Siberia, much of the time serving at
hard labor in the mines of Kara She
was the first woman ever sentenced to
work in the Siberian mines. No won
der she came out white haired. The
wonder is she came out alive. They
call her the grandmother Of social
ism" Today the grandmother of so
cialisrn is lecturing in the United
States, explaining the aims of her
party and raising funds for it. AS she
passes from city to city, speaking now
here, now there, she is followed every
step of the way by Russian govern
ment agents, and she knows it, and
they know she knows it.
Her career is tremendous, more i'm
pressive even than that of Louise Mi
chel. She was the daughter of Rus
sian noble of not high rank In 1870
and the years Immediately following
many noble young Russians of both
sexes made united effort to lift the
lately emancipated serfs to the estate
of manhood by educating them In
this, the young refOrmers believed, lay
the only hope for the peasants and for
Russia itself. The government became
alarmed at their work. Then Catherine
Breschkovsky dressed herself as a
peasant and, thus disguised, continued
her teaching. The other reforrners did
likewise. In 1874 Catherine was ar
rested and imprisoned. She says:
I have been treated like a convict
not the slightest consideration being
shown for my sex. I have worked like
man in the silver mines from which
the car derives part of his private in
come. I have trudged thousands of
miles on foot to reach the barbaric
settlement to which they sent me.
have been guarded by gendarmes, spied
on by the police, prosecuted and per-
secuted year after year. And what had
done to deserve it all? / taught the
poor peasants to read and write, to
carve and sew, to understand the new
laws and to know their duties. 1 gave
them medicine when they were sick
and books when they were we'll"
Two thousand men and women who
were trying to help their people were
arrested in 1874 with Mime. Bresch-
kovsky. Many of these were sent to
Siberia after lingering for a longer or
shorter term in the horrible prisons re-
served for Russian political suspects
More than 100 died in prison before
they could be got Off to Siberia.
It was because she was considered a
particularly dangerous person that
Nine Breschkovsky was ordered to
work in the mines. She was not obIig-
ed to stay there very long at hrst, but
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

pOCkGL IIlUuCJ
of her own, but was forced to depend
on what she could hIch from the money
given to her for groceries. Her hus-
band allowed her certain number of
dresses a year and paid for them; be-
yond that he ignored as much as possi-
BILE the fact that she must necessarily
have other expenses.
Another husband. well to do man
formerly in the diplomatic service, car
ries this idea of not trusting his wife
In money matters to such an extreme
that she has to go to him and ask him
for a quarter for car fare and on her
return hand back the change and ac-
count vigorously for every penny.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

was presently sent to a penal settle
ment near Lake BaikaI. From this
place she and three men tried to escape
together. Misery knows no sex All
were recapturd, and the woman revolu-
tionary leader was hurled back into
the mines of Kara, whence there is no
escape except by death.
There were four years more of hard
labor in the mines for the dauntless
woman gently born and bred; then
she was sent to a penal settlement in
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

A recent article In an English maga-
zine calls US an overdressed nation. OF
course it refers to the women; from
the English social point of view we
have no men. Is the American woman
overdressed? I am afraid she Is. We
do not observe strictly enough the
subtle difference between morning and
afternoon, between carriage and walk
ing attire. Because a gown is pretty
we wear it morning, noon and some
times evening We are too much dis
posed to beautify our tailor made cos
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

choOS sing Tn e
right sort of a
girls school; I
d on m e a n
merely a school
where she can
learn as much
as possible. but
one where she
VIII m a k e
friends with de-
sirable young
people. If par
ents only un-
d derstood how
m u c h t h e S e
school acquaint-
ances count In
later lifei Chill
DR. G n m a K q
friends easily,
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

which is often
enacted in Ger
tain homes. It
is not In poor
families either
that this sort
of thing takes
place, but in
hous es wher c
everything ap-
pears to be lux
ury.
I was perfect
ly amazed the
other day to
hear from one
of the prettiest
and best dress
ed matrons I
know that she
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

by sheer pluck till the day was over,
then went home and soaked herself in
a bath of hot water till the worst ache
was gone. Then next morning she was
back at her post, still suffering, but Sc
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

rene, courteous and good tempered as
ever. Somehow after that seance with
the filter 1 felt as though would never
dare to groan about anything again.
JANE MOSES.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

from her gowns to decorate a Christ
mas tree" I heard a smart woman say
OF a conspicuously dowdy one. And
that's usually the trouble.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18
New York.

The Illinois general assembly will
consider by request Of the State Teach
ers' association a law providing for
the licensing of teachers.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

by a heavy roast. two or three starchy
vegetables and substantial pudding.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

'fWhy, what do you mean?
''WeIl, about their daughters future
Women are very apt to put off until
tomorrow. They do not realize the girl
in question is growing and will wait for
no one. A great many mothers. do not
see. for instance. the Importance of
The Topeka state journal., 1905-02-18

? THINK mothers are not fore
handed enough as q rule"
heard . woman say the other
/ ,@+a-roo1 at a reception.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
CHICAGO ELECTION.

The MsYorslty campaign in Chicago has
been conducted with enthusiasm by the
voters Of that city and resulted in the cleo
ton Of Judge Dunno, the Democratic can
didate, on Tuesday last. The important
issue decided was that Of municipal owner.
ship Of public utilities. The victor speaks
thus after the battle:
Party lines and personalities or candi.
dates were entirely forgotten in TO days
election" said Judge Donne to night. "Mu.
nicipal ownership was the one great issue
before the people of Chicago TO day, and
the returns tonight show very plainly how
the majority of the people Of Chicago feel
toward the private ownership Of public
utilities. 1t is the greatest victory munich
pal ownership ever won in this country.
EVERY pledge that made during the
campaign will be solemnly kept Chicago
wants municipal ownership, and during my
tenure Of Office it will be my aim 70 bring
about such a condition as rapidly as posi-
be. 1t will be necessary to proceed 10 this
direction with 9 great deal of care. First,
will appoint corps Of expert engineers
to make careful survey Of all the street
railways in the city, so that we will know
Just how the city, when it secures control Of
the lines, will be able to handle the propo
sition.
This will take time, but believe that
before many months you will see the city oil
Chicago owning and operating at least one
street railway line. The traction question
depends 10 great measure on the action OF
the courts, but in cases where legal proceed
ings are pending will endesvor to bring
about an immediate settlement. or course,
1t will be years before the city will come
into possession OF all the street railway iran
chises in Chicago, but we will gradually as
sumo control of the different lines, and 10
time l sincerely believe the day will come
when the people will control the entire
street railway system Of the city"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
SheriT's Sale.
State of Maryland,
Montgomery county, Set

DY VIRTUE Of writ Of 6eri faciAs Is.
I'D sued out Of the Circuit Court for Mont.
gomery county, and to the Sheriff of said
county directed, at the suit of William "
Welsh against the goods, chattels, rights,
lands and tenements OF Albertine c. King,
have this 29th day of March, A. D. 1905,
seized and taken in execution all the right,
title, claim, interest and estate, both at law
and in equity, Of the said Albertine @. King
Of, in and to the following described prop
erty, to-wit:
All that tract, part ofs tract, or all those
tracts, parts Of tracts, pieces or parcels OF
land, situate, lying and being in said Mont
gomery county aud State Of Maryland, called
"Dispute "Discontent" and ~Joseph's Good
Will" or BY whatever name or names the
same may be known or called, which are in
cluded within the metes ard bounds, courses
and distances, following, 10 wit:
Beginning for the same at the end of the
9Th line OF the conveyance from James W.
Mcfarland and wife TO Hanson N. Cronise,
dated December 2eth, 1890, and recorded
among the Land Records OF said Montgom-
cry county in Liber J A., No. 20, folios 249,
&C., and running thence with said fifth line
reversed y. 4.6S &. 3l6 feet 70 the center line
Of the DarnestoWn road thence with the
center line OF said road n. go E. 72.s feet /;
thence leaving the road S. 46W. 3l5 feet to
a stake thence s. 6TS E. 1873 feet to the
place Of beginning, containing
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
MORO NOT POPLAR.

A correspondent of the Washington Star,
under date OF the lss instant, gives the fol
lowing from New York city:
"The race question has come home to
New York Republicans 10 3 very poignant
manner and with . dull, sickening thud
President Roosevelt recently appointed U
W. Anderson, . colored man, to be CoIlec
tor Of Internal Revenue for the Second Dis
trict oil New York, and Anderson hss been
prominent 10 Republican politics in New
York City for many years. He has been 40
efficient, faithful and valuable adjunct Of
the Republican machine He had earned
the appointment. In the past be has been
. modest, retiring worker, taking bis reward
in the increments OF Office and not obtrud,
log himself.
"Snce bis recent appointment, however
Anderson has made himself very conspicu'
Gus 10 Republican gatherings. Tue Fifth
Avenue Hotel. as every one knows, is tn,
Mecca OF all New York Republicans Tn,
cafe Of the hotel finds the most noted Re
pubIIcans of the State stacked up 10 from
OF It's counter from time to time.
Anderson, who is = rather lruculent per
sonage, has presented himself at the calf
counter and has been served Probably b.
figured that this was Republican headquar
ters, and that be was as good Republican
with the Presidents commission, as any
body. At any rate, his appearance hal
caused great deal Of talk. Southern meT
who sometimes drop 10 at the Filth Aveuu'
are given TO tauutine their new York friends
and openly say that they are very glad Il
have this obi ct lesson presented Of the ap
poiniment OF colored man 10 Office and hi
assumption of social equality"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07

Dispatches from Minneapolis tell Of large
orders Tor -four received at the mills at that
city from foreign countries. Chief among
these customers is japan, and Brazil and
Venezuela have recently sent In orders. The
japanese orders are important, for they
may indicate the beginning Of the wheat.
bread habit among \ vast population that
has heretofore subsisted almost exclusively
upon rice and dsh These things give much
encouragement to the American farmer, and
Il mustsoe confessed that the present out
look s most satisfactory. TIE liberal prices
for wheat received for last years crop caused
the farmers to seed a good acreage last TALL.
The young wheat has come out OF the snow
10 foe condition, and II weather conditions
are favorable from now on the promise is
for An abundant harvest
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
RIO SAVE WHEAT AND COTTON.

"our great wheat fields along the north.
ern border are refusing TO grow wheat" said
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson last week,
land unless the American farmers change
their method Of growing this important pro
duct there will be large increase In the
price Of breadstuffs.
AT present the average production OF
wheat TO the acre is eight bushels, while In
Europe the farmers grow thirty. Last year
the American wheat crop was sickly, and
this Indicates that the land refuses to grow
wheat any longer on & profitable basis"
said Secretary Wilson. ain order TO save
the wheat fields of the United States we
have sent an expert to the northern part of
Norway and Sweden to find legumes which
will grow 10 cold climates. II the whea;
farmers Of the great Northwest expect to
grow wheat at a profit they must rotate
their crops. At present we have no legumi.
nous plants which will grow 10 the North
west tina; can be rotated with wheat, and it
IL necessary 70 End plants that will do 90,
and we are now searching the uttermost
parts Of the world.
"The department has three other great
problems which it is endeaVoring 70 solve
They are blast disease Of the rice In South
Carolina, the boil weevil in the cotton and
''scabbles" 10 cattle and sheep OF the Noun.
tain States. We are sending experts 10
eouth America to try TO secure Information
which will assist Us In stamping out the
diseases Of these two great crops referred To
Our experts are in Central America select
ing cotton, and they have found cotton equal
10 the Sea Island and TO the upland cotton.
ave are also endesvoring To improve the
peach crop Of the country and stamp out
the diseases to which this fruit Is subject
China is the original home of the peach
History thousands OF years old refers 10 the
peach in China, where 1t grows in healthy
condition. We have sent q man 10 Yangtse
Valley 70 secure cuttings and pits. and with
them hope to improve the peach crop"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
Order of Publication
John johnson and wife vs.. Sarah Gries-
BY, Ella Dorsey and Richard Dorsey,
her husband, ct al.
In the Circuit Court for Montgomery county,
as Court Of Equity. No. 2lbo Equity.


THE object Of this suit 10 to procure de-
Il cree for the sale Of certain property In
Montgomery county, in the State OF Mary
land, OF which John johnson, late OF said
COUNT. died seized.
The bill states said John Johnson depart cd
this li,e in the year 1888, seized OF parl Of q
tract of land called "Bealps Reserve" con-
tanning twenty-seven acres, more or less
That said John Johnson died intestate, leay-
ing no widow, but leaving g daughter, Sarah
Grigsby, q widow, who resi- les 10 said Mont
gomery county, and two grandchildren, John
johnson, who intsrmarried with Floreuce
johnson, both Of whom reside in said Mont.
gomery county, aud Ella Dorsey, who inter-
married With Richard Dorsey, both OF whom
reside in the county of Philadelphia, in the
State Of Pennsylvania, and are non resid emit
Of this State, his only heirsat-lAw, all Of
whom are OF full age. That the said real
estate . not susceptible OF partition without
material loss and injury to the parties enti-
tied 70 interests therein. That on the 9th
day Of June, A. d. 1901, the said Sarah
Grigsby conveyed her interest in said real
estate 70 the Savings Institution Of SANDY
spring, Maryland, a corporation, BY way Of
mortgage 70 secure pfomlSsory note Of even
date With said mortgage for one hundred and
my dollars, payable 10 the order Of said cor
PorAtion on the LIST day Of July, A. D. 1907
IL 10 thereup0n, this sth day Of March.
A. D. 1905, ordered by the Circuit Court
for Montgomery county, in Equity, that the
Plalnun, by causing q copy Of this order TO
be inserted 10 some newspaper Published 10
said Montgomery county, once In each Of four
successive weeks before the 10th day Of April,
A. D. 1908, give notice to the said absent de-
iendAnu ct the object and substance Of this
bill, warning them to appear 10 this Court,
10 person or BY solicitor, on or before the
2sth day Of April, A. D, 1905, to show cause,
II sny they have, why decree ought not TO
be passed ~ prayed.
JOHN L. BRUNRTT, Clerk
Circuit Court for Montgomery county.
True copy-Test:
JOHN L. BRUERTT, OK.
ROBERT B. PETER,
mar lo-td Solicitor,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07

STATE on MARYLAND,
County Of Montgomery, IS.
!, R. II. Stokes, Cashier of the above
named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best Of nv
knowledge and belief.
R. Il. STOKES, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this
Goth day Of March, 1905.
DAVID Il. WAKEFIELD,
Notary Public.
Oouect-Attest
RICHARD POOLE,
HATTERSLY W. TALBOT.
JAMES B. HENDERSON,
mar 24-3t Directors
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07

John NJ. Simpers, the murderer Of Mr..
Albert Constable, At Elkton, Cecil county
Nd, was convicted OF the crime on Thurs.
day OF last week and sentenced 70 be hanged
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
Spring GOOds--Spsissg STILES.
mar 3l-jsn il-ly

1t great pleasure for me to announce and friends tina
Spring line OF goods and the stock
you will buy
made My line consists fine Dress Goods Fabrics Perca
Muslin Underwear, sat er IA
W F. c. Ginghm, Toe Gughams I'd; Duass Duck
Gaata Cloth loo I'd; Perces 10 IL lie Fancy Shifting
Toe I'd; Shifting Prints 5, I'd Fancy Gods 35 yd Icdia
Linons, 8 to Csc I'd Danish Cloth I'D.
We have extremely line Fine Dress
very Remember all goods advancing and will pay to buy
Seciian Cloth 35 yd SeCn MOhair I'd ssc
Soc to 81 I'd Fancy Dress Goods SOC I'D S woo I'D
Cashmeres, rs to SOC. -
In staple Dry Goods bought late and
goods few prices Nduo II yd;
Cloth 10 l5c yd Beachd Muslin IL Sheetg
2Sc I'D Sheets 81 By 80 inches go 5c apiece Pillow Cases Is 10
l5c apiece. p8tE
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1905-04-07
announcements.
For the State Senate,

To the Democratic Voters Of Montgomery
county:
Subject to your decision 10 the Democratic
primaries, | announce myself 90 3 candidate
for the State Senate.
Respectfully, BLAIR LEE.
mar Al .te