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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-28
WITH THEIR THRoArs OUT.
Harrington Woman Found Dead and
Her Husband Dying.

Her HUSBAND dying.
Herington, Kan, Feb. 2s.-VYi Iltam Ar
mold and his wife were found with their
threats cut in the home of H. Fl. Ar
mold, an engineer, in this city last even
ing. The husband was dying from his
wounds when discovered. The body OF
the wife indicated sha had been killed
several hours before the discovery.
William Arnold was a railroad man
who came here a short time ago from
Rock Island. Ill, and had been work
ing at Mcfarland His wife had been
staying here at the home of his brother.
No reason for the deed is known.
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the fact that his sight may be seriously
affected by the strenuous competition
attendant with the king OF the college
sports.
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Severy. Kan. Feb. 2s.-In the Evans
we'll. being drilled here. a fine quality
Of oil sand and oil was struck at a depth
OF 1 $50 feet The vein is 90 feet deem.
This IS the first wen drilled here.
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series of Farmers institutes.

Manhattan, Kas., Feb. 2s.-The
Kansas Agricultural college has coy
pleted arrangements Tor series OF
fa7,Toers' Institutes, taking in some
GOOD counties in the northwestern part
OF the state on the line OF the Rock
island. The subjects TO be emphasized
at all the meetings are stock feeding
and corn bFeedings The itinerary VIII
be as follows:
VVayne-Adonday, March 5.
uesday, March s.
orinosa-ZVVe dnesday, March z.
smith Center-Thursday March 8.
Norton - Friday and Saturday,
March and 10.
observation-disclosures March u.
PhiIlipsburg Tuesday March 10.
glav Center-Thursday March Is.
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Headaches and Neuralgia From Colds.
Laxative Bromo Quinine. the world
wide cold and grip remedy, removes
the cause. Call for the full name and
look for signature of E. W. Grove. 25c.
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Kansas City. Feb 2S.=WrestIer
Prank Goteh defeated Yankee Rog-
ers in Convention hall in this city last
night. winning the first fall in 8 min
utes and the second in 10 minutes,
both catch as catch can.
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Parsons. kan. Feb. 2e.-Ars J. NJ
Gregory wife Of one OF the largest mer-
chants and earliest settlers in the coun-
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Richmond Ind, Feb. 28.-John
Duggan, the Indiana pitcher, has been
released by the New York Nationals
to Nashville.
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Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 2S-John Bright,
one Of the more prominent of the young
er generation of trainers on western race
tracks, will return to the eastern races
this year with a small string headed by
Klingscr, one of the best 2-year-olds
developed here last spring and a Win
ner in tie east. The stable Will be cam
paigned under the name of William
Harding & Co. Bright developed, in ad-
dition to Klingsor, the FLY Toots AIoozs
last year, which was sold by Harding
& co. to Paul Rainey. owner of Tip
pah stable. for Sc, 800
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AIcVey to Challenge ssthe World"
Bakersfield. Cal. Feb. 2S.-It took
Sam McNey, the colored heavyweight,
ten seconds to knock out Tornado,
smith Of Jacksonville, Mo, and the
white giant remained unconscious for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-24

the cellars are filled with the ripe fruit
and buy what they want at auction. At
times they sell as low as Is or 80 cents a
bunch. and as many as 1000 punches or
more are sold during the early morning
sale. Oranges and lemons are also some
times sold In this way. blu usually there
is a price set upon them and they are sold
at the fixed price. 1t is estimated that from
100 to 200 boxes of lemons and more than
400 boxes of oranges are required to sup
ply the people of the city during day.
About 800 barrels of apples day represent
the sales of the fruit when they are plentI-
full and cheap, but when they are scarce
and high the sales aggregate less than 100
barrels. Pineapples and cocoanuts are in
demand when they are in season. The
height of the pineapple season is in June
and then as many as 700 crates are sold
each day. 1t requires about 1000 cocoa
nuts for days trade.
*
Poultry forms an important factor In the
matter of feeding the thousands of per-
manent residents and the floating popula-
ton of the city. While the farmers of
Maryland. Virginia and Tennessee manage
to supply the larger part of the fowls that
are consumed by Washingtonians. it some
times becomes necessary for dealers to pa
tronize the big cold storage plants in the
west and get supplies Of frozen fowls. There
are some buyers who are opposed to hand
ling the cold-storage stock but when the
supply of fresh killed poultry becomes ex-
hausted they are glad to get the frozen
kind. 1t Is estimated that the demand calls
for about 600 turkeys a day while they are
in season, but during the summer weather
the demand drops to below the 100 mark.
During the winter season. when the demand
for them Is so great, the supply sometimes
runs short and .an advance IN the prices
has to be made to shorten the demand.
Chickens are in demand during the entire
twelve months Of the year, and a conserva-
tive estimate of a single days demand
places the figures at about 5000. With
average weight of about two and one-half
pounds, the daily consumption OF chickens
averages about $500 pounds. The de-
mand for ducks Is not near so great as that
for chickens, 1t is stated. and dealers think
that from 1000 to /. 200 of them are dis
posed of daily. Duck farms have been es-
tablished in the billy country of Virginia,
West Virginia and Maryland during the re-
cent years. and they contribute largely to
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supply required to satisfy the appetites Of
the people here, IT Is stated, makes a show
ing that indicates an average consumption
as large as that of any city of its size in
the country. The quantity OF meat con-
sumed here Is particularly large in compar-
ison with the population, dealers estimating
that each day the people consume about 200
head of beef cattle with an average weight
of about 500 pounds, and about one-tenth
Of this amount is sold in porterhouse steaks
Probably rs per cent of the beef that is con-
sumed here comes from the west. the re-
mainder coming from New York and points
nearer this city. The number of hogs con-
sumed IN day is estimated at about 800.
with an average weight OF 125 pounds
While there is q demand for small and
large pork said a wholesale dealer 1.-The
great demand is for the smaller meat It Is
a fact that southern cities demand smaller
About 1000 hams, with an average weight
of ten pounds, are consumed daily. Wash
ington being a city in which there is al
ways great demand for ham"
The daily consumption of lambs is some
thing like $50, and calves about 40 A
great many sausages required for the
trade. dealers estimating that many more
than LOCO pounds of them are disposed of
every twenty-four hours. In addition to the
great quantities of meats already enumer-
ated there hundreds of pounds of
ness in the markets and about the whole
sale houses during the early morning hours
often express establishment at dealers being
able to dispose OF much In the line of
meats and meat products In the big SUD-
ply stations OF the western packing houses
and the local wholesale dealers there are
sides OF beef and lines of hogs. sheep and
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From the Garden Magazine.
The younger the trees the more often
should they be titled; they have especial
need of a vigorous growth when young
and are more affected by lack of water
than older trees. Obviously. trees loaded
with fruit should be titled more often and
later in the season than barren trees; the
fruit IS mostly water. The dryer the sea-
son, the greater the necessity for tiilage
have seen thrifty and profitable un-
irrigated home orchard in a region which
had but eight inches of rainfaIl--it was
titled until the surface soil was like road
dust. No good gardener fills his fruit
trees the same number OF times each sea-
son. The infallible guides are the dry
ness OF the soil and the growth OF the
trees. The only general statement worth
making Is that most home orchards in
the humid sections Of the country should
be titled from five to ten times during the
season. Wherever crust Is formed on
the surface especially after beating
rain. 1t IL q sign that water IL escaping
and tf1lage 10 necessary to break II up
and restore the mulch.
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the supply Of poultry for the dealers in
this city Thousands of ducks are raise1
On these farms, and 1t is frequently due to
this source Of supply that local dealers are
able to fill all their orders. Several thou
sand celery-fed ducks from Long Island
also sold here during the winter and
summer sea sons
Washington has always been regarded as
good market for butter and eggs. Deal
ers say 1t takes something like 80 tubs OF
butter day to satisfy the trade of the city
each tub containing about sixty pounds.
The number of eggs required to supply the
demand is estimated a from 500 to TOO cases
or from 1900 to p 900 eggs q day. Eggs
that are used In this city come from prac-
tically all sections of the country, and
dealers usually advise purchasers of the
places where they are shipped. During the
winter season. when hens In this section
fail to keep pace with the demands, the
dealers relp upon the cold storage product
and upon shipments from distance. Thou
sands of dozens of eggs that have been
In cold storage are sold during the winter
season for fresh stock, IL is stated. and
some of the consumers none the wiser.
1t Is said that the storage of so many
eggs each year has the effect of keeping up
prices for several weeks. Butter is also
brought here from different sections, and,
as Is the case with eggs, the cold storage
plants take care of It until prices advance.
Fifty thousand pounds OF fish a day are
considered fair average of the quantity
that is used. During the shad and herring
season the sales run heavier than they do
at other times, as many fish are purchased
to be corned for the winter. At certain sea-
sons dealers are satisfied to handle Potomac
fish almost exclusively, but at other times
they have to depend upon fish from north
ern waters. The Chesapeake bay furnishes
more than its share of the fish for the local
market and also proves the source of much
of the oyster supply in winter and hard
crab supply in summer During the win
ter season. 1t Is stated. the daily consump-
ton of oysters received from all sources
will average about 5000 bushels. In tho
summer season when crab feasts are held
the daily receipts of hard shell crabs aggre-
gate about 45, 900. Cold storage fish ara
depended upon largely during the winter
weather. and 1t is because of this kind of
fish that prices are sometimes kept from
soaring beyond the reach OF the average
housekeeper.
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taken world which prefers a lie TO a truth,
and still to this day crucilss ell its low
Ing wouid-be redeemers on miserable Cal
varys OF desolation! No happiness does IL
gain thereby, but only Increased bitterness
and WEAKNESS, and that all our social Gus
toms have greatly changed since the old
and very simply ordered Is no advantage to
the general social community. We may. II
we choose, and we very often DO so choose
fly from one desire to another and thence
to safety and back again from safety to
desire. but we shall never in such pursuit
find the peace engendered by simplicity of
life or the love and lasting joy inspired by
that honorable confidence ia one another's
best and noblest attributes, which should
frankly and openly set the seal or friend
ship and should make hospitality a glad
duty as well as a delight. Old fashioned
as it may be. no new fashion can replace 1t.
MARIE COREIII
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lose hold OF your special favorite male
ilatterer. If friends are invited they should
surely be entertained in the manner friend
ly and made to feel at home py the per-
sonal attention of both host and hostess.
1t Is not hospitality to turn them loose in
hewildered droves through grounds or gar
dens to listen to band which they nave no
doubt heard many times before Or to pack
them all into a stuffy room to be enter
tanned by q professional musician whom
they could hear to much more comfortable
and independent advantage ny paying TOT
stalls at the legitimate concert hall
What do really mean py hospitality!
Surely we mean friendship. Kindness, per-
sonal interest and warm hearted openness
OF look and conduct. and all these are de-
plorably missing from the smart func-
lions of up to date society III London, what
ever the state of things may De concern
ing this antique virtue in New fork ana
Boston. 1t would appear that the chief IN
gradients of hospitality are manners, for,
AS Emerson says, Manners are the happy
way of doing things" This happy way is
becoming very rare. Society, particularly
the upper ten society, Is becoming quite
noticeably very rude. Some of the so-call-
ed "smartest women are VIGOROUSLY very
vulgar. Honesty simplicity, sympathy ana
delicacy of feeling are, or seem 10 De, as
much out of date as the dainty poems of
Robert Herrick and the love sonnets of
Sir Philip Sidney. Time goes on, say the
iconoclasts, and We must go With 1t, We
must, IL our hurrying civilization requires 1t.
vices OF the young and sheer at the failings
of the old. We are all too busy to be cour-
teous, too much In hurry grabbing gold
to be kind and much too occupied with cur
selves to be thoughtful OF others.
For nowadays few OF use are simple and
truthful enough In our lines of conduct TO
even understand hospitality In it's real
meaning. Between simple and noble per-
sons, says a great philosopher, there Is
always a quick intelligence they rec gilize
at sight and meet on q better grouna than
the talents and sliils they may chance TO
possess-namely. on sincerity and npriyht-
ness. Sincerity and uprightaess are the
very fiber and life blood OF true hospitality.
But the chief canon of modern society Is
hypocrisy to begin with. Insincerity and
lack of principle naturally follow with their
usual accompaniment. moral sowardfce.
and 70 men and women sncak and crawl
and natter base persons for what they can
get and reject all chances of faithful friend
ship for mere ephemera1 show. Under such
conditions as these what can good old hos
vitnIity do but draw Its LAST breath with
gtLtle sigh 81 expiring sorrow for the miss
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irremediabIe stupidity, Our host was stupid,
dull to a degree unima ginable by those VINO
do not know what some lordly British arls-
tocrats can be at their own tables; our
hostess, a beautiful woman was equally
stupid, being entirely engrossed with her
self and her own bodily charms to the utter
oblivion of the ease and well being or her
guests. What a meal it was! How inter-
minabiy II dragged its slow length along!
What small hydraulic bursts of meaning
less talk spurted out between the entrees
and the game-talk to be either checked by
the walters proffering more food or drowned
in the musical growing OF the band! L De-
lieve one man hazarded a joke, but 1t was
not heard. and / know that a witty sold
Irish peer told an. anecdote which was
promptly "quashed" sby dish of asparagus
being thrust before him just as he was, in
the richest brogue arriving at the point
But, as nobody listened to him, II did not
matter Nobody does listen to anybody or
anything nowadays at social functions.
Everybody talks with insane, babbhng
eagerness. apparently Indifferent as to
whether they are heard or not. ANY
amount Of people ask questions and never
think Of waiting for the answers. Should
any matters, small great. require expla-
nation, scarce a soul has the patience or
courtesy to attend to such explanation or
follow it with any fucidfty or comprehen-
sion
I am given to understand that Americans
and Americans alone, retain and cherish
the oId-fashfoned grace Of hospitality which
is so rapidly becoming extinct lii Great
Britain. / would fain believe this, but my
self do not know I have had no expert
ence of social America, save such as has
been freely and cordially taught ME by
Americans in London. Some of these, In
deed. proved that they possess the art OF
entertaining friends with real friendly de-
light in the grace and charm end mutual
help of social intercourse, others. again, by
an inordinate display of wealth and fe-
verish yearning for the PARAGRAPH nan COR
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MARIE CORELLI LAMENTS
DECAY OF HOSPITALITY

doubted whether of ali the various ludicrous
social ooserNances In which our progressive
day takes part there is anything quite
sublimely idiotic smart ''at home in
London during the height of the season.
Nothing certainly presents men and wo-
men IN such q stngularly uniutelligent
pect, Their faces all wear more or less
the same expression of forced amiabiIity.
the same civil grin distorts their poor
mouths, the same wondering and weary
stare affiicts their tired 3trainiug eyebals.
and the same automatic arm movement and
hand jerk works every unit as each APP
proaches the hostess in the conventional
manner enioined by the usages of that
cultured" hypocrisy which covers a null
titude of lies Sheep herding In a field
and cropping the heritage in the comfortable
inconsistencies that they are eating merely
10 be eaten are often stated TO be the sill
Hest OF animals but whether they are silier
than the human beings who consent to be
sQuashed together in stufy rooms where
they can scarcely move, under the sham
impression that they are ''at home with
friend. is q matter open TO question.
The women are far too busy finding
standing room wherein to show themselves
and their newest frocks off TO advantage TO
waste any moment in mere sentiment, and
II Is q Christianity beautiful sight TO see
how the dear things who wear the dress
makers latest creations elbow and push
and hustle and tread the toes OF their
sisters who are less highly favored than
themselves In the matter OF mere clothes.
As for the men, IL they have, by dint OF
hard exertion, managed 20 set into the
crush and near enough TO the hostess to
bow and touch her hand, their sole atten-
ton henceforward becomes concentrated on
the business OF getting out again as rapid
ly as possible, for, let 1t be said to the
praise, honor and glory of the sterner SEX
that taken in the rough majority. they de-
test the fashionable -at home with vigor
Gus and honest Intensity, and unless they
are OF the degenerate class who Hike to be
>een hanging around some VIGOROUSLY
press-puffed professional beauty or some
equally VIGOROUSLY known leader of the
smart set they are seldom seen at such
gatherings. They feel themselves to be In
con srsioiIs and out of MACE and no they
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few years ago. During the summer season
the trains Of wagons from the adjacent
states bring thousands OF bushels Of pro-
duce Of ell kinds, but there comes a time
when other sections have to be depended
upon and when the railways do most of the
hauling. Potatoes are always in great de-
mand here, no matter whether they are
grown in neighboring states, the west, south
or some foreign country.
Early in the season potatoes come from
Bermuda, and later on they come from
the southern states. AS the summer sea-
son approaches they are grown nearer this
city and late in the season the west sends
immense supplies. 1t is the opinion of some
of the dealers that the people here consume
six car loads. or about 4,O0O bushels, Of
white potatoes day, while the sweet pota-
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toes Will not average more than 200 barrels
day. Kale. spinach and cabbage are usu-
ally In demand, and the amount sold in
single day win run anywhere from rs to
200 barrels according to the supply and
prices asked. 1t Is estimated that about
1850 heads of cabbage are disposed of each
twenty-four hours, unless they are unusu-
ally high, the summer sales sometimes
running as high as 5000. During the sum-
mer, when they are grown In this section,
and when they are plentiful and cheap, 1t is
not an unusual thing for haulers to dispose
of 1000 bushel boxes of tomatoes String
beans, peas. lettuce and other small vege-
tables are always in demand. It Is not an
unusual thing for produce growers to sell
from 200 to 300 barrels of peas during
single day, about the height of the season,
but when Florida stock has to be depended
upon and prices are higher a few baskets
will supply the demand. The sales of beets
will run from 1900 to 5000 punches day.
and 1t requires about three dozen barrels
Of onions. The demand for celery is great
est when turkeys are In season. the daily
sales being about 600 dozen punches 1t
Is not in such great demand at other sea-
sons. although Washington Is always con-
sidered a good celery market, most Of the
supply coming from the west.
1t is surprising that the people of this
city use much fruit as is sold each day
by the wholesale dealers, most of them be-
ing located on B street and Louisiana ave-
nue. near the Center Market. 1t is an IN
teresting sight to visit the wholesale fruit
market in the morning to see the huge piles
of fruit. some IN barrels, some In baskets
and in boxes of all kinds and sizes. Hun
dreds of crates of berries are to be seen
at this season, and later when the grape
supply reaches here from other points
thousands of baskets of the latter fruit are
piled upon the sidewalks.
Every morning when bananas are in sea-
son scores of pushcart merchants and
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M n HEN one stops 10 consider the
question of what amount of
ANf food is consumed by the peo-
Wv pie of the National Capital
each day he finds himself I'M
dertaking a difficult problem Still there
are business men who make study of de-
mand and supply. and they have an idea of
the enormous amount OF various kinds of
food supplies which must find It's way to
the homes, hotels and restaurants In order
that none VIII have to go to bed hungry.
While 1t is true that the long trains OF wag-
ons from the country bring a great guam
tty Of supplies, 1t is equally true that the
freight trains do a greater duty In this re-
spect- There are scores of persons who are
known as "haulers." and they are RESPONSE
BILE for great many eggs large quantities
o. country butter and shipments OF poultry
peing received by the local dealers. Fast
Freight trains from the east. west and south
perform a service In the matter OF bringing
In supplies that can be estimated only by
those who are familiar with railroad busi-
ness.
1t is due to the great improvements made
in the fast freight service that the feed
paratively easy matter and enables the peo-
PIE TO have products twelve months In the
year that they had for only short season
years ago.
When we stop TO think of what is done
before the food reaches the table" re-
marked local wholesale merchant TO a
Star representative. we must conclude that
most OF the food we eat is not expensive
Nashingtonians are good eaters. and the
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"swagger" house. the house of a member
of that old British nobility whose forbears
and titles always excite a gentle flow Of
saliva in the mouths of snobs. The tables
there were rwo-were, to use the formal
phrase, laid for forty covers''-that IS to
say, that each table accommodated twenty
guests. The loveliest flowers. the most
priceless silver, the daintiest glass adorned
the festive boards, everything that taste
could suggest or wealth supply had its
share in the general effect of design and
color-the hest was at the head of one ia