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-if in- vV. THE TOPEKA PAlIiY CAPITAL: FKIDAY, JUlY 19, 1893. In the issue before us is a high tribute Washington, and what a botch! There of the voters care tut nrecious little dividual has his own nersonal Ido nf Gl)t Cope ka TDaili (Capital association of Des Moines; The Coys na nt Mutual Benefit association of Qalestourg; Massachusetts 'Benefit 'association of Boston; The Bankers Alii-" a nee of Los Angeles and the Northwestern Masonic Aid association of Chicago. The admission of these companies Into the state 'is treated under the head. "Mystery of Its Happening." and Mr.

Anthony goes after the transaction in the following vigorous language: "The sudden and almost simultaneous admission of these six companies seems to Involve a hidden mystery. In each case the charter and every form of statement and certificate required in- their application, sworn to by the officers of the company, the Secretary of State and Insurance Commissioners, sets forth that they are Ufa Insurance companies, doing business on I 1 11. Iff entj-Fillli Auual Eeport of Its Stile InsmncB Departcsl Superintendent Anthony Pays Ills Respect Bla Predecessor and Roasts tne Assessment Life Insurance Com-- panle. The advance sheets of the twenty-fifth annual report of the Superintend- oeeember 31. 1894." were issued yesterday by Superintendent Anthony.

In presenting the report Mr. Anthony calls attention to the fact that "so far as the statistical and record matter from which it is compiled and nade up the transactions pertain to the work of my predecessor and to this extent the work of preparing tabular exhibits and finan- cial statements are simpl clerical in their nature and without responsibility for correctness of the original records." He further says: "In the matter of much-needed changes in our code of in- surance laws I deem it unnecessary to dwell upon them or advance sugges- tions at this time. Inasmuch as there seems to be no legal necessity or prob- II able emergency which will assemble a Jt9 application submitted Legislature until after the next annual to the -Attorney General ly Superln-report will have been submitted." tendent Snider, and the opinion of the In commentlns unon the subtpt nf fire insurance the report says: "The company guilty of seeking business! through a secret cutting of legitimate rates, and offering clandestine rebates as personal favors, should be shunned Dy ine prudent Insurer. It should be borne in mind that It is not substance. Dougnt and which is the essence of an insurance contract, but me purcnase or indemnity against pos- sible loss of property, the value of which absolutely upon the credit and financial condition of the in- suring company.

Unless the continued solvency and honor of the comany Is- suing the policy is assured, the holder of I I I acout tne partisan Phase of affairs but they voted for "a busing odministra- mcj win oe satisnea wna nothing else than that. Waterville Telegraph: A Populist organ at Topeka remarks that the Gov- ernor is putting In so much time remov- ing Populist officials that when he gets through there will not be much time for business administration" which was promised. There can be no better evidence of a business admin- Istration than 'the' removal hf incom petent and corrupt officials from the state boards andi ftra jr.titiitins. This Is the most Dressing himlns an administration can attend to and the -o People are under obligations to the ror, looking after it promptly tfenevme Telescope: Supreme court has decided -that Mr. Clark of the publican, is entitled to theaceonthst.

uvi tn -cc-hir-h ho. ernor. This removes Mrs. Lease. Chase ana ogers have been retired, Wait wouasehoIdJir have to go; State Ftinaer Snow has hpn mi nt tt office, which he was attempting to usurp, by a recent decision of the Su preme court, and the Attorney General Vf ir a ck in the Proceel9 in tne Bunrpma -d commissioner Breiden-thal.

who is hold ing on to his office nniv hv a it leennicamy. Thus one by one they go: 8coa nothinff will be left of the un- sau6 uui me stencn tney nave left about the Capitol and other public sia'ie institutions. Ingalls "Dearest Wichita Eagle: Ingalls' candidacy is growing, and it may be that, in the language of the cycler, he will come in sitting up." VV lfh'ita TTacrla. Dni.v. -r- i makeahumorous remarks about Mr.

IngaU's senatorial tboom. There is nothing humorous about Ingall's boom." it is a reat big serious, grim-visasred. aouDie-cmnned reality. Iola Register: The Burton boom in- forms the Ingalls boom to toe careful or it "will get hurt. "Look out there," said the red ant to the elephant as the animals walked the gang plank into tho oi-b- w- im'' ou re oul nomas Wast has srnt oack onto Harper's Weekly, and has juai tdnuaiurea JOOn J.

-Ins-alls fnr making an observation about Presl- tht who.1, an'J sizes mim nr mrmntlv Tn.nii. ial star is rising. Clay Center Times: Ex-Senator In gans says "It is written." meanine thereby that he can not be prevented from succeeding his successor in 'the Senate. Belshazzar was a very happy, nnanous ana confident man until he saw what was written. After that well, there was sore disappointment.

Highland Vidette: The so called "In gall's boom" if we mistake not will die "'S toward Populfem in the hour of thX party's greatest need has not yet been forgotten and in consequence but very few staunch Republican papers of Kan- sas will ever ray to Mr. Ingalls' rescue, Salina Republican: If the election of United States Senator could Just now be I Submitted tn a rrnta. I w. vfc int: ycvMH! All I galls would be the choice by a large 6 I majority, lr ne makes no serious mis- takes and enters the campaign In earn- est next summer and fall with a view of securing the nrize. a I largely in' his favor will be elected Tf neglects to Dresent his phim, t.

I people, or allows his canrtikcv tn tot. 1 care of itself, or is in ai.v wav inrii ent as to the result, the DrantiH rtn ticians will nut un th nin body else. So the matt rests entirely upon the vieilpn an. tlvlty and interest of the ex-Senator himself. I and Ts Prom Ram's Horn i 1.

uui insureu Dy nence, canaor, mat they were admitted rules of economy and the guaran- out respect to the law cited by the of quantity and quality of the tornev General in thing purchased can not safely govern In ordInary buslne" transactions. The report sets forth that the seventy seven companies, home and foreign, doing a fire Insurance business in Kan- sas, an aggregate receipt for premiums for the year of $1.939.399.99: and of losses paid, $1,006,752.12 a gross income of SiSS.817.75 above losses oaid. From this gross income must be de- falsified statements of their business; ducted cost of commissions to agents. In some Instances absolutely conceal-taxes, and the other current expenses Ing every vestige of evidence showing Incident to the conduct of their busl ness. This, according to the rennrtprt items, amounts to 36.6 per cent of the gross receipts, or leaving a tect both Superintendent and the coronet gain of $222,827.47 on an assumed panies in conspiring and combining to risk for that year of $139,837,923.02.

The evade and defy the law." aggregate capital of the companies do ing business In Kansas, including only mat portion of the capital of foreign companies which is deposited in this country for the exclusive protection of American policy holders, Is $45,217,875, to which Kansas contributes in net! earnings one-half of 1 per cent per annum. During the insurance vear under eleven of the comDanies to the last report of Secretary Cobtrrn of the State Board of Agriculture, with special Scott Kelsey article on subsolling. This should in crease Mr. Kelsey's majority as county commissioner thisyfall. 'Australia, by the way, is learning about the methods of modern agriculture from a Kansas man.

Prof. Shelton. THE SECOND DAY'S DEBATE. Mr. Harvey made a pitiable showing In the second round of the silver contest with ex-Congressman Horr.

Four points came up during the round, as follows 1. "Coin's" statements that the mone tary conditions in the 15th century re suited in a continual decline in the con dltion of the masses of the people. 2. The question of the original stand ard of the United States in 1792. 3.

The alleged "crime" of 1873. 4. The coinage of silver prior to 1873 In not one of these points except the last did Harvey face the Question. At every lead by Horr. the "slick little financier" dodged and ran.

Mr. Horr began by quoting the foremost authori ties on mediaeval history, Hallam, Thorold Rogers, Malthus and others, proving that Harvey's statements were unsupported by authorities. From Hal lam as well as Rogers he showed "the gradual efevation of the people them selves as opposed to the small numbers of the rich and noble." In reply what had Harvey to say? He declined to argue the point. If Horr could prove the statements of the historians be true, said the little financier, he could prove also that the condition of the people of the UnitedStates i3 prosper ous. In other words, Horr statements must be untrue because they don't har monize with Harvey's theory of what ought to have been the facts.

The post tlon of Harvey on the first point was pitiably weak. As to standard of values adopted by the first Congress, Harvey adopted the same tactics. He refused to have a word to say about Horr's argument and statistics and citations from public re cord3. Harvey had discussed the 'unit" on the first day and he said that ended the question of the standard. It is true that he discussed the unit, which was the dollar; but he had not touched the more important question of the standard of values, whi5h was profess edly bimetallic.

This Horr proved by the records and Harvey refused to de bate the question. It Is absolutely set tled by this debate that the dollar was declared the unit of account in 1792 and that bimetallism of gold and silver was declared the standard of values. Har- ey failed to produce a shadow of proof to the contrary of either proposition. Harvey's weak Imitation of pugilist Mitchell's style of fighting was equally conspicuous when it came to the third point, the demonetization of 1873 It was jab and run, feint and dodge and re tire to the ropes at every thrust from Horr. Harvey's book had made the charge that the demonetization act was put through Congress surreptitiously and by British boodle.

Horr quoted the records showing three years' debate and discussion before the bill was passed; he showed that it was proposed by the Treasurer of the United States In an official report, that the silver dollar, which had entirely disappeared from circulation for forty years, should be dropped from the list of coins. He showed that gold had become by natural and inevitable course of events the standard of values and Congress simply officially recognized the fact. It is true, no doubt, that the act was passed with little public interest or knowledge shown in the debate; but this was because the question was not interesting to the people; not having seen a silver dollar during their lifetime, what did they care for the debates in Congress over so-called demonetization? Harvey refused to meet the issue. He had learned when a boy, said the little financier, that the way to locate a criminal was to find out who would be benefited by the crime. So far as this goes it is good enough detective theory.

But when it is ascertained who would be likely to profit by the crime it is generally regarded as Important to go on and prove from that starting point that the said person actually did commit the crime. Harvey stated in the debate that his method of proving that British boodle procured the passage of the act was by pure abstraction. "Reasoning by induction," remarked this prodigy of logic, "will more invariably locate the crimlnaljhan any uncertain human testimony." No doubt if Harvey should be permitted to resort to his inductive rocesses to prove every falsehood in his book it would be useless for Horr to do any talking at all. But the people want some evidence outside of Harvey's inner consciousness. On this point of demonetization the report of the debate shows that Horr quoted the official records to prove that the passage of the act was neither surreptitious nor hurried: and that Harvey produced no evidence- on his side whatever but stood on his privilege of jumping at a conclusion because It ought to be so in order to harmonize with his theory.

The last point was the only one that Harvey met It was shown that he had mis-stated by 37 million dollars the amount of silver coined prior to 1873. This Harvey admitted. Charley Gleed has a very strong and complete article in the Bond Record of New "tork on the silver question, favoring the use of silver at its market value and for all business in a small way.for which silver is naturally adapted- The same suggestion has been urged by the CapitaL Silver Is peculiarly fitted for small transactions and gold for large ones. In the course of Mr. Gleeed's article he quotes: An Intelligent correspondent In Paris this winter wrote to a friend in New York, as follows: "What a time they're having In snouwn i oe a one, or a two, or a inree, or a five-dollar bill in the country.

Sll- ver should do that as In France. I have got three five-franc pieces in my pocket. Do you think I'd rather carry three pieces of dirty, measly, microblan paper instead, with "cinq francs" stamped on each? Not much!" There ought not to be a paper ncte under 310 in this country, as there Is not a paper note under $5 In either France or England. StambuloflT. Brooklyn Times: Zenda and the do- mains of Prince Florizel, of Bohemia, are not ao far awajr after all.

The highest flight of romanticism of Robert Louis Stevenson and Anthony Hope is proved by the event to De 'Dut tne cios- est approach to realism, and the man who thinks that he has found the metes Ul Ue 'IWO SC'UOOIS OX uuua mai 3 An .1 actual in the remotest bound of the ro- antic. If Bulgaria be not Zenda what auu me xu.5ai not the Prince Florizel, or jtionemia, about whom the master of stories has thrown sudh a charm, certainly his late iiwu.aict OUu. Florizel's colonel was. Real life has yet its intrigues and close woven statecraft just as surely as there was intrigue and the dense wefb of poli cy in the court of the fourteenth Louis The sensational side of life did not pass with the coming of the telegraph and the saloon carriage' in Europe. There are yet chances for the man of adven ture to rise to power even in modern monarchy.

Witness Stambuloff, who from the standpoint of such divinity aa is calculated in the Orthodox Greek rite' became the fox of diplomacy and Europe. There yet remains the chance that the knife may be called upon to overcome the obstacle which wit has failed to remove. Again witness Stam buloff, who was done to death last night on the streets of Sofia. The whole incident is medievalism. pitched bodily from the time of three centuries ago.

No man had a more won derful rise than did this man, now dead for the peace of Europe. Ever since the treaty of San Stefano, and the read justment of It which was maneuvred at Berlin, this man has been the pivot of the great eastern question which England has Inherited out of the ages Twenty years ago the powers erected f'Z a oi iiit imik. si-i. uin'e i began the course of intrigue 'by which Russia 'hoped to make the new state and its fellows mer appanages of the Muscovite crown. This was the juncture of policy which brought out Stambuloff.

The bear had no more wily and no more bitter enemy than this fox of a Bulgar. He plotted day and nigh't, he moved every passion of the hot nationality of the Dacians, warm ed with the fiery blood of Trajan's le gionaries, he worked in the underhand channels. And he won. Out of plot and revolution be brought Russia to accept the pfesent dynasty in the wee kingdom. a dynasty which stands for everything mat is opposed to Russia's Interests Then from sher weight of his schemes he fell and was brought to disgrace.

Now has come the fit end of a won derful man. There Is not to be avoided the suspicion that the reward for the murderers will come from the ibanks of the Neva, for the deed is one that clears the air only toward the Russian horizon. Wi tn.i won I man of blood and his blood has The Price of Appellate Court Syllabi- To the Editor of the Capital. Topeka, July 17. The following appeared in the Evening: Journal of this date: 1 "One of the p'ropriedors of the Breeze, the official state paper, Is this afternoon trying to convince the state executive council that the state should pay more man tne rate prescribed by law for printing Supreme court syllabi." It might be unreasonable to expect anytmng resembling the truth from the goose-necked Oscar Wilde who reports I Oapitol news for the Evening Journal, Dut defense of the executiveouneil no are nere accused of entertaining a proposition to do something unlawful I wish you would permit me to correct this particular false statement.

The council met this afternoon fnr I the purpose of providing for the publica- tion of the Appellate court syllabi, for which work the law made no nrovlainn and fixed no price. The Supreme court syllabi was not under discussion and no proposition was made or entertained looKing to an increase of the price paid as fixed by the Supreme court. The publishers of the official paper simpiy assed the council to fix a scale under which the Appellate court syl- iaoi should be paid, in the absence of ueen nxea Dy law. j-riuui me to conclude with the re-- mark if the reporter, who does the uuuscuinsior me journal ever accomplish his ambition and break into the Methodist church as a preacher. it.c nave to De a reorganization of I me onnoaoxical belief that Ananias was the champion, liar of scriptural history, because that would be wronging the goose-necked reporter.

F. C. MONTGOMERY. Turn the Hascats Ont. Hutchinson Interior-HeralJ- Tr to have cost twelve thousand dollars to turn the Pop rascals out of offices thev Rot-.

1 I have disgraced. But it is cheap at tnat price. Marion Record: Note the difference Nearly every Republican paper in Kansas has demanded- the bouncing of Bird, but what Pop paper ever demanded the removal of Todd? vamut vaney Times: And now Mollie Lease has had her lease kf nm" clal life cut short by a decision of the Supreme court. How those Populists uo nang io omce; They'd better they'll never be elected or unrwiimci I I. V.

SgSlU. Horton Headllghtt The Tooeka Ad vocate will begin the publication of a "National Conspiracy." The Pops take to conspiracies kindly. They opened tne oan wun "Seven Financial Con spiracies' in a lump and they have' followed thick and fast since. We suppose the latest has reference to the peopie turning tnem out of office. Atchison Champion: The most popular move made by Governor Morrill is the determination to clean out the bad and Incompetent men at the stat ir stitutions.

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For Summer Tourists. Torek people leaving the city for tke lumnltr can have the Capital mailed to them by leaving their out-of-town ad dress at this office. Change of address will made as often as desired on notlfl-ratloa. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For FRANK M.

STAHL For County CHARLES T. McCABE For Register of FRANK BROOKS For Sheriff DAVID N. BURDGE For Superintendent J.W. STOUT For Coroner J. M.

WESTERFIELD For Surveyor B. A. BAILEY For Commissioner (South SCOTT KELSEY Sol Miller makes so many references to "belly-ache" In his issue for this "week that the old man has evidently got It badly on the brain. Senator Peffer outlined easily enough a complete hand-me-down platform for a new party; but he Is having: difficulty In collecting a membership. Champion Corbett explains to the New York World a new punch he has "invented for doing up Mr.

Fitzsim-rnons. The "World gives two columns, Illustrated, to the fake. In one particular the Horr-Harvey debate is a great thing for Harvey. It is advertising him regardless of expense as one of the foremost writers of fiction of the century. The trouble about Senator Morgan's discovery that the gold reserve Is simply a gigantic jackpot seems to be that It came too late to be of service in the Kentucky convention, where it would undoubtedly have had a startling effect.

Kler Hardle, the Jerry Simpson of the English House of Commons, was defeated at the recent elections and will now have some use for his overalls and other working equipment in which he made it a point to appear in Parliament. Americans have some trouble in following the course of British parliamentary elections, but one thing they can understand is that it takes only two weeks to go through with it at about per cent of the expense in this country for a similar election. The free silver meeting advertised for last night at the corner of Fifth and Jefferson atreets was something of a flzxle in regard to numbers pres-' ent, though the quality of the attendance wai high. The only person present was a reporter of the Capital. Today the free silver sentiment of the Georgia Democracy is to be voiced at a state delegate meeting at the town of Griffin.

The meetings in the various counties to select delegates have proven worse failures than the Blackburn conventions In Kentucky, in spite of the screeching of the silver-tongued 'Atlanta Constitution, in some counties the number answering to the summons for a mass meeting not exceeding two or three persons. Including Pops. The Jackson county Republicans seem to have been as successful as the Republicans of Shawnee In the result of their primaries. The Democratic paper of Holton. the Signal, says of the nominations: "In another column we give the result of the Republican prl- mary election held last Saturday.

The voters of that party exercised rare Judgment in the selection of their candidates, and have a strong ticket. In order to" defeat It theopposition must be thoroughly united and present equally as good men." And they do print papers even tn far off Australia. We should say so. The Capital has received a copy of the Mel-fcourne Australian of Saturday, June 15, fifty pages, full of all sorts of news from all over the world. Nothing like It Is published in the United States.

the Devil. We imagine that Chancellor Snow is the chinch bins' idoa nf th. veiu. Ex-Warden Chase is out in an inter- I view declaring that civil service rules 1 should govern appointments and em- I Ployes In the penitentiary and chart table institutions. Lawrence Journal: There is one thing I settled already; if Governor Morrill can Persuade Judge Peters, Senator Taylor lan another man as good to act on the I board of the Hutchinson reform school.

mere win De no more scanaais soon 1 m.l rr. ..11 11 Aiuuuun uiuue; un auiuur 01 villa Financial School" knows how to work the newspapers. There is about as much in his financial theory as there would be in a theory to elect Santa Claus president, because he is a kindly, jolly old man. and would be good to the people, but he has been -advertised so much that Us book has sold by the 1 uuuiwu. Prof.

E. Harmon of Ottawa, was to have been married at 5 o'clock Wednesday at the bride's home to Miss Hat-tie; A. Locke of Atlanta, Ga. Shortly before the wedding day he was taken suddenly ill. But the prospective bride was still able to travel and at 5 o'clock on Wednesday was at the bedsUJa of iher affianced, ready for the ceremony, which was duly performed.

AVENUE CHANGES Slanv moves Made on Kansas Ave- j' nuo Till Year, More changes have been made on To peka's main street this year than were made in the haf dozen years preceding And th end is not yet About the first move to be made was when Clements Chaffee moved two doors south from theif former location and Wiggin, Harding Co. too the big room they vacated. Then T. P. Culley m.y? building vacated by him.

and MrEtt-linger's Golden Eagle moved into the Manspeaker building. Mr. Ettenson had a few months previous moved his clothing store into the old Golden Eagle room down street, and Green Kale had found Quarters in the Crawford building. The purchase by Crosby Bros of the Stevenson stock gave Mr. Shar- nm an excellent chance" to better his rrfthv store.

tuuuluuu Miss Buhre purchased the Holman mii- linery store and moved to jansas avenue. Troup's Enterprise has just L.i Imil.llnc and Mr. H. A. Brush, who purchased the Kirk- otnr.v vciU mnvs next week into the building vacated by Mr.

Troup More changes will be made soon. Mr. J. Hayden will, after an occupancy of more than twenty years, vacate his building near Sixth street, having secured the fine room in tne Davies building between Seventh and Eight street. Mr.

C. O. Johnson will occupy the present Hayden building with his stock of fur- nishinsr goods some time next montn There are a few vacant stores on the avenue now, but it is not probable that they will not be long without tenants Ci KORTI TOPEKA. Miss Byrd Watkins of Junction City, accompanied Miss Edith Tenney of Boston, arrived in the city yesterday and will visit with Miss Walklns mother. iVllSS 'J-rtJUueil MCMasiero lauiucu jca- terday from a two weeks' visit in Sa lma.

twa flnintr 1p.ft VPSterdaV for a short trip west. During tne storm eariy yesieruay morning lightning struck the flagstaff on the Grant school, shattering it to within a couole of. feet of the roof. The splinters were thrown for nearly a block but th bulldlne was not iniureds Oliver Cunninirham of Hoyt visited North Topeka yesterday. Dr.

Plummer. who was somewhat shaltpn nn In th runaway Wednesdav nleht which ended In a wreck in front tf Fire station No. 1. was so badly bruised that he was unable to attend to business yesterday, though none of the iniuries were at all serious. He Is rather sore but will resume work to- Mrs.

J. C. Fulton and Mrs. C. F.

Gibbs returned yesterday from Chicago. Mr. H. Darling, traveling freight agent of the Michigan Central, was thA victim, of a very exciting adventure while in the city recently visiting with friends. He had been on the south side and was returning on foot at about 11 nVlnrk.

the cars having stonned run- nlng, while on account of the heat he had dropped his coat down from ht shoulders. As he was crnsnins- th brid ere someone, afterwards suspected of being a footpad, caught him from be- hln1 an1 hel( fti'm while two others removed his watch and 4a In cash. He did not report the matter, as he preferred to lose the property rather tharihave the story known. Sheldon Wallace of Soldier township is the father of twins, a boy and a girl. J.

S. Jackson of Elmont was In North Topeka yesterday. W. M. Henderson of Meriden was In the city yesterday.

G. L. Hamilton of Wamego was in town yesterday. The male choir of the North Baptist church and Miss Edna Parkhurst gave a musical entertainment at the Reform school on Wednesday night for the amusement of the boys. After the music a short period waSj given to society.

Marshall Gebhart and J. H. Johnson of Oskaloosa were in the city yesterday. The Four Leaf Clover society Is a new lodge that is being organized on the north side formulative meeting will be held Saturday night. A team belonging to a Mr.

Ruhdell which was left standing Wednesday night a tree near the Rock Island track about a mile west of the city was struck by lightning and both horses instantly killed. C. Caser will go to Grantvllle on Wednesday and deliver an address before the Degree of Honor A- Q. U. W.

of that town. Miss Bertha Morthland returned yesterday from Augusta where she has been visiting for several weeks. Bert Green and J. E. Crockett left yesterday for a short fishing jaunt to Silver Lake.

Mrs. Wiliam Green and son John will leave next week for Colorado. J. E. Groshong of Los Angeles, California, arrived In the city and will visit for three months with John Bry ant, air.

Groshong Is a former resident of North Topeka but moved about three years ago. Mrs. W. B. Hutchinson, wife of the pastor of the North Side Baptist church, entertained her Sunday school class Wednesday night, on the lawn at the parsonage.

Kansas City and return by the Santa Fe, Sunday, July 21st. Fare, JL5Q. met with losses in excess of their gross tions find legal shield and gather a income; eight others closed the year certain official respectability which without loss' or gain got out even; makes them a real peril, an unjust and seven withdrew from-the state; and unjustifiable' imposition upon an over-four went into voluntary liquidation as confiding people. bankrupts. To this list is added, with "ln the act providing for assessment regret, several more which give painful evidence of "padded" reports, showing exemption from its provisions, that gains not realized and capital impaired.

This act shall not apply to any and which will follow the others out association of religious or secret soot the state when the test of solvency cietles now existing under the super-can be applied to, them. vision of a grand or supreme lodge. me statutes of their several states authorizing the organization of assessment life insurance companies. To claim now that they came, and were admitted, as other than assessment companies, is to admit thHr charters and Vfc maSS Jl-SS. th Su tulln ltSng them dUe t9 "A0 rea? he Enh language th waning of Its strnt" commentary on this if11.0" tnat the tual Reserve und New York theVrst of these aS3ciations, as I have said, to push; through the broken meshes of Attorney now of record in this department, says: "'Before such assessment company can transact 'business In this state it must give the bond reauired In ser Mntv 3454 of the revised statutes of 18S9, and governed by tire provisions of said act- the face of this explicit internr- tation of the law, as now construed and enrorced.

every such company applying" was admitted, without giving the bond required, or any Dretens of made upon them to ibe governed by the provisions or said act' stnse their admission. And vet nrh nf iho. companies now) aver, with annarent fore quoted from, and this concur- Mnt ad complete agreement henum i I uuim liikviiuenv oi insur- ance and Attorney General. Substan- 1 evidence of the truth of this aver- I ment oy the companies is found in the fact that they were furnished with 1 for their annual 1 reports, by the Superintendent, and made returns on them acceptable to- nim, although garbled, mutilated and the character and transactions of their I business rennrta maiio o-uv. iai(Ka.

purpose to conceal the truth and Dro- BENEVOLENT INSURANCE. Referring to benevolent insurance ths report says: 'Under this attractive and deceptive title Is found dlssruised the mom and worthless of all pretenses to against accident and death. nrougn an unfortunate omission, not an enactment of law, these assocla- I llr Insurance associations is found aa nor to any class of mechanics, express. telegraph or railroad employes, formed for the mutual benefit of the members thereof and their families exclusively. "This exemption has been taken ad- vantage of by a multitude of men whtt livina-.

A out rr iord9 of benevolent Insurance, as Su- prMn 'Supreme 'Supreme High Master of Knights of the Loyal The Su- t.i n. badUs of the QolVn 'OS Mllrl nf ih. tt Black and so on to the end of ingenuity and folly. "That these organizations are with out a thread of security to their willing dupes, in the whole warp and woof of Purf' too patent prove to be as ephemeral in existence as worthless In promise; and yeW we seem to be the victims of a veritable epidemic of reckless unreason, and men and women, sensible In other things. court the disease and waste their means ln Its support.

"That the exemption from regulation) and control above quoted was not in tended to cover these 'supreme' hum- bu5' and 'celestial' frauds is apparent: ana yet mere is no visible remedy until the evil becomes so expensive and un bearable as to force legislative action." Tou can not be well unless- your blood is pure. Therefore purify your blood with the best blood purifier. Hood's Sarsaparilla, TOOK A WATCH AND MOXEF K. B. ftenlezel's Residence RniirU by a Barglar Wednesday Night.

A burglar robbed E. B. Schlegel's reei- dence at J1S West Sixth street Wednes- uy night and secured $33 ln money and a lady's gold watch. The thief entered through a second storv wlnduw or climbing on the roof of the summer kitchen. He ft by turning the night ltch on the front Mrs.

Schlegel and her two children were the only persons at home. Mr Schlerel Is tt a Mtia for the Chas. Wolff Packlnr amiMn. The burglary was not discovered until yesterday morning, but from all an- parancea the theft had nmtea in tne earlier part of the nlrht. A mau iron eare which contained na was wrapped in a bedvtlck wa ftcken.

How the thief discovered tb sate wrappea in tne tick Is a mystery Kansas city and return by the 8anta "Ulr are. SPECIAL 50TICES. Kew seckbands cut an Americaa Steam Laundry. HOME INSURANCE COMPANIES, Upon the subject of "home insurance companies" Mr. Anthony says: "Much has been said and written to Inflame the public mind against foreign capital as the basis of Kansas insurance, and to encourage, by legislation adverse to it, were born weary, and reared In a pur-the organization of home Insurance pose to neither 'toil nor Din' for companies.

In this effort, the prime ele- dav ment of safety has been lost in the suddenly become oracles imparting-cheap one of pretended state pride. The wisdom to the world these 'men out of state hals- been too young, and the meat' blonaom im I 1 i S. at :4 i One of the greatest enemi. th loon has, is the mother who teaches her boy to pray. There are no tollgates on the high- way of holiness.

The man who chases buhhi has any time to rt The devil has to fight hard to hold his own anvwhero near mother. He is the greatest man who does most for his fellowmen. How ft must puzzle the angels to see a Preacher looking for an easy place -The more an enemy hates us bh mure our Kindness will hurt him Morality is only the polish on the anaiesticK. it is not the light, The most respectable sinners are thm mosi aangerous ones. The millennium would be here now if we all lived up to what we dtnn from others.

God is disappointed if we are not rtnin anything for him except make a noise in church. The man who isn't religious enough to do ri8ht when he isn't watched isn't .1 when he Is watched. Th fact that the devil is against a man, ought to be good evidence that he is on the Lord's side. Kansas Notes and Comments. Douglas county will try to hold fair at l-awrence this rail.

wlcMta wants the preliminary con ference for the Galveston deep-water yvs-lon- o- Of 103 who took the last teachers' examination in Lyon county sixty-eight received certificates. Atchison Globe: If there Is not skat ing-ln July, some foolish people claim that hot winds are burning up the corn. The Fort Scott flax tow factory will resume operations within two or three weeks as soon as new crop straw is ready. There Is talk of starting a daily morning paper at Wichita which shall stand for law and order in the fight against Kha lolntists. Lawrence Journal: Nearly every In i profits on money quite too large, in the mu titudinous enterprises of country building, to admit of its aggregation in ow interest securities to be tied up as insurance capital or reserve; hence the the fence by one boot straps' has been ap- plied Ixf insurance enterprises.

The law has encouraged and men sought to earn insurance dividends without invested capital; to guarantee something to the insured, without substance with noth ing as a guarantee. With more or less ostentation, fully forty companies have sprung into being soared upward like burning rockets, to fall as suddenly smoked and charred sticks. They served to give short lived distinction and plethoric incomes to managers, at the cost of permanent loss and painful distress to those who confided In them. "If the law has any rightful preroga tive in this connection, it should assert itself in making it impossible for the people to organize, or be tempted to I patronize, uncapitalized. ephemeral In surance companies gotten up by men without financial or business standing.

and without a single element, in meth od or management, aa a guarantee of perpetuity or safety. As a sentiment, the theory of co operation and mutuality Is attractive and charming. As a basis of business in the field of insurance all experience has proved it to be a deception and a snare a scheme of the cunning to feed upon the substance of the simple and cenfiding. The pretended pride of state. whlch fosters or permits them to exist, r.as always, ana ever will, bear the titter mists discredit and dishonor to the commonwealth." I The figure on the fees and taxes Indi- I cate that there was collected and cov-1 erea into tne state treasury of which $6,050 went to the credit of the scnooi runa, ana Jj3.3r7.47 to the gen-1 era! fund.

I "The cost of administration, as shown I by the records of my predecessor, was I $.093.23, only $5,000 of which was au-1 tnonzea -oy legislative act of appronrla-1 tion, snowing an actual contribution to I me siaie ui oy tne insured I cum, iu excess a aaaiuon to equal burdens borne in common with all other closes on me enerai tax roils of the I state. It Is unequal and uniut t9l t'on; no more, no less." I COMPANIES RECENTLY RAPn Superintendent Anthony publishes In. the report the complete correspondence and all the documents Issned by him when removing the assessment life Insurance companies from this state because of their failure to comply with aerve Fund of New York; Bankers' Si I i u. u..