The Topeka State Journal from Topeka, Kansas • Page 4

ALTERNATE PAGE FOLLOWS ifTiin i i hi i i.i Mm in mm 1 1, in 1 Vv THE NEXT CENSUS. Chicago News: A republican will take nnPMntir CnCil PIPES OP THE CITY OP TOPEXA; i ii II ii i iii ti ii the census of 1800, and republicans will governor, taken from the footings aee beforehand that it will be taken made by Captain O. W. Fox, of the eec-conscientiously and intelligently. They retary of staters pfSce: refer with a good deal of sarcasm and Humphrey.

..180,841 73,861 bitterness'to the manner in Wnich the "-ffi'SSl last census was to the pecu-ij liar methods employed by Mr. 9 who is not likely to be employed again to 1 Buna -THE POPULAR- Of Only Fifteen Minutes Boston PRICES LOW Deferred payments to bear interest at the rate of SIX PER CENT PER ANNUM. Contracts given on payments of one-fourth of the purchase money and deeds on payment of one-third. Plats and To be seen at tali i ROOM 23 24 AND 25, BANK OF TOPEKA KL M.1A8HBURN, DRUGS, WINDOW GLASS, AND PAINTS, Artist's Material ail Fane? Toilet. i'iaatp1" A LUNATICS LIFE.

CHAPTER JFRQM THE STORY OF A MAr4'S MADNESS. A Eeoovered perience in Lunatic Cecennt His Ex-the World of Unbalanced -Is Stranger Thsor Fiction-A QulckEeeovery. c-. I was finally taken outvjf the regular wards and put in a place called Botany Bay, at the end of the lawn," where the maddest maniacs were consigned i to strait jackets, dungeon chains and the tortures of a living helLv Vfild, horrible, unearthly shrieks sounded in my ears night and day, and all the imps of martialed in an infernal battalion could not have made more clangor to my mind. All was sweet bells jangled out of tune.

was turned into an open vault room to parade with the rest of the wild animals, but, soon-the doctors and attendants learned that -1 was a royal Bengal tiger and would not herd common beasts. I immediately, put to flight the biggest of the drove and made them cower before my. imagined A big, burly attendant finally slipped up behind me, felled me to the floor and dragged me to a dark room, where I was chained to the wall, strapped to a bare- iron punished and rebuked for a poor, distorted mind that God in his wisdom endowed me with. TAKING SAVAGE REVENGE. 'The blow of.

the attendant rankled more in my mind than body. I determined to be even with tho ignorant brute who struck me. One day when I had gained a little liberty I awaited the attendant behind the door ef my cell, and as he passed by I struck him with my boot heel; the only weapon I had. I came near killing the fellow and was of course, disciplined again; but I felt in my heart that the blow the brute was only a partial punishment for the many secret injuries he had inflicted onmy brother lunatics. For weeks I was in a small basement room, with an upper grated window to admit light and air; My door was bolted and food was poked through an as wild beasts are fed in a circus All was lonely and sad until I made friends of two little mice and a family of gray 6piders that sought my cejl for safety.

Part of my daily food was set apart for the mice. At first they were shy of my impulsive movements and shrieking voice and would dart into their hole- like a flash. But finally kindness begot confidence confidence banished fear, and in a short time they ate from my hand, played on the cot or danced around the room to a low musical trill that I whistled for their amusement. The big dark spiders would come out of their web and eat the flies I caught for their meal. Sometimes they would fight for their foodVbut like a metropolitan policeman came to the rescue when both were exhausted and separated them with a straw.

Like a well regulated housekeeper the wife would soon go to work weaving a fine brown garb around the innumerable eggs she laid, while the "old man" would spin long yarns up and down the walls, scampering over his growing web with the mathematical precision of a scientific surveyors He was perfect in all his gossamer Lines, and the octagonal shapes that seemingly grew out of his mouth and feet filled me with a nameless surprise. When the mice or the spiders heard footsteps at my door they would stop play or work and run into their holes, seeming to know that sane mail was on his round of ignorance to minister to the insane. Days and weeks wore away, and still my rambled in the briars and flowers of imagination. I would talk by the hour to imagined spirits that floated about me, and in the rapture of my fervent soul spin poetry faster than my spiders spun their webs. I dashed into nights of eloquence that might have equaled the fluency of Demosthenes, Mirabeau or Patrick Henry.

HIS STRANGE COMPANIONS. It would take a volume to describe the different kinds of lunatics and the various forms that the mind takes on in its ravings. There is the chattering type, as he walks the wards, and taps the bars Iiko a caged beast There is the moody. low browed man, sitting alone, counting over his finger tips or watching the flies and spiders as they buzz and in the sunshine. There is the general as he strides the halls, commanding large armies and fighting great battles at inarsaiia or Waterloo, who imagines tumseii a or There is the king in all his royal glory, carrying a broom for a scepter and a torn sheet for a purple robe.

In tha next ward can be seen his consort, imitating the strut of Queen Yictbria, straws and chicken feath ers her hair ot a royal crown, and a simpering smile for the poor subjects who gaze upon her pretended rank. There comes the confidential, wise in ventor, who will tell you of the great things he has done, of the millions he controls, and the innumerable ships that plow the ocean for his pleasure and profit. There, too. is the self etvled Jesus Christ, who preaches forgiveness and salvation, ending with a blessing and general absolution from sin and asking in return only a bit of tobacco. In fact.

the very earth blossoms at his will, and the sun, moon and stars give light at his command. It is only a generous charity' that keeps him from shutting up this universal world and retiring into chaos. See there another Ophelia posturing before a looking glass, with comb in hand and tangled hair, sighing or weeping for a lover 6r father snatched from her warm embrace. She speaks: "They ea the owl was a baker's daughter. Lore we know what we are, but know not what we may be." For a month after my arrival in the asyium i ma not -Bleep, but finally a large dose of laudanum did its perfect work, and death like dream of seventy-two hours I awoke, as emerging out of another and the piston rod of lunacy flew back into the cy Under of reason and began to move in its accuse tomed groove.

My hot fever, contracted by hard study atv school, had gone, the nerves had relaxed, my voice resumed its natural tone, and tired nature lay like a dropping plant in the midday sun. I was soon admitted to the privilege of the lawn, walks and garden, and the 1st day of September, 1860, after a lunatic siege of two months and ten days, I was1 pronounced 'recovered, and from that day to this have never felt the insane spell creep over me. John A Joyce ill Chicago Tribune THE VOTE The following ON is the oQdal vote on ing facts: The average plurality of Harrison electors is 80,115. nv0racfArnfA rncf fnp fha nninn la. bor electora for fhe prohibition ejectors 6 768 m.

tr The average majority of the Harrison electors over all is 35,468. The total vote of the state on president in 330 216 North Topeka, 4 H. H. Taylor, of Clay Center, is a north side visitor. H.

Johnson, of Holton, was transacting business on the north side yesterday afternoon. Wm. J. Weston and J. OAnderson.

of Iowa, are on the north side with 1909 bushels of potatoes. B. S. Everman, of Ottawa, is on the streets. W.

A. Morris, of McPherson, is a guest on the north side. Cheapest place in the city to buy fresh meats is atEckerts. 1002 Kansas avenue. Baptist, an aged north side colored man, who settled Kansas about fifteen years ago, died last evening at 5 o'clock, of inflammatory rheumatism, at his home on Norris street and Topeka avenue.

His funeral will take place tomorrow forenoon at 11 o'clock, under the auspices of the Union Benevolent society No. 1, and his body will be interred Rochester cemetery. A new club of card players will hold its first regular meeting Monday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A.

W. Parks, Norris and Quincy streets. The names of the members are as follows: Mr; and Mrs. J. A.

Banney, Mr. and Mrs. Hamrick, Mr. and Mrs. Heck, Mr.

and Mrs. Douglas, Mr. and Mrs. Will Komer, Mr. and Mrs.

A. W. Parks, Mr. and Mrs. A.

T. Gibb, Mr. and Mrs. Com. Fulton, Miss Ella Parker, Miss Hattie Page, Miss Julia Leery.

Mr. A. W. Lacey, William Lacey, and C. W.

Milhtte. Elder E. 8. Pendleton left yesterday for Lacoma, 'Louisiana, on a pleasure trip of two weeks. The-young ladies of the North Congregational church gave a social and musical entertainment at the residence of George Clauser on Jackson street last evening.

Kef. Mr. iJosser, a young 'mam or Kinsley, has been called upon to officiate as pastor of the North Topeka Congrega tional church. Mr. Busser was here a few years ago and preached.

He delivered an excellent sermon, and the mem bers are in hopes- of receiving him for their C. A. Byder and wife. 929 Quincy street, will depart for La Junta, Colorado, Tuesday, to visit their daughter, Mxsa A. P.

Gobdhue, for several weeks. A THEEP. -1 Carrie Lacey, a young woman about 16 years of age, formerly in the employ of Jennie Crandall, as is charged by the latter with stealing some property from The girl Lacey left North Topeka rather suddenly, and it was supposed she had gone to Lawrence. The case as placed in the hands of the Shawnee county detective agency and a description of the young lady given them. Yesterday afternoon one of their detectives, who had been watching every tram, caught the woman at the Santa Fe junction on the Union Pacific.

She was brought before Squire Hale this morning. The matter will probably be compromised by the parties interested. Bev. C. Bolmait let for Whiting this morning to attend the Methodist quarterly conference.

MADE THE WELKIN BING. There seems to be a small sized war between certain young men on the north side and about eight or ten from the south side The trou We seems to. be all on ac count of the lovely and fascinating maid en? that North Topeka can boast seems as if their charms have proven to be irresistible to south side youths, who persistin coming across the river and escorting them to places of amusement, regardless of the sensitive youth of North Topeka. Trouble has been brewing for some time. and last night when several south sidel gentlemen violated the repeated warnings and escorted their north side girls to the Presbyterian entertainment, quite a little scrimmage ensued between boys of this side formed together for the purpose of "thumping" the south siders, but reinforcements for the latter appeared, and for a time the good people residing near the vicinity of Gordon and Central avenue, thought by the racket made, that either Jeff Davis was making a stump speech, John White had got on a buster, or that a circus menagerie had broken loose.

The shouts of the boys were almost deafening. racket was kept up until the south side boys had been driven to the bridge, where they were warned never' to escort home another North Topeka girl or there would be more trouble. Thanksgiving. Wm, R. Fish, at the spice mills, has pure ground cinnamon, cloves, allspice, pure ground sage and all kinds spices, good muscatel raisins, 10c a pound, new currants, three lbs for 25 cents, new citron.

I employ no peddlers, hor have anybody sell on commission. vGo to Farnsworth's crockery store for a fine set of carvers, turkey platter or eel ery glass for your Thanksgiving dinner. 503 Kansas avenue. Governor Martin has appointed C. L.

Vanderpopl, of Topeka, to 'take the "cen sus in the unorganized county of Wal lace, with a view to its organization. The Gorbam Silver Go's ware at Chas Bennett's, 511 Kansas 3- In tramping about town after the necessities of life, it is wise to take a luxury as a refreshment. Then invest in a watch for yourself and wife or a set of jewelry- See Charles Bennett, 511 Kansas avenue'. I ry.cae week, by carrier 2 tsar weeks, by carrier, I ne month, by mail, 1 year, tjr mail, -Vebane year, -i $.15 .80 .50 8.00 LOO 1ST IBANK P. MAO LESWAN.

fTdSI paper is the only dally in Topeka which JLpsishee Associated PreM telegraphic news tthfBsme day's happenings. Weather indications. WASamoTOH, D. C. Not.

2i.For Kansas JfitSrZ tfationary temperature southerly winds, variable Missouri Fair; stationary temperature i tcituis, becoming southerly dressed beef investigating com- has adjourned to meet at Washing-tost December 5. JGta. Boott has had her faith in Prof. Cdktaeyer rudely shaken. He prophe-cs2 fclizzard which never came.

rterraAns of Grover Cleveland and Hza. Cleveland are disappearing from iriadows of the picture stores. Tea buildings of the' state reformatory ck Hdchineon are to cost $500,000, and V.TftP) has already, been expended 6n Hmssus stands fifth in the. number of nevKapers published. It would be better for the newspapers if she stood hundred acres of land five a a TT 11 BIiiestrOi xansas uiiy, ivaneas, boiu tSsa etitar day for $654 per acre, or a total cf 350,000.

Tim 80,000 republican plurality in Sisma may be largely accounted for by CaUzi that 120,000 of the voters in this cSisSs fdoght in the union armies. official canvass of New York's completed last evening is as follows: libikan, 650337; democratic, profcifciiioB, socialists, uni-tad iabsw, 2,668. Jjoci Sackvillk and his family left for New York last night. Hie papers say he looks five years older IZzm did before the Murcbison inci- am, A. uoGDBicix, late astuer or tne llaional Home at Leavenworth, has been cpesafed commisary at the Soldiers Jxssm at Lieavenwortn.

lnis is tne posi-tssatLal was offered to Major Anderson cfTcptW Xr looks as if a good many Kansans "cwo gciag to celebrate Thanksgiving iatba mountains next week; From the press we gather that excursionists er esssg to take advantage or tne cneap idea Item all parts of Kansas. HcarsoK Republican The newspapers era fsgstitiDg a preject that would be cauTtsiMit in this country. They are try-iag to induce every farmer to put his name cat gate in front of his house so it may to readily seen by persons passing along road. When ye. cold wmds do blow, Tben we shall haTe snow, And what will ye plumbers do then? Foor Ohl t'will do them no harm.

Wot tkfv nro honnrl to keen warm. And their daughters wear diamond rings. Jtoatthingsl elearings for the week show and healthy increase over last vb3c ad also- ovetf the corresponding cali last year, as follows: Clearings ilea for the obrre- week year, $241,730.00, In CTT.r.P, 55.5 per cent 239tm CaboxiIna is in a state of hope- lacsy. The official returns for the ctsSa ere: Cleveland, Harrison, tajO; democratic majority, 52,085. The toSsl is 1,932 less than four years cx Tb democratic majority is 4,045 grexar.

Uemocratio congressmen are elscledl in the seven districts of the state. Powdebly seems to have sudden lyespcaed himself in the act of turning tcailor another friend. After he had tirn C-floor and nominated JohnW. Haya sr secretary-treasurer and Hays Lzd Lean elected by his sub-servient fol- Lwrera, Frederick Turner, the former official in position read to the assemply a letter written to him by Powderly some ao ego hoping that he would be a can Hdsa and that he would be re-elected. Ilr.

Fbwderly'e reputation is becoming beautifully scarified every day. Trxc eudden activity of the anarchists la all parts of the United States, is prob-: c2Jj not spontaneous. It is more than Lit! owing to orders issued from the csaacsaters in rans or lierlin. spite Vlha protestations of the anarcnists that uicy go co Deueve in ruiers, every move csaksv directed by autocrats in whosa word is law with as much psscifiSDo aa follows the pulling of a attached to a jumping jack. TmfTTichita pedple1 bbn'tlhul to' dou hi tbssT clearings for the tabulated re- icsrrWUsshed in the Boston Posf.

It udenata this way: If a check of 1,000 cay. psssm between two of the local ignas, ii i3 ngurea as two cusiincs crans-fixosxai end goes into clearings as C3JCC3L This has been exposed i in the 7zfisax papers, but Wichita persists in t23CX2srmga Wichita always make a showing than those of Topeka. perform the duty. Had Mr. Cleveland been re-elected in all probability Mr.

Carroll D. Wright would have been selected as census commissioner. Who the coming man will be under tiie republican administration will not be developed for a year or more, but the position is of such importance and universal concern that great public interest attaches to the i selection a genuemsn iamuiar wicn cue anairs or the census office tells of the difficulties surrounding its management and the uncertainty of the time necessary to do the work and the vast expense attending it when it is made comprehensive. "If I were selected to do the work," said he, "I would not estimate in advance what it would cost, but I would say to the author ities to give me so much to begin on, and I would do with it the best I could, and when the sum was exhausted I would en deavor to tell them how much mora would be necessary. No man can tell what the census will cost, with the marvelous growth of the country, the devel opment of varied interests, and the increase of population in every state and territory It is labor even the magnitude of which is almost incalculable." Here the gentlemen referred to the manner in which the work of taking the census of 1880 was awarded.

The com mittee authorized to appoint the commissioner had recommendations from both Mr. Walker and Mr. Kennedy. They were directed to prepare schemes, which they did, both practically alike. Mr.

Kennedy was asked what his plans would cost, and he said $8,000,000. Mr. Walker declared the work could be done under his scheme for 000,000. Of course Mr. walker get the job.

He used up the 000,000 in a little over six months and has not yet enumerated the population, and when he came before the committee for an additional aDDroDriation he said 000 more would be enough to complete the work. Me got ms and a very short time that was all gone and the work contemplated was not half done. And so it went from one half year to another, more money being called for each time until the appropriations committee became disgusted and did not want to hear any more about it. The time came; in fact, when the funds were all exhausted and the census officers were compelled to evade the law against anticipating appropriations by issuing to employes certificates of work which were hawked about the streets of New York and Washington and discount ed by brokers for the accommodation of the unfortunate holders. The number volumes necessary to- perfect the census is unknown.

It will remain unknown by the people for some time, as the census taken in looO has nev er been finished and several 'sections of the editions are still in the hands of the printers. There are secarate books of pop ulation, nativity, age, sex, religion and oc cupation; on employes in mines and in dustries, mechanical and agricultural, and the extent of manufacturing; the kinds numbers of live stock in the country, the farming and dairy products; the output of mines, and the- value of ores, coal, oil, gas, etc; everything that pertains to the manner in which citizens earn a livelihood; all about children of school age or younger; criminal statistics of every available nature, and data about the insane, tne deaf mutes, and the bund. The next census will be much more volu minous than the one. now in course of completion, and the commissioner who undertakes its compilation will be enti tled to the prayers of the ordinary citizen that he may survive the ordeal and not remain office until the appointment of his successor. The Kansas CityKansas, Gazette re marks: Our opinion is that John J.

In-galls was the John the Baptist of our success in the present campaign. He prepared the way by crystalizing public sentiment in favor of republican institu tions as. against southern copperhead supremacy, his famous chastisement of D. W. Voorhees, Geo.

Vest and Jo. Blackburn. By that memorable and 1 powerful arraignment he cemen ted-as one mighty cohesive mass the their sons and their kinfolks, besides the patriotic sentiments of the country. We wish to give Senator Ingalls bis due, and return to him, as a' party, our thanks without stint. We have not seen this thought before, and if we have a second we will for the question oh its adoption.

It is an oft-quoted saying of Dr. Johnson that "a man in general is better pleased when he has had a good dinner on the table than when his wife, talks Greek." Abilene Gazette. And you will notice' that in the men who are fond of making the above quotation, the paunch is invariably more nota ble than the head. Newt on Republican. Hear, hear! Twelve sacks of letter and paper mail were destroyed Jby fire in an express car on the Santa Fe railroad between Atchison and Topeka Thursday night.

The eacks were piled too Close to a hot stove. Consequently Topeka got no Chicago papers yesterday. Colonel J. W. F.

Hughes is; mentioned aa a candidate for the office of adjutant general, to succeed Colonel A. B. Campbell; -v Fine Cutlery, at K. M'e. i The United States Savings bank will remain psn tintil' m.

this evening. Deposits received in amounts of si and upwards. T- The Gipsy Warde company gave a mat inee at the Grand this afternoon. Buckwheat Floor. Ask your grocer for fresh ground buck wheat flour made at Buckwheat mill, or call at Solomon Downs Mill and Elevator company, 304 Kansas avenue.

Pocket knives, at JL M's. The From Kansas Avenue. TERMS EASY Price Lists the office of the Telephone 117 Charters Filed. The following charters were filed; in the office of the secretary of state to-day The T. Laney Mining capital stock, $3,000,000 Directors T.

J. Laney, HI Ellason G. W. Hurd, J. D.

McMaster and J. Bonebrake. The Ifcipid Transits work upon the Rapid Transit company's electric light building at the corner of Jefferson and Twentieth streets, is progressing rapidly and the walls will soon bfc ready for the roof. No- wire- has been strung yet, though the poles are being put upw The company will at an early day suhmit a statement of its system and plans to the council, xx accordance with a resolution passed by, the municipal body at a recent meeting. The new electric road between Council I tji au Aaii.

-Bluffs and Omaha was put into- operation about two weeks, ago 'and it is civinir en tire satisfaction. It is operated by the same system which the Ranid Transit company will employ the Thompson-Houston system. Two cars are run a train, the cars being of the vestibule pst." tern. 1 II The Largest Line in the i ttHK Cases! ETC. A FuU Uiioof Coigate's Soaps an! Perffflnes Sroitli Snyder Supcessora to SIM BROT Synifeate 061 HI ft.

11 ru Dressing Cases LeaMMiCases! ALBUMS 323 Kansas Ave The Circuit Court. The next term of the United States circuit court will convene in this-city on Monday. Hon. David J. Brewer, United States circuit will preside.

The docket is a large one and rive hundred and thirty-eight cases will be tried or dis posed of. Among these the most impor tant is brought by Russell Sage and George J. Gould, trustees, against the Missouri, Kansas 3r. Texas Railway com pany. The amount in dispute in this case is Luella Li; Gould and J.

W. G. Gould against the city of Topeka will be tried early during the term. This is a suit brought for damages sustained from being thrown from a carriage on Kansas avenue near the bridge. The suit has been decided several times in dif ferent courts, and a final decision will a a luJTZi Vesper's Sunday DinnerT BrLti OP FABE FEOM 'l TO 2:30.

Soups. Oysters. nsn. Baked Trout Egg Sauce. BOlIiED yEATS.

Combeef and Cabbage. Beef and -Horse Badish Sauce. Boiled Ham and Smoked Tongue. BOAST. Boast Beef.

Serloain Beef with Brown Gravy. Boast Pork.with Apple Sauce. Leg of Mutton with Caper Sauce. Veal with French Dressing. EKTEBEES.

Broiled Quail on ToasL. Spiced Liver of Venison. Rabbits. Squirrel. Prairie Chick en.

Baked Duck and. Currant Jelly. VEGETABLES. Mashed Potatoes. French Peas.

Sugar Corn. Sweet Potatoes salads. Clricken and Lobster. PASTE -Cottage Pudding. Mirfce Pie.

-Grape Pie. Lemon Pie. Apple Pie. Olives. Olery.

4 Bermuda Onions. Catsup. IDESEBT. Grapes. Oranges.

Bananas. Assorted Nuts and Cake. ICB CBSAli. Chocolate. Strawberry.

Lemon I) INNER FIFTY CENT8. the Montezuma club gave its second party of the season as Library hall last evening. There was a good attendance of members and the party was an unusually pleasant one. -If you want a good Sunday dinner you should go to Vesper's, 623 Kansas ave. Bacher.upholsierer, 406 Kansas ave.

Bacher's upholstery, 'phone 881. 1".