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lEEDY'S MESSAGE. The New Kansas Governor Addresses the State's Lawmakers. The expense of doctors' bills Keep your blood pure, your digestion good by taking FOR NEW RAILROAD LAWS. of learning, which include this at Olathe and the one at Kansas City. Here, as at the latter place, are taught trades, so that the child, when a graduate, is well equipped to go out and compete with those who have been more fortunate.

Certain wants are spoken of in the report which I believe will bear your investigation, and any money appropriated for the necessities of this institution will meet with my hearty approval. School for the Blind. An erroneous idea appears to prevail throughout the state in regard to this most worthy institution. By many it is regarded as a charitable institution. This is not true.

It is an educational institution similar to our university, normal school or agricultural college. Within its walls education is offered to and life made brighter and happier for those who have been bereft of their sight. Many of the children there are as intelligent and bright as those who attend our other institutions. There is nothing that should appeal to our sense of humanity more than these children, and I would recommend that their wants be duly investigated and that the improvements demanded by the superintendent receive careful consideration. Strange He Asks for a Maximum Freight Bill and Enlarged Powers for the State's Board Various Institutions Reviewed.

appropriation for these institutions. Continuing, he says: About Irrigation. A few years ago the people of the western part of the state became interested in the subject of irrigation, and the cry of "irrigate or emigrate" was used by those who believed that the salvation of that portion of the state depended upon the success or failure of irrigation. Two years ago a board of irrigation was established by the legislature, and an appropriation was made for the purpose of experimenting along the line of irrigation from wells. If there have been any results obtained that would justify the outlay of the appropriation, I have not been informed as to what they were.

People from the western part of the state, in interviews and conversation, are divided upon the question of whether irrigation from this source can be made a success or not. Some go so far as to say that it is a failure and a delusion; others say that a continuation of the experiments ought to be made in order to give it a fair trial. The governor recommends that the forestry stations and the silk station be abolished. He then continues: Live Stock Sanitary Commission. In my judgment one of the most important, if not the most important industry of our state, is $arsapariiia The Best in fact the One True Elocd Purifier Hood's; Picaretlle only pills to take v.

vith Hood's Sarsaparilla. AN ORIGINAL ACTOR. Such Never Been Cleopatra Had Seen. By the time the specialty act was finished Timmy, clad in the pink flesh-in 's and Miss O'Hourke's gauze and tinsel gown, was read' to go on. Thej Topeka, Jan.

13. Gov. John W. Leedy delivered his message to the legislature to-day. It is as follows: To the Legislature: With profound regret for the misfortunes of trar more pretentious sisters of the east, I congratulate the state of Kansas upon the many simple blessings that have fallen to us in these adverse times.

Whiie those who clamor for alms in the streets of the crowded cities are many, those who seek assistance from our ready public bounty are few. While the failure of great commercial institutions brings sad calamity to the chief capitals where fortunes accumulate, the less imposing, but quite useful depositories of Kansas savings, are giving gratifying evidences of stability. While, according to the press of the nation's most populous metropolis, her children linger in the street untaught, except in the lore of the pavement; unfed, except at the hand of charity unhoused, except in the kennels they dispute with creatures scarcely less miserable, the commonwealth of Kansas, rejoicing in a public school system urtain rolled up and the rJay began. he first part was as smooth as could be desired. Marie Antony onened the cene and all went well till it came to our cattle interests.

The Kansas live stock sanitary commission came into existence for the express purpose of seeing that our quarantine lines were respected and that no contagious diseases should be brought into the state by the shipment of cattle from other points. I believe that it has done efficient work during the last two years. I would ask of the legislature that the needs of this important, board be attended to, to the end that we may have a feel- leopatra's entrance. With due cau tion and manv parting admonitions to the bearers Timinv climbed into the Is a custom for committees of the twe houses on penal and charitable institutions to visit, during the session of the legislature, the different state institutions and report their conditions and wants to their respective bodies, and I would esteem it a favor if any suggestions Jhey might see proper to make to the tw houses, be also made to me, for, of all the responsibilities I am charged with by the suffrage of the people of this state, none appeals more deeply to me than the welfare of the Inmates of these institutions. Insane Asylum at Osawatomie.

At the last session of the legislature, appropriations were made for the rebuilding of the central building at this institution, erection of boiler house, electric light plant, and several minor improvements. These improvements have all been made, yet, from the reports of the superintendent of this inststi. I find that there are several matters that need your consideration. The principal one is, that the property has sustained serious damage which demands repairs, and unless these are accomplished at the earliest possible moment great injury will be done the institution. Not having had an opportunity to visit and make a personal examination of this matter, I would call the attention of your committees who visit the different state institutions to this report.

It would not only be neglectful, but an unsound business policy to allow any of our state institutions to be ruined by the elements on account of not taking proper precautions for their preservation. It is also asked that a new laundry building be given the institution. One of the strongest pleas is that the present laundry building is detrimental to the health of the institution, owing to its lack of sanitary arrangements. It is said to be a standing menace, constantly increasing the risk of the institution being destroyed by fire. Several times during the last few years the public mind and conscience have been disturbed by awful reports of the burning of institutions of this kind.

Often the helpless inmates were cremated, and horrible scenes have been enacted. I believe it our duty to do all in our power to protect our state institutions from the elements, and if upon investigation the complaints made are valid I believe it would be proper and right to grant the request. While we are pledged to economy, we are not pledged to that economy which risks not alone the state's property, tout the lives of our fellow-beings. This institution, like the Topeka insane asylum, is overcrowded, and every possible means should be employed to give additional room for those who are at present unable to gain admittance. Insane Asylum at Topeka.

It is a noteworthy and lamentable fact that the percentage of the insane people, compared with our natural growth, is increasing, and that the accommodations we havo to-day for their care and maintenance are inadequate to the demand made by the people of the state on these institutions. One of the largest appropriations that will have to be made by the present legislature is for the care of the destitute insane over the st a te, who could not be accommodated at the Topeka and Osawatomie asylums. It is not alone the extra cost of keeping these unfortunate people at home, compared with the cost of keeping them at the asylum, that enters into the argument for more room at these institutions. It is impossible to give them the same care or as good care in their respective counties as at an institution which is peculiarly fitted for their reception and maintenance. In many cases insane people are kept in the county poor house, and in some cases in the county jail.

The reports tier and was borne upon the stage, ow, whether it was stage fright that of security amongst those who are inter tablished. Should you conclude that another normal school is necessary, I would suggest that it be located in some portion of the state of the largest population and in some central city of that section. The school property of Kansas, including buildings and grounds, is valued at $10,145,61. The bonded indebtedness of the school districts was $44,545,703. Sixteen thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven persons were examined for teachers' certificates, of whom 11,468, with an average age of 20 years, received certificates.

Only 856 districts have failed to maintain public schools three months. One hundred and five counties held teachers' institutes, each of which has an attendance of over 50 members. These institutes cost $33,776.60. The school system is the pride of our state. As Sparta's strength was not in her walls, but in her men, so the wealth of Kansas lies not in her treasury, but in her storehouses of general intelligence.

We may not have amassed such vast fortunes as are boasted by the country's metropolis, but we can thank God that every boy and girl in Kansas can go to school. The children of Kansas are not shipped to eastern states to be quartered upon others, that our name shall become a by-word and a hissing in the ears of the republic. Permanent School Fund. The state permanent school funds have have reached the magnificent sum of the greater part of which has been invested in bonds. The intent and purpose of the law governing the purchase of bonds with this fund was to buy none but the best and those on which the interest and principal would be promptly paid.

I should suggest that the attorney-general, if necessary, be empowered to collect the interest and principle on these delinquent bonds, if possible, and, if not possible to collect in full, by and with the consent of the executive council to compromise on the best terms possible for the interests of this fund, the proceeds to be turned into the permanent school fund, as provided by law. There is another evil worthy of your attention in connection with the investment of the funds by the school fund commissioners. It has been a practice for this commission, instead of dealing direct with the authorized authorities of the different counties and municipalities, to do business with some third party, and in several cases to which my attention has been called unnecessary commissions have been paid the third party, which has left the matter open to suspicion that there was a conspiracy to defraud. My attention has been called to one transaction where, in a transfer of $107,050 of a certain county's bonds, the taxpayers were made to pay over $16,000 which went into the hands of some intermediate parties. I would recommend that it bo made a penal offense for the school fund commissioners to transact their business with the different counties, municipalities and school districts through third parties.

The University of Kansas. The University of Kansas has a faculty of 54 instructors and an attendance of 915 students. The institution utilizes six buildings for educational purposes and enjoys an income of $108,000 per annum. Apparatus and libraries to the value of $220,000 are at the disposal of the students. The museum contains $107,000 worth of property.

The students come from 84 Kansas counties and from every walk of life, the largest number, of course, being from farms. Aimost one-half of them are self-supporting. The annual income is less than that of the universities of Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan. Minnesota, California, or other similar institution. The rapid increase in attendance during recent years has made it ested in this great industry.

The statistics overcame them or tile titters of their riends and relations, who recognized em in spite of their scanty covering, show that Kansas is forging ahead as a cattle raising state. In western Kansas, especially, the finest cattle and beef are produced at a nominal cost, and I predict that in a few years the western part of the state will enjoy an extensive development of this business. not stated, but certain is it that the boys quite forgot Timmy's injunclions to set the litter down gently, and in State Grain Inspection. There is an erroneous impression among the tend they let it slide from their hands people of this state that the state supervises nd strike the floor with a re-sounding ick that tumbled Cleopatra out pon the stage. "'MM the weighing and inspection of grain.

The fact is that the deputy inspectors, who really inspect the grain, and the weighers, owe their appointment to and receive their appointment from boards of trade and the receivers of the grain. If the people shall be protected in this matter, and they should be, it is absolutely A universal roar went up through the house and the actors in the wings ed langua and guyed unmercifully. as it may seem, many of these children are self-supporting and, with judicious investment of the state of a small amount of additional cash each year in order to increase its facilities, it will be not only a credit to our humanity and citizenship, but will turn out a elaNs of citizens fully equipped for the battle of life in many of its avocations. Kansas Penitentiary at The penitentiary contained 891 prisoners June 30, 1896. Of these 17 were women.

For the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896, the expenditures of the institution were $151,600.29, the earnings $148,916.50. The report of the warden, board of directors and officials contains an exhaustive treatise on the expenditures and necessities of the institution. But few realize the magnitude of this institution or the careful attention which it should receive from the legislature in order to keep it abreast of institutions of the same kind in sister states. At times in our history this has been a self-supporting institution. At other times it has been considerable of a burden to the taxpayers of the state.

The output of coal from the penitentiary has been its principal source of revenue, yet there is a sentiment in portions of the state against utilizing this coal except for state institutions. In another portion of this message certain recommendations are made in regard to thejsurplusafter the state institutions are supplied. This, in my judgment, at this time, is as far as we can go on the line of correcting the placing of coal, mined by convict labor, in competition with free labor. If it could be so arranged that instead of producing so much coal, other manufactories could be established which would not compete with the free labor of the state, it would be better than our present system. To place a man in enforced idleness would increase his cost of maintenance to the taxpayers of the state, and while his efforts may in a measure work a hardship on men engaged in that industry, yet the cost of maintaining him in idleness would prove a grievous burden on all who contribute to the support of the state by taxation.

There are certain recommendations maue by the board to which your attention is directed. The principal necessities seem to be the completion of more cells for the use of prisoners and additional clothing for convicts. The completion of cells will necessitate the placing of heating apparatus and a few other necessities in these cells. I would recommend to your honorable body that the efficiency of this institution should not bo impaired by any lack of substantial assistance on your part. Economy that would make oondl- tions so that the guilty could escape from prison cells and again be thrown loose upon the communityand society would not be economy in line with the best interests of the state.

Your necessary that the weighers and inspectors should not owe their appointment to any power But this ignominious entrance was just what was needed to put Timmy on his. mettle. He was "mad clear throti but the state. Consolidation of Hoards. I would recommend that the law governing ow and resolved to come out ahead.

With a few muttered but expressive the appointment of the penitentiary board be 0 amended that it can also supervise and con words to the frightened Utter hearers trol, in addition to the penitentiary at Lansing, turned his attention to the audience the Hutchinson reformatory, and, if not abol and let them have it from the shoul- ished, the reform school for boys at Topeka. er. He started in to make a hit and To make the matter plain. I would havo all of GOV. JOHN W.

LEEDY. the penal institutions under the charge of the made it. The play was a burlesque to board of directors for penal institutions, and betrin with, but Timmy out-burlesqued which is the most grateful heritage we receive from our fathers, and the best legacy we can ill of the charitable institutions under the su by the time lie finished with it pervision of the state board of charities. it had been everything from a tragedy As to Insurance. Year by year the people of this state pay to a variety show.

Lines, tradition, foreign and interstate insurance companies, life business, none of them held him: the ml tire, large sums of money as premiums for ther actors came in where they could insurance. In several instances companies that have done a large business in the state or not at all and were soon content, in have failed and left the policy holders without their delight at watching Timmy, ta ive him all the elbow-room he wished. any available assets for the security of their policies or for re-insurance in other companies. of institutions of this kind bear me Mit in say fe interoolated gags, he sang, he The laws of Kansas should require that an ad ing that a large per if placed where they difficult for the university to keep pace with anced in season and out of season; he the demands of the students. The board of re equate and equitable percentage of the premiums paid to the insurance companies by policy was the life and soul of the piece.

He holders in the stale of Kansas should be invest ragged in his famous break-down ed in the state of Kansas, the investment, ust before the tragic death scene and gents makes a very earnest petition for the building of a chemistry hall. If the legislature decides to erect this building, it is the intention to devote the present diminutive chemistry building to the school of pharmacy, which at present appears to be in a rather unsettled condition as to house room. The time has evident- place of the chansonnette about Blue Eyes and Heart so True" with if in securities to be approved by the commissioner of insurance and deposited in the state treasury as a guarantee fund to the policy holders for the payment of losses and in case of failures of companies, for re-insurance. committee from the two houses will visit this which Miss OTlourke was wont to capture the house, Timmy gave them "My ly been reached when larger quarters for the institution and no doubt will carefully investi- departmeut of chemistry, at least, and prob Text-Hooks. The people of the state demand and should 'earl Is a Bowery girl," sung with all the local turns and touches which none receive such legislation as will cheapen the price of school text-books, and make available to every child of the state the means of a com knew better than he.

At first the audience did not under- tand; they tried to take him but gradually they woke up to the mon school education. The text-book question has received the attention of different legislatures in this state, and has been legislated upon in all its phases in the states of California, Minneota and Nebraska. The evolution of this legislation in tho states mentioned has resulted ably for the workshop of the school Of electrical engineering, have become absolute necessities. I commend the requests of the regents for more room, to the serious and thoughtful consideration of the legislature. The university of Kansas was founded with the purpose of giving the youth of the state a liberal education at home.

The idea was that our children are as much entitled to educational advantages as those of communities in which wealthier parents arc able to give their children better advantages than we could secure. Only intelligent citizens can maintain a republic, and I believe it is still a settled principle of the commonwealth of facts and his every action was hailed have proper medical attendance and pleasant environment, recover their reason. Not so large a per cent, recover when isolated or confined with criminals. Hence, it is not only a matter of economy, but a matter of humanity and right that we should give additional l'oom at our state institutions for the care of this class of people. For the present, I believe that the asylums at Topeka and Osawatomie should be completed in accordance with the specifications of the architect who formulated the plans for their building, but it is evident that in the near future another institution will have to be established.

However, I am of the opinion that if the two asylums we now have were completed, we can tide over until the next session of the legislature. It might be well to make arrangements for the future looking to the building of another institution of that kind, so that if the occasion demands it, at the next session of the legislature appropriations could be made and the buildings completed as quickly as the circumstances and (Conditions demand. Asylum for Idiotie at Wlnlield. According to the report of the superintendent there are 117 pupils at present in this institution. The object of the institution is to caro for those who through accident or from birth have been deprived of the faculties that make manhood and womanhood pleasant and useful, not only to themselves, but to society and civilization.

There is no more worthy institution in the state than this, and, while it is in a great measure hoping against hope to attempt to bring them up to a standard which will make them useful citizens, yet this is not a valid reason why our efforts should be abated or why we should fail to do our whole duty in their care leave to our children, finds ample house room and school room for every Kansas child and for such straggling waifs as come to us from where penury and parsimony stalk side by side. There are no tramps in Kansas, except those birds of passage who flit by us, grim reminders of the conditions in older communities. With cheerful audacity that almost challenges admiration. Grub street scribblers on a venal press, which panders to the most vicious instincts of semi-civilized foreign colonies like New York city and Chicago, with splendor at the apex and semi-barbaric squalor at the base of their social life, have offered their puny and presumptuous criticism of those whose shoestrings they are not worthy to unloose. The dogs of Egypt have barked at the Pyramids unanswered for 50 centuries.

When the accused doge stood before the Venetian council he said: "My defense is your accusation." Let Grub street rail on. They well know that Kansas was a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night before an oppressed people In the nation's darkest hour. We shall keep those fires alight in our camps and that smoke ascending from our hilltops till this is indeed a government of the people, and for the people, and by the people. "For she failed you not in the early day, and she failed you not in the late, Nor forgot you how the balance was poised on our youngest state, And how with the fate of Kansas was linked the nation's fate." 1 Irianclal Condition. In a full and exhaustive report the state treasurer sets forth the financial condition, which shows that at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, 1894, there were on hand, and that the receipts during the fiscal years ending June 30, 1895 and lS'JG.

were 64,898,092.83, making a total of 55,740.119.00. The disbursements for the two years named above were 16,135,889.90, leaving a balance in the treasury June 30. 1896, Of lft The report for the year ending December 31, 1898, shows that the balance on hand was and that the permanent school fund amounts to 17,016,993.10. January 1, 189 (, our state bonded indebtedness was 8788,500. On March 15, 1835, $36,500 was paid and on July 1, lS'Jfi, $70,000, which leaves at present a bonded indebtedness of $683,000, of these bonds are owned by the permanent school fund, $3,000 by the permanent university fund and the balance, $224,000, by individuals and corporations.

On July 1.1897. and July 1, 1898, in seven per cent, bonds become due. The state treasurer in his report recommends that the whole amount be refunded in four per cent, bonds and sold to the permanent with shotits of laughter and applause. Such a Cleopatra, it is safe to say, had never been seen on any stage. Lippin- in the district ownership of text-books, each child attending the public schools being pro vided with text-books without money and with ott's Magazine.

out price. I commend to the consideration of gate and report to you any improvements or changes necessary to add to the efficiency of the institution. Reform School at Topeka. If there is any institution in the state which is open to criticism, in my judgment, the reform school for boys, situated in our capital city, is that one. Not that I would charge incompetence upon its management or employes, but from the fact that it is Impossible to reform boys in idleness.

I am informed that, when this school was established, the object sought was to take the erring boys and lead them to a better and higher life. In order to do this they should be taught trades and made useful citizens. For some reason unknown to me, the legislature has failed to make appropriations for buildings and mechanical apparatus for carrying out this idea. I recommend to the legislature that it is thought, impracticable to furnish apparatus suitable for teaching them trades, that additional appropriations be made for the Hutchinson reformatory and that the boys be removed there where they can have the influence brought upon them that will lead them in the right line. In case you should see fit and proper to do this, the reform school building could bo used for additional room for the insane.

State Reformatory at Hutchinson. the members of the legislature the laws of Min The Gentleman Digger. Some curious stories are told of the nesota and Nebraska on this subject for careful consideration. ways ot tne newcomer to soutn Court Litigation. The abuse of permitting a long series of ir Africa.

It is said that recently a fresh clerk was imnorted for an office of the relevant questions to be asked of juries, suggests that some limitation be placed upon this privi Kansas that her people shall bo as well prepared for the duties of citizenship as those of any state in the union. Agricultural College at Manhattan. This institution has a faculty of 24 members, and an attendance of 617 students, two-thirds of whom are young men. The students come from 72 counties in Kansas, and most of them are from farms. The income last year was The agricultural college has an endow-j ment fund of $500,000 which is invested in bonds i bearing interest at from live to ten per cent.

Netherlands (Transvaal) railway. Tho lege. I recommend that by specific enactment trial judges be authorized to specify the num gentleman in question was made in lolland, and took thence an alarming- ber of questions that may be propounded to the jury in any given legal proceeding by either amount of luggage During tne un packing of one of his largest boxes an r.iecrioii i.iuvs. operation which was watched with in The chairman of the county of each of the respective organizations should bo The properties of the institution are valued at $401,000 of which (238,009 is the value of the grounds and buildings. April 5, 1895, the residence of the president of the college, built by the state in 188.5, was set on fire by lightning and completely destroyed.

The sum entitled to name the judges of election who are to be of his political party. The printing of the The reformatory at Hutchinson, established by the legislature in 1835, was made ready for terest by several of the callow youth colleagues a bright, new steel spade came tfl view. "Hello!" queried a bystander, "what's that for?" "I thought," replied, in all innocence, the youth "I thought I might do a occupancy in 1895, and opened with 30 of tin: least hardened criminals from our state peni ballots under our present system appears to be more expensive than is absolutely necessary. The Kansas City Stock lards. The Kansas City Live Stock Commission Co.

tentiary. The report of the board and my knowledge of the institution lead me to believe is in the enjoyment of certain privileges which that it has proven a success and is solving the ittle gold-digging in my leisure hours!" have proved very lucrative. onslderaole com oueslion of what to do with young criminals Westminster Gazette. who are started on a career of crime. In con nectlon with the institution is a farm of MO plaint is made as to their charges and sometimes as to their methods.

I suggest that 100 per cent, profit above the price in the Kansas City market is sufficient on their sales of grain and acres, which, I am informed, has produced of $5,000 is requested for the rebuilding of this residence. The regents, for the fourth time, request a proper sum for the establishing of a dairy school. It Is estimated that would equip such a department. The large sums already invested in this excellent institution are of themselves sufficient inducement for further investments to maintain what has been accomplished, and to secure the good results that we hope for in the future. The agricultural col- I lege stands with the university and the normal school at the head of our system of public edu- cation.

Its present needs and its future possi- bilitics should receive careful and liberal con- sideration. Our schools must not be allowed to Many a man who would be about 12,009 bushels of corn this year, in addi hav, and I recommend an enactment to that cf tion to a large amount of vegetables startled at the feet. The statutes should provide that the I bare thought for use in the institution, in return for the work of the boys. A tailoring department and a shoe live stock sanitary commission should hav and maintenance and education. Soldiers' Orphans Home at Atchison.

This institution was founded and endowed for the purpose of caring for the orphan children of the veterans of our civil war, but years have rolled by since that event, and the orphans of the soldiers have in most instances become citizens and capable of caring for themselves. Since that time, however, the doors have been opened to the orphan children of the state who are needy and who were looked upon by society as waifs. It is very pleasing to a citizen of the state to see these foundlings placed in an institution where they can enjoy, in a measure, all that goes to make home happy, instead of being in a poor house. The report shows that since the opening of the home, 329 children have enjoyed its benefits, 151 of whom have been restored to the care of parents or relatives who have recovered their ability to provide for them. Any reasonable demand made by this institution should receive attention, to the end that throughout the borders of our great state, no child be allowed to suffer from hunger or the need of raiment.

Soldiers' Homo at Dodge City. This home has been established and maintained for years for the care and enjoyment of the indigent soldiers of our civil war. Its board has been established and kept separate from such control of the stock yards owned by the above named company as shall be necessary to of sitting down and deliberately drinking a the enforcement of the laws you make. Railroad Legislation. factory are conducted, where the inmates are taught trades.

Schools are maintained at night for those who labor during the day and during the day for those who do not labor. The board of directors is asking for an appropriation to complete certain portions of the building so that it can be used to accommodate other inmates, and in my judgment the requests should The question of the regulation of transporta tion companies has Don one unit has com manded the attention of the legislatures of the dose of poison, allows himself to be regularly and poisoned day after day bv accumula various states since railroads were first introduced. These corporations have received their charter rights from the various states, and recede, but must continue to grow, develop and keep pace with the state. State Normal School. The state normal school has a corps of 27 instructors, an attendance of 1,550 students and a library of 13.000 books.

This institution has an income of $38,200, of which, for tho year ended June 30, WOi, $4,140.89 were received from fees from the model department, special classes and irregular students. One hundred and be granted, to the end that the erring may be reclaimed and our young boys who have taken a step in the wrong direction be brought back to tho path of rectltudo and right and made these states naturally concluded that they had tions of bile the right to regulate and control the corporations that they thus had created. This view of the case was constantly eombatted by the cor honorable citizens. industrial School for Girls at Heloit. eighty-live children are instructed In the model the blood.

When the liver fails to i regular work of filter-his bilious poison out circulation, it goes on porations, who claimed, as they were private corporations, they were not subject to state leg that of all of the other Institutions of this state. department, which is utilized for training pur- All that I have said relative to the reformatory for boys at Hutchinson, will apply to this I would recommend that this policy be con islation so far as their charges were concerned Institution. While that teaches good citizen- shin and habits of Industry to erring boys, this a view they have not yet abandoned, When, however, congress. 11 years ago poisoning the entire constitution iust as surely as if a man does the same for wayward girls. The superin created that subterfuge for justice tendent and the state board of charities deem was drinking prussic acid.

called the interstate commerce commission it essential that certain improvements bo made, I would commend to you these reports and that Every part ot tne uoay is puuuicu. digestive juices are suppressed and weak it enacted legislation that was supposed by the people to be for the purpose of securing this Institution receive fair and just treatment, tinucd, in order that those who risked their lives in their country's defense may have the advantage of the best treatment possible from our people. Kansas is known as the great soldier state of the union, and, while we have within our borders a national home, the state home at Dodge City is a matter of pride to the citizens of our state. Any reasonable request that may be made for this institution should be granted. In a few years tho men who now in-habit the home will have passed over Into the I unknown, and anything we might do at the present, unthinkingly, in the interest of their rights and controlling these corporations ened.

The kidneys ana skin are cioggeu. with impurities and the lungs and bronchial Hoard of Agriculture. In its past in our history the board of agrlcul After 11 years of weary waiting, the people are now told'by this commission that the law under which they were acting was defective and had tubes overloaded wren muiuiu wiiura which eat away the delicate tissue, and bring about bronchitis and consumption. poses. Ninety counties are roprcsemeu at me instituton.

During the last ten years 11.018 pupils have attended the state normal school, coming from 94 counties. Last year there were students from 12 other states and territories. Two-thirds of the present attendants are ladies. This institution has an endowment fund of about $270.0000, buildings and grounds valued at $170,000, and furniture, laboratories and libraries to the value of $80,000. The interest on the endowment fund is somewhat rapidly decreasing.

For the year ending June 30, 1393, tho income from interest was $16,807.25, while for the year ending June 30, 1896, it was but $14,300. Tho- board of regents urge that the law providing for the recognition of state normal school diplomas for cities of the lirst and second classes, bo made so specific that there could be no question in the minds of any one as to their legality as teachers' certificates. It occurs to me that the state owes it to itself to see that this is done. If, after all the money expended, the been held by the court of last resort as inopera tive and unconstitutional. Thus after 50 years of effort in this direction, we find that practical ture has been a matter of public derision, but in later years, in the hands of competent men and men who have taken a deep interest in the matter, it has become a matter of state pride and of much benefit to the agricultural portions of the state.

The reports of this office have not only received commendations from the press of the state, but have been accepted as good au All the diseases caused Dyuns sum jjiu-cess of bilious poisoning are cured by the marvelous alterative action of Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery. It directly in lot lv nothing has been done toward the contri school fund. The suggestion meets my approval for the reason that any increase of our slate levy at this time to meet these bonds would work a hardship on our tax payers and the further fact that, in these days when many unsafe and questionable bonds are being hawked around, an investment of this kind will protect this fund that has been set aside for the educational purposes of our state. Charitable Institutions.

No class of people should receive the pity of their fellowman more than the inmates of our charitable institutions. Many of them have been reared in luxury, some of them are waifs of the streets and the harvest of our present economic conditions, yet all of them are human and born in the likeness of their Maker. Their care and comfort are a sacred duty imposed upon us by humanity and all the better elements of our nature. Some of these institutions are filled with those to whom the sunlight of noonday and the darkness of midnight are the same. Others are unable to enjoy conversation with their fellow-beings, and nothing takes the place of the senses which are most gratifying to humanity.

Some of them are bereft of reason and struggle through hallucinations against imaginary evils. Some are born into the world bereft of reason or sense, and are thrown upon our pity and charity from the beginning. I consider it one of the most essential duties of an executive and the co-ordinate branches of the legislature to see that the best of treatment be accorded them, that those who caro for them should be kind, attentive and take an interest in their work, that their food should be clean, wholesome and plentiful, that the sanitary conditions of the buildings where they are confined are conducive to their health, that the professional duties be administered by as good talent as the state possesses; it. short, that the gravest duty that we have to discharge is in the care of those who are unable to care for themselves, and arc placed in the institutions of our slate as wards of the state. A visiting board for all the charitable, educational and penal institutions of the statu, with power to come and go, and report abuses vo the governor, would bo a good thing.

Several slates have adopted this system of supei vision of the different institutions, in order to guard against the treatment often accorded innates by the negligence of the officials in chargi I would be pleased to co-operate with you along these lines in order to moro fully protects our unfortunates than under the present law, where the board of charities goes on a speolflod date to visit theso institutions, and hs no chance to obtain knowledge as to the exact conditions of the inmatos, when r.ot present, and the treatment accorded them by the ein. ployes of the institution. I huve been handed the tenth biennial report of the board of trustees of the charitable Institutions, which, in addition to the information I have already received, gives me the basis for the recommendations which I shall make foi the different Institutions; however, there arc aevcral of them, uud their wants arc many It corporations. I recommend that the leglsla ture pass a maximum freight law mat win DC creases the liver's natural exen-uve auu purifying powers gives the digestive and Mnnd.makinor oreans power to manufacture- fair to corporations and just to the people. believe also that tho board of railroad com economy, which we feel at this time, might be a cause of regret in after years.

Educational institutions. The public school system of Kansas is the best evidence of the character of our people and the best promise of our future. That the percentage of illiteracy is lower and the average of general intelligence is higher in Kansas than in New York and the New England states, where great wealth commanded admirable edu an abundance of red, rich, healthy blood. thority on certain matters in our sister states. As a large portion of our citizens are interested in agriculture, I deem it right and proper that this board should receive due consideration at missioners should be clearly vested with the powers of a court, and given the power to adjust fares and freight within the slate of Kansas as they may deem just, and your hands, to the end that Kansas may have of this graduates the advantage of the experience of others, and along the different lines which bring success to institution are of our common not exceeding the maxlum rate, and that their powers shall be made definite and certain, but cational facilities before our state was founded to teach any not fitted is most gratifying to our people.

Wo should schools, the Institution is a failure. The board subject to app-al to he supreme court oi tne of regents ask that certain improvements and additional room be furnished. Under the head indeed be a most different commonwealth, if this admirable system, crowned by the several state. In doing this, I think the legislature should not proceed in any spirit of retaliation or the men engaged in this calling. Itoard of Public Works.

My predecessor, in his message to the lature two years ago, recommended the abolishment of the board of public works. The senate, upon this recommendation, made no appropriation for Its maintenance. Tho law, however, was not repealed. This is a matter which I will leave entirely to your judgment. I cannot revenge for the misdeeds of the corporations in the past, but they should make their purposo clear to these corporations that, in the future It drives out an impuwuco, circulation with the life-giving elements which restore perfect nutrition, solid muscular power, and healthy nerve-force.

In August 1895, 1 was taken down in bed with a burning and severe paius iu my stomach and under my shoulders, and dWete myl writes Ira I. Herring, of Need more Uvy Kia. Mv home physician was called and he said my symptoms were more like consumption than anything else. I lingered 111 this way seven months'trying different kiuos of medicine. Nothing that 1 ate would digest, and I had great distress in mv stomach.

1 was persuaded to try some ofDr Pierce's remedleiortoiiee what he thought of mv case. I wrote him and received an answer stating that my suffering was from indigestion and torpid liver, and advising me to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The fiist bottle gave pleasing results I have taken four bottles of the 'Golden Medical Discovery and three small rials of the Pleasant WW I able to do my work and cat what I could uut before I took these medicines." tho interests of the citizens of this state are to hi! taken into account, as well as the welfare the corporations, and that profits in good time and losses in bad ones are to be equally shun between them. Favors the Southern market.

I advise the people of the state of KattsM to seek for justice out of court. In doing so, I can of educational institutions, I recommend tha It would better serve the interests of the people to establish an auxiliary normal school in some other portion of the state, rather than to erect more extensive buildings at Emporia. As to other Improvements in tho way of apparatus and libraries, tho institution should bo efficiently and thoroughly supported. School for tho Deaf and Dumb. Tho report of the superintendent of this worthy institution shows that tho average attendance of pupils since tho last report has been 225, with a total enrollment of 240.

In 1896 careful clinical examination of the ears of the pupils was made to ascertain whether their hearing could be benefited by modern science. This examination, however, was barren of results and gave no hopo for the recovering of hearing by tho pupils. Hence, for years, or till their education Is completed, they will be under our supervision. When I speak of our educa-tiouul Institutions I mean all of ourlustlluMqns Institutions of higher learning.did not appeal to state pride. In order to achieve that general intelligence which is essential to successfull citizenship, Ills absolutely necessary t'uat we should maintain a system of public schools that shall give the youth of this state ample opportunity to fit themselves for tho duties of citizenship.

In dealing with the educational institutions of tho stale no niggardly hand should bo used, whether you touch the humble country school or enter tho halls of the great state institutions. The condition of tho times demands strict economy, but tho economy thai would take from any child the right and privilege of receiving an education is false economy, against the best interests of society and detrimental to tho future of our state. Some of tho chief educational Institutions, notably tho state unlvorsity and the state normal school, which are reported crowded, will ask for certain Improvements and additional buildings. Several localities will ut normal schools be cs- only point to vse -oute by which it can be ob tallied, and that is for tho states the retrain, however, from saying that I heartily agree with the recommendation made by Gov. Morrill, that the board should be abolished.

Hoard of Health. The report of tho board of health has many valuable suggestions in regard to the sanitary conditions of our different state institutions, and, while some people are prono to criticise the work of this board, yet, I am Inclined to believe that when properly conducted, It Is of much Importance to the people of the state. The governor gives interesting statistics concerning the state historical society, the horticultural society and the state library, and urges the needed Mississippi river to build a ro'ul of Cieir civn tide-water by the shortest and most dlrec route, which wilrpul them in a position to com muad the situation without getting Into any complication with the railroad companies or xst M' ill Beet Cough Byrup. Tastes Good, use I i with the federal courts. We have at Galves In tlmfli sola or arunm.

ton, now. a harbor that can bo entered safely uswv.i nnjim iriMJWH by the largest ships. The federal government.