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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

at th9ir posts. That their influence does
not make for good and for the better
ment Of their fellows is proposition
that is not borne out by the facts. Con-
sidered simply from temporal view
point, leaving things spiritual ont OF
the question, the labors of the country
ministers in behalf of morality, of right
living, of uprightness in business and of
the gentler graces in everyday life are
worth to the community many times
more than the cost.
For it is in many remote communities
the minister who keeps alive the aspira-
tions Of the entire population for those
things which make for refinement, for
education and for manners. 1t is the
ministers to whom the family troubles,
the financial tangles and the penitences
of the entire neighborhood are carried
If there is a bright young man or clev-
er girl in his congregation who has as
pirations for the education of the schools
and the broader life of the wide, wide
world that looks so alluring to youthful
eyes, and that may be reached perhaps
through the college gate, it is the minis
ter who is consulted. When there is Sc
rious sickness, the minister is called in,
and when there is death it is he who
attends the last services over the body
the living. When there are marry
ings-
When there is wedding, the country
minister is joyful. 1t is quite possible
that there is some element Of selfshness
in his joy, for after the ceremony comes
the fee, and though ministers do not sub
sist on fees alone they form not to be
lightly regarded fraction of the total
yearly income. It is small wonder if
some country ministers whose salaries
are small occasionally preach from the
text. sit is not good for man to be
alone, nor that some ministers are
prone to encourage the extreme develop
ment of the feminine trait of match
making in their own worthy spouses-
It will be readily understood by the
discerning reader that the accomplished
matchmaker who is the wife of a coun-
try minister may, by ski1lful use Of her
talents, help materially in keeping the
-four barrel filed. It must be stated,
however, while we are upon the subject
of wedding fees, that they sometimes
fall short of expectations To look for
S. bill and to get load of pumpkins or
half cord of crossgrained and unsea-
soned foot wood is disappointment
sore and one hard to be borne.
Next to and sometimes quite equal in
importance with the wedding fees of the
country minister as an auxiliary source
of income is the annual donation party.
Tt is almost always held in the winter
season and often at the minister's
house. Sometimes his furniture and his
carpets are a sight to behold ON the
morning after a vigorous donation party.
have known minister's better half,
who was a careful housewife, to sit
down and have good cry "a feminine
right, by the way, even in these times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

REPRESENTATIVE GEARY of California
has no hesitancy in pursuing the late
Senator Stanford beyond the grave.
There may be difference Of opinion as
to how much immunity from censure
death should give, but in any case the
best course would have been to find out
that the ex-senator was a thief while he
was yet alive.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12
COUNTRY MINISTER'S.
THEOLOGICAL GRADUATES OF 1894
WILL SOON SWELL THEIR RANKS.

Rural Pastors Are Devoted Men IL There
Are Amy Such-Thefr Small Monetary Re-
wards-Funsra1s. Wedding Fees. DOna-
ton Parties.
Yet little while, and the divinity
students of 1894 viii be graduated, and
the army of evangelical ministers will
receive large re-enforcements. And in
the nature Of things most of the young
men who will then go out from the doors
of the theological seminaries Will serve
country churches.
If there are any men on the face of the
earth who are deserving of consideration
from their fellow men, if there are men
anywhere whose labors are ceaseless and
earnest, if there are men in existence
who give Of their life and their strength
for the benefit Of others, they are the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

A RAILROAD tram was held up within
the city limits Of Philadelphia by four
thieves who had no other weapons than
Jumps of coal The only difference in
lawlessness between the east and west
seems to be that it doesn't take much of
an outlaw in the east
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

SENATOR Quay says he has hitherto ig-
nored the mean stories told on him as be-
meath his notice but the latest one about
him was too much. The country con-
graduates Mr.. Quay on having at last en-
countered charge that he could deny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE discovery of two star-Iike lights
within the south polar snow cap of Mars
is announced from the Flagstaff, Arizona,
observatory. We knew she was gone,
but no one expected that the Stareyed
Goddess of Reform had wandered so far
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE strike Of all English coal miners
If it takes place will give American
newspapers an excellent opportunity to
pay back the advice so generously
offered from time to time, by telling the
English how to run their government so
as to prevent such things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12
FOR LEVI MORTON.
He May He NomInnted For Governor of
New York.

New YORK, June 12-News was re-
ceived from London today, which led a
very close friend of ex-Vice President
Levi P. Morton to state that should the
Republican state convention name Mr.
Morton for governor. and his present
good health should continue, he would
not refuse to run.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12
SOME JOCULAR JINGLES.

When 1Tol1ie Battles the Baby
When Mollie battles the baby,
lay my book aside
And watch the operation
With deep paternal pride.
scan the dimpled body
Of the struggling little eli
For undeveloped points of
Resemblance to myself
When Mollie bathss the baby
She always says to me:
s-Isn't he just as cunning
And sweet as he can be2
Just see those pretty dimples!
Aren't his eyes a lovely blue7''
And then, You precious darling,
could bite those arms in two"
When Mollie bathes the baby,
always say to her:
''Lock out, now. don't you drop him.
And she answers back, mo, STRIP
Then talk about his rosy cheeks.
The muscles in his arms,
His shapely head. his sturdy legs
And other manly charms.
When Mollie bathes the baby,
The household bends its knee
And shows him greater Difference
Than ever it shows 20 me.
But feel no Jealous goading
As they laud him to the skies,
For every one assures me
That he has his fathers eyes.
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

CLEVELAND suffered so from the heat
that he had to call in a doctor to give
him a prescription. It would appear
that he had at last begun to feel the
burning indignation of the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

celve that in almost any other and more
worldly pursuits, even if only moderate
~ successful, they would be able to do
better from a financial point of view,
and yet the percentage Of those who
abandon the calling to enter one in
which there is money to be made is SO
small as to be hardly in evidence at all
III you cannot explain this, can. The
country ministers as a class are men
whose lives are ordered according to a
strict Interpretation of what they con-
ceive 70 be their duty. This, coupled
with trust in the powers above that is
positively sublime is what keeps them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

tary of state again very badly, he thinks
now. The Populists had better be care
full how they treat him or he may get
after him with his Winchester
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE fact that all the New York saloons
were closed Sunday is likely to bring
forth another sneer from Chicago at her
slow, old fashioned ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

MULEY HAssoN, they say, is dead,
but there are great many others with
the same characteristics whe remain in
the flesh as obdurate as ever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

WHILE strikers are in the business of
blowing up bridges their attention is po-
litely directed to the one over the Kaw
on Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE Oxford Y ale boat race will de-
eide whether America cannot Outrow
England as she has always outsailed her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

WASHINGTON. June 12.-For Kansas:
Generally fair: probably severe local
storms in northern portion today; south
erlY winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE wine and spirit schedule of the
tariff bill was adopted without alteration.
Senators have become SO accustomed to
saying "the same" that there was no
chance for anything else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

IT seems that George William Curtis
will have to slumber on without any
suitable memorial to his life and work
a Curtis Monument association has just
been started in New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

If the Populists don't adopt a woman
suffrage plank after wearing the badges
they do, they are sailing under false
cnIors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

WHEN Prendergast said he wanted nc
continuance, no delay, he made himself
solid with the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE Republicans have a majority of
only tifty-two in :he Oregon Legislature
just full deck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

THE men who shot Bill Dalton will get
about $4,000 for il. Dalton then was
worth as much dead as Grover Cleve-
land is for one year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12

Ring up American Steam Laundry
tele, 341.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12
Our Hero.

Our Hero.
As center rush was our pride.
He killed q or TWO:
He merely touched them, and-they diedl
He rowed upon the crew.
He wore the mask and caught fnshoots
From off the cleaning bat.
The umpire trembled in his boots
When Slasher said, .'How's that2''
He broke the record with the shot,
And when we fought the town
1t took three proctors and lot
OF cops to hold him down.
But since he's left the college stage
And vanished from the scene
We hear he writes the woman's page
For Duffy's Magazine!
Harry Romaine in Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-12


The Young Woman Who Lived In Flat.
There young woman who lived in a fiat.
She had seven children, dog and cat.
A bird and husband. To know what to do
She didn't-like t'other who lived in a shoe.
To feed them together she couldn't, for when
The table was set in the dining room den
It filed all the space nobody could squeeze
Tween table and walls, try as hard as he please.
So three at a time she just managed to feed.
And, though they all ate with a cannibal's
speed,
It gave that poor woman no rest in the day
From setting the table and clearing away.
Though feeding the family puzzled her quite.
IT vas nothing to slowing 'em of for the night.
Fine beds she had plenty, all made to unfold.
But never a room one when open would hold.
A boy on a mat slumbered out in the hall;
The baby was hung by the bird-on the wall;
On tubs in the kitchen a little chap slept;
In drawers of the dresser another one crept-
On lounge in the parlor miss had to go;
Another one lay on two chairs in row;
The big boy was stuffed in the pantry to bunk;
The cat was In luck on the top of a trunk.
The poodle. compelled in a corner to squeeze.
Could never untwist to get sitter his f1eas-
The old man, who daren't grow fat any more.
Was tucked in the bathtub to blissfulIy snore.
The mother-in-law. who quite often was there,
In nightcap and gown filed the hard rocking
chair,
And then the poor woman looked round for
shelf
On which she could lay what was left of her.
self.
Although this young woman had there in her
flat
A bird, seven children a dog and a cat
And also a husband she never at all
Could them together. the rooms were 50
small.
To make herself certain that none should be
lost,
Out into the street once 8 week they were
forced.
And after their noses were counted all right
She led the procession up stairs with delight.
That poor woman's troubles were thicker than
flies
A little, wee stranger dropped down from the
skies,
But couldn't get in till they fired the cat
For never is room for lone more IN a fat.
Detroit Free Press.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
Damages Against the C, v. r.,

Utica, N. Y, March 25.-The jury
in the case of Achsah 5. Bateman
against the Central Vermont Rail-
road company, which has been on
trial before Judge Coke in the United
States District court this week, has
returned a verdict of ST., 900 in favor
of the plaintiff.
The plaintiff asked for s25, 200 fol
injuries received in a collision al
Champlain August 5, 1891, when q
mail train ran into an excursion train.
Another case growing out of the
same accident, by which Mrs Lottie
S. Lewis seeks to recover similar
amonnt for injuries sustained, was
given to the jury last night.
The railroad has already paid $685..
900 on account Of the accident.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
For A One Arm Ticket.

EuuOT DVteT -
/ give the SITTER credit for having
told as much truth about politicians and
political methods, first and last, as falls
to the lot of the average news paper man
Sometimes it has seemed little toe
strong-but it is better to say too much
once in while than never say anything.
There is more in pluck than in luck, anC
every one will readily concede this.
see by the state papers that nomina
tions for state officers are being made
These seems to be a general expectation
that Col. Woodbury. will be the genera
choice for Governor, and it dose not oc
cur to me that there will be any mistake
made if he is. The field is open for the
second place on the ticket, and good can
didates are plenty.
1t has occurred to me that it would bt
almost the romance of politics if the next
Governor and Lieutenant Governor OF
Vermont should be one armed soldier
w. A. Woodbury. lost an arm in the
service and so did @. NJ. Mansur of Is
land Pond. If it should be Woodbur,
and Mansur, it would be hand work t.
find fault with the ticket. Perhaps tha,
will not meet the mind of the SITTER
but it look all right TO AxTEL.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
THE GOVERNOR TO ISSUE
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Machinist, Telegrapher, Electrician, As
tronomer. Discoverer of the aurora
bOrealis, Uniform Iuterna-
tiOnal Pitch and Master
of the Vermont CuckOos!

VI bhC sCIAhoht SuCAOOss
BRATTLEBORo, VI, March "a, '94.
DEAR OLD SITTER =
Oh, have news for you, the best
Qatest) thing out. The great machinist,
telegrapher, Electrician, Civil engineer,
astronomer and discoverer of Aurora
Borealis, and the Uniform International
Pitch, is having sketch of his life got
out here in one of our printing offices,
presumably for distribution among the
admiring thousands, who sacrificed their
political allegiance on his sacred alter
Oh Jupiter, where is thy thunderbolt, or
dost thou hear the ass bray? This "Com-
rade" is now in progress from the Pacific
where the United States Army turned
out en- masse to gaze upon him and do
honor to his transcendent abilities. He
will soon arrive here aud we expect that
this biography will be launched on the
press about that time. 1t is signed by
Augusta Prescott, Correspondent, and
engineered by our Private Secretary,
Capt. Pinchbeck.
1t goes on to narrate how this descend
ant of English and German nationality,
when he was thirteen years old left home
with only the traditional 'silver quarter !"
how he arrived in Brattleboro, worked
at the printers trade, attended the High
School, learned telegraphy, and the
foundations of his great electric know
ledge at the same time (nothing to boy
of his Olympic talents so that Warren
in his great work on Astronomy recorded
the great achievement of this prodigy in
discovering the effects of aurora borealis
on the wire, He also honored Boston
with his youthful presence, there studied
the machinest trade with a scientific ad-
dition at the Roxbury night school Leav-
| ing Boston in utter darkness in 1860 he
dawned again on Brattleboro and delight
ed the musical inhabitants, by becoming
machinest and mechanical engineer Ca
place since filled honorable by Rober Len.
mex of Scotland of the Estey Organ
works. There is lot more dear old
SITTER about this foolery, but l have
not time now to tell it but will continue
it in your next, if this don't spring the
mine, from your old friend.
Nemesis. :.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30

Two notable events are in progress
this week and they will 60 laundering
down the ages like unto the patter of
a June bug upon lighted window :
Coxey's march upon Washington and
Levi Fuller's transcontinental strides
upon Brattleboro. Coxey is said to
be a rich man with an intellectual
turn; Levi is military hero with an
astrochemico-aurora borealis "pitch. ="
Coxey is after the Washington leg
islators; Levi is reaching for the
Brattleboro cuckoos.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30

PRICE THREE CENTS.

The Burlington woolen mill has
started up with full force Of en-
ployees and on full time, The mill
is one of the largest in New England,
and employs 800 hands. Last fall
this mill sent to Congress petition
signed by the company and about 800
operatives protesting against any re-
duction in the tariff duties on wool
and wooden goods.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30

In reference to the recent great
storm in the West dispatch from
Wyoming says:
The wires are now up after the late
storm, which commenced last Monday
evening, and continued terrible bliz-
zard for over rs hours. Snow drifted
10 to 20 feet deep in every direction,
and all roads were impossible.
Reports from stockmen show that
the loss of stock is terrible. In one
herd, near Buffalo, over 20 per cent
perished. The range losses will prob.
ably be one-half, which will leave
scarcely any stock in the country this
spring.
No loss of human life has been re-
ported.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
Sifterlets-ShOrt and Snappy.

1t seems that Bourke Cochran did
not go to Texas to make speeches
at least, not in public.
The man who has something that
others want never lacks flatterers.
Some of the New York political
bosses are partial to striped suits this
spring.
Every member Of the U. s. Senate
is old enough to know the danger of
monkeying with whiskey.
The making of tariff bill seems
to be a sort of xxx bonanza for
the professional lobbyists at Wash
ington.
Have the common, every day, hon.
est people of the country any rights
which the Senate will condescend tc
respect
If it be true that society Furnishes
those who have been found out Con.
gresham Breckenridge cannot hope
to escape.
Whether a man gets or fails to gel
an office is often an important factor
in determining his opinion of the
party in power.
There is more danger to be appre
hended from moral lepers, of thu
Breckinridge type, than from those
suffering with the loathsome Asiati,
disease. And the time will doubtless
come when the former will be treated
| Just as the latter are now-separatet
from healthy people.
| The London anarchists are NOR,
noisy than their Partisan prototypes
and probably for that very reason
are regarded as less dangerous.
Lord Roseberry, the new Englisl
premier, may not be so great as Glad
stone, but he is no slouch as a wore
juggler, as may be seen by this ex
tract from one of his recent speeche
1--WE do not purpose to sit on thu
banks of the stream of time and watcl
the stream pass by until it runs dry.
That was clever enough to have beef
said by an American.
Now that the Iowa legislature ha
refused to modify the prohibition laws
the officials should see that those law
actually do prohibit.
i 1t would seem that the ambition O
several men in several states to occu
by seat in the U. s. Senate is ris
ing with the sap this spring. Lots o
these fellows will be sorry later on.
| Congressman Bourke Cochran il
billed for a lecture in the Chicag,
Auditorium. 1t will, however, no
attract as much attention as the on
delivered by him at the same place a
2 a. m. in the summer of '92. He
the same Cochran, but his thought
have been revolutionized.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
See tho worla'. NJ, r.r Fifseen Cents.

See the Worlds H@ss fsr Fifteen Cents.
Upon receipt of your address and fif-
teen cents IN postage stamps we will mail
you prepaid our SOUVENIR PORTFOLIO
OF THE WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
the regular price is Fifty cents, but as we
want you to have one, we make the price
nominal. You will find 1t work of art
and thing to be priced. Itcontains full
page views of the great buildings, with
descriptions of same, and is executed In
highest style of art. Hnot satisfied with
it, after you get it, we will refund the
stamps and let you keep the book. Ad-
dress H. E. BUCKLEN & CO.,
Chicago, Ill.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30

spraying Potatoes" is the title of a
bulletin of the Experiment Station, al
Burlington, which has just come to hand.
1t is 16-page pamphlet containing a
number of illustrations showing the char.
acter of the potato blights, and the effect
of spraying upon the yields and size OF
potatoes. A spraying cart for the ready
application of fungicides is also illustrat-
ed. The bulletin is summarized on the
first page in plain black type, and table
of suggestions show how to make and ap-
ply the Bordeaux mixture and where to
obtain spraying machinery. The main
points brought out in the bulletin are:
/. That two distinct blights attack
Vermont potatoes.
2. That both are more thoroughly
checked by spraying with Bordeaux mix
ture than by any other means.
g. That the greatest gain in spraying is
due to prolonging the life of the plant
enabling it thus to grow more and better
potatoes.
4. That potatoes planted in the middle
of May were kept free of disease will
less spraying than thus planted earlier
and have also given the largest yields.
5. That spraying large fields is bes
done with a cart.
We are sure that the spray cart will in
terest many of out readers who havt
found the application of Bordeaux mix
ture tedious task.
| All bulletins and reports of the Station
are sent free of charge to any address OF
application.
Senator Colquitt of Georgia, who wa
stricken with paralysis for the secont
time about week ago, died at his resi-
dence in Washington at 10 o'clock Mon
day morning.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-03-30
Dissolution OF COpartnership.

Notice is hereby given that the sub
scribers have this day, by mutual con-
sent, dissolved the copartnership for
several years existing between US under
the firm name of Richardson & Leonard.
All notes, claims and accounts accrued at
the Peru store are to be settled by and
with Geo. L. Richardson, and all notes.
claims and accounts arising from business
at our Londonderry store are to ne SET
tied by and with Fred. M. Leonard.
GEO. L. RICHARDSON,
FRED M. LEONARD.