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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13
KANsAs PARAGRAPHs.

Mr.. Pleas Brown is the p0Iitest man ia
Mcpherson.
o. b Dalton of Junction City won the
oratorical contest at Baker university.
The Newton Republican has added
paper hangers to the long Istof "artists.
Marion has a stationery engineer
who is advertising for place, in the
PhiIlipsburg has a man who IS "a ex-
pert III clay prospecting for fire clay in
that vicinity.
The druggists of Goodland are In
dulging ia a spirited discussion ais 10 who
sells the best whisky
Miss Matte Shawan has moved to Ar-
kansas City from Burden, and viii pub
ish the Gate City Journal
A new mania Of a malignant type has
manifested itself at Valley Falls. Some
one cut down an orchard Oh 400 young
apple trees
Wichita's pride in being wicked has
been again gratihed by the finding Of
thirteen .white lime" men there. "W hie
lime men" are alcohol drinkers
The young folks who never have coal
bills On the rheumatism, are gmplainin4
because we don't have snowy blizzard
weather, says the Atchis0n Globe.
A meeting of stockmen VIII be held at
Emp0ria the 10Th of this month to cons
slider the Texas fever question and the
establishment Of the quarantine line.
One IF the witnesses in the Adams
trial at Salina, who was d neighbOr of the
Adamses, said he knew Dana used Is
shoot craps because he heard the dis
charge Of the gun.
According to the Leavenworth Times
the soldiers at the Home -sit around
camp fires. eat walnuts and digest st0r-
les" A soldiers stomach scorns any
thing easy to assimilate.
It is said that the postmaster Of Lee
compton has the following letterhead Oh
his stationery: United States of America
Postoffice Department, w. S. BisseiL
Postmaster Genera1 Local Headquarters.
Lecompton. Kansas, W. r. Smith, Post
master. Stamps sold good q carry mail
matter to all parts of the world Prompt
attention given to ALI business entrusted
to me. PaTonize home institutions.
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He trimmed his finger nails On the seat
In front of him sat "a lantern jawed pas
senger trying TO read newspaper by the
dim light of the smoky and archaic car
lamp overhead and the pulseless atmos-
phere was vaguely conscious of reminis-
cences of orange peel and tobacco And be
sat with his knees against the back of the
seat in front and trimmed his finger nails
He trimmed his finger nails The rain
drops made slanting lines Of moisture on
the windows. Across the aisle sleeping
woman long past the meridian Of life snored
dismauy. He looked at the brakeman NOV
ing with slow, perfunctory step through
the ear and yawned. He yawned and con
tinued TO trim his finger nails
He trimmed his finger nails. All about
him were fellow beings, the orbits of whose
existence were for the time mystariousIy
coincident with his own. Should he ever
meet them again2 All, mel And be trim
med his finger nails and from his pale,
trem bling lips there came the murmur.
Darn such a dull Chicago Trib-
uue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13
DEAN COLWELL GOES.
The Popular Clergyman Designs
His Charge Todag
10 ACCEPT 4 CALL IN COLORADO

He Goes TO Colorado Springs May no
Succeeded by Frank R. BEIlIspnunh
or minneapolis. 8Elnn.
Rev. j. ID. Colwell, dean of Grace Ca
thedral. has rendered his resignation as
pastor Of the Episcopal church. to take
effect after the first Sunday in February.
The resignation was rendered to the
vestrymen.
The vestry consists of j.. ~. Giles. ID.
w. Nellis, VIM. Henderson, II. j. kellam,
Dr. S. F. Sheldon and r. D. Thacher.
The resignation was accepted with re-
luctauce 10y the vestrymen. and Mr. kel-
lam and Mr.. Thacher we're appointed 10
prepare appropriate resolutions of regret
at Mr.. Cow ellis departure.
Mr.. Coiwell has been in charge of his
Topeka Passionate the past Eve years. He
resigned to accept persistent call 20
the Episcopal church at Colorado
Springs. This church is tile largest and
most wealthy in the state, outside Of
Denver. de was offered 300 wear
and a residence. The Topeka church
Pays $500 IA year and parsonage.
The departure of Dean COlWeh Will be
a source of regret To bis large circle of
friends aud admirers ia Topeka that ID
not confined TO the Episcopa liauss
Aside from being preacher Of unusual
force, he ls hard worker ia all other
branches of church work, and these
qualities. combined with "a pleasing per-
sOnalify. have greatly endeared him TO
his congregation and made hIu one Of
the most popular pastors i'm the city.
AT the same meeting of the vesiry
unanimous call was extended To Rev.
Frank RI AIillspangh of Minneapolis.
Mimi, who is a warm friend Of Bishop
Thomas. Mr.. Milspaugh is not known
I'd many Iopekans, except hy reputation.
air. MiIlspaugh, it IS expected. acc
cept.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13
TAINT OF THE GOBLIN
iT STILL cLuNGs TO SOME HISTORIC
HOUSES lN WASHINGTON

Notorious Superstition OF the Colored Fso-
plea Famous Haunted House-Au In
taresting spook ~ Beautiful 11arcia
I8urns-The Blaine Red House.
Especial Cores ondence.1
w AsHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE public
spirited gentlemen who some time age
formed themselves into an association
for preserv alton of the historic houses Of
Washington have had some strange ex-
periencea. They have unearthed more
superstition and been put to more an
noyance on account thereof than falls to
the lot Of most societies. They have dis
covered that nearly all of the old houses
of the city are believed to be haunted,
especially by the col0red men whom they
have desired to employ as cleaners and
caretakers. The col0red people Of Wash
ington are VIGOROUSLY superstitiOus, as
the most of their race everywhere, and
belief ia haunted houses is SO prevalent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

FHEHE FIRST PAPER IN KANSAS TO Sc
= cure the leased wire service of tile Associated
Press, controls extensively for Topeka the + ul
DAY Service of this great organic Arion for the
collection 1f news A te iegrapn operator ~ the
STATE JCLENs AT. once ls afaployet for tins sole
purpose ot taeng this re port. winch comes COLI
tinuousy from 1880 a. m- Till 4 200 p M with
bulletins OF important news up TO D. mo over
g wire running into this once and used only for
tue day Associated Press business between the
hours above named.
lhe STATE JoURN AT IS the only paper ia
Kansas RECEIVING cine FllA Day Associated Press
Report
s-rhe STATE Journal has regular aver
age Daily Locai Circulation I'd Topeka Of more
ahan ala other Capital CITY Dallies Com
bfned. and Double that Of its principal
paper.
s-AIember of the American Newspaper
Publishers Association.
Ihe STATE JOURNAL Press Room 70
eQnipped with a Lightning Web PeTfeetng
Printing FFcsS-tle landsomest and fastest
piece Of printing machinery ia the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

A posthumous anecdote Of the immortal
Tartarin is related by The Gaulois. It
was ia the gunroom, and Tartarin. after
RECALLING his audience with various thrilling
tales Of his exploits and adventures ia the
chase. described the following horrifc ex-
perience. ''The other day he said, .sin a
fearful snowstorm, i found myself without
a gun or any weapon face to face with three
wolves We'll what did you do?' 'sWel1
4 simply stared at them, with my hands in
my pockets, and whisrled.7 do you mean
to say they didn't attack you2' They
couldn't; they were in a cage In Profess
or Gamers case the conditions were re-
versed.-London Globe.
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LUKE NOT GUILTY.
lie HAD Not Been Stealing From tine Tn-
sane Asylum.

1t took the district court jury just ten
minutes this morning to return a verdict
of sn0t guilty" ia the case of Alexander
Luke. who was charged with stealing
property belonging To the state from the
insane asylum.
Luke's case was tried yesterday after
noon. and the arguments were made this
morning.
This is the case which caused Treas
urer Waite of the state board of chart
ties to talk So much about the stealings
IF Republican employees of state institu-
tons, last summer. vs. hen Luke was
arrested Waite said he had discovered
a plot which would send one hundred
men to the penitentiary. but the district
court jury evidently did not agree. with
Mr. Waite as they discharged Luke.
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Thrown our on COURT.
The Case Against A. D. paranore is
Stopped by Judge Ha1en-

The Case Against A. D. Paramorc is
stopped by Judge Ha1eu-
Judge Hazen does not allow the crimi-
nal division of his court to be used az
club to make man settle civil transac-
ton satisfactory to the other man.
The case against A. j. Paramore,
charged with The rather harsh sounding
crime Of stealing HORSE" was on trial
in the district court this morning.
ME-. ParamOre. who lives in North IC-
peka. gave q chatte4 mortgage ou horse
10 the Citizens bank several months ago,
and the horse was ordered sold to satisfy
the mortgage. Dir. Paramore was one Of
the bidders for the horse ana he claims
he bought the animal. lie rods the horse
home and was then arrested tor stealing
When the prosecuting witness. i. G.
Tompkins had been on the stand about
an hour. Judge Hazen suddenly stopped
the proceedings, and said. Gentlemen,
iii the balance of the evidnce for the
prosecution is Of this character 4 do not
want to hear it,"
County Attorney Stafford informed him
that he understood the evidence given
was sample of what was to follow. Judge
Hazen at once ordered the jury 70 return
a verdict of "not guilty" and Ar. Para
more was discharged.
Deafness Cannot be cured
by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion Of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deafness.
and that Is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness IS caused oy an iuhamed cou-
diti0n Of the mucous lining Of the
custodian tube. When this tube gets
infamed you have a rumblng sound or
imperfect hearing. and when il is enc
tirely closed deafness is the result, and
unless the inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored 10 its normal con-
dition. hearing viii be destroyed foreTers
nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an inhamed
condition Of the mucous surfaces.
WE viii give one hundred dollars for
anv case of deafness fcaused ~ catarrhl
tha cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure Send for circulars. free.
f. i. CHENEY e. Co, Toledo. %.
Sold by druggists. Toe.
Try Peerless Steam Laundry
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SLAUGHTER OF SOFAS.

This Is Not a Furniture Advertise 11s ems
But Refers TO African w argAre-
LoSDoN, Jam 13-A dispatch from
Freetown, Sierra Leone. says that forty
men of the frontier police, under the com
mand of Inspector Taylor, with few ma
tive auxiliaries. defeated force of 1000
Sofas, on December 20, ST Gala, n
Touki
The dispatch adds that $50 Sofas were
killed, including their chief, and thai 100
Of the natives were taken prisoners
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

NO, Miss Jamersonp' exclaimed the
young man bitterly My life henceforth
is blighted- I shah never love again Ny
heart is dead and a dead heart can never
be resurrected.'
MIR Highstreet' p said the Boston maid
en- gently, Edo not say So. i implore you'll
ia the vocabulary of our best writer's in
English there IS no such verb as 'resur-
rect 22--Chicago Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

KANSAS CIrY star. There was war in
New Jersey yesterday of the same sort
that flooded Kansas with east wind and
carnage last winter The Democrats Of
the upper branch of the state legislature
attempted to keep the Republicans outs
the Republicans forced their way in-
And yet, 80 far as heard, no eastern cap
italists have rushed into print with inter
views declaring that they win imme-
diateIy foreclose all mortgages on Hes
boken real estate; no investors have
written letters to the oppressed boarding
house farmers on the Jersey coast de-
handing their pound of flesh with the
accumulated interest to date. because of
the action of the New Jersey Democrats
and 10 thin haired social scientists have
written screeds showing that New Jersey
is the harbor for anarchy No no KAN
sas is the harbor for anarchy; Kansas IS
the place here the farmers must be
squeezed because of the folly of the
politicians. Kansas is the field from
which eastern investors must hurry
ia pale terror lest they get
gobBled up BY the boyle Of un-
settled financial condition ia the west.
An eastern paper, in opposing the admis-
sion Of new states, hippantly remarked
the other day: Let US digest Kansas be-
fore we assimiIate Arizona meaning
that Kansas is a semi barBarous province
a few degrees further along in civiliza-
ton than Mesopotamia or the Islands Of
the South sea. For such patronizing
imbeciles at the east. Kansas would sug-
gest match between her Mr.. PETER and
New Nork's Herr Most; if pushed fur-
t7 T.fr.f fss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

lbs VICENTE Eagla presents the fol-
lowing somewhat startIing idea: ut is
suggested that John n. Reynolds is
ahamming insanity in order to secure
material for another book on asylum
methods. after the style of bis "Twin
Hens." which Is an embellished recital
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

Railroad Man (angrily) Ihave just found
out that that COW we had to pay for had
not given any milk for five years.
Farmer Smartt-N aas That's So
sit is. is it2 Now. sir, what right had
you 70 put such a high value on her? Tell
me that"
ssYvaal, you see, valued that cow as q
curiosity. life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

Minister You say you are going to marry
g man to reform him. That is noble May
4 ask who it Tsp
Miss Beauti-It's young Mr. Bondclpper.
indeed did not know he had any bad
habits
Eyes, his friends say that he is becoming
quite misery New York Weekly
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TEE Lawrence Journal says. cone of
the largest drug houses of Atchison
failed yesterday. The assets were more
than a thousand dollars. not much more
however. An Atchison drug store that
win attempt to carry such an immense
stock ought to fail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

Of his experiences iii states prisons
Reynolds is q methodical sort of fellow
ia all his undertakings, though there
NAV Be none IN his present maaasaa.-
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SECRETARY OSBORN wants the Populist
state convention held as far from Topeka
as possible. Secretary Osborn goes to
the window every day and looks as am
griiy AS he can over the housetops ST the
city toward the district court room.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

JUDGE HAzEN might include ii his
sentence of forger Teal Turner a repri-
mand for the merchant who accepts
checks from people he doesn't know.
The law can't protect people who are Sd
utterly sOnhding- and careless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

C0NGREss labors under the delusion
that the people demand that it do some
thing; the people desire nothing of the
kind: they are now trying To make up
their minds what is the matter with the
country, they are thinking and quietly
discussing the matter. Until they have
clearly decided what they want, congress
would do well to keep hands off.
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here as to lead to q good deal of trouble
ia finding whitevvashers, mason's helpers
and other workmen to repair the historic
mansions with which the city teens.
Lincoln superstitions.
The gentleman who recently took pos
session of the old house on Tenth street
in which Abraham Lincoln died was sur
prised when servant after servant en-
ployed by him left the same day she
came. As long as daylight continued
there was peace ia the domestic estab-
lish1nent. but when the shades of dark
ness fell athwart the city the colored
cook departed for a habitation more to
her liking 1T is one Of the traditions of
Washington that the ghost Of Mr.. Lin
colin returns four times a week to the
house in which his spirit breathed its
last the day after his shooting by Wilkes
Booth in the theater across the street.
One Of the most famous of all the
haunted houses in Washington is the
Winter house, which stands near the
navy yard. in a quarter Of the city now
Inhabited principally by poor people. but
which was once the aristocratic section
of the young capital. That was in the
days when the great white statehouse on
the Roman hill was in process of cree
ton and Washington was q mere vii
lage, struggling out over several farms
of mud and underbrush. The only ap-
pr0aches to the city at that time were by
water and stagecoach. The railway was
undreanled of, and therefore the specu-
lator and investor naturally argued that
the water approaches would become wall
liable before any other part of the town.
Hence it was that many rows of man
si0ns, fine and costly in their day, were
erected near the navy yard.
a Well known Tradition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

SOME Of the fine Italian hands on the
Pennsylvania railroad struck and tried TO
wreck a train the other day and now
they're in iai
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

WE ought to be glad that congress
does nothing but talk; it might do worse:
it might act
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

THE latest most popular novelist is
Norwegian named Lie. lie ought e be
a successful story writer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

GOVERNOR LEwE1LINe viii not dis
miss Todd because everybody demands
It. He thinks this is firmnesa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

Iammany tigers hair the wrong way;
but that's all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

BETWEEN the English ana The French
it seems to be the fate of the Sofas in
Africa To be sat ON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

How the veneering has worn of Of
Grover Cleveland; even the Lama
Democrat kind Of Democrats can see it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

PREM pERGAsT's profile looks like For
ger Turner's. but Turner has more sense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

GOVERNOR VARIES legislature doesn't
want to adjourn. after ALL Whoever
heard of a legislature adjourning till it
had to-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-01-13

DELIVERED BY CARRIER.- To GENTS Al WFEW
no ATY PAINT Obj TOFHKA OH sNHuRBs. Or
AT IHE SAME PRICE IN Any KA NsAs Town
WHERE THIS PArER HAS a CARR ER SYSTEM
~ lIAIL. THREE MONTHS. ..-.........--- 30
~ lrAIL. oNE YEAR .-.......---.. .......- $50
# A-Ai2IN EDHT1oas, PER YEAR, -----..- 30
Address. STATE 5orTsNAE-
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dred times. But 1T is not generally known
that a crisp. new $50 note from the gov
ernment money mill over there by the
Monument across the common would
not induce a Washington colored man
"a enter this old house after sunset.
That 1T is a haunted house every coIored
man of the neighborhood knows just as
well as he knows shat he IS alive.
When the association For Preservation
OF Historic Houses visited the first house
buiIt iii Washington and its more pre-
tentious but now sadly decayed neigh
Dor few days ago with a view to erect
ing upon the mansion a tablet indicative
OF its historic Importance, they were sur
prisad by the warning given them biz
friendly c0I0red man. Don't y0use
stay around here after nightfau less so
want the life scared outen yo, said he.
and when pressed for an explanation he
declared that every night the spirit of
beautiful Marcia Burns, ia her night
robe and carrying in her long arms
tiny baby, was seen roaming about the
rooms and halls and even out into the
yard under the trees. Marcia Burns
died ia the cottage while yet young
wife and q much younger mother and
tradition about the ghost with the baby
has been handed down through four Oh
five generations of c0lored neighb0rs.
Until recently the colored people of
that part Of the city used the grounds of
the Van Ness mansion as a sort Of picnic
resort. drinking beer under the treesand
dancing ON the lawn. But they never
staid longer than till the sun began to
dip below the wooded heights of General
Lees family home-ArlingtOn farm
across the river, and then they departed
for their homes with more than their
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BoUTELLE is as irrepressi3le as the
bark Of black and tan terrier.
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one Then.

1Iuqeins-So people are never satisfied
to know that certain things are so, but are
continually wanting to know the why and
wherefore OF IT.
Bugrins-Xes. j wonder why ~ isi nll-
ldelphia Record
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around Washington which have fallen
under the ban Of the colored population
on account Of their supposed refuge for
ghosts and spirits.
The Mead house on III street. in the
fashionable part Of the city, as fine
piece of property as one should care for,
has been ruined as an investment by this
sanseless craze Of the colored folk. Over
iii Georgetown. the Oldest part of Wash
ington-for Georgetown was thriving
village when George Washington was q
boy, having been named after King
George and not after George Washing
ton. as many suppose-there must be
fully dozen Of these haunted houses.
Many of them are valuable properties.
and their owners, after trying ia vain to
rent them. have been compelled to pull
them down and erect new buildings.
The Red House
Even Mrs Blaine has had trouble In
getting and keeping colored servants, be
cause the col0red people have become
superstitious about her house. known
now as the Red House. They do not
saw I'll Is haunted. bat that 1T IS unluclzy.
Because General Sick1es killed Key ia
front of it. an attempt was made 70 as
sassinate Secretary Seward within it.
and because Walker Blaine and finally
Mr.. Blaine himself died there, the coli
ored people. in their simple way. mag
inc that the house has fallen under the
ban of the fates, and some of them re-
fuse to work for its present owner
through fear that the bad luck Of the
place viii be visited upon them.
WALTER WELL1EAN.