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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-02-28

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cts inquire Of ROWLEK BROS,
Agents Santa Ee route. southeast corner Sixth
and Kansas avenue Topeka
OF W. @. CARNEY. agent at Depot.
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St. Joe Morning
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Sunday Reading and Conscience.

n Boston DOarulng mouse rOOmeC
sixteen clerks, honest and well dis
posed, and belonging to good families
4 II of them were of the age when the
boy, Just merging into manhood, gen
orally makes decisions as to his conduct
that result in final good or evil.
Three of the young men, who oc'
cupied one of the rooms together, were
recent acquaintances, and their first
Sunday morning in the house brought
a trial of moral courage which is inter
esting to relate.
The hours between breakfast and
church time must be whiled away
somehow, and two of the room-mates
busted themselves with miscellaneous
reading.
The third felt desire to take out
his Bible and read it, as he had been
taught to do at home. Fearing ridi-
Guile, he hesitated good while, but
conscience presently impelled him to
go to his trunk and lift the lid. Cow
ardice suggested that it would look
"sanctimoniOus" to be seen reading
the Bible. He shut the lid down and
walked away.
After nearly half an hour of strug-
gle, conscience, triumphed again. He
rose and went to the trunk q second
time. Again his courage failed him.
AS he was turning away one of his
companions called ont:
whats the matter, Ike? You're
as uneasy as q weather COCK"
Ike laughed, and told the truth like
a man. TO his surprise both the others
confessed that they had the same strug-
gle and defeat. Each thought that he
ought to read his Bible, but was afraid
to be seen by the rest.
The next minute all three had their
Bibles in their hands, and read them
together during the next half hour.
They agreed 10 do this every Sunday.
The ice was broken.
The next Sabbath morning, while
they sat quietly reading, two of the
clerks from another room came. in.
"Hullo" they exclaimed. What
is this, a conventicle?'
The three Bible readers frankly told
of their agreement. The visitors con-
fessed that only cowardice had kept
them, too, from the same duty. They
promised to begin at once, and they
did 50. The example spre ead, till each
of the sixteen clerks in the house
spent his Sunday mornings reading
the Bible.
Every one of these youths is to-day
o useful man. We cannot, of course,
say that the mere reading of the Bible
on those Sabbath mornings made these
men what they are. We can say,
however, that the principles of the
Bible must have influenced their lives
for good, and the associations which,
with such q habit, they would nat
uraily seek must necessarily have been
honorable and elevating, and have
tended to their success in life. One
of them, who afterward became min
lister, related the facts We have given.
One boys courage to do right may
determine not only his own future
well being, but that of many others
besides.-Youth's Companion
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You may kill O man with anxiety
very quickly; but it is difficult to
kill him with work, especially if he
retains the power, which most men OF
intellectual occupations more or less
possess, of sleeping nearly at will and
without torpor. The man who has
used his brain all his life, say for six
hours day, hos, in fact trained his
nerve-power and placed it beyond the
reach of early decay, or..that kind OF
feebleness which makes so many ap.
parently healthy men succumb 50
readily to attacks of disease. Doctors
know the differences among men in
this respect quite well, and many OF
them acknowledge that the 'habit OF
surviving" which they find in their
best patients arises from two causes
-one, which used to be always plead
ed, being that soundness of physical
constitution which some men enjoy
by hereditary right, and the other,
some recondlte form of brain power,
seldom exhibited, except under strong
excitement, by any but those who
throughout life have been compelled
to think and, so to speak, use their
thoughts as other men Use their liga-
ments and muscles. If such man is
tired of life, medicine will not save
him; but, as rule, his will, copsci-
ously or unconsciously, compels the
trained nerve power to struggle on.
Whether the brain can actually give
power to the muscles is not certain
though the enormous strength some
times developed in last rally looks
very like it; but that it can materi.
ally affect vitality is quite certain, and
has been acknowledged by the
experienced in all ages.
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Sam Jones's Idea of Finance.-To
get in debt financially is about the
worst thing a man can do. A man
had better die than to get in debt,
and speak that with all the honesty
of my nature and out of deep expert
ence. Death has hurt fewer people
than debt has, and Spurgeon said q
good thing when he said: 81 have
fought three enemies, l trust success
fully-dirt and the devil and debt
and by the grace of God I hope to
conquer all three and make my way
to heaven" And l don't know which
is the worst. BY soap and water you
can run the first of, by prayer and
faith you can make the second git"
but this thing debt is mighty hard
thing to manage. A man that will
buy luxury on credit is fool, and
O man that will buy a luxury when he
owes money on an honest debt is q
rascal, "Owe no man anything but
love one another" Don't buy thing
if you can't pay for it. But if you
must get into debt, the next best
thing is to settle at the end of the
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A wOman.s Good Name.

Many people who would recoil with
horror from cutting a human crea'
ture's throat, Which really does not
hurt very much and only lasts mo-
ment, will murder q woman's good
name without remorse or compunc.
tions; and that hurts worse than
death for lifetime. 1t is a meanel
crime than a murder, writes Robert J
Burdette in his department in the
April Ladies Home Journal. We cry
out, and rightly too, against the sensa'
tional and depraving habit of making
heroes of robbers and cut-throats. II
is horrible thing to do. And yet
have less Of hatred and loathing fol-
the late Jesse James than I have for
some people who have never been
convicted of a capital crime, but
whose tongues, we know, are worse
than any knife that ever severed q
human jugular.
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Hastv JUDGEMENT.

1t is we'll to suspend judgement in
many cases until we have had time to
review circumstances and trace mo-
tives. Especially where children are
concerned should we be very careful
not to confuse their sense of right and
wrong by acting with injustice, scold-
ing or censuring them for mistakes due
to their inexperience, and, perhaps,
inflicting punishment when none was
deserved. A little child once ran
nearly mile from her own home to
that of a friend, carrying an umbrella
to her mother, whom she supposed to
be there. Great gusts of wind arose
and streams of rain fell and drenched
the little one before she arrived at her
destination. wet, breathless, and quite
unable to explain why she had come,
when met by curious eyes and amaZ-
ed questions. The mother had seen
the impending storm and gone home,
and the result of the whole proceeding
was for this true story took place III
sterner days than ours that the child
was shut up for many hours OF the
next day TO think over the fault OF
equivOcatiOn.
A mother whose temper is impulsive
should never trust her first hasty judg-
ment in the management of her little
ones.
In the larger affairs of the neighbor-
hood and of society the prudent person
refuses to Judge hastily. He gives the
benefit of the doubt wherever and
whenever and to whomsoever he can.
People have right to as k that before
they are weighed in the balances and
found wanting their cases shall be
looked at from all sides and from the
most favorable point of view. 1t is
not we'll to assume that bushes and
down-dropped eyes always indicate
guilt. Innocence falsely accused is
often ashamed to look its accuser in the
face. Judge not, that ye be not judged
was said by the purest lips that ever
spoke on earth. ,..
The man or woman whose habit Is
to indulge in snap judgments of any
kind is necessarily narrow and unde-
veloped. .----Harper's Razar.
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China, hating foreigners, wishes to
become Independent of them. She
has been compelled to employ them to
build her navy, to arm her soldiers
and make her munitions Of war. In
order to become independent OF
them she must needs introduce the
study of the science into her schools.
Thus science is destined to become
the great iIconoclist of the heather
world. What then? Men react from
superstition into infidelity which has
already become the great peril of
Japan, and is becoming the peril of
India. The greatest of modern Hin.
does, Keshub Chunder Sen, once said
II fear for my countrymen that they
will sink from the hell of heathenism
into the deeper hell of infidelity."
The prospect is that in the course of
a few generations the heather world
will become either Christian or agnos-
tic. Which it will become will de-
pend on the church.-New Era.
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Harvests all the Year.

Human beings are the creatures OF
environment. When it is winter
about us, it is too apt to be winter
everywhere. When the scorching
summer sun beats upon our heads we
are prone to imagine sunstrokes the
world over. 1t takes special effort to
get outside Of ones country or ones
climate.
How many of the readers of this
paragraph, when the time of wheat
harvest is asked, but instinctively
think of some stated period, some
fortnight of some month in which
harvesting is done in their immediate
vicinity? How many appreciate the
fact that there is not day in the year
when the hum of the harvester, the
swish of the cradle, or the click of the
primitive sickle is not heard in some
quarter of our earth.
The following calendar of wheat
harvests is in structive reading, and
much more interesting than calendars
usually are. The thoughtful reader
will notice that the harvests in the
United States extend over longer
period than i'm any other land. What
a country ours is, anyway
anuary-Australia, New Zealand,
Chile, and Argentine Republic.
FEBRUARY and March-East India and
Upper Egypt.
April-Lower Egypt, Syria, Cyprus,
Persia, Asia Minor, India, Mexico and
Cuba.
May-Algeria, Central Asia, China,
Japan, Morocco, Southern United
States.
June-Turkey, Greece, Italy, Spain,
Portugal. South of France, Southern,
Middle United States, and Pacific
Coast.
July--Roumania, Bulgari, Austria
Hungary, South of Russia, G ermany,
Switzerland. France, South Of Eng
land, Middle and Northern United
States, Upper Canada.
August-Belgium, Holland, Great
Britain, Denmark, Poland, Lower
Canada, Columbia, Manitoba, and ex-
treme Northern United States.
September and October-Scotland,
Sweden, North of Russia.
November-Peru and South Africa.
Observation-Disclosures.
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The Human Eye.

The last 100 years have increased
the need and capacity for work upon
small objects near at hand. One Oh
the questions occurring to the mind is,
Do these different and increased de-
mands bring increased facility and ca.
pacity to the human eye? Eyes are
now used in ways never imagined 10y
our remote ancectors, possibly never
dreamed of in the oriental countries.
Whatever there nsy have heen in the
way Of sculpture among the Greeks
demanding artistic and accurate vision
there was 10 type,ettlng. no electric
telegraphy, no stenography, ana nc
typewriter. The eye Of tie patriarch
job was constituted ut birth and went
through life to old age very much
such an optical instrument as
that of the English squire who de-
votes himself to all outdoor life in the
Eighteenth or Nineteenth century
but Job hat no printed books to be
guile the tedium and pain of his sea-
i'm the sand and ashes.
The examination Of the mummies ii
the Egyptian mauspleums shows tha
there has been no change in the ana
tomical conformation of the human
ear in 1000 years, and there is ~
evidence that there has been any IL
that of the human eye; but the diff
Guilty of preserving the eyes for exanll
nation centuries after it has ceased L
ee prevents us from proving this.
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BOARD Or. ASSESSORS
TO CANVASS THE RETURNS. or
PERSONAL PROPERTY Of:
ABBEVILLE COUNTY.
Who They Are and What is Ex-
pected Of Them.

The returns Of the various Townships will
be forwarded TO the Township Board OF As
SCISSORS by or before March 9th !; they Wilt
have until March 18th for examining the re
turns. Try and forward the returnsto thisof.
flee by the 18th or 18th OF March. It is clearly
the duty of this Board to scrutinize each re-
turn carefully and to see that each item OF
property listed thereon is assessed at its true
market value. There is no rule to return
property at 6825 per cent. of its actual value.
Where parties are suspected OF having credits
above their Indebtedness or any other charac:
ter Of property that does not appear on their
sworn return. it is the duty Of the Board 10
enter such property or report the case to the
Auditor for investigation.
This Is also the year for the re-assessmeut or
real estate I hope the Board will See to IL
that land is assessed at its true market value.
For example, as 1t would sell at Masters sale.
In every instance where there is material
change in the return OF an individual be sure
and notify the party. so that he may have the
Equalization.
The County Board Of Equalization win hold
It's annual meeting In the Auditors ONCE,
Friday, March 10th. The work Of the County
Board may require more than day.
The following freeholders are hereby ap.
pointed Boards Of the various Townships:
Ninety-Six-J. P. Phillips, J. W. Fouche,J j.
A. Calhoun.
Greenwood-C. A. C. Waller, W. H. Mays.
James F. Coleman.
Cokesbury-T. ]. Ellis, G. B. Riley, w. R
Dunn.
Donalds-E. L. waldrop. WI. Donnald, B.
J. Martin.
Due west-J. E. Todd, NJ. B. Clinkscalss, >
Jno. T. Bryant.
Long Cane-A. F. Calvert, W. A. Stevenson
N. P. McIlwain.
Smithville-N. Anderson, Jr., J. L. White,
w. w. Purdy.
White Hall-A. ]. Pounds, d. w. Jay, ]. L.
Ward, Sr.
Indian Hill. l.. Russell, ]. c. Kennedy; r
W. Crawford.
Cedar Springs-A. X. Watson, John Lyon,
R. o. Hunter.
Abbeville-James Mcmillan, Jones F. Mil !
Ter. P. A. Cheatham.
Diamond Hills. B. Knox, A. F. Carwile, ].
c. Tribble.
Lowndesville-I. H. McCalla. l.. C. Maui.
din, DR.. A. ]. Speer.
Magno nolla-B. A. Boyd. ]. s. Norwood, C. g.
McAlister.
Calhouns Mllls-W. L. Miller, 8. g. Mcbride, d"
]. Fl. Morrah.
Bordeaux-G. 8. Cade, w. II. Britt, T. ].
Price.
The various Boards will meet and organize
by electing q chairman and notify this Office
w. W. BRADLEY,
Auditor A.. C..
Jan. 10, 1894, II
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!. Is it because I am afraid of ridi.
cule and what others may say of me?
"Whosoever shall be ashamed OF
Me, and My words, of him shall the
Son of Man be ashamed"
=. Is it because Of the inconsistent
cies of protesting Christians?
"Every one of lis shall give an ac-
count of himself tn God"
3. Is it because am not wiling to
give all to Christ?
"'Nhat shall it profit a man if he
gain the whole world and lose his own
soul"
i. Is it because T am afraid I will
not be accepted?
Him that cometh unto me will in
no wise cast out"
5. Is it because I fear I am too great
Il sinner?
"The blood of Jesus Chaist clean
seth from all sim"
6. Is it because I am afraid [ shall
not hold out?
He that hath begun good work in
you, will perform it unto the day OF
Jesus Christ,
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Winning by Love.

Oh ! for tenderness, gentleness, love
We must win by love, and conquer
with love. o how much trouble
comes fromes from not being concilia-
tory, but determined to have our
way IN matters about which good peo.
lie may differ and do differ In opin.
lou /! When will we learn that Gods
people are children of light, not fully
grown men and women, not yet per.
perfect, but seeing through glass
darkly, and knowing only in part, and
therefore to be treated as Gods chill
dren with all patience and gentleness
and love?
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without vanity, without ostentation
without intemperance. Long ago they
began to cleanse their own houses o.
the evils that strong drink had
brought in. Long ago they declared
and began practically to establish the
equal rights of woman. -,
It is plain that the Principle of Truth
which the Friends profess, and the
system of ethics which has resulted
from their profession, would bring. in
a new and better day. The establish
ment of Quakerism in its reality
would leave no room for the antagon.
ism of man and man, the conflicts OF
class and class, the wars of nation
with nation.-Friend's Intelligencer
and Journal.
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Diptheria in Chewing Gum. -"Th,

Diptheria in Chewing Gum. 1.-THE
practice of chewing gum has become
very widespread. 1t is not a very
elegant habit; to many 1T is posi-
lively repul.ive and there are sour
ces of danger too, that should not be
overlooked. Diptheria broke out in a
family in East Des Moines. After
the child had recovered, the cloth
ing fully disinfected, the parents, with
the convalescent child, visited some
relatives in the country. The indis-
pensible chewing gum, like Satan,
went also-in the mouth of the little
child. Prompted by generosity, it
allowed it's country cousins-two chill
dren-to chew also the gum previously
chewed by the visiting child. In
three or four days, without any other
known source of infection than the
chewing gum. the two children were
simultaneously striken down with
diptheria in a most serious form. 1t
would be a great deal safer not to
chew the stuff at all, but if it must
be done to satisfy the demands of d
weak head and depraved appetite
our advice is, don't swap gum tt
chew anybody else's gum, nor allo"
anybody else to chew yours
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When an acre of ground has pro-
duced long and well we let it lie fal-
low for a season when razor has
seen long service and refuses to hold
an edge, the barber lays it away for u
few weeks and the edge comes back OF
it's accord. We bestow thoughtful
care upon inanimate objects, hut none
upon ourselves. What robust people
what q nation of thinkers we might
be if we would only lay ourselves or
the shelf occasionally and renew oul
edge.-Mark Twain.
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GRAINS.

Conscience is very often confounded
with opinion.
Do all the good you can, and don't
make fuss about it.
If you don't want to be detested
don't be chronic growler.
A kind "no" is often more agreeable
than rough "yes."
He who runs in debt generally finds
that the only way out is to crawl.
TO give aims is nothing unless you
give thought also.
No matter where good man lives,
his house is always built on rock.
No man can succeed in being happy
without asking God to tell him how.
Sin got foothold in this world by
making itself look harmless and little.
God employs no hired men. His
work is done by his sons.
"Cast all your care upon God, for
He careth for you.'
The actions of this life shall be the
fate of the next.
The only way by which love can be
measured is by what it is willing to
suffer.
What you want to appear in the
life of a nation, put into the school
of that nation.
Ifbutter is to lie held for any length
of time it had better be frozen, as in
that state it holds its flavor longer.
A prudent man doesn't tell every
thing lie knows everytime he opens his
mouth.
If the Lord could trust his people
with money, every Christian would
own bank.
No field of wheat ever rlpens that
does not have good deal of straw and
husk in it.
Seek happiness for yourself and you
will lose it, but seek it for others and
you will find it.
"He that loveth not his brother
whom he hath seen, how can he love
God whom he hath not seen?"
"If we forgive not men their tres
passes, neither will your Father for,
give your trespasses."
If there is any place on earth that
should be guarded against foolishness
and jesting, it is the pulpit.
The religion of Christ does every.
thing for man that he cannot do fol
himself.
Many q man whose prayers were
long will he kept out of heaven be-
cause his yard stick was too short.
Joy, like the honeysuckle, may
blossom as sweetly on q trellis OF
wood as Oh trellis of gold.
The person who can least spare it is
often the most willing to give Others
piece of his mind.
Patience will find its perfect work
when it has learned the sweet grace
of being patient with the impatience
of others.
Never attempt to sail on the sea oi
public opinion without genius fol
your sails, character for your rudder
and determination at the wheel.
When q man has deep and inner
clingings to God when the roots OF
his life 90 down and take hold on God,
mere surface agitation and pressure
will not overcome him. He may be
floated here and there within a given
sweep, like plant blossomed on the
sea, and there may be times when II
is very rough, and the strain is great,
but he will survive it all and pre-
serve his integrity.
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Christ gives us an easy and mani
fest and infallible test of judging min.
listers false prophets are known by
their evil fruits. Matt. Z: 1920. II
a man is evidently casting out devils
by the finger of God then be sure the
kingdom of God has come nigh you.
No man can handle devi but by
Gods finger. Judge a ministry by
whether the devils are staying in, in.
creasing, and growing stronger and
more impudent, or whether they are
tumbling over one another to get out.
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Early Training of Children.-Usu-
ally mothers think it is early enough
to begin training a child when it has
passed it's first year often its second.
The cunning little ways that, coming
from midget just able to crawl, are
so irresistibly funny, become very
naughty tricks when the child is two
wears old, and one day the poor baby
is frowned upon and scolded for actions
that have heretofore been laughed at
and often followed by rapturous kisse
of delight from mamma. But oaoy..s
habits have been formed, young as it
is, and it has to unlearn, which is 8
very hard process for grown people,
who see the reason for it, but harder
for little, unreasoning being. who
only understands that it is being smil,
ed at and loved, or frowned upon anC
chilled, without knowing why.
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The system of asking authors to
communicate their views and opinions
to magazines and newspapers for moth
ing has received from one of them q
just reproof. A very gushing" re-
quest was made to him to furnish gra-
tuitouslya New Years Greeting" to a
syndicate of newspapers, and also zone
or two appropriate notices." He re-
piled: II cannot greet people I don't
know; but you are quite welcome to
nv motto which ia. Nothing for
nothing, and very little for sixpence.' "
james Payne, in Independent.