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He win Always Think So.

On one Of the ferryboats the other day
a man had just got seated in a rocking
chair, when second man came along
and gave him a hearty slap on the back
and exclaimed:
"By George, Jim, but how are you?"
you have made a mistake, sir, :"
icily replied the man in the chair as he
looked up.
"Waal, so I have" said the other
after a second look. 81 thought you
was Jim for sure You look heap like
him at first sight, but when one notices
your red nose he sees where the differ
ence comes in.
"What have You got to say about my
nose, sir?" sti11ly demanded the man in
the chair.
'fOh, nothin. I'm not the sort of a
man to go around pickin on other folks
about red noses and things. One reason
I took you for Jim was because Of your
yaller whiskers. Do you color 'em yal-
1er?''
"Look here, sir, you are insulting
me! If you want to pick a quarrel with
me, just say SO, and I'll give you all you
want ~
81 don't want no quarrel If ya1ler
whiskers please you, shan't complain.
You and Jim are pretty well matched
on ears. Did they grow that size nat
urally?'
''Durn your eyesv' shouted the man
in the chair as he rose up, "but I'll
drive your nose through your head if
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-05
MILK Famine I'm PennsyIvania.

A milk famine now threatens the
northern portion of Pennsylvania.
Grasshoppers are eating up the cows
food and Texas flies are literally eating
up the cows The milk producers OF
Greenfield township are unable to get
half the supply they ought to have
this time of the year. A milk and
cream dealer drove thirty miles and,
outside of those with whom he has con-
tracts, he could not get pint of cream.
At Lenoxville the creamery is only
doing one-tenth of the business it has
capacity for, because it can't get the
milk. A few of the farmers have al
ready gone to feeding grain, and that
helps the milk supply some. An agri-
culturist named Morgan, in the Welsh
settlement, has twelve cows which
ought to give nearly ten quarts apiece
to a milking, and he milks all Of them
in one ten-quart pail. and that holds
all the milk.
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SKETCHES BY NJ. QUAD
In Reduced Circumstances.

You were not always in this situa-
tion?" 1 queried of for1orn looking
man who struck me for nickel as
crossed City Hall park the other night.
My dear man, - he replied as he put
his hand on my shoulder, ST have seen
the time when had money enough to
buy this park. -
rs it possible?''
Sand it might surprise you to know
that was once lieutenant governor Of
q western state. -
Indeed /"
eyes, SIR he continued, SGT have
seen the time when could pay $50 for
dinner as easily as can now raise a
nickel for a nights lodging. I had
wealth, standing, friends, a luxurious
home and a happy family All have
been swept away, and am as you now
see me.''
sYou've had hard luck. What was
the matter?''
''You know what catnip is?' he asked.
eyes"
'tWell, developed fondness for cat
nip. used to eat it in a green state
wagon loads of it. In the winter season
I carried my pockets full of packages.
ate it as a horse eats hay. had catnip
tea II times day. Catnip drove me to
be liar and villain. I swindled my
best friends. robbed my wife and
abused my children. I stole, forged and
committed crime upon crime. By and
by the end came, and I went down. -
And you still cling to catnip?"
''No, sir. On the contrary, abhor
the very name of the weed, but it is
now too late. 1 shall never be able to
climb up again. -
lyon say it drove you into lying?''
cit did, sir. -
'And you haven't gotten over that
yet, have your"
ono, sir-not altogether :"
"That's why you lied to me?"
eyes, sir. I didn't intend to, but I
lied unconseiously. What's the extra
nickel for, sir?''
For lying. You are the only liar
I've met among the vags of New York,
and it's an agreeable break in the
monotony. Here's third nickel Buy
catnip with it and keep your style of
lying right up to the mark. -
"God bless you. sir, and I'll do it %
he heartily exclaimed as he made bee
line for the nearest Bowery saloon.
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His Mothers Gift.

He came up to me at Broadway and
Thirty fourth street one evening and
asked if l knew of a pawnshOp in the
neighborhood. told him I thought
there was one only two blocks away,
and he wiped a tear from his eye and
pointed to parcel under his arm and
said:
cit is my mothers gift, a Bible, the
last thing left me to raise money on.
Yes; mother placed this book in my
hands as started out in life IS years
ago and hoped would always be guided
by its noble precepts. !"
"And now you must pawn it?'' I
asked.
81 must. 1t is the only thing I have
left, and must eat and sleep. I can
not tell you how it wrings my heart to
have this gift go into the hands of a
pawnbroker. If could only meet a gen
tleman''-
ga gentleman who'd advance you 81
on the book and hold it for you?''
''That's it-that' s it !" he cheerfully
exclaimed. eyes, if he'd advance me a
dollar on it 1 could start out in life
anew, and in a week could pay the
debt and have my relic back. You ap-
pear to be kind hearted man.. -
eyes, am. -
'And you don twant to see my moth
er's gift go to a pawnshop?"
"No.''
"And you will advance me dollar
on it?''
"Not muchi I'm looking around for
policeman to give you the collar
That trick has been played on me three
times, and I'm getting tired Of paying
a dollar for so cent Bible. -
"Sir," exclaimed the man as he be-
gan to back away, sit is evident that
you do not reverence your mother!''
Mot in this shape-no.
'And you have no love for the good
booky''
"Not at 100 per cent profit -
And sentiment, sir-you have no
sentiment-and you are bad man, sir
and if I ever catch you on side
street I'll put a head on you and send
you to the hospital for week IN.
Quad in Detroit Free Press.
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you don't go away; The idea Of your
talking to me like thisi''
81 didn t intend to talk to you, but
mistook you for Jim Babbet. Ten Feet
away you look to be his twin. Yes, sir,
that brick eo1ored hair is an exact
match
"You old scoundrelI'' shouted the
yaller whiskered man as he grabbed the
other by the throat.
''Leave go of mel What are you
pitchin into me for?"
''I'll choke the life out of you if you
don't go on. -
'I'm agoin on. Seems to me you are
maxim a powerful fuss about nothin.
You amt Jim Babbet, but his own
mother would be deceived. Even them
eyebrows of yours, which look as if they
was cut out of buffalo robe and stuck
on, would
Then the yaller whiskered man chok-
ed him again and threw him over a
chair and gave him a kick, and the man
hunting Jim Babbet broke away and
clattered down stairs to be met by the
captain Of the boat and the query OF
what had happened.
''Oh, nothin much" he replied as he
tried to get back into his clothes. 81
jest met a Teller up there who was sc
techy I couldn t put my finger at him.
He choked me and kicked me; but, gaul
durn his pictur', he does look like Jim
Babbet, and I'll stick to it to my dyin
daV.' -
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Ho was pleased with Detroit.

At 1 o'clock the other morning a
Woodward avenue patrolman came
across an oldish man sauntering along
with his pipe in his mouth and his
hands crossed under his coattails, and
as they met the stranger explained
I'm jest wallzin around to see how a
great city looks at night This is an aw-
full big town.
eyes, it is, - replied the officer
Jest about hundred times as big as
our town, and yit how calm and safe
one feels herel I've bin waIkin around
fur hull hour and met over a hundred
fellers, and yit I haven't bin sassed
Nice lot @ folks here -
Eyes; Detroite1s are nice people -
81 was around all day yesterday, and
nobody hit me with a tomater or called
me Names" continued the stranger. 81
went into store and asked the price of
a hat, and though 1 didn't buy it the
clerk didn't git mad and call me liar
I got glass of beer in a saloon, and
instead of calm me an old soak and
sayin I'd better buy shoes fur my wife
the bartender bowed and asked me to
call again. I tell you it's mighty nice
to meet such people -
you'll find good folks here,'' said
the officer as he moved on.
81 know it. At the hotel where I stop
they knew I wanted to be quiet and
they gin me the tallest room in the
house without my askin. And want to
say word about the police. You are
the third one I've met tonight. Not one
of them has drawed his club on me or
tried to buff me. You could crack my
skull and then go through my pockets
fur the 81 in my undershirt, but you
hain't that kind of man. 1 tell you, I'd
like to live in this townt''
Better go to the hotel and go to
bed" cautioned the officer as he made
his escape.
I'm a-goin to, and there it is again.
When I cum out, the clerk said he'd
sot up and wait fur me to cum back,
and if got mired i'll a frog pond or fell
into thistle patch to holler fur him and
he'd cum with lantern. Say, 1 like
this town, and if kin sell my oxen
this fall III cum in and stay hull
month and git acquainted with all the
folks! -
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PLANS FOR THE FIGHT
The Indications Are Now That 1t Will
Be Held in the Territory.

ARDMORE, Ind. Ter, Oct. 5.-From
present indications it now looks as if
the big Corbett and Fitzsimmons fight
is coming to Ardmore. The Chicka-
saw Indians want them, the Santa Fe
railroad company wants to bring
them, and will run trains from the
Dallas amphitheater without cost, and
Dan Stuart is keeping the wires
hot to know the conditions under
which it can be pulled off at
Ardmore- The hotels of Dallas, Fort
Worth and Gainesville are equally &C
cessible for visitors to Ardmore, and
ArdmOre can accommodate 5 600 guests
for any length of time, and can feed
all who may come An enthusiastic
mass meeting was hello last night at
the Office of United States Commission
er Gibbons, and Judge Moran Scott,
United States commissioner under
Judge Charles T. Stuart, was sent to
represent to the athletic club the con-
ditions under which the con test can be
held at Ardmore, and confer with the m
upon the proper arrangement to be
made for the expected visitors Messrs.
Dougherty, Pennington and Snyder
from the Santa Fe general office ar
rived at ArdmOre, and have gone
to Tishomingo, where the Chick
asaw council is now in session,
to have the contestants adopted
as members of the tribe in or
der to escape the jurisdiction of the
United States courts in the Indian Ter
ritory, and obviate the possible legal
objections to the contest. The best
legal talent concur in the opinion that
there is no law on the statute books to
prevent prize fighting or physical cul-
ture contests, and the Arkansas stat
utes in vogue here simply make prize
fighting a misdemeanor punisha bic by
a S2no fine. The Chiclasaw legisla-
ture is stated as now in session, and
for u small cost bill could be passed
By that august body legalizing the
physical culture contest.
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FOR THE CUBAN CAUSE.
Great National Sympathetic Mass Meet
ing Proposed for October 81.

GESab NAtAoHdA SyIA1PACnSI1C MASS NACCS-
ing Proposed for October 81.
CHICAGO, Oct. 5.-Every mayor of
every city, town and village through
ont the United States will be advised
and requested by the executive com
nittee of the Cuban sympathetic mass
meeting, held in Chicago last Monday
night, to confer with the most promi-
nent and public spirited citizens to ar
range for national mass meeting the
night of Thursday, October 81, for the
purpose of awakening a kindly feel
ing toward the suffering and patriotic
Cubans, who are struggling for lib
erty. The committee will also call
upon every prominent organization in
the country for the cooperation of its
branches in every section. Churches
OF every denomination and fraternal
and benevolent societies will also be
called upon for assistance in making
the mass meeting on October 81 a great
wave of public opinion and sympathy
for the Cuban cause from the Pacific
to the Atlantic and from British Co.
lumbia to Mexico.
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MISSIONS IN ALASKA.
Question of Bishop for the Territory
Discussed by EpiscopaIeans.

Discussed by Episcopaleans.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 5.-The
two houses of the Episcopal conven-
ton held brief sessions before going
into joint session as tae t'board of mis-
sions."
The feature of the afternoon meet
ing of the board of missions was the
adoption of several resolutions, and
the first Indication of the coming con-
test as to whether there shall be a
bishop elected to Alaska. The work
of the church in Alaska was presented
by Bishops Bulison and Barker, but
Bishop Nelly of Maine said that there
were two sides to the question. and he
had a statement of the Alaskan situa-
ton which made things look differ
emily. He will present it later, and
meanwhile announces that he will OPP
pose the election of an Alaskan bishop.
The work in Brazil was presented by
Bishop Peterkin, Bishop McLaren and
Rev. Henry Forester, who has had
charge of the interests of the church
IN Mexico, made a reply for that
country, and Bishop Waite of Indiana
made forcible and eloquent plea for
home missions, claiming that many of
the dioceses in this country were in a
struggling condition. The prayer
book distribution commission made an
interesting report, showing the dis
tribution of 100000 prayer books
since 1892 The following resolutions
were then adopted:
Whereas, During the summer just
passed the attention of the country has
been directed to the uprising of the
Bannock Indians in Idaho; and,
Whereas, An impartial and unof-
fetal investigation has shown that the
Indians were the innocent victims of
the whites, resulting in the slaughter
of helpless human beings.
Resolved, That we call the attention
of the United States government to
these outrages and request fearless
Investigation.
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PLATT AGAINST IT.
The Boss Doesn't Favor Fusion
Against Tammany.
HeWants Straight Republican
Ticket Put Up.
MEANS LESS POWER.
He Would Lose Control Of the
Party Somewhat.
Republicans ouldConcede Only
Two or Three Offices.

New York, Oct s.-Politica1 interest
is entirely focused upon the question
whether the Republicans Of the city
will agree to nominate a fusion ticket
in company with the Independent or
CARNATIONS to GUST Tammany.
= Mr.. Platt has several times declared
that the Repu blicans should nominate
a straight ticket. His lieutenant, Mr..
Lauterbach, said in an interview that
there would be no union ticket, or
that at most the Republicans would
concede no more than two or three of
the minor offices on such a ticket to
the Independents.
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IN RECEIVERS HANDS.
Farmers Loan and Trust Company Wins
Over the oregon Improvements.

Farmers Loan and Trust Company Wins
Over the Oregon Improvements.
SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 5.-The Ore
gen Improvement company went into
the hands of a receiver in Judge Han
ford's court yesterday afternoon, and
c. j. Smith was appointed. The bill
of complaint was fled by the Farmers
Loan and Trust company, and
it recites the execution of
first mortgage bonds Decem Der
l, 1890, amounting in the
aggregate to SIS, 600, 900, of which
bonds S4S6, 900 We're afterward re-
deemed. November /, 1899, the Ore
gon Improvement company, to secure
payment on series of bonds aggre-
eating SIS, 100000 made a deed of
trust known as the consolidated mort
gage, interest on which, amour ting to
S155, 245, for the half year fell due Oc-
tober l, when default was made.
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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Oct. 5.-Fitz-
simmons goes right along with his
training, Notwithstanding the legisla-
lures action at Austin. He says he
has an offer from responsible parties
to pull the fight off, should the Flori-
da Athletic club fail to do so. He says
he is determined to give Corbett no
possible opportunity to escape him,
and that the big dude will either have
to fight or leave the country branded
as a coward, who is afraid to meet a
man who is much smaller than him
self.
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LONDON, Oct. 5.-An Armenian
correspondent says that a pasha
who has been appointed by the
Sultan to carry out projected re-
forms in Armenia, has granted
permission to William A. Sachtleben,
the St. Louis bicyclist, to accompany
him to Bayazid, and has promised to
aid him in clearing up the matter of
the murder of Frank LEM, the Ameri-
can bicyclist, for which purpose Mr..
Sachtleben went to Turkey,
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ST. JOHNS, Oct. 5--Three vessels, one
French and two English have been lost
on the south coast of the island and five
men drowned. More seizures of SNUG
gled goods were made yesterday, and
the customs authorities expect to reap
a harvest from the vessels returning
from the wreck of the Mariposa with
the goods saved from her The short
age in revenues is exciting much ap-
prehensien and further financial
trouble is expected.
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Another Arnerican Triumph.

GLOUCESTER, Mass, Oct 5.--The big
ocean steamship St. Paul, built by the
Cramps of Philadelphia, as sister
ship to the St. Louis, for the Inter
national Navigation company's line,
male an average speed of 20.5 knots
an hour in her official trial trip of
almost IS knots over the government
course off this coast yesterday, and
scored another decided success for
American shipbuilders. In every re-
-spect the trial'was most satisfactory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-05
A Singular Accident.

COLUMBUS, Kan, Oct. Yesterday
Guy Edmonston met his death in q
very strange manner. He was paint
ing tank about seven feet high, using
parafine paint. After finishing the
upper portion of the work, he de-
scended to the bottom, with lighted
candle. it being too dark to see with
out artificial light, and the flame of
the candle exploded the gas generated
by the paint, killing him instantly.
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WICHITA, Kan, Oct. yesterday
the assistant attorney general declared
war on the Anheuser- Busch Brewing
company, and a detachment of police
and deputy sheiriffs swooped down on
their large wholesaling depot here and
seized several thousand dollars worth
of LIQUORS.
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Biz Haul OF Counterfslters.

NEW YORK, Oct. Another big
haul of counterfeiters has been made
by the agents of the government Sc
cret service. The prisoners are An
gelo Posteri, Joseph Carlisle, Charles
Carlisle, Joseph Costello, Sarto Lazaro
and Salvatore Macchione. The coun-
terfeit coin and bills are of excellent
Workmanship. The bills are of the
same make as the ones which were
circulated it this city in 1893.
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Making a Tour of the South.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.-The special
train over the Pennsylvania railway,
bearing the Liberty bell and the off,
cial escort, pulled out of Broad street
station at o'clock yesterday morning
for Atlanta. where it is scheduled to
arrive at ? o'clock October 8.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4.-Harry j. L. Mar
tin. for seven years teller of the Com
mercial National bank of Chicago, W as
arrested last night on a warrant
sworn out before United States Com
missioner Foote by National Bank
Examiner McKeen, charging him with
embezzlement of 81, 100.
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The Liberian General Dead.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 5-William Fl.
Heard, minister resident and consul
general of the U nited States in Liberia,
has informed the department of state
of the death of General r. A. Sher-
man. general of the Liberian army.
He was buried with honors of war at
Monrovia.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. Meal
Smith. negro convict, who recently
assaulted a young white woman at
Cole, City, Ca, after beating her into
insensibility, was last night taken
from the prison guards by mob from
Tennessee and Alabama and shot to
death.
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.-Reports re-
ceived from different parts of Eastern
Pennsylvania and New Jersey indi-
cate that the country is suffering
drouth of large proportions. In some
places there is almost a famine on ac-
count of lack of water.
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a summer Girls surprise.

''They only met last summer, and
nobody knew they were engaged, SO I
suppose her announcement that she will
be married soon will surprise everybody,
DOM you?''
eyes, know it will be real shock
to her fance. Truth.
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Right In Spite of himself.

s'I tell you," said the pessimistic
dyspeptie, st is impossible to convict
rich man of crime in this county, -
"You are right for once," admitted
the other fellow. By the time his law
yers get through with him there ism It
any rich man to convict. ''-Indiarapo-
lis Journal
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japanese cotton spinners desire
their government to esta blish line of
steamers to the west coast of Mexico,
so that they may get United States
cotton at cheaper rates.
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Bank Clearings.

New YORK, Oct. 5.-The following
table, compiled by Bradstreet's, shows
the clearances at the cities named and
the percentages of increase or decrease
as compared with the corresponding
week last wear:
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No Uprisinr of Indiaus,

ROSEBUD AGENCY, S. D., Oct No
uprising of Indians has occurred on
the reservation, though the twenty
one days given by Hollow Horn Bear
for the agent to abdicate and for the
whites to leave expired yesterday.
Hollow Horn is now in the lookup,
and his confinement may have a good
effect on him. 1t will do much to
break down his influence with the In
dams
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Lille Smith, a good-looking young
woman. who, when arraigned in Brook
fyn. the other day, gave her name as
Jane Doe, was sentenced to Jail for
three days by Justice Laimbeer. She
persisted in hugging and kissing all the
tall men whom she met on the streets
They objected and her arrest followed
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A Sad Libel.

Blobbs-What nonsense it is for the
newspapers in their accounts of we'd
dings to describe the bride being led to
the altar.
Slobbs-How so?
Blobbs Well, most girls could find
their.way there in the dark -Philadel-
phia Record.
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Pat FtciAs Neglected..

WASHINGTON, Oct attention is
called to much neglected source of
national wealth by United States Cor sui
Chancellor at Havre. As America pos
sesses inexhaustibie supplies of peat the
consul points how these may some day
open up an extensive field for employ
ment for capital and labor. The april
cations of this substance seem to be prac
tina1lz andlnSs
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MONTGOMERY, Ala, Oct. 5.-Secre-
tary Herbert delivered an address at
the theater last night in favor of the
Administrations financial policy.
About $50 people were present, in-
Guiding ladies.
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Governor Morrill, went to his heme at
Hiawatha yesterday afternoon and will
not return TO Topeka until after the wed
ding which is to take place at his house
Rsxt Tuesday.