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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

c,.e M1s1on work. OF these 80 are in
active operation still, and at the various
meetings that have been held more than
10000 drunkards haze professed to
have been saved By conversion. OF these
1t is certain that many have fallen
away, and probably not all were sincere
i'll their professions in the first place,
1ut that many hundreds, II not thou
sands, have been rescued from o terrible
fate seems to be fact beyond doubt.
His work il tie Avenue A mission
Eoon attracted the attention Of others
who were interested, and it was not
many months before he was asked to
work for St. Bartholomew church.
This is one Ct the wealthiest congrega-
lions in New York and is under the
pastoral care of DR.. David H. Greer, the
rector. who has four assistant ministers
and three lay readers, Of whom Colonel
Hadley is now one. Tie church has al
ways been noted for it's mission work
end its charities, and since Colonel
Hadley joined its working force these
have been enormously increased. It
would not be correct to say that he vas
entitled to all the credit for this, but
there is no question that he has been an
important factor. He is at the head Of
tho st. Bartholomew Rescue mission
and is the chief worker in the great
Parish House, which was built by Cor
nelius Vanderbilt and presented to the
church for the advancement of just that
kind of effort in which Colonel Hadley
is the acknowledged leader.
So much accomplished in eight years
may fairly be called success, but Colo
mel Hadley declares that his life work
is TO be devoted to even greater work
in the same line. As he sketches it. it
seems almost Utopian, but he has been
encouraged and backed by wealthy peo-
pie in SO many undertakings that it
seems reasonable to expect that he Will
raise the money for this. In that case
the results are likely to be phenomenal.
It is nothing less than building an
enormous house in the city where l, 600
men can be cared for AID kept constant
~ employed at work that will make
them self supporting 70. month. Their
homes, their workshops and their meet
ing rooms for amusement and for re-
ligious services are all 10 be Oh the
premises, SO that for month or SO after
they first renounce liquor they may be
saved from temptation as far rs possible
He wants more than 500, 900 to do
this with, but it is likely that be Will
get it. DAVID A. CURTIS.
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KANs.4s PARAGRAPHS.

Atchison is to have a whist tourna-
ment.
If Atchison is going to have wheel
factory wLo is going to do the trepsn
ming?
The Emporia Gazette wants the city to
voc bonds to bc.ds there who bought
all her things in town.
Rev. W. 4. Mckinley, who used to be
the Con- regationaii.L pastor at Emporia,
now has church at San Diego.
Il is proposed to number the houses at
Wichita. This will be more difficult
task than to number the people.
It is barely possible that Postmaster
Pepperen Of Concordia would like to
purchase = little influence himself now.
Warden Lyncn's new order in regard
to moustaches looks like dlscrlm n ation
against the women, What can tnev DO
il they're good
y Lawrence youth, who spent 3li his
money this summer for duck trousers,
prays every night that this Indian sum
mer viii hold out.
A Garden City society girl is getting
so far along III years that she says the
only thing she can do is to trust in God
and keep her powder dry"
Football is too brutal according 20 the
ltIS-OGS VI O1ACE university Dub TWO
mpanies Of cadets there are being il =
structed in the art Of war
A farmer living near Leavenworih
has raised 200 tons of pumpkins this
year but restaurant pies will continue to
be made OF yellow sawdust and paste.
The Midland College football team is
said to have an unerring goal kicker who
hasn't had a chance 70 show his skill this
year because no oae has made touch
down.
Thanks are due the Emporia papers
for announcing "a quiet homo weddin :. -
otherwise people would have supposed it
was IA rip-roaring affair on the high
prairie.
The Hypatia club has just held its
tenth annual messing at Wichita 1t
won't be long till the women will be coz
cealing the fact that they we're charter
members
A Newton girl. who has Santa Fe
! pass, says: Whats the use of wanting
10 ride on Nos. aud 4, anyhow. Only
the common people VINO pay cash fare
! will be on them"
The police judge of Arkansas City is
credited with Ihis syllogistic reasoning
| ''Aristides WAS driven out of Athens be-
| cause the Athenians were tired of hear.
/ ing him called The Just, therefore [ will
not punish any bad characters in Arkan-
sas City"
Independence Reporter: Judge Bou-
ton was in hard luck yesterday a cou pie
came over from Cherryvale 10 be mar
ried and brought preacher, along with
| them. Just as the ceremony was com.
pleted two couples came in from the ter
ritory and finding a preacher on the spoi
concluded 10 have him peform the cere-
mony for them also.
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ONE gold bug orator says: ''The ip-
f2tionists admit that their scheme is
against the interest OF all those who live
on fixed salaries. This includes every
one whose services are paid for by the
year, month, day, or week." Being an
eastern banker, no may not have known
any better, but it is more likely that he
deliberately falsifed It is well known
that the salaries of public officials do not
vary, while the wages of working people
go up and down with the changing con-
ditions. generally down. Years ago a
common laborer received 81 a day for
his work. The president of the United
States received $4,000 year and mem
bers of congress $4,000 year. Now the
day laborer receives from 81 to $125
when he gets anything, while the presi-
dent and the Congressman continue to
draw the same old salary.
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WAS 1T A MIRACLE ?
Colonel H. II. Hadley Says This
Came With His Conversion.
IT VAS NOT OILY A SPIRITUAL

But a Pnyzica Al Eiracio-HaW = Fhe
nomeaaI Drinker AMI ara Knvs;eratr
Smoker Was Coaverted-EAls Coco
Work.
NEW York, Oct 17.-On the pveninr
Of June IS, 1886, a man trembling On
the verge Of delirium tremens went into
a prayer meeting at the old Jerry Ne
Auley mission at SIC Water street, New
York. It was in one of the worst neigh
borhoods in the city, but the man was
Colonel Henry q. Hadley, brilliant
lawyer who had practiced in the su-
preme court of the United States, and
who even then stood high at the bar,
though his drinking habits had injured
him grievously.
He had tried in various ways to con-
q1er those habits. He was the organizer
of the Business Mems Moderation So
ciety, which established the first free
ice water stand in the city. He had
''sworn off, and ''taken the pledge
| several times. but still he drank and
drank frriously. In his last bout he had
taken So drinks, the last six of them
being brandy cocktails, and he was SUI
fering from this when he entered the
mission.
Today he is the most prominent, prof.
ably the most successful, man in the
home missionary field. Since he entered
the prayer meeting that night he has
not taken a drink
my conversion he declares posi-
lively, twas literally q miracle, not
only spiritual, but physical I belie7e
the age of miracles is not past. Physical
natural laws are often suspended or re-
versed by the will Of God at the prese 1t
day. have known of many cases like
my own, and the doctors tell me that 4
stomach in such condition as mine
was in must necessarily crave liquor. I
do not dispute that, but 1 know that
craving left me the instant 1 resolved TO
give myself to Jesus. And have never
felt it for a moment since.
Of his physical regeneration there is
nothing more to be said. It is certain
that he was phenomenal drinker and
that he drinks no mere. He was an III
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

LEAvENwoRTH is going to have an
apple carnival on the 2Sth of this month.
The JOURNAL advises all the citizens of
Topeka who can spare the time, to go
over to our neighbor city and assist in
the celebration. Whatever helps one
city in Kansas helos the whole state.
Topeka people TO the number of 200 or
800 attended the Atchison corn carnival
Let us do even batter by Leavenwor.h.
What We want is moro friendliness be-
tween the cities of Kansas. We must all
work for the upbuiidng Of cur state.
and every public spirited Kansan wants
to see every city and village in our state
grow and wax great.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

REV. CHARLES N. SHELDON says in an
editorial in this weeks Mail:
"Ths home has a right to object to the
Introduction into the family circle of
anything which it would not allow in
book form. And yet one might Gull from
the papers in the course of month a
variety of detailed description of vice,
crime, depravity and brutality, which, if
bound up into book and placed in a
girls or boys hands TO read, would shock
every father and mother with indigna-
ton. Is it any better because it appears
half a column at timer"
We agree with AI.. Shsldon's state
uent, that nothing should be- allowed in
the family circle that is not permissible
in book form. Yet Mr.. Sheldon draws
his creed aud his texts from book that
prints stories that would subject an edi-
tor TO ares. if he were TO reprint them
in his paper. These stories are in book
form" and are in evsry household. Are
they kept away from the children
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MarveIoun Results.

From & letter written by Rev. ]. Gun
derman. of Dimondale. Mich, We are
permitted to make this extract: 81 have
no hesitation in recommending Mr.
Kings New Discovery, as the results
were almost marvellous III the case of my
wife. While l WAS pastor of the Baptist
church at RiTes Janction she was brought
down with Pneumonia succeeding La
Grippe. Terrible paroxysms of cough
ing would last hours with little Interrupt
ton and it seemed AS if she could not
survive them. a friend recommended
Dr. Kings New Discovery; it was quick
in It's work and highly satisfactory in re-
suit" Trial bottles 10c at ]. *. Jones'
Drug Store. Regular size soc. and $500
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19
FiH WAS MEAN.
q Landlord who Took Advantage cs q
Tenant.

q Landlord Who Took Advantage oz .
Tenant.
The war department. clerk who lives
in the suburbs for economy was almost
ready to fight when The Star man met
him.
whats the matter?'' inquired The
Star man.
Didn't I see something in The Star
the ctber day about the neanest man in
the whole world?'' he asked
81 wouldn't be surprised. There are
so many CT him that he feels sighted If
he doesn't get into the papers at least
seven days il the week. .
"Well, I've come across one that you
ought to get out an extra for
Cant do that, fancy, but tell ne
about him, and we'll try to have him get
into the regular edition. "
"Will you put him III display type
next to reading matter and at the top of
the column"
81 can't promise position until have
heard the story. What about him?"
The department. clerk shock himself
once or twice to steady his feelings
"You know" he said when he had
got himself into shape for expression,
''that for the sake Of economy 1 rented
house in the suburbs:'
"What suburbs:' inquired the guile
less reporter.
That S all right continued the
clerk. Il rented q house in the suburbs,
for which I paid $40 month. and 1
have paid it regularly he added. to
avert suspicion. cit wasn't much of a
house either, but the location was pleas
ant, and my wife liked the neighbors,
so we put up with the objectionable
features, hoping that when we had
proved ourselves to be good and reliable
tenants we might be able to prevail on
our landlord to make the needed i'm
provements We didn't become very ur-
gent until we had been in for five OF six
months, but We might as well have been
SO from the beginning, for the owner
wouldn t Go blessed thing The doors
needed locks, the walls needed paper
ing, the plumbing was oat of whack, ard
there was absolute necessity of an extra
room FOR a kitchen. Finding we couldn Z
get the owner to do anything, and my
wife having a little money of her cwn,
we concluded to pat the repairs on our
selves, and we did it, even to t:uilding
the kitchen. "
You must have 9 right nice place
now. - ventured The Star man.
THAT what we thought, - went on
the clerk, land yesterday I took the
owner out to look at it and let him see
what an improvement we had made,
thinking he would be moved to reim-
burso rs fer the outlay
And didn't he?" asked The Star
man in an 0f-cOurse- heidi tone.
The clerk shook his head mournfully
"Wasn' t he pleased with it?'' contin-
ucd the questiouer
"Oh, yes, said the clerk warmly.
she was greatly pleased. never saw a
man mere tickled, and he told US he
didn't think It was possible to add 50
much to the deslrability of the house. -
Ism t he going to do anything?" per-
sisted the reporter.
ooh, he's done it, - snapped the clerk
''What has he done?''
''Sent me notice today to the effect
that he was going to raise the rent a
month on me- and The Star man u
gled his tears with those Of the clerk -
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

COLONEL AID MRS. AEfi1SA Il. HADLE4.
veterate smoker, but has given up tobac-
co. He declares that no credit is due TO
him for leaving off, since no man is to
be praised for not doing what he docs
not want to do. But the change morally
is equally astonishing declares that
he has never Thought an oath" since
his cOnversion-and his walk since then,
IN the field he has chosen, is we'll vYor
thy Of an extended notice. 1t is not as a
laudation of Hadley that I write, but
simply to show what marvellous results
may follow intelligent, we'll directed
efforts.
Colonel Hadlev believes, as SO many
others believe, that the drinking habit
is the origin OF the greater part of the
evil in the world, and he directs his
main efforts at that.
I'VE do not, though, " he says, ZAP
peal to a man S physical OF to his men
tai nature, as the physicians do who try
to cure drunkards- Neither do we Try TO
overcome his social or emotional tend
encies. All these may be changed or
cured temporarily, and relapse may
follow We believe Jesus is the only
physician who can cure, and God is the
only one who can pardon the old sin,
and when once the grace Of God sup
plants and removes the craving for
liquor the man is safe. -
It is not only his own personal expe-
rience which makes hi,I radical on this
question. He says that IA men from his
neighborhood i'll Perry county, O., en-
listed in the army in 1861. and all con
tracted the drinking habit. ''Thirty-
nine of these are III drunkards' graves, .
he declares, land enc is III madhouse
because of liquor. My brother and and
two others were saved from the same
fate only by being converted.
In May, 1887, he was asked to be-
come the superintendent of a mission in
Avenue A, but he hesitated some tino
before accepting the offer. The salary
was only $50 a month. and he had a
wife and six children whom he was sup
porting comfortably by his earnings.
Some of his most devout friends were
| strenuous i'll advising him not to accept,
saying that his first duty was to his
family. His wife, however, encouraged
| him, and he himself -oit drawn to the
work and finally went into it.
There had been missions before, but
none ike this FROM the DrSt ne COM
PEELED order. sit had to be quiet or a
fight, - he said the other day, land as
far as I was concerned l didn't care
which. If man was unruly. I put him
out. If he resisted, kicked him out If
he made more trouble, I had him ar
rested. Once 1 had % Of them mp on the
island and used to go and talk to them
up there where they could not get
away
Then he started what he called the
''Win One" movement. Each man or
woman who professed conversion was
admcnished to select some one person
and devote exclusive effort to the task
of bringing that one to Jesus 1t was
not long before that series was started
and was multiplying in geometrical pro-
erosion, so that no man knows what
the extent of it has been in eight years
Then he began starting other missions
here and there in different cities and
states as opportunity offered, and in the
eight years be has established nearly 40
headquarters for what he terms the Res
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

MISSIONARIES of the Christian church
have raised $4,000 in Kansas for hospi-
tai at an interior town in India. Why
not give this So, 900 to some IA nsas hos
pitsl? There is suffering all around u.s.
Some people are so grief-stricken over
people 10000 miles away. and withhold
the hand of charity from their fellow men
at home. The foreign mission business
ought to be wiped out until the home
mission has accomplished all it can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

GENERAL GEO p TAYLOR, of Arkan-
sas, seems TO have n different idea re-
garding the duty of military officer
from that entertained by our own Gene
raj J. W. F. Hughes. General Taylor is
quoted a. saying: my duty is to
carry out orders. whether they are right
or wrong" But there is no politics coz
nected with the Corbett- Ftzsimmons
atfair. which NAV make a difference.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19
THE GLANCE" TO LIVE.
Harry Frosts Old Society Paper to BE
Mnde N County Weekly.

Harry Fr0sPs Old Society Paper to Be
Mnsle N County Weekly.
Will R Adams, Of Adams Brothers,
printers, and w. l. French have pur
chased the Saturday Evening Lance of
VI. o. Frost. The publication will be
known hereafter as "Ehe Saturday
Lance" and the first issue will appear
October Sc.
1t will be enlarged 10 four column
quarto eight pages, and published from
7l2 Kansas avenue, over Frank Nor
rows meat market.
1t will not have society or literary fea-
lures, and the Lance will be made
county paper, independent in politics.
A brand new outfit has been purchased
il connection with the paper Mr.. Frost
said that he had continued the Lance
for some time rs losing venture simply
because he had established it thirteen
years ago and hated TO see it die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

ALI the courts seem to be engaged in
breaking down old and popular notions
lately. The city license ordinance has
now been declared unconstitutional
What is the use of having any Legislative
bodies? Why not just leavs everyth ,
to the courts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

WE have supplied England, Germany
and Austria with what gold they wanted
adm will now fill up Argentina. The
FIJI islands have not been hoard from
yet. We will supply all corners, however.
if they do not come too thick. We strive
TO please. If the stock of gold runs low
before all are satisfied, we will sell bonds
and buy more. OF course there is con
siderable expense attached to the bust
ness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

THE gold bug papers are not making
any attempt to answer the free silver
logic of Mr.. BRYAN of Nebraska. They
content themselves with trying to ridi-
cule what he SAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that IL
ceuce ordinances have been declared IN
constitutional, Leavenworth will doubt
less continue to collect licence from
her saloons Leavenworth recognizes
no law Of God or man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

MAYOR PINGEEE's potato scheme seems
TO be a winner in more ways than one.
He has just been renominated for the
Office of mayor for the fourth time by
the Detroit Repuhlicans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

The Topeka JoURNAL. Frank 3IacLen-
mans paper, has been enlarged TO seven
columns to the page, and has hand
some new building of its own in course
of erection. The JOURNAL is newspa-
per in the fullest sense of the word, and
MacLennan by printing the news re-
gardless of who it pleased or displeased,
has built up the JOURNAL from a bunk
rupt institution to the beat paying new :
paper property in the state-ParSor 8
sun.
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CORBETT has been arrested on q charge
of intent 10 commit an assault GA Robert
Fitzsimmons. There is no certainty that
the charge can be su0stantia;ed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

Tie boast Of the Toresa Capital that it pays
more postage than Al other Topeka dailiea
combined, cniy proves the meagerpess of its
local circulation as compared wish that of the
sTATE 10 R,7AI-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
ThsSTATE JOCRSAI's local circulation is far
AMI away ahead Of the combined circulation OF
III the other Topeka dai.ies.
The circulation CT the Topeka Daily STATE
lcuRSAI III the towns near by ana tributary to
TOPEKA Is very large. As the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL.
giving its readers the Rrst and --latest Associated
Press and state news OF the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has baen
used for children teething. ltsoothes
the child, softens the gums, allays all
pain, cures wind collie. and is the best
remedy fer disrrheea. Twenty-Five cents
a bottle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

the New York board of trade He
couldn't find an audience anywhere
which would be more likely to appre-
ciate his remarks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

THERE will be no emigration from
Kentucky to the Mosquito territory while
present conditions prevail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

CHICAGO, Oct 19-For Kansas: Gen
orally fair, slightly warmer Sunday; va
riable winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

We aim please our trade-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia West Sth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19
DALLAS AND RETURN

By THE SANTA FE ROUTE.
One fare for the round trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-19

We can keep you clean-Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia W. Eighth.
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Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
journal.
Daily HaeraSs g, $50.

This is the greatest showing the STATE JOUR
NAL has ever been able 10 make for period OF
any six months in its history.
This is a greater figure than was reached by
any daily paper in Topeka for the year 1884
The American Newspaper Directory, issued in
June. 1895. and covering the year 1894, gives the
average daily circulation of the Topeka Daily
Capital for the year 1894, as only s744- These
figures were furnished by the publishers Of the
Capital, to the Directory, and are guaranteed to
be correct by forfeit of 500, which Will be
paid to any one disprovng their correctness.
The following figures. substantiated by sworn
statements in detail, giving every issue for the
first six months in 1898. 1894 and 1885. shows ths
Topeka STATE JOURNALS