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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

where it will not be a nuisance to any
other part of the property. Sometimes
near a railroad station or on a trolley line
is the best.
PIan.-A small frame hotel building.
Front "a feet 9 inches; depth, 80 feet 6
inches. Suited for erection on a 25 foot
lot. Height of stories: Cellar, feet; first
story, 10 feet inches; second story, 0 feet;
third story, feet inches. All in the
clear frame is heavy and well timbered !;
sides and rear covered with novelty sid
ing; front sheathed and with clapboard
and shingle finish, as shown, the whole
being underlaid with heavy sheathing felt;
roofs of tin. Cellar walls of stone; floor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
MRS. THORPE'S CHRISTMAS
How She Made 1t TERRY for Great
r1any Persons.
WITH THE AID OF KIND PEOPLE
She Was Enabled to Provide a Merry
Christmas for Is6 Little Children.

She Was Enabled to Provide a Merry
Christmas for Is6 Little Children.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
The very sweetest part of all the
Christmas charity this year was the
thoughts of the little children for others.
The kindergarten babies have made
more people happy than have some who
own whole blocks of city property.
The toys sent by them. to me for dis
tribution would have filed at least six
bushel measures. Already 1 have been
enabled by their gifts to make a merry
Christmas for 1856 little children who
would have had no gifts land more are
yet to be treated)- The Bethany, Polk
and Euclid kindeagartens did nobly, The
TIC sent by the Euclid school was given to
a most worthy old lady who is all alone
and palsied and feeble, who had had
only bread and molasses to eat for some
time. Another family who had had no
bread for six days were supplied with
big sack of -four and bushel of pota-
toes by Mrs. O'Brien, of Topeka avenue.
Miss Dusenbery and Mrs. Hughes
helped the kindergarten gifts with SO
more little dolls. Mrs. Fisher sent a
lovely baby doll in long clothes. Mrs.
Groat and Mrs. Sproat and the Topeka
CdSn store aQQ6Q baskets OF toys, DOOhs5
and cards. Chief Wilkerson gave bar
rel of apples. Rev. Mr.. Wagner. Miss
Knowles, Mrs A. M. Davis, Mrs. Lauck,
and several others whose names were
mislaid, sent nice dinners. And the
bundles of clothing, etc, were too many
to have kept account of. The dear little
daughter of Mrs. Pitts, of West Sixth,
saved her pennies and invested in nine
dressed dolls for poor little girls. The
granddaughter of ex-Police Commits
sioner Whiting, aged 3, made voluntarily
a sacrifice of all her pet toys.
Very many interesting incidents and
gifts cannot be mentioned for want of
| space.
The cash contributions were $l6.62.
| OF this SLIP has been used, and the
balance l will retain for the small emer-
gencies 1 have been obliged heretofore
TO meet myself.
! If any Que did not have a merry
Christmas it was no fault of the good
people of Topeka nor of the JOURNAL.
MRS. l. E. THORPE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
SECOND STORY.

cemented; walls of hard finish. The floors
are of yellow pine; interior finish of white
pine, painted; piped for gas, plumbed
complete, and with all connections to
street for sewer and water. Built with
fences and delivered ready for use. There
are 81 bedrooms in size feet inches by
feet inches; larger ones, feet inches
by 10 feet inches each room.
Cost to build, finished as above, 81, 500.
Full working plans and specifications
furnished for ? per cent on cost named by
applying to George PaIliser, 30 Park place,
New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
NORTH TOPEKA.
Items of Interest From the North Side of
the River.

IteTns OF Anterest FROM the North Side OF
the River.
The marriage of Miss Della Perkins
and William Gushard will occur this
evening.
Miss Gertie Troutman and Joe Smith
were married yesterday afternoon.
Rob McMaster 'Jr., who holds a posi-
ton in the surveying department of the
Santa Fe at Chicago, spent Christmas at
home. He returns to Chicago this even
ing.
Misses Carrie aud Addie Morse, of EN-
poria, are visiting their cousins. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. S. Morse.
Charley Myers made the fremen at
No. Christmas present of box of fine
ciRars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
TWENTY-SEYEN CHILDREN.

Record of Hester Harris, Including
Seven Pairs of Twins, Before MUIR
dlered.
LAFAYETTE. Iud, Dec 26.-Investiga-
ton following the murder last Sunday of
Hester Harris, an aged woman of this
city develops the rather remarkable fact
that she had been the mother of twenty
seven children, including seven pairs of
tYins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
AMONG THE LOWLY.
Life at the City PrisOm-COIOred d
Order1ieS In Jail.

Jake Gellman is what Officer Kirk
Pinkston calls "a good talker, but a frat
class bum" He was arrested at the
Rock Island depot and spent his Christ
mas in Jail.
Emma Nichols and Will Dupree
were arrested last evening for disorderly
conduct They are both colored and are
both the same age 10 years, They will
be tried this afternoon.
a young colored bootblack named
Jesse Jackson aud known as "Snowball"
is in the city prison charged with at
tempted criminal assault.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker
Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker
Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Nj aker
for all diseases of the blood. A positive
guarantee with every bottle. Call for
and be sure you get Beggs' and take no
others. Sold by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
AMERICAN INSURANCE.
1t Isn't Wanted in Germany and an
Efforts Made to Exclude 1t.

BERLIN. Dec 26-Poultney Bigelow,
who arrived here on Monday last, charged
with a mission referring to the expul-
sion of American insurance companies
from Germany, has handed the govern
ment a detailed statement of the Ameri-
lean position which is supported by the
United States embassy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
THE ARMY FED 700.
The Salvation army Supplies Christ,
mas Dinner to the Poor.

The Salvation Army fed almost 700
poor people yesterday. A thorough eau
vass of the city was made and the dona-
tions collected in time to prepare a din
ner for 500 people at the barracks and
enough was left to send 200 out to deserv-
ing poor people in various portions of
the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
FRAME HOTEL BUILDING.
CommodiOus and Well Arranged For It's
Purpose-Costs $4,000 to Build.

ICopyrlght, $50, Dy UeoIge PaIIlser.I
One of the first requirements of a new
place is hotel and general stopping place
for the community, and ofttimes a nan
who has enough business foresight to en-
bark in an enterprise of this kind lays up
for himself the foundation of good living
and very often fortune. All new settle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

ments are generally the outcome of push
and energy, and in nearly all cases need
just such building especially so where
there is to be large amount of building
done and number of artisans employed
in the undertaking.
A house of this class as starter is a
move in the right direction and a great
help. as it furnishes home and lodging
place for those engaged in the undertak-
ing.
The design here shown was built under
just such an emergency and has been a
success from the start. Such building
should be erected in convenient location,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
Next nEnsienI FcsfivnI.

The programme for the third annual
musical jubilee which is to be held at
Hutchinson next May is being prepared
in Topeka today.
The members of the programme COM
mittee are T. V. Davies, of Salina; Prof
Welty. of Newton; Prof. Van Dieman,
Of Sterling; Mrs. c. Il. Scott, of Well
iugton and VIM Rees, of Emporia. The
executive committee of the musical as
sociation will hold a meeting here to-
morrow,
Mineral Water.
The finest in the west Come and try it
j. W. PHILLIPS, 612 W. Eighth ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
Rarper's Magazine
In 1895

BriseiS. a new novel by WILLIAH
BLACK, written with all the authors we'll
known charm of manner, viii begin IN
the December Number, 1895, and con-
tinue until May. A new novel by
GEORGE DU MAURIER, entitled the
Marian, will also begin during the
year. 1t is not too much TO say that no
novel has ever been awaited with such
great expectation as the successor to
TriIby. The Personal RecoIlectiOHS
of Joan of Arc Will continue aud viii
relate the story of the failure and mar
tyrdom of the Maid of Orleans. Other
important fiction of TIE year viii be
novelette, bv MARK TWAIN. uutier the
title, Tom Sawyer, Detective; hum
orous three part tale called Two Nor.
mons from MuddIety, by LANGDoN Ell
wYN MITCHELL; and short stories BY
OCTAVE THANET, RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS. MARY E. WILKINS. JULIAN RALPH,
BRANDER MATTHEWS, OWEN MISTER,
and other weil-known writers.
Prof. WOODROW WILSON will contri-
butte six papers on George Washington
and his time. with illustrations By Ho-
WARD PYsIE. PoULTNEY BIGELow's
history of The German Struggle for
Liberty, illustrated By r. CATION MOOD
VILE, will be continued through the
winter. Two papers on st. Glars de.
by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. with graphic
Illustrations will be printed during the
year.
A note worthy feature ct the MAGA-
ZINE during 1896 will be series of ar
ticles by CAsPAR w. WHITNEY, describ-
ing his trip of $500 miles on snow-shoes
and with dog-sledge trains into the un-
explored Barren Grounds of British
/ North America in pursuit of wood bison
and musk-oxen. Mr.. MHITNEY's series
will have the added interest of being
illustrated from photogra phs taken by
himself
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26

The aurora" pure Havana, best 10c
cigar in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-26
SUGARS

81 lbs finest and best Granulated
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
WATER COOLED WITHOUT ICE.
Pueblo Indians Secure the Desired Result
by Means of Evaporation.

OF course, everyone likes ice water.
1t is an American habit, and, patriotic
ally speaking, all American habits are
rood. But II people only knew it, says
the Washington Post, there are better
ways of keeping water cool than put
ting ice in it. And the water that is
cool without being cold is twice as cool
ing to the drinlier, to say nothing of
being several times as good for the
stomach into which it is put. One of
the simplest ways of cooling water is
by evaporation. The Pueblo Indian of
our southwest, with his untutored
mind, discovered this fact hundreds of
years ago, and has been using the dis
covery in his quiet, unobtrusive way
ever since, while we of the higher civ
ilization have been buying ice, depict
ing our pockets and spelling our diges-
tion at the same time. The Pueblo In.
dians never discovered the art OF glaz
ing pottery, and the result is that all
their earthenware is more or less
porous, and when filled with water alb
serbs it sponge-lilie, keeping the out
side always moist. This moisture
evaporating cools the vessel and the
water it contains, just as one can feel
the GOODNESS that comes from breeze
on the body when wet with perspira-
ton. In the dry air of the southwest,
where the Pueblo Indian finds his
home, this evaporation is very great,
and the result is that the pottery ollas
are used by whites, Indians and Mexi-
cans alike to hold cool drinking water
Anyone who has travelled through
the southwest cannot fail to recollect
the old brownish buff-colored ola with
it's curious Indian decorations in con-
ventionalized pictures of birds, beasts
and fish that were sure to be found in
the fork OF a dry cottonwood branch
standing just inside the door with a
yellow calabash, or IL, in very modern
house, tin cup hanging from a nail
on the door jamb. And water from it
after long, dusty ride in the boiling
sun tasted many times better than the
coldest ice cream soda he ever paid ten
cents for in the states. It may have
been what Col. Tom Ochiltree terms
the large, elegant thirst that added to
the supposed virtues of the ola as u
water cooler, but the scientists of the
National Museum will tell you that the
cooling qualities of the porous pottery
are quite as real as imaginary. In the
better class of Mexican houses the
chipped and battered ola in it's pictur-
esque rustic support will usually be re-
placed by more daintily ornamcnted
earthen one shaped like an army can
teen, suspended by gray Mexican
scarf in the draught of window, or a
highly ornate bowl of a couple of gal
Ions capacity, swung in the same way
in netting of twisted yucca Gbers.
But the cooling principle is always the
same
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
PICKED FROM SHOP WINDOWS.

OXFORD ties instead Of being laced
are fastened with three buttons. Black
ties have large pearl buttons and are
made with military heels. Ties of tan
leather in all the different shades are
much the vogue.
SUEDE gloves are no longer con-
sidered the proper thing. Glace kid is
the fashion. All the tan and mode
shades are in favor, and wide en-
broidery is used on the back. The but
tons match the glove in color and arc
encased in narrow black rims.
LACE coats are so old that this year
they appear as a novelty. They are
made of lace insertion and Dresden
ribbons and are worn with plain or
fancy SILK skirts. The mcst effective
are of black lace combined with del
icately tinted ribbons.
TINY frills of yellow Valenciennes
lace are conspicuous as a trimming
They form finish to the popular box
plait, and are used profusely on the
loose fronts of chiffon. They ripple
over the new ribbon collars and are
fashioned into the most chu.1n:a 4
cuffs.
THE latest cape Is made of black os-
trich feathers. Small tips are used and
the cape has a Medici collar and n
cluster Of very small tips over each
shoulder. Capcs of accordion plated
silk null, combined with lace insertion,
are among the summer novelties. -
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
TO SERVE FRUIT.

GRAPES are placed on large fruit
dish, with green leaves around edge.
BANANAS are slightly opened at one
end and served on individual fruit
plates.
ORANGES are cut in half and eaten
with an orange spoon. The peel serves
as cup.
BERRIES are usually put in a large
berry bowl and served in individual
dishes at table.
PINEAPPLEs are peeled, cut in very
thin slices, the core cut out. and served
with sugar.
OFTEN several kinds of fruit are
placed in one large fruit dish on the
table, and each person provided with
an individual fruit plate.
ORANGES eaten in the natural state,
or with the pulp prepared and simply
sprinkled with sugaN are SO delicious
and healthful that it seems almost un-
necessary TO suggest other ways in
which they may be utilized.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
THE GUNMAKER OF ILION
jefferson M. Clough Refuses a
Tempting Offer from the Obi
nese Government.
His Health Was Too Poor TO Permit At
tention to Business--A Great Sufferer
for Many Years, But Has Now


(From the Springfield, Mass Union.)

(From the Springfield, Mass Uhion.)
There isn't gun manufacturer in the
United States who does not know Jefferson
NJ. Clough, and whyi Because he has been
intimately associated all his life with the
development of the two best American
rifles, the Remington and Winchester. For
years he was superintendent of the Il. Rem
Ington 81 Sons great factory at lion, N. Y
After leaving there he refused tempting
offer of the Chinese Government to go to
Chinu to superintend their government fac
tories-and accepted instead the superiu-
tendency of the Winchester-Arms Co., at
New Haven, at a salary OF $3.50 year.
1t was after this long term OF active labor
as q business man that he found himself in
capacitated for further service by the EN-
barge which rheumatism had laid upon him
and resigned his position more than two
years ago, and returned to Belchertown,
Mass, where he now lives and owns the
Phelps farm, u retired spot where he has
five hundred acres of land.
Being man of means he did not spare
the cost and was treated by leading phys-
clans and by baths at celebrated springs
without receiving any benefit worth notice
During the summer of 1898 ard the winter
of 1894 Mr.. Clough was confined to his house
in Belchertown, being unable to rise from
his bed without assistance, and suffering
continually with acute pains and with no
taste or desire for food, nor was he able to
obtain sufficient sleep
Early In the year 1894 Mr.. Clough heard
of DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People
He began taking these pills about the first
of March 1894 and continued to do so until
the first part of September following. The
first effect noticed wasa better appetite and
he began to note more ability to help him
self OF the bed aud to be better generally
Last August QS94l he was able to go alone
to his summer residence and farm of l63
acres on Grenadier Island, among the
Thousand Islands, in the river st. Law
renee, where from the highest laud of his
farm he commands view for Il miles
down the river, and 60 of the Thousand
Islands can be seen.
Instead of being confined to his bed Mr..
Clough is now and has been for some time
able to be about the farm to direct the men
employed there and he is thankful for what
DIR. Williams Pink Pills have done for him.
These pills are manufactured by the DR.
Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady
n. Y, and are sold only in boxes bearing
the firms tradS mark and wrapper, at 80
cents box or six boxes for 81 80, and are
never sold in bulk They may be had of all
druggists or direct by mail from DR.. Will
liams Medicine Company.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
DOMESTIC CONCERNS

Cheese Omelct: Four well beaten
eggs, half a teacup of grated crackers,
three tablespoonfuls of grated cheese
Pour into hot pan and fry. Ear mers'
Review.
Apple Macaroni-Stew some nice
tart apples, sufficient to make about
two pints and half of rather thin
sauce, sweeten a little, put into the
inner cup of double boiler, heat to
boiling, and cook in cupful of maca-
roni broken into inch lengths from
one to two hours as needed. Serve
hot.-Good Health.
Bread crumbs rank among the
house cleaners best friends. Crushed
to coarse powder, they may be used
to clean delicate lamp sha des, screens,
show cases, scarfs and the boiling.
cloth trifes dear to the heart of tho
dccoratively inclined. Bread crumbs
will also remove grease spots from
wall papers, and are, indeed, invalu-
able in freshening wall papers that
have become dingv.
Nut Crisps; Mix together thor.
oughly one and one-half cups of coarse
graham flour and one-half cup of hick.
ory-nut meal, prepared by pressing the
chopped meats of nuts through "A fine
colapder. Make into rather stiff
dough with ice water, lncad we'll, roll
into sheet as thin as brown paper,
cut with knife into squares, and bake
on perforated tins until lightly
Drowned on both sides. Good Health.
Lemon Custard: For two pies wet
four tablespoonfuls of corn starch with
a little water, pour on three cups Of
boiling water. Add the juice of two
lemons, two cups sugar, the yolks of
three eggs and bit of butter. Pour
into deep plates lined with crust and
bake Make a martinique by beating
the whites of the eggs and adding five
tablespoonfuls of sugar. Spread over
pies and return to the oven to brown
Orange Judd Farmer.
bread Fritters: To a quart-basin.
full of stale bread, broken small, put a
quart of boiling milk. cover it for ten
or fiteen minutes. When quite soft
beat it with n spoon until smooth, add
two wcll-beaten eggs, half nutmeg
grated, tablespoonful of brandy, one
of butter and little sat. Beat il
light. Make an omelet pan hot, put
in a small piece of butter, and when
hot pour in sufficient batter to run
over the pan; let it fry gently. When
one side is fine brown turn and brown
the other. Lay on hot plate, put
butter, sngar and a little nutmeg over
it; lay one on the other, cut them
through in quarters and serve them
hot. Boston Budget.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
CHATTER Kill

After mature reflection Brown deter
mined to make every effort TO rid him
self of the bonds of military servi-
tude, and as preliminary step sat
down and wrote a long letter TO his
aunt telling her of his soldier life, of
Alice, and of the bright pictures he
had drawn OF wandering down the
path of life hand in hand with the
beautiful companion of his choice.
lie expressed his wishes that measures
might be at once set on foot looking TO
his release from army service, and
closed with expressions of wairncst
love for the good aunt whose heart he
must have torn by his long silence, but
whose kind face was ever before his
eyes, and whom he soon hoped to
greet with the embrace of a son warm
est love.
In due time reply was received, and
tears coursed down the young soldiers
face as he read the tracings from the
hand of the only mother he had ever
known. The old lady, with pathetic
tenderness, spoke of the dreary years
of waiting, each succeeding day dawn
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1895-06-20
PERSONAL POINTS.

Ex-Gov. oeLRsBY, Illinois Grand Old
Man. has lived In that state sixty years.
He Is past seventy.
MATTHEW SEATTLE, an educated but
full-blooded Indian, of Washington,
will deliver Fourth of July oration at
Chicago.
GEN. BUcKSER, who surrendered Fort
Donelson thirty years ago to Grant,
walks about the streets OF Louisville
smoking corn-cob pipe.
JOSEPH SMITH, JR., son of the Nor
mon prophet and one of the chiefs of
the church, Is man of sixty-five, with
n fine physique and an agreeable voice.
JOHN B. CURTIS, OF Portland, Me-, Is
one of the largest landowners In Ne
braslta. One of his pastures In that
state is eight miles long by five miles
wide, and is fenced in.
HENRY Wick, who has just died in
Cleveland at the age of eighty-eight,
was an old-time resident of that city.
AS banker and business man he was
widely known throughout Ohio.
GEN. GRANTS grandson, Algernon
Sartoris, is youth nearly six feet tall
and fair of complexion. He was born
in England, but is said to prefer his
mothers country to his native land.
HIRAM II. REvELs, the first negro
elected to the United States senate, has
been chosen supreme trustee of the col
ored Knights of Honor of America, sue
ceeding Frederick Douglass. Rev. DIR.
Revels is n resident of Washington.
NJ 81
religious editor, was n college boy he
was known among his associates as
"Parvus Ager" little Field), from the
fact that he was the youngest of the
family of famous brothers. DR.. Field
has been for forty years the editor of
the New York Evangelist.