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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12

The boast Of the Topeka Capital that it pays
more postage than all other Topeka daiIies
combined, emily proves the neagerness Of its
local circulation as compared with that of the
STATE JoURNAL-as no postage is paid on any
circulation within Topeka or Shawnee county.
The STATE JOURNALS local circulation is far
and away ahead Of the combined circulation of
al the other Topeka dailies.
The circulation of the Topeka Daily STATE
JOURNAL in the towns near by and tributary to
Topeka is very large, as the evening trains IN
various directions carry the STATE JOURNAL,
giving its readers the first and latest Associated
Press and state news of the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
Remarkable Effects.

There is no humidity in the place.
The frizzling heat, which remains in
the ghborhood Of $50 in the shade all
the time, produces remarkable effects
Wood falls apart; chairs and wagons
and barrels drop to pieces within few
minutes. No one can support life an
hour without water. A terrible story is
told of the exploring party Of 1871. The
commander, Lieutenant Wheeler, called
his guide up and ordered him TO cross
the valley on foot On the guide s re-
monstrating two soldiers were ordered
to start him with fixed bayonets. Before
an hour had passed one soldier crawled
into the camp more dead than alive.
The other was found by a rescuing party,
but the wretched guide had wandered
away beyond help, and one more victim
was added to the roll which the CHASTITY,
ghoulish spot calls for every year.
In the adjoining country about Death
valley are found many traces of former
occupation by civilized people. In one
range of mountains is a lofty perpen-
dicular cliff Of limestone over $50 feet
in height and having smooth surface.
About 100 feet from the base of this
cliff are cut cross and the letters x L
D. They are at least 60 feet in height
and can be readily seen from great
distance. The Indians have no traditions
| concerning them, and the accepted be-
lief is that they were carved by the
Jesuit priests who in 1888 established
missions to the south in Arizona. TO
| cut these letters on the face of this great
cliff man must have erected a scaffold
100 feet high or have been let down $50
feet from TIE top of the cliff.
Ghosts There Too.
But Death va1ley-that place in which
Dante might have laid the scene of his
! Inferno and among whose noisome va
pors, Shiny pools, hideous reptiles and
heaps of dead men 8 bones the pencil Of
| Dore would have reveled-has yet other
| horrors. The terrors of the daytime are
as nothing, it is said, to the unknown
| and awful influences abroad at night
| NV Arizonian lowered his voice as he
| spoke of the ghostly shapes and appari-
lions that walk there, the fearful means
and signs that float upon the hot sirocco
| breath Of midnight. ''Ha 'nted" is the
! frightful valley by the most dreadful
specters, from whose open mouths pro-
truding tongues 1oll in search of one
drop of cooling water and whose parch-
| ed heads split apart with the terrific
| heat. There is one awful phantom that
| rides It's horse with a canteen in its bony
hand, putting it to its feshless lips again
and again to find it empty and to drop
it with heartren ling moan. This ap-
partition has been seen time and again
| bv those who have ventured near the
valley at the hour when graveyards
yawn. Indeed, take it all in all, one
might search the whole world round and
not find another such spot which from
its situation, its surroundings, its hor-
rors and its shadows would so aptly cor
respond to ones conception of a place for
lost souls EDITH SESSIONS UPPER.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
A PICTURE OF HADES.
Edith Sessions Topper Describes
the Worst Place on Earth.
A GOOD PLACE FOR LOST SOULS.

There is No Water or Shade There, but
1t ReveIs In ella Monsters. 8cOr-
piOns, Tarantulas, Rats ana such.
BARsTow, CAL, Aug. 10.-As the train
shoots across the Mohave desert, that
most desolate and sterile waste, with its
awful monotony, its drear eKpanse of
sand and a1kali. unbroken save for the
stretch Of rails glittering in the burning
sun, you wonder if anywhere on earth
there can be more desolate and terri
BILE region.
Saying this to a grizzled old native,
an Arizonian of 40 years. experience,
who had come on the train at the Nee
dies and who had told me many inter-
esting stories of hardship and hairbreath
escapes, he replied: Eyes, nom" (ev-
erybody says Eyes, mom," and "no.
nom, " in this country, There is. Wait
till we git ter Daggett, an I'll pint out
a section Of country that leads right in
ter the jaws of death an the mouth of
hell -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
SPRING.
Shoes.

Prices cut in half; SO calf for
men, $3.50 per pair; ladies' $3.50
Dongola, any shape, $2.25; chill
dren's shoes, away down.
Clothing.
For boys: Pants and overAlls;
second floor.
Dress Findings.
Two-thirds and three fourths
price is the rule.
Dress Cambrick. Scent kind,
A cents; dress drilling. 10 cent
kind, s cents; Selics, 12-cent
kind, 10 cents; Yelveteen dress
binding, wide, 16- cent kind. IS
cents; twin wire dress stays, best
1S-cent goods, 9 cents set
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
Breaks All Records.
The
Topeka
Daily
State
Journal.

BY its sworn detailed statement Of circulation
for the first half of the year 1895, it is shown to
have circulation. during the first six months
as Rtated. of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
Millinery.

Hats reticketed for a quick
good bye: Sailor Hats, 50 kind,
81 each; the $1.40 kind, SO cents
each; the 81 kind, rs cents each;
the S5-cent kind. 90 cents each;
the 6O-cent kind, 40 cents each.
Ribbons.
No. 10, all silk, 10 cents q yard;
No. 9, ali silk, Z cents a yard;
No Z, all silk, 5 cents a yard.
Calico.
5000 yards Z cent goods, 5
cents a yard; 1000 yards cent
goods, cents a yard.
Shirtings.
1000 yards Scent goods, 6
cents a yard; 5000 yards 10. cent
goods, 8 cents q yard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-12
Clothing.

For boys: Pants ard overAlls;
second floor.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
why He was Elected.

A member of the Ohio Legislature Of
some years ago had been elected from
district which had always sent . rep.
resentative of different political com.
plexion, and it happened that he was
given to bibulosity. He did we'll for q
week or SO. but then the temptations
Of great city like Columbus were toe
much for him, and he began to drink.
He kept it up for a whole week, and
for that long he never appeared about
the capitol. Then his friends looked
him up. i0 ,feHH2 H5i9aNEs
by George, old man." said one Of
them, you'll have to quit this, and get
down to business" s.s. g~
"Oh, guess not" he replied care
lcssly.
you're bound to or your constitu.
cnts won't stand it. They sent you
here to do something for them and
they expect you to do it."
mo, they didn't" he insisted.
This was poser.
''They didn't?" exclaimed the spokes-
man. What did they send you for
then?" s4n efarss. t.g.is
''Why," he laughed, 'they had to
send me to keep the other fellow from
coming. detroit Free Press.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06

his nurses arms, asked the other
nieces and nephews to follow her into
the library; and they came, wonder
irg. i iss s 'f1 lI 81
..Children," began Miss Martha,
stretching her hand out to Helen's
Easter card, and setting it up In sight
under the light of the lamp, "you all
know what Easter means; but l think
we ought to understand 1t better to-
day than we ever have before, because
OF the dear little mother who was
with us last year, but who is not here
now." .. z Ht
None Of them had ever heard such q
falter in Miss Martha's firm tones be-
fore. At the sound Teddy slipped of
the edge Of his distant chair and drew
closer. His aunt cleared her throat
and went on: r4s .fsf mss 81
IAN the hope and promise Of Easter
ought to be very sweet to us. 1t is be-
cause OF that that we can think SO
peacefully of her lying dead in her
grave; because we know that she is
only waiting until the angel rolls
away the stone, when she will rise
again in the newness Of the life ever
lasting" ...
Did the children understand all this?
Perhaps not all. But think they un-
derstood enough to warm their frozen
little hearts; and they understood very
we'll, indeed, when Miss Martha
began to tell them Of the long ago
times when she and their mother were
girls together, and how they had loved
each other all their lives until death
came When the delightful, leisurely
talk was over, and Miss Martha went
away upstairs with sleeping Jack and
the other little one, Grace crept close
to Teddy, and, laying her small hand
somewhere near her heart, whispered:
Teddy, I've got the feeling Of Easter
right here, haven't you?"
Some months later, Charley Strother
remarked to his sister: 1T strikes me
the Dunbars are running things in
pretty smooth water Of late. Have you
noticed it?" tt3l FH
''Of course, and rejoiced. Grace told
me yesterday that they had been hav.
ing lovely times ever since Easter"
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
ON EASTER EVE

Old Rites and Ceremonies Belonging 10
Ii4y This Time. l.l 1870
The day before Easter Is sometimes
called Holy Saturday, and there are
numerous rites and ceremonies belong
ing to 1t, some Of them practiced at the
present day. On the evening of this
day, In the middle districts OF ireland,
great preparations are made for the
finishing of Lent, and the ushering in
of the glad Eastertide. On that night
the good cotter's wife puts into the pot
many fat fowl or special piece Of
bacon, which no one dares SO much as
to taste by putting finger in the pot
until the cock crows on Easter morning.
At midnight may be heard the wild
clapping of hands and the joyous laugh
Of the light-hearted Irish people, and
above all rises the shout: "Out with the
Lent" Jollity and merry-making
prevail for an hour or two, when they
go to rest and sleep till four o'clock,
then arise to see the sun dance in honor
Of the Resurrection. Nor is this su-
perstition by any means confined
to the humber classes, but ia
scrupulously observed by many people
Of high birth and great wealth, some
Of them asserting positively that they
have literally seen the sun dance on
Easter morning.
Sir John Sucking, in his ballad upon
wedding, alludes to this superstition:
But oh, she dances such wayI
No sun upon an Easter day Is half so nne .
sight"
Another custom attached to this sea-
son was the putting out of the fires in
all the churches and kindling them
anew from flint, blessing the wax for
the Easter tapers and other customs.
A translation of Googe's from the
Naogeorgus describes the superstition
as to the rekindling Of the fires:
ION Easter eve the fire all is quencht in every
place,
And fresh againe from out the flint is fetcht
with solemne grace;
The priest doth halow this against great
dangers many one,
A brande whereof doth every man with greedie
minde take home,
That when the farewell storme appeares, or
tempest black arise,
BY lighting this he safe may be from strokes
Of hurtful skies"-Ladies' Home Journal
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06

times; but finally put the picture, with
one of her own cards, into an envelope,
and directed It.
"Therel What harm can It do, at
any rate? And why shouldn't follow
an impulse when Il comes, and have
faith in an interpreter who can explain
without footnotes?"
In Saturday nights mail the card
went to Miss Martha. She admired 1t
for q moment, her mind perhaps dis
tracted little by her surprise that a
young girl should have remembered
her and her wonder whether the send
ing OF plain Easter cards were not a
somewhat antiquatet fashion. Then
she proceeded to dispose Of the matter
by straightway writing formal note
OF thanks, which was dispatched that
same evening by her brothers office
boy, and which made Helen, as she ex-
pressed it, feel "aguish."
The following afternoon Miss Martha
was reused from the solid religious
work she was reading by the sound OF
voices in the next room, the door into
which had been left ajar. They were
the voices of her eldest nephew and
niece, Teddy and Grace, commenting
on Helen's Easter card.
"Isn't 1t lovelyl' Grace was saying,
land 1t isn't sorrowful bit, even If 1t
has got grave In It,"
~ don't like graves" responded Ted
dy, gruffly, ''nor funerals, nor any Of
that. But 1t seems as II we were at
such things all the time In this house"
"When have a funeral" said Grace,
II want to have q nice one, II I can,
that will be pleasant, you know, to re-
member me by" The little girl paused,
and then added, In q lower tone: "Not
like mothers. /"
ut was all Aunt Martha's fault" !"
broke in Teddy, with quick indigna-
tion, s"about mothers. Father didn't
want 1t SO. He just let her have her
own way, because she was company
and doing us favor to come.
"And mother dcserred happy fu-
neral" mourned poor Grace; ..she was
good and lovely, aud Just as Christian
as could be. 1t wasn't right to bury
her as II we couldn't feel any comfort
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06

about II, and then never to talk Of her
any more, rs II we'd like to forget her
as soon as we could. II I'm Christian
when die, want them to let all the
sun in and the air, and I want the
singers to sing out loud, as II they
knew l was going to Heaven to be glad
forever and ever And then everybody
that loved me, I'd like them to say so
to each other sometimes, and talk over
the ways used to have, and what I
said. 1t isn't anybody's fault to be
dead. Mother couldn't help dying when
God wanted her TO-, even If she did
leave four poor, young, helpless chill
dren behind her. And, anyway, l
guess God can take care Of us children
| for her." is,...l, ssa,.1 h..i.ts I
III Aunt Martha will let Him." said
Teddy.
There was o moments silence before
he went on to ask, with some embar-
rassment: aaa,
"But, I say, what makes you talk
about If you're Christian when you
diep l thought you told mother you
were going to be one, for certain"
II wanted to; but I'm, getting good
deal discouraged from the idea. II
isn't Christian to get so hot and angry
In your mind till you jerk your buttons
off, and slam doors and things, and
don't care"
.It's Just Aunt Martha that makes
you. She ought to be ashamed.
wonder how would she feel If, when
she got to Heaven, she had to tell
mother she had kept you away from
going, when you meant to do 1t. She's
always dinging 1t ut us that she has to
be responsible for our clothes and our
manners. and II we aren't forever cart
ing pocket handlxerchiefs around, and
all the rest Of it; wonder how she'd
like to be responsible for that?"
II think it would be nice," said
Grace, with wistful little sigh, '.if,
when you were at home, 1t was easy to
remember about Heaven-the way 1t
was when mother was here. But may
be it's only mothers that can make 1t
easy for you. Maybe aunts do the best
they can; but maybe they don't know
how"
Miss Martha Dunbar did not derive
much satisfaction from her solid read
ing that afternoon. When the children
went from the next room she mechanic
ally returned to her book; but present
| ly it was laid down on the table beside
her, and she dropped her face upon il
in her folded hands. 1t was long be.
fore she lifted it again; when she did
she murmured to herself:
"With Gods help this aunt shall
learn how. May know my RESPONSE
bil:ty better after ths!'
When supper was over Miss Martha
taking drowsy two-year-old Jack from
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
DID NOT SIT UP FoR NOTHING.
The Mississippi Landlord Saw His 0uest
... ON According to Promise. -4t.1f

The Mississippi Landlord Saw His 0uest
ON According to Promise. -qi,lf
I had a funny experience in = little
town on the lower Mississippi, said a
travelling salesman recently. The place
had but one hotel, the landlord Of
which conducted everything except the
cooking and house-cleaning, which his
wife attended to. was the only guest,
and when l told him that wanted to
go up the river on a packet, due any
where between midnight and three
o'clock in the morning, I was shown to
a room immediately over tho Office, and
going to sleep when l heard shrill
feminine voice call:
"John, you come to bed"
"Sallie, you know KANT 20 to bed.
Got to wake that blamed drummer"
Ienjoyed the situation and laughed
myself wide awake, not getting sleepy
again for two, hours. Then the femi-
nine voice called again:
= John, say come to bed" ie'
II KANT 60 to bed" Ntt
"Let that pesky drummer wake his
SELF" trt..~, .u
''Tain't no way to run hotel" and
there was silence again. Finally
went to sleep and was soon awakened
by the most unearthly racket. The old
man was pounding on the Office CELL
ing with broom handle. siAl
"Tm awake" answered. II don't
believe I'll 60 on that boat. I'm too
tired. I'll wait until tomorrow"
II reckon you won't. You be down
hyar in two minutes or I'll be artcr
you. l amt goin' to set up for moth
in"
l caught the boat.-Cincinnati En-.
uuirer '
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
A Di6erence.

Bridget had just informed the unwel.
come caller that the lady was not at
home, and as she returned to the
kitchen she moralized.
at makes great difference" quoth
she, ''whin an how yez practice a good
ting Not tellin' loie made George
Washington famous, but, begorrah,
'twould hov lost me me job. WASH
inpton Star.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
Tho Fate of rantslus.

Mrs. Scribbler Gmpressively)-What-
ever you do. never, never marry .
newspaper man. la.s5}il.- ,t
School Chum-Why not? h.
II married one, and Iknow. Every
night my husband brings home big
bundle of newspapers from all over the
country, and they most drive me
crazy" u t
1.-The newspapers?'
"Indeed they do. They are just
crammed with the most astonishing
bargains, in stores thousand miles
away."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
A Lack Of ThorouEhness.

"This novelist" said the book re-
viewer, ''means we'll, but he knows
nothing about anatomy" igeg 4.i4
"What makes you think SOP" asked
his wife -
"In writing Of love scene between
two people IN Philadelphia he says,
Her words had stung Reginald to the
quick Anybody, it seems to me,
ought to know that a Philadelphia
man hasn't any quick. Judge.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
PAPERS AND TWINE.

Some Practical Advice ON the Subject of
Their Best Uses. .I-Ns3A
Wrapping paper, old newspapers, and
the various useless odds and ends that
collect about kitchen are IN awful
nuisance. II you put them in the Are
it smudges It ont; II you throw them
in the ash barrel it soon fills up; If you
have no particular place to put them
they get around under your feet and
annoy you that way. AL good, smooth
brown paper should be neatly folded
up and laid on shelf in . place ~
apart for it It never comes amiss 70
have about; you want it for lunches;
to send away packages, to do up the
laundry in; you want 1t for . dosen
things, and probably never have p
clean piece at hand. The paper bags
should be put away in the same man
ner. 1t is small economy, but saves
q great deal Of time when you wxnt
either.
The twine that comes around the
packages should be made up in . ball
and kept in tiny box or basket hung
high out Of the reach Of small hands,
yet handy to run to when You want .
bit Of cord. For the useless odds and
ends make bag out Of cheap print or
cretonne, or piece one out Of pretty
scraps and line it SO that It will be
strong. One % large as common
four-sack will not be too large. Gsth-
er it at the bottom and fasten with .
bow OF cambria, and at the top make :
wide hem, into which put . thick wire
or small hoop. Hang this in corner
out of the way and throw into It all
the bits Of paper, cloth and trash Of
that character. When the bag Is full
roll the contents in big newspapcr
and tie with q string and pile up in
the coal house until you have the ashes
carted away, and then it can be carried
away without trouble -or extra cost
You can have dozen such bundles and
not notice the room they take up
Boston Herald. i
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06

'What do you suppose It meansT'
II think it means" said Grace, slow.
ly, shat Christ is risen indeed, and
hath appeared to Miss Martha. sally
Campbell, In N. Y. Independent If
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
Not Particular.
uo,1 have rna2

He-Will you have meP
She-.Yes.
"And you will take me for better or
for worse, without knowing anything
about ME? How good of you and how
trusting"
''Oh, that's all right. never look
gift-horse in the mouth. detroit Free
Fress
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06

The man who claims that there ia
no such thing as an honest man tells
others what he thinks of himself
Rams Horn.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
Tho Enemy Of Bacilli.

Let us keep in mind that good, we'll
nourished blood is the enemy Of bacilli
of consumption the same as it il Of all
other germs, and other things being
equal, that can be best procured by
living an outdoor life as near as possi-
BILE, even to the extent of almost sleep
ing beneath the stars. Camping out
and roughing it and the taking Of ex-
ercise which engages the muscles as
well as the mind, which encourages
the appetite as we'll as the digestive
powers Of the glutton, thus renew the
blood in such manner as to assist ma
ture in the work of throwing of the
disease.-N. Y. Advertiser.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
An ExpIanAtion.

Proud Fathcr--That is a sunset my
daughter painted She studied paint
ing abroad you know.
Friend-Ah! that explains it.
never saw sunset like that in this
country.-T'ucll.
The Van Buren press., 1895-04-06
Her SolIioquy.
! love my little brother;
Ha.c n onnnin rac.r- olk.

He's u cunning, rosy elf;
But wish-somchow or other
That he could rock himself.
Frederick b. Opper, in St. NicholaA