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D,sposing Of Back Numbers.

A good story is told of certain Lon
don preacher who used to run publica-
ton of his own. He was asked to preach
a sermon at the opening of a chapel in
the suburbs, and as an inducement an
offer was made that certain portion of
the collection should be handed over to
him.
t'Inever accept money for preaching, :"
said the great man loftily, ''but if you
like to purchase So worth Of copies of
The Bubbler for distribution 1 have no
objection.
The offer was accepted, the sermon
was preached, and down came the copies
the following week. Naturally the
deacons expected little account of the
opening of the chapel, but grievously
were they taken aback. The copies were
all back numbers !-TiI-Bits.
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JOBS HAYS HAMMOND.

government the other day for treason.
He is about SO years of age and is
Yale graduate. A few years ago he
was in California managing a mine for
q company that paid him less than $10,-
600 year. He was sent for by a South
Africa company, but declined to go SO
far ON a venture. The company offered
him $4,000 year to go to Johannes
burg, i'll the Transvaal, and take charge
of it's mines He went. He knew little
about South Africa, but there was moth
ing about mining that he did not know.
With a thorough knowledge of mineral
ogy to start with he had had several
years. experience as mining engineer.
He knew not only the theory but the
practice of mining.
The results of his first few months
work in South Africa attracted imme-
date attention. He introduced new
methods that increased the gold output
and decreased the expense of production.
He had not worked long in his new
field before Cecil Rhodes, the man who
is at the head of the British South Afri-
ca company, made him an offer Of $780,,
600 year to become the acting chief of
the vast mining interests of that big
syndicate. Again Mr.. Hammond accept
ed. He has many thousands of men IN
der his general direction, and it is ac-
cording to his plans that millions of
dollars of gold are taken out Of the South
African goldfelds every year and sent
to fill British Golfers. Next to Rhodes,
Mr.. Hammond is today one of the most
prominent miners in the dark continent.
Another American in South Africa
who gets good sized pile of gold coin
on the first of every month is V. M
Clement. He went there from Colorado
not long ago. He took with him q
knowledge Of mining gained by years
of practical experience. His salary is
$25, 900 year. He went cut there to
take charge of a small mine, but was
soon given the direction over the biggest
mine of the Barney Barnato group. 1t
is estimated that he saves his employers
81 on every ton Of ore taken out of their
ten miles of workings. To Mr.. Barnato
he is literally worth more than his
weight in gold, and MIR. Clement is no
featherweight at that.
Then there is Captain Thomas Mien,
who is known all through the west and
especially in California. He is out
among the Kaffirs now working for the
Robinsons at a salary of $50, 900 annual
1y. Captain Mien was born in St. Law
renee county, N. Y, but has been a
miner for many years.
Some other Yankees who are making
fortunes in that strange land are Mr..
George Starr, formerly of Grass Valley,
Cal, who is the manager and consulting
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was responsible; for did he not use every
power at his command. including thu
public patronage, to bring about this leg
islation?
Coming nearer home-and it is proba-
BILE that it has not been greatly different
in other states-we have seen party
placed in control of the state government
of Kansas, pledged in its platform to all
sorts of reforms. But the men who were
elected on that platform had no sympa-
thy with it and gave the state an admin
istration of public affairs seldom
equaIled for corruption, jobbery and dis
regard of the welfare of the people.
Then relying more upon the past rec
ord of the party, which they had trusted
in years gone by, than upon its pledges
for the future or the known character of
its candidates, the people voted another
change. Already many believe that they
did no better. Much that was promised
has not been fulfilled; there is an appar-
ent disposition to compromise with law
breakers and lurking suspicion among
the people that they have been cheated.
Only recently the country has been
treated to the spectacle of a party.
pledged in its declaration of principles
to protective tariff policy, passing a
revenue tariff bill in the national house
of representatives.
From the returns of the last election it
has been estimated that there are 4,000,-
600 stay. lat home voters in the United
States. 1t is these voters who are going
to look more to the character and known
opinions of the candidates than they are
to the principles enunciated at the con-
vention. They will look for men who
have a record as advocates of the peoples
welfare.
1t is likely to prove a bad year for
compromises, and for dodgers. That you
can't fool all the people all the time was
never so near TO being proven as it is to-
day.
The party which makes the clearest
declaration of principles, if they are
right ones. and in addition to that nomi-
mates candidates whose position is know
to be fully in accord with those princi-
pies will get large proportion of those
100000 votes.
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and bank presidents, bring such liberal
compensation. Still South Africa is a
good place for the average man to keep
away from. 1t is about the only country
on earth where a quick witted Yankee
adventurer would starve. And starve-Ele
would in the Transvaa1 if he didn It
have money enough to get away.
There is no show for the American
prospector i'll South African goldfields
True, there is lot of gold there. So is
there lot of gold in Wall street. But
the bankers own the Wall street gold,
and the British capitalists own the South
African goldfelds. If he must pros
pect, let him try Wall street. 1t costs
less to get there, and he can walk away
when his money is all gone. He can't
walk home from johannesburg, and the
passenger rates from Cape Town are
very high. 1t will cost him about 500
to get from Johannesburg to Cape Town
and about 5000 to get from there back
to London. Once in London, he may get
back to America for from $I6 to $50 if
he is willing to go steerage or second
class.
1t will Sc seen that man with, say,
$500 would take some chances in start
ing for these faroff goldfieIds. If he
landed IN johannesburg with $500 in
his pocket. he would soon find that the
w1sest course to pursue would be to go
back as soon as possible. This applies
to the average miner, day laborer, farm
er, clerk, bOokkeeper or any unskilIed
workman. Many EngIishmen and a few
Americans have learned this lesson by
bitter experience.
In the first place, all unskilled labor
in South Africa is done by the Kaff1rs,
or natives. Kaffir labor is cheap and
plentiful. For 621a cents each day an
army of them can be hired. This amount
means much less there than it would
even in one of our big cities. A white
man could not live in Johannesburg on
this sum. It would hardly buy one de-
cent meal day.
The few positions which the average
man with no special knowledge could
fill he finds already taken by English
men. The country is overrun with
younger sons, who are often superior to
the American i'll education and who al
ways have the advantage of him in So
cial influence. You will find earls' sons
washing dishes in the restaurants and
cracking the whip over Kaffirs in the
mines. These young Britons all expect
to make their fortunes, and they all
know some one in authority to whom
they look to help them do it. When
there is an opening, one of these young
fellows gets it.
There is, however, demand for skill
ed mechanics. Mining engineers, miner
alogists and other experts in the science
of mining can always find positions with
big salaries. Most of the Americans
whose names are mentioned above went
to South Africa under contract. They
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-18
THE WAY TT LOOKS

This year, perhaps, more than ever be-
fore, will political parties find it neces-
sary, in order to win the support and
confidence of the people, to nominate as
standard bearers men of known and pro-
nounced principles. Not only are party
ties weaker than ever before, but people
are losing faith in platform declarations.
They have had some very pointed les
sons in the failure of parties to carry out
platform pledges within the past few
years.
They have seen a party placed in con-
troll of the nation, pledged to the use of
silver as money, and to a revenue tariff
policy, ignore both these pledges and not
only give silver its death blow, but pass
a tariff bill. which, in order to secure
protection for certain favored Industries,
was formed without any regard, what
ever, to the revenue feature.
For much of this the chief executive
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engineer for the Barnato Bros. and
receives upward of $25, 900 annually !;
Mr.. n. c. Perkins, general manager of
the Rand mines, formerly of the state of
New York, receives $40, 600; Mr.. Hen
men Jennings, consulting engineer for E.
Rexstein & Co., Robinson 6 Co., Crown
Reef, City and Suburban mines, receives
an annual salary of $40, 600, and Mr..
George E. Weber of Massachusetts gets
$50, $50.
There is no denying that these are
pretty zig salaries. 3gotHzNSs like them
are paid managers of American mines,
and in this country only few positions,
such as those held BY railroad presidents
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were men who could make good 1iv-
ing at home. Boss carpenters and con-
tractors will also find good field there.
There is something more to be con-
sidered, however, besides the am cunt of
the salaries paid, and that is the cost of
living. House rents in Johannesburg
are exorbitant. The ordinary living ex-
penses of a family of four persons are
between ST., and $4,000 a month.
Houses rent from 5000 to $500 a month.
Mr. Hammond pays 1926 month for his
house, and it is not remarkably i'm
posing or expensive one. 1t is built Of
corrugated iron, as are all the houses
there, because good lumber is scarce.
He has to import his domestic servants
and pays his cook $50 a month, his
laundress $25, his coachman $40 and
his maids $25 each.
Fruits and vegetables are scarce and
high, not because they cannot be grown,
but because the crafty Beers have COM
bined to raise little and keep up the
prices. Goods that are brought overland
from the Cape, 1900 miles south, are
naturally rather expensive, especially as
the Beers put high taxes on European
luxuries.
So, taking these items into considera-
ton, the salaries are not SO high as they
might at first seem to be. When man
has to pay from So to SIS a day for ordi-
nary board and for other necessities in
proportion, he needs a good salary.
There are good openings III the Trans
vaal for American farmers with good
capital, if they care to endure all the
annoyances of climate and are prepared
to accept the bigoted rule of the Beers.
The Yankee will have to reorganize his
agricultural methods, however. The
Beers themselves are not farmers. They
own great farms of 5000 and IL, 600
acres, but the Kafirs till the land. The
Boer takes the lions share of the profits
and leaves the poor native barely enough
to live on. As the Kaffirs know nothing
of raising vegetables and fruits, but few
are raised. A Yankee farmer who would
send fresh green vegetables, berries,
apples, plums, tomatoes and such prod
ucts to the johannesburg market would
soon make his fortune, if the Jealous
Beers did not drive him out of the coun-
try.
It is a rich and fertile land-a land
of gold, with dark, bloody past, for
bidding present, but brilliant future.
CYRUS SYLVESTER.
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HAVE NOT BEGUN.
The IngIeside Ladies Have Not Yet Started
Charity Work for the Winter.

The IngIeside Ladies' Have Not Yet Started
Charity Work for the Winter.
There is to be a meeting of the charity
committee of Ingleside this afternoon
to see what shall be done in the matter
of taking charge of the poor people in
Topeka this winter.
The announcement that the headquar-
tiers had been opened and work begun,
the ladies say is mistake. While the as
sociation has agreed to take up the work
of the Associated Charities no definite
arrangements have been made. At the
meeting this afternoon it is likely that
the location of a headquarters will be
agreed on and the work of districting
the city will be begun.
The work will be done largely through
Poor Commissioner Hale and the ladies
expect the county will furnish them a
rock pile that they may use the same
general plan adopted by the Associated
Charities last winter. Police MRtroa
Thorpe will be asked to become one of
the district visitors, but it is likely her
arduous work in connection with the po-
lice station will prevent her from doing
much in this direction.
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Putting 1t to Vote.

ST need new hat remarked the
man who had come in last at the club,
''and I don't know whether to get a
stovepipe or Fedora"
"Suppose we put it to vote, =" suggest
ed the man who had his feet on the ia
BILE. 'Win you agree to be bound by our
verdict?''
eyes"
The vote was taken. Six were in favor
of the stovepipe, and six declared for the
Fedora.
ST bow 20 your decision, gentlemen. :"
said the man who had come in last, sal
though it looks like a put up job. will
merely buy a tie. Chicago Tribune.
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An Inquisitive Child.

''Talk about children. said young
woman the other day. s'Why, I'm hon
estly afraid of them. I feel just about as
safe when a youngster is around as I
would if a dynamite bomb was rolling
about under my feet. Tt seems to me
children are always striving to make a
sensation. Sometimes I can't tell wheth-
er it is pure guilelessness or wicked pre-
meditation on their part to do or say
something that gives a want-to-sink-
through the-earth feeling to their elders.
CHOW, just imagine my sensations as
a hostess when several people paid a
most unexpected visit to my suburban
home on Monday, the scrap day Of all
housekeepers. and settled down for
luncheon.
ST hadn't time to get up any extras
except hustle few of my company pre-
serves on the table and make a raid on
my cake box. My only meaty relish was
hash; but, honestly, it was all original
goods, as the boarding house lady de-
clared.
Zone Of my visitors brought with her
an inquiring young man of five. 1t
seems this child has mania for inves-
tigating the former conditin Of all eat
abIes before they have passed into the
cooks hands. didn't know this at the
time, SO you can imagine my horror
when the hash was brought on to see
that child fasten his eyes upon it and in
the interests of culinary science loudly
ask, Mamma, what was that when it was
alive?' "-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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]. PIERPoNT MORGAN having dis
charged his patriotic duty and exoner-
ated the president from the charge of
collision with Wall street. has retired
to the quiet and seclusion of his private
Office to await the inevitable flow of
bonds into his Golfers. He has sown the
seed and but awaits the bountiful har-
vest with which he knows he is to be re-
warded. But what shall be said of a
congress which sits supinely by and sees
this robbery of the people going forward
under its very nose and does not raise
hand to prevent it? The members were
given a month between the announce
ment and the issue of the bonds to pre-
ventit Half of that time has gone by
and nothing has been done. Further,
it seems apparent that nothing
will be done. And next summer
all the members of the present
house will go back to their constituents
and present their various explanations
of their conduct and ask for renomina-
ton
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ANONYMOUS.

[ was wrought by maiden with beautiful
hands.
Who painted my sides in day
And stitched me with silk and bedecked me
with bands
And afterward sent me away.
I went through the mail with her card in my
grasp
To bachelor man who lived near,
And when he beheld me he gave quite gasp
And sighed DER the message of cheer
That she. with her dainty and feminine pen,
Had written above her fair name;
And he looked me all over again and again
With a look that was ever the same.
"Oh, tell me, " he muttered "for must reply
To the one who has wrought with such grace,
Are you to hold photos? Are you necktie2
Or you handkerchief case2
''Maybe you're a toolbag to tie on wheel,
Or mat for a swell jardiniere.
Your name and vocation now straightway re-
veal.''
And his voice was the voice of despair.
But how could te112 For she didn't tell me-
So he wrote an Acknowledgements fit
To express his surprise and his absolute glee,
And referred to me all through as s'it.''
Life
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UNION OF CHURCH.
DR.. Stokes Thinks the ssNOrth and
SOulh's Will Unite.

DR.. Stokes Thinks the ssNOrth and
SOulh'' Will Unite.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1S.-Rev. E. Il.
Stokes. the president of the Ocean Grove
Camp Meeting association, Ocean Grove,
N. j.. passed through the city yesterday
morning en- route to San Francisco and
Los Angeles.
1 am glad to note, he said, that there
is decided tendency among the mem
bers of the Methodist Episcopal church,
north, to bring about a consolidation of
the southern and the northern churches.
As you know, since 1874 there has been
separation of the southern and
the northern branches of the church, all
brought about by the slavery trouble. But
this feeling, it seems to me, has passed
away to great extent, and the irdica-
tions all seem to point to an early con-
solicitation of the two churches
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AProvident suitor.

est am afraid said the girls ia
ther, ''that Harold will not be much of
a success N life. -
"He seems very prudent and farsee-
ing"
Gin what way?''
''He said that if we were to marry
he was sure that there was no reason
why our lives should ever know want. -
Him. What makes him so sure?''
''He said he had looked up your rat
ing in the commercial agencies. p
Washington Star.
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SCARCELY a day passes now without
the news of one or more bank failures in
some part of the United States. The an
nouncement is invariably accompanied
with the familiar statement that deposit
tors will be paid in full. If they are 60
ing to pay the depositors in full why
don't they just pay them and then close
upS The road to a gold basis has been
strewn with many wrecks and the end is
not vet.
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BIG FORTUNES IN AFRICA.
Some American Miners Who Are
Getting Their Share.
THEY RECEIVE Big SALARIES.
No show for Independent PrOspectOrs
I'm the south African GO1dGeHds.

No show for Independents PrOspect0rs
I'm the south African GO1d6eAds.
There is an American in South Africa
who gets salary larger than that drawn
by President Cleveland.
There are score of other Yankees
there who are paid more annually than
our senators or the justices of our su-
preme court. These big salaries are paid
by English capitalists, and right willing
they are to pay them too. 1t is because
these Americans know all about mines
and mining that their services are so
valuable and not simply because they
are Yankees.
The man who stands at the head of
the list on pay day is John Hays Ham
mond, who was arrested by the Boer
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THE Union Pacific has set up a claim
TO each alternate section of land in the
FL Hays military reservation. There is
no necessity for wasting any time over
the matter. Let the government have
the land appraised and give the Union
Pacific credit for the amount on what it
owes UncIa Sam.
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As ANYBODY Can See.

"You are always talking about the
doings on the call board, JOHN said
Mrs. Rillus. tWhat kind of thing is a
call board? What is it made of?''
cts made of deal, Maria, - answered
Mr.. Billus. with the manner of man
naturally impatient at having to explain
and simplify perfectly obvious propo-
sition. Chicago Tribune.
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A CASE of attempted suicide is report
ed from Lawrence in which it is said
that the man with a desire to join the
angels had been drunk a week and be-
came discouraged. The cause of his be-
ing discouraged is not stated, but it is
inferred that it was owing to the discov
cry of his inability to drink up all the
whisky in town
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AN unheard of revolution in public
sentiment must occur this year if Chica-
COS claims as a mascot are to be gain
realized. 1t is her boast that every
presidential candidate nominated in that
city since the war has been successful.
1t was the only ray of hope visible in the
Democratic night, and the committee fol-
1nuuad IL
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CONGRESSMAN CURTIS having got an
early start with his bill for enlarging the
Topeka postoffice building, its enactment
into law may be reasonably expected be-
fore the end of the session.
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If the rumor that the British flying
squadron is under orders for Bermuda is
true, it would indicate an intention of
settling the Venezuelan question before
the United States had time to interfere.
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wagon Load of Cheese Condemned.

Food Inspector Farnsworth is still
aotive He captured a huckster re-
Gently who was trying to sell some
cheese to grocers. He found the cheese
~ he badly spoiled and condemned the
whole wagon load. Dir. Farnsworth is
stiII looking after the grocery men aud
coal dealers. Yesterday he sent four
wagons of coal to the city scales, but the
results did not justify his suspicious
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MONEY
At Interest is Good Silent Part
nRF.

At Interest is a Good Silent Part
ner.
It is not so much on account of the
size of the statement but the fact that
each month they are earning sufficient
to mature their stock in the time guaran
teed, as also that they are providing
safe place for small as well as large in
vestors, is the statement of the Savings
and Loan Association of interest to the
citizens of Topeka. Conservatively and
safely managed, it appeals to the saving
and industrious citizen, paying six and
seven per cent upon some deposits and
ten to fourteen per cent upon instaiment
deposits. depending upon contract, re-
loaning these deposits to build homes, it
is almost an ideal institution.
STATEMENT
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A Rashful Lover.

Mrs Watts-I am afraid you don't
love work.
Dismal Dawson-'Deed I do, mum,
but am so bashfuI. indianapolis
Journal
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Her Dilemma.

Mrs. Newrioh-I declare to goodness,
/ don't know whether to give some aft
ernoon tease or big evening decep-
tion.-New York Tribune.
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Guest-Waiter, take away this full
cup and bring me cup with just lit
tie coffee in it.
Waiter-Mighty little coffee in that,
sir; couldn't be less. - Detroit Free
Press.
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PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is reported as
saying: 81 have no wish for third term"
The people will doubtless respect this
absence of any such wish on his part.