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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20

The little economies that have made
japan SO rich may be noticed every
where. The dust of charcoal is gathered
I'D and mixed with chaff of wheat, bar
ley and other grains, and with chopped
straw. 1t is then moistened into paste,
rolled into balls about as big as bill
- - - $3.50. easasllaaaS. .aasal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20

He-Young Luvsycke proposed to Miss
Pechis last night. Did she accept him?
She-I don't know.
You said you saw her, and she was
looking happy?'
''That's no sign. 1t makes a girl feel
just as good to reject as to accept. Phil
adelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
The Wrong Counter.

Young Lady-Is this the hose counter?
New Clerk-No, miss; this is the stock
ing counter. You'll find hose down stairs
New York Weekly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
GOVERNOR susHNELL's HELPMEET.
He Owes Much of His Prosperity to He1
Influence and Assistance.

The wife Of the new governor of Ohio
is one Of the few women who have
grown old gracefully and she is almost
as handsome at 80 as she was at 16,
when she was the belle of Springfield.
When she first met Asa Bushnell, he
was clerk in a dry goods store and was
earning So a month. Her name was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20

"You ought not to be afraid of the wa
ter, she said dreamiIy when their CONVEX
sation had drifted around to the subject
of the ocean.
why not?'' he asked innocently.
because your head is light enough to
float you right side up. ''-Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
Growing Trees Moved the Church.

The foundation of church at San
Como, Guatemala, has been shifted sew
Ell inches by the growth of two large
white gum trees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
The Richeas Climb.

The London Carlton club has about
1000 members, and is the richest in the
world
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
A Winter Girl.

Dainty gowned and booted neat,
Tripping down the winter street,
Music floating from her feet,
Lo, she slept.
Cupid viewed the fair with pride.
EWhat q chance quoth he, ''to hidel"
Up her sleeve, both crisp and wide,
Cupid crept-
Seated sly with elfsh art,
Plotting for an aching heart,
There he forged cunning dart,
Love adept,
On her dimpled shoulder hid,
Soft and warm, of sorrow rid,
Who can blame him if he did
Cupid slept.
With no thought to meet disdain.
Soon came l, a luckless swain.
From his slumber darts to RAIN
Cupid leapt;
But so cold her glance to me,
Shocking SO the sight to see,
Strange to tell, but even he,
Cupid, wept-
Samuel Minturn Peck in TruAA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20
BOOKS HER SPECIALITY

Mise Ambrose of Northwestern University
Ranks High 3 Librarian.
Michigan has been prolific in thew
women, :" but some of them have strayed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20

The finest in the west. Come and try
J. W. PHILLIPS, 612 W: Eighth ave-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-20

The JOURNAL prints all the news
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

They also have each private secretary
at 500 per month. The expenses of the
congress, which is the legislative branch
Of the government, are very high. The
vice president and speaker of the house
of representatives each receive $4,000
per annum. The speaker of the house
controls all legislation. The vice pres
ident is absolutely without power or
authority of any kind except that, I'M
der the constitution, when there is tie
vote in the senate, the vice president
may cast the deciding vote.
The nine members of the supreme
court receive $4,000 each per annum,
and the chief justice receives $500 addi-
tional, making his salary $1O,500.
These gentlemen serve for life, unless
incapacitated by reason of age or in
firmities. Each associate justice is en-
titled to retire from active service when
he reaches the age of 20 years; but, if in
health and vigor, a judge determines
to remain in active service, he cannot
be displaced.
The president receives salary of $50
600 per annum. That seems like ar
enormous salary, but, as a matter of
fact, it is no more than is paid to the
British ambassador to this country. 1t
is small pittance compared with the
salaries paid to the chief executives OF
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

cuse, in 1880, this company gave an DR.
der to the Baldwin works for IL locomc-
tives. Four-Nos. 0. 10, ii and 13-were
used in the division out Of Syracuse.
The first train was run in this system
July 4, 1880, and created a wonderful ex.
element throughout the country. Lo-
connective No. ~ was in the winter Of
80 and 40 used as snow pillow and was
in my charge. This was, undoubtedly,
the first snow-plow locomotive in regu-
lar work handled in America.
I'm 1S41 and 1912. had constructed a
sand-box after my own ideas. am near
" positive that the first sand-box lever
] had adopted was one similar to that
now Yin use. While handling locomo-
tive No. IL, noticed that whenever
would wish to use the sand, and pull the
lever, the sand would run down through
a faucet outside of the box, and fly over
the machinery. thought the problem
over and over, and finally persuaded the
company to adopt my suggestion for
having the valves inside of the oox,
connected with rod from the cab. AS
| wander over the space of time, l can
not help wondering at the rapid and
magnificent strides made by railway
companies in the perfecting of locomo-
ton, since l manipulated the THROTTLE
While resident of Schenectady, Or.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
DIR. vEDDER's OLD cooUINA HOUSE.

Nedder was elected alderman of tho
committee on land and buildings.
The doctor has been married twice,
ard though now n widower the second
time, and 70 years old, he is still fine
looking man, with silky white hair and
beard and full blue eyes-as bright and
clear as those any man of 35 would be
proud of. 1t would not be at all sur
prising to his friends to hear that he
again anticipated matrimonial bliss, for
he is lionized by widows who visit the
"Anciente Cite"
Some years ago, while in his sons
study, Mr.. Vedder took it into his aead
that he would be dentist. So be APP
piled himself to his books. and without
other instruction soon won the title
of doctor" and was practicing regu-
larly before his son had ever graGuat-
ed. He practiced dentistry for several
years, until his health failed, and then
went south to recuperate.
Ever since he has resided IN the land
Of flowers, following the dentist gro
fession until his office was burned in
one of the conflagra1ions that have
visited st. Augustine.
He then bought the old Spanish land
mark in which he still lives. In 1875
he began the study II taXidermy and
made his own collection for a natural
history exhibit. Now ne is an acknowl-
edged authority on that subject, and
has the finest collection of live animals
and birds, Indian relics, mounted fish,
reptiles. crustaceans, ETC., in Florida.
There is still another interesting
phase of this mans life, and thai is his
military career. At 16 years of age, he
enlisted in military company under
Capt. Plat Potter, and advanced from
corporal to sergeant, to ensign, and, at
90, was in command of the Governors
guards at Schenectady. Being an ex.
pert in manual exercises, he was chosen
by the colonel fugleman and nstruc-
tor for the general parade.
DR.. Vedder, with all his probability,
is quite sentimental and religious. He
belongs to the Dutch Reformed
Church of the East, and the saddest and
| most serious moments for him arr those
| when he recalls the lessons taught at
| the side of his mother, who died when
he was boy of nine,yet whose sacred
memory still lives in the bcly-os.
holies in an old mans heart.
| I.OTTIE MILLER
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
Tho Purity of Jesrls.

There are two ways of defending a
castle; one by shutting yourself up in
it, and guarding every loop-hole; the
other by making it an open center of
operations from which all the surround
ing country may be subdued. Is not the
last the truest safety? Jesus was never
guarding Himself, but always invading
the lives of others with His holiness.
There never was such an open life as
His; and yet the force with which His
character and love flowed out upon the
world kept back, more strongly than
granite wall Experimentation could
have done, the world from pressing in
on Him. His life was like an open stream
which keeps the sea from flowing up
into it by the eager force with which
it flows down into the sea. He was so
anxious that the world should be saved
that therein was His salvation from the
world. He labored so to make the world
pure that He never even had to try to be
pure Himself.-Phillips Brooks.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

goes that Nicholas Vedder, of rip Van
Wrinkle" fame, was a character of this
same Vedder family. He is an uncle OF
Elihu j. Veddcr, the famous American
artist, who spends much time in Rome.
DIR. Nedder started out very young on
his active career. At the age of 20 he
worked successfully at five trades, be-
ing blacksmith, moulder, brass founl-
err, machinist and locomotive engineer.
He was never al apprentice, as he al
ways received pay for his services. Five
Eeen Idle.
In talking of his boyhood days, Dr..
Nedder laughed as he related that he
.'stole" his trade. Employed in mis-
fathers shops at Schenectady, he
learned smithing and moulding.
Through friend who worked in "a
brass foundry ltc learned the principles
of proportion IN the making of bell met
al. BY applying this knowledget to his
experiments he soon became an expert
brass worker. As an enploye in the
repair shops of the Utica, & Syracuse
railroad he learned to b. a machnist,
and in 1890 and 40 ran the first sn' w
pillow between Utica and Syracuse. In
ar interview with DR.. Vedder. he said
II hal the honor of handling, as en-
gincer. one of the first locomotives built
scountry, The firstlocomo;'ye bu;i,
hy the Baldwin locomotive works was
for The S:henrc lady < Utica railroad
Nheu that roa,l was completed to SyIa.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
SPEAR POINTS.
Pithy Sayings from the Columns of tho
Rams Horn.

Pithy Sayings from the Columns of tho
Rams Horn.
We best serve ourselves when we best
serve others.
The real coward is the one who is
afraid to do right.
The man who never gives away any
thing cheats himself.
Darkness cannot be made black
enSagh to destroy light.
Character building is bigger work
than building railroads.
The power of life for good is in the
walk more than in the talk.
That man is dying whose life is not
greater to-day than it was yesterday.
No man can be q leader who has not
the courage to sometimes stand alone.
No man is great in Gods sight who
doesn't do q great deal for his fellow
men.
The man who lives only for himself
couldn't be engaged in any smaller
business.
Showers of blessings can always be
had by bringing the last 1.-THE into the
storehouse.
70 be anxious about tomorrow is evil
dence that we are not fully trusting
God to-day.
The faith that will move mountains
after awhile is moving good many
smaller things now
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
FATHER, 4 THANK THEE.

Father, / thank Thee for ny life; M
For daily strength my work to do;
For food and clothing and home,
And old loves every morning new.
thank Thee for my steadfast friends
Faithful to me through good and ill;
For all the cheer and sympathy
That constant flows my cup to fill.
] thank Thee that still can see
The sky, the clouds, the fields and trees,
The shining river and the hills,
And know that Thou, too, lowest these.
thank Thee for the strength Of right
That triumphs over daring wrong;
For love that leavens humankind:
For hope SO cheerful, faith so strong.
Father, my grateful song I breathe
Across the boundless. kindly sky;
! know that somewhere Thou dost hear
And bless Thy child; for such am l.
ID. w. Woods. Jr., in NJ Y. Observer.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

and provide for his family besides.
There is one private citizen in Washing
ton who expends upwards of $4,000
annually in the maintenance of his
family according to social customs. In
New York and other large cities. there
are men who expend more than $4,000
per annum on their families. And yet
the president is expected to maintain
his family better than the best. The
man who receives $35 per month can,
not very we'll maintain wife and family
on the same style, with his neighbor
who earns 500 per month; and you will
readily see that it is difficult for any
man with salary of $4,000 per year to
keep up social equality of appearance
with the man who can afford to spend
100000 each year out of his ir.come.
Thus you see that although the presi-
dent apparently has n salary Of $4,000
per annum it dwindles by comparison
and by virtue of his circumstances. A
millionaire may wear a shabby coat and
give cheap dinners if he chooses to do
so; but president cannot wear shah.
by coat, nor allow his wife to appear in
public with anything but the best in
the land. At all public receptions the
presidents wife appears by his side.
She must not appear like a neglecte 1
wife. On the contrary she must have
the best of everything; and the people
want her to have the hest, too.
Some of our good old-fashioneG PEG
pie, who believe in simplicity. will say
that because others wear diamonds and
silks, and costly ornaments, that is no
reason why the presidents wife should
have such things. But if any coed man
who entertains such views will ask his
wife or daughter for an opinion, he will
find that the ladies will tell him that no
woman can afford to go into society
without keeping pace with the society
in which she goes. 1t may not he eX-
actly the kind of society the old gentle
man Would organize if he were creating
the world. But it is the kind of society
which exists, and the majority Of us do
not want our president or his wife to
feel like paupers in the presence OF
princes. Rather would we have our
president and his wife appear as princes.
and let the gentry from abroad
feel like paupers in the presence
of the man and wife whom we
have sent to the white house by the
power of our votes cast at the ballot
boxes, thereby expressing the will of n
sovereign people, who, in their majesty
and in the aggregate of their unity, are
greater than hereditary sovereigns.
None of our ex-presidents has ever
suffered financially, because all of them
have been self-supporting, self-sustain
ing men before and after accession tn
hegreat office. The only living express
ident is a lawyer, and he recently re.
ceived fee of $4,000 in one case. In
1889 or 1890, while he was an ex-presi.
dent, lawyer named Grover Cleveland
received fee of $4,000 for arguing a
case before the supreme court.
SMITH d. FRY
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

slaves to the Spaniards. At the corner
Veddcr's solitary home. The date of
its erection is not known, but students
OF the chronology of st. Augustine af-
firm that it is one of the oldest, if not
the oldest house in the city. The very
thick walls are formed of coquina quar-
ried from Anastasia island. The house
faces the sea, and the beveled projection
extending between two and three feet
from the base of the front wall APP
pears to bear evidence of the fact that
it was built before the original coquina
sea wall, which was constructed in
1893.
1t is assumed that, previous to that
time, such projections were built as a
protection against the tides. The house
contains two rooms on the ground floor,
and two on the upper. The heavy beams
are of red cedar. An adjustable ladder
and square hole between the rafters
constitute the staircase.
This quaint cd building with its GU
rious interior is quite apropos as home
for the genius who resides there with
only the company of ANIMALS and rep
tiles from the land and waters of Flor
ida.
DR.. John Vedder was born in Science
tady, n. Y, July %, 1919, coming from
an ancestral line of the earliest Durch
settlers on the Hudson. The Vedders
settled at Schenectady before the
French and Indian war, and the story
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

other nations of the civilized werld.
The kings, emperors and rulers OF Eu-
ropean nations not only receive large
annual incomes, but they have perquis-
ties OF all kinds. The president of this
republic has no perquisites.
1t is expected that out of his salary
of $4,000 per annum president should
save enough to keep him comfortably iE
after life, for we never want to see al
ex-presidentin want, or obliged to work
when he is in the sere and yellow leaf Of
life. But how can man in such a posi-
ton save any money at all?
He must receive and entertain the
representatives of all the nations OF tho
world. He must give public receptions
to the senator's, to the representatives,
to the ambassadors, ministers, consuls,
and other foreign dignitaries. All OF
these state functions, which are neces-
sary incidents Of his office, must be paid
for by the president out of his salary,
and they are very costly. Moreover, on
the first day of January of each year,
the president gives a New Years recep-
ton which costs not less than $1,000
alone. That is L starter for the expenses
of each year. In accordance with the
customs of the times and the high char
acter of his guests, the president cannot
give a state dinner which will cost less
than $1,000, and they usually cost up
wards of 81, 500 each. There are not
less than ten state dinners each year.
These state dinners, in addition to the
New Years reception take at least
$4,000 out of the salary of the presi-
dent, leaving him actually but $4,000
for himself as public man; oneswho is
regarded as the ruler of the greatest ma.
ton in the civilized world.
The president is obliged to buy his
own horses, keep his own carriages.
maintain the expenses Of his equipages
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
REMARKABLE OLD MAN.
Or. John v-edder's Life Reads Like
a Romance.
Ne Is the Oldest Living Locomotive En-
Gineer and Now Lives IN the Old
est House In st. Angus
tine, Fla
lspe.iai St Augustine tFia.) Letter


In quaint old ST. Augustine, in Flor
ida, one may live the gayest life that
modern luxuries afford, and yet, walk
ing few blocks hence, pass entirely
from the scene of eXtrayagant elegance
into the storied days of the past, when
the hard pioneer braved the terrors of
the frontier life. Here, in this town,
are still standing many specimens of
the old Spanish coquina houses, 1t is
in one of these that most interest
ing character lives all alone. He is
DIR. John Vedder, the oldest living To-
connective engineer ia America.
Treasury street is the narrowest
street in the town. 1t measures bare
ly six feet, and is associated in the
minds Of the Minorcans with many stor
les of those terrible days when their
forefathers were brought there as,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
SINCERITY.
A Study OF tho Word Discloses a Helpful
Lesson.

Lesson.
The origin Of the word sincerity is
profoundly interesting and suggestive.
When Rome flourished, when her
fame was spread the world over, when
the Tiber was lined with noble palaces
built of choicest marble, men We'd with
each other in the construction of their
habitaticns. Skillful sculptors were in
request, and immense sums of money
were paid for elaborate workmanship.
The workmen, however, were then
guilty of practicing deceitful tricks. If,
for example, they accidentally Clipped
the edges of the marble, or if they dis
covered some conspicuous flaw, they
would fill up the chink and supply the
deficiency by means of prepared wax.
For some time the deception would not
be discovered, but when the weather
tested the buildings the heat or damp
would disclose the wax.
At length those who had determined
on the erection of mansions introduced
binding clause into their contracts to
the effect that the whole work from the
first to the last was to be sine cera-that
is. without wax"
Thus we obtain our word sincerity"
To be sincere is to be without any at
tempt on our part to mislead, msrepre-
sent, deceive. or impose on another; to
be and appear to be what we are; to
say what we mean, and mean what we
say.--Presbyterian Review.
The world is robbed blythe man who
= -
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
Answered.

Diggsby-l see you are very attentive
to Miss Burtonby; do you propose &C
marry her?
Griggsby (frigidly)-When propose
sir, it will be to marry Wasting.
ton Tires.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
Corrected.

kmy-Why, Mr.. Boredom, when did
you arrive? | never, dreamed Of seeing
you here.
Small Productivity, yes, you did,
too, Amy. You said you had ho,rid
nightmare last night. - Detroit free
Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
A Little Too Far.

Mrs. Weary (reading) The body OF
a book agent was found on Blank street
this morning. He had evidently been
murdered.
Mr.. Weary (meditatively)-Um-er-
really, now. l think that was going
most too farm. Y. Weekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
Dlnerens.

mo. I'm not well enough to run a
sewing machine"
What do you intend doing this after
nooa?"
- believe I'll take a ten-mile run on
my bicycle. Francisco Wave.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
Tho New Life.

To become Christian is to begin
new kind of life. 1t is to abandon life
Of self-pleasing and to accept life of
unselfish service. - Rev. Washington
GLADDEN..
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24
BarbarOuS,

Wiping the gore from his glitt>.ing
weapon the desperate-lookiag young
man seized piece of cloth and removed
as well as he could all traces OF his
horrible work from The face of his VIC
tim.
Then he Strengthened himself up,
pushed the unhappy wretch away from
Elm, an in a voice of thunder called
cut:
Next
He WAC the apprentices. - Chicago
Tribune.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

Wit is, at best, hazardous posses.
sion; it is very apt to make enemies and
it seldom secures a friend.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-09-24

The world is robbed blythe man who
lives in it and goes out of it without
having lived for it's good.