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Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-08-19
Ministers Should US.
 Dr. Miles Heart Curs

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 .abors soseverely taxthe nefVo.s,
 tenn, as that Of the ministry. IN rangenent of the nerve centsrs of tae by over work, frequently brings on - of heart trouble. and nervous prostss.-r
 Rev. J. ?. Kester. M. D., Pastor !. church, London Mills, Ills. himself = =. clan, writes Feb. q. 4Sl5: Heart as''- and nervous prCstraJiOn had 0eoo- serious last fall that a little over - the pulpit would SO completely prosira's. pr. Miles that i' ,s,5'''s soeEeS ,s,-. 2. .s.s Heart Cure Of the ministry l.l, 'S.,,., ,,.l..'. Restores SO bad that ny ssa,.s rr,.L would ask ne ii dil = HCdllIl...... have heart dLsease. L- November ! conUesced taking ui' -. New Heart Cure alternately Vith pi "a Neryine ana derived the rreatest p-ss beneflt. have tuss closed rcv.'a. I'd 70 weeks, preaching nearly every - twice on the Sabbath. can s2caS,. .ll r,t 1 without suffering as I formerly e.- yT,S working ministers should Seep p'' grand remedies Oa hand" .. Dr. Milc~' Heart Cure is sold on g.A-IlI first bottle will benefit or money Fe--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
DOWN RAsr raNoRANcE.

Commenting on the fact that S24, 7O4
persons, or Is per cent of the popuIa-
ton of Massachusetts, can not read or
write, the Boston Herald remarks:
What astonishes one is that no state
west of the Mississippi river, with the
exception of four southern states,
ranks as high as Massachusetts in the
number of illiterates in it's population"
The only way the Herald can explain
it is on the supposition that the people
who can read and write have emigrat-
ed from Massachusetts to the west.
The Herald is right. The Americans
have emigrated to Iowa, Kansas, Colo
RADIO and other western states while
the foreigners who pour into the Allan
tic coast states being almost paupers
when they arrive remain there and be-
come the basis of the population. Mass
achusetts is no longer as American as
Illinois. nor New York as Kansas
Ignorance is more widespread in the
eastern states. This accounts for the
subservience of the masses to the
bosses. This is why a gold plank in the
Republican platform is swallowed by
Massachusetts and rejected by Kansas.
Massachusetts is so ignorant she
doesn't know any better. With 1S per
cent of the adult population who can
not read and write and probably Is per
cent more who are little more advanced
in knowledge, what can be expected?
Three hundred thousand grown people
in Massachusetts who can not read and
write means a mass of ignorance and
superstition that Intelligent arguments
on any question can not reach.
New England complains that west
ern states with small populations out
vote her in the United States senate.
Yet these western states are populated
by thinking native born Americans who
rightly ought to offset a state with
10000 foreigners who can neither read
nor write.
The silver sentiment is stronger in
the west and south because those sec
lions are inhabited largely by native
born Americans while the gold senti-
ment appears to be strong in the east
because the masses of the population
are so ignorant that they are indiffer-
ent. The voters there think what they
are told to think by the bosses and do
what they are told to do; while the
bosses themselves are owned and paid
by the money power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

The Topeka Journal is a cheeky kind
of a demagOgue 1t is demanding now
that all Republican candidates who re-
fuse to repudiate the St. Louis plat
form shall get off the track so that bolt
ers may be nominated. The gall of the
Topeka Journal is only exceeded by its
ignorance on the financial question:
Lawrence Journal.
We are not demanding anything.
The ignorance Of the Topeka Jour
nal' on the financial question does not
prevent it from printing and selling
more copies than any other newspaper
in Kansas and we are not fighting off
a receivership with one hand while we
write unpopular gold editorials with
the other. Our constantly climbing
subscription list shows which way the
people are going.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

oh, the sailor sings Of the sounding sea
And the shrek of the surging gale;
The soldier sings of his gallantry
And Of wars where he did not quail;
The cobbler sings as he fits the last,
With tap, tap. tap, tap. tap,
But the hiking chap as he's fitting past,
Oh, he sings as he swings his cap:
I'm a hiking chap. hiking chap. with a swift
and silent steed.
I'm never behind. Oh, where will you find such
ease combined with speed?
My bell ring. with q ding, ding, ding, SO harm
may never hap.
With whir and fash along dash, jubilant
hiking chap.
Oh. the robin chirps in the cherry tree
And blinks N a wondering way;
The chipmunk seurrying hastily,
Stops short in dire dismay;
The cattle stare at the weirdsome sight
Surprised, their ears they flap
While the zephyr croons to the blossoms
bright
The song of the hiking chap:
I'm hiking chap, hiking chap, with a swift
and silent steed.
I'm never behind. Oh. where will you find such
ease combined with speed?
Ny bell ring, with ding, ding, ding, so harm
may never hap
With a whir and fash along I dash, a iubiIant
hiking chap.
Oh. it's hey for the nut brown maid one
meets
At the cool OF the summer dayi
Oh, it's hey for the smile with which she
greets
Your nod as you pass her wsyl
Oh, it's hey for the gold of the sunset sky
And the cricket's CHEEKY strain,
For the ratydid's eccentric cry,
And the wheelmen's blithe refrain:
I'm hiking chap. hiking chap. with swift
and silent steed.
I'm never behind. Oh. where will you find sueh
ease combined with speedf
Ny bell 1 ring, with a ding, ding, ding, 50 harm
may never hap.
With a whir and fash along dash, jubilaDs
hiking chap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
THEN He HIT NE AGAIN 81

Tered over Panther hill one day? Naal, I
was takin that path. Thar was plenty Of
bars around yere then, and only three
days befo' the fuss I'd set a big trap on
that path. I orter hev recollected bout 10
as I went along, but that fuss with the ole
woman driv it clean outer my head. Yes,
sab, walked Plumb into that trap befo' I
knowed it, and what wes wuss I was
kotched with both legs jest below the
knees. was carryin my rifle long down
beside me, and it was kotched too. If it
hadn't bin, the teeth would hev gone right
to the bone. -
but you had your arms free and could
get yourself out, - 1 said.
''I'd like to hev yo' try it oncer' he
griInly replied. 1.-The heft of that trap was
all man could lift, and 1 had to use
lever to spring the jaws open when sot it.
I had the chain fast to a tree and had clear
ed the ground around it, and thar wasn't
so much as a stick to help myself with.
Deed, sab, but I jest fell right over and
howled with the pain of it. Feared
like my legs was bein sawed OF with a
dull saw, and I never cum higher to faint
IN away. After about ten minits my legs
go numb, and the pain wasn't 50 bad, but
I sweat till I hadn't a dry thread on me.
That spot is two miles from any house,
and how was gwine to git outer that
scrape couldn't tell. hooted and whOOp-
ed till 1 could boot no mo-, but nobody
cu1n-that is no human bein cum. What
did show up was a bar. Reckon he'd bin
sleepin in a thicket nigh at hand and my
yellin had disturbed him. Anyway he was
thar, and my rifle was kotched in SIGH
way that I couldn't use it. The blamed
varmint knowed 1 was in fix and took
advantage Of it. He Jest walked right up
to me and smeIt me up and down Then
he hauled off and hit me a whack with his
paw which rolled me twice over. Then he
hit me again and rolled me back. 1
couldn't do nuthin but take it, and reck-
on it was half an hour befo' he got tired of
the fun and walked off. Thar was his
chance to kill and eat man, and man as
had killed over 80 of his kind, but he
didn't take advantage of it. "
''And what happened after the bear left
youP''
"Waal, that was about noon. 1 rolled
around and got the chain free and then
tried to open the trap, but couldn't fetch
it About 3 O'Clock in the AFTERNOON, when
I'd made up my mind that was goner
and was lyin on my back and weepin like
a baby, my ole woman hove in sight She d
got sorry and gone back to the cabin, but
20 tSlis day she can't tell why she follered
me into the woods. Reckon the finger Of
Providence printed that way. Shed got
over bein mad, and she was powerful
shocked to find me in that bar trap, but
yo' know how wimen ar. They don't want
to pear to give up too quick She seed
me good ways off, but she didn't hurry.
When she cum along up, she gives sud
den start of surprise and then SEE to me-,
seq she:
g Mebbe I'm mistooken, but hain't yo'I
name AEistah White9'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

One of the favorite arguments adj
vanced by the gold bugs against the
free coinage of silver is that it would
bear heavily on the IabOring people be-
cause wages would not advance in
proportion to the advance in the price
of commodities. It is not an advance
in wages that working people are look
ing for so much as it is steady and
abundant employment at any wages.
A laborer will fare much better on
working six days a week at a dollar a
day, than on working five days a week
at the same rate and frequently no
days at all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

If Morrill, made the statement cred
tied to him by the Journal, That Tel
Ter, if nominated by the free silver peo-
pie, would carry every state west Of
the Mississippi and many southern
states it would preclude him from a
nomination by Republicans in Kansas;
and if he did not say it, it is a libel
that should be paid for in heavy dam
ages.-Lyndon Journal.
Well. he said it, and ingalls, said the
same thing and everybody who has
made an utterance on the subject has
said it. The editor Of the Lyndon
Journal himself will have to admit that
if ali the free silver people were united
on Teller or united on anybody, they
would carry every state west of the
Mississippi There are practically no
gold people west Of the Mississippi.
There are not 500 in Topeka and there
are 5000 voters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

IS 1T ar, ma am
I" tZeb White2'
80 That's it,
'' Live down yam by the branch and
call yo'self the Postum Hunter of Tennes-
see?'
g The same
Glad to meet yo', 1Iistah White Ar
chat same thing on yo'r legs Il patent ma
sheen fur diggin rootsg'
g Not zactly, ma'am. It's mo- what
they calls a bar trap.
WAL, - said Zeb, 1--WE talked that way
TO each other fur about ten minits.
Neither of us zEanted to be the fust to give
in, yo' know, but bimeby the pain was so
great that 1 had to crawfish. 1t took her
half an hour to get me loose, and then she
had to carry me home on her back. That
ended my huntin fur about three months,
but as soon as could drag around I went
out and knocked over the bar which had
played with me. -
But Mrs. White came out ahead, -
laughed.
''Waal, I hain't gwine fur to deny that
she didn't replied Zeb. ''That's the
wust thing bout these yere family riots
the ole woman allus Gums out leetle
ahead, jest huff to brag on. 1t was nigh
two months befo' she said a word to me
on the subjick. Then as I was sorter feelin
sassy one day she turns on me with:
g Say, be 20 that yere Zeb White as
was wearin a bar trap fur breaches Oven
thar in the woods one day?'
And hadn't nuthin to say-nuthin
tall :" NJ QUAD.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

The Republican will support McKin-
ley for president, but it will not endorse
the declaration of the Republican par
ty on the money question. And in do
ing so, it is confident of it's ability to
defend itself against a charge of in
nsistency.-Toronto CKan) Republi-
can.
If the Toronto Republican feels con-
fident of it's ability to defend itself
against the charge of inconsistency, we
hope the lively little paper will do so
at once. There are thousands of Re-
publicans anxious for pointers on the
modus operandi.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
The Fork Yersus the knife.

Pardon me, Cousin Jay, but you should
not eat with your knife, - said Mrs. Cittily,
addressing her rural relative. cit is not
according to the rules of etiquette, you
know"
"Hohl What's the sense Of eterket, any
how?'' airily answered the visitor from the
wilds of Wayback county, pausing in the
midst of an interesting exhibition of anna
teur sword swallowing. Il amt no dudei''
q know you are not Cousin Jay, but
there is a sensible reason for that rule.
You are very liable to cut your mouth
with the knife. That is one reason why
you should always use fork in conveying
food to your mouth.
''Hoh That amt no reason at ALL A
feller that ANT got sense enough to keep
from cuttin his mouth with a knife would
be just as likely to jab it with fork. =
New York Sunday World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
Marvellous Results.

From a letter written by Rev. J. Gun
derman. of Dimondale, Mich, we are
permitted to make this extract: II
have no hesitation in recommending
DR.. Kings New Discovery, as the re-
suits were almost marvellous in the case
of my wife. While I was pastor of the
Baptist church at Rives Junction she
was brought down with Pneumonia
succeeding La Grippe. Terrible par
oxysms of coughing would last hours
with little interruption and it seemed
as if she could not survive them. A
friend recommended DR.. Kings New
Discovery; it was quick in its work and
highly satisfactory in results" Trial
bottles free at J. K. Jones Drug Store,
Fifth and Kansas Ave. Regular size
soc and 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Fortunately for the Republican party
Mr.. Calderhead has little influence. If
his utteranees had the weight he i'm
AGNES them to have he would have
ruined the party's chances by that
speech he made at Manhattan. He de-
voted a large portion of his speech to
an effort to prove that the Republican
party has always been against the
coinage of silver. Hundreds of thou
sands of voters have remained in the
party all these years because they be
neved the contrary. It is cruel in Mr..
CaIderhead to thus even attempt to up
set the faith of a life time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

"No, said Willie Wibbles, 81 nevah told
but one girl I would die fob her You see
hadn It pwoposed to more than one or two
girls at that time, and I didn't quite know
what to say. I thought over what had
read as being pwopah fob such occasions
and told her that unless she marwied me I
would blow my bvains out. -
did she scream and beg you not to?''
enc"
Ibid she call for policeman"
"No She just said that her mother was
going to have that room papered over any
how. ''-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
FEB WHITES DEFEAT.
How His Wife Cured Him of
the 'POssum Habit.
She was Aided by Bear Trap, Big
Spar" and Her Own Woman's Wit.

One evening when Zeb White, the pos
sum hunter of Tennessee, and were out
on the mountain watching a bears den he
told me this story:
cone mawnin 1 riz outer bed feelin pow
erful mean and low down. I reckon SIGH
times cum to everybody now and then. 1t
might hev worked of with me arter awhile
but fur the old woman. Feared like she
wasn't feelin very peart either, and when
we got sot down to breakfast she sez to
me, sez she:
g 'Zeb White, I'm wantin snuff and
shoes and a new kalil1er dress, and you
better turn to and git 'e1n or thar'n be a
rowl amt gvine to stand this fussin
around no mop
F'Who's a-fussin9' SEE I.
ago BET Yo' hain't done hard days
work in two vars. It's jest huntin arter
possums till we's almost in the porehousel
a. 'Hain't sellin possum pelts fur so
cents apiece?
"'Of oo'se, but you's ehawin up the
money in terbacker jest the same or spend
in it fur con juice down at the Corners.
Things has got to change around yere or
don't stay
!" 'Yo' 6ain't tied to this cabin by no
g Mebbe yo' dare me to goP SEE she
-" I hain't coaxin yo to stay again yo'r
feelin's'
- Then III CO.
ST didn't think she'd do it, said the old
man after quiet laugh. But she riz up
from the table with her cheeks as red as
fire and put on her sunbunnit and started
off up the road. 1 was sorry, but it WASH t
fur me to call her back. I had to let on
that didn't keer, yO' know, and when I
had finished my meal I started fur the
woods was arter possums egin. Things
didn't go right tall Instead of bein glad
and ready to go with me my ole dawg
sneaked of and hid hissef. Then I found
was out of powder and lead, and when
went out to feed the mewl diskivered
that he had got out and wandered away.
When did make start, felt that mean
that / was minded to sot the cabin afire to
spite somebody. 1 went through the woods
cussin and kiclKin, and 1 Jest made up my
mind that the ole woman might stay away
all the rest of her life befo' I'd make it up
with her. Yo' member the path we fol-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

why" asks the Topeka Journal,
did the Republicans at ST. Louis de-
clare in favor of the present gold stand
ard?'' That's it exactly. Why didn't
the chumps declare for the future gold
acknowledgements Republican.
Yes; or anything except what we
have now. People do not like to be in
formed that the PRESENT hard times
is what their party is in favor of. If
the gold standard is what we have at
present. perhaps we had better try sill
yer with gold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Europe has the present gold stand
ard" The working men of America
will be reduced to the same condition
as the workingmen of Europe when
we get it in full operation here. How
would you Santa Fe shopmen of Topeka
like to be working for IS cents per
day, which is the average price paid
for mechanical labor in Europe. They
have the present gold Standard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Tom Johnson, the Cleveland iron
manufacturer. has put himself in the
way of the vice presidential nomina-
ton at Chicago by declaring against
both gold and silver and in favor of
greenbaclzs as the currency of the
country. This would catch the Popu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

The attention of the Topeka Journal
is respectfully called to the fact that
every county in the Fifth district that
elected delegates to the congressional
convention chose solid delegations for
CaIderhead. Topeka may not like our
congressman but the people of the dis
trict do, which is far more to the point.
Abilene Reflector.
Wait until the people of the district
have voted, my enthusiastic friend.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

licans are standing squarely on the St.
Louis platform, and will continue to
stand there until election is over"
Yes, but it must be confessed that
there are not so many of them as there
were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Congressman Calderhead has been re-
nominated by reclamation and will
probably be defeated the same way.
Time will prove that a gold standard
congressman in Kansas is as much
traitor to his people as a copperhead
was during the war of the rebellion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

The closing Of the cotton mills and
iron works in the east will of course be
charged to the Wilson tariff. It is no.
ticeable, however, that the same class
of industrial Institutions in the south
are not closing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

1t is reported that the hard times are
doing for LeavenwOrth what the gov
ernor has so far failed to do-closing
up the saloons. This is the first good
result of the present gold standard"
vet discovered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
Getting the Lay of The Land.

Getting the Lay of the Land.
Satan-Well, how do you like our little
settlement?
St. Louis Man (uneasily)-Very nice
Ah--where is the cyclone cellar?-New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
A Good Variety.

Mrs. Keedick-It is quite the style at
wedding celebrations to have subdued or
gan music.
Mr.. Keedick-That is a step in the right
direction I wonder if piano music cannot
be subdued in some way.-New York
Sunday World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Chauncey Depew has gone to Europe
to get campaign material It is good
place to go for that purpose from
Chauncey's standpoint and he win no
doubt find what he is looking for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

How does General Grosvenor expect
to make the tariff the issue when the
opposition will not discuss it and the
people will not listen to it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

According to Congressman Calder
head the Republican party has always
favored the gold standard. 1t is singu-
lar that the secret never escaped until
Marc Hanna let it out at St Louis. And
Mr.. Calderhead knew it all the time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Mr.. Calderhead will hardly succeed
in convincing the people that the pres
ent gold standard is best for them by
asserting that the Republican party
has always advocated it, or by talking
tariff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Independence Call: - Congressman
Curtis and Brodericlz are having smooth
sailing in their respective districts be-
cause they are Outspol1en on the silver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Protection to American industry IN
der a gold standard and the raising of
sufficient revenue through a tariff, for
the needs of the government are impos~
sible and thinking people know it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

A gold standard Democrat will be
hard to find after the Chicago eonven-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

The Calderhead machine il in excel
lent working order, but it may jump q
cog before November.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

to assume the place in the Democratic
party hitherto held by New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

It looks as though John p AItgeld
cago convention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02
rough sleepers to Washinpton,

The Santa Fe roulette home road
will run a special train for the Chris
tian Endeavorers to Washington, D. c.
Secure your sleeper reservations early
Apply at depot. foot of Fifth street, or
telephone No. 6S2, or at North Topeka
office, $50 Kansas avenue Office.
W. c. CARNEY. Agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

Totals. .2S2, 395 2S4, $50 2S2, 375
Sunday; no issue.
The total number of copies printed in
the six months named above 1851, $40,
divided by 156, the number of issues,
shows the average to be 1O.625 This is
a correct report of the issues of the
TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL,
for the six months as stated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-02

we aim to please our trade. Peerless
Steam Laundry, 112 and ia W. stb 81