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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
FORGIVING.
[From Myron Reeds Last Sunday Ser
mon


We make a mighty effort and forgive
a man a few times. We bury the
Ratchet" but we remember where we
buried it and we leave the handle stick
ing out of the grave. Robert Burns
speaks of an old woman who nursed
her wrath to keep it warm-was as
careful of it as of a baby. A nursed
wrath grows like a fed baby. We must
be quick in forgiveness. am grow
ing in grace. 1 am naturally good
deal of an Indian, but 1 threw some
sharp words at a man the other day
and in ten minutes 1 hunted him up
and made things right between us. And
the same day a man hurt me, and he
hunted me up and things are right be-
tween US.
I can see in the sky some streaks of
the millennial dawn. There is a very
old proverb that has lived very long
because it is true. This is it: "A soft
answer turneth away wrath"
A man gets stirred up by the tone of
his own voice. Emotion produces ac-
ton, but action produces emotion. If
a man will not yell or stamp or wave
his arms, perhaps he will not be so eff
fective at the time, but perhaps he will
be better pleased with himself day after
tomorrow. 1 remember that a captain
and a lieutenant in the First Wiscon-
sin quarreled over their relative rank.
They were in the same company, but
they would not speak together except
on business. That went on until the
first battle of Bull Run. They were
both getting back to Washington as
fast as possible. They were tired and
hungry and sleepy and beaten. And
the captain saw the lieutenant ahead
of him in the road in the flow of de-
feat and walked up to his side and put
out his hand and it was taken And
they were fast friends from then till
now The small thing was submerged
and drowned in the greater thing.
read a good story consisting of
fact A miner working at a wind
lass was reeling up a bucket of ore
when the handle broke. There were
two men at the bottom of the shaft
sure to be killed if that bucket went
down. He had no time to mediate. He
had lust a second to run his arm into the
spokes. The result was an arm smash
ed and half torn off, and the two men
saved. The bucket stopped.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
KANSAS SAND STORM.
(From the Rocky Mountain News,

(From the Rocky Mountain News)
Sandstone" inquired United States
Marshal ISreal in response to an inquiry
as to whether he had ever seen a sand
storm. Yes, l endured two days and
three nights of the greatest standstorm
Kansas has known for 40 years. There
were three of Us in charge of four United
States prisoners We were the way
to Joliet, Ill, and in the region of Phil
lipSburg, Kans-. when the storm came
upon the train in all its fury. 1 have pas
sed through billiards. and hail and snow
and rain, but nothing did 1 ever endure
that would compare with that sand
storm. Within half mile of Phillips
burg the train was brought to a stop. and
there stuck for 60 hours. The wind
blew a hurricane. and the air was COM
pletely filled with fine dust that forced
its way through the cars and piled an
inch thick on the car seats.
we had a dining car on the train and
succeeded in getting enough to eat the
first day. The rations began to run low
and our only hope was to send out re-
lief party to town. The wind was so fur
iops that another day passed before re-
lief could be obtained. Our greatest suf-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24

of which has it's value, and may play
useful part in the whole order of So
ciety. A career which is a systematic
application of a single governing prin-
ciple has at least an aesthetic, if not
purely ethical charm. 1t represents
a successful experiment worth noting in
the great act of life. The subject may
tainly was neither-but under some
which the saint and hero would be in
capable. We may prefer Chatham or
Give or Wesley to Gibbon; but if he
had followed any of their examples we
should have lost something which the
whole generation could not have sup
piled without him. The course of in
tellectual development would have been
sensibly different. Gibbons type, no
doubt, was the epicurean. Pleasure,
he would frankly admit, is the true
end of life. But pleasure, to him, though
elements, and might occasionally be
sought even at a militia mess table, or
in the more elegant dissipation at AL
mack's, included a strenuous and cease
less eXertiOn of the intellect upon
worthy ends. 1t included, too, if not
romantic devotion, yet fidelity in friend
ship and the hearty enjoyment of the
society of philosophers and statesmen.
higher as we'll as a lower strain of
moral purpose would have disqualified
GibbOn for the one great work which
he achieved. Had, in short, super
human being been required to fit such
to turn it to account or to fit the char
acter with the most appropriate intel
lect, he could not have devised a better
combination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
SNOW BOATING IN DAKOTA.
IFrom the Boston Transcript. ]

lF'rOm the Boston Transcript
A new sport for most parts of the
northwest is snowboating, which this
winter has become the great paStime
in many localities. Snow boats are
built on the same plan as iceboats. only
instead of the sharp runners these have
broad, fiat bearings, something like
Norwegian skis. The DrairieS are
filled so leved with snow that these
boats make great Roadway, and some
times travel from thirty to fifty miles
an hour. When the snow is reason
ably hard they go with great velocity
and in almost any direction. In parts
of North Dakota and the northern por-
the recognized means of conveyance,
and but for them there would be much
suffering in distant and isolated Sec
lions. The boats are usually built
with a knife attached to the under side
of the rear runner for use in steering,
to fifteen feet long. Equipped with
the knife, the boats can be sailed very
close to the wind.
These snowboats- were first used
some years ago in northwestern Ne
braska, where a number of incoming
settlers from Yankeedom were caught
by the approach of winter and impris-
oned in a few little villages south of
Pine Ridge. They stayed quiet for
some weeks, but as soon as the snow
grew deep the inventive faculty of the
immigrants set in motion an idea that
soon bore fruit. Prairie schooners
were fixed on runners, and the settlers
gaily bore away over the plains to-
ward their destinations, all their pos
sessions, their families, or their horses
comfortably riding inside or on plat
forms. This was only possible because
of the solid crust on the snow, which
was unusually early and exceedingly
hard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
LITERARY WOMEN AND MEN

L
Mr.. Hamerton describes the man of
the world as pausing doubtfully before
he speaks to a lady; celebrating how
that will please her; protesting to take
deep interest in things for which he
does not care in the least, and passing
lightly on matters which he considers
of the most mOmentOus importance to
the world. Men disguise their thoughts
for women" he says, las if to venture
into the feminine world were as dan
gerOus as travelling in Arabia, or as if
the thoughts themselves were crimi-
nal" 1t is because there is wider
ground in common between the sexes
in their intellectual lives and because
men and women of culture prefer to
est them that the literary circles of
London are the most agreeable. The
best talk is heard there and there is the
closest association of cOmradeship in
ideas and interests.
This has a direct bearing upon
higher education, because it enforces
the expediency. if not the necessity, of
training on common lines. The general
effect of university courses for women
has been to remove differences of meth
cd and aim in education and to estab-
fish equality of conditions and oppor-
tunities. The granting of degrees to
women at the oldest universities VIII
strengthen tendencies in the direction
of a common basis of educational train
ing, and in that sense it will be an in
tellectual gain of high value. 1t will
broaden and deepen human companion
ship, rendering educated men less pc
DANTE and educated women more
thoughtful and sympathetic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
GONE NIGHT ONLY"
May Be the Inscription OH Grand
Opera Advertising Before Long.

St Louis, March 24-The season of
grand opera by the Metropolitan com
pany, which opens at Music Hall Monday
night, will probably be st. Louisans' on
ly opportunity to hear the great stars for
Mr. Maurice Grau, manager of the or
ganization, thinks that it is a bad plan 10
Chicago and Boston. He also thinks that
two weeks is the limit of artistic appre-
citation in Cook county
Mr.. Grau says il is impossible to give
grand opera any cheaper than at present.
'Our expenses are enormous" he said
have little cause to complain. They get
the same casts for 50 that Chicago paid
$3.50 and New York 81 and s. to hear
If these same artists were to appear in
Europe the public would have to pay
get just half much. The small opera
houses over there are responsible, 1 sup
pose.
advantageous circumstances on the road
1t is always the same people who support
opera, and they go every night. Their
number would be larger if we distributed
say three or four performances over
week. we can 40 that very wen, pc
cause our orchestra and most OF the sing
ers are under weekly salary Proper
tionately our advance sale in Louisville
IS larger than any other city, because We
give only three performances there
Then Mr. Grau made a surprising state
ment- Asked if the local season would
not have been enhanced by the production
of an entirely new opera. he said: The
people don't want new operas. They don't
pay until the public has been educated up
10 their excellences. Our experience has
taught that the people would sooner
have Faust, Carmen Lohengrin' and
The Huguenots' than anything in the
company's repertoire
Mr.. Grau's Chicago season has had an
effect on him. Il think yearly season of
opera is too much for most of our Amer
lean cities,'' said he "If our company
came here every second or third year. I
am sure could play for a full week to
profitable business. Now I'm not plan-
ming for next season. I won't say what
plans will be. except to deny that
the De ReSzkeS have made arrangements
that will prevent their appearing with
US.
forr,;T7er IL, w ,,oiy7 ,z-19a,, Sa1- b;,,l-
it would be better if we played in differ-
ent cities each year outside of our en-
Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
''A FAIR FACE MAY PROVE A FOUL BAR
GAIN" MARRY A PLAIN GIRL IF SHE USES
SAPOL|O
WILL WOOD SAFE.
His Father Says the Government Will
Not Prosecute Him.

Cincinnati, O.. March PA special
to the Commercial Tribune from Green
Castle, Ind, says:
Rev. D. M. Wood stated today that he
had direct information from the federal
authorities that they would not take
any steps against his son, Will Wood,
as the postoffice inspectors could find
nothing in the letters from Will Wood
to Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling
about Pearl Bryan on which an indict-
ment could be founded.
He further stated that his son has a
position in the naval service of the
United States, and that he was now on
a vessel receiving $50 per month as yea
man.
The last he heard from his son. he
states, was from England. Rev. Wood
says his son received his appointment
by rigid competitive examinations and
that many of the newspaper articles
were untrue as to his sons movements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
WHAT IS SPENT ON FOOD.

Some interesting figures concerning
the average wages of workmen of the
world and the prOportiOnate amounts
spent on food have lately been com
piled in England.
In Great Britain the workman earns
on an average $744 per week and ex-
ponds 1886 on food.
The French workman earns $5.04 and
spends S2SS on food.
In Germany the man who is paid
worth of food.
The Italian earns less than the Ger
man, but spends almost as much in
proportion, being paid $3.50, while his
meals cost him $216.
The figures of Spain are precisely the
same as those for Germany, while the
Belgians earn S4.S0 and spend $2.8S.
= =
Australian Workmen are able to earn
an average wage of $3.50 and do not
spend more than 81. "a for their food.
In the United States the wage is S11. 50
and the amount expended on meals
only $3.48.
Thus the percentage runs as follows:
Germany and Spain, So; Belgium, so;
France, 81; Great Britain, As; United
States, 80, and Australia, %.
When the calculations are not con-
fined to the workingman, but applied
to the entire population, it is shown
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
FAME OF THE BowERY.
IN. Y. Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
match

IN. Y. Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Merchants and property holders now
on the BoWery are out in a petition to
the board of aldermen that is promised
q public hearing, and that petition will
certainly have the most public hearing
of any ever listened to in this city.
In short, the prayer is to- have the
name of the BOwery changed. The ar
gument is made that the name and
fame of that district has Travelled all
over the world. until the pickanninies
on the southern coast of Africa can
sing:
Oh. the Bowery, the Bowery!
They do such things and they say such
things
On the Bowery. the Bowery,
III never go there any more.
This, the merchants and property
owners say. hurts business The Bow
cry. they claim, is not half so bad as it
is painted, therefore, they ask that the
rose be called by some other name The
fun will come when the public hearing
IS held on this proposed change of name
The Bowery would not be the Bowery
under any other name no matter that
pet superstition about the odor of the
rose
The noisome smell would disappear
and the New Yorker would no longer
be able TO stand on the corner of Pell
and Bowery, sniff the air and admiring-
" exclaim:
Did you ever smell anything like that
in your life?"
Then he could not go farther and
proudly exhibit dark dives, Subterrane-
an passages, foul courts and unhealthy
Fenements. Nor could he point with
pride to the fierce lowering countenan-
ces surrounding nor listen to the NUT
terings of the submerged tenth and
turn to his friend and ask:
Did you ever see anything like this %
And the friend could not answer: No
never" to- the great joy of the New
Yorker.
All the glory of the Bowery would 90
with its name, and there will be one of
the funniest fights on record when the
public hearing comes up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
BABY CARRIAGES TRIUMPH
An American Export to India That
Meets With Highest Esteem.

New York. March 24.-There is GER
tain article of American manufacture
which, so far it is known there, has
met with the highest esteem in India.
This is the American baby carriage. Its
introduction to the appreciative Hindoo is
of recent date and knowledge of it is still
strictly limited.
A few months ago man of this city.
who conducts the principal part of his
business in India, sent a present to
the superintendent of his eastern house a
wicker baby carriage, of the familiar
pattern seen evry day in the streets and
parks The delight of the recipient was
unbounded and was eloquently expressed
in letter of thanks. Nothing like the
new article had ever been seen in the
neighborhood of Ahmedabad or, for that
matter. probably not in any other part of
the empire After singing the praises of
the wicker carriage as contrasted with the
clumsy, box-shaped English perambula-
tor of wood, the Hindoo concluded his
letter by requesting that two or three
more of the vehicles be sent to him, that
he might make presents to his friends.
One of these he desired to have selected
with the greatest care, as 1t was intended
for a native prince of renown. As an ex-
ira embellis bment he wanted it fitted with
regular carriage lamps, which should be
built not only for show, but for use.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
TWO CHICAGO MEN
Whose Business Gives Them Wide
Experience.

There are two great grocery. stores in
Chicago which rank a among the largest,
if not the largest. in the world Their
names are not given in print their
competitors would naturally protest
against such prominence.
The names Of the stores referred to will
be given by letter to any honest inquirer.
I'VE are having a good trade on Postum,
the health coffee made at Battle Creek.
Mich, by the Postum Cereal CO., Linn,
and experience is that people be-
come steady customers when they once
try 1t.
it's kind and certainly is charming beV-
erage. 1 have brewed scple. OF the coun-
terfeits which are en- the market. par
ticularly one that has stolen part OF the
name of Postum Cereal
IF any one wants to know now SOOd
Postum really is let him try II along side
of the counterfeit. The original article
has great merit or there would not be so
many trying TO initiate II.
A counterfeit is always an imitation.
and only the genuine will satisfy care
The manager of the other store referred
to was for nine years located among
the coffee plantations of Java as a buyer
of coffee for the English army He is
reasonably supposed to be a coffee expert.
Postum is used by his wife, children and
himself at his own home.
or weak imitation of a genuine article be-
cause he happens to make a little extra
profit. But it is well to observe that when
genuine Postum Cereal coffee is order
ed, that you get Postum and not a spur
ious imitation offered as Just good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
MONARCH OF THE FOREST.
The Biggest Spruce Ever Found in
New York is Cut Down and Made
Into Wood Pulp.

Albany, March Ex-senator Chahoon of
Clinton county, has forwarded to the
state fisheries, game and forest commits
sion, at the capitol, the stump of the
biggest spruce tree ever found in north
ern New York and probably in the spruce
belt, including Maine, New Hampshire.
Vermont and Canada. Superintendent of
Forests Fox has been on the lookout for
10 years for the tree which should repre-
sent the maximum size of the spruce
species, and this stump will be kept as
filling the bill. The stump was taken
from a spot in the forest very near the
Elba, Essex county, six miles south of
Lake Placid The tree, which was 12l
feet 5 inches in height was cut for pulp
wood by the J. & J. Rogers company
The average height of big spruce trees
is only eighty feet.
The rings on the stump indicate that the
tree was probably $50 years old.
Shirts. collars and cuffs Numbered
to look like new by Peerless Steam
Laundry. 112 aid ia West Sth- st.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
Spring
': : :i:s y; Humors

tions, painful boils, annoying pim-
Piles and other affections, which ap-
pear so generally at this season, make
the use of that grand Spring Medi-
cine, Hoods Sarsaparilla, necessity.
The accumulated impurities in the
blood cause very different symptoms
with some people. The kidneys,
liver and bowels are overmatched in
their efforts to relieve the clogged
system. Dizzy headaches, bilious
attacks, failure of appetite, coated
tongue, lame back, indigestion and
that tired feeling are some results.
From the same cause may also come
scrofula, neuralgia, sciatica or rheu-
matism.
All these troubles and more may prop
erly be called ssSpring Humors,''
and just as there is one cause, a cure
is found in just one remedy, and
that is Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Hoods Sarsaparilla purifies the impure
blood, enriches blood which is weak
and thin, vitalizes blood which lacks
vitality. Thus it reaches every part
of the human system.
For your Spring Medicine to pre-
vent or cure Spring Humors, take
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

'sNiystic Cure for Rheumatism and
NEURALGIA radically cures in 1 to days
IT'S action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. 1t removes at
once the cause and the disease irnme-
diately disappears. The first dose great
ly benefits =. F. Anthony, ex-post-
master of Promise City, Iowa, says: Il
bought one bottle of Mystic Cure for
Rheumatism, and two doses of it did
me more good than any medicine I ever
took" Sold by Swift & Holiday, drug
gists, 523 Kansas avenue, Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24

t K
Work in a lodge is about the only
work some men ever do.
Don't tell your friend of the silly
things you hear; he hears enough for
himself.
Considering how mean men can be,
they deserve credit for being as good
as they are.
If one of a mans relations visits at
his house as long as a month, his wife
never in the world gets over it.
Another Atchison man who thought
he could do better by getting out of the
old rut, is being jolted to death
They talk a great deal of the re-
pentance that attends q death bed, but
often it is a repentance of having Wor-
ried SO much unnecessarily.
If you want something positively
good, try old fashioned canned peaches.
You no doubt tired of them when you
were younger. but they have grown
good again.
If you must marry a widow, marry
one whose husband is still living. He
is liable to make mistakes, and cause
you to feel proud of yourself, but you
can never hope to be as great as a dead
rival.
An Atchison man has become known
as deadbeat trying to defraud aneigh-
Dor out of $780, He will keep himself
poor all his life to avoid paying $500 of
borrowed money. Think what a fool the
fellow is, to say nothing of his dishones-
ty.
A sensible woman is very important;
an Atchison man who makes not to eX-
coed $65 month, lives as we'll as any
man in town, and better than hundreds
who make a good deal more money The
difference is that he has a thrifty and
sensible wife.
Women are not what they used to be-
An AtchiSOn man recalls that 80 or 40
years ago, a woman used to have to
work as hard as her husband, and that
when man wore one woman out there
was always another girl willing to take
her place. He says that the tendency
these days is to wear the men out, and
that more women have second husbands
than there are men who have second
wives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
GIBBONS CHARACTER.
LFrom Recent Sketch by Leslie Ste

VenS.
Gibbons memoirs have the very rare
and peculiar charm of recording com
pIete success and what may in one
sense be called perfection of character.
certainly do not attribute to Gibbon
moral perfection in an absolute sense.
He had his little Weaknesses. and anv-
body may eXpatiate upon them for our
edifcation- By perfection I only in
tend perfection relatively to a given
purpose, and consequently that peculiar
balance of harmony of all the faculties
which enables a man to get the very
greatest possible result out of given
abilities. Moralists may perhaps main
tam that there is properly but one
IDEAL will not argue the point But
as a matter of fact, we may also say
that there are many moral types, each
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24

fering was on account of the air we were
obliged TO breathe, filled il was with
sand 1t was impossible to sleep. and our
only resource was TO huddle together in
the cold car and pass the time telling
stories The funniest man aboard was a
preacher. He did more than anybody in
keeping up the spirits of the passengers
and shall always feel grateful 20 him
for the encouragement he gave when
everybody else was on the point of Civ
ing up in despair. One such standstorm
is enough for a lifetime"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-24
MRS. RICO MAKES A SCENE.
She Visits the Hotel Where Her
Husband and Princess Chimay
Are StonninC.

Paris, March 24.-The wife of Janos
RigO, the Hungarian gypsy musician,
who eloped with the Princess De Chi
may, went to the Hotel Terminus today
where the couple are staying. accompa-
MED by a commissary of police, in order
to establish their criminal intimacy
A violent scene followed. RigO in
suited his wife, who, in turn, retorted
with insults directed at the princess.