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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
AN UNM1xED BLESSING.

(F'rom the Topeka Mail and Breeze
"A gentleman, a farmer" says the
Cherokee Sentinel who was a witness
to the excitement incident to the fight
1T Thorn's joint on Saturday afternoon,
said: I have been thinking of retiring
from the farm and letting my sons run
it, and move to town to educate my
younger children. You have good
schools, and churches and a beautiful
little city, and like the people, but if
you have such places as see, and such
doings as this. think my children are
better off in the country"
This, of course, shows how utterly
mistaken and unprogressive this Cher
okee county farmer is. He evidently
1abors under the antiquated back num-
Der impression that hisSboys will be
better off If they are kept away from
joints and saloons and that a town
would be a better town to live in with
out drunken fights and he'll holes.
Doesn't the farmer see that if he had
his way about it the town would get no
joint revenue and the city marshal
would be practically out of a job? Of
course. where the joints run with the
consent of the authorities and put up
hush money for protection it may look
as II the town, through it's officers is
br1bed, and so it is. His boys may get
into the joint and be turned from
honest country lads to drunken town
1oafers and buns. This may seem to the
farmer unpleasant, and it may break
the heart of the boys mother but what
Will these little drawbacks amount to
when compared with a steady revenue
coming into the city treasury? That
farmer should correct his theories He
should at once convince himself that
red liquor is essential to prosperity and
drunken nights sure signs of municipal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
MINORS CAN'T RENT BOXES.
The Post Office Department Won't
Aid Children to Garry on Sc
cret Correspondence.

New York, Sept. 13.-An order has
been issued by the postmaster general
forbidding the renting of lock boxes and
call boxes in postoffices to minors. The
order is Worded as follows:
''It having been brought to the no
tice of the department that in some in
stances call and lock boxes are being
rented to minors, it is hereby ordered
that such boxes shall not be so rented
without the written consent of the pa
rents or guardians of such Minors
The order was issued because the
postal authorities found that many
young girls and boys carried on CORE
spondence without the consent of their
parents, receiving their mail in the
boxes which they rented. The au-
thoritieS learned of several cases in
which much harm had been done to
young people by acquaintance formed
as the result of such correspondence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
BRAVE BOY AND A LAMP
Prevents the z. M c. A. Rooms
From Taking Fire.

Bert Barnett, the boy who sets up
tenpins on the Y. NJ. c. A. bowling al
ley saved the Y. M. c. A. building on
East Eighth street from a threatening
fire recently He was at work in the
bowling alley when he smelled burning
oil. He ran into the engine room and
there found a coal oil lamp ablaze. IT
was near some tanks of oil and piles of
kindling and COAL The lamp was sput-
tering and the blaze was increasing in
size every minute.
He tried to eXtinguish the fire by
blowing it. but to no avail. With the
oil boiling over the lamp and the flame
shooting high in the room the boy
picked it up and started for the alley
door. He threw the burning mass into
the alley and as it struck the ground it
exploded and burning oil was thrown
on the boy. He was burned in several
places and badly frightened. The build
ing was thus saved what would un-
doubtedly have been a dangerous fire
and the boy feared that he would lose
his job because he broke the lamp. But
his salary was increased.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
ELWYN BARRON's SUCCESS.
Julia Marlowe Appears in His Dram
atization of tERomola -

London, Sept. 13.-An American writer
and playwright who has secured a foot
hold in London is Elwyn A Barron,
formerly dramatic critic of the Chicago
Times Herald. Mr.. Barron has formed
a partnership with Wilson Barrett for
playwriting and is engaged with him
in the construction of a drama for Mr..
Barrett'S next season. He has retir d.
temporarily at any rate, from newspa-
per work
Two plays of Mr.. Barron's authorship
have been submitted to English and
American mana gers for their consider
alton. His first important work to be
staged was the dramatizat ton of
Romola," which Julia Marlowe and
Robert Tabor PLAYED last winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
QUEEN LII GOING HOME.
Awaiting the Arrival of Prince Kaiu-
lani in San Francisco.

San Francisco, Sept. 13.-Ex-Queen
Li1iuokalani has arrived in this city
from the east. She will be here for
some time and will not for the present
define the purpose of her visit, which it
is believed she intends to make to Hon
olulu. 1t is understood she has come
west with the intention of communicate
ing with her friends on the subject of
her fight against the annexation of Ha-
wall by the United States. She will
remain in this city to await the arrival
of the Princess Kaiulani, her niece and
the daughter of A. S. CIeghorn, who are
to leave England for this country on
in San Francisco en- route to the island
on October 81
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
PEOPLE YOU HEAR OF.

Sir Henry Irving's sons are both pos
SeSsed of literary ability. Lawrence
drama and this months Nineteenth
Century contains a clever and humor-
Gus article entitled 1.-The True Story of
Eugene Aram," from the pen of H. B.
Irving.
''Mr. Lecky,' says the London Sun.
sis rapidly developing into the normal
and business-like NJ. P. and dropping
his preOccupied look and ultra-intel1ec-
tual air. The carica turists now rarely
utilize him as a subject-a sure sign
that a celebrity is shedding his little
peculiarities.
Nicola Tesla, who has been even
more talked about than usual of late,
is so absent-minded that he once got
into his bath without undressing, got
out and went through the motion of
drying himself, donned a complete set
of clothing and went about his business
doubly clad.
It is thought that David j. Brewer,
associate justice of the United States
supreme court, will be chosen successor
to Rev. DIR. Richard S. Storrs of Brook
Ign as president of the American board
of commissioners for foreign missions
at the annual meeting of the board at
New Haven in October.
Years ago Prince Bismarck used to
spell his name without the &C. The
monetary significance of the name Bis
mark-two marks.
Thad Stevens once had a colored SER
want in Washington named Matilda,
who one morning smashed large dish
at the buffet. What have you broken
now, you d black idiot?'' exclaim-
ed her master. Matilda meekly re-
Sponded; "Tain't de 10th command
ment, Dress de Lawd."
Coils P. Huntington, the president of
the Southern Pacific railroad and of the
Pacific Mail Steamship company, main
tains three palatial residence which
are kept in such perfect running order
that any one of them is ready for occu-
pancy by the family at moments no.
uce- One of these residences is at
Fifth avenue and F'ifty-seventh street,
New York, another in the fashionable
quarter of San Francisco, and the third
is in the village of Westminster, in New
York state. Besides these three homes
Mr.. Huntington has a camp in the
Adirondacks, on which some $50 900 or
$4,000 have been expended.
Edward Bellamy, author of Look
ing Backward and Equality will
soon move from ChicOpee, Mass. to
Denver. Mr.. Bellamy's health has been
poor for some time, and his friends
think the change will restore him to
good health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
KANSAS SCHOOL CHILDREN.

Three hundred and eighty-five thous-
and Kansas children will start to school
this week They will wear on their feet
the hides of 1900 calves, the clothing
they will wear. if in one piece, would
extend ], 445 miles, the books they will
another, would be eight times higher
than Pixies Peak, and the states they
will carry would roof the Coliseum of
ancient Rome.-Arkansas Valley DEM
Ocrat.
And the Whispering that they do
today would make a roar as loud as
Niagara
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
FROM LOWELL, MASS.
The Home of Hoods SarsapariIIa :
a Wonderful Cure,

=" A swelling as big as large marble
came under my tongue. Physicians said it
was asemi-transparent tumor and must be
operated upon. felt could not stand it,
and as spring came began to take my
favorite spring tonic, Hoods SarsaparilIa.
The bunch gradually decreased and finally
disappeared. have had no sign of it's re-
turn. am glad to praise Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla." MRS. H. NJ. CoBURN, Union St.,
Lowell, Mass. Get HOODS.
Hoods Pills cure Sick Headache. 25c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

progress. He should also throw aside
his old fogy notion that the less man
spends for liquor the more he Will have
to spend for food, clothes and comforts
for himself and family, and get onto
the modern, progressive arithmetic
which is based on the proposition that
the more a man spends for whisky and
beer the more he will have to buy dry
goods and groceries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

everyone.
People don't die of old age: they are
bored to death.
A musician always thinks he is q
crackerjack when he speaks of run
ming over a piece of music.
The people are a good deal like
weeds. a long dry spell makes them
look wiIted, dusty and discouraged.
Put a man where he can see himself
in the mirror and he is just as absent
minded in his conversation as any
woman.
When a woman accepts a young man
as her daughters lover she is very apt
to make herself ridiculous raving about
him.
We suppose a kind Providence makes
women longer lived than men because
it takes woman SO much longer to live
things down.
There is some joy in store for the peo-
pie this year: in a few weeks they will
have the pleasure of seeing the flies
Sicken and die.
When a girl isn't in love, and who
doesn't want to be an actress, runs
away from home, ii is good sign that
her home is not what it should be.
In addition to greater productions of
cotton, etc, this year. prosperity didn't
rest until there were also more mosQui-
toes than ever before.
i
A reporter on this paper is always
worthless on a busy day, but a jewel
when there is nothing going on. His
explanation is that when there is a
crowd in town he wants to rubberneck
himself.
The infatuation existing between an
Atchison girl and her young man will
separated and he has to writeSto her:
even the eyes of love can't make out his
handwriting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

The requirements of a medicine is to
tighten the burden of pain and cure
This brings us to the question of a rem
edy, and Tabler's Buckeye Pile Oint-
ment is the only remedy for blind
bleeding or protruding Piles that is en-
dorsed by physicians. Cures the most
obstinate cases. soc. Geo w. Stans-
field, 632 Kansas avenue, and Miller,s
Pharmacy, corner Sixth and Popeka
avenues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
Gives London a Chill

London, Sept. 13.-The report has
been put in circulation that DOyIey
Carte is negotiating for the services of
Lillian Russell to appear as the star
in a revival of 1.-The Grand Duchess
and it has sent a chill through London
thea trical circles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
Arkansas City, Kan, July &c, g;

Major Tom Anderson, Topeka, Kan.
My Dear Major:-I regret exceedingly
that I was not aware of the fact earlier
that you are the happy possessor of a
tapeworm. All the boys send their hearty
congratulations, and a few want me to
ask you if you ever lend it?
Below you will find copy of our daily
Mean You, arranged just for ordinary
cases of starvation If there are any of
the newfangled foreign dishes which you
must have let me know some days in adj
vance and I will send out among the
threshing machines and gather up a few
French cooks. Faithfully yours,
B. f. CHILDS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
Headquarters.
Southwestern Soldiers
A SSOcia fiOu-

Association.
Arkansas City, Kan, July u, '97
Major Tom Anderson. Topeka, Kan.
My Dear Major:-This association will
hold their eleventh annual reunion and
encampment in this city August 81 and
continue four days, and I am directed to
extend to you a most cordial invitation to
be their guest and participate in the riot
We will do all in our power to make your
stay with US as uncomfortable as possible.
and send you home in condition that
will make you unacceptable to your
best friends.
You will be expected to furnish your
own night shirt and boot-jack, but will be
allowed a reasonable use of the associa-
TONS toothbrush and curry-comb. If
you should have a corkscrew about the
house, you might tuck it in your hip
pocket to protect you against coyotes and
buffalo and assist in Identifying you if
you should get lost
You will be met at the depot by the
chief of police and vigilance committee
who will take pleasure in showing you to
your quarters in the cooler, and see that
you occupy them constantly during your
stay in town. Meantime, if there is any
thing else that we can think of to discom-
mode you during your visit, you can de-
pend upon our not neglecting it.
Hoping you will be able to come early
and stay late, 1 am sincerely yours,
B. T. CHILDS,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
Chairman Invitation Committee.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Ry.
Passenger DEPARTMENT.

Topeka, Kan, July %, 81.
Capt. B. F. Childs, Arkansas City, Kan.
My Dear Contradictions invitation to
attend your reunion August 81 is very al
Turing in many respects but to a man who
has been afflicted with a tapeworm for a
series of years it seems as though you
are as silent as the grave on the gas
Economical question, especially as regards
bareback and the abdominal tissue of the
female hog and other edibles. I'll take a
lunch along and 'be thar" Yours truly,
T. ]. ANDERSON.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
EverYbodx Save So.

derful medical discovery of the age, pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
and biliousness. Please buy and try a box
of g. c. G. to-day; TO- %, 30 cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
A. W. Smith Invites Leedy.

Gov. Leedy has accepted an invita-
ton to speak at Mcpherson Sept. 25 be-
fore the old settlers picnic A w
Smith is in charge of the demonstration
and the invitation was forwarded by
him. The governor stopped off at Le-
compton on his way home Saturday to
deliver an address at picnic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
Weather Indications

Chicago, Sept. 13.-For Kansas: Cen
orally fair tonight and Tuesday; varia-
bic winds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
Mineral Water.

The finest in the west. Come and try
It. J. w. PHILLIPS,
612 w. Eighth St
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
GLOBE SIGHTS.

(From the Atchison Globe.)
There is more or less loafer blood in
everyone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

Gunther's Pharmacy.6th and Jackson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
LETTERS TO TOM ANDERSON
Also a Letter From Tom Anderson
With Some Old Soldier Flavoring.

me Arkansas City Democrat says
The following correspondence took place
anent the reunion held in this city last
week:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

People don't die of old age: they are
bored to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

Edward Bellamy, author of Look
ing Backward" and Equality" will
soon move from Chicopee, Mass, to
Denver. Mr.. Bellamy's health has been
poor for some time, and his friends
think the change will restore him to
good health.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

MT. Lecky, says the London Sun,
sis rapidly developing into the normal
and business-Iike NJ. P. and dropping
his preoccupied look and ultra-intel1ec-
tual air. The carica wrists now rarely
utilize him as a subject-a sure sign
that a celebrity is shedding his little
peculiarities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13

Hoods Pills cure Sick Headache. CSC.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
PROFESSOR WILLIAM BRAG,
The New Professor of Botany Mt the
University.

University.
Professor William l.. Brag, who has
come to take charge of instruction of bot
any in the University, is one of the numer-
Gus botanists who have been trained under
the personal direction of Professor John
\. Coulter, now head professor of botany
in the University of Chicago, and author
Of many works on botany the better
known here being his Flora of Western
Texas" or manual of the Rocky Noun
tain Botany" When DR.. Coulter resign
ed the presidency of Lake Forest Universe
ty to take up his present work Professor
Brag was placed i'll charge of the depart
ment of botany in Lake Forest as adjunct
professor during the absence of the regu-
lar professor i'll Germany. Professor Brag
conducted the biological work in the sum-
mer session of Lake Forest University III
1898, and was lecturer in nature study be-
fore the summer session of the Chicago
kindergarten college, 1896. At the sus-
gestion of Professor Coulter, in July of
tina. year Professor Brag went to the en-
inent Adolph Engler at Berlin for the sp,,,
cal object of acquiring the method ana
bringing together the literature and the
newly named subject of Plantocologv,
which may be said to be the point of view
from which the Engler school investigates
the flora of the earth This subject is TO
form one branch of the instruction In the
fully equipped department in the UNIVERSE
ty of Chicago.
II is clearly in the line of Professor
Brags work here to demonstrate that as
a department, biological science, botany
affords field for as rigid and valuable
training in mental development and
growth as any of its coequals in the uni
yersity curriculum, besides, also, being u
subject in which immense economical III
tcrests are involved. AS mere recrea-
tion. or aesthetic branch, botany occupies
now little place in schools of university
rank. =.
The great opportunity here lies in Or
oonizinr n constituency for the thorough
Study of the flora of Texas both in its
economical phases and especially IN us
biological significance, the beginning or
which work Professor Brag comes well
equipped and thoroughly interested IN
branch of study which has not been hereto
fore considered in the University OF IeXas;
In addition to his superior intellectual
culture and mental environments Profess
sor Rrac is gentleman of rare social quail
tiles which will make for him many
friends in his new field of labor, ana the
University of Texas as well as the people
of Austin are to be congratulated upon
Professor Brag's election to the place re
has in the faculty of the University. On
Saturday morning Professor Brag, Will de-
liver lectures upon his favorite theme at
the University, to which the public IS cor
daily invited.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
THE TICK INVESTIGATORS.
Prominent StOckmen and Microbe
ExterminatOrs 20 Meet in
PanthcrvilIe Today.

Fort Worth. Tex. Sept 26.-(Spcciall
The meeting of the sanitary board of
the various states and territories, called
to convene at this point tomorrow to
consider the Texas cattle fever question,
will be not only well attended by de
cdedly representative. With the ar
rival of the night trains the following
are on hand for the meeting:
DIR. Victor Norgard, chief of the divi-
sion of animal pathology in the national
hun eau of animal industry, Washington;
Col Albert Dean of Kansas City. in
charge of all national quarantine matters
west of the Mississippi river; DIR. Chas.
ii. Blomer of Kansas City and DIR.
Frank T. Shannon of Fort Worth, both
veterinary surgeons connected with the
rational animal industry bureau; Col.
w. ID. Jordan Of Quanah, Tex, and w.
NJ. Clayton of Sweetwatcr. Tex, ma
tional live stock agents. The Kansas
state quarantine board, consisting Of
Frank Wcinkhnnk, chairman; Taylor
Riddle secretary, and j. w. Johnson.
also arrived tonight. Nebraska is rep
resented by w. n. Babcock, long con-
nected with the Omaha stock yards and
who was also recently elected vice pres
ident of the Fort Worth stock yards.
Texas is represented by State Quarantine
Commissioner w. Il. Tullis of Quanah
and his associates, Messrs. II. j. Kleberg
of Alice and Moore of Houston. will ar
rive in the morning Professor X. w. Ed
wards. secretary of Oklahoma board.
and also a member of the board of re-
gents of the Oklahoma Agricultural and
Mechanical college. will represent his
section. Illinois is represented by Hon.
Z. T. johnson of it's live stock board
Missouri is represented by Hon. ]. W.
Hill executive committeeman of the
state board of agriculture and DR.. J.
w. G. Connaway. veterinary to the state
experimental station. and also a member
Of the faculty of the state university.
DIR. Chas. Gresswell of the Colorado
board, Wyoming's representative. will
reach here tomorrow evening.
As to whether New Mexico and Ari-
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
HOUSTON's EXPERT.
And the People VIII Rely on DIR
Swenringen, n Sure Enough
ExDert.

Houston, Tex, Sept. 2S.-(Special)-
DIR. Max Urwitz, in speaking of the
case. said:
"ln my opinion the woman has
case of either continuous or dengue
fever, with a complication of inflamma-
ton of the kidneys, which Is liable to
occur in any case of fever. Measles,
scarletina or even typhoid fever are liza
bic to bring on Inflammation of the kid
neys, and such 4 condition could result
either from continuous fever or severe
malaria. There are no symptoms of yell
low fever, and there is absolutely moth
ing about the case indicative of yellow
fever. The simple fact that the woman
has a little yellow sediment in the eye
amounts to nothing, because nearly all
negroes have that naturally. and | have
seen it among white people"
An expert chemist, Ed. A. Shaeffer,
was today given samples of the urinal
discharge and of the bile vomt of the
women for examination. but while the
work is not done 1t has progressed
rapidly. He was to report to the board
meeting tonight, but was not quite
ready.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-09-30
fredericksburg Locals.

Fredericksburg, Tex, Sept. 26.-(SSpe-
cial)-District court convened here last
Monday. Very little business. was dis
posed of up to Thursday morning. when
one of the three murder cases pending
here was called for trial. A jury was en-
panneled late Thursday evening, and the
case of VIM. Garrett, charged with the
murder of John Moss in this county last
December, was submitted.
The defendant was represented by Hon.
NJ. Fulton of Mason and Judge FrOursum
of this place. District Attorney Linden
was assisted by Hon. M. d. Slater of
Llano and Clarence Martin of this place:
The defendant. when the indictment had
been read, to tire surprise of almost every
one entered plea of guilty to the charge.
Evidence was submitted, and the only
issue was whether the defendant should re-
ceive punishment by life sentence to the
penitentiary, or death, although the issue
of murder in the second degree was sub
mitted by Judge Allison in his charge to
the jury.
At this writing the jury are still out, hav-
ing failed to reach verdict.
The case. of John Gazaway, charged
with the same offense, will be called for
trial this morning. 1t is likely that the
case against Tolbert Garrett, charged also
with the same offense, will be dismissed.