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The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
MAXIMUM RATE DECISION
In the Nebraska Case is Expected
Soon.

Washington, Oct. st is understood
that the supreme court will hand down
it's decision this autumn in what are
known as the Nebraska maximum freight
rate cases and that it will be in favor
of the railroads and against the state.
The case attracted considerable attention
last spring by reason of the fact that
William J. Bryan was one of the counsel
for the state. The constitutionality of
the Nebraska law of 1896 fixing a maxi
mum rate for freight charges on railroads
within the state is involved.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
AFTER THE TRUSTS.
Illinois Secretary of State Sends Out
1900 Letters of Inquiry.

Springfield, Ill, Oct. S.-Secretary of
State Rose has sent out $4,000 letters
to various companies, Incorporated un-
der the Illinois law, notifying them
that they must file with him, inside of
30 days, affidavits stating that they are
doing no trust business.
This ANTITRUST department, as it is
called, was created by the legislature in
1891. The provisions of the act are Sc
vere-a penalty of from $500 to 81 600
for the first offense; 81. 600 to SIS, 900 for
the second; for the third $4,000 and
SIS. 900 for each conviction thereafter.
The law has never been rigidly enforc-
a.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
Rreaks Hs On1u Leo

Lawrenceburg. Ind, Oct. 8-Valley HUI
Der. a one-legged insurance agent fell
this morning on High street and broke
his sound leg for the fifth time. His
other leg had been broken so often that
it had to be amputated years ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
South Carolina Diso ensary.

Columbia, s c., Oct. S.-The effect Of
the Original package" competition ON the
dispensary is shown by a comparison Of
September sales with those of the same
month last year, there being a decrease
of S37, 3d. or 1910 barrels of whisky, or
dered for September business; 1876 remain
on hand The dispensary board is
gloomy.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

Chicago. Oct. S.-For Kansas: Cen
orally fair and decidedly colder to-
night and Saturday; brisk northerly-
winds.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

The homeopathic Night School OF
Medicine will open Monday evening,
Oct 11th, at 629 Kan. Ave, up stairs
Pupils receive credit in all other col
leges for time spent with us.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
Kansas City and Return So.

Kansas City and return $500 via
Santa Fe Route. Tickets good on all
our numerous trains.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
SO so to ST. Louis ard Return.

Via Santa Fe Route till October Sth
inclusive. Via Santa Fe route you can
leave at 1880 a. m. and take supper in
St. Louis.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
Uncla med Freight s.

Takes place at A T. & S. F. Ry. Cos
Ere ght warehouse, commencing 9 a..
m Thursday, Oct. IA, '97.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
Whigkv War Tnninent.

Peoria, Oct. 8.-The Peoria board Of
trade directors today decided to make
two quotations on spirits, as follows:
High proof spirits. $1.19; fresh high
proof spirits, S1-20- But the American
Spirits Manufacturing company Glib
refused to abide by the decision, and
withdrew its quotation entirely.
Much coughing Injuries the bronchial
tubes. Ayers Cherry Pectoral is a
speedy cure.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

Shirts, collars and cuffs Iaundered
to look like new by Peerless Steam
Laundry. 112 and 114 West sth ST
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

So to Kansas City and Return
$500 to Kansas City and return by
le Union Pacific; good to October 10th
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.

John L. Stoddard, the popular lee
turer on foreign lands, has retired
from the platform on account of i'll
health.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

The khedive has bestowed on Edward
Randall Knowles, IL. D, of West Sut-
ton. the exalted decoration of the COM
grades, the first two being conferred
only upon royalty or high officials of
state. DR.. Knowles commandership
(the third grade) is the only one held by
an American. 1t was given in recOgni-
ton of his work Supremacy of the
Spiritual" published two years ago.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

E. Ruggles Brice, director of the
convict prison of Great Britain. will
visit this country soon to study Ameri-
can penal institutions.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

Benjamin BisselI, living near Balls
ton S~a, n. Y. says he has voted for
Is pre- ldential candidates, and not one
of whom was elected.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

Philadelphia will receive a number
of desira Bile archa Biological gems as the
result of Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson s
visit to Europe in the interest of the
University OF Pennsylvania and the
American Exploration society. She at
tended the meeting of the Egyptian ex-
ploration fund at London, which was
the results of the years work of the
well known explorer, Vim. NJ. Flinders
Petrie. at Deshasheh. Egypt.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

The French sculptor Rodin has just
finished the model of a statue of Vic
tor Hugo which the French govern
uent has ordered for the Parthenon.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

Great regret is felt in the French ma
w at the retirement of Vice Admiral
Duperre on attaining the limit of age
He has been very popular throughout d
long career both in the service and in
society. A friend of the Prince of
Wales he has often visited England and
it was under his escort that the En-
press Eugene escaped from the dan
gers that threatened her in 1870 and got
safely on board Sir John BurgOyne's
yacht at TrOuvilIe.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

Fourteen different models were used
by August Linstrom. the New York
sculptor for his figure Light" which
will be shortly exhibited at the annual
society. The general outline of the
form was taken from Miss Harris
professional model, who posed for near
ly 100 hours. Miss Helen LOngstreet
posed for the back and Miss Sage for
the hands and feet.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-08

One of the handsomest men in New
York politics is Hugh J. Grant, VINO
was talked of as Tammany's candidate
for mayor of Greater New York. He
was born in 1858 and is a lawyer and
real estate man.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
A Base-Ball Duel.

The story is told by students in the German university city of Leipsic of a strange duel which once occurred there between an American and a young German student. The American was q graduate of Yale. He had a sQuabble with law student and a challenge re- suited. The Yale man knew nothing but he had pitched in the Yale base ball nine. So, to get his fun out of the affair, he named base-balls as the weap- ons-base-ballS at ten paces. The Ger man had never heard of a baseball and none could be got in LeipSic to il- ustrate to him their deadly qualities. Eventually the Yale man said ordinary hard wood base-baus, three inches in diameter, would do him. Both princi- pals accordingly were supplied with hard wood balls, and at in the morn ing the procession moved out to the Rosenthal with surgeons, seconds and friendly advisers. The rest of the story is brief and painful. At the first ex- into the natives jaw, just to the left of the mouth, and broke it. The na- tiye's second declared that honor had been satisfied and the procession moved back to the town for breakfast .U azceNr tho victim Ce tho tCcL-. <. who was taken 10 Q private clinic to be repaired.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28

those peculiar institutions known as 'cake-walks.' was the only white man present, and was enjoying the novel sensation of watching for the first time a procession of gorgeously arrayed coupels making the circuit of large room in the most stately and impos- ing style imaginable, when suddenly the master of ceremonies saw me, took me by the arm, led me to the center of the hall, called a halt, and the entire assembly gathered about me, and be- gan to jabber in an unknown lan- guage.
 "Au at once began to grow tall. I felt myself rapidly expanding in an upward direction. The crowd at my feet seemed to dwfndle. My head pushed its way up through the ceiling, then through the roof, and probably it would have bumped against the moon in another minute if I hadn't walked up. It was a narrow escape"
 And you saw and did all this at a cake-walk, did yOu?" asked one of the regular boarders.
 "Yes, that's what I said."
 "Hmph! What have you eaten for supper"
 Nothing but a plate of buckwheat cakes"
 ''That explains 1t. What you saw in your dream was a buckwheat cake walk"
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Hi1b-Priced Bumbrebees

Many years ago the farmers of Aus tralia imported bumblebees from Eng land and set them free in their clover fields. Before the arrival of the bees clover did not flourish in Australia, but efter their coming the farmers had no more difficulty on that score. Mir. Dar- win had shown that bumblebees were the only insects fond of clover nectar which possessed prObOscis sufficient ly long to reach the bottom of the long tube-like flowers, and, at the same t:me, a body heavy enough to bend down the clover-head so that the pollen would fall on the insects back, and thus be carried off to fertilize other Towers of the same species. According 10 a writer in Popular Science News tbe bumblebeS sent to Australia cost the farmers there about half a dollar rpiece, but they proved to be worth the Trice
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28

s-.,.v-rs,v ]. rFsts- DO 1uSs-
 Monsieur Mingaud, a naturalist of Mines. France, gives, in La Revue Sci ,rtfaue. an interesting account of the musical accomplishments of a sparrow in his collection of living birds. He captured the sparrow soon after it had teen matched, and fed 1t by hand until + couId care for itself. Then he placed It in q cage containing a chaffinch, a c,ld finch and two canaries. After a lime the sparrow learned to warble ike the finches and to trill like the ,onorIes. the limitations being so per fnct as to deceive the ear. In spring Monsieur Mingaud is accustomed to l,ean T box of crickets near his bird c.qes Two days after the crickets had been placed near the cage contain ,pg the sparrow the latter began to imi- t.ta their cry, intermingling it with its eoncs. Even after the crickets had long been dead the sparrow remember cd it's lesson, and continued to repeat their cry. None of the other birds at tcmnted to initiate the cricketS. Singu larly enough, the sparrow never utterS the peculiar squalling cry of its own species having beer removed from it's rest too early, apparently, to have learned it.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
A shsrt-Lived leland.

Tn 1867 new shoal was discovered il the group of the Tonga, or Friendly islands. In 1877 smoke was seen over the shoal. In 1885 the shOal had be- come a volcanic island, more than two miles long and 240 feet high, and a fierce eruption was taking place within 1t. In 1886 the island had begun to shrink in dimensions, although the next year its highest point was 325 feet above sea level. In 1889 its height had diminished one-half. and the ocean close around 1t was more than mile deep. In 1892 the island rose only about twenty six feet above sea level. According to the latest information, its complete disappearance, under the ac- tion of the waves, will not be long de- layed.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
And Hence She D;d,,t

He-If I should kiss you would you Zoroop12
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
The Flight of the suu.

Astronomers know that the sun, ac- oompanied by the earth and the other planets, is moving toward a point in the northern heavens with great speed Just what the velocity is, however, can rot yet be told with certainty. Prof. Simon Newcomb. in a recent lecture, said that 1t was probably between five miles and nine miles per second. The bright star Alpha Lyrae lies not far from the point toward which the sun Is moving. Every moment we are get tDg nearer to the place where that star now is. When shall we get there? Probably in less than a million years; perhaps in half million.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
KANSAS MINISTER'S

A Few Little Anecdotes Ibid by a
 r=nthr-I Witness.
 eve heard so many incredible stor- les about the cyclone and it's eccen- triclties," said the solemn looking man to a party of tourists he had joined in the sleeping car, "that I've been to Kansas making some personal in! veStigations in the interest of science.
 'T find that many reports from that section have been grossly exaggerated. Nothing occurs there that is not in accord with our understanding of these terrific outbursts of nature. For instance, the tornado, often mistaken for the cyclone, has rotary motion. have known it to dip low enough to bore a well and then bound once more to the region of the clouds. This wonderful phenomenon was an accomplished fact in far less time than 1t takes me to tell of it.
 "An extensive farmer here heard the roar of an approaching storm and just had time to get his team from his reaper to a place of safety. The wind caught the reaper and sent it round and round and round the immense tract, till the grain was all cut"
 ''But didn't it blow away"
 ''Not at all. That would have de, stroyed our theory. The circular whirl of the irresistible power swept the grain to the center of the field and into an immense stack such as human hands could not have piled.
 "One of the strangest and best au- thenticate6 incidents learned of Oc- cured where cyclone struck the base of a mountain and went burrowing through it. A few feet in the twister encoUnte red q solid granite formation. 1t was two weeks later when the tun- nel was completed and the terrific wind resumed its devastating way on the Other side The tunnel was prompt ly appropriated by a railroad com pany."
 'I had rather au eopiaasapt evr,er- fence in that section" said one Uf Che tourists 'I bought a little farm there, just fo be q landholder. Everything in three counties was plasuered thick with mortgages. A cyclone wound them all up into one great package and pasted them down on my little place. We drilled and blasted to get them off, but it was no go. My farm is mort gagged $40,O00,000 deep"
 The solemn man of science never turned hair, but took notes-Detroit Free Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Make Your own cook Book


 printed volume can ever supersede, is the individual work of its owner. It is composed of recipes, tested and true, collected from various places, and con- taining directions which the owner un- derstands and rules that suit her indi- vidual taste This cook book may be written on tinted and glazed writing paper, leaving wide margins at the sides. It is q good plan to arrange it in sections, allowing one section for soups. one for fish and crustacea, one for meats and fowls, one for game and one for salads and desserts. A section might also be added for preserves, candies and valuable miscellaneous re- cipeS, and the whole should be indeXetl in another final section It will be found most convenient to have each of these sections in individual covers. as one can then be used without wear ul,- on the others. These covers may be ] made of white oilcloth, celluloid or some glazed material, and may be dec. | orated if the owner pleaseS.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28

SOuIA'
 "We didn't"
 "You didn't"
 ''No. She done all the settlin' uy it herself. Enquirer.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
His Choice.

It Is said that Charles Wesley was sometimes easily annoyed, and on one occasion, at conference, he became 50 rritated at the proliX remarks of q speaker that he said to his brother:
 "Stop that mans speaking. Let Us attend to business"
 Rut the offender was relating his religious experience, and though it was at so great length, John Wesley evidently thought that no one had q right to interfere with it. He was therefore allowed to continue, but the moment came when Charles could con- tain himself no longer
 Unless he steps," he whispered tC John, "I'll leave the conference"
 By this time John was enjoying tht mans simple story, and he only turned and whispered to some one sitting near:
 gsDnooh Cho rIpS hic hoti,,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28

long. The chest Is deep and bread The legs are for running, while the coat is thick, having cotton under the hair,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Ice-Rreakinr Ships.

Vice Admiral Makarow, of the Rus sian navy, has been studying the con- struction and use of powerful ice breaking ships. At a recent meeting of the Imperial Geographical Society at St Petersburg, he expressed his belief that with two such ships, each of ten thousand horsepower, acting together, q line of free water communication could be kept open in winter to the port Of St. Petersburg, and he added that they could even force their way through the glacial ocean if the thick ness of the ice did not exceed twelve feet
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Convention

Convention sets meets and bounds for your ambition"
 The words kept sounding in her ears even now that she was alone, as II her startled misgivings had found voice to take them up and repeat them over and over.
 She thought of the hops and dinners that filled her life.
 Meats and bounds is good" she re- marked, and laughed quietly.-Detroit Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Wnnd-S Stone.

From a mixture of magnesia and sawdust, subjected to high tempera- ture and great pressure, Dr. Otto Len nig has produced a substance which he calls "xyolith." or "wood-stone." It can be cut with tools, but, it is said, does not burn, and does not absorD rioisture. The inventor thinks it should Irove useful as a building material.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28

If these symptoms are nOO t-COOI
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Nobody" replied the guide. "This is the United States Senate. ."-Philadel- phia North American.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
USE GENTLENESS.

Be gentle in stimulating the kidneys, other happiest results follow the use of Hos etters Stomach Bitters to overcome renal inac- tivity Avoid the unmedicated. fiery stim- ulants of commerce. The kidneys have a delicate membrane easily ir itated. and upon this the action of such excitants is pernici0us. Malarial complaints, indigestion, rheuma- tism, neuralgia and biliousness succumb to the corrective influence of the Bitters
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Cause and Effect.

"Never tell your dreams Is an oft repeated bit of advice, yet it is proba- ble that few persons do things in their dreams that are more foolish than some things they do when they are wide-awake.
 Il had very singular dream last night" said a boarder, as he came down to breakfast one morning. Il dreamed I was a spectator at one of
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
A Pigeon Race.

In France pigeons are regarded as valuable messengers in case of war, and recently the French Minister of War offered prize for the winner of a pigeon race from Perigueux to Paris, 2G0 miles. No less than 2,746 birds were entered in the contest. The winner made the distance in seven hours thir- ty-fOur minutes, an average of over thirty-four miles an hour.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
EoIfowed InatrucH;on.

Mudge-This watch has been stop ped for two or three days.
 Jeweler-Lemme see it. There is nothing the matter with it except that it has not been wound.
 "I thought maybe that was it. l re- member you told me to wind it up just before went to bed and haven't been to bed for three nights. ."-Indianapolis Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Reach Charles his hatw
TallWaY AcCidents in Enrone

The railroad companies of Great Britain carried 930,0O0,O0O passengers in 1895. of whom 98G were killed. Dur ing the same year. iu the city of Lon don alone, 566 persons were killed b. falling from buildings or out of win d0Ws,
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
CHEAP IRRIGATION.

The Hercules Gas Engine Works of San Francisco, Cal, the largest builders of gas, gasoline and oil engines on the Coast, are making extensive preparations for the Eeason's business.
 They are tilIlng several orders for large irrigating plants and as this line of thelr bu.iness increases each season, 1t IS safe 10 say the farmers throughout the State are ap- preciating the advantages of irrigation with
 The Hercules Works are at present build ing an 80 H. P. engine for Geo. k. Packer, Colusa, which will raise 6000 gallons per minute from the river and distribute 1t over his land. l his will be the largest gasoline pumping plant in existence.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
swift-FIying Clouds.

MT. Clayton, of the Blue Hill ObserV- arory, near Boston, reports that oDser- yations made there show that the aver age speed with which clouds, between 5000 and 5,O56 feet high, move is sixty miles an hour in midsummer, and one 1andred and ten miles an hour in mid winter The swiftest flight of a cloud yet measured was c3O miles an hour.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
- Worried,

WimbledCE-What'so on your mind old man? Is your wife or any of your children sick?
 Hankins-Heavens, it's a mole seri- ous matter than that! Pm afraid we're not going to have baseball team here this season.-Cleveland Leader.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Loves Sacrifices,

"HOw do I know that you really love meT' she asked. What assurance have I that you would be willing to make sacrifices and endure hardships for my sake?'
 He looked at her in reprOach1ul astonishment and exclaimed: "What more can you asK? Haven't I for six months refrained from laying violent hands on your little brother?'' Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
An Irish Bu1f.

The servant girl in writing tt letter unfortunately plotted it. To save the trouble of copying 1t she added a post script: You will find several blots In this letter but that Is not my fault; they were made in the postofice. ."-Boston Traveller
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Knows If All

VisitOr-Come now, Frank, I'm really interested in the electrical business, and I want you to tell me all there is to know about it.
 Proprietor-All right. MT. Granger. send that boy here who began work day before yesterday.-Boston Tran script.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
Need Of Caution.

Mrs. McInty-An' phat did tn doc ther soy wOs tn matter wid VT eye, Patsy?
 Small SOn-He say-ed thur was some foreign substance in it.
 Mrs. McInty with an ''I-told-you-so" air)-Now, maybe yell kape away from thim Oytalians.-New York Weekly,
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No For4hI. Use for 'FD,.

II uont see why so many cranks are trying to invent flying machine. There's no earthly use for them."
 No; that's true; they are meant to navigate the eair."-Cincinnati Commer- cial-Trihune.
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Mean Thing.

"A dinner such as we have had to- day." said the elderly bOarder, makes me feel like a young man."
 Indeed" was all Mrs. HasacrOft deigned to reply.
 Indeed. When I think of that lamb We had for dinner 1 feel that if that was lamb l must still be a boy Washington Star.
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Her CrueI Way.

He (earnestly)-I trust you under stand me, Miss Eleanor; I don't see how can make myself any plainer.
 She (hastily)-Oh. Mir. Bumps, please don't try to.-New York Tribune.
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Vainer,

Mrs. Porkcash (affably, having spent the whole afternoon looking at pie lures, without buying one)-My dear, Mir. Canvas, I wonder, now, if there is anything vainer than you artists about your pictures?
 Poor Artist-Our efforts to sell them. Brooklyn Life.
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Exactly.

''They tell me that you have a new scheme afoot," said an old friend to the theatrical manager.
 'Yes, the company's walking back from Hoboyille now."-DetrOit Free Press.
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Turned Up.

Anything turned up yet?' asked the friend.
 Nothing but the noses of everybody I tackle" said the man who was look ing for place.-EXchange.
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Sublime

Jennie-How did you enjoy yourself crossing the ocean?
 Clara-Immensely. Of course there was nothing to see but sky and water. but the landscape was sublime.-Judge