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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-24
OUT OF SIGHT.
Bill Barnac1e and His Grievance Against
the Blood Sweating Behemoths.

Bill Barnacle and His Grievance Ag8anst
the Blood Sweating BehemotIas.
''Whereaway is the officer of the deck,
shipmate?' inquired Bill Barnacle, able
seaman, delivering a nautical salute and
1urching gracefully against the park po.
Hceman whom he accosted neGz 0he arsenal
"The WHAT"
"Rear admiral, commodore, skipper,
secretary of the navy or wotever you might
hail him." said Bill. "You rate one here,
aUow?''
"Oh, you mean the superintendent
is it all proper and regular for me to
see him?"s Bill queried, blinking suspi-
ciously at the policeman.
"Certainly-that is If you're able to see
anything" the officer added as the able
seaman rolled away under minute instruo-
tions.
The mariner found the superintendent
alone with his pipe and thoughts, and at
once turned loose this broadside:
81 see they're still at the bottom Fun
nels gone and turtlebacks awash. Blow
me down, If they're ever afloat when I
cruise up this way
Somewhat alarmed, the superintendent
reached for the button, but as Bill seemed
harmless, he paused and asked:
"What are you talking about anyhow
s'These here blood sweating behemoths
of Holy Writ Wort 1 wants to know is,
do they hold commissions in the United
States navy? Blow me, if they amt al
ways sunk at the dock complete when I'm
here special to view them beasts. I don It
pay no taxes, but the passage from South
street costs money. Wot's out of gear2
Plates stove in or sea valves busted?' And
Bill leered confidentially at the superin-
tendent.
cit must be something of that sort, -
the official admitted good naturally.
"And from wot have seen" Bill went
on, "their armor is warped terrible too.
Likewise the joints don't fit nowhere
Looks like the plates might have been
forged at Homestead and bolted on in
Brooklyn. Blow me, if these here behe-
moths seem proper shipshape."
They're not" the superintendent said
gravely. "These are pair of submarine
torpedo behemoths built expressly for ou1
hippopotami tank, but we expect some line
of battle behenoths next week.
Mr.. Barnacle appeared much relieved and
started to- leave when another great
thought swaInped him:
ssIt's the duty of lubbers and Hkewise
mariners to improve this here park, and
suggests we overhaul the sacred stork IN
the swan cage
"Hows' asked the superintendent. deep
1y interested.
ST moves we toggle his legs with The
lead line marks and deeps, SO that Wher
he wades in the pond spectators and wo'
not can read him and proper log the
soundings. Being a blooming stork anc
fitten for nothing else wy not make hiGs
earn his victuals? If it's agreeable, III
fetch some gear and turn to on the bird
the next time makes this harbor.''
"Au right said the superintendent as
Bill put about and headed for the open
park. "Don't forget us. ''-ChRrles Dry
den In New York Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-24
Something Wrong With the Mule.

"Heah, Leandah, 20 niger, is 20 dun
TUX dat new mewl to de 1el en- geared him
to de plow en- seed how he Wuks lax tole
yo'?''
''Yessuh."
enlist Robinson dun tole me he gwiner
sent er mighty good mewl down yere fer
yo' ole daddy to pillow e crap wifi, an I
wanter know is e dun it. Hav he paved
down de stable do yit, Leandah?"
"Nossuh.' -
"Ner chawed up de trof?"
"Nossuh.''
''Ner kicked OF de ruffS''
'Nossuh.''
'Ner run froo de barb wiah fence2"
'Nossuh.'
"Didn' buck an fro yo' ag'in er tree?'
''Nossuh."
ttDidn' snort at er ole stump ner tex er
noshin to turn of in de middle OBJ de row
en- cum 'ome?'
''Nossuh.''
"Den, Leandah, dat mew1 am SLOWLY
cungered, er else e dun los all e speerit.
Des put de haltah rite on dat mew1, Lean
dab, en- TUX i'm squar back to Mist Robin
son en- tell i'm yo' ole daddy don't pose
to be suited wild no humbug mewl lax
dat. Atlanta Constitution.
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Reflections of q Bachelor.

A girl always remembers a thing by
what dress she wore when it happened.
Some women seem to think man ought
to pur when he's comfortable like cat.
It's always the things we're not to blame
for doing that we're sorriest about after
ward.
A man who sits down with his knees
tight together looks about as bad as q
woman who doesn't.
A woman is just as sure to hit her finger
when she drives nail as a man is to step
on the soap when he gets out of the bath
tub.
The main reason why women don't like
old bachelors is because 6hey always laugh
when they tell them they ought not to be.
New York Press.
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HaTper's Magazine
In 1907.

Fiction: THE MARIAN, the new
novel by Du Maurier, the eagerly ex-
pected successor to "Trilby, begun In
October Number, 1896, with illustrations
from the authors drawings. new
novel by Frank R. Stockton-develop-
ing a Twentieth Century Renaissance
full of humorous situations and char
acteristically illustrated A PAIR OF
PATIENT LOVERS, by William Dean
Howeils. Other striking novelettes by
American authors. Short stories by
Mark Twain, Thomas Nelson Page,
Richard Harding Davis, Owen Wistef,
John Kendrick Bangs, Ruth McEnery
Stuart, octave Thanet, Mary E. Will
kins, and other popular writers.
Science: Story of the Progress of Sci
ence during the Nineteenth Century, a
series of papers by DR.. Henry Smith
Williams, supplemented by contribu-
lions on special subject by expert sci
entists. Articles on the relations OF
curious psychological manifestations to
physiology by DR.. Andrew Wilson
American Features: THE MEXICO
OF TODAY, a series by Charles F.
Lummis, splendidly illustrated-the re-
suit of a recent visit to Mexico under
taken for Harper's Magazine. Mexico
is -eminently silver-producfng
country, and its monetary operations
rest entirely on silver basis Owing
to the keen discussion of certain econ
omic problems in connection with is
sues of urgent Importance in American
politics. these papers, Will command
general attention. AMERICAN HIS
TORICAL PAPERS by Woodrow Will
son. John Bach MacMasters. and James
Barnes. The true story of SHERIDAN'S
RIDE. by Gen. G. A. Forsyth. Contin-
uation of HoWelrs PERSONAL REM
INISCENCES of eminent literary
Americans.
Africa and the East: WHITE MANS
AFRICA, a fully illustrated series of
papers by Poultney Bigelow, the result
of personal observations during a re-
cent trip to Africa, covering the whole
field of European exploitation of that
country Illustrated articles by Steph-
en- Bonsal on the transformations go
ing on in EASTERN SIBERIA, recent
ly visited by the author. HUNGARIAN
SKETCHES. written and drawn by F.
Hopkinson Smith. The full story of the
recent Coronation of the Gar, by Rich
ard Harding Davis. illustrated by R.
| Cation Woodville, who was commission
ed by Queen Victoria to paint picture
! of the ceremony.
| Newspapers are not to copy this adver-
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of Harper & Brothers.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-24

"wsre you afraid I would say nof'' ask
ed she who had just said yes.
NO." said he who had been made hap
py 81 was afraid I'd make a fool of my
self-that you'd say no and then tell Sue
Jones all about it, thus spelling my
chances with her. Pearson Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-24
Ancient Geometrx.

ooh, by the way" observed Archimedes,
"did you ever try to square the circle?''
"No," answered Socrates 'It was more
than could do to square myself"
e. n as he spoke the shade of Xantippe
= I'D be heard demanding why he hadn't
brought up the coal-Detroit Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-24

"Mamma," said Tommy, what did the
doctor want to look at my tongue for?
Was he trying to find out whether I was
lying when 1 told him 1 hadn't EFT any
mince picef'-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-24
FLORISTS.

d J. GROVES. Florist, greenhouses.
LII. 1173-77 Clay St, phone 235; Gut
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Missouri Pacific.

Leave IOpeka. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SsUO a. m
TOPEKA & FIT. SCOTT ACCOM- No. 2S6.
Arrive Topeka.. .................... $50 p. ~.
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ANTS, RENTS, SIT
UATIONS, REAL
ESTATE, AUG
. VI TION SALES AND
OTHER CLASSIFIED AID
VERTISEMENTS
SITUATIONS wANTE0-FREE-
VERTISEMENTS

Are you in need of work? If So you
at liberty to use these columns lor
assistance in that direction w ME inns
notice appears the State Journal VIII pup
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day, for Topeka or Kansas people. all
notices of situations Wanted, not to
exceed five lines. thirty five words. IN
length. provided that all advertisements
of that nature are handed in previous to
20 O'Clock Saturday morning; also on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, all
advertising of this class handed in by 10
o'clock Wednesday morning.
No advertisements of this nature to be
started except on Saturdays and We'd
nesdays- No obligation is incurred on the
part of the advertiser. No worthy and
needy man or woman need hesitate to
take advantage of this offer. No one In
business or having employment is ex-
pected to take advantage of It, but all
others are invited to avail themselves
freely.
The Topeka State journal guarantees
every day it is printed, to give a local
circulation by far more than all otner
Dailies combined. This makes this paper
the cheapest, as well as the best daily
medium in Topeka, the CLASSIFIED aoVer-
tisements below costing but
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M ANTED-To borrow 500 for one year
on stock Of a first-class local corpor-
atom; VIII pay good interest; 10 times Sc
cured; appoint interview. AID. Mack
Journal.
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w ANTED-Salesmen for the New
Room 9. 'AS'A
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MALE HELP WANTED.

Q ALESMEN-S14O0 A YEAR to right
- party. selling IS Quaker Bath Cabinets
Permanent, easy job; no capital every
body buys Turkish and Vapor Baths at
home, producing cleanliness, Health
Strength and Beauty. Write quick, L.
World Mfg. Co. OBJ Columbus. Ohio.
w ANTED-A young man to convass
" this city with a line of samples for a
large eastern merchant tailoring concern.
Ad. A, Journal.
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statesmen WANTED.

- --~>~-~--~~---~~~O~-~~~~~-~-
SALESM acquainted in Topelxa
- to sell chewing gum on orn11is-Slny1 n 70 q
dealers Griffith Co., 40 to 46 River st.
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w ANTED-To rent a or s-room
house with bath. furnace and mod
ern conveniences. Small family: no chill
dren. References furnished. AID Smith.
Box K. Topeka
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

w ANTED-1oOO purchasers wall pa
per from factory to user; lowest
prices; all grades; drop card; will call
with samples and make estimate. Jno. D.
Brown, 301 E. sth
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TRAVELLING statesmen for cigars. old
4 reliable house; experience unnecessary:
extra inducements to customers. SIS to
$3.50 per month and expenses. Chas q
Bishop & Co., St. Louis.
g 80 Weekly salary and expenses paid
= statesmen for cigars. Experience IN
necessary Permanent position. The w
l. Kline Co, St. Louis. Mo.
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M z want the people to know that we
handle only the best secondhand
furniture and stoves. Anything bought
OF US is strictly represented. If you
nave any good furniture for sale let US
figure on it. 800 Kan. Ave
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MISCELLAN EOUS.

IF you wish to rent house in the best
part of Oakland, call F. A. Brig
ham, 600 Kan. Ave.
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NJ ONEY TO LOAN-Savings and Loan
4A Association, Sixth and Kansas Ave
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HARPER'S MAGAZINE

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United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Address HARPER s. BROTHERS,
p. o. Box $50 N. Y. City.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26

II o'clock. Mrs. Fenska's clock showed
II 80 and he said her clock was fast. The
man was undoubtedly figuring at what
time Fenska and the other men were like
ly to come to the house for dinner.
And you want me to go, do you! re-
marked the man. The next moment he
struck her terrible blow in the face with
his fist, knocking her against the wall.
He then hit her again and knocked her
to the floor, where she remained in half
conscious condition. The brute began
kicking her as she lay on the floor, and
bruised her frightfully around the body.
The woman stroye to keep her senses SO
that her children would not be alarmed. In
minute or SO she recovered sufficiently
to beg for glass of water.
Reats Her with Revolvers.
This request was received with appar
ent great enjoyment by the cowardly
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
Notes of Current Events.

Gov. Atkinson of West Virginia is very
domestic in his tastes, and when through
with the cares of office amuses himself
playing the violin.
The tenth annual meeting of the Ameri-
oon Association of Obstetricians and Gym
biologists began at Niagara Falls Tues
day. About 200 physicians were in at
tendance.
Somebody has discovered that the word
..Klondyke'' means plenty of fish, Next
spring the discovery probably will be
made. also, that the particular fish re-
ferred to are suckers.
No one should start for the Klondyke
,,ald fields without $1,000 in his pocket.
With the odds so heavy against him the
average man with $1,000 in his posses
SON will stay at home and stake it or
some more promising proposition. Ottum-
wa Courier.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26

But his craftsmanship was bad and he
failed to wound any of his pursuers. He
fed from corn field to corn field, took his
stand behind trees and rail fences, was
hunted like a wild beast, and fought with
all the desperate courage Of a man vino
knows that his life is at stake and that
there is only one chance in a thousand to
escape. The stranger took this chance
He fought like rat in Il trap and died
like one.
Mannheim is thirteen miles from the
Chicago Union depot on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul road. 1t is part OF
the incorporated village OF Franklin Park.
There is a large settlement of small Ger
man farmers about Mannheim.
Three Years in America.
Karl -Fenska is the renter of an eighty
acre farm from Gerhard Esch. Fenska
came to America three years ago from
Germany. secured the lease of this farm
and placed his family in the squalid farm
house, which is the only improvement on
the place. The nearest neighboring farm
house is a quarter Of a mile away, aud
Fenska's place is isolated from TIE iii''ln
road by a short pike.
Thursday morning Karl Fenska, along
with other farmers in the settlement,
went to Johann Hanson's place to help
him thrash his wheat. The field IN Whicn
the thrashers were at work was 3OO yards
from Fenska's dwelling.
At II o'clock, while Mrs. Fenska was
at home looking after the children,
stranger appeared at the door. bis nrst
utterance showed that he was German
as he spoke Platt-Deutsch. Mrs. tenska
did not like the looks or the ways or tine
man. The stranger asked her II there
was any chance for work on that farm.
The woman was spinning at wheel
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26

brute, who had almost kicked her to
death.
water do you want?" said the fellow.
'1'll beat you, but I won't give you
water"
With this he seized the woman by the
hair and threw her on the broken-down
sofa which rested against the wall. He
drew the revolvers from his pocket, seized
them by the barrels, and began to ham
mer Mrs. Fenska over the head. He
struck her with all his power repeatedly
Blood poured down her face and splashed
against the walls.
The man seemed to be seized with de-
moniac rage, for he again grabbed the
woman by the hair and began dragging
her across the floor. Then he dropped her
on the floor and began to search the little
house for money.
There was none in the place, however,
and the fellow seemed to reconsider some
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
sExTET PASSENGER CYCLE.

Will Accomm date Four People Be-
sides the Drivers.
In Chicago the other evening a gay
party of young people toured the parks
with the newest Invention in bicycles
sextet passenger carrier which ac-
commodities four people besides the
drivers The latter sit ON ordinary sad
dies and propel the machine, while the
passengers occupy three handsomely
upholstered seats in the box there be-
ing room for two in front and the 9th
er two arranged a la tandem. 1t is a
beautiful machine, built with view to
perfect grace and strength. The frame
s of regular bicycle tubing, only heav-
ier and has carrying capacity Of
i 200 at a speed of fourteen miles an
hour on an asphalt pavement. This
has been carefully tested by six of the
heaviest men In the factory where the
bicycle was made. 1t is a four-wheel-
ed machine, with heavy spokes and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ENRAGED FARMERS KILL a MAN
NEAR CHICAGO.
Human Brute Attacks Mrs. Fenska.
Is Driven to Cornfie1d, Holds Pur.
suers at Bay for Two Hours, and Ia
Finally Overpowered.
Details of the TRAGEDY.

SWlIt vengeance was melted out Thurs
day afternoon to a man who made q MUIR
derous assault upon Mrs. Paulina Fenska,
wife Of Karl Fenska, a poor German
farmer living in Leyden township, one
mmlle from the village of Franklin Park,
Cook County, Ill.
A party Of infatuated fars .rs, armed
with rifles, revolvers, pitchforks and 9TH
er implements, started in pursuit of the
man, who had fled from the lonely farm
house into the nearby corn field The
man, who was stranger in the locality
and whose identity is still unknown, made
vicious fight for his life. He was armed
with two huge revolvers and he fought
his pursuers until his body was riddled
with shot and he fell helpless to the
ground.
when this moment came the farmers
acted like madmen. They jumped upon
the half unconscious wretch and almost
tore his body to pieces They kicked him,
stamped upon him, beat him over the
head with rakes, hoes and rifle barrels,
and pinned him to the earth with the
sharp prongs of the pitchforks. When
they were through the man was little
more than q mass of battered flesh and
blood. His body contained a score of
bullets and his head was beaten almost
into jelly.
The battle between the fugitive and the
men who hunted him lasted over two
hours. The stranger repeatedly loaded
his revolvers with cartridges which he
carried i'll his pockets. He held the farm
ers at bay again and again, notwithstand-
ing his legs had been riddled with bullets.
He attempted many times to kill the fore
most of his assailants. He would take
deliberate ann and fire four or five shots
at the nearest man to him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-26
WRITES JUVENILE FICTION.
Western Author Whose Stories Are
Popular with Young People,

1ODulaT WITH 1OunS GeOpkes
Writing juvenile stories so as to in
terest and hold an army of boys and
girls numbering not less than 100000
week after week and year after year,
is a task involving not only skill and
Judgment, but positive genius. There
has come about a vast change in juven-
lie literature during the past decade.
Both the wishy-washy and the highly
spiced sensational have been relegated
to the background, and freshness, orig
inality, and, above all, vim, must PEI
meate a story nowadays, in order to
attain popularity among up-to-date
youthful readers.
Eastern publishers say that it is the
Western reading field that pays best
just now. A Western man holds the
palm for juvenile fiction. Weldon }.
Cobb has not been known in this line
under his own name until quite recent
ly, as the same was controlled by a
large Eastern publishing house for ex-
elusive use in the mature field, until
some three years since. AS DIR. VIII
lard Mckenzie, Ralph Hamilton, and
Paul Ingelow, however, Mr. Cobb has
since 1885 been very prominently be-
fore the reading public. To his Ready
Boys was given the best reception at
tending any story Of it's class, While
'The Tattooed Boy" which won the
Munro prize after the casting of 212.ooo
votes, was the work Of the same au-
thor He is a busy writer, one New
York publisher putting out nine books
from his pen in a single year.
Mr.. Cobb proceeds on the basis that
the average boy of to-day is ten times
better informed and more critical than
the youth Of the last generation. One
of the best signs of the time is the get
ting away from the trashy and improb-
able, and in this work Mr.. Cobb has
been a crusader In complete harmony
with his readers, he gets very close to
their predictions and preferences-in
such near touch, indeed, that among
the seven hundred odd juvenile attn
letic and social boys and girls clubs OF
the country his name is a household
word.
Some of this authors best works are
''The Oldest Man in the World, 'Tile
White Dwarf Elephant" '"The Gilded
Boy" and his first great story, "Honor