davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
U ANTS, RENTS,SIT
UATIONS, REAL
ESTATE, AUG
q D TION SALES AND
OTHER CLASSIFIED AID
VERTISEMENTS
SITUATIONS wANTED-FREg.

Are you in need of work? If so, you
are at liberty to use these columns ZOE
assistance in that direction While TINS
notice appears the State Journal VIII pub
lish free on Saturday, Monday and Tues
day, for Topeka or Kansas people. all
notices of SITUATIONS Wanted" not to
exceed five lines, or thirty live 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 adVer-
tisements below costing but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
HARPER'S BAZAR.

For one year $500
United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Address, HARPER s. BROTHERS,
r. @. Box $50, N. Y. Gikye
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
FLORISTS.

p J. GROVES, Florist, greenhouses.
L. n73-7 Clay St, phone 235; Cut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
sALEsMEN WANTED.

TRAVELLING statesmen for cigars; old
Il reliable house; experience unnecessary;
extra inducements to customers. SIS to
$3.50 per month and expenses. Chas. c.
Bishop & Co, St. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
NONE

NJ ONEY TO LOAN-Savings and Loan
~ Association, Sixth and Kansas Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
DUSTLESS OIL.
FUEL AND FEED.

T FAVE your orders for COAL, Flour.
- Feed and Seeds with Van Slyck. 5c9
W. 10th.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
COAL.


4 lAPITAL CITY COAL CO, S27 Kan. av.,
- phone Isl. Best grades. lowest prices
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01
BICYCLES

BICYCLES.
TOPEKA CYCLE CO., 112 W. Sth ST.
L Bicycles and sundrieS: bicycles and
tandems for rent; repairing of all kinds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01

L. A. RYDER. M. D.
OFFICE and residence cor. Gordon st.
" and Central Ave, North Topeka.
Phone 214. Uses the Brinkerhoff system
of Rectal treatment, a successful and
painless treatment for piles, fistula, fish
ure, liberation. etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01

Stock in any Topeka Bank IN exchange
for good productive real estate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01

q E. SHELDON, NJ. D,
~ Surgery and diseases Of women, with
private hospital. Office: no. 72O Kan Ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-01

NERS MARY McKINSTRY, magnetic
I'VE healing, massage treatment. Resi-
dence and office 1856 jackson. Phone SIS.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
PASSING UP HIS ADVICE.
Queer Method of n business Man Civ
ing Charity to a Tramp.


Catching at the strangers coat tail
he murmured in depreciating tone:
could you give me little assistance,
sir?" The stranger turned and looked
him over. His eyes we're bloodshot, his
clothes dirty, his whole appearance
decidedly the worse for wear.
"What do you want?" was the reply
to the tramp, reports the Chicago
Chronicle.
"a job, after get square meal,"
said the tramp.
"What can you do?" asked the stran-
ger.
II can keep books, sell goods, drive
delivery wagon, compound prescrip-
tions, set type and do teamwork"
The stranger scrubbed a few words
on a card. handed the tramp dollar
and said: take this card to this ad-
dress and think it will get you work.
Take that dollar, get bath, shave,
hair cut, something to eat and a
drink of whisky. That will brace you
to meet my friend. So long"
There's just one thing MORE" said
the tramp. How do you happen to
give me just dollar and all these di-
rections with it?"
Because / got dollar from man
on this very corner about ten years
ago." said the stranger, "just as you
are getting it from me, and I'm pass
ing up his advice and his money just
for luck"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
NOT WELL POSTED.

Guides who Led the King Of Siam
About London Had Trouble.
The king of Siam has proved himself
to be familiar with English history. He
has not passed a regular examination,
but has shown himself acquainted with
the occupants of the tombs In West
minister Abbey, which Is about the
same, says the New York Journal. The
king was shown about England's Val
halla by Canon Wilberforce. He cold
ly passed by the statues Of Pitt, Living
stone and Herschel in the nave, but
paused before that of Darwin. 'Dar-
win, great man, I know him." he re-
marked. The helmet worn by Henry
v. at Agincourt was shown him. He
looked at 1t carefully and inquired It's
weight. He seemed surprised when
told that 1t weighed mine pounds, twelve
ounces. When shown the flags of the
knights Of the bath, he asked for the
duke of Wellington's. Queen Elizabeth's
tomb impressed him greatly. All of q
sudden he said: "Where is Mary? ?" No
one knew exactly what ne meant. Then
he went on: "Mary-Mary, queen Of
Scots"
"She was beheaded," he added. This
circumstance seemed to impress him,
for in a moment he said: "Where is the
other?" Soon 1t was understood that
decapitation was the connecting link
and that he wished to see the tomb Of
Charles the First. He was disappointed
to learn that Charles was buried at
Windsor. In the Poets Corner Tenny-
son and Scott received most of his at
tention. At st. Pauls he was shown
the memorial of Gen. Gordon. but
shocked his guides by inquiring with
great sincerity: "Who was Gen. Cor
don?" ooh, he was man very well
known in the east" was the only
answer thought necessary. Altogether
Chulalongleorn showed himself to bs
pretty fair historian, but better
posted in ancient than modern events.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
EN-. AZ Sc. Helena.

Mr.. Chamberlain, in his capacity as
British secretary of state for the col
onies, has just caused it to be known
that the English government has re-
solved to release the son and two broth
ers of the famous Zulu king, Cetewayo,
from their captivity at st. Helena, and
to restore them to their own country.
Years ago they were exiied to that dis
NAL island, where Napoleon died pris-
oner, on the mere suspicion of being en-.
gagged in organizing revolt against
British rule in Zululand. They have
always protested their innocence, and
ipasmuch as their guilt has never been
proved and they have never been con.
yicted by any court of law, their liberia.
ton is but tardy act of justice.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
BATTLE ON THE WATER.
Savage Skating BeetletVanquishes
a Large Spider.
Water Gnats Float Idiy'on the Sur
face, with No Apparent Object
But When Prey Comes Along
They Fight Well.

A summer idler was standing upon q
little rustic bridge which spans one
of the observant Jerseyman's ponds
the other day watching the cratic
movements of a colony of skating
beetles upon the surface of the quiet
water beneath him. There were none
of the common elliptical whirling
beetles, but only the kind known as
water gnats, whose long, slender bodies
are supported by equally long and
slender legs, whose tips make saucer
shaped hollows where they press down
the surface of the water, and cast Curl
GUS shadows on the bottom of the
pond.
As they lay at rest, says the New
York Sun, each bugs weight was dis
tributed upon his six legs. Two OF
these reached well out aft of his body,
the two middle ones, which were the
longest of all, lay straight out on each
side, and his front legs were gathered
nearly together with their tips rest
ing on either side of his long head.
When he wanted to move he kept his
front and back legs stationary and
swept along the middle ones to the rear,
exactly as rover does pair of oars,
and with similar result. Presently
the idler, in moving, threw bit of
bark from the cedar handrail of the
bridge into the water. The instant 1t
struck the water the listless gnats
were converted into animated watchers.
Half a dozen of them darted forward
to the piece of bark and touched it as
if expecting that it had life in it. All
the others stood ready to spring for
ward in turn.
81 believe those bugs are savage and
would attack any live thing that fell
into the water" said the idler in sur
prise.
Indeed, they would" said the OBJ
servant Jerseyman. "Au the water
beetles are predacious in all of their
forms, and those slender gnats are
among the most ferocious of them all.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03

tents of the piano. It braced itself
against the stool, and, rising on its hind
legs, ran its paws on the keys. Occa-
sionally the claws would catch, and
Bruin, angry as such impertinence,
would bang down upon the worries as
If he were trying to annihilate them.
The brute was enjoying himself inn
mensely, wagging his head from side
to side, when Mr.. Sawyer and some of
the guests entered the room to ascer-
tain the cause of the pianos discordant
iumbling of notes. The female MEM
bers of the party each uttered
screech of terror and fed to rooms in
the other part Of the house. They bar
ricaded the doors with furniture and
awaited developments in fear and trem-
bling.
The entrance of the party distracted
the attention of Bruin. Through the
open dining-room door came the odor
Of a sayory dinner. 1t struck the hun
cry animals nostrils with magnetic
force, and dropping on all tours the
brown body made rush for the din
ing-room. Its progress was not him
dered by the gentlemen of the party.
A sight Of those glistening teeth, red
tongue and cavernous jaws dispelled
their courage. The bear wrought havoc
in the dining-room. 1t ate everything
there was in sight. stuck its nose in
the mustard pot, tipped over the gravy
dish and smashed crockery.
Its hunger was appeased, however,
and when the attacking party, who had
obtained weapons in the shape of pitch
forks. shovels, clubs, ETC.. came into
the room determined to kill or be killed,
Bruin was very much astonished. What
had he done that they should GOMEZ
after him with all these clubs? HeI
didn't make a move, and prepared toI
enjoy a good after-dinner slumber
Then, for. the first time, one of theI
party noticed that a red, white andI
blue ribbon was tied about its neck, andI
IL dawned upon them that the bear wasI
an escaped pet. They took courage in
one hand. grasped pitchforks FIRMLY
in the other, and got rope tied around
the interloper's neck. There was moth
ing but meek submission on the bear's|
Part. and II walked to the barn as IL i'll
desired to do nothing else.
Mr.. Sawyer kept the bear two days.
Then he was obliged to release the
captive on account of threatened fam
inc. The prisoner in the barn ate as
much in one meal as the hotel guests
consumed in a week, and Mr.. Sawyer
was obliged to free HIM or go into
bankruptcy.
A man who was walking along the
road recently met the bear. The pc
destrian did not stop for close view
of the brute. but took to his heels, an
action which Bruin viewed with APP
proval. The traveller reported his adj
venture at The Willows, and the plano
player was recognized.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
FRANK LIKES POULTRY.
Gastronomio Freaks OF q Kansas
City Cart Horse.
Ho Devours Beef, Chickens and Pup
pies, and Dotes on Bologna ssu-
sage--An Account of HIS
Star Performances.

This Is the story told by the Kansas
City Journal of horse owned in that
city that has developed fondness for
fresh meat, and has allowed that taste
to get away so far with his judgment
that recently he ate number of chick
ems he found in a coop and topped of
his feast with litter of bull pups for
a single meal.
The horse is large roam, seven years
old, owned by Lee Bowers, produce COM
mission man at AIS Walnut street. The
horse is driven over the city hitched TO
one of Mr.. Bowers wagons each day.
So far as his willingness to work is con-
cerned, he Is model, but when his
tastes are concerned he is monster.
The animal was bought four years ago
from Capt. Tough at the stock yards
barns. He was one of shipment from
Brown county, Kan. He weighs.about
1,5O0 pounds and is handsome, sleek
fellow, strong of limb and brighteyed.
He has been driven since coming into
Mr.. Bowers possession by Martin Ack-
erman, who says that he can pullimore
and longer and behave better than any
other horse in the city. There is one
other strange thing about the animal.
He will not allow man to strike him.
No matter what he does or who at
tempts it, the man who hits him has to
fly for his life. A few days since Acker-
man struck the horse with stick in
putting him in the barn. The blow was
a tap, not intended for punishment, but
it made the big fellow mad. He turned
and came tearing at the man. who bare
ly had time to get out of his way. For
five minutes the animal kept charging
about the barn half crazed with de-
sire to get at the man who hit him.
Finally he was quieted and went to his
stall alone.
The strange habits of the horse were
discovered first by his driver. One
morning the wagon was driven down to
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
OLD TIMES IN HAWAII.
Reverence for Royalty Was Once q
Marked Characteristic.


One of the most marked characters
tics of the ancient Hawaiian religion
was the extreme reverence for royalty
indicated, says the Philadelphia Press.
1t was a crime punishable with death
to pass through the kings shadow or
sit higher than his head. His person
was sacred and protected by strict sys-
tenn of taboo" In the royal palace
the taboo" stick, with which the
king announced his communications,
is exhibited. 1t is a wand with carved
stone cap. If this stick was lowered on
the approach of courier he was COM
PEELED to withdraw Immediately and
was considered in deep disgrace.
The kings will was absolute; but the
majority of the Hawaiian monarchs
seem to have been of kindly DISPOSE
ton and to have made no improper use
of their extreme power. 1t was due to
one of them that the taboo system was
abolished. This bore with grievous
weight upon the women. They were
forbidden the use of some of the most
common articles of diet, such as bananas
and certain kinds of fish, on pain OF
death,
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
Inured to Cold.

When asked if he was not afraid of
temperature of ten degrees below zero
the late Tolman Wiley, of Boston, said:
''Where ] was born, sir, my father one
Sunday took me into a meeting house
which sat on four stone posts with no
other underpinning. sat in the church
and listened to a sermon on hell for GO
minutes, with the wind bowling under
meath the church and blowing 40 miles
a minute, with no fire in the stove and
the mercury 40 degrees below zero. Dc
you think was born In sugar box and
nursed on heliotropes2"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03

the dock at Armour's packing house to
unload some poultry. A butchers wag-
on was standing by. Frank-that Is
the name of the horse-caught an at.
tractive odor on the breeze and hunted
about in the cart. He found nice
steak, which he devoure0 with few
gulps, and then pulled out a long string
of bologna sausages and ate it with
every show of satisfaction. The fact
that it was well seasoned with able
bodied garlic did not operateto prevent
the thorough mastication of it.
The performance of the horse served
to quite disgust the driver, and the act
was told to Mr.. Bowers when the horse
was driven back to the house. While
they were discussing the odd occur
renee they saw the horse bite off the
head of chicken that wasin q coop on
the walk. Since that time he has not
been driven near butchers carts OF
coops of fowls.
Each day since, however, themen have
fed the horse half dozen heads OF
chickens laughtered at the commits.
sion house, and he eats them with every
evidence of great delight andwill fairly
prance when the time comes for hi.
feast. AS the horse is driven about ovel
the city it is no uncommon sight whea
the driver steps into a saloon to quah
some of the malt extract that drives our
the heat to see him come out with q
few pieces of bologna sausage, which
he will give the horse So far as can bt
learned, Frank is the only horse In the
city that Is regular patron of the fires
lunch.
The star performance given by the
horse was last May, when he ate W
several chickens and three bull pups
that were sleeping in the stall next Il
his. To get at them he was Obliged tc
break his halter and break down 9
barricade, but he did it all and would
have finished the whole family of pup
pies had he not been discovered and the
others rescued. The pups were. the
propertyofo one of Mr.. Bowers employees
George Her, who has never been ;abls
to forgive the animal, as the pups wer,
of fine fighting family and worth .
lot of money. The horse was just clos
ing his feast with the third puy
when he was found. Since that tim,
he has been fed with chicken heads ana
other pieces of fresh meat to keep hi
carnivorous tastes quiet.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL.
A smokeIess Fuel That Seems to BE
Gaining In Popularity.

Gaining In Popularity.
In the future we may be exporting
masut instead of exporting coal, says
the Chicago Inter Ocean. Masut is
by-product in the distillation of raw
petroleum. 1t is also manufactured
from cheap brown coal found in Sax
ony. There has been, until recently,
great trouble in finding a furnace suit
able for burning it. 1t is now blown
by steam into a special furnace, on the
principle of the Lucigen light, and used
without difficulty. 1t is 40 or so per
cent. cheaper than coal, and is 20 per
cent. better as heat raiser. Steam can
be got up quicker and kept at a higher
pressure, and more work can be done
by the machinery. From a naval point
of view these are vitality important
facts. No Sign of ship under full
steam will be shown in the sky, for ma
suit is a smokeless fuel. Russia and
Italy are using it in their navies, and
Germany has lately made some valuable
experiments. AT Kiel, Wilhelmshaven
and Danzig are tanks from which it
can be pumped into ships. Its specific
gravity being so much less than that
of coal, ships buoyancy is greatly in
creased when the bunkers are filled
with it. Heavier armor or cargoes can
be carried. The heating capacity be-
ing greater, the ship can travel faster or
farther. 1t is yet to be learned what
improvements the Germans have intro
duced into their furnaces, and what
are the disadvantages of masut.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
CAT AND RHlNoceRos cHUMs.
Superintendent Smiths snyder Be-
comes Smiles Devoted Friend.

superintendent Smiths snyder BE-
comes Smiles Devoted Friend.
Superintendent John B. Smith, OF the
Central park menagerie at New York
the other day found in the rhinoceros
cage his large black cat Snyder, which
had been missing for week. While
going through the elephant house In
which Smiles, the old rhinoceros, Is
kept, Superintendent Smith saw the
missing cat curled up in the hay beside
the big beast, and the rhinoceros was
licking the cats fur with its tongue.
Superintendent Smith watched the pair
for time and tried to coax the cat
out, but 1t would not leave Smiles. A
keeper informed him that the two had
struck up strong friendship In the
past week, and when the rhinoceros was
asleep the cat would frequently perch
itself on Smiles back and keep watch.
ain its native state" explained Super
intendent Smith, "a bird known to hum
tiers as the rhinoceros bird keeps watch
over the rhinoceros when sleeping, and
pecks at it's ears to arouse it at the APP
proach Of danger. Nature, perhaps, is
working on the same lines in bringing
Smiles and Snyder together; but it's a
queer friendship, and ! shall not dis
turb It,"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
SOOTHING SILENCE.
II IL Here shown That Absolute Quiet
brings Healing Rest.

A doctor, writing on the subject of
the suppression of useless noises In
cities, which he claims will hasten to.
ward convalescence many a patient
whose nerves are now too racked by
perpetual racket to give the system a
chance of recuperating, says he remem-
bers one delightful ward In his training
school, wherein the SISTER" used to in
sist on silent hour" from 2: to $3.50
daily. 1t was the only ward in the hos
pital which enforced this golden rule,
alike beneficial to the nurses fortunate
enough to be drafted there and the
patients therein, who fourished and
blossomed forth into amazing con-
valescence under the silence system and
the good nursing which accompanied
ii. For the SISTER" was q born nurse,
and she had the real sympathy and
womanliness which caused her to APP
preciate the balm and healing of that
one quiet hour in the day, says the
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
1t was male surgical ward, and the
patients, on first admission, used to
chafe somewhat at sisters" dictum-
against which there was no appeal
of mo conversation or newspaper read
ing during the hour" But gradually
each patient came to appreciate the
soothing lull in the busy hum of the
ward, and SISTER" and her staff used to
watch with satisfaction how patient
after patient fell gradually under the
soporific quiet of the time, and went
off into comfortable sleep. which fire.
quently lasted long after the prescribed
limit. The good humor of the ward
was most exceptional.
The senior surgeon of the hospital
was never tired of saying: 1.-THE pa
tients here, sister, get on as If by magic.
What spells of witchcraft do you weave
to heal them so quickly?"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-03
Smallest EIectrIcaI battery.

: The smallest electrical battery ever
constructed was the work of an cleo
trician in the employ of the Boston
Telephone company. 1t consisted OF
an ordinary "glass head" through
which two wires, one of copper and the
other of iron, were looped and twisted
so as to prevent their coming in con-
tact. The wires acted as the cleo
trodes, and all that was necessary to
cause current was to place a drop
of calculated water in the head. Ger
tainly such a minute battery furnished
but an infnitesimal current, but II
could be easily used in a delicate tele'
phone; in fact, 1t is said to haveactual,
ly served in signaling a distance OF near
ly 200 miles.