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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
now LUCINDA DIAGNOSES
Mr.. 8. L Seabrook Throws More
Light on This Curious Woman.

Mr. s. L Sea brook who is well post
ed on Mrs. Lucinda Thompson's meth
DDS, says:
You ask me what I think of Mrs.
Thompson and her wonderful curative
pOwers2 I do not think they are 50
wonderful as they are unusual Her
method and work have come under my
notice more or less. and I have careful
ly watched her. She does not pretend
nor does she possess any supernatural
power of divinatiOu- She does possess
a strong intuitive sense of hygiene If
her talents in this direction were pos
sessed by an educated white man, he
would become famous doctor. She will
look at persons and after handling
them. can diagnose q case as well as
a physician. but cannot equal him in
technisrn- I call this faculty intuition
for want Of better term She has told
what the trouble was. and after learn
ing the cause by inquiry, and by rea-
souing from effect, arrived a a ccncIu-
sion in the same way that a physician
would Given her cause and effect she
proceeds to treat it in the same way
with her home made medicines and by
what may be called massage Here
comes in her unusual power Many
other persons are gifted with like DOW
ers. perhaps not to 50 great an extent
She is a storage battery Of animal meg
netiSm, and coupled with . touch that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
COAL CLOSED CARS
Is to be Struggled Into Eastern Ter
Pitory From Kansas and Missouri

Kansas City, Mo, July 23.-In the Han
nfbaI railroad yards. three long strings of
nat ears, loaded to the brim with soft
coal, stand on tracks beside empty box
cars Forty or fifty negroes are at work
shoveIing the coal into the long lines Of
box cars. 1t is believed the coal thus
transferred is for secret shipment in the
closed cars to railways in the fuel famine
regions of the east
What does all this work mean?' asked
a man of one of the Iaborers.
1T Means replied the man graveIy.
the breaking up of the strike in the
east"
rs this coal going there?''
You bet it is came the answer quick
Iy. '-Of course it is not billed there from
here"
This coal is sent down to CarrolIton,"
continued the man, for instance, and
then rebiued to some point little further
east The reason this is done is to grad
uaHy make it lose its IDENTITY
The Burlington bought SEQ cars of coal
last week. The coal that is transferred
in the compauy's yards is shoveIed from
Missouri Pacific and Memphis fat cars TO
Burlington and Missouri River and Chi
cage, Burlington and Quincy box cars.
Part of it comes from the Rich Hill No.
mines.
Officials of the Hannibal freight depart
ment profess ignorance Of the real reason
for transferring the coal
Il can't tell you anything about that"
were the short answers Of three officers,
who were asked One of them finally said
it was put in the compauy's cars TO avoid
paying mileage on Others He said the
Hannibal always used box cars for carry
frg coal, having none of the open variety.
1t was not expected that the Burlington
would move a lump of the 500 cars of
coal. recently purchased On its rails until
the strike was ended 1t seems now that
the fuel was bought for eastern roads and
that it is proposed TO smuggle it through
the strike boundaries in closed cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
WE MAY ESCAPE.
Portugal is Disposed to Let Us OF
Easy for Insulting Her Flag.

Washington, July 29-The insult offered
to the flag Of Portugal by Z party OF stu
dents in Southern California on the
Fourth of July is not expected to lead to
any complications ViscOunt De Santo-
Thryso, the Portuguese minister TO the
United States. called at the state depart
nent and had a short talk about the mat
ter with the officials He previously Rad
brought the incident to the attention q
the department. which in turn has caused
an inquiry to be made. of the state author
tiles.
The report Of the governor of California.
however, has not yet been received as the
minister was informed He expressed
great satisfaction at the tone the
American newspapers adopted in referring
to the affair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
CHAINLESs WHEELS.
VIII Probably be the Prevailing Style
Next Year.

New York. July 23.-Three prominent
bicycle manufacturers have left for
Europe on the steamship Feurst Bis
marck and it is said that their mission
abroad has to do with the style of next
years wheel, which it is alleged, will
revOlutionize the present make.
The men are Col. A A Pope, NJ. L
Bridgemau and A G. Spalding. They
were accompanied by w A Redding, a
patent attorney. 1t is said that when
the men return they will bring back a
patent for a chainIess wheel which will
be the characteristic feature of the
make of 1898. There are several new
designs and one in particular, which
has given rise to the old time mile
minute" speculation is causing a SEN
satiOn in London
1t is wnoWn as the Barker gearing
and is of the compound crank and
sun and planet style Of gear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
Reasons Why Cham berlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Rene
DIV is the Best

L Beca use it affords almost instant
relief in case of pain IN the stomach,
collie and cholera mOFbus-
2 Because it is the only remedy that
never fails in the most severe cases OF
dysentery and diarrhOea-
8 Because II Is the only remedy that
viii cure chronic diarrhoea.
T. Because it is the only remedy that
will prevent bilious collie
s. Because Il is the only remedy tina {
will cure epidemicaI dyseatery.
6. Because it is the only remedy that
can always be depen6ed upon in cases
of cholera infantum.
Z Reca use il is the most prompt and
most reIia bic medicine in use for bowel
complains
g. Because it produces no bad results
g. Because it is pleasant and safe to
take.
10 Because it has saved the lives OF
more people than any other medicine in
the world
The % and soc sizes for sale by all
druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23

The march is considered by Topeka mu>
sieians who have heard it, as one Of the
best Of the season The officials of the
road are aiding Mr. Steinberger in get
ting up an attractive title page A large
half tone of one of the new pattern en-
gines now being manufactured here viii
be used The work Will not only be ad-
ui-ed a musical composition but Will
be work of art and viii be a beautiful
souvenir to send to their friends. The
march will be played for the first time al
Garfield park Sunday by AIarshaITs band.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
A FEW MONEY SAYING BARGAINS j:

Silk Soap, IL bars 25
so Kinks White Russian Soap, 10 bars
California Granulated Sugar. 81 90.
Lion Coffee, packages 81 cents.
10 cases Arbuckle's Coffee, packages 81 cents.
Kennedy's Soda Crackers by the 34
Kennedy's Baked Ginger Snaps, cents Id.
We selling VOLTS and ArmOur's Pure
pound All other places sell the lard pounds
Z MS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
OREGON A Broader.
Whsat Crop Of the Coast State VIII
be 100000 Bushels

Portland. Ore. July 2s.-Advices from
every wheat growing county in Oregon
show that the wheat crop will be the
largest in the history of the state. East
ern Oregon. it is estimated. will produce
approximately 1850, 600 bushels. while the
western Oregon crop VIII amount to about
S.550.0o0. making a total Of 1S00o.000 bush
els for the state Harvesting has com
nenced in almost every section Of the
state and wheat appears TO be of excellent
quality.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23

1000 lbs Salt Pork 41ac a 10.
500 lbs Brea kfast Bacon &c a 10
500 ms Sugar Cured California Hams
&c z 70.
We sell VOLTS best small sugar
cured Hams at 10 cents pound.
Ask for our prices on all brands OF
flour. Compare them with what
your grocer charges you-
Ankoria Coffee PUT up in lib pack
ages, Silver Plated Spoon in each
package, packages 25c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
ADDICKS BUYS KLONDYKE.
Pays 100000 for Twenty Miles o
Diggiugs

Wilmington. Della, July al. Ed
ward Addicks has organized a syudf-
ca te of persons in Chicago. New York,
Philadelphia, Boston and Buffalo to de-
velOp the new Alaska gold fields.
Mr. Addicks company recently bought
for $500, 900 20 miles of placer diggings
on the banks of the River QuesnsIIe. in
British Columbia, and they will explore
all of the river sheds between Cariboo
and KIOndyke-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23

If your child has thin. pale cheeks
il has worms. and curing it with strong
medicines only makes conditions worse,
by irritating its delicate stomach
whites Cream Vermifuge is mild but
certain in effect. and Is a superior tonic
as well as a positive worm destroyer
Geo w StansfeId. So Kansas avenue
and MiIIer's Pharmacy, corner Sixth
and Topeka avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
Koch's Bubonic Plague Report

Berlin July 23.-Prof- Koch. the well
known bacteriOIOgiSt, has made q report
giving the result Of his invest igat tons
into the bubonic pla que, which for many
months past has been working such
ravages in India He says that the ba-
ciIIus possesses but little vitality out
side of the bodies of men and animals,
and adds that Prof HaFkane's serum
possesses undoubted protective quail
ties. Prof koch'S report is founded up
on the results of experiments made on
/ 400 subjects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
TRIES SUICIDE,CALLS HELP
Farmer, After Hanging Himself, Ye1Is
and IS Cut Down.

Portsmouth, o.. July 23-Lawrence
Luther. Madison township farmer, at
tempted suicide by hanging. The moose
was properly adjusted, and while not
choking him, it severely cut his neck
He called for help and was cut down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
Don't Tobacco Spit and smoke Your Life Away.

To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
retic fun OF life. nerve and yigor, take No-To-
BAG. the worder-woriser. that makes weak men
strong All druggists, soc or 81. Cure guarau-
seed- Booklet and sample free Address
Sterling Remedy Ca, Chicago or New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
CHEAP TRIP EAST
Via ia-Pennsylvania Short
Lines

Low rate tickets to Philadelphia will
be sold via -Pennsy Ivania
Short Lines from St Louis August End
Srd and 4th Get details of J. T. Foley
Trav. Passenger Agt- Kansas City,
Mo. or w F. Drummer, A c. P. Agr-,
st. Louis Mo.
Summer Footwear, low prices, Fur
mans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23

You may hunt the world over and
you will not find another medicine equal
to Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel complaints
1t is pleasant, safe and reliable For
sale by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
Prosperity

cheapest
only and few dollars the next but In
a
might begin Groceries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23

Good Gunpowder Tea, per 10 Is
Good Young Hyson Tea, per d. rs
Good Uncolored Japan Tea, per 70 -25
Good OoIong Tea, per fo....-. rs
2-rb roll Amour's Butterine . rs
l quart bottle Laundry BlUing---- 10
lbs Laundry Starch -.-... rs
20 lbs Sal Soda Observation-Disclosures. rs
bottles of Ammonia -----.------- rs
- bars Monday Morning SOAP. -25
II bars Calumet Soap ....-- -25
Il bars Nugget Soap .-... -25
i bars Cocoa Oil Soap .-... Is
l dozen Pint Mason Jars .....-. 40
l dozen Quart Mason Jars. so
dozen II gallon Mason Jars so
quart Tin Cans, per dozen .---... 80
1 dozen Jelly Glasses ..... -25
LID pals White Fish ....-. As
10-rb pals MackereI ....... .65
cans Oil SaFdines --.----. IS
Mustard Sardines, per can --... .O5
cans POtted Ham ...--. .25
cans Ported Tongue. IS
l bottle Midget Sweet Pickles. 10
l bottle small Sour Pickles .-. 10
4 cans Oysters NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -25
s cans WarTeu'S Al Salmon ...... SO
can Corned Beef ...... 10
l can Clipped Beef ...... Is
can Roast Beef ..-.-........ 10
cans POtted Turkey. .25
3 cans Potted Chicken ....- -25
3 cans Alaska Salmon ..-.. %
I can Brook Trout ..... 10
can Clans 10
l can HOLSTERS. Observation-Disclosures. 20
1 can Lunch Tongue .-...... 20
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
CANNED GOODS

Kennedy's best Oyster Crackers,
per 10 by box NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -02
! ms KennetIv's Cream Crackers p
13 ms hand picked Navy Beans -z5
Z MS New Lima Beans -----------.- p
1 10 TaDioca -05
? Ukgs Yeast Foam -.-..-..--... 10
I'm rau RsIzer,s Rrea kfast Cocoa 20
25-oz. can K c. Baking Powder. Is
1-rb can Pure Food Baking Powder 20
Royal or Prices Baking Powder,
per 10 ~
Lemon and Vanilla Extract, per
DOLL5 10
I pkg Rolled Oats ..... -G5
Cream Cheese. per 70 - 10
Z ms Crushed lava Coffee p
; ms the very best Green Coffee 81. 90
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23

Being highly concentrated, only small
doses of Ayers SarsapariIIa are needed
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Swallowing Dirt.

The humorist, Bob Burdette, gives this
recipe for swallowing dirt
my homeless friend with the chromatic
nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a
ten-cent glass of gin, let me give you fact to
wash down with it. You may say you have
longed for years for the free, independent life
of a farmer, but you have never been able to
get money enough to buy farm. But there is
where you are mistaken. For some years you
have been drinking a good improved farm at the
rate of one hundred square feet at gulp. If
you doubt this statement figure it out for your
self. An of land contains 43, $50 feet; esti-
mating, for convenience, the land at $4356
acre, you will see that it brings the land to just
one mill per square foot. Now pour down the
fiery dose and imagine you swallowing
strawberry patch. Call in five of your friends
and have them help you gulp down that 5OO-foot
garden. Get on a prolonged spree some day and
see how long it will take to swallow pasture
land to feed a COW. Put down that glass of gin
there is dirt in t-three hundred feet of good.
rich dirt, worth $43 Sc per acre. 1.-The Fountain
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Prohibition Born In & Saloon.

The incident which led to the creation of
the famous Maine law is as follows:
"There certain Portland citizen who
occupied a government position and who was
addicted to periodical intemperance. One even
ing his wife came to the young Neal Dow, who
was then power in temperance circles,
and told him that her husband was at certain
saloon, and that if he was absent from his duty
on the morrow he would surely lose his position.
Would Mr.. Dow 60 after him and try to induce
the rumseller not to sell him any more liquor?
Mr.. Dow found him in the saloon and said to
the proprietor: 4 wish you would sell no more
liquor to Mr.. B.
"'Why, Mr.. Dow, said he, I must supply my
customers. "
"'But, was the reply, this gentleman has
large family to support If he goes to his office
drunk tomorrow he will lose his place. I wish
you would sell him no MORE The rum seller
became angry at this and said that he, too, had
family to support, that he had license to sell
liquor, and he proposed to do it, and that when
he wanted advice he would ask for it, so you
have license to sell liquor? said Mr.. Dow, and
you support your family by impoverisking others.
With Gods help I'll change all this. He went
home fully determined to devote his life to sup
pressing the liquor traffic. The Maine Law he
says, Originated in that rumshop.''
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Let's Down the Saloon.

Nearly all the crime committed in this
country is in some way connected with whiskey
and the saloon. Not only do we have the crime
itself, but we have the ruined characters of the
criminals, the suffering of their innocent par
ents, wives and children, the cost of the courts
and the prosecuting officers of the jails and
deputy sheriffs and all other costs connected
with the searching for and Furnishing those who
commit crimes. And then we must remember
that for pay-for the license fees-we are
authorizing a lot of saloon keepers to breed all
this crime and misery. By thus licensing them
we throw the protection of the law over them
and in fact, 60 in partnership with them and
share their iIl-gotten gain. How long are we
going to be willing to be partners in this
wretched, low-down business? We ought to be
ashamed of Observation-Disclosures Independent.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
On the Witness Stand.
A, P. Staff ord, Plainview, Mimi:

A, P. Staff ,rd Painview, MIMI:
We have three saloons which take not less
than $4,000 out of our township each year.
This, with the low price of grain makes times
hard here.
F. T. Reynolds, editor Of the North Georgia Citizen:
In the line of temperance work this (White-
deld) county sixteen Yeas ago voted for prohi
bition, and in these sixteen years only thirteen
mortgages on homesteads have been fled
Dunn Commercial Agency did not believe the
report and made three different examinations
of the records by three different agents to be
sure of the accuracy of the report and pro-
nounced it the best county on the southern list.
S.ayton (Minn.) Gazette:
Prohibition in Sayton has been a success
the past year, greater success than the most
ardent anti-saloonst in the place had hoped for.
number of those that we're strongly in favor
of license last spring have seen the good results
of no license, and have changed their views on
the question:
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
CONDEMNED TO DIE.
But Execution Postponed by Vote of the People.
BY JOHN G. WOOLLEY

The saloon is so vile and murderous and
dcvilish that the highest legal status it aspires
to is that of a criminal condemned to die, but
reprieved from year to year by corrupting the
judge-"a according to the statute in such case
made and provided, and within the peace and
dignity of the people,"
Both State and Federal Courts take judicial
notice that it is nuisance and peril to good
morals and good homes.
In some forty states the law compels instruc-
ton of the pupils in the public schools that
alcohol is poison.
Business mems clubs, labor unions and
benevolent societies spurn the saloon keeper as
a leper, scaly and ucerous whose very money,
signature and atmosphere carry infection.
The church breaches, without ceasing and
without reserve, that the saloon ought to die
the death of pirate and murderer taken
red-handed But the law gives it license.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
j a 9 K 30 N =
He Ought to Know.

Here is a little temperance sermon from one
of the biggest producers of whiskey in Kentucky:
"After having lived eighty-one years [ have
learned that one drink of whiskey is enough. I
have also learned that drinking whiskey IS
business by ITSELF It is, moreover, a jealous
business that doesn't want you to do anything
else. You must attend strictly to that when
you are at it, and let all other business 60.
And, sir it is business that doesn't pay. On
the contrary it is losing business all the time,
ir.'-Boston Herald.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Father Abraham.

President Lincoln impressively said
"Whether or not the world would be vastly
benefited by total and final Punishment from
it of all Intoxicating drinks, seems to to be
not open question: Three fourths of
mankind confess the affirmative with their
tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge
it in their hearts. Victory will be CON-
plete when there shall be neither slave nor
drunkard on the earth.'
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Spicy !Squibs.
BY TALLIE MORGAN.

TALLIE MORGAN.
To license the saloon is to rob and murder
by law.
License is a sin against God and crime
against man.
The saloon is the recruiting station for the
vote buyer.
A man who prays, "Thy will be done,''
ought not to vote for license.
License gives the saloon keeper mortgage
over every cradle in the land.
L big part of the license fees has to be paid
by poor women at the wash tub.
To talk about respectable saloon is sheer
nonsense You might as we'll talk of an honest
thief or an innocent criminal.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
A Mixed Quartetfe.

The city of Toronto, Canada, can boast of a
four-c ornered combination that is the equal of
any four corners on the GLOBE On one corner is
situated church, on another the Governor
Generals mansion, another university and
on the other saloon; representing education
legislation, salvation and damnation. II any
other city can trot out combination to beat
this, we should like to hear from it.-Gatling
Gun.
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Is This the Way to Get On?

Rev. DR.. James Boyd Brady, in the pulpit of
the Peoples Temple, Boston, thus referred to
the effects of the license SYSTEM 'Here in Bos-
ton we have eight or nine million dollars wasted
annually on drunkenness and it's concomitants.
The city gets some 100000 back by way of
licenses. So, then, to speak moderately, we
spend seven millions on Strengthening the people
to get less than one million as compensation for
the nefarious butchery.''
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
1897
ShingIing the Rum Sellers Roof.

One night poor wretch in a wayside saloon,
Who fingered half drunken about,
Heard the voice of the sellers wife, as she said,
"Go, put yonder drunken fool out"
The rum seller laughed as he shrewdly replied,
In tones that would brook no reproof,
'Let him stay if he will; he's doing no harm
The fellow is shingling our roof
The months passed away, but he came not again,
The rum seller noted with pain,
And seeking HIM out with hospitable air,
He begged his "old friend to explain.
'You want me to visit again your saloon,
And ask why Finger aloof?
With thanks for your kindness, allow me to say,
Because am shingling my roof"
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Eminent Catholic Opinion.

Father Mathew wrote shortly before his
death, "The principle of Prohibition seems to
me to be the only safe and certain remedy for
the evils of incompetence and this opinion has
been confirmed by the hard labor of more than
twenty years in the temperance cause
Archbishop Ireland said in a recent Speech
eve have seen there is no hope of improving in
any shape form the liquor ira fife. There is
nothing now to be done but to wipe it out COM
petely.'
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Out of Proportion.
A colored lecturer recently said:

A colored lecturer recently said:
'When I see a man going home with gal
on of whiskey and half pound of meat, dat's
temperance lecture enough for me, ..and sees it
every day. I know that everything in his home
is on the same scale-gallon of misery to half
pound of comfort.'
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01
Vote for Your Boys and Your Neighb0rs' Boys.

Where is the sense in voting for saloons and
then worrying for fear your boy will 60 into the
hell-hole you have prepared for him? If you
want saloons badly enough to vote for them,
aren't they good places fer your boys? And if
they are not good places for your boys, why do
you vote for them?-The Plandealer
Backbone. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. ;) 1897-1906, 1897-03-01

Prohibition is added guarantee that no
man shall be protected by law in the vile work
of making your son drunkard-Motive.