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The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-11
PLAN TO WORK CONVICTS.
Proposal That They Drain Swamp
Land and Prepare it for Tillage

Indianapolis. Sept. 11-Warden Har-
ley of the Michigan City prison was
here today in consultation with the
governor and proposed a new scheme
He proposes to lease GOO acres of the
swamp lands in the Immediate neigh
borhood of the prison and have the
men drain it at once and prepare it
for raising crop next spring. 1t will
be then planted in corn. potatoes, cab
bage, onions and other vegeta bIes and
the men will have work next season
cultivating the crops.
The warden says that the drainage
of the land will pay for the lease a
number of years and under this ar
rangement the convicts can be employ
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-11
Pucklen's Arnica saIve.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts.
Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe-
yer Sores, letter, Chapped Hand Chill
bIains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions.
and positively cures Piles, or no pay
required. It is guaranteed to give per
feet satisfaction or money refunded
Price % cents per box. For sale by
Swift-Holliday Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-11
Picnic for the ornhans.

The children and other inmates of the
Topeka orphans home enjoyed a delight
full picnic on the reform school grounds
recently. Mr.. Hart took them out in his
moving wagon and brought them in at Z
o'clock in the evening. Many of the
butchers furnished material for a picnic
dinner and supper. The reform school
boys came down where the children were
and camped and drilled, and the band
played. The children were invited up to
see the boys go in to dinner and they
were afterwards shown through the
house and over the grounds by the super
intendent- Mrs ]. P. Howe Mrs. DR.. AL
kire and the matron, Miss Wall went out
with the children. The day will long be
remembered by the little ones for whose
benefit the picnic was given.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-11

There is a time for everything, and
the time to attend to a cold is when it
starts. Don't wait till you have con-
sumption. but prevent it by using One
Minute Cough Cure, the great remedy
for coughs, colds, Group, bronchitis and
all throat and lung troubles. G. w.
Stansfeld 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-11

Vim, vigor and victory-these are the
characteristics of De Wits Little Early
Risers, the famous little pills for con-
stipation, biliousness and all stomach
and liver troubles. G. w. StanSfield,
632 Kansas avenue.
The Press., 1897-04-29

The United States collector for the first district makes the following returns for the month of March, 1867: Coventry, Bolton, Andover, Hebron, Columbia, Mansfield, Wilmington, $3, ,255. 19; Yer non. Ellington, Somers, Stafford. Holland, Union, $13,534.34; Hartford county, $94 ,4S5. .9s; Total, $116,275.51. Wheat sold in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday at three dollars and fifty cents per bushel, the highest price ever obtained in that city. At the same time corn was held at one dollar and six cents per bushel and oats at sixty-four cents.
The Press., 1897-04-29
April 26, 1867.

B. F. Taylor has been enlarging his picture and music rooms in this village.
 A smart thunder-shower came of last Monday afternoon. The effect was a marked depression of the mercury, and on Wednesday several heavy snow squalls gave gentle reminder that it was not yet summer.
 Lord & Brockbank, of this village, have just built a Daguerreau car for J. Aylesworth, who moved it to Wales, Mass, last Monday, to commence opera. tions there. It is an unusually we'll built and we'll furnished saloon.
 High School. The spring term of the High school will commence at the Town House on Monday, April 29in. 1t is intended that this term shall be as profit. able as any that has yet been held. For particulars inquire of c. V. Maxham.
 Last Wednesday afternoon the mail train south frightened horse belonging to Capt. Solva Converse, which was hitched in front of the Union House causing him to run, knocking down and running over a lady as he started, who however was not seriously hurt. Nc further damage was done, and the horse was soon caught.
 The body of young Edwin Wadsworth who was drowned near Mansfield in the freshet of February last, was found or Sunday, 18th, near where he went into the stream. His clothing ::caught upon 6 stub and held him fast.
 The Connecticut farmers are turning their attention this spring to the cultiva tion of sorghum in place of tobacco, as the latter is very slow of sale.
The Press., 1897-04-29

kAOWns1-a---e
 Below the old school house was the long elevated ''troth," which conveyed the water to the big "overshot" wheel at the other end. The trough, a rough board affair, leaked, of course, and that wonderous artist, Jack Frost, wrought marvels of beauty with his wealth of ma- terial. Twenty feet in the air lowered his stalactites and stalagmites, and when the eastern sun burst through them the sight was glorious and to be remembere The huge, un-houscd wheel, too, in the bitter New England winters encased and encoated in its icy wrap, was seldom in- duced to warm to its work till half the forenoon was gone. It was in plain sight of the school, and the pupils had for it an almost human sympathy. They could not seem to warm to their own work without the regular beat of its buckets sounding in their ears, and many a jacket well warmed with birch was the result. The stream which fed the aforementioned trough emerged from a long arched cul- vert, covered and turfed over, but a few rods from the school house. It was a piece of particular daredevil bravery for the boys to traverse it's 40 or 50 rods of darkness that could be felt," braving the jagged stones, the water snakes and bats, to climb to the air again through the wheel-pit at the upper end of the tun- nel, with the big breast-wheef, in it's rev. olutions, just grazing their bodies, and then to come shrieking and whooping like savages, and as naked as the day they were born, through the long grass to theil starting point.
 The old ladies, who lived in the little white house, half hidden by lilacs in Ii. lac time, must have long ago joined the great majority, for they were old womer 35 years ago. I wonder if their success for the possession of the fowers-but forget that the school is a thing of tht dead, if not of the forgotten, past. /
 Many battle royal have seen on tha floor between pupils, who were mel grown, hard and tough from constant out o1-door exercise, fresh perhaps from thi farm and in good fettle from skating ant wrestling and ball playing, and teachers little more than boys. Gripped togethe like cats, all ''rules of the game" wer, ignored, and they punched and gouget and kicked and tore like rough and tum ble' bar-room fighters. But never sav a teacher whipped. Muscle, grit, tn knowledge that position and authority de pended on the outcome, knowledge tha law was on his side-which gives strengtl to one side and unconsciously weaken 1 the other--oue or afl- Of them, always gav the teacher the victory. =, :.
 But there were pleasanter sides to tn, life. The only teacher whom I ever sav actually pray with us was in that 1ita, red school house. After the fashion O
The Press., 1897-04-29

Johnny, is your father firm man?
 Yes, nom when he knows he's wrong.
The Press., 1897-04-29
w. C. T. U.
Conservatism.

''1 say to thee, do thou repeat
 To the first man thou mayest meet
 On lane, highway, or open street,
 That he and we and all things move : Under canopy of Love
 As broad as the blue heavens above"
 The conservative is always more scared than hurt. He is like the shying horse ; once let him know the actual situation and his hallucination will pass away. For instance, my great-grandfather was for forty years pastor of one parish in New
The Press., 1897-04-29
UNTOLD MISERY
 FROM RHEUMATISM c. H. King, Water Valley, Miss, cured by Ayers SarsapariIIa

"For five years, suffered untold misery from muscular rheumatism. I tried every known remedy, consulted the best physi- clans, visited Hot Springs, Ark, three times, spending $1ooO there, besides doctors bills; but could obtain only temporary relief. My flesh was wasted away so that weighed only ninety-three pounds; my left arm and leg were drawn out of shape. the muscles
The Press., 1897-04-29
Dorchester Beacon.l LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE.

ED AUTHORITY-BOYs WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY-A VILLAGE REBELLION
The Press., 1897-04-29
ITEMS FROM THE STAFFORD
 NEWS LETTER.

1t is our intention to print under this head from week to week, items of interest from the old Stafford News Letter.
The Press., 1897-04-29
HOW IS THIS?

Just received, a lot of Haxall Flour, which I will sell for Five Dollars a Barrel.
 Also Molasses at 25c, 35c and 45c. 2illsbury Flour, $5.45 St. Louis '' Diadem, 5.25 Coffee, 20c., 25c., 30c., 35c., 40c. a lb.
 Tea, black, 30c., 4Oc., 50c., 6Oc. |"
 |" green, 30c., 40c., 50c., 60c. -' Grandma's Pancake Flour (3p'k'gs), 25c, Pork, per lb., 6c. Tomato Catsup, pint bottles, 18c. Pickles, per gal, 23c. Can Tomatoes, 3 for 25c |" Corn, 8" 25c. Cookies, your choice per lb., 9c. Quaker Oats, lbs. for 25c.
 GEO. BAILEY.
The Press., 1897-04-29
The man who paints property to
catch a purchaser may use any mixture, but .forhispernanenthome
 he wants permanent
 paint, that's HarrisonS'

Ca hiagna
 aersin Harrison ntL i E O. sUEEM1sHIMII2, staffoEa s1E1zass
The Press., 1897-04-29

For every variety and phase of the mary diseases which attack the afr-pass- ages of the throat and lungs, Ayers Cherry Pectoral will be found a specific. Its anodyne and expectorant qualities are promptly realized, and it is always ready for use.
The Press., 1897-04-29

DR. KINa's NEW DISCOVERY FOR CoN- sUMPT1oN.-This is the best medicine in the world for all forms of Coughs and tie is guaranteed. It will cure and not disappoint It has no equal for Whoop- ing Cough, Asthma, Hay Fever, Pneumo- mia, Bronchitis, La Grippe, Cold in the Head, and for consumption. It is safe for all ages, pleasant to take, and above all, a sure cure. It is always we'll to take Dr. Kings New Life Pills in connection with Dr. Kings New Discovery, as they regulate and tone the stomach and bow els. We guarantee perfect satisfaction or return money. Trial bottles free at E.. K. Taft's drug store. Regular size 50 cents and $1.
The Press., 1897-04-29

"I define a fanatic as the first man who sees question. When more see it, he is called an enthusiast; when everybody sees it, he is hero. "-LGdy Henry SOna- e1.Set
The Press., 1897-04-29

The new waiting room in the New York Central depot will be the largest in the world
The Press., 1897-04-29

It was certainly little, it was as certain ly red. It did not stand desolate and
 lone on some back country road, but stood and stands-just outside a thriv- ing country village, where a steep hill pauses midway in its long ascent to take breath. It was low, one-story brick af- fair, and though primitive in many re- spects, had desks with iron frames and
 chairs. But the chairs and the desks
 were as ruthlessly scarified by the boys of the time, who, after the fashion of boys of all time, respect nothing above or be- meath the earth, as were the plank bench es of the school houses of older time, many of which still remained. I saw the old building the other day. Its arched poIch is filled in, although the old out lines remain. It is partitioned of and used for a dwelling. 1 did not see its indwellers, for to me it was alive with young f. flows and young maidens of another generation. Gray-haired grand mothers and grandfathers are some of them. The heat and burden of the day made many faint and die early in the race; others as stalwart men or mature women were stricken down, and greater than all is the list of those who have died out of the "short and simple annals'' of the village, and whose whereabouts, whether above or below the sod. is un-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-04-09
PREMATURE HuRlALs.
a Common Occurrence In Paris
Cemeterics.

Cemeteries.
Any Impression that stories about the
frequency of premature burals are due
to Imagination would be speedily dis
PEELED by conversation with those
stoncmasons and florists located out
side the gates of almost every great
metropolitan cemetery, as well as with
the gardeners ana gravediggers of the
latter.
These men, especially those employed
at the huge Partisan metropolis of Pere
La Chase, have vast experience in the
matter. Not only are they present at
the exhumations continually being
made, either by private parties or by the
authorities, but they also take part in or
witness the digging up of what is
known here as the "fosse commune"
that is to say, that part of Gods Acre
where oil the papuers are inferred.
Every five years the "fosse commune"
is dug up, the bones being either stored
away in the crypt of some church or
else sold for " < the refining of sugar,
and the "fosse commune" is then in
condition to receive for another period
of five years fresh army of pauper
dead.
As rule, these florists, stonecutters
and gravediggers are exceedingly reti-
cent. But there are times when they be-
come exceedingly communicative, and
then they relate wierd tales of collins
which, on being opened, bear inside the
traces of bleeding finger marks and of
the scratches of desperate finger nails,
of bodies that are distorted, instead of
reposing on their backs, as when laid
in their collins, and of faces distorted
by agony-the agony of a person who
awakes from lethargy Of conscious
ness only to find himself ipclosed with
In the narrow walls of coffin beneath
the ground.
The men do not like to talk about it,
for it is grucsome subject. Besides,
could any such stories be traced to them
by their employers, they would at once
be discharged. They have, therefore,
no reason to appeal to their imagina-
tions, no cause to exaggerate, but rather
the reverse, and the consequence is that
the tales they tell may be regarded as
below rather than above the truth.
Cases of premature burial are much
more likely to happen in France, and,
indeed, everywhere on the continent of
Europe than in the United States, owing
to the very stringent laws that prevail
in the old world as to the speedy inter-
ment OF the dead. Still, at the same
time, these stories may serve to show
that instances of premature burial are
by no means so rare as doctors and I'M
dertakers would have the public believe.
| M Y. World.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-04-09
A WOMAN'S LAUGHTER.
u Is More Like n ChiId's Than n
MINIS.


Women do not, as a rule, laugh at
Jokes. They generally laugh to reward
the teller of good thing, and not for
mirth at the thing told. In this way
woman fulfllls most definite duty, for
she laughs even when the story does not
come off well. Her laugh would not be
so temperate or SO punctual if it de-
pended upon sense Of humor. 1t is
somewhat between child's laughter
and mans, but most like n child's.
AT almost every stage of his early years
a child laughs for mere movement, and
not for comedy or derislon at all. A
little humor there may be in the earlier
sense OF the word. He laughs at the
humors and antics of a rather elder or
rather more enterprising child; but al
ways from gayety and for interior rea-
sons of Astounding breath and blood.
Granted that woman has n small
sense of humor, she still owes her laugh
to the humorists-even to the unsuc-
cessful. 1t is positive debt. If she
were held to the duty OF criticism il
would be otherwise; but, as it is, she is
committed TO nothing. Her laugh is
no evidence in the connection of humor
and wit, and it is but just that in this,
too, public opinion should relieve her OF
responsibility. For nothing but an ex-
pccted silence or half-hearted smile
should be held really answerable. II
she were to enter upon the way of crit.
cism she would be more or less unready,
1t might be necessary to explain things
TO her, which confessedly would be very
dull.
Besides, the laugh of judgment and
criticism is apt to be, on fit occasion,
also laugh too much from the heart;
1t takes deeper tones, and is no longer
the treble note, undrowned. No; men
who invent the jokes may laugh at them
the open laugh of appreciation; women,
II they would be kind, must be more i'm
partial.
A feminine laugh, too, has to be dec
orative, and so should be the laugh OF
gayety rather than OF humor. There
Cdn uuIuiy NC pucotioh 40 W ohc
sweetest laugh to be heard among ma
tions of women--it is surely the French
woman's. She has the softest MARBLE
of all. If doves were not SO serious,
they might remind us Of Parisinn wom-
EN- laughing together. The Italian
laugh is happy enough, but IL is not
quite so Independent of the subject of
laughter; it has jollity all its own. 1t
is somewhat uncivilized, but needs no
civilizing. But its principal character.
istic Is the contralto tone proper to the
woman who is to the last somewhat Of
peasant. The laughter of English
women is too various for any brief de-
scription. For English women laugh,
not according to their race, but accord
ing to their caste, as caste has lately
been revised and redistributed. 1t may
be said that in caste also the treble
note, the ready, the immediate, fits UP
to its own place-the top-and is audi
BILE there, for all its splendid quality
N. Y. Advertiser.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-04-09
GREAT MONEY SPENDERS.
Americans Are ProdigaI I'm the Use
of Wealth.

americans are IFOOlSul III inc Cbc
of Wealth.
New Workers are won't TO allcge that
nowhere else in America is the art Of
money spending so perfect. Without
question there is no other spot which
offers such variety of choices for put
ting forth money. All possible tastes
can be gratified here with no trouble
Of search at ALL Aims the most refined
and modest, the most artistic, the most
literary and scientific, the most altru-
istic and benefcent-all find in New
York the best opportunity on the henri
sphere. But it takes the strongest in
dividuality to follow them. There is no
other place where the finer aims are
SO easily undermined. There is con-
slant and bewildering assault upon
them. Are they worth while? This is
the city of fun and splendor. Only the
stout heart refuses to be beguiled by
the type set by the lavish money spend
crs. Boston and New England are diff
ferent. A wider variety of money
spending types are in easy evidence.
Glitter dominates less in proportion to
other things. Money saving and thrift
are pretty important here. Education
is always worth family self-denial.
Families which in New York would
spend their moderate income on high
rents and carriage hire, in New Eng
land will prefer to spend it on modest
trips abroad or in owning suburban
home. In short, it takes less grit to fol-
low out ones individuality in Boston
than in New York, simply because a
wider assortment of money-spending
types are set by the well to do. Phila-
delphia differs also in it's way. Glitter
counts little there. At night many
wealthy ladies in fullest evening toilet
still go in the street cars; opera nights
make Broad street like foyer as the
richest gowns discard carriages and
coupes and scampef the cars. The
thrifty Quakers like o follow a type
Of saving cash into capital. Both Chi
cago and San Francisco are akin to
New York in prodigality of money
spending. The same absorption in the
idea of getting the largest amount OF
display and momcntary pleasure pre-
walls in both. Riches are esteemed for
their power to produce splendor and TO
crafty the less cultivated whims. Ths
great majority Of the wealthy set thc
popular ideas by the spectacular ways
in which they shovel out their for.
tunes. In both these cities we see New
York's way carried further, though not
refined by New York's imitativeness Of
the old world.--Illustrate American
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1897-04-09
PIANO DECORATION.
Nowadays No Instrument In Placed
Against the WaII

Nowadays No Instrument In Placed
Against the WaII.
The piano is now usually considered
one of the most effective and artistic
pieces of furniture in the drawing
room; let us hope the times have gone
forever when it was placed firmly
against wall with the inevitable shade
of wax flowers in the center, fanked
by solid looking books on either side.
IL may be placed across corner or be
standing out into the room according
to the taste and pleasure of its owner.
If placed cornerwise it will require no
drapery ut the back, and landscape
painted on the wall, but it must be re-
membered that piano, cutting off one
of the corners in this way, will detract
from the apparent size of the room.
The plan most in vogue at the present
day is to place it out in the room with
clear space right around it, and then
the question arises how to make the
decidedly ugly back of the piano show
to advantage under its changed condi-
tons. This may be brought about in
various ways. A piece of canvas may
be fastened on to the back and land
scape painted on it, or n study Of flow
ers. This must be prettily draped with
silk, edged with handsome fringe, the
elk being arranged in graceful curves
at the top OF the piano and down the
side, where it may be caught in with
silk cord and tassel; the color of the
silk will naturally be decided by the
prevailing tones of the room. Some
people, however, do not care for paint
ings on piano backs, but prefer to have
them entirely covered with drapery.
This may be managed by mailing a
light strip of wood to each end and
In the center Of the woodwork at the
top of the piano; this holds the weight
of the drapery, which is fastened to it
with tiny tin tacks. Oriental stuffs
and embroideries look very handsome
utilized in this manner; and stili more
beautiful effect may be obtained by
sewing numberless tiny seqnins on the
material, causing IL to glitter and
sparkle in the fire or lamp light. Plush
and velvet are also often used as drape-
ries, and make most beautiful ones;
soft silk is equally satisfactory. Small
knick-knacks and ornaments should
not find resting place on the top OF
the piano, neither should books be
placed on it, or anything that will jingle
when the instrument is in use. small
silver lamp looks well in the center
and throws down good light on the
music, and photograph or view may
be placed on each side. A pretty cover
should be made for the top to save il
from unnecessary scratching. The
keys must always be kept white snc
polished and never allowed to become
yellow.-Chicago Tribune.