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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
MISSIONARY FROM CHINA

The New York Journal says:
The unhappy effects of long life in
a barbarous country, remote from the
refining influences of Christian sur
roundings and deprived of daily inter
course with intelligent and civilized
men, were never more strikingly illus
trated than in the remarkable case of
Rev. w. Fl. Cossum reported in yester-
days Evening Journal. Mr.. Cossum is
a missionary to China, presumably of
the Baptist faith, for he sat yesterday
in the meeting of the American Baptist
missions at Pittsburg, and threw that
company into a turmoil by remarking
of recent donor of $3.50 geo:
when John D. Rockefeller or any
other man offers money we should first
demand of him that he lead a holy life
before we accept his contributions. We
should be sure that the money coming
from milliOnaires comes from men who
lead cOnsecrated lives. The church in
money from home. The church can live
on native soil in China because the life
of the spirit is there
Another gentleman, the Rev. J. s.
Kennard of Chicago, was engaged in
simplifying Mr.. Cossum's reference to
holy lives" when a more prudent mem
Der interposed with motion to ad-
journ, and the $250,00O benefaction was
saved.
Mr.. Cossum is, we believe, described
as a missionary to China from the
United States, but the opportunity
seems ripe for him to remain here as
4 missionary from China. Time was
never SO fit as now for preaching the
positive blasphemy of greedily accept
ing tainted money for the service of
God. The corporation of which Mr..
Rockefeller is head has employed ar
son, theft, bribery and attempted muir
der in winning it's predominant posi-
ton as the richest, most powerful and
most INSCRIPTIONS combination of capt.
talists in the world. It's methods have
engaged the attention of congress, the
legislatures, the courts, the sheriffs and
the militia-the latter for its protection
against the wrath of a despOiled peo-
pie. It's path is Strewn with the wrecks
of homes of little fortunes, of modest
industries. 1t is a blight upon the ma
ton, a menace to life and morals.
"Pious at one end and explosive at the
other" as it's most merciless investi-
gator has described it, the Standard Oil
company through its chief official, is
well versed in the art of buying abso-
luton with the wages of sin.
Mr.. COssum would do his calling
honor if he would stay in the United
States and press the issue he has raised
But he would be safer among the bar
barians in China whom his mission it is
+O CNbriEti9niZA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
CALLS WOMEN sAvAeEs.
A HindOO Cynfc Says the Fair Sex
Abuses Its Power.

A TIindoO Cynfc Says the Fair Sex
Abuses Its Power.
Many women, and especially the
mothers of the far west, are guessing as
to whether they shall accept BraIna-
charian Bodhabhieshu, a white-robed
and turbaned Hindoo visitor to the re-
cent woman's congress in San Francis
co, as a popular or unpopular repre-
sentative. Although one OF the most
enlightened and intellectually superior
citizens of the orient who has ever Wis
tied this country, his alleged remarks
on the character of western women
have raised an unlimited amount of dis
cussion and society gossip among the
residents of the Pacific coast.
BOdhabhikshu is the supremely dar-
ing man who declared in effect that the
women of the western United States are
savages. This brutal conclusion fol-
lowed on a beautifully worded descrip-
ton of woman as the fine flower of civ
ilization, and it was on account of this
all the more cruel. If there is one thing
On which the western woman prides her
self it is that she is civilized. She
showed at least one quality when she
treated Bodhabhikshu mercifully. She
did not abuse her power in his case.
DOuAd O1IhSHu - d picturesque CHAR
acter, yet a fine type of the oriental
mystic of which we hear much and see
little. If his audience was one of dress
makers and milliners. his costume alone
would make an interesting and enter
tanning study for them for an hour.
While making a speech he is just as
capable of holding an enlightened audi
ence.
ROBBED in white, with white turban,
the darl1-sl1inned HindCo presented a
striking picture when he arose to adj
dress the members at the fourth annual
meeting of the Woman's congress. His
outer garment of pure white silk was
draped so as to set off the long, 1.-THE
lines of his figure to the admiration of
his audience. AS a messenger from the
cradle of eastern civilization, he amazed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
PUBLIC IS BARRED.
MIR. Cages Lake Will Be Open Only
to His Friends this Year.

Mr.. G. G. Gage says that his resort
west of the city known as Cages Pond
will be in excellent condition this sum-
mer but he states positively that it will
not be open to the public. His friends
will be allowed the pleasures of rowing
and swimming there but the public will
be barred.
Last summer the place was very pop
ular among the society people, swim
ming parties being given quite often
during the warm weather. There were
two fine row boats in which those who
did not care to swim, used. This small
lake is one on which Mr.. Gage has
spent considerable money. II is about
three miles west of the city and just
a little south of Sixth street. In a ra-
vine in the rolling prairie the lake has
been built. The sides We're walled up
with stone and a boat house built at the
north cad of it, In the center of it
there is a spring which furnishes a new
er ending supply of clear, fresh water.
In the north end of the lake the water
is about Is feet deep. This gradually
shadows to three feet, making a nat
ural swimming beach.
The lake is plentifuIly stocked with
many varieties Of fish. Mr.. Gage has
and he takes great pride in it. He says
that last year the public used his pond
and destroyed a fine $50 row boat and
broke the stone wall about the bank.
That is why he announces that only his
friends will be allowed the privileges of
the pond this summer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
LOOKS FOR A DISASTER.
Labouchere Comments on the Over
loading of Transatlantic
Steamships.

London, May 29.-Mr. LaIpouchere in
Truth comments upon a letter received
from an American correspondent who
asserts that there is great disparity be-
tween the number of passengers and
the boats on the principal Atlantic lin
ers. The correspondent says that dur
ing a recent trip he found the number
of passengers not only very much in
excess of the capacity certified by the
board of trade, but out of all proportion
to the boat accommodation of the steam
er.
Truth says: Even if there were a
sufficient number of boats the chance of
safely transferring 1000 people in a
sudden emergency is extremely remote
1t looks as though the occurrence Of
some gigantic catastrophe in the pas
sage from Liverpool were only a ques-
ton of time"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
WHAT NExTP

The result Of the conference between
the board of railroad commissioners
and the representatives of the roads
seems to be that the whole matter is
exactly where it was before the confer
ence was held. The commissioners
have formulated their demands regard
ing a reduction of rates and the roads
have declined in advance to comply
The rate situation will probably remain
unchanged.
Governor Leedy may now decide to
call a special session of the legislature,
as the next move, to pass a maximum
rate law. If, however, he has the in
terest Of the taxpayers at heart, he will
at least think twice before putting the
state to the expense which would be
entailed by such action The passage
of such a law would certainly be fol-
lowed by years of litigation.
Nebraska has a case in the supreme
court now in which a decision was ex-
pected at the recent term, but the court
adjourned without handing down an
opinion. That means the decision will
at least be delayed until fall. The
opinion is generally held that the decis-
ion when it does come will be adverse
to the state.
Justice Brewer has just handed down
an opinion that the interstate COM
merce commission has no power to fix
rates If neither the state boards of
railroad commissioners nor the inter
state commerce commission can regu-
late transportation charges and it shall
be decided that the legislature cannot
do so, then there is but one other power
to which the people can look and that
is the congress of the United States.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

his hearers with his fluent use of the
English language and his logical argu-
ments. However, it is to one of his log
zeal conclusions that his hearers take
exception, and, if properly quoted, the
dusky representative will probably
make a proper explanation.
He began his speech by expressing
great satisfaction for the privilege OF
addressing such representative body
of western women. Then he touched
another sympathetic chord in the hearts
of his audience by his pathetic reference
to the mothers of his own land. His
remarks were ended with the following
tribute to the women in general: she
is the heavenly flower stolen from Para
disc to adorn the house; as sister she
is the ministering angel; as wife she
is the crowned queen; as q mother she
is the goddess, noble and exalted, but
when she abuses this great power she
is the most dangerous creature on
EARTH It is to this last remark that
nearly his whole audience took some
what indignant exception.
The Bramacharian's conversation in
private is ingenious, absolutely self
reliant and swift. He has a very lofty
conception of life, which is at entire
variance from the ideas of the western
hemisphere, and with his careful study
and training in science, in philosophy
and our methods, he is capable to meet
an argument on any basis with the re-
suit that he will usually convince his
listeners that he speaks whereof he
knows.-N. Y. Sunday Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
MAKING OVER GOWNS.
Unless the Material Is Very Good 1t
Does Not Pay.

Unless the Material Is Very Good 1t
Does Not Pay.
The average Frenchwoman has long
been held up to Americans as a model
of household economy. These women
seem gifted with the power of utiliz-
ing small things which other women
throw away. Any person who can make
over last years gowns and wraps as
long as any wear is left in them can
save u great deal, but the value of ones
time, if one must take time from re-
munerative work, must be counted
against the saving. 1t does not always
pay to make over half-worn goods. It
is economical always to buy a durable
cloth for a dress, so it can be made
over. Select a goods that can be turned,
also one of pure wool, that can be
cleaned and dyed, when purchasing u
dress 1t is poor economy to buy wool
dresses of very delicate color Mixtures
of silk and wool do not dive or clean
well, because the two materials shrink
unevcnly. If one must select Il gown
of mixed cotton and wool on account
of the small sum of money laid aside
for the purchase, do not buy a plain
color, but a mixture of color A salt
and-pepper" mixture. or one in gray
and white. will wear three or four times
as long as a plain black or gray cloth.
which soon looks ''seedy' if it is not
pure wool. Delicate pale grays usually
fade. Pink is a color that is seldom
color proof" Most light blue woolens
fade. 1t is better economy to select
cheap silk of cream white wool than
a wool dress in a tint of color. White
wooden goods can be repeatedly washed
and made Oyer.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

The following appears in the Chicago
Chronicle: People who have pictures
taken of their babies in a naked con-
dition do not realize the embarrass-
ment-though it is unreasonable and
foolish-they are storing up for these
babies in after life. Governor Leedy is
teasing the life out of a handsome
young woman of Wyandotte county
whose baby picture he possesses. The
picture disclOses her at a year old
clothed in nothing more substantial
than dimples and smiles. and the gov
ernor keeps telling her he is going to
give 1t to her beau.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
WOMEN HONOR SOLDIERS.
In Pulpit They Will Speak for the
North and the South.

Chicago, May 29.-BIiss Ada C. Sweet
and Dr. Julia Holmes Smith will occu-
by the pulpit Of Rev. Celia Parker
WoOlley, pastor of the Liberal Inde-
pendent church in Hampden court, next
Sunday morning. The service is to be
in commenoratiOn of Our Fallen He
roses" Miss Sweet, a northerner by
birth, will speak of THE Victors." DR..
Smith. a daughter of the south, will
discuss THE Vanquished."
Besides martial music appropriate to
the programme, Mrs. Laura Dainty will
recite The Blue and the Gray"
Mrs. Woolley, who is the only woman
pastor in Chicago, believes women
should be heard in the pulpit, and not
infrequently her fair parishioners ap-
pear in a similar symposium.
We do r4ndine and sew on buttons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.
John L Blair Says That Water From
His BOyhood HoEe Saved
His Life.

Blairstown, N. J, May 29-John I
Blair, the multimillionaire railroad
magnate whose serious illness has been
the cause of much alarm to his friends,
is recovering slowly and his complete
restoration to health is assured. He is
at present able to be about the house
for a short period of time.
During his illness Mr.. Blair became
dissatisfied with the drinking water
supplied him, and asked for water from
the spring on the farm where he was
born nearly 95 years ago. The farm is
nine miles away. but the water was
brought to him, and he now declares
that he has discovered the fountain
of youth
The water seemed to do him more
good than the doctors medicines. Mr..
Blair's birthday falls in August, when
he will be 50 years old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Public ownership of waterworls
plants is generally accepted idea now.
but it is only in a few advanced COM
munities that public. ownership of the
Intoxicating liquors plant" has been
undertaken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Abilene Chronicle: The Topeka Jour
nal prints picture of the proposed au-
ditorium to be built in that city. If the
plan adopted is followed it will be a
credit to the city and an inducement to
the holding of great gatherings in that
CITY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Somebody said fifteen years ago that
the tramps would eventually collect in
large bands. Nobody believed it then
Now we are promised an army of 100 900
Of them to start from Chicago in lime
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
TO SPEND Ss, 100000.
Chicago Arranges an Immsnse Outlay
in ImnroVenents

IN Improvements
Chicago. May Expenditures on pub
lie improvements authorized in Chicago
for this year
Public works department 81, 500. 900
Sixteenth street track elevation. $500, 900
Rockwell street track elevation. 1900, 600
Fort Wayne track elevation....... 100000
Drainage channel construction. 1,245,oO0
Total. 81 945, 900
Nearly IS, 00O, 900 authorized to be spent
on public improvements for Chicago this
year, and this is only the 18th day of
Chicago is not slow. She is backing up
her new population of 100000 with cash
OUTLAWS for some of the most gigantic
public undertakings ever set for the hand
of man.
She and her people, up to yesterday
afternoon, had made up their minds to
spend more than So 600, 600 for public work
this year, but the drainage board came in
with cap sheaf, and, by authorizing the
expenditure of 81, 900, sent the grand
total flying upward toward IS, 900. 600.
Times are dull and any old granny on
the street corner will tell you that they
are real hard, but the growth of the
great, big, strong Chicago" as Mayor
Harrison puts it, cannot be stopped.
Her population must be fed, her la
borers must have work. and her physi-
cal conditions improved by the refine
ments of civilization. HonOred by peo-
pie noted for their ability to meet taxa
ton, and backed by corporations willing,
in most cases, to do their part, on the
eve of the summer of 1897 she is outlaying
more money for actual public necessities
than all the cities west of her to the
Rocky mountains combined win expend
in the entire year.
Eight million dollars means that iron
and steel mills must work that saw mills
must be active, that railroads must trans
port. that labor must be employed.
OF the sum total at least $5,500,000 is to
be expended for labor alone. The re-
mainder goes for machinery, foundations,
walls, lumber, and all the material need
ed in construction work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

A divorced woman who goes about
masquerading under the title of miss
is practicing fraud on the public. The
law cannot make a matron a miss any
more than a florist can make a rose a
bud again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

An exchange exu1tingly announces
that President Mckinley will not go
fishing on Decoration Day. President
Mckinley probably never did go fishing
any day. He looks like a man who had
never had any fun. and he isn't having
any now
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Judging by the lamentabIe failure of
bioodhounds to capture criminals in
Kansas, the suspicion wells up that
Uncle Toms Cabin shows have been
unloading their surplus stock on vari-
Gus county commissioners
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

A joke should never have an introdlIc-
ton. The reason nobody laughs at
those queer things in the back of Har-
pers Magazine is because they always
begin "A most amusing anecdote is re-
lated etc"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Nothing so opens a mans eyes to the
evils of our present social system as to
get beat for constable or county clerk
or something or other in Republican
convention. They all go over, now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Terrible Accidental is a terrible ac-
cident to be burned or scalded; but the
pain and the agony and the frightful
dfsdgureme can be quickly overcome
without leaving a scar by using De-
Wits Witch Hazel Salve. George W.
Stansheld, 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

If you have to push the lawn mower
these dewy mornings, do it barefoot.
Then you can combine the Kneipp cure
with active physical exercise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

The Arkansas City Traveller makes
the open assertion that any town that
at one time supported an Associated
Press paper and let it die is a dead town.
This is a correct diagnosis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

It is said there is now one telephone
to every 1872 persons in this country.
Yes, this is about the number that Dor
VOWS yours during the day. isn't it.?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Among the other things that the last
legislature is regretting that it did not
do is the the changing of Geary county
back to Davis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

An armistice about II days long
seems to have been declared between
the Leland and anti-Leland forces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

The Populist party seems to wane,
but there are indications of a more
radical movement growing out of the
ruins and such men as John Wanna
maker appear to be part of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

1t is said the new Kentucky senator
Rever tasted whisky. Like many an
other tradition, the Kentucky ideal if
Investigated would be proven ground
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Wichita has always had cold beer"
and it has lost II, 900 population in ten
wears
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

An actress is a nice girl but queer.
There is one named Belle Kinzie who
calls herself on the bills Ffolliet Paget.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
MILWAUKEE,
w j DLINNIN9
G. P. A, Topeka, Kan.

buckingham Dye for the Whiskers
is the best, handiest, safest, surest.
cleanest, most economical and satisfac-
tory dye ever invented. 1t is the gen
tlemen's favOrite.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

If Greece gets rid of her foreign king.
the Greco Turkish war will not have
been in vain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
Cool Breezes


are most appreciated during the
summer, when the hot sun makes
its presence felt.
MIL WAUKEE
is situated right on breezy Nfichi-
gan's shores, and the temperature
there is usually just right. If you
expect to attend the National Ed
vocational meeting to be held July g.
9, 1897, you viii find the shortest
and most comfortable line to be the
Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29
Suffered Most in Spring
Cured by Hoods sarsapariIIa the
Great Spring Medicine

Scrofulous Sore Leg for IS Years.
All Spring Humors, sores, erup-
tions, boils, pimples, ETC., are cured
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the " king Of
medicines" Read these letters:
&C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass:
"Dear Sirs After suffering from a sore
leg for % years, four bottles
Letter of Hoods SarsapariIla have
made complete cure. My
No leg would infame as soon as
dog days would come and
continue to be sore until spring. Then
the sores would heal a little and break out
again. 1 tried doctors and every remedy
I could hear of, but all failed. I then
heard of Hoods Sarsaparilla and bought
one bottle, and it helped me SO much that
I kept on until I took four bottles; am
cured, in good health and weigh 16o lbs"
MRS. NJ. J. HARTLEY, Lovett, Georgia.
No Sore, No ErysipeIas.
&C I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass:
eDear Sirs: - I want to say once more,
Hoods Sarsaparilla is all you
Letter claim for it. haven't had
any sore or erysipelas since
Nj . 1 used Hoods Sarsaparilla
several years ago and was
cured by it. thrust many may be benefited
bv Hoods Sarsapari1a as 1 have been.
recommend it highly as blood medicine"
Mrs. NJ. J. HARTLEY, Lovett, Ga.
Hood's s ea2iiia
Is sold by all druggists. Price 81. six for s..
cure Liver Ills: easy to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

The Concordia school board will not
hire a lady teacher unless she pledges
This will be harder to enforce than the
prOhibitory laW.-HutchinsOn News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

They are dandies,' said Thos. Bow
ers, of the Crockett, Texas. Enterprise,
while writing about DeWitt's Little
Early Risers. the famous little pills for
sick headache and disorders of the
stomach and liver. George w STAINS
field, 632 Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

People exaggerate so much that an
eXaggeratiOn is finally accepted as
truth. The thousand-legged bug, which
frightens so many people, hasn't to ex-
coed fifty legs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

If a baby is good at all other times
it is bound to howl when it's mother
and father invite their unmarried
friends to envy them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

Nothing is more despairing than &
Woman's cry when she arises to find
it raining on her wash day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

The bigger the woman and the
smaller the husband, the more she
leans confidingly against the poor little
thing when they walk up the street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-29

The captain of Topeka's Salvation
Army is named Hawk. He ought to
be able to catch 'em.-LeaVenworth
Standard.