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The Topeka state journal., 1897-06-10
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Missouri Pacific.
EAGLES
SILVER
STATUE.
Lace should BE Washed.

It is a very great mistake to keep
choice lace for years without wash
ing. Many women believe that it is
ruined by soap and water, and will
keep some cherished length for years
and years, turning yellow with age and
rotting with the dust it has accumuIab-
ID till it really drops to pieces.
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
How to Construct a China Closet an
SidehOard at Home.

How to Construct a China Closet and
SidebOard at Home.
There are few housekeepers whose
dining-rooms are not provided with
sideboards who have not many times
felt the need of these most serviceable
pieces of furniture. 1t often happens,
however, that there is not room in an
existing dining-roOm for one of the
rather bulky sideboardS of the furniture
dealer, or it may be that the leanness
of the family purse puts the purchase
of this article out of the question In
either event, the design of a combined
china closet and sideboard which is
given herewith may be of interest and
assistance
The china closet shown here is half
again as wide as the ordinary closet
door, and is short in its distance from
top to bottom. The door is hinged to
the bottom, instead of at the side, and
is provided with a handsome fat brass
chain at either side to hold the door in
a horizontal position when open. This
then becomes available for use as a side
board at meal times, when extra room is
needed for the dessert, fruit, etc. The
shape of this closet is such that it would
only be possible in the case of a new
house being built, or an old one remod-
eled, or in case where the space adjoin-
ing the dining-Toom is such that china
closet can be constructed in the dining
room wall. Where these conditions OBJ
tain, the wide, low closet can be had.
Where there is an existing closet ex-
tending from floor to ceiling, or from
midway of the wall to the ceiling, how
The Topeka state journal., 1897-06-10

Nothing is so easily spoiled or madc
shabby as a veil. Instead of tossing il
into a crowded bureau drawer, to lie in
a tumbled heap until wanted again,
stretch it carefully over bit of card
board or other stiff material, as isalways
done in the stores.-Housewife.
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Havr to Care for PenrIn.

Pearls, says the London Queen,
should always be allowed to see the
light from time to time, and on other oc-
oasions they should be safely slowed
away in their cases. It was Disraeli's
theory that pearls should be always
worn, and should be from time to time
put in the sun and rubbed afterward.
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A higher Court.

Judge Jincks-My daughter, wasn't
that young Mr.. Hugtite who just went
out?
Miss Jincks-Yes, sir.
Judge ibid I not issue an injunction
against his coming here againS
Miss J.-Yes, sir, but he appealed to
higher court and mamma reversed your
decision up to Date.
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''They are dandies," said Thos Bow
ers, of the Crocket, 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. Stans-
field. 632 Kansas avenue.
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Putting 1t Strong.

'fDoes this amateur you have engaged
know how to act?''
''Actl He couldn't even act upon sVg-
gestiOn. ''-DetEoit Frge Press
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Circulation Growth.

In the year 1855 the circuIa-
January Tst, 'OI, were printed 3,I26
Daily average for year 1891. 1880
Daily average for year 1892. 5000
Daily average for year 1898. e,213
Daily average for year 1894. S,418
Daily average for year 1905. 9,217
Daily average for year 1896. 1o.7e9
mo months 1soz............... 1877
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01
Costly Displays of Fireworks.

The cost of finely managed dis
play of fireworks is no small consider
alton. At the Presidential Inaugural
ton at Washington March 4, 1885,
$4,000 was paid to one company for
fireworks, and I was shown one check
for 81, 900, which was given for a
similar but more extensive display at
the Centennial of Washingtons in
auguration, April 80, 1889. Paris and
London have always been exceedingly
lavish in this regard. AS early as
1897, 100000 were spent in London
on fireworks to celebrate the peace of
Ryswick. In 1914 an even larger
amount was spent to celebrate in st.
James Park the Tooth anniversary of
the reigning family; and at Crystal
Palace, where fireworks are frequent,
three tons of quick-match are some-
times let off in single evening.
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A Four-Legred Fire Extinguisher.

guess most boys think all the fun
of the Fourth is to light firecrackers,
but the writer had dog named Demo-
crat who had lots of fun putting out
firecrackers as they exploded. He was
plucky bull-terrier, and earned the
title of "four-legged tire-extinguisher"
in this way. After an exciting day
with him, when he had put out many
crackers with mouth and paws,
we were on the lawn, watching the
fireworks, when the thin dress of a
child caught fire from smolder-
ing cracker, and Democrat saw the
blaze and put it out before the older
people had noticed it.
We first discovered his taste for fire.
fighting when he jumped and took a
lighted match from my fathers hand.
He finally burned his throat while put
ting out blazing paper, and died,
much missed by all the boys in the
neighborhood. Chicago Record.
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Faith for Guidance,

Take from the navigator his nautical
struments, and the stupid booby that ,st
on the mast of his ship to refresh its va
frame can make its way to land, and /.
him to perish at the mercy OF the wind,
waves. The sea gull that follows his d
to pick up the crumbs of bread that fall |,
his table, always keeps its reckoning
ltseli-but man can never depend
himself for guidance. A Law
an instrument is his guide,
his faith in following them deternI
his course. yea. the stork in the head
knowcth her appointed times, the tune,
crane, and the swallow observe the iiue
their coming, but my people know no,
judgment Of their God" The bee. wtI
compass. square or line, can SO shape
cell that the mathematician demOnst1
1t loses the least space. Brought overla3
distance OF two thousand miles. over nd
tains and deserts. shut out from all com(
nication with the world around. vi
at intervals. the emigrant stopped 10 |
his teams and wash his clothes, cOuGiell
the capabilities of the little creature,
opened their habitation and let then
Yet, in this strange country to which |
were brought in darkness. they Were
fectly at home; and among the hunln |
strange substances, eight or ten thOli|
Of them made several selections in a
yet, not in a single instance Is one decd
and in perfect confidence We eat the IN
their labor, involving millions Of select
with definite understanding tha, u
made mistake our life would pay the :
atty. Yet we eat without exciting |
We can trust the instinct Of the bee, @
cannot trust the God who gave 1.-THE IIsi
or, perhaps, deny the relation bdf
cause and effect by doubling His exist
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had all expressed their intention oi
going there often to fish.
The next night Will was handling
the drag rope. Suddenly it began to
pull, and, assisted by Jack, he drew
it carefully in. At the end was mass
of snags.
whats that?" shouted Dick, sud-
denly.
Will pulled the rope nearer and Jack
lifted out long, narrow object. II
was a gun barrel, rusted. beyond
recognition. The stock was wholly
gone, but it had evidently been broken
off in raising it from the bottom, be-
cause there were the marks of a fresh
fracture.
Forgetting that he was on a raft
Will threw up his cap and shouted at
the top of his voice:
We've found 'em! we've found
'emr'
But although they dragged an hour
they could bring up nothing else.
81 don't see how we can ever get
the things up even if they are there, "
said Dick.
Olive" answered Will, quietly.
The other two boys looked at him
with horror. But when they parted
for the night Will had expressed his
firm intention of diving to the bottom
to see if he could find the cannon.
And the next day all seven of the boys
came back very much excited. The
finding of the gun barrel had reas-
sured them. Carefully they poled out
so as not to make the water muddy,
and then Will stripped and stood
poised for moment on the edge of
the raft. Dick had insisted that he
tie rope around him. The word was
given, and, with look at the clear
sky above, Will splashed head-frst
into the Sullinger's hole. They saw
his white body go down and down
through the water and then fade out
of sight. No one moved nor uttered
a sound; every muscle was strained
and every eye was fixed on the water.
1t was critical moment. What would
Will find? Would he be sucked down
to his death as Sullinger had been?
But the rope had ceased to spin
through Dicks hands. Then it pulled
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found bottom, although more than one
of the men of Griggsville had sounded
the pool. The earliest settlers in the
county had called it the "haunted
pool" but ever since old man Sullin.
ger had scoffed at the idea and had
gone bathing in its waters, never tc
return, it had been known as Sullin
gers Hole. All these things the boys
knew and they avoided the dark pool
They neither skated on it in winter mol
swan in it in summer, although a few
of the braver ones had fished around
its edges and caught big, lazy, old bass
and pickerel. 1t was, therefore, moi
at all surprising that Ruddy Wilson
shrugged his shoulders and laughed
when Will made the suggestion.
"None of that for me-" he said.
"Oh, well, you needn't 60 along un'
less you want to-" responded Will,
impatiently. "All this talk about
Sullinger's Hole being haunted is
foolishness. I've caught good many
fish there, and it's beautiful place.
May be the old cannon and muskets
were never dumped in there at all,
but if they were it would be a great
thing to drag 'em out and have n pa
rade with 'em on the Fourth and fire
the cannon early in the morning. !
tell you, boys, it would be the biggest
celebration that Griggsville ever had. "
Will was very much excited, and
several of the boys at once grew inter
ested. Will didn't know as much
about Sullinger's Hole as the other
boys, and so he was less afraid.
I'D help" said Dick Lansing, ''if
I was sure there was any way of do
ing it."
"All right, Dick, We'll show EN-, "
put in Will, whose eyes fairly glowed
with excitement. "We'll have the old
guns all up here by the Fourth and it
will be a celebration worth seeing"
When Dick went over, all of the
doubters except Ruddy went with him.
The company was pledged to the
greatest secrecy, and work was to be-
gin at once. The baseball practicing
was forgotten, and seven boys set off
down the narrow pathway that led to
Sullinger's Hole.
That night and the next evening
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THE sTAR.spANcLeo BANNER"
A Little Boy Was the First Person to SIM
the Spirited Song.

A Little Boy Was the First Person to Sing
the Spirited Song.
In Lossing's Pictorial Field Book
of the War of 1912" it is recorded that
the ''Star-Spangled Banner" was first
sung in Q restaurant in Baltimore, next
door to the Holiday Street Theatre,
by Charles Durango, to an assemblage
of the patriotic defenders Of the city,
and after that nightly at the theatre.
This statement is slightly inaccurate,
and though it is one Of no great his
torical importance it involves matter
of sufficient interest to justify cor
rection. The first person to sing that
spirited song-which, though given a
foreign air and commemorating sim
gle episode in our country's history,
has filled millions of hearts with pa
triotic devotion-was lad of twelve
years of age, the scene of his childish
effort being neither restaurant nor
theatre, but the open street in front
of Captain Benjamin Edes's printing
office in Baltimore, the second day
after the bombardment Of Fort Nc
Henry. 1t is worthy of record, too,
that the person who first ''set up" the
song, printed it and distributed it to
the citizens of Baltimore was also
boy-an apprentice of Captain Edes-
the whole thing being done while the
gallant captain was still out of the city
with his regiment, the Twenty-seventh
Maryland Infantry, which three days
before had acted with conspicuous
bravery at the battle of North Point.
The name of the apprentice boy,
then seventeen or eighteen years old,
was Samuel Sands. He lived a very
much respected citizen of Baltimore to
a very old age The little singer was
James Lawrenson, who afterward, for
nearly seventy years, was connected
with the Postoffice Department, and
also employed, for probably half that
time, as q writer for the National In
telligencer, the Philadelphia Ledger
and the Baltimore Sun. He died near
ly ninety years old, at his home in
Baltimore, universally loved and hon
Ored.
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IA HUNDRED WILLING HANDS DRAGGED THE CANNON. u

they dragged or rolled number of
big dry logs and poles down to the
edge of the pool. These they cut off
into equal lengths and fastened to-
gether in the form of a huge raft that
would support dozen or more boys.
As early on the afternoon of the third
day as possible the seven slid quietly
out of the town and down the hill to
the pool. They carried with them
ropes and crowbar or two anda num-
ber Of long poles cut in the woods, be-
sides hammers and nails and other i'm
plements. On reaching the shore of
the pool they mounted the raft and
pushed it out. They all whistled and
shouted and sung until the birds of the
woods, unused to being so disturbed,
few away much frightened. Every
one of the workers felt just q little
nervous in spite of the bright warm
sunlight and the clear sky overhead.
Once out on the pool they poled them
selves along until they were about
twenty feet from the shore.
One of the ropes with big iron
hook on the end was let down in the
water and dragged back and forth.
Suddenly it pulled against something
hard. Half shivering with excitement
Dick and George Merton pulled away
on it. The raft swayed and lurched,
and the other boys came to help them.
At last big, dark object came to the
surface, and they saw that it was only
the limbs of big dead tree. AS long
as there was light they poled about
the edges of the pond with their
drags, but with the exception Of snags
and weeds and mud they could find
nothing at all.
After two more discouraging after
moons of work "Lank" Everson said
he wasn't going to waste any more OF
his time.
Three of the boys agreed with him,
but Will Spencer was able to persuade
Dick and Jack to make one more
l.fvial Bx fhis Ena. fhav h6d rot oxaz
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again and dozen feet away from the
boat wet head popped out of the
water. Will shook himself, sputtered
and shouted:
ats there, it's there; I touched it. "
Then he struck out for the raft,
dragging something along in his hand.
When he crawled out he laid an old,
worn, rusted musket on the logs. All
the boys were wild with excitement
Dick insisted on stripping and making
dive, and he, too, brought up mus
ket. Then Will went down with one
end of small rope in his mouth. This
he ran through the fork of the cannon.
A larger rope was dragged down, and
before dark the boys were on shore
ready to begin pulling in their prize.
But it would not stir. 1t was too deep
in the mud.
The next afternoon they came down
with Tom Fishers old white-faced
team, fastened it to the rope, and with
one strong pull the cannon came loose
and then it was no trouble to pull the
battered and rusted and wholly worth
less old piece of artillery out of the
water.
Somehow, in spite of all the boys
could do, the news spread about like
wild-fire, and every one in town came
out to see what Sullinger's Hole had
given up to the light of day. A
hundred willing hands dragged the
old cannon to the top Of the bluff, and
on Fourth of July morning it was
loaded with powder--but that is get
ting ahead of the story. For when
Griggsville heard what the boys had
done Will Spencer became the hero Of
the hour, and the money for great
celebration was quickly Esubscribed.
And on the morning of the great day
Griggsville was out in her best with
flags waving and Arecrackers popping
and anvils booming. The news Of the
great find had spread, and men and
women and children came from I'll
I.omnm Al - .sonrn&wu A ka1r> Exufnmnxvfll&
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The Prisoners, Holiday.

Once year, on the Fourth of July,
the prisoners at the Wisconsin States
prison at Waupun have half-holiday.
They are let out of their dark cells in
to the prison yard. They can't have
frecrackers, but they are so glad to
get out that the time goes away quick
ly. They have boxing, wrestling,
running, races, ball playing and all
kinds of games. On the Fourth two
years ago one old man, who was a lit
tie bit crazy, wanted to make stump
speech, 80 he got on top Of an old
windmill tower and began to shout.
He was very much excited, and some
of the men turned the hose on him.
He was wild with anger, and could
think Of nothing more to say.
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In speaking of American Presby-
terianism and the stirring part which
the church took in the great Revolu-
tionary drama, a writer in the Chicago
Times Herald says: "Calvinistic in.
huence in American history is familiar
to all who know the story of the Ply
mouth Rock and the band Of Puritans
who settled New England. The Rev.
olution here was formed by Presbyte-
rians, and the Wing club of New York,
founded in 1862, to whose action
Bancroft ascribes the inception of the
Continental Congress, was so largely
composed of Presbyterians that the
Tories called it the Presbyterian
junta. The synod of the Presbyterian
church of Philadelphia was the first
religious body that urged the American
colonists to take up arms. While all
the clergy Of the Church of England
in New England, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania were on the
side of the mother country, the Pres
byterian preachers preached Revolu-
ton, and Bancroft gives the Presbyte-
rians full credit for their share in the
bringing about of American independ-
ence." 1t is claimed by the Presby-
terians that the Government OF the
United States is modelled after the
Government of the Presbyterian
church, and in support of this claim is
cited not only the similarity existing
between the two systems, but also the
fact that Rev. John Witherspoon,
President of Princeton College, one
Of the early American patriots, had
much to do with the original frame.
work of the Federal Government.
Whether or not the claim of the Pres.
byterians can be fully substantiated,
comments the Atlanta Constitution, it
nevertheless remains that the Presby-
terian church has been a potential
factor in American history, and that
its influence is still felt in both religious
and political affairs.
There is one thing about having trou.
bic; only live men are bothered. Dead
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Erettinr Over Smnll Things.

The great and serious plans fora Ii1
that belong to the solcmnltles ani
august occasions Of existence, nay
absolutely sacrificed and even JOY
yielded, because great grace is npon]
the supreme hour Of choice; but the /
daily plannings for work and pleasure
often held fast tenaciouslv, and wheaI
are broken we fret and fume with AI
chafing, If not with outward lrrltallOh
for taking joyfully the interruptions
come through front door and back WI
dering things by way of accidents
us out and put us about, so that "
can be finished as desired. II does
II human nature could never llnd lnl,
sible. Would 1t not be triumph y. ~
indeed to be able to take JONuHl
"spoiling?" How do we crave our ONa
even In the smallest affairs Lie W.
undisciplined indeed, If we always
Here Is really great opponuai
emulate ancient worthies OF ms
ent work-a-day life, and take
spelling that may often be as mar.
as loss Of goods. The records oi may
and OF great achievements will ho'
larged by deeds well worthy oil remsu e
but the small, joyful surrenders WI,
pleasing In His sight "who knows, ssas
all;" and, putting these small sac'"'
others,
"We shall see life may be
A rosary Of little deeds n.
Done humbly, Lord. as unlV ,a,s -.
julia II. Johnston, III i""
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The Test of True Worth

That which / would have every o. j
quire respecting every work of art ~ ~
termined merit submitted to his nd.u unu
is not whether 1t be a work az ssra'
GRANDEUR rtmportance or power: but who,a|
1t have any virtue or substance as n ii.r
the chain OF truth, whether il have reon,s
or interpreted anything before unkna
whether 1t have added one single s,ns'
our heaven-pointing pyramid cut awan
dark bough, or levelled one ruppod biV
in our path. This, II 1t be an homes, .'
Of art, 1t must have done, for no MAJ
yet worked honestly without ciyino .s
such help to his race. God appoints to ey.J
one OF HIS creatures separate mission !,
II they discharge 1t honorably, II they y
themselves ike men and faithfully fot(
the light which is In them, ,withdrawinc h.
1t all cold and quenching influence ,bs
will assuredly come OF it such bu,r
as, in its appointed mode
measure, shall shine before
and be OF service constant and holy
grees infinite Of lustre there must alwov.
but the weakest among us has a rift bo
ever seemingly trivial which is peculIa
him and which, worthily used, will bs
also to his race forever. Fool NOT ="
George Herbert,
For all may have
II they dare choose, a glorious life or or,
II, on the contrary, there be nothing ot
freshness achieved, il there be neither n
pose nor fidelity in what is done, n !,
an envious or powerless imitation Of a,
mems labors, II 1t be display of mere n
ual dexterity or curious manufacture a,
In any other mode 1t show itself as b,,
its origin in vanty-cast it out. It main
not what powers Of mind NAV have
concerned or corrupted in it, all have
their SAVIOR. it is worse than wor,h4,
perilous-ca it ut.-John Ruskin.