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THAT GALVESTON SPECIAL.
DOCTORS ALONG THE SANTA FEE
WANTED TO INVESTIGATE
FEVER-NIT.
A Lonesome Ride by the Temple Health
Oficer-CameTon People Nervous
Caldwell Doctors had Patti
ents to See-Ditto Bren-

Omcer-CameIon People Nervous
Caldwell Doctors had Patti
ents to See-Ditto Bren-
ham.
The special Santa Fe Board of
| Health train en- route from Tenn
, pie to Galveston came through
on time, passing Brennan at
1890 Saturday. Engineer May
niham was at the throttle and
Conductor Jefferson pulled the
bell card.
| The special consisted of two
day coaches. When the Central
crossing was reached a BANNER
representative boarded the front
coach, pencil and note book in
hand, ready to interview the
Esculapians en- route to investi-
gate the fever situation in the
Island city.
The forward coach contained a
grip and medicine case-noth-
ing more. The grip was a
small affair and probably con-
tanned change of undershirts,
ct al, for the return trip. No
banquet hall deserted ever look
ed more thoroughly desolote
than this empty coach.
The next and. last coach was
invaded by the reporter. 1t con-
tanned solitary passenger, DR..
R. P. Talley, Health Officer of
Temple and Bell county.
Doctor TalIey looked like he
wanted to say to the reporter,
"Just tell 'em that you saw me-"
but he said instead:
"Just tell 'em, young man,
that the Cameron people were
nervous and the Caldwell doctors
had patients to see. I feel like
this is a wild goose chase.
Before leaving Temple l knocked
both the city and county quar-
antines into a cooked hat, and
for my part want no more to do |
with such foolishness. Admit !
ting that Galveston has the fever
its the height of folly at this time
of year for people to tear their
shirts over the yellow fever scare.
The railroads have co-operated |
with the health boards in every |
particular and would have used
all necessary precautions without
all this quarantine humbuggery.
Every railroad in South Texas is
entitled to a universal vote of
thanks for the manner in which |
they have looked after the public
health in this natter
The doctor was greatly disap-
pointed when informed that DR..
Hynes couldn't get off. He had
figured on at least one travelling
companion.
The thirty objectors to Bren-
ham being represented on the
trip did not materialize. How
ever, the patients of Drs. Lockett
and Becker entered vigorous
protest to their practitioners
leaving town and their wishes
were respected. Really as mat
ters stand the trip was unneces-
sary as the quarantine has been
raised.
Some ''expert" suggested that
it would be a good idea for the
Brennan doctors to go down and |
see case of fever so that in
future years they would know it |
in case they met it il the road.
However, as there is no fever in
Galveston nothing was to be
gained in this direction by the
trip.
There is more Catarrh in this section of |
the cnnntrv than a u other diseases nut To- |
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AN editor on the Chicago Re-
cord gets mad every time he
hears any one say that the more
a man gets the more he wants.
This editor is the father of two
sets of twins.
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STATE NEWS

leaving the cotton fields to gatheI
pecans.
Frank Magee has been elect
ed chief of the Dallas fire de.
partment.
The Baptist State Conven.
ton will meet in San Antonio or
! November 5.
The pecan crop is said to be
heavier this year than for many
seasons past.
Farmers around Denison are
preparing to plant a large acreage
of wheat this fall.
"A petroleum strike on the
farm of T. N. Templeton near
Ennis is reported.
The land office reports a.
1T acres of school lands sold
during the month of September.
The city council of HilIsboro
has purchased % acres ofground,
north Of the city, for a new ceme-
terry.
-Bastrop county commission
ers are considering the advisabi-
lily of buying a county paupers
farm.
"A colony of thirteen German
families from Marion county,
Kansas, has settled near Wal
lace.
Valuable marble fields have
been discovered near Alpine.
The marble is black and of rare
variety.
The citizens of Quanah, in
Hardeman county, are still
luxuriating on watermelons raised
in that county.
Mrs. Susie Renfrow, bride
of four months, committed suicide
at Vernon recently by shooting
herself with a. revolver
Mrs. Sophia Rudger, a white
woman about so years old, was
run over and killed by an cleo
trio car at Galveston on Monday
night.
Cottons worms have destroy
ed the top crop in portions of
Fort Bend county.
j. P. Afford, cashier of the
Marshall National Bank, was
found dead in bed last Friday
morning. Heart failure the
cause of death.
The pecan crop in Robertson
county is very heavy; the trees
are loaded with nuts, which will
be gathered by the coIored
people as soon as cotton picking
is over.
The Fort Worth Driving
Park assertion has figured up
the results of its late race meet
ing sufficiently to show that from
a financial standpoint the meet
ing was a success and a neat
balance will be covered into the
treasury.
Hon. James B. Wells, of
Brownsville, has accepted the
appointment rendered him by
Gov. Culberson as Judge of the
Twenty eighth Judicial District.
His appointment gives general
satisfaction to the people of that
section of the State.
The San Antonio Express
states that Col. Grip" Ford, who
was stricken with paralysis
about nine days ago, is now
thought to be out of danger. His
stroke was very severe but des-
pite his feebleness and age the
We eran warrior soon rallied and
has been improving steadily
since.
The big cotton gin located at
Taylor and owned by the Taylor
Cotton Oil and Gin company,
was entirely consumed by fire
last Friday night. The loss is
estimated at $4,000, with $4,000
insurance. The cotton seed oil
plant owned by the same COM
Danv on6 ooapato6 in ooppaot;or,
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SHADOW OF A PLAGUE.
Life in the Midst of Yellow Fever
Epidemic.


frost until November" This
means little to one who has never
been in the midst of a yellow fe-
yer epidemic. To the resident OF
an infected district, however, il
is full of import.
After shutdown in warm wealth
er is when a Southern town
seems to stir with life. All day
the blinds have been closed
tightly and the streets practical
ly deserted, but when the sun nc
longer beats fiercely down on
brick and stone, when the long
shadows have deepened into
cool, wide spreading darkness,
then the shutters are thrown
open and groups gather on We
randas and doorsteps. There is
the sound of laughter and chat
ter and here and there the tinkle
of a banjo or the low thrum of a
guitar. Peace and happiness
are in the air.
Late in the evening some one
comes up from down town, and a
whispered conversation is held.
There is a suspicious case at the
hospital, but the physicians have
not as yet given their opinions.
The word has been passed
around, and wherever the rumor
spreads the laughter and the
music are hushed.
:" In the morning we will
know" say the men. 6 Proba-
bly, it is nothing serious.
Yet each man besitates as he
nears the corner where he knows
the bulletin will be posted. The
ancients trembled when they
asked the oracle to speak. The
bulletin is there. 1t is the fever.
During the day more deaths oc-
cur and more bulletins are
posted.
The scourge is on.
The evolution of a panic is a
dramatic thing. Fear of an un-
seen foe-a foe that strikes in
the broad sunlight or in the
dark, in the crowded street or in
the seclusion of the home
causes it. Death may be COM
municated by touch. The rail
against which you lean, the knob
of the door which you open, the
newspaper which you pick up,
may have been handled by one
who has since been stricken and
polluted.
1t seems harsh and selfish to
shut people in a town where
deadly disease is epidemic, but
the law of self preservation JUS
titles it. This same law justifies
the imprisoned ones in trying to
escape. So a mere edict will not
do. Guns are needed, and the
dead line is drawn. The local
militia of neighboring towns
form Gordon around the infect
ed place, and the amateur SOL
diers are enforced by private
citizens. At every road and lane
stands an armed man, grim, de-
termined and ready to warn or
shoot. They are all filled with
the same determination to ward
off the Infection from their
homes. Each man feels that he
is protecting his own family, and
when man fights for his fire.
side he is lion at bay.
And how goes it in the fever
stricken town? Walled in by
the law on four sides, pelted
from above by the merciless sun
and with the scourge waiting for
them at every turn, life becomes
a dreadful nightmare. Business
is suspended. Stores are closed
and the streets traversed only by
the doctors, the nurses and the
dead wagon.
Such is the history of former
yellow fever epidemics, but how
different the situation in the
present cases. The death rate is
not as heavy as it would be if or
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CASToR1A.

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
a PECULIAR POSSUM.
FEB WHITE WAS GAME, BUT THE
CRITTER OUTSOT HIM.

Caught Mapping at Last and Left to Suffer
Great Convention on the Mountain Top
and Why They Moved Away.
"T've hunted bars and wildcats and
coons and possums fur the last 80 years, :"
said Zeb White, the possum hunter of
Tennessee, land though all of 'em is full
of tricks it's my opinyun that the dawg-
gone possum is the cutest critter of all.
He hain't purity, and he hain't got no
gait on him, and as fur hghtin he can
skassly hold his own ag'in rabbit. But
natur' knowed what she was doin when
she created the possum- 1t took me good
while to understand the critter, and befo
got to he played heap o. tricks on me.
Fifteen years ago this kentry around
yere might hev bin called possum land.
Thar was possums till yo' couldn't rest
Thar was big posSumS and leetle ones
fat possums and lean ones, and as nobody
would buy thar peltS nobody killed pos
sums 'cept fur meat. Then things changed.
Somebody up no TIL diskivered that possum
fur could be dyed and fixed up to look like
mink, and then l was offered six bits
apiece fur all the pelts could hand in
Me and the ole woman knocked over pos
sums till our backs ached, and we dreamed
of the critters all night long. In one
month we killed over a hundred of EN-
and we was still at it when sunthin hap
pened. One night she woke me up and
whispered:
81 'Zeb, thar's sunthin powerful queer
gwine on out doahsl
'Mebre sum niger prowlin around to
steal soft soap, SEE 1 as I sot up to listen.
''' 'Tain't no niger, Zebl 1 kin h'ar
possums squealin and walkin around
y got QUITE bed and went to the win
DER said the old man. 1t was a moon
light night, and of all the sights ever did
see that was he biggest. Thar was pos
sums till yo' couldn't see the airth. They
was crossin the yard by thousands, headed
up the mountain. The ole woman got up
and we watched EN- fur half an hour befo'
the last one passed. I couldn't make out
what had brung them critters together in
a heap, and 1 worried about it till arter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04

hadn't moveu i loot, but when I felt of his
heart I knowed he was only playin dead.
The ole woman handed me out sum bread
and meat and coffee, and went right on
a-sittin. The longer sot the mo- detar-
mined I got. Night cum around ag'in
and was still thar. was powerful sleepy
that night, and had to rub terbacker In
my eyes to keep awake; but was holdin
my own when daylight cum. Sot right
thar all day long, mad as a bar, and when
night cum fur the third time the ole wom-
an SEE to me:
81 'Zeb, yo' hain't atten to do it. The
pesky varmint kin outset you
90 IN beat him or perish!'
8" Better kill him fur good and cum in. ,
" Never. If can't beat drafted pos
sum at his own game, I'm no champion
possum hunter. III be right yere when
the sun rises ag'inr
1T was tuff work, but was mad, and
got along purity well till about midnight.
Then 1 must hev closed my eyes fur two
or three minits, though I didn't know it,
fur 1 awoke with a start, and the dawggone
possum was gone. Yes, sab. He'd watched
my eyes close and sneaked off, and the ole
woman made SIGH fun of me and 1 felt so
mean bout bein outset that couldn t look
a possum in the face for the next three
monthsp' M QUAD.
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JEWELED DOLLY.

its color is confined to the gems, which
are indicated by ovals and circles. The
model from which the drawing was
made is designed for use with dainty
blue and white china, and nile tur-
quoises are used, but it might easily be
varied to suit any scheme of color. The
edge is buttonholed with white floss.
All the design is worked with white ex-
cepting only the turquoises, which are
stuffed and worked IN French over
and over stitch with blue floss as near
to the color of the real jewel as posi-
BILE. The eject is delightful, and the
dolly harmonizes to perfection with the
dinner service for which it was made.
The use of a single jewel, such as
the turquoise, has the advantage of
simplicity, and work so done requires
less knowledge of harmony than does
q combination. Two or more gems can
be used, however, to give a rich and
elegant result. Often the design proper
is executed in color, but white as a
foundation is safest and can be trusted
to set forth the jewels at their best.
An ambitious piece of work shows the
topaz and amethyst combined and is
really very effective The colors be-
ing brilliant and decided it can only be
used with Judgment, but as resting
place for cut glass bowl of maidenhair
ferns it is decorative ia the extreme
Chicago Chronicle
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BE YOUR OWN DOCTOR.
Easily Applied Remedies for n Number 81
Miner Ailments

Easily Applied Remedies for n Number 81
Minor Ailments
Don't send for doctor whenever you
feel badly or your heart isn't right or
you have a cold There are many sim
pie and direct remedies which you can
paste in your hat and apply On occasion.
Give Nature q chance and help her all
you can.
Thus, for instance, both sneezing and.
coughing can be arrested by pressing;
firmly on the upper lip or in front Of
the ear.
Boxing the ears of a person suffer.
ing from hay fever is said to be SOW
ereign remedy for that inconvenient-
malady. That severe attacks of rheu-s
matism are greatly relieved by bee
stings has been noted, and in Malta and
in Russia, where bees abound, they are
in such repute as a cure that resort
to this primitive kind of incubation
has been common practice for genera
tions, with most satisfactory results.
Excessive palpitation OF the heart can
always be arrested by bending double,
head downward, and hands hanging.
If breathing is temporarily suspended
while in this position, the effect Is all
the more rapid. Hiccough can almost
always be stopped by this simple &C
ton, which is more readily available
than the often recommended fright or
sudden start which one cannot easily
get up for ones self on the spur of the
moment.
The distressing cramping of the fin
gers from constant use of pen. which
may in time develop into writer's
cramp. can always be prevented by en-
larging the holder either by wrapping
string around it or by running the
handle of the pen through bit of rub
Der tubing.
The innumerabla hosts of new and
infallible cures for colds would easily
fill good-sized volume, and still they
come One quite too simple way of nip
ping a cold in the bud is to sit down in
front of a good fire and warm your
back thoroughly, for the back is the
place where cold is usually caught, be-
ing careful, of course, not to go at once
into a cold room. A French physician
goes to extremes by applying piece
of ice at the spine. Indeed, nowadays
the curative value of cold is being high
ly spoken of, and the inhaLnmatory sore
throat, which used to be treated by
poua tees and warmth, is now said to be
easily and quickly cured by sucking ice
and keeping the patient in a low tenn
perature. Ice at the neck is also a
powerful curative for asthma In fact,
It is even predicted that the dry, cold,
clear air of the arctic, keen and free
from germs, will, before long. be rec
commended for ailments springing from
weak chests.-N. Y. Journal
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Reddy the killer and the Lamp.

They are telling a wicked story down
town on a converted FOUNDER known
throughout the First and Twenty sixth
wards cs Reddy the Killer. The trade
of killing people in that quarter of the city
having become somewhat precarious, Red
dy experienced a change of heart and join
ed the Salvation Array. During the prog
ress of the exercises at the barracks" a
few nights ago the chimney of a kerosene
lamp in d bracket alongside of the platform
broke, and the flame shot up in an alarm
ing way. One of the army officers, in at
tempting to remove the lamp, dropped it
upon the floor, and the oil became ignited,
starting slight blaze. a number of per
sons rushed forward, among them Reddy,
but all hesitated to act. Reddy who is not
deficient in courage, made a dash or two at
it, but fell back, and the sister who wears
the title of lieutenant exclaimed: Pick it
up, Brother Reddy! Don't be afraid The
Lord won't let it burn you'll Reddy made
another grab at the blazing lamp jumped
back, blew on his hands and blurted out,
1.-The HI he 't!''-Philadelphia Rec
ord
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4 Bridesmaid in Green.

A bridesmaids dress seen recently
was of pale-green silk made with full
skirt, relieved only by a twist of nous
seine de sole around the foot. The
waist was round one of the green silk.
entirely yelled with green mousseline
de sole. This gave a very fairylike
look to the dress. A long silken sash
of green was wound around the waist
and tied at the side with small loops
and long ends The throat, which was
cut square, was finished with twist of
the same silk. The sleeve puffs were
of green silk and were quite full. They
were puton to look like small balloons or
the mythical wings of a goddess. The
floating ends of the sash, the sleeve
pHffs and the lightness of the nous
seine de sole gave this dress partic-
ularlY airy appearance
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To NJ Pine.


Oh, love the merry gurgIe Of my pipe,
Brier pipe,
When the flavor of the weed within is ripeI
What lullaby it purls
As the smoke around me curls,
Mounting slowly higher, higher,
AS l dream before the fire,
With flavor in my mouth.
Like a zephyr from the south,
And my favorite tobacco
By my side,
Near my side,
With the soothing necromancY
Sweetly linking fact to fancy.
In golden memory chain,
To tbs gurgle swest refrain.
OF my pipe. brier pipe.
To the fancy breeding surele of my pipe.
Oh. what subtle satisfaction IN my pipe.
Brler pipei
Nothing mundane can inpart
Such contentment to my heart.
She's my idol she's my queen
Is my Lady Nicotine
When in trouble how j yearn
For the incense which burn
At her shrinel
How pine
For the fragrance of her BREATH
Robbed of terror cen is death
By her harmless hypEotlsm.
Healed Is every mortal schism-
Foe and friend
Sweetly blend
At the burning of the brfer.
Greed. cupidity, desire.
Fade away within the smoke,
In the fragrant. ieecy smoke
From my pipe. magic pipe.
From my glowing. peace bestowtng,
gurgling pipe
-Sigel Roush in New York Sun.
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She Mailed 1t.

A lady purchased cents worth of salts
and a postage stamp in a Detroit drug
store recently. She left the store, stepped
to the letter box on the corner returned
and asked for the package of salts.
You took it with you, madam, - the
clerk said politely.
She became quite angry and insisted that
she must have left it on the counter.
did you mail your letter." the clerk
asked, with a smile.
''Of course L did," she snapped. "Do
you suppose 1 mailed the salts?'
Il think you still have the letter." he
said. his smile becoming broader.
Gracious me!' she CALCULATED 81 mail
ed the saltsi''
She blushed apd hurried out.-Detroit
News
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ESTATE, AUG
D U TION SALES AND
OTHER CLASSIFIED AID
VERTISEMENTS
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VERTISEMENTS

Are you In need of work? If So you
are at liberty to use these columns Ior
assistance in that direction WhiIe TINS
notice appears the State Journal Will pup
ush free on Saturday, Monday and Tues
day. for Topeka or Kansas people, all
notices of situations Wanted, not to
exceed five lines, or thirty-five words In
length provided that all advertisements
of that nature are handed in previous to
20 o'clock Saturday morning; also on
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. all
advertising of this class handed in by 10
o'clock Wednesday morning
No advertisements of this nature to be
started except on Saturdays and We'd
nesdays. No obligation is incurred on the
part of the advertiser. No worthy and
needy man or woman need hesitate to
take advantage of this offer. No one in
business having employment is ex-
pected to take advantage of It. but all
others are invited to avail themselves
freely.
The Topeka state Journal guarantees
every day it is printed, to give local
circulation by far more than all otner
Dailies combined This makes this paper
the cheapest, as well as the best daily
medium in Topeka, the CLASSIFIED aoVer-
ttsements below costing but
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EMBROIDERY NOVELTY.
Jewel Work. Which Is Both Effective and
Simple, the Latest Fad.

The last new thing in embroidery
is known as jewel work from the fact
that it is supposed to represent jewels
scattered here and there. While I'M
doubtedly considerable imagination
must be called into play before anne
thysts, rubies, turquoises and the like
can be discovered in the rounds and
ovals called by their names, it is effec-
tive, and it is novel Just at the present
moment garnets are IN highest favor.
The design given is a simple ona- All
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-02-04
No Evidence of It.

Salesman-You can see the original
price marked here in plain figures. Our
price. you notice, is less than one-third
We got the goods from dry goods mer-
chant that was embarrassed.
Customer inspecting the ffgures)-He
wasn't embarrassed when he marked these
goods. He had his nerve all with him.
Chicago Tribune.
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His Idea.

Mrs. Hornbeek Cookir- up from her
newspaper)-I have just been reading an
item about Missouri man who sold his
wife for SIS. Wasn't that a shamee
Farmer Hornbeek (who has been to Mis-
souri, "A shamef 1t was downright rob-
berry New Y ork Sunday Journal.
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How. Indeed7

Somebody has invented mirror that
will not break"
"Graciousl How are we going to tell
when there is going to be a death in the
house?''--London Fun.
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DUSTLEsS OIL.
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.

>@~"~--~-~-~-~--~--~~~~~~~-
THE KELLAM BOOK 81 STATIONERY
- CO, COS Kan. Ave. Latest books, cor
rect stationery. Newest wall paper. Ar
hstic framing.
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Returns show that 16 persons in ], 900
who are confined in lunatic asylums have
been made insane by love affairs
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He Told Her.

Mother (emphatically)-Jo what
are you doing out there in the rain?
Johnny-Gittin wet.-Exchange.
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FUEL AND FEED.

FAVE your orders for COAL. Flour.
- Feed and Seeds with Van Slyck. 5es
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HARNESS aND sapDLRy

{ iALL on US for good goods for your
- money Prices to suit the times. Re
pairing promptly done. Morley * Cal
vert. 51S Kan. Ave