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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
NORTH TOPEKA.

items intended for this column should
be left with the Kinbau Printing Co.
morning.
Grandma Curtis is now able to walk
about.
The Congregational church is being
reshingled.
WI. Hewitt made a business trip to
Kansas City yesterday.
Chris Hemming of Newman, was a
North side visitor today.
Mrs. Matthew Mitchell is attending
the convention at Chanute.
Forbes Brothers are making an adj
ditiOn to their storage facilities.
Miss Katie Day of Wamego, is the
guest of her brother Mr.. Israel Day
T. L. Evan of the Moffit Commission
company of Kansas City, is in town.
Mrs. Porter and daughters have NOV
ed from Van Buren, street to 1903 Har-
rison.
Miss Hattie Winchen of Lawrence is
visiting her uncle w. K. Miller of 1913
Harrison street.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Kan
sas Avenue church, met yesterday aft
ernOOn at the church.
Miss Mamie Baird has returned to
Chicago to school after spending Easter
vacation with her parents.
Yesterday while Frank Goodman was
cutting some meat, the knife slipped
and he cut a cash in his left hand.
Mr.. Jesse Kistler was resting some
what easier this morning, and Mrs
kistler is reported as being better.
Mrs. J. P. Stanley and daughter Arta
of Denver, Col, win arrive today to Wis
it Mrs. Stanley's sister, Mrs. w. s.
Hamricl1.
The Indian Creek Sunday school gave
a social Tuesday evening for the bene-
fit of the Sunday school at the home of
E. MARBLE.
Mrs Com. Fulton and children Helen
and Hazel, are expected home Satur-
day from San Diego, Cal, where they
have been spending the past three
months.
On account of the County Missionary
convention which begins at the First
Christian church tonight, there will be
no prayer meeting at the North Chris
tan church.
AS H. A Hunt was putting down a
pump recently, the pipe slipped and
fell bruiSing his right hand and split
ting one Of the bones. The wound is
quite painful.
Edward Bell, who has been visiting
his parents eight miles in the country
and his aunt Mrs. Mccormick of Har-
rison street, will return to his home in
Colorado the first of the week.
Friends of A O. Rorabaugh viii be
glad to learn that he is doing well at
his new location at Emporia. He has
ten clerks employed and they are kept
busy all the time. Mr.. Rora baugh is
well pleased with his new field.
Mrs. a. S. Rankin entertained the A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
In the United States Il

shooting. In the United States the
guards are, however, especially weak
on that work and the officers will make
an effort to build it up in Kansas dur
ing the ensuing two years.
Colonel Smith has already COM
menCed work and has issued a circular
letter calling attention to the target
practice and prescribing regulations
for the same.
The season for small arm rife prac-
tice will open May Is and close Novern-
Der 80. A maximum allowance of fixed
ammunition will be 5000 rounds per
company. Small Arm Practice for the
National Guard" by Colonel James NJ.
Rice, is adopted as authority on tar
get practice. No deviatiOns from the
rules therein laid down win be permit
ted.
Company target reports will be for
Warded through military channels to
the inspector of small arms target
practice Immediately after the close of
where practicable companies devote
one week to target practice. Where
this can be done, company command
ers will notify the inspector.
In order to stimulate the interest in
target practice the following medals
are offered:
A gold medal to company making
highest company average.
Silver medal to company making sec
ond highest average.
Gold medal to company showing
highest percentage of attendance at
target practice
Silver medal to company MAX
ing showing of next highest percentage
in attendance.
In computing the attendance only
those will be counted present who have
fired at three ranges
A gold medal to the member of the
K. N. 6. making the highest individ-
ual record during the season.
The member making the second
highest record will receive a silver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22

black horse, and when within hailing
distance suddenly turned into blue
vapor and vanished.
At other times a band of music could
be heard during the night, also strange
sounds on the stairs, like a log-chain
tumbing down. Mixed with these
sounds were groans like person in
dying agony.
Passersby at times noticed pale blue
streams of fire ascending from the an
tiQuated fireplace chimney. all of
which seemed to infiame the horrors of
the CHASTITY surroundings.
On or about the LIST of APRIL when
Mr.. Haun was feeding his stock in the
morning, a woman approached him and
revealed to him that if he would re-
move the plaster and boards from the
wall at a place near the chimney he
would find a secret drawer which con-
tanned a tin box filed with letters and
papers which she directed him to in
Spect except three, which were sealed,
and to deliver them to Mrs. Elrod of
Rock Creek, Kan, who is a daughter of
Elder VIM. Gish.
The person then faded away before
his eyes and disappeared.
Mr.. Haun, with others, then went to
the house. removed the plaster and
found the box and contents ar directed
by the spectre, and today these quaint
writings, dating back to 1856, can be
seen and are exhibited by Mr. Elrod, a
wealthy farmer, whose present resi-
dence is in the village of Rock Creek,
Kan, G.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
YIN. c. A. CONVENTION.
International Gathering at Mobile
Prominent Men Present

Mobile. Ala, April 22.-The interna-
tional convention of Young Mems Chris
tian associations met at $50 yesterday
afternoon at Temperance hall.
The following prominent members of
the international committee are al
ready on hand: S. c. Morse, general
secretary; T. K. Cree, secretary; c. K.
ODER, field secretary; R. P. Anderson,
field secretary and George P. Hodge,
educational secretary. Others well
known in the association are F. L Will
lis, formerly state secretary of Ala
bama and Mississippi; r. B. McBurney,
general secretary of the New York
City association (the oldest secretary in
point of service, now in the work.;
Prof. Graham of the training school
for secretaries at Springfield, Mass;
w. M Lewis. state secretary of Georgia
and South Carolina; w. A. Magee, state
secretary of Iowa; E. E. Stairs, state
secretary of Indiana; W. A. Killing, state
secretary of Ohio; A W. Drummer, as
sistant state secretary of Illinois; G. N.
BOyce, chairman Ohio state convention
and ex-chairman of the international
convention; William K. Cooper and H.
E. Canteu, general secretaries of two
branches at BrOOkIyn. N. 7.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
THEY WANT BRYAN.
Los Angeles Invites Him to Deliver
Fourth of July Grafton.

Cincinnati, April 22.-Nathan Cole, Jr.,
of Los Angeles, is at the Gibson House.
He is the bearer of a special invitation
of the Republican Silver club of that
state 20 William ]. Bryan. to be their
guest of honor and speaker at q grand
patriotic banquet to be given the evening
of July 4, representing all the Pacific
coast country.
Mr.. Bryan cordially accepted the distin-
guished compliment, and Will attend pro-
vided his enga gementS already made Will
permit. This he will not be able to deter
mine definitely until he returns to his
home in Lincoln 1t is his earnest desire
to respond in person, if possible
If Mr.. Bryan can come to Los Angeles
on the Fourth" said Mr. Cole 'he viii be
greeted by the grea test and most glorious
gathering of American citizens ever wit
messed west of the Aneghenies- The Re
publican Silver club of Los Angeles, of
which 1 am president, is 5000 strong, and
every one of them voted for Mr.. Bryan.
We have handsome headquarters, and
keep our organization in perfect trim. It
is the largest Republican silver club in
the United States was one of the al
ternate Republican delegates from the
state at large to the st. Louis convention,
but left the party when it adopted the
single gold standard platform We think
that we put up the best fight of the cam
paign in Los Angeles and Southern Cali
fO5-1lia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
X. N. G. REORGANIZED.
Inspection of Entire Force to Be
Made During May.
An Effort Will Be Made to I'm
prove Workmanship
By Series of Target Practices Last
ing From May to November.

The Kansas national guard has IN
dergone some important changes and
has been reorganized, the four brigades
consolidated into one and Major Gen
eral Charles AIcCrum of Garnett has
been assigned to command Brigadier
General G. J. Carver has been assigned
special duties on the staff of the com
mander-in-c chief.
These announcements are made in
general orders No. 8 now being issued
by Adjutant General Hiram Allen. The
order also contains instructions regard
ing inspections which will be held dur
ing the month of May.
The commanding officers of regiments
will inspect their respective companies.
This is also a. new departure.
The LeayenWorth rifles viii be in
spected by w s. NTetcalf of Lawrence,
colonel of the First infantry The In
dependent colored company at Wichita
Hoisington of Newton of the Second
regiment.
Major General Charles NIcCrum will
inspect light battery of Topeka and
Brigadier General c. J. Carver will in
spect light battery A at Wichita
Second Lieutenant Harry A. Smith,
First United States infantry, is as
signed to duty as inspector and in
structOr of the military forces of the
state, with the rank Of colonel In ad-
ditiOn to his other duties he will have
charge and issue instructions for the
small arms target practice of the
guard.
Although foreign countries have con-
siderable fun at the expense of the
standing armies of the United States,
they stand among the first among all
the countries Of the world on target
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22

volonte whist club yesterday after
noon at her rooms at the Blower house
Mrs. E. P. Baker played for Mrs. E S.
Shockey and Mrs. George Stansfield
was a guest of the club. The next meet
ing will be Thursday evening. April %,
at the Hotel Chesterfield at which time
the ladies will entertain their friends.
Mrs. Fulton, who fell and broke her
thigh last Saturday, is resting. as wei
as could be expected. This is the third
accident in that family recently, as not
Ions ago Mr.. Sam Fulton of Kansas
City broke his thumb, and Mrs Annie
Glib is just recovering from a sprained
ankle.
At the regular meeting of Shawnee
council No. 3 Knikghts and Ladies Of
Security, Tuesday evening. April 20.the
following officers were installed; Pres
ident, c. Kaser; first vice president,
Mrs. Coburn; second vice president,
Tony Rolf; financial secretary DR.. NJ
S. Swift; corresponding secretary, Mrs
c. Kaiser; treasurer, Ella L. Sly; pre-
late, s. A. Hayes; guard, Mr.. Clark The
national president, Mr.. Kirkpatrick,
was present, and addressed the couu-
Gil, after which refreshments were
served and dancing enjoyed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
GREEKS LEAVE NEW YORK.
Within a Week 1000 Subjects of
King George WIN Sail

New York, April 22.-It is likely that
within a week Loco Greeks viii sail on a
the fight with Turkey. The steamer viii
sail under the American flag. direct to
Athens. The cost of the excursion will
be borne by the National league of Greece
which has members in nearly every part
OF the world. Solon J. Waists, editor of
the Greek newspaper, Atlantis. says to-
day that the Atlantis fund had now $50
600 sent in by Greeks to aid in sending
volunteers to Greece
Money is still pouring in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
Grant Monument Dedication.
Excursion Rates to New York.

On the 9th of April. in the magnih-
cent Mausoleun upon the bank of the
Hudson river, Columbia, will en-
shrine the ashes of her greatest captain.
The event is one without parallel IN
the history of the nation, and the cere-
monies will be of unwonted pomp spie!1-
dor and solennity. The occasion Wlll
be graced by the presence OF the presl-
dent, the supreme court, and the great
civic officers of the nation ana ths
states. The army and navy the natloL-
al guard of the states, the Crane A.
my of the Republic and other patIlotlc
and civil organiza lions will unite 70
form the most superb pageant ever sen sen
in America Many foreign nations WI
send special representatives ana saIPs
of war to join our own matchless Lees
in ma iestic procession to the IoTnO OF
Grant IN z,,oe,7
rate excursion tickets to New YORK
AnriI 23d to 26th, inclusive, valid Tor re
arm Journey until May 4th, inclusive
and good to stop off at Washington re
turning. The round trip fare from Ch n,r
cago viii be S2400. and correspondlngly
INV rates from points east
For detailed information as 70 tfaIls'
etc address L. S. Allen, Assistant Cen
erai Passenger Agent, B. & y. r. H.
Chicago.
we do mendi1tg and sew on buttons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
NO DUTY UPON TEA.
Treasury Department Issues New and
Explicit Regulations

Washington, April 22-Under the re-
cent act of congress in relation to the
importation of tea, the treasury depart
ment has found it necessary to issue
new regulations. setting forth with
great detail the proper treatment of the
merchandise.
No duty is exacted upon tea and the
sole object of the act was the protec-
ton of the consumers from the sale of
unwholesome and fraudulent teas. A
board of tea experts selected by the
secretary has established a line of
standard samples representing the var
ious kinds and grades of admissible
teas.
The act takes effect May l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
FLOUR MARkET POOR.
northwestern Miller Says Foreign
Business, Especially, Unsatisfactory.

Minneapolis. April 22.-The Northwest-
ern Miller says: While large sales of
flour We're made last week, the market
mills booked orders for 520, 600 barrels, but
the bulk of it was sold in domestic mar
kets.
Buyers were hardly prepared to pay the
equivalent of the advance in wheat for
flour The foreign business done was es-
pecially disappointing In a general way
prices are about 80 cents per barrel high
er than a week ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
Big Iniun This

Cynthiana. KY, April 22-On the
farm of John Hill, this county, skele-
ton was found of an Indian that meas
llres feet 4 inches. Many valuable
trinkets were found with the remains
Old citizens say ne was an Indian chief.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22

Unconditional surrender, is the only
terms those famous little pills known
as DeWitt's Little Early Risers will
make with constipation, sick headache
and stomach troubles. G. w. STAINS
field, 632 Kansas ave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
LOVING CUP FOR GRAU.
Farewell Dinner Given the Grand
Opera Man in New York.

New York, April 22.-Maurice Grau. who
will sail for Europe today, was given
farewell dinner by his fellow members of
the Phoenix club last night at the Gflsey
House when they took occasion to pre-
sent him with q handsome loving cup.
Among the fifty men present We're: NM.
Jean and E. de Reszze, Robert Dunlap,
Milward Adms, f. Lauterbach, F. W.
Henry Dazlan, A. L. Ashman and H
ROSemer.
every Tue present.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
FIRST ON RECORD.
New Orleans Negro Woman Gradu-
ate of Medicine.

New Orleans, April 22.-The state
board of medical examiners have given
a diploma to Miss Emma Wakefield to
practice medicine
She is the first negro woman in the
south, and it is said in the union, to re
ceive this honor. She is the daughter Of
ex-senator Wakefield and a graduate of
the medical department of the New Or
leans Colored University.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
The Rock Island

Is still selling through tickets and
checking baggage to the Occident, the
Orient and intermediate points, and
will continue to 60 SO. For rates, etc,
call at Rock Island passenger station.
Phone 334.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22

Tickets for Leah, the Forsaken," at
the Grand Friday evening, are now on
sale at SHOWS drug store
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22
IlIin OILS at Omah

Springfield. Ill, April 22-The senate
committee on appropriations today or
dered reported favorably the bill for
$50, 600 to enable the state to participate
in the Transmississippi and Information
al exposition at Omaha in 1898
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22

Liver complaints cured by BEECHAMs
PILLS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-22

We do mending and sew on outtons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laundry
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-10

There is a list of goo Is which VA.
recently paid 10y a Young man in our
employ TO fatherin-law who had an
eve for business before the Young man
secured his wife Aud the time will
never come when his father-iu-laW
will not regard il as his perfect right
TO ask his son-in-law for ANYTHING
more he may want. The list is thus.
Eighty neptunes, five guns. thirty
two marks about So worth of cloth.
three goats, five cases of gin. three
kegs of powder, two zinc trunks. two
umbrellas, one coat, two chairs. two
tall hats, three felt hats, one flag, -four
shirts, one tin Of sugar, eight drink.
ing glasses, twelve plates, one lamp
two brass kettles, four small iron pot.
one knife, twenty-five pipes, two jugs,
one large iron pot, thirty brass wires.
four pairs of scissors, and about
twenty-three marks in cash, So. -.
Quite long, costly list for this
country, when it is remembered
that this young man receives Iut
twenty marks about So per month
for his wages, upon which he must
clothe himself as we'll as divide with
others. When the father-in-law con
cludes that the son-in-law has paid
him enough, for the time being, ion
his daughter, he then gives her over
10 the young man. and she becomes
his wife, Church at Home and
Abroad
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-10
COD AMONG ORCHARDS.
Row. DIR. Talmage on the PomoIogy of
the Bible.

the Bible.
TEXT: 1.-The fruit tree yielding fruit
after its kind. Genesis L., 2.
Beginning with the Garden Of Eden as
the first spontaneous, magnificent orchard,
and the expulsion from it of the first pair
because they tasted of the forbidden fruit
of the tree of knowledge, DIR. Talmage
continued:
This story of Eden is rejected by some as
an improbabiity, il not an impossibility,
but nothing on earth is easier for me to
believe than the truth Of this Edenic story,
for have seen the same thing in this year
of our Lord 1897. l could call them by
name If it were polite and righteous to do
so, the men who have sacrificed paradise
on earth and paradise in heaven for one
sin. Their house went. Their library
went. Their good name went. Their field
of usefulness went. Their health went
Their immortal soul went. My friends!
there is Just one sin that will turn YOU out
of paradise if you do not quit it. You
know what it is and God knows, and you
had better drop the hand and arm lifted
toward that bending bough before you
pluck your own ruin. When Adam stood
on tiptoe and took in his right hand that
one round peach, or apricot, or apple,
Satan reached up and pulled down the
round, beautiful world of our present resi-
dence. Overworked artist, overwrought
merchant, ambitious politician, avaricous
SPECTATOR better take that warning from
Adams orchard and stop before you put
out for that one thing more.
But turn from Adams orchard to Solo
mons orchard. With his own hand he
writes: II made me gardens and orchards. -
Not depending on the natural fall of rain,
he irrigated those orchards. Pieces Of the
aqueduct that watered those gardens | have
seen, and the reservoirs are as perfect as
when thousands of years ago, the masons
trowel smoothed the mortar over their gray
surface. No orchard Of olden or modern
time, probably, ever had its thirst so well
slaked. The largest of these reservoirs is
582 feet long, POI feet wide, and fifty feet
deep. These reservoirs Solomon refers to
when essays: 81 made me pools of water,
to water Herewith the wood that brlngeth
forth trees" Solomon used to ride out to
that orchard before breakfast. 1t gave
him an appetite and something to think
about all the day. Josephus, the historian,
represents him as going out "early in the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-10

RoXbury, in Massachusetts. being a
suburb of Boston, loves to do Chris
tian works under some other name. be
II Hebrew, Buddhist OF materialistic-
philosophical. Consequently it re-
lolces Ill its latest social settlement
the Ben Adhem house-with rs mnch
JOY as though that delightful hero of
Leigh Hunts poem We're the only one
who ever commended love of ones
fellow men as great virtue. The Ben
Adhem house is run on slightly differ
ent lines from the College Settlement.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashton, young married
couple of philauthropic tendencies,
live i'll it and manage it. Clubs, kin
dergartens and classes of all sorts
meet in the house-New York Journal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-10
"AD" NEUENDORFF DEAD.
Founder and Organizer of Famous
"pOp" Concerts.

NEW YORK, Dec. 7--Adolph Neuendorif,
celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic as a
composer and musical director, and organizer
of the famous Pop" concerts in Boston and
other cities, has just died suddenly here. He
had suffered from a prolonged Illness but
heart failure was the immediate cause Of
death. The artist breathed his last in the
presence of his wife. the well known singer,
whose stage name is Georgine Won janus
chowski. He was born in Hamburg, Ger
many, June 10, lS43 and came to America
with his father in 1855, at once entering
the public schools in the meanwhile and sub
sequently paying special attention to the
study of music. His great characteristics
were Thorough knowledge of orchestration.
a large acquaintance with musical works,
both classical and modern. sympathetic
and elastic style of conducting, and a fine
perception of what gained the public ear,
both of cultivated and uncultlvated au-
diences. His most noted works are The
Rat Catcher of Hameln, Don Quixote, -
Der Minstrel and "Waldmeisters Braut-
fahrt"