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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
A COSTLY WEIGH
Woman Pays $5 to Kansas City
Slot Machine.

Kansas City, Aug. 13.-"Say, I put
81 gold piece into that machine that
weighs folks out there, by mistake.
Can't you get it for me?" exclaimed
a handsome blonde woman at the ticket
window at the union depot late yester-
day afternoon. Mr.. Lynn Banks ex-
plained to her that the weighing ma
chine is considered a very important
piece of depot property and that two
KEYS are necessary to open it. One OF
those keys is carried by Mr.. Sanford,
the depot superintendent, and the other
is in possession of Mr.. Banks. Neither
alone can get at the money in the ma
chine.
You will have to find Mr. Sanford
and then we will see if we can gel your
money for you" said the ticket man.
That's all right if you mean what
YOU say and are not trying to beat
me" replied the woman as she hes1tat-
ingly started in the direction indicated
as Mr. Sanford's office.
In the superintendent's Office she
again told her story and expressed her
doubts as to whether there was not a
scheme on foot to keep her from re-
covering her cherished gold piece Mr.;
Sanford and Mr.. Banks finally opened
the weighing machine and returned the
coin. Then she blushed and handed
Mr.. Banks the nickle which should nave
gone into the machine in the first place,
saving. THANK you ever so kindly, SIR.
There's your money.
She refused to tell her name and DIS
anpeared on one of the evening trains.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13

Women in charge of homes and care
worn, complaining people find their
strength permanently established by
the use of Paine's celery compound, the
greatest nerve restorer and blood pur1-
fer the world has ever been blessed
with. Try it, and when you go to the
drug store for Paine's celery compound
see that you get it.
Mrs. Bolser speaks for countless Wo-
men who have suffered from aching
backs, worn and tired feelings, ana
have been freed from pain and weak
ness by Paine's celery compound. Mrs
Bolser tells the story of her dellverance
from invalidism in the two following
letters: -,
Montana Junction, Tenn, Nov. 3, '94.
Wells. Richardson & Co,
Dear Sirs: Two years ago came
from Nova Scotia, and 1 suppose my
debilitated condition was partially ow-
ing to climatic influences. used var
ious kinds of medicines, but continually
grew weaker, until it was with dlfhcuIty
that L could go up and down stairs ana
in trying to walk out of doors, coulo
go only a few steps when L would pc
obliged to lean against a tree or sit
down. I had read frequently OF PANE
celery compound and resolved to use II.
tt nut me on my feet again, so that
began to take courage 4 used several
bottles and Z feel that owe you oeol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
RIGHT VIEWS OF LIFE.
Ewing Herbert's Comment on the
John Collins Affair.

Ewing Herbert, editor of the Brown
County World, sums up the John Collins
affair:
'EThe miserable story of John Collins,
a. fast Topeka boy who probably murder
ed his father, is the result of spending
more money than he had to spend. He
was in love with daughter of one of
the first families in Lawrence-a young
woman used to having money spent for
Inns couldn't keep up the pace and WASH t
enough of a man to tell her so and give
her up, if need be. Had she cared for
him, his frank avowal that he lacked
money would not have made her think
less of him, but she might have thought
more of him. We all know that a boy
who attends school to study and make the
most of his opportunities can't cut much
figure in the social swim at the same time.
He must either neglect his studies or neg
leet society. The Collins boy may not
nerve himself for the crime he may have
committed, he first murdered his good
resolutions to study hard and secure a
self-supporting equipment Life is not a
dance, nor a picnic, nor an evening with
a pretty girl. Life is a stern employer.
who always pays a man just what he is
worth. No man ever fooled Life This
weak boy was partially wrecked by a
girls selfishness. He deserves no SYM
pathy on this account, but really we think
a girl who leads a young man into social
as his accessory when he gets into trou-
BILE No good woman, no worthy woman.
no woman who is capable of loving and
helping man, will ever think the less of
him if he has the courage to stick to his
work and live within his MEANS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
BOYCOTT TAX-DODGERS.
Indiana Druggists Decide Not to Han
die Proprietary Medicines.

Indianapolis, Aug. 13.-Retan druggists
in over fifty cities and towns in Indiana
met here today on a special call of the
State Pharmaceutical association to take
turers who have raised the price of pro-
prietary medicines on account of the war
tax 1t was decided to make formal
request that manufacturers return to be-
fore the war prices and that no goods
coming from manufacturers who persist
in raised prices should be handled 1t
was reported that 6212 per cent of all man
ufacturerS have raised the price of pat
ent medicines. The advance in most cases
is three times the amount of the war tax
Secretary Timberlake of the state assoc
citation delivered a message from Senator
Fairbanks stating that the object of the
law was to tax the patent medicine rnauu-
factrers and not the retailers.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
G.. G. Goodwin, of CIR eenleaf, a
Conductor by Promotion.
Central Branch Conductor Stops
Train i'm a Field
TO GET PASSENGERS.
Who Suddenly Drive in Another
Direction.
Woman Paid S. to Be Weighed
in Kansas City Depot.
o GET PASSENGERS.

Greenleaf, Aug. 13.-The many friends
of G. c. Goodwin will be pleased to
know that he has been promoted to a
position as conductor, and given
local freight run between Atchison and
Greenleaf.
Passenger Conductor Chas. V.
Fletcher seldom let's a passenger get
away from him. Near Arnes he saw
buggy a quarter of mile away coming
at break-neck speed to catch the train
as he supposed. The passengers were
holding their breath thinking he might
signal the train to move on. He wait
ed and as they came near the depot
at rapid rate, they suddenly turned,
and waving their handkerchief at the
conductor and the large number of pas
sengers looking out of the windows they
glided past the train, following it down
at about an even race as far as Clyde.
Conductor Fletcher arrived at Greenleat
on time.
Although the corn crop is partially
a failure in the Central Branch country
railroad business is keeping up good
Last nights trains brought in from the
county west of GreenIeaf As car loads
of hogs and cattle and six cars of
wheat.
The Central Branch construction
train, with about fifty men, is ditching
and fixing the water ways along the
track between Greenleaf and Water
vile.
The Barnes depot is to be enlarged to
double its present size at once.
4 Seven chain gang railroad crews are
running extra trains between Greenleaf
and AtchisOn.
Station Agent L. NJ. Shippee and fam
lily are visiting relatives and friends IN
their old Illinois home. On their return
home they will visit the Omaha eXpos1-
ton.
The usual annual rumor that the
Greenieaf division is to be moved to
Concordia has broken out among the
railroad boys here.
J. T. Hungate, extra railroad agent,
has relieved Station Agent Shippee, at
| the Greenleaf depot, who is away on a
months visit.
Conductor H. z. Shumway, of the
| eastern division, has returned from a
| western hunting tour.
| E. J. Cook is assisting as night helper
in the GreenIeaf depot in place of Frank
| Shippee, who takes the position of w;
| A Peck, the day helper, who is confined
| to his home on account of sickness.
Ed. O'Connen has again taken his
| run as brakeman on the middle division.
| Harry Fried of Atchison has been
given a position as night switchman in
| the Greenleaf yards.
Mrs. Ross, wife of Engineer Charley
| Ross, has moved to Atchison.
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THE SOUTH AND THE 4TH.
a Mobile Paper Makes a Plea for
More Patriotism.

Mobile. Aug. z1s-The Register, an IN
compromising Democratic paper and here
publishes the following editorial:
We propose that the people of the south
revive the celebration of the Fourth of
July. That celebration has been preternnit-
ted since the war between the states, and
the occasion of manifestations formerly in
vogue in the south and still in vogue in
change would not have been made but for
the war. Once having been made, how
cause of the animosity growing out of the
war and partly because the weather at
door exercise than is the weather in July.
The animosities of the lat war have been
terfere with our observance of the
anniversary. of the natal day of
count of the weather remains. of course,
but it is offset by the fact that there is
the celebration of Christmas in the way
it has been celebrated in the south. To
is absolutely purposeless. Anyone who
gives the matter a moments thought
versary of the. birth of the Prince of Peace
by an internal din of cannon cracker and
excused only on the ground that the
young people ought to have at least once
a year a chance to make noise.
What better time than this, therefore,
to abandon an unreasonable practice and
rfous Fourth? We see once again "a unit nit
ed country, the north and south Joined in
men wearing the uniform of blue and
southern men bearing the flag of our re
public. Why, if there were nothing else
to rejoice over. this spectacle itself should
arouse enthusiasm. But there is more
than this. This spectacle is the. result
of the form of government bequeathed to
US by our ancestors, and that govern
ment itself was the first great result Of
was given to the world on the 4th of July,
1776. No other nation has ever been able
to display such a reunion of it's various
elements. Nations. indeed, have been split
asunder by rebellions and revolutions and
have again been reunited, but those old
sores were closed only by the death of the
participants. Time has proved the only
healer: IN our case, on the contrary:
them marching shoulder to shoulder equal
comrades, equal in honor equal in re-
sire to perpetuate the republic.
Indeed, it is something worth celebrat-
( ing, this anniversary of the beginning of
q republic in which such thing can be
( accomplished.
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foreign customers. Even Spain is down
for six, contracted for before host1l1tles
began. Other countries represented are
china. Australia, Argentina, Mexico
Japan, Egypt, Russia and Brazil.
=
Hong Kong is not a city in China, as
is generally supposed, but it is an island
belonging to Great Britain, lying off the
coast of China some sixteen miles 1t
was ceded to Great Britain by China IN
1871 It's chief city, and the place from
which all cablegrams dated Hong Kong
are sent. is Victoria. It is the great dis
tributing center of the far east, and is
the commercial clearing house of China
A new paint for ship bottoms has for
it's chief constituent seaweed, which,
green and wet, is ground in oil ana then
mixed with Iitharge, lead acetate, tur-
pentine and linseed oil previously Wen
boiled together. This is claimed to solve
the problem of preventing shell and sea-
weeds from adhering to the vessel.
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Of gratitude for the same. recon-
mend the compound to my friends Iar
and near. n 771sar
After two years Mrs. Bolser sun
rraises Paine's celery compound
ST. Elmo, Tenn, June 70 1850.
Dear Sirs: 1 still continue FRIEND
and well wisher of Paine's celery com
Mound. and have received replies from
NV friends of it's good results on my
Recommendation. I wish you contlh-
ned success. Yours truly,
Mrs. c. B. Bolser.
One of the largest retail druggists IN
the citv whose business enables MN 70
feel the public pulse in the matter Oh
sickness and it's cure, says, omen are
peculiarly in need of a pleasant tonic.
Thev suffer from exhaustion, and IN
Paine's celery compound they IND IN
slant relief Many families now use IT.
and many wives give it to their nus
bands when they return home at nlght
worn out from business cares. II never
fails to invigorate both the mlnd ana
the body and is a preparation thaI
meets a common want for a sa1e anu
beneficial tonic
Paine's celery compound is just the
remedy that suits the condition OF Wo-
men run down in health, with unstrung
nerves, wasted bodies, and thin, Vlrlateu
l blood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
GALVESTON AT WORK
To Secure All the West Indian Trade
Possible.

Galveston, Tex, Aug. 13.-Today the
announcement was made that Munson
of New York had chartered the steam
ship Olinda Of the Diedericksen line,
now in port, to ply in the West Indian
trade and that August Is she would
be transferred to Fowler & McVittie,
agents of the Nunson line, and by them
dispatched to Santiago de Cuba on Au-
gust Is with a cargo of live stock and
merchandise. The OIinda has a ton
age capacity of 2 300 tons. and has ac-
commodation for Sc saloon and 10
steerage passengers. She is chartered
for six months, with an option for six
months more if the conditions warrant
her retention in the trade. Should the
development of trade conditions be
tween Galveston and the West Indies
warrant the retention of the Olinda in
the trade she will ply regularly between
Galveston and the West Indies; if not
she will be assigned to other ports
where the trade is better. The Olinda
will take the place of the Spero, which
was booked for this port August IS. AL
ready quite a number of inquiries have
been made for passage on the Olinda
to Santiago de Cuba, and the fare has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
CENTRAL AMERICA NEXT.
American Prospectors Pouring Into
That Country in Large Numbers.


That Country in Large Numbers.
Atlanta, Aug. 13-CoIone1 J. Bascom
Jones leaves for San Jose, Costa RIGA,
Monday, August Is, and wit him goes
a party of prospective investors and
sightseers who wish to see for them
selves if the country comes up to the
description given by Colonel Jones'
Among the party are the following
we'll known gentlemen: Mr. L. L.
Corbett of 'ChilIingsworth & Corbett.
attorneys; Mr.. E. H. Barnes the well
known railroad man, lately with Brad
street; Mr.: Toney Murphy of the Fourth
National bank; Mr.. c. M. @. Gilmore
civil and mining engineer of Decatur
late Of the United States surveying
corps Of Chickamauga park; Mr.. Gus
Lane of LAGRANGE, Ga, and others
An excursion has been arranged for
Octoper 1st which will be in charge of
Mr. W. R. Polk, jr., electrical engineer
OF 12S Marietta street. Mr. Polk will
move his entire plant from this city to
san Jose, Costa Rica, and with him will
go party of investors.
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LESSONS OF SANTIAGO.
Warships Useless Unless Manned by
Well Trained Seamen.

london Aug 13-The Daily Telegraph
val battle at Santiago from its special
correspondent at Siboney, IN Whlcn inc
showing the terrible potency with which
the United States ships and crews as
posed of their enemy the feebleness Of
the Spanish defense, and the lessons Whlcn
other navies can draw from the results Oh
the battle"
The Spaniards no doubt were hopeless
ly outmacnined, but the damage +Peffsoa 1Ial
ponents was so small in proportion to the
Weapons az thelr coaniane {naI r an
the American sailors would stllI nave
''The battle also proves that it is use
less, or worse than useless, pecaus9 s, 1t
ships and modern guns unless the men IN
who are to work them are thoroughly
trained in their use. In the Spanish navy
such a thing as target practice was rarely
heard Of and the gunneTS1 were 91 oaly IN m
target practice and thorough drill were
inceSSant. The result was that when
the day of battle came the American gun
ners were able to give an exhibltlon OF
craftsmanship in sea gunnery that mas
never been equalled in the world, and
which the sailors of no other navy, not
gun captains of the French navy, can
nope 70 e4cea OF eyen eaesI, III
ropean races are nearly all equally cour-
ageo1s ana eq9ay yen ;iffa1T orniza
ton which best prepares its men during
the time of peace.
$50 far the lessons of the naval portion
of the American war are:
THAT fast battleships are everything.
Have big batteries on board.
TEACH the men to shoot Well
LAS for personnel, the Anglo-Saxon can
beat anything that floats.
The battleship is and must be the
great arbiter in naval warfare Protected
or partly protected cruisers will be help
less except against their own class, and
then victory will go to the ship that keeps
the most rapid and most accurate fire.
The ship with the heaviest battery stands
the best chance of success, other things
being equal, and it is to be regretted that
our naval authorities do not arm our ships
as heavily as some of our nejghborS in
proportion to their tonnage. We devote,
no doubt, increased space to coal and re,
serve ammunition, but as Lord Beresford
says, It's no use having tons of ammu-
milton on board if you have not guns to
shoot quickly enough at your enemy
I whenever he appears.
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OLD CARS CONDEMNED.
Central Branch Secures New Rolling
Stock at Atchison.

Atchison, Aug. 13-The old condemned
box cars which have been standing on
the side tracks at the shops for some
time have been replaced by twenty one
new cars turned out by the Missouri
car and Foundry company of St. Louis
The old cars were of 10000 capacity
while the new ones are of $4,000 capaci-
tv. and are equipped with automatic
air brakes and automatic cOuplers. FIT
tom Of the old cars have been converted
into portable section tool houses and
will be distributed along the road.
Several carpenters from the 81 LOUIS
and OsawatoInie shops are to be added
to the force in the car department at
the Central Branch shops, to assist IN
renodeling all of the old cabooses
before cold weather sets IN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
LIBRARIAN BEER.
Topeka People Will Remember Him
Something About Him in
the Picayune.

TFrom the New Orleans Picayune.l
William Beer, librarian of the Howard
memorial and the Fisk free and pubic
library, has returned to his work after
a trip to the north, and states that at New .1.,
Orleans is the coolest place ne mas
struck in the course of thirty days
travel, with three exceptions only-at
night on Lake Chautauqua, ar carry
morning on Long Island sound and at
shutdown on the sands of Seagirt.
Mr. Beer has made pretty good use
of his thirty days absence, five days or
this were passed in attendance on the
library conference at Lakewood on the
shore of Lake Chautauqua-
Visits to Boston public library, the
Forbes library at Northampton, Mass,
the latest and best example of library
building in that state, and the Congress
sional library, convinces Mr.; Beer tnaI
there is no better ventilated or lighted
reading room in the United States than
that provided in the erstwhile ballroom
now occupied by the Fisk free and pup
lie library of this city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
OMAHA EXPOSITION.
une 1st to October s1st the Grand

June 1st to October 31st the Grand
est Exposition
Except Worlds Fair) ever planned in
the United States. Located within
cheap and quick access of the entire
Missouri and Mississippi Valleys, at
vonr own doors. Through tickets be-
yond omaha allow stop-overs. Reduced
excursion rates to Omaha. Take the
Burlington Route the old and firmly es-
IA blished line to and through Omaha in
any direction.
L. W. WAKELEY,
General Passenger Agent
HOWARD ELLIOTT,
General Manager.
St. Louis. Mo
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Jaundice Cured

Suffering humanity should be supplied
with every means possible for it's relief
It is with pleasure we publish the follow
ing: This is to certify that I was ter
rible sufferer from yellow jaundice for
over six months, and was treated by some
Of the best physicians in our city, and all
10 no avail Dr.. Bell, our druggist rec
commended Electric Bitters; and after
taking two bottles, I was entirely cured.
I now take great pleasure in recommend
ing them to any person suffering from
this terrible malay I am gratefully f!L. J,
yours, NJ, A aogg9ar1t5y, Lexington, Ky
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13
BRAVE SUPERINTENDENT.
wisconsin Railroad Man Routs Gang
of Train Robbers.

Jefferson, Wis, Aug. ia south
bound passenger train was held up here
on the north siding by five tramps, who
made q bold attempt to go through the
train and rob the passengers, but were
checked by F. r. Moulton, assistant
division superintendent, who fired four
shots at them and succeeded in fright
ening them away. Conductor Frank
Brown and a brakeman had a hand to
hand fight with the wOuld-be robbers,
who were all finally captured and are
now in Jail.
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been fixed as follows: Saloon, $50; steer
age, $50.
A cable has been received here from
the captain of the steamship Gyller
which sailed from here July Is for San
tiago de Cuba. Galveston business
and shipping men realize that the COM
petition for the West Indian trade is
going to be fierce, but are going to en-
ter the fight determined to secure
share of the traffic.
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Sues Rock Island for $4,000.

James I. Packard, a Kansas City
brakeman in the employ of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad COM
pany, was killed by falling between cars
while the train was switching in the
Hannibal & st. Joseph yards. Yester-
dav his widow, Sarah Packard, brought
suit against the company for $1,000
damages, claiming that the death of her
husband was due to negligence on the
part of other EMPLOYEES Of the road.
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Burlington & Quincy railroad, the cor
oner's Jury rendered a verdict accusing
the company officials and employees of
criminal negligence and carelessness
and the engineer, John T. Titus. of
failure to blow his whistle at crossings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-13

Following is the presidents reply:
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. C.,
Aug. II, 1898.
Major General Breckenridge, Chicka-
manga Park, Ga:
Replying to your invitation, I beg to
say that it would give me great pleas
ure to show by a personal visit to
Chickamauga park my high regard for
the 10000 troops of your command who
so periodically responded to the call
for volunteers and who have been for
upwards of two months making ready
for any service and duty the country
might require. My duties, however,
will not admit of absence from Wash
ington at this time.
The highest tribute that can be paid
to the soldier is to say that he per
formed his full duty. The field of duty
is determined by his government and
where ever that chances to be is the
place of honor. All have helped in the
great cause, whether in camp or bat
tie and when peace comes all will be
alike entitled to the nations gratitude.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
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The Ladies of the G. A R. have ar
ranged for through train to Cincinnati
via Santa F'e on September s. The
round trip is $3.50. An excellent op-
portunity to give your family an outing.
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COnOmy....

Is the road to wealth. You know this
but do you practice it. You do not if you
go to a grocery and pay ten per cent more
for your groceries~than we charge you for
them You should take advantage Of prices
which we are enabled to give you on &C
count Of large cash purchases. Read our
list of prices and see if you can afford to
give your orders elsewhere. We don't
think you can. Try US.