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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

The price of silver continues to ad-
vance in the face of party endorse
ments of the single gold standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

is becoming so great that it may soon
be quoted at a premium
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

IF'rOm the AtchisOn Globe.1
You are always hearing of people
who are in it; well, there are different
kinds of its to be in.
Pawpaws are offered for sale at the
fruit stands They are to fruit what
owl, buzzard and crow are to poultry.
There are very few young girls who
become grown women without passing
through one period when they look al
most tough
If a man quits a JOB to take a better
one, or a girl quits to get married, it
can be truthfully said that they re-
signed. In almost all other cases, it is
usually a firing.
An Atchison woman wears a carbon,
two Irish potatoes, and four buckeyes
in her stockings, and still has the rheu-
matism. This is not the least of her
misfortunes: she had occasion recently
to lift her skirt up in going over a
muddy crossing, and those who saw the
bumps have started a story on her that
she is deformed.
There are different ways Of out-last-
ing a siege. An Atchison young man
let it be known to the girls that he got
only $40 a month and had to support
three women relatives back east, and
since that time the girls no longer walk
past his boarding house at dusk. He
really salts down more than that
amount every month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

Hear U. S. Senator w A Harris at
Lukens' Opera House, Saturday even
ing, September "a, 1898.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

For some time past silver has been
showing a disposition to speak foritself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.

TFrom the Atchison Globe.1
You are always hearing of people
Who are in it; well, there are different
zinds of its to be in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

Pawpaws are offered for sale at the
fruit stands. They are to fruit what
owl, buzzard and crow are to poultry.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

In "Hawthorne's First Diary" begun
at his home in Raymond, Me-, when hl
was small boy, he tells bear story
which is vouched for by his editor. Iaw
thorTc gives it rs follows:
Mr.. Henry Turner of Otisfleld took hi:
AK and went out between Saturday anC
Moose ponds to look at some pine trees. A
rain had just taken off enough Of the SHOW
to lay bare the roots Of part of the trees
Under large root there seemed to be q
cavity, and on examining closely some
thing was exposed very much like long
black hair.
He cut off tho root, SAW the nose Of G
bear and killed him, pulled out tho body,
saw another, killed that and dragged out
the carcass, when he found that there was
a third one in the den, and that he was
thoroughly awake, too, but as soon as the
head came in sight it was split open with
the ak, so that Mr. Turner alone, with
only an AK, killed three bears in less than
half an hour, the youngest being good
sized one and what the hunters call q
yeariing.
This is a pretty great bear story, but
probably true, and happened only few
weeks ago, for John Patch, who was herr
with his father, Captain Len Patch, who
lives within two miles of Saturday pond
told me so yesterday.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
HOTELS MORGUE SHELF.
Mementos of TorcetfuI Guests That Are
| Slowed Away Until CIoimcd

Nementos of Torcetful Guests That Are
Slowed Away Until Claimed.
"That is what we call the 'morgue'
shelf " said porter at Il down town hotel
the other day as be applied another c0at
of backing to a pair OF shoes he was shin
ing and incidentally answered a question
put to him by the customer. "Somo OF
those satchels have been here for six or
seven years. \ hotel has now and then
guests who fail to show up in the course
of Il day or two. The valse is left with Us
rs a sort of security, but the value of the
article and contents seldom equals the bill
due for board and lodging. We have satch-
els of all kinds and sizes. Once in awhile
the article left behind has some value, but
then it is usually discovered that the party
interested has been stopping at the hotel
for somo time and put the proprietor of
with excuses. Tho rGlises are seldom
claimed.
'That old tan colorCd valise has been
here since first came. What Il history
there is contained in some OF the travelling
outfits, if they could only tell the story OF
their former owners! Death once il awhile
leaves Il satChol on our hands, but i'll most
instances it is claimed by the relatives.
Sometimes we find the oldest things i'm
aginable when the valises are opened for
inspection. Weight counts for much, yOu
know, and bricks make "a splendid suhsti-
tute for wearing apparel so long as it is
heavincss that is required. Tho 'morgue'
shelf fills Il mission, l suppose" And the
porter threw another glance in the dircc-
ticn of the left behind matcrial.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

Gan Incident il my carly career, " re-
marks LrIDuurno MacDowell, (Which
brought down the house occurred at Mont
real, where 1 was to play Charles the
Wrestler with Adelaide Neilson's company
in As Lou Like It. Ebon Plympton was
the Orlando. ny adversary, and L was
simply restless for the wrestling match to
| come on. ! was Il great athlete in those
days, and when we began l forgot i'll my
excitement that my part called for defeat
and made up my mind that Iwasn' t going
TO lei Piympton down me before all those
people My blood was up. If l won't down,
it would only be because Plympton threw
me fairly.
"'F@,I, c;si!, he kept saying in stage
whisper.
"'IIIha banged if do unless you throw
me, l replied.
'''Eut, ~ dear fellow, you must I
did not Listen. I simply tuggcd him
around, even though l heard tho prompter
| calling ana ar,ticulatiLg, Fall! fail
faIH The gallery caught on to the fact
shat it was real wrestling match, and
they bean to Stout themselves hoarsc.
They keyed ne Up, and rs l was the
stronger unn Of the two Plympton soon
went over my Lead landing HAT on his
back, fail that cost him many lamo
hour afJgrWaTu. ~
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
IN THE WINDPIPE.
What You Should Do if Foreign Body
Enters There.

What You Should Do if a Foreign Body
Enters There.
A most alarming accident, and one
which is often rs serious as it looks, is the
sucking into the windpipe of a morscl of
food or some other substance. This is not
u very rare accident, especially with chill
dren, whose hold all, after the pockets are
crammed, is usually the mouth.
The articles which have been drawn into
the larynx through the sudden taking Of
Il deep breath are of the most varied char
acter, such rs jackstones, nuts, marbles,
coins, buttons and pins, not to mention
burs, corks tin whistles, lccches, shawl
pins, hairpns, false teeth and even a real
tooth which slipped from the forceps Just
as it had HCen extracted. Pieces Of food
are sometimes inhaled through hearty
laughing or excited talking while eating
The entrance of the foreign substance,
even if it is only water, causes violent
coughing ard spasmodic closing of the
larynX, which almost amounts to sutfoca
ton. If tho body has passed through the
larynz into the windpipe, or has been
thrown out, this sutfocative attack passes
off, and the sufferer may think his trouble
is over.
Sometimes it is, if the coughing has ex-
PEELED the intruder, but if this has fallen
below the larynx the condition is very
serious. The body may be expelled during
another violent fit of coughing, but often
it can be removed only by the operation
Of opening the windpipe, known us ira
Chcotomy.
Tho danger of the accident depends
much upon the size and nature of the sub
stance inhaled; if it is hard, smooth and
rounded body, such as a melon seed, 4
small marble or pebble, or the like, there
is very good chance that it may DO cx-
PEELED in the same way it entered.
To favor this expulsion the patient
should lie down, with the head lower than
the feet, or he may be held up for min
ute or two by the heels, in order 10 get the
assistance of the force of gravity. This,
however, should only be done if the doctor
is at hand to perform trachCotoIuy rs n
last resort, because the foreign lody may
become fixed in narrow part of the
iarynx and so causo sUtfocation.-Y Youth
COMPANION.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
voting In Greater New York.

Election day dawns, and it is busy one
for the police. To tho average citizen of
New York and to every small boy who can
help build a bonfire an election means 4
holiday, but the policeman rejoices that it
comes but once year. For weeks prcvi-
Gus to election they, too, have been busy
in preparatory work. Every registration
has been verified by q personal visit, and
IN cases where fraud seems to have been
committed the evidence has been carefully
prepared and warrants issued. The lodg-
ing houses, cheap hotels and like places
have been under the most rigid survcil-
lance for weeks in order to detect and pre-
vent colonization. No person can vote
from one Of these places unless he is known
so have been registered there at least &c
days prior to election day and to have lived
in the county at least four months. When
it is remembered that II, 1876 men were
registered in licensed lodging houses Of
New York on Oct. >, 1897, and IA, 395
mure in the cheap hotels and unlicensed
lodging houses, an idea can be obtained of
the amount Of this kind of work which
falls upon tho police. 1t is interesting to
note that OF this total Of 26, 52l floating
male population only 1860 registered to
vote, and of these only 9, 1913 actually voted
Oh election day.-"The Police Control of a
Great Election" by Police Commissioner
Avery d. Andrews, in Scribner's.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
4 LIGHT THAT GUIDED.
Eow Quick Witted Bank Clerk Ferreted
Ont IN Errnr-

Eow Quick Witted Bank Clerk Ferrcted
Out an Error.
Bookkeeping has been reduced to such
an exact science in the big metropolitan
banks that the clerks are expected to strike
q correct balance 1T the close of each days
work, 10 matter if the transactions run in
to the millions of dollars. When the books
fail to balance, the whole force of the bank
is put to work to discover the error, and
no clerk starts for homo until it is discov-
cred, whether it amounts to 2 cents or 49,,
600. Generally quarter of an hour will
bring the mistake to light, but sometimes
the hunt is kept up until late into the
night.
Such n search was being conducted in a
New York bank located in tho vicinity of
Wall street. FcTty-five cents were missing.
At O'Clock got Il trace Of the Grant sum
had been discovered. Dinner was sent in
for the whole fogcc from an adjoining res
taurant, and after half an hours rest the
search Was again taken up. Midnight
came, but still no clew, SO sandwiches and
coffee were served.
"IclIo!" said a clerk. "The Blank Ma
tional people arc working tonight too.
Guess they're in the same box.
Sure enough, the windows of the bank
across the street were brilliantly lighted.
The incident was soon forgotten when the
worrying hunt after that elusive 10 cents
was resumed. Shortly after l O'Clock in
tho morning, as they were about to give
up for the night, a loud rapping was heard
at the front door Of the bank.
"Hcllo! Hello! What's the matter?"
called the cashier through the keyhole.
"Matter, you chumps! Why, wo'vo get
IL Ill 81 IL
home to beJ!"
Outside stood the crowd of clerks from
the neighboring bank. 1t appeared that
in making Il cash transaction one of tn
banks had paid the other 10 cents too much.
AS result half a hundred men had worked
for ninc hours, and the search was only
ended then because bright clerk, motto
ing tho light in the bank opposite, shrewd-
ly guessed tho cause, hunted up the cash
slip and discovered the erTor.-HarPer's
Round Table.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
EFT Slowly and BE Merry.

At recent meeting of medical men DR..
f. A. Burial spoke of tho amount of mis-
chief done by the very common habit OF
eating the meals rapidly, according to the
farmer motto of quick to eat and quick
to work Thorough mastication was of
the utmost Importance, and, Of course,
this prlsuppOsgd proper condition of tho
teeth Gastric digestion was often weak
enod and much distress was caused by the
ingostion of too much fluid with the food,
particularly at the beginning of the meal.
Another factor i'll causing dyspepsia was
the habit of eating food in silence, or
without that mirth and good fellowship
so necessary to insure nervous condition
favorable to the normal action of the di-
gcstiye organs. These little details might
seem trite and unimportant, but it was
the duty OF the careful physician to in
struct his patients in regard to them. The
long continued and free use of digestive
agents served to mako the digestive or
gans lazy and inactive.-Medical Record.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
COUNT IN THEIR SLEEP.
Eiremen Manage to Eiear the Right Sigma
White They SlumboP.

White They SlumboR.
Jacob : Hiis writes Of 'Ieroes Who
Fight Ere" in The Century. Mr. Riis
says:
How irCmen manage to hear in their
sleep the right signal while they sleep
right through any number that concerns
the next company, not them, is one of the
mysteries that viii probably always re-
main unsolyrd. Il don't know" said
Department Chief Bonner when I asked
him once. Il guess it is the same way
with everybody. You hear what you have
to hear. There is n gong right over my
bed at home, and hear every stroke Of it,
but don hear the baby. My wife hears
the baby il it us much as stirs in its crib
but notth" gong" Very likely he is right.
The fact that tho fireman can hear and
count correctly the strokes of the gong in
his sleep has meant life to many hundreds,
and no end Of property saved, for it is in
the early moments OF a fire that it can be
dealt with suMmarily.
Irccaii one instance in which the failure
to interpret Il signal properly, or the acct
dent of taking q wrong road to the fire,
cost a life. and, singUlarly enough, that of
the wife of one of the tiremen who an
swCrcd the alarm. 1t was all so pitiful,
so tragic, that it has left an indelible i'm
precision on my mind. 1t was the fire at
which Patrick T. Lucas earned the medal
for that year by Snatching five persons out
Of the very jaws of death in Dominick
street tenement. The alarm signal rang
in the hook and ladder company quarters
in North Moore street, but was either mis-
understood or they made a wrong start.
Instead of turning east to West Broadway
the truck turned west and went galloping
toward Greenwich street. 1t was only a
few seconds, the time that was lost, but it
was enough. Fireman Murphy's heart
went up in his throat when, from his seat
on the truck as it flew toward the fire, he
saw that it was his own home that was
burning. Up on the fifth floor he found
his wife peuHcd in. She died in his arms
as he carried her to the fire escape. Tho
fire for once had won in the race for life.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
THE DAY WE GATHERED GOLDENRoD.

THE DAY WE GATHERED GOLDENROD.
A day Of glancing arrow points,
Yet swathed in shadows, olive deep,
When curling leaves were shaken down
And drifted in pungent heap,
When scarlet flowers fell asleep,
Each III fllmy pillow pod,
And all the world was half udream-
The day we gathered gOldenrod.
So still the air, in passing by
A rick Of gathered corn we heard
A harvest spiders startled fight
Wherein yellow blade was stirred.
Some late and lingering autumn bird
Sang low, his lazy head a-nod.
No haste nor harshness seemed to mar
The day we gathered goldenrod.
Wild brambles trailed Il thorny web.
The sumach's lighthouse lowered high,
And damson pluns made purple spots
In orchards that we wandered by.
a light WIS in the autumn sky,
A warmth was in the autumn sod,
Deep autumn turquoise tipped the heights,
The day we gathered goldcnrod.
Our ways have somehow slipped apart
Since then, and you would think it
strange
The trities of one idle day
Arise through every bitter change
And follow me in lifC's wide range.
To me perhaps it seems as odd
That time will never let me lose
The day we gathered goldenrod.
Hattie Whitney in Woman's Home Com
panion.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

General di Cesnola informs the New
York Times that the Metropolitan museum
painting 1.-The Horse Fair" is the orig
inal, and that its twin in the National
gallery, London, is replica Rosa Bon
heur painted both, but she painted the
New York one first. He thinks she also
made a copy in water colors, but he does
not know where it is. "Tho Horse Fair
was given to the Metropolitan museum
by Mr Vanderbilt, who bought it from
the collection of tho late Alexander n.
Stewart, who bought it from Rosa Bon
heur herself
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
How ID. r.rahman Cleans His Teeth,

When the Brahman cleans his teeth, he
must use small twig cut from one of q
number Of certain trees, and before he
cuts it he must make his act known to the
gods of the woods.
He must not indulge in this cleanly
habit every day. He must abstain on the
9th, the Sth, the 9th, tho 18th, the 10Th
and the last day of the moon, on the days
of new and full moon, on the Tuesday il
every week, on the day of the constella
ton under which he was born, on the day
Of tho week and on the day Of the month
which correspond with those of his birth,
at an eclipse, at the conjunction Of the
planets, at the cquinoxcs and other un
lucky cpochs and also on the anniversary
of the death of his father or mother
Any one who cleans his teeth with his
bit of stick on any of the above mentioned
days will have hell as his portion.-"uin
doc Manners" by AbbC Dubois.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

Walking sticks have frequently been left
by Will. Franklin bcqUpathed his favorite
stick, with gold handle shaped like u
capot Liberty, TO George Washington. Tho
gold headed cauo used by Drs. Radcliffe,
Mead and others, whose arms are engraved
upon il, was hcquoathed by Baltic to tho
College Of Physicians. Napoleon's walk
iug sJish Of tortoise shell was sold in Lon
don in 1888 Tor sG3S. Honore de Balzao
had the memcntos he received from vari-
Gus fair admirers, which consisted in part
of precious stones.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

If the ships all moved in one direction
westward l mCan-thc world would suffer
IL Drodigious loss in the matter of valuable
time through the dumping overheard OF
the great meridian of such lnultitudcs Of
DAYS by ships crews and passengers. But
fortunately the ships do not all sail west
Half of them sail east. So there is no rea
loss. These latter pick up all tho discarded
DAYS and add them to the worlds stock
again and about as good as new, too, fol
of course the salt water preserves them
Mark Twain in Following the Equator. D
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
Sure Proof.

81 thought" said the man who had
been burned out, that you told me this
was fircproof safe"
$50 it is, replied the travelling sales
man. ''If any body doubts that you have
had fire, you can point to that safe and
proye itimGediatalE- ''-WeEhjnGtcn ST.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
JOHN A. YOUNG,
Matchmaker and ODdCial.

twenty-five years as a watch repairer, 8
years apprentice. one year under instructions,
BIG years foreman and the balance of my
time in business for myself, during Il this time
l have made a study of "optics," fitting Spec
tacles and Eye Glasses properly, as they should
be fitted.
The lenses are ground to their proper axis
and are fitted and adjusted by myself in Spec
tacles and Eye Glasses of Gold, Silver, Nickel,
sponsible myself for all mistakes.
In fitting Lenses to the eye my speciality is in
Myopia, Hyperopia, Presbyopia and Astigma-
tism, which are near-sighted, far-siehted old
sighted and poor sighted; Nearly all cases of
astigmatis cen in children, causing pain in
the rubbing of the eyelids, pain above the
eyebrow anache, letters running together,
70. ! Rave a complete set of Instruments and
test cards which | use to correct the sight in the
young as well as in the old or miidle-aged
S-I refer to DR.. VIM. S. Richardson, DIR. E.
Hall Richardson, DR.. w. B. Munnikhuysen and
DIR. J. Ward Scott.
JOHN A. YOUNG,
16mh Main Street, Bel Air, Nd.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

Experiments recently made by two
American psychologists proved that while
insufficient light helps to fatigue the eyes
of readers, IA still greater source OF fatigue
is the small size of type.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
GIIE EClSAND N,TELLIGENCER.
Is Published Every Friday by
FRANK E. GORRELL.
TERMs.-sI.OO A Year in advance

Transient IdCertiSentehfS.-One Square, }
insertions or less &l.1u. Each subsequent in
sertion % cents. Longer advertisements in
the same proportion. \ space equal to six
lines makes square. Figure work double
price.
Obituaries and Personal Communications
will be inserted at 10 cents per line.
Yearly Advertisements ut Special Rates.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11
NOTICE,

NOTICE.
WANT every man and woman in the United
States interested in the Opium and Whisky
habits to have one of my BOOKS on these dis
eases. Address Is. NJ. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga,
Box $50, and Que will be Sent you free
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1898-03-11

If precious stones.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-01-15
A POPULAR APPOINTMENT.
Denver Citizens Pleased by the Selection
of Ex-senator Tabor AS P~ostmaster

Denver Citizens Pleased by the Selection
of Ex-senator Tabor as Postmaster.
DENVER, Colo, Jan. l5.-The appoint.
ment of ex-senator H. 4. w. Tabor, to
be postmaster of Denver, is the greatest
surprise III Colorado that has come in
connection with the distribution Of fed.
eral patronage. Even those in the inner
circle Of Republicandom had not the
slightest intimation of the appointment.
The selectioISof Tabor is a very popular
one, because of the feeling manifested
that Tabor does not deserve the hard
luck which he has had for the past few
years. AT the time the nomination
was made the ex-senator was working
at the Eclipse mine. in the Ward gold
district, IN Boulda~ county. A messen.
ger was sent wi : the information and
returned with tlc statement that Tabor
was completely stunned at the inform.
alton. He had evidently not sought it.
Since the loss Of the remnants of his
fortune. two years ago, Mr.. Tabor has
been prospecting for mineral in differ.
ent parts OF the state. Millionaire
Stratton donated him $4,000 two
months ago, with the understanding
that he need not pay it back if he did
not strike mineral in his new venture.
The mine has not proved to be a DO.
nanza, and the salary of postmaster of
Denver will rescue Mr.. Tabor from
penury Il his closing years, and may
lead TO successful mining operations.