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The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-02
PAVING.

FOR first class paving, sidewalk or
building brick. dried by steam and
burned in down-draft kilns, the only way
good vitrffed brick can be made. call on
w. Edison. secretary of c. C " Brick
and Paving Co. E6 w sth Ave
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-02
wANTED-AGENTs.

FRANCES E. WILLARD-Her beautiful
life. complete; Officially authorized and
endorsed Authentic and reliable. Fully
illustrated. Bonanza for agents Liberal
terms. Write today P W. Ziegler &
Co., 324 Dearborn St, Chicago.
The Topeka state journal., 1898-04-02
wANTED-MALE HELP.

ACTIVE man to represent US in thi.
section; $4,000 a month and expenses
capital and experience unnecessary
Address, Shepp Company, 1898 Chest
nut, PhfIa., Pa
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peared in place of their own little one.
Yet the stranger seemed to them like
an angel Her cheeks had beautiful
bloom. and long flaXen hair fell in
curls upon her shoulders. She brought
to them bread and a small basket of
other provisions. Your girl" she said,
will not come back perhaps to-day, but
keep up your spirits! See what she has
sent you.' After these encouraging
words, the young messenger OF good
put into the hands Of the father some
money which she had obtained at hei
own house and taken from her little
bank after she had seen the plight in
which the poor girl at the station
house had been thrown. Then, turning
around to cast lock Of pity and sat-
istactiOn Oh the poor family. who were
dumb with emotion, she disappeared.
When the story was told at the police
station the child was discharged imme-
diately. The circumstances connected
with the case brought money to the
poor man and his family, and he and
his wife We're soon restored to health
and comfort
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
BELATEO SNAKE STORY,
The Reptile That Fell to Pieces and
Came Together Again.

Came Together Again.
During my early boyhood I heard
great many stories about the glass
snake" said Traffic Manager j. G.
Schriever of the Southern Pacific COM
pany to a New Orleans Times Demo-
cr2t man, but it was {; good many
years before I placed any credence in
the fact that the glass snake ever eN-
listed. It happened in an odd sort of
way (ny belief in the facO, and the
existence Of the creature was made
manifest during a most delightful out
ing spent some years ago in western
Texas. In company with a number of
friends l was camping on the banks Of
a small stream in the hill section, and
it was during a jaunt along the banks
of the stream that we came across a
peculiar-lOoking snake, but before the
stick. reached it it suddenly went to
pieces, just for all the world as if it
mad been in sections, the several joints
remaining upon the rock, the head eX-
cepted, which dropped over the side
OF the rock into the grass. There was
no blood spilled and the joints looked
as if they had been smeared on the
ends with sealing wax. To say l was
surprised would express it mildly. l
had never seen anything like it be-
fore. I concluded to take away a sec
companion termed it, for a memento
| wrapped joint in piece of paper
and took it into camp. That evening I
unrolled it, and, after good look, tied
it about the middle with a stout piece
OF string and suspended it from a low
branch near the tent. Then we all
went to sleep. In the morning, before
we had drank our coffee, thought to
take look at the section, and to my
unbOunded establishment, instead of
a joint l had Whole snake. I was
paralyzed with establishment. I did
not see how in the deuce snake could
grow from single section, even If it
was a glass snake, but the solution of
the problem was even more remarkable
than the first conjecture. The head
dHu ldll u lHe SHAKE udu SCI ouL Oh u
still hunt for the missing joint and,
having found it, had managed to reach
it as it swung at the end of the string.
And, not caring again to become sep
arated from so important portion Of
its bone and sinew, had preferred to
dangle in midair, possibly hoping by
some unlooked-for circumstance to re-
gain it's liberty. Touched by so re-
markable an exhibition of snake sagac-
ity, we united the string and the glass
snake glded into the verdant fast
nesses of the forest. have never seen
| another reptile of the Sort"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
FOR SMALLER CONVENTIONS.
National Political Gatherings Might BE
Made Much More Compact.

National Political Gatherings Night DO
Made Much More Compact.
The Brooklyn Eagle would have ma
tional nominating bodies smaller, more
compact and orderly Referring to the
big Chicago Coliseum which was
burned in December, thee Brooklyn pa
per asks "Why have the building so.
large? Why have the conventions so
large? he bigness Of the throngs is
hostile to deliberations The delegates
number twice the representation Of
each state and territory IN congress.
The alternates are as many more. The
crowds accompanying them treble the
number. They put a great burden on
the eXchequer Of each party. They
make the surroundings those of clam
or. They tend to sensation, unwis-
dom and tumule, and not to Judgment
or honesty. They are the terror OF
statesmen, the burden of managers,
the hotbed of cranks, the harvest Of
demagOgues and the opportunity Of
corruptionists. The idea that only by
bigness and enthusiasm can represen-
tative results be assured is error. A
rule of both parties could limit the
delegates to exactly the representation
OF a state in congress and to an equal
number Of alternates. That would
halve the official attendants 1t would
double the Importance Of delegates. 1t
would perfect each conventions re-
semblance to congress. 1t would raise
the standard OF selection. 1t could be
| accompanied by Encouragement of
| the attendance of gangs Of cranks,
shouters and corruptionists. That
| would greatly reduce expense and
| scandal. The conventions could be re-
| stored to representative and respect
| able character. The present vulgar and
wasting strife between parties to see
| which can have the biggest, brashest,
| loudest and most senseless body would
cease. Not reason of sanity, digni.
| ty, efficiency or order exists for the
| present rivalry for mere bulk and roar.
Now, we should like to have the state
| members of both national committees
| reach decision to reduce conventions
| to orderly size, to have them meet in
halls large enough for delibcration and
| for reasonable public attendance, but
small enough to keep out bowling
mobs. If the strong men of the democ-
racy were to favor this the strong men
OF republicanism would favor it too.
Then it could be done. The effort is
we'll worth trying. There is politics
in it. but there is no partsanship in
it. There is just sense in it,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
HOCUS-POCUS,
Things Done by Te2c3 in India--ven.
cradle Mystic's Power

Things Done by Teecs in India-ven.
cradle Mystic's Power.
I saw Hindoo out in the open street
take three good sized balls, larger and
heavier than hens eggs, and commence
tossing them up in the air, catching
them as they returned, says writer in
the Humanitarian. Soon his hands
were motionless, but the balls kept as
cending, and, SO far as l know, are as
cending still. They did net return.
Were they dematerialized by some in
visible psychic power? Such is my
opinion. During my stay il Madras
there came down from a mountain a
genuine psychic and seer. !'s was tru-
ly venerable mystic In bungalow
on bright, sunshiny day, 5 o'clock p.
m, dozen present, this old Yogi burn
ed incense, repeated some Montras, and
said in substance: Nov I can move
any object in this room by my will"
Rejecting few moments, l said,
make the book lying on that stand
move" Pointing his lean, bony finger
toward it, be said, Come, GOMEZ" The
stand trembled, the book fell upon the
floor, and slid to his feet. There was
no hypnotism, no jugglery about the
phenomenon. Command those pea
cock plumes up there to come to you" I
continued. Focusir is thought, his
will, upon them, they .eaped at his bid
ding from the case, and, sailing around
the room, fell at his feet. Other objects
were moved in a similur manner. Thi3
was genuine white magic.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
THE COY CORNER.
Ingenuity Must BE Exercised in PRODUCE
ing the Best Results.

=
ing the Best Results.
"Skill in designing a coy corner
said the artistic decorator to the New
York Advertiser man, docs not lie in
the choice Of tints and textures so much
as in the ingenuity exercised in pro-
ducing the best results with the fewest
opportunities and making the nook
look luxurious without sacrificing COM
fort and utility. It's very easy to build
cozy corner if the niche is already
formed by the builder of the house,
but when one must evolve the corner
as we'll as the fittings it's quite another
story. Now take a huge drawing room
how would an ordinary, corner look
in it? It would be lost, SO we build
corner out into the room, thus giving
it the proportions necessary to appeal
to the artistic eye. An awkwardly-
shaped room opening off the parlor of
a bachelors apartment uptown was
fitted up not long ago in manner that
would solve the ill-shaped room ques-
ton for many a puzzled house furnish
err On one side of the room the wall
bulges out, leaving only a straight
stretch of a few feet between it and
the doors leading into the next room.
In this ready-made nook a carved teak
wood writing deck is placed corner
wise, affording the writer a certain Sc
clusion, but allowing the pretty bit of
furniture to be seen from the adjoin-
ing room The bullying wall is COW
cred with dark green burlap and orna-
mented with artistically draped silks
and stuffs caught up by long spears,
glittering scimitars and a warriors
shield of steel with gay, scarlet straps
Beneath this barbaric display is a.
broad low couch, upholstered with dull
green-gray velvet and piled with pill
lows of every hue, but few Of plain
colors, Persian patterns and oriental
harmonies predominating. The bead
and foot of the couch are tall "pew-
doors" Of blackwood, which extend a
bit beyond the couch, forming an en-
| brasure in which the lover of pillows
and siestas can have some seclusion.
Near the foot Of the couch On a low
teakwood table shining samovar and
eggshee teacups stand ready for the
o'clock tippler.
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on the sheet of paper in her hand. II
never did. But if papa still persists
in opposing our marriage, I will leave
my home and go out into the world,
hand in hand with George"
Just as this revolutionary thought
passed through her mind, the door
creaked on it's hinges. A heavy, we'll
known footstep sounded on the thresh-
hold.
cts papa" cried Mary.
In her CONSERVATION our poor little
heroine could not find the entrance to
her pocket in the multitudinous folds
OF her dress. For second she was in
imminent danger of detection; then she
hurriedly thrust the incendiary docu-
ment into the yawning mouth of pa
per bag of choice seed-corn which hung
by the kitchen window. And the next
instant Squire Bergamot was in the
room.
MARY" said he, Ego upstairs to the
lefthand corner of my middle bureau
drawer and get me clean pocket
handkerchief"
And Mary went out with a dubious
glance at the nail on which the bag of
EARLY Sugar Corn" hung.
When she returned the room was
empty. And Squire Bergamot was
just climbing up into his lumber-3 ox
wagon in front of the picket fence.
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senses.
But Mary Bergamot stood bravely
to the guns Of her little citadel.
NO, father" said she. ooh, how
can you ask me, father, when you
know I don't love him, and never
camp
"'Never' is long word,' said the
squire.
Yes, papa, know that" said Mary.
But, indeed indeed, l mean it,"
you mean it, do YOU" said the
squire, in slow and measured tones.
Now let me tell you what! 1t isn't
that you don't like Hawkins Jessup,
but that you've been goosey enough to
go and fall in love with that young
idiot, George Lake,"
Mary turned very red.
"Papa:"
Ihere's no use mincing matters"
SAID the irate squire can artist, in
deed! Why don't he go into white
washing and kalsomining and earn a
decent living?"
But, papa----''
Neeunt attempt to argue with me-,
MISS said Squire Bergamot, sternly.
III nave none Of it, and so 1 tell you!
Ii George Lake comes into my house
nell De put out Of it pretty quick! And
SO you may tell him."
SO saying, the squire strobe out OF
the house.
Mary looked after him with soft, sor-
roWtul eyes. She was delicate, oval
faced girl. with sunny brown hair, and
straight features as unlike the rotund
ana positive squire's as light to dark
ness. But as she put down the iron
with which she was doing up" her
fathers shrts-Squire Bergamot would
nave thought it crying sin to employ
laundress while his daughter enjoyed
her ordinary health--she leaned up
against the window where the arrowy
sunbeams came in through the tremu-
lous vail OF heart-shaped morning
glory leaves, and drew from her pocket
note written in strong, masculine
hand:
my Dearest Mary: love you. Will
you promise to be my wife, spite of all
opposition? Will you tell me so with
your own lips? Ever yours, faithful
to death. George"
How her eyes glittered as she read
and reread the short and simple lines,
pressing them finally to her red lips.
81 do love him! I will be his wife,!
she murmured. "And I will tell him
so the very first opportunity I get
Only papa"
A momentary cloud stole over her Sc
rene brow at this, but it was transient
II don't believe in Opponents" said
Mary Bergamot, still riveting her eyes
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
What Puzzled Him.

The NEST ignorant man in America
lives in St. Louis. The other day he
asked his employer, who was read
ing a paper, Say, boss. which does you
read, the black or the e?"-Kansas
City Star.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
Daily Output of News Print Paper.

The daily output of news print paper
in the United States is about 1900 to
1900 tons. The production of news
print is larger than any other grade.
That Of book paper is probably as
much IS 1000 tons and of writing $50
tons, each daily.
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Any one may do a casual act Of good
nature, but continuation of them
shows it is part of the temperament
Sterne.
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Paper Horseshoes Good.

A scientific paper says that the paper
horseshoes now coming into use last
longer than those made CT steel and do
not slip so easily.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-04-01
THE LOVE-LETTER
By G. D.

O you won't marry
Hawkins Jessup,"
said Squire Berga-
mot, knitting his
black eyebrows to-
gether until they
formed an ominous
black bar across his
forehead and near
~ frightened h i S
bright-eyed daugh-
ter out Of her
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-13

OSc for $T.25 Nottingham
NV Curtains and 25c Pole
and trimmings.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-13
UNFORTUNATE HITCH
WI hen Fourth and sixteenth Rcgi-
ments Mere Ready to Geton
the Train Order Had to
be Countermanded.

by Associated Press.
Mount Gretna Pa, May 12.-The first
movement of the infantry regiments of
the Pennsylvania volunteers was ar
ranged for tonight, but failed through
an unfortunate hitch in the arrange
ments at the last moment. The regi-
ments ordered to so We're the Fourth
and Sixteenth, commanded respective
~ by Colonels Case and Hulinger They
were to go to New York over the IIe-
high Valley via Easton and were to
proceed from there to Key West in
transports.
At z o'clock this evening they march
ed across the parade grounds and pass
ed in review of Governor Hastings,
Their cars were ready for the troops,
when Lieutenant Howe, the commits
Sary representing the United States
army, told Colonel Case that through
some neglect or misunderstanding, the
cOmmissareS for the regiments had
been DELAYED or We're astray on some
other road. Colonel Case and Colonel
Hulings conferred and decided it would
be unwise to send the troops away
when the commissaries, which were for
ter days, We're not in sight. General
Goblin also advised that they do not
go.
The question of transportation also
entered into the difficulty. This was
finally adjusted, but Colonel Case de-
ci1ed that he would not take his men
| away unless he saw some show of their
supplies being provided for
Governor Hastings, Lieutenant Howe
| and the colonies had hasty conference
and it resulted in the troops being ta-
ken to the barracks for the night.
By tomorrow morning all the COM
mands will have been mustered in the
volunteer service and will be in read
! mess to move upon orders from Wash
| ingtOn. AS Secretary Alger asks for a
regiment or more, they will be selected
! by Governor Hastings, Their orders of
removal will most likely be in the sue
| cession Of their being mustered, This
| brings the Third, First, Fifteenth,
! Fifth and Ninth the nezt five. but it is
! most likely that the governor will try
and keep the brigades together.
| Today the soldier boys were all in a
serious frame of mind. For the first
| time they seemed to be a unit in re-
! alizing that their business from now
on is to be war, with all its resulting
| horrors. Hundreds of members OF their
|
| goOd-byes, and the hours were full of
| pathetic scenes. This was particular
| ly so in the case of the two regiments
ordered away. Tents and baggage were
being packed all day and around the
piles of rubbish where once stood the
camp, men, women and children min
gled silently among the soldiers with
sad faces.
The leave-t taking Of General Wiley
and his old command, the Sixteenth,
was pathetic to the extreme and Off
GERS and men alike shed tears as they
bade him goodbye. At the headquar-
ters Of Generals Snowden, Goblin and
Schall the same experience was met
with and these officers were partlcu-
larly broken hearted as they saw their
regiments fast stepping away from
rnem. Even the mustering-in of COM
panies was accompanied by incidents
that moved even the regular army Off
GERS.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-13
NOT YET MUSTERED IN

Volunteer army. 1t is a toss up be-
tween the Thirteenth and Second reg
iments as to which shall be last in
getting into the volunteer army.
OTHER TWO REGIMENTS.
The Sixth and Eighteenth regiments.
the other two regiments that have not
as yet completed their muster, will be
ready the first thing in the morning.
The new development of the day that
would tend to weaken my statement of
this morning that the Thirteenth
would be in Tampa within a week, is
the change in the plan of transporta-
ton, the coast voyage of itself requir-
ing about five days. Three things that
tend to strengthen it are Major Pax
sons reiteration, in a more positive
manner, that all the Pennsylvania
troops will follow the lead of the
Fourth and Sixteenth, a significant in
timation by Colonel Coursen that the
Thirteenth will be out of here by Sun
day night, and the orders promulgat-
ed this morning, notifying state Of
fcers that their services will not be
required in the supervision of or car
ing for the troops after Monday next.
This last means that the governor
and his generals will be without a
command next Monday night.
Through some hitch or blunder, the
blame for which it is impossible to
trace owing to the lateness of the hour
and the existing excitement and con-
fusion, twelve hundred soldiers, after
striking camp, making every prepar
alton for departure and receiving
rousing send off, were halted when
about to step on board the train for
the front and herded into the exposi-
tion building in the fair grounds to
the rectifying of the mistake.
ORDERS COUNTERMANDED
Yesterdays orders for the forward
ing of six regiments by rail to Tampa
were countermanded this morning and
instead instructions were received to
dispatch the Fourth regiment, of this
region, and the Sixteenth, of the Oil
regions, to New York at once 10 take
ship for Florida. The preparations for
departure We're rushed with such en-
thusiastic celerity by the jubilant SOL
diers that by o'clock they had all
their equipment loaded and their re-
spective camps looked like a Spanish
fleet at breakfast time on a Dewey
morning,
1t was arranged that the departure
should take place at S o'clock. and
about 7.3O the two commands in heavy
marching order wheeled out of their
| streets and passed in review before
Governor Hastings, and all the other
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dignitaries here amidst the widest
kind of hurrahing by the thousands of
soldiers who came down to the parade
ground to give them a send off. The
trains were in front of the platform,
the engines had steam up and the
troops were just about to embark
when Lieutenant Howe, u. S. A., who
is acting as quartermaster, informed
Colonel Case and Colonel Heulings
that, owing to the provisions needed
for them in New York having gone
astray, he could not give them assur-
ance that the men would be provided
for when they got to New York. He
regretted IL very much and only gave
up his efforts to rectify the mistake at
that very moment.
CARS WENT AsTRAY.
The cars containing the provisions
had been shipped to Gretna from Phil
adelphia when, it is claimed, they were
ordered to New York, and no amount
of telegraphing and telephoning could
locate them. Immediately Colonel Case
and Colonel Heulings declared in the
most emphatic manner that they
would not move their troops under
these circumstances. General Gobn's
advice was sought, and he said he
hoped Colonel Case, who is the senior
officer and first in command would not
subject his CGobin's) former men to
any such hardship. and advised the
colonel not to take any such RESPONSE
bility upon their shoulders. Governor
Hastings was hunted up. and he, too,
thought it would be unwise to move,
and after much consultation and argu-
ment it was decided at 1890 to choose
the lesser of the two evils, and the
men were turned back and quartered
in the exposition buildings for the
night.
There was also hitch in the trans
portation. 1t was expected to take the
men by the Pennsylvania road and
that company furnished the cars. Or
ders came later to go by the Lehigh
Valley, but the transfer was not at
tended to and it was not until o'clock
that the resultant difficulty was
Strengthened out.
Changes in the headquarters" were
made and around through the depos-
ing of Major Whitney. Lieutenant
Walter A. Wood, formerly battalion
adjutant was promoted to Major Whit
ney's place; II. NJ. Coursen. formerly
regiment sergeant-major and who
was last night appointed to second bat
TALON adjutant to succeed DR.. r. NJ.
Stratton, was moved over to a similar
place in the first battalion, vacated
by Major Woods promotion, and w. Fl.
Pierce, formerly battalion sergeant
major, one of the ruled-out positions,
was made adjutant of the Second bat
talon but declined the office and Wal
ter V. Gunster, of Company A, was
named.
II. r. Lathrope, who came on from