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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Tacoma Ledger: An eastern paper
commenting on the request that a
Pacific Coast man be appointed a MEM
Der Of the peace commission, admits
that 1.-THE greater part Of American
trade with the islands is Of course car
ried on through the Pacific ports,'' but
asserts that there are no great interna-
tional lawyers on the Pacific. If that
were true, it need not make any partic-
ular difference. Take the lawyers from
the east and the business men from the
coast It Is a business proposition for
rs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
CHICAGO NEWS PROVERBS.


Golf stockings cover a multitude Of
shins.
Always look on the bright side-but
walk on the shady side.
Sympathy for a man after he's down
is a twin brother to mOckery.
The less advice a man has to give the
more listeners he will have.
There is more money to be made hu-
moring people than by instructing
them.
Some men waste half their wind in
doing a thing and the other half in
blowing about it afterward.
The man who classes his wife as a
bird of paradise during the honeymoon
is apt to think she resembles a parrot
later.
When a woman gets so old that COM
pliments no longer have any charm for
her-but she never gets that old, so
it's useless to say anything more about
it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
SWEPT FROM THE DECK.
A Disastrous Collision Off Boston
Light.

Boston. Aug. 15.-The sloop yacht Leona,
with seventeen men aboard, while anchor
ed outside of Boston light, was run into
by a barge in tow of the tug HoneybroOk
by the heavy tow line Two of the num-
Der, G w. Sellman and Albert Nordeu,
were drowned. Another. Augustine Cas-
pedson, was killed by being damned be
tween the tow line and the deck. while
two others. Peter Nelson and John Har-
kinson. although sustaining injuries, were
rescued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

a photograph showing the band on the
Oregon just after the surrender of the
Colon. The men, all of whom took an
active part in the manning of the guns,
did not stop to wash or dress, but with
one accord gathered together on the
forward turret, and, amid the cheers Of
the crew, played the Star Spangled
Ra0uRr'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Ell Paso Times: 1t is noticeable that
those papers which are now coming to
the front so boldly with demands that
this country hold as its own, Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippine islands,
are the same papers that were so earn
est five months ago in demanding peace
at any price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
CORBIN FOR ONE.
The President Wants Him for Peace
Commissioner.

Washington, Aug. 15.-The president
desires to have Adjutant General H. c.
Corbin, a member of the peace commits
sion and it is probable he will be Sc
lected. The matter is being considered
in reference to the duties which will
come under General Corbin's direction
in relation to the suspension of hostili-
ties and if it should appear that the du-
ties that he would be called upon to
perform as adjutant general can be as
sumed by another officer without det-
riment to the service, General Corbin
no doubt will become member of the
commission
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

The country is now in a position to
give it's attention to the hostilities
promised between Secretary AIger and
Colonel Roosevelt whenever those gen
tlemen are ready to pull off the event
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
Poisoned bu Cheese.

Trenton, N. J.. Aug. 15.-William Col
line and his wife and five children of
Humboldt street were poisoned yesterday
from eating cheese and were in great
agony for a long time. It was five hours
before they were out of danger The at
tending physician pronounced it a case of
ptomaine poisoning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
Painful Ulcers
Troubled with Them for the
Past Ten Years
Purifying the Blood with Hoods
SarsapaFiIIa Effects a Cure.

Purifying the BIOO0 WIFI HOOo 3
SarsaPaFiIIa Effects a Cure.
All troubles that are due to impure
blood yield with wonderful prompt
ness to Hoods Sarsaparilla, which
thoroughly eradicates all scrofulous
taints and makes the blood rich and
pure. Read these words:
"I have been troubled with very pain
full ulcers on my ankles the greater part
of the time for about ten years. decided
to try Hoods Sarsaparilla, and when L
had taken two bottles could seea change
for the better. have now taken four
bottles and the ulcers are well. am able
to attend to my work about the house
without any pain, and can rest well at
night. 1 regard Hoods 6arsaparilla as an
excellent medicine" MARY A. WELL
MAN, Winfield, Kansas.
Hoods SaFsapaFiIIa
Is the best-in fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Sold by all druggists. 81; six for IS.
orc the only Mills to take
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Boston Traveller: Sam Smans daugh-
ter, who is going on the stage. says
she will wear tights if necessary In
any well regulated, properly policed
community it will certainly be neces-
zarv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

The Swiss government is about to
take control of the main railway lines
Of that country in accordance with the
vote of the people,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

''Vicereine'' of India will be the title
Of Mary Letter Curzon. OF course it
was a Massachusetts paper that dis
covered this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

General Jackson who believed that to
the victors belong the spoils would have
found no difficulty in deciding the Phil
ippines question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

says the Kansas boys have taken to
their drill work like veterans and have
passed each of the inspections with
credit and are now able to drill and
make their showing with any of the or
carnations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

As matters now stand, at the begin
ming Of next year Admiral Dewey will
be the ranking officer of the United
States navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

A new island is reported to have
arisen out Of the sea near Borneo.
Dewey's attention should be called to
this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

There were no Bull Runs or any other
kind of runs in the war just closed ex-
cept those executed by the enemy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

It is probable that the name Of Thorn
as Jefferson viii be compelled to do
double duty in the coming campaign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
JOINT DISCUSSION ARRANGED
Congressman Ridgley Accepts Candi-
date Kirkpatrick's Challenge.

Parsons, Aug. 15.-The challenge is
sued by Mr.. Kirkpatrick's managers for
a joint discussion with Mr.. Ridgley has
been formally accepted, with conditions
binding. There will be no substituting
this time and the subjects for discus
sion will be confined to party platforms.
Times and places will be named by the
Populists and debates will be limited to
one in each county.
Wrecked on Flinders Island.
London, Aug 15.-Advices from Mel
bourne report that the American bark G.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Secretary Gage might make a good
thing by canceling those unissued bonds
and selling them as relics.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Gen. Aguinaldo Will now have an op-
portunity of becoming thoroughly en-
ughtened regarding American inten-
fFo,,e
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

When Gen. Joe Wheeler gets home
there may be some more tree climbing
but it will be the other fellow who will
do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
Homeseekers' Excursion.

Tickets to points in Oklahoma and In
dian Territory will be on sale at Santa
Fe ticket offices August 16, 1898. at one
fare plus $500 for round trip.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Spain is likely to occupy the position
OF the poor relation in the peace con-
ference so far as the results are con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

c. Funk. Captain Nissen. which sailed
from Tacoma May p for Melbourne, has
been wrecked on Flinders island, Tas-
mania. Eleven of those on board the
bark, including Captain Nissen, his wife
and two children, were drowned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
ONE DAY IN PoLIT1Cs.
Conventions in Harvey, Chase, Lyon
and Montgomery Counties.

Newton, Kan, Aug. 15-The Populists
and Democrats of this county held their
county conventions in this city and
effected complete fusion. The Demo-
Gratis were allowed to nominate the rep
resentative and county surveyor and
the rest of the offices were given to the
Populists. The nominee of the Demo-
cratic party for representative, J. B.
Fugate, was formerly postmaster of
this city for two terms under Grover
Cleveland and is popular and well
known all over Kansas. The ticket
nominated by both parties is as fol-
lows
Representative, J. B. Fugate; probate
judge. r. B. Barger. Newton; county
attorney, Richard Shive, Burton; coun-
ty superintendent, Charles Foulkes,
Halstead; clerk of the court, Reit Hob
BILE, Sedgwick; county surveyor, W. l..
Daily, Burton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Associate Justice Brewer says that If
we had read in the Bible of such vic
tories as those of Dewey and Schley we
would scarcely bring ourselves to be-
lieve them.
Queen Victoria is a strong believer in
the reality and near presence Of the
spirit world. She believes that the de-
parted loved ones watch over those
who still struggle with the sorrows and
temptations of the earthly life.
The late Frances E. Willard has been
added to the list of notable women
whose portraits are to be carved in the
grand stairway of the new capitol at
Albany. The others are Susan B. An
thony, Clara Barton, Molly Pitcher and
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
John Burns of Boston has just re-
turned from a visit to Juan Fernandez,
the famous island home of Robinson
CrusOe. He visited the large cave
where Robinson CrusOe made himself
safe from savage barbarians. as he sup
posed, when he discovered the foot
prints of Friday in the sands The
cave runs back in the mountains for
at least fifty feet. It does not start
from the water, but has its mouth
somewhat inland. 1t is largely grown
over with bright green leaves and is
attractive even to this day.
A Davenport, Iowa, boy, with the
troops at Jacksonville, writes home that
unless General Fitzhugh Lee gets a
show in this war the Seventh army
corps Oee's) will turn out $4,000 Demo-
Gratis when the war is over.
President NIcKin1ey's best army story
relates how union flag bearer ran
ahead with the cOlOrs when charging
the cOnfederates. Bring back that
flag to the regiment yelled the colonel.
The color bearer kept on as he flung
back the remark: Bring up your reg1-
ment to the flag"
A st. Petersburg journal says that the
czar has declared his intention of MAX
worlds exposition there in 1900. A
special envoy is said already to have
been sent to find cOmmodious palace
for the august guests occupation Sew
eraI are said to have been offered, but
found not suitable. 1t is limited that
Nicholas II. even has a plan to build
himself a, palace in Paris, to occupy on
visits that he intends to make some
fraO11a0t1v in the future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Never, perhaps. did so short q. war,
and one involving so few fighting men
have such tremendous results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

When a. man who was worth as much
as five thousand dollars dies, the wo-
men sigh and say. well, his wealth
couldn't save him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

A father thinks he has been some
thing of a success as a parent if his
children have never had to call for him
at certain places down town, and sing
Father, dear father, come home with
me now"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
TAKE SOLEMN vows.
Several Chicagoans Admitted to St.
franciscan Sisterhood.

Joliet. Ill, Aug. 15.-Impressive services
were held at St. Francis academy, the &C.
casion being the receiving Of thirty young
lady applicants as sisters of the St. Fran
ciscan sisterhOOd. Seven priests, includ-
ing a number from Chicago, took part in
and witnessed the ceremonies and there
were guests present from several different
states. Rev. Father Austern of Joliet was
ceIebrant of the high mass.
Six of the applicants entered the nOVi-
tate fourteen took the simple vows and
fourteen received perpetual vows. The
novitiateS were Barbara Mathew, Gertie
Hagemann and Mary Pesar, Chicago; An
ME Howback, Streator; Mary Lager, Jo-
let; Laura Becker, Rock Island.
The Woman's Relief Carps will go to
Cincinnati via Santa Fes special
through train which will leave here on
September 5. Round trip ticket from
here costs only $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.

From the Atchison Globe.3
When you get the drop on a, bad man,
e can give up as quick as anybody.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Boiling all your experiences down,
was there ever anything that annoyed
you more than the hearty laughing or
some one you hate?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15
PEOPLE you HEAR OF.

Associate Justice Brewer says that if
we had read in the Bible of such vic
tories as those of Dewey and Schley We
would scarcely bring ourselves to be-
lieVe them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Strong personality is a good COM
pIiment to use when in doubt of what
to say of anyone. The cOmplimented
will take it to mean that he is original
and firm in his opinions, though it may
mean that he is bulI-headed and stub
born
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

When a man goes away on a trip, if
he can look like travelling man he is
all right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Queen Victoria is a strong believer in
the reality and near presence of the
spirit world. She believes that the de
parted loved ones watch over those
who still struggle with the sorrows and
temptations of the earthly life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Cottonwood Falls, Kan, Aug. 15-The
Populist and Democratic conventions
met here Saturday. Conference commit
tees were appointed and after consid-
GRAFTON recommended that the Demo-
Gratis have county attorney and clerk
of the court. The POpulists refused to
give the Democrats the county attorney
and the Democrats adjourned for three
weeks to nominate a complete ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

The less advice a man has to give the
more listeners he will have.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Clay Center, Kan, Aug. 15.-The Peo-
pies party met in county convention
and nominated the following ticket:
Representative, J. J. Marty; probate
judge, Enoch Weekly; county superin-
tendent Dillon Hemphill; county attor-
ney, R. G. Miller; clerk of district court,
Will Parry.
Fusion was perfected by the Peoples
party nominating the Democratic can
didate for clerk of the district court,
and the Democrats thereupOn endorsed
the entire Peoples party ticket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

A Davenport, Iowa, boy, with the
troops at Jacksonville, writes home that
unless General Fitzhugh Lee gets a
show in this war the Seventh army
corps Gees will turn out IS, 900 Demo-
Gratis when the war is over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

There is more money to be made hui
moring people than by instructing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Following is a list of delegates to the
Populist senatorial convention at Con-
cordia: H. N. Boyd, chairman; John
Stanton, Emmett Keith, Chester Lewis,
J. z. Glasgo, Geo. Cowle, A. A. Camp
bell, John NIcKfnnie F. H. Everetts, ].
c. Black, A. FogeIberg, F. Rasmussen,
Frank Sager, ]. NJ. Lacey, A.Stienblock,
Henry Stout.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Always look on the bright side-but
walk on the shady side.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

= Independenee, Kan. aug: 15-The
cry county jointly nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: County attorney, John
Callahan; clerk of district court. H. NJ.
DOllison; probate judge, H. D. Farrell;
representatives, B. F. Moore and ]. B.
Sewell. The administration of Cover
nor Leedy was endorsed and also the
county officials
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

BelIevilIe, Kan, Aug. 15.-The Popu-
list county convention nominated the
following ticket: Clerk of district
court, Joseph Shimek: county attorney,
Geo. wilkes; probate judge, H. T. BideII:
county superintendent, Edward Benson;
for representative, William Moore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-08-15

Sympathy for q, man after he's dow
is a twin brother to mOckery.
The Southern herald., 1898-04-08
HERE AND THERE.

On most of our farms the poultry
would fare better if corn were kept
more carefully The excess of waste
corn within reach keeps the poultry
too fat for egg-laying.
We should breed stock enough to
cat up the feed of the farm. The great
scarcity of desirable young stock in
this country, with such an abundance
of cheap food, was never before known.
Try to raise some crop different
from those of your neighbors, becora-
ing slxillful in its management, produc-
ing fine and desirable article, and
finding home market for it with little
competition.
If properly kept and judiciously
applied to land, poultry manure is
worth one-half the cost Of the food the
fowl gets, and yet little account is
taken of the droppings when an esti-
mate is made of the profits.
The product from an acre ofground
depends about equally upon the soil
the seed and the cultivation; but If any
one of these falls short of what II
should be, more than its own proper
ton of the crop is apt to be lost.
There should be grapes on every
village lot. Let them have we'll
drained soil, good cultivation and Close
pruning, and then they will well re
pay for the space they occupy. Soap
suds is an excellent application, be
cause of the potash it contains.
There is a personal element enter
ing into all calculations as to the COS
of the several farm products which
renders the efforts at our eXperimen
stations futile. The cost depends upol
the man and his Methods his land, hi
location and the cost of his labor.
1t seems that often man does no
know what crop nor an animal cost
simply because he is afraid to investi
gate: he is already pretty sure he
paving too dear Tor his whistle; bq
disaster will come sooner or later, esPS
cially in times Of depressed priceA
The Southern herald., 1898-04-08
THE HAY QUESTION.
what Shall We Sow to Renew the Hay
Meadows?

W
Meadows?
The army worms in 1896 ruined all
the timothy and herd grass meadowsi
the drought Of 1897 ruined the clover
so there is little, if any, kind of hay left
to the farmer. This is problem eaus-
ing farmers much thought; What shall
we do for hay? Few of our farmers can
afford to keep their stock on grain. 1t
is therefore timely TO look mp substi-
tute for the hay crop we have lost. |
doubt if our folks will in years attempt
timothy meadows again to any extent.
While | think there will be an unusual
area given to clover this spring, it will
avail little till 00, meantime we must
bridge over. The millets produce large
crops of coarse hay on fine. rich land,
but there are those of us who class mil
let very low in feeding value little
above bright straw. Then there is en-
silage to the big dairy man, bat this is
not suited TO the small farmer. |
chanced to have an experience without
hay that might prove valuable at this
crisis that is ON US. 1t is this: Two
years ago had very rich spot OF
alluvial soil of two acres. This be-
ing in my oat field, was sown to
{ Burt oats A storm coming about
the time the oats in this valley
were ripening they were lodged
so badly cut them with mower and
made hay of them, have in my life
never seen such yield Of hay, nor
have ever seen its equal value ltwaf
literally corn and fodder both A
friend just returned from Texas tells
me that baled oats, cut after me style
is the most sought after hay in that
market; that where it can be had they
feed no corn. | have set aside few
rich acres which / shall attempt to ge
them in by February Is if possible
Who else can tell us what to SOW fol
hay?-J. II. Burrow, in Farmers Hom'
Journal
The Southern herald., 1898-04-08

In 1862, James Parton, the celebrated
biographical writer, made the follow
ing prediction in regard to Abraham
Lincoln: History will say of Mr.. Lin
coin that no man of a more genial tenn
perament, more kindly nature, ever
tenanted the white house; that be gave
all his time, his thoughts, his energies
TO the discharge Of duties of unprece-
dented magnitude and urgency; that
hating no man, he steadfastly endeav-
ored to win the confidence and love oi
all the loyal and patriotic, and that, IN
spite Of four chequered years OF sucl
responsibility and anxiety as has sci
dom fallen to the lot Of man, he bore
away from the capital the sunny tenn
per and blithe frankness of his boy
hood. returning to mingle with bis ole
neiehbors as one Of them in heart ant
in manner, in retirement as in powe
happy specimen Of the men whom
liberty and democracy train iu the lol
cabin and by the rudest hearth 7
guide the counsels Of the republic an,
| Influence the destinies Of the people
y. Y. Ledger.
The Southern herald., 1898-04-08
Cop,risht. Isss

"Ire come 40 miles to push my way
into this den of wickedness and talk
plumb up-and-down to you sinful crit
ters," began Lampas Joe, the revival
ist, as he crowded his way into the
Black Wolf saloon and squared Off
for talk. IF thar's a galoot yere who
don't know me by sight and name, let
me interduee myself as Lampas Joe,
one of the meanest critters on the face
CT this airth year ago, but jest now
able to look u decent man in the face.
Il see in the crowd before me, CON
tinued Joe after a look around, TON
Jones, Pete Sharky, Bill Henderson,
Abe Skinner and a dozen other kyotes
whom l kin call by name, used ter
run with the gang. \ few short months
ago was rubbin' elbows with the
hull lot, and rippin' and eussin' with
the best of 'em. | was braggin' and
blOwin' from Monday mornin' to Sat
urday night, same as these buffers ar
to-day. | carried a gun on each hiT
and a knife in my bootleg, and
stepped high and was ready fur a row
Bah! When | look back and see my
self as l was | wonder that some ole
mewl didn't kick me ter death fur q
| buffer.
And as was ridin' over yerc from
Lost Gulch, tryin' to think out a way
to save yer souls from eyerlastin' per
Gihhun, met up with ole Satar
mounted on a broncho. Thar he was
horns, hoofs and all, and he had gril