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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

into the grand stand as quick as we
After we secured seats I couldn't
help expressing surprise at his eager
8 oh, that's all right he replied, alb
stractedly, i bet I'll get nearly as
watching him through the next race
became convinced that he was telling
the truth. To begin with, he fired a
Volley of short, sharp questions at the
boy, and in that way obtained a good
general idea of the situation. Then he
leaned forward like a man about to
spring. I never saw such an attitude
OF fierce and concentrated attention. To
say that he seemed to be listening
doesn't begin to express it. He seemed
TO be literally absorbing everything
that was going on around him. His
chln was lifted, his lips were a little
apart, a red spot came and went on his
cheeks, and I could see the big veins
IN his neck thrObbing like an engine
1t was an uncanny spectacle couldn't
get rid of the feeling that he was ex-
ercising some unnatural superhuman
faculty. After the race was run he
dropped back, relaxed, and. sat there
listless and inert until the next tap of
the bell.
Later, when we were in the street
car, L tried to learn something of his
experience. He smiled good naturedly,
but found difficulty in making me I'M
derstand. I get a lot of pleasure out
OF the race he said, and can follow
oOAI4S VI them almost as We'll as II
had my sight. I can't tell exactly how
it is done. / suppose my brain has be-
come trained to catch hundreds of lit
tie cues-the shouts of people on the
track, the EXPLANATIONS of the crowd,
the cheers and laughs and groans and
curses, the chance remarks of passers;
yes, even the clatter of feet and the
way folks bfeathe-eVerything means
something to me, and altogether it
builds up a picture in my mind. I feel
it somewhere in the air, and 1 get so
excited that I forget all about being
blind. Oh no. he said, ] wouldn't miss
the races for anything"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
COLE WILL TRY.
Another Attempt to Force Road
Agents to DisgOrge.

Since Governor Stanley has failed to
collect from the examiners represent
ing the insurance department the fees
which they secured for examining in
surance companies. State Auditor Cole
will make an effort to have them turn
the money into the state treasury. The
auditor says the law is plain in this
matter and that the fees so collected
should be turned into the treasury.
The auditor is preparing a system of
blanks which he will send out to all
state departments demanding that such
fees as are to go into the treasury be
reported to the auditor on these blank
forms. These demands for reports will
be sent to the officials of the state in
situations and to the state departments
The superintendent of insurance will
also be requested to comply with the
auditors request for a report on fees
collected. This is the preliminary step
towards requiring the fees collected by
the insurance examiners to be paid into
the treasury.
This report will precipitate a quarrel
between the auditor and the Superin-
tendent of insurance. Mr.. Church will
refuse to be directed by the auditor
and win not ask the examiners to turn
the money into the treasury depart
ment Mr.. Church resented the inter-
ference OF the governor in the affairs
of his department and now that Mr..
Cole has gotten into the game he is
likely to strike a Snag.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
DUEL WITH LARIATS.

From the Seattle POst-Intelligencer-1
Between Mexican and an Amer
lean, yes said Joe Hampton. 1T hap
pened about 20 years ago, and it was
about as exciting a piece Of work as
ever saw. I was foreman at that time
for the Seven-Up q U P) horse ranch,
in Wyoming, and we were on our way
from Sydney, Neb., with a band of
mares that had been shipped from Mis-
souri, to Sidney We had to drive the
animals overland to the home ranch.
We'll, L picked up an outfit of men
around Sidney, seven Americans and
three NeXicanS, a tough lot We start
ed out, and when we got to the big
Cheyenne River, south of the Black
Hills, we stopped to let the horses rest
for a few days. There was one Me1Ii-
can, Pedro Gonzales, about the most
il-natured and most quarrelsOme man
ever saw. He fell out with an Amer
lean of the name Of Dick McAH, an
all-rOund bad man. l knew DICK by
reputation, and he had a bad record
We'll, one day at dinner time, Dick
made some remark about rOping a
greaser down in Texas and hauling him
across the prairie until he was worn
out. The Mexican answered by say
ing that man must have been asleep or
dead, for you could not rope live man
and do that. Dick jumped to his feet
and pulled his gun, and Pedro did the
same. I rushed between them and or
dered them to put up their arms. The
Mexican'S black eyes ShOne like a rat
tlesnake's when about to strike, but he
put the gun back in his belt and Dick
did the same.
Il knew there would be trouble, and
how to avoid it was a question not cas-
lily solved. 1 ordered the hOrSe-Wrang-
Ter to fetch up the saddle-hOrses, for
intended to move on that afternoon.
The Mexican spoke to Dick, and they
walked off to one side and talked in a
low tone for a few minutes When the
horses came up I noticed both men sad
horses. IheV
wound their lOssO-hOpes and stretched
them out side by side. Dicks rope was
about 45 feet long and Pedro's about so
feet. Pedro drew his knife from his
of Dicks. Then they cOiled up their
ropes carefully, and each man led his
horse in opposite directions until they
We're abort 100 yards apart. Then they
mounted like a flash and rode toward
each other I stood holding my horse
by the bride and watched every move.
I will never forget the look of hate and
murder on the MeXican'S face. His lips
were apart, showing his white teeth,
and a wicked smile seemed to ply about
his mouth. Dicks jaws were set tight,
and a look of mingled fear and rage
combined on his savage face.
They rode slowly toward each 9TH
er for about so yards, watching each
other like a couple of Gagged panthers.
Then they made a dash. and both ropes
shot out like a streak of lightning. Both
men lodged and escaped In an instant
they had gathered UP their ropes and
begun to circle around and around. I
could hear the swish of their ropes as
they swung them around their heads.
each man trying to get some advant-
age. They charged back and forth, and
finally both threw their ropes again
1t was a close call for Dick, for the
Mexican got his rope over Dicks head,
but Dick threw it off before he could
pull up the slack. In an instant Pedro
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
CUBA PAYS HER WAY.
And Has Over a Million to the Good
For Six Months.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The war depart
ment has given out for publication a
statement of the financial condition of
the island of Cuba. 1t shows that under
the management of the United States gov
eminent the receipts of the island from
January 1, 1899 to June 80, of the current
year, exceed the expenditures by the very
handsome sum of 81, 4S0,021- This statement
probably will be a surprise to many per-
sons who had thought that Cuba under
the military occupation of the United
States was not self sustaining.
During the period named, the receipts
from all sources were Sc, 9S2, 010; diSburse-
ments, $5,501,9S OF the money .1isbursed
81, Up, OLA was expended in sanitation, $685.
263 in the erection and improvement of
barracks and quarters, $443, 563 in the es-
ia blishment, etc, of the rural guard and
administration, $3.50 s54 on public, works.
harbOrs and forts, 1928, SS1 in charities and
hospitals. s242,146 for civil government
S723, 2S1 municipalities, SIS, 944 in aid to
the destitute, S42205 in quarantine mat
tiers: total 81. 448 924.
The statement for July shows that the
customs collections in the entire island
for, July We're 81, 201,5S7: internal revenue
collections S56, 351 postal collections SIS, 900;
miscellaneous collections s65 435. Grand to-
tai of receipts for the month, 81, 339, 1924;
disbursements 81, 029, ST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
GIRL DIVERS WORK.
rFrom the New york world.

IFrom the New York World
Miss Eliza Human, of Gravesend, is
an accomplished swimmer as well as
an attractive young woman.
She is an inveterate bather and is
seen daily in the surf at Bensonhurst.
She is fearless in the water and can
float, tread water and dive. The last
accomplishment is her favorite pastime
and those who have seen her plunge
from high places and cleave the waves
straight as an arrow, say that few men
are her superiors in that regard.
Yesterday Miss Human went to the
beach as usual and ran nirnblv out, on
the high spring board for a plunge
Her body shot high in the air, and
describing graceful curve, pierced the
waves true to the mark
Il was enjoying the sensation of 60
ing down, down, down. said Miss Hin
man to the police afterward, when
suddenly my outstretched hands
touched something cold and clammy
"Instinctively I clutched the thing
My first thought was of Sharks, and
remember wondering how soon I
would fefeI monsters jaws crunch
ing my body.
''Then I felt myself slowly rising to
the surface, stin grasping the horrid
object Some way 1 could not loose my
hold on it, try as I would to cast it off
When we reached the surface I
opened my eyes, and I shall never for
get that awful sight. There, face to
my face, was dead man. His eyes
His teeth cleaned tight-set between
his blue lips, which were drawn apart
in a CHASTITY grin
His arms hung wide open upon the
surface of the water, as if to grasp
me.
7 was clutching the grewsone object
with both hands, and why I did not
faint is more than I can tell. 1 remem-
Der shielking out in horror and pushing
the body violently away. I saw it
whirl about and settle slowly back
again into the depths.
I do not know how got ashore.
was half insensible and trembling all
over as if with the ague when crawleG
up on the beach,"
Miss Human is still greatly un-
nerved by her awful experience.
The police searched where size told
them, and the body of a man weighing
200 pounds was found. He was about
40 years old, and had red mustache
and red hair.
The dead man is believed to be Peter
Seymour, of Warren street. Jersey
City, who was lost overheard Sunday
from a catbOat which was in collision
with brick-laden sloop off Fort Ham
iltOn.
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VACATIONS AND THE EYE.
IFrom the Buffalo Express.l


eyes, the vacation season is hard on
the eyes, said DR.. julius POhlman
yesterday, in answer to a question. DR..
PohIman conducted a course of lectures
last year at Chautauqua on eating and
SEEING" and his talk yesterday was
practically a continuation of the ad
dresses of last summer.
Persons going away to rest or COM
ing back to work" continued the doc
tor almost invariably use their eyes
on the train. If they do not read they
watch the scenery. You seldom see
person reclining comtortably-eVen on
q high back-pay1ng no attention
either to a book or the fenceposts just
outside the window. The worst of it
is that the books that are sold on the
trains are usually IN the poorest OF
print. The paper is cheap and thin
and of a dull cOlOr-drab or Sray rather
than white. The type does not show
up nearly as distinctly as It should.
when travelling by train and read
ing, you try to hold the book or paper
steady, but the types jiggle Irregular
ly back and forth as the result of the
motion of the car and the shadness of
your hand. Your eyes also do deal of
dancing, not only in pursuit of the bob
bling letters, but in addition because
YOU also are shaken about more or less
by the motion of the train Imagine the
effect on the muscles of the eye! First,
mind you, the eye itself has an I'M
steady rest; second, it is trying to fas-
ten itself on that Whlcn IS more IN
steady still I wonder more people
are not bothered with defective sight.
But reading is not the only i'll. Fix
your eye on things close to the car-On
| overs, fencepOsts, culverts, trees-and
| the effect is as bad as would be brought
| on by reading Why will people persist
! in injuring themselves? You don't have
| to have the toothache long before learn
| ing it's cause and attempting a cure,
| but people go on running their eyes right
/ along for the sake of either killing or
| economizing a trifle of time. A head
ache is the first warning, but that be-
! comes common after a while, and is not
/ needed any more than the headache
| that follows unwise eating. There is
| closer connection between the stomach
! and the eyes on one side and a head
ache on the other than most people
! imagine, but perhaps the public some
day will be willing to watch out for its
ewes as well as with them, just as it
is being taught to take care of its
teeth"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

had gathered up his rope and threw it
again and caught Dick around the head
and one arm. He drove the spurs in
his horse and started across the prairie
but like a flash Dicks hand went to
his pistol, and before the Mexican could
pull him from his horse Dick sent a
bullet through his head, and the Mexi-
can fell to the ground dead.
But Dick was jerked from his horse
with terrible force, for the Mexican had
made the end of his rope fast to the
saddIe-horn. The Mexican's horse ran
a short distance and then stopped, and
before I could get to him one of the
other Mexicans had ridden up and
emptied his six-shooter into Dicks
body. He then put spurs to his horse
and soon disappeared across the prairie
and that was the last I ever saw of
him. The other Mexican told me that
was the third duel of that kind that
Pedro had fought, and always got his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
THE SCIENTIFIC WORK OF A
FOOD EXPERT.

1t is a plain enough proposition that,
if we use up, destroy and cast out, mi
mute parts of the body each day we
must make good these parts and re-
build each day or we go backwards
and break down.
Chemists have analysed the little
particles thrown off through the pores
of the body and find Phosphate of
Potash as the result of active brain
work.
This must be replaced or nervous
prOstration sets in.
Can we rebuild it with the drug Phos-
plate of Potash?
No, for nature demands that element
furnished as found in the grains. in
fruits and in meat and as prepared in
her own accurate laboratory.
Food experts have utilized the knoWl-
edge that brain matter is composed of
Albumen and Phosphate of Potash.
They have taken the parts of grains
known to contain these elements and
slxillfully prepared a food for human
use, giving it the name of Grape Nuts.
This food is of delicious Tabor, is in
coarse granules and ready cooked. 1t
can be served instantly with a little
cream or milk, hot or cold, as pre-
ferred.
A distinct increase in mental power
Is observed after ten days or two weeks
use of Grape-Nuts-
Sold by grocers at Is cents per pkg.
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Rural Free Mail Delivery.
IFrom the GIobe-Democrat.1

lFrOm the Globe-DemOcrat.
WashingtOn-Many extensions are to
be made during the coming fiscal year
in rural free mail delivery, the expert.
ments in which have been highly salts
factory to the government.
During the past year many changes
have been made, the result of finding
weak points in the first experimental
services. In the future the carrier will
not attempt to go to the door of every
farmer on his route, as has been the
case in the past. A route will be estab-
lished over from % to 80 miles of road.
The carrier will be scheduled over this
on time basis. He will pass within at
least one mile of every farmhouse on
his route. Those living off of the road
can put up mail boxes at certain points
where they can leave mail for collection
and also receive mail. At every cross
road will be found a government mail
collection box similar to those used in
cities, where all may deposit mail with
the assurance it will not lie there over
II hours By this change almost twice
as much territory can be successfully
served at the expense which was form
erly necessary for the smaller routes.
The salaries of the carriers have been
raised from $500 to $400, and special per-
mits from the department enable the
carriers to establish parcel delivery
OF their own. Most of the carriers
where the topography of the country is
such that it is possible-use bicycles
during the summer and go horseback in
winter They make one delivery and
one collection a day. Their equipment
is practically the same as that of city
letter carriers.
At present the most extensive expert
mentS are being made in Indiana, Hi
nois, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan and
Kansas in the central section, and Col
orado and California in the west. Dur
ing the ensuing year, however, special
tests will be made in the Rocky noun
tain districts
Assistant Postmaster Geneal Perry
Heath, under whose department this
branch of service falls, in a personal
interview, says:
1.-THE appropriations for the ensuing
year will permit much improvement
livery has been introduced under the
most favorable conditions in the gar
den district of California, where IS
miles of macadamized country roads
lead through a succession of parks and
past palaces, and are sprinkled daily
like city streets 1t has been put in
LaFourche, La, where the carriers
drive along on each side of the bayou.
1t has been inaugurated in the pro-
ductive irrigated fruit growing dis
tricts Of Arizona, among the we'll i'm
proved and prosperous ranches of
Georgia, in the back woods of Maine, in
the lake districts of Vermont and
among the summer boarders of Massa-
chusetts.
1T has been carried over the noun
tains of Arkansas, through the heavy
roads of SangamOn county, Ill, which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

How are you getting along with that
scheme Of yours for a procession of the
unemployed to march to the City Hall
and demand WOrk?'
It's going to be a f1zzIe. The blamed
chumps all send me word they're too
busy and can't get away.'-Chicago
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

Wigg-Talk is cheap.
Wagg-Yes, especially in these days
when a barber will shave you for 5
cents-San Francisco Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
1000 TONS A WEEK
Of Food Needed to Supply the Dis
tressed Porto Ricans.

Washington, Aug. 2S.-The war de-
partment has received from Gen. Davis
under date of the Goth a dispatch out
lining the situation in Porto Rico. Gen.
Davis says:
L hope the relief supplies will be
confined to the foods. medicines and
clothing heretofore specified. The most
pressing need is food and the aggregate
cost of all that will be required to
bridge over the period until a new sup
ply of fruits and vegetable are grown
Will be an enormous sum, perhaps
reaching one and a half million dollars.
While thousands of families were
left homeless their houses were gen
orally made of poles and matched. The
places where the destruction was great
est are far in the interior reached only
by pack mules 1t would be next to
impossible to transport lumber to those
regions. Such lumber as has been
shipped will have to be used near the
seacOaSt and the peaple whose houses
were blown away must replace them
with the same material as that de-
strOyed, which they are doing and will
do if the hungry are fed.
IF the charitable people of the Uni
ted States relieve the hunger of all
who would famish a vast work will
have been accomplished and all that I
think we should be expected to attain.
I repeat former request for 1000 tons
of food weekly until further notice
While do not want to discourage eff
forts to restore dwellings, I think it
should not be attempted until it is sure
that starvation will be prevented
Would like to have estimate from cen
trail relief committee of resources at
disposal or in sight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
BLIND NAN AT THE RACES.

TFrom the New Orleans Times-Dem-
Ocrat.l
ct was out at the race track one day
last winter said a merchant in New
Orleans, when was accOsted by
man who was holding the hand of a
little boy. 1t was a former friend,
whom I had not seen for some years,
and who had become totally blind. He
told me that he had recognized my
voice. and while we stood there talking
the bell rang from the track.
." They're going to start!' he ex-
claimed excitedly. Gomez Let US get
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

Don't you love to wander on a sum-
mer's night when the world is flooded
with moonshine?'' exclaimed the rap
turous and romantic girl
WELL answered Col Stillwell, with
elaboration, IF there's nothin' better
obtainable, moonshine can be made to
do very weIL"-Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28
HOW'S THIS /?
$32.55 to New York and Return Via
Santa Fe Route.

On August 81 the Santa Fe will sell
round trip tickets to New York city
and return for train leaving here at
and 8, and for train No. of September
f. Tickets sold at this rate will bear
liberal return limits and will be good
for stop-over at Niagara Falls, Wash
ington, Baltimore or Philadelphia.
For further particulars, space in
chair cars or Pullman sleepers, call on
or address T. L. King, agent, Topeka
depot.
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Poor Dawson; he's been Tilted"
"Jilted? Dawson?" Yes, Tilted. He
went fishing with Miss Higgins, his
fiancee, and when he baited her hook
she called him a brute for having no
sympathy for the poor worm; and
when, the next day, he refused to bait
her hook, she said he didn't love her,
Harper's Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

First Yachtsman-''That Miss TopsafI
makes me tired with her talks about
yachts" Second Why?'' First
Yachtsman-'I told her I had put a
new pinnacle on my yacht, and she
asked me if I scraped all the old ones
OFT the hul!'-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-28

Lincoln could hardly get through when
he rode the circuits; along the rough
banks of the Missouri in Kansas,
through the unsurveyed and roadless
farming districts of Kentucky, over the
hills and through the snoW-filled cross
roads of Michigan, down the stiff clay
roads of North Carolina, along the
Sparsely settled rocky ridges of West
moreland county, Pa, and among the
scattered cOlored settlements of Vir-
ginia. The results have been highly
we hope to battle with even greater
natural obstacle problems. The de-
partment wants tests under every con-
dition. There is now no doubt that in
a very few years this will be one of the
greatest departments of the service"
The effect of rural delivery is notice
able upon the people to whom given. 1t
brings them into as close contact with
the outside world as the people living
in towns and cities. The morning news
papers are laid down at their doors as
early as 8 o'clock on the day of publ
cation. The increase in letter writing,
in some instances, has been 1000 within
a year. Farmers know the markets, the
weather forecasts and the general news
of the world every morning. The bene-
htS and effects are so obvious that they
are hardly worth enumerating. This
advanced condition or the farmer has
its effect upon the city.
Mr.. Heath takes the high ground
that, under the present mail service,
the United States is not fulfilling her
obligation in exchange of services with
those European countries notably
England, France, Germany and Bel
gium-which deliver letters and other
mail matter to the doors of their rural
as well as city, residents. 1t is proposed
to keep the expenses of rural mail de-
livery very nearly within the figures
of the present mail service. This is to
be done by abOlishing star routes and
small postOh6ces. The cost of delivery
and collection is very low. In fact, it
is surprising. In many districts it runs
much below one cent a piece. This will
be lowered as the new changes in ser
vice simplify and better it. This, how
ever, must come as the result of ex-
perimentS.