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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
Mrs. Pinkham's Medicine Made
q New Woman Of Mrs. Kuhn.
+, ILErrEn TO MRS. FINKzAH NO. 64,494l

TLErTER TO MRS FIEKEAN NO. 64s49z1
s'DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM-I think it is
my duty to write to you expressing
my sincere gratitude for the wonder
ful relief 1 have experienced by the use
Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I tried different doctors, also
different kinds of medicine. 1 would
feel better at times, then would be
as bad as ever.
50 For eight years I was q great suf-
4erer. had falling of the womb and
was in such misery at my monthly
periods could not work but a little
before I would have to lie down. Your
medicine has made new woman of me.
can now work all day and not get
tired. thank you for what you have
done for me. I shall always praise
your medicine to all suffering women. Z"
Mis-. r. E. KUHN, GERMANo, OHIO.
at have taken eight bottles Of Lydia
D. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and used two packages of your Sana-
tive Wash, also some of the Liver Pills,
and can say that your remedies will
do all that you claim for them. Before
taking your remedies I was very bad
with womb trouble, was nervous, had
no ambition, could not sleep, and my
food seemed to do me no good. Now
am well, and your medicine has cured
me. Twill gladly recommend your med
feline to every one wherever I go. -
Ms. n. I. SHEARS, GUN MARSH, MICH.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
McKinlev Can't Come.

Washington, Sept 5.-Senator Carter of
Montana who has just returned from an
European trip, was at the White House
yesterday and after a conference with the
president stated that Mr.. Mckinley would
be compelled to give up his contemplated
trip through the west. He would attend
the ceremonies attending the laying of the
corner stone of the Chicago postOffice
building on October 1. but it was alto
gether improbable that he would get fur
Their west than Chicago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
HONOR GEORGES MEMORY.
New York Workingmen Gather al
Single Takers Grave.

New York, Sept. 5.-Hundreds of work
ingmen and others belonging to single tax
and labor organizations in this city and
vicinity gathered yesterday at Henry
Georges grave in Greenwood cemetery.
The party was accompanied by nearly all
the members of the George family.
Memorial exercises followed. after which
the workingmen's Henry George memorial
committee placed a handsome floral de-
sign of the order Of the Knights of Labor
on the grave. On the floral emblem were
written in flowers the four last words in
Henry Georges book, Progress and Pow
erty''-"They call and cali"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05

ways which frame the usual dark wo-
man busy knitting and at the same
time experimenting huge baskets Of
eggs for sale, or green cucumbers and
tomatoes haring red.
But enough Of peoplel Peep into
this court of my lords pa1azzo; it is a
veritable fine peristylium, as of old
with a large white marble fountain in
its center. whose singing waters drop
from three twisted dolphins, and over
flow glittering into a capacious basin
from which spring up luscious 'clumps
of Towering arum. All around it wind
neat formal gravel paths, which lead
round palms and deOdaras and clean
ders. Upon everything the sun is now
blazing, while up above in the blue air
the swallows and swifts are whirling in
wild, happy flights. How cool and fra
grant it will be when evening comesl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
Complain of the Firemen.

The wellington railroaders are COM
planning that some of the firemen who are
sent here for service from Topeka and
other points, are rather poorly educated
in their line of work, and generally con-
siderable trouble is experienced in getting
the work done properly. The employees
here would rather have the company send
better ellington Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05

Mckinley and Mr. Bryan. the present
prospect favors Mr.. Bryan's election
1t is a long look ahead, but at the same
stage of events preceding the last nauoIal
conventions / succeeded in demonstraIi ng
to my own satisfaction at least MI NC
Kfnley's nomination and election, and
do not fear to make a prediction now.
with all the reserve arising from the taet
that prophet can never hope to be as ac-
curate as a historian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
UP-TO=DATE SHOPS

are being very largely equipped with
electric motors, especially if they are
not large enough to warrant operating
their own steam engines.
Under present extreme competition
OF trade no one can afford to maintain
the heavy line shafts, pulleys and belts
used for the distribution Of power in the
ordinary manner, This you always
have to do in operating an engine.
frInea srnrnrr1i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
u Word ID NTothera

Mothers of children affected with Group
or a severe cold need not hesitate to ad-
minister Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
1t contains no opiate nor narcotic in any
form and may be given as confidently to
the babe as to an adult. The great sue
cess that has attended its use in the treat
ment of colds and Group has won for it
the approval and praise it has received
throughout the United States and in many
Foreign lands For sale by all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05

There's always hope while there's One
Minute Cough Cure. An attack of pneu-
monia left my lungs in bad shape and I
was near the first stages of consump ton;
One Minute Cough Cure completely cured
me- writes Helen McHenry, bismarck,
n. D. Gives instant relief Geo. w. STAINS
field, w. II. Wilson, A. J. Arnold & Son,
A J. Kane & Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
$500.

Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and
Return
Via the Great Rock Island Route.
Tickets on sale September s, z and 8,
good returning September SOth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
"What Head
aches rIean."

The dreadful
he a d a c h e 5
which women
S fer m e a n
nineteen times
out of twenty
that there is
m ore trouble
than headache.
There is prob
ably some I'M
healthy condi-
ton of the del
icate organism
of WOmanhOOd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05

II were you, accept a substitute for
Beggs' Little Giant Pills, when you go
out the druggist laughs and says he was
easy, be sure you get what you want
HlGrua clsk
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05

L. s. Woolverton, Prescription drug
gist now at 704 Kan. Ave, opposite old
place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-05
ARE NECESSARY

everywhere. and in the power and rent
question particularly.
Engine driven buildings commonly
waste as much as one-third of all the
power generated, in distribution; by
modern equipment you save this waste.
Have a motor Of your own. Pay for
what power you actually use. by metre,
and the savings will help you
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
CHINESE DRUGS,
Dried snakes. pirmp Lixnrd. ana
Fearful Smelling Medicines
are Included.

The employees IN the Office Of the an.
praiSer OK customs were busy examin.
ing a shipment of Chinese medicine.
and the place sme!led like Il fertilizer
factory. says the Portland Oregonian,
There were the usual number of dried
snakes. the looks OF which would be
certain to XII or cure any intelligent,
patient. There were also d number of
plump lizards, spitted on rods and ex-
paEc,d with strips of bamboo until
they resembIed tennis rackets; a lot
OF sea horses" a long. slender fish,
with u head like a horse and a prehen-
sile tail; bundles Of centipedes. fiat
tened out aud pasted on sticks; cans
full of preserved pollywogs and angle
worms, and many other curious pana-
ceas. each Of which smelled worse than
the other. There were pills as large
as prunes. handsomely decorated;
roots and "yarbs' Of many kinds,
which would paralyze a Quaker doc
tor. and boxes and bottles of unknown
mixtures which would paralyze any
body, The 40 separate and distinct
smells Of the town of Cologne are moth
ing compared TO the odors arising from
that 800 worth OF Chinese medicines,
which made some OF the men handling
the srnN sick. Foul smell seems 10
be n requisite in most medicines. and
il the beneficial effects OF medicines
are propo-:;ona,e to the odor. the med
jcines OF the Chinese should be the best
in the world.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
AIDS WOMEN TO SWIM.
4 New Invention In a Pneumatic Cor
set which Prevents It's Wear
or from sinking.

Timid women can now be taught
swimming in n very easy An
eastern professor has invented 4 pneu-
matte corset for beginners to veal
which, he says, greatly facilitates the
untutored in acquiring the different
strokes, This corset is cut on the same
general lines as all corsets and made
double, so that the air space between
the two thickncsscs may be blown up
and serve not only to present Il neat
appearance to the figure but also to
buoy it up and give confidence to the
timid. A lack of confidence is respon
siblc for the slowness with which this
accomplishness is learned by women.
women who delight in aquatic sports
but have no harGiaood for them. The
very knowledge that they cannot sink
leaves their brain clear enough to
think of the proper STROKES for hands
and feet, and as soon as they find they
can move through the water from orc
place to another and become accus-
toned to these movements The corset
may be discarded. Ii is much more
shapely than the big rubber rings ard
cork life presCryCrs, and. in fact. does
not show at all, as it conforms to the
shape of the wearer The corset has
seen IN several wo.acn bathers
at the eastern resorts this season, and
bids fair to become very popular.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
THE GREAT INLAND SEA.
How Marine Animals Were COrpalieA
After h Water Dried Up
Ages Ago.

In the latter part of the Mesozo;e
age there was a great inland ocean,
spreading over q large part of the
present continent. The lands then
above water were covered with a flora
peculiar to the times and werei ohab-
tied by some Of the animais which
later distinguished the Ccnozoic age,
says the Popular Science Monthly. In
the seas were reptiles, fishes and tur-
ties OF gigantic proportions, armed for
oitcnse or defense. There were also
o!s,crlike bivnlves. with enormous
shells. three or four feet in diameter,
the meat of which would have fed
many people. In time this rrcnt ocean,
swarmiag with vigorous life, disap-
pearcd.
Mountain ranges Z "drlains gradual
l.y arose. casting forth the waters and
leaving She monsters 10 die and bleach
in icrtjar" suns. As the waters re.
r.ain'ag G;y.dr;l iato SMALLER f.acts
they gradually les. thtir saline s:alii.
~. The stranger rsu::stprs car"ed
on 'ar we%hcr Stiles. "n;il tl,y. Toe.
stranded on rising sa@:Gbars or lns;
N)i;aii;y and ncriyhrt rs The waters
fresin Heta. t. Imagination we can ric.
'i:r" II : s;rn,gasi ic-gf cf:Ec.r fao!
s'ia;n.y nj Lass att. ,~.Ca%Lr.ia.- n .,.a,.
low ron.> ra;il all +, maint,i r.iytG or
starved. /; woula lie interesting 10
know how r...ch or t,.e .rr.t ,-s.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
SHE WANTED
But the Congressman Had to Draw
the Line Somewhere md She
Didn't Get Them.

y certain southern congressman was
heard entertaining u company Of his
colleagues lately in the democratic
cloakroom OF the house with an ac-
count of an unusual experience, says
the Washington Post. During the
woman suffrage convention" he said,
several ladies from my district were
present. Early in the convention one
OF them came to the capitol, called at
my Rmittee-room and requested an
interview. which was readily granted.
She stated that the woman suffrage
delegates were to have some sort of
public meeting, in which she was to
participate, and requested that /
should provide n floral tribute to be
presented to her on that occasion.
Il was naturally somewhat taken
aback at the suggestion. | supposed
in the course OF my IL years in con-
gress that had exhausted about every
variety Of duties that a member of the
house is called upon to perform. l
have always been ready and willing to
run errands for my constituents, for
which at home my office boy would
have su!liced. 7 have catered to the
whims OF Office seekers. When my con-
%stitucnts have come to me hungry. I
have fed them. and when they have
come she!terless l have given them
lodging. have taken my political sup
pOrterS to the thrnters hv bupdreI.
but ! was forced to inform my lady
visitor that l must draw the line at
bouuuetg."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
EFFECT OF WEATHER ON FISH.
Why Trout Eisc Hcrriiy In the Midst
of n Storm and Sulk When h
Water Ii Quiet.

If trout rise merrily in the very
midst of a storm, why do they invaria-
bly, sulk when the thunder is only in
the air?" The explanation is simple,
but it occurred to me only the other
day, says the London Review. Trout
sulk when the storms gathering from
the cause which makes men at the club
decline to look at the billiard cues dur
ing the same weather. The atmosphere
lacks oxygen, and therefore all sem
tient life is languid. When the light
ming has come the sultriness is dis
PEELED; fish and men have something
more cheering than carbonic acid gas
TO breathe; both are in a humor for
food or play.
The same reasoning, l think, ex-
plains why, as n rule. it is necessary
20 have a ripple if you are to catch
trout. The accepted explanation is
that the ripple conceals the casting
line. leaving visible to the fish the flies
alone, but one has only to use one's
eyes TO discover that that is no ex-
PLANTATION at all. Even in a gale, if
there is no sunshine, the gut is us cast
ly visible to the human eye as it would
be in q dead calm, and to what the hui
man eye can see in the water the trout
is surely not quite blind. No; trout
rise in Il ripple more rapidly than in a
calm simply because the wind is oxy-
genuting TIE water. Whose doubts
this is invited to make an experiment.
Let him put half a dozen live trout into
a pail of water. Within an hour thew
will he sickening; some of them will be
near death and turning on their backs.
y few quarts of water plunged a yard
or two through the air into the pail
will make all the trou: revive as if by
magic. The fish want oxygen just as
the fellows at the club on a sultry aft
ernoon want a thunderstorm or other
stimulant.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
FEW BOOTS NOW.
They Were Once Very Common, Bat
Their Place Has Beer Almost
Entirely Taken by shoes.

when I was a boy" said a middle
Sun, pretty much everybody used to
wear boots-I did. l know, fine calfskin
boots. Now nobody wears boots ex-
cept horsenen and farmers; that is,
practically nobody; you do meet a man
in the city o and then that e
boots, but such men are so few that they
don't count.
I'VE turned from boots to congress
CATERS, once almost universally worn,
and there's quite a lot of congress gai-
tiers worn still. You look along the
rows of feet of the men sitting in an
elevated car and you are pretty likely
to see one or more pairs of them, but
button shoes and lace shoes finally, in
very large measure, supplanted the
congress CATERS, and they remain the
shoes commonly worn to-day.
Sand we shall stick to shoes Of one
sort and another. We shan't 60 back to
boots for various reasons. In the first
place we don't need them. In cities they
arenot necessary for protection, nor are
they essential to comfort. Shoes are
now more suitable to wear at centers
OF population. besides being more con.
venient and cheaper.
$50 in populated regions. for the wear
OF the great majority Of men. we have
got through with boots. It is another
Illustration Of how easily long-estab-
lished customs vanish when conditions
change"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
SHIPS RANGE IN ACTION.
Huge D~cstroEcrs R.rc!y Sock nm
Engagement ct Less Than
Two Miles.

"The pictures in some of the burnt
orange newspapers Of battleships in
action are about as funny as the Jap
anese idea of perspective" said q naval
officer to Il Washington E,ar reporter.
These pictures represent the oppos-
ing ships blazing away at each other
with l3-inch rifles a.. 4 range of about
100 feet, and the artists certainly work
up The thing 10 make it look terrible
enough, in al conscience. It's a wen
der 10 me they don't represent the
crews Of the opposing ships in the act,
OF using graphing irons, us they did
in engagements at close quarters in
the days of the old 70-gun frigates.
AS 4 matter CT fact. If either battle
ship in I'm engagement between vessels
Of to-day goes within such a range Of
another, or anything like il. it would
simply be n matter of the first shot.
One big shell delivered at such a range
would leave only deOris Of the struck
ship floating on the surface of the
water.
Modern ships of war are notderised
TO get within any such range Of each
other in action. The nearest that any
of the opposing ships in the great ma
val battle on the Ialu got to each other
was a tritle under two miles, and what
one battleship can 60 to another at
that range is something beyond calcu-
lation."
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
GENERAL GORDON'S SEAL.
Was Made Of an Old Cots and Had q
lI~istovy-ised while II
khartOuM.

The seal which Ten. Gordon used on
all the documents he signed while shut
up in khnrtomm had II history. which
is narrated in the Life Of Chauncey
Naples" mi>>iorary bishop Of Like.
ma. TAI Central Africa. While at
Caro- t"r hi>hup stopped Mt the house
o: Il friend. iIUNer. of whom he writes:
FlOlty had seen II great deal Of Gen.
Gordon, "ld showed me one very inter-
cs.iag Irrtrr-;Le last he received from
him The occasion of it was interest
Ing. '.u;er had volunteered 10 prepare
NorGUH u se:I With his name in Arabic
characters upon il. For this purpose
he tlust an old coin. which he partly
mrl'oG aud refashioned.
Wen the seal was completed it was
fonu,l That TWO words that had been
on the coin were still legible. The
words were in Arabic. and signifed
THE Messenger Of God" Gordon no.
d""l 'tc"l. and was much pleased. and
u '&p lrt>rr in question commented on
them, s"}iU ny lie prayed he might al
ways remember to be as the messenger
of God TO the Sudan people.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
CLEAN TOWEL SUPPLY.
Growth Of n business That II Now
Established Tn Cities All uver
the Country.

The clean to;"cl supply business
which originated ia Chicago, was intro
ducad in New York in 1854, says the
New York sun. 1t Las thriyed here
aid there are now about 25 concerns
engaged in the business in this city
with thousands OF customers, who's.
number Is constantly increasing. There
are a great many towel users who never
dreamed Of taking towels from towe
supply concerns when the business wal;
first started Who o wouldn't thini
Of getting them in any other way.
Cabinets are supplied with a plac,
to keep the towels in, and they ar,
also prcTideI with q comb and brush
4 whisa broom, a soap dish and soap
TIE cabiaels are made in II variety 0.
styles and sizes, each having Il mirror
in the froat. Either hand or roller
towels are pyo;!Jed, or both. The
minimum supply furnished is foul
clean aaa" towels Il week, ana once {
"ccH the ussI towels are taken up ant
replaced with clean ones, the soap re.
Ucwed II IL is ONT, ana the other articles
of the equipment looked after.
Towels are supplied to banks, stores.
Offices aud pretty much all sorts OF busi.
ness places, in many Of which a large
number are used, the supply being re
ncwcd as often as may he required
! ere is one concern that supplies tow.
els with the customers initials on them
using n double set for each customer
and supplying each with the same tow.
els always. There are now supplied
b~ootbiacking outfits. with polishing
brush, daubcr and backing. the black.
ing supply being kept constantly re.
neWed, all for so much a month. The
'"WeI supply business has now spread
all over the country and it is established
II all the large cities.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22

Maj. Price Porter. Of Jackson,
whom the experts claim had yellow
fever, died last Saturday. At III,
time OF his death he held the posi-.
ton Of city clerk OF Jackson. Secrc.
tary OF War Root offered him a posi-.
tion rs captain Of Il company for til,
Philippines, which he refused. III
WAS u popular young man, and hi,
death Is very much regretted by ln.
large circle VI friends.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
FIRE FIGHTING.
How II Was Done I'm the South IN
the Days Before the
Civil War;.

Old citizens are commenting on the
change the Savannah fire department
has undergone since the bellum
DAYS, The recent fires have given rise
to many recol'ections of former meth
DDS of checking flames, says the Sa-
vannah News.
The eyes Of one man, who was posted
in a glass house in the City Exchange
dome, constituted the alarm system.
He was a sort of sentinel, and while
keeping watch over the city cried out
the hours and whether things were
well or no. There are a few members
of the police force to-day who served in
the old glass house and recall the days
when fire alarms were sounded by ring
ing the old bell.
Hand pumps formed the apparatus
to drive water, and the effective work
they did is We, remembered. All fire.
men before the war were volunteers,
ard, with the exception of the chiefs of
divisions, were composed entirely of
co,ored men. They were strong, hardy,
and 10 get 10 a lre was q SORT OF pasllme
which was thoroughly enjoyed by them.
While working the pumps they would
strike up a tune, keeping time with
the movements of the pump handle and
ringing out their song in such harmony
and fu,lness as to catch even the ear
of the critic. Then, too, there was fun
for the negroes getting to their re-
spect:ve station houses. 1t was a stand
ing rule that the first man to place his
hand on the lock at the station received
a dollar, and all were wild to earn it.
Ii was as much an honor as a gain--a
sort Of trophy held unit! the next fire.
The station houses were built of brick
and located in the squares in different
parts of the city.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-09-22
GETTING RID OF FLIES.
London Women Adopt a. Oriental
Plan and Meet with
Success.

Most people who have Travelled in the
far east have seen o~rientals burning
sandalwood in their houses for the pur-
pose of driving flies away. 1t is odd
That the plan is not more generally
known in this country. where it meets
with success wherever the experiment
Is tried. y recen: arrival f~cr1 London
says that the women there have discov-
cred this agreeable method Of Kidding
their homes of the pest. in London il
Is possible to get the wood prepared for
this purpose. but here it is not SO easy.
rs American women have not vet taken
to the practice. Now that the festive
fly and the merry mosquito are about
10 make their appearances. housewives
mightdoas well to give the sandalwood a
trial. SanGalwood can be bought at al
most any Turkish or japanese import
ing house. IT is prepared fer burning
by first being cut into small pieces half
an irca taick ard three iochcs lerg.
ihen it is baked CIR dried on, IL a slow
o"ea Tar "a hours. A piece Of the wood
is l"t into a metal ugf. '.t;ed and ~
lowed iofhura nrIil wei sc.arle. vhro
ih9 IT," is ~tX,i""G's, ! p.ii ne rea-
lot t.sHrr lett - ,a.a.,,.r VIII ,!r
wood !, consumed AVID tr,h.H~ Il, ts..
tri Il heap cf Eaa f-e%.y :,1as. l,csiar
'Ae s~F"2!Gsr'rs r;ccg>s ,..r wco;. sends
out a sweet and arc. ":,r saehe.