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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

his dram. He generally took it like a
true blue Bourbon and held two fin
gers around the top. The usual drug
store loafers decided to put up a trick
on the old man. There was a skeleton
in a closet at the back of the store and
it was hit upon as just the thing for the
jokerS.
When the old man came in that af-
ternoon he walked back to the case,
poured out a stiff drink of Mountain
Dew and drank it. He drew long
breath of satisfaction and raised a
glass of water to his lips for a chaser.
As he bent his head back to drink the
water he looked in the direction of the
closet.
The door slowly opened and there
stood the skeleton. The skeleton raised
its long arm and pointed directly at
the old colored man who was shaking
like leaf. The skeletons lower jaw
was shaking so that the water spilled
out.
"Lawd er massa, please suffered
the old negro, Il woan drink no mo-"
Beware, you have overstepped the
bounds of Christianity and are taking
the downward path to destruction"
said deep bass voice from the direc-
ton of the skeleton. The skeleton
raised one foot as if to step out from
the closet and the old man dropped the
glass of water and ran. He did not
wait for anyone to open the front doors
but he went through the screens head
AA1SlS tdhiHS the SCISGn QOOTS WIFI u1Il.
The cure was perfect. He has not
touched drop since.
A stylishly dressed young lady fol-
lowed by a little white fluffy dog with
a blue ribbon around his neck, walked
out from the curb stone and hailed an
open car bound for the park
The dog followed about twenty feet
behind his mistress and when she
boarded the car he stood there and
barked. She called to him but he would
not come. The young lady left her
parasol and bundles on the car seat
and stepped off to get the dog. AS soon
as she stepped to the pavement the dog
ran off a few feet and barked She
started after him and again he ran.
She gave up the chase and again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
EXODUS FROM DAWSON.
Nearly 10000 People Have Left Since
Navigation Opened

Vancouver, B. c., Sept. 2.-The
Dirigo arrived from Alaska today with
200 passengers and gold dust estimated
as a quarter of a million. The biggest
winner is Barclay of North Dakota,
with 100000. Among the passengers
were Q. S. Coatesworth, who went in
over the Edmonton route. He reports
that DR.. Mason. Of Chicago, and others
who were sick with scurvy at Wind
City, got through safely.
Since the opening of navigation to
passenger steamers. 9.447 people have
left Dawson and 2,899 have arrived
there This aggregate does not include
1000 or 1,5O0 men who flOated down the
river to Cape Nome. It is estimated
that there are 3, 900 broke men in the
Klondil1e, who must get out of the
country or become objects of charity
next winter.
The telegraph line has reached a
point on the Yukon river $50 miles
south of Dawson. The work is being
pushed ahead at the rate of FIVE miles
a day.
The government is building a wagon
trail from Caribou Crossing to a point
below White Horse Rapids through
Walton Valley and around Thirty Mile
river. This will lessen the distance on
the Edmonton fully 100 miles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The residents of a certain block on
Tyler street We're treated to an i'm
promptu musical medley one evening
this week, which was very amusing to
disinterested listeners. The lawn of one
residence was brilliantly lighted for a
cottage prayer meeting, which was
largely attended and at which every
body sang enthusiastically. The songs
used We're the ringing Sunday school
pieces that nearly everyone knows, and
the voices of the singers could be heard
for blocks.
At the other end of the block on the
opposite side OF the street is a little
German church, where another prayer
meeting was in progress with doors
ana windows wide open. The German
Worshfppers had lusty voices, and their
music ran vigorous opposition to that
OF the other meeting further up the
street.
Between the two places lives a young
lady who is popular in musical circles,
and during the evening a Serenading
party silently approached her home.
Neither of the prayer meetings were
engaged in singing at the time and all
unconscious of what it was getting into
the serenading party tuned its voice
and started in.
The evening was still and the voices
blended tremendously. The effect was
beautiful. The singers were all accom-
plished musicians and the trills and
tremulos which they put into the song
were enhancing.
But, alas! just as they were coming
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
M'KINLEY EN- ROUTE.
Left Canton For Washington Last
Night.

Canton, O., Sept. 2-To an accompani-
ment of enthusiastic cheers from the
crowd that thronged the station plat
dent and Mrs. Mckinley steamed out
of Canton at 9 o'clock last night. The
president from the rear platform bowed
his acknowledgements for the kindly
demonstration. The train goes direct
to Washington and is due to arrive at
1 p. m. today.
The president assured his friends
here that he had really restful visit.
DR.. Rixey expressed his belief that
Mrs. Mckinley is steadily recovering
from her indisposition of a month or
so, although her state of health while
here was such that she could see but
few people. While in Pittsburg she re-
ceived such a shock from the contin-
uous ring of a cannon at the side of the
car as to give her a setback for the
time being She was able yesterday
afternoon, however, to take a ride
about the citV.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IF'rom the Chicago News.l
The mustache is merely a bang on
the lip.
The lawyer helps those who are able
to help him.
the earth later on.
Every man believes in the total de-
pravity of some other man.
A man isn't always cool when he
shivers in the hour of danger.
Fame is so short-Hved that it's really
not worth striving for.
Two-thirds of the stealing done now
adays goes under another name.
Lots of people are poor because they
buy too many things they don't need
It's a pity the self-made man isn't
permitted to select his own material
The man who thinks he knows it all
doesn't know what other people think
of him.
The Widows mite is the favorite form
of charity with some people who have
plenty.
When you see man eager to confess
a small fault the chances are he has
larger one to conceal.
By the time a man succeeds in reach
ing the top of the ladder he is too old to
enjoy the scenery.
A woman's idea of a minutes rest is
to lean over the back fence and gossip
with a neighboring woman for an hour.
To a woman marriage is something
between a sentiment and a situation;
to a man it is something between a
sensation and a sacrifice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

zamboanga, the city which a Moro
chieftain named Dato Mundi captured
from the Filipino insurgents, is stu
ated at the extreme southerly end of
long peninsula extending from the large
Island of AIindanao into the Sulu Sea
The place is of considerable strategic
Importance. lying on the Basilan Strait
and being conveniently situated as a
base for the repression of attempts at
piracy by the Sulu Islanders. When
evacuated by its Spanish garrison sew
eral months ago ZambOanga was
promptly occupied by a detachment of
Tagals who had been sent to Mindanao
from Luzon by the Aguinaldoan Re
public" Our new ally Dato Mundi led
his attack under the Stars and Stripes,
and proclaimed his desire to become an
American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

clerks were laughing and some looked
amazed
He kept bravely on. The lump of salt
seemed to grow larger and larger and
he was becoming more and more like
a mackerel in brine but he finished that
lump and walked out of the store as if
he was as used to eating salt as most
people are sugar.
The first place he made for when he
left was a soda fountain and he drank
lime juice straight the rest Of the aft
ernoon.
An aged and bent old colored man
who is in the habit of taking his regu-
lar nips, received treatment better than
the gold cure a few days ago and he
has not back slid since.
The old cOlored man was in the habit
of going behind the prescription case in
a certain drug store and pouring out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Noting a report that there is a ten
deney to form a trust among depart
ment stores, the New York Tribune ar
CUES that it is singular that such a
thing has not already come to pass in
this day of trusts. for on the face of
things one buyer can do better for sew
eral stores than a buyer for each store,
while economy in shipments and the
ability to send surplus stocks from city
to city would make a large difference in
profits. The Tribune thinks that the
trusts are gravitating toward Mr.. Bel
1any's socialism. They do not know
It nor did he know it. Their idea is to
capture larger profits for individuals,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
READ HIS EDITORIAL.


IFrom the Times, Hillstille, Val
I suffered with diarrhoea for a long time
and thought I was past being cured
had spent much time and money and suf-
fered so much misery that I had almost
decided to give up all hopes of recovery
and await the result, but noticing the ad-
vertisement of Chamberlain Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy and also some
testimonials stating how some wonderful
cures had been wrought by this remedy,
I decided to try it. After taking a few
doses I was entirely well of that trouble.
and I wish to say further to my readers
and fellow sufferers that am hale and
hearty man today and feel as well as I
ever did in my ife.-O. r. Moore. Sold by
all druggists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
Because I lo-o-uve you so-o-o,"

Because I 1o-o-uve you so-o-o,"
quavered the tenor in the serenading
party.
Just then the little band Of German
worshippers started in with a soul
stirring hymn of "faderland.' A mo-
ment later a coIicky baby in a neigh
boring house gave vent to a series of
ear-piercing shrieks.
The serenading party stood it long
enough to wobble through another
verse, and then they made their escape
in the darkness.
A Topeka young man walked into a
grocery store and gave an order to be
delivered at once. While waiting for
his change he wandered around and
came across a barrel of sugar.
The young man had a sweet tooth so
he reached for the incest and largest
lump and took a good big bite. AS he
did so he saw several of the clerks look
at him and laugh. simultaneously he
discovered that it was not sugar he was
eating. It was salt. Rock salt.
Great scott! He never tasted salt
like it in his life. It seemed to be con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Gen. Funston is reported as saying
that he would not mind remaining in
the Philippines while there is fighting.
Then why doesn't he? Is it possible
that the government has no place for
man like Funston, who performs the
sort Of service that appears to be
greatly needed in the archipelago. The
general intimates strongly that his
style is not approved by the command
ing general, when he says:
Our greatest successes have been
gained when the regimental command
ers have been allowed to quickly follow
up the advantages gained in battle"
There r. much in the word allowed. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
A wonderful Cure of Diarrhoea

A PROMINENT VIRGINIA EDITOR
Had Almost Given Up. but Was Brought
Back to Perfect Health by Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The city council of Liverpool, Eng
land, has appropriated $25O,OO for the
purchase and destruction of unsanitary
dwellings. The changes made viii af-
feet about 5000 persons. The city has
destroyed 1920 houses within the last
ten years, replacing them with build
ings constructed on sanitary lines
Birmingham has already pursued the
same method in renovating twenty-five
acres Of its slum district
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Kodol Dyspepsia Cure is a scientific
compound having the endorsement of en-
inent physicians and the medical press.
It .'digests what you eat and positively
cures dyspepsia. NJ. A. Ketron. Blooming
dale. Tenn. says it cured him of indfges-
ton of ten years standing. Geo. w. STAINS
field w H. Wilson, A J. Arnold & Son,
A J. Kane & Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Yellow fever has again appeared on
United States territory; this time at
Key West. An outbreak Of the scourge
does not attract the attention that it
once did, thanks to the superior meth
DDS of handling it which have been
adopted. The recent outbreak at the
Hampton soldiers home was squelched
right in the place of its incipiency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The Missouri newspapers are not
likely to stop figuring on the returns
from the Bland district until there is
another election somewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

rFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The Atchison boys say of the circus
Bovalapus, that they have been fooled
that way before.
1t is a cheap compliment to tell peo-
pie they are OVERRIDING their strength
but it always hits the bulls eye.
This is the season to remind the wo-
men that the winter is never long, with
DamsOn plum jam in the house.
When a little girl is encored as often
as three times at a concert, her mother
is so happy that she can't sleep all
night.
A good woman who thinks it her
Christian duty to take chances at a
church fair. regards gambling as one
of the objectionable sins.
A grocer has the advantage of other
men; whenever he wants to take the
conceit out of a woman, he let's her
pick out her own cantaloupes.
There is nothing more discouraging
to a girl than to return home from
big town with a new wrinkle in style,
and find that it has preceded her.
Don't talk about it. but an Atchison
man is said % have once delayed going
to the death-bed of relative in dis
tant state until excursion rates were
in force.
If a preacher eats too much spring
chicken or cake sent in by his women
church members, and gets sick, they
start the story that he is being worked
to death.
The custom Of calling a woman by
her husbands name saves may
woman from being foolish, who would
otherwise sign herself Mrs. Pearline
Mayme Smith, instead of Mrs. Bob
Smith"
We give notice right now that we
don't want any one to return from
summer vacation and look at US with
pity because we have never climbed
Pixies Peak at sunrise. We have had
to get up at sunrise every morning
this summer and go to work, and are
enjoying a feeling of contempt for
tourists that beats the boast Of having
seen Pixies Peak at sunrise.
How rarely you hear anything sensi-
bleI When girls get together, they
gable and giggle, and if they drop a
sensible, intelligent remark in the
sourse Of a half-hour, it is purely acct
dental. It seems that girl has to
get married and have trouble before
She can talk upon any subject but
dresses and parties, and her longings
for something her father can't afford.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Scarcely a day passes that some
fresh disgrace is not unearthed in con-
nection with the French army. The lat
est one comes from the Soudan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Columbus, Ohio. is getting into con-
dition that should make her eligible to
the relief extended to impecuniOus deb
tors by the bankrupt law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

densed. He wanted to throw it away
and make a face Everyone in the store
bite determined to eat the whole piece.
He thought of the boy who smoked
his first cigar and then he thought of
Lots wife. He wondered if he would
be turned to salt if he kept on. He
thought he would become a dyspeptic.
He glanced around and some of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The death roll OF the Twentieth KAN
sas in the Philippines contains sixty
two names. Forty-three were killed in
hattie
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
Marshall,s Rand

Will render an interesting program a
their concert tomorrow afternoon.
Garfield Park MarshalPs Band Con
cert tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

At the present rate it looks as though
all the gold might pass into the hands
Of the government. leaving all other
forms of currency to the banks and the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
Beprs' German salva.

Is an old Remedy well known to most
German house wives. It is guaranteed to
cure ScaldS. Burns, Sores. Cuts and
Bruises. 1t heals without a scar. r. W.
Squires, pharmacist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The government receipts for the
month of August nearly touched the
fifty million mark. This is a great
country and it is carrying on an ex-
tensive business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
Iron the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press
Love grows by what it doesn't feed
on.
No thin girl will ever admit that
there is a family skeleton anywhere
around her house
After a girl has been engaged three
or four times she feels lonesome every
night a man doesn't propose to her.
Women who are awful careful about
matching ribbons that they wear
where nobody ever sees them are
mighty reckless matching hearts that
everybody can look at.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Two hundred of the Kansas volun-
teers will remain in the Philippines
$50 Of whom have re-enlisted-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The places in the army are about fill
ed and the Washington officials have
now hit upon the plan of discharging
women from the departments in order
to provide positions for Office seekers
who are still out in the cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Sampson has asked to be retired from
command of the North Atlantic station
and to be assigned to shore duty. He
did not do so. however, until it had
been ascertained that Schley would not
be permitted to succeed him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The Germans in China have found a
new way to pick a quarrel They shoot
a lot of Chinese and then make a fuss
about it to the government. Are they
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
For Sac.

Fair ground reunion privileges. For
prices and terms call at G. A. r. head
quarters. A. P. SHREVE, Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
$780,.

Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and
Return
Via the Great Rock Island Route
Tickets on sale September 6. z and 8,
good returning September Goth
L. s. Woolverton, Prescription drug
gist now at 704 Kan. Ave, opposite old
place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
sang the prayer meeting.

''Why do you wait, dear brother?
o, why do you tarry so long?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
GLOBE SIGHTS

rFrom the Atchison Globe.1
The Atchison boys say of the circus
Bovalapus, that they have been fooled
that way before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

There is nothing more discouraging
to a girl than to return home from a
big town with a new wrinkle in style,
and find that it has preceded her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

If a preacher eats too much spring
chicken or cake sent in by his women
church members, and gets sick, they
start the story that he is being worked
to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

Don't talk about it, but an Atchison
man is said % have once delayed going
to the death-bed of relative in dis
tant state until excursion rates were
in force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

A good woman who thinks it her
Christian duty to take chances" at a
church fair, regards gambling as one
of the objectionable sins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

When a little girl is encored as often
as three times at a concert, her mother
is so happy that she can't sleep all
night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

This is the season to remind the wo-
men that the winter is never long, with
Damson plum jam in the house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

A grocer has the advantage of other
men; whenever he wants to take the
conceit out of a woman, he let's her
pick out her own cantaloupes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

1t is a cheap compliment to tell peo-
pie they are OVERRIDING their strength,
but it always hits the bulls eye.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

The custom Of calling woman by
her husbands name saves may a
woman from being foolish, who would
otherwise sign herself Mrs. Pearline
Mayme Smith, instead of Mrs. Bob
Smith,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

BY the time a man succeeds in reach
ing the top of the ladder he is too old tc
enjoy the scenery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

A woman's idea of minutes rest is
to lean over the back fence and gossip
with a neighboring woman for an hour.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

When you see a man eager to confess
a small fault the chances are he has a
larger one to conceal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
HIGH PRICES NO CHECK

aHT 1853 sv THE PRocrEaA GAMBLE co. ensclasAr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02

TELEPHONES. -,
Business Office. sen i -
Reporters Room. -...--------BeII uol-e -
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-05
JULIUS KAHN.
United States snpreme Court.

Washington, D. c., May 3.-Tbe
United States supreme court today
adjourned until Monday, the 18th
inst, when it will meet to deliver
opinions and hear motions. The
calling of the docket for this term
has been suspended.
The court decided case which
has the effect of barring judges
from participating in proceedings
in courts of appeal who have dealt
with the same cases in the lower
courts. The case was that of Mo
ran vs.. Dillingham;. The supreme
court set aside the decree of the
court of appeals for the Fifth cir
cult ON the ground that Judge Par
dee, of the circuit court of the
Northern district of Texas, par
ticipated in the proceedings in the
higher court.
The opinion of the circuit court
of the Southern district of Iowa in
the case of Mexican VS.. the city of
Des Moines was affirmed. The case
involved the jurisdiction of the
officers of the city over Greenwood
park. The court held that the fed
eral courts had no jurisdiction in
the case, the result being to sub
stantiate the claims of the city ad
ministratiOn.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-05

Madrid, May 1t is stated that
steps are being taken by the gov
ernment to secure the return of
Spanish property in Manila confis-
Gated by the Americans.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-05

London, May 4. = Dispatches
from Hong Kong assert that the
claim of AguinaldO against the
Bank of Hong Kong for 5000, 900
is settled and the money paid.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-05-05

See Puts for all kinds of sign
painting. lot