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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
ErOm Mrs. Naughn
to Mrs. PlnkhGm.

LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 64,5871 g =
"DEAR FRIEND-Two years ago had
child bed fever and womb trouble in
its worse form. For eight months after
birth of babe I was not able to sit up.
Doctors treated me, but with no help.
had bearing down pains, burning in
stomach, kidney and bladder trouble
and my back was so stiff and sore, the
right ovary was badly affected and
everything / ate distressed me, and
there was bad discharge.
1 was confined to my bed when I
wrote to you for advice and followed
your directions faithfully, taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, Liver Pills and using the Wash,
and am now able to do the most of my
homework 1 believe 1 should have
died if it had not been for your Com
pound. hope this letter may be the
result of benefitting some other suffer
ing woman. 1 recommend your Com
pound to every one."-MRs. MARY
VAUGHN, TRIMBLE, PULASKI Co., KY.
Many of these sick women whose
letters we print were utterly dis
couraged and life was a burden to
them when they wrote to Lynn, Mass. &,
to Mrs. Pinkham, and without charge
of any kind received advice that made
them strong, useful women again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

the promoter as a lunatic. He was very
persistent. but they saw no excuse for
his request The following winter all sorts
of bills hostile to the railway We're pro-
the company found that they all origin
ated from one source-a man familiarity
known as Buffalo JONES' President
Strong had an interview with Jones and
asked his motive Jones replied that he
would bust the railroad unless it gave him
a side track. The side track was built.
Jones laid out his section in town lots
and advertised far and wide. 1t 20
be an ideal community, with all modern
a geological garden and an art gallery
built an opera house, PUBLIC library, a
lions that would be likely to attract a
cultured class of immigrants.
For a few years Garden City. had a
great boom but Buffalo Jones had taken
unwarranted liberties with nature and
most of the people who had shared his
with the natural rainfall and moved to
more favorable locations. A few remained
and dug wells. but not until an irriga ton
prosper. The land is now divided into ten
acre tracts. and, although several of the
never been realized, it is a garden city in
fact well in name. and one of the
most beautiful towns in Kansas.
Mr.. Davis. the industrial commissioner
of the Santa Fe railroad. who knows this
of intensified farming For example, he
declares thatsB. L. Dye, a storekeeper at
acre farm as a pastime last year pro
duced a crop that Melted him 81 44o profit
acre; At Canon City sixteen cherry trees
yielded $40 net last year
Mr.. Davis also declares that B. F.
of seventy acres that yielded 10000 barrels
of apples last year, and that he sold them
" WILLIAM r CTrRTTS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
A Present Day Nightingale.

GF'rom the Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. j. H. r. Bond, who is now living
in Chicago, has led a more adventurous
and exciting life than falls to the lot of
most of her sex.
Her duties as a trained nurse have
led her into many strange countries
and over many hard-fought battle
field. She was only II years old when
she began active work in her profess
sion. From the training school at the
Queens hospital, Birmingham, England
she went to Netley to study and from
that she went to Woolwich When the
English went to Zululand Mrs. Bond
then Miss Alice Annie Crisp-was one
of the first nurses sent with them bv
the government.
She went all through the Zulu was and
the Egyptian campaign, enduring all
the hardshipS and privatiOns that fell
to the lot of the soldiers and taking
charge of the sick and the wounded.
Mrs. Bond can show five medals Civ
en- her in recognition of her services
two were given. her by the English
government; one, a bronze star, by the
late Khedive of Egypt, and the Order
of the Royal Red Cross by Queen Vic
toria. This last medal is bestowed only
for bravery in active service in the
field, nursing the English soldiers or
sailors during the campaigns, or on
members of the English royal family
In the letter from the queen which ac-
cOmpanied the cross, it was stated that
it was given for special devotion, COM
potency and bravery while with her
majesty's troops"
These medals and the distinction
which accompanied them were not cas-
lily earned. During the Egyptian and
Zulu campaigns Mrs. Bond and the
nurses with her endured as much
in the way of hardships as any of the
soldiers. They did not expect or get
extra 1uxuries on account of their sex
At one time in Zululand Mrs Bond
and another nurse spent a month trav-
cling in OK carts from up in the coun-
try down to Peter Maritglung taking
charge of 60 sick and wounded soldiers
The sick were in ambulanceS, but the
nurses had only an OK cart in which to
make the months journey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
THE FUTURE OF EGYPT.

re. D. Gibson in Pail Mall Magazine.1
There never were so many cooks try
ing to spoil a broth. Before a consul
general is received by the khedive, the
sultan of Turkey must first approve of
him, and it is said the sultan allows
nothing to go by before he gives his
consent, which is his Oriental way of
showing his authority. But Egypt is
geographically so important that, in
spite of herself she will be saved and,
with England's help, she will some day
pay her debts, and in centuries to come
the feIlah may learn to hold his head up
like the Nubian.
There is no fear of Egypt becoming
dull and commonplace, for if the east
and the west should ever fight it must
be for the possession of her canal, and
many an unborn soldiers reputation
will be made before the railroad that
has started up the Niles valley reaches
Capetown. The same land that offers
death and reputation to the strong gives
life to the weak, and the tired rich
man on his dahabiyeh and the soldier
on the transport go up the Nile side by
side, and in most cases they both find
what they are in search of.
Shepherds, in all probability will
forever remain a composite portrait of
Europe and Asia, with Cairo as it's
frame. Time has made, and probably
will continue to make, some slight all
teration in upper Egypt's appearance,
but the locomotives whistle will have
difficulty in breaking the silence and
calm of Karnak and Thebes. And the
present indications are that Egypt will
remain true to the Pharaohs of old, and
until the judgment she win in all prob
ability assisted by the Nile, who made
herr continue to quietly resist the atten-
lions of modern nations, and patiently
wait for that last day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
MOURNING CUSTOMS.
TFrom the New york Press

TFrom the New York Press
Some men like to wear broad band
of black crepe on their hats. They
think it improves the appearance of
to adopt it whether there is a death
in the family or not. The British have
taken to the arm band as an outward
show of grief, and we see it's employ
ment creeping in here. 1t is in very
poor taste. Following an ancient and
the death of a friend an exemption
from bathing for seven days. The
Greeks and Romans tasted, and all ma
tions, at one time or another, have had
funeral feasts.
In a fashionable street on Sunday
noticed, tied to the doorknob of a brown
stone house, a mourning roSette and
steamers, the color of violet. I once
saw a similar emblem at the Hotel De
Byzance, in ConStantinOple, and the
landlord, Mr.. Arghiropoulo, informed
me that the ordinary color for mourn
ing in Turkey is violet. When we see
a black hearse we say grown person. -
The ordinary color for mourning in
Europe is black, in China white, in
Ethiopia brown. 1t was white in Spain
until 1893.
You all have heard the story of the
Chinese minister at Washington, who
having but recently arrived, threw the
entire legation in mourning because a
boy employed to scatter white hand
bills through the city cast lot into the
windows and doors of the big house at
2703 Fourteenth street. He thought the
pieces of paper had been sent there by
order of the administration to signify
to him that some high official was dead
The blinds were closed and the embas-
sy Solemnly proceeded to suspend bust
ness for three days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
UNFIT FOR USE.
Little Good Coffee Comes to This
Country.

Chicago. May 9.-Witnesses before the
senatorial pure food commission declared
that America is used by other countries
as a dumping ground for adulterated
products of food and drink
Graeme Stuart of the w. NJ. Hoyt COM
pany. of this city. who was the principal
witness declared that national food law
was necessary to protect honest mer-
chants as well as the consumer from
the adulterated foods of foreign countries.
He said among other things the coffee re-
ceived from Germany in large quantities
is known as black jack and is nothing
more than a mixture of dead and green
beans totally unfit for consumption. In
Brazil he declared, the coffee beans are
picked over. the best kent for home use
and the inferior grades shipped to Amer
lea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
GAS BATTLE TO END.
New York Companies Now Planning
For a Compromise.

New York, May ct was stated to-
day that a compromise of the gas fight
was near at hand and that it is not I'M
likely that Russell Sage will receive a
price for his Standard gas stock near
ly as large as he has been holding out
for.
1t is said that there had already been
one conference between the contending
interests and that a man friendly to
both William Rockefeller and Mr.. Sage
had had a preliminary talk to find out
what each was willing to do in the mat
ter. These negotiations are expected to
bear fruit within a week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
Lincoln Banks Unite.

Lincoln, Neb., May "a consolidation
of the First National and American Elk
change National banks of Lincoln was
effected last night and the two will
open under one management today with
the name of the First National The
consolidated banks are the two largest
in the city. S. H. Burnham of the
American Exchange succeeds to the
presidency of the consolidated concerns
and H. S. Freeman of the First National
retains his position as cashier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

If you suffer from tenderness or full
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
Relief In Six DAYS.

Distressing Kidney and Bladder Dis.
ease relieved in six hours by New
Great South American Kidney Cure %
It is great surprise on account of its
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IN bladder, kidneys and back, in male
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Geo. w. Stansfield, 632 Kansas avenue
and the Sim Drug Co., 6o7 Kansas ave.
nue.. druggists. Topeka, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
Now Will Morocco Paw.

Tangier, Morocco, May 9.-The United
to support the claims of the United States
government against the sultanate of Mo-
rocco. Rear Admiral Henry l.. HOwiSon
and the United States consul general Mr..
Samuel r. Gunners, paid visit to the
for eign minister of Morocco, Sid Hamed
Ben MuSa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
$1,000 Pueblo and Return, via Santa
Fe Route.

Tickets on sale May 16 and IT with
return limit of June Is. No change of
cars. Harvey dining rooms. T. L.
King, agent, Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

black hair line of the edge. 1t was stat
uary marble of the finest texture and
color our geologist declared, and he in
sisted carrying the specimens back to
town. The other bits-pink, gray and
black-faded into commonplace beside
the alabaster chunks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

The Topeka Cash Dry Goods Co. have
opened job department on their sec
stained or otherwise damaged goods to
be found in their entire establishment.
Whenever they advertise any of this
class of goods it is ALWAYS under Job
Department" heading. Remember this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

Made in Topeka
and equal to the best-Gypsy Queen
Baking Powder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

Seattle, Wash,
$2s.s5, via Santa Fe Route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
$3.50 For $500.

Communication tickets at lunch counter
Hotel Oxford and restaurant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

Garden City, Kan, which is the last
town on the Santa Fe railroad within the
cultivated area. furnishes another inter-
esting illustration of the advantages of
intensified farming"
About the middle of the '70s a lank coun-
tryman appeared at the office of the Santa
Fe RAILROAD company ct Topeka and asked
for side track on section of land which
he owned in the western part of the state
He proposed to start town there on the
arid prairie and call it Garden City. The
railroad officials were inclined to take a
humorous view of the matter and treated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09

Another very profitable enterprise is fat
tening sheep and cattle with alfalfa, and
thousands of these are driven into this
valley for this purpose. AIfalfa-fed NUT
ton and beef are now becoming known to
eastern epicures and bring the best prices
in the best markets You can raise four
crops of alfalfa a year and each crop
will average and one-half tons per
acre, which is equivalent to about four
tons of hay.
An interesting and profitable by-product
of alfalfa is honey. which has a peculiar
flavor when the bees feed on alfalfa bios
SONS and the wild sage of the prairies
One man at Rocky Ford. Col, shipped
100.0 900 pounds of honey last year which
averaged 10 cents a pound. The average
yield is about eight pounds per hive of
bees.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-23
A Cure for Gossjp,

DR.. Holland tells us that the cure
for gossip is culture. He says there
is a great deal of gossip that has
no malignity in it. Good natured
people often talk about their neigh
bors because they have nothing else
to talk about. As we write Che con
tinuesl there comes To us picture
of family of young ladies. We
have seen them at home, we have
met them in galleries of art, we have
caught glimpses of them going from
book store, or a library with a
fresh volume in their hands. When
we meet them they are full of what
they have seen and read They are
trimming with questions. One topic
Of conversation is dropped only TO
give place to another in which they
are interested We have left them,
after delightful hour, stimulated
and refreshed and during the whole
hour not neighbours garment was
soiled by so much as touch They
knew something and wanted to know
more. They could listen as well as
talk. The. confirmed gossip among
women, and the tattler among men,
is either malicious or unenltivated
The one variety needs a change of
heart and the other change Of cul-
ture.
Gossip and tale bearing are always
a personal confession either Of NAL
ice or imbecility; the young should
not only shun it, but by the most
thorough culture, relieve themselves
from all temptation.
They should make it point Of
personal pride not to repeat to a soul
a syllable that was not intended for
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-23
INTERESTING EVENT.
Double Wedding at Fairmopt
Attracts Attention Here.


Four Well knewn Young People We'd
ded-Prof. Knutti Leads Miss Esiy
TO the Altar and Clarence r. J.i-
liffee is United With Miss Hay hurst
Large Attendance fatnre Plans Of
the Young People.
One of the most interesting society
events OF the year for Morgantowu
people took place 10 Fairmont on Wed
nesday evening. 1t was the marriage
Of two very well known young men to
two charming young ladies. Prof.
John g. Knutti of The Fairmont Nor
nial was united in marriage to Miss
Elenor Eddy of this county and Mr.
Clarence Jollife OF Wetzel was mar
ried 20 Miss AMANDA Hayhurst OF
Fairmont.
Both OF the young men are popular
here having been students in the Unit
versity for several years. Miss Edds
is daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. e. j.
EDDY OF Bula
The marriage took place in the First
Baptist church and the ceremony was
performed by Rev. w. J. Eddy. The
church was very prettily decorated
with potted plants and flowers. The
ceremony was a very pretty one both
couples being married at the same
time. The arrangement was novel
part OF the event.
The Jolliffe-Hayhurst bridal pro-
cession was formed with ushers, Joe
Jolliffe brother of the groom, and Mr..
Tusca Morris; the bridesmaids were
Misses Edna Morgan and Elizabeth
Stone, gowned in white organdie and
carrying white carnations; the maid
of honor was Miss Sarah Morgan who
wore white organdie over pink taffeta
and carried pink roses. The bride,
leaning on the arm of her brother-in-
law Mr.. Norman, of Paris, O., was
gowned in beautiful garment of
liberty silk over white organdie, with
veil, and carried brides roses and a
white prayer book.
The Knutti-Eddy bridal party en-
tered with Justin Kunkle of Morgan
town, and Mr.. Howard Satterfield as
ushers; the bridesmaids were Miss
Hattie Chesney and Miss Florence
Stone, gowned 10 white organdie. and
carrying white carnations; the maid
of honor was Miss Martha Eddy cous-
in of the bride, gowned in pink null
over pink satin and carried pink car
nations; the bride, leaning on the
arm of her cousin, Mr.. j. L. Lemas-
tiers, was gowned in mousseline de
sol over white silk, entrain, and VEIL
and carrying white brides roses. The
attendant for Mr.. Knutti was Mr.
Harris Il. Yost, of Amos, and for Mr..
Jolliffe, Mr.. L. r. Taylor.
The church was crowded with the
friends of the young people. Many
were able to get standing room only.
After the ceremony the party took the
train for an extended trip to Niagara,
Toronto and the Thousand Isles.
They will be gone for several weeks
after which Prof. and Mrs. Knutti
will go to housekeeping in Fairmont
and Mr.. and Mrs. Jolliffe will set up
in Uniontown this state. To the
happy couples everyone here joins US
in extending congratulations and best
wishes.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-23
West Virginia Notes.

The demand for coke is greater at
the present time than ever before.
New ovens have been built or are in
the course of construction at points
all over the state. Nearly 5000 tons
of coke are turned out by West Vir-
ginia manufacturers each week. Much
trouble, however, is being experienced
in some places in securing workers,
partly owing to the fact that agents
from the western states have been in
different sections of the state Undue
ing miners aud workmen to 20 west
to work. The inducements offered
are higher wages and the entire elm
ination of all Objectionable weights,
measures and screens. Wage advan-
ces have been voluntarily made in
some sections in order to hold the
men.
That West Virginia is coming to
be recognized as one of the foremost
of the wealth producing states is
shown by the fact that at the present
time there are thirty eight different
lines Of railroad projected, including
those in course of construction, all Of
which are to open up sections Of the
state for the purpose of development
of its natural resources. West Vir-
ginia offers as inducements an abun-
dance of gas, coal and raw materials
such as no other state or section can
boast of; and with increased facilities
for its development, such as is offered
by these different lines of railroad,
the state of West Virginia combines
greater advantages and greater in
ducements for the investment of cap
ital than, perhaps, any other.
The second battalion of the Second
Regiment National Guard will he
modified at Charleston August % for
a ten days practice march. The bat
TALON is composed of Companies A,
of Bluefield; F, of Milton: and M, of
Charleston, and will march to Diego,
a distance of twenty-five miles, where
it will camp for four days.
Director Dodge, of the agricultural
department, Washington, d. c., who
will have charge of the agricultural
display of the United States at the
Paris exposition, has prepared a cir
cular which will be sent broadcast
over the country asking for contribu-
tions to the proposed exhibit, and
West Virginia will no doubt contrib
ute no small share. West Virginia
is as well fruit producing as min
eral producing country.
The national encampment G.. A.
r., at Philadelphia, promises to be
largely attended by West Virginia
veterans Of the civil war. A COM
mittee is now negotiating. with the
railroads, and 1t is likely that spe-
cial train for the West Virginia posts
will be run through from Wheeling to
Philadelphia over the b. s. o. road.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1899-08-23

Their Bones Removed From Harper's
Ferry TO North EIba-Are to Have
a Monument

The bodies of seven followers OF
John Brown we're disinterred near
Harper's Ferry last Saturday By DIR.
Thomas R. Featherstonbaugh, OF
Washington. ID. c. and Capt. K. r.
Hall employed in the Interior De
partment. The forgotten graves
we're located by Dr. Featherston-
baugh three years ago.
The seven bodies were buried in
a lonely spot near the banks of the
Shenandoah river. Featherston
baugh learned that jefferson county
paid James Marshall, now very
old man, $40 for burying the bodies
Marshall assisted him in locating
the graves, one OF which was opened.
The remains were sent to North
Elba, n. Y. the old homestead Of
John Brown, where his body lies
buried, and will he inferred in ad
iacent soil. The bones were shipped
to North Elba in charge of neph
ew Of one of the men who escaped
with his life
The remains of the seven disin
tered Saturday will be received in
the old Adirondack home with cere-
monies Rev. Joshua Young, who
buries John Brown, has been asked
to attend the reinterment.
A monument will be erected Civ
ing the names of the men and the
circumstances of the recovery of
the bodies
Miss Katharine E. Mcclellan, OF
Saranac Lake, n. Y, is in charge OF
the arrangements at the North Elba
end of the route, and will get tegeth-
er a notable gathering of personages.
President Mckinley viii be invited
to take some active part in the cere-
monies.
The bodies had been buried in
two large store boxes There was
nothing left in the boxes except the
homes and some OF the mems clothes
Oliver Brown was buried in a shay
gy overcoat of bearskin cloth, which
was found around the bones of one
individual, and two short lead pen
ellis dropped from the coat.
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