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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-03
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Thos. L. King, agent, Topeka, has il
Illustrated descriptive literature OF
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snow has fallen here, delaying traffic.
Seeding and other farm work is Seriously
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NERVOUS
WOMEN

Do you feel like screaming jest
before and during the monthly sick
ncsse Are you easily irritated9 Do
you get the Blues and wish SONG
times you were dsade
IF your answer Is Yes" to any
of these questions, YoU should lose
no TING In taking
BRADFIELD'S
FEMALE REGULATOR
1t will overcome and csre every
form of irregular n1enses, leocof-
rhoca, falling of the womb and
ether Uterine trouble.
81 @f 6PwHHE@f@s
gKR nRADRIRLD REGULATOR Co.. Atlanta Gam.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
SHOWN BY THE WALK.
A Persons Physical Condition Is
Plainly DiScernibIe in
the Gait.

Dr. e. H. Bradford, of Roston, has dis
covered that a sick man can always be
told by his walk He thinks that it is
as necessary to observe patients gait
as it is to feel his pulse or take his tenn
perature.
Briefly, Dr. Bradford SAYS that per-
son in good health walks with his feet
nearly straight. AS he leaves health be-
hind him he begins to turn out his toes
and to bend at the knees. DR.. Bradford
says that the best and easiest gait is
that in which the pedestrians toes point
straight to the front.
In an article which he has written for
the Medical Record, DR.. Bradford makes
an exhaustive study of the human gait.
1t seems that the erect gait is an ac-
quired and not natural walk. 1t is
found at it's best only in cities and is the
result, DR.. Bradford says, of smooth
pavements and the wearing of shoes.
Barefooted people walk in an entirely
different way to those who go shod. A
shoe-wearing individual brings his heel
down first, and pulls himself along with
the muscles of the hip, aided by push
from the rear foot. A barefooted per-
son, on the contrary, leans forward as
he walks, and uses the weight of the
falling body as a means OF propulsion.
In this style of walking the body is in
clined forward and would fall were it
not checked by the forward leg, thrust
out to prevent it.
On soft ground barefooted and moe
casined people are accustomed to pull
themselves along by the pressure of the
toes. The heel is hardly used at all, and
as a result the feet of such people show
muscular development altogether
lacking in the soles of their shoe-wear-
ing brethren.
Another popularity detected by DR..
Bradford is that barefooted people do
not swing their feet sideways in walk
ing as shoe-wearing people do. The
tracks of a white man in the snow are
in entirely different position from those
made by an Indian in moccasins. The
shoe-wearer's tracks will show foot
prints regularly arranged to the right
and left of a straight line. Those made
by a man barefooted or in moccasins
will almost form one line. In strong
and vigorous walking, DR.. Bradford
saws, the feet are brought forward in
a straight direction and without any
outward swing.
One of the strongest points in DR..
Bradford's article is the reproduction
of photograph showing a crowd OF
Spanish prisoners embarking at Santi-
ago. The picture is an instantaneous
one, and it happens that the camera
caught one of our soldiers as well. DIR.
Bradford points out the gait of the
Spaniards as illustrating the walk of
utterly exhausted men, and contrasts
it with the leisure gait of strength as
exempliied by the American soldier
N Y Journal
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
Memorial in Westminster.

The approach of the hundredth ami
versary of George Washington's death
is noticeable by the increased interest
of Englishmen in the memory of the
most distinguished American. Mr..
Gladstone was accustomed to speak of
George Washington as perhaps the
most perfect figure in history The bet
ter that his name and fame, character
and career, are known and appreciated
in England the better will be the good
understanding between reasonable En-
glishmen and that portion of the Amer
lean people who still adhere to the main
lines of Washington's Americanism
Although George Washington never
saw England, he was essentially Eng
Gsh in character, and so clearly en-
bodied the constitutional and liberal
opinion on this side that before long
national memorial in or near West
minister abbey will probably be an ac-
complished fact.-Arnold White. in
Harper's Weekly.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
CHRONIC WEATHER KICKERS.
The LUnchrOom Philosopher Gives
His Views ON Mankind in
General.

''D'je ever notice. said the lunchroom
philosopher, what a neyer-contented lot O.
pinheads we are? Now, it seems no time
at all since / was a-rarin' around and kickin'
like blazes because the leaves and crocuses
didn't appear on schedule time | believe
blamed my wife for it. [ was so dead sick
and tired of chilly blasts and my olive green
top-coat that l sort o held her personally
responsible for the baekwardness of the
liacs and daisies and pansies | told her
that [ wanted red-hot, sizzling weather, and
lots of it-that for all | cared ding the sun
could go on sizzling forever. Now | find
that I'm sick of the summer | find myself
longing to hear the leaves swiring in the
bitches and to have the fire lighted in the
latrobe. | find that | want to take brisk
walks in the sharp, chilly air. | find that
I'm hungry for buckwheat cakes and sau-
sage. I'm tired O. beer I'm weary of car
riding out in the country. Durn it ALL
want snow three feet high, billiards of it,
and want the theaters and the hot Scotchesi
And along toward the end of next February
III be chewing the rag, in the same old way,
about moving to some tropical country,
where | can get warmed up and be famed
by balmy zephyrs, and all that kind O bleat.
We don't know what we want We even
get sick of seasons that we long for, much
as kids get sick of their painted Noahs
arks or tin soldiers. Washington Post.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
MERE COINCIDENCE.
Mysterious incidents in Life for
Which 1t Seems Hard to
Account.

A large number of so-called mysteri-
Gus incidents in life, supposed to be due
to telepathic agencies, or to the infu-
ence eXerted by one person upon an
other at great distance, might be IA
tionally explained on the theory of CO.
incidences. Given a number of such IL
lustrations of alleged telepathic nature,
the probabilities of their having oc-
CURED as condolences are less difficult
to understand than if we relegated
them to the theory of telepathic agen-
cies.
Condolences of a very remarkable
kind occur in ordinary life, and often
pass quite unnoticed, and this, even
while they present, in their way, quite
as wonderful circumstances as the al
legged telepathic experiences. In med
ical practice such condolences, purely
chance affairs, of course, are not un-
common. A doctor tells of such events,
for instance, as those of two sailors
tumbling from the masts of two differ
ent passing vessels in one day; and for
years not even a solitary casualty of
this kind might occur.
Cases of extremely rare diseases will
be presented at hospitals in one and
the same day. Lately there was chron-
icled in one of the medical journals such
an incident, which shows undeniably
how an extremely unlikely coincidence
falls within what was an easy possibil-
ity of occurrence. More recently a med
ical practitioner has placed his expert
ences on record, by way of showing that
even in private practice, and apart from
the greater chances of condolences oc-
curing in hospital work there are
numerous examples of the unlikely
coming true. Two cases of similar in
jury to the shoulder thus occurred pre-
cisely at the same time, the patients be-
ing in no way connected with one an
other. The injury in each case was a
dislocation; it affected the same shoul-
der in each patient, and it presented pre-
cisely the same variety of dislocation in
the two. Now we do not assume any
mystic telepathic communication be
tween cases such as these, and it is hard
to see why in other instances, involving
what are perhaps more esoteric details,
the coincidence theory should not
equally apply. Is it not, after all, mere
ly the difference between mundane
things and things of the mind, that
causes us to assume a mystery in one
case and mere coincidence in the other?
The difference, after all, is not one OF
kind, but only one of degree.-Chicago
Evening News.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
SUNKHAZER FLIES OF MAINE.
Worse Than Jersey Mosquitoes and
kissing Bugs Have No Chance
with Them.

Since reading in the newspapers OF, the
kissing bug and his doings all the people IN
rural Maine have taken to capturing bugs
and insects of all sorts and bringing the specl
mems to town for examination by neWspa-
per men and naturalists. Countless are the
kinds of bugs that have been taken to
Bangor in bottles, boxes and preserve jars,
and the captors all seem to be sorely dis
appointed when told that instead of the gen.
uine kisser they have moth killer, lace
winged fly, or something quite common and
harmless.
A man came from Veazie to Bangor the
other day with ferocious-looking bug
corked up in a preserve jar and claimed the
credit of having captured the first kissing
bug in that part of the country. 1t was not
the famous kissing bug that he had, but ma
tive bug somewhat resembling small lob
ster with wings.
81 don't care a hang" declared the Veazie
man, when told that he must try again.
"These fellers kin lick the stuffin' out of
Sunkhazers, and that's what none of your
common bugs kin do"
Not many people living far away from
Bangor know what a 'Sunkhazer" is like.
1t is ferocious big fly that infests the flats
and meadows about SunkhaZe deadwater,
a place in the Penobscot river where the
water is slack and where millions of logs
are RATED. The Sunkhazers are the pest
of the loggers, upon whom they feast to
their hearts content, and nothing can drive
them away. They are four times the size of
the famed mosquitoes of Jersey, and any
Maine man will back one of them against a
dozen kissing bugs in fair stand-up fight.
Maine folks have, probably, no kissing bugs,
but so long as the Sunkhazers survive they
will not feel lonesome.-N. Y. Sun
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
PERSEVERANCE.

There's a good italian proverb.
Couched in words which rendered are:
lie who slowly ploddeth onward
Travels long and travels far.
perseverance conquers all things"
Is an adage much the same,
Leading those who well observe IL
On to fortune and to fame.
Constant climbing scales The mountain
Towering upward into space;
Mighty continents are traversed
By the pilgrim pace by pace.
Those whom all mankind must honor
Won their place through patient toll
Steady and persistent effort
Nothing in the end can foil.
Having once thy course determined,
Never. save that course prove wrong,
Backward turn. whate'er betide thee;
Keep thy resolution strong.
1 remember to have listened,
In the days of boyhood past,
To song which but consisted
OF "go oni' from first to last.
Just ''go on go on!' repeated,
That was all, and nothing more;
Yet that song peculiar taught me
life-lesson full of lore.
Through the trials of thy boyhood,
Through the cares of mans estate,
Act upon this brief injunction,
And success shall on thee wait.
When thy heart begins to falter,
Then this simple motto con;
Reconsider redetermine,
And go on go oni go on
Rev. Philip Burroughs Strong, in Gold
en- Days.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
rocked lightly with the sway of

which rocked lightly with the sway of
| the tide.
Constant was singing "Rock of Ages"
as he plated his willow baskets, and
the swish of the water along the shore
and among the thick plant bushes
made a pleasant undertone to his
song.
Ihe great river rolled maiesticaIly
southwark, tinged by the last ravs of
the setting sun, and a solemn peace per-
vaded all things.
How beautiful" thought Douselle.
fluttering her wings when she perched
near the old man. "Oh, if they will
only feel it,"
'Hello! What the devils that?'' said
Dick suddenly.
Dick had located himself alongside
of Wings on the edge of the small skiff.
1t rose and fell with the recession of
the small wavelets on the shore. 1t
touched the boat, and turning slowly,
drifted away. With shrilI call of ter
ror Wings flew off affrightedly. So did
Dick; but he came back. The others
gathered and all talked excitedly to-
gether.
Joseph Constant ceased his plating
and looked up. Rising, he came quick
ly down to the waters edge, jumped
in the boat and pushed it close to the
queer thing in the water.
"Jesus maitre!" he cried, throwing
up his arms to heaven.
With trembling care he gathered her
in, and raising the slight form in his
arms, took her to his cottage.
She lay in the small bed, her long,
fair hair streaming down, her dripping g
garments clinging to limbs from which
life had become extinct only some half
hour before.
''Cest ellie! Mamselle Aurore! Mon
Dieu! Mon Dieu! Que Dieu ale pitie!'
Joseph Constant smoothed the tam
gled hair with tender care, and the
clinging gown; crossed the hands and
wiped the water from the fair marble
cheeks, and went out to call assist
ance.
Passing his rough shirt sleeves across
his eyes, he murmured Rock of ages,
VIII AOA nv ONCl anu ONCI dlIl
Jolly? Well, L should say!" declared
Dick, joyously. ''This beats the levee
all to smash! Great sport and new SEN
sations. Girls and boys, we'll come
every day to visit Joseph Constant-un-
til we get tired of it."
Douselle perched in the open window
and kept watch over the still white
figure.
What was that he said? Rock of
ages, cleft for me- 1t sounded like Sc
bastian Bach's music
''How peaceful this cottage is! how
still! and how calmly happy she looks!
Who would wish to disturb her? And
yet he wept!"
Come on; let's go home. This is
tiresome," said Wings, impatiently,
from the doorway.
Douselle futtered to her feet and
chirped softly in his ear, Rock of
Ages!" "Rock of Ages!"
Plucking some leaves from where
they had caught in her hair, Douselle
left her.
The sparrows flew off back to the
avenue.-N. o. Times-Democrat.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
Dax Ahead of the Almanac.

An interesting circumstance incl
dent to Magellan's circumnavigation of
the globe and discovery of the Philip
pines is that every degree Magellan
sailed westward added four minutes to
his day, until, when he reached the Phil
ippines, the difference in time amount
ed to about 16 hours. Curiously enough.
this escaped the notice of all. Elcano,
the only captain who made the entire
circuit, was not aware, when he re-
turned to the longitude of his departure,
that his ships logbook'' was about a
day behind 1.-The time of the port his
long-continued westward course had
brought him back to. The error re-
mained unnoticed also in the Philip
pines till 1914, when it was decided to
pass over New Years day for once al
together" Thus it appeared that the
Philippines, instead of lying far to the
west of Spain, the direction in which
the discoveTers had sailed, might more
properly be spoken of as lying about
eight hours east of Spain. When it is
noon in Madrid it is about $40 o'clock
in the evening in Manila and about 7:1o
o'clock in the morning at Washington
-Self-Culture.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

William Dean Howells relies on the
newspapers for most of his plots.
Sardou, like Balzac, keeps a store of
notebooks and scrapbooks for use in
his work.
King George of Greece receives the
smallest salary of any European sover-
eign-$20O, 900 year.
1t is said that the real name of Sousa,
the bandmaster,i is j ohm Phillipso. When
travelling abroad he added on hotel reg
listers "U S. A." and finally added these
initials to his name, making John
Philip Sousa.
When Fighting Bob" Evans was a
student at Gonzaga college, Washing
ton, D. c., he was the schools star"
baseball player and stifl has a passion
for the game, never missing chance
to see a good contest on the diamond.
French booksellers are waking up
to the fact that they need professional
| training. The "Cercle de la Librarie"
proposes the esta tablishment of a school
with three years course. The Belgian
booksellers have started a similar
scheme in Brussels.
Sir William c. Van Horne, late presi-
| dent of the Canadian Pacific railway,
| and Thomas G. Shaughnessy, present
| president of that Canadian corporation,
were born in the United States and re-
ceived their railroad training in this
| country. James j. Hill one of the four
OF five great railroad organizers and
managers in the United States, was
born and spent the early years of his
| life on a bleak Canadian farm.
OF Emile Zola's works 10000 copies
are sold yearly on the average, of Al
phonse Daudet's $4,000, of Octave Feuil-
| let's $4,000, of Pierre Lofts and Georges
| Ohnet's $4,000 each, of Ludovic Halevy's
| 10000, of Guy de Maupassant's $4,000
of Paul Bourgeois $4,000; $4,000 copies
is the annual average for the works
of the De Goncourts and 5000 each fol
those of Gyp, Catulle Mendes, Marcel
Provost, Andre Theuriet and Francois
| COpDee.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
ONLY A HINT NEEDED.
And the woman in the Case Was Not
the Least Bit Afraid to
Give 1t,

The best looking girl in the Pine
mountain country was Susan Natter,
and Susan was extremely, not to say
foolishly, fond of Jim Davis, a young
man who was my chief timberman in
the season, and who owned and con-
Quoted a good farm in the river bottom
as side issue. jim was the catch of
the mountains, and, like other men in
that happy class, he was careless and
stood "a fair chance of losing what
ought to be his, because he was too
sure of it. Susan was just the girl for
linn, but he had almost worn out her
patience by his dillydallying policy,
and one day L thought the end had
surely come, and it was all up with
Jim, who was favorite of mine as a
winner of the Susan stakes.
Il want to see the best dress pattern
you got in the store, colonel she said
missary one day, land bein' pertickeler,
L want you to wait on me-" she added,
with a smirk not usual to Susan.
''Oh, indeed" 1 said, chaffingly, 60
ing around behind the counter, ''some-
thing must be going to happen?'
81 reckon thar is" she admitted,
frankly.
Good for you," 1 laughed, "and I'm
glad that Jim has got his senses at
last
"Jim?" she shifted, disdainfully.
'''Tain't Jim ez fer ez 1 know
"Not Jim?" | almost shouted, for
Jim was my chosen for her. Not jim?
Well. who is it?''
''Oh, that's fer me to know and you
to find out, colonel she laughed pro-
vokingly, and gave me no further sat
isfaction. She bought the goods and
went away, and two hours later Jim
came in from work and said he was
going over the mountain that night
with one of the Martin girls to dance.
"By the way, JIM" [ said, did you
know Susan Natter was going to get
married?"
"Thunderation, colonel, TO" he blurt-
ed out ''Ner she amt, is she?''
Il guess she is. l sold her we'd
ding dress this afternoon, ard she told
me she was
"Who's she goin' ter marry, colonel?'
he asked, anXiously.
Il don't know. She wouldn't tell
me-"
"Well. she'll tell me, colonel" he
said, with the lines getting hard across
his face, and little wrinkles of doubt
and fear showing between. jim was
facing a possibility that had never pre-
sented itself to him in its full strength.
He went out of the store and up the
road leading to old man Matters place.
The next morning he stopped at the
store Oh his way to work.
..Did you find out who it WASP" L
asked him at once, for l was interest
ed more than he had been.
"'Course | did," he answered, with
confidence.
"Who is it?''
Me- and he laughed the short laugh
of the man who had been made do
what he knew he should have done, and
what he most wanted to do.
"Oh," [ exclaimed, sis that it?'' And
later l discovered that Susan had de-
vised a pretty little feminine scheme
to bring jim to the point, and by my
unwilling, but ny no means unwilling,
assistance, she had succeeded fully
| Washington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
Cody Called for a Cut.

Col Cody, the eminent scout, helped to
build church at North Platte, and was per-
suaded by his wife and daughter to accom-
pany them to the opening. The minister
gave out the hymn, which commenced with
tn the ; words: S "oh, R for ten thousand tongues
ear, started the tune in too high Key and
had to try again. A second attempt ended
like the first in failure "Oh for ten thou
sand tongues to sing my great" came the
opening words for the third time, followed
by a squeak from the organ and a relapse
into painful silence Cody could contain
himself no longer, and blurted out: "Start
rest of us can get in." = San Francisco
Wave
The Winslow mail., 1899-09-21
A Fable in Stocks,

Once, upon time an operator in stocks
was sold short, and ruin stared him in the
face unless the market should break In his
desperation he remembered having heard
that honesty is the best policy He tried to
dismiss the foolish thought, but in vain.
Finally, like the drowning man catching at
the straw, he resolved to try being honest.
The very next day he put his design into ex-
ecution, and he hadn't been honest more
than 10 minutes when II of the leading bulls
fell dead, they were SO surprised at him.
Hereupon the market naturally broke, and
the operator could get all the stocks he
wanted at his own figure. 1t is claimed that
some, if not all, of these bulls had taken
radishes and ham for breakfast, but that, it
IS submitted, does not destroy the moral Of
this fable.-Detroit Journal