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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
FOR LINCOLN'S MOTHER.
From the Cincinnati Enquirerl

(F'rom the Cincinnati Enqufrer-)
Abraham Lincoln is at last to be marked
by a monument worthy of a woman who
The movement TO erect a monument cost
ing $4,000 has been taken up by the Patrt-
Frank Posey, and the work of raising the
funds by popular subscription and through
begin a once. and it is thought that the
Bed5Sat oy w Oe IN P2e9 e3e f so6 61
have been asked to submit drawings.
which skirt southern Indiana Her grave
is 10 miles back from the Ohio river, in
log cabin home in which she died. For
many years there was nothing to mark
bramble bushes when patriotic and rev.
erent individuals few years ago sought
erected a small but Substantial monurneGt
over the grave and surrounded It with an
the place is now rather easy of approach.
! After the $4,000 monument is erected the
state will be asked to take care of the
Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of a disease
common among the pioneers OF the Indi-
ness. ana has never been sat itfzn
diagnosed She was taken III Suddenly.
and died in a few days Her husband.
very stt' poor. and it became necessity that
ne make the e9fhp in which TO lay her
compIished the work, and the two, with
the assistance of Abe's sister. Nancy,
bors were then called in. and they carried
the crude box on their shoulders TO a little
hill near the Lincoln cabin. and there in
the heart of the forest, laid her 70 rest.
There was no one in the party able to
make a few remarks" and the body was
lowered into the grave in silence 4 year
later a circuit rider came to GentryviI1e
and he was called TO the Lincoln home
and asked to go to the grave and preach
a funeral sermon oyer the buried woman
This was done Nancy Hanks Lincoln
died October ). 1878, a few. months after
the Ltncolns had moved into the state
from Kentucky. Thomas Lincoln later
married Sally Bush. an old sweetheart,
who. it is claimed, had refused him before
he married Nancy.
/. The success of Abraham Lincoln and his
wonderful development is more due TO
Sally Bush than any other person in the
World-even more than to the man himself.
He was years old when she got hold of
him. He had not yet begun on the etiu-
cation which later became rofound-
He was dirty ragged and ignorant She
clothed him and placed him in school md
developed thinker. 1t was to her he
referred when he often spoke of his ''an-
gel mother" And stiu the grave of Sally
Bush is lost to the great mass of people
and there is hardly a fitting memory of
her wonderful influence upon the man
who had a more wonderful influence uDOn
the great human race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
STORM AT ST. LOUIS
Unro3fs Houses and Stops Street Car
Traffic

st. Louis, May ga short violent
wind storm swept through the western
part Of St Louis yesterday evening and
unroofed a number of houses blew
down a circus tent that was just being
erected and delayed street car traffic
for about two hours. Several persons
received minor injuries 1t is estimated
that the damage incurred throughout
the city will reach $50. 600.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
One Fare

For the round trip, via the Union Pa
cific, to San Francisco. CAL for Ma
tional Baptist societies anniversaries,
May %. 1899 For dates On which tick
cts will be sold, limits and full fnforna-
ton, call on F. A Lewis. city ticket
agent, or J. c. Fulton. depot agent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08

Is one of the features of Ringing Bros
famous big circus this year is a mu-
steal organization composed entirely Of
elephants 1t is one Of the biggest hits
of the season.
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FREsCo WORK.

~---~-~>--------~-~-~-----7
W w GILLESPIE. Fresco Painter. De-
signs and estimates furnished on All
classes of work INA West Fifteenth. To-
oeka Kan Refers to his work in State
Journal building
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS


THE J. C DARLING co. 734 KAN Az.
High Grade Rubber Stamps prompt WORK.
low price. Catalogue Free Phone -
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WATCHMAKER

WATCHES cleaned, 75c: clocks. 50c;
nainsprings. 75c; crystals Hc- Cash
paid for old gold or silver All work guar
anteed. Old jeweIry exchanged for new
If hard up. see Uncle Sam, 5l2 Kan ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
Rock Island Route

We mend and sew on buttons free
American Steam Laundry. TeIa- s41
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MUSICAL

MISS WINIFRED WELLES WAGNER,
piano forte teacher ABS Tyler St. Grad
ed course of instruction.
MISS MABEL MARTIN. teacher of piano
and harmony. 407 Greenwood ave. POtwin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08
PHYSICIAN AND sUReEoNA

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEONA
DR. ]. ALBERT BERRY. s31 Kan ave
Tel 755- Stomach. Intestines and RectuEn-
and Rectum-
NJ R MITCHELL. NJ D. Office 706 Kan
sas ave. Tel 246. Residence s31 y. Van
Buren, Tel 3s9.
l. A RYDER. NJ D
OFFICE and residence corner Gordon st.
and Central ave. North Topeka. Phone
ia Uses the Brinkerhon system of rectal
treatment. a successful and painless
treatment for piles, hstula, nshure, ui-
ceratiOn, etc
s. z. SHELDON NJ. D.
Surgery and diseases of women, with
private hospital Office No. 40 Kan ave.
IDA c. BARNES, NJ D.
Office 732 Kansas ave Residence Thir-
tenth and Clay Office hours: 9 a. m to
II a. and p H. to p Telephone
5SS residence and Is office
DR. EVA HARDING. Homeopathic. So
Kansas ave Tel. 402
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wANTED-AGENT
~. $>-cISIc 100000
eru Kansas for the Blue Valley Mutual
Fire Insurance Co. of MarysviIle. Kan.
the only mutual company in the state TAX
ing mercantile risks Write for terms to
3. Sickel, Secy-
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WANTEQ-HEIR.
WANTED-MALE HELF

wANTED-lo Iaborers 81 50 per day. Amer
lean Emp. Co., cor. 6th and Kansas ave
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-08

STORAGE-The Topeka Storage and
Warehouse Co. formerly Topeka StOr
age Co, 3c5 Kas. ave. store stoves. house
hold goods, etc On June l removed to new
fire-proOf stone building. 212 and IA Kas
ave. c. D. Skinner. Prop.
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

the Spaniarl smiled and shifted ana
bowed, and said the book would do for
a cleW.
The glance of his chief dwelt on that
book for nearly week (this is the
length of the official moment" in
SPAIN, Or, at least. 1 heard nothing to
the contrary; in fact | heard nothing
at all about it, and two letters 1 wrote
asking its return remained unanswered.
This made me q trifle nervous. Doubt
less the book was passing through the
purgatory of the united scrutin- of the
best expert minds of Spain, and 1 began
to wish | had not been so ready to eX-
pose it. Through my friend Lieutenant
Correa / obtained an interview with his
father the admiral, and at the latter s
request the volume was handed back
to me, bearing evidence of the not very
clean hands of those who had been to
work on it's contents. In the margin
was written the amusing note, "Fil russo
es dificil''-Russian is difficult.
DISGUISED AS A vAQUERO.
I appeared before the admiral in the
full dress glitter of Junior officer of
the royal navy, for had formed young
Correa's ACQUAINTANCE In the service.
Three days later / was caSed in the
rough leather chaparrals of one OF
those sombrero-topped sons of the
Campo" the cowboys of the Spanish
tablelands, glimpses of whose pictur-
esque coursing one may have for look
through the city gate, the somber
Puerto del Toledo:
My American cowboy days came back
to me. The land looked like Arizona,
though it smelled differently, and l was
soon at home in the rather cumbrous
saddle on the tall Andalusian steed I
had picked for the trip. l was in re-
ceipt of orders commanding me to find
out the feelings of the people toward
the government, and If they were likely
to be influenced by any move of the
Carlists, who were then beginning to
show their teeth What these vaqueros
thought mattered little, but / was de-
termined TO re-enter the city gate my
self full fledged vaquero, SO as to be
able to go everywhere in flower Mad
rid" without suspicion. Poor as these
Sons of the campo" are, they always
meet with respect whenever they show
their n-scorched faces in the capital.
In the Plaza Mayor and the Moreria
quarters they are frequently regarded
with a sense of admiration such as the
sight of bunch of cowpunchers would
arouse in an Eastern American city
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

tongues, cutting up the words and COM
bining them according to fixed sys-
TEN, so that no one in the world could
detect what l was writing about, even
if they might have been able to solve
the runeS.
THE SPY ARRESTED
These mess ~ges. many of which you
have read in the papers, l believe were
sent to a friend and coworker I had
hidden away in quiet corner of the
little land that Spain likes, and through
this ally the contents We're translated
into the cipher of the American Gov
ernment, and from neutral ground
flashed across the ocean to their destin-
alton
Once I came near losing this handy
little notebook of mine, which so re-
sembled an edition of Audubon, for 1t
was seized and arrested" together
with my things, at my lodgings. Two
sawtoothed villains of Spanish police
stood inside the door and mailed" me
as I entered. I was not surprised for
7 had planned their appearance, and I
was eager that they should arrest me
and find me innocent, for then I could
work with more liberty and less suspi-
cion would be leI eled at me. I carried
a formidable looking bundle under nv
arm Il had bought it for the purpose at
the Plaza de Cebada) and they arrested
lndC also. Iney lei upon II ike a pair
of buzzards, to find only-vegetables
Good sound Spanish vegetables that
I was to photograph Senors,' I said.
land to report upon to the Scientific So
cietv of Drontheim."
Whether they believed 1t or no 1
know not 1t is nevertheless certain
that they could make nothing out of
my papers or my baggage or my veg
etables. They let me keep my things.
though one of them lugged away ba-
tata, or sweet potato, for clew, /
returned. as / thought to hand over the
batata. but no, it was safely locked in
the desk of his chief With much mill
tary adroitness and courtesy he hand
ed me still more courteous note from
the latter dignitary, in which I was
asked to permit his venerable glance to
dwell for a moment on the strange book
reported as having been discovered"
at my lodgings. I sent the man back
with the book, reminding him that q
whole nation of learned men would hold
him responsible for it's loss. also held
forth a fair potato. saying: Ferdinand
Banditto! or whatever your name, an
other batata. another clew. eh?" But
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

from nearly everything / learned in this
way, and from additional sources Of
self-teaching, in the spy work that /
was to perform. So when / came to
Madrid and took up lodging in the new
part Of that city, known as Salamanca,
l experienced feeling of safety such
as well armed man has right to feel
in the Wilderness l had been in tight
places before, but never before had I
thought out my Work to such an in
finitesimal fineness of detail.
And s. l felt safe. Safe when the
Vizcaya ran into New York harbor and
a certain paper in that city predestined
what would happen to the tall build
ings should the Spaniard shoot-but he
didn't,
The secret police of Spain's capital
might have entered my apartments at
any time without ever, l believe, sue
ceeding in finding proof against my
neutrality. l brought not stitch Of
clothing, not an iota of baggage from
America across the Spanish border
Everything was bought in Germany,
even my pens and note paper. ! hau
no documents or credentials with me of
any kind, for good as these things are
they are sometimes fatal to the bearer
they should protect. But had a source,
a valued friend in the government ser
vice of a country that is well liked in
Spain, and whenever 1 was asked for
credentials, outside my passport l gave
his address. A few flashes across the
wire and the whole thing was ended.
THE CIPHER BOOK.
I entered my observations in rather
voluminous folio volume, and made not
the least pretense at hiding it, On the
contrary. / sometimes left it open on
my table, SO that the nina" (the girD
might have a peek into it and gossip
about it, She was as unlikely to solve
it's contents as any expert in orthog-
raphy. for it was written in a cipher of
my own invention. If there is anything
scientific experts know little about it is
the possibilities Of the runic alphabet,
of the queer hieroglyphic code of which
the ancient NorSemen availed them
selves some two thousand years ago.
Most experts know Sanskrit, all of
them know Greek, and a few of them
know Arabic, but very few indeed have
even a smattering appreciation of rune
history. This quaint old code 1 de-
veloped into system by mixing it, ac-
cording to my own key, with the Ian
guage that is now spoken in Iceland
so that my writings were a puZZling
linguistic stew of modern Icelandic in
runic letter. To further ensconce my
self I prefixed every word with it's
equivalent in the various Scandinavian
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

WAS chosen as a spy with a care
similar in vigilance to that with
which pugilist is trained and pre-
pared for a fight. It made no diff
ference that l had passed with
honors one Of the most rigid physical
examinations before my entrance as a
cadet into the royal navy. No; / was
examined over again, and weighed and
measured and tested to suffocation. In
the navy I had learned to handle oar
and helm. The argot and nomenclature
of seafaring men was known to me in
a few languages, and / had acquired a
general, if not thorough, understanding
Of things pertaining to ships and the
sea. In the Frederiksberg Militarskole
1 received the benefit of more than ele-
mentary schooling in military tactics;
at the Gruners HandeIsakademie I
learned the money making art of the
accidentally trained business man;
and in the Navigationsskolen and the
Sokadetakademiet had special
course in astronomy and everything in
the line of nautical science. My term
at the Kongeligea Universitet in es-
thetics, the sciences and the classic
languages, including Icelandic and
MdSO-ATOlIllNs llilSIltu NIdl i nave the
presumption to call my academical edu-
cation.
Very we'll! I came to America more
to study the Indian and to taste a gold
miners life than for anything else In
this country l was the recipient of
rather dramatic, if rough and ready.
course of practical education. 1t lasted
for some years, but eventually 1 bobbed
up serenely and wrote a letter of my
accomplishments to my father It's con-
tents, [ was afterward told, shocked
him from the top of his crown to the
lin of his toe" In that message I
stated. with a touch of boyish bravado.
that now l could throw rope" could
handle the triggerless 4S-caliber Colt
and could burst bronco" refrained
from dispatching the additional infor-
nation that 1 had learned to handle a
raft of logs, knew how to pick my way
on snowshoes, how to win running
races. etc. for fear of encouraging a
wrong Interpretation of what l prided
as fine feats, outside of afternoon tea
slipping and what they call fashionable
society.
EXPERIENCES PROVED VALU-
ABLE.
Still, 1t is q curious thing to reflect
that I have had some sort Of benefit
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

is the Il
necessarily demands more tact int hgence versatility and bray
best
horzed accomplish
writer for
only wish
The San Francisco call., 1899-02-05

''Why do you always close your eyes
while seated in a street carr"
Because 1 am so tenderhearted that
I cannot bear to see the poor women stand
up."-Stoddard Notes.
The leader., 1899-08-09
DOINGS Or A WEEK
What Has Happened Throughout
the Civilized World.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
A Complete Review Of the Happenings
Of the Past Seven Days in This
and AL Foreign Lands.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

At the age of 50 years Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague died in her suburban home at
"Edgewood," Washington. Famous as
the daughter of the late Chief Jus
tice Chase, and as the wife of the Rhode
Island senator and governor, William
Sprague, she al one time was prominent
in the nations affairs and the shining
light of Washington society.
a monthly statement of the govern
ment receipts and expenditures shows
a deficit for July of $S,5ls,O00.
The United States has, it is said, pur-
chased various islands of the Yelling
ton archipelago, in Chill, with the OBJ
ject of establishing coaling stations.
The statement of the public debt is
sued on the LIST shows that the debt in.
creased Sj,2G7,436 during the month OF
July. The cash balance in the treasury
was S9O9,O12,slO. The fetal debt, less
the cash balance in the treasury
amounts to $1,161. $751; 71.
The total circulation Of national bank
notes at the close of business July 81
was s2i1, SIS. an increase for the
month of S273,192 and an increase for
the year of $1S,s45,00s.
The internal revenue receipts for the
last fiscal year aggregated $273,4s4,js2
ar increase of $1O2,G17,763 ever the re-
ceipts for the fiscal year ended june
30, 1898.
Gen. Russell \. Alger surrendered the
war portfolio to Elihu Root. of New
York, who took the oath of office.
The leader., 1899-08-09

placed by one modelled in likeness 10
President jackson. This was done in
spite of a vehement protest by Commo-
dorc Hull. who had charge of the un-
docking. but who was pOwcrlcss before
the approval of the change by Mahlon
Dickinson, secretary OF the navy, and
as good federalist, if not better,
than Elliot.
As soon. however, as the public knew
of the change. which was as soon as the
new Constitution was launched in 1894,
there was almost as loud Il protest as
that in 1880 upon the report of the in
tended destruction of the old ship.
Feeling ran especially high in New Eng
land and was increased in force by the
contemptuousa action of Commodore nj
lot in anchoring the Constitution in
Charlestown harbor, with the nose of
the ship facing west and not - feet
from the CharlestoWn bridge.
However gallant and brave an officer
Elliot was and his gailantry and
bravery have never been successfully
questioned : he was no diplomat.
The leader., 1899-08-09
THE FAST.

At Upper Lake y. Y, fire destroyed
100 buildings and nearly wiped out
the town.
At jamestown, y. y. the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the founding of the
Chautauqua assembly was celebrated.
For no cause known John Thompson
killed his wife and took his own life
near Gable, Pa. They were an aged
couple.
For $4,000 cash c. W. Marks, of Co.
lumbus, o., sold his great PAGER, Joe
Patchen, 2:01H, to IL. y. Harris, OF
Johnstown, Pa.
At Newport, Il. l., William X. Wander
bilt, Jr., made 3Ia miles in six minutes
| on an automobile.
John Kennedy, negro, and Oscar f.
| Rice, white man, were put to death by
electricity in the prison at Auburn, \.
v, for murder.
At Elizabeth, n. j., n tornado dam
aged three churches, two theatcrs and
several houses, causing a loss of $780,
600.
in New York John l.. Sullivan, ex-
champion of the prize ring, opened a
saloon.
II. lIauser, treasurer of a New York
thcater. jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge into the water and was rescued
without serious injury.
The leader., 1899-08-09
NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THEM.
Men Dead Fifty Years Elected to ofice
by BeniEhted Aldermen In
New York

A New York alderman INDUCED in 1itfls
fun at the expense of his associates the other
day, and through his influence that honor.
able body elected two men, eminent men
dead these 80 years, to the position Of COM
missioner of deeds. The names of the dead
thus honored are: Noah Webster, eyjCor
rapher, and Llndey Murray, glammaria8,
The world says the trick was worked this
way:
a slip Of paper containing these names,
with Brooklyn addresses, was circulated at
the meeting of the board. Alderman Okie
approached Alderman Bridges and SAID:
Say. Jim, I've done favors for you. Here
are a coupe of men who want to he made
commissioners of deeds. That fellow Lind
ey Murray tod me he was friend OF yours. ="
Alderman Bridges looked at the Sip and
replied:
Il don't know the gent, and ain going
to present hi- name.
Alderman DGoley, another member from
Brooklyn, was persuaded to sign the appnca
ton. and in le.' than ten minutes the
formal vote electing Lindiey Murray and
Noah Webster commissioners OF deeds Was
passed.
The leader., 1899-08-09
THERE is A LIMIT.
The Fourth Gentleman seyer.,x
strained the Bound. of
Human CreduIIty.

"You may not believe it, gentlemen -
marked one OF an after.dinner group eng,, aeI
in smoking cigars in front of a totel b pseq !
have used fountain pen constantly ior y 60
years, and have never had the Leaf ,ro, ,JIr
with it," ''Ouoie
That is indeed remarkable" REFINED
other. Nevertheless | am the father of s s,r
children and have never had to walk tba
floor by night with single one of them y'Ne
There was a silence, lasting a minnie =,
so. Then another spoke up: Il don't dorI pt
it in the least, said he, 'for can testify ~
something stranger still. | have a br}cbS1,
little tour.year.old boy at my house. and fvs
never repeated any Of his smart sayinos Nc
my most intimate friends" W
Gentlemen" observed a fourth. afto,
protracted and somewhat painful Dau.e "a
am fond of hearing young women practice
their scales on the piano after have retirsJ
to rest. 1t lulls me to sleep" ''u
One or two other members of the eror,.
made more or less feeble attempts To s3p
something, but falteringly gave il nm !,
seemed to be generally felt that the extreme
limit OF human credulity had been reached
London Telegraph.
The leader., 1899-08-09

tory even to the generation before, has
a peculiar interest.
TO understand the story completely
ii is necessary to go back at least to
the year 1890. Then report appeared
in the Boston Advertiser that the ma
val authorities had decided to destroy
the Constitution, together with a num-
Der of other old ships of the war OF
1872. Their planks had become rotten
and the ships were dangerous to their
crews. Little did the naval authorities,
however, appreciate the sentimental
glamour which hung around the Con-
stitution; and when, two days after the
announcement, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
then 81 years old, flung the poem of
"Old Ironsides" to the world, and with
the stirring lines beginning: AYE, tear
her tattered ensign down. struck the
popular chord full and strong, the ship,
as it afterward appeared, was saved.
No one could help thrilling with indig-
nation at those lines:
THE harpies of the shore shall pluck
The eagle OF the seat
and the navy department acquiesced
to the popular demand. 1t was some
time after this that il was found that
in order to keep afloat the Constitu.
ton at all the ship would have 10 be re-
built. Accordingly she was locked at
Charlestown, in the first dry dock
erected in the country, and rebuilt on
her own lines. Only the keel and keel
son of the old ship remained.
The commandant of the navy yard
was then Commodore Elliot, and ardent
federalist and a great admirer of Jack
son. In the rebuilding, therefore. the
former figurehead of the Constitution,
one Of al categorical character, was re-