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The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
ENGLAND'S BIG ARMY.
over 100000 Men to Operate in South
Africa.

New York, Dec A dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
The army corps has now virtually ar
rived in South Africa, only few cav
airy and artillery details being still
af1oat or on the rocks. The entire Brit
ish force now in the field, as estimated
by Colonel Drunker, is 7S,500 men, with
174 guns, exclusive of naval brigades,
colonial contingents and local forces,
which range between 10000 and $4,000
men. The fifth and sixth divisions,
who are to arrive, will increase the
strength Of the army by 10000 men and
are additional forces of cavalry and ar
tillery now afloat not included in these
figures. The British army in South At
rica has been underestimated by nearly
all writer's for the London press The
mounted force is now to range between
1S 600 and $4,000 men, including 5000
provincial volunteers and General
Whites cavalry. This looks like an
over estimate made to cover the short
COmineS of the staff.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
QUITS BACHELORS CLUB.
Peoria Man Braves the Wrath of His
Associates and Takes q Bride.

Peoria, Ill, Dec. 4-The first member of
the Peoria Bachelors club was married
today and the members are preparing to
administer the punishment as laid down
in the bylaws. These include a fine also
any other punishment that they may de-
eide upon. John LOOck and Miss Anna
Fuchs, daughter of William Fuchs, are
the principals of the happy event cele-
brated at the Lutheran church. Six
months ago the wedding day was set but
the Bachelors clubs intentions We're
learned and the wedding postponed, the
bride refusing to be married at that time
fearing the plan of Loock's associates.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
HER DAILY COLD PLUNGE.
a Brooklyn High School Graduate to
Take 80 Swims in the Bay.

New York, ec.4-Miss Letitia Glenn
ent. a graduate of the Brooklyn high
school, who lives at St. Felix street,
Brooklyn, began today series of
swims in the bay that is to cover a
month After coming out Of the wa
ter she said:
Yes, it was quite cold, but expect
it will be a good deal colder before 1
am through with my daily swims,
month from now. Miss Yerbe and 1
agreed to swim on Tuesday. Some one
suggested that one of US would not 80
it. and the agreement was that which
ever left the water first should dive IN
and swim fer at least five minutes each
day for q month. Miss Yerbe took her
swim and I did not, SO have to fulfill
the contra ct. -
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
WOULDN'T PAY DOG TAX.
Rather Than Yield This Rich Man
Spent Five Weeks in Jail.

New Haven. Dec. 4-WeaIthy Amos
Congdon, of Lyme, has just been released
from the New London county jail. in
which he was incarcerated five weeks
for refusing to pay the tax on his dog.
in all only S1!15. He defied the authorities
to collect the tax. They arrested him and
he was fined s., but still he was obstinate
and appealed to the higher court. He was
again fined, ned, and costs were taxed up
Five weeks of Jail life at the rate of s6
a week was enough to break Congdon's
will and he has paid the clerk of the court
S93.48 and is free.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
DIPHTHERIA RAGING.
Hartford, Mich, Said to Be the Scene
of a Serious Epid emic.

of a Serious Epidemic.
st. Joseph, Mich. Dec. 4.-Reports of
an alarming nature We're received this
morning from Hartford, Mich, a small
village Is miles north Of this city. These
We're to the effect that the town is suf-
fering from an epidemic of black
diphtheria.
The first case was reported to the
health authorities October TO- The child
had been taken sick while attending
the public school and 200 pupils had
been exposed to the disease before its
nature was learned. Although the vii
lage board of health enforced strict
quarantine rules the disease continued
to spread, and it is estimated that 300
children in the village and near it are
suffering with the plague. Twenty
cases have proved fatal. It is said the
business men are about to appeal to
the state board Of health for a more
strict quarantine.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
New Arrivals
in Our Shoe
Dept.

Suede or Undressed one
strap Slippers, with Louis
heels.
g. strap Patent Leather
Slippers, with high Louis
heels-very dressy.
House and Party Slippers,
in red, bronze, white and
black, all shapes and styles.
New Patent Leather OK
fords, with high Louis heels,
with plain toes. A nice dress
shoe.
See our Felt and Knitted
Slippers in all sizes and col
Ors.
Lambs Wool Soles in all
sizes.
Everything new and up
to-date in Ladies and Chill
dren's Shoes.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
Rest and Health to Mother and Chile

MRS. WI1-SLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
BY MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their
CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING. with
PERFECT SUCCESS It SOOTHES the
CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS ALLAYS
all PAIN, CURES WIND COLIC and is
the best remedy for DIARRH HOEA- Sold
by Druggists in every part of the world
Be sure to ask for Mrs. WfnsloT.'s s Sooth-
ing Syrup and take no other kind Twen-
ty-flve cents a bottle.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04
Through sleepers and Chair Cars to
San Antonio via Milano

Pullman sleepers and free chair cars
leave Topeka daily at 1920 a. m. visg
Santa Fe Route. Absolutely no change
of cars. An irreprOachable service
Folders, tickets. and reservations may
be had by applying to T. L King
Agent, Depot.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-12-04

employed in securing the facts for the
census of 1900 reaches up into the tens
of thousands.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-04

apart. We are selling lots less than 5000 feet
than 1000 feet from the Postoffice for 5000
per lot. We have thirty-seven teams at work
special rates. Over $4,000 worth of lots sold
the first week. This tells the story No trouble
to show property. We have our own teams.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
She Roped a wolf.
from the Minneapolis Times

Chamberlain, s. D., Jan. 2O.-Mlss Eliza
Walker who owns a stock ranch "A few
miles north of this city, to-day brought in
the scalp of a large gray timber wolf,
and the story of its capture by a lady
is Interesting. All the fan she has been
troubled by this wolf. 1t appeared to
make its headquarters in a small ravine
flied with timber, about a quarter of a
mile from her house, and from this point
il sailed forth in quest of food. A short
time ago II killed a young steer belonging
90 Miss Walker and several neighbors
have lately suffered similar losses Miss
Walker states that a.ong toward evening,
as she was out on horseback rounding up
her cattle for the night. she discovered
the wolf In the very act Of making an
onslaught upon young calf In her bunch.
Her only weapon OF offense was a rope at
tached TO her saddle and she concluded
to make an attempt at rOping the animal.
This she succeeded Ia doing at the first
attempt She then started her horse on
a run. and after she had exhausted ana
subdued the animal In this way she per.
mltted her dogs 10 finish the JOB.
Wolves are especially numerous in this
section Of the state this season. and they
have never before been known to be so
bold.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
IMPORTING PALACES.
Continued From Page IS.

every year. To propose to her husband
that she would like to import a palace Is
no unusual within OF an eccentric rich
woman. Mrs. Forbes-Leth, whose hus-
band owns some of the greatest Western
steel manufactures, procured the walls,
stairway and floor for the han in her
splendid house on Park avenue, in New
York, from the home Of Dutch noble
man. Our wealthy ambassador TO Italy,
Gen. Draper, has purchased a magnificent
room in the famous Borghesi palace in
Rome. His purchase includes not only
the tapestries and furniture in it, but the
floor, ceiling, walls, doors, window case
ments, chandelier and fireplace. J. ]. Van
Allen, in his Elzabethan house i'm New
port, has imported room after room for
the lovely mansion, as he was able to find
what he wanted in Elzabethan houses
abroad and could arrange to purchase. SO
far as the interior shell of the house goes
it Is as genuine and as old as Charlotte
park itself. This Is all perfectly done,
because there are men in Europe who un-
derstand to a nicely the art of dismanu-
ing ancient buildings, packing all the
parts and setting them up again, while
as to the price, our millionaires are able
to attend to that. Emily Holt
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
IDENTIFIED BY TELEPHONE.
How a Mistress and Dog Were Re-
united by Wire.

now mistress ana Dog Were Re-
united by Wire.
New York, Jan. N.-The other day a wo-
man was travelling by train with her dog.
and somehow when she was leaving the
train at Edgewater poor doggie was left
on the platform by accident, while his
mistress was carried on to Chicago.
We do not know quite how the dog felt,
but certainly his mistress was "in a frame
of mind" and would have quito willing
ly stopped the train at any point so that
she might search for her pet. But trains
are relentless as fate, and every moment
only added to her anxiety until by the
time she pulled into the station at Chit
cago she was quite nearing despair. She
Immediately looked up the station mas
ter, to whom she told her trouble The
station master kindly telephoned back to
Edgewater, and after a time learned that
a dog like the one described by the lady
had just been brought to the police sta
ton. would the lady speak to the dog
through the telephone?" OF course the
lady gladly did so, and when a policeman
placed the receiver to the poor doggie's
ear and he heard his mistress voice call
ing him by name, his joy knew no bounds.
He parked with delight, and began to lick
affectionatcly the mysterious means OF
communication between himself and his
mistress, to whom he was as soon as pos
sible happily reunited.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
POPE's UNTIRING LABOR.
He Works From Twelve to Fourteen
Hours Daily.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Rome, Jan. 25.-Dr. Lappon physician
to the Pope, said to-day to your CORE
spondent: 'The Pope's renewed and in-
cessant activity Is the one thing that dis
turbs me. Can you conceive a man 50
years old working ssslduously from twelve
to fourteen hours daily? l beg him con-
stantly TO conserve his strength but he
will not listen 10 me- and he even gets a
little angry when L dare TO remind him
Of the strain he IS enduring.
"8e attempts TO do everything himself
lie wants no assistance because nobody
quite satisfied him in the little details Of
affairs He even corrects the proofs of his
encyclicals and other works. Happily, all
his Licensees in his advanced years have
been slight. and had their origin in the
excess of work.
reports that his Holiness Is suffering
from increasing deafness are untrue. For
the last ten years he has heard but feebiy
with his left ear, but the hearing of his
right is sim good and unimpared."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

Two women who represent what is
known as the "blue-blood aristocracy' of
New York were conversing the other dav.
says the New York Times, and a listener
heard with delight-delight in a sense of
being greatly amused-that they were con-
tinually commenting upon this or that per
son who was Tin trade" and always with
a superior, I-know air
These were women, too, of real cleverness
and breadth of mind in certain directions
There is a woman genealogist In New
York who, herself "bue-blooded, takes
great delight in learning all that she can
of her own and her friends ancestors. She
does this purely for the love of the study
but occasionally she amuses herself by
using the extensive knowledge she has
gained with some malicibueness. She de-
lights when she is called upon to write
papers upon the early days of the country.
and particularly New York, to bring to
light the names and characters of all the
ancestors of her friends, which thew are
very glad to have her do, though not al
ways as she does 1t, representing them as
they were, the common tradespeople, liter
ally the butchers, the bakers and the can
dlestick makers of those days
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

RADWAY & CO., S. Elm ST., N. Y

taught to mend neatly by the most par
ticular of grandmothers.
when ] was suddenly confronted with
the problem of making a living ii occur
red to me that the only thing | really
could do well was mending For that rea-
son, l determined to try to get people to
let me patch for them / have been very
successful. Most women would scorn such
an occupation, and so l find plenty of Gus
toners. Several private families send me
table linen and apparel that is in need of
a few stitches. though of course. bachelor
apartment houses pay best. 1t is undoubt-
eddy the only thing at which 1 could make
a living"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
q facls. as you WI and Il you read Il

OF facts, as you win find If you read 1t
slowly
A sleeper is one who sleeps. sleeper
Is that in which a sleeper sleeps. A
sleeper Is that on which the sleeper
runs while the sleeper sleeps. There
fore. while the sleeper sleeps In the sleep
err the sleeper carries the sleeper over the
sleeper under the sleeper until the sleep
err which carries the sleeper jumps the
sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleep
err by striking the sleeper under the sleep
er on the sleeper and there Is no longer
any sleeper sleeping in the sleeper on the
sleeper
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

Striking an Average.-"What a tremen-
dous expansionist Naeger is when he gets
out In a crowd"
yes. ana what tremendous shrinker
he is when lie gets home! Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

Now the following story Il is to be re-
membered says the Philadelphia Times. is
not true of women in general 1t is bv no
means certain that it is true of women in
particular Few women and no man would
consent to believe that any member of the
gentler sex could be capable of such small
ness and meaness. Still, one woman upon
a Chestnut street car the other morning
was overheard repeating the story to an
other woman, and we can only hope that
if it were not wholly untrue why then the
narrator was merely some playwright lay
ing bare the plot of her newest farce COM
edy. If the latter, however, we venture
to say that such a situation must forever
forego the sympathy of the audience. oh
yes, we've fixed her this time" said the
woman. And l would not be surprised if
it were not for all time. You see ever
since she has been boarding at q
we've none of us liked her
1t wasn't that she was but
that she wasn't; though of course. the
fact that everybody in the house has been
there for so long, while she was newcom-
er, may have had something 10 do with It,
Mrs Blank and I We're the hardest on her
though, for she was put at our table, and
we were al once resolved that We shouldn't
and wouldn't put up with 1t. We made 1t
pretty uncomfortable for her in the din
ing room. tell you, and the others made
it pretty uncomfortable for her elsewhere
SO that the upshot of il was that she
packed up and moved across the street
to SO. But the end was not yet Before
she left she managed to get in one or two
little revengeful digs at Mrs Bland and
myself so that we didn't feel at all easy
in our minds, even If she We're no longer
with us. We resolved to carry the war
into Africa, or in other words, across the
street. One fine day Mrs. Blank and I
dressed ourselves up in our best clothes
and over we went to SO. We asked for
the landlady, and we told her we were
looking for rooms. Plainly impressed, she
showed US the largest and most luxurious
she had and we expressed ourselves as
much pleased at everything, including
price. Then we took occasion to mention
that we were from 81 '37?' repeated the
landlady, why we have a young lady
In the house now from 37-Mss Dash,
Mrs Blank and I exchanged giances,
leave you to imagine their significance.
Miss Dash?' we in our turn repeated In
this house? You don't mean it?' after
which we exchanged more glances and pre-
pared to depart You don't want the
room?' asked the landlady. Mrs. Blank
and l looked at each other again. Not
now we said. The rooms very nice, and
from what we've heard of the house
think we would like IT, but really, we
couldn't consider it and off we went. 1t
was all nothing more than insinuation, but
II was mighty clever insinuation l don't
care if l do say it myself The next day
we had the satisfaction of seeing depart
from 80 across the street a lot of trunks
and boxes that we recognized as belong
ing to Miss Dash"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
Mhnt Is a sIeenerf

Here is "A definition which Is as difficult
to read rapidly as peter Piper picked a
peck of prickled peppers" and yet is more
sensible. In fact, it is an actual statement
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

There is a certain type of woman, says
Dorothy Dix in the New Orleans Picayune,
whom l always call, for want of a better
life IL is to throw cold water on everybody
and everything that comes near her She
falls upon your enthusiasm and plans with
the deadly chill of a wet blanket, and no
matter how confident you We're before she
leaves you limp and clammy with every
particle of courage oozed out She has an
eye that can detect difficulties at long
range, and diabolcal ingenuity i'm sug-
costing obstacles that you cant refute.
and i'm her presence the most able bodied
hope curls up and dies without a strug-
gle.
The queer feature of the case is that this
particular woman is nearly always a good
woman, and she believes he Is never so
near doing her full duty to her fellow
creatures as when she casts an atmos-
phere of despair and foreordained failure
over everything. She has an idea that she
Is doing good when she points out 10 us
the trials and fluctuations we may possibly
encounter in the future, as If anybody was
ever in a hurry to meet trouble, and we
weren't sure to get acquainted soon enough
and well enough with the hard things life
knocks us up against But this view of
the subject never enters the dear crea-
lures mind, and she goes serenely and
complacently on, utterly ignorant of the
fact that she is one of the greatest all
around nuisances and Affections In the
world.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

A bachelor apartment house on Fifth
avenue has what they call "the useful wo-
man." says the World.
The name fits so well that no one ever
wonders what her family did for her in
the way of a name, or what a matrimonial
venture has probably bestowed upon her
She comes around every Monday morn
ing and goes from apartment 10 apart
ment, leaving traces of her presence be-
hind her. AS these bachelors are not suf-
ficiently rich TO indulge in a valet each
they have discovered that "the useful wo-
man. Is an excellent and economical sub
stitute, never insoient and never in the
way.
The first thing that she does on her Mon
day morning rounds is to gather up all
the soiled clothes, count them, and have
them ready for the laundry man. Then
she overlooks the wardrobe, dusts the
clothes, removes small spots, sews on but
tons and puts the outer garments in order.
To The ten bachelors who discovered her
and decided to club together and get her
to look after them she added ten more
in the adjoining building, and she gives
them Tuesdays.
She comes back on Friday to look after
the first ten again. examines the clothes
returned from the laundry and mends the
underwear.
49, HN'NA'
every little break with such infinite care.
that the most fastidious man can find no
fault with her handiwork.
The socks she carried home with her and
brings back on Monday neatly darned
Soied neckties she takes TO the cleaner;
the shoes she busted and put on shoe trees.
and the bachelors who are fortunate
enough to have her weekly mlnistrations
feel that they can afford to speak plying
ly of their frineds who have only man
servant.
For these services they pay the use
ful woman" 81 a week each, not large
sum, but she has twenty men in the two
first houses and twenty in another apart
ment house, so that she makes $40 a week
That IS not a bad salary for a woman who
has no education and no experience In
business
Il do not know how to do anything"
she confessed to a friend. 81 can't plan
or make gowns or garments of any kind,
but am handy with the needle and was
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

We are going to the fashions of our
grandmothers in engagement rings, as well
as gowns, bonnets bodices and crinolines
Nearly every woman has seen at some
time in her life dainty little engagement
rings which had been given by father to
mother, or grandfather to grandmother,
when the momentous question was pop
ped as they used to call IL in those days,
which spelled out the word Regard"
Ruby, emerald. garnet, amethyst, ruby
and diamond, and pretty they are, too
in their quaint old-fashioned setting. The
swell jewellers report the fat that the
favorite betrothal ring to-day is a color
ed stone.
Emeralds, rubies, sapphires are now
chosen as the seal of betrothal. but the
diamond Still holds IL own. The setting
must be as inconspicuous as possible, the
circlet a mere thread of gold. and what
makes the fashion more fetching is the
fact that it admits of great individuality
in the cutting Of the stones.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29

In the Harleian manuscript, Nos. IS and
$50, in the library of the British Museum.
says the New York Herald, mention Is
made of the most extraordinary family
that has ever been known in the world s
history. The parties were a Scotch weav-
er and his wife mot wlves), who we're the
father and mother of sixty-two children.
The majority of the offspring of this
prolific pair were boys-exactly how many
is not known-for the record mentions the
fact that forty-six Of the male children
lived TO reach manhoods estate. and only
four Of the daughters lived to be grown
up women. Thirty-nine OF the sons were
still living IN the year 1880, the majority
OF them then residing in and about New
castle-on Tyne.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
"some Small, Sweet Way."-

Some Small, Sweet Way
There's never a rose in all the world
But makes some green spray sweeter;
There's never a wind in all the sky
But makes some bird wing fieeter;
There's never a star, but brings to heaven
Some silver radiance tender;
And never a rosy cloud but helps
To crown the sunset splendor;
No robin but may thrill some heart,
His dawnlike gladness voicing,
God gives US all some small, sweet way
To set the world rejoicing.
Anonymous.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-29
Tow I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Now Lay Me Down to Sleep
The fire upon the hearth is low,
And there is stiffness everywhere;
Like troubled spirits here and there,
The freight shadows fiuttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom,
And softly from a further room
Comes, Now 1 lay me down to sleep"
And somehow, with that little prayer
And that sweet treble in my ear,
My thought goes back TO distant years,
And fingers with a dear one there,
And as l hear the child's Amen"
My mothers faith comes back to me.
Couched at her side 1 seem to be,
And mother holds my hand again.
oh! for an hour in that dear place!
Oh, for the peace of that dear time!
Oh, for that childish trust sublime!
Oh, for a glimpse of mothers face!
Yet, as the shadows round me creep,
l do not seem to be alone
Sweet magic of that treble tone,
And Now I lay me down to sleep"
Eugene Field.