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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04


founded in Buffalo, N. Y, known as the
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute,
which has since become one of the most
famous institutions in the world for its
enormous benefits to the sick and suffering
all over the United States. Thousands
have come there for treatment and tens of
thousands have received professional ad-
vice by mail with suggestions for inexpen-
sive hon1e-treatment, whereby they have
been cured of severe, and in many in
stances, apparently hopeless diseases.
A Massachusetts man, Mr.. John Brooks of
Boy1stou, Worcester Co., writes: :" About year
ago was taken with a bad cold which settled
on my lungs The doctors said I was in con-
sumption and could not get well took Emul-
sion of Cod Liver Oil and il did me no good.
After taking it four months I heard of your
Golden Medical Discovery and wrote to you
for advice have taken your medicine and it
saved nv life felt so sick when I wrote to
you that thought would not live through the
winter. In the morning raised awful lot
and would spit all the time and had pains in nv
chest. My bowels would not move more than
once twice a week; my strength was nearly
gone; could not do whole days work. Now
my bowels are regular every day and feel no
more pain in my chest. feel great deal
ing a team in the woods, and owe my thanks
to DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. I
know it saved my life"
The most difficult diseases to cure are
those which are aggravated by constipation.
In such cases DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
should be taken in conjunction with the
q Discovery" They never grippe. All good
dealers sell them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04
Tell Your Grocer

to bring you Gypsy Queen Baking
Powder next time. It's the best you
can get. and besides it's made in To-
peka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04
HIS DUTY ABOVE LOVE.

seasons, while Mr.. Klein has been in the
company even longer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04

THERE everywhere who suffer almost
stant1y because they cannot bring themselves to tell
- all about their ills to a physician
Such surely explain their symptoms and their
suffering Pnkham Lynn Mass, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04

fidence reposed IN her has never been
violated. Over million women have
been helped by her advice and medicine.
Mrs. Pinkham in attending to her vast
correspondence is assisted by women
only. If you are i'll, don't delay. Her
reply will cost you nothing and it will be
practical help as it was to Miss ELLA E.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04

Good Satisfaction
Given to users of New Gypsy Queen
Baking Powder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-04
q WOMAM
HELPS
WOMEN

BRENNER Rochester,
physician knew must
troubles hackache. tired
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manity to man
to avert sick
ness and death
as far as lies in
mortal power.
Nearly thirty
years ago, an
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

and died in an hour IN great agony.
The chemical analysis showed that the
bottle contained cyanide Of mercury
and that the mixture with the bromo
settler. made a deadlier poison than the
plain cyanide, which worked more
slowly. Though cyanide OF mercury
is a poison little used. all efforts to
trace it failed, and it was pointed out
that Molineux is a chemist; that he
was employed in Newark and that the
silver holder was bought there. The
inquest came to an end on February %,
when the verdict declared that Mrs.
Adams had come to her death from
poisoning administered as bronco
settler by Harry S. Cornish, and that
the poison had been sent to Cornish
through the mails by Roland B. Mo-
lineux. Molineux was at once arrested
and locked up in the Tombs. One Of
the jurors said he understood that
Cornish was also to be arrested. An
Indictment charging murder in the first
degree was found against Molineux on
March l. Then the accused mans law
yers, Weeks and Battle, set about
Quashing it. Their first victory was
ar order from the court permitting
them to see the grand jury minutes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

his ship when on the African coast,
and the stern mode Of It's suppression.
Hence, in two hours after, W had
the satisfaction Of seeing Antonio ell
Cubano. Benito Ojeda, the old tindal of
the Lascars, and Fighter other ~rascals,
taken OF to the castle OF Santa Cruz in
a large open boat, guarded by twelve
Spanish soldiers, in charge of a lieu
tenant, Don Luiz Pineda.
l can still recall the glance Of i'm
potent and bafled malignity that An
tonic bestowed on us as he went down
the ships side. 1t combined all the
worst emotions Of his angry heart,and
somewhat reminded me Of his face
in that terrible moment when he
swung at the end of the studding sail
boom, with despair in his clutch and
death in his heart.
We watched the boat till 1t reached
the long stone mole, and then we saw
the fixed bayonets Of the escort fash
ing, as the whole party assembled the
great stair toward the custom house,
and surrounded by a mob Of those nau-
tical idlers who usually make a pier
their lounge, disappear in the interior
of the town, as they marched toward
the castle.
Two episodes more will close the
story Of Antonio-his trial and punish
ment.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
CHAPTTR XXXV.

SAitaA <A[N<AVs
The Last Of Antonio Ell Cubano.
The trial came on in a couple of days
after, and proceeded with a celebrity
unknown in England or Scotland eth
err. We were all examined, and pre-
viously were sworn, not on a Bible,
but over two sword blades held in the
form Of a cross-for such is the old
chivalric custom in a Spanish court
of law.
Without hesitation the judges found
Antonio guilty; he was sentenced to
die by the g%arotte, and heard his doom
with apparent apathy.
The tindal Of the Lascars was re-
leased, as it would appear hat he had
acted under compulsion; but Benito
Ojedo and eight other Spanish sea-
men were sentenced to work in the
Notifications or on the highways for
ten years, in chains, as felons or gal
ley slaves.
A few days later we found a great
crowd Of %colonists, citizens, mulattoes,
creoles and negroes. all in motley and
gaudily striped linen jackets and trou-
sers, assembled in the Plaza, where a
guard Of Spanish infantry, with mus
kets shouldered and bayonets fixed,
kept back the people in the form of a
hollow square about a raised wooden
platform, which was covered with
black cloth and whereon was placed
the garotte.
What is all this about?" we asked.
1T is for the execution Of Antonio,
a Cuban pirate, who is to die by the
garotte," replied a soldier.
Ito be continued.)
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
THAckERAy,'s oENrLER SIDE.

Years Of Perfect Happiness-His own
and His Wife's Love.
The following letter was written in
1888 by Thackeray to his wife:
Here have we been two years mar
ried and not single unhappy day.
Oh, l do bless God for all this happi-
ness which he has given me. 1t is 80
great that l almost tremble for the fu-
ture, except that humbly hope-for
what man Is certain about his OWE
weakness and ~wickedness? Our love is
strong enough to Withstand any pres
sure from without, and, as it Is a git
greater than any fortune, is likewise
one superior to poverty. or sickness, OF
any other worldly evil with which
providence; may visit us. Let us pray,
as I trust there is no harm, that none
Of these may come upon us, as the best
and wisest In the world prayed that
he might not be led into temptation.
81 think happiness is as good as
prayers and I feel in my heart a kind
OF oyerfiowing thanksgiving which is
quite too great to describe in willing.
This kind Of happiness is like a fine
picture; you only see q little b.. of 1t
when you are near the canvas. Go q
little distance and then you see how
beautiful It Is.
I don't know that / shall have done
much by coming away, except by be.
ing SO awfully glad Is get back"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
ONE OF PoRrER,s SPEECHES.

The General Says 1t Is Among His Best,
So 1t Must BE True.
One of the youngest-looking men of
his years in public life is Gen. Horace
Porter, our ambassador to France, says
the Philadelphia Saturday Post.
In spite of his incessant activity,
Gen. Porter, while the head in New
York Of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany. was among the most accessible
Of men. He always seemed to have
plenty Of leisure time. One day a re-
porter was sent to him to collect some
after-dinner stories which had never
before been printed, and never have
been printed up to the present time.
The general laid aside his correspond
ence and entered intellectually into
his callers mission.
Il don't know" said he, that l can
tell you any new story Of mine, but I
will toll you what l regard as my best
piece of repartee-at least, it was the
most enthusiastically received. 1t was
at a big banquet, the chairman OF
which was no orator. His introductions
were labored and most OF them failed
to- score. When he introduced me, he
said:
"t.You all know Gen. Porter. With
Kim all you have to do is to drop a
dinner in the slot and up comes a
speech
"'You all know the presiding Off
cer,' l retorted, and judging from the
sickly tone of his speeches, all you
have to do Is to drop one Of them in
the slot and up comes your dinner
'.From that time on 1 had things my
own way at that dinner"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

AS . fortress Gibraltar is magnif-
cent, n the admiralty are untiring in
their EFFORTS to make it stronger year
by year. Into the British part of the
place, that is the Rock proper that is
kept under lock and key, ten thousand
Spanish lalorers walk every morning
and walk out every night with British
pay in their pockets. They are con
structing moles in the harbor or work.
ing heavy guns up to the very top of
the rock, where thew can shoot right
across to Morocco without the small
est cnance Of an enemy hitting them in
return. Along the inner edge Of the
rock lies a considerable town, from
which the British government derives
a handsome income, but it is said that
the military and naval authorities
would be glad to get rid Of the civil
element altogether and make the place
a fortress pure and simple. the most
powerful in the world, and inaccessible
to the uncredentialed outsider. F.
Nisbet.
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that he wondered how Miss Cheese
brough knew he was i'll. Twelve days
after Barnet died Miss ~Cheesebrough
married Roland B. Molineux. On De-
cember 81 a nan giving his name as II.
Cornish rented a private letter box at
No. 1860 Broadway from Morris Koch.
There was received there for him a
sample of headache powder and also a
package of pills from Won Mohl & Co.,
Of Cincinnati, who had also sent sam
pies to "H. C. Barnet" at No. 252 West
.Forty-second street. These were never
called for.
The events following this are well
known. The day before last Christmas
Cornish received the famous bottle of
bromo settler and the silver holder
which afterward proved to have been
a match safe sold in Newark to "a man
In a hurry
Cornish left these things in his desk
at the club until the following Tues.
day, when he took them to No. 81 west
Eighty-sixth street, where he had
rooms in the home of Mrs. Kate ].
Adams. a widow, whom he called Aunt
Kate, having known her In his home
in Hartford. and her daughter. Mrs.
Florence j. Rogers. The following day
Mrs. Adams was given a dose Of the
supposed bromq seltzer for s.adach,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

ton on a vital question and to furnish
enlightenment to thousands who are
discussing territorial expansion and
are intensely interested in the OUT
come Of the new policy which the ma
ton is entering upon. Few are thor
oughly informed on any phase of this
important issue and this fact Is due to
the general lack Of definite knowledge
of the several islands and their inhab-
itants.
The First Greater America Colonial
Exposition solves a %perplexing prob
lem.
1t would be impossible fer the ma
jority of the people of the United
States to visit these far away islands,
but it is comparatively an easy under
taking to bring to this country repre-
sentatives of the native people and ex-
hibits showing their resources, indus
tries, and the possibilities of the is
lands wherein they live. This has been
done, and when the gates of the Ex-
position open on July LIST those who
are seeking facts upon which to base
conclusions, will find that which could
not be seen and learned in months Of
travel and research.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
MEANEsr MAN IN THE SOUTH.
Abominable Trick Which He Played OF
HIS Trusting Wife.

Abominable Trick Which He Played or
HIS Trusting Wife.
II have a very simple scheme for
%wriggling out of trouble when my wife
catches me in a fib," said a Perfect
Brute to several congenial compan-
ions, relates the New Orleans Times
Democrat. ION such occasions it is q
great mistake for a man to attempt
any explanation. The thing to do is
merely to assume an air Of injured in
nocence. That attitude will puzzle a
woman and shake her confidence in
your guilt. She will begin con
sciously to cast about for some ex-
PLANTATION, some theory, some clew to
the mystery, and when she finds one,
no matter how preposterous, she will
be SO pleased by her W cleverness
that it is easy to persuade her to ac-
cept it out of hand. You see, l have
reduced the thing to a science.
ITO illustrate: I told my wife not
long ago that 1 would be detained over
my books till past midnight. After I
left, some neighbors, confound 'em,in-
vited her to a theater, and during the
last act she saw me, of course, with
some Of the boys in the parquet. When
I got home there was an explosion.
I said nothing. l simply looked at her,
sadly, wistfully, reproachfully. Next
day there was another explosion. l re-
sumed my tactics. That evening she
said: Look here, Charley. 1 want you
to tell me whether you really went to
the theater to see Col. Hawkins Then
I remembered suddenly that Hawkins
was seated at my left, and also that
she knew I had been trying to close a
large-sized business deal with him.
I'm the goodness of her heart the
dear girl had arrived at the conclusion
that l must have gone to the show
to clinch that contract. 1 smiled wan
ly. I would have thought, Mary I
replied, with great gentleness, that
something of the kind might have sug-
gested itself to you before That was
enough. She wept c%opiously. l was
not a monster; I was a martyr. Event
ually I forgave her upon her solemn
promise again to suspect me of
an untruth. So you see how it is. II
l had tried to explain I would doubt
less have made a mess Of it and plant
ed lasting seeds of distrust. AS it
turned out the episode rebounds to my
credit. It's a great thing to have
brains, boys, when you're dealing with
women"
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4A1SO. MoA14NCOA.
Now it is said that there is no man
in New York who knows so much about
indictments as George Gordon Battle.
1t was his business to draw them when
he was assistant district attorney. An
application was made to Justice Pardon
c. Williams, of the Supreme court, and
he handed down a decision in Water
town setting aside the indictment on
the ground that it was found on in
sufficient and improper evidence. He
refused to release Molineux, however,
and directed that the district attorney
present the case to the next grand
jury. This body refused to find an in
dictment, and the case seems to have
ended against a blind wall. Will the
real murderer of Barnet and Mrs.
Adams ever be punished?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

In the amusement section many new
and attractive features have been Sc
cured. The Indian congress, the cleo
trio light race track, the grand display
of fireworks in which the Pain Fire
Works company will give a realistic
reproduction Of Dewey's great victory
ct Manila, the destruction OF Cerve-
,ra's fleet at Santiago, the sinking OF
the Merrimac and the storming of San
Juan hill, will be among the most in.
teresting OF these attractions. The
Midway will be larger and nor at
tractive than last year and win con-
tain many novel and unique attrac-
lions.
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lures and possibilities of those islands
of the seas acquired in the recent war.
The people of the Philippine islands,
Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico will be
represented in considerable numbers,
and their home life, occupations, dress,
customs, ceremonies and characters
tics will be faithfully portrayed. The
United States government has materi-
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which represent the expenditure of
more than $4,000, 900, have been leas-
ed by the present exposition company,
but in all other respects the exhibition
will be entirely different from that of
last year. The dominant feature, in
fact the key note, will be the magni-
f1cent and exhaustive exemplification
of the resources, products, manufac-
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fects have been introduced, notably
the fairy gardens and the lighting Of
the statuary upon the buildings.
Three great events are promised for
the opening week. On July l the for
NAL ceremonies instituting the ex-
position will be held. July 8 there
will be exercises commemorative of
the destruction of the Spanish fleet at
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

There will be a Chinese village on
the Midway at the Greater America
Exposition. II will be the best repre-
sentation Of the routine life 81 the
celestial kingdom ever made at an
exposition, and will show especially
the amusements Of the race.
j. B. Morris of Illinois has secured a
concession for a Partisan art studio
at the Greater America Exposition at
Omaha that promises to attract a great
deal of attention from straight-laced
art critics who insist that art, which
is a picture OF nature, shall have its
definite and inviolable limitations.
The Old Plantation at the Greater
America Exposition q Omaha
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Many improvements have been made
in the grounds and buildings. Thou
sands of trees, plants, shrubs and flow
ers from tropic and sub-tropic lands
have been added to the ground deco
rations, and the night illumination
which won so much praise last year
has been vastly improved upon. Sew
eral new and startling electrical eff
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
Elephants as Nurses.

siamese women intrust their chill
dren 70 the care Of elephants. who are
careful never to hurt the LILLE crea-
lures. and II danger threatens, the sa-
gacious animal will curl. the child gent
~ up In his trunk and swing it up
and out Of harms way upon its own
broad back.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
A COLONIAL EXPOSITION
Remarkable Achievement For the Big
Show That Is About to Begin.
rhf GATES GO OPEN JULY /, 1899.
A Great Collection of Interesting Exhibits
Brought From Our New Colonial Pos
sessions-Vast Sums Spent to Bring
Together that Which Will Edify and
Instruct. ..

Never before in the history Of expo
sltion building have such grand re-
suits been accomplished in the same
length of time as in the First Great
erer American Colonial Exposition, to
be held in Omaha from July 1 to No
vember l. The buildings and grounds
OF the Trans-Mississippi Exposition,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
Nothing to Eat.

Hassit-'It's strange you're so hard
up, old man. I thought you owned
half of swamphurst. and had lots to
SELF" Haddit-"I have; but what /
want is lots to eat."-Brooklyn Life.
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ally aided the exposition management
In securing representatives types of
these people and the splendid exhib-
Its from the several islands. The
great colonial exhibits building and
portions of several other large build
ings will be utilized for the display of
the resources of our far distant pos
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

Santiago. 1t will be known as Schley
day and the gallant admiral will be
present to receive the greetings of an
admiring people. The nations Natal
day will receive fitting observance on
the following day, and the people Of
Iowa and Nebraska have been invited
to join in the demonstration. On each
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23
aho.s. and society Ghosts.

Aren't your Psychical Research
club meetings very duh, Miss Pris-
cilla?" NO; you see, we always wind
up with q pillow-case masquerade and
dance."-Detroit Free Presr
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-06-23

Until the reign of Henry VIII. Eng
lish sovereigns. as well as their sub
;ects,. ate with their fingers.
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sessions and the work Of securing such
an exhibit, which usually covers a Pc
riod OF two or three years, has, with
government assistance, been accom-
plished in a few short months.
The coming exposition is destined to
fulfill an educational mission, to bring
to the people of this country informa-
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-12-21
Worlds Big Boats.

The English marine publication, the
Syren. says: We British pride our
selves that the aggregate tonnage of
British ships approximates to the total
merchant tonnage owned by the re-
naming maritime countries of the
world. but there is another phase of the
matter where comparison with other
nations places us in position other
than first. 1t appears we have only
eleven vessels of over 10000 gross tons
headed by the Oceanic, with her H.
600 tons. But Germany has twenty
three vessels in that category. The
United States Is the only other nation
with vessels above 10000 tons, and she
has four. The biggest ship owned br
France Is $500 tons. while Norway's
greatest ship is of 3.277 tons gross. In
speed Great Britain Is right ahead OF
her competitors, having thirty-one YES.
sells with a speed of twenty knots or
more; Belgium has six, the United
States four, Germany and Holland
three each, France two and Russia one.
Thus in speed the British flag exceIs
the world, while the disparity between
Germany and this country. so far as
size is concerned. will soon be lessened
as several big vessels are nearing com.
pletion in British yards"