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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

score for the double bowl of punch and
the half dozen mugs of flip Sir Charles
Buxton had ordered while the dfcing was
going on and large share of which
he drank off with the zest of flesh and
blood? Besides, Janet had seen him, and
JanetS eye for a young man could never
be doubted"
In an old tavern near the seashore in
ssachusetts there is an oaken dining
table about which a strange story is told.
The inn was much frequented by sea cap
tains who called themselves the Mariners
club and assembled at the old tavern at
pretty regular intervals to have a good
dinner and a rousing old spree after it.
Among them was one Capt. Blood, a very
merry, jovial boon companion, but about
whose home life there were tales that
were not so pleasant It was known
that somewhere back several miles from
the inn and on bleak and gloomy farm
he had q large family who, as it proved,
were often in straits for food While the
Jolly tar was off feasting and making
merry with his fellow mariners. Besides
an aged and feeble mother and several
souaIid children the captain had, among
his domestic encumbrances a pale-faced,
disheartened wife, who bore with
seeming patience his selfish neglect of
her and the others dependent upon him,
hut in whose bosom, nevertheless, as the
SEQUEL showed. there was glowing a slow
fire of resentment which only needed
fine to break out into flame of revolt.
Writing of the inn as it is to-day and
of the strange story connected with it,
Mrs. Earle says:
The great square rooms Of the main
house are amply furnished. One was
TON room. and III each second story room
still are two double bees, save in the
corner room next the kitchen tail of
tbe house. where stands nailed firmly to
the floor a somewhat battered oaken
table. A little open staircase in the
corner of this room leads down to the
working end of the house, and was used
in olden days to carry supplies to the
upper table from the lower kitchen.
''This room was the scene, about sew
enty-flve years ago, of a. somewhat I'M
usual expression of feminine revolt
that is, both the expression and the re.
volt were unusual. 1t is a good many
years since good cheer was spread on
the broad oaken table in this room,
though at one time it was the favorite
dining place of the Mariners club. One
night (some three-quarters of a century
ago. a specially good dinner was SET in
the Mariners room-roast and boiled
meats, pies and buildings, a grand array
of full pitchers, decanters and bottles;
the assembled group Of old salts were
about to ascend from the taproom to
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

seat themselves comfortably at the
round table for solid work, when a ter
rible crash and scream were heard, each
seeming louder than the other, and be-
fore the startled eyes of the landlord
and his guests, as they rushed up ami
into the room, there were all the steam
ing dishes, all the streaming bottles,
with table cloth and plates in a hopeless
wreck upon the floor.
" There he goes shouted one captain.
as he ran to the window; and surely
enough a slender man in nautical rig
was seen striking out from under the
sheltering walls of the ell kitchens and
sheds, and running desperately across
the snowy fields Chase was given and
the maurauder caught; he was swung
around roughly with oaths and blows
when sudden silence fell on all. 1t was
Capt. Sam Blood's wife in Capt Sam
Blood's toys
" TIL settle for this dinner said Capt
Blood, with black look at his COVER
ing wife.
con Capt Floods next voyage his
wife sailed with him. When he returned
she was not with him and the captain
wore mourning and a long face. He
told a moving tale of how his wife had
fallen i'll and died on shipboard and had
been buried at sea- A discreet and de-
cent term of mourning passed, and Mrs.
Blood as is the way of the liHing-anl
the dead-was quite forgotten.
"Once more the Mariners club was to
have a dinner, and once more the table
in the Mariners room was spread with
good cheer and ample drink Capt.
Blood, in somewhat midgated be~eave-
ment, was among the thronging quests
who fingered over a fine stomach warm
er at the bar. The landlord ran out
of the room and roared down the main
stairs that dinner was ready, and even
as he spoke, crash! smash came q din
from the Mariners room, and there was
all the dinner and all the broken bottles
with the tablecloth and the upset table
on the floor 1t was q very unpleasant
reminder to Sam Blood of very mortifv-
ing event, and his friends sympathized
with him in silence. This time no mis-
creant could be found in house or on the
farm, but the landlord suspected a dis
charged and ugly servant, who might
have run down the little corner stair
case, as Mrs. Blood had done before him.
The ruined dinner was replaced by
another a week later. The guests were
gathered, the andlord was bearing a last
roast pig aloft, when smash! crash! came
again from the Mariners room Every
one in the house rushed up in tremend-
Gus excitement; the tablecloth was off,
table upset. bottles smashed. An ominous
silence and sense of the uncanny fell
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

even, in his brooches pocket. and he
laughed and sneered in hateful trfumph
Sobered by his losses, which were small
but his all, one teamster suriIy said he
was going to sleep, and another said,
lis high time And indeed it was. for
at that moment old Janet the tavern
housemaid, came in to begin her morning
round of work. to pinch cut the candles,
take uppart OF the ashes from the chin
ney hearth, fill the kitchen pots and
kettles, gather in the empty bottles and
glasses; and as she did so. albeit she
was of vast age, she glanced with warm
interest at the fine figure of fashion
Shaping his pockets, sneering and drink
ing off his glass
Why, master she said, staring, YOU
do be the very cut of Sir Charles off our
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-02

signboard'
Let's see how he looks, staggered
the young blades where's a window
where we can peep at him.?
All trooped to a window in the tavern
parlor to look at the portrait of Sir
Charles Buxton on the swing sign, but
to no avail, for there was yet but scant
daylight without, and they peered cut
only on thick snowdrifts on the window
panes. But when they. re-entered the
kitchen, 10! their gay companion was
gone. Gone where2s Back on the sign
board of course And all who heard the
oft and ever-repeated wonder tale would
have scoffed at the fuddled notions Of
a drunken group Of stupid teamsters,
but the dollars and shilings and pennies
were gone, too; and who was to pay the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
WHAT GOOD ROADS DO.
President Wright Explains Some Mis-
understood Details.

John K Wright of Junction City, presi-
dent of the Kansas Good Roads associa-
ton. finds men who oppose the move
ment, which has prompted Mr.. Wright to
make public the following statement:
81 am confronted by some men who
seem to think that this good roads move
ment means higher taxes, and giving
someone a lucrative position with little
work; in fact, a soft snap; also that It
all localities under all circumstances.
We are not asking for additional taxes
What we want are good, wholesome laws,
by which the road taxes can be and will
be collected and then expended in an eco
nom Judi;cious manner under compe-
Il will not attempt to say just what
laws we want passed, as there has been
a competent committee appointed to look
up present road laws and ask to have the
same amended and repealed, and ask the
legislature to pass such laws as will be
to the best interests of the whole state
It is a fact patent to all, that we have
not had the best results in all places for
the money and time expended roads
in this state in the last forty years hence
this good roads movement We want such
laws that we can have better roads,
whether macadam, dirt, gravel or clay
the worth of our time and money in bet
ter roads.
commissioners a list of questions we hope
to have answered in time for our meet
ing the 18th and 18th of January, 1901.
at Topeka, at which time the committee
will outline such laws in their opinion
Will De a DeQeHI TO the clllZenS OF our
state. and if have with the
county commissioners. township officers
and all other persons interested in good
roads, with a free and fair discussion.
there is no doubt in my mind but that
the citizens of the state win be bene-
flied
III we have citizens who cannot posi-
bly, be there in person. they viii confer a
favor upon our movement by sending US
their opinions in writing
Upon the occasion. January Is and 1s.
at Topeka. we will have short papers
upon road drainage, tools, supervision and
other questions pertaining to good roads.
BY publishing and asking other papers in
the state who are interested in the moves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
LIMITED-FAsT MAIL LAas.
Ran Far Behind Schedule and Gather
ed a Fine First Trip

It is believed by railroad men that
the daily service of the California linz
tied viii be an expensive one to the
Santa F'e company, but the history of
the train has shown that the road has
been lavish in its expenditures upon it,
evidently using 1t to make friends for
the Santa Fe. Anything and everything
that money and the science of car build
ing and engineering could manage was
got for the train The tri-weekly serv-
ice at first was a heavy loss Then,
with the heaviest regular travel in years.
the trains were crowded. until now the
passenger department has been con-
strained to send the train out daily.
Combining the limited and fast mail
in one train, as the new schedule that
has just gone into effect has done, is
an experiment that is being watched
with a great deal of interest. The diff
ference between running a heavy train
and a light one On an extra fast schedule
is already apparent. The inited-fast
mails initial trip was anything but en-
couraging. 1t came into Topeka II
minutes late, and reached Newton S.
minutes late, so that a $50 fine accrued
for the first trip.
The Newton Kansan sums up the con-
sensus of opinion in five brief lines:
1.-The regular train No. 3 made its ini-
tial trip this morning and was nearly an
hour late. Railroad men as a. rule do not
believe this train can make the time of
the fast mail with its heavy equipment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29

DR.. Llewellyn Jordan, medical exam
liner of the L. S. treasury department,
Washington, D. c.. graduate of Column
bia college, and who served three years
at West Point, has the following TO
say of Peruna:
The Peruna Medicine Co.. Columbus. o.
Gentlemen Allow me to express
my gratitude to you for the benefit
derived from your wonderful remedy.
One short month has brought forth a
vast change, and now consider my
self a well man after fifteen months
of suffering Fellow sufferers, Pc
runa will cure you. - LIeweIIyn JOr-
dan.
Chas. d. smyth, Angels Camp, Cal,
says: Chronic catarrh in the head,
nose and throat has been a source Of
trouble and great annoyance to me for
more than ten years.
Il have used all such medicines as
came under my notice as a catarrh cure
without any help to me except at times
by some only a temporary relief, but no
cure. My physician, to whom / applied,
did not do any better.
MY troubles became worse and my
sufferings increased instead Of i'm
proving. Loss of appetite, sleep, and
flesh, besides continual coughing and
pain showed too plainly that my case
was a desperate one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
FRoM NEWTON.

Since the fast mail train west has
been discontinued, No. 3 doing its work.
Conductor J. H. Bender has been as
signed to 113 and ia between here and
Kansas City, while Rees gets one of
the long runs from Kansas City to
Dodge City.
O. K Forgy, of the telegraph room, is
IN Sterling, where he viii remain a day
or two, y guest of relatives.
D. T. Gorsuch has taken one of the
through runs and has been assigned to
Conductor r. F. Elliott's crew, taking
Davis place Davis has been assigned
to Conductor Downey's car for the pres
ent.
H J. Drummer has again assumed
charge of the engine on the daylight
shift at the machine shop, and has been
treating his friends to cigars, owing to
the heir which arrived at his home re-
Gently.
Conductor NJ A. Argabright severely
sprained his ankle the last trip west,
and is compelled to absent himself from
duty. John LeShure is the captain of
his run for the present. While Mr..
Arga bright's accident is nothing serious,
it is very painful and is keeping him
confined to the house
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
RoUaHNEcK CALCULATES.
Out Old Eagle Eyes Estimate
of His Own Funeral

A switchnan out of a job dropped
down in El Paso not long ago, looking
fol work He was a reckless looking
specimen and blunt-spoken-a typical
''rOugh-neck''
There was q funeral procession pass
Ing the crossing as he stood talking to
couple Of railroad men.
Who's goin' to the graveyard?'' he
asked, irreverently.
Bill Smith, was the reply.
wv hos Bill Snith?" was the next
query.
Guess you don't know Bill Smith. He
was one Of the oldest engineers in town,
stranger. It must be over twenty years
he's pulled a train out of here Every
body round here knows old Bill Smith.
He's got the biggest funeral ever given
any man in this town
Roughneck watched the long line of
carriages moving slowly up tie street
a moment The line extended four
blocks down the street, with more CON-
ing around the corner. He shifted his
tobacco. and taking a. shot at a spike
in the opposite rail that started a nod
down the crosstie, exclaimed:
''Humph! Know what'd happen If
that old eagle-eye should wake up2 If
he'd sit up and take a look around the
curve at the drag he's pullin', he'd throw
her over, call brakes, cut and double up
the hill That's what he'd do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
HAVE HAD THEIR DAY.
Local Treatments for Catarrh ReIe-
gated to the Rear.

The surest and safest treatment for
any form of Catarrh is an internal rem
edy which acts specifically upon the
blood and mucous membranes. Such a
remedy is the new preparation sold ev-
erywhere by druggists as Stuartss Ca
tarrh Tablets. q medicine in pleasant
tablet form
These tablets contain in highly con-
centrated form, well known germ anti
ceptics like sanguinaria, guaiacol, Red
Gum and similar curative elements, and
no one who suffers from any form Of
catarrh, and has experienced the inefi-
cheney and inconvenience OF powders.
sprays and inhaIers will ever go back to
such antiquated remedies after once try
ing so pleasant a treatment as Stuart'S
Catarrh Tablets and one which gives so
much relief in so short a time.
Druggists sell Stuart's Catarrh Tab
lets at fifty cents for full sized package
and their daily use will effectually cure
this troublesome and dangerous disease.
The danger from catarrh is that it is
a short road to consumption. to chronic
stomach catarrh and to catarrh Of liver
and kidneys.
Most cases of deafness are caused
from stoppage Of the Eustachian tube
as q result Of catarrh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
GOT ( DEcoY LETTER
John Gordon, Who Cleans Mail Cars
at Argentine, Under Arrest

Kansas City, Kas., Dec. 29.-John Cor
don, Of So South Fifth street, was yes
terday arrested in Argentine by IN
spectors r. NJ. Fulton and S. L. Stice,
OF the government secret service, charg-
ing him with having stolen q. letter from
a Santa Re mail car He was turned
over TO UndeF Sheriff Cummings. and,
after being arraigned before United
States Commissioner Earhart, was
locked up in the county Jail. He was
bound over to the federal authorities
under $500 bond.
Gordon is a victim of rather peculiar
circumstances. He has been employed
for some time cleaning mail cars IN the
Santa F'e yards in Argentine During
the past month or 50 considerable mail
matter has disappeared between western
points and southwest Missouri In
spectors Fulton ard Stice' were detailed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
SUFFERED BIZ COMPARISON
But 1900 Has Been Good Business
Year Says Bradstreet-
New York, Dec. 2!

New York, Dec. 9.-Bradstreet's in its
issue today will say:
The business year 1900 was not so
good as the optinists had hoped for,
but on the other hand it failed to jusri-
fy most of the pessimistic predictions
with which the advent of a year Of a
presidential election was greeted. In
some respects, indeed, it would seem as
if it suffered because of close compari-
son with a year Of such enormous ex-
pansion and intense activity in all
branches of trade, speculation and in
dustry as 1893, rather than because of
any special defects or shortcomings of
the year itself. In many respects in
deed and measured by different STAN
dards, the closing year Of the century
has witnessed many gains over 1899,
though it is probable that the entire
turn over measured in dollars or in
profit, was not SO great as in the latter
year If aggregate bank clearings be
taken as a guide then business was
smaller and yet if clearings at the great
speculative center, New York, are de-
Quoted an actual gain is shown in the
rest of the country over 1899.
In speculation in stocks undoubtedly
a smaller business was done, the falling
off from last year being probably one
fifth. Speculation in cereals was less
active and the results in this line were
certainly depressing to the bull element.
On the other hand, cotton witnessed the
greatest speculation and the highest
prices paid for at least a decade crop
Yields were rather smaller as a whole,
but it is unquestionable that the actual
money value of the crops was far in
excess of last year.
Prices reacted from their high point,
but the decline was small as a rule ex-
cept in iron and wool and the break
brought in new consumptive buying
which had been discouraged by the
rapidity of the advance in 1899 Mer-
camille failures were slightly more num-
erouS and liabilities were fractionally
larger than in 1899 but were far below
recent previous years, and. if it be kept
in mind that a new army of $4,000 men
entered business during the year, the
small increase in failures can be hardly
regarded as significant There were two
great Industrial conflicts during the
year, that of building hands at Chicago
and of coal miners in Pennsylvania,
which tended, in conjunction with cleo
ton uncertainty and textile mills shut
downs, to check trade during portions Of
the year, but industry otherwise was
quite active at good wages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
EXIT THE AIR LINE.
Changes Announced in Being Taken
Over -bv Southern Railway.

St Louis, Mo, Dec 29.-In a series of
circulars just issued by the Southern
railway announcement is made of the
taking over of the Louisville & St.
Louis air line, the appointment of
George c. Smith as general manager,
and the consolidation of the air line
property and all the lines of the South
ern in Kentucky under the operating
title of the St. Louis-Louisville lines.
The jurisdiction of the first and second
vice presidents is extended over the air
line.
The headquarters of General Manager
George G Smith are established in the
Chemical building, st. Louis The vari-
Gus auditing and other departmental
officials in Louisville have their territory
extended over the air line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
SIX MEN KILLED.
Another Fatal Result of Thaw-
ing Dynamite.

Keyser. w. va. Dec. 29.-By a dyna-
mite explosion at Baker camp near Dur
bin. Pocanontas county, on the line of
the coal and iron railroad now building
out from Elkins, six men were killed and
several others fatally injured.
The accident happened while the men
were at dinner Some dynamite had
been placed about the stove to thaw and
shortly after terrific explosion wrecked
the camp killed three men outright and
injured eight others, three of whom ha re
since died. The dead men were blown to
atoms, legs, arms and hands and even
parts OF their bodies being found in diff
ferent directions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
THE FUNNY TURK.
He L. Ordering q Warship From
Everybody he Owes

Berlin. Dec. 29@The Ottoman govern
men has contracted for the construction
of the Ottoman battleship Assar-I-TeW-
fix at the German wharf, Kiel, at a
cost of 927O,000
The Cologne Gazette says that Ger
many. in a friendly way informed the
porte if claims of the United States for
damages growing out of the Armenian
outrages were granted Germany would
expect similar treatment
London. Dec. 29-The foreign engage
ment of the porte for the purchase and
renovation Of Warships and for naval
and military artillery now amount TO
e. 4O0, 900, says the COnstantinople cor
respondent to the Times. while the treas
ury is absolutely empty and internal
debt increases daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
Growth OF Pullman Estate.

Chicago, Dec 29.-According to a re-
port filed today by the executors of the
estate Of the late Geo. NJ Pullman. the
assets Of the Pullman family have in
creased Sc O0O, GOO since the death of the
sleeping car magnate, little over three
years. The accounting made to the pro
bate court shows that the estate is now
valued at SIS. GOO 600 as against SO, 600 0o0
at the time it was turned over to the
executors. The tremendous increase is
due it is said to the increase in the value
of stocks, bonds and properties during
that period. A large portion of the Pull
man millions was invested in property
of this kind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29

caused a. decoy letter to be mailed at
Pueblo, Colo, addressed to S L Stice,
one Of the inspectors at Ga1ena, Kas.
Two dollars in marked coin were in
that this letter in transmission fell on
the floor of a car which Gordon was
called upon to clean Tt had in all prob
ability been overlooked by the postal
clerks. The letter was traced to Cor
don and his arrest followed. Whether
the letter was actually left in the car
by mistake or accident or whether the
clerks worked in conjunction with the
inspectors to catch Gordon, is a. matter
for speculation, Notwithstanding they
claim the trap was set for a person at
Galena.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29
FROM DODGE CTTY.

G. Miller came in Tuesday night and
laid off sick, but viii be all right next
Pap Kelsey laid off Christmas. and
Arch Russell had charge of the switch
engine.
John Balsch has returned from
Mexico.
Mr.. Fasig has finished drilling wells
at A1amen, N. NJ, for the Santa. F'e, and
has returned home for the winter.
Fred Harvey was in the city on
Thursday.
Jim Cowley has returned from Ell
Dorado.
F. G. Fox, from the south end, will
become division superintendent of the
western division January I.
j. D. Notgrass. of La Junta, Colo,
conductor on the fast mail Tor Inited)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-12-29

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nor inclination to speculate. and turn
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not plainly bear the stamp Of fact
The reason Peruna has gained such
universal hold of the confidence OF che
people as a catarrh cure is because all
statements concerning il are accom-
panied by facts
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