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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
TT IS USELESS TO WRITE
TO A WOMAN

or man for medical advice unless such
are trained and qualified medical practf-
TONERS Offers Of g medical advice - are
made by those who cannot give what
they Offer because they lack the med
lcal training and professional quali6ca-
tons of physicians You will not trust
yOur property to the care of irresponsible
people. VIII you trust your health 2
Inquiry viii show that no offer made by
any advertising physician can compare
with that Of DR.. R Y. Pierce, chief con
sultng physician to the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.
Sick women can consult Dr. Pierce BY
letter free All letters are read and an
swered in strictest confidence. If you are
suffering from disease Of the womauly
organs write to
Or. R.Y. PIERCE BUFFALO. NY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
Resi- and Health to Mother and child

MRS. wINsLows SOOTHING SYRUP
has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
3 YMILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their
CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING. with
PERFECT SUCCESS. It SCOTHES the
CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALA 3
all PAIN. CURES WIND conc and -
the best remedy for DIARRHOl1A Soid
BY Druggists IN every part Of the world.
Be sure to ask for Mrs. Wiusiows Sooth-
ing syrup and take no other kind
twenty-five cents a bottle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16
AMERICAN LEAGUE STANDING.
WESTERN LEAGUE
AT KANSAS CITY


Score by innings: R.HE
Kansas City -..-..051 100000 SO II 8
Omaha .---....--V y y z y v u D b
Batteries-Gibson and Beville; Herman
and Gonding. ATTENDANCE 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-16

Pittsburg $500. 30 0 0 I 0 2 / 0 Is Is 3
Philadelphia 80. % 1 0 0 0 8 rs y 3
Batteries-Wntz and thinner; White,
Orth and Mcfarland Attendance 2,375.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
A People Who Hate
the Dry Land.

demands his money and scuttles of,
and the smack staggers out to sea
again, SO strongly does the gypsy hate
the haunts of man. He is richer by
two or three pounds, which will keep
the entire family for as many months.
Inls strange people has really no need
for money, except to buy tobacco, for
they will live on the fish, sea birds and
shellfsh they catch for any length Of
time. There was a gypsy smack once
that fell in with the abandoned
schooner st. Levan, Off Sunderland.
The gypsies boarded her and brought
her into Shields, being awarded the
vast sum of g. 400 for the salvage.
That gypsy crew, as many North
Country seamen know, lost their heads
over the requirement of SO much
wealth, and came to live In Shields,
in a cottage on the Sunderland road.
A fortnight from the date OF their
moving in the old smack was seen
putting to sea again, and the landlord
found his tenants cottage deserted and
the sum of $50 left him as a years
rent forfeiture. "A sea gypsy, it is said,
would die within a month on dry land.
He looks awkward as a walrus who
mas lost his way when not on board
this strange old vessel. But there is
no healthier OR happier race under
heaven than the silent sea gypsies.-
New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
NO TWO ACT ALIKE.
How the Majority OF Smokers sheJ
Their characteristics.

How the Majority OF Smokers sheJ
| Their characteristics.
A man may possess a most secretiye
nature, he may have a face as desti.
tute Of meaning as stone wall and a
manner Of speech absolutely nons
committal; but watch hina over his
cigarette; note his manner of holdina
it between his lips or his fingers; sea
bow he puffs the smoke out of hid
mouth. what he does with the ash, ii
he consumes the cigarette to a mere
stump or throws it away. half finished,
and, sure as fate, you will read hi&
character like a book. Cigarette,
said, for a cigarette and cigar in a
lesser degree are much better char
acter revealers than a pipe A man
sticks pipe into the side of his mouth
and puffs away, and there's an end OF
; zlt. You discover next to nothing un-
less, indeed, he happens to puff very
violently, which is a certain indica-
ton of nervous, irritable temper.
From the filling of pipe, to be sure,
many luminous little hints may be
gathered. You see a man stuff his
bowl quickly. and z1avishly, letting
loose threads of tobacco dang1e over
the brim while he applies the match;
If he be not good natured, generous to
fault, careless, indolent, quick to
make friends, quick to forget them, I
shall be much astonished. One no.
tees men very often taking their
cigars from an upper waistcoat pocket
into which they have been stuffed. Too
poor to buy themselves cigar case?
Not bit of it, but too untidy to keep
one or too lazy to arrange their
cigars into one. And the same men
almost invariably bite the tips off their
cigars, instead of using a penknife or
cigar clipper-a shocking habit that
not merely fills the mouth with to-
bacco grit, but disarranges the outer
leaf, often spelling an otherwise ex-
cellent smoke The cigar once hap
PLY prepared for smoking, observe
how your young, man holds it between
his teeth. But stay! The operation
of lighting has also it's interest. The
tobacco epicure grips his cigar not
merely with his teeth when applying
the match, but with the finger and
thumb of his left hand also, and be-
tween every third puff draws the weed
from his mouth and examines the
glowing end, in order to make sure ii
has been: ignited equally all round.-
Royal Magazine. .s5 :r..,-.-
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
Queer Sea
(1y psies

A strange and almost unknown part
of the population ,1f they can be
called that) of the British Isles are.
the queer semi-Wild folk known as sea.
gypsies. Real gypsies they are, diffeI-
Ing from their fellow gypsies in the
fact that they always live on the sea
and that, never having mingled much
with landsmen, their type is much
purer and more nearly resembles the
original. There are about 500 sea
gypsies in Britain. They cruise along
the coast, seldom touching the land,
but always close to it, in old and
Weather-beaten craft that may have
carried their grandfathers. When the
tide is out. the old craft will often drop
anchor by a, sandbank island far out
at sea, and her crew will grub for
cookies with their hands, filing a
score Of baskets, but saying nothing
to each other, for they are almost out
of the habit Of speech. They find fifty
she1lfsh where the ordinary fisherman
finds one, but they rarely do the same
thing two days running, and in the
next hour they may be snaring rabbits
on q headland miles away. The sea
gypsies are wild eyed and thick set.
Their hair is always either Jet black
or golden. They are still Of almost
pure Morse Or Danish descent never
having used the land and mixed with
the shore folk to any extent. Their,
hands seem to be all thumbs instead
of fingers, so powerful and stubby are
the digits, because they have done
! nothing but haul on ropes and dig in
the wet sand. There generally is a
whole family on each boat, and one of
the younger members is sent ashore at
. times to sell the shellfsh. The money
he gets he spends at once for flour,
meatand divine for net making. The sea
gypsies never keep money about them
they do not care for it-but lay it
out at once in goods. The cookies
flshed from the sea by this strange
tribe generally find their way to Bill.
ingsgate eventually Or are: eaten in
the lodging houses Of the seaside town.
They detest company Of any kind.
Sometimes they fall in with an in
bound Sailing vessel that wants.
pilot, and does not care to pay the
heavy dues pilots charge So the eld-
est: son on board the gypsy smack
takes her in charge, and the shipmas-
ter is delighted, for the sea gypsy
never makes a mistake, and will stdo
the pilot work for very little. The old
smack is towed astern; but directly
the ship makes her port the sea gypsy
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
SOME FATHERLY ADVICE.


There is one man in Cook county
who is bringing up his boys in the
way they should go, and if they don't
go in it the fault won't be his. One
of his lads stood before him and said:
Father, I'm invited to, a party, and
there's going to be dancing, and 7 need
a dress suit 1870.
Eyes. Well, why don't you get it ?'
IT haven't the money
How old be your asked the old
man with sudden interest.
.'Why, you know, father. Nineteen
this month"
''And you want a dress suit?' H.
eyes, SIR
'.The kind: Of rig you can only wear
after sundown?" zgs<.s. IS .<. 5z - 49, ~.
Yes, sir; it's evening Dress v :
Costs like the dickens, and makes
you look like a waiter in an eating
house? Huh! Now I've no objection
to your having a dress suit--with q
proviso-you must go to work an6
earn it. Now HUSTLE x
And the boy is hustling Chicag
Exchange.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
Drought i'm
:. AN1stra alia

One who has not visited Australia
can have no idea Of the need of food
in time of drouth, writes Frank G.
Carpenter. Within the past 10 years
millions of sheep have died Of hunger
and vast numbers Of thirst This state
of New South Wales had 62,0oO,OO0
sheep in 1891. 1t has not more than
4 ii 900 900 now. Within 10 Years the
number has fallen off more than 20
100000. Estimating each sheep !. at.
$3.50. this means a loss Of $50, 100000
in the capital stock Of the suuatters in
one state only. There have been large.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
Its Friehtful Effe cts
Seen in the Number
Of Sheep That Perish.

and even the small tWigs. This same
man had another force skinning dead
sheep and another whose business it
was to lift up the sheep when they fell
down and could not rise Of their own
accord. This is to keep them from
the carrion crows, which hover about
over. them and pick out their eyes if
they fall. z- sGe x
During these drouths the rabbits die
as WelI5a as the sheep. They drop dead
outside the rabit fences. You may see
kangaroos lying here and there dead
upon the plains, and have been told
that even the birds drop dead from
the trees
The Riverina country is one of the
best tsheep-raising districts of Aus
tralia. 1t produces some of the finest
wool, and is noted for its excellent
grass. In the drouth of 1895 it looked
as though a fire had swept over it.
The most Of it was as clean as base
ball ground. It could not have been
more bare if it had been ploWed.
There was not a green sprout or any
sign of vegetable life to be seen. Last
year much the same condition pre-
vailed in parts of Queensland. There
were tracts covered with dead sheep,
cattle and horses and dead emus. and
kangaroos We're lying here and there
over the country. This and other
drouths have caused reduction in
one district Of 81 per cent of the sheep
/ and other districts even more. It is
said that the drouth in 1895 lightened
the wool clip almost 70 per cent, and
it decreased the lamb crop in New
/ South Wales about 100000 head.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05

THE >sCORCHER's DESERVED FATE.
The bicyclist was scorching along
with his head down. = ~.
The little one had toddled out into
the road, and stood directly in his
path.
The woman saw them both, and
was too much frightened to move. A
|.cuick-witted man would have had
time to spring into the road and pull
the little one out of the way, but the
{ woman seemed helpless. = II e.
I Suddenly she screamed. It was ne
ordinary scream, but an ear-splitting
shrek of despair. 81, J.. r.
{ The bicyc1ist was so startled that
le looked seven ways at once, lost CON
tol Of his wheel, hit !. the curb and
didn't know wherein was for fully
TN minutes: : .y., -. 40, ...s
ISAThe child was saved = 50 Rs:S',2 s: S
4 woman is not always so helpless
as she looks. .~ ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
THE TIME TO LAUGH.
SOME GOOD JOKES, ORIGINAL AND
SELECTED.
"A Sale Of Warts some Fatherly Advice
- Pun that Got a Living for the
Author---A Personal Favor rscorcher's
4 Fate. a rs
A SALE OF WARTS.


This theory said the travelling
man, that warts will go away when
you stop thinking about them may
have something in it, and [ am in
clined to have faith in it. I know from
actual observation that warts can be
transferred, and will give you the case
in point.
i was buying newspaper when I
noticed that the hands Of the neWsboy
were covered with warts. His stand
was within a block Of my house. but
| am away SO much the little fellow
did not know me by name. I said to
him: s.5
you should get some one to charm
ava away those warts. Z that being. the
method of getting rid Of them when
I was a boy. z..=.5.= 5,.=...
they amt mine now" he said. IT
sold them last week to Teddie stearns,
and they'll go to him.
Now Teddie stearns is nv own
boy. and I&did not like to think Of
MS smooth, chubby hands being dis
inquired with warts, and we did not
i've In wart atmosphere-they be-
long more exclusively to the barefoot
Observation-Disclosures + conditions
had been such myself When I went
nome I called my boy to me and look
ed with some anxiety at his hands.
They We're as clean and white as a
girls. '@ g a.
What is it, papa?' he asked curl
ously. = r..
=, Il am looking for warts.'' - =.
'Oh!' and he drew a long, delight
ed breath. there amt any yet, but
they're sure to- come, for I bought
them from Carrotty Mike for pin. He
says I'm sure to get 'em. Amt you
glad?'.. .s%.s +. :. .'s'<... 5z .=
Glad? I could have cried, and /
believe his mother did cry. But that
blamed little cub said he wouldn't be
a tenderfoot and he would have warts.
read the riot act to him and went
away for months trip, and when /
came back he was as proud as Punch,
his hands had grown crop Of warts
that discounted anything ever saw III
that line. I hunted up Carrotty Mike,
and, would you believe it, there wasn't
Wart on his hands! He had trans
ferred them all to my Chicago
Record. ~. % ~ -,
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05

whose grief was so demonstratiye that
the noble patron was much affected By
the sight, and asked If the young man
was q son of the deceased gentleman
Oh, dear, no, my lord mo relation
at#all, !" said the tutor. ...
No relation!" exclaimed the clergy
man man In surprised tone.
None, my lord: he is the curate,
ana I think that he is not weeping for
the dead, but for the living
His lordship, who was something OF
a wit and a cynic himself, was so de-
lighted with the bonmot that he con-
ferred the living upon the ready puns.
ter. = r .%5s
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
RICH nj E XICAN,
THINK OF A RANCH CONTAINING
10000 ACRES!
Wen, the Owner Has, in Addition to
that Ranch, Some 10000 900 acres, in
Other Parts OF the Mexican Republic
Estate OF S10o, 100000.

When the estate of an American
capitalist reaches $4,000, 900 everybody
IN the United States knows who he is,
and his name is familiar throughout
the civilized world wherever neWspa-
pers are printed and read. In Mexico
however, it is different There are
many men in Mexico whose fortunes
run over the $5O,0OO,OO0 mark who are
hardly known out of their own States.
One Of these is Don Luis Terrazas, of
Chihuahua, formerly Governor of
+ Chihuahua. Don Luis Terrazas is
owner of one ranch In the State of
Chihuahua that, according to the fig
ures OF a correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean, comprises $4,000 900 acres,
and he has 10, 100000 acres in other
parts of the republic. On these ranches
an average of 100000 head of cattle,
100000 sheep, and 100000 horses Craze
the year round. He markets more than
10000 head of cattle every year, and a
third as many sheep. This great ranch
begins at the city limits OF Chihuahua
and extends 110 miles north toward Ell
Paso. Its over 100 miles wide, and
extends into the. richest part of the
Sierra Madre mountains. Over 100000
acres of his estate are in good state of
cultivation and well improved. The
Terrazas estate is estimated at $780,
100000 Mexican money. Besides his
ranch interests he is the heaviest stock
holder in the Banco Minero, Chihua-
hua; Agricultural and Mortgage Bank,
City of Mexico; Banco Central Mexi-
cano, City of Mexico; Anglo-M Mexican
Banking Company, City of Mexico, and
Mercantile Bank of Monterey, and con-
trolls the Chihuahua woolen mills,
flour factory, packing company, cloth
ing factory, brewery, and street car
system, besides being one of the heavy
owners of the Chihuahua and Pacific
railroad. With all this colossal fortune
General Terrazas lives a modest life.
He has an Office and private bank in
his residence in chihuahua, where
twenty clerks are employed to attend
to his affairs. He seldom travels, pre-
ferr1ng to take d trip to his ranch to
touring the country, and has visited
the United States en1y twice, Courte-
Gus, obliging, and unassuming, the
multi-millionaire has made himself one
of the most popular men in Mexico. He
gives away thousands of. dollars to the
poor every year, and is now supporting
several churches and schools. He is
believer in education, and all of his
i've children have been educated in the
United States. He has done more to
bring American capital into Mexico
than any other man, and the develop
ment of the mining resources of North
ern Mexico are largely due to, his
efforts. The humble beggar and the
millionaire railroad promoter are re-
ceived alike in his Office, and he never
turns a man away without a hearing.
He is now nearly 10 years old, and gives
little Of his time to his business, leav-
ing everything in the hands of his
three. sons. Old as he is, General
Terrazas maintains the active control
of his vast estate, looking after all the
details as carefully as a man of 40.
II q
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
Business and Boards.

Whether a New Yorker wears a
mustache, side =; Whiskers, or /; a full
beard, or undertakes to keep his face
clean shaven often has little or moth
I ing to do with. the demands of indi-
vidual taste or good judgment, says
the New York Times. If a meeting of
physicians at the Academy of Medicine
in Forty-third street is fully attended
it is almost always a safe wager that
there will be less than ten men in the
room who do not wear full boards, and
the chances are completely against
there being over three cIean-shaven
men present. At the Bar association,
on the contrary, a large majority of
the lawyers present at most of the
meetings are clean shaven, and most
Of the others only wear mustaches.
Downtown, at a meeting of merchants
in the assembly hall of the chamber
of commerce, nearly every conceivable
variety Of sedate, venerable, ornate
and eccentric boards may be seen.
Underwriters are exceedingly dissim-
liar as to their taste regarding whisk-.
ers. On the. floor Of the stock
exchange mustaches and clean
#shayen faces divide the honors
almost to the exclusion Of boards,
except on occasions when the older.
members for some particular rea-
son are attracted to the floor. Bank
.er .ers IS. most M often content themselves with.
]. Inustaches,. but there are many devia-
.tions. AS for government employees.
in the subtreasury, the assay Office and
the custom house, one new knows.
WhatSto expect.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05

/ bobtail politician at B any time, but
think It .prob bab1e that j shav can {.
say what did mean, but if you wi
/ tell me what you think i meant, will
say whether you are correct or not.
Very respectfully,
Patrick Henry. .
This was leaving it to Giles with a
svengeances but as there was no fur
thsr correspond the Governor OF
Virginia must have read satisfaction
somewhere between the lines OF Pat
rick Henry'a brilliant equivocal reply.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
3 Instructed as to His Duties.

A young clerk in a wholesale house
has been spending a large portion of
his salary for the last few days buy
ing cigars for friends who are 'son'' to
joke that was perpetrated on him,
says the Albany Journal His en-.
ployer engaged new boy and as soon.
as the boy came to the establishment
he was instructed in his duties by our
friend, who had been promoted to the
position of assistant bookkeeper and
given small Office by himself. About
an hour after the boy started in, the
boss came around and seeing him
working, asked: Has the assistant
bookkeeper told you what to do?n
='''sYes, sir, was the prompt reply; he.
told me to wake him up when saw
you coming around. =
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
R0CKEFELLER's RANCH.
1t Consists of $4,000 Acres in Kiou a

AC CONSISTS or I4,OOO Acres In kfoN q
= =. County, Kan.
Down in the southeast corner of
K1owa county, Kan. on one of the
finest ranches of the boundless west.,
Frank Rockefeller, brother of John
and William Rockefeller spent the,
summer. Ranching can scarcely be said;
to be a recreation with Frank Rookie
Teller, for he makes it a business, the
object of which is to raise blooded cat
tie for money. In the winter Frank
Rockefeller, who is the youngest Of
the brothers, lives in Cleveland and
attends to his interests in stocks and
Oil, but in the summer he throws HIM
self with vigor into ranch life. For
half of his fifty years he has owned this
14,OO0-acre ranch, which is called Sol
der Creek Park, from the sparkling
stream which waters it, AS he takes
his family to live with him here in the
summer, Mr.. Rockefeller's group of
ranch buildings are unsurpassed in the
state for luxHriousness. The large
frame house is equipped with modern
improv vements. On his ranch is raised
all the necessary grain to feed. his
stock. { There are $500 acres under
cultivation, 500 acres being in alfalfa,
a desirable feed for fattening purposes.
He can, raise three crops of alfalfa
in single season and then have a
good fall pasturage on the field. There
are 300 acres in wheat, 800 acres in
rye and the remainder in kaf1r corn.
The fine qualities of these lie in their
stability for feeding and forage. A
large orchard has lately been put out,
many of the trees already bearing
fruit.-New York Press.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
A PUN GOT HIM A LIVING.

a story IS told OF ian English clergy
man who owed his appointment to a
rich living to a. lncky pun. He, was
Tutor to the son Of a nobleman, and
had not long taken orders. when he
attended the funeral of the rector OF
The parish in which the nobleman's
seat was situated.
The father OF his pupil was patron
Of the living, and was also present at
The funeral Of the deceased rector.
There WAS q young clergyman present
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
To Abolish Indian Rations.

= The government is gradually doing
away with the distribution Of rations
to Indians. In five years the system
will be. practically abolished. There
are now in the United States 1858, 900
Indians. or this number As ,25O draw
rations regularly, while 12,6O0 more
are provided for at various times when
they are unable to work or do not
feel like it. In the latter class are in
cluded most of the Indians who have
grown old and have been deserted by
their young relatives. ~
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-10-05
PATRICK HENRY'S EXPLANATION

AS the Green Bag has it, Chief JUS
ltice Marshall used to narrate With
glee the following .correspo pondence on
i point of honor between Governor
Giles of Virginia and Patrick Henry:
/ sSir" wrote the governor, Il under
stand that you have called me a bob
tail politician. TWish to know if it be
true, and if true, your meaning.
Nv R. Giles. = s .
Patrick Henry's s reply came prdmpt-
ly:: ..'. 5s - =. s..
Sir. do not recollect calling you q