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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-28
LETTER FROM DOM PAUL
To Be Delivered to Roosevelt in
January.

Amsterdam, Dec. 28.-As the result
of conferences between a clergyman,
Rev. Mr.. Brookhuysen, and the Boer
leaders here, it has been decided to send
c. NJ Vessels to the United States in
January bearing a letter from Mr.. Kru-
ger to President Roosevelt
c. NJ. Vessels is the former chairman
of the Orange Free State Raad or leg
islative assembly. He visited the Uni
ted States in May. 1900. with Abraham
Fischer, leader of the party, and A. II.
w. Wolmarens and returned to Europe
in June of the same year.
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JUMPED THE TRACK.
Rock Island Train Wrecked
Near Anadark0.

Anadarko. Ok, Dec. 2S-Rock Island
freight rain No. 1876 jumped the track IL
miles south of Anadarko. Frank Robin
son, aged 26 years, a tramp carpenter of
Lincoln. Mo- was killed instantly and H.
L. Blair, NJ. D. Williams and Frak Burns.
tramps, were injured more or less serious
ly. The wreck caught fire and emf
gra mt car and five freight were con-
sI1rned.
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Food Changed to Poison.

Purifying food in the intestines pro-
duces effects like those of arsenic, bur
DR. Kings New Life Pills expel the
poisons from clogged bowels, gently,
easily but surely, curing constipation,
biliousness, sick headache. fevers, all
liver, kidney and bowel troubles. Only
25c at A. J. Adnold & Sons, 821 North
Kansas avenue.
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Small Fire on West Tenth.

At o'clock this afternoon small
fire occurred at the Wintrode residence
at Tenth and Harrison street The fire
originated from defective f1ue, and
was extinguiShed by the chemical
gine with small loss.
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Temperatures of Large Cities.

Chicago. Dec. 2S-7 a. m. tempera-
lures. New York SO; Boston 30; Phila-
deIphia SO; Washington 2s: Chicago 80:
Minneapolis 26; Cincinnati 30; ST. Louis
&c.
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He has never been accused of any sort
of trickery or resort to questionable
N ethods in politics, and if asked to
what crowd he belongs the average well
informed Kansas Republican couldn't t
tell. He would make clean, upright,
fearless and creditab Bile governor, and
there are many thousands of good party
men in the state who would like to see
him tried
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[continued ON Third PaEe.l
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Where remands the Smith County
Journal, was Senator Burton when
Funston's confirma ton as a brigadier
general came up in the senate last
week2 Objection was made that it was
too great reward for the capture of
Aguinaldo but Senator Harris came to
the front and defended him. He showed
that his superior officers approved OF
his expedition and recommended his
appointment as a brigadier general in
the regular army. The confirmation
was then promptly made This case
proves that Senator Harris can always
be depended on to care for the states in
tereStS."
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CHAPTER VIII.

Vinton's fotilla came steaming in
to Honolulu harbor just as the smoke
of the Doric was fading away on the
western horizon.
Cheers and acclamations, a banquet
rendered to the entire force in the
beautiful grounds about the palace,
and a welcome such as even San
Francisco had not given awaited
them. Three days were spent in coal
ing for the long voyage to Manila,
and during that time officers and men
were enabled to spend hours in sea-
bathing and sightseeing.
vinton, eager to push ahead, fumed
with Impotence over the slow and
primitive methods by which his ships
were coaled, but the junior officers
found many a cause for rejoicing
over their enforced detention. Din
ners, dances, and surf rides were the
order of every evening. Riding parties
to the Pail and picnics at Pearl Har-
Dor and the plantations along the
railway filed up every hour of the
long, soft, sensuous days.
The soldiers explored every nook
and corner Of the town and, for o
wonder, got back to ship without
serious diminution in their number,
and with high opinion of the police,
who seemed bent on protecting the
blue-coats from the states and max
ing the best of their exuberance of
spirits.
Only one row of any consequence
occurred within the forty-eight hours
of their arrival. Three of the Colo
RADIO volunteers playing billiards in a
prominent resort were deliberately
annoyed and insulted by some mer-
chant sailors who had been drinking
heavily at the expense of a short,
thick-set burly fellow in a loud check
suit and flaming necktie, a stranger
to the police, who knew of him only
that he had landed from the Doric
and was waiting the coming of the
Miowera from Vancouver for Aus
tralia, and she was due on the NOR
row.
He had taken quarters at a second.
rate sailors lodging house and al
first kept much to himself, but. once
starting to drinking with his mari.
time neighbors, he became noisy and
truculent, and sailed forth with -four
Of his new-found friends, all hall
drunk and wholly bent on mischief.
The sight of three quiet-mannered
young fellows playing pool in the
saloon was just the thing to excite
AL the BLACKBOARD instinct latent in
their half sodden skins, and from
sneering remark they had rapidly
passed to deliberate insult.
In less than minute thereafter tho
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BIG RAILROAD IMPRovEaLEET.

a un;one excursion Was recently arranged
by the Union Pacific Railroad company.
About sixty newspaper men, repIesen..ns
the leading journals OF the country; me "a.
vision, ''The Overland Route for the pnr-
pose of viewing the stupendous engineering
achievements recently made on that me.
The train was made up OF two p5ivase
car, drawn by one of the new compound en-,
gines, with an observation car-construcseat
on the same plan as trolley car-anead OF
the engine.
One hundred and ffty-eight and four
tenths miles of new track iald, reoucing s1 az
miles, and reducing gradients which varied
from A5.4 to 81 68 feet to the mile to maxi
mum of 1913 feet, and curves from 6 to de
grees, while great deal of bad curvature
has been eliminated entirely.
A mountain removed and lost INTO
chasm; huge holes bored hundreds OF feet
through solid granite, an underground river
encountered and overcome; an army OF mem
with all sorts of mechanical aids, engaged
in the work for nearly year; the great
Ogden made shorter, heavy grades elimi-
mated, and the business of the great Over
/ land route flowing through new channel.
| without the slightest interruption.
Millions of money have been spent to re
duce the grades and shorten the distance.
This reduction is the result of Strengthen
ing unnecessary curves, and the construc,
ton of several cutoffs between Buford and
Bear river, Utah.
| The curvature saved is about one-half,
| the grading about the same, while the angles
are reduced nearly two-thirds. The SUI
| periority of these changes is apparent to the
practical railroad engineer. It is also ap
parent to the operating department in the
| reduction IN operating expenses, and to the
| traveller in the increased speed the trains
| can make.
The new line runs due west from Buford.
| avoiding the high hills and eighty-foo grade
from Cheyenne, and piercing through cuts
| and the big tunnel, crosses the Black Hills
at grade of less than one-half 1873 feet)
over mountain attitudes. :
From a constructive standpoint the line
is remarkable for the amount of material
required in the construction of immense
embankments and the building of large
ton of the new line between Buford and
Laramie alone has involved the excavation
| of 100000 cubic yards of material, one-third
of which Exclusive of the tunnel excava.
tion) has been solid rock, of something over
100 900 cubic yards per mile.
Too much credit for this work cannot BE-
given to Horace G. Burt, president of ths
Union Pacific railroad, and his assistants.
1 The excursion was replete with many in
teresting incidents, and the splendid hos.
| pitality of the Union Pacific officials was q
| revelation. The newspaper men evinced
/ their appreciation in many ways, particu-
larly in resolution of thanks to the Union
| Pacific officials, General Passenger Agent
1.omax, and Messrs. Darlow, Park and
Griffin.
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A collector of specimens needs to
guard them in more than one way,
especially if he is in the midst Of wild
life like that of the Soudan. Stanley
Flower is curator Of the museum. at
Cairo, and also has charge of 1000
square miles of the Soudan. to prevent
the determination of wild life there.
On one of his expeditions he secured
from the district of Omdurman, with
great trouble, a rare specimen of tur-
key. It was great find, and he sent
it back to his quarters at Khartoum
in charge Of an Arab, with very mi
mute directions as to its custody.
When he returned to camp somewhat
later, he found that dinner was not
ready. and after waiting some time,
asked for an explanation. every
sorry, sir" said the servant, "but the
turkey was late in coming, and it's
SO fine q bird we don't want to spoil
It in the cooldng."-London Outlook.
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filled him with dismay-the beautiful
desk burst open, drawers and letters
and papers scattered about in utter
confusion-and in his excitement and
terror he had gone on the run to the
adjutant's quarters, told that official
of his discovery, and then learned of
the wholesale. Jail delivery that oc-
CURED at retreat.
He wrung his hands and wept as he
listended to his young master'swrath-
full rebulxe and the recital of his losses.
He hung meelSly about the house all
night long, but, unable to bear the
sight of poor Rays mingled anger
and distress, he had fed with the
coming Of the day and gone to tell
his woes to his friend of the Harp.
Afternoon of Saturday came, and
still Ray sat there nerveless.
He knew that any moment now
would bring that loving mother and
sister. He had cleared up the litter
left by the robbers, put his desk in
order, and Hogan had done his best
with the sideboard in the other room
Sympathetic souls among his broth.
er officers had been in from time to
time consoling him with theories that
the thiei could not escape-would
surely be recaptured and the money
recovered. But ON the other hand be
/ was visited by the returned Troopers
in quest of their money, and VA
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market envelopes C, mtaining the pay
of certain soldiers on temporary de-
tached service-in all between $500
and 81 900.
whenever you have care of pub
lie money-even temporarily-put it
at once into the nearest United
States depository" said his father.
even Office safes in garrison are not
safe," he had further said. "Clerks.
somehow, learn the combination and
are tempted sometimes beyond their
strength. Lose no time, therefore.
in getting your funds into the bank"
And that was what he meant to do
in this case, only, as the absent
troopers were expected to return in
two days, what was the use of break
ing up those sealed envelopes and de-
posting the whole thing only to have
to draw it out in driblets again as
the men came to him for it?
There stood his own desk. beauti-
full and costly thing-his mothers
gift-with it's strong locks and intri-
cate system of pigeon-holes and Sc
cret drawers. He would "chance it,
one night, he said, and give his trust
ed servant orders to stand guard
over the premises, and so the little
bag of gold went into one closed COM
partment, the envelopes and wads of
treasury notes into the hidden
drawer, and the key into his watch
pocket.
His servant was a young man
whose father had been with Col. Ray
for a quarter of a century. faithful
Irishman by the name of Hogan. He
was honest to the core anu had but
one serious failure-he would drink.
And now Saturday morning, while
the guns of Alcatraz were booming
in salute across the bay and all the
garrison was out along the shore or
on the seward heights, waving fare
well to the Vinton 1otilla, and his
mother and Maidie had gone out with
the department commander to bid
them godspeed/ poor Sandy sat
wretchedly in his quarters.
Hogan, overwhelmed by the magni-
tude of his masters misfortunes, and
realizing that it was due in no small
degree to his own neglect, was now
self-exiled from the ieutenant's roof,
and seeking such consolation as he
could find at the Harp of Erin out
side the walls, miserable and con-
trite man-contrite, that is to say, as
manifested in the manner of his
country, for Hogan was pottle deep
in his distress.
Although vouched for as perfectly
sober from the Hibernian point of
view, he well knew that he had taken
so much that fatal Thursday even
ing as to be fearful of meeting his
master, and so had kept out of the
way until full time for him to be
gone to dinner. Then, working his
way homeward in the darkness of
the night, he had marveled much at
finding the back door open, rejoiced
at sight of the demijohn and dis
order in the little dining-room, argu-
| ing therefrom that the lieutenant
had had some jovial callers and
| therefore hadn't missed him.
Hogan drank, in his masters price
less old Blue Grass Bourbon, to the
health of the party. and then, STUN:
bling into the bedroom and lighting
the lamp, came upon a sight that
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compelled TO- tell Gnem OF the TOD
berry End to ask them to wait until
Monday, when he would be able to
pay them.
Luckier than others who have been
overtaken in the army by somewhat
similar misfortune, Ray knew that he
had only to acquaint mis- parents with
the extent of his loss, and, even
though the sum was great, it would
be instantly made good. Yet the
thought of having to tell his mother
was sore thing. He had disregard
ed his fathers caution. He had
proved unworthy of trust before the
gloss had begun to wear from his
first shoulder-straps, and he well
knew that his mothers fortune was
no longer what it was at the time of
her marriage.
In the years of their wanderings all
over the west all her business affairs
had been in the hands of a trusted
agent at home, and it so often hap
pens that in the prolonged absence of
owners trusted agents follow the lead
of the unjust steward of Holy Writ
and make friends of the mammon of
unrighteousness and ducks and brakes
of their employers assets.
The ranch bought for him the year
gone by was a heavy drain. His father,
in giving him few hundred dollars
for his outfit, had told him that now
he must live entirely on his pay, and
that he should be able to put by" q
little every month.
But, as was to be expected of his
fathers son and his Kentucky blood,
Sandy could not bid farewell to his
associates at the ranch or the citi-
zens of the little cow and mining
town on the Big Horn without part
ing ''blow out" in which his health
was drunk a dozen times an hour.
Oh, that he had that money now in
stead of certain unpaid bills in that
ravished secret drawer! It was humil-
iation inexpressible to have to send
these men away empty-handed, and
in his detection and misery, poor
| boy, he wandered to his sideboard
instead of going 10 luncheon at the
mess, and all he had had to eat or
| drink that day, by the time Mrs. Ray
and Maidie came late in the after
| noon, was some crackers and cheese
and he didn't know how many nips
of that priceless Blue Grass Bourbon.
The bright, brave young eyes were
CLASSY and his dark cheek heavily
| flushed when at four o'clock he
FASTENED out to assist his mother
form her carriage, and the color fled
from her beautiful face, her heart
seemed to stand still. and her hand
trembled violently as she noted it all,
but took his arm without a word,
and, with Maidie silently following,
went up the steps and into the little
army home, where the door closed
behind them, and the knot of lockers
on, officers awaiting the call for after
noon stables, glanced significantly at
each other, then went on their way.
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Copyrighted. 1900. by the }. B. Lippincot Col
CHAPTER VII.

There was trouble at the Preside.
All but ten of the escaped prisoners
had been recaptured or self-surren-
dered, but the ten still at large were
among the worst of the array, and
among the ten was the burly, hulk
ing recruit enlisted under the name
of Murray, but declared by Capt.
Kress, on the strength of the report
of detective from town, to be
earlier and better known as Sackett
and as a former member of the Sew
enth cavalry, from which regiment
he had parted company without the
formality of either, transfer or dis
charge.
Murray was man worth his keep,
as military records of misdemeanors
went, and a sore-headed fellow was
the sergeant of the guard, held re-
sponsible for the wholesale escape.
And yet it was not so much the SER
geant's fault.
The evening had come on dark,
damp and dripping. Gas lamps and
barrack lanterns were lighted before
the sunset gun. The sergeant him
self and several of the guard had
been called inside to the prison room
by the commanding officer and his
staff. 4 There was q maze of brick
and wooden buildings in front of the
guard-house, and perfect tangle of
dense shrubbery only 50 yards away
to the west. It was into this that
most Of the fugitives dived and were
instantly lost to sight, while others
had doubled behind the guard-house
and rushed into an -alley-way that
passed in rear of the club and a row
Of officers quarters.
Some Of them apparently had taken
refuge in the cellars or wood and
coal sheds until thick darkness came
down, and others had actually dared
to enter the quarters of Lieut.. Ray,
for the back door was found wide
open, the sideboard, wherein had
been kept some choice old Kentucky
whisky produced only on special oc'
casions, had been forced and the
half-emptied demijohn and some
glasses stood on the table in pool
Of sloppy. water. -
But what was worse, the ieuten
ants desk in the front room, secure
ly locked when he went to town
had been burst open with a chisel
and Mr.. Ray had declined to say how
much he had lost. Indeed, he did no,
fully know.
"Too busy to come in" was the
message he had sent his mother the
morning after the discovery, and YET
AL that morning he remained about
his quarters after one brief inter
view with the perturbed and exasper
lGted post commander, ransackin,
desks, drawers and trunks in tn,
vain hope that he might find in then
some of the missing property, for lit
tie by little the realization was forcet
npon him that his loss would sun
up several yhdndreds-an through hi
Dwn neglect and through disregar,
Of his fathers earnest counsel.
Only three days before the lieuten
ant commanding his troop had beel
sent to Oregon and Washington Oh
duty connected with the musterin,
bf volunteers. Their captain was
held officer of one of the regiment
bf his native state, and. in hurriedl
leaving, Lieut.. Creswell had turne
over to his young subordinate no
uuly the troop fund. amounting t
over $500. but the money belongin
20 the post athletic association. an
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Dealing in Futures.

spending few days at the seashore, "that
our engagement will not prove to be mere
summer subterfuge."
81 hope your hope comes out, rejoined
the fair maid at his side, "but one can never
tell what effect frost will have on such
ings."IChicago Daily News.
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Careless John.

'I brought this milk back" said the an
cry patron to the milk dealer. cts three
fourths water"
"John," said the milkman sternly, to his
the cows a drink before you MIXED 'em
this morning ?'-Ohio State Journal.
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THE LETTER l DID NOT SEND


He was the friend of my boyhood,
My youth and my manhood's prime,
We had vowed to be ever faithful
To the end of our earthly time.
But somehow it happened we quarreled;
One word to another led;
And our eyes were flashing in anger
And bitter was all we said.
That night wrote such letter
AS one might write to foe,
And told him that never thereafter
Would wish his presence to know;
We must pass each other as strangers,
, Our lives henceforward apart;
And let him know that forever
had torn him out of my heart.
Then I sought my bed. still raging.
But I courted slumber in vain;
The face of my more than brother
: Rose before me ever again.
He was always SO true beside me
$ And sharing all changes of life;
Our words had been, always of loving
And never till now of strife.
And then our quarrel-what was it?
How did 1t ever befall?
Perhaps he was right-yes, I know 1t,
1t was in the wrong. after all.
Then rose from my bed, took the letter,
And cast 1t into the fire;
And there saw 1t smolder In ashes;
And thus did my anger expire.
A fair morning shone on our meeting:
A look we could each understand
Had drawn US once more together
In a warm, firm grasp of the hand.
Not a word was said of our QUARREL.
Again it was friend and friend,
Thank God that He never saw it
The letter did not send!
George Birdseye. in Boston Globe.
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Wideninx the Breach.

"I wish you and May would become
friends again.. said the would:be peace
maker. "Well," said Fay, eff she'll make up
she said: The idea! It's easy for her
never saw her when she wasn't made
up Detroit Free Press
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The croupieF paid our winnings
with evident reluctance.
HE doesn't like to cough!" we OBJ
served.
.Croupy. eh?" suggested the witty
American.
But the laughter was far from gem
eral, inasmuch as few of that gay
throns understood both French and
English Journs'
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The LITERARY Maiden.

"You must have discerned my love-"
sighed Harold Spooneigh to Beatrice Ritem,
"for my face is as an open page to you .
girl, .Sas far as / am concerned, your face
is a rejected manuscript" - Baltimore
American. -a.I-.
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Life's Stupel

Life's stupenaous Problems.
Smith-What makes 20 many people
crazy to get into society:
Brown-Well, what makes 80 many other
people crazy to keep them out!-Detroit
Free Press. hs843H
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First Financier-Are you getting much
.ut of that new oil well!
Second Financier-Are We? About 5000
z week, 81! in fve-dollar subscriptions!-
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Natural Luck.-"Whsw!" painted the
rare, Il never expected to get away from
those dogs. 1 tell you, Pm lucky" "Of
course you are" replied the fox, "and it's
Ill due 20 those rabbits feet you carry
around with you.-Philadelphia Press.
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The Modern Elopement.

care You sure there will be no hitch in
our elopement" anxiously asked the beau.
tiful maid.
How could there be hitch" assured the
ardent lover, when we are going in an au-
tomobile? Chicago Daily News.
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Perhaps the man you think is fool think.
.ou are IN the same class.-Chicago Daily
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Briggs-"T don't understand about your
ow with Stetson. They say he gave you
IN unsolicited testimonial, and you kicked
aid was liar."-Boston Transcript
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/ do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump.
ion has an equal for coughs and colds.-
John F. Boyer, Trinity Sprineb Ind, Feb
=. 600. =. - Is
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Check Cold and Bronchitis with Hale
Honey Of Horehound and Tar.
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure IN one minute
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Why don't you let folks advise You? III
enjoy it.-Washington Qa.) Democrat.