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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

Spanish descent, in her veins At the
age of 16 on the Caborra ranch one day
she sank into a trance. In that state.
dead and alive, she remained months
and Is days.
Il did not know anything" she says.
II did not know that was alive. did
not eat anything. They fed me on lit
tie spoons OF milk. but I did not take
of 1t myself"
When she came out Of this trance. she
began TO heal.
She began her 1ninistrations among
the Yaqui Indians who lived in Sonora.
along the YaQui river A mysterious
link seems somehow to bind her to
them. They adore her as a deity and
call her their mother and their madon-
ma. Her name of saint she obtained
among the tribe in a peculiar way.
She had no schooling to speak of, never
has had and says that to this day she
can do no more than read and write.
She went to school only six months In
all, but in that time learned with a
rapidity that seemed to the simple "a
quis miraculous, compared with their
own snail pace progress in boOlSish
knowledge. They concluded that none
but saint could take her letters SO
quickly. so they named her their saint
To this day and always she is their
champion and advocate. Like Joan of
Arc, Santa Teresa hears soundiess
voices that guide her.
But do they never guide you
wrong2'' I asked.
IF they told me to do anything
wrong. would not obey them" she
answered. which is a very good way to
follow guidance in general.
One Of the cases recently treated by
her was that of a lady whose arm was
paralyzed so that she could not move
it at all. After five visits to Teresa
she was enabled to use that arm and
hand in dressing herself. Sometimes
cures are wrought in one treatment,
but when persons come to her from
mere curiosity she can do nothing for
them. Teresa says.
After coming out of the trance at the
age of Is the girl frequently saw in vi
sions, waking and sleeping, a radiantly
beautiful head and face, with hair
floating down to its shoulders. She stil
sees the same radiant face. When she
is about to give a treatment, some
times it is suddenly with her. and just
as it appears she feels a cold wave
thrill over her. Spirit mediums say
sometimes that they experience the
same sensation of cold as they pass
under the influence But whether
this lovely spirit of her visions Is man
or woman Teresa does not know to this
day.
Besides healing people the girl
breaches as solemnly and emphaticsily
as she knows how harmony, good VIII
and friendship among mankind
Friendship gives force and light" she
says. land without light the eye can
not see" Her psychic vision has shown
her that lack of harmony and friend
ship among people causes disease and
poverty.
Does the girl imagine all this7 do
not know Try for. yourself. Sit in 81
Ience in some quiet spot a little while
with gently closed eyes and see if pres
emily the color currents of the great
cosmic ether begin to float and play be-
fore your yelled vision. Try likewise
whether friendship and harmony give
light and force"
That do know to be true.
So do you.
MAUDE V. PEYNTERN-
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everything, and am sitting at my
desk wrapped up in a red dressing
gown. Dear me. I talk of myself as If
I were part of the furniture. What L
had in mind was the artistic contrast
between the reds of the fire and of my
gown and the pale yellow Of the walls
These are covered with ribbed English
cretonne The design is dainty
wreaths of cowslips on cream ground
All the furniture is covered with the
same material. and the cushions are
Powered in contrasting and harmonic
ing shades of the same color Odd.
isn't it2 But it's one of the new fads.
From where sit I get a view of the
avenue with its dreary stretch of wet
asphalt and it's slipping and sliding
horses and pedestrians There goes an
old womanl Now she is crossing. and
as she does so she grabs all her dra-
peries both pettieoat and outer skirt
displaying in the act two plump legs
covered with what appear to be yellow
stockings. I'll make a guess and call
them tan. for that's what they proba-
bly, were before their many washings
Z don't see how people can buy that
color. OF course. no one in the smart
set does so any more, but I mean the
ordinary people-the people who can't
afford to throw away a pair of stock
ings after they have been washed twice
And that's what you have to do with
tan stockings on account of the fading.
Last year all the girls wore black
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'Hanging's too good for yous" cried
the blond wife.
That it isi'' cried the dark wife.
You ought to be eIectrocuted and
then tarred and featheredi"
'Oh, you double dyed traitorl"
screamed Pinkie. you hypnotized
me with your fiendish charms-me, a
poor. innocent girll''
Mrs. Jibbens No. 1 put her arms
about Mrs. Jibbens No. 2. There,
there she said soOthingly. You
poor. dear. sweet little thing.
love you" She shook her fist at
Jibbens.
TIL publish you in all the paperss"
she Kissed. TIL put you where you
can't deceive any more trusting girlsl
Yes, and III send my mother to tell
you what she thinks of you, you no
account Wretch."
Jibbens weakened. He threw up
his hands.
Lock me up. judge he murmured
Take me to jail-any old place to get
me away from here
1t is acknowledged among mankind
that as between man and woman this
life is not a square deal But when
man is confronted in court by two
wives who make common cause with
each other against him woman gets
even. in part at least
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eosmic ether because they do not know
what else to name it.
Perhaps the cures wrought by Santa
Teresa, the Mexican magnetic healer.
are effected through vibrations among
the currents of this same cosnnic ether
We know there is healing virtue in
light and warmth. 1t really should add
to the respect with which we regard
seeming miracle when we ind there is
a scientific explanation for it. Besides,
it makes the miracle easier to believe
Santa Teresa says when she treats pa
tients she feels Migratory thrills run
ming through and through her toward
the patient. Sometimes these are so
powerful that she does not lay hands
on the patient, but stands q foot or two
away, and even then the force, what
ever it is, that proceeds from her is so
strong it causes the person treated to
sway back and forth.
The healer herself. a young woman Of
perhaps %, is now in New York city.
where she tells me she expects to re-
main for a year, treating all patients
who come to her She makes no charge.
but accepts whatever the patients give
her. She is tall and slight, with q
sweet dark face, wearing the innocent,
trustful expression of a child. There is
no guile or humbug in that face. 1t is
certain that the simple minded, inlet
tered girl believes in herself at any
rate
I asked her to show me how she
treated patients. She took my right
hand in her right, my left in her left,
thus crossing our. wrists, pressed her
thumbs close against mine and looked
into my eyes. OF old it was held that
there is great power in the thumb, oc-
cult and otherwise When persons are
chronica11y discouraged and down
ink
inside the palm Sometimes Teresa
treats patients by strozing them upon
the head, face or body. She says she
feels" that is the right way. and this
is all she knows about it.
I heard somewhere that the gorgeous
rainbow tinted aurora borealis of the
polar regions is nothing more or less
than the play of the cosmic ether cur
rents. asked Teresa if when treating
she saw co1ors before her eyes and
around the patient.
"Oh, yes she replied Sometimes
when stroke people seem to throw
off colors from them, but these are dis
ease colors and are ugly, not beautiful.
Sometimes pretty colors mingle around
them. When a person is in health.
usually see him in a white light"
I determined to test the matter I
was in good health, but had a lame
arm, the result of an accident. 1 did
not tell Teresa. She could not have
known. for she had never heard of me
till I entered her door for the purpose
of obtaining an interview which I
hoped might make interesting reading.
7 asked Teresa, the saint of the Yaquis,
what kind of light she saw around me.
She took my hand and cast her eyes
downward for minute or two. Then
she said:
IT'S strange. I don't understand. I
see your right side in white light, but
your left-it is like smoke around it."
The young woman does not know Of
any blood other than Mexican, of pure
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stockings with their russell shoes, and
they laced the shoes with black gros-
grain half inch ribbon. 1t was very
pretty and gave quite a small look to
the foot. This season very few tan
shoes are to be worn by really up to
date women. I ought to know because
I went TO a swell shop yesterday and
ordered all my spring and summer
footwear OF course, bought a strong
pair Of calfskin shoes for wet wear and
for golf. These are not nearly so man
nish as my last years pair. By that
mean that the toes are much narrower,
but there is a perfect sidewalk of
sole which runs out for a good half
inch beyond the actual foot Speaking
Of the mannish bulldog shoes, you
know what an awful bulge they had in
front and how they made even the tint
est foot look enormous? Well, it ap-
pears that a gay young clubman was
one day very much struck with a ra-
dainty beautiful girl. She was stand
ing in front Of counter buying some
chiffon trifle. From the crown of her
head to the tip OF her rich trailing
gown she was q queen When she glid-
ed off after making her purchase. the
man followed her. entranced- They
came to a stairway. The unconscious
object of his admiration raised a hand
full of dainty skirts. displaying-oa
horrors-a pair of square toed. thiclzset
shoes which planted themselves on each
marble step with a "clump' which
could be heard for a stones throw. The
man gave a glance at those awful feet.
then one word fell from his lips: Pea
cock," With that he fled
Well, to return to my shoes. For ev-
eryday wear I bought a pair made of
handsomely stitched enameled leather.
This looks like patent leather. but il
much heavier and not nearly so likely
to crack. You see, the beauty of these
shoes Is that 1 shall never have to poll
ish them, and they viii always look
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r. JIBBENS married Pinkie
Budd- In selecting a wife
he had been guided strictly
by principle-this principle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

in your eyes,
and if I am not
well, I would
like to make
YOU believe I
am
I w o II q e r
whether you
would like my
sitting room if
you were here
with me at the
pr G $ G n t mo
uaent- It's a
very coy little
place. There is
q wood fire
which crackles
and throws g.
rnsv glow over
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Louis Quinze affairs you ever saw.
They fasten with a strap and a jet
buckle. and they have red kid heels.
So, you see, all my shoes for day wear
are to be patent leather For dances.
of course. have ordered slippers to be
made of the material OF my different
gowns
I see by looking at the sky that it is
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~ III - ~IAD1oI41Nsc married EIQklG
Budd- In selecting a wife
ne had been guided strictly
Il by principle-this principle,
Beauty as heaven wills, but
cash she must have" Pinkie, girlish,
clinging and blond, was lovely as well
as fathered and brothered by men of
wealth So soon after the wedding
as was consistent with etiquette Jib-
bens delicately touched" his new
brother-in-law for a loan, limiting that
a generous check he was expecting
had gone astray. But Brother Budd
had already two other brothers-in-
law to support, and his nature had
become soured, even suspicious He
instituted inquiries into the Jibbens
history. Then came like a thunder
clap that Jibbens was a Unmarried
person.
The stern, soured brother hailed Jfb-
bens before the court, and. although
Pixies heart was broken and she
nearly sobbed her life out, yet at the
command Of her folks" she appeared
against him Her marriage certifi-
cate was clutched in her right hand,
while her left held a tiny, gem crusted
bottle Of smelling salts
Shortly after Pinkie entered the
court another lady came in and sat
beside her The other lady was older.
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5 m art a n d
bright no mat
ter if the dust
is an inch thick
on the country
70 ads with
them I shall wear
figured black,
royal blue or car
dinal red stock
ings. Then, for
afternoons, to
go with my thin
gowns, / bought
a pair of light
W Ell hit patent
leather shoes $,
and for piazza
wear I have the
q e are st little
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thing-write to you. my un-
known friends. Do you know, it's the
jolliest thing in the world talking to
you in this way2 If 1 had to face you
all, for instance, it might be quite diff
ferent- There are SO many Of you you
might scare the life out OF me- Then.
too. il you saw me you mightn't like
me. and as it is now I somehow feel
that YOU do. You see, you only know
one thing about me-that I am a girl
The rest, whether am blond or bru-
nette. tail or short, you imagine to suit
yourselves There Is only one thing I
beg of you: Make me pretty You see,
II I am really pretty. I want to stay so
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JACKS apply the word "vibra-
tons to many humbugs- Sci
entists have concluded that
light, electricity and magnetism
are produced by vibrations Of a
something which they call the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-04-13

stance, I appeared as the famous pea
soup of undying memory. My gown
was OF. pale green net covered with lit
tie round balls of chenille to represent
peas. From my shoulders down to the
bottom of my gown hung a spray of ar
tidcial peas and their pods. In one
hand held a papier naehe soup plate
and spoon, and as I tripped along I
sang the old child verse:
A1eluial lie Careme sen val
Nous ne mangerons plus
De la soupe au poisl
The leader of the coti1lon was dress
ed as a chef, and he waved a gilt sauce
pan as the emblem of his authority.
The favors were tiny copper saucepans,
the kind in which Fleuret serves terra
pin a la Newburg. These saucepans
were fitted with covers. and they held
candies in the shape of miniature vege-
tables. fishes and candied fruits.
/az Mk
New York
Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
Virtue of the MaHa.

Among the Mafia "onesta" is the great virtue. This virtue Is said to be possessed by those who never under any circumstances help the authorities by giving information, not even of crimes of which they may be the vic tims. To give information is to forfeit all honor, to become "cascittuni," or spy.
 This feeling which underlies the Ma fla, which is not old, but was born fin Sicily at the beginning of the nine teenth century, is due to the inborn hatred which the Sicilian has for gov ernment Any interference of the au- thorities in his private affairs he re gards with jealousy and distrust. In his sight a man who calls on the au- thorities for anything is vile. He be- lieves In settling private differences privately, either by fair fight or mur- der.
 No matter what a member of the Mafia may suffer, he will never inform. If he recovers from an injury, he will avenge himself if he can, and If he cannot he planes no one and would scorn to even take the authorities into his confidence. A Sicilian proyerb runs, 'If I live, will kill you; if die, forgive you" .----
Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22

rouno none of them grew there. And I walked forth, and I saw the sun rise, and I said, "When will 1t set again?" And the sun sank not. And I saw all the people in holiday apparel, and said, "When will they put on working mans garb again and delve in the mine and swelter at the forgeY But neither the garments nor the robes did they put off And I wandered in the sub- urbs, and I said, Where do they bury the dead of this great city" And l looked along by the hills where 1t would be most beautiful for the dead to sleep, and I saw castles and towers and battlements, but not mausoleum nor monument nor white slab could l sec And I went into the great chapel of the town, and 1 said: Where do the poor worship? Where are the benches on which they sit?" And a voice an- swered, "We have no poor in this great city" And I wandered out, seeking to the destitute, and I found mansions of amber and ivory and gold, but no tear did see or sigh hear.
 I was bewildered, and 1 sat under the shadow of great tree, and l said, What am I and whence comes all thisW And at that moment there came from among the leaves, skipping up the fiowery paths and across the sparkling waters, a very bright and sparkling group, and when saw their step knew 1t, and when heard their voices thought I knew them, but their apparel was so different from anything had ever seen I bowed, stranger to strangers. But after awhile, when they clapped their hands and shouted, Welcome, wei comep the mystery was solved, and I saw that time had passed and that eternity had come and that God had gathered us up into higher home, and I said, Are all here| And the voices of innumerable generations answered, "All here" And while tears of glad ness were raining down our cheeks and the branches of the Lebanon cedars were clapping their hands and the tow CTS of the great city were chiming their welcome we began to laugh and sing and leap and shout Home, home, homep'
 [Copyright, 1901, Louis Klopsch, N. VI
Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
Fatal Gun Explosion.

While at target practice on Fort Ri ley reservation, half a mile north of Junction. City, Kan, Tuesday, a seven inch 107 pound shell exploded as it was being placed in the breech of a section gun of Siege Battery O. Sev. enth artillery, commanded by Captain Van Duren. The casualties are: Henry c. Watson, killed; John J. King, kill. ed; Murray Sykes, fatally injured; Charles Duncan, fatally injured; Hen ry Logsdon, seriously injured; Dennis Mahoney, painfully injured; Recruit Lloyd, seriously injured; Roos Duck, slightly injured; James Brady, slightly injured.
Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
MANY LOST AT SEA.
ALASKAN LINE STEAMER WRECKED
 BY AN ICEBERG.
The Islander Goes Down In the Pa cific ocean, and Most of Her Pas sengers Are Drowned-NenrIy Sew enfy Perish.

The Islander Goes Down In the Pa
 cffic Ocean, and Most of Her Pas
 sengers Are Drowned--Nenrly Sew
 enty Perish.
 The steamer Islander, the crack pas
 senger steamer of the Alaskan route
 operated by the Canadian Pacific Navi-
 gation company of Victoria, B. C..
 struck an iceberg off Douglas island at
 o'clock on the morning of Thursday
 last and went to the bottom, carrying
 from G5 to 80 souls. including passen- gers and members of the crew.
 There was S275.000 Tn gSd on the steamer, S10O,0O0 of which was carried by passengers. H. H. Hart, who has spent Is years in the Klondike, lost $35, 900 in dust.
 The Islander had 10S passengers, and all were in bed when the vessel struck. The shock vas so severe that many were thrown from their berths, and the widest excitement prevailed. Word
 was soon passed that the vessel was doomed, and general scramble for the lifeboats ensued, many jumping over board and attempting to swim to the shore, the distance being short. In the scramble to get into the boats many were hurled headlong into the chilly WA ter, which. according to passengers ar irving from the scene, seemed alive with human beings. Before all the pas sengers had left the vessel she gave lunge and went down bow first. It is known that 67 lives were lost. It will be some time before their names can be definitely learned, as the purser
 lost his passenger list. It contained the names of many prominent people of the Pacific coast.
 A number of passengers of the wrecked steamer Islander tell of their thrilling experiences during the disas- ter NJ. Blumauer of Portland, who was bringing out satchel containing $14,000 in Klondike gold, rushed up to the upper deck when the boat was set ting by the head, and Captain Foote told him there was little danger. Soon there was a rush for the boats, and when he was boarding the lifeboat he was afraid to throw his satchel of gold down from the deck into the boat for | fear that the weight of the gold would stave a hole through the lifeboat and | thus cause the loss of the lives of those | In the boats as well as losing his own chances of safety. He concluded to l abandon his gold, and, dropping the | satchel on the deck, he slid down into the water and was hauled to the boat, | thankful to save his life. One man who had just come out from the Klondike and whose name could not be learned | Is reported to have taken his portman- | teau from the care of the purser, Mir. l Bishop, and, with the grip containing I dust amounting to S40,000 in value grasped firmly in his hand, jumped from the sinking steamer to a boat ! close by; but, failing to reach the boat, | he went down with his treasure.
Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
PASSING IT ON.
The Meanest Man Gets Rid of His
 Medal at Last.

TLe sallow, dyspeptic looking man who
 was sitting in an end seat in the crowded car on the Wentworth avenue line, with his body slowed around to the left, one
 leg crossed over the other, his elbow on the back of the seat and his chin resting on his hand, occupied nearly twice the space to which he was entitled, but he seemed to see no good reason for chang
 ing his position.
 Impervious to the angry stares of standing passengers and the i'll concealed restlessness and impatience of the man sitting next to him, he held his territory
 and refused to concede an inch.
 At the end af a bad quarter of an hour
 the man next to him-a man with a
 hunted look in his eye-turned and spoke. Look here" he said, flor 15 minutes or more you've been digging your knee into my leg, boring my shoulder with your elbow, and breathing in my face" Well, what are you going to do about it?" insolently asked the monopoist. "In tell you pretty soon what I'm going to do about it. I stood it all with out kick. l didn't make any fuss when the edge of your straw hat rasped my neck. But when you began to whistle 'Googoo Eyes'-and to whistle it wrong and out of tune, too-it was more than l could stand. It was more than anybody but an ossified man could stand. I don't know your name, but 1 know who you are, all right. Now listen to me" With a sudden shove he turned the other partially around.
 "Listen to me-" he repeated. "Less | han a week ago I was walking along a | public street in this town, not molesting
 anybody, not punching my elbow into rnybodys shoulder, not digging my knee into anybody's leg, not breathing into anybody's face and not whistling Goo | goo Eyes into anybody's ears, when a | total stranger stepped mp to me and handed me n medal for being the mcanest man in Chicago. What do you think l | had been doing? Nothing but walking in the little strip of shade on thecieft side | of the walkl He said he had been in- | structed by some darned fool club he was a member of to give that medal to the | meanest man in Chicago, and he had found him. I've got that medal with me, | but it doesn't belong to me any more. l I've found blamed sight meaner man I than am. I haven't had a peaceful mo- ment since I got it, and l am glad to get | rid of it. It Is going to pass into the pos session of it's rightful owner, the real meanest man in Chicago. Here it is." With a quick movement he thrust a | galvanized iron disk into the hand of the
 monopolist and in one jump was off the | car.-Chicago Tribune.