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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-27
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homes on monthly payments anywhere
also Investments; good pay. 43 Franklin
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WANTED-Agents. good proposition city
work. Collum Commerce Co., 702 Jack
son St
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held a conversation with Mr.. Scott. the
proprietor, and also threatened to snite
him, even as he had the cook This
was where Rastus did not score, how
ever, and he is now suffering with a.
complaint known as 80 days in the
stein garten.''
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PERSONAL.

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SCIENTIFIC investigation has proved that
those of our fellow men who afflicted
with the drink or liquor habit can be
cured. You will thank for calling your
attention to the fact If you investigate our
mode of treatment prices, etc. Call or
write. DeVoe Liquor Cure Co, 985 Kansas
ave. Topeka. Kan ]. L Winchell. man
ager.
o. K. TOBACCO CURE Guaranteed. s85
Kansas avenue.
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unisn Paoiac R R. 5ss kansas ave.
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JEWELLERS.

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JAMES 3 HAYDEN. sewe1er and Opt
clan. Complete stock OF watches. dia-
monds, silverwart etc. Eyes examined
end spectacles properly fitted
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WATCHES cleaned. T5c: clocks. SOC. main
springs T5c: crystals, lOc- Cash paid Tor
old goie or silver. All work guaranteed
OLD jswelry exchanged for new Il hard
up. see Unule Sam. 512 Kan-as ave.
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FREE MESSENGER FOR WANTS.

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Two games were played by the Topeka
Whist club last night, the scores resulting
as follows:
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MEDICAL.
STORAGE

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MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE
Co packs ships and stores household
goods. Tel 1856 Clarence Skinner. 1I2 3
9Th st.
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PATENTS

J. A. ROSEN. Patent Attorney, AS Kansas
avenue Topeka.
PATENTS-Protect your ideas: no allow
ance, no fee; consultation free, esIab. GA
Milo B. Stevens & Co. 647 18th St, Wash
tngton.
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PAVING


THE OFFICE of the Capital City WITH
fed Brick and Paving Co has been re-
moved tc 11S ". Sth st
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CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS

n. w. NULL, shop 1121z W. Sth st Phone
S63. Job work promptly done Topeka
Kan
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FREE nIsPENsARY.

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FREE DISPENSARY, 119 W. Fifth ST..
under management OF seven Topeka ply
sicians. where those who unable to
pay for medical treatment may have the
same free Of charge.
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SATIN SKIN sPECIALTIEs.
NO ointment, saIve or grease is pleasan
to use For chaps, burns, sores. cha1ing
tender skin try Satin-Skin Cream-dafnty
harmless. healing-25c at the Model.
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WANTED-Girl for general homework;
small family. 1911 Western ave.
WANTED-A girl to answer phone and
sweep office at T. NJ. Knight Undertak-
ing CO., 7th and Quincy.
Iousekeeper. Jake Kuyken-
dali, Highland Park.
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sANITARIUM.

IMPROVED Turkish baths and Swedish
massage. Cure for constipation guaran-
teed. Trained nurse in attendance. 10
Quincy st.
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D. Robbins los E. 5tn St
FOR SALE-A desirable property for one
fourth less than cost. Thomas S-Iyon.
1401 College ave. Phone ST. rings.
FOR SALE-By NJ Heery al Jackson st .
houses and lots on time payments
FOR SALES room new house with g lots
east front Warren St, near Washbtlrn
college; splendid ne5ghborhood. J. Thomas
Lumber Co.
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wANrED-MALE HELP.

ARE you dissatisfied with your work? Our
free booklet Are Your Hands Tied o.
tells how we have qualified thousands in
spare time for salaried positions in more
congenial and profitable lines of work
Write International Correspondence School,
Box 1879. Scranton. Pa, or call day or ey-
ening Topeka office. Room 81, Columbian
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.

TO WHOM IT MAJ. CONCERN-Our. APP
plication for a permit to sell intoxicat-
ing liquors, according to law at 500 KAN
Sas ave, in the Second ward OF the city p
probate judge of Shawnee county, Kan
sas. The hearing Of the same is set for
Saturday at 3 o'clock a. M June :. 1907
ROWLEY & SNOW
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.

IDA c. BARNES. N. D.
Office rs Kansas ave Residence Tllr-
teentf and Cay Office hours. 8 a. n TO
II g. n. and p to p. m. TeiephoEa
5gS residence RnG n office
l. NJ POWELL n D. Office. ga Kansas
ave. phone e. Residence phone &C.
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FLORISTS


CUT FLOWERS, floral designs palm dec
orations and plants. at Sachs, 119 w 6Eh
St, phone g. and greenhouse w 10th st
CUT FLOWERS ana floral designes az
Hayes. 107 ". 8th st. Phone $50
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.


FOR SALES acres bottom improves
close to city. special price this week 4
D. Robbins, 1o3 z. 5th St
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wANrEp-srruArroNs.

WANTED-E Experienced middle aged Wild
ow, with child 20 years old. desires posi-
ton as housekeeper in either hotel or pri-
vate family. in OF out of city. distance no
object. references exchanged. Address
stating wages, NJ. s. care Journal
WANTED-Placa to assist with house
work by girl Il years old; no washing.
145 Twiss ave, Oakland.
WHEN you want to hire a man or boy.
call II 7. "a. c. A. telephone 81 We
have a list Of men and confidential ref
erences concerning them. r NJ G A.
Employment Bureau. III z. sth st.
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MONEY

MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos
organs typeWriters. household goods ana
personal security. L. Biscoe. 523 Kan. Ave
MONEY to loan on good real estate Sc
curity. A Zane. 1715 Clay street
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19
WHITE ANTS DISLIKE HEMLOCK.
Fact of Great Importance to Lumberme1:
of Puget Sound.

Recent tests made in the Philippines
under federal jurisdiction have estab-
lshed the fact that hemlock from this
state is the only wood that the white
ants of the tropics will not attack.
The discovery is considered of the
greatest Importance by lumbermen, since
great difficulty has been experienced
with the ants in tropical countries, and
heretofore no wood impervious to their
attacks could be found.
The Philippine forestry bureau made
a thirty days test of the attacks of ants
upon a number of different wood:
These included Douglas fir, bull pine,
spruce, California redwood and Califor-
MIA white cedar. Hemlocl alone, of all
the woods submitted to the ants, was
not molested. In connection with these
experiments. it is pointed out by lumber
meil. that farmers often use temlock in
constructing oat bins and other recep-
tacles designed to be rat and mouse
proof. The wood IS distasteful to the
,odentS and is not attacked.
PEret sound lumbermen are greatly in
;ercsted in the tests because the state
& n1;'ins a vast quantity of hemlock, for
which there has been little demand up to
the present time, because the wood is
easily confused with the almost worth
less hcmlock of the Eastern states. and
canHct be sold in the Eastern market
Hnder it's real name.
III this connection it is related that 4
Puget sound mill has been shipping hem
lock labeled spruce to an Eastern buyer
for two years. Other samples of spruce
various times. but he rejected them all
in favor of the sound manufacturer.
Yet he refused to consider the question
of tr:iny hemlock.
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Vicarious Restitution.

Not long since respectable colored
preacher, who was noted for his
ability to ''cuss OUT people from the
pulpit, WAS hurting thunderbolts of in
vective against his congregation because
of a great wave of lying and stealing that
was sweeping over the city. Among 9TH
err things he said:
mo longer'n las night. someone come
an stole de las two CHICKENS dat ME and
NAH OF 'oman had. b'lieves de thief
is in dis house right now, an / hereby
co!;ntersigns him to evarlastin' punish
ment. De niger dat stole dem CHICKENS
is a-gwineter burn tur it sho, yau hyeah
EN-! De cree has gone forthv'
Next morning colored man with two
fine hens came up to the preachers door.
He said:
PEARSON, hyeah's 20 CHICKENS
mo, sah,'' said the preacher, eying the
chickens closely, desc amt nah chick
ms
II knows dey amt perzactly yo'own,''
explained the parishioner, .'but desc is to
tex de place of yo'wn. Yo' CHICKENS wuz
ct up TO de cree went forth. An las
night after went to bed, my constance
hurt me so tell I had to git up and go
ovah to Marse Bob's house an git two
mo- CHICKENS. Parson, do tex desc chick
ms, an fur de Lawd's sake tex dat
cree back too."-Silas Xavier Floyd in
LippincOtt's Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19
PREFER MALE EMPLOYEES.
Harder for Women to Get Government
Positions

Some years ago women found little diff
hculty in obtaining employment in the
various government Offices ut Washing
ton. OF late, however, the demand for
their services has suffered a marked sub
be filled men are almost invariably pre-
ferred. In the last year or two a preju-
Dice against the appointment of women
as clerks has grown up among the sew
eral heads Of the departments. No par
ticular reason for this prejudice is as
signed by the civil service commission,
but it exists and seems to he growing.
When vacancy occurs in any division
Of department the civil service commits
sion is notified and three names are GER
titled from the eligible list. The names
40 not include a woman's because the
chief Of the division has requested that
only men be submitted. and the commits
sion complies WITH the request.
Last year out of 1921 persons certi-
fed for appointment through the civil
only 1913 were women, and this, in face
OF the fact that the women on the aver
age made higher percentage in the ex-
animation than the men.
Not long ago the civil service commits
sion was called upon for ten stenogra-
piers and typewriters. This meant the
submission of thirty names of successful
applicants, who, after much study, had
passed the examination and were on the
eligible list: There were many women
on the eligible list, but not one had her
name submitted because only men were
asked for.
The discrimination against the women
applicants for appointments in the gov
eminent service through the competitive
system Of the civil service is not con-
hned to any particular department., but
seems to be general, although, it is said,
the feeling has been more pronounced
in the postofiee department.
An official Of one OF the departments
in talking about this movement against
the appointment of women as clerks
said recently:
1T is in the interest Of the service and
also the women themselves. Every time
a woman is appointed to q clerkship in
one OF the departments she lessons the
chance Of marriage for herself and de-
prives some worth man Of the chance
to take unto himself wife and raise
men make far better clerks. They com
plain less, do more work and work over
time if need be, without grumbling.'
When 1t becomes generally known that
the women do not stand as much chance
as formerly i'll the matter of securing
government position through the medium
Of civil service examination it is be-
lieyed that there will be perceptible
falling off in the number Of women APP
plicants and corresponding increase
among the men apPncants. FIGURES fur
nished bv the civil service commission
show gradual falling of in the number
Of women a--ointed in the classification
during the last ten years, and IL this
continues at the present ratio it will he
but few years when no women will
be certified for appointment to any posi-
ton in the classified list except those
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19
A Famous Jackdaw.

The Brixton jackdow which was found
dead last week in the bar Ct the ANGEL
Arms at Brixton, was a great celebrity
in his own way. All jackdaws have
faus of their own. and the favorite tad
Of this particular bird was to travel all
over London on omnibuses. trans and
cabs. He was thoroughly we'll known to
every 'busman in the Brixton district; he
used to take his seat on bus beside the
driver, and would chatter most volubly
till the jcurL"y to the city or elsewhere
was accomplished, when he would fly
back to bis Brixton home. He was a
bird Of strong likes and dislikes. and
when any Of his masters customers
failed to find favor in his sight he would
assail them with most embarrassing
flow of language.-Londou Taller.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

could not marry poor woman. Sud.
denly it occurred to him that Yvette
might not be poor. The more he pom.
dered over the matter the more aston
ished he was that he had ever taken hey
poverty for granted. She dressed richly
and that cost money in Paris. He re.
1ncmbered that she wore a watch which
flashed with jewels on the one occasion
which he had seen it for moment lie
wished he had postponed the explanation
tor one more day; still, that was some.
thing easily remedied. He would tell her
he had thrown over the other girl for her
sake. Like pang there came to him the
remembrance that he did not know her
address nor even her family name Still
she would be sure to visit the little park
and he would haunt it till she came
The haunting would give additional point
to his story of consuming love. ANY.
how, nothing could be done that night.
In the morning he was overjoyed to re-
ceive letter from Yvette, and he was
more than pleased when he read its con.
tents. 1t asked for one more meeting be.
hind the church.
II could not tell you today" she wrote
''all l felt. Tomorrow you shall know
if you meet me. Do not fear that will
reproach you. You will receive this let.
be waiting for YOU on the sixth bench
to the row south of the fountain-thc
sixth bench-the farthest from the
church. YVETTE'
McLane was overjoyed at his good
luck. He felt that he hardly merited it.
He was early at the spot, and sat down
on the last bench of the row facing the
fountain. Yvette had not yet arrived
but it was still half an hour before the
time. McLane read the morning paper
and waited. At last the bells all round
him chimed the hour of IL. She had not
come. This was unusual, but always
possible. She might not have succeeded
in getting away. The quarter and then
the half hour passed away before Nc
Lane began to suspect that he had been
made the victim Of practical joke. He
dismissed the thought; such thing was
so unlike her. He walked around the lit
tie park, hoping he had mistaken the row
of benches. She was not there. He read
the letter again. It was plain enough
the sixth bench. He counted the benches,
beginning at the church. One-two--
three four-fve. But there were only
five benches in the row.
As he gazed stupidity at the fifth bencl,
man beside him said:
''That is the bench, sir"
"What do you mean?" cried McLanc,
turning toward him, astonished at the
remark.
1T was there that tie young girl was
found dead this morning poisoned, they
say"
McLanc stared at him, and then said
buskily:
"N'ho-who was she?" -.
Nobody knows that-yet. We will
soon know, for everybody, as you see, is
going into the morgue, She's the only
one on the bench today. Better 60 he
fore the crowd gets greater. have been
twice." H..
McLane sank on the seat and drew his
hand across his forehead. i.
He knew she was waiting for him on
the sixth benchthe furthest from the
church New York Daily News. 1
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19
GONE BEFORE.
a. -
A lonely dove sat cooling

Ia
lonely dove sat cooling S
AS the evening sun sank low, n
On the bough or weeping willow
While the winds famed to and fro.
And the breczes gently kissed her
And waited her song to me,
AS the sunsets gold flashed DER US
Engilding the dropping tree.
So soft and sweet the moaning
AS it swelled OH tn evening air.
She seemed to sing the requiem
OF souls that slumbered there.
OF souls whose hopes and fearings
Whose struggling life and love
Found lest beneath that willow
And its gently cooling dove.
But soon she spread her pinions
And scared into the West
Off toward the glowing sunset.
Where she had made her net
And standing by that willow
In the years that l have SEEM
l think Of the birds low moaning,
And the things that might have been.
Of the toll and strife all wasted i:
For things the heart might crave
For we. like the dove, are singing
Our songs above grave.
Speed Mosby in the Pilgrim.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

The return Of the crew Of the wrecked
steamer Hebard, from an uninhabited
portion of the Lake Superior coast, is an
incident that will strengthen hope in the
future, when vessels are long overdue on
that lake. The friends of the crew of
the lost Bannockburn hoped for long
time that they might reappear as have
the Hebard's shipwrecked mariners.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

Child insurance has been placed IN
der fresh obloQuy By the suicide at Dex-
ter, Me-, Of & mother who had been ac-
cuscd of poisoning a daughter in order
to realize on n policy. and who had been
suspected Of poisoning her husband and
another child for a similar object. 4
case reported from Philadelphia also
casts reproach upon the business. The
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

New York will have no complaint in
regard to diversion of cattle traffic, so
long as the foot and mouth disease stays
on the eastern side Of the Hudson.
Should it cross this line, New York also
may be closed against cattle, in which
event beef ought to be more plentiful in
this section.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

The Northwestern University having
conferred upon DR.. Lorenz the degree Of
LII. D., Roswell Martin Field pretends
to assume that the letters stand for Doc
tor of Legs" Truly, that s what he is,
but the branch of leg-pulling in which
college conductors evince the most genius
is another than that in which DR.. I.orenz
excels.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

There have been instances at homo and
abroad in which beauty has figured Of
late that recall and illustrate the trrlti.
of the old adages that Beauty is only
skin deep' and that it "resides in the eye
of the beholder," and that suggest by
contrast another old adage-"Handsome
is that handsome does.'
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

The sinking ct the steamer Sylvanus J.
Macy takes from the registry one OF the
rapidly -dwindling class of ''old-timers"
that did the business Of the lakes short
ly after steam supplanted sails, and be-
fore the ideas of lake vessel owners be-
gan to expand to the full limit of oppor-
tunity. 1t is notable that lakes Erie and
Huron. chiefly the latter, are generally
the scenes Of exit for decrepit lake craft.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

Although the construction Of the new
defender Of the Americas cup is proceed
ing in secrecy under a shed, the Bristol
reporters manage to evolve one rumor Il
day concerning the weight Of her keel,
the shape Of her hull and the probable
area Of her sails. They are as fast as
the Herreshoff yachts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

1t was thought that the splendid be-
havior of the battleship Texas would re-
move the "hoo-doo' superstition with
which the sailors had marked the ship.
but the disablement of the ships guns
and the narrow escape incident thereto
will tend to place the Texas back wher.
she was before her guns at Santiago
blew away the cloud of superstition.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

There seems to be a little room for
improvement in the equipment Of the fire
department Of Santiago, Cuba. The
burning Of a cafe, entailing a loss of
$4,000, is reported to be due to a lack
of fuel to get up steam for the engines,
and all absence Of water from the city
rnoiDc
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

Tobin bronze will be the metal used in
the plating of the new cup defender, not
nickel steel, as was reported. The de-
cision will please yachting enthusiasts,
who believe that the smoothncss Of the
bottom plates of the Nisilant, Defender
and Columbia has contributed toward
thc.ir
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

In the unfortunate Gore-Rydzewski
case, in Paris, the manufacturers of the
revolver which sped the fatal bullet have
made tardy appearance in defence of
their weapon. But If it can be shown
that the revolver could not have been
discharged by accident, it is not too late
to give the Russian another opportunity
to explain.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

killed during the open season in Wis
consin this year were 5000 fewer than
year ago presages the restocking
of the Northern preserves, depends upon
the number that were killed during the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

Outland, the great Pennsylvania
tackle, will leave the gridiron and begin
the practice Of medicine. 1t is to be pre-
sumed from his experience that he will
be "well up" in surgery.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

Rumors concerning the character and
construction of the Shamrock and the
new American defense yacht are flying
faster than either of the boats can ever
be hoped to go.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

The first need Of canal enterprise is
a strip Of land the next a strip of water.
1t is reported that the United States has
about concluded negotiations for the
land, and the water will therefore follow
in due course of time.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-12-19

Success has attended the casting of the
new defense yachts keel at the Here
shoff's yards at Bristol, Rhode Island,
and the superstitious have the initial
good omen to start with.