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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

inson-
Divine Science hall, 623 Quincy street
Regular services at 3 o'clock p. m No
meeting in the evening.
First Presbyterian church. Preaching
by the pastor, Rev. ]. d. Countermine,
D. D. Morning subject, -Four of the
Seven Whereins of Molachi." Evening
subject, rs Man a Child of God or an
Evolution of the Ape?" Sabbath school,
9:45 a. M; Junior Endeavor meeting,
p. m; Senior and Intermediate Endeav-
or meetings, 6:15 p. m. Special music
morning and evening by the quartette.
First eMthodist Episcopal church }.
T. Mcfarland, D. D., pastor. Rev. Floyd
J. Seamen, assistant pastor. Glass meet
ings and Junior League. $3.50 a. m;
preaching by the pastor at 1920 a. M.
subject, Compelled and Impelled to
Bear the Cross" Sunday school, 2:30 p.
m: Epworth League, $50 p. m. Preach
ing by the pastor at 1880 p. m, subject,
1.-The Executive Department of the
Soul" The official board will meet on
Monday evening.
Avondale Sunday school, $50 a. m.
Preaching by Mr.. Seaman, 1920 a. m.
jefferson Street Sunday school, 2:45 D.
m Preaching by Mr.. Seaman, 1880 pm.
First Congregational church Morning
Fisk, D. D., What Help May the
Church at Large Hope for from the
Christian College?'' Evening worship at
1880, The Answer of Christian Educa-
ton to the Question of the Church" A
lantern discourse, admission by tickets.
Sunday school at 9:45; Christian Endea-
vor at 6:15.
c. NJ. E. church, corner Fourteenth
and Van Buren, streets. Rev. J. NJ
Brown, pastor. Preaching IL a m, and
1880 D. m. Evening subject, Reward
and Merit General class 10 a. m; Sum
day school p. m; church conference, 3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

The Brotherhood of st. PauPs series
of entertainments which commenced
this week were well attended. Rev. NJ
S. Hughes. of the Independence Avenue
church of Kansas City gave lecture
at the opening entertainment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

At the Kansas Avenue NJ. E. church
Sunday morning Rev. Floyd Seaman
will preach. There will be no evening
service. except the league meeting
which will be led by Miss Carrie go
inSon-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

The State Bar association meets to
discuss methods for beating or abet-
ting the law as the case may
be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01
CHURCH NOTES.

First Unitarian church Services at
IL a. m. with sermon by the minister,
Rev. Abram Wyman. Subject, Truth
on Needless Ears" Sunday school at
noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

Divine Science hall, 623 Quincy street
Regular services at 8 o'clock p. m Nc
meeting in the evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

1t is expected that the Santa Fe will
handle Innes band in a special train next
Tuesday afternoon, the members arriving
in Topeka after the close of the afternoon
concert in AtchiSon-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

The lecture that DIR. D. M Fisk in
tended to give this evening on Emil
nent Americans" at the First CongTe-
gational church, has been postponed to
next Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-01

First Lutheran church, corner Fifth
and Harrison streets; Rev. A A OFT,
pastor. Services with sermon at IL a.
n. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject.
Personal Responsibility evening sub
ject, Paul and Felix" Sunday school
hour preceding the evening service.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

of the British house of commons.
For a long time Mr.. Wason has been
accustomed to while away his spare time
by sitting in the smoking room with his
knitting, and has accompanied the casual
discussion of affairs of the empire with
the click of his needles. He is a most
expert knitter and the stockings produc-
ed by him are said to have been above
reproach. He was willing to knit socks
for the entire house If the mem bers
would let him alone-but they would not.
Somehow the honorable members In
nocent diversion ''riled" the old parlia-
mentary hands and they were never tired
of making things disagreeable for the
knitting member. He used to explain to
inquirers that, his eyesight being poor,
he could not read much and had taken
up knitting a pastime. He became sc
!, infatuated with the sport that he took his
knitting to parliament with him, and saw
no harm in fabricating stockings in the
smoking room of the house. AS long as
he did not take his needles upon the
floor of the house he failed to see what
objection there could be to his indulgence
But the opinions of the other mem bers
have proved too strong for him. and Mr.
Wason's knitting will be no longer seen
In Westminster. This will be real de-
privation for Mr.. Wason has been en-
abed by knitting away his spare time
In parliament to keep himself and his
family In socks, which they will now
have to buy. and besides he will be de-
prived of his only form of dissipation.
As members of parliament are unpaid,
he declared that he had a right to work
at what he pleased In the intervals of
his duties a legislator, but the other
members thought not, and at least he has
submitted to the popular clamor against
his knitting needles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
PROTECTION OF THE FLAG.

1t was a strange. though rather a
gratifying experience" said an intelligent
young woman who had recently return
ed from an extended visit in Germany,
and who was relating incidents of her
travels. You have no idea of the wide
spread Anglophobia that exists there, and
1t caused me great annoyance until l
found remedy for 1t. l speak German
quite well, but my pronunciation and
features tell quite plainly that am not
a German.
Wherever I went I found that I was
taken for an English woman, and that
is what led to the annoyance for the
feeling there against the English is most
intense 1t is carried so far that actual
ly found myself not welcome In hotels
until l explained that l was an Ameri-
can. and then too much couldn't be done
for me.
1T was the same way in society. and
at times l was actually treated rudely.
until l made my nationality known.
'Fraulein Is an English woman they
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

lice boat was sent out In alarm to dis
cover the cause of the violent detona-
tons. At Perth, West Australia, 1902
miles away the staff commander noted
that this coast has been visited (Au-
gust 20 by sounds like the firing of guns
inland" The chief of police on the is
land of Rodriguez almost across the In
dian ocean, and 1868 miles from Krakatoa
wrote: Several times during the night of
The 26th-27th (of August, 1889, reports
were heard coming from the east like the
distant roar of heavy artillery"
The witness referred to above, Mr.. Jean
Theodore Van Gestel, then an engineer In
the employ of the Dutch Colonial gov
eminent of Java, was sent from Batavia
to AMER. a city of 10000 inhabitants, situ-
ated on Sunda strait, opposite the island
volcano, in order to take scientific OBJ
servations of tho reported eruption. On
rounding St. Nicholas point those on
board the expeditionary vessel saw as
cending from Mt. Krakatoa fifty miles
off, an immense column, whose apex
could not be seen, so high did 1t rear up
into the clear atmosphere. 1t was appar-
emily a mile and a half In diameter and
alternately looked like a vast flame.
steam and pillar of fire inside a column
of white feecy wool. All the while could
be heard the sulen. thunderous roar
ever growing in Intensity. The adven-
tnres of the party in sailing inadvertent-
ly into a sea of molten sulphur and in
trying to ascend the burning crater need
not be rccounted. The vessel after a while
returned to Batavia, Mr.. Van Gestel re-
naming at AMER and taking up his resi-
dence in a villa a mile back of the town
on the mountain slope. The roar and glare
of the mountain continued without ceas-
ing. everybody had become used to 1t,
and nobody spoke Of 1t any more. Says
our narrator:
TT was Sunday and I was sitting on
the veranda of my house smoking q cigar
and taking my morning cup of tea. The
scene was perfect. Across the roofs of
the native houses ] could see the fishing
smacks lying In the bay. - = The birds
were singing In the grove at my back,
and a moment before l had heard a serv-
ant moving about AS my gaze rested
on the masts of the little boats, of which
there were several score In sight, l be-
came suddenly aware of the fact that
they were all moving In one direction.
In an instant lney all disappeared. / ran
back to higher ground for a better view
and looked out far into the sea. =" All
the way across the bay and strait to the
island of Krakatoa itself the bottom of
the sea appeared to have cracked open
so that the subterranean fires were seen
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Worse Than Martinique over 'g zs s'ot se o':.s'

belching forth On either side of this
wall of flames - the waters of the
strait were pouring with a tremendous
kissing sound like twin cataracts. and
it was into this abyss that the fishing
boats were disappearing even as l look
ed
THE sight was such an extraordinary
one that 1t took away the power of rea-
son. 80 Then In a moment while my
eyes were turned, came an immense deaf
ening explosion, greater than any we had
yet heard. 1t stunned me and 1t was a
minute or two before realized that when
once more l turned my eyes toward the
bay 1 could see nothing. Darkness had
instantly shroudeu the world. Through
this darkness, made horrible by distant
cries of agony. the falling of heavy bodies
the creaking disruption of masses of
brick and timber, and, most ominous of
all, the crashing breakers of the ocean
could be heard. The city of AMER. with
all its sixty thousand people, had been
blotted out, and If any living being save
myself remained 1 did not find it out
then 80 The awful surge terrified me.
Mechanically l ran back up the noun
tain side. 80 I waded on inland In
dazed condition. The high road to Serang
was white and smooth and easy to fol-
low as l felt my way along In the dark
ness. 80 A residence doomed up on
the roadside apparently offering well
come refuge. l rushed in TO find relief
from the intense heat under shelter of
It's roof, but through the tiles of the
floor little blue flames were pickering.
The house seemed like a furnace. The
subterranean fires were at work even
then on the mountain side. Under a mass
of tumbled masonry l saw the body of
a woman In native garments. I rushed
out Mortified from this burning tomb.
! staggered blindly on my way, reached
5erang and was taken into the garrison
hospital l started up in my sleep dozen
times at night uttering cries of terror.
was supposed to be a lunatic.'
Such were the experiences of one who
lived through that horror in which the
coasts of Java and Sumatra, on either
side of the Strait of Sunda, for fifteen or
twenty miles were wrenched loose and
tumbled into the sea, the large island of
Dwers-in-den-Weg split In two and the
site of AMER covered by 100 feet of water.
Krakatoa blew off its head and shoulders
and sunk beneath the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
White Mitts and Gloves
For Graduates
White lace Silk Mitts, ACC and upwards
White Silk Gloves, ACC and upwards.
White Lace Lisle Gloves, 25c and upwards
Silks Underpriced

Silks, quality all Cords
35c
Silks all silk light dark ground grounds black fig
silk black
osc
Tafet
worth SOC TO Szo
Tafeta black guaranteed heavy and usrou 2inch $2 quail
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

From the Philadelphia Record.
From the details that have been obtain
ed of the eruption of Mt. Peee, which
destroyed st. Pierre, Martinique, and the
25O00 human beings who dwelt therein,
the catastrophe was of character par
alleled only twice or thrice In history.
Cities have been shaken down and their
inhabitants have persisted by thousands
and tens of thousands in their ruins;
whole countrysides have been engulfed
by the tremendous seas formed by seis-
mic shocks, but terrifying as they are.
these commissions of nature are not COM
parable in awfulness with the cataclysms
of Pompeii In ancient and Krakatoa In
modern times, when the subterranean
forces blew mountains high up In air and
i'll n flash populous communities were
inundated in a flood of incandescent rock
or buried under avalanchcs of hot ashes.
Something like this appears to have &C.
Cured at ST. Pierre. According to the
commander of the French war ship
Suchet, which was in the harbor at the
time and rescued the thirty survivors,
the city was destroyed ny an immense
mass of fire which fell on the town" from
the nearby volcano, long believed to be
extinct AS seen from a passing vessel the
town was enyeloped In inpcnetrable dark
ness; a steamer in the roadstead seemed
to suddenly explode and vanish beneath
the waters; a boats crew sent as near
In shore as possible could discover no
signs of life anywhere, and the wharves
were heaped with corpscs. The senses are
paralyzcd and Imagination fails before
a calamity like this.
Some idea of what took place atS.St
Pierre may be obtained from the account
of the greatest CONFUSION of its kind re-
corded In our annals (the explosion Of
Mt Krakatoa) by one who, far known,
was the only eyewitness that survived
that direful event. AS In tho case of the
eruption in Martinique. the supendous
outburst of Krakatoa, in Sunda Strait,
was heralded by premonitory symptoms.
For more than three months preceding
the climax, which occurred on the last
Sunday of August, 1883, the earth was
shaken within radius of 1900 miles At
Batavia, the capital of Java, one hundred
miles distant from the scene, great trees
were elected from the ground. The noise
of the eruption was plainly heard 1116
miles away, Mt st. Lucia, Borneo. At
Tavoy Durham 147S miles distant the po-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
An Extravagant Wife.
From the Syracuse Herald.

From the Syracuse Herald.
I'm afraid, my boy" said the retired
millionaire sadly to his son, that you
will have to leave college and look for a
job
Leave colleger echoed his son in sur
prise. why l supposed you were very
rich, father"
so [ was-once," replied the old man,
deiectedly, but riches sometimes take
wings, my boy. I could have got along
without meat but your mother would in
s!st upon having it every day."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

RIBBONS AT A PREMIUM EVERY
WHERE-BUT In PLENTY HERE
ribbon They're
premium everywhere We anticipated this
it?
of
The
until night
ribbons
Ribbons
5inch 7inch
at.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
would say with a cold look and distant

would say, with a cold look and distant
manner that was exceedingly chilly.
No. an American l answered time
and time again, and then came COM
Portable and assuring thaw. l became ex-
ceedingly tired of the conditions, and fin
ally struck on q remedy that proved
most effective.
II provided myself with a small silk
American flag, no larger than my
thumb, and never appeared in public
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
NEW STYLES IN NECK
WEAR FOR WOMEN

undoubtedly store of Brming
hobby neckwear pretty
disncively stock sea-
the biggest We showing
nobbes viii
Madras with the wide
special heights
is
ers linen Ascota
coongs up.
$1OO They're all be you
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
THIS M. p. KNIT SOCKS.

Cathcart Jason. member from Orkney
and Shetland, has abandoned the habit
of knitting stockings in the smoking room
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Sheer White Goods Reduced

Sheer White Goods Reduced
...2sc
Lawn SOC quality .s5c
Organdie wide ..35c
Chiffon 40c and 4c quality $50
Chiffon 3ec
Wash quality Soc
quality. se
LAcEs TRIMMING SHEER WHITE CONTRADICTIONS
Mechln inserting, S175 dozen SIPS
in inches wde 1926 dozen $3.50
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25
Marx London
Blocks are the Hats!

you They
Milan, Manila
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

without wearing II In conspicuous posi-.
ton. That settled it. ! had no more trou.
ble."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-05-25

FOR SALE-25- horse pow.
er Atlas boiler and 2O-horse
power automatic engine
good as new; bargain.
PERUVIAN & CO.
Woodlawn, Ala
The age-herald., 1902-04-06

preached Pittsburg Landing upon a steamboat from Florence, Ala. Coming in sight of the landing I saw the stars and stripes floating from a staff fixed on the bluff just above where the steamboats land. Going ashore and up the slopeing bank to the plat eau running back from the river I discovered that the govern ment haG located here a national cem- etery. n which had been gathered the re- mains of all those Federal soldiers who had found final resting place upon Shi- loh's bloody field and were buried beneath the Sout hern sky. A fit resting place for heroes fallen in defense of the country which now preserves their memory and
The age-herald., 1902-04-06

loss of life in this hard fought battle. said that on the morning after the battle he passed over am open field on which the dead bodies of Federals and Confed- crates were intermingled, and lying so thickly that 1t would have been possible to have crossed the entire field by step ping upon dead bodies of men without putting a foot upon the ground. At the bloody angle" in the battle of Spottsyl- vania. c. H., In the Virginia campaign. the loss of life exceeded that at Shiloh, but at no other place during the four years of civil war were dead bodies so thickly strewn as upon this open field at Shiloh.
 Sixteen years afterwards I again ap-
The age-herald., 1902-04-06
Coaxlng an Appetite g

At this season of the year when Nature $ making supreme effort purge the system of the impurities and poisons that have collected during the winter months vigorous and healthy appetite is needed to sustain the body while this purifying process is going on, but this much regulated appetite is apt go wrong and become unreliable and cke and has be humored and coaxed to bring it back to that condition where all food rel ished and eating becomes pleasure hungry appetite does have to be easted and eted tempted with dainty viands and delicacies The painest fare will satisfy its cravings while scky and defective appetite will turn with loathng and disgust from the most stump tuous banquet
 Various methods adopted to coax back the lost appetite The Liver is prodded with pills and the Stomac btter but these only produce morbid variable appetite at the bare thought of food the next.
 S. S. s. is the ideal Spring Tonic and coaxes appe
The age-herald., 1902-04-06
His Dizzy Spells.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 "The doctor told Dan to take a swallow of whisky whenever he had a dizzy spell.'
 'tDoes it help him?''
 "Oh, yes; but it keeps him busy whi11- ing around so he'll be dizzy.
The age-herald., 1902-04-06

guards their graves in love and gratitudt for deeds well done. forty years ago to day.
The age-herald., 1902-04-06

Spring humors, boils. pimples, scrofula and salt rheum are all cured by Hooda Sarsaparilla-
The age-herald., 1902-04-06

7arlable appetite; ravenous one day and slckening coaxes an appetite when nothing else can. It is not only a perfect appetizer and collaborating tonic, but contains also the properties needful for the purifcation of the blood, and giving that richness and tone, without which perfect digestion and assimilation of food is impossible and the result is dyspepsia with all its distressing symp toms capricious appetite, inflammation, fuliness worst of all insomnia and nervousness.
 s. s. S. in thus purifying and invigorating the blood renders the greatest assistance to Nature for with healthy, nutritious blood circulating through the system it is fully prepared for the changes which take place during the Spring. If e constitution they are apt to develop warm , lain dormant all Winter come to the surface. once, so that the germs and seeds of disease may the blood antidoted and neutralized while in
The age-herald., 1902-04-06
Chief Justice Of the Supreme
 Court of Georgia.

The members of the Swift Specific Company have been known to me personally for twenty five years, all being prominent citizens of our state. of the highest business and social standing.
 Having used s. s. s. with most beneficial re- suiis, unhesitatingly recommend it to all need ina blood purifier and tonic.
 T. ]. SIMMONS, Atlanta Ga.
The age-herald., 1902-04-06

We take this method thanking and friends large for the large enjoyed business, proud or such Our by reached doubled
Arizona republican., 1902-06-15
Chica go. June H.

Chicago. .. ... Il 70 0 Q 0 o 0--1 Boston. .... -. 10 o 0 0 0 Q o 0-2
 Batterics-Patterson and Sullivan: Young and Criger.
Arizona republican., 1902-06-15
ADMIRAL DEWEY
 WILL SMELL SALT
He Will Command Three Squadrons
 in Southern Seas

Washington, June 14.-Admiral Dew e. is going to sea again, flying the flag with four stars, in command of the greatest fleet in numbers that the United States has got together since the days of the civil war and far more powerful in offense and defense even than any of those war fleets. Secre- tary Moody conceived the idea. and after consulting the pleasure of Ad miral Dewey. it has been arranged that he is to be placed in supreme command Of the fleet comprising the North At lantic. the European and the South Atlantic squadrons which will assemble near Culcbra island in the West Indies. next December for winter maneuvers. Secretary Moody himself desires to wit ness the maneuVers, and il is even pos sible that the president may find time to make voyage south to see the big iron clads in war movements.
Arizona republican., 1902-06-15
COOL FOOD For Hot Days.

letter health comes with less L-,.at and fat during the war:n weather.
 By proper and pleasant diet you can prepare the body for summer and feel from ten to twenty degrees cooler than your neighror.
 G:apc-Nuts and cream. q little fruit a Iii no::ibly Il couple ot sOf. boiled cg;-s. is sufficient for the breaizfast. An ordinary portion of Grape Nuts contains sufficient ncurshm"Tt to fully sustain the body until the noon day meal; being q pre-digested food. it does not oVertaX the stomach and con tdiEs none of the heat supplied by the heavy carbonaceous foods.
 Fully cooked at the factory by food experts. brings it to you ready to serve. and does away with the heat of cooking and the time necessary to prepare ordinary food and it's crisp d;;intiness is pleasing to the palate of ,oung and old
 Many delicious recipes are found in ...sch Grape Nuts package. SC that the :orm of eIt:nS this Nholesom. loo'l can be changed to suit thc user. These suggestions, ii followed fer ten days. will convince tie most Skeptical that a cool boIy, an active bran ard an energy hitherto unknown will pre- vail and the general iassitude peculiar to warm weather will disappear.