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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.l

lFTOm the 1nlladelpnla ReCOTu.I
A criminal is a man who is found out
Great aches from little toe corrs grow.
A man of many callings-the train an
nOuncer.
When mar has his leg pulled it makes
him feel limp.
Lots of people rise in the world by the
skyrocl.et route.
wasted opportunity seldom comes
back for "a second trial.
No. Maude. dear; electricity doesn't
come from current bushes.
The returned traveller tries to put on
Tugs by speaking of his luggage"
Some people never go ahead because
they are never sure they are right.
A pessimist is a man who tells you that
every rose has a dozen thorns.
Wigg-"Has Newrich a chauffeur"
Wagg-''Yes, but he can't pronounce it."
Sillicus-''He says his wife is an angel"
Cynicus-"Ah, he's a widower, eh?''
Somehow or other even the mannish
woman balks when it comes to tipping
waiter.
Nell-''How do you know he's married?"
Bele-"Oh, he's such a good listener.
Little WiIlie-"Say. Will a Welsh rabbit
hurt your Little Bobby-''No, not I'M
less you eat it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
FLOOD IN WISCONSIN.
Much Damage Reported Along
the Mississippi.

Lacrosse, Wis, Sept. 1S.-The worst
flood experienced in this portion of the
Mississippi valley for years IS submerg-
ing thousands of acres of farm lands
along the river, sweeping away stacks
of hay and grairN drowning live stock
in fields and doing inestimable damage.
In the lower part of La Crosse fifty
families have been forced to move out
of their homes. and wholesale mer-
chants are moving their goods from
the lower fSoOrS.
The river is still rising and the
wea Their observer predicts the rise will
be nearly a foot more at this point.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

service of the city as food inspector. He
ought to know when foods are being
adulterated and it is his duty to stop
these practices when he finds that they
exist. He ought to have stopped the
adulteration of milk long ago 1t IS
possible that there are other abuses he
has overlooked. The people have not
known and Mr.. Farnsworth is appoint
ed to stand between them and unscrup-
ulous men who sell foodstuffs. 1t is not
surprising therefore that there should be
a movement to secure his removal from
office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
Osteopaths Meet.

At their short semi-annual meeting
held Thursday afternoon in the Ma
tional hotel, the Kansas State Osteo-
pathic society elected DIR. E. L. Kable-
feisch, of Newton, to succeed DIR. Wade
Dunn, of Manhattan, on the board of
trustees. The session was very brief
one, beginning late in the afternoon and
concluding in the evening. Two ses-
sions of the organization are held
yearly. the next one falling in May of
next year. The officers of the organi-
cation are. DIR. C. E. Hulett, Topeka,
president; DIR. p. H. White, Holton, vice
president: and DR.. H. K. Pennison,
CLAW Center secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrOm the Chicago Daily News
He laughs best who sees the point of the
joke first.
Wisdom is the name some men apply TO
their self-conceit.
1t often happens that the silent partner
has the most to say.
AS men grow wealthy they begin to in
quire into their ancestry
Pride often lifts a man up by the ham
die attached to his name.
Any man is unreasonable who expects
woman to be reasonable.
When eligible man proposes to
maid of 80 summers there isn't apt to be
any Hamlet's soliloquy business on her
part.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHELol

From the New York Press.1
If men could try on wives the way they
do clothes there wouldn't be so many of
them taken.
Just as soon as a girl goes to luncheon
with married women she begins to think
she is worldly
Nothing makes a woman so furious as to
picture how sweet and sympathetic her
bitterest rival would be at her funeral.
When a woman gets nervous over her
husbands working SO late at night in his
office it is a sign she doesn't believe him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

A statement just presented by the de-
partment of commerce and labor,
through its bureau of statistics, shows
that importations of goat skins into the
United states are now running at the
rate of % million dollars per annum,
and that a large share of these are
brought from India. China, Arabia, and
southeastern Russia The increasing
popularity of certain classes of kid
leather for footwear, as well as gloves,
has increased very greatly the demand
for goat skins in the United States
within recent years. In 1885 the value
of goat skins imported was about four
million dollars; by 1890 1t had grown to
nine millions, by 1898 it was Is millions.
in 1890 it was p millions. and in 1903,
20 millions, in round numbers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18
Like Attracts Like.

When off duty Prof. Richards of Yale
enjoys a joke, and his pupils often come
to him when they have heard a new
one. He adds to the fun sometimes
with a witticism of his own. Such was
the case when one of the students per-
petrated the following antiquity.
Professor, wouldn't you like a good
receipt for catching raDbits?"
why. yes replied the professor.
''What is it?'
well, you crouch down behind
thick stone wall and make noise like
a turnip," answered the youth. gig
CLING in ecstasy.
Quick as a flash came the reply.
'sOh, a better way than that would
be for you to go and sit quietly in a
bed of cabbage heads and look natural"
New York Times.
Railroad tickets bought and sold.
T01rttcnn IIn11Sa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

Governor Dockery has offered $500 re-
ward for the arrest of d. J. Kelley, the
baking powder lobbyist If he would
make it large enough to be an object
probably Mr. Kelley would come down
from Canada and collect it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

The one-half million pounds of silk
brought into this country in 1870 was
valued at three million dollars. while
the Is million pounds brought in last
year were valued at about so million
dollars. The richer we grow the more
we import and the more we import the
richer we grow
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner o. Ken
lucky has grown tired of waiting for
the reorganization of the Democracy
and for the office which never came
and has Joined the Republicans. This
year he will be found fighting in the
ranks instead of bushwhacSing as he
did in 1896 when he ran ON the national
ticket with Palmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

Tom Johnson has proven himself fit
to be a leader in any political party by
constructing a platform that can be
made to mean anything or nothing, as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

twinge of remorse that he did not take
the trouble to find out before he express
ed his opinion about Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

A glacier is said to move but a few
inches in year and yet it is never en-
tirely stationary. 1t must resemble the
effort of Topeka to acquire the water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

The government is endeaVorIng 10
encourage the breeding of goats in TINS
country. The supply at present is hard
ly sufficient to meet the demands OF the
rapidly multiplying secret societies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

Every time an automobile runs away
and kills somebody a cry goes up for
more stringent legal restraints In the
case of a horse. nothing is said.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

It looks now as though Ruth Bryan
had been entered for a race with Hob
son to see which can attain the larger
number of reported marriage engage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

The correspondent who sent out the
story about an airship's being seen
floating over Indianapolis didn't dare
to impose upon public credulity further
by suggesting that it was Langley s.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

Mayor Low having reformed the city,
the New Workers are evincing a dlspo-
sition to permit him to retire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-18

Railroad tickets bought and sold.
Dutton House.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
IN THE GARDENS.

noble blood sought here to expiate past
sins. the abbey's roof sheltered pill
grims from far and near, rich and
poor. For 100 years after the death
of De Rancho, faithful followers main
tanned his reforms at La Trappe. Then
came the French revolution, those mad
years when religion was tabooed; the
Trappists had to leave France, the alb
hey of La Trappe became a foundry
for cannon. Many went to. Switzer-
land, others to Germany, still others
settled in Russia. After the restora-
ton in France, they regained by pur-
chase their beloved old abbey in Nor
mandy and it became the head monas-
terry of the order. Among the branch
monasteries of the present may be
mentioned those in Great Britain,
France, Belgium. Germany and the
United States. Z 3. :. = 49, r
Mr.. James Lane Allen, writing in the
Century, tells us that the Trappist
monastery in Kentucky reminds in
many remarkable respects Of the old
one in Normandy. q 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31

Kentucky from early times has
shown herself kindly to the Catholic
church, but the .Trappists wandered
somewhat before finally settling in
that state; sojourning for awhile in
Pennsylvania, for time in Missouri,
and also for season in Illinois. The
present Kentucky: colony was founded
by members=of the order that arrived
In the autumn of the year 1S48; landed
at New Orleans, from there went by
boat to Louisville, and then walked
the sixty miles remaining. Their mon
astery is called the Abbey of Geth-
'semane. The domain of the monks re-
siding here comprises 100 acres Of
land. Both wooded and tillable lands
belong to the estate, and it is place
of great beauty and fruitfulness. Ar
chitecturally one does not find a great
deal to please, but the gardens and
trees are of loneliness sufficient. The
Trappist gardens are far-famed, and
this one in Kentucky is wonderfully
kept place.
Mr.. Allen remarks that certain types
of monks have been painted for US
from time to time-the intellectual,
the rubicund, and others; he character
ICES those in this retreat in Kentucky
as working monks" He writes that
none are exempt from work, there is
no place among them for the slug
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31

youth was by no means reputed
ascetic. Though belonging to the
clergy, he led gay life in Paris, was
active in sports and famed as gay
cavalier. He was favorite with Car
dinal Richelieu, who helped him to
more than one benefice. But at the
age of Sc worldly pleasures ceased to
satisfy, and he retired to the convent
of La Trappe and, for 36 years there
after, labored with penitential zeal for
the reformation of the monastery. The
monks were forbidden to use fish;
meat, eggs and wine. Intercourse
with outsiders was not allowed, and
manual labor made obligatory. Self
was abased, prayer almost perpetual.
To the monastery came the poor, the
helpless, the penitent, and a&welcome
and asylum was given all. Many of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31

w CONSTANTLY increasing number
~ Of physicians prescribe Peruna IN
their regular practice.
It has proven its merits 80 thoroughly
that even the doctors have overcome
their prejudice against so called patent
medicines and recommend it to their
patients. 81 s ssSs59....zzs5
q Advise Women to Use Pe-ra-ns, z
Says D.. Gee.
.s DIR. M. G. Gee Is one of the physicians
who endorse Peruna. mi letter writ
ten from 513 Jones street, San Fran
cisco, CAL, he says:
4. There is a general obj ction on the
part Of the practicing physician toadvo-
cate patentmedic ines, butwhenanyon one
medicine cures hundreds of people, it
.demonstratesits own value and does not
need the Endorsement Of tho profession.
wonderful cures In San Francisco. that
remedy. have frequently advised Its
use for W0n1en,as u find it*insures
regular and painless mensfruafi0n,
cures Ieuc0rrhea and troubles,
and builds ~ the entire system. / also
consider it one of the finest catarrh
remedies know Of I heartily endorse
yourmedicine IN. G. Gee, NJ, d. -
Mrs. E. T. Gaddis, Marion, N. c., is one
OF DR.. Hartman's grateful patients. She
consulted him by letter, followed his
directions, and is now able to say9the
following: + =; -. =. z !. y. ..3..s s S.. !,
Before I commenced to take Peruna
1could not do any hard work without
suffering greatpain. took Peruna, and
can say with pleasure that it has done
more for me than any other medicine
have ever taken. Now i am as we'll q.
ever; I do all my own work and itneve1
hurts me att all. Think Peruna lisa great
medicine for womankind. Mrs. e. r
Gaddis. =E Z. =. .***
women are especially liable to pelvic
:catarrh, female weakness as it is com
monty called. - ~ ! 81
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
He Feels Good.

zCaddo, KY, July 20th:-@1 believe 7
could climb a mountsin without drawing a
long BREATH" is the way William Ball, OF
this place, describes how he is feeling
AS Mr.. Ball has been on the sick list for
along time, this declaration from him
comes as quite a surprise.
When asked to explain how he had become
so strong in such short time, he says:
: II did e-Kidney Trouble very bad, in
fact l had to get up four or five times every
night to urinate. L had shortness Of
breath which distressed me terribly. I was
badly used up, and was really Of no &C.
count for anything.
II used three boxes of Dodd's Kidney
Pills., and that's what has made me we'll.
can sleep all night without having to get up.
I feel splendid and as I said before, be.
lieve l could climb mountain without
d%ranw9g lone, breath. Dodd's Kidney
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
REALISTIC. FINISH.
bile nm Ambulance Was
Necessary.

This" said the dramatist, who waselab-
Grating the scenario of his new play to the
manager. according to- Judge, lis to be
realistic society drama. The heroine
makes a thrilling entrance in an auto"
What does she do then?" asked the man
ager.
why, of course she meets the hero and
the villain and the eoubrette and the rest,
and the play goes on to the usual happy
well, you start realistically enough, but
you weaken on your finish"
.How's that?" asked the puzzled play
wright.
IF she's going to come in on an auto she
and few of the rest ought to make their
exit in sn ambulance"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
According to His Folly,

A young Japanese compositor employed
on a Japanese paper hardly stones throw
from the Mail and Express building was
riding down town in city hall train the
other morning. He was engrossed in his
morning paper,and paid little attention to
young man who sat next to him, and who
had been eying him all along, suddenly
eaid: -
What sort of tnese' are you, anyhow
A Chinese or Japanese?"
The little Jap was not caught mapping
Quick as a;wink he replied:
W wv at, sort t Of key, are you, anyway;
The fresh young man had no more to say,
and left the ira IN quickly when City Hall
station was reached.-N. Y. Mail and Ex.
press.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31

gard. To keep up the faultless clean
illness requires much labor; the sick
must be cared for; the duties of the
three Kitchens is no small matter, the
kitchen for guests, one for the COM
munity, and one for the inf1rmary: re-
pair shops of various kinds provide
constant employment; the pharmacy
needs skilful laborers, and then there
is the work of the orchards, the gar
dens, the vineyards, the sawmills> the
dairy and the care of the stock. A
good deal of the land is let out to ten
ant farmers; but brothers mot men,
bers of the order) till the fields re-
served for the use of the community.
The Trappist is not bound to abso-
lutte silence, his voice is heard in the
singing and raised in the confessional:
but he goes about his work silently, A
sign language is employed, that that
unruly member, the tongue, may offend
as little as possible. To speak, he
must receive permission from the
superior. 1T is silence" says the
Trappist that shuts out new ideas.
worldly topics, controversy. It is
silence that enables the soul to con-
template with singleness and mortifi-
cation the infinite projections of the
eternal" In their movements the
monks are drilled in the matter of
quietness, drilled to make no clatter.
no rustling. In the Abbey of Geth-
semane are men from various old
world countries, but no Americans.
The other Trappist community in
the United States, situated at Mount
Melleray, about IL miles from Du-
buque, owns a farm of 5000 acres,
most of which is under cultivation.
There are about SO members of the
order here, and they employ an equal
number of helpers. They raise crops
of all kinds; their farming is most
skilful and their stock among the best
to be found. BY no means are they
wholly utilitarian, as is attested by the
rare beauty OF the monastery grounds.
The early Iowa Trappists were much
interested in horticulture, and those
following have tended what the first
oAA0o PA1AI0uS -dAu LO-u4y U06uLl1ul
trees, both foreign and native, afford
shade for the silent workers and the
enthusiastic guests. The pine Walk
is especially beautiful, an avenue Dor
dered by row upon row Of tall pines.
The monastery offers hospitality to
the wayfarer; no charge is asked for
entertainment, but the box in the yes
tibule gives silent invitation to drop in
an offering. The guest-house is i'm
maculately kept, and the food, as well
as the cleanliness, are of a much high
er order than in the average inn.
.Tramps are made welcome as we'll as
the more industrious.
When Trappist monk dies and is
buried 9 new grave is Immediately
dug, that all may be reminded life is
but for moment Night and day the
Trappist wears his garb Of rough
serge, brown or white; when he dies,
his body is placed in the ground un-
cofhned. KATHERINE PoPH
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
The Thousand Islands.

! There may be somewhere on the earth q
more delightful region than that Of the
Thousand Islands, but if there Is, It has
not been discovered. It is the Venice of
be kept warmth there Shall happen to be q.
cold rainy evening. It is as fine 40 the Bay
Of Naples, with 1900 picturesque Islands:
scattered along the twenty-five miles Of
one of the most beautiful rivers in the world.
You can find out great deal regarding it
i, No. 10 Of the -Four; Track Series, "The
Thousand Islands" Copy will be mailed
II. Daniels, General Passenger Agent,
Grand Central Station, New York.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
GET WELLS STAY WELL.
The Thousands of people

The thousands of people
who are every daybeing
made well by Doan's
Kidney Pills and the free
trial herewith offered
makes further delay,
sKidney neglect"
They correct urine with
brick dust sediment, high
.colored, pain in passing,
dribbling, frequency, b ed
wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills
remove calculi and gravel.
Relieve heart palpitation,
sleeplesmess, hea dache 9,
nervousness, dizziness.
HEwBxRN, KY.-B. G. Jones
writes: I was unable to
ct anything to stop the too
much flow Of water. For
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
A Broad Inefnuatd0m.

The fat man slid into the only vacant seat
Just ahead of the woman who was about to
take it. - -. - : ::
The man standing up was so disguised
that, as the car swayed, he permitted the
ribs. - -. - - =
The man standing next to the one with
the cane leaned over and told him that he
was needed at the stockyards.
;. Me-" cried the man with the cane, in
Eyes, you!" replied the other. ''That is
.ers." C.-..
Then they both looked at the fat man,
who acted asif he would like to hit soma
one.-Chicago Post. :, - -
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
News In Brief.

News In Brief.
The 4-yearold son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Tyreman was run over by
a lumber wagon at Faribault and al
most instantly killed.
The state board of health, in the
advance sheets of it's report which
will be submitted to Gov. Van SAINT
in September, states that of the 1856
diaries in the vicinities of the Twin
Cities inspected by the board only
seven are said to be in EXCELLENT
condition., and 229 are classed as un-
satisfactory because of their unsani-
tary environments. ~
Capt. r. G.. Libbey is arranging to
give farmers day in Hastings next
fall, with a roasted OK, cowbors'
parade and other attractions for the
benefit of the farmers of Dakota and
Washington counties. = s5.5
Grave robbers entered the tomb
of A. Petre in the Catholic cemetery
at Duluth and despoiled the skull of
several gold teeth. The thieves used
the utmost deliberation in their
work. It is. belived they carried the
head to place of safety and, after
hammering out the gold-laden teeth.
returned it to its former position.
Charles II. Hubbard, one Of the
men who were mixed up in the stam-
pede in Minneapolis during one Of
the street fair parades, has brought
suit against the city Of Minneapolis
TO collect $40, 900 n damages for n.
siuries received.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1903-07-31
" N THE present day of ma
.EA. terialism there still survives
VI @ in the .Trappist monks,
SNE theirs the most austere of


H@ n in the Trappist monks,
SNE theirs the most austere of
the Catholic orders, stern
asceticism and hourly striv-
ing after spirituality. The Trappists,
the silent Monks" have three COM
munities in America-one in Canada;
one at Gethsemane, KY, and one in the
vicinity of Dubuque, Ia.
There was a period when the Trap
pists were not SO strict, so unworldly
as now, and history tells us an inter-
esting story of the changes the years
worked in their ideals and manner of
life. The Trappists are branch Of
the Cistercian order; they received
their name from the abbey of La
Trappe, situated in Normandy, France,
founded in 1140. :. The abbey, which
was governed many. years by the COM
mandatory" abbots, fell into decay,
and by the seventeenth century the
discipline Of the monastery had become
very much relaxed. But that century
marks the great reformation that took
place at La Trappe and the establish
ment of practically new religious Or
der, one noted for it's extraordinary
austerities. The reform was started
by the celebrated Armand Jean le
Bouthelier de Rancho, man that in