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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29
Has Sold a Pile OF Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy.

have sold Chamberlain's Cough Rene
dy for more than 20 years and it has
given entire satisfaction have sold
pile of it and can recommend it highly
JOSEPH MCKINNEY, Linton, Ia You
will find this remedy good friend when
troubled with a cough or cold. 1t always
affords quick relief and is pleasant TO
take For sale by all druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29
HUNGATE TO TRY IT.
County Attorney Will Take Up
Liquor Prosecutions.

County Attorney Hungate will try his
hand at prosecuting liquor cases in the
district court next week.
Hungate will prosecute II. A. uterman,
u F. NOnken and w. F. Bytle, who are
charged with illegally selling liquor IN
close proximity to Vinewood park The
cases will be tried before the same jury
that has heard the city cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29
Mrs. Davis Is Improving.

Buffalo. N. Y. Sept. cit was report
ed at the Castle Inn today that Mrs. JEFF
ferson Davis had passed a restful night
and was steadily improving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29

"D'Auber is home from his trip to
the Rocky Mountains, isn't he? What
sort of a time did he have2" OH he
spent most of his time making sketches
of the mountains. He showed me lot
of them" How were they? Natural?"
'sWell-er-they'r certainly rocky
Philadelphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29
Emporia Normals IS; St. Mays o.

ST. Marys, Kan, Sept 29-The En-
poria Normals defeated st. Marys Mon
day afternoon by score Of As to o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29
Wichita and Return 1918 via Santa

Account fair and races. Tickets on
sale September 81 to October 3. Final
limit returning October 5.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29

ready for business with a complete line
OF new goods by the middle or next
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-29
Special Si.9S Walking Skirt

Well made of good mixed gray cloth
Seven gore. Seams all double stitched
Corded points, with buttons down from
belt on each gore.
The Washington times., 1903-06-07

| thin and drawn with pain. AS the nurse
and the visitor come to the door every
face is turned toward them with that
expression OF eager, expectant interest
that shows how wearisome have been
the long hours upon the sick bed. Some
are too weak and faint even to turn
their heads and lie motionless with
pallid lips set from hours of unceasing
pain. Some are moving restIessIy from
their sleep, or shifting again and again
their positions on the couch in vain at
tempts to find respite from their suf-
ferings. Yet all that human skill and
tenderness can do has been done for
them; and in nearly every instance, IN
less the assistance of the hospital has
not been asked till the patient is ire
coverably affected, science eventually
conquers disease and the child sufferer
is brought back TO health.
Your first thought of sorrow for the
misery of these little ones is Iightened
by the sight of the dozens of GONZALES
cent children who have been made we'll
once more. They crowd around the
sweet-faced nurses. happy and smiling,
and flushed with health and pleasure.
For those not quite well enough to ven
;y
er, there is a glass walled sun parlor,
where the children have room for many
they are pronounced ready to go out of
doors, and, playing about in the grass
and sunshine, grow strong and tanned.
and full of vigorous, healthy life. On
the spacious grounds surrounding the
hospital there is room for the children
to play all sorts of outdoor games-tag,
and Jacks for girls. ball and marbles
for the boys; and the nurses. too, are
welcomed with wild delight into their
games.
One tiny boy, never having known
such motherly kindness. gentleness, and
love as he has received from the nurses,
cries vociferously for mamma" when
ever one of the nurses leaves him. At
last comes the day when the patient,
perfectly recovered. is ready to leave
the hospital. and goes down the steps on
his wav home we'll again in heftar
health, probably, than ever before in
his short, unkindly nurtured life, and
equipped for a better fight In the great
struggle for life, happiness, and sue
cess
One of the recent additions to the eff
cheney of the hospital is the 4
is being equipped in the be sass T |
known to medical science 70 5r l.
The Washington times., 1903-06-07

of patients treated in the hospital rep
resent but a small portion of the dis
eased OF the class which the charity
was designed to relieve; that in the by
ways and novels of the city hundreds of
children perish miserably from maladies.
which, in great part, arise from a neg
lect of the most ordinary rules of health.
Poverty and privation, hunger and cold,
can, indeed, be born as long as health
supports nature in the struggle for ex-
istence, but when disease enters into
an abode where such conditions exist.
and where ignorance and vice are the
dangerous guardians of the sick bed. a
speedy death, or life with impaired
constitution, is the certain result
The Present Hospital Building.
In 1875 the old accommodations hav
ing been outgTown, purchase was made
of the square bounded by W, V. Twelfth
and Thirteenth Streets, which contains
about 100000 square feet, at a price Of
sl5,750. The square possesses peculiar
hygienic advantages for hospital pur-
poses, beins elevated, thoroughly dry
entirely free from marshy surroundings
sufficiently secluded from noise and bus
tie, and with supply OF water and
gas on each line of the square. The site
is easy of access by the Fourteenth ami
Eleventh Street cars, and but short
distance from the principal outlets to
the favorite drives in the northern narfe
OF the District. Upon this lot there
was erected building which was com
pleted on October 1. 1878, with the fol-
lowing specifications: The size of the
building is 4S by As, with basement
ten feet in depth, the principal story
Is feet. the second story 10 feet, and the
third story ~ feet high. The main hall
feet wide. runs through the building
from north 10 south, and a trapsoro
hall six feet wide runs from east IN
west The roof pitches to the four stdes
Win neat outlook, with ventiIatfng
sections at the apex. The front angles
of the building are decorated with beyeI
quoins of Ohio stone, water tables and
keystones of Ohio stone and the win
dows are of the same material.
The wing building. designed for wards
is 101 feet long and % feet wide. with
a bay window extending the whole
height, at the east end. The wing has a
basement, and is united with the main
building by n ten-foot corridor, near
which are located the bathrooms, all
uniting.
The building has been located about
forty-five feet south of the building line
of w Street. thereby leaving ample room
for handsome park and approach to it. !
The Washington times., 1903-06-07
Having Good Time in the Yard.

The entire cost was figured at s23. $50
AS soon as this building was completed
the hospital was moved from the build
! Ing which had been rented at the cor
/ ner of Thirteenth and F Streets north
west from the inception of the hospital
in 1870 to 1878.
The Board of Directors.
The president of the board of dl &c
tors is Frederic l.. Moore, who has Gil
ed that Office for four years and who
has been for years actively interested in
the work OF the hospital For sixteen
years he has been a member of Tho
board of directors, whose personnel ia
at present as follows: F. L. Moore
president; S. H. Kaufman, vice presi-
dent; w. P. Young, secretary; James B.
Lambie, treasurer; George n. Acker
NJ D., w. H. Beck, Mrs c. H. Davis
j. Maury Dove, j. Holdsworth Gordoa
Charles c. Glover, William B. Gnrlev
James NJ Johnston, H. B. LOCKER. F. p
Mcclure, Miss Virginia Miller, James
L. Norris. Mrs. Robert X. Stone. and
J. Ford Thompson. Some of the finest
physicians and surgeons of Washington
lead the medical staff
Only Young Children Received.
Only children under the age of twelve
years are admitted 10 the hospital.
Children are admitted only when an ex-
animation by the Board of Charities ID
judges their families unable to nav for
the needed treatment Within the last
two years a few patients have been ad-
mitted ON payment of a small fee. This
has been done under the new rules gov
erning the Board OF Charities of the Dis
trict of Columbia, for the disbursement
of Congressional appropriations. The
Board of Charities allows 80 cents per
day to apply on the care of each patient.
No infectious diseases are admitted. the
hospital at present having no ward for
the isolation of such patients, but it is
hoped that in the near future funds will
be raised for the establishing of such
ward
The hospital has at present four large
wards, each containing twenty odd beds
and a smaller ward for the use of babies
which now has twelve cribs, I02 beds in
all.
The two wards on the ground floor
are occupied by white children, and
those on the second floor by colored
children. The visitor who is conducted
by quiet-voiced nurse to the door of
the ward finds himself hushed and sad
dened at sight of the tenants of the
rows of little white cots. Bed after bed
bears a suffering child, its face pale and
The Washington times., 1903-06-07

z HENEVER you feel sorry for
NM yourself, go and see some one
who is worse off. This sounds
as though the sight would make you
happy by the comparison OF your lot
with that OF folk to whom fate has been
more unkind than 20 you, but in reality
the cure which is effected in you is
never through pharisaical smugness,
but through the uprising of new spirit
within you, a spirit of mindfulness for
-"altruism, the books call it
which will make you lose sight of your
own troubles because your mind will be
or a bit. If your worries are not over
such vital matters as the next meal and
bed for the night they are not apt TO
be murn more than troubles of the
mind; and they will vanish at sight of
people who are really in trouble. A
long time ago there lived gruf old
chap named Sam johnson, whose gruff-
ness concealed a heart so big it re-
quired his own huge form TO cover it;
and no matter what asperities he might
have been guilty of, he was in the right
mood when he struck his big fist on the
table and roared out:
"Sir! I hate to hear people whining
about metaphysical distress when there
is so much want and hunger in the
world
Blessed old Samuel.
Lives of the "Under Half"
So II, on some sweltering hot day, you
will leave the avenues of wealth and
luxury, go out from the cool shade of
their overarching trees, and seek the
poorer quarters of the city, you will
find people whose lives make yours seem
luxurious in comparison. The sun in
the city of the poor seems a different
thing from the sun that shines over the
farm districts or even the wealthy sec
lions OF the city Unchecked by shade
trees, it beats down on the frame cot
tages that are huddled together too
closely for the breeze TO find its way
among them, with an intensity that
converts them into ovens whose occu-
pants grow worn and pale instead of
sunburnt; on the dusty road the chill
dren play among the tin cans and
broken bottles; there isn't even enough
water for them to make mud pies: and
their pathetic little makeshifts for toys
are mute witnesses to the pitiful strug- |
gle that is waged by the under half" |
for a life better than mere existence. |
Perhaps there may be stagnant pool
OF drainage water. green and malarial, |
fouI-smellIng and oily, a breeding place |
for insects and disease; yet even this |
will be used by the children of the poor
in terrible obedience to the fascination
which water has for the child instinct
of play.
Suferings in the Sums.
During the hot weather. in the slum
districts of Chicago, the children may
be seen actually wading and splashing
about in the foul stagnating water of the
drainage canals, forced in their pitiable |
condition TO seek relief from the heat ir
a bathing pool whose very exhalation.
miasmatic and laden with malarial poi
sons. brings disease and death to those
whom it reaches. In New York the
children OF the tenement districts seek
tiers of the East River. where it laps
around the wharves. And in the poorer
quarters of Washington. Anacostia. and
the canal district of Georgetown, the
conditions are but little better. Many
of the habitations are comfortless; some
The Washington times., 1903-06-07

IL HENEvER you feel sorry for
NM yourself, go and see some one
who is worse off. This sounds
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
IN VARIOUS PLACES.

London has an American invasion OF
mosquitoes
The new Palace hotel at Bombay has
ordered 800 electric clocks Of a German
firm at Wiesbaden.
AChicago lawyer tells Of weird break
he witnessed In London last year. Over
a shop door a man had placed the mot
to: Mems Conscia Recti" "a mind con-
scious Of right. The next day a rival
tradesman across the street, not to be
outdone, flashed the following sign:
Mems and Women's Conscia Recti."
1t is being seriously suggested in
England that King Edward, breaking
through all tradition, should pay a visit
to America next year, beginning his
tour with a stay in Canada, as he did
many years ago. 1t is pointed out that
nowadays a transatlantic journey Is
really a small matter, and one writer
expresses the opinion that therefore
the visit Of European sovereign to the
United States is but a matter Of time.
Some surprise was expressed recently
In England when Lord RaVenscourt's
butler died, leaving an estate valued at
S15O,OOO, but investigation shows that
this is by no means a unique case. Men
In his position receive good salaries, |
and speaking roughly a good butler 4
may count on twice his salary IN tips. |
London weekly speaks Of q conserva-
tive n. P. (name not given) who in /
years gone By was Lord Salisbury's |
butler. The money he saved was in
vested in a hotel. which he conducted
successfully for Is years and then sold /
at an enormous profit. No inconsider-
able portion Of a buffers income is the
paid BY tradesmen.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE

Nearly 40 years as teacher IN one
school, and that the school where she
studied as a girl. is the record Of the
late Anna E. L. Parker, Of the Frank
lin school In Boston.
DR.. Maurice Bloomfield, professor Of
Sanskrit and comparative philology at
Johns Hopkins, is spending his vacation
in reading the proof Of a glossary Of
words found In the ancient Vedas Of the
Babylonians.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has given to the
university Of which she Is the patron
ess the famous Brugsch Bey collection
Of Egyptian antiquities. It contains a
vast number Of objects, large and small,
dating from 5000 to 5000 B. c.
Prof. George N. 0lcott, Of Columbia
university has several times been asked
what the initial M in his name stood
for. He usually evades these replies.
but he confessed a short time ago to an
old classmate that the mystic initial
stood literally for Nothing" Il was
q Whim Of his in undergraduate days
to endow himself with an initial, or, as
he expressed It, ito part his name in the
middle" And the letter IN" was
chosen.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
BRUSH AND CHISEL.

About the time that Whistler, the
artist, was causing q sensation with
the paintings which he called "A Har-
mony In Black and Red" "A Nocturn
, IN Blue" OF some such names, he had
q misunderstanding with his club re-
garding dues. The secretary finally
wrote to Mr.. Whistler saying that the
club would be glad to receive from him
"an arrangement In gold and silver"
Paris Is to have a statue Of Byron
from the chisel Of Sean De Charmoy,
who has made notable monuments Of
Baudelaire, Sainte-BeuVe and Alfred De
Vigny. His new work Is q commission
from the Byron committee, initiated
By Sir Edmund Monson and Jules Clar-
etie and including Duchess Dues.
Duchesse De Rohan, Comtesse De
NoIlles, Comtesse Grehulhe, Nine.
Sarah Bernhardt, NJ. Mounet-Sully, Ed
mond Rostand, NJ Sardou, Anatols
France, Francois Coppee, n. Sully-
Prudhomme and Sir Henry Irving.
NJ. Chauchard, director Of the
Grands Magisins du Louvre, whose col
lection Of paintings by French artists
will go to the government museums,
has the honor Of a statue before his
death. The sculptor Wigele has mod
eled him in modern dress, his long
whiskers falling in ample splendor on
his shoulders. The seated statue has
been placed in the Pavilion de Madame,
at Versailles, which until recently was
his country seat In the park belonging
to this estate be has built 100 small cot
tages. He has presented the property
to the employees Of his famous shops. |
When they retire from active life they
will become tenants Of these homes
without paying rent.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
GREEN TURTLES OF FLORIDA.
FIshermen Catch Then with Nets ~
They FIOat in Balls Of
Grass.

The EIeen turtles Of southern Flor
ida live in deep water and feed on sea
plaAts, mostly the kind called turtle
grass" which they cut on near the
roots, eating the lower parts and Ieay-
ing the tops floating 50 that It collects
in great fields and marks the spots
where the animals are to be hunted
Tor by the fishermen After browsing
in such ocean pastures the green tlr-
ties 60 TO the mouths u rivers for
baths Of fresh water, which they seem
TO need from time to time. The Flor
ida fishermen say the reptiles enter
the creeks and roll together in masses
Of grass. eementing them into balls
with clay. When the turn of the tide
takes the balls out to sea they follow
them The fishermen watch for such
balls floating down the creeks, and
when they see them they stretch nets
across the mouths Of the streams and
always catch the turtles.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
LIGHT AND HEAVY BRAINS.
More Gray Matter Than
Laborers.

In q recent memoir on the human
brain, DR.. Matiagta, Of Prague, one Of
the most eminent specialists Of Europe,
records the fact that the heaviest brain
he has found IL that Of a young man
Of % years and 1.SO meters in height,
which weighs 1890 grams. The fe-
male brain does not seem to rise over
1900 grams, and the Ightest he knows
about Excluding the very aged) was
1,020 grams, that Of a woman Of IS
years, 1.50 meters in height There Is
one Of 1000 grams belonging TO a wom-
an Of SO years. The average male brain
weighs ]. 400 grams, and the female 200
grams, between 20 and So years. OF
remarkable brains that Of Konstantinoh.
q Bulgarian novelist, weighed 1855
grams, and that Of Smetana, q composer,
only LEO grams. The average weight
Of the brain Of different occupations he
gives as from 1,410 to lao for work
men, !, ,46S for business men, professional
musicians and photographers, and ], 800
for medical men and persons whose call
ing supposes a university education.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
DRYING OUT zUYDER ZEE.
HOilanders Are Constantly at work
RecIaiminE Land from
the Sea.

The Chicago drainage canal Is a mere
plaything compared with the engineer
ing feat Of draining Haarlem lake in
Holland, says a writer In the New York
Tribune. The Dutch built dixie around
piece Of the sea and then pumped the
lake they had made entirely dry. This
was 80 successful that other portions Of
the sea have been reclaimed in the same
way. Now the Netherlanders have
set out to dry up a sea, the Zuyder Zee,
and reclaim about 900 square miles.
The cost Of this undertaking Is esti-
mated to be $41 100000 or $1,000, 900
more than the cost Of the New York
subway. The Dutch government, how
ever, expects to get its money back, as
it VIII have 100000 acres Of land, from
which 1t expects to get a rental Of
S4,5OO,OOO a year.
One might think that such a marShy
tract Of land, even after It had been re-
claimed and drained, would be malarial.
Not so. The draining Of the land will
be done a little at a time, so as to
shorten the marshy stage as much as
possible. Coast land, even II low,
when past the marshy stage, is ,espe- |
cially healthfuL Furthermore, the |
people Of that country are used to low |
land. At any rate, they succeeded In |
drying up Harlem.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
THIRTY-TwO-WHEEL CAR.
Largest One Ever Con-
structed.

A perfect car has recently been built
by the Bethlehem Steel company for its
own use. The company is supplying
some very large castings for 1900 ton
forging press for the Carnegie Steel
company, and this car is for their trans
portation, says the Engineering Record.
Both iron and steel castings are being
supplied. some Of the latter being Of
extraordinary size. One Of them re-
quires about 5000 pounds Of steel and
so 40-ton open-hearth furnaces are en-
ployed to provide the metal for It.
Tbs car has 16-wheel trucks, connect
ed by bridge trusses, 66 feet 10 inches
long and feet deep at the center.
The distance between the king bolts is
81 feet. The car is 103 feet 10JI inches
long, over the couplers, 10 feet 2K
inches high, and 9 feet 9 inches wide.
II weighs 196, ,420 pounds, and has a
rated capacity Of 800 900 pounds. The
largest car hitherto constructed was
that used by the Pennsylvania
railroad for transporting a Krupp gun
to the Columbian exposition. Il also
had 30 wheels, but fits rated capacity was
somewhat less than that Of the new
car.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER

A harness-broken zebra is worth s1O-
900.
I About 100000 wage earners will Be
represented by the American Fedora
ton Of Labor convention at Boston,
Mass, in November.
The United States signal corps will
establish wireless telegraph stations at
Fort Davis, Safety Harbor, st. MichaeIs,
Fort Pigeons, Bates Rapids and at
Valdez, where connections will be had
with the submarine cable at Puget
sound.
DR.. John P. FrizeIl has arrived in
Portland, Ore, from Climax island.
one Of the Aleutian chain, bringing with
him fine samples Of carbonate Of iron,
and says that there are thousands Of
tons In the AleUtian deposits. The
only other deposits are in Bavaria,
which supplies all the carbonate now
IN use.
Only three Of the Is members OF the
famous electoral commission Of 1877
ex-senator Edmunds, Senator Hoar
and Gen Eppa Hunton, Of Virginia
the two last having been chosen on the
part Of the house Of Representatives.
All Of the five justices Of the supreme
court who sat on the commission long
since passed away.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
IN FEW WORDS.

The man who is quite infallible q
equally intolerable.-Ram's Horn.
He alone is an acute observer who
can observe mlnutely without being OBJ
serTed.-Layater.
Lots Of men have so much genius that
they are unable to do anything but sii
IN the shade and think about it.-Chi-
eago Daily NsEL
Il you ind no pear to travel with you.
then walk eheerfully on alone, your goai
befora. the world behind; better alone
with your own heart than with 4 crowd
q habblers.-Buddha.
The broad ax., 1903-08-22
RAILROAD ADVERTISING.
Has Doss Haeh 70 RsvsaI tAs Beau-
tiss 81 Travel IN
Ameriea.

WAeI the passenger departments Of
the railroads began to advertise the
advantages Of their respective lines
and the teauties and points Of interest
along the night Of way. the conserVa-
tives stood aghast At the innovation,
says the Toledo Tones. II was freely
predicted that they would get tired Of
wasting their money or that their en-
plOyers would call them down and re-
fuse to eountsnance such expenditures.
Yet how different has been the out
come. The pioneers In the business
have been followed by imitators and
competitors, until some Of the most
attractive and interesting and instrue-
tive advertising Of the day Is done BY
the railroads. II Is. Of course. impos-
sible to know the full extent Of the
influence Of this advertising, but the
result has been to immensely stimulate
travel We Americans are Just learn
ing to appreciate leisure and to know
that one doesn't have to go a thousand
miles from home to get genuine rec
reation and an education that Is
pleasure to acquire.
The theory that everything worth
seeing is in Europe has been exploded
and the railroads, with their persist
ent, artistic and well constructed ad-
vertsing have lighted the fuse that
led to the explosion. Everyone with a
spark Of ambition desires to see sur
roundings different from his own. He
wants to travel But he breads going /
into strange scenes and conditions