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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25
With q Few Dollars.

to invest, the farmer or artisan DESTROYS
of changing his location should inves-
tigate conditions in Missouri. Kansas,
Indian Territory. Oklahoma and Texas
Business Chances and other interest
ing books telling of the prosperity and
progress in the Great Southwest free.
Address Katy" 3o4 Wainwright Bldg
St Louis, Mo. Low Colonist Excursions
from the North on the first and third
Tuesdays of each month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25
G. B. GALLON RESIGNS.
Former Topeka Man Leaves G. j. &
K c. Railroad.

Circulars have been issued announcing
the appointment Of J. E Baxter as aud
itor of the Gulf. Beaumont. and Kansas
City railroad George B. Gallon, the for
appointment is effective at once. Mr.. Gal
lon was formerly Of Topeka and was EN-
ployed in the auditors office Of the San
ia Fe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25
ssrlksrg Adopt MiIltarz &c.

Pitsburg Pa. March 25.-All is quiet
today 1T South Thirty-fourth street
where many cars of structural iron for
the ~ bash bridge have been lying
for eraI days past. The strik-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

Bauer Miss ollie AcNoun Miss Lizzie
Barnes, Miss Jessie Bickel. Miss 1fallie
Guffy. Pearl Horton Marion Horton.
Galen Saunders. Clinton. Ketchum. Ed
win Fraser and Edmond Hanlon- After
dinner d picture of the hostess and her
guests was taken in the yard
A crowd of young people went to tI,a
home Of J. II. Skinner last evening and
enjoyed a taffy pull The affair was ilf
nonor of Mrs. SINNERS sister. Mrs
Allen, Of Troy. Ohio. and those present
were Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Skinner. AIRS
Elmer Olinger. Misses Ellen and Ann
f1eartburg. Grace and Elizabeth Roat
Greece and Effie Page. Jessie and COR
Priddy. Grace Miller. Edith Porter Jes-
sic Shellabarger. Lou and Ruth skin
her and Letitia Pierce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

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Everything in the package. Simply edd hot
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pense. Try it to-day. In Four Fruit Fla
yors: Lemon, Orange, Strawberry, Rasr-
berry. At grooers. 10o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

DR.. ia. Rooster, dentist. 515 Kansas
ave. Evening hours, to 8. Phone 1874.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

The Lenten Sewing society which the
women of the Evening club have form
cd. met today with Mrs George Craw-
ford
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

A wheelman's tool bag isn't complete
without a bottle of DR.. Thomas Belize
trio oil. Heals cuts, bruises, stings
sprains. Monarch over pain
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

entertain the Friday Night club this
week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-25

The Golden Rule club viii give a
charity tea at the home of Mrs Will
lam Archer POI Fillmore street. Friday
afternoon March p.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
Spanish Frfendliness.

Speaking OF Spanish officers re-
minds me OF the misapprehension that
continues even today among our people
concerning their hostility toward us.
AS n matter OF fact. an American
army officer will not find anywhere in
Europe more genuine and cordial cour-
tesy than from them. 1t may come
from long Inheritance In this grave
and courtly nation" or spring from the
real absence OF any sustained enmity
toward people who have brought
them much suffering. but where army
officers are concerned 1t undoubtedly
takes its source in that sentiment
which was as spontaneous at Santiago
as ut Fontenoy and which forms a
real and unconscious brotherhood
among military men OF all nations In
both peace and war.-Captain T. Bent
ley Mott United States Army, In
Gcribner's.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06

Many people have heard the "Afarcbe
Funebre" Of Chopin. but few are
aware that II had its origin In a rattle,
CHASTITY after dinner fro!ic. The painte,
Ziem. still living in haIe old age. re-
lates how about fifty-six years ago he
had given a little bohemian dinner In
his studio. which was divided by hang
inSs into three sections. In one of
these wns skeleton sometimes used
by Ziem for .'dr.ping" and an old plano
covered with n sheet During the after
dinner fun Zicm and the painter Ricard
crept into THIS section. and, wrapping
the old sheet like pail around the
skeleton. carried IL among their COM
rades. where PoiiSnac seized 1t and.
wrapping himself With the skeleton In
the sheet sat down to play queer
tance OF death at the wheezy old piano.
In the midst or II all Chopin. who was
OF the party. was seized with an In
SEPARATION and. seating himself at the
piano with an exclamation that brought
the ro1stcrers TO their senses. extern
porized then and there the lannon's
"Marche Funebre." while his bohe-
milan auditory applauded In frantic de-
iiglrt.-Londoa Globe.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
a Women With Nerve.

A strange story comes from China OF
n remarkable operation for append
citis performed by Mrs. William II.
Logan, wife of medical missionary
in China. When living I'm the far In
terror OF that vast country. 500 miles
from the nearest doctor. her husband
was stricken with appendicitis. DIR.
Logan saw that his only chance of re-
covery lay I'm IN operation. which he
asked his wife to perform according TO
instructions which he gave her. A
more appalling position for human
being TO be placed In could scarcely
be imagined, but this heroic woman.
who might perhaps have screamed IL n
mouse had run over her feet. placed
her husband under an annsthetic and
with her unskilled hand successfully
removed his appendix. Afterward.
when he had rallied sufficiently to be
moved. she took him 500 miles by
wagon and rail to physician. who
completed the cure
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
Sale of picken.. p,r,hn,.c..

The house in which Charles Dickens
was born. 1903 Commercial road, Ports
mouth. was sold by auction at Ports
mouth the other day and realized
t1,12o. There were only two bidders
the mayor, Sir w. T. Dupre. who was
acting on behalf Of the town, and q
competitor whose name was not dis
closed. The bidding started at 1900
and In less than two minutes had adj
vanced by f100 bids to f7O0. Then the
competition rose by ESQ to $3.50. AT
this point Mr.. J. Clark, who was the
aucttoneer, consented to take twenty
five pound advances, and In less than
n quarter of an hour from the opening
of the sale the bidding reached FL. 125.
ut which price the house was knocked
down to the mayor. Mr.. +. G. Kitton,
representing the Boz club and the Dick
ems Fellowship. congratulated the may
or on his purchase of the house for the
town and promised the assistance of
the society he represented In convert
Ing the place Into an interesting Dick
ems museum. The auctioneer mention.
cd that half a million strangers visited
Portsmouth every year. and II a tenth
OF these visited the house and paid
sixpence each the purchase money
would be Reimbursed in the first year.
The mayor replied that the town had
paid more for the house than its in
trinsic value, but he defended its con-
duct on the ground that 1t could not
AFFORD to allow such an opportunity to
escape.-Londou Times.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
PhynioaI Side OF L,..,a,,-c.

Apropos OF the sadly early death of
NJ CASTOR Larroumet. a French con-
temporary raises the question whether
there Is anything In the nature of lit
erary pursuits that makes against lon
gevity. The answer is. OF course. that
essentially there is nothing, but that
accidentally there may be a great deal.
That the actual worry Of composition
wears out the frame prematurely Is
more than the facts warrant any one
In saying. In every age and in every
country literature has been well repre-
sented by hale and hearty veterans.
Legouve. Mommsen. Tolstoi. Tcnnyson.
Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes and
George Meredith are the most obvious
names on a list thatse every reader will
be able to supplement. So long as It is
possible TO compile such a list without
even stopping to think the most bitter
enemies OF literature can hardly class
It with unhealthy trades. Poets, dram
atists and noyelists seem on the aver
age to live longer than millIonaires.
ana insurance Offices have no reason to
refuse their premiums.-LondonG raph-
fc
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
Curious Prediction.

Nostradamus. who lived some cen
turies ago. Ia vel. known on account OF
his curious predictions, and now his
admirers claim that IN one OF his cele-
brated Quatrains he clearly foretold
the exact date OF the death OF Leo XIII
In this quatrain. as NJ. Henri Dou
Chef, a French occultist. points out
Nostradamus predicted that during the
twentieth century a pope would iii. on
the same day that "a hairy star van.
tshed from the sky.
NJ. Douchct maintains that Nostrada.
mus had a comet in mind when he
wrote and that the prediction has been
literally fulfilled. since the BorelIi
comet, which was discovered mt the
observatory OF Afarseilles. vanished
from the sky on the very day OF Pope
Leo's death. s1s-aaEslo
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
SILENT AT THE THROTTLE.
Locomotive Enxineers Not IpcItneI
tn he Comm unicntive.


Locomotive Enxineers Not Ipcltned
to he Communicative.
or the men who sit in the cab of a
locomotive and turn the machine loose
in a race OF 100 miles I'm 100 minutes II
Is said they are the most modest indi-
viduals of the human family.
This is a fact said to be clearly
shown by talk with any of the Chi
cago engineers who have any such
record. 1t Is evidenced not 50 much
from what they say when questioned
as from what they do not and cannot
be induced to say.
For not two men in a dozen of fast
runners are given to talking about
what they have accomplished. Much
less are they inclined to pass any opin-
ion OF the capabilities OF any other en-
gineer.
Take IL all in all, the men who ride
the iron horse I'm races that are appall.
ing are the oldest characters in the
Jumpers of mechanic. A short time
ago special train was chartered to
make a fast run down the country
ton was delayed by the coal shoot
apron becoming unmanageable. The
man who sat in the cab ahead was as
cool as an iceberg. but no sooner had
the apron been hoisted out of the way
than he opened up the valve and began
n race that for speed and smoothness
was one Of thousand.
ARRIVING mt our destination" said
the conductor who had charge Of the
train. "the engineer found awaiting
him telegram from the general super
intendent OF the road, who paid him
the highest compliment that an official
could extend to an employee. The man
read the telegram and showed II into
the pocket of his blouse without a
change or -countenance. No one from
looking under the peak of his cap could
tell what sort of feeling had been
awakened. even if it affected him ut
all"
A fast runner. being approached by
an outsider who wants to know some
thing about the life Of an engineer,
will invariably be asked to see So-and-
80, who is another engineer on the
same run or division.
"He's a mighty good engineer and
can tell you more OF what you want to
know than 1 can" And then he goes
about his putting steed feeling for hot
places and poking long spouted oiler
under the machinery. 1t is 10 to i
that the other man will get out of it I'm
the same way.
Few engineers who have been found
out of fast runners will make any
compa risons of any kind of their runs
with those of other engineers. There
is one thing, however, about which an
engineer Of this class Is "touchy." Sup
pose he has made fast run, but has
been laid out or delayed from one cause
or another. lie invariably wants that
delay deducted from the total time Of
the run.
Railroad men say that the longer a
man runs an engine the longer he
wants to. He is In love with his dan
gerous calling. and he Is veritable
duck out of water when once be real
lies that he is laid Off for all time
Chicago Tribune.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
Marvellous Escape from
Death |
PAINE'S CELERY
COMPOUND
Does a Wondrous Work for a Lady
Who Was Almost Crazed with
Pain and Suffering.

1t is we'll known that terrible rheumatism.
seiatica, and neuralgia cause more helpless.
ness, acute suffering, and agony. than any OF
the other diseases that affiict humanity. The
great medicinal virtues of Painc's Celery Com.
pound make it the only Trustworthy specific
tor the cure of all forms of rheumatism and
neuralgia. Thousands of strong testimonial
letters from the most prominent people of the
land, prove that Paine's Celery Compound
has banished these terribly fatal troubles when
all other treatment has failed. Mrs. Mar.
garet Bethel, of Brainerd, Minn., after thirty
years OF agonizing tortures had a desire TO end
her lie, II 1t was the will of Heaven; she al.
most prayed for the time to lay it down.
acknowledged. she made use of Paine's
Celery Compound, and is enjoying true life
once more. She says:-
For thirty years have been a great suf.
ferer from neuralgia in the head, and also
with rheumatism in the whole body. BEGAN
taking Paine's Celery Compound and soon
found was much better. Before taking the
Compound, my life was such burden that |
almost prayed to lay it down. Twas bedfas,
every two weeks with horrible pain in the
head, back, and neck, until was almost
crazed. am able to do harder work and
more OF it today than for twenty years. |
am really enjoying life again, thanks to
faine's Celery Compound. / am satisfied
,hat my life has hcen prolonged many years
by its use''
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
TIL. uannx ,.a,..

Since Poor 10 has stopped facing
the setting sun and delivering fourth
render orations he has managed to
pick up considerable portion of this
worlds goods. There are about 23S.-
OOO I'oor Los. and they cost this gov
ernment $9.S0O.0O0 every year, and Of
this $500. 600 goes for education. Stin
the Indian does not improve much
Sometimes he becomes a ball player
or football player. and on one occa-
sion, to the sorrow Of his manager, Mr..
Burton, he became a singer in opera.
The Indians are we'll cared for. They
have free education, and they have a
good income from the United States.
This Is Increased by little work, but
not too much work, for the Indian does
not believe In labor. All told, he has
about the best time of any man or race
OF men on this giobe.-Worceste Tele-
Rr0m 81 casa
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
THE sPlNSTER IN GERMANY


Hard Country For the UnnarrRea
Woman Who Must Earn . Living.
The education OF German girl be-
gins at six. II is compulsory, and the
rule for attendance Is strictly enforced.
A mother cannot keep a delicate or
aiitng child at home without a Doctors
certificate. Work is carried on at the
fullest stretch, and the strain on mind
and body is such that many a German
girl leaves school with her nerves
shaken and her health injured for life
Little time is allowed for gymnastics
or outdoor games, though some change
In this respect is now being made. and
at sixteen the girl leaves school, after
passing numberless examinations, her
studies having included languages, his
tory, science. mathematics, dancing
and singing, thorough course In cook
cry ana needlework. 1t is Of these
last two accomplishments that she
makes the most use In after life. The
rest lead to nothing. and In the ma
tority OF cases the girl might just as
well have been spared the strain OF
acquiring so much superhuous educa-
ton.
Marriage Is considered as much a
sine qua non with a German as with
n French girl, but 1t is not arranged in
the same businesslike way, unhappily,
1t would seem. 1t Is left to the young
woman herself to attract a husband,
and, as spinsterbood in Germany has
few attractions. girls are continually
occupied with their matrimonial
chances.
An unmarried woman is an absolute
failure. While her parents live she re-
mains I'm entire subservience to them,
and when they die she Is usually ter.
ribly poor, while IL Of good birth she
would rather starve than work for pay.
If she belongs to an aristocratic FAM
lily, she may obtain a small allowance
of about SIPS a year, with board and
lodging In stiff, or sort Of lay con-
vent, endowed by successive bknefac-
tors for the support of these unmar-
ried daughters and sisters. Residence
I'm the stiff is only compulsory for
few months Of the year. and the stiff
dame may visit and receive friends az
much as she likes.
Teaching is the principal occupation
open to those women obliged to earn
their livelihood, but the government
examinations are severe, the pay poor
and the work hard, and there are few
opportunities OF rising. or late years
women are beginning to work for uni
versity degrees so that they may take
equal places with the men in the
schools. and the Froebel movement has
helped some TO more satisfactory posi-
lions. Hospital nursing s almost the
only other profession open to the sex.
Dentists are numerous. bat medical
degrees must still be obtained abroad,
and feminine journalism is confined to
the realm OF fashion.-Iadies' Field.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
A De~eher Letter

Among some letters given by Major
J. B. Pond TO DIR. Lyman Abbott. ed
ttor OF the Outlook. which were written
by Henry Ward Beecher Is the follow
Ing one.'of which DR.. Abbott says:
The letter which follows / Judge he
never sent. since he was not accus-
toned to keep copies OF his letters. and
this copy. I'm his own handwriting.
Is In the correspondence:
Dear Sir-I have received and read
your long and extraordinary letter. Its
false Statements. Its fierce arrogance, its
pase innuendoes. can be charitably con-
strued only on one OF two theories-(D
that You are insane OF (0 that you are n
nneai descendant OF that ass on which
Christ rode into Jerusalem and who ever
afterward regarded himself as an author
ity In all religious matters. From him
mas come down an innumerable poster
stand"
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
A Modest Gfver

Abram s. Hewitt alone knew who
gave $230.0O0 to New York's Cooper
Union last year, and very likely no one
else ever will know. The story as he
told 1t was that after Mr.. Carnegie's
gift OF 100000 he was wondering
where the next 100000 should come
from when "a gentleman whom have
long known. who had never manifested
any special interest in Cooper Union.
called at my house" and after n chat
and cup OF tea said. by the way, I
have got something for you, little
gift for Cooper Union," "and to my In
tense establishment he handed me $780,
600" 1t was certified check on a
trust company. Mr.. Hewett turned It
over to the corporation and never told
any one who the modest giver was.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
70 Getting Around nj.

George Bruce Corteiyou while secre-
tary to President Mckinley one morn
Ing sat before an amusement OF mail
energeticaliy trying to reduce Its pro-
portions. Secretary Long. passing
through the room ut the time. extended
the sympathy OF a man familiar with
the contents Of so many letters.
: Mr.. Cortelyou. are you sitting en-
raptured before an Egyptian pyra-
MIDI asked the head Of the navy.
The Egyptian pyramids have an
advantage" answered the forlorn Cor
telyou. "You can so around them. but
there's no getting around the one on
my desk. You have to 60 through
It."
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
AN ENEMY TO THE WHALES
strange Creature Snid to Exist In
Alaskan Waters

Strange Creature Snid to Exist In
Aiasl<an Waters.
While operating fishery on Admi-
rally island, Alaska. last summer my
attention and the attention OF the ash
ing crew were almost daily attracted to
large marine creature that would ap-
pear in the main channel OF Seymour
Sanai and our immediate vicinity.
There are large numbers OF whales Of
the species rorqual there. and the mon
ster seemed TO be their natural enemy.
The whales generally travel in schools,
and while at the surface to blow one
would be singled out and attacked by
the fish, and battle was soon I'm or
der.
IL IS the nature of the rorqual to
make three blows at intervals OF from
two TO three minutes each and then
sound deep and stay beneath the sur
face for thirty or forty minutes.
AS whale would come to the sur
face there would appear always at the
whales right side and just about where
his head would connect with the body
great long tail or fin. Judged by five
fishermen and number OF Indians aft
er seeing IL about fifteen times ut vari-
Gus distances" to be about twenty-four
feet long. two aud one-half feet wide
mt the end and tapering down TO the
water, where 1t seemed to be about
eighteen inches in diameter, looking
very much like the blade of the fan of
an old fashioned Dutch windmill.
Tlis great club was used on the back
OF the unfortunate whale in such a
manner that 1t was wonder to me
that every whale attacked was not in
stantly killed. Its operator seemed to
have perfect control of it's movements
and would bend II back till the end
would touch the water. forming n
horseshoe loop; then with sweep it
would be Strengthened and brought
over and down on the back of the
whale with whack that could be
henrd for several mises. IL the whale
was fortunate enough to submerse HIS
body before the blows came the spray
would fly for q distance of 100 feet
from the effect of the strike, making q
report as loud as yachts signal gun.
What seemed most remarkable to me
attacked whale went or how fnst 1.-THE
usual speed Is about ID knots, that
great club would follow right along
by its side and deliver those ire
mendous blows at intervals of about
four or five seconds. 1t would always
get In from three TO FIVE blows at each
or the three times the whale would
come to the surface to blow. The
whale would generally rid itself Of the
enemy when 1t took It's deep sound, es-
pecially If the water was forty faith
oms or more deep.
During the day the attack was al
ways offshore. but Mt night the whales
would be attacked In the bay and
within 400 yards of the fishery.
y 1 do not know OF any whales being
killed. but there were several that had
great holes and sores on their backs.
Questioning the Indians about Il. l
was told that there was only one. that
1t had been there for many years and
that it once attacked an Indian canoe
and with one stroke OF the great club
mashed the canoe into splinters, kill
ing and drowning several OF fits occu-
pants--Forest and Stream.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
The Injuries Euumcr.tea

Casey-Shure. they do be teIiin' me
that Big Moike Monohan wor knocked
down be an autymobtle yesterday. wor
there any bones broke, I dunnof
Conley-Troth an there wor. The
owner av the divil wagon got his nose
broke. the chawfer got his jaw broke.
an Big Motke broke the sicond knuc-
kle av his roight fisht.-Puck.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-11-06
Oxford and Cambridge Sell Degrees.


The most stupendous of all academic
frauds is none other than the NJ. A..
degree or either Oxford or Cambridge.
Year by year hundreds OF graduates
exchange the Il. A. for NJ. A. without
having added one iota to their scholar
ship and merely by virtue of pay
ment OF money. From this dubious
source the universities I'm question de-
rive n handsome but wholly indefensi-
bic revenue, TO the disadvantage OF
London NJ. AS. who have to face n
stiG examination.
1t Is surely an anachronism that n
university should grant supposed
honor not as reward for intellectual
or even athletic achievement. but sole
~ In order to raise the wind" n pol
Icy which inflicts grave advantages
upon the poor man who may have taxi
en- high honors and yet be unable TO
buy a masters gown. When Oxford
md Cambridge abolish their bogus de-
grees II will be time enough to censure
America. News.