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GOLD MEDAL
FLOUR.

as BARRELS GOLD MEDAL =
s07 BARRELS ROYAL.
no BARRELS CRESCENT.
III BARRELS OBEIISK.
ssA BARRELS GOLDEN EAGLE.
100 BARRELS COLUMBIA.
ais BARRELS VIOLET.
n BARRELS NEW MULLETS.
AS BAGS O. s. MEAL.
600 BAGS WHEAT BRAN.
40 BAGS n. @. PEANUTS.
IS. BAGS VA. PEANUTS.
PRICES AND TERMS PLEASE.
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PRODUCE.

PEANUTS-North Carolina $1,000
s1.35Qs1.40; Virginia s1.90@$1.10; Span
ish $1.0O@$1.O5.
BEESWAX-25 to 26c.
CORN-67k to 20.
CORN MEAL-65 to 67h.
EGGS-15c.
CHICKENS-Hens. 4oc; spring 10 to
25 cents.
BEEF-2 to 4 cents.
N. c. BACON-Hams (old) 12h014c,
hams (new) 121kc; shoulders 10@11c;
sides old 10 to lie; sides (new) 10c.
SWEET POTATOESt$1.0O.
SHINGLES-Per 1000: 5-inch saps
$500: 5-inch hearts $500; 6-inch saps
$780,; 6-inch hearts $500.
TIMBER
Per NJ Extra milling. so
Mill prime ..S7.00@7.50
Mill fair $6.50@7.0O
Common mill .................S500Q0.50
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Cash UuOtatIOns Were as OIIOWS
Flour was quiet and steady; No. ?
spring wheat 3SQ$1.O0; No. 3, SQ9I;
No. . red s1.0SQS1.10: No. 2 corn 49h;
No. 2 yellow 5lh@51%; No. 2 oats 40A-
@40A; No. 8 white 37@42k: Nc. 2 rye
S.; mess pork per barrel $l2.95Gs13.00;
lard per 100 pounds s6.92hQsS95; short
ribs sides (loose). $7.37k@$7-50; shor
clear ides (boxed), $7.25q$7.50: whis-
key, basis7of high wines, SIPS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05

We who live in the valley Of humilia-
ton should look up with reverence to
the mountains of self confidence.-Rev.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05

good because he wants to be, but mere
~ to escape the punishment that he Is
told will be meted out to him-Rev.
DR.. Thomas R. S1cer. Unitarian, New
York
THE CENTER OF ACTIVITY.
The soul is the center OF action, Civ
ing to man personality. Takes away
his soul powers and you reduce man to
the level OF the brute creation The
soul is Gods impress, the likeness OF
God in which man was made And ft
IS this God given soul that is to con-
troll the bodily members That It may
rightly control. the soul has been en-
doWed with faculties Intellectual NOR
man receives knowledge: through his
moral nature he puts forth actions CT
right or wrong IN relation to his fell
low men and, above all, to his God
Brooklyn.
CHRIST AS 4 DAILY FOOD.
Christ not merely heals the sinful. but
prevents disease in the strong We shall
as daily food for our minds and hearts
The assimilation Of food In the body has
acter: Only as food is digested is its
blessing experienced Characters are
life Real manhood is made by doing
Gods will Taking Christ into our lives.
our deficiencies are both revealed and
remedied Assimilation Is a common law.
The child asSimilateS the mother. Artists,
musicians ana sfuGentS are no4ded by
their teachers. Friends influence friends
and Christ makes US like himself. we
master his Instructions, recdprocate his
friendship and keep his commandue
Rev. I n. Dorchester, Methodist, St.
Louis.
LIVING AND DEAD TREES.
Would that instead of being e dead
tree to Christ we could become g living
tree in Godl ArbcrcuIturists declare
that the roots are just wide and
strong underneath the ground the
branches Of the tree growing overhead
myself in climbing g mountain have
seen q tree which by the strength Of its
roots has been able to grow upon the side
of a precipicet Let Us as living trees
sink our roots deep and fastan them
a hol1t calvary Rock Let Us 1T our
branches high. that our leafy hands may
be cIeansed with showers OF heavenly
beredictfons- Then when the time comes
for the human tree to fall Christ will lift
I'D and carry Us above one Of the pillars
Of the heavenly temple he once carried
his own cross toward Calvary Upon
that cross he died for our stns--Rsy-
Frank De- Witt TaImase. Presbyterian.
Chicago
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For the Women.

In addressing a girls school Bishop
Huntington once said Probably there
IS not an instrument in common use.
from a pencil to q piano which is used
50 imperfectly as language. If you
will let me be plain, suspect that it
would be safe to offer a gold medal as
q prize TO any young lady here who
viii not, before tomorrow night utter
some sentence that cannot be parsed /:
who VIII put no singuIars and pIurals
IN forbidden connections; viii drop no
particles, double no negatives, mix no
metaphors, tangIe no parentheses; be-
gin no statement two or three times
over without finishing It; and not once
construct a proposition after this man
ner- When a person talks like that
they ought TO be ashamed OF it -
Miss Helen Louise Johnson of the
department of domestic science at the
Brooklyn Institute gave the following
nuggets OF wisdom to one Of her class
es recently on the subject Of the serv-
ing Of a formal dinner:
The formal dinner IS the most formal
of all social functions. The rules gov
erning i are the most strict and IN
varying You can do all kinds of things
with luncheon. and have all kinds Of
things to est You cannot take liber-
ties with a dinner.
You cannot have good service when
the unexpected guest arrives, unless
You have good service every day
Bread should be cut in squares and
put in the napkin, and the napkin fold
ed so as to show the bread I do not
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and they who would help their fellow
men succeed only in harming them in
stead, the initial error is to be found in
some departure from his precepts who
is the way and the life The rich young
man came to Jesus running and kneel-
ed to him We must do the same 1t
is the only right beginning either of
social study or Of social living. Look
at it until you see it with the eyes of
your SOuEthe Master standing strong
and gracious and the young man kneel-
ing at his feet--Rev- George Hodges,
Pittsbprg-
A GENIUS FOR RELIGION.
The writer's Of the Bible were all. so
far as We know. informed of the Jew
ish race This fact sheds a feed Of light
on the Bible Certain races have a Pc
cultar fitness for certain things-tte
Greek for art for instance and the
AngIo-saxon for cfvfliza ton So the
Jews had genius for religion The
Bible IN al its various parts is essen
TALLY q religious book God is the CEN
ter Of all its thoughts. It represents
the supreme product Of that race whose
genius was religion for ages.-Rev. P. T.
Sutphen, Presbyterian. Cleveland
THE ACCEPTANCE OF TRUTH.
The believer in the universally of law
may be grateful for all the good that
comes to him from the divine order, just
as the graduate realizes in later life the
depth Of his obligation to his unfver-
sity. In the same way all other ren-
gious emotions will survive the accept
ance of truth. whatever that truth may
be.-Rev. DR.. G. R. Dodson. Univer-
saltst, ST. Louis
CHRISTIAN REPRODUCTION.
What we sow we reap. Character re-
produces itself in life Grapes do not
bring forth thorns. tares do not pro-
duce wheat If you want character
you must pay the price for it Sowing
love, you shall reap love Sowing hon
or and truth. honor and truth you will
reap. Therefore, the punishment is not
| imposed by God from without, but is
| imposed by the soul from within.-Rev.
Dr. Newell Dwight Hills, CongTega-
| tionaIist Brooklyn
GOODNESS THROUGH FEAR
There is a class of people who try
/ to do good from fear. They are in
stiIIed with q terrible dread of the con-
I sequences of the hereafter and do their
level best to do good But I will state
candidIy that there is nothing to fear.
God is too nerciful kind. just end
good, but still man viii go on day by
| day living IN mortal dread He isn't
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weak and the weary and the faint
hearted may find repose- Such men,
such women, the church and society
need today.-Rev. Laurence J. Deering,
Catholic, Philadelphia
STRENGTH DISSIPATED By
TRIVIALITIES.
The empire of thought today is con-
stantiy invaded by the anarchy of het-
ing and trivial interests. Religion it
self instead Of being the supreme in
fuence in liz becomes for many only
one of its multiform Incidents. So the
great cause of God and humanity. the
great problems which knockso urgent
ly for solution. are left unanswered
because our minds are distracted by a
multitude Of trivial concerns which
dissipate strength and sap energy
Rev. D S. MacKay, Congregat ionalist,
New York
NOT AN UNJUST GOD
1t is my firm conviction of convtc-
ton that becomes stronger the older I
grow that nine-tenths of human suf-
ferfngs are not Gods will but mans
wanton violation of wantOn ignorance
Of known or movable laws OF life and
health and duty. 1t is my firm convic-
ton that every sufferer from malig-
nant fever. from hereditary disease
from exhaustion and excess, from ig-
norance and neglect, from tyranny and
oppression, is a consequence OF mans
injustice and not the visitation of an
koph. Hebrew, Philadelphia
THE VERIFY OF THE BIBLE
In the Bible there are no errors con-
trary to the philosophy of nature
Though written variously in the sands
of Arabia in central Asia, in the des-
erts of Judea. in the porches OF the
Jewish temple, in the magnificent pal
ace of Babylon, in the rustic schools OF
the prophets Of Bethel and Jericho, this
book rides upon cherub and walks
upon the wings of the wind--Rev- W
F. Black. Christian, Chicago.
STRUGGLE FOR EQUILIBRIUM.
A great salvation Of society lies IN the
fact that it never happy, never content
The struggle for equilibrium is the
struggle for its peace, an equilibrium
which, suppose, it shall never achieve
but the struggle for which is salvation
I do not mean by the frank acceptance
of the limitations of life the limitations
of spiritual condition Whatever truth
man has heard man may hear.-Rev- T
R. SIicer, Unitarian, New York
AN EXAMPLE TO FOLLOW.
Whenever good intention goes astray
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the United States before. If the NOR
tally of fifty years ago prevailed in New
York City alone, 10000 people living
to-day would have died There is an
actual prolongation of life to-day, which
can be counted IN convincing figures,
due to the advancement IN medical sci
ence IN the past fifty years. Formerly
cholera, yellow fever and smallpox car
RED of thousands of people; o-day
these diseases are better understood, and
as It is known how these diseases spread
they are prevented from getting start.
Startling cures for old age, such as the
Brown-Sequard Elixir, using the lymph
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RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned from the Teachings
All Denominations

We who live in the valley Of hunilfa-
ton should look up with reverence to
the mountains of self conhdence--Rev.
Frank Crane, Unfversalist, Worcester,
Mass.
FAITH AND UNDERSTANDING
Faith is something that must be
coupled with understanding I do not
agree with those who say we must
leave reason out of religion. 1t is the
business of the man who has shield
in battle to use it efficiently and eff
fectiveIv.-Rev. Dr. William H. Nc
PROGRESS THROUGH PAIN
All the great souls of history have
sweat blood in the performance OF
their work. The men who have pro-
jected mighty movements in history.
the men who fought the devils of soci-
ETY. and the men who lay the devils
within themselves must grid them
selves for struggles, social and person
al. All progress is through pain and
effort.-Rev. L Hulley. Baptist, Balti-
more
THE OLD AND NEW.
Whatever it may be, the old is al
ways tiresome Only the new is inter
esting To the naturalist the world re-
tains its fascination, although an old
world. because Of the deeper entrance
he day by day gains into that world
and the ever fresh disclosures of new
" discovered wonderfulness and beauty
that she thereby makes over to him.
Rev. Charles H Parkhurst, Presbyte-
rian. New York
In a blessed home life character win
spring I'D from the tiny seed and, with
Gods fructifying grace will become
mighty tree. against which the shocks
of Temptation prevail naught- meath
the shadow Of whose branches the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05
VICTORIES OF MODERN MEDICAL
SCIENCE.


We mean by preventive medicine that
BY proper treatment disordered system
can be put in the best possible condition
to resist disease. The most important
channel for carrying disease is the blood.
In old age the channels of our body, the
veins and arteries, close up, they become
encrusted with deposits which prevent
the free aow of blood. What we re-
uuire to live long and healthy lives is
good pure blood and free flow of it to
all important organs. Recent discover
les have proved that it's not only import
ant to have pure red corpusc1es but also
plenty of white corpusc1es, as these lat
ter act as the scavengers of the body.
IF diseased germs enter the system, It is
the duty of these white blood-cells to
destroy the noxious germs. Thus, there
is a continual strife going on inside our
body between our bodyguard and the
outside enemy. Dr. R " Pierce, the
chief medical director of the Invalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo,
n. Y, early recognized the importance
of the blood in the human economy ard
its relation to health and long life, and
set about to find in nature some plants
that would stimulate the blood-cells and
reiuvenate the whole system After
wears of experimenting, DR.. Pierce dis
covered q medicine u90C CQLIS1Y OF
roots and herbs, without the use OF alco-
hoI, that made rich red blood, and this
medicine has been given to the public
and can be obtained from any dealer
in medicines Ia this country. Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as
sists the stomach and other organs in
digesting the food and taking from it
such elements as are necessary to feed
the blood This assimilation helps in
the oxidation of the red blood corpus
cles, the liver is stimulated into greater
activity, and IN consequence the poisous
in the system are eliminated, the heart
gets the right kind of blood and the per-
son feels invigorated and stronger. AS
a tissue-builder 1t is far preferable to cod
liver oil because it gives the blood and
/ the tissues the food elements they re-
quire and maintains a persons equilib-
rum by enabling him to eat, retain,
digest and assinilate nutritious food. 1t
overcones gastric irritabi1ity and symp-
toms of Indigestion Because OF the
good effects of DR.. P1erce's Golden Med
ica1 Discovery upon nutrition the tissues
are built up and the symptoms of catarrh,
/ threatened consumption, weakness, or
/ debility, such as fever, night sweats,
headaches, etc, are dispelled-
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A woman's eyes are the first objects
to attract a mans attention and they
are the last things he remembers about
her, says writer in the Chicago Inter
Ocean Long after he has forgotten the
color of her hair, the dimpIe in her
chin and the soft, sweet sound OF her
voice, the look in her eye remains with
him.
He may not be able to single her
glove out Of q pile OF keepsakeS; he
may have cast her photograph upside
down into the waste basket with a lot
of others; the slippers she made him
may have been worn out by his valet,
but still some particular turn of her
glance, some little trick of dropping
her lashes or lifting her eyes will be
as clear TO him as the daylight Ten
years after love has been laid away
in his little satin-Iined casket that
glance will rise ike Banquo's ghost at
the feast and startle him just at the
moment when the man is looking most
fntently into the eyes OF another wo-
man
It is not the color of a wonan's eyes
which a man first observes or last re-
members Nine times out Of ten a man
will turn from the glance of a pair of
soft brown, cowIike eyes to gaze into
the green orbs of the red-headed girl
on the other side OF the table, and
many a de1l-Iike, blue-eyed beauty weeps
because some pug-nosed. tawny-eyed
woman has Iured away her sweetheart
Ask any man the color of his sisters
eyes and he will look at you blankly.
"Jove." he will remark, II believe
I've forgotten. But they're all right
There's something about them that's
catchy" And that is positively all that
can be gotten out of him
The fact that Becky Shapes eyes
were green or that C1eopatra's eyes
were yellow never fnterfered with the
Vaccinations of those fascinating Ia
dies, nor dulled their regulations as
coquettes. Color, size and shape may
make an eye beautiful. but they never
can give It that something which so
many beautiful eyes lack and so many
homeIy ones possess, the power to
make a man break a bank or sell his
overcoat in order to give his wife what
she wants
When the world was sentimental men
called it soul" Then they grew practi-
cal and apathetfc and they called II
character" But no man will ever
know what ii is any more than he will
ever know why he married the parucu-
lar woman he picked out or why the
cook has left It is a question as sub
tie and elusive as either Of these
There Is a great mistake in suppos-
ing that giving is concerned only with
material benefits. These form indeed
but a small part of its mission Who
ever creates happiness, whether by a
kindly greeting, or tender sympathy or
inspiring presence or stimulating
thought is as true a giver as he who
empties his purse to feed the hungry
'4PoIitenesS and good breeding are alb
solutely necessary to adorn any or all
other good qualities or talents. With
out them no knowledge, no perfection
whatever is seen in its best light The
scholar without good breeding is a
pedant; the philosopher, a cynic; the
soldier, a brute, and every man, dis
agreeable Lord Chesterfield
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Could Grip" Live To-day?
TIGHTENING HUr1AN LIFE.

TIP VAN WINKLE was supposed
X to have lived longer than his
= y allotted three score and ten
and many times we are referred
to the old days as being prolific in aged
people, yet We hear Of more people in
This 10th century living to a hundred
years and more than was ever known IN
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.

If you want to know about your body,
read DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser, which can be had for the cost
of mailing and wrapping only, 81 cents
in one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound
book, or II stamps for the paper-covered
volume of 1908 pages. Address DIR. R. V.
Pierce. Buffalo. n. Y
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Duration In italics, with a note Of hor-
ror In her voice
7 always let a new maid show me
her own way or doing work first before
I begin to teach her my way. One new
maid was very confident that she knew
how to clear the table She did She
cleared the whole table at one fell
swoOp. She piled the dishes from her
them all in one armfuL 1 would not
have believed II il had not seen 1t.
The service plate is a ten inch plate
As it is difficult to find a roast plate that
will fit into plate of this size without
sliding around the service plate NAV
be removed when the roast is served
Vegetables are served in covered
dishes, from which the cover has been
removed. It is carried to balance this
dish on the hand. without a tray. But
I cannot do that with safety myself
and as never ask a maid to do any
thing I~sannot do myself, I permit her
to place the vegetable dish on a tray.
"A punch glass is a tall slender glass
If you have not regular punch spoons
teaspoons should be used with it A
sherbet glass, on the contrary. is low and
shallow, and coffee spoons are suitable
to use with it
I once heard an accomplished maid
comment on a guest to the effect that
she was nat used to dining out because
she steadIed the platter when it was
presented to her to select a portion But
If that platter is held unSteadfly. SO that
the guest has fears for her gown. or II
it is presented somewhere up near her
head, instead of beside her plate, It is
not unnatural for her to touch It. al
though 1t is not good form to do so.
1t IS not correct fer the women to
take wine unless the hostess does so.
But If the hostess IS not served first
guests cannot be blamed II they fail in
this respect The best waitress is she
who does everything noiseIessly."
In the whole course of my life I new
er met woman from the dat-nosed
and ebony -coIored inha bitant of the
tropics to the snow-whire and sublime
divinity of Greek isle, without q
touch Of romance; responsiveness could
not conceal 1t, age could not extfn-
gutsh ii, yicissitude could not change
IT. I have found 1t in all times and
places, like a spring OF fresh water
starting up even from the flint. cheer
ing the cherries, softening the tnsensf-
bic, renovatlng the withered; a secret
whisper in the ear of every woman
alive that to the last affection might
hutter its rosy pinions around her
brow "-Croly.
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of animals, or salt injected into the
veins, have never been successful The
best and only means known to-day is
careful living and what we call prevent
i've medicine.
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AS the maid removes each plate
after q course she has the next course
ready TO place before the guest, unless
a dish is to be passed for the guest to
help himself
THE maid removes glasses on a tray,
but not plates Plates are taken in the
hand. One plate is never placed on top
of another"
Miss Johnson delivered this last ad-
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weak and the weary and the faint
hearted may find repose- Such men,
such women, the church and society
need today.-Rev. Laurence J. Deering,
Catholic PhfIadelDhfa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-25
TWO MURDERS AT HIS DOOR.
George Walsh RAIso May Die In Chi
caoo

Chicago, April 25.--peteG MCGEE, the
stock yards watchman, shot while at
tempting to arrest George Walsh, who
* is alleged, was stealing hams from
the International packing plant Sat-
urday night died yesterday, making
two murders for which Walsh will have
to answer for should he recover from
the wounds which he received in the
watchman Clemmons was instantly
killed during the flight With Walsh
Walsh is in u critical condition. Pneu-
rnonia has developed and his chances
for recovery are Slight.
His aeeomplice has not been located.
The fight occurred at the plant of
the International Packing Company at
sixty seventh and Packers avenue. The
two watchmen who We're making their
first round for the night, discovered
two men in a smoke house stealing
hame The two thieves started to run,
and one of them made his escape.
Clemens seized Walsh, and the latter
pressed a revolver against the watch
mans breast. and killed him at the
first shot. McGee ran to the help of
Clemmons, firing on Walsh as he ran
toward him. Walsh fell to the floor
but regained his feet and shot MCGEE