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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

ing up the eucfre deck, she laid 1t on
the table before him and Haid:
You have Dragged around what
good euchre player you are, but I'll
show you that you know nothing
about the game"
On other nights that challenge would
have been met with snorts OF defiance,
but on this occasion ME-. Bowser softly
laid aside his literature and picked up
the cards with a smile. She won both
tricks, but he hadn't a word to say
about FOOLS luck. She won one trick on
the second hand, but was not charged
with cheating.
AS a mater of fact, she sent him to
Chicago in three hands out, and when
she clapped her hands and laughed the
cats heart jumped into her mouth and
she said to herself:
IF that don't make the old man get
up and howl and smash furniture, then
he's n goner for sure"
I'm an easy mark at any game of
cards. was Mr. Bowser.s answer 70
the outburst of citation; and even when
it was found that he had won only one
game out of seven there was no row.
There was just one thing more Mrs.
Bowser could think of, and In her des-
peration she applied it.
There are times" she said in a
trembling voice, there are times when
you threaten to apply for a divorce.
If you want divorce, why don't you
go ahead and get one?"
Eyes, my dear, there are times
many times-when 1 make a fool of
myself, and you are very foolish to
pay any attention to anything say.
1t will be a sad day when 1 really feel
that I ought to get divorce from
you"
Nothing more could be said. While
Mrs Bowser pretended to read, al
though her eyes were filled with tears,
Mr.. Bowser lay down on the lounge
and stretched out and played with the
cats tail and was presently asleep.
When he began to snore Mrs. Bowser
tiptced over to the telephone and
called up the family doctor and stated
facts and fears and wound UP by ask
| ing:
sI have tried every means and no
cannot be reused. For mercy's sake
I tell me if anything further can be
done?"
Nothing whatever" was the reply.
| "Such men as Bowser have lucid inter-
walls now and then and behave like
| other folks, and the only way is to
humor their whims. These intervals
are generally brief, and let us hope
| that within the next twenty-four
hours your husband will be paying IS
piece for Leghorn hens and raising
50 eggs."-(Copyrisht, 1904. by T. c.
McClure.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

yes. she has spoiled your dinner. and
I am very sorry for it,"
"Oh, well, we can't expect too much
from hired help. She'll probably do bet
ter tomorrow night"
At other times Mr.. Bowser would have
taken advantage of the occasion to
pound on the table with his fist and
vow by the beard of his father that he
was not a dog and would not be fed
like one, and he would have gone on
to say that there was no system in the
house and he expected to becomt a pau
per within a year. His conduct appear
ed so inexplicable that Mrs. Bowser
took three or four furtive glances at
him and then asked:
Are you not feeling as well as usual
this EVENING""
Just the same. dear, or even bet
ter"
Just then a tramp rung the basement
bell and asked for something to eat. 1t
was a fine opportunity for Mr.. Bowser
to read him moral lecture on the sin
of laziness and improvidence, but in
stead of so doing he sent him out a
good supply of food and hadn't a word
to say.
Mrs. Bowser couldn't make things out.
She had a feeling that Bowser was not
Bowser, but some one else, and when
they had reached the sitting room she
deliberately went at it to arouse him
from his lethargy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

With a most attractive. cover and a va
ried list of contents, including the latest
news of the fashions and literary and do
nestle features of the greatest interest,
The Delineator for January is alto
gether excellent number. The regular
fashion display is supplemented by a
strikingly illustrated article on THE
Stage as a School of Costume showing
the close relations that exist between the
theater and the world of style Herbert
D. Ward and Seumas MacManus con-
tribute stories of rare charm, and under
the pseudonym Marie Columbia a very
clever writer describes the smart set in
Washington society. Jesus, Lover of My
Sour is the. first paper in a series, by
Allan Sutherland, giving the history and
romance of the famous hymns of the
world, and in the Composers Series" the
love story of MendelSsohn and Cecile is
related by Gustav Kobbe. For children
there is a wealth of interesting natter
the names of L Frank Baum and Grace
MacGowan Cooke being prominent among
the contributors. Among the domestic
topics. in addition to the regular features,
Housewife by Isabel Gordon Curtis. A
new department, Good Looks" supple
lines that appeared during the past year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
Because She is of the Female
Persuasion, and Nearly
ALI Females Suffer
From Weak
Nerves.
NERVOUSNESS DANGEROUS
How to Prevent Nervousness from
Weakening Your Brain and
Life Force.

Whenever you see people drumming
or tapping with feet or fingers, they
are nervous.
When you see others twitching eye
Iid,, lip, nose or mouth, they are nerv-
GUS.
Women do not show the outward
symptoms like men, but they start at
TRIES, are in constant state of irrita-
bility and suffer from headaches, back
aches, etc.
All these things are signs Of danger
Gus disease, which, in women, culminate
in female complaints and chronic sick
ness, but for which, happily, there is q
cure, and that is
Wine of Cardui.
When woman's nerves are irritated
and on edge woman's entire system
needs a strengthening tonic to inpart
fresh, electrical energy or vitality to
the current of life which runs through
this vast network of living wires.
This strengthening tonic is found in
Wine of Cardui, prepared phaImaceu-
ticalIy from fragrant medicinal plant
extracts, with a special curative action
upon the delicate system of woman.
More particularly does Wine of Cardui
act upon and build up that branch OF
woman's nervous system which has
control of the functioning of her female
organs, repairing the breaks, stopping
the leakages, increasing the strength OF
the current until, as a result, the eiec-
trical vitality comes through these
parts like lightning refreshment, and
you take a long, deep breath of delight
in the feeling of new life and enjoy
ment.
You become a new being.
Wine of Cardui has revitalized your
nerves.
Mrs. Martha Cryor, of Petersburg.
Va, writes: 81 suffered for seven years
before, during and after change of life.
tried everything, and went north for
treatment. I had fainting spells, sick
headache, pain in my back and limbs,
and could not sleep. Everything was
the matter with me. 1 wrote TO you,
and have been taking your Wine of
Cardui and it has produced a wonder
full change. 1 feel as well as did when
1 was sixteen years old. I feel it my
duty to write this letter and thank
you"
Everything Mrs. Cryor says,
seemed the matter" with her.
! Woman's diseases are much more diff
ficult to understand than mems.
| That's why so many doctors find ii
difficult to cure them.
| Every little nerve in a woman's body
seems to have root or branch
reaching into her special female func-
tions, and the least sickness OF any sort
invariably affects her there, where she
| is weakest.
| That's why Wine of Cardui is such
a wonderful medicine for sick women.
| Because it goes directly to those parts
which are always weakest, and builds
up their strength; and, withal, it is not
a stimulant, but merely a pure medic
| inal tOnic-no more.
Wine of Cardui is for you.
| 1t will relieve your nervousness.
1t will cure all your pains.
| 1t will restore every one of your nat
ural functions.
1t will make you we'll
All druggists sell $1.00 bottles.
| Free advice on any of womans ills,
is afforded by our staff of specialists.
All letters confidential. Address, La
dies Advisory Department, The Chat
tanooga Medicine Co, Chattanooga,
Tenn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

Woods mistress says she is a jewel.
''Dont's" for Christmas shoppers from
the New York Evening Mail:
Don't leave anything for the last mo-
before.
Don't start for the shops until you have
made out your list and know either for
whom you are hunting a gift or what
manner of article you are to search for.
necessary basis toward satisfactory re-
suits.
Don't neglect to give your address cor
Don't forget to use the transfer system
whenever and wherever possible. 1t is a
convenience for you as well as for the
Don't lose your temper If you are jostled
here and pushed there nor your pocket
book by laying it down carelessly, nor
your common sense by spending more
than you can afford. Keep the day after
Christmas in sight
The elbow sleeves, one would have
thought, would have gone with the sum
undersleeve and took to itself new iInpor-
lance. One sees it in visiting and lat
home costumes, evening toilets and even
cloth, wool or silk are all fitted with the
abbreviated, very becoming and altogether
unreasonable little sleeves.
The very prettiest guise of the elbow
sleeve is, as it should be, in the quaint
| dinner jackets of brocaded or lowered
silks, where a little wrinkled sleeve fulled
slightly into the shoulder ends at the ell
bow in pert, outstanding frills; Other
singly or by the threes. Sleeves with a
Scant single puff are often gathered
slightly into the inside sleeve seam. Some
times they are shirred into both outside
and inside seams.
For theater and street gowns of cloth or
velvet the short sleeve ending in up
turned cuff is a favorite. Bell-shaped
three-quarter length sleeves are popular
for fur and other heavy coats. The little
velvet jackets of Directoire inspiration
which are worn with plain cloth skirts of
wit eli ~ of
1t is the nuttonleg sleeve of honorable
lineage that is setting the fashion in
sleeves. But the old exaggerated breadth
terized them in Gays past is not in evil
dence as yet. Sleeves are full at the top
but by no means voluminous. The lower
part of the arm is fitted smoothly or with
are employed on a ''fussy'' bodice, the top
| Of the sleeve often has the effect of an
elbow sleeve while below there is the ap-
pearance of an underSleeVe, often made UP
/ of q series of little puffS. Sleeves of this
| order as well as the slaShed sleeves, which
are also among the elect, this season, re-
sleeve shapes familiar in plays of the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries.
| The shape of the sleeve at all times
| makes mars the style of a coat OF
than ever, a last years garment is mark
| ed. Between the elbow pouch, with its
predecessor, the wrist puff, which was in
vogue a twelve-month and more ago, and
| the modish sleeve of today there is a rad
! zeal difference. In some cases the old
| sleeves may be turned upside down and
/ with some contrasting material be made
quite up to the standard. The prevalence
! of elbow sleeves is aid to such efforts
| The upper puffs may. usually be fashioned
| from the old sleeves, while lace gauZes
| silk or velvet, may fin1sh them at the low,
er edge. if a sleeve of elbow length is not
desirable.
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run in debt when he gave her a stipu-
lated sum every week, but on this Oc-
casion he quietly said:
81 presume this is for you, but if
you don't happen to have the change
III give it to you"
The cook had burned the steak and
the potatoes We're UNDERGONE, and Mrs.
Bowser had been in fear and trem-
bling. She expected something to be
said, and something was said.
This seems to be one of the times
when cook is off, remarked Mr.. Bow
ser without feeling, and at the same
time doing his best to make a meal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

a dead failure. He continued to read
mis- paper for two or three minutes, and
then quietly answered:
"Well, as the cook has to have a fire
all day now she naturally uses more
coal, and as the evenings are getting
longe= we naturally use more gas.
But the amount Of this gas bill is
sheer robbery"
People are prone to complain of the
gas company, and yet 1 believe they
are honest men. I have no doubt we
burned all the gas we were charged
with
She had another card to play. Hunt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

THE Victim,'' IN the very rare privately
printed edition of Tennyson's ballads, has
again appeared in the auction room, this
time bringing $Z5o. as against $50. the sum
brochure was printed in 1867 by Sir Ivor
and Miss Guest and bears the title a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
BOOK NOTES.
Various Items About Books That Are
Attracting Attention.

President Roosevelt's book. THE Siren
uous Life" which has just been printed
for the eleventh time by his publishersThe
Century Co., has recently been issued in
italy under the title 'fVigor di Vita"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

Little children: the text for today is,
No woman can make a fool of a man.
Her influence may serve to exploit his
innate asininity but her responsibility
can't be traced farther than that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

but once a year Il comes-tnat Is not
much
This is the Earmark of the Christmas
Touch.
And for this abstinence of Christmas
We'uns who Pay are Thankful Over
much.
Dig up, Dig up, thou Simple, and Bestow
Gifts in the places where they ought to go;
Or if they ought Not, why. then, If they
Must,
It makes no difference when it comes to
Dough.
The Bachelor Girl in the Washington
Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings OF
All Denominations.

A single rose, perfumed with love in
life, is worth more than dozen wreaths
on the casket lid.-Rev. George w.
Brownback, Congregationalist, Reading,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

If a woman appears at once attrac-
tive and friendless there is nothing
equal to the hostility and suspicion an
other woman can put into the demand,
fWh0 is She?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
@r99 Of lNTERgS 20
q WOVEN.

with the exception of washing the
clothes. She was to receive the munifl-
cent salary of 81 a week. She said she
was satisfied.
For five weeks the young society wo-
man has acted as housemaid. She has
done all the cooking, the mending, the
cleaning, and the chores. Her hours
are from a. m. until $3.50 p. m. Miss
Woods mistress says she is a jewel.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

The coming volume in the fine new edi
ton of Ruskin will contain the Element
of Drawing and other writings on draw
ing by the author of THE Stones of Ven
ice"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

fessor Dill will cover the period from the
reign of Nero to that of Marcus Aurelius.
contrast between the condition of terror
and humiliation in which the upper class
es lived III the reigns of the Caesars and
the polished case and cultured pleasures
of the circle in which the younger Pliny
moved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

The German law of copyright provides
that copyright Is to last for the life of
the author, and for thirty years after.
1t provides, also, for payment to the au-
of the copy" The author retains the
right Of translation and of publishing a
collective" edition of all his works for
twenty years. These statements are from
the summary of Mr.. G. H. Thring, the
secretary of the English Society Of Au-
thOrS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

A so-called Travelling Library'-a ser
les of religious tracts of the time OF
Charles drought $1,000 at a recent Lon
don sale. The collection had beautiful
bindings of the period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

Houghton, Miff1in & Co. report the fol-
lowing new printings: 14th edition of
Sd edition of Far and Near" by John
and I'd edition of "Trixy'' by
Elizabeth s; Phelps. The Flower Prin-
ty of Wisdom" by James DeNormandie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17

As usual all the magazines have made
specially attractive Christmas numbers,
but without dispara ging the efforts of any
II Is safe to say none has so outdone itself
as has The Reader Magazine''-the
youngest of them all Its cover. brilliant
in colors and gold, contains a Carol spe-
ctally written for it by James Whitconb
Riley. This is novelty In itself that will
attract many buyers. The frontispiece is
in colors by John Cecil Clay. Young men
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16
Miusr State Maffe,.a.

Fred Ii. Asst, aged 80. a prominent
resident of Superior for fifteen years.
dropped dead at his home
James McCord, former Mayor of la
Crosse and prominent wholesale drug.
gist, died there, aged GO years.
Bert Jacobsen of Waterford was prob
ably fatally shot by his friend. Curtis
Barnes, while the two were hunting.
The remains of Herman Zinke were
found along the railroad track near Kill
bourn. He evidently had been run over
by several trains, as his body was terri
bly, mangled.
Forty years in butcher shop with
out a single" days vacation That is the
record of John Summer, who forty years
ago started work in Stodenbach's meat
market in Jefferson.
Mrs Frank Jarzewski. farmers
wife who lived two miles from Manito-
woe, is dead from burns, the result of
an explosion when she attempted to start
fire with kerosene.
Efforts are being made to find trace
OF John Lynch. a Kenosha man who has
been missing for more than twenty years.
A legacy of $1,000 left the missing man
by his father awaits his return.
John J. Hanchett is dead at Sheboy-
gan. He was funeral director. and
dropped dead from apoplexy while stand
ing beside the casket at the funeral of
Daniel J. Hurd, an Illinois pioneer.
A. L. Anderson of Madison, 10 years
old. WAS fearfully lacerated by a ST. Ber-
nard dog and may not recover. The
brute was killed by Il policeman and
fears are entertained that st was mad.
70 Miss Scion of Superior belongs the
honor of being the only Douglas county
woman who brought down deer during
the present hunting season. She killed
it with one shot from 22-caliber rife.
Twenty members of the Milwaukee
school board voted to pass the resolution
to increase teachers salaries according to
| the length of their service in the public
schools and two voted with the Mayor.
The measure will now become effective
and teachers who have served six years
will receive $50 additional, those who
have served nine years will receive 500
and those twelve years will receive $50
| more.
Dominic AIunet, an employee of the
| Wausau paper mills at Brokaw, was
| caught in a belt and instantly killed. He
was survivor of the Iroquois fire, he
and his family having escaped from the
| theater unframed.
J. E. Jones and wife, who occupied
the residence of DIR. Spears in N'ashburn,
were saved from death by suffocation
through the barking of a faithful dog
when fnpy were almost suffOcated by
smoke. They barely escaped in their
night clothes. An attempt was made
later to save the animal, but without
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16
Tests the Postal System.

An Englishman has been testing the
efficiency of the British postof6ce. A
message written, with an address, on
the back of a postage stamp, was duly
forwarded and delivered. Naturally a
letter addressed to st. Nicholas Santa
Claus could not have similar expert
ence, but it came back marked "Ad-
dressee deceased
On one occasion he pasted a stamp
and an address ON the inside of a
pocketbook, closed it and dropped 1t
in a box. The willy postal official
found the address and delivered 1t the
next day. A Russian cigarette was
mailed with stamp at one end and
the address on the wrapper. AS it
broke on the way the postoffice kindly
delivered it in an envelope.
Once he sent letter to a man hv-
ing near London bridge, whose name
and address he had forgotten. He
pasted a picture postal on the envel-
one. marked on it the house in which
the man resided and wrote: Deliver
the letter to the owner of this house.
Again the postoffice did as requested.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16
WISCONSIN;S RECORD.
FAITHFULLY TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.
Death of Orson f. Woodbury. Dis
tasteful Couple Get Tar and Feathers
: Depot Restaurant is Robbed-Lays
Murder to Liquor.

Orson E. Woodbury.. a famous anti
slavery man, died at his home in Madi-
son, at the age of so. Mr.. Woodbury.
was celebrated song writer in his day,
and among his compositions was the
great campaign melody of 1910, ''Tippe-
canoe and Tyler Too Another honor
claimed by Mr.. Woodbury. was that he
was one of three men who gathered at
Berlin, Wis, in 1854, and held the first
Republican meeting liz the State. AT the
breaking out of the Civil War Mr.. Wood
bury lived in st. Louis, but his opinions
against slavery We're so radical and his
declarations against secession so emphat-
&c that he was compelled to leave the
city
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16

The young man chafed under his
affection. Naturally an athlete, he
longed for activity. One day still an
other famous surgeon was summoned
in consultation.
That evening when Chiffon made
her daily visit she found morose lis
tener. At last Philip took the paper
gently from her saying:
Its no use, Chiffon. 1 have not
heard one word, can't listen tonight.
I want to talk to you. I can walk very
we'll now, and the gruff old fellow
who was here to-day promises that
German baths will effect a permanent
and speedy cure. Still, I won't go
abroad alone"
"Such thing would be very indis-
Greet at least. I fancy your mother
would go with you," she answered
II should not think of allowing her
to leave her new-found happiness"
Then, wistfully, II thought, perhaps,
that some one whose sweetness and
adorable womanly inconsistencies have
warmed my heart into new life, some
one whose precious encouragement in
hours Of despair has been unspeakable
consolation, comforting me and giving
hope when 1 had grown morbid and
felt myself being apart thought,
Chiffon, that this dear girl might
marry me and take in the continent
as a wedding Journey" Then, contin-
uing with nervous rapidity, II knew IL
I saw her, day after day, she would
become the life of my life. But how
was poor cripple to run away from
his fate even if he was so inclined?
Sometimes she whom love is the en-
bodiment of tenderness; at other times.
l feel that her heart is adamant."
His forlornness appealed to her.
She redeemed at memories of her own
duplicity, little elusive acts that went
to hide her love for him from his
watchful eyes. Then after a silence,
she demurely-
"Why speculate any longer, Philip?
Why not ask her? l assure you that
she loves you, dear."-Waverley Maya
zine
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16
Given Tar and Feathers.

John Pauline and his housekeeper liv-
ing near Pipe lake, We're stripped of their
clothlng and tarred and feathered by
9and of fifty masked men. When the
regulators arrived at the house they de-
nanded that the inmates come out Not
being obeyed. they broke open the door
ana dragged the pair to trees, where
they were bound. Both the man and his
housekeeper We're ordered to leave the
place. The couple had been considered
nuisance for some time and neighbors
took this heroic means to get rid of
them. Pauline has had six housekeepers
in one vear
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-12-16
VISION OF THE OLD HOME.

:, ooa raresrent with stress of trade
md schemes of gain in city marts
|TIere comes a breath Of country hay
Waited from passing carts.
Fade, tie long line of brick and stone
Tte streets rude tumult dies away
From money-getting for a space
His soul cries holiday.
md with him down the orchard path,
Past springhouse and the pasture wall
Hu spirit walks who taught her child
OF the love that is DER all.
The vision vanishes and straight
The streets rude tumult in his ears;
But in his heart a heavenly strain,
And in his eyes sweet tears.
-Harper's.