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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-25

Laird & Lee of Chicago have just added
another to their unique series of books of
reference 1t is called THE Little Giant
Question Settler" and, as the name i'm
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ly an important fact that is not mention
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-25

Mr.. Jack London has sent to the Mac
milan Co the manuscript of his new
book, "The War of Glasses"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-25

Mrs. H. NJ. Lothrop (Margaret Sidney
IS engaged in completing the tenth of the
Famous Pepper books, Ben Pepper. which
the Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Co. have in
press for publication uPOn their Lothrop
lSt during the present season The pop
ular demand for these remarkable books
is continually Increasing; the sales during
the past season surprising all previous
records.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-25

e P. Powell. author of 1.-THE Country
Tome. before he took up literature and
the study Of problems of rural life, was
minister He held a number of pastorates
IN the west, at Adrian, Mich, st. Louis,
Chlcago. etc. He is closely associated with
journalism and is now on the staff of the
Independent and the Arena, besides doing
a great deal of literary criticism and 9TH
er literary work for the leading dailies
and literary journals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-25

A book of curious interests which The
Macmillan company. have just published
Tor The Sociological Society contains a
collection of sSociologicaf Papers nv
Francis Cation, E. Westermarck p
Seddes, E. Durkhein. Harold H Mann
and V V. BranfOrd. These papers were
read before The Sociological Society last
year and the volume includes the dis
cuSsIons which followed some of them
Hon James Bryce. president of the
Society, contributes an Introductory ad-
dress.
The leader., 1905-08-05
PERSONAL PARTICULARS.


The family OF the late Gen, Gomez
has presented the 5eweled sword he re-
ceived from an American to the Ma
tional museum Of Havana.
The late Mary A. Livermore was
once called "the Daniel Webster Of
American women because OF her ma
jestic mien, solidity Of character, Doric
simplicity Of thought and weight Of ut
terance.
Miss Bessie Balm, who lives on farm
near Chatham, N. X, has been appoint-
ed an overseer OF highways in her dis
trict Miss Balm declares she will see
that the work is we'll done. She in
tends to have the best section Of road
in the township.
Miss Helen Buck, president OF the
graduating class at Mount Holyoke col
lege, probably is the greatest woman
athlete in the world, but in attaining
that distinction has sacrificed none of
her studies. A famous university train
er says that with scientific instruction
Miss Buck would prove worthy rival
Of some Of the best male athletes.
Harold A. Loring, of Portland, Me-,
has received an appointment from the
secretary of the interior as supervisor
of native Indian music. Mr. Loring has
passed some time among the Sioux In
dians of the Rosebud Indian reservation
in South Dakota, becoming much inter-
ested in the Indians and their music.
His new duties will take him among the
various reservations of the Indians in
the west.
Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson. Of
New York, is an unknown woman-in a
public sense, that is to say-who is doing
handsome things with her money with
out the embarrassment of conditions.
She has erected physical culture build
ing for the Teachers college, in New
York, costing $3.50, 900. A library build
ing which she gave Vassar took $500. 900,
and college chapel building for Will
Iiams college, costing 100000, will be
dedicated in a few days.
The leader., 1905-08-05

because he didn't kiss her as he used
to before she was married I'd just
like to catch Tom acting like that
We'll, she was as sad as sad could
be, but her husband said it was all
right, and he did love her just as
much, only he said, you see, it is just
like catching the car
t'Oh!" said Phyllis.
"That was funny, wasn't it? You
see, said this horrid man. when | am
trying to catch the car run for 1t and
make a great hullabaloo and wave my
stick at the motorman. But when l get
in sit down quietly and read my pa
per. That is the way it is about matri-
mony. am just as much interested
in the car though | don't go waving
my stick after | have caught it. 1t is
just the same with my wife, though |
think just as much of her as | did be-
fore was married.
Now, think that's a perfectly hor-
rid story, and that was a very horrid
man, and the worst of it is, it. certain
| ly is true"
Belinda lowered her voice, a Mortified
look came over her face, and Phyllis
looked sad in sympathy.
Now. that is just what mean about
girls getting married, and Belinda
spoke seriously and solemnIy. Every
man in the world is just bound to
catch the car. and every girl would
just like to keep him running after it
all day and all night, for ever and ever,
and never catching it. Belinda drew
long breath.
"Of course don't mean that any
girl would be mean, but she would like
to keep him going along at just q com
Portable jog trot. But do you suppose
man would? Not a bit Of it No.
sir-ee. He wants to catch the car. and
he wants to catch it pretty quickly,
and II he doesn well, he just goes
and catches another car That's just
what man viii do every time.
You see, a girl likes to have man
come to see her, and its very nice If
he takes her out sometimes. and oi
course every girl likes little candy
once in awhile and few flowers and
it is pleasant to have some one always
The leader., 1905-08-05

Unless early and correct treatments
applied the patient seldom survives
when once the disease is fastened upon
her. Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is the most efficient treat
ment for kidney troubles of women,
and is the only medicine especially
prepared for this purpose.
When awoman is troubled with pain
or weight in loins, baclxache, frequent,
painful or scalding urination, swelling
of limbs or feet, swelling under the
eyes, an uneasy, tired feeling in the
region of the kidneys or notices a brick
dust sediment in the urine, she should
lose no time in commencing treatment
with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, as it may be the means of
saving her life.
For proof, read what Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound did for Mrs.
Sawyer.
cannot express the terrible suffering !
had to endure. A arrangement of the female
organs developed nervous prostration and a
serious kidney trouble The doctor attended
me for year, bnt kept getting worse, until
was unable to do anything, and | made up
my mind / could not live. finally decided
to try Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound as last resort, and am to-day well
woman. cannot praise it too highly, and /
tell every suffering woman about my case" /"
Mrs Emma Sawyer, Conyers, Ga.
Mrs. Pinkham gives free advice TO
women address in confidence, Lynn,
Mass.
The leader., 1905-08-05
carnivorous Fish.

Naturally the fish of the deep por-
tions are carnivorous, no vegetable life
being found below 200 fathoms, writes
w. S. Harwood in Harper's Magazine.
In the Atlantic ocean the vast
Saragasso sea; containing 1900 .0J0
square miles of surfacea great ma
rine prairie as large as the whole of
the United States exclusive of Alaska
and dependent islands affords vege-
table food for uncountable animals,
which. in their due time. die and are
precipitated to the depths, their bod
les in turn to be eaten by the animals
which live far below all vegetation.
So it is throughout the whole ocean,
animal life is constantly falling from
the surface waters for the support ot
the animal life Of the abyss. A very
large number Of the deep sea animals
are exceedingly tenuous or translucent
in forn--so to put ithaving no
special organs Of nutrition. but taking
in their nourishment through the walls
Of their bodies, appropriating from
the water the food which suits them.
Some Of them have bony structure,
q skeleton. which they form also from
the water, silica and carbonate Of lime
being the chief skeIeton-forming ma
terials.
The leader., 1905-08-05
CONCERNING CHURCHES.


Rhode Island has a wheeled chapel
used by the Episcopal mission, capable
Of being moved from place to place
upon its own running gear.
Bishop Mallalieu says it will not be
SO many years before there will be
10000 deaconesses at work in tho
bounds Of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
On the advice of the Mexican board
of health, the government has issued
an order for the daily disinfection Of
confessionais IN all the churches of
the capital. Priests neglecting the
order are subject to fine and imprison-
ment
DR.. Torrey stated recently In London
that the best workers he had found in
his evangelical meetings in Great Brit
ain were the men and women who had
been converted as children Id the
meetings which were held by Mr..
Moody.
The Boston Free Church association,
Of the Episcopal church, proposes
again to hold summer services on Bos-
ton common. These services have
been successful in former years, and
generous gifts have made their con-
tinuance possible.
The leader., 1905-08-05
Bclinda'SV Views
BY N. A. TAFT.

F 1T were not for the men, said
Belinda, oracularly. there would
be no marriages"
Naturally" returned Phyllis, unim-
pressed
q mean," continued Belinda, with
dignity, ''that if the men did not in
sist, no woman would marry"
Oh said Phyllis, opening her eyes
very wide.
Shakespeare" Belinda went on in
her most seriously augmentative tone,
knew nothing about it. =
Phyllis does not belong to theShakes-
peare club, and SO she remained silent.
What was it about Anne Hatha-
way?" she hazarded finally, remember
ing the pretty little picture of the Hath
away cottage Belinda had given her.
mo, indeed, it was not" said Be-
linda, 'lt was Rosalind, and of course
just dote on Shakespeare, and the
club is too sweet for anything, and
wouldn't go to bed night in my life
without reading just line or two from
the Merchant of Venice, or weeny
bit of Julius Caesar, and one New
Years night came home from party
and read whole chapter of Titus An,
dronicus, when was so sleepy didn't
know word l read, but think it is
too mean about Rosalind, for she
wasn't the kind of girl to say that at
ALL
mo, of course not" said Phyllis
sympathetically. You mean about
marriage?"
YES" said Belinda, ''it's one OF
those famous parts of AS You Like 1t,
you know, about time ambling and
trott,ng and galloping-a and-and, well
it just implies that all girls are anx-
ious to get married, and you know that
isn't true, is it?"
"N-no," replied Phyllis.
THAT catching the-car story is very
true"
Catching -the-what, Belinda?" asked
Phyllis, confused.
why. that catching-the-car story
1t is told in just the horrid way mar
would tell it, but it is as true as any
| thing.
"Why, there was poor woman who
got so sad because she said she knew
her husband didn't love her any more
The leader., 1905-08-05
Music Al KraGicinn.

Place the tips Or the fifst, second and
third fingers Of your right hand on the
artery that runs along the main bone of
your left arm (where the doctor usually
feels your pulsel and sing tune, the
time Of which IS the same as the rhythm
OF your pulse (the last time tried this
on myself, the first four or five pulsa-
tions felt Instantly suggested March
On, Christian soIdier''l then change
abruptly to slow tune. say: MY
Country 'Tis Of Thee, rendered andante
religioso: and; lastly, burst into the the
liveliest Yankee Doodle you can sing
and If you carefully observe your pulse
ut the end of each performance. you will
notice that the action Of your heart has
been affected in every case BY the tempo
Of the music you have sung Philadel-
phia Inquirer
The leader., 1905-08-05


ready to dance with you, and the girl
viii be just as nice and sweet and DO
lite as she can be, and wear her pret-
tiest gowns when she goes out, because
q man does like to be seen with girl
who dresses we'll Oh, she would he
very nice to him, indeed.
She would not even mind being en-
gagged. It is rather mica to be engaged
and wear ring. and then of course
you can go out more, and then you
like to hear people whisper that that
pretty Miss er err Miss Smith is en-
gagged to that handsome Tom er er
Brown. It gives you a little standing,
and makes people think little more
OF you.
That's just the way girl would
like to go along in a nice, pleasant
way, making the man have just as
pleasant time as she can. But there
isn't one man in 900 who is satisfied.
81 don't like to think SO, Phyllis, but
| am afraid men are just teeny,
weeny bit selfish. They will only go
on with the flowers and the candy and
all that for only just SO long. Then q
girl must just say plump yes on
no, and then she is engaged, and she
can't even stay engaged, but she must
set the day for the wedding, and then,
you see, the man has caught the car
and there are no more flowers, no more
candy, no more-well, if Tom forgets
anything else there'H be trouble.
There was that case of Bella Bron-
son right in our own set. Bella is SO
pretty! And Dick Jenkins was just
dead in love with her! must say
Bella was very nice to him. She went
almost everywhere with him, and wore
his flowers, and read the books he
brought to her, and she was just hav-
ing lovely time, and it might have
gone on till now, only Dick couldn't.
Bella liked him awfully well, bui
not quite well enough to be engaged
to him. So when he proposed she said
no. but she would like to be good
friends and all that, and she hoped il
would all be just as it was before
only nicer, because they would both
understand. But what did the mar
do?
Why, he went right of in hu1
and married that new girl who came
to town. and | must say they seem
very happy, only it was too bad he
couldn't have been contented to be just
a good friend with Bella, for she Is
about the incest girl know of. It IL
very hard to understand men," and
Belinda sighed.
But l thought you were very anx
ious to go to housekeeping in your lit.
tie fat, Belinda" said Phyllis.
Why. that's quite different" said
Belinda, with dignity. eve have tbs
fiat all furnished, and it is such .
dear, cunning little place it will be
just like dolls house, and always
did love to play in dolls house. Ant
then Tom says don't know how tt
cook and just want to show him thai
it's as easy as easy can be, and thai
you don't have to study it as you dc
to be doctor or lawyer"
ooh, yes, that's quite different" said
Belinda.-N. Y. Times.
The leader., 1905-08-05
SIGNS OF MORAL INSANITY
Abnormal Mental Tendencies Noted
by Prominent English
Physician.

Testifying before the royal commits.
sion on the care and control of the
feeble-minded, DR.. c. A. Mercier, rep
resenting the Royal College of Physi-
clans, reports the Washington Star,
said:
81 certainly think there is such q
thing as moral insanity"
Some remarkable cases were men
toned by DR.. Mercier.
An intelligent child of seven had
learned about the pawnbroking bust
ness by reading an article in a maya.
zine. Having learned while at dinner
where some rings we're kept he took an
opportunity of slipping into the rooms
took the rings and went out and
pawned them 1t was a deeply laid
plot.
DR.. Mercier did not say that the
child was responsible at that age, but
certainly it was not the conduct Of a
normal child who had that very day
been soundly thrashed, for stealing. A
normal child could be made to appre-
ciate and recognize what he had done,
but this child could not be made to
appreciate it.
There was another case of young
man who, while attending one of the
military colleges as student, stole
some clothes and wore them in the
presence of their rightful owners. He
was amply supplied with clothes and
money by his parents, but he liked
these clothes better than his own, and
took them. He could not be persuaded
that it was a wrong thing to do, but
there was no other symptom in him ol
imbecility.
DR.. Mercier went on to give another
case of nurse who, he said, had pois
oned as many as 40 of her patients Il
was impossible at that time to discover
any intellectual defect in her. She
was found morally insane because nc
motive could be traced. Indeed the
persons she poisoned we're her intimate
friends. After she had been in an
asylum for several years symptoms oi
definite insanity began to exhibit
themselves, and she soon became verJ
deeply insane
The leader., 1905-08-05
RE1ATEp or RoYALrY.

King Leopold will leave a fortune Of
$4,000, 600, most Of which will go to the
Belgian people for works of public util-
ity. He regards his daughters as Lear
came to regard Regan and Goneril. The
daughters will get about $4,000 each.
Early in his reign Gar Nicholas
caught bad head cold and asked 8
humble subject how this annoying all
ment could be cured. The advice given
was that the imperial nose should be
anointed at night with tallow from a
common candle. Years rolled ON and
one day by mere accident the car had
the chance of looking through book
Of household expenditures and was
amazed to find he had been charged for
pound of taliow candles every night
since.
New that the German crown prince
has been married, court gossips in Eu-
rope are considering who is likely to be
the bride of Prince Eitel, the kaisers
second son. The, general view is that
1t will be Princess Eva of Battenberg,
with whom he was much smitten during
q recent visit to England. Princess Eva
is quite pretty girl, just past IL years
old, who was brought up in the simplest
manner possible. 1t is expected that
she will inherit largely from her god
mother, ex-Empress Eugene.
The duke of Connaught-Prince Ar
thur of Great Britain-who has just en-
tered upon his fifty-sixth year, was the
godson Of the duke of Wellington and
was taught to have great reverence for
the old gentleman. One of the little
boys first efforts at drawing, it is said,
was picture representing the duke and
Napoleon engaging in pistol duel at
point blank range. my dear young
prince" said the duke, when shown this
youthful production, remember that,
though fought Bonaparte, could never
see him without the help of telescope. !"
During King Alfonsos visit to London
several stories were told of how he at
times shocks the Spanish dons with wild
escapades. All these anecdotes, kpocry-
phal or otherwise, helped his popularity
with the British public, showing as they
did that his 19-year-old majesty is a
real boy and not altogether aroyal milk.
sop. He rides reckless races with young
officers, rings up the guard unexpectedly
from mere motives CT mischief, and gem
orally plays the same pranks as Other
lads of his age. Among his own subjects
of the rank and file these pranks do him
good, for even the Spaniard likes to
think that his sovereign can do some.
thing human and unceremonious.
The leader., 1905-08-05
DEFINITIONS AND DERIVATION

The petrifcation agate was named for
the river Achates, in Sicily, where it was
first found.
A brochure is small book, stitched,
not bound, so named from the French
''brocher," to stitch.
Bylaw" owes the first part of itself
to the word bye, " the old Danish word
for town, burg or burgh
The word amateur" originally
French, from the Latin 'amator," 9
lover, means lover of any particular
art, but not professional follower of it
The American word ''boss,'' for mas
ter, is the modern form of the Dutch
''baas," of the same meaning. 1t is de-
scended from the original Dutch settlers
of New York.
The word billion" in England and
the colonies means a million millions.
in France and on the continent, as well
as in the United States, it means thou
sand millions.
The name "calomel" means beautiful
black and was originally given to
black sulphuret of mercury. AS calomel
is white powder, the name is merely a
jocular misnomer now.
The word ''Boer," applied to the Dutch
Inhabitants of the country districts of
the Cape of Good Hope, is the German
for farmer and agriculturist The Eng
lish word "boor" had the same origin.
The word beverage has had many
changes in orthography. 1t is found
spelled 'biberedge," beverage" and
"beveridge." 1t comes from the Italian
'bevere," to drink, but more remotely
from the Latin.
tight shoes is not an agreeable compan-
ion, as you are always afraid of tread
Ing on it's corns.
The civilization conscience is culti-
waited and is adorned with laces, tueks
and frills. 1t wears tailor-made suit
and eats with fork.
The conscience of the heather is as
unembellished as is his body The nude
ness of the combination appeals to the
conscience of the missionary and he en-
deavors to utilize the mantle of charity.
A weight on mans conscience gives
him inward dyspepsia. Confession and
restitution are highly recommended
for this malady. Some patients try
philanthropy instead and with indiffer-
ent results.
There are men whose consciences will
not permit them to ride TO church on
! ! -.v,.s
to the sanctuary by their ceachmen,
who are left to mediate in dignifed soli-
tude outside in the cold.
The leader., 1905-08-05
WHAT SHE WOULD TAKE.
Something That Would Enable Her
to Escape Those Hash
cry Jokes.

Gimme q little cold polar bear" said
the man in the basement restaurant to the
waitress who, having brought him glass
of water, had stopped to get his order,
relates the Chicago Tribune.
Polar bears all out, she replied, with
. far-away gaze that went past his head
without seeing him.
Got any iced watermelon"
Y Ell. Want some?"
No, not if you've eot it. How about
that picked tongue?"
g IS all right. D'u want that?"
mot any for mine I'm married Well,
don't see anything here on this bill that's
cold enough for hot day in July, except
hot pancakes and coffee. Hurry EN- along,
will you? They are bound to be cold by
the time / get EN-.
The waitress swept away, still without
seeing the customer. He called her back.
Here" said the customer, that was
just joke. | want boiled dinner.
What'n you take to laugh the next time
I get funny?p
SChloroform," said the waitress. as she
started for the kitchen.
The leader., 1905-08-05
CAMPING SONG.

Has .your dinner lost its SAVIOR,
Has your greeting lost its cheer?
Is your daily stunt burden?
y your laughter half sneer2
There's a medicine to cure you.
There's 4 way TO lift your load,
With horse and saddle and mile Of open
road.
is your eyeball growing bilious?
Is your temper getting short?
Is this life blind delusion,
Or a grim unloyey sport2
There's a world of health and beauty,
There's help that cannot fail,
In a day behind the burros
On dusty mountain trail
Come out old man. we're going
To a land that's free and large.
Where the rainless skies are resting
On snowy mountain narge.
When we camp in Gods own country,
You viii find yourself again,
With fire and a blanket and the stars upon
the plain!
Bliss carman, in The Reader Magazine.
The leader., 1905-08-05
Voice from Arkansas.

Cleveland, Ark, July 3Ist. (SpeciaD -
Nearly every newspaper tells of some won
dcrful cure Of some form Of Kidney Disease
by the Great American Remedy, Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and this part of Arkansas
is not without its. share of evidence that
no case is too deeply rooted for Dodds
Kidney Pills to cure.
Mr.. A. E. Carlile, well known and highly
respected here, tells Of his cure after near
" quarter of century's suffering. Mr..
Carlile says:
s'I want to let the public know what /
think of Dodd's Kidney Pills. think
they are the best remedy for sick kidneys
ever made.
Il had Kidney Trouble for % years and
never found anything that did me so much
good as Dodd:s Kidney Pills. recon-
mend them to all sufferers"
There is no uncertain sound about Mr..
Carlile's statement. He knows that
Dodd's Kidney Pills rescued him from a
life of suffering and he wants the public
to know it. Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all
Kidney ills from Backache to Brights
Disease.
We never could understand why the
girl who puts up lettuce leaf sandwiches
for the picnic gets married sooner than
the one who prepares the satisfying ones
Of ham and mustard Chicago Tribune.