The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-30


I went to call on Mary, dear.
I said: IT certainly appear
The finish I recall with pain.
IT presently came on to rain
1 shelter sought. and sought in vain.
Alas! Those clothes were shoddy!
They shrunk to half their former size.
My anguish could not disguise.
And now. for that bad raiment
That looked SO swagger and so smart. !
For months mi have to set apart
To make the weekly payment
Chicago News.
Easy Money for Spooks.
Spooks of a literary turn of mind
reading open books, the medium who
brings about this feat to receive the
money.
This offer grows out Of the article
in the last number OF the Journal Of
the American Society for Psychical
Research descriptive Of the abilities
OF certain Mrs Quentin to read the
contents of books through a case
with the kindly aid Of her spirit con-
troll
Members Of the Metropolitan
Psychical society who have long had
this plan under consideration now
take this opportunity to make an in
ducement which may bring about a
test Of the eyesights Of spirits.
Among those interested are w. S.
Davis, Joseph A. Rim. and James l..
Kellogg.
This test is very simple ONE
said Mr.. Davis the other day, land it
is offered because it has the stamp
of approval of authorities on spirit
ualism to whom it was submitted.
They decided that it was not at all in
compatible with the laws of spiritual
ism as understood. We propose to
have book opened at random and
held above the head Of the medium.
the first words of the first three lines
at the top Of the right hand page.
After that the spirit can read as far
as he likes. That is all we ask. The
largest print may be used. In fact, I
would just as soon open up wooden
foot square. If spirits return to
earth, and If they can see, why
should they not be able to read a
little? Circulars will be sent out
shortly to all mediums to take part
in this simple test. but probably the
ranged until the fall. Mr.. Kellogg is
willing to contribute $1,000, and I
know another man who is likely to
give a similar amount, while possibly
an additional $1,000 could be raised
in smaller sums."-New York Herald.
Killed Many Indians.
Upon bank of the Missouri river in
Cedar county, Neb., lives alone a mar
over 80 years old, who has killed hun
dreds of Indians. No one knows how
many redskins he killed and he does
not himself know. Forty three years OF
his life were devoted to the one effort
OF killing as many as he could in re-
venge for the massacre of his three
children.
Hansen Wiseman and his wife and
baby came out from West Virginia to
northeastern Nebraska long before the
war. This country was then the wild
west. In 1852 he enlisted as a member
of Gen. Sully's Nebraska brigade, and
in spite Of the warning of his neighbors
he departed with the troop. Less than
a year later Wiseman's three children
were murdered and his cabin burned
by marauding Indians.
Mrs. Wiseman had gone to Yanktor
after supplies, leaving her 16 year ole
son to protect his little sister and baby
brother. On her return on the fifth
day she found the cabin a partial ruiz
and the boy and baby dead. Her daugh.
ter was still alive, but with scalp gone
and tongue cut out, she lived but 6
few days. The mother. crazed with
grief, ran away.
The news reached Wiseman in Mon.
tana- Without asking leave he started
back to Cedar county. After a Ions
search he found his wife, but it was
year before she was able to tell hin
the story. Close by where the Wise
mans and lived was the hunting ground
of the Poncas, and the territory was
new, and then invaded by the Yanktor
Sioux, who were ever in conflict with
the Nebraska reds.
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whether 1t had been Sioux or Poncas
that had murdered his family. Upor
the graves of his children he swore the
vendetta Of the West Virginia hill
tribes. and he kept it. A few years age
geologist discovered at the foot Of
the bluff, where his children were bur.
led, the remains Of "a Indians. 1t was
pronounced to be an Indian buryins
ground, but Wiseman's neighbors as.
sert 1t was the old mans private grave.
yard, and the bodies were those of his
victims. He stalked his game in fores
and over prairie. He always hunted
alone, and made it a point to pick of
every stray Indian he ran across. He
| became a most skilled sharpshooter
| and the way he picked off an Indiar
ment to those waiting for the return o.
J the victim.-Denver Field and Farm.
Gives Up Stage to Swing Pick.
From a grand opera star in Italy
to the position of street laborer In
| Oakland is quite a transformation
yet Michele Lavezi, employed by the
Peoples Water company Of Oakland
once sang the leading Italian opera
roles in the Victoria theater in
| Torino, Italy.
| Lavezi, who is a native of Bianzero
Italy, came to this country five year:
| ago. He remained principally be.
/ w 0f lah0rer here
were better than the salary he re.
| ceived in the Italian company.
| Lavezi. who is thirty-eight years Of
age, has never had instruction, bu
| his voice is sweet and clear. Among
| his fellow workers he Is popular. Thu
| people whose homes are in the
| neighborhood of Mariposa street and