The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 9, 1903

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V y v' 'V V V V "V LAST ECIO 31 0 XI) AY EVENING, TOPEKA, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 9, 1903. MONDAY EVENING, TWO CENTS. f M f I A noiTOOQ arc iinpr: 1 Cm I 1 L luiiuiiu jtiii. Ilansas Newspaper .Men Assem ble in Topeka. Al'i-xt 100 Gather at the Open ing Meeting. 21R. kaneyvs address. The President Discusses the Changed Conditions. Dailies Have Invaded Field of Country Weekly. Evry newspaper editor in Kansas now ha a two i lays' leave of abraic from business, and is or ought to be in To(,ki. I'liformnatoly the class o those who "ought to be" in Topeka con siderably exceeds too number of those who actually are, for the membership of the editorial 'association has nevet bcn extended to include all its possihili'. ties, Between two and three hundred newspaper men are expected to be her lor the meiting. and most of that num ber are in town already. There werts rtbont a hundred in the council chamber this afternoon, and most of the rest or them v. ill be on hand by the time the r reptloti opens in the Oxford hotel this evtnii:. F. C. BANET, Editor of the Fort Scott Republican and President of the Kansas Kditorial as sociation. ThiK morninsr was taken tip with ihe Beoreta ry's affairs of enrolling new arrivals and enlisting nevv recruits to the organization. At 1:?.0 this after noon the first real gathering of the asso ciation was commenced with the an nouncement of a number of committee. Then came the address of President F. Raney. The programme moved on to a discussion of "Newspapers and Politicians" by Charbs Sessions of the Kansas City Journal. Sessions had ?i clever little talk about the relation of these two important factors in public affairs and was followed in the same Ftraiu by M. f'hileott. Wamego Tines; J. c. P.oyce, Phiiiipsburst Dis patch, arel ("eorge Tucker, Kuieka 71raid. The last paper this afternoon v as on i ho subicot "The f!nit of Twice-a-YVeek Issues." by I. T. Anr. sirniiK. .,f the (Ireat Hend t'.eai on. Kx-VsHtrt VaUer Williams of the Nation;'.; Kd itorial association has dis hj. pointed the officers the Kansas as sociation In not beiiur able to come here to take part in this evening's pro pi-amme. He was to have Riven a talk on "The YVci-i-l's Press and the vri,r Pair Jlr. Williams 13 commissioner in pi-ess at the St. l.ouls me on the protjramme will iovern. ,r Pail.-y and Sen- t- the fcrc l"ir. His 11 lie fill. 1 by ctor S:m who will make shoiv- r, oes .u ioe state noose this evenum -a-!'"r the a -circss of welcome bv Toifc b N'eal and ll,e r.-spons-. the partv will Kdjoum fioni the hall of representative to the Ne-,.,- x for-1 hotel, where a recep tion is 10 be :r.-eri at a o'clock A very j, thoitch hi !t-f. iimaramme has been arrang.---! fr this ,Mn of the entertainment. M ;s. ib-rge v I'ark hurst. Trcf. Vinci-nt Hvahani. Missl.ynn ''V' a,,,i 1'ana ui voeai an .-1,.,-uij. ii;,rv numhots K1V Sev- eral of T if 1 ha- 10 spepei- ,!fj nitr o.ncKa will stand in the receiviim at the hotel. t- line T,. O. KEAfiAX, Of Alta Vista. th- youngest editor in Kansas who is attending the state as sociation. President F. Pane v led off on the ft-monn prccrainme with an address cf w-eloomr. and counsel to his follow n-wspaperrren. Previtv was the ,,,sl notable feature of the speech although """aS ,VP" put "Mrethe,- and full of id-as. Mr. Raney strung off a few ia t. sties 111 regaol to ihe number of news papers and magazines in Kansas, a ductina therefrom the condusjc,,, tl,,, the membership of th F.dit.irial as portation ought to be 1.00,1 insiead o! Mr. P.aney would like tr, pre a news paper trust organized in Kansas fot the purpose of nghtiner the bam.., of the present dny nw spaoe,- maker Among other thiners he said: "We talk of the power of the Kansas press but we have n. ronwnti.n of what it. micht ami w ould be if u w is united and organised as other business Interests of the state r.r organized ihe editors of Kansas, like the Irish, s i Nv I s t-o- 'v. I

VI 1 have fouuht eve-. yi.-) '.y's battles bu th' it own. hcy will line up behind a oatt U meii's ;i:vMK'l.tU'in or a labor or Kanizitioti or a iarii)--rs' movement and will sued gallons of ink in defense of whauv.-r t. te.se ot-samzations demand or insist upon. It is customary and popular to be against trusts but if tlii re vor was an excuse for such an organization if is in tne newspaper field in tnis st it-:-. If a thousand newspaper men of Kansas were in this meeting today and, after discussing- any pro position, should asree upon a plan of action, the R-ovrrnor and state legis lature sitting in the state house yonder uould not dare, to to counter to the express wishes of this body." In regard to the future of the small newspaper he said: "Tiie bis dailies with their unlimited capital and their facilities for g:ather isi: and priminsr not only the news but current literature, fiction and his tory, are pushing out aloner the rural routes into the fields heretofore con trolled by the small daily and weekly. The small daily in self defense Is mak ing a reduced rate by mail, and in this way is contesting the local field with its lnvfier competitor. In some cases I the weekly paper run in connection witn a country daily has tieen sus pended and the daily at a. subscription price only slightly increased from the priee of the wpekly has teken its place. Vh.".t will be the result? "Will the g-rowiner desire for more reading matter enlarg-e the field so that th local papers will not suffer? Or will the rural reader finally tire of the great mass of reading: matter contain ed in the bier daily or the frequency oi the small-r one, and return to hie weekly paper with its familiar country correspondence and its editorial discus sions of local questions? "These are matters deserving- the best thought of the newspaper men of the state. Their solution, so far as the ef fect upon the local field is concerned depends tipon the work done by the men who now occupy this field!" LEADED GUILTY. Oracdson of JJrihani Young Sentenced for Life. New- York, Feb. 9. William Hooper Young on trial for the murder of Mrs. Anna Fulitzer pleaded gruilty to murder In the second degree and was sentenced to life imprisonment. HARRY "VIILLIAMS DEAD Well iinown Young Man a Vic tim of Pneumonia. tarry Frasier Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Williams died Sunday morning at five o'clock at his home, 1175 Fillmore street, at the age of 31. He leaves a wife and a daughter three years old. HARRY F. WIRKIAMS, Who died Sunday. Mr. Williams was a victim of pneu monia. 11- was down town last Mon day and was troubled with a cold. On Tuesda.y he became worse and a phy sician was summoned and it was found that he was suffering from pneumonia. It was impossible to check the progress of the disease and on Friday his condi tion was alarming. Saturday lie be came delirious and the physicians re alized that the end was near at band. He lived, however, until daylight Sun day morning. This is the first death in the family of A. P. Williams. On New Year's flay there was a family reunion at. the, Fillmore street home and 22 members of the family sat down to dinner. Mr. Williams was a young business nnn of great promise. He was associ ate.! with his brother-in-law, Mr. W. P. Pickev, in the ice business and wa( also an assistant supreme court re porter. Six years ago he married Misa Norma Smith, a young woman well known in Topeka society and their daunhtr Marian, three years old. is an rsp.cr ially attractive hi'd. Mr. Wil liams was a brother of Representative A. Williams ..f Topeka. The fUI)eral w ill hi Id from the residence ,,f Mr. Williams parents. II'1", Fillmore street, at 2 p. m. Tues day. The ppii bearers are to be the follow -insr: Wrn. Johnson. Fred Rob bins. Pavid Pnkin. P. Pagerstrom. Oh:vl.'-s Morton. A. R. l.ingafelt. The funeial will be conducted by Dean Kaye and the intsrmnt will be private. BLEW UP THE HOUSE. Effort to Conceal a Robbery With Dynamite. Portage. Pa., Fob. 9. An explosion of dynamite- in the fruit store and home of Tonv Pasriuello, an Italian, short !y after midnight, completely wieekd the building and painfully in jured 12 occupants of the house. After the explosion Pasqueilo and his wif I were found dead in the ruins. Pas j ouello's h'-ad was blown off and a deep j gash in it looks, as if it was made with I a cleaver. A similar gash on Mrs. I Pasqueilo's head leads to the suspic ion that they were robbed and mur rPred before the explosion. A son says sort was secreted in the bouse and this can not bp found. Shortly before th explosion a rr.an was seen runr.in f i away from the building. The conrus- sinn damaged a number of other 1 buildings. f i pS3s y0 M he xim sigh. Minister Bowen Refuses to Gire His Official Sanction To the Protocol Drawn by the Representative of Germany. MUST THY IT AGAIN. Document Will Be Again Re ferred Back to Berlin. The British Protocol Has Prov en Acceptable in Principle. Washington, Feb. 9. As the Vene zuela issue stands today the British protocol is so drawn that Mr. Bowen may accept it in principle. But the Ger man draft is unacceptable and the dif ferences between the negotiators as to this protocol are more marked than in the case of any other. One statement made fnot by Mr. Bo-en) was that while the Germans, with the other allies, in principle accept the reference to The Hague question of allowing preferential claims, yet their protocol is so drawn as to practically require such preferential treatment in advance of the submission of the case to thai tribunal, Mr. Bowen feels that the German protocol would not be acceptable to the Venezuelan government and he has therefore declined to, sign it in its pres ent form, which necessitates a refer ence of the document back to Berlin and an extension of the negotiations. The reports coming from Caracas are to the effect that great suffering is being inflicted upon many innocent persons and the foreign residents are bearing more than their share of the rigors of the blockade, because their more complex wants are not to be sat isfied with native food. It is believed that Italy is not likely to prove an obstacle to the winding up of these ne gotiations. Baron von Sternburg, the CTerman minister, spent some time with the British ambassador and with Mr. Bowen at the latter's hotel today. It is understood that the German protocol will likely provide for the payment of the 5,500 pounds immediately as is the ca.se with the British protocol. ATCHISOFI'S FlflD. Strikes the Leavenworth Vein of Coal. Atchison, Kan.. Feb. 9. The Leaven worth vein of coal, twenty-two inches thick, was struck here at five o'clock this morning. This is a gratifying result of the ef forts of Atchison to obtain coal, al though the vein which it is expected will be worked is still about two hun dred feet lower than the Leavenworth vein and is about three feet in thick ness. It contains the quality of coal known as the Frontenac or Weir City. The twenty-two inch vein reached to day Is the same thickness as the Leav enworth and could be worked profit ably, but the company will push the shaft to the thicker coal. The Atchison company was formed about a year ago by Atchison people. Four of the prominent citizens put up ?5,000 each and additional sums have been subscribed since. The company has expended up to this time about $40,000 for labor and machinery and ex pects to spend about $75,000 by the time the mine is in thorough operation. The thick vein will be reached in a few months. The shaft is a large one. something like twelve by twenty-five fept in size and costs about $40 a ver tical foot. It is protected by heavy timbers and pumping machinery to keep the shaft dry. Fans for providing fresh air are in constant operation. About thirty men are employed. It is anticipated that within a year eight hundred tons of coal will be mined per day. The main object of the piromoters was to provide cheap coal that would build up manufacturing .enterprises for the city. F. W. Howe of the Atchison Globe and Balie Waggener are two of the founders of the project. SHOT HER ASSAILANT. Woman Station Agent Makes a Vigorous Defense. Monongahela, Pa., Feb. 9. During' the night an unknown man forced his way into the telegraph tow er at "Waist on 1 station, on the Pittsburg. Virginia 1 Charleston railread. and assailed Mr? j Wilson, the operator. Mrs. Wilson shot I the man, and this so enrased him thar he beat her almost into Jnsonsibiiity and then tried to burn her to death by forcing hAr head into the stove. He 'fore he succeeded, hovvevor. an arriving freight train frightened him off and he tied, having his vioim unconscierus. Mrs. Wilson is the wffe of ex-Mayor Wilson of this city. She is a hamisomo woman aged go. and is regarded as fear less. Her eondbion is critical. Eariv in the evening four men madf an attempt to break into the tower, hut they were frustrated by the timep. arrival of several railroaders. It N thought Mrs. Wilson's assailant be longed to this party, and the noliee ex pect to have him before nirrht. Must Stick to Franchise Kate. Chicago. Feb. 9. An injunction order issued by Judge Tuley a year ago re straining the Chicago Telephone com pany from charging more than the franchise rate for the use of telephones, was affirmed by the appellate court to day. Weather Indications. Chicago. Feb. 9. Forecast for Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday: warmer in north tonight; southerly winds. Temperature of Large Cities. Chicago. Feb. 9. 7 a. m. temperatures: Jsew York. 32; Washington. 34; Cinein j nati. 30; Boston. 26: Chicago. 24: St. j Louis, 32; Philadelphia, 32; Minneapo- lis, 10. NO S TO It M IN SIGHT. Government Forecaster Thinks Force Has Been Spent. The government forecaster nowbelieves that the influences of the ground hog's shadow' on the weather have been spent. Today's forecast is "'Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. Warmer north poF tion tonight." The wind today has been south, blowing 7 miles an hour. The total fall of snow amounted, in water, to six hundredths of an inch. The hour ly tompei-atures recorded today by the government thermometer ware as fol lows 7 o'clock 2fiitl o'clock 4,1 S o'clock 27 12 o'clock 47 9 o'clock lie. 1 o'clock 50 10 o'clock asf 2 o'clock 52 THEY WILL WAIT. Democrats Won't Nominate Mayor Now. Will Do So After Republican Primary. The Democr-tic city convention for the nomination of a city ticket will be held after the Republican city primary on March 11. Several of the Democratic leaders say that this much of the Democratic cam paign has been decided upon. The ob ject of holding the convention late is of course for thu purpose of seeing the out come of the hot light which is promised within Republican ranks. If Frank Lewis is nominated, it is the plan of some of the prominent Demo crats to give him the Democratic sup port, and make no independent Demo cratic nomination for mayor, though it is by no means certain that the party leaders would consent. Next Friday the Democratic city cen tral committee will meet for the purpose of fixing the time of the convention, and determining whether it shall be a dele gate or mass convention. Cm the latter proposition, the committee seems to be about evenly divided. Saturday afternoon, a reporter, for the State Journal told Iviayor Parker that Mr. Lewis had entered the race, and asked him what attitude the Democrat would be likely to take In the matter. "Why, Lewis is a Democrat," said the mayor. "He would suit me all right for mayor. I don't know what the party w ill do, of course, but personally, I think that Frank Lewis is all right." TO SiDKTRACK BF.KUUNDTHAL. Great efforts are being made by cer tain people in the. law and order com mittee to get W. S. Bergundthal off the track. On Saturday especially heavy pressure was brought to bear, but Mr. Bergundthal is still in the race. It was proposed by the people working the scheme that Hugh'- and Bergund thal eac h appoint five' men to represent them, and those five choose five others, l oth Hughes and Bergundthal were to enter into an agreement to submit their claims to this commit..", and abide by the result. Bergu.. ...al r.-f-jsed to do thi-Hv becaosc he said lie had not been given a fair deal in. the law and order committee, and did not propose to take any more chances. If Lewis had not. entered the race. Hughes wouid have caotured the soiid vote of the liberal Republicans, who had it all fixed up to nominate Hughes and then beat him at the election as they did before. They considered him a much easier man to beat than Ber gundthal. Now, however, the thing has changed. Lewis will get the liberal sup port, HueIips will in all probability get the ofiir-ial law and order endorsement, while Bergundthal is expected to devel op a strong following among the busi ness men and temperance people of the city and in North Topeka. Bergundthal expects to draw votes from both Hughes and Lewis. He will pose as sort of it compromise candidate between the law and order and liberal forces. It would be much better politics for the law and order people to endorse Bergundthal, for he is a stronger candi date than Hughes. Without the law and order endorsement. 'Hughes would not have enough strength to get to the polls. Bergundthal, with the law and order endorsement, would be sl very formidable candidate. LAW AND OPDF.R MEETING. This evening the law and order com mittee will meet at the United Presby terian church. The obiect of the meet ing is to endorse Hughes for mayor. It has come now to the place where defin ite action must be taken. Hughes seems to have things all his own way in the committee, and unless there is a radical chance in sentiment, will be endorsed tonight. MAY BE CHALLENGED. Chairman Simon of the Republican city central committee will call a meet ing for some time this week, and there is a rumor that the eligibility of Frank Lewis to run as a candidate for mayo; will be challenged. Chap. Holliday. another reformed Democrat who wants to run for school board, will also be challenged. Both of the above gentlemen claim to have been Democrats up to within live or six years aro, au-.i as the Hughes peopdp have a good safe majority on the. committee, they may decide to vote botb Lewis and Holliday tiff the ticket. L would be a very radical nmv and might provoke a lot of bad feeling, but in a crisis radical action sometimes has to he taken. One in it tec public in1 mi ra eminent member of the com and also a member of the Be n Flambeau iub, said this S that be would bo in favor cf admitting Holliday to the flambeau club, but would strenuously oppose giv ing him a 1 lace on the Republican ticket. "These Democrats have expressed willingness to take a back seat in tho band waeon." said this man, "and that is what they ought to do for a while. 1 don't like to see them coming in aftPr the best offices so early in the game." FATHER KILLS CHILD. Accidentally Splits His Head With an Ay. Son's Fort Scott. Kas., Feb. 9. The little 2. year-old son of L. Burrous. a farmer living a few miles southwest of Pnion t -w-n. is dep.d of injuries received acci dentally. The accident which resulted in the 'death of the child is a peculiar and most lamentable one. The father was cutting wood at his farm and the little fellow was playing near him. Be I fore the parent knew- it the child ran no under the ax as he was swinging a blow i,nd the child's head was split open, it would appear that death would have l-een instantaneous, but the child lived until Saturday when it died. It is lparne-1 that the father is grieving over the accident so much that he has al most lost his mind. TUBUS JTJQWil. Ex-Governor Stanley Refuses a Sinecure. Was Tendered the Late Senator Dawes' Place. DOESN'T KNOW DUTIES. Therefore Declines to Accept the Place. Prefers to Derote Himself His Law Practice. to Tender Was Made Through Senator Elect Long. Ex-Governor W. E. Stanley has been offered the appointment as member of the Dawes Indian commission, to suc ceed the late ex-Senator Dawes of Mas sachusetts, but a disrjatch from Medi cine Lodcre. where Governor Starilev l today on legal business, says that he r T1 ui uol ctLi-fiii tue aiMjoinaiifiiL. nc is quoted in the dispatch as saying:

'Y7 IWilLL ''tif'f'M lit ''y'"i- EX.GOV. W. E. STANLEY. "I decline to accept a place on th commission for the reason that I am not familiar with the duties of the commis sion, nor do I know the tenure of th office. I have gone back to my law- practice and will accept no minor post,- lion that will take me away from it. 1 MkJ y- VJj wired mv declination this morning." I will be of great profit to the people. For Oil company arrived in Washington Yesterday Mr. Stanley was auoted as instance: The map shows four post- and culled immediately upon members saving he would accept the appoint- offices in Mitchell county which have j ot the senate, as Indicated in the tcle-rof-nt. been discontinued, and puts the Wa- I jrranis. He did not remain lung. The proffer of the appointment was i conda Springs station on the Missouri Scarcely had he made known his buwi- made in a telegram from Senator-elect Long to Governor Stanley at Wichita Saturday morning", but as he was just leaving for Medicine Lodge he made no di.tision about accepting it. Yesterday seme of his friends in Topeka called him. up at Medicine Lodge and talked with him about the matter, and it was said then that he would probably take the appointment. His declination today comes as a surprise. The offer of the appointment was se cured for Stanley by Senator-elect Long, and it is supposed to be as a reward lor the action of Governor Stanley in get ting out of the senatorial race when he did and allowing his forces to go to Long. The appointment could not have been agreed upon at the time, however, for the vacancy on the commission oc curred only last Thursday on the death of ex-Senator Dawes of Massachusetts, who was the originator of the commis sion. The commission has its headquarters at Muscogee, I. T. Its purpose is to wind up the affairs of the five civilized tribes in the Territory and prepare it fr a regular territorial government or for statehood. The commission was cre ated in lS'.'S, and while ex-Senator Dawes was made its nominal chairman. Tarns Bixby of Minnesota, has been its acting chairman and will probably con tinue to be so. It is said that President Roosevelt velt had in mind Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow for ths place, which would relieve the pressure for Bristow's removal from the post office department, and at the same time advance htm to a better place from a financial point of view and one which would give him more time for his private business. If it is true that Govenor Stanley will not accept the appointment it is pos sible that President Roosevelt, will ten der it to Bristow. but some of Stanley's friends do not believe that he has re fused it, or if he has, that he will re consider his decision and accept. It is pointed out that the salary is just as good as being Fnited States senator, and that he will have abundant time to give to his law practice. Senator Dawes, whom Stanley was slated to succeed, was 86 years of age. and he has taken no active part on the commission for the past six years. DECLINATION FINAL. Governor Stanley said to the State Journal today over the long distance telephone from Medicine Lodge, at 3 p. m.: "I wired my declination of a position on the Drives commission this morn ing. My decision is final and I will not accept the position. "I am receiving many messages from the east inquiring about my action and to all I have given the same answer that I have already wired my declina tion to Washington. "I am down here at Medicine Lode attending a law suit and I do not know what is going on in tne outside world. I intend to look after mj) law business." The conviction that Mr. Bristow is to go from his present position is becom ing a settled one, notwithstanding his statement that he will stay. The thing that has made him trouble has not been the appointment of fourth clasi postmasters, but his position as chief of bureau of postoffice inspectors. All the postoffice detectives are under his direction. He has uncovered some frauds which have made him powerful enemies. Among other actions he sent secret inspectors to West Virginia to investigate the private character of a man recommended by a West Virginia senator for a liigh office, with the re- suit that the recommendation was turned down. This incensed the West Virginia senator and he has been or ganizing a revolt against Bristow ever since. But his worst "offense" was in con necting the friends of Perry S. Heath, formerly first assistant postmaster gen eral, with the Cuban postal frauds. This brought powerful political influences against him. As a result considerable friction has been worked up ai)d there is a growing demand for Bristow's re moval. Postmaster General Payne him self is not friendly towards Bristow, and to iron out the friction in the depart ment President Roosevelt is looking for another place for Bristow. Meanwhile the fate of Senator Harris' candidacy for a place on the canal com mission is tied up. Mr. Long and Gov ernor Bailey refused to endorse Senator Harris for the reason that such an en dorsement from them might keep some Republican from Kansas out of a good aptiointment. Ail of the Kansas delega tion in congress except Long have en dorsed Harris. Mr. Ixjng says that while he has not endorsed Senator Har ris, he is not fighting him. But with asking for Governor Stanley's appoint ment to a good place and with J. L. Bristow to be taken care of, he did not Fiael lir-Q 'i 4: 1.-1 n r tkat -3 Truna 1 Ve r-. 11 crat also be given a place one of the best in the gift of President Roosevelt. ine ceventn ur. Ll gressman Long s seat in the lower house of congress is steadily lining up. H. M. Hallowav. of Pawnee county, has enter- ed the race and Sam W. Forsha, of Reno county, nas irane lormai announcement of his candidacy. Halloway is at the head of the Keystone Milling company t Larncl, while Forsha is manager of the big Forsha wheat and alfalfa rancn the big Forsha wheat and altaifa rancn of 14.000 acres, 15 miles south of Hutch inson. The special election for the elec tion of Mr. Long's successor will not be formally called for at least a month, as the vacancy will not occur until March 4, taut the date may be informally de cided upon by Governor Bailey before that time. Senator Fred Dumont Smith's an nouncement of his candidacy for con gress in, his paper, the Kinsley Mer cury, is somewhat different from the usual announcement. He says frankly that he wants the office. Here is ih.e announcement: "'The. writer will pro bably be one of the candidates, impelled thereto not by any overwhelming or ir resistible pressure from friends, or by any belief that he is the only man for the place, but because it is an honor, a promotion that we willingly seek and which we shall be profoundly gratified to obtain." Senator-elect Long will be one of the principal speakers at the annual ban quet of the Lincoln club in New York on Thursday evening. He1 wdll speak on "'The Administration of Our Insular Possessions." of 14'000 aeres" 15 mi'-s. .uth o Hutch- ,nson'f I, ?pe''-?1 elecuon Ior, "e i"" -.tv- The Beloit Gazette "roasts" the re- centlv issued report of the state board of railroad commissioners. It says: "Of course it is well gotten up from a printer's point of view, and is accom- j old, out of date plates, on old, out of date plates, on which some one made a big profit. If the printed e n it t acme several nines west oi cawKer ne, mcwi oc ao nnuinu, ".l i-uiv-City. Then, for some inscrutable rea- ly, that his presence here was undesir son, it has a. 'Cawker' and a 'Cawker able, and he left with an intimation City.' Great people, these railroad com- that he would better return to New missioners, with a high priced secretary, j York. stenograpther, etc." I Information concerning the receipl The first issue of the new daily at Lawrence, of which C. S. Finch, late editorial writer on the Lawrence Jour- nal. is to be editor, will be issued this afternoon. Kansas politicians who have been reading Mr. Finch's burning Re- publican editorials for several years are curious to know what he will say from an independent point of view. URIBE-URiBEDEAD. Colombian Rebel General Com mitted Suicide Last Month. Kingston. Jamaica. Feb. 9. The British steamer Para from Colon brings the news of the suicide on January 30 of former Colombian revolutionary general Pribe Fribe. General Pribe-l'ribe published a letter December 13 advising Colombia to wait the lapsing of the Panama canal concession in lftfd, which would leave the Colombian government a free hand in the matter of the canal. GEN. FRIBE-FRIBE. Who has committed suicide. The reports brought by the Para indi cate the possibility of another revolution in opposition to the Panama canal treaty. BURST ITS BANKS. I IJiver Clyde Inundates 811 Ex- tensive Industrial District. Glasgow, Feb. 9 The river Clyde burst its banks above Glasgow today and in undated the industrial district of Ruthglein, a dozen extensive works were flooded. The main road was ten feet under w-ater and many houses were rendered uninhabitable. Several resi dential districts south of Glasgow alscj were flooded. Elsewhere in Scotland traffic on tin railroads has been stopped, bridges swept away and houses have collapsed. No fatalities have been reported. V,.-. .-V ..--a-. 1 IGIIED BY ROCKEFELLER. Telegrams Received in Wash ington by Lawmakers With the Name of the Standard Oil Magnate Attached. 'IT MUST BE STOPPED.' Protests Against Further Anti Trust Legislation. Mes ages Are Followed by Ills Tersonal Representative. Washington. Feb. 9 It can be stated by authority that, unless anti-trust leg- Iwlsiinn at lesiKf rpasnnfthlv ftafisf actor V I to the administration is enacted at the

present session. President Roosevelt, on March 5, will call an extraordinary ses- sion of the fifty-eighth' congress. The president himself has told members of congress of his desires and of his deter- mination in this regard. It is under- i stood that the announcement was direct and unqualified. It is further stated that the determin- ation of the president wfes reached only after careful consideration of the stren uous efforts that are being made to de feat any anti-trust legislation by con gress. These efforts have covered a wide range. They were characterized by one prominent Republican leader, to quote him directly, as "the most re markable of which I ever had personal knowledge during my public life." These efforts culminated, it is now de clared, in direct appeals from the Stan dard Oil company, through its presi dent, Mr. John I. Rockefeller, to mem bers of the senate not to enact any anti trust legislation at this time. No less than six United States sena tors have received telegrams signed "John D. Rockefeller," urging that no anti-trust legislation be enacted. It has not been possible to obtain a copy of these dispatches, which, it can be said. I are practically identical. Substantially j they read as follows: i "We are opposed to any anti-trust legislation. Our counsel, Mr. j will see you. It must be stopped." As stated. these telegrams (and it j must be clear that only tne substance and not the exact wording Is here given) 1 were signed John D. Itockeieuer. One of the t-.oinsel of the Standard ot the messages leaked out ana became the subject of some quiet cloakroom discussion at the senate. The news alse reached the house, some of the prominent representatives learning the gist of the dispatches. Then it became known that this was not the first time the Standard Oil company, through its attorneys, had endeavored to influence legislation in congress at this session. The attorneys for the company, it is said, had opposed vigorously thei enact ment of the measures submitted by At torney General Knox to the subcom mittee of the house judiciary commit tee. Subsequently, when what is known as the Littlefield bill was re ported to the house, it can be said, on the best of authority, the Standard Oil company's counsel began to devote their opp. sition particularly to the Nelson amendment to section 6 of the department of commerce bill the amendment which contains practically the publicity figures of the Knox anti- trust bill. They did not want that in corporated in the measure, and. it is said, used their utmost efforts to pre vent its favorable consideration. They were unsuccessful, as the bill, with that amendment, was agreed upon un- animously by the conferees of the two branches of congress. The action of the conferees was re ceived with satisfaction, it is under stood, by the officials of the administra tion, as it is regarded as a long and essential step toward the kind of anti trust legislation that both the president and Attorney General Knox believe will be effective. It is this legislation partic ularly that the Standard Oil company so vigorously objects to, and walch it hoped might be headed off or emascula ted throusrh the appeals made to sena tors, before it reached the stage of act ual passage. It is said by authority that, the admin istration hopes that the Klkins rebate bill, which was passed by the senate, will be passed also by the house. While this measure, too, is opposed by those who are in favor of no trust legislation, the special opposition to it does not come from the Standard Oil company, because, i is explained, that corpora tion has grown beyond any effects the enforcement of such legislation might have upon it. The president, it is un derstood, regards the Klkins bill as es sential to a rounding out of the admin istration's plan for anti-trust legislation, and it is believed by those in close touch with him and with the conditions in congress, that it yet mfy be enacted i t to law. One of the recipients of the telegram signed br John P. Rockefeller said:, "No such formidable weapon ever ha1 j been put in the hands of one man by anotner in a leeis-iauve corneal as wea f,ut in my hands by the sender of that telegram. If necessary, I will rise ii my place in the senate and read it. Then we will see whether any votes are to be recorded against the legislation at which these efforts are being directed." BEGGF.D TO BE EXCPPF.D. New York, Feb. 9. An effort was made to see John D. Rockefeller in re gard to the telegrams purporting to be sent by him to various senators, but at his home he sent out word by a servant that he "begged to be excused." A Valuable Book. Diseases brought on or aggravated by cold weather, is told about in "Care of Invalids." issued by the medical depart ment of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and sent on rr ouest to those who address the home office of the company. Nassau, Cedai. William and Liberty streets. New York citaCi

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 190.3. I Ui Oil I lull liL u nich Stakes Offered for Brigh ton Beach Event. Bonner Memorial for 2:12 Trot ters Worth $20,000. 8i5,C00 IN STARES. Iaeer Stories Are Floating Around About Jeffries. Ileported lie Is Going a Jhou 1,. l'ace. New York. Feb. 9. C. A. McCuliy, Seeretary of the Nw Tnrk Trotting as sociation, made public unlay the stakes for th" erund circuit meeting at Brigh ton IV. uh in August. There are five Slakes valued at $45.0iM, the largest amount ever offered at any one meel Ijis for hsht harness horses. 1'ho richest prize is the Bonner Me morial, for 2:12 trotters, which has guaranteed value of $2t,oO0, double the amount civen for the event last year. The Brighton, for 2:10 pacers. is also in creased to twice its amount in l:K2, and 3s now worth Jlft.WO. Three other purses for 2:20 ti utters, 2:20 pacers and 2:2.) class, open to 4-year-old trotters are lixed at $i,(Ki0 each. Entries will close March 7. Some thirteen other classes will be arraneei later, bringing the total premium list up to at least STO.OCO. All these early closing races are on the ftrlghtnn Reach plan of sending nonuinners to the stable after three heats. The other events piobably will be best two in three heats. A 20 TO 1 SHOT AHEAD. Horton, Game Son of El Rayo, Wins $10,000 Burns Handicap. Fan Francisco. Feb. A 20 to 1 shot, Jiorton, the uuiiie son of I'd Kayo, and 1 'usii iades-Last, oariyinu the colors ot l'.ianehi Mctjovcrn. wmi the $!.nim Burns handirap at Intrlesido Saturday iifternoon, from one ot the best lipids mat ever comested in the event. Cun ti'd o:' the .Morris, stable was second, v nh Claude, owned by M. .1. Daly, next jn lm.. The race was run over a sloppy nark and in a heavy rain, but the foot ins was ennipru arively firm. .1 -espite the unpleasant weather one cf the largest crowds of the season gathered to witness the western classic,, and the general impression as that it line weainer bad prevailed, all record lor attendance would have been broken. Nineteen biases went to the post f"r the )i race, wdh Nones ami the Morris T air, Cum ail and Durazzo, second t hoices. Kiliott w as next in demand at to 1, while to 1 was quoted against Horton. Aft' a- a delay of about nine minutes, Jake lloltnian sent the big fe id away to a line start, w ith Konio shnwine; in front. Passing the stand Yellow Tail led with Konie. and Elliott next. When the halt was reached Yellow Tail was still show ing the way while Claude had moved into second place. Eonio and Cunard ueie lose up and Nones in about eighth position. There was not much chance at the three-quarters, but at th-- hem of the stretch il appeared as if Cunard would win. C. Kelly, however, moved up with Horton and the chestnut horse, responding samdy, made one of his Greatest runs. He caught Ctinrad in the list, frrlong and won with something- to snare by a length and a half while the Daly horse was a half length awav Nopc-s i 1 not find the track to his liking, but finished fifth. First money in the race was ST.Oeo. Horton was bred nea.r Vallejo hv the late -Hy Holly" and is 7 years of age. His victory was a popular one. The general opinion was that the race was ft true run one, considering the size of th field. Baseball Practice at K. IT. Lawrence, Kan., Feb. 9. Indoor base tall practice has been commenced by the candidates for places on the Uni versity of Kansas team, and thre were kst men out for the first call. The work lie carried ahead with vigor from now on. There are two probable candi dates for pitcher, half a dozen for catch er and a large number of promising in field men, with plenty of material for the outfield. It is probable that the teSm win have Dale Gear, the Kansas City association magnate, fr a coach iuriii the early part of the season, and the prospects are very promising for a taie team this year. The trip to be ta-1-en by the boys will lie in the south The schedule has not yet been fully made un. Bethany 25; Manhattan 10. L'ndsborg, Kan., Feb.9 TV-thanv col lege basketball team played the Kansas state Agricultural team here jn the presence of a large audience. The score was 2a to 10 in favor of Bethany. The fiame was a fast and interesting one.-" Coach (Jutland's Successor. Lawrence, Kan., Feb. 9. Ilernstein, .Michigan's great half back on the foot ball team of last fall, has been tnpas-n to coach the Haskell Indian players for the corning season. He will get $V"). His coming to the same town with Weeks, v.ho Is to coach the Univ ersi t y of Kan-v-ill reate an interesting rivalry between the two elevens. Hernsteifi vas one of the great placers of last 1 ,1 VI i J A CURED BY White Ribbon Remedy Fo taste, no odor. Can be given in Glas3 ot Water, Tea or Cofle Without Patient, a Knowledge. White Itibbon Kemly will rare or 1- trov the diseased appetite for alcoholic fruDi.'iants. whether the patient Is a con-l-tn:ti ineliriatc. "a tiotiier," social drinker or rlrurkurd. 1 inpoAsible for anyone to cave f:m apeetite in! mconollc liftuois af-t-r mU:g VChne Kii.ima lu-mcay. En. cersed ti- members of W. C. 'i'. C "Mrc Moi'l". t'ress saoerin! enncrit of tha N omi.li s C hristian Temperance union Vep.tnrt. Califurtda. writes- f have tested Ts'hite Ib.hhon Remedy on te-v ebstin:te dr-inkardg and the rates have been many. In manv rasea xnf ifiiely was jven sneOy I ch.a r f illy r. ccrnmend and indorse Whhe iJ.ib-V..-.n F:e!ned-. Members or fair union are (elected "o leal r.a economical treat lce.:t t'i aid o in our tempera n. -1 w ork." Tireniilsts or by mail. Trial iiackas--1 lne r-y wrifine Mrs. A. H. Townsend, .for rears secretary of a Woman's Christian TBiernce Union) 218 Tremont Street, l oitoti, V?s, sold In Topeka by M. Wejglit luaa, Crugglst, 633 Kansas Ave. 1 1 was highly by "Huiry vas in Law- fence on a visit a few- weeks ago. SAY "JEFF" 13 GOING FAST. Frequent Keports Eave It Champion Is Following John L.'a Trail. St. Louis. Feb. 9. Keports are beins spread that Champion Jim Jeffries is breaking down. On his tour with Fits simmons, giving exhibition sparring matches, he shows a growing inability to handle himself as formerly. It is claimed liijuor and all-night carousals have rendered him flabby and incapable of making any kind of showing. Even after the few rounds of easy sparring with Fitz he is completely used up. It is claimed that in addition to a general decline due to heavy drinking and carousing tuberculosis has secured a foothold in the champion's system. This is not believed by many, and the fact that Jeffries had a cbugh while it; St. Louis is not worryins his friends. It is said that he had a slight cold at the titsiwi. That the champion showed none of his former powers in his boxing exhibitions was evident, however. His famous "crouch" was not there, neither was the shiftiness he once exhibited when he put Corbett away in twenty-three rounds.. No one here believes that Jef fries cares to meet Corbett aRdin. He certainly will ne er face Fitzsimmons There are not a few who believe thai Corbett might dispose of the champiori just as "Pompadour Jim" put John L. on the shelf. Corbett would pepper him and then run away, tiring out the wan ing giant until the huge bulk of th; boilermaker would simply give way un der its own strain. OSAGE CITY WINS. Defeats Barclay in a Spirited Contest at Basket Ball. Osage City, Kan.. Feb. 9. Saturday night at Howe's opera house the Osage City high school defeated the Barclay Athletic association in the final game ot the season establishing firmly their claim to the country championship and ending another victorious season. r 'The game last night was a. very swift one, in fact it was so swift that Harclay was completely outclassed. While they put up a good game Osage's superior skill and knowledge of the game put the result out of doubt from the start. There was no particular star on either team, all putting up a tine example of the game. The final score was 2:! to 10. Following was the iine up for Satur day's night game and Osage City lias had the same all season: Osage City Forwards, Davis (Man.), Ferris: center, W. Miller (Capt.); backs, -M. Miller, A. Lake. Larclay Forwards, Frederick.Stubbs; center. Hunt; backs, Jones, Blackburn. During the past season the Osage team has played ten hard games and each has been a decided victory for them except one game lost to the Topeka Y. M. C. A. by the loi-.w:oore of 2i to 21. Four times lUn lingame has been defeat ed and also Barclay four times and once they defeated the Topeka Y. M. C. A. They have scored 215 points to ys their opponents, a shpwing very few schooia can make. BOWLING ENTRIES IN. Nearly 900 Men to Take Part in In dianapolis Tournament. Indianapolis. Feb. 9. -F.ntries have closed for the American bowling congress tourna ment, which will be held here the week of February i:x. There have been received 7," entries of iVnieu teams, 27 individual en tries and 111 2-meu teams. This shows that at bast s:'.n men will face the alleys at Tomhnsoii ball during tournamenl week. It is i xpeeied by the local managers of the tournament that a large number of .New York entries have been mailed todav and that when th.se are received in the mails Monday the number will be swelled at least 5o, making the total number over The n-nien trams entered are from Chi cago. St. Louis. Cclumhus. Wheeling. D-l-bu.p;e, Belleville. 111.: Indianapolis, Cleve land. Akron, Toledo, Louisville, Kan sas City, Minneapolis, Milwaukee. Peoria, Dayton. ishkosli. Wis.: St. Paul, Krie, l-'a., and South Lend. lad. The time w'hen en il man shall bowl w-ill be allotted by chance. Tuesday morning all of the entries in the different lasses will be placed in the hat and drawn oat on the, loltorv plan. The prize list will be $4,". i. It is said that no official recognition will be given to betting, but there will be po interference with it. and in this connection a r- port is prevalent that some of the Chi cago bowlers expect to take home more money than they win in prizes.1 NEW COACH AT YALE. H. Murphy Has Gone to New Haven to Work. W. New York. Feb. 9 phy, who was gra 11.:;, has been made 'varsitv nine. Whi! Dr. Murnhy plav.d -fir. William II. Mur duatcd from Yale in head coach of the Yale e in school four years shortstop on the Yale nine, and s senior ear was c-aptam team. When he left Yale w York aial entered busi- of the 'varsity he went to X where he pent the winter oi f.l and 'Id. During that winter til'1 New Y'ork (Hants induced Murphy to become a prc fessi.eial, and in lb.-' spring '!d he went to play prof. ssj. inai baseball with the Giants in '!d and and spent the winter s. asen studying medicine in the Colh-i;e id' Physicians and Surgeons in New Yd:1:. Alter two ears Murphy h-It. the profes sional diamond and went to the Fniver sity of 1 nns Ivania to complete his med ical edi.'atii.n and to act as head coach of t he 'varsity nine at the institution. Mm phy was be ad coach of the Quakers nine in ':-s and Jraihiili.-is; from the I 'uiversit y of Pen n h 1 va nia in he wen: ba. u to New Y'ork to practice medicine In he did i-onsiiieralde coaching for eclhge nines and in !1 and V.-'l acted as le ad coach of the nine at. Lelond Stanford uniMrsity at California. AS A BUSINESS 31AN. President KooaeveH Certainly Earns $50,000 a Year. Mr. Ron.vfit in'-rHs th enroura smjit and sympathy nC all lovers of pwnl guv- vrmijcnl and lie is ern ii h'd. as i n K"je! is 'vi ry r? i Itjiit to c-onsiii" -rat3 n :"J for-bcarina- cm if ism. For. ftniently dtir3-! ;s the otT'n-'- i.. ii is a linnl ylarp to iiil. Through the kiiulnss nf f 'rvsi'Wit KouM'-v-'-'it, 1 li.i'-c br-n t-nbiil to observe th" d;n!y rr.uiij'-' of las work, and J am I'm-'-j to Fctv that i'ntm Ihf business point ot" viw no in;m bitter earns his jiay than tl 1'. Mr. lini'i' remarks that a g-o.-.ti deal (In- prp-joVut's work i.- lik'-' that of th-imiiiag'1!- f a railway. Ho far as1 corn-ems t h' runs nl tat ion with hrmls of depart ments, prompt d-M-isii'its and t lie disposi tion of daily matters, tho comparison apt if a j-uvat American railway and a man; cr 1. kr Thomas A. fcSrow a r" bor-f? in mind. Knt lb.'1 railway maraf.;cr's la bor i? dnno in romparai ive privacy, hp can he f im? 1 mm interruption anil rhpns.1 of his own time in a systematic? maimer. That is impossible f..r the presiib-nt during the session of congress, t fi"ice-sekrs t heni Rci ves dT- not trouble t'ne president miirh as in former days: they may be r -f. rred t t he heads of tbfi depart merits; a nd. moreover. The hitrod notion of com pct it i ve t-xa mina t ittns a nd i rfe merit svs teni has operated as a relief to 1 he pr-'s-idf nt a nd hip cabinet ofTie--rs. But h;i r inpr the recommends linnf by sen a tore and c ma ressmen of t heir friends fur offices mnsvi mes a larpf amnnnt of t irne. Th-ro are, as Senator Todpe has kindly inform ed me. 4, MS prepjd ntlal officer ard 1.,"''1 propjdentia! pe-tr.ff icVv in addition there are army and navnl officers to be appo'int "d. Tlie trripei- election in foiir vars ol j tiie number f men thrsp fifft:res impiv in ttself no smaH hibor; it would hv a rap I way manager be ofussidrfd an onerous I and exacting: business. But the railwav I m;ui:igpr ni;o" hear t he claims of appu j cants in his own proper w.-iy. and tr pr--i vent onrrcaehmeiii s on bis time may fdve the candidates or their friends a curt dis j rnissal.- 1-Ynm "The "Presidential Office," be .inms Ford Tihod.cs, in uie February j Scribner s. year's Sliehigran team, ant1 recommended to Haskell up" Yost, when the iatter Case of John Cn turnings Comes Up for Trial. Killed a Girl With a Broom Over 3 Years Ago. IN WELLINGTON COURT Kept. the .Hatter Quiet for Two Y?ars by Lying. Wife Could Remain Silent No Longer So Confessed. Wellington, Kas., Feb. 9. The case of John Cummings, charged with the kill ing of Anna Dishman, his 13-year-old servant girl near here over three year:, ago, is set for today in the district court. L'ummi;ii-, in a fit of rage, threw a broom at the girl, who had ex pectorated in some dishwater she was carrying to the kitchen. The end of the handle struck her on the temnle and she died a week later. Cummings buried the girl's body and kept the crime concealed for two years by tellintr inquisitive neighbors that she had gone away with campers. His wife knew every detail of the crime, and, driven nearly insane by her conscience, finally told the authorities of the mur der and Cummings' arrest followed. He acknowledged his guilt and expressed a desire to be sentenced on a ulea of guilty to a charge 'of manslaughter Friends secured his release on bond, and now he will fight the case. He was a prosperous farmer. DID EE MAKE BAD MONEY P Charles Tabor, an Ex-Convict, Arrest ed in a Cave Near Lawrence, Lawrence, Feb. 9. Charles Tabor was arrested Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Lfsinger and driver Jeans on a charse of counterfeiting. Tabor was captured in a cave along the bank of the Kaw river just cast of 'the city, fie has been living alone in this cave ever since he came to Lawrence last fall. A ladle and some bar metal w ere found in the. cave, together with some other articles, which may have been used in the manufacture of bad money. No counterfeit coins were found in the cave or in his possession, however, and the officers also failed to find any dies. Tabor denies that he has been coun terfeiting, and claims that a bad coin which he is alleged to have tried to pass was one which was given to him in change. He told several different stories, however, and the authorities feel certain that he is a counterfeiter. He admits that he was released from the Missouri penitentiary last August, where he com pleted a 14 years sentence for murder. Letters found about his clothes indi cate that he is implicated with St. Loui counterfeiters now under arrest, for their lawyer had written to him to send money to carry on their case for them eise they wouid have to be sent to the penitentiary. For some months there have been a ffolxl many bad coins of a low- denomi nation in circulation in Lawrence. The most of them were dimes, with a. goodly sprinkling of quarters. The United States commissioner at Topeka has been notified, and Tabor will be taken to To peka Tuesday for a hearing. It is not thought that anyone else is implicated here with Tabor. His cave is a small one, and there is no indication of the work having been conducted upon a very large scale. Suicide of Aged German. Wichita. Kan.. Feb. 9. Fred Frantz, a German, t2 years old. was found in a field six miles nortnwest of Conway Springs Saturday afternoon with his head blown off. A shotgun was in one hand and a stick in the other and it is Mipposcd that he used the stick for pulling the trigger. Two weeks ago the aged German left the home of John 'Wan!, leaving a note on the table saying that his friend would never see him alive again. Items from Downs. Downs, Kan., Feb. 9. Farmers all report ivIf.-U in line condition and no fear is entertained for its safety during the winter months. The acreage in Osborne county is above the average and the fine snows of the wdnter have put the ground in such splendid condi tion that a heavy crop Is expected. Considerable real estate has changed hands lately Most buyers being from j Iowa and Missouri. Much building in the town and adjacent country is al ready being planned for the coming summer. Among the new business enterprises IbOOfOf UIS0GS0 Of all human diseases, that known as i i contagious blood poison, or the Bad Disease, has caused more misery and suf fering and ruined more lives than all others combined. It not only wrecks the hopes and aspirations cf the one who j contracts it, but often the innocent are made to share the humiliation and dis I grace of this most loathsome and hateful form of blood poison. Children inherit it from parents, and thousands of the purest men and women have been con taminated and ruined simply through handling the clothing of one infected with this awful malady, or drink- JHE INNOCENT m, l r o in toe same vessel and I usintr the same toilet articles. And when the SUFFER WITH THE GUILTY. real nature of the trouble is known, many prefer to suffer in silence or leave the I disease to do its worst rather than make j known their condition. Through our Medical Department we offer advice and help. "Write us freely about your case, as nothing you say will i ever go beyond our office. Let us help i you to get rid of this fearful disease, for which some one else no doubt is to blame. It matters not how long the poison has been lurking in your system, S. S. S. wilt purify and build up your blood, and eliminate every atom of the deadly virus from the sv-stcm and make a complete and permanent cure. S. S. S. is the only antidote for Conta gious Elood Pofson and has been curing it for fifty years. It contains no mercuryi potash or other harm- j f -?J f ul mineral ingredi- x 'L v ent, but is a purely egetable remedy that cures without leaving any bad after effects. V. Our special Home Treatment book, gives all the symptoms of this disease, Ve will mail you a copy free. The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. The that are promised in the near future is another lumber yard and a large clothing store with merchant tailoring in connection. A second paper, the Semi-Weekly News, edited by Prof. Gardner, has already made its appearance, and is well patronized. Downs is expected to make a healthy and substantial growth this year and persons looking for busi ness locations should look us up. DENIED HER POSTAGE STAMPS Unusual Ground for a Divorce Set TJp by a Kansas City, Kaa., Woman. Kansas City, Feb. 9. A tale of domestic infelicity somewhat out of the ordinary was in a suit for divorce filed in the dis trict court by Maud L. Lee against Chas. H- Lee. The petition relates among: other thing-s that the husband, although possessing JImi.OX) worth of property, failed and re tused to buy postage stamps for his wife's letters written to relatives. It further re cites that shortly after the honeymoon in May, 1W7, the hiisband whipped her pet dog with his buggy whip. The wife re monstrated and thereupon the husband turned on her with the whip and struck her several times. Mrs. Lee asks for alimony and costs in tne case. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Feb. 9. The following pensions have been gxar.ted Kansans: Original George Hunt, Burlington, tS: Charles D. JJieber, Calvert, $8. Increase, reissue, etc. Abram Chil dears, L'mporia, $12; James M. Wilson, Mulberry, $g; Charles Christianson, Kureka, $17; Nathaniel T. Allison, Co lumbus, $17; George D. Denio, Niles, $12; Willam H. Marrinpr, Meriden, $17; Carlos Froppec, Valley Center, $:!0; George W. De Motte, Emporia, $12; George V. Bushong-, Council Grove, $12; Harvey W. Hill. Hutchinson, $24; Thomas M. Harrison, Augusta, $12; Paul Engelhardt. Danville, $8. Widows, minors and dependent rela tives Nancy S. Howard, Cherryvale, $12; Sarah E. Norris, Larned, $S. Originals Harris E. Kuhns, Abilene, fwar with Spain); William Clark, Holliday, $6 (war with Spain). Increase, reissue, etc. George W. Bradshaw, Topeka. $24: Gillis G. Keen er, Thayer, $17; Henry Weaver, Cotton wood Falls, $24: George H. Storms, Lafayette' $12: Henry Grasch. Sylvan grove. $S; John C. Snyder Parsons, $10; James L. Noakes. Fall River. $17; Sam uel R. Berg, Phillipsburg-, $17. Stole Threshing Machine. Salina, Kan.. Feb. 9. Two supposed junk men displayed an unusual amount of nerve in stealing two threshing; en gines on a farm near here recently. The engines belonged to F. L. Martin, of Salina, but were stored on a farm. On iho pretense of having; an order from Martin, the mer went to the farm and took the engines apart, leaded the ma terial in wagons and hauled it to Sa lina. where the parts of the machinery were disposed of for old iron. The men received $.34 for their plunder and lef the county. Chanute to Have Races. Chanute, Kan., Feb. 9. The local Fair association voted to give a race meeting here in the driving- park July 7. S, 9 and 10.- following the Joplin meeting and preceding Nevada. Twelve events will be opened and purses of $400 and $roo w ill be hung up. This will not conflict with the regular agricultural fair, September lto 4. J udicial Mix-Up in Cowley County. I Winfield. Kan.. Feb. 9.The district I court of Cowley county is dead. Accord ing to adjournment court' would have ben I convened here Saturdsv at 7 o'clock. At j the appointed time,. Judge Swarts of Ar kansas City failed, to-apptar.- and as a re j suit no court business can be transacted le re until the opening of the new term, March 3. There is a tight on in the state legislature over the dividing of the court district between Wintield and Arkansas i city. Chanute Elks to Build. Chantit", Kan., Feb. 9. The local lodge of Elks have made an agreement with N. A. Robinson, who is to erect a new building for the postoffiee, to add the second Ftory for their home. The floor space they are to have is 73x140 feet, and no money is to be spared on its erection and complete equipment as an Elks home. Chanute Electric Light Plant. Chanute, Kan., Feb. 9. The city council has voted to install an electric light plant in Chanute of 100 arc and a.OOO incandescent light capacity. The plant will be paid for by en appropria tion of $1,000 a month from the reve nues of the city gas plant, which is now paying the city over $3,000 a month clear. A Kansan Died of His Wounds. St. Joseph. Mo.. Feb. 9. Charles Grant of White Cloud. Kan., died at a hospital here from being shot through tne stomacn Thursday night in a. pool room at White Cloud. The prosecut ing attorney tried to get an antl-mor- tem statement, but Grant refused to I talk. To Bore for Gas at Arkansas City. Arkansas City. Kan.. Feb. 9. The Ar- i Kansas city Natural Gas and Oil eom puny has completed its contract with the i company that is to do the driliinu- on.i according to the agreement the drilling "hum Mii- on i ae grouno w itlun two weeks and work begun or the bond wid ii, forfeited by the drillers. Coder the contract the drillers are to put down two wells MAI feet, unless gas is struck before. Belle Plaine Voted for a Joint Wellington. Kan., Feb. 9. The mass meetlnpr at Belle Plaine to determine whether there would be a joint allowed In the town has decided favorahlv to ihe joint and John Kartell of Emporia, who agrees to pay $1,000, a year, will have the privilege. The mayor and several of the ctaineilmen fought the proposition, but the "wets" were in the majority. The $1..hO gc-es to city improvements. Cattle Breeders Organized. Wellington. Kan.. Feb. 9. The Southwest Preeders' association of Sumner county. Kansas, and Kay county. Oklahoma, was organized here with a memhership of thirty-live. The officers are: Preston Wyck off. Corhin. president: P. Vaneleve, Hunne well, vice president, and Charles Johnson. Caldwell, secretary and treasurer. The purpose of the organization is to advance the grade of high bred stock and hogs and to hold combination sales In the two counties. She Coasted Under a Wagon. Kansas City. Feb, P. While coastinu down the sidewalk on the south side of Armstrong avenue in Kansas City. Kan.. Mag-ie Cowan. 1 tears old, daug-hter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cowan of f)2 Norln Third street, was run over by p. heavv v.T'?on. Her right leg was broken above the knee. She was carried to her home by neighbors. Sold Intoxicating Liquors. Not ton. Kas., Feb. 9. John Kxlino., from Pr-nsmore, this county, has been convicted of felling Intoxicating liquor in Justice Smith's court here and fined $100 and thirty days in jail. Pioneer Accidentally Killed. Abilene. Kan.. Feb. 9. James Atkinsoa. 7 years old. an early settler of central Kansas, was killed Saturday by a I05 he was moving. It fell and crushed his head. City Ticket Office. Lnlon Pacific F.ailroaS, 525 Kansas avenue. KJJ 1 1 1 1 1 i t?)(u i. wy i i.. I ''M' t," T rf yifP 1.1 There is no doubt My husband and I are both fifty-six years old. He has been laid up with rheumatism for weeks at a time, and my fingers- I could not bend them kept them painted with iodine. After using part of one bottle of Omega Oil, I can move the fingers as well as ever. My husband used more of the bottle than I did after every bath and his rheumat ism is now gone. Mrs. J. A. Battersby, Norwood, Mass. Omega Oil is CAMELS AT LARGE. How They Cama to Hun Wild in "United States. There r e few camels running- at large in New Mexico at this time. These are supposed to be the same camels which the government imported fifty years ago and afterward liberated in Texas. The government does not ap pear to lay any claim to them at this time. The most concise statement con cerning these camels is by the well known magazine writer. Mr. C. A. Stevens, published in the Youth's Com panion on April 3, 1902. who says: "The fact is that our genial and speculative 'Fncle Sam' once engaged in the camel business, and had an idea of driving caravans across his southern deserts, from Texas to California. The Pacific railroads had not been built, and at that date the idea was not altogether so extravagant as it would seem now. "The plan was original with a young lieutenant, named Edward F. Beale, who was stationed at Fort Yuma in 1S53. There was then great difficulty in transporting military supplies across Arizona: and Lieutenant Beale. after ward CJeneral Keale. who must have been a genius in his way, hit on the bold plan of establishing caravans of camels like those of the Sahara and the Arabian deserts! In fancy he saw these vast caravans crossing the continent, bearing not only military stores, but the goods of merchants and the persons of emigrants. "This was. in truth, a grand scheme, one of the kind that makes an enthus iast of the originator. Fired 'with this great idea, the youthful lieutenant memorialized the war department, set ting forth at length and in glowing colors the possibilities of the plan. "Jefferson Davis after president of the Southern Confederacy was then secretary of war. The fancy of the sec retary was captivated by Lieutenant Beale's idea. The scheme was encour aged and in the end congress appro priated thirty thousand dollars for the purchased and importation of camels from Egypt and Arabia. "In December. 1X54. Major Wayne, T S. A., went to Egypt to buy and bring home camels. The uncouth creature? bore the sea voyage well, and in Feb ruary, 1S57, sixty-two camels were land ed from the United States transport Sunply on the coast of Texas. Then'-e they were driven to Camp Verde, Ft Paso and Fort Yuma. "The 'ship of the desert' was now, so to speak, fairly launched on the Xorth American continent; and the govern ment looked for camel caravans in the near future. "From this point the whole enterprise went wrong. The government and army officers who favored the scheme had not taken into account the attitude toward the animals of one important ch;-s, namely, the army teamsters and hos tlers. These men conceived a violen'. prejudice against the newly imported beasts: they disdained to be called camel drivers, and from the outset were hostile to the project. Xot being under as good discipline as is desirable, they wreaked their spite on the useful yet ungainly animals in a thousand ways, and even went so far as to turn them loose to wander away into the desert. The ouotation is a historical introduc tion into a story of a hunt for those nondescrivl camels, and Mr. Stevens further along states that they found six and photographed them. Against B-eadjastment. Kingsley, Feb. 'j. The Modern Wood men of America camps in Edwards county have instructed their delegates to the county convention against read justment of assessment, and for J. J. Johnson for head consul. that Omega Oil prolongs the relieves them or the aches and pains or Old Age. That keeps them from fretting and worrying. And then the Oil itself is a strengthening external tonic that softens the chords, loosens the joints, and goes in through the pores and makes the whole body stronger. Omega Oil is called a bless ing by very many Old People who use it. good for everything a liniment ought to ROOSEVELT ON SUFFRAGE. Position He Has Advocated for Many Years. Theodore Roosevelt voted for woman suffrage in the New York legislature, and recommended it in his inaugural message after he became governor. He was the first governor of New Y'ork to take such a step, and it made a great stir. The reporters flocked around him to ask his reasons for believing in equal suffrage. As reported in the papers, Mr. Koosevelt gave them two reasons. He said his home town of Oyster Bay had long been badly in need of a new schoolhouse, but had never been able to get the necessary appropriation un til the women were given a vote. Then the mothers of the children voted the new schoolhouse at once. His second reason was that many women had a very hard time, working women espe cially: and that if the ballot would help them, even a little, he was willing to see it tried. Later, Mr. Roosevelt attended the Minnesota state fair. The Minnesota Woman Suffrage association had a booth there, with a book in which thir sympathizers were invited to inscribe their names. The president wrote his name in their book and took occasion to remind the ladies in charge that he had been the first governor of New York to recommend equal suffrage in his message. When the International Suffrage con vention met in W'ashincrton last Feb ruary. President Roosevelt gave a special audience to the foreign dele gates, and expressed himself most cor dially. To Miss Vida Goldstein of Australia, who told him that full na tional suffrage was about to be grant ed to women throughout federated Australia, he said that it would be "a great object lesson." This has now come to pass. Progress. GENERAL FHIEDRICH. Former Topekan Who Died Recently in Alaska. The San Francisco papers have re cently printed handsome notices of the late General Robert A. Friedrich, for merly of Topeka, wo recently died sud denly from kidney trouble at Juneau, Alaska. The following are extracts: "The body of General Friedrich came on the same steamer he had expected to take in making a visit to his family in this city. He had written planning his home-coming and anticipating the happiness of being restored to his home. He had never complained of illness, and the family was not aware of his sick ness. "He leaves a widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Friedrich, and a daughter. Miss Au gusta A. Friedrich; a brother and sis ter, A. "Friedrich and Mrs. Augnsta Travers, who reside in Topeka, Kas. General Friedrich was born in Ken tucky a little more than fifty years ago, and belonged to one of the oldest fam ilies in the Blue Grass state. He sub sequently lived in Kansas, and thirteen years ago came to California. For about ten years he had resided with his family at 2117 Buena Vista avenue. "He served in the war of the Rebel lion, enlisting as a drummer in a Kan sas regiment, and was almost the only one of his family, who were strong se cessionists and slave holders, to fight in the cause of the Lr.ion. For bravery in action he was successively promoted until he reachel the rank of captain. He won the title of colonel and subse quently of general while in the govern ment service in Kcnsas. Among the positions he filled in Kentucky was that of t'nited States marshal. "He was admitted to the bar before coming to California, and became one life of Old People. It be good for. anger c! contracting Sickscsa il you U52 ft i 9 pii fv CtiC Tbaf s the Kind furnished ty thz Water Co. Telephone 122. 25 QUINCY STREET. of the prominent lawyers of San Fran cisco. He was first associated in the city with the former law firm of Fried rich, Yell Frier. Ke served as com mander of the Grand Army of the Re public, and at one time was president of the Union League club. He was al ways a staunch Republican and a force ful character in state and national poli tics, while he was well known in club and social circles. About four years age he wis appointed district attorney for Alaska by the late President Mc Kinley, a warm friend, and had been reappointed under President Roosevelt. "General Friedrich made his head quarters for a time at Sitka, but sub sequently removed to Juneau. He left for Alaska last September after a visit at his home here. "Deceased was a man of remarkably sympathetic nature, and was exceed-' ingly fond of little children. He did a great deal quietly in a humane way in Alaska, where he was idolized by the Indians. They adopted him as honorary chief of all their tribes, in recognition of his kind offices in their behalf. While attending to his many arduous duties for the government he found time to stop abuse of horses on the Alaskan trails." City Ticket Office, Union Pacific allroad, 625 Kansas avenue. Bears th. T! Kind You Have Aiwv? EJ'l Bn the liie Kind You Hava hmm Bears the M You NasB I M0 i 1 L

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBKUAKY 0, 1903. 3 nnn nam im9!Q liitlLlltJIiU liLWOi Fake Stories About Passes for Kansas Statesmen. One Legislator Said to Have 5!ade a I5Ig Haul. $137 WORTH OF PASSES. tec u red 1-1,000 Miles in One Day. "Short Grass" Members Are the Most Greedy. Some of the tTiou;-. pteaily-Knini? rail way magazines are inclined to take ser iously all the "snuff" which the corres pondents are nding out of Topeka bnut the railways and the legislature. Here is an editorial from the last issue i' the It.ii'way Knglneer Review: "According to St. Louis papers, the members of the present Kansas legisla ture are holding up the railroads for an unusual amount of free transportation. It is stated that on a recent date a new member of the house asked lor 27 trip passes covering over 14.000 miles, which t the ordinal y rate of transportation n-as worth upwards of $437, and the railroad representative complying- with a me is said to have remarked that 'It was very good for one day's graft on one railroad by an Inexperienced mem ber. If he had been an experienced rn-inbei- he likely would have aske.Ufor I mv book of blanks." While no doubt j the Kansas legislators in common with i those of some other slates have compar- atlvelv little hesitancy in asking for V hat thev want and unfortunately, in i most cases, too little trouble in getting j It. it is yet to be said that this brancn j ct the pass evil, like the balance of it, Is being cut down each year. It would i be very much better ir. as is proposed j In the Missouri legislature, the members wouM pass a law requiring railroads to grant them free transportation for j themselves within the state. This would j et least savor of honesty, something which Is entirely lacking under the pres- i ent system."' I The railway magazines should re member that the Topeka correspond- j c-nts for eastern newspapers, have to live, and this is the season of the year j when the "string" has to be padded out to the limit. The story referred to above concern ing the $;;7 worth of transportation is what is commonly known as a fake. It is sa'e to say that the present Kansas legislature is no worse than any other legislature The members ask for pusses when they want them, and they gen erally, but nut always, get what they ask for. fl is said by the railway officials that t'e' most greedy pass-seekers are the lie iv members from l he "short grass" 'ountry. who have been brought tin to beiieve that it is part of their duty as members of the legislature to ask foi all tiie passes they can possibly man ee to jiive away. When these mem bers are line.lly spotted by the railways th y are laced (in the blacklist, and tind it dilTicult to get even what passes they are actually ill need of. it is seldom that the railways will pram trio t, asses to members for th"ir fi lends who want to go outside of tile state. Such passes have been asked foi and the requests have been turned down. One western representative asked f"i transportation from his county to New York for the family of fine of his constituents. He didn't set it. However, there is no lack of passes for members. Kvery day the office of ''.emral Attorney A. A. Hurd of the Santa Fe is the busy part of the Sant l'e oflee building. Whenever Mr. Uunl 1-' m lie is chiedy occupied in talking to members of the leeislature and issuing oassei-, to those who call or send com rnunii aliens over by the pases. MAKE A CONSOLIDATION. Rock Island Would Unite Its Texas Lines. Austin. Tex.. Feb. 9. A bill has been inno'ineed in the state senate authoriz ing tin- Chicago, Rock Island Gult railway compjny to purchase ami op. crate the i:r,.i,.rties of the Chicago, Rock Island Mexico, and the Choctaw, Oklahoma r Gulf railway companies. '1 lu -se several roals belong to the Rock Island sy.-i-m. The Chicago, Hock Is land Gulf was recently organized to buiid and operate a road between Forr Worth and Galv.ston. a distance of "li.j mi!.- The "urvey for the Texas road is now in progress, but construction has not yet l-erun. The three roads which 1 it is pne ose i to merge into the Chi de. i. k.n k Island Gulf railway com-l-anv are t conneet-n'. The Chicago. Pc.-k Island Mexico runs across tn punhn mile ,,f T xas rT a distance of lid miles, and is a part of the Paso line oi the i;,h k Island road, and its general office at DaP-iM, Tex. The Choctaw, Oklahoma Gulf's Texas division runs from the slat- line P. Arriarillo. Tex., and has ns general o dices at that place The Chicaeo, Rn.-k Island X- Texas runs tiorn th ,-iver to F,-t Worth and -tl.-r p-.ints in north Texas, and main tnms gone,.,! offices at Fort Worth Alt tlo-se ;;r ii.i-.il offices would be abolished should the legislature pass tile bill au thorizing the merging of the several roads into one corr.;any. ANOTHER VERSION. Said That Rock Island Has No Al liance With Union Pacific. A New- York special to the Chicago Keening lost says: It develop that the much talked of Rock Island deal with the Harriman interests consists either of the purchase of the Houston ft Texas Central rail road or the lease of trackage rights over that hoad from the Southern Pa cit'n fi. w hich ow ns the 6i'J mile road. DR. FEISNER'S MIL I mq A1,1 """eases of Kidneys, B tr d" Urinary Orftaris. o,:V."nRhe.lmatiam- Back gebe. Heart Uisaase. Gravel lrop&y, i emala Troubles ci?renfotr vm.mrf Alr0Se4. There Is a careior 0U. Knntcs-arv write lr 1 enner ,n "I'-Mt a life time curing it such as, ours. Allcou.uhata.llj Free. 'Your Kidney and Backache- Cure has cured two very bad caws anions our custo mers the past year whom the doctors h id given up. J. h. STILL CO., Woodland. la." Druggists. 50c, f 1. Ask for Cook Book-Free. T V I T HS'P J KM Circle. T)r canerV Fredou aN Y ill Backache pf fF This Rives the Rock Island a direct line to Galveston, enabling: it to handle traf fic to the gulf with facility equal to that of the Atchison, the Missouri. Kansas Texas and the Missouri Pacific. The Houston Texas Central runs from lr:nison. Texris. south through Dallas, Garrett. Corsioana, Wootan, Hearne and Hempstead to Houston. It has branches from Garrett to Fort Worth and from Hempstead to Austin. From Houston to Galveston it uses the tracks of the Galveston. Harrisburg San Antonio. Thus the Rook Island obtains its much desired extension to the gulf without building a new road. Its lines connex-t with the Houston Texas Central both at Fort Worth and Dallas. No- ollieial information of the above deal has been received, but it is under stood it constitutes the much talked of Rock Island-Harriman deal. It comes directly from a Rock Island official that there has never been in contemplation a deal between the Rook Island and the I'nion Pacific Reports to this effect were caused by erroneous inferences as to the meaning of Rook Island and llar riman conferences in connection with the deal for the Houston Texas Cen tral. It is generally believed the South ern Pacific has not sold the latter road, hut has given a satisfactory lease of trackage to the Rock Island. Thus the deal becomes much more important than a traffic alliance, as has been stated all along. The enmity between George Gould and K. H. Harriman no doubt aided the deal, as by providing the Rock Island with trackage to Galveston Mr. Harriman delivers a rather severe blow to the Missouri Pacific. It is understood the Rook Island re fused assistance from the Atchison, which offered to help It in getting to Galveston. HINTS FOR SANTA FE. Denver Chamber of Commerce Tells What It Might Do. The railroad committee of the Denver Chamber of Commerce has made a glow ing report on Jienver's railroad prospects. Speaking of the Santa Fe and Rock Is land the report says -The Santa l-'e system must reach Den ver Irom both the east and the wort and its line to thj smith from this city mu-t have a -straight last track from Puebiu to Trinidad. A glance at the map will show that the Santa Fe could buiid a bran-h from Holly to Kit ("arson and come direct into Iienvcr over the Kansas Pacific, fust as the Rook Island now comes in from l.imen. Missouri Pacific trains tctild also come to this city direct in the same ffay. A few out offs southeast of Ifoliy would, with its Texas and Oklahoma lines, give the Santa Fe a direct route from Denver to Galvesom. This connection is import ant. During the past year fifty millions have been distributed among the people of Oklahoma. Texas and Arkansas, tor railroad construction. Over 2.tXC mib s. one-third of the nation's new miieage. have been built in that section. The peo ple there have niom-y. and Colorado is their nearest summer resort as well as their nearest supply of iron products. The Rock Island, which has a round about line from Denver to Texas, alro needs- and probably wiil build a direct cut off running northwest and south east." WILL CHANGE THE MAP. Rock Island-Harriman Deal Said to Be Vitally Important. New York. Feb. 9. "When negotia tions now pending for agreements with the Harriman lines are complete they will be announced, and the Rock Island man will have to lie changed." said fc director of the company today. That was all this officer would say in regard to the matter, but it was learned from another source that the purchase of the Texas Central reported yesterday had been contemplated for several months by the Rock Island. Further more, agreements under consideration provide lor privileges of through serv ice to Southern California via El Paso and to the North Pacific coast via the Ogden gateway. The I'nion Pacific is under agreement now not to extend any more privileges of any kind to any other system than the St. Paul road and the Northwestern eujoy. This was settled when the St. Paul refused to be discriminated against in favor of the Northwestern and ob tained all it asked for recently. 150 MILES AN HOUR. Terrific Speed for Proposed Suburban Electric Line. To f!y through the air on the third rail system at a rate of 150 miles an hour is what is planned to be done by a .score of trolley cars now being built at Elizabeth, X. J. The cars will be used on the Aurora, Klgin and Chicago railroad, which has fust been completed from Chicago to Aur n'a, 111. The cars are vestibuied and modeled nfrer the Pullman type. They can seat ti') and are equipped with four motors of 12e horse power each, making 5Xi horse power to one car. Tiie cars will be operated on the flag sys tem, which is- a new feature in electric roads. They are especially strong, in a sub-frame built entirely of steel, to rests the strong wind to be met with at such great sliced. It is not expected that llo great speed of liio miles an hour will oe attained regularly, but the cars are ex pected to reach that speed on test, and if they do not they will be rejected. A trial will be made on some piece of good road early in March near P3iizaleth. when the mayor and a. numb, r of public officials will be invited to take the won derful ride. At the trial three of the cars will be put on tiie rail, and if satisfactory they will lie shii ped at once to Chicago and the rest of the order filled. Mr. Zimmerman, who is in Kliznbeth m the interest of the Chicago company, savs that within five years electric cars will whirl passengers from Chicago to New York in ten hours, instead of the present wonderful time of twenty hours on the "twentieth century fivers." INTO SOUTHERN PORTS. Frisco Preparing to Compete With Santa Fe Gulf Lines Chicago. Feb. 9. It is said that an nouncement will be made in a few days of the completion of a deal by which Ihe Frisco will secure a large freight tonnage now controlled by the Santa Fe. While none of the details is made public, it is the impression that the ileal is in the nature of acauisition of trackage by the Frisco. In connection with the foregoing report it is said that the Frisco is about to secure from the Southern Pacific trackage rights over the San Antonio Aransas Pass to the gulf. PLENTY OF BEEF. Experience of Kural Merchant With Dining Car Porterhouse. Sometimes young men traveling on the limited trains get up against tough propositions but about the worst trouble that a young man has got in recently was that experienced by a certain young merchant, who came up to see the carnival, pays the Kl Paso Herald. -While he was here he met a pretty young lady with whom he was very much in love. It so happened that each i left FA Pa so a f e w nights a go at the same time on the Sunset limited. Of course the next morning the young man wanted to do the right thing by the j young lady and he asked her to break fast with him in the dining car, which she acceded. Kefore breakfast he had to call on the train conductor to show him how to operate the water faucets in the wash room in the Pullman. He told the con ductor that he hated very much to dis play his ignorance, but there no other way out of the difnVulty. This did not end his troubles, for at breakfast, he picked up the bill of fare, and wanting I l sele'1 the bst thin Possible ordered i house steaks served on the Sunset limit ed fill a good sized plate and are worth $1.25 each. The waiter realized that the young man had made a slig-ht mistake and gave him a chance to recover but he failed .to take the hint. The waiter said: "Boss, did you order two porterhouse steaks?" "That was my order," answered the younsj man. In due time the waiter came back with the two plates. which when put on the table filled it completely and left no room for the rest of the breakfast. The young lady looked at the meat and then at the young man and said: "Mr. you must certainly think I did not have anything to eat while I was in Kl Paso." EARNED 6 PER CENT. Santa Fe Common Fell 03 3 Per Cent in 1902. In the calendar year lffi the Santa Fe earned on the common stock ti per cent af ter the payment of all charges. This com pares with per cent earned in lf)l. The difference is explained by the failure of the corn crop in ISol and the heavy in crease in charges ahead of the common last year. Operations for the last three calendar years compare as follows: lf-. IP- .1. lmo. Gross earnings. !.-9.WSi..Sl J5S.-IUM82 $49.31.212 Expenses a;..L74.484 a3,T31.L17 2S.iV34.Wl Net earnings.. $4. HT!(.:'.fi7 $34,673,245 $2A10.r.l Taxes, etc 2.214. tiiU 2.180.137 i.8f.Ull Balance $22,464.77 $22,4!W.1S $1S,4S2.54P Other income... 1.140.-S-.& :j4t'.'AjO 2.u.iJ Total nrt. Interest l ISO .$1 KfO.-iMK $H.v'.0,2;;8 $t(.971.55 5Tc on pfd o. VOL', o,t--.iit t..'iitiO Surplus e'rn'd com 6,270,4i 9,1S.2;2 5,2C1.(S9 6.1 it.'J 5-1 paid. 4,500 Carloads of Oranges. Tp to yf-sterday about 4.5(r car loads or oranges and lemons- had been shipped eat for this .srason over the Santa Fe a nd Southern Pacific railroads, says the San Bernardino San. Of thi.s total 7B car loads were lemons. Placing- the season, as it is now estimated at 21. car load?, a ded notion of the cars nr ady shipped, leaves 17. 1"-'1 oar loads yet to be marketed before October ol. HKi Shnuld the present rainfall, by increasing the- size of the fruit, add, say lit per cent, to the crop still on the trees, there would remain for shipment during the remainder of the season, according to conservative estimates, l.Smi loads. The actual shipment during; the reason of last year, ending: October Ul, reached 17.371. Of this total about 1.065 car loa-23 were lemons. Pennsylvania to Get Joe Zilligan. Salt Iake City, .Feb. 9. Joe Ziilisan, the big tackle of the T'niversity of Utah football eleven, regarded as one of the fastest men that ever played in the west, left last nigrht for Philadelphia, where he will take up a four vears course of study at the University of Pennsylvania, lie will try for a posi tion on the Pennsylvania 'varsity eievert. His work last season attracted much at test ioa. Assistant for Gen. Mgr. KTickerson The 1C1 Paso Times says that it is ru mored that an important change will soon be made in the management of the Mexican Central. According: to the report Vice President and Jenern 1 Manager Nicker son Is to have an assistant, whose title will be assistant to the preneral man ager. Who this new man will be has not yet been officially announced. Will Make It a Test Case, Attorney John S. Miller has been re tained by the I took Island management to conduct the company's defense in the suit attacking the financial readjust ment iilan. It is reported the Moore-Leeds-Reid interests are preparing to make a vigorous fight to stamp out all possibility o a recurrence of similar at tacks. ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE Charles Smith of the brass foundry has drawn bis time. J. O. Greenfield of the cabinet shop was on the sick list Saturday. George Ritchie of the planing mill was absent from the shop Saturday. Kdward Permit of the water service de partment was off on the Kick list Satur day. "William Snyder, chief of the Santa F"e fire department, was on the sick list Sat urday. Joseph Meekins of the boiler shoo was absent from work Saturday on account of sickness. Car No. C?,2. a "Wells-Fargo refrigerator, was hacked into the coach shop Saturday for repairs. A. 12. Cooper, division passenger agent of the Hock Island, spent Friday and Satur day in Salina. "Plug" Martin of the coach shop failed to ring in Saturday morning. He is in the doctor's care. Mr. Foss, who run the elevator in the storehouse, was absent from the shops Saturday. He was reported sick. The cabinet shop has just completed an order of fk cabinets and 125 machinist benches for the new mnchine shop. Tyman Smit h returned to work in th? round house Saaturday after a week's ab sence on account of his father's death. J. B. Kilpatriek. master mechanic of the Rock Island at Horton, passed through Topeka Friday night on his way east. A new holpcr was hired in the planing mill Saturday morning by the name of Kdward Neff. This makess eight Edwards in the planing mill. A. G. MoGargei". who has been sick at his home for several weeks, has reenvt-rod and will ret urn to work in the drafting room sometime this week. The tank carpenters in the tank room at th1 roundhouse started to move to the ni'W shop Saturday. Thy will probably tie moved completely in a day or so. John Johnson of the planing mill failed to ring in Saturday morning on account of sickness. F. A. Bresette is running the west cut olT saw until Johnson returns. The interna tional committee of the Railroad Y. M. O. A. conference, which is to be h'Md in Topeka next spring, have issued circulars annou ncing the confer ence. Pert Prnnson, formerly fireman in the planing mill power hnu;-". is now firing in trie new pow-T house. William Finney is working m nis nui place, until another man can be secured. Santa Fe tourist sleeper No. 2574. in wh ion t he na val recruits who have been recruited here, will go through to Phila delphia, was attached to Xo, 6 Saturday afternoon and sent on its way eastward. Fngiue ff12. another of the hjg Mikados. arrived at the shops Saturday afternoon. The engine was run into the east soon, where will be set up. This is first of these engines that the east shop force has worked on. The following cars were turned out t the paint shop Satiuday afer bfiug in the coach and paint shop fo rrepairs- and re painting: Fruit Growers' express No. 15.47'j. Wells-Fargo retrigerator No. C7 a nd c hu ir ca r No. len,.. W. S. McGe b gan work Friday morn ire s chief clerk to freight agent W. C. Garvey. Mr. Melee, whose appointment was announced several days nr. was for merly traveling freight "auditor of the Gra nd Island at St. Joseph. He vnrr bt re as t he result of t he dissolution of the Grand Island road, part of which goes to the Burlington and part to the Union Pacific. M. K. Barnum, superintendent of motive rower for the Rock Island, passed through Topeka Friday night on his way to Fo-t Iiihy. Mr. Barnum has a brother who is a captain in the Eighth cavalry at Fort Riley. Mr. Rarnum's family have been visiting- his brother's family" and he raw row come out f-r the purpose of returning with thm to Chicago. Mr. Barnum is a new superintendent of motive power, hav- ing succeeded George F. Wilson a short time aiso. TIDAL WAVE. It Sweeps Over the South Sea Islands Carrying Death and Destruction on a Huge Scale. A THOUSAND DROWNED. Inhabitants Compelled to Climb Trees for Safety. These Places of Refuge Washed Out by the Roots. San f 'raneipco, Feb.9. 7ews of a fear ful loss of life in a destructive storm that swept over the South Sea islands last month reached here on the steamer Mariposa, direct from Tahiti. The loss of life is estimated at 1,000 souls. On January 13 last a huge tidal wave, accompanied by a terrific hurricane, at tacked the Society islands and the Pua motu yroup with fearful force, causing death and devastation never bejre equaled in a land of dreadful storms. The storm reigned several days, reaching- its maximum strength between Jan uary 14 and' jfanuary 16. From the mea ger news received at Tahiti up to the time of the sailing of the Mariposa, it is estimated that 1,000 of the islanders lost their lives. It is feared that later ad vices will add to the long list. The first news of the disaster arrived at Papeete, Tahiti, January 26, on ths schooner Fimo. The captain of the schooner placed the fatalities at 500. The steamer Kxceisior arrived at Pa peete the following day with 400 desti tute survivors. The cantain of the Ex celsior estimated the total loss of life to be hOO. These litfures comprised only the deaths on the three islands of Hao, Hikuera and Makokao, whose ordinary population is 1.S00. On Hikuera island, where l.OuO inhabitants were engaged in pearl diving, nearly one-half were drowned. On an adjacent island 100 more were washed out to sea. Mako kao and Hao are depopulated. Con servative estimates at Tahiti place the number ot islands visited by the tidal wave and hurricane at b0. All of them are under the control of the French governor at Tahiti. The surviving inhabitants are left destitute of food, shelter and clothing, all having been swept away by the storm. The French government, upon receipt j of news of the disaster, took prompt measures to relieve the distressed dis- trict and dispatched two warships, the Durance and Zclee, with fresh water and provisions. The Italian man-of-war Calabria accompanied the two I Flench vessels on their errand ot mercy. As the supply of fresh water and provisions was totally exhausted by the storm it is feared that many lives will be lost before the relief ships arrive. As far as is known eight white peo ple were among, the drowned. Included in these were Alexander Brander. N. P. Plunket, of Oakland; T. U. Don nelly, formerly A 'fir-emarron the steam ship Australia, and the local agent of C. Coppenrath, a merchant of Papeete. Added to this number was an unknown woman, who committed suicide from fright. As the islands are barely twenty feet above sea level, and not surrounded by coral reefs, it was necessary for all the inhabitants to take to the cocoanut trees when the tidal wave began to cover the land. These trees grow to an immense height, many reaching an al titude of 100 feet. All the lower trees were covered by the raging seas, which swept with pitiless force about and over thom. The natives in the taller trees were safe until the cocoanuts' roots gave way. and then they, too, wera swept onward, far out into the sea. The 400 survivors broutrht by the Kx ceisior to Papeete gained the ship's side by swimming three or fo'ur miles from the tops of the cocoanut trees. The F.imeo, though badly damaged by the storm, also brought off as many per sons as could swim to her sides, she, like the Kxceisior, being unable to run close to the shores because of the fear ful violence of the ocean swells, which continued to run abnormally high for a week after the tidal disturbances. Another schooner, the Gaulois.from theMaquesan islands, 600 miles from Tahiti, ej-.coilntered the hurricane while en route to the latter place and only the timely action of the captain in having the cargo, consisting ONLY A SUGGESTION. But It Has Proven of Interest and Value to Thousands. Common sense would suggest that if one wishes to become lieshy and plump it can onlv result from the food we eat and digest and that food should be albuminous or tlesh forming food, like eggs, beefsteak and cereals; in other iMirds the kinds of food that make Pesh are the foods which form the greater part of our daily bills of fare. But the trouble is that while we eat enough and generally too much, the stomach, from abuse and overwork, does not. properly digest and assimilate it, which is the reason so many people remain thin and under weight; the di gestive organs do not completely digest the tlesh forming beefsteak and eggs and similar wholesome food. There are thousands of such who are really confirmed dyspeptics, although they may have no particular pain or inconvenience from their stomachs. If such persons would lay their prejudices aside and make a regular practice of taking, after each meal one or two of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets the food would be quickly and thor oughly digested, because these- tablets contain the natural peptones and diastase which every weak stomach lacks, anil by supplying this want the stomach is soon enabled to regain ic natural tone and viogr. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets digest ev ery form of flesh-forming food, meat, eggs, bread and potatoes, and this is the reason thev so quickly build up, strengthen and invigorate thin, dys peptic men, women and children. Invalids and children, even the most delicate, use them with marked benefit as they contain no strong, irirtating drugs, no cathartic nor any harmful ingredient. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is the most successful and most widely known of any remedy for stomach troubles because it is the most reasonable and scientific of modern medicines. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by every druggist in th? "United States and Canada as well as in Great P.rit ain. at 50 cents for complete treatment. Nothing further is required to cure any stomach trouble or to make thin, nervous dyspeptic people strong, plump and well. I never knowed a boy with sich an appetite as Tim! It seems t' me he's always hungry and that slim, you wouldn't think there was room enough to hold it all in him. Lands alive f I used t' bake all day just of thirty head of cattle, thirty-five pigs and thirty tons of cotton, jettisoned, saved the little craft from destruction. Even with this precaution, the life of one man was lost by waves sweeping the decks. One of the many acts of heroism re ported is that of a woman who climbed one of the tall cocoanut trees and lash ed her little baby to the branches, hang ing on to the body of the tree beneath the little one as best she could. There they remained for ten hours suffering great torture, until finally rescued. Thousands of tons of copra and over 200 tons of mother of pearl shells are know to be lost. The pearl shells are valued at $1,S00 per ton, and many val uable pearls may now be lost to the world forever, as these were considered some of the best pearl islands in the world. Among the passengers on the Mari posa was G. "Y. Waterbury, formerly of Chicago, who was in that portion of the storm which visited the island of Raiata, one of the Leeward islands located some distance to the west of the illfated Pua motu. Here much damage was done, although no lives were lost. A well built road, constructed by the French government at considerable expense, was demolished, bridges were carried away, buildings overturned and shat tered and pieces of big ships, old wreck age and cocoanut tries heaped high along the coast line. Old inhabitants on Kaiata stated the storm to be the worst they had ever seen. Returning to Ta hiti the little schooner upon which he sailed was almost swamped by the high seas, and a waterspout came near to the boat at one place. Oakland. Cal., Feb. 9. Nathan Plunk ett, who is reported to be among the victims of the tidal wave in Tahita is lands, was the son of Mrs. Kllen Plunk ett of this city, widow of a former member board of supervisors. Two years ago he sailed for South America and has since visited nearly every coun try in the world. He was 23 years of age. 1 ENGINEER OR 2 IN CAB Railroad Hen Dislike the Proposal to Have Two. New York, Feb. 9. Since the accident on the Central Railroad of New Jersey at Westtield a week ago the line has re ceived several letters advocating that two locomotive engineers instead of one should ride in every cab. A bill to com pel railroad comiianies to do this was introduced in the New Jersey legisla ture. There is nothing new about the pro posal. It follows every railroad acci dent in which loss of life is great enough to attract general attention. There was a demand for two engineers to a train after the tunnel accident on the New York Central a year ago, and bills sim ilar to that introduced at Trenton have been presented at each session of tin legislature at Albany for the last two or three years. Railroad men, whether employers or employes, are opyesed to the change suggested by laymen. As a rule a care ful and experienced locomotive engineer does not want to share his cab with an other aian. Railroad directors, presidents, general managers and the superintendents of motive power have discussed this ques tion for years, but no practical railroad man can be found who thinks that the traveling public would be better safe guarded by having two engineers on duty where there is now one. Several railioad men interviewed by a reporter spoke in favor of one-man responsibility when told of the bill introduced at Trenton. President W. H. Truesdale of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western railroad said: "There's no mom for two englfirers in the modern locomotive, especially in that type of engine which was in the accident at Westfield the other day. If there had been two aboard on that day the extra man would have been on the other side of the cab, because h couldn't have found room -anywhere else, and could not have got to the en gineer in charge in time to have been of any service. 'But leaving out the question of room, two men are not as efficient aa one. Railroad men all agree that di vided responsibility in a locomotive cab would be- a very dangerous experi i ment. The more the responsibility is j divided the less the efficiency, so that i with two men we would not have dou j ble the safety, but less than before. I wftl 'visit with' each othir. The chances j are they'll joke and talk to one anoth er, tind then good-by to security for the passengers on the train. Two would get in each other's way in a critical moment. "The danger of a locomotive engineer dropping dead or becoming physically or mentally incapacitated while on dulj is very remote. It is so remote that public safety demands that we accep lmmie s DPS'CitC mm mk for Tim Aunt Amandy always said "It's just a pesky whim" But then I knowed his father and Tim s just So I kept on a-balrin' 'till one day I got some light as to how the other neighbors kept the waist bands NATIONAL BISCUIT-COMPANY the possibility of such a contingency rather than run the much greater risk there would be in divided responsibility and a lack of strict attention, which a man all alone will cive to his work. "The case is not at all parallel with that of the idiot house of a shin ii which two men are on duty. The loco motive engineer has a given line of rail to follow. He knows where he is all the time; he knows exactly where ever switch and every signal is and he is in frequent communication with the dis patcher. "It's different aboard the boat. The pilot has no fixed path; he knows noth. ing of the courses of other craft, and there is plenty of room fur two men in the wheel house, so aboard the boat two heads are better than one but not in the locomotive cab. "The expense of two engineers in a cab is not a factor in the case at all. Railroad men would gladly' consent to the increase in expense if it would re duce the danger of collisions." SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES. There are many Sixth district men who believe it good politics to give all the spoils to the victors. Yet a Deca tur county journal seems to think that the kickers in the district have landed more plums than the victors. J. W. Berry of Jewell county is an applicant for a position as regent of the State Agricultural college. Mr. and Mrs. Berry are graduates of that college. It is believed the appointment of Mr. Rerry will in no wise eonhet with the candi dacy of Frank Bevington, member of the legislature, and Hays White, state senator, both from Jewell county, should they desire to enter the Sixth district congressional race in 1U02. The Wa-jKeeney Examiner has been blown from that town and dumped into Hill City, which gives that place four newspapers. If there is a set of pro gressive people anywhere they are to be found in Lieutenant G.overnor Hanna's town, hence four weekly publications. The complexion of them is as follows: One straight Republican, one straight Populist, one a sort of betwixt and be tween, and the last one Socialist. The question now among the Sixth district Republicans, is which side is go ing to have the longest end of the string the Burton or Long followers. In the extreme northwest Lockwood of Chey enne county 'got into the Leland band wagon, while Anderson of Rawlins county tumbled out and was run over. On the Union Pacific, in Russell county, Holland stayed in the bandwagon and Hall jumped out just as it commenced to move. Charles W. Landis ()f Osborne county, John Royce of Phillips county, J. H. McFarland of Lincoln county, Harvey Penney of Kllis county, Ike Pur cell of Trego county, S. H. Dodge of Mitchell county, Frank Mclvor of Sheri dan county, Bevington of Jewell county and Linton of Smith county occupied seats in the bandwagon. With Cy Le land and N. II. Loomis occupying seats with such a crowd was as good as four aces in a game of cards. The Semi-weekly News is a Downs publication, edited and published by F. W. Gardiner. The salutatory says noth ing about "coming to stay" or supplying a "long felt want." D. R. Wculey of Osborne county, one of the best known politicians in the Sixth district, who took an active in terest in the last congressional cam paign, is reported will make his future home in Pennsylvania. Judge Otis L. Atherton of Russell county has at last been named for re ceiver of the Wa-Keeney land office. It had been hanging tire for several months. Senator Burton has kept his pledge with Atherton. He can't afford to move to Wa-Keeney. and he Is faiily well off financially, and why did he want it, his friends ask. Some of his friends explain it in this manner: He had been the loser, politically, for a number of years, and wanted it simply for recognition again, and in a short time will resign in the interest of Charles K. Hall, a staunch Burton-Curtis friend, who also lives in Russell, and who was, too, favored with some promises in To peka during the senatorial election that if Curtis won out Hall would be taken care of. While some of the fellows are after S. H. Dodge's scalp, that is his seat on the board of regents of the State Nor mal, he hasn't lost any sleep over it. and speaking through his Beloit Ga zette about the appointments Governor Bailey has made so far, says: "No fault can be found with any of these selections." Four competent young men from Graham county are holding on to legis lative jobs in Topeka this winter. And why no.t, for this county as the home of the lieutenant governor and John Dawson, who is holding an appointive office in the attorney general's office. J. B. Whitney, an all-round printer having become tired of working for other people has purchased the News, published at Randall. Jew-ell county. Some of the Sixth district papers are tight. Instid of bakhi' aH day Ion and mixin half the night They kept Unoeda Biscuit on the cupboard right in sight and that's the way I finally conkered Timmie's appetite. SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG. r Y. II. C. A. TEACHES Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Drawing. 1'hysics, Chemistry, Alge bra, Oeoinetry, Trigonomeu y. Business Practice, Bookkeeping, Penmanship, Rapid Footing, spell ing, Grammar, Heading, Arithmetic, Hanjo and Guitar. Call at Office on Eat Kighth st. for information. OUR THEORY That one Dleased customer r brings another is doing ita mission nobly. The Five x Cents a Day Telephone ia proving more popular daily. Missouri Kansas Tel:. Ca 'Phoos just finding out who was elected state printer. One of the Clark workers says that at one time "We had an even 85 members pledged to our man, but for some reason the other fellows got some of them away from us." There are some who believe the Sixth district Republicans are hopelessly di vided politically because of the action of some of the leaders in Topeka. this winter, and that hereafter all they will do is to try anil ge-t even with the gang who did it. The territory in the con fines of the district is the best on earth, and with a new legislature and senate the district will be quite unanimous for M. A. Low if he should want to suc ceed Burton four years away. It is be lieved that had he consented to be a candidate this winter he could have had all of them. Hanna has made so fair a presiding officer that he will ba easily his own successor, and Burrow, well he will be just the best secretary of state of all, and he will not be side tracked by anybody unless his friends elect him to congress. So in another campaign the district will get together, know where they are at, wash the hands, and pull for success altogethe.. Miss Pearl Mead, of Beloit and a na tive of Mitchell county, has a legisla tive jnb this winter. She is the accom plished daughter of A. G. Mead, mem ber of the legislature from Mitchell county. She needs to fit herself in the work she is doing, for hT husband is liable to lie a formidable candidate for congress tn the Sixth district. The band wagon run over Dan. Dyer again this winter. He has several wagon loads of letters of endorsements for this and that position, but the band wagon never looks at them. Some of the Sixth district legislative members seldom write a letter, and yet they voted to give themselves postage stamps to the amount of twenty dol lars. Differences in rank among members of organizations, especially of a munlff- pal nature, seem to be designed princi pally for the purpose of always having' some on else to blame things on. Puck. Contains no acid GORHAM Silver Polish Is guaranteed to be free from sny injurious ingredient. Cleans as well as polishes Alt responsible ,5 rmts package jewetcra keep it J t AH. ff ft 5 CHUT CIGAR. igiifSciiooi

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 9, 1903. id ELI STATE JOUPiML BY FRANK F. 1IAC LESXAN. VuLUMK XXX. .No. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, ,0 cents a week to any pait of Topeka or euborbs, or at the saua- price in any Kansas, town where the paper hu.3 a, car r!er system. T'y maii, one year J.l.fc'i I mail, three months W rekly edition, one year ?o fceturdav editi-in of daijv, one year 1.00 I F.ntere-d Julv 1, IST5. as second plans matter at the postoffice at Topeka, Kan under tht act o cor.yrtas j TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell -phone 107 I-uinesa Office Ind. 'phone W. 2 Feporiers' lioom IK 11 phone 57 i.tporttrs' lioom Ind. phone lvi1 PERMANENT HOME. Tcpvka State Journal building, SOO and S'i Kansas avenue, corner of Fighlh. NEW YOKK OFFICK; 1 Vamlerbllt Udg. Paul pluck. :isr. CHIOA'iO OFFICE; ir,;.. nity Bldg. Paai l:!oek. Mgr. SVLX, LEASES "v7IF.3 EEPCP.T C? TS2 .CSOCIATSS II.2S3 The Stat? Journal Is a member ct the Associated Pre.-a and receives the full day tilfrra'jh report o that -treat news or VHiiZHtin for exclusive afternoon publica tion In TopeKa. Th nrws is received Jn the State .Toor rnl building over wires for this sole pur tr,Sn busv t h re i i-'l lout the entire day. A complete copy cf the night report is also 1 ro:'ivt;fl. Under the impression that he was topping a coal car a Wichita boy broke the seal of a load of wheat. At least that was the plea he put up to the court. Washington l'r.st: The Chester 1. Long vice presidential boom has made lis appeal-ante in Kansas. Hut perhaps the mart would prefer to be a United t;U' h senator. Kansas appeals to be fairly on the read toward ho oining th" Ohio or the Rest. She still has enough statesmen out of a lob to till a tew mote vacan cies as 1 hr y occur. From the amount of outside help that Mr, .Vidieks is receiving, it looks as thou eh the Ixdftware delegation to the next national Republican convention might so to a dark horse. Of course the president and Secretary j Hay have nothing to do officially with Mr. How-en while he is representing i Venezuela. l,vsi they are not "prevented tro m makir friendly suggestions. Worcester (Mass.) Spy: The fact that a bill was presented to the Kansas leg islature forbidding the eating of snakes has led many to believe that in some parts of Kansas, at bast, the people were given to devouring reptiles. Senator Hanna has introduced a bill providing a pension for negroes who have been slaves. Senator Nelson has introduced a bill appropriating $100,000 for the erection of a home for aged eoloied persons at Washington. D. C. Thus is inaugurated the quadrennial Ft niggle f, ,r the southern delegates to the national Republican convention. 1 i has passed a bill providing tor an ofli- rial time keeper for that body. His I business will tie to keep tab on the host of employes who have been appointed to pay political debts, and do nothing but chaw tli ir salaries, lie will be required to see that they are in or about the t-apitol during working hours or they w ill i cceive no pay. ANTI-TRUST LEGISLATION. The house on Saturday passed the Litte field anti-trust hill by unanimous vot. If there was any member opposed to it. Republican or Democrat, he dared not sav so. Probably every meinbe-- was glad to push the whole- matter over onto the senate and let it bear the btir di n of .'-ndcmnatioji which may e-om.-f i om the trusts or the people in accord ance w sill which ever position it takes. If the senate remain true to its past record it is not likely to do anything -hich will interfere seriously with the business conditions of the country. Only out of !0 senators are elected every two years, while with the house it is different. The house can't afford to irille with the people too far. The trust ejuestion ill its various phase1-: and conditions, as lelated to con gress, is discussed by th Tribune as follows: "The trust question is nnd congress is legislatins Minneapolis j i many-sided, for one side at a. time. Several biils pending in one er the other house must be passed sep arately or gathered into one law before the legislation on which the president h is s -I his heart w ill be complete. These various objects are to be ac cmplisheJ: Railroad rebates are to be rfru ienUy prevented, Umt larpe Phipprfi napped your Uncle Cyrus an interro v.uiy mi v no advantace over small, ih". (ration V i 1 r- HI'- t J I (ilt 11 Kl rdl.r, j 11 i I and. ahivp all. more t-i-eed in pi'ose- i-uiini? violations of laws ly trusts, Th'1 j I'UhiK it v (-xpr-rinipiit is to be tried: some i to be mndf to bring the indus- trial corporations within the scope of a!! laws i-iaiing to state commerce, an.!. finally, the president and the attorney g.-iiernl desire to attack trust monopoly by miking it illegal to cut prices locally in order to crush out competition. "The so-fai!'d Flkins bill, passed by the senate, makes it illegal either to give or receive rebates and provides Heavy punishment by fines. Hills are pemiing jn various stages making up- piepruu ems for more vigorous prosecu- j M-Pl .f ''tmsin 'ss "in th:XCrIsn8 piti.ii. Sty feature, as we ll as the p, c- be'hut'lhisr department nf commerce bill, whtch b. m a more advanc- d st:ic-. The prne tie-al e:tect of the provi-a ms of this bill Is to bring industrial corporations en gaged in interstate comnieice under the la w '-re nf all these will aeeomnlish f .ur fi the five objects recited above. Faying only the punishment bv la w cf local und, in, to crush our t Tl is is in the I.itiieiiebl bill, in RddUiiei to the other features covwl by other bills. If these should lie passed and the i.ittleiit-ld lull dropped, the puu-i-i ment of what is commonly called pre dniotv romprtitioTi would be aban doned. Theie signs that this is the fjinpos it ion or eo,: ess; partly because tee s-rale opj s this legislation with g.eat energy and partly because there is some doubt of i. eoiist-tulionality. It de, s, em a cue. r pro in? to punish lew priees as a crime. And it would hp a pity to r-ti.,ngir a w oole anti-tru -t law by putting in one provision the court-- niiht throw out. If there is to bo legislation against predatory comne- t'tion. it would eem w jser to put it ;u 6 it-i'Ei a te law." EDITORIAL COMMENT. One View of Vermont's Action. Newark (N. J.) News: Vermont has removed itself from the ranks of the states in which the manu facture and sale of intoxicating liquors is, prohibited, by a majority of 1,:.2 in a total vote of 59,642. Of the fourteen counties in the state, pine pronounced in favor of the new law, which is a local option measure providing for seven dif ferent classes of license at fees ranging from Il.L'oO for a saloon down to $10 to.' a drug store that dispenses liquors only upon a physician's certificate. The step is significant. Vermont has ben under a. strict prohibitory regime since 1SZ. H r cilia nship ranks with that of any state in the union in intelligence, moral ly and thrift. It is distinctively Amer ican, likewise, for tiie state has little to offer that -will attract or hold foreign immigration. There are no large -citie: in Vermont, either, the population bc-ing strictly rural and the chief interest agricultural. It would seem, therefon'-, that no community in the country is more competent to xass ft verdict upon prohibition, that is in accord with th'j ethics of the case and governed b sterling common sense. It only re mains to state that Vermont has been a prohibition state for fifty years and has iiad therefore a thorough experience with the (ioma. That the change lias not been made without thorough discussion goes with the saying. It will be remcmuered that 1'. W. Clements made the race for th governorship ef the state last fall upon a local option platform, and. though or, independent candidate. polled such a vote as compelled the legislature to ret- ognize the strong public sentiment against prohibition. As a result, a local option bill with u referendum clause war- adopted, and in due course of time wen.: before the peopie at large. No oi tier j question obtruded itself into the discus, i s ion, wnleh enlisted the interest of every j voter in the state. Perhaps since the j beginning no election has ever called, forth so much debate. The result, j therefore, may be taken as the verdict of the people of Vermont. Vermont is to be commended for put-tin-; an end to a law that was little more- than a farce in a manly and out spoken manner. The mulct law by which Iowa evades her own constitution is essentially dishonest. The (lag-rant man ner in which Maine permits her liquor law to.be violated in the lareer cities is not only dishonest hut demoralizing-, j No one now even pretends to believe that prohibition prevails in any state of the union. There are comparatively few who r.re not persuaded that it entails t viis that are a thousandfold worse tbxn the one which it professes to abate. JAYHAWKIK JOTS. Wa-Keeney claims to have the finest postoffiee in western Kansas. Leavenworth is troubled with a dog killer who has no discrimination. Alma's (1 nances are in bad condition and 'retrenchment" is the spring elec tion Cl. Bushton has the basketball craze so severely that Sunday practice is In dulged in. Cut at Spring Creek. Wabaunsee I county, cow bells are the favorite chari vari weapons. Thieves have no longer any fear of ex-Sheriff Davis of Rice county. Twice since his retirement from office they have visited him in the wee-small I hours. Old soldiers at Lrtkin pay for having their pension vouchers tilled with long Ureen tobacco. Two Wathena boys paid $2.50 each into court for using a farmer's chickens as targets while driving by. A Florence girl boasts that she hasn't missed a paid entertainment since going with her present sweetheart. called to a counterfeiting citizen. He claims to be making good money out of eggs. The fad with Kskvielge small boys is to catch on to moving trains. Sooner or later it will mean a quick run to the hospital. i Kpidemics have the stage at Emporia now. Among them may be seen "chiekenpox, measles, pinkeye and scar let fever." j Hison is troubled with lightning rod i sharks. One irate farmer made them "shake the snow with their feet" rather I than the dust. Junction City thieves are so low down that thcy .,ole th laFt chickens from a w idow's coop. And eggs worth 20 cents a dozen, too. An Ottawa man is mourning the loss of a prized sweater that he wore at Yale years ago. It's safe to say that his neighbors are not sorry, however. An Atchison man who is advertising for a wife draws the line at widows. He intimates that they would con tinually sing the virtues of their former husbands. A fireman on the west end of the Lin coln branch dislocated bis shoulder and broke his collar bone and a local paper gravely announces "Jake will be unable to work again for some time." A Leavenworth man in "making the rounds" at Kansas City was "touched" for all his money by an accommodating stranger Thp man who bos monev to burn ran generally find his match. A golden eagle has been presented to Manhattan college and we are told that it is of the order Oceepitres and family Fah-onidae. The bird is the usual dis tance from tip to tip and blinrl in one eye. A Troy man writes to the Weekly Chief to know- bow to make use of "mustard that has lost its fire." It would bavp been a time sneer to bi-i-e WMaKM--HHBWM

"vV can't all be captains of industry, and we don't expect to be. There are quite 1 1 u j n b e r of us who wo u 1 d be very glad to be fust lieutenants retired on nan pay. rucK. i j belching, TOtn- j iting, flatulence, fits of nervous head- pa- in the stomach, are all i symptoms of dyspepsia, and the longer

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TJaflie'illv 1 1UlU1, J-V and permanently cure it strengthen und tone the stomach and other digestive organs for the natural performance of their functions. Accept no substitute for Hood's. "I had dyspepsia twenty-fire years and took different medicines but got no help until I began taking Hood's Sarapr.rilla, Have taken four bottles of (his medicine and can now eat almost anrthinff, sleep well, have no cramps in my stomach, no burning and no distress." Mns. William G. Barrett, 14 Olney St., Providence, R. I. Hood's Sarsapariila promises t cure and keeps tho promise. Distress Jifier REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. Trust no man who fawns on you. The strongest bodyguard that can protect a woman is a family of chil dren. If a man can arrange to be rough enough to hurt a woman when he em braces her, she is sure he loves her. The thir.g that makes one woman love another more than anything else is tc know that she is better looking than the other. When a dishonest man starts out to do ousiness with an honest man, think ing he is dishonest, he never can get the tangle straightened out. REACHES SEKATE, Littlefield Bill Is Referred to Committee on Judiciary. Washington. Feb. 9 -The Littlefield anti-trust bill was received by the sen ate today from the house and referred to the committee on Judiciary. The army appropriation bill was sent to conference, Messrs. FToctor (Vt.), Quarles Wis.) and Cockrell (Mo.) being named as conferees. The following bills were passed. To extend the time granted to the Muscle Shoals Power company in Ala bama within which to commence and to complete work previously authorized, house bill fixing time of holding terms id' courts in Colorado: senate bill es tablishing a life savins station at Cape Nome. Alaska, also extending the thir teenth lite saving district to Alaska. Mr. Car-mack (.Tenn.) then addressed the senate on the Rawlins resolution calling for the records cf courts martial cl officers serving in the Philippines. ADDICKS EMISSARIES. They Are Reported to Be Working Among Democratic Membsra. Dover, Del., Feb. 9.- The reg ular Fiepublicans held a cau cus this afternoon in an endeavor to reach some agreement. After it ad journed, representative Flynn said th.it nothing had been done except a elecision to continue voting for two men now being supported. The Democrats apparently are not a unit as to their action. The situation was summed up this alternoon by a prominent Democrat as follows: "We were sent here to vote for the election of two Democratic United States senators. If this is found im possible and it becomes necessary to select a Republican doesn't it follow that we can choose whomever ve please?" As there are rumors that Addicks' emissaries are in the Democratic ranksi this statement is regartled as very sig nificant. LEGISLATIVE SIDELIGHTS. During this session of the legislatuie an effort will be made by Senator White of Jewell to knock out the law relating to the o.uarantine of southern cattle. White will probably bring his fight em the law in the shape of a proposed! amendment exempting the northern part of the state from its Quarantine provisions. The amendment will be op posed by the cattle raisers of the south ern part of Kansas. The committee on elections in the sen ate is scheduled to commence the re counting ot ballots cast in the Hamil-ton-e'eiger election in the Seventeenth judicial district Tuesday. All the bal lots csst in that election are in th hanrAs of the committee on elections, be ing piled in boxes and packs in the com mittee room in the basement ot the state house. As yet the committee has not determined how much time it will eleT vote daily to work upon the election contest, but it is probable that the members wjll hurry through with their part of it. There are about 8,000 votes to count. LOCAL MENTION. Mr. Kd Durein of Hutchinson spent Sunday in the city. During the month of January there were 41 cases of contagious disease in Topeka. Of these 16 were diphtheria. It scarlet fever. 6 chiekenpox, 3 small pox and 2 measles. Cvrus Leland, W. W. Hooper and Geo. E. Cole appeared before Judge Hook in the United States circuit court this af ternoon and eiualified to their appoint ments as trustees for the Kansas Mu tual Life Insurance company. Mayor Parker returned Sathrday from Chanute. where he went to investigate the oil find jjras fields. He was acc-om. panied on the trip by B. M. Davies, C. S. Kagle and A. P. Quinton. They are planning to organize a company to buy some oil lrnd.. The Wichita Board of Trade has sent to Senator McMillan its recommendation for his railroad commissioner resolution. Senator McMillan's resolution calls for the election of the board of railroad commissioners by popular vote. It has not yet been taken up for discussion in the legislature. Captain Peterson, of 514 Monroe street, will iro to central Illinois tomorrow to visit relatives and friends and to at tend a sale of several fine farms to settle a larse estate in which he is an owner. He says he exaects to receive for his share $17,000. all of which will be invested in Topeka. Diphtheria was reported today in th fainiiy of Chas. Chase. 715 Lime strees. The patient is a grandchild. It is th second case in the family. The quaran.. tine for the first ease was raised only last week. Another case of diDhtherix is reported in a family on Fast Fourth street near the Shunganunga bridge, rame unknown. The February meeting of the Com mercial club is to be held Wednesday evening. Nothinz of unusual import ance is to come up at the meeting but an interesting discussion is expected to arise over the subject of what the club ought to do this year for the town. A long list of applicants for membership in the club will be admitted this even ing. Deputy United States Marshal Mc Ornth made the arrest Sunday of C. F. Taiior of Liwrene-e, on the charge of counterfeiting. Tabor was brought to Topeka, examinee! before Ft. K. Hayden. deputy United States attorney, and placed in the Shawnee county jail for trial. Tabor is charged with attempt ing to pass spurious half dollars of his own manufacture, and at his examina tion this morning lie was shown to have hael. in his possession, metal intended for the manufacture of coins. Tabor is a middle aged man and has a bad rec ord. He is said to have served a term of 14 years in Jefferson City for mur der. Mr. Harry Alexander, formerly pri vate secretary to H. H. Kmbry, has been advanced te chief clerk of trie gen eral freight department in Kansas City. Mrs, Arthur Massey. assisted by Mrs James Love. Mrs. Wilson of Kansas City and Miss Kitty Raland, enter tained Saturday afternoon from 2 til! (5 in honor of her daughter Ruth's fifth birthday. The following littie girls were invited:. Zola Madoulet, Ruth Larimer. Alice Hughes, Helen Hollar. Mary Sam. son. Katherine Stevens, Margaret Rust, Noma Hines, Opal Gmnteer, Mary Tincher. Luciie Organ, Gladys Organ, Helen Lucas, Lent Love of Perry. Okia., Dorothy Madouiet, Ruth Massey. BACK ill COURT. Fair Millions Once More In volved in Litigation. Uelatifes of Mrs. Fair Sue for the Estate. New York, Feb. 9. The relatives of Mrs. Charles D. Fair, who with her hus band was killed in an automobile acci dent in France in August last, have commenced an action here to set aside an agreement which they entered into with Mrs. Theresa Oelrichs and Mrs. Virginia Vanderbilt. sisters of Charles F'air, not to start a contest over the estate. By the agreement Mis. Nelson was to receive $125,000 and her daugh ter's jewelry valued at $100,000. It was claimed at the time that under the California laws Mr. Fair outlived his wife and therefore his relatives were entitled to his estate, estimated at $6, 000,000. Mrs. Fair's re'-itlves now sav they are prepared to prove that she lived 3 minutes longer than her husband -and as he had executed a. will leaving his entire estate to her, they are entitled to the whole of it. Besides filing the complaint counsel for the Nelson fam ily flleel a lis pendens against property on Riverside Drive and Seventy-fifth street, this city, which they claim was the private property of Mrs. Fair. They also claim furniture, clothing, silverware, jewelry, bonds and securi ties and real estate in San Francisco of the total value of J300.000, which they contend Mrs. Fair possessed independent of her husband. They allege that whea the defendants offered this settlement which was accepted they well knew that Mrs Fair outlived her husband and that the statement that she died before was made to defraud them of the es tate. KEfiDRICK IS HERE. Meets Trainmen Who Want W ages Increased. Third Vice President J. W. Kendrick of the Santa Fe arrived in Topeka from Chi cago this morning and this afternoon met a select cemmittee from the conductors and trainmen to hole! a preliminary con ference concerning ihe demand lor a 2-t per cent increase in wages. In addition to Mr. Kendrick the follow ing Santa Fe officials are here: eeneral Manager Wells of the Santa Fe coast lines. General Manager Nixon of the Santa Fe Gulf lines, General Superintendent Cain of L,a Junta. These, with eeneral Manager Mudge anei eieneral Superintendent Hur ley, comprise the whole staff of head offi cials of the entire Santa Fe system. There are here fifty-two members of the grievance committee representing the Or der of Railway Conductors ami Brother hooel of Railway Trainmen. These (if'ty two men come from all parts of the Santa Fe system, and to them is dele-gated the autherity to treat with the (ffieial.s and arrange a basis of settlement. They will all be present at the eonferenees which are to be held beginning Tuesday. Roth the members of the committee and the Santa Fe officials have little to say about the negotiations at this time. They are unwilling to eMimate how longthe con ference will continue. Some seem to thiol; that it will come to rather an abrupt termination by the acceptance mutually of the 15 per cent increase which has been the basis of compromise among St. I-emis roads. Other. are of tile opinion that it will take a long time to go over all the ground involve! in the "situation and that neither side has eo far indicated the slightest inclination to yield from its po sition. COTTON BKl.T GRANTS IXCREASI?. St. Louis, Mo.. 1-eb. f. The agreement reached between the St. Iouis Southwest ern Railway company (Cotton Kelt) and Its conductors and trainmen in which the latter are granted a 15 per e-ent advance in wages, similar to that given by the three other southwestern lines to their men, will be signed sometime during the day, thus positively averting the strike that seemed imminent last week. The eiuestion of a raise tif wages for train men and coneluotors of the Wabash system with other matters of difference between employer and employes will be taken m next Friday antl definitely settled. Delay in this matter has been causeel by the ab sence from St. Louis of several Wabash officials in authority. albauYh is back. Bank Commissioner Able to Be at Desk. Morton Albaugh, state bank commis sioner, is back at his desk in his office in the state house, this afternoon for the first tirhe since his fall on the state house steps on December 13. which re sulted in a bioken thigh for him. He is now looking as well as before his accident, all hough it was for a time a severe strain on his vitality He travels on crutches, of course, and will tlo so for some time, and he Is obliged to be very careful of his injured leg, bu; he is very cheerful and glad to get back to his desk. He has been conducting his work from his home, however, for sev eral weeks. Fie cannot ride in a car riage because he cannot get in and out. With Captain Hobson. Fort Scott, Kas.. Feb. 9. Prof. Eugene A. Pond, principal of the South Main street school, has been given a position by the New York Lyreura bureau. Prof. Pond is to have charge of the lecture of aCptain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who has resierned his position with the navy and taken to the lecture platform. Mr. Pond has left for Youngstown. O.. to join the naval hero, and will accompany "him on his tour to the Pacific coast, be ing absent for the next three months. Prof. Pond's new position pays him $100 per month and all expenses. Pensions for Kansans. Washington, Feb. 9. The following pensions have been granted Kansans: Original Seiuire Rennick, National Military home. Leavenworth. f. Increase, reissue, etc. William Mar tin. Oummings, $10: John W. Reynolds, Seelgwick. $:S0: James Smith. LaHarpe, SS: Samuel C. Walck. Abilene. $:!0; thos. J. Decker. Turon. $10. Widows, minors and dependent rela tives Salome T. Gardner, Hutchin son, $8. Gov. Fishback Is Dead. T .it tie- Rock. Ark.. Feb. 9. Former Gov. William Fishback died today at his home in Forv Smith of paralvsis. He was "J years of age. He was w idely lrpown as tro author of the Fishback ant-ndment. hy wiiich the legislature is forbidden ever to pay certain bonds issued during the re construction period. DEATHS AND FOEHALS. Mis. Mollie Grey, age So, died Friday of consumption at her home, 119;t Lane street. The funeral was held this af ternoon from the A. M. ,E. church on Fourteenth street and the burial was in Ritchie's cemetery. Piso's Cure for Cnnsumjition has curer) coughs for 40years.lt is still on the market. City Ticket Office. Union Pacific Railroad, 525 Kansas avenue. NEW NATION STORY. Reported That She la Lecturing in a Beer Garden. A dispatch to the State Journal from Los Angeles says: Mrs. Nation is lec turing here, her appearance being the principal entertainment feature in the beer garden run by Maer Zobelein. brewers. Mrs. Nation offered to do smashing in two prominent cafes for cash considerations, but her advances were turned down by the proprietors of the establishments. ATTACKS Mi EDITOR. Playwright Thomas Resents Un complimentary References. New Rochelle, N. Y Feb. 9. In sev- eral recent issues since Augustus Thomas, the xilaywright, was elected president of the Democratic club in New Rochelle, the Pioneer, the official Republican newspaper of) that city, has referred to him as "Miss Gussie,Thom- as." Editor Henry. Sweet said that he thought that this was the serio-comic way of dealing with the playwright s efforts in politics. Mr. Thomas, who is supposed to be an expert on the subject of humor, says that he can see nothing comic about it. On the contrary, he says that the implication of effeminacy, is a re flection upon himself and his family. In last Saturday's issue the Pioneer referred to Mr. Thomas as "Miss Gus sie" again. The playwright Sunday morning set out for Kdi tor Sweet's house and administered a lesson to Mr. Sweet with his fist. Mr. Thomas was arrested last night on a warrant sworn out by Sweet, charging him with assault in the third degree. He was paroled in the custody of his counsel. According to the story told by Mr. Sweet to Judge Kdgar M. Phelps, the playwright arrived at his home about 10:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The ed itor says that Mr. Thomas, after round ly abusing him, drew a typewritten statement from his pocket and demand ed that Sweet sign it immeeliately. Sweet savs be sinned it under duress. and for the sole purpose of getting rid of Thomas and avoieling a tragedy. Af ter Sweet had signed the paper the an gered playwright demanded to know who wrote the articles. Sweet says he declined to say. Thomas said that Sweet told him that the articles were written by a man who is a lawyer in New Ro chelle. After pocketing the retraetiem which the eeiitor had signed. Mr. Thomas went to the hall, and, putting on his coat, started to leave. As he placed his hand on the tloor knob he turned to Sweet and said: "If any of your friends think I am as effeminate as the articles in your paper imply, tell them about this." Then he suddenly shot out with his left fist, and landed a stunning blow on Sweet's neck, which sent him to the floor. As the editor fell his wife heard tho noise" and came rushing out. She arrived just in time to see Thom.-is, hurrying out of the yard. Sweet and his wife, who is suffering from nerv ous prostration, are under a doctor's care. The editor says he will sue Thom as for $50,000 damages, and the play wright says he will sue the editor for libel. SUNDAY SESSION Made Subject of a Roll Call in the House. Washington, Feb. 9. Speaker Hen derson who has recovered from his re cent indisposition presided over the de liberations of the house' today. After the vending of the journal, Mr. Richardson (Tenn.) took exception to the presentation of the conference re port on the department of commerce bill at yesterday's memorial session. He contended that the session of yesterday was void. The speaker ruled that it was regular. He said in his ruling that it had been repeatedly held that Sun day could be made a legislative day. There had as a fact been no legislation at yesterday's session. Ry unanimous consent the bouse simply permitteel the tiling of the conference re port under the rule. The house when in session at any time, be stated, was omni potent, except for the limitations of the constitution. Mr. Richardson protested against the ruling as a dangerous precedent and moved to correct the journal so as to strike out the action of yesterday. F.leven Republicans voted with the Lemoerats tor his motion, but it was defeated on a rising- vote of SO to SS. Mr. Richardson demanded the ayes and nays and the roll was called. 31AI) OYER THE CAKEWALK. All Paris Has Gone Wild on tho Lat est American Importation. Paris. Feb. 9. Paris has gone mad ovor the Cakewalk. At the last opera ball the great attraction the evening was the latest American importation and the man agors nssert that, it proved the strongest j drawing card they have had in many j yem-5. There is not a music hall in this i city thru does not announce a Cakewalk j uinm its bills. j Society itself has the prevailing mania i ai d in even the most exclusive salons ope j hears the all-pervading question: "Can you do the cakewaik." or. a the Kreneh say i it. "Kakavakay coup'.'" No cotillon this winter has h. en considered complete with I out a cakewalk feature and it is a fre j quent sight to see some marquis and j haughty duchess pigeonwinging" down th? i ancestral halls that have for centuries echoed only to the stately music of the minuet. MADE A REMARKABLE TRIT Aeronauts Travel Over Eight Hun dred Miles in Thirty Hours. Paris. Feb. 9. Jaeoues Balsam, o young and rich adventurer, who once commanderl a Chilian gunboat, has just made a remarkable aerial journey with Abel Corot, another Frenchman. The i two left St. Cloud Wednesday morning 'fit 11 o'clock in the balloon St. Loui. i They had plenty of food, a small be:i i in foor pieces, a mattress anei a safety 1 stove, the invention of Blsan, which j provides aeronauts with heit water, i Trave ling before a westerly wind, they passed rapidly toward the frontier, and at nightfall were over German territory. finally coming to eaith in Hungary, 5a miles southwest of Ruda-Pesth. having covered S07 miles in thirty hours. Death of Admiral Wilde3. San Frnnojseo. Feb. 9. Rear Admiral Frank Wildes of the Vnited States navy i died suddenly on board the steamer China. 'He was on his way home from China on sick leave when death over- took him. I Death of Editor Patrick. Oskaloosa. Kas.. Feb. 9. A. G. Pat rick, prominent in Jefferson countv poli ties for years-, is dead at his homo here. He was in ihe newspaper business and peipular in the community. Wagner anei the Bayreuth festival at high school Friday evening. Tickets iiO cents. City Ticket Office, L'nion Raiiroad, 525 Kansas avenue. Facifis THE MEDICINE BILLS. Measures to Keep Proprietary Articles Out of State. The location of the bill to restrict the sale of patent medicines and incidental ly to form a doctors' trust has been dis covered. It is reposing peacefully in the senate committee on public health, to which it was referred two or three weeks ago. This bill is calling forth a vigorous protest from the newspapers of the state. "While a few doctors who are un able to charge what they would like to for their services because the sale of certain standard proprietary medicines keeps them from it, they are striking a harder blow at the newspapers of the state than they are at the proprietary articles. The doctors realize that the foundation of the success of these ar ticles is advertising and they are there fore striking a blow at the advertising of these things. Almost every paying newspaper in the state derives a con siderable portion of its income from the advertising of proprietary articles and it would be severe on them to have this income cut off. This bill was introduced in the senate by Senator 3abriel by request of those who are back of it. The bill was re ferred to the committee on public health, and it is reporteil that the com mittee may perhaps report the bill fa vorably to the senate. One of the mem bers of the committee said today that while he is opposed to the bill, he pre fers that it he killed on the floor of the senate because it looks to him a good deal like a hold-up. The doctors who are urging the pass age of the bill are making the claim that it is "in the interest of public health." Yet there are probably more people positively injured every year by incompetent physicians than by taking proprietary medicines. Some of the remedies which these doctors wish to shut out of the state were standard remedies before the opponents of the remedies were born, and they are pre- S scribed by many of the best physicians. e'Jeiod doctors do not need to resort to a fight on proprietary medicines in order to bolster up their practice. If they are competent and skillful there is generally a sufficient demand for their services to keep them busy. The manner in which the opponents of proprietary medicines hope to shut off their sale is by making it unlawful for them to advertise them within the state until they file with the state board of health the formula of the medicines. As some of them were compouneled only after years of study, and as this procedure would make it possible for any one to find out. the secret of their manufacture antl start up competition, of course ne manufacturer of a proprie tary medicine who has spent years in building up a valuable business is going j to throw it away by making his for inula public. Instead he would with draw from Kansas ami sell his medi cines in other states. This woulti immediately shut off the advertising and sale of all such articles. Then when a person had a severe cough which he knew could be cured by a cer tain proprietary remedy which he might have been using for ten or twenty years, he would find himself unable to buy it at any drug store, but would have to go to some doctor and nay for a prescrip tion, and then take the prescription to a drug store to be filled. The prescription would be written in characters which he could not understand and would not even state what the remedy was for, and the chances are that it would not do its work as thoroughly as the pro prietary remedy which he had been us ing for years. This is the end which the doctors who are pushing the bill hope to attain. They wish to form what would practically be a doctors' trust. The bill imposes a severe penaltj- upon any druggist who sells or advertises any medicine not admitted for sale under the act. WAGGEHER'S NEW PLAN. Will Keach Income Tax in An other Way. BalieWaggenedhas found a stubstitute for the income tax which was pro nounced to be impracticable for inser tion into the new state tax bill upon which the joint committee of the two legislative houses is now at work. Wag gener's new scheme amounts to an in come tax but, he thinks, does not pos sess the features found objectionable in the original proposition. He calls it a "privilege license tax" and is intended to cover all sorts of business activities. It will be assessed upon business cor porations and individuals alike. This evening Mr. Waggener will place before the committee an amendment on this subject. It will proviele for the as sessment of ?5'10 license tax upon every non-resident corperation doing business in Kansas. Every resident corporation will be assessed less heavily. Provisions will be made for assessing individuals conducting a business of any kind. The license will be graduated according to the kind of business rather than the amount of income. This morning Mr. Waggener did not have his amendment i written out and had not decided on the actual figures for his privilege license. I In application this will amount to an j occupation tax. In the case of non resident corporations the tax will be paid to the secretary of state while in other cases it goes to the county. Just where this new idea will have an ad vantage over a plain ordinary occupa tion tax will probably not become ap parent until Mr. Waggener illuminates it before the committee this evening. The privilege license will not be a grad uated tax and in some instances will serve to avoid what would be double taxation under an occupation tax as commonly accepted. Mr Waggener stayed over Sunelay in Topeka and put in all day Saturday in the state Horary looking up legal au thorities and decisions to find a consti tutional way of framing an income tax provisiem, as he announced he woulei do several days ago. He was finally compelled to give it up, but will frame the occupation tax provision instead. The exemptiem of notes and mortgages I will be reconsidered ny tne tax commit tee before the bill is finally reported. i and the indications now are that a pro vision will be framed to tax notes am; mortgages instead of exempting them. as Mr. Wagrrener proposed to do. In order to prevent them from escaping it is possible that a very stringent meas ure will be adopted, possibly providing that no action can be brought to collect them until the tax has been paid on them. The theory of those who want these instruments exempted is that to tax them will raise the rate of interest, thereby making the debtor indirectly pay the tax. and as he also pays taxew u makes property ne nas mortgaged it is pay double taxation. I this theorv be correct, the way to fvcid double taxation would be to ex empt mortgage-d property to the amount of the mortgage, rather than to exempt the mortgage itself. Then if the debtoi had to pay the tax indirectly he would pav onlv single taxation upon it. If th? rate of interest should not be raised 1 i !sj W J lu,-U WJlj J Easy to take and easy to act ts i that famous little pi;! DeWiU's a Litt'e Early Risers. This is due to fl tho fact that they tonic the liver in- g siaad of purging it. They never gripe nor sicken, not even the most deiicate f? lady, and yet they are so csrtain in results that no one who uses them is f! disappointed. They cure torpid live', constipation, biliousness, jaunaice, headache, malaria and ward off pneu- r monia and fevers. PKSPARED OMLY 1Y "j E. C. DeWITT CO., CHicAOa Csn't Fcrsst tha Kams. n3' w L3US First published In Topeka State Journal Feb. 3, 1M03. RETORT OF THE CONDITION of the Merchants National Bank at Topeka, in tho State of Kansas, at the close of business Feb. 6th, VM3. liKSOUKCK?. Loans and discounts S4HS.730. 14 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured... 1.510.115 lT. H. bonds to secure circulation Other bonds ami securities Due from approved reserve agents J254.033.4S lOO.tKw.no 43.649.11 Due from otaar national banks Checks and other cash Items Exchange for clearing house Notes of other National banks Fractional currency, nick els and cents tkilei and silver coin 21,411.64 1,079.96 20,794.73 19,1)00.00 5 W 6 1S.0S7.0O 48 'DO. 00 383. 732. S3 l egal tender notes Kettemptlou fund with U. S. Treasurer 5.O0O.OO 1 1,002,622. 76 I.t ABILITIES. Capital stock paid in '.oo.ooo.oi Surplus fund 2,000.00 Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 11.3159. 17 National hank notes outstanding loo.uoo.tw llue to other National Banks t S.012.32 Due to state banks nd bankers 12,213.89 Individual deposits subject tocheck 729,372.21 llemaml certificates of de pesit 37,517.67 C'ertiueel checks outstand ing 150.00 Cashier's checks out standing 4.987. 50-789.253. 59 J 1,002,622. 70 State of Kansas. County of Shawnee, s-: I. F. AV. Freeman, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that tlie abov-o statement is true to the best of ray knowledge, and belief. F. W. FKEF.MAN..'lsller. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this fth dav of February, pkj3. (Seal) 1C. A. Tl Kit I Lb, Notary Public. My commission expires July 1, lu5. Correct Attest: W. W. MANSPEARER, H. r-ATJTSON, VV. W. MILLS. Directors. the holder of the mortgage would pa the tax. as is intended. "Waggener's theory that mortgages should be exempt may be right in ac tual practice," said one member of the taxation committee today, "but L ought nert to be, and the people will not stand for any such action. The people sent us here to make a tax law to catch this property that is escaping taxation instead of legalizing its escape, it is true, though, that where a mortgage and the mortgaged property are bota taxed there is double taxation, anil n I doesn't give the real value of taxable I property. For instance, suppose I loan a man a thousand dollars and he given me a mortgage on his farm for that amount. I pay taxes on the mortgagr-i and be pays on the full value of hia land, worth, say. $2,000. That makes $;',000 worth of taxable property. 11. pays off the mortgage anei a thousand dollars of that amtiunt is willed eiut." Others say that this argument is ail right when a mortgage is made but by the time it is paid off another thousand dollars of taxable wealth would hav been created the debtor would have his j farm clear, antl he would be actually j worth $2.ono, while the creditor would have his thousantl dollars in cash still taxable to taxation. I "I don't take any sock in this talk that it is impossible to catch mort I gages and notes," continue the member i epioted above. "Other states tax them j and collect the taxes. I receive mort I gages from other states for collection land they are frequently stamped 'Taxes i paid on this mttrtgage.' There is no rea I son why Kansas cannot do the same, land that is one thing the people sent. this legislature here to tlo." j Another amendment made a few days ago, wbii-h will be reconsidered, is the i one vvhiedr remeived the lieutenant gov I ernor and attorney general from the state board of railroaei assessors. This is really the only thing the governor ever eioes besides presiding over the senate, and his removal from the board would cut off practically his entire sal ary. For piesiding over the senate the lieutenant governor receives six dollars a elay, amounting to $100 during the two years he is in office. This would hardly pay his campaign assessment. At pres ent as chairman of the railway asses sors he receives $700 a year, which gives him a salary of $1,000 the year the leg islature meets and $700 in off years. A number of the members of the tax ceim mission have told Lieutenant Oovernor Hanna that the amendment was maele without due thought and that it will be reconsidered. CRUSHED HIS FOOT. William Carter Has a Painful Exper ience at the Hock Island. William Carter, a l."-year-old boy liv ing on North Taylor street, lost part of his foot bv having it crushed under a moving Hock .island train shortly after norm todai-. Together with some other boys Carter was jumping trains in the yards near the bridge, when the boy made a mis. step and his foot was caught under the wheels. He was brought to the Rock Island depot by the St. Joe train, which chanced to come along shortly after the accident, and taken to Stormont hos, pital in an ambulance. Carter's brother was killed by a Union Pacific train about a year ago. Sl-BUUKAN LINES. Atchison Will Bo Center for a Num ber of Electric Roads. Atchison. Kas.. Feb. 9. It is an nounceel here today that the city street railway company will extenel in various directions, giving the city a large num ber of suburban electric lines, fine route will be north to St. Joseph, another south to Leavenworth, connecting witei the Kansas City line there, and another line west to Huron. The business men believe ts.is will be of rreat advantage to the Atchison trade end that t!:- -iis-tance is too great to Kansas City to draw to the latter town trade whiea naturally belongs to Atchison,

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TOPEKA STATE JOUTINAL, ilOXDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1903. 5 i I r Vr-. For TUESDAY end WEDNESDAY, February ICih and 11th. O JC l.OO 1 t' 1 DC 3 j i.1 10; 15? We Strive to Pleas; in Quality, Price 2nd Service. Kiiqyartrs f?. Limburjsr. S-xhs, E.-:ck, New York &ni Kan sas Fu'l Crjirri C.zzc s. r re h Fish, Oystrrj, etc. t 3 4 J n J Hi;h CUss Croaries anJ Fresh Meats at Popular Prices. Bctli Pacnss 7C3. S diors soa'.h cf DEFENSE TAKE!!' UP. Dr. Alexander's Attorney Oat-! line Ilia C'ae. ON si' (MI i i VIS ii

t, i l I r Ke- .$3.40t 1 !0c

1 5c r.d SOe 15c lOc 20s 1 20c 20c :Oc 25v lOc t 30c 5c 5c 1 5c i 3c 25 i5e I5n tts..2oc I'A SU,1 MEAT DEPT. fr n-1 for .8 1-He ...10c .irc ...15 .10o lOo fee 15- x 5 pric IOr r 1 ic 15c I 19c li'-c trasskr station. 339 Kansas Ave THE EARTH SHOOK. St. LouU Felt Two Shocks and Kentucky Was Shaken. t -1 t ptn i j ui n i-'inrv b-uvr, r-.:M and o ciocs i -;.iri-iL-i n:'nr 1 r, rrr s h k va? ot i j. M h --it 1 11 l t j a L'i:15. la v!-tern suo'ifoan tovv-is i i I I i- j r 1 p in i -rn-r n-':rnv towr.s ir. Ii;ir.o:s it i i r r L t ra n- 4 I i k -vl tw: minut-- ar.-i was ,i i iv 1 it'"l-1lv,"ittJuh V i';.3rit- fcii-.:ii vas ft-it here at about t:4.j ic k i;i,:',.;iV riT,r. Ir.J Viorauons ;f:sr-T '.!T:-i!'u? to ratt.e. bt:t p.j tiam tre was c-me. 'A n.i tCv.. F-b. 9. A Cisuna -.-rrr.iUdK sn f'K v-.'-A-i tiz h-ere in o: 4j v.r.-idV r s?" n r. t'l-'-iur-s we re sn:x?i.fz t It i tn Jr i :'-r: r rr.) n v hiiu. .t h i' p. i i. Fr n. iJ. Ail arr r4 j uai-e -t r u F r" l a t i v a- h a vV -:-t. n-:.-L r;u- v.rre sr.atv-n down. !---re r. ;r nr. -.iturdav at. mid- NO xlAtl I) VD 1 0i". F-eform School Ka3 All It Caa Ac commodate. a, 1 hnvs at t.-e rerorrr -i-f..;! -n.i r--.- fjuunoiss ar-1 so cru-Ad-- that S-iprintemi-Tit Charles has ..rrrilfi tn retuse admission to 1 '.v t,i rave been s-ntru:ed tu uw r-t-.- at 1 'traa-i have two iz for ailniiss-on and hav jr! hv .-uprintemient r i.iHnssi.m rnust be re- v3 wa.i .-en ri' rne .sin: or h is not beoi asiiei... vj 1 r r i 1 I m. rre .iu;nir of inniate.-j thai .tn L. ae ommo'iateu. T U,i I FD. Extra Precautions Tasea fjr -Trie Suburban. J-i b L t i.-.- iT-re"--1- o Tpi' i-uouriian. '..--as -.r rr-. r.-.oav iiv ras:e Mana-Jrer J-.scr Si-i-.-o-n t-. ir-rict tnJ sraire of -i-J or-ir.'i opera house p.rparaor to noT'ir-ir on re-. r.;.r drama tnere t'-mor-i-.vi- i'- r v- (.'Connor nad th house -rt-r put extra oraeos Un-!r the o, t.rrsrrrien it tor the running 'i r-.e siiM;1-'.!!! f-sannicap. m .vhi'-n !-c: :i .'..zn ncrus ar used. A nuni Y re.is r.r'.-, v er put in. not so 1-i-c a lAi.-iir th.v xvrre a'-tuaov n--e-l- out as n nrcriij-i. :r.a rv measure. I i.-,i d-iiirhr.-d with the size of the 1 M irn t b- i 1 ir.c tie C1--V-. it has erat oeptn and vi and ti'e rc:"f nrouurt.on can be Allien r.-re vi-:?n..ut a stns-ie cue AN OLD I'lTIZKN HONE. W. H. H. Fox. of Auourn. Dies la Wyoming, r 1 "(t -e. e l r H h F ii -i-io-e F, :t. a he as Kaon n from -i-e c t mat re was a justice ot t.-.e f a.e f -r ..ver a quarter of a ct-ntury. H 1. 1 rhe e:iro- until a snort to vv vonimst to A J ationai ac S ues. l,ivnwi.nii. Kan.. Feb. 9 Th- First ilj-rri i su.t at L. ,;on. Mont., aaainst the ti-.an Pr'-s, cattie corr.panv to coiiei-t i.i,.'"i rrom ti) nrm. A cattle and horp ram--i ai L.eTsrisi-c-n -s owned ov n-1 F.-. an tieoii13".. Tnis mor"v. ;r is ao. r-u. w as r-ar.ei to t.-.e I-van isroth--i--,.rn time t- i-m- to oe ued m :ano.irii- -"E;t,e. j i. K-n. tne omst ('-'.ui- r a-.--i n tf-it oi t( -1 i.-, o. eLa-a. is mavcr cf i i r T s r.r t mcus mciser iiPPEAL T Kaiiroads Unite in Keenest to Legislature. I aj inat iney Are Taxed TOO I Ulgtt. i ONE POINT OVERLOOKED!

I ignres Do Not .Show Watered;

Stock. I I I'pon This the Companies Ex pect to Fay Diridends. On the c 1-- sisiature a Ijrs--si this title: -sk of each member of the th-re was plac-d Saturday sixty-pag-e pitmpnirt vvitn "i-tailc-oad Taxation. Issued d.r the Authority of the Railroads of Kansas. 13." .r:y all the rnsm ters had gone home, however, and did not return to tneir desks until today as the legislature did not reconvene until 4 o'cioi k. this afternoon. The pamphlet has ben prepared by the railroads of the stat to prove that they are already payine more tnan th"tr proportiaa of taxes in Kansas and more than they pay in any other western state. It is the railroads' side of tee taxation question. The opening paragraphs say: "The raaroaas rf K.ansas have noth- hi? to conceal reirardlr the payment of taxs. They pay a hiher rate of tax in th as trrin in any srat? sicS.ppi river: tney pay t cent more tax in Kansa Crverae paid in All the fate i,i Kan of t.i Mis-rty-nine per than the ititts in the transinisnissiTji r'.eion: th;y pay near ly ttfi fer cnt m-.re than i.h? -j.verae tax paid by a I! rhe railroads in trie L'r.it&d Sra-t's tvr.fn tr.r states with! ?D-jcitit Lo.itr;j.?t5 xistir.g are excluded i'-nm :he average). rn?:.-1.! t r re rrilrnad ?ho.vi- a d isp ii to shirk tl".1 payment of just t;ixes. rhey ray. anil pay pmtnprly. w h r e f r q j n 1 1 y t b s r o k. i i o M p r s of' rh :omt:in;3 have raited for yan? to r'. eivr f nv return for thir investnietit. "Tres-- payment1 h.ive ben cheerful- -y rriF.d- berauae the stockholders of t'n raur!'i;i C'"iti panies are depend.ir.sr on Knsa.' future for their returns. Thry re':1--enize that it is irr port ant that county or sii rs i aa t o n 5 should be s u tamed, schools maintained, and th. ie thinars dne that are necessary to show proprity anl induce others to come j into the state and join in it3 future. and thpy krou- hat if these things ar not attended to Kansas will retr"'-reso, and vvith the retroe-resion nf the stae d.'i'LIn in railroad investments wouM J naturally ensue. inrert in the state ha? tha 'Tare's sufrs 30 rar at heart tho.--- -f the railroads. Tbpv assist 2ui an 1 i :rrz -vrry err position indented t,;r t n natvral a d rancement of tha ooj- m inwe'i j m. t b v foster sbmes ror coi';aiZ.iiion. tnev assist in the asitatio;i t tor irrigation, trv make s lenrinc it. 1 v -si iffa Li m. ot beet sugar culture, tnv j i-ii,. 1 1 -fper.1r.2r up tae m:ns and ail tn- otrKT resources cf tne sr.it- 1 r i cours3. tnev drv rh:3 with, a snsn. mo- i ti v--- in view. fceoa-:ss tnp pn-s'tfr'.iv or aar.fas means tneir own proanrity 1 Tbir interests are sn ImKd xirn tn otr.-r rraienai indugtn-s nc n ?rat ti-atu -sr ;n"h rim to heirt tn? pi'0mss of evrvtnin -.nan tnus ro aavar.ee the vvea.tn and prnsr:fri'y ot th3 ppor-i." rtit i,am hipr rent a ns pa a:-3 a fx--r sr.ii.;;;ris r-'!rs r n lj m rau 1 .r 5 t t-" 1 K -e- n a 1 ft- 1 j- t -L t f-hit karsad taxes tn-- railroads, muc- Ther point, nov'.ever. tn.it m aMB in the r-ampnltt. iurs ti show tne unt ie ranrnaii rorr.nnr.ies n- their bends. There i. .1 KV!i-t:nn amonj the pe,; ranroads insist imnn tr-i freisnts sutfi'-ient p er- i i Thre a""e r.3 ere i Pt.:-ck in t the e'-T'-ess 0f li-'i-eire ti- rnat if the reouie cavtnz n to tar tne interest on a nond ed ihantdnessi ecnal ro- or inrere- thi'h tne prisma! oot of the roads, and m a :d:tion to that a dividend unon sto'-k which hag oon i-atered and rewater-.j the rauraus saouid Le taxed unon th same c.asis Ainoio? tr-.i-1 daou'-nnni xi-hi.-h a fe uriwn inm tn- statistics in tne par.i t.iirE are rh fo.i !.i-,vm That 7 r-r cent, of tni3 TCir.sas neo. nl3 i:ve on farms and ranches ad per o-nt. m towns. That. a -ra :s pav- IT per rent, or ihf jva nsaa taxes. fnat orav t:) per rent, of the re-il p.'-aan o? tne state is returner? tor tasn- mt- Kansas ra rc t i r i n. per rent ds ot neisrn- more tax-s than being stat-s. That tvansas ranroads pav fij p more taxes than Iowa ami ir.ni n--so Tha over Til a un. t tr pay 2 in enrr -r rent or n Kansas i 1 per cent of rerscnal pron ner cent ot monev? and reo trnd for taxation c i. oer ccnt of national harcc c-turned for taxation an-t onlv ot tne interest on Severn men t T'r if iic-r cer bonds. That I or I 1 raid l.i per ONE WEEK. Postum Coiiee Remade the Dominie in a Week. TVher e -a r 'as i bo o s e x i P -i lot USU- ii.-kr.ess e.-p the 5 stand- i is an e bar. h d been ct 1 H r coffee c-i--ti n!H recentiv rear l led it

-ar-.a n to use t i l e. e-stton time I I was i ni Iran tnan usual. tninK'ni; system tnrow off the d h- Dunne tnat vear I suffered -;e agonies t-f ner-rous ind: Fina::y I noticed tnat everv l .j e for Ginner or sucner e. I told niv wife I .nee ana toai I would hot water. Thtn I rv tne Pustuni we had 1 efr nf c,-.rF( --n t v ihtest s1. 1:.: i -e then and I fiesn but am T C nrove and at tr.(J erd of o r did not. have even tne s t"m of nervousness and It is manv- -i-eeai3 now sir e.s vc tr.it omv :;r. in cnriTeiv free from mo:te.:nn and strong and happv. v.jv --ir nad oeen i nervous and her s'omaen no:i. ar-d. t i .--n see ?aw n i i mv pve- c f.n rt ntn ex t rc.ii ioive-1. ister in cnars1. Tenn. N a me i a--.r usii? -p. I c- n I a i a Met! a cn lire la at

lea i.y Fcsturn Co.. ere f cut of its net earnings for tax Santa Fe 1: per cent, wmle man Ufa. turrs raid only 2 per cent. Th:4r oolv 1: ntf cent of stock of com nanies. other than railroads, is returned. That only IS per cent of the true value of ail property m trie state is rtturne lor taxation. That iei). 000,000 in property is not tax- erl through constitutional exemption. That taxes paid by Kansas railroads i are 25 per cent higher than the avera?s I in the United States, leaving cut New i York. Massachusetts and Iiiinois. i That the railroad investor pavs SO per i cent mo-re taxes than the farmer and re- i ceives per cent less interest than the farmers. i That railroads pay 93 per cent higher tax than farmine interests, and six and a hair, times higher tax than manurac- Tursr Eaiie Wafgeaer's bill -with the ir.no- cent title "to legalize certain acts of the -r'Tfe-l'ifr?118 up V01' iroUi;ie Iz lias aneaay passed the house, but. a deLeauon of Ar..-hisKn peo ple are here today to pretest against it in che senate and berore Governor Bali- ev. It is the outcome of a tigrht over local imnroven.ents in Atchison, pnrtic- ularly the building of a sow er in SoutH Atchison, a. bridge on Main street and certain raving-. It is a tight between those mo want improvements and those who do not. i.ie uelejation here todav- has a formal address which re- la ten that Mr. Wagoner's bill is in- tended to cure ail defects in acts of the city council relating to special improve- merus. and says tnat the protest against the iSouth Atf.-hison sewer was signed by 20; bona tide property owners. as against w ho did not sign the protest; that tne protect was regular in form, and ri:ed in the proper time, but was cver ruled by the mayor and council: that the ''on;ract for Use build ing1 of the spw- er let, and work. M now procei- j Isf. although no special tax was levied I thrror. but that money tor the work 1 is 'dm ns' advanced by ih- banlt of which P. Wag-gener is pryidetit. Similar alienations are ma.de ?s to the Fifth street bridge, and the Main street pa v ir.ar. It is alleged that Wa sgprr' bank. ha. a written assignment, under dat-3 of August i:,(?2. for aii monies to be earned i:y the nstrurrion of the South Atchison s -w e r and the Fifth stit bridg- and the M..iin street pav- ins-. Protest is also made against the proposed re paving of Comnierciai street. Now that rompleted t. the state ho use is about four niches on the m 1 1 i n.inr rea-1 t the stae aoue rotunda are for the statues of1 whoever it is decided to ;ut mt'ivemert o-i foo Governor Cha r!e: them. It would s entirely rrtin-. a thetn. There is a i ra-'e a bust ot es .'obincn in or3 of i that this would be was n-"t only one ot ihe mc-st prominent or the ouilders of the state, but be was aiso its first governor under the state constitution. GROVERJODGES. Asked to Declare His Inten tions on the Presidency. Mr. Cleveland Says His Position

Is of No In portance. Urn airect nr.ati. re j. la response to a o u hetner he as a inMUivy as ti --anaiiiat tion for ;it tne nomma -tw fallowing .met. Xhresiieiit as rece (j-ruver m Feb. 6. ISO!? Times-scar. Ci "To the t. 1: 1 n ii j u. "Dear si ter ot the of the Tut ft st 1 next jlen. -1 hi I jr 1 t on henaif as t n l in re 10ns as reiated to the lrnj-. I can not mind t- the belief sentiment exists th pression ireni tne or -A 1 "1 ours vrv rrui-.-. is? mv ma si r.y -o tne 1 l I NQ Uaixnoortant to Cuoa, Dut ofvarae to tie United States. The iimnisti-ation holdj- ui.n goi.d reason that when it set (uba tin in bu-mess as a remtbhc in her own riirnt. with certain limitations ot her power to f nr-r into trarir-s witn foreign -o-rn-mer.ts. the fslc ct Pines was not m con- -ra n tU t I -I -l i cf -oich- lrl- r sou i ot uoa. is stm in our hanas as ceued territoi-v. it cuoa wants it sne must ncs-otiate for it in lue lorm as ii. is ouite handy to tnis country tor a coal icjr station, and there are some five hundred Americans in business there who Eif' not anxious to be transr-rred to the Cuban juns.iH-cion. it is not or-i-k- that tiet uuan tax satherers that have Rone awn tner-1 to pt. it up a reve nue wtsl collect much until T ncie s-am snips the signal tor tne release of tne isianu. The island is of r.o rarticular benefit to -una from a naval stanonoir-t. as it isn't lik-lv that tne reuublic. her auroromv hir-r i?ua rant -.---u bv T rn ie Sam veil ever j-.ave anv use for a navy, even it she veils nnan- iailv able to tiuii-d one. To tnis country it may Ce of im portance. The people there are rev.- m number, as it has not in tne past, on account or the lucre ct good governmeni. ben a dsirato1 piace for residence, anil ir is not. at an probable tnat it iert to seit. i to. be than tneir natu. governed the-v win pr-rer Havana rath-r The-.- have no if nationairv to rrotr.tt tr.ern to tli Tl --"in aa v ue .--nia r Anieri'.-ans II 1 i .uoa and tne have no siu rate Journal. ur r a ttraot i( on. ro n. X- 1IU IDI KL rittMDf NT. Lincoln Knew Wnen to Lead and Waea to Fonow. s'rcnir and s-il From Tr Pr ier-eS Fill" I r I 1 h.odv shouia Then evervboovd as eve e nb (ij f r everyoouy Detrc v F fcJ P s1? I incoln '4 the M'-;n rij-es r le n t in tna v. 1..4 p.;ii-n p-ntinienr. renrecme 1 l-ar-1 rcCoved it. "i iaim not to nv. t 1 e- II f-ai r-iniriv inar events nav controot- me Durin his term ot office he was ,1... .,.11... 1 I-i-. r--(.- i.C,.- n-n.i the next "a tvrant"; tint when his -ho:? work was done, a care-ul survey ot it i .ii..! terns o-e oniv to tne coni-iusion i tn t kr i lib a w hen j ro u:i.i He y-as in c: m -.let--1 touo.n wita nil etv v. hen i-.e -ou,d c-ihie a sten m i.-(va-ice. is e -rude an ericrt to sen on s-c.od terms vvitn empress, and tie uit- e ed V th C rr td"t v i ii- r n f t m a c s ski e e !d r- -'i n 1 i t'n.ne who oid not asrree svitn. nun. and vi-hije re scroll aiwavs w-.-rn a regard ro crnr.r.rrii n he was nevertheless a -conn-rent executive. er i f- e b lARGUMEIIT DEGU nediSix Day Talk Inaugurated by Strike Commission. Daniel J. McCarthy, of Hazel-; ton, Makes First Address. BAER WAS PRESENT. j j Probably Will Address the Com- mission Later in Week. i j I Mitchell's Work and Character Were Highly Extolled. j i I Pndaaelphia. Feb. 9 Argument, for and against the demands of the union mine worits. which "will continue before the coal strike commission for the next six da was begun todav when the T mrs. through Dame! J. McCarthy of Hazelton. made the opening- argument, Mr. McCarthy was followed by former i Congressman Brumm, of MinersviHe, who made a general argument and Henry Dernarest Lioyd of Chicag-o. who confined his effort as to the question of reottgnition of the union and yearly trade agreements. The operators will begin their argument tomorrow, con- tinuing three days and closing with George F. Baer. president of the Read ing. Then Clarence S. Darrow of Chi cago. th3 principal rounsel for the miners, will take ail of Friday and Sat urday until adjournment in summing up 1 and in answering President Baer. Presi dent Mitchell is expected here during the week. Whether he will address the commission depends upon developments. Among those present when the ses- sion opened was President Baer of the Reading who was present for the second i i time since the investigation began. Mr. 1 McCarthy immediately began his argu merit. Hp said in part: j "America has bn a history-making nation sincp the Declaration of Inue- j pendence. The ag in which we live is the most progressive the world ha? ever kown. Rapid development has been made in evry branch of science and industry. Not oniy alon scintic i a n1 industrial lines has progress been made, but also along sociological lines. Th-3 condition of mankind is steadily; improving because of this phenomenal development, yet this development cause the condition which now confronts us- j j that of the equality of man-. In ail ages j there hav been tirm.-s when it became 1 necessary to redress certain grievances and uror.ss, and it always seems aj though Providence provided the proper, l instrument at the proper time to ac j !.omnlish the desired result. We find a I Moses to deliver the people of Israel. j Napoleon, a Washington, a Lincoln, a I Grant, a McKinley, and a Roosevelt. i These have all labored in the cause it humanity and libertv. Just as the 1 clu;'i3 hcavl!y over" mj u:i'irii,,-s ("if ihi'i ,'(-.:ir,trv 1 new sitsr 11 n- peare i to ditinel the t-iou-id in the j I miner's life. This star has not risen in the east, but in the west Joan llit.-hcll. "Th first practical miners' oreaniza ttcn was effected at St. Clair. Pa., in 1 .HS. and was known as the Miners' Beneficial association. It entered into an agremnt -with the coal companies and established the three dollar has!? This continued for some years and was broken by Franklin B. Go-Aen. From this time until ISSii, was were at a very low ebb until the advent of the Kniuhts. of Labor, when they began tn until the liiT strike, w hich marked tiie end of this organization. This was foiloued by the United iline Workers ovf .Vmc-rica, vvno in L'jwO suc- cee.id m Oi-jranizing: the entire region. "The miner in his work requires an enormous amount of energy. The coal must ail be bandied at ieast twice, the slate and impurities picked out and aii work done in a foul and vitiated at mosphere. The miner's work is exceed ingly dangerous. The miner who would avoid aii the dangers which, lurk in the depths of the mine could never work a uav. H is constant!!- subject to aeei- ,3ent and death from sases, explosions. premature blasts, faliine toai. props, breaking, car running awav. etc-. i --The ccmoanies made a strenuous ef- ort how that the miners were re- I stri- ting- the output of coal since the srriKe. out rrom tne preponderance or e-ieience it is shown vvithout (Contradic tion that the miners could not secure anythintr like a sufficient number of cars r.o make anything like a fair day's -.v ag--s." The subjects of the weighing- of coal, recojrniti'jii of the union and the status of nonunion men ere all exhaustiveiy handled bv Mr. McCarthy. in conclusion ne said: i "On account of the great increase in the lost of living at least a 20 per cent increase in wages is imperative. With j ai! the arguments in favor of the re:osr- I rition ot' the union there is none strong- er than the hih character of the min- era" kad-v. John Mitchell has been i through the fire and tested. His hon- i esty and sincerity of purpose has never 1 been questioned. He stands out boldly j in his sterling- integrity and like the diamond in the roueh the more you rub j it th-? brighter it shines.'' i A WOMAN'S PRIVATE CAR. Luxury That None Other of the Gen tle Sex Possesses. T'.ie first woman in the world to own a private touring railroad car wiil be Mrs. Ian?': ll. Fmerson, of Baltimore. Captain and Mrs. Fmerson have g-one to New York to enter into a discussion of the phtns t'o- the :iw car with a rep resentative cf the Pullman company and place an order which wilt tax the ineenuity of th builders. Mrs. Fmerson, unlike her husband, abhors yachtine. And yet she iikes to travel. As a Christmas .erift Capt. Em erson proposed the tourina: car. Since Christmas Mrs. Fmerson, with an cxtert railway officer. has been studyimr ear construction and now has a pretty dear idea of what she wishes feir the comfort of herself and g-uests. i du-ir.s: the lon tours projected. The car will be one of the iarsest vr turned out bv the Pullman company. i jiiahoeanj' win oe the oasis ot the int rior w-oodwork. but the rii-hest silk dra peries and the softest and thickest -if carpets will almost conceal it. Hath rooms, with ev-y appliance, wiii be built. There wiii be at least four state rooms, a rarior "library, a dining room i and a kitchen. j The car will be furnished a a perrrr. i r.er.t migratory house. ith its own sl! i ver. cut ft'.ass. Iln.cn and upholstery. It wiii be in commission at aii times so I that it can b started at any hour or I the day or Rr?ti: that Mrs. Emersc-n i elects. Mrs. Emerson Fail that she contm i plated a number of "traveling house parties' as soon a3 the luxurious eiii i cie was completed, and that she and her friends "woul-a see ever3' foc,-t of this. Ciinrry as well a Canada and Mexico." The car ivii! be named the Emny. which 1? 3fr. Fixi-rson's jfiven name. i Philadelphia Xoith American. City Ticket Office. Union F.aiiread, iZi Kansas aver.ue. Pacific Now in Progress in I w r x J

J i" 3.-.." .w -V If-'-" J S 4, S 3 -1 Cr-r Clithti fnr Mew i i Photographic $uPPc$ Our Stocfe of Photoiraphic Spplifs is Vcrj? Complete. t 1 We have just received a nice line of Card Mounts for Professional and Amateur. t CAMERAS, KODAKS, PLATES, FILMS, t t TRIPODS, TRAYS, ETC. J X Our stock of Printing Paper is always fresh. X I SWIFT HOLUDAY DRUG GO. X (THE PSONEER KODAK HOUSE OF TOPEKA.) J 523 Kansas Avenue. X NEW MEN BROUGHT OUT; Democrats of Delaware Shift Vote on Senator. Dover. Del.. Feb. 0. The seventeenth baliot tor United States senator today resulted: Lon? term Addicks 21, Handy 2t. Baii j,. Hissjins 2. Short term Addicks 13. Tunnetl ;n, T, C. Dupont t. Ii. A. Dupont 8. H. A. Richardson The Dertnj.:rats he' 1 a caucus shortly before noon. It was finally decided to vote f'r U. Irving Handy for the long term and K. W. Is. Tunned for th- short terra. This agreement is effective to day. The decision of the Democrats was nov presented to the r-milar Republicans before tiie iiallot was taken. it i charged by the Democrats that the ri-;-uiars did not want the action of the former to go into effect today. NOHTII TOPEKA. ri.es ve items for this- cci'imr. with Kim- tall Printing Co.. S13 North Kansas Ave.) j Ralph Campbell was off on a hunting; trip today. Mr. Dave McRoberts. of P.ossville, was in town to-iay. Frank Renchin. of Williamsto wn, via.- a North side visitor yesterday. j Mr. and Mrs. Frank Simms vcere the; guests Sunday of Atchison relatives, j Mr. James Stewart has returned from 1 a business trip to Grand Island. Neb. Miss Eveline Ho! man is in Newton, i the suest of Mr. and Mrs. E. C. (ioodah. H. W. Cheney has returned from a week's absence at Maryviiie and Kan sas City. Mo. Mr. Edarar Ftter. formerly of Omaha, j has gone to Lincoln. Neb., where he has i accepted a position. i Mr. R. F. Washburn left yesterday for Maple Hill wher she will visit her sister. Mrs. R. F. Conner. The X. f P. Ic-isre will give an enter tainment iiii.l banouet this evening for; rhe members anil their families. j Miss Margert Hantey and Miss Mary J Hohnbaum were the euests yesterday of Captain and Mrs. Morris of Hoyt. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Hnry were the' suests Sunday of Mrs. Henry's father. Mr. Wni. Havekott, of Berryton, who is ill. j J. VT. Embree arrived tclay from Chi- j 'ago for a short visit, to his parents, I Mr. and Mrs. William Embree of Con- 1 tral avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Luk Ballard left this afternoon for Chi- agd in re-sponse to a releeram announcing the death of Mr. Baiiard's mother. j At the Chun h of th ("lood Shepherd i yesterday morning the offertory solo, 1 I "The Plains of Peace" was sung by Mr..; P.undle Comrdon. j Mr. and Mrs. Dan O'F.ourke. who! have been viintirvy Mr. and Mrs. Mark j 'Putnam at the Union Pacilic hotel, re- i turned home today. I Mrs. Ed Hitman and children re- j i turned Friday from Cincinnati, where I they have ceen the gu-sts for the past 1 tive months of Mrs. Holmaa's raotii.r.! 1 Mrs. Bons.-r. 1 i Miss Grace MoKemey, who was the i truest Sunday of Mrs. James Sheldon, j j has returned to Meriden. whre she i j tach.e? in the primary department ot I i the schools. Mrs. Elsie O-sborn. ago! 64. died yes-i terday rn(:rninir at 7 o clock, of cancer.; i-it th" ho-me ct her sister, Mrs. Wilder.! Grant street. The funeral wiil be i held teurorvow at'lernwn at o'cto k i 1 from the hotise. and the burial will be; i in Rocheste'r. 1 i; The meiinzs at the tabernacles yester-1 1 day were well attended. Uttat evenins? lover 3.000 persons were present. This; week the e var.reList will attack the pop- ular amusements and wiil give several sermons on this subject. At the close 1 i of the meeting last evening about 2T persons went forward. Yesterday afternoon the Home bakery i was r.terd and robbed. From one tiu $2.50 in pennies was tak-n and from the I other. CO cents in change and a s-oid j watch. Whoever did th deed was fa- i miliar with the ways and knew that j Mr. Mayer is in The habit of leaving the key in a certain piace for the baker who came in the afternoon to set his -1 Topeka Come to It $18, 020 and 522.50 Best made Best fitting Suits ad Overcoa tb r3 f Now For f H si A sale of stylish, clean, up-to-date clothes, that are made right, tic right, and way under-priced. SI0.SI2.SI2.50 COnn SUITS and $i oa OVERCOATS l! Troasen, tomorrow. 4-ee Itew Crawford Theater. 8:15 TONIGHT 8:15 A Thrilling Drama of the Present Day. "The King of Detectives." Powcrf'd, Human rind Romantic. Saturday Mat. and Xight, Feb. 14 Miss Rae Branson and Company In "CALIFORNIA" Produced -with all Snrcial Soer."ry. Nifcrht prien: 15. U5. Zor 3; T3c. iuti- Sunday Night. Feb. x$th Ff-rcy Wiiiiams' Big Scenic Froductioa "TRACY THE OUTLAW" M--rt Thrillins Man Hum on P.ecord. Prices: -5, :H. 3. Tao. Seats Friday. Grand Opera IIots.se. Tuesday Xight, Feb. 10. Jacob I-itt's Stupendous Production. "THE SUBURBAN" 2'i People, 10 Ilorres. Most Imposing. Prices: to $1.3i. Seats Seiiias- One Week Starting Monday, Feb. 16. Lillian Mortimer and Her Company. THE PRINCESS OF PATCHES O r) b i n s, N i e h t Frices 1". 2c, h Wnmfn Free. Sata i:"ria:iy. auditoiuu: Wed. Eve.. Februarj 18. Daniel Frobman announces a Piano Recital by Ossip Gabrilowitsch The Famous Russian. A Second PaderewsRi. Prices $1.00, 75c and 50c. Seals Saturday at Rowley Snow's 'toirre. When be arrived yesterday he found the door unlocked and upon in vestigation the robbery was discovered. GKAND OPENING UALL. Topeka Lodge No. 11, A. O. TJ. "vV Will Open New Lodgs Boom. Next Friday evening- Topeka lodffe. No. 11. A. O. U. W., will give a grand ball on the opening of their new lodge room in the Bates buiiding. southwest corner Kansas and Sixth avenues. The exercises will consist of music by Steinberg's orchestra and dances, twen ty in number, popular and up to date. Tickets wiil be 50 cents each and oi sale at the door and by members cf thi lodge. Revival Service Closed. The rev!ai services which have been in pr- sress for several weeks in th First Presbyterian church closed last evenin. Since the first of January 79 persons have been publicly received in to church fellowship, while a number i niid have been brought out in the met- inars w ill join other churches in the city. Yesterday the first church rai?e-l over five hundred" dollars, for foreign i missions. Their rni sionary pastor is Rev. Claries P.. pittman in Tabriz, 1 pvria. They also supr-ort Mrs. Wil- liain M. P.aird in tCoiv. The pastor dcslr&s t-- see ail v. ho lav recwritiy i joined the church or in any way x 1 pressed a desire to lead a Chvistian life, j this evening. They will nitet in th I church parlor at 7:5'). "t'r-mrrr:- f 'Vm-" O' -uJ '1' i,. 'v

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0 TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 9, 1903. 0 i That Is Senator 15 a r ton's Atti tude Toward Loasr. Only Thing Left for Senior Sen ator to Do. :'i:V,' DELIVERY SYSTEM Congressman Scott Secures One for Allen. Washington Gossip Which Will Interest Kansans. TVashinprton, Feb. 9. There is surae curiosity to know what will be the re lations of ttie new .senators from Kan as lv fore the senatorial election they V-rre of e-otirse as far apart as it "was possible to be, the one working against the other. Senator Burton hoped that Long would not win, and there can be no doubt that he was bitterly disap pointed in the result. It is easy to un derstand his anxiety. Long's eleetlon meant all sorts of political trouble for him. and jeopardized his chano s of re election. At the same time he could rot gracefully take any part in the fight, and he did not openly do so. Perhaps it was pood politos not to do so, because such action on his part cer tainly would have memt his political death in the light of subsequent events, liut now that the fight is over, there is considerable- interest here in his rela tions with the new senator. How will lie get along with Long, and what atti tude will Long take toward him? Un less he can form some sort of an al liance with him. it is generally con ceded that he will be in a bad way four years hence when he comes up for re election. Now that the senatorial election is ever, there is but one thing for Senator Burton to do, and the indications are that he is doing that thing, which is to warm up to Senator Long, and estab lish cordial relations with him at the earliest possible moment. As has been eald. Senator Burton has started the bail rolling already. He asked Long to call at Ids office as soon as he reached Washington, and has in many ways in--cheated, his desire to be friendly and forget old sores. He says himself that he wants to work in harmony, and ad mits that discord hag placed him at a disadvantage in his senatorial work tints far. one thing is c-rtain: if Sen- a tor Long and Senator Burton can get together and work together, it will te a good thing for the state, apart from any political good it may do the senioti senator from Kansas. But what will Long do? is the ques tion that is being asked here, and that is a question that it is hard to answer ;.t this tnme. Long does not do a great deal of talking undr any cir custances. and certainly he does not give ins political plans to the newspa pers. Tills much may be said, how ever: Lng is a good listener. He is diplomatic. He will not rub the hail, the wrong way unless he has to, and lie Is able to say things that sound pp-asant without committing himself. The probabilities are that he will listen to Burton, and be agreeable, and work in harmony with him so far as he can, but he won't commit himself to sup port his colleague when he wants to be sent to the senate for a second term. The probabilities are that he will do these tliinris. hut nobody knows what he win do He has got nothing to sav him self. The result very likely will be that the two senator will get along tairly well together, at least until the next senatorial contest is on in earnest. Senator Harris has secured the pass age throueh the senate of the bill which provides for the ointiemniii; of certain bronze cannon with which to erect at Fort Leavenworth a statue to Genera! Henry Leavenworth. Representative Scott is looking after the measure in the bouse, and expects to get the biil through before adjournment. As was predicted In these dispatches, the house committee on pensions, fol lowing the action of the senate commit tee, has adjourned for the session, and no more pension bills win be i (ported during this congress. This means that any Kansas bills which are not already on the house calendar will not get there before adjournment, and practically puts a stop to private pension legislation fo far as this congress is concerned. About $12,000 ivas left over in the eree- tion of a federal building at Kansas City. Kan. Representative Bowersoek j will try to have the committee report in j favor of using the money to buy lots j adjaet tit to the postoffice site. It is ar- gip-d that in time the building will have to be enlarged, and that the lots can be j purchased cheaper today than they can j at any future time. i arve Ka n Fleming, as City J. managing editor urnai, is here. of tie B. .T. Sheridan and Washington visitors. wife, of Paoia, are He is the guest of his oid fri formerly wa publican and L-slie J. Perry, who tor of the Miami I-;e-trnaster at I'aoia. W. R. Jenkins, Miami county, i son-in-law. W. ployed in the p a prominent farmer of here, the guest of his S. Keiser. who Is em isl cilice department. Washington Rest: We notice some of the Kansas newspapers are disposed to Indulge in severe comment because th -politicians of mat state have treated the Republican editors badly in the distri bution of Die offices. But why do edi tors continue to conduct their business cntei prises for the benefit of politicians who are seeking honors for themselves? No otle r successful busiu ss man per mits himself t,, S(, intnosf,,! ,m tw th" ifl icc-seekets. Perhaps a little 1 pumping such as the Kansas have been receiving will cause cut loose from the politicians, are sine that as soon j.s thev they will produce much better prat tn edite then p and we do this newspapi 'I s. "Whose flowers are those?" inouired Representative I-Mdy in philosophical topes as be entered the hall of the In, in. and beheld several bouquets an l a big pet of double u:cieas blossoming from the d- sk of Representative and Seuator eiect l.un.e of Kansas. "Well, this world is badly ordered anyway." observed Mr. Kdtlv. when the information was given him. "Bong has tne votes, and he ought to bo satis tied. A few flowers to che"t- up Charlie Curtis would be far more just and equitable. R would be more lust for me to Pure a bunch of those blossom-, f..r I was left at home, just as Curtis has iust bet n left in the senatorial race. Hi wei Jones, of Topeka, is here. Senator-elect Long Is arranging for roiniruTtee rooms in the senate annex i expects to remain in Wushin&lon fff i a a i m for ahout a month after the adjourn ment of congress, in order to attend to some business matters which wil! re quire his attention. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow has returned from Kansas, and was at his oflice again for the first time Fridai-. Representative Scott has received as surances from the committee on public buildings and grounds to the effect that if an omnibus public building: bill is nassed at this session of congress an appropriation for a postoffice building at Icia will be included. If the bill Is passed, it is probable that the public building at lola will be the only one authorized in Kansas. Mr. Scott's bill calls for an expenditure of $30,000. ft has not been definitely determined whether an omnibus bill will be passed. Col. A, R. Greene, a special agent of the land office and a former well known Kansan, is in 'Washington for a few days. Senator Burton expects to spend a week at St. Louis on his return to Kan sas after the adjournment of congress. He says he wants to inspect the build ings in course of construction at the Grid's fair. He expects to go to his home in Abilene after visiting the site, of the world's fair at St. Louis. The postoffice department has advised Representative Scott that it will install in Allen county a county system of rural free delivery. This will Vie the second county system to be established in Kan- sas, and is one of the few in the T'nited States. Representative Long had a county system established in Sumner county last year, and Representative Curtis has received assurances that Shawnee county will be thus favored. There are less than twenty-five of these systems in operation throughout the en tire country. It is probable that the Allen county system will be installed during next month. The establishment of a county system of rural free delivery means that every farmer within the county will have his mail delivered to him once daily. From forty to fifty carriers will be employed to do the work. These carriers are selected by means of a competitive examination, and are under the classified or civil ser vice. The salary paid is $50 per month. It is really the evolution of the free de livery system, it being the plan of the postoffice department to make the sys tem universal by the establishment of county systems throughout the United States. Mr. Scott has been trying to in duce the postoffice department to install a county system in Allen county ever since he came to congress, and feels very much gratified over the outcome of his efforts. Representative Long called upon the president and presented M. A. Low, who is a Washington visitor. LANGUAGE OF Till HOUSE. Horse Laugh Is a Fact Horse Play. and So Is I New York, Feb. 9. It was developed ,n the supreme court that the horse- laugh is an actual fact. So is horseplay. Also horseory, and. in fact, the hurse pursues a definite lan guage really translatable. Dr. Franklin Roberg;, veterinary surgeon and horse shoer, who is suing the estate of Robei t Bonner for JlOO.Ono, t'ave the informa tion in his testimony. "The difference between a veterinary and an ordinary horseshoer," explained he, "is that the veterinary understands the language of a horse as a true sci entist, while the horseshoer, a mere; j workman, does not. I "In treating a horse, one must study his language. You must know what he j tells you. The knowledge of his lan guage is most important. For instance, when a horse you are treating holds out his foot to you, he tells you plainly in that leg or foot lies the trouble." "What is that?" exclaimed former Judge Cohen, counsel for the Bonner es tate. "Do you say that a horse talks and lauths?" "Yes." said Dr. Roberg. with smiling insistence. "Of course he talks in his way. The thing for a scientist-veterinary to master first is this language. It talks as much with its legs as it does with its mouth. When it hurts, the ani mal will explain what is the matter by holding it up for your inspection in a certain manner. It talks very plain when you really know." Cross-examination failed to shake his theori'. Ir. Roberg said he started his work in Mr. Bonner's stable by operating on the horses th"re. "Many of them had wolf teeth." said th doctor, "which interfered with driv ing them." "Did you examine the great Dexter?" "Yes, he was weak behind, and I su pervised the making of shoes for his hind eet. The doctor told of how he treated Dexter. Maud S.. Rarus, Sunol and other horses that made the Bonner stables famous. Dr. Roberg is suing the estate of Rob ert Bonner for $100,000. Roberg assert.: that he looked after Mr. Bonner's racers for many years without receiving re muneration, but it was understood h.. was to get $100,000 at Mr. Bonner's death. In the will left by Mr. Bonne there was no mention of Dr. Robert, hence the suit. KOOSEVELT GUOWS FAT. Recent Rapid Gain in Flesh Alarms the President. i Washington, Feb. 9. President! Roosevelt is gaining in weight at a rate that alarms him. He is near the -0U pound mark and is worried by the fear that he will reach it in spite of all he can do. The president holds that a j man of his height cannot tip the beam j at L'PO pounds without being classed officially as "fat." j When he went bear hunting in Mis I sissippi he weighed ISO. That was more than he had ever weighed before. It was ten pounds more than he weighed i when he was governor of New York. He said he was right at the danger line. Ho hoped his tramp through the I swamps and the worry resulting from j his failure to hag a bear would take S off a few pounds, but It did not. Pres ldent Roosevelt is suffering from a se vere cold, but in spite of his phv sieians is devoting himself to the work ot his ortice day and night. GOES TO A SAN IT A K 1 1; 31. Former Crown Princess of Saxony in Need of Treatment. Geneva. Feb. 9. Counsel for the for mer crown ririr.cess of Saxony announces that, owing to the great physical and mental depression caused by the re fusal to allow her to visit Salzbufg or to see her sick child, the princess en tered the sanitarium of Lametirie at Nyon, in order to seek the quietude and medical attention necessary in her deli cate condition. Nyon is situated on the shore of Lake Geneva in the canton ment of Yaudo. The sanitarium is well known for the treatment of mental and nervous disorders. Bank Statement Called For. Washington. Feb. 9 The comptroller of the currency this morning issued a cnll for the condition of national banks at the close of business February 6. Vanderbilt Crosses Atlantic. New York. Feb. 9. William K. Van derbilt has sailed for I-jverpuoi Women Give the "len Pointers as Lobbyists. Their Fate Stiil in Hands of the House." STUDY OF LOCALITIES. The Men Who Represent the Four Corners. Joneses and IJrowns and How They Are Divided. Ere long Czar Cy Leland and his followers will rise up and make a grand stand dasii to the rescue of the fair sex. The alleged shackles which have surrounded Nthe wrists, fair, fat or skinny, of our women folks since the time of Adam, will be hewn off. They shall be free, as was Eve, who talked, ate and dressed as she saw fit. She was not brow-beaten, for she was half the population, and only lacked one of being the majority. When Adam tried to make her quit singing coon songs, offering as an excuse that he was tired of them, it is recorded that she said, "I don't care if you are." Since her time, sad to relate, women have not been allowed to vote for presidential electors. It was not permissible in the days of Ceasar, and Prof. Richey. in his extensive research on the Ouivira situation, says he is morally certain that the ladies of Kansas could not vote for chief executive during the Coronado epidemic. It is to alleviate this sad state of affairs which has ex isted for so long that Mr. Leland will go forth to do battle. HE IS A LADIES' MAN. Owing to the fate of F. Dumont Smith's effort in the senate, the house campaign will -be conducted along oth er lines. The ladies will lobby labor iously, and make it a point to see pv ery member and get his pledge aboii. eight times per diem. They will ex plain to all that they have a line on HOW DFMONT SMITH ENTERED THE SUFFRAGE FIGHT. the pie foundry, and (heir patronage, is worth cash, but will be given out promiscuously for a few votes. They will make gazooba eyes at Leland and jun bouquets on the house at large. Talk about your men lobbyists, they are not a marking to the new woman: A small portable map of Kansas, and a list of legislators make an interesting study. By comparing the two you will find "that a large territory has been thor oughly dragged to furnish the crowd. There-in the hall of representatives, you may see at one and the same time, the representatives of the four corners of the state. Leland of Doniphan. Martin of Morton, Sohermerhorn of Cherokee and Lockwood of Cheyenne. Here are a bunch of Browns. Brown of Brown HOW SENATOR SMITH RETURNED FROM THE FRAY. and Brown of Labette are from oppo site sides of the state. E'teven cetunties separate Martin of Morton and Martin of Woodson when they are in their na tive wilds. The Joneses, are bunched bet ter, as their district numbers are right together. Jones of Trego is from 101. Jones of Norton is a native of district lofi. From 109 comes Jones of Gove. The Johnsons are also huddled. Johnson of Decatur and Johnson of Sheridan are numbered respecti vely 107 and 108. An excellent peker hand e-ould be chosen from the house. All kineis of threes are to be had, and could be filled with a peir of Kir.gs. A study of the map and the roll book makes a pleasant rainy day pastime. You may have lots cf fun guessing how much the 1.470.495 people of Kansas had to do vith the choosing of the 125 mem bers who represent them. i l if 1 'l ff.fi I) 'iff' Jf It, i 1 ,1, 'I','1 ,,Y-'.'

31ILES 11 AD DIG TIME. Meets Old Adversaries Among In- dians at Wild West Show. London, Feb. 0. General Miles has his hands more than full with his en gagements here. The desire to do him honor was so great that he was unabh to accept a twentieth part of the invi tations. He found time, however, to visit the "Buffalo Bill" show at the Olympia with the United States charge d'affaires, Henry White, Captain and Mrs. Clover. Colonel and Mrs. Mans, where most of the pai ty went in tht: Deadwood coach. The general met at the wild west show Indians he fought against in som-c-f his memorable campaigns, and they showed delight at being permitted to shake his hand. General Miles began the week by be coming Kins Edward's guest at Wind sor castle on Sunday, as has been al. ready cabled. Then Henry White's dinner to him at the Carlton hotel brought together a company of ery distinguished peopla. On Thursday, the general's party dined with the tMvcrs in Park lane, after ward going to Daly's theater to sec "The Country Girl." It may be noted here that there is a ooil deal of regret in a wide circle et friends here that Captain Richardson Clover, the naval attache to the United Slates embassy In London, and his wife are to leave London in April. Captain Ciover's 3-year term shore service la up and he will now take a term at sea, Mrs. Clover and the children will return to Washington, but before leaving Europe they will go to the south ot France for several weeks, as Mrs. CIove reeuires rest after an anxious tim(. nursing her eldest daughter through an attack of pneumonia. General Miles visited the Vickers Ma.xim works Thursday to witness some important experiments with an entirely new Maxim gun, embodying many nov elties, including a device arranged so as to be worked as a wheeled galloping carriage or for pack transport. After a few hundred rounds had been fired at the rate of 6t0 rounds a minute the gun in a heated condition was en tirely stripped, the barrel and other parts of the mechanism being removed in a few seconds. It was then reas sembled as quickly as it had been taken apart and the tiring was resumed in or der to show with what eace the me chanism eouid lie either removed or re assembled without using any tool. Tne general then witnessed a series of exxierimenfs with a mountain gun. the equipment of which was dismounted front mules, broucht into action and fired five rounds in one minute and 45 seconds, the time being taken wh-on beginning to do the unpacking from the mule began. The sht lis were set and burst accurately at loo yards from the target. Among the guests specially in vited to meet General Miles were sev eral officers from the war office and others who reeenlly commanded British expeditions in east and west African campaigns. General Miles traveled from Euston station by the special :.Io.:t express to Liverpool Saturday and there boarded the steamship Lncama tor -New ork. ACT LIKE LliliTICS. Girls in Basket Ball Game Show Pugilistic Spirit. Derby, Conn.. Feb. 9. In the second half of a basketball tame between a girl's team from the Waterbury high school and the Board man Training high school, of New Haven, played in the Anderson gymnasium in New Haven, it is alleged that the roughest tactics ever witnessed in this state in such a con test were indulged in. The girls struck each other in the face, pulled hair, tripped and threw one another to the floor ami lost ail control of themsrives. Coaches and spectators tried to stop the fight, but failed. The girls were oblivious to all eise and they reached at each other with true ferocity. Time was sounded before the game was over and the players had to be almost drag-red apart. Both teams claimed they were oblig ed to adopt tho tactii s they did in seli defense. The final score was: Waterbury 12; New- Haven 10. Miners' Scale Fixed. j Indianapolis. Ind.. Feb. 9. The miners' I convention this afternoon ratified and accented the offer of 11 per cent increase and the convention adjourned to meet at Indianapolis next year. Edna Lyall Is Dead. London. Feb. 9. Edna Lyall, the novelist, died at East Bourne of pneu monia, following an attack influenza. 3 "v.'.-,-.-,... if ji GEM, NELSON JJ1JLE.$ v CHINESE RESTLESS. Another Boxer Outbreak Is Looked for Soon. San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 9. Previous re ports of a threatene-d outbreak in China against Caucasian residents is confirmeel by several persons who have just arrived here from the Orient. Dr. James Young, surgeem of 'the steamer China: David Aus tin and G. J. Kavanaugh are among those who give accounts of the menacing attitude- or" the boxers. Dr. Young, accompanied by Austin and an American engineer, and uneler the di rection of a Chinese guide, went to Can ton when the steamer China was at Hong Kong. Once within the gates of the walled city the party was beset by a rabble and was met with demand for money. At the outset the Chinese were complacent, but the moment tne tourists refused their re quest for coin- the Mongolians hurled stones at the visitors and -etrove them in terror to the five story pagoda, where they were temporarily free from molestation. HoweveT. when the Americans emerged from the pagoda they were again pursued by the mob which became bolder and more eletiant and tinally hurled missiles of every description at Dr. Young and his party. A great stone struck Dr. Young in tii nee-K anu rennereo. mm unconsciuus. Tin' mob had almost overpowered the Americans when Dr. Young revived, and the three left the walled city with all pos sible sneed. Mr. Kavanaugh declares the center of the impending revolution is in southern e.'hir.a ;.nei not in the north, where the last outbreak occurred. "lii anton ana southern provinces." he sedd, "where there was no activity during the uprising in lf00. is now thoroughly alive with cut-throats. The Chinese are proeairing arms and ammunition in open violation of the treaty with the powers at the time the former uprising was set tled. "The movement is being planned careful lv. Mimv Americans who were in th Phil ippines have gone to China and engaged in drilling anel training the Chinese. It Is my belief that the uprising will take place at a not far distant date." $6,600,000 for Improvements. Honolulu, Feb. 9. Superintendent of Public Works Henry E. Cooper has fur nished Governor Dole with his entimates of the needs of the island government and they will be transmitted to the llg islature for action. Superintendent Cooper says that in the next two years his department will require $6,600,000 for public improvements, including the con struction of bridges, roads and buildings and for running expenses. Cooper pro poses that part of the money be raised by loan and suggests that a bill lor se curing $4,000,000 be introduced. New York Money Market. New York. Feb. 9. Noon MONEY Monev on call steady, at 3 per cent: prime mercantile paper, 434e(5 per cent: sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers bills at $4.S7J-f4.S.s1 for demand and al f t.M'i f 4.84's for ti days; posted rates, S-i.s.5 and $4.8$; comniercial biits, S4.x;u.'"i.t.s4. SILVER Bar silver, 47V:c; Mexican dol lars, ::71c. BONDS Government bonds steady. To elav's quotations: U."S. refunding 2s. registered W U. S. ret'uiulina 2s. coupon l'S":a U. S. 3s, registered 1"7 U. S. 3s. coupon b7 U. S. new 4s. re-gist ered let? C. S. new 4s. coupon Ii5i2 l S. old 4s. registered 110 U. S. old 4s. couiKin ID t". 3. 5s. registered le' U. S. 5s. cempon Ie2;-i Range of Prices on Stock. Fir nisheii by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions.- Cotton and Stocks. Oftiee 110 West Sixth street. Telephone) 46. Correspor.cient Christie Grain and Stock Company, Kansas City, llo. N w York, Feb. 9. Cl'se Sat Op'n 1301;. 145'-. io:

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41 15" 64 41 35 11'- 65'i 40 15a i X. Y. Central i Reading Erie j Southern Rwy. i 1'r.ion Pacific C. ev O K. Ar O lu. k n ii-l'i 41 Sfl'. 102, 52 Vrl 326'- 151 61' 13'- 1"2 --'9 lf'2 127 151' 2 62'-4 n- 1e l--2'-- 1"P, 12ri lSi.'i 134, 74 12' 61 ir.i- 1'T'- 151'. 14 'S'i i 73 Pennsylvania Ka t y I". S. Leather C. F. I Erie, lit pfd if! ARiCETS TODAY. Bearish Influences Felt in the Wheat Pit. Corn Opens Firm and Holds Own Well. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Show Slight Weakness but Prices Stationary. Hogs Take Another Drop of Two Points. Chicago, Feb. 9. WHEAT Bearish sta tistics had a depressing influence on prices in the wheat pit today anil the opening was easy, with May c ieiwer, at 7!,:V'r 79:sc. Loe-al traders were the best sellers, belt offerings were not large. The market assumed a strong aspect a little later on. Paris advances showing closing prices there to be up frelm P-o to 2c. large world's shipments. an increase in the amount on passage anel liberal receipts in the northwest were the early factors. Minneapetlis and Dulnth reported receipts of 745 cars, which, with local receipts eif 51 cars (1 car of cemtract graele). made to tal receipts of it'll cars, against cars last week, and 3K2 cars a year ago. CORN Corn eipened stcaely on firm ca bles. May being unchanged to a shade lower, at 453sc to 45 0 4512c. There was no improvement in the cash situation, anel with an excellent cash demand, a firmer feeling deveioed in spite of the bearish weather preelections, in which May sole! up to 453-4.C Local receipts were 45ti cars, with 2 cars of contract grade. OATS eDats were active and opening prices about steady, with May sic low er, at 373i'a37.e. On a fair scattered de mand, with offerings rather light, the mar ket became firmer. May selling up to oSc. Local receipts were oii7 cars. PROVISIONS Provisions opened steady in spite of a. heavy run ef hogs anel lowe-r prices at the yards but trading was iight anel the only feature was the scarcity of offerings, which held prices firm. May pork was unchanged to lower, at Slfi.STHftVie.RO; May lard unchanged, at $9. with ribs also unchanged, at J.n1,. WHEAT Cash: -No. 2 red. 7'ii.i7.c: No. .1 red, 70fi7ivi-c: No. 2 harel winter. 7L."e75o: No. 3 hard winter. 70'ft73e: No. 1 northern spring. 801.'aN2c: No. 2 northern spring, 7:i liSlc: No. 3 spring. 72iSlc. CORN No. 2. 44U.i45-: No. -cnMSe. OATS No. 2, 34'1i35c: No. 3. 34vt.J4Vc. FLAX Cash. N.-W., $1.21; S.-Y., $1.16; Mav. il.2tf&1.3P.i. RYE May, BISIHC BARLKY Cash: 42SSc. TIMOTHY Feb., S4.05. CLOVER Feb.. $11.70. Kansas Oity Grata. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commission Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office lit) West Sixth street. Telephon 4S6. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Company, Kansas City, Mo-3 Kansas City. Feb. 9. Open High Low Close Sat WHEAT May 68i fif BK'-i ?H Julv 6ej5.3 66 6t):4 tj-"1 'tKi'Vs CORN Mav 3S.H 3S SS'i 3f 3i July 38 38 Kan go of Prices. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions. Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 46. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Company, Kansas City, Mo.) -Chicago. Feb.' Open High Low Close Sat WHEAT May 79i 79i W'i Julv 74:-4 75 74!,2 74-8 75 CORN Mav 45's 451 4Si 45- 4SH July 432 438 43i iilz OATS May ?i 3R4 87H 37 3S Julv 33 34 33 33 33 PORK Mav 16 S7 li 97 1G K5 16 92 16 90 Julv 16 35 16 40 16 35 16 37 16 35 LARD Mav 9 1 9 50 9 40 9 47 9 40 Julv 9 25 9 30 9 25 Si 27 9 25 RIBS Mav 9 17 9 22 9 17 S 30 9 05 July 9 05 9 10 9 05 9 07 9 17 Market Gossip. Furnished by the A. G. Goodwin Commis sion Company, Commission Merchants and receivers and shippers of gram. Room No. 6, Columbian building, lnele pendent telephone 79S.1 Opening (Liverpool cables: Wheat ti'Ii'sd higher: corn td higher than Saturday. erain receipts at Chicago today: Wheat, 51 cars; graded, 2. Corn. 456 ears; graded. 2. Oats, 307 cars: eraded, 21. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne- aapolis, 61 cars: Duluth, S4 cars. A year ago: Minneapolis, dja cars: j-nuenn, -ij cars. Total, 745 cars, against 36y cars a year ago. Can-ir.1 T i -t- ri-v.ll failles Wlier l.-Slift lower: corn Hd higher than Saturday. AO nOOSKIR Weekly visible supply changes for the week: heat ttecre-aseo o.tH.i onsnels; corn increased 1.22O.OO0 bushels; oats in creased VG.iKW bushels. Total visible supply: vvneat, 4.;io,i-' bushels: corn, 9.51t),(iti bushels; oats. 426.IW bushels. Chicaso: Privileges good tomorrow: May wheat Puts. 7W: calls. Vfiiv. curb. 7b' t it 7S3ie bid. May corn Puts, 45:i8c; calls, 46c: curb, 4534c asked. Closing Liverpool cables: Wh'at t'd higher: corn '-d higher for the day. Estimated receipts of grain tomorrow at Chicago: Wheat, 45 cars: corn, U4t cars; oats, 170 cars; hogs. 37.i head. Primary receipts and sliipments: Wheat receipts todav, sM.5eo bushels; shipments. 1!4.3 bushels. Wheat receipts a year ago. 5m2.M'2 bushels: sbipme-nts. 121. -J bushels. Corn receipts today. S7o. bushels: ship ments. 704. bushels. Corn receipts a year ago, 2fc4,7t0 bushels: shipments, 194, 60e bushels. St. Louis Livestock Market. St. Louis. Mo.. Feb. 9. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 4.i head, including 3.e head of Texans. Market steady. Reef steers. ti.Wa5.&: stockers and feeders. 2.4..4.3e; cows and heifers, $2.23-'?4.75; Texas steers. SiJiog4.SU: Texas cows and heifers, $2.2''. 3.35. HOGS Receipts today 6,000 head. Mar ket 10c lower. Pigs and lights, i6.25-ii6.70; pae-ker' $6.7e.'6.s5: butchers', $6.7Va7..j. SHEEP Receipts today. head. Market strong. Natives. $4.2lg5.35; lambs. $4.t'-ti5.50: Texans. $3.5e-'ii 4.00. Kansas City Livestock. Kansas Citv. Mo.. Feb. 9. CATTLE Receipts todav. 6.i"W head, including 1 .200 heael of Texans. Market steady to a shade lower. Native steers. $3.fj 5.40: Texas and Indian steers. $2. o'u 4.1'.; Texas cows. ?2.10fr3.25: native cows and heifers. $1.7;4.4ce sto?kers and feeders. $2.601 4. 3-j bulls. $3. 2Ei 3.50; calves. $2."o-?. 6.11O: western steers, $3.0"e..75."e: western cows, $l.eci3.i. HXKrS Receipts today. &A head. Mar ket weak to 5c lower. Bulk of saies. $0.75'.-65- heavv. $6. 75'.-i6.Jeo: nackers". ?e.65-ei.M.; medium. '.7f&6.:i: liebt. $0.40-56.S5; work ers SOi;.: pigs. $6.0"'ti6.05. SHEEP- Receipts today. 2.!"0 head. Market strong. Muttons, $3 5'K 5.10: lambs. S3.oct.'6.25: range wethers, $3.ej'a4.S5; ewes, f3.yri4.90. Chicago Livestock Marks'.. Chicago. Feb. 9 CATTLE Receipts to dav. 3.'.w head. Market lower. Good to prime steers, $4.4cfr-5.75; poeir to medium. $3.iXe'u4.25: stockers and feeders, $2.2504.4": 1 cows Ji. 4017 4.-KC neiters. s-.-,;ri.;ei. cum-. $14j25": bulls, 4.2o: caives, o.du-t 7.r'- Texas fed steers. $j.5-i4.25. HOGS Receipts todav. 4a,lXl head: esti mated Tuesday, SO.imj head; left over from Seturda'-. 3 2"5 head. Market steady to oe lower Mixed and butchers'. $6.5 K;fi.S5: good to choice heavy, $S.8ira7.fc.: rough heavy. $6.65''i60: light, $6.3!S2 6.55; bulk of sales" $6.5o'.r6.75. SHEEP Receipts today, 2.-f. head. Sheep and Iambs steady to strong-. Good to choice wethers. $4.rr??5.50: fair to choice mixed, $3.5-'.i4.5e: western sheen, $4.2T. 'jc.2o; native lambs, $4.5--g6-40; western larnlis, $4.75'j6.25. Officinl receipts and shipments Saturday: Receipts 271 !e.t't 1.42 Shipments 6.S0 4,278 Chicaga Products Market. Chicago, 111.. Feb. 9. BUTTER Market quiet -and steady. Creamery, 16ii2f'c; dai rv. 5e.i23e. EGtiS Market weak. Firsts, cases in cluded. v.ic. CHEESE- Market steady. Twins. 13c; Daisies, 131 -;.-oi4c: Young Americas. 13c. POP I. TRY Market firm. Dressed tur keys, LMilsc: chickens, l'X13c. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas Citv, Feb. 9. Close WHE AT -Receipts todav, 149 cars. Quotations: Mav 6i ,i6.c; Julv, 6..c. Cnsn: No. i hard. jc; No. 3 hard, 65'cr'Jc; No. 4 hard. 5.s-ari'c; rejected hard, outee; No. red. 6Ie; o. 3 red. 65i66c. CORN April, Ssc: May. 38c: July. JSo. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 3Ki'v,3V-: No. 2 white. 40V'i41c; No. 3 white, 4-'i4o'iC. OATS No. 2 white, Stic; No. 2 mixed. 35c. riYF. No. 2. 45c. HAY Choice timothy, $13.09; choice prai rie. S'.'.eo. BI TTER Creamery. 198330; dairy, fan cy, I-h. EGGS Fresh, 15c. Hew York Stock. Wall Street. New York. Feb. 9. STOCKS The market opened strong and active, led by the Goulds, the hard and soft coal ers and some of the industrials. Sugar and Norfolk and Western rose a point. There were simultaneous sales or 6,j0 share-s of Missouri Pacific at 133 and 113. compared with 112 on Saturday, and of 3.0C shares of Wabash preferred at 51H and 51. compared with 51 on Saturday. St. laul was a notable exception to the strength, with a dee-line of point. The special strength of the Goulds ani the bituminous coai carriers was attrib uted to reports of labor settlement. The upward movement also extended to about a point in Heading. New York Central, Atchison, Northwestern, Southern Prt-eirtc, J.ouisvlUe and Nationai Railroad of Mex ico. There was a jump of 5 points in Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburg and 8 points in the preferred on single sales. The movement in the railroads was checked, but a number of industrials were ad vanced, led by Sugar, with a gain of over 2 points. The Rubber goexls stocks. Uni ted States Realty and the Railway Stel Spring stocks rose 1 to 1 ioints and North American 2 points Chicago Un ion Traction preferred lost 1 points. F-oe:k Island rose to 50 at noon on very heavy dealings and St. Paul moved up a point over Saturday, thus holding the list firm. Ponds were steady. New stocks were constantly brought into the condi in buying movement that wis going on in special stocks. The enormous absorption cf several leaders e-reated a better speculative demand for the active list generally and advanced a point or more. Rock Island fell back after it touched 50. hut the Gould and Transcon tinental stocks held tirva at the highest. Union Pacific. Hocking Valley, (iener.tl Electric and the United States Steel stocks were conspicuous in the midday rise. Most of the active buying centered in the Goulds. These advanced well beyond their opening price s and infused strength in the general market. A malgarnated Copper has been bought freely and crossed 7". nut other specialties die! not respond notably. Top priees showed gains above Saturday's close, running to point in Wabash pre ferred, w hfe-h was also the most active anil 1 to 1 points in the Kansas and Texas s tocks. Missouri Pacific. St. Louis and Southwestern. Rio Grande. Texas and Pacific. Wheeling. Iake Erie, the second preferred, Mexican Central. Pennsylvania, Chesapeake and Ohio. Illinois Central. Tennt ssee Coal and Amalgamated Copper. Wheeling and Lake Erie first preferred rose 2 points and Anaconda 1 point. Business became quieter toward 11 o'clock and prie:exs were below the best in spots. Norfolk and Western, however, advanced 1 points. The market showed a well maintained demanel for stocks, shifting from time to time to rew prices. Missouri Pacific. Tex as Pacific a-nd Denver and Rio eirnnde rose 2 noints and St. Paul 1 points. (4ains of a ooint or more were made ty Union Pacific, Brooklyn Transit, Metro politan Street Railway, the Iowa Central tocks Delaware and Hudson. Canada Southern. Hocking Valley. Smelting pre ferred and the United States Rubber stocks. At other points the advance halted but the top level was well held. Sugar and Coftee Market. New York, Fob. 9. SUGAR Raw stitrar about steady. Fair refining. 3 3-16fi3c; cen trifugal, 9' test. 3c: molasses s-utrar, 2o) 2 15-lOc' Refined sugar steady. Crushed, $5 25- powdered. $4.75; granulated. $4.65. COFFEE Market quiet. No. 7 Rio, J MOLASSES Market steady. Topeka Market. Topeka, Feb. 9. HOGS. HEAVY ROUGH LIGHT PIGS STEERS COWS HEIFERS BULLS LIGHT HEAVY $6.45176.55 6.35a6.45 6.3.('!6.49 4.00-45.5.) CATTLE. ...$3.00-i7 4.nO 2.5"il3.il 2. 5e j 3. 25 Z'WiA'l.-.i ...$3.0OTT4.. 2.75tl3.2l VEAL CALVES. 'GRAIN. NO. 2 NEW WHEAT NO. 3 NEW WHEAT NEW CORN NO. 2 OATS NO- 3 OATS .6J0 .o3 ..345 ..3"1 ..2sa I- KL 1 1 S A.MJ V X1.V.T L'j r A Di.t.3. Furnished by W. O. Anderson At Co., 21 Kansas avenue. j ORANGES California Washington na vel, best sizes, $2.51(12.60; extra e-hoice. $2.35-"2.40; oft sizes. $2.0o;i2,25; California budii.d fruit, $1.7.V'72.CO. LEMONS California. 360 size, J2.50'J 3.00. GRAPES Malaga, owing to quality, $5.0(3 S5.5 per l.hl. BANANAS Lower, 21i3e per lb., and running from $l.e.'ii2.f0 per bunch. APPLES Quotations per barrel: Jona thans. $1.00; Roman Ueautv, $3.5'; 'a 4.00; Wine-saps, $3.0ivi3.7o; Ben Davis. $2.7503.',; Missouri Pippins, $3.u0; York Imperials. $3.li'y3.M. ST.K A WHERRIES A few nice Texas strawberries. J4.tX5. per 24-qtiart case. TABLE POTATOES Kaw Valley, 45a per bu.: Minnesota Burbanks, 65c; Min nesota Rural, 65c; Colorado Pearl, 6S;cf7-jc; Colorado Rural. 72'.i75c. SWEET POTATOES 65c per tra. VEGETABLES. CABBAGE Wisconsin Holland. $1.25 per 100 ihs. ONIONS Spanish onions, $1.75 per c-ratr-. Kansas eirown, 75c per bu.; Wisconsin rej ele.be. $l.ce per bu. OY ST EltS New York count, 40c pet can: extra select, 35c per can: standard. 25c per can: bulk standard, per gallon, $1.25: bulk, extra, select. $1.60 per gallon. CELERY California blue ribbon, 5eic per doz.; California jumtra, .c per noz. CRANBERRIES Jerseys. $1 1.5012.00 per )bl.; per standard box. $4.0.:r 4.25. HICKORY NUTS !-c per .u. PECANS Unpolished. 6c lb.; polished, 8l'DATES Fair, 45c lb.; Fard, SSVio ecr lb COCOANUTS $3.50 per sack; 50c per dozen. RADISHES 'I exas radishes. -n-oSijc per dozen bene-lies; Texas green onions, 5o per dozen bunches HONE Y Colorado. 24-rack cases, $C.6iX "BUTTER. EGGS. I'OL'LIRI'. BUTTER Country. i:!c. (.-(p;s Case- count, 35c. POULTRY Hens, fcc lb.: roosters. 15c each; ducks, 7c lb.; geese. 6c 11.; turkeys, 11.- lb.: young roosters, 6c lb.; live airing chickens. Sc lb. 1 b HAY'. KAIH1K HAY By car .$5.5v,yc.iv) PKaIRIE HAY' By ton (baled!.. 6.K.t;.r4 PRAIRIE HAY (loose) o.OO-i: H.-ll M.FALFA HAY By load, per ton tM ALFALFA HA Y Baled, per ton, $s.0G6i hXivt jTRAW. per ton n.M Market very dull. Topeka Hide Market. Teneka, Feb. 9. Prices paid in Topeka this week, based on Boston eiuotations: GREEN SALT CURED FLAT 6c No. 1 TALLOW 50 Wool Marker St. Louis, Mo., Feb. WOOL Market unchanged. Territorv and western medi ums, 17 j 13c; fine, l&JflSc; coarse, 13lt

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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY '9, 1903. 7 3 Is y r-. f'eoiw do in making successful their excellent entertainment course, two numbers of which are still to be given, in decora tins some of the schools with pictures, an.i in tVrmulatirie. some definite plan for a club house, tiie need of which was I plainly realized last Thursday, as ma'iy could not get into Unity church. The i various committees have each thelf woik to complete. I T'-f meeting of the Implicate Whist chil) with Mri Willis Norton has been postponed on account of the death of Mv Hariv Williams 1 rom Tuesday act.'rn i.' February l. to Tuesday, February K. Mrs i;. is fmniii Criswoll entertained ltiV-i-ifhrti"! her little daughter Julia's birthday anniversary this after noon The guests wove Mrs. W. 11. Win' ton and Mast, r Hi. -hard Wbitton, Mrs Carl Woodbury Nellis and Mas ter Edwin l.ttneo Nellis. Mrs. David Kn n ati'l Miss L.'tma Marie Norton, Mrs. i:;iliiiB :'.nd Miss Klennor Kush i'ug. Mi, i S. Morrow, Miss France! Morrow and Miss Marian Morrow. Mrs. Frank Klson. M.astr Maurice Kelson an.'. 'l-s Kliznbcth Edson. Mis. War mi M. Crosby and Mrs. William L. N u o-mer. Mrs. William L. Newcomer has is oin'l invitations for an afternoon at home Friday in h nor of Miss Mabel Qui-.-!, y. The T'hi Lambda Kpsilon fraternity h'.ys will uiv" a party at the home of Hi. F.ob Pierce Friday night. Miss li.Vierta Wasson's invitations a i out for Haturdy afternoon, Febru nrv 11. to meet Miss Mary Cuip of Sa l ilia. Mrs. lie Wiite Clinton Nellis. Miss Anna Mart" N. His. Miss M-'ta Robin Son. Miss b'.ossie Campbell, Miss Bate:, Miss H. ssi" Bat-s. Mr. Herbert Curry. Mr. I.uii,er N.llis. and Mr. Horace Maeferi-t:i w ere Topeka guests of .Indue :tnd Mrs. William Thomson and Miss Maud Thomson at a week-end bouse puny at Uieir home in Tiurlin pame. Mr. t'.enre Lincoln and Mr. T-iilh- Coekir.s of Lawrence and Mr. Larry 11 i- e of Kurlineame ere the others of the party. Mr. Jesse Leaeh. Tim. ka correspond fnt for a bi"; Chieapo Sunday news f uprr. has been ordered to get up a pase l;f pictures ff "Tepeka beauties." Tie annual meeting of the Kansas 'V. man's Press club will lie held at the Copdard. .April -'i. itboueh the city federation mooting l ist Thursday was the last of the pro ranvme meetings, it was not the last mating of this almm-strat ion. Tia-y.-ar is complete en!v after the annual m.eetiny the first week in April. Mean v. niie tl-.e fed. ration has much work 10 j The Russian half of the year s study j of the Ninde Chautauqua circle opens with Monday's programme. The circle meets with Mr. and Mrs. Walker, 111!) Polk. February 9, li03, for the following pr o"ramme: t toll-call, answered by naming Rus sian authors and works. in "A Survey of Russian Literature," chapter I to paste Mr. I. L. Betzer. "Character Sketch of Catherine II, Mr. Walker. in the Chautauo.uan, "Reporting and Cot respiondence," Miss Grace Walker. The following members of the Si. Cecilia club will usher at Mrs. Charle; Khoades' Wajrner lecture in the. high school auditorium, Friday evening, Feb. ruary l;i: Mis Georgia Payne, Miss, "ora Kby, Miss Llanche Carnahau, Miss Margaret tlilfillan. Miss Octavia Greenwood und Miss Loretta Kinney. Notes and Persona! Mention. j Mrs. F. C. Gay of Kansas City is the guest of Mrs. Eugene Hagan. Miss Sue Gay will join her for a few days later I in the week. Mrs Noble Prentis is at home at the ICopeland during the illness of Mrs. A. II. Thompson with whom she has been making her home this winter, but whose house is now in quarantine. Mrs. Thompson's condition har; been serious for several days but she is reported bet ter today. Mr. and Mrs. IVrr Norton and Mr. Arthur McClintock have returned from a trip to Lake Charles. La., and Port Arthur. Tex. Mr. and Mrs. C. IT. Luling wilt fro to Wichita tomorrow for a few days. Mrs. Poland K. Smith. Miss Nellie Webb and Mr. K. W. Howe of Atchison spent Sunday in Topeka guests of Mrs. Smith's father.' Mr. Palie Waggenw, and of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. MacLennan. Ladies get your dress or party gowns ch:;ned like new at the Boston, i 14 West Eighth, near transfer station. Both 'phones I.Vi. Mr. and Mrs. Pan O'Rourke of Beloit visited relatives and friends in this city Sun-day. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bowlby spent Sunday in Cottonwood Falls. Miss Helen Smith and Miss Mary Sue t were up from Lawrence to spend Sundav at home. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black spent Sun dav in Leavemvotth. Mrs. J. J. Burns of Pueblo. Col.. Mrs. H. L Burt and Mis. Crittington of j Quiney. 111., ami Mrs. Simpson of Kan sas Citv. are in Topeka to attend the j funeral of Mr. Harry F. Williams whose I death occurred Sunday morning, and I u hioh will be held Tuesday afternoon, i Mis. Clifford Misted has returned from a week in Kansas City. Mrs. William Wadsworth, of Kansas Citv, is the guest of -Mrs. John Sargent, 225 Clay street. Mr. Paul Torrington left Saturday for Washington, IX C, from where he re turns shortly to Siberia. Mr. S. J. Bear is in Chicago. Miss Pearlade Wood of Kllis, is here to spend the winter with her uncle and iUint. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wood at the National and will attend Miss Putnam's school. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Poyce of Phil ipsburg, are in town for the state editor ial association meeting today. Mrs. Anna Fulton Gibb left for a bus iness trip to New York today. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Morgan and Miss Katharine Morgan of Cottonwood Falls are here for the state editorial associa tion meeting and are at the Copeland. Mr. W. L. Trump left for New York today for a business trip of two or three weeks. Mrs. Trump will visit her moth er in Ottawa during his absence. Mrs. Mary Allen, who has been the guest of her daughter, Mrs. E. A. O'Brien, went to her home in Joplin, Mo., today. Mr. Charles Wardiner is iil with pneumonia at his home 913 .Western avenue. Mr. and Mrs. W. X. Day of Arkansas City are here visiting the latter's parents Mr. and Mrs. M. Ityan, 111G Sixth ave nue west. IT WAS A JHAY, Prominent Lawrence lEen Have Fish Baking Contest. A fish baking contest was held at Lawrence Saturday night between "Tommy" Green, cashier of the Wat kins.' Mortgage company, and George Pierson, president of the Pierson Milling company. Green and Pierson each claimed that he could bake a lake trout better than the other, so nine judges were sum moned to decide the contest Saturday night. Senator Noftzcer, J. R. Wick. R. B. Welch and Dave Palmer were sum moned from Topeka. The contest took place in the banquet room of the Rlk's club at Lawrence. Kach contestant baked a 23 pound lake trout and the rest of the menu to go with it. At the table Pierson occupied one end and served from his cooking and Green oc cupied the other end and served from his culinary efforts. Kach judge had duplicate edibles and was to decide which cook made the best banquet. It took four hours to get through with what there was to eat and .-it the end of the contest the judges decided that there must be a rehearing of the case and that the testimony should be taken, in ternally, again before a just decision could be reached. S. L. Bishop and A. D. Mitchell arranged the banquet contest. RAPS MR. OLIYEB. An Old Soldier Discusses the Evangel ist's Wild Talk. The State Journal is in receipt of the following letter from an old soldier who disagrees with L'var.gelist Oliver upon the advisability of the method of attack used by the tabernacle preacher in his revival sermons: "'To the Editor of the State Journal: "There seems to Vis some political strife in ycur town, which is being aggravated by the preaching of the Evangelist Oliver. There are many who are friends of prohibition and good order, who believe that Mr. Oliver's insane ravings and abusive epithefs and calling of names, is do ing more harm than good. The writer shares that opinion. He was a soldier during the civil war and he there learn ed that not all the courage, valor and integrity were on his side, and he be lieves the same to be true of all relig ious or political different es. "The writer believes the" cause of truth is not and cannot be advanced by calling those who differ in opinion or actions such names as 'puppy,' 'liar' and 'villain.' He thinks that plac ing Unitarians, socialists and an archists all in one class tends to evil and only evil continually, and that a Christlike spirit could not prompt his language. Do unto others as you would have others do to you, was the Christ teaching. How would Mir. Oliver .like being called an anarchist, an 'infernal liar.' a 'puppy' or an 'old hog,' as the writer has heard Mr. Oliver call oth ers? Let us all pray that he may be converted and th:it. God may forgive him he knew not what he does. Let Ma prayer trouble no one; it will go no higher than the steam from an oys ter stew. This is the opinion of an old soldier who stooped so low, .as to vote twice for Abraham Lincoln. "CORNELIUS MEACHEM. "1437 Polk Street." FATHER'S GRIM REVENGE. Burned His Money to Keep His Son from Inheriting It. Rome, Feb. 9. Sig. Luigi Manara. a wealthy citizen of Bologna, having quar reled with his son, determined that at his death the young man should inherit noth ing from him. Accordingly, he sold nil his property and received the proceeds, which amounted to more than 40.01. in pap( r money. This tle placed on a bt d and then lay down an i set tie to it. His vaiet found him next morning, burned to death. The 4".iXio in notes had b?en reduced to ashes and thus the son will lie penniless unless the num bers of the notes can be traced. I MAKY DALY'S KG 31 AN CE. j Pretty Heiress Weds the Leader of a Paris Orchestra. Paris. Vfb. 9. A serrmd Ripro has turned I up. Ktnanc-ialiy ho has done bpitcr than the gippy who fascinated Prim-ess Chimav. The s oond Kiiio who was intrrrstir.s- ParW i is a swarthy Roumanian, namr-d Dt sin. Me married secretly m isrusseiK Mary Jaly, a pretty Australian heiress. Oh their v'd din day the hride cave 'him a present nf a Jaree sum. Uogin was leader of tin? erehe.stra in the Pep t aura nt Viennos, Botivelard des fa purines. Ieq:in is con-t-picuous heeause he is thin as a rail and wears a mass of hair a la Paderewski. H is 2-S years of age an?J a fluent linguist. Tnc bride is 22, a blonde and very pretty. Miss Laly visited the restaurant dailv and lingered over the mffe t" hear lep!U play the violin. One day Degin brolie his violin and wept. Miss Daly sent him a present of 10.0 k francs to buy a new vio lin, hut concealed her identity. She la tor sent him anonymously presents of jewelry. Oegin finally discovered the identity of his benefactress and wooed and won her. This Ris'it siiue romance is the talk of the boulevards. Train Schedule Resumed. Atlanta, Feb. 9. It was stated at the ofiice of the Southern Xiailway today that the- schedule of all trains on the A 1 1 a n t a Macon division v hie h had been disarranged by the sudden rie in the Ocmulgee river yesterday had been resumed. Homeseekers, Excursion. Homeseekers' rates to nearly all points on sale at low rates by Chicago Great Western railway, on the first and third Tuesday of each month to April, available in. the through tourist sleeping ears. For particulars apply to any Great Western agent, or J. P. Flmer, G. F. A., Chicago. III. 4 WHITE GOODS SALE Our New VV IlllC VY tilLIUia. New kinds are Mercerized Madras, Oxfords, Muslin Piques, Marseilles Waistings, Cords, Twills, Fancy Canvas, Satins, Damasai, Welts, Dice Waistings, Burlap Plaid Mattings, at these popular prices: I9C 25c, 30c 35c 39c, 45C enr. nrtd enr varrl. J White India Linens. Our Indias are liked for their even, clean, cotton thread, and for the organization of the cloth made to wash white and not weaken Prices this sale 64c 86c I0C Jc, 15c, 18c, 20c, 25c and 30c, yard. White Dimities. Nothing is nicer for baby's wear than these at 30c, 25c, 19c, 15c, 1214c, ioc yd. Plain White Nainsook. 36-in. at 48c yd 36-in. at 20c yd 86-in. at 35c yd 32-in. at 15c yd 36-in. at 25c yd 36-in. at 10o, 12e yd Long Cloths. The "Warren M. Qrosby brand has be come the most popular used white material for all kinds of underwear of today (long cloth is 36-inches wide, 12 yards in a bolt for this sale at 11. Vc yard or $1.29 per bolt Better long cloth at 13c yd. or $1.49 bolt Embroidery and Insertions One Hundred and Five Pieces taken from regular stock for this sale one week, at 25c Discount. White YoKings in the new All -Overs, Reveres, Tucking, etc., at 75c, 98c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75, $1.98, $2.50, $3 yard. One Thousand Remnants White Goods Yokings and Embroideries, for this sale at Remnant Prices. Any Ladies', Misses' or Child's Coat in Our House at Half Price. 0 i CQ311NU DRAMATIC EVENTS. In the last act of "The King of Detec tives' at the New Crawfora tonight a new use has been found for moving pic tures, they being thrown on a screen in a court room to prove, in a highly novel manner, the innocence of the heroine and guilt of the villain. During- the run. and it was a 15 weeks' run at that, of Jacob I-itt's big production, "The Suburban," at Chicago the matter of paving the society supernumeraries became quite an item of expense, as al most evory night there were parties of wo men and men who went behind the scm-s to 'go on." The supers were paid 25 cents each and they enjoyed earning the hit of money immensely. Manager Sol Titt kept a special quantity of new quarters on hand to pay thepe swagger folk, and in nearly every instance the winners of the monry declared they would kep their :nonv as pocket pieces, or as souvenirs of the novel experience. The societv people went on onl y in the famous race seen1 which has dme so much tor the sui cess of thr famous drama. In the crowd of UnO people employed in the scene the novices enjoyed the excitement of "acting" without fear of bpjng seen by friends and without the embarrassment of bing known, as in the mob it was almost im possible to detect them even if one were searching the crowd for a familiar face. Some of the regular actresses lent a hand in making up these amateurs and the knowledge that t hey were painted and powdered for "show" added its bit to the strangeness of the situation. The visit be hind the scenes was fruitful in other wavs than in its uniqueness, for in several Mi stances it sliowed what a hollow life he actor leads and killed the latent germs of stage fever in the veins of some of the fair actresses. The ugly p;trt of life be hind the curtain the drudgery and th? shallowness of always seeming what one is not was brought to the notice of the ama teurs and resulted in complete disillu sionment. "The Suburban" will be at the Grand tomorrow night and a large sale of seats indicates a capacity house. Of "California," which will be at the New Crawford Saturday afternoon and night, the Cincinnati Inquirer said in par';: "The play deals with a Spanish love stry which abounds in climaxes of grent inter est. The action i? positive and rapid and with the ability of the cast affords an en tertainment which takes its place among the foremost melodrH ma tic productions -of the day. 'California is one of the host of its type seen in Cincinnati this season. K-vory piece of seen pry used in the new comedy melodrama, "Tracy, the Outlaw." is carried by the company and all of it h.t been painted from photoarapbs mad..-; a'ong the line of the noted outlaw's flight, especially for Manager Williams. Tbeie are nine scenes in the play. Two blood hounds used by the authorities in (racking Tracy after bis escape have been loa i ,ed to Mr. Williams. The play is giv. n at the. new Crawford next Sunday night. Trillin n Mortimer, supported by the 1 A I -liar. Mortimer company, one of the nm:--t successful organizations playing repert (tire, will be sfn at the Grand ail next we, k. opening Monday night in "The Princess of Patches." The day for opening the advance sale fur the piano recital by Ossbi Gahrilowit sh in the Auditorium one week from Wednes day npjht. has been set for Saturday at Rowley Snow's. Ts it a burn? ITse Dr. -Thomas' Eelro tric Oil. A out? Dr. Thoma: Kclectric Oii. At your druggists. flfl 1 fill Spring' OS l "I f ill PS VTS ARIf. Jan. H. Just Wore I.pnt I all of the gay set left in Paris for the sunny climes have claimed the majority take upon themselves a perfect fever of cnyety. The idea seems to be a Plmrt life, but a merry one. Knoiih pleasure is crowded into a few short T'ef-ks to last the ordinary mortal at 1. '-aM a whole season. And even the j.er; i t ;tT ial forty days are now robbed f ihir dismaisiess and gloom. The theatnr v.e have with lis always, and the subdued little dinner, with its violet coloring, in perfect harmony v. ith the'! f.'-'ison f fasting, is not tabooed. When looU'-.i at merely from th" secular side. I.-nt comes in the guise of a life saving station, for the giving up of a ball or a cotillon is quite as necessary to the physi-aj self as the renunciation of s.;me pet extravagance or- tiny sin is to tiie moral nature. It is a beautiful season in which to T'.rvi. r the savings of the preacher that ail i vanity and indorse his sentiments in a practi. -al manner by planning more C t!i-. satii.. sweets in the form of a stunning spring collection of gowns and c hapcaus. The only diP'oulty seems to be ili.. possibility of concaving any new thing after the prodigality of the pat winter. What on earth has been left undone to enhance my lady's beau ty or ohnem? r.ut we tabe courage from pT-o.-efit. and as the couturier has always risen superior to existing rendition be Wjn he our friend to tiie very last. Tie predicts nil kinds of va riations of tiie oid schemes, even the revival of several which we have long const. iered too recently old to be resus citated. It only goes to show that there is nothing new except what ia fornotten. j The winter fashions will pale as reonn'ight before sunlight before the rummer modes. It is almost too soon I to make exact sta'ements as to what I wii! and what will not be worn. The! success of the costumes made for rti viera wear decides that question in a most authoritative manner. We know positively that foulards, veilings, or gandies and the thin materials of last summer are to be made up into the most stunning gowns imaginable. In tiie future we must avoid violet, that color so dear to our hearts, and in its t'.r. o wear pinkish mauve and pastel parme. Vedette blue, which is a ei y trying shade for the average woman, is one ,vf the new colors promised. I think brown a warm looking tone for summer. p,ut (be champagne brown, whi. h bids fajr ,0 be a favorite, looks more like weak coffee and is cool enough in appearance to be comfort able. combination of blue and yellow if oit of the novelties in color effects and wilt probably take the place of the popular blu and green. Xo doubt the lo.omai :n dress will make its adv-nt with the introduction of the combina tion mentioned, at least in America, where these shades were so noblv worn by the heroes of lTTfi. We have reveled in the Continental hat; now for a cony! of the coat. Speaking of coats reminds m of the new Kitchener jacket. Lord Kitchener, if he eer happens to he,nme aware of th" fact, will hardly to oiorioyed to learn that he is the godfather of a rtunning woman's coat. It is reallr very funny that this acknowledged wo" man hater should have thrust upon him this distinctively feminine gar roent. The feature of the coat is its broad shoulders, which are exaggerat ed to the last degree, the nleeves hein? run directly into the shoulders with out an additional seam. This effect is better than the longr shoulders, which made every woman who wore them look as if she were sliding: out of her coats. Iinen gowns, from the thinnest handkerchief weave to the heaviest Russian weight, are to make the frock of frocks for the summer girls who can die than dollars in her purse to begin to embroider a linen dress. Any simple tall? The Frenchwomen do not wear as many of these waists as the Amer- design is good except the grape scheme. ieans, but the best houses design them which is decidedly demode. Be sure to I in all fabrics. 1 have just been shown use the mercerized cotton of several de grees of coarseness. A frock one has embroidered oneself is such a satisfac tion, and you know it is the smart thing- to be clever with your needle nowadays. The indispensable shirt waist cos- stand the expense. A simple little linen tumes are with us still in the new fou dress to frighten one? The woman will be brave who can face the iaea of pay ing considerably over J10U for one cos tume of this washable material, and this is the amount asked for the very smartest. It is perfectly outrageous. I grant, but the feeling is somewhat mit igated when one sees the exquisite hand embroidery which makes the gown a veritable work of art. This embroidery is not confined to a slight decoration on lards and taffetas. Thev mav tie made more dressy with lace motifs, but the absolutely plain tailored affair is the one which makes for smartness. The skirts of these gowns are almost inva riably shirred, and the same idea Is carried out in the bodice and sleeves. The shirring at the waist line is merely simulated as a sort of yoke, ar.d the widths farther down are flared and fluffy at the feet. A pretty notion is the very latest models turned out so far in washable varieties. White waists are to be the favorites art to wear lace properly, and, carried round the skirt, a wealth of beautiful old flounces falling over bouillonnes and tuckings of chiffon is effective. There is a great change in the cut of evening dress- bodices. Instead of the square and V shapes the all round has if '5tl r e lit- r I! iirA I s r v-v-" 1 v--- t'.ie waist, but is spread all over the coxtume in a sprawling design. Noth ing is more fatal to the pocketbook than this handwork in embroidery and tucking, which later will, be also a prominent note on the linens. All the coarse laces will be used as insertions and appliques, heading flounces and outlining seams. The skirts of the linens will be mostly of the seven or nine gored styie. but the very prettiest sheer linen dresses 1 have sen so far bad the old fitted flounce. Collars are the waist adornment, the deep cape kind, which are trimmed with embroidery and lace like the skirt. to shirr the waist several inches above the waist line and again around the shoulders, forming a trimming over the shoulders and on the sleeves, the wrist band being finished in the same way. Another old favorite is the shirt waist pure and simple. While this use ful article, of course, never reaches In dignity the ensemble gown, still it is universally admired and when put up and on by an artist has a distinction ail its own. The stout woman shoirid always avoid the iight colored shirt waist, as also should the little creature whose height it cuts off. On the tall. slim woman it is perfect, but what is in mercerized cottons and linens of all kinds, but the newest material is called sheers. It is a cotton fabric with a lin en finish. Most of the waists have yokes and sleeves tight to the elbow, where they flow out in a full puff fas tening into a narrow wristband. In sertions of cluny and torchon will be used, and tucks of every size anj of every conceivable combination will be in evidence. Vertfcal tucks are the fa vored ones. The difference between the come in, off the shoulders, but held up over the neck by a broad band. The more gossamer the sleeves the more fashionable. Pink is very modish, es pecially shaded red toning into pink. Blue is being trimmed a great deal with violet, and the mixture is charming. Red tulle evening frocks have had a vogue lately not at all In proportion to their beauty, as they are too pronounced to be really chic. When toned down with folded white maiine coming in di white lace veiled with black chiffon ornamented with little dangling pend ants of jet. Another attractive model of blue liberty silk is trimmed with velvet, the vest and entre deux between the straps being worked in scrolls and dots, while the silk vest is fastened with rows of tiny blue silk buttons. Three plaits form the center of the sleeve, making a pretty effect at the top as well as giving the bouffant flare at the bottom. This is a dressy little waist and very easy to make. A particularly smart model for demi season wear is a buff colored mohair tweed relieved wdth black and green embroidery on white plush panne. The skirt is quite plain, mounted on a black silk foundation slip. The coat is of the three-quarter basque shape, having a narrow box plait up the center of the back, and is belted with stitched black velvet. The pouched front of the coat shows a vest of white panne cunningly inserted with lace motifs worked in green silk and chenille barred across with black velvet, buttonholed down in green silk. Black velvet buttons with steel centers and smart cuffs to match the vest complete an extremely telling costume. CATHERINE TALBOT. Japoni Modes Adapted to Wefttern Woman's! Dre. The kimono serves as a useful sug gestion for opera cloaks and dressing jackets and tea gowns, and we owe the dwellers in the land of the chrysanthe mum a debt of gratitude for acquaint ing us with the charms of so useful and graceful a garment. They are made in soft silk voile, soft satins and often plentifully embroidered, and now some of the evening cloaks are being made after the order of a Chinese's woman's robe, the idea originating with Worth, who is making up some beautiful Chi nese embroidery in this way. Most of the early winter dresses are accompa nied by the short sack jackets show ing the waist belt, easily slipped on and off and decidedly becoming. These are being made in shot green and blue woolen for dressy occasions. Open lace work, lined with a color, forms the sack bolero. Paris is looking kindly on vigognes, and some of the Chinese and Japanese shaped garments are made in this." waist of today and that of yesterday is I rect contact with the neck, the effect is Now is a good time of the year for the not becoming to this daughter of the woman who has more skill with her nee-1 gods, divinely fair and most divinely in the cuff, which instead of being nar row is flared at the hand. Butter colored lace used in conjunc tion with china silk is a very lovely combination for a waist. A light blue siik with incrustations of the lace and a wide sirdle of black mousseline de soie is fetching. Hand embroidery is still the smartest adornment, a design of acorns and oak leave? being one of the new patterns. For traveling and ail round use I was shown some very strik ing shirts in broad stripes. The straight fronted stays have brought back to us the long pointed bodices, and these plastrons are often formed of rich gold embroidery or rare lace, which is draped down the skirt. It is quite an imnrnv.il Pomnrfibpr tlia white fold is not laid on top of the round neck, but on the inner side. The Napoleonic slipper is the thing to wear with a gown of this description. These dainty affairs have a high, red heel which i3 most bewitching when seen peeping from beneath a frou frou of fluffy skirts. Lace slippers are another develop ment of the season and are exceedingly pretty. They ere made of lace, both thick and thin, either being strengthen ed by a foundation of satin or velvet matching the gown in color. Such a charming separate waist was worn by a woman noted for her taste in mat ters sartorial. The foundation was of Picture- Hats and Ihe Tonne All the lovely new models from Paris have now made their appearance. Sim plicity is one of the keynotes of the successful millinery of the hour. Some lovely picture hats are being made in taffeta, with large, floppy crowns. White edged with black che nille is rather smart for early winter wear, with muffs to match, and of course the decoration of black or white ostrich plumes. Picture hats do not vary very much, for those copied from the old masters are always the best. Some of them are trimmed with a wav ing paradise plume instead of an ostrich feather. Some of the crowns are high, while others show the drawn Henry VIII. shape. Pretty, too, are the toques made of cloth to match the frocks, the brim lined with some dark colored velvet. Nearly a1.! women would do wisely to keep a rouleaux of dark velvet near the face. It is infinitely becoming, and nothing is softer than velvet. tA P nncess Gown 6 6 "C--O--O''-0--C--C0--O--O-""0-,-!,O-. 6 rHE princess robe is the fancy of S the moment and bids fair to con tinue indefinitely in favor. The gown illustrated is of fawn faced cloth. The skirt is fitted over the hips by tiny plaits, which flare out below the knees to form a bouffant effect at the feet. The entire front is in one piece, which buttons at the neck to form a tiny yoke. Two pelerines ornamented with Khaki is a Japanese silk, plain woven I and less fine In weave than the habutai. y k fi Arfk. if Jt- rows of stitching form a shoulder trim ming. The rather odd sleeves have light blue chiffon introduced in a puff at the outer edge, which material also makes the yoke and collar. This prin cess frock would look stunning on a tall, willowy woman. The large toque is of folded light blue chiffon, the Frenchy touch of black being given by the long, graceful plume. Color That Make Yon Look Thin. White makes a woman look innocent, winsome and classic. Clear white is foi the blond, cream white for the brunette Is it not the woman In white who hai ail the attention and the wide eyej young thing in white with a blue rib bon who captures all the beaux? "Black suits the fair," a poet tells us. It is the thinnest color a stout woman can wear; indeed, tKe woman who wears black to best advantage is she who is stout and has black eyes and black hair. It is an echo from Parts that in gowns of certain colors flesh seems to shrink; in others to expand. A subdued shade of blue, heliotrope and olive green, with black, of course, are the colors under which flesh seems less ostentatious, while Wedgw-ood blu, pale gray and almost any shade of red are to be avoided. Mauve and the high er shades of green are the two colors that in decoration about the throat and shoulders are especially helpful in di minishing the effect of the flegfc.

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i K certainly most of vis live by our f!i' nils. This is a lare piafiranl. and I know some of you will be prepared to deny it. I Jut it's true nover- miii of men and women. ere a mother, nn of the first u ouM impress upon my daugh- ,u!d be theiess i r i v t hings I tcis W l!v posiiive ne c. -ssily n!' tuak ing stimuiat i'iti" f i tern Is. you know what I mean by that A, -S I, T he s o r t of f r i c n il w h o I s r.; makes you If I pood ail over after she has left you thai is the lest the fri-md who with out saying a v o r d on the subject, but simply by her smi ie a rid eheer fui confidence in you, makes you Vim in ei 1 1 ni being i" fool. want to do your best to justify that be lief. It's more than partly a question of magnetism. There are magnetisms which irritate us by th' ir smaliness and inferiority, others that continually prick tin with their ill concealed envy, others perhaps the worst so tremen dous and overpowering that they make us f c-( 1 our own bitter inferiority and the impossibility of being anything or GREEN CLOTH WRAP. d.'ini; anything ;i cc-piably v. liiW in that Mihtint? rr.'Scnr. And this, min-l von. cvrii avIiwi tho person who Thus affects us is outwardly all smiles and f-ncfiiir,'! tri-mont. of Mix v. u ft isms, i-rtainly u cnnt more than of brains, an who can seiz1:1 your sly ci-iifusi' it in tlio f his i h.ts. ma 1 1 y is i, one ns to win anytliin arid ev iu may h;ivf to trivo an-1 i'V- win t n in rryth as yo he doesn t simply be he does If (a rrse not eluu.se to. mi must have f'lt it. all of you. dozens of t r in e s. Y o u started out w ith a course of ac tion wei! defin ed or- even a speech you re hearsed rt be fore people and you f'-'.t abso lutely sure of your strength but when you came into that a n t a g r. n i s t i e moment you felt then in the snap became disjoint in just the opno-iid-'d. and what DurnV'd w eak and right!" presence for- one wild a sensation of contlict of a. lingi r- your ideas ed. you halted, you si- site of Id.. -as y. hnpossi lessn.-ss hat did f Y if it w irt et ar f. all, ut s "It tl a n i bsolute hope iil that final WOMEN .ket stands THE quite A unique paper has as high as a table. Mrs. Hannah Rial ho died at her hon; Humphrey. Warsaw, X. This work! is macn-i isnis tvj. '"In man or w on thntmhl and Itop.-I !iir! j'ool '.s ho is K' 'i rrythin y i y truiiLr n lii' h those t:;c same class of sire i "v- 'V -j Xv "You are ail I realization your brain became para 1 lyzcd. Jt was the other personality which i conquered you. If you were unwise and didn't understand this sort of thing, you went, away bitterly cursing 1 yourself for being a fool. You came to the conclusion that you were one of i the earth's weaklings and bound to be a failure. You went on thinking this j until you mot some one whose magnet j ism was one notch belowr yours, and j tlvn by comparison you seemed a god i dess, or else you met some kind of j magnetism equally strong who said: I "Come. now. you're crazy. You're not a bit w hat you think you are. You are I ail right. Why. the idea! You can do j this, you tan do that, you can do the i other thing. You're born to succeed, j only you don't know it." j Then you really do go out and do things. The Happy 'Loir Magnetic." Hut the people who have the most success in this world are the people who have the fewest high magnetisms to conquer. They get so after awhile that they do not meet a magnetism which affects them more than once in I six months, perhaps not more than once in a year. When they do, they set about to con quer it. wen if it takes six months. For there is certainly one consolation j about it all we can conquer and pro gress, otherwise God help us we should indeed be the toys of fate and of our fellow men. j I think I can illustrate this by mak- ing you remember what you felt as a child. I don't care how much spirit you had, there were certain people whose eyes seemed to read into your very soul, whose personalities froze what little individuality and spontane ity you had, and they were not neces sarily 1 he ons who had authority over you eilher. Then you grew up. went away perhaps, and when you came ba.ek oh. how weak and foolish these gods of your youth seenred to you! CHEAP AND PRETTY SPRING COATS FOR CHILDREN A PRETTY, stylish child's coat when bought in the shops is an expen sive affair, often costing as much as a grownup person's jacket. Half, if not more, of the expense is saved when the wrap is made at home, and if a re liable pattern is followed the result will be quite as satisfactory. Almost every child looks well in the long, loose, sack co.it so generally worn. The three attractive little coats illustrated are cut in that shape and are models of what the smartly dressed child will w ear in the spring. The blue lightweight kersey coat is pn tty and dainty, with its wide collar and revels of white appliifued cloth. A jacket made entirely of the blue cloth would be much cheaper and more serv iceable without the white facings. Large pearl buttons may be used in place of the frogs which decorate the fronts. These frogs have an unfortu nate habit of wearing out quickly and, besides, are rather expensive. The green cloth wrap is very simple WORLD OVER. v., lately at the age of ninety-five j years, was probably the oldest club- 1 omtu in uie state. i Albatross in the daintiest and pret- BLUE LIGHTWEIGHT KERSEY COAT. That was because you had progressed and even then passed them. When you meet an overpowerini? personality to day, you can do the same thing. Ob serve that person once for all as if you had him under the microscope. Then leave and try your best to go him one better. Strengthen yourself along ev ery point. The time will come when you will meet that same person and ab solutely laugh that such a magnetism could ever have caused you one min ute's trouble. Ilaeli to the Krieiitls. But where do the friends come in? I hear some one say. We started out with them. Yes. and we re com ing back to i them now. a 1: I When meet an powering j sonality. j said above, in i duty to yourself I you must con quer rt. But the thing you must not do is to stay by it. Nearlv all the weak characters rn this world have been dwarfed rn the shadow of an overpow er ing personality f M Then you go out and do things. or magnetism: they're practically the same. Once in a lifetime a powerful magnetism makes itself gentle and kind in order to help some lesser nature but, as a rule, it isn't so. and often under the very guise of a well meant kindness the stronger magnetism is slowly, but surely, crushing the weaker. And that, too. unconsciously, for it's the nature instinct all through life the stronger is born to crush the weaker, and it almost has to in order to carry out the reason of its being. This isn't at all a Kate Clyde letter when you come right down to it. You possibly even won't like it. But it's the truth, and if you don't know it al ready here it is for you. Sooner or lat er you will have to admit it, perhaps in sorrow. Why not now? People are dissecting life and thought much more than they used to. There is no fate, but a reason, for everything, even though it is not discovered. Why not belong to the advance guard of the procession? KATE CLYDE. New York. to make and really requires no specially cut pattern from which to fashion it. Take a well fitting dress pattern, allow for the double breasted effect in front, then lay in on each side three deep box plaits, catstitching them down al most to the waist line. When six cor responding plaits are allowed in the back and the same number in the sleeves, the garment is practically made. This coat is ornamented with a beaver collar and cuffs, but braided ones of the material may be substi tuted. The mixed cheviot coat with velvet medallions appliqued on the collar and cuffs does not admit of any cheapen ing, as the whole effect would be lost in remodeling. The Princess Metternich taffeta skirt is fascinating, but not lasting. If you want a skirt which will stand hard wear, the material to get is alpaca. When the ruffles are edged with silk ruchings. you have a durable petticoat. MARIETTA STONE. tie?t of colorin s is on sak? at 23 cents a yard. Spencer Trask of Xew York and Oreorge Foster Peabody of Brooklyn have a force of workmen employed in y o u x Zt as I V-'"J- i Hi i'- "i fib" FOR BUSINESS GIRLS. Pittsburg is to have a new home for wor king girls at a cost of i.t'OO. The I building wiil be a skyscraper, twelve j stories in height, and will accommodate i'"J inmates. It will be equipped with j n library, reading room, sewing room, writing room and all other needful ac 1 cessories of a comfortable home. The enterprise is the outgrowth of a work S begun five years ago by Jiev. Edward t W. Sandys, a mission worker, whose j attention was early drawn to the work j ing girl problem. impressed by the hopeless situation of the young women trying to live decently in the city on wages of a few dollars a week. Mr. isandys opened a small home for work ing girls in April. 18:i7. This home now contains about ninety girls and women. Only giris who earn i a week or less are taken, as it is considered that those who get more than this amount are utile to provide hoard and lodging for themselves at regular rates. The rates i in the home are only $2.50 per week. MiX ED CHEVIOT COAT. i remodeling Crosbvside. a hotel on Lake George. where they will establish a va- cation home for the young women toil- I ers of Xew York citv. 1 In Albany there is an old lady, 30 5EPHINE D yl T fj0 be called "queer" often implies J in a youth or maiden the pos- j H session of powers too tull ana strong to run in the shallow lit tle channel conventionality has traced for commonplace minds. Con ventionality is the apotheosis of medi ocrity. Once you get the reputation of being queer, however, you can mostly do as you like without annoyance. At Smith college a few years ago there was a girl who "worked her way," as they call it, through r"" the school. Year by y e a r s h e I maintained her t j class standing j. with her mates c and earned her own living out side in the hours others gave to rest and re ere ation. (A 5 Lucy Stone and others did that half a century ago at Oberlin, r the first real college to admit women That the Smith college girl has done the same recently shows that the brave pioneer stuff in the American woman is not yet exhausted. Probably because the Smith girl had so much to do she was not specially com panionable with her classmates, or it may have been because her mind was matured beyond their schoolgirl stage of development that she was better ac quainted with the professors than with the students, and the students loved her none the more therefor. Certainly she rather kept herself aloof and dreamed her girlish dreams alone. Thence came the profound and final judgment of sixteen to eighteen year old femininity "Josephine always was a little queer." That settled it. What manner of dreams were Josephine's came out occasionally in the Smith col lege girls' school paper. Stories, poems, dialogues and slightly satirical sketch es of such power and brilliancy as to attract instant attention appeared from time to time. They were the sustained, polished work of a matured mind that knew its own power and not at all that of a crude, inexper ienced schoolgirl. It is remembered now that some one said of the writer in the school paper: "Keep your eyo on Josephine Bodge Daskam." Besides being able to write the sto ries of a genius, maintain her class standing and earn her living by outside work at one and the same time, Jo sephine Dodge Daskam had a wonder fully sweet singing voice and the trained talent of a musician. The song gift perhaps she inherited from her fa ther, a noted tenor of Stamford, Conn., the town where Josephine was born in 1ST6. She herself was for a number of years a church solo singer in Stamford. After leaving Smith college she began publishing stories and poems, and un surpassed luck attended her from the start. She was graduated from Smith college in 1SWS. In 1900 her first book appeared, and it was named "Smith College Stories." It brought her rep utation, and from that time on her work was in demand by publishers and magazine editors, willing to pay the highest prices. It is told of her that she is the one author the world knows of who never had a manuscript re jected. Rudyard Kipling tried in vain to get employment on New York news papers, but was not considered up to their standard; Dickens at one point ninetv-four. who has been m the serv- I ice of one family for eighty years, I First she was nurse, then maid, then housekeeper. She is still the house aged I keeper, strong and active. She sews ODGE DAS, H O early in his career seriously meditated suicide, Thackeray was harassed- with debt to the end of his days, Balzac's life was shortened by the privations he enduerd before success came, but this gifted girl reached fame and pecuniary success at the first trial of her powers. They were hers when she was only twenty-two years old. The first phase of her authorship took the form of miscellaneous stories. The second phase was the development of a remarkable talent for writing children's lrterature. In that she is most success ful and so far at her best. In 1900-01 appeared "Sister's Vocation and Other (iirls' Stories." "The Imp and the Au thor" and "Other Tales For Y'oung Folk." The original of the "Imp" is said to be Miss Daskam's brother. The "Imp" stories built a fair superstruc ture upon the foundation of fame the young lady had already laid. Mean time while her tales and sketches were appearing in the magazines Miss Das kam wrote some poems which met fa vor, like everything else from her pen. Some of the best known of these are "The Old Captive" and "The Little Dead Child." With a tender, delicate touch she handles children's verses as in the following: We lived out under the pear tree, Wc lived upon tarts and cream; 1 married you there forever. But, dear, 'twas only a dream! We sailed away in the branches To countries strange and new. For we owned estates in Dreamland, But, sweetheart, it isn't true! Then next this young woman of many gifts puts on a new mask, and it is the mask of comedy. "Fables For the Fair" is an emphatic rebuttal of the old slander that woman is destitute of humor. It shows Miss Daskam to pos sess a gift of humor as fine and as keen as that of any author living. This is proved additionally in the laughable "Confessions of a Husband," which'she penned in response to the accusation A PRINCESS METTERN1CH TAFFETA SKIRT. that she had written the sensational "Confessions of a Wife." Then, after writing short stories full of power and fascination, tales and sketches the most charming for chil dren, wholesome and sunny, with here and there a touch of tender, artistic melancholy, but no morbidness, not a trace of it; after pouring out merry, inimitable humor from a reservoir full and rich, this twenty-six-year-old wo man boxes the compass of authorship by a volume which if Josephine Dodge Daskam w-ere only sixteen instead of twenty-six would make one feel in clined to shake her. "Whom the Gods Destroyed" is so morbid, pessimistic and unhealthy as to suggest the rav ings of a French absinth drinker in stead of the work of a handsome, fa mous, prosperous young person who ought to be happy as the day is long. She ought to be ashamed of her self to be writing horrors like these, well written though they be. What right has Josephine Daskam to make us blue? Maybe, after all, however, they are only the reincarnation of dark thoughts that shadowed her life when she toiled for her board in Smith col lege. Such things have been. In her very latest, however, "Autobiography of a Baby," she does better again. "Think in pictures" is the instruction a well known trainer of thought gives to his pupils. Josephine Dodge Das kam has by nature the faculty of doing this, of thinking so powerfully in pic tures that she makes her readers see them, too, in the mind's eye. That is one reason for her remarkable success. Miss Daskam is a fine illustration of the "new woman's" daughter. Mrs. Daskam was a strong, independent ivo; man who kept her mind ever receptive to ideas that promised better things for her sex. ALICE W. MORTIMER, without glasses and likes to take walks. This story demonstrates the healthful ness of housework. A tomb dating from the Viking age and containing the remains of a young l The Merry Face f HERE is an advertising poster that I look at whenever I see it. upon wall, signboard or fence. It rep resents a young woman holding in her hand something a dozen other hands are reaching for and all want at once. What the thing is that the girl has in her hand does not matter. That thin is not the thing at all. Whatever it is, even as she holds it, so her face holds me. It is so merry, bright and aieri, so radiant with fun and happiness! A dozen hands are stretched for what she can give only to one, and she is laugh ing while she considers which shall have it. Her white teeth gleam, her mouth is spread into the broadest sort of a mile. The poster is only a rough thiny, probably. Probably when the artist made it he or she never thought of con tributing anything to high art. but th face of that merry maid is just the most successful high art work I hava seen since well, since the Paris exposi tion. Somehow the sourest minded per son smiles every time he sees the poster maid: at least I pity him if he does not. It is so mirth provoking, so full of sun light and of that joy of living w each ought to carry from cradle to grave. A child would shout with laugh ter the first time he saw it. an infant in arms would crow and stretch its fat fists toward it. The merry poster maid ought to b printed large and in fast colors and placed along town and city streets where millions of sad faced ones would see her every day and laugh, laugh till j the aching facial muscles that tell of l discouragement and suffering relax and soften and assume for the time th I happy child look that should never j have gone out of them. The dearest j bown one can bestow on this world is to present to it always a merry face. It will thank you and bless you forever I more, for it has much trouble of its i own. A young lady often goes downtown in the morning when I do. She is perhaps a stenographer I don't know but she has the same merry, radiant face as the. poster maid, except that her face, beins that of a real girl, is far more beauti ful. There is the same lightening, mer ry look, the same. arch, happy smile. The line of humor about her mouth in decided, the softly closed lips tell of sweet temper, the lustrous eyes shine with merry thoughts. I always watch her as long as I can without making her think I am staling at her. I never see her that I do not say to her mental ly, "Bless you for keeping a merry face, my girl!" I never think of her either that I don't relax my face, eyes and forehead and try to have them assume the bright, sunny, merry look this sis ter of benediction alw-ays wears. But one can't do it continually, you say. The pain and botheration of life are too much. Well, I don't know. That girl manages it somehow, and she ha3 to get up very early and go to the office when the thermometer is at zero and has to work all day. I am sure. The merry face is much more within our control than we imagine it to be. Then, too, it is certain if we make ourselves wear this blight, hopeful expression rain or shine that our troubles w ill not strike in so deep and that they 'will be over sooner, so that by and by they will hardly touch us at all. MARY COULD LY'TLE. DOUBTFUL. Husband Did that novel I bought you end happily? Wife I don't know. It concluded by saying the hero and heroine were mar ried. Crystal is a heavy corded silk with wool filling in which the small cords alternate with large, regular or irregu lar cords. woman in complete armor and the skeleton of a horse has been discovered by Professor Goldberg In western Nor way. It is the first discovery of a wo man buried with horse and armor,

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f TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1903. 9 Cillv's Uncle's Valentine. Biily Jenkins and Sum Marks, seat ed in a very dusty and disorderly room. i:e sortinK and addressing a pile of Vul' HI fore th only re nn mey pro vide tines- i s which lay nn trie tame n'--71. rally's uncle, who v. as tnt itive Billy had, had given hm. nough to divide with Sun ami a satisfaet, ry sni !ly of vahn- -mostlv of the pi-r.r.y aia..i- for both Ijhvf. There were a viy f the beribboned helaeed kind, th Bort few nicest one of whirh I'.illy nJ u tioiisiv slipped aside, and was repii- I now i to ae-i borioiisi v inditing n m-'-sa-e i. ai tuuily cross idea vor to see r,- i n nv 11. .--,1 ,11 t e,j .thems-ives in Ms endeavor hai I'.diy was writine. Could le have read: ietn, this is what tie would nay Jly I'-mi- N. B. Forever and e w ill you lu mine, el' my valentine'.' Rlllv was not a poet, but the oupht ti. rose -sMi -land. i d valentine seem-d adlv ina-i-piate to th proper expres sion of tally's fe, -lines for Nettle riy. for whom liiis vaeiuine was intended, Kor d!d f:i!!v intend that his missive Should e inisitned. lie had just tm Jpheil William Jenkins, Kso.." with a flout i.h when Sum made a clash across the ;.,Me, saying: "What ae you drnilin' so inn? bout? M e s a valentine that looks nounh PR- i,!d Nancy Billings to b--her. i'.iek ji to her for nie and I'll baek tha' i nc for you. Who's it to, tnyu ay Billy hastily pushed the paper out of funis reach, as he remarked evasive ly: "Til baek no valentine to Nancy Mil line?. What do you want to pmi her our- for'.' THere'd be no fun in that, Tides, T can't see where that looks liKe her. N mey- isn't ugly and stingy.'' "Well, she's an old maid, and that's What this picture Billy took the valentine and address ed ii, but shortly ai'tM'. when Sam was contemplating h pictuie that w as to so to the postmaster, he slipped that usly Talentine out and placed one of the pretty ones in, hurriedly wrapping: it in A sh"ct of paper to make us hulk eijiial to the one displaced. Then he wonder ed w, hen h fame to look for his poetry what in the world had become of it. even going so far as to accuse Sam of hiding it. "Don't think it." said Ram. "I'll bet you re just green enough to put your name to sinne of these valentines. Lock out that you don't put mine in anv of them" The jibe had its effect and Billy en closed the valentine for Nettie minus hi.-. r.ame and effusion. The boy.-. dewisite.I their load, of val. entires in the oflice. Billy, by some nri.cni or nana remits the three i T ?eu la r ones in Without belnir seen by am. lie a Inn had the pleasure of see- I l"i? Xancy Billing? g-f the one beai in? hoe signature very early the next moi'U in;i. She had come to the store fur tea. tind sugar. "You've got a valentine at last, Aunt Nancy." said the storekeeper. Nancy was not used to recelvinsr val-eott-is. and this one brought a flush to her i ck ks as she hurried away with it j Billy lived with his uncle, William Jenkins, who was called "Uncle Hilly" i Iv everyone to distinguish him from' his neph'-w. Uncle Billy had raised the boy. In fact he had put in the great' r part of his life in taking care of hi I' lai'ves. First there had been a grand- father r.n one side of the house, and a I gran Imothfr on the other, who had lived their latter days out in Uneie Billy's home. His mother, who was a widow, did not want Billy to hrinsj aj wife into the homo so long as she re-! )fiined in it. and Billy, always easy audi cdaigins, had acceded to her wishes. After his mother died a brother's! w ife, weakly- and w idowed, came with her little child, and when she was goii 1he ticighlxirs said: I "Xow. Uncle Billy, is your time to g"t a good w ife, you need ope to tak care i of you and that boy. You've bfen tak ing care of people all your life, n,,w. make ui your mind to be looked after yourself." But Uncle Tally only smiled good naturedlv and. said that he was too o! I to go skvlarking. hunting lor a w if and he was very sure no one who knew him would have him. j

sat i he W hen down in Valentin dueiye i Mv Fori Nancy reached home she a nervous tlutter to look at What she a calmness: lead was not X". B., will you be mine, and ever my valentine? "Be l-i her hand Iocs of h. glad to alentine!" round to th he said wavin.t kinip furnish. rse I'll b., r.t to ttjat room, "why, of on Had to bo an r t.iiv, l that great. I'll have to My, but just think big. go dirty house. I reekoi, to bouse (Meaning right. away, even if Then she n--t on the r,--ers, it is somewhat early" red to write her arise. -r ri -verse side of the natre. roe. turning her seinooiiy: "f can t ar:vor it back in rhyme, but plain prose 11 do. T guess. I alnnvs k-iowed Mr. J. never knnwed poefiy.r. Thi put in th- Bib tokf r.s." nkins was learned, bur. I before that he could little laee paper thing I'll e with my other precious The ivxt evening !;ii!v was tro;t ntoutui th" kitchen trying to get s per. His uncle came jn. and.'rubb mg NURSES ITALY'S f f N tn T?K.'-T,Zinavf:,tHnn--thi! Itlili:in r-easant jrirl appointed to act as wet nurs Jl J Vym' .has -iust -mni.td her duties at the royal palace Z::c' lu,u .,,.,,-,J!L woman curies a ices ti. royaiiy. mis is trie very first American newspaper. his chilled hands over the blaze, said cheerily: "Weil, Tally boy, how comes the sup per this time? I'd help, but I can't re member the next time how I cooked thitss. the last time to save me, I ca n't." "I can't, either," answered Billy in a wearied-manner. "Now these biscuits salt's one thine: goes in, but is one of the others pepper?" 1 ncle Billy heard him not. In a con fused way he was reading: a letter he had found amr-wr the mail Billy hfed bioiifeht as he came from school. The r. t moment he had bounded to his feet wnh a frown on bis' face. "'Iheiel" jelled Uncle Billy; "some body has jc-uie aid sent a. fool valentine to Xanev Hillings and signed my name to it, askin' her to be my everlastin' val entine. She's believed it and wrote me a letter of acceptance. Says she's ready to many any time and begin cookin' up some decent victuals for us and cleanin' up this scandalous house; says I ought not to have kept Cousin Hetty so long; as I diil. ruinin' everything in it. Did you ever hear such talk? Well, it's un detsiood. she don't force herself on this j house. Marry rue! Be my valentine!' I I'r.eie Billy coliaspsed into the nearest chair, anil could only Rasp the rest of his astonishment and indignation. Trembling Billy took the letter, with hi.; on n verses on the back, from his uncle's h'-tnd. He had been wondering all day why Sam had not sprung them t:n the school. 10 his discomfiture, and here, without knowing it, he had sent 1 th m to Nancy. j "it is me she means, me she has mc- cepted." he faltered to his uncle. "Nonsense! You! What'd she want with you? It is me. Don't you see? William Jenkins, Esq. That's me, plain as the nose on my face." I The tint chills went up Billy's back at the first thought of what trouble his mistake was causing, then he picked up the l-: tter and re-read it, and as he did so an idea formulated in his youthful head. I If only he could bring Uncle Billy to do it. it was worth trying, anyhow. At fir.'t his uncle pshawed and sniffed i at the idea of his allowinsr this "en gagement." as Billy called it, to contin ue. But the boy w as so persistent, and talked to such pood advantage that be j fore bed-time he had won a half prora I ise from him. I Uncle tally went off to bed to wake up in the night and remember that he had I eaten no supper because there had been none cooked to eat. "Well, that poor boy! T wonder if he feels as Riiunt as I do? I must do some I thin' mighty quick or me and Billy wall i be dead from starvation," he muttered j to himself under the bed-c!othes. j Before another month had relied away house cleaning was going on in the Jen i kins' house, and Nancy, Its mistress, i was superintending" the work. And no one h,l reason to i-eeret that Sam thoup ht of sending Xanev a valentine. Ida Sheplcr, in The Housekeeper. A BAD CiiOWD. (By M. Quad.) AVe were about, ninety mils off the coast of Cayenne, in the armed Knglish survey ship "Wales." when we sighted a brig which seemed to take alarm at the Knglish flag. She was under short sail when -sighted. but soon began piling on more, though in a slow and bungling fashion. After a look at her through the glass I heard our captain say to his lirst officer that she was cer tainly a French merchantman, and he believed she had been seized by the convicts at Cayenne. She was doubtless in charge of a sailor, but there w-ere not enough sailors among them to do things in shipshape fashion. Numbers of men started to go aloft, but stuck at the cross-trees, and such siiils as were cast loose were not sheet ed home to do their best. We walked up to her hand over hand, and in half tin hour were within biscuit toss, and our captain was hailing to know what iwas wrong-. The answer was plain enough without words. Her decks fair i ly swarmed with men, all but five or six i of whom were in convict's dress. As a matter of fact there were just ninety of them. It was useless for them to reply to the hail under such circumstances jand for a minute they were silent its tiny gazed at us. Then they suddenly found their voices, and the yell they uttered in chorus was enough to make the hair curl. They screamed and cursed and danced about, shaking- their fists m a defiant way, and it must have become clear to our captain that he had a desperate set of men to deal with. (Mir craft was sheered in a bit closer and a demand made that the convicts t ui render. They could plainly see that we were a strong- crew and had mount ed gur.s. but the demand was recei-ed witli yells of derision. The leader of the gang, whom we had not before identi fied, now mounted the Vail. and in broken Knglish warned us to keep off cr U;ke the consequences. He boldly d'-elared that they were escaped con victs from the Fiench penal settlement, and. havin.g got safely to sea, they would tight to the death sooner than be t'; Ren. you, rious e hisvi man r- the ninety, as I mry had been transported for a lime, and nowhere else could got torether a more villan- rowrl. T'ne worst of the lot. how look -vl honest and mild tempered red to the fellow they had elected plain. He was a giant in stature. NEW PRINCESS. X rus.c- home snd her husband ant ryrtur.e wita her, a3 the result of her sar r- lho'.ograph of her ever published in an as dark as a Spaniard, and his face I was that or a savate, wild beast. The defiant attitude of the convicts seemed to put our captain in an em barrassing position, but after a mo ment's thought he called out to the fellow at the rail: "You must have capture 1 the brig to g-et away from Cayenne. What has be come oi the crew?" "Dead everyone of them killed and thrown overboard!" shouted the fiend in answer. "Do vou mean to say you murdered captain, mate and all hands?" "Yes; all the crew. Now, you've got tin? news, and you sheer off and go your own w ay. Let a French ship pursue u? and take, us." THU WAVES RAN RIGHT OVER HER We w-ere compelled to widen the dis tance between us to .prevent accident through the lubbery manner in vvhkh the brit was steered, but we reduced iail so rs to keen abreast of her, and the captain and his officers descended to the cabin for cor.sn'tat ion. I don'l know whether they Questioned tht i; right to interfere or discussed the best method of recapturing the brig, but they were not absent over a quarter of an hOL'r. When they came on deck, we got the order to load with solid shot, and in ten minutes every man and gun was ready for action., One of the convicts was aloft with a glass and could plainly note very movement aboard of us, and our c.iiiain, who was likewise posting us, reported that the fellows had armed themselves with riiies and revolvers and were erecting- shields against the bul V Frks. A so'.ic? shot was fired across her bows as a summons to heave to and as a warning of what was in store for her if she did not, but the roar of the gun was followed by a chorus of yells, an,r three or four bullets came whizzing- over our heads. The brig widened the gap until out of title range, and the captain then said to the crew of Bong Tom: "Aim to strike her above the water line. A few shot may take the fight out of them." The first shot passed between her fore and mainmast without touching" any thing, but the second smashed her bul- warks and killed two men. A third an 1 j fourth were fired, both of them creat ing havoc aboard, and we were lociking for some token of surrender when the brig ported her helm and came oearing upon our quarter. We had the weather gauge, but she had been three or four points off the wind. The fellow's were evidently determined to get near enough to use their rides, but with their poor seamanship they stood no show. We gave the ship more sail, and after a couide of tacks were off the brig's quarter and sendins solid shot aboard again. There was great confusion among the convicts, and we were hop ing for a signal when the wretches brought two women on deck. We could see them very plainly without a glass, and their presence put a stop to our firing, as the convicts had expected. It was a scheme to stop our fire, and every man groaned in spirit as he wondered how cur captain would take it. He must have realized that there was but one oui se open to him, and alter a bit he said to the captain of our big gun: "Aim at her foremast and try to crip ple her. She must either surrender or I'll sink her." During the next thirty minutes we fired six times, and each time the shot was plumped intoher hull, but with their craft lying a wreck in the trough of the seas they continued to shout de fiance at us. The unfortunate women must go down if the convicts did, but death would be tn-eferabie to our sailing away and leaving them in the bands of the monsters. We changed our shot to shell as we loaded Long Tom again, ana the gun was pointed to strike the hull. One after another five shells were sent into the lirig, each one tearing a great hole and carrying- wounds and death, and we had reloaded for the sixth time when it was seen that the craft was set tling away. We had our eyes on her as she was heaved up broadside to us by a wave, her decks almost awash. There was a wild cheer from the convicts, half a dozen rifles were discharged, and as the brig droit pod into the trough the waves ran right over her. and she settled away with the heaviness of a block of granite. We ran down to the spot, but there was no one to rescue. Living and dead had been drawn down together. (Copyright, lb'jS, by Juiius Muller.) III 510U OF THE DAY. "Away back in the Dark Ages." said the Kohaek philosopher, "a baked toad in a silken bag- was prescribed for rheumatism. In the enlightened present we resort to the faith cure, magnetic healing, the mud bath, electricity, and one sonorotts-snundine; opathy or an other. About the only advance I can detect in our resent methods beyond those of other da rs is that they ain't as tough on the toad." Puck. "They say you're making plenty of money in the stock market." "Yes, I never fail." "Really? You set straight tips, eh?" "Not much. I sell them." I'hiladel- phia Prfs. What's ee use els in Georgia w' n anninri;' mo' colon it deni tvh.it we got al-standln'-room ter ad- ready "in t ntit'f deyse' V."en a v hit's n,ot him en ce t FOt m um starts ter run fer office insinruly wid de idee dat Laved is erbout ail dat k'n save de country. Atlanta Constitution. Ci tinsel i ro.-s-exam.inir.jr witness) Is it net the :.,tt that the doctor, in order .o increase the amount f f Lis bill, made several '.-its a, :.er th" j.ativnt was quite out ci d.msfr? Witness itnno.' i ntiv i I don't think so I ciisi":-el the natient was in danger as Ioit as the doctor continued his vis its. J'-tc--. Smith-eompi'-t! .1 -n c- -73o you be'iie, ly rbeiv'es ever; 1 'OS -if,! T Vn that a man seven years.'.' a man who n three yeai. rn t e a Smith Jimes in that complete char.c- How e:id he do ii? Chanced his better half twice time. Chicacra News. When yo' see yo'r face ober new moon shinin' in blue gum tree, it am u y"A s sxr -r5r r i- 1-7 e 'r'r ?r- t r 3 r- M it AJD JilSCElUiKl'S ADS. FEEMSSSSBTGEB FOB. WANTS. PULL an A. D. T. call box or call by either telephone No. 51 and nave your Want Acs brought to the State Journal oi fice by free messenger. No charge to you tor messenger ser ice. Coat oi classified ads u cents per line of b words to the line and every fraction thereof. WANTED-SITUAXIONS. WHEN you want to tiirt r man or boy, cad up Y. M. C. A., telephone 311. We have a list oi' men and couridenuai ref erences concerning V.hem. Y. ii. C. A. Err ploy ment Bureau, li? 1C Sth at. ANNOUNCEMENT. I AM A CANDIDATE FOB THE Re publican noiTiinalion tor member of tile city council from the Thiro ward, subject to the primary election of March ii. GEulLGE NEIL. 1 AM A CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF the court of Topeka, subject to the Ke publican primary Match 11, i'J'Z. F. M. GHOVF.R. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR CITY AT torney, subject to the Repubiiean pri mary election. W. A. S. BIRD. I AM A CAND1DATT FOR RE-ELEC-tion to the office of city attorney for a second term, subject to the Reoubliean primary election. CHARLES F. SPENCER. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR TREA55UR er of the city of Topeka. subject to the decision of the Republican city primary. II. A. WILLIS. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELKC-tiun as councilman from the Sixth ward, subject to the IteDublican primary. S. S. SWENDSON. I -AM A CANDIDATE FOR CITY treasurer, subject to the Republican pri mary. J. D. p ATT i SON, I AM A CANDIDATE FOR EE-ELEC-tion to the office of city treasurer, sub jecL to the Republican primary- election. M. M. HALE. I ANNOUNCE MYSELF AS A CANDI date for the nomination of city clerk, subject to the Republican primaries. E. E. LAIR. I AM A CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF the court of Topeka. subject to the decis' ion of the Republican primary. FRED C. SLATER. I All A CANDIDATE FOR A SECOND term as councilman from the Fifth ward, subject to Uie Republican primary PI. S. -NICHOLS. ARTHUR J. McCAEE 18 A CANDi daie for judge of the court of Topeka, subject to the Republican primary. W. S. BERGUNDTHAL date for mayor, subject can primary. 13 A CANDl to the Rejrubli- I AM A CANDIDATE FOR MARSHAL of the city court of Topeka, subject to the decision of the Republican prn.-iary-J. T. W I NT RODE. C. A. MAG AW, candidate fur Topeka, subject niary. POLIC1 judge to the JUDGE. IS A f the Court of Republican pri- I A.M A CANDIDATE FOR RE-ELEC-tion to the office of city clerk, subject to the Republican primary of March 11, 1:K3. --J. ii. SiJL'IKES. I WILL EE A CANDIDATE FOR MAY or of Topeka at the approaching election, subject to the Republican primaries. .1. W. F. HL'GUES. "WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED A waf,"t b. Mrs. boy with Mercer, Cr- a' wheel, sby Bros. good VAXTKD-1 cook. 1 second cook. 1 cham bermaid. 2 house Kh'ls. 2 dishwashers. Z dinine room iris, man and wife on farm. Star Employment Agency. WANTED Men and women to learn bar ber trade; H weeks completes; positions guaranteed: tuitions earned while learn ing: write for particulars. Moier's Barber college, Dallas, Tex., or Denver, Col. yvANTED Men to learn barber trade; tools, diplomas, positions anil board given graduates: slvirt time reuuired for our methods of stady practice, expert instruc tions, etc. Catalogue free. Moler Barber college, 1110 Pine st., St. Louis, Mo. INTELLIGENT man to call on business and professional men; permanent positie-n and good pay. Manager, Box 78, Philadel phia. WANTED FEMALE HELP. -Forewoman, waist and skirt makers. Mrs. Mercer, Crosby Bros. WANTED White woman to help in kitchen. Merchants' restaurant, lei E. 7th st. WANTED Office girl, city; farm hand. 3 women cooks, man second, "i wait resses. 3 housekeepers, lunch girl. SIS; men for farm, $25: tenant farmers with teams, kitchen idri?. -white boy dishwasher. B. L. Aicher. Mi Kansas ave. WANTED Girl Kansas ave. for light housework. 624 WANTED Girl for general housework: good wages; no washing. 910 Monroe st. WANTED A while woman, experienced hand washer. Crystal Laundry, 5 Van L'uren. POR RENT MISCELLANEOUS FOR RENT Barn, carriage room, large loft, box stalls. :m W. 0th st. LOST AND POUND. LOST A diamond shirt stud. The finder will be lih'rallv rewarded by returning it to C. C. Baker, 113 E. sth ave. ST KAY ED You nsr brown cow, had hal ter on. Reward for information. 522 Horn st. Bl'RXHAM Fee, $2.00. bull at 3247 Wayne ave. a sisn dat de old woman am gwine to strike a pose an' ax yo' why dar ain't anv 'tateitt! in de house. Idebee yo' am a-wine to strike a pose, too, but it won't be de ekal o' hers. Detroit I- ree Press. Anxious Resident Hello! Hello: Is this Smith's coal office? Coal Dealer Yes; what do you want? A. R. I've only gc-t coal enough in mv cellar to last until tonieht Coal Dealer i interrupting! That's KO-vJ. Fhafll you take for it? Wash ington Times. The savatje regarded the first white man thnujiht fully. "If I trv to fight him," he said, "he will exterminate me, and if I try to live in peace with him he will cheat me out of evervthins, and I will starve to death, "what chance have I got?" Chi C3C-3 Post. Church What in the world are thei buiidim- so many tunnels under thfa North river for? Gotham Oh, those are to accommo date the Kentuekians when they come to New York. It grieves them to see so i much water. Yonkers Statesman. f; W ii Li TOPEKA BUSINESS DIRECTORY. CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS. Carpenter, and builder, 117 East Seventh street. Repairing and odd jobs promptly dene. B3il 'phone 7'sl. M. W. MULL. Carpenter and Builder. Shop B.2'4 West Eighth rt. 'Phone 163, Job work promptly done. Topeka. Kan. SHIRT EACTOST. CALL and see our pretty shirt and shirt waisting, samples in, make all kinds or shirks a:.d guarantee a fit. Grimes' Shirt factory. 109 W. 7th st. Give us a. triai. TAILORING AND REPAIRING. S. GORDON, 10 W. tiih Et. Gentlemen s high art tailor. Fail &t'xia ready tor your Inspection. Repaints and pressins. N H. WOLFF. 429 KANSAS AVENfK Extends an invitation to one and all to exaraine his line of fall suitings. Suits made to order from 515.00 and up. J. G. SAMT7F.LSON, Old Court Hous!. Wooim Mill pants and suits made to your order Perfect fit guaranteed. CLEANING AND DYEING. Hue; J1GZR it SON, i20 Kansas avt. Dye citaning ana repairing of. clothes. ins, LADIES' iXD GENTLEMEN'S clothing cleaned and dyed. Ail kinds repairing done neal y. I. S. Herding, 023 Kansas ave. SPORTING GOODS. J. C. ELLIOTT, ?2S Kansas ave. Oeuerai sporting goods, fishing: tackle, shooting arms, ammunition, boat oars and oar locks, bicycles and bicycle supplies. MACHINISTS. GOLDEN" I.FI.K MACHINE WORKS, DOS Kansas av.Machlne and electrical works. Sporting goods, up-to-daie. Expert gun smith. E. J. GEP.DOM, ave. Linotype repaired. machinist, and printing 20 Kansas machinery MONEY. MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos, organs, typewriters, household goods and personal security. L Bisect. (S Kan. Ave. STORAGE MILLER Furniture Com. Co. packs, ships and stores household goods; insurance on storage, lnd. phone 246. Hi Kansas ave. MERCHANTS' TRANSFER STORAGE Co. packs, ships and gtc.r.. s housenold goods. Tel. li4. Clarence akinner. 123 nh st. TO R. R. EMPLOYES. RAILROAD EMPLOY" ES" Why will you pay $1.50 for main spring and $1.50 for cleaning when I will do either for 50 cents and at the same time guaran tee it for one year? I. M. BLITZ, 429 Kansas Ave. FRENCH AND GERMAN. MISS ELEANOR D YER WHEELER teacher of French and German; pupil dipiomte of prof. chas. Marchand, Paris. Studio hour h-12; 2-4. 12 Kansas ave. LOANS. MONEY loaned on p.anos, sewing ma chines, diau.oiKis, watches and any good security. N. B. Campbell, wJ5 Kansas ave. FEED STORE. NO better, no larger stock and no lower prices on hay, grain, hour and feed than at D. O. Cue's feed ."tore, Ha E. tith St. Both 'phones 3'JO. Try us. CONFECTIONER. T. E. DE PUI, 12 W. Sth st. Confection ex y, fruits, nuts and cigars. Best short order lunch In the city. Popular prices. HARDWARE. THE COU&HUN HARDWARE CO. Hardware, stoves, fine tools. 706 Kansaj ave. Tel. 606. OYSTER PAHLOR. CONFECTIONERY, tobacco, lunch and oysters. G. II. Harris, 427 Kansas ave. MUSICAL. 775 Polk, piano lessons, pupil's c. Church ife lodge playing free. WORRAL, home, t2!; Wj&NTTP MISCELLANEOUS. WANTED To buy 1,000 pair of second &24 Kansas ave. hand hoes. WANTED Room and board. first class ac commodations, in private family, by gen tleman and wife. Address Airs. Ben S. Wash, general delivery, city. WANTED Home of S'or 7 rooms on west side. Address B., cure of Journal. WANTED More people to try our excel lent table beard by day or week. Midland hotel, 4o0 Quincy st. WANTED SALESMEN. WANTED Salesmen to sell lubricating oils and greases on salary or commission. Excellent side line. The A. G. Harbaugh Co., Cleveland. O. FOR RENT -ROOMS. FOR RENT Basement for business, under hotel at Go2 respectable Kansas ave. FOR RENT Furnished rooms with board, $4 per week. Inquire room 8, Ilia Kansas ave., upstairs. FOR RENT steam heat -Handsomely furnished room, hot bath. 723 Quincy st. FOR RENT 5 or 7 rooms unfurnished. Z'S) Van Buren st. FOR RENT Rooms with board or light housekeeping. 607 Topeka ave. FOR RENT Nice furnished and unfur nished rooms, cheap. 427 Madison St. FOR RENT Nice room, furnace heat, gas and bath. 718 Taylor St. FOR ave RENT 2 large rooms at 515 Topeka FOR RENT Nice large front room with alcove, furnace heat, gas and bath. 715 V hth St. FOR RENT HOUSES. FOR RENT so n st. 3 room cottage. 109 Jeffer- FOR RENT House, barn and 20 acres fine bottom lund. 6th ave.. east, between city and Deer creek. SI So yearly. H. O. Uaarvt y. Cen. Bank bldg. C. F. Spencer. FOR RENT 4 room bruise 522 Chandler St. 5 room house 1217 Lincoln st. See J. Thomas Lumber Co., 213 W. 6th. FOR SALE- -MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE 7-year-old 1100-lb. broke mare. Call noon hours at Cunningham's stable. west of anta be rmmuhouse, or address P. O. Box 21X, Topeka. Kan. FOR PALE Cheap, tools of eld establish ed blacksmith shop. 17th and Clay. Owen Co., 520 Kansas ave. SEED HOUSE. SWEET PF.AS. Nasturtium, Pansy, ail kinds of flower seeds, at TOPEKA SEED HOUSE, S'.iC Kansas avenue. TOPESA TRUNK FACTORY. TOPEKA TRUNK MANUFACTORY. manufacturers and lobfccrs of trunks, traveling bags, telescope caste, ieatner Etoods, etc. oiO Kansas ave. Geoige V. ilosEfeld, Proprietor. Tel. REAL ESTATE AGENTS. ALEXANDER CRONE, tl Kat.saa ave.. Old Court House. Lint your irop-ertiea with mo for quick sales. UNDERTAKERS EMBALMERS. DEMGSS PENVVdLL, Funeral Direc tors and Embaimers First class service reasons tie prices, oil Quincy.Both tela. 1HSL GEO. B. PALMER, undtrtaker. Estab lished 1S71 Prices reasonable. Tel. office 140. Res. 7 621 jac'tEori St. PICTURES AND FRAMES. NEW s.T c'D'iEe for landscape and !:gure psdntuifcc- portraits made to order; fram ing:. Thos. M. Dciahovde. 720 Kansas ave. BILLIARD PARLOR. ROYAL BiLLIAltD PARLOR, 7)0 KANSAS AVE. Best billiard and pool tables ?n city. Cues always in good repair. Cjiiu and tobacco- LAUNDRIES. THE WHITE STAR LAUNDRY. 213-215 W". 5th tt. 'Phone 142. We will call and :et your bundle and you can get it back when you wuit it. Collars turned by huid without breaking them. K1EHI. LAUNDRY, S28 Kansas ave. Tel. ti2(i. Will call and deliver bundles prompt ly. Excellent W'Crk guaranteed. MILLINERY. MPS. ETTA LACES, 603 KANSAS AVE. Before you buy your trimmed hat be sure and see my exclusive tall styled. Compare my prices with others. LIVERY AND SALES STABLES. TOPEKA HACK BARNS Call either tel ephone 170 for hacks, day or night. W. T. Lawless. 5J1)-Quincy et. HARNESS AND SADDLERY. FOrT yOUR 'r'obET ANDBLATiKiiTS Call to see J. M. French, 71S Kansas ave. High grade harness. Repairing, etc. 3. L. BRADSHavV All kinds uf hand made harness. idO Kansas Ave. OjOjTSANDSHOES HA'l'XHKWS HKEsL'HKU Distributors of GOOD SHOES. 634 KANSAS AVE. PASTRY AND LUNCH. CROW'S LADIES' EXCHANGE. S'J Kan sas ave.- 113 W. tttn st.; l. Topeka ave. Strictly first class home made caket. piea, breau, ne. Discounts on party orders. 'Phone 540 2 rins. PATENTS. J. A ROSEN. Patent Attorney. 411 Kansas avenue. Topeka. DEPARTMENT STORE. THE NEW MODEL SLPPLY STORE has teven complete di partnieiits under one roof. Dry troc-is, stoves, clothing;, millin ery, hardware, drugs and lurnitaie. The stock is the most complete, j:ooits are the best and prices lowest of any smie in Kan sas. Kemper x Paxcou. 2jO-2io E. 6th st. DANCING TEACHER, PRIVATE liss'iiis by appointment, p. m Floyd McRae, instructor, bera's hall. 3 to t Stein- PAVING. THE OFFICE of the Capital City Vitri fied Brick and Paving Co.. has been re moved to 118 W. 3th st. GROCERIES. DAVIS MERCANTILE CO. High Class GROCERIES AND FRESH MEAT3 A Popular Prices. Both 'Phones 7'.3. S09 Kansas Ave. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS. FOR SALE 500 meals every day, 15c each. Auditorium, Kit Quincy st. FOR SALE Heavy ness and wagun, Kansas ave. work team, with har ir without. 911 North FOR SALE One 7-year-old thoroughbred Durham cow. 6-tj Lincoln St. FOR SALE Restaurant. Rood transient trade, eoti l'catiin1, must be sold at once. Address F. M.. care Journal. FOR SALE Hay horse, biigsiy and har ness. !t years old. weight 1,11m its.:cncap for cash. 121 W infield ave., Oakland. H. Jl. Mel Ian. FOR SALE r 9 Lnngshani roosters and one 'erne ipijek. 41 Quincv st Hamburg FOR SALE-REAL ESTATE. FELLOW Traveller, to the bar of God, who drinks! Do you wish to get on with the sober world? If so, call or write De Voe- LiQuor Cure Co.. lJ4 Kansas ave. and Sth St., Topeka. Kan. FOR SALE 1 m. E. shop acre land, imprcyements, on Seward ave, F. A. Cox. FOR SALE farm )S m Smith, Dolt K -Goed improved iks Topeka, i'l'J ansas ave. half E. section A. M. FOR SALE The smith i of the N. W. 4 of sec. 7-13-15; one of the best improved farms in Auburn township. G. R. Gibson, Auburn, Kas. FOR SALE At a bargain. ern cottage: owner leaving at 1013 Tyler st. i room mnd-:-ity. Inquire FOR SALE 8 reom modern house, con veniently planned, west side, on pave ment. Strauss Agency, Central National Bank bkiu. FOR SAL! 5i5, ?i!.,ieo: do"; all cn No. S.4U and S'.2V.. $4. No. KM, with 10 year If North Kansas ave. N No. ise. 52, 224 S. Quincy. J! iOo; 1-3 cash; balance per cent contract. F. FENSKV. Sa an Pedro. Cal. FOR RALE By M. Hurry, 411 Jackson St. houses and lots on time paymc-nta. FARM FOR SALE. One of the best farms in Shawnee coun ty, seven miles from Topeka, well im proved, excellent neitibborho-td, price very reasonable; terms to suit: possession March 1. if seld at rnee. S. B. Re.hrer, second floor Central National Bank bldg. FOR SALE 5-year-old living good mess miik Shorthorn now, fresh cow, so em. 3CH Forest st Oakland. FOR SALE House of seven rooms and hail, bath, pantry, etc., furnace, gas, etc., modern in every way, 2 lots, paved St.. west side, in eld city, always rents well. Non-resident owner says sell at once. Price reduced. Wood Dickinson, h'ii EXPRESS DELIVERY. FOR BAGGAGE and 'phone liW, Atherton East nth t. moving call ut Bros. C'Eice 100 COAL DEALERS. SOUTHWESTERN FUEL CO.. TELEPHONJi iaS. N. E. COR. STH AMI KAN. AV Ail Kinds of Coal Beat Quality. Full Weight. Prompt Delivery. PETEK HEIL Botn 'phones 470. coal. SON. 210 West 6th s. Dealers in &11 kin is of EICYCLES AND REPAIRING. TOPEKA AUTOMOBILE AND CYCUa Co. Tel. 7i. Ricyciea and sundries; bi cycles and tandems for rent; repairing "it ail kinds. CENTRAL BICYCLE SUPPLY CO.. 44 Kansas a ve. Rugby, Racycle and idou arch bicycles; gasoline lamps, repairing. U. S. CYCLE CO., 118 E. 8th St. National and I.er-Johnson bicycles. Bicycia ui plies Repairs of all kinds. PRINTERS ANDPJJBLISHiERSk ROBY KNOX, printers ana pumlshers. Fine job printing a specialty. Special attention given to mall orders and att faction guaranteed. ILi E. 7th St.. TopUk. Kau. Bell 'phone 39. LIFE INSURANCE. THE UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSUR ance Co. of Cincinnati. O. G. W. IV. Yates, state agent. Room 50. Columbian bids. ELORISTS. MRS. M. E HO LC RAFT, 817 Kansas V3. Cut flowers and iloral designs. Phone l.. CUT 'FLOWERS and floral deslans at Hayes'. 107 W. Sth t. 'Phona 377 3 rimra. WALL PAPER. G. A. WOOD, S32 KANSAS AYE. Wall Paper, Prettiest Fall Pattern Paperhanintf and Fainting. l-'ruciptly and Neatly Dona By Experienced Workman. INSTALLMENT HOUSE. AN ACCIDENT occurred on the railroad crossing lst week. There waa a mitA standing on the railroad track, who dia not wear an Edward E. Strauss Co. suit. Do not let accidents occur to vou. Come in and have your measure taken for one of these iamous suits and you will be safe. Zuudition Supply Co., 317 iCaosaa ave. STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCIL3 THE J C. DARLING CO.. 73t Kan Ave. Rubber stamps, brass and aluminum tra checks. Prices low. Catalogue free. Tel. Zti. WATCHMAKER. WATCH E? cleaned. 75c; clocks. Dec: main. springs, 7&c; crystals, 10c. Cash paid Tcr old gold or silver. All work Buaranteed. old jewelry exchanged ior new. If hard up. nee Uncle Bam. M2 Kansas ave. JEWELER3. JAMES P. ilAVDEN, Jeweler and Opti cian. 1 te.pl-te stock of wntches. dia monds, silverware, etc Eyes examined and surctcies properly fitted. DRUGGISTS. TOPEKA Uilt'il CO.. TCI Kansas av. Tel. 743. prescriptions promptly and accurate ly liiied. All wiida ioua drinks a; fountain. W F. LAKE, drugs. 630 Kansas ave. Ind. 'phone lib Prescriptions carefully compound, d b;, registered pbarrnacst. PHYSICIAN3 AND SUiOJN i. IDA C. BARNES. M. I. Office 720 Kansas ave. Residence Thlr teenlh and Clay. Office hours: V a. to. ta 11 a. m. and 3 p. m. to 5 p. in. Telepi.ona 6SS residence and 16 office. FREE DISPENSARY. TOPEKA FREE DISPENSARY, south cast corner 12th and Tyler sis., from 1 to 2 p. m., except Sundays. Conducted by regular, practicing physicians, for the beneiit of persons without means, who need medical attention and treatment. Pa tients are assured of careful and consid erate treatment. Medicines furnished in most cases. MISCELLANEOUS. MISFIT clnthinK and shoes bought and seld at 4il Kansas ave. THE NEW PHILISOPIIY OP LIFE. f-'iucao S09 Topeka ave., 4 to 9 p. m., class work, private i.-ssons and lessons at home or by' mail at rec-iced rates during winter RAILROAD TIME TABLES. r I TIME TABLE. Topeka, Kansas. The Right Road' to and from and beiwesn OMAHA DENVER COLORADO SPG3 FORT WORTH, ST. PAUL MINNEAPOLIS CHICAGO ST. LOC13 MEMPHIS PEORIA ST. JOSpji KANSAS CITY And .everywhere Beyond. TRAINS LEAVE TOPEKA AS FOL LOWS: EAST BOUND. No. 2, Chicago Mail and Express. 3:35 pm No. 4, Eat Ex. and Mail 4:20 am No. 20, El Paso and Chicago Ex 6:o0am No. 44, Golden State Limited 6:09 prrj No. 10, Colorado and K. C. Flyer.. 7:45 am No. i;6. Chick, and K. C. Fx 6:50 pm WESTBOUND. No. 1, Chicago and Texas Ex 1:10 pm No. Colorado Flyer 8.10 om No. 43, Golden Slate Limited 12:35 run No. 3, Texas Ex ..12:15 am No. i9, California and Mexico Ex. .12 :5J am No. S5, K. C. and Chickacha F.x 9:25 am NORTHBOUND. No. 6. St. Joe Ex 7:45 nm No. 14, St. Joe and Chicago Ex.... 3:36 pm SOUTHBOUND. Nn. IS, Chicago Ex 12:45 pn No. 25. S. W. Ex S :0&pm All trains daily except Nos. 36 and 3 daily txeept Sunday. For sleeping car reservations, tickets, time tables, etc., apply to any Rock Islard Ticket Agent. n. W. THOMPSON. Assistant Genf ral Passenger Agent. Lines West of Missouri River, KANSAS CITY. MO. Onion Faclfls. WESTBOUND. Arrive. Dep. Pac. Coast No. 5.12:40 pm Limited No. 1 8:50 pm June. City Pass. No. 3 6:10 pm Salina Ex. No. 7 10:05 am KASTBOUND. Atlantic Fx. No. 4 3:00 pm Limited No. 2 5:40 am K C. Pass. No. 6 8:05 am K. C. Ex. No. 8 5:40 pm Leive. 12:40 pm 8:5o pm :25 pm 10:05 am 3:01 pm 5 -.40 am 8:2il am 5:40 pra Ncs. 7 aiV daily, except Sunday. Missouri Pacific. Arrive. Leave. Topeka-Ft- Scott Accom. Nu 285 6:00 cm 7:00 ara

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