The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 18, 1905

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EVERYBODY 16 PAGES READS IT. V.- frir r r-Of A iVV HV everybody (iMio 16 PAGES M r NEEDS IT. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVKNING. TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH 18, 1905. SATURDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. rij-i imp- n '0IL-r.iEHT.1EET. Eig Crow d at Independence Mass Meeting Today. Special Trains Run From Over the Oil District. TIIIL CAMPBELL TALKS Third District Congressman Is the Man of the Hour. Says the Country Is Behind Kansas in Fighting Standard. Independence, Kan.. March 18. The Kansas oil producers met today to ratify the action of the Kansas leg islature in passing laws which will enable them to battle on even terms uith the Standard Oil company. The night trains brought hundreds of peo ple from every town In the district and the hotel lobbies were packed hours before the meeting: convened. Governor Hoch and other state offi cers arrived in the night, and Warden Jeuett, who will manage the state re finery, was also early on the ground. The Han of the Hour, however, is Congressman Phil Campbell, who came early this morning. He is being congratulated by every man who can Teach him for his stand on the Kan sas oil situation, which has made him a national character. Congressman P. P. Campbell, the Man or tlie Hour at Independence. "Kansas has never before had such backing," said he. "The whole country is standing behind her, be cause the people- realize that they must whip the Standard or the Stan dard will run the country. There can be no let-up. It is a fight to the death, and Kansas cannot lose be cause the sentiment of the country is behind her." The meeting, which opened at 3 p. m., was held at the Auditorium, which was packed to the doors. J. O. Fife, vice president of the Kansas Oil Producers' association, presided. The speakers were Governor Hoch, Con gressman Campbell, Senator F. Du m.ont Smith. Senator W. S. Fitzpat rick. Frank S. Monnett of Ohio, and Miss Ida M. Tarbell, of McClure'a Magazine, and author of the history of the Standard Oil company, attend ed the meeting but did not speak. Tonight a banquet is to be held at the Hotel Carieton at which Senator Kitzpatrick is toastmaster. Campbell's Speech. In his speech this tifternonn Con gressman Campbell said: "We are engaged in an effort to give every man and every dealer an equal chance with every other man and every other deal er. The country's demand is fair play whether the man has small capital or large. It is not hoped even with an equal chance that limited capital may enjoy all the advantages of unlimited capital but it is hoped we may be able to make the big fellow stop taking unwarranted and unlawful advantage of the little fellow. "This is equal and exact justice, it is fair play and insisting on that we have the hearty co-operation of all who be lieve in justice and fair play. There is ro fieht on wealth or corporate capital. On the contrary we insist on the 'square deal' for all men and all capital great and small. The fight is centered on the indefensible methods in business practices by the Standard Oil and its j mistletoe companies but includes all who by any method of practice would deprive any one of their right to any equal chance. The whole country in sists that the highways of commerce be open to all on equal terms. "The Standard Oil company pro claims its innocence of any dishonest or improper business methods and as sorts that the unparalleled prosperity of the company is due wholly to the matchless sagacity of the head of the company and his lieutenants. It is claimed specifically that they have never enjoyed any privileges or ad vantages that have not been open and equal to ail competitors. "These statements are made by; these men in interviews published fori the public and under oath in court! and before committees of investiga tion. The Oil Producers' association sent more than a thousand invitations to prominent men throughout the coun try to attend the meeting, among them United States senators and congress men, governors of various states, and other public men. Most of them are, of course, unable to be present, but a large number, in sending their regrets, assured the Kansas producers of their sympathy in the oil fieht. John O'Brien of the Standard and President Tounff of the Prairie Gas and Oil company were also invited to attend the meetings. Most of those who responded to the invitations stent out did so in personal letters. Senator Long is the only Kan Fan who did not do so. His response was' a formal note, simply expressing his retrret at his inability to attend the m",tine. written in the third person. Governor Folk, of Missouri, said he could not come, but would like to. as he was in hearty sympathy with the movement. Conprersman Hinshaw said: "I can't be with you in body, but am with yo'i in sympathv." Governor Blanchard of Louisiana f A X rC j If said: "I am In full sympathy with the fight being made by the oil pro ducers of Kansas against the oil mon opoly." Congressman J. W. Fordney of Michigan, wrote: "Kansas seems to have struck a popular chord, judging from the hearty responses she gets from other states." John L. Kennedy, congressman from Nebraska, said: "Kansas is now the center of attraction by reason of its attitude on the oil industry, and people everywhere will watch the con test with interest." 'r' '"rT K' S Congressman Charles F. Seott of Iola. President L. H. Murlin, of Baker uni versity, wrote: "I am greatly delighted with the advanced and progressive step Kansas has taken under the leadership of Governor Hoch, backed by the Oil Producers' association, with reference to the monopoly of the oil business of this state, I have sympathized with the movement from the beginning and wish it ultimate success. The feature of the assembly is the mass meeting which is in progress this afternoon. A banquet will follow to night. There is a tremendous crowd and great enthusiasm at the mass meet ing;. Governor Hoch Talks. The introduction of Governor Hoch to the oil producers was met with ap plause. He said: "Combinations of capital and cor porate organizations are now a neces sity. They are not in themselves evil; they are good, they are essential to modern civilization. But with these changes of commercial conditions have come a necessity for a change of the relation of government to business enterprises. What is government'.' What is ts primary pin pose I an swer in a vord: To subcve the greatest good to the greatest number. The aggregations of capita in the hands of a few men with great talents may be either a great blessing or a groat curse to the country. A wise government is not only corrective, but it is anticipatory. Indeed, from the decalcgue to the last statute wise gov ernment has chiefly been a 'thou shalt not.' Human cupidity is a constant menace to society and when vested with giant corporate powers it is a menace to individual interests and to government alike, for in a republic like ours the -strength of the govern ment rests primarily upon the strength of the individual and his wel fare is inseparably connected with the welfare of the country and with the government itself. "These simple, but fundamental truths are at the base of all the pres ent agitation and discussion of the great trust question in this country, and they form the warp and woof of the great contest now on in the state of Kansas, the rreat contest whos.? most recent arena was in our legis lative halls, and whose echo is heard in this auditorium today. No greater question confronts the American peo ple than this trust question. How wisely to control the operations of gj-eat aggregation of capital for the public good without unwisely hamper ing great business enterprise and rob biner individual investment of legiti mate profits, these be the problems which tax the best thought and highest statesmanship. We are all Groping more or less in the dark. But I see rosy tints of a dawning solution of these problems. I firmly and fer vently believe that Kansas, proud, glorious Krnsas, leader always of thoaeht and acti-n is about to make a substantial contribution to the final solution ,.f this wiol tr'ist problem. "My fellow citizens, let the issue in this state be clearly denned and clearly understood. First, let me say that this is not a war upon the Standard Oil company. It is a war upon its methods. It is not an attack upon this great corporation. It is an attack upon its commercial policies. It is not an at tempt to drive the Standard Oil com pany out of this state. It is an attempt to compel it to be decent. This great corporation has invested large sums of money in ttus state. It is entirely wel come here. We will not jeopardize a single dollar of its investment, nor rob it of a penny of legitimate profit. We do not protest against its presence here. We do not envy it its prosperity. We simply protest against a monopoly that would crush producer and consumer alike between the upper and nether mill stones, and which would absorb to its greedy self all the vast reservoirs of wealth with which the Almighty has endowed this state and its people. And in this contest we will put every dollar of our material resources, every bit of our manhood and womanhood, and ev ery particle of governmental power, and we will fight it out on this line re gardless of difficulties or temporary de feats until victory shall finally crown our efforts. j "Let me in the second place empha size and reemphasize the statements I have repeatedly made hitherto that this is not a socialistic movement but the very reverse of it. A student for many years of historical and philosophical so cialism. I have emerged from these in vestigations thorotighly and profoundly convinced that socialism is a soporific which would put the commercial world, aye. and the moral world also, ultimate ly to sleep. That it will dwarf humani ty and retard all progress. Socialism in governments is the Indian's idea of government, the idea of a great father dispensing beads, and blankets and succotash to a lot of indolent depend ents constitutionally opposed to work. Competition works hardships ife is true, but it nuts iron in human nature. It develops strength and character. It is essential to man's highest development and to the world's greatest good. Thor oughly convinced by long study and much thought that the socialistic idea of government in private business is radically wrong. I have entertained with caution any and every proposition tending toward governmental absorp tion of business enterprise which can be more wisely left to individual effort. (Continued on Page Ten). 1 ON TOHARBIN. Japanese Have Changed Their Minds About the War. Formerly Disposed to Place a Limit on the Advance. NOT MUCH IS KNOWS Of Events of the Past Three Days in Manchuria. Additional Prisoners Captured Estimated at 20,000. Tokio, March 18. Beyond the general retirement of the Russians along the railway northward, little is known of the details of the past three days' events in Manchuria. Various reports of the number of additional Russian prisoners captured are in circulation. One estimate is 20,0,00. It is impossible to confirm the re ports. There is much speculation over the extent of the Russian retirement. Harbin is regarded as a logical base, but it is suggested that they may at tempt to hold the Kirin fine. The country between Kiayuan and Sun gari is inhospitable. Formerly the conservative element in the high councils of Japan favored setting a limit to the Manchurian ad vance. It opposed advancing to Har bin, but the results of the victory at Mukden are removing opposition and the bulk of opinion and judgment now favors pressing advantages and carry ing the war to the utmost limits pos sible. Kuropatkln starts Home. St. Petersburg, March 18. A dis patch from Changtufu reports that General Kuropatkin has left there for St. Petersburg. Rojestveiisky Moves Again. Antananarivo, Madagascar, March IS. The Russian second Pacific squadron left Nossi Bet the afternoon of March 16. Its destination is not known. Japan Must Fight On. New York, March 18. The Jap anese press considers that Manchuria is now, says a Times dispatch from Tokio, virtually in a state of Japanese occupation, but the papers dismiss the thoughts of speedy peace in view of the Russian reluctance to admit de feat. Under the circumstances, there fore, it is held that it will be essential to prosecute the war vigorously. The premier, speaking Friday night at a dinner of the Bankers club, ask ed his hearers to conceive themselves in the position of Russia, who al though enormously superior in re sources, population and military re nown is now confronted with the pain ful question of suing for peace with a nation hitherto regarded with con tempt. It would be unwise, he said, to anticipate such a concession. The Japanese, he added, must be prepared to continue the war to the bitter end. THREATENED BADGER. Brirason, Mo., P. M. Fined on Com plaint of Former Topekan. Trenton. Mo., March 18. T- A. Brown, recently resigned postmaster at Brim son, editor of the "Banner, and son of D. C. Brown, Grundy county's represen tative in the legislature, paid a small fine in police court here for disturbing the peace of F. W. Badger, editor of the Brimson Booster. As postmaster, Brown was accused of discriminating against the Booster and it was through the complaints of Badger that a post office inspector recently investigated Brown, resulting in the latter's resigna tion. Brown had theratened Badger with personal violence. FLEE FROM PLAGUE. City of 20,000 Population Reduced to Five Hundred. New York, March 18. Owing to the ravages of bubonic plague not more than 500 inhabitants remain in the city of Pisagua, Chile, according to a dispatch from the Herald's corre spondent there. The place had a population of 20,000, but all who were able have fled. Only one doctor remains to attend the sick. There are 136 cases in the hospital. Twelve new ones were re ported in one day, five resulting fatally. CROWD OUT EARLY. To See the President Return From New York. Washington, March 18. President and Mrs. Roosevelt reached Washing ton from New York today at 7:20 a. m. They were met at the Pennsyl vania station by their carriage and driven directly to the Wrhite House. The trip from New York was with out noteworthy incident. 'Notwith standing the early hour of his arrival the president was greeted by a con siderable crowd at the station as he left the train. There was, however, no demonstration. HAY GOES TO EUROPE. Secretary of State "Will Be Absent Two juonuis. Washington. March IS. Secretary and Mrs. Hay have left Washington to be absent two months. They will sail tomorrow for Europe. Temperatures In Large Cities. Chicago, March 18. 7 a. m. tem peratures: New York. 40; Philadel phia, 40; Chicago, 54; Cincinnati, 56; Boston, 42; Washington,. 42; Minne apolis, 40; St. Louis, 5 4. Weather Indications. Chicago, March 18. Forecast for Kansas: Generally fair tonight and Sunday; brisk northwest winds. OFFICE PARCELLED OCT. President Fixes It l'p With Illinois Statesmen. Washington, March 18. President Roosevelt had a conference today with Senators Cullom and Hopkins and Speaker Cannon of Illinois, at which it was determined to appoint C. C. Kohl saat, now United States district judge for the northern district of Illinois to be circuit judge of the Seventh circuit. It also was decided to appoint Solomon H. Bethea, now United States district attorney for the northern district of Illinois as United States judge for that district and Kensaw M. Landis as ad ditional United States judge for the same district. This agreement ends the spirited contest which has been in pro gress for two or three weeks. The nom inations will be sent to the senate. Mr. Landis is a brother of Congress man Charles B. and Frederick Landis of Indiana. SILK STATION SOLD. State Winds Up the Failure at Pea- body Loses Over $20,000. The Peabody silk station, which cost the state $13,000 to build and about $10,000 more tr maintain, has been sold to A. B. Ridlinghafer for $1,305. This is an experiment in state owner ship Nwhich the opponents of the state oil refinery forgot to cite when they were making their fight on that proposition. The following were the bids which were opened by the board of three commissioners appointed by chapter 270 of the laws of 1901 to sell the plant: J. E. Tressler A. B. Ridlinghafer Alex Welne .$1,260 1,305 505 fid3 662 1,2 7 5 1,100 852 6 1 0 610 G. P. Wagner W. E. Bozarth W. J. Horsh W. B. Kellar Page Derby t J. S. Holmberg John B. Caton The three members of this com mission were John Smith, chairman of the hoard of county commissioners cf Marion county; J. R. Burrow, secre tary of state, and T. T. Kelly, state treasurer. The expense of making the sale was $42.10, divided between John Smith for traveling expenses and the Peabody Gazette and Marion Record for advertising the sale. So the total amount which the state realized from the transaction was $1,262.90, repre senting a loss of something over $20,000 to the state' in an effort to establish silk culture in Kansas. The general opinion seems to be that the remains of the old silk sta tion are worth all that was paid for it. There is a good deal of mystery over the long delay in making the sale. The state first tried to give away the silk station to anybody who would take it and operate it; then it tried to get the United States government to take hold of it. Failing in both of these at tempts, it was decided, by the legisla true of 1901 that trie commission should be appointed to make the sale on the best terms possible, and turn the money into the state treasury. That commission was supposed to do its w6rk within four years from the time of the passage of the law. Mean time the state was paying somebody $100 a year to take care of the build ings. Just why the sale should have been delayed tHl almost the extreme end of the time limit nobody seems to know. It is claimed that had the buildings been sold four years ago, they would have brought a good deal more money. When the board of commissioners had opened the bids, they submitted the bid of Mr. Ridlinghafer to Gover nor Hoch, who is familiar with the values of property in Marion county, and the governor stated that he thought the bid was a fair proposition, and that the state would do well to accept it. The silk station never "panned out" well for the state. It was thought that it would prove to be a great money maker, and would teach the people of the commonwealth how to get rich on short notice. But for some reason, the silk bugs did not thrive and the state became tired, at last, of putting up money for maintenance, and re fused to make any more appropria tions. Then the plant was shut down. HAS ANNULLED CONTRACTS. American Beet Sugar Corporation Will Go to Colorado. Lakin, Kas., March 18. The American Beet Sugar company has annulled all beet contracts in the state and will temporarily leave the Kansas field to the new sugar factory now building in Holly, Colo. This arrangement will give the new com pany in Holly ample facilities to se cure a large acreage and make a short haul for the beets from this state to the factory. The distance is only about fifty miles from this place. In case of failure of the new factory the American beet sugar factory in Rocky Ford has agreed to take the crop from Kansas tarmers on the same terms as agreed to in the an nulled contracts. The sequel of this matter probably will be the building of a factory in tnis poi uuu ui jauoao soon. SOLD AT AUCTION. Mrs. Chadivlck's Household Goods Bring $25,200. Cleveland. March 18. The house hold property of Mrs. Cassie L. Chad wick was sold at auction to A. D. Nel son of kpw York for $25,200. There were twenty bidders. Clothing to the value of between $4,000 and $5,000, which Mrs. Chadwick held to be ex empt from the claims or her creditors, was not offered for sale today. Sanaa Captured by Rebels. Aden, Arabia, March 18. It is re ported that Sanaa, capital of the pro vince of Yemen, with its garrison of 5.000 men, has fallen into the hands of the Arab insurgents. The gov ernor it is added, had previously of fered to surrender but his terms were not acceptable to the besiegers. The Electrical Dry Cleaning com pany at 113 West Tenth for one week longer are cleaning and pressing gen tlemen's clothes for one dollar; ladies' skirts flftv cents. Independent phone 9 4 rins. All experienced help. HAY STRlCKEf Secretary of State Collapsed at Steamer Dock. Just as He Was About to Go on Board. SAVED FROM FALLING. He Was Wheeled Across Gang Plank in Invalid's Chair. Signal Came From Sandy Hook That He tVas Better. New York, March 18. Secretary of State Hay was takn ill today as he was. about to board the White Star liner Cretic for a voyage to the Mediterranean and became so weak that he was taken on board the steamer in a wheel chair. That his condition was not regarded as alarm- Col. John Hay, ing seemed apparent, however, as-tne steamer started cn her voyage with out delay. Mr. Hay has been in pcor health for some time and the voyage upon which he started today was planned to give him complete rest and an opportunity to recuperate. The secretary's plans include a stay of about six weeks in southern Europe. The secretary had come up from Washington yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Hay, his daughter, Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, jr., Clarence Hay, his son and Henry Adams, a personal friend. The whole party wentto the steamer today, although only Mr. and Mrs. Hay and Mr. Adams were to sail. At the White Star dock there are several flights of stairs leading to the second floor, from which floor the boarding- of the steamer is made. In going up these stairs Mr. Hay had to rest at each landing. Just as he reached the top he reeled back but re covered himself and kept on. As he was about to start up the gang plank he was seen to turn deathly white and stagger and he would have fallen had not his friend supported him. The sec retary was assisted to a heao of freight piled up near the gang plank where he sat down and waited until an invalid's chair was brought from the steamer. He was then wheeled aboard the steam er and went at once to his apartments. It was within a few minutes of the steamer's sailing time when the secre tarv went on board and it was believ ed that if his ill turn was regarded as particularly serious there would have been some delay while physicians were summoned. As she passed Sandy Hook the Cretic displayed a signal saying that secretary Hay was much better. The Cretic is not equipped with wire less telegraph and except for possible signals to a passing vessel no word of the secretary's condition will be had until she reaches the Azores, her first stopping place. SENATORS OBJECTED. President Roosevelt Compelled to Change an Appointment. Washington, March 18. President Roosevelt recently sent to the senate the nomination of George L. Dobson, of Iowa, to be consul of the United States at Nottingham, England, vice Frank W. Mahin. The appointment created a flurry in the Iowa delega tion in congress. Mr. Mahin is an Iowa man, his appointment to Not tingham having been obtained origi nally by Senator Allison; Both Sen ators Allison and Dolliver objected to his displacement, even by another Iowa man, and as a consequence Dob, son's appointment was held up. After a consultation between the president and the Iowa senators, it was decided to make a change in the nomination of Mb. Dobson. Today therefore the president sent to the senate the nomi nation of Mr. Dobson to be consul at Hangchow, China, vice George E. An derson, who is promoted to be consul at Amoy, China, the nomination of Dobson as consul at Nottingham at the same time, being withdrawn. This arrangement leaves Mr. Mahin at Nottingham. Finds Asphalt Company Guilty. Willemstad, Island of Curacoa, March 18. Advices received from Caracas, Venezuela, say that the su perior court decided an appeal March 15, that the New York and Bermudese Asphalt company aided the Matoa revolution. The high federal court will fix the damages. The final judg ment mav not be rendered for many months. This case is separate from the action of the government to re scind the company's concession. OVER AX IXCH. Heavy Downpour of Fiuiu in Topeka Last Night. The total rainfall thus far has been 1.17 of an inch.. Almost as much, rain fell yesterday afternoon and evening as the preceding twenty-four hours. At two o'clock this afternoon a slight sprinkle prophesied another heavy pre cipitation. The rainfall appears to be general all over the state and is helping along growing things in a wonderful way. Following are the hourly temperatures as recorded by the government ther mometer: 7 o'clock 52111 o'clock 61 8 o'clock ...5312 o'clock 64 9 o'clock 57 1 o'clock 63 10 o'clock 60 2 o'clock 61 The wind at two o'clock was blowing from the south at a rate of 15 miles per houi. BRISTOW ABOUT DUE. He Is Expected in Washington at Any Time Now. Washington, March 18. Joseph L. Bristow, special Panama canal com missioner, is expected here daily with his report to the president on condi- Secretary of State. tions exisiting on the Panama rail road which connects the isthmian port towns and therefore the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Bristow went to the isthmus, to New York and to New Orleans and Mexican and California points to get data in regard to railroad rates which affect the transcontinental rate question. It is understood he will put some very interesting in formation to the president and fully justify his reputation as an investi gator. Later Mr. Bristow may be or dered to Europe on the rate question. It is probable that the postmaster general will not disturb Kansas City as division headquarters for rural free delivery for Kansas operations even though he does establish a headquar ters at Omaha. The Kansas City di vision is under the supervision of J. R. Harrison of Kansas, postoffice in spector in charge. Senator Long has been interesting himself in keeping the division at Kansas City. Representative Calderhead, the last of the Kansans save Senators Long and Burton, went home last night. He was accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Forter, and her husband, Samuel For ter. who is a United States pension ex aminer and whose headquaters will be at Grand Island, Neb. Mr. Calder head will go directly home. MR. BLACK DENIES. Brands the Armour Rebate Story as 'False and Malicious." A Chicago paper printed a story this week under scare headlines from Frank Monnett to the effect that evi dence gathered in the suit against the Santa Fe indicated that Armour Co. of Kansas City, one of the big packing houses, had received rebates from the Santa Fe on coal shipped to Kansas City from the Pittsburg ana Frontenac district, amounting to more than $250,000. Santa Fe officials brand this story as malicious and untrue. The facts are, said VV. J. jtJiacK, or me oanw Fe, to a reporter tor tne siaie journal today, "that the Santa Fe has not shipped a pound of coal for Armour Co. from the Pittsburg or any other district in years, and has never hauled to exceed a very few car loads of coal for that company. The publication of such truck and falsehoods is a fair sample of the efforts Frank Monnett is making ostensibly to help the oil producers in Kansas. During the examination in Topeka of W. J. Healy, freight auditor of the Santa. Fe, the matter of coal rates was gone into. The rates on coal to Kan sas City was taken up but there was no testimony or evidence of any kind introduced which indicated that Ar mour Co. received a rebate from the Santa Fe. Althoueh authentic Information on the subject is lacking, it is reported that Mr. Monnett receives his salary for the work he is doing in Kansas principally from Hearst rather than from the Kan sas Oil Producers association. Before Mr. Monnett left Topeka to go to Cha- nute where he has been conducting the examination of witnesses this week, he stated that he would remain in Kansas but a little more than a week longer. The question naturally follows. "Who will follow up the work already be gun?" The attorneys for the Santa Fe dur ing the progress of the examination of witnesses have repeatedly confronted Mr. Monnett with the allegation that he is working on the case for the purpose of manufacturing sensational news for the Hearst papers. Railroad men claim that the Santa Fe has had thrust upon it during the past ten days a number of charges which have been exploited in the press throughout the country that have been exaggerated, distorted and misleading, and" that a great injustice has been im posed upon the railroad company. LEAVESJOillSAS. Standard Oil Co. Prepares. to Move Out of the State. Surrenders Leases and Is Tear ing Down Tank Farms. BUYS BUT LITTLE OIL. Taking But 2,000 Barrels Daily Formerly Took 11,000. Suit Begun to Drive Monopoly From Missouri. Independence, Kan., March 18. The Standard Oil company has erased Kan sas from its map. It has erased all op erations here except such as are neces sary to enable its constituent company, the Prairie Oil and Gas company, to hold its charter in the state. The decis ion of the Standard to hereafter ignore the Kansas field is In retaliation for the unfavorable legislation enacted in To peka in the recent session of the legis lature. The Prairie company surrendered its lease on a 160-acre tank farm near Caney today and closed a contract for a farm of similar yield near Ramona, I. T. The tanks already erected on the Caney farm will be taken down and re moved to Ramona. It is the intention of the management to later remove the tanks from the Humboldt farm to In dian Territory. Three months go the Standard's pay roll in this section of the state was $75,000 a month. Now it is only $5,000. Where the Standard formerly took 11.000 barrels of Kansas oil a day it now takes only 2,000 and a general official of the company said that this amount would be reduced. Asked why the Standard has assumed this attitude toward Kan sas he said: "Well, we have decided that the peo ple of the state don't want us here, that they would rather make some other dis position of their oil. We cannot afford to do business in a state so unfriendly to us as Kansas. We pay a large amount in. taxes every year and receive no protection. The legislature has tried to confiscate our property and we are of the opinion that it is not good busi ness judgment to have too much invest ed here." "What will happen to the producers of Kansas, and where will you get your oil?" he was asked. "Oh well," he replied with a laugh, "the producers will have to look out for themselves, and as fcr our oil, we can. get all we need In the Indian ter ritory. That is really a much higher grade of oil than you have in this state, and while we will continue to operate our pipe line in Kansas it will be for the purpose of carrying Inditm territory oil through the state. We will be able within a short time to handle about 40,000 barrels of oil a day, but we can use use only about 2,000 barrels of the Kansas product." The same officer said that the Prai rie Oil and Gas company will pay no attention to the common carrier law. "That is the only law enacted thit) winter which could in any way effect our business, and we will ignore it." he said. "We cannot build storage tanks every time we are ordered to do so by some consignee, and that is what the law requires. We will have our pipes full all of the time and be unable to comply with the lav,-. Yes, you may say that the Standard has abandoned the Kansas fields because the people have shown that they da not. want us here." A Foreign Market. When J. M. Parker, secretary of the Kansas Oil Producers' association, was told last night of the decision of th Standard to abandon the Kansas field he said: "This is news to me, but it is as I expected. This is to retaliate for tho action of the legislature this winter. The laws enacted require the Standard to be decent and this is impossible for it to do. Its back has been broken in Kansas and it is now trying to get revenge on the Kansas people because they demand a square deal. "We have expected the Standard to go to the extreme in seeking revenue and we have made provision to din pose of our oil. Already the Sche!I Oil company of England is arranging to build a pipe line from Kansas to the gulf and its agents are now in the field making contracts with the pro ducers for their oil. We will have a. market for our oil In foreign coun tries within a short time." MISSOCRI AFTER STANDARD. Attorney General Begins Suit t.j Oust Monopoly From Missouri. Jefferson City, March 18. Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general, instituted. proceedings against the standard Oil company and its subsidiary companies in Missouri today. The proceeding will be the same as that adopted by his predecessor in his fight against the beef trust.. The first proceeding is aix application to Judge Marshall for an order citing the Standard Oil com pany, the Republic Oil company and the Waters-Pierce Oil company to ap pear in court and show cause why a commissioner should not be appointed by the supreme court to Investigate their business methods. Judge Marshall issued the citation requiring them to appear in the su preme court March 22 and show cause why such an investigation should not be begun and proceedings brought to oust them from the state. In the bef trust cases the packing compani?.? were allowed to continue in businenj in Missouri and fined heavily because putting them out of the state would deprive the public of the ordinary way of getting meat. If by the time the Standard Oil can be proved a trust Kansas can sell oil from its own re fineries, this may result in driving th Standard and all its subsidiary com panies from the state permanently. The attorney generals charges against the trust recite that he be lieves it is a monopoly to destroy corn petition. The order issued by Judge Marshall follows: Whereas, Upon the 17th day of March, 1905. there was presented ti the undersigned, the Hon. William C. Marshall, one of the justices of the supreme court of the state of Mis souri, petition in writing signed bv Herbert S. Hadley, attorney general of the Plate of Missouri, stating that Continued on Page Ten.)

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2 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1905. Stomach Heart Kidneys Our lives, from moment to moment, depend on a set of tiny, delicate nerves which are so email that fifteen hundred of them could lie side by side in an Inch! Ten times more tender and sensitive than the pupil of the eye! Yet, night and day, unguided and un seen, these little nerves must keep, the etoma.cn, the heart, the kidneys, in healthy action. For these organs have rio power no self control. The power Is in the nerves. The nerves are the Masters. The organs art their slaves. Understand first that we have two en tirely separate nerve systems. When e walk, or talk, or act, we call into play a certain set of nerves nerves which obey our mental commands. That Is why the arm can be raised, or the mouth opened, or the eye shut, at the slightest desire. That is why your fingers can delicately pick up a pin one moment, and hold a heavy hammer the next. But these are not the nerves we are to consider here. It la the inside nerves that manage and govern and actuate the heart and the stomach, the kidneys and the liver and all of the vital functions. You cannot control these nerves. By no su preme effort of mind can you make your heart stop or start nor can you even make It vary by a single .beat a minute. And so with the stomach and the liver and the kidneys and the bowels they are automatic they do their work at a certain set speed whether you are awake or asleep whether you want them to or not. It is on these inside nerves that life and health depend. So long as these serves perform their proper duties we re well and strong. When they fail, we know it by the inevitable symptoms tomach, heart, liver, kidney troubles. Thus, we find that most forms of ill ness are, after all, only symptoms of the real trouble inside nerve trouble. for Instance. Indigestion, sour stom ech, heartburn, dyspepsia and all stom ach troubles diabetes, Brlght's disease nd other kidney disorders heart trou ble, liver troubles. bowel troubles, nervouimess, fretfulness, sleeplessness. Irritability all of these ailments are du to this single cause. Painful, dis agreeable to be treated as s"uch. They are merely outward signs of inward trouble. There are different centers and branches of this inside nerve system (frequently called the Sympathetic Nervous System.) But each branch is so closely connected with the others that breakdown anywhere usually means breakdown everywhere. This explains why stomach trouble develops into heart trouble why indi KAIISASNEWS. "Wonderful Collection of Metero ites in University Museum. Dr. Snow Began Gathering Spec imens 15 Years Ago. ONE WANTED IN TIENNA Austrian Museum Would (Jive -Si, 500 for a Specimen. Collector Has Hefused to Dis pose of Jlis Collection. Lawrence, Kan., March 18. The Uni versity museum contains the only col lection of Kansas meteorites in the west, and includes specimens of five different meteoric falls, worth from $2, 000 to $3,000. The largest specimen weighs 218 pounds and the smallest less than one pound. The meteorites are the private prop erty of Dr. F. H. Snow, who Btarted his collection fifteen years ago when a large number of what are known as Pallasite iron meteorites was found in Kiowa county, Brenham township. No one knows when the meteorites fell, and they were only discovered when the sod was being broken. The farmer on w'hose land they were found had no idea that the curious stones had any market value and gave specimens to his friends as curiosities, but his wife conceived the idea of their origin and the news spread over the state. Dr. Snow went at once to Kiowa county but Professor Craig in of Washburn college had been there and secured all as he thought, 2.000 pounds for $400, and shipped them to New York. After a little search Dr. Snow secured five specimens that had been overlooked, one of them weighing 13 pounds. He was offered $1,500 for I I i i i It' in the laundry as well as on your back that a Coat Shirt proves its superiority Fast colors $1.50 and more CLUETT, PEABODY CO., Makers of Cluett and Arrow Collar p K f j is aves o gestion brings on nervousness why diseases become complicated. It ex plains, too, why ordinary medical treatments are wrong why medicine so frequently fails. For, despite the discoveries of science, the common remedies of the day are designed to treat the organ, not the nerve the symptom instead of the cause. My Fres Dollar Offer Any sick one who has not tried my remedy Dr. Shoop's Restorative may have a Full Dol lar's Worth Free. I ask no deposit, no reference no security. There is nothing to pay, either now or later. I will send you an order on your druggist which he will accept in full pay ment for a regular, standard size Dollar bottle. And he will send the bill to me. C. I. SHOOP, M. D. Don't you, though you may not know medicine at all, see that this is wrong? That it is mere patchwork? That while the suffering organ is enjoying its tem porary relief, the nerve that Is really sick may be getting worse and worse? Does this not explain to you why re lapse so frequently follows a supposed cure? Does this not account for the uncertainties of medicine? More than thirty years ago this thought came to me: "If life and health depend upon per fect heart action, upon proper stomach digestion, upon correct kidney filtering, why does not life itself depend upon these life governing power nerves these inside nerves." 9 s this specimen by the Austrian museum at Vienna a few years ago, but refused, wishing to keep it in Kansas. The next meteorite Dr. Snow se cured was a stony Sidercolite which fell in Washington county about mid-day early in the summer of 1S90. Although the sun was shining brightly when it fell, the brilliancy of its light was no ticed for over a hundred miles around. Dr. Snow and Prof. Craigin secured the meteorite which weighed 144 pounds for JSOO, and divided it. Farts of it are now in Dr. Snow's possession. Another specimen Dr. Snow secured, fell near Tongonoxie, about fifteen miles from Lawrence. A university stu dent secured it from the farmer on whose farm it fell, for $2.50 and he sold it to Dr. Snow for $250 enough to pay the rest of his university course. Only a slice of this meteorite, which was solid iron is in the collection at present. Dr. Snow has steadily refused to dis pose of the meteoric stones under any conditions which will take them away from the university as he feels that the place for them is in the museum of the Sunflower institution. No one has felt disposed to donate any such specimens to the university and it is owing to Dr. Snow's enterprise that the few remain ing are not now resting in European museums. As Kansas grows in wealth the board of regents may feel in a posi tion to secure the collection as the property of the museum. HE WAS PROMPTLY RELEASED. How the Town Drunkard Got Out of City Calaboose. There is a little town on the Cen tral Branch which we will call Harri- sonville, although that is not its name, says the Atchison Globe. The town is so small that if a man stands in the center of it and talks in an or dinary tone of voice, every citizen can hear him. There is a drunkard in the town named Marks. and it is fre quently necessary to arrest him. The town jail is a little wooden box affair, with one barred window. When the town drunkard is arrested and placed in jail, he climbs up to the window and "talks" about the people of Har risonville. He knows all about them, and his "talk" is pretty accurate. "Everybody come up now," Marks will say, when placed in the cala boose, "and I will tell what I know. I'm drunk, and don't care. Besides, they put me in jail, and why shouldn't I get even. There's the town marshal. Everybody knows he flirts with Mrs. But not all of you know that he went to Atchison with her last Friday, and that they remained two days. Then there is the postmaster. He etc. Within half an hour a meeting of leading citizens is called and Marks is released. Xciv Building at Bethany. McFherson, Kas., March 18. The first of the material for the rebuild ing of the Swedish building at the St. Louis world's fair has arrived at Lindsborg, and the work will be com menced as soon as all of the material has been delivered. This building was the gift of Sweden to Bethany college at Lindsborg, obtained through the efforts of the United States minister to Sweden, Mr. Thomas. The build ing will be erected on the campus of the college grounds and will be used as an exhibition halL Said He Was Lied About. Concordia. Kas., March 18. Alex ander McMuilen has brought suit in the district court here against John Peterson for $1,000 damages for alleged defamation of character. Mc Muilen claims that Peterson said that the former stole the latter's corn. Both are farmers of good standing in their community. "Show Him the Paper." Bully story from the Great Bend Register: A short time ago some men were engaged in putting up telegraph poles on some land belonging to an Inside Rest rat ins Nerves I realized, too, that all 5 ailments which result from one cause may, of course, be cured by one remedy. I re solved not to doctor the organs but to treat the one nerve system which op erates them all. For those who treat only the symp toms need a different remedy for each. Such treatments are only palliative, the results do not last. A cure can never come in diseases of the stomach, heart, liver or kidneys, until the inside nerve power is restored. When that is done, Nature removes the symptoms. These is no need of doctoring them. My remedy now known by Druggists everywhere,, as Dr. Shoop's Restorative is the result of a quarter century of endeavor along this very line. It does not dose the organ or deaden the pain but it does got at once to the nerve the inside nerve the power nerve and builds it up, and strengthens it and makes it well. There is no mystery no miracle. I can explain my treatment to you as easily as I can tell you why cold freezes water and why heat melts ice. Nor do I claim a discovery. For every detail of my treatment is based on truths so fundamental that none can deny them. And every ingredient of my medicine is as old as the hills it grows on. I sim ply applied the truths and combined the ingredients into a remedy that is practically certain. In more than a million homes my re medy is now known, and relied upon. Yet you may not have heard of it. So I make this offer to you, a stranger, that every possible excuse for doubt may be removed. Send no money make no promise take no risk. Simply write and ask. If you have never tried my remedy, I will send you an order on your druggist for a full dollar bot tle not a sample, but the regular stan dard bottle he keeps constantly on his shelves. The druggist will require no conditions. He will accept my order as cheerfully as though your dollar lay before him. He will send the bill to me. Will you accept this opportunity to learn at my expense absolutely how to be rid forever of all forms of stomach, heart, kidney ailments to be rid not only of the trouble, but of the very cause which produced it? Write today. For a free order Book 1 on Dyspepsia, for a full dollar Book 2 on the Heart, bottle you must Book3on the Kidneys addres t)r. Shoop, Book 4 for Women. Box 67. Racine, Book 5 for Men. Wis. State which Book S on Rheuma book you want. tism. Mild cases are often cured by a single bottle. For sale at 40,000 drug stores. IV old farmer who disliked seeing his wneat trampled down. The men pro duced a paper by which they said tnoy nad leave to put the poles where they pleased. The old farmer went back and turned a large bull in the field. The savage beast made after the men, and the old farmer seeing mem running rrom the neld. shouted at the top of his voice: "Show him your paper! Show him your paper! GAS 25 CENTS PER THOL'SAXD. Arkansas City Supplied With Natural Product at Low Rate. Arkansas City. March 18. With the advent of gas Arkansas City has en tered a new era. The business houses are nov burning gas at twenty-five cents per thousand, and residences are Demg supplied as rapidly as large num bers of workmen can lay the mains and pipes. The Wells Produce company is erect ing two mammoth buildings in the southeastern part of the city for its packing and storage business. The Colorado block will be rebuilt and finished as handsomely as before the fire. The Santa Fe has started a three floor office building across the street from its depot. It is of brick and stone. Many other business buildings are under way, and an extensive sewerage system is furnishing work to a number. Gas is furnished at twenty-five cents; one half off for manufacturing pur poses. Big Band at Lindsborg. Lindsborg, Kan., March 18. Exten sive preparations are being made for tne annual rendition of the "Messiah at Bethany college during Easter week. The chorus this year is un usually large and well trained. Ar rangements are being made for special days and reduced rates over the rail roads. Innes' band will play here dur ing "Messiah" week. Physician Hopelessly Insane. Parsons, Kas., March 18. Dr. Marvin Boone, one of the best known young physicians In Labette county, was yesterday brought from Chetopa to the state hospital in this city, and after an examination by Dr. M. L. Perry was pronounced hopelessly in sane. The cause of the unfortunate condition of Dr. Boone is supposed to be in part hereditary, as William WE MUST REPEAT When Everybody in Topeka Tells the Same Story. It is hard to say new things about Doan's Kidney Pills. They cure the lame and aching back, the sufferer from kidney disorders and the troubles of those whose urinary organism is wrong in its action. That they do this is so easy to prove that not a vestige of doubt remains. Public indorsement of local citizens is easily proven. Read this case: Mrs. A. W. Wells of 613 Chandler street says: "For three or four years I was troubled with kidney trouble. The heavy, bearing-down aching through my loins and across the small of my back was frequently so bad that I could only stand for a short time. When I caught cold I suffered severely, and the pain extended up into my head and al most set me wild. I doctored and took a great many remedies, but obtained nothing but transitory relief. I got a box of Doan's Kidney Pills from Row ley Snow's drug store, and the bene fit received from the treatment render ed my back and kidneys better than they had been for a long time. I take rleasure in recommending a remedy from which I derived such satisfactory results." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 :?ents.. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T.. sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other, Boone, an uncle, died in the asylum at Osawatomie, where he was confined. MISSOURI VICTORIOUS. Easily Defeated Jayhawker Team at Indoor Track Meet. Kansas City, Mo., March 18. Mis souri won from Kansas in the second annual indoor track meet held at Convention hall last night- The score in points was 57a to 27, and the defeat was more -decisive and more overwhelming than was that of last year, when Missouri won by the score of 45 to 4 0. Of the eleven events contested last night, Kansas took only four firsts these being the 50-yard dash, high jump, two-mile run, and pole vault while Missouri took first place in the others. The surprise of the evening -was Missouri's victory in the hurdle events, which had practically been conceded to the Jayhawkers. Kansas won both the high and low hurdles last year with the same men entered in these events this year Morrow and Butler and an easy victory over the Tigers was looked for in these events. It was probably an accident that de prived Kansas of the victory, as Mor row, their star performer over the fences, fell in the first event, the 55 yard high hurdles, and not only lost that event, but was unable to enter the low hurdles. McCoy won for Kansas in the 50 yard dash. This was not unexpected, as Missouri was almost willing to concede this event if McCoy would be entered. The Kansan won in im pressive style, though hard pressed by Wilson. The time was 0:05 3-5, and several of the watches showed it a fraction of a second faster. The most sensational event of the evening, from the spectators' point of view, was r the two-mile ran: This distance, on the Convention hall track amounted to 24 times around the arena. Bill Bailey's dogged persist ence and magnificent endurance en abled him to win. the other contest ants wearing themselves down by early sprinting. Bailey displayed ex cellent headwork, and as he spurted to the fore from last place in the final the twenty-fourth lap, there was a veritable roar of enthusiasm from all sections of the house, and the applause was maintained deaf- eningly long after Bailey had finished cleanly one-quarter of a lap ahead of Jackson, of Missouri, and had tauen fainting into the arms of his trainer. 55-Yard High Hurdles Salisbury M. U., first. Six, M. U., second. Time, 0:07 3-5. Butler and Morrow, of K. TJ., also ran. Shot Put Anderson, M. U.r first, 42 feet inch. Ackarman, K. U.r sec ond. 38 feet 6 V6 inches. Green, of M. U., and Morrow, of K. U-, were the other entries. 50-Yard Dash McCoy, K. U., first. Wilson, M. U., second. Time, 0:5 3-5. Dance, of M. U., and Finch, K. U., also ran. 880-Yard Run Ellis. M. U., first. Wayman, M. U., second. Time, 2:08 2-5. The other entry was Dns- coll, of Kansas. High Jump Parker, K. U., first, 5 feet 7 inches. Young, K. U., and Anderson, M. IT., second, 5 feet 5 inches. The other contestant was Bigger, of M. U, 440-Yard Run Elis, M. U., first. Finch, K. U., second. Time. 5 9 sec onds. Wilson. M. U., and Miller, K. U., also started. 55-Yard Low Hurdles; Six, M. U., first. Salisbury, M. U., second. Time, 6:45.: Morrow and McCoy, K. U., were also entered. Two-Mile Run Bailey, K. U., first. Jackson. M. U,,,. second. Time, 11 minutes Pole Vault Butler, K. U., first, 9 feet 9 inches. Salisbury and Welsh, M. U., second, 9 feet 5 inches. Mile Run Nancrede, M. U., first. Dewey, M. U., second. Time, 5:01 4-5. McReynolds and Driscoll, K. U., also ran. Mile Relay Dance, Six, Ellis and Wayman, M. U., first. Time, 3:54 3-5. The opposing team was Finch, Young, Miller and McCoy. TO RESUME OPERATIONS. Hutchinson Packing House, Closed lor 17 Years, to lie Reopened. Hutchinson, Kan., March 18. The National Packing company, owner of the plant of the Hutchinson Packing company, through its representative. W. E. Renfro, of Hamilton, Canada, who is here, announces that the local plant will be opened inside of sixty days. The building has not been operated as a. meat packing plant for seventeen years, being closed down after the boom days. The Hutchinson Salt oompany leased the plant for five years after the Armours bought it and made salt there a part of the time, until last November, when the lease expired. It has been idle since that time. The plant is a huge concern, built at a cost of more than $500,000, a good share of the money being con tributed by Hutchinson people in 1887. Repairs and new machinery to the value of $75,000 will be installed at once, some of the lumber and other materials already being bought and on the way. Seventy-five men will be employed to begin with, and this will be in creased until the plant is worked to its full capacity of 5,000 hogs and sev eral hundred head of cattle per week, when 300 men will have work. The company announces that the growing business of the southwest in the past few years will make the plant a profit able investment here. Renfro will be the superintendent. TO MEET WITH METHODISTS. Governor Hoch to Attend the Junction City Conference Sunday. Junction City, Kan., March 18. Yesterday Governor E .W. Hoch ac cented the invitation or tne jvansas conference of the Methodist church to come here Sunday while the confer ence is in session. On Governor Hoch's acceptance the conference decided to hold a big temperance mass meeting in troera house here Saturday. Dr. Bright, the presiding elder of the Junction City district, will preside, and the governor is on the programme for the principal address, "The Citi zen." Dr. Murlin. president of Baker univ.raitv: .T. r. Ruckner or Jtiiawatna. and H. E. Wolfe of Atchison, will also make addresses. Th nrineinal thing in today s ses sion of the conference was tne giving of superannuary relation to u. t. Mnnre n. w. Rrownins, G. Massy and Dr. Swaney. G. Mayer and S. Vincent were granted superannuary relations on recuest. Char-ted With Taking Ties. Lewis Billings, banker of Liberty, one of the well known and wealthiest county and an old settler, was arrested yesterday on complaint of the Santa c io-way company, which charges in the com plaint that Mr. Billings did take, steal and carry away 160 wooden rrn tioa rf tho value of 4 cents each. or the total value of $7.40." A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protrud ing Piles. Your druggist win rerund money if PAZO OINTMiii' "us to cure you in 6 to 14 days, ouo. SPORTiMWS. 'Spit Ball" Is Now the Base ballist's Study. Fred Clark Teaching Pirates to Kill New Delivery. SWINGER'S CHANCE. Slab Hitters Will Have Hard Time With Chesbro Style. Other News of Interest in Tar ious Sporting Circles. Fred Clarke, leader of the Pittsburg National league team, after passing all winter in the study of ways and means pf "killing" the "spit bail," is now teaching the play to his team on the spring training trip. Baseball fans all over the country are awaiting the re sult of this study and the campaign Clarke promises against the "catcher killer." Clarke first began his work by a thorough study of the slow ball, which is working havoc with the slab-hitters and bringing the old-time free swing ers to the front again. It is estimated by some that every pitcher in the big leagues will carry the "spit ball" as art of his assortment this summer and it was a knowledge of this that drove Fred t Clarke and other managers to study its solution. They say, too, it will mean a revolution in batting tactics, i Baseball men argue that the action of the spit ball as pitched by such a master as Chesbro is as follows: It comes up shoulder high and a trifle fas ter than the recognized slow ball and yet not so fast as to twist it. In other words, the seams are visible all the way from the pitcher's hands to the point where it breaks. It is pitched with the same motion as the fast ball. About shoulder high up and about the length of the bat away from the pan it breaks either of three ways, generally uncon trolled by the pitcher. Its course after the quick break is either straight down or a fadeaway to the right or left. In the solution of this problem there are open to the batter several ways of going after it. One is to crawl up on it and get it before it breaks. The height of the ball spoils this somewhat. Another plan is to lie back and slap it with the short hold on the choked bat, planning to get the exhausted curve. A third plan, which baseball men believe in by actual experience, is to stand nat urally, lengthen the batting surface by gripping the bat closer to the handle's end, as Anson and his type did, and swing at it. Clarke has the choice of either of these ways. American league players have come to think that the "spit ball means the doom of the choke-the-bat men, who take the short grip on the stick and slap, like Willie Keeler. With the White Stockings it is known that it worried such a clever artist as Jones, who gave up in despair one New York series. On the other hand, free stick ers like Jimmy Callihan are successful against it. To them it is like going af ter the old-fashioned Ramsey straight drop and the outdrop when it flrst be gan to show. Some fans believe that the up-to-aate batter will have to carry a knowledge of both styles of batting to make good. They will then have the interesting work of switching with the pitcher and they will be guessing where the pitcher works knowingly something like a better and a bookmaker. Experts think that it is safe to say that Clarke is trying out every position in the batting box for the ball f rorn the crawl-up to the standing well back toward the catcher position. It is sug gested that the style Jimmy Ryan adopted in the National league of fac ir,tr the nitrher sauarely and stepping in with a full body swing toward the pan mieht help. The bat was swung not slapped but the swing was easy ana j A .e fririn cr r "trill met tne can iiiot-exu ux j ir- The closest students of the game pre Air. a voipn of "spit ball" terror this -..r.r niiQniip Tne w t-ii-icxi-i i'"'- The simple reason is that the batter is pecking- away at a swiftly falling- drop ball, whicn may conic m u. e,"- beyond the dead center of the bat. Regarding tne quesuun w tJ' v, man like unesDio can tun ings of this ball. Catcher McGuire says he cannot, cnesoro umi'. ed to McGuire, says ne un. r hs.il will enable the pitchers to start it waist high and m that case the batters should, it is thought, have hotter chance at it. So long as it is h,,irior hleh it will give tne crouchers some guessing to do. Makeup of Wisconsin State League. Janesville, Wis., March 18. The Wisconsin State Baseball league, n composed of six towns, win i Green Bay, Wausau, La Crosse, Osh kosh, Beloit, and Freeport. There is some talk oi laKing m .,0.1, Rockford, 111. The next meeting vi the league will be held at Green Bay on April 4. Arrange Race for $5,000. Boston, Mass., March 18. As a re sult of John Dorey's sweeping chal lenge, to race an "unknown" against John M. or any other horse for any amount, a match was arranged today for $5,000 a side. The challenge was accepted by James Gatcomb, who will race Audobon Boy, 2:03H, against the "unknown, which, it transpired in making arrangements today, is Ec Cares Colds ana y When Grip is complicated with Rheumatism take No. 15. with Catarrh take No. 19. with Dyspepsia take No. 10. with Bladder trouble take No. 30. w-ith Kidney trouble take No. 27. with Neuralgia take No. 8. with Headache take No. 9. Take it in alternation with 77. For other complications consult Dr. Humphreys' Manual at your druggists or mailed free. At druggists, 25c each, or mailed. Humphreys' Hotneo. Medicine Co. cor. William and John eta.. New. Xorlc static, 2:05, whom many good judges say is a sure two minute pacer. The race will be in mile heats, best two in three, and will take place at the Read ville track on August 24. CORXELIi WILL SEXD NO CREW. Will Not Be Represented In American Henley Ktatta. Ithaca, N. Y. March 18. The schedule for the Cornel crews. Just completed, calls for four entries in two regattas this season. On May 27 the 'varsity crew will compete against Harvard on the Charles river, in a race over a course of a mile and seven-eighths, and on July 1 the freshman eight and 'varsity four and eight will compete at Poughkeepsie in the intercollegiate regatta. The junior race with Pennsylvania will not be held, since no invitation has been re ceived to enter such a race at Phila delphia. An invitation to enter a crew in the American Henley was declined on the ground that it has always been the policy of the athletic council to enter crews in races where university oarsmen alone take part. Moreover, if a crew were sent to the American Henley the chance ck holding the Cayuga Lake regatta in future years would be greatly lessened. However, the original agreement with Pennsyl vania to send a crew to Philadelphia was not broken, but became void last year when Pennsylvania merged the junior race into the American Henley, thus preventing the race as originally planned from being held Wagner Is Giving Trouble. Pittsburg, March 18. Hans Wag ner, the star of the Pittsburg National league team, is still at his home in Carnegie, and does not know when he will join his companions at Hot Springs. There is much mystery as to Wagner's conduct. He, like all other players in the league, received a good sized reduction in salary this year, and there seems to be a auestion as to whether he will accept the terms of fered him. The Pittsburg president, according to reports from Hot springs, is very indignant over Wagner's refusal to join the team, at the training grounds. Meanwhile Wagner is devoting his at tention to his business interests at Carnegie. Owen Has Not Signed. New Orleans, March 18. President Comiskey of the White Sox has discov ered that he has not the signed con tract of Pitcher Owen in his posses sion. Some time ago he sent Owen a contract and understood that it had been placed in his desk in his Chicago office. Last night Owen himself said that he had not returned a signed contract. "I have not signed, said the crack pitcher, "for the season that the con tract is not satisfactory. There is a question of salary and this has not been met. I think it is coming to me and I guess we will come to terms all right. If not. I could make a lot of money around my home." Tiger Squad Again Reduced. Princeton, N. J., March. 18. An other cut has been made in the Princeton baseball squad and the con testants now are reduced to twenty three. Seldom has any season been marked by such a rapid reduction as Coach Hildebrand has ordered" this year, and as a result all practice to date has been marked by much snap, in spite of the fact that the candidates still are compelled to limit their work to the confines of the varsity Cage. There is promise of an efficient pitch ing corps. Connecticut Bars Pool Selling. Hartford, Conn., March 18. Tha legislature has rejected a bill which would permit pool selling on harness tracks of the state during twelve days of the year. Player for Evansvillc Central League. Evansville, Ind., March 18. The Evansville Central league team today signed "King" Kelly, who last year was catcher for the Sioux City West ern league team. Sign With Milwaukee Team. Milwaukee, Wis., March 18.- Signed contracts for this season were today received by Manager Cantillon of the Milwaukee American asociation base ball team from Infielder Anson Mott and Pitcher Cliff Curtis. Banshee Won in France. Paris, March 18. W. K. Vander bilt's Banshee with Ransch, the Amer ican jockey up, won the Prix Vieux Moulin yesterday at the Maisons La fitte races. Burns High, School Won. Burns, Kan., March 18. Burns high school defeated the Kansas State Nor mal school at basketball at Burns last night ,by a score of 35 to 14, in a good, clean game. This makes nine won out of eleven games played. Rice Got the Decision. Lansing, Mich., March 18. Austin Hire of New Haven. Conn., got a ae cision last night over' Tom Herman of San Francsico after ten rounds. Two Falls From Jack Munroe. Rirmineham. Ala., March 18. M. J Dwyer last night won two out of three falls from Jack Munroe, pugilist and wrestler. Honey Mellody Won at Butte. Butte. Mont., March 18. Honey itTcilodv of Boston in the fifteenth round of what was scheduled to be a twenty round go last nignt Knocked out Jerry Mccartny 01 cuue. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c The shortest line from Kansas City to St. Louis is the Wabash. Best trains day and night. Ask your local agent for tickets via the Wabash. NO PARTIALITY. German Bankers Willing to Loan to Either Belligerent. Berlin, March 18. Inquiries made of bankers here fail to confirm the re port that Japan has actually begun negotiating a loan in Berlin. A simi lar report appears to have arisen simultaneously in London, Paris, Ber lin and New York. Althoun no ne gotiation have yet begun Japan is probably testing the reeling or Ger many towards a loan. The German government does not seem opposed to the project because Chancellor von Buelow today, replying to criticism or Germany taking up the last Russian loan, said it was plainly a private mat ter and that in the same way Japan was privileged to obtain a loan. The Frankfurter Zietung advises against investing or speculating in Japanese international bonds, some of which have reached Frankfort from London and Paris. "Y "J J1 v J 0 is distineuished from all Others by its full flavor, delicious II quality and absolute purity. 11 IK Waitw M I jwmiw r J BOSTON, MASS. NV P. S. Tht LoTsnev ReeeiM Km lent tu.... WHAT? WHY? Because they are the mildest, sweetest and most satisfactory A trial will convince you. For sale by all dealers. CHAS. WOLFF PACKING CO. TOPEKA iIAI I1IC Price $5 to $100 V 1 1) L I N o Bows Cases- IIULliit strings and all violin accessories, nswly im8?doodr: WiHebald C. Stcngcr 706 Kas. Ave., Topeka, Kas. CONVINCE YOURSELF Of the Mo. Kansas Tele. Co. "Phone 99. SCJilCISAS ALWAYS RELIABLE XU2 LCWIV ACTOUV, feoria. 111. A most wonderful metSIoino for a!! bronchial afiOCilans. Avoid Imltmtfonm 1 I'M ifl I t v i n n n r n r nt merits of tha -J.Vv Cents a Day Telephone. 1 A numDer or instruments f have been Installed and you t have only to talk with thowt f who have them to becomtf 1 convinced of its merits.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, 'MARCH 18, 1905. 3 CHEAP GAS riEXT. C. K. Holliday Says It Till Be a Eeality In October. HQUERS CATARRH THE WORLD OVER, ft V"""" Arrangements Completed to Pipe Natural 3as by Excelsior Co. 1 ""i-MZ 25 CESTS A THOUSAND. Rate May Be as Low as Ten Cents for Factories. HteWlNNING STROKE Commercial Club Takes In Many New Members. ituM ii -niMntir rti frJ m: ji

II 1 'in'iiAiiiiliiV-i-Vfc He, hy. 1 louisvi RAILROADJIEWS. If. S. Cable Is Given Promotion on the Hock Island. Becomes General Superintend ent at Chicago. WAS OXCE IN TOPEKA. Will Hare Charge of "Lines East of the Missouri ItiTer." Gossip and Matters of Interest in Railway Circles. H. S. Cable, son of R. R. Cable, for mer chairman of the executive board of the Rock Island system, will become general superintendent of the Rock Is land at Chicago. Under the readjust ment of the Rock Island lines J. O. Crockett will be general superintendent of the lines west of the Missouri river. This will take fiom him the Rock Is land lines in Missouri, including the St. Louis line, and make them a part of the lines under the control of Mr. Cable, who will be general superintendent of lines east of the Missouri river. Mr. Cable was formerly general super intendent of the lines west of the river with headquarters at Topeka. He is well liked and has made a good record In railroad work. NEW ENTRANCE TO JOLIET. Double Track or Santa Fe Out of Chi cago Necessitates Changes. Chicago. Marcli 18. Surveyors of the Santa Fe road are engaged in run ning lines for a new entrance to Joliet, made necessary by the proposed double track north and south of Joliet. A new bridge will span the river at the steel mills north of that city, and a new right of way will bring the road into Joliet. The yards will be much larger in the proposed ar rangement and able to handle a great er volume of traffic. A joint traffic al liance with the Chicago Alton be tween Pequot and Joliet, by which the northbound traffic of both roads uses the Alton tracks and the southbound traffic of both roads the Santa Fe tracks will be amended April 1. Kxpert Knowledge in Rate-Making. Governor La Follette of Wisconsin, who is one the strongest believers in government rate regulation, says: "The work of the commission in fix ing rates must stand or fall as it meets the test which will be applied in a court of appeals, where such work is very certain to go for review. To be sustained, rates must be just und reasonable to the railway corpora tions. In fixing the rate, therefore, if the commission is to do justice to the public, it must reduce the rate as much as possible, and still make it fairly and justly remunerative and profitable to the railway companies. This requires a technical and expert knowledge of traffic conditions and of the cost of railway construction, main- WE ARE PROUD Of the many wonderful cures that have been effected by the use of Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters during the past 50 years. Thousands of grateful letters have been received testifying to its goodness. What it has done for oti-er sick folks it will certainly do for you. Try a bottle. It cures Poor Ap petite, Chills. Colds. La Grippe. Torpid Liver. Constipated Rowels. Indigestion, lysiepsia or Malaria. I'ever and Ague. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS. If more than ordinary skill in playing brings the honors of the game to the winning player, so exceptional merit in a remedy ensures the commendation of the well informed, and as a rea sonable amount of outdoor life and recreation is conducive to the health and strength, so does a perfect laxative tend to one's improvement in cases of constipation, biliousness, headaches, etc. It is all important, however, in selecting a laxative, to choose one of knovn quality and excellence, like the ever pleasant Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co., a laxative which sweetens and cleanses the system effectually, when a laxative is needed, without any unpleasant after effects, as it acts naturally and gently on the internal organs, simply assisting nature when hature needs assistance, without griping, irritating or debilitating the internal organs in anyway, as it contains nothing of an objectionable cr injurious nature. As the plants which are combined with the figs in the manufacture of Syrup of Figs are known to physicians to act most beneficially upon the system, the remedy has met with their general approval as a family laxative, a fact well worth considering in making purchases. It is because of the fact that SYRUP OP FIGS is a remedy of known quality and excellence, and approved by physicians that has led to its use by so many millions of well informed people, who would rrot use any remedy of uncertain quality or inferior reputation. Every family should have a bottle of the genuine on hand at all times, to use when a laxative remedy is required. Please to remember that the genuine Syrup of Figs is for sale in bottles of one size only, by all reputable druggists, and that full name of the company California Fig Syrup Co.,:is plainly printed on the front of every package. Regular ijrice, 50c per bottle, j l'Fornia Fig Syrup (ff tenance and operation. Whenever test is made in court of the work of rail way commissioners they will find themselves confronted by the ablest traffic experts in the employ of the great railway companies. These they should be fitted to combat." MILLIONS MADE IN STOCKS. Rockefeller, Ilarriman and Others Made Millions by "Holding On." New Yorkj March IS. Out of the turmoil of Wall stret, from which the stories of "Frenzied Finance" and in flated booms are pouring with un precedented plenitude, there also is pouring a steady stream of money into the pockets of those who "held on,'" uid have taken advantage of the pres ent bull market. The heaviest winners naturally are the richest men. Among those who have won millions by the upward trend of the market are Wil liam Rockefeller, K. H. Harriman, John W. Gates and C. M. Schwab. One fact which became public prop erty on the street is that concerning the immense winnings of William Rockefeller in Union Pacific. About fifteen months ago, when Union Pa cific was selling- for about $70, Rocke feller is known to have purchased at least 100,000 shares. He disposed of little cr no part of these holdings, and meanwhile it advanced fifty points in value. Rockefeller stands winner in Union Pacific alone of $5,000,000. In addi tion to the Union Pacific holdings, Rockefeller bought large blocks of other securities that advanced. His winnings are estimated conservatively at $15,000,000. Another capitalist who profited In Union Pacific is E. H. Harriman. Last year he borrowed $600,000, with which he purchased 120,000 shares of Union Pacific at $75 a. share. He has held this stock, which now Is worth $5,000,000. Charles M. Schwab, former head of the steel trust, is said to have made $20,000,000 in the last twelve months. He purchased heavily of United States Steel last year when every one else was getting rid of their holdings. John W. Gates, at the head of the pool made up of Chicago capitalists, whose purpose is dealing in United States Steel preferred, recently real ized $1,000,000 from his transactions. HITCHCOCK liniT. Superintendent of Santa Fe Coast Lines in a Motor Wreck. Superintendent J. H. Hitchcock and Roadmaster Walter Perris of the San ta Fe had a narrow escape from in stant death as a result of their motor car being derailed near Verdemont station, north of San Bernardino re cently. Mr. Perris was seriously injured about the head and chest and left leg. while Mr. Hitchcock escaped with a number of very severe bruises, which wiil cause him to be sore for several days. No bones were broken, though how the two escaped being more seri ously injured than they were is almost a miracle. Messrs. Hitchcock and Perris were on a motor car inspection trip to Bar stow. At the time of the accident the car was running at a speed of nearly 3 0 miles an hour. The arm wheel of the car struck a small piece of board lying across the rail. Instantly the car was derailed and in another in stant it had turned completely around, the two occupants being thrown through the air about sixty feet down the track, one to the right and the other to the left of the roadbed. Both men will recover. New Chief of Needles Fire Department Jack Crowther has been appointed chief of the Santa Fe fire department at Needles to succeed T. A. Cone, re signed. The department is drilling regularly and is in fine condition and well equipped to contend with any ordinary fire. Succeeds Tnley Again. C. W. Strain, division passenger agent of the Frisco at Wichita, will succeed W. A. Tuley as general pas senger agent for Texas, -with head quarters at Fort Worth. Mr. Strain entered the railway service as an ope rator at Cherokee, Kan.., for the Kan sas City, Fort Scott Memphis. He came to Kansas City in 1893 as city passenger agent for that road and was made traveling passenger agent in '9S with, headquarters at Dallas, Tex. He has worked up through the long list and now, through a strange coin cidence, he again succeeds Mr. Tuley, the latter having preceded him as traveling passenger agent at Dallas In 1898. SANTA FE TO CHANGE. Purcell Terminals to Tie Moved trf Oklahoma City April 1. Oklahoma City, O. K., March 18. A semi-official rumor reached this city today to the effect that the con templated changes in the terminals of passenger trains on the Santa Fe from Purcell to this city would occur the first of next month. This could not be verified, but it is believed by those in a position best to know, that it will be done. The announcement that the Frisco would put on another train to accommodate the Lawton branch of that road the first of the month is thought to have something to do with the energy of the Santa Fe in making an early change. It is not known whether the schedule of the trains affected will be changed or not. In the event the same runs will be made, the train now leaving Purcell for the south with Cleburne, Tex., as its destination, will start from this city at 9 o'clock In the morning. Re turning from the south it will reach this city at 9:15 o'clock at night. Going north the morning train will leave here about 7:30 and returning will reach here at 3:30 in the afternoon. These trains will then lay over here. It means the removal here of about forty heads of families, and of course all the passenger terminal facilities. It is said, too, that the apparatus for testing all wires on the Santa Fe and the force of wire chiefs will be re moved here. They have been main tained at Purcell and the outfit is one of the most important of the kind in the west. Rock Island Changes. Oklahoma City, O. T., March 18. On account of the resignation of C. A. Forest, who has been traveling freight agent of the Rock Island with head quarters in this city, for the past two years several promotions occurred to day in the general offices in this city. Karl J. Fllson, for four years chief clerk to the division freight agent, C. B. Hart, takes Mr. Forest's place, and K. A. King, statistical and rate clerk, takes the place made vacant by Mr. Filson. Miss Kate Hart, who has been her father's stenographer since the establishment of the offices in this city five years ago, steps into Mr. King's place. These changes were ef fective today. Rock Island Improvements. Trenton. Mo., March 18. The Rock Island Railway company has obtained right of way from the city council to lay pipes for a private water supply system to feed its Trenton machine shop.s and division terminals. The new plant will be put in during the present season at a cost of $20,000. The enterprise is generally conceded to be the forerunner of a series of costly improvements at Trenton, which is headquarters of the Missouri division. A new roundhouse and ex tensile yard extensions are contem plated. GRAND OPERA AT KANSAS CITY. Santa Fe Makes Special Rate for Musical People. On account of grand opera at Kan sas City, March 31 and April 1, the Santa Fe will sell tickets at rate of $2.70 for the round trip, on sale March 30, 31, and April 1, final limit returning April 3. Wre will run a special train, returning after the opera Saturday night, April 1, leaving Kan sas City at 11:45 p. m., arriving To peka 1:15 a. m., giving ample time to reach Union depot in time for special train. We have arranged with the street railway at Kansas City for cars direct from 12th and Broadway to Union depot. T. L. KING, C. P. and T. A. 10 photos and 1 button 25c. Lutes. Charles K. Holliday, president of the Topeka Commercial club and also of the Excelsior Coke Gas company, an nounced to the Commercial club last night that a deal has been entered Into between the Excelsior Coke Gas com pany and the Home Natural Gas com pany by which natural gas will be sup plied to the people of Topeka through the mains owned by the Excelsior com pany, and that the rates will be 25 cents per thousand feet for domestic use and a rate for commercial purposes which would make gas supplant coal in every factory in Topeka. This probably means a rate of about 10 cents pej 1.000 feet. "It is all settled," said Mr. Holliday. "Topeka will have natural gas by next October. The pipe is now on the way, and tomorrow we expect a gas engineer will be here to make the preliminary arrangements. The Home Gas com pany has made an arrangement with the Excelsior company which is satis factory to all concerned, and the work of supplying natural gas to this city is ready to be commenced. "What will the Excelsior company do about the work of constructing its new buildings for the manufacture of artifi cial gas?" was asked by a State Jour nal reporter. "The work will go right ahead; the buildings will be constructed ar.d equip ped." "And allowed to stand idle?" "Tes, and allowed to stand idle." The Excelsior company will also carry out its plans for a general extension of mains. The plan is to supply every part of the city with natural gas. The effect of cheap gas will be to make a big reduction in the prices of coal. Cheap fuel is all that Toneka needs to make it the biggest manufac turing point of its size in the country. Thank the. Rock Island. It was voted by the Commercial club to have a committee appointed to draw up suitable resolutions thanking the Rock Island for restoring the general passenger office to Topeka, and express ing the hope that the company will see fit to also restore the general freight offices, which were removed tp Kansas City some time ago. The Commercial club some time ago sent to the Rock Island a protest against the removal of the general offices to Kansas City, but that was under the old regime which started in to reform everything, and it seemed to do no good. The transportation committee of the club was not unmindful of the fact that Kansas City is still making an effort to have the order removing the office of the general passenger agent to Topeka rescinded, and they are sending letters to the proper officials to counteract the effect of the roar which is going up from Kansas City. The Kansas City Commercial club has sent a committee to Chicago to present its side of the case. Many New Members. At the meeting of the club last night, another installment of new members were received. The following is the list admitted: Daniel Leahey, contractor, No. 519 Jefferson street; J. F. McKnaught, transfer. No. 210 East Fourth street; A. F Lewis, agent Pacific Express com pany and Union Pacific railway; John F. Switzer, attorney, room 32 Columbian building; L. H. Strickler, principal To peka Business college; Dr. W. T. Tay lor, No. 120 East Sixth street; Thos. L. King, ticket agent A. T. S. F. Ry.; S. M. Fleishman, Topeka Pants com pany; Amos Longaker, contractor and builder; L. G. Real, real estate; W. C. N. Garvey, freight agent A. T. S. F. Ry.; Anthony P. Wilson, Kansas Collec tion agency; F. A. Rooinson, manager Fox Typewrite company; Van Vleck Co., wall paper and paints; Felix Sons, Clothes Store for Men. Cut Out Charity Grafts. Having cut out advertising grafts, the Commercial club last night voted to cut out all the charity grafts. The committee appointed to investigate the Topeka Provident association made a favorable report, and the club adopted a resolution by T. F. Garver making the Provident association the official dispenser of charity for the city. Mr. Garver explained at some length the work of the Provident association. He stated that the association has re cently been incorporated and has re ceived from Norris L. Gage a gift of the Hamaker building at Fourth and Jackson streets. The association furnishes a free kin dergarten for poor children, thus al lowing the mothers of these children to go out to work during the day. "The Commercial club," said Mr. Garver, "has recently adopted a plan to cut out advertising grafts. This Provident association affords an op portunity to cut out all these charity grafts. It enables a business man to refer all appeals to the Provident as sociation, and stop giving indiscrimi nately." J. W. Robinson endorsed what Mr. Garver had said and said that the work which has been done by. Mrs. Thorpe has now been merged with that of the Provident association. He told how he was "worked" a few days ago by the pitiful story of an old lady who wanted a suit of clothes for a "son" who proved to be a fictitious c ti 3. tsl c t r Several' other members expressed themselves in sympathy with the Provident association plan. The following resolution was then adopted: "Resolved, That the Commercial club approves and endorses the pur poses and work of the Provident as sociation of this city and commends it as worthy the financial support of our citizens. The club further recom mends that as far as possible all per sonal solicitations for aid to destitute persons be referred to the Provident association and that donations be made direct to that association in or der that the worthy poor may be re lieved and imposters prevented from working grafts." Factory for Lenses. Dr. A. C. Campbell explained to the i,:-! i the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of a new" kind of lenses tor speciacies viucu uc 1 The invention is a new style of glass I The Population of the Earth is 1,400,000,000. One Million Die Annually of Catarrh All over the world Peruna Is known and used for catarrhal diseases. The Peruna Girl has traveled 'rminri Iho o.lrti Her face is familiar everywhere that civilization reaches. Universally Praised. From Africa to Greenland, from Manchuria to Patagonia, the face of the Peruna girl is familiar and the praises of Peruna as a catarrh rem edy are heard. Successful In North and South. Peruna crossed the Equator several years ago, to find in the Southern Hemisphere the same triumphant suc cess that has marked its career in the Northern Hemisphere. A Standard. Peruna is a standard catarrh rem edy the world over. It cures catarrh by eradicating It from the system. Pcimanent Cure. It obviates the necessity of all local treatment and its relief is of perma nent character. Withouefa Peer. No other remedy has so completely dominated the whole earth as Peruna. In Every- Tonsaie. In all languages its glowing testi monials are written. In all climes the demands for Pe runa increase. which will transmit ultra-violet rays of light. The ordinary crown glass from which lenses are mada will not trans mit the violet and ultra violet rays, and these rays are believed to be of great therapeutic value. It is therefore claim ed by Dr. Campbell that his invention will, when placed on the market prac tically supplant the present crown glass. Dr. Campbell says that the glass itself must be made in Europe, where it can be turned out at a price of $4 a pound. The right kind of sand for making the glass cannot be obtained in this coun try. In the factory which Dr. Camp bell wants to locate in Topeka the lenses would be made and ground to shape. "How much will it take to etasblish the factory?" asked Chas. Elliott. "Fifty thousand dollars," said Dr. Campbell. "I would not want to try to do it for less. In order to be profit able, the lenses must be made in suffi- fiinf niiQntitiDQ ThP IPTlRPa Can be .made for a few dollars per dozen and sold for 524 per dozen, l nave me in vention, and hope that capital can be interested to put the thing on its feet in this city." Dr. Campbell had a number of sam ples of the new kind of glass which he showed to the club. It was decided to refer the Campbell proposition to the committee on promo tion, which was appointed today by President Holliday. Money for Church Conference. On recommendation of the enter tainment committee, the club voted to appropriate $25 0 toward the enter tainment of the quadrennial general conference of the United; Brethren church, to be held in Topeka, May 11 to 21. It was decided to authorize the president to appoint a committee on promotion to take especial charge of the work of inducing new factories to locate in Topeka. This was done by means of an amendment to the con stitution. J. M. Jackson Co., of Larimor, Iowa, wanted the club to put up $20 for a page advertisement in a real estate directory. On advice of 'some of the real estate men in the club the request was stuck into a deep, dark pigeonhole. The Massachusetts state board of trade asked the Commercial club to endorse a plan for an international agreement for a "neutral zone" on the high seas. The plan is to fix things so that international commerce will not be interfered with by war. The matter was referred to the commit tee on state and national legislation. Owing to the fact that the banking committee of the senate of the United States is favorable to a bill repealing the national bankruptcy law, the New York chamber of commerce has passed resolutions condemning the re peal of the law. The New York peo ple want Kansas to endorse their resolution. It was referred to the committee on state and national legis lation. The national bankruptcy law is the one relating to the disposition of the property of bankrupts. Geo. Neil, one of the owners of the Topeka woolen mill which is about to be moved to Kansas Oity, said in response to an invitation to speak: "I have been in the woolen mill busi ness about eight years, and of course we had our price on the plant. When that price was paid we sold. I did no know when I sold that the plant was to be moved away, but I was un able to prevent this move." Cured Consmption. Mr B W. Evans, Clearwater, Kan., writes- "My husband lay sick for three months. The doctors said he had quick consumption. We procured a bottle of Ballard's Horehound Syrup and it cured him That was six years ago and since then we have always kept a bottle in the ill. w, r-r, nt do without it. For coughs and colds it has no equal. 2ac. 5-c, and CO. Sold by Rowley Snow and Vv. S. Miller Ov. vVV-:: "Wt An Extensive Laboratory. To supply this remedy to the whole world taxes, to the utmost one of the best laboratories in the United States. A Word From Australia, Walter H. Woodward, Bomadier Royal Australian Artillery, Hobart, Tasmania, writes: "I suffered for several years with a distressing condition of the head and throat, caused by continual colds. "My head and nostrils were stopped up most of the time and there was a discharge, and my sense of smell was affected badly. "After two weeks use of Peruna I found this condition quite changed, and so I continued to use this remark able medicine for over a .month. "I am very glad to say that at the end of that time I was cured and felt in fine health generally, and am pleased to give Peruna my honest en dorsement" PEABODY IS OUT. Colorado Gubernatorial Controversy Seems Settled at Last. Denver, March 18. The bargain made by leaders of the opposing Republican factions of Colorado to take the gover nor's chair from Alva Adams and to seat in it Lieutenant Governor Jesse F. McDonald after permitting James H. Peabody to hold it for one day was car ried to a conclusion late in the after noon. In fulfillment of the agreement which he made before the general assembly decided the gubernatorial contest in his favor, Governor James H. Peabody has resigned the office to which he was in augurated late yesterday afternoon. His resignation, of which W. S. Boyn ton, of Colorado Springs, had been cus todian since Wednesday, when it was written, was filed in the office of the secretary of state at 4:20 this afternoon. James Cowie, secretary of state, immed iately certified Governor Peabody's resignation and Lieutenant Governor McDonald was then sworn in as gov ernor by Chief Justice Gabert. There was no further ceremony. Governor Adams was ousted and Governor Pea body installed by the general assembly about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and Governor McDonald was sworn in be fore 5 p. m. today. Thus in a space pf less than twenty-four hours Colorado has had three governors. Governor Peabody transacted practic ally no business of state while in the office of governor. He received many callers who urged him not to resign, and also many messages of the same import, by telegraph and telephone. To all these he replied that he did not care to hold the chair. He said that he was tired of the worry and excitement of his contest, and wished to go back to his bank in Canon City. Half a dozen mem bers of the national guard patrolled the corridors about the executive chamber during the day as a guard for Gover nor Peabody. Lieutenant Governor McDonald re luctantly takes the chair which Gover zisB Death to You can sweep up dead cockroaches by the panful any morning, if at night you use STEARNS' ELECTRIC Ml IH0 ROACH PASTE This is tha only guaranteed exterminator for cockroaches, water bugs, bed bugs, etc It drives rats and mice out of doors to die. Small Size, 25 cents. Hotel Size, e!ght times the quantity, $1.00. All druggists sell It, or sent express prepaid an receipt ol prtco 13 STEARNS ELECTRIC PASTE CO., Chicago, III., U. S. A. From Hawaii. Prince Jonah Kalanianaole, delegatt in Congress from Hawaii, writes from Washington, D. C, as follows: "I can cheerfully recommend you? Peruna as a very effective remedy for coughs, colds, and catarrhal trouble." A Cuban Minister. Senor Quesada, Cuban Minister to the United States, writes from Wash ington, D. C, as follows: "Peruna I can recommend-as a very good medicine. It is an excellent strengthening tonic, and is also an effi cacious cure for the almost universal complaint of catarrh." Qonzalo De Quesada. From All Quarters of the Globe. We have on file thousands of testt- monials like those given above. We can give our readers only a slight glimpse of the vast mrmber of grate ful letters Dr. Hartman is constantly receiving from all quarters of the globe in behalf of his famous catarrh, remedy, Peruna. nor Peabody resigned after forcingGov ernor Adams out. The lieutenant gov ernor has taken ho part in the bitter fight over the governorship which has been waged ever since the election on November IS. He absolutely refused to aid his friends in the legislature to hava him made governor, and as presiding officer in the joint assembly he mada several rulings against the movement in his behalf. Senator Arthur Conforth, president pro tern of the senate, becomes acting" lieutenant governor by the elevation of the lieutenant governor to the office of chief executive. "I am going back to my home and my business in Pueblo," said Alva Ad ams, who was deposed by the general assembly from the governorship after having served sixty-six days of the bi ennial term for which he was inaug urated on January 10 last. "I am president of a savings bank, and I have a hardware establishment, and so I have no foar about the bread; and butter proposition. "At this time,'." he added, "I am by no means in a jocular frame of mind I have been outraged, and I feel tha resentment that is natural. However, if the people can endure it, I can. My friends, many of them in the opposite party, have stood by me stanchly. I shall never forget their devotion to the cause of right and simple justice. I was advised by some friends whose loy alty was supreme, to hold the office by force, but I never foi a moment had an, idea of accepting such advice. I am for law and order in the real sense of the phrase, and self-sacrifice Is a pare of my iuty in adherence to that prin ciple. I simply submit to the outrage that could not peaceably be prevented."- Heaviest Rainfall Ever. San Diego, Cal., March 18. Th4 heaviest rainfall ever recorded in this county took place last night. As tir result of a cloud burst 3.9 8 Inches of rain fell in a very short space of time. The San Diego river is a foot highea than ever before and the storage res ervoirs are rapidly filling. Six billion gallons are already impounded. 10 photos and 1 button 25c. Lutes. GcoZzrc 1 3

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4- THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL,' SATURDAY EVENTING, MARCH 18, 1905. TV 7 Mae oi rv li al "West Sfaoialfl BacK tfae Every Loyal One Man In Central Kansas Invested $1,200 in the TTncle Sam Company Last Monday. Another X"pon the Nebraska Line Flit in $600. An otlier Farmer Walked in Four Mlle.s and Took 3.000 Shares at $120 Yes terday. The men who are buying TTncle Sam stock are solid, substantial men. They ara men w ho are joining the company to stand by it and stay with it. They are liningr up from every direction. No company on earth has ever made the record of this company. Within three weeks of its organization it has gone forward with vim and energy known second to none. Success is stamped all over it. Every one is for it and the time for you to join its ranks is right now. Remember the stock is in demand. It is going. It is selling: all over and at the same price, too. The stock is solid and safe and your money Invested is bound to grow !n value.. Big- deals are pending; the company Is in telegraphic communica tion with over 120 investors. We would like to have you with us. Send check for what you want and get in line with the greatest independent re finery on earth; one that will be own ed and controlled for the next fifty years by western men.. Nine hun dred and ninety dollars cash will buy 2d. 000 shares, par value $25,000 .and the stock may so to par In the next sixteen months, and is sure to double and treble in value in the next three or four months. Standard Oil Company only a few days ago practically black-listed nearly one-half of the Kansas oil, leaving the way clear for this Refinery, which will now be built with a capacity of 1,000 barrels a day instead as first contemplated. 5t ck Now S 1 1 for 4 c Per One of the Strongest and Most Con servative Mortgage Companies in Southern Kansas O. K. a Purchase for a Client This Wees. When a proposition looks good to a mortgage company nowadays it is a pretty good recommendation to go by. This company never advertises the names of the men who buy the stock of the company, but the books of the company will show that conservative men and corporations are taking this stock and buying it in large blocks, too. If you have $3,900 to invest you could not secure a place for it where the results are as sure to be several fold. Three thousand nine hundred will now buy a one-hundredth interest In this great company, and it may be worth $100,000 to -you in a year. Will Erect Ten Twenty Thousand Barrel Steel Storage Tanks. Don't think for one minute that the Uncle Ham company is going into the refinery business on any small scale, or to be a toy concern. When you buy stock In this company you are investing your funds with a company that has a great future. The com pany owns in fee simple one of the finest refinery sites in southern Kan sas, it abuts right against the main line of the Santa Ke railroad, and while it is conceded that this road is dominated by a trust, still the laws of Kansas will control these matters so far as Kansas is concerned, and there is a market for all the oil and more, too, than twenty refineries like the Uncle Sam could put out. Come to Cherryvale and look the property over and you will not go home until you have cinched a good big block of this stock. Others May Talk About Building Re fineries, but Time Will Prove That the Uncle Sam Company Will Be the One That Will Do Tilings. Company Will Establish Oil Stations in the Elrst Twenty Towns That Raise a Club and Take a One Ilnndredth Interest, There are few towns in Kansas that could not easily raise a club of ten of fifteen men and put up-proportion-ately on $3,900 and take between them a one-hundredth interest. Thf first twenty towns that get in line on this deal will receive an Uncle Sam oil station, and the chances are In the prices of oil alone, in the next ten years, the whole amount will be saved to the citizens of that place. Already fifteen different places are working, while five have reserved the stock. Get in line today: help an honorable enterprise that offers you value re ceived and show your loyalty to a home enterprise by doing something that means something. Anyone can cuss the trusts and the evils of the day, but the man who is up and doing will strike a blow that will count, and here is one that may be a knock out before the end. Think this mat ter over and then put your shouider to the wheel and help along this great company, one whose managers will endenvor to make it a company of the people, for the people, and by the people. In union there is strength, and if you can invest only $40 it will help out that much. We want men in every voting precinct in Kansas. Ok lahoma. Missouri and Nebraska. i Think this matter over and whatever you do. do at once. There is very little show for any great number of independent refin eries in the state at present; in fact, there will not be another like the Uncle Sam. This company started just at the right time. It has the backing of one of the most successful and strongest producing oil companies in the oil fields. Over five hundred stockholders of the Publishers com pany are working for this company and that means success. Remittances for stock are pouring in on every mail and the company is advertised now from ocean to ocean. The time to join a company is when that company is selling us ground lioor stock, and that is what you are offered in this advertisement. There is a great deal of talk about other refineries, but the Uncle Sam is on a practical basis it has the oil. it is in the oil field, it can sell a great proportion of its oil by wagon from the doors of the re finery to the cities within thirty miles of it thereby saving all freight rates. There is no question about the final success of this company. A man with money to invest insults his own pocketbook when he fails to grasp the opportunity offered herein and at the same time shows he has not much red blood in his veins or he would help to strike a blow for justice in the oil fields that should interest every liberty-loving man in the central west. euUflflKD Almost Sure to Advance to 50 Cents In the Next Four Months, and You Will Not Only Make Great Profits, but at the Same Time Will Strike a Blow for Justice in the Oil Fields ui sure Same Time will Strike a Blow lor justice in tne oil fields. For a Few Days Longer You Can Bay Slock as Follows I nnn hnrp. .n.nn. nar value fRi.nnn 1,000 Shares, $40.00, par value $1,000 2,000 80.00, 2,000 2,500 100.00, 2,500 5,000 200.00, 5,000 10,000 400.00, 10,000 Or Company will sell to a club of ten or more men in one place a one-hundredth in terest in the company for $3,900.00, and in the first twenty towns in Kansas, Okla homa, Missouri or Nebraska that a one-hundredth interest is taken the Uncle Sam Company will place an oil station. Terms of sale, one-half cash; balance in 60 days. One per cent, discount allowed for all cash. Company Will Have Over Two Million Dollars Back of It in a. Tear. As before stated, the Uncle Sam company is going to do business right. It is not trying to float a refinery company on the same amount of money that it would take to run a one-horse oil company. However, stock will not always be sold at four cents per share. The company will sell some stock at 50 cents per share. The company can build up steadily. It does not cost much to add one ex tra still at a time in addition to other expenses. The refinery can be built up from a one thousand barrel capacity to a ten thousand barrel in time. Why not be one of the tax payers of the central west that will own and control this property? When you buy stock in this company you will be with one that will be strong enough to protect your interests. Stock Selling Uke, Wild Fire. Men Are Coming in From the Farms and Putting Up from $40 to $200. All over the central west today there is a feeling that in the independent re fineries is the hope of the oil fields. Ev ery man who is in favor of a square deal and home industries is lining up with the Uncle Sam company. Men are coming in from the farms, remittances are coming from the shops, and alto gether, a man has to be at the home office in Cherryvale to really realize what will be accomplished here in the next six weeks. Everybody is enthus iastic and they are talking to their friends, and at present it looks like the entire stock of the company would be placed in the next six weeks, if not be fore. It's Kansas and Independent Re fineries and a Square Deal on One Hand and Socialistic Monopoly and Confiscation of Property on the Otlier What Side Are You On? Proposed Uncle Sam Refinery Now Under Construction at Cherryvale. Will e a Thousand Barrel Refinery Instead of Three Hondre On account of the heavy remittances for stock in the last ten days, the Uncle Sam company will build a much larger refinery than was first figured on. There is enough money already subscribed to complete the first plant, and work is being pushed with a vim. Five men are rushing the barrel factory to completion, and be fore this paper reaches its readers one twenty-barrel steel storage tank will be on its way to Cherryvale for this refinery. Other machinery will follow promptly. Don't wait until this company commences to sell refined oil, but show which side you are on now while the company can let you in on the ground floor. J40 will buy 1,000 shares, and the company would rather sell 600 men 1,000 shares each than to sell the same amount to four or five men. This company wants men who will work for it in every locality in the four states mentioned, men who have a vote and who will help to elect men to office that will stand by the present laws and help to pass others that will protect the oil fields to the men who have acquired them by honest efforts. There is big money in sell ing refined oil, and this company gives you a chance to share in the profits and wants your influence and assist ance, no matter if you are a laboring man in the ditch, or what position in life you occupy, just so you will stand by the company when it has criminal discrimination to contend with. Every man knows that under present laws that an independent refinery has smooth sailing and that certain success is ahead. The state oil refinery will want all the by-products it can possibly handle; it will work hand in hand with the Uncle Sam refinery, and they are only 26 miles apart on direct railroad lines. The Uncle Sam company can take care of all Montgomery county oil and put in a branch at Chanute with the present lineup, if every man who reads this advertisement will do Just a little to help along. The Uncle Sam company is in the game already, pulling straight for the goal with its decks cleared for action. There are thousands of dollars back of it, while it has the moral support of the entire press of the central west and men working for it in nearly every hamlet. When you read this advertisement don't delay, but act at once. Lots of stock is sold by wire, but any letter mailed promptly after you read this announcement, inclosing check for the stock you can handle, will receive prompt attention and stock by return mail. Now is the time for you to show your colors. Are you going to help the state of Kansas and the independent refine ries and further the cause of justice or are you a traitor to home industries? The following paragraphs, taken from the Kansas City Journal of Mon day, March 13, explains itself: The Question of By-Products. The Standard claims the most of its profits come from by-products, and that it doesn't pay to make them at a rmall refinery such as the state is putting in. It points out that it doesn't attempt to make any by-products at its Neodesha refinery, which is larger than the state refinery plant will be; that it ships the raw material to its larger plants back east for use. With the advantage in profits from the by-products, it claims it will be able to undersell the state on oil and gasoline. If the establishment of the state refinery results in the Standard's dropping the price of oiJ to Kansas consumers th people will bo benefited just the same, and the state plant will not have been established in vain. Still, the state believes that it 1 can manufacture by-products, too. It will consult experts on that subject. With its prison labor it will have on big advantage over the trust. The Standard must employ free labor at good wages. The state gets its labor for next to nothing 3 cents a day. As an inducement for the establish ment of numerous independent refin eries the state plant will contract to take the raw material for by-products of them. With a market for this stuff the Independents will be able to compete with the Standard also. The by-product plant of the state refinery can be made a large Institution in this way. While there will be no trust formed by the stats and independents, there will be an understanding that the state will see that the inde pendents get a square deal In railroad rates and that no discrimination in the price of oil in different localities goes. By giving independent refineries this protection and by agreeing to purchase their by-product raw ma terial, the state believes it will en courage the establishment of numer ous small refineries. Railroads Have Cut Rates. The railroads have already revised their schedules on oil and put in ef fect the maximum rates fixed by the legislature. These rates are about one-third the old rates. Where it used to cost $78 to ship a car of oil, it costs only $27 now. If, upon fur ther investigation, the state finds that the new rate is too high, it will have the railroad commissioners lower it. The board has that authority. The maximum rate fixed by the new law is really a distance tariff and it ap plies to shipments of all kinds. It makes it unlawful for any common carrier in- Kansas to charge, exact or receive for the transportation of illuminating oil, gasoline, fuel oil. or crude petroleum in cans, barrels, tanks or tank cars, between any points within the state of Kansas, in excess of the following rates for each 100 pounds: Single line Distance, miles rates. 6 and less 2.5c 10 and over 6 8 c 15 and over 10 S 5o 20 and over 15 4 o 30 and over 20 4.5c 41 and over SO 6 c CO and over 40 5.5c 60 and over -50 6 c Double line rates. 4.0o 4.5c 6 c 5. So 6 c 6 o 7 c 7.5c S c 8.5c 9 c 9.5c 9.5o 10 c 10 c 10.50 10.5c 80 and over 60 0.5c 100 and over M 7 o 125 and over loo 7.5c 150 and over 125 8 o 175 and over 150 8.5c 2"0 and over 175 9 c 225 and over 200 9 5o 250 and over 225 .10 o Over 250 '0-5c When distance is over 250 miles, in adJi tion to above rates, add below. Distance, miles Rates. 50 and less 1 o 100 and over 50 2 c 15-5 and over 1 3 200 and over 150 4 c 250 and over aort 5 o 30i) and over 250 5.5'j Over 300 6 c The rates for each and e-ery can, bar rel or tank shall be computed on actual weight, and anv railroad which charges more than the rates fixed by law shall be liable to the person It overcharges in the sum of $500 and attorney's fees. Then, to make it certain that no more rebating will be done a system that the Standard has thrived on this clause is Inscribed in the law Provided, that every such common car rier which shall, either directly or indi rectly, give any rebate to any shipper, or ship or agree to ship any of the products mentioned in this art for a rate less than that lawfullly charged to other shippers under like circumstances, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction thereof shall be fined In the um of not less than $500, and forfeit its char ter to do business in this state. With the state having a direct interest in oil production, it will be compelled to see that everybody gets a square deal in freight rate. It is this feature that will greatly encourage the establishment of indene'ndent refineries. These rates will also enable producers to ship crude oil to Kansas City, Kan., anu otner Dig towns for fuel purposes. 2E 2EE HESSE! ORIGIN JJFTITLES. How the States Got Their Popu lar Nicknames. Queer Epithets Applied to Citi zens of Certain Commonwealths "GARDEN OF THE WEST" Kansas' Great Productiveness Responsible for Appellation. Cortez, the Explorer, Gave the Name to California. George Washington delivered an ad dress before the common council cf New York city in 17S4 in which he said: "I pray that heaven may bestow its choicest blessings on your city; that the devastation of war in which you found it may soon be without a trace; that a well regulated and beneficial commerce may enrich your citizens and that your state at present the seat of empire may set such examples of wis dom as shall have a tendency to Sany ScJioel Children Are Sicily. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in Children's Home, New York, Break p Colds in 24 hours, cure Feverishness, Headache, Stomach Troubles, Teething Disorders, Move and Regulate the 'Bowels, and Destroy Worms. Mrs. Emily Maroon, Meriden, Ct., says 'It is the best medicine in the world for children when feverish and consti pated." Sold by all Drug-gists or by mail, 25. Sample sent FREE. Ad Aresa Alien S. Olmsted, LeEoy, N. Y.. strengthen the union." And from that day to this New York has been known as the empire state. Back in the early days, before Amer ica as a nation began to make history, somebody wrote a romance and called it "Las Sergras de Ksplanadian," and somebody else published it in 1510. In this tale a beautiful pagan queen, call ed CnU'.na, living in a kingdom called California, furnished an army of arna zonians to Ksplanadian, emperor of the Greeks, to aid in defending Constanti nople against eastern infidels. This land of the pagan queen was filled with gold. Cortez, the explorer of later date, ht.d read and been impressed by this tale. When he set out upon his expedition of adventure his mind was thrilled at the thought of new riches he was to ac quire, and thus he called the land which he discovered on the Pacific coast California. From that day to this it has been known as the "golden" state and its people have been nicknamed "gold hunters." It is an interesting matter for inves tigation, this of how the states of the union came to be called what they are called today, the manner in which they acquired their various nicknames' and why their respective citizens are char acterized by the more or less odious epithets that cling to them. In other words, why are North Carolinians call ed "tar heels," citizens of Colorado called "rovers," Indianians "hooslers" Or Missourians "pukes?" It is recalling facts in history to an swer. In the first place, most of the states which form this union took their names originally from the stream or mountain that formed a conspicuous feature of the territory, and these had been previously named by the Indians. Colorado's Two Sobriquets. The state of Colorado was named for the river. The word means "red." As a general thing- Colorado streams are clear, limpid and reflect the blue of the heavens and nature's green. But when mountain storms arise there is rolled through these disturbed waters quanti ties of red sand. Hence the name. Colorado was admitted into the union the year of the centennial, and hence its nickname, the "centennial state." Its people are called "rovers," an epithet that was called into being by the Pike's peak gold fever. To Missouri, named for the river the Indians called "Big Muddy," and her people is attached the reprehensible nickname of "puke." This dates back to 1827, the time when the Galena lead mines' were drawing people from all over the country. So many of these came from Missouri that other Mis sourians who had gone on before re marked that the state had taken a sud den "puke." Several years previous to this time there had been a big exodus from these same mines that had given rise to the nickname of the citizens of Illinois or "Tribe of Men," as the Indian original of the name signifies. A large party while boarding the steamer at the Ga lena wharf was asked: "Where ye go ing?" "To hum," was the reply. "Well," was the rejoinder of the old miner, "ye put me in mind of suckers. They do go up the river in the spring, spawn and all return down again in the fall." Thus Illinoisans became "suckers." The state is known as the prairie state on account of its sweeping land. Just why Indianians are called "hoosiers" is a matter that has not been entirely settled. In the earlier days the word "husher" was a common western term for a bully, and this is offered by some authorities as an explanation of A CREAMY FOOD Scott's Emulsion is cod Viver oil prepared as a food not a food like bread or meat, but more like cream in fact, it is thex cream of cod liver oil. At the same time it is a blood-maker, a nerve tonic and a flesh-builder. But principally it is food for tired and weak digestions, for all who are fat-starved and thin. It is pleasant to take children like it and ask for more. ECOTT BOWNE, 409 Purl Street. New York. the term hoosier. Others say that it is the result of a contraction of the ques tion, "Who's ye?" Kansas "Garden of the West." Iowans, "drowsy ones," are hawk eyes, because ah Indian chief of that name once spread terror among trav elers abroad in his land. Kansans have been jayhawkers since the days of the civil war, when the guerrilla bands inaugurated a lawless method of warfare. On the other hand, as if to atone for this unpleasant epithet, the state has been dubbed the "garden of the west" on account of its great productiveness. Denizens of the land where the blue grass grows, Kentucky, are called "corn crackers," because a rail with this peculiar name is the game bird of that region. Sometimes they are called "red horses," but nobody seems to know why. When La Salle entered the Gulf of Mexico in 1682 he founded the fort of St. Louis and named it for Louis XIV of Prance and the surrounding terri tory he called "Louisiana." The inhabi tants of this country originally were French and Spanish settlers, and their descendants even today are called "Creoles." To Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I of England and daughter of Henry IV of France, both Maine and Mary land are indebted for their names. The latter is Mary's land. The former was derived from Mayne, the name of the patrimonial estate of the French princes. The people of the lumber state are "foxes," both on account of the abundance of this animal and be cause the lives of many were passed in the woods. Marylanders are "craw thumpers," a name applied to lobsters by fishermen. Massachusetts is the Irfdian name for "blue hills." It is the "bay" state be cause it was once the "Massachusetts bay colony," and the people are "beans" on account of the favorite dish which everyone knows is theirs. To say noth ing of their knowing considerable more than "beans" is the popular conception. Michigan is the "lake" state and the people are "wolverines." Minnesota, the "north star," on account of the insig nia of its seal. Its peosle are "gophers," the allusions being to the honeycombed condition of the state due to the small bodies of water. "Tadpoles," "Bujjeaters," Sage Hens." Mississippi is the "bayou" state and its citizens ara "tadpoles." Kebraskans are called "bug eaters," because a bird so named and believed to be of evil omen by the rural population frequents that part of the country. People living in Nevada are "sage hens;" in New Hampshire, "granite boys;" in Ver mont, "Green mountain boys;" in South Carolina, "weasels;" in Virginia, "beadles;' in Wisconsin, "badgers." New Jerseyites are "clam catchers," because this is the principal occupation of the poorer classes. Ohioans are call ed "buckeyes" because of the abund ance of a tree by this name, the nut of which bears a strong resemblance to a buck's eye. North Carolinans are called "tar heels." This sobriquet goes back to war times, when the people came out of the pineries to fight. About the same time Tennesseeans were dubbed "but ternuts" on account of the color of the clothes they wore. "Gun flints," as ap plied to the citizens of Rhode Island, goes back to the Dorr rebellion of 1S42. when the arms of this old description were pulled out from the garrets, where they had lain unused for years. Texas is the "lone star" state because that wae the emblem of her nag before she was admitted into the union and is still upon the state seal. "B?efneads," the people are called, since their chief occu- An Appeal to Drinking Men. There is not a drunkard upon' earth whom Orrine will fail to cure. It is a scientific remedy for the drink habit, discovered by a well known Washing ton chemist, and completely and ab solutely destroys the craving for drink. No detention from work or business; no. publicity of sanitarium treatment. Orrine No. 1 is in powder form, and can be given secretly, without the pa tient's knowledge, in tea, coffee or food. Orrine No. 2 is in pill form, for those who take the remedy of their own free will. There is no nausea or other ill-effects from the use of Or rine. On the other hand, it quiets the nerves, regulates digestion and brings restful sleep, good appetite and perfect vigor. Write to the Orrine Company, Inc.. Washington, D. C. for free booklet, mailed in plain envelope. We heartily recommend Orrine to all who wish freedom from the slavery of drink. Ask us about Orrine. Geo. W. Stans field, druggist, 632 Kansas avenue, Topeka. pation is cattle raising-. Alabamas are "lizards;" people of Florida "fiy-up-the-crecks;" in Georgia they are "buzzards;" in Connecticut "nutmegs" and In Dela ware "muskrats." The people of Arkansas are "tooth picks," which is a playful allusion to the bowie knife that does such good service in that part of the country. An old Amer ican ballad says: Straightway leaped the gallant Fling-sby Into armor of Seville, With a strong Arkansas toothpick Screwed in every Joint of steel. Oregon Is the "webfoot" country be cause the excessive rains in winter render Its climate such as only a webfooted ani mal can appreciate. The people are called "hard cases," the explanation to be found in the habits of the early settlers. SMOKE KLAUER'S GOLD BUG CHEFJinii OUTLOOK. Export Orders for Steel Kails Feature of Iron Bfarket. New Xork, March IS. The trade outlook continues very cheerful in Lll directions considering the very heavy tonnage placed earlier in the year in pig iron, says the Iron Age. The buy ing has been good in such widely dis tant points as New England, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, and the market is firmer. There are interest ing movements under way in Besse mer pig in the central west which may exert considerable influence in the steel trade. The steel corpora tion has not yet determined whether an additional purchase of 10,000 tons for this month will be required. It is estimated that 40,000 tons of outside pig will be needed for April. The cor poration is now operating 96.2 per cent of its blast furnace capacity. In the steel rail trade, the most striking event has been the closing of some important export ord:rs. The steel corpcat'on has contra-tod for the delivery of 25,000 tons of stand ard rails to an Argentina railroad, while about 18,000 tons are reported engaged for another South American railroad. In one department of the steel rail trade, long dormant, there has been a distinct revival recently and that is in material for street rail ways. This covers both girder rails and special work. The railroads continue to place lib eral orders for rolling stock. It is noted also that the steel casting shops have been getting a good run of orders i CENT CIGAR. and that prices in this branch have much improved during the past few months. The market for sheets is particular-, ly strong and there seems little doubt but what an advance in prices will be established at an early date. An increasing number of complaint come from widely different parts of the country about the difficulty of se curing an adequate supply of suitable labor. Locally the labor situation Is held accountable for a certain dullness which characterizes the many branches of industry using iron and steel. It appears that work is being diverted to competitive districts. The Northwestern Line. One of the most interesting series of articles on the subject of the great rail ways of the country that has appeared recently is that from the pen of Frank J J pt: n 1 1 ti 1 1 v -t Saturday Kvening Post, and which has oince been printea in uou iuhh vj Scribners. The chapter descriptive of fhifniro Northwestern railway has been published by the passenger department 01 inai mie v""i""-i. form for general destribution and will be sent to any address on receipt of 2c for postage. W. B. Knisker, P. T. M., Chicago. A bracing spring tonic. Cures i!ll spring disorders. Makes red blood, bone and muscle. A wonderful remedy for making sick people well. Hollister's Rocky Moun tain Tea. 85 emta. To or Tbi'.. GUin

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1905. 5 nn Hi Li U liiinna orph iE ypte tin? e n 1 1 M iv i i i HI Mr M f::i II WW 3 I o. rp o nn rp nn nn o n r3 n n n nnnnnnfaMn VW- ssV !l wic Emu, mm mii mi n i m,i R fil) oil 111! li H f 1 u II Kansas Will Purchase the By-Products From This Refinery Which Now Controls A 1 B AND IS GROWING STROM GER EVERY HOUR. 7- 4c Refinery Stock Is the Greatest Investment Ever Offered in the Central West. One of the Oreatest Oil Pools In Montgomery County Went Into the Control or the Vncle Sam Company at Midnight Saturday. Late Saturday night one of the most Important property transactions ever consummated in the oil fielj3 in south ern Kansas was closed, whereby the Vnele Sam company secures control of 446 acres of rroved oil lands with fourteen oilers and one fifty well pumping plant. One of these wells is a great gas well. In addition to the oil find in this field a valuable gas and nil land is one of the surest and best gas fields in the state. There is room on this property for over 120 more wells, and this land adjoins the refinery site, and the oil will be handy to market, and in addition thereto two miles of val uable water rights are secured also. The importance of this transaction to the Uncle Sam company can hardly be told on paper; it has to be seen to be appreciated. There are two great oil pools near Cherryvale one is In La bette county just across the line, where the Publishers' company now has forty-eight producing wells and two pump ing plants, the other is the one known as the Vceders rool just west of Cher ryvale on Drum creek. The managers cf the Uncle Sam company have held an option on this property for some time and had it in view when they located the refinery where they did. This land lies to the south of all the wells on the west side and the land dips towards the eouth or. In other words, is down the creek. Other oil men have tried time and again to secure, this Held, but the men who had proved It and drilled the fourteen wells wanted to be sure of a market for the oil, so they joined the Uncle Sam company. There Is no doubt but what this tract Is the center of the west side pool, as the wells on the north and west are light and continue to increase In production as they go down the creek towards the Veeders land, and one well on this Veeders tract Is a real gusher and w ill throw oil 300 feet in the air today when turned on, and there Is room for fifty more right In the same bottom, while the Uncle Bam company controls the lands for nearly a mile on all sides. If you think the Uncle Sam company is not getting there with both feet Just come down and go over the property. On this land Is enough water to supply a dozen refineries. The Way Is Clear for the Uncle Sam Oil Company, "With Thousand of Barrels of Kansas Oil "With No Market and Big Money in Refining Every Barrel. The Standard Oil company only last week served notice on the Kansas oil producers that it would no longer take oil under 30 gravity test. This order cuts out over one-half of the oil produced in the state and leaves it without a market. There Is big money in every barrel of it, and it can be bought at a reasonable price. The Uncle Sam company could five fold its money in the next three years by building large storage tanks at -different points in the oil fields and buying and storing this oil. This company is rapidly crowding ahead. Big results can be expected. The man who is wise enough to put from $40 to $3,000 in the Uncle Sam stock will find himself possessor of valuable property before the year 1903 is end ed. Come down to Cherryvale; go out where the workmen are putting up the buildings and look over the holdings of this company, and you will soon realize that the Uncle Sam company is going into business to stay. This company will not only buy oil from other producers, but will own and operate its own wells. From a thousand feet under the ground it will take the oil through its different stages until it is burning in your lamp. The capacity of the refinery can be increased from time to time and without a shutdown this company can, by good management, lncreuse its capacity to past one thousand bar rels a day in the next year. The time to buy your stock Is now, before these results are accomplished. When you invest you pay no more than hun dreds of other investors who have lined up with this company in the last ten days. OH Properties Enough Xow Owned and Controlled by the Uncle Saul Kefinery to Furnish It for Fifty Years. It would be just like building a first class battleship and putting it in the middle of the Sahara desert as to build a refinery in southern Kan sas, or anywhere else, without sure production and proved oil lands to back it up. Practical men are at the head of the Uncle Sam refinery- men who succeed. They are looking ahead for breakers they know they have the strong arm of the state for pro tection, and they know they have in Kansas alone an everlasting market for all the oil they can refine, and they have now, as before stated, secured enough oil rights to insure them oil for the next half century. Now, if you want to join a company that is play ing safe one that will protect your interest, buy some of this stock be fore others secure what you want. It is only a few minutes ride out to the properties from Cherryvale. Come down and see for yourself and talk matters over with the men here. Stock Should Go to at Least 50 Cents Per Share in the Next Four Months. With a thousand barrel refinery in op eration, and with oil lands and oil wells that the Uncle Sam company will con trol by that time, do you think you will be able to buy any of this stock under 50 cents per share. The men at the head of this company are practical bus iness men. They are working tooth and nail for the grand success of this re finery. It will be built and In operation before some "don't know what to do people" will have made up their minds. Act now; strike while opportunity knocks at your door; secure some of this stock before it advances five or ten-fold for you will not likely have a chance again to join a refinery com pany that has as many strong points as this company. Three hundred and ninety-eight dollars cash will buy ten thousand shares if check is sent at once. Financial Condition of the Uncle Sam Company. The Uncle Sam company owns oil rights worth, on conservative basis, free of debt, over $40,000. Holds options worth $20,000 more. Cash paid in and subscribed, which is gilt-edged, approx imately $42,000. Authorized capitaliza tion ($10,000,000) ten million. Stock now in the treasury, which will be sold for from 4 to 20 cents per share (8,000,000) eight million. The par value of the stock is $1 per share. The stock is non assessable and every share of stock draws just the same amount of divi dends as any other share. Ino dividends will be paid on unissued stock. How ever, it is the plan of the vnan-igement to sell exery share of this took in the next three months and place the pro ceeds in the building up of two other refineries and the securing of additional oil lands. As before stated, there is no deadhead or promoter stock in this com pany. The managers are working for a reputation as well as money, and they are not the kind that are quitters. They mean just what they say and the man who does not invest and help this com pany on to victory because h" is afraid he will not secure fair treatment spites himself more than any one else, for the company is a winner, and you will re ceive square treatment on every dollar entrusted to this company's care. The capitalization is about eight times as large as the ordinary company, but is all cash stock and the company will own one hundred times as much proper ty and be strong enough to protect its interests. Address, o No Deadhead Stock In This Company. Everybody Pays Cash and Every Share of Stock Draws Just as Much of the Dividends as any Other Share. This company was organized on the square. It was organized to fulfill a long felt want in the oil fields. It is on a basis that any conservative man can join and not give some one else the advantage. The men whp started this company are paying in proportion to what they secure with property and money, more than 4 cents per share. The managers of this company know nearly every rabbit path in Montgom ery county. Other valuable oil tracts will become the property of the Uncle Sam company. The company will grow stronger every day, hour and minute until the stock herein will be cash at ten times the present price. One suc cess generally follows another, and you can depend on success when you join this company. Personnel of the Uncle Sam Company. James Ingersoll is president. Ref erence, any bank in Denver, Pocatella, Idaho, or Larimie City, Wyoming. Mr. Ingersoll made his start In life driving a pack mule team from Fort Leavenworth to western Kansas points in 1S59, when he was but 15 years old. While his home is now in Idaho his sympathies are with the state of his boyhood, and very few pioneers of Kansas set foot on the Kansas plains before he did. J. H. Ritchie is vice president. Like the president, he started as a pioneer in the west. At one time he was a cowboy on the ranges of Texas. For the past twenty-eight years he has been an honored resident of Mont gomery county, and for fourteen years lias been owner and. editor of the old est paper under otie management in CtierryvTtre1. HcVas one of the board of regents of the State Norrr,al at Em poria during the" Leedy administra tion in Kansas. Whale not wealthy he is honorable, and took one of the most important parts in the legisla tion enacted at Topeka. In the ab sence of the president Mr. Ritchie oversees the executive management of this company. Reference, the Montgomery County National bank, or any old citizen of Montgomery county, also tha. Cherryvale State bank. II. H. Tucker, jr.. is secretary and treasurer of the company. Mr. Tuck er's father was one or the scouts in the nine days' battle of the Arick eroe under Gen. George A- Forsythe in 1S6X. Kansas and Colorado are now erecting a monument on this bat tlefield. The secretary and treasurer of this company only wishes he could put up as good a fight for Kansas in her struggle with her present foe as his father did on the sands of the Arick eroe with her foes in the days of the 60's. Reference, any bank or busi ness house in Minneapolis, Kas- or the Montgomery County bank at Cherry vale, also the Cherryvale State bank. In Conclusion Will State A little over a year ago the same management who now ask you to Joi them in what they know is a worthy cause, and also a money maker, organized an oil company at Cherryvale, Kas. A whole lot of people laughed at them, but in one year that stock went from 4 cents to 30 cents, good and solid, and was taken off the market, and you cannot buy out a single one of the management today even at $1.25 per share. These men are stayers; they are not trying to entice any one into a trap to make a failure and beat them out of your money, nor are we looking for some excuse to fail. The oil company we promoted a year ago today has (48) forty-eight producing wells, and work is now commenced on 4 9, 60 and 51. This company is now paying dividends. It paid a half cent per share on the 20th of January; it will pay another of one fourth per eeTtr. this month, and may be better. This company was the Publishers- The chances against this Publishers' company on the start a year ago were 100 to 1, but it just went up a notch at a time. It kept going and is still going. The same men who will raise the money to make the Uncle Sam company one of the greatest in the world hav seen the color of a dollar before, close to one hundred thousand ($100, 000.00) have gone through their hands. They are not puffed up over their success, but are plodding away now to accomplish greater suc cess. Their reputations, which they value, and their property will back the Uncle Sam company straight through. If you go with us we will guarantee you a square deal. Our homes are in Cherryvale, and we do not ask you to follow any pipe dream or to buy any blue sky. We know we have a practical proposition, one that will succeed. Publishers stock gained tenfold solid in a year, and was taken off the market. Even greater success can be depended on in the Uncle Sam company. We have over 120 unanswered letters on our desk. We will answer them as quick as we can, but we have tried to make this ad plain, and mean just what we say. Remit or write or wire for further particulars. TUCKER CHERRYVALE, KANSAS. 7T j)ss i i Vi i :v "v ..ti h a t imm 'Mil MSI IIP 11 Kip ii ECHO 0FTI1E PAST How a Raid into Kansas Was Prevented. Eleven Tear Old Boy Circum vented the Guerrillas. SAK A FLAT BOAT. On This They Were to Cross the Missouri. John llarnois, Now an Old Man, Tells His Story. John Harnois, a little, swarthy man with long white hair, spent a few days In Topeka not long ago on his way from Wellman, Ok., to St. Joseph, where he had been called to testify In a land law suit. Mr. Harnois came up to the State Journal office. "I wanted to tell you a little story," he said to a reporter. "I don't know as you would care to hear it, but it occurred to me that maybe some of the old timers would be a little bit interested. I got to thinking about it while I was waiting around town here for my train. Then I saw your office, and just thought I'd come in." John Harnois is a good talker; his language is faultless, and in spite of the fact that he wore a blue shirt and looked more like a Mexican pros pector out in the Rockies than an American farmer from the fertile wheat and cotton fields of Oklahoma, he showed himself to be of more tliau ordinary ability. "You probably did not know," said Harnois in beginning his story, "that in the year 1856. a plan had been made by a band of pro-slavery men to cross the river from Missouri at St. Joseph, co-operate with a similar band of pro-slavery men on ihe Kansas side of the river and make a raid down thxoucb, Kansas very much on the same plan as the Quantrell raid some years alter. ft A 1 W JOHX IIARXOIS. Who Frustrated a liorder Ruffian Raid 50 Years Ago. "Such a plan, however, had been made. It was proposed to use a big scow at a place called Belmont, about 6 miles from St. Joseph, for the pur- T7 li3 TQQ from IIbrc leaves the meat of the kernel to be made into California Wheatine. Flaked wheat food for breakfast. All good grocers. Pacific Cereal Association Smm Fruclica pose of crossing the river. The con spirators on the Kansas side had been notified to be ready, and the plans for the invasion were complete. Of course all these preparations ware conducted with the utmost secrecy. Those of us who were not directly in volved in the conspiracy knew in a general way that trouble was brew ing, but we did not know just what would be done, nor where or when the blow would be struck. "My father owned a blacksmith shop between St. Joe and Belmont. I was then a little boy only 11 years old. My father had been an Indian trader; he had also lived in Nebraska. I myself was the seventh white child born in Nebraska. He was at heart a strong friend of the abolitionists. But he had his blacksmith shop in Mis souri, and of course he had to keep his mouth shut about the slavery question. He simply let the people as sume that he was with them. "One afternoon in the middle of summer I was playing around in the shade in front ol the blacksmith shop. My father was working away in the shop and a doxen or o men '.rc loafing and smoklne out in front. Nobody paid much attention to me. I was 'just a Uid' and didn't count. The men were talking together about some thing and I took pains to listen to what was said. I found out by listening that the plan had been fixed to invade Kansas that very night; the big scow at Belmont was to be seized as soon as it was dark, and 50 men were to be transported across the river, where they would meet fifty more men with horses for the entire com mand. Their plan was, 1 learned. to sweep down through Kansas, pillaging and de stroying the property of the abolitionists. "I was nothing but a boy, but I determ ined that I would do my best to frustrate the plan. I said not a word to my fath er about what I had heard, because I knew that he would put a veto on the plan which I had in my head. I just slipped away as soon as I could after sup per and took with me a little handaxe. 1 ran all the way from our home to Bel mont, on the river, and found the bi;r scow with very little difficulty. Then wit'.i my handaxe I chopped a big hole in the bottom of the boat. It was quite a big job becaune I had first to cut through the floor timbers of the scow, then through the heavy boards which formed the hull. But I did the job in good shape and did it quickly, becatise I did not know how soon the men would begin to assem ble. "I had not much more than finished my work and scooted off among the willows which lined the bank when the first par ty of the raiders arrived. They were all armed with rifles and revolvers and were about half drunk. They were going out on a great lark, they thought. "They waited around until other men prr.-f. and then thev decided they would push the scow into the water and get ready to start. They had not observed that there was anything the matter with the old boat. When they pushed her in she promptly went to the bottom. "Well, vou never in all your life heard such cusiing and wearing. I thought those fellows would go crazy they were so mad. I lay there where I could see w hat was ering on. hugging my little handaxe. and tickled to death thai I had spoiled the scheme. "When I nn home it was late. My fathtr was mad because I had gone away, and made me tell where I had been. He was greatly frightened for fear some of the raiders would find out who had sunk the scow and would take vengeance on him. but I showed him that there was no danger, and we continued to live there at the old blacksmith shop and at St. Joe for over 50 years. It is only in recent years that I moved to Oklahoma. "The raiders could not make their ex pedition that night, because, there was no other scow for five miles up or down the river. Thev could not get word acros the river to their Kansas allies, and the result was that all their plans were thrown Into confusion and the plans for the raid were never carried out." Mr. Harnois was asked how it happened that he wears his Ions hair. "Well," he said, "that was kind of a joke I played on the barber a year or two ago. I went into the barber shop down in Oklahoma and asked for a haircut. The barbers thought they would have fun with mc and they said they would not cut my hair. 'All right,' I said, taking them at their word, 'I'll just show you that you can't bluff me. I won't let you cut my hair as long as I live.' And since then I have not had my hair cut. Oh, I expect that one of these days I will have it cut, but there is no rush about it." TO CURE DANDRUFF It Is Necessary That the Dandruff Germ Be Eradicated. "Destroy the cause, you remove the ef fect." Kill the germ that causes dandruff, falling hair and baldness, you will have no more dandruff and your hair must grow luxuriantly. Herpicide not only con tains the dandrufT germ destroyer, but it is also a most delightful hair dressing for regular toilet use. No other hair prepara tion is on this scientific basis of destroy ing the dandruff germ, and none other claims to be, for the simple reason that it is only recently that a destroyer of the germ has been discovered Newbro's Her picide, the only hair preparation that ac tually kills dandruff. Sold by leading druggists. Send lOo in stamps "for sample to The Herpicide Co.. Detroit, Mich. Rowley Snow, spe cial agents. BE SLIM PARIS EDICT. Dame Fashion Says Diaphragms Are Entirely Out of Date. New York, March 18. Ladies, your diaphragm is out of date. The latest edict from Paris prescribes a female form guiltless of such an adjunct. Therefore, your only hope of combin ing satisfactorily with your Easter frock is to put it out of sight. Miss Elizabeth A. C. White, of the Dressmakers' Protective Association of America, which opened its semi annual convention yesterday in Ma sonic temple. Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, can instruct you in this baffling process. Miss White, who has made over her figure and laid off 22 pounds weight in one month, used to have one herself, till she knew better, but five pounds of diaphragm have been so neatly tucked away in the folds of her French gown that not Sherlock Holmes himself would ever suspect Its existence. "Where have I put it? In the back." responds Miss White prompt ly. "First I had to do away with the abdomen when the straight front came in, and, of course, in doing that, I brought out the diaphragm. Now the diaphragm is not wanted and It must be put aside. The corset is get ting higher every minute. This is just a preparatory year. Next season it will be away up. So what could I do with a diaphragm then? There would be no place for it and the only way to do is to get rid of it." For women who are groaning un der the infliction of the "too, too solid" Miss White's recipe guaran teed to cure is here given: When you go to bed lie down on your face. Roll your pillow into a solid wad and tuck it under your chin, which raises up your chest and brings you flat upon your stomach. Now stretch out your toes till your instep lies out on the bed, and then sleep if you can. It will probably be uncomfortable. Tou may choke or get a horrid cramp in your foot, but the road to beauty is stony. This stretching process brings all the muscles into play. In the morn ing exercise by bending backward and forward, hands on hips, and swing first one leg- and then the other, like a pendulum. It is strenuous, but it pro duces beauty. At the corset demonstratiori to night on living models Miss White will tell the whole story and help other women from mountainous pro portions to "distingue slimness." BUSY MEXICAN SIATADOR. His Assistants Injured, He Kills Five Bulls in One Sunday Session. Parrao was forced to kill five bulls out of the seven slain in yesterday's corrida, because Antonio IMontes and "Fafco," matadors alternativa, were each wounded in the sword hand In kill ing their first bull. Montes received the more severe wound. the flesh be tween the thumb and first finger being split by the sword hilt when he made his first thrust. "Falco" escaped with a sprain, but neither of the matadors was able after that to handle the es pada. The fight was exceptionally good from every viewpoint, and Parrao covered himself with glery by dispatching every one of his bulls, with one exception, by a single neat stroke. Six bulls had been advertised, but seven were killed, the last being a present from Montes, whose benefit performance it was. Of the bulls the first three let into the ring were easily the best. Two of these probably were the fiercest animals seen since the opening of the ring this sea son. Skillful work on the part of the banderillos enraged them to a point where they made things extremely live ly. The first animal killed five horses as fast as they could be brought to tha ring, and was dispatching his sixth when the bugle was blown. After the banderillos had been placed "Falco" took the sword, but his aim in the first two strokes was not true and they caused wounds only. At the third the bull dropped. Parroa killed the second bull with one stroke and receiv ed an ovation, from both sol and sorn bra sides. Montes, in slaying the third, made a good stroke, but his hand was wounded and he left the ring to receive attention for it Just as his animal tot tered and fell. "Falco" received his wound while stabbing the fourth, nnd Parrao relieved him of the sword, fin ishing that bull and killing the follow ing three animals. The fifth, sixth and seventh bulls were not equal to the first three in fighting qualities, and only by exceedingly clever work could some of them be made to attack. One had to be returned to the corral because he re fused to fight at oil, but when the oxen were turned in he refused to follow them, and subsequently had to be roped and dragged out. Mexican Herald. The Colonel's Waterloo. Colonel John M. Fuller of Hony Grove, Tex., nearly met his Waterloo from liver and kidnev trouble. In a recent letter ha says: "I was nearly dead of these com plaints, and, although I tried my family doctor, he did me no good; so I got afro bottle of your great Electric Bittt rs.whleli cured me. I consider th m the host med icine on earth and thank 1ot who save you the knowledge to make thcrn." riold and guaranteed to cure dyspepsia, bilious ness and kidney disease, by Arnold Drug Co.. SZ1 North Kansas avenue, at 50e a bottle. V. S. Miller Lumber Co, 213 East Sixth Street. v

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6 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1905. IMPROVEMENT. Is Seen in Almost All Branches ofliusiness. Higher Temperature Is Still Needed in Some Quarters. RAILWAY EARNINGS Show a Gain of S.l (Her Same Week Last Year. Manufacturing Plants Are Cen ters of Great Activity. New Tork, March 18. R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Higher temperature is still needed to bring- out full spring: activity at many points, but improvement Is discerned in almost all departments. Mercantile payments are also more prompt. Rail way earnings, which have been falling behind in comparison with last year, were 8.1 per cent larger for the first week of March and there la compara tively little complaint of freight con gestion. Manufacturing plants, espec ially in the iron and steel industry, show great activity. Floods have done Fame damage on the Pacific coast, but farming prospects there, as in most other sections, are decidedly favorable. Large farm reserves of corn and oats are not accompanied by depressed prices, and the small wheat stocks re neutralized by most profitable quota tions. Foreign commerce relations Ehow unprecedented imports In Febru ary and for the last week at this port elor.e there was an increase of $6,375. 18S, compared with the corresponding period of 1904, while exports rose $1, 709.318. "Good progress Is noted in conditions at pig iron furnaces and steel mills. "Hides continue firm. Fall contracts come to shoe manufacturers in very rmall volume. Textile industries are making good progress, prices ruling hrm with a slight increase in the de mand for cotton goods. Little new ex port business is noted. "la the woolen goods division prices cf new lines show the expected advance over last season. "Failures this week numbered 230 in the United States against 229 last year, and 26 In Canada compared with 21 a year ago." Bradstreet's says: "Spring trade and outdoor activities gr.: ler force as the month advances. .Better weather, small interior stocks and confidence in the future industry cause wider distribution in all sections except the south, where considerable Irregularity appears. Dry goods, clothing, groceries, shoes, hardware, arm implements, lumber and build ing material show relatively most ac tivity. "All reports indicate great activity fn railway circles. Complaints of car shortage still come, though the sit uation has improved slightly. Gross receipts for January gained 6 per cent, while net increased 12 per cent. Col lections still light, but money has turned firmer. "A feature of the spring outlook is the confidence in a very large amount of building being done in nearly all parts of the country. Pacific coast lumber interests report continued im provement. "The central west, northwest and south send the best reports, but there is expansion noted at leading eastern markets, and even cotton goods are taken more freely at the east, helped by the late advance in raw cotton. "From the Pacific coast good re ports come, particularly from Los An geles. "Iron and steel production and consumption alike break nil records. "Finishing mills are crowded with business and four months' time is de rnanded for deliveries on nem orders, foreign orders for rails are a fr.ctor. Hallway material is being bought freely for domestic account." rtanlc Clearings. NfwTork.M-iroh H.-Thc followingtable, compiled by Bradstreet. shows the bank clenring at the principal cities for the wek ended March 1. with the per centage of Increase and decrease, as com pared with the corresponding week last year: City Clearings. Inc. Dec. New York Jl.f71.H17,ln 2 Chicago 15,S?4..V5 IS. 8 Jloaton 152.49rt.PT2 I'hllsdelphia 12ii.977,5Sl 27.3 Et. LnUjS Sfl.KSil.SJf) 3.1 Fittsblirir 42.472.357 2". 4 f?sn Francisco P3.3F3.53 IS. 2 Cincinnati 2a. Tfio 5.3 f.altimore 25.SW.1S 11.1 Kansas City 22.S(K.2r2 12.2 New Orleans lR.7sS.0M 7.5 linnar-olis J0.0.v?.74: 30.5 Cleveland 14.13ii.5TS 6.4 Louisville 12.3S2.1S7 15. S Detroit I'l'ri4 7.S Milwaukee 8.77.065 6.6 Omaha S.74!e 15.4 Jovidence 7.J''2.f' 17 0 Ixs Angeles 8.437.S58 23.1 J'nfTalo 6.513.SH1 4.2 Indianapolis 5.131. MS 6 2 ft. Paul 6.15n.SM 4.4 Memphis 5.373.1W 1(1.4 St. Jooeph 4.SM.344 10.6 Richmond 4.7M.075 4.3 Denver 5.BP.5.3S5 S9.8 Columbus 5.2.)3. 9tX 21.2 "Washington 5.1"1.127 35.5 Fort Worth 5.P57.777 1W.5 Toledo 3.729,5'V1 22 9 Ealt I-ake City 2.6M.123 .9 les Moines 2.545,976 4.S Tacoma 2.526 537 33 0 Wichita l.lrtT'sax 24 Wilkesbarre 823,334 7.8 Davenport S27.715 222 Little Rock SM 216 11.8 Topeka !577 E8.9 Jvalamaoo 817.r2 2i.9 SSprinjrnVId. Ill 922. 41 fall River 5.7 Vheeling, W. Va. i52.24 43 5 J?oekford, 111 fv!.35 2.5 J.owell 4m. 698 3.8 Jiinshamton 44S..o 10 6 jr!oomington f 23 2S5 46 9 Springfield, 0 416.K10 .9 Q!ncy 4M.3! Jl.5 De-catur 321.146 8.8 Sioux Falls 216.2P2 30.5 Jacksonville, 111 3 2.377 61.5 rremont 2S4.178 91.9 Houston 11. 9iil.626 1.3 Galveston 9.136.0M) 4.4 I Totals in IT. S...S2.fw.flRS.2. 570 I Outside N. T 92S.421.K8 16.1 t Strikes Hidden Rocks. When your ship of health strikes the lsidden rocks of consumption, pneumonia, tc, you are lost if you don't get help from Dr. King's New Discovery for Con sumption. J. W. McKlnnon of Talladega Springs, Ala., writes: "I had been very ill with pneumonia, undr the care of two doctors, but was getting no better, when I began to take Dr. King's New Discov ery. The first dose gave relief, and one bottle cured me." Sure cure for sore throat, bronchitis, coughs and colds. Guar anteed at Arnold Drug Co.. S21 North Kansas avenue. Price 5Cc and tl.CO. Trial bottle free. Colds cause congestion and costiveness, fluids which should pass through the Sowels and kidneys are secreted by the lose and throat. Hollister's Rocky Moun :ain Tea wil! positively cure. cents, i&tiia Drug Co. HULL HOUSE VOLNS CLUB. Miss Jane Adflants Receives Key From the Ionor. Chicago, March 18. Chicago now has a woman's clubhouse whose doors al ways will be opened wide to all the richest and the poorest but "shut al ways to envy and uncharitableness." It was dedicated yesterday with elaborate ceremony. In the stone over the entrance was carved the name "Hull House Woman's Club." Under that stone for two hours before dedicatory services were begun passed women of all appearances. There came the Italian woman from the tenement house with a varicolored shawl drawn about her head; there came the washerwoman in faded calico; there came the Ghetto mother in rain bow hued silk: there came the typical business woman in linen collar and cuffs; there came the professional wo man with knitted brows and gold rim med glasses; there came the fashion able clubwoman with her lorgnette; there tame society women in black vel vet, in brocade silks and fluffy chiffon. Six hundred came on foot or on street cars; a hundred more came in carriages and automobiles. Inside the entrance all met on com mon ground, social barriers were level ed and "class distinction" forgotten. It was a little after 3 o'clock when the dedicatory services were begun. Mrs. The Exciting Pastime of Rid Laura Dainty Pelham, president of the club, rapped lightly with her gavel and announced a song number by the Hull House Woman's clib chorus. After the chorus had rendered two se lections, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, who erected the permanent house for the club, came forward to make her presen tation address. She told the club mem bers that the pleasure was all hers. She said she hoped the large auditorium would be used not only for the meeting of the club but for the Sunday evening lectures and for the dancing classes. Mrs. Bowen then formally presented the kev to the new clubhouse to Miss Jane Addams. The head of Hull house accepted the gift in a few remarks. Mrs. Pelham then accepted the gift on be half of the club. FIVE MILLIONS TIED UP. Clough Asks for Mandate In Securi ties Case. Washington, March 18. William P. Clough, for the Northern Securities company, made application to the su- r.reme court today for issuance or the mandate in the case of E. H. Harriman and others against the Northern Securi ties company in accordance with the decision of the court in favor of the company. He based it on the ground v.o until tho mandate should be is sued five million dollars worth of pro perty would be tied up Dy tne injunc tion of the New Jersey court and this was an injustice to the public and owners of the property. ii..nn ITi-'irtc rcnrpcftnlino' tho fin. posing side, objected to the motion say ing mat tile lUttllUd i- oiiwuiu nui until th nnininn of the court in the case is handed down. The court took tne matter unaer aa visement after directing the application of Mr. Clough be printed. BRIEF BITS OF CITY NEWS. Collection of Important Para graphs for Tour Consideration. The Ministerial union will meet Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Berry, specialist in catarrh of the head, throat, lungs, stomach, and intestines, 725 Kansas avenue The office force at the city engi neer's office is working on the esti mates for the construction of the mu nicipal crematory. We advise folks who know just when they will die to delay insurance. Those who are not so wise, to be safe. should "do it now. National Life In surance company of Vermont Mu tual organized 1850. Fifty-sixth year, doing business in 4 2 states. Wm. B .Henderson, general manager. Suite 459 Kemper Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Both phones 459 Main. The temporary bridge, to replace the north approach to the Melan bridge which is bein torn out, is com pleted and ready for traffic. Ice cream soda signs have made their appearance in front of the drug store a'ong Kansas avenue. The annual meeting of the aid so ciety of the Second Presbyterian church. North Topeka, will be held on Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. A. C. Davis on Polk street. A full attendance is urged. Howard, the sporting good's man, is supplying the "League" players with the celebrated "Ted Kennedy" profes sional gloves and mitts. "Full stock on hand," 503 Kansas avenue. The friends of Mrs. B. F. PanRey, who has been very seriously ill for .several days, will regret to know that she Is no better but that her condition is un changed. Orders will be issued from the city board of health the forepart of next week for the cleaning up of the alleys of the city. Immediately following the winter season the alleys become clogged up with filth. There is a general sus pense in the effort to keep things up in a. ship shape fashion during the win ter season on account of weather conditions. PEOPLE SPEAK, Write Letters About the Kansas Avenue Pavement. The Dyspeptic Who W"i Cured But Is Sow in Hospital. IT'S EXCITING SPORT. Trying to Hide Down Topeka's Business Street. An Agriculturist Who Is Afraid to Come to Town. Kansas avenue is now in a condition to make an Arkansas flint-hlller homesick. He can look out on the broad, rolling expanse of cobblestones, spotted here and there with patches of asphaltum, and observe that a few pine stumps would complete the re- ing on Kansas Avenue. semblance to the Ozark foothills. It is exciting sport to ride down Kansas avenue in anything less substantial than a flat car with a padded railing around it. A man who has to come down Kansas avenue each morning to his office, recently approached a prominent physician and exhibited a bad case of dyspepsia, "You should walk to and from your work," said the wise pill mixer. "But I do," retorted the victim. "I always walk." "Ah ha' said the M. D., "I thought so. I just put it that way to iead you out. AVhat you want is exercise. Get a horse and buggy and ride down each morning and evening." The dyspeptic followed his advice for a week, and now, although he Is in the hospital with a broken collar bot e, his dyspersia is completely cureil. There s some question in the minds of the oeoi.le ef neernin the advisa bility of filling holes in the street witn partially cracked stone?. It has been found a very poor substitute for brick, because it will not stay in the hole. Inconsiderate drivers allow their teams to flounder into these cracked stone swamps, and although the horse is severely punished with stono bruises and hoof-crack, the animal frequently carries away portions of the stuffing in his shoes. It has been said that the street commissioner filled the holes with something rough to remind the people that the town needed some new pav ing. He conceived the idea as a forcible argument in favor of new paving. A few days ago the writer sent out a number of fetters like this: "Dear Mr. What do you think of the pavements? t. "Ycur truly, "P. D. Q.. care Journal." A number of replies were recieved. Some of them were so badly scorched by the heated words they contained as to be illegible. The longest complaint, herewith produced, was from a prom inent agriculturist who is wont to exchange the fruits of the festive hen, and other vegetables, for groceries and calico at the Topeka stores. Here is the letter: "Mister PDq Dere ser: In replye to yores of resent date wood say thet the dodgasted streats in yore town hev abowt cured me of drinkin. I kin reckomend them fer all farmers hoo want to sware of. I cant git no licker this side of yore town and it is as much as a fellers life is wuth to cros. the sity limmitts in a waggen. My wife aint been able to churn er gether the aigs sence she cairn in last satterda afternune. I cant go in by my sef becaws it aint safe fer one to go in alone. It takes one feller to hold th lode in the waggen wile anuther drives the teem. I meen wen we git on the paved streats. The rodes is luveli out hear toda, and the mud aint morn 8 inches dean and I want to com to town mighty bad toda, but 1 dasent. I hev broke 2 waggens on yore blamed mane streat in. the passed 2 weaks and I aint goeng to wrisk it ennymore. Youe can take your denied old town and goe to the dickens with it. even if aigs is too bitts a duzen. Yores in faver uf good rodes in the sitty as wel as the contry Jim Jiggerson Rooral fre rowte 20 aight." Among other letters received was the following: "Topeka March 17. "Mr. P. D. O. Dear Sir: In reply to yours of the 14th inst., would say that the streets of this town should be in where they belong. I am a good Christian and I believe in waiting for until we get to it in the way. Yours in wrath, Con natural Stantreader. Again: Mr. P. D. Q: Concerning the condition of Kansas avenue I have this to say. A U Tomobile." These are but samples of the opin ions offered. It may be seen at a glance that the people are not in favor of the streets as they now stand, roll about or run off and hide. One large, fine upright wall show case for sale at a bargain. E. B. Guild Music Co. is rr a" joint? Proprietors of Cold Storage Plant oh Trial In PoUce Court. Richard Hodgins and Vincent Kaczynski, proprietors of the cold storage plant at First and Jackson streets, are on trial in police court today. The charge against them is keeping a place where liquors are il legally kept. Chief Stahl has devoted considerable time and effort to this case, and had subpoenaed a number of witnesses for the city. The de fense introduced no witnesses, and practically admitteS that the testimony of the city witnesses was correct. The defendants were represented by Judge Z. T. Hazen and Eugene Hagan, and tne prosecution was conducted by J. K. Codding, for the State Temperance union, and W. H. Cowles, for the Law and Order league. They took the case off the hands of the city attorney, and conducted the whole affair themsleves. The star witness for the city was a farmer, C. M. Shumate, who has bought liquor at the instigation of Chief Stahl on several occasions. Shu mate testified to having secured beer at the Hodgins-Kaczynski storage house, but admitted that he could se cure it only upon the order of some dealer. He said that he had secured beer and Rochester hop tea from the place upon orders from George Knauer, and that he paid the money to Knauer and had never paid any money to anyone at the storage plant He delivered the beer to Chief Stahl for evidence, Stahl paying the ex pense. Ex-Mayor C. J. Drew, who recently repaired the building, was called as a witness. His testimony, as brought out by Attorney Codding, was as fol lows: Q. Did you go through that build ing A. xes. Q. Did you know what was stored there? A. Iso. Q. Did you see any kegs? A. Yes. Q. What was in them? A. I don't know. O. Did you ask any of the men what was in them? A. Yes, I no ticed the kegs were rusty, and re marked that they were pretty musty for beer. The man said it was not beer, but hop tea. Q. How frequently did you notice them loadng and unloading Kegs ana cases? A. I paid little attention to them. I saw'wagons unload and load all kinds of storage stuff. Among the other witnesses were three of Chief Stahl's spotters, H. Dusenberry, Ed Whalen and Perry Dubois. The three testified from otes made at the time that they had followed loads of beer from the storage plant to their destinations, usually joints or arug stores. The third spotter, Dubois, said that he was a special officer, or officer at large." When asked his regular occu pation he said that it was "what some people call a spotter." He frankly admitted that he had followed the liquor spotting profession for some years in different cities, and had been employed upon his arrival In Topeka with recommendations from other anti-saloon men. The spotters had never seen any liquor sold at the place in question. They had a list of places where they had seen beer delivered. Peter Hord and J. M. Bayse, two expressmen, tes tified that th'ey had hauled beer away from the place at- the request of pa trons, and had always presented a slip of paper given them by the per son who employed 'hem. They had never paid ,any money to anyone at the storage plant. Testimony con cerning a, number of joints about town was brought out in the hearing, but was not considered by the court. At noon both the defense and prose cution rested, and Judge Hamilton said: "This may be the last time I will have a chance to entertain such distinguished legal talent in this court, and I therefore desire to hear from both sides. To the prosecution I would say this: I want to hear from vou concerning the legality of keeping liquor in storage. According to the evidence, it will be necessary for you to show that the simple act of storing liquor for other parties is an offense under the laws. The attorneys are submitting their arguments this afternoon. The secret of Success. Forty million bottles of August Flower sold in the United States alone since its introduction. And the demand for it is still growing. Isn't that a fine showing of success? Don't it prove that August Flower has had unfailing success in the cure of indigestion and dyspepsia the two greatest enemies of health and happiness? Does it not afford the best evidence that August Flower is a sure specific for all stomach and Intestinal disorders that it has proved itself the best of all liver reg ulators? August Flower has a matchless record of over 35 years in curing the ail ing millions of these distressing com plaintsa success that is becoming wider in its scope every day, at home and abroad, as the fame of August Flower spreads. Trial bottles, 25c: regular size, 75c For sale by Rowley Snow. 600 Kan sas ave. Builds up the system, puts pure, rich blood in the veins: makes men and women strong and healthy Burdock Blood Bit ters. At any drug store. 1 Capt. C. H. Titus, Newly Appointed Election Commis sioner for the City of Topeka. OS 91 l ,v YAm7' "1 fVU WMM wS'wf t v VARflER 7li, Elected U. S. Senator on Seventh Ballot. the Kerns Withdrew From Race in His Favor. FREE FIGHTFOLLOWED Democrats Turned Up Clock to Adjournment Hour. Members Tried to Drag Speaker From His Seat. Jefferson City, Mo., March 18. Major William Warner of Kansas City, is elected on the seventh ballot. The vote was: Warner, 91; Cockrell, 83; Neidringhaus, 1. Total, 175. The legislature convened in final joint session today to make its last effort to break the senatorial deadlock, and elect a United States senator. The roll call showed 175 members present and one absent, making 88 votes necessary to elect. When the first ballot was begun making the 61st taken, the Niedring haus men in pursuance of plans agreed on early in the day supported Warner almost solidly. The ballot resulted: Cockrell, 83; Warner, 64; Niedring haus, 21; Kerens, 5; Bartholdt, 1; .fecK, l. Total voting, 175; necessary to choice. 88. Cockrell, 83; Warner, 66; Niedring- naus, 4; Kerens, 20; Peck, 1; Par ker, 1. The third ballot resulted: Cockrell, 83; Warner ,68; Niedring haus, 3; Kerens, 20; Peck, 1. In the fourth ballot Lewis went from Warner to Kerens. The ballot stood: Cockrell, 83; Warner, 67; Niedring haus, 3; Kerens, 21; Peck, 1. An other ballot was ordered. The fifth ballot resulted: Cockrell, 83; Warner, 68; Niedring- house, 4; Kerens, 19; Peck, 1. When the vote was announced Rep resentative Nelson (Dem.) moved to adjourn. The Republicans hooted him down. The sixth ballot then proceeded. Kerens appeared in the hall at 1:50 and was escorted to the rostrum by Senator Peck. Sixth ballot: Cockrell, 83; Warner, 67; Kerens, 19; Niedringhaus, 5; Peck, 1. The Democrats clamored to dissolve the session. Republicans shouted "No, no, quiet, order." There was wild cheering as Kerens took the rostrum. Senator McDavid (Dem.) moved that the joint assembly dissolve. This was met with a chorus of "noes." The roll call was then taken on the motion to dissolve. The Warner man agers announced positively that Kerens would withdraw in favor of their candidate. Kerens remained on the stand during the roll call on the motion to dissolve. The motion was lost, 92 to 8 2, President McKinley not voting. When this vote was announced there were repeated calls for Kerens. For two minutes the spectators cheered as the white haired Republican veteran stepped forward to address the assem bly. He said: "Your duty is to elect a Republican senator. Therefore if Major William Warner is your choice, I say God speed to you. my fellow Republicans, and elect him." The Warner men became frantic. Sen ator Dickinson was finally recognized. He moved a recess of 30 minutes. Kerens left the rostrum immediately after speaking. The roll call was taken on Dickinson's motion. The motion to take a recess was lost by a vote of 92 to 77. Senator McDavid and a score of Dem ocrats then demanded recognition on a motion to adjorn. They climbed on the desks of the clerks appealing from the ruling of the chair, shouting to the clerks not to call the roll. Roach re fused to call the roll. A fight started in one end of the hall resulting in the smashing of the clock. Russell took the roll call out of Roach's hands and called the roll himself. The Republicans vo ted for Warner. Senators Nelson and Kinealy of St. Louis, tried to pull the presiding officer out of the chair. The Democrats refused to vote. The assembly was in a riot. The Dem ocratic leaders yelled "Don't vote; don't vote!" Somebody climbed a ladder and made the damaged clock read 3 o'clock, ad journment time. Then the Democrats yell ed that the time of adjournment was passed. The seventh ballot was proceeding dur ing the turmoil. Senator Fields and Speaker Hill both stood on top of the desk of the chairman. Fields is president pro tern of the senate. He asked: "Will the Democratic members of this assembly please come to order?" It took a few minutes to restore some semblance of order, for though it was really 2:25 o'clock, the hands of the cjock 'WA W W Mit" J W7 X. fi tot, tiif ish r. a mmm m f T' 'JIIUi pointed to 3 and the Democrats insisted on adjournment. While the excitement was In progress Senator David Nelson of St. Louis caught Speaker Hill around the waist and at tempted to drag him from the rostrum. The Democrats and Republicans threat ened each other and several serious con flicts were narrowly averted. Sketch of Warner. Kansas City. Mo.. March 18. Major William Warner, who was today elect ed United States senator to succeed Francis M. Cockrell, has practiced law in Kansas City since 1865, and is one of the leading members of the bar in the southwest. He is United States attor ney for the western district of Missouri. Major Warner was born in Wisconsin in 1840 and was educated at the Law rence university in Wisconsin and at the university of Michigan. He was ad mitted to the bar just before the civil war, through which he served with dis tinction in the Thirty-third and Forty- lourtn Wisconsin regiments. He has held many public offices, having been city attorney of Kansas vjity in 186, circuit attorney in 1869, and mayor in 1871. He was United States district attorney 'here from 1882 to 1884, and was again appointed to that position by President McKinley in 18, nolding it at the. present time. He represented the Fifth Mis souri district in congress from 18 85 to 1889. In 1892 he was a candidate for governor and in 1887 was voted for by the Republican legislators for United States senator when the Mate George G. Vest was re-elected. He was Republican presidential elec tor in 1872 and has been a delegate to every Republican national convention in the past 30 years. He was first depart ment commander of the G. A. R., in Missouri, and from 1888 to 1889 was na tional commander in chief. Major War ner was offered the position of commis sioner of pensions by President Roose velt upon the resignation recently of Eugene F. Ware, but declined and en tered the race for United States sena tor. CITY POLITICS. Efforts Now Being Made to Increase the Registration. "Register," is the particular battla cry at the present time at the munici pal campaign headquarters of the Re publican and Democratic parties. Every effort is being bent by the Republican forces to secure as large a registration as possible before the books close on March 2 4. Three car riages are at work today and another wil! be put on later in the afternoon. The carriages are distributed in the Third, Fifth and Sixth wards. These same carriages have been at work over the various wards throughout the greater part of the week while the books have been placed. Beginning with the Monday of next week this force of carriages will be increased four fold. The Democrats deny that they have authorized any expenditure of money for hack and carriage hire to bring in registration but state that all of the work of that character which is being done is at the personal expense of the candidates, most of them candidates for councilmen. Sev eral private rigs are out and bringing in those of Democratic affiliation to the registration books. This is par ticularly true in the Second ward where the heaviest registration by far is being made and it is not all through the efforts of the Republicans either. Councilman Griley whd is asking for a re-election to his seat as council man upon the Democratic ticket is making a very vigorous campaign throughout his ward and has prac tically made a house to house canvass. In the First ward George Sims, candi date for councilman upon the Demo cratic ticket against Councilman Kutz. is trying to corral a majority of the voters' votes and has out a number of carriages bringing in all the eligible voters to the plac'e of registration. He has his organization working in fairly good order and is giving some little trouble to the Republicans. Frank Effinger, another Democrat, who is trying for councilman from the Fifth ward against present Councilman Shimer, has shown activity over in that district but it is not thought that the opposition to Shimer will amount to very much. Effingham has followed the tack of his brother candidates in his campaigning. But very little mud- slinging has thus far been indulged In and the Democrats have not introduced any new reasons why they should have the election of councilman in the First, Second and Fifth wards. These are the only wards which have shown any life in the councilmanlc fight. The Democrats saved their money in not holding a primary and instead will spend what they have thus saved in holding meetings in the larger wards over the city. Most of these meetings will be held next week and one large mass meeting will probably be held at the Auditorium,, as the feeling of the executive committee seems to favor such a plan. A number of addresses will be made by prominent local Dem ocratic leaders, among these the names of John Martin and David Overmyer have been mentioned. The details of this meetings have not been fixed upon as yet but a meeting of the executive committee to be held tomorrow will decide definitely the pro gramme to be followed. The heavy rain for the past two days has acted appreciably against securing a heavy increase in the registration. With today's summaries the total regis tration will probably run over the 8.500 mark, at noon today It was little past 8.000. The placing of the books out at the various precincts in the wards has resulted in a total increase in registra tion thus far of 1.343. The books will be recalled from the wards next Tues day evening, after that date registration must be made at the commissioner of elections office at which place the final closing of the books on Friday, March 24. takes place. The registration books will be at the following places on Monday and Tues day of next week: Monday Whittelsey's, Second and Madison. Tuesday Fitzgerald Lannan's, 310 East Fourth street. Monday and Tuesday Lantz's, 802 West Twelfth; Werts', 535 Topeka ave nue; Chiles', 1201 Washington; Alder fer's, Tenth and Morris. Monday and Tuesday North Topeka Bair's, 917 North Kansas avenue. The Washington Is Launched. Philadelphia, March 18. The cruis tr Washington was launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding company at iz:iu p. m. loaay. Red School House Shoes. The Toneka Cash Dry Goods com pany has secured the exclusive agency in Tooeka for the famous Red School House brand of shoes for boys and girls and little gents. An advertise ment of these well- known shoes ap pears at the top of page 12 in to night's State Journal. The Best Cough Syrup. S. L. Apple, ex-probate judge. Ottawa Co ,-Kansas, writes: "This is to say that I have used Ballard's Horehound Syrup for years, and that I do not hesitate to recommend it as the bc.'t cough syrup I have ever used." 25c, 50c and 1.0O. Sold by Rowley Snow and W. S. Miller. CORRECT Engraved Wedding Invitations and Visiting Cards Hall Stationsry Co. 623 Kas. Ave. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FAIR, healthy satin skin bestowed by Sacin Skin Cream and Satin Skin Pow der. 25c. IRELAND FOUND GUILTY. Organizer of Federation of Labor Con victed of Assault. Kansas City, Mo., March IS. A spec ial to the Star from Winfield, Kan., says: Arthur E. Ireland, national or ganizer for the Federation of Labor.waa convicted here today on a charge of as sault on J. D. Harrity, of Arkansas City, a non-union Santa Fe machinist. He was convicted under section 42 of the statues which provides for a sentence not to exceed five years in the peniten tiary and not less than six months in the county jail. The assault was made in July last year and It eland was ac companied by several striking Santa F machinists. Harrity was struck with a billy and seriously hurt. RUSSIA AND JAPAN. From the Washington Post. For more than two centuries Russia has been like a man without lunpsi a nation without ports. It is a warlike people, and all their wars have been butasingle Russian idea the czar must have a port that is open the year round. For this, Russia has been willing to make war. For this she fought tha Swedes, the Poles, the Prussians, the English, the French, the Turks, and now the Japs. She coveted Hamburg, and but for Frederick the Great she might have got it. She has long wanted Constantinople, and will never be satis fied till she gets it. Port Arthur was only valuable as strengthening her for the supreme struggle for the Bosphorus. Russia is beaten in her war with Japan because the Russian administra tion is rotten from "core to skin and from skin to core." It is the same in domitable race that beat Charles XII and Napoleon. They are the stubborn est fighters of continental Europe, and were the only soldiers of the continent who could withstand the fierce and ferocious impetuosity of the French. To find their match one must go back to the Spanish veterans the "Great Cap tain," Don John, Alva, and Farnes led to victory, or to the iron soldiery of Cromwell, who battled with as serene and inflexible courage at the close of a hard-fought day as they did at the first order to engage. There la no degeneracy of the Russian soldier, as there was none of the French sol dier of Sedan. The war with Japan began more than a year ago, and if Russia was unable to get men enough and guns enough to tne rront witnin mat time to utm uic enemy, it is not likely that she can do so in five years. To come off victor, she must make aggressive war, and at the close of the first year she is dis astrously; probably hopelessly, beaten in a defensive war. To win she must drive the Japs off the continent and re take Port Arthur As for the Japs, we must go back to the Romans of Fabricius or the Spar tans of Leonidas to find armies like theirs. Their patriotism is fanatic and their valor frenzy. Russia will have the biggest job imaginable to drive these armies back to Japan, and at this time it looks to be out of the question. It seems very much as though Rust sla must make peace, reform her civil, her military and naval establishments, revolutionize her government peace ably, if possible and strike for lungs in some other quarter. Meanwhile, the powers need not be astonished to wake up some fine morn ing and find that a child has been born at Tokyo that, for want of a better name, will be called "The Asiatic Mon roe Doctrine." There is likely to be a deal of history made over there tha next two-score years. HEATHS AN I) FUNEIIALS. Frank Sleban, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sieban of 2iX1 Clay street, died yesterday at Kansas City from ab cess of the ear. The body was brought to Tnwka th3i afternofn at 1 o'clock. The announcement of the funeral will be made latt-r. W. N. Tibbets died last Thursday at the age -of 63 years. He suffered from a tu mor of the stomach. The funeral took place today at Eudora, Kan. Senate Adjourns. Washington, March IS At 3:39 p. m. the senate adjourned sine die. THEATRICAL NOTES. "Art Is long and I am short," de clares Katy Barry, the diminutive soubrette. Forbes Robertson will close his New York engagement this week in "Ham let." Margaret Anglin has acquired the right to produce "The Marriage of Kitty," in which Marie Tempest ap peared. Miss Anglin will use the play in the west in conjunction with "The Eternal Feminine." 'A Gentleman from Indiana" had an advance sale of $10,000 in Indian apolis, showing the loyalty of the Hoosiers to their home-made scribes. The piece is pronounced an emphatic success by those who have seen it. "Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots," by Au gustus Thomas, began the third mont of its run at the New Lyceum, New York, on Monday night. Its popu larity seems to increase with each week, and there is no sign of the end of its engagement In sight. Cecilia Loftus' tour in "The Serio comic Governess" recently ended in Boston, and the star will immediately go into vaudeville. The relations be tween Miss Loftus and Daniel Froh man, her manager, are cordial, and this temporary return to the field of her earlier successes is entirely with Mr. Frohman's consent. In connection with the idea cf creating a permanent structure in Washington. D. C, Charles B. Han ford has offered the suggestion that the building, which will necessarily be one of handsome architectural pro portions, include a great auditorium that will permit a dramatic festival to be held as olie of the incidents of the occasion.

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THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1905. r nm-m-M- iim"n g i Sixty years of experience with Ayer's Sarsa parilla! Think of that! Think of the millions of people who have been cured by this medicine! If despondent, down-hearted, discouraged, and almost ready to give up, this splendid old family medicine will prove the silver lining to your dark and dismal cloud. Ask your doctor. MmOm by thm 9. C. Aymr Co.. Lowell. Kim. A1IV U4UIIUI via v ATBR'S FAIR VIGOR For the bir. ATES'S CHBRRY PECTORAL For coughs. AYER'S PILLS For constipation. AYER'S AGUE CD RE For malaria aad pi8. FOR. LIBELING THE DEAD. Charges Filed Against the Author of a Pamphlet. Denver. Colo.. Marcn 18. Charges of criminal libel against George J. Kindel. arising from the alleged pub lication and circulation by the de fendant of a pamphlet in which the picture of Henry B. Hyde, founder of the Equitable Life Assurance so ciety, appeared between the pictures of Jesse James and "Soapy" Smith under the title "Kindel's famous gal lery of characters." are embodied in three informations filed in the crim inal court here today by District At torney George Stlger. A capias was issued for Mr. Kindel and placed in the hands of Deputy Sheriff Leonard DeLue. Kindel Is alleged to have published the offending circular February 20. 1905, and to have circulated it by means of the mails and otherwise, with the intention, the information alleges, of insinuating that Henry B. Hyde consorted with outlaws and con fidence men. Charles W. Mills, inspector of agrencies of the Equitable society, who made the affidavits on" which the informations are based, said that the prosecution was Instituted after all other means had failed to induce the author of the circular to discontinue the publication of alleged defamatory insinuations regarding one who is dead. The circular had not injured the company's business. Mr.- Mills eaidr and it was" not for business reasons that the complaint was filed. A" no tice, according to the inspector, was taken of another pamphlet by Kindel in which he made a direct attack upon the company. The object of the action, Mr. Mills stated, was solely to stop alleged attacks upon the character of the deceased father of the present head of the Equitable. Mr. Kindel was actuated in issuing the circular in which Hyde's picture is shown between that of a famous outlaw and that of a confidence man, by the failure to realize the amount he expected on a 15-year policy in the Equitable, according to Agency In spector Mills. It VAN GOES TO ATLANTIC CITY. The Kansan Is Still Very Weak, But Is Able to Travel. Washington, March IS. Judge Thomas Ryan of Kansas, who has been very ill with grip, went to At lantic City, X. J., on the advice of his physician, and will remain there in definitely. He will be joined by Mrs. Ryan. His friends have been anxious over his condition for the past week. "While his physician considered him able to go to the seashore. Judge Ryan Is very weak and will be under the care of a physician while there. DEATH OF FXIVERSITY STUD EXT Typhoid Epidemic at Lawrence Re- eionsible for Fatality. Lawrence, Kas., March 18. The first death as a result of the typhoid epidemic here was that of George L. Eyer Friday morning. Ever was a university student from Abilene and was 22 years old. He was in very poor physical condition when taken 111 and that hastened his death. Judge Dunne and Wife Hurt. Chicago, M;irch 18. Mrs. Edward F. Dunne, wife of the Democratic nominee for mayor, has been painfully injured and Judge Dunne slightly bruised when a team of runaway horses dashed into the brougham in which they were riding. The brougham was wrecked. Mothers Will Meet in Los Anpeles. Washington, March 18. The Na tional Congress of Mothers, which has been in session for a week, adjourned to meet in March, 1906, at Los Angeles. TWINS ON TRAIN. Children Were Born on Flood Bound Train In California. Los Angeles, Cal., March 18. With the cessation of rain and the slackening of floods the two principal railway systems that have been tied up hard and fast for five days are be ginning to see their way out. De layed trains on both roads began to reach the city last night and are com ing in at intervals today. A large proportion of the passen gers on the westbound Santa Fe trains that have been stalled in the region of Cajon pass for several days were brought to the city on a special. Travelers who have been on these delayed trains for a week or more have suffered the greatest discomforts and many of them are weak and iil from their experiences. The food sup ply on the dining cars and at the available eating houses was insufficient and many went without food for periods of 24 hours and even longer. Passengers on the stalled Southern Pacific trains also suffered great in convenience and discomfort. In the drawing room of one of the sleepers of the delayed southbound "Owl" train, Mrs. Caruthers, wife of a Los Angeles civil engineer, who was on her way here from San Francisco, gave birth to twins. She was attend ed by two physicians who happened to be among the passengers. The government rain gauge In this city shows a rainfall of 17.65 for the season. KAISER TO GO SOUTH. Will Make a Voyage on the Mediter-ranean. Berlin, March 18. Emperor Wil liam with a number of guests, it has been definitely decided, will sail from Cuxhaven for the Mediterranean March 23, on the steamer Hamburg, which has been placed at his disposal by the Hamburg-American Steamship company. The steamer has been com pletely altered for the emperor's con venience and will be commanded by two of the most capable captains of the line. Captain Kaempff of the Duetschland, assisted by Captain Bur- meister of the Hamburg. On the main deck eight cabins have been trans formed for the emperor's use into a work room, drawing room and bed room, and several new cabins have been built for the suite in which will be Minister of Education Studt, Herr Ballin, director general of the Hamburg-American line. Captain von Grumme and Prof. Schiemann of the chair of history at Berlin university and an expert on modern Russia. Ihe emperor will transship to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern at Naples. Treaty of Peace Ratified. New York, March 18. Formal rati fication of the treaty of peace be tween Chile and Bolivia has been ex changed, accompanied by mutual con gratulations, cables the LaPaz, Bolivia, correspondent of the Herald. On ac count of the bubonic plague the Mo- lendo railroad construction has been interrupted, but many American en gineers and prospectors continue to arrive. Should Happen More Often. Peoria, 111., March 18. Angered at their failure to get their money back after a prize fight a crowd of men and boys wrecked the room in which the fight was to take place. Refusal lo return the gate money after the fight was declared off precipitated the riot. Artist Dies of Paralysis. New York, March 18. Prof. Wil liam C. A. Frerichs, a marine and ani mal painter, is dead from paralysis at his home on Staten island, aged 76 years. Slam to Borrow $5,000,000. Bangkok, Siam, March 18. The king has issued a decree authorizing a foreign loan of $5,000,000. f r p Y 7H U the 3r of the household, for withoni I j it no happiness can be complete. How 1U Li KJ n rv v i 1 MM In sweet the picture of mother and babe. angels smile at and commend the thoughts and aspirations of the mother bending orer the cradle. The ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass, how ever, is so full of danger and suffering that she looks forward to the hour when she 6hall feel the exquisite thrill of motherhood with indescribable dread and fear. Every woman should know that the danger, pain and horror f child-birth can be entirely avoided by the use of Mother's Friend, a scientific liniment for external use only, which toughens and renders rIiarl nil trie narts nnri t jim assists nature in its sublime of women have passed this E great crisis in perfect safety and without pain. Sold at fi.oo per bottle by druggists. Our book of priceless value to all women sent free. Address LA uiiO U LiULjLiU LJ in?, FEAREDBIG STICK. Story of the Reader Syndicate Told by the Promoters. How They Proposed to Pay the Debt of San Domingo. WASHINGTON CABLE. Stopped the Whole Proceedings It Is Alleged. Morales Was Afraid to Cross President Eooserelt. New York.March 18 Athole B. Read er and his wife, mentioned by Senator Morgan (Ala. in the Santo Dominican treaty discussion as composing the Reader syndicate which had in hand a plan for raising the debts of the Do minican republic and the sale of a na val port In the island to the American government, are in this city. It is sta ted that Mrs. Reader was formerly Miss Ella Rawls, of Alabama, a stenograph er who came to New York in 1881 to seek her fortune. In the course of a few years she became proprietor of a large stenographic bureau In Wall street and in course of her business did considerable work for the Venezuelan boundary commission. Later she went to London and representing a prominent English banking firm, procured from the sultan of Jahore a J5,000,000 railroad contract. While In London she married Reader who acted as confidential sec retary to well known persons. The cou ple claim later to have taken charge of a big Peruvian mining deal and by the diplomatic efforts of Mrs. Reader to have averted a revolution in that coun try. In a long statement Issued by the Readers they set forth their scheme for relieving Santo Domingo which fell through when Commander Dillingham arrived on the scene. They claim to have been engaged in the matter by one Perez, a secret agent here of President Morales. Reader asserts that he con sulted a well known attorney here, who yesterday issued a denial of all interest in Santo Domingo affairs, and after outlining Ms plans to the lawyer took a steamer for the island. There he was received by Morales and daily confer ences were held during which docu ments were formulated appointing Mrs. Reader fiscal agent of the republic in the United States and giving her auth ority to negotiate treaties for the debt settlement at Washington, as well as the entire financial rehabilitation of Santo Domingo. These matters had. the Readers claim, almost reached a conclusion when President Morales announced he had received word through Minister Dawson that Commander Dillingham was coming and all negotiations with Reader were instantly declared off. Reader felt much hurt over the out come and declares some interested person aware of his secret negotiations had informed the authorities at Wash ington. In reply to a query as to what he was going to do about it, he asked, "What can I do about it?" Mr. Reader said that on January 9 he called on President Morales and saw Mr. Sanchez, who said that United States Minister Dawson had advised the Dominican government not to proceed with Reader, but to negotiate direct with Washington. "I asked him," said Mr. Reader, "if this was not very sudden and unexpected, and he seemed confused and anxious to avoid giving offense. I asked him if he was quite sure of Mr. Dawson's authority and he said that the presi dent had seen a cablegram from Washington and that they were wait ing to receive another cable from Washington that day to the effect that a special commissioner was leaving Washington within 24 hours for Santo Domingo city. "I saw President Morales and asked him why he had proceeded so far with me, had accepted everything and had gone so far as to make out the tele gram appointing Mrs. Reader as his fiscal agent and representative in Washington, if he had not intended to complete his arrangements. "President Morales also seemed con fused and upset. He said: ""What can I do? I am frightened of the big stick, and I dare not, under present circumstances, offend Presi dent Roosevelt.' "I asked him if Minister Dawson proposed to make any arrangements for the cancellation of the external debt, or to relieve Santo Domingo from its present embarrassed and bankrupt condition and he said he did not think so, and begged me to return in a month's time, when he would be free to take up the question of the external debt and the other conces sions. "On Saturday, January 14, Com mander Dillingham arrived at Santo Domingo from Porto Rico by the United States gunboat Castine and im mediately proceeded with his negotia tions with President Morales in con junction with United States Minister Dawson. On Tuesday, January 17, I left Santo Domingo City." Whistler Continues to Draw. London, March 18. The first ex hibition in London of the New York Water Color club, will be opened for private view tomorrow in the modern gallery where a hundred pictures se lected by the club have been hung. The Whistler exhibition has been the most successful ever held in the new gallery and it continues to draw such crowds that the management is trying to obtain the permission of the owners to retain the pictures until April 15, instead of March 31, the original clos ing date. One Way Rates. Every day from March 1st to May 15th, 1905, the Union Pacific will sell One-way Colonist tickets at the- follow ing rates, from Missouri River terml anls. Council Bluffs, to Kansas City in clusive: J20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. J20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and Hel ena. $22.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee Wash. $25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven, What com, Vancouver and Victoria, via Huntington and Spokane. $25.00 to Tacoma and Seattle, via Huntington and Spokane. $25.00 to Portland and Astoria, or Ashland. Roseburg, Eugene, Albany ana isaiem via roniana. $25.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. Corespondingly low rates to many other California, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Utah and Idaho points. Through Tourist cars run every day on Union Pacific between Missouri River and Pacific Coats; double berth $5.75. For full information call on or address nearest Union Pacific agent. SNAP SHOTS JLT HOME JSEWS The moth ball season is once more here. Easter lilies are on the flower market. Then there Is the man with the trowel and the dandelion sprout. Capt. Peterson has returned from Illinois, where he shipped a carload of horses a few days ago. The heavy rian put electric currents into about every piece of metal work on the street cars last night. Mrs. G. H., Griggs has been called to Pennsylvania by the serious illness of her mother, Mrs. Bennett Perrlne. Street Commissioner Frank Snyder will erect a cottage at 1601 Buchanan street, to cost $2,000, construction of which will commence at once. The Topeka store that advertised 1,500 carnations at two cents each in the State Journal last night, sold them all out before 11 o'clock this morning. Dr. J. T. McFarland, formerly of Topeka, is expected to visit here be fore he returns to New York after attending the Kansas Methodist con ference. What has become of the old fash ioned mother who used to make her family drink a quart or two of sassa fras tea every day at this time of year? All Epworth Leaguers are Invited to hear General Secretary Dr. E. M. Randall, of Chicago, who will address the young people Sunday evening at the First Methodist church at 7:30 o'clock. This is the time of year that the average town man begins to wish he was a farmer. He talks about the beautiful life "next to the soil," and spends four dollars for a set of garden tools. The latter will be for sale cheap In two months. The city dump has bee.n opened again, under instructions from the mayor. Owing to the action of the Topeka Desiccating company in shut ting off the city from using its dump, there has been no place within a close radius which could be utilized and on this account the old city dump,, which has been shut down, has been re opened. The city dump has been on fire for the past two months and is still burning. Dr. Edwin Randall, general secre tary of the Epworth League, will fill Dr. Evans' pulpit at the First Metho dist Episcopal church Sunday morn ing. The evening service will be in charge of the young people, in which all the leaguers of the city will join, as the other M. E. churches will be closed, their respective pastors being in attendance at the district confer ence in Junction City. A number of boys and young men -Ti the west side have organized a branch of Coming Men of America, with the following officers: President, Louis Rickenbacher: vice president, Mayo Badders; secretary and treas urer, Frank Pierce; speaker, Walter Zercher; director, John Lundland; sentinel, Wm. Warriner. The local lodge will be known as the Topeka Hustlers. Owners of rubber tired vehicles and tired out horses are complaining bit terly against the action of placing crushed rock in the holes along Kan sas avenue. A better method for cut ting up the tires of carriages and au tomobiles could not be devised, at the same time the rock, by the grinding to which it is subjected, is wearing down the foundation of the asphalt. The only recommendation In favor of the placing of the rock is that it calls forcible attention to the condi tion of the asphalt on Kansas avenue. PICTURES DESTROYED. Fire In the National Academy of De sign In New York. New York, March 18. Many val uable paintings and pieces of statuary and articles used In instruction were destroyed by a fire which damaged the building occupied by the National Academy of Design at One Hundred and Ninth street and Amsterdam avenue. One fireman was buried under de bris from a falling wall but was rescued and removed to a hospital. He will recover. While an exact estimate of the dam age could not be made today it will be at least $50,000 and may reach double that figure. It is believed that the fire resulted from defective insulation of electric light wires. Weekly Bank Statement. New York, March 18. The state ment of the clearing house banks of this city for the week shows: Loans, $1,127,678,400; decrease, $5, 241,900. Deposits, $1,174,438,100; de crease, $13,227,700. Circulation, $42, 803,500; decrease, $61,000. Legal tenders, $83,703,700; decrease, $1,301. 200. Specie, $215,060,000; decrease, $6,129,700. Reserve, $298,763,700; decrease $7,430,900. Reserve required, $293,609,525; decrease, $3,306,925; surplus. $5,154,175; decrease, $4,123, 975. Ex-U. S. deposits, $9,279,725; de crease, $4,495,275. Fired Through the Door. Chicago, March 18. Frank Vokoun, a tailor, after firing two shots through a closed door in an attempt to kill his wife at her home today, shot and killed himself. Mrs. Vokoun was un injured. The man and his wife had separated from each other some time ago and the suicide and attempted murder followed Vokoun's unsuccess ful efforts to persuade her to return to him. To Investigate Stoessel. St. Petersburg, March 18. A com mission has been appointed under the presidency of General Roop, a mem ber of the council of the empire, to in vestigate the surrender of Port Ar thur and act as a court to determine the responsibility of General Stoessel. JUI.'W! Ill I. llS"'p.Jlw' n THERE are twenty best reasons why vou should wear a W. B. Erect Form Corset. The best reason of the twenty is that the corset is irst. The nearest dealer will tell you the other nineteen. Prices upward from $i. WEINGARTEN BROS.. Makers 377-379 Broadway, New YorK IIOGII ORSTUBOS? Which Will Be in the Next Sen atorial I ace I Politicians Anxiously W atching for Signs of the Times. IIOCII BOOM LAUNCHED Gomer Dayies Says People Will Demand Hoch for Senator. Claims Stubbs Is Not Fitted for the Place. In this week's Concordia Kansan Gomer Davies inaugurates Governor Hoch's boom for United States senator to succeed J. R. Burton. Incidentally Mr. Davies Comes out against W. R. Stubbs, at least to the degree of say ing that Stubbs is not fitted for the place. It has been commonly supposed that Mr. Stubbs would be in the sen atorial race which will be finished in less than two years from now. At the same time some of the politicians have been guessing that Governor Hoch might like the place himself, and it would be hardly possible for Stubbs and Hoch both to run. One or the other will have to sacrifice himself and keep out, and Mr. Da vies' statement may have the effect of driving one or the other, or both, to make a declaration. It may be a case of Alphonse and Gaston, but the situation will not per mit of too great a delay, for there are others who are looking longingly toward the senatorial plum. It is practically certain that there will be at least four congressmen in the sen atorial race Curtis, Campbell, Scott, and Calderhead. J. L. Bristow may possibly get into it if things shape themselves right, and there is a great deal of talk about D. W. Mulvane in the same connection. It must be admitted by the other candidates that either Mr. Stubbs or Governor Hoch will be among the leaders in the senatorial contest if either enters it, but it would be a hard matter for them to divide forces and both run. It has been generally supposed that Stubbs would be the one who would get the administration backing, but Davies, who was one of the leaders in the boss buster move ment, now comes forward and de clares that Mr. Stubbs is not equipped for the place and that popular senti ment demands the election of Gov ernor Hoch. Mr. Davies savs: "We note that W. li. Stubbs says he win not aspire to greater things than have already come to him in the realm of politics. We are not surprised, and we think Mr. Stubbs shows himself wise in his notion of it. Mr. Stubbs has accomplished much in the short time he has played at the game, and while we have the greatest admiration for the man, we do not believe him of the proper mold,, nor does he possess the acquirements to fit him for the position of United States senator a place with which his name has been frequently mentioned since election day last fall. No one knows this bet ter than Mr. Stubbs himself and his good sense has prompted him to make a positive statement to the effect that he has no desire for the position and will not, under any circumstances, be a candidate. While the time for the election of a senator to succeed Mr. Burton is a long way off, there is al ready much casting about and predic tion as to who his successor will be, as certainly a new man will be chosen. To our mind when that time comes there will be a man towering above his fellows so high that all hands will point to him as the logical and only candidate he is honest old Ed Hoch. "We fully appreciate the dangers that lie in the pathway of every man who fills such a responsible position as he is now filling having a possibility to blast forever greater preferment, and Hoch may make some mistakes, but people are not harsh in passing its decree on mistakes of judgment and that is the only sort of a mistake Hoch will make. Mark it, if Governor Hoch meets the expectations of the people in anything near the same degree of fullness as he has in the past, he will be the successor of Senator Burton as certain as the rising and setting of the sun. The edi tor of the Kansan is not playing in the game of politics, if he were he would probably conclude that it was indis creet to say this much by way of pre diction. Developments of the past two years reveal the fact that political fix ers are not at present In the ascendan cy in Kansas the plain, common, every day Sovereign Squats are just now do ing things out here in Kansas, and it is they" who will select the next United States senator and not the whispering breed of gum-shoe politicians. Gover nor Hoch has got to make some very grievous error in his official capacity to avoid being the choice of the people for United States senator in 1907." Doyle Takes the Stand. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 18. James Doyle, plaintiff in the Portland Mining suit was on the witness stand today in his own behalf. He detailed his long acquaintance with the de fendant, James F. Burns, prior to 1891. On Christmas day of that year Doyle said Burns asked him to go to Cripple Creek, promising him an In terest in all the mining claims to be located. Doyle accordingly went and used his own money to buy supplies and helpd build a cabin and lay out claims. Judge Thornell sustained the motion of the defense to suppress a deposition by E. M. Stephenson, of Florence, CoL, offered by Doyle's at torneys. FOR THE GRAND OPERA. Kansas City March SI and April 1. The Rock Island will have special chair cars for Topeka people, leaving Topeka Friday morning, March 31st, 7-45 a. m. This equipment will be held at Kansas City and returned after opera- closes Saturday night, reaching Topeka about one o'clock Sunday morning. Fare for the round trip $2.70, tickets on sale March 38, 31 and April 1st, limited for return April 3rd. For any further information see A. M. Fuller, Rock Island depot. Colorado and Return, $27.50. Colorado and return every day to April 30, 1905, inclusive, with final re turn limit June 1, 1905, via Union Pa cific, $27.50 from Topeka. Be sure your ticket reads over the Union Pa cific. Inquire of J. C. Fulton, Depot Aeent: F. A. Lewis. City Aeent. 625 10 photos and 1 button 25c Lutea. .JOHN C. ROWAN. Rheumatism.- Trof. E. E. Phelps, of Dartmouth University, the discoverer of the formula of Paine's Celery, Compound, always maintained that rheuma tism could be traced back to diseased nerve that failed to do their work properly. Bear this in mind while reading the letter I John C. Rowan that follows. Mr. Rowan wrote us over io years ago tell ing us how much he was being helped byj Paine's Celery Compound. We wrote him a short time ago to find out if he still relied oa JPaine's Celery Compound. "Yours of the 2d inst. is at hand, and In reply would say that I have never had any cause to change my opinion as to the good qualities of Paine's Celery Compound. As you are aware, some ten years or there abouts ago, I was a martyr to rheumatism, and suffered intense pain with It In my knees; could not rest at night, but walked the floor with pain. "All manner of remedies were tried; soma Save me temporary relief, others have had no effect whatever. "Now, my reasons for taking Paine's Cel ery Compound in preference to other reme dies was that on an occasion onoe before I had taken two bottles of Paine's Celery Com pound and was relieved so much that I did not take any more at that time, after my ex perience with other remedies which did m no good. Later, I was positive then that I had not given Paine's Celery Compound a fair trial to euro mo absolutely of rheuma tism. "I concluded to take twelve bottles, and I did so, and I can assure you thjit you have a compound that is honest, and a sure de stroyer of rheumatism; "1 have found It 60, for up to this present date I have never felt any symptoms of rheu matism. I take rt every spring, but for the blood only. "Now, we have a remarkajble case here in one of our schools, the- janitor, Mr. William Garlow. He is a man between seventy and seventy-five years of age. "He had suffered very much with rheuma tism, so he felt he must give up his position. I tjad frequently recommended Paine's Cel ery Compound to him, and, like myself, he had taken one or two bottles of it, but did not give it a fair trial. I Informed him of my case, and said: Try a dozen bottles, and it will convince you that my statement Is cor rect.' He purchased five bottles; one he kept at the school, so he could take it as direc tions call for. Now he is well and feeling better than he has for years, and is a strong supporter of Paine's Celery Compound. His address is, William Garlow, Oakdale avenue, r Humboldt High School. "Others have asked if It Is a fact that Paine's Celery Compound has done so much for me and keeps me so healthy. "That and the way I live have been tha cause. At the time I had the rheumatism I was affected with catarrh. You can be as sured I shall always be a friend of Paine's Celery Compound, for I am indebted to it a debt I can never pay. You can refer to me and use this letter as you see fit in the cause of Paine's Celery Compound. I am, yours truly." John C. Rowan, 137 East Winifred street, St. Paul, Minn. When yoa are sick in some part of your body, ft is because some organ is not doinp; its work. That is because THE NERVES ARE NOT, STRONG ENOUGH to keep that organ up to its work. The better the Nerve Force the better all the organs can work and give perfect health. Paine's Celery Compound feeds the nerves restores them to their strength gives them new power to send vitality and health to every, part of your body, new courage to your heart, new animation to your brain. Remember this Paine's Celery Compound is the prescription of one of the most famous physicians this country has ever known, Prof, fe. E. Phelps, of Dartmouth University. All reputable druggists recommend and sell Paine's Celery Compound. WELLS, RICHARDSON CO. BURLINQTCN, VERMONT. Wednesday, March 22, 8:15 p. m. The Greatest Colorantura Singer in America. Assisted by The Musical Art Association. Midi Iil I IB Admission 50 cts. Reserved seats at Stans-fields. Chart opens Today: 1 H M H a WMrT.HL i N Ifi. H ?i n f f i V V W kd V. Try the Journal Want Columns for Quick Returns.

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0 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1905. XTT J Plaices (Cle With Rojal Baking Powder there is no mixing with the hands, no sweat of the brow. Perfect cleanliness, greatest facility, sweet, clean, healthful food. Fall instructions in the Royal Baker and Pastry Cook" book for making a'l kinds of bread, biscuit and cake with Royal Baking Powder. Grtis to ztsj sddrea. boval MiamKmon co. ux WLautei. hew voaz. VASHBURfiVOIl. Took Basketball Game From Baker Last Night. The girls of the 'Washburn college basketball team 'won a game from the Baker university team at the Y. M. C. A. last night and there is no complaint that the Washburn girls used any iiaughtyswear words In doing it. President Plass, of the college, was In the audience and the Washburn girls iwere on their best behaviour. The (Washburn girls had much the best of the contest, winning by the decisive ecore of 22 to 6. The most annoying thing they had to contend with was the persistent discrimination of the umpire In favor of Baker. This brought out a few expressions of disgust, such as "Oh fudge!" But taken as a whole the charge could not be made that the girls overstepped the bounds of propriety. Xuring the halves the Baker girls got together with their chaperones to talk over the game, and they decided that they had no complaint to make on the grounds that the Washburn girls used naughty language. .This Is the second game which the Washburn girls took from Baker this year. The first game played at Baker resulted In a score of 20 to 9. The Washburn girls outplayed the Baker girls at every point last night, although the Baker girls exhibited some pretty team work. Louise Wood, one of the guards for Washburn, threw the first goal she has ever made in any game, last night. It rarely ever happens that a guard has an opportunity of throwing a goal, and Miss Wood was highly pleased at her first attempt proving successful. Baker's forwards. Miss Power and Miss Nuzman made a fine showing. The following is a litieun of the teams: Washburn Burdge, forward; Mark hum, forward; Heiddleston, center; Payne, guard; Wood, guard. Baker Power, forward; Nuzman, for ward; Quantic, center; Smith, guard; Cramer, guard. The first game of basketball ever played in the gymnasium of the new manual training building of the high school resulted in a score of 53 to 5 last night in favor of the high school girls' team over the Haskell Indian girls team. The high school started in to win from the start and made a great showing. At the end of the first half the score was 35 to 3. In the last half high school eased up a bit on the play but the final score showed a remarkably decisive victory. Following is the lineup: High school McKee, forward; El more, forward; Corbett, center; Kitchell guard; Miller, guard. Haskell Toombs, forward; Roberts, forward; Prophet, center; McCauley, guard; Oarvie, guard. 10 photos and 1 button 25c. Lutes. PARROT IX COURT. It Didn't Come Up to Its Advance Notices. Chicago, March IS. A Jury in Justice rtichardson's court has decided that a freen parrot, which Alderman Monroe 'aimer purchased for $40 from Nathan Plotkin, a bird dealer could not speak the 75 different words that Slotkin guar antees It could and granted the alder man a judgment for the amount he paid for the bird. The parrot, in a gilded cage was present in court. "Did you ever hear the parrot speak 75 words?" Bsked Attorney Edward W. Everett, representing Mr. Palmer, of Annie Lar Bon. employed in the Palmer home. "No, no," screeched the parrot. When the laughter subsided Miss Lar Bon replied also in the negative. 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V i i i f sf Tk Bre. OUR ED IX SIGHT. Aran to Become Extinct on the Earth in Three Million Years. Chicago, March 18. The human race will be extinct on this earth in the course of a few million years, ac cording to Prof. Samuel Williston, professor of paleontology at the Uni versity of Chicago. While lecturing on the future of the earth's inhabi tants. Prof. Williston declared that, in his opinion, instea dof men at this future date, which he told the stu dents would not come for something like three million years, the earth will be dominated by birds. "It will be only natural course of events that will ultimately drive men from the dominant sphere on earth," said Prof. Williston. "First came the fishes. They were dominant for awhile and had to give way to the amphibians. Then came the reptiles, and soon they yielded to the mam mals. Now the mammals are weak ening, and the newest class, the birds, is growing to prominence and in time, I sincerely believe, will be the domi nant inhabitants of the earth. "Each of these classes developed to the highest degree of specialization and then began to wane. Man is de veloped to the highest degree now. and little more can be expected of him." Prof. Williston is considered one of the leading experts in paleontology in this country and has written several treatises on evolution. ASK FOR TROOPS. Directors of Vistula Railway Fear De struction of Property. Warsaw, March 18. The directors of the Vistula railroad have asked for troops to guard the bridges between Siedlce and Malkin because of the re ceipt of letters threatening their de struction. There have have been a revival of strike agitation in the Lodz district. A party of strike leaders tried to force workmen at the mills at Pabiance to leave their work, but the men refused. A fight followed, an agitator was killed and others were wounded. FOUND IX A TREE. Tin Box Containing Jewels and Val uable Papers. New York, March 18. A deed trans ferring 12 acres of land within the bounds of New York city, a mortgage and a will, both dated December 13, 1789, and other business papers running down to 1S35, together with a silver tea service, knives, forks, and spoons, six finger rings, a pair of diamond ear rings and a pearl prooch, all incased in a stout tin box, have been found in the heart of an old oak tree by woodmen cutting timber north of Lincoln Park, New "Jersey. The property had been placed in the hands of an attorney to await a claimant. It is believed the box was placed there by a thief years ago as no one of the persons named in the papers is remembered in the neighbor hood. The will is that of Matthew Weath ersby, and transferred to his sons, Par ker and Andrew, $12,000 in money and personal property and 12 acres of land on the island of Manhattan bordering on the Hudson river, but which can not be readily located on the present city lines from the description in the deed. The interior of the tree was perfectly dry and with the exception of a slight coating of mildew the papers are per fectly preserved. Squirrels had made the cavity their home and it was filled to a depth of several feet with nuts and shells. MAGOfjDA NEXT. DistinguisriedTJoloratura Sopra no Coming to Topeka. IV ill Be Heard at Auditorium Wednesday Evening. PADEREWSKI COMING. Three Thousand Chicago People Cheered Themselves Hoare. When Famed Polish Pianist Ap peared There Last Week. Charlotte Maconda, the distin guished coloratura soprano, comes to the Auditorium on Wednesday even ing, March 22. This is the next event of more than unusual importance in musical circles in Topeka. The seats for this event went on sale today at Stansfield's drug store. The Maconda recital is one of the I v. I in f;Jf, A rf SSSSs Madame 31aconda, Soprano, Who Co 7 V rl'Mf', '.Sis OS" w 1 jNiht. course of entertainments given by the Pipe Organ association, and season tickets are good for admission to this concert. The price of admission for those who do not hold season tickets has been placed at 5 0 cents. Although Madame- Maconda is a niece of Miss ICarolyn B. Whittlesey, one of the leading local musicians, she has never been heard in public in Topeka. For this reason her appear ance here is looked forward to with a great deal of interest. As an indication of the appreciation of Maconda's talent. the following from the Cincinnati Times is pertinent. Cincinnati is of course well known among musicians as probably the fore most musical center of the United States. Artists who arouse enthu siasm in Cincinnati may be classed with the really great musicians. The Times says: "The concert of the Orpheus club at the Auditorium Thursday evening proved to be one of success for the club, congratulation for Edwin Glover, the conductor, and distinct personal triumph for Mme. Charlotte Ma conda. who reappeared before a Cin cinnati audience to be greeted as an old friend. Madame Maconda delight ed her hearers, who at the conclusion of her last number insisted upon 'one more,' though she had been generous with her encores. Her numbers were the aria 'Charmant Oiseau,' from the 'Perle du Bresil,' by David, and two groups of art songs by Tschaikowsky and Schumann, and Gounod, 'Greig and Strauss. From the elegant florid ness of the aria to the utter simplicity and tender depth of the little Grieg number was a long way, but the singer accomplished every step of it with a consummate artistry a so prano voice of beautiful resonance, clarity and smoothness, a technic re fined and unobvious, a tone produc tion of apparent ease, color of re markable texture in each register, and a capacity for true feeling; it was quite the perfection of programme singing." Madam Maconda's Topeka programme follows: Aria from Perle du Brezil, "The Brilliant Bird" David Mme. Maconda. (a) Mignon Gounod (b) Solvejslied Grieg (c) Chanson de Juliet Godard Maconda. (a) Chorus of Homage. Wilhelm Gericke (b) Silent Night Joseph Barnby Topeka Musical Art Society. a) Qual Farfalletta Handel (b) The Lass with the Delicate Hair D'Arne (c) Serenade Strauss Maconda. O For the Wings of a Dove. Mendelssohn Soprano solo by Maconda, chorus by the Musical Art Society. Aria Polonaise from "Mignon". .Thomas Maconda- Gov. Vardaman's Mother Falls Dead. Jackson, Miss., March 18. Mrs. Mary Fox Vardaman, mother of Gov ernor James K. Vardaman, who lived with him at the executive mansion, dropped dead today. Mrs. Vardaman was apparently in her usual good health when she arose this morning. She was about 65 years of age and was former postmistress at Greenwood under President Cleveland. Pleads for the Classics. Chicago, March 18. At the annual banquet of the Chicago Alumni asso ciation of Brown university, President William H. Faunce has discussed the present tendency of colleges and uni versities to emphasize what he termed the "bread and butter studies" and of fered a plea for a return to some ex tent at least to the classical studies as the necessary basis of a broad educa tion. "I went to one of the best technical schools in the country and got a thorough education in elec tricity," said he. "but when I got out of school I could not write a respect able letter. Before I could fill com- petently the position I now hold I had to take a course in English literature, history and political economy. The ideal elements as well as the material should be developed and this is done to a greater extent in the classical course." GEH. HAWLEY DEAD. He Served Connecticut In the Senate Nearly 2-1 Years. Washington, March 18. General Joseph R. Hawley, for nearly 24 years United States senator from Connec ticut, died this morning. Death came peacefully after a stupor lasting with slight interruptions since Wednesday afternoon. At his bedside when the end came were Mrs. Hawley, her three daughters, and Major Hooks, for a long time messenger to "the com mittee on military affairs of the sen ate. The body will be taken to Hartford, Conn., for burial, but the time for fu neral services has not been fixed. General Hawley's active career in the senate came to an end in Decem ber, 1902, when failing health com pelled him to relinquish his legislative work. In February of 1903 he was in the senate chamber for a short time, that being his last visit to the capitol. He was 78 years old. fflf I .n mes to the Auditorium Wednesday Two of the 'Performers Who Will Be at the Star 10 c Theater Next Week. ,L ,525 V$ ;m 7 V v Next week's bill at the Star vaude ville theater beginning tomorrow in cludes acts by Manuel Ferdandez. a blackface comedian and dancer direct from the National theater in Cuba, and the team of Rice Morris. Ger man knock-about comedians. Fernandez is a blackface comedian THE SIMPLE LIFE Ways That Are Pleasant and Paths That Are Peace. It is the simple life that gives length of days, serenity of mind and body and tranquility of soul. Simple hopes and ambitions, bound ed bv the desire to do good to one's neighbors, simple pleasures, habits, food and drink. Men die long before their time be cause they try to crowd too much into their experiences they climb too high and fall too hard. A wise wo man writes of the good that a simple diet has done her: "I have been using Grape-Nuts for about six months. I began rather sparingly until I acquired such a liking for it that for the last three months I have depended upon it al most entirely for my diet, eating nothing else whatever but Grape Nuts for, breakfast and supper, and I believe I could eat it for dinner with fruit and be satisfied without other food, and feel much better and have more strength to do my house work. "When I began the use of Grape Nuts I was thin and weak, my mus cles were so soft that I was not able to do any work; I weighed only 108 pounds. Nothing that I ate did me any good. I was going down hill rapidly, was nervous and miserable, with no ambition for anything. My condition improved rapidly after I began to eat Grape-Nuts food. It made me feel like a new woman; my mascles got solid, my figure rounded out, my weight increased to 126 pounds in a few weeks, my nerves grew steady and my mind better and clearer. My friends tell me they haven't seen me look so well for years. "I consider Grape-Nuts the best food on the market, and shall never go back to meats and white bread again." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason. Look in each package for the little book, "The Road to Wellville." WORKED THE BANKS. Testimony In the Trial of Alonzo J. Whiteman. Buffalo, N. T., March 18. In the trial of Alonzo J. Whiteman today John Flynn, a horseman, testified to "Whiteman having introduced him to a man named Thomas, but who, wit ness later learned, was Joseph Booth man. Thomas was said to be inter ested in racing and arrangements were made to enter a horse in the Fort Erie races. Thomas handed Whiteman a check with instructions to get it cashed. Later witness cashed a J 2 00 check for Whiteman on the Fidelity Trust company and divided the money. A few days later Thomas requested witness to cash a check for $2,000 on the Fidelity Trust company, which he did. Thomas gave him $300, which he divided with White man. FOLLOWED ROOSEVELT. Admiral Coghlan at Empire Banquet. State New Tork, March 18. Rear Ad miral Coghlan spoke last night at the banquet given by the Empire state society of the Sons of the American Revolution. He did not begin his re marks until after President Roosevelt had left the room to begin his return journey to Washington. He followed the lines of the chief executive's ap peal for an upbuilding of the navy, a high standard of its personnel and his plea that all should study the lessons of the Revolutionary war, the war of 1812 and the Mexican war, and carry out the policies that won victories then at the same time avoiding the defects which became defeat. "The president took all the wind out of my sails," said the rear admiral. "However, let me begin with the old adage, 'In time of peace prepare for war." The president spoke of having some forty ships. As a matter of fact we will have only. 27 ships by next spring, when the new ones are com pleted, and only 16 are first class bat tleshiDS. to defend the country. We shall also have some 12 armored i cruisers, but those cannot be called battleships. I "In 1908 we will need some 65,000 enlisted men in the navy and we will have to try to get the best men. We i must be prepared. Our losses in the SDanish war. though few, were the re sult of un preparedness. We have had good results indeed, but we cannot be sure that those results will always fol low. We must build up our navy uniformly and rapidly. Our personnel is improving very rapidly and at pres ent is eaual if not superior to any navy. You hear a good deal about desertions from the navy. Let me say that last year less than 9 per cent de serted and those were mostly from the servants department, chiefly foreign ers, of whom we hope to get rid. Now 90 per cent of all enlisted men are American born. "Let me conclude that the navy, as the president said, is not built to make war with, but to insure peace." J3 of real merit. He has played many of the leading theaters of the country, but this will be the occasion of his first appearance in Topeka. Rice and Morris. German come dians, have one of the funniest acts that the management of the Star has been able to secure since the opening of the theater. The illustrated songs are sung by Richard Walters, the operatic tenor, who made his first appearance on the stage several years ago with Beach Bowers' minstrels. He has a sweet clear voice and has been making quite a hit with the Datrons of the btar va.ndeville hou'se. An innovation will be introduced Tuesday when ice cream, tea and cake will be served to every lady attending the matinee performance. DIED FROM CAT BITE. Hydrophobia Resulted After a Period of Nine Months. St. Louis, Mo., March 18. The bite of a cat nine, months ago caused the death today by hydrophobia of Henry Pflasterer, aged 9 years. The first symptoms of the disease developed a week ago. Finally convulsions de veloped and today he became uncon scious, scratching desperately at the bed clothing. Queen Alexandra Gets Away. London, March IS. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert which sailed from Portsmouth yesterday with Queen Alexandra and a party on board bound for Lisbon and was compelled, owing to high seas, to put in Port land harbor last night, resumed her voyage today. Death of Mrs. Marsh. Warsaw, 111., March 18. The wife of Congressman B. F. Marsh died at her home here today of apoplexy. Mrs. Marsh was a sister-in-law of Chief Justice Fuller of the United States su preme court and was a daughter of the late W. S. Coolbaugh, the Chicago banker. Hunt Is Out on Bail. Chicago, March 18. William H. Hunt, former president of the defunct Pan-American Banking company, was released from the county jail today on a $10,000 cash bond. He is accused of embezzlement. 8 tj; takSSffftte l sP aAcs's A vy- 1 ''"I'M1 DRUGGISTS FREE WITH PAW-PAW A COMPLETE AND POSITIVE CURE FOR CATARRH PAW-PAW Purifies the Blood and Drives all Catarrh Foiscn from the System. Money During the past year I have received hundreds of letters from people stating that my Paw-Paw had cured them of CATARRH. Upon a careful in vestigation I have satisfied my self that many cases of indi gestion and Stomach trouble are due to the dropping of catahhral poison into the stomach. Catarrh is a blood disease and cannot be permanently cured by local applications. The dis charges can be stopped with the inhaler, but the blood must be cleansed of all catarrhal poisons before a permanent cure can be effected. So positive am I that my Paw-Paw and Inhaler will CURB any case of catarrh, whether of the head, nose, throat, lungs, stomach or bow els, that I propose giving away my Inhaler, absolutely free, with every bottle of Paw-Paw. You absolutely take no risk. I as sume all the re s possibilities. I give you $2 worth of remedies for $1 and say to you that If at the end of ten days you are not perfectly satisfied with tiie results, I WILL REFUND TOnK MONEY. I cannot be more fair. Remember, the inhaler, the catarrh tablets, the Paw-Paw rills and the Si t" fixe bottle of Paw-Paw will be given you for tl.OO. The actual value of these goods is $2. I have cut the price to $1.00 in order that every person may take advantage of this complete treatment. If your druggist Is not prepared to furnish you this complete treatment, send ma one dollar and I will send you the treatment by express, all charges prepaid. KUNYON, Philadelphia. FOR SALE BY A. T. Waggoner, 731 Kansas Ave. Martin O'Donnell, 334 Kansas Ave. Miller's Phar'cy, 6th and Topeka Ave, P. B. Kelley, Sixth and Lake. Sim Drug Co., 523 Kansas Ave. Union Printers Electric Power Six Presses PRINTING DEPARTMENT IS COMPLETE. Established 1897 S r FINE WORK QUICK WORK NEAT WORK PRINTING W. W Telephone 99. TELEGRAPH IS CUT. No Word From the Front Thursday Afternoon. Since St. Petersburg, March 18, 2:10 p. m. Telegraphic communication with the retreating Russian army has been cut for over 2 4 hours, but the au thorities hope it is only temporary, declaring that they have no informa tion that the Japanese have reached the railroad in. General Linevitch's rear. Nevertheless, with the curtain down, the war office naturally is the prey of the direst forebodings. The last word from the front was contained in a telegram from one of the Associated Press correspondents, the only correspondent with the re tiring army. It presages an attack from the rear. The telegram, al though dated Changtufu (40 miles north of Tie pass) at 4 o'clock Thurs day afternoon, was sent from Kayuan, 30 miles north of Tie pass, and only reached St. Petersburg this morning. It was very brief, saying simply that the army was retiring in good order and destroying the railroad as it went, but was constantlv nresserl hv the I Japanese, the rear guard action be ing continuous. There were ominous words in the concluding sentence, as follows: "We believe the Japanese are mak ing a wide turning movement north and that they are ready to fall upon us when we get out of the ring-like group of mountains which surround the Tie pass gorge." In the long retreat to Harbin the Russians only have the advantage of the Mandarin road as far as Kayuan, which bears eastward to Kirin, while the railroad continues north to Har bin. According to the general staff, however, a good wagon road runs parallel to the railroad. But for an army of a quarter of a million men encumbered with impediments, with an active enemy relentlessly pushing and operating on its flanks and the constant threat of the enemy closing the line of retreat, it is admitted that the single railroad and wagon road afford poor prospects of General Line vitch being able to bring off the rem nants of the army confided to his care without a tremendous sacrifice of life. If the Japanese actually succeed in throwing a strong force across the line of retreat it is recognized that the army might be forced to capitulate. In the meantime the mobilization of a new army has already begun in sev eral provinces although the order has not been published. A division of the imperial guards at St. Petersburg was reviewed today. The newspapers generally endorse Linevitch's selection as temporary commander in chief on the ground that Kuropatkin's lack of success made his supersession Imperative. At the same time it is recognized that Kuropatkin's fate also rests on other shoulders and pity is express ;a at his said fate. GERMANY WANTS HER MONEY. Doesn't Like the Way Uncle Sam and John Bull Are Doing. Berlin, March 18. The settlement of the Samoan claims has become a rather touching point with the for eign office, as it is not understood why so small a sum as $120,000 should cause the United States and Great Britain to hesitate in its payment. The delay of years has, it is pointed out, been out of proportion to the amount of claims, and as the dam ages are owing, according to the ar bitrator, to a lot of indigent persons, the impression here is that Great Britain and the United States have shown delay amounting to indiffer ence. It is admitted unofficially, how ever, that the claims for $120,000 which were prepared by an American lawyer, are in excess of the actual amount. Germany has not made any proposition to the United States or Great Britain, but would probably ac cept one-halt the amount of the claims if it was offered. The sum of $25,000 mentioned in an American dispatch as being all the claims are worth, is looked upon here as a sort of bartering offer, not becoming the subject in controversy. The German government has informed the United States and Great Britain, as a result GIVING AWAIT The INHALER reaches the sore spots, heals the raw places. 1 1 penetrates obscure places where drugs taken Into the stomach cannot reach It acts as a balm and tonic to the whole system. Gives Instant Relief Clouds of medicated vapor are Inhaled through the mouth and omitted from nos trils, cleansing and vaporiz ing all the Inflamed and dis eased parts which cannot be reached with medicine taken Into the stomach. i. W. Stansfield. 632 Kansas Ave. IJowley Snow, 600 Kansas Ave. A. O. Kosser, Tenth and Topeka Ave. Fred T. AValker, 825 Kansas Ave. W. I Lake, 530 Kansas Ave. i FANCY TYPE LATE TYPE MODERN TYPE 1 fcik Will GAVITT PRINTING PUBLISHING CO., "fOPEKA. KANSAS. 801-603 E. 4th Street V For The Grand Opera KANSAS CITY, March 31 and April I, The Rock Island Will have special chair cars for Topeka people leaving Topeka Friday morning:, March 31, 7:45 a. m. This equipment will be held at Kansas City and returned after opera closes Saturday night, arriving at Topeka about 1 o'clock Sunday morning. Fare for the round trip, $2.70. Tickets on sale March 30, 31, and April 1, limited for return April 3. For any further in formation see A. M. FULLER, Rock Island Depot. AMUSEMENTS. advertised in the Stats Journal. THE STAR VAUDEVILLE THEATER. Ground Floor 418 Kansas Ave. Management of L. F. Sleferd. Matinee at 2:30 p. m. Daily. Evening, two shows, 7:30, 9:00. Admission 10 cents to all. MARCH 19 TO 26. Tuesday, Marcli 21 Ladies' Mat inee, Pink Tea, Serving Ice Cream and Cake. Richard G. Walters, illustrating "I'm Wearing My Heart Away for You." Manuel Fernandez, black face boy with rubber legs. Kk-e and Morris, the celebrated Gorman iialect comedians. Bert Wiggins, comedy cartoonist and eccentric comedian. Kiiiodrome, "The Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige." Entire change of programme each week. Ladies' Souvenir day, Friday. Children's matinee, Saturday, 5c. HAND AFOLrlO It ensure an enjoyable, invigor ating bath makes every pore respond, icmoves dead skin, ENERQIZE5 THE. WHOLE BOP1 starts the circulation, and leave a (low equal to a Turkiih bath. ALL GKOCEK3 AND DRUGGISTS of negotiations that were begun March 1, that she is about to make -a joint offer. One large, fine upright wall show case for sale at a bargain. E. B. Guild Music Co. Lux Bros., dentists, 803 Kansas av

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m m mm V pan w 1 4lb jacKson street, lopeKa, Kan. I 4. 1 2 211 r 14 tl a r? y g a r 1 y 1 First United Presbyterian church, corner Eighth and Topeka avenue; Rev. J. A. Ren wick, pastor. Preach ing at 11 a. m. by the pastor; subject, "Devotion to Principle." Evening service at 7:30 o'clock; subject, "The Good Samaritan." The sermon will be illustrated with views thrown upon a 20-foot curtain. Special music will be rendered by the choir. Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Christian En deavor, 6:30 p. m. Midweek prayer meeting, Thursday. 7:30 p. m. First Christian church, on Topeka (venue between Sixth and Seventh streets; Charles A. Finch, pastor. Bible school. 9:45 a. m. Communion and preachine. 11 a. m. Juniors at 4 p. m.; Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:15 p. m. Sermon at 7:30 p. m. Pastor's Bible class. Monday. 7:30 p. m. Prayer and teachers' meeting, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. First Methodist Episcopal church, corner Harrison street and Sixth ave nue. William Copeland Evans, pastor; residence 500 Topeka avenue. Preach ing at 11 a. m. by the Rev. Edwin M. Randall. T. D., of Chicago, the Ren eral secretary of the Epworth league. At 7:30 p. m. there will be a general rally of the Epworth leagrues of the city, when Dr. Randall will address them. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Jefferson Street Sunday school at 3 p. m. Junior Epworth league at 3 p. m. A cordial invitation to all to hear Dr. Randall and to attend any or all of these services. Second United Presbyterian church, Fillmore and Huntoon streets. Preaching by the pastor. Rev. John P. White, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject, "Present Reward"; evening subject, "Bible Study, the Book of Deuteronomy." Sabbath school at 10 a. m. Y. P. C. U. at 6:30 p. m.; Intermediates at 6:30 p. m.; Juniors at 4 p. m. Railroad Y. M. C. A.. 3:30 p. m. Sunday. Rev. J. A. Renwick will speak on "The Good Samaritan" and "The Lost Sheep," illustrated with a number of views. Harry Parr, the boy singer, will render illustiated solos. All men welcome. First Presbyterian church, Harrison street, opposite state house. Rev. Ste phen S. Estey, Ph. D., pastor. 9:45 a. m.. Sabbath school. 11 a. m. church service. Sermon by the pastor. 3 p. m. Redden chapel school, 300 East First avenue. 6:15 p. ni. Senior and Intermediate C. E. meetings. 7:30 p. m. evening service. Sermon by the pastor. Midweek meeting, Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Annual church meeting for election of elders and deacon, 8 p. m. Thursday. First Congregational, Seventh and Harrison, Francis L. Hayes, D. D.. pastor. Services at 11 and 7:30 Morning subject, "A Worthy Ambi tion." Evening subject, "Christ's Method of Dealing With Enquirers." Sunday school 9:45. Christian En deavor 6:15. Seward avenue tabernacle. Sunday. March 19, 1905. Sunday school at 3:15 p. m. Evening service at 7:30. Preaching by Rev. J. G. Haver. First Cumberland Presbvterian church. West Fifth and West streets; A. H. Kelso, pastor. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m. bv the pastor. Rev. Mr. Mallory will give an address at 3 p. m.: evervbody invited. Mrs. Rose Crist will preach at 7:30 p. m. She gives her entire time to evangelistic work. The meet ings of the past week have been profit able. Railroad Y. M. C. A. quartette will sing at evening service. Quinton Heights school house. Sun day school 3:15 p. m. Mr. Fred G. Mitchell will speak at 7:30, subject "The Navajo Indians of the Painted Desert." Mr. Payne will sing. All are urged to attend. Third Presbyterian church, corner Branner and East Fourth streets. Sab bath school 9:45 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. Junior Endeavor 2:30 i. m. Senior Endeavor 6:15 p. m. Preach ing 7:30 p. m. Male chorus in evening. Prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. Bible study class Thursday 8:30 p. m. W. M. Cleveland, pastor. Third Christian church, corner of Third and Lake streets. F. E. Mallory, minister. Bible school at 9:30 a. m. Lord's supper and preaching at 10:45 a. m., subject, "Mistakes About Sin." Junior Christian Endeavor at 3 p. m. Senior Christian Endeavor at 6 p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m., subject, "Christian Living." First Spiritualist church, Security hall, (seventh and Kansas avenues. Services Sunday evening 8 o'clock. Seats free. Airs. Etta S. Bledsoe, pas tor; Mrs. Inez Wagner, medium. Oakland Presbyterian, Rev. S. A. Alt, pastor. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Service at 11 a. m., subject "The Twenty-third Psalm in Living Experi ence." Junior and Senior C. E. at 5:3fl and 6:30 p. m. respectively. Evening service at 7:30, subject "The Dangers That Threaten the Youth of the Land." The regular missionary meeting will be held at the Y. W. C. A. rooms Sun day afternoon 4:15. Miss Saxe, Miss Sweet and Miss Griggs will lead the discussion on Japan. All women in vited. Central Congregational church, cor ner of Huntoon and Buchanan: Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. At 11 o'clock the pastor preaches the third of his ser mons for children., Junior Endeavor at 4 o'clock p. m. topic, "A story of some willing workers." Senior En deavor at 7 o'clock; topic, "Heroes of home missions; what they teach us." The pastor speaks to the society on the Endeavor topic at 8 o'clock. First Unitarian church, 912 Topeka avenue. Services at II o'clock, con ducted by the minister. Rev. Abram Wyman. Sermon topic, "Putting Yourself In the Other's Place." Sun day school at 10 a. m. Religious study class at noon. Young People's Religious union at 5 p. m. subject, "Doing Things Well"; Mr. Raymond Jones, leader. Central Park Christian church, corner of Sixteenth and Clay. Bible school at 9:45. Preaching and Lord's Supper at 11, by R. G." Moody. Jiuaior Endeavor at 3 p. m. Senior Endeavor at 6:15. Preaching at 7:30 by R. V. Leeson. All welcome. First Church of Christ, Scientist, corner Huntoon and Polk streets. Services at 11 a, m. Subject, "Re ality." Children's Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Wednesday evening meet ing at 8 o'clock. Reading room in church edifice, open every afternoon from 1:30 to 5 o'clock, except Sun day. Friends' church. Services at the Baptist tabernacle, corner of Tenth and Jackson streets, on next Sabbath afternoon at 2 o'clock. A cordial in vitation to these services extended to the public. Emory Pearson, minister in charge. Westminster Presbyterian church, corner of Kuntoon street and College avenue; Ralph Ward, pastor. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Morning worship at 11 o'clock. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Evening worship at 7:30 o'clock. Prayer meeting on Thursday night at 8 o'clock. First Baptist church, corner of Tenth and Jackson streets. Rev. Thomas S. Young, D. D.. pastor-elect. Preaching Sunday morning at 11 and at 7:30 p. m., by Rev. E. E. Daley of Wayne, Neb. Sunday school will meet at 9:30 a. m. Junior Endeavorer will meet at 3 o'clock p. m. Young Peo ple's meeting at 6:15 p. m. Leaders Miss Clara V. Carter and Mrs. T. B. Hunt. Subject for the evening, "Glorifying God In Our Daily Work," Matthew 5:13-16, and Romans 12:11. First Lutheran church, corner Fifth and Harrison streets, Rev. H. A. Ott, pastor. Morning subject, "A Great Faith and Its Reward." Evening sub ject, "Life's Storm and the Life-Line," the second of a series of popular Sun day evening- services illustrative of favorite old time gospel hymns. Spe cial music. Sunday school at 9:24 a. m. Christian Endeavor service at 7 p. m. Grace cathedral, Episcopal, corner Taylor and Eighth streets. Very Rev. J. P. de B. Kaye, dean. Holy com munion 7:30 a. m. Sunday school 9:30 a. m. Morning service and sermon 11 o'clock. Evensong: and sermon at 4:30 o'clock. McCULLY HEARD FROM. First Word From Him for Three Months. Washington, March 18. Lieuten ant McCuIly, the representative of the United States navy with the Russian forces in Manchuria, was heard from today for the first time in three months. For a long time he was with the besieged forces in Port Arthur, but before the fall of that fortress he was permitted to go to Vladivostok from which place he subsequently proceeded north and joined Kuropat kin's army near Mukden. Today a cable message was received from him saying that Captain -Hudson and Col onel Havard probably have been cap tured, but that Major McComb was "all right." The persons named are American army officers engaged in ob serving the operations of the Russian forces. The cable message is dated at Aomyna. Best home grown carnations, on hand. James Hayes, florist, 107 West Eighth street. TALKS TO IRISH. President Roosevelt Speaks at St. Pat rick's Day Celebration. New Yoik, March 18. President Roosevelt was the gnest of honor last night at the 121st annual dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. He was roundly cheered by more than 600 mem bers of the society and its guests. He made a speech before the society, clos ing a day full of friendly greetings, during which he gave his niece away in marriage. The banquet was- given in the golden dining hall at Delmonico's. The society was obliged to refuse more than 2,000 applications for tickets. The main banquet hall and the annex were beautifully decorated with festoons of the stars and stripes, into which was woven effectively the green and gold flag of Erin. The banquet tables were banked with roses and carnations. They were set off by garlands of green and gold elec tric lights, strung diagonally across tho hall. Immediately back of and above the seat of the president were the Gaelic words, "Cead Mille Fallte," in letters of fire, signifying "A thousand welcomes." To the right and left of the guests' table were fine medallions of Washing ton and Roosevelt, illuminated by elec tric effects. The contrast of Washington and Roosevelt was significant. The Friend ly Sons of St. Patrick entertained Washington in 1782 as the general-in-chief of the Colonial armies. Roosevelt is the first president as such that the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick has enter tained. At 3 o'clock the president went to the house of Henry Parish, Jr., in East Seventy-sixth street, to attend the mar riage of his niece. Miss Eleanor Roose velt, daughter of Elliott Roosevelt, to her cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, son of Mrs. James Roosevelt. On the way he met a big St. Pat rick's day parade, which was stopped, the participants and the thousands who crowded the sidewalks wildly cheering Mr. Roosevelt as he went through and passed up Park avenue. The chief magistrate led the bride to the altar and gave her away. A huge floral cluster of 300 pink roses, entwined with smilax and asparagus ferns, was suspended in the center of the drawing room and formed a canopy under which the newly wedded pair received the congratulations of their friends. The president, with his nieoe leaning on his arm and preceded by the brides maids, passed into the drawing room through an aisle of white ribbons, held by tha ushers. Rev. Endicott Peabody, of Groton, Mass., performed the mar riage ceremony, using the Episcopal ritual. Lathrop Brown was best man. The president left the Parish homa at 5 o'clock to return to the home oC his aunt. Elaborate police arrange ments had been made and besides a squad of nine mounted men who acted as an escort, policemen lined the streets and controlled all crossings. After a short stay in the house of his aunt, the president was driven through, cheering crowds to Delmonico's, where he attended the annual dinner of tha Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. The Sixty-ninth regiment, national guard, act ed as escort. The president was cheer ed all the way and especially on his ar rival at Delmonico's. Protection Granted. Washington, March 18. Recently! local agents here of the Yaqul Copper company, an American corporation whose mines are located in tha state of Sonora, Mexico, applied to the state department to secure protection for its properties. The mines are about 40 miles distant from the nearest Mexican garrison post and the lives of the caretaker and his family had been placed in jeopardy from bands of hos tile Yaqul Indians. Ambassador Clay ton was communicated with and today he telegraphed from the City of Mex ico that the Mexican minister of for eign affairs had informed him that orders had been immediately dis natched to the nearest body of troops to send protection to the mines. "I suffered for months from sore throat. Electrlo Oil cured me in 24 hours." M. S. Gist, Hawesville. Ky. 10 photos and 1 button 25c. Lutes. INTERESTING LOCAL NEWS EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK AS DEPICTED BY THE STATE JOURNAL CARTOONIST. 8TXNXY. MONDAY.' TUESDAY. WEDNESDAY. TKUKSDAY. PB.IDAY SATURDAY. Chief Stahl holds a session with Mr. Hodgins. 1 The railroad investigation is resumed. if A w Miss Ida Tarbell delivers some opinions. mm 66 Was divorce day in the district court. The. first real rain of the spring falls. ibiy is rscif x--k is i lit rv?., Politicians and others start for Independence. fPSTV5 Sheriff Lucas is expected to bring la suspects.

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10 THE TOPEKA STATE JOUENAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18,1905. W omen's Hj jClub NewsJ Saint Paul: Though I have the gift of prophecy, and ail knowledge and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not cnar Ity, I am nothing. Mrs. Olive I. Royce of Fhillipsburg in the Kansas Federa tion's Book of Quotations. An unusual collection of reproduc tions of the world's most famous paint ings will arrive in Topeka March 27-28, and be on exhibition at the new manual training- school building Monday and Tuesday, afternoon and evening, with a program each evening. Italian art will be shown Monday, the 100 pictures including Cimabue and Giotto, da Vinci. Michael Angelo, Titian and Raphael. Italian art was born of religious enthusiasm and nearly all pic tures were for places of worship. The great masters were supposed to be in spired by God and their best work was symbolical of the religious influence of their time. Raphael s "Sistine Madon-: na" reproduced in this collection, is one of the three greatest paintings In the world, another one being "The Descent from the Cross" by Rubens ,also shown here. The Dutch and Flemish collection, on exhibition Tuesday, includes half tone reproductions of the Van Eycks, who taught perspective and landscape ef fects to the world. Van Dyck is largely represented, "The Crucifixion" and "The Coronation of St. Rosalie" among others; the latter is ranked as his masterpiece. Rubens, remarkable for the satin tex ture of his flesh tints and beautiful col oring, has five pictures, his "Holy Fam ily" and "St. Cecilia" among them. Dutch art has for its dominant note a love of home and family. No theme is too homely to be glorified by the brush of the Dutch artist. Franz Hals is rep resented by his well known picture "The Fool," besides several others. while the greatest pictures in this collection are those by Rembrandt, who was said to transfer the human soul to canvas. In this collection there are three car bon prints that are listed at $18.00 each, ninety listed at $5.00 each and many other silver prints that bring the 'value of the collection up to $600.00. There is not a picture displayed that has not been again and again described by the art critics and terse selections from their writings are on cards pasted on each picture. The treasurers of the individual clubs of the city federation are urged to col lect the federation dues and send them with the names of the new delegates to the city federation to the treasurer. Mrs. F. C. Bowen. Unless this matter Is attended to this month the negligent clubs can not be represented at the an nal business meeting and election which is now only three weeks off. The Art club met with Mrs. Harrison Morgan at her house on Harrison street Monday afternoon and the annual elec tion of officers was held, resulting in the re-election of all last year's officers: Mrs. David Palmer, president; Mrs. Norman Wear, vice president; Mrs. Harrison Morgan, secretary; Mrs. G. J. Mulvane, treasurer; Mrs. W. I New comer, club reporter; Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Margaret Wiggtn. delegates to the city federation; Mrs. H. L. P. Hillyer and Mrs. A. W. Dana, alternates; Mrs. Palmer delegate to the state federation. The programme included papers by Mrs. Dana on Heinrich Hoffman, Mrs. Palm er on Bodenhausen and Liloty, Mrs. Mulvane on Arnold Boecklin and Frana von Dessreger, and Mrs. Marburg on Tapestries. The club will have its next meeting with Mrs. Newcomer. The Lakota club will hold its annual election at its meeting next Monday with Mrs. Frank Patrick. The Nineteenth Century club will meet with Mrs. George Smith Monday and hold ttre annual election. At its meeting Monday with Mrs. T. K. Garver, the Atlantean club elected these officers: Mrs. J. C. McClintock, president, Mrs. J. F. Close, vice presi dent, Mrs. W. H. England, secretary, Mrs. V. W. Everingham, treasurer, Mrs. McClintock and Mrs. Johnston, delegates to the city federation, Mrs. ,W. A. 8. Bird and Mrs. M. A. Low, al ternates; Mrs. H. I. Cook and Mrs. J. F. Close delegate to the state federa tion. The Olio club will meet Monday with Mrs. W. H. Bowlby, 1724 Clay street, at half after 2 o'clock. Mrs. John Sargent will be the hostess of the West Side Reading club Tuesday afternoon. Annual election of officers end payment of club dues. The Ramblers- club will meet Tues day with Mrs. M. M. Hale, 613 Fillmore street. The Reviewers' club met Thursday with Mrs. W. J. Lewis. 1119 Monroe street and these officers were elected for the ensuing year: Mrs. Lewis, president, Mrs. Rav Dietrich, vice president, Mrs. A. C. McGRigee. secretary. Mrs. Lewis and Mr". W. E. McVey. delegates to the city federation. Mrs. J. E. Wood and Mrs. W. E. Heatherly. alternates, Mrs. Emma Marshall delegate to the state federation. The Ohio club will meet Monday ev ening, March 20. at the club rooms, 117 Sixth avenue, west. A Mother Goose farce and a musical programme will be given. All Ohioans Invited. The Travelers' club will meet next Thursday at 4 o'clock at 1131 Tyler street with Mrs. L. H. Worthington. The Junior Atlantean club will meet March 21 and 28 with Mrs. S. W. Ly man, 1243 Tyler street. The Ninde C. L. S. C. will meet Tuesday evening. March 21, with Mrs. W. S. Miller, 709 Tyler street. Roll call: Incidents illustrating social dis tinction in Germany; "Ten. Frenchmen of the Nineteenth Century," Renan, led by Mrs. Martindale: "Social Prog ress in Europe." Miss Westerfield; piano solo, Mrs. Swan. Mrs. E. D. McKeever gave a lunch eon for the Calidorean club at her house on Tenth avenue west last Mon day. Mrs. James E. Hurley, who is an honorary member of.the club, was the only guest aside from the mem bers. Special Homeseekcrs' Rates via Santa. Fe. March 21 special homeseekers tickets will be sold to Galveston. Ft. Worth, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and other Texas points at the extremely low rate of $15.00 for the round trip. Points in Pecos Valley and return $20. El Paso and return $26.50. Rate of one fare plus $2.00 to points in Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arizona, New Mexico, Arkansas and Texas, tickets limited to SI days from date of sale and stop overs allowed on the going trip within 15 days. For full information, literature, etc.. address T. L. King, C. P. and T. A.. Topeka. Kan. photos and 1 button. 25c Lutes. OIL im MEET. (Continued from First Page.) "But I do not propose to permit myself to become confused by terms nor misled by false interpretations. This oil refinery movement of ours, I repeat, is not a socialistic movement. It has the semblance of socialism, but its soul is that of competition. Its garb is socialistic, but its body is competitive. It is not, Uke socialism. ,an attempt to destroy competition: it Is an attempt to make competition possible and profitable. It is not an attempt to create a monopoly; it is an attempt to destroy one. In my judgment Mr. Rockefeller, and I men tion him merely in his representative capacity, is doing more to multiply socialists and make socialism popular than all the professional propagand ists of that fascinating fallacy in the United States are doing. And the Standard Oil company is in its essen tial character the most gigantic so cialistic concern in this country. Its aim and end is the aim and end of socialism, the destruction of compe tition, and in battling against it we know that we are battling for and not against the competitive system, and no superficial alarmists can convince us to the contrary. If we succeed in this movement, and I believe we will, independent refineries will spring up like magio, welcomed and fostered by the state, and when they shall have increased in number and in produc tive capacity so that they can stand alone and compete in the open mar ket with every competitor, the state will be glad to close its refinery and leave this business to private enter prise, where it legitimately belongs. "In conclusion, my fellow citizens, let me congratulate you upon the en couraging outlook. The last legisla ture, the beet I believe in the history of the state, did much to subserve the ends of good government briefly out lined above. It put upon our statute books in addition to the many val uable laws that will be fruitful of good to the state, four specific meas ures for the protection of the oil in terests in which the people under whose auspices I speak at this time are particularly interested, viz., a law for the building and equipment of a state oil refinery,, a law making pipe lines common carriers, a law prevent ing discrimination m local markets. and the law fixing maximum railroad rates on oil shipments. I beg to re port progress at this time upon these splendid enactments. Preliminary steps have already been taken for the establishment of the oil refinery at Peru, and this work will be pushed with all the vigor and power of the administration. If discrimination is now being practiced it is the fault of its victims, for the machinery of the government is now ample for their protection: and I am especially glad to report J to you that the maximum freight rate is in actual operation, and has reduced the cost of transportation of oil two-thirds of its former cost. But the battle is only begun. Let us not imagine that the final victory is won. Let us remember that eternal vigilance is the price of victory. Let us proceed with moderation, but with firmness, knowing our rights and de termined to maintain them." Senator Smith's Speech. Senator Fred Dumont Smith was one of the principal speakers of the day. He said: "The gravest political question that confronts the American people today is the growth, power and arrogance of the great trusts. The steel trust and its al lies control 75 per cent of the output and regulate the proces of all the man ufactures of iron and steel in this coun try. The beef trust controls and regu lates the price of beef on the hoof and beef on the block, and through its re frigerator car lines controls the price and distribution of nine-tenths of the food supply of the United States, in cluding meat, vegetables and fruit. "The Standard Oil company controls the price of crude oil and all its prod ucts, and by its relation with the great trust of life insurance and banking companies exercises paramount control of the finances of 80 millions of people. "No village is too obscure, no hamlet too remote, no hovel too lowly to escape the exploitation, the levy of tribute from these commercial highwaymen. Five sovereign commonwealths lie pros trate at the feet of Standard OH their legislatures servile tools, their courts complaisant instruments, registering without demur the decree as formulated at No. 26 Broadway. VS.. V Senator Fred Dumont Smith, Who Ad dressed the Oil Men Today. "These trusts dominate the great rail way systems of the country, exacting discriminating rates that place them beyond the reach of rivalry or competi tion; nominating and electing congress men and senators, naming governors and Judges, surrounding even the fed eral capitol itself with influences that place the senate of the United States beyond the reach of protest or appeal from the victims of these combinations. "In the face of these gigantic combi nations every other political question sinks into insignificance; the tariff, the money question, the Philippines, our foreign policy, are bagatelles compared with the industrial future of this coun try, menaced and threatened by these enormous and swollen aggregations of capital. "Two years ago Mr. Bryan, the great est living Democrat, asked the signifi cant question: 'What of the young man Absalom?' The question passed unheed ed then, but today Republican and Democrat alike are forced to consider the question. Should these combina tions proceed with their unhasting, but never ceasing progress for another gen eration, as they have proceeded in the past, there remains to your children and mine nothing but an industrial slavery, differing only in degree from that of the negro in 1860. "The question is whether your chil dren and mine shall enjoy the advan tages of opportunity and competition that were the heritage of our fathers, or whether they shall be hirelings of slavery of these inpalpable and intangi ble monstrosities, creatures of law, yet above and beyond all law. Within the past ten years all the great avenues of production, outside of agriculture, and of manufacture and distribution have been segregated by the manipulation of trusts into fewer and fewer hands. "Each year the number of trust mag nates diminish, as the weaker fall and succumb to the stronger. Each year the several combinations of railway sys tems grow fewer, their separate mile age greater. Each year the beef trust narrows its combination. The steel trust freezes out the smaller In favor of the larger stockholder. Each year the Standard Oil crushes more and more of its competitors, and each year the process of consolidation and combina tion, resistless as the movement of a glacier, overwhelming in its pathway all rivalry and competition, approaches under existing conditions the day of the universal trust when all competition and all production shall be within the control of an easily named and identi fled gang of highwaymen, who have won their way to power by the same methods as an Attila, Caeser and Na poleon. "Thirty years ago John D. Rockefel ler was struggling to save his financial scalp, borrowing money and worth per haps $100,000. Two years ago he testi fied in a law suit in New York City that he did not know within ten million dol lars what his annual income was. Think of it! You and I can tell within ten dollars of what ours was; but here is a man that within the life of a single generation, by the methods of the trust has wrung from the people of the Uni ted States a fortune so vast that he.can not compute his annual Income within ten million dollars. Given the continued progress of this trust, the beef trust, the steel trust and all the other colossal vampires to prey upon the public, at the end of another generation how much of the wealth of the nation will be outside their possession. "Within the past two years the pub lic has begun to awaken to the signifi cance of the trust movement. Within the past-three months Kansas has ta ken the lead in an effort to confront and exterminate them. It is fitting that this new revolution should come from Kan sas. It was on Kansas soil that the dragon's teeth were sown, whose har vest was a million armed men. It was on Kansas soil that the seed was sown whose flower was human liberty and its fruit the Fifteenth Amendment. It was Kansas that gave to the W7ar of the Re bellion more soldiers than it had citi zens. Kansas cares not for precedent or formulas or shibboleths; it is not de terred by epithets, nor awed by phrases. It knows that the true anarchists are Rockefeller and Armour-and Swift, who disobey and disregard and trample un der foot all law in the accomplisnment of their desires. "Kansas knows that it is entering upon no ninety-day campaign but is en listed for the war. In that war no legiti mate property interests will suffer; no legitimate business will be harmed; no legitimate exercise of corporate rights or franchises will be disturbed. We know how great the power that con fronts us; we know that hitherto legis latures and courts have failed to curb the insolences and exactions of these trusts, but still we do not believe that the last word has been said on the sub ject. WTe are confident that within the limit of Republican institutions and be neath the aegis of constitutional law may be found a remedy for the wrongs inflicted, and a curb for the power that inflicts them. Where there are no pre cedents, we will make them. Where none have gone before, we will blaze the way. Where the last legislature paused, there the next one shall begin. It is no summer holiday that we are embarked upon. It is war, real war. We have not entered upon it lightly but with the solemn determination that ev ery force and power of a sovereign state shall be spent and exhausted to the last atom before we yield, before we signify our subservience to this industrial slavery that threatens the disolution of the Republic, the extermination of all liberty save its empty forms. "The revolution had its Lexington, its Valley Forge and its Yorktown. TJiis Kansas revolution against the trust has had its Lexington; its reverberations have been heard around the world. It will have its Valley Forge; its hours of doubt and darkness and disaster and failure; it will have its defeats unques tionably, but the spirit of Kansas can not fail. This is not a war of the pro ducer alone, because the trust robs both the consumer and the producer, and in this struggle, beside the handful of oil producers in the Third district, you have back of you the great army of consumers of Kansas, all the wealth and sinews of a great and prosperous commonwealth. "Be brave and be fair. Show the .consumer that your fight Is his; that you are fighting for a better price for your oil and a lower price for the con sumer. Prove that all you ask, that all you demand of the trust, is the right to live; a square deal for the producer and consumer alike. Back of you is an over whelming public sentiment that needs but to be organized and directed by wise heads to win. "For myself I am proud of the hum ble part I have played in the opening battle of this struggle, and I pledge you this, that here and now I conse crate the remainder of my official life, be it long or short, whatever experience I have gained, whatever talent and en ergy God has given me, to this most sacred cause." LEAVES KANSAS. C Continued from Page One.) from information possessed by him he was of the opinion that a pool, trust, conspiracy and combination had been made, agreed upon and entered into by the Standard Oil company, the Waters-Pierce Oil company and the Republic Oil company in the state of Missouri, whereby a monopoly in the sale of illuminating and lubricating oil and the by-products of petroleum is sought to be created, established and maintained and whereby competition in the supply and price of said articles is restrained and prevented, and that in the opinion of said attorney general it was deemed necessary that the testi mony of various witnesses, to be desig nated by him, should be taken before Instituting suit against said Standard Oil company, Waters-Pierce Oil com pany and the Republic Oil company for maintaining an unlawful pool, trust, conspiracy and combination. Therefore it is considered, ordered and adjudged by the said justice that the said Standard Oil company, the Waters-Pierce Oil company and the Republic Oil company and each of them be and they are hereby required to be and appear before the Hon. Wil liam C. Marshall, one of the justices of the supreme court of the state of Missouri, on the Z2d day of March, 1905, at 9:30 a. m., in the court room of division No. 1 of the supreme court of Missouri, and then and there to show cause why an order should not be issued that said examination should be had and conducted as prayed for by said attorney general. WILLIAM C. MARSHALL. Judge of Supreme Court. SEW WEAPON' FOR STANDARD. A New law Gives Power to Delay State Refinery. Independence, Kas., March 18. Kansas oil producers who are here for their big meeting today fill expect a long drawn out war with the Stan dard. They look for the trust, through hired agents, to 'throw every obstacle in the way of the state re finery. "There is a mighty juicy piece of meat between the cost of crude oil ana tne price or rennea on, sa James M. Parker, president of the Kansas association. "The Standard not only wants the meat, but also wants to keep the public In ignorance of how juicy it is." The Standard is in shape to fight from the start. It has just been dis covered that the Kansas legislature passed a law this winter which gives the trust a dangerous weapon. It is a harmless looking little law on its face and was intended for another purpose, but it will fit in pat for the Standard in its fight. In order to prevent public officials from reck lessly or unlawfully saddling a debt on the public, building sewers and other improvements, a general law was passed giving one or more citi zens the right to enjoin the making of a questionable debt. All the Stan dard has to do is to get some one to file suit in some district court in the state to enjoin the issuance of state refinery bonds, or their payment after they are issued, on the ground that the act establishing a refinery is un constitutional. Such a proceeding could not have been instituted with out the new law just discovered. By devious ways the suit can be dragged along and the construction of the re finery retarded, even if the state wins the suit in the long run. In order to get around this new contingency, the producers may hit the first lick by filing suit themselves in the supreme court to test the va lidity of the act. This would be a friendly suit and an early decision could be reached. This is one of the matters that the oil producers' ex ecutive committee will consider. PROMISES NOT KEPT. Prairie Oil and Gas Company Did Not Do as Agreed. Chanute.Kan., March 18. In the hear ing of the case of the state against the Atchison, Topeka Sanfa Fe for for feiture of charter Friday, it developed that the Prairie Oil and Gas company, through a promise that when the total production of the district reached 500 barrels there would bo all the pipeline connections necessary and that the charge would be ten cents a barrel pipe age. A letter was introduced in evi dence which was written three years ago. It was addressed to the secretary of the Southwestern Oil and Gas com pany, the pioneer in this field. The let ter was from W. J. Young, president of the Prairie Oil and Gas company and said that a. refinery would be built in Chanute in the near future and that the pipe line charges would not exceed ten cents a barrel on oil produced In this district. It developed In the testimony that the charge for pipeage between this place and Neodesha was 20 cents a barrel un til last September, when the Prairie Oil and Gas company put in the gravity basis. This gives the producers in what was formerly known as the North Ne odesha field a chance to get in and sue the Prairie Oil and Gas company for ten cents a barrel on every barrel pro duced after the production reached 500 barrels a day, which was early in the summer of last year. The Chanute pro ducers have always contended that the differential of 20 cents a barrel was unjust. INDICT STANDARD OH. Grand Jury in Kentucky Returned 151 Indictments The Penalties. Morganfield, Ky., March 18. The Un ion county grand jury Friday returned 151 indictments against the Standard Oil company for selling oil 4n retail lots without a license. The penalty is a fine of from $50 to $1,000 for each conviction. Gates Not in Pipe Line Scheme. Beaumont, Texas, March 18. John W. Gates, -when 'asked regarding the state ment that he was interested with the Cudahys in a project to construct a pipe line from the Kansas oil fields to Port Arthur, Texas, said he had hot heard of such a move. NORTH TOPEKA- Leave items for this column with Klm- dkii rnntingr co.,u5 in. Kansas avenue. j Staver buggies at Pratt Bros. C. C. French was in town today from Silver Lake. C. C. Kaser made a short trip to Grantville today. Mrs. L. B. Craig is ill at her home, 118 East Laurent street. Mr. and Mrs. Van Horn, of Valley Falls, are the guests of North Topeka relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gordon of 1212 Seward avenue, have moved to 316 Ash street, Topeka. Bliss Native Herbs, the great blood purifier, for sale at 1226 North Madison street by Mrs. A. Hutchins, agent. John H. Sheets, of 1228 Quincy street. is making preparations to raise hia house there feet. Work will be com menced next week. Mrs. Charles Curtis and Mrs. C. C. Nicholson went to Kansas City this morning to hear Parsifal this afternoon. They will return tonight. At the Church of the Good Shepherd tomorrow there will be Sunday school at 10:15. morning prayer with sermon by Canon Burke, priest in charge, at 11 o clock. For Sale Furniture, carpets and cooking utensils of a nine room house. Also new golden oak office desk cheap. Leaving city, 1016 North Quincy street. N. F. Conkle. C. L. Frisbie and family have moved here from Manhattan and next week will go to housekeeping at 1121 Monroe treet. Mr. Frisbie expects to engage in business here. J. C. SDringstead returned last even ing from Ft. Crook, Neb., where he has been attending military school for the past several months ana win resume nis position in the postoflice. See Miss Anna Yonkers' novel win dow trimming in W. C. Steele's north window tonight, in an up-to-date shoe man. This Is one of the most attrac tive windows as ever seen in North To peka. Miss Jessie Myers went to Meriden yesterday and returned this morning accompanied by her little nephew, Reamer Taggart, who will visit his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Myers of 1205 Western avenue for a few days. Services tomorrow at the Congrega tional church will be Sunday school at 9:45, regular preaching services at 11 o'clock with special music by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Abell of the South side, Junior C. E. at 3 o'clock and Senior C. E. at 6:30. Special revival services at 7:30 p. m. Mr. David Harold was given a pleas ant surprise party last evening at his home by his niece, Miss Florence Har old, the occasion being the fifty-seventh anniversary of his birthday. Mr. Harold was the recinent of a handsome chair. At a late hour refreshments were served. The music for the song service at the Baptist church tomorrow evening will consist of five anthems, including one written and dedicated to the choir by W. M. Van Ness, a duet by Miss Celia Smith and C. C. Berry and solos by Miss Celia Smith, Miss Grace Boles, and C. C. Berry. As the pastoT,LRev. J. A. Stavely is at Junction City attending conference, there will be no preaching at the Kan sas Avenue M. E. church tomorrow but instead of the usual morning church service Miss Maud Saxe will give a mis- nary address at this nour. 5 xnere HEAT IS STRONG Regardless of Wet Weather in WTest and Southwest. Higher Frices in Liverpool and Bullish News From Northwest. MAY CORN IS HIGHER. Realizing by Holders Caused Weakness in Provisions. Pork, Lard and Ribs All Scored a Decline. Chicago, March 18. WHEAT Notwith standing wet weather throughout the west and southwest, the wheat market to day here was strong. Higher prices at Liverpool and bullish news from the northwest were the influences responsible for the firmness. May opened unchanged to c higher, at $1.141.15, and advanced f2c higher, at S25z92c and later sold WsHc higher, at 92J&2c. anad later sold up to 93c. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chi cago reported receipts of 276 cars, against 336 cars a year ago. The market closed firm, with May up c, at $1.15. July was up a shade, at 82c. CORN Corn was firm. May opened He higher, at 4949c sold up to 45Wa 4&c. Final quotations on May were off 8 c, at 49.5491,4c. OATS May oats opened a shade lower to a shade higher, at 31Sz33c, and sold up to 8i"?32c. PROVISIONS Realizing by local hold ers caused considerable weakness in pro visions. May pork opened 2'fiac higher, at $13.87&'12.90, declined to $12,77. Lard opened unchanged, at $7.157.17, and sold off to $7.10. Ribs declined to $6.9214 after opening a shade higher, at $6.97. WHEAT Cash No. 2 red, Jl.l61fl.l7: No. 3 red, $1.071.14: No. 2 hard, $1.13t3 1.15: No. 3 hard, J1.06-1.13; No. 1 northern, $145(51.17; No. 2 northern, J1.101.15; No. 3 spring, $1.061.13. CORN No. 2, 4848c; No. 3, 4748c OATS No. 2, 32c: No. 3. 31c. RYE Mai;ch, 78c; May, 7880c; Sept., 79c. FLAX Cash: N.-W $1.38: S.-W.. $1.26: May, J1.26; March, $1.26. TIMOTHY March, $2.856.00; Sept., $3.00. CLOVER March, $13.35. BARLEY Cash 4049c. Range of Price. Furnished by J E. Gall. Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth stieet Telephone 488. Correspondent Christy Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City. Mo. Chicago, March 18. Low Close Yes 1 14 1 15 1 14 92 92- 92- 8(5 86- 86- Open High WHEAT May 1 144 1 15 July Sept CORN May July Sept OATS May July Sept PORK Mav July LARD May July Sept RIBS May July Sept 92- 93-86- 87 49- 49 49- 49 49 49 Sl-32 32 48- 49- 4914 48-49 49 49- 49 49 49 31 31 31-32 31 31- 31 29- 23- 29 31 31 29 30 .12 87 .13 05 7 15 7 32 7 45 12 90 13 05 7 17 7 32 7 45 12 77 12 95 12 87 13 00 12 85 13 00 7 15-17 7 30 7 42 7 10-15 7 12 7 22 7 25 7 37 7 37 6 97 6 97 7 17 7 17 7 32 7 32 6 90 7 07 7 26 6 95 6 95-97 7 12 7 15 T 25 7 30 Sugar and Coffee In New fork. New York. March 18. SUGAR Raw su gar firm. Fair refining, 4c; centrifugal, 96 test, 5c: molasses sugar, 4c. Refined sugar steady. Crushed, $6.75; powdered, $6.15: granulated, $6.05. COFFEE Market steady. No. 7 Rio, 5c. will be no services of any kind in the evening as all the young people of the Epworth league will go to the First M. E. church to hear Dr. Edwin Randall, general secretary of the Epworth league. For Sale- Two desirable walnut bed room suits, one handsome side board, one secretary and bookcase, one set leather upholstered dining chairs, three china toilet sets, new golden oak office desk, carpets, rocking chairs, stands, china cabinet, new range, and cooking utensils, canned fruits and Jellies. Cheap. Leaving city. 1016 North Quin cy street. N. F. Conkle. Yesterday being the birthday anniver sary of Mrs. J. F. Buck, a number of the neighbors and friends spent the ev ening very pleasantly at the Buck home, 1125 Jackson street. The affair was in the nature of a surprise party and was a great success for not only was Mrs. Buck taken completely unawares but Dr. Buck as well. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Kistler, Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Conkle, Mayor and Mrs. W. S. Bergundthal, Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hathaway, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Etter, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Petro, Mr. and Mrs. F, H. Petro, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Jor dan, Mrs. Lillian Fagan, Mr. Polley, Miss Nellie Wetherholt, Miss Wilma Bergundthal, little Miss Norma Petro, Mr. W. J. Wetherholt and Leroy Petro. JESSE JAMES, LAWYER. Son of the Notorious Bandit Is Study ing Blackstone. Kansas City, Mo., March 18. Jesne James is reading law and taking the three-year course in a Kansas City school. This is his first term. When the course is finished he will practice law. The professors of the school say that Jesse is a good student. Much of his time is spent in reading In the law library in the county court house. Jesse James is the only son of the no torious bandit, Jesse James. MINISTER FOUND GUILTY. Sentenced to Four Tears in Prison for Wife Abandonment. Brunswick, N. J., March 18. J. F. Cordova, the unfrocked minister, who twice eloped with Julia Bowne of South River, and who was convicted of abandoning his wife and three chil dren and assaulting his wife, today was sentenced to serve four years in prison. As soon as sentence was pronounced Cordova's counsel filed an application for a writ of error .which will act as a stay until a decision has been given in the supreme court in either June or November. Former Governor liuce Dies.. Coldwater, Mich., March 18. Ex Governor Cyrus G. Luce died today at his home here, of goiter. He was 80 years of age. The ex-governor had held numerous positions 01 trust ana been generally prunmicm. u n"i"- affairs. A spring tonic that makes rich, red blood. Brings strength, health and hap piness to the whole family. Nothing equals uiii.r'i R.-wkv Mountain Tea as a I spring tonic 35 cents. Gatlin Drug Co. Kansas City Grain. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Curisty Giain and Stock Co.. Kansas City, Mo.J Kansas City, March 18. Open High Low Close Yes May 96 98 9H July 81 82 81 9714 81 96 81 45 45 cu-Kis May k 45- 45- 45 45 July 4514-46 46 45 45 Chicago Live Stock: Market. Chicago, March 18. CATTLE Receipts today, 2,000 head. Market steady. Good to prime steers, $5.10ft6.25: poor to medi um. $3.75J?4.S5; stockers and feeders, S2.5Cxgi 4.60; cows, $2.85'54.50: heifers, $3.0(tfri5.00; earners, $1.50(12.50; bulls, $2.25(&"i.00; calves, $3.00j6.50. HOGS Receipts today. 12.000 head; esti mated Monday, 40,000 head. Market strong to 5c higher. Mixed and butchers', $AS! good to choice heavy, D.itao.5o, rough heavy, $5.0tS5.10; light, $4.95io.20; bulk of sales, $5.15C(i5.25. SHEEP Receipts today, 2.000 head. Sheep and lambs steady. Good to choice wethers, $4.755.40; fair to choice mixed, $4.6CKf)6.50; western sheep, $5.0016.00; native lambs, $5.10&7.60; western lambs, $6.0O7.6O. Kansas City Live Stock. Kansas City, Mo., March IS. CATTLE. Receipts today, 300 head. Market unchang ed. Native steers, $3.005z4.7o; southern steers, $3.5034.90; southern cows, $2.25 4.00: native cows and heifers, J2.00 fi4.75; stockers and feeders, $3.0Cg:4.65; bulls, J2.50si4.10; calves, $3.00i&6.00: western fed steers, W.2S&5.40; western fed cows, $3.0014.50. HOGS Receipts today, 3.000 head. Mar ket 5c higher. Bulk of sales, $5.00(56.15; heavy, $5.15fi6.20; packers', $5.05(55.15; pigs and lights, $4.25!&5.10. SHEEP Market nominally steady. Mut tons, $4.85!fi5.90; lambs, $6.507.25: range wethers, $5.25j6.40; fed ewes, $4.SoU5.50. St. Louis Live Stock. St. Louis, Mo., March 18. CATTLE Re ceipts today, 100 head. Market steady. Beef steers, $3.0OS?6.0O; stockers and feed ers, $2.50(g4.50; cows and heifers, $2.754.00: Texas steers, $3.0O4i"5.0O; Texas steers, $3.00 (&5.00; Texas cows and heifers. $2.253.75. HOGS Receipts today, 1,500 head. Mar ket strong. Pigs and lights, $3.755.10; packers'. $5.10(u5.25; butchers and best heavy, J5.20Sj5.30. SHEEP Market steady. Natives, $3.00 5.75; lambs, $5.00 7.00. Chicago Produce Market. Chicasro. March 18. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery. 21!g26c; dairy, 18g23c. niijrtja jviarKei easy. At maris, cases in cluded, 14c CHEESE Market strong. Dairies, 131? 13e; Twins, 12&12c; Young Americas, 13'.c. LIVE POULTRY Market firm. Tur keys, 13c; chickens, 12c; springs, 12c. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, March 18. Close WHEAT Receipts today, 57 cars. Quotations were higher. Mav, 97c; July, 81c. Cash: No. 2 hard, $1.03&1.05; No. 3 hard, 99ci( $1.02; No. 4 hard, 90e51.01; No. 2 red, $1.03C1.06; No. 3 red, Jl.02gl.05; No. 4 red, 90c!&$1.02. CORN Market weak. May, 45c; July, 45c. Cash: No. 2 mixed, 46c; No. S mixed, 4546c; No. 2 white, 46g46c;No. 3 white, 46c. OATS Market steady. No. 2 white, 34 34c; No. 2 mixed, 33&33c. RYE Market steady, 7fic. HAY Choice timothy, $9.5010.00; choice prairie, J7.75(&8.00. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery. ,22 626c EGGS Market higher, 14c Market Gossip. Furnished by A. M. McDermott Commls sion Co., Stocks, Grains, Provisions and investment Securities. Room 12, Colum bian building. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat d higher; corn Vid lower. Grain receipts at Chicago. Wheat, 21 cars; graded, 0. Corn, 370 cars; graded, 32. Oats, 224 cars; graded, 30. Estimated grain receipts at Chicago Monday: Wheal, 45 cars; com, 455 cars; oats, 292 cars; hogs, 36,000 head. Weekly Market Letter. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 486. Correspondent Christie Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo.J Kansas City, Mo., March 17, 1905. WHEAT The wheat market continues to be a nervous and unsettled one. The market has been quite active and the ex treme fluctuations in the May future were 5c per bushel. The possibilities for profit have been about as good on one side as the other, of the market. In other words, the market has been an excellent scalp ing one. The May future has been strong er than either July or September. May wheat shows an advance of lc per bushel for the week as compared with an advance of only c in July and c in September. The English visible supply of wheat in creased 849,000 bushels last week as com pared with a decrease of 731,000 bushels the corresponding week last year. The visible wheat supply shows an in crease of 2,067,000 bushels this week as compared with a decrease of 575,000 bush els the corresponding week of last year. Wheat exports in the United States for the past eight months were only 4,196,022 bushels, a decrease of 36,517,000 bushels from the same time a year ago, which shows how far out of line our markets are with those of foreign countries. A north western miller recently sold 3,500 barrels of flour to eastern buyers at 70c per barrel under the price quoted by big Minneapolis millers. The aggregate supplies of wheat in sec ond hands in the United States and Can ada on March 1 were 1,692,000 bushels more than one year ago. The government report Issued under date of March 10 shows the amount of wheat remaining in farmers' hands on March 1 to have been 111 million bushels or 20.1 per cent of last year's crop. May wheat in Chicago closed today at $1.14 per bushel. May wheat in Chicago closed one year ago today at 94c per bushel. As the total available supplies of bread stuff on March 1 represents 175,752,000 bushels of wheat, which includes flour, and which is 12,600,000 bushels more than a year ago we still feel as though wheat was entirely too high and that there is more money to be made on the short than the long side of the market. Sell wheat. CORN The corn situation continues very strong, and at one time the July future sold at practically 2c per bushel advance over the closing price of a week ago, but on heavy realizing sales the mar ket temporarily lost part of this advance but tonight's close was within c of the high price for this year and shows an advance of lc per bushel for the week. We have been absolutely right on this corn situation and our prediction of a 50c price for Chicago July corn was realized this week. Those of our customers who took our advice and purchased July corn have realized from 3 to 6 cents per bushel profit. We flrmlv believe that Chicago Julv corn will sell at 55c per bushel, and advise the purchase of same. Chicago July earn closed today at 49c per bushel. The same option closed one vear ago today at 50c per bushel. If vou are not long on corn you certainly should be and we repeat our previous ad vice, buy corn and on any little decline In the market double up your line then hold on for an advance of 5 or 6 cents per bushel. 0TS As oats follow corn the market naturally sympathizes to a certain extent with the advance in corn, but on all hard spots the market was considered a sale and as a result the market lost its gain and closed where it did a week ago. The government report of the 10th estimates oats in farmers' hands on March 1 tri be 347 million bushels, which is 74 million bushels more than on March 1 a year ago. We still favor the short side of the oats market and believe that the July future should be sold around 31 to 32 cents per b PROVISIONS There has been consider ably more life to the provision market this week than for some time past. Both the public as well as the professionals have given the market considerable at tention. The export as well as the home demand has been fair but from this pn the demand should Increase materially Our advice on provisions has been to favor the long side of the market on the full line. Today's closing prices show an ad vance of 32c per barrel on pork 2&c per hundred on ribs and 20c per hundred on lard fo? the week. July pork olos.d today W. W. Cowen, Broker. Established 1879. 3u7- S Board of Trad bldg., Konsas City, Mo. Member K. C. Board Trade. Both phones 1975. Grain, Pro visions, Cotton, Stocks, representing Shear son, hummill Co., bankers and brokers, 71 Broadway, N. Y. 23V2W LaSalle st Chi cago; member Chicago Board of Trade, New York Stock and Cotton exchanges. Private wires. at 82c per barrel less than a year ago. July ribs are selling at lc a pound less than they sold for in February, 19(4. We still favor the long side of the provision market and our advice is to buy both ribs and pork on any little reaction from present prices. CHRISTIE GRAIN STOCK CO. New York Stocks. Wall St., New York. March 18. STOCKS The tone of the opening stock market today was decidedly irregular, but losses predominated. Metropolitan Securities rosa 1 points, Ontario and Western lii points, Metropolitan Street Railway about a point and Toledo, St. Louis arid Western preferred and Smelting a large fraction. Losses ran to a large fraction in St. Paul and Colorado Fuel. Decided heaviness in St. Paul. New York Central and Sugar inspired sales of other favorite stocks. Losses of 1 to 1 points were scored by St. Paul, New York Central, Atlantic Coast Line, St. Louis Southwestern preferred, Denver and Rio Grande prefrrrd. New York. Chicago and St. Louis, Clveland, C, C. and St. Louis, Chicago and Western preferred B, Sugar, Consolidated Gas and Colorado Fuel and 2 points in Lake Erie and Western pre ferred. The Metropolitan stocks lost their gains. Recoveries from the low point were substantial in some stocks before 11 o'clock. New York Central rallied 1 point and Ontario and Western rose 1 points to 62. Many small gains were established else where, but Lake Erie and Western, Chi cago and Alton, Sloss-Shffteld Steel and Pipe preferred fell 1 to 1 points. Central of New Jersey 1 points and United States Reduction preferrd 2 points. When the demand from shorts became satisfied tha advance paused and prices lipped back a rfaction. The closing was irregular. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Offica 110 West Sixth street. Telephone 48J. Correspondent Christy Grain and Stock Co., Kansas City, Mo. New York. March IS. Stocks Sugar People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R. T T. C. I U. S. Steel U. S. Steel, pfd Atchison, com C. G. W Op'n High Low Cl'se Yes 142 143 142 142 143 111 112 131 111 111 79 79 79 79 79 66 67 66 67 66 89i. 3ft 95 8 24 89 89 SK 89 3a 95 89 35 34 85

8 95 89 8S 24 24 23 St. Paul R I., com Wabash, com Wabash, pfd 179 179 179 179 180 34 34 34 31 34 22 22 21 22 22 46 46 45 45 46 107 1'7 107 l'T 107 169 169 lf.9 169 169 161 161 160 161 16! .mo. i-acinc Manhattan N. Y. Central Texas Pacific So. Pacific 3 SS 3S 3 8s 6h 6 67 67 ft 94 96 Sl 95 94 46 46 46 46 46 83 83 83 83 132 132 131 131 132 67 58 57 57 57 108 108 lr7 107 108 141 142 141V4 441 li-' 66 66 65 65 66 143 143 142 142 143 46 46 46 46 46 12 53 63 52 63 63 Reading Erie Erie. 1st Union Pacific C. O B. O L. N Katy Pennsylvania C A., com U. S. Leather C. F. I New York Money. New York, March 18. MONEY Money on call nominal; no loans; time money easy; 60 and 90 days, 3 per cent; 6 months, 3 per cent. CLOSE: Prime mercantile Daper. 313 4 per cent, sterling exchange easy, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.86 a4.8635 for demand and at J4.84VifB.&4a5 for 60 day bills; posted rates, $4.85B4.85 and $4.8724.87; commercial bills. $4.83"4.84. SILVER Bar silver, 57c; Mexican dol lars, -Jic BQNES Government bonds steady. New York Butter. New York. March 18 BUTTER Mar ket unchanged. Cotton Market. Galveston, Tex., March 18. COTTON Market steady at 7o per pound. New York, March 18. COTTON Spot cotton closed quiet. Quotations per IcO pounds: Middling gulf, $8.20; middling gulf, $8.45. Wool Market. St. Louis, Mo., March 18. WOOL Mar ket steady. Territory and western medi ums, 2223c; fine medium, 1718c; fine, 15 fii7c Topeka Market. Topeka, March 18. Furnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co.J HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS' J4. 704.85 HEAVY 4.8Sg4.ST LIGHT 4.6a4.80 CORN FED CATTLE. Furnished by Charles Wolff Packing Co. COWS $2.5fc3.75 STEERS 3.54.50 HEIFERS 3.i'!!4.00 BULLS 2.0"'rr.'i.0O LIGHT CALVES 8 50 ti 4. 23 HEAVY CALVES 2.5O43.00 GRA1IN. Furnished by J. B. Blllard, Central Mills, 534 North Kansas Ave. NO. 2 WHEAT DSo NO. 3 WHEAT 96o NO. 4 WHEAT Wo NO GRADE WHEAT KKS90a CORN 4o NO. 2 OATS eo NO. 3 OAT3 3uo FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Furnished by S. ELu 2i0 Kansas Ave. ORANGES Navels, $2.002.16. LEMONS California, $2.85 per box. BANANAS $2.0u(i! 2. 85 per bunch. APPLES Fancy. $4.00'a4.24 per bbL HONEY $2.40 per 24-rack case. FIGS 70c per box. GRAPE FRUIT $4.00 per box. NEW DATES 44e per lb. CALIFORNIA TANGERINE3-$2.24 per box. VEGETABLES. PARSNIPS 50c per bu. POTATOES Colorado, 45T4ea per bu. SWEET POTATOES 5&9uc per bu. CABBAGE $1.50 per cwt. TURNIPS :5c per bu. CARROTS-5)C per bu. ONIONS-$1.3o per bu CRANBERP.IES-'-'5 per bbl. CELERY Jumbo, 90a per bunch; Blue BSEED 'pOTATOES-'Early Ohio, 6OS8E0 PCSEED SWEET POTATOES Per bbl., OVION SETS-$2.75S3.26 per bu. 1 FTTUCE Per banket, 90c. 1,1111 OYSTERS. vjttw YORK OOUNT3-M50 per can. NEW YORK EXTRA SELECTS 35c per can- BULK OYSTEP.S. STANDARDS $1.40 per gallon. EXTRA SELECTS $1.66 per gallon. FULL CREAM CHEESE. KANSAS Y. A 14c per lb. NEW YORK STATE tWbite), ISO per lbBRICK-15c per lb. LIM BURGER 15c per lb. BLOCK SWISS 15c per lb BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY. (Jobbers' Prices.) rFurnished by Cope Co., 134 Kansas Avenue. POULTRY Hens, 8c lb.; springs, large, 8c lb.; broilers, 12e lb.; turkeys, goblers, 12c lb.: hens, loc lb. FOGS Fresh, 13c. COUNTRY BUTTER 15320c per lb. Furnished by City Hay Market, 417 Quin cy street. PRAIRIE Loose, per ton $7,003. g.ns PRAIRIE Baled .50 8 XJ A LF A LF A Loose I'SU TIMOTHY I CANE 6 5"? 8 00 STRAW Per ton 4.504 5.50 Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, March W. rPrices paid In Topeka this week, based on Boston quotations: OREEN SALT CURED SHo NO. 1 TALLOW

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11 JUBILEE QUICKSTE MRS. A. A. ROCKWELL. THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 19U5. k J J I- i Jj-!-fe!J 'it 1 .i --.i:...- Jos' t 1 o.filfe 'C"" '"n ';.-!yaaM'li"r'M"' 1 1 IK'- f -Hfci- I, 1 J tW-i ffL JuU- r-i W 1 T I 1 1 I 1 I -J. J. lr -J- n r j 1 r 1 i i 5 j I a 1 "9 b :S M f U v---"-' '-s, jf far -3.-1 -s -2:',- Sfcrzand,. f JfmrtUL 5; 1 l f ConHt iana. bw tha American Melody Company, !7ew York." i M v. 'Vi kOF interes Girls, nowadays, it seems, no longer come out. They O, the craftiness of these mammas! slip out rather, in as quiet and unostentatious a manner as possible. Of course the change is ac counted for on the grounds of good taste, but everybody knows there are other reasons. It is really a most wise arrangement. If a girl is a success, all well and good. The money for the coming out rarty has been saved, any way, and goodness knows she'll need it for frocks and bushels of other things if she's a "go." If she isn't, the fact is less patent to all the world and less em barrassing to her and her mother than if public attention were called to her failure by a large and elaborate debutante entertainment. Sometimes, you know and O, the craftiness of these mammas! a girl who doesn't succeed one season would another, if it were not for the handicap of her first ignominious failure. Some times the men change, sometimes the USED ROUND THE WORLD Waiter Iksr Sa:s iLflOcoiatc anc focoa V '$pr3 The HA I Leader for 124 Years LOOK FOR THIS TmADB-MARK iran lD World's Fair d r nzei c. 1 lit". Louis Walter Baker Co. Ltd. Established .7So DORCHESTER, MASS. a r HIGHEST AWARDS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA fashions in girls change and sometimes the girl herseif changes. She has an other year or so at another school or she goes abroad with a "woman who knows" or she makes a series of visits to other towns where she is "tried on the dog," remodelled and- generally im proved. She learns. Then, if she "slip redout." without pomp and ceremony theWirst time, she may safely try itj ntr5iir :i n r it won't attract much rnm ment. Her mother will explain, if she "goes" this time, "O, yes, I took her around a little with me two years ago. It was too bad to do it. I know, for she was nothing but a child, but you see we had her out of school for a term be cause her health seemed rather to de mand it, and I thought it would amuse her and she was too young to be much harmed by the little she saw of society." It may hapen in some instances that the success of the second coming out will be assisted by an'entertainment of some kind. This of course, only if the mother is sure of the results of her daughter's second course of training. It lends color to the amiable explanation that the first time wasn't really a debut. But generally speaking the less said about the affair the better, in any case. At the most a quiet and simple tea is entertainment enough. And it should never be heralded as a formal bow to society. People have such a disagree able habit of keeping old papers and remembering dates. For one of the chief advantages of the simple and modest debut is in the matter of uncertainty as to the number of years an old belle rr.ay have been out. supposing she doesn't marry for eight or ten years. If it was a formal introduction to society, people may not remember the dance nor the cotillion favors nor tne supper nor how many flowers she received but you may depend upon it they will know how many years ago it was and as no girl is ever introduced before she is eighteen it gives them a dangerous standard for computation. On the other hand if she "slipped" out, her conven ient explanation, that she "begin going so early" and that "it was so foolish of mamma to take me places before I was out of school" will sound plausible enough. "I think it is criminal to pay $'0 for a hat," said the blond, and she looked considerably rufiied both in mind and attire. "O, I don't know, if you come by it honestly," said her companion, "To. be sure whole families have been clothed on less, and I have known" "Don't digress." from the first speak er. "The hat's the thing. I've looked at hats and talked hats until I don't know beans from a pompom. What I want to know is. what business any of us have in spending $20 for a hat. "My fingers are crossed, but one may look; that costs nothing. "Still the lace on it was perfectly beautiful, though, wasn't it? Never could be copied. "One cannot afford to look cheap in a hat. "That's what I say: but, no, it's out of the question. The idea of you think ing I would do such a thing. "And, then, one's hat is the keynote of one's toilet. "O, yes; I guess it is. But ?20. Think what it would buy. I would not be such a fool. "If your ht is all right, nothing else matters much. "Perhaps I could get it for $19. "And then men notice a becoming hat more than "Silly, to think I'd be changed by such a thing. Women dress for women, not for men. But goodby. I must hur- ry- "Where?" The would-be-economical one heaved a sigh. "I'm going back to to have them rut away that $20 hat for me." And I must hurry or it may be gone now." Mary Manners, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A new fan is made of flowers poppies or violets "beinz the most popular. Large bunches of violets are being worn for corsage adornment. They are not conspicuously worn on the street, but kent from notice under carriage wraps. They give a charm ing finish to a lace waist or to a black dress when one's wrap is removed. It is an extravagance that is considered quite the smart thing to indulge in. The shops this year are showing gowns and goods that are enough to tempt any woman's mind at least a lit tle bit from her religious duties. Plaids are quite the smartest design for spring dresses. Shepherd plaids, broken plaids, large plaids, small plaids, plaids with Pompadour figures, plaids with, polka-dots and plaids in every color and plaids in many colors. Bright colors and light colors are very popular, and never before have there been seen such bright blues, greens, browns and reds as are going to be worn this spring. Bright colors are dangerous things. generally speaking that is, unless a woman has an unusually large ward robe. I heard some women discussing the bright shades, and this is the ad vice the tall, well-dressed woman gave her friend: "I would not buy that bright blue," she said. I looked at her sown; it was a soft gray and she wore a violet hat. "There are many times when wear ing too bright a gown is in exceeding ly bad taste, besides which, constantly wearing the same town of a con spicuous color is not satisfactory. "The spring fashion demands that the skirt and waist shall be of the same material for any smart gown, even though there may be a coat or wrap worn with it." Just now there are some exquisite shades in gray and tan, made up in light cloth, in soft silk, and in veiling or voile, as it is now called. This is really a new material this year, so absolutely different in its weave from the old fashioned veiling. Hats to match costumes are still the correct thing. There may also.be a contrast of color, which, is certainly effective in many cases, when all one color seems monotonous. With black or white gowns colored hats are very smart, and, in spite of their long lite, Tb Joy of Eating is common to all humanity until the organs go wrong then joy is turned to sorrow and food does the body little or no good. If you would return to the ability to enjoy food use eectiam's Sold Everywhere. In boxes 10c and 25c red and purple hats are thought just as smart as ever. They are made, of all sorts of material. In fact, in mil linery at the present moment there is no limit as to the possibilities In ma terial and color. Why doesn't some woman Carnegie come along and endow a club for busi ness women? Not a charitable sort of charity of a higher sort), but the sort ot Cluo men nave, wnere eveiy une ya. his yearly dues and is free to come and go as he pleases; where all the news papers and magazines and books are to be seen, and a lot of other luxuries are to be enjoyed, which would be only possible upon some such co-operative sort of plan. There have been endless tirades writ ten upon the subject of women5 clubs, ominous shakings of the head over its prcbable encroachment upon the home life, which are well founded In the main. But these rules cannot possibly apply to "bachelor women," whose homes are perhaps broken up, or who live in other than their home cities live in a continued round of office and boarding house. Every now and then a plan for such a club is proposed, but it usually falls through from lack of support, or from this support taking the form of charity. Your business woman has learned in dependence from her struggle to sup port herself; and this hard-won inde pendence is very dear to her. She won t join the kind of a club which would in any way-s affect it. There's a crying need for a woman s club, with a good cafe, where members can lunch and dine and do their enter taining. For vour lonely business wo man has no place to properly entertain especially when her guest is another business woman, with whom she wanes to comfortably talk over a difficult point or discuss a dish of delicious gos sip, and yet, who is only a business ac quaintancenot a friend. So manv of the clubs proposed have had for their object so cosmopolitan a plan that a woman would naturally re fuse to consider joining them. A club started on the principal that all of its memDers are ineno they are members may be altruistic, but it certainly isn't practical: and it cer tainly isn't true in the men s clubs, af ter which it ought to be modeled. The costs of a club, with building and cafe are large; yet, if the idea were once advanced and ably demonstrated that it could be done, the membership would be filled up with a xush. As to the effect upon home life, there should be none. Married -mf" "d young girls find, as a rule that home keeping hearts are happiest. iney should have no part In it. "She is charming." observed the man, mentally, as he closed the door of her home behind him. "Yes, she's an unusually interesting woman," he repeated, as he turned the corner. And why? Simply because she had sat for two solid fiours and listened Be cause, by a tactful question or two, she had drawn him on to talk of what he liked, while she listened interestedly Because when he told her of marvel ous achievements, she had seemed awed, when he spoke of a sorrow, her eyes had been all sympathy; when he related an amusing incident, she had laughed mer rily. Always, she had listened, intel ligently, understandingly. And in his eyes she was charming, an unusually interesting woman. Since the days of the humorist woman has been laughed at and -joked with be cause of her talking propensities She has been likened unto a -magpie .and she has been called a talking machine. She has been accused of never letting a man get a word in. In -the proverbial SaSnfr, dgewise. Now, the clever wo- I11CX11 ICia 111111 1UU1IU VJ L w J and occasionally she asks a question a tactful, well-timed question, and lis tens. Listening is not merely making use of the two ears with which nature en dowed human beings. The woman who has truly learned the art listens with her eyes, her mouth, her hands, her whole attitude is that of listening, of being interested in every word of the conversation. Even a little child is attracted to the woman who listens to what it has to say. The woman who asks a small girl what she is doing in school, what sort ot game she likes to play, where Bhe goes, and what she does, and listens to her childish way of telling it, always seeming to understand, is the woman whom the child loves. She is sympa thetic, and, intuitively, the little one knows it. A woman likes to talk to one of her own sex who listens to what she has to say and who asks about the children, about her new servant, about the seam stress. She leaves her presence with the feeling that the woman has a fascina tion and charm she does not often en counter. A good listener never lets her eyes wander about the room when some one is talking to her; she never seems con scious of anything but that she is being entertained. -The topic of conversation is the very thing she has been thirsting for a knowledge of. She never interrupts THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL. Few People Know How Useful It Is In Preserving Health and Beauty. Nearly everybody knows that char coal is the safest and most efficient dis infectant and purilicr in nature, but few realize its vaiue when taken into the human system for the same cleans ing purpose. Charcoal is a remedy that the more vou take of it the better; it is not a dru" at all, but simply absorbs the cases and impurities always present in the stomach and intestines and carries them out of tne system. Charcoal sweetens the breath after .ViT- nr nfter eatine smoKiiijs, 1 onions and other odorous vegetables. Charcoal enetiuanj "cat;. im proves the complexion, it whitens the -..y. f,iT-t?nr nets as a natural leewi iiim and eminently safe cathartic. It absorbs tne lnjunuus gara wuil-h i tvi stomach and bowels: it C I 1 in disinfects the mouth and throat from the poison or caiarin. All druggists sell charcoal in one ,.,T--or- Itiit nrnha hlv th best 1 O I 1 1 1 UI ei 1 1 v charcoal and the most for the money is in Stuart s tnajtuiu lAimiera, mcy are composed of the finest powdered Ah.rrnal nnrl other harmless vv mow i. 1 1 antiseptics in tablet form or rather in the fOrm OI laigc, ijicooouv io""S lozenges, the charcoal being mixed with hThe" daily use of these lozenges will soon tell in a much improved condition of the general health, better complex ion sweeter breath and purer blood, and the beauty of it is, that no possible barm can result from their continued use, but on the contrary, great bene- fiA Buffalo physician In speaking of the benefits of charcoal, says: "I ad vice Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges to all natlents suffering from gas in stomach and bowels, and to clear the complex ion and purify the breath, mouth and throat- I also believe the liver is great ly benefited by the daily use of them; thev cost but twenty-five cents a box at drug stores, and although in some Sns l a patent preparation, yet I be lieve I get more and better charcoal ilf Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges than in ,ny of the ordinary charcoal tablets." sigh as if relieved when It comes to an end; rather, she seems sorry. A man likes a woman with a limited perspicacity; he likes to feel that he is telling her something she does not al ready know. Therefore, the clever wo man of today essays the role of pupil many times when, were she less tactful, she would assert herself and give in formation rather than receive it. Men, women and children are prone to flattery the subtle flattery doled out by a tactful woman and the art of listening is but flattery disguised. Every human being likes to feel that some one is interested in what he has to say, and when he finds a person who will listen, and seemingly enjoy listening, he seeks her out again. A brilliant conversationalist is an addition to a dinner party, but what would the hostess do if every guest was possessed of that art? They would cut each other's throats, metaphorically, and her dinner would be- a failure. So the tactful hostess chooses good listen ers for her guests, as well as brilliant talkers; each is necessary to her suc cess. t To listen alone Is an Insufficient art. It must be practised in conjunction with a knowledge of tactful questions which will start the conversational ball roll ing along the right channel. That this will be a sunshine year 13 a truth of which we may make certain, nor will the popularity of the parasol depend as much as it has done in former years on the vagaries of the weather. The rea son is not far to seek. Our hats are grow ing tinier snd tinier; their minute size will surprise those who have not already seen them when they mak their appearance. The pill box cap, for example, worn well at one side of the head, is almost lost in the midst oZ wavin tresses of hair.ann as for the new little bercere, or TVatteau hat, it is the most frivolous piece of mil linery possible: a mere plate of straw raised to almost a perpendicular position thrf e-o.uarters of the way round, that Is to sav. at the sides end back, upon banks of blossom and in front almost hidden by tha cciff Jre. i,i-i, t 2 .i- n in. Tint wnirn is Alien airuiri uic limi"' 1 certain to continue its clready stupendous success, is being so much folded over both back and front that it almost ac complishes vanishing point though that It looks piquant upon a well-dressed coif ture there is no manner of doubt. AH these signs of the times herald m a regi ment of the loveliest parasols, from Uie tiny shade of the Marie Antoinette period, on a long and slender hinged sticlj, pecu liarly appropriate to the bergere hat, to the sun umbrellas designed for dual use in both fair weather and foul. t Time was when parasols were bought with only a very slight amount of thought as to the reciprocity that was to be es tablished between them and the toilettes they were to accompany. Now such care lessness cannot be endured, so tne drJ -makers are themselves suP?mg V.r shades to suit the gowns they make, thereby saving their customers trouble and ensuring the last note of completion rtcessary for the appearance. In Paris, at this moment, and to a mod erate extent in London, colored umbrellas are being used which are really sunshades but that roost amiably withstand the on slaughts of a shower. They certainly makl spots of brightness in a faan-swept street and it is to be hoped will flourish more and more conspicuously as time goes on It is wonderful how well they emerge from a downpour, for when they are dry they are just as fresh and pretty as they were before they were drenched. Cuban Sanitation. "I haven't got a word to say agains our friends, the Cubans," said one of the American soldiers who served on the is land from first to last, and who was in the sanitary squad at Santiago for a year, "but I must say they bad some funny ideas about smells. "One day, soon after we had taken hold at Santiago, I counted two dead dogs, one dead cat, two or three bushels of bones five or six dead fish and four heaps ol rotting fruit in front of one of the best houses. I had seen the roan and his wilo leillillilimlllllililllilllilllli'',"lli"ili(HilHUl!l.iiU(liii iuJ In the long run, that it pays in more ways than one to let us do youft transfer work. Phone 320 TopeRa Transfer and Storage 4Q6 East Sixth Street r I. f 3t- I Don't tie the top of yoor V",6 tnec lelly and preserve Jara la rtlrl fashioned w&r. H-taal tbem by the now, quick, Absolutely stiroway-br X thin coating of jpnre k 1 do taote or odor. In 3 sir tleht and aWd ;aelly applied. dozen otnec it tha housA. rootlona wltn a. bold everywhere Madefy CO. :.-.Ti9 A proof, i B. f;sj!-V'j'1 I'Bofullni FV'.A, 7 FIi T dl bold everywhere. Mk v ITa 8TNPAR0 OIL CO VI- i- f V- ,1 lf.'.i ;imrn. ui Umnand is i: I unlimited. hv- Hirhnr Op- Jt j, .'a.-fcil tome try cnondftBce or personal attendance. FRANCES BAKER, M. D-, Pres.. 624 Kans. A., Teka. Kn. A Profession vou should flenrn. This and daughter wado through the filth, and not mind it in the least, but wlsen tho carts had loaded the stuff p and I waa sprinkling chloride of lime about the threw returned. "No sooner had they pot close enouprr to smell the chlort'le than up went ttx. lr handkerchiefs to their noses in disgust, and the man turned to me and said: 'Senor, what are you Americans trying to do! Do you want to di ivt' us from our homes and city with your awful smtiisi' State Journal, 10c a Week

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12 THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1905. T0PEK1 STATE JOiRIlL BY FRANK P. MAC LENSA. 'Entered July L 1S75, as second class matter at the poetoffide at Topeka. Kan uuder the act of congress.) VOLUME XXXII No. 69 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cents .1 week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price In any Kan sas tow&s where the paper has a carrier system, Dy mall, one year Ey mall, thres months V eekly edition, one year Saturday edition ,f dally, one year.... TELEPHONES. Business OfTlee J- i'Ci Business Office 451,: importers' Kaon Pell "ll Reporters' Room PERMANENT HOME. Toneka Biate Journal bulldin. 8w and WS Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. HEW YORK OFFICKi XU Vanderbllt Bldg. i i Paul Block, Mgr. i CHICAGO OFFICES 15 Vnitv Bide. Vmul Block. Mgr. rULL LEASSS "WISE F.2PCF.? CJ" THE AS0CIAgS3 f&SSS. The tcate Journal Is a member of the Associated Pres tnd receives t-.s full day teleirraph report of that geett news or eanlzatlon for exclusive afternoon publi cation tn Toneka. The news la received In the State Jour nal Dulldlng- sver wires for this sole purpose. Buffalo Bill seems to be having an extremely hard time getting his knot untied. Real spring seems to have arrived out of doors as well as In the depart ment store windows. Now it is suggested that some Sunday be set apart to take up collections in the churches for the poor meat trust. This is the time of year that the gov ernment c!erk3 in Washington are busy Bending out garden seeds that won't grow. Among other things Mr. Oyama cap tured a big lot of maps, but he has so changed the map of eastern Asia that they are no longer of service. This is the time of year the Mr. Vox Fopuli and his friend Veritas take up considerable space In the country pa pers telling how things ought to be. The name of State Senator Green of New York is next on that programme that Joe Bristow fixed up for the courts while he was fourth assistant postmaster general. There is no noticeable rush of per sons who want to work in the state oil refinery, gtate jobs with a ball and chain attached are not the kind most statesmen are looking for. An alleged joker called up a busi ness man by telephone. "Hello," he suid, "do you want to hear something grate?" "Yes. what is it?" said the buy man. "Rub two bricks togeth er," came the answer. Pir.ce the nice old ladies in the t'nited States senate are so solicitous over our "infant industries," why shouldn't they be made a part of the Congress of Mothers to look after the Infants? Mr. Cleveland now says that he didn't criticise Mr. Cortelyou, but on the con trary he thinks Mr. Cortelyou is all wool and a yard wide. Perhaps Mr. Cleveland Is getting ready to ask for the Princeton postoffice. "You will note that he reople who make the most fuss about the low wages of the poor workingman never work themselves," remarks an ex change. Of course not. People who really work do not have time to make a fuss. It is noticed that Warner stock in the Missouri senatorial fight has declined eince Kansas took a hand in it and declared for Warner. Missouri has had experience before with a senator pick ed out by a Kansas legislature and is shy about trying it again. The Ottawa Herald snys: Sin.ee coming to the state Miss Tarbell has decided that Kansas can successfully operate an oil refinery. Thus the great truth that "seein's bellevin' is vindicated at the same time that a woman's right to change her mind Is asserted. Father Beck, of the Holton Recorder, in discussing Rooseveit's successor, says he is in favor of any man who is not afraid of the United States senate and who knows how to make the senate afraid of him. Such a man would prob ably have to come from outside of that august body. It is claimed that the railroads were not opposed to the anti-pass bill In the legislature, which is probably true. What the railroads were, opposed to was that the same law would have re duced all passenger fares from three cents to two cents a mile. Still, In the aggregate they would have received about as much money, for the poli ticians would have had to walk or pay fare. A Kansas City man who seems to know what he is talking about, figures that the big packing houses make at least $7.41 a head on all cattle they kill, instead of 99 cents as shown by Commissioner Garfield's investigation. The Kansas City man says the pack ing houses get an average of $7.32 for the hides, $5.56 for the fats, and $2.26 for the offal. The fats and offal are lost to the small butcher, while they yield nearly eight dollars a head to the big packer. This in Itself is a big Item. 'One of the good things that came out of the late legislature and about the only temperance measure, by the way was the anti-jug law, framed by Cyrus Leland. While Leland by no means poses as a prohibitionist, his law will do much toward stopping liquor drinking in the country com munities where it is shipped In by ex press and delivered to anybody who wants it and is willing to pay the C. O. D. charges. That Is the practice which Mr. Iceland's measure la de signed to stop. IMMIGKATIOX IX KANSAS. Why does not Kansas Increase more rapidly In population by immigra tion? With the marvellous resources of the Sunflower State and the immense crops that have been produced by Kansas farms during recent years, the population of the state should have increased 50,000 or 100.000 every year since 1900. Instead of that many counties have actually gone back wards, not holding- even the natural increase which comes from births, to say nothing of that which should come from immigration. During the year 1903, for instance, the only portions of Kansas which really increased in population were the oil and gas belt and the wheat belt, including the western counties. Most of the other counties actually lost in population. An analysis of the population figures as returned by the township assessors shows this, and even the western wheat belt counties have not grown as they should have done. In the northeastern part of the state the only counties which show an Increase are Jackson and Jefferson The former gained nearly 2.000, which is a good increase. The gain in Jefferson was only 350, which is not more than it should have been from the natural increase in births, leaving out the gain from immigration. Every other county In the First congres sional district showed a loss In popu lation, ranging from 900 each in Doni phan and Leavenworth down to 25 loss in Shawnee. This same condition extends into the Fifth district. Not a county in the northern tier the big Kansas corn counties gained in pop ulation east of Republic. Dickinson, Geary, Marshall, Ottawa, and Wash ington all showed actual losses, and the others which made slight gains were not as large as they should have been. Saline made the best showing, 300. In the Second district the gain was confined chiefly to Allen county, where natural gas helped out, and Wyandotte county, where Kansas City, Kan., made a metropolitan growth. The gain in Wyandotte county was 8.000 and in Allen county it was 4,000. Three other counties showed small gains, and four showed actual losses. In the Fourth district five counties showed actual losses and the other five made small gains, but the ten counties showed a net loss. The Third district, of course, made a healthy growth, owing principally to the gas development and the manufacturing industries which it brought into the state. Montgomery county alone gained over 12,000. The new Kighth district lost In popu lation, notwithstanding the city of Wichita made a considerable growth. The loss in the country was sufficient to offset the city growth. The northwestern part of the state has been fairly well advertised in the past two years, and every county in the Sixth district shows a fairly good growth except Mitchell. In the Seventh district also most of the counties made gains. This analysis shows that the farming communities of eastern Kansas actual ly lost a large number of people, where the natural advantages should have caused a considerable increase. The only considerable gains in eastern Kansas were made in the cities and in manu facturing communities. Even some of the cities did not grow as they should have done. In the west the farms at tracted a new population, and it was doubtless due the advertising given the Kansas wheat belt. The lesson of it is that Kansas as a whole Is not advertised as it should be among the people that will be attract ed by the agricultural resources of Kan sas. Now and then some community puts forth an extra effort and it is am ply rewarded by an influx of newcom ers. The growth in western Kansas is due to a considerable extent to people from eastern Kansas going out there to secure cheap lands. This is all right, but eastern Kansas should bring in not only enough to make good the loss but many others beside. And western Kan sas does not grow as its resources and crops warrant. Oklahoma is growing at the rate of 50,000 to 75,000 people a year. It is done largely by the railroads setting before the people of other states the advan tages of that section. California has a state promotion committee which spends a large amount of money In advertising that state in the east. Be sides that every board of county super visors is given the power to spend pub lic funds in advertising, and every com mercial club and board of trade in the state spends large amounts in advertis ing their particular sections. In Col orado there Is an organization of 600 business men designed specially to ad vertise Colorado in the east. What Kansas needs is more adver tising of the right sort not the kind that she sometimes gets, but facts about her agricultural and other re sources. During the past few weeks the newspapers of the nation have ad vertised Kansas because of her fight on the oil trust, but that is not the kind that will attract home-seekers. A few commercial clubs in the larger cities try to land business enterprises for their particular towns, but too fre quently they work against one another. The railroads are doing almost nothing to induce immigration into Kansas, while they are putting forth great ef forts in behalf of the southwest and the Canadian northwest. What Kansas really needs is more of an organized ef fort to set her resources and advan tages before the people of the east in the proper light. AS TO LIQUOR ADVERTISING. One of the things that strikes a stranger in Kansas as Incongruous is to se elnlquor advertisements staring one In the face from billboards in a prohibition state. If it is not allow able to sell liquor in Kansas, asks the stranger, why are these advertise ments permitted? Why Is publicity permitted to increase a business which the laws of the state are intended to suppress Another proposition: Few reputable newspapers In Kansas will admit to their columns whisky advertisements. Is It any more reputable to allow them cn billboards. Possibly the rea son why whisky manufacturers appeal to billboards Is because they cannot get into the columns of newspapers, but should public sentiment counten ance such a thing on billboards any more than they would in the news papers which come into their homes? It certainly does not speak well for a state or community which has out lawed liquor to have flaring announce ments of Pink Top Booze and Wer ner's Worst glaring at one from every billboard. Isn't there room for a lit tle practical work on the part of tem perance people along this line? MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP. One of the most common arguments against municipal ownership of public utilities, such as water or lighting plants. Is that the management is less efficient than that of the private cor poration, and for that reason service of equal merit will cost more if ren dered by the municipality than it will when rendered by the private corpora tion. United States Consul Daniels of Sheffield, England, gives an instance in a recent report in which the facts are the other way. Municipal ownership proved more efficient and less costly than private ownership. Unfortunate ly, he does not give specifically the water rates charged in Sheffield, but remarks that they are the lowest charged in the United Kingdom. Here is his statement: "The year IS 87 was the last of the water company, and a comparison be tween private and municipal owner ship Is presented. In 1887 the gross revenue of the water concern was f 83, 310 ($405,428); in 1904 it was 169,046 ($822,662), an increase of 103 per cent. The working expenses in 1887 were 14,224 ($69,221); in 1904 they were 27,408 ($133,381), an increase of 92 per cent. The gross profit In 1887 was 69,036 ($335, 863); In 1904 It was 114,548 ($557, 447). The net profit after deducting charges for interest and new works in 1887 was only 5,971 ($29,058); In 1904 it was 74,228 ($361,231), an in crease of more than 1200 per cent. The old shareholders of the company have been paid in progressive divi dends 119,401 ($581,065) more than they were receiving in 1887. The city received as its share of the improve ments 352.509 ($1,715,485), consist ing of reduced water charges, fl06, 619 ($518,861); amount paid toward the purchase of the freehold, 122,065 ($594,029); and a surplus of 120,825 ($587,995) on hand for emergencies. Early in the year the municipality be gan giving water free to the health committee for bath and other pur poses, by which that department is now saving 2,700 ($13,140) a year." Mr. Daniel's comparison shows that public management is not necessarily more expensive nor more costly than private management. It all depends upon the sort of municipal govern ment involved. In fact, the public management has some advantages on the score of economy, such as lower interest rates. Experiments now go ing on in municipal ownership in Eng land and elsewhere will prove of great interest to dwellers in American municipalities In which public service problems are more or less acute. Foreigners have a telephone service greatly superior in efficiency and of vastly lower cost than we have in America, especially where the foreign er has applied the principle of munici pal or state ownership. They are de veloping superior services in other lines. America may finally find, says the Baltimore News, that good municipal government is necessary as a stepping stone to good and cheap water, good and cheap lighting, good and cheap telephones, and several of the other necessities of modern life. When that conclusion is reached, we shall have better municipal government. Now the rainmaker has broken out in California. A, man by the name of Hatfield made ia contract, with parties in the vicinity of Los Angeles to fur nish that region with a minimum of 18 inches of rain for the rainy season be ginning In November and ending In May. And, strange to say, he seems to be making good. For a number of years southern California has been get ting only eight and ten inches of rain a year, which is not as much as Ca.li fornians Iike;therefore the rainmaking contract. Already 12 or 14 Inches of water have fallen in some localities and Hatfield still has two months or more to work. One trouble w;Ith the rainmaker Is that he does not arrange to have his showers come as gently as they should. He lets loose too much moisture at a time, with the result that California railroads have been tied up much of the winter by washouts. WHAT GOOD SEED IS WORTH. A few days ago the State Journal published an editorial on the gospel of good seed for corn farmers. What some of the growers of other great corn states think of the value of the best seed is shown by the prices that have recently been paid for it. At Tolono, Champaign county. III., a few days ago twenty-five ears of corn brought $150, or six dollars an ear. At an exhftiit of choice seed corn at the Iowa Agricultural college the ear which won first prize was sold for eleven dol lars. Other small amounts sold for fabulous sums, and one hundred ears sold for $102 after winning a $2,000 premium. The Tolono corn which brought six dollars an ear waa the pick of forty acres of choice, high-bred corn. J. H. Thrash, the owner, went through the field and gathered the finest of the ears in a sack, covering two rows at a time. He secured several hundred ears. Then he spent a week in examining each ear and picked out the best twenty-five. This corn was grown In rich, black prairie land, and was carefully culti vated. It had been bred to get as great a percentage of oil in the kernels as possible and to secure large heavy ears. No cob was visible at the small ends of the ears, and there were no spaces be tween the rows or kernels. The ears were large and the kernels deep, and hence there was a large percentage of corn to cob. This and the fact that It was bred so that every stalk would pro duce a large ear is what made it so ex tremely valuable. Corn like this will produce two or three times as much per acre as the ordinary kind, and the extra production is all profit beyond the extra cost of the seed. THE RAINMAKER. A decade or so ago the rainmaker started business in Kansas. For a time he flourished as a green bay tree whatever that is and companies were actually formed for the purpose of mak ing rain by bombarding the skies, mix ing chemicals,, or doing something of the sort. Kansas was advertised all over the country as the home of the rain maker. Reposing In the office of the secretary of state are records showing the incorporation of companies organiz ed for the purpose of selling rain to va rious communities needing it. But the time speedily came when the rain maker failed to connect with Provi dence, and the business languished. WESTERN SUGAR PRODUCTION. According to advices from Colorado, the Havemeyer sugar trust is prepar ing to greatly enlarge the beet sugar industry of that state, and a French syndicate ia also preparing to enter the field. It is claimed that a dozen or more new sugar factories will be built in the next two or three years at vari ous points in the state, possibly treb ling the present sugar output of Colorado. If this is true It should also have the effect of building up the beet sugar industry in western Kansas, for west ern Kansas prairies can produce just as good sugar beets as Colorado pos sibly better ones. The industry has been better developed in Colorado and the beets now raised in Kansas go there to be made into sugar, but if the sugar trust is preparing to go into the sugar business on such a larger scale western Kansas ought to get Its share of the new factories. There is no longer any doubt that these western plains, with their dry Augusta and abundant sunshine, grow the best sugar beets in the world, and the sugar industry in Colorado has gone far past the experimental stage. The semi-arid plains are better adapt ed for growing beets with a large amount of saccharine matter than Michigan, Nebraska, or any other state where sugar has been made from the beet in the past. Seven years ago there was not a pound of sugar made in Colorado. Last year there were 1,400,000 bags, containing 100 pounds each, made in that state. This, of course, includes the output of the beets grown in the Arkansas valley in west ern Kansas and shipped to the factory at Rocky Ford for manufacture. The nine factories in Colorado put eight million dollars into circulation in Colo rado last year. It is undoubtedly true that sugar beets are as productive a crop as can be raised in western Kansas, but chances must be taken with it the same as with any other crop-. No big acreage can be produced by any one individual, as the crop requires a great deal of work. It requires knowl edge of the crop and experience before the best results can be obtained, but there are excellent returns in it as a rule for the man who uses intelli gence. While it Is to be hoped that there will be no craze on the subject, as there has been in some regions, yet the development of the beet sugar in dustry on a solid foundation in west ern Kansas would undoubtedly be an excellent thing for the state. And that there is plenty of room for the de velopment of the industry is shown by the fact that the United States now imports 80 per cent of the sugar it uses, and the consumption is Increas ing at a rapid rate. The Havemeyers and other capitalists who have here tofore been fighting western sugar have now purchased many of the western factories, and if they are pre paring to push the industry as report ed it means great things for the semi arid west. JAXHAWKER JOTS. The Atchison Globe has a very cos mopolitan circulation. Seven copies of the paper go to Lansing, and more than twenty go to Boston. Hutchinson News: A Salina man who was caught tipping his hat to a wax figure makes the defense that he has always been a total abstainer. The Hutchinson News says: The editor of the Hope Dispatch saw a wolf the other day. which may be a delicate way of saying the animal has been hanging around the "Door of Hope" this winter. The people of Fort Scott decided that a young woman who rode on a local street car for five round trips was insane. The diagnosis is correct, and would apply to anyone who would ride on a Fort Scott street car for pleasure. The worst slam on bridge whist yet dealt comes in the following para graph published in the society column of the Kansas City Star: "Mrs. Con way F. Holmes has sent out cards for bridge parties Thursday and Fri day afternoons, March 23 and 24. The parties will be quite infernal." The Clay Center Dispatch says: The Santa Fe officials explain that the million dollars paid back to shippers in one year was not in illegal rebates, as the uninitiated might suppose, but was paid back as wrongfully collected overcharges. What a very careless lot of bookkeepers these railroad men are. The Lawrence Gazette very kindly remarks: Nothing succeeds like suc cess. When Ed Hoch was a country editor he had to hustle around and beat upon his brain to fill his columns with thoughts he thought he had been thinking, but now that he is gov ernor, the neighbors bring in great big whole page advertisements to fill up with. The Lawrence Gazette says: Out in western Kansas they have an epi demic of something that is called by some doctors chickenpox and by oth ers smallpox. They can not settle the matter. The Gazette can, if the doctors will do as we tell them. Let the patients alone. If they die, it is smallpox; if they get well, it is chickenpox. GLOBE SIGHTS. fFrom the Atchison Globe. So many of us have another guess coming. Aside from man, the dog is the greatest bluffer. The "dear" at the beginning of a letter means nothing. The old men can go to the Soldiers' home, but what is to become of the old women? If you want to study human nature, you can find homes in any town that will beat a theatre to death. An Atchison woman has been in sulted: A guest at her house admits that she left her best clothes at home. When some women compliment their husbands, it Is by saying that they are not so mean as they used to be. Every time we travel we give up a prayer of gratitude that the luxuries given the traveling public do not In clude a piano. Some of these days a genius will find use for old tin cans, and then he can get rich by hanging around a lazy housekeeper's back door. A certain Atchison widow comes down town only twice a year: in the spring to pay her taxes, and in the fall to pay interest on her mortgage. It is believed that an Atchison woman is in a worse condition than any other person in town: She de scribes her illness by saying she is as nervous as the czar. The average good citizen is not only expected to "do his share," but to devote a lot of his time to coaxing men who are not willing to do any thing for the public good. If we were a woman we would In sist upon the milliner putting this sign on hats: "This is the front door." Otherwise, how can a woman help occasionally getting her hat on hind foremost? Better not admire the Japanese too much: it is intimated that after the war great numbers of them will come to this country, where they are so much admired, to find work. And the Japanese are as bad as the Chin ese: that is, they are industrious, fru gal, capable, honest, and mind their own business. Story that blew In with Dick Seitz: An Irishman sent to the Anheuser Busch brewing company at St. Louis asking for one of their advertising knives. The knives are valuable and are not freely distributed. The Irish man sent a nickel so the gift would not "cut friendship." The brewery sent the knife, but the Dutchman who wrote the answer remarked that no body but an Irishman would have sent a nickel. The Irishman wrote again saying that nobody but a Dutchman would have accepted the nickel. Startling Mortality. Statistics show startling mortality from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent and cure this awful disease there is just one reliable remedy. Dr. King's New life Pills. M. Flannery of 14 Custom House Place, Chicago, says: "They have no equal for constipation and biliousness." 25c at Arnold Drug So., SSI North Kansas avenue. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News.J Cold facts often cause hot argu ments. A lot of men go broke just before the dajr breaks. If you are troubled with Insomnia go to sleep and forget it. A man seldom acts like a fool unless lie's the real thing. An officeholder who has a pull doesn't generate much push. Too many people are trying to make honest dollars dishonestly. If a man knows he Is in the wrong he can afford to get ajngry. Advice that coincides with your own opinion is easily swallowed. Light literature Is expensive when it comes in the shape of gas bills. A man is never Quite sure whether a woman is sorry or glad when she cries. There would be more microbes in kisses if they appreciated a good soft snap. There are but few sensible people in the world yet they all agree with you. Probably more men would become famous if they didn't attempt to write poetry. A vain woman may accuse a man of being a flatterer, but never of being a liar. Some men hustle almost as hard for a job as some women hustle for a husband. An amiable bachelor says that al most any miss is better than a mile providing she is neither too old nor too young. Scientists tell us that people should wed their opposites. Perhaps that is whv so many people are anxious to marry money. Vnn never hear a widow accuse a man of beins an idiot unless she Is in love with him and he is In love with some other woman. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. Some men are gluttons for everything except work. Time may heal all wounds, but it takes its time about it. A college diploma doesn't necessarily give a fellow diplomacy. The coming ball player will fcoon be try lner to make a hit with the manager. What a fine thing it would be it people didn t start to sing until tney Knew now. When a girl refuses to play popular airs she feels that she is getting along in music. Many a fellow would marry for money if the girl wasn't such an encumbrance. Experience is the best teacher, especial ly in the case or tne xeuow wuu unuws it all. The women who have a mania for kiss ing strange babies evidently are not afraid of germs. No, Maude, dear: we doubt If a musical conductor would care for a job on a trol ley car. Muggins "What makes you think your boy is ambitious to be a railroad man?" Buggins "Just from the way he slams the doors." Sillicus "So they're engaged, eh? Do vou suppose it will end happily?" Cynlcus "Oh, yes. I understand the engagement will be broken any day now." "Might doesn't make right," quoted the Wise G-uy. "No. not unless you control the law makers," replied the Simple Mug, who had been reading up on the trust proposition. REFLECTIONS. OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. There is hardly any vice that seems as extravagant as raising a family. When a woman glares savagely at a man in a street car it is a sign he gave her his seat. You can never get it out of a woman's head that there isn't somebody she ought to be jealous of. Nowadays people have no respect for the business ability of a man who can't support his son-in-law in better style than he lives himself. 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It costs no more than any other good shoe and wears longer. The famous eel School House Shoes are sold for Boys, Girls, Men and Women Watson-Plummer Shoe Co., Chicago Makers of Stylish, Serviceable, Shoes Ask Your Shoe Man for them rile -3fy,!) r Special every Sunday, Bricks of Ice Cream, three flavors, delivered to our customers at a reduction of 15 cents per brick. Special for Sun- v j tv x u ion. tt :n i 3 Raspberry and Caramel. Every one liKes the celebrated RED CROSS ICE CREAM Phones 537. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK i OF TOPEKA, KANSAS. Depository of the State of Kansas, Shawnee County and the City of Topski Paid-up Capital, S300.0C9.00 INTEREST PAID Ofl TIME DEPOSITS Officers Wm. Sims, President. C. E. Hawlky, Cashier. W. H. Rossinotojj, Vice-pres. C S. Bowiun, Asst. Cashier Foreign drafts on all principal points. Letters of credit issued. 2 Small accounts as well as large receive the same careful attention. You May Stray Away But you will always come back to the Favorite. Geo. 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