The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 30, 1905

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f r, ("7 EVERYBODY EVERBODY 14 PAGES NEEDS IT. 14 PAGES I I 1 READS IT. LAST EDITION. SATURDAY EVENING, TOPEKA, KANSAS, DECEMBER 30, 190. SATURDAY EVENING. THREE CENTS. f i DEVELOPKOREA. Kot to Tax Her Is the Intention of Japan. She Needs Protection From the Other Nations. MIKADO WILL GIVE IT. Will Not Interfere With Her Internal Affairs. Any Intention of Selling Sagha Jien Is Disclaimed. New York. Icc. 30. That Japan In tends to develop Korea and to dom inate her foreign affairs, but does not intend to make that country a vassal r Japanese .state, was a statement made today by Koreki To Takahashi, the Japanese financial commissioner, who arrived here from Europe on his way to Tokio. When Mr. Takahashi was asked whether Korea will be made to pay any part of Japan's debt, he said "Sn. we will develop Korea, but not tax her. The question of Japanese protectorate in Korea is misunder stood in this country. Korea is a weak nation and needs protection. Japan has no intention of making her a vassal or a state of the nation. But she intends to dominate Korea's for eign relations to preserve tin? peace in the far east. So long as it is other wise Korea is liable to become the victim of other nations. To prevent this Japan has taken on herself the work of looking after Korea but in no wise js it intended, to interfere with her internal affairs." "Will your country sell Sashalien is land to help pay off the debt?" was asked. "Japan will not sell her posses sions. he replied. "It is too valuable in coal, oil and mines and Japan in tends to develop the property." Mr. Takahashi said he had been in strumental in floating loans for Japan amounting- to $",35.0110,01)1) and that of that amount the United States has taken $l0,600,0o0 in bonds. HE PLAYED COWBOY. rarilim Asked for Man Who Helped Shoot Mayor of Kinsley for fun. IKnry K. Wooiheater, deputy county rktk of Marion county, called upon Governor Hoch today to present the in forma! arpiieatien for a pardon in be half of Sam Harvey, one of two boys involved in the killing of the mayor of Kir sh y, Kan., about 12 years ago. Harvey and a companion, both about IS y-ars of acre, took it into their heads to play cowboy. They ringed them selves out with cowboy bats, revolvers, and spins, and came riding into town on their ponies, giving- an imitation of "shoot ine- up the town." The mayor rushed out irto the street and com mandf.d the boys to stop. Harvey's companion, either by intent or accident al! v. shot the mayor d--nd. Both boys wt re sert to the penitentiary for life. Harvey is said to have a perfect rec ord in the piison. and 'efoie his inoar eednticn bore a pood reputation. Mr. Wooiheater is well acquainted with the family, and will as.-ist the boy to se cure a pardon. He is now 30 years old. J.KFT $t5,00 TO PETS. Lillian Western's Will Provides for Dog, Parrot and Birds. New York. Dec. SO. The fact that Cecilia A. Wolsey, who was formerly a performer on the vaudeville stage un der the name of Lillian Western, be queathed $15.11)0 for the care of her dog-, parrot ami a catre of love birds, be came known when her will was filed. Miss Wolsey died a week ago. Harriet K. 'lutes, a friend of the dead woman, is charged with the care of the animals, fnd Miss Wolsey's will provides that she shall have the use of the $15,000 for that purpose. After the death of Mrs. 3ates. the will stipulates that the re mainder of the money shall pi to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, to care for Miss Wolsey 's pets if they outlive Mrs. Gates, and if rot to care for other homeless ar.i mals. Miss Wolsey was a "musical special ist" on the vaudeville stage, and retired from it a year aim. having oniy her pets fis companions. Bloodworlli Is Arrested. Sunshine Bioodworth, a negro, black as the darkest shades of night, was arrested last evening on an old war rant which has been out for some t'me charging him with assault. Bioodworth is a worthless negro who spends his time dodging the police of this and Kansas Vity. He returns here periodically and hunts up some of the women of his class and when they refuse to furnish him with raimy, he crimes as u .ir beating them to death as is possible without committing murder. Weekly Bank Statement. New York. Dec. .30. The statement of the clearing house barks for the five days this wef k shows that the banks held a surplus over the legal reserve re CUirements of $4,202,575. The statement is as follows: Loans St. i'ml. 025.000. de eiease $5,082,100; deposits $977,651 500. de crease $7,377,100: eirculation $53,096,000, increase $46,300: legal tenders $75,699,800, increase 11.4: 6.IO0; spoei-- 8173. 003,600, de clease $2 207.200; jserve $24..705.40O. de crease 51.711.10o; reserve required $244, U2.V5. decrease ?i.M4.275: surplus $4. 292.".75. increase $133 175; ex-U. S. de posits $6. 400, 0:0. increase $75,800. Long March Near End. San Antonio, Tex.. Dec. 30. The Sixth battery of Ut ited States field artillery is exjecttd to inarch into Fort Sam Houston today after a trio of 1.000 miles overland from Fort Rib-v. The battery left Fort Hiley November 13 and is now near Austin. This is one of the longest march's ever made by a battery of ar tillery in time cf peace. Weather Indications. Chicago, Dec. 30. Forecast for Kansas: Generally fair tonight and Sunday; cooler in south portion tonight. AX OLD OH'EXDEll CAUGHT. George Turner Found in Kansas City and Brought to T())cka. George Turner, who has been want ed by the police of this city since last September for a robbery committed about that time, was capdured in Kansas City last week and brought here by Deputy Sheriff Lucas last night. He was taken to the city court this morning and his bond fixed at $500. Not being- able to furnish bond he was taken to the county jail, where he will remain until he has his trial in the district court. Turner got in a shooting scrape in Kansas City last week and during the affray was shot in the arm. This necessitated treatment at the police surgeon's office, and while there he was identified as the man wanted in this city. He at first refused to re turn without requisition papers, but finally consented to return without them when informed that resistance would be useless and that such actions would probably only add to the length of his term dn the penitentiary if convicted. TREASURY REPORT. Comparing the Receipts and Disburse ments of 190-1 and 1905. New York, Dec. HO. The preliminary report of the Uniteu States treasury for l;io5, as compared to 1004, shows the following-: Total receipts for 1004. $2,030,555,504; for 100:1, $1.921, 77s, 300; total payments for 1004. $2,001,183,546: for 1905, $1,056, 233, 01S: total receipts and payments for 1004, $4. 0M. 739, 140: for 1905, $3,878,011,318; receipts on account of customs for 19H4, $1 5,713, S36; for 1905. $189,745,613; pay ments on account of pensions for 1904, $75,505,534: for 1905, $74,044,917; payments on account of interest of 1904. $15,831,424: for 1005, $17,3S0,25S; currency received from the treasury department in 1904, $157,9,4,000; in 1905. $95. 294. 0H0; currency sent to the department in 1904, $225,517, 000; in 1905, $204,861,000. TYNER CASE IS HERE. Application for Requisition Will Be Heard on Tuesday. Next Tuesday the Thomas T. Tyner case, which has been attracting- so much attention at Wichita the past week, will come up in Topeka, in the form of an application by Governor Deneen of Illinois, for the possession of Tyner through requisition proceedings. The requisition papers were received today by Governor Hoch. but a protest against the honoring of the papers had already been filed. Governor Hoch set the case for hearing next Tuesday, the hour to be announced later. Tyner is wanted at Joliet, where he is under indictment for swindling by the old fake footrace game. It is claimed that Tyner defrauded Frank L. Ball out of $8,000. Tyner was assisted by James JdeKensie, Eddie Barnes, Henry Burnes, James Gorman and Oscar Maxcn. a smooth gang of "cons" who had been working th section of the country, says the report. Tyner was arrested in Wichita several days ago. That he has powerful friends working for his release was indicated by the fact that attorneys were at once hired to bring habeas corpus proceed ings to secure his release. Chief of Po lice G. T. Cubbon stole a march on the attorneys, however, by spiriting Tyner out of town before the papers in the habeas corpus case were served. When the chief and Tyner went to is a mys tery. He has not yet been located, and thev may stay in hiding until next Tuesday. LIKE A SPRING DAY. Temperature Continues Warm, But Indications Are for a Storm. From present indications and the predictions of the weather bureau, the year 1906 will be ushered in with a noise like a spring day. The sky is covered with a thin vapory effect not unlike a cloud of smoke, and the temperature is several degrees above the freezing point. The minimum was reached last night when the mer cury dropped to 28, barely below freezing point. The wind, which was from the west, blowing at the rate of 16 miles an hour, at 2 p. m., seemed to carry with it warmth instead of coldness. The weather department displays a square white flag that those who run may read the conditions for to morrow, which will be fair and cooler, particularly in the southern part of the state, where the temperature will be noticeably lower. The hourly temperatures for the day were: 7 o'clock 31 8 o'clock 31 9 o'clock 3 2 10 o'clock 38 11 o'clock 4 2 12 o'clock 43 1 o'clock 44 2 o'clock 42 A Navajo Vice. The Navajo is an inveterate gam bler. Xot only are there the profes sionals, who live entirelv bv the prac tice, but even the small boys are gamesters and adapt the pictorial Sun day school cards to gambling pur poses. Their blankets illustrate gam bling, and even their account of the creation must have woven into it the story of a game. Thus a serious and apparently native vice of formidable proportions at once confront the teacher and the missionary. The ques tion of the best way to overcome it is still an open one. The prohibition of its practice does not go to the root of the matter, and all our logic fails to convince the Indian that he has not as great a right to play for stakes as he has to breathe. Southern Workman. McCormick Enters the Star League. Chicago. Dec. 30. The Chicago Keening Post will say todav that Alexander A. McCormick. editor and publisher of the Evening Post, has bought an interest in the Star League, which publishes the Indianapolis Star the Torre Haute Star and the Muncie Star, and he will immediately become editor and publisher of those papers succeeding Mr. John C. Shaffer as president of the company. Another S25 for Estis. Cards were received by the sheriff and police force this morning from G. F. Gerrald. chief of police of Shreves port, Lit., offering a reward of $25 for the capture of Charles Kstis. who is wanted in this city for burglary and who escaped from the poiiee of Shrevesport while awaiting the arrival of Sheriff Lucas. FALLS HEIR TO $60,000. A Wellington Baker Is Handsomely Remembered by a Relative. Wellington. Kas.. Dec. 30. Ed Bauman, a baker of this city, has fallen heir to a modest fortune. He has received a letter from a firm of bankers of Highland, 111., informing him that, through the death of a rich aunt, he has fallen heir to $60,000. Mr. Bauman will start Monday to claim his fortune. SHIPS TELESCOPE. One Vessel Crashes Into Another a Distance of Twenty-live Feet. Wilmington, Del., Dec. 30. The steamship Pennsylvania from New York for Philadelphia and thence to San Francisco and Seattle, was in col lision with the schooner Prescott Pal mer on Cherry islands flats in the Delaware river today. At the time of the accident the Palmer was hard aground on the fiats. The Pennsyl vania in attempting to pass the schooner crashed into its stern to a distance of nearly 25 feet. The steam ship was unable to withdraw from the schooner and both crafts are now lying on the muddy bottom. It is feared that the schoner will fill with water when the tide returns. No one was injured in the accident. Shortly after the collision the two vessels drifted ashore. They are still fast together. The agents of the schooner estimate the damage at $30, 000. The Pennsylvania is apparently uninjured. EYES ON UMCLE SAM. San Domingo Squabblers Don't Know What to Expect. Cape Haytien, Hayti, Dec. 30. The Dominican cruiser Independencia has started for Monte Christ! on the south ern coast of Santo Domingo, according to information received here, but it is not known whether she is acting in be half of the fugitive President Morales or in the interest of Vice President Caceres, the temporary president of Santo Domingo. General Rodriguez, the governor of Monte Cristi, who is understood to be supporting Morales, has occupied San Lorenzo de Guayubin about 25 miles southeast of Monte Cristi and is strengthening his position there while awaiting the arrival of Morales when the future movements of the forces of General Rodriguez will be decided upon. The inhabitants of the district of Monte Cristi are in a state of agitation as it is expected that the decisive strug gle between the rival 'aders -will take place in that part of the country. There is also anxiety as to the attitude of the United States. Telegraph communica tion between Puerta Plata and Monte Ctisti is interrupted. WELL PROVIDED FOR. Princess Louise Succeeds in Arranging Advantageous Divorce Terms. Paris, Dec. 30. The conditions of the settlement of the long drawn out quar rel between the Princess Louise of Saxe Coburg and Gotha, eldest daughter of King Leopold of Belgium and her hus band. Prince Phillip of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha are as follows: The prince pays her as alimony $221, 000 annually and also the sum of $1,000, 000 by installments, while King Leopold guarantees his daughter an annuity of $10,000. The princess undertakes to hand over to the prince's lawyer all the documents and photographs intended to be used as evidence, the divulging of which w ill annul the arrangement. The two parties agree to accept a decision of the court of Gotha granting them a divorce on the ground of incompatibil ity of temper and on that ground alone. WRECK THE SAFE. Burglars Rob a Private Bank of $600 and Escape. Iroquois, 111., Dec. 30. Early today burglars wrecked the safe in the pri vate banking institution of Stickley, Wray Co., and escaped with $600, after exchanging shots with James Whitman, the first person to appear on the scene. No one was hurt. Great Football Players. London. Dec. 3 0. The New Zea land football team finished their tour today by defeating Swansea by 4 to 3. This was the visitors' thirty-second game. The total number of points is: New Zealand, 840; the United Kingdom, 39. Diagram of Moscow Showing Points CAPITAL Cossacks and Workmen Fight at St. Petersburg. Casualties 35 Dead and Many Wounded. HOUSES AHE STORMED. Where Revolutionists Take Ref uge in Jloscow. They Continue to Shoot the Soldiers From Ambush. St. Petersburg, Dec. 30, .5:20 p. m. In an encounter between workmen and Cossacks yesterday at the Nevsky ship building yards, eight Cossacks and 2 7 workmen were killed and many were injured. The railroad trains from St. Petersburg to Moscow are not running- to that city, but are stopping at a station near Tver. The permanent way of the Nicholas railway has been damaged between Tver and Kulitacia stations. Stormed Their Houses. Moscow, Dec. 30. Three armed bands of revolutionists whose offer yesterday to surrender if guaranteed a free pardon was refused by the au thorities, barricaded themselves today in their houses. According to the latest reports the houses were stormed and captured by the troops. Nevertheless the work of routing out the revolutionists will be difficult and perhaps costly as the tactics of the rev olutionists are not to fight in the open but to defend the barricades which are used to impede the movement of troops, while, from the adjoining houses little groups in ambush shoot at the soldiers and throw bombs. The maze of narrow, crooked streets and the hilly nature of the ground make it practically impossi ble to use artillery effectively and event ually will compel the troops to clear the region by moving from house to house. The legion covers several square miles between the river and Tverskaia and is hemmed in by troops whose lines out off the revolutionists from the Brest railroad on the east. The troops occupy a ridge along the boulevard A correspondent of the Associated Press had no difficulty in traversing the whole region under the escort of a member of the "Drujina" or a fight ing organization of the revolutionists The pickets near the boulevard were then exchanging a sharp fusillade. The drujina did not appear to be well or ganized and lacKea regular officers The workmen's .-.council was sup posed to have general- direction of the workmen's army, but each group seemed to act on its initiative. The majority of the men were armed only with revolvers of a cheap pattern. Two companies of 200 men each, how ever, were armed with repeating shot guns and a few rifles. The most business-like feature was the. "drujinists" hospital which was equipped vith a regular surgcal staff and Sisters of Mercy. The wounded men were well cared for. The troops on Thursday captured a surgical detachment of the revolu tionist's commanded by Dr. Abram a Jew. The members of the drujina are very resourcemul. They declare they are not discouraged and that on the contrary they will take the offensive. Troops are continually arriving j... ,ti. aiuvaia die LlltJ 1 'ag hestan cavalry, hib. dashing looking Willi acariei. uppea caps. The police continue to make domi ciliary visits at night and have seized an immense quantity of revolvers. In one house inhabited chiefly by Jews they captured sixty revolvers and sev eral bombs. The owners of the weap ons were taken to the prison which is already full to overflowing. They Will Get Commissions. Washington, Dec. 30. The presi dent and secretary of war have decided to commission as second lieutenants the nineteen enlisted men who suc cessfully passed examinations recently and became eligible for appointment, because the secretary has found there will be a sufficient number of vacancies by the time the class at West Point graduates to provide places for the graduates. Major Hartwlg Dead. St. Joseph. Mo., Dec. 30. Major Hartwig, judge of the Buchanan cir cuit court, ex-mayor and wealthy citi ze i. is dead at his home here, aged 68 years. Where Serious Rioting Occurred. SU Bloodshed. GLASil lil GIRD THE EARTH IX 10 SECONDS. Naval Observatory Will Send Message Around the World. Washington, Dec. 30. Following a custom established several years ago, the naval observatory will at 12 o'clock tomorrow night send a New Year greet ing around the world. This is done by prearrangement with the telegraph and cable companies and it is estimated tlfat the message will complete the circuit around the world in about 10 seconds time. OAKLAND GIVES UP. Will Not Contest for Ileery and Nor ton's Additions. The city of Oakland has given over its fight to secure Heery and Norton's additions. After a -consultation this afternoon between Mayor Don Coffman of that municipality and their city attorney, D. H. Branaman, together wdth several councilmen a decision was arrived at to drop any further contest. This action will do away with the publishing of the ordinance by Oakland in their official city paper, the Oakland Blade, as had been contemplated. The ordinance was to have been published this evening. "We have decided to pass up the mat ter," said D. H. Branaman. "We thought it would be better not to pub lish our ordinance for it would simply involve those people down in the addi tions in a complex legal tangle which would take some trouble to untangle and would probably prove in the end rather costly to them. Rather than do this we thought it would be more amic able to let it go. The two additions are divided. I understand that most of the residents in Heery's addition want to come into Topeka but on the other hand the majority of those living in Norton's addition would rather stay with Oak land. But since it has come about as it has we will not push this attempt any further. "There is some feeling in Oakland against the council of Topeka because of their action last night. They don't believe that they were treated exactly right and that probably a little sharp practice was resorted to, but that feel ing will pass off. As far as the decision of the district court is concerned we feel rather jubilant over it and believe that what we contended for was estab lished. "There are still some nice legal points which might be raised. The one is whether the city council of Topeka had any right to publish that ordinance in the Capital, 1 think that there is small question but what it should have been published in the State Journal, since that was the official city paper; the other is that the court would not recog nize a difference of a few hours between morning and evening in publishing the ordinance as being in favor of either party. But that is all over with. "From one standpoint Oakland is giad that Topeka secured the additions since it takes in the crematory. Before this the crematory was not in either Oak land or Topeka and there was no way of exercising a strict jurisdiction over it." MINE WORKERS MEET. District Board Calls a January Con vention for Pittsburg, Kansas. Pittsburg. Kan., Dev.. 30. The district board of the United Mine Workers of District No. 14 was in session in Pitts burg yesterday and last evening. There were a large number of important mat ters to be disposed of by tho board, and one of them is the question of calling a special convention to be held in Pittsburg about Jan. 32. The national convention will meet in Indianapolis Jan. 18 and the district board has been petitioned to call a special district convention to be held in Pittsburg just before the delegation to Indianapolis leaves. The delegates to the national convention from this district are anxious to have an understanding regard ing what position to take in the national convention regarding the approaching contract, and the district convention w-ould consider that phase of the ques tion. The delegation from this district will leave Pittsburg- in a body Sunday night, Jan. 14. for St. Louis. From St. Louis a special train will take the delegates to Indianapolis. The Frontenac Mine Work ers' band will accompany the delegates. Midshipman Pleaded Not Guilty. Annapolis, Md.. Dec. 30. Midship man Stephen Decatur, jr., charged with hazing Midshipmen Isaac N. Mc Crary and Gaylord Church, was arraigned before the naval court mar tial today and pleaded not guilty on all specifications. Big Copper Property Transferred. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 3 0. It was offi cially announced today that the con trol of the Pittsburg Montana Cop per company, capitalized at $30,000. 000, has been secured by the A. W. Mellon interests of this city. aded Portion Shows Scene of Greatest AFTER A DISTRICT CLERK. R. W. Marquis Says O. A. Olson Won't Give Him Right Transcript. R. W. Marquis filed an application this morning in the supreme court for a writ of mandamus against O. A. Ol son, clerk of the district court of Raw lins county. Mr. Marquis says that Olson will not give him the right kind of a transcript of evidence in the case of Marquis versus Wiren, tried in the Rawlins county district court some time ago. The application for the writ will be heard on January 2. Godard, Valen tine Godard of Topeka are attorneys for Marquis. It appears from the rec ord that there are certain portions of the transcript which Mr. Olson refuses to include, and which Marquis thinks should be included. The suit of Mar quis versus Wiren is concerning the foreclosure of a mortgage on a 160 acre farm. Another case of importance which was filed today in the supreme court is a criminal action against Wm. Logan, filed in Atchison county originally. Logan is accused of being one of three men to burglarize W. H. Lewis' hard ware store. It is claimed that the hu'relarv was committed on July 27, 1905, and that guns, revolvers and razors to the amount of $178 were stolen. The three men then went to a saloon and tried to sell some of their plunder. It was this that led to their discovery. Logan was caught and convicted. He now appeals the case to the supreme court. From Bourbon county the case of T. F. Denser versus W. C. Gunn was appealed this morning. In the lower court Denser sued Gunn for $1,500 damages for breach of contract. It was claimed that they had agreed to trade farms. Gunn to give 560 acres near Altamont, Kan., for a 300 acre farm belonging to Denser in Taylor county, Iowa, Gunn to pay $600 to boot. The penalty for failure to ex ecute the trade was stipulated to be $1,500. Everything progressed favor ably, until Gunn refused to accept the title to Denser's farm, on the advice of his attorneys. Denser then brought suit to compel the enforcement of the contract. J. A. Van Horn has brought suit against Wiilliam Van Horn and David Van Horn to secure a reversal of the judgment of the Greenwood county district court. J. A. Van Horn sued for $8.14S, claiming title to certain land which had come into the posses sion of the defendants. The court sus tained a demurrer to his petition. CURTIS DENIED IT. Says He Didn't Fix X'p Any Condition in Shawnee County. Washington, Dec. 30. Congress man Curtis arrived this morning from his trip to Kansas. He says he had a fine time at home, but refuses to admit he "fixed" any distressing political local situations in Shawnee county. Mr. Curtis predicts the pass age in the house of his Philippine tariff bill reducing duties on sugar and tobacco to 25 per cent, of the Dingley rates, within a few days after congress convenes next week. HIS THROAT CUT. Cameron, Texas, Editor Attacked in His Office. Houston, Tex., Dec. 30. Editor O. F. McCannley of the Cameron, Texas, Herald was attacked today in his of fice at that place by Wirt Terry, an employe. McCannley's throat was cut from ear to ear with a pocket knife. The difficulty is said to have occurred over private matters. SUES "UNCLE SAM" CO. Independence Photographer Claims His BUI for lectures Is Unpaid. Independence, Kan.. Dec. 30. Harry W. Talbott, a photographer, has brought suit against the Uncle Sam Oil company of Cherryvale, to compel the payment of a bill for photographs. The amount claimed to be due is $56.75, and the petition filed in Justice Glass' court alleges that the bill is long since due and no part of it has been paid. The Uncle Sam company, through its attorney, J. B. Tomlinson, has filed an answer to the suit denying each and ev ery allegation made by Talbott. J. B. Zeigler is attorney for the plaintiff. Veiled and Silent Auctions in India. i In the course of an interesting paper i on shellac, communicated to the Pharmaceutical society, Sir George Watt, C. I. E., described the quaint practice adopted at the auctions in India. The buyers and sellers join hands and sit facing each other, a cloth being thrown over the hands. The buyer presses certain fingers of the seller's hand, thus making an offer. This is usually rejected by a motion of the head, and further finger pressing en sues. Finally the bargain is struck without a word having been uttered. The ad vantage claimed for this system is that the buyer may proceed from one seller to another and make his purchases without his price being known to other dealers. London Daily Mail. Prcglacial Wood. A piece of wood uncovered recently, by the Foundation company in excavating for the United States Express building at Rector unit Greenwich streets undoubted ly formed a part of a tree that must have grown before the ice age in geologic his tory. It was lying on top of the bedrock be neath a stratum of hardpan and bowl ders. The bedrock at this point is about 4't feet below the curb. On top of the bed rock is a stratum about 11 feet thick, composed of hardpan and bowlders and covered by ordinary quicksand and muck usual in that section. T'n piece of wood was found on top of the bedrock embedded in nnd covered ly the stratum of hardpan. Engineering News. World's Fair Statuary Burned. Venice. 111., Dec. 30. The factory of the Pittsburg Glass and Plaster company was destroyed by tire early today. Loss ovet $50.iKi. Hundreds of figui-"s ..,f the sta'f statuary taken from the wo.dd's fair were consumed. First Snow for Dallas. Dallas, Tax.. Dec. 30. The first snow of the season is falling in Dallas today. 17IIIG!!JSR!GI!T? Tom M'Xeal Says A. Xewman Will Withdraw. Latter Says Not If He Knows Himself. AMUSING SITUATION. Congressman Curtis Appears to Re Central Figure. He Wants the Local Situation. Simplified. There seems to be a difference of opinion as' to the success of Charles Curtis in "ironing out" the political sit uation in Shawnee county. T. A. McNeal. candidate for the Re publican nomination for state printer, says: "Mr. Curtis told me, without placing any ban upon me to keep the matter secret, that Mr. Newman would withdraw from the race for state audi tor, and take the position of assistant postmaster. For some reason, Mr. New man does not seem to want this ar rangement made public at this time. That's all I know about it." Mr. Newman, however, denies em phatically that he has been offered the position of assistant postmaster. New man has stated that he might take a $2,000 job, and withdraw from the race for auditor, but the position of assistant postmaster pays only $1,700. "I am a candidate for auditor of the state," said Mr. Newman this morning, "and intend to ask for the delegation from Shawnee county. As far as Mr. Curtis is concerned, he has not offered me any position whatever to draw out of this race. McNeal is not considered a Shawnee county candidate in my esti mation. He was elected by the legis lature, and his position does not give him membership in the executive coun cil. There is no fight on Mr. McNeal in Shawnee county at all, so far as I know. McNeal's candidacy ought not to bar Shawnee county from asking the state convention for a member of the executive council. If I thought that I interfered with Charles Curtis' can didacy for United States senator I would withdraw from the race. I am game on that. I do not think that my candidacy will interfere with him, because the sen atorial or congressional race has noth ing to do with the state convention and does not enter into it at all, in my opin ion. "So far as my candidacy is concerned, X am very well satisfied with the en couragement that I am getting from different parts of the state and think. with my home delegation for- me, that I can secure the nomination." Mr. Newman says that the story of his withdrawal from the race for auditor had its origin with Nick Chiles and Colonel Hughes. "They are afraid I am trying to run in an anti-Hoch delegation here in this county," said Mr. Newman. "The fact is. I am looking after New man's interests, and that's all." Under the arrangement which is said to have been made and which Newman says he knows nothing about McNeal will name the Shawnee county delegation, but he will try to pick out a list which will be satisfac tory to the various factions in this county. In this way Mr. Curtis hopes to soothe the feelings of those who might be sore about Newman's with drawal. There is a story now that Curtis and Newman have an understanding that Nwman is to stay in the race until later in the campaign, in order to keep any other aspirants for political office from coming out and making trouble for Curtis. Some say that Otis Hungate is thinking seriously of becoming a can didate for attorney general, but he could hardly make much progress in his fight as long as Newman stays in the race. It would therefore be In the interests of harmony in Shawnee county, which is earnestly desired by Curtis, if Newman can manage to stay with the game long enough to baffle the hopes of any other possible candidates. Chinaman Wants Passport. Lee Fung Foo, the Japanese bari tone singer, who has been on the bill at the Novelty theater all week, filed application with the clerk of the dis trict court this afternoon for a pass port which will enable him to go abroad in vaudeville, and be able to return to the United States. The statement made in his application for a passport proves him to be a native born Chinaman, and not a Japanese, as he has claimed. To Save the Constitution. Boston. Dec. 30. At city hall yester day 1,500 persons signed a petition to save the old ship Constitution from be ing used as a target, as was suggested by Secretary of .e Navy Bonaparte in his annual report. Among the signers was Mrs. Susan L. Clark of Charles town, who is a daughter of Thomas C. Byron, the fifer on the Constitution during the famous battle with the Brit ish ship Guerrierre. Wireless Message from the Dewey. Washington, Dec. 30. A wdreless mes sage received at the navy department from the dry dock Dewey reported that structure 33 miles south of Cape Henry, weather fine and making good progress. General Davis Sail for Euroie. New York, Dec. 30. General George W. Davis of the Panama canal commis sion sailed for Europe today on the steamer New York. Temperatures of Large Cities. Chicago, Dec. 30. 7 a. m. tempera tures: New York. 36; Boston, 40; Philadelphia. 38; Washington, 40; Chi cago. 42; Minneapolis, 8; Cincinnati, 32: St. Louis, 32. LOCAL MENTION. Judge J. S. West has gone to Fort Scott to visit some of his kinfolk. J. S. Francis, superintendent of schools of Kent, Ta., is here visiting his uncle, T. A. McXeal. Mr. Francis had never seen his "Uncle Tom" until his present visit. He will return to Iowa Sunday.

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1 n t f tr A" BAILS' STATE JOURNAL. SATURDAY NIGHT. -LJ J.t xi. HELD FOB HURDER. Kcw York Dentist Charged With Kill ing His I-'atlierin-Law. Northport, D. I., Dec. 30. At the in quest held here over the body of Hartley T. Horner, who was shot and killed by his son-in-law, Dr. J. W. fc-impson, a New York dentist, Simson was held on a charge of murder by the coroner and was taken at once to a prison at Rivers Head. Sensational de velopments came out at the inquest. The autopsy disclosed that there were two bullet wound in the dead man's body about four to six inches apart. Ont: of the wounds was directly in line with the watch pocket in the vest and a. portion of the gold chain was car ried clear through the body by the force of the bullet and imbedded in the muffles, of the back. Mr. Horner was for years the southern1 representative of the Loriillard Tobacco firm and was worth about $100,000. At the inquest Mrs. Horner, the widow, was the most important wit ness. "Dr. Simpson," she declared, "said in my hearing at the supper table Wed nesday evening, the night of the shoot ing that he wished the 'old man' (meaning my husband) was dead. "A few months ago my husband made up his mind to have his will changed. He was worth about $100. OoO I should say. He wanted the will fixed so that the fortune would not be squandered by Simpson. The lawyer arranged to come to our house yester day. On Wednesday my son-in-law arrived in New York and at the supper table declared that the will could not be changed; that such a thins? was not possible. Then he made the remark that he wished Mr. Horner was dead." ROBBED SEVEN TIMES. Kew York Jewelry Store Has Lost $:!0.000 in Th ice Years. Kew York, Deo. 30. For the second time within three months and the seventh time within three years the Jewelry store of Schwartz Brothers at 1368 Broadway in the heart of the tenderloin district was robbed early yes terday and about $4,000 worth of dia mond rings and watches were stolen. The loss on the seven robberies, ac cording to a member of the firm, ag givfrates $2 0,000. The robbery was most daring as this part of the city is the busiest and the most brilliantly lighted throughout the entire night. Working during the height of a terrific rain storm when most of the pedestrians had sought shelter the burglars gained an en trance to the store by cutting through a steel folding gate that barred the approach to the front door and then cut through a heavy wide screen that protected the plate glass in the front door. They then smashed the half Inch thick glass to reach their plun der. In cutting the wires of the screen over the window the burglars set off a burglar alarm, yet they escaped with their booty before the police or the agent of the burglar alarm reached the scene. CHARGEFwiTiTTHEFT. George W. Cornwall Accused of Steal-iti.n- $11,000 in Bonds and Jewels. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. 30. George W. Cornwall, until recently treasurer of the Wheeler Wilson Manufactur ing company and an investor of note, was arrested yesterday on the charge of theft of United States b"onds and jew elry to the value of $11,000. The complainant is Mrs. Gilbert A. Lumpkin, wife of Gilbert A. Lumpkin, who also was known as Lumpkin A.Gill of St. Louis of the firm of Arnold Co., which became involved in legal difficulties with the postorhce depart ment because of alleged "get rich tjuiek methods of doing business. Cornwall went to jail in default of tail. OVER TOO BILLIONS. Charters Taken Out in the East During the Yessr. Kew York, Dec. 30. Charters tak en out in Eastern states during lao5 represent a total eapitalization of well over two billions according to figures made public today. The exact figures are $2.1 53,334.811. During December the big companies incorporated totaled $118,909,100. bringing the total for the year to $1,67 4,105,211, compared with Jl. H63.242. -'00 last year and $1,572, 204.000 in 1 903. Companies having an authorized capitalization of $100,000 end less than $1,000,000 represented a total for the year of $479,229,600. LOST IN k tmiL Joseph Davis Wonders About for Eight Davs Before Deiug Itescued. Wilkesbarve. Pa.. December 30. After being entombed in a mine for eight days. Joseph Davis, a Pole, was res cud yesterday unconscious but soon re vived. Davis entered the mine De cember 20 and got lost in the under ground workings. He wandered from tine working to another, all the time getting farther away from the open ing. He had a well-filled dinner pail and for the first four days ate sparingly of the contents. When the food was pone he drank tea for two days. Then lie ate scraps of broad that had been thrown away by miners. An Early Kansas Settler Dead. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 30. James M. Barnes, an early settler of Kansas, died here yesterday aged 61 years. Mr. Barnes went to Kansas in lfc54. He took part in the border war and also in the campaign in Missouri during the civil war. After the civil war Mr. Barnes returned to Kansas and settled near Vance. Laundering, Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing, Family "Washing. GOOD WORK, QUICK TopeL-a.Laaodry Co. Phone 153 2d Quincy i Jj ill: The American family OBJECT TO MAYOR. Terre Haute Husiness Organizations Want Him Kemoved. Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 30. At a spec ial meeting of the city council last night a formal demand was made for the re moval from office of Mayor Edward J. Bidam. Formal charges were signed by representatives of the Manufacturers' club ascertaining that "Bidam has been club asserting that "Biadam has been wilfully and corruptly guilty of oppres- sion.malconduct and malefeasance in the discharge of his duty as mayor." No action was taken. Long Itange Tailoring.' Here i3 a good railroad story: "A man was standing before a station one autumn afternoon, when a bell clanged, and all the station, employes came running out. and arranged them selves in a neat line on the platform. "There was the ticket agent, the tele graph operator, the baggage master, and so on. They stood side by side, their shoulders squared, their heads thrown back, like soldiers on parade. "And now a locomotive, drawing only one car. dashed past. "It was an observation car, and on the observation platform sat a small, quick, nervous man. He had a table before him, with pens and paper on it, and as the train shot by the station, he regarded the men sharply, and made hurried notes. 'Who was he?' said the stranger to the telegraph operator, after the train was gone; 'some prominent official of the line?" 'Oh. no, the man answered. 'That was the company's tailer, measuring us for our winter suits.' Exchange. A Guaranteed Cure for Piles. Itching, blind, bleeding, protruding piles. Your druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. I A PRESIDENT C0SEY OP THE STEEL TRUST AND KISS MAEELLE GILMAN. The aclmission by President William Ellis Corey of the steel trust tkat there are irreconcilable differences be tween his wife and himself reveals a family skeleton, the existence of which has been hinted at for some time. Mabelle Gilman, the young woman who is said to have caused the estrangement cf the Coreys, is an actress of some not. Five years ago the late Attgtistin Daly heard her sing In San Francisco. He engaged her for a production at his New York theater, and the young Californian's future was assured. In 1002 Miss Gilman was the star of a nuisica? comedy. "The Mocking Bird," which, while not an unqualified soecess, at least served to emphasize her claim to consideration as one ot Va lad.s-.f 2,nwij ef tee lighter form of musical entertainment. THE IIAPPY XEW year: man realizes tliat Christmas has me Advantage of Being Bald. Frank A. Vanderlip, at the end of the American Bankers' association's con vention in Washington, said of optim ism: "Some optimism I like and cultivate, but there is such a thing as foolish op timism, and on that I frown. "It would be foolish optimism to in sist that a bull movement will keep on forever, just as it would be foolish op timism to see anything advantageous in a bald head. "Yet such optimists exist. I once heard a man praise baldness recklessly. 'I have decided,' he said, 'that bald ness is a wise provision of nature.' 'How so?' said I. 'Well,' said he, 'a bald man has no hair except below his hat brim, eit?' 'Yes.' I agreed. 'And barbers' shops are draughty places?' 'Yes. yes.' 'Well, a bald man escapes the draughty dangers of a barber shop be cause he can get his hair cut without taking his hat off.' "Los Angeles Times. One More Sjot. Chief Justice Fuller was not long ago the guest of a southern gentleman who had a servant named John, famous for his mint julep. Soon after Judge Fuller's arrival John appeared, bearing a tray on which was a long, cool glass, topped with crushed Ice and a. small tree of mint. With low bows and many smiles he presented it, and watched anxiously while Judge Fuller appreciatively sipped it. "That touch the right spot, sah?" he queried. "It does, John, it does," the judge re plied. John disappeared, but was soon re called by the tinkle of a hand-bell. The glass was now empty. The judge look ed up with a twinkle in his eye. "I think I've got another spot, John," he said. Harper's Weekly. it ft, M i SI -1 i I t J VI j ant something to lilni BAD FOR OLD BOB. Mrs. Fitzsiuimons Will Not Talk "Re conciliation." St. Paul, Dec. 30. A special to the Dispatch from Sioux Falls, S. D., says: Mrs. Bob Kitzsimmons who is here for a divorce said to a newspaper re porter today: "Bob need not talk reconciliation to me. I expect he will be here soon and I am willing to talk compromise in the matter of property but will never con sent to again live with him." A Warning. A certain Caledonian preacher, when he saw a member of his flock nodding while he was preaching cried out: "Hold up your heads, my friends, and mind that neither saints nor sin ners are sleeping in the next world." Then, finding that this general ex portation was insufficient to deter a certain well known member of the church from getting his night's rest forward, the reverend gentleman turn ed toward the offender and said: "James Stewart, this is the second time I have stopped to waken ye. If I need to stop a third time, I'll expose ye by name to the whole congrega tion." The Ham's Horn. His Awful Mistake. "Young man," said her father, "do you smoke cigarettes?" "I should say not," declared the youth, hastily. "I would consider it disgraceful to be seen with one of those vile things in my mouth. I think all cigarette smokers should be jailed. Why do you ask. sir?" "Thought perhaps you could let me have one," said the old man, pointedly, "I smoke 'em myself." Exchange. To Cnre a Cold In One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails tocure. E. W. GROVE'S signature on each box.25c. iV .'r i Ik- J 'iii i '-.-i 3 id- ""'ZZfi I IvETS TODAY. liilili 1 I Active Demand by Bulls Starts Wheat Buying. ProSt Taking by Trade Braces Lp Corn. LIVE STOCK TRADE. Cattle Steady Native Steers Bring 3.75 to G. Bulk of Hog Sales From $5 to $5.15. Chicago, Dec. 30. WHEAT Active de mand by leading bulls started general buying of wheat at the opening here to day and as a result the market was stronK. The continued free movement of wheat in the northwest and a moderate decline at Iiverpool checked in some de gree the bullish feeling in the pit at the start. May opened a shade to g lower, at S7V4o to S7Viti87c, and in a short time sold up under the continued demand to 8Sysc. Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago reported receipts of 63 cars, against 394 cars a year ago. The market continued firm until the close. Reports that Russian shipments would show a material decline in volume were a bullish factor. The high point for May was reached at SS'c. The close was nrm, with May up (&o, at KTTsfo.xsc. CORN Profit taking by traders who were long on December contracts (had bearish effect on the corn market. De cember (old) opened Vic to lc lower, at 49 f' -Uf'ijC, and sold off to 48c. May opened shade to Vsf.OlMC lower, at 441i'g44e, and tor some time held within the opening range. On continued profit taking the price of old December corn dropped to 42c, a de cline of 8c from the closing price of yes terday. New December sold off to 41c, a slump of Slic from yesterday's final quo tation. May closed steady and Vsc lower. at 44i!443siC. OATS Oats were steady because of a fair demand by commission houses. May opened unchanged to te lower, at 3J:laii 3L"4c and sold at 32V4'R-324c. PROVISIONS A 10 cent advance in the price of live hogs brought out a scattered demand for provisions and the market, as a consequence, was steady. May pork was unchanged, at $13.82VZ. Lard was up 2Hc. at J7.50. Ribs were unchanged, at $7.40. WHEAT Cash No. 2 red, S9M:(T91c; No. 3 red, WsS90c; No. 2 hard, 83tfi't7c; -No. 3 hard, 80rdS3c: No. 1 northern, Sd'SSSc; No. 2 northern. &3'5S7c; No. 3 spring, SPffSSc. CORN No. 2, 42c: No. 3, 41V-C OATS No. 2, 30!ff-31o; No. 3", mifiiZniie. RYE Cash: fiKc; Dec, 64Vzc; May," 6SvSo. TIMOTHY March, J3.47. FLAX Cash: N.-W., $1.16; S.-W.. $1.10; May, $1.19. CLOVER Cash: $13.nn. BARLEY Cash: 37Vi-fi":c Chicago Markets. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth St. Telephone 4S6. HSU Chicago, Dec. 3D. Open High Low Close Yea WHEAT Dec rai-i-g $4 t3l S3 R3-V3 May 87H- &S?s "H ST?4-88 87-a July b3--k 83 S4' 83vi-S4 Corn 'C 44 443s 41 41 44' i May 4Pi- 44- 44ti 44i-H i July 44 44 44H 44ai 4444 OATS Dee...32ii 35 31 SVi 32ti- May S2fi 3fli 32'.- 32i PORK Jan 13 52 13 To 13 42 13 45 13 52 May ...13 S2 13 S2 13 72 13 75 13 82 LARD Jan 7 32 7 32 7 27 7 27 7 31 May 7 50 7 5 7 45 7 47 7 40 RIBS Jan 7 17-20 7 17-20 May 7 40 7 40 7 35 7 37 7 40 National Board of Trade, Kansas City. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth et. Telephone 48 Kansas City, Dec. 3i. Open High Low Close Yes WHEAT Dec 774 T714 May mVa Ki- 794 ""s 79i July 757j 76l,2 758 7ti 70 CORN Dec 40 401.4 39 394 SS- May 394 3ii 39r'a-s4 394 3si Julv H4 4tV4 40V 40Jg 4u1 OATS Dec S 2!ss 2914 2H 2914- Mav ...30 3014- 30 30-H 30- PORK Jan ....13 45 1 3 45 13 32 1 3 35 13 37 May ...13 72 13 72 13 65 13 67 13 72 LARD Jan 7 27 7 27 7 25 7 25 7 25 Slay 7 45 7 45 7 42 7 42 7 42 RIBS Jan 7 12 7 12 7 12 7 12 7 IB May 7 35 7 35 7 30 7 32 7 32 Kansas City Live Stock Market. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 30. CATTLE Receipts today, 100 head. Market steady. Native steers, $3.75"fTfi.0O; southern steers, $2.504.40; southern cows, $2.00ffi3.25; native cows andheifers, $2.004.90; stockers and feeders, $2.75ff?4.50; bulls, $2.2513.75; calves, $3.006.75; western fed steers, $3.25'a4.80; western fed cows, $2.25S3.50. HOGS Receipts today. 5,000 head, ket 5j7V2C higher. Bulk of sales, 5.13; heavy, So.lcKS.lT'-i; packers', 5.15; pigs and lights, $4.505.07:. SHEEP Receipts today, 2,000 Mar $5.0018 $0.00 head. Market strong to 10c higher. Muttons, $4.50S6.09; lambs, $0. Tuft 7.60; range weth ers, $5.40fr6.50; fed ewes, S!.j015.33. Chicago Live Stock. Chicago.Dec. 30. CATTLE Receipts to dav, 3e6 head. Market steady. Beeves. $3.2&g6.00; cows. $1.2.V(4.40; heifers, $2.30W 4.75; calves, $5.00ffi'7.00; good steers. $A20 6.00; poor to medium, $3.105.15; stockers and feeders, $2.2fa4.15. HOGS Receipts today, 13.000 head; esti mated Monday, 42.000 head. Market loc higher. Mixed and butchers', to.Oolla.Zo; good heavy, $5..Vi5.35; rough heavy, $0.00 (1(5.10: light, $u.iea.25; pigs, $4.7i)Si5.20; bulk of sales. $5.15i5.30. SHEEP Receipts today, 2.000 head. Market strong. Sheep, $3.405.90: year lings, $5.60t(.50; iambs. $3.757.90. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City. Dec. 30. Close WH EAT Receipts today. 12S cars. Quotations were steady and as follows: May. 80c; July, T6Sfcc. Cash: Dec. No. 2 c hard, 2 red, 79'jSHi,e: No. 3 hard, 77'i79V4c 889c: No. 3 red, 83S'S7c. CORN Market lower. Dec, 39Nic: July. 40c. Cash: No. 2 No. 397bc: May, mixed, 40c; No. 3 mixed, 40c; No. 2 white 40c; No. 3 white. 40c. OATS Market steady. No. 2 white, 31 314c: No. 2 mixed, 31c. RYE Market steady. 61c. HAY Market steady. Choice timothy, $12.25!fil2.50; choice prairie. $9.75W10.00. P. UTTER Market steady. Creamery,22c. EGGS Market steady. Fresh, 22c. Chicago Produce Market Chicago, 111., Dec. 30. BUTTER Mar ket steady. Creamery, 17'24c; dairy, 17 ii 22c. EGGS Market easier. At mark, cases included. Sa23e. CHEESE Market steady. Daisies and Young Americas. 13c; Twins, ll',-'all;c. POULTRY Alive poultry linn. Tur keys, 14c; chickens and springs. It?. Xfw Vork Protlnre Mnrfcet. New York, Dee. 3'L BUTTER Market steady. Street price: Extra creamery, 25 KGGS Market easjr. Western firsts, 27c; under grades, 2U'a2c. POULTRY Alive poultry firm. West ern chickens, 11c; fowls, 13.i; turkeys. 15c Dressed poultry quiet. Western chick ens. 8ft 16c: turkeys. 12S20c; fowls, 9312&C piT Wau.? J Frn .Liiluy.Ll LrA FREE TO STOCKMEN A beautiful six-leaf calendar wiU be sent by us ABSOLUTELY FREE TO EV ERY STOCKMAN who may ship his cattle, hogs or hep to market and who will write ua answering these questions: 1. How many head of sto?k have you? 2. What kind of stock have you, not Including horses! 3. When do you expect to market your stock? i I 4. To what market will you likely ship? 1 b. In what paper did you see this advertisement? This calendar will be ready for distribution In January. It in n exceptionally beautiful, artistic and costly production, printed In several colors, representing fox hunting scenes. It was made especially for us, can not be obtained elsewhere, and Is worthy a place in the finest home. WRITE US TOPAT. giving this infor mation and insure getting this calendar. Address CLAY, ROBINSON 3 CO., Stock Yards, Kansas City. We also have our own houses at CHICAGO SOUTH OMAHA SIOUX CITY. B. ST. JOB DENVER SOUTH ST. PAUL EAST BUFFALO Market Gossip. Furnished by the A. M. Mcuermott Com Mission Co., Stocks, Grams, Provisions and Investment Securities. Room 12. Columbian bids. Liverpool closing cables: Wheat lower; corn SsfHsd lower. Grain receipts at Chicago: Wheat, 24 cars; graded, 12. Corn, 521 cars; graded, 124. Oats, 15S cars; graded, 34. Northwest grain receipts today: Minne- apolis, 522 car rs; Dulutn, it cars. Weekly Grain Letter. Furnished by J. E. Gall, Commissions, Grains, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth St. Telephone 4i6. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 30, 1905. WHEAT Wheat was a pure holiday market, the range for the week being P4c and selling as low as SOVic At this price the Armour people bought heavily and turned the market up and closed it last night at STsc. The world's shipment for the week was a surprise, being 11,248,000 bu.. when only about 8.000,000 bu. was looked for. Broomhall accounts for this by 5V millions being shipped from the U. S. and Canada. The visible supply in creased 1,632.000 bu. on Tuesday, which loss than exDected. This brings the total visible in the U. S. and Canada up to 4O.4HS.0OO bu.. or 6l'5,000 more than last veiar at tills time. The market seems to be a puzzle to the trade; for example the government shows that we raised 140 million bu. more than last vear, while the visible supply since July 1 this year s hows almost the same increase as last year. It looks as though if we had 140 million more than last year, a irrcater accumulation at market cen- tn uhmilri show. Now we exported million bu. more this year than last to Hato and nerhaos we have used 4 or 5 million more for bread, so you see that if the government figures are correct we have about 110 million bu. more wheat on hand than we had last year at this time. Lat year we exported from Jan. 1 to Ju lv 1 i9 million bu., so you see we have about 90 million bu. left after deduction of 19 million; therefore we can spare 3V2 million bu. weekly and still replenish the exhausted reserves. Now, whether, the foreign countries will need this much de pends upon the Russian situation, which is verv bad at present. CORN Corn had plenty of excitement in store for the December shorts, the o'd style, which sold at 54c and the new style selling at 47c. The shorts in the May op tion did not get much excited over the December scare, as the time was short Saturday, being settlement day. The re ceipts were fairly large and the weather was fine for gathering and marketing, and corn is piling up at market centers. The total visible is now over 10V3 mil lion bushels, against 7,208,090 bushels last year. New York Stocks. Wall St., New York, Dec. 30. STOCKS Opening dealings in the stock market wpro very large and widely distributed, but changes were small. Several stocks were put higher after the opening, nota blv Amalgamated Copper and Smelting. The list in general ran off, speculators, who did not care to carry stocks oer, feeding them out quite lively. This sell ing drove the railroad list generally and al?o manv of the specialties a fraction below yesterday's closing. Amalgamated Copper and Smelting sud denly relapsed to a point under last night and Anaconda slumped to 8 points under last night. The closing was feverish and unsettled. Range of Prices on Stocks. Furnished by J. E. Gall. Commissions, Grain, Provisions, Cotton and Stocks. Office 110 W. Sixth st. Telephone 4s6. New York, Dec. 30. Stocks Snear On'n Ilich Low Ci'se Ves 153 153'4 152 152 153 lirfiTi nil lii I'll 301 People's Gas Amal. Copper B. R. T T. C. I X" P. Steel U. S. Steel, pfd Atchison, com Atchison, pfd C. G. W St. Paul R. I., com Wabash, com Wabash, pfd Mo. Pacific N. Y. Central Texas Pacific So. Pacific Reading Erie Union Pacific C. O B. O L. N l.isVi lHi l'K'i XK14 J9 M 13! 131 1"3' 42 431-4 42 H" 16H 8!4 132 132 42 43'i 1; 1(17 Sfltg S'i 105 1"5 D5 105 21 isi 34 24 20?4 105 21t4 181 24 2Ui 21 1S2 1S2 lM:i8 24U 24 24 204 4" 41 41 4i 41 mi 101 1"0U 1W4 153 153 153 153 1534 33 31 33 33 33 i;o fiov f0H 13s 1314 137 134 13SV4 44 494 4N 4S 49 151 151 15et4 150 15P.4 56 50 50'4 5fi!4 5S 113 113T 113 113 113 152 152 152 152 152 I I ni A Ul-. Katy Pennsylvania C. F. I Met. Traction 37 37H 3714 37 3714 144 144 143 143 1444 67 57 56 50 67 125 125 124',I 125 125'4 New York Money. New York. Dec. 30. MONEY Money on call nominal; no loans.Time loans strong; 60 days, 90 days and 6 months, 6 per cent and commission for shorter periods, mak ing the rate 7 per cent or more. CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper, 6 per cent; sterling exchange firm, with actual business in bankers' bills at $4.8640gu.S5 for demand and at $4.2!4.S214 for (W day bills; posted rates, $4.8-i(g 4.83 and 4.WVi 4.87; commercial bills, H.Sl'd4.SH4. SILVER Bar sliver, 64c; Mexican dol lars, 50c. BONDS Government bonds steady. Cotton Market. New York, Dec. 30. COTTON The ex change is closed today. Galveston, Tex., Dec. 30. COTTON No market. Topeka Market. Topeka. Dec. 30. Furnished by Charles WollT Packing Co. Yards close at noon on Saturdays. HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS' ..$4.65 ff4.77 HBAVI 4.75 C4.S2fi LIGHT 4.55 4.70 CORN FED CATTLE. STEERS $3.50184.50 HEIFERS 2.50A3.2O COWS 2.CX"300 BULLS li. 01 Kg 2. 50 CALVES 3.003.75 FAT CALVES (150S 200 lbs.) 4. 00 Send in only good calves, not half fat stock. Furnished by J. B. Billard, Central Mills. 534 North Kansas Ave.l NO. 2 WHEAT .733730 NO. 3 WHEAT 7173o NO. 4 WHEAT. 6o NO GRADE WHEAT sL, CORN v sio NO. 2 OATS 39o NO. 3 OATS 2,3 FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Furnished by S. E. Lux, 210 Kansas ave 1 FRUITS. COCOANUTS Per doz 5e. FLORIDA GRAPE FRUIT Per box. $7.00. ORANGES Per box, $2.65. APPLES Per bbl.. $4.00-4.50. BELLEFLEUR APPLES Per box $1 ti) HALLOWI DATES Per lb.6He; 'p&: age dates, per box, $2.25. LEMONS Per box, $3.75fJ.OO. GRAPES Catawba, 22c; Almeria, per bbl.. $6.0056.50. v CRANBERRIES Jersey, per bbl., $14 50 FIGS Per box, 80-"iS5c. BANANAS $2.00f?2. 85 per bunch. VEGETABLES. BEETS Per bu., 50e. TURNIPS Per bu., 60c. CARROTS Per bu.. 50e. PARSNIPS Per bu., 65c. POTATOES Kaw Valley, 6Sc per bu Colorado, 77c per bu. CELERY Blue ribbon, per bunch E5- SWEET POTATOES Per bunch. 75e CABBAGE Per cwt., $1.75. ONIONS Per bu., 90c. SPANISH ONIONS Per crate. 1 ts CANADA RUTABAGAS Per lb.. lc HUBBARD SQUASH Per doB.. $1 5 HONEY 24-raok case, $3 50. FULL CREAM CHEESE. KANSAS Y. A 14c lb. NEW YORK STATE (white)-15c lb BLOCK SWIR3-16C lb. BRICK loc lb. OYSTERS. NEW YORK EXTRA SELECTS Pr can, 35c. STANDARD Per can. 25e. NEW YORK COUNTS-Per can. 45c BULK OYSTERS. STANDARDS Per gal.. $1.40. j EXTRA SELECTS Per gal.. 11.75 BUTTER. EGGS. POULTRY Jobbers' Prices Furnished by Cone 1 Co.. 134 Kansas Ave f P POULTRY Hens. 7c lb.; Inrg-e springs 7e lb.: medium to small, ftioo lb tur keys, live. 15c lb.; ducks, live, 9c lb geese, live. 8c lb. EGGS-Fresh. 21c doz. COUNTRY Bt 1 r-K Fresh. 18S20e !h HAY Furnished by City Hay Quincy street.! Market, 417 $7.00-7 c0 7.6Vrrl? fj 9.009.50 5.50 10.00 B.00(g5.50 6.00 PRATRIE- Loose, per ton... PRAIRIE BALED ALFALFA Loose CANE v i ALFALFA Baled STRAW Per ton. baled KAFFIR CORN Baled Topeka Hide Market. Topeka, Dec. 30 Prices paid in Topeka this week, base on Boston Quotations! NO. 1 TALLOW iif- GREEN SALT CURED ....".il9

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HI! TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL. SATURDAY NIGH' I 11 ft lis li Leavenworth .Hasi Charged With a Serious Offense. Home Veteran Passes Counter feit Money Around. IJIVEN IIDI IN CHANGE. Valouris Newell Explains Where lie Got the "Stuff." i-- Had $20 Bill ttroken and Half Hollars Were Spurious. Leavenworth, Dec. SO. Valour is Newell, the second of the Home vet erans charged with carrying and dis posing of counterfeit money, had his preliminary examination before United States Commissioner Bond, and was bound- over to the April term of the United States district court. Newell's bund was set at $500, which ne 'svas unable to furnish, and he was re manded to the county jail. It Whs thought that much interest ins testimony throwing more light upon the actions of the two men would be developed at this examina tion, ,but beyond showing that Newell originally had the money, and gave it n, to Hayues, nothing new was intro- "J duced. iilieer Kvans of the local police force was the first witness. He said that when he interrogated Newell, the veteran told him he had been given j between $7 and $10 in counterfeit half dollars in Missouri, in part change for! a $20 bill. Newell told him that he j had never made an attempt to pass any of the money, but, at the request of Hay nes, gave of it to that indi vidual, warning him, however, not to make any attempts to pass it, as the money was bogus. Newell further told Evans that he had no more of the money, but the officer later found two f' cent pieces in the man's valise. These, said Newell in court, he had forgotten about. Detective Adams presented these coins in court, and Officer Kvans identified them as the same he had taken from Newell's valise. Under Sheriff Oscar Pasewark pro duced a counterfeit half dollar which he had taken from Newell when he arrived at the county jail. Hlieer Coldren and Deputy United Sates Marshal "Jack" Glynn were also called to the stand, but their testi mony was a mere repetition and cor roboration of what evidence had al ready been given. Newell made a statement in court, but it was simply a denial of any vol untary attempt upon his part to dis pose of the coins. "I knew they were bad," he said, "and kept them just because I thought things misrht turn out so I could use them some time against the men who passed the money on me. I told ilaynes when I gave him some of the money that it was bad, and warned him not to make an attempt to pass I I--"' Judging from .appearances, Newell is not a very hardened criminal, but his innocent looks may be acting. PIECE OF SI'ITKWORK. Driver of a Big Auto Dumps It in a Pitch ami Skips. only a few weeks ago the Star told the story of the disappearance of the I'e-u Brummel of automobile drivers from Independence under decidedly shady circumstances. It seems to run in the blood. Perhaps the pace of the machine gets into the veins At any rate another one has done 'lis em ployer a scurvy trick and shaken the dust of southern Kansas from his feet. Most people have1 noiieed the bi, splendid machine belonging to the Hunt Engineering company, which has been driven back and forth through the streets ever since work at the Mound commenced. The driver of this machine seems to have had a griev ance and a few days ago took the vehicle out about half way between Independence and Table Mound and deliberately, so it is said, ditched it. Then he flew the coop. The machine is in very bad shape. 1st dependence Star. A CROW I1AK EXPLODES. An Iola Smelterman the Victim of an Unusual Accident. Iola. Kan., Dec. 30. Mr. Davis, an employe of the Prime Western smelter, was painfully injured by the explosion of a crow bar. It may sound like a joke, but there was nothing humorous about it, for Davis. In attending to the furnace fires he uses a hollow steel bar. In some manner the bar became filled with water. Then when he used it in stirring the fire it be came so heated the water was turned into steam and exploded the bar. Davis was painfully burned about the face and neck as a result. IU VS AX SO-ACRE PEACH FARM. Gas City, Kan., Dec. 30. L. T. Mc liea. superintendent of the Prime Western Smelters, has just returned from a trip through Arkansas. Mr. McRea went into that country on pri vate business and while away pur chased an eighty-acre peach farm. rt: The 1 1 Between tie 1 and the ordinary shirt is the differ- tnce between these two pictures r between comfort and discomfort, f The Cluett goes "on end off like a f coat." Fast color fabrics and white. $1.50and more at best stores. C1X1TT, PEAB0BY CO., Trey, N. Y. Largest makers of Phlrts and Collars in l the world. 1 (S BUI S&i tff Mr. McRea Is not contemplating go ing into the peach business but bought the property merely for an investment. TO DISMISS ISVliBAXK. A Washington Report That the Lieu tenant Must Go. Leavenworth, Kan., Dec. 30 A Wash ington dispatch received here says that First Lieutenant Sidney S. Burbank and First Lieutenant David A. Snyder, both of the Sixth infantry, are to be dismiss ed from the service. The report is that President Roosevelt wall act on their cases as soon as he returns from his hunting trip and an effort is to be made to get Burbank off simply with dis missal. The dispatch says that the record of the case, now in the hands of the judge advocate of the army, shows Burbank was found guilty of embezzlement and conduct unbecoming a gentleman in his treatment of his Filipino wife, Mrs. Conception Vasquez. It says that Sny der was convicted of conduct unbecom ing an officer and gentleman in borrow ing money from enlisted men and that he is to be dismissed. Lieutenant Snyder was married while at this post to a daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Loughborough. While stationed here Lieutenant Snyder was tried by a court-martial and sentenced to six months' confinement on the reservation for neglect of duty. The statement that the men will be dismissed is not official, but is given on authority which is be lieved to be unimpeachable. AX APPEAL IX SLANDER SUIT. Mrs. Lyon Relieves Mrs. Lasli Has Damaged Her to Extent of $5,000. An appeal has been filed with the supreme court in the suit of Melinda V. Lyon against Goldie K. Lash. Mrs. Lyon brought suit in the Sedgwick county district court against Mrs. Lash for $5,000 damages. She alleged that Mrs. Lash had written a letter in which the accusation was made that Mrs. Lyon had misappropriated some of the property in the estate left by her husband. Mrs. Lyon considered that this letter slandered her and she brought the suit for $5,000 damages. When the case came up for trial in the Sedgwick county court Mrs. Lash's lawyers demurred to the petition and the court sustained the demurrer. It is from this decision that Mrs. Lyon appeals to the supreme court. PIES FOR THE TROOPS. Farmers' Wives Give Overland March ers a Treat. Junction City, Kan., Dec. 30. Letters from the Sixth battery, which left here last month on its 1, 000-mile march to Fort Sam Houston, indicate that the soldiers are meeting with unusual ex periences in time of peace. All along their route in Kansas people turned out to meet them. At different places farm ers stood at the roadside with big bas kets of apples and passed out the fruit, so that every soldier in the battery was well supplied. At one place near Farley. Kan., a farmer's -wife heard that the battery was coming that way, and she had enough pies baked and waiting for the 107 soldiers when they arrived at her place. All along the route in Kansas the battery was cheered every day. OBSERVED ST. JOHN'S DAY. Masons of Pratt Addressed by Judge Samuel Peters. Pratt, Kan., Dec. 30. The Masons held their annual St. John's day ban quet here. Caterer Gregory spread 160 plates in the opera house and the tables were full. Grand Master Samuel Peters of Newton was present and was given a thirty minute serenade after the pro gramme was rendered. Several dis tinguished Masons from other towns were present. Arrest of Another "Bad"' Man. Emporia, Kas., Dec. 30. Elija. Lock, a negro, said to be the "pal" of Charles Morris, who was captured here Wednesday afternoon after an exciting gun duel with the officers, was bound over to the district court after a hearing before a justice of the peace here. Lock was arrested Wednesday night after threatening to kill Tom Williams, an Emporia negro, whom he accused of "snitching" for the po lice and causing the arrest of Morris. Lock's bond was fixed at $200. He says he is a stonecutter of Carthage, Missouri. Bis: Gas Strike at Erie. Erie, Kas., Dec. 30. Whatever fear of a gas famine there may have been held here of late, is now entirely dispelled, for the Erie Gas and Min eral company of this place has just struck the strongest gasser ever struck in this section of the country. This well is on the Mossman farm, just northeast of this place. It is said that this well possesses sufficient volume and pressure to supply the entire town by itself should all the other wells fail entirely. Injured by an Electric Car. Leavenworth. Kas., Cc. 30. John Kumeskie. a Polish coal miner, was probably fatally injured by an electric car running over him at Richardson, south of the city, at 5 o'clock last evening. Kumeskie was attempting to alight when the car was in motion and he was thrown under the wheels. One of his legs was crushed off and the other injured. He was crippled before this last accident. Purchased by the Bell. Sedan, Kas., Dec. 30. The Missouri and Kansas Telephone company has bought out the Dosbrough Telephone company's lines and will take them over January 1. The sale includes the local plants at Caney, Peru. Sedan, Cedarvale, Hewins, Elgin, and Chau tauqua. The old company also had toll lines all over the country, west to Dexter in Cowley county and to Pawhuska, Osage nation. Gymnasium Site Chanjrcd. Lawrence. Kas., Dec. 30. The gym nasium building of the university has been relocated just west of the Fowler shops. An order will also be issued to move McCook field farther south. This will be fought stubbornly by the town people, who claim the field is already too far away from town. The Shock Drove Him Insane. Wichita, Kas., Dec. 30. Shock caused by the sight of the tragic death of Patrick Kennedy, who was killed by the explosion of the acetylene light plant at Mount Carmel academy a few days ago, has driven John A. Wight insane. He was so adjudged in the probate court here. Drowned While Skating. Paola, Kas.. Dec. 3 0. Irving Hunter, the 10-year-old son of Cyrus Hunter, a carpenter of this place, was drowned while skating on Bull creek Friday. His body was found late in the day. Dead in California. Lawrence, Kas.. Dec. 30. Alex Love, one of the oldest citizens of this county and an ex-sheriff, is dead in Riverside, Cal. The body will be brought home for burial RAILROAD ilEVJS. Whole Easiness Day Saved Be tween New York and Coast. Cortelyou Announces Change in Transcontinental Mail. DOES NOT GO THIS WAT Union PaciSc and Southern Pacific (Jet the Plum. Gossip and Matters of Interest in Railroad Circles. Washington, Dec. 30. Postmaster Gen eral Cortelyou announced yesterday what from a postal standpoint is re garded as one of the most important changes in railway mail schedules which has occurred in many years, af fecting all points in the east having business with points west of the Mis sissippi river. It becomes effective De cember 31. A change of the schedule on the Un ion Pacific railway between Omaha and Ogden, Utah, and the Southern Pacific between Ogden and San Francisco with supplemental changes on the Chicago, Burlington Quincy and Chicago Northwestern railroad between Chicago and Omaha, reduces the time of mail in transit between New York and San Francisco westbound and between the same points eastbound practically 24 hours. Heretofore, leaving New York at 3:15 a. m. Monday and Chicago at 2:45 a. m. Tuesday it reaches Ogden 3:45 a. m. Thursday and San Francisco at 12:48 noon Friday. Under the new schedule this mail will reach Ogden at 3 p. m. Wednesday and San Francisco 12:30 noon Thursday. Eastbound under the old schedule mail leaving San Francisco at 7 p. m. Monday passed Ogden at 8 a. m. Wednesday. Omaha 4 p. m. Thurs day, reaching Chicago 2:20 a. m. Friday, and New York 4 a. m. Saturdav. Under the new schedule the mail leaving San Francisco 6 p. m. Monday will pass Omaha 10:45 p. m. Wednesday, Chicago 10:30 a. m. Thursday, arriving at New York 11:53 a. m. Fridav A business day is saved each way. Direct connection is made from this train with a train from Green river, via Pocatello and Huntington to Portland, expediting mail for Oregon, Washington and Idaho 12 hours. Connection is also made with the San Pedro, Los Angeles Salt Lake railroad, putting mail into Los Angeles at 4:45 p. m. Thursday. PECULIAR SANTA EE WRECK. Man Falls Off Handcar and Causes Injury to Seven Others. San Bernardino, Cal., Dec. 30. There was another wreck a couple of days ago on the Santa Fe at Devore siding in Cajon pass, but this time it occurred to a hand car loaded with section men. Eight men, including Section Foreman John O'Rourke of Hesperia, were more or less seriously injured. The strange feature of the accident was that the de railment of the car was caused by one of the men, a Mex'ran. falling off the front end. It was derailed by running over him. All of the men were more or less bruised and injured and two of them had to be taken to the hospital at Los Angeles. Foreman O'Rourke and the men were coming over to Devote from Hesperia, to complete the fixing up of IRe track after the Salt Lake freight wreck. They were within one-fourth of a mile of where they were to work and were run ning quite rapidly, when suddenly D. Chavez, riding on the front of the car, in some manner lost his balance and fell forward on the track, the wheels of the car passing lengthwise over his arm, lacerating it seriously and breaking one of the bones. When the car was derail ed the balance of the party were all pitched forward on the track and down the hillside. ALTON ORDERS MOTOR CARS. Will Establish Local Sendee With Them in Illinois. Chicago, Dec. 30. Contracts have been awarded by the Chicago Alton road for six gaso-electric cars to be used in the establishment of interurban service between local points on that line throughout the state of Illinois. The intention is to divide up the line into sections of about twenty-five miles each and furnish this local service over these sections. By the use of the gaso-electric cars the operating officials of the road ex pect to cut down the expense of operat ing passenger trains from 30 cents to about 2 cents a mile. By the use of the new motive power they also will be able to increase the service materially and to furnish the patrons of the road with much more satisfactory accommodations in every way than possibly could be afforded by the ordinary trolley lines. The new service will be put in op eration just as soon as the cars can be built and delivered. It is expected that the first order will be increased ma terially. TROUBLE RAISING EXGIXE. Tender After Being Hauled Out of Sea Tumbles in Again. Los Angeles, Dec. 30. Santa Fe en gine No. 3, which took to the salty sea from a Redondo pier a few weeks ago was raised the other day from the wa ters, and the workmen were just con gratulating themselves that the big en gine was safe and sound on the pier again, when a large cable broke, and the tender portion of the engine went tumbling back into the sea. The en gine portion of the huge machine re mained on the pier and will be sent at once to the shops at San Bernardino for a general overhauling. The tender will be raised again. The method used in raising the engine is interesting. Lines of piles were driv en each side of the engine, and it was hoisted between them by means of A NIGHT CAP Take two Beecham's Pills on re tiring and avoid any ill effects from a late meal. Then you will sleep soundly, awaken with a clear head and a high opinion of the great stomach remedy, s r 5Hi h I Sold Everywhere. In boxes 10c and 25c strong cables. W'hen the engine was raised to the proper height timbers were placed crosswise under the engine from the piles, thus making a floor for it to rest upon. It is understood the engine is not seriously damaged. BURLIXGTOX ROAD IXDICTED. Charged With Two Officials Giving Rebates to Steel Company. Chicago, Dec. 3 0. An indictment was returned yesterday by the federal grand jury against the Chicago, Bur lington Quincy railroad, Darius Miller, the first vice president of the company, and C. G. Burnham, the foreign freight agent of the road, on a charge of granting railroad rebates. The indictment charges that the re bates were all granted to the United States Steel Products company, of New York, a subsidiary company to the United States Steel company. All of the shipments, on which the in dictment alleges rebates were paid, were made from six cities Elwood, Ind., Martin's Ferry, Ohio, Pittsburg, Pa., Newcastle, Pa., Cleveland, Ohio, and Joliet, III. to Vancouver, B. C. Twenty-six separate offenses are charged. The indictment further alleges that by an agreement between the defend ants and a number of connecting railroads a joint tariff was made and filed with the interstate commerce commission. The freight rates were paid, it is declared in the indictment, according to the tariff, but afterwards a rebate of about 30 per cent, was allowed to the shipper. In all cases the United States Steel Products com pany was the recipient of the money, according to the indictment. As soon as the indictment was laid before Judge Bethea in the United States circuit court he fixed bonds of $5,000 in each case and the officials of the Burlington road were notified to call and give bail to the amount of $15,000. which they agreed to do without delay. The greater part of the evidence upon which the indictment was voted is said to have been furnished by T. P. Alder, of New York, president of the United States Steel Products company; J. L. Moore, foreign traffic agent for the Burlington road, and G. W. Perry,-f'-eisrht claim agent .of the Great Northern road. LOCOMOTIVE OFF OX A TEAR. Rock Island Ensine Runs 35 Miles Alone Without Doins Damage. Knoxville. Iowa, Dec. 30. With the throttle wide open and a full head of steam on, a Rock Island railroad loco motive without a soul in the cab rush ed down the track Thursday night from Knoxville, traveled 35 miles northward, and died in a cornfield where it was found the next morning with its pipes frozen and otherwise disabled. The locomotive was brought into the house here and the fires had just been banked for the night, when a sudden jar threw the throttle open. With a bound the big machine leaped forward and be fore the astonished fireman, who had just climbed from the cab, could recover from his fright, the locomotive had gained headway and was beyond his reach. At Hawkeye, the first station out, the operator reported the engine going 30 miles an hour. At Flagler, the next station, the speed was being main- j tained as the ponderous machine thun dered by with all lights out. Four sta tions were passed quickly and then all trace was lost. I The Knoxville crew .secured a second engine and cautiously started down the track searching .for the runaway. At! daylight in the morning .-it was found1 standing on the track," the pipes frozen and the throttle open. This is a branch railroad, and no trains are run at night, otherwise a bad accident might have occurred. i S1IVZKI1 IX HARNESS AGAIX. OHice Engineer Returns to His Old Po sition With Santa Fe. William G. Smyzer, who resigned the position of office engineer in the depart ment of W. B. Storey, Jr., chief engi neer of the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railway company, with headquar ters here In Topeka, will resume his old work again on the first of the year. Because of illness Mr. Smyzer gave up his place last spring and he thought at the time that he would not be able to take up railroad work again. Since re signing he has passed most of his time along the California coast and the west ern climate has improved his health to such an extent that he now feels he will be able to undertake his old work and his old position has been given back to him. C. M. Buck, who has been doing the work during the absence of Mr. Smyzer has been appointed assistant engineer of the eastern grand division under J. M. Meade and F. R. Jones, the present occupant of that position, has been as signed to special work. Another change in the engineering department, which will be effective on the first of the year is the designation of George Rex. the engineer of the Kan sas City division, to go to Chicago and take charge of the construction of tne mammoth grain elevator which is to be built there. C. J. Skinner has been ap pointed to the place vacated by Mr. Rex. FIREMAX'S LAST LETTER. Wife Receives One of His Home Com ing on Morning He Was Killed. Dayton. Ohio, Dec. 30. Amos Hall, a fireman, who was crushed to death in a freight wreck at Cincinnati Thursday morning, resided at 1426 East Richard street, this city, with his wife and child. Mrs. Hall received a letter from her husband the morning he was killed ex pressing regret that he could not arrive home in time for Christmas, but that he fully expected to be here on New Y'ear's day. In his letter he wrote: "Dear Wife Merry Christmas to you all. We made a record-breaking trip to Columbus Saturday, covering 120 miles in two hours and twenty minutes. I am half tickled to death to know that I am coming home soon." Fireman HafTwas 22 years of age and had been married one year. He resided with his parents. ARKANSAS CITY VOTES. Will Is?ue $22,000 in Bonds to Aid Intel-urban Road. Arkansas City, Kan., Dec. 30. The proposition to issue $22,000 in bonds for the aid of the Kansas-Oklahoma interurban railroad carried here yes terday by a large majority. There was little opposition to the bonds and the proposition's popular. The road is to extend from Chilocco, Okla., to Ar kansas City and then to Winfield. with street car systems in the two towns. Winfield wili vote bonds for aid of the road there. Later the road will be ex tended to Geuda Springs and may con nect with the prooosed line from New kirk, Okla., to Guthrie. PRIVATE CAR REBATE CASE. Government Wins First Round and It Will Be tried on Merits. Milwaukee. Wis., Dec. 30. The United S tates government won the first victory yesterday in the private car rebate prosecution against the Pabst Brewing company, the Mil waukee Refrigerator Transit company, and six railroad companies. Judge A, L. Sanborn of Madison n -n XJ) l i l -a k handed down a decision overruling the demurrers of the Chicago, Rock Island Pacific Railway company and the Pabst Brewing company, and also denied the motion of the latter to strike out certain "slanderous allega tions" in the complaint. There is no appeal from this decision and the case must now go to a trial on its merits. XO PASSEXGER OX LIMITED. Pennsylvania's Star Train Runs a Long Way Without a Fare. Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 30. It was made public here yesterday that the magnificent limited train on the Penn sylvania railroad, the New York Chicago eighteen-hour flyer, made the run from Jersey City to Pittsburg on Christmas day without a single pas senger on board. It left Jersey City at 11.14 a. m. without a passenger, stopped at Phila delphia, Harrisburg and Altoona, and took on no passengers, and went into Pittsburg at 9:35 passengerless. It is the first time in the history of the road that such a thing has happened. The train carried a conductor, two brakemen, a baggageman, engineer and fireman, a Pullman conductor, three porters, a matron, and the dining car force of chefs and waiters. The passing of an express train through Pennsylvania on the Pennsyl vania railroad without a fare is un precedented in the history of the com pany. SEVERED LEG, CLUE TO DEATH. Santa Fe Porter Crushed Under Wheels Near Trinidad. Trinidad. Co., Dec. 30. When west bound Santa Fe passenger train No. 7 pulled into this station a few days ago, a car inspector found a human leg lying on the brakebeam of the forward bag gage car. The leg was that of a colored man and the clothing indicated that it came from a train porter. An inv esti gation developed that E. McLenore, one of the porters, was missing. An engine was secured and several men started back on a search. A half mile back pieces of the body were found strewn along the track. At the Colo rado Southern crossing a mile erst of Trinidad were found the head and trunk of the body. McLenore had flagged a passenger train at the crossing and it is supposed that he slipped and fell under his own train when boarding it. HELD UP Iff HIS ROOfii. Theatrical Agent Is Forced to Write Check for $2,750. Seattle, Wash., Dec. 30. Mose Gold smith, a theatrical booking agent, was held up in a room of the Lincoln hotel, one of the most fashionable hostelries in Seattle, by a man who gave his name as Burke, and was "made to pay over $2,750. Yesterday Goldsmith received a tele phone message from Burke who said he was from Butte, Mont., and had $18,000 to invest and would like to buy an in terest in Goldsmith's theatrical busi ness. Today Goldsmith aeceived a telephone call from Burke from the Lincoln hotel, asking him to come up and talk over the deal. Goldsmith went to a room on the top floor. The first thing Burke did was to tell Goldsmith to read a letter lying on a table in the room. This letter stated that Burke needed $2,750 very badly and if Goldsmith did not 'come through' with that amount his head would be shot off. Goldsmith turned to his companion and looked down the barrel of a revolver. "Write out a check for the amount," commanded Burke, "and send the hotel clerk to the bank for the money, $500 in gold and the balance in $100 bills." Goldsmith did as told and called up Cashier Lant of the Scandinavian bank to say the check was all right and pay the same as directed. The hotel clerk, F. R. Fleming, was called to the room, Burke keeping Goldsmith covered and shielding the gun from Fleming. After Fleming had gone Burke told Goldsmith to order drinks for two which he did, and after the clerk re turned with the money he ordered two more for wlfich Goldsmith paid. He then made Goldsmith go into the bath room and warned him to make no out cry for 15 mi: utes. He then locked the door and left. ave a Friend? Then tell him about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Tell him how it cured your hard cough. Tell him why you al ways keep it on hand. Tell him to ask his doctor about it. Doctors know it. They use it a great deal for all forms of throat and lung troubles. We fcjve bo secrets I We obli8h j, c. Ayr Co. tbe formulas oi sit our asedtciaes. Lowe:,, Mm. V-T with "feift The best test of any food is the ability to work well on it; sleep well after it; keep well by it. No article of food ha3 stood this test so well so long as the soda cracker. No soda cracker has stood this test so satisfactorily as Uneeda Biscuit Babies have thrived on them strong men have kept strong on them; sick folks have lived on them; well folks have kept well on them. i i J-r 4 I f i V '.iff are always fresh and crfsp that's why they are so good pure and clean that's why they are so wholesome all food and nourishment that's why they are so healthful. Millions have learned this and profited by it Lave you? The knowledge costs you only a nickeL NATIONAL. BISCUIT COMPANY ARDOtl REFUSED. Governor Hoch Declines to Lib erate Arthur E. Irelan. Strike Leader Must Serve Out His Sentence. SIX MONTHS IN JAIL. He Has Already Served One of Them. Governor Says He Must Sustain Judgment of Court. Governor Hoch has refused to grant a pardon to Arthur E. Irelan, the Santa Fe strike leader, and on Friday afternoon made public a letter setting forth his reasons for the action. This is the action which the State Journal yesterday announced would likely be taken. Arthur E. Irelan. Strike Leader, Who was jjemed a Fardon by Governor liOCll. Irelan will have to serve out the re maining five months of his six months' sentence, which he received for slug ging a strike breaker named J. D. Harrity in the back of the head with a rock. The offense was committed in Arkansas City, and Irelan is now in the Cowley county jail at Winfield. A copy of the letter was sent to Judge W. R. Smith of the Santa Fe and to C. T. Atkinson, who represent ed Irelan. The letter follows: "I have given careful consideration to the petitions, letters and documents filed with me and have heard the oral arguments in support of and opposed to the application of Arthur E. Irelan for pardon. The application for par don is supported by many individuals and the united strength of many labor unions and federations. The opposi tion i3 represented by many indi viduals and the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad company, through its officials. Each side is represented by able counsel, each side has pre sented the ease with earnestness and appaient deep feeling.. "The grounds for the application are: First, that the defendant is not guilty of the offense charged against him; second, that his conviction was the result of a conspiracy of officers and detectives; third, the jail at Win field is so foul and filthy that it is a place unfit for any prisoner; fourth, if the defendant is guilty of any offense the punishment already endured by him is sufficient. "Were I, as governor, permitted to indulge my personal feelings and sym pathies and grant pardons according ly. I might reach a decision different from the one I have reached: or. were I permitted by my duty and by the law to grant or withhold pardons ac cording to the power, influence and numbers of those who support or re sist applications, my conclusion in this case might be different from whit it is. I cannot, I must not, allow my sym pathies to control my decision in par don cases. To do so would be to re lease the great majority of those who apply for pardon. The pleas and peti tions to the executive from the child ren, wives, mothers and sisters of the convicted men would empty every cell if the governor's sympathy were the only key. To grant or withhold a par don according to the greater power, influence and number supporting or opposing the application would be to ignore the law and render a decision without regard to the merits of the case. My duty demands that I uphold and sustain the judgments of the courts instead of nullifying them. The reasons must be clear and strong to justify granting a pardon. "The chief ground relied upon by NwfMK" 1 UJ"' u"jy '7

FT' r f s E s Li" the applicant is that he is innocent the charge against him. The jur, found him guilty; the trial courl approved the verdict; the suprem court affirmed the decision. It is not now claimed that there is new or oth er evidence than that produced at the trial. I am asked to consider the same record evidence as it was before the courts and make a finding of innocence contrary to the finding of the jury and the decisions of the courts. This I can not do. "On the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, I consider the decisions of the supreme court as conclusive and binding upon us. The supreme court says: 'Appellant also claims that the ver is contrary to the evidence. I have ex amined the record and find that it con tains abundant evidence that appellant assaulted Harrity and struck him upon the back of the head with a rock as large as a man's fist, wounding and staggering him. The blow was a severe one and was struck while Harrity was standing with his back to appellant not expecting an attack, and without provo cation or warning. The jury inspected and examined the rock and found that the assault did endanger the life of Harrity and we cannot weigh the testi mony or disturb their findings.' "Whatever there was in the charge of conspiracy to convict was for the con sideration of the courts in considering the credibility of the testimony. It is not for us to measure that credibility. "The condition of yie Cowley county jail is not a matter to be considered by me as a reason for granting a pardon. If one man sentenced to that jail should be pardored for such action, then all men sentenced should be pardoned for the same reason. The condition of the jail is a proper subject to present to the county commissioners of 'hat coun ty, who should make proper and suit able provisions for the care of all the county's prisoners. The offense of which the defendant was con victed is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail not less than six months or in the penitentiary for a period not to exceed five years. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for six months. Considering that he has re ceived the minimum sentence, I cannot say that a shorter period, such as he has already served, is sufficient punish ment. "Holding the views of the case here expressed, I decline to interfere with the judgment of the courts." SEVEN GO TO PRISON. Found Guilty oi Conspiracy In Con nection With a Strike. Chicago, Dec. 30. Five officials of the Carriage and Wagon Workers union of Chicago, and two of their al leged hired' sluggers, who have been on trial in the criminal court for con spiracy, were found guilty and sen tenced to the penitentiary. The se verest punishment was inflicted on Charles Gilhooley, leader of the al leged gang of sluggers. Besides re ceiving a sentence to the penitentiary, he was also fined $2,000. The other union men who were found guilty were Henry Newman, financial secre tary of the Carriage and Wagon .Work ers' union No. 4; Charles Casey, secre tary of the union; Edward Shields, re cording secretary; Charles H. Deutsch, member of the executive board; John Heiden, member of the executive board, and Marcus Looney, one of the alleged hired sluggers. Frank Novak, another memtser of the executive board, was found not guilty. FOR LAND FRAUDS. Son of Mayor Letson of Horton, Ivan., Reported Under Arrest. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 30. J. C. Pettijohn, who was recently removed from the of fice of receiver of the Valentine land office, has been arrested upon a com plaint filed by United States Attorney Bush by direction of the attorney gen eral's office. Pettijohn is charged with subornation of perjury, conspiracy in securing fraudulent land entries and un lawfully inclosing government lands. Attorney Tucker, of Valentine, was also arrested for alleged complicity in the land frauds. Word has also been re ceived by the federal authorities here of the arrest of Edward Letson, son of Mayor Letson, of Hortou, Kan., in the same connection. It is announced that other arrests wiil follow very shortly. AILIMG PEOPLE Try tlie Bitters It has restored hundreds of sickly people to robust health during Its 52 years' experience and it will help you, too. It will strengthen the en tire system and cure Heartburn, liloating, Nausea, Poor Appetite, In digestion. Dyspepsia. Costiveness, Chills, Colds, Gripie, or Malaria. Try it today, also ask your druggist for a free copy of our 1906 Almanac. HOSTETTERS' STOF.lfXH BITTERS t

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ENTERTAIN and M be ENTERTAINED j j During the holidays by play- fj ing the new parlor game j Joker Poker i! f j Now on Bale at I I lall Stationery Company i i and Crosby Brothers. j SAIOKB KLAUGR'S QOLD BUQ Tv i b CENT CIGAR. IOO'IBAIJ, COMMITTEES Organize and Confer Kut Take No Pointed Action. Philadelphia, Dee. SO. The corn miitee of seven appointed by the New York conference on football to con fer with the intercollegiate football rules committee now in session in this city met last night and organized bv selecting Dr. H. L. Williams, of Min jfesota university, chairman, and Dr. G. A. Babbitt, of Baverford college, secretary. Late in the" evening the committee of seven was invited to confer with the original football rules committee. After a Ions; conference the intercolleeiate football rules com mittee decided that its members had IiO power without first consulting their respective universities to amalgamate --ith the committee appointed by the Kew York conference. The' old com mittee will confer with the new as soon as possible. A Frightened Horse, urging hke mad down the street dump ','e tr'e (KturaMs. or a hundred other ac iijents. are every day occurrences. It be ooves everybody t. have. a reliable salve andy and there's none as good as Buck ''I's Arnica Bive. Burns, cuts, sores, -?ema and piles disappear quickly un-"i-'a s,)oshii!!r effect, 25c at the Arnold Co., tJL Kansas ftv V-' 1 i.Peopie sending items to this deoarxment ot ihe State Journal will confer a favor by giving the. full first name or two imtiiiis, wltn all proper nairnes. Items must be accompanied by tue name and Published.! A delightful event of the holiday sea son was the Helianthus dance at Stein berg's last night which was attended by an unusually large company, many of the Ruests being from out of town, and which was characterized by the spirit of informality and gaiety which make all the Helianthus parties so enjoyable. Among those m attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Dean K. Low of Chelsea, I. T., Mr. and Mrs. Georpre Butteriy of St. Joseph, llr. and Mrs. Arthur Lingafelt of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Smith of Kansas City, Mrs. Dorr Nor ton of Kansas City, Miss Mary Lane Johnson of Kansas City, Miss Es-ther Hax- of St. Joseph, Xuss Scandrett of Faribault, Minnesota, Miss Lottie Atchi son of Leavenworth. Miss Helen John son of Oskaloosa, Miss Rose Zanoni of Fort Smith, Arkansas, Minnie Price of Kansas City, Miss Nellie Rugg of In dependence, Missouri. Miss Emma Hazelbart and Mr. Sam Hazelbart of Pittsburg, Fa., Miss Norma Wheeler of Kansas City, Miss Josephine Smith of Minneapolis. Minnesota. Miss Florence Heizer of Osage City, Miss Caroline Dickey of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mr. Day Karr of Seattle. Washington, Mr. Adrian Sherman and Mr. Lyle Orr of Kansas City, Mr. Clarence Ryan of Leavenworth, Mr. Wallace Thompson of the City of Mexico, Mr. George Hig ginbotham of Rossville, Mr. C. B. Hos ford of Lawrence. Mr. Lester Charles of Cedar Rapids. Iowa, Mrs. J. G. Fleish man. Mis. Myrtle Davis Gage. Mr. and Mrs. James Xi. King. Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Barber. Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Reid. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Alden. Mr. and Mrs. Don Mulvane, Mr. and Mrs. George Fleishv man, Mr. and Mrs. Everett B. Akers, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Drechsel. Mr. and .Mis. Arthur Hargis, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hilton, Mr. and Mrs. Ed ward B. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Patten, Mr. andjlrs. Clarence Poindex ter. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Ware, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Mohler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam W. Wikidal. 'Miss Helen Thomp son. Miss Alice Lakin, Miss Elizabeth Meade. Miss Virginia Meade, Miss Hazel Mulvane, Miss Ethel Davis, Miss Ella Davis, Miss Helen Smith, Miss Eva Smith. Miss Isabel Smith, .Miss Allabelle Troutman, Miss Helen' Otis, Miss Fay Quinton. Miss Mary Dallas Gage, Miss Isadel Heath, Mtss Sue Rod gers. Miss Grace Walworth, Miss Fanny Funk. Miss Jeannette Ware, Miss Flor ence Rossmgton, Miss Alice Rossington, Miss Margaret Johnston, Miss Louise Wood, Miss Dorothy Wilson. Miss Helen McClintock, Miss Elvia Mills paugh. Miss Nellie Millspaugh. Miss Margaret Jones. Miss Maud Grimes, Miss Nannie Yeale, Miss Louise Kellam, Miss. Calla Cuttell, Miss Anna Herbs t, Miss Edna Herbst, .Miss Esther Raueh, Miss Ethel De Obert, Miss Berenice Fuller, Miss Emma Smith, Miss Nellie Baker, Miss Jessie Payne, Miss Reita. Cpdegraff. Miss Virgil Cain, Miss Lucile Pollock, Miss Elanor Wheeler. Miss JeJannette Walcott, Miss Margaret Gar vey, Mr. Thomas L. King. Mr. Hugh Mc Farland. Mr. Pan .McA'iranr r Mr. .Henry Scandrett, Mr.'r .Scaslrttt,, i Mr. Leslie Guild, Mr. Walter Burgess,' Mr. Edwin Curry, Mr. Julian Sydnor, Mr. John Waters, Mr.' Luther -'Nliis. Mr. Joseph Morgan, Mr. T.h.eo .Snat linger, Mr. Irwin Snattiitger, Stir. llif Felix, Mr. James Stewart. Mr. Will Stewart. Mr. Dana Davis, Mr. Harold Copeland, Mr. Bernard Crosby, Mr. Frank Gahagan. Mr. George Allen, Mr. Walker Cain. Mr. Warrick Updegraff, Mr. Harry Donaldson, 'Mr.-'Beu, Johnson, Mr. Charles B. Howe, Mr.,' Reuhen Spivey. Mr. Fay Thompson, Mr. Clay Hamilton, Mr. George Hood. Mr. Sam Fleishman. Mr. John Fleishman. Mr. Harry Fleishman, Mr. Frank Jones, Mr. George Mitchell, Mr. Art Wolf. Mr. George Thompson, Dr. Hal Hazlett, Mr. Allen Lauck, Mr. Walter Hayes, Mr. Paul Sweet. M. Jay E. House, Mr. Harry H. Hamilton, Mr. Dan Hammatt, Mr. Harold Colburn. Mr. Monte Kist ler, Mr. Tinkham Veale, Mr. George Veale III. Mr. Clyde Corbett, Mr. Joe j Risteen, Mr. Stanley Reed, Mr. Todd Matthews, Mr. Lew Graham, Mr. Roy j Thompson. Mr. Paul Mulvane. Mr. j Harry Eagle. Mr. Marlin Poindexter; Mr. Frank Sturgis, Mr. John Heller, Mr. I Clair Faulkner, Dr. Otto Kiene, Mr. Karl Henderson, Mr. Clarkson Mills paugh. Mr. Denton H. Painter, Mr. I Frank Joeis, Mr. Burns Williams and i Mr. Safford Chamberlain. A New Year's receiving party at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Clark Harmon, '.115 Buchanan street, Mon day will include Miss Nellie Rugg of Independence. Mo., who is Mrs. Har mon's guest. Miss Nellie Baker, Miss Louise Kellam. Miss Calla Cuttell, Miss Anna Herbst. Miss Edna Herbst. Miss Berenice. Fuller. Miss Allabelle Trout man and Miss Calla Cuttell. The hours of receiving will be from 2 to 6 o'clock and the voting ladies will entertain a corresponding number of men at cards for the evening. Mrs. George Fleishman is entertain ing a few friends very informally to day for Mrs. Hazelbart and Miss Ha zelbart of Pittsburg. Pa., who are guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Fleish man. Miss Berenice Puller is giving an in formal afternoon today for Miss Nel lie Rugg of Independence who is visit ing Mrs. John Clark Harmon and Miss Helen Johnson of Oskaloosa who came to Topeka Friday for the Heli anthus dance and to spend Sunday with Miss Fuller. She will leave Mon day for Holton to visit Miss Mary Hayden. Miss Nellie. Baker will give a party for Miss Nellie Rugg of Independence Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll B. Merriam gave a dinner last night for Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Black of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene S. Quinton, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore D. Hammatt, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Crawford and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Capper. Mr. Xrthur Gray's guests at a din ner given at his home in Potwin last night for Mr. Dick Hall and Mr. Robert Pierce were Mr. Hall, Mr. r-ierce. iviiss Alice wuiarci, .Miss Alice Larimer. Miss Marian Thompson, Miss Hazel Howe, Miss Katharine Kellam, Mr. Quinton Adams, Mr. David Gray. Miss Lucy Dickinson entertained in formally about twenty five friends yes terday afternoon at her house, 9 27 King street, for Mips Maud Nyhart of Burlington, Miss Ruth Bogue of Chi cago and Miss Lydia Siofter of Hia watha. Miss Winifred McDonald gave a party at her home on Buchanan street yesterday for some of her girl friends. Sliss Jessie MifclcUoJi is Eiviajj an af ternoon party at her home, 634 Taylor street, today for some of her girl friends. Mrs. Frank A. Robinson is entertain ing the Croneia club at cards today in compliment to Miss Minna Bauer who is home from the L'niversity of Chi cago for the Christmas recess. The guests are the Misses Bauer, Mr. Karl B. MacDowell, Misses Anna and Etta Beck, Miss Margaret Gilfiilan, Miss Frances Funk, Miss Agnes Burdge, Miss Caroline -Roser. Miss Sadie Shull. Miss Nellie Kirk. Miss Bess Elder, Miss Elizabeth Ga vitt, Miss Ida Tinker, Miss Maul Yaxi Houten, Miss Lily Hanson. The B. P. C. class of the First Con gregational Sunday school gave a dinner last night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Fox. Covers were laid for twenty-four. The house was decorated with Christmas greens and garlands, and the table flowers were red carnations. The company in cluded Miss Kearns, Miss. Strauss, Miss Mabel Gallagher, Miss Zellers, Miss Allie Wingett, Miss Ellis, Miss Grace Wilcox, Miss Travis, Miss Ethel Kingsley, Miss Barbara Ripley, Miss Snyder, Mr. E. B. Smith of Overbrook, Mr. Ralph Ford, Mr. Paul Little, Mr. Byrne Thacher, Mr. Ralph Forbes, Mr. George Boone, Mr. Will Bates, Mr. Harry Bates, Mr. Hiram Kingsley, Mr. Will Thayer, Mr. Lyman Keys, Mr. Fox. Mrs. T. A. Beck entertained the E. O. W. Whist club'yesterday afternoon. Miss Etta Beck played for Mrs. Willis Edson. The club will meet in a fort night with Mrs. F. Silas Rain at Mrs. Frank Crane's home. Notes antl Personal Mention. Mr. George Funke, of Denver, was in Topeka yesterday on business and was the guest of Mr. Charles L. Mitchell. Mr. Funke married Miss Charlotte Page, of Denver, formerly of Topeka. Judge Robert Heizer, of Osage City, is in town to see "The Virginian" to night. His daughter, Miss Florence Heizer, has been the guest of Mrs. Charles L. Mitchell for a few days. Mr. Clarence Ryan,, of Leavenworth, was the guest of his sister, Mrs. Wil liam E. Drechsel, for. the Helianthus dance last night. Mr. and Mrs. George Butteriy and Miss Esther Hax. of St. Joseph, who were guests of Mr. Walter Burgess for the Helianthus dance last night, returned to St. Joseph this morning. Mrs. William Day will go to Kansas City Monday to spend a month. Miss Nellie Wilhelmi will sail from New York January 6 for Europe. Miss Norma Wheeler, of Kansas) City, is the guest of Mrs. George Port Ashton. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Fruer, of Lincoln, Neb., arrive today to be guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott Davis over New Year's. They have been visiting Mrs. Fruer's parents in Leav enworth. Miss Calla Cuttell has returned from a visit to Miss Ann Ryan, in Leavenworth. Miss Lucile Mills will go to Leaven worth to sjend New Year's day. Miss Carrie Watson and her guests. Miss Priddy and Miss Nicholson of Chicago, -were in Topeka Thursday, when Miss Watson read a paper on "Co-operation of Libraries and Schools" before the teachers' associa tion. Miss Watson is librarian at the University of Kansas. Mrs. Charles Spencer, of Iola. will visit Mrs. Eugene II. Ware next week. Miss Anna Troutman is visiting in Lawrence and will return the first of the week accompanied by Miss Orelchen Rankin: who" will be. her guest for the Owl-Ltimbda Alpha party Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Blood Smith is in Kan sas City for a visit to her sister, Mrs. A. L. Murphy. Mrs. Lee Redden Gordon of Waters, Ok., is the guest of Mrs. L. IT. Munn. The Misses Dunning of Bedford. Iowa, who were guests of Mrs. R. E. Weaver, have returned home. Mrs. Frank Dun ning will prolong her stay until next wee!'.. Mrs. Bliny Sopor has returned to her home in Muskogee. I. T., after a visit to her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Farnsworth. Mrs. W. S. Albright and Miss Anna Ruder and the Albright children return ed today from Leavenworth where they spent the past week. Miss Florence Lewis, who returned f! I t i 1 Ml I i --3 I 1 -J i-i i f 1 i 4 i i t t i i j s 1 it I J I V 1 j r V..' J To treat Pimples and Blackheads, Red, Rough, Oily Complexions, gently smear the face with Cuti cura Ointment, the great Skin Cure, but do not rub. Wash off the Ointment in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water, and bathe freely for some minutes. Repeat morning and eveninc. At other times use Cuticura Soap for bathing the face as often as agree able. No other Skin Soap so pure, so sweet, so speedily effective. 'ieat properties derived from C:J'i; !d erool- Cere, -wini tut preK of cleaurine itffrrd'en and th rrtir Drug ft Chem. Corp.. Sol, Proo... Eomon ar-ilii-co 1 rco, -How '.o l'rerre, Funsj, aa BeotifT.- Ere: lit hi hUl nP iii.i i f nil i T7- WTednesday from a visit to Parsons, is confined to her house .with a broken ankle the result of a fall Thursday.. Mr. and Mrs. John Fraliek have re turned to Chieajto after a visit-to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur- Capper. Mr. C. B. Hosford ot Lawrence is the guest of Mr. Clay Hamilton. He came for the Helianthus dance last night and will spend Sunday in Topeka. Mr. Ed O'Neill and his daughter, Octavia, went to Hiawatha today to spend Sunday and New Year's day. Miss Delia Frazer, of Lawrence, is the guest of Miss Anna Harrison today. Mr.' Morton Albaugh and his son, Houghton, are In Kingman for a few days. Miss Helen Moon has returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. Charles Haines of Sabetha. Miss Wilhelimie Priddy and Miss Carrie Nicholson of Chicago, who were guests of Miss Isadel Heath for a few days, left yesterday for Lawrence Where they are visiting Miss Carrie W'atson. Miss May Wilson of Catoosa. I. T., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. William C. Hilton., Mr. and Mrs. Flint B. Aniba of Marquette, Mich.r, and Mrs. Samuel T. Fulton of Chicago, who were guests of Mrs. Annie Payne, Miss Payne and Mrs. W. R. Falkiner, left for their homes yesterday. Dr. Martha McCoy has gone to Ho bart. Ok., to spedn New Year's. Miss Flora J. Henry of Des Moines, Iowa, is the guest ot Mrs. Elliott and Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Elliott. Mrs. John G. Eagan of St. Louis, who was formerly Miss Bartholomew, arrived to day, to visit Mrs. Charles S. Elliott, her sister. Mrs. Li B. McClintock has returned from a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. McClintock of Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Arthur Holbrook, of Kansas City, is the guest of the Thomas E. Dewey family who have returned from a visit to Abilene. Miss Idah Xaugherty has returned home from Illinois where she attended the funeral of her sister, Mrs. P. F. Brady. Misses Cliffie and Mildred Metzger of Stafford are visiting their sister, Miss Emily Metzger, during the holidays. Mrs. E. L. Pinkerton of 4 23 Polk street, who -went through a severe operation at Christ hospital, Novem ber 27, returned home last Saturday and is able to see her friends. John F. Eby went to Kansas City today. Mr. and Mrs. George Wheeler Feakins or Buffalo, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Feakins of Omaha. eb., are spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Jason Mandel Hill, 720 Lincoln street. The Standard Shorthand school teaches a standard system of short hand bv improved methods,- saving from two to three months' time. Its pupils write business letters from dic tation, "every word in shorthand,' be ginning with the first lesson. Call and investigate. 6 30 Kansas avenue. HE WANTS TO TALK. Carlisle Asks to Be Heard in Reed Sisioot Case. Washington, Dec. 30. Senator Bur rows, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, contemplates calling a meeting of the committee for next Saturday to consider matters which have arisen in connection with the investigation of the protest against Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah. Action will be determined by the presence of a quorum of the committee. If it appears that there are in.. the city nearly all the members of the committee a., meeting will be held if not;, the. meeting will go over until next week. When the com mittee held Its last session to consider the case it was understood that all of the evidence was in, although further evidence was not burred if the commit tee, desired to hear other witnesses. The arguments rf counsel have, been made but Senator Burrows has been in formed bv former Secretary of the Treasury John G. Carlisle, who is one of the attorneys for the Protestants, that he w ould" like to make an argu ment in the case: It will be for the committee to determine whether Mr. Carlisle will be heard. ONLY 1,100 TO STRIKE. Announcement of Situation -from Typographical X'nion Headquarters. New York. Dec. 3 0. The official announcement is made at the head quarters of the typographical union that 4.900 printers will be granted the eight-hour day Tuesday. The fol lowing firms granted the demands yesterday: American Lithographic company. Francis Press, Martin Brown company, and Munsey's Mag azine company. Union officials de clare that two-thirds of the employ ing printers in this city would grant the eight-hour demand, and that it would be necessary for only 1,100 men to strike.- ACCIDENTAL KILLING. Farmer Kernes iets Contents of a Gun in His Chest. Axtell. Kas., Dec. 30. M. B. Kernes, a prominent farmer living two and a half miles southeast of this place, was accidentally shot and killed this morning. Mr. Kernes lost his wdfe some two, years ago. and this leaves the three small children orphans. Mr. Kernes started to the field to work, laying his shotgun in the bot tom of the wagon and walking behind, when the gun was discharged, the con tents going through the endgate and penetrating Mr. Kernes" breast, kill ing him instantly. Xo Wonder Coon Appeals. S. A. Coon, who was run down by a Santa Fe switch engine and badly hurt at Emporia, has appealed to the su preme court from the decision of the lower court in a damage suit which he brought against the Santa Fe for $52,000. Coon, claims that he stepped off a train and the engine struck him, crippling him for life. The lower court assessed the costs, amounting to $3 80, against Coon. Revolution Imminent. 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New York, Dee. 30 When Charles T. erkes, the capitalist, who died yester day, made his will several years ago he announced that he had left his col lection of Rictures and objects of art and his two. houses at Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth fetreet in this city to the Metropolitan Museum of Xft. This property is worth about $5,000,000 The houses themselves are a veritable art museum. It is said among his friends that this provision of his will remains unaltered. Among M,r. Yerkes' most treasured possessions is a collection of Oriental rugs that is said to be the finest and most costly in the world, even exceed ing in value and beauty the collection of the shah of Persia or that in the British museum. These rugs are 3 in number and are hung upon the walls siiiciy mat. jvir. xerkes had built especially for them. Several years ago he had the designs copied in their original colors and re duced to book form. The paintings are comprised in a set of 10 volumes, one of which was to re main in the Yerkes collection and the nine others to be presented to the most famous museums of the world. Each rug was copied separately and each painting is about two feet long. Among the rugs is the "Holy Carpet," for which Mr. Yerkes paid $60,000. Some of the others are represented as almost priceless treasures. In 1897 Mr. Yerkes purchased and re built the large mansion at Fifth ave nue and Sixty-eighth street. In this he put his collection of painting's, said at that time to be the most valuable pri vate collection in this country. He also bought the house adjoining his in East Sixty-eighth street and made the two into one. The architect described the first and main house as costing $600,000, its furnishings $500,000 more, which with the,cost of the lot made the total nearly $1,500,000. Mr. Yerkes' paintings at that time were valued at $1,500,000 and have been greatly added to since. SOUTH TOPEKA. (Leave Items for this column with Kim ball Printing Co.. 912 N. Kansas ave. Joe Kennard was in today from El mont. J. B. Herington was in town today from Silver Lake. T. B. Pitcher was in town today from Indian Creek. For sale Household furniture. John Lapp, 837 Harrison street. Miss Laura Morgan will go to Em poria tomorrow to spend New Years. For sale Counters, sehlving and tables. John Lapp, 833 Kansas avenue. Mr. Otto Kuehne left this noon for a short business trip to Junction City, Kan. Deputy Bank Commissioner S. C. Crummerwent to St. Joseph, Mo., yes terday. An Independent telephone was in stalled in the North Side postofflce this morning. Mrs. S. C. Crummer, who has been quite ill at her apartments at the Union Pacific hotel, is now convales cent. Mr. Fred J. Kuehne left Thursday for a, few days' trip to Junction Citv. Kan., where he is attending a house party. The Taka'HasTii 'Embroidery' club will' meet January 2- at the home of Mrs. E. F. Maurer, 1223 Harrison street. Mr. and Airs. Thomas Crauel of Denver will be the guests during Now Year's week of their sister, Mrs. Otto Kuehne. The W. T. K. club will meet Tues day afternoon, January 2, at the home of Mrs. A. M. Petro, 1018 Topeka avenue soutn. Mr. and Mrs. John Lapp expect to leave the second week in January for Los Angeles, fal., where they will make tneir permanent home. Mr. Turner and Mr. W. H. Austin of Kansas City, members of the Cash Mercantile Co.. w-ere North Side visit ors today looking after their business affairs here. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Head of South McAlister. I. T., will arrive Sunday and be the guests over New Years of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Kmsinger of 825 Jackson street, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Wizer of 1030 Jackson street have returned from a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Guy Gatchell at Albuquerque, N. M., and their son in California. Mr. Frank A. Root and Misses Grace and Elizabeth Root of 829 Quincy street, entertained Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson and daughter Helen of Leavenworth this week. Rev. F. H. Bentley has returned from Atchison where he has been visiting relatives this week. Mrs. Bentley, who accompanied him .to Atchison will return home this even ing. Mrs. E. G. Conkling of 1203 Harri son street, returned last evening from Cincinnati, where she went five weeks ago to be with her father who was then quite ill but is now much im proved. J. H. Connard, teacher of the Rochester school, returned last even ing from a visit to relatives in Ne maha county and left immediately for Kansas City where he will visit for a few days. Miss Jessie Myers returned today from a short visit to Miss Maud Tag gart at Valley Falls and will leave tomorrow for Meriden to be the guest for a few days of her sister, Mrs. Wal lace Taggart. Blue Cross No. 118, P. A., obligated five candidates at their hall in the Bar rett block last evening-.- These can didates w'ill be initiated at the joint initiation to be held January 16 at the hall on East. Sixth street. The pastor of the Central Avenue Christian church, Rev. F. H. Bentley, will speok on the following themes to morrow, "The Teaching of the Gos pel by John" at the morning service, and at the evening service- on the question "Where Am I?" Miss Berta Shields and cousin, Mr. Frank Shields, who were here for the Christmas vacation the guests of Miss Shields' father, C. D. Shields, left to day tor Lmdsborg, Kan. From there Miss Shields will go to Marquette to YOUIi FCCIIETEOCII You caa: renew the color of that by Cyeing. loo. But. more important, you cao keep more money in it than you do how If you will only retlize how t tnurn you pay lor new clothes, new ribbons, etc.. Diet you can save and stilt keep your dresses, waists, etc.. fresh and new and always in the newest stvlo colors. Drujeisis sell Diamond Dyes uiamono. uyes There are articles written by women. for womort, in the famous Diamond Iye Annual, that will open your eyes. It ts-certain that when you have read these articles and useful hints you will -art the Direction Book and the 45 samples of dyed cloth that go with it. e otrer them all free. Address BJ.IOX Barllngton. Vfc. Topeka Steam Joseph BremicLV Proprietor Jetterson St. ,r rv i Topeka, Kansas. Bell Phone 463 led. Phone 463 lantifactorers of Steam Boilers, Smoke Stacks and Brcechings, Water, Lard and Oil Tanks. Repairing promptly attended to in any part of the state., Jobbers in steam and water supplies. PLEASE WRITE FOR PRICES NO On and after January 1st, 1906, the Prices of Carriages for Party Work will be as follows:" One Couple to and from Hall $3.00 Two Couples to and from Hall $4.00 Extra charge will be made for holding Carriage after dance is over. H. C. LINDSAY. W. C. GULP, JAS. B. LOVE, J. McBEE, VV. T. LAWLESS CO., C G. V. STAMEY, T. E. WATSON. resume her school work in the Mar quette schools. Mrs. Ralph Skinner entertained Fri day afternoon at her home in Shorey in honor of Miss Naomi Polley. Charades and other games were play ed and during the afternoon Mrs. Skin ner favored her guests with some ex ceptionally fine music. Refreshments were served at 5 o'clock. Those pres ent were: Miss Polley, Misses Zita and Elsie Polley, Misses Edna and Gertrude Atweli, Misses Nellie and Alice Skinner, Miss Jennie Chipman, Misses Ruth, Delia, Margaret and Eva line Skinner. Tomorrow evening at the Baptist church the choir will give an anti phonal service. Under the leadership of Mr. William VanNess the choir has been holding practices for the past several weeks, and for this service the choir has been much enlarged. At the service tomorrow, evening one large choir will, be stationed in the north end and another large choir in the south end of the church, The ar rangements of the seats have been changed for Sunday evening and are placed to run north and south with a center aisle. This Will be the first time that antiphonal singing has been tried in any north side church, although it is f reopen tly heard in the Catholic churches of Topeka. Last Wednesday evening the instal lation of the officers of Helena chapter of the Order of Eastern Star was held in Masonic hall, NoTth Topeka. A fea ture of the evening was the presenta tion of a past worthy matron's jewel to retiring Worthy Matron Mrs. Emily i McClure. This jewel was presented by j the admiring members as a token of their appreciation of her faithful serv ices and as evidence of their regard for her. The officers installed were: Worthy matron. Alice A. Miller; worthy patron, Horace D. Miller; as sociate matron, Dollie Tilford; treas urer, John Ruppel; secretary, Minnie Ogden; conductress, Mattie Sherburne; associate conductress, Dora Moffatt; warden, Marie Putnam; sentinel, Samuel Ogden; chaplain, May Coul ton; marshal. Jessie Wise; organist, Anna Redfield. The five points of the star, Adah, Ruth. Esther, Martha and Electra, are Iva Hayslip, Myrtle Checksfield, Kate Hanlon, Elizabeth Chesney and May Coe. A $75,000 OIL REFINERY. Plant Started in Kansas City, Kan., to Employ. Fifty Men. Kansas City, Kan., Dec. 30. Work on the buildings of the new oil refinery of the Kansas City Oil Gas company has begun. The plant will be located at the foot of Troup avenue, this city, on a two-acre tract. The buildings, steel tanks and stills will cost about $75,000 and the plant is to be com pleted and in operation by March 1. This is the first oil refinery to be built in Kansas City, Kan., though an other company has leased a site from the city along the Missouri river front on the old Wyandotte levee. The k-ansas Citv Oil Gas company will have a capacity of 500 barrels of oil a day. It will employ about fifty men. Crude oil will be shipped from tne Kansas oil fields in southern Kansas to the Kansas City, Kan., plant. Mutual Salaries Cut. vt... X' 1 Tif. in Amnnp' the cuts in salaries by the Mutual Life insurance .,.v,lh havp hpon m:l(ip but coiiii-ii.y not previously announced says the Tri- I bune are tnose oi rtooen. uianuia and Dr. Walter R. Gillette, vice presi.- iTn trt o Hrrt tiTie a sro Mr. Gran- UCIIW. UK niss was. drawing $50,000 a year and Dr. Gillette $40,000. At the demand of the Truesdale committee, each has had his salary cut $10,000 a year. New Steamship Company. cor, TTrannin Dec. 30. Articles of in- Hon of the TTnion Steamship company, which will be operated jn con nection Wltn tne LIHUII oh wiuynuy were filed in this city yesterday. The .t..t ia nno nno- Tt is stated that it is the purpose of the company to enter into the transportation business between Pacific coast ports aou rauauu and the Orient and also to run steam ers between the eastern side of Panama and Europe. To Hunters. Tf aii nrmilfi If n O W O f a COU H t TV Wbicb Aijv,. abounds in turkey, duck, quail, squir rels and other small game, with many a good cnance cil x uupy ui the new booklet, "Feathers and Fins on the Frisco." It tells about hunting and fishing m the uzarks ana Jn the t. Francis vaney. acia iree on re quest by A. .Hilton, uenerai f-assenger Agent, Frisco System, St. Louis, Mo. Boiler V9 it J bJ W 2 (Pip mm y Xz0 a L A u W Us UWO .JCjSAS Uj' Stop! A wise person like you cannot be satisfied with any but the best transfer service that is just the reason why you should give ua your business. Phone 32D Topeka Transfer 'and-Storage Ca 406 East Sixth Street ARTHUR filASSEY PRACTICAL HORSESHOED 1 C- W 1 W V Horses Called For and Delivers! to any part of the city. n8 W. gth St., .Tel. 488, L. M. PEN WELL Undertaker and EmbaSnier. 511 Quincy Street. Both Phone; .192 Geo, N. Ray, Assistant. A. W. HOPKINS, Merchant Police. Private work a specialty, and privaU watchmen furnished. Residence. 1024 Kansas Avenue, ToArt-kr.. Kansas.

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'HE TOPESA DAILY JOUBHAL. SATURDAY NIGHT. 1 til ,m 1 lis L.ifl Chicago Bowlers to Cover the 'ew York Forfeit. To UoIl Any IndiThlual or Two r-T" San Team Going AT LOUISVILLE MEET. Jim Smith and John Yoorhies the Uothamites. Only Four Western Players Are Given Consideration. Chicago, Dec. 30. Chicago money will fee sent to New York today to cover the forfeit put up by Jimmy Smith for him self and his partner, John Yoorhies, to roll any individual or two-man team in the country at Louisville immediately after the championship bowling tourn ament. John Schank has declared his willingness to back the Chicago players against the pick of Manhattanville and has said that immediately upon his re turn from a business trip his check will be sent to the stakeholder, Charles p. Miiler of New York, and negotiations opened looking- to a matching of the Btr.i s. When the defi came out of New York local critics were inclined to consider it as of the "hot-air" vaiiely. but when Smith followed it up by posting $50 as an earnest with Mr. Miller for an in dividual match, with no one barred, and a similar sum for a two-man match with Yocrhies for his partner, Chi taoans at once sat u- and took notice. A canvass cf the local field disclosed several men who were thought to have a chance against the formidable duo from Marhattan, so it was framed up lor Mr. Schank to cover the forfeit. A consultation with some of the stars took place the opening night of the city championship tournament and the cam paign was outlined. It was determined to go after the eastern money. As Smith's defl does not require the man who accepts the challenge to name his players, Schank will simply post his money and wait until Louisville before uncovering his hand According to piesent plans only four men will be considered Phil Wolf, Frank Brill, Gus Steele and Dave Wood bury. Wolf is pretty sure to be in Fhape at Louisville, so he is certain to be one of those in the big match. Brill, too. ought to be on edge then, which makes it look as if Brill and .volf would be the combination against Yoor hies ai d Smith. There will be more than one single-handed match, so in all pre liability Gus Steele will be trotted forth to seek revenge for the trouncing Srniih gave him three years ago at O'Ltary's when Steele got out of a sick bed to keep his engagements. It all depends, though, upon the form Phcwn by the four by Louisville time. It may be that Woodbury will hook un with Wolf or Steele. Anyway, the Chi cagf ar.s believe tht y will have first char ce at the New Yorkers, for in no ether city, they declare, can men be found of sufficient caliber to stack up against Gotham's best. why sin; left uohkiit. Jlrs. Fitzsimmons Says Her Husband Was Intensely Jealous. Sioux Falls. S. D.. Dee. .30. Unreason able jealousy, amour ting to cruelty, is assigned by Mrs. Kobert Fitzsimmons as her reason for demanding a divorce. In support of her claim she detailed numerous instances in a lengthy heart-to-heart talk here. She expresses great sympathy for him, says she was sorry and surprised to learn of his defeat at San Francisco, and that she is sure the unkind things that be has been quoted as saying of her were never actually said. She even says she expects mo mentarily to see Mr. Fitzsimmons or his manager. William Friendman, drop in upon her and seek to effect a reconcili ation or a compromise. "It is true," said she, "that when we separated Mr. Fitzsimmons had no 1 rtowledge of my intention to leave him. He has tried to be kind to me in his way, and lealM- is devoted to ine, but it is not his nature to understand. While I was traveling with him in 'The Fight For Love' he insisted upon carrying his little 6-year-oid daughter Rosalie with us. and I had all the responsibility of caring for her and apoearing in one right stands with three or four mati rees thrown in. He couldn't realize it was wearing me out. When I said I was tired be thousrht I must have ceased to love him. Then I went to Paris af ter a 42-weeks' encasement with him. and he promised that I should study vocal music under Jean DeReszke. I had only been there a short time when he suddenly dropped in on me unan nounced and created a terrible scene. X rion't care to discuss this Major Miller rtory further than to say that he is a gentleman, and that our relations have beer bej end question at ail times, know Mrs. Miller and have been her guest. We are good friends. I don't even know the Spanish Marquis. I've been a good mother to Bob's children, and been a good wife to him, but we are temperamentally unsuited. One thirg I would ask, and that is, that the new spapers cease to refer to me as a chorus girl. I never was a chorus girl." THINKS IT V FAKE SALE. The Milwaukee News Tells of the .Minneapolis Club Deal. Milwaukee, Wis.. Dec. 30. The Milwau kee Daily News, says: "I have good reasons to b"-li"vc that the pnle of the Milwauke e club evas a fake." Tnis was the statement of v.-ur-e Len- "7 9D Br. Humphreys' Scvcnty- Seyen brcals up Colds and The symptoms of Grip and a bad Li Cold tut' so nearly alike, that even n export may be deceived mark yon Influenza, Catarrh, jIains and j. Soreness of the Head, Cliest, Back J or Limbs, Cough, Sere Throat, Gen- era! Prostration and Fever. If you have any one or all of these sensa tions, the use of "Seventy-seven" will cure you and keep you well. At druggists, -Sc, or mailed. Humphreys- Homeo. Medicine Co., Cor. Yt'Uliam and John streets. New York. non. owner of the St. Paul club, who ar rived here today. Mr. Lennoa said that three of the four Minneapolis people wlio haJ intended tak ing the Minneapolis team off Vatl:in's hands crawfished at the last moment. No others could be found to take the club, and therefore. Mike Kelley and W. li. Watkins arranged a fake sale." THE TUOI BLES OF YOST. The Michigan Coach Discusses His Football Suit. Ann Arbor, Mich.. Dec. 30. Coach Yost recently published a book on football, and he now finds that the path of an author is not necessarily strewn with roses. Charles Van Keuren, of Howell, Mich., who has been acting as agent for the book, has begun suit against Yost for $5,000. Van Keuren claims that he had an agreement with Yost whereby he was to get commissions on books sold through advertising placed by him, and that Yost had refused to hand over the commissions. On the other hand. Yost alleges that there is no such agreement, and that Van Keuren owes him $1,359 for over 1,700 copies of the book, and he began suit by summons for that amount against Van Keuren last night. "I let Van Keuren have 1.S00 books on credit," he said, "and he still owes me for 1.700. I am worrying more over my bills for $1,359 against him than over his suit for $5,000 against me. It looks very much to me as if his suit against me is all a bluff to get out of settling with me." GARDNER. TO THE FRONT. Places Himself in Hands of Sharkey and Challenges O'Brien. New York. Dec. 3 0. Now that Philadelphia Jack O'Brien is an as pirant for heavyweight honors, George Gardner has put himself in the hands of Tom Sharkey and has issued a challenge to O'Brien. He is willing to take on the boxer from the City of Brotherly Love for any number of rounds and for a side bet of $5,000, at 168 pounds. Gardner is willing to meet the Quaker City lad at any time or place and under any conditions which the conqueror of Fitzsimmons will name. If O'Brien does not care to take on tha Lowell man in a bout from fifteen rounds or to a finish, Gardner will take him on in a six-round battle at Philadelphia. Sharkey has taken hold of Gardner and will endeavor to clinch the match for him. If he does he will take the Lowell man in hand and train him for the combat. ON CHICAGO ALLEYS. Bowlers Are Doing Good Work for City Championship. Chicago. Dec. 30. Leaders estab lished in the first night's bowling in the citv fhamninnRhino at OLeary's alleys were undisturbed Dy ine work ot the pin knights yes terday, the two Century teams rolling into second and third places. The feature of the night was the work of Mattie Faetz trie T.nUo Viom crack, who scored 264 in his middle game with the picked team of Lake View Alley-Keepers, and averaged 217 for his series. Fred Hengst, another. Iake Viewite, rolled an average of 2OSV3. the two men being the only ones above the 200 marks so far. Work yesterday resulted in the No. 2 team of Centurys getting 2,788 with three consistent games, Fred Hoffman and Peter Peth doing the best work. The Centurys No. 1 secured 2,728. Scores in general were better than on the opening night, nearly all of the first six places, with the exception of the leaders, seeing new occupants. SCHKECK REACHES FRISCO. After a Match "With Kaufmann, But Will Not Make Weight. San Francisco, Dec. 30. Mike Schreck, the Cincinnati fighter, has arrived here from Los Angeles, and irr company with Johnnie Held made the rounds of the town. Schreck is here looking for a battle with some good heavyweight, preferably Al Kauf mann. The Colma club is willing to handle the match if Kaufmann can be induced to enter the ring. Billy Delaney, manager of Kaufmann, is to give his answer at once. "I am not going to make weight any more." said Schreck. "I came out to Los Angeles to fight Jack Sul livan. When I arrived I weighed 192 pounds. I had to make 178 pounds in a little- over a week. The result was I didn't get into good condition and Sullivan got the decision. If I whip Kaufmann I will be in line for O'Brien." F. DUMONT SMITH'S DEFENSE. He Prints an Explanation in His Newspaper. In this week's issue of the Kinsley Mercury, under the caption, "A Person al Word," Fred Dumont Smith gives out a signed statement concerning the indictment for conspiracy which the federal grand jury returned against him recently. Senator Smith calls upon his friends and acquaintances to suspend judgment above everything else. His statement follows: It is doubtless no news to the readers that the writer has been indicted by a federal grand jury on the charge of bribing a government inspector. The specific charge is that I paid the in spector a large sum of money to in fluence his action in four land fraud in vestigations he was then making. I have no intention of trying the case here, but it is a sufficient answer to the charge to say that out of some twelve cases that the inspector was in vestigating in adjoining counties, one of mv clients was the only man indict ed, the only man fined and the only man .nipt ironed. And his indictment, fine and imprisonment were procured by the inspector I am alleged to have bribed. If this fact had been permitted to conre before the grand jury there would have been no indictment. There are many other circumstances important to the case, but this one big fact ought to be enough for my friends. If I bribed Mr. Rj an it was money wasted. If I influenced him it must have been against my client. To my friends in this county who have seen me in court and in my office for nearly twenty years, who have em ployed me in their litigation and have known intimately my manner of prac ticing law, it is hardly necessary for me to deny the charge. As to the other citizens of this, my home. I only ask a suspension of judgment till the facts are known. The press of the state with few ex ceptions has treated me with great fairness, a fairness which profoundly appreciate. Here and there among the smaller fry, some of those creatures that belong to the coyote tribe have said mean and cruel things that they did not dare say till they thought I was ruined helpless. But the real newspaper men of the state have given me a square deal. I ask no more than that. F. DUMONT SMITH. SN AP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS. Kansas avenue got its much needed sweeping last night. There will be a masquerade carnival at the rink tonight. The city schools will not open until a week from Tcesday morning. The Masquerade Carnival at the rink tonight promises to be a big success. John W. Newell went to Johnson county today on some law business. Assistant City Engineer Will King is confined to his home with a case of grippe. Secretary of State J. R. Burrow has gone out to Smith Center to spend Sunday. Lincoln post will hold their annual memorial meeting at their hall at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. F. W. Badger is sick with diph theria at his home, corner of Sixth avenue and Tyler street. City Attorney Drenning will return this evening from wathena where he was called Thursday on business. J. S. West will take charge of his new- office, that of assistant United States attorney, on next Monday. Geo. E. Cole, of Topeka, went to Kansas City yesterday. He called on John W. Breidenthal and others. From now on for about two months conventions in Topeka will be as thick as the proverbial fleas on a dog's back. Ebenezer McCollum of Washington, Iowa, is here on a visit with J. D. Pat tison. sanitary sergeant, 1325 West Ktreet. The state board of education will meet in Topeka January 8 and con sider the work of the accredited col leges of the state. Loomis, Blair Scandrett. Union Pa cific attorneys, have received notice that the 1905 annual passes will be good un til January 31, 1906.. Rev. James L. Washington, the negro boy preacher, will conduct the meetings at the A. M. E. church. Seventh and To peka avenue, Sunday evening. Dr. Ott, of the English Lutheran church, is suffering from an attack of grippe and will be able to preach but once to- his congregation on Sunday. The Topeka Democratic Flambeau club are preparing for a big time the evening of January 14, when they will hold their annual installation of officers. The city council of Oakland has des ignated the Oakland Blade as the offi cial city paper. The action of the coun cil becomes effective after December 28. Two white doves, emblems of peace, flew into the court room yesterday af ternoon, evidently looking for the par ties interested in the Cooper divorce case. The speech of T. J. Anderson, sec retary of the Commercial club, at the club banquet on December 5. has been printed and will be distributed all over the state. The Topeka Street Railway company has secured its much disputed fran chise from the city council of Oakland. The citizens of the little town fought the measure. If the ordinance prohibiting bees from entering the city, accomplishes its pur pose, Councilman Shimer has an ordin ance already drawn applying to flies and mosquitoes. Buffalo Jones who furnished the car casses of sixteen buffalo for the Christ mas trade will have the heads mounted and will offer them for sale as soon as the work is completed. When you get your money from the First National bank, go to Gove county with Eastman Lakin. 115 West Sixth street, and buy a wheat ranch. Next excursion January 2d and 16th. About fifteen delegates have so far been appointed from over the state to attend the convention to be held in Topeka January 29, relative to the Kansas state semi-centennial. Rev. Edwin Locke, presiding elder of the Methodist church, will speak at the Railroad Y. M. C. A. rooms Sunday afternoon at 3:30. Music will be ren dered by Mrs. R. H. Stockton. Frank Grimes went to Kansas City yesterday to see A. E. Stiiwell, of the Orient. Mr. Grimes told the Kansas City papers that Governor Hoch would certainly be renominated. The negro politicians of the city are circulating a petition asking that an other one of their race be placed on the nolice force. The name of the ap plicant has not been made public. If the remarks of Councilman Horn are to be taken as an expression of his sentiment he does rot care to have Togo Drenning included on the regular bill of fare at the council meetings. Governor Hoch will pardon Alfred Young from the penitentiary. Young was given a double sentence for burg lary and larceny, and he will be re leased when he completes one of these terms. The state insurance department is on the trail of the American Pro tectors, a fraternal insurance order at Kansas City, Kas., which has not taken out a license to do business in the state. Councilman C. K. Holliday will pre side at the council meeting Tuesday ev ening, which is the regular January meeting of that body. Mayor W. H. Davis will be absent in Chicago on a business trip. The board of county commissioners yesterday held that the taxes assessed against the church property of the Sec ond Presbyterian church in North To peka cannot be collected as the property is exempt from taxation. The reception tendered to the State Teachers' association on Tuesday night at the manual training high school was one of the features of the convention. It was gotten up by a committee of Topeka teachers. G. W. Kline who is a law student at Washburn has been appointed as stenographer in the county attorney's office. Mr. George Bell who has filled the position for some time past having resigned to open an office of his own. L. M. Crawford has closed a deal for a block of ground in the heart of the city cf El Paso, Texas, and will Immed iately commence the construction of a modern theater building, to take the place of the one recently destroyed by fire, in that city. Hanicy Ritchie, contractors on the Sixth ward sewer, are running into considerable water and stone in exca vating on and just north of Huntoon street, west of Buchanan street. This will delay the completion of the sewer so that it will be impossible to complete $100 REWARD, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleas ed to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been nble to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fra ternitv Catarrh being a constitutional dise-'e requires a constitutional treat ment Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternallv, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. there by destroying the foundation of the dis ease and" giving the patient strength by building- up the constitution and assist ing nature in doing its work. The proprie tors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer one hundred dol lars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. .1. CHENF.Y CO., Toledo. O. Sold bv all druggists, 75e. Take Hall Family Pills for constipation, the sewer by the first of the year as was first expected. Contractors are busily engaged today in laying the heating pipes from the state heating plant 60 the new state printing plant building. It will take less than a week to complete the work and the building will be ready for oecu pany a few days later. In place of the regular Sunday morn ing sermon at the Unitarian church. Justice Burch of the supreme court will read a paper on "Some Observations on the Scientific Method," which was read before the Missouri Valley Unitarian conference which met at Lawrence last fall. The Railroad Y. M. C. A. will keep open house New Year's day and even ing. The rooms have been handsomely decorated with seasonable decorations and an interesting- musical programme has been arranged for the evening. Re freshments will be served during the afternoon from two until six. n'CLELLAN'S HELP. Not a Tammany Man Among Appointments. His New New York. Dec. 30. Mayor Mc Clellan last night announced the ap pointment of Brigadier General Theo dore A. Bingham, U. S. A., retired, as police commissioner, succeeding Wil liam McAdoo, who has held the office through Mr. MeClellan's first term. The other appointments to places in the city administration include the fol lowing, who have held offices during the last two years: City chamberlain, Patrick H. Kee nan; corporation counsel, John J. De lany; commissioner of correction. Francis J. Lantry: commissioner of street cleaning. John McGaw Wood bury; commissioner of health. Thomas Darlington, and tenement house com misioner. Edmund J. Butler. Other selections include the follow ing: Commissioner of bridges, James W. Stevenson: commissioner of water supply, gas and electricity, William B. Ellison, and fire commissioner, John H. O'Brien. John J. Boyle, the sculptor, is ap pointed a member of the city art com mission. None of the new appointees is known as an "organization" man, nor is there a Tammany Hall district lead er among the mayor's selections. PRESBYTERIANS UNITE. After a Separation Lasting Almost a Century. St. Louis, Dec. 30. After a division of almost 100 years, steps have been consummated in the joint session of general committees which, when for mally ratified, will unite the Northern Presbyterian church, U. S. A., and the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Al most two days have been consumed by subcommittees in arranging details for the union. Their reports were sub mitted to the general committees rep resenting each church. Within two hours the two general committees had met in joint session and agreed upon a basis for the union of the two de nominational bodies. This agreement will be reported to the general assem bly of the Presbyterian church meet ing at Des Moines. Ia., on May 17, 1906, and of the Cumberland Presby terian church, meeting in Decatur. 111., on the same date, for formal, ratifica tion by these two executive assemblies which will be followed by the official announcement that the union of the two churches has finally been consum mated. BUFFETEDJY WAVES. The Celtic Encountered a Hurricane on Christmas Day. New York, Dec. 30. The White Star steamer Celtic which arrived today from Liverpool, encountered a terrific hurricane on Christmas day. Enor mous seas retarded the steamer's pro gress, the day's run from noon on the 25th to noon on the 26th being only 188 knots. An enormous sea broke over the starboard quarter and ripped out a section of the heavily plated waistworks. The uprights were snapped off and several other sections were dented in. The portion swept away was held by rivets half an inch thick but the total number of fifty were drawn apart. The sea swept through the engineer's gangway, flooding various compartments and smashed in windows, doors and head lights. UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES. Andrew Carnegie Will Write His Autobiography This .Winter. New York, Dec. 30. Andrew Car negie will spend the winter at Dun genness. Cumberland county, Georgia, the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Carnegie, says a dispatch to the Tribune from Pittsburg. The corre spondent adds: "Under southern skies he will write his autobiography." Mr. Carnegie recently confided his intentions to those who dined with him at the annual banquet given his former partners in New- York. They were invited to spend part of the win ter with him, and suggest interesting points for the work as it progresses. The autobiography will tell Mr. Carnegie's reasons for building and endowing libraries. It will be a de fense of his motives. A FAST COCKING MAIN. Topeka Birds After a Portion of Leav enworth's $325 Purse. Leavenworth. Kan., Dec. 3 0.- In the thirteen-fight cocking main which took place in the north side pit, Ed Wynn and Ed Connors of Kansas City won seven out of the thirteen, and were avarded the purse of $325. The Kansas City men are said to have won considerable more than this amount on side betting. It looked for a while at the start as if Dearborn, Mo., would win the main, Josh Shifflett of this town winning the first three fights straight. They lost the last three to Kansas City, however. After the main fight there were a num ber of hack fights, which lasted until almost daybreak. Besides Kansas City and Dearnborn, the following towns were represented in the fights: Atchi son, Topeka, St. Joseph, Omaha, Well ington and Waldron. An Increase in Pay. New York. Dec. 30. The inter borough rapid transit company, which operates the subway and elevated roads of New York city, has announced an increase in pay of employes to take effect January 1. The increase ranges from 15 to 25 cents a day with two days off with pay each month for em ployes who work twelve hours a day. OUTRAGEOIS POOR Cry for Reform in Conduct of County Farms. Labor Commissioner Johnson Speaks Out Plainly. HERDED TOGETHER. Kefined and Educated With Gross and Ignorant. Superintendents Named With out Kegard to Qualifications. An address, entitled "The County Poor," was delivered last night before the meeting of the Associated Chari ties by Wr. L. A. Johnson, state labor commissioner. Mr. Johnson said: "Reviewing the investigation of county charities made by our bureau of labor in 1899, we divided the sub ject into two parts, asylum farm and outside relief. It should be borne in mind that the law governing the Kan sas system of county asylums and the disbursement of our outside relief was enacted in 1862, with but a few slight amendments since that time, and that it is patterned after ancient models, and reflects and perpetuates the de fects of a time when all ideas relat ing to our helpless and unfortunate were in a crude, undeveloped and un systematized state. "That this ill-advised county asylum system has become so firmly fixed upon us is perhaps accounted for from the fact that the class of persons for whom the system is intended is composed of the most hopeless and unimprovable element of our popula tion, in whom public interest is always at a low ebb. If they can be kept out of sight and out of mind, the public is usually satisfied to know that they have a roof over their heads and suffi cient plain food to prevent actual suffering. "Wrhile the law provides for a county asylum on a poor farm, owned by the county, and for a superintend ent who must be, in the language of the law, 'a humane and responsible person." yet our investigations have brought forth, among other things, a number of defects, which may be re ferred to here as follows: "First The law provides for no pro per separation of the sexes. Under the system as operated under the law it is practically impossible to enforce such a sex separation as is absolutely neces sary to prevent immoral and demoraliz ing practices. As it is, only the utmost vigilance of conscientious and intelligent superintendents can prevent the gross est disregard of the rules of common decency. "Second A notable defect in the law is the absence of any provision for the classification of the inmates. The aged and rerpectable poor, the dissolute, coarse, and degraded, the feeble-mind ed., the cripples and physical wrecks, the insane and even the vicious may be, and usually are, herded indiscriminate ly together, with no legal restraint to the contrary. To compel an aged wo man of intelligence, who has been all her life "accustomed to a decent and re fined standard of living, to associate in timately with the gross and ignorant who constitute a large share of our asylum population is an injustice at which humanity revolts. "A third defect in the ease with which persons who are canable of self-support may become public burdens by entering our poor asylumf, as well as the ease with which well-to-do persons may avoid the care and support of indigent relatives by shifting them upon the county. "Still another serious defect in the law is the manner in which poor asylum superintendents are appointed and dis missed. Equally great is the fault of the law in prescribing the qualifications of the superintendents. Judging from results, the language of the law 'hu mane and responsible persons' admits of widely and wondrously differentapplica- j tions. Seldom are appointments made wholly upon fitness, and usually the same is true of discharges. So long as poor asylums are regarded as legiti mate political spoil, and the county commissioners 'take their turn' at nam ing the poor farm superintendent, their management cannot be a credit to the state that such an institution should be. "Referring to the distribution of out side relief it will be seen at a glance fhat the principal defects of the law are with the township trustees whose duty it is made to disburse our county char ities for outside relief. They are elected for short terms, and the taring for the dependents within their charge is re garded as one of the minor duties, and that primarily they were not elected for the administering of this particular public function. The law irives to the I township trustees almost autocratic power in the expenditure of public funds for the relief of the poor. What ever may be the legal limit to the au thority of the overseers of the poor in the distribution of public funfis, there is but little doubt but that the limit is disregarded in a great many instances, with the result that the money paid by the people in the form of taxation has in some instances been wasted, and has not only failed to reduce pauperism but has been a powerful influence in in creasing it. "During 1S9A the appropriations for maintenance and support of the eight state charitable institutions in Kans;rs were $468,000. In addition to this there was expended in the mainten ance of asylum farms for the same year, $135,978.40, and for outside re lief other, than asylum .farms, $209. 152:67, or in other words a. total ex penditure through the legal forms of the state for charitable purposes for the year of 1899 of $S13,131 or an amount equal to 57 cents per capita for these purposes, yet many issues of lesser moment enter into our state and governmental affairs and find their way into political platforms, make and unmake governors, and ambitious statesmen mend or mar their legisla tive records by posing as the special champion of the taxpayers or of some special institution, while the almost equal expense and infinitely worse management and, which is of greater moment, the legal machinery pertain ing to the management of county charaities, do not cause even a rip ple of legislative comment. "It seems to me that the essential purpose of this state association of charities should be to arouse public attention to this state of affairs and to prevail upon the legislature for an en tire revision of legislation on the sub ject of county charities." From Pekin to Tokio. Berlin, Dec. 30. Baron Mumm von Schwartzenstein, the German minister at Pekin, has been appointed ambassa dor cf Germany at Tokio. w H lilll k f m r- TOPECA PWHTEHS mm PUBLISHERS Stationery and Office Outfitters, School District and Township Supplies, Legal Blanks, Elastic Book Cases, Desks, etc. WE PUBLISH A riNC LINE OF BOOKS FOR i SUPPLEMENTAL AND TEACHERS' USE J ij i Fise Book, Catalogs and PairpMet Printing Cur Spsslalfy M P THE LAND IS THERE In the Southwest. If you want seme now ia the time to go after it. It will scon be too late. Don't wait until the best of it is taken, or prices soar too high. Join the excursion the Santa Fe will run January 2, 1906, to western Kansas, east ern Colorado. Oklahoma, Pecos Valley, Texas and other sections. Write, 'phone or call on me for particulars. T. Is. KING, City Passenger Agent, The A. T. S. F. Ky. Co., Topeka, Kansas. jrr- -i ,7,7" s invy;"''-- -srgz I ARE YOU PAYING RENT If you are New Years Day would be a good time to make the resolution to stop and own your own home. We will buy the lots and build a home for you on the rent plan. T AT TITJPn w' explain-See him at IALIUHE, 109 W. 7th. Ind. Phone 511 INTERNATIONAL IMPROVEMENT CO. liA Almost 5000 telephones on our exchange I "A4tl.f; 1 Perfect service, courteous operators. Residence, four i!&"$rWW I part' lin6s within city, only 51S.00 a year. Extensive toil I 1 I i I 1 I j line connections. Call at central office, 519 Kansas aver I 'P, iSS i nue ie, or telephone siMW The Independent Telephons Co. V t a. 5 H0RD1CA PUTS OUT FIRE Stampcl Out a Blaze Without Inter rupting Her Song. New York, Dec. 30. Mme. Lillian Xordica won the enthusiastic plaudits of a large matinee audience at the Metropolitan opera house when she quite coolly stamped out a blaze on the stage near the footlights caused by fire dropping from a torch carried by a chorus woman in "Gotterdam merung." The incident occurred dur ing the fire scene of the last act of the opera. Burning oil spilled from one of the chorus torches and set fire to the stage carpeting. Immedi ately there was an uneasiness apparent j in ine audience, anu several persons j started to leave their seats. Mme. Nordica. who was singing, walked over i to the blaze and without interrupting her song stamped out the last spark of the fire. When the act ended the audience cheered, waved handker- chiefs and applauded her for many minutes. Enthusiastic exclamations of praise in many languages were shouted across the footlights to the singer. Through Sleeper to St. Paul. A through sleeping car line between Kansas City and Des Moines, Minne apolis and St. Paul via the Wabash and Minneapolis and St. Louis Rail ways has been inaugurated, taking ef fect Sunday, December 10th. Train leaves Union Depot Kansas City via Wabash 9:00 p. m., arriving at Des Moines 8:00 a. m., Minneapolis 6-50 p. m. and St. Paul 7:30 p. m. next day. Buffet service all the way. All railroads sell tickets via this pop ular line. If JO" are going in that direction ask your agent for tickecs over the AVabash and Minneapolis St. Louis Railroads and get the best. right Will Be Bitter. Those who will persist in closing then ears against the continuation recommen dation of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, will have .1 long and bitter fight with their troubles, it not ended earlier by fatal termination. Read what T li. Beall of Heall. Miss., has to say: -Last fall my wife had every symptom of consumption. She took Dr. King's New Discovery after everything else had fail ed. Improvement came at once and four bottles entirely cured her." Guaranteed bv the Arnold Drug Co., SL'l North Kan sas ave. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bot tles free. Holiday Kates Santa Fe. For the Christmas and New Years holidays tickets will be sold to points on Santa Fe lines and connecting lines at rate of one and one-third fare. Tickets on sale December 22, 23i 24 25. 30, 31 and January 1. Final re turn limit January 4, 1906. For further particulars, address T. L. KING, C. P. T. A All Turners and guests are invited to attend masquerade ball Sunday, Dec. SL f U is li fc J H Save Your Old Carpets And send them to us we will make you fine ruga from tham. Write for Booklet of Rugs or call jp Phone 421 and we wil! call O. McCorrnlcK Rug Factory 406 for further information. .1-1 A N D SAPOLI FOR TOILET AND BATH Finsers roughened by needlework catch every stain and look hopelessly dirty. Hand Sapolio removes not only the dirt, but also the loosened, injured cuticle, and restores the fingers to tbeir natural beauty. ALL GROCERS AND DRUGGIST Evening Classes Y. M. C A, Book-keeping, Commercial Arith metic, Penmanship, Business Eng lish, Business Spelling. All Com mon School Studies, and Instru mental Music Five Teachers. CLASSES NOW IN SESSIOX. LEWI SSIHG"LEDlfiDER STRAIGHT JjfciGAR YO U PWZ Dr. Genevra II. Erskine, Osteopathic Physician, Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office hours: 9 to 12. 1 to E. Ind. phone Office 1629. Res. 4 93 4. 606 Kansas Ave. The best Equipment Is employed to make the Fivo Cents a Day Telephone a quick and reliable means of communication. Missouri Kansas Tel. Co. 'Phone 999. f Give effective relief in bron chial and lung troubles. Contain nothing injuriouSt

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i y-r -r-t 1? A X Xi "2" J0UI11TAL. SATURDAY NIGHT. JLi J.-. J-i iuiA SiAifc Tu- FRAXK P. M:U LEN'XAV. Issued for Every Day in the' Year. (Entered July 1, as second class matter at the postoffice at Topeka, Kan., under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXII... No. Z'ZZ Official Paper City of Topeka. Official Paper Kansas State Federation Women's Clubs. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Week Day Edition and Edition (or Su day Morning. 10 Cents Per Week Everywhere. City, Town or Country. BY MAIL: Pail v. including Sunday. 1 year. tiadv including Sunday. 8 months Dailv. including Sunday, 3 months 1 Pailv. without Sunday, 1 year Dallv, without Sunday, 6 months fallv, without Sunday. 3 months 1 Sunday edition, colored comics, year.. L. TELEPHONES. Business Office Bell- l"7 Business Office Ind l7 T-coporters' Room Belling Reporters' Room Ind. fj Srank P. MacLennan Ind. 7tl) FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED l'RKSS EVKUY WEEK DAY AND PVBLISHKKS' PRESS KEl'OHT ON" SATURDAY K1GHT FOR THE EDITION" FOR SUNDAY MORNING. The State Journal Is a member of the .Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization for exclusive evening publi cation. The State Journal receives for exclusive publication the leased wire report of the Publishers Press for the edition for Sun day morning. The news is received in the State Jour rs building over wires for this sole pur pose. What do you expect 1906 to bring to CU? That Russian revolution seems to have more lives than the proverbial cat. Panto Domingo just couldn't let 1905 go without revolting at least once more. Governor Horh probably thinks that W. TV. Rose by any other name would talk as bad. Must be pretty crowded in the New Tork stock exchange, with seats selling at $55,000. We had some nice pleasant days last w inter also but do hi remember what Nve get along in January? The signs seem to indicate that the year of our Lord 1906 will be a pretty hard one for the grafter. Come to think about it. wasn't the alleged statement of Dr. Osier a pretty small thing to make a fuss about? There were very few Christmas tree fires this year. In other words, we seem to have had a safe and sane Christmas. The President is reported to be down in Virginia taking vigorous ex ercise. Is the senate also getting ready for the fray? Moscow- recalls that it once had a little blaze something like a hundred years ago that made things quite as exciting there as they are at present. Nick Longworth plays the fiddle, but he will find that in the matter in which he is about to become Involved the fid dler will have to pay somebody else. It is peculiar how much the Kansas City Journal can see wrong in Gover nor Folk when it has never been able to see a thing wrong with Tom Kelly. The Leavenworth Post confesses that it is dizzy from watching the Lawrence newspaper situation. You wouldn't suppose a Post would get dizzy, would vou? Count Witte used to fuss about Portsmouth being a warm place last Fummer, but he has discovered that there are hotter places in Russia, even In December. Very likely No. 26 Wall street is awaiting what Mr. Garfield has to say m the subject of Standard Oil with just as much interest as are the peo ple of Kansas. Since the railroads leading into Wash ington have decided to abolish passes, the railroad rate question does not be gin to agitate congress as much as the railroad pass question. Fred Trigg believes the announcement on Christmas Day of a 55 per cent divi dend by the First National bank proves the existence of a real Santa Claus be yond the shadow of a doubt. The "Kansas Land Frauds" will break out in the Februar-- magazines. The World Today announces that it will have an article on that subject in Its next number by E. S. Cowdrick. The new senator from Oregon was born in a prairie schooner while his parents were crossioo- tv,o ntin Oregon. That ought to be just about S good as being born in a log cabin. If all the railroads leading into Wash ington actually cut off all passes, some of those estimable gentlemen whom we think represent us there will either have to walk or else use their mileage for mileage purposes. It is said that men from the prairies make particularly good sailors for the navy. Navigating a broncho will fit one to ride the Spanish Main or any thing else and then most western young men have had more or less experience in sailing prairie schooners. Being seized with a prophetic mood the Parsons Sun looks forward to the next Republican state convention and foresees that Fred Dumont Smith will not be the man who is chosen to place a hand-painted halo above the classic features of Edward W. Hoch. Notwithstanding the denunciation of iht. erand j.:ry system, it seldom hap tens" that an Innocent man gets into trouble with a grand jury, while the jury undoubtedly does do much to pro tect the innocent from unjust accusa tions and to bring the guilty to punishment. WHY WAGSTAFF DECLINED. If Thomas E. Wagstaff, the young county attorney of Montgomery county, had allowed himself to be tempted by the boom for attorney general which some of his admirers over the state started for him, it would doubtless have seriously inter fered with the candidacy of Mark Tully, of the same county, for state treasurer. Mr. Wagstaff's loyalty to Tully therefore caused him to prompt ly turn down his own boom. Other wise it would doubtless have attained considerable dimensions, for Mr. Wagstaff's course in effectually en forcing the law in Montgomery county has made him many admirers all over the state. Under the heading, "Loyal to His Friend," the Coffeyvllle Record speaks of Mr. Wagstaff's action In turning down his boom for a state office, as follows: "Thomas E. Wagstaff, county attor ney of Montgomery county, may not be perfect none of us possess that quality but aside from his bold and successful efforts at enforcing the law just as it found it on the statute books regardless of consequences or whom it might strike, he has also demonstrated that he holds friend ship and party fidelity above his own personal ambitions. W'agstaff is today probably the strongest man in the county politically, and also has a large district and state following. Re cently he has received much favorable comment at the hands of the press and individuals throughout the state in connection with the attorney gen eral's office, and it is safe in stating that should he offer himself as a can didate before the next Republican state convention for that office he would make a formidable showing. But so far he has scorned the Idea and discouraged his friends from fur ther agitating the matter on all occa sions, saying that he will be content ed with another nomination for the office that he is now holding. "In declining this honor at the hands of his friends, it is not because of a lack of ambition or of a proper ap preciation of their efforts in his be half, but because of his friendship for the Hon. Mark Tully. Mr. Tully's name will be presented to the conven tion as a candidate for state treas urer, and knowing as Mr. W'agstaff does that Montgomery county is not entitled to two places on the state ticket he refuses in any way to jeop ardize the interests of Mr. Tully by boosting himself. Such a sacrifice on the part of the valiant county at torney is commendable to say the least, and while not so Intended is bound to result advantageously to him in the future. Tom WTagstaff is a young man, but he has 'made good' in his present capacity and his friends will see that he receives new and greater honors. Devotion to duty and loyalty to friends are two great traits that will never go unrewarded." PRIXGLEISM IN NEW YORK. Almost any day now you can look for a declaration of war by the Topeka Capital, the Kansas City Journal, the Lawrence Journal, and some other pa pers against President Roosevelt and Governor Higgins of New York be cause cf "Pringieism." Don't you remember how the papers mentioned abused Governor Bailey be cause of "Pringieism" three years ago? Bailey desired the legislature organized with a view to carrying out his recommendations. The Burton faction, which had fought Bailey from start to finish, expected to elect George J. Barker, the colleague of W. R. Stubbs, as speaker. Had Barker been elected he would have been against Bailey's administration and he would also have been against both Chester I. Long and Governor Stanley as sena torial candidates. Long brought out S. S. Kirkpatrick as his candidate for speaker, and then Bailey took a hand in the matter. He conferred with Governor Stanley and the two recom mended J. T. Pringle for the speaker ship and asked their friends to support him. Long was shrewd enough to get into line for Pringle as soon as he could fix things up with Kirkpatrick, but the old Burton machine was so anxious to control the house, as It al ready controlled the hold-over senate. that it made a big fight for Barker, but was beaten. That was when the old Burton pa pers began to fight Bailey with the cry of "Pringieism." That was when W. R. Stubbs first thought he "was not treated right." Mr. Pringle made an excellent speaker, but the Capital, the Kansas City Journal, and the other old Burton papers abused both Mr. Pringle and Governor Bailey shame fully, simple because Bailey had had a hand in bringing out Pringle as a candidate. They yelled "bossism" for months without ceasing. Now for the parallel: In New York the Odell machine expected to name the speaker of the New York legislature just as the Burton machine expected to name the speaker in Kansas in 1903. Odell had his candidate picked out and announced. The arrangement did not suit Governor Higgins, who wishes to have a speaker friendly to him. He consulted with President Roosevelt, and they decided on another candidate against Odell's man. The Influence of both the president and the governor is being used to elect their candidate, and it will be successful of course. Now, the Capital and the Kansas City Journal certainly will not allow this great crime to go unrebuked: Those great champions of the people's right to rule must speak out in denunciation of this flagrant abuse of official influ ence on the part of the president and governor! Surely they will not keep silent in the face of such brazen bos sism! Think of all those columns of burn ing editorials against "Pringieism" which "set the prairies on fire!" Must they go for naught? Is the New York legislature to be Prlngleized? Down with the bosses! Br-r-r-r! JOURIUL XTTRlES-l Don't be too joyous about this fine weather. You don't know what sort of a dose Medicine Hat is fixing up for us. m m m The Loeb family in "Washington has just been visited ty the stork. It is very evident that those close to the president, even Secretary Loeb, take his policies in earnest. We wonder if the neighbors around the White House say when Mr. Long worth comes to call, "There comes that Roosevelt girl's fellow again." It is remarkable how many people the railroads are going to forget to send passes to next week. It is expected that there will be a marked falling off in the attendance at the Sunday schools tomorrow. Tomor row will be the Sunday after Christmas. It is time you were getting hold of the corner of that new leaf, preparatory to turning it over. You needn't be afraid of crowding the water wagon next week. A seat will be reserved for you. Coffeyvllle has set her figure for 25,000 population in 1910. George Peace, of Independence, doesn't seem to be that way. At any rate he whipped his wife and got ar rested for it. Abilene Reflector: A curious ending came to the gift cf a piano by the Chapman Lookout this week. The vote of the two leading contestants was: Miss Eunice King 71.000; Miss Josie Lyon 68,000. Some of the patrons of the paper kicked on the vote and Miss King resigned, Miss Lyon getting the piano. "When we were a ,kid at work on a Missouri farm," says Gomex Davies, "working a year for our board and keep and three months schoolin', we used to wish we could afford to buy all the writing paper we wanted to use now we wish the foreman of this shack wouldn't shove so much in front of us, with the demand for more copy. Tom Charles, of the Belleville Free man, sees the hand of Tom Kelly in that Oregon scheme to raise money for a popular present for Alice Roosevelt, the money to be paid to the state treas urers' of the various states. He says: "Today's papers announce that a plan has originated in Oregon (Oh, Tom is smooth) to start a public bridal gilt for Miss Roosevelt. The scheme is to send the subscription to the state treas urers and thev in turn to send the money to the United States treasury. You can't keep a good man down. At the little town of Jamestown, up in Cloud county, there Is a newspaper called the Optimist. Its present editor, Robert Good, has worked hard during the past year to build up the town and its interests. To show their apprecia tion of his work the citizens of James town inveigled Mr. Good .way from his office last Saturday evening, and dur ing his absence installed a gasoline en gine complete with all the equipment necessary to run his plant, just as a Christmas present. The Concordia Blade in telling about it says: "When Bob got back to the shop he found a bunch of business men present and John Kel ly made the presentation speech that was a corker. Mr. Good was so sur prised that he was speechless and had to pump up the engine in order to get gas enough to reply and although he was booked to play Santa Claus that evening at the Methodist church he ,j i., pnavpri awav from COUIU. imiuiy yj v the engine long enough to put on his fur coat and whiskers." GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.-) nur w-e become more ap preciative of good weather. When vour grouch won t wear off, it is a sign you are getting old. The higher a girl's ambition In life, the longer her father has to support her. If vou think your kin are good looking, is it because you are good, or they -are "The name of the latest song is "Nothing from Nothing Leaves Nothing, and That Means You." T im-a vour wav. take con- solation from the fact that every man encounters his stone wall. Tell us the size of a town, ana we ca., :e ,r, takes her guest to the theater or to prayer meeting. You can't tell anything aDout. a nmii j his looks: Like mince pies, some of them can look very innocent. We wonder, in the genius exhibited in giving misfit Christmas gifts, that the men didn t receive nair receiver. 4..n-f ontirplv Satisfactory to her girl hostess unless she is of the same size, and willing to lend her clothes. Time travels so fast witn a man as ne gets older that if he has sausage fltr his breakfast he thinks he is having sausage all the time. When the papers relate that a man nas found long lost kin. everyone wonders that be didn't know better than to look for Before a couple is married they occupy Il.SO seats at the tnearer, nut uc.a.u.,, when the wife buys the tickets, the bal- io onH Ptinllffll. We do not know what lovers whisper to their sweemearis, uui vuru a. couple is down town anyone can hear what the man says to his wife: "Come If your Christmas turkey was as long as tnree. aays m irdtimm v,u, means that vou didn't do the right thing by inviting "in friends the first day to help eat it. It is not verv creditable to those who live to grow up, but in a pitifully large number of cases the mother of a family thinks that the one who would have been kind to her, was the little baby that died. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. Trom the Philadelphia Record. A quick lunch maketh a slow liver. The best people of a town are generally to be found m the cemetery. Many a man has lost bis teeth from biting oft more tnan ne couia encw. The woman who values a man's friend ship never asks him to guess her age. No, Maude, dear: it doesn't take a base ball player to sing second base in a glee club. "Some men are so mean," says the Cyn ical Bachelor, "that they won't even give their wives grounds for divorce. What's the use of a fellow getting into trouble by marrying two wives when Tie can get all he wants by simply marrying one? Hoax "The dentist is responsible for an awful lot ot protanity. Joax "Yes. especially when he puts a dam in your month. Wigg "I always think of a girl as a sort of theory." Wags "Well, after you marry her you'll find that it's a condition and not a theory that contronts you. De Tanque "You would be surprised to know how much water is wasted in the big cities." O'Soaque "I suppose sj. Lots of people onnK it, you Know. Our esteemed fellow-citizen. Jack O'Brien, who recently walloped the formerly-esteemed Robert Fitzsimmons, savs he isn't going on the stage. Jack always was a queer cuss. Although our opportunities May come tji bright array. They always make us think of fish The biggest get away. fi i J AY HAWKER JOTS 1' h KANSAS C0miEIJT RUSSIA'S SOLDIERS. Our soldiers thought their $13 a month was just about nothing, but it is truly a munificent Income when compared with $1.35 per year of the Russian soldiers, which has been raised to $3 a year since the loyalty of the army is the last prop left to the government. The minute that fails the government falls. Jewell Repub lican. o SKELETONS. Topeka the other day and the entire well they should be. If all the "skele tons around the state house are aug up now just at the approach of the campaign, the excitement will likely extend from the city limits of Topeka to every corner of the state. By all means, let those skeletons alone. Coffeyville Record. WHY? Why did F. Dumont Smith want Dis trict Attorney Dean to let him know if the grand jury got after him? Did Smith know that he had done something culpable that he was afraid would be found out? It certainly has a queer look. But it may be the normal condi tion of a politician to expect trouble. Wichita Beacon. We confess to the same confusion. Smith evidently an ticipated his indictment at the hands of the grand Jury. Why did he expect the indictment? Leavenworth Times. TEACHERSWAGES. Hod carriers are better paid than school teachers, say the official returns rrom all the cities which have over eight thousand inhabitants. El Do rado Republican. o SOME FIGURES. The independent refiners have saved the people of Kansas one million dol lars in the price paid for kerosene oil alone, the past year. Is not that an item worth striving for? Cherryvale News. o CATCHING CRIMINALS. Letts was caught in Panama quite as easily as he could have been caught in San Francisco or .Tew York. The sys tem by which the officials trace and capture offenders is little short of mar velous. Lawrence World. THE TROUBLE WTTH RUSSIA. The world's sympathy for down-trod den Russia seems to have been largely wasted, the ignorant people over there don't recognize liberty when they see it, and apparently their most exalted notion of freedom is license to burn. kill, and destroy. Fort Scott Republi can. TOM M'NEAL'S LIMITATIONS. Tom McNeal can't save his hair, but he can save the state money, it seems, inasmuch as his report for the last quarter shows a saving of $5,000. Leav enworth Post. DISCUSSIONsTTn KANSAS. Senator Long's "attitude" on the rail road rate question has finally been de termined and Kansas will have an op portunity to fall back on a discussion of the .indictments aeainst Senator Bur ton and Senator Smith, two famous boss busters. Iola Record. o A SURE THING. If the statement that a certain cabal of leading United States senators pur poses to undermine President Roose velt's popularity by defeating his avow ed policies is truej here's betting that the people will put the fixings to the certain leading senators and that Roosevelt s popularity will increase. Hutchinson News. r HONORS FOR JARRELL. J. F. Jarrell has been a country editor at Holton only about two months, but nonors nave already piled thick unon him. Besides being called to act as a judge at an oratorical contest he has been admitted to the order of "Hons." and his name so appears on the pro gram, jne next thing we know Mr. Jarrell will be singing tenor in the Presbyterian choir. Osborne Farmer. FROM OTHER PENS AT THE RINK. Pick her up tenderly. Lift her with care; Replace all the hairpins And combs in the hair; The rollers rolled sideways As quick as a wink; And my! but the floor's hard Out at the rink! Houston Post. o IF STOLEN MONEY WERE A BAR. There are men who love dollars sim ply for the sound of their jingle and others who seek riches simply for the power they' bring, but the great mass of those who are trying to roll up for tunes are in pursuit of the social privi leges that wealth affords. If it were plain to all these last that stolen money was a bar, not a hoist; that to be a thief was to forfeit one's chance to enter the coveted circles, then the real remedy for the rot that has spread so wide would be at hand. But there are precious few signs of any such senti ment. Hartford Courant. o HUNTERS AND HUNTED. Maine hunters this year killed more game and fewer of each other than for many seasons. By thse tactics it is hoped the supply of hunters will last as long as the deer. Omaha Bee. NOT A WILLING VICTIM. "Whatever may be thought of Mr. Ryan's financial methods, it will be agreed that Mr. Harriman made a bad selection in looking for someone to sandbag. Philadelphia North Ameri can. o WHERE TILLMAN IS RIGHT. There has seldom been a time'when Mr. Tillman was not morally certain that something was wrong with some thing. Washington Star. A JAR FROM PUNCH. By the by. It is alleged that there is an American millionaire behind the times. If this be true it is a position in which an American very seldom finds himself. Punch. WHAT CANNON SAYS. "Let us go forward," said Speaker Cannon in addressing the Republican caucus. That sounds encouraging, but if the tariff revisionists call upon him for a speech, he will probably exclaim: "Let us stand pat." Washington Post. THEY OUGHT TO KNOW. The dictionary people have asked Governor Folk to define the word graft. The politicians and McCurdy will ertainly feel hurt over this ap parent slight. Philadelphia Tele graph. JUST A QUERY. Now that congress is in session, the name of Cannon sticks out boldly in big type, but isn't there a person named Fairbanks employed in some capacity down there? New York Herald. THINKING. I am feelin' sad and lonely While refleetiri' on the past, It ain t about the roses i That have w:thered in the blast; It ain't about the summer skies, Nor blossoms sweetly frail. I'm thinkin', sadly thinkin', 'Bout the folks that's gone to Jail. And even more depressin" Are the thoughts that still arise, While tears of hot resentment Come unbidden to my eyes. Each haunting recollection Still more bitter leaves mv woe; thinkin'. sadly thinkin', Of the folks that ought to go. Unidentified. Robinson Crusoe, Economist. When the average boy spends the delighted hours of Imaginative youth in devouring the pages of "Robinson Crusoe" he has. like most people of more mature years, no idea that is perusing a work of profound philoso phy written by one of the greatest political thinkers of the English speaking race. Taken with a knowledge of the facts of the career of De Foe, "Rob inson Crusoe" can properly be consid ered a story intended to illustrate the heavy burden of trouble placed upon any single Individual isolated from his fellows and compelled to maintain his existence without their aid. The tale shows in an inimitable wav how all civilized men are interdependent. Re garded from this point of view, the author of the most widely read work of fiction ever written becomes an object of particular interest to all thinkers upon politics. William N. Hill, M. D., in December Tom Wat son's. Appreciation. In the novel the end was at hand. .tne heroine, indeed, was about to marry and begin living happily ever CLL Lei "One word," said she, "before I go i cannot let the opportunity pass without expressing, albeit feebly, my appreciation of the unfailing courtesv of the publishers of this book. Not only have they illustrated, and in many colors, all the things I have done, but they have arranged with the printers to have me do them in the pages opposite the pictures, thus en abling me to see how to do them right. jrenuemen, i thank you. "Hear, hear!" cried the hero, with the utmost cordiality. There were shouts of "Villain! vil lain!" and the villain, after some hesitation, came forward and bowed, but begged to be excused from mak ing any extended remarks, on ths plea that he had carelessly permitted him self to be foiled in a draft and taken cold. Puck. Drink Bill of Manhattan. The borough of Manhattan annually consumes about one hundred thou sand barrels of whisky, which cost the consumers $2,500,000. To this item must be added thirty thousand barrels of other spirits, sold for $500, 000; two hundred thousand cases of champagne, for which $5,500,000 is paid; four million gallons of other wines and brandies, costing $27,000, 000, and last, but not least important, five million barrels of beer, selling for $100,000,000. This makes a total of $135,500,000 a sum sufficient to create and main tain forever a great university like Yale or Harvard. It Is a fact rather interesting to consider that if all this beer and liquor were put into a tank and were allowed to run through an ordinary water tap at the rate of a gallon a minute the receptacle would require ninety years and thirty-six days to empty itself. -Pearson's for January. A Standing Order. Newlin Haines of the Atlantic City Hotel Men's association was talking about the odd rules that prevail in many of the cheaper restaurants and cafes. ''For instance," he said, "I go in and order oysters, salad, and dessert, and get a napkin; but the man next to me, because he has only ordered pie and milk, can't have a napkin on any ac count. "A guest here last summer gave me the best example of these absurd rul ings and differentiations that I have heard yet. "The man said that he entered a lunch cafe in London, an ornate place with a counter where some of the patrons stood and with a number of little tables where others sat. "The man gave a small order, and took a seat at one of the tables. "Thereupon a waiter hurried to him. 'Beg pardon, sir,' he said, 'but buns can't sit.' Chicago Inter Ocean. Pelican Island. In that long, narrow lagoon on the east coast of Florida known as Indian river, there is a muddy inlet three or four acres in extent. Originally it doubtless did not differ from hundreds of similar neigh boring Islets; but, for some reason past finding out, this islet, and this alone, forms the nesting resort, the home, of all the pelicans of the Indian river, if npt, in deed, of the east coast of Florida. The brown pelican, unlike its white cousin, nests normally In low trees and bushes; and there Is evidence that when the orig inal pelican colonists landed on the islet which now bears their name, it was well grown with black and red mangroves in which the birds placed their scaffolding of sticks. Exceptionally low temperature and high water perhaps also excessive use by the birds, which sometimes build as many as seven nests in a single man grove have killed tree after tree, until at present only three serviceable trees re main. Still the birds come back, the im pelling motive which prompts them to return to this particular spot being evi dently stronger than that which induced them to nest in trees. From Frank M. Chapman's "An Intimate Study of the Pelican" in the December Century. Advice to Ryan. The combination of pen, ink and pa per has caused more trouble than all the spoken words of mankind since the beginning of the world. They tell it on Thomas Fortune Ryan: When he first begon to exhibit his remarkable skill in monopoly the family preacher, meeting him on a visit to his Virginia home, said: "Young man, I want to give you a bit of fatherly advice." "I know what it is, pastor," returned the rising mas ter of finance. "The same old song you preached so often when I was a boy 'Do right and fear nothing.' "No, no! Not at all, Thomas; I know more of the world than I did in those days. What I intended to say was: 'Don't write and fear nothing.' Ryan never forgot that injunction. They say he wears it in his hat and lives up to it. New York Press. Snuff Box in Her Stocking. It was a sunny day and several pas sengers on the ferryboat were sitting on the outside benches. One middle aged, quietly dressed and obviously re spectable woman sat alone. Presently she reached down, pulled up her skirts and drew a small box from out of her stocking. She opened the box and took therefrom a pinch of snuff. This done, she replaced the box in her stocking and fastened her garter. The pungent odor of snuff pervaded the air but the woman appeared uncon cerned to the point of defiance. "Well!" exclaimed one man to him self or anvbody who chanced to hear him. "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it." Cleveland Plain Dealer. IT Z 1 SI I I inn n vnmuu iuu r THE GHOST OF A CHANCE. (By Martha McCulloch-W'llliams.) "Everybody else is going," Selina said with a sigh. "Oh, dear! I wonder why we have to skip all the good times!" "It is in punishment for our uncom mitted signs." Bess answered with a toss of the head. "All our sins must be uncommitted I'm sure we've been brought up more strictly than ever nuns were. Sometimes when I think over it ail, I get fairly afraid for us two we've been so proper from our cradles we must break out after a while." "Hush! Aunt Wilton would have a fit if she heard you," Selina said. "Do you think she was ever young, Bess? I can't fancy her less than sixty and severe. Yet I do believe she means only to be kind, and really wants us to be happy." "Yes in her way which isn't mine nor anybody else's," Bess broke out passionately. "Her way is to have everything just so three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. We have all sorts of material good things we eat well, sleep well, dress well but no liberty to get the good of them. How many times did we wear our best frocks last summer? Not once. And it's going to be the same this season. People never ask us to things any more because they know we won't come." "I don't mind that so much as the flowers shouldn't you like. Just once, to run riot in the garden, pulling what ever you liked?" "You heretic! Aunt Wilton would have serious doubts as to your sanity if she heard that. I think she loves flowers, not because they are flowers and beautiful but because they are her own "The same as her nieces," a deeper voice said, from an ambush of lilac hedge. Next minute the hedge shook violently it was old and gnarly, being a party hedge and therefore beyond Wilton control. The end of the snak ing was a young man, slim and merry eyed, who bowed very low to the two young women, then said deprecating Iv: "Don't freeze me because I eaves dropped. I know how bad it is, but really this time the end justifies it. I m a committee of one. self appointed to find out just why the nicest girls in town stay out of everything.' "Will vou listen?" Bess adjured Se lina, whose eyes were dancing, though her face was preternaturally grave as she answered: "Everybody overlooks Joe Hartwell's fibs, because he fibs so nicely. Hartwell laughed. His father being Aunt Walton's lawyer, he knew the Ford girls. Aunt Wilton's nieces, better than anybody in Caswell town. It was a knowledge that ran back to the mud pie period, although the Fords knew no more of mud pies and their mak ing than could be gathered from watching him enviously through the crannies of the hedge. Now for two years he had been won dering how they had escaped their bringing up. Selina, he was sure, was full of mad longings for life and free dom. About Bess he was not so sure she sang and laughed like a human sunbeam, sang and laughed herself into the deepest depths of his heart Therefore he resented bitterly her iso lation. The sisters would some day in herit Aunt Wilton's more than com fortable fortune. It galled him to think that people would say Bess had married him through lack of other lovers; maybe also that his father had encouraged his client to keep her heiresses so secluded out of regard for the interests of his son. Beyond all that, though, was the rebellion against thus winning by default. How could Bess be sure she really loved him, when she had had no chance of meas uring him against other lovers? It was with a hope of giving her that chance he had asked his chum, Denni son, for a month's visit. Dennison was handsome, witty and winning. His coming, duly advertised, had set social Caswell all a-flutter. There were al ready things planned for all the first fortnight. Selina and Bess had been discussing the most spectacular of them, the lawn party at the old Ver non place. It was to come off by moonlight, aided and abetted by Jap anese lanterns; there would be danc ing, of course, and supper in the big hall of the deserted mansion. Every body was to go in costume, and masked. Except for that Selina and Bess might have had raint nopes but Aunt Wilton's face was flint to ward masking it savored to her so much of acting and the theater. If Hartwell had known that but speculation is idle. He looked blank indeed when Selina let him see how the land lay. "And I got it up mostly so vou might dance your fill, he said sorrowfully. "How I wish I could wash the slate clean and begin all over! Such a great lark I hoped we might have, and now to think "Such a great lark we will have!" Bess cried, springing up, and whirling about in front of the garden bench. Hartwell stared at her. Selina looked puzzled. Bess stopped short in her dancing to put her finger on her lip, and say, nodding sagely between words: "Promise not to faint when you see us, Joe. I think we're coming though we have just the ghost of a chance. The lawn party had t take Its full moon on trust so many clouds sailed in the sky the lantern lights shone all undimmed. The thick lowery night kept the crowd close about the house. It was big and substantial, and if the worst came in shape of rain, dancing could go on inside. True, a few nerv ous persons said that would hardly do of course it was all idle talk none the less there had been talk of a Ver non ghost. Two ghosts indeed those of the Vernon twin sisters, who had loved the same sweetheart and had re fused to marry him out of regard for the other. They had lived to a great old age. fading and falling at last like withered roses, there in the family mansion. They had been dead twenty years with none but good words to follow them. If they did not sleep peacefully in their sunny graves, then were pure lives and good deeds vain. Notwithstanding there was the talk now one. now another, glimpsed them walking hand in hand up the broad stairway, or flitting at dusk through the overgrown rose garden. Dennison heard all this avidly. He liked whatever was old-world and un usual. Perhaps that was why, when the rain at last sent everybody scurry ing within, he drew a little apart from the merrymakers and stood staring up the dim vista of the great stairway. And thus he was the first to see twin wraiths, slim and girlish, floating rather than walking, glide out of the upper dusk, and, linking arms, fall into the swing of a waltz. They were all in vaporous white swirls of it covered them from head to foot. They kept perfect time and moved so in unison it was like the rhythm, of one soul rather than two. Dennison felt his heart beat faster. All the rest had accepted the veiled dancers as but new-come maskers. He nodded toward them, saying In Hart well's ear: "Don't you hate monop oly? Let's break that one up." Then, in hurried whispers, he told what he had seen, Hartwell suppressed a whistle, then said with a quick breath: "I'll go you. Take the taller "No! I'm going to dance with the other. Ghostlike masqueradera don't demand formal presentation." Denni son whispered back, as he shot out to intercept the whirling vision. In a wink he had his chosen one fast and Hart well perforce took the other. To gether they made the round of the long hall, not once but many times, the ghost dancers moving so lightly they did not even breathe more quick ly, although their mortal partners at last were panting." -now did you think of it? How dared you do it?" Hartwell asked as he whirled and wheeled. The wraith n his arms answered evenlv: "We'va been doing it this long time It was e. sort of outlet. Selina first thought of it, after we had found the lost key to the big gate, but she never would have had the courage to do it if I had not egged her on. She wouldn't dare ba here tonight if I had let her think. We have always gone home before 9 o'clock and climbed in by the library window, -lnis time we shall have to be whosts until morning we can et in on the heeis of the milkman. And of course we shall run away before unmasking time. What would Aunt Wilton say if anybody told her we had been here?" Probably disinherit you. I should like that," Hartwell returned. "Then you wouldn't think, you couldn't I am fortune hunting when I Bay I love you- Whut more he might "have said no body knows just then there came wild cries of fire and after them gen eral panic. Despite the pouring rain. helped by a raging wind, the old house burned like tinder. Hartwell had for a moment left. When he looked for her he saw two vapory creatures flee ing up the stairway. Bess and Selina, madly bent on avoiding discovery, meant to vanish that way and escape up the back stairs by which they had come. A wall of flame blocked them. As they ran back from It they heard a shout, "Stand still! We are coming!" Then up the long main stair came Hartwell and Dennison to rush down half a minute later, through licking flames, each, with a girl's inanimate figure crushed against his breast. Right there was settled the question of a double wedding. Even Aunt Wil ton insisted on it her nieces she said needed stronger guardians. Both matches have turned out to be ideal so much so that Hartwell and Denni son say they shudder to think they gained such happiness by barely the ghost of a chance. (Copyright, 1905, by P. C. Eastment.) Johnny Come in. Sister's expectin' you. Mr. Stoplate How do you know she is? Johnny She's been sleepin' all the af ternoon. Cleveland Leader. "I hear that the new star's acting brought down the house." "Yes, it did. In one week it brought down the house from eight hundred to ten people and the ushers." Cleveland Leader. Nora Thor's a tramp ut th' gate, mum, awn he says he is Impecunious. Mistress And what did you tell him, Nora? Nora Faith. Oi towld him yez wor not acquaint wid iny wan by thot name. Chi cago News. "It's easy enough to pick out the bank rupt." said the unsophisticated reporter at the creditors' meetitng. "Yes?" replied the other. "Yes. See how shabby and careless he looks." J 11(11 1 llt-l 1 1 T' 9 i ..r..;," rupt is the man with the fur overcoat and diamonds." Philadelphia Ledger. "They say the Eskimos are a very ab stemious people." "Never make a night of it, eh?" "Most assuredly not. A man couldn't very well stay out for six months. Louisville Courier Journal. Tess Yes. Mr. Grouchy called upon ine last evening. Jess Oh, the Idea! He's a perfect bear, isn't he? Tess O, I don't know. He didn't hu-r so hard. Philadelphia Press. "My husband has asked me not to buy him any Christmas present this year." "Are you going to?" "Oh. yes. I need some things that I can not get any other way." Cleveland Lead er. Willie Mamma. I dreamed 'ast n'ht that papa gave me a bicycle for Christ mas, and you gave me a watch. Mamma But, Willie, you know dreams go by contraries. Willie Then you will give me the bicy cle and papa the watch. Town and Coun try. Fortune What's the matter, dear? You look excited. Mrs. Fortune Excited! Why shouldn't I? The new chambermaid complained of a headache, so I sent her upstairs, and told her to take thines easy. She did. n--iA rxff .-ltT oil of m v Ipwplrv. ili- fevi't J-..- Judge. "Why don't you cultivate the art of or atorv?" "My friend." answered Senator Sor ghum, "oratory soothes the gallery to slumber and reads well in the newspaper, but the kind of talk that counts is that which you read into a man's ear with your hand grasping his coal lapel." Washington Star. "There is none so blind as they that won't see." said the man who gets angry when he argues. "Yes." answered the new congressman sadlv; "I never fully realized the force of that idea until I tried to catch the speak er's eye." Washington Star. Instructor You know the law presumes that the person accused is innocent until he is proved to be guilty, do you not? Shaggy-Haired Pupil No: I didn't know that, but I know any lawyer will presume that way if you pay him enough. Chica go Tribune. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. TFrom the Chicago News Consideration for others is a good brand of charity. With the exception of humorists nearly all men are. funny. Even bald headed barbers Insist on tell ing hair-raising stories. The more money you have the easi?r it is to practice economy. Many a man has been made by his ene mies and unmade by his friends. A widow should be satisfied with a con solation prize in the matrimonial lottery. Never Judge a woman's aim In life by her inability to hit the things she throws at. We blame our faults on our ancestors just as they blamed their faults on their ancestors. "Rumors of Another War" was the cap tion under which the Ohio editor publish ed a local wedding announcement. In ye olden times the latchstrlng was always hanging out. Nowadays the elec tric doorbell is nearly always out of or der. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. Generally a girl isn't interested if she acts as If she were. The politicians take good care that the statesmen get defeated. A girl is never too old not to sneer at some one older who hasn't found a hus band yet. Half the fun of being married is telling what a lot of fun you really had when you were a bachelor. A woman would rather be clubbed to death by a man she loves than caresaed by one she doesn't. HlMOR OF THE 'DAY

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TOPSEA DAILY n its mn JOUniTAIi SATURDAY NIGHT. W. A. L. THOMPSON, President. F. V. FREEMAN, Vice-resident. Merchants National Banll f TOPEKA, Capital Stock, $100,000.00 Surplus and Profits, $37,000.00 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF DEPOSITS December 15, 1900 478,818.40 December 15, 1901 540,337.40 December 15, 1902 587,286.90 December 15, 1903 610,900.24 December 15, 1904 788,469.63 December 15, 1905 $1,040,234.77 ACCOUNTS INVITED. SAFE DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT 010 TRADE YEAR, Business of Every Kind Mas Exceeded Expectations. Duilding Operations Hare Been ilemaikable in Extent. RAILWAY EARNINGS Continue to Show Gains Through the Current Slonth. Foreign Commerce Largely In creased Over Last Year. New Tork, Dec. 30. R. G. Dun Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Unseasonably mild weather accentu ated the customary holiday week dull ness in distribution of staple merchan dise, but gratifying' results of Christ mas trade established a strong tone and confidence regarding the future is more pronounced. Outdoor work is facilita ted by the high temperature and '-"k of snow, making the year's total of building operations even greater than the most sanguine expectations. Trade in furs and heavy clothing is unfavor ably affected by the open winter, but the net result is most satisfactory. De spite inventories and repairs, output of manufacturing plants has continued large, and preparations for spring ship ments indicate that advance orders were ht.avy. New business at first hands is seasonably quiet, but machinery will be fully occupied well into the new year before additional orders are required. It is gratifying to manufacturers to find that no burdensome accumulation of stocks has occurred despite recent record-breaking production. Statements of railway earnings continue satisfac tory, figures thus far available for De cember showing an average gain of 6.9 per cent over 1904, and foreign com merce at this port was remarkably fa vorable, exports gaining $l'.063,129 and imports increasing $4.161,S97. as compar ed w ith the same week last year. "Actual new business in the iron and steel industry was light during the past week, but a large tonnage was under negotiations and consumers continued importunate for early delivery on old contraoU. "Nothing new has developed in the primary markets of the textile' industry, jobbers and retailers having devoted the week to stock taking and showing no interest in offerings of merchandise. "Light trading in hides has not weak ened quotations. Foreign dry hides have the additional support of advices from the river Platte that the slaughter will exhibit a considerable decrease. Leather is as dull as might be expected when shoe factories are taking inven tories and tanners are not forcing busi ness. "New England footwear manufactur ers have devoted most of the week to stock taking and the market is devoid of special feature. "Failures this week numbered 221 in the United States, against 52 last year, and 27 in Canada, compared with 11 a year ago." BracNtreet's. Bradstreet's says: "Following an unprecedemedly ac tive holiday business in all parts of the country, distributive trade seems quiet by contrast, more particularly as un seasonably mild weather affects retail operations in seasonable heavv wear ing apparel. What is bad fo'r retail business is. however, good for outdoor industry, particularly building, which remains very active, and manufactur ing operations are likewise facilitated by uninterrupted passage of raw ma terials to consuming centers. In whole sale trade. clearing sales and stock taking operations absorb attention, but it is noted that operations for spring account are larger than ordinary, and. INTERESTING LOCAL NEWS EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK AS DEPICTED BY THE S2 XJ The day is devoted to preparations for the reception to Santa Claus. F. M. EONEERAKE, Cashier. E. A. TIRRILL, Ass't Cashier. he KANSAS in fact, business is heavier than ex pected at this season. "Retail clearance sales have begun rather earlier than usual. Staples generally maintain all their old strength. Iron and steel lead the in dustries in strength of demand and prices, finished steel being particularly active for this season, though pig iron sales are fair at the west and open weather favors unprecedented produc tion. Labor is exceptionally well em ployed for this season and the weather conditions so far favor less than ordi nary shutdowns. January is likely to see some strikes in the printing trades and some lines of building employes at the metropolis. "Additional reports as to trade in the year now closing point to 1905 having been a record breaker alike in agricultural, speculative, financial and industrial circles. As a whole, how ever, primacy must be asigned to the manufacturing industry, which shows the largest gains over all preceding years. "As to the future, the outlook seems full of promise and the advent of 1906 is awaited with confidence unsurpassed in recent years. "Detailed dispatches point to wide spread mild weather being a drag upon retail trade, heavy dry goods, clothing, shoes, rubber goods and furs being especially affected. "Business failures in the United States for the week ending December 2 8 number 212, against 235 last week, 218 in the like week of 1904. 209 in 1903, 202 in 1902 and 26S in 1901. In Canada failures for the week number 24, as against 38 last week and 20 in this week a year ago. "Wheat, including flour, exports for the week ending December 28 are 3,448,248 bushels, against 4.473.482 last week, 981.140 this week last year, 2.915,236 in 1903 and 3,336.206 in 1902. From July 1 to date, the ex ports are 65.180.279 bushels, againrt 34,763,327 last vear, 86.150,786 in 1903 and 129,055,225 in 1902." Bank Clearings. The following table, compiled by Brad street, shows the bank clearings at the principal cit.es for the week ended De cember 23, with the percentage of in crease and decrease, as compared with the corresponding week last year: Cities Clearings. Inc. Dec. New York $1,909, 453.4;i5 50.9 Chicago L"4.575,S47 31.4 Philadelphia 130.142.683 15.3 Boston 12ti.5s2.5S7 22.2 Pittsburg 51J4S.12S 35.3 St. Louis 47.7P0.86H 3.4 Shu Francisco 31.317 .4 Baltimore 26,419.552 35.8 Cincinnati 2J.457.550 1.8 Kansas City 21.553,575 25.4 New Orleans 21.549.S26 8.5 Minneapolis 18.985.584 23.6 Houston 16. 190,682 16.1 Cleveland 14,123.614 20.1 Galveston 12,654,000 25.2 Detroit lu.04H.729 17.7 Louisville 9.909.845 12.1 Milwaukee 8.634.273 16.0 Omaha 8. 120. 008 14.1 Los Angeles 7,773.330 24.5 Providence 7.459.9 m 34.7 St. Paul 6.576.853 11.7 Fort Worth 6,408,031 26.5 Seattle 5,905.634 38.5 Buffalo 5.801,051 12.5 Denver 5.788,200 16.2 Indianapolis 5.752,52 14.4 Columbus 5,625. H'Kl 21.4 Memphis 5,22:1.231 6.5 Savannah 4.909.500 49.3 Salt Lake City 4.&6.5S') 49.7 Richmond 4.579.537 17.0 Albanv 4 519 149 82. 5 Washington 4.323.30) 26.4 Atlanta 3.937.527 42.2 Portland. Ore 3.921.676 32.9 St. Joseph 3.776.971 1.3 'Lipoma 3,775. 969 38.0 Spokane 3.417.256 45.7 Nashville 3.4O2.900 51.7 Toledo 3.3K3.243 7.6 Rochester 2.98,929 S.S Hartford 2.8-3.353 29.2 Ii-s Moines 2.232.557 43.1 Peoria 2.071.000 10.1 New Haven 2.MO.00S 24.3 Norfolk 1.917.087 3.5 Grand Rapids 1.841.755 10.5 Birmingham 1.798.744 25.1 Pa v ton 1.388,375 14.1 Sioux City 1.551.686 31.5 Portland. Me 1.534.348 31.1 Spritisrfield. Mass... 1.530,437 40.7 Augusta. Ga 1. 475,928 6.2 F.vansville 1.313,298 8.1 Knoxville 1.296,589 34.1 Worcester. Msas. 1.255.151 36.2 Svrarusp 1.234.442 18.3 Charleston, S. C. 1.232.124 22.9 Wilkesbarre 1,2-4.58.8 44.1 Wilmington, Del. 1.093. 007 18.9 Little Rock 1.074.710 32.5 Jacksonville, Fla. l.n-7,818 28.1 Wichita SK7.R75 10.7 Topeka 682.553 28.5 Totals in TJ. S. .$2,828,963,633 40.0 Outside N. Y 919.110.13S 21.9 First National bank depositors treated to a plaasant Burprise. lull I I Ill Ill I I II MWWWiWWMBWMwj i LpnMBnwMaMnBMKi THEY ARE OURS. City Council Extends the Topeka Town Limits. Heery and Norton Additions In cluded by Ordinance. AT WAR WITH OAKLAND Sister Municipality Also Wants the Territory. Had Taken It But Was Enjoined by District Court. The city council last night passed an ordinance taking in Norton and Heery's additions, and also passed an ordinance simply taking in Heery's addition. It is now a war between the little municipal ity of Oakland and the city of Topeka. Oakland will this evening publish in the official city paper of that town a similar ordinance taking in the same territory into the city of Oakland. A legal fight will then re precipitated to determine which city ia the rightful owner of the two additions. It is ex pected that the argument will be made before the supreme court within the next two days. The city council in order to take ad vantage of every position which it might assume outdid itself in Machiavel lian tactics. They filibustered, went in to prolix argument over minor matters, dug up every bit of pending business which could be dragged forth in order to weary out D. H. Brannaman, the city attorney of Oakland, who was present. By adopting dilatory tactics the mem bers of the council trusted that the city attorney of Oakland might be induced to go home and then in his absence they would pass the two ordinances with a rush. The council feared that injunc tion proceedings might be resorted to even late in' the evening and this was what inspired their desire to become rid of Mr. Brannaman. But the latter hung on like a leech. Giving up in despair, after an executive session had been held to outline trie plan of campaign, and numerous committee meetings to the same end, the council reassembled and passed the two ordinances the last thing in the evening. The city attorney for Oakland was still there. In order to secure the advantage which would attend a prior publishing of the ordinance by the Topeka city council the two ordinances were pub lished in the morning paper, though the State Journal is the official city pa per. This would give the advantage of about twelve hours over Oakland which will publish the ordinance this evening. It will make impossible any attempt to enjoin Topeka from publishing the two ordinances. With cn eye to the future the coun cil decided that it was wiser to pass two ordinances, tak.ng in both addi tions in th, one and but one in the o -Iter, fearing that in the event of a losing fight on t'-.e ord'nr-nce taking in the two addition?' they rnitht still fall back or. the ordinance which takes in but the one, Heery's addition. "I think that the city council of To peka has made a big mistake," said D. H. Brannaman this morning. "This action will stir up the feeling of Oak land worse than ever. I was pretty well posted as to what they were doing there last night. It d.dn't fooi r.ie. I don't know yet what we will do." A number of the interested property owners in the disputed territory were present at the council meeting last evening. In presenting his side of the case to the. council last night Mr. Bran naman, the city attorney lor Oakland, said: "The city of Oakland on the 6th of October took in this exact territory and before they could publish the ordinance a restraining order was issued by the district court against publishing it and yesterday the court passed upon it and removed the restraining order. It leaves it in this position that the ordinance has not yet been published and there has nothing been done yet. If this coun cil should take in this same territory it will complicate matters very much. If published by the city council of To peka both cities will publish the ordin ance tomorrow. Now then it will com plicate matters greatly, for instance, if vou should levy taxes down there on Norton and Heery's and Oakland should levy because it is part of Oakland. "I would have restrained the city of Topeka and the council from taking in this territory hut at the suggestion of the district court that it might be well to explain this matter to the council here tonight as they would not care to complicate matters m that way. "Mr. Clements, who is attorney for some of these people is going to appeal and it will be determined by the su preme court. The whole matter can be determined in two weeks and I think it v. ould be well to refrain from any action until that time. I think it is pos sible that the city of Oakland will not publish their ordinance but if the city of Topeka does why Oakland will of course." Councilman Nipps: "I think we ought to pass the ordinance, as far as publish ing it we can let that go. If we don't take some action we may be left in the council." George Pollirger. one of the resident property owners in the Heery and Nor ton additions, was called on. He said: "Kvery man in our district would rather come to Topeka. Without notifying us. TtTEEDAY. City Attorney Drenning creates a sen sation at the council meeting. Oakland, in an underhanded way with out informing us, tried to take us in." Councilman Ryder: "Oakland to all intents and purposes is a part of the city of Topeka. They are interested in our business and professional interests. The interests involved between us are common interests. I think by mutual agreement Oakland and Topeka should unite. I would like to see this council extend overtures to Oakland for this purpose." D. H. Brannaman, city attorney of Oakland said: "The doctor has so ex cellently expressed my views that I cannot but endorse them. If the coun cil handles this fairly there is no doubt but Oakland will come In, There is considerable feeling in Oakland along this line right now and nothing should be done to antagonize this. It will be only a matter of a course of time any way." "We have a petition here tonight from some of these people," said Councilman Holliday, "and I think we should con sider it. I move that it be read." The petition signed by Henry Peale and 120 others asking that Heery's and Norton's additions be taken in was read. The ordinances were then passed. A resolution empowering the mayor to appoint a city counselor over the head of City Attorney Drenning was presented by Councilman C. W. Horn and referred to the special committee which has been appointed to bring about an amicable relation between the city attorney and city council. But little discussion occurred. Mayor Davis taking over the reins immediately He said: "I hope this matter will not be pushed tonight: the city attorney is not here tonight. This matter has been given considerable publicity al ready and I ask as a personal favor that the matter be deferred." The resolution of Mr. Horn's fol lows: "Whereas, The city attorney has conducted himself on the floor of the council chamber in a manner unbe coming a city officer and used lan guage that was not fit for a gentleman to use, and thereby has insulted the mayor and the council, and seems de termined to do so in the future, thus making it impossible for the mayor and council to work in harmony w'ith him, therefore be it "Resolved, That the mavor be re quested to appoint a city counselor as provided by charter act at a salary to be fixed by the mayor and council." The fertile subject of F. G. Dren ning city attorney. was chosen bv Councilman Horn for a further rhe torical flight. Horn objected because a resolution for the drawing up of an ordinance prohibiting the location of stock yards in the residence section included an order to the citv attorney for that work. He considered that this was extending a courtesy to the city attorney. When Councilman Shlmer intro duced the resolution Mr. Horn asked: "What do you mean by a city attor ney? At the last council meeting we made a motion not to give Mr. Dren ning the floor of the council until he would apologize. I don't believe that at the present time we have a citv attorney. 1 don't think we should nave him do anything: he has insulted the council and the mayor." "I don't recall that any action of the kind that you mention. Mr. Horn, was taken," said Councilman Nipps. "Let's not do anything tonight," in terposed the mayor. "Let's not bring that up tonight. The city attorney is not here and it would be manifestly unfair." Councilman Horn would not down. "If you want to set there and swallow these insults I guess it's all right. I can defend myself: J'-don't think w-e should extend this' courtesy to the city attorney by asking him to draw up this ordinance." "Mr. Horn, we wouldn't invalidate this resolution in order to do that," said Councilman Shimer. Mayor Davis: "The proceeding would be unusual and I don't think we should take such action." Councilman Swendson: "I don't think it would be material who would get up this ordinance, whether the city attorney or assistant city attor ney." The resolution was passed as first read, the city attorney being instruct ed to draw up the ordinance. A move to establish stock yards in South To peka was the occasion of the resolu tion. A resolution to pave Lincoln street from Eighth avenue to Ninth street was presented and passed. This is one block out of the two blocks be tween Kighth and Tenth avenues which has occasioned so much of a fight. The original petition asking for the two blocks was passed after con siderable trouble and then recalled and reconsidered on the discovery that it failed to have sufficient signatures of property owners. A petition to pave Ninth street from Lincoln to Lane streets was presented and adopted. It was later referred to the ways and means committee. The bonds for the city depositories have been reduced from $50,000 each to $25,000. The amendment to the present city ordinance which calls for $50,000 was recommended by the ways and means committee. The recom mendation of the committee was adopted. The ordinance regulating the raising of bees and harboring same and for bidding them to roam at large in the city was placed on file. The next meeting of the council will be on January 2, next week, Tuesday. Holiday Kates Via the Missouri Pa cific Ry. One and one-third fares for the round trip: dates of sale Dec. 22, 23. 25, 30, and 31, 1905, and January 1. 1906, limitf l 'or return to and includ ing January 4. WEDNESDAY. Hany Bone This seat fits pretty well I thank you. i x r f i f lit J f n j0 quit Loose-Lcai systems Let us furnish you with your Ledgers, Journals, etc., for the New Year. We carry the largest assortment of Blank Books in the state. Desks, Chairs, Safes MACEY-WE Y. a E. 710 Kansas Ave. WHEX THE RAMSEYS MEET. Only One Tiling to Quarrel Over Use of the a and e. The Kansas Ramseys and the Kansas Ramsays held a convention at the rooms of the State Historical society Friday afternoon for the purpose of organizing a state association of the Ramsaey tribe. Owing to the fact that the attendance was. not as large i: had been hoped for, and the failure of sev eral prominent members of the family to attend, the organization was not made, but considerable missionary work was done, and it is expected that the family organization for Kansas will be made at a subsequent meeting. There were about 25 members of the family present, some of them being Ramseys and some being Ramsays. It might be stated right here that this is the only family feud known to exist in the Ramsaey outfit. They can't agree on how to use the "a" and the "e." Sometimes the son of a Ramsay will spell his name Ramsey, but there is, on the other hand, a dogged insistence on both sides that their particular way of spelling it is right. Both sides can produce the documents to prove it, if necessary. Last year at the St. Louis exposition, there was a big meeting- of the Ram saeys at the New York building. They had Ramsaeys there from all parts of the world. They had one Englishman who had dined with King Edward, and was a member of the British parlia ment. He spells his name Ramsay. At this meeting national officers were elect ed. J. A. Ramsey of Topeka is the na tional secretary; Joel W. Ramsey of California is national president. At the meeting held in the historical society rooms Friday a large collection of pictures of members of the Ramsaey family were on exhibition. In speaking of the work of the organization, Mr. Ramsey the secretary, said: "As to the origin of the name we bear, much is yet to be learned, and many things are shrouded in mystery. That the name is old is a fact not to be dis puted. There are three places in Eng land which bear the name Ramsey, and from these places the Scotch Ramsays seem to have emigrated to Scotland. We have not been able to learn why these places in England w ere so named. They have borne those names for many cen turies. A question which arises is whether these places' were named for persons, or were persons named so be cause they lived in those places. There are many persons in the British Isles who bear the name Ramsey or Ramsay, the former name predominates in Ire land and England while the latter is found only in Scotland. Some of the Scotch who spell the name Ramsay have admitted that their ancestors signed their names Ramsey to wills and other legal instruments. Very many in America have changed the spelling of the name from the way their fathers spelled it. "I hardly need tell some of you that I am firm in the belief that the name originated with the line of Egyptian kings, the Rameses or Pharaohs of Egypt. Any one who will read history carefully will see that this might be possible. There were no less than eleven of these kings who ruled Egypt between the years 1222 to 1091 B. C. In the old Abbey of Arbroath in Scotland is found a roll of the ancient knights and one of these is named De Ramesey. How small a step it is from "Rameses" to "Ram esey." It is my firm belief that these powerful kings sweeping to the north and west from Egypt carried their con quests evn to the shores of the British Isles. If not this, then their adven turous dispositions would lead them to THTTRSDAY. Ten jointists are escorted to the coun- ty jail to serve their time. courtrr jaii-. rmm m 12 nP"' SV5 TO CT 0U3 SLICES CI? f pruittng aiid litiiograpkiitg. ivit I r lire ttt mreT? VYiu HILL, JfiKL 1UU 4v.Uif.CX. and Filing Devices FILING CABINETS AND CARD INDEXES Bank and Office Outfitters seek the shores of what to them were new and undiscovered worlds. "The Ramseys and Ramsays of the British Isles were all protestants ahd for the most part Presbyterians, and so strong has their protestantism clung to them that I have been unable to find a Catholic among them. Nor have they intermarried with Catholics as the genealogy blanks will show. The great majority of them in the northern states are Presbyterians, but in the south I find many of them have cast in their lot with the Methodist and Baptist church es. The great majority of them belong to some church, and It is rare to find the answer 'no church' in the genealogy blanks." 31R. JOHXSOX OX IMMIGRATION. Tells Governor Hoeh What Was Done at National Meeting. W. L. A. Johnson, one of the com missioners appointed by Governor Hoch to attend the national immigra tion congress held at New York early in December, has filed with the gov ernor a report of the work of that con vention. After speaking of the present extent of immigration and the general char acter of the immigrants and the in spection to which they are subjected, Mr. Johnson says: "Kansas was represented in the con vention by the John E. Frost, Topeka; A. E. Case of Marion, Archie Fulton of Lansing and W. L. A. Johnson of To peka. The Kansas delegation select ed the Hon. John E. Frost as com mitteeman on the committee of fifty five members representing the whole United States. The convention adopt ed the committee report which ap proved the position taken by President Roosevelt in regard to maintaining the Chinese exclusion act, and also to the importance of the inspection of European immigration. The report also provided for a recommendation to congress for a stricter examination of Immigrants at the ports of embark ment by the United States immigra tion agents and pointed out the neces sity for a more systematic co-operation on the part of the states with the government to secure a more thorough and effective distribution of immigra tion, especially through the South and Southwest. "The convention was attended by members of congress, senators, prom inent educators, college professors, labor leaders, statisticians, econom ists, sociologists, manufacturers and in fact nearly every representative class were present and took part in the de liberations. All agreed that there should be more restrictions against the undesirable immigrant such as diseased, iriotic, insane, immoral, criminal and all other classes that are unfit for American citizens and the higher standard of American civiliza tion, yet how to reach that degree of restriction without eliminating some of the more desirable classes who seek to become students and enjoy the lib erties of this great country was the all absorbing question. Some advocated a head tax of from $15 to $25, others an educational test, others an unrestrict ed immigration taking chances on re ceiving benefits equivalent to deficien cies. All agreed that a better means of distribution of immigrants from the ports of entry would be one very de sirable means of solving in part at least this great question of congestion in the east. "A modification of the naturalization laws is another feature of moment when it is remembered that in thir teen states the immigrant can vote within three months after he lands on American soil by taking out the natur" alization papers and complying with STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY Kansas teachers leave Topeka to re- turn to the "deestrick Bkule." "MM .-.----'':v-,.;r.-s. J in 7 i m 1 5 fee imp the other duties imposed. The Chinese exclusion act was discussed in all its phases and the unanimous decision of the convention was that there should be no change except to remove un warranted hardships for those who ara eligible to enter from China, such as officers, manufacturers, teachers and students. "A. L. A. Atkinson, secretary of the Territory of Hawaii, was present and bitterly opposed the Chinese immigra tion for the island and appealed for American labor," KANSAS EDITORS 3IEET. Second District Newspaper Men Gather in Kansas City. Kansas City, Dec. 30. The editors of the Second congressional district of Kansas met at the Hotel Baltimore Friday. The meeting- was purely for business and politics was touched on only in a general way. There are eighteen newspapers represented in the association, which was formed for the purpose of bettering newspaper conditions in the district. The meet ing lasted all day and most of the editors left for their homes last night. Those who attended the meeting were W. R. Smith, Garnett Eagle Plaindealer; A. P.Harris, Iola Record; C. S. Finch, Lawrence Gazette: W. D. Gleason, Paola Republican; J. E. Lati mer, Pleasanton Hera4d; Bruce Den nis, LaCygne Journal; W. H. Peter, Olathe Mirror; F. E. Wilkerson, Spring Hill New Era; A. P. Converse, Wells ville Globe; W. C. Markham, Baldwin Ledger; C. C. Clevenger, Osawatotnio Graphic; W. N. Houston, Fort Scott Republican; Fred Trigg, Garnett Eagle; H. J. Allen, Ottawa Herald, and John Redmond, Burlington Jeffer sonian. Mr. Allen is a candidate for the Re publican nomination for congress in the Second district. He would not dis cuss political affairs yesterday, al though admitting that he was neglect ing no opportunity to fix his political fences. The convention will not be called for several months. Mr. Allen went to Topeka last night. FOR AN INTERURBAN ROAD. Arkansas City Votes Bonds for a Kan gas-Oklahoma Line. Arkansas City, Kan., Dec. 30 Ar kansas City voted bonds amounting to $22,000 for the Kansas-Oklahoma Inter urban railroad. The bonds were popu lar and little opposition was made to them. On that account only a compar atively small vote was cast. The road will connect Arkansas City and Winfleld with street car systems in each town. Lines will be run from Ar kansas City south to the Chilocco In dian schools and to the gypsum beds of Kay county. It is also proposed to ex tend the line to Geuda Springs, Kan. Tourist Cars Popular. The idea that an inferior class of people patronize the tourist sleepers ia an error. On many trips only the best class of travelers are found. They are merely men and women of good sense who would rather travel to California In this manner and cave a snug Bum of money to be used elsewhere. It Is beginning to be understood that it is by no means necessary for the traveler to spend a large sum of money in or der to enjoy a trip to the .raciflo coast. If you cross the continent in one of the tourist sleepers of the Union Pa cific you will enjoy your trip and eava considerable money. CARTOONIST. SATURDAY. The annual resolver digs up his cl3 New Year resolutions. 1 7nr17 r,A Both Phones tH6Ye (ftAiWR-rtJStKX VButtheywiuA S' PARSON6. RMHMMBMMHOannnWMHnMK

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frr- TOPEKA STATE" JOURNAL, SATUUDAV EVENING, DECEMBER ?.0, 1905. I 11 li 1 r hi f 1 .i v t v-? 5 --'i -f 54 A i, i i ',11,1 1 Mil 5 i. 1 r I HE latest report of the United States bureau of immigration, which includes the fiscal year ended June 30, 1905, is both interest ing and instructive. At first elance the more than a hundred pages of tabulated statistics and nu merous maps seem rather formidable, but the facts set forth concerning the annual additions to America's com posite population provide one of the most engrossing features of the yearly record. Js'o one who reads the report even superficially can fail to realize the magnitude and gravity of the prob lems suggested by the rapid increase of America's alien population. These knotty questions have assumed such a prominence in the consideration of the future of the country that all other matters relating to public economy, es pecially those involving abstract things rather than human beings, fade into comparative insignificance. During 1905 which embraced the immigration season of the previous year, but is classed thus for convenience 7S8.219 foreigners landed at New York. Only 238, 2S0 came in at thirty three other points of entrance 65,107 at Boston, 62,314 at Baltimore, 23,824 at Philadelphia and smaller numbers at thirty other places. Wilmington, Del., had the distinction of being the port of entjy of a single venturesome new comer, whose nationality is not given. This total incoming tide, amounting to 1,026,499 persons, was an increase of 213,629 over the preceding year. This increase was almost entirely at the four great eastern ports of New York, Bos ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore. There was a very observable decrease on the Pacific coast. This may be accounted for in some measure by the war in the east and the lack of welcome which is manifested toward the orientals on the Pacific coast. In 1904 Italy contributed the largest number of prospective American citi zens, furnishing 193,296, mostly Sicil ians and Sardinians. Last year this was increased to 221.479, but it was ex ceeded by Austria-Hungary, with 275, 41S. The previous year cnly 177.156 of Kaiser Franz Josef's subjects forsook their allegiance and came to free America. For several years" the efflux from the Austrian empire has been on the increase, and the cause appears to be found in industrial depression at home. The constant and vociferous de mand for domestic servants which arises from American households has made its way to the most remote cor ner of the empire, with the result that thousands of the nondescript dwellers in the Danuhian provinces are prepar ing to move westward in quest of the goiden harvest. The Russian empire lost 1S4.622 per sons who were convinced that America would prove to be a cure for many evils imposed by the czar's highhanded gov ernment. That was a gain of 39,756 over the previous year. The majority of these immigrants were Finns and Jews, both races having just cause to turn their backs on Russia, rtaly's in crease last year was 28,183, but it is believed at the immigration bureau that the outpour from that country has reached its high water mark, since two years ago her contribution was 230, 622. The United Kingdom also took a decided step toward recovering its for mer prestige as a base of supply for the immigration bureau, the increase amounting to 49,544. This is somewhat offset by a decrease of 5,806 from Ger many, 754 from Switzerland and 1,172 from Sweden. The inference to be drawn from these figures is that the two chief sources of future increases in immigration will be Russia and Austria-Hungary, both of which have abundant resources in that line. This makes it possible to Another interesting question con cerns the ages of the newcomers. Of persons forty-five and over the south Italians furnished the greatest num ber, 10,451 out of a total immigration of 186,390. There-were 16.915 children under fourteen In this group. The Hebrews, with a total of 129,910, brought 28,653 'children under fourteen. were 6,450 persons of forty-five and over. The English, with a total of 50, S65, had 6,956 children under fourteen and 7,183 adults over forty-five. The Irish, 54,266, mustered only 2,580 youngsters of the age already pre scribed and '3,124 adults of the class re ferred to. Perhaps the most instructive feature did not know the alphabet and 60 could read a little. Among the 129,910 He brews 22,770 could read no language and 807 could read Hebrew, but not write. The Irish, numbering- 54,266 were not as illiterate as in some for mer, years, only 1,445 being unable to read and write. The Finns were most intelligent of all. Among the 17,012 Chinese who could not read and only three who could not write. The Japa nese were far less intelligent. About half of the 11,021 who landed In the United States could neither read nor write. From a financial point of view .the Germans were in the lead, bringing with them an aggregate of $3,600,845. Hebrew" z99w- f:mmmmi j I HJif I J I m l I I ifttSIPt- fl! polish smmmm. :mm p jj 1$?! IS;li;CERhAN:fe5eon!:i;iillli!illTi W'fMll JJllliP HIH mi SCANDINAVIAN; nNsil84. .piL ffflliHiTlUl jfelfvpr xt- pliltfilillilll sill M li X I L. RtSHv. 54.26gHJ tefNORTH SEAy? j j f ft hH. W SLOVAK SZmZ JPmm SX DENMARKL Jpl sA&) y((J tV k RUSSIA JL iW -pTvf i plllll .VP' l and SLOVENIAN 35.104 .W'Jmtl k I IM I l H feMilf Lil Uli I !l Ulil Si MSmMmBMm i i LI t.HUANIAN ie.60 Voiu ii" GERMAN S Lithuanian 17.649 H IS V ?25 jL SCANDINAVIAN 690 MiniihF)w;N ish i7,oi2 pMmmt 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f jlm I !-SiliPipl c:50TCH 6,144 Hilljll ij I llMi i :uthenian .4.473 iHcilS i mmmimt Srr 12 144. 8.18B XTyJ P0L,5H 50.755 DA1.M A T1A H 2,5 5 S L t. l--r It.it-r 6wrf'cNtTr v 'HEBREW '17.25 fiOUIANeAN V j- -C? f J h 'A V1 1 MAGYAft 3.67 BOf.Aft (AN 2 5. S jCL O DHEMIANwoMORAVIAN H.757 fi 'rv'eRnAN 33.642 iTAUAiTz5iX f wT3sr FRENCH 11.347 J ITALIAN NOTVv5ft3t,AN S? .japanese 11.021 L O-VX 423 J BLACK SEA 2lIIEDUTCHAHoFLEM.SHa493c; tMU n pSv, cT J -M ROUMANIAN 7.8,3 c; J NS glw R BULGARIAN, SERVIAfA'. 1 and MONTENEGRIN 5.823 X SA) .-I 1 SPANISH 5.590 y f SSyfliA?? -,o;i- rr r mediterranean sea r KOREAN 4.929 TYJ F0RTUSUESE 455 p Jffi 3 SYRIAN 4,822 l l l RUM AN J.ho 1 -12 l r TC-i iTriM ir i ii run: i i t i i i h I RUSSIAN 3,746 ATRICAN (BLACK) 3.598 TEUTONic!oi9i!iillllHIIi!H!ltii!lll;llilliillill!H!illil llliililiililjillljniilliHililljHIIiHHTi IBERlCf rii.I :i DALMATIAN, BOSNIAN AND HER2EG0V1NIAN 2,639 WELSH 2,531 Z:: Z RACES OF IMMIGRANTS FISCAL YEAR 1905 ARMENIAN 1,878 l Keltic tz4,aa MONGOLICRTggj all others! w rrr::' (H) calculate with reasonable certainty on the character of European immigration for some time to come. The decrease in arrivals from China, 2,209, although it is a very considerable proportion of the whole number of immigrants, is still insufficient to cause much alarm. It is only when the total annual influx reaches formidable numbers that the uneasiness which is confined almost entirely to the Pacific coast becomes manifest. This should be a telling point in the study of comparative increase among these various alien races. Only 5,393 Jews forty-five years and over came with the others, showing that even un der the unfavorable and depressing do mestic conditions which prevail in Rus sia and Cilicia the Jew at middle age is slow to make a vital change of habita tion. The Germans, who came to the number of 82,360, brought 11,469 chil dren under fourteen and in the group of the investigation is furnished by the study of the relative educational equip ment of the various classes. Among those examined by the officers of the bureau 2S0.SS2 could neither read nor write and 8,209 could read, but could not write. Out of 82,360 Germans 2,813 could neither read nor write and ISO could read, but not write. Among the 186,390 south Italians 95,497 were wholly illiterate and 97 could read, iiut not write. Of the 50,865 English 493 who came only 148 were unable to read. The north Italians were vastly better equipped from an educational stand point than their brethren from the foot of the peninsula, only about one-eighth of them being hopelessly illiterate. The proportion of illiterates among the arrivals from the Austrian empire was very large. The Croatians and Slovenians, numbering 35,104, mus tered 12,788 who could not read or write. There were only 95 among the It "is estimated that 17,847 of them had $50 or over. The south Italians brought S3, 127,207; but there were a good many of them to share in the division. The English came over with $2,924,080. The Jews were supplied with only $1,824, 617. The Irish had. $1,421,682. The Scandinavians came to the new world with $1,604,205. Among them all there was none poorer than the emigrating subject of old Franz Josef, be he Croatian. Slovak, Slovenian or Lithua- It t tJ( ft lii i man. h,ven the Chinese cooly comes to the western world scarcely less poverty stricken. The Korean also is not bur dened with riches. The 4,000 odd who came last year averaged about 60 centa apiece.. Still another important phase of the immigration question Is the destination of the newcomers. Of the 3,598 Afri cans who came under the observatiOB of the bureau 1,582 settled in Florida and 1,040 concluded to try their for tunes In Kew York. Only 1,878 Armen ians came last year and 659 of them went to Massachusetts and 500 joined iuc (.uiuujr in cw i ui Allele were 11,757 Bohemians and Moravians and Illinois secured the lion's share of them. New York coming next in favor. Of the 5,823 persons who hailed from Bul garia, Servia and Montenegro, Penn sylvania attracted 1,468 and Ohio 1,358. California, of course, obtained a ma jority of the Celestials without the asking. Of the 1,978 who managed to land in the country 1,016 did not go farther than San Francisco's China town. Pennsylvania was the promised land that drew about half of the Croa tians and Slovenians, 15,505 of them settling in that state. A total of 7,259 Cubans came over to the mainland to reside and 4,691 of them got no farther than Florida. Of the 8,498 Dutch and Flemish homeseekers about an equal number went to Illinois, Michigan and New York. Most of these immigrants settle in large cities and become small merchants soon after landing. As for the Hebrews, some of whom came from nearly every European state, 83,724 out of the total of 129.910 joined their three-quarters of a million of coreligionists in New York city. Thd next largest detachment, 13,477, went to Pennsylvania. The Irish also show ed a decided preference for New York, 19,688 of the 54,266 who came proceed ing no farther. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania were the next most favored localities. The south Italians, of whom there were 186,390, settled In New York to the number of 81,572 and 43,078 went to Pennsylvania. New Jersey attracted about 11,000 -of these dark skinned little people- and Massa. chusetts an equal number. Of the 11, 021 Japanese who landed on American soil as immigrants more than half went to Hawaii. A canvass of occupations showed the greatest variety. Among those classed as professional were 3,269 English, 1,063 Hebrews, 1,033 French, 2,448 Ger mans, 611 Irish, 676 south Italians, 455 north Italians and 280 Japanese. There were more teachers than members of any other profession, 333 English, 365 French, 474 German, 322 Hebrew, 146 Irish and so on. Among the Hebrews musicians predominated, there being 342. Physicians were the most plenti ful professional men among the Cu bans, 99 being provide with diplomas from medical schools. Twenty-one of the Armenians were teachers and onlv 8 were clergymen. Musicians also led among- the Bohemians and south Ital ians. England contributed 647 engi neers, Germany 186, Ireland 59. Eng land led in the item of clergymen, send ing 355. Ireland furnished 177, Ger many 153, France 118, Italy 121, Scan dinavia 81, Scotland 65. China, Rou mania and Turkey are accredited with one each. There were 144 English lawyers, 76 Cubans, 61 Germans, 40 French, 37 Italians, 27 Irish. England was also far in the lead in the mattee of editors, 111 having come over last year with the intention of remaining.! England and Germany sent the largest crop of actors, the former 446 and tho latter 189. Italy also did fairly well in this regard, furnishing 116. These ex amples are food for thought. ADELBERT P. STRONG. 1 f present age. I HE recent navigation of what had almost come to be regarded as the fabulous north west passage is in some respects the most remarkable maritime feat of the Prodigious effort and enormous treasure have been expended on the quest of the passage during the last three centuries, but it remained for a Norwegian skipper, Roald Amundsen, in his little sloop of forty-seven tons, the Gjoa. manned by eight sailors and propelled by a small petroleum engine, to accomplish what all others had failed to do. Captain Amundsen and his sturdy crew sailed away from Christiania June 16, 1903, with the intention of re maining in the arctic four years unless the object of the expedition, the dis covery of the present location of the magnetic north pole, should be accom plished in less time. The tidings that Captain Amundsen has arrived at Eagle City, Alaska, after a 700 mile land jour ney, and that the Gjoa is now in win ter quarters near the delta of the Mackenzie river, and that Amundsen reports that all is well, seem to estab lish the fact that he has accomplished his purpose and that he is waiting for the season to open so that ho can pro ceed on his voyage to Bering sea and the Pacific ocean. The Gjoa is a stoutly built walrus rtoop such as the Norwegians use in ISeir voyages northward for ivory and blubber. Amundsen took charge of every detail in her fitting and as a final adjunct took on board the petro leum engine, which under favorable conditions gives the stanch little craft a speed of. four knots an hour. The chief reliance, however, was placed up on the Gjoa's sailing ability and sea worthiness. The whole cost of the ex pedition, assuming that it would cover a period of four years, was estimated at $27,500, most of which came out of the captain's pocket. Although Captain Amundsen's chief business was r to locate the present whereabouts of. the magnetic north pole, it-was his firm determination also to attempt the northwest passage. The Gjoa arrived at King Will-im Land late in the summer of 1903, and it was here that Captain' Amundsen set up the self registering instruments for the purpose of locating the magnetic pole. Then the expedition set out on its long strug gle to reach the Pacific ocean. After this no reliable word came from the Gjoa until the recent news in the form of a letter from Amundsen delivered by a trusty Eskimo to the captain of a whaler, announcing his safe arrival in winter quarters in the arctic whaling field.. A short time previous to this report from Amundsen himself a re turning whaler, a Massachusetts sail or named Cleveland, landed at Dundee, Scotland, with the. report from Eskimo sources that the plucky little Norwe gian vessel had been crushed in the ice pack at the extreme northern end of the North American, continent. This mel ancholy tale was not belie vea by thosa TQTt 'h&$st 'CAPTAIN EQAL2 AMUNDSEN, who knew Amundsen and the Gjoa, but it was a relief when the authentic news came. It has actually been known for some time that the northwest passage was a possibility. Navigators from the east ern waters of the Atlantic have located certain islands in the arctic which have also been described by those who have approached them from the westward. Up to the time of the ill fated Frank lin expedition there had been many at tempts to make the passage, but the direful ending of the talented Sir John and his crew of 219 men, in 1857, put an end to further "nterprise in that di rection until recently. For many gen erations the avowed purpose of these undertakings was to find a navigable short route from Europe to Asia. Se bastian Cabot sailed up the eastern American coast as far as he could in the hope of -finding the long talked of passage t China. He succeeded In reaching 67 degrees 30 minutes north latitude. Sighting open water to the northwestward, he was very greatly inclined to take his vessel right through to China, but his crew was not of that way of thinking and compelled him to return to less hazardous vi-aters. Another English navigator, -William Baffin, had in view the discovery of this northwest passage when he sailed up the west coast of Greenland as far as Smith sound. He saw two broad openings extending westward Jones sound, obstructed by ice, and Lancaster sound, which he explored cautiously. On his return to England he reported that the story of a northwest passage was a pure myth. Of course the quest for this greatly desired short cut to Asia was abandoned in the light of subsequent discovery, but -the. spirit of adventure and the determination to find an open passage remained. In 1818 England renewed the. search,, this, time inspired by the laudable purpose of completing the geographical survey of the western continent. In the light of the present achievement of Captain Amundsen it is interesting to note that so astute a navigator as Sir John Ross, who passed four winters in-these frozen waters, persisted in the belief that there was no northwest-passage. The loss of the Franklin expedition and the efforts to clear up the mys terious tragedy put a stop for nearly half a century to all active effort to ex plore the great archipelago north of the American continent. Perhaps the most noteworthy scientific result of the various search expeditions in quest of Franklin survivors was the discovery of another northwest passage, not the all water and more northern route first traversed by Amundsen and his party, but a more southern and less continu ous journey made by Sir Robert Mac Clure in 1850. He entered the Arctic ocean through Bering strait in the In vestigator and Reached Banks Land, where he was frozen in for two years. Their supplies being nearly exhausted, the searchers abandoned their ship and took to dog sledging. After untold hard ships they reached the Phoenix, on the eastern coast, and were taken to Eng land. Their experience was such that no subsequent explorer has found the courage to follow in their rugged path. Born in Christiania thirty-five years ago, Captain Roald Amundsen is a typical Norwegian viking. When he was still a boy he began his maritime career, and he looks upon a prolonged stay on land as a punishment. He has only such an education as a clever youngster acquires without close appli cation, but he is an exceedingly in telligent and well informed man. He first came into public notice as a mem ber of the antarctic expedition of th Belgica, which cruised in the south polar seas in- 189769. On his return to Norway Amundsen conceived the idea of an expedition which should have for its object the successful mak ing of the northwest passage and the exact location -of the magnetic pole, which was believed to have changed its position since it was located by Sir John Ross. He mentioned the matter to some of his Norwegian and German friends, and they began to agitata the project with such effect that it soon as sumed, definite shape. Captain Amundsen selected as his lieutenant on board the Gjoa a young officer o the Danish navy named Han sen. Every member of the crew of eight was known to him personally and was endowed with some special fitness for the stupendous undertaking. Cap tain Amundsen will return soon to the Gjoa and as early in the season as is practicable will sail westward to com plete the circle. Amundsen has mailed the detailed report of his expedition to Nansen, the explorer. ELBERT o. WOODSON.

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TOPSSA DAILY. STATS JOUH27AL. SATURDAY NIGHT. 9 CHEAPJMEL, Fifteen Cents for Halt a Day's Ride iu Japan. V J I Kansas Travelers Get Their Money's Worth. THE RICKSHA MEN tix: r t -I r i 1 I t--r w"v O On the question of free acoew to the helves in libraries, President Eliot of Harvard university is quoted as Faying: 'Open shelves or the plan of allowing people to go to the bocks themselves, are productive of browsing, which is not the most nutritious kind of feeding-. I object to the proces.; of browsing. In most public libraries it is out of the question; the browser will become the victim of casual knowledge." It would be ea-sy to quote a multitude, both of libraries and of literary authorities, in opposition to this sentiment. Charles Wagner has nearly finished his "Impressions of America," which are to appear in the ''Revue des Revues." There is, of course, to be a chapter on President Roosevelt. Translations of the "Simple Life," by the way. are to be Trade both in Japanese and Hebrew, end an edition of it is being arranged for the blind. A complete edition of the works of Benjamin Franklin is being published by the Macmillan company. Harley Reisman, formerly a Topeka newspaper man but now editor of the Des Moines Daily Iegal Record, has bios&omed out as a book publisher. A creditable holiday production from his press is "The Silver Serpent," a poem covering 32 pages. Bandmaster John S. Duss, whose lav ish "Venice," of two .seasons at Madison Ftuare Garden, set music-loving New York agog, is soon to be given the op portunity to explain on the witness stand the manner in which the eighty accumulated millions of the little com mune at Economy, Pennsylvania, came under his control. The Indiana State Teachers' associa tion held a meeting on Thursday of this week in honor of James Whiteomb Riley. Senator Beveridge was chair man and addresses were made by Mer edith Nicholson, Henry Watterson and others. This week The Macmlllan company publishes Mr. Clyde Fitch's well-known play "The Climbers:" Professor Harry Snyder's book on "Dairy Chemistry;" Pe Quincey's "Joan of Arc" and "The English Mail Coach" in a new volume In the Pocket Classics Series: "India" by Flora Annie Steel, author "On the Face of the Waters." with seventy-five color ed plateo by Mortimer Menpes: "A Rook of Mortals: Being a record of the good deed3 and good qualities of what hu manity is pleased to call the lower ani mals," by Floia Annie Steel; a new edi tion, entirely rewritten and greatly en larged, of "The Practical Telephone Handbook and Guide to the Telephonic Exchange" by Joseph Poole. A. I. E. E. and "Essays on Economics," by H. Stanley Jevons, M. A. Mark Twain on his last visit to his old home Hannibal, "Missouri told to the school children a true story about a schoolboy. "This boy," he said, "awoke one morn ing very 111. His groans, alarmed the household. The doctor was sent for, and came post-haste. 'Well.' said the doctor, as he enter ed the sick room, 'what is the trouble?' 'A pain in my side.' said the boy. 'A pain in the head?' 'Yes. sir.' 'Is the right hand stiff?' 'A little.' 'How about the right foot?' 'That's stiff, too.' "The doctor winked at the boy's mother. 'Well.' he said, 'you're pretty sick. But you'll be able to go to school on Monday. Let me see, today is Saturday, a n d "'Is today Saturday?' said the bov n a vexed tone, 'I thought it was Friday.' "Half an hour later the boy declared himself healed, and got up. Then they packed him off to school, for it was Fri day, after all." New editions of Harper books being printed this week include The Masquer eder, by Mrs. Thurston: Annie Hamilton ronnell's Rebecca Mary: and Mrs. Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe. Pastor Charles Wagner writes char acteristically about the American edi tion of his book "L'Evangile et la Vie:" "I safely received the copies of the Gosnel of Life and find the translation w f and Hurry, like a cyclone, whirls you along- at a rate that quickly exhausts your energy, and leaves you a nerveless, wretched, broken-down phys ical wreck. Worry accomplishes the same results in another way. It drags you through the dark, gloomy tunnel of forbodings, wrecks your nerves and br.eaks down the constitution. Then don't hurry don't vorry. But you will; and your nerveless, exhausted con dition brings headaches, neu ralgia, heart, stomach, liver and kidney troubles. The thing to do is Strengthen the nerves with Dr. Miles' Nervine. "Six months I was bedfast with nervous prostration. I had sinking rpelis, a cold, ciamy feeling, couldn't stand the slightest noise. At times 1 would almost fly to pieces; stomach very weak. My husband insisted on ray taking Dr. Miles Nervine, and I began to improve before I had finished the first bottle, and to-day I am en tirely curod." MRS. JOSKPH SNYDER, Z-i Hudson St., Tiffin, O. Dr. Miles' Nervine Is sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit, if It fails, he will refund your money, I.iiks Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind fine. May the book do as well as it did here where not only Protestants but Catholics like it much." The new volume of Uncle Remus stories, "Told by Uncle Remus," by Joel Chandler Harris, is new in its third edition, Fainter's Great Pedagogical essays is a holiday publication of the American Bock company that is of special inter est to teachers. Frozen Dog Tales is the title of a book by Col. William C. Hunter of Chicago. It is a collection of sketches from an imaginary western community called Frozen Dog. The stories are vig orous light and refreshing. The Ever ett Press of Boston are the publishers. McClure-Phillips are putting to press a third edition of Eugene Wood's "Back Home." Miss Alice French, whose pen name is Octave Thanet. took certain in stances in the lift of her own brother as the raw material for her new novel, "The Man of the Hour." This brother, since dead, was a Harvard graduate, who. after leaving college, put on over alls and went from a 6 o'clock break fast to leam the machinist's trade in his father's iron mills. President Roosevelt, that excellent judge of literature. Is a great admirer of Miss French's fiction. During his trip through the south he made frequent reference to "The Man of the Hour." On one occasion, meeting Colonel Nutting of Davenport, he shook hands with him heartily in the dee-lighted fashion, exclaiming: "Hello, colonel, glad to see you! How are all my old friends in Davenport, and how is Miss French? You tell her I read all she writes. Do you know, that woman knows as much about factories and the machine business as a man?" The committee on library extension of the Ohio Library association re ports that notwithstanding the prog ress of recent years, there are in that state only eighty towns in which there Is a public library or a college library open for public use. while there are 1S4 towns, varying in size from 1,000 to 20,000 population, that are entirely without free library privileges. There are thirteen whole counties in which not a single public library is to be found. The committee has now pre pared and published a library map of the state, designed to set forth in a graphic way its library needs, in the hope of exciting a larger interest in library extension. The January chapters of Mrs. Hum phry Ward's "Fenwick's Career" (in England pronounced "Fenntck") bring readers of the Century a timely de scription of the Christmas season in the Westmoreland country, where Fenwick returns for a brief season frpro London. Then he goes back tp the city, to he caught in the stress of his work and its new interests, while Phoebe in the. lonely Westmoreland cottage broods over the separation and its possible results. As illustrating the dense ignorance of the Russian of that class which im migrate to the United States, Carl Joubert, in his "Russia as It Really Is." published by the J. B. Lippincott Company, relates this incident of a peasant whom he interrogated. The man's father was a farmer, and lived near the village of Poekroy. He was asked in what country is Poekroy? He replied "Ponevigeska ja." In what state is; Ponevjes? "Kovenskaja." Where- is the nearest railroad to your home? The man thought for a long time and then answered; "I believe it is Sahgar." His interrogator said. "But Sahgar has no railroad to this dav.'.' and the man said, "Oh, then it must be Shavii." But Shavli has no railroad, was further stated: surely r-nnr nearest railway was at Radsivil- lishki: it is only twenty versts from Pockrov, and it is the terminus of me Libavski Romainskaja railway. The peasant answered. "I have heard of it." Then he was told that the terminus had been established at Rad siviiishki with round houses and ma chine shops for the last thirty years. Thomas Hardy, though a frequent visitor to London, now tnakes his home in Dorchester, England, where he lives quietly, quite indifferent to the social fame 'that successful novel writing brings. Now more people than ever before are reading Hardy. A new twenty volume edition of his works, re cently issued by the Harpers, has al ready been sold out, and a second edi tion is being hurried through the presses. BOWSER'S AMBITIONS. But His Motlier-tn-T-aw Arrives and Puts Her Foot Down. "I'd like vou to hurry up dinner a lit tle tonight"" said Mr. Bowser, as he reached home from the office the other evening and hastily doffed his hat and overcoat. "What is going to happen?" asked Mrs. Bowser. "Several things. A number of us are going to meet here tonight to form an anti-trust association, and I shall prob ably be elected president of it." "Yes." "Then I expect a committee from the Liberty club. It has been discovered that there are thousands of people in America who don't know the American flag when they see it. and we propose to scatter the emblem of liberty ali over the United States. The old nresi dent has resigned and I shall be elected in his place." "I see." "Then we are going to organize what will probably be called the Honest Man's Party at the next general elec tion, and five or six gentlemen will call here. I shall be made chairman." "Aren't you afraid that some of these men may be playing you for a good thing?" asked Mrs. Bowser, as they sat down to the table. "What! Play me for a good thing," shouted Mr. Bowser, as he held the carving knife in the air. "Yes. You know you have often been played." "Woman, what do you mean? Am I to be insulted In my own house and to my teeth? Who has ever played me? Why has ever looked upon me as a man who could be played? Don't try to sneak out of it, bu- answer me squarely?" "Haven't men come here and pretend ed they wanted to make you alderman or mayor or governor?" "Yes, men have come here, but I found out what thev were after and cave toe"". Mrs. Humphrey Ward Whose New Novel the bounce. Played! Played! Mrs. Bowser, get it into your head that I'm no fool. When a set of men start out to play me for a soft snap they've got to get up early in the morning." "But I don't see why you should med dle with those things you speak of. Why do you do it?" "I do it because I'm opposed to trusts; because I am a liberty-loving American citizen; because I am an honest man and want to see an honest government. A man without ambitions is no man at all. "Well, I hope they won't bamboozle you," she said with a sigh. "There you go again!" fairly howled Mr. Bowser, as he knocked his plate off the table with his elbow and caused the cook to come running in. "You hope they won't bamboozle me me. Mr. Bowser your husband! By thunder, woman, I don't know what to make of you." "WThy don't you?" asked a voice at the foot of the basement stairs a voice that almost made Mr. Bowser jump out of his shoes. The front door had accidentally been unlocked and the mother-in-law had ar rived and walked in. Mrs. Bowser rose up and welcomed and kissed her, put Mr. Bowser's face turned red as he sat and glared at her. "Samuel," said the old lady, as she removed her hat and shawl, ucl sat down to th'e table, "you were doing" 8 heap of loud talking when I arrived. What is it all about?" Mr.- Bowser grudgingly named the gentlemen whom he expected to call and announced their objects, as he had given them to Mrs. Bowser, and added: "Mrs. Bowser was expressing her fears that I'd be bamboozled. If I was regularly nominated, in convention for the presidency she'd think there was some trick in it. What the devil does a woman know about these things, anyway "Samuel Bowser, don't you use an other oath in my presence. You are always getting into scrapes and Sarah knows it and I know it. If there's a woman within a hundred miles of this house who doesn't know more about politics than you do, I'd like to hear her name." "What! What! Don't talk that way to me!" i la to you! Walk up stairs to the sitting room and take a seat, and when I have finished my dinner I'll have a little talk with you. I just felt it in mv bones that I ought to be here to night." Mr. Bowser went upstairs and walk ed to and fro and raged. The cat fol lowed him, and it was a good time to give, her a hoist, but he neglected it. He was still walking when his wife and mother-in-law came up and the latter said: "Now. don't sweat your collar, Sam uel. Sit down and listen to me." "No one asked you to come on a visit," he retorted. "I asked myself, and don't you get too sassy or I'll stay a whole year. To begin with, there'll be no anti-trust meeting here tonight. The fellows are coming simply to play you." "I say there will be a meeting!" "And I say there won't and that set tles it. The Liberty club may come clubbing around, but they won't be in vited to drink or smoke." "You talk as if this wa3 your house and I was only a boy." "Never mind how I talk. I know what ails you and the remedy for it. There's room in this country for an Honest Man's party, but it won't be organized here. There's the bell and I'll answer it." It was a delegation of three men to help organize the Anti-Trusters, and 1 i'iiiUMlilhi 'aW f V mu,. it,. I I I fm r w I VI! I r if H HE HAD THE LOOK OF AN ORPHAN FAH FROM LEMONADE SODA .WATiXi. W Is Now Running in the Century. the mother-in-law bowed to them and said: "It's all off, gentlemen. Apply to the nearest saloon'". They hadn't got out of the gate when the Liberty club delegation ar rived. "It's been cut out, gentlemen," said the mother-in-law, with a smile. "Plenty of claret in the house, but none for you." They were hesitating what to do when the Honest Men arrived. "Is Mr. Bowser in?" was asked. "He is, but he can't be played this evening. S'mother evening, perhaps." "Are you his wife?" "No his mother-in-law!" "Then that settles it," said the Honest Mn in chorus, as they almost fled dowr. the steps. "By the living jingo!" bgan Mr. Bow ser, as she returned to the sitting room, THE CAT FOLLOWED HIM. but she walked up straight to him and said: "CudUlo down, Samuel cuddle down. Sarah and I aro .eroinar upstairs for a little talk, and when I come down I want to find you and tell you a few things. If you leave the house I'll. hunt you down." It was two hours later when she came down. Mr. Bowser had taken a seat on the floor to sulk, and had fnllen asleep. His knees were drawn up, his back hump ed and he had the look or an orphan far from lemonade on soda water. The cat lay on her hack with he- less up and there was an atmosphere of homesickness in the room. "Poor Samuel!" sisched the mother-in-law. I hate to do these things, but how elsp ran you g;et alonsr with such a man?" "I tell you I run this house!" said Mr. Bowser, speaking In his sleep. "lie may, but I pruess not!' "And I'll have who I want here!" "Ton think you will, but you see your nmthpr-ln-l'iw s her-1. "And if you don't like it you can ro to grass." t "S'.ep. Samuel sleep," said the mother-in-law. as she turned away. "1 have come to stay a month or more, and you'll need all your strength to stand im under the strain." (Copyright, 19 ?5, by McClure. PhUlips Co.) Father So your ambition is to become an actor, eh? Son Yes. dec!. Father A'l ripht, youne: mqn. It's up to you to hcghi by cultivating the art of walking- and fasting'. Cleveland News. ".hi. OK I W V ft fc V. -.i s !J'-) Hare Taken No Lesson.s From American Hackraen. The Wonders of the Orient From a Kansan's Viewpoint. Another pleasing thing about this country is that American money is worth double its face value. Today I paid my ricksha man a yen, which was more than the price he was entitled to. I really paid him only fifty cents; and he had pulled me at a brisk trot for half a day! The people of Tokio don't seem to realize the game Americans are play ing on them; but I will say that down at Yokohama the people are catch ing on very rapidly they give you prices in dollars and cents, and, I think, charge American dollars instead of yens, and cents Instead of sen. This means that at Yokohama, Americans pay double the usual prices. The Japanese are lately sending a great many of their young men to American schools, to fit them for the consular -service. If, upon graduation, they fail to secure appointments in the consular service, they are in position to become waiters and chambermaids in Japanese hotels patronized by Ameri cans, which some people say. Is better than the consular service. A great many Japanese soldiers are returning from Manchuria; the streets are full of them. I saw a procession to day that greatly interested me; a pro cession of relatives, neighbors and friends who had gone to the railroad station to meet three soldiers returning from the front. First there were a num ber of people carrying curious looking cloth streamers attached to poles. These streamers were decorated with charac ters, but the guide could not explain their significance: I just naturally can not understand guide English. Then came a little band; then came the three soldiers, and they were the real article they showed it in their weary manner, and their battered, faded uniforms bore eloquent testimony to hard service. Fol lowing the three soldiers eame thirty or forty relatives, friends and neighbors. This sort of thing is going on in the streets of Tokio all he time now, and arches are being erected for a gret celebration at some time in the near future. Speaking of bands, today I heard one play, "Marching Through Georgia," at a flower show. This flower show was a sort of flower fair: a great number of places where an admission of five cents (Japanese jnoneyT was,- charged, to see pictures composed of flower figures. It was entirely new to me. The late peace conference at Portsmouth was shown; also many naval and land battles. The "barkers" in front of the various booths were as industrious and noisy as those employed on "The Pike" at the St. Louis exposition. The show was given in one of the narrow streets of Tokio, and all the houses, in a certain district, were given up to it. Ordinarils'. the district is a flower market. The flowers were not at their best, as the season is late. The people of the world are greatly interested in Japan now,, of course, and the little I will say about it will prove only an aggravation. Wherever you go you will find books on Japan; people are reading them now as never before. If you will call -at my home, and are properly recommended, you may borrow a book entitled "Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings," written twenty years ago by Prof. Samuel E. Morse. Prof. Morse is a 'wonderful scientist, artist, teacher and lecturer, who taught several years in the "University of Tokio. He gave me the book wtiieh is a very large one, at his home in Salem. Massa chusetts. The book tells about the common things of Japanese life, and is profusely illustrated. In case you bor row the book, see that it is returned promptly, for I want it myself as soon as I am home again. I regret to say i I have never read it, but I will read It j now, and orize it. I paid particular attention today to a street procession escorting a soldier 1 returning from the front. So many j soldiers are returning home that band I are scarce: in this case, the band con I F.isted of a cornet and baritone, and two drums. There were the usual I streamers in front, which seemed to tell of the nbttles the soldier engaged I in. These streamers floated in front of his home several days before his re turn. Following the soldier were 28 men and four boys, but not a single woman. Two or three of the men look ed like priests,, from their dress. Eeside the procession walked a woman carry ing a baby on her back. I judered this woman was the here's wife. The wo men here have so much the worst of it that I am coming to feel sorry for them. Lordly man is at liberty to smoke anywhere; In sleeping cars any where he pleases, but the Japanese men are so polite that they usually quit smoking in the presence of American women: they have evidently heard of the American princesses. There was an air about the soldier in the procession that greatly impress ed me; he was a private, and a good one, no doubt. I honored him as best I could by taking off my hat. and bow ing. This man was a I art of the greatest army in history. You may remember how we cheered our soldiers of the North returned from the battles of the civil war. But the Japanese have more occasion to be croud than we had; Russia was a more powerful foe Maud Isn't 5 and 30 too old to hope for any improvement? I should say not. One just begins to live. TaKe Hollister's Rochy Mountain Tea. You will be blooming fair at 60. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. GATLIX DRUG CO. 102 Kan. Ave. TRY n Purest Spices, Sound Fresh Makes better Pies than Cficis. Wolff.. Packing Co. TOPEKA, U.S.A. than the seceding states. These proces sions in all the towns of Japan will increase rapidly in number until they culminate in a grand review of the armies in Tokio, similar to our grand review in Washington. Our dining room waiter at the Im perial hotel looks exactly like Andy Ketchum. Hs is Just Andy's size, and has all of his lady-like manners. The resemblance is so marked that our waiter Is considerably lighter in color than the other Japanese. Occasionally you see a Japanese who is almost white. These Japanese whites are said to belong to families who have always followed the sea. The Japanese women all have jet black hair; there are no red heads, or blondes, among them. When a Japa nese woman puts up her hair, it is up to stay for a week or ten days, since the process is an elaborate one. At night, she sleeps on a wooden pillow, so that her hair will not be disarranged: a Japanese woman hasn't time to fill her mouth with hair pins every little while, and fool with her hair. If her husband gives her a vacation once a week, she devotes her holiday to fixing her hair, and it stays fixed until her husband can Fpare her aeain. We saw a very pretty girl at a tea house to day; she acted as our guide, and we could smell her hair ten feet away: scented hair oil of some kind. Our guide of yesterday could talk a little English, but our guide of today absolutely did not know an English word, except "Yes, Sir;" or "O. no," etc. He was secured by our chamber fellow: our fellow who makes up our beds, and brings us hot waer, and an swers our bell. Our chamber fellow said the guide was. a friend of his, and talked particularly good English. But the guide certainly knew the points of interest: this has been our best day in Tcfcio,, p Jfar f s fiight seeing is con cerited,, Tokio is provided with the usual public gardens and play grounds; in one of the latter I saw boys in kimonas playing baseball. In one of these pub lic play grounds I met a kindly looking old grandmother caring for two fat boy babies... I gave each of the boy babies a nickel, and the grandmother seemed to ask the boy babies: "What do you say?" But they didn't say thank you: instead, they gravely arranged themselves side by side, their grand mother chattering and directing them all the while, and after they were all ready, they bowed to me ceremonious ly twice. That was their way of saying "thank you," and it was very pretty and effective. In addition to the usual public gar dens and play grounds. Tokio has a number of gardens surrounding gor geous tempies. These temples are very old, and were probably as ex pensive to build as the old palaces of fhe French despots. They are built of wood, instead of stone, but the carv ings cost years of toil. Much of the j wood work is covered with gold, and in some cases the entire structure is pro- tected from the weather by a rough J buildings of boards. In some cases, the temples are built on top of hills; at one place, I counted as I climbed, and noted that I climbed 117 steps. l called it The Temple of One Hundred! and Seventeen steps, for the guide could give me no information concern ing it. further than that it was a Shinto temple. j I am almost sorry I did not leave an extra suit of clothes at home, and bring instead a set of cyclopedias. I do not know much out Shintoism. but I know as much as the average man: it is not necessary to know much about !t. At this temple we were compelled to put cloth coverings on our' shoes before entering. We were conducted through the gorgeous place by a boy of fifteen or sixteen. While he was showing us about, and explaining everything to the guide (who could not explain it to us), two giggling girls and a man appeared. The boy who conducted us squatted on the floor, and the two giggling girls and man did likewise. Then the boy recited a lot of stuff in a sing song voice; I could recognize the word "Shinto," but noth ing else. I wondered that the boy should be authorized to conduct a ceremony, but it would have been use less to ask the guide about it, so I saved my breath. Then we paid the boy sixty cents in money and departed. This temple was surrounded with smaller temples, tombs, gardens, etc., and the walls were almost as massive as thoso at the em peror's palace. The Japanese do not seem serious in religious matters; they pas' no more attention to religious matters than American Protestants. If they have boys reading the services. It will not be iong before they put the women at it. At the railway ticket office where I went this morning to se cure sleeping car and railway tickets for a night journey to Kobe, only women were employed, not a man in the place. We also visited a temple erected in honor of Budha. If you will look up the history of Budha in the American cyclopedia, you will have considerable respect for him. Budha's history was almost identically that of Christ, and, as he lived many years before Christ, many critics say our religion is really that "of Budha; that we are Budhists instead of Christians. Any way, it will Interest you to look up the briet hls- THE Apples, Sweet Cider, Beef. your mother ever made. SAFE AND SOUND. Safe In its securities all first mort gages on homes under careful ap praisement, by men experienced in real estate values. Sound in its prin ciples which have stood the test of years.., Surely a safe place to invest your money. Call or send for book let. The Capitol Building and Loan Association. 534 Kansas Aicnne. tory I have suggested, and note the remarkable similarity. At the Budhist temple, the worship pers ring a bell, to attract the atten tion of the saints, and then bow to an image. In one of these temples, I saw children ringing the sacred bell In play, and I was greatly shocked. But the Japanese are so much like Amer ican Protestants in religious matters, that they paid no attention to the sacrilege. We visited a gentleman's private garden, one of the wonders you read about, with running brooks, and stone bridges, and little hills, and tea houses, and trees, and flowers, and lakes. It was the most wonderful thing of all the wonderful things I saw in Japan. I have no idea how it .happened that we were admitted. The ricksha men stopped; we alighted and followed the guide through a door, and then through a gate into the garden. The guide met a man and bowed to him; who the man was I do not know, nor have I been able to find out. As the wonders of the place began dawning upon me. I asked the guide how it happened we were admitted.. He told me all the details, I presume, but I did not understand a word. Or he may have been telling me something of the ancient history of Japan. This gnido knew how to find the wonderful places, but could not ten about- them. When he talked I was at .liberty to make any thing I chose out of. his taJk. So this is what I told my daughter: The no bleman who owned the garden had heard of the incident of the daughters of his majesty, the Mikado, bowing to me, so he had sent word to me through the guide to look, through his private premises. It seems, that in Tokio, a lit tle attention from the Mikado's fam ily goes a long way. and the attention shown me by his majesty's daughters was quits marked; no' wonder people were talking about it. But the guide- also told me another starting thing, not quite so pleasing, perhaps,' but startling. The courtiers at the palace, It seems, beard of the incident of the princesses bowing to me, and were displeased. Indeed the guide said it was common rumor that the courtiers had sharpened their snickersnees, p.nd were, looking for me. Therefore the guide advised that I leave Tokio ut once. Consequently I leave the city at 6 o'clock this even ing to place myself under the protec tion of Captain Smith of the ship "Si beria," which flies the American flag. I do not propose that a little flirtation, entirely innocent on my part, shall re sult in a complication between Japan nji-d the United States; and a compli cation surely would result if the cour tiers used their snickersnees on me, for I am an American citizen, and have a passport signed by Elihu Root. But while I leave Tokio tonight, I shall refer to It again. If I had my old typewriting machine here, I could write colunms about Tokio yet this afternoon, I am so full of the subject. and admire tne place so much. But I cannot become accustomed to the use of a pen after having abandoned it for more than twenty years. E. W. H. Note: Owing to the fault of the mails, the "Notes" do not appear al ways in the order in which they are written. The "Notes" today should have been here with a batch printed ten days ago. A Christmas present a year of Everybody's for yourv friends- $1.50. Send it to us or to your dealer. 1906 is going to be a bad year for grafters and bosses. Everybody's is helping to make it so with its masterly fact-stories. The fact-stories aren't all on the dark side. Russell's "Soldiers of the Common Good" is pointing the way to a better and happier life. Everybody's is for every body not all serious. The fiction-stories contain the very best of American fun and story-writing ability. 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TOPEKA STATE JOUKNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1S05. n I 7 f f"- I f? 8 F" t. LmJ u ,4 Nsa sj y y y Li if T i ill' Yiiat me By FRANK H. EAYTOX, owner, step pod from the dingy little room at the end of the long black building, dubbed office, and walked briskly to the door of the foun dry division. He had come down from the city that morning and wa.s going back by the afternoon train. He took out his wa tch. "Longinore," he called. "Mr. Long more A strongly built young man emerged from the grimy interior, Brayton look ed at him speculatively. "You will have this lot out by 4 o'clock. Longmore, I think you said?" he interrogated. "Ves. sir." "Well, you may draw the fires then and have the men begin clearing up. I shall not be down again." In spite of its mask of iron black, I,iiiiginn-i's face expressed incredulous surprise. "You don't mean close the furnace, sir'.'" "1 mean just that," calmly. "I have been experimenting two years and los ing money right along. The ore is too poor in quality for profitable working. 1 shall be sorry to lose your services, but ail my other furnaces are fully sup plied with managers and foremen. Of course," thoughtfully, "if you should care to commence again as an ordinary workman, we might" "I do not wish to leave here," broke in Imgnun'O impetuously, "and if you'll excuse me, I think you are making a big mistake in closing the furnace. It Mill pay well, in time. My experi ments" "Yes, things have improved since you took charge." interrupted Brayton. "but you have not been able to eliminate the loss." He took a letter from his pocket, which he unfolded and passed to Long more. It read: T. H. Brayton: Dcnr Sir We shall have to make a ha.vy reduction in price allowed for your Brand Furnace output. Though better than previous shipment, it is still very poor and much inferior to what we are ettiii elsewhere, or even from your other furnaces. Thus far we have been able to use it in limited quantities in cer tain kinds of work, hut new processes are being introduced into many furnaces which improve the quality of the output, rind of course we must use the best pro curable in ord'r to meet competition. We are sorry, but as friends we would advise the closing of Brand's furnace. "Your agents are mistaken about the quality of our ore." Longmore said firmly as he passed the letter back. "We have a published record here of the output of other furnaces, and twelve yes, six months ago the average qual An American Girl V Blew Year's Day In Norway By A L -B E H T A T L A T T i ARLOTTA'S father was an I American consul in Norway,! and she and her mother went 'kmfS witii him to that far land. Her big brother and sister were at college in America, and it would never do for their studies to be interrupted by a trip CARLOTTA 'S PEASANT DRESS. to Norway. Carlotta was the youngest child, only eight years old, and Carlot ta's mother herself would not go to the cold land of the north unless her baby went with her. Carlotta's father felt Biuch the same way, though he did not m i f -"i

li. 5. l. Li IT wew lear oto SWEET Copyright, 1905, ity was no better than Brand's. You must remember that 1 have had charge only three months and that I had all the real practical work to demonstrate from my theoretical knowledge. In six months we can have Brand's furnace yielding as good quality as the average. If you will let me have six months or even three I feel sure that I can prove to you that I am right." Brayton shook his head. "I can un- 01 WTm, IT "THOSE WILLING TO WORK FOR ME MAY STEP FORWARD." derstand your enthusiasm, Longmore," he answered. "I was that way at your age, but iron is a plain, hard, practical business, and this is your first com mand, so to speak." He looked at his watch ence more. "Twenty minutes to train time. Suppose we walk back to the o flics and wait until we hear 'the whistle. Of course I shall try to sell, but frankly, I do not expect to find either customers or lessees. I would be glad to lease for a nominal sum, though, just to have somebody here, but, of course, no one would care to operutt the furnace at a loss." "If I could," began Longmore. Then he stopped abruptly. He was going to say if he could raise the money, but he could not, so what was the use of think ing about it. He added instead, "If I say so much about it. So it was settled that the little girl should be bundled up and packed along with her father and mother. They tried to make her as hap py as possible, so she would not miss the ways and plays of her own America. One day the man who took care of the fires in their house brought her a beautiful kitten, which she named Perk, for her cousin George Perkins at home. Pretty soon Perk became a big. hand some cat, as fond of play as Carlotta herself was, and the two had great fun together. The second New Year's day Carlotta spent in Norway was more lonely than the first. The day before letters from home had come, telling of the great preparation her sister and the college girls were making for their American Christmas. Even her mother sighed and said: "Oh, dear, there's no place like Ameifca!" Then she saw the sad look on her little girl's face and bright ened up immediately in that way moth ers have when they wish to cheer their sorrowful children and said: "Carlotta, let's play that you are a -.ft v3 4 1 7P"' i IN LAPLAND DRESS, WITH q'J HOlt illffl o1 by Frank H. Sweet could have charge here there would be a profit inside of three months." Brayton's eyes twinkled, and an odd look came into them. They walked on for some minutes in silence, until they reached the office, and Brayton seated himself in the only chair it contained, motioning Longmore to a box. He rather liked the young fellow's belief in himself and his determination, and he knew very well what the broken sen tence had started to say. If it were not that "You'd like to take the plant yourself if you had the money," he said ab ruptly. "How much would you require to carry the furnace on to what you be lieve would be expense making? If 1 loaned you $10,000 would it be suffi cient?" Longmore was on his feet, his eyes wide and looking grotesque in their rims of iron black. "You don't mean this, Mr. Brayton," he gasped. "I have no means, no se curity, not even my college expenses paid yet. Then there's" "I've seen your work," coolly, "and am ready to loan you the money until the first of January. X'nless you bring the output to a profit by that time, however, I will try to sell. Do you want it?" "Of course, if you're willing, though" "There's the train whistle," interrupt ed Brayton, rising from his chair and starting toward the door. "You may draw on me for the money as you need it, up to $10,000. No more. And er" as the train curved in sight around a hill and slowed toward the platform, "remember our compact. There's to-be no correspondence whatever between you and Helen until you are fuliy able to support a wife. On my part, I will show equal confidence in my daughter and refrain from sending her to Eu rope. Goodby." Longmore watched him board the train with conflicting emotions, then went back to the office. He did not tell the men of the change until the furnace had been emptied and the bars of crude pig iron shipped. That ended his duties as employee, for, of course, with himself as lessee there would be no need, at least for the pres ent, of cleaning up the plant for in spection. Henceforth, he was to be his own master, and the thought, together with the responsibility of the new debt and all it entailed, made his face more grave and determined than usual. First, he made a careful estimate of the coal on hand, charging it against the promised loan, and of the amount of ore at th mouth of the mine, estimat ing at the cost of bringing out, then making a list of such other things as he could use and which belonged to the plant. Then he wrote to Brayton, of fering him one-half of the profits after he had brought the furnace to a paying basis, in the meantime incurring all ex iUlSUL ILM THE THREE v little Scandinavian girl today. Put on the peasant girl costume the professor's wife gave you. Then you stand up in it and hold Perk in front of you. and I will snapshot you and Perk with my camera. After that we'll print the nega tive and send the picture home to Harry and Genevieve." Carlotta thought it was so much fun to be photographed with Perk that she could not help laughing, even while the picture was being taken, as you see. Perk didn't half like the operation, however, as you also see by his expres sion. After that entertainment was over Carlotta's papa brought a large box and said to the little girl: "Here's a New Year's gift for you, Carlotta. Open the box and see what it is." Carlotta did so and found to her de light a pretty fur suit such as the Lapland girls and women wear when they go skeeing or traveling in their reindeer sleighs. It did not take the lit tle woman long to put on the fur suit, and then her mother declared Carlotta looked so cute that she must have her photograph made again to send home. "Let me get my new skees and have them in the picture, too," said Carlotta. So, with one arm around the long, sled runner skates, and with her bright face full of smiles, Carlotta was photo graphed once more, and a very pretty picture she made. In the afternoon it seemed to Car lotta all the people of the place went skeeing except one man, who had a wooden leg. Carlotta and her papa and mamma visited the museum, where papa penses of running work and improve ments himself. That done, he called the men and made them acquainted with the change. "Mr. Brayton had arranged for you to leave Saturday night," he said, "and to stop work altogether. However, 1 1 awhile, experimentally, but will close' the foundry. I shall require only fifty men, and they must be willing to work hard and accept long hours. We will begin at daylight, instead of at 7 as we have been doing, and will have one hour for the noon meal and rest and then work until dark, but I will pay you $3 instead of the 1 you have been receiving. It will be hard work, of course, but I will ask no one to work any harder than I do myself, and I will add that I do not want any except trustworthy men who will do as well by me when I am absent as when I am with them. Those who feel they can meet these conditions apd are willing to work for me may step forward." There were a hundred or more men in the group before him. Four of them stepped forward promptly. Most of the others looked doubtful. Two or three laughed openly and slouched away. Longmore watched them critically. He had been here long enough to know "YOU MIGHT LET OUR PAY LIE OVER A MONTH OR TWO." these people were naturally shiftless and only inclined to work when neces sity forced them. "Well?" he said. "It's pretty long- hours," complained one of the men. "If ye'll let us have an hour for breakfast an' supper, an' an hour an' a half for dinner now. From daylight to dark is long enough for restin' spells." "Yes, you're right. It's pretty hard work too hard for you," said Longmore decidedly. "Are there any others here who don't think it too hard, who feel BEGGARS. n !4V'Su' U showed Carlotta an ancient drinking horn, of the kind from which on New Year's day the Norse folk used to drink one another's health a thousand years ago. In those times a creature much like the bison, which we in America call the buffalo, used to roam wild through the countries of Europe. 1 V r it OLAF. The name aurftchs has been given by modern naturalists to this bison, which was long since quite exterminated in Scandinavia. People slaughtered it for its flesh and skin. Its horns they made drinking cups of. The ancient Norse folk had a New Year's day thousands of years ago, and always on that day diinking from the aurochs' horn was 's aiX I b V'1- 'fss ztion V? A' they are able to do as much work as I can myself." Several of the more energetic men were talking among themselves. Long more's eyes swept over them and over the rest of the group, singling out a face here and there that he thought looked promising. Presently he went among them, with a few earnest, persuasive words here and there, and in the end he hired fifty men who promised to work as he desired. .Monday morning he and two of the men descended into the furnace to make some changes. When they came out Longmore went to the mine to see how the work of getting out ore was pro gressing. Ho wished to make a special selection of ore "for the next day's charge of the furnace and. hoped that it would carry some of his theories to ward the practical results he was striv ing for. As he approached the mouth of the mine he listened for the sounds of work, but could only hear the regular strokes of a single pick. Then, as he turned a spur, he saw the reason. Three of the men were lying on the ground in front of the opening, apparently asleep: two were tossing pebbles at each other, and the rest were lying about in various at titudes of listless ease. Nor did they seem in the least disturbed at his ap proach. "Got the furnace job done?" asked a stalwart young fellow, as he rose yawning. "Yes, why are you not at work?" Got urea an ir-.ougnt wed rest a spell. 'Sides, ono cf the men 'lowed there wa'n't much show for our get tin' paid, an' that ye had only what ye'd earned as boss. I s'pose it's all right, though," lazily, "an' if ye say 'tis we'll start in ag'in after we iie a spell." "Yes," quietly, "the money part is all right. Who is that working in the mine?" Billy Brooks, contemptuously. "That man'll wear out an' drop down dead 'fore he knows, an' nobody'll be to blame 'cept himself an", mebbe, the man who drives him on to such work The fellow's a crank an' don't know any more'n to do jest what he's told, an' But Longmore- had passed on. Ten minutes later he came back. The men were stretching themselves pre paratory to resuming work. "Now you can come to the office and get your pay," he said briskly. "There will be less than half a day coming to you, for Brooks says you rested two hours or more this forenoon and that you have been here about two hours now. I shall pay you for just the time you work." "Oh, we don't want any pay yet if it's all right," answered the young man sullenly. "But it's been three-quarters of a day. Folks have to rest, an' if Billy Brooks don't look out he'll" "Stop right there," requested Long more, with a sudden ring in his voice. "Mr. Brooks will be your foreman after this, in my absence, and "will keep an exact account of the time you work." "Foreman!" angrily. "Billy Brooks!" Why, he don't know any more about minin' than I do. I'd make a better foreman any day." "Perhaps, but Mr. Brooks seems to have been the only man faithful to my interests so far, and he will be my fore man, with an advance in wages. Now you may come and get your money, or you can go back to work, just as you choose." part of the ceremony. Very few of these ancient drinking horns are left now. After seeing the museum Carlotta and her father and mother went to look at the skeers. A good natured boy whom they knew gave Carlotta a lesson in this famous northland sport. It was very hard work for the little American girl, however, and she soon was satis fied to stop and watch the others. She found that it is not always the best dressed people who can do things the best, for the most daring and expert skeer among all the boys was a youth named Olaf, whose clothing was well patched. A Novel Flower Game, The following is a good guessing game for winter evenings. It 'consists of the following questions and answers and can be greatly varied by the use of a little ingenuity in inventing new ques tions. What flower makes you think Of Napoleon? (Violet.) Of England? (The rose.) Of Scotland? (The thistle.) Of Japan? (The chrysanthemum.) Of China? (The cherry blossom.) Of thoughts? (Pansy.) Of Fiance? (The lily.) Of footwear? (Lady's slipper.) Of the first snow? (Snowdrops.) Of Egypt? (The lotus.) Of Jerusalem? (The rose of Sharon.) Of remembrance? (Rosemary.) Of the Alps? (Edelweiss.) Of Holland? (Tulip.) Of a pantomime? (Columbine.) Of a monastery? Monk's hood.) Yonr Canary's Sonc If you want your canary to sing soft ly and sweetly be careful not to place the cage in too strong a light, as this makes it hop about too much, and the notes grow loud and shrill. Irrespective of lights, some birds will sing better in one part of a room than another, but whatever you do be sure never to put your canary's cage in a draft or the little songster will soon take cold. Mary's Real Little Lamb. Mary, who "had a little lamb," was a Massachusetts girl, and her particu lar lamb was one of twins, thrust out of the pen by its unnatural mother Mary took it home, and it became a family pet. One day it could nowhere the He went on toward the office, without again looking toward them. The men hesitated a moment, then three of them followed him. The rest returned to the mine. After that there was little trouble with them so long as they were not left by tnemselves. Evidently they had thought to overawe the young foreman in his untried position as em ployer. The next few days he passed for the most part at the mouth of the furnace, helping and overlooking the ore as it was poured in, but in spite of his care and watchfulness the result was not THEY'RE THE FINEST SAW." I EVER satisfactory and the newly made pig iron was carried round and cast back into the furnace, to be once more melt ed. Again and again was this done, and though the results were often Im provements on the preceding ones, they were not what he hoped and was striv ing for. So he worked and experimented, the loaned capital growing smaller and smaller, until at last he began to dis charge the more shiftless of the men. At the end of November his working force had dwindled to ten men and him self, and his money to less than a hun dred dollars. During the last few weeks but little time had been given to sleep. Through the day he worked with the men silent, watchful, untiring and most of the nights were given to study and the devising of new experiments. Something was lacking, some little point which he had missed. Perhaps it was in the ore, perhaps in the furnace, pos sibly somewhere else. Only he had missed it, and yet the secret was hov ering at his very finger tips, he was sure of that. The ten men remaining to him were the pick of the neighborhood, in whom he was every day growing to repose more confidence. They were all hard working and tried to meet his wishes, be found, but as Mary went singing on her way to school it heard her voice and followed her. At the school she hid it in her desk, till she was called to spelling class, when the Iamb sprang out and pattered after her, to the general amusement of scholars and teacher. A few days later young Rowlston, son of a Boston riding master, produced three verses of the well known poem. How it came to be published no one knows, for he died soon afterward, ignorant of the popu larity of his lines. The lamb grew to maturity and came to its death by the horns of an angry cow. Vntel Material. A little lady she had seen but four rosy summers was taking a walk early in the morning recently with her moth er, and as the two sauntered along, hand in hand, the attention of the child was attracted to an ash box which had not, been emptied by the dustman that morning, and on which was a full sized cat, asleep, basking in the sunshine. The little girl faltered in her walk, and for a few seconds looked interestedly at the pussy lying asleep. Through her mind probably was running the. thoughts that anything which found its way to the refuse can was of no value. "What is it. little girl? What are you thinking about?" asked the mother. "Why, mamma." answered the tot. "there is a perfectly good cat in that ash box. Why do they throw it away?" At H ew year's Party. The first departure of the evening. li OlJXifl and in a way they were beginning to understand that he was passing through a crisis of his life. One even ing, after an unusually hard dayv as Longmore almost staggered toward his office. Brooks followed him, laying a detaining hand upon his shoulder. "Look here. Mr. Longmore," he said anxiously, "you just leave that office alone tonight an', go into your room to bed. You're runniiv" yourself out. An an'," hesitating a little, "if you don't mind, me an' the men have been talkin' about you some lately. We've been workin' pretty stiddy an' ain't a bit hard up now, so if it'll be any any easier you might let our pay lie over a month or two. WTe don't mind, an'" Longmore swung round and grasped his hand. "Thank you for this, Mr. Brooks," ha exclaimed, his eyes moistening. "You don't know how I appreciate It just now. Tell the men so. But I shall not take advantage of your friendship. It has been something of a strain with m lately, I don't mind admitting that, but another day or two will decide the mat ter one way or the other. I was up all last night, working and thinking, and am going to make one last trial, a bolder one. I sent my last $50 away this morning, and the things will b here on the train tomorrow morning. The next day will decide whether we keep on or close, and whether But good night. Be on hand at daybreak. I shall work in the office tonight, but after this will sleep." l ne iie.xt luuimng lie was on Lite iil y tie platform when the train came and1- took his package straight to the office. Soon after he went to the mouth of tha furnace, where the men were throwing in ore, the package under his arm. All day he worked there with them, fever ishly, but the next day when he went below to watch the result, when the molten iron was released, he was calm. But as he watched, a strange light began to glow in his eyes. As soon as the bars were sufficiently cool he took several of them to the station plat form, addressing them to Mr. Brayton. Then he went to the office and wrote a long letter, and it lacked but two days of the year's end. The 1st of January the letter was answered by Brayton in person. His face seemed unusually excited as he swung to the platform, even before the train stopped. "Are those bars fair samples?" he de manded. "Yes, sir." "Well, well, well. I'd never have be lieved it never in this world. They're the finest I ever saw and mean a for tune. But I can't accept your proposi tion, Longmore, to take over the plant with you again as foreman. No, no. We'll run it half and half, my capital against your discovery and services. And we'll increase the capacity and the working force to 300 men. You'll want a superintendent now, Longmore, snii foremen for the different departments. You'd better hire them at once." "They're already at hand, sir; m-'i -j whom I can depend, and who win raka our interests their own." "Good! That's the kind we want. Now let's go to the office and consider plans for the increase. Why," explosive ly, "it's a fortune and the most unbe lievable thing I ever heard of. Then we'll run up home and see Helen. She'll be glad, and er I won't say another word." A NEW YEAR THOUGHT. Out in the highways, wherever we go. Seed we must gather, and seed we must sow. Even the. tiniest seed has a power, Be it a thistle or be it a flower. Gathering seed, we must scatter as well; God will watch over the place where' it fell. Only the gain of the harvest is ours. Shall we plant thistles or shall we plant flowers? A Shrimp as a Siphon. An amusing trick is to make a siphon out of a shrimp. Fill a wineglass with water and place a shrimp, which has been soaked in water, on the edge of the glass, as shown in the illustration. The body of the shrimp will 'then act as a siphon, and the contents of the vessel will continue to drip from the feelers of the crustacean until the level of the liquid is lowered to the end of the tail. Tit For Tat. Mamma You naughty boy! What do you mean by saying, "Don't bother me now," when I asked you how you got your clothes soiled? Tommy That's what you always say when 1 ask you something you don't know how to answer. Just Came. Freddie Mother, what is the baby's name? Mother The baby hasn't any name. Freddie Then how did fc know ba belonged here? H i

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