The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 5, 1908

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1 EVERYBODY 10 PAGES EVERYBODY 10 PAGES READS IT. LAST EDITION. DEAD TOTAL 168. That Number of Bodies Taken Out of the Bains Of the School House Burned at North Collin wood. SEVERAL ARE MISSING Whose Remains May Tet Be Found in the Ashes. The Fire Is Declared to Be of Incendiary Origin. Cleveland, O., March 5. Up to 10 'clock today 112 little bodies had been identified from among the pupils of the Lake View school in Collinwood, who lost their lives in the fire that destroyed the school building yesterday morning. Twenty-four hours had passed, but the exact number of fatalities was un known. The number may reach 170. How many bodies still are in the ruins, If any, has not been positively deter mined. Village firemen and volunteer assist ants still are probing among the smold erintr ruins. So far 168 bodies have been recovered. Of these there remains 56 still to be identified. Of the 06 it is generally admitted that practically cone will be distinguished one from the other. Their names must be as certained from the list of missing. A great public funeral will take place tomorrow or Saturday. County Coroner Dr. T. A. Burke to day began a thorough investigation of the causes leading to the terrible loss of life. His work will be supplementary to the Investigation being conducted by the various Collinwood officials, such as the board of education and the village council. The work of the Collinwood officials also was resumed early today. So far they have arrived at no definite con clusion as to the cause of the fire or where to place the blame. If blame Is to be placed. It is generally admitted that the school building was of approved fireproof construction and that the calamity could not have been averted, looked at from this standpoint. Also it now is believed that the fire did not have its origin in the furnace or that it resulted from the explosion of the heating boiler. From the testi mony so far adduced the fire must have etarted under the stairway leading from the basement to the first floor of the building. Janitor Is Blamed. The janitor, Ferd Herter, stoutly; maintains that there was no waste or I rubbish there. The officials are doubling their efforts to ascertain the names of the three girls, who are reported to have been In the basement at the time the fire started and who are said by the jani tor to have first notified him of the fire. Much depends, it is thought upon the stories these girls may be able to tell. These are the problems that are con fronting the officials. The latter de sire to learn the exact reason for the fire, not only because it may be the means of preventing a repetition of the calamity In the future and stand as a warning to other schools throughout the country, but will, to a degree, ap pease the anxiety of the afflicted par ents and the public in general. In this connection the Janitor has been made to bear the major portion of the blame. While the janitor practically has clear ed himself upon his own testimony, yet the feeling against him is high in Collinwood. Yesterday one father, crazed by his grief made an attempt upon the life of Herter, but was re strained with difficulty. Herter is be ing guarded by the police. In addi tion to the blame, whether justified or not, being heaped upon him, Herter is broken down with grief over the loss of three of his own children in the fire. As the day wore on the belief became general that the number of dead might total upwards of 180. While 168 bodies had been recovered it was stated by Village Engineer Gould that he was of the opinion that possibly 20 more bodies still were in the ruins burned to ashes. He based this opinion upon the difference between the number of bodies recovered and the number re ported missing. L. R. Gardner, a member of the school board, is positive in his asser tion that the fire was of incendiary origin. The school was overcrowded and quarters had been provided for the younger children in the attic. Strange as it may seem, more of the pupils escaped from this part of the school house than from any other. The children were under good disci pline, they had practiced frequently In the fire drill, their teachers without exception retained their self posses sion, showing great courage in the face of imminent danger, and yet more than half of these little ones died horribly because of faulty build ing arrangements. Mother Saw Her Child Burn. The school house was two stories end a half high, the walls being of brick and concrete. Inside it was a shell which burned with almost in conceivable rapidity. The entire in terior was a mass of smoking ruins lying- in the cellar within 30 minutes after the alarm of fire was sounded. For supreme horror the scenes that were enacted around the rear door of this ill-fated school house have had few parallels in this or any other country. Little children were piled upon each other, six and eight deep, -while strong men and frantic mothers struggled with desperation to release them, yet failed and were compelled to stand back and see the little ones die before their eyes. One woman found her own daughter in this press and stroked her hair in the effort to keep the flames away. She failed and the child .wa3 burned to death while her mother looked on. From the upper floors of the build ing two stairways offered exit. One of these lea to trie aoor in iront. tne other to the door in the rear. It was in this last place that the lives of the little ones were lost while would-be rescuers stood helpless. The scenes that were enactea in tne iront hall will never be known. The door at this side of the building was never (Continued on Page Six.) ITHUESDAY EVENING. FIVE PECKS IN A BUSHEL. Lawrence Huckster Gives Short Measure and Is Arrested. Lawrence, Kan.. March 5. Because It took five pecks, according to his peck measure, to make a bushel ac cording to the standard measures, a huckster giving the name of Brown Is in trouble here. Brown was selling apples on the street at a price so low that he was doing a big business. One customer became suspicious and weighed a half bushel of fruit he had just bought. It weighed short, and he com plained to a policeman, who took the huckster and his measures to the po lice station. John Kleinhans, a deputy state food inspector, was in town, and he swore out a complaint, under which Brown was held for sell ing short measure. JANESRANOHSOLD Looniis, Blair Scandrett Get One of Kansas Show Places.' Fay 45,000 for Famous Fine Stock Farm. The M. W. Janes ranch at Willard, one of the best fine stock farms In east ern Kansas, was purchased Wednesday afternoon by N. H. Loomls, R. W. Blair and Henry Scandrett of Topeka. The price paid was in the neighborhood of $45,000, or a little more than thirty dol lars an acre, as the ranch includes 1,340 acres. The Janes ranch is one of the fam ous places of eastern Kansas. For years Mr. Janes devoted his energies and his farm to producing blooded stock, and horses from the barns of this place were entered in nearly every racing event in the west. He built one of the largest bank barns in Kansas and other buildings in keeping with the conduct of such a place. There are 300 acres of the farm In the Kaw bottom and other bottom land along smaller streams. The rest of the ranch has been kept in pastures, most ly prairie. The ranch house stands on a bluff commanding a view of the Kan sas river and valley both east and west and contains 13 rooms. The view from the house is one of the finest to be found anywhere In Kansas. On the Janes farm is one of the few fords along the Kansas river. It is at this ford that the old town of Union town, one of the first villages in east ern Kansas and which Is now -entirely obliterated, was situated. The Topeka Pressed Brick plant was located on the Janes ranch at Willard and a fine quality of pressed brick was manufac tured there until the buildings were destroyed by fire about ten years ago. Mr. Janes, the owner of the ranch, died about two years ago and Alonzo Beal of Valencia bought the place from the heirs. The sale to Loomis, Blair and Scandrett was made by Mr. Beal. The new purchasers bought the ranch as a speculation as they consid ered the price extremely low. IN AMERICAN STYLE. Trains Will Be Operated on South Manchurian Railway. compelled to vacate or buy all of the Russian banks throughout Manchuria, c-r-.l rtnrfnnr ttiA XPtV nnrl OflTl SWlllAIl tl V has lost prestige with the Chinese. At Harbin flour milled from Chinese wheat is underselling American flour and the American trade is threatened. By command of the central govern ment the three governors of Amur, Kirin and Mukden provinces have ar rived here for joint consultation with vinAnw it.Y miOCtlnnO Af TT1 11 f.h TtO- l 111 lui-i i'.y vi. vm. j Utlcal importance and Governor Tang has Deen oraerea to resin to report iu the throne the result of the consulta tion An Imnortnnt chanee is reported as imminent- The good results of placing all or Manchuria unaer one viceroy Instead of governing the coun try as formerly, are now fully apparent. The administration is uninea, sraujuueu 1 .wi.i,-i,Hrliiif1 Tn tfmiblprs Of the central government have also been les sened and communication with other countries facilitated. The commands of the viceroy are readily obeyed and foreign influence hi. via roiiiinoH sn hn.t f orei en en croachment is impossible. This creates a barrier against Russia and suits Japan, but lifts the influence of that nation. The demands maue hnn Kun sattlpri but the Chi nese government is becoming more con. dilatory concerning regulations in the foreign settlements which have been opened in various towns. xTft: tuoinci i f tna A mdrinn n stvle will be placed on the South Manchurian a i. .3 railway Detween uainy ajiu. iuuivucu m April making the service more efficient. The grading of the Kirin Chang Chun railway is beginning, in connection with the Japanese enterprise. Ameri can agricultural implements are grad ually finding a mantei m maiicuuno, nrhih nrnmisps fl-rpa.t nossibillties. The success of this trade in the future would be assured by tne importation 01 samples, showing their efficiency in the local field. It Is believed that the only effective means of preserving the open ioor will be the purchase by China of the South Manchurian railway. Weather Is Unsettled. The weather conditions today have been of the mixed variety, though there has not been enough sunshine to be worthy of a mention. Heavy low hanging clouds have predominated throughout the day with light showers at intervals though the precipitation has amounted to but a trace, and the temperatures have been those of sum mer. The precipitation for the past 24 "hours has amounted to .11 of an inch, making a total precipitation during the past 48 hours of .28 of an inch. The wind is blowing from the southwest at the rate of 20 miles an hour. The following were the temperatures for the day: 7 o'clock 46 11 o'clock 64 8 o'clock 47 12 o'clock .....67 9 o'clock 521 1 o'clock 71 10 o'clock 60! 2 o'clock 70 The Weather Indications. Chicago, March 5. Forecast for Kansas: Showers tonight and Friday; not much change in .temperature. USE FIRE ESCAPES Marshal Wilmarth Urges School Board to Act. Wants Them Put on Manual Training Building. BOTH ARE DANGEROUS Old One Will Probably Equipped Soon. Be Time to Guard Against Disaster Is Before It Comes. To guard against any possible dis aster occurring at the manual train ing high school through the lack of proper fire escapes, such as took place in the suburbs of Cleveland yesterday, Chief G. O. Wilmarth will again renew his recommendation to the board of education for the installation of a sys tem of fire escapes. The board of education is preparing to put fire es capes on the high school building right across the street upon the rec ommendation of Chief Wilmarth, but thus far no provision has been made with reference to the manual training high school which has been consider ed fireproof. Shortly after the struc ture was erected the board considered the advisability of constructing fire escapes but the cost frightened them out. "I will again call their attention to it," said Chief Wilmarth today. "It was said that the building was fire proof but we all know how those things are. Experience demonstrates that the time to guard against a loss of life by fire Is before the fire occurs. To use every precaution and provide every safeguard that can be provided and then if something disastrous takes place you at least have had the satis faction of feeling that you have done your part. "I have been going over the prin cipal buildings In the city for some time past and as a result will order in fire escapes on a number of them. This afternoon I will inspect the Ma sonic building on Jackson street with a committee and recommend where the fire balconies and stairways shall be placed. They will be put on both the front and rear of the building. The Walker building is another which will be equipped shortly with the proper balconies and stairways. There are a number of other buildings -which will be called on to be similarly equipped. "I again called the attention of the school teachers today to the need of systematic fire drill in the school buildings of the city. This has been kept up: two drills being given each month. However, I thought It advis able to call their attention to it In a number of particulars. I emphasized to them the need of using the various exits provided in the buildings so that the children might get accustomed to more tha none way of gaining access to the outside. "In all school buildings in the city the exit doors from all rooms and stairways must be kept at all times un locked while schools are In session, or while any pupils are within the build ing; and even the slide bolts to any part of the outside double doors should be kept unfastened at such times. -Pupils should be Instructed by their taechers and whenever the "fire drill' is called, all pupils should keep their eyes upon their teacher and listen and obey strictly every order and Instruc tion given. Children also should have Implicit faith and confidence In their teachers. If they are made to feel and to depend implicitly upon their teachers the panic that take3 place often at fires will be avoided. That is one thing which came out clearly at the fire yes terday: the children got beyond control of their teachers and as a result many lost their lives who would ordinarily have reached a place of safety. The school house must have been a verita ble fire trap for it states that before the children from the second floor could reach the first floor that the first floor fell in and crashed down Into the flames. That speaks for itself. Such a condi tion could not obtain In any of the schools in Topeka nor could It have hap pened in Cleveland or wherever proper inspection is made of buildings. This school house was located out In the suburbs about ten miles from Cleveland. Another fruitful source of danger Is the Inswlnging doors on public structures. Just recently I had to call for a change in one of the largest churches In the city where the doors swung Inward. Architects are not planning any public buildings however nowadays with In swinging doors but you will find them occasionally on some of the older public buildings. Cost should not enter Into the calculations for affording protection from loss of life by fire. What Is money as compared to the value of a human life?" HAVE THEIR TROUBLES. Members of Congress Hear From the Railroad Situation. Washington, March 5. It may be a good thing for Kansas railroads and patrons when the interstate commerce commission shall determine, under the direction given it by the president, whether the discharge of employes. Impairment of schedules, and abolish ment of trains, are due to "unfriendly legislation." "misbehavior," or "nat ural causes," as suggested by the president as being three possible causes, the main one of which should be determined. The experience of Kansas members of congress demonstrates that it will be well to have this matter settled. Between the recognized necessity of the railroads in many cases to econo mize or go into the hands of receivers, as is freely predicted here for one great western road which gridirons Kansas, within the next sixty days, and the recognized right of the people, on the other hand, to fair service, good trains, and mail at least once a day on the other, the poor member of con gress catches It coming and going. Dally there is brought to the atten tion of some Kansas member of con gress, if not all of them, the complaint of some Kansas section for relief from railroad economy. The complaint gen erally takes the form of Inquiry as to whether the government can not step TOPEKA, KANSAS, MARCH in and demand better postal service or take away the oontract. An instance of this, was when Jake Shepard of Fort Scott, secretary of the Trackmen's union, asked Representa tive Scott to present to the postmaster general, which he did, a memorial re citing the ills by the Missouri Pacific upon the public; and asking that in vestigation be made of the alleged nonfulfillment of postal contracts on these lines. Another case was when people of Osborne and other northwestern coun ties asked Senator Long and Mr. Reeder to step in and see what could be done with the Central Branch be cause it was decreasing- service. At the suggestion of Senator Long- and Mr. Reeder, the postofflce department took the matter up, and later one train was restored, through the efforts of the government and the state railroad commission. Tet another Instance is the more recent complaint of the patrons of the Howard branch of the Atchison, To peka Santa Fe, -through Elk and Greenwood counties. The complaint lies more particularly -with residents of Elk county; for the Howard branch is their only salvation. It ap pears that the only passenger train, daily, has been taken off; leaving but a mixed train one way each day. The efforts of Senator Long have been asked In this case, the complaint be ing, of course, the! Inadequate mall service. s People along' the Topeka and Northwestern branch of the Union Pacific, from Menoken to Onaga, where there isn't much service on the Leavenworth, Kansas and Western, have also complained and Mr. J. W. Dunn of Onaga, the leader of the movement for better mail service, has just been advised by Senator Long of the offer of the postofflce department to the Union Pacific to pay $42.75 per mile per annum. If the road shall ac cept, it is believed the service will be better from Menoken northwest. All these instances tend to show that both the railroads and the people have their troubles in these "parlous" times, and" the president's directions to the interstate commerce commlsion to find out the cause Is welcomed by both sides, each of which hopes to have the cause determined, no matter what It is, so that there may at least be satisfaction, if not relief. OPPOSE THE BUILDING. Members of Congress Object to Ma terial Proposed for Public Buildings. Washington, March 5. It Is harder to keep from having a public building erected in some cases than It Is to have one erected, strange as that may be; though the trouble Is generally the oth er way. This is the experience of Senator Long and Representative Murdock In the case of the extension to the Wichi ta public building. Some years ago, Senator Long be came very much interested in trying to secure an appropriation for extending and enlarging ther Wichita, building. The growth of the town and the im portance of court and railway mail work had crowded the building, which was built many years ago, to its utmost capacity. The postoffice itself was In dire straits. Newton also was Insist ing upon a public building appropria tion, and so Senator Long and Mr. Mur dock agreed to divide the work, the for. mer taking Wichita, and the latter Newton. Appropriations were secured for both towns, and the committee on public buildings and grounds unfortunately insisted on cutting the Wichita sum to $50,000. It was thought, however, that the extension might be erected for this amount. The work was placed on the market and bids were received for car rying out the work thoroughly In keep ing with the old portion of the build ing. The lowest bid exceeded the amount available by $20,000. Another attempt was made, after scaling down the specifications, and the1 lowest bid was $49,862. The treasury department, however, Insists upon a contingent expense fund in each build ing case, which in this case ran about $5,500. Therefore it was impossible to erect the extension for the amount bid, unless a change was made in material. Following out this Idea, the treasury department then authorized the use of brick for the portion of the building on the northwest corner, where the new addition was to be. When Mr. Murdock and Senator Long heard of this, they immediately went to the treasury department and protested vigorously against the use of brick. The Wichita building is really- a very attractive one, and the use of brick for the addition would mutilate and destroy the general effect, they said. The treasury department was very sorry, but, as the bid had been ac cepted and the' contract let to Frank H. Latimer of Kansas City, and work about to begin, it did not exactly see what could be done. Mr. Murdock and Senator Long still protested, and intimated they would rather have no addition than have the whole build ing destroyed and become an eyesore. Then there was much red tape to be unwound, and at the last report it is still being removed, with the possi bility that, in due time, the bid may be recalled, the contractor may make some amendments, and, as a last re sort. Senator Long may secure some more money from congress to erect the addition of material in keeping with the main structure. Attacks Scott's Budget. A circle of strong men In the house of representatives and some newspapers are trying to attack the agricultural appropriation bill, as re ported by Chairman Charles F. Scott, on the ground that it is the only budget of the session that exceeds the estimates of the department for which it appropriates. This is almost un heard of, and cause consternation; for generally appropriation com mittees scale down estimates or leave them, at least, at about the figure asked. Mr. Scott Is not at all alarmed, and promises a series of speeches in the house that will justify himself and his committee. Other wise than in the amount appropriated, the general opinion is that the bill is the best ever reported by the com mittee on agriculture. To Widen the Kaw. Kansas City, Kan., March 5. The property owners of the Kaw valley drainage district yesterday, by their votes, repudiated the 600-foot de cree rendered by Federal Judge John C. Pollock and went on record as be ing in favor of really widening the channel of the Kansas river to 734 feet. 5, 1908. BAD, SAYS HOGH. Governor Criticises Election of Senators as Delegates. Puts the President Under Special Obligations. GIVES OTHERS CHANCE Would Be Proper to Honors Around. Pass Has Nothing to Say About Own Senatorial Candidacy. "This system of electing United States senators as delegates to the na tional party conventions is a wrong one, and should not be followed by the Republican party in Kansas." This is the criticism which Governor Hoch has to make of the action of the Republican state convention held here Wednesday. "It does not seem to me to be the proper thing for any man who is to be brought Into such close personal rela tions with the president of the United States as Is a United States senator to sit In a national convention which names the presidential candidate. If the senator supports-the successful can didate, It puts that candidate when elected under obligations to that sen ator which should not exist if the pres ident is to be free to do, absolutely without restraint, what he ought to do for the good of the country and the good of the party. No president should be under such obligations to anyone. In my judgment, the situation is very similar to that existing between the president and federal office holders. The president Issued orders that federal office holders must keep out of the political, convention and not to play politics. The same rule ought to apply to United States senators with rela tion to the national convention. "Besides this, there is of course the minor consideration that the United States senator already has had great honor conferred upon him, and It would seem more proper for him to stand aside and allow such positions as delegates to the national conven tion to be given to other loyal party workers. "From no standtpoint is this system defensible, and I do not believe that in the long run it will be the prevail ing system In this country. A plan of this kind, which is inherently wrong, will sooner or later be discarded. "However, this action was taken by a convention, and conventions are not representative. They are dominated by political leaders, and generally con trolled by political workers." "Are conventions worse In this re spect now than they used to be?" was asked. "They certainly are, replied Gover nor Hoch. "Conventions are now dominated largely by the politicians who play the game all the time, and this is simply because politicians are learning how to handle conventions more effectively. The method of han dling a convention has improved Just as have the methods of building- up trusts and combinations of business. The conventlan is now nothing but a political trust a trust where the poli ticians step in and dictate the division of the offices. It is this change in the nature of the political convention which ha sgive nrise to the Insistent demand for a primary election law." Governor Hoch declined today to say anything about his prospective candi dacy for the United States senate, but it is generally conceded by those in touch with such matter that he will soon declare himself an active aspirant for that office. A. B. POOLE CHOSEN. Elected Secretary of Commercial Club Temporarily. At a meeting of the directors of the Commercial club held today A. B. Poole was elected as secretary to fill the va cancy made by the resignation of Major T. J. Anderson. The resignation of Mrs. Margaret Montieth, assistant secretary of the club, was received but upon vote of those present It was re jected. Mrs. Montieth says that shs made up her mind to quit and made other arrangements and it looks as though it is up to the members of the club to provide an assistant Secretary. "This is my last day as assistant secretary of the Topeka Commercial club and I will not be here tomorrow notwithstanding the fact that the board of directors refused to accept my resig nation. I have other work and could not change my plans conveniently at this time even if I wanted to. I apprec iate the compliment the board of directors tendered me and thank them for it but as for remaining in my pres ent position it cannot be." A meeting of the committee on trans portation is called for Friday evening by Chairman George Crane when the transportation question will be thor oughly discussed. The regular monthly meeting of the Commercial club will be held one week from tomorrow night. Adolescence of the Dollar. The dollar took some rounding. Nor did it formerly ring true, but, much alive, simply gave a bleat or bellow. Cattle, among country folk, at one time constituted the dollar, while primitive man generally made use of any article sufficiently abund ant for the standard payment of ail merchandise. Thus, In ancient Greece, a large bronze tripod had the value of a doz en oxen. A good, hard-Tvorking woman, on the other hand, was given in exchange for only four such beasts. When metal took the place of money the dollar clung to its tradi tions, and coins were still called, af ter live stock. Thus "pecunia," ap plied to metal money, derived its origin from "pecus" (cattle). From the custom of counting heads of cat tle came the present designation of a sum in cash capital, or capita (heads). In Sanscrit, roupe (herd, flock) made roupya, or the Indian rupee. While-Ingots of electrum, or admixture of gold and silver, when ZEHUKSDAY EVENING- first in use as money, bore the im press of an ox or cow. Not clumsy, but too fragile, were the shells in use aa money by the ne groes of Africa, and throughout an cient Asia, where the natives, taken by its beauty, gave the shell a money value. Kansas City Journal. HE NEVER MARRIED. But Leaves $12,000 to a Daughter in England. San Francisco, CaL, March 5. The will of the late Isador Gutte, who until his death was a prominent insurance agent of this city, has been filed for probate.. In the will he declares he never was married "and had no chil dren except only one daughter named Pauline Gutte, now residing in London. England, whom I acknowledge and establish as one of my heirs." This daughter Gutte leaves $12,000 and directs that Ehe be felven an allowance of $200 quarterly pending the distribu tion of the estate. The daughter is also bequeathed practically all the personal property of which there Is considerable. The remainder of the estate, valued at about $50,000, is divided among three nephews. PROCTOR IS DEAD. Senior Senator From Vermont Passes Away at Age of 77. Washington. March 6.-United States Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont died at his apartments at the Cham plain here yesterday afternoon after a short Illness following an attack of grip. The senator's son. Governor Fletcher Proctor of Vermont, who was summoned to the city, was at the bed side when the senator passed away. Senator Proctor was 77 years old. Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont. Who .Died Last Night. The senator had been ill and confined to his room at the Champlain apart ment in this city for about a week. His ailment was diagnosticated as the grip whioh later developed Into pleurisy with pneumonic complications, which affect ed the heart and which in his feebled condition, proved too much for his powers of resistance. Besides his son, Governor Proctor, the governor's wife and several Intimate friends were at the bedside when death occurred. The senator's body will be taken to the old home In Proctorsville, Vt. CAN'T FIND THE PLOT. Chicago Police Decide Averbuch Acted on His Own Motion. Chicago, March 6. "Lazarus Aver buch was alone In his attempt to take the life of Chief Shippy. Three days and nights hard work on the case has brought me to this conclusion. I am going ahead, however, arresting all his friends I can find in the effort to sift this thing to the bone." Assistant Chief of Police Schuettler, who has taken charge of the anarchist situation in Chicago, made this state ment last night after a final and futile attempt to extract from Rosa Stern, Averbauch's friend who was arrested yesterday, any information she might have as to a plot to kill the chief. Continuing their efforts to connect the attempted assassination of Chief of Police George M. Shippy last Monday with an anarchistic plot the police ear ly today raided a rooming house at 76 Johnson street and seized a trunkful of property belonging to Harry Gold stein, one of the alleged anarchists now under arrest. The trunk which is be lieved by the police to contain anarch istic literature, was locked and the lid securely nailed. It was taken to the Maxwell street police station. Accord ing to the police Goldstein' had lived in this rooming house for a time previous to the attempt on Chief Shippy's life. CLARK COUNTY GOES UP. Not Satisfied With Pollock's Action In Bond Case. Clark county, through its attorney, W. H. Harvey of Ashland, will take an appeal from a decision rendered by Judge Pollock in the.circuit court to the circuit court of appeals, which provided that $13,000 worth of rail road bonds could not be refunded. When the county issued a statement a number of years ago calling in their $122,000 bond issue bearing 6 per cent to be refunded with 4 per cent bonds, J. C. Woodbury of Boston, the holder of $13,000 of the issue, objected and fought the refund in the courts claiming that Clark county commissioners had not the right un der the terms upon which the issue was made. "We expect to file an appeal this week," said Mr. Harvey. "It won't affect the remaining portion or the is sue for that has been all turned in and refunded." Some of the Billville brethren have been notified as follows from the express of fiee:"Your two gallons of pickled shrimps have arrived from Florida." "Call and rt your -war -relics from Lookout Moun tain. There are two cases." "A tarpon from Florida is here for you. He is in four Jugs, and one has the cork out." At lanta uonnnunon. TWO CENTS. GARS MUST GO ON Old Rule for Paris Race Still Holds Good. Bun to Seattle Must Be Made Under Own Power. F0REIGNERSLOGERED In Belief That "Gentlemen's Agreement" Would Stand. American Car Kept on Going and Is Now Far Ahead. Chicago. March ruling cabled from Paris yesterday the American car entered In the New York- x-ans automobile race has an opportuni ty to make a 'Vnrnwor i. reaohing Seattle. ine race was to timri -o. could reach Seattle between March 8 and 10, when the boat to carry them across the water is to sail. It was un- ilVi hat cars not there e boat departed were disqualified. When the bad roads and snow drifts were struck a "s-ntiAm.n. .j 6iccutciii waa entered Into whereby it was understood that every car should do its level best until March 5 or 6 Just as it suited men cars snould be sent by train to Seattle. On the presumntlon that m kt. ment was still ln effect the Germans and the French did not hurry much in reachincr Chinnm o,,-i, .i i m nf, li int. mej could ship their cars from this city. l-it, insrerore. much chagrined last niffht uron n)rivlni, nDhi, i tions to proceed to San Francisco under their own power and take a later boat out of Seattle, The Frenchmen leave Chlcaffn tnria-v anrl ia l.- m J u ii-i 11 1 c 11 o win UI. part Sunday. Strikes Bail Tina Omaha. Nelv c tl. a "i xuo AIUOTl" can car in the New York to Paris race -t o ciock this morning, takiner tliA rnnfa ain i tti -r-. ciflc railway. A slow rain all last uieu iimaco i uttua miserame. Italian a Day Behind. (tmallA Mavr1 K rr.1 t. i v a-iio iLHuaa car oi the New Tork to Paris race spent last BgJ at Woodbine, la., 70 miles east of Omaha. A pilot car left Omaha this morning to escort the racer through "mu. j. iie .Italian car is ex- ruicu m j Liio.no. aoout e o clock this evening. CHINA FEARS COERCION. Declares She Is Being Threatened by the Mikado. Pekin, March 6. Japan is threatening force to recover the Japanese steamer Tatsu Maru, which is still retained by China at Huangpu on the SI-Kiang or West river. This vessel was seized at Macao, February 7, by Chinese customs cruisers on the rh rm that of arms and ammunition was Intended for Chinese revolutionists, although consigned to a merchant of that place. The coercion of China is feared here on account of the weakness of the gov ernment and because of the doubtful legality of Chang Jan-Chuns action in seizing the Japanese steamer. Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister to China, yesterday handed to the Chinese government, Japan's refusal to accept China's proposal to appoint a Joint Japanese and Chinese commission to examine all the charges, in the mean time releasing the Tatsu Maru under bond. Japan's demands are, first, the unconditional release of the steamer and second, an arrangement to protect the shippers from loss. This second proviso means that China must buy the cargo on board the Tatsu Maru. Today China proposed arbitration by Vice Admiral Sir Arthur William Moore, commander-in-ohief of the British-Chinese station, but Japan refus ed these overtures also and has warn ed the foreign board that such pro posals are unwelcome. She again ex pressed her desire for the release of the vessel, failing which she said she would take the steps necessary to se cure this release. Japan resents hotly the fact that soldiers of the viceroy ol Canton boarded the Tatsu Maru and hauled down the Japanese flag, when according to the Japanese the steamef was waiting off Macao for a turn ol the tide. The steamer's paper showi she was on her way to Macao. Subse quently the viceroy, Chang Jen-Chun, claiming authority under a former treaty between China and Portugal (Macao is a Portuguese dependency) had the vessel arrested in Macao wa ters. This is according to the viceroy's statement, but it is questioned whether the steamer was actually in Macao waters. It is understood that the Pekin au thorities would have released the Tatsu Maru because of the reasonable doubt as to the legality of. the vice roy's proceedings, coupled with the menace of Japan, provided that Japan would make no claim for indemnity. It is contended here that Chang Jen Chun prevented this course. China believes that she has fully established her charge of violation of neutrality by reports that have come in here showing arrests of other ves sels working contraband cargo in the same waters. The Chinese and Jap anese authorities have thus far failed to agree on even the principles of a settlement of this threatening ques tion. The internatioanl situation in the Laing Kuang district is also threaten ing. The governor is coping with a con dition of chronic rebellion which is being fed by an active trade In con traband rifles and ammunition in which foreigners are taking part. It is understood here that Japan has de cided to sell the arms and ammunition captured from the Russians during the late war and that she has handed over to shippers for the Chinese market no less than 80,000 rifles. Another thing that is distressing the wholesale counterfeiting by Japan of the paper currency of China which has debased the copper coinage. Soldier Are we safe here, with your master's wine and cigars? Valet Perfectly. I told him not to show hhnself because the tailor was -waiting his bllL Mejrgendorfer Blatter.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTRNAr THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1908. TREE J5ULTURE, The Kansas State Agricultural College to Aid. Sending Able Instructors to Western Kansas. FORESTRY LECTURES. Dr. Kupfer of Washington Will Start in Gore County. Will Be at Cawter City, Solo mon, Miltonvale and Hoxie. Manhattan, Kan., Mar-oh B. For estry la not now a question discussed only by experts and horticulturists but It is fast becoming great pub llo matter. Statesmen, and agricul turists are seeing- that it is of great economic consequence to all the na tion. Now that men are asking what and how to plant, the state and federal governments must be prepared to answer. The Kansas Agricultural college has often sent Professors Dickens and Eastman out on educational trips to the farmers' Institutes and now the farmers' in stitute department of the college has engaged Mr. C. A. Kupfer of the for estry division, department of agricul ture, 'Washington, D. C, for several weeks to talk to farmers' institutes In western Kansas. The circuit ar ranged for Mr. Kupfer will start next Monday at Cove, then Hoxie, Waldo and Barnard, then two school house meetirrgs In the center of Mitchell county, then Cawker City, Wayne, Milton vale, Long-ford, Talmage and Solomon. These are all interior com munities, all small places but in fine farming districts and doubtless the farmers will be much interested in tree planting. The superintendent of farmers' institutes will accompany Mr. Kupfer on this circuit. The college has recently issued; a very practical pamphlet on "Tree Culture" sending it to all the rural teachers of the state and to all mem bers of farmers' institutes. It will be sent free to any one on application to the superintendent of farmers' in stitutes, K. S. A. C, Manhattan, Kan. HAD TO SEND THEM TO LANSING. Punishment at Reform School ffM Too I-Arht for These Three. Lieavenworth, March 5. Because the punishment of the state reformatory was too light, Joe McDaniels, Bruce Woods and Frank Conklin, who were serving terms at Hutchinson, were transferred to the state penitentiary at Lansing. Officers J. E. Murry and J. H. Wright arrived with the three men last night. Woods was serving from eleven to thir ty for assault with intent to kill.. Mc Daniels was doing two years for grand larceny and Conklin also being sent up for the same offense, was doing five years. At the reformatory McDaniels made three unsuccessful attempts to. cut the throat of an inmate by the name of Wilcox. On the last attempt he landed his victim in the hospital for six weeks. Woods was first sent to the state pen itentiary, and at the time of his arrival was so young that he was transferred to Hutchinson. However, he was at Lansing long enough to get somewhat criminalized and was considered a bad associate for young boys and was re turned to the penitentiary. GIRLS IN THE "KLONDIKE." Leavenworth Police Arrest Four Run aways Under 14 Years. Leavenworth, March 6. The Times eays: An alarm was telephoned to the sheriff's office yesterday afternoon from the Klondike that four girls were rais ing a disturbance there by firing oft a revolver. Deputy Sheriff Tom Larldn and Juvenile Officer Graham Investigat ed and found the girls talking to some boy friends In front of the Klondike schoolhouse. When searched at the court house officers found a "bull-dog" ?S-calibre revolver on one of them. The girls gave their names as Gallagher, Rose, Moss backer and Lower. Three of them are 13 years old and one is 14. The girls were locked up at the Jail and probably will have a hearing this morning. It was learned that the quar tette had run away from their homes several days ago. One of the girls said they staid Monday night some place on South Fourth street. Three of the girls were taken up by the police several nights ago and turned over to their mothers the next morning. WHEATON JURY SECURED. Valuable Evidence for the State In Murder Case Is Barred. Iola, Kan., March 5. A Jury in the case of C. H. Wheaton, charged with manslaughter in the first degree for causing the death of Miss Maud Reilly, his stenographer, was secured late Wednesday afternoon, after three spec ial venires had been exhausted. The first witness was not permitted to tell what the girl said to him while he was In attendance as her physician, and this fact was a distinct blow to the state's case, as the evidence is wholly circum- uu n iLiirn.i. The officers sent to get the Kansas City doctors who are suspected were uuaihs iir uiAug; llltsm out Ui. OULlSSOUn. AN HONORED CITIZEN DEAD. L. D. .Worcester of Hill City Passes Away, Aged 77 Tears. Hill City, March 5 In the death of Leverett D. Worcester, Hill City and Graham county loses one of her most honored citizens and pioneer settlers. He was 77 years of age at the time of his death. He came to Graham county from Decatur county in 1878. At the PI Lung t of the most serious and dangerous 'AM anAI Km Pim1. T. 1 t.,TwU u, uic. ii uhm proven usen during nearly halt a century an unsurpassed remedy for coughs, colds, hoarseness, bronchitis, asthma and all affections of the throat and chest. It contains no opiates or habit-forming drugs. Piso's Cure has the confidence of people everywhere, and sworn court testimony has proved that by Its use many of the worst consumptive -Coughs Have Been Speedily Relieved J fames'- U The Battleship Kansas mi I; Not only is the Kansas the pride of the American navy, not only is she one of four of Uncle Sam's newest and finest battleships, not only is she accompanying Admiral Evans on his famous voyage through southern seas, but she also possesses the added typical American distinction, of hous ing the champion football team or tne fleet. Berore the boats left Hampton Roads this question of football supremacy was fought out between the jackles of the Kansas and the Vermont 2 to 0. The Kansas weighs 32,000,000 pounds and cost 14,025.000. She has a speed of 18 knots an hour and the deadly equipment of guns include four 12-inch monsters whose Darreis are ia. gust 12, 1905, and her sponser was Miss Anna Hoch, daughter of the gov ernor of Kansas. time of the Indian raid and massacre on the Sappa, near Oberun, in is is, na was a resident there, and made four teen coffins for people killed in that raid. He has a son, Eugene Worcester, who started and published the Thomas County Cat, at Colby, several years, who is now manager of a daily paper in rus Mnincsi Tnwu. His dauehter. Miss Mattie Worcester, was one of the first superintendents of schools in gra ham county. She is now and has been for several years one of the faculty in the Emporia State Normal. Wm. Wells, member of the legislature from Gra ham county, is also a relative of Mr. Worcester. The funeral was largely at rAaA vaiativon and friends- and H.1IUV..1 J J business was suspended during the hours of the runerai. RATHER YOUNG BLACKMAILERS Emporta Boys Demand Money or Death for Mrs. M. A. Roberts. Emporia, Kan.. March 6. Two 13-year-old boys named Merrill Mad aria and Maurice McCroy were ar rested here yesterday for adopting Black Hand methods of extorting money. When accused, the boys ad mitted writing to Mrs. M. A. Rob erts, who lives at 1120 Merchant street, threatening her with death if she didn't deposit $25 in an old stove In a neighbor's barn within two days. The letter informed Mrs. Roberts that she must comply with the re quirements of the Black Hand, or she would be shot. She was also warned not to notify the police. Skull and cross bones was rudely drawn on the letter which was signed! "The B. H. S." Mrs. Roberts received the letter Monday afternon, and at once notified the poMce. Officer Ringer who handled the case did not think the handwriting that of a grown peTson, and decided the letter must have been sent by some of the boys in the neighborhood. He hunted up the Madaris boy, who finally admitted his guilt. McCrory, when called out of school by Mr. Ringer, did not attempt to deny his connection with the affair. Madaris is an orphan and lives with his grandmother. War rants have been Issued for the boys and they will have a hearing in Juvenile court. USED A THORNY HEDGE. Allen County School Teacher Gives Young Girls Awful Punishment. Iola, Kan., March 5. Reports from the 'Pleasant Valley school district in dicate that there will be no criminal prosecution over the recent trouble between the teacher and the students of that school. The two little girls who were so badly injured with the hedge club irt Miss Talley's hands are some better today. According to information brought this trouble all started over a poem written about the teacher and her "feller." It seems that the teacher is to be married next spring and the children wrote about this. The evidence brought out at the investigation showed that Miss Tal- ley had secured five stout hedge sticks' and given each of the pupils 125 lashes. When the extent of the wounds of the children was shown at the Investigation, the large number of the school who attended the meeting were shocked. Three days after the whipping the wounds and bruises were very marked on all the pupils. The upper arm of one of the chil dren was still black and blue after three days of care and treatment by the mother of the child. The wounds Trouble description has been promptly ,'.1,1. 3tJ "S3 11 '-.'if- Si.vt r'ir. 4C-;..V- V, j and the former won by a score or ieet long. Bne was launched Au on some of the children are yet so painful that the children can not stand the weight of a hand on them. Miss Talley resigned as a result of the investigation. It ia known that had she not done so she would have been removed on the grounds of hav ing cruelly punished the children. It is claimed that Miss Talley was near ly exhausted the day following the punishment, the exertion having been too much for her. Miss Talley admitted with no apol ogies that she had given each of the pupils 125 lashes. She said she thought the punishment was due them for the offense committed. SMALLPOX BAD AT ERIE. Citizens Visit a Sick Pattens and Catch the Disease. Iola, Kan., March 6. The Record says: A letter to an Iola citizen says that the smallpox at Erie ia so bad that the entire town is In danger of Infection. A man came to town and was taken ill. A doctor was called and ha treated him for several days but didn't discover that the man had smallpox. Another doctor was called in consultation and discovered that the case was one of the .worst vir ulent forms of smallpox. The man died within a few hours. But in the meantime scores of people had come to see him and many others have been taken down. The people of the town are In a panic over the affair. BANK TO HAVE A NEW HOME. The People's State at Garden City to Erect a New Building. Garden. City, March 5. A special meeting of the directors of the Peoples State bank was held here for the pur pose of increasing the number of di rectors and the election of a vice presi dent. The new directors are E. G. Finnup, B. F. Stocks and E. J. Pyle. Judge Stocks was elected to the vice presidency. A deal was consummated with C. H. Way, whereby he sold the lot just north of the postofHce and purchased the in terest of the bank in the block where the institution Is now located. It was decided that the bank would begin the erection of a new and up to date bank building on this property Immediately. ROBBERS WERE AMATEURS. Awkward Attempt to Open a Pied mont Bank Vault Falls. Eureka, Kan., March 5. Robbers made a futile attempt to dynamite the vault in the State bank at Piedmont, eighteen miles southwest of here Wednesday. The attempt at robbery was evidently the wprk of amateurs as the charge was placd In such a position as to drive the heavy steel doors of the vault inward, thus barring entrance. Finding that they had failed in their purpose, the robbers rifled the money till in the nfHrA nf n amoll -1 tr cash, stole a team from a barn and j ti,ii dciciiu iiiiiea tit b l, wnere tney released the team. Here all trace of the robbers was lost. PAYS $24,000 FOR A FARM. A Nebraska Man Puts Up the Cash for 400 Acres In Allen County. Iola, Kan., March 5. Charles Hammond, who has been a resident of Omaha, Neb., for years is coming to Kansas and will start a ranch in this county. The firm of Bedwell and Ray has closed a deal with Mr. Ham mond whereby he pays to W. G. Haigler, of LaHarpe $24,000 in cash for a 4 00 acre tract of land in the northwest part of the county. The property is four miles directly north ui "uiwpo auu is one or tne best Improved properties in the county. AN UNLUCKY BEER DELIVERY. Salina Man, Avoiding Arrest. Com pelled to Throw Away "Goods." Salina, Kan., March 6. Unloading a wagon of beer while the horses were running away was a scene enacted here Tuesday night, the driver making an effort to escape arrest and to de stroy all evidence against him for vio lating the prohibitory law. The beer had been secured at a depot for de livery and the wagon was heavily loaded when discovered by the police The bottles were mostly broken and the street for a distance of five blocks was soaked with beer. ON AILONGTRAMP Roy L. Brooks Will Endeavor to Beat Weston's Record. Leaves Newark for Chicago at Fifty Miles a Day Gait. MEANS A 22 DAY TKIP. This Would Eclipse Weston's Time oy About 168 Hours. The Old Pedestrian Has"Footed" Many Thousand Miles. New Tork, March 5. In an effort to beat the walking record of Edward. P. Weston, Roy L. Brooks left Newark Wednesday on a tramp to Chicago. Long distance walking is not a new venture for this pedestrian. He has traveled thousands of miles on foot, he said, and has visited every state in the Union. Brooks left the Market street depot of the Pennsylvania railroad in New ark at 6 a. m., following the rail route. He Intends to travel 60 miles each day, whether It takes him 12 or 24 hours. At this rate Brooks would reach Chi cago In 22 days, which would beat Wes ton's record by almost seven days. The Gold Store The treasury department has1 juat amount of gold there is in the world silver during the year In 1908. On December 31, 1906, the world's stock of gold amounted to $6,888. 900 000 of which the United States held $1,598,800,000, Germany $1,080, 000,000, France $924,400,000, Russia $939,400,000 and Great Britain $486, 700'ono From this It will be seen that this country has vastly more gold stored away than any other nation and more than three times as much as Great Britain. The United States owns approximately one-fourth of all the gold in the world. During 1906 the production of gold all over the world amounted to $400,245,300 and the commercial value of the silver produced In that year amounted to $11Z,izo,60u. veteran started from Portland, Maine. "I feel confident that I cean beat Weston's record," said Brooks before starting, "else I wouldn't undertake the Journey. The going will be harder for me than it was for Weston as the roads will be covered with" snow the greater part ol the way. rv. nnnrca laid nut hv Brooks for his Journey, showing the cities ho expects to reach from aay to aay. ia ao Newark, Trenton? Philadelphia, Read- f0 Karriohnrff. TAWlstOn. AltOOna, Derry, Greensburg, Pittsburg, Roches- ter, Alliance; amoii, jnauimciu, umbus, Bucyrus, Van Wert, Fort Wayne, Plymouth, South Bend, Michi gan City, Chicago. HAL CHASE IS READY. The Great Ban Player Say He la Anxious to Get to Work. New York, March 6. Hal Chase of the Highlanders has left San Jose, CaL, and will arrive here on Friday morn ing. Chase writes that he Is anxious to get to work; also that he Is In good shape and will "lend a hand toward landing that pennant for Griffith and New York." Minneapolis Gets) Badger Star. Madieon, Wis., March 8. Whitmore, Wisconsin university's crack player, who played first base in the state league last season, has been sold to Minneapolis, Madison getting $600 or two other players for him. Wallace Takes Reduced Pay. St. Louis, March 5. After a confer ence with President R. L- Hedges of the St. Louis American league baseball team, "Bobby" Wallace, signed a con tract to play with the team for the coming season as shortstop. It Is said Wallace was holding out for the salary of $6,300 he has received for the last What Do They Cure? The above question Is often asked cow corning Dr. Pierce's two leading medi cines, "Golden Medical Discovery" and "Favorite Prescription." The answer Is that "Golden Medical Discovery is a most potent alterative or blood-purifier, and tonic 'or invigorator and acts especially favorably In a cura tive way upon all the mucous lining sur faces, as of the nasal passages, throat, bronchial tubes, stomach, bowels ana bladdefcvcurlng a large per cent, of catar rhal cafes whether -tue disease affects the nasal pasafees, the Unseat, larynx, bron chia, 8tomacnsas catarrhal dyspepgla bowels (as mupjuascH!ik. bladder, uterus or other pelvic orgsnsrk Even iq Lhft. affections, it. l- nftn successful In aflect- frffiVavorlta Prpscrlntlqn Is adyisi foHheBirnoTnp UJiar. weakness pfinrerangriroems an-j ire; enl to wcjueu QJiiy. i Is a powerful yet gently 'acting invlgoraV lng tonic and nervine, t or wea worn-, out, over-worked women no matter what has caused the break-down, "Favorite Prescription will be found most effective In building np the strength, regulating the womanly functions, subduing pain and bringing about a healthy, vigorous condition of the whole system. A book of particulars wraps each bottle giving the formulae of both medicines and quoting what scores of eminent med ical authors, whose works are consulted by physicians of all the schools of practice as guides In prescribing, say of each In gredient entering Into these medicines. The words of praise bestowed on the several ineredients entering Into Doctor Pierce's medicines bv such writers should have more weight than any amount of non professional testimonials, because such men are writing for the guidance of their medical brethren and know whereof they speak. Both medicines are non-alcoholic, non secret, and contain no harmful habit forming drugs, being composed of glyceric extracts of the roots of native, American medicinal forest plants. They are both sold by dealers in medicine. You can t afford to accept as a substitute for one of these medicines of known composition, any secret nostrum. ir Dr. Pierce's Pellets, small, sugar-coated, easy to take as candy, regulate and to vigorate stomach, liver ana bowels. three seasons, but the contract signed today stipulated a reduced amount. The amount was not made known. MISTAH JOHNSON IN DOUBT. Still He Would Fight Burns Before National Sporting Club. New York, March E. Sam Fitzpat rlck, manager of Jack Johnson, the heavyweight fighter, says he will not allow his man to fight for any purse put up by an English syndicate unless the contest takes place before the Na tional Sporting club of London. "If Burns can get an offer from that reliable organization for a contest with Johnson we are ready to accept the terms, whatever they may be," said Fitzpatrick last night. "I do not take any stock In the re cent offer of the English syndicate wnicn nad a Mr. Ji.elly as its spokes man. If the National Soortina- club bids for the fight we are willing to let tne z,ouu now in the hands of Wil liam Hicks, the srjortinir editor of the New York Evening Journal, go as a side Dei. we put this money up for Burns to cover if he were in good raitn when ho expressed his willing ness to meet Johnson." Racing at New Orleans. New Orleans Mareh S. In winning- the fourth race at 1 mile at the fair grounds Hyperion II., at 8 to 6, won the lasiean mile of the winter on the local track. He ran the distance in 1:39 2-6. Ketchemtke, at 2 to 1, galloped home an easy winner in tne tirth race wltn iibk secuuu aim Ar row Swift third. Western League Opening; Late. Des Moines, March 5. It to quite proba ble that the date of the opening of the season in the Western league will be changed, as a number of the club can not possibly get into shape to start the season bv April 16, the present date. It will probably be moved to the neighbor- of the World completed Its final figures on the ana or tne world's product or gold ana hood of April 25, as this satisfies most of the teame. Lincoln and Des Moines are the clubs most anxious for a change. FAST FIGHT AT BOSTON. Joe Jeanette and Sam Langford Go Twelve Lively Rounds. Boston, Mass., March 6. Before the big gest crowd that ever saw a fight in Bos ton, Joe Jeanettte of New York and Sam Langford of Cambridge pounded each other around the ring to a twelve round draw before the Armory Athletic club here. Nearly 3,000 persons saw the fight and there was a general agreement that a draw was what both were entitled to. Although Langford weighed 25 pounds less than Jeairatte he knocked him down in the first 80 seconds of fighting and then drove him all around the ring, landing as he pleased and getting in some vicious Plows ror tne rirst nve rounds. Alter tnat Langford tired and .let up on his fast work. The sixth, seventh and eighth rounds were about even, with the men sparring. Langford started in again in the -ninth and warmed things up also in the tenth. In the eleventh Jeanette started in with a bull rush. Langford was tired, and the Dig jMew jcorker was as rresn as wnen ne entered the ring. He pounded Langford all over the ring, sooring body blows that counted and driving; Langford to the rooes. At the beginning of the twelfth a right jolt to tne jaw made Lianglora groggy, and for the rest of the bout he staggered around the ring holding on and clinching. Jeanette tried desperately to put him out, but he stalled successfully and was on his feet when the bell rang. When Jack Shec.-han.- referee, awarded the draw every body cheered. BRTTT SIGNS WITH! PACKY. Jimmy and McFarland to Go Twenty four Rounds March 81. San Francisco, March 5. A dlspaloh from Los Angeles says that Jimmy Britt has signed for a 24-round contest with Packy McFarland of Chicago, to take elace In this city on the night of March The weight will be 133 pounds at 3 o'clock. Hoppe Rons Away From DoMarest. Chicago, March 6. Willie Hoppe of New York last night made 400 points and Cal vin De Mareet of Chicago 288 in the third block of the handicap series. Hoppe play ed the 18.1 game and De Marest the 14.1 style. Score of three nights: Hoppe, 200; De Mareet, 867. Mcpherson has a fire. Gasoline Can's Contents Explode and Several Were Injured. McPherson, Kan., March 5. Fire was discovered in the principal business block of McPherson about 9 o'clock Tuesday night. Starting in a room over Sngberg's drug store, it spread to Hawley Bros.' grocery. The entire upper stories were burned and the contents of the rooms de stroyed. The drug store stock and hard ware stock were removed almost entirely. The damage to the stocks and buildings will be nearly $25,000. Several persons were badly burned and injured by the explosion of a five-gallon can of gasoline in the hallway of the second story, the force of the explosion throwing them downstairs. SHE HAD HEART TROUBLE. Salina Woman Wants Divorce Because Husband's Cruelty Endangers Life. Salina, Kan., March 5. Mrs. Mary Jane Williams, wife of Millard Fillmore Williams, a wealthy farmer of this county, has applied for a divorce, stat ing in the petition that she has heart disease and that her husband's extreme cruelty has endangered her life. The family is one of the oldest In central Kansas and the couple have been mar ried more than 81 years. A division of the property Is asked for. Garrett's Slayer Out on Bond. El Paso, Tex., March 5. Wayne Barale was released yesterday under $10,000 bond after a preliminary hearing at Las Cruces" before Justice Manuel Lopez, on the charge of murdering Pat Garrett, His bondsmen are cattlemen of the territory and merchants at Las Cruces. 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FOR BETTER IRRIGATION. New Dams Will Be Built Near Garden City This Spring-. Garden City, Kan., March 5. Two new propositions which will look to the furnishing of a large supply of irriga tion waters for two of the large canals which water this district have been de termined upon and will be constructed this spring. The plan in question is the construction of two Immense dams In the Arkansas river ior me purpos oi There is Only One That is VSBB THE WORLD OVER TO Always remember the full name. for this signature on every box. Pg -Wiles A, ljy. -vw?Sfl! Leap Tear Dream. Increasing the height of the river at the headgates of the Garden City ditch, the South Side ditch and the Great Eastern ditch. As it is now planned one of these will be placed across the river at Hart land above the headgates of the. 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-.3 JpKi-i.T.cn-Sy.: a. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTJRNAIr THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1908. 3 Making Supreme Test During the past season the STUDEBAKER "30 has successfully competed in numerous road contests and in EVERY INSTANCE has demonstrated its great reliability. On account of its splendid record for sturdiness the Studebaker Car was chosen by Major General Grant, commanding the Department of the Army in. the East, to carry a message from New York to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The car left New York Tuesday morning, February 18, at 10 o'clock, six days later than the New York to Paris contestants, and following the same route through Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo and South Bend, reached the Chicago Automobile Club at 4:25 Tuesday, February 25th, five minutes ahead of the first arriving New York to Paris machine. The car arrived in Chicago in splendid condition and shortly after start ed on its trip to Fort Leavenworth via Omaha. Don't forget that this is a stock car, and only stock cars are ever entered by the Studebakers in any contest. They are all built alike, and if you want a car that is "there with the goods" get a Studebaker. Studebaker 13th and Hickory Streets. At the Play Last Night. Robert Edeson and a well balanced company of capable players gave an excellent entertainment at the Grand last night through the medium of a new play, "Classmates." Of Mr. Ede son, as an actor of the modern ro mantlo school, not much need be said. He has a reputation for high ability and it is a most deserved one as was evidenced by his work of last night. In fact he made such an impression In the famous jungle act, the third one of the play, that the audience re sponded with such enthusiastic ap plause that Mr. Edeson was forced to appear before the curtain and make a little speech, which he did in the most unusual unhackneyed manner. And when a Topeka audience demands a curtain speech well something out of the ordinary has happened. Mr. Ede son was wrong when he said, "I see you have the speech habit," for only on rare occasions is an actor called before the curtain here. As for this Jungle scene, it was all that had been claimed and a little bit more. It ia just about the finest and most realistic piece of stage setting that has been eeen in Topeka In years. Mr. Edeson's support was all that could be desired, particularly good work being done by Paulina Anthony. Marjorie Wood, Frank J. Mclntyre and Wallace Ed dlnger. Concerning the play. It is safe to say that it does not entirely please all people. But nevertheless it is a mighty good one, with a plot that is out of the ordinary. If there is any thing wrong with it, It may be in the protracted meanness of the villain, the classmate. This character is one por travine the meanest man that ever tiaJ Tt font It let riniihtfnl that Ennh IJJVCU. 11. am.- a mean man ever did live, iie even continues to maintain his mean dis position and disseminate his perfidy after his life has been saved bv his classmate whom he has injured in the yes of the girl they both loved from the beginning of their acquaintance. And Mr. Eddinger, who played the part of this mean man, is certainly entitled to sympathy for having to depict such an unenviable character. He did his work well and Just because it was so well done it was all the more dis agreeable. "Way Down East." The coming of "Way Down East," which will occur at the Grand on Sun day night, will doubtless prove as pleas ant a visitor as any attraction the pres ent season. "Way Down East" has a clientele of its own. It is an enthusias tic clientale, that finds more genuine enjoyment in this really delightful old New England play, than in any other form of stage offering. It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the story. It Is a sort of classic of its kind, and al though several years old is still a wel come attraction to the best of theaters. It holds on like a good old-fashioned Always Pure Housewives can better afford to buy 05 Flavoring Extracts Vantlla Lemon Orange Rose, eta for they are pure and reliable flavors; have always in purity and strength conformed to the Pure Food laws. iros. Mfg. Co. Kansas City, Mo. Iioyala O'Connor in "Way Down East." sermon, punctured with frequent touch es of comedy, with impersonations of rural folks that fit very close to one's recollections of boyhood in the coun try. The production and company are in keeping with the traditions of "Way Down East," and nothing has been left undone that would further a perfect evening's pleasure. May Robson. The name of May Robson is known in every portion of the United States. She is the foremost character actress on the American stage today, and needs no Introduction to local theater goers here. Miss Robson will be seen here at the Grand on Wednesday of next week in "The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary." The entire cast and production will be seen here as played in Chicago at the Studebaker theater, where it has been pleasing crowded houses nightly for the past two months. The Chicago critics have endorsed it as one of the best comedies ever seen in that city. Mrs. Pat Campbell. No little satisfaction has been ex pressed by prominent theater goers of this city that Mrs. Patrick Campbell has chosen "The Second Mrs. Tan aueray." for her appearance here on March 12. It is not only her greatest role from a popular point 01 view, but the greatest of Pinero's serious dramas. "The Second Mrs. Tan queray" has been played in this country by Mrs. Kendall and Olga Nethersole but it should be remem bered that Mrs. Campbell W8s the creator of the title role and in Eu rope no one has ever been able to threaten her supremacy in that character. It was the play that Mrs. Campbell chose for the opening night on her present American tour. It is Interesting to note that the leading man of Mrs. Campbell's company, Ben Webster, was also In the original cast of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray" on the memorable night in London in 1893 which brought fame alike to Mrs. Campbell and Pinero. Transmitted Snake Bite. An extraordinary case of snake poisoning is reported from a country hospital in Victoria. An old man was brought in In a comatose state and I showing all the symptoms of having been bitten by a venomous snake. But Ion investigation It was found he had been bitten by a dog, which died al most, immediately afterward from 9f snake bite. Medical treatment was successful, and the man gradually re covered from the snake poison which the reptile had indirectly transmitted to him. Pall Mall Gazette. WON'T FIGHT CHINA. Japan Does Not Consider Tatsn Inci dent a Cause of War. Toklo, March 5 The Japanese govern ment while maintaining the firmest at titude concerning the seizure of the steamship Tatsu by the Chinese "at Macaoon, February 7, entertains no idea of resorting to force for the recov ery of the vessel. Possibly In the event that China de lays action Japan will appeal to Eng land or America to act as intermediary in the matter. In view of the agitation against the foreign office instituted by the opposi tion any indication of concession by Japan to China would be extremely dangerous to the present cabinet offi cials. The foreign office has assured the Associated Press correspondent that Japan never would declare war on ac count of such a minor Incident, never theless it is believed proper that Jap anese war vessels should visit the neighborhood of the imprisoned ship. Attention ia called to the fact that Brit ish warships and torpedo boats recently visited Canton, where a British vessel was attacked and robbed by Chinese pirates near that city. Twenty members of the constitutional party who had been expected to sup port a resolution of censure of Foreign Minister Hayashl today in the house after a lengthy conference, during which they received an explanation of his policies when leaving, expressed their satisfaction with them and a de termination not to support the resolu tion. It is Improbable now that the resolution will be introduced. HE WAITED FOR HER. Governor Sherman Marries Girl He Had Known as a Child. Effingham, 111., March 5. Lieuten ant Governor Lawrence T. Sherman, was married yesterday in Montrose, a village near Effingham, to Miss Mary Estelle Spitler, a woman of 22 years, whom he has known since she was a child, he being 27 years her senior, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman are on their way to Colorado Springs, to El Paso, to Old Mexico and to Hawaii. Mrs. Sherman Is the daughter of Mrs. Mary Spitler and a graduate of the Illinois woman s college at Jack sonville. The ceremony was per formed by the Rev. J. S. Hall of the Methodist Episcopal church of Mont rose at the home of the bride, In the presence of twenty-five friends of the family. Piles We Want Every Pile Sufferer to Test This Great Cure at Our Expense. Send Tour Name and Address For a Free Trial Package. We want to send you a free trial of the Great Pyramid Pile Cure at once, so you can see with your own eyes what it can do. You cure yourself with perfect ease, in your own home, and for lit tle expense. Pyramid Pile Cure gives you prompt relief. It heals sores and ulcers, reduces congestion and in flammation, and takes away pain, itching and irritation. After you have tried the simple treatment, and you are satisfied, you can get a full regular-sized treat ment of Pyramid Pile Cure at your druggist's for 50 cents. If he hasn't it, send us the money and we will send you the treatment at once, by mail, in plain sealed package. Send your name and address at once for a trial of this marvelous, quick, sure cure. Address Pyramid Drug Co., 90 Pyramid Bldg., Mar shall, Mich. RAILROAD NEWS. The Santa Fe to Spend Million Dollars in California. Horseshoe Bend to Be Changed Into Safe and Speedy Route. LOTS OF MONEY SATED Bednction of Grades Will Reduce Cost of Transportation. Other Items of Interest Railway Circles. in To reduce the danger of traveling at high speed; to increase the running time on which both passengers and freights may be hauled Into Los An geles; to add to the hauling power of the engines that are now held down to short trains by bad grades, and to make Its system the finest in California, the Santa Fe Railroad company has begun to expend more than $1,000,000 In the southern part of that state. This, according to engineers, does not include the new steel that Is to be laid to San Diego, nor the work in contem plation at Caplstrano. The million will beused entirely In the betterment of the San Bernardino line on the south side of the kite-shaped track, say San ta Fe track men. I According to the Los Angeles Exam iner, new rails have been laid from Los Angeles to Santa Ana. On sixteen miles around Colton, from Highgrove to Santa Ana, $600,000 is being expended and $400,000 of this will go Into the straight ening of one curve the famous Horse shoe Bend In Santa Ana Canyon, a few miles above the little Mexican village of Torba, Orange county. Annually, Horseshoe Bend has cost the company thousands of dollars in repairs to the damage done by the ever changing river and the terriflo floods that tear down the little canyons, wash ing out hundreds of feet of traok. Now nearly 200 men are at work, with two huge steam shovels and a number of teams and scrapers making this mile and a half of curved track impregnable to the storm waters and the river floods. The roadbed, once a double curve, on which no speed could be maintained in absolute safety, la being straightened Into a single, wide, sweeping curve, over which passengers and freights may be rushed at sixty miles an hour. Moun tainsides are being carved away with dynamite and with steam to make room for the roadbed; summits are being scraped off whole hills and Mrown in thundering masses down the steep walls of the canyon to build up a solid wall which the river in its wildest raging cannot tear away. Wherever a little canyon drains the wide watershed of the hills onto the track, great cement flumes are being put In,, with high and wide stone cul verts that will carry greater streams, even, than those which have wrought such havoc with the roadbed in years past. In the beds of the canyons themselves, where there are evidences of weakening in the natural .dirt walls, cement chutes and abuttments have been put in, at a cost of thousands of dollars in cement work alone, to save the high roadbed from all future cloudbursts or heavy downpours In the hills. All the curves which were once tech nically known as "ten per cent" curved, and which were the terror of engineers, are being reduced to four per cent. Even the several curves that will be welded Into one big curve on Horseshoe Bend, will be reduced to this four per cent average. Four per cent curves are light curves, that is, those on which high speed can be maintained, and it is figured that the running' times of trains from San Bernardino the Santa Fe's gateway into southern Cal ifornia to Los Angeles, can be re duced by hours. What this means to Los Angeles is almost as great as what it means to the Santa Fe sys tem. By it, perishable freight, rushed across the desert from the east, and from Los Angeles to the east, can be handled from a quarter to half a day faster than now. The efficiency of engine, of every car, of every train man, will be increased by a per centage which time and the use of the new road alone can tell. It is figured by officials of the Santa Fe that the Improvement in efficiency in handling trains over this Horseshoe Bend alone will pay four per cent annually on the investment of $400,000. Four "per cent on $400, 000 is $16,000 as the yearly return from the improvement of two miles of track. How much the other im provements to be mad with the bal ance of the huge sum which will be expended in southern California, will pay in returns to the railroad and to the shippers of the southwest can not be estimated in tangible figures, for the reason that none of the other work is so near completion as is this. Six big cuts are being made be tween Colton and Torba to straighten the line. These cuts are all included in a stretch of track about ten miles long, and two big steam shovels have been at work on them for months. This week another shovel, larger than either of those now on the line, will be put to work. About 160,000 cubic yards of sand and dirt and rock yet remain to be removed, most of it from two cuts, some 70,000 yards from the cut at the west end of the canyon and 90,000 yards from the easterly end of the big curve. Nearly two montha will be re quired to complete the work with the shovels alone, while some three months more will be. taken up with the laying of new steel and the bal lasting of the track, which is always one of the longest and most difficult parts of the making of a railroad. Larger and heavier rails than ever before used on this part of the line will be laid here, 1.200 tons of 85 pound rails have been scattered along this stretch of track, ready to be laid as soon as the grades are established and the curves reduced to conform with the plans. Great reductions are being made in the grades at the same time that the curves are being straightened. Deep gashes are being made in the earth and long ridges of made-land being built up to make a uniform slope through the canyon, over which heavy freight and less passenger trains may be hauled with less cost and less work by the engines than formerly. Horseshoe Bend, r to the outsider, unfamiliar with railroad work, does not appear a heavy grade, but it is only by the greatest effort that even short freight have been able to make the climb, while passenger trains, es pecially the long through trains, move at a snail's space through the gorge. The final grades, when established as they are to remain, will have a maximum toward Los Angeles of 0.4 per cent. This is the "downhill" end of the run, of course, but even so, this is a reduction in the few uphill runs there are for trains which are headed for Los Angeles. On the other run, away from Los Angeles, the grade, now heavy and steep all the way through the canyon, will be cut to 1 per cent, so much lower than it now is that en gineers expect the efficiency of their engines to be doubled in hauling trains up the long grade. This means that an engine which has, hitherto been able to haul 1,400 tons of freight through the canyon, will in the future be able to draw 2, 800 tons. Proportionately longer and heavier passenger trains can, of course, be handled through the Bend and, with the proposed cut-off from Fullerton to Richfield, may be whirled into Los Angeles, hours ahead of the schedules in force now. All the work being done on the big curve as well as most of the other grading and cutting and alterations of trackage made by the Santa Fe is done by the Sharp-Hauser Contract ing company of Kansas City and Los Angeles. This firm does little or no other work but that supplied by the Santa Fe, and on this one contract had more than 250 men employed at one time. R.' B. Ball of the Santa Fe is the field engineer actively in charge of the work. J. Ogden Armour, who succeeds Stuyvesant Fish as director of the Illi nois Central railroad. OX GULF LINES. Santa Fe Has a Million Dollars Tied Tip. Cleburne, Texas, March 5. Between Pur cell and Galveston the Santa Fe has idle something more than a million dollars' worth of equipment. Nearly all of this, of course, consists of rolling stock, about half of which is invested In 25 locomotives, each of which when new, cost approximately $20,000. Five of these engines, Nos. 762, 763, 764, 767 ana vtra, are tied up at Temple. The others are, or will be, distributed to Cleburne, Brownwood, Somervilie, Gal veston, Beaumont, etc., or in other words, points that have been selected for their temporary housing where they can be pressed into service with the least possible delay should an emer gency arise. When these engines are taken out of service the cabs are planked to pre vent Ingress to intruders, and the mov able parts are well oiled, In order to prevent rust and to keep them In good condition. Since February 1, 25 engi neers have been laid off on the .south ern division of the Santa Fe. NINETY-NINE WRECKS. Seven Months Record on International Great Northern. Galveston, Tex., March 6. Texas rail road commission has been charged with having driven the International Great Northern railroad Into a receiv ership by ordering the management to make improvements. aggregating $3, 000,000. The commission defends its po sition with a record showing 99 wrecks on this road in the past seven months. Of these, 36 occurred on the main line, 22 on the Gulf division and 41 on the Fort Worth division. It was this de plorable condition that caused the com mission, it says, to order the new tracks and new equipment and other necessary Improvements to prevent further loss of life and damage to property. ONE HUNDRED MILES SHORTER! Helen Cutoff Win Reduce Distance From Chicago to Coast. Passenger train service over the Helen cutoff, which brings Los Angeles nearer to Chicago, and which will eventually bring the two cities closer together by about eight hours in time, has been inaugurated by the Santa Fe. Beginning next July, it is announced from headquarters in Chicago, the reg ular through service to the coast will be put on over the new route. The Belen cutoff is a work that the Santa Fe has been engaged In for over four years. The line runs down through the Panhandle of Texas, thus avoiding GIVING OUT The Straggle Discourages Many a Citi zen of Topeka. Around all day with an aching back; Can't rest at night; Enough to make any one "give out." Doan's Kidney Pills will give renew ed life. They will cure the backache; Cure every kidney ill. Here is Topeka proof that this is so: Mrs. Mary E. Taylor, of 432 East Eighteenth street, says: "If anyone doubts Mr. Taylor's good opinion of Doan's Kidney Pills which was given for publication some six years ago, I would advise their having a personal Interview with him. Previous to using them he had been subject to attacks of kidney trouble for years. In fact, ever since he left the army. The pains across the- small of his back were at times so severe that he could scarcely walk, could not sit still nor rest at night. He doctored a great deal but without obtaining more than tempor ary relief. Doan's Kidney Pills were different. They promptly and thor oughly relieved him of all his suffer ing. He has since had other attacks brought on by cold3 and exposure but Doan's Kidney Pills have always been to him a friend in need and have never failed to give him prompt and effective relief." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New Tork, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan s ana take no other. We Pay $2.10 We could buy beans bushel, yet we pay A certain soil in Michigan, rich in nitrogen, produces the best beans grown. That is where we get ours. We get only the whitest, the plumpest, the fullest grown. Ours are picked out by hand from the choicest part of the crop. It ia easy to see is it not f why some baked beans may cost a little less than Van Campus. We pay 3.4 5 for the ripe tomatoes used to make a barrel of our sauce Yet we could buy tomato juice for 75c per barrel. Cheap sauce is made from tomatoes picked green, and ripened in shipment. But such sauce is flat. Some is made from scraps of a canning factory. Such sauce is not rich. Ours is made only from whole tomatoes ripened on the vines picked when the juice fairly sparkles. Van Camp's pork and beans baked with tomato sauce Qnr ovens are'ieated to 245 degrees. That heat is--sential to make beans digestible, and no home can apply it. We bake in lire -steam. Thus we bake the beans well without browning or bursting. The result is that nutty flavor. We bake the beans, the tomato sauce -and the pork all together. Thus we get our delicious blend. Keep a dozen cans in the house a delicious meal is then always ready Perhaps you eat beans once a week now. You will want them every day when you once know Van Camp's. Beans are 84 per cent nutriment. They supply about the same food value as meat, at a far lower cost. And think how convenient. Put the can in hot water, and you have a steaming hot meal in ten minutes. 10, 15 and 20f per can. Van Camp Packing Company, Indianapolis, Ind. rem Lev. Returning Topeka. Iv. Kan City 4:36 A. M. 8:85 A. If. 5:50 A. M. 10:40 A. M. 8:00 A. M. 11KB A M- :2S P. M. Cl'O P. M. 7:25 P. M. H:00 P. M. 1X6 P. S. 10:15 P. M. the heavy grades over Raton Mountain and Glorletta Pass, in Colorado, and rejoins the main line of the Santa Fe south of Albuquerque. MUCH CXXSTRTCT10X WORK. What the Orient Road Is Planning for This Year. The Kansas Oity. Mexioo Orient pro poses the following work this year: in trie unJtfxt mates, irora impom via Ellinor. Matfield Green and El Dorado to Wichita, Kan., ninety-three miles, of which forty-five miles are graded; to con nect tracks between Red River fOklaho-ma-Texas state line) and Benjamin, Tex., seventy miles, via Diaz, Margaret, Cro well and Trnsoott. all of which is graded; to connect tracks between Sweetwater and Ban AngelQ, 'lex., sixtycnree nines, via. James, Fort Chadbourne and Tennyson, all of which is graded, and to extend line west from San Angelo. In Mexico, to complete Rio Conchos steel bridge on concrete piers and to ex tend track easterly; to continue grading and tracklaying from Sanches west and to continue grading and tracklaying from Hqmillos east. The roadbed is graded be tween Homillos and Altillo, twenty-four miles. The company will also erect several roundhouses and a passenger station and office building for the Texas company at San Angelo, Tex. C. H. Webster, Sweet water, Ter., Is chief engineer of the Texas corporation, .nd J. F. Trovino, Chihua hua, Mexico, and John L. Case, El Fuerte, Slnaloa, Mexico, are local managers in Mexico. Freight Trafflo Manager FHppin has ap pointed A. R. Malcolm acting general agent at Milwaukee, vice L. B. Knowles, resigned, and C. H. Jackson acting com mercial agent at Memphis, v4o C. McD. Adams, resigned. Traveling Freight Agent Myers is in charge of the Cincin nati oftios, taking the place of J. C. For rester, commercial agent, resigned. CHAITGES OOf GOTOD liXES. Retrenchment Policy Extended tn Ileu of Present Conditions. Pursuant to the general policy of re trenchment introduced on the Oould lines owing to the decrease in earnings brought about by the business depression. Freight Traffic Manager Flippin of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain announced yester day that A. R. Malcolm has been ap pointed acting general agent at Milwau kee, vice L. D. Knowles, general agent, resigned. C. H. Jackson Is appointed act ing commercial agent at Memphis, vice C. McD. Adams, resigned. J. C. Forres ter, commercial agent at Cincinnati, has resigned and that office is placed tempor arilv in charge of Traveling Freight Agent Meyers. Passenger Traffic Manager Stone an nounces that the position of assistant general passenger agent at Memphis has been abolished. The position of olty tick et agent at Memphis, which was likewise held by Assistant General Passenger Agent H. D. Wilson, will be filled by C. E. Roundtree, at present traveling pas senger agent at Memphis. C. H. Roarer, formerly district passenger agent at Jop lin, is made passenger and ticket agent at that point, the city office having been abolished. The position of traveling pas senger agent at Chicago, held by C. C. Carson, has been abolished. The New England passenger agency at Boston, for merly held by Louis W. Ewald, has been discontinued. The traveling passenger agncy at Kansas City, held by S. Ek Lowe, has been abolished. The lAicky Quarter 7 Is the one you pay out for a box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. They bring you the health that's more precious than Jew els. Try them for headache, biliousness, constipation and malaria. If they disap point you the price will be cheerfully re funded. At all drug stores. as low as 30c per seven times that DOUBLE TRACK NO STOPS FAST TIMB Depot First and Kansas Avenue. Phones 384. la RELIABLE DENTISTRY Our success Is due to high-grade work manship and best materials at reason able prices. Set of Teeth for $7.00 Somnoforme or TttaliEed sir. lally nice for weak or nervous people.. Gold Crowns $3to $5 Silver filling. ..800 Teeth cleaned.. vSOo Geld filling SCo to 2 Painless extrac tion New York Dental Co. All Wcrk Guaranteed 19 Tears. 618 Kansas Av Open dairy. Hours 8 to 6. Wednesday and Saturday nights till 8 p. m. Sun days 9 to 13. Ind. Tel. 1S86. IT'S YOUR MOVE Call 320 Either Phone Topeka Transfer and Storage Co. 406 EAST SIXTH AVENUE-406 YOUR GROCER SELLS Ideal Washing Fla!xe 'Xllburf'. i.ffeiftrft .:ttetfl S&f ii6ifc$pmiT. I

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 5, 1908. 4 TOPERi ST1TE J0DM1L By FRANK P. MAO LENNAX. Entered July 1, 1875, as eecond-claaa Blatter at the poatoffice at Topeka. Kan under the act of congress. .volume xxxv. No es Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OB SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of TopOJ or suburbs, or at the same price In any as towns where the paper baa a earner system. 'mm By mall, one year BK By moll, three months .-jS Saturday edition of dally, one year.... jgf TELEPHONES. Business Office "S? iT Business Office K Reporters' Room 'il Reporters" Room .1,10 Frank P. MaoLennan lBd' PERMANKNT HOME. Tope lea Stat- Journal bulletins. tW ana 02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. New York Office: FlaUron building, ex Twenty-third street, corner Fifth avenue and Broadway. Paul Block, manajfer. Chicago Office: Hartford building. raw Block, manager. FLXL leased wire rkpoht OF THE ASSOCIATKI PR3CW. The State Journal is a member ot the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganisation for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is reoelvea In The State Jour nal building over wires for this sols pur pose. A really fine tribute to Judge A. W. Dana of the district court was the gift to him of an expensive chair by the Jurors serving in the court for the January term. Once more has the wheat crop been saved by a salubrious rain. And if the cold weather will continue to make Itself scarce the fruit crop will also be saved. Rev. List on D. Bass of St. Louis has not mads much of a bid for popular ity among the young folks. He de clares that a bride should go to the altar unkissed. They've had something of a re markable revival at Greensburg In that most of the "Influential" men of the town are among the 23 persons who professed conversion. Statistics of Yale university divulge an Interesting fact but one that most folks would have guessed had they been asked for an opinion. The rich stud ents at Tale are poor In their studies. High living among them is conducive to low averages in their class work. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief chemist of the federal agricultural department, delivered an address In "Washington re cently, during the course of which he declared that the saloons In this coun try should be abolished and persons should be permitted to purchase liquor only to be drunk in their homes. Good news is coming from various sections of the country In' the dlapatch es telling that the business of the rail roads is picking up. The railroad commissioners of Nebraska declare that It has Improved to such an extent In that state lately that the railroads there have no surplus cars at this time. There is no need for any excite ment over the desire of Senator Long to be temporary chairman of the Re publican national convention at Chi cago, nor should It be characterized as a "plot." If Senator Long can se cure this office It will be something of an honor, not only for himself, but for the state of Kansas. The activity of the members of the Commercial club In discussing plans Which will work for the welfare of the business Interests and the whole people of the city is certainly most commendable. It Is to be hoped that the present activities will not end In talk as have those of times past, but will actually bear some fruit. Congress seems to be running along in the even tenor of its ways without the aid of the prominent legislators from Kansas who are at home these days giving much needed attention to keeping their fences In such shape that they will withstand every possible on slaught of any hungry horde that might care to graze In the political pastures where the feed is easy and rich. James Oliver, the plow manufacturer, who died at South Bend, Ind., the other day and left a fortune of $15,000,000, rose from the level of a farmer's "chore boy" earning 60 cents a week. This is an encouraging example to set before the youths of the land but the thought will not down that there are many men who started in as "chore boys" that are still farm hands. Surely It's a great relief for the people of the state to face an exam lnatton by the state accountant of the accounts of the state treasury and the bonds and coupons there with the certain belief that everything will be found to be just as It should be. Mark Tuily, the state treasurer, has the confidence of the entire people of the state and that is something which could not be said for his predecessor. Stringent steps are to be taken by the federal authorities to rid the country of anarchists by deporting them to the countries abroad from whence they came to the shores of the land of the free. But it might be pertinent to ask what the govern ment proposes to do with the native born anarchists, of whom there are not a few? They can not possibly be foisted on some other country and it will be hard work to Jan them If they do nothing more than express their views- Steps cannot be. taken too soon by the members of the board of educa tlon for bettering the means of exit from the auditorium in the high school building. And while they are undertaking this much needed lm jfrovzne8t it might be well for then to decide on plans for the equipment of both the high, school buildings with adequate Are escapes. It Is well to be prepared for any emergency regard less of the expense Involved and If the high school buildings need any thing they assuredly need fire escapes. MR. CARNEGIE OX REBATES. An Interesting contribution to the literature of railway regulation Is the article in the Century magazine for March by Andrew Carnegie, entitled My Experience With Railway Rates and Rebates." Mr. Carnesrle's obser vations date back to 1856, when he was secretary and telegraph operator for Thomas A. Scott, superintendent of the Pittsburg division of the Pennsyl vania railroad. He tells briefly of the making of rates In early railway days, showing among other things, how. when competition was established, there was a scramble for through freight traffic, how "gentlemen's agreements" were formed and their provisions easily evaded, and mention ing, incidentally, a lively fight waged by the manufacturers of Pittsburg against the Pennsylvania because of rates which operated against the In terests of that city. Mr. Carnegie, who by that time, had become a large shipper, played an important part in the challenge offered the railway monopoly, and he relates the Incidents of the struggle a successful one for the manufacturers with much evi dent relish. Not a little inside railway history of Importance Is told, referring particularly to a proposed extension of the Vanderbilt Interests In Pennsyl vania and the bringing of the Gould system to Pittsburg. There Is a trib ute to the work oi the late Alexander Cassatt, who "enforced uniform rates honestly on the Pennsylvania system and gradually Induced the other lines to adhere to them." Mr. Carnegie strongly upholds the policy resulting In the organization of the interstate commerce commission. This commission, he says. Vis to be one of our greatest safeguards." He goes so far as to say that today the evils of rebates are unknown, and that the conditions which once prevailed In railway transportation are rapidly be ing succeeded by a system finally to become as perfect as is possible for man to create and maintain. The president, Mr. Carnegie declares, "has performed a great service, focusing the attention of the country upon cer tain crying evils, and the present posi tion of the government is all that could be desired." He thinks that we are only following the example of older countries "in supervising rail roads and other corporations strictly be an axiom ranking with the equality ty of the shipper, he asserts, will soon be an axiom ranking with the quality of the citizen, and stockholders in corporations will benefit by the higher degree of security given their Invest ments. Foreign capital, also, will be attracted again to America. Mr. Carnegie is of the opinion that it should be proclaimed by the admin istration and the leading statesmen of both parties "that no radical action has either" been taken or contem plated. On the contrary, all that Is desired is only what other nations already possess, and Is In the truest sense conservative and preservative in the highest degree." The establish ment of the commission, he says final ly, and the results already achieved. constitute a great triumph for our government system, giving "to all the assurance that no emergency can arise In our country which will not be properly and successfully met an Intelligent, Just and fair-minded people at the base, cordially approving the salutary measures of their representa tives, with the president, a great re forming force, at the head, leading the way." These words are especially to be commended to such as see in railroad regulation on the part of the govern ment only attacks on property. Mr, Carnegie has never lost his reputation for canniness and, evidently, he does not fear that he Is in any danger of risking it now. BANKER'S VIEW OF TAFT. In their weekly financial review sent out from New Tork dated February 29, J. S. Bache Co. make a significant statement about Taft as a candidate for the presidency. It is Interesting and noteworthy reading: "It is the uncertainty prevailing as to the candidate which is causing bus iness to languish. It would be better for the Republican party to unite on one man at once, and so reassure the business world. Mr. Taft is that one man. He is backed by Mr. Roosevelt's Influence, and he stands for Mr. Roose velt's policies. I "But we must here make a distinct differentiation between the policies ad vocated by Mr. Roosevelt and the meth ods employed by him to put them in force. The great financial interests are opposed to Mr. Roosevelt's methods. They have witnessed with apprehension and alarm his impetuous campaign, the effect of which has been to discredit American business methods, and to un dermine confidence in the whole struc ture of American business enterprises. They, nevertheless, are fully in accord witn most or tne policies which he has undertaken to carry out. They believe in the reasonable regulation of cor porations, and in wise provisions to in sure honest conduct of the great public and private undertakings of the coun try. They do not believe in inciting the mob or in arraying class against class. "These financial interests, sore from the slaughter produced by Mr. Roose velt's methods, have looked with dis trust upon Mr. Taft as the heir not only of the Roosevelt policies, but also of the Roosevelt methods. "From information that we have re ceived we now believe that this is a mistake. "Mr. Taft's long record is distinctly against any conclusion that he would continue Mr. Roosevelt's methods. "He has displayed brains, ability, good Judgment, and above all, sanity, in the great and successful accomplish ments of his career. "Chosen by the conservative McKln ley for the delicate and most difficult mission to the Philippines, he there achieved phenomenal success, working out the problem with wonderful patience and ability. These verv aual lties are what gave him position under the present administration, and during the whole of his distinguished career there, la not one Incident which does not stamp him as a man of breadth, wisdom and Justice. "We must not lose sight of the fact that there Is a temperamental differ ence in the two men, Roosevelt and Taft. By nature, and by training, as a lawyer and as a Judge, Mr. Taft has al ways manifested a thoughtful attitude in his Judgment, and great deliberation and conservatism In his actions. "During his honorable career on the bench, he showed unmistakably the Ju dicial mind, and It is not credible that the additional sense of responsibility imposed by the presidency would lessen his conservatism. "Neither is it conceivable that a man of his force of character would be con trolled, when in the full power of the presidency, by any outside personality. "Men who are closest to Mr. Taft as sert positively that if eleoted he will conduct the affairs of his administra tion in a way which will give to sound business interests that support which their welfare requires, and which con servative citizens demand. "The policies of Mr. Roosevelt carried out with conservatism and Judicial abil ity, will benefit every stock holder ana better ever honest interest in the Unit ed States. "Mr. Taft will so carry out these policies. If the great financial interests be lieved this to be true, they would gath er Instantly to his standard. We are convinced that it is true, and we strong ly urge the conservative element in the United States to concentrate their whole Influence and power to bring about the nomination and election of William H. Taft." JOURNAL ENTRIES Club sandwiches are naturally quite popular with policemen. There's many a girl who falls to get her eyebrows on straight. Perhaps the eagle on our coins is significant of the fact that money flie3. A woman drives nails like lightning in that she never strikes twice in the same place. February is the envy of all the other months in the year because it always has a day or two off. J A YHA WKER JOTS They need women school teachers in Reno county. The boys whip the male teachers. The Free Press asks Winfleld peo ple why they do not visit the dairies. It is a short walk to the Walnut river. One member of MePherson's bas ketball team is threatened with lock jaw as the result of being struck m the face with a ball in a recent game. The Harper man who received by express two alligators which he does n't know what to do with, might en dow the new state fish hatchery with them. The Winfleld Courier says Bill Hackney was a member of the first convention of Cowley county held in 1870, and also a member of the last held recently. Not long now until the newspapers will grow lax in morals and print fish stories which they will try to per suade their readers are true, says the Salina Journal. Coffeyvllle is raising $100,000 with which to Induce new Industries to lo- cate there. The Coffeyvllle hustlers get action while the Commercial clubs of other cities are adopting resolu tions. The disreputable citizens of Garden City insist on the policy of giving the Evening Telegram free advertising, Someone shot a hole in its front win dow the other night as a mark of his disapproval. Every girl In Manhattan is anx iously awaiting the home coming of Glen Edgerton, who stood first in his class at West Point and who is ex pected to visit the village on the Blue in the near future. Two men broke into the Presbyter ian church in Iola and slept there during the night. The police are look Ing for them. Why not arrest the men who go to church in the day time and sleep through the sermon? asks the Wichita Eagle. "Why not," says the Winfleld Free Press, "Inject some blood Into the personnel of our city council? Rip Van Winkle and Nicholas Vedder have both had full sway in the gov eminent of the municipality for sev eral years and there has been a con tinuous cry of dissatisfaction." "A man with a peg leg and his arm in a sling made his appearance In town one day last week, and Just a he was about to be nabbed by the po lice on a charge of vagrancy he pull ed out a well worn wallet and paid a lumberman fifteen dollars for the lumber used in his new residence,' says the McPherson Republican. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Better a day worker than a day dreamer. Some men are like gas meter: they just can't neip lying. It's better to work for nothing than to piay a losing game. No man can think well of himself who does not think well of others. Some actresses look upon matrl mony as a sort of progressive game. One kind of an enemy is a friend who does not oppose you when you are wrong. Singing that will put a baby to sleep is apt to make him sit up and nowi in alter years. j.ove may make tne world go round, but It takes a little Jealousy to accelerate its speed. In order to stay in the game It's un to a married baseball player to make a home run occasionally. t Some women are capable of believ ing the things they want to when they know they don't believe them. People who try to exchange nothing for something are almost as numerous as. those who try to get something for notning. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New Tork Press. xne most successful, love affair Is wnen it s imagination. We all like babies because we know it wasn t tneir tauit. The only chance a man has to malr money in speculation is to go against his Judgment. If a girl won't let you put on her rubbers for her, it's Decause her ankles aren't dressed for it. The reason a woman gets so much enjoyment out of her unhapplness is she knows It's because she's a good wife KANSAS COMMENT OLDEST GIRL, BEST ONE. The best girl in the family is the oldest.- She Is the one who has help ed her mother ever since the first day the second baby came. Though no more than a baby herself, she began to take care of the little one. She Is the one who helps darn, and make and mend, and cook, and take care of the many babies that come after her. It is the oldest daughter who takes care of others when she Is sick, who shares the night watch beside- the siok baby and who hides her own sorrow to com fort mother when death comes. She is the one who keeps house while the tired mother takes a vacation. In her hands all at home is right; the worn out mother knows It; and is thankful. She is more than an elder sister; she is a second mother. She is more than daughter and best friend. .There is mourning in the house when she mar ries. The mother's right hand is gone. No other child can take her place. If there is an eldest daughter in your fami ly someday you will lose her. Do you show ber how much you love and ap preciate her while she' is with you? We know a widower In Atchison who has a daughter eighteen years old. It is one of our greatest pleasures to hear this man praise his oldest daughter; his housekeeper the worthy successor of her dead mother. Atchison Globe. ANOTHER LAW NEEDED. When some male and female farmers come to town disguised as a theatrical company, and give an entertainment" that breaks the heart of the audience, the people composing that audience go to their several homes filled with poignant anguish, knowing that they have no recourse. The monev is gone and their hearts are broken, and their lives ruined, and all that they can do Is to weep and wait; while the farmers go to some otnor town and leave devastation in their trail. In view of which it may be timely to suggest that the governor call a special session of the legislature, in order that there may be enacted a law providing pains and penalties for those nam actors and disguised biscuit shooters who visit Kansas opera houses and torture unoffending audiences. They are obviously obtaining money under false pretences, and the law against that crime should! apply to them. It might demoralize the peni tentiary by sending them there, but some sacrifices must be made In the cause of Justice. Emporia Gazette. ANENT THETAX LAW. The Leavenworth Times quotes the Wichita Beacon about legislation in the matter of taxation and assessment, and says that Kansas was away behind other states in Its laws on those sub jects. Which Is a grave error. Kan sas has nothing more today in her assessment and taxation laws than 6 he has had for a quarter of a century, save a lot of verbiage and balderdash that nobody understands and to which no attention will be given until wecome to pay the bills for it. Kansas did not lack laws; she lacks enforcement. No man was sent to the penitentiary for committing perjury under the old law; no man will be sent up for committing perjury under the new one. It is only a matter of a quarter of a million or so In taxes for us to dig up. Lawrence Gazette. FROM OTHER PENS BOYS AND PADDLES. f boys must be flogged, the paddle seems to be an almost divinely appoint ed implement to do it with. That area of the body which it must aptly fits is not very susceptible to mortal wounds; It has merely a sufficiency of nerves to unlock penitential tears by their ting ling when temperately flagellated; and the bones which it contains are so abundantly swathed about with mus cular tissue that there is no danger of breaking them. It is fashionable in these degenerate days to deny the hand of Providence in arranging the affairs of the world; but if there is one piece of evidence more convincing than an other that the Almighty actually did fit this and that together and adapt one thing to another in our mundane sphere, it is the perfect adaptation of this portion or a Doy s Doay to re ceive impulsive stimulation from a pad die. But must boys be flogged? What is the ultimate effect of paddling upon the boy himself and upon the teacher, upon paddler, and paddlee, to borrow a legal terminology? In the opinion of the Oreeonian. the paddle Is distinctly and unequivocally a means of grace. It edifies not only the physical and Intel lectual parts of the boy, but also his soul. Many an unruly youth, apparent ly foredoomed to perdition and pre destinated to wrath, .nas been plucked like a brand from- the burning by a re generative paddling. The world is full of men of light and leading whom Satan thought he had bought and paid for in their early youth, but who were redeemed and washed of their sins by a good, sound whipping. Marvelous are the virtues of the paddle; salutary is the smart thereof, and the parent who rails against it is not wise. Portland Oregonian. THE RAILROADS AND POLITICS, miia nntk ihnnl of nolitles. not con flnnA tn oither Tinrtv teaches that the octopus chase is Just begun, the coun try is admonished by practical men that it is Imperative that $5,000,000,000 be raised by the railroads now in operation for improvements, for repairs, for ter minals and for additional rolling stook. In this estimate is no provision for ex tensions, thOUgn It is purposed 10 pend a large percentage of the stupen hi trackaee. A railroad Is but an instrument of commerce, Just as a plow is a utensil of agriculture or a saw or adz a tool of o Vi 1 1 r-a TCati-rnada are lndlsrjensa- ble to our civilization. We cannot get along without them, ana tne uener tne road the better it is for every patron of the road, whether he be producer or aAnlllrncr sin A mmt men are both. Not to allow a railroad to earn enough to Improve its physical condition arter paying fixed charges Is asfooMsh and as wasteful as to withhold fertilizer from the field or deny adequate cultiva tion tn fvn-n The best railroad in the United States is now spending millions in the improvement of its physical properties, and that too when freight rates are lower than in any other country in the world. Many of our railroads are daily impaired for lack of funds with which a man nn darn trAr.ks. bridges and rolling stock. But the octopus chasers cry out against adequate rates to pay interest on bonds and beggarly divi- AAtm a nrnnmillM as in- VJ1 ETLU&a, ctuu f- iquity any surplus that is hoarded for improvements. It is time for the public to look on a railroad as a dusihwsb en terprise and not as an issue in politics- waamngton post. ERE LONG. I Ere long we'll see the pitcher step J4 twist his mighty arm so 'twill 6icieL service yielu. The bold umpire will take his stand. The nl Vr nil -Kni.t Srr0061"" Packed along the line Will raise a lusty shout. The happy baseball days are near, TThe dream of office boys. They bring the peanut vender and A. host of other Joys. With coat on arm and steamy face TX7 Ml V, 1 V. 1 t. a Lucijf Bua.11 tiia game a iaUKh a thoun nearly broke -Muiig uu&uvwn 10 lame. The fair, sweet girl will be on hand w mus uie xosser o er And points out to her listless beau The ones she'd fain adore. The gray-haired man, the six-year-old. Fanatics large and small. Will set the welkin ringing when uu umpire says Tlay balll" Birmingham Age-Herald. Mystery of Bloody Feuds. The traaric end nf .Tnmo TTa rtri. at Jackson. Ky., calls attention once again to the peculiar conditions of life wnien nave marked a state long known as "the dark ground." That a man who had taken several lives in the course of a bitter feud should die by the shots fired by his own son only emDhasIzes the strangeness of a social .organization where life Is held so cheap and where the guilty so often escape the punish ment provided for by law. It has been a puzzle which no one has solved. Why these feud conditions should prevail In that one section of the country far more than anywhere eise is nara to understand, why men meet in a public place and slash each other with knives or shoot each other as dogs are shot is a question which has aroused the wonder of many a student of American social life. Some of them have traced the snirit back to old Virginia, where the rough er forms of English sport found early lodgment. The fox hunting, horse racing, cock lighting Virginian who loved to wrestle with his opponent or took delight in the game of gouging where the fist ceased Its attempt to pusn out the eye only fhen the cry, "King's cruse," was heard may have been the ancestor of the Kentucky feudist as he was of the Kentucky pioneer. The ever ready rifle of the wilder ness hunter who crossed the moun tains, pierced the gaps, or floated down the streams into the western country may have been the legitimate predecessor of the murderous gun of tne later generation of Kentucklans. The facility in the use of firearms and the common training to shoot straight ana sure which were absolutely neces sary in the days of Boone and men of nis type may have brought its own natural development in the quickness in handling the trigger which has marked the fights of a century. ine contest or different race ele ments as the men of the east of the old English blood met In the struggle for the possession of the land with the hardy pioneers of Scotch, Irish and German extraction who pushed their way southward along the mountains and through the valleys to turn aside toward the attractive lands in Ken tucky may offer some explanation. The division of families brought about by civil war may have added its element of discord. The peculiar con ditions which developed in the border states when the war broke out are well remembered. Neighboring families made different choices. One followed the flag of the union. Another went with the south. In many cases the breach was never healed. In some one of these theories, in a combination of them, or in none of them the origin of the Kentucky feud and the cheapness of human life In that commonwealth may be discover ed. There is a practically unworked field for the future investigator of so cial conditions. In a state whose his tory from many points of view is more interesting than, that of any other in the United States this unsolved prob lem remains one of the most puzzling which have been presented to those who have tried to understand and in ternret the peculiar phases which have combined to make the story of the American people. Chicago Trib une. The Other Side of Nature Faking. What about the effects of nature- faking upon the nature-faked? Only the spread of misinformation among humans has been touched upon. The real peril lies elsewhere. Inspired by the tales almost daily related of their ferocity, courage, and lethal powers. the creatures of meadow, wood and stream are coming to think them selves mightier than man. How else explain the attack, last month, perpe trated by a flock of crows upon Paul Niles, of Freeport, 111.? According to a widely circulated dispatch, the rau cous birds descended, en masse, upon the luckless Mr. Nlles, who "was knocked down and pecked about the face and eyes and beaten almost in sensible." Shall we pick up our paper one day to read that the Hon. Grover Cleveland, incautiously stepping into a stream which he was whipping, had his left leg bitten off by an angry trout, or that that mighty hunter, Theodore Roosevelt, while stalking the shy and timorous grizzly, disturbed a sleeping rsoblt. which dashed him to the ground with a loud roar, and fanned him to death with its ears? Our stricken fancy beholds' the meadows resonant with the shrieks of helpless agriculturists, fleeing In terror from hordes of maddened butterflies, the coppices crowded with naturalists seeking refuge from infuriated toads, while the fugitive who, pursued by a rapid angleworm, is fortunate enough to escape from the perilous open into his house, finds but a momentary res plte before being penned up in a comer and trampled to pulp by his own do mestic water-bugs! Collier's Weekly. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. The shoemaker should be awl to the good- It doesn't auger well for a man to be a bore. When a lawyer goes into a restau rant It's a case of law and order. T7Wn tVi a TnrMtmAn' wife TY1 a beat him when it comes to expressing ner opiniuu. Some men seem to labor under the .ImUn that itia (nrk In a bottle is there merely to be pulled out. Musra-ina "So this Is your wire's Ancr h Wbat dO VOU Call him?' RiiB-Vins "Sh-h-h! There are ladies nresent." -Wl&g "What a homely reiiow BJones is!". Wagg "Yes. but he real ly has a handsome mug in tne oar. ber shop." Blobbs (after an all-night poker enmel "I'm going to a Turkish bath. Come along." Slobbs "No, thanks. I'm cleaned up now. Stranger "How far la it to Broad Street Station?" Guzzler "Lemme shee. I should shay it's hie bout three saloons from here." Blobbs "Easymark thinks he thoroughly up lnthe ways or the world." Slobbs "Well, he ought to be. h' been done on often enough. THE EVENING STORY The Heart of Miss CyntiuW (By Clarissa" Mackle.) As Forrest pushedl the eate ocen a girl rose from a low-swung hammock andi came to meet him. "You are Mr. Forrest. I am sure." she said; with a emile of dazzling' sweetness; "I am Hyacinth Loveil. Mies Elmore's niece." "Then you are little Amy Elmore's daughter," he said, grasping her hand cordially and following her to the cool shade of the elms where several comfortable chairs were arranged. "How did you know John. Forrest?" he added, as they seated themselves. Aunt (Jyntma la expecting you. replied the girl animatedly; "and of oourse I knew you from your por trait." "It is very good of you to give me such a gracious 'Welcome." he said, absently; and then, with more inter est: "Is Miss Cynthia at home?". "Yes; she will be out presently. She is dressing, I believe," returned the girl carelessly, swaying idly to and fro in the hammock, her trim little foot touching the grass at every back ward! swing. Forrest looked about him with keen Interest. There was a contraction of the muscles of his throat as he felt himself precipitated so suddenly into the past. There was the long. low. red house with its mantle of wistarias, and Its box-bordered graveled! paths spread ing away from the front door. There were the flower garden, exhalins- all the sweet, pungent odors of the past. and the honeysuckle arbor where he and Cynthia had sat on long summer afternoons, while the bees droned in andi out of the flowered trumpets and brilliant humming birds hovered above the blooms; while he read aloud to Cynthia, andi Cynthia sewed or knitted. But the smell or the box was the most persistent reminder of the past. It was the incense in his temple of memories. Fifteen years hadi passed) since ne had swung, out of the gate and set his face down "the road toward duty. He had left a weeping Cynthia behind, one who wore his betrothal ring on her slim finger. He had gone to a foreign capital, wither his appoint ment to a consular office had called him, and Cynthia could not go with him. There were duties at home, an in valid father, motherless younger sis ters one. Amy. unhappily married and with a sickly little onud pernaps the vouner girl before him. There had always been something to prevent their marriage, some sac rifice that Cynthia had to make for her family, and so Forrest had never come home. Her letters held out no hope for their immediate marriage, and the years had slipped by, until at last one day, two months before, he had ob tained leave of absence and hastened across the Pacific and thence across the continent, until at last he stood within the old New England garden waitlna- onlv for the moment when Cynthia should come down the path to meet him. dressed in white, with a rniH In bar dark hair. "You haven't seen Aunt Cynthia for warn, have you. Mr. Forrest7" The girl's voice broke crisply on his meditations. whv no I haven't." he ad mitted, looking at her with startled surprise. "Von will find her greatly changed1. she said, calmly. "She la quite old now!" Cvnthla old! Forrest looked dazedly about him. He had not thought of that. To him Cynthia was always straight and young, with soft, dusky hair and melting dark eyes. She in troriablv wore a white dress with a red rose tucked in her belt. "She is nearly forty, ana very gray," resumed Hyacinth Loveil, with youthful cruelty in her rasping young voice. He looked at the girl, realizing for the first time that she was very young and very pretty. She had masses of bronze colored hair,, deep blue eyes and! a pink and white complexion. Hr teeth were perfect and! her smile was lovely, yet there was something lacking in her race; sometmng mat might have ma'&e it beautiful, and for want of it she was merely pretty. Forrest decided that it was woman liness. "You are like your mother, 'Amy' we used to call her," he remarked. "They say I am like mother used to be," she returned flippantly, eyeing him with approval from under her thick lashesi Forrest was good to look upon, tall, and well set up, with a fine face lighted by good gray eyes. His skin was browned by tropical suns and his light hair was only faint ly sprinkled with gray. "You look so much younger than Aunt Cynthia," she said bluntly. Forrest frowned. He thought it bad taste in the girl to speak of the matter of her aunt's looks. "Miss Cynthia is delayed," he re marked coldly. "Oh, she was attending to mother, I guess." "Is your mother ill?" he asked po litely. "Oh, no; not particularly, but she has headaches, and Aunt Cynthia charms them away." "Cannot you do that?" he asked, with disapproval in the gray eyes. "Not I," she laughed merrllyi "There is no maglo in my finger tips! t would give mother the fidgets." "And you and your mother live here with Cynthia?" "Yes: and father, too." "Your father still paints-?" For rest's voice was dangerously soft now, but the girl, flattered by his atten tlon, attributed its tone to her power ot attraction. "Oh, yes paints and paints all day long and he has never sold a pic ture!" Forrest looked back through the vista of years and Imagined the bur den Cvnthla had borne the support of three idle people out of her slen der income and he frowned darkly. Again the girl's voice sounded crisply on his ear: "Poor Aunt Cynthia has become quite an old maid; she will never marry, mother says she's too faded now." Forrest did not reply. Cynthia Elmore glanced through the shutters at the little group under the elms. There was John Forrest, youthful, erect, and good to look up on and her heart beat wildly at sight of 'him. She leaned against the sill and closed her eyes for very biles of the moment. She had Imagined his coming for years, and now he was here! She looked again and saw the pret ty animated face of Hyacinth, her niece, and noted the keen Interest of the visitor in what the girl was say ing. She turned away, with a sinking of her heart. Things might be changed after all She was old with the loving eervloe giveix to selfish, family ties; ber youth had fled, her beauty had waned, and it would all be so apparent beside the fresh loveliness of Hyacinth! Jforrest had preserved his youtn and he had returned to find her an old woman! She glanced at her Image in the mirror, and to her own dis torted fancy she was aged and hid eous. Nevertheless, with a certain piteous atttempt to restore herself to a likeness of that younger Cynthia of other days, she slipped on a dress of white em broidered muslin, tucked a red rose in her hair, another In her belt, and with her slender figure erect she walked down the path, giving proud defiance to her age. Forrest saw her coming and leaped to his feet with a startled cry of rec ognition. He saw her sum, youtnrui figure, her lovely face rendered Btlll more beautiful by the crown of silver hair, the expression of sweet matu rity that was an added charm, and her heart, young with love and Joy, shining through her dark eyes. He turned a triumphant face to ward the girl In the hammock, who was watching them in wonder. "She is lovelier than ever!" he ex claimed, taking Miss Cynthia's slim hands in his warm grasp. "I have come to take you away, Cynthia," was all he said to her Just then. (Copyrighted 1908 by Jessie Morgan.) HVMOR OF THE DAY "Did you ever see anything uglier than that beard Peters is wearing?" "Yep. Did you ever see his face without it?" Cleveland Leader. "Edison says the United States Is starv- ing for $10,000 men." "That's strange, while so many men are hungry for $10,000 salaries." Kansas City Tlme3. "60 titled stranger," said the romantic wo- man. "Tea," answered Mr. Cumrox, glancing up from his checkbook. "Was it a case of love at sight?" "Yea Now It's a case of draw at sight." Father Didn't I see him huarsrinK vou aa I came in? Daughter No. tata:he was showing me how to telephone by holding the trans mitter close to the breast. Harper's Ba zar. Old Hunks When I came to this town sixteen years ago real estate in the block where I live was higher priced than it la now. Old Hewllgus It would be so in any block where you.'d settled down. Chica go Tribune. Mrs. Btubb (reading) John, some of the suites on these new Atlantic liners cost $2,000 for a single voyage. Mr. Btubb H'm'.Now I know what they mean by the "high seas". Chicago News. "Now that we are married every present I buy you shall be something for the house." "Oh, you dear! I eaw a beautiful recep tion gown today." Houston Post. Lawyer Mr. Dabble, at the time these papers were executed you were speculat ing, were ypu not? Mr. D. Yes, sir. Lawyer And what are you In now? Mr. D. Bankruptcy. Philadelphia Tele graph. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Some farmers are aa full of Inter esting information as a dog Is of fleas. Compliment some people, and it makes them feel so superior that they are apt to be insulting. When a man quits drinking, how he lies about the great quantity of whisky he formerly drank! We don't care to hear a man talk: about a thing he doesn't understand, and that we don't understand. What are neighbors for? They are to notice things. If you ever did any thing out of the way you are remind ed that that was what your neighbor1 was there for. People grow so suspicious with years that if a man hears that a brother he has not seen in twenty years is coming to see him, he says. "Now WHAT does he want?" The women must be braver than the men. All the women we ever tav running were running after some thing. We never saw one who was running away from something. Every boy should have a dog so that he can feel, when his father makes him go to school, and his mother makes him say "Please" at the table, that he has one True and Satisfied Friend .in the world. When wedding cards in a town like Atchison where no one can afford a lengthy wedding tour, say "At home" after a given date, it means a notice that the friends are to keep out until the bride has her pictures hung. We fail to see why it is regarded as a lack of refinement to speak of "liv er trouble," and why "heart trouble Is genteel. The liver Is perfectly re spectable; the troubles the liver gets into are never scandalous, which can't always be said about the affairs of the heart. Should a woman allow her gentle man escort to put on her rubbers? The question has been asked The Globe. We are of the opinion that a man would be very rude not to offer to put on a woman's rubbers, and she would be very prudish to refuse. Feet are regarded everywhere as respect able. The old and young would be hap pier If the old did not demand that the young have so much veneration for the past, and the young did not expect the old to be interested In the future. The old become garrulous in talking of what they have done, and! have no toleration in listening to the young talk of what they are going to do. When you see a lot of boys and girls coming from school, you will notice that the boys do not walk with the girls; they tag along behind and keep up a running conversation wltH them, but they seldom walk with them. Sometimes a boy will throw snow down a girl's back and pay her attention of that kind, but he seems to be ashamed to be actually in her company. A girl gets a new wardrobe at least three times In her life: when she is a little baby, when she goes away to boarding school, and when she In m-- ried. A man never gets entlrelv clothes but once, and that is when he Is a little baby, and even then he would not have had new clothes bought for him if they had known he was going to be a boy. About half the ceoola v ails in the newspapers, and the other ""1- owneen the two crowds, the newspapers are alwav thoroughly abused. always An Atchison woman says that no wo man need, remain single unless The wants to. She says that if she will learn how to cook, and get a sltuat on Tn some one's kitchen, some man will com along and carry her off All til 5 girl, .ha .ver, bid smaried, 3

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