The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
April 14, 1908

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EVERYBODY 12 PAGES EVERYBODY 12 PAGES NEEDS IT.' READST. t LAST EDITION. INSISTSON FOUR. President Roosevelt Sends Special Message to Congress. .Urging the Building of Two Fairs of Battleships. AS A PEACE MEASURE. Ho Danger That Country Will Engage In Aggressive War. Necessity Was Emphasized by Results at the Hague. Washington. April 14. Compressed Into what would be not more than a ten minute speech on the floor of congress President Roosevelt today urged that body in a special message to provide for the construction of four battleships of the largest and most atmroved type at once. The arguments of the president to im press his insistence on this naval arma ment were few, but calculated to be effective. China was held as an exam pie of the "peace at any price" doc trine, and Great Britain as having the naval policy to be emulated. The re sult of the last The Hague conference made it plain that the nations would not for some time, if ever, agree on a plan of limitation of naval armament. Arbitration, the president holds, can not be relied upon as an effective rem edy, though it should be utilized to its fullest extent. Disclaiming any Intention on the part of the United States ever to en gage in a war of conquest, the presi dent made it plain that this country could 111 afford to relax into a pla where insult Would have to be borne in silence. The text of the message follows: The Message. To the Senate and House of Represen tatives: Let me again urge upon congress the need of providing for four battleships of the best and most advanced type at this session. Prior to the recent Hague conference it had been my hope that an agreement could be reached among the different nations to limit the in crease of naval armaments, and espec ially to limit the size of warships. Un- der these circumstances, I felt that the construction of one battleship a year would keep our navy up to its then positive and relative strength. But act ual experience showed not merely that it was impossible to obtain such an agreement for the limitation of arma ments among the various leading pow ers, but that there was no likelihood whatever of obtaining it in the future within any reasonable time. Colnci dentally with this discovery occurred a radical change in the building of bat- tleships among the great military na tions a change in which modern bat- tleships have been or are being con structed of a size and armament which doubles or more probably trebles their effectiveness. Every other great naval nation has, or is building a number of ships of this kind; we have provided for but two, and therefore the balance of power is now inclining against us. Under these conditions, to provide for but one or two battleships a year is to provide that this nation, instead of ad vancing shall go backwards in naval rank and relative power among the great nations. Such a course would be unwise for us if we fronted merely on ot.e ocean and it is doubly unwise for us if we front on two oceans. As chief executive of the nation and as commander-in-chief of the navy, the re sponsibility Is imposed upon me the solemn responsibility of advising the congress of the measures vitally neces sary to secure the peace and welfare of the republic in the event of interna tional complications which are even re motely possible. A Peace Measure. Having in view this solemn respon sibility, I earnestly advise that the congress now provide for four battle ships of the most advanced type. I can not too emphatically say that this is a measure of peace and not of war. X I can cdhcelve of no circumstances under which this republic would en "ter into an aggressive war; most cer- ,tainly, under no circumstances would it enter into an aggressive war to ex tend its territory or in any other manner seek material aggrandize ment. I advocate that the United States build a navy commensurate with its powers and its needs, because I feel that such a navy will be the surest guaranty and safeguard of peace. We are not a military nation. Our army is so small as to present an almost .absurd contrast to our size. It is properly treated as little more than a nucleus in case of serious war. Yet we are a rich nation and undefended wealth invites aggression. The very liberty of individual speech and ac tion which we. prize and guard, ren ders it possible that at times un expected causes of friction with for eign powers may suddenly develop. At this moment we are negotiating arbitration treaties with all the other powers that are willing to enter into them. These arbitration treaties have a special usefulness because in the event of sudden disagreement they render it morally incumbent upon both nations to seek flrstxo reach an agree ment through arbitration and at least secure a breathing space during which the cool judgment of the two nations involved may get the upper hand over any momentary outburst of anger. These arbitration treaties are not only in the hope of ending wrongdoing bv others against us, but also as a proof that we have no intention of doing wrong ourselves. Millennium Far Away. Tet It is idle to assume, and from the standpoint of national interest and honor, it Is mischievous folly for any statesman to assume that this world has yet reached the stage or has come within meastireahle riifstanoa rt stage, when a proud nation, Jealous of its honor and conscious of its great mission in the world, can be content to rely for peace upon the forbearance of other powers. It would be equally foolish to rely upon each of them pos sessing at all times and under all cir cumstances and provocations an al TUESDAY EVENING. truistic nirarH fnr the riehts Of others Those who hold this view are blind indeed to all that has gone on before their eyes in the world at large. Thev are blind to what has hap pened in China, in Turkey, In the Spanish possessions, in central uu South Africa, during the last dozen vears. For centuries China nas cul tivated the very spirit which our own peace at any price men wish this country to adopt. For centuries China has refused to provide military forces and has treated the career of the soldier as inferior In honor ana regard to the career of the merchant or of the man of letters. There never has been an empire which for so long a time has resolutely proceeaea on the theory of doing away with what is called "militarism. Troubles of China. Whether the result Snas been happy in international affairs I need not dis cuss. All the advanced reformers ana far sighted patriots in the Chinese em pire are at present seeking (I may add, with our hearty good will) for a radi cal and far-reachine reform in inter national affairs. In external affairs the DOlicy has resulted in various otn er nations now holding large portions of Chinese territory while there is a very acute fear in China lest the em pire, because of its defenselessness, be pxnosed to absolute dismenfberment. and its well wishers are able to help it only in a small affair, because no nation can help any otner unless inai other can help itself. The state department is continually appealed to to" interfere on behalf of peoples and nationalities who insist that they are suffering from oppression now Jews in one country, now Chris tians in another, now black men said, to be oppressed by white men in Airi ea. Armenians. Koreans, Finns, Poles, representatives of all appeal at times to this government, ah or ims impres sion is alleged to exist In time of peace and frequently, although by no means always, It is alleged to occur at the hands of people wno are nui very iui midable in a military sense. Tn snmn cases the accusations of op pression and wrongdoing are doubtless ill lounaea. in oiners nicy vc founded and in certain cases the most appalling loss of life is shown to have occurred, accompanied with frightful cruelty. It is not our province to de cide which side has been right and which has been wrong in all or in any of these-controversies. I am now re ferring to the loss of life. Oppression Is Wide Spread. It is probably a conservative state ment to say that within the last 12 years, at periods of profound peace and not as the result of the war, massacres and butcheries have oc curred in which more lives of men, women and children have been lost than in anv single great war since the close of the Napoleonic struggles. To anv Dublic man who knows the complaints continually made, to the state department there is an element of grim tragedy in the claim that the time has gone by when weak nations or peoples can be oppressed by those who are stronger without arousing ef fective protest from other strong in terests. Kven this still fresh in the mind of every thinking man shows that neither arbitration nor any other de vice can as yet be invoked to prevent the erav-est and most terrible wrong doing to peoples who are either few In numbers or who if numerous have lost the first and most important of national virtues the capacity for self defense. When a national is so happily situ ated as ours that is, when it has nothing to fear or to be feared by its land neighbors the fleet is all the more necessary for the preservation of peace. Great Britain has been saved by its fleet from the necessity of facin- one of the two alternatives of submission to conquest by a foreign power or itself becoming a great military power. The United Seates can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first class navy; and the step to be taken towards this end at this time is to provide for the building of four additional battle ships. I earnestly with that the con gress would pass the measures for which I have asked strengthening and rendering more efficient the army as well as the navy; all of these measures as affecting every branch and detail of both services are sorely needed, and it would be the part of farsighted wis dom to enact them all into laws, but the most vital and immediate need is that of the four battleships. To carry out this policy is but to act in the spirit of George Washington; is but to continue the policies which he outlined when he said, "Observe good fait and Justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all." Nothing is more essential than that permanent inveterate, antipathies against particular nations and pas sionate attachments for others should be excluded: that in place of them just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. I can not recommend to your notice measures for the fulfillment of our du ties to the rest of the world without again urging upon you the necessity of placing ourselves in a condition of complete defense and exacting from others the fulfillment of their duties toward us. The United States ought not to in dulge a persuasion that contrary to the order of human events, they will for ever keep at a distance those painful appeals to 'arms with which the history of every other nation abounds. There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld If not absolutely lost by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid In sult, we must be able to repeal it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war. (Signed), The White House, April 14, 1908. Bands at the First Game. Chicago, April 14. The first game of the American league championship season will be played here today by Chicago and Detroit. Both teams are primed and eager for the battle. Processions, bands and general excite ment are promised. New Play for Nat Goodwin. Reno, Nev.. April 14. In an inter view at Rawhide Nat Goodwin said that Booth Tarkington Is writing a play for him to be called "Cameo fouth'n list. Plardeals with the POLITICALGOSSIP Senator Long's Friends Form ing Excellent Organization. Will Be One of the Most Power ful on Record. NOTHING NEGLECTED. Workers in Every Precinct in the State. Jnst Such an Organization as Stubbs Attempted to Form. Chester I. Long's senatorial cam paign will be managed by one of the most powerful aggregations of clever political workers that ever backed the candidacy of one man in the history of the state. t Usually there is a split in the ranks of the men who make more or less of a business of politics, some of them being lined up for some other man because they are "out" and want "in." This year, however, the political workers of the state are ap parently almost unanimous in the opinion that it would be a grave mis take to allow any grass-roots move' ment, working through the primary law, to overcome the principle of po litical organization represented by senator Long. Senator Long will have an organiza tion extending into every congressional district, every county, every township and every voting precinct. At each polling place wil be some trusted worker to see that Long's votes are brought in, and that Long's interests are protected. This splendid organization will have its seat of power in the Long head quarters In the Comanche building in Topeka, and the men who will discuss and weigh the effect of every move before it is made include Morton Al baugh, W. Y. Morgan, D. W. Mulvane, H. J. BOne, J. M. Simpson. W. H. Mackey and such others as they may call into conference for special mat ters. All of these men live in Topeka, except W. T. Morgan, and he expects to spend much time here between now and the primary election. Albaugh, Simpson, Mackey and Bone are all holders of federal offices, and their in terest in Long's campaign is natural. Morgan is the personal representative of Long in the Seventh district, and Mulvane, being the Republican national committeeman from Kansas and the leader of the machine forces, is nat urally much interested in the defeat of Brlstow. These six men can meet every day, if necessary, and discuss the situation. And it is probably safe to say that some of the six will meet every day, and keep in touch with the work. Ralph Faxon, Senator Long's pri vate secretary, has been sent here from Washington to be in personal charge of the Long headquarters. He will see to it that the plans and propaganda arranged by the committee of six are executed. This committee of six is the board of strategy of the Long campaign. It will lay out the general plans for the work, but each of the eight congres sional districts will be provided with lieutenants to do the bidding of the Topeka committee. These lieutenants will look after the missionary work in their own district, and will see to it that the right sort of a man is placed In charge of Long's campaign in each county. The county leader will gather about him a committee of Long's friends who will take care of the work of organizing the Long forces in that county. In short. Senator Long will, even be fore his return from the congressional session at Washington about May 15, have in full operation In the state of Kansas a great political organization, composed of the best political workers of the state. As soon as he is free from his duties at Washington," Senator Long himself will go into the campaign with a speechmaklng department. The speechmaklng is largely for the pur pose of keeping up appearances. Long depends upon his organization to win the battle for him. To overcome such an organization as Long will have perfected by Aug ust 4, the date of the primary, will mean that there is a veritable land slide in Kansas for Bristow which nothing can stop. Bristow nor any one else could get together an organization such as that of Long, simply because Long has practically cornered the best political strategists and laborers. If organization can win a battle. Long will be nominated United States senator. But the Bris tow people are counting on the up rising of the voters of Kansas, and an overwhelming demand for the defeat of the political methods which Mr. Lond is using with such consummate skill. The Bristow people claim that the more air-tight and iron-clad the Long people make their organization, the more it will be resented by the v6ters of the Republican party, and the more overwhelming will be Long's defeat. It will be a pretty fight and it will show whether there is as much demand for the defeat of "organized politics" In Kansas as some people have claimed. Mr. Stubbs has attempted to form just such an organization and has maintained headquarters at the Copeland, but it is probably less effective. The Emporia Gazette is hitting some pretty hard licks now in be half of the "anti-machine" candi dates. It is out with an editorial -endorsement of three candidates for state senate; A. W. Logan .in Osage, Tom Potter in Marion and George Plumb in Lyon. Mr. White says that these are Independent candidates, whom the "lodge" can't run, and he predicts that the railroads will make a tremendous effort to defeat each one of them. The St. Louis Republic, a Demo cratic paper, prints a summary of the Kansas political situation from its To peka correspondent. It says after speaking of the Republican factional fight: "Kansas Democrats view this in ternecine war with complacency Thy are united and ready for the fray" They realize that the Democratic ticket will receive a heavy vote from the defeat ed Republican faction at the August primaries. Stubbs has declared that (Continued on Face Eljrhtl TOPEKA, KANSAS, APRIL 14, HE CAN'T TELL YET Attorney General Bonaparte Replies to Cannon Resolution. Not Certain Whether or Not There Is a Paper Trust. HE REPORTS PROGRESS His Assistants Are Busy With an Investigation. He May Have Information to Impart at Later Date. Washington,, April 14. The attorney general has sent to Speaker Cannon a letter in reply to the house resolution asking what steps have been taken by the government to Investigate the alleged combination of wood pulp or print paper manufacturers. The attor- LffnCISlI.Says an investigation is in progress but no evidence has yet been obtained to Justify legal proceedings. He says that when the r investigation wm I lre,P? theren is completed he will submit them without delay if he can do so without affecting the interest of justice but that if the investigation should lead to civil or criminal pro ceedings it may continue expedient to temporarily withhold from the public the evidence and information. The attorney general's letter follows: In response to a resolution of the house of representatives No. 320 trans- te-?v.t0 me under date f APril 8, J 08, I have the honor to state that sev eral weeks ago all evidence and infor mation relating to its subject matter in the possession of this department were referred to the U. S. attorney of the appropriate district,; with orders to make or have made by a grand Jury of the said district a thorough investi gation of the matters in question. The said U. S. attorney was further in structed, if sufficient evidence could be thus obtained to institute at once suit able proceedings in the federal court having jurisdiction in the premises, with a view to punishing any offending parties and to secure in future strict obedience in this respect to the. statute of the United States generally known as the Sherman anti-trust law. "Up to the present time, no evidence has been- obtained by the officers of this department sufficient to Justify the institution of legal proceedings, either civil or criminal against any al leged combination of wood pulp or print paper manufacturers;, the infor mation obtained, however, justifies fur ther investigation of the facts and such Investigation is in progress. "It would be inexpedient at the pres ent stage of this JnveMtigation to dis close to the publio Specifically what steps have been taken or what action is contemplated by this department with respect to matters mentioned in the said resolution. As above stated, these matters have been referred to a United States attorney for further in quiry and possible action in his judic ial district and it would be, in my opin ion incompatible with the public ser vice to require him to suspend this in quiry so that the papers in his posses sion might be transmitted to the house and inadvisable in the interest of jus tice, to make public at this time the precise information in the possession of said prosecuting officer. "It is proper for me to say in this connection that certain alleged facts were submitted to this department when the above mentioned investiga tion, was commenced Which apparent ly authorized the belief that serious and readily proven offenses against the laws of the United States had been committed in the premises and immediate action by the appropriate officer was thereupon promptly or dered; but these orders disclosed that no legal proof could be secured of the alleged offenses, the evidence relied upon to establish them turning out to be merely hearsay, and the com plainant himself, who had furnished this information refusing to give the name of a witness supposed to have personal knowledge of the said facts. Before taking action under the so called anti-trust law it has been, the unvarying practice of this depart ment to very thoroughly sift, the allegations of such complaints and the considerable proportion of suc cessful prosecutions under the said statute seems to justify this practice. In this instance information as afore said furnished, when so sifted, showed an undoubted general and considerable increase in the prices of certain kinds of paper, but that such increase was due to any contract, combination or conspiracy, in re straint of trade, was a matter of conjecture and suspicion only, al though it seemed probable that proof to establish this might be found through a searching and judicious Inquiry. "I regret that the public interest prevents me from fully and promptly complying with the request contained in the above mentioned resolution. Wnen this investigation has been completed and the report of the United. States attorney entrusted therewith is received I may be in a position to furnish the house of repre sentatives with the papers and in formation called for without in juriously affecting the interests of justice and I shall, in such case, sub rp.it them without delay. "If however, the said investigation should lead to civil or criminal pro ceedings it may continue expedient to temporarily withhold from the public evidence and information, now or hereafter obtained, bearing upon the' situation until such proceedings shall have been finally determined." Curtis Introduces a BUI. Washington, April 14. Senator Curtis has introduced a bill to require corporations organized under federal or state charters to register with the department of commerce and labor and secure a permit therefrom before attempting to transact business in a state or territory other than that in which it is organized. Specialist to See Tolstoi. Moscow, April 14. A specialist of this city left here today for Yasneya Polyana to visit Count Leo Tolstoi, who is suffering from stomach and Intestinal maladies which fall to yield to treatment. 1908. HIS LASTJSTAND. Senator Foraker Makes a Final Appeal for Negroes Who Were Discharged for Shooting Up Brownsville. NO EVIDENCE HE SAYS Worthy of Attention Was Pro duced Against Them. Pays a Glowing Tribute to Pa triotism of the Race. Washington, April 14. A careful analysis of testimony taken in the in vestigation of the shooting up of Brownsville August 13-14, 1906, and an argument in favor of the re-enlistment of the colored soldiers of the Twenty fifth regiment. United States Infantry, was made in a speech delivered today by Senator Foraker (O.) The senate gave an attentive hearing and the galleries were filled with vis itors. "Before entering upon this labor," said Mr. Foraker, "it may not be amiss to remark in view of the many mis statements that have been made that the purpose of this Investigation has not been to embarrass the president or anybody else; nor has it been to make any capital of any kind, political or otherwise, against anybody or for any body." He said that the investigation was to find the facts and added that the sol diers gave "their evidence with such straightforward frankness and with such manifest truthfulness that noth ing remains to show their complete vindication except only the discovery of the real culprits, which time will surely make unless the adage 'That murder will out' has ceased to be a truth." The senator reviewed the various in cidents and orders that led up to the discharge of the men without honor. Most of the witnesses against the sol diers, he said, testified four different times.1 "Their testimony so given is suffi ciently contradictory to show that it is unreliable," he said. "But, aside from the .contradictions on account of the darkness of the night, many things that they testified to could not have positively been observed by them. Eye Witness Testimony. "Conceding for the sake or arguments that the witnesses undertook to testify truthfully, the flimsy and unreliable character of the whole of it is fairly indicated by the testimony of the four principal so called 'eye witnesses.- "Without their testimony there is no creditable evidence whatever to support the charge that the first shots -were fired from the barracks or from any place within the reservation, or that there was any jumping over the wall by anybody. "Without the testimony of these four witnesses, the testimony of the officers and the men of the battalion that the shooting commenced at some point outside the reservation stands practically uncontradicted." "The circumstantial evidence against the soldiers concerning the shells and bullets after the shooting, turned out," Mr. Foraker declared, "to be favorable to them because of the impossibility for them to have had such ammunition without that fact being developed in the examinations that were made. "Besides this no adequate motive in fact, no motive whatever is shown for such an assault on the town. "The evidence shows that the soldiers frequented the saloons but very little and they never made any complaint to their officers or anybody else on ac count of being debarred by some of the saloons of Brownsville from drinking at the same bar with white people." The character of the soldiers, he said, was good, which should greatly strengthen the presumption of in nocence. All had expressed themselves under oath and in no way was there contradiction in their, testimony. Officers Believed Them. Their officers, he added, believed their statements were true. While the colored soldiers could not secure extra ammunition the citizens of Brownsville, he said, had in their possession an abundance of the kind of ammunition with which the sol diers had been supplied, every cartridge qf which they had ac counted for on the day following the affray. Mr. Foraker compared bills pend ing before the senate providing for the enlistment of the soldiers, one in troduced by Senator Warner of Mis souri, giving the president authority to re-enlist them if they should be satisfied that they did not participate in the affray and that by Mr. Foraker making re-enlistment mandatory upon the soldier taking an oath that he did not participate or know any thing of the guilty parties concerned in it. Mr. Foraker's bill also annuls the record of discharge without honor, a provision not included in the Warner bill and annuls the president's order debarring the men from en listment in the navy. Regarding the discretion given the president in the Warner bill, he said: "And if we are to be further re minded as we have been,, that the president Is the commander in chief of the army it is a sufficient answer, that it is true. It is also true that he does not create the army. It is not for him to say who shall enlist or re-enlist. All that belongs to con gress. Only a Pretense. "To pass such a bill would be but pretending to grant relief, for mani festly none would follow. "Our action would add insult to in jury. It would be without precedent, for it may be safely asserted that never before in the history of civiliza tion has a legislative body been in vited to require men accused of crime to prove their innocence before a hostile judge who has already adjudged them guiltyj and never be fore has there been a suggestion that any man worthy to sit in Judgment on the rights of his countrymen would accept such a ttuty if assigned him, if conscious of- having the slightest prejudice against the accused. "By what right does the senator TUESDAY EVENING. from Missouri, assume that the presi dent is capable of such a manifest im propriety? "The vilest horsethief, the most dan gerous burglar or the bloodiest murder er would not be required either to prove his innocence or to submit to a trial with a Judge who- had even In the most casual way expressed the opinion that the defendant was guilty." He concluded with a very compli mentary reference to the soldiers.' "They are," he. said, "typical repre sentatives of a race that has ever been loyal to America and American insti tutions; a race that has never raised a .hostile hand against our country's flag; a race that has contributed to the nation tens of thousands -of brave defenders, not one of whom has ever turned traitor or faltered in his fidel ity. "In every war in which we have per mitted them to participate they have distinguished themselves for efficiency and valor. "Faithfully, uncomplainingly, with pride and devotion, they have per formed all their duties and kept all their obligations. "They ask no favors because they are negroes, but only for justice -because they are men." Negroes Filled the Galleries. Washington, April 14. Seldom if ever has the capitol contained as many negroes as today. They were attracted by the announcement of Senator For aker's speech in defense of the negro soldiers, who were discharged by the president on account of the Browns ville riot. As soon as the senate's pub lic galleries became available .the ne groes crowded into them until all space to which admission cards are not necessary was occupied. Long before the senate opened every seat had been taken and the corridors contained almost enough people to re fill the galleries. BEATEN TO DEATH. Witnesses in Johnson Murder Case TeU of Mary Kimball's Terrible End. The trial of Fred Johnson, charged with the murder of Mary Kimball, will occupy all the time of- the district court this afternoon, and part of to morrow. The trial began late Monday afternoon, owing to the shortage of jurors which necessitated the drawing of a special venire just before noon Monday. The trial has not reached the close of the state's evidence. It. is the intention of the state to prove that on the evening of October 12, 1907, Fred Johnson kicked and beat Mary Kimball, a dissolute woman with whom he was living at 903 East Sixth avenue, and that it was from the ef fects of this assault that the woman died half an hour later in the presence of Dr. H. H. Keith, the coroner. It will be shown that both the defendant and the woman with whom he lived were drunkards, or "white horse fiends,' and drank alcohol exclusively, and that a short time before the death of Mary Kimball she and the defendant bad raised money by selling some milk bottles, and then gone to a drug store on East Fourth street to purchase al cohol. Dr. Keith- was the first witness, and the best witness for the state. He had treated the woman for a disease a year or more before the killing, and had forgotten her when, on the even ing of October 12, about 6 o'clock, he was called by telephone, and a. wom an's voice made this statement over the wire: "Come over here I'm dying 903 East Sixth." Without knowing the name bf the person who called. Dr. Keith ran to his automobile and hurried to the ad dress given. There he found Mrs. Kim ball in a dying condition, and took her dying statement to the effect that she had been beaten to death by her lover, Johnson. Realizing that the woman was seriously injured. Dr. Keith called in the first passer-by, who chanced to be Ole Jones, a resident of East To peka. Jones heard the dying state ment of the woman, and followed Dr. Keith on the stand last evening. The principal witness today, although several were heard, was Dr. O. A. Ban del, now practicing in St. Joseph, Mo., but at the time of this tragedy, a prac ticing physician in Topeka. Dr. Bandel conducted the autopsy ordered by the coroner, and made an examination of the dead woman's body. He testified that the examination showed a slight hemorrhage of the windpipe, such as might be caused by. choking, and bruises on the side, which resulted in internal hemorrhage sufficient to cause death. The defense, which will be opened time this evening, in all proba bility, will attempt to show by physi-J cians that tne woman was in puui health, and that Johnson's story might be possible. The defendant claims that the woman, regardless of her dying statement, died as the result of an in Jury occasioned by falling over a wash tub. JUST A TRACE OF RAIX. The Kind of Weather That May Be Expected in the Spring. The weather conditions in Topeka have been threatening today. Just as Weatherman Jennings said that they would, in fact there have been several light sprinkles, the precipitation has amounted to .01 of an inch. Eastern and southern Kansas received heavier showers, but the western part of the state where rain is badly needed, was not even moistened. The wind has been blowing from the south at .the. rate of five miles an hour all day, Just enough to keep the smoke and clouds moving. The forecast for to night is threatening and cloudy, though it is not likely that showers of anv size will visit this section of the state. The following table tells the story of the temperatures of the day by hours: 7 o'clock 59 fi o'rlock 60 11 o'clock .61 12 o'clock 63 1 o'clock 64 2 o'clock 68 9 o'clock 60 10 o'clock 61 Fairbanks Wants 10,000 Men. Seattle, Wash., April 14. A special cable to the Post Intelligencer from Fairbanks, April 1"2, says: At the an nual meeting of the mine owners and operators association held here last night it was decided to immediately wire John Ronas, their outside repre sentative, authorizing him to contract an additional 10,000 men in Seattle at terms of 1 5 and board per day for ten hours to come to Fairbanks upon the opening of navigation. Weather Indications. Chicago, April 14. Forecast for Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. TWO CENTS. CASTS ANCHOR. The Battleship Fleet Arrives uil tor on ado Beach. Round of Pleasure Lasting Four ways Has Been Prepared. DINNERS AND DANCES. Picnics and Good Things to Eat Jtree for the Men. Grand Review at FHann win Include Forty-Three Tesseis. San Diego. Cal.. Anril 11 Tf. i and notable- cruise through the south- caa ana the changing climes of t,he western hemisnhem American battleship fleet now under UTOa command of Rear Admiral Charles M. Thomas, entered home waters today. It cast anchor off Coronado beach this afternoon at 1 o'clock and four days of the sched uled stay of the 16 ships will be marked by a ceaseless round of gayeties. Dinners, dances and picnics for the officers, free theaters, wild west shows, fruit and good things to eat, for the enlisteri m A U 111 eluded In the long and variegated pro gramme. The California cities have im patiently awaited the coming of the ships and their Joy now knows no bounds. Scarcely had the big white vessels left Hampton Roads before the official committees of welcome had been named along the Paclflo coast The plans and preparations !?1?J)een Boins ahead steadily since that time and now the last of the de tails have been completed. The fleet has practically an entire month of merry making before It for after San Diego extends the first of the wel comes there comes a week at Los Angeles, five days at Santa Barbara and five days divided between Monterey and Santa Cruz and 10 days or more in San Francisco. t Governor J. N. Gillett of California, is the representative of the state to voice the welcome of the entire peo ple of the Pacific coast. Thousands U1 "ism seers rrom far and near have gathered in San Diego to catch their first glimpse of the ships that have held so much of the public attention since they set out upon their globe girdling expedition. Nowhere Jn the United States do the fires of patriot ism burn brighter than here on the edge of the blue water of the Pa cific. The California cities are vielng onewith the other in the lavishment of hospitality upon officers and men of the navy. They have, never before seen battleships of the Connecticut type and the coming of the great fleet is an event fraught to them with much meaning. After the long stretches of sea runs after the hospitable entertainment of the people of South America, after four months of foreign scenes and tongues, after the desolate shores of Magdalena bay, after more than 13 000 miles of steaming, the men of the fleet find here 30,000 miles from their start ing place in December last people of their own race and blood, people with arms outstretched, people whose pat riotic pride in the navy is only equal led by their pride of state and who are anxious that the stay in California shall live long in the memory of the blue jacketed sailors. Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who is ill at Paso Robles Hot Springs, will not be able to be present during any of the celebration in this city and it is considered extremely doubtful if he will be able to participate in any of the fetes south of San Francisco. The great official and spectacular events of the fleet's stay on the Pacific coast will be the grand review of the com bined Atlantic and Pacific naval forces In San Francisco harbor on May 8. Sipi(grv rtf tha TJaw ITufnnlf win v i e w the ships on the gunboat York town and there will be 43 vessels in the four anchored lines. They will In- ciuue ua,iLi?suiu, eiKni immense II 1 U.UH... u 11U Jll M. 1 VJl t I ed cruisers, two torpedo boat flotillas and several auxiliaries, the whole ag gregating a tonnage greater than any American waters. 0 BAKED BEAN DEMAND. Grocers Besieged by State Journal Readers. There was an immense demand for the free cans of Van Camp's high grade Pork and Beans given away by all grocers today as announced In the large advertisement in yesterday's State Journal. The advertisement will not appear again, but the coupon cut -from last evening's paper will still be good for a can today or tomorrow. If you have been- a little slow and did not read all of the paper last evening look it up now. That coupon in that advertisement 13 worth a dime all right and it doesn't cost the subscriber anything. This is one- of the few cases' where you get something good for nothing. The President Invites a Kansan. J. B. Case today received a personal invitation from President Roosevelt to attend the meeting at the White House, May 12-14, to discuss the preservation of the natural resources. The meeting Includes only a small number and will be held in the East room of the White House, the presi dent himself presiding. Mr. Case will represent the Transmisslsslppi con gress of which he is president. The others of the company will be gover nors, supreme court Justices, members of the waterways commission, senators and a few others. Mr. Case will, of course, attend. Abilene Reflector., Sang Before the Czarina. St Petersburg, April 14. Miss Lucille Marcel of New York, soprano of the Opera Comlque In Paris, sang before the empress today at Tsarkoe Selo. Miss Marcel is going soon to England and will sins; in London and elsewhere.

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THE TOPEHA DAILY STATE JOTTHITAL TTTZZDAY EVEimiO, APIIIE 14, 1S03. RA1LR0 AD NEWS. Has Harriman Secured Trans continental Road? Union Pacific Wizard Holds .Center of Stage. 1IAS CONTROL OF ERIE Remarkable Story of His Secnr- V Ing an Eastern Ontlet. Other Items of Interest Railway Circles. In Whether Kdwnrd H. Harriman act ually Is to take over the Erie system and with the Illinois Central, union Pacific and Southern Pacific form the flrst great transcontinental system un der one management is a question which will agitate railroad and finan cial circles for the coming week, or Until Mr. Harriman declares his In tentions. The report published yesterday as Issued from New York, following the action of Mr. Harriman, In providing 15,600,000 for the payment of maturing notes of the Erie system, that "the wizard" will take $5,000,000 of the new per cent notes which amount to a total issue of 115,000,000 for payment Of car trust certificates aggregating nearly $5,000,000 and to provide funds to meet the Immediate needs of the road, form considerable basis for a second Wall street report that Mr. Harriman and his associates will take over the Erie as an eastern outlet of great transcontinental system. The roads which will form the sys tem and their territory are the Erie, between the Atlantic seaboard and Chicago; the Illinois Central, from Chicago to Omaha, and connecting with the main line of the Southern Pacific at New Orleans, and the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific from Omaha to San Francisco, the Pacific seaboard terminal. That Harriman grabbed off the big gest bargain on record, even In these days of Wall street bargains, when he came to the rescue of the Erie in such a spectacular manner was made plain when stock market operators had had time to analyze the deal. All Mr. Harriman was required to put up was $4,5fc.000 of borrowed money. Here are some of the things he got In return: Control of the Erie railroad, a $400, 000,000 corporation. A through freight and passenger line from San Francisco to New York, for which he has been working and dreaming and soheming for ya. Renewed prestige In the financial and railway world, which compensated in a great measure for his loss as a re sult of the "big stick" vigorously wielded for several years by President Roosevelt. Five million dollars In new Erie per cent short term notes, which his control of the road will enable him to meet when they mature three years hTwo hundred and fifty thousand dollars of actual cash, handed back to him for use as pin money at a time when many millionaires are having a hard struggle finding money to fin ance lobster and champagne suppers. The story of how he did It all reads like a tale from the Arabian Nights. First he learned that the Erie was going to have a hard" time getting the money to meet its -rbligations of $a, 500.000 which matured yesterday. Then, through interests allied to him. he made sure that no banking establishment would advance the nec essary cash. Next he allowed alarming reports of the Erie's difficulties to be publish ed broadcast, so that the holders of the short-term notes, would become alarmed and sell them at panic prices. Then he sent agents into the mar ket who picked up $5,000,000 of the notes at 80 cents on the dollar an Investment of $4,000,000. Finally he made his spectacular of fer which, at the last minute, saved the Erie railroad from a receivership. The offer looked as if he were going to put up an immense sum just out of pure philanthropy, but there was a string tied to it. It was for the pur chase of new 6 per cent notes at 95 cents on the dollar sufficient to pay off all the old notes whose holders would not accept new notes at par and a bonus of 5 per cent In cash. Mr- Harriman already owned $o,000, 000 of the $5,500,000 notes, so It was nec essary for him to put up only $500,000 more In cash. He even got back a part of this because certain specula tors had sold notes they did not own, and in order to deliver the goods to day were forced to pay a premium. And now all the financial world is "standing aghast at the result. The mileage owned and controlled Piles Quickly Cured at Home Instant Relief, Permanent Cure Trial Package Mailed Free to All in Plain Wrapper. Piles is a fearful disease, but easy to cure if you go at it right. An operation -with the knife is dan gerous, cruel, humiliating and un necessary. There is Just one other sure way to be cured painless, safe and in the privacy of your own home it is Pyra mid Pile Cure. We mail a trial package free to all who write. It will give you Instant relief, show you the harmless, painless nature of tms great remcuy uuu aim i juu well on the way toward a perfect cure. Then you can get a full-sized box from any druggist for 50 cents, and often one box cures. Insist on having what you call for. If the druggist tries to sell you something Just as good. It is because he makes more money on me suosu nte. The cure begins at once and con tinues rapidly until It Is complete and permanent. You can go right ahead with your work and be easy anna comioraoie all the time. Tt is well worth trying. Just send your name and address to Pyramid Drug Co., 92 Pyramid Build ing, Marshall, Mich., and receive free by return mail the trial package In a niiiln wrapper. Thousands have been cured In this easy, painless and inexpensive way, in the privacy oi me nome. No knife and Its torture. No doctor and his bills. All druggists, 50 cents. Write to 4at for a free package. IF YOU NEED A MEDICINE, YOU SHOULD HAVE THE BEST. We ask you to consider the fact, that although there are hundreds of prepar ations advertised, there, is only one that really stands out pre-eminent as a remedy for disease of the kidneys, liver and bladder. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the highest, for the reason that Its remak able curative power has been proven In thousands of even the most distress ing cases. Swamp-Root makes friends quickly because Its mild and immediate effect is soon realized. It Is a gentle, healing vegetable compound a specialist's pre scription for a special disease. Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything. A Sworn Certificate of Purity Is with every bottle. For sale at all drug stores, in bottles of two sizes fifty cents and one-dollar. SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE BY MAIL. In order to prove that what Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and blad der remedy will do for you, every read er of the State Journal who has not al ready tried it, may receive a sample bottle by mail absolutely free. Address Dr. Kilmer Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Write today. by the Erie at the close of 1906 was 2,438 miles. The trunk line, the par ent line, is from Jersey City to Chi cago, 998 miles. The road was incor porated in November, 1895, in New York state and on December 1 it suc ceeded to the properties of the old New York, Lake Erie Western rail road, sold under foreclosure. The auth orized capital was $217,000,000. The to tal bonded debt as of June 30, 1906, was $170,798,400. The second span of the system would be the Illinois Central branch between Chicago and Council Bluffs, la., and Omaha. The system has a mileage of 4,459 miles and an authorized and out standing capital of $105,040,000. The total bonded debt on June 30, 1906, was $128,660,275. The company was incor porated in Illinois in 1850 and under the terms of the charter the road pays the state 7 per cent of its gross earn ings in lieu of all taxes. The Union Pacific and Harriman Interests con trol about 30 per cent of the stock of the Illinois Central. The Union Pacific and Southern Pa cific from Council Bluffs, la., to the Pacific coast, the main Harriman fines, completed the great coast to coast system. The total mileage op erated In June, 1906, was 5,430 miles. The company was incorporated In 1897 under act of the Utah legislature as successor under the plan of reor ganization dated October 25, 1895. to the properties of the Union Pacific Railway company. The Oregon Short Line's stock Is almost totally held by the Union Pacific and through the lat ter company, which acquired a con trolling interest of the Southern Pacific company In February, 1901, the three roads are dominated Dy tne nr""" Interests. The authorized capital stock was $396,178,700. It was recalled that when Mr. Har riman undertook to manage the Union Pacific and Central Pacific roads pre- i-.ic. a.niAntv wprfi made that he would accomplish little, and that the money he- was putting Into the road would be wasted and no results would eV.nn'n frtr manv tO COOie. Yet the point was made that at this moment, through the dogged determi nation of Harriman, these roads have been conspicuously successful and have piled up an enormous surplus. EVIDENCE BUSINESS REVTVAXi. St. Paul Road Plans Orders for New Equipment. Chicago. April 14. Orders for new equipment seem to be increasing in number and are taken as slight evi dence of business revival. The St. Paul road has issued orders for the construction of 2,500 freight cars in its own shops in Milwaukee. Some of these cars doubtless will be used on the road's extensions to the Pa cific coast, and further orders are orobable. as the road must Increase its equipment considerably In order to take care of the additional traffic from Its new lines. It has placed or ders for 10,000 tons of car axles and Iron to be used In the construction of its cars. Besides the St. Paul, the Lehigh and New England road has ordered from the Cambria Steel company 250 all-steel gondola cars, and from the American Car and Foundry company 250 steel underframe cars. A num ber of other smaller orders have been placed recently, and an improved feeling has been created thereby. TO PROBE ROCK. ISLAND. Special Government Attorney to In vestigate in Oklahoma. Shawnee, Okla.. April 14. Is the Interstate commerce probe to be applied in Shawnee? S. H. Smith of Washington. D. C, special agent and attorney for the In terstate Commerce commission, and styled "The Octopus Chaser," will be in Shawnee on Friday. He has gen eral charge of the prosecution of the violations of the anti-trust and inter state commerce laws. Whether he comes here for the purpose of carrying out the decree of the federal government that the Rock Island-Frisco merger Is to be dis solved at once, is not known. It is also rumored that the cotton oil mills In Texas and Oklahoma are to be the subject of his investigations, relative to their alleged violations of the anti trust laws. It will be remembered that nearly a year ago the commis sion had an agent here gathering facts In this latter. A RIO GRAXDE FOLDER. Tells of Many Interesting Side Trips Through Rookies. Persons who contemplate attending the national Democratic convention, to be held in Denver next July, will be interested In a handsomely illus trated folder Just issued by the pas senger department of the Denver Rio Grande railroad. It contains much valuable information regarding tours through the Rocky mountains. COMMISSIONS TO MEET. Several State Bodies to Meet at Aus tin Thursday. Austin. Tex., April 14. The rail road commissions of Texas, Okla homa. Arkansas nnH TToneoa .,m a Joint meeting at Galveston on April jjuisc ot considering matters of an interstate character which can be adlusteri hir j action on the part of the regulating iua.uiB uuuies. i.ne port facilities of Galveston will also be Inspected. TO HAKE GLASS. Fires Have Been Started at the Channte Plant. Work Will Begin as Soon as the Big Tank Gets Hot. RAISED THE FINANCES Had Trouble for a Time Secur ing the Needed Money. In Meantime the Works Hare Been Put in Condition. Cbanute, April 14. Fire has been started In the Chanute Window Glass plant and work will begin as soon as the big tank gets hot. This will take about two weeks so that actual work will begin in less than fifteen days. This will be glad news to everyone in Chanute, and especially to the em ployes of the company. The fire here has been out nearly a year, the plant shutting down early last season. No limit has been placed on the time that the present fire will last. It will be kept going as long as the men want to work carried Into July, if the weather does not become too hot be fore that time. A glass plant Is a warm place at times of the year when the temperature is moderate, and when the hot season comes the men are compelled to quit because of the neat. The starting of the plant has been delayed this season by two causes- the controversy between the glass manufacturers' association and the glass workers' union over the wage schedule, and the financial situation. The latter has been more of a hin drance than the former. It was not until recently, however, that the money necessary to carry the pay roll and market the product was secured. It was raised by bond ing the plant for $40,000. Half of the issue was subscribed for by Chanute investors and half by out-of-town In vestors. This places the plant on a better financial basis than It has ever had since it began operations better. in fact, than that of any other glass plant In the Kansas gas field. During the time that the plant was shut down it has been overhauled and repaired, so that it is in excellent con ditlon. While this year's lire will necessarily be a short one, because of the lateness at which it starts, it is planned to begin early and run late next season to make up for the time lost this year. The employes, most of them, have secured employment In the other plants In this part of Kansas and are scattered all over this corner of the state. They have been awaiting anx iously the news that work would start here, and now that It has gone forth they will begin to come home. SUNDAY CLOSING IMPROBABLE. The Atchison Council Is Said to Be Opposed to Movement. Atchison, Kan., April 14. It Is un likely that the present city council will pass the ordinance for Sunday closing to be introduced by Alderman Long. It is said that the movement will re ceive even less support than was offer ed by the last council which turned down a similar ordinance by a decisive vote. Mr. Long is determined to push his measure to the limit and expresses confidence in the result. Public pool halls in the city are now closed on Sunday under an order from Chief of Police Ham. This order was issued following a complaint made when a young boy lost a considerable sum of money in a card game said to have taken place In a pool hall. To Build a $20,000 Home. We are informed that Dr. Priest will commence the erection of his fine new $20,000 home at once. The doctor has planned for this house for several years and when completed it will be the finest home in the north half of Kansas. The home will be finished for occupancy this winter. The build ing site for this home is located on the corner of Seventh and State streets. Concordia Blade. A Marlon County Land Sale. Peabody, Kan., April 14. One of the largest recent land sales in Marion county was that Monday of G. W. Pe ter s quarter section adjoining Pea- TROUBLE CEASED When Proper Food Was Found. Good news benefits both parties) the teller and the one to whom the glad story is told. A man out in Dakota told another man how he had been set on his feet. as it were, by a good doctor who knew how to treat stomach cases, in a really scientific way by the use of proper iooa. "About five years ago," writes the man, "I was suffering from dyspepsia, gas in the stomach, and I was on the verge of nervous prostration when I met a man who told me how he had been relieved of a similar trouble. "He had suffered with stomach trou ble for years as a result of eating Im proper food. He was at the time I write, doing the work of an ordinary laborer and said he never felt so well. "His doctor had emptied the stomach and then prescribed nothing but Grape Nuts, soft boiled eggs, and dry toast. He got well under this treatment. I followed his advice and lived on Grape- Nuts with cream, fruit and toast for a month. My trouble ceased almost Im mediately. "The strengthening effect on my nerves was so gradual I can t Just tell when I began to Improve, but in a few weeks I could sit contentedly for hours whereas belore, I was restless and ner vous. In a month or two I could sleep the moment I lay down. "When my little boy was a year and a half old he had a bad attack of indi gestion while I was away from home He vomited four days and nights. I had never seen Grape-Nuts recom mended for babies but I decided I would try it. I warmed and softened the food In water that had been boiled 2 teaspoonfuls water, 3 teaspoonfuls rich milk. "As his stomach got better, I left out the water and used only warm milk. He is now a strong, active child of two years and eats Grape-Nuts three limes a aay. "There's a Reason." Creek. Mich. Read, "The Road to Well- vine,-' in pkgs. body to F- E. Pettit.Ior $14,000 by the A. B. Mollihan Land company. There is no nouse on tne place. GLOBE TROTTING WATCH. Fourteen Times in. Slam and Has Crossed the Pacific Twice.. Salina, Kan., April 14. The Journal says: The Rev. F. C. McKean, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, has in his possession a relic in the form of a gold watch which has a most pecu liar nisiory. 11 was tne property of his uncle, a soldier, who died in the army. It has circled the globe, .cross ed the Pacific ocean three times, the Atlantic ocean once and has been car ried in the pocket of a medical mis sionary In Siam for fourteen years. Dr. JM.cii.ean nad seven uncles, brothers of his father. Five of them took up the study of law, one became a farmer and the other, James "W. Mc Kean, took up the ministry. In 1858, Fergus S. McKean. an attorney, sent his brother, then a ministerial student, $100 with which to purchase a gold watch, which he did. Later the Rev. McKean became president of Lenox college at Hopkin son, Iowa. When the Civil war broke out and two of his brothers had en listed. President McKean of Lenox submitted a proposition to the students of his college in chapel one morning. He told them that he felt' called upon to resign his position as presi dent of the college and enlist In the army. He asked how many of the students would volunteer to enlist in the army with bim. They rose to a man, and everyone, except four, later enlisted. A company of 106 was formed and President McKean was elected captain of the company and inarched away to war at the head of a company of his own students. Prof. McKean took sick' at Mem phis, Tenn., several months later and died -in a hospital at that place. His body was embalmed and sent back to Iowa for burial. Among his personal effects was found the gold watch. It was returned to the original donor, Fergus McKean. On his death bed he requested that the watch be given to the first member of the McKean family who entered the ministry. James W. McKean, jr., a nephew of the original owner of the watch, who was a physician, decided to become a medical missionary to Slam. The na ture of his work being so. closely allied to that of the church, it was decided to give the watch to him. He carried It with him in Siam six years. It was while in his possession that the watch did most of its globe trotting. The Rev. F. C. McKean, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Salina, was the first regularly ordained minister of the gospel in the McKean family. His cousin in Slam, finally decided that to even things up he would send him the watch to keep for a number of years and have it passed from one member of the family to the other. He promised his oldest son, however, to give the watch to him when he grew up. The lad, who is now about four teen years old. Is a student at Adrian, Mich. Rev. McKean will send the watch to him within a few davs. the other members of the McKean family naving waivea ineir privilege of keep ing it. The lad who will now come into possession of the watch was born in Chung Mai Laos, Siam, which is about 14,000 miles from here. His father, the physician. Is in charge of a hos pital at that place and has been for a numoe -or years. RAIDING THE BLIND TIGERS. Several Men Arrested and 41 Bottles of Beer Confiscated." Kansas City, Kan., April 14. The war against blind tigers or loints. In Kansas City. Kan., which sprang up anew Saturday morning may bring inDuie xo me city and county soon. Warrants were issued yesterday for Henry Hyman, a negro, 339 New Jer sey avenue; John Miller, 88 North James street, and John Rohya, 78 North James street. The men named were arrested by deputy sheriffs and locked up In the Wyandotte county Jail. At the home of Rohya, 41 pint bottles of Deer were round. Early yesterday morning policemen arrested John Gause of Armourdale and John Dole of Fifth street and Rey nolds avenue, on the charge of run ning a joint. DEMOCRATS AT WICHITA. They Banquet and Listen to Haskell, Farreuy and Botkin. Wichita, Kan., April 14. In his speech before the Bryan club banquet last ev ening at the Carey Governor C. N. Haskell of Oklahoma alluded to the success of Oklahoma as a state since admission to the Union. He referred to Oklahoma and its constitution as a practical test of Bryan's theory. "If Bryanism was spread from ocean to ocean, he said, it -would mean a new era in government where the people would control instead oi a few special interests." Two hundred Democrats were guests at the banquet. Other speakers of the evening were: Hugh Farrelly and J. D. Botkin, candidate for governor. IMPROVEMENTS AT THE FORT. More Officers' Homes Are to Bo Con. structed at Leavenworth. Leavenworth, Kan., April 14. Cap tian W. F. Davis, constructing quarter master at Fort Leavenworth, Is in structed by the war department to pre pare for five new residence buildings here. A contract will be let this month for grading down a high hill south of the college building to pre pare sites for the residences. The dirt from the hill will be thrown in to fill up the cut on the west approach to the old Rock Island bridge. There are to be three double, sets of captains' and two field officers' quarters, five residences in all. The contracts for the buildings will be let in June. Contract for a Topeka Firm. Wlnfield, April 14. The Topeka Bridge Iron company was given the contract by the county commissioners here late Monday or building the new concrete arch bridge over the Arkan sas river at Arkansas City to cost $20,- 000. It is five hundred and fifty feet long with nine arches, the middle one or which is sixty-six leet. Trying to Close the Klondike. Leavenworth. Kan., April 14. As sistant Attorney General C. D. Shukers came In here at noon and In company with County Attorney Lee Bond visit ed the Klondike and Soldiers' home. During the afternoon they asked the soldiers home omcials to assist in ob taining testimony to convict the Klon dike joint keepers. The statutes of Kansas make it a felony to sell liquor to veterans and Mr. Shukers intends to prosecute the dive keepers with a view of sending them to the penitentiary. A Lumber Firm In Bankruptcy. Salina, Kan., April 14. A. Chance, manager of the Chicago Lumber com pany at Brewster, Kan., who has been under arrest on the charge of embez zling between $7,000 and $8,000 of his employer's money, has been thrown Into bankruptcy by his' creditors. The liabilities amounting to about $6,000 and assets about the same, consisting of real estate. Z. C Milllkln, of this city. HAT as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play when in health and how conducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of every medicine of an Injuri ous or objectionable nature, and if at any time a remedial agent Is required, to assist nature, only those of known excellence should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and excellence Is based upon personal knowledge and use. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna has also met with the approval of physicians gen erally, because they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in Its action.; We inform all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, obtained by an original method, from certain plants known to them to act most beneficially, and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Cal if ornian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret remedy, and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor Indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna always has the full name of the Company California Fig Syrup Co. plainly printed on the front of every package and that It Is for sale In bottles of one size only. If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty cent size, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and .the children, whenever JAP0SES0SP (TR-A.NSPAR.ENT) Only those who use Jap Rose can appreciate the luxury of a perfect bath soap its delicate fragrance and delightful effect on the sKin. These qualities are found in no other soaps. None other "just as good." Hade by our own process. IX CANNOT BE IMITATED Jas. S. Kirk Co., 367 N. Water St., Chicago XT IT IT Snd u 6e in itemM for 6 Uttfc dnwin Vtr Children by MarioaMUlw, without snr TO has been appointed special master by Judge Pollock to hear the case. His trouble arises over the alleged Illegal transfer of real estate. Thrives at Heizer. Great Bend, Kan., April 14. The post-nfflr-o onrt thB Tteineeke general mer chandise store at Heizer were broken into last night. At the Keinecse store a number of watches and other ar ticles of Jewelry were taken. At the postoffice the robbers only obtained about $2.50. Heizer is a little town of about 100 population located 10 miles northwest of here. Nicotine. Speaking of tobacco: The proportion of the deadly poison, nicotine, governs the taste of tobacco about as much as fusel oil governs the taste of whisky. In genuine Havana tobacco there is not more than 2 per cent of nicotine. In French tobacco there is about 6 per cent, and in our Old Dominion product a little over 7 per cent. In the Blue Grass tobacco there is at least 8 per cent, and the Sumatra leaf of Connecti cut contains about 6 per cent. Why not have nicotine tablets? They would be just as harmless as strychnine or arsenic New York Press. Physician Tou should eat plenty of PaUent-Oh! I don't know Did yceyef hear the story of Adam and Eve? Utlca ObaTVr. Does not Color the Hair Destroys Dandruff AYCR'S HAIR VIGOR JiDyTmEyBmNQI vEjW Iff OME a laxative remedy is required. 1,000 WORDS A MINUTE. Record Made by Delany's Xew System of Telegraphing. New York. April 14. One thousand words a minute is the latest record for telegraphic transmission by the Morse code. The average word con tains four letters, hence 4,000 letters Attendant in Moving Teletrrapli 5Ies- u'hi4i Ta RAn Transmitted at the Rate of a Tbounsand Words a Minute. a minute. These letters are trans mitted in the Morse teiegrapmc cum composed of dots and dashes. There A tViT-tt A nfs or dashes to each letter and a separate and dis a--' y t 1 ht:i) '4 f: 1 rA 'I f Copyright, by t. g. Kir On. wax. of JtptntM TT IT. ulvarlUiBB K MMUMU tinct positive Impulse of electricity is necessary for each dot or dash. This means 12,000 positive Impulses to rec ord 12,000 characters In a minute or 200 of them In a second. The old Morse hand sending system is now in general use throughout the country. The Morse hand operator of today can transmit messages no more rapidly than he could 60 years ago. The speed attainable by the wrist has always been fixed and the human agent has reached his limit. The greatest speed of the most expert hand operator Is from 40 to 45 words a minute. The system consists or roe new inventions of Patrick B. Delany and Is known as the "telepost." Mes sages are sent and received by auto matic machines and consequently with machine-like accuracy. It cost under the old system an av erage of 32.2 cents to send a 10-wora telegram. The new system can send 50 words at an average cost ui n cents. Scott Are you keeping Int? Mntt 'Vol- nersonally. but some fives and tens of mine are. Let no food impair the powers of the stomach. -Eat WHEAT FLAKE CELERY which is the most perfect food for the brain workers, clergy men, lawyers, merchants, grow- ing children, and the muscle working classes. 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r THE TOFEKA DAILY STATE JOUdTAITUESPAY EVEOT2JO, APRIL 14,1203. TCFEKi STiTE JOURNAL. Br PRANK P. MAO LEX NAN. Entered July 1. 1S75. as second-class matter at the postofflce at xopeuv nun. under the act of congresaj iVOLUME XXXV. No. 80 Official State Paper. Official Paper Cit7 of Topeka. TERMS Or SUBSCRiPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 eents a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan sas towna where the paper has a carrier system. By mall, one year By mall, three months -"J Saturday edition of dally, one year... 1-W TELEPHONES. Business Office Business Office Reporters' Room Reporters' Room Frank P. MacLennan ,.311 Vft .Ind. 107 .Bell 571 .Ind. .Ind. 700 PERMANENT HOMB. Topeka State Journal building. 80 and 02 Kansas avenue, corner of Eighth. New Tork Office: Flatiron building, at Twenty-third street, corner Fifth aveaue and Broadway. Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Hartford building. Paal Block, manager. IffSlXi LESED WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRKSS. The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganization for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received in The State Jour nal building over wires for this sole pur pose. .A; "Farmer" Smith of MePherson baa announced that he will not be 'a candidate for the Republican nom ination for governor. Whose candi dacy will this help? The Japs have a handy word. It is something like "kanshln." It means most ravishing, beautiful, delightful 'and all else that's nice. But It seems to have been lmsused by a party of Jap tourists who have applied it to Chi cago. Senator Elkins has asked the press to stop gossiping about the possible engagement of. his-, daughter to the I royal Duke of Abruzzi. He makes the 'request rather Impossible to be com piled with by failing to either affirm or deny' the engagement. Activity, on the part of the Paris po lice resulted the other day in the ar rest of three noted anarchists. They had In their possession a whole cart load of dynamite. Probably they made bombs by the wholesale for their less Intelligent and murderously inclined pals. It's about time, as is Indicated by the news dispatches, that the business men of Chicago are optimistic over business conditions and are certain of a speedy return of prosperity. The business men in this section of the country have been in that frame of mind for some time. Surely no taxpayer In the county wil have a word to say about the action- of the county commissioners In making an appropriation of $25 a month for the Florence Crittenton home, unless it Is to remark at the smallness of the sum. This institu tion Is a most worthy one. They're evidently going to do their best to make prohibition prohibit in the new state of Oklahoma. A con struction has been placed on the law to the effect that the carrying of a bot tle of liquor is prohibited and a man Is liable to arrest for violation of the law If one is found In his possession. The girls of the Junior class of the University of Kansas have made a bid for real fame. They have decided to eliminate cab service on the night of the annual "prom" and will walk to the big event instead of riding. Their names ought to be emblazoned in gold on the pages of the institution's history- If looks count for anything the Topeka Turner team that is to repre sent Kansas in the International Turnfest at Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, will win all the medals. In asmuch as they are quite as good ath letes as they are good-lookers they will probably get their share of the prizes. Topeka's gain of seventy-three new factories during a year's time is most gratifying. It does, not take half an eye to see that this city is enjoying a i healthy and a steady growth as a manufacturing and a business center. There Is no reason why it should not. Its location and transportation facili ties are Ideal. And if there is a finer residential city in the whole land it has not made its presence known as yet.'-. Iowa comes forward with a minis ter who gambled for the office of mayor of a city and won. At the re cent election in Polk City the minis terial candidate and his opporent had a tie vote. The preacher suggest ed that a penny be flipped to deter mine the winner. This was done and he won. It is not reported how he now stands with his congregation, but the chances are that they care not for In Iowa any old thing goes. J. W. Kendrlck, second vice presl dent of the Santa Fe, has Just com pleted a tour of the lines of the com pany in the west and southwest. And he sees behind the clouds that were stirred up by the recent business de pression an effulgent sun of pros perity. He believes that the crops along the routes of the Santa Fe will be record breakers this year, and rec ord breaking crops hold the command ing position right in the van of the army led by General Prosperity. Coffeyvllle may well be proud of the fact that her citizens have contribut ed 1100,000 to a fund which Is to be used In securing new Industries for the city. Surely there will be many cities in Kansas that will brush their eyes and sit up and take notice. This Coffeyvllle fund amounts to 95 for very man, woman and child in the tows. It la really a mammoth sum

for a city of the size to take up by popular subscription for such a pur pose, or for any purpose for that matter. Certainly the rank and file of Coffeyvillians are public spirited Individuals and their examples might well be emulated by the people of other communities in the state. ITALY'S "DAY OF REST" LAW. Italy has adopted recently a decided ly unique law Insuring a day of rest each week to all working men and wo men. The purpose has been attained without causing the suspension on Sun day of the various industries which enable the people to enjoy amusements which the authorities say and believe keep them from greater mischief. Thus the railway and street car lines,' the places of amusement and public utili ties are kept In operation on Sunday, their employes having their holiday upon some other day in the week. The law specifically enumerates the Industries which may operate on Sun day as follows: "Those operated by continuous fur nace fires, the work of which must not be Interrupted; cheese manufactories; restaurants, bars,, cafes, coffee houses, billiard roomsv and public business concerns In general; loading and un loading operations in the port and ves sel repairs, transportation by land oth er than by rail; hiring of chairs and carriages; flower businesses, photo graphic establishments, pharmacists; undertakers; newspaper offices, infor mation bureaus, theatrical perform ances, and public amusements; cigars and salt stores, even if there be offered for sale other articles; Industries of public necessity." Those whose employment is in the open air and subject to interruption by bad weather may also work on Sunday while the following trades are permit ted to operate between 7 a. m. and noon: Dealers in foods, insurance, emigration and employment establish ments, advertising and loan offices and barber shops. The law has been in operation two months and apparently gives general satisfaction, permitting all classes a day of rest, yet interfering with the recreation of none. POSSESSION OF DYNAMITE. In order to lessen crime and ordin ary violence states and municipalities have undertaken to provide for the licensing and registration of the sale and possession of weapons. Concerning dynamite plots or In dividual crimes a New York contem porary has done well to revert to a suggestion that Dr. D. A. Chatard, an eminent chemist and once president of the national organization of chem ists, made some years ago at a Wash ington convention of his society. He advocated a federal law making it a penal offense for individuals to have dynamite or other deadly explosives in their possession, and authorizing police visits to homes of suspects and providing for severe punishment of offenders against the act. Only auth orized persons and corporations em ploying dynamite In Industrial pursuits would then have the legal right to buy and keep deadly explosives. Some doubt has been raised as to the constitutionality of a federal law regulating, the sale and possession of dynamite. But there is no question ing the validity of proper state laws on municipal ordinances covering the subject. The same principle that applies to knives, pistols, guns, etc., applies in this day of terror and dynamite out rages to the sale and possession of ex-' plosives. As to the efficacy of the suggested regulation, of course, no one would assert that It would do away with bomb throwing. The man who was desperate and criminal enough to contemplate wholesale mur der by dynamite would not hesitate to break all conceivable laws and or dinances In the effort to obtain his stuff. But the object of all laws in regard to deadly weapons is to render it more and more difficult for the wrong persons to procure such Instru ments of crime, to reduce the danger of their use and add as much as pos sible to the safe-guards enjoyed by the community. A BUDGET OF SOCIETY NEWS. Between the Vanderbilts, the Goulds and the Elkinses, our "best people," Mrs. Grundy Is having the time of her life. There have been family councils at home" and abroad to consider pending marriage proposals, and the doors of the divorce courts have opened to sep arate marriages that were not made in heaven. Evidently young Howard Gould did not find matrimony to be one grand sweet song, as the poet says. His answer to his as the poet says. His answer to his wife's divorce "bill," as they say in New England, reads like a chapter from Zola, a composite so to speak of Nana and L'Assommoir. It was not the "best people" in France that Zola depicted, as the Nanas and the Cou peaus were the daughters ar.d the sons of the people. Heredity, environment, the social system, as Zola attempted to show, were responsible for girls like Nana and drunkards like Coupeau. The Vanderbilt divorce case is being tried in camera, and only gossip in re lation to it Is being printed. Mr. Alfred G wynne Vanderbilt, the second son of Cornelius, who was made heir to his vast fortune because of parental dis approval of young Cornelius marriage, prefers tooling a coach between Lon don and Brighton, and the compan ionship of stable boys, to his wife's company. This is a reversion to type, for old Commodore Vanderbilt loved horses, but the family at that time had not chummed with royal potentates, and nothing was said about the com modore's "low tastes." The Gould family council, an Imita tion of royalty, has finally consented, it is believed, to admit the Prince Helie de Sagan as a suitor for the hand of a daughter of the House of Gould. The is not touted as a love, match like the Elkins-Abruzzi romance. Both." Madame Gould and her prince have seen life and had their experiences. The Gould mil lions, or what Count Bonl left of them', look good to the prince, and the daugh ter of the mouse trap peddler likes the sound of "Madame la Princess." The latest dispatches from Rome en courage the hope' that simple Miss Elkins, who has nothing but money to spend and diamonds to wear,-will soon become a daughter of. the Royal House of Savoy.' Everything has. been ar ranged except the little matter of Miss Elkins religion. .But why should a plain Yankee' miss hesitate where a Royal Princess of 'England plunged? Besides, as has been said of the con stitution being nothing between friends what is religion between. two lovers, with a title of a royal duchess for one, and ;an American railroad king's mil lions for the other? It must be confessed that our ''best society- sets an admirable example for the people. What would we do without our Vanderbilts, Goulds and the rest? FLIES'! JO JOURNAL ENTRIES Are the new hats called Merry Widows because husbands are likely to drop dead when they get the bills?

A man doesn't have much appetite for anything else when he has to swallow his pride and eat his words. Satan won't put janitors to work at the furnaces because they would be sure to turn off the heat.

Nobody objects to fair criticism but trouble arises over differences in the understanding most people have of the word "fair." i 41. In one 'way it Is certain that the use of tobacco does not Impair the mem ory, for a man can remember for a lifetime some cigars' -that are given him. According to the Beacon there are no vacant lots In Wichita. Every one which would otherwise be vacant Is Occupied by a baseball diamond. Forty contractors made bids on the Job of building the waterworks plant for Frankfort. It appears that a few contractors are looking for something to do. Burrton carpenters act just like their city brethren, and a strike was ordered last week because a nonunion carpen ter was put to work on a building where union men were at work. Conductor Sam Lightcap, who runs through Russell on the Union Pacific has begun the fortieth year of his ser vice on the road. The conductor must be trying to make a century run. It is now said that Stockton Is great ly agitated because the mules of the town arouse people in the early dawn with their brays. Stockton is not the first town that has been kept awake by Jackasses. A deputy assessor in Wilson county Is accused of taking all the chickens he can find n the premises 4n excess of the number reported by the owners of fowls. This Is In compliance with his construction of the new tax law. Although Jewell county raised no corn worth mentioning last year, the people of Jewell City bought $1,400 worth of watches, silverware and cut glass at an auction last week. This may be why the county is called Jewell. The Atchison Globe revamps this story: "Stuttering Ben observed that a grocer was not giving a full measure of oil to a customer, and called out: Jim. I can tell you how t-t-to sell t-t- twice as m-m-much oil as you d-d-do now.' 'Well, how?' asked the grocer. FlU-y-y-your m-m-measure.' Major J. C. Alderson, who is now be ing urged to become a candidate for governor of West Virginia on the Dem ocratic ticket, was formerly of Atchi son. In the 60' s he was an express messenger on- Butterfleld's overland dispatch between Atchison and Denver. He lived on a farm near. Good Intent, and this place is still known as the Al derson farm. Being mayor of Holton Is no fun. If you don't believe it, ask Mr. Kuhn. The other day a woman called him up on the phone and asked him to come and chase the chickens out of her yard. When he asked who was speaking to him she haughtily Informed him that she did not care to have her name ap pear in the matter. Being mayor, of course he was supposed to know all about the chicken business, and in what part of town her particular part of the trouble was located. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe. Somehow, we always dislike to see a cook smoke or chew tobacco. The man who is always contem plating never gets any work done. When a woman drives a horse she is always whipping him with the lines. It Isn't what father can afford in most families; it is what the children want. Don't pat a young man on the back too much: admiration does more than criticism to kill ambition and ability. The more worthless a man is when he leaves a town, the greater the probability that he will come back. A man could beat the women's rec ord in the number of surgical opera tions, if having his "leg pulled" count ed. If you have an ambition to be pop ular, don't tell people about yourself; let them talk to you about themselves. The world is full of men and wo men who do nothing. They general ly impose on someone who works too much. There are so many worthless men in the world that a man who behaves himself half the time. Is tolerably sure to become distinguished. The women's idea of a nice modest girl Is one who does not try to flirt with any other girl's sweetheart. The masculine idea is one who does not flirt at all. When a woman's friends tell her she should get out more in pretty weather, and let the housework go, she looks reproachfully at her hus band when she says she can't. When a man invents anything, all his friends assist in setting him crazy by saying it certainly is a great thing, and will make him rich, although they know nothing about ,it. When a man dies," it is customary to say that he left a vacancy that will be hard to fill. There isn't any va cancy left. If you take a cup of water out of the river. It leaves no vacancy. j JAYHAWKER JOTS KANSAS .COMMENT A TIME FOR CANDOR. "The limitation of the pass privi lege," said President Mather of the Rock Island railway system in a re cent address at Pittsburg, "has clear ly swollen the passenger receipts. The enforcement of the prohibition of rebates has not only turned our traffic men and the traffio men of the shippers, -too from a daily life of crime, but has turned money Into our treasuries.. It continues, how ever." he .said, "to be the claim of the railroads that they shall not be so regulated as to be prevented from earning interest on their bonds and reasonable dividends on their stock." The adoption of the same attitude on the part of officials high up in authority In other railway corpora tions of the country would go a long way toward quieting the antagonism that has developed between the peo ple and these corporations. Nothing will serve the railroads better than a little candor at this time. If the two cent fare is practicable a frank ad mission of the fact would well come from the railroads. If it isn't, it would be the part of wisdom for these corporations to show the people wherein it is unfair, rather than with out any such showing to make an appeal to the courts to Interfere. What is true of low- passenger fares is also true of freight rates. No one desires, to see the railroads prevented from securing a fair income on prop er stocks and bonds, but the people do insist upon every benefit at the hands of the railroads to which they are entitled. Leavenworth Times. ONLY A MEMORY. Once upon a time a national Popu list convention was an Important sub Ject for discussion in Kansas. We used to hear of the Omaha platform, and the other platforms upon which can didates pledged themselves to stand until it seemed as if half the people of Kansas looked upon a declaration of a Populist national convention the same as they would on a page of Holy Writ. Last week the Populists had a na tional convention in St. Louis. The proceedings were 'wired 'to the news papers but if anybody ever read any thing more than the head lines he must have had a lot of spare time. No one cared who was nominated or whether he stood- on' a platform, or straddled a wire fence. The only ex cuse any one will have for voting'the Populist ticket is that the other tickets don't suit him at all and he votes the Pop ticket to be contrary; The Populist party has nominated Thomas Watson for president and adopted a platform that nobody will read. There is a little sadness for many of the old Populists in this J change that has come but with the bulk of the American people there will be only a wondering recollection- that there was such a party ana mai ii once swept the "state of Kansas and advertised that it would redeem the world. Hutchinson News. TREASON! William Allen White recently said: "Solomon had a thousand wives,, and nine hundred of them were useless." Will Emporia stand for this? Mr. White clearly intimates that Solomon had use for a hundred wives, and if Solomon had use for a hundred wives, every man is entitled to that number. Let the Federation. ,at Women's Clubs take proper actlonv -Atchison Globe. FROM OTHER PENS FOOD GRINDING. That eminent fount of human wis dom, William E. Gladstone, owed hia long preserved vigor, both bodily and mental to his methodical habits. It was Gladstone who recommended that solid food should receive 82 chews before being approved and passed down. According to the Fletcher method, 28 molar Impressions are suf ficient for masticatory preparation, and there are many adherents of this system who ascribe remarkable bene fits to Its praotice. But here is Dr. Wiley, chief chemist of the depart ment of agriculture, who has little use for the man who chews by rote and bites with mathematical exact ness. The chief chemist thinks that all such painstaking deliberations leads on to dyspepsia and Its many at tendant ills. According to the doctor, the race that eats the most, that nour ishes itself the most liberally, is the race that will grow and predominate. The Americans are hearty eaters, and so are the English and their colonial cousins, the Canadians. And these hearty eaters are robust of body and large of stature. Incidentally, Dr. Wiley doesn't look with favor on the suggestion that mankind can support life on condensed food In capsules, a strictly chemical menu, as it were. He doesn't believe mankind is prepared to accept this advanced suggestion. He seems to think that man will con tinue to look upon the act of eating as a pleasant rite as well as a neces sary habit, and that the substitution of a slippery capsule poised on the tongue one moment, and the next moment gone will not be favored by the ordinary eater with teeth to ex ercise and a palate to please. Cleve land Plain Dealer. DESTROYING THE SEALS. There is a sort of poetic Justice In the fact that today Canada finds her self In much the same situation with respect to the seal herds of Bering sea that Canadians placed the Ameri cans in some 20 years ago. Then Americans had a prosperous sealing industry and were trying to preserve it by protecting the seal herd. Can adians insisted on the right of des truction, which was finally confirmed by the Paris arbitration to an extent that virtually destroyed the American sealing industry except on the Pribi loff Islands. The Canadians were bound by treaty, however, to observe certain rules In deep-sea sealing which were intended to give the seal herd some chance. But of late years the Japanese, bound by no treaties, have begun taking seals in the most de structive manner, and. as a conse quence, the Canadian sealing fleet has been reduced from 50 vessels to 6. Now the Canadians are appealing to the United States and Great Britain for some modification or extension of the International rules which shall have the effect of checking the ruin ous work of the Japanese. As Canada effectually tied the hands of the United States, nothing can be done by this country unless Japan wiM vol untarily enter upon a treaty for the preservation of the seals. Even then the work of "desTruction probably would go on under some other flag. If the United States had succeeded in making Bering a closed sea.- it would have been possible to protect the herd in such a maimer that the sealing in dustry could be preserved indefinite ly not only for this country, but for others. Buffalo Express. THE WOMAN OP IT. Coldest day and thinnest gown That's the woman of it; Check indorsement upside down That's the woman of it; Worshiping some etageland star: Duds and diamonds held o'er par: Stepping backward off the car That's the woman of it. Handing out the cut unkind That's the woman ot it: Fitful as an April wind That's the woman, of it; Hearts are looked on as mere toys: Frivolities mistook for Joys, And life a game that oft annoys That's the woman of it- Childhood sung in circling Love that bucklers 'gainst all harms That's the woman of it: A glow of wordless sympathy That lights the storm-tossed man at sea And sends him forth, triumphantly That's the woman of it. Denver Republican. British Women Have Big Feet. "The women of England as a rule have larger feet than their sisters in the United States, as I happen to know through a long experience In building shoes for both," said Mr. J. Donaldson, of London, at the Stafford. "I have been taking orders for custom-made shoes among the feminine upper ten on both sides of the Atlantic so many years that I know the subject pretty well, and I am guilty of no want of patriotism In saying that the bulk of the women folks of my country wear 6's and 7's, whereas the prevailing sizes in America are 4's and 5's. I rather think there are more American women who take No. shoes than there are English women using 6's. "Why are the women of Great Brit ain blessed with larger pedal extremi ties than those of the states? I think it Is solely due to the fact that they do vastly more walking in the Old Coun try. The gentle sex in England is greatly devoted to pedestrian exercise, and an- English woman will walk more In a -day than one will in a week In this country. The splendid benefits of the exeroise are seen in the rosy cheeks and robust figures of our females, and they very sensibly prefer strong con stitutions to the small vanity of little feet." Baltimore American. Carried Wildcat Nine Miles. While trannfnv nn v,a t)Tni, t mountains Moses Harshbarger, of ucLutuii, iuuna a large wildcat caught by the hind leg. To get the bounty on the scalp, however, his catship had to be transported alive to Mlffin county. Taking an ordinary phosphate sack Harshbarger fitted a hoop constructed from a sapling, in the mouth and fas- irueu it in me rorks or a small tree. Then with a pole he picked up cat, tran. and all smri tnoui .v. v. b 1 UID sack. Throwing the sack over his siiuuiuer, no carried the cat nine miles, stopping twice en route to ob tain new fVMkn An tha ant. 1 bitten and scratched Its way through the others. The cat rileri IhHtii th. j o i. e i w tutu Harshbarger will apply for the bounty me peii. -nnaaeiphia Record. Glass in His Arm T"hr Ymum A Piece of glass one inch long and wwo was ix' Ken from th fnPAniMn w ITS tj- MUM axttsr ii naa traveled from the base of the thumb. Three years ago HartmnTi wn.n a etnian n w B.uv4viii, ai S.H13 BIZLIO university in Columbus, and while at TTvia. m me u&ooraiory a test tube ex ploded lav his hand. The glass was SUDDOSed to hfl.VA hAAn ELS thfl wnnnl rtAolMl n(AAi i M.XLkJ t LUO .JtJl uet was quite xorgotten. A ticklish feeling in his arm of late caused him tO Consult a. RlircAnn -artifi-tfe traann in the discovery of the glass. Napo- y'-'-i uispatcn w me xsew xork How One Man na.t4ua Ohm. A driver on the Avontuur railway. South Africa, while staying at the Gamtoos, caught a large cobra de capello aUve. The cool way In which he did the trick (says a local paper) sent a cold shiver through every one -...J vaugUl UU1U VL the point of its tall, gave it a sudden j '"""m aim ana caugnt it Dy the ha.rk rf thn haoil VT i m j. y bijou iiuwcu 1 1 In a biscuit tin. The snake was three mciiBH in aiamoier ana aDout lour feet mug. Aiiuifcinapoiis XNews. What's in a Name? There Is nothing In a name In a Tenderloin rooming house. A theatri cal manager who, for convenience sake In order to be near his theater, lives in a house in one of the roaring forties was very much annoyed the other day to find In his mail a letter addressed to a young woman bearing the same name and Initials as himself. He spoke to me Den Doy aoout it, and complain ed tnat nis mail would get mixed up. "Oh, I can fix that for you. all rtht. all right," responded the bell boy. "She's an awful obliging lady. She'd do me a favor In a minute. I'll Just ask her to take another name while she lives here. She won't mind a bit." New York Bun. Coming of the Glorious Fourth. Included in the cargo of a British steamer that arrived at Boston from Hong Kong Monday were 400,000,000 Chinese firecrackers intended for the Fourth of July trade. By this coming of a small partial supply for the ap proaching demand by patriotic Ameri cans we may be reminded that the Fourth of July Is, in its small way. all that Gen. Sherman declared war to be, and that the holiday this year is likely to De as uproarious as the most ardent patriotism might desire. Of course, this is only a slight propor tion of the total that will be required for the necessary amount of noise on the festive occasion, but by June 1 the other 900.ooo.ooo firecrackers and the 65,000.000 tin horns will be in stock, and everything will be In readiness for the glorious celebration. Three cheers for Independence!--rovidence Journal. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Even a stationary engine is sup posed to run. Don't break up housekeeping by smashing the furniture. You never saw an actress who had no vanity in her make-up. Don't attempt to forge ahead by forging another person's name. Lot's wife became a pillar pf salt, but most wives become peppery. Married women should remember that nagging doesn't make the nag go. Trouble never fails to come to the man who waits for something to turn up. It's easier for a fool to ask ques tions than it is for a wise man to stop nim. Probably a miser saves money be cause he doesn't know what, else' to do with It. A woman always expects some rela tive she never heard of to die and leave her a lot of money. Only a married man can fully ap preciate the biblical statement that there will be bo marrying liv heaven. 735Q? EVENING STORY The Butterfly Girl. (By Temple Bailey.) The first rift in the lute came when Albert arrived home one stormy night and found his bride in a fetching pink gown, with her shining hair puffed into a halo of gold, with pink candle shades on the corners of the dining table, with pink roses In the center and with nothing thereon to eat but a third day's cold roast ana leftover salad. i Albert having kissed his wife en thusiastically and having changed his office coat for a more formal one, peered at the platter dubiously. "I am desperately hungry," he said, "and there isn't much meat left." "I am not a bit hungry," Bettlna stated "I was shopping downtown and I had such a lunch. "I had a sandwich," was Albert's brief comment, and after that ha ate sparingly of the lamb and the taste less salad and sought final solace In his after-dinner cigar. That evening Bettlna found him somewhat unresponsive. In vain she played and sang his favorite songs in her little lilting voice. In vain she prattled of her downtown bargains. In vain she petted him and praised him. Albert met all of her advances stolidly, and the next morning found her at Aunt Betsey's In tears. "He has ceased to love me, she declared. "What did you give htm for dinner last night?" Aunt Betsey demanded. Bettlna faltered out her menu. Aunt Betsey sniffed. "No wonder he was disagreeable," she said. "Any man's affection would be frozen out by cold meat and cold salad and warmedover coffee." "Albert's love ought to be superior to such things," Bettlna said. "He used always to quote things like 'A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread, ana Thou beside me, singing in the Wilderness,' and last night all of my singing couldn't make him smile. But Aunt Betsey was severely on the defensive. "A Jug of wine and a loaf of bread may be all right in hot climates," she admitted, "but yesterday it was snow' Ing, and Albert came in chilled, and you ought to have had something fit to eat "Well, thank goodness my love isn't dependent on food," said Bettlna, loftily. "What did you have for lunch yes terday?" Aunt Betsey probed; "you told me you went to Maillard s." "We had grapefruit, and crab, and quail, and a salad, and an Ice every thing was delicious Mary Luttrell invited me, with a friend of hers from out of town." "And poor Albert had a sandwich,' Aunt Betsey reminded her. "Oh! Oh!" Suddenly the real situa tion seemed to dawn on the little wife. "He was really hungry. Aunt Betsey poor dear fellow." "And he had worked rrom 8:30 in the morning." Aunt Betsey went on, "and when he came home at night. tired and worn and nervous, he was not In a condition to appreciate lace trimmed ruffles, Bettlna, half as much as an appetizing dinner." Bettlna sighed. "Well, it does away with the ro mance." "Dear heart," Aunt Betsey told her. ."'there is a Joy In' service' that is above the Joy of mere admiration Try making Albert comfortable, and you will get more solid happiness out of it than by keeping him on the rack with your coquetry." But Bettlna shrugged her shoulders. "The way to hold a man," she de clared, "is to play with him." "The way to hold a man," said Aunt Betsey with a nod of her gray head, "is to love him. And that means to make yourself his equal In endeavor. Then you have his respect. Tou must be the homemaiker, just as Albert is the mon eymaker." "But you have never married," said little Bettlna. "How can you know. Aunt Betsey?" "The people who look on from the outside are the wise ones," said Aunt Betsey, "and I have seen so many mat rimonial shipwrecks." That night Albert's footsteps lagged a little on the stairway as he climbed to his little flat. He knew just what he would find at the top Bettlna, charming In the rosy gown; the pink candle shades, the pink roses, and cro quettes made of the last of the beef. Bettlna always ran to big roasts, and there yet remained to be eaten a fifth day's soup, made of the bone. The sound of his key In the latch summoned no rosy vision, however. He passed through the dining room. The pink candles were not lighted. In front of his place was a copper chafing dish. one of Bettlna s hitherto unused wed ding presents, and the blue flame burn ing beneath set the contents bubbling, and the air was laden with dellcious- ness. "Bettlna," he called, and at the sound she came to the kitchen door. She wore a long apron of china blue, her hair was ruiriea aDout ner lace, ner cneeks were flaming. "I haven't time to kiss you," she cried, gayly. "I must watch the chops." Albert went into his room somewhat disconcerted. It was the first time that Bettlna had failed to kiss him. It was the first time that his rooms had not been In a rosy glow and he missed it. But his discomfort vanished with the serving of the dinner. There were oysters in the chafing dish panned to perfection; there were broiled chops, a crisp salad and a pud ding made by Bettina's own fair hands. And Albert ate and praised and won dered. "I didn't know you could do It, Bet tlna," he said "you always seemed such a butterfly girl." Bettlna laughed. "Aunt Betsey showed me how," she said, "and and I really like doing it." But her eyes were a little wistful, and presently she said: "Don't you miss anything?" "Tes," Albert said, promptly, I do. I miss the rosy gown and the rosy can dles and you haven't kissed me yet, Bettlna." He went around and stood at the back of her chair. "I was a bear last night, little girl," he apologized, "but a man's a queer creature, and I was tired He folded his hands about the oval of her face. "Kiss me," he said, softly. And when that rite was performed he asked: "Can't we have the candles and the flowers tomorrow?" But Bettlna shook her head. "They cost too much." she said, "and you need the hearty food more. But on Sundays we will make a feast of ro mance to offset the six days of com mon sense." Albert laughed. "If I were only rich," he said. "You are rich," his wife told him, with her eyes sparkling. "How?" he questioned. "Because you have me," said pretty Bettlna, saucily. (Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Literary Press.) BEING CANDID. Speak out and get right down to tacks; Tell VTAftM thrv sr. .tAalinK: Tell doctors they are wretched quacks inat make a bluff at healing; TeU politicians that they lie In matters thev have stated. It's very easy wbea you Iry; tie canaia ana oe nsxea.- Tell singers that they simply squall; If honest they'll admire you. TeU prosy people when they oau They're awful bores who tire you. Tell pompous persons that with gas Ana wma they are inflated. Let no good chance to prick them pass. se canaia ana oe natea. Tell hypocrites they're talking cant. And. war with -humour wasins;. Tell actors that they strut and rant; Ten women tney are aging. Conduct yourself upon the line That I have Indicated, And as a critic you will shine. Be candid ana be natea. Chicago New. HUMOR OF THE DAY "What's the difference between vision and sight?" "see those two girls across the street 7 "Yes." "Well, the pretty one I would call a vis ion of loveliness, but the other one she's a sight." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Old Gentleman Verv charmlnar old se- dllla you have here. Caretaker Yes. sir. you ain't by no means the fust as 'as admired 'em. That's Where the clergymen used to sit In, the oraer oz their senility. Punch. s Towne There was a atellins? bee down at our church the other night. The pas tor had charge of It. .Browne No; was it interesting? Towne Rather. The first three words he gave out were "Increase." "pastor," "salary." Philadelphia Press. Little Elvira Mamma, when the fire goes out where does it go? Mrs. Gay lord I don't know, dear. You might Just as well ask me where your father goes when he goes out. Chloago Newt, "Tell me," said the young woman with literary aspirations, "how you oontrlved to get your first story accepted by a mag. azlne?" The eminent author smiled. "I owned the magazine," he replied. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "There are the bridal rooms," announc ed the bell-boy to the blushing youg cou Sle. "Oh, what a sweet suite!" exclaimed the bride. "I don't know anything about that," said the bell-boy, "but the head clerk says he hopes the suite suits." Brook lyn Life. "Now." said the good fairy. "I will en dow you iwith tenacity, prudence, fore sight and thrift. With these you can eas ily acquire wealth." Rosa I am going to sell kisses at the fete that is being got up for relief of the poor people whose houses were burnt some time rs;o. Else H'm. I should have thought their misfortunes were great enough as It Is. Meggendorfer Blatter. "Do you think kissing is dangerous?" "Not when you're in the parlor and all the doors are closed." Chicago Journal. Miss Gusher I understand, -professor, that you have mastered all of the modern tongues. Prof. Wise All but my wife's. Brook lyn Eagle. "Advertisements' on the scenery!" ex claimed the star. "That's carrying com mercialism really too .far." 1 "It isn't oommerclaliBm," exclaimed the manager. "We- want the scene to look like a real meadow, don't we?" Tit-Bits. "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "would you help a man dat's seen Detter days?" After a generous meal she ventured to inquire: "When was it that you saw bet tar days?" "Last summer." Washington Star. 'Oh bother," complained t the modern hero. "Can't you fix me up with a few secret rebates instead?" Pittsburg Post. "What a singular-looking counter pane!" said the eminent physician. "Counterpane.1" exclaimed his wife. "Yet you are supposed to be one of the greatest authorities in the country on brain dis ease!" "I fall to see the connection. "That's a crazy quilt, you ninny." Chicago Tribune. Rustic What makes these blamed things go? Owner of Automoblle(who hadjust paid a repair bill) Money. Chicago Tribune. Whatever may be the artistic success of the blade of grass game, the man who can make two dollars grow where one grew before reaps a more advantageous harvest. Puck. Our Landlady It's the strangest thing in the world! Do you know, our dear old pet cat disappeared very suddenly yester--day. Excuse me, Mr. Rudolph, 4rill you have another piece of rabbit pie?" Mr. Rudolph (promptly) No, thank you. Our Landlady an hour later) That Is three more plea saved. This season will be a profitable one indeed. London Tit-Bits. "I have the greatest respect," said Wise." "for the man who says what he things" "That's me exactly," put In the bore, who -adways prided himself on his can dor. "And," continued Wise, meaningly, "the greatest contempt for the man who says what he thinks he thinks." Catholio Standard and Times. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. From the Philadelphia Record. A telling situation The bank tel ler's. Many a prosy person Is well-versed In poetry. Even the playwright may write a play wrong. Many a man moves in the best clr--cles who is also on the square. Some fellows go shooting for game birds and some merely for a lark. It is just as well to &tso keep some of your enthusiasm for a rainy day. The books that are in greatest de mand are the Bible and the-, pocket book. A woman wants her nusband to be an open book to her, especially a check book. The trouble with sober second thought is that it seldom comes till the morning after. He who neglects to return a bor rowed umbrella must -expect it to cast the shadow of suspicion on hinu. Many a man In the theatrical busi ness hitches his wagon to a star only to find that the star won't draw. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. IFrom the New York Press. A mean thing about swearing oft is unless you do it every day or so. The more friends a man has the more he'd better not asK them to do anything for him. A girl likes to have a man not make love to her once in a while so she can say he did. The average man can take a tre mendous Interest in most anything if it Is of no consequence. A woman brags about' the money her husband makes so that their be ing poor won't seem so had.

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